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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89634	The boasting Baptist dismounted, and the Beast disarmed and sorely wounded without any carnal weapon. In a reply to some papers, written by Jonathan Iohnson, of Lincolne, as an answer to a letter, sent him by Martin Mason, concerning some exceptions against several truths. / Published by a faithfull minister, not of the letter, but of the everlasting Gospel.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing M924; Thomason E877_2; ESTC R202884	14,536	17

be true Unction which is not received by the Letter had not Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the rest of the holy men of God who lived before Moses writ the Letter had not they I say the Spirit of Truth within them were there not many deceitfull Serpents filthy spirits like thine in their dayes and had they any outward writing given them as an infallible Rule to discover false spirits with was not the spirit of God in them the infallible Rule and sole Touch-stone for the tryall of spirits which were true which were false Did Paul and the rest of the Apostles receive the Spirit of Truth by vertue of hearing or reading any writings or books without them That which I brought out of 1 John 2. as to the Annointing stands unshaken and cannot be removed by all the Brats of Babylon does not John admonish them to keep to the Unction within which they had received does he bid them make his Epistle their Rule to walk by or could they have been seduced if they had kept to the Annointing within though Johns Epistle had not been sent to them Answer those quaeries Yet do I not deny but the Saints in their infancie are capable of good counsel and may admit of a leading by the hand let him that is confirmed strengthen his Brethren Thy carping at the spirits interpretation of 1 Joh. 4.1 2 3. shews the blindness of the Babylonian He who can make a good Confession and give a good account of Christ Jesus in his own fleshly Tabernacle he is of God this Exposition cannot by the Serpents subtilty be shaken as for the Pope both him and thee I do deny abominable lyars are you both he is thy brother though thou bawls against him you are both servants to one Master the man of sin he denies Christ come in the flesh of his Saints and so dost thou therefore Antichrists you both be it 's but the lyar that tels me my Master hath not commanded me to judge he whom thou boasts came not to judg the world but to save the world sayes in the next words He that rejecteth me and receiveth not my word hath one that judgeth him and so hast thou for thou rejectest him he is my witness and he came not to bring Peace 1 Cor. 6.2 but a Sword to the man of sin whom thou servest But if the Saints shall not judge the world thou must make Paul a lyar like thy self And does not the Spiritual man judge all things and he himself is judged of no man But since thou art so much against judgement tell me by what authority dost thou judge me for an Enemy of Righteousness with a deal of such like Antichristian Rubbish which reaches me not why dost thou judge those people called Dippers calling them the chief Princes of M●shech and Tuball saying they know no 〈◊〉 buriall of Christ but buriall in water And by what Authority dost thou judge the Priests of the Nation for Antichristians Answer those quaeries when thou writes again In one of thy Arguments thou shames not to affirm that the L●tter under the name of the words of Christ is Spirit and life in it self and in another of the same mettal for they both come from one Mint and have both but one Father thou concludes the Spirit of God in the Apostles who were Saints is the Rule to try and discovery of false spirits and then falls to thy old vain of boasting that this Argument I cannot deny in any part but indeed the man is so accustomed to lye that 't is a 〈◊〉 matter for him to speak true Say Ionathan when did I deny that the spirit of God in the Apostles while they lived upon earth was their Rule for them to try and discover false spirits does not my Letter speak the same Language but did not the spirit of God in them at their death return to God that gave it them wouldst thou have me be as sottith as thy self to say and unsay and own their writings to be the spirit of God but I have little pleasure to take thus in thy Dung-hill only 't is my desire the weak may not be wooryed by but beware of such Foxes and Wolves in sheeps clothing Thou charges me for a lyar for saying thou owns the Letter to be the Rule but one thing is I need not go far to fetch my proof thou hast given it under thy own hand in these words See thy Reply to the 12th Position Therefore the Scriptures are the sure and infallible Rule to try the Spirits whether they be of God or no yet for all this and thy other argument wherein thou calls them spirit and life in it self under the name of the Words of Christ thou calls them twice in this following argument of thine the dead Letter He that desires to be tryed by the true Touch-stone the infallible Rule the living Principle of God the Light of Christ in the Saints consciences the Spirit of truth and would not be tryed by the dead Letter his spirit is of God he 's guided by the spirit of Promise but Jonathan Johnson desires to be tryed as abovesaid not by the dead Letter therefore his spirit is of God he 's guided by the Spirit of Promise Thus thy charge is soon taken of and the lyar found lodging in thy own bosom how hath the Heathen raged and cast forth his Floods of indignation against me for calling the Declaration a dead Letter and yet speaks the same several times in this argument Didst thou not cry up the letter to be the in-let to the spirit of promise bid me leave my false luminary yet here owns the light of Christ in the conscience to be the spirit of truth surely the man thought he might say unsay as he list and took me to be as very a for as himself or else hath a very weak memory and that 's very bad for so great a lyar as he is I did never read grosser contradictions to my knowledge then have dropt from the pen of this painted Pagan And yet for all this folly confusion he must needs give me another rotten reed of AEgypt as it were for a farewel in an argument the substance whereo● is thus They who were Master-builders c. must needs be the true Touch-stone but the Apostles were Master-builders c. whom M. M. denies to be tryed by calling their preaching and teachings dead and lifeless therefore his spirit is the spirit of error What a forgetful or wilful lying Beast is this did he not but even now a little before in his other Argument say that he himself desired to be tried by the light in the Saints consciences and not by the dead letter and ye● taxes me with the spirit of error for the same thing O blush and be ashamed But for further answer According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise Master-builder I have laid the

