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A85152	Truth cleared of scandals, or truth lifting up its head above scandals, &c. Occasioned by the meeting of those people called Baptists, and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers, at Harlington in stafforthshire, upon the 27. day of the 7 month, in the year 1654. Shewing the difference betwixt the ordinances of Christ and of Antichrist, and the true worship and the false, with a discovery of the two seeds, and the New Covenant, the doctrine of baptismes, laying on of hands, the ressurectio, and eternal judgement, Heb. 6. 1, 2, 3, and Heb. 12.22, and 23. Also, the unprofitable servant and the talents, and of being caught up into paradise, the thorn in the flesh, and what it is to take pleasure in infirmities, and what those infirmities are, that is to be gloried in; also, something of perfection, and imperfection, and the glorying in the crosse largely proved, according to scripture, &c. / By one known to the world by the name of Rich. Fanrworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F512; Thomason E820_3; ESTC R207345	39,723	39

the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable and that Christ had not judgment committed to him whilest he was in the world and that Christ had not Judgement committed to him for he had a body and were sensible of hunger and such stuffe thou had and were in the lyes blasphemies and false accusations as thy fruits made thee manifest yet thou takes upon thee to teach and baptize and art of great account amongst poor seduced water baptized people but thou art discovered to thy shame and it may be for the good of many poor souls to see your deceits come to light Oh thou deceitfull one be ashamed and confounded let shame cover thy face repent and give over deceiving the people and all in thy nature now thou art warned as thou was then and to the Light of God in thy conscience am I made manifest and that will witnesse for me and the Truth against thee and thy deceit before the Judgement Seat of Christ in the great day of the Lord when I shall also stand before the Judgement Seat and be a witnesse against thee there except thou repent of thy lyes and blasphemies and false accusations and deny them all openly as thou witnessed to them openly and now to the Light in thy conscience shall this be witnessed which light will be thy eternall condemnation if thou hate it and act knowingly and wilfully contrary to it now thou hast time prize it for one wo is past but behold two woes more followeth after as it is written And the sixth Angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four hornes of the golden Alter which is before God saying to the sixth Angel which had the Trumpet loose the four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates and the four Angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year for to slay the third part of men he that both an car to hear let him hear and he that can receive it let him receive it Rev. 9.12 13 14 15 Zech 13. Therefore now Pallard great water Baptizer and all that are as thou art teachers of others before they be taught themselves and all imitations that worships ye know not what who are dipt In the water but are ignorant of the Divine nature that sayes the Bible is a History and yet the Letter and the Spirit Pallard thou sayes are one and inseparable how blinde and ignorant art thou and are you Baptizers of the Mistery silence all flesh and stop your mouths and take heed of deluding poor people any longer I warn you and charge you in the presence of the Lord as you will answer it before the Judgement seat of the great God and Pallard that in thy conscience shall be a witnesse for me when thou sees me not the Light of Christ Jesus there for to that am I made manifest yet shut up from thy dark minde for Light shines in darknesse but darknesse comprehendeth it not Iohn 1.9 Yet Light comprehendeth darknesse though darknesse cannot comprehend the Light and with the Light that comprehends the world art thou comprehended and with the Light which changeth not art thou seen and all in thy nature and known to be our of the Light and out of the Truth and out of the new Covenant and out of the Church that is in God the first-born which is written in heaven and no officer there nor no Minister of the new Covenant and the Spirit nor yet baptized into Christ nor no friend of Christ nor none in thy nature no more than the envious Jews and the Pharisees was and the Priests the Priests of the world and thou art in one nature and guided by one spirit the same that guides all the children of disobedience as it doth you and there is no difference between them and you but that you have the sheeps cloathing and they have the wolves but both one inside and nature thou hast the outside form according to the Letter more than they have but thou art without the power and ignorant of the Mistery in the Spiritas they are and as abovesaid that sayes the Bible is the History in the Letter and yet thou sayes the roughnesse is felt and thy darknesse is seen thou dark Sott would thou bring God and Christ Faith hope Election and the New Covenant the holy Ghost and the eternall Spirit and bloud of the Covenant within the compasse of death and have them historicall that sayes the Scriptures or Letter of the Bible is a History and the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable when as I told thee a History was a fable or a story but the Scriptures I own to be a true Declaration of the Truth that they lived in that spoke them forth and the Declaration of the Truth is most certainly believed amongst us that the world scornfully cals Quakers and the life of them enjoyed Christ Jesus the chief shepherd and Bishop of our souls and though the Scriptures outwardly be not the Spirit nor the eternall Word nor the life of God and Christ and the Saints yet the Scriptures are a true Declaration of those things declared of Luk. 1.1 but not the Word of God for it is eternall life and liveth and endureth for ever 1 John 2 3.4 5. 