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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

〈…〉 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

is to be discerned from the wicked according to that Mal. 3.17 18.1 Cor. 3.13 and therefore saith hee not the Scriptures but alass the more he endeavours to avoid the tryal thereby the more thereby he is manifested for by this he is found unlearned though he hath so much spoken of the tongue of the learned by wresting the Scriptures for the Prophet there speaks of a day wherein all that are proud and all that DO wickedly shall be destroyed leaving neither root nor branch Mal. 4.1 which the opened eyes sees clearly is not now of which day Paul speaks in that place instanced by Lawson wherefore he saith the day SHALL declare it from whence these men conclude that that day then did and now doth but Paul had the Spirit of Truth whom we find even as a dying man expecting a Crown of Righteousness which saith he the Lord SHALL give mee at THAT DAY 2 Tim. 4.6 8. wherefore let us prize the Law and Testimony to which if men speak not according it is because they have no Light in them though they may speak much of Light The Quaker saith that Christ is already come the Second time and George Fox affirmed in plain words before many witnesses that hee knew him come within him and he looked for him to come NO OTHERWISE and James Parnel affirmeth that they that confess not Christ come in THEIR flesh are the Antichrist and also affirmeth that by preaching of a Christ in heaven the Devil gets his work done on earth as appears in his Book called Satans Design discovered p. 19.25 This being well considered is the ready way to fulfill that which is written concerning those that shall come saying I am Christ deceiving many before the comming of Christ indeed which cannot be till first the true Faith of his comming be made void which these men indeavour to do by saying that the comming of the Spirit which Christ said he would send was that second comming of Christ which the Scripture so much speaks of but evidently it appears otherwise because the Spirit by Christ is called ANOTHER COMFORTER John 14.16 which saith he will not come except I go away but if I depart I will send him unto you John 16. 7. plainly shewing that the Spiritis the comforter of the Lords people in Christs personal absence for when Christ spake of his own comming he said on this wise I will come again yea as the SON OF MAN Matth 24.37 John 14.3 but speaking of the Spirit saies I will send HIM unto you which when the Apostles had received they went forth testifying the Lord Jesus not come within them but as Peter said whom the HEAVEN must reveive till the times of restitution of all things Act. 3.21 yet at this time had Peter the Spirit but lest there should be room for the Quakers to say that that Heaven was within them consider also the relation of Stephen who stedfastly looking UP into Heaven saw the HEAVENS OPENED and the SON OF MAN standing on the right hand of God yet was he FILLED with the Spirit but his wisdome was to distinguish between him sent and the sender and in this Faith he DYED and a long season afterwards we find Peter remaining the same confidently affirming that Christ was gone into Heaven 1 Pet. 3.22 signifying to the Elders that when the chief Shepheard SHALL APPEAR ye saith he shall receive a Crown of glory 1 Pet. 5.4 to which agrees the Faith of Paul and Timotheus also who looked for the Saviour Christ FROM HEAVEN Phil. 3.20 what from the fleshly hearts of men judge ye that are wise these also at that time had the Spirit to which agrees also the Faith of the Apostle John who said when he SHALL appear we shall be like him 1 John 3.2 yet then it was the Spirit appeared unto him the Church of the Thessalonians was of the same Faith waiting for Christ FROM HEAVEN 1 Thes 1.10 yet then were they the Elect of God vers 4. the Corinthians also being inriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge comming behind in no gift yet were waiting for the comming of Christ 1 Cor. 1.5 7. the Church of Thiatyra was to hold fast that which they already had till he come Rev. 2.25 judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come 1 Cor 4.5 yet saith Thomas Laucock where is the promise of his comming is he asleep but Peter tells such scoffers that the Lord is not slack concerning his promise but is long-suffering towards men not willing that any should perish 2 Pet. 3.9 wherefore be patient UNTO THE COMMING of the Lord Jam. 5.7 for this is the true Grace wherein we stand even that which brings salvation for saith Paul the Grace of God that bringeth salvation teacheth us to live godil●y in this world and to LOOK FOR the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ Titus 2.11 12 13. Object The Saints waiting for the comming of Christ was but for a greater measure of Christ Answ That which is spoken elsewhere concerning their denyal of the Lord Jesus will shew the emptiness of this objection yet consider Christ was not taken up into Heaven by measures and at times but while he blessed them he was parted from them Luk. 24.51 and he shall SO COME IN LIKE MANNER as the Disciples did SEE him go into Heaven Act. 1.11 wherefore the usual expression in Scripture is the COMMING not COMMINGS of Christ where it is spoken of him since his ascension wherefore saith Paul to the Saints be ye not soon shaken in mind or troubled neither by Spirit nor by Word nor by Letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand for that day shall not come except there be a falling away first c. 2 Thes 2.2 3. yet saith the Quaker it was in a great measure come but thereby he is found to be led by that Spirit which then troubled the Saints pretending the day of Christ to be before it was to be which Paul afterwards calls a mystery of iniquity then working verse 7. by this also he makes void the use of Christs parables concerning his comming which himself sets out by a man taking a far journey giving authority to his servants Mar. 13.34 who after a long time commeth and reckoneth with them Mat. 25.19 in what manner he is capable to come judge ye and remember that Christ saith HE IS AS A MAN as abovesaid that is in respect of his suddain comming at a time wherefore he saith watch and pray for ye know not when the TIME is Mar. ●3 33 moreover consider that Peter even when hee was ready to DYE witnessed not the day of the Lord come but saith the day of the Lord WILL ●OME 2 Pet. 3.10 1.14 in like manner Paul when he was r●ady to DYE said that there was laid UP for him a Crown of Righteousness which saith he the Lord SHALL give mee at THAT DAY and not only to mee

