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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40954	Truth exalted and deceit abased, or, A discovery of the false Christs and false prophets spoken of in the 7th and 24th chapters of Matthew shewing also when they came, and how they may be known, to the end that all honest people may be aware of them ... : also, here is something concerning the practice and doctrine of the	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing F512A; ESTC R18557	34,062	47

Religion cease and the Lion and the Lamb would lye down together in peace for this rending tearing and devouring of men and spoyling their persons and estates about matters of Religion and Reformation hath been in the transgression and also since the apostacy and during the reign of the false Christs and false Prophets that Christ said should come and John saw were come as before mentioned which is many hundred years agoe or past since they came Concerning singing and the righteous man falling c. IN the time of old the true Prophets and people of God when they were required to sing praise to the Lord either upon deliverance or otherwise what the Lord required of them to sing they in obedience to him sung and were not without what to sing both in manner and matter as was must acceptable and well pleasing to him as Moses and the children of Israel upon their deliverance out of Egypt and through the red Sea they sung a song unto the Lord and they declared that the Lord was both their song and their strength there salvation and their God c. Exod. 15. and this was long before Davids conditions were put into thyme and meeter by Hopkins and Sternhold so likewise Deborah and Barak when they were to sing they had wherewithall to praise the Lord both in manner and matter Judges 5. long before Hopkins and Sternholds time so likewise David said sing unto the Lord oh ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness Psal 30.4 and this was long before Hopkins and Sternhold and some other Poets put Davids conditions into rhyme and meeter for people to sing Therefore the Saints were furnished both in manner and matter with what to sing when it was required by the spirit of truth of them and from them to doe the same and also Solomon he had the song of songs Cant. 1.1 and knew what he was to sing as it was required of him and the Prophet Isaiah was not without a song to sing as it was necessary to be done Isa 5. Likewise the barren that had not borne had matter of rejoycing and knew what to sing as it was required of her Isa 54. And if any want matter of praise and know not how to sing neither according to the right manner nor from the right matter let them waite upon the Lord to teach them that they may sing to the praise of him who is not awanting to them that patiently waite and put their trust in him and Jeremiah after his complaint Jer. 20.7 8 9 10 11 12. upon a deliverance said sing unto the Lord praise ye the Lord for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evill doers Jer. 20.13 and moreover he spoke to the people by way of command from the Lord to sing with gladness for Jacob and to publish praise and say O Lord save thy people the remnant of Israel Ier. 31.7 So when God requireth a people to sing he teacheth them what to say without Hopkins and Sternholds Poetry c. who have put Davids prayers prophecies roaring and mournings into rhyme and meeter with an addition also of their own inventions and lyes as appears and as the Church in the time of old and all the Saints and Servants of God had matter of praise given them when they were required to sing in obedience to the Lord and to his praise so likewise in the true Churches of the Saints in Christ Jesus before the apostacy the blessed Apostle exhorted the Saints to be filled with the Spirit to the end that they might sing in Psalms and Hymns and spirituall songs singing and making melody in their heart to the Lord Eph. 5.19 what was those Psalms and Hymns and spirituall songs that in their hearts they sung to the Lord seeing that Hopkins and Sternhold had not printed Davids conditions then in ryhme and set them out therein according to the Art of Poetry c. was not those Hymns and spirituall songs such as the redeemed then did and now may sing though none can or could learne them but such as were and are redeemed from among men Rev. 14.4 And said the blessed Apostle before the apostacy sing with the Spirit and with the understanding also 1 Cor. 14.15 but since the apostacy the people it seems knew not what to sing till Hopkins and Sternhold and some other Poets made them songs of Davids conditions and added thereunto their own inventions and lyes and people are set to sing them now by the false Prophets without the true spirit to guide them and also without the true spirituall understanding For when they sing and say O Lord I am not puft in minde when they are puft in minde doe they not lye in the name of the Lord but if they were guided by the true spirit they durst not take upon them wilfully to lye for Gods people doe not willingly lye Therefore they that willingly lye they are not Gods people but of their Faiher spoken of in Iohn 8 44. But as for the people and children of God it is reported and declared by the spirit of truth thus surely they are my people children that will not lye so he is their Saviour Isa 63.8 But they that sing and say they are not puft in min●e when they are full of minde and say they have no scornfull eye when they are full of scorne and looks with a scornfull eye one at another and says they are as a little child that is weaned from his mothers breast which is without actuall transgression when they are nor so and says all their bones shakes when they doe not so and says they goe mourning all the day long when they doe not so for such as goe mourning all the day long what time or part of that day have they to sing doe not such both lye and sing without the spirit and true spirituall understanding and is that any way to the praise of God or is it not rather a selfish act and when they follow Hopkins and Sterntold in their rhyme and additions in all things doe they not sing lies of the Scripture and of the righteous man when they say the Scripture plaine tells me the righteous man offendeth seven times a day to thee whereon thy wrath dependeth c. when the Scripture doth not plaine tell any so and that lye of Hopkins and Sternholds is grounded in people as a generall maxime since the apostacy as if none could be free from sin because the righteous man say they sins seven times a day and they charge the Scripture with it when the Scripture no where saith so its true there is a place in the Proverbs saith thus lay not waite O wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous spoil not his resting place for a just man falleth seven times and riseth againe but the wicked shall fall into mischief Pro. 24.15 16. but there is no mention of the

