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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

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

also within therefore have no fellowship with the works or workers of darkness neither without nor within for what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and will be their God and they shall be my People 2 Cor. 6. 16. Therefore hear the Call of the Lord for it may be the last time that some of you may hear it who Calls out of Babylon Come out of her my People saith the Lord that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues for her sins have reached up to heaven and God hath remembred her iniquities Rev. 18. 4 50 But to return Again witness 6. Your Popish Ordination to the Ministry which is of man and by man and derived either from the Pope to the Bishop and from the Bishop to the Presbyter and so from the Presbyter to You or from a Congregation of men in an University or otherwise and so still of Man and not of God nor separate by the Spirit unless by such a spirit as can be bought for mony at the University or elswhere by being sometime a Student in Arts Tongues and Languages Humane and Natural Sciences the Seat of the Whore Rev. 17. 16. and for this are you reckoned by men and do account of your selves to be set apart for the Ministry and to be superiour to others thereby to lord it over God's Heritage to be set in the uppermost seat in the Synagogues and at Feasts and to be greeted in the Market-place and called of men Master and Master of Arts contrary to the Scriptures although you must for all this study hard for a Sermon and having compiled one you must either con it without Book and so put it to Sale by repeating it over again or read it within Book to make money of it yea sometimes you sell them two or three times over and after this manner do you divine for money and preach for hire and own the Name of Divines and say Thus saith the Lord when the Lord hath neither spoken to you nor sent you Therefore read your Portion in Ezek. 13. to the end Now are not these your Tenents Popish Tenents indeed and these your Practices Popish Practices indeed which are practised by you Well I shall leave it to the Judgement of all those that are but a little enlightened in their Consciences with Christ the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world to determine And now Dost not thou shew thy self a true Son of the Church of Rome in this matter who whore-like cryest out whore first and a right Merchant of Babylon in crying out Error Heresie and Blasphemy Hereticks and Schismaticks Popish Tenents and Seducers when thou thy self art found in the self same thing Well read thy state in the Second Chapter to the Romans Read the whole Chapter with a spirit of meekness and patience and if it were possible I would or rather the Lord by me perswade thee to Repentance before it be too late For the Lord is come and coming according to the Prophesie of Enoch in ten thousand of his Saints to render judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against them Jude 14 15. Read the whole Epistle with a sensible heart and weeping eyes in fear and trembling and remember and call to mind all thy rayling lying slandring backbiting and malitious reproaches thou hast cast upon all perswasions differing from thee in secret and in the dark Remember what thou hast said against and how vilely thou hast reproached the Author of that Book called The Retired Man's Meditations as also the Baptists and our Friends Now thou wilt not nor canst not Preach in Publick consider what thou art doing in Private The Lord seeth thee and a Book of Remembrance is taken of it and shortly thou must come to account and what a sad reckoning wilt thou make and an account give to him that hath said The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me Psal. 69. 9. Rom. 15. 3. And In all their afflictions he is afflicted Isa. 63. 8 9. And In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me Mat. 25. 40. And Whosoever toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye Therefore repent betimes else horror and terror tribulation and anguish will fall upon thee and torment thee without end And know also that that which Edw. B. did write unto thee from the Lord in the Year 1659. when part of the Long Parliament was sitting in his Answer to thy Manuscript is Truth still and thou if not ●eared mayest both see it and feel it made good upon thy self and others at this day and the rest hastens apace to be fulfilled A taste of which by reciting some of the Passages in that Book to put thee a little in remembrance thereof thou wilt find at the end hereof Now I say for these Reasons aforesaid it is judged meet to Print that Letter foregoing which was sent to thee in Writing so long ago for the making thy folly more manifest and if it might be that thou mayest bethink thy self and that thy poor deluded Proselytes may see if it may be what a deceiver thou art who continuest still to whisper thy lyes and envy about and seekest darkness for thy cover as being ashamed of the Light and all because thy case is naught and thy deeds be evil whereas he that doth right seeks no corners For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved but he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Joh. 3. 19 20 21. The 12th Month 1662. From an utter Enemy to all manner of Persecution for Conscience sake but a real Lover of thy Soul J. S. Some Passages of E. B. his Book in Answer unto Tho. Jackson's Paper written to all the remaining part of the Old Parliament then sitting as well as to the said T. J. in 1659. Which in a great measure is fulfilled already and the rest is hastning to be fulfilled in due time Which may serve also for a Warning to this present Generation THomas Jackson in the Conclusion of his Paper written to W. C. Member of that remaining part of the Old Parliament aforesaid saith thus Worthy Sir It will be your honour to stand in the Gap to stop the violence of this hellish Torrent meaning those Tenents he falsly chargeth upon the Innocent harmless People of God called Quakers that is so high that it sounds from Dan to Beersheba and threatens Judgement to our Israel c. To which