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

light of truth was exceedingly kept back and but few received it and them that did receive it she persecuted some she put to death others she banished or caused to flye into strange Countries and into howling Wildernesses others imprisoned and fined and so she cometh to be drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and so the Gospel could not be declared in the pure way thereof to every Nation Kindred Tongue and People Rev. 14.6 and so also if any did arise that had the spirit of Antichrist shee took off him also and so shee pluckt up much Wheat and Tares also contrary to that of Matth. 13.29 30. let both grow together until Harvest and so forth So the sixth head of the Roman Monarchy being rid upon and guided by the Whore did let the Gospel from being preached and the Antichrist from rising and so I think that the sixth head did hinder the coming in of the man of sin in the Apostle Pauls time for the Emperours being Heathens then persecuted the Saints and so that sixth head supporting and carrying the Whore also so as that it did let and will let until it bee taken out of the way 2 Thes 2.6 7. but now the sixth head being in part taken away and the seventh head arising hee giving some liberty of conscience the Gospel is preached and truth appears and many receive the knowledge of it and obey it and many fall away from it and so the spirit of Antichrist ariseth and so the seventh head of the Roman Beast shall take away the sixth head and shall continue a short space Rev. 17.10 and so the ten hornes also shall arise in one hour with the Beast that was and is not even hee is the eight and is of the seventh or is one of the seventh verse 11 12. and so is the little horn that Daniel speaks of chap. 7.11 24 25. and the last power or Beast the Antichrist the man of sin and so the seventh head and ten horns or Kings giving liberty the Servants of God sound forth the truth as it is in Jesus ministring in the Gospel glad tidings of the Kingdome to the Nations men come to know the truth and so are enlightened with it and so many may come to shine as stars and yet fall away as the Antichrist or man of sin himself will be some notable man shining as a star for a time yet afterward falling from the truth according to that in Rev. 8.10 11. the third Angel sounded and there fell a great Star from Heaven burning as it were a Lamp and it fell upon the third part of the Rivers and upon the fountains of waters and the name of the Star is called Wormwood and the third part of the waters became Wormwood and many men dyed of the waters because they were made bitter So the man of sin falls from the truth or true Church as a great Star from Heaven burning like a Lamp through Satans transforming himself as into an Angel of light and so fals upon the Rivers and fountains of waters so that hee maketh them bitter so that the sweet promises of the Gospel and way of Christ in which men shall bee made partakers of the Waters of life and so made glad in the City of God are so made bitter like Wormwood changing the taste of them so that many men dye of those waters according to that of Jude 12. twice dead plucked up by the roots and thus hee causeth men to fall so that the third part of the Sun is smitten and the third part of the Moon and the third part of the Stars so as a third part of them is darkened and the day shone not for a third part of it nor the night likewise Rev. 8.12 the Sun is here compared to the Church because the Church or Saints through Christ are said to be the light of the World Matth. 5.14 and so Jacob who is called Israel according to Josephs dream is compared to the Sun Gen. 37.9 10. the Moon I take to bee the World or the Whore the false Church which hath her light from the true Church as the Moon hath her light from the Sun the Stars are the eminent teachers in the Churches Rev. 1.20 and this in the eight chapter before spoken of is an allegory because the waters are said to become Wormwood and yet men drink of them which cannot be if they were made Wormwood therefore it is allegoricall that the Word of the Gospel in the ministration of the Prophets is compared to water look Ezek. 34.18 19. Isa 55.1 Rev. 22.17 so then a many of the Church will fall from the faith and the Stars the elder or chief teachers also and many of the World or false Church that shall be enlightened and will not obey shall bee darkened and so shall lose that light they have and so shall be given up to gross darkness and so after a great falling away from the truth SO the man of sin the Antichrist is revealed and getteth the power and rule by flatteries after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousness and SO opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or is worshipped so that HE as God sitteth in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God Dan. 11.21 2 Thes 2.3 4 9 10. and so I come to the sixth particular which is some of the great things that the man of sin will do Which in the first place take what Daniel saith of him setting him out by a little horn chap. 7 8.11 24.25 he saith that he shall subdue three Kings and he shall speak GREAT words against the most high and shall wear out the Saints of the most high and think to change times and laws and they shall bee given into his hand untill a time and times and the dividing of times and so he shall reign in full power three years and a half for time is taken for one year and times two years and half a time is half a year as in Dan. 4.25 some translation reads for seven times seven years and so the woman cloathed with the Sun that flyes from him into the wilderness and is there three years and a half Rev. 12.1.14 so he shall persecute the Saints of the most high vers 11.17 and the false Prophet causeth the first Beast whose deadly wound was healed to be worshipped and he doth great wonders so that he maketh fire to come down from Heaven on the earth in the sight of men and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he shall have power to do in the sight of the Beast saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the Beast which had the wound by a sword and did live and he had power to give life or breath to the Image of the

