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A51253	An antidote against the spreading infections of the spirit of Antichrist, abounding in these last days under many vizors being a discovery of a lying and antichristian spirit in some of those called Quakers ... in relation of what passed in writing between them, and Thomas Moore, Junior, after and upon occasion of a meeting at Glentworth, with the sum of what was discoursed at that meeting also ... / by Tho. Moore, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2597; ESTC R6849	119,742	126

the Gospel or testimony of God concerning him who hath abolished death by his appearing and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel 1 Cor. 15. 1-4 1 Pet. 2. 24. Rom. 4. ult 2 Cor. 4. 6. 2 Tim. 1. 10. and 2. 8. In this the Spirit and teaching of God is primely known and distinguished from all others it doth unto and for all things confess acknowledge and praise or commend Jesus Christ as already come in the flesh not coming but come and now through sufferings entred into glory in that his own personal body in our nature and for us according to the Apostles Doctrine 1 Joh. 4. 1 2 3 6. for reproving the world and teaching and leading the beleever into all truth It takes of his things and shews to the soul and so glorifies him even lifts up the Son of man the personal abasement sufferings or cross of Christ with the ends and vertues thereof as now manifested in him being raised and received up into glory Joh. 16. 8 9 10 13 14. with Joh. 3. 14. Rom. 1. 1-3 4. 1 Tim. 3. 16. 2 Tim. 2 8. This is so the summe and subject matter of all the Fathers teaching That every one that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh to Christ according to the testimony God hath already given of him Joh. 6. 45. And he that beleeveth not the testimony or record that God hath already given of Christ maketh God a lyar 1 Joh. 5 10. Yea it is so the summary and fundamental matter of all his teaching that he is said to learn all truth and so to teach and lead into all truth in Jesus in the demonstration opening and usefulness of Jesus and those things of him according to the record God hath given of him by the one month of a ● his Prophets and Apostles since the world began Eph. 4. 20 21. with Joh. 16. 13 14. Act. 3. 20 21. This the purpose and grace of God given us in Christ from the beginning now manifested by the appearing of Christ c. as 2 Tim 1 9 10. That the Son of man must be lifted up above all and for or unto all help and healing of men even as Moses lift up the Serpent in the wilderness That whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have eternall life For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son namely the Saviour of the world and to be so lifted up That whosoever beleeveth in him c. Joh. 3. 14 15 16. 2 Those things contained in the matter of Gods teaching as springing out of and arising from the things main and fundamental are Doctrines and Instructions concerning all things needful to be known given and opened in and through the demonstration opening and usefulness of the knowledge of him in what he hath done and is become for us for so saith our Savior The holy Spirit as now coming forth in and with the testimony of Jesus as the works of our salvation are finished in his body he shall reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of Judgem●nt and all this in with and through that testimony of Jesus as given forth to them for thus he explicates Of Sin because they beleeve not on me of Righteousness because I go to my father and ye see me no more He comes down no more to suffer in which the infinit and abiding vertue of his once suffering is declared And the second and glorious Appearance they should not see in the time of this mortality nor till we all come together Of Judgement because the Prince of this world is judged already which also was done in him as Joh. 12. 31 32. speaking of that vertually done from the beginning now presently to be actually done in his own body and by his being lifted up from the earth both on the cross and then because of that being raised on the right hand of Majesty he saith now is the judgement of this world now is the Prince of this world cast out And with this Argument or in the Demonstration and usefulness of this as he reproves the world of Righteousness that all theirs is nothing his onely perfect and will stand them instead So he reproves them also of Judgement shews the vanity and falseness of all theirs whether of Condemnation or Absolution or in their apprehensions concerning things and persons And likewise he saith He shall teach them the beleevers on him further in and by the same Instrument and shall so lead them into all truth and shew them things to come for saith he He shall not speak of himself but whatever he shall hear that shall he speak he shall take of my things and shew unto you he shall glorifie me c. Joh. 16. 8 14. In the demonstration and opening of him God learneth all truth and so also therein instructeth and directeth to all right demeanors towards God and men So the Apostles gave all their commandements by the Lord Jesus in the demonstration opening and applying the things of him did give the ground and reason of them shew their equity move and press to the observing them in the strength afforded in those mercies of the Lord in and through that testimony of Jesus 1 Thes 4. 2. Rom. 12. 1. 1 Pet. 1. 13-18 c. Ephes 4. 1-8 10. For that Grace of God that bringeth Salvation to all men especially in this appearance of it now come forth by Jesus Christ teacheth that denying ungodliness and wordly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ c. Tit. 2. 11 12 13. 2 That in the second place propounded to be considered is where and how this teaching of the Father is held forth by himself unto men surely that is 1 In all the books of his Creation and providence in all mercies chastisements and changes of his providence with men Job 33. 14-29 30. and 36. 22. 26. Psal 19. 1-7 107. with Rom. 10. 17 18. But 2 More clearly and abundantly in the holy Scriptures which were both given and left upon record by immediate inspiration and furniture of God Rom. 15. 4. 2 Pet. 1. 19 20 21. 1 Cor. 14. 37. 2 Pet. 3. 2. 1 Joh. 1-4 5. and are therefore profitable for all doctrine or teaching c. They are able being his words and preserved in the Records of them from any fundamental or material perversion on the account of his righteousness who hath so promised Psal 12. 6. Prov. 12. 19. Isa 8. 16. 20. 44. 25 26. and so owned by him and accompanied with his spiritual presence to the end of the world Mat. 28. 20. able I say to make us wise to salvation both of our selves and others through faith which is in Christ Jesus and throughly to furnish the man of God to every good word and work 2 Tim. 3. 14 15 16 17.

