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A Return to the priests about Beverley for their advisement.
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A Return to the Priests ABOUT BEVERLEY For Their ADVISEMENT I Having received a printed Book which is full of untruths and lyes come out of the generation of Lyars and Serpents and full of subtilty and treachery to deceive the simple with their Witchcraft and Sorcery But God hath discovered your design and he will gather his Sheep and Lambs from your mouths and you shall no more devour them The Lord is come and coming to teach his people by his Spirit and hath poured forth his Spirit and doth pour it forth that his Sons and Daughters begin to prophecy and do which makes the Teachers of the world to rage who never heard a word from the Lord but speak a divination of their own brain which the Lord is altogether against who have lived in the form of the letter and not in the Power men of corrupt minds to resist the truth as Iannes and Iambres did 2 Tim. 3.8 When the Children of Israel were to come out of Egypt they resisted as they did in the time of the Apostles who had the form but are reprobate concerning the faith So it is now with the worldly Teachers who are made Ministers by the will of man do resist the Truth now as they did having the Form denying the Power for the Power brings out of darkness out of Egypt out of Pride and Oppression and shakes the Earth and cleaves the Rocks and throws down the Mountains and makes the seed to come forth which is the marvellous Work of the Lord which makes the Heathen to rage and full of fury to see the wondrous Works of the Lord brought forth The Title of the Book is A faithful Discovery of a treacherous Design of mystical Antichrist displaying Christs Banners but attempting to lay waste Scriptures Churches Christ Faith Hope c. and establish Paganism in England containing an Examination of many Doctrines of the People called Quakers in York-shire together with a Censure of their Way and several Items concerning the design of God Satan and Man These things recommended to the consideration of them who are in good earnest for Christ Friends Your printed Papers are considered and weighed with them that love Christ and they are found false and you to be Lyars uttering forth your unfaithful Dâ—scovery for you are the mystical Antichrist which you speak of and your design is treacherous and found false and weighed in the Ballance and found too light And as touching laying waste Scriptures it is your own condition take it to your shame for the Scripture saith Thou shalt not lye there you lay waste Scripture and are blind and cannot see but are false Accusers and accuse men falsly and found Lyars and the Scriptures are fulfilled upon you The Scriptures we own are ours and stand for and own to be fulfilled and fulfilling in us but all you that make a Trade of the Scriptures which were spoken forth freely such are slanderers of Christ and his Church and lay waste Scriptures and both establish Paganism in England and have established it who know not God nor his Church but have called a Steeplehouse a Church and sprinkling Infants their Baptism which they baptize into their Faith into their Church which there is no Scripture for Now all people see if this be not laying waste Scripture and establishing Popery which God never commanded and to the establishing of this mystical Antichrist which hath long stood but now God is coming to throw it down and unestablish it Are not those Antichrists who walk contrary to Christs Commands and term themselves to be Ministers of Christ who walk out of his steps Christ Jesus when he spoke to the multitude and to his Disciples he said By their fruits ye shall know them They are called of men Masters and have the chiefest places in the Assemblies lay heavy burdens upon the people stand praying in the Synagogues devouring widows houses But Christ forbids these things and bids his Disciples not to be so but cryed Wo against them And such are established in the Land now who would dethrone Christ if they could And you are in that same generation which was ever against Christ and as the Scribes and Pharisees who would have dethroned him and never could own him in that nature you dwell in who gave forth these printed Papers And as touching Faith and Hope we do deny that which holds up such things as Christ doth forbid which is no faith nor no hope but of the hypocrites which shall perish and all such hope was ever denyed with the Elect Faithful And the worlds Church do we deny which is a house of stone but faith which is the gift of God we own which purifies the heart which faith is but one and who are of faith are of Abraham and this we witness to be fulfilled and not denyed And Hope that purifies the heart we own but the hope of the hypocrites we deny which saith He must live in sin so long as he is here and doth not purifie that we deny The Church of God we own which is the Pillar and Ground of Truth which Christ hath purchased with his own blood which is without spot or blemish But as to call a Steeplehouse a house of stone a Church is blasphemy and you that do so lay waste Scripture for the Church is in God 1 Thes 1.1 And Christ did not come to redeem a Steeplehouse nor to hold up such things but to redeem his people from such things that be carnal which you Pagans now establish And as touching that we deny Christ it is false it is your own conditions for read Matth. 23. and there you may see your own conditions walking in their steps which Christ forbids Pharisee-like and such are Antichrists and there you shew your selves to be Antichrists in the mystery of iniquity being called of men Masters when Christ forbids to call any man Master or to be called of men Master But that Christ we own who cryed Wo unto them which were called of men Masters and had the chiefest places in the Assemblies and the uppermost rooms at Feasts and greetings and salutations in the Markets which the Lord Jesus Christ cryed Wo against and taught his Disciples not to be so But all such as hold up these things which Christ forbids we deny which he did deny Praised be the Lord God who hath given us the light to see your abominations and led us from your snares which causeth you mischievous men to vent forth your mischief against the Truth and utter forth your folly but as Solomon saith so are fools known who are at Beverley but God Almighty be praised who hath given us a sight to see your deceits and to comprehend you who are deceived and would deceive but your formal ways are layd open and your shame and nakedness doth appear and to us it is very serviceable that you have put your folly in print and do publish it abroad who are
