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A78608	The deceived, and deceiving Quakers discovered. Their damnable heresies, horrid blasphemies, mockings, railings, unparallel'd deceit, and dishonestly laid open. In the discovery of which, is made known the pure use of the holy scriptures (which by them is denyed) the true Christ, and how he justifies, his second coming proved not to be already (as the Quaker affirms) also the resurrection from the dead, and the eternal judgement, and several other particulars that saints are required to be stedfast in. / Set forth especially for the good of those that are called out of the world, into the primitive order of the Gospel, but may be usefull for all people. By Matthew Caffyn a servant of the Lord, related to the Church of Christ near Horsham in Sussex, being an eye, and ear-witnesse. As wee have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists, whereby we cannot but know that this is the last of the last time. Antichrist made known. Or, The Romish vvhore of Babylon proved not to bee the Antichrist, or man of sin, in seven particulars. 1 Who is this great whore of Babylon, and where her chief seat hath been, and is. 2 Her fall, and the means how and by whom. 3 What is the spirit of Antichrist, and who hath that spirit. 4 That the Antichrist will bee a single person. 5 The manner of his rising, and when. ... 7 Lastly, his fall, when, and by whom. By William Jeffery servant of the Church of Christ. Entered into the register book, kept by the Company of Stationers.	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.; Jeffery, William, 1616-1693. Antichrist made known.	1656 (1656)	Wing C206; Wing J522; Thomason E873_2; ESTC R206563	72,973	85

Scriptures that Jesus was Christ is said MIGHTLY TO CONVINCE the Jews to which agrees Pauls direction to Timothy about Bishops signifying therein that he must be one able by SOUND DOCTRIN both to exhort and CONVINCE the gainsayers Tit. 1.1.9 according to which agrees the relation of the people dwelling at Jerusalem Act. 2.37 WHEN THEY HEARD THIS to with Peters powerfull preaching by the Spirit out of the Scriptures they were pricked at the heart thus was he a sower that went forth and went OUT to sow good seed into the hearts of men Luk. 8.5 but according to the sense of the Quaker the sower dwels in the ground the wicked world oh horrible confusion but it may be the Quaker will take some advantage because it is said a sower and not sowers but the wise will consider that there is no room in the least for an advantage against what here or elsewhere hath been said for by the parable of one lost sheep or one lost peece of silver Christ justifies his practice in companying with many Publicans and sinners Luk 15.1 2 4 8 therefore it follows not that Christ himself in men is the sower only though all is from him originally for the Apostles said 1 Cor. 9.11 WE have sown unto you spiritual things which they did in Christs STEAD 2 Cor. 5.20 Object Christ saith when the Spirit is come he shall reprove the World of sin of Righteousnesse and of judgement Joh. 16.8 Answ It is to bee observed that hee doth not say when hee is come in the World but having before verse 7. shewed the expediency of his going away said if I depart I will send him unto YOU that was his Disciples and when he is come that is to you for the World saith Christ CANNOT RECEIVE HIM Joh. 14.17 he shall reprove the World of sin by which Spirit when the Disciples had received it they went forth with all boldnesse and utterance plainly declaring the word of Truth perswading men OUT OF THE LAW OF MOSES AND OUT OF THE PROPHETS which was in Scripture from morning till evening Act. 28.23 with such power and wisdome as that the adversaries were not able to resist the Spirit by which THEY spake Act. 6.10 wherefore notwithstanding this objection I have not so learned Christ as to beleeve that the wicked hath this Spirit of promise dwelling in them when as Christ saith they CANNOT receive it what God may do by his Spirit for men at certain times especially where other means are wanting I here speak not against but against this conception of theirs viz. that the holy Spirit of God DWELS in all UNHOLY persons of the World as that which alone convinceth them of sin and of Righteousness Moreover saith Paul Rom. 3.20 by the Law is the KNOWLEDGE OF SIN yea that Law by the deeds of which no flesh shall be justified whereby the Apostle prevents the Quakers objection concerning his spirituall Law by which alone he saies men shall be justified and also saith Rom. 7.7 that he had not known sin but by the Law for saith he I had not known lust except the Law had said thou shalt not covet which Law he saith verse 6. they then were delivered from and verse 4. dead to James also being of the same Spirit told the Saints that in case they had respect to persons they would be by the Law the tenor of which was thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill CONVINCED as transgressors Jam. 2.9 10 11. yet saith Lawson the outward