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truth_n	apostle_n	know_v	see_v	1,739	5	3.3479	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77938	Ansvvers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers, by Philip Bennett, who cals himself a minister of Christ, but is found a deceiver; answered by them to whom they were directed. Also, ansvvers to severall other subtil queries put forth by one Iohn Reeve, who lives in the City of London, who cals himself the last messenger and witnesse unto the true God, but is found a false witnesse, and a lyar, and a perverter of the right way of God. / Answered by Edward Burrough, and Francis Howgill, who are witnesses unto the truth against this subtil serpent-like generation.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B5984; Thomason E813_4; ESTC R207330	24,422	20

shalt find him to be thine eternall condemnation 18 Quer. VVhether doth Christ now in these dayes assume or take upon him the form of a servant and the seed of Abraham that is our flesh And whether doth not this assumption cause such a perfection of the Godhead and the Manhood as that both of them are united together into one person Ans. O thou dark beast and conjurer who art querying with thy conjured words that which thou knowes nothing of and which is out of thy reach and comprehension thou blasphemer dost thou limit Christ to dayes in taking upon him the form of a Servant and the seed of Abraham Is not he the same now as ever he was And for the union of the God-head and Manhood as thou calls it let thy mouth be stopt for with thee God nor none of his children hath any union for God ha●h put an utter enmity betwixt thy seed thou serpent and the seed of the woman and the perfect union with Christ we witnesse who is the same to day yesterday and for ever and therefore are we separate from thee and thy generation 19 Quer. VVhether is Christ now conversant upon earth amongst men since his ascension as he was before and in those times wherein the Apostles lived Ans. In thy Queries thy speech bewrayes thee thy language is the language of Aegypt for in it thou makes it clearly manifest that thou knowes not Christ at all not in the least measure for where the first Principle of Truth is made manifest it is the same that ever was and never changes and thou askes whether Christ be now conversant upon earth amongst men since his Ascension as he was in the Apostles time Dost thou know what thou askes Did he not appear to the Apostles since his Ascension in the most glorious manner that ever thou read and is he not the same now as he was then What would thou make of him thou dark sottish beast such a one as thy self who would be pleading for darknesse and ignorance of God but praise and glory to him who hath discovered thee and all such deceivvers as thou art 20 Quer. VVhether did not Christ dwell among his Saints after another and more visible manner than now he dwels in his Saints Ans. There again thou hast shewed thy ignorance of the Scripture and for thy word visible he is not nor never was visible to thee nor to thy generation for those that did professe the Scriptures as thou and thy Generation doth crucified him and said he was of the devill as thou and such as thou art doth now thou blasphemer where hast thou a Scripture that saith that Christ would dwell in his Saints after another manner Did he not say It is expedient for you that I go away and I go and prepare a place for you and I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there you may be also and ye have heard how I have said I go away and come again unto you and if ye loved me ye would rejoice because I go unto the Father and Christ Jesus saith in the 14. Iohn 12. Verily verily I say unto you he that believeth on me the works that I do he shall do also and greater works than these because I go to the Father But all these Scriptures is hid from thy eyes and thou art one of those that Isaiah Prophesied on and that Scripture is fulfilled on thee which saith He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their hearts Now blessed be the Lord that hath discovered thee and such blind guides as thou art So we have Answered thy Queries in the eternall Light and life of God and we have given judgement upon thee and them which thou shalt eternally witnesse without roving or wandring but thou who art out of the Light art roving and wandring and stumbling in darknesse who hath put forth these stumbling Queries which we have Answered lovingly and plainly and in the Scripture Language and Termes and with the eternall Light and Life of God set thee in thy own place which thou shalt eternally witnesse These are matters of great concernment and if you refuse to answer them in writing spare your tongues and spare your Papers for I will henceforth neither hear the one nor read the other Ans. Thou saith these are matters of great concernment We see that that which makes thee manifest and such as thou art and which layes thee open to poor ignorant people which is deceived by thee and led into the ditch and their souls kept in death by thee to make this manifest is of great concernment as these dark black stumbling Queries and thy conjured words hath done which thou hast no Scripture for as ambiguity efficacy exclusively antecede and non-imputation assume and assumption Now let all people read and consider what they do that holds such as thee up who is shut out from God and shut out from the Saints life and language and art shut out of the Scriptures though thou makes a trade of them for mony and deceives poor people but thou knowes nothing of the life and power that gave them forth So thou art to be condemned with the Light and with the Life which gave forth the Scripture Let all people read Deuteronomie 18. from the 9. verse to the 15. There the Priests and the Levites which was ordained of God was to have no inheritance among the people but the Lord was their Inheritance and they were to have it of that which was offered up to the Lord and this is a figure of the everlasting Priesthood which ministers out of the everlasting Treasure and the Lord God commanded Israel that not to do as they did when they came into the land nor to go after their abominations as you may see but gave Israel their land to possesse that did hearken unto such as the Lord had not sent which was abomination to him and the Lord saith to Israel Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God and in the 15. verse the Lord thy God will raise unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee of thy Brethren like unto me unto him shall ye hearken And so to the end of the Chapter he that hath an eye may see and the Lord is the same that he was and he will not suffer the abominations that is committed in this Land but is discovering the abomination of it A horrible and a filthy thing is committed which Ieremiah cryed against covetous men preach drunkards preach swearers preach lyars preach strikers preach and proud men preach Oh wonderfull where is your eyes Try your Priests by the Scriptures see if they be not found in the same Generation that all the false Prophets and the deceivers were in which the true Prophets of God cryed against and discovered and in the steps of the Scribes and Pharisees that Christ cryed w●

