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A89851	A second answer to Thomas Moore, to that which he calls, his Defence against the poyson, &c. Wherein is shewed the crooked wayes, the Serpent is forced to take to keep God and his creatures at a distance, and yet would do it under the name of a teacher. But is seen to be the same, that perswaded man out from his guide in spirit, and now would keep him so, lest his unclean wayes in the heart of man should be discovered with the spiritual light of Christ; and so man should turn to the Lord, who is that spirit, and the vail be done away, ... Here is also 54. lies gathered out from amongst a multitude more, with T.M. hath heaped up for his defence, against the truth, which he calles the poyson of Satan, which are sent him back to the 48. that I sent him before, that he may either prove them, or they root with the founder, for the truth they touch not. / Set forth to clear the truth from this froth, cast upon it by the enemy thereof, By a friend to the seed of truth, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N314; Thomason E868_9; ESTC R202991	29,892	39

believed or received in others thou hast sufficiently manifested herein if thou hadst said no more nor did the Apostle speak of them that minded the light or spirit within but of them that minded earthly things minding your bellies more then the work of God as thou and thy Companions did at the dispute who broke it up because it was an hour past dinner time such are belly Gods and not they who minde the light or spirit of Christ within them And let all honest people judge what it is thy deceitful lips will not make the Scriptures speak who would make the sence of the Apostles words to intend against minding a spirituall light within whose words is of such as minde earthly things yet in this as in all other of thy deceits which thou darst not plainly a vouch thou so layes down the thing as to leave thy self a way to escape if thou be taxed for thy falshood as by thy words some pretended light opposed to Christ when any may see thy envy is at the light of Christ and his spirit within for no other do we pretend and this is not opposire to Christ as he is in Heaven but the only thing that revealeth him in spirit And thou layest down two Reasons to prove thy deceits which no Scripture will the first opposing that the Apostle did mean Earth-worms in a grosse and carnall sence and in thy second thou sayst they were walkers Brethren they had not such a form of godliness as stood in talking only but in walking also In the first whereof thou strikest at the Apostles words who said they minded earthly things but thou sayst not Earth-worms and in thy second thou strikes at uptight walking yet doth neither of them prove any thing for the further then thy confusion And thou wouldst prove me to be one whose God is my belly and the thing thou wouldst prove it withall is because I say the Apostles preached the spirit and light within shining in their hearts to give the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and this Treasure they had in Earthen Vessels but if angred 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. they may see that instead of proving me one whose God is my belly thou hast proved thy self one whose Father is the Devill who saith the Apostle saith no such thing but saith it s my spirit of Antichrist so let plain Scripture judge which is good reason that it should be believed before thy lying spirit who goeth on to deny the spirit and light to shine into their hearts as though God would shine into their hearts without his spirit and light and such dark stuffe thou utters who knowest not his spirit and light mangling thy confusions to darken the truth as though I had said their hearts should give them the glory of God without his light and spirit when my words are with the Apostle and all the Servants of God who witness the light and spirit to give the knowledge of God without which there can be no knowledge of God which Treasure is in the Earthen Vessels which words thou leavest out lest they should have spoyled thy design in perverting the words and deceiving the simple And thou makest much adoe in thy Book to drive a believers light far distant without as far from them as to the place where Christ was crucified saying he that was crucified on the Tree was the fountain of Believers light which though he be the fountain to those who have him in them yet is he known to none but by hear-say who have him not to such the fountain is sealed therefore dost thou blind utter forth so much of thy folly who imagineth a fountain without thee but darkness within which cannot comprehend the light though in the darkness it shine and the Devill himself knowes what was done upon Mount Calvary and the wickedst men in the Nation as well as thee who hast it not in thee so you believe in a Tradition who have not the Revelation And thou makes a babling to blinde people with as that the Apostle preached not the Earthen Vessels or themselves I say those are thy own words for none else I know that intends them or mentions them but the most of thy bustling in thy Book is to wrest my words or to add to them thy own and so start a lye out of thy own bosom and when thou hast done much to do thou makes to conflite it and this pleaseth thy fancy as though thou hadst done some great thing when thou hast but confuted thy self and laid open thy solly And thou goest creeping about to make people believe that Christ is not a spirit but darst not deny it yet as thy manner is casts a mist before it Christ in spirit being that thou seeks most to oppose for nothing else discovereth the 2 Cor. 5 16. Devills seat in man and therefore said the Apostle I know him no more after the flesh and When they shall turn to the Lord the vail shall be taken away now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2 Cor. 3. 