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A89135	Antichrist in man the Quakers Idol. Or a faithfull discovery of their ways and opinions by an eye and ear-witness thereof. Together with an answer and confutation of some dangerous and damnable doctrines justified, in a paper sent by them unto me: as also one of them taken with a lie in his mouth before the magistrates. / By Joshuah Miller, a servant of Christ in the work of the Gospel.	Miller, Joshua, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2061; Thomason E868_1; ESTC R207650	27,464	39

worship of God but Idolatry which opinion is an absolute point of the Papacy to this very day And to believe or think our justification is by some thing wrought in us is that Antichrist whose name is Mystery Babilon the great the mother of Harlots which John saw in his Vision Rev. 17.5 and this was before any Pope appeared in the World therefore beloved remember that there 's a twofold Antichrist in the World Literal and Mystical the one all have heard of the other few believe because its inward and lesse dissemblable and this is that Antichrist now amongst the Quakers who say in these words But the faith and justification which stands in the comprehension and conceiving Christ without will stand thee in no stead I leave every understanding Christian to judge whether this affirmation be not a denial of Salvation by the blood and satisfaction of Christ But this I have fully answered before onely I request all that love their Souls to take heed for there are many Christs now in the world Mat. 24.5 Grace and Peace be with all that love the Lord Jesus An APPENDIX I Conceive it not amisse to give a brief answer to that act of their quaking fits the ground they have is because the Prophets did so But to this I shal answer in a few particulars First for Moses quaking remember the occasion thereof and the place where it was even at Mount Sinai and the terrour of the sight was thundrings and lightnings the noise of Trumpets the Mountain smoking Exod. 20.18 now this is no pattern to us unlesse we live at Sinai for the Authour to the Heb. 12.21 saith we are not come to Sinai but to Zion where is no more such terrours and legal tremblings and to me Moses quaking at that time was the weaknesse of his Faith as well as the peoples which practise we must not follow in their fears and amazements if we be the sons and daughters of Zion And verily to judge charitable of some called Quakers I think they are gone back with the Galathians to the Law of Moses onely some opinions they hold even contrary to that Law Secondly for the Prophets quaking we read of three especially but they are not examples to us for what they did was for signs As Jerem. 23.9 he did tremble in respect of the Adulteries and swearings of the people being amazed to think what judgements should fall upon them for their sins And Ezek. also ch 12.18 he was commanded to eat his bread and drink his water with quaking the reason in the next verse he gives is for a sign of the desolat on and famine that should come upon the Israelites and their Cities So Habbakkuk did quake also at the high consideration of Gods Wonders in the Sea for the Children of Israels deliverance so that to me here 's no ground for example to us unlesse some wil pretend to be Prophets by fore-telling things to come which I shall never beleeve until they can manifest a better Commission then I see they have therefore le ts not wonder if you hear some go naked also because Isaiah did for beleeve it they may as wel attempt to walk on the Sea as Peter did too but how they condemn us for taking the Prophets and Apostles words and preaching them to the people and yet themselves take the Prophets signs and would imitate them in doing the same but remember Christ tels us that an evil and adultrous generation seeks after signs even such as Adulterate the precious truths of Christ Mat. 12.39 Yea they would willingly be Prophets if the people would but account them so then they might thunder us with Bell Book and Candle like the Pope as they do pretty well already because we receive not their Doctrine Thirdly trembling of the body was never commanded nor yet used as a sign of conversion as the Quakers make it som saying they were never converted til now Indeed I read onely of Pauls trembling Acts 9.5 6. at the voice when going to Damascus which did arise onely from a terrour and fear being at once struck to the earth and blind his conversion was after this in a miraculous way and one Swallow makes not a Summer So you read the Jaylor trembled at the Earth-quake for fear of the losse of his prisoners So Foelix trembled at Pauls speaking of judgement yet went away the same man Acts 24.25 So that sin was not the ground of trembling in these men