acts and speaks and seeks to exalt Christ and him to bear rule that all opinions may be by him thrown down and that by him people may be brought out of a confused age into the land of r●st and peace and righteousnesse to serve the true Spiritual God in the Spirit and by the Spirit of his own Son and further thou sayes some there are takes upon them to speak of a God and of a Christ in the invisible heavens above the starres but are uncapable to demonstrate how Christ by his spirituall Word lives in mens hearts and how he reigneth visibly in glory with his Elect Angels I answer there are not some but many which lives in and speaks forth their own imaginations upon God and Christ and one of them thou art thy spirit is tryed God who is a Spirit dwels in the Spirit of his Son even in the high and holy place and with him also who is of a contrite Spirit and trembleth at his Word but this by thy vulterous eye is not seen neither can any demonstrate how Christ dwels in the heart but he who witnesseth it through death and where he reigns his glory is with him and his Elect Angels this I witnesse but to thy carnall eye it is invisible and by thy carnall wisdome he can never be known Christ and his spirituall word is not to be divided though thy sensuall spirit would divide them but by the flaming sword thou that speaks art divided from both and shalt know neither but to thy condemnation and further thou sayest others there are which speaks of an eternall Spirit or Christ onely in the consciences of men as if there were no Creator ●● Christ at all visibly reigning upon his Throne of immortall glory I answer They who talke of an eternal Spirit or Christ in the conscience by hear say o●●● other mens words without as thou dost and doth not in life and power witnesse it from the Father within made manifest such are denyed by them who witnesse the eternall Spirit dwelling with the contrite heart which Spirit is the Creator which dwels also in the high and holy place and reigns upon his Throne for ever and who do in power witnesse this sees and judges all y●ur carnall imaginations and conceptions of the living God in your carnall minds where he dwels shall no unclean thing enter but is without to be troden in the wine-presse of his wrath for ever and ever and by him shall thy carnall conceptions be consumed even by the breath of his mouth for he is eternall and his Throne is eternall and by the carnall eye shall never be seen and further thou sayest there are who through unbelief that ever any living creature had a beginning they affirm there is no God or Christ at all but perishing nature of this sort are innumerable witnesse the lives and conversations of people every where I answer All who do witnesse the eternall Spirit made manifest to rule and guide all such doth deny and declare aagainst for nothing was without beginning but the eternall Word which was the beginning of all things and which will be the end of all things even the destruction of the wicked and the salvation of them that believe who are born of the immortall seed and redeemed out of the perishing nature into the image of God and such do set to seal there is a God who will reward every one according to his works and beares witnesse against them who in their lives and conversations denies God as all do who do not witnesse the eternall Spirit of Christ ruling in the consciences but talkes of a God in imagination at a distance and such are innumerable and saith in their heart there is no God and such are the fools the Scripture speaks of and whereas thou beseeches to consider of these ensuing particulars I answer They are considered and by them thy ignorance is made manifest and thy folly disclosed and thy blasphemy who cals thy self the last witnesse 1 Quer. In thy first particular thou queries Whether these men were sort forth by the eternall Spirit to preach which in the least cannot demonstrate what the onely true God is in himself and how he is a distinct being from all living creatures and how he reigns in the Elect by a created Word voice of spirituall motion onely Answ. Those men were not sent forth by the eternall Spirit to preach who have not received it and such knowes not God what he is no● where he is but in their imaginations imagines him to be like a creature by being i● a creature by place or habitation God is a Spirit and he is not distinct from living creatures for in him living creatures lives moves and hath their beings and he is not far from them nor distinct from them as he spake who was sent by the eternall Spirit to preach he reigns in the Elect not by a created word voice or a created spirituall motion for the Word which lives in the Elect from which voice and motion proceeds is not created but is uncreated even as God is uncreated for God is that Word and here thy ignorance appears by calling the Word which lives in the Elect a created Word or voice or motions and here be a witnesse against thy self that thou speaks from darknesse and not from light which darknesse cannot comprehend the shining of the light and this discovers thee more to be a false witnesse and not the true witnesse of God and therefore thy portion must be portion of false witnesses read what it is 2. Quer. In thy second particular thou queries Is not this an infallible demonstration to men that a man is sent forth by the eternall Spirit if he have received a gift from the holy Ghost to demonstrate what the true Creator was in his own distinct Essences Nature and glory from all eternity in time and to all eternity and wherein Elect men and Angels differ in their natures and glory distinct from their Creator in their Persons Answ. He that hath not received a gift from the holy Ghost in some measure is not sent forth by the eternall Spirit or God of all truth this is infallible and such knowes not what the Creator is but by imagination and carnall conceptions of him and such in the Light of Christ is seen and by it judged and among such thou art to that in thy conscience I speak which will witnesse me he that hath received the holy Ghost turnes people from the power of Satan to the power of God and knowes the Creator and the dwelling of him in the heart for as the Scripture saith the word is nigh but let all flesh be silent he who is in time knowes not him which was before time and shall be when time shall be no more he who knows the Creator which inhabiteth eternity is redeemed out of time into the Habitation of the Almighty but this to thy dark minde and spirit