Law doth not convince man of sin and his reason is because Paul said that he was once alive without the Law not considering that persons in their childish and youthfull dayes which are vanity Eccles 11.10 may properly be said to bee without the Law though nurtured by them that have the Law whike they live in lusts coveting after every pleasant object of the eye not understanding the things of God but when the commandement comes to their understandings capable to comprehend such things then sin is revived and they dye and so remains till remission of sin is assured to them now in reference to those Gentiles that have not the written Law Paul saith that they HAVING NOT THE LAW marke that are a Law unto themselves which never was said to them or of them that had the written Law that is concerning such things as is held forth in the Law of Moses which saith the man that doth those things shall live by then Rom. 10.5 but the things relating to Faith in Christ we find was made known UNTO men by outward discoveries but something to this hath been already said The Quaker saith that the Scriptures are not a touchstone to try Spirits withall as saith Lawson in his book pa. 14. The summe of all concerning the Quakers esteem of the Scriptures is thus THEY OWN IT NOT A RULE WHEREBY THE WILL OF CHRIST MAY BE KNOWN NEITHER THAT WHICH SAINTS endued with the Spirit ARE TO PREACH FROM NEITHER THAT WHICH CONVINCETH OF SIN NEITHER THE TOUCHSTONE TO TRY SPIRITS WITHALL yet will they say that they own all the Scriptures from the beginning of Genesis unto the end of the Revelations but oh their shamefull deceit Now this last particular must needs be found short of truth because the Scriptures are found to be the rule now that which is the rule must needs be the tryer or touchstone to manifest unruly persons though it be true that there is a gift of the Spirit which discerns the unsound man yea by very slender appearances yet hereby is he not so to bee tryed as to be openly published and judged till some evident disobedience to the written Law and so by their fruits we must know them not he that saith Lord Lord or Light Light shall enter into the Kingdome but he that doth the will of the Father whose will is signified in the Scripture moreover when Christ had informed his Disciples of false Prophets and false Christs together with their works and sayings which should come hee said unto them take heed behold I have FORETOLD YOU ALL THINGS Mar. 13.23 ye that fear God consider how inexcusable we shall be found if when Christ hath so exprest his kindnesse in foretelling the danger and prescribing the manner of its appearance that we might escape it it I say we shall not take heed thereunto comparing the workings and sayings of men with this written Prophecy and so try the Spirits thereby have we not good ground to beleeve that these men are evilly disposed in that they refuse to come to the rule to be tryed what is not that to try men withall now which Christ will judge and try and judge men by in the last day the word that I have spoken saith Christ shall judge him in the last day Joh. 12.48 which word is witnessed to us in the Scripture but Lawson supposes this day to be now which is to try every mans work wherein the righteous

〈…〉 29. and upbraideth them with this qu●●● 〈…〉 have ye not read Mat 12.3 5. chap. 〈…〉 the will of Christ was that men should lear●●● 〈…〉 ●●●veries which if you seriously consider 〈…〉 blame in case they ought not to have learn●d 〈…〉 Scriptures which is said by Paul 2 Tim. 3 1● 〈…〉 for Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect THOROWLY furnished unto all good work all which Scripture is given by inspiration from God and so originally God is the Teacher of his people yea of all but as it is written 2 Cor. 5.20 God beseecheth you BY US in Christs STEAD Object The Spirit an internal Teacher saith the Quaker from that in Joh. 16.13 is that which is to lead into all truth Answ Christ indeed there speaks of the Spirits leading into all Truth but it is to be observed that it was spoken unto such as were so far before led into Truth by Christs personall preaching as that they were pronounced clean through the words which he had spoken unto them John 15.3 Wherefore in an especiall manner he there speaks of those many things which the Disciples then could not bear as is most plain verse 12. and besides the acts of the Disciples together with their directions sent to the Churches when they were led by this Spirit are left to us in Scripture yet wee may not deny but that the Spirit in whom he dwels is a Teacher evidently and particularly laying before the soul the privy deceit and evill inclinations of his heart and leading him to a mortification thereof he being waited upon and also revealing many other usefull things which unto the natural man is foolishnesse but judge Oh friends how far off this is from the Quakers purpose who exhorts all ignorant persons of the World whatsoever to depend upon a light within them when as Christ in plain words saith that