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A44783	The beast that was, & is not, & yet is, looked upon: or, The bo-peeping beast pointed at: or, He that hideth himself hunted because of whom truth complaineth, and is spoken to by Pope and Prelate, by Presbyter, by Independent, by Quaker, by Baptist: together with her several answers to them all. Also one description of the beast. Also the coming forth and progress of the beast hitherto. Also an epistle to magistrates and law-givers, likewise, to take off prejudice if any be. Two epistles, one to the reader, and another to the Christian reader. VVith a true reproof to W.S. a Quaker, who in his book called The lying spirit in the mouth of the false prophet, wherein he endeavours to make men believe that he had answered H.H. his book, called The doctrine of the light within the natural man leading to eternal life, examined by Scripture-light.	Howet, Enoch.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3151; ESTC R215400	46,109	67

in whom the Spirit of God doth or shall breath being a truth-evidencing and forceable constraint and cannot stay for leave of Election by man to utter it self which indeed is a gift of God or Pastoral Spirit as Marriage is another qualification wherein the spirit of government must appear fruitful both in wife and children and that from conjugal and natural love to the Yoak fellow and procreated in which affections Faith appeareth and for want of them infidelity 1 Tim. 5 8. so that children cannot be wanting to a Bishop in whose government the Royal Law Love of Gods Church is resembled Marriage being the Type of Christ and his Church and it is certain that a batchelor or one that hath no children or one whose wife and children are not qualified according to the word cannot be chosen except man will set his May-be against Gods Must-be And so I leave thee Independant warning thee to take the counsel of Christ to the Angel of the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3.17 A Speech that may be aptly spoken by these Quakers who hold forth a stupifying Spirit denying plain Truth and right Reason under the Notion of a higher Mystery and Spirit then plain Scripture and right Reason will admit of which plain Scripture they call Letter and right Reason they call Flesh in contempt notwithstanding that the Spirit of God is promised to be poured into him that turneth at Gods Reproof Prov. 1.23 which Reproof convinceth Reason or else man could not return into Reason among the rest of the Souls Members the Spirit was poured and is wrought upon to order Mans Affairs by Judgement and doth receive wise Counsels when the man of Understanding attaineth to them Prov. 1.5 Truth though we may not talk with thee we are not capable to receive directions by any that is call'd by thy name nor by the writings called Scriptures of Truth for what directions soever we have from without can be but mans teachings and the natural man understandeth not the things of God we are taught by the Light within we are to stand in the will of God and observe the movings and commands of his Spirit Truth speaketh * 〈…〉 resembling God's people 〈◊〉 great humility Psal 17. ●1 As in the vision of Esdras the Eagles heads slept until her Feathers had reigned as in 2 Esd 12 25. These are they that shall accomplish his wickedness and finish his last end even so in Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the whole earth the heads and subtilest and strongest of her delusions she hath kept until her last end which I hope is approaching that thou who wouldst not receive the Truth in the love thereof mightst not hear the reproof of thy walking in false forms any longer in so much that thou couldst not deny that if forms must be owned thou must come out of them and come into the form of godliness Satan hath now cozened thee another way and thy AS GOD he hath perswaded thee that all forms must be cast off and the Law of the Spirit of Life entertained O cunning and subtile but false delusions the words of the Prophets and the Commandment of the Apostles were set in opposition formerly to lusts 2 Pet. 3.1 2. but never to the way of Righteousness by any but these last members of Babylon Peter in Chap. 2. 1. 2. hath these words And many shall follow their pernitious wayes by reason of whom the way of Truth shall be evil spoken of Wherein we may perfectly see that their wayes and the wayes of Truth stands in flat opposition one to another Also in the first verse it is testified that to bring in these damnable heresies is to deny the Lord that bought them but he himself is so far from that opinion in verse 21. of the said Chapter that he chargeth the way of Righteousness and the holy commandments as the very Centre from which Apostates fall so that you may behold clearly that it is not a Righteousness they are charged for falling from for that is the secret issues which is betwixt God and the heart but the way of Righteousness which is visible to the understanding of Man Many of their Leaders whilst they were able to hold the Antichristian form they were in the esteem of godly