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A65609	Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves, with a spiritual sword of their own forgery, whose names are here under-written their spreading spiritual murder cries up to heaven for justice, which appears clearly in this treatise ... / written in love as a fore-warning, given to all tender-hearted seeking, unsetled Christians, by Christopher Wade.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing W159; ESTC R33758	58,366	66

deceitful Tutor hath given you the slip again and hath enforced your own tongues to betray you again and to publish your own perpetual shame for by that your saying you do acknowledge in full effect with James Parnel your brother quaker aforesaid That your own confessing and forsaking your sins if you did so are and can be no other but your own meritorious works or fruits meriting and deserving mercy for you said That by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy And thus you again tender up the aforenamed ten principal quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrits by your affirming as being ing quakers That salvation cannot be merited by works but the devil leaves you not here neither but by that your affirmation he hath enforced you quakers most shamefully to pervert that inspired holy Scripture Prov. 28.13 for you over-stare Solomon's ground first laid for that his affirmation he first teaching men how to honour God in a right manner saying Honour the Lord thy God with thy substance and with the first fruits of thine encrease Prov. 3.9 hereby letting us know That God is not honoured except a man do first perform his Gospel-duties by God at that time established by mens obediently offering up to him typical sacrifices and oblations out of mens substance and first fruits of their encrease then typifying Christ to be sacrificed and his blood to be shed And it appears that if men then did not at first not only confess but also forsake their supreme sin against the Gospel of Grace and then obediently offer up to God in the very manner by him prescribed sacrifices oblations and offerings then typifying Christ to be offered up to God his Father and to be sacrificed for mens sins that that man neglecting that Gospel-duty was to be cut off from amongst his people according to Lev. 17.8 9. and they were also to bear their iniquity still Lev. 7.18 whatsoever their confessing and forsaking their other legal sins were And thus is proved that you quakers by your refusing the Gospel-imputation of the vertues of Christ lifted up and sacrificed without you for your sins as those typical sacrifices and Moses typically lifting up the brazen Serpent in the wilderness were all performed without men for mens healing And by your wilful persisting in the supreme Gospel-sin aforesaid you quakers confiding in your own meritorious confessing and forsaking your sin if in truth you do so as in truth you do not yet even by that performance you have cut your selves off from amongst God's people and whatsoeuer you fantastically fancy to the contrary you do bear your iniquities still even in your own self-Christed condition and by Scripture all legal exhortations in Scripture are to be subjected under the aforesaid supreme Gospel-sence for without mens confiding in the Gospel-Faith in Christ's blood shed all the quakers-Christs and all the quakers or any other man's Reformation is in Gods sight no other but noysome deformation for God himself inspiredly tells us plainly That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 you quakers And you quakers say That your man Christ in you is spiritual and a Spirit cannot die nor have his blood shed as when our Saviour's person was spirituallized in by and at his Resurrection it was impossible for him to die or have his blood to be shed again see Rom. 6.9 the vertues of which his blood shed you having desperately refused for your justification you having made it appear That your supposed Man Christ in you cannot possibly have his blood shed in you for your sins acted by you both before and more presumptiously now in your self Christed-quakery so that you have neither the vertues of Christ's real bloodshed without you nor within you to appear for your justification and therefore you cannot possibly confide in the vertues of any blood shed And thus you have again firmly staked down your luciferian Christs to be justified only by your own Popish works in your own confessing your legal sins and your supposed meritorious forsaking them and thereby you have rendred up again the forenamed ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites for behold you quakers if you have but one corner of a seeing eye left you to look out of your selves by what God inspiredly saith in his Scriptures which you frequently acknowledge are true see I say how highly God doth by them advance Christ's death and bloodshed and doth totally exclude works whether wrought by men or by any spirit in men whatsoever for mens justification in Rom. 3.24 25. Or secondly for the forgiveness of mens sins Ephes 1.7 Or thirdly for the doctrinal foundation of mens faith see Ephes 2.8 Or fourthly for mens reconciliation to God see Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.19 Or fifthly for mens Redemption see Ephes 1.7 1 Pet. 1.13 Or sixthy for the onely way for mens encouragement to enter by Faith even into the holy place before God Heb. 10.19 All which places and very many more such are fastned to mens faith in Christ's death and blood shed without men and they are all confirmed by that grand Scripture-principle That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 and works are totally excluded Blood is blood you quakers and works are works but they are not Christ's is blood And yet you high-flown quaking Christs are so stifned in impudency that you are not ashamed to establish your Christed indignity by popish meritorious works and yet desperately to face it out and in full effect calling the living God of heaven and earth to testifie for you that you mean no such matter But know you quakers That though it is written Work out your own salvation Phil. 2.12 yet the Apostle in the very next Chapter sheweth how they should work that out he telling them that they were to work or strive for the Faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 through Faith in Christ's blood Rom. 3.25 but not of works Ephes 2.8 And beloved the quakers choice principle being That every believer is justified by Christ alone without Imputation There is in this also included That as Christ himself hath authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of man John 5.27 and so hath power to forgive sins on earth Matth. 9.6 that so every quaker Christ man or woman must upon necessity conclude that they have authority to judge and justifie their own particular persons to be as free from all sin in them as Christ himself is and thereby they justifie themselves to be Christ for they refuse any Christ to be without them to judge and justifie them And thus that dark speech aforesaid comes forth cleered shewing how and by what authority every believer to wit every believing quaker do justifie themselves and so every such believer is justified by a self-quaker-Christ alone without any imputation which being done then there is a quakers self-constituted Christ holy and perfect in all respects inherently without any additional imputation of

any others righteousness to their imagined perfect perfection And thus they make themselves to be bran-new coyned glistering Christs without meritorious works also for they new being Christ assume to themselves authority to justifie their own Christhoods without merit or forgiveness from any God or Christ without or besides their own now Christes selves And further to confirm all this they affirm That Christ had no Body but his Church which is shewed in my next Discourse And now to shew that their own actions and words do confirm all this to be true which hath been said of them observe that they the quakers though some of them being not yet ripe quakers are something mealy mouthed yet that there are many bold-faced quakers that speak out and declare openly saying I am the way the truth and the life I am the judge of the world I am equal with God I am God's fellow I am God And as I have shewed That divers quakers have been upon evidence charged that they have thus spoken openly in full effect So I shall passing by James Milner and John Gilpin while he was a quaker though all their sayings are no less then if they did say I am Christ yet now I will for brevity sake onely produce one quaker from amongst the rest that did very lately proclaim openly in divers place in Cambridge-Market upon a Market-day which Town is about 3 miles from me the quaker then and there declared publickly with a loud voice saying I am Christ take my yoke upon you learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart The quaker taking up Christ's own words by him spoken as in Mat. 11.29 and by that quakers saying directly I am Christ it being suitable to the other quakers affirmations it appears there are many quaker-Christs and how they come to be so in their own estimation is before herein laid open even to publick view Some of them having also undertaken to save souls as Christ did And now it is worthy to be treasured up in the memory of all honest hearts how agreeable all these the quakers publick behaviours and declarations are to our Saviour's loving forewarning by him given and left to the world for men to take heed of such deceivers which he then said should arise in the world where he saith Let no man deceive you for many shall come in my Name saying as it is proved they say I am Christ those being the very same words which these deceivers apply to themselves and shall deceive many Matth. ●4 4 5. And further to prove that the quakers are deceivers note that they say they have no sin in them and they say also by their tenents That a man must be totally perfect from all sin in him or else he cannot be saved But now behold how flat contrary and against the Scriptures these their sayings are where it is said There is no man that sinneth not 1 Kings 8.46 There is no man that sinneth not 2 Chron. 