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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30558	Truth defended, or, Certain accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation with a clear discovery who are the false prophets and when they came in, and how they may bee known, and who they are that deny Christ and that preach another gospel ... / by one who is a labourer in the vineyard ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Mowgill, Edward.	1656 (1656)	Wing B6050; ESTC R23840	18,605	24

Truth Defended OR CERTAIN ACCVSATIONS ANSWERED Cast upon us who are called Quakers By the Teachers of the World and the people of this GENERATION VVITH A clear DISCOVERY who are the false Prophets and when they came in and how they may bee known and who they are that deny Christ and that preach another Gospel And who deny the Scriptures Churches Ministers and Magistrates whereby the Magistrates and People of this Nation may see they justifie that vvhich the Scripture condemns and condemns that vvhich the holy men of God justified and may read their example and our example through the Scriptures By one who is a Labourer in the Vineyard who is not known to the world though named of the world Edward Burrough London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1656. The Epistle To all you who call your selves Ministers of the Gospel and all people in all Relations under what form of Worship soever in England or in all the world who profess your selves Christians THe mighty day of the Lord is come according as he promised of old and this day is witnessed wherein he is establishing his Mountain and exalting it above all Mountains and is gathering his people which have been scattered in the dark and long night of Apostacie which Christ and his Apostles saw coming into the churches then and hath had dominion long over the world and hath reigned till now and reignes now in all the Professors in all Forms everywhere But now the time is come wherein the kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and thousands witness it to the praise of his everlasting Name And therefore the Nations are angry and the Princes of the earth because Michael our Prince is arisen to plead with all who make war against him And now H●r●d and Pilate and all Jerusalem are in an uproar and Amnion and Amaleck and the Egyptians and the Philistines are joined now against him And all you who live in Forms and know not the Power do now persecute and joine your selves together being in the same nature as the Persecutors of old which were born after the flesh And now you Sons of Bondage and of Hagar are to be cast out and now you are all made manifest that you are in the flesh for all your bows are bent and all your arrows are shot at a people which are accounted by you as the filth of the world and as the off scouring of all things whom the world calls Quakers in whose fore-heads is written the Name of the living God and unto you I say that make war against them and now take part with the Dragon against the Lamb you shal all drink of the cup of fury and indignation of the Lord And unto the living God who is holy and jealous for his own glory and his name which hath manifested his minde and will by his Eternal Spirit unto us shall you all bow and stoop For now the Lord hath rent the vail of the covering which hath been spread over all the nations in all professions and you are all seen by the eternal eye which is opened in thousands even all from the highest to the lowest who have stollen and painted your selves with other mens words And all your Images which you have set up and all your traditions from men in which you have walked are all seen to be stubble and will not abide in the day of the Lord And all your Churches which you have gathered together by imitation from the letter shall all be scattered and there you all are for you all deny Revelation and say it is ceased and so you call the Letter the Light and the Word but with that which was before the Scripture you are seen and judged even with that which shall endure for ever And seeing you have cast reproach upon the Name of the God of Heaven and Earth whom we worship and which you call delusion for the truths sake are we moved to lay open your nakedness that you may be judged by that which you say is your rule Here in this little book thou who hast any honesty in thee or any desire of truth and wilt search the Scripture thou wilt see that all the teachers of the world in all Forms and all Professors ever cryed out who had but the Form against them who had the life and power as you all do now against them who worship God in the Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh and therefore in this following Discourse which is written by the same spirit that gave forth the scripture thou shalt see who are the false Prophets and who they are that preach another Gospel and who they are that deny the Scriptures and thou may see when the false prophets came in and who they are clearly proved to be by their own rules And all you who call your selves Magistrates and Christians you may see your selves to hold up that which Christ the prophets and apostles cryed out against and persecute them who stand in the counsel of God and them that declare against all the deceit as the holy men of God did and so you are the beast which holds up the false prophets and those whom the Scripture declareth against God is arisen to dash to pieces al them vvho withstand him and therefore come out of Babylon and out of all your painted forms and come to own the first Principle which wil change your mindes even the Light of Christ which he hath enlightned every one withal and by it you shall see what you are doing Now if you deny this you deny the Corner-stone and you stumble and shall be broken and by that which you call natural shall all your Image of gold and silver and all your mixed invented worship be dashed to pieces and be for the Pit Therefore all be silent and speak not evil of those things you know not for now you are all seen you who say you are Jews and are not but are of the synagogue of Satan and your voice is known for none is turned from the evil of his way and therefore is wrath coming upon you to the utmost A lover of your Souls but am a Witness against all your deceit Francis Howgill WHereas we are accused by the teachers and people of this generation That we are false Prophets and Deceivers and that we deny the Christ which dyed at Jerusalem and that we preach another Gospel then the Apostles preached and that we deny the Scrip●ures and the Ordinances of Jesus Christ and that we hold Free-will and establish self-righteousness and teach people to act in their own strength to obtain life and that we deny Churches Ministers and Magistracie To these false Accusations I answer It is no new thing nor no strange thing to the children of Light who are seperated from the world and worldly-worships and from the works of darkness to be

