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A44841	The Quakers house built upon the rock Christ Wherein neither their doctrines, principles, nor practices can be confounded, not disproved; being neither damnable, nor pernitious. As Samuel Hammond hath falsly affirmed in his book called, The Quakers house built upon the sand: or, a discovery of the damnablenes of their pernitious doctrins, in his answer to G.W. which to prove, he lays down seven grounds of delusion, and five arguments of damnable doctrine. But in this answer his seven grounds is proved false in themselves, ...; and his five arguments is proved to be his own false positions, ... as first, he lays down false positions, and then proves them false; and then boasts, as if he had proved our doctrines or principles false: the truth of which is herein clearly made manifest, and wherein he falsly accuseth us, he is justly guilty himselfe. Also the ten fundamentall principles or doctrines of the hireling priest-hood, ... By a servant to the Church of Christ, ... Richard Hubberthorne. ...	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3227A; ESTC R221606	34,515	47

THE QUAKERS HOUSE Built upon the Rock CHRIST Wherein neither their Doctrines Principles nor Practises can be confounded nor disproved being neither damnable nor pernitious As Samuel Hammond hath falsly affirmed in his Book called The Quakers House Built upon the Sand. Or a Discovery of the damnablenes of their pernitious Doctrins in his Answer to G. W. which to prove he lays down seven Grounds of Delusion and five Arguments of Damnable Doctrine But in this Answer his seven Grounds is proved false in themselves if they were as they are not true against us And his five Arguments is proved to be his own false Positions not according to our Doctrine and Principles As first he lays down false Positions and then proves them false and then boasts as if he had proved our Doctrines or Principles false The truth of which is herein clearly made manifest and wherein he falsly accuseth us he is justly guilty himselfe Also the ten Fundamentall Principles or Doctrines of the Hireling Priest-hood here Discovered This is given forth that all those that have wilfully and from pride and presumpt on of spirit opposed the living truth and the breaking-forth of light from the pure everlasting Fountain of life may put their mouthes in the dust and keep silence if so be for them there may be hope For the lying Tongue will God confound but the lipp of Truth will he establish for ever By a Servant to the Church of Christ which is built of tryed and living stones Richard Hubberthorne In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isay 45. 25. over all the false Prophets which haue deceived the nations among whom is found the blood of the Saints The Quakers House Built upon the Rocke CHRIST c. THe holy Seed which the living Father doth manifest his Life Spirit and Power unto in all Ages hath been and is the reproach of the World and of all them that be strangers to the life of God and to Christs life manifest in the mortall bodies And though this seed be that which the Father hath blessed and hath received the truth and by the truth is set free according to Christs words John 8. 31. yet in the world from slanderous Tongues and false accusations we expect not to be free but to beare his reproaches and in the patience and power of the Lambe to overcome them for God will bring forth our Righteousnesse Truth and Innocency to shine as the light before all people whereby all hard speeches and false reproaches will be wiped away out of the Nations And that shall fulfill and accomplish that which in words we declare and in that are we known to God and shall be known to the world And now seeing that it hath pleased the Father to reveale his Sonne in us and to open the hidden treasures of his life and hath given us of his holy Spirit and the Tongue of the Learned we shall not cease to improve his gift in speaking what we know and testifie what we have seen both by holding forth the truth in the World and by testifying against that in the World which is contrary to it For now hath the living God opened the Fountain of Life abundantly and is drying up the Fountain of words where the life is wanting And the Lord by his eternall Spirit is giving an understanding to many whereby they are able to discern of things that differ and to know every Tree by its Fruit and to try all things by that measure of his light and holy spirit which he hath given them And to that which is of God in all people doe I commit my Testimony to be read and understood Now this from the meek spirit of Christ in Answer to that which from the pride presumption and arrogancy of Hammonds spirit is come forth against the living truth it selfe and the servants of it but every Tongue that riseth up in judgement against us will God confound First S. H. saith That the Quakers House is built upon the Sand c. Answer How is it then that the Sea hath so long roared and listed up its Waves and the Winds hath blown and it is not yet falne Have not you of all Professions joyned together and have not your Voyces been as the Voyce of many Waters against us And have you not been as blustring Winds which if we had regarded we should not have sowne the seed of the Kingdom As the Prophet hath said He that regards the Winde shall not sow Eccl. 11. 4. So if we had regarded your noyses uproars swelling words of Vanity lyes acensations or persecutions we had not been obedient to the Lord nor done his worke But the Lord hath made our persecutors to stumble according to his promise and his enemies are even weary with smiting of his children Ier. 9. 5. And he is giving his power and dominion to his anoynted ones of the whole Earth And hath ordained his arrowes against the persecutors Psal. 7. 