Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A67229
|
An anti-christian conspiracy detected, and Satan's champion defeated being a reply to an envious & scurrilous libel without any name to it, called, Work for a cooper : being also a vindication of my book, entituled, The antiquity of the Quakers ... / by me Thomas Wynne.
|
Wynne, Thomas.
|
1679
(1679)
|
Wing W3781; ESTC R34103
|
42,818
|
59
|
Jesus Christ writing against the false Teachers and rebellious Apostates said They walk after their own Lusts c. but said unto the Believers Beloved remember ye the Words which were spoken before of the Aposâ—les of our Lord Jesus how that they told you there should be Mockers in the last Times who should walk after their own ungodly Lusts Jude 16.17 18. Oh Reader seriously read and ponder these weighty and holy Sayings of the Apostles of Christ and flee from those fleshly and ungodly Lusts which War against the Soul and drown those in Destruction who do not unfeignedly Repent thereof and turn therefrom while God gives them a Time of Visitation while he visits them by his holy Spirit of Grace Life and Strength to lead them thereby to unfeigned Repentance and to redeem them thereby out of all sinful and ungodly Lust O blessed are all they who turn unto him while he strives with them to gather them unto himself but most miserable are those who turn not unto him but go on after their own ungodly Lusts who set at nought all Gods Counsel both that which is immediately given them by his Spirit inwardly and also that which is given by him through his Instruments his Prophets Apostles and his faithful Servants which is witnessed unto by the Light of Christ Jesus wherewith every man that cometh into the World is lighted according to John 1.9 as is shewed before Of this evil Generation the Prophet complains they say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the Knowledge of thy Wayes What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we Pray unto him Job 21.14 15. and 22.17 The Holy Prophet said I sought the Lord and he heard me c. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them O! taste and see that the Lord is good blessed is the Man that trusteth in him O fear the Lord ye his Saints for there is no want to them that fear him The young Lyons do lack and suffer Hunger but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing Come ye Children hearken unto me and I will teach you the Fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth Life loveth Dayes that he may see good Keep thy Tongue from Evil and thy Lips from speaking Guile Depart from Evil and do Good seek Peace and pursue it The Eyes of the Lord are upon the Righteous and his Ears are open unto their Cry The Face of the Lord is against them that do Evil to cut off the remembrance of them c. The Righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their Troubles The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken Heart and saveth such as be of a contrite Spirit Many are the Afflictions of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psalm 38.4 to the 19th Thus Reader the Psalmist declares of the Mercies and Judgments of the Lord as he had seen and experienced them The Author of the Scoffing Book called Work for a Cooper would no doubt be esteemed a Religious man The Apostle saith If any man among you seem to be Religious and bridleth not his Tongue this man's Religion is Vain Pure Religion and Vndefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the World James 1.26 27. That this man hath not a Bridle to his Tongue and that his Religion is Vain take his own Book for proof which is plentifully furnished with Lyes Scoffing and Railing a little of which I may here Collect. Thomas VVynne is known amongst his Neighbours to be a Sober Honest Man I have known him for above Twenty Years last past and I never knew nor heard other of him till this prophane Scoffers Pamphlet appeared against him These are the Names he gives him viz. Our second Tom of Bedlam pag. 6. Our Cinque and Cater pag. 7. Note here this vain man speaks here more like a prophane Player at Dice then a sober Religious man Again Our wise man of Gotham pag. 8. Again speaking of T.W. and his Friends saith Their Hocuspocus Tricks are now much laid aside pag. 13. Again speaking of the said People saith That they are the most Formal Coxcombs produceable in this Age pag. 15. Again pag. 1â— he renders T.W. A beastly Quaker Again scoffing at T.W. saith He knoweth not what Consanguinity there is betweâ—n the Porpos and the VVhale or the Craw-Fish and the Lobster pag. 21. Again he call him A Robber upon Gods High Way pag. 23. Again he calls him Wicked Ferry-man of Hell pag. 24. Thus I have collected a few of his bad Words and ill Names he has given to an Honest Man by which the Reader may see that his Tongue is not bridled as it ought to be and that his Religion is vain Now I shall collect a few of his Lyes He sayes The Quakers would endeavour to obtrude that they had been with God c. and have received the Spirit of Prophecy with the Gift of Miracles and all other that God had or could bestow pag. 12. Answ He names no persons on whom he fastens this his charge but throws it at the Quakers in General I say it is a Horrid Slander proceeding from the Father of Lyes for though we do own that God hath given the Manifestion of his Spirit to profit withal and some amongst us do prophecy and testifie of Christ and of God in the Spirit which he hath given yet we never said That we had received all other that God had or could bestow This is an Abominable Slander their is none that will believe him herein but those who are given up to believe Lyes Again That they could to a minute fore-tell the Last and Dreadful Day of Judgment Answ This Charge is general against the Quakers he names no Person or Persons that said so I return it as a Lye forged against the People of God and I exhort him to Repent of that and the rest of his Wickedness Again thus And heal more Diseases then all the World could possibly need help for Answ This is another horrid Slander that the Wicked One has in Envy led him to cast upon us the Lord Rebuke thee thou Prophane Man Again thus That they and they only were those of whom it was said They should lay their hands upon the Sick and they should recover Answ This is another horrid Slander proceeding from the Father of Lyes for which God will bring thee to Judgment Again thus And that God meant them only when he said I will pour my Spirit upon all Flesh Answ This is another horrid Lye for we believe that he poured forth his Spirit upon his Prophets and Apostles his Sons and Daughters and Hand-maids according to his Promise in former time and he is pouring it sorth in this Day and we believe he will pour it sorth according to his Promise upon all Flesh but we do not believe that the People called Quakers are only intended to be that All Flesh Mark In the compass of nine Lines he has told five Lyes in pag. 12. there being five in so little compass Reader thou mayst conclude there is a great many more in the whole Book These few here may suffice to give thee a taste and sence of the Wickedness of the man and to shew thee how Wickedly he deals with the People called Quakers It is our desire that he may Repent of these things and do so no more that so he may know forgiveness of the same and may come to Peace and Rest with God in his Latter-end God speaking of his People said Surely they are my People Children that will not Lye so he was their Saviour Isa 63.8 A Faithful Witness will not Lye but a False VVitness will utter Lyes Prov. 14.5 Ye are of your Father the Devil and the Lusts of your Father you will do he was a Murderer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth when he speaketh a Lye he speaketh of his own for he is a Lyar and the Father of it John 8.44 A False Witness shall not be Vnpunished and he that speaketh Lyes shall not escape Prov. 19.5 They bend their Tongues like Bows for Lyes but they are not valiant for the Truth Jer. 9.3 In this POSTSCRIPT I have shewed the Falseness and Wickedness of this Scornful man and have rebuked him in the Love and Fear of God and I unfeignedly desire his Repentance and Salvation who am a Lover of Truth and Righteousness who desires the Eternal good of all People but I Hate Lying Envy and all Wickedness William Gibson London the 25th of the 8th Moneth 1679. THE END