the Quaker cryeth who hath waited upon the light within the light within another report wherefore another Spirit Though we may not deny but that through the report of the Prophets they were inlightened within from whence they were to act so faith commeth by hearing and hearing by the word of God now the Quaker may not say that word is Christ the light within because Paul affirms that in order to that Faith which comes by hearing their sound went into all the earth and THEIR words unto the ENDS of the world Rom. 10.18 now THEIR cannot be ascribed to one Preacher singly therefore is not such a light within which is but one and if the Quaker slight this he is more inexcusable than other men since he hath so far searched as to find that you relates not to a single person also by this saying of Paul we may consider that the Gentiles also were inlightened by the Gospel-preaching Prophets who sometimes were to go unto the Heathen to minister unto them as witnesseth Jonahs going to Nineveh and most evident it is that there were some proselited out of every Nation under Heaven to the way of the Lord which the Jews professed Act. 2.5 yet the Jew had a priviledge in this but where much is given much is required moreover if we look yet farther back I say as I said before that there is not to be found such an admonition no not from the very beginning as that men should wholly depend upon a teacher within this I find Judg. 7.14 that Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied of the Lords comming WITH he saith not in ten thousand of his Saints as the Quaker pleads Noah also is said to be a Preacher of Righteousnesse 2 Pet. 2.5 and through his obedience in preparing the ark hee is said thereby to condemn the world Heb. 11.7 also it appears that the Lord shewed his wrath and made his power known upon Pharaoh and his mighty Hoast that his name through that memorable act might be declared throughout all the earth Exod. 9.16 also we find that God did speak unto Moses out of a cloudy pillar which descended in the sight of the people unto Abraham he spake by an Angel from Heaven and the common expression in Scripture to signify the way of Gods speaking is this the Lord said unto Abraham unto Isaac unto Moses but I find not where it is said that God did speak in his people his whole will and counsel as the Quaker affirms Object That which may bee known of God is manifest in man saith Lawson Answ As Paul informs us that which may be known of God is manifest in or to man saith the Notes so also he informs us how it comes there and by that we find him to have a spirit differing from Lawsons for Paul tells us that God hath shewed it unto man by the things that are made whereby is clearly understood his eternall power and God-head from the Creation for day unto day night unto night it sheweth knowledge Psal 19.2 and so is man without excuse Rom. 1.20 that is in respect of knowing there is a God all which shews that there is not such a light within as he speaks of because mans inexcusablenesse is ascribed to his neglect of due respect to outward means wherefore Lawson that talks so much of the tongue of the learned is found unlearned himself by wresting the Scriptures Consider also I pray you from the dayes of John the baptist hither wards and you shall find all the Scriptures unanimously contradict this Principle of theirs John is said to be a burning and a shining light being appointed of God to GIVE KNOWLEDGE of salvation unto his people Luk. 1.77 and to prepare his wayes before the Lord which had been uselesse had the people a knowledge of all his wayes by an internal light yea John himself though none greater than he born of women depended not upon such a light thereby to know all things for he sent two of his Disciples to Christ to know whether he were the Christ that should come or that they should look for another having a sign given him before that on whomsoever he saw the Spirit descending and remaining was the baptiser with the Spirit John 1.33 and this depending upon outward discoveries Christ-himself established by sending back a message consisting only of externals the blind receiving sight the lame walking the lepers cleansed c. which the two Discipies saw and heard these things Christ returned for Johns satisfaction Mat. 11.5 in the dayes of John Christ testified that he was the light of the World not the Spirit in him only but HE as he was the son of man the intended Sacrifice of God for to dye for the life of the World HE thus considered went from place to place preaching the Gospel of the Kingdome informing persons particularly of their duties Mat. 5.6.7 chap. not commending them to a Teacher within neither John the preparer of his way when the publicans and souldiers came to him and asked him what they should do but taught them their duties Luk. 3.11 12 13. and as Christ personally taught his Disciples and the people so also he confirmed what he declared by outward miracles which many seeing beleeved on him John 11.45 and others which heard and saw such works done by him which no other man did and beleeved not Christ pronounceth inexcusable having no cloak for their sin John 15.22 24. being such as John admires at John 12.37 saying THOUGH he had done so many miracles before them YET they beleeved not on him Some Christ said were cleansed by what hee as the son of man said unto them John 15.3 other some were without excuse subject to the Judgement because they received not his words which he spake unto them John 12.48 what less oh friends can these things import than that the words of Christ thus considered did work convincements within men of the truth considering that the rejecting thereof rendred them inexcusable if a light within in their sense be the only Revealer then John had no cause to admire in reference to the many miracles but rather in respect of the Light being rejected which Christ set up within them without such outward manifestations nay indeed he had no cause to admire at them more than others all having as they say a Light within leading in all the wayes of God but most evident it is that Christ hath otherwise appointed to make known the Gospel as appears by his similitude about the sower who saith Christ went FORTH to sow Mat. 13.3 went OUT to sow Mar. 4.3 contradicting the Quaker who saith the sower is dwelling in all godly and ungodly though the Sower be said to be the SON OF MAN Matth. 13.37 wherefore when Christ sent his twelve Apostles to the lost sheep of Israel he said that it should be more tollerable for Sodom in the day of Judgement than for that City that should not receive

