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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34987	A backslider reproved and his folly made manifest and his confusions and contradictions discovered in a short reply to a book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A word to the upright, who being turned from the light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it; but his weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken / written for the Truths sake by a servant thereof known by the name Stephen Crisp ; unto which is added a brief answer to a pamphelet [sic] stiled A brief discovery of the labourers in mystery Babylon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.; Atkinson, Elizabeth. Breif and plain discovery of the labourers in mistery, Babilon, generally called by the name of Quakers.; Travers, Anne. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.; Coleman, Elisabeth. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.	1669 (1669)	Wing C6925; ESTC R29284	17,630	26

he tells us in the same 26 page That the Father the Word and the Spirit are all One both in respect of consent in their Testimonies and also in respect of their eternity of being so which of these shall we believe that Christ and his Spirit are One or that they are not One R. C. will do well to tell People which he will stand by And for Cobbet's pleading or hoping That the Powers will keep up a Charity to us upon the account that thousands of us do he hopes believe his narrative of God and his desire altering the matter for a corporal form into a nature for production of creatures speaking forth the modal by his word c. page 26. Truly we need not R. C. to set forth an account of our Faith and Belief in these things neither can we own it or him for if we should we should soon be brought under the judgment both of God and Man And for his pleading That in the soundest Bodies there sometimes breaketh forth a Boyl Truly if he aims at us by this Body as I think he doth we do confess that so far as ever he was of us so far he is that Boyle which we confess is now broken forth but they that know him in particular know how little he was of us and how little while he profest himself to be of us so his breaking-out and running like a boyle or sore the corrupt matter that was in him is no great disparagement to the Body for the body is sounder without him than with him and whilst he was amongst us he was often breaking out with his whimseys and imaginations so that he became naucious unto us but not in so gross a manner as now And for R. C. saying That some of us knew that he counted our language but a cant language We know that from the first of his coming among us he was far enough from our language or life either but it is no great matter for him to call our Language a Cant who replyes to our words thus viz. when we said The Lord is one and his Name one he answers Friends do not caper as in his 2d page And he saith in his 31 page That he is no Quaker of which all that ever saw or heard any thing of the Quakers Books or Doctrines will bear him witness for never did Quaker appear in such a heap of confusion as R. C. hath done and yet that malicious saying of his in this 31 page That to be a Quaker is to deny his Lord and Master God will judge him for if by Lord and Master he means the Lord Jesus Christ as I think he doth But he that really and truly is his Lord viz. the Prince of the air that rules in the hearts of such disobedient Children and Apostates as he is He I confess he must deny more than ever yet he hath done before he can become a Quaker or have unity with them who are scornfully so called But why doth R. C. in his 30 page come with a kiss Judas-like and say Brethren I will ask you a question c. when as the matter he intends there to insinuate to his Reader is That we deny that Christ that was born of the Virgin Mary to be Christ Is not this on purpose to betray us and beguile his Reader and that with a Lye for we never yet denied him that was born of the Virgin Mary and suffered under Pontius Pilato to be the Lord and Saviour But indeed we never did believe him to be produced by coagulation as R.C. doth nor by generation of and from the properties of Man in Mary for then some might have declared his generation which the Scripture saith Who can do And besides we believe him to be the Eternal Son of God But if Cobbet's Doctrine be true then he was not before Mary but his ignorance of Christ is sufficiently manifested to all that have an eye opened And as to his saying That the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 15.1 2 3. That the Sufferings of Christ is the Power of God and Gospel by which we are saved That 's false and a belying the Apostle and Scripture too for all that reads the text may see that the Apostle speaks of his Sufferings but as one part of many of that Gospel which he had preached but it was the Resurrection of Christ he most of all pointed at as the principal thing they must come to feel the power of as in vers 12. Many more of Cobbet's Absurdities and Contradictions I might note down as also those noted in the Answer to his first Book which yet remains unanswered nor so much as an attempt made thereof he it may be dispairs of ever reconciling them in the sight of rational men But these at present may satisfie the ingenious Reader what spirit it is in Robert Cobbet that hath taken in hand to settle People in these erring dayes and to preserve the young sprouts of the Nation from corruption And so let Robert Cobbet mind if he writes again to keep more within the bounds of moderation and not to let his envy against the Light so captivate his reason as to bereave him of the use of it as it hath done for truly is that Scripture fulfilled in him He that walketh in darkness slumbleth and knoweth not whither he goeth Concerning the Light that lighteth every one that cometh into the world what it is and what it is not as Robert Cobbet saith Page 1. WHich Doctrine of the Light in Conscience had it been kept in its office as a School-master to bring unto Christ had been a Doctrine of good Morallity Page 22. BE not deceived the Light in Conscience cannot lead the followers of its dictates further then its own centre which is the centre of nature and its power felt but the power of the centre of nature Pag. 3. I deny not but the ends of the coming of the Lord into the world was to beget his Children into fellowship by communion with his Father and Himself by giving to them his Life which is man's Light which my Brethren being our Salvation c. P. 22. So hence I conclude that the spirit of man being his internal light hath no more power to give Salvation to the soul than the soul hath to save its self P. 10. But a light of reason man hath as man is a rational creature from which his light hath knowledge of good and bad as also knowledge from his light to eschew evil and to do good in the doing either of which stands his woe or peace P. 10. Therefore the light in man being but the light of man as man is a rational creature sinking into it for the manifestation of the Salvation that comes from Grace by Covenant from God by Jesus Christ is a Doctrine that turns away the creature from Christ the Redeemer to a property of Nature wherein can be no saving health Pag. 22. But in