like must needs go for a better knowing Christian with him then the dearest Child of God especially if he be young in Years and want those natural Helps and outward appearances Oh what havock hath such Doctrine as this of Baxter's made amongst his deluded Hearers and Admirers in this Nation so that now let the Man of God come to one of them in the purest Evidence and most powerful demonstration of the Spirit of Truth if he appear not to them cloathed and accompanied with these Natural and Worldly Abilities and Indowments they are fenced against the Lord's Messenger with such Arguments as these You are but young you have but studied a while you are of slender and mean Natural Parts and little or no Schollar-ship and have Prayed but little c. in comparison of our Grave and Learned Divines and the like So that as Christ said so we find now true That Publicans and Harlots enter into the Kingdom of God before such and now what a Curer of Church-divisions this Baxter is like to prove is easily seen and therefore that charge which his self-condemned Heart fear'd would come upon him may justly be brought upon him here which in his Preface to his Book he sets down thus They will affirm saith he That I have clawed with one party and have girded at the other and have sought to make them odious by bringing them under the Reproach of separation of censuring and avoiding the Ungodly and that being luke-warm my self and a Complier with sin I would have others to do so too And that these Reconcilers are neither Flesh nor Fish and attempt impossibilities even to reconcile Light and Darkness Christ and Belial and that for the sake of peace we would sell the Truth and would let in Church Corruptions out of an over eager desire of agreement and when they have all done neither Parties will regard them These are this Baxter's words in that Preface of his to that Book which is justly come upon him And indeed He may as well go about to reconcile Light and Darkness as bring the Children of Light whom God hath delivered our of the Darkness of and filthiness of Egypt and Sodom spiritual into Unity with them again for there is Enmity put between the two Seeds and those words of Christ in John 17.21 22. c. which he deceitfully puts in the Title Page of his Book are only proper to the living Members of the Spiritual Body of Christ which he calls mystical and not to any of the Worlds Churches or visible mixt Congregations of People whatsoever the words of the Apostle in John 17.21 c. are weightier then any Hypocrite can bear and they are these That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that thou also may be one in us that the World may believe that thou hast sent me and the Glory which thou hast given me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the World may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me God is arisen to drive Hypocrites from under all such shelter of words as they would hide themselves under for now is the City and Kingdom truly manifested and witnessed into which no Uncircumcised or Unclean shall enter but only the Redeemed born Babes and living Members of Christ. And now to the knowledge and experience not of the Evil World but of all that know God do I appeal to judge whether this R. Baxter or any of like spirit with him can be said to know any thing of the Oneness betwixt the Father and Son the Members of his holy Heavenly Body much less can be any of them who are not afraid to affirm That such are not to be disallowed from being Ministers of the Gospel though they want Grace totally And that Gifts are more necessary to the validity of Ministration then Grace is and that he may perform the Office of a Minister to the benefit of the Church that hath no saving Grace at all as Pag. 114. of his Book aforementioned and that there is no man alive that Worshippeth God without some sin and adds Do you ever pray your selves in secret or in your Families with out sin as in Pag. 19.5 And in Pag. 30. of his Preface to that Book That there is no Person Church on Worship on Earth faultless and with out Corruption and saith there further I justifie not the faults of my own daily Prayers and yet I never pray without them And in Pag. 34. c. That Cain was the first born Member in the Church of Adam's Family and cursed Cham was of the Church of Noah and reckons Lot's two Sons in law and Esau yea and the ten Tribes in their Apostacy to be of the Church And so having reckoned up and raked together all the Faults of the Blessed Seed of Abraham before Christ's coming in the Flesh and of all those called Christians after that mentioned in Scripture he most wickedly and imprudently sayes Pag. 44. That no one Member is in all these Scriptures or any other commanded to come out and separate from any one of all these Churches as if their Communion in Worship were Unlawful Directly contrary to 2 Cor. 5.11 Revel 18.4 5 6. c. Come out of Mystery Babylon the false Church saith God to his People Oh the Blasphemy of such mens Hearts that dare Intitle wicked men for a bear Profession sake of Religion to the Glory of the benefit of this Prayer of Christ's who prayes and his Prayers were alwayes heard That his might be one as he and the Father were and are one the Father in Christ and Christ in them and so made fellow Heirs and Pertakers of the Glory of Christ by free Gift But neither R. Baxter nor any graceless Minister nor sinful praying People whom he pleads for can ever be one as the Father and Son are one Therefore I may safely say to you all Who desires the good of your Souls and the Glory of God Come out from amongst them and joyn not with them No not in their Worship Actions as he calls them nor be ye Partakers in any of their sins or sinful Worship lese ye partake of their Plagues for the Temple of God is Holy and the Worship of God is Holy And so R. Baxter with all his own Corruptions and all his heaps of Lyes and false Accusations of the Brethren of Christ are for the Lake It is so And so I return to set down Baxter's Unchristian Answer to that former Objection against the singularity of separation the Objection is as before The greater Number are not alwayes in the right therefore why should my singularity discourage me Now to this Baxter answers Pag. 17.18 The greater Number saith he through the World are not in the right about Christianity for they
