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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89826	An ansvver to some queries put out by one John Pendarves, in a book, called, Arrowes against Babylon, &c. For the people called, Quakers to answer.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N260; Thomason E865_4; ESTC R207620	10,619	16

AN ANSWER TO SOME QVERIES Put out by one John Pendarves in a BOOK called Arrowes against Babylon c. For the People called QUAKERS To Answer LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1656. AN ANSWER TO SOME QVERIES Put out by one John Pendarves in a BOOK called Arrowes against Babilon c. Query 1. WHether are you willing that the depth of your perswasion or opinion touching Iesus Christ his being now contained in the Heavens the raising of our dead bodies after naturall death the tryall of our Spirits and Doctrines according to the Scriptures should be clearly and openly known and published Ans What we have revealed in us concerning Jesus Christ the death and resurrection tryals of Spirits and Doctrines we are willing should be clearly and openly known Therefore do we publish the same as we are commanded to all Nations and this is according to Scripture for which we are opposed by you that are in Opinions Imaginations and Perswasions by your carnall Wisdome from the Letter to which the Spiritual knowledge of Christ his Doctrine and resurrection according to the Sciptures is a mystery neither can your depths of falne Wisdome Perswasions or Opinions finde it out nor try that Spirit which revealeth it to the babes but hideth it from the prudent Qu. 2. VVhether do you not by many of your sayings which admit of a double construction craftily hide your perswasions in many things from the sight of some honest people who take you to hold the same truth with Believers in generall concerning Christ the Scriptures and the resurrection of the dead Do you not endeavour to make them believe you hold otherwise in some things then you do and is not this distimulation at the best or lying after the manner of Annanias and Saphirah Ans From honest people we would hide nothing therefore to the principle of honesty which is the Light of Christ in them we direct them that with the spirit of truth they may be led to know what to believe and be guided out of all your craftiness who under pretence of believers draw people from the spirit to things acted in the flesh as thou who in thy book calleth them saints who may be like the most vain men in their foolith fashions and found too light in the true ballance so much know'st thou of a saint what is his weight and likeness to and such is dssimulation at the best and knowest not a believers truth nor their Christ nor resurrection according to the scriptures who reckon your selves under the name of saints and believers but never came so far as Annanias and Saphirah who owned that Doctrine preached by them that left all and wandered up and down to and fro and left their carnall relations in obedience to the voice of Christ as is declared in the Scripture which thou couldst reproach and slander to be contrary to scripture as in thy fifteen query and this is worse than the manner of Annanias and Saphirah Qu. 3. VVhether your selves even all of you be not men and women of sinfull failings and imperfections as are those godly people you cry down Doth not the Light within you shew you this if not tell us who are the persons amongst you without their failings or imperfections and how came they so to be Answ The Light within us thy slanderous spirit full of confusion in saying that we cry down godly people as also thy signifying them to be God-like who are of sinful failings and imperfections so thou shewest what thou knowest of his likeness and thy self a child of darkness and by him who is no respector of persons come we to be set free from sinful failings as by the Light we behold him who is our perfection so are we changed from imperfection into the same image from glory to glory even by the spirit by which spirit we bear witness against sin and imperfection for which we are accused to cry down godly people by such as love their sin yet would have the name of godliness Qu. 4. Do you in passing your judgements of the Congregations of believers as well look after those things which are commendable as those things which are condemnable in their practises do you not over-look the example of Christ in this who in his message to the Church of Ephesus writes in praise of the godly things in them Rev. 2.2 and particularly that they hated the doctrine of the Nicholaitans though withall he reproveth them for leaving their first Love and Sardis Church being reproved some few names are accepted do not you on the contrary cry them down in the generall without any mercie Ans The judgement which we pass is not ours but his that sent us which is not passed upon Churches of believers but upon the Synagogues of Satan who say they are Jews and are not neither do we thereby judge that which is commendable but that which covereth the serpent under a pretence of religion and this is not contrary to the example of Christ And whereas thou tellest of Churches and hating the Doctrine of the Nicholaitans when we see you leave that Doctrine and go out to declare against it where it is practised as the Ministers of Christ ever did then is there some plea for your names to be excepted in the mean time be not angry that we cry them down in generall who are found in that doctrine and Babylonish worship though not without mercy to them that come out of it nor think you to hide your selves by crying out of the Priests and your selves not come out of the rest of the relicques a measure though of a first Love there was amongst you which you have lost above all forms in the Nation and are run into the abominations and have bowed and conformed to uphold and maintain the relicques of the Papal Priesthood And think not pulling off your Ribbans and Laces wil excuse you so long as you withdraw the shoulder from things of greater weight which must all down at Babylons fall though we rejoice to hear so much from you of reformation was it done in the power and obedience of the spirit of truth and not of envie thereby to reproach others whom the Lord hath led out to bear witness against the rest of the worlds vanities pride and false worships but seeing you pretend your reformation in this point from the Scriptures search them over again and let the Light of Christ in your consciences judge if they be not as large both in precept and example under the Gospel for the form of sound words without partiality to deny respect of persons to bear witness against the Idol-worship openly where it is performed as the manner of the Saints was and is to the suffering the spoyling of the goods yea the loss of life rather than to uphold the Image by bowing to it in the least measure or honouring the pride in another which you