13. And in the Lord shall all the Seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isay 45. 25. in this the day of the Lords power when the life of the holy Child Jesus is appearing in the dark places of the Earth who is the Rock of Ages and the Foundation of many Generations upon which we are built and stand a witnesse against all the unrighteousnesse of men the proofe of which is not because we say so but the appearing and breaking forth of his life and the fruits of his holy spirit shall make it manifest And to all these that desire the knowledge of Gods wayes it will be known perfectly that God is amongst us and that his spirit power and presence is with us Again Sam. Hammond saith That his Book is a discovery of the pernitious and damnable Doctrines of the Quakers And for securing the Saints c. Answer A refuge of lyes will not secure the saints as I shall prove his Book to be neither can he which is in the Doctrine which is pernitious and damnable discover them in others nor to others as I shall prove in that which followeth in reply to his Book And first to begin with his Method which is as he saith First to shew the grounds of the Quakers Delusions Secondly to demonstrate the impossibility of salvation in and by their Principles Thirdly to answer George Whitheads cavills in his Pamphlet as S. H. falsely calls it First cause of Delusion S. H. A spirit of giddinesse hanging loose to the truth and the love of it c. and to prove it he saith That there is three sorts of people that turne Quakers The first are unlearned and unstable and these are they which have been ancient Professors The second sort young men and women which have been under convictions and awakenings of the Law and are come to terrors and shakings and brought into a Covenant of Works c. The third sort such who for covetous ends to

save their tythes have rashly closed with them Ans. As for a spirit of giddinesse hanging loose to the truth that thou shalt never find in us for we are staid and established in the Lord and in his truth and shall be faithfull in the truth of God which we have received untill we see the Land cleansed of all Hirelings and Deceivers which make a Prey upon the people for dishonest gaine for from you who pretend to be Teachers of others is prophanesse gone forth into all the Earth and your wayes and Doctrines have corrupted it so that not a pure heart nor an undefiled mind and conscience can be found in your Congregations not one that is unreproveable in the sight of God and Gods witnesse in you all shall seale to the truth of my testimony And as for those three sorts of people which thou saith turn Quakers First ancient Professors these knew as much and practised more of things which were just and righteous then thou dost before they knew the life and power of truth which now they live in and are both learned and established in the things of God And why doth thou accuse them for being unlearned and unstable before they turned to us while they followed thee and such like Here thou proves thy own Doctrine that which doth not learn not establish people and not ours For if they were anciest Professors under that Ministery and not learned nor established consider where the cause was How could they be established where they found neither life nor power of God amongst you But now they have found him of whom Moses and the Prophets did Write that should come and they doe not look for another And now are they both learned and established in the wayes of God And therefore doe not thou upbraid them with what they were before they received the truth in the love of it and obedience to it And as for the young men and women of which thou saith is come to terrous and shakings and convictions then they are come further then ever thou came for they that are sensible of convictions terrours and shakings wrought by the Spirit of God they may be thy Teachers which hath but the words of them and art ignorant of the power by which they were wrought and therefore thou brings forth such words of darknesse as thou hast expressed as that thoso that follow the light of an awakened Conscience and sit downe under that and are under terrours and shakings that these are ●nllod a sleep by Satan Is not this blindnesse and ignorance is this according to the forme of sound words were they nor a sleep before their Consciences were awakened But now when they follow the light which wakens their Consciences which is the light of Christ and when they through the obedience to his light doe the works of righteousnesse is this a ground of delusion or when they are thus led dost thou say they are then lulled a sleep by Satan this is a putting darknesse for light and light for darknesse and in stead of shewing us to be in the ground of delusion thou shews thy own ignorance and blindnesse to all that are able to discerne any thing of truth And for the third sort which thou saith for covetous ends to save their Tythes hath joyned with us In this will all sober people and men of understanding beare witnesse against thee and by the effects even their sufferings thou will be condemned as hundreds of this Nation hath suffered the spoyling of their Goods and Imprisonment for a testimony against you and them which covetous men could not doe as some for the value of five shillings Tythes have goods taken worth five pounds and for three pounds worth of Tythe goods taken worth ten pounds and for Tythes of the value of two shillings taken ten shillings And many I could instance which have had taken from them seven times the value and ten times the value and some forty times the value And then how is this for covetousnesse And others here in this County of Bishopriok the Priests send their men to take peoples Lamb● out of the field and off the Common and their