is enlightening and hath enlightened his with the glorious Gospel which light was before the letter was and the Lord is coming to make your Kingdom dark who have set us Queens and seen no sorrow Now your desolation is coming therefore your folly and madness you are venting forth And as you say Wherefore Solomon did apply his hearts to know Wisdom and the Wickedness of folly and madness so Christians are not to be discommended who do endeavor to know mistical errour of the New Antichristians which are risen up amongst us This wisdom is made manifest to the Church of God whereas Solomon did apply his heart to know Wisdom we do witness Solomons word and the wickedness of your folly and madness to us is discovered so such Christians are not to be discommended who have put on Christ and stand armed against your wills and deceits who do endeavor to know and do know the mistical error of your new Antichristian Religion which is the old Antichrist which is risen up amongst us that they may avoyd them God hath enlightened his Saints so that the true light shines in them that your spirit is known to be the mistical spirit of error being in the way of Balaam you come to be denyed with them whom God hath raised and such you blaspheme who are the Temples of God and so the Scripture is fulfilled The Beast shall blaspheme God and his Temple And you who have written your complaint abroad and put it in print and say Some are risen up amongst you God hath raised up a feed those ways which you cannot destroy with all your bestical power And as you desire That they may be furnished with abilities to declare against them and the pains and labors of such are worthy commendations who by their Tongues and Pens do endeavor to lay open the Ridles and misteries of Satan and his Instruments Here you deceivers have contradicted your selves instead of giving commendations you give railing false Accusations upon them who are furnished with abilities to declare against you and the pains and labors of such who lay open your Ridles and the mystery of Satan which rules you and his Instruments unto discovery and hath discovered you to be both in Babylon and confusion that you may see it in papers and shall see it more and more amongst you Some write some speak some print according as they are furnished with the abilities which God hath given them to testifie against you who have long deceived the Nation and have been the Instruments of Satan standing up for his Kingdom but now the glorious light shines by which you are discovered And as you say Among whom these Brethren are to be justly and deservedly honored who have pithily solidly and Christianly discovered some of the Serpentine errors and delusions and mysteries of the Familists and Quakers In this here you Pharisees have justified your selves and would be honored for your pithiness solidity and Christianity as you call it but your madness and folly and unjust dealing is discovered and your Serpentine errors and delusions and mysteries which you accuse some of the Quakers of take it home and judg your selves for there you shall find it it is your own condition portion and condemnation all who are in the Light witness it with me And as you say These Brethren are to be justly honored Brethren you are but in the generation of the Pharisees which was ever against Christ as you have shewed by your consulting together against his Spirit where it is as the chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees did but all the righteous blood which hath been shed was by that generation wherein you live but wo is upon you who put light for darkness darkness for lâ—ght and evil for good but wo is upon you and upon all such who are covered but not with the Spirit of the Lord and stand not in his Counsel but follow after your own imaginations therefore have you uttered forth your lyes And as you say The blessing of him that dwelt in the Bush be upon the endeavors of these brethren and prosper this small Book which hath much in it for the battering of errour and the maintaining of truth according to Scripture which is the prayers of us who can subscribe our selves friends to all Saints whose names are these I find subscribed to this Advertisement Christopher Feaks Iohn Simpson George Cokain Lawrance Wise Whereas you speak The blessing of him who dwelt in the Bush to be upon the endeavors of these brethren and prosper their small Book Him ye know not who is the living God Moses which saw him was a Quaker and you scornfully deride such who are brought into his condition now and Judg with your dark minds and evil thoughts them to be in error so would ye do with Moses So the curses and plagâ—… and vengeance of God will fall upon these Brethren as you call 〈◊〉 who have uttered forth their lyes and their errors and that will come upon it in stead of prospering it which you say hath much in it for the beating down of Error and maintaining of Truth In it you have set up the spirit of lying and the spirit of Error as in saying we deny Christ and so in maintaining of that which is contrary to Truth which is a lying spirit According to Scriptures I have proved you for as the Scripture saith Lyars are without God And as you say which is the prayers of us who can subscribe our selves friends to all Saints The prayers of you Lyars are the prayers of the wicked which are an abomination to God And whereas you mention Saints They are ashamed of your practises of your lyes errors and blasphemies nor cannot subscribe to you nor none of your friends Friends the Saints may call you as Christ did Iudas and him that had not the wedding garment who must go into utter darkness and thither you are to go who are false accusers and slanderers so the Scripture is fulfilled upon you who have wrested and perverted them And so much for your Advisement FINIS