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A44802	One of Antichrists voluntiers defeated, and the true light vindicated. In answer to a book called Ignis fatuus, published by one R.I. Wherein he vindicates Edward Dod and Samuell Smith (of the county of Salop) in their lyes, folly, and wickedness, and hath added more of his own, with divers of his false doctrines, lyes and slanders, &c. brought to light, and reproved: As that the law of the spirit of life, is imperfect, and not fit to be a Christian rule, and also, humane nature may be taken for the regenerate part of man, and the soul, &c. And likewise calls idolatry, civillity, and heathernish complements courtesie. His vindication made voyd, and his weapons broken, and he taken captive, and left with E.D. and S.S. among the slime pits of Siddim near Sodom, with his Ignis fatuus. / By F.H., a witnesse to the perfect law, of the spirit of life.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3175; ESTC R16812	30,660	33

reckoned him in the Bead-row of Saints it may be wich Saint Dominick and Saint Patricke Saint Francis and some others of the Popes Canonizing but however I shall set many of his envious and frivolous and impertinent arguments passe as things of no validity or worth being they have been answered over and over by mony hands all the fortresses strong holds thrown down so that to any judicious man they will appear to be but rubbish however R. I. would be gathering together the rubbish again and would make it appear as goodly a fabrick as he can when indeed there is nothing in it all so thou may see Reader in R. I. his vindication of this mouldey cankered ware of Babylon which he would hold up his own folly ignorance and error made manifest in the ensuing discourse of his doctrines and most of his principles thou may view and see which I have taken up and answered and his confusion and blindnesse thou may see and also view the Spirit that acts this man and how this man is like to convince any who hath not power over his tongue but lets it run to utter forth the deceit that proceeds out of his own corrupt heart thinking thereby to blind peoples eyes that they should not see how ignorant and light vain and treacherous these Priests are who would monopolize all into their own hand nay though God command and move by his Spirit yet this must not speak nor declare the mind of God except these Priests will allow of it in whom the welfare of all people lyes if thou wilt beleeve R. I. in the 11 page of his book yet if these count it disorderly for any to speak as he hath received of the Lord from his Spirit it must go for such and be accounted such as disorderly In the Epistle to the Reader R. I. saith Such Schismaticks as these Quakers hath torn the Church in peeces and its authority condemned and the Ministry slighted and false Religion advanced Answ. It seems that the Church that R. I. is of is none of the true Church which is built upon the rock Christ which the gates of hell prevaileth not against neither any weapon that is formed against it can prosper but R. I. his Church is torne in pieces and may be prevailed against sure it is but Babylon whose stones must be scattered and whole building must be thrown down and it is but the whores attire which is renting off that her nakednesse may appear and her deceit made manifest and the authority which is condemned and reproved is no authority but the authority of the beast upon which the false Church hath ridden and hath call'd it by the name of higher power and the Ministry is but such as traffick with the whores sorceries by which she hath deceived the Nations and this indeed and those Ministers indeed are slighted by us because we know him who is the Minister of the everlasting Covenant whose Spirit is manifest according to his promise to lead his people into all truth and so the Religion which standeth only in the traditions of men and in idolatry such things as R. I. goes about to maintaine as Images Crosses and Picture Mass-houses Hirelings Priests Popish tythes and Popish-ceremonies which R. I. so much pleads for all these are slighted as not to be consistant with the true Religion or the true Church of Christ Yet neverthelesse saith R. I. in his Epistle I have adventured voluntarily to side with those that contend for the truth against the Quakers and yet in the same Epistle saith He was moved of the Lord thus to declare Answ. What confusion and lying and blasphemy is here hath R. I. adventured voluntarily in his own willfulnesse and perversnesse to take part with those contenders against the truth in which the Quakers live and worship and God must be made as the author of this and all the heap of lyes and confusion which is declared and uttered forth in his Ignis fatuus which if no more were said then hath been were answer enough unto his railing discourse and yet