Corne off the field which they have laboured for without any Law or pretence of Law which according to Law might be proceeded against as Sheep-stealers and Corne-stealers which if there be Law to give them Tythes then according to the order of Law they are to receive it and not to take mens goods by violence and thus we suffer the spoyling of our goods with joy which if we for covetousnesse denyed Tythes as Hammond accuseth us we could not suffer men to act so contrary to both Law and Gospel and spoyle our Goods and beare it patiently and many thousands in this Nation can in faithfulnesse beare witnesse against him in this thing that it is not for covetousnesse but in obedience to the Lord and bearing a faithfull witnesse against the Ministery that make merchandize of soules and of their goods also which the Lord is bringing downe by the arme of his power and making their folly manifest unto all men And according to his promise he will bring a shame and a perpetuall reproach upon them which by their iniquity and their heavy burthens have kept in captivity the Seed of God which now by his mighty power he is bringing forth to prayse and glorifie him and to rejoyce over all the false Prophets and Teachers which hath caused them to suffer in the time of darknesse and ignorance The second ground of our delusion as Samuel Hammond saith is this Priest Our not being able to distinguish betwixt the rightsousnesse imputed upon the account of the blood of Christ and the righteousnesse or holinesse wrought in us by the Spirit c. Ans. If this were true this were not a ground of delusion for God will not give any up to a reprobate sense nor condemne them for their not being able to distinguish for then he should condemne them for not doing that which they are nor able to doe Here thou art ignorant of the Scriptures and of the ground of delusion and it being my Duty and Calling to instruct the ignorant and him that is out of the way I shall shew thee the grounds of delusion according as it is written in the Scriptures as Rom. 1. 21. Because that when they know God they glorified him not as God neither were thankefull but became vaine in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkned Ver. 22. Professing themselves to be wise they became fooles as thou hast done And wer 28. And even as they did not like to retaine God in their Knowledge God gave them over to a reprohato minde to doe those things which are not convenient And this was not because they were not able to distinguish but because they did not like to retaine God in their Knowledge And because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God and by

the Fruits by which they were manifest to be reprobates Let all people of understanding judge whether we or thy Generation of Priests be more guilty and then they will know the Tree by the Fruit as ver. 29. And as for thy charging of us as not being able to distinguish this is but thy false accusation for the Lord hath given us of his spirit whereby we are able to distinguish and discerne of things that differ And that righteousnesse which is wrought by Jesus Christ in us is to us a seale of that righteousnesse which was wrought in the Person of Christ and of that which in his blood is imputed to us for justification And whereas thou saith That we confound inherent and imputed Righteousnesse that is but thy reproaching of us And here thou art erred from the forme of sound words for the Scriptures doth not use these words to distinguish of Christs righteousnesse as inherent and imputed though by thy meaning that which is wrought in us by Christ thou wilt call inherent and that which was wrought in his Person without us imputed but this I say unto thee That if thou continue ignorant of Christ and his righteousnesse within thee thy imputing of him and his righteousnesse without will not save thee And while thou keeps people from Christ within them and his righteousnesse within them thou keep● them from that mistery which the Apostle Preached amongst the Gentiles which had been hid from ages and generations but now is made manifest to the Saints which is Christ in them the hope of glory Col. 1. 26. 27 and this is your work by your Preaching and Printing all of you in that Ministery who are erred from the form of sound words into your own imaginations in this age to hide the riches of the glory of this mystery from the people which is Christ in them the hope of glory and you would keep people in the sound of a report of Christ in words and from his life by which the saints was saved and the life of Christ was made manifest in their mortall bodies 2. Cor. 4. 11. But Samuel Hammond affirmes as his Principle or Doctrine in pag. 10. of his Book That the Scripture sends us to the right hand of God to Christ not to Christ in us Neither doe I know saith he any word of Scripture that bids us goe to the light in us though it should mean Christ in us that is the work of grace in us And to prove it he brings Col. 3. 1. Heb. 12. 2. Ans. As I said before it is my work and calling to instruct the ignorant and him that is out of the way Seeing that he saith that he knows not any word of Scripture that bids us goe to the light in us though it should meane Christ in us that is the worke of grace in us If he stand upon these very words Goe to the light in us neither doth the Scripture say Goe to the right hand of God to Christ but as it saith that Christ is at the right hand of God and sitteth at the right hand of God and that they must seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth Col. 3. 1. so the Scripture saith likewise that Christ is within Col. 1. 27. And this was the Mystery the Apostle Preached and the Apostle saith Know you not that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates 2 Cor 13. 