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A81535	A discovery of the great fantasie, or, Phantasticall conceitednesse. That is to say, of the antichristian blindnes of those, that out of a meer false imagination and phantasticall conceitednesse, do hold themselves to be Christians, sprituall divines, deputies and messengers or spokes-men of Christ, and take upon them, as mediatours, to save others, whom they call the secular lay-men; therewithall, reviling, traducing, condemning, excommunicating, persecuting, exiling, and putting to death the true children of God, for not yeelding unto this phantasie of theirs, conceiving, that therein they do God great service, when they busie themselves in weeding the ground thus, according to their phantasies, and endeavouring to save the angels a labour against the time of the harvest. Together with a discovery of the great arch-whore, and her paramours or lovers, whereof the spirit of God beareth witnesse.		1642 (1642)	Wing D1651; Thomason E124_28; ESTC R6001	19,094	24

their clamours and outcries lest in any wise ye should draw neer to your heavenly Father without their means and Mediatourship for do but observe I pray how Christ doth answer the Pharisees as they demanded of him when the Kingdom of God should come Luk. 17.20 that it cometh not with outward observations or ceremonies neither shall say lo here or lo there is it but the kingdom of God is inward and within Man and St. Paul saith The kingdom of God doth not consist in eating drinking 1 Cor. 4.20 Rom. 14.17 1 Cor. 2.4 nor in great swelling words or artificiall prating but in power and in the demonstration of the Spirit of God it being righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost that Man is to serve God in this kingdom in spirit and truth God being a Spirit himself Ioh. 4.23 M●tt 6.10.23 and requiring such worshippers as do worship him in spirit and truth Ioh. 24.21 Therefore also Christ hath taught us to seek above all things the kingdom of God and earnestly to entreat and pray to God that it may come unto us and be revealed in us Unto this kingdom of God Col. 1.27.27 Matth. 13.44 2 Cor. 4.7 Eph. 2.21 which lies already hid within thee all the faithfull teachers do direct thee when as they speak of Christ that great mystery within us how thou art a Temple and dwelling of the holy Ghost how thou dost carry the treasure in the field and in an earthen vessell Deut. 30.11 that the grace may be God through Christ the word of life Rom. 10.8 which is neer thee in thy heart and in thy mouth What do our Phantasticks pray to this O say they that is not to be understood these be Pauliniall Phrases certain usuall experssions the Kingdom of God ought to be sought with them in their vile stone Churches where you may hear them make Cicero like a number of quaint and curious Declarations and discourses out of the holy Scriptures after their manner according to the Idoll Brain or Glosses of Antichrist and humaine learning every one as he is taught and principled by those humane sects Where also in the chancell or quire of their auticular confession they do forgive the people their sins in Gods stead Matth. 24. and administer their Sacraments there there they say is the kingdom of God thither men are called and invited to the great supper by the peal of the Bels and their pulpits there they are the stewards of the mysteries of God what others say of the kingdom of God within Man that is nothing to them but Phantasterie Enthusiastrie in man there dwelleth nought that is good how should the kingdom of God be within him Men ought say they to repair and frequent to their Churches there is the house of God the gates of heaven the Citie that he hath chosen where he hath set up the memoriall of his Name where the great supper is celebrated where Christ is cried into men from without See beloved how these men are carried and hurried by the giddinesse and spirit of Darknesse Art 7.48 ● 17.24 Ier. 3.16 ● 7.4 Lies and blasphemies When the true children of God do speak of the kingdom of God through Christ within them and prove or redargue that Phantasterie of God dwelling in houses or Churches made with hands whereof the Jews were wont so much to boast and glory saying here is the Temple of the Lord and the Ark of the Covenant and indeavour to withdraw their neighbour from such Phantastery to the living God Isa 57.15.66 whose Throne are the heavens and the earth his footstool and whose dwelling is in a contrite heart then the spirit of lies doth belch forth in his Phantasticks and giving out the children of God do forbid to come to any Churches or Assemblies For they are vexed when the word of Christ is cast in their teeth touching the false Prophets in sheeps clothing Matth. 