what impudency this man hath to say he was moved of the Lord when as he hath confest he hath voluntarily took part with the contenders so that it is manifest to all reasonable men who set thee awork and whose work thou hast been doing for which thou shalt be sure to receive a reward in the mighty day of the Lord And R. I. saith Forasmuch as their counterfeit coin hath been offered to me for good silver I thought it fit to nail it to the Market-Post that it might not deceive others and instead thereof I have here made a tender of other Money viz this ensuing Treatise which I doubt not but that it may passe with truths approbation Answ. That which R. I. calls counterfeit coin was made publick by our selves and it hath been and shall be received by them that know Gods Image and the inscription of the Spirit and though R. I. hath denyed it when it was proffered to him the value and worth of that which hath been proffered is no worse For though a price be put into the hand of a fool he regards it not And now Reader thou shalt see what kind of Coin he hath tendered and how thou judges it may pass with truths approbation as hereafter will be made manifest in his further discourse Wherefore Reader saith R. I. Have not so great regard to the authority of the Writer as the truth of the matter written by him who was moved of the Lord as thus to declare against those who are adversaries to truth Answ. Indeed the authority of a writer or of that which is written is of no great moment seeing he is but one of Antichrists Voluntiers who hath not only belyed them that feared the Lord but also hath uttered forth many damnable doctrines and yet would fasten all these upon the Lord so that his deceit might be of more authority and none might question the matter thereof because the Lord allwayes moveth to truth and righteousnesse and so R. I. is one of them that hath taken the name of the Lord in vain which will not be holden guiltlesse but will be found guilty when the searcher of all hearts shall make all things manifest And then R. I. further saith That sprinkling of infants is commanded by the Scriptures and is a seale of the Covenant and baptisme of infants is that which answers to circumcision for mortification of the flesh and remission of sins and admission into the Church are sealed unto infants by sprinkling or that which R. I. calls baptizing I say Baptisme of infants is a Popish-Tradition as hath been proved by divers so that of it I need not say much but where it is commanded in the Scripture as R. I. saith Coll. 2. 11 12. is but a bad proof for R. I. for the Colossians were circumcised with the circumcision made without hands and they

I would have R. I. to understand that here was 17. yeares that he preached publickly before that and where was his ordination Many of the Brethren who was scartered abroad in the persecution that was at Jerusalem went every where preaching the word of God and when or where was these ordained and who ordained the Brethren that was persecuted after Stephens being put to death who travilled as far as Phenecia and Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number beleeved and turned unto the Lord Acts 17 19 20 21. Yet these things I bring not as to deny but that many went out with the consent of the Church and many were ordained Elders who were grown up in the truth and established who had received the Holy Ghost by whom many was confirmed and strengthned in the faith but what is all this R. I. to your ordination and who ordained you the Pope a Bishop or a Councell or a Parliament and what are they you irdaube such as learnes the art of speech seaven yeares at Oxford who hath read Homer and Aristotle Plato and Diogenes and learned to play on a Fiddle These are no Mechanicks but gifted men indeed and quallified and fit to be ordained and made Ministers Pastors and Elders to carry a broad the Traffique of Mistery Babylon but this R. I. is very peremptory and saith it is utterly unlawfull for any that are gifted to preach the word Contrary to the Apostles doctrine who saith as every one hath receiveth the gift so let him administer and not such as R. I. would have to be Ministers who hath learned an art to speak and this must be called a gift and a quallification and a fit man to be a Pastour and thus they have ordained one another and hath set up a trade of preaching and with their confused stories hath fill'd the world with darknesse And as concerning an infallible Spirit saith R. I. None except Christ who was without sin can challenge it or lay claime to it and I may say of such runnagates and wandering starrs as this F. H. and the Quakers are as John did 1 Joh. 2. 