5. and likewise he declares of the light in them 2 Cor. 4. 6. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the Knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ so the light which shined in their hearts did give them the light of the Knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ And David said that he had hid the Word in his heart And that the Word was a lampe to his feet and a light unto his paths Psal 119. 11. and ver. 105. so here was light within and by this light within he was guided and by this light within they did not confound inherent and imputed righteousnesse as he calls it as he falsly accuseth us to doe And the Apostle Peter directs them to the light within and saith We have a more sure word of Prophesie unto which ye doe well to take heed as unto a light that shines in a darke place untill the day dawne and the day starre arise in your hearts 2 Pet. 1. 19 so the day was to dawne and the day-starre to arise in their hearts Obj. But saith the Priests that sure Word of Prophesie was the Scriptures of the Prophets and not a light within because ver. 20. 21. it saith Knowing this first that no Prophesie of the Scriptures is of any private interpretation For the Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost c. Ans. The Scriptures of the Prophets is not more sure nor more true then the Scriptures of the Apostles neither is the Visions of the Prophets more sure that the Visions of the Apostles Now that which the Apostle aludes to Was the voyce which came from the excellent glory which Voyce they heard when they were with him in the holy Mount so to them to whom he Wrote the light which shined in their hearts which brought them to waite for the day-daw●ing and the day fear a●ssing was more neer and more sure to them though not to the Apostle then the declaration in words or writing of that which others have seen or heard though that which they have seen and heard be true as any thing that is Written as thus For me to be obedient to the measure of light and life that appears and is manifest to me is to me more a seale or a more sure word to take heed unto then the words or writings that proceed from a greater manifestation in another though by this the truth of the greater or surenesse of it is not denyed by the lesser light but wayted for that the greatest manifestation or discovery of the Father may be as sure and as true to me as to those that have declared it He that hath an eare to heare the truth let him heare and he that can receive it let him Now because Priest Hammond saith that he knows not any word of Scripture that bids us goe to the light in us though it should mean Christ in us that is the worke of grace in us Now whereas he falsly accuseth George Whithead that he is not well read in the literall Knowledge of the Scriptures he justly condemns himselfe For if he were well read in the literall Knowledge of the Scriptures he would know that the Scripture speaks of the light within of Christ within and of the worke of gracs within which he hath declared his ignorance of but his end of so speaking is to

but by him who having made peace through the blood of hi● Crosse by him to reconcile all things unto himselfe by hi● I say whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven And we that were sometimes enemies in our minds by 〈◊〉 works yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death to present us holy and unblama●le in his sight 〈◊〉 1. 20 21. 22. and this is our test●mony concerning our reconc●li●●ion by Christ alone not by any thing else whereby all our accuse●s may be put to silence from their boasting against us without a ground Hammonds fourth Argument to prove ou● Doctrine damnable is Pr. That we take men off from going to the fulnesse of Christ as the right hand of God for teaching and send them to looke to the light within them Ans. Our turning people to the light within them doth not take them off from the fulnesse of Christ nor his teachings for the light within is a measure of his fulnesse by it he teaches and people must be brought to his light 〈◊〉 in before ever they witnesse his teachings or fulnesse and by his light within they see him at the right hand of God and never till they he turned to the light within doe they perceive his fulnesse nor his glory and so that this is a weak Argument against us to prove our Doctrine damnable but rather that Doctrine is damnable which keeps people from the light within and so from the teachings of Christ and from his fulnesse and from seeing him at the right hand of the Majesty on high and all that know Christ in any measure of his light or have received of his fulnesse will be a witnesse against thee in this thy Argument to say that turning people to the light within is to take them off from Christs fulnesse which is just the contrary to bring men to it Hammonds last Argument to prove our Doctrine damnable is Pr. The casting off of all the known Ordinances of Christ A●s This was thy seventh ground of delusion against us and now it thy last Argument of our damnable Doctrine and if thou will but set thy seven grounds and five Arguments over again they will be foure and twenty and so thou may inlarge thy Volume by mentioning one thing often over But in answer to thee in stead of casting off all we own all the known Ordinances of Jesus Christ And again thou sayst there are other dangerous Principles that thou might mention as that of Perfection by improving the light within Ans. We never held perfection neither by nor for improving the light within and if there were any other things thou had against us we doe not question but thou would bring them forth But if that was a dangerous Principle to Preach Perfection then Christ was a dangerous man to be either beleeved or followed For he said Be ye perfect as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect And be ye holy as I am holy And some said that he was a good man but there was some that was of Hammonds spirit in those dayes and said that he deceived the people and said that those that followed him then was accursed and they had as good grounds to prove them accursed that followed him then as Hammond hath to prove us in delusion that follows him now For in those dayes they might have said against them that followed Christ that they Preached the light within and turned people to the light within and Christ within Col. 1. 