the words of men but AS IT IS IN TRUTH the word of God 1 Thes 2.13 wherefore the Quaker supposing that God himself in men is their Teacher only erres not knowing the Scriptures for Israel was willing to be taught yet said they let not God speak with us but speak thou with us Moses and we will hear Exod. 20.19 and in this they well said saith God Deut. 5.28 Most true it is that no man can come to the Father but by the Son who offered up himself to death that we might have life by whose stripes we are healed without his blood there is no remission Heb. 9.22 by him also we have access unto the Father who at his right hand makes intercession for us and so he becomes our righteousnesse our sanctification and this Gospel was witnessed first by Christ himself but since saith the Apostles we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God those that were thus wrought upon through their ministry are said to be the called of Jesus Christ Rom. 1.6 Act. 28.23 and so is made good the words of Jude 3. contend earnestly for that Faith which was ONCE delivered to the Saints Object By this saith Lawson we set the Scriptures in the room of the Father and Son and so saith he deny both Father and Son Answ Many are the shifts of men to race out of the World that esteem of the Scriptures which indeed is but due being accounted by the Apostles HOLY Scriptures in respect of their use Rom. 1.2 whereby is made known the will of Christ in which we walk indeavouring through his grace the honour of the Father and Son which cannot be a denying of the Father and Son but he that hath his eyes closed will say so it is said the Scripture is profitable for teaching correction and instruction in Righteousness and that there ought to be attendance given to the reading of it yet most surely neither Paul that spoke it nor Timothy to whom it was spoken denyed either Father or Son nor pulled off the Crown from Christs head putting it upon the Scriptures as saith Lawson we do yet say no more than they did he most surely is worthy of the Crown that dyed to bring forth a word of salvation for men and that strengthens us by his Spirit to walk up accordingly from whom the Apostles removed it not yet said to men WE pray you in Christs STEAD 2 Cor. 5.20 yea and that from the Scriptures perswading men from morning till evening Act. 28.23 Aaron was to hearken unto Moses who was to put words into his mouth and therein to be unto him in STEAD of God Exod. 4.16 yet neither he nor the Apostles robbed God of his honour he being the original of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever Rom. 11.36 Oh how great are the self-exaltations of these men how doth their arrogancy appear while they so mightily indeavour to destroy mens faith of the Scriptures as being adiscovery of the Lords will and yet in the mean while furnish the Nations almost in every corner with THEIR SCRIPTURES which is writings calling them a DISCOVERY of several particulars which they publish to men as the will of the Lord as witnesseth Deusburys book which he calls a discovery of mans return to his first estate with a discovery of Mystery Babylon Martha Simmons also speaks something in discovery of the nakednesse of all professions c. Farnworth also hath writ that the Truth might be cleared and the ignorance both of Priest and people might be discovered What! O friends may men know from their writings and yet not from the holy writings which were written for that very end that the CERTAINTY of the Lords will might be known Luk. 1.3 4. and that men MIGHT beleeve Joh. 20.31 God forbid Object Also I deny the Spirit saith Lawson in his book in saying that by the Scriptures is made known or revealed the will of Christ because the Spirit searches all things yea the deep things of God Answ There is indeed such words spoken by Paul 1 Cor. 2.10 but Lawson waiting so much upon the darkness within him hath wrested the Scripture and so himself is found unlearned 2 Pet. 2.16 though he hath talked so much of the tongue of the learned for the Apostle in the words before saith that eye hath not seen nor ear heard c. the things which God hath prepared for them that love him but God saith Paul hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit that is them things which God hath prepared for those that love him wherefore he saith vers 12. that we might know the things which are freely given to us of God wherefore most plainly will it appear to him that searches that the Apostle THERE speaks not of the Spirits revealing the duty of man but rather of the great glory and reward that is the portion of them that walk up in their duty though it is not to be denyed but rather witnessed by experienced souls that the Spirit doth teach them manisesting and laying open particularly the corruption of the heart which is but in general heads signified in Scripture and not only so but also mortifies the same Rom. 8.13 and also beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God verse 16. 〈◊〉 so are we sealed with the holy Spirit of promise Ephes 1.13 moreover by the Spirit is revealed and clearly made known those particulars which are obscurely signified in the Scripture Ephes 3.5 6. which things together with the revelations of the future glory the naturall man receives not for they are foolishness unto him wherefore he is required in the first place to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins and then is he under the promise of the holy Spirit Act 2.38 through which he may discern these things for they are spiritually discerned Object The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withall but by reason of darkness it is not comprehended Answ Christ the true Light speaks otherwise saying that the World CANNOT RECEIVE the Spirit wherefore though the Spirit be a Teacher as aforesaid yet it is to be considered that the promise thereof so as to dwell in men is to such as yeeld obedience to that self-denying Doctrin of repentance and are not ashamed of those ordinances that belong to penitent men wherefore saith the Apostles God hath given the Spirit to them that OBEY him Act. 5.32 and those that say God hath given him also to disobedient men as a dweller in them doth make the Apostles words of no effect if the Spirit dwel in every unbeleeving man what meaneth Paul when he asked the Disciples whether they had received the Spirit SINCE they beleeved moreover when they signified their ignorance saying we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Spirit Paul did not as we find tell them that they were mistaken