accused falsly and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chief Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the teachers and professors of this age who have a form of godliness but deny the power Christ was called a deceiver and a blasphemer and the Apostles were called Movers of sedition hereticks and turners of the world up-side down by them who professed in word what Christ was in substance what the Apostles witnessed and so it is now We who are scornfully called Quakers do live in and declare forth no o●her thing but the substance of what the Priests have preached upon and the professors have talked upon in their carnal mindes by their imaginations He is a false prophet and a deceiver which hath not the word from the mouth of the Lord but takes that which the Lord spoke to another and calls it his and useth his tongue and saith the Lord saith it when the Lord never spake to him and here are the teachers of the world themselves guilty of that whereof they falsly accuse us for they take the Prophets words Christs and the Apostles words to talk upon but have not received the word from the mouth of the Lord and their prophesie and preaching would soon be ended if they had not the Scripture which is other mens words and that which was spoken to others to speak their imaginations from and these are the false Prophets and Deceivers which run and are not sent which speak to others pretending to be sent of God but walking contrary to all that ever God sent to declare his Name in former generations and so are known to us by their fruits having no example from the Prophets Christ nor his Apostles for their practice but do walk in the example of the false prophets of Israel of the scribes and pharisees and of the false brethren O foolish people which have eyes and see not which have hearts and do not understand Is the Lord changed from what he was Were they false prophets and deceivers in Isaiahs time which he was sent to cry out against which sought for their gain from their Quarter and are not your teachers false prophets now which act the same things were they false prophets deceivers in Ezekiels time which he was sent to cry against that fed themselves with the fat and clothed themselves with the wool and made a prey upon the people and are not your teachers false prophets and deceivers now which act the same thing Were they false prophets in Micahs time which he was sent to cry out against which preached for hire and divined for money and cryed peace to them that put into their mouths but prepared war against them that did not and are not your priests false priests and prophets which act the same things VVere they deceivers of the people in Christs time which he cryed woe against which were called of men Masters and which had the chief place in the assemblies and which stood praying in the synagogues and which went in long robes and which loved greetings in the markets and are not your teachers deceivers of the people now which are found acting the same things VVere they false teachers and false brethren in the apostles time which they declared against which through covetousness with feigned words made merchandise of the people and went in the way of Balaam for gif●s and rewards and preached for filthy lucre and which Paul saw come and coming in his dayes which were proud men covetous men self-willed and fierce men heady high minded men having a form of godliness but denying the power which alwayes taught people but none were able to come to the knowledge of the truth under their teaching and are not your teachers false teachers now who walk in the same steps To the light in all consciences I do speak which wil witness the truth a sottish and ignorant people which cannot discern who the false prophets and deceivers and false teachers are the Lord is the same as ever he was and his spirit is no whit changed VVas it once an abomination to the Lord in the false pries●● and prophets of Israel to seek for their gain from their quarter and to feed themselves with the fat and clothe themselves with the wool and make a prey upon the people to preach for hire and to divine for money and are not these things and they that uphold them abomination to him now Did the spirit of the Lord in his servants declare against these things then and against them that upheld them then and must not the same spirit where it is made manifest declare against these things and against them that uphold them now VVas it once an abomination in the sight of Christ in them to be called of men master and to have the chief places in the assemblies and to stand praying in the Synagues c. and are not these things an abomination to him now in whom they are upheld Did Christ cry vvoe against such things and against them that upheld them then and must not the spirit of Christ where it is made manifest cry wo against such things and against them that uphold them now were these marks of false teachers then to make merchandise of the people and to go in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards and for filthy lucre and to be proud covetous heady ●●gh-minded self-willed and fierce men and are not they 〈◊〉 teachers now which bear these marks Did the Apo●●les give warning to beware of such and to turn away from 〈◊〉 then and must not the same spirit where it is made ma●ifest give warning to beware of such and to turn away from 〈◊〉 now We witness to have received according to measure the spirit of the Prophets from which they spoke and the spirit of the Apostles from which they spoke which is Christ made manifest in us and happy are all they that receive our testimony For by the same Spirit of Christ do we declare against these abominations now as the holy men of God did then for God and his Spirit is the same as ever was and what he once hated he hates for ever and no other Christ do we declare forth which we witness to be made manifest within but that Christ which dyed at Jerusalem which suffered by the chief priests and Elders of the people he was and is the true Christ which said he was the light of the world and was the Light which had enlightned every one that comes into the world and which said Except a man would deny the world and take up his daily cross and follow him he could not be his disciple and which cried wo against them which were called of men masters and that had the chief places in the assemblies and that stood praying in the Synagogues c. and they who denyed him to be the light of the world and which took not up the cross and