the World CANNOT receive this Spirit whereof we speak John 14.17 the promise thereof so as to dwell with a soul as a comforter being to obedient beleeving persons Act. 2.38.5.32 John 14.15 16. Ephes 1.13 even such as walk up in duty towards God according to the instruction of the holy Scriptures Oh how great then is the darkness of him that talks so much of the Light and counsels all to depend upon it alone which is contrary to the counsel both of Christ the true Light the Angel of God and the holy Apostles For when the Disciples inquired of Christ What sign there should be of his comming by which it is plain they distrusted that Light they had within he directs them not to a Light within but readily answers their desires to which agrees also the relation of Sauls conversion so also when Cornelius cryed out saying what is it Lord the Angel of God bid him send for Peter and HE should tell him what he ought to do Act. 10.4.5 6. so also when those that were pricked in heart said unto the Apostles what shall we do Act. 2.37 Peter directs them not to an internal Teacher but teaches them himself vers 38. Likewise when the Jaylour cryed out saying what must I do to he saved Paul and Silas neither directed him to a Light within but THEY spake unto him the Word of the Lord likewise when the Eunuch said how can I understand except some man guide mee Act. 8.31 Philip said not as the Quaker doth that the Light within is to guide into all Truth but himself began at the same Scripture and preached unto him Jesus consider I pray ye how fair an occasion in all these instances there was for such counsel namely to wait upon the Light within in case it had been the Lords pleasure so to teach men but we find another Doctrin and consider that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to day and for ever Wherefore be counselled not to bee carried about with DIVERS and STRANGE Doctrins Heb. 13.8 9. for this I affirm with all confidence that it is not to be found from the beginning of Genesit unto the end of the Revelations that either Christ or any of the holy men of God from the beginning of the Creation that did at any time counsel ignorant self-serving persons which had not been before enlightened within through outward teachings to wait upon a Light within them as the ONLY revealer of the Gospel Christ indeed gave this counsel to some that they should walk in the Light while they had the Light but they were such as were with Christ the Light and had heard him preaching the Kingdome of God often and had seen so many miracles done by him that John admires at their unbeleef John 12.37 wherefore this shelters not their opinion and so it remains naked an Heresy proceeding from the flesh which by reason of its pride would not submit unto the self-denying Laws of Christ but hath found out a way to passe by it even by turning the Scriptures into mysterious senses and so makes void many plain Truths of Christ by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour Jer. 23.27 which at the time of awaking will appear even to them to be a meer deceitfull dream proceeding from him who pretends himself an Angel of Light but greater is he that is in us than he that is in the World whereby the Quaker is discovered in his nakednesle and Christ the true Light of the World more and more gloriously made known unto us even him who is a Light indeed not as John who was a shining Light to Israel only but the glory of Israel and a Light to lighten the Gen●les also Luk. 2.32 being for salvation unto the ends of the earth a Light that lighteth every man that com●●●● the World from whence the Quakers would gather that Chr●●● the Light is within all as their ●nly seacher but P●●l 〈◊〉 Barnahas being of another spirit gathers 〈◊〉 thing eve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thence saing A● 13.46.10 we turn to the Ge●tiles or so 〈◊〉 ●ord ha●● com a●●ded us saying I have set 〈…〉 Light o● the Gentiles verse 47 So far were they from beleev●●● thence that 〈◊〉 ●as the alone Teacher in men that they conc●●●●● 〈…〉 ●he Gentiles in Christs STEAD 2 Cor. 5.20 yet will 〈◊〉 say ●●at●●●y have the same Spirit which the Apo●●●●s●●a●● judge y●● hat●●● wise Object The Children of the New Test●● 〈◊〉 not t●●●every man his Brother saying Kn●w the Lord 〈◊〉 the ●moi●ting ●●●●●th them all things so that they need not that any man ●each th●●● ha●●●●●●e Law written in their hearts Answ Abrahams seed with whom the old C●●enan was made was Children thereof by generation which Pa●l al●egorically sets ●orth by the bond-woman and 〈◊〉 even I●hmae who was born after the slesh and being so in covenant they had need to be taught to know the Lord but the children of this more glorious administration are not so accounted of but otherwise even by regeneration and