27. and told of having the righteousnesse of the Law fulfilled in them and of the word of Faith in their hearts to obey it and doe ●it Rom. 10 and as Christ suffered the contradiction of sinners then so must we doe now And the Apostle Paul he Preached Wisedom among those that was perfect and let as many as be perfect be thus minded and John said He that is borne of God doth not commit sin neither can he sin because the seed of God remaines in him 1 John 3. 9. and he that commits sin is of the Devill and hath not seen God neither known him and in this the children of God is manifest and the children of the Devill whosoever doth not righteousnesse is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother but he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous Now by Hammonds spirit the Apostles Doctrine and Writings is dangerous Principles and if they were in their righteous lives and conversations upon the Earth they would be scorned and reproached as they were then and their Writings would be called Pamphlets but in that life which they were in doe we reigne over all our Enemies shewing love to them that shew cruelty to us and doing good to them that despighfully use us and Pray that God may forgive them that have falsly accused us for they know not what they doe Pr. Againe Samuel Hammond in the 11. page of thy Book thou takes the Lord to witnesse that thou hast not any desire to passe sentence upon us Ans. Dost thou think that all people is blind or that God will be a witnesse to thy lyes God is righteous and true and so is all that he bears witnesse unto Hast thou not in these twelve particulars before mentioned given sentence upon us to be in thē grounds of delusion and damnable Principles and Doctrines And hast thou not given sentence upon us to be one with the Soc●●ian and with the Papist pag. 4. and pag. 〈◊〉 Oh! what a confusion is here what hast thou been doing in thy Book to prove our House Built upon the Sand and saith 〈◊〉 there is no possibility of salvation for 〈◊〉 living and dying in these Principles And yet takes God to witnesse that thou hast not any desire to passe senience against us Hast thou done all this against thy desire or dost thou find God a witnesse against thy passing sentence upon us Thou sayes that it hath been upon thy thoughts severall years in the same page that a man living and dying in our Principles cannot be saved and this is passing sentence upon us Was it so long upon thy thoughts and never in thy desires Here thou would seem to speak Mysteries to people but the ground of thy Mystery is easily seen to be thy lying imaginations whereby when thou hast done evill would excuse thy selfe by pleading ignorance but in this God will witnesse against thee not for thee Now having cleared our Principles and Doctrines from the guilt of all thy grounds of delusion and Arguments of 〈◊〉 Doctrines against us and thy grounds in themselves to be 〈◊〉 I shall speak something as to thy words in 〈◊〉 to G. W. of those things of which thou hast accused him falsly art thou guilty viz. of rayling words and passionate 〈◊〉 calling his words of truth to thee a Dung hill and full of ●itter rayling and that his Pen and Spirit is dipt in the gall of

〈◊〉 and such like words and yet saith that it was never 〈◊〉 thy desires to passe sentence upon us but thy Tongue has proved that the thought of thy heart hath deceived thee as it is made manifest And as to thy words That it hath been upon thy thought many years that the Quakers living and dying in 〈…〉 e Principles cannot be saved G. W. A●s is That it ap 〈…〉 rs then that thou hast spoken from thy thoughts and not from the Lord Then thou replyes That many pretious truths hath been on the thoughts of the Saints and instances David 1 Chr. ●9 18. and 2 Cor. 9. 5. whereas David desired that the Mercies and Deliverances Judgements Testimonies and Sta●●res might be kept upon the thoughts of his Heart for ever and this was his Prayer And Paul thought it necessary to exhort the Brothren But what is these proofes to thee which hath had ●al●e a 〈…〉 ions upon thy thought severall years and now speaks them forth so that his words are true to the● that it appears thou speaks from thy thoughts and not from the Lord But he doth not say That never any truth was in the Saints thoughts as thou would make people beleeve and many may witnesse to the truth of his words that it appears thou speaks not from the Lord but from thy thoughts and imaginations And it is manifest further that thou knows not thy own thoughts nor the councell of thy own heart for if thou did thou would not have said that it hath been so many years in thy thoughts and now speak it forth And yet say It was not in thy desire to passe sentence upon us But we see that the deepest of thy thoughts and thy knowledge is covered with darknesse And as for thy saying That God said that he would call for damnation at the Watch-mans hand Ezek. 33. 