Priests whose infants Baptism and learned specious Pastoral care so much applauded by wise sober rich silken-coated Professors then I say not being able to resist the clear evidence that the true form of Godliness hath because they did not love to be disquieted out of the woman Jezabels bed Rov 2.22 where they lay in pleasure of imagined Godliness amongst a company of wise sober Professors they were then so far from receiving the love of the truth that they grew into disquietness of mind and hatred of that form of Godliness that Christ and His Apostles and their Disciples walked in for many years even till the time that Antichrist grew popular in so high a measure Satan being ready with this Temptation that they struck hands with this strong delusion and so believed the lies thereof 2 Thes 2.11 that they cryed down all forms that they might be shut of yea and avenged of that form the thoughts whereof so much troubled them if they knew their own hearts they would ingeniously confess this Therefore whosoever desireth further satisfaction in this matter is referred to a Book that the Author hath written called The Doctrine of the Light within the natural man leading to eternal Life examined by Scripture Light Baptist speaketh The Spirit of God having instructed me by the Scripture I fell into a course of reasoning which though Mystery Babylon cryeth down in this her last dispensation being the very thing that Isaiah cryeth up and reproveth the neglect of Isa 44. on this manner There is no word for baptizing Infants in Scripture not no regular account from which that invention can arise it is the very door that the god of this world makes all this part of the world called Christendom of one supposed Faith by leaving no man at liberty to chuse his Religion but maketh the instruments of his generation to be that which giveth him right to the Instruments of his Regeneration and as for the new birth he will have his to presume that from imagination and all this to be done when the party supposed to be baptized could neither assent by understanding to what was done nor dissent by doing any thing but crying which he would have done if they had gone about to kill him as to have christened him as they call it Also herein those err that have schism'd from Popery and Prelacy but hold their baptism of Infants saying That Infants of godly Parents may be baptized by which words they acknowledge in effect that the fleshly copulation of godly Parents giveth right to the children of their natural Body to be instruments of Regeneration so that it must needs follow that

one body Made ere they knew in infancie But Scripture Baptist doth them all deny For the good old way that Jesus walked in e Ier. 7.16 And the Apostles taught repenters to begin f Acts 2.38 Hereupon the spirit of the beast rouzeth up himself again Yea thinks the Quakers spirit then will I All that is called God or worshiped deny g 2 Thes 2. For where by order * by making false order I can have no place I must exalt my self to the disgrace * viz. in his deceived ones who exalt the sound of name but have being ignorant of the nature of the law of God and Christ Of God opposing order of his face Though God be the God of order Plainness of truth opposite to the beasts mysticall pretences GOD sent his son in flesh to come True naturall blood to shed And did ordain his death to be In simple man bake't bread And Vine fruit wine that men do drink Which God and man doth chear When in his ord'nance spirit joynd The price of Christs blood dear Shown to hold forth his death for sin Until he come again That is gone up true advocate Our cause for to maintain Where holy God and sinful man By Christ a treaty hold Who takes our prayers and there to God Our miseries doth unfold And doth return into our hearts The fruits of his blood shed True pordon strength comfort and joy By spirit witnessed Who doth with blood and water joyn One witness manifested a Iohn 1.5 8. In Gods one way whil'st men obey Repent and be baptised And then expect pardon of sin And holy spirit Gods gift b 2. Acts 38 Whil'st that our loves is prov'd to Christ In making it our stri●t For to keep all Gods commandments Where Scripture comfort dwells c Rom. 15.4 With Son and Father manifest Where men are not Rebels a Iohn 14 21. Hereupon the spirit of the beast proceedeth Thinks disobedient spirit I have No share in this strong Saviour I l'e cry down Lawes and holier be Then all that formes do favour In the eyes of those that have the love Of simple truth denyde I l'e serve their lusts and them perswade They need not to be ti'd I strong delusion can command Affections into tears b Ezek. 8 14 And cause men for to lean on God And so free them from fears c Mica 5.11 And cause men to protest to God That they 'l obedient be d Ier. 42.6 Yet his commandments to deny And say it is not he e Ier. 43. i 2 For in right steps of humbleness f Ps 17 11 They shall seem after God to press And though by Christs knowledge they scape Through lusts the worlds pollution g 2 Pet 2 20 Yet Gods commandments turning from They 're fast in my possession Although that