they wrest Scripture to their own and others destruction desiring and boasting themselves to be Masters and Teachers of others whilst themselves need teaching what the very Principles or beginning Doctrines of the true Christian Religion is as is plainly manifested by his seeking to bring in a graceless Minister or Woolf into Christ's Fold surely the Woolf comes not but to rob and destroy All that ever came before me saith Christ are Thieves and Robbers and never came in by the Door as its plain the graceless man doth not but hath clim'd up another way by his humane helps as Baxter speaks and to this purpose see John the 10th and Mat. 23. where Christ at large sets forth such woolfish Teachers who can perk themselves up in Places of Teachers by the World's help outwardly but will neither enter into the Kingdom of God themselves nor suffer others but shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against Men by such deceitful Doctrine and Antichristian Inventions as this Baxter hath by saying That Gifts are more necessary to the validity of Ministration then Grace is and that he may perform the Office of a Minister to the benefit of the Church that hath no Saving Grace at all And all knowledge requireth Time and Labour to obtain it though the Spirit giveth it which last saying doth directly thwort and contradict the Scripture which saith I was found of them that sought me not Iâ—a 65.1 And Paul sets believing and working in this great matter of the knowledge of God and Christ to Salvation one against the other as the way of the Law and Gospel for 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 saith he is the reward reckoâ—'d of Debt not gift of Grace but to 〈…〉 it is of Grace to the Glory of Gods great Love to man for saith Scripture God so loved the World that he gave his Son that whosoever on him believe should not perish but have Life Eternal And none can truely say but those are the best 〈◊〉 and wisest People that have Eternal Life in them though they never laboured for it nor sought for it and so such as this Baxter who looks at all as obtain'd by Time and Labour they are those spiritual proud ones who are swelled so big with spiritual Pride that self Idolizing sin which as himself saith in his second Direction so called is the great Rebel against God the chief part of the Devil's Image that one sin which breaketh every Commandment the heart of the old Man the Root and Parent and Summery of all other sin the Antichristian Vice which is most directly contrary to the Life of Christ c. and these Letter-wise-men that have patched together a Garment of Fig-leaves to cover their sinful nakedness are proud of meer supposed spiritual excellencies for the way of the Blessed Spirit and its free Gifts and free workings in the Children of Men they are strangers unto and then through their Humane Learning and lost Labour having gotten a little or a great deal of talk from the Letter of the Scripture concerning Religion in their Earthly Spirits which sees nothing of the Kingdom of God they condemn the Generation of the Just whom God Teacheth and Blesseth with all Spiritual knowledge in Heavenly things and call them Spiritually proud because they cannot but speak very highly and yet in the truest humility of Heart concerning the great things that God hath done for their Souls and because they cannot joyn with the Wicked whom God abhoreth neither in their Worship nor other sinfull Customs And so out of that old Bottel come all those unsavory expressions of R. B. before mentioned against the free Teachings of God's Spirit yea so great an Enemy he is to the wholsom Doctrine of free Grace that Pag. 7. he saith Is it not Blaspheming of God's Spirit to make it the Patron of mens sloth and idleness under pretence of Magnifiying Grace To which I answer That pretending we deny and truely say with the Apostle That God who commanded Light to shine out of Darkness hath shined in our Hearts to give us yea most freely without our own Labour or any humane Help The knowledge of the Glory of his Kingdom and those that call this Doctrine either in the Apostle or us a Patronizing of Sloth and Idleness are those that do really blaspheme God's Spirit which teacheth it But many Texts saith R. B. commands us diligence and sloth is a great Sin To which I say the Scripture indeed commands a diligent improvement and Holy exercise of the free Gifts which the Spirit hath giveth the Faithful But the Scripture never said that Humane Labour and Helps are the Means to be used for getting the Spirit 's Teachings and without which no knowledge in Spiritual Matters is now received Stir up the Gift of God in thee saith Paul to Timothy so say I But he no where puts the Humane or Carnal man to Work or Labour to get the Spirit for that is quite