16 17 but this liberty breaketh the Devills Kingdom therefore his Ministers he sets to keep people without in the letter imagining a thing at a distance but to believe the appearance of Christ in spirit that is death to him and his Ministry and whereas thou tells of Christ being glorified in Heaven in your nature I say Christ was never of the nature of the lyer neither in Heaven nor on Earth though he was flesh yet it was not that which lusteth against the spirit none knowes his flesh nor nature but who knowes the word in them which thou opposeth which art full of the old Leaven and thou askestance a question of the Scriptures say the same so take thy Question back and apply it to thy self In thy first Book thou made an objection Can flesh and blood enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and thou answers No yet the same flesh and bones may the blood being powred out and gone to which answer what confused stuffe is this that proceeds from thy imaginations Is Christ ascended without blood or is it onely the blood of people that keeps the in from ascending which they must leave behinde them taking the same flesh and bones but not the same blood and in this Book thou excuses the matter with saying he is ascended without material blood and yet with the vertues of that blood I say again hath he materiall flesh and bones and not materiall blood then is he not the same that he was when he was upon earth But why dost thou not make some answer to thy other clause how people must do to get shut of their blood seeing thy faith is they cannot ascend till their blood be poured forth This being a new Doctrine which the Scripture doth not declare of it stands in need of better grounds then yet thou hast

A SECOND ANSWER TO Thomas Moore To that which he calls his Defence against the poyson c. Wherein is shewed the crooked wayes the Serpent is forced to take to keep God and his Creatures at a distance and yet would do it under the name of a Teacher But is seen to be the same that perswaded man out from his guide in spirit and now would keep him so lest his unclean wayes in the heart of man should be discovered with the spiritual Light of Christ and so man should turn to the Lord who is that spirit and the vail be done away which is come over the heart by looking out so man should come to see his Maker to be his leader in spirit Here is also 54. lies gathered out from amongst a multitude more with T. M. hath heaped up for his Defence against the truth which he calles the poyson of Satan which are sent him back to the 48. that I sent him before that he may either prove them or they ●oot with the founder for the truth they touch not Set forth to clear the truth from this froth cast upon it by the enemy thereof By a friend to the seed of truth called James Naylor Blessed are you when men shall persecute you and say all manner of evill on you falsely for my names sake for so have they done to the Prophets and Apostles before you LONDON Printed for Giles calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. Reader Thou art desired to take notice of these faults in the Printing and correct them with thy Pen. PAge 2. 1. 17. sor filthy read frothy P. 9. 1. 3a for Antepage r. Antidote page P. 10. l. 18. for for r. so P. 11. for you know r. I know P. 12. 1. 2 3. for God was not God is manifest c. r. God was not God is manifest c. P. 16. 1. 26. for rendring to us to all r. rendring us to all P. 17. 1. 2. for would have to have us liberty r. would have us to have liberty P. 18. 1. 6. for John Frey r. John Wrey P. 19. 1. 3. for slain in him r. slain in Christ P. 21. 1. 5. for since r. sence P. 22. 1. 19. for angred r. any read P. 24. 1. 6. for I answer r. I answered P. 27. 1. 8. for seal r. deal P. 29. 1. 10. for being uged r. being judged P. 30. 1. 27. for nad r. and. P. 32. 1. 7. for trade r. tread A Second Answer to Thomas Moore THomas Moore when wilt thou love the truth and cease thy deceit and minde the light of Christ to lead thee out of thy crooked paths that the mouth of the Serpent may be stopt that belcheth out thy own shame in thy lies and confusions as thou hast done not onely when I was with thee before many witnesses but also in the ethy two Books wherein thy lies are too many to number In thy first Book I sent thee back 48. lies out of three times as many more that thou might prove them But instead thereof thou adds heaps upon heaps and so it must be that he may be revealed who abides not in the truth and so is a lyer from the beginning and so thou art found As thou didst make up the substance of thy first Book with lies so thou begins this And in the front of thy lye thou makes a cover for it least it should be seen In thy first Book thou sayes thou shalt refuse further to meddle or have to do with me unlesse thou perceive in me some turn to the Lord And in thy second Book thou renders me as the mouth of the Devill to cast out his poyson Is this the turn to the Lord thou perceives in me Orthou would have me believe that in this Book thou hast thus filled with deceit to cast upon me thou dost not meddle with me therein This by the way all may see thou art no bungler in that Art for in the most part of thy lies thou makes sure so to present them as to leave open a way or two to escape