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A56434	A shield of the truth, or, The truth of God cleared from scandals and reproaches cast upon it by scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the devil in all ages did make use of, whereby he blasphemed the truth of God, striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people, that so he might uphold his own kingdom, but the day hath made him manifest, & the Lord is come, & is coming to make war with him, and bind him, and cast him into the bottomless pit and all who bears his image, and under his dominion is written by ... Iames Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P533; ESTC R20838	39,279	50

which is a meer delusion We are accused to deny the Sabboth The Sabboth of the Saints we own which is not for a day but everlasting and who dwels in Christ witnesseth this Sabboth which is the substance and the shadow without is vanished for saith Paul let no man condemn you in respect of meats and drinks or of an holy day or of New Moons or of the Saboth dayes which are but shadows of things to come and so the world hath the shadow and the Saints the substance and you who have the shadow persecute them who have substance as the Seribes and Pharisees and high Priests did who had and upheld the Types and figures of Christ and persecuted them who was the substance so they that are after the flesh persecuted them that are after the spirit but your Sabboth is a shadow of nothing for the Jews Sabboth in the time of the law was upon the seventh day which was the last day of the week but yours is the first day of the week for which you have no scripture and they were not to do their own ways nor their own pleasure nor speak their own words upon the Sabboth day and here you transgresse in the figure and walkin your own wayes and speak your own words and do your own pleasures both of that day and every day We are accused that we justifie our selves and condemn all other I Answer When we were our selves without the Spirit of God and had a form and profession of the Saints condition which we did not possess we seeked to justifie our selves in our profession and earthly wisdom and to exhalt our selves and be something in the eyes of others and here we were Pharisees and yet feigned Publicans saying we were sinfull but thought higher of our selves than others though we were in the same nature and here our justification was of our selves and not of Christ and here are all you Pharisees and feigned Publicans both Priests and Professors who are in your earthly Wisdome feeding upon the Letter but as the Light of Christ arise in us all our earthly wisdom wherein we were exalted became foolishnesse and self was judged and denyed and all that which was of self both wisdom and righteousness wherewith we covered over our filthy lustful unclean hearts and so were as painted Sepulchers and here are all Professors at this day who are feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge and as from under the Cross of Christ but all would not hide from the Light of God but as it arose it searched through all and layd open all and all our covers became rotten and fel from us and so it will be with all Professors As the Light of Christ doth arise and the Book of Conscience is layd open for no flesh must glory in his presence But now we have nothing but what we have received of the Father through death and Christ is made over unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption and though we glory we glory in the Lord for we have nothing in our selves to glory of and the Saints thought it no presumption to call themselves the Sons of God and said they were of God and all the whole world lye in wickednesse and here the same spirit would have accused them yet they were no Pharisees and Christ thought it no robbery to be equal with God yet he was no Pharisee though of the Pharisees he was judged a Blasphemer and as he is so are we saith the Saints yet they were no Pharisees and so who are made the Sons of God it is no self justification to witness it forth neither those who are made free from sin to witnesse it forth as the Apostles did and to witness forth the life and power of truth and deny them that have gotten the form notion or profession and here Christ is the witness and the justification for the way is but one and the truth is but one and they who dwel in the truth witnesse one with another for the Light of God owns its own wheresoever it is for God cannot deny himself but they that are not with us are against us and out of the truth in the state of condemnation for all who are out of the truth are under the curse in the fall and this truth we witness by the Spirit of the living God through death the same truth as ever was and there is that in every conscience shall bear us witness yea in the Heathen and condemne them that hate it 〈…〉 We are accused to be one with the Ranters I Answer it is false for we abhor their principles in our hearts and deny any liberty to the flesh or any light or loos or vain conversation which they live in or any thing which is impure or unclean for our principles are pure and clean and is at enmity with any thing that is impure or unclean for purity and impurity cannot agree together and it is our desires to keep our selves unspotted of the world for that which is unclean defiles and from that we are separated who are the Sons and Daughters of the living God but some of them have tasted of the love of God and grace of God and have had appearances of God but by harkning to the voice of the Serpent and giving way to the lust have turned with the dog to the vomit and the grace of God into wantonness casting his pure Law behind their backs and walking despitefully against the spirit of grace and have crucified a fresh the Lord of Life and put him to open shame therefore hath the Lord given them up to their own hearts lusts and vile affections and their consciences seared as with a hot Iron for it is writen It is impossiblo that those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted of the good word of God and the Powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again to Repentance but they have deceived many with their alluring speeches and have caused the truth of God to be evil spoken of by their pernitious lacivious ways But wo wo be to them for double shall be their reward but God is our witness we deny and abhor all things which is filthy or unclean and though all the world condemn it is without For there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walke not after the flesh but after the spirit and it is my tender desire towards all tender consciences that they may take heed of giving any liberty to the flesh least they lose the tenderness of conscience and harden it by lust and uncleanness for nothing but purity will the Lord receive for he is of purer eye then to behold iniquity We are accused that the ground of our Religion is Popery The ground of the Religion made