contrary to this Scripture Gal. 3.2 as also Rom. 9.16 Obj. But this Baxter asks this Question Why hath God settled a Teaching Office in his Church and commanded all to attend and hear and learn if we are taught by the Spirit without man's help Why were the Apostles sent forth into all the World c Answer Here is the great stumbling of these Unbelievers the Worldly wise ones indeed what because God in his free unlimitted Spirit did begift men and in his own Spiritual Power sent them forth to preach and publish all abroad the Glory of his Kingdom and Good Will to men cannot People therefore be taught by the Spirit without man's Help What reasonings this when the Scripture expresly saith That all the Gifts and Alities Helps and Means of bringing People to God and the Knowledge and Enjoyment of all the Good Things of his Kingdom are meerly solely wholly from God his blessed Spirit 's free Gift in Christ and not from man at all And therefore when the Corinthians began to look at man whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas he calls it Carnal and said Christ was not divided signifying plainly it was Christ and the Spirit of his Power that alone did all in all as Christ said John 15. Without me you can do nothing for in the True Church Christ ever was and ever will be all in all man nothing as Paul said of himself Paul is nothing But in the False Church where R. B. is pleading for man yea Graceless Ministers man is all and Christ suffered to have no Rule But those mine Enemies saith Christ That would not that I should Rule bring them and stay them before my face But what sottishness is this in R. B. to ask such a Question as this when himself confessed in the very last words before it That none are so forward to preach as these same men that cry down mens Teaching Whereby it plainly appears that we do not deny God's Teachings and the Spirit 's Good and Gratious Gifts
are not Christians and the greater number of vulgar Christians be not in the right perhaps in many Points of Learning and Scholastick Controversies because they are not learned in such Controversies but all Godly men and Christians are in the right in all Points Essential to Godliness and Christianity And therefore they are in the certain way of Life And if in any integral or accedental Point you think you are wiser then the greater part of men as Learned and as Godly as your selves you must give very good Proofs of it to your selves and others before it is to be believed I know that in all Ages God giveth some few men more excellent natural Parts then others and he engageth some in deeper and more laborious Studies then others and he Blesseth some mens Studies more then others and therefore there are still some few who know more then the rest of the Country or Mankind and it were well for the rest if they knew these and would learn of them But these are such as come to their Knowledge by hard and laborious Studies and Meditation though also by the Spirit 's Blessing their endeavours and they are such as give proof of the Knowledge they pretend to and they are such as imploy their Knowledge to preserve the Peace and Concord of Believers and do not proudly make a stir with it to set up their own Names though hereby they set the World on fire To which by way of reply I answer and say That there is not the least Child of Light But doth truely and easily see the nature of the Spirit by which this R. B. is still acted and the end he drives at for as for the Spirit by which he is acted it still appears plainly to be the spirit of this World that never knew God nor the Mysteries of his holy and Heavenly Kingdom by which Earthly spirit by much poring on Books without him he hath attained to a deal of Unsanctified graceless Knowledge as himself speaks Pag. 114. to deceive the simple People by who are Ignorant of Satans Devises and as for his end it is also as manifest to be this to wit to bring People who were in some measure pressing out of Babylon back into Egypt and Babylon again and yet to cover his deceit lest the Simple should see him without an Interpreter he brings in the Spirit as to help his Humane Labour and Carnal Endeavours But the Spirit of God which he strikes at in all his writing will be no Drudge or Slave to any such Vain Self-ended Proud Mind in any But of these words where he saith That all Godly men and Christians are in the right in all Points Essential to Godlyness and Christianity and therefore in the certain Way of Life as he saith Let us consider for in his sence they are most notoriously false and wicked for as for Godly men who ever imagined otherwise much less denied in words or so that they were in the right but as for that he saith That all Christians viz. all that were sprinkled when they were Children and that so being grown up make an outward Profession of Christ for such in Spiritual manner he means by Christians as is most manifest are in the right in all Points Essential to Christianity and so in the certain Way of Life It is such a notorious peice of falshood and so impudent an assertion that no one saying can more gratifie the Devil and so help to build up his Kingdom then it doth Nay it certainly gives the Lye to the certain experience and Testimony of all the holy men of God both formerly and now for Paul said in his day That many professed and nominal Christians do so walk as that they were Enemies to the Cross of Christ whose god was their their Belly and who gloried in their shame and whose end was destruction Phil. 3. and were these in the right Points Essentiall to Christianity