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A40954	Truth exalted and deceit abased, or, A discovery of the false Christs and false prophets spoken of in the 7th and 24th chapters of Matthew shewing also when they came, and how they may be known, to the end that all honest people may be aware of them ... : also, here is something concerning the practice and doctrine of the	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing F512A; ESTC R18557	34,062	47

England by the Kings Prelates or parish-priests Parsons Rectors Curates and Clerks and was not that way and Baptism afore mentioned cryed up as the onely way and Baptism whilst the nationall Law favoured it or tolerated the parish-priests Parsons Rectors Curates and Clerks in and about the same viz. the aforesaid pretended way to the new-birth and Infants-Baptism And if you say it was true and not false why have you lest it or doth the Ordinances and ministry of Christ according to the Scriptures alter and change at every change of a nationall Government if not then whether are you the Ministers of Christs according to the spirit of truth and agreeable to the Scriptures or nationall Ministers onely like unto your fore-fathers yea or nay Query XXV And have you not engaged people by promise and vow to be perfect and free from sin upon which account were they not declared to be Christians and Member of Christ c. when you pretended to enter them into the Covenant of Baptism and make them children of God and inheritour● of the kingdome of Heaven c. by causing Suerties as Peoffies in trust c. in the Childs Infancy to promise and vow in the behalf of the Child That it should for sake the Devil and all his works the pompes and vanities of the wicked world and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh and carnall desires of the same and that they should neither follow them nor be led by them but that they should keep Gods holy will and Commandements all the days of their life and was not the Children by their own confession and promise bound to the same when they were formerly Catechised after they came as it was said to years of discretion and to forsake the Devil and all his works is not that to forsake the worker of iniquity aswell as to forsake all sin and unrighteousness whatsoever because all sin is the works of the Devill who is the chief worker of iniquity and for people to keep Gods holy will and Comma●dements all the days of their life Is not that to refuse to serve the Devill all the days of their life and not to commit sin or obey his commands any of the dayes of their life How comes it to pass then that now you labour to absolve peop1e from their former engagement caused by you and your fore-fathers to be made against the Devill and all his works B● preaching and perswading them yea and the same people that you engaged to the contrary now and telling them they must now sinterme of life what is that but a Popish trick and to teach them viz. the people that you engaged against the Devill and all his works c. At the enarance into the Covenant of Baptism upon such a condition which now you labour to absolve and teach to break the condition of their Covenant of Baptism so called and to break the condition of the Covenant is not that to violate the Covenant and make it void c. if so whether are not you and the people that willingly doe see the false Prophets Ring-leaders of Sects since the apostacy and truce-breakers or Anti-Christians yea or nay Query XXVI And if you the parish-ministers c. say these things was in the dayes of the late Kings and Bishops and are past and not to be heeded now for the Government is changed and the Ministry being nationall and not Apostolicall or spirituall and according to the Scriptures but is alterable and changeth as the nationall Government changeth and therefore couclude that you are not now accounted the Ministers of Christ but publick preachers for a nationall maintenance c. if so I aske then if you have not the more to answer for and all such and were you not sworne to the Common prayer book and that order of worship that was in the time of the late Bishops if so how can you clear your selves in the sight of God who have builded people up in those things if the former be granted that are accounted by you to be of no use and cryed them up then as the Ordinances of God and way to the new birth and Covenant of Baptism c. concluding formerly that without such things people could not be saved Is it not time for people to look about them and to beware of the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ And whether can you truly plead antiquity and succession from the Apostles about your worship Churches and Ordinances or Ministry in manner and matter according to the Scriptures and the Apostolicall order and not lie before the Lord and in the sight of the Son And whether is your Ministry Ordination and Toleration without Alteration c. of any long standing at a certainty or but within these few years or under the number of twelve yea or nay Query XXVII Are you not offended that the Lord doth discover your deeds of darkness and bring people off from your deceits and Popish traditions c. to the true spiritual teachings and worship of God againe and to the Church of which Christ Jesus is head according to the Scriptures as was before the apostacy and would you not rather have the Saints whipt and scourged or sent to the house of correction c. and have the truth supprest if you could and the Church of God persecuted and scattered if you might have your wills rather than have unrighteousness and wickedness false Ministers and the false Ministry discovered reproved and denied that truth in its pure appearances may be ●alted yea or nay let that of God in you answer and flesh or deceit be kept silent and under the Cross POSTSCRIPT ANd let all honest people and true Christians who reads this minde to reade with a right understanding to the end that they may be rightly informed and see if they can yet know who are the false Prophets and if they search the old Laws and Records of the Nation may they not see the rise ground ordination and succession of them in the time of Apostacy to spring out of and from the root of Popery And may they not see the path that the Parish-Priests c. and the people formerly deceived by them have walked in viz. First to the Mass book and the like Popish Worship And from the Mass book they ascended to the Common prayer book and going backward they went from the Common prayer book to the Mass book againe and from the Mass book they ascended to the Common prayer book again and stood still in it for a time then the Common prayer book was left and the Directory took place and is not some thing else preparing instead thereof But now is the Lord teaching by his Spirit and seeking people to the true Spiritual worship againe Joh. 4.23 24. for ever praised be his name FINIS