6.26 and that there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 I could produce many other Testimonies from the Saints words they frequently confessing they were sinners but if we will believe God's own inspired Word before we give credence to such luciferian and as we have before proved dissembling equivocating hypocrites falsifiers of Scripture-words and notorious lying quakers then shall we apparently know That they are the very same deceivers which our Saviour forewarns us to take heed of for he saith they shall deceive many and accordingly it is very evident that they do deceive many And our Saviour goeth on and saith Then if any man say to you Lo here is Christ as they say I am Christ or lo he is there believe it not for false Christs shall arise and false Prophets and shall shew signs and wonders to deceive if it were possible the very elect but take ye heed behold I have shewed you all things before Mar. 13.21 22 23. Now the quakers many Christs being proved by holy Scripture to be false Christs let us apply to that truth the quakers proving themselves to be false Prophets also which is proved in my third Discourse and their striving to be accounted the Prophets of the Lord which appears in my thirteenth Discourse and adding thereto their Scripture-condemning signs and wonders which are shewed at the quakers meetings and preachings which is shewed by complaints made against them related in a printed book called Saul's Errand those tormenting signs and wonders being acted upon the bodies not onely of elder people but also upon and in the bodies of little children which the quakers do not deny And considering their astonishing signs and wonders shewed at their meeting which appears in my fourteenth Discourse These things being viewed together it will appear cleerly That all those three marks by which our Saviour discovers these deceivers he speaks of that is to say False Christs secondly false Prophets thirdly shewing signs and wonders are all firmly fixed by the quakers behaviours upon themselves That they are false Christs and false Prophets shewing deceitful signs and wonders And now if we do take notice in John Gilpin's printed book before named in my third Discourse That he therein affirmeth that the Devil did declare to him John Gilpin when he was a quaker in divers sorts of discoveries confirmed by a voice in him that he the devil was Christ in him and how that when the Devil did finde that John Gilpin did distrust it was he spake in him and not Christ as that voice in him pretended and that thereupon John Gilpin declined from the Devil and the quakers that then the Devil to draw John Gilpin into utter desparation on the other hand did acknowledge plainly that he was the Devil that had taught him and that he had been serving him the Devil and not Christ and that the Devil did tell him in full effect therewith that now it was too late for him to repent there was no mercy for him But John Gilpin in that book giveth God thanks for his great mercy in delivering him from the Devil and quakery And thus we have the Devils own testimony That it was he the Devil and not Christ that so powerfully acted in John Gilpin whilst he was a quaker And so in this discovery we have the Devils own testimony against the quakers Again calling to minde that James Nayler a principal teaching quaker hath so firmly proved by his own behaviour and divers other quakers and thereby hath adjudged himself and them also to be lyers and so not abiders in the truth and so are of the Devil and not of Christ by this we have the quakers own confession condemning themselves also So that now we have first Christ's own testimony pointed forth by three several marks secondly the consent of the Scriptures thirdly the quakers own confession and self-adjudgment and fourthly the testimony of the devil himself enforced as

after the Devil found that my merciful heavenly Father would not permit any of his quakish luciferian exaltations to rest in me to work my eternal destruction then the Devil with great violence flew at my person and would at two several times have strangled me in my throat to death so that it appears the Devil intended that I should never speak more in this world for had not my gracious God rescued me out of the Devils claws my body had then perished for my life was very neer lost at both those his violent ass●ults upon my person and at his departure from me he stroke me within my brest so that it smarted about a quarter of an hour after and also the Devil did therewith cast into me a strange foul noysome taste and smell which continued in me about a quarter of an hour also but the particulars at large of the Devils other manifold strong quakish delusions wrought in me are too many here to recite and although it hath pleased my heavenly Father out of his abundant mercy notwithstanding my great unworthiness totally and cleerly to deliver me not onely out of the devils priding quakish exaltations but also to rescue my person out of the devils devouring jaws yet still by those my former inward experiences in those the Devils subtil flattering powerful and destructive quakish delusions now by him exercised in you quakers I am by meer Grace inabled to know your quakers conditions and that by Satans spirit speaking in you as he hath formerly done in me you are over-powered