ordained by their parents or some other and their meanes are imediate and the Apostles imediate and the way is but one saith Christ he that hath an ear to hear let him hear and see if they be not Blasphemers who say they are the Ministers of Christ and some of them drunkards some proud some covetous and are evil examples to all that follows them contraty to Christ or his Apostles who said walk as you have us for examples and here they abide not in the doctrine of Christ and so hath not God as in 2 John 9. and this is blasphemy to say they are the mouth of the Lord but are the mouth of the Devil teaching lyes and blasphemies telling the people that are of their flock they are Christians and of the flock of Christ when as they are all manner of unrighteous persons who live without God in the World and tels them their children are the flock of Christ when they are sprinkled on the face with a little water when as they grow up in all manner of ungodlinesse without the fear of God or the knowledge of God and they are heathen that know not God and this is blasphemy to say Christ is the head of heathens for he is the head of his flock and they tell people that a house of Lime and Stone is the Church when as the Church is the body of Christ and this is blasphemy now see whether we or your teachers be more like deceivers lyars and blasphemers and let every ones life preach him forth and judge him and see if they be not lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God who delight in Musick in bowling in carding and diceing and hawking and hunting and all manner of pleasures and delights now see whether they or we be like Apostles who never used any such thing but all their delight was in the work of Christ but they that are of the flesh mind the things of the flesh and they that are of the spirit the things of the spirit Now see if they have not a form of godlinesse but deny the power and life which the Apostles lived in therefore from such turn away and if you finde that our lives be contrary to what we profess from us turn away also but of this sort are they who creep into houses and leads silly people captive now see if they doe not creep into steeple-houses and say that 's the place and no where else and leads silly people captive laden with sinnes and divers lusts ever learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth some learns thirty some sity some sixty yeares and above and still full of sin and as dark and blind and ignorant of the things of God as ever and they will teach you shall never be made free from sinne so long as ●● are upon the earth and here they set up their rest in the Devils kingdom And if you doe alledge we creep into houses I answer the Apostle witnessed the same where he sayd I have taught you publikely from house to house and our meetings are publike to any who will come amongst us sometimes in no house but in the fields or commons as the Apostles witnessed and we finde the Lord amongst us being gathered in his Name according to his promise now see by their fruits if your teachers be not the deceivers which are foretold of in the Scriptures who as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so doe they withstand the truth by all the wayes they can as it is before proved for Jannes and Jambres were the Magitians of Aegypt that imitated Moses so those University men by their Magick Arts inventions and imaginations and studying old Authors hath gotten the form of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles words to trade with but denies the life and power and so are Traytors to Christ who are men of corrupt minds and reprobates concerning the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest to all men now he that desires to see may see and let all who are wise hearted judge But if you do alledge they have been long and have reigned long and we are now come up and it is a new way and we come to breed divisions and dis●ention I answer the more is their shame and by that the more they are seen to be those that run and the Lord never sent them therefore they profit not the people at all who have reigned so long and wrought no better reformation in the land but it flows as much in iniquity and all manner of ungodlinesse as ever and the people that are taught by them as ignorant and as dark to the things of God as ever and here they would keep them by an outvvard power but the day hath made them manifest and the Scripture fulfilled which the Apostle spoke of who said it was the last times then and since they have continued you may know them by their frnits they profess Christ in words but in life deny him and the mystery of iniquity hath reigned a long time and there hath been a time of cruel darknesse and all the World hath wondered after and worshipped the beast and his Image and he hath reigned and by him the false Prophet hath reigned which hath deceived the Nations but now light is risen out of darkness and shines forth now in these latter daies in the sons and daughters of men according to the promise of God whereby the wiles of Sathan are made manifest to the glory of God and now is the separation the Sheep from the Gorts the Wheat from the tares and Christ is come to set at varience father against son and son against father and wife against the man and the man against the wife and to turn the world upside downe and this is the cause why the world rages and this is the condemnation of the world light is come into the world and they love darknesse rather than light because their deeds are evil and so to those who are in darkness it is new but we witness it is no new way but the same which was is and is to be for ever and the same signs follow but the adulterous generation cannot see it but they that believe shall see and be healed and though the beast and false prophet and those that bear the mark of the beast doth now make war with the Lamb and the Saints for to uphold their kingdome yet the Lamb the King of the Saints shall overcome and to him the Nations shall bow and the beast and false prophet and all that bear the mark of the beast into the lake for them prepared of old shall goe and for this end we are come out of our countries and outward habitations and possessions to preach to every conscience the eternal truth as it is in Jesus the everlasting Gospel as we have received it