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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34987	A backslider reproved and his folly made manifest and his confusions and contradictions discovered in a short reply to a book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A word to the upright, who being turned from the light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it; but his weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken / written for the Truths sake by a servant thereof known by the name Stephen Crisp ; unto which is added a brief answer to a pamphelet [sic] stiled A brief discovery of the labourers in mystery Babylon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.; Atkinson, Elizabeth. Breif and plain discovery of the labourers in mistery, Babilon, generally called by the name of Quakers.; Travers, Anne. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.; Coleman, Elisabeth. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.	1669 (1669)	Wing C6925; ESTC R29284	17,630	26

Quakers because she is turned treacherously against them in a light airy spirit with a parcel of fained expressions this were unjust in them as well as in her It were a great wickedness for any to accuse the true Prophets or Apostles because of the false Prophets and false Apostles that rose up against them who turned from the Counsel of God and Truth And it is as wicked in E. A. to accuse the people of God now because probably she knows of some disorderly persons that walk not according to the Principle and Doctrine of Godliness which we have received as it 's probable she being false and perfidious her self might have more knowledge of or intimacy with such disobedient and disorderly Spirits and Walkers than some of us have But however her accusation being general it 's most unjust and impudent For first We are not onely principled against all wickedness filthiness and abominations as that of Cheating using Deceit and Adultery with all other wickedness which we Judge and Testifie against both in the spirit and practice and such as are guilty c. But secondly We also endeavour as much as in us lieth to clear the Truth and Gods people of all such scandals and of all such as give any occasion thereof by bringing just Reproof and Judgement upon the Offenders and endeavouring to suppress and cast out that loose disobedient and unclean mind and spirit which either doth tempt or lead any into disorders or wickedness So that indeed a modest woman or person would have been ashamed to publish such a general Charge of wickedness and impiety against us as thousands that are not of us know many of us to be both of better spirits and principles than in the least to countenance or admit of such gross wickedness as Cheating or Adultery under which she has included many innocent persons for her words Those that practised Honesty and those that were contented with their own Wives c. are general terms and may be construed that all amongst us that were so are now contrary for here is no exception made Who but an impudent person would thus grosly and slanderously have endeavoured to have defamed a people whom she confesses to have walked nine years amongst wherein she has brought Reproach upon her self And now E. A. what hast thou against our principles more than that thou tellst us That we preached a Light within that shewed you good and evil and that thou knew was in thee So herein thou knew the Truth was preached amongst us And that we said if you would mind that it would lead you out of all evil Thus sayest thou we set you to feed upon the Tree of Knowledge which indeed was good but not for food but the subtile twining Serpent called it the Tree of Life thou sayest Thus by hearkening unto them wast thou deluded and blinded to forsake thy first Love c. Thus like a silly ignorant Woman perverted with prejudice hast thou blasphemously accused the Light as being but the Tree of Knowledge and perverted the Truth which directed thee to it as being but the subtilty and delusion of the Serpent and yet thou knows such a Light was in thee as shewed thee Good and Evil which Light hadst thou lived and waited in it would have kept thee out of evil and backsliding which thou art fallen into It s shewing the evil was that thou mightest forsake sin and evil and not that thou mightest either feed upon it or upon the knowledge of the evil by partaking thereof Did not the Light give the Saints a discerning between Good and Evil And things that are reproved are manifested by the Light and the Light that did shine in their hearts gave them the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. and Christ said Believe in the Light that you may be the Children of the Light and this was not the Serpent that thus directed as blasphemously thy words import against the Light and the Ministry of Truth amongst us which directs to it But we need not say much in answer to such silly ignorant sottish blasphemous stuff as thou hast here uttered for like a drunken person thou hast reeled and staggered both ways and hast sufficiently answered and confuted thy self in what follows in thy own words on the behalf of the Light within As in page 2. thou sayst in the beginning God made the World by Christ the Word and the bright shining of his Life was the Light of Men and this Christ is indeed the true Light that enlightens every one that cometh into the World and by this Light Man knew the Will of his Maker but being disobedient thereunto he fell into the wrath of God c. Here take notice That the Life of Christ was the Light of Men and this was not the forbidden Fruit And secondly That every one that comes into the World is enlightened by Christ Thirdly That Mans disobedience to the Light was his Fall and this disobedience the Serpent led into therefore it is not the Serpent nor his delusion that directs people to the Light within as blasphemously and contradictorily thou hast implied Again Thou confessest that Christ came to be a Sacrifice for sin for the whole World if they will believe in him and that these things by the Light within are shewed to us By which thou hast justified the Quakers Doctrine though to thy own confusion And in p. 3. thou adds The Light within is but the manifestation of him that is the Saviour A large confession And must not people look to the manifestation of their Saviour or that which shews them Christ to be a Sacrifice for sin Again Thou sayest we deny the Fountain because we have had a little taste from the Stream and tells of the Plant being refresh'd by the beams of the Sun So here again thou hast falsly charged us but justified our Principle for in thy setting thy Light as the Stream and as the Sun-beams thou hast contradicted thy former accusation against it for they that follow the Stream do not deny the Fountain which it leads to neither is the vertue of the Sun denied where its Beams or Rays are felt and acknowledged for the Suns vertue and influence is felt in the Beams Again P. 4. thou confessest the Light within which shews good and evil to be a glance from him who came to be Salvation And also that we may refresh our thirsty Souls in the Stream but we must go unto the Fountain to be cleansed in the City of God c. So then if the Light within be this refreshing Stream it is not the Tree of knowledge forbidden neither are we forbidden to drink of the Stream for it comes from the Fountain and surely people may wash in the Stream And why dost thou suppose the Stream not to be in the City Whereas there is a River the Streams whereof make glad or refresh the City of