thereby that they are none of his Ministers but also that Christ hath no true Disciples or Subjects Therefore they that deny the Spirit of Christ they must needs be false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ or the Devils Subjects note such and take it for granted they are the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ The true Gospel-Ministers and Saints in Christ Jesus before the Apostacy declared and affirmed that they had received the Spirit of God whereby they knew the things that were freely given them of God and by the same Spirit they knew that they were children of God and joynt heirs with Christ and could by divine right say it the Spirit of God also witnessing with their Spirit that it was true and thereby viz. by the Spirit which they had received of God or by the Spirit of his Son which he had sent into their hearts they could cry Abba Father Rom. 8.14 15 16. 1 Cor. 2.10 11 12. Gal 4 6. But since the Apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ declares and affirms that it is presumption or blas●hemy for any to affirme now that they have the Spirit of God and know thereby the things which are freely given them or God and to say that they are the children of God and joynt heirs with Christ and that they have the Spirit of God as an evidence bearing witness with their Spirit according to the Scriptures that it is so and that God hath sent the spirit of his Son into their hearts whereby they cry Abba Father and can so call him by divine right according to the Scriptures as the Saints in Christ Jesus formerly did This the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ calleth presumption delusion and blasphemy therefore note them and as Christ hath said Mat. 7.20 by their fruits ye shall know them The true Apostle and Minister of Christ before the Apostacy exhorted or counselled the people to walk in the spirit to the end that they might not fulfill the lusts of the flesh Gal. 5.16 Because they that live in the flesh cannot please God as the true Gospel Minister before the Apostacy hath said Rom. 8.8 and the fruits of the flesh are manifest saith he which are these See Gal. 5.19 20 21. and they which doe such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God as the true Gospel-Minister hath said and as may be read Gal. 5.19 c. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Eph. 5.5 6. But since the Apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ they deny the Spirit of truth and labours to keep people from walking in the Spirit of God to the end that they may fulfill the lusts of the flesh and that they may live in the flesh and be kept but of the Spirit least they should please God and so for the upholding and strengthning Satans interest in people they are and labours to keep people in sin and to pleade for the same that they may live in the flesh and bring forth the works thereof to the end that they may be fitted for Satan and be kept out of the kingdome of God Therefore it is high time for people that hath any regard to the glory of God and of their souls good to look about them and not any longer follow the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ that hath had such a long reigne and are expert in the work of deceiving The true Gospel-Minister before the Apostacy counselled people he ministred unto not onely to walk in the Spirit that they might not fulfil the lusts of the flesh but also that through the spirit they might mortify the deeds of the body to the end that they might live unto God and bring forth the fruits of the Spirit and so glorify him But since the apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ they labour to keep people from the Spirit least the deeds of the flesh should be mortified and therefore they labour to keep them out of the Spirit of truth least they should by it be led out of deceit and into the truth to live to the praise and glory of God as aforesaid also see Gal. 5.16 Rom. 8.13 14. Joh. 15.8 Gal. 5.22 23 24. For if they should walk in the Spirit and bring forth fruit unto God and dye to the world Satan would loose his hold and his interest in people would cease and come to an end Therefore that he may uphold a kingdome of sin and unrighteousness covered over with a pretence of godliness in people he sits the false Prophets and seducers to labour and Minister for him but as Christ hath said by their fruits ye shall know them a before mentioned Mat. 7. Concerning perfection according to the Scriptures THe onely true God when he appeared to Abraham the Father of the faithfull declared and said I am the Almighty God and in his doctrine or by way of command said unto Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect Gen. 17.1 which doctrine Abraham received and also Christ Jesus our Lord in his doctrine or by way of command he said unto his Disciples and those that he taught who had grace and received the same be ye perfect as your heavenly father is perfect Mat. 5.48 And such as pressed after perfection the doctrine of the Father and the Son said by the Spirit of truth as many as are perfect be thus minded Phil. 3. to press others on to the same and before the apostacy whilst the holy Ghost had the ordering in the true Church and were of Counsell with the Ministers of Christ who preached the Gospell with the holy Ghost sent down from Heaven Acts 15.28 1 Pet. 1.12 they declared and said we preach wisdome amongst them that are perfect 1 Cor. 2.6 and they taught in all wisdome labouring to present every man perfect in Christ Col 1.27 28 29. for which end they said Christ Jesus when he ascended upon high gave gifts unto men that is to say for the perfecting of the Saints c. Eph. 4.10 11 12 13. who having grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Eph. 4.7 received the same But since the apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ they deny the aforesaid doctrine of perfection and under a cover they are not ashamed to say and affirme that the doctrine of sinless perfection was first bred by the Devil secondly detested by Christ thirdly and never received or truly beleeved in by them that had any sparke of true grace when the said Doctrine of perfection as aforementioned was first bred or brought forth by the Almighty God secondly and owned approved of and preached by the Lord Jesus Christ thirdly and heartily received beleeved in pressed after attained unto and preached by them that had received the Spirit of grace and thereby were guided as aforesaid Then they that deny the said doctrine of perfection aforementioned and speak so falsly of it as aforesaid doe make it appear that they are