24. that say Here is Christ or He is in the wildernesse and in the chamber or chappell and when thereby their Antichristian Phantastery is discovered But beloved be not thou daunted with such lies for the children of God do not forbid to come to Church or to frequent the assemblies of the congregations such namely as are gathered in the unity of the spirit this they are falsely slandered withall by the lying spirit that swayeth these Phantastiques onely they do point at the false and fond op●nion of these Bablers and Idols that would have men imagine and believe their Phantasteries as if God had his dwelling and abode in their stony rotten Churches wherein the screech-owls Bats crows and sparrows nestle there the kingdom of God were to be met withall perswading people that there God would hear them in an especiall manner and what they do propound and tell men in these places they ought to receive and obey as the Word of God and there none should dare to controul or gainsay them thus and thereby laying waste and desolate the living Temples of the holy Ghost that is the souls and hearts of men thereof they say nothing or at best but little and in a very confused and intricate manner This indeed is insufferable to Gods children and directly against the glory of God that there they should hear of the lies and calumnies of those Phantasticks and by their silence and connivence as it were approve and ratifie the same before all the congregation and to deny Christ and his glory and therefore they have reason to absent themselves from their meetings seeing their gainsaying or protesting against them 1 Cor. 14.26 would be held a great sin although among true Christians it should be lawfull to every one But yet they have as good reason altogether to speak against these wayes thereby to withdraw the straying from such false opinions that they may possesse their heart with God Ioh. 4.21 Luk. 17.20 and seek for the kingdom of God according to the doctrine of Christ within themselves not suffering themselves to be tied to any place whatsoever In the mean while they do not despise the gathering of the congregations together whether it be a house of wood or stone or in the open field either nor do they simply find fault with frequenting of Churches provided it be done out of a true love to Gods word and to stir up one another with praiers to the praise of God in the great congregation and solemne devotions as likewise that the younger sort may be taught and instructed 1 Cor. 14.23 Hebr. 10.24 25. Ier. 7.4 the elder exhorted and encouraged in their courses and erring and stumbling ones be reclaimed heartned and strengthened Therefore now lay this to heart and rely on lies no longer when ye hear them say Here is the Temple of the Lord we have the true Religion here is the kingdom of God but amend your lives and doings dealing righteously one with

Psal 50.16 17 conceit and tongue-faith comforting themselves from without in their imaginarie and Phantasticall apprehensions Isa 29.13 Matth. 7.26 Ioh 5.38 with the merit and satisfaction of Christ stroking and soothing thereby their old Man in his sinfull courses but cannot endure the Spirit of Christ stroking and soothing thereby their old Man in his sinfull courses but cannot endure the Spirit of Christ or the inward Word of God in the Heart as in his Temple reviling and traducing that gracious inhabiting despighting and gainsaying the holy Ghost openly Hebr. 10.29 and thus indeed rejecting the true foundation and corner-stone of the everlasting covenant in their building This beloved Luk. 11.39 is indeed a most false pernitiously and deadly foolish Phantasie whereby these Phantasticall Men together with all that cleave unto them Ioh. 17.10.20.23 and seek for light in darknesse do precipitate and plunge themselves into everlasting Darknesse For he that is not united with God by the inhabiting of Christ 1 Cor. 1.9 Hebr. 3.6 and 6.6 the true and onely light in a true faith must remain thus separated from God and enchained with Lucifer in darknesse for ever Therefore take heed and understand yet at length ye children of men 2 Pet. 2.1 that when your Preachers do deny and traduce the inhabiting of Christ in the true beleevers they do speak too presumptuously against Christ and against his members who by the inhabiting of the Spirit of Christ in them Ephes 4.30 or by the participation of the Divine Nature are truly sealed and new born to be the children of God and truly the apple of his eye 2 Cor. 1.22 But of themselves that deny this inhabiting of Christ and that Christ doth not dwell in them 2 Pet. 7. Ioh. 8.44 not feeling him in themselves and denying the Lord that bought them it may be truly said according to the saying of Christ to the Jews Ye are of your father the devill and the lusts of your father you will do He was a murtherer and a liar from the beginning and abode not in the truth because the truth is not in him When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own For this is manifest by the likenesse of these Scribes and Pharisees of the New Testament with these of the Old Testament which had the word of God not dwelling within them and called Christ a made man and an inchanter and plainly shewed by their hypocriticall and carnall course and conversation Matth. 