and in the certain Way of Life what Contradiction and Blasphemy is this And the same Apostle tells some among the Corinthians That they had not the knowledge of God Cor. 15. and what were these right also in all Essentials what is not the knowledge of God an Essential Point of Christianity Nay without the knowledge of God no Eternal Life and yet this Baxter is not ashamed to affirm That such as know not God are in the certain Way of Life And further to the experience of all that know God do I appeal whether this R. B. doth not here in his blindness justifie the very Papist Yea and all other sorts of People who any way in the outward profess Christ especially if they be outwardly sprinkled with Water young or old for saith he in his Preface Pag. 33. Christ hath solemnly and purposely made the baptismal Covenanting with him to wit by outward washing to be the Tearm and Title to Church-Member-ship and Communion and the owning of this same Covenant is the sufficient Title of the Adult or those of ripe years and the Imposers that come after and require another kind of Evedence of Conversion or Sanctification then this do confound the Church and enslave the People and leave no certain way of Tryal Thus far R. B. by which it appears whether this Baxter by endeavouring to keep his credit with the world is wandred beyond all the Bounds of Reason and Modesty Nay Mystery Babylon her self though she be become a Cage of every unclean and barefull Bird and a very Habitation of Devils must not pass unjustified by him but be reckoned to be right in all the Essentials of Christianity and in the certain Way of Life For without all Controversie this Mystery Babylon is of that Number who in words profess God and Christ and have a Name to live though they be dead as this Baxter is or it were not a Mystery if it were not covered from the Worlds Eye with a shew of what it is not Revel 17 18 19. Chapters Yet so far is this Baxter sunk into the Dark Pit of Antichristian Abomination that he acounts it an abuse and false Interpreting of Scripture to perswade any from that Command Come out of Babylon to separate from professed or nominal Christians though full of Iniquity Page 32. then which nothing more can gratifie his Father the Wicked One and his Adulterous Mother the Synagogue of Rome for though he would seem in some words here and there in his Book to be no Papist yet there is never an Argument he brings for the Fellow-ship with Dead and Corrupted Members and against those that separate from such but they will fully serve to prove the Company of the Pope to be a Church and all them to blame who have separated from him in outward Church-Fellowship upon any pretence whatsoever So foolish is the World's Wisdom when it is set against Truth But this Baxter having laid his Wicked and False Ground That all that are called Christians are in the
first thing that this Baxter would have you his principal and best taught Hearers to confess to wit That Pride is in your very Hearts which if you were sensible of you would cease calling God your Father and Christ your Redeemer in this wretched State for to you in this State it may be truely said as Christ said to those unbelieving Jews Ye are of your Father the Devil for Pride of Heart is the chief part of his wicked Image and indeed the main thing in this day which hinders you from coming to Christ the meek pure and lowly Lamb of God is the Pride of your corrupt Hearts as Jeremiah said to the Jews If you will not give Glory to God before your feet stumble upon the dark Mountains my Soul shall mourn in secret for your Pride It was the Pride of their Hearts that was the ground of all their Evils as it is of yours for from the Pride of your Hearts comes your Ignorance of Mind and partiallity and want of all good to the dishonouring of your Profession and what not So that it may easily be known who sent this Baxter who hath profited you nothing at all For they have ran and I have not sent them saith God Therefore they cannot profit the People at all Jer. 23. And that this R. B. might make it fully appear under whose Banner he fights and for whose Kingdom he pleads lest the rest of his Book should leave it doubtful He is now come forth in his proper shape as the absolute Enemy of God and all good men that in any measure are looking Heaven-ward being burdened with the fellowship of the Wicked and instead of helping the Lord 's little Ones against the great Power of the Dragon in the Persecutors he hath hammered forth all the wicked Weapons that he can for the Wicked Persecutors and against the tender hearted ones of God who are travelling to the holy Land with Egypt left behind as in that 55. Direction so called and Pag. 254. of his said Book appears where he hath these words Little do many real Separates who cry out against the spirit of persecution suspect that the same spirit is in them Whence is Persecution but from thinking ill of others and abhorring them or not loving them And do you not so by those saith he whom you causlesly separate from Answ. Here by way of Answer before I set down any more of this naughtiness of his I cannot but take notice of this word causlesly which here this Baxter puts in to cover his deceit for though at the first look one might judge he intended only causless or unwarrantable or wicked separation yet Reader thou must know he intends as well the truely tender hearted People of England who in conscience to God and according to his holy Commandment are come out and separated from the fellowship of the Wicked in these dayes and so cannot take