9. They are gone out from us because they were not of us Answer However this R. I. hath cleared himselfe and the rest of his brethren for being Ministers of Christ for they doe not only deny an infallible Spirit neither look to be made partakers thereof but quite shut out all the Saints from enjoying it and though in Christ the fullnesse of the Godhead dwelt who was full of grace and truth he is the Root from whence all that believe come to be made partakers of his virtue and so many of his members may lay claime to it as they have received it by a free gift according to the promise of Christ I will send you the Spirit of truth which shall lead you into all truth and the Apostle had received the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus who had freed him from the Law of sin and death and the sons of God had received it and they were led by it and the Ministers of Christ was made Ministers of it who hath made us able Ministers as it is written not of the letter but of the Spirit and that Spirit was infallible and true and that Spirit which they declared of was an unerring Spirit and as they were led by it they erred not but were kept by it that the evill one touched them not and they spoke from it and ordered the Church in it in the wisdome of God But what doth these men minister from who waits not to be made partakers of this but denyes that ever any had it or even shall have and so are but a company of dreamers and tells their dreame that they dreamed in the night or at best steales the words from their neighbour and saith Thus saith the Lord when God hath never spoken to them And though thou may say we are runnagates because we sit not dreaming over 30 or 40 families 20 yeares but travills from city and from country to country to publish the word of truth freely as the Apostles and Ministers of Christ did We must by such as this R. I. and his Brethren who hath gotten holes and nests in the earth to creep into be counted as runnagates and though John said they are gone out from us because they were not of us this he spoke of them who went out of the light in which he and the rest of the Disciples had fellowship with God and one with another and they that went out from this went into the spirit of the world and you are such as they that are gone out already and blasphemously calls the light of Christ Ignis fatuus and so all that fear the Lord will come out from you and out from Babylon where the blood of the prophets hath been shed and the witnesses kill'd you who deny an infallible Spirit is like to be in blindnesse and follow the spirit of errour for you have nought else to cleave unto And further R. I. saith When the Lord said by Joell that he would pour out his Spirit upon all flesh and his sons and daughters should prophesie the prophet speaks not of a ghostly power to open the Kingdome of Heaven given by Christ to his Apostles and Successors but of an extraordinary measure of enlightning grace and a more copious effusion of the Spirit and also to pastors to whom more is given more is required and this Text doth not prove that all sheep shall be Pastors and all schollars Teachers Answer Nay this Text doth not prove all Sheep to be Pastors neither all that are taught to be teachers for all are not Prophets neither Pastors nor teachers for as Christ said the Labourers are but few but this man is afraid that there should be too many and indeed there are too many hireling loyterers that are ready to supplant one another for filthy lucre and though many may be said to beleeve yet all have not received the Spirit of prophesie or a gift to be pastors but onely they to whom it is given of the Lord for the worke sake yet notwithstanding they who have received it ought not to be limitted either Son or daughter for them who doe quenches the Spirit and despises prophesie as this R. I. doth and how should he doe otherwise seeing he hath denyed the infallible Spirit from which all the Ministers ministred and all the prophets prophesied and spoke as they were moved by the holy Ghost But R. I. saith the Prophet spoke not of a ghostly power to open the Kingdome of heaven if by ghostly power he meane the Spirits power as I beleeve he will not deny then was it not by a spirituall power sons and daughters prophesied and did not this power open the Kingdome of Heaven and if it be a more Copious effusion of the Spirit which is given under the Gospell then

