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A64240	Impostor magnus, or The legerdemain of Richard Delamain now preacher in the city of Hereford. Being a narrative of his life and doctrine since his first coming into that county. Faithfully collected and published by one that will assert the truth of each particular. Yay.	Taylor, Silas, 1624-1678.	1654 (1654)	Wing T553A; ESTC R219169	24,689	35

licentiousness and prophanness for if we were not bound to keep close to a known rule but left at liberty to follow the dictates of our own carnal appetites to live and practise accordingly if religion be some thing at large not bounded or bonded if it were only in this or that mans particular liberty and in pretence to become all things to all men and this liberty to be explained by the respective owners and pretenders then sarewell to the very genuine sense of the word Religion and to all civil society to oppose them in their wicked wils is an infringement of their liberty and what can be else expected but a meer confusion in Government and propriety which is his longed for expectation knowing the best fishing is in the muddiest waters But that I may not long detain you from a Sermon which I know you expect from our profound Doctor though as yet no Minister for Crab-like he crawled backwards into these degrees first a Preacher and afterwards as he saith ordained I shall here present you with the Sceleron of one of his Sermons which your imagination may help out because having such rich conceits and far fetched novelties for the bare-heads you may easily believe the covering was not much different he believes not the litteral meaning of the Scripture and therefore allegorizeth the three first verses of the third Chapter of Matthew whence he would have us note that the voice of John the Baptist crying in the wilderness was the incomes of God into the wilderness of men That those Incomes of God 1. Do make the ascension of Christ within us for Christ is dead and buried in the Soul till these Incomes come 2. Are an exceeding weight of glory 3. Are a Soul-saving glory 4. Do set a Christian on the shoulders of Christ and then he may see compleatly 5. Do bless the Soul 6. Do deliver the Soul 7. Do deaden all things to the Soul beside God so that nothing but the Lord shall live there Then makes some shift I know not how to fall aboard with heaven and tells you if you can understand him for I confess I cannot That Heaven is an estate of God nothing to be seen but God and when thus I see God then Heaven is manifested It contents a carnal Christian to have Heaven without and Christ without c. but a spiritual Christian looks for God within and heaven within That there is no heaven but in the hearts of the Godly Hogs-wash nor hell but in the Hearts of the wicked so that a man converted is hell changed into heaven That Hell fire is nothing but the Spirits consuming and burning up of Lusts c. Now I hope for my repetition I shall be excused from my Exposition and how would you have me expound that which I do not understand I confess my ignorance and will leave it to that generation whom he imagines have a more glorious dispensation above Scriptures and Ordinances or else to some that understand him for he knew no other death burial or ascention of Christ nor heaven nor hell but in the Soul and how can you expect other from him At other times that he might shake and overturn the basis and foundations of the Faith once delivered to his Disciples it was his use in his familiar and private converse to low the seed of the Doctrine of the Seekers from that place of Scripture If ye are risen with Christ Col. 3.1 seek the things that are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of his Father making the whole intention and scope of the holy Spirit a notional Allegory and holding out from thence that in matters of Doctrine and Tenents there was nothing certain especially what was at any distance from his way and that indeed was his practise with his Neophytes or Novices to preach to them of shakings of Mount Slon and Sinai and what is written by the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews yet once more and I shake not only the earth but the Heavens you may easily interpret it his way considering his design of beating Christians off from duties and his imagination of the locallity of heaven and earth to be the souls and hearts of people by this he endeavored to shake men from off their confidence in Scripture-rule or way then putting them upon a seeking way and to whom should such as were thus in their foundations shaken have recourse but to such as were able to shake them and so as it was said of the Pharisees of old may be said of our new one Math. 23. that they compass Sea and Land to make one Proselyte and when he is made they make him twofold more the childe of hell then themselves When he had tempered them to this pass they were sit subjects to receive any impression and then he makes known to them that there are nor either three or two persons in the God-Head and was much offended at the word Trinity not understanding that it signified a Three but it is the practise of Impostors to speak evil of those things which they know not Jude not minding what the Scripture saith that there are three which bare record in Heaven the Father the Word and the holy-Holy-Ghost 1 Joh. 5.7 and these three are one here is Trinity in Unity but it is no marvel that he that spake so slightly of the God Head should deny the holy Trinity he that dare contrary to the plain words of the Scripture which saith God is light and in him is no darkness at all belch out this blasphemy That God is darkness and prosecute his horrid positions with pretended reason and with telling his reprovers they wanted understanding can you imagine he would stick at any eeror yet favor him a little further and he will tell you Christ is Faith and Christ is Repentance That the world sees Christ till the Spirit comes and then the light of the Spirit puts out the eye of the world That external administrations shall be shortly abolished That the body shall not rise again and that the humane nature of Christ did not rise again he may as well say so as deny the history contrary to those places of Scripture which affirm Christs resurrection and plainly say that Christ is now risen from the dead and become the first fruits of those that slept and those many undenyable arguments wherewith the Apostle Paul doth syllogize the Corinthians into an understanding and belief of the resurrection 1 Cor. 15. in the fifteenth Chapter of his first Epistle He commends to their readings the inexplicable Treatises of Chimital Divinity written by the German Doctor Behmen therein admiring what neither Writer Reader or Hearer could understand or make sense of much applauding his Tincture his Ignis fatuus and Turba magna Reader these were all as simple as they stand here terms of Divinity there was another such-piece of extasied non-sense written by a