if thou be taxt therewith and if not then let it passe for truth and this all shall see in thy Books who doth but read them with the light of truth which deceipts I shall not much trouble my selfe to trace thee in onely in some few where the Serpent would devoure the simple by the way and shut up the Kingdom against such as desire to chuse the plain way I shall discover thy spirit of what nature it is that they that will may beware 1. There is three things thou would have the Reader to believe from thee if any be so void of truth First that I have belied thee and the truth attested by thee To which I say 48. of those thou calles thy truths I sent thee back again into thy bottle besides many more of the same nature I layed open I knowing these to be notorious lies attested by thee for truths I could do no lesse then testifie again them Any other belying of thee thou art not able to prove 2. How empty filthy and corrupt my Answers is and how plainly the Scriptures are wrested by me To which I say to the first part the boaster speaks the frothy words To the second I say if quoting Scriptures without adding or diminishing be no wresting then thou hast but herein added a lie more to the number 3. How the Woolf appears in the Sheeps Skins in the beginning and close of my Book To which I say My Book begins with discovering thy lying Antichristian Doctrine least by it the simple souls should be deceived and what I say I make it appear to be truth and my Book ends with twelve points of truth laid down needful to be cleared to all from the Devills mists cast upon them and this is no part of the Wolfs work But what Beast was that which was up amongst thee and thy Companions who when I spoke the truth amongst you your Weapon was heared up to knock me down in the yard when you was on Horseback and left the dispute the latter day which in this Book thou wouldst cover with a subtle lie If I had intended such a thing to any Creature I could not have been excused in the sight of God from a Wolf or a Dogg for I am sure it was no part of a man much lesse of a Saint to knock one in the head who did not resist neither had any thing in his hand wherewith to resist For the first of these and the deceiptful crooked wayes thou takes to excuse thy lies and blasphemies who doth but read thy Books and my Answer to thy first needs not any further to see thee withall if they minde but any light in them yet for love to the simple ones I shall lay thee open in some of them that they may the better finde thee out in the rest In thy first thou begins with Thou sayes

11. 34 35. 36. that the light of the body is the eye and if it be single the whole body is full of light as the bright shining of a Candle doth give light And keep thy heart with all diligence for from thence are the Issues of life And saith Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin and Commune with your own hearts and be still and the Law of God is written in the heart and the heart of the wise Prov. 4. 23 Psal 119. 11. Psal 4. Heb. 8. 10. Prov. 16. 23. Joh. 16. 13 teacheth his mouth and the spirit of truth is that which must lead into all truth Nay doth not all the Scriptures testifie to the light and spirit-teaching within and that they are none of Christs who have not the spirit of Christ and is it counted a familiar spirit now with thee Now is it seen to all the Children of the light that Antichrist is revealing as the Scriptures hath foretold and the Man of sin pleading against freedom from sin and the blinde Guids preaching against the light and he that is born of the flesh against the spirit and its teachings and the Children of darkness against the light that manifests the evill deeds and he is discovering who abode not in the truth and the spirit and light is that truth which thou would preach down to lead out into the world where the lyer is who hates the light because his deeds are evill And this is thy work in thy books and to thy Master and his work thou art faithful using thy utmost subtlety to do his work thorowly to preach Christ out of his Creatures that none should minde his light and spirit but without in another world that so the Devill may have his will in the heart in this World while any one lives and serve God and be made free when they are dead and can do their Master no more service if they would and when thou hast struck them off from looking at any light or spirit within then like the Serpent least his head should be seen thou hides thy selfe with telling of Not to lean to their own understanding and sayes thou though the word be nigh them in their hearts that it might be yet it is not received by them in their hearts or dwelling there as a light or principle to direct them while in their naturall estate when thou hast done what thou can to perswade them that the looking to it is but as to a familiar spirit But is that their own understanding which condemns their natural understanding as they are fallen from God and lets them see that all their understanding wisdom and prudence is God hid from and manifests all their deeds in that state to be evill this hath every natural man in him from the Father of Spirits which manifestation of spirit is given to every one to profit withall if it be but minded and not quenched and without this can be no knowledge of God and if this Candle be put out there is no doing the work of God till it be lighted further then to wait and there is no waiting but with the heart in spirit till it shine out of darkness again and till then all the Creature doth is but deeds of darkness and not accepted by God his prayers are abomination and his plowing sin yea though all the world should flatter such a one they could not save him nor unite him to God nor give peace of Conscience with God nor Sealing in spirit and this the Children of light know though blinde Serpents and deaf Adders oppose it who walk in crast and deceit but the Apostles who handled not the word deceitfully did commend themselves to that in every mans 2 Cor. 4. 