11.30 Hebr. 10.29 and the fruits thereof that not Christ but Antichrist which is the spirit of Darknesse and the Prince of this world did inhabite them and wrought such works Now consider yet further dear Man Isa 61.6 1 Pet. 2.9 that by reason of and from this inhabiting and anointing all Christians are children of the light Priests of the Lord a royall priesthood and holy peculiar people of God that ought to declare the power of him that called them out of darknesse to his marvellous light and washed them through his blood and made them Priests Rev. 1.6.9 10. Rom. 12.18 Gal. 5. Hos 14.3 Heb. 5.13 Revel 5.8 Numb 16. 2 Chron. 26.16 to present their bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God and to crucifie and destroy the works of the flesh and the earthly members in their lusts to offer up the calves of their lips as the fruits of the same in a praise-offering to God through Christ and to present the censor of the heart full of the sweet-smelling savour of prayer For as in the old Testament none were permitted to be a priest and to burn incense before God but Aaron and his sons that issued from him as from a Rock so in the new Testament none is a Christian but he that is cut out of Christ the living Rock 1 Cor. 10.4 Cap 3.16 Matth. 16.18 1 Pet. 1.23 Isa 8.18 1 Ioh 5.1.14 Matth. 3.17 Ioh. 1.13 c. 4.24 c. 16.26 Hebr. 5.16 1 Cor. 6.17 Ioh. 14.16 17. 2 Cor 4.6 1 Ioh. 2. and built upon him and none dare draw neer unto God with his prayer but he that is regenerated of Christ And to his throne of grace they all approach with cheerfulnesse that will obtain mercie from God their heavenly Father through the same mercie seat Jesus Christ by whom as the well-beloved they are acceptable before God Ephes 1.6 And upon this same ground also all true Christians are not secular but spirituall men for they cleave unto the Lord and are one spirit with him which Christ hath given unto them from the Father and thereby sealed them whereby likewise as by a shewing light there ariseth in their hearts the enlightning from the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ assuring and teaching them inwardly and not onely making their hearts sure Gal. 5.16 but working withall the fruits of the Spirit within them such as are faith love patience peace kindnesse meeknesse c. and therefore they are spirituall people hating the works and fruits of the flesh such as are adultery fornication uncleannesse lasciviousnesse idolatry sorcerie enmitie strife envie wrath hatred variance divisions seditions murther drunkennesse gluttony pride ambition extortion covetousnesse and the like all which do mark out a secular Ier. 7. worldly and carnall man where they are committed But those that belong to Christ do crucifie their flesh with its lusts and desires and as they live in the spirit so they walk likewise in the spirit and are in deed and in truth no secular or worldly but spirituall men however otherwise by their places and offices here they may be Kings Princes Nobles Citizens or Pesants Mark then and try thy self O Man what fruits there break forth in thy life from within Matt 5.15.20.22.34.35.23.25.26 and how thy heart is disposed inwardly in its thoughts and affections whether thou be a secular or spirituall person Let not the prating of those falsely called spirituall or Divines with their outward Church preachings confessions and communions deceive thee but go and try now thy own self whether Christ doth dwell and live in thee whether thou be in the faith fit or unfit exercise love yea or no 2 Cor. 13.5.6 and let not their pretended difference trouble thee that they do call themselves the Priests spirituall ones and men in holy Orders or Divines and these of thy Rank and Qualitie the secular and Lay-people The Devill as the spirit of Darknesse hath taught them to devise this difference whose spirituall creatures they are for he can likewise transform himself into an Angel of light 1 Cor. 11.13 and is a spirit why not then as well also his own Apostles and Ministers but as he is a spirit of Darknesse so are they spirituall ones of darknesse or altogether worldly and carnall whose belly is their God and whose glory is their shame for that is one and the same before God and their end