Deut. 11.18 after which means he said and well he might that the Commandement which I command thee is not hidden from thee but is in thy mouth and in thy heart wherefore still it remains that the Lord in all Ages did teach men through outward discoveries and not that they were led into all truth by a light within them as the only revealer of the Gospel as saith the Quaker and so he is tried and sound to have spoken contrary to the Law and Testimony wherefore I conclude that it is because there is no light in them though they so much talk of light The Quaker saith That the Scriptures are not a rule whereby men may know the Will of Christ as often they have spoken being prest to it and as appears in Tho. Lausons Book called The untaught Teacher pag. 6 7 8. wherein he repearts my saying That the Scriptures doth so farre reveal the minde of God and Christ to a Creature as that hee walking up to its revelation to his lives end with a single heart should be saved this I say he repeats and publishes as great Heresie God who at sundry times and divers manners spake unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son who in his own person while personally upon earth instructed the sons of men exhorting them to repent and turn from sin pronouncing them everlastingly blessed that so did and followed him unto whom he particularly revealed his Will Mat. 5 6 7. chap. saying that he was a wise man building upon a rock that heard his sayings and did them and that he was a foolish man that heard his sayings and did them not which plainly shews that the words of Christ proceeding from himself was a rule to lead persons then in the way of Salvation and so is made good that saying Heb. 2.3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation which at the FIRST began to be spoken by the Lord Jesus afterward his Disciples took in hand to set forth in order a Declaration by writing of those things which Christ had spoken unto them which was most surely beleeved by them Luke 1.1 Acts 1.1 to whom he shewed himself alive after his Passion being seen of them forty days speaking of the things per●aining to the Kingdom of God vers 3. who also went forth after his ascension into the Nations an spreached that Word of Truth unto them which was FIRST spoken by the Lord to themselves teaching them to ob●erve ●ll ●h●●g● whatsoever Christ had commanded them according to 〈◊〉 commission Matth. 28.20 God also bearing them w●●●●s● w●●●●ig●● Miracies and divers girts of the Holy Gho●t Heb. 2 3. th●●●g● which n●ny obtained like precious faith with the Ap●●tles 2 Pet. ●● W●●● A●ts of the Apostles Luke also signifi●●●● 〈…〉 writing ●y all which Scriptures together with the ma●●●● 〈…〉 unto the persons thus converted the preach●● 〈…〉 made man●●●st and by the Scriptures of the Prop ●●t 〈◊〉 to the Commandement of God made know 〈◊〉 Nations 〈…〉 obedience of faith Rom. 1● 25 26. whe●●●●ore 〈◊〉 was cou●● 〈◊〉 ●●OBILITY in the m●n of Berea because 〈…〉 daily whether those things were so 〈…〉 ●●h●d which indeed had been a very igno●●● ●●sig●●● 〈…〉 of them had not the Scriptures been as a r●l● 〈…〉 know the truth of what was preached as it appears 〈…〉 it is said that therefore many of 〈◊〉 ●●eeve● 〈◊〉 7. ● 12. ●or which cause Christ bids the Jew ●earch●● Scrip●ure● saving That if they had beleeved the Scriptures ● ●oses th●y 〈◊〉 I have to beleeved on him Joh. 5.39.46 ●7 t● w●om 〈…〉 T●●t if they beleeved not in him the w●rds which he spake which are now in Scripture should judge th●m at the ●●●t day Jo. 12 4● 48. And saith Paul Sylvanus and ●●morh●us 〈◊〉 a●y man obey not OVR word by this Epistle which was ●●criou●● 〈◊〉 that man and have no company with him that he ●ay be ●h●ned now that the disobedience to the Scriptures should render men subjects of so great shame in this ●●fe and that 〈◊〉 the last day Christ should also judge them by it even the words which he hath spoken and yet not a rule now to walk by is altogether incredible the ways of God being just●and righteous altogether will might the Quaker be ashamed were he not given over to beleeve Lyes while hee affirms that the Scriptures is not a rule whereby to know the Will of Christ since Luke signifies no other end in his writing in order a Declaration of the sa●ings and loings of Christ but that the CERTAINTY THEREOF MIGHT BE KNOWN Luke 1.1 3 4. These are written that yee MIGHT BELEEVE Joh. 20.31 wherefore saith Christ O fools and slow of heart to beleeve all that the Prophets have spoken Oh then let us be wise like the holy men of old who esteemed the Scriptures holy in reference to the use thereof able to make MEN WISE TO SALVATION through faith which is in Christ it being profitable for Doctrin which in English is teaching for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may bee perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3.15 16 17. yea so great was their respect to the Scriptures that though Peter was an eye witness of the Majesty of Christ in his Transfiguration upon the Mount wherein was presented the manner of his comming yet saith he We have a MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY that was in the Scripture as appears 2 Pet. 1.16 17.19 20. whereunto O friends we shall do well if wee take heed for whatsoever was written afore time was written for our LEARNING that