they his way forsake They holiness may hold * The strength of delusion lieth in their seeming to themselves others to hold forth their formal holiness For I will spirit them my self Whil'st they 're fearless and bold I can my self transforme Into an Angels light And there maintain the light within The disobedient wight a 2 Cor. 11 14 2 Thes 2. Truth speaketh As righteous they must sure appear Whilst they can have the Skill To seem as Christs Apostles right And preachers of his Will b 2 Cor. 11 13.15 These were so far convinc't As to disclaim prophaneness But love of truth did not receive To bring them to obed'ence c 2 Thes 2 Self-love did them provoke Lest they should damned be Or of salvation be deny'd Prophaneness for to flee Doth it avail saith they To save us let us see All other Scriptures they throw by As useless for to bee Delusion speaks Therefore to them I me sent d 2 Thes 2 11. compared with 10 Verse Such lies they shall believe As me their inward Teacher to Prefer though God they grieve e Gen. 6.6 Before that simple Christ That Scripture-writing gave That men might read know his law And sure instructions have f 2 Pet. 1 19 20 2 Tim 3.17 Truth speaks The Man of God to make perfect And furnish him throughout There is a rule to know Gods will None need of it to doubt Delusion speaketh In mans imagination I le frame a lawless Christ And set my selfe up there as God And in his name be hi'st I le cause these to ascribe to me What ere to God is due And to my inward motions To flye from Scripture-view Remember Ahabs case 1 King 21.23 Truth doth and will conclude When beauteous holiness appears In sweetned-soul the dew of youth to bring Psalm 110 In morning womb it never fears To own its Jesus Lord and King That God-begotten Virgin-born That crosfide flesh was crown'd with thorn Hath saving power and law-giving In person place and time No true man can deny this thing And say he 's without crime That doth salvation to himself apply Whilst that obedience he doth clean deny Though faith and bapti'm in one book be writ Yea in one Chapter and in one Verse too Delusion saith he can the faith out pick And leave the bapti'm for some else to do Thus self-love his salvation minds Whil'st love of righteousnesse thinks fit To hate iniquity betimes The Oyle of gladness with his Christ to get a Psal 45.7 And thinks nothing for himself to imbrace To be too low carnal or base That his Jesus to his Apostles gave For Church direction but will tread the trace With Christ and his Disciples to his grave And knowes when 's left his body then that he From 's bodyes worship not before is free If our great God by such a lowly thing As blew in fringe would Israel mind Of their obedience to their Lord and King b Num 15 38 That they might not to their own heart Nor to their eyes be seeking With spirit of disobedience dark Though light calld go a-whoring Then think not baptism breaking bread Mean Lawes by Christ b'ing uttered Flying to holier spirit they think then Christ That doth and will exalt himself the high'st Within the disobedient child That is by spirit but not by God beguil'd To all Law-givers and Magistrates WIth the submission of a poor worm that is under your feet that you may behold what God hath given to my heart to write a warning to men and that you may avoid all provocations to that horrid sin of building up Sim with blood Micah 3.10 I tender this treatise to your view hoping that you will not despise the words of him that is as much your underling as any maid-servant to her Master though they may Contend with some of you Iob 11.13 Being I am heartily engaged by Christ Jesus my master to disswade all men from adhering to mans inventions or devices in and about the worship of God because they are so dangerous

to prince and people in the land of my nativity as is proved in the 106. Psalme the 29. Vers and Psalm 99.8 Isa 66.5 and many other Scriptures And from declining the exact rule of Christ and his Apostles laid down in the bookes of the New Testament only under which grace we are and not under the Law of terror Heb 12 21. This poor Supplyant of yours to whom God hath given grace to be faithful is willing I hope amongst many others to stand in the Gap by shewing to you and all England and praying to God for you and it Ezek. 22.30 compared with the 28. Verse the very way by which an end must be put to the proceedings of the resisters of the truth 2. Tim. 3 9 Viz. by the discovering their folly to all men to which purpose this poor-servant of Christ Jesus hath written this treatise against this first Beast that ariseth out of the Sea viz. the Church that hath his power maintained and his worship exercised by the second Lamb-like horned beast that is more like a Lamb then the first and ariseth out of the eatrh viz the world and yet he holdeth up the first beasts power and worship by Magistrate sword the place that the first arose out of yeeldeth no such power his Lamb-like horns being the strength that prevaileth with the Magistrate to uphold him viz a repute of holyness and innocency in which he exceedeth therefore as a Lamb or as one