unfeigned faith and verse 13. is exhorted to hold fast the form of sound words in Faith and Love yet is this brought by Lawson to prove that they were at the end of faith Oh sad blindness how do they erre not knowing or rather slighting the Scriptures the summe of this is thus the Quaker affirms that Faith is at an end Paul affirms NOW ABIDETH FAITH 1 Cor. 13.13 another Doctrin another Spirit The Quaker also holds that they are NOW in possession of the Kingdome of Christ and have eternall life really in POSSESSION Lawsons book pag. 9.19 Oh how are the right wayes of God perverted what is it that men come not to beleeve when they leave the holy Scriptures as to be their rule these men talk much of Light but they that were in the Light indeed testified that the Saints inheritance was RESERVED in Heaven for them 1 Pet. 1.4 yet did they rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory vers 8. through Faith in the Promises which the holy men of old RECEIVED NOT but died in Faith Heb. 11.13 39 what hath not Abraham Isaac and Jacob received the Promises and yet will these men say that they have oh that they had a face to blush at these things how do they in their conceptions exalt themselves above the Saints of old yea above the Apostles for hencerorth saith Paul there is LAID UP for mee a Crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 whose confidence was that he should be preserved UNTO his heavenly Kingdome verse 18. and so they witnessed Christ to bee a Priest of good things TO COME Heb 9.11 Object This cannot be so saith Lawson because Saints are said to be delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdome of Christ Col. 1.13 Answ Men before conversion are under the power of darkness which is the broad way that leads to destruction but being converted are on the contrary under the power of Christ and so are in the ready way to the possession of the Kingdome for unto that very people that Paul testifies thus to be translated into the Kingdome he speaking of their hope said that it was LAID UP for them in Heaven vers 5. and to them also he saith ye know that of the Lord ye SHALL receive the reward of the inheritance Col. 3.24 not HAVE received therefore not in the possession of the Kingdome which is Saints reward which they have now by promise wherefore saith the Apostle God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and HEIRS not possessors of the Kingdome which he hath PROMISED to them that love him Jam. 2.5 this little will serve for them that owns the resurrection for the apprehension of present possession of eternall life which is Saints reward destroyes the truth of that wherefore let us give diligence to make our calling and election SURE and so an enterance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the Kingdome of Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.11 The Quaker also fully denieth the Resurrection of the body which they have often to me acknowledged and Thomas Lawson John Slee Quaker-teachers gave me their understandings thereof in writing namely that NOTHING that goes into the Grave shall rise again I speak the truth in Christ I lye not Many are the shifts of them concerning this particular insomuch that sometimes they do by their DOUBLE-MEANING expressions perswade enquiring Souls that they own the Resurrection sometimes also they endeavour to shew persons their weakness in searching after the Resurrection it being a deep mystery shewing them that they ought first to wait upon the light within and that will reveal such things unto them in due season and indeed hereby they shew that they have a spirit like Bala●ms who being willing to answer the desire of Balack but could not because Israel was obedient according to the Scriptures at length taught Balack to lay a stumbling-block before Israel and when they forsook their God in committing Whoredom c. THEN Israel was subject to the Curse so likewise doth the Quaker endeavouring first to take off people from observing the Scriptures as their rule perswading them to wait upon their light within as the ONLY teacher and when they have herein prevailed then oh then the poor souls are subject to swallow in errors apace yea though most plain in opposition to the Scriptures for otherwise they would not slight that cloud of Witnesses concerning the resurrection from the dead but though Israel play the harlot yet let not Judah offend but fear ye the Lord who is Almighty and can as well raise up man again after he is returned to dust as he did at first form him of the dust of the earth and withall search yee the Scriptures remembring that men formerly erred concerning the Resurrection not KNOWING THE SCRIPTURES nor the POWER of God Matth. 22.29 Consider Christ is said to be the first fruits of them that sleep 1 Cor. 15.20 the FIRST that should rise from the dead Acts 26.23 and the Quakers mystery may not here show its self for Christ never was dead in sin but bodily dead he was and the same body which was laid in the Sepulchre God raised as is evident Luke 24.3 5 6 12. who being raised testified that he had flesh and bones vers 39. but yet in a glorious manner thus was Christ the first that rose from the dead now if the fleshly bodies of men shall not also arise and be made glorious consider how Christ can be said to be the FIRST that rose from the dead for where there is not a second there cannot be a first wherefore it follows that the Sons of Men shall be raised in the likeness of his Resurrection wherefore the Apostle makes the Resurrection of Christ his first and great Argument to satisfie the Corinthians that staggered about the Resurrection concluding that men must needs rise because Christ was risen to which agrees the words of Christ Joh. 5.28 29. the hour is COMING in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear his voyce and shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life and they which have done evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation but when I have produced this to these men they slight the pure intention thereof and tell me that I am NOW in the grave there spoken of meaning the grave of sin O remember the mystery of iniquity that is to be revealed in the last dayes which hath here no place though it shrouds its self in with his fig-leaved garments but truth discovers its nakednesse for by graves cannot be meant graves of sin in this place first because Christ had spoken before in the 25. verse of men dead in sin whom the Quaker supposes are in their graves saying the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live secondly because of the time mentioned by Christ when this rising again from the grave should