2. Conscience in the sight of God and the Ministration of Christ is to the spiritual seed whereby the spiritual seed is quickned and raised out of darkness and death but the Ministration of the Hireling and false Prophet is to the itching eares and so the Beast and the false Prophet joynes against the seed of God to keep it in death and darkness and if it be born up then they persecute him in whom it is born And these take the letter there with to deny the light and oppose that spirit that gave it forth and whereof the letter restifies because they have not the John 5. word abiding within them and this was the work of the Pharises and Hirelings but never any one of Christs Ministers denyed the light and spirit within as thou dost yet slaidly and covertly so as if thou be taxt for it thou may have an excuse to come out of and deny thy work with a meaning and consequence but if none disproves thee then goes on with thy work to lead out simple people from the light of Christ in spirit to follow thy Imaginations without a spirit and light without which thou never saw Yet in this one thing there is not many exceeds thee for when ever thou layes down a deceit the end whereof is to deny the light or spirit or perfection or to slander any who own the truth in these things thou makes sure before thou leave it to make two or three wayes for escape least it fall upon thy head knowing before the thing to be such thou cannot stand by with Scripture and this the least Child of Light may see in thy books wherefore I shall not much need to trace thee therein the thing being so plainly evident to all that in the light read thy books and my answers thereto And when thou hast told a lie and being told thereof thou on purpose having left out a word or syllable there thou makes an escape As for instance in thy answer to the last Query which asks What that grace of God is which brings salvation and hath appeared to all men thy lie is that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to men which I finding this to be as answer to the Query I tell thee Thou answers with a slander saying that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to all men now thou having left out the word all for escape which is in the Query and in the Scripture also In thy defence sayes thou my words are They believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to men and this thou would charge upon me to be a lie when the lie is thy own and hath both abused the Query and the Scripture on which the Query is grounded leaving out the word all to make it and such holes as this thou creeps out of to hide the lyer from being seen And in other places where thou hast gone a crooked way to fetch a compasse to make a lie for otherwise thou could not which when I come to answer and takes the sum of the thing in brief which otherwise might fill a volume then thy escape

no other but For that which is not immediate from God nor from any light and spirit within must be litterall teachings the letter For sayst thou the preaching of it was given by those great Apostles and of the same vertue or quality that ever it was for teaching all things and afterwards calls it the Anointing and yet denieth any light and spirit within So that all that reads thy Answer shall see that I have spoken nothing but the truth of thee in saying Thou would thrust it to literal teaching and thy crooked ways cannot hide thee But thine own words in another place may put the thing wholly out of doubt where thou saist That the grace of God that brings Salvation to all men instructs them not to look to any light or spirit within them for direction Here would thon thrust out from the light and spirit within to literal teaching contrary both to the Spirit and the Letter also for that which is in Spirit is within and the Letter saith The anointing that you have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things Thou goes on to the fifth Query and there thou casts down all thy whole work if thou do'st but mind what thou art there driven to to hide thy self where thou confesses the Comforter that reproves the world and leads into all truth and reaches effectually to be in the heart and cannot be out of it so that by thy Confession now there can be no teaching out of the heart So let any compare this with the rest of thy books and see thy confusion and what shifts thou art driven to to and fro like one stark drunk in thy Imaginations vomiting out thy own shame Is there no teaching out of the heart and the grace of God thou sayes instructs not to look into our selves or to any Light or Spirit within us for direction What a Birth is this thou hast brought forth into the world How will these two agree Or with what divination wilt thou reconcile them No Teaching but in the heart and yet not look within But seeing thou hast confessed that there can be no reproving and Teaching but in the heart let me mind thee of it again lest thou forget it it being a truth I would have thee no more to contradict it Might not thou as well have confessed this long-ago and have spared all thy wranglings and crooked paths thou hast walked in thereby to deny the Light and Spirit within to be the onely Teacher and now confesseth it cannot be out of the heart So if thou own it in thy heart thou maist read thy Condemnation for opposing it all along in both thy books And thou adds another Accusation as false as the rest and that is That I pervert most of the Scriptures I meddle with and for instance thou names that of Jer. 23. 