part in the Offerings of the dead as well as others and at these in a special manner he strikes after his accustomed manner through the sides of others for his main Envy is against the living Members of Christ And so though those that separate without cause may have the like mind to those they separate from being different onely in Form but not in Heart from them yet such as are separated by the Power of God as Paul was whom God separated from his Mothers Womb calling him by his Grace have not for these stand out of their own thoughts and are in the Will and Work and Worship of God whose Worship is in Spirit and Truth But to proceed Baxter saith further You will say that though you think them not to be true Christians yet you love them as men and wish their good and so will those say by you saith he whom you call your Persecutors though they think you to be proud and humerous and disobedient yet they say they love you as men and do but correct you to cure your self-willedness and humor and to do you good and to preserve the publick Peace They think you to be bad and therefore Imprison you You think them to be bad and therefore avoid Communion with them To this I cannot but by the way speak a word Who is there that sees not the very spirit of the Egyptian Sorcerers acting in this very thing to the hardening of Pharoah's Heart lest he should let Israel go But this Baxter goes on in his wickedness and saith They to wit the Persecutors think you so bad as to be unworthy of civil Liberty and Priviledges You think them so bad as to be unworthy of Church Priviledges and Liberties They think you unworthy to be suffered in the Land perhaps and you think them unworthy to be suffered in the Churches they cry against you Away with them they are Schismatical or Heretical you cry against them Away with them they are Prophane Answ. Now in answer to this I say That we who are of the World scornfully called Quakers have everlasting cause to praise the Lord who hath redeemed our Souls from among such devouring Wolves as this R. B. and from such a venomous spirit as he is acted by What Heathen upon Earth could strengthen the hands of the Persecutors against the Righteous more then this Baxter by such Arguments as this doth what if this Baxter had lived in the dayes of the Apostles and first Christians when God separated them from the Congregation of the unbelieving Jews surely he could not but have been but accounted famous and worthy of great Honour amongst those persecuting Jews for such Arguments as these for never an Argument he brings for the Persecutors now but it would as much have fitted the Persecutors then against the Christians yea and it would formerly yea and doth at this day fit the Papists against the Protestants as well as the persecuting prophane superstitious Protestant against them whom God hath drawn by his mighty Power this day from amongst them For seeing he sets but thought against thought the Persecutors thoughts of the Righteous against the persecuted man's thoughts of him and seeing all thoughts are questionable he leaves this ground for the persecuting Jew to reason to excuse himself against the first Christians according to his hellish Invention on this wise viz. ' You Christians who separate from us are of as bad a spirit as us Jews whom you call your Persecutors for what is Persecution but a thinking ill of others and abhorring them or not loving them And do you not so by us whom you causlesly separate from And though you say though you think us not as Servants of God or so yet you love us as men and wish our Good so do we you and that which we do against you which you call Persecution is but a correcting of you to cure your self-willedness and humor and to do you good and to preserve the publick Peace And though you think much you Christians that we
Time But by all these unfound unchristian and ignorant sayings it fully appears that this Bryan is one of them who have neither seen nor known Christ seeing he would bring in the Heathen into the Temple without the Word and so who is more ignorant and prophane then this Priest Bryan himself as also his Brother Baxter who is not ashamed to make such a one a Tutor or Father of Ministers who is ignorant of the very Door and entrance into the Church and of Christ's second coming nay who is ignorant of his first appearance which was for Judgment even to whip the Buyers and Sellers and all prophane Ones out of his House as he said himself For Judgment come I into this World And so What Pastors or Teachers can such Tutor as are so ignorant of Christ's Kingdom and so admit the Ignorant and Prophane into their Church or Cage of unclean Birds for the Church of Christ which is visibly seen and known by the Spiritual Eye to be his Body is holy and â—nto it can no unclean thing enter as saith Scripture Revel â—1 27 but into the Worldâ—s-Church may both ignorant and prophane enter and dwell but at such dishonest Gain as is gotten by such Doctrines as this of Bryan and Baxter hath the Lord long shaken his Hand Is this your Ware that you sell to the People at so dear a rate Is this your Straw and Stubble that you feed them with But no man of any understanding in venly matters will buy any more of your Merchandize forever For God is come to teach his People himself and the Spirit of God is felt and witnessed amongst us praised be God yea and in our very Hearts to teach us and by which we feel Christ come again the second Time without sin to Salvation according to his holy Promises and by whose all powerful Word of Faith and heavenly Presence