mans body to the dust corruptible but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him even an incorruptible body that is raises the body which was sown corruptible in an incorruptible condition so it is that to every seed is given HIS OWN BODY for the Corn consumes not away which is sown into the earth neither there abides but the very same springs up again to its proper body but more excellent through a change and even so our vile body shall be changed and made like unto his glorious body Phil. 3.21 wherefore the summe of all is thus The bodies of men that are committed to the earth CORRUPTIBLE DISHONOURABLE WEAK NATURALL WHICH SO CONSIDERED CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOME OF GOD SHALL RISE AGAIN INCORRUPTIBLE HONOURABLE POWERFULL SPIRITUALL AND SO CONSIDERED SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOME OF GOD 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. the Lord hath said it and who can disannul it Object It is the pure inside of the Corn that springs up again and not the shuck with it so it is the internal Spirit of man that shall be glorified and not the body of flesh which is as the shucke Answ Most evident it is that that and so much of man as is SOWN into the earth is resembled by the sown corn now the Spirit returns to God that gave it and the fleshly bodies are sown into the earth resembled by the Corn that is sown into the earth and God gives it marke it is not said that he gives or makes A body as if it were another in respect of matter but gives IT even IT that was sown into the earth a body glorious immortall as it hath pleased him this is evident if the reasoning with flesh and blood be ommitted and the holy Scriptures considered which testifies of the GRAVES OPENING and the DEAD bodies arising Matth. 27.52 that is to say SO FAR as they consist of the PURE CREATION Object Paul tells the Saints that they were risen with Christ Col. 2.3 ch Answ He doth indeed represent them as risen with Christ but saith he through Faith of the operation of God Col. 2.12 which evidences things not seen Heb. 11.1 wherefore he tells them afterwards that their life was HID with Christ in God Heb. 3.3 and when Christ did appear THEN they should appear with him in glory verse 4. to which agrees these words Ephes 2.6 7. God who is rich in mercy hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places IN CHRIST JESUS that in the ages TO COME hee might shew the riches of his grace towards us even at the resurrection day when Saints shall be rewarded Luk. 14.14 unto which they had not attained for Paul himself the Teacher of them strongly affirms that HE had NOT attained unto the resurrection of the dead Phil. 3.11 12. but laboured that he might attain that is to the resurrection unto life at the appearing of Jesus which he might come short of if not diligent though notwithstanding come to a resurrection but great was his desire O let it be even our desires also to be of that number that shal be raised and meet the Lord in the air and so EVER be with the Lord 1 Thes 4.17 at which time Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the rest of the Saints that dyed in Christ shall rise though the Prophet have said that Abraham was IGNORANT of them and Israel acknowledged them not Isa 63.16 and the Apostle bare record saying that they RECEIVED NOT the Promises Heb. 11.13 but Christ testifies of a time when they shall sit down in the Kingdome of God Luk. 13.28 29. in reference to which time God said to Moses that he was the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob as appears by Christ who testified that God is not a God of the dead but of the living and so from this concludes that they must needs rise again Matth. 22.31 32. God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect Heb. 11.40 this is the resurrection which the Apostles preached which was esteemed strange which made Paul say why should it bee thought a thing incredible to you that God should raise the dead Acts 26.8 now that the rising from sin wherein men are said to be dead to newness of life was accounted an incredible thing I leave honest judicious souls to judge this is the Resurrection concerning which Paul had hope towards God both of the just and unjust Act. 24.15 Which saith the Quaker is the old corrupt man rising in a man which is the unjust and Christ the Light rising in the same man is the just And so one man is to witness both the Resurrection of the just and unjust in himself This have I been plainly told I speak the truth in Christ I lye not by one of them well and truly said the Apostle the MYSTERY OF INIQVITY 2 Thess 2.7 8. what had Paul hope towards God that the Old corrupt Man should rise again either in himself or in any others Oh how great also is the darkness of this mystery Moreover men that are turned from sin to a new life cannot say and say truly and understandingly that they are risen AGAIN because they were always fallen and dead in sin now the Resurrection is not only a rising but a rising AGAIN according to the true proper and prime signification of both the Latine * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 resurrectio a rising again Greek * word wherefore O friends look to your selves and hold FAST FAST the form of sound words as yee have been taught ABOVNDING in the work of the Lord for as much as yee know your labour is not in vain in the Lord for thus saith the Lord O GRAVE I will be thy DESTRVCTION repentance shall be HID from mine eyes Hos 13.14 The Quaker also saith that the eternal Judgement is PAST already as to them having as they say given an account to God already for all that they have done and RECEIVED THE REWARD FOR THEIR SINS even WRATH and CONDEMNATION that is the wounds of Conscience and the like this and more to this purpose you may finde in Desburies Book called A Discovery of Mans return to his first estate pag. 7. This will they say proceeds from the light but Christ the LIGHT INDEED discovers it to bee gross darkness who speaking of rebellious Capernaum said that it SHALL be more tollerable for Sodom in the DAY OF JUDGEMENT than for thee Matth. 11.24 now we know that Sodom was destroyed long before for their great wickedness for which no doubt they had many wounds of Conscience yet repented not and this was not in Christs account the Judgement for he speaks of that as to come and so is made good that saying Heb. 9.27 It is appointed unto men one to dye but AFTER THIS the Judgement alas alas how doth vain thoughts lodge within these men how greatly are they deceived while they slight the true use of the