so The Lord rebuke thee for the delight of my soul is in the Light of the world Christ Jesus wouldst thou have me now that I am washed to return again to my wallowing in the myre When thou writes again if that be thy meaning say so man The Leopard cannot change his spots and 't is hard for thee to leave thy lying Thou sayes I kill the Scriptures Yet the Scriptures I own for they are serviceable can that which is dead be killed Dost not thou in two severall places call the Scriptures a dead Letter and still runs on in thy lying saying I am forced to run for shelter to those I account my enemies who knows thou sayes no other buriall with Christ but buriall in water calling them the chief Princes of M●shech and Tuball As for the men thou means viz. those called Dippers they are of age let them answer for themselves if they be not enemies to the Cross of Jesus Christ I shall not count them enemies to me but how canst thou prove that I run to them for shelter is it because I speak of thy sprinckling I never made any of them my Oracle therein Thou sayes I bid thee prove whether Christ commanded baptism to his Disciples yea or nay and did the Lord require it of his people to this day What an abominable lye besides Non-sence hast thou vented in two lines My words are these Is thy sprintling with water the baptism of Christ Iesus yea or nay Did the Lord command that to his Disciples yea or nay And does the Lord require it of his people to this day I did never read nor know of one that pretends to more Piety then thou does that ever excell'd or equall'd thee in thy devillish art of lying a notable Servant thou art to thy Master and sure thou art to receive thy Wages Rev. 21.8 For the simples sake I shall peruse those Scriptures thy Father sends thee with to fight for his Kingdom Matt. 28.19 20. Act. 2.38.41 42. but I finde not sprinckling with water there nor so much as the word water Nor does Acts 22.16 make for thy purpose where 't is said Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the Name of the Lord Is sprinckling with water once mentioned in this place Or did Ananias bid him be baptized with outward Water Or could outward Water wash away Sauls sins Answer those quaeries without a lye if thou canst As for Acts 10.47 48 is it not clear the Holy Ghost was received without outward Water then where 's the necessity of sprinckling or dipping Does not thy next Acts 8.36 37. intimate that it is but a thing indifferent if thou beleevest saith Philip thou mayest as much as if he had said if thou beleeves outward water to be necessary to salvation thou mayest be baptized did he not rather choose to cherish then destroy the weak faith of the Eunuch The last Proof thou claps in is no better then the rest They were all baptized both men and women but Water is wanting Therefore cease vain Jangler for without adding to the Letter these places are not for thy purpose Iohn was a Prophet therefore his Ministration must end in Christ Jesus who is the fulfilling of the Law and the Prophets Some of the Apostles used circumcision in the flesh had they a command from Christ for so doing or was it not upon permission why dost thou not as well plead for and practise the one as the other is not their authority of an equall purity both by permission not by precept In thy Reply to the 7th Position I finde thee so puzled touchig Perfection that thou gives me no Answer to what I sent thee but would shuffle me off bringing Iam. 3.2 But does he plead against Perfection as thou dost does he not say in the same verse if any man offend not in words the same is a perfect man the Scriptures were never writ that the Devill by them should plead for sin Thou brings in Rom. 7.18 where Paul sayes I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing From hence thou would infer that in Paul there dwelt nothing that was good But wilt thou say the Holy Ghost is not good was not Paul filled with the Holy Ghost if it were as thou would infer then away with Pauls Epistles and by consequence with the rest of the Scriptures for they were all writ from one Spirit If there was nothing good in Paul then Paul must needs be a Seducer of the people VVhen we were in the flesh sayes Paul in the unregenerate condition the motions of sin did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death but now we are delivered from the Law that we should serve in newness of Spirit not in the oldness of the Letter And Rom. 8.8 9. They that are in the Flesh cannot please God but ye are not in the Flesh yet they were alive upon earth but in the Spirit That of Phil. 3. is to thee a mystery therefore Babler be silent the Tree thou feeds on is accursed Thy piece of Lodgick shews what a Pagan thou art That which is subject to mortality loss and change and mistakes is not perfect thou sayes But mans humane state in it self is subject c. therefore mans humane state is not perfect Where dost thou read this language of mans humane state in all the Scripture Consider of this in the cool of the day that which is born of the Flesh is Flesh but that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit is that subject to mortality loss and change that which is born not of blood nor of the will of man but of God that doth not commit sin that cannot sin because 't is born of God 1 Ioh. 3.9 Now because thou art so silent to what I sent thee concerning Perfection I here return thee some few things which my Letter mentions as to that Must the devill have power over thee while thou lives to make thee his vessel to do his will and work here on earth and dost thou hope to have Heaven for thy wages when thou dyes Knows thou not as the tree falls so it lyes and the wages of sin is death And is not the tabernacle of God with men Rev. 21. Does not the Lord say I wil dwel in them and walk in them c. is not this done upon earth Does not the Lord delight to save his people from their sins Does he justifie and not sanctifie his people does he forgive sins and not give power over sins what is the end of the Lords being present with his people and in his people but sheild them from sin and Satan and to keep them pure without spot or wrinckle who are willing to be guided by him And when thou writes again either confess or deny the Truth in thy Answer to those Quaeries But why dost thou deny that to be the true Spirit or that to