which were called of men masters and had the chiefest places in the assemblies and stood praying in the synagogues and went in long robes these were Anti-christs and were acted by a contrary spirit then the true Christ And here again I charge all the teachers and people in the presence of the Lord God who deny Christ to be the light in every one which reproves for sin and who are called of men masters and stand praying in the synagogues and go in long robes and who uphold such things and who take not up the daily cross of Christ but live at liberty in their wills and desires that they are antichrists and that their spirit is not the spirit of the true 〈◊〉 which died at Jerusalem but the spirit of a false christ and so they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsly accuse us and the same Christ do we witness which the saints of old witnessed whose blood cleansed them from all sin and i● whose power they had power over sin death and hell And here again I charge the teachers and people who say that the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on the earth that the Christ which the● profess is not the Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but a ●●●●rit contrary and not the Christ which the Saints witnessed and all the people are blinde which cannot see these things Did the true Christ once say he was the light of the world of every man that comes into the world and is that his spirit in the teachers and professors now which saith Every man hath not the light of Christ in them was that the true Christ which said Except you take up my cross daily you cannot be my disciples and is that his spirit in the teachers people that hath its liberty live in pride in lust in vanity their own wills was that the true Christ which cried wo against them that were called of men master and that had the chief place in the assemblies and stood praying in the synagogues c. and is that his spirit in the teachers and people which act and uphold those things was that the true Christ which the saints witnessed by whose blood they were cleansed from sin and had power over sin and is that his spirit i● the teachers and people which saith the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are o● earth Oh blinde and ignorant people who cannot discer● between the true Christ and antichrist which is contrary to Christ which leads now to act and speak contrary to what the true Christ once acted and spoke and no other gospel do we preach but that which the apostle preached which they received not from nor by man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ which was contrary to man and which suffered by man for the preaching of it who preached to the spirit in prison to redeem the captives and by which the fleshly man was judged in the flesh that man might live according to God in spirit this Gospel we witness to have received not from man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ which is contrary to man for which we are persecuted and suffer by man neither do we speak to the wisdom and reason but we preach to the spirits in prison that the fleshly man may be judged in the flesh that man may live according to God in the spirit this will many witness with us that by the preaching of our Gospel liberty is brought to the captives and the fleshly man is judged and the spirit which was in prison is set free And here again I charge the teachers of this generation that their gospel which they preach is not the Gospel which the saints preached but another gospel they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsly accuse us for they have received their gospel from man and by man from the Printers and Stationers and are made ministers of it by the will of man at Schools and Universities and their preaching is in the will of man a limited time and place neither do they suffer by man but are set up with man and feeds the wisdom and reason of man and the fleshly man is not judged nor the captives redeemed by their gospel which they preach here they are accursed which preach another Gospel as saith the scripture And ye are a blinde and ignorant people which cannot see these things Did they that preached the true gospel receive it contrary to the will of man and can it now be received by the will of man Did they which preached it suffer for it by man and can they now who preach it be set up by man who lives in the same persecuting nature Did the true Gospel once judge the fleshly man and lead to live according to God in the spirit and doth it now give liberty to the fleshly man to live after the flesh in the lusts of it as the teachers and professors of this generation do who profess the Gospel but are discovered not to be come to the Law And the scriptures we own to be a true declaration of the Life which they lived in which spoke them forth and by the same spirit from which they were spoken which we have received do we set to out seals that they are true and the scripture is ours who wal● in the life of it proud men spoke it not forth nor they that sought for their gain from their quarter nor they that preached for hire nor they that were called of men master but persecuted them that spoke it forth and denied it when it was spoken And here again I charge it upon the teachers and professors of this generation that they deny the scripture and are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsly accuse us for they say None must be perfect upon the earth when as the scriture declares of such as were perfect upon the earth and they say None must be free from sin when as the scripture declares of such as were free from sin were the servants of righteousness ●hey say Christ hath not enlightned every one the scripture saith he is the light of the world and hath enlightned every one c. can they now who live in the same persecuting nature walk in the same steps as they did which persecuted them who spoke forth the scripture as the teachers and people do own the scriptures in truth their professing of the scripture is as theirs was which made a great profession of it in the outward appearance but put him to death who had the life and was the substance of it They then as the teachers of the world do now denyed the spirit and life which gave forth the scriptures And the Ordinances of Jesus Christ we own and witness preaching praying baptism communion singing and whatsoever was ordained for his saints to practice in