wherefore O friends as ye have received hold fast and grow as to the use of it The Quaker also denies the practice of the Lords supper which saith Lawson Christ put to an end at his death It is no marvel that they deny this since they are not afraid to say that the body and blood of Christ is unprofitable as to the setting free from sin which is to be in this remembred but unto us to whom the one is esteemable let the other also for indeed it is absurd to affirm that Christ should give forth a commandement to his Apostles bidding them to do it in remembrance of him and within four or five dayes put it to an end by his death yea before they were or could be in any considerable posture to observe it and yet afterwards to command them to teach all Nations to observe all together incredible most evident it is that afterwards the Apostle delivered this ordinance unto the Saints and afterwards regulated their disorder therein according to Christs institution 1 Cor. 11. and the bread which they in this ordinance used Paul saith they BREAK 1 Cor. 10.16 by which their mystery is excluded wherefore though Parnell be pleased to say that this is a feeding upon husks yet let us therein hold forth the Lords death TILL HEE COME The Horrid Blasphemy of the Quaker revealed MAny a time when I have spoken both words of truth and soberness the Quaker hath pronounced the curses and plagues of God to be my portion which seemed not a little strange unto mee that men pretending perfection should thus rage but since I have found him not afraid to speak evil of the Lord himself for more than once Thomas Laucock Quaker-teacher hath said that the Lord Jesus Christ is ACCURSED him whom we professe even him that was born of the Virgin anointed of God with the holy Spirit whom the Jews crucified and slew whom God raised from the dead who ascended into Heaven and there mediates between God and men this is the Christ whom we own against whom the Quaker blaspheming is found not to have the Spirit of God though he talk so much of the Spirit for plainly saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 12.3 NO man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus ACCURSED and so being sensuall having not the Spirit said at other times that hee knew mee BEFORE THE WORLD WAS in whom is made good that saying viz. they speak great SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY 2 Pet. 2.18 and as Isaiah prophesieth shall say in his heart I will be LIKE THE MOST HIGH Isa 14.14 for foreknowledge is that by which God advanceth his supreamacy above all wherefore it is said Isa 41.26 who hath declared from the beginning that wee may know and before time that wee may say hee is righteous yea there is none that declareth there is none that sheweth yet saith Laucock HE knew mee before the World was and James Parnell saith * In Naylers book called Satans design discovered p. 51. before corrupt reason was I AM Oh that they had such a heart that could learn not to blaspheme but this is that the Scripture might be fulfilled which testifieth of this strong delusion which being seized upon these men they conceive the foreknowing God is so appeared in them as that hee shall appear no otherwise and so speaks these words in them what is there O friends that ever was spoken by the Lord himself to the sons of men that these may not upon this account attribute unto themselves and speak likewise and what is there of all that is to be done by the mighty power of God that these may not as well challenge unto themselves thus conceiving of God in them as to say that THEY knew men before the World was what is there to hinder them from saying VENGEANCE BELONGS UNTO US and so become the revealed SON OF PERDITION who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped shewing himself that HE IS GOD 2 Thes 2.3 4. yea so strong already are they in their conceits of the present finishing of things as that Nayler * Satans design discovered p. 26. blasphemously affirms that to promise freedome after death is a CHEAT OF ANTICHRIST and moreover saith * pa. 19. that by preaching of a Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his work done on earth O how doth arrogancy and spirituall pride put forth it self how great is the darknesse of this pretended Light the imperfection of this pretended perfection such also is their pride and self-conceitednesse as that they will not by no means say MOST NOBLE FESTUS Act. 26.25 but rather are such as despise DOMINION and speak evill of dignities Jude 8. but this also is that the Scriptures might be fulfilled Dan. 7.20 whose look was MORE STOUT THAN HIS FELLOWS fear yee the Lord fear yee the Lord. The Scoffings of the Quaker manifested AS we have heard that Scoffers should come in the last dayes even now already are they come whereby we may know that it is the last of the last dayes for at a certain time when I with other brethren was reasoning with Thomas Laucock concerning the comming of Christ he scoffingly said WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMMING IS HE ASLEEP these very words I speak the truth in Christ I lye not did he utter before many witnesses by which he is found to be of them that Peter prophesied of saying in the last dayes there should come scoffers saying where is the promise of his comming 2 Pet. 3.3.4 he that by this sees not let him remain blind moreover such and so great is the darknesse of the Quaker concerning Christ and his comming as that at another time in a conference about Christ in Heaven he scoffingly replyed saying WHAT IS HEE THREE OR FOUR STORY HIGH ABOVE SKIE but saith the Saints seeing then that we have a high Priest that is passed into the Heavens even Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our profession but saith the scoffing Quaker How can we have comfort or peace by Christ and he so farre off from us above skie hee is saith the Saints gone into Heaven whom having not seen yee love in whom though now yee see him not yet beleeving yee rejoyce with joy UNSPEAKABLE and FULL OF GLORY 1 Pet 1.8.3.22 whatever they say he that SHALL come WILL come and will not tarry fear yee the Lord fear yee the Lord. The Fierceness or Raylings of the Quaker discovered IVde the Servant of the Lord speaks of a people that are as RAGING waves of the Sea foming out their own shame vers 13. how nigh of kin the Quaker is to them judge yee by this following description of their behaviour towards me when I have been amongst them who at several times thus have said to me in great rage and fury of spirit Thou Beast bruit beast thou Witch thou Devil thou Reprobate thou Enemy of God for the Lake thou

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

