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A89634	The boasting Baptist dismounted, and the Beast disarmed and sorely wounded without any carnal weapon. In a reply to some papers, written by Jonathan Iohnson, of Lincolne, as an answer to a letter, sent him by Martin Mason, concerning some exceptions against several truths. / Published by a faithfull minister, not of the letter, but of the everlasting Gospel.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing M924; Thomason E877_2; ESTC R202884	14,536	17

Rev. 3.20 Is not this door the heart of man Does he not fill Heaven and Earth with his presence Thy Redeemer is in the midst of thee O Israel Tell me Ionathan was the hearing of faith which thou brings in Gal. 3.2 for proof of thy blasphemy the hearing of the Prophets or of Matthew Mark Luke and John and the rest of the Apostles Or was it not a beleeving in that Christ which Paul preached to be in all Jew and Greek Barbarian Scithian Coll. 3.11 bond and free in that Christ who is the Light in all consciences preaching there to every man and woman upon earth And what shall be the condemnation of all Man-kinde Joh. 3.19 who never heard of the Name of Christ at Jerusalem if not the Light of Jesus Christ placed in the Conscience And wherefore is the Light of Jesus left there in the heart of every man and woman if not to lead man and women out of sin unto holiness And whether any thing without can redeem a soul from sin but that Jesus who is the Light of the world and shines into the conscience of every man and woman in the world When thou writes again answer those plain Quaeries without any Serpentine Evasions conjuring Consequences or Antichristian Falacies As for thy second Proof Acts 2.38 When thou and thy Friends can witness such a condition as these Convicts could in the four last Verses of that Chapter thou sayes somthing till then let the Babler be silent and leave his boasting for the Baptism of Repentance from dead works he knows not so long as he lives in lying pride and passion Besides Watersprinckling is not once named there Does Christs Baptism consist of outward water Or is not his a Baptism of sufferings with the Holy Ghost and with Fire And art thou baptized with this Baptism and so much dross of lying false accusing pride and passion not burnt up in thee Answer those three quaeries in singleness of heart or else let the Serpent in thee be silent As for thy last proof 1 Ephes 13. What was this Word of Truth if not Jesus the Word of God the sure Word of Prophesie which shined in their dark hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 1 Coll. 26. which they knew not Was not this the Mystery unto them and all the blinde Gentiles And was not this through their Faith therein the Gospel of their Salvation Were they not sealed by that Holy Spirit of Promise by beleeving in this VVord of Truth within them which cannot be corrupted nor removed into a corner Answer those quaeries Ionathan without any jugling or else let the mouth of the lyar be stopt for ever mentioning the Name of the Lord. Now to the second Position Thou breaths forth such Fume as comes from the bottomless Pit and sayes I reckon thee among Drunkards because I say the Drunkards make their boast in this belief If there be falshood in my words Was not the Devil in Peter when Christ said Get thee behinde me Satant why does not the Serpents wisdom seek to confute them but the words are true and so the Devil 's dumb as to such a work for the righteous Seed of God arises in thee judging and condemning thee to be drunk with pride passion lying wrath and false accusing and that makes the Devil in thee rage he would not be disquieted but the man of sin must be tormented Read thy figure in the Pharisee 't is seen by the Light who it is that hath two horns like a Lamb yet speaks like a Dragon casting forth floods of Indignation and Serpentine Accusations upon the simple Turn to the Light of God within thee and that true Prophet Nathan-like will tell thee 2 Sam. 12.7 Thou art the man Ah! Shames thou not with thy false tongue to tell me I contemn the Faith in the sufferings of Christ and thus arrogantly to ask me How dare I thus contemptuously speak of my Redeemer Thou canst not call him thy Redeemer till the Serpents head be broken in thee and the lying Devil cast out of thee because in my Paper I writ to this effect Thou and they who feed your selves with the meerfrothy verball Faith in the sufferings of the Man Christ Iesus at Ierusalem and yet wallow in your wickedness are not saved or redeemed from your sins Judge O ye honest hearted of the Nation whether this language be a speaking contemptuously of my Redeemer yea or nay Are they who wallow in their wickedness redeemed from sin by saying they beleeve in the sufferings of Christ at Jerusalem Then what 's the difference between a Saint and a Sinner Then what need is there of purifying the heart But the children of