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A44811	Truth lifting up its head above slander in an answer to Thomas Jackson, late priest of Stoke in Sussex, his lying paper which he left in the north of England / by Francis Howgill ; whereunto is added something by way of letter from another hand to the said T.J. shewing the reasons why it is meet to publish the same at this time ... ; likewise a brief rehearsal of some remarkable passages out of E.B. his book called Satan's design defeated.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Satans designe defeated.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3186; ESTC R178363	18,130	24

TRUTH Lifting up its Head above SLANDER IN An ANSWER to THOMAS JACKSON late Priest of Stoke in Sussex his Lying Paper which he left in the North of England By FRANCIS HOWGILL Whereunto is added something by way of Letter from another hand to the said T. J. shewing the Reasons why it is judged meet to publish the same at this time Namely because He the said Jackson continueth still his old course of Slandering and private Back-biting the Innocent by his devised Fables notwithstanding he hath been privately admonished and since more publickly reproved in Print by E. B. wherein his Scandalous Imputations of Popish Tenents falsely cast by him upon others are deservedly laid upon himself Likewise a Brief Rehearsal of some Remarkable Passages out of E. B. his Book Called Satan's Design Defeated In Answer to another Manuscript of the said Priest Jackson's by way of Prophesie to that remaining part of the Old Parliament then sitting threatning their destruction if they took part with such malicious Priests against the Innocent which since in a great measure the Lord hath fulfilled upon them and him Which may serve for a Warning to this Present Generation By a Friend to Truth and an utter Enemy to Persecution J. S. Printed in the Year 1663. TRUTH Lifting up its Head above SLANDER IN An ANSWER to THOMAS JACKSON late Priest of Stoke in Sussex his lying Paper which he left in the North of England c. THOMAS JACKSON thy Paper which thou lestest in the North of England with thy brother Parson I have received wherein I find many devised Fables which thou hast invented in thy corrupt heart which thou wouldest fasten upon me as my Doctrine and Principles And coming to London I also find most part of the same things spread abroad by thee and sent to some of the late Parliament which thou callest The Tenetns of the Quakers in the North which thou sayest thou hast Recited and also they Maintained Thou hast recited for the most part the deceit of thy own frothy brain and thou must not think when thou bringest forth thy own Imaginations who watchest for iniquity that the Quakers will maintain those things but if thou assert things of thy self and from thy dark understanding which thou hast raked up out of the dungeon of confusion which thou sayest thou hast waded in as in thy Letter to thy Honourable Sir to whom thou writest in feignedness and flattery these things that thou hast charged us with thou must stand to thy self for that which the Quakers do assert they will stand to and vindicate against thee and all Opposers Thou sayest Thou hast more soul-refreshing work than to answer my Letter which I sent unto thee with the Queries Forging up of Lyes and inventing of Mischief is no soul-refreshing work but is the work which is brought by him who is the Father of Lyes whose work thou hast been working which shall be made evident to thee when the Lord shall arise to plead with thee for all thy ungodly deeds and hard speeches against the Truth thou sayest Thou wast willing to write a few words that it might appear whether thou or I were the Lyar because I said unto thee in thy own words what thou declaredst before near twenty people after I had spoken two or near hand three hours when I know Truth had power over thee that thou couldest not open thy mouth against what was spoken that day by me but after the Meeting in thy brothers house thou saidst That no godly Minister in England would deny what I had spoken then in the Meeting to be Truth Which words I returned unto thee when I heard that thou backbited when I was gone and said I held Popish Tenents and thou challengedst me to produce one witness that did confess unto the words before mentioned as that no godly Minister would deny what was spoken by me to be Truth Now that thou mayest be convinced that thou art the Lyar and not I I give thee four Witnesses whose hands are subscribed for my Testimony against thee to the aforesaid words that is to say William Pearson James Adamson John Cay Jane Pearson with several others And so thou must either plead thy forgetfulness or else thou shewest thy self in thine own words to have an Impudent face that darest deny that which thou spakest before many Witnesses so there is no way now to acquit thy self but to confesse and repent of the envy which is in thy heart Further thou saist That I denyed Imputed Righteousness which thou sayest is a Popish Doctrine thou must reckon that to them and not to me for I told thee then and now again Whatsoever was Imputed or reckoned to them that did believe I owned but for thee and the rest of you Parish-Teachers Imputing or reckoning that unto your flock who are unconverted which God reckoneth not nor imputes to them is delusion and deceit And further thou sayest that I made the Gifts in the Heathens of the same quality with the Graces in Believers These are thy own words and not mine But that the Light in Unbelievers and the Light in Believers is of the same quality or nature which is evident by its Operations and by the Testimony of Scriptures this I shall stand unto Christ saith I am come a Light into the World And the World in the Spirit 's account is not taken for Believers though many of you Parish-Teachers have said so but the World are such as are unredeemed and unsanctified and yet Christ is that true Light which is come into the world and that he is the Light of Believers thou wilt not deny Now this is one and the self-same Christ one and the self-same Light his Nature one and his Quality one which is pure holy and divine yet the manifestation of this Light is more clear in them that believe than in them that believe not yet this altereth not the quality of the Light for Unbelievers have also some manifestation and that is it which convinceth of sin and sheweth them things reprovable for whatsoever things are reprovable as it is written is manifest by the Light but that the Heathen are reproved and Unbelievers are reproved when they sin against that which is manifest in them as is clear Rom. 2. and that which reproveth for impurity is of a pure quality as that which justifieth Purity and Righteousness But I see though a prize be put into the hand of a fool he regardeth it not and though I then did declare and now do the Wisdom of God yet thou being in the night perceivest it not And thou sayest that I hold falling away from Grace which is a Popish Tenent Then in this the Papists are nearer the Truth than thou and although a Papist hold it I must not deny it because it is true The Apostle Jude speaks of some who turned the grace of God into wantonness or more truly rendred from the grace of God into