1 Pet 1.22.23 I would have had thee Pallard to have proved by the Scripture that it was any where called a History and that the Spirit of God was kept or confined in a history or a fable but thou could not for godlinesse is a mistery and the Devine Writings by the Spirit are in the new heart tables as it is written Col. 1.27 2 Cor. 3.2 3. and the Saints knowes Christ in them and the opening of the Mistery and his Ministers preaches him amongst the Gentiles now for you self-conceated ones like the outward Jews will none of his counsel but great is the mistery of godlinesse 1 Tim. 3.16 and the Comforter that abideth for ever even the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive and you Pharisees and self-conceited ones cannot receive it neither do you know him that sayes the Spirit is in the Letter and the Letter is a History but we know him in the mistery and the Spirit of Truth to be out of a History for he dwelleth in us as saith the Scripture John 14.15 16 17. Rom. 8.10 11. Praised be the Lord for the riches of his love to our souls in taking of the Seals and opening the mistery in the Lord Jesus Christ Rev. 5. Isa 29.11 to the end Col 1.25 26 27 28. Which mistery is yet hid to thee Pallard water-Baptizer and all in thy nature that sayes the Spirit and the Letter is inseparable and is a History stop thy mouth for shame and cover thy lips for the promise is not to that seed of the serpent which you wise ones of the world are one with as the Pharisees and the envious Jews was but the promise is to

puts a difference between the man and the woman and forbids the woman to speak in the Church he that can receive it let him I told thee Pallard that Paul also circumcised after he were a Minister of the Gospel as well as baptized and he had as much ground for the one as the other but no command for neither and Christ was circumcised outwardly as well as baptized outwardly and he ministred the circumcision also and were a Minister of the same as in Rom. 15.8 And I asked thee how thou followed Christ in that to fulfill that Ministration and what account thou couldest give of it in the inward man as it is written Col. 2.11 12. c. Because Christ ministred that and they did witnesse that Ministration through the Spirit in him and so they were made compleat in the substance and life of all truth through the Crosse And because it is written that death reigned from Adam untill Moses even over all that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and the Law and the Prophets were till John John succeeded them and he came burning and shining amongst those that were born of woman was not a greater than John yet he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he Then Pallard water baptizer I asked thee how thou couldst witnesse to those ministrations in the inward man for the seed is but one and how thou couldest witnesse a passing from death unto life as they did that spoke forth the Scriptures for they that had passed from death unto life said that he that was born of God did not commit sin and they also said that he that committed sin were of the devill and thereby the two seeds was known and the children of God was made manifest and the children of the devill by the operation of each seed ruling in them and working forth through them and they that had passed from death unto life knew who was of God and who was not and so doth the same seed now and they knew who did abide in darknesse and death and so do they now who are in the Light life and power of the Truth and they know that the Son of God is made manifest in them and hath taken away their sins as they knew then that witnessed the same through the Crosse who said that they dwelt in him and he dwelt in them but they did not know it by the dead Letter but by the quickening Spirit which is life and was given them 1 John 3. Chapter And they knew who were passed from death unto life and that the Son of God was come and had given them an understanding that they thereby might know him that was true and they knew it not by the Letter but by the Spirit and they had the true knowledge of it in the eternall Truth who affirmatively said we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternall life and not the Letter but the Letter declareth of it 1 John 5.20 Then Pallard I asked thee how it was with thee in deaths Dominion because it is written of deaths reigning from Adam untill Moses over all who have not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression and what that death was and reigned over in thee how thou came from under it to know the Law which is perfect and doth endure for ever according to that in the conscience and is to be fulfilled in all that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit and how thou came into the prophecies in the inwards because it is written