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A77966	Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6049; Thomason E808_3; ESTC R207519	16,445	23

TRUTH DEFENDED OR Certain Accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the Teachers of the World and the People of this Generation With a cleare discovery who are the false Prophets and when they came in And who they are that deny Christ and that Preach another Gospel And who deny the Scriptures Churches Ministers and Magistrates whereby the Magistrates and People of this Nation may see they justifie that which the Scripture condemns and condemne that which the holy Men of God justified By a Servant of the Lord whose Name in the Flesh is Edward Burrough The Epistle To all you who call your selves Ministers of the Gospel and all People in all relations under what forme of Worship soever in England or in all the World who professe your selves Christians THe mighty day of the Lord is come according as he promised of old and this day is witnessed wherein he is establishing his Mountaine and exalting it above all Mountaines and is gathering his people which have been scattered in the darke and long night of Apostacy which Christ and his Apostles saw comming into the Churches then and hath had dominion long over the World and hath raigned till now and raignes now in all the Professors in all Formes every where But now the time is come wherein the Kingdomes of the World are become the Kingdome of the Lord and of his Christ and thousands witnesse it to the prayse of his everlasting name And therefore the Nations are angry and the Princes of the Earth because Michael our Prince is arisen to pleade with all who make warre against him And now Herod and Pilate and all Ierusalem are in an uproare and Ammon and Amaleck and the Egyptians and the Philistines are joyned now against him And all you who live in Formes and know not the power doe now persecute and joyne your selves together being in the same nature as the persecuters of old which were borne after the flesh And now you sonnes of Bondage and of Hagar are to be cast out and now you are all made manifest that you are in the flesh for all your Bowes are bent and all your Arrowes are shot at a people which are counted by you as the filth of the World and as the off-scouring of all things whom the World calls Quakers in whose Foreheads is Written the name of the living God and unto you I say that make Warre against them and now take part with the Dragon against the Lambe you shall all drinke of the cup of fury and indignation of the Lord And unto the living God who is holy and jealous for his owne glory and his name which hath manifested his minde and will by his Eternall Spirit unto us shall you all bow and stoope For now the Lord hath rent the vayle of the covering which hath beene spread over all the Nations in all Professions and you are all seen by the Eternall Eye which is opened in thousands even all from the highest to the lowest who have stolen and painted your selves with other mens Words And all your Images which you have set up and all your traditions from men in which you have walked are all seene to be stubble and will not abide in the day of the Lord And all your Churches which you have gathered together by imitation from the letter shall all be scattered and there you all are for you all deny revelation and say it is ceased and so you call the letter the light and the Word but with that which was before the Scripture you are seen and judged even with that which shall endure for ever And seeing you have cast reproach upon the name of the God of Heaven and Earth whom we worship and which you call delusion For the truths sake are we moved to lay open your nakednesse that you may be judged by that which you say is your Rule Here in this little Booke thou who hast any honesty in thee or any desire of truth and wilt search the Scripture thou wilt see that all the Teachers of the World in all Formes and all professors ever cryed out who had but the Forme against them who had the life and power as you all doe now against them who Worship God in the Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh And therefore in this following Discourse which is Wretten by the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture thou shalt see who are the false Prophets and who they are that Preach another Gospel and who they are that deny the Scriptures And thou may see when the false Prophets came in and who they are clearely proved to be by their owne Rules And all you who call your selves Magistrates and Christians you may see your selves to hold up that which Christ the Prophets and Apostles cryed out against and persecute them who stand in the counsell of God and them that declare against all the deceipt as the holy men of God did And so you are the Beast which holds up the false prophets and th●se whom the Scripture declareth against God is arisen to dash to pieces all them who withstand him And therefore come out of Babylon and out of all your painted Formes and come to own the first principle which will change your mindes even the light of Christ which he hath enlightened every one withall and by it you shall see what you are doing Now if you deny this you deny the corner stone and you stumble and shall be broken and by that which you call naturall shall all your Image of Gold and silver and all your mixed invented Worship be dashed to peeces and be for the pit Therefore all be silent and speake not evill of th●se things you know not for now you are all seen you who say you are Iewes and are not but are of the Synagogue of Satan and your voyce is knowne for none is turned from the evill of his way and therefore is wrath comming upon you to the utmost A lover of your Soules but am a Witnesse against all your deceipt Francis Howgill WHereas we are accused by the Teachers and People of this generation That we are false Prophets and deceivers and that we deny the Christ which dyed at Ierusalem and that we Preach another Gospel then the Apostles Preached and that we deny the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ and that we hold Free-will and establish selfe-righteousnesse and teach people to act in their owne strength to obtaine life and that we deny Churches Ministers and Magistracy To these false accusations I answer It is no new thing nor no strange thing to the children of light who are seperated from the World and Worldly Worships and from the Works of darkenesse to be accused falsely and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chiefe Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the Teachers and Professors of this age who have a Forme of godlinesse but deny the