ungodly without works freely and to make void the sufferings of Christ Rom. 3.24 the 4. chap. 5. Gal. 3.1 Ans That faith was spiritual and the gift of God which when they had forsaken and made shipwrack of their consciences became seared yet could they profess the Letter of the scriptures with great zeal as hath appeared ever since that departure there spoken of and the seducing spirits are such as are gone out from within into the world whither thou art leading who art reproaching the Light within as though it was not the Gospel preached by Christ and his Apostles when Christ saith I am the Light of the world and the kingdome of God is within you and the Apostle saith By the Light that shined in their hearts did they come to the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and Christ in you the hope of glory and this alone is the good news to all people which the seducing spirits that are gone into carnal things would lead from and therefore Christ saith to his go not forth and who hath Christ the Light in them with his works and they in him here is justification by Christ alone which they that do works and not from Christ within and his Light within are in the deeds of darkness and self-righteousness wherein the mystery of iniquity worketh to darken the grace of God and to make void the sufferings of Christ and the Kingdome of God and the righteousness thereof within the obedience thereof makes free from sin and so obtains the blessing and this of faith and not of works though the blind seeth it not who are in their own works and litteral performances such know little of the power of faith or the work of righteousness whereby man is created new in the good works to walk which are fore-ordained and to such the everlasting righteousness is brought in by which the transgression is finished Qu. 12. VVhether the Light that is in every man doth reveal Jesus Christ as crucifified for sin and risen again if so How came it to pass that so many strict men amongst the philosophers and Paul himself walking according to his conscience before conversion were ignorant of him Answ Though the Light of Christ that lighteth every man that cometh into the world yet it revealeth Christ only in such as believe and follow it out of the world in which Christ is not revealed neither can be for the world by wisdome knows him not And the reason why Christ crucified for sin and risen again was not revealed to the Philosophers and to Saul is the same in your selves in this age who some of you run from a blind zeal in the Letter others in wild notions all from your imaginations without the Light of Christ so none in that state knoweth Christ as you ought to do who have him not revealed within for the testimonie of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecie and it is the spirit of truth that guideth into all truth and that which testifieth of Jesus as the truth is in him which all that have not that knowledge from the spirit are ignorant of him and so taketh that for the Light of the conscience which is but your own thoughts and imaginations and so far unlike to reveal Jesus And Saul was as learned in the Letter and as zealous for that which he imagined to be the meaning of it as you are and yet blinde as to the light in the conscience his mad zeal leading him against the pricks as many of you now are and might see a taste thereof did you minde the light you are opposing Qu. 13 Whether you have not amongst you many who presume to be Masters or masterly Teachers contrary to that word of Christ Mat. 23.10 in the true intent of it Do they not usurp authority over the judgment and conscience of their followers requiring them to believe and obey what they say without asking their meaning and examining their sayings by the scriptures whereas Christ expounded his sayings as occasion were offered and need required to his Disciples and the Bereans are commended for searching the Scriptures daylie whether the things spoke by the Apostles were so Mat. 13.18 19.36 37 c. Ans This Quaerie is utterly made up of a ly therefore I return it back into the slanderous bottle from whence it came for against the whole Quaerie we are witnesses and the practise of Christ is owned who is the Lord of the conscience the one Teacher whereby Masterly Teachers are denied Qu. 14. Whether it be not high presumption and spirituall pride for some amongst you to break Christs Commands and teach men so and to judge as many do the secrets of mens hearts and rashly without knowledg of mens conversations to affirm that they have not the spirit If the spirit of God witness with their Spirits as I doubt not but it doth with divers of them you so judge that they have the Spirit of God and the work of regeneration witnessing thereunto may they not by your bold judgment to the contrary know how to judg of you Ans The Spirit of Christ where it is knoweth it own neither doth it judge by outward appearance nor yet without knowledge by which the Saints have judged the hearts of others which they knew not themselves and that spirit is witnessed but what spirit is that in thee which accuseth some amongst us to break Christs commands and teach men so not making it appear who they are and under that pretence would limit the Spirit of the Lord not to judge where it is This sheweth little of the work of regeneration or the Spirits witness but as one afraid that deceit should be discovered and so would exclude all judging where shal Christ judge if not in his Saints which judgment the blinde generation could never own and yet would be judging others of that whereof thy self art guilty as thy book doth manifest by which all may know how to judge of thee Qu. 15. Whether do you not esteem the sayings of some amongst you of equal authority with the sayings of God in Scripture and as readily or more to be believed and obeyed without any enquiry whether they agree with Scripture or no even although they plainly contradict the written word Is it not an usual things with many of you to travel up and down to and fro far and near to the wearying of your flesh and neglecting your relations in obedience to such voyces or sayings not warranted by Scripture but contrary thereunto yet in many things of this kinde wherein some of you seem to glory the Papists themselves out-strip you onely they are more modest then to go naked and who hath required these things of any of you Query 16. Whether Satan that old Deceiver who often changes his shapes being discover'd in many of his old devices may not now be expected to come in his best dress as an Angell of Light and being