beget a true Repentance in thee But like evil men and seducers thou growest worse and worse deceiving and being deceived still continuing in thy old course of backbiting railing and secret smiting the Innocent And because the Judgment of God hath reached thee in some measure according to the Word of the Lord by his Servant aforesaid in his said Answer even so as thou canst not now vent thy devilish Persecution openly in a Pulpit yet still as I have heard thou takest occasion by creeping into houses and corners when thou canst but get together a company of silly women laden with sins and led away with divers lusts then thou takest opportunity to vent thy old Lies and Blasphemies afresh against God his Name his Truth his Tabernacle and them that dwell in Heaven calling the Truths of God Popish Tenents and they that hold the same Hereticks when as it is thou thy self and thy Presbyterian Brethren that do hold such things and not the innocent People of God called Quakers As witness 1. Your denying the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles which they held forth preached up pressed after and attained unto in this life viz. A freedom from sin and Perfection As these Scriptures following do testifie and bear witness unto How shall we saith the Apostle that are dead to sin live any longer therein Rom. 6. 2. knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin for he that is dead is freed from sin ver 6 7. Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of Righteousness for when ye were the servants of sin ye were free from Righteousness but now being made free from sin and become Servants to God ye have your fruit unto Holiness and the end everlasting life ver 18 20 22. What can be more plain And then again He that committeth sin is of the Devil for the Devil sinneth from the beginning For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 1 Joh. 3. 8 9. And so for Perfection Be ye therefore Perfect saith Christ even as your Father which is in Heaven is Perfect Mat. 5. 48. We speak Wisdom among them that are Perfect saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 2. 6. And he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers what to do why mark for the Perfecting of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry for the Edifying of the Body of Christ till we all come in the Unity of the Faith and of the Son of God unto a Perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Ephes. 4. 11 12 13. And this was the end of the Apostles preaching to present every man Perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1. 28. And this is the end of all Scripture even that the Man of God may be Perfect thorowly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. For the Law made Nothing Perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did viz. Christ by the which we draw nigh unto God Heb. 7. 19. For by one Offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10. 14. What can be more plain And ye are come unto Mount Zion and unto the City of the living God and the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the General Assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven and to GOD the Jvdge of all and to the spirits of Just men made Perfect Heb. 12. 22 23. But your denying of this Truth sheweth you have made a league with Sin Death and Hell for as long as you live you teach others to do so too telling them they must not look to be free from corruption and sin while they live here The Consequence of which Doctrine of yours must in the end bring in that Popish Tenent of Purgatory For if Perfection and freedom from sin is not attainable unto in this life as you say on the one hand Nor no unclean person or thing can enter into Heaven the Kingdom of God in the life to come as the Scriptures of Truth say on the other hand Eph. 5. 5. Rev. 21. 27. Then tell me when and where must the time and place of cleansing be must it not be in a middle place and a middle time between Earth and Heaven and between this life and the life to come and so equal to the Papists Purgatory If this be not the Consequence of this your Doctrine let the wise in heart judge Again witness 2. Your maintaining the lawfulness of Swearing now under the Gospel against the express words of Christ and his Apostles to the contrary who saith But I say unto you Swear not at all what more full neither by Heaven for it is Gods Throne nor by the Earth for it is his Footstool neither by Jerusalem for it is the City of the great King Neither shalt thou swear by thy head because thou canst not make one hair white or black But let your communication be yea yea nay nay For whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil Mat. 5. 34 35 36 37. And the Apostle James saith But above all things swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation Jam. 5. 12. which is plain without all exception And whether is not that an Antichristian and Popish Tenent to put constructions and meanings upon plain places of Scripture contrary to the mind of Christ and his Spirit which wrote them which are so plain that none that are simple-hearted can oppose or evade Again witness 3. Your former taking and now pleading for and justifying that Popish maintenance of Ministers by Tythes which in its first Institution in the time of the Law when it was in full force was appointed for the Levite because he had no part nor Inheritance among his brethren and therefore he was not to be forsaken nor forgotten and for the Stranger and the Fatherless and the Widow that they might eat and be satisfied Deut. 14. 27 28 29. and so there was no lack among them But you plead for it now under the Gospel and that by the same Law which Law Christ hath since ended and also changed that Priest-hood and disanulled that Commandment by which it was both taken and given Heb. 7. And the Stranger and the Fatherless and the Widow have little or no benefit by it at all from your hands neither are our streets free from Beggers and besides they are taken by you who have great Inheritances in the Land and yearly Revenues besides Again in the first Institution of Tythes they were all