shooting at randome cannot misse the right mark Answer It is one thing what God accounteth true honour it is another thing what R. I. counteth honour True honour is to obey the commands of Superiours who rule in the power of God and this the Quakers doe submitteth to all the just and equall commands which are required of them that rule in the power of God and this is not to blaspheme the name of God and his Doctrine but this fellow would have accused the Apostles as his generation did who put them out of the Cities charging them to speak no more in the name of Jesus and then when the Apostles returned plead their authority saying Did not we command you to speak no more in his name and now you are disobedient blaspheming the name of God and his Doctrine Is this good reasoning R. I. And charity shoots not at randome neither misses the marke but it is pure and singles out its object to joyn unto and joynes not unto deceit But this is R. I. his charity to think wel of them that are doing evill and joyne to them who are doing the Devils worke but this man honours charity as he doth the Scriptures he saith charity shoots at random and the Scriptures are the true cards as hereafter thou shalt see And saith R. I. F. H. labours to disgrace if not to deface our Churches he like a cunning gamster knows how to alter the course of true cards the Scripture as R. I. calls them Answer Because F. H. would have them to take away their crosses Pictures and Images which was set up in the time of grosse idollatry this R. I. counts graces and adorns their churches and so he is joyned to Idolls I shall let him alone and the Reader may see how R. I. honours the Scriptures when in one place he pleads for the same Titles to be given unto them which is given to God And saith No man can dishonour Christ by giving as honourable Titles to the Scriptures as to God or Christ Then by his own argument he hath brought a great dishonour to God and Christ and the Scripture by giving them so base a Title as the name of Cards and so in going about to exalt his own imaginations he hath villified the Scriptures of truth And saith R. I. To call steeple-houses churches is no addition to the Scripture but a true exposition thereof and what if there be some Reliques of Idollatry in our materiall Temples as therei 's some reliques of sin in our living Temples must they therefore be called Idoll Temples Answer The Temple in which the Jews worshiped was builded by the command of God which all these Steeple-houses cannot be compared unto which was invented and set up in the Apostacy since men hath departed from the faith and turned into formallities and Idollatry When Christ was offered up the everlasting offering them that did beleeve in Christ separated from the Temple and the Gentiles who believed separated from their Idolls Temples and they met together in houses which we do not read of was fill'd with pictures Images and Crosses and Steeple-houses now was not then invented and the Councell of Nice diverse hundred years after the Apostles decreed that Images and Crosses were to be placed in the churches and also worshiped and there is the Originall of those things which R. I. saith doth grace and adorne their Church And if some of the Reliques of Idollatry doe abide in your Temples then it demonstrates that you are in the same spirit as they were that set them up And if your Temples take its denomination from the people that met therein as R. I. saith in the 32 page then they may be truly called popish houses and Mass-houses from the people that meet therein And if the reliques of sin abide in your living Temples and bear rule there then they that defile the Temple will God destroy for holiness becomes the habitation of his house for ever and the 1 Kings 8. 11. will be but a bad proof for thee for the glory of the Lord shall fill the House of the Lord for that is the Temple blind man which was commanded by God and the glory of God did appeare there but if this will not serve we must have another proof Psal. 76. 2. In Salem is his Tabernacle and his dwelling place in Sion which may be understood allegorically of our Temples saith R. I. Doth the glory of the Lord fill your Mass-houses you glory in deceit and in pride and your glorying is not good and thy allegory is false though his Tabernacle was in Salem and his dwelling in Sion and his presence in the Temple is yours the Temple or Salem or Sion or the Tabernacle if not for shame pervert not the Scripture nor bring it to cover your idollatrous practices which R. I. pleads for and saith Images Pictures and Crosses may be continued in some places and it is like R. I. would count it sacriledge to take them away he is far from the exhortation of the Apostle abstain from every appearance of evill and hate the garment that is spotted with the flesh And R. I. saith I plead not for Baal nor for proud phantastick spirits and yet a little after saith that putting off lace ribbouds and costly apparrell may be putting on of pride Now who will believe this R. I. that he pleads not for Baal when he pleads for Pictures Crosses and Images for cuffs ribbonds lace and costly apparell Now Reader thou may observe by R. I. his decorum how the wheels goes within And further R. I. saith It is utterly unlawfull for any Christian whatsoever gifled or not gifted to preach the word in the name of the Lord before the Church publikely assembled unlesse they be ordained and set apart by the Church for such a work Answer This man is farre