the Law and the Prophets are till John and the seed is but one not seeds but seed and the promises are to the seed fulfilled through death in the Ministery by the Spirit in the crosse which cuts down and raiseth up and how thou came to know Johns Ministry set up within because he came and doth come burning and shining and there is a willingnesse to rejoice in his Light for a season and how it was with thee in that Ministration to know the ax laid to the root of the tree and the tree to be cut down and what that fallow ground in thee was which must be ript up and I also asked thee what self was with the fruits and the ground of it which the Crosse is Lo I told thee the creation was a figure and out of the ground sprung up grosse herbs weeds briers and thornes c. And the ofspring was not the ground the ofspring might be cut off and there might spring up more fruits of the like nature again so the fruits of self might be cut off and the ofspring was not the ground and whilest there was the ground and the roots in it unript up more fruits would grow there of like nature also therefore John said Rip up your fallow ground make the rough places smooth and prepare the way for the Lord to come into his Temple that he may sit as Refiner I asked thee how thou past through that Ministery of John in the inward man and what succeded John because it is written that the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he and some did witnesse that they were set in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Eph. 2.6 And I said unto thee if thou was an Officer in the Church of the first born written in heaven and were in the kingdom thou couldest witnesse to those things Heb. 12.22 and 28. Luk 17 21. And liberty was granted to thee for to declare thy passages in the inward ministrations if that thou couldest that it might be for the good of the people there present but thou could not speak any thing at all concerning those conditions and inward ministrations when thou was desired and severall times urged to it but all that thou could say was to accuse falsly and said I denyed the Scriptures and made that thy cover which would not hide thee but left thee bare and thy nakednesse did then openly appear then I charged thee to be a lyar and others witnessed against thee for saying that I denyed the Scripture when thou had no ground for it but the devill was a lyer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth and thou lyer who art out of the Truth art of him as thy deeds maketh thee manifest John 8.44 Therefore stop thy mouth and cover thy lips and let shame strike thee in the face for ever thou lyer and false accuser of the just Paul who was a Minister of the new Covenant not of the Letter but of the the Spirit he declared of his passages and his grouth and how he came out of one dispensation into another and they that grew from one degree of grace and glory into another they said that they knew no man after the flesh though they had known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth knew they him so no more and they gave account of their

Spirit and the Letter are one or inseparable thou art contrary to the Ministers of Christ and the New Covenant in the Gospel ministration who were able Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter for the Letter is death but the Spirit is life and is out of the Letter and in the new Covenant annointed and sealed are they that are sent and preaches the Spirit and not the Letter 1 John 2.20 27. John 3.33 34. 2 Cor. 3.6 Here thou art shut out of the annointing and out of the new Covenant and out of the Spirit and so are all in thy nature and are in darknesse and death unsent and unsealed and not annointed no Ministers of the life nor the Spirit but of death and darknesse and in the oldnesse of the Letter and not in the newness of the Spirit and there you are separated from the life of Truth and in the self separation who have not the Spirit that say the Letter is the Spirit or the Letter and the Spirit is one and cannot be separated but the Ministers of Christ were not of the Letter but out of the self-separation and in the Spirit and had the manifestation of the Spirit and the gifts given to profit withall 1 Cor. 12. and they did not then serve in the oldnesse of the Letter as you Baptists do but their service stood in the life and power of Truth and in newnesse of the Spirit and not in the Letter neither was their preaching with the enticing words of mans wisdom as yours is but with demonstration of the Spirit and in power that the Faith of others might stand out of the wisdom or policy of man in the power wisdome and strength perfection and power of God 1 Cor. 2.4 5. 1 Cor 1.30 31. 