of old that said in many things we offend all now that they so do consider these following passages At a certain time I was in Lawsons society conferring about Christs words viz. that no man could come to the Father but by him to which I said that he was indeed the way to the Father that is said I through faith in his sufferings for by his person no man comes to the Father considered without his sufferings from which words and many more of this nature he picks out these words that I said that no man comes to the Father by the person of Christ and prints it in his book though no more ground so to do than he may have to say that David said there was no God leaving out the former words viz. the fool hath said in his heart but that which aggravates his dishonesty is that while hee blames mee for disowning the coming unto the Father by the person of Christ when as I do not himself doth as hath been proved and in his book elsewhere calls mee image-maker for owning the person of Christ ascended and yet he even HE upbraids mee for denying the coming unto the Father by the person of Christ doth this O friends look like unto perfection nay rather an inexcusable condition in that he blames another and yet doth the thing which hee blames another for HIMSELF at another time being greatly upbraided for acknowledging my self sailable in some things by George Fox I at length desired him to consider that which is recorded of Peter who said I was eminent in the service of Christ yet sinned for the proof of which I read that in Gal. 2.11 12 13 14. vers where it is said that Paul withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed and that he with other Jews dissembled which to any honest man is proof sufficient but so far was Fox from receiving it that he furiously falls on calling mee beast and lyer because I affirmed that Peter sinned and that word SINNED was not there yet will this man say hee is perfect but judge ye whether a man that is but a babe in Christianity would not abhorre such a thing for can it be thought that he that dissembles and is to be blamed is unblamable moreover at another time I made repetition of this passage before Thomas Laucock to hear what he would say to it but in the least would he not blame his Brother but violently puts mee to prove that DISSIMULATION WAS SIN * Many witnesses hearing which at first I was unwilling to do but being prest to it by Laucock I did produce Scriptures for the proof thereof then said one of them to mee but was it sin in Peter are not these O friends perverse reasonings of men of corrupt minds was it ever known since the World was that a man should be put to prove dissimulation to be sin would any of the prophane World the drunkard or swearer thus reason surely nay but that which is mostly to be admired is that all this while they should justifie themselves saying to all STAND OFF WE ARE PERFECT Oh that the poor souls had hearts to consider their great imperfection at another time I being accused by Laucock for putting the title Brother upon one that was withdrawn from endeavoured to prove the lawfulnesse thereof by the Scriptures 2 Thes 3.14 15. moreover I said it was clear according to a similitude for said I PROVIDED my finger pointing thereat WERE cut yet it is not presently to be slighted and cut off but first to apply means of cure 〈◊〉 even so in the other to which Laucock answered saying that I was a lyar a lyar if my finger was not really and indeed cut I speak the truth in Christ thus did he say before several men wherein he hath fomed out his own shame but this is that the Scriptures might be fulfilled which testifie that in the last dayes perillous times shall come wherein men shall be UNHOLY FALSE ACCUSERS 2 Tim. 3.2 3. Oh let us be holy in all our wayes This little of much more of this nature I offer unto your considerations Notwithstanding all that hath been said the Quaker looks upon himself as perfect yea as Laucock hath said as PERFECT WITHOVT SIN AS GOD IS condemning others because they say with the Apostle in many things we offend all He that is so ignorant as to beleeve this let him be ignorant still Yet true it is that Saints were perfect and now may be perfect that is as considered in Christ who of God is made unto us wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption unto whom we are now to live and no longer unto our selves even perfecting holinesse in the fear of God wherefore let every soul awake unto Righteousness and know for certainty that perfection is farre more than the forsaking of the false worships of men and the gross crimes wherein we have lived for that may be and yet we shut out of the Kingdome like foolish Virgins that have not been zealous for God far more also is it than a walking blamelessely to the view of men for that a man may do yet be defiled within wherefore with the Apostle renounce the hidden things of dishonesty even private evill motions which surely cannot but make the soul mourn that truly fears God for it is not a work done but a work well done that is acceptable in the sight of God even when SELF is shut out and not mixt with good intentions yea and when the heart is affected with duty which cannot bee till the soul is fixed upon the Lord as the object of his affections then and not TILL THEN is there passage to perfection for where the treasure is the heart WILL BEE wherefore LOVE YEE THE LORD GOD WITH ALL YOUR SOULES AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH yea and the Children of God also with a pure heart fervently yea yet further must we go if wee will bee perfect even to the doing him good that doth us evill yea and that with freedome of Spirit also O then live in the fear of the Lord crying mightily unto him that from him you may receive such measures of Grace as that you may experience good degrees of Christianity and by no means shelter negligence and coldnesse under the Apostles words it is not I but sin that dwelleth in mee but bee zealous as wise Virgins so shall yee enter into the Kingdome but if contrariwise you shall trifle away this day of liberty which was purchased with much blood what will yee answer when God visiteth what will yee do when hee riseth up Job 31.13 wherefore redeem time and apply your hearts unto wisdome and let every one attend upon his work hear yee diligently and do yee accordingly yee that teach teach in sincerity through the ability which God giveth and let the ARTIFICIALL METHODICALL OLD-MAN-PLEASING FORMS in the ministration of the word DIE DAYLY wait yee upon the Lord Again

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