we through patience and COMFORT of the Scriptures might have hope Rom. 15.4 Obj. The Scripture is not the rule saith Lawson for no man can come to the Son except the Father draw him and no man can come to the Father but by the Son Ans Gods way to draw men is by the cords of his great love manifested in Christ which the servants of Christ in Christs stead are to publish to the Nations perswading men thereby to bee reconciled to God and this is saith Paul as though GOD DID BESEECH YOU BY US 2 Cor. 5.20 the Saints indeed are said to be the called of God but saith Paul BY OVR GOSPEL 2 Thess 2.14 so also it is said of the Corinthians That they were called of God 1 Cor. 1.9 yet saith Paul In Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel I have espoused you to one husband 1 Cor. 4.15 2 Cor. 11.2 and so it is that as God did speak unto the Fathers BY THE PROPHETS so now by his Servants in Christs stead who are to minister by his Spirit that which was FIRST spoken by the Lord himself Heb. 2.3 who spake not of himself but what God the Father commanded him and so it was that the Saints to their commendation received the words of the Apostle not as

of nature and in many the spirit of errour their light being become darknesse being delivered up to strong delusion to beleeve lyes thinking they have Christ in them when it is a spirit of errour and so pervert the sense of the Scriptures declaring the anointing and the anointed to be all one teaching up the Spirit of Christ apart from the body of Christ to be the Christ or rather the spirit of errour in them to be the Christ come in their flesh and so in a very deceivable secret way deny Christ come in the flesh in saying he is the Christ that is within them which is an evill spirit so applying the Scriptures that speak of the Spirit of Christ dwelling in men to be that evill spirit in them so declaring that Spirit of errour in them apart from the body or flesh of Christ to bee the Christ and so deny Christ come in the flesh but note well what the Scripture of truth saith they declare that Jesus the Christ was slain Act. 2.22 23. chap. 3. 5. chap. 4.10 in chap. 5 30. Peter who was ful● of the Holy Ghost saith the God of our Fathers hath raised up Jesus whom ye SLEW and HANGED on a tree and Paul saith to the Corinth 1 Cor. 15.3 4. first of all I delivered unto you that which I received how that CHRIST DYED FOR OVR SINS according to the Scriptures and that he was BVRIED and that he AROSE the third day according to the Scriptures so it is plain that the Spirit apart from the body or flesh of Christ is not the Christ And therefore again note what Paul saith 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one God and one Mediatour BETWEEN God and man which is the MAN Christ Jesus and Heb. 10.10 sheweth that the Hebrews were sanctified by the offering of the BODY of Jesus Christ verse 19 20. seeing therefore Brethren that by the BLOOD of Jesus we may be bold to enter into the holy places by the new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the veil that is his FLESH So that Jesus that was baptized of John in the River Jordan was anointed with the oyl of gladnesse above his fellows Mat. 3.13 16. Psal 45.7 so Jesus the Saviour is the anointed of God for he gave him not the Spirit by measure Joh. 3.34 and so the Spirit of the Lord resteth and abideth upon the MAN Christ Jesus Isa 11.2 Jo. 1.32 so then the Spirit of God or of Christ apart from the BODY of Christ is not the Christ Therefore most abominable is that which men say that that which is in them is Christ when it is a spirit of errour and so men may see how through this mystery of iniquity men come to say they are Christ for consider if the spirit in some man be the Christ what hindreth him to say hee is Christ and therefore some one presumes to say hee is Christ let no man mistake mee for I say that the Spirit of God doth dwell in the Saints and that Christ doth dwell in their hearts by faith but note that faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 so the just live by faith and look for the Son of God from Heaven whom he raised from the dead even Jesus that delivereth us from the wrath to come but to return so as to shew yet further who hath the spirit of Antichrist and they are such as race out the Ordinances of Christ which came in being when Christ came in the flesh and so declare Christ come in the flesh dead and risen again as baptism of water and breaking of bread which doth declare the Lords death till he comes 1 Cor. 11.26 Rom 6.3 4. Col. 2.12 now there are a sort of men which say to know or acknowledge Christ in the practice of those Ordinances is formall and fleshly and low and carnal and so reject the Counsel of God and will not be baptized and so not walking up in the Ordinances that did come in being when Christ came in the flesh and do so excellently declare him come in the flesh and are to continue unti●l Christ come from Heaven and change our vile bodies and make them like his most glorious body Phil. 3.20 21. I say those that