1 Cor. 1.18 1 Cor. 2.6 7 8 9 10. Rom. 7.6 verses And Ministers of the new Covenant in the power and life of Truth were Divine Epistles written in the Tables of the heart written not with ink as the Letter is but their Divine writings in the heart tables were by the Spirit of God both written and ministred out from the Spirit and not from the Letter as it is said ● Cor. 3. And here thou Pallard and all in thy nature are razed out of their Ministery and out of their Divine Epistles and out of their life and art in the Letter as the false conceited Jews was without the Word of eternall life that lived by their thoughts and conceits then as you Baptists do now and Jesus Christ said unto them Search the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternall life and they are they that do testifie of me I am the life and ye will not come unto me that ye might have life see Iohn 5.39 40. The Jew outwardly which put Christ to death had the Letter but not the spirit nor the life and there they was separated from the spirit and the life and the love of God was not in them but they had great knowledge of the Letter without them Iohn 5.40 41 42. Mat. 2.4 5 6. And thou Pallard art amongst the outward Jews and all in thy nature without the love of God as they was and opposeth the Truth as they did and hath knowledge in the Letter as they had but are without the spirit and the power of the holy Ghost as they was and the Letter is thy life and thou wilt not come out of it to Christ who is the eternall life who thy self art in death and darknesse that saith the Letter and the spirit are inseparable and afterwards sayes ignorantly that it is a History and the Spirit is to thee a mystery that art so in confusion and in Egypt and Babylon building up and throwing down and deluding the people thereby for shame blush and give over deceiving the people and all such as thou art who hath the Letter but not the spirit that saith the spirit and the Letter is one and cannot be divided nor separated and yet calleth it a History when the Scripture saith Christ is a Mystery then not a history therefore silence deceit and stop your mouths your blacknesse and darknesse is seen and your deeds are for condemnation with the light that are acted in that nature contrary to the light John 3.19 20. Pallard thou art ignorant of God and all in thy nature that saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable for God is a Spirit but God is not the Letter the Word of God is eternall life and doth endure for ever this is the record that God hath given to us even eternal life and this life is in his Son 1 Iohn 5.10 11. and not in the Letter and we know that the son of God is come hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true not in the Letter which is death but in the son which is life even in his son Jesus Christ this is true God and life eternall and the Word of God is eternall life which doth endure for ever 1 Iohn 5.12 18 20. 1 Pet. 1.22 23. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made in him was life and the life was the Light of men c. Iohn 1.1 2 3 4 5. The Word is God but the Letter is not God neither were all things made by the Letter but all things were made by the Word therefore the Spirit which is the Word of God Eph. 6.17 is not the Letter The Word is within in the heart Rom. 10.6 7 8. 1 Iohn 2.14 Col. 3.16 but the Letter is without bound up in Paper and ink which declares of of the Word The Word is the life of the world and the Word sanctifieth soul and body as it is said sanctifie them with thy Word but it is not said sanctifie them with the Letter and so we were washed cleansed justified and sanctified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Iohn 17.16 17 1 Cor. 6.11 Iohn 6● 1. Iohn 8.12 But Letter doth not sanctifie neither is the Letter the Light and life of sanctified men but the Word and the Spirit is which is not the Letter And all things are upheld by the Word of his power Hebrews the 1. But all things are not upheld by the Letter See how dark and ignorant of God art thou Pallard for the Word of God is as a fire and a hammer and breaketh the Rocks to pieces Ier. 23.29 but the Letter doth not and the Word of the Lord is as a fire in the bones Ier. 20.9 but the letter is not by the Word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the Breath of his mouth Psal 33.6 but by the Letter they were not the Word of the Lord is for ever settled in heaven so is not

in confusion and lyes saying and unsaying Babylonish building up and throwing down and daubing with untempered morter as all in thy nature do neither couldest thou witnesse the gift of the holy Ghost that it were or could be given by any of you water baptizers when it were demanded of thee upon thy examination in that thing at that time as many can witnesse and that in thy conscience shall witnesse the same the Light of Christ Jesus which will condemn thee and all that hate it and are contrary to it for this is the condemnation of the world that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather than light and the reason is because their deeds are evill as thine is John 3.19 20. And as thou could not witnesse to the washing away of sin by your water Baptisme nor the gift of the holy Ghost to be given by it when it was demanded of thee neither couldest thou witnesse to the eternall judgment and also denyed perfection to be attainable and here thou and all you water baptizers are razed out of the Apostles doctrine and life who said that they would leave the first Principles of the Doctrine of Christ and go on to perfection which you Baptists and thou Pallard great water Baptizer denies and so denyes that which is the whole life of truth and the Apostles and Ministers of Christ and they that had passed thorough the Doctrine of Baptismes and the laying on of hands they passed on to the Resurrection and to eternall judgement which thou Pallard denyes for they came to the Generall Assembly and church of the first born written in heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant and they knew the shakings not of the earth onely but of the heavens also that things which could not be shaken might