say that generation then present should not pass till they came or those things before the passing way of that genera●●on● should be done and is this the generation of men that generation which were personally present then though the evill Spirit of error doe rule in a great number of the persons who are of the seed of evill doers in this sinfull and sin contending for generation yet there hath been many generations since Christ said false Christs and false Prophets should come And that that generation then present whilst Christ were personally with them should not pass till those things should be done how is it then that Priests and Pofessors are so ignorant of the Scriptures to try they are but come now and that these are the last times of which Christ said they should come Observe Christ said to his Disciples while personally present with them false Christs and false Prophets should come and deceive many Mat. 24. Mar. 13. as aforesaid and he also said that generation should not pass till those things should be done this Christ said to his Disciples and friends whilst personally present with them and said beware of them for many shal be deceived by them and you shall be delivered up to be afflicted and ye shall be killed and hated of all nations for my names sake and as Christ said they should come Iohn in his time or in that generation before it was passed said they were come and moreover he said that was the last time in which it was said they should come for saith the Apostle Iohn in the 1. Epistle 2. Chapter 18 19. ver Little children it is the last time and as you have heard that Anti-Christ should come even now are there many false Christs or Anti-Christs whereby we know that it is the last time here they were come yet priests and professors are so ignorant of the Scripture that they cry out now they are come and they are come but now when they came before the decease of the Apostle Iohn many hundred years since yea saith he they went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us no doubt but they would have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest they were not all of us ver 19. And as Christ had foretold his Disciples of the coming of those false Christs an● how they would deceive many saith he goe not forth or o●●t after them but rather abide within so when they we●●●… me Iohn said and declared then that they were not come in his time and he writ to the faithfull to keep to the anointing within 1 Ioh. 2.20 27. And here Johns Epistle agreed with Christs Doctrine and moreover as Iohn had told that the false Christs or Anti-Christs were come and exhorted the faithfull to keep to the anointing within he also said that the false Prophets were come and were already gone out into the world beloved said he to them that kept to the anointing within them 1 Ioh. 2.27 and kept the commandements of Christ and knew that he abode in them and that they abode in him because he had given them of his Spirit 1 Ioh. 2.23 24. yea and such as had overcome the Devil the wicked one and had the word of God abiding in them ver 13.14 who were of God and not of the world 1 Ioh. 5.19 who being of God knew the Son of God to be come and said he had given them an understanding to know him that is true and then they were in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ 1 Ioh. 5.20 they did not deny Christ to be within who were in him and he in them neither were they of the world but of God and such Iohn writ unto to try the Spirits he did not write unto the world nor hireling Priests to try the Spirits take notice of that but he writ to them that were not of the world but of God and were in Christ and owned and professed Christ to be in them as aforesaid to such he writ to try the Spirits saying beloved beleeve not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they be of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world 1 Joh. 4.1 marke many false Prophets saith he are gone out into the world then they were come long before this time and since then they have had a long reign and now is God discovering them and bringing people off from them Christ said they should come viz. false Prophets and false Christs and John saw they were come and went out from them and was not that which inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God into the Apostacy the ground which the false Prophets rose out of and did not they that turned from the truth and abode not in it joyn together with the Beast to make war with the Saints and did not such turne against the Saints as ran a whoring from that of God and did not they make war with the Saints and overcome them and did not the false Prophets deceive and seduce Nations and Kindreds Languages and multitudes and set up the Image or worship of the Beast and did not all that dwelt upon the earth goe out after them and worship the Beast and his Image but the elect whose names are written in the Lambes book of life slaine from the foundation of the world and must not they that worship the Beast and his Image be plagued and tormented as may be read Rev. 13. and Rev. 14. Christ said false Prophets should come and deceive many yea if it were possible the very elect Mat. 24 John saw they were come and gone out into the world 1 John 2.18 19. and in the Rev. John speaks of the Beast and false Prophet joyning together and how they had prevailed but the Beast and the false Prophet are to be cast together into the lake of fire and brimstone and must be tormented day and night for ever and ever Rev. 20.10 here he hath declared their punishment to be everlasting John saw that all the world wondered after the Beast Rev. 13.3 and they worshipped the Beast saying who is like unto the Beast who is able to make war with him ver 4. when he had made war with the Saints and had overcome them was not power given him over all Kindreds and Tongues and Nations ver 7. and did not the Beast so prevaile when he had made war with the Saints and overcome them that he set up in the time of Apostacy when he had dominion in England in and through the Pope Schools Colledges called Vniversities to fit and make ministers for himself and was not all constrained to worship that which vvas set up in the Apostacy but such as had their names written in the Lambs Book of life who could not worship the Beast and hi● Image but rather choosed to suffer and he caused ●all both small and great rich and poor