the Lord know none are redeemed from sin but such as do forsake sin who cease from doing evill and turn from the evill of their wayes Is the proud one redeemed from pride while he continues in that sin Is he not a servant of sin that liveth in sin Is the cholerick hasty nature subdued and that man redeemed from passion while the passionate Devill hath dominion over him the Lamb of God is meek and lowly and so are all his tender Lambs Now judge O ye wise in heart if the Scriptures call not him who suffered at Jerusalem the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 May I not use the Language of the Apostle Paul in that place is it any sin for me to call him by that Name which he gave himself Read Ioh. 8.40 But now ye seek to kill me a Man that hath told you the truth Yet I did call him the Man Christ Jesus Peruse my Paper once again Ionathan see if I said not No other Iesus do I own but that Lamb of God which was slain from the beginning of the world Did I not say that I did own and reverence the Spirit of the living God in him Col. 29. Psal 45.7 and that the sulness of the God-head dwelt bodily in him He was anointed above his fellows Cease then thou slanderer from thy scandalous Accusations for my Redeemer I do reverence Thou tells me in two severall places that I crucifie Christ again and yet breaks forth into rage because I tell thee Ye have condemned and kill'd the Just he doth not resist you Jam. 5.6 He is slain in thee and asks me if the Lamb that was slain be not alive for evermore In thee he is slain in his Saints he is alive but the Heavens which contain him is a Mystery to thy dark minde So let the Sot be silent I need none of the lyars counsel the false Prophets prating is not worth listning to the bold Blasphemer shall be met with for his Blasphemy Thou bids me leave those false Luminaries and turn my feet into the Testimonies of the true Light Wouldst thou have me renounce my Redeemer is this the reverence thou wouldst have me to do him to call him a false Luminary because the blasphemer terms him

be true Unction which is not received by the Letter had not Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the rest of the holy men of God who lived before Moses writ the Letter had not they I say the Spirit of Truth within them were there not many deceitfull Serpents filthy spirits like thine in their dayes and had they any outward writing given them as an infallible Rule to discover false spirits with was not the spirit of God in them the infallible Rule and sole Touch-stone for the tryall of spirits which were true which were false Did Paul and the rest of the Apostles receive the Spirit of Truth by vertue of hearing or reading any writings or books without them That which I brought out of 1 John 2. as to the Annointing stands unshaken and cannot be removed by all the Brats of Babylon does not John admonish them to keep to the Unction within which they had received does he bid them make his Epistle their Rule to walk by or could they have been seduced if they had kept to the Annointing within though Johns Epistle had not been sent to them Answer those quaeries Yet do I not deny but the Saints in their infancie are capable of good counsel and may admit of a leading by the hand let him that is confirmed strengthen his Brethren Thy carping at the spirits interpretation of 1 Joh. 4.1 2 3. shews the blindness of the Babylonian He who can make a good Confession and give a good account of Christ Jesus in his own fleshly Tabernacle he is of God this Exposition cannot by the Serpents subtilty be shaken as for the Pope both him and thee I do deny abominable lyars are you both he is thy brother though thou bawls against him you are both servants to one Master the man of sin he denies Christ come in the flesh of his Saints and so dost thou therefore Antichrists you both be it 's but the lyar that tels me my Master hath not commanded me to judge he whom thou boasts came not to judg the world but to save the world sayes in the next words He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my word hath one that judgeth him and so hast thou for thou rejectest him he is my witness and he came not to bring Peace 1 Cor. 6.2 but a Sword to the man of sin whom thou servest But if the Saints shall not judge the world thou must make Paul a lyar like thy self And does not the Spiritual man judge all things and he himself is judged of no man But since thou art so much against judgement tell me by what authority dost thou judge me for an Enemy of Righteousness with a deal of such like Antichristian Rubbish which reaches me not why dost thou judge those people called Dippers calling them the chief Princes of M●shech and Tuball saying they know no 〈◊〉 buriall of Christ but buriall in water And by what Authority dost thou judge the Priests of the Nation for Antichristians Answer those quaeries when thou writes again In one of thy Arguments thou shames