6 this is a charging of God foolishly for he never said it neither called for it and all thy meanings to it hath but led thee into snares and pits which thou cannot get out of as all that walk in the light sees Againe in thy 13. and 14. pages Thou speaks against the light which Christ hath enlightned every man withall that comes into the world and calls it the reliques of the light of the first Creation and no other but the light of a naturall conscience and that a blurred one too Oh! what scornfull and despightfull words is here against Christ and his light as reliques of the old creation naturall and blurred Is not these names more proper to be given to darknesse then to light Where didst thou learne those names not in the Scripture nor from any Minister of Christ How is the Scripture thy Rule which thou hast so long prated upon For here it is manifest to all that are not wilfully blind that thou hast lost the forme of sound words and ar● devising evill names to give to the light whereby to keep people in their sins from Christ But I pray God to convince thee by the light of his Sonne of all the hard speeches that thou ungodly sinner hast spoken against him Pr. Againe thou sayest for that saying that Christ is a light 〈◊〉 enlighten the Gentiles Isay 49. 6. Acts 13. 47. it is mean● of a new Gospel light given forth in conversi●● Page 13. Ans. Where had thou this expression Is there a New and an Old Gospel and to either of them a severall light The Apostle Preached that Christ which did enlighten the Gentiles Acts 13. 47. and I know no other Gospel but that which he Preached but if any Preach another either New or Old let him be accursed And againe in the same 13. page thou sayst that beleeving in a ●r●ated light that 's blasphemy And yet in the same page saith that till Christ creat● a second Covenant-light the light of Faith upon the account of the Covenant of Grace they cannot follow Christ Here is manifest confusion and blindnesse heaped up together manifest to all men Is the second Covenant-light the light of Faith a created light Is not Christ the second Covenant And is his light created as thou hast affirmed And is it blasphemy to beleeve in a created light then it is blasphemy to beleeve in the light of Christ Now this of thin● will appear and be manifest unto all that have any understanding to be damnable Doctrine and for thee it is impossible to be saved living and dying in it so that which thou hast prepared for another Esther 5. 14. chap. 〈◊〉 10. comes upon thy selfe Againe as to the Scripture Iohn 12. 46. where Christ saith I am come a light into the World c. thou sayes that cannot be meant a created light for then a man were to follow his own light c. and thy words following saith Christ must create a second Covenant-light the light of Faith and here thou hast so ensuared thy selfe in the pi● of ignorance and darknesse that untill Gods righteous judgements come upon thee and 〈◊〉 that which hath spoken it thou will never be free 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for great is thy s●ares and bonds of iniquity and they are dayly made stronger by thy devising of cor 〈…〉 pt and evill words to speake against the light but this 〈◊〉 which thou hast so d●spightfully spoke● against must thou love and obey before ever thou come out of the snares of Satan and before thou profit the people by thy Teaching and these things are now layd plain before thee that thou mayest see thy owne wayes and words and that thou art guilty of that thy selfe whereof thou hast accused another and this is written that thou ma 〈…〉 ●om● to repentance and the acknowledgement of the Truth that thou mayest be saved Againe thou hast charged a false thing against G. W. which he never spoke nor wrote which is this That doing justice or our fulfilling of the Law is 〈◊〉 justification and then call● 〈◊〉 a damnable opinion If it be a damnable opinion it is thy own not his For his words are these For it is the d●ers of the Law for justice that God justifies pag. 〈◊〉 according to Rom 2. 13 but in this Sam. Hemmond th●n hast shamed thy selfe for there is many in Newcastle that had not thought that thou had been so impudently wicked as wilfully and knowingly for thy own wicked ends to charge those words upon others which they never spoke but i● thy own and then call it a damnable Principle But the Lord hath made thee manifest that thou may no more deceive the Nations Pr. Againe thou saith That pure darkenesse 〈◊〉 manage justice Ans. Thou sure means grosse darknesse without any mig 〈…〉 of light And thou may from such Doctrines as these 〈◊〉 of a New Gospel as thou said before and new expressions for there is no such words mentioned in the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles but to prove this thy expression of pure darkenesse to manage justice thou saith

am thy part and thine Inheri●ance among the Children of Israel Ver. 21. And behold I have g●ven of Levy all the tenth in Israel for an Inheritance for their service which they serve even the service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation And hast thou not read Deut. 10. 9. Wherefore Levy hath no part nor Inheritance among their brethren the Lord is his Inheritance as the Lord God promised him c. And hast thou not read Deut. 18. 1. 2. The Priests the Levites and all the Tribe of Leui shall have no p●rt nor Inheritance with Israel they shall eat the Offerings of the Lord made by fire and his Inheritance Therefore shall they have no Inheritance among their Brethren the Lord is their Inheritance as the Lord hath said c. And hast thou not read Joshua 13. 