thereby that they are none of his Ministers but also that Christ hath no true Disciples or Subjects Therefore they that deny the Spirit of Christ they must needs be false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ or the Devils Subjects note such and take it for granted they are the enemies of our Lord Jesus Christ The true Gospel-Ministers and Saints in Christ Jesus before the Apostacy declared and affirmed that they had received the Spirit of God whereby they knew the things that were freely given them of God and by the same Spirit they knew that they were children of God and joynt heirs with Christ and could by divine right say it the Spirit of God also witnessing with their Spirit that it was true and thereby viz. by the Spirit which they had received of God or by the Spirit of his Son which he had sent into their hearts they could cry Abba Father Rom. 8.14 15 16. 1 Cor. 2.10 11 12. Gal 4 6. But since the Apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ declares and affirms that it is presumption or blas●hemy for any to affirme now that they have the Spirit of God and know thereby the things which are freely given them or God and to say that they are the children of God and joynt heirs with Christ and that they have the Spirit of God as an evidence bearing witness with their Spirit according to the Scriptures that it is so and that God hath sent the spirit of his Son into their hearts whereby they cry Abba Father and can so call him by divine right according to the Scriptures as the Saints in Christ Jesus formerly did This the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ calleth presumption delusion and blasphemy therefore note them and as Christ hath said Mat. 7.20 by their fruits ye shall know them The true Apostle and Minister of Christ before the Apostacy exhorted or counselled the people to walk in the spirit to the end that they might not fulfill the lusts of the flesh Gal. 5.16 Because they that live in the flesh cannot please God as the true Gospel Minister before the Apostacy hath said Rom. 8.8 and the fruits of the flesh are manifest saith he which are these See Gal. 5.19 20 21. and they which doe such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God as the true Gospel-Minister hath said and as may be read Gal. 5.19 c. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Eph. 5.5 6. But since the Apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ they deny the Spirit of truth and labours to keep people from walking in the Spirit of God to the end that they may fulfill the lusts of the flesh and that they may live in the flesh and be kept but of the Spirit least they should please God and so for the upholding and strengthning Satans interest in people they are and labours to keep people in sin and to pleade for the same that they may live in the flesh and bring forth the works thereof to the end that they may be fitted for Satan and be kept out of the kingdome of God Therefore it is high time for people that hath any regard to the glory of God and of their souls good to look about them and not any longer follow the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ that hath had such a long reigne and are expert in the work of deceiving The true Gospel-Minister before the Apostacy counselled people he ministred unto not onely to walk in the Spirit that they might not fulfil the lusts of the flesh but also that through the spirit they might mortify the deeds of the body to the end that they might live unto God and bring forth the fruits of the Spirit and so glorify him But since the apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ they labour to keep people from the Spirit least the deeds of the flesh should be mortified and therefore they labour to keep them out of the Spirit of truth least they should by it be led out of deceit and into the truth to live to the praise and glory of God as aforesaid also see Gal. 5.16 Rom. 8.13 14. Joh. 15.8 Gal. 5.22 23 24. For if they should walk in the Spirit and bring forth fruit unto God and dye to the world Satan would loose his hold and his interest in people would cease and come to an end Therefore that he may uphold a kingdome of sin and unrighteousness covered over with a pretence of godliness in people he sits the false Prophets and seducers to labour and Minister for him but as Christ hath said by their fruits ye shall know them a before mentioned Mat. 7. Concerning perfection according to the Scriptures THe onely true God when he appeared to Abraham the Father of the faithfull declared and said I am the Almighty God and in his doctrine or by way of command said unto Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect Gen. 17.1 which doctrine Abraham received and also Christ Jesus our Lord in his doctrine or by way of command he said unto his Disciples and those that he taught who had grace and received the same be ye perfect as your heavenly father is perfect Mat. 5.48 And such as pressed after perfection the doctrine of the Father and the Son said by the Spirit of truth as many as are perfect be thus minded Phil. 3. to press others on to the same and before the apostacy whilst the holy Ghost had the ordering in the true Church and were of Counsell with the Ministers of Christ who preached the Gospell with the holy Ghost sent down from Heaven Acts 15.28 1 Pet. 1.12 they declared and said we preach wisdome amongst them that are perfect 1 Cor. 2.6 and they taught in all wisdome labouring to present every man perfect in Christ Col 1.27 28 29. for which end they said Christ Jesus when he ascended upon high gave gifts unto men that is to say for the perfecting of the Saints c. Eph. 4.10 11 12 13. who having grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Eph. 4.7 received the same But since the apostacy the false Prophets and Ministers of Anti-Christ they deny the aforesaid doctrine of perfection and under a cover they are not ashamed to say and affirme that the doctrine of sinless perfection was first bred by the Devil secondly detested by Christ thirdly and never received or truly beleeved in by them that had any sparke of true grace when the said Doctrine of perfection as aforementioned was first bred or brought forth by the Almighty God secondly and owned approved of and preached by the Lord Jesus Christ thirdly and heartily received beleeved in pressed after attained unto and preached by them that had received the Spirit of grace and thereby were guided as aforesaid Then they that deny the said doctrine of perfection aforementioned and speak so falsly of it as aforesaid doe make it appear that they are