in sheeps cloathing and in the pretended name of the Lamb Christ he taketh power by the Magistrate to constrain rich and poor small and great bound and free to worship c. Revelations 15. therefore where there is a constraint upon all into one worship we may well suspect that it is the power of that beast who is the very powerful life-giver to the bare Image of the first beast which Image if it had not the Magistrates power to constrain it it were life-less and therefore called the Image because it hath neither Scriptures authority to provoke nor power to constrain so that this beast is but a D●agon at the best that cannot stand without mans art or power to uphold it and shall certainly fall when Gods arke of testimony is brought to it and this is the last beast that shal be at enmity with my Master Christ Jesus and this is the same spirit with the first who is the old Serpent and Satan whose whole body consisting of beast whore and false Prophet as head body and taile shal in the end perish together Revelations 19.20 The beast was once wounded by my Masters providence and power when he died upon the Cross where he spoiled principalities and powers and made show of it openly Col. 2.15 the vertue whereof is his deadly wound to this day and no Salve that the beasts healing flatterers hath though for a time it giveth ease to the blind sleepy conscience can make this deadly wound unmortal viz. those Prophets spoken of in Ezek 13.9 But when triumphant truth the beasts mortal foe shal appear to make manifest what this wounded beast is that can never look upon Gods word to examine his own standing but he so much feeleth there the soarness of his mind as that he dare not in it prosecute his examination he shall be dead by that act and taken out of the way 2. Thes 2.7 and by how much truth looketh forth by so much this beast is sick of his wound ask your selves when truth appears where is lyes are they not all dead and gone then impudencie and out-faceing of lyes must needs cease when God shall destroy the face of the covering of all people and the vail that is spread over all nations Ezek. 25.7 the very discovery of him is his wounding therefore let those of the Clergie that loves to be Masters of all people upon the account of godliness contrary to Christs counsel Math. 23.10 look about them for Christ Jesus woundeth the head out of the house of the wicked by discovering the foundation to the neck Selah Hab. 3.13 for then their standing will appear whether it be of God or no then their begging for liberty to persecute those that dare not feed them and honour them will be at an end when Gods out-casts are visibly provided for and the oppressor ceaseth Esa 16.4 then those that made lyes their refuge vvhen they fled from the written word to mens invented may bees will be utterly undone when the patient Heb. 10.36 not hast-making beleivers Esa 28.16 is upon their sure foundation then the Hail shall sweep away all the refuge of lyes and the water shall overflow the hiding places Esa 28.17 So that it must needs follow that the weapons of our war-fare are not carnal 2 Cor. 10.4 5. but mighty through God so that the sword of the Magistrate hath no such strength against this beast as mighty truth hath therefore be wise O ye Kings and Rulers of the earth as it followes in the second Psalme 10.11.12 Verses take heed of persecuting any for Gods sake although they be presented to you as deceivers Mat. 27.36 and seditious Acts 24.5 For was not Christ and his Apostles so presented to their persecutors it is better to take Christs counsel viz. let both grow together till Harvest then that the blood or distress of any one persecuted Saint should lie at your door Christ disclaimed any intrest in your kingdom in the dayes of his flesh and set an example of obedience to God in being under your authority and his Apostles commanded submission to you and to pray for you and we are yours subjected to you in all civil obedience so do you refuse to have authority in Christs Kingdom and be you there subjected to him and as he saith My Kingdome is not of this world so say you that your Kingdome is not over his Church and let his Laws be in your eys as they are in truth so wholly by which he governeth his Church that man cannot add to them or amend them it is possible to help forward a delusion by persecution making the erronious presume that they are martyrs for Christ when they perish in prison upon religious accounts and then if you do that to them for Christs sake or for Religions sake for which you have no rule in Gods Word it will be then if God give you not repentance till the day of Judgement that hee will come to say to you Who hath required this at your hands but never to provoke them to love the truth or make them willing by mans but by Gods power Psal 110. Yet if you go about to drive them that Christ is a wooing and beseeching them by the mouth of his Apostles 2 Cor. 5.20 you may come at the trouble of your conscience in the hour of death too too late to repent but we as our duty is do pray indeavor that no such thing may fal upon you And in the words of