do slight and reject those ordinances and say they are formall and will not practice them have the spirit of Antichrist and do deny Christ come in the flesh because they will not practice those ordinances that declare Christ come in the flesh yea more fully than the Whore for shee hath a shew and so a remembrance of those Ordinances though she have changed the subject and the manner as aforesaid but THESE root out the very being of them and so deny Christ come in the flesh and so are discovered to have the spirit of Antichrist also those that have been inlightened and have beleeved the Resurrection of the body and also the eternal Judgement and then come to question it and deny it and say the Judgement day is come have the spirit of Antichrist for Christ being put to death in the flesh and rising again from the dead so bringeth in the Resurrection of the bodyes of all men and then cometh in the eternal Judgement according to that in Act. 17.30 31. hee hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the World in Righteousnesse by that MAN whom he hath appointed whereof he hath given assurance to all men in that he hath raised him from the dead so as by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead for as in Adam all dye so in Christ shall all bee made alive but every man in his own order the first fruits is Christ afterwards they that are of Christ at his comming 1 Cor. 15.21 22 23. so Christ being come in the flesh the MAN Christ Saviour dyed and rose again and so comes in the Resurrection and no otherwise therefore they that deny the Resurrection of the body deny Christ come in the flesh and so have the spirit of Antichrist and therefore John writing to the Saints warning them that they take heed of the Antichristian spirit that they be not deceived exhorteth them thus let that therefore abide in you which you have heard from the beginning if that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father 1 Joh. 2.24 read also for this purpose the whole chapter Now that which they heard from the beginning was the beginning Word of Christ according to that of Paul 1 Cor. 15.3 4. which he delivered first of all to the Corinthians that Christ dyed for our sins according to the Scripture c. and the first principles of the word of God which is the principles of the Doctrin of Christ to wit repentance from dead works and of faith toward God the Doctrin of Baptismes and laying on of hands

Swine feeding upon husks thou Cain killing thy brother Abel thou Drunkard thou Thief thou Murtherer thou Serpent the Curses Plagues and Vengeance of God is thy portion and saith Lawson in his Book against me Thou Image-maker thou Cockatrice hatching Eggs Vultures eye and this because I said Christ was ascended with that body that God raised from the dead thou Heathen because I said the will of Christ was made known by the Scriptures thou Lyar bundle of Lyes thou Esau selling thy Birth-right a Mate for the Night-birds Cormorants Bitterns Owls Ravens Dragons wild Beasts Satyrs Vultures Scritch-owles and this because I said that the Saints had not the Kingdom by possession but by promise and when they thus with fury and loftiness of spirit have pronounced Judgements I have endeavoured to moderate these raging waves but presently it is replied KNOW YEE NOT THAT THE SAINTS SHALL JVDGE THE WORLD sometimes also they endeavour to shelter themselves with the expressions of Christ and the Apostles but consider did ever Christ or any of his Apostles use such expressions to men for preaching up the Kingdom which is Saints reward as by promise nay himself did so and his Apostles also Luke 12.32 Jam. 2.5 or did they because men searched the Scriptures thereby to know the will of Christ Nay search the Scriptures saith Christ but indeed to the Jews and to Elimas the Sorcerer who had a long time before kicked against the counsel of the Lord and would not CEASE to pervert the righteous wayes of God to them they did SOMETIMES use some of those expressions which might be with a low Spirit delivered but what is this to justifie the Quakers raging against men that hold forth the counsel of God yea and that at the first dislike of their wayes yea and at all times when opposed nay rather is hee found to bee of that number that the Apostle prophesied of saying In the last dayes perillous times shall come for men shall be FIERCE 2 Tim. 3.3 their look being more STOUT THAN HIS FELLOWS Dan. 7.20 but render YE not evill for evill railing for railing but contrariwise be ye temperate of a good behaviour and HOLY IN ALL YOVR WAYES The Abominable Deceit of the Quaker discovered HOw far off the Ministry of the Quakers are from the Apostolicall Ministry who renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftinesse nor handling the Word of God deceitfully 2 Cor. 4.2 judge ye by these following lines though I question not but that many have experience of their deceit as well as I if you ask them whether they own the resurrection from the dead they will I say will except they be changed readily