Quakers are those false Prophets and Deceivers which Christ Prophefied of Of this their false accusation have they drunkards lyars swearers and all the ungodly people in every profession to witnesse them But their accusation and their witnesses we doe deny though they preach it among the people for doctrine And now in answer to this false accusation and slander I am moved to write a little and shall to that principle of God in every mans conscience cleare my conscience and declare what I know from God concerning those false Prophets who they are when they came in and how they may be knowne and shall leave it to every honest heart to consider of The Apostles and Ministers of Jesus Christ saw the same false Prophets which Christ Prophesied of to be come and comming in in their dayes Iohn said by that they knew it was the last time For said he Even now are there many Anti-Christs and false Prophets gone out into the World such vvere they who confessed not Christ to be come in the Flesh and they were of the world and spoke of the world and the world heard them Now here I charge it upon the Teachers of the world that they are of that generetion which went out into the world then for as they then confessed not Christ to be come in the Flesh so these uphold those things vvhich vvere under the Law vvhich vvas before Christ came in the Flesh outwardly and so confesse him not to be come in the Flesh and so they are Anti-Christ They uphold an outward Temple and an outward Worship and take Tythes as the Priests under the Law did as a Type and Figure of Christ but when he vvas come and sacrificed these things which were to stand for a time were put to an end And none who witnessed Christ come and were sent by him to Preach the Gospel did uphold those things but witnessed forth the substance and denyed the figure they denyed the outward Temple and witnessed they were the Temples of God and that God dwelt in them and denyed the outward worship and witnessed the worship of God in spirit and in truth within them for they who worshipped without worshipped they knew not what as they doe now And they desired to take Tythes and lived of the Gospel and said they that Preached it should live of it but the Teachers of this generation are of the world living in its pride lusts and vanities and they who live in the same worldly nature uphold them and heare them Iohn also said Every spirit that confesseth not Christ to be come in the Flesh is Anti-christ And here I charge it upon the Teachers of the world that their spirit of pride and covetousnesse and envy and hypocrisie which rules in them is the spirit of Anti-Christ and confesseth not Christ to be come in the Flesh for where he is made manifest and come in the Flesh this spirit is destroyed For as saith the Scripture he was made manifest to destroy the workes of the Devill Paul was also a vvitnesse of the false prophets and deceivers which Christ Prophefied of in his time For he gave warning to beware of such and to turne away from such whom he saw then come and comming in but came more fully in after his dayes he said of this sort They were lovers of themselves covetous proud heady high-minded fierce men and despisers of those that were good given to filthy lucre and to pleasure and were false accusers and blasphemers and without naturall affection and unthankefull and unholy and taught filly Women who were led with divers lusts but were not able to come to the knowledge of the truth by their teaching they were men of corrupt minds and reprobate concerning Faith And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers of the vvorld that they are of that generation which came in then For they are lovers of themselves they take money of poore people to whom they are more able to give and they are proud and covetous men they goe in their Ribbons and Cuffes and gaudy attire and they Preach to them vvhere they can get most money and some takes money of them and sues them at the Law to vvhom they Preach not at all they are heady and high-minded men for poore people bow to them in the streets and call them Masters they are fierce men and despise those that are good if any speake against them of the truth they are fierce against and despise such and they are given to filthy lucre and are lovers of pleasure for vvhere they can have most money there they will abide and they live in pleasure in idlenesse and lust and vanity they are false accusers they vvill call them deceivers which are not and that blasphemy which is not and they are blasphemers and vvithout naturall affection They say the Letter is the Word and the Scripture the light vvhich is blasphemy for God is the Word and Christ is the light and they vvill suffer the rude multitude and some vvill set them upon it to haile beate and strike out of their Assemblyes vvhich is vvithout naturall affection they are unthankefull and unholy they have great summes of money from the people and are not thankefull but compell them by a Law to pay them and herein they are unholy by their actions vvhich are declared and they Teach alwayes but men and vvomen are ignorant still and none able to come