30. which thou sayes I do in the close of my 32 page I say thou shamelesse man were thou not hardened in thy wickednesse past feeling thou would blush to say I pervert a Scripture where I mention none But this is like the rest of thy slanders who can both name the Scripture and pervert it thy self and then slander it upon me that doth not so much as mention it nor any other in that place In thy other thou accused me for perverting Scriptures where I did but quote them as they are without a word adding and now thou accusest me where I quote none nor mention any at all but it 's impossible to escape thy tongue It 's not much to be wondered that thou should call Christ and his Light within which convinceth of sinne nothing but a fancy and as a familiar Spirit as thou do'st It 's a strange Doctrine to thee to know the Son of God condemning sinne in the flesh and so it appears when the Lyar is so strong in thee If thou knew any light in thee but what is thy own fancy the Devil would be reproved and sin condemned did'st thou know Christ in the flesh But the Prince of the world not being udged the Reprobate is Head which knowes not Christ in thee his Light and Spirit which reproves the world and guids into all truth in whom he is known and followed So thy Confession is suitable to thy practice for thou that hath not Christ in thee to condemn sin it 's not like the Devil should condemn what he begets so thy tongue becomes without bridle and thy heart without knowledge that thou do'st evill So deceiving and being deceived is thy work even whilst thou art telling what Christ did on the Cross Thou hast lost the Cross and to the Devil is at liberty in thee unreproved or condemned So not believing in the Light thy self is in the same Condemnation and knows not but is past feeling being heart-blind And thou tells of a Promise thou hast made to prove a Wolf in a sheeps skin and thou wilt prove it out of my Acknowledgment of the righteousness of God wrought in the One Person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth his Sufferings Resurrection and Ascension according to the Scriptures And thou tells of two little words I have left out so it seems that to confess Christ according to the Scripture without two little words more with thee is a Wolf and with such muddy dirty stuff as this not worth naming after thee thou keeps thy promise and fills thy hook And thou sayst I care not how full I make my Acknowledgment of the righteousnesse of GOD wrought in the Death and Resurrection of that Person in that Personal body So they be not understood to be therein finished and need not be wrought in us To which I say that it is the thing most feared by thee and him for whom thou labour'st lest any should look for the righteousnesse of God wrought in them A thing which thou art little guilty of thy self out of whom springs the work of the Devil like a flood yet do we know that the work of righteousness is not ended and finished for any Creature so as to bring them to GOD till God's righteousness be wrought in them A thing the Devil and his Ministers doth now most of all oppose though you confess what was done at Jerusalem yet can he keep his Kingdome in England in every heart wherein God's righteousness is not wrought So righteousness to talk of without but the Devil within is the Doctrine best-pleasing to the Devil and his Ministers But who are his Workmanship have not so learned him which knows Christ in us which thou calls Antichristian and thou that art without Christ with the Lyar in thee would be counted the Christian And further thou sayst the Wolf appears under the sheep-skins in my following Declaration of our Principles To which I say I did lay down 12 particular Heads being the chief things which thou cunningly went about to deny in

is because I tell not all the lying story over again after thee and in these and such like crooked wayes thou goes about to avoid the truth and winde out thy head least it should be bruised therewith and this shall any see who in the light doth but read thy books and my answer wherein I might trace thee into every particular were it needful or dark to the least simplicity Also in other places where thy escape will not serve thee with a seeming shew of truth before thou stick thou wilt forge an absolute lie As for instance page 9. where thou mentionest my charging thee to say that none have yet ceased from their own works To which thou sayes thy Tayings are that none here have yet so ceased from their own works c. To prove which words thou quotes Antepage 44. which all that read that page shall read thee a lyer thereby to accuse the truth for these words are not so there nor any where else that I have yet seen and so according to the Doctrine to thee it is who hast not yet ceased from thy own works who art yet a lyer and covering one lie with another carping at words when I speak the sence to make me a lier when thou canst not hit thy own words but he that is come to Christ is ceased from his own works who is become Gods workmanship but the Serpent hath no portion here and so would exclude all others who knowes no better but to believe him but where God works all our work in us he ordains peace there and such are entred into the Rest the Serpent knowes not Isay 26. 