deluded and hellishly snared notwithstanding the Devils false glistering varnish glittering on you And now I neither care nor fear in the least neither your quakers curses nor what any other man will censure of me for this my short Relation because my heavenly Fathers approbation in my conscience is contentedly in me sound satisfaction in full And now I am by the means aforesaid and other gracious helps so sensible of mine own unability and am so confident in my Lord Christ his gracious assistance whose person is in heaven without you and me that I could wish that thou James Nayler couldst if thou hast a stomack to it exercise thy pen to declare what thou canst do against me that am directly against all quakery for notwithstanding this my experimental warning fairly and faithfully given you yet I do conjecture that you quakers will roar for I see by your books that you quakers can can scould tantara against the Truth but I care not at all for that neither for these three evident causes first because you have behaved your selves so falsly already that your foul tongues are no slander although you would yet further slander with them Secondly because I do see that you quakers have your own selves set the antichristian brand so hard on and so fiery-hot upon your selves that that mark will remain to be seen fairly upon you quakers when you have done roaring Thirdly because I see that the more you write the more you discover your own shame and foolishness and that thereby you do give your Opposers more and more advantage to point out your quakers manifold quakish stumblings even quite out of all saving truths Again whereas you quakers do by your tenents affirm constanly in full effect that Christ in his flesh without men did not die at Jerusalem for any mans Gospel-justification before God the Father but that Christ did die in his person of flesh without men at Jerusalem for mens examples onely for men to learn and work in themselves by that his outward example patience meekness temperance and such-like holiness And secondly by your affirming in your tenents in full effect That men cannot work in themselves any perfect holy saving works by any outward example whatsoever set before them no saith your Doctrine men themselves cannot so work no say you therein it must be Christ onely that must work perfect holy saving works in men by his spiritual power alone or else men cannot be saved Now from these your sayings being compared together I do stand to maintain against you quakers that you must prove I say again if you will endeavor to support your rotten quakery you must prove by Scripture That Christ the Son of God and Creator of Heaven and Earth and all things which are therein was and is not able by his spiri ual power onely to work perfect holy saving works in men although ●e had never suffered in his tormenting death and blood shed even as perfectly by his spiritual power in men if that could have satisfied his Fathers justice for mens sins as if he had died for mens outward example onely a thousand times over as he established all the holy elect Angels by his spiritual power onely without any relation to the vertues of his personal death and dloodshed Therefore I say again if you quakers cannot prove by plain Scriptures That Christ the Son of God he being God was and is not able by his spiritual power alone to work saving perfect holy works in men although he had never suffered in his tormenting death and blood shed onely to purchase an outward example for men to look on and learn by onely to make themselves savingly holy you do not onely confute your selves in your aforesaid Doctrine which is that no man can do that but you do also therewith shew evidently that your quakery doth maintain that Christ did die absolutely and in all respects totally in vain I do acknowledge you quakers that Christ by his meekness patience and holiness shewed forth by him in his sufferings and death is our example and that he doth say Be ye holy for I am holy but it is firmly proved by Scriptures and the holy Saints in their inward man and yet confessing that they had sin remaining in their rebellious outward man even when they were born of God and that they were not free from sin in them at any time in this their life upon earth no not at their finishing their course and that it is God's permission that so it should be even in the Saints outward man or flesh for their humiliation and the preservation of the glory of his Gospel-free-grace to himself all which is proved so largely in my thirteenth Discourse by Scriptures that thereby it is evident that that exhortation Be ye holy for I am holy and all such places are directed to the inward man in men inlightned according to John 1.7 8. and not to the outward man or flesh for it is also firmely proved that that is so rebellious in it self that it cannot receive any holy exhortations therefore your quakers affirming in full effect that Christ died for mens examples onely that men might work in themselves by that outward pattern perfect holy saving works both in their inward and outward man also I affirm yet once again That if you quakers cannot prove that Christ was and is unable by his Spirit alone to work