to the knowledge of the truth by them and they have a Forme of godlinesse they professe the Scriptures that the children of the Lord are taught of the Lord and that Christ said Take no thought what to eate nor what to drinke nor wherewith to be cloathed But vvho vvitnesse themselves taught of God and that they need no man to teach them and that take no care vvhat to eate nor vvhat to drinke nor vvhat to put on and so vvitnesse the promise of God and abide in the Doctrine of Christ these you call deceivers and idle and carelesse persons and thus deny the power of vvhat they have professed and herein their minds are corrupt and reprobate concerning Faith for Faith is the substance and purifies the heart from these things vvhich they are guilty of And Peter and jude also vvere vvitnesses of those deceivers and false Prophets vvhich Christ prophefied of in their time for they saw such vvere come and comming in which should bring in damnable Heresies and through covetousnesse with faigned words make merchandise of the people they walke after the flesh in the lust of uncleannesse and despise Government and Dominion Presumptuous are they selfe willed they are not afraid to speake evill of Dignities 〈◊〉 they speake evill of the things that they understand not they have eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sinne begniling unstable soules an heart they have exercised with covetous practises cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of

then would you not uphold them which act those things which they declared against for that which was abomination to the Lord then is abomination to him now and that spirit which declared against these things then cannot uphold them now And here the Teachers and people are tryed not to have the same spirit which was in the holy Prophets of the Lord but the spirit of the false Prophets acting by it that which they acted which the true Prophets cryed against and thus by upholding that which the Lord sent his servants to declare against you striue against the Lord ye Magistrates and People And you are not ashamed to call such Ministers of Christ which walk in the same steps and act those things that they did which Christ cryed woe against are called of men Masters and have the chiefe places in the Assemblyes and stand Praying in the Synagogues and goe in long Robes and love greetings in the Markets as they did here you justifie such as Christ cryed woe against and deny that Christ spoke the truth what was the minde of his Father for if you did beleeve that he spoke the will of his Father then would ye not uphold these that act the same things which he cryed woe against And he changes not that which he once cryed against the same spirit where it is witnessed cryes against the same things And here againe the Teachers of the world are tryed not to have the spirit of Christ but the spirit of the Scribes and Pharisces who act that which they acted which he cryed woe against And herein Magistrates and people strive against the Lord God by upholding that which Christ cryed woe against And such who are Ministers of Christ and walke in his Doctrine and in the same steps which he and his Apostles walked in witnessing for that which they witnessed for and against that which they witnessed against them you call deceivers and false Prophets and accuse them for vagabonds and wandering Beggars and Idle and carelesse Persons and that they have left their Families and carelessely wander up and downe And herein you Magistrates and people strive against the Lord by persecuting and slandering and falsely accusing and condemning such as the Scripture justifies and the servants of the Lord which spoke forth the Scripture doe witnesse of to be true What would you have called Christ who had no where to lay his head he was no vagabond nor Idle not carelesse Person And what would you have called the Apostles and Ministers of Christ who had lost their Families and Callings and went up and downe and had no certaine dwelling place but went from City to City and cared not for the World not what to eate nor what to drink nor wherewith to be cloathed this they did and yet were no vagabonds nor Idle nor carelesse Persons but abode in the Doctrine of Christ they were hated by your generation as we are now by you And they were called pestilent fellowes and movers of Sedition and Haretiques and men of erronious judgements And they said they were troublers of their Cities as you doe now call us false Prophets and Deceivers I doe declare this generation to be the same which persecuted the Prophets Christ and his Apostles as it doth persecute us for by the same power we stand as they did and by the same power we are commanded and acted as they were And to the power by which we stand and are commanded shall all the powers of men and of the Earth bow and be subject O all you magistrates and people consider of your blindenesse and Ignorance who doe absolutely justifie and uphold such as the Scripture declares and witnesses against and doe condemne and persecute such as the Scripture justifies and witnesses of and doe put them out of your Synagogues and Villages search the Prophets and Christs and the Apostles Writings in them you may reade your example and our example The vengeance of God you cannot fly his fierce wrath will come upon you and weeping and bowling and lamentation and misery will be your portion O tremble to thinke upon your Ignorance to what purpose have you made a profession of the Scriptures who justifie those things and those men which it plainely Declares against and condemne those practises and those men which it plainly witnesseth of Repent and take warning betime before the Decree of the Lord of Hosts be sealed against you for I have cleared my conscience in letting you see your owne Ignorance and blindenesse ye magistrates and people And thus you are left without excuse whether you will heare or forbeare FINIS