52. Phil. 2. 13. but they which did believe were entred into rest Heb. 4. 3. but thy Sophistry is to keep people from looking for any rest from their own works till they be cut off by death and can serve the Devil no longer and so art one of those who will neither enter thy selfe nor suffer those that would like the rest of thy Fathers who art seeking to overthrow the faith by thy lying Divination For the Devil knowes unbelief is that which keeps from entring into rest so he strikes off Faith But many are entred in who have heard his voice and such will believe thee no longer for thou casts out thy flood after such as is out of thy reach Another way thou hast that when I tell thee of thy lies and deceits in thy book lest people should find them thou sets them to seek in another page where thou hast made some cover for that deceit and not in the place in which it is spoken and thus thou shuffles to hide thy selfe lest thou should be discovered in plainness to the simple Instance that about the Resurrection Another way thou hast with thy Divination to turn a thing quite contrary to what I both speak and intend and this is usuall to thee in most places of thy book Instance thy 55. page thou having in thy first book seemed to deny any other manner of preaching then which was left by the Apostles to which I answer Then you may spare your pains you Steeple-house-Teachers who are out of the manner yea and matter also and with thy divination thou turns this that I would set up a new manner of teaching of two or three years standing when both my words and end is to establish the old way and therefore deny your Idoll-worship which is out of it your preaching and Printing And in some of these wayes or some other such like crooked way hast thou cast a mist over the truths wherewith I have laid open thy deceits yet canst thou blinde none therewith but thy own Generation who are blinde already and as any of them mindes the light in spirit which thou so much opposest they shall see thee and thy deceit also And now having a little opened the way to all who desires to know the truth that they thereby may see all the rest of thy rotten Covers I shall not much contend about words but leave the truth to manifest it selfe to all who in the principle of truth reads our books and enquires after it and they who will be filthy and loves deceit in thy book may cover themselves therewith Thou goes on saying We come to give some Instances of his false charges and you mention some perticular things To which I say how many that we is thou speaks on you know not further then that there is Legions against the Lamb but to that I have said I shall make it appear to be true as to the true intent of thy Doctrine without the least desire to aggravate as follows First As to thy seeking to exclude God and Christ the spirit and light out of the world and that he should no more dwell in his people till dooms-day and so on to all the rest To which I say thy words are that it cannot be properly said that in a full and absolute sense God was or is manifest in the flesh of any naturall Son of Adam in the time of his Mortality where it is plain thou excludes all Mortality with all the time till Dooms-day If not let the wise judge as for thy word naturall thou hast thrust into blinde people with it is of no force in that place unless thou prove that all men must be in their naturall estate during the time of their Mortality which indeed best suits thy end and condition and as for the spirit thou calls it as Popery to confess a spirit within to open the Scriptures and the light within thou compares to a familiar spirit In another place thou sayes God was not God is manifest in the flesh which words not God is is as absolute a deny all as can be made and so preaches him not onely out of the world but out of all the Saints and thy self thou sayst also the Word Christ is personally absent from us while in these bodies And in another place speaking of the manifestation of God thou sayes in that one person not in divers and this is to deny the Father and the Son for he that hath not the Father hath not the Son and he that hath not the Son hath not life and so this preaches an eternall separation between the Creature and the Creator and keeps God out of his dwelling-place denies him present to judge rule and guid and this preaches him out of the heart and not to be manifest in the flesh and the whole is herein proved upon thee which I have said out of thy own mouth and whereas thou would shuffle out by saying thou dost but uphold that Scripture Paul speaks to Timothy Isay Paul sayes no such words as that God is not manifest in flesh that 's thy own therewith to deny God in the flesh for Paul saith Great is the Mystery and speaks of what Timothy should wait for then in him that so by God manifest in him he might know how to behave himself