remain which shakings thou knows nothing of nor none in thy nature that denyes perfection and the eternall judgement but we having received a Kingdom which cannot be moved have received grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire the same that theirs was that left the first Principles of the Doctrines of Baptismes and the laying on of hands and the Resurrection of the dead and came to the eternall judgement and to God the judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect and were in the Church of the first born written in heaven and had received the Kingdom and know the consuming fire and dwelt with everlasting burnings and this I witnesse he that can receive it let him Heb. 6.1 2 3. Heb. 12.22 to the end Isaiah 40.28 29 Isaiah 33.14 15 16 c. But to thee Pallard great water Baptizer this is a mistery and to all in thy nature that denyes the eternall judgement and the first Resurrection and the perfection which the Saints witnessed and they were risen with Christ and were made to sit together with him in heavenly places and said to others in their grouh If ye he risen with Christ set your affections on things which are above and not on things which are on the earth and some said that their conversation were in heaven and others knew that so many of them as were Baptized into Christ were baptized into his death that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so they also should walk in newnesse of life c. Rom. 6.3 4 5 6. Eph. 2.4 5 6. Col. 3.1 2. Phil. 3.20 21. Rev. 20.6 Rev. 21.1 2 3. to the 9. But thou and you water baptizers are yet in the oldnesse of the Letter and not in the baptisme of sufferings nor in the new life nor knowes nothing of the eternall Judgement nor of the Resurrection nor perfection nor the New Covenant nor the Seal thereof that sayes the Bible is a History and the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable as thou Pallard great waterman did and thou and the other that were with thee at that time impudently did lye before the people and said Christ had not judgement committed to him whilost he were in the world and Christ himself said for that cause was he come into the world as I then told thee and as thou mayest see in John 9.39 And where he said to the Jews that they judged him after the flesh but he judged no man after the flesh but he judged righteously and with righteous judgement and his judgement was true for he and his Father was one as he there said and he was one that bore witnesse of himself and the Father that sent him bare witness with him and Christ there had judgment with the Father and all judgment he said were committed to him and he told them the envious Jews that they were of their father the devill and his works they would do and he told them there was no truth in them for their father the devill had not abode in the Truth and they was of him and he told them he knew that they had not the love of God in them and his judgement was true and he called them serpents and vipers and said How-should they escape the damnation of hell and he pronounced woes to Pharisees and Hypocrites then such as had a form from the Letter but was separated from the Spirit and life of what they did professe and from Christ and the new Covenant and were in the Letter without the Spirit as you Baptizers are and as thou Pallard art and all that are in their nature and such as say the Bible is a History and the Spirit and the Letter is inseparable and that sayes Christ had not judgement committed to him whilest he were in the world as you Baptists and thou Pallard did here I charge thee in the presence of the Lord and all in thy nature to be false accusers of Christ and lyers and enemies of his truth as the envious Jews was as thou Pallard art and all you who are in their nature and as you may read John 8.44 John 5.39 40 41 c. Mat. 23.33 Thou may well take upon thee Pallard to lye of me and the truth that would so impudently lye of Christ that said he had not judgement committed to him nor given him whilst he was in the world when he said that for judgment he was come into the world as I then told thee And secondly he said that he had life in himself as the Father had and he had authority given him to execute judgement as it is written and as he was come for Judgement into the world and had authority given him to execute it So thirdly he had power to quicken whom he would as well as the Father and he said that the Father had committed all judgement unto him John 9.39 John 5.21 to the 28. And thou that said the Bible was a History and yet

passages and grouth which thou could not do Eph. 2.2 3 4 5 6 7. 2 Cor. 3.17 18. 