to be brought into one Treasury into the House of God year by year for the ends aforesaid Neh. 10. but you carry it into your own Barns and Houses and there use it for your own ends if not to abuse it and spend it upon your lusts Again then the Levites whose right the Tythes then were they were to offer up a Tenth part of all the Tythes for a ●eave Offering unto the Lord but you do not do so Again they were not to eat the Tythes by themselves in their own houses or within their own gates but with the Strangers and Fatherless and Widows in the house and in the place the Lord had chosen Deut. 12. 17 18. But you do carry it into your own barns and do eat it within your own gates and do shut out the Strangers and the Fatherless and the Widows so that they have no part nor portion in this matter with you And thus it was in the time of the Law among the Jewes about Tythes when it was in force which though you will take as by virtue of that Law yet you will not pactise in all things no nor in any thing according to that Law except in the very taking of them But now under the Gospel since Christ as I said before hath put an end to that Priesthood and changed the Law and disanulled the Commandment thereof we do not find that ever Christ Commanded Tythes to be payd or ever appointed any set maintenance for his Ministers to receive which he sends forth to preach the Gospel Neither was any such practice used in the Primitive times but Christ sent them forth without gold without silver and without brass in their purses and without a Scrip for their Journey c. Mat. 10. 9 10. And they had as hard a hearted people to deal with then as any are now for who more hard-hearted then Jews and therefore it is become a by-word amongst us to say as cruel and as hard-hearted as a Jew and yet they lacked nothing Luk. 22. 35. And Paul who was an Apostle not of men neither by man but by Jesus Christ c. Gal. 1. 1. saith whom all men are to follow as he followed Christ he behaved not himself disorderly neither did he eat any mans bread for nought but wrought with labour and travelled night and day with our hands 1 Cor. 4. 12. that we might not be chargeable to any of you 2 Thes. 3. 7 8 9. And is not then the matter of Tythes now under the Gospel a Popish Intrusion which you stand up to maintain for your Bellies sake Again witness 4. Your calling the Popish Mass-Houses built of material wood and stone Churches when as the Church of Christ is in God 2 Thes. 1. 1. and is built up of living stones fitly joyned together by him whereof he himself is the chief Corner Stone elect and pretious 1 Pet. 2 4 5 6. Again witness 5. Your late fleeing from your Flocks when you saw the Wolf coming leaving them to be scattered and catcht by the Wolf in the time of their greatest danger which proves you to be hireling Priests and Idol Shepherds and not true Shepherds whose own the sheep are not for then would you care for the sheep and lay down your lives for the sheep and for the Truth the Pasture of the sheep and so make good the words of Christ against you who saith The good shepherd giveth his Life for the sheep but he that is a hireling and not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not seeth the Wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth and the wolf catcheth them and scatttreth the sheep the hireling fleeth because he is a hireling and careth not for the sheep Joh. 10. 11 12 13. Yea and that which is worse thou Tho. Jackson more especially hast not onely contrary to thy duty left thy flock and left off preaching the Gospel for fear of Persecution and so thereby brought thy self under the woe the Apostle pronounces 1 Cor. 9. 16. who saith there that a necessity is laid upon me yea woe is unto me if I preach not the Gospel but also hast with some others most treacherously betraied your simple ignorant flocks into the very hands and mouthes of the Wolves by perswading them poor silly sheep whose Faiths are too much pin'd upon your sleeves to go to the publick to the high places there to hear the Service Book c. and those that Preach there in all the Whores Robes rather than not go to the publick at all which some have done to the wounding of their Consciences and all this lest peradventure as you fear they your Proselytes when they have used themselves to a separation from the publick may hereafter separate also from you when the day of your Restauration shall come which you daily hope for or otherwise it is to be feared that if you had not many of you taken the Covenant you would have stooped to and crouched under all the relicks of Popery that are now publickly in use rather then to have quit your Livings which now you cannot some of you though too many of your brethren have and all because if you should your more discerning hearers would easily discern your Perjury and so decline you for ever And now hast not thou hereby betrayed the souls of the Ignorant and sold them for bread and made merchandise of them for a pair of shoes and will they not be required one day at thy hands Consider and repent if it be possible before it be too late But oh you simple-hearted People who have been long hearers of these men and a long time learning and not yet come to the knowledge of the Truth why are ye so blind and see not that these be the men most of them that the Apostle speaks of that have but a Form of godliness but deny the Power from whom you are warned and commanded to turn away from 2 Tim. 3. 5 6 7. Wherefore Come forth from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch no unclean thing and I will recieve you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 17 18. Turn your hearts and minds inward and look within For the Grace of God which brings Salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2. 11. Therefore look not for it without you but look for it within your outward Teachers are taken away and removed into corners that you may look within for a Teacher that cannot be removed into a corner And the Word of God is within and the true Teacher which can teach you all things is within and the Kingdom of God is within you and Christ the King of that Kingdom is within you too except ye be reprobates and the Temple of God is