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A testimony against Jeffrey Bullock, his antichristian and foolish pamphlet stiled Antichrist's transformation within discovered by the light within wherein his perverse spirit, darkness and whimsical conceits are reprehended by the true light.
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Barnadiston, G. (Giles), d. 1680.
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the Word of Life so his Senses were exercised therein and from the Sense he wrote but thou who hast lost thy Sense and Feeling cryest out against Sensible Ministers and Elders and so People may see what stuff they have and are like to have from thee which is full of Senslesness and 't is much if thou canst put it off with giving it away for it is not worth buying So thou run'st on in thy sensless Stuff and sayest The Woman is the Soul Heart and Mind of every Visible Man And whence hast thou this who art crying out against us for not holding the Form of Sound Words hast not thou presumed herein above what is written where does the Scripture say so or where can it be so much as inferred from thence and dost thou think to recover thy self with writing such stuff as this or hurt us thereby or will it not make thy Folly more manifest that it might proceed no further And the following part concerns thy self whose Mind the Adversary has stoln from the Light that would have kept humble out of the Headiness and spirit of Exaltation in which thou standst feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge that has puft thee up who has made use of thy Knâ—â—ledge to serve Lucifer's Interest who is now become thy Teacher and Leader in the Work of Opposition against the Light and his Teachings Leadings and Formings of his People And thy not owning the Judgment and Superiority of the Ministers who say He that is not justified by the Witness of God in Friends is condemned of it in himself does not make it untrue who contendest against the Truth and its Ministers for God's Witness is one and its Judgment one and as his Name is one so is his People though such as are got into Hardness above the Fear would divide them and make their Judgment differ wherefore it will hold true forever That such as are unreconciled to the Church are no Ministers to the Church for God's Church and He are in Unity which thou art insensible of being divided from it and the Church is in God so they that are unreconciled to the Church are unreconciled to God and so can be no Ministers unto it and he gives his Power to the Church that is in him and they that will not hear the Church let them be as Publicans saith Christ and such unchurch themselves that receive not the Judgment of the Church that is in God the Pillar and Ground of Truth and though the False Church may and does bring Snares yet will the True Church of God never bring Snares upon her Members And thy Testimony against the Practice of Imposing Books as thou deemest it favours more of Malice then Truth for thou knowest there were none imposed upon thee nor any in the Meeting and thou hast dealt Enviously and Treacherously in the Relation thereof and when it was mentioned at Sudbury where J. B. opposed it it was left to Friends Freedoms who all besides him then and there consented without the least Contradiction But he â—as more gratified his own Enmity then shown his care for the Poor And so J. B. thou hast lost the sense of the Light that saves and art got into that which destroyes and darkens and vails as they that read thy Book may feel the Darkness it is so thick And thy crying up the Light to cry down the Messengers and Labourers it has sent forth is not from the Light but from the Transformings of Satan who informs against its Messengers and Ministers for the Light said of such You are the Salt of the Earth and that salts the Earth and he calls them The Light of the World and has not excluded them from being Fellow-Workers together with him nor yet ashamed to call them Brethren So thou and thy Work are discerned and there 's Thousands can never forget the Day of their Convincement who would have even pluckt out their Eyes for them that were made instrumental in the Power and Spirit of the Lord to beget them to God having them in Esteem for their Works sake accounting them worthy of double Honour though thou hast lost thy First Love and Sense of the Heavenly Visitation that reached through them unto thee which they can't forget who have kept their Habitation but must highly esteem them by whom they were begotten to the Lord as Fathers and such as have believed through their Word and abide therein can't think sleightly of their Authority and that Power which hath effectually wrought for the breaking all Impositions and Yoaks of Bondage from off their Souls and those are found Witnesses for them they are no Imposers of such Yoaks and so thy Arguments fall of themselves And thou who denyest the Resurrection of the Power or the arising of the Seed or God in Man hast therein shewn the Effect of the Power of Darkness and Seed of Enmity risen in thy self Jesus Christ humbled himself and made himself of no Reputation but descended that he might bring man up out of the Fall and in this Respect he is truly said to â—uffer the Just for the Unjust that he might bring again to God who in the pouring forth his Soul unto Death comes to see his Seed and so thou art a Stranger to the Sufferings of Jesus and knows not the Fellowship of them who never wert baptized into his Death with him who art denying the Extent and Effect of his Sufferings thou being out of the Sense and Feeling And if that which God made in Man be in Bondage and Captivity as thou sayest then must he descend thither to fetch it out and this is according to Scripture which sayes I looked and there was none to help and my own Arm brought Salvation And so 't is thou must come into Silence and sit in the Dust who art an Inhabitant of Kir of Moab and thy Ranting Spirit is discerned who talkest of the World 's being the Church of God and what needst thou make such a do about Error in Principles and Practices they can but lead into the World and so into the Church of God and if he be above in all the Sons and Daughters of men he is then in his proper â—lace and the Devil is in his and so thou might'st have spared thy Painâ— but the Scripture sayes His Soul is prâ—ssed as a Cart is pressâ—d with Sheaves and are not the Sheaves above the Cart it presses And doth not David say Let God arise and his Enemies shall be scattered And though God in his Soveraignity be over Man to his Condemnation yet he delights not in the Death and Condemnation of Man but so great is his Love towards him that he would rather have him under the Power of his Love and Mercy which can't be as Man is in the Fall but by sending his Son to suffer which Man being truly sensible of through the Participation thereof câ—mes to attain to the Power of his Resurrection and so by