A Backslider Reproved AND His Folly made manifest and his Confusions and Contradictions Discovered In a short Reply to a Book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A Word to the Upright who being turned from the Light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it But his Weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken Written for the Truths sake by a Servant thereof known by the Name Stephen Crisp Prov. 10.18 He that hideth hatred with lying lips and he that uttereth a slander is a fool Vers 21. The lips of the Righteous feed many but Fools die for want of wisdom Chap. 12.2 A good man obtaineth favour with the Lord but a man of wicked devices will be condemn Unto which is added A brief Answer to a Pamphelet stiled A brief Discovery of the Labourers in MYSTERY BABYLON Printed in the year 1669. A Back-slider Reproved and his Folly made manifest and his Confusions and Contradictions discovered IT is not a new nor strange thing to see the old Enemy of the Light viz. the Prince of Darkness to be diligent in raising up as high Mountains and Towers as he can to keep it from shining and as he can bring forth no evil to man of himself without some Instrument into which he gets an entrance therefore he is diligent in perswading and tempting from the Light even those that have seen the Appearance of it and not become so subject to it as they should have been whose foolish hearts he darkens and fills their minds with vain imaginations and then are they choice Instruments for his purpose as bearing something more of his Image who himself abode not in the Truth than others And such as these he alwayes spurred on in a blind zeal against the Light as that which was most destructive to his and their works of darkness And among this sort of Instruments here is one Robert Cobbet hath presented himself as an enemy to the Doctrine of the Light though he is indeed but as one of the meanest and shattredest of that Camp and hath attain'd to but a small measure of that subtilty which this Father and Prince of Darkness doth use to furnish his children withal that are capable to receive it But however what he hath or thinketh he hath he hath adventured to present to publick view though indeed it is as a Rod for his own chastisement and I heartily wish there be so much sense left in him that he may feel the smart of it and may amend and leave off his folly and blind zeal and submit to that which comprehends him his spirit and work For I knew a time when he could not have believed that he should have been led to such a depth of Confusion in opposing the Light as now he is though he was never faithful to it as he ought but sought in his fallen corruptible wisdom to have comprehended it but I desire he may yet see a death upon that which hath unto this day kept his soul in death and darkness and in order thereunto and for the Truths sake I have written these few lines briefly to shew him and others his Confusions Contradictions and Absurdities or at least a few of those many which he hath uttered and Printed in his Book called A Word to the Upright c. And therefore Reader take notice that after his Book called God's Truth attested was made publick and something was written in Answer thereto shewing him how he contradicted himself and the Scriptures too in a seeming Reply thereto he published this called A Word to the Upright which he saith is to establish them in these erring dayes and to keep the young sprouts of the Nation from corruption in Opinion which whether R. C. hath written a piece that is likely to prove an establishing of the upright from Error or to prevent the young sprouts from corruption in principle or opinion will more appear anon to the considerate Reader when he hath rightly weighed the Consequences of letting in all his Doctrines for truth whether it will not render them more like to distracted men than principl'd Christians At my first sight of this Book it rose in my heart to write somthing in Answer to it and to take off the reproach which he hath endeavoured to cast upon the blessed Truth and Way of God which he hath turned his back upon but when I came to make a diligent search into the matter I found much of that labour spared the most part of his Doctrines being answered and confuted by himself in the same Book so that it might have been called Robert Cobbet answering and confuting Robert Cobbet as will appear in this ensuing rehearsal of his Doctrines and Principles And therefore now let the Upright to whom he writes consider what he propounds to them as an establishment against the errors of these erring dayes And first as to the Light in the Conscience he saith pag. 22. In that the Light is a sparkling glimpse in the Soul doth convince the Soul of what is done amiss which being discerned by the Soul serves for a Director of the Soul to Christ Jesus where only lies its help And in his 10th page saith That the Soul hath knowledge from this Light to eschew evil and do good in the doing of either of which stands his 〈◊〉 peace And in his 22 page saith That this Spirit or Light in man is the candle of the Lord that searcheth the innermost parts of the belly And in his 4 page faith Did not this Light in thy Conscience condemn thee of all that ever thou didst before the day of God brake forth And in his 3 page saith That the end of Christ's coming was to beget unto Communion with the Father and himself by giving them his life which is man's Light which my Brethren being our Salvation we have it by him who is our Saviour Jesus Christ And in his 11 page saith The Light serves to condemn for unbelief and to justifie the Creature in his obedience of Faith c. So by this time we see what a large testimony R. C. hath born to the Light in the Conscience and to its original to wit the Life of Jesus and to its power efficacy and influence and also to the effects that follow both the obedient and disobedient as wo and peace condemnation and justification and how it is the Souls director unto Christ and that by which the Soul obtains the knowledge of what is good and communion c. Now will or can any that doth take in and receive this Doctrine from R.C. doubt or question his being a friend to the Light and to the Quakers too seeing he hath so strongly asserted their Principle with so many illustrations Well suppose that now thou dost believe R.C. in these things and be setled in thy mind that he hath written the truth and so come to find a need of loving and obeying this Light