14. Onely unto the Tribe of Levy he gave none Inheritance the sacrifice of the Lord God of Israel made by fire was their Inheritance as the Lord hath said And hast thou not read Ezek. 44 28. I am their Inheritance saith the Lord and ye shall give them no possession in Israel I am their possession Now this was their Inheritance and Possession and that which they had for their service was the Tythe and out of that all the Widowes Strangers and Fatherlesse was to come to the Priests Gate and be satisfied that there should not be a begger in Israel But though the Priests in England have the Tythes yet there are Widowes Strangers and Fatherlesse that wants and many beggers in England and by their covetousnesse is many oppressed and their goods taken from them whereby they are brought to suffer want but the Lord hath opened the bowels of compassion in some to pitty and supply those which the Priests ●er their cov●tous ends make merchandise of Now this I have declared that all such may see themselves if so be that God at any time will give them repentance that they may be saved Another snare hath Sam Hammond runne himselfe into by perverting the Apostles words when he bids them Prove all things and hold fast that which is good these words Sam. Hammond limits to this that they must try what is according to the mind of Christ and hold that Ans. That is not all things but one thing but they were to try all things what was according to the mind of Christ and what was not and try the spirits whether they be of God and when they had tryed what was according to the mind of Christ and what was not and what spirit was of God and what was not then they were to hold fast that which was good But S. H saith must they try sinne and must they goe heare the Papists to try their Doctrine Ans. Thou art very blind and dark in thy understanding Is there no trying of sinne but by entering into the experimentall practice of it Ans. Yes The Lord ha●h given us of his spirit by which we are able to try your Ministery your Wages your Covetousnesse and your cruelty and slandering of the Innocent and yet not enter into any of your practises and as we try you so we doe the Papists likewise not from the Orthodox writers as thou calls them but by the spirit of the living God And Paul did not bid the Thessalonians goe to some Orthodox Writers to try either Spirit or Doctrines by their Books But thy end in speaking these words is That people should not heare us declare the Truth lest they should be converted to God and brought off all false wayes and worships which they have long been kept under by thy perverting of the Scripture to thy own end And if they must goe to thy Books as Orthodox to try us by there they may find thee speaking evill of us without a cause and laying open thy own nakednesse and ignorance of the things of God But if people once come to know the measure of Gods spirit and with that try and prove they will see tha● they have been alwayes learning but was never able to know the truth from any of your Teachings Againe thou goes to excuse the Magistrates of New-castle in their cruelty and hayling of the peaceable people of the Lord out of d●res and saith that it is their Zeale and Glory but Persecution was ever blind and that Zeale which sto●d in it And further thou saith that they know no Law that tolerates their Meetings Answer What! wilt thou shame the Magistrates of New-castle before all people What! ar● they ignorant of the Law of the Nation and of the Instru 〈…〉 of Goverment and by this account thou would ren●er ●hem uncapable of doing justice in New-castle or of executing their place of trust wherein they are put to doe justice and performe the righteousnesse of the Law But when they truely come to see thee and thy words they will have no great incouragement to give thee so great Wages for upbraiding them with their ignorance of the Laws of the Nation Pr. Againe thou empties the Venome of thy heart by false accusing not onely the living but the dead in saying that William Cotesworth of Shields hyred a House in New-castle but before that he could enjoy it the Lord stroke him with madnesse Ans. This is false for he did enjoy the House he hyred and others with him did meet peaceably in it and enjoy the Lords presence and teaching before the Lords stroke as thou calls it but doe not thou accuse the Lords stroke neither doe thou charge God with any indignation against him For when the Lord makes inquisition for the blood of his Saints thou wilt not be cleare in this in saying the Lord did witnesse against him or us in that particular Pr. Againe thou mentions a Shoomaker in New castle which thou saith was one of us and came and rayled against thee and was presently struke mad Ans. Here thou would make people beleeve wonders was he not mad before he rayled against thee And that Shoomaker was never any of us nor owned of us ever to be in the truth and he was mad and distracted before ever be saw us or we him But he that is in the gall of bitternesse must vent it out But the Lord doth keep us clear from the blood of all men and that truth which we are witnesses of shall stand for ever over all our Accusers who are filling up the measure of their iniquities by speaking all manner of evill against us as Christ said they should doe But in this we rejoyce When men speake all manner of evill against us falsly for his name sake for great is our reward in Heaven for even so persecuted they the prophets that went before us and this is that reproach which for his sake we must beare as he hath left us an example for the servant is not greater then his Lord Pr. The last thing in this Book is a story which thou tells to thy own shame Of thy hyring a