answer you that they do but means a present rising from a dead condition in sin whether they own a resurrection from the grave yea will they say we do but mean a rising from the grave of sin wherein living men now are whether they own a resurrection to come yea will they say we do but mean a rising from sin to come to OTHERS but when I have asked them whether they own a resurrection to come unto THEM then SILENT FLESH SILENT moreover as I said before so I say again that Thomas Lawson plainly said that all that goes into the grave shall never rise again which was written by his consent at my house yet notwithstanding in his book tells people that he owns the resurrection both of the just and unjust and calls mee slanderer for saying that hee denyed the Resurrection Now hee knows that wee and the major part of men own the resurrection of the bodyes of just and unjust men which are commtited to the graves of the earth but their meaning is the rising and being of the old corrupt nature in man which they call the resurrection of the unjust and the rising of Christ the Light in man as they say is the resurrection of the just which the Scripture speaks of and so they NOW witnesse both this have I been plainly told by one of them I speak the Truth in Christ O shamefull deceit If you ask them whether they own the coming of Christ they will answer you that they do but they mean his coming to others but when I have asked them whether they own Christ to come to THEM then SILENT FLESH SILENT but through importunity George Fox said that HE looked for him to come no otherwise the like will they say concerning the eternal judgement likewise when we speak of the Righteousnesse of God wrought through the person of Jesus as it was offered up they will say as Nayler hath said * Satans design diseovered pag. 4. that they own no other righteousnesse than that which was wrought IN the person of Jesus of Nazareth his suffering resurrection and ascension but they mean Righteousnesse wrought BY the Spirit IN that person and the sufferings of that Spirit IN that person whose resurrection is now within THEM * Naylers book called a salutation to the feed of God pa. 21. excluding all this while the effect wrought BY the Person of Christ offered up to death If you ask them whether they own justification by the blood of Christ they will answer yea but they mean blood mysteriously Whether hee died yea or nay they will say yea also to that but they mean death in a mystery for he that suffered saith Nayler * Satans design c. pa. 25. is NOW in his people leading them through sufferings himself now suffering with them If you ask them whether they beleeve that Christ hath now a body they will say yea but they mean his Church Whether he ascended into Heaven yea or nay they will say yea but saith Laucock Christ is ascended into Heaven WITHIN MEE At a certain time having reasoned with Lawson concerning Gods making of the earth on which we went and the Heaven above I asked him whether Gods presence was not more in Heaven than on earth to which he said yea but being suspicious of his deceit asked him whether he did not mean that he was more in heavenly-minded men than in earthly-minded men O then how did he shuffle consider ye that fear God whether this be not deceit for men to answer plain-meaning questions with such double-meaning expressions as may seem to agree with the judgement of him that asks and YET by the same words intend the contrary what is this the language of Canaan which they speak of nay surely deceit is of the deceiver TOUCH not the unclean thing for blessed are the PVRE in heart they shall see God The Dishonesty of the Quaker in contending for his Principles discovered IF dishonesty in and about the things of this life be odious in the sight of God and godly men what may bee said of men that shall defend yea unsound principles with impure dishonest indeavours and not only so but in the mean time advance themselves by their supposed pleaded-for perfection above the Saints

and of the Resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgement Heb. 5.12 chap. 6.1 2. now these principles of the teachings of Christ came in being by and through Christ being manifest in flesh his death and Resurrection as hath been shewed before therefore whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrin of Christ hath not God for he denyes Christ come in the flesh and so hee hath the spirit of Antichrist 2 Joh. 6.7 8 9 10 11 and so having in part declared what is the spirit of Antichrist and who hath that spirit I come now to the fourth thing which is that the Antichrist will bee a single person And for the proof of this first consider how the Antichrist is set out in Scripture in the singular number not in the plural as the MAN of sin 2 Thes 2.3 not men and Isa 14.16 is this the MAN that made the earth to tremble and did shake the Kingdomes the SON of the morning and SON of Perdition not Sons the vile person not persons Dan. 11.21 Isa 14.12 there fell a great Star from Heaven Rev. 8.10 chap. 