A TESTIMONY AGAINST Jeffery Bullock HIS Antichristian and Foolish Pamphlet STILED Antichrist's Transformations Within Discovered by the LIGHT WITHIN Wherein his perverse Spirit Darkness and Whimsical Conceits are Reprehended by the TRUE LIGHT Romans 1. 21. Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful but became vain in their Imagination their Foolish Heart was darkned Vers 22. Professing themselves to be wise they became Fools Printed in the Year 1676. A TESTIMONY AGAINST Jeffery Bullock HIS Antichristian and Foolish Pamphlet STILED Antichrist's Transformations Within Discovered by the Light Within HAving lately seen a Book printed by J. B. intituled Antichrist's Transformations Within discovered by the Light Within this Testimony arose in my Heart That Antichrist's Transformations within is setting and would set it self above the Light within in such as have departed from it in themselves amongst whom is this J. B. with some others who went out from us because they were not of us but went out and so are made manifest who had they continued in the Light they had not been pushing at us and it for such are at Unity with the Light and in it in sweet Fellowship Peace and Communion one with another and there is no Occasion of stumbling in them because they walk in the Light And these have been much opposed since they were a People gathered by the Light in it to walk and the Enemy hath laboured alwayes to disperse their gatherings and to hedge up their Path and when the National Priests and others of all sorts with their Weapons could effect nothing then have there arose some amongst our selves who have spoke perverse things to draw after them and so this is no new thing neither would we have any startled or make a wrong Judgment concerning us or the blessed Light because thereof and so make their Bonds strong for so you may read it was in the Primitive Times And those are more subtil then others in that they have known something of the Openings of the Truth whilst in their first Love Tenderness and Lowliness unto which it did open which State they having lost have made use thereof to make War against the Light and the Dwellers therein and the Knowledge has pust such up who have fed there and departed from the Grace that humbleth and keepeth humble out of Contention and Strife and Enmity where these dwell who speak Evil of Dignities and Despise Government and would pretend to give Honour to the Light but dishonour and dis-regard them that are the Messenger and were the Bringers of the Glad-tidings thereof to their Ears who haâ—e turned many to Righteousness who do and shall shine forever and ever And this Subtilty is seen and this transformed Angel of Light is discovered though he come in that Name and under the Pretence of Light crying out against Man and calling it Man's Power and Man's Authority as divided from the Lord's Power and his Authority even in those that are begotten of it and live upon it and act by it and judge the World through it and this iâ— not to honour the Light which has honoured them that have honoured it and given them Power which hath reached through them even to Thousands who are their Witnesses they have used it to Edification and not to Destruction Neither have such forced any or exercised Dominion over the Consciences of any as Rome and other Chuches have done by their Coercive power and Penal Laws so none like to be so ensnared by their Power and Authority given them of God to judge Error and Blasphemy and whatever rises up that is of a contrary Nature to the pure Light and peaceable Spirit of Righteousness which has brought us forth a People to his Praise amongst whom is the Spirit of Judgment and a sound Mind who have the Mind of Christ and will not be divided from their Husband their Maker nor let his Judgments depart from his Law that he has placed in their Hearts and his Righteousness that he put in his Spirit in their Inward Parts which now goeth forth to judge Unrighteousness and Filthiness as well of Spirit as Flesh which makes the filthy Dreamers that despise Dominion angry and causes them to vent their Confusion Blasphemy and Darkness to the manifesting their own Shame as J. B. has done because Judgment is gone forth against him for denying that Christ that dyed at Jerusalem to be the Judge and Saviour who having denyed him in his Workings for our Salvation we cannot think it strange to see him inveighing against the Ministers and Elders and the Form and Order in the Church established by the Lord and his Power in them whâ—ch disowns his Disorder and Informings from Satan's Transformings against the Light within his People which can never lessen the Fame and Glory of the true Ministers or their Power and Authority in the Churches amongst which the Lord has given them a Name who as he sent his Son into the World so hath his Son sent them and hath sanctified them through the Truth that they may be one as the Father is one and the Glory which the Father gave him he hath given them though J. B. grudges them it and that which they have they return unto him who is the Giver God blessed foâ—ever Thy Judgment is thou sayest and believest That whatever is writ to the Churches by Men Elders ought to be written by the Holy Ghost whether it be Exhortation or Counsel Admonition Warning of Evil c. in Matters of Conscience which things belong to God So then they have Power in the Holy Ghost to admonish and warn in things relating to Conscience according to thy Judgment but we may go something further as well as our Brother Paul who wrote to the Churcâ—es Advice and Counsel and said He spake by Permission and not by Commandment and sometimes not the Lord but He spake and so his Faith and Judgment herein was diverse from thine and so is ours And the Paper to the Churches thou sayest is not to be owned because it was writ from a Sight or a Sense or Sensible Part and not from the Spirit of Revelation As if that implyed Contradiction as if the Spirit 's Revelation put out Sight and Sensibility and so thou wouldst have Blind Elders and Sensless Ministers and is not this from Satan's Transformings in thee and has he not led thee here into the Ditch for did not those that spoke forth the Spirit 's Revelations speak from a Sight and a Sense and from that Part in them that was made sensible of the Revelation and were not the Prophets called Sears and were they not to declare what they saw and did they not speak from the sight they had of the Mind of the Lord and were not they sensible of what they declared And did not the Apostle declare what he had seen with his Eyes and his Hands had handled and what he had tasted of