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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85147	The ranters principles & deceits discovered and declared against, denied and disowned by us whom the world cals Quakers. With a discovery of the mistery of the crosse of Christ. And a discovery of the true light and the false, with their wayes, worships, natures, properties and effects. &c. A vindication for the truth against the deceit. to clear the truth, of scandalls written for simple ones sake, that desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F501; Thomason E830_14; ESTC R207442	21,296	22

The Ranters Principles Deceits discovered and declared against denied and disowned by us whom the world cals QUAKERS With a discovery of the Mistery the Crosse of CHRIST And a discovery of the true Light and the false with their wayes worships natures properties and effects c. A vindication for the truth against the deceit to clear the truth of Scandalls written for simple ones sake that desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience and know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God therefore be not deceived for God will not be mocked Ephes 5.3 4 5 6 1. Cor. 6.9 10. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 165● Leicestershire from Swanington the 29. of the 6. Moneth 1654. FRIENDS Seing the deceit of the Ranters is and hath been a hinderance to many simple hearts from recovering the truth and that their deceit hath opened the mouths of many to speak evil of the truth I was moved to write something to lay open their deceits false Rests and false liberties for the truths sake and the simple ones sake that it may go abroad as a testimoniall of our deniall of them and to be a witnesse against them and their deceits that truth may be kept clear and pure so will righteousnesse shine and spread abroad that wisdom may be justified of her children truth be established and deceits confounded Being in Leicesteishire and seeing that deceit of the Ranters there as in some other places to be much hinderance to honest hearts keeping them back from recovering the truth with the love of it I have sent this to you that it may be a witnesse against them and their deceits for ever R. Forneworth The Ranters Principles deceits discovered and declared against denied and disowned by us whom the world calls QUAKERS THe false rest and false liberty of the Ranters discovered who be in that nature which acteth contrary to the light with the light which never changeth are you seen and with the light are you comprehended and with the light chained and condemned and with the light you are seen to be in the lust in the filth and accursed from God who stands in enmity to the light the crosse is inward and the true light which light is the way to salvation and blessed are all who walk in the light which cometh from God the father of lights that with the light they may be kept out of all the pernicious wayes which way you walk in who are turned from the light and that is your condemnation the light and the condemnation of all that hate it and to you this is the word of the Lord according to that in the conscience the light of Christ Jesus which changeth not Remember the Angels that kept not their first estate but left their own habitation Jude 6 7. he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darknesse unto the judgement of the great day even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternall fire Jug 6 7. Mind here your types you that have cast the pure law of God behind your backs and have turned the grace of God into wantonnesse here is your character look to your selves you that have not kept your habitation with God when once you were enlightened with the pure light after so many troubles sorrows fears and tears and watchings when the wrath of God was revealed against sin and ungodliness in you and the pure law was set up and the judgement within you to have freed you from sin and from punishment eternally had you kept in the strait way and stood in the counsell of God that judgement might have been brought forth into victory and the pure seed have been borne up to have saved you from sin but not abiding in the judgement you have cr●cified the Son afresh and put him to open shame Col. 3.1 2 3. Eph 5.3 4 5 6 11 12. and vo is your portion you did run well but you have lost the right way and are turned into the pathes of darknesse again and you act in darknesse and brings forth the fruits of unrighteousnesse and are become servants of sin Remember your type Judas likewise who had received part of his ministry Rom. 6.16 John 8.34 and after betrayed the Lord of glory for self ends and to have the love and friendship of the world but wo was his portion and when he knew what he had done he went and hanged himself and his case is yours who have betrayed the light of God in you and the union with it though it was in wrath to the seed of the serpent when your senses are opened again you shall see the misery and the wofull estate and condition that you are in and how you have betrayed Christ with a kisse to deliver him into the hands of sinners and so the w●tnesse also lyes slain in you that should witnesse and give sentence against sin but the Lord will find you out and give you your reward Rom. 2.5 6 7 8 9. 2. Pet. 2.11 12 13 14. 2. Pet. 2.17 18 19 20 21 22 23. Mat. 24.50 51. you that have fed your selves with conceits and imaginations from the discovery of the light to the seed and your subtile wisdomes having intruded into the room thereof and so you have got into the liberty of the flesh and can rant and swagger in wickednesse and say you are free but it is but the flesh that is at liberty and that must be cursed and all that follow your pernicious wayes by reason of whom the way of truth is evil spoken of but you are accursed with a curse that is joined with the serpent again you shall see him whom you have pierced and mourn bitterly and as Esau did seek the blessing again with tears but shall not find it but be cast into utter darknesse where shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth I know many of you were once tender and simple hearted and did make conscience of your wayes and were zealous for the truth and did practise what was made known in some measure and were under the sense of the wrath of God against sin and the witnesse did arise to curse the seed of the serpent and then you apprehended God to be an angry God and so is he still against sin and will not suffer it to go unpunished but that was bitter to the fleshly part but it had been good for you if you had continued under the crosse in the executing of the righteous judgement of God upon the serpent in you for in the end it would have been sweet when you had eaten the passeover to