2 Cor. 5.16 17. And the Apostle said give a reason of the hope that is in you to any man that shall ask you and withall be ready to do it that you may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the heighth and depth and breadth and length of the love of God And thou Pallard who art the great water baptizer and all you outward dippers and outside washers who maketh clean the outside of the body or vessel as the Scribes and the Pharisees did and are hard bound up in a dead form your ground is yet fallow and to be ript up And thou Pallard and you dippers sprinklers with water and outward baptizers teachers and people pastors deacons and elders and all and every one of you from the highest to the lowest that cannot give account of the inward Ministrations and passages through the Crosse from death unto eternall life and sayes the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable you are yet out of the Saints conditions and out of their life and are in darknesse and deaths dominion doing things by imitation in your wills and are in that nature which acteth contrary to the light and you set up formes contrary to the Light and according to your carnall apprehensions and are as a body without the Spirit that say the Bible is a History and that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable as Pallard the great water baptizer did Now the Lord is that Spirit as is spoken of in the new Covenant and glorious ministration but the Lord is not the Letter but he is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty and we all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even by the Spirit of the Lord and not by the Letter 2 Cor. 3.17 18. You Dippers sprinklers and water baptizers that sayes the Letter is the Spirit or the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable as Pallard did you are as a body without the Spirit that are in that nature which acteth contrary to the Light Where is the gift of the holy Ghost amongst you dippers and outside sprinklers and water baptizers Where have any of you sold your possessions yet and laid down the price at your Apostles feet as the water baptizers did Acts 4. And where are you filled with the holy Ghost that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and cals it a History as Pallard did Oh what hypocrites are you and how far short are you of that mistery when were ever the place shaken where you were assembled together when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the holy Ghost and spoke the word of God boldly as the Spirit gave them utterance and not the Letter Acts 4.31 Acts 2.4 Acts 7.55 Wherefore brethren say they look ye out seven men full of the holy Ghost whom we may appoint over you but we will give our selves to the Ministery of the Word and to prayer but they did not bid them to chuse out self conceated proud men full of fleshly wisedome and vain-glory like unto you watermen that are in this generation neither did they choose men full of the Letter and brain-conceats as you do but they choose men full of the holy Ghost for the holy Ghost had all the Rule in the Church of God and they choose Stephen a man full of Faith and the holy Ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenus and Nicolas a Proselite of Antioch full of Faith and the holy Ghost was those and of good report and they who were in the power of the Lord and full of the wisdome of God and were endued with the holy Ghost who had given themselves up to serve God in the ministery of the word and not in the Ministry of the Letter those who were in the power of God prayed and laid their hands on those that were sent forth and they were filled with the heavenly wisdom and with the holy Ghost that none were able to resist them that stood in the power of the Spirit and they were annointed by the Spirit and the holy Ghost sent them forth about the work of God in the Ministery of the Word and the Word of God increased which is not the Letter as you baptizers say but it is the Spirit which yet you are ignorant of and as the Word of God increased so the number of the Disciples increased and were multiplyed and Stephen were full of Faith and power that the wise men of the world and great Disputers of the Synagogue of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and them of Silicia and of Asia disputing with Stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake and not the Letter which wisdom and Spirit and laying on of hands and sending by the holy Ghost and Ministry of the Word of eternall Life Church and Church Officers that were made by the holy Ghost and is which you Dippers Sprinklers and water baptizers are ignorant and know nothing of though you have an outward form you have not the power nor the Spirit nor the Gifts as they had but are as a Bell without a Clapper or a body without the Spirit that saith the Letter is the Word and the Letter is the Spirit and the Letter is a History and saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable as Thomas Pallard great water Baptizer did and it is evident you have not the gifts nor the holy Ghost amongst you as the water baptizers spoken of in Scripture had therefore are you but Pharisees that have not the Spirit and the holy Ghost as they had that spoke forth the Scriptures and as they now have that liveth in the life of the Spirit but you that say the Letter is the Word and the Letter is the Spirit and the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable You Baptizers with Water are out of the Divine Nature and that faith spoken of and out of the life and power of the holy Ghost by which they did both preach pray and minister the Word and lay on hands and send forth 1 Pet. 1.3 4. to the 9. Mark 16.16 17 18. 1 John 5.1 2 3 4 5. Mat. 5. Luke 6. 1 John 3.9 1 John 5.18 John 7.38 Iohn 11.25 26. 1 Iohn 2.20 27 Acts 6.3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Acts 4.31 Acts 8 17. Acts 19.6 13 2 3 4. Acts 4.32 33 34. Acts 20 25 26 27 28 29. Hebrews 12.22 23.28 29. Read those Scriptures and let all who have a discerning given them in the eternall Truth see whether the Dippers Sprinklers and water-Baptizers be not out of the life of them and without the Falth spoken of with the fruits and effects spoken of in