melancholly Frier or Brother of the Teutonick order and smelt extreamly of the ingredients of Sulphur and Rhenish wine whose name I have forgot who was in great veneration among them so were also Mr. Colliers works and truly with Randalphs discreet translations such opinionists might have been furnished with a small library of such Books whose very names would have troubled you more then the wooden horse did the Trojans but that you may not be troubled with the reading of them you shall have them epitomized in two words They were profound non-sense yet our Impostor would have had ready an answer for you and so had his Disciples also They were non sence to you because you cannot understand them and what they could not express themselves in the interpretation that they did admire hoping sometime or other they should with waiting have it revealed unto them and they could conceive something more a great deal then they could utter but the women they understood it as fast as could be and their admirations were at their own understanding even so do the Turks admire Ideots thinking they have something extraordinary of God in them because they understand them not This jigg that our Impostor used was not the armor of good lives but only the canva-painted-stalking horse of delusion One Sabbath day he urged from these words in Ecclesiastes For to him that is joyned to all the living there is hope Eccles 9.4 for a living dog is better then a dead Lyon Where only naming the latter part of the verse without looking or considering the first either through wilfulness or negligence he declared and insisted upon it that the living dog was Christ Jesus and the dead Lyon were Believers and how sweetly this indign exposition may serve for his notional frenzy let any one judge but this I have been assured that when he had finished his half hours folly being reproved for such an interpretation or application this reproof being before the most and chiefest of his Auditors with a request to him to read the foregoing verses and the precedent part of that verse by which he might plainly have seen his mistake the wise King speaking there of life and death he made this publick replication first by an interrogation whether his reprover did hear him give that interpretation of it to which having received a positive affirmation because he had wrote it after him he then made this reply that his reprover did not hear with spiritual ears that though that interpretation were false to his reprover yet it was true to him and so being netled and in passion flung out of the room which answer and carriage was somewhat disrelished by some of his Auditors and excused by mans frailty But what he meant by the two contrarieties of Truth and falshood you may plainly-see by another passage that was uttered by him much about that time for having paced the ground-work of the ruined Castle of Snowdle in the gilden valley and making a draught of the ground-lines upon a piece of paper seigning a small scale to it for the dimension which how unlike a Mathematicians work it was I will not now declare though if he had had any ingenuity he might have had a little more insight in the Mathematicks from his Father who had some skill in them he superscribed the Scale with these words Scala passium and being before some of his admirers reproved for false Latine he replyed that though it was false Latine to his reprover yet it was true to himself by which you may perceive the Blades opinion of true and false but to his Doctrine the Scripture saith otherwise of ambiguities That there is but one Faith 2 Pet. 1. Eph. 4. one Baptism one Truth one Way and one Lord Jesus and that no Scripture is of a private interpretation whereas he saith it may be false to one and true to another this is rare but real Upon an extraordinary convention of friends at Bredwardine in the presence of Colonel Taylor Mr. Tombes Captain Taylor Mr. Bedwell Mr. Swayn and others he made shift in his arguing which was carried on by him with such an elated arrogance and impudent scornfulness of the Ministers that were there to pronounce in plain words without welt or guard That himself was God Replic God is essentially God are you essentially God Delamain answered I am God as God is God Replic If you are God then we must worship you Which he presently went about to confirm with Scripture unreasonably wresting and applying to himself that text and saying it is written Esa 49.23 Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and Queens your nursing Mothers they shall bow down unto thee with their face towards the earth Yet at the same time declared himself to be a beast and that God did oftentimes speak through such beasts which they granted for to strengthen his position it was there acknowledged that God had spake through Balaams Ass What is there wanting now to the Completion of the Characters of Deceivers Doth he not deny the only Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ Doth he not bring in damnable Heresies Even denying the Lord that bought us bringing upon himself swist desstruction Is he not Antichristian in exalting himself above all that is called God 2 Thes 2.4 or that is worshipped as God sitting in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God Is not this man fit now to be entrusted with double Benefices and the care of Souls being such a blasphemous novice wresting the Scriptures unto the destruction of himself and of those that hear him and follow him despising learning and learned men because such are able to fathom and unvail his setches and yet forsooth himself would be thought a Scholar owning himself of the University of Oxford and being demanded by Mr. S. a Gentleman of Worcestershire of what Colledge he was he answered him of Emanuel Colledge oportet mendacem esse memorem here his friend the Devil did not readily assist him but left him to shift for himself which how poorly he did I need not tell you for though Emanuel be applicatory to his notions yet I understand not how Oxford is At Wyebridge house in Hereford being discipling his auditors to a very great height of whimsy he pointing to a silver Beer-Bowl standing on the Table said that that was God to him I believe he spake truth before he was aware of it yet his baseness was great in comparing the great Creator of Heaven and Earth to vile contemptible and corruptible things as silver and Gold These blasphemies are not the tenth nor the hundredth part of what he hath practised his profane mouth withall yet enough to startle any one from having either belief or confidence in him or in his Doctrine still he proceeds gaping after filthy lucre and plots now to get into some publike place because he knew all people would in a short time grow weary of him for