from Moses spirit who wished that all the Lords people were prophets and would not forbid Eldad and Medad to prophesie in the Camp which was a publick assembly and Israel then the Church of God and R. I. hath made too hasty a conclusion who would prohibit all from speaking the word of God if they wanted outward ordination then Paul was a great transgressor who consulted not with flesh and blood neither with any other of the Brethren nor went not up to Jerusalem for ordination but preached three yeare the word of God and then afterwards went up to Jerusalem and saw none except Peter and James and had no ordination then as we read of and afterward he went into Syria and Celecia and furthermore saith he was not known by face to the Churches of Judea So who ordain'd him all this time for there was no Churches of the Gentiles but what he had planted then and so they could not ordaine him Gal. 1. 17 18 19 21 22. And who ordain'd Apollo but it may be that R. I. will say that Paul was ordain'd at Antioch Act. 12. 2. But

law written in the heart is imperfect and not fit to be a rule but to be ruled contrary to the Apostles doctrine and so this R. I. is tryed by his own infallible standard to be a deceiver who teaches contrary to that which he cals his law and testimony and the Law which is outward is the Law of the first Covenant which made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by which we draw nigh unto God Heb. 7. 19. Therefore the Lord said by the mouth of the Prophet Behold the dayes come that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel not according to the Covenant I made with you when I brought them out of the Land of Egypt when I was as a husband into them which Covenant they brake but I will write my Law in their hearts and put my spirit in their inward parts I will be to them a God and they shall be unto me a people Jer. 31. 33. Heb. 8. 9 10. Now this blind man who gropes as at noon day saith This is imperfect which is written in the heart and so faulty with him and therefore to be ruled over and the other which is outward is perfect and faultlesse and so ought to be a Rule but saith the Apostle contrary to R. I. If the first Covenant had been faultlesse there had been no place for the second which second the Apostle saith is a better Covenant and stands upon better promises but yet saith R. I. this is not the rule not fit to be a rule And furthermore the Apostle said as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God and this was their rule and the Law of the Spirit of life made the Apostle free from the law of sin and death and was the new creatures rule by which they were led into all truth and as many as did walk in it out of all sin But nay saith R. I. It is not sit to be a rule for this is imperfect and is that thing to be ruled and for his proof brings Psal. 17. 4. By the word of thy lips I have kept me from the path of the destroyer and how doth this prove that the Law in the heart is to be ruled Thou ignorant man who litters forth nothing but deceit and error and so the Scriptures declares against thee for they say The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul The Commandement of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes Psal 19. 7 8. For the Commandement is a Lamp and the law is light Prov. 6. 23. And the Commands of the New Covenant are spirituall and not carnall and they are perfect and fit to be a rule to guide all them that beleeve in a perfect way and not as this R. I. saith unfit to be a Rule because of their imperfection and would in his blind distinctions cast a mist before peoples eyes and all may judge not only of this R. I. his mistake but of his wilfull impudence in preferring that which is visible and outward and may be seen which was given forth in time viz. the Commands outward and the letter outward above the Law of the Spirit of Life which is invisible spirituall and eternall And as I said to S. S. So I may say to thee Leane souls are they like to be who receives such damnable Doctrine as this for Articles of Faith But however Reader thou may take notice of R. I. in his Epistle to the Reader he saith The Quakers money is counterfeit coyne which he hath nailed on the Market post and instead thereof hath tendered other money and that thou may see what kind of other money the Priests is and what Image it hears by the Principles here discovered which is altogether Tin and drosse and Reprobate Silver which will be received by none but them whom the God of this world ha●h blinded the eyes of that they should not see the things that belongs unto their peace And Edward Dodd being sensible that he all his stuffe or he and all his arguments was carried Captive and become a booty and a prey he is glad that any will step in and rescue him and flatters R. I. and saith I am engaged to you to imbrace you as a precious