not to affirm that the L●tter under the name of the words of Christ is Spirit and life in it self and in another of the same mettal for they both come from one Mint and have both but one Father thou concludes the Spirit of God in the Apostles who were Saints is the Rule to try and discovery of false spirits and then falls to thy old vain of boasting that this Argument I cannot deny in any part but indeed the man is so accustomed to lye that 't is a 〈◊〉 matter for him to speak true Say Ionathan when did I deny that the spirit of God in the Apostles while they lived upon earth was their Rule for them to try and discover false spirits does not my Letter speak the same Language but did not the spirit of God in them at their death return to God that gave it them wouldst thou have me be as sottith as thy self to say and unsay and own their writings to be the spirit of God but I have little pleasure to take thus in thy Dung-hill only 't is my desire the weak may not be wooryed by but beware of such Foxes and Wolves in sheeps clothing Thou charges me for a lyar for saying thou owns the Letter to be the Rule but one thing is I need not go far to fetch my proof thou hast given it under thy own hand in these words See thy Reply to the 12th Position Therefore the Scriptures are the sure and infallible Rule to try the Spirits whether they be of God or no yet for all this and thy other argument wherein thou calls them spirit and life in it self under the name of the Words of Christ thou calls them twice in this following argument of thine the dead Letter He that desires to be tryed by the true Touch-stone the infallible Rule the living Principle of God the Light of Christ in the Saints consciences the Spirit of truth and would not be tryed by the dead Letter his spirit is of God he 's guided by the spirit of Promise but Jonathan Johnson desires to be tryed as abovesaid not by the dead Letter therefore his spirit is of God he 's guided by the Spirit of Promise Thus thy charge is soon taken of and the lyar found lodging in thy own bosom how hath the Heathen raged and cast forth his Floods of indignation against me for calling the Declaration a dead Letter and yet speaks the same several times in this argument Didst thou not cry up the letter to be the in-let to the spirit of promise bid me leave my false luminary yet here owns the light of Christ in the conscience to be the spirit of truth surely the man thought he might say unsay as he list and took me to be as very a for as himself or else hath a very weak memory and that 's very bad for so great a lyar as he is I did never read grosser contradictions to my knowledge then have dropt from the pen of this painted Pagan And yet for all this folly confusion he must needs give me another rotten reed of AEgypt as it were for a farewel in an argument the substance whereo● is thus They who were Master-builders c. must needs be the true Touch-stone but the Apostles were Master-builders c. whom M. M. denies to be tryed by calling their preaching and teachings dead and lifeless therefore his spirit is the spirit of error What a forgetful or wilful lying Beast is this did he not but even now a little before in his other Argument say that he himself desired to be tried by the light in the Saints consciences and not by the dead letter and ye● taxes me with the spirit of error for the same thing O blush and be ashamed But for further answer According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise Master-builder I have laid the

so The Lord rebuke thee for the delight of my soul is in the Light of the world Christ Jesus wouldst thou have me now that I am washed to return again to my wallowing in the myre When thou writes again if that be thy meaning say so man The Leopard cannot change his spots and 't is hard for thee to leave thy lying Thou sayes I kill the Scriptures Yet the Scriptures I own for they are serviceable can that which is dead be killed Dost not thou in two severall places call the Scriptures a dead Letter and still runs on in thy lying saying I am forced to run for shelter to those I account my enemies who knows thou sayes no other buriall with Christ but buriall in water calling them the chief Princes of M●shech and Tuball As for the men thou means viz. those called Dippers they are of age let them answer for themselves if they be not enemies to the Cross of Jesus Christ I shall not count them enemies to me but how canst thou prove that I run to them for shelter is it because I speak of thy sprinckling I never made any of them my Oracle therein Thou sayes I bid thee prove whether Christ commanded baptism to his Disciples yea or nay and did the Lord require it of his people to this day What an abominable lye besides Non-sence hast thou vented in two lines My words are these Is thy sprintling with water the baptism of Christ Iesus yea or nay Did the Lord command that to his Disciples yea or nay And does