in us are we joyned together unto him in one holy Body glory to his Name over all for he is worthy so be it And for that saying That Christian Princes have not less Power to abolish Idolatry and by Law and Penalties to compel their Subjects in matters of Religion where there is a parity of reason then the Jewish Kings under that Law had I Answer and say That all are not Christians who are so called and this crying up the Worldly Magistrates Power in matters Spiritual is the onely in let into Persecution of the tender Hearted People of God who cannot bow to every thing the World sets up yea though it come under the name or shew of Christian Religion and if the Image be of Gold never so goodly yet wanting Life and Power they cannot bow to it I say they who preach up the wordly Princes under what Name soever to have power over the Consciences of People in matters purely Spiritual as the whole Body of Christian Religion is are Antichristian and the great Enemies of that Liberty which Christ hath purchased for his People and which the Apostles sealed unto with their Blood saying in such cases Let every man be fully perswaded in his own Heart And who art thou that judges much less forceâ— and compellest as Bryan and Baxter's Doctrine would have it another to his own Master 10 wit God the Judge of all he standeth or falleth see Rom. 14th at large but what account will these Daubers give to the Lord for all the Innocent Blood they have caused to be shed these many hundred Years is sad to consider For though such Magistrates as are evil inclined are not free yet the false Teachers who by their Lyes stir up yea and bring forth that evil inclination into real actings against the good shall receive the greater Condemnation and yet notwithstanding all the evil both in the one and in the other the Lord will certainly carry on his great Work to his own praise which he hath begun glory to his Name for ever And the Beast Whore and false Prophet shall alive together be cast into the Lake prepared for them and into the Pit which they had digged for others so be it Also whereas he saith That it sufficeth that we have examples in the old Testament for the Magistrates Power in Church matters though none in the new Testament or so I say it is no more true then if we should reason for an outward worldly Temple and Sacrifices and Circumcision now because there is examples of these things in the old Testament and for revenge and retaliation now because it is mentioned in the old just contrary to Christ For though it hath been said of old saith Christ an Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth yet I say to you my Disciples under the New Covenant If any Man smite you on the one Cheek turn to him the other and the Apostle saith Dearly beloved avenge not your selves but if thy Enemy hunger feed him c. and so Christ being come and all Power in Heaven and Earth given him Is not he in these Spiritual matters relating to the very Soul and Conscience the onely Lord Law-giver and King and Supream and ought of right to rule in his own House and Temple which is in Man and those that will not that he should rule must bow before him and be ashamed before his Face as saith Scripture 2 Thes. 2. So that now the Son of God being come and seated by right of Inheritance the true King and Heir upon David's Throne to rule in Righteousness forever in the Hearts of his Children he commands the true Seed of Israel to obey his heavenly Voice Law and Doctrine spoken and written within as those outward and typical Kings did command the fleshly Seed of Abraham to keep Moses's Law written without and as those that obeyed not that outward Law of Moses were lyable to the punishment of that Law so they nâ—w that obey not Christ's Spiritual Law written in the Heart and Conscience by his holy Power are lyable to the Eternal Judgment of Jesus Christ the Judge of Quick and Dead as he saith The Father judges no Man but hath committed all Judgment to the Son and as for the worldly Magistrate he is to rule in outward things betwixt man and man to see that every one as to the Body and outward Estate be well beheaved one towards another and not to bear the Sword in vain as hath been too much in use even amongst them called Christian-Magistrates as well as others from whence it hath come to pass that for the sake of the Poor whom the worldly Powers have oppressed as well in Temporals as Spirituals the Lord hath overturned them one Sort after another as they were found in the abuse of that Power and Trust which was put into their Hands for the protection of and encouragement and praise of the Good and punishment of the Evil-Doers but not the contrary according to that of the Prophet I will overturn overturn overturn till he come whose Right it is And so until Truth Righteousness Goodness Equity and Justice rule both in the Hearts and Lives of the Children of Men there will neither be Peace nor Establishment of any thing but as a Wheel will the whole Earth be from Generation to Generation saith the Spirit who is the sweet Orderer in all things for the holy Seed's sake glory to his Name forever And so in the Love and Kindness of the Lord God have I been thus enabled for the Truth and the poor People's sake to lay open something of the Deceits and gross Hypocrisie of these two Men called Baxter and Bryan who have long under a Cover or Vizard of Holiness deceived the unstable Souls of many but now the Covering being rent off their Wolfish nature is fully manifest glory to the Lord the good Work-man over all forever so be it T. T. THE END