friend that of so weake principles as mine have raised so perfect a structure so absolute rationall and demonstrative that more need not to be done Answ. R. I. his Vindication hath not redeemed E. D. his principles at all but rather hath laboured in vain and spent his strength for naught and hath brought forth such a birth as sober men will blush at made up of Ignorance Blasphemy Derision and lyes which they that have the lest moderation will abhorre and detest And the Principles of E. D. and R. I. are not only weak and feeble but wicked and impious as is manifest in what hath been declared And the structure that R. I. hath made is but builded with untempered Morter lyes falshood errour false Doctrine which the stormy wind of the Lord will Rent and scatter and confound and exalt his Truth above it all But E. D. saith What can be said to reduce such a people I know not since so many convincing arguments cannot prevaile Alass poor men whether would you reduce us or bring us back to the slime pits of Sodome where E. D. fell with his stuffe or turn us back again to Images Pictures and Crosses to Mass-houses Hirelings and Tythes to Lace Ribons and Cuffes which both E. D. and R. I. hath strongly pleaded for as faithfull Servants to their Master who would not have him loose a foot of his Territories however E. D. hath resolved to continue one in life and death with R. I. who hath shaken hands with the Prince of darknesse and made a Covenant with death which must be broken and though S. S. E. D. R. I. joyne hand in hand yet the wicked shall not goe unpunished for every one shall receive a reward according to their works And so I have done with R. I. his Book called Ignis fatu●● whose arguments false doctrines errours and lies are dissolved into nothing his Vindication made voyd his ignorance made manifest his false Doctrines brought to light and reproved by the word of truth Only I shall returne him a few of his lyes back again for him to review the second time and repent of them and remember the sentence for all Lyars is The Lake that burneth Rev. 22. 15. First That their worship differs not in whole nor in part in matter nor in manner from the Churches in the Primitive times Secondly According to the Scriptures their whole worship is framed Thirdly That Jezabel was never more madder against the Prophets then these Quakers are against Christs Ministers Fourthly The Quakers contemn Magistracy infect the Common-wealth with ●action Fifthly That the Quakers burnt some houses at Oxford Sixthly That Timothy Titus were setled in a Parochial way in their quarters Seventhly That F. H. complains of the darkness of the Sun when the fault is in his own eys Eightly The Quakers deny honour to Superiors to whom it is due and so blaspheme the name of God and his doctrine Ninthly F. H. would never have cryed out of deceit but a purpose to deceive the more Tenthly That the Quakers bid open defiance to the worship of God Eleventhly That I. N. did say That he was as just and holy and good as God Twelfthly That F. H. said That Christ Jesus was not glorified in Heaven with a real body Thirteenthly Humane nature is taken for the regenerate part of man and the soul Fourteenthly That the best men though regenerate bears Nettles Brambles and Pricks Fifteenthly There is an inward law called the law of the Spirit of life which is imperfect and not fit to beare rule but to be ruled Sixteenthly And the Scriptures leads us to the Spirit and enclines our hearts to the obedience of the rule Seventeenthly And F. H. preferreth Ignis Fatuus before the clear light of Gods word Eighteenthly lastly when he hath spoken all these lies publish'd them in Print to the world he blasphemously saith in his Epistle to the Reader Have not so much regard to the authority of the Writer as the truth of the matter written by him who was moved of the Lord thus to declare So all these lyes with many more and all these damnable Doctrines which he hath uttered forth against the truth these things he would fasten upon the Lords motion and so make him the Author of iniquity and a cloak for his ungodly speeches against them who love the truth as it is in Jesus who hath suffered many reproaches for its sake and hath been killed all the day long by this Generation amongst which R. I. is who hath bent his tongue to mischief and his lips to utter forth deceit and as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses so hath this R. I. resisted the truth being a man of a corrupt mind and concerning the faith reprobate but he shall not proceed much further for in what he hath written his folly will be manifest unto all men and them that fear the Lord will depart out of his foot-steps which leads to the chambers of death and from those dark paths in which R. I. treadeth which leadeth into utter destruction Westmorland the 15. of the 4. month 1660. THE END