Fourthly neither did the Apostles preach such Doctrine how many do you find that thus trembled corporally at their preaching Verily you may put their names all in a Ring but for men now to make it necessary yea a sign of conversion to quake the Apostles themselves are strangers to this Sure the conversion of some with us is very sudden if quaking be a sign but Pauls words satisfie me that there 's nothing of God yea no profit in such motions of the flesh for bodily exercise profits nothing 1 Tim. 4.8 I have seen counterfeit Beggars in London that would artificially shake their whole body for mony without doubt if they came among the Quakers they might pass for good converts Fifthly neither can I read any quakings of the former Prophets above once and that for signs but behold these do it often yea I admire at one thing why they tremble seeing some of them affirm they have no sin herein their very practise opinions are riddles even to themselvs So that out of their mouths the most just hand of God toucheth them that they shall fear where no fear is Psal 53.5 And for the Scripture bidding us work out our Salvation with fear and trembling signifies not a bodily one but that of the heart as Elihu tels us Job 37.1 which is an awful reverence of Gods presence in the beholding all our actions but slavish fear is excluded Luke 1.74 he hath delivered us from the hands of our enemies that we might serve without fear Lastly trembling sometimes is an effect of Gods wrath which a beleever is freed from Jer. 10.10 at his wrath the earth shall tremble so that the Divels tremble at the wrath of God and the execution of his Justice upon them James 2.19 how far this quaking differs or how near kin it s to that of Satans and hypocrites he that hath an eye may resolve the Lord tels us that fearfulness hath surprized the hypocrites Isa 33.14 And if so then trembling as an effect of fear will follow so that in this act of their quaking they do no more then the Divel and wicked men from slavish fear and legal frights did before them But where perfect love is it casts out this fear which hath torment 1 Joh. 4.18 for unbelief is one of the proper causes of all such motions whether it be in Saints or Sinners By all this its evident that their quaking is not from the Prophets seeing they did it for signs and but once I wil not wish that which David did prophetically to Christs enemies to fall on them Let their eyes be darkned that they see not and make their loyns continually to shake Psal 69.23 truly poor souls their eyes are too much darkned already therefore I beg of God they may be opened to see their error nor can I desire their loyns should continually shake for that 's as great a judgement as the former but affectionately request that they may shake no more yet I wil comfort my self with this though the Mountains do shake and tremble with them Though great men should quake too for they are Mountains yet I wil not fear Ps 46.3.3 but shal through grace with the humble Saints of Christ stand still and see the salvation of God Exod. 14.13 FINIS

them forth which I deny for the spirit is given to every Beleever to profit withall 1 Cor. 12.7 though we have not the same measure of the spirit the Apostles had yet the Lord hath left us sufficient to understand the Scriptures by Hath the Lord left in the Church to that end Pastors and Teachers and have not they Gods spirit Eph. 4.8.11 Gal. 4.6 1 Cor. 12.3 but the truth is they would have no opening the Scripture at al as by their writing Pamphlets doth appear Whereas did not Ezra wade and give that sence of the Law Nehem. 8.7 8. did not Christ expound Isaiah 61.1 Luke 4.17.22 for all wondred at the gracious words that came from him which intimates he Preached from that Scripture So read Luke 24.27 after his resurrection he opened the Scriptures concerning himself Did not Philip Acts 8.32.35 expound Isaiah 55.7 to the Eunuch read also how many Scriptures Paul expounded and opened Acts 13.33 he opened the 2d Psalm as also Isaiah 55.3 so he gave the sence of Psal 16.10 Acts 13.36 when Paul was brought Prisoner to Rome he expounded both the Law and the Prophets Acts 28.23 So that what the Minister doth now in taking a Text and opening thereof is warranted by the former practises In that the Quakers say the Epistles was written to such a people in that they say true but what would they infer hence therefore they are not for us to use or Preach upon they may say the like of all the rest of the Scriptures but if they would have no interpretation of Scriptures what will they say of 2 Peter 3.6 who saith that in Pauls Epistles are many things hard to be understood which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they do other Scriptures to their own destruction whereby I gather