9.1 not Stars Obj. This in Isa 14. was fulfilled in Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel of Chaldee Answer That cannot be for after this power that is there spoken of is faln the whole World is at rest and is quiet they sing for joy yea the Firre-trees rejoyce at thee and the Cedars of Lebanon saying Since thou art layd down no feller is come up against us vers 7 8. now the World did not injoy such a rest as is there spoken of so as that no Feller came up against the people of God no more for since the time of Nebuchadnezzar and that Monarchies fall there hath come up many fellers or destroyers of the Jews and the beleeving Gentiles as is clear that Antiochus and the Romans against the Jews and the Whore of Babylon against the Christians and again the Apostle in 2 Thoss 2. takes up the same words in substance and applies them to the Man of Sin which is the Antichrist therefore that in Isaiah cannot be fulfilled in Nebuchadnezzar for this compare Isa 14.13 14. with 2 Thess 2.4 though he might be a type of Antichrist 2 It appears that the Antichrist will bee but one man though many have his Spirit because it will suit best with his way of delusion for he will pretend he is the very Christ and will cause fire to come down from heaven on earth in the sight of men Rev. 13.13 and so he will indeavour to imitate Christ in all things for as the Lord Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that OBEY not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ so the Antichrist will make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men so he will endeavour to make all the Scriptures that speak of Christs coming and of his reign to meet upon him SO his coming will be after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved 2 Thess 2. 9 10. so as there is the MAN Jesus the Christ the Son of the living God which came in his Fathers Name Mat. 16.16 Joh. 5.43 without sin 1 Pet. 2.22 so there will be the MAN of Sin the Antichrist which will come in his own name and profess to be the Christ but will be directly an enemy against Christ and his people And so I come to the Fifth thing which is the manner of Antichrists rising and by what means for the clearing up of this First consider that the Gospel and the way thereof is to be purely preached and the Ordinances rightly administred and so the Angel is to fly in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People Rev. 14.6 and so the Gospel being preached to the Nations and the Ordinances administred in the good old way according to the Scriptures men come to be inlightned as many are in these Nations where the Kingly power is fallen that did support the Whore and would not give Liberty of Conscience so I say as the Gospel comes to be ministred in the old way thereof men come to bee inlightned the power of the Whore falleth and men slighting and rejecting the truth and also many of them that do receive and obey the truth fall and depart from the Faith and so receiving not the love of the truth that they might be saved for this cause God doth and will send them strong delusion that they should beleeve a lye 2 Thess 2.10 11. and so are given up to the Spirit of Antichrist and so as the Apostle Paul sheweth that the day of Christs coming shall not come except there come a falling away first and that Man of Sin be revealed the Son of perdition 2 Thess 1.7.8 chap. 2 3. and so the Spirit speaking expresly that in latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrins of Devils speaking Lyes in Hypocrisie having their Conscience seared with a hot Iron forbidding to marry c. as in 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. and the Apostle Peter writing to the ●aints in his Second Epist chap. 2.1 2. sheweth that there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious wicked ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of and chap. 3.3 4. he saith that there should bee Scoffers walking after their own lusts saving Where is the promise of his coming c and so men transgressing and abiding not in the Doctrin of Christ fall from the faith of the Gospel and so the Spirit of God departeth from them and an evil spirit is sent unto them which is the spirit of Antichrist so out from them that thus fall away and go out from the Church 1 Joh. 2.19 and so separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit as Jude hath it verse 19. and also from them that have been enlightened and have neglected to walk up in truth and so reject the Counsel of God as the Pharisees and Lawyers did Luk. 7.30 so I say from them that so fall away and neglect to hear and obey the Gospel from them ariseth the Antichrist or man of sin Again the sixth head of the Roman Monarchy which is the Imperiall or kingly power hath and doth by the guidance of the Pope and the Nationall Ministry which rides upon the beast as hath been shewed alwaies persecuted men for their consciences and so hath let and hindred the Gospel from being preached and the Ordinances from being rightly administred and so the