root of all enmity to reconcile thy soul unto God in yielding to the pure law of love and the divine power of purity in thee and so circumcise thy heart and cut off the evil nature which hinders thy soul of the unity so will the righteous law kill sin in thee and give thee knowledge of the true way that leadeth to life joy and comfort in yielding obedience to the principle of purity in thee heartken to that which checks thee for running into folly and van●ity and it will crosse thy mind will and affections 2 Pet. 1.19 2 Cor. 4.6 7. Pro. 20.27 that runs out after carnality and so search thy heart and turn thee out of the iniquity and guide and lead thee into holynesse and purity in walking up to God in the right way that leadeth to the divinity with Christ I am the way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the father but by me know Christ the way in you to lead out of darkness into the light of purity Christ is the light and Christ is the way and he comes to set up his judgement within and to reveal wrath against sin and to break the peace of the carnall mind and to draw under judgement all the first birth Ioh. 9.39 1 Cor. 1.19 20 21 22 23 24 25. Col. 2.13.14 Eph. 2.11 12 13 14 15 16 both the love of the world the wisdom of the flesh and carnall reason and lead that into the pit of confusion to slay the enmity by the execution of the righteous judgement upon the unjust nature that he may pour forth fury upon the head of the wicked and slay that which crosseth purity and opposeth the work of redemption as man doth imbrace the comings in of wrath to the wrathfull nature to cut it down and burn it up that the good seed may hare room to grow in man and make man fruitfull to God in joining with the slayer of sin that the world or the creature man may be saved by the power of the Lord which doth redeem the soul and unite both soul and body to God that they may be reconciled by the death of the cross in the mystery to praise and glorify God in sincerity and in integrity The true light and the false with their waies worships natures properties and effects This then is the message that we have received to declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darknesse at all and that every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh from the father of lights with whom is no variableness Iam. 1.17 18. 1 Pet. 1.22 Rom. 11.16 Eph. 5.1 2. Eph. 2.8 9 10. neither shaddow of turning for of his own will begat he us that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures being born again and children of the light 1 Pet. 1.22 Rom. 11.16 Eph. 5.1 2. God is the fountain of all good and of mans salvation and happinesse and God is pure his waies words works and worships are pure and holy and this holy God doth inhabit in eternity and dwelleth in purity in himself and none can approach to come near him in their sins nor by their faln wisdom none knowes him but those that are born again and washed and cleansed not in his purity therefore as he that hath called you is holy Heb. 12.14 1 Pet. 1.15 16. so be ye holy in all manner of conversation because it is written be ye holy as I am holy for holinesse becometh mine house for ever as God is pure and holy so the light that proceedeth and cometh forth from God is pure and holy and stands out of all apprehensions and comprehensions of man by his faln wisdom and so sees all mans devices his deceits and false waies and false worships and this pure light that doth proceed and come forth from God which is pure and perfect it convinceth man of all the deceits of his heart and of all his devices and deceiveablenesse and of all his false waies of worship and sheweth him his transgressions and convinceth him of unrighteousnesse and infidelity and all manner of evil whatsoever and calleth him out of the waies and works of darknesse into unity with this pure light and leads him into the way of peace and salvation in obedience to it to worship God in purity even in spirit and in the life and power of truth Ioh. 16.25 26 17 28. Ioh. 12.35 36. this light is from the fountain of lights it is not a conceited thing that is conceived in the brain but it is the light of life and is not to be found in books nor learning without it gathers out of all books without to reading the book of life within this light opens all Scriptures 1 Ioh. 5.8 9 10 11. Ioh. 17.23 14. and Ieads man out of the fall up to God the fountain father of lights this is the true light leadeth into life eternall 1 Joh. 5.12 13. Joh. 17.10 But the naturall men know it not by their naturall learning at studies at universities that is but a borrowed or false light that leads them into books and studies to find out the truth by their carnall wisdom which is gathered up from the serpent and is accursed from God and that faln wisdom and man that lives by conceivings and comprehension and catching of truthes in the nation to speak of and sell for mony it is earthly carnall and divelish Iam. 3.15 16. and he that is joined to that serpentine wisdom is one with it in the same nature and sets up a way of worship that stands in the carnall conceivings of his own brain in imitation from them who lived in the life and power of truth and his ministry that is of the seed of the serpent stands in his own will and so learns his naturall tongues and so would be a judge of spirituall things by his naturall learning and trades out of books and the conceivings of his own brain to sell his divinations at a great rate and calIs them his spirituall things when he is in his carnall corrupt nature 1 Cor. 2.7 8 9 10 11 13 14. 2 Cor. 10.4 5. 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. Ioh. 28.7 8 to the 22. Isa 30. Ier. 23.29 30 31 32. Isa 5.20 Mat. 23.24 25. Ioh. 8.12 and the naturall man knows not the things of the spirit God for they are foolishnesse to him 1 Cor. 1.14 15. And that is a false light that leads the minds of men out into conceivings and imaginations and to gather up knowledge out of old authours or books without them and that light which is borrowed from without and gathered into the brain through the conceivings and imaginations leads the mind will and affections out after pride and oppression self-love and the honour of the world and the like and it conceives that to be good also and all to be evil that crosseth his knowledge in his carnall