false Prophets and Ministers of sin or Subjects to Anti-Christ and no true Christians nor any true gifted men but as Christ hath said by their fruits they are or shall be known therefore beware of them and take heed of being devoured by the wolf which long hath layen hid in a sheeps cloathing but now comes to be seen where the day is dawning Concerning laying on of hands c. THe true Gospel Ministers before the apostacy declared and said that their sufficiency was of God who had made them able Ministers of the New Testament not of the letter but of the Spirit and they excluded self and denyed the insufficiency and all the power of it 2 Cor. 3 4 5 6. But since the apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ they deny an inward call by the Lord God and his Spirit to be sufficient to the work of the Ministry without an outward call of men not qualified thereunto by the holy Ghost and so they set up a sufficiency of self and prefers that before the power of the holy Ghost and they that doe so must needs be false Prophets and Ministers of sin or subjects to Anti-Christ and though under a pretence they would acknowledge the laying on of hands yet they would not own the office Counsell and authority of the holy Ghost in it but denyeth that the holy Ghost did either speak in the Primitive time before the apostacy to them that laid hands on or that they were qualified and impowered by the holy Ghost to the same when in such a case the Scripture is plaine for the proof of the thing against them who against the truth so affirme for it is said and in holy Scripture left upon record that there were in the Church that was at Antioch certaine Prophets and Teachers as namely Barnabas and Simeon and Lucius and Manaen and Saul and as they ministred to the Lord and fasted the holy Ghost said separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them Acts. 13.1 2. here it is plaine that the holy Ghost spake to them that ministred and fasted as aforesaid and the holy Ghost also declared that he had called the said Barnabas and Saul for the work of the Ministry or as aforementioned and moreover the holy Ghost said by way of command to them he spake unto who laid on their hands separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them which was to the work of the Ministry and if they had not in obedience to the holy Ghost direction and Counsell or order separated the said Barnabas and Saul they had been opposite and disobedient to the holy Ghosts command and authority but they were obedient and truly subject thereunto and did what they were required by the holy Ghost and when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they let them goe but they attributed the work of sending unto the holy Ghost and not to the power of man without the holy Ghost as the false Prophets doe now so they being sent forth by the holy Ghost departed unto Selucia and from thence they sayled to Cyprus Acts. 13.3 4. So it is clear that what they did in that thing it was what they were qualified and impowered by the holy Ghost to doe and they did it as a manifestation of their subjection unto the holy Ghosts order and authority who was of Counsell with them and did impower them to doe what he saw good and needfull to be done by them as subjects unto him Acts 13.1 2 3 4. Acts 1.8 Acts 15.28 and he also for bad them doing what he would not have done by them Acts 16.6 7 8 9 10. And so were of Counsell with them and a commander over them as well as a guide unto them and a remembrancer teacher and comforter of them according to the promise of Christ Iohn the 14.16 17 26. Ioh. 16.13 and they owned him and his authority when he was come Gal. 4.6 Rom. 8.14 c. Acts 1.8 Acts 10.20 21. 1 Pet. 1.11 12. and they did not seek to exclude the office direction Counsell and authority of him that is to say of the holy Ghost as the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ doe and a long time have done who are now greatly offended at them that own the holy Ghost to be of Counsell with them and to teach command guide and comfort them according to the Scriptures Therefore take notice that they that seek to exclude the office and authority of the holy Ghost out of the Ministry and Churches to the end that they may set up themselves they are the false Prophets and Ministers of Satan or Subjects of Anti-Christ who are the great enemies to the kingdome and Ministery of Christ and are the Devils chief Agents and for the upholding of him and his interest in people therefore be warned and take heed of them for they have had a long reign and by their fruits ye shall know them according to Christs saying Mat. 7.15 16. c. And now as God is pleased to bring people to the annointing and teaching of the Spirit of truth to teach them and qualify them with the holy Ghost and thereby impower and send them to teach and require them to lay on hands it is good and ought to be done for what the holy Ghost sees good to be done and requireth any to be subject to him in the thing to act with and in the behalf of him it is necessary to be done and they ought to yeeld their obedience as a subjection unto him but if men take upon them by their own wills and inventions or humane learning to teach and lay on hands and be not fitted impowered and qualified by the holy Ghost to the same it is but selfish and the work is their own and not the Lords and therefore it works little or no true Reformation as experience of long and ever since the apostacy may or doth largely evidence and clearly demonstrate against them Oh that men would deny themselves and self-confidences and all self-refuges and interests thereof as in reference to the work of the Ministry and worship of God and also about the work of Reformation c. and let the Lord alone with his work and give up into his will to be led taught counselled and ordered by him then would they see the emptiness and insufficiency of self and their own nothingness as in reference to the work aforementioned and so see the Lord to be the author and well-spring of all good and happiness to mankinde and also sufficient to reforme teach order and establish people and nations in the truth and true spirituall worship and Ordinances both to the praise and glory of his grace and the joy and comfort of their souls and for the everlasting good and happiness of them so would stocking stoning and persecuting of men and wasting their est●tes or spoyling their goods about