thy book which I plainly laid down to see if thou would'st plainly oppose them as thou hadst secretly sought to undermine them that so the Serpent might be brought out of his holes and discovered in the sight of the simple which now thou casts thy venom at them calling it a Wolf but dar'st not deny one of them And because they may stand as Witnesses against thy deceit in this book as they did in the other and seeing this may come to the hands of some which the other does not I am free to send them to thee again and to all the world and do not call them Woolfs till thou hast so proved them neither seek to cast thy dirt upon them by shuffling them out of their place and seek to make people believe I mean another thing then I speak so turning the truth into a lye before thou dare encounter with it that being thy old way by which thou hast raised these lying slanders in thy book not having a ground for raising a slander from any thing that I have spoken in it till thou hast taken it one piece from another and thrust in thy own Forgeries and Meanings to make some shew unto people to cover thy nakedness without which as it appears thou durst not meddle to oppose these Truths though they be much in thy way which are as followeth 1 That the light of Christ is the first principle that shews a man his condition and leads to Christ the Saviour and without it the Gospel is hid from every Creature living and without it none can read with profit 2 That though Christ Jesus in himself hath suffered and satisfied the whole will of God for all the world yet none but who by faith in this comes to receive a measure of the same Christ in the same spirit and power and life in them can have redemption by him from sin and death 3 That the Word of God is spiritual and who hath it hath it in their heart and that none who hath it not in their hearts hath eternal life though they may have the letter as the Devil hath to pervert to wrong ends to plead for sin and tempt the sons of God 4 That none can understand the Scriptures nor know the voice of Christ in them but who have that spirit and light in them that gave them forth to open their understanding to know the mystery and life of them 5 That no man knows his own heart but who first owns the light of Christ to search it and the same light that searches the heart gives light to know God and his glory 6 That the least measure of living faith that is not a fancy but stands in Christ Jesus is present power against all sinne and the greatest power of Satan if the Creature abide faithful in it and run to no other helps but mind obedience in it 7 That no man can be a Minister of Christ nor preach him truly but who preacheth perfection and that is the end of his Ministry which thou callest a Doctrine of Devils 8 That there is not one particular of the worship you perform in your high places but it is added or altered from what it was when Christ appointed it and established it 9 That God and his Word is now manifest in the bodies of his Saints in the same manner and as freely as formerly he hath been and that there he is a sufficient Teacher and shield against sinne without any other help to all according to the measure of their knowledge of him present 10 That no man can receive the things of Gods spirit but who minde somewhat of God in them to receive it withall 11 That the least measure of Gods spirit is an infallible guide and without it no man knows Christ nor can judge of any thing of God or his truth his Kingdom or the way to it or the Devil and his subtleties but lies open to be deceived in all things and to be led by men of corrupt minds in whom the Devil is 12 That the ground of all Errors Sects and Opinions Heresies and Blasphemies that are in the world is in being led from the guidance of this spirit and all live in error but who are guided by it but none ever errs who was guided by it alone nor ever shall These being the main things for which thou accuses us in thy book having wrested them contrary to our judgment and practice thereby to darken the way of truth more dear to me then life to the end that all may find it and rest to their souls I have laid them down as plain as I can as they are in Jesus in me revealed without any adding or diminishing as in the sight of God so when thou writes to oppose again let it be plain to the people whether thou owns or denies so the difference may be judged with the truly wise in heart and the ground of it nad do not cast a mist over the truth as in thy book and yet dare neither own nor deny but secretly bite and devour Here is also some of thy lies sent back to the Authour and when thou provest them I shall make my defence till then let them rot with the raiser of them which are as followeth 1 That I own my self to be one of those that sleight and reject the word of the Lord. 2 That the way of lying proud boasting and false accusing is the perfection of our Doctrine and Principles 3 That I own Some other spirit then that in and with the Scriptures as Gods Spirit 4 That we would present men perfect in themselves while there is nothing perfect that so they may not look to the perfection of Christ 5 That we promise others liberty freedom from sin glorious Conquest in themselves 6 That we count that sin that is looking to that Jesus which is the very Christ 7 That we never make it our work in our speakings or writings to preach lift up or commend that Jesus as he is in that one personall body c. 8 That we preach not Jesus and the Resurrection as the Apostles did 9 That we make up our whole Doctrine and matter without that which God hath laid in Zion for a foundation 10 That we magnifie not the Son of Man 11 That I assert nothing in my Book of that Jesus of Nazareth in that which he hath done c 12 That I array Christ as Herod did that I may marre his visage and mock at him 13 That in my Book I say I am Christ and that we leave nothing of the Declarations of hope that we so invert not 14 That if any do preach things according to Scripture we revile it as the Heathen reviled the Apostles for preaching Jesus and the Resurrection 15 That I am a denyer of Christ as Judas was 16 That we make not Jesus the sum and subject matter of our preaching 17 That we pervert all those Scriptures that speak of