the Lord require it of his people to this day I did never read nor know of one that pretends to more Piety then thou does that ever excell'd or equall'd thee in thy devillish art of lying a notable Servant thou art to thy Master and sure thou art to receive thy Wages Rev. 21.8 For the simples sake I shall peruse those Scriptures thy Father sends thee with to fight for his Kingdom Matt. 28.19 20. Act. 2.38.41 42. but I finde not sprinckling with water there nor so much as the word water Nor does Acts 22.16 make for thy purpose where 't is said Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the Name of the Lord Is sprinckling with water once mentioned in this place Or did Ananias bid him be baptized with outward Water Or could outward Water wash away Sauls sins Answer those quaeries without a lye if thou canst As for Acts 10.47 48 is it not clear the Holy Ghost was received without outward Water then where 's the necessity of sprinckling or dipping Does not thy next Acts 8.36 37. intimate that it is but a thing indifferent if thou beleevest saith Philip thou mayest as much as if he had said if thou beleeves outward water to be necessary to salvation thou mayest be baptized did he not rather choose to cherish then destroy the weak faith of the Eunuch The last Proof thou claps in is no better then the rest They were all baptized both men and women but Water is wanting Therefore cease vain Jangler for without adding to the Letter these places are not for thy purpose Iohn was a Prophet therefore his Ministration must end in Christ Jesus who is the fulfilling of the Law and the Prophets Some of the Apostles used circumcision in the flesh had they a command from Christ for so doing or was it not upon permission why dost thou not as well plead for and practise the one as the other is not their authority of an equall purity both by permission not by precept In thy Reply to the 7th Position I finde thee so puzled touchig Perfection that thou gives me no Answer to what I sent thee but would shuffle me off bringing Iam. 3.2 But does he plead against Perfection as thou dost does he not say in the same verse if any man offend not in words the same is a perfect man the Scriptures were never writ that the Devill by them should plead for sin Thou brings in Rom. 7.18 where Paul sayes I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing From hence thou would infer that in Paul there dwelt nothing that was good But wilt thou say the Holy Ghost is not good was not Paul filled with the Holy Ghost if it were as thou would infer then away with Pauls Epistles and by consequence with the rest of the Scriptures for they were all writ from one Spirit If there was nothing good in Paul then Paul must needs be a Seducer of the people VVhen we were in the flesh sayes Paul in the unregenerate condition the motions of sin did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death but now we are delivered from the Law that we should serve in newness of Spirit not in the oldness of the Letter And Rom. 8.8 9. They that are in the Flesh cannot please God but ye are not in the Flesh yet they were alive upon earth but in the Spirit That of Phil. 3. is to thee a mystery therefore Babler be silent the Tree thou feeds on is accursed Thy piece of Lodgick shews what a Pagan thou art That which is subject to mortality loss and change and mistakes is not perfect thou sayes But mans humane state in it self is subject c. therefore mans humane state is not perfect Where dost thou read this language of mans humane state in all the Scripture Consider of this in the cool of the day that which is born of the Flesh is Flesh but that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit is that subject to mortality loss and change that which is born not of blood nor of the will of man but of God that doth not commit sin that cannot sin because 't is born of God 1 Ioh. 3.9 Now because thou art so silent to what I sent thee concerning Perfection I here return thee some few things which my Letter mentions as to that Must the devill have power over thee while thou lives to make thee his vessel to do his will and work here on earth and dost thou hope to have Heaven for thy wages when thou dyes Knows thou not as the tree falls so it lyes and the wages of sin is death And is not the tabernacle of God with men Rev. 21. Does not the Lord say I wil dwel in them and walk in them c. is not this done upon earth Does not the Lord delight to save his people from their sins Does he justifie and not sanctifie his people does he forgive sins and not give power over sins what is the end of the Lords being present with his people and in his people but sheild them from sin and Satan and to keep them pure without spot or wrinckle who are willing to be guided by him And when thou writes again either confess or deny the Truth in thy Answer to those Quaeries But why dost thou deny that to be the true Spirit or that to