man the Keeper of the Mute-hall to betray the truth and to breake his promise as the Chiefe Priests ●yred Judas to betray Christ they gave him thirty pieces of silver to betray the just and thou gave this man thirty pence to break his Word and promise which he had made to the servants of the Lord and in love to the truth And thou saith thou gave it him to prevent the Quakers temptings Ans. Oh! foolish man thou makes it worse and worse Is money a means to keep men from temptation Didst thou not rather with the thirty pence tempt him to be unfathfull to the Lord and to break his promise And as without money Judas would hardly have been tempted to have betrayed Christ neither as thou supposeth would this man to have broke his promise and to resist the truth For thou saith thou considering that he might murmurre at your hindering of his gaine therefore you gave it him so then it seems it was not any convincement from your Doctrine nor any faith that he had in you that you were of God and we not but by tempting him with words and getting him into a ●●avish feare and then giving him money which if once the witnesse of God arise in him and he see the guilt of his treachery by your tempting words and money he may come to give you your money againe and tell you that the cu●se of God was in it and that by that thirty p●●c● he did sell the truth and bought it not But glory and everlasting prayses be to the Lord for ever that dayly brings your hidden things of darknesse to light and makes manifest the counsells of your hearts whereby all your temptings with money and words is discovered and that is but carnall weapons to defend your selves withall and with that you cannot keep the truth ●ut of New-castle but God hath a seed which he wild gather from amongst you which cannot be tempted neither with your words nor your money for you want the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God so you must make use of carnall weapons money and flattering words to keep people in the wayes of sinne and death telling them that the Lord is amongst you and that no evill will come upon them speaking peace to them that live in iniquiry as the false Prophets did Mal. 3 15. and ye have wearied the Lord with your words which have been without spirit and life Mal. 2. 17. This is given forth to stop the ignorance of foolish men and that none may glory in their shame as Samuel H●mmond hath done of his Book in his Letter to A. P. wherein he desires him not to be offended with the seeming harshnesse of the Assertions and saith that he hath written nothing but truth and the mind of Christ c. but what is here declared it is manifest to all that desire to know truth from deceipt that he hath travelled in iniquity and brought forth lyes and wearied himselfe for very vanity Hab. 2. 13. and though his Aspersions is come forth in harshnesse against us yet we shall render him truth for lyes and love for harshnesse as Christ hath taught us and so heap coales of fire upon his Head NOw there remaines some-thing that people may take notice of which is the Fundamentall Principles or Doctrine of that Priest-hood there being severall of their Brethren of that Priest hood met together in a dispute with some of us in Branspith-castle upon the 21. day of the seventh Moneth affirmed as followeth Josias Dockerey affirmed and the rest assented 1. That they have the Scriptures and their Gospel not from God but from Men 2. That there is no knowledge of the Spirit without the Scriptures 3. That immediate Revelation or Inspiration is not to be expected nor looked for in these dayes and that to expect it is Diabolicall or Devilish 4. And that that which is contained or Written in this very Volume laying his Hand upon the Bible and that which appears visibly to h●s externall sences is the Gospel 5. That the flesh of Christ is not in them 6. That Christ had and hath a naturall carnall Body and is in Heaven with a naturall carnall body and hath an humane carnall fleshly Body joyned to his Divinity and is in Heaven with it 7. That Timothy received not this Gospel from God but from man viz. from Paul Rich. Frankling affirmed 8. That Grace could not be conveyed to any man from the Lord without the ordinary outward means of Preaching 9. That the light spoken of in John 1. which enlightens every man c. is not sufficient to leade up to Christ Hen. Leaver 10 That they knew no such thing as Prophesie by immediate I●spiration or Revelation in these dayes These things are their Principles and Doctrines which they Preach to people to beleeve and is but their own Tradition contrary to the Principles of the Doctrine of Ch 〈…〉 and the Testimony of Scriptures Ans. Now as to the first if not from God but from man they have received their Gospel then it is not that which the Apostle Preached but another And saith the Apostle though we or an Angell from Heaven Preach any other Gospel unto you then that which we have Preached unto you let him be accursed Gal. 1. 8. For saith he in the 12. verse I neither receiued it of man neither was I taught it but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ so no other Gospel received in any other way is to be received or beleeved for the Gospel is the power of God as Rom. 1. 16. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that beleeveth c. Now to say tha● they receive the power of God from man not from God is ignorance and error and to say that the Letter is the Gospel is as great ignorance and error and that Gospel 〈◊〉 accursed and he that Preaches it which is not received from God Now as to the second Pr. That there is no knowledge of the Spirit without the Scriptures Ans. If they had said that there had been no knowledge of Scriptures without the Spirit then they had spoken the truth whereas now they have spoken the plaine contrary for the Spirit gives the Knowledge of the Scriptures but the Scriptures gives not the Knowledge of the Spirit and the Apostle was of another judgement and Principle for saith he the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life and it is the spirit that quickneth John 6. 63. And John said they knew that they dwelt in God and he in them because he had given them of his spirit 1 John 4. 13. And Paul was an able Minister of the Testament not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3. 6. now those before mentioned hath manifested that they are Ministers of the letter not of the spirit and so Preaches