that even in Pauls Epistles many things are mystical and must be opened in the spirit of wisedome Alas if no expounding Scriptures then wil they take these in the Letter John 3.4 How can a man be born again shall he enter again into his Mothers Womb Cut off thy right hand pull out thy right eye I have read of some that understood this in the letter did pul out their eye but if they had let it alone the Scripture had not been broken What misery fel upon the Jews because they did not better expound Christs words Destroy this Temple and I will raise it in three days I might call a Cloud of witnesses in this case Therefore let them say what they will God hath owned the way of expounding and opening Scriptures to the conversion of thousands as Seals to the Ministry And herein I blesse God I am not without witnesse in the hearts of some at this day yea some of them now turned enemies to truth have openly owned me as the instrument in Gods hand for their good I speak it with grief and to their shame to the intent if God will give them grace to repent of their errours and hypocrisie 2 Tim 2.25 Now I come to the fifth which you shall see whether they own or not 5. That which thou callest errour that we are not justified by faith upon Christs death and resurrection in what Christ hath purchased for us but by what Christ doth in us Answ To this they answer seemingly fair yet as the Pox Herod did to Christ so do they with the truth The Saints say they were justified by faith and its Christ that justifies and he that hath the faith of Christ lives in him But the faith and justification which stands in the comprehension and conceiving of Christ without will stand thee in no stead And thou that puts the Scriptures for the word art not justified at all but art under the condemnation and had not thou been a reprobate thou wouldst have known Christ in thee Confut. I confesse in this answer of theirs they contradict themselves often one while affirming and denying I know this before them that Christ is in the Beleever and that its that Christ justifies but not by his being in us for so they would have it by telling us that the faith which stands in the conceiving Christ without will stand us in no stead I wonder first how all the Patriarchs and Prophets was justified before Christ came but in conceiving Christ without And where did the Apostles teach such Chymical Doctrine as this so that to me this opinion of theirs totally rejects justification upon Christs death without us which is directly contrary to the following Scriptures Who was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification Rom. 4.25 Being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Rom. 5.9 But now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself its needlesse to heap Scriptures to prove this which is as clear as the Sun What a riddle is that in Divinity for them to say we are justified by faith and that upon Christ within is this faith or sight what I have in poffession I need not beleeve I have it for I know it this is sence and not faith therefore they speak non-sence The Prophet tels us by his stripes we are healed but they make all Christ did but a Pattern and example which is an old heresie newly revived it seems all the faith of the Apostles will stand them in no stead by this Doctrine for they never did Preach justification by what 's done in us but by Christ without us read Rom. 5.10 Heb. 9.14.15 Alas what need Christ to have taken upon him our nature and suffer such mighty persecutions as he did if he hereby did not perfect Salvation for us or as if such a faith as lies upon his merits were invalid as the Quakers would make it I must tell you plainly that I had rather live amongst Heathens that never heard of Christ nor the Scripture then with such people who after they have had all their knowledge of God and Christ through the Scriptures and the preaching thereof should now vilifie them and blaspheme them Yea some pretend that they should have known as much if they had never read the Scriptures O detestable Doctrine and ungratefull men thus to despise the outward means of Salvation how many Saints of old and in Queen Maries dayes sacrificed their lives for this very truth now opposed What difference betwixt Popery and this opinion for that which he calls justification by works or inherent grace that they call Christ I make no question but the Pope will give them his blessing for this yea and Canonize them as Saints also Now Antichrist works 〈…〉 and is within men indeed I am sure if he be 〈◊〉 they are Mystical Antichrist John tels us that Antichrist was in the world in his time which was before the Pope or Pap●●● had a being many years 1 John 2.18 this of justification by a righteousnesse within us is mans grand Idol and