seen by them as 1 Pet. 1. 8. yet from him they enjoy this benefit that do waite for him as the influences of the light of his testimony and Grace that bringeth Salvation to all men Their eyes shall see their Teachers surely those are the several and various Instruments and means of teaching that he affordeth them which are all his Works and Providences about them in all Mercies and Chastisements yea in their very Adversities as also his Records and Servants whatever he is doing about them or vouchsafing to them their eyes shall see their Teachers in all these things whence Elihu admonishing Job to consider Who teacheth like God who hath enjoyned him his way c. Calls upon him to see that he magnifie his Work that men behold every man may see it Job 36. 22 25. for indeed all the Works of the Lord and his various Providences about us are Instruments by and through which he is conveying his teaching as before is shewed Job 33. 14 29. Psal 19. 107. therefore saith the last Verse of that Psalm Who so is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Blessed therefore are the people that waite for him even now they shall fare well in the evil time before they come to sit down in their everlasting rest when they shall weep no more even now in this time of their weeping or adversity whatever God try them with or deprive them of yet their eyes shall see their Teachers they shall meet with instruction from the Lord and from the testimony of him the fountain of their teaching in and through all that is before them to direct and strengthen them more to turn from dumb Idols to serve the living God and to waite for his Son from Heaven for that Grace of God that bringeth Salvation to all men spoken of verse 18 teacheth them in and through all occasions and means which are many that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts they should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world so as waiting for the Lord Isa 30. 18 19. and then and therein looking for that blessed hope mentioned in the beginning of verse 19. to dwell in Sion at Jerusalem and to weep no more even in the glorious appearing of the mighty God and our Saviour Tit. 2. 11 12 13. Isa 35. 4 10. 9 Qu. What that word of faith is Rom. 10. 6 8. Ans That which they did preach which word did declare the Descension and Ascension of Christ not only as the Works of God but as then already wrought vers 9. and the Word declaring them as done in one for all now come forth to be so beleeved and acknowledged by them that Word in the preaching of it comes or is made nigh unto men even in their heart and in their mouth that in that nigh coming of it through the power in and with it it might be received though it is not naturally nigh to or in any man but shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not Joh. 1. 5. nor otherwise is it as a habit or indwelling principle in men that beleeve or minde it not 1 Joh. 5. 10. Rom. 1. 28. 10 Qu. What that voyce of Christ is Joh. 10. and how they come to know it And whether his sheep may expect and wait for the same voyce now and to know it from all other c. Ans Here are three or four Queries in one to the first the former Answer may serve for that voyce of Christ is nothing else but that Word which God sent first to Israel and then to all the Gentiles preaching peace by Jesus Christ he is Lord of all which God hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son who began to preach it personally and confirmed it by them that heard him That in that Word as so delivered Repentance and remission of Sins might be preached not in the name of any other work thing or person but in his Name who himself bare our Sins in his own Body to the Tree that it might be preached to all Nations beginning at Jerusalem that word of Righteousness which the Apostles preached and left on Record Luk. 24. 46 47 48. Act. 10. 36 Heb. 1. 1 3. 2. 1 3. To the Second Query under this Head we answer It is known by its own light and power even by the demonstration of Spirit and of power that is in and with that Word as so preached which lifts up Christ and the glory of God in him and therein and thereby opens the understanding to understand the truth and goodness of the Scriptures declaring him as is shewed before and know his voyce therein To the Third Whether his Sheep may now expect it c. we answer It is already preached and made known to all Nations for the obedience of Faith that in the listning to and receiving it not as the word of men but as it is indeed the Word of God according as men by its own light and power in its coming to them are enabled men might be made of the Sheep of Christ in that peculiar sence and being Sheep might be guided by the same and they that wait for any other Voyce wait for a Delusion a strange Voyce and therein render themselves none of the Sheep of Christ To the last Branch how it may be known and distinguished from all other I answer by its own light and demonstration that Word of God where-ever so received as before it effectually worketh in them that beleeve to the discovery of all strange Voyces to be strange by this Rule They lift not up Jesus according to the Apostles Doctrin and to the moving and strengthening them to turn from all such because they know them not Joh. 10. 4 5. 1 Joh. 4. 1 6. 2. 20 27. 11 Qu. What that way is Isa 35. 8. Ans Jesus Christ as delivered to Death for our Offences and raised again for our Justification is the way the truth and the life and no man cometh to the Father but by him Joh. 14. 6. He that only Rest and Foundation propounded and laid by God for the people in the Law and Prophets Isa 28. 12. 16. with Ephes 2. 2. 20. and so the way of our approach and access to the Father vers 16 17 18. yea the beginning of all the ways of God he in and by whom sinners may now approach for washing through his Bloud but they that remain filthy and unclean still will not suffer themselves to be washed or made free from sin by the Son of Man through the truth now in this day of his Grace shall after be shut out for ever and not enter by him through the gates into the City in his second appearing which shall be only to the Salvation of those that through the grace by his first appearing are of the number of lookers for him were here as Travellours Strangers and Pilgrimes

the witness of that person and those works as perfect in him is actually received in the receit of the testimony God hath given of him It is a good description of the doer of truth he commeth to the light that he may see all his works that he desires to own as the ground and matter of his rejoycing and hope wrought in God in Emmanuel And so the other place saith the thing was true in them that was true in him not because it was actually wrought in them as in him but expresly because the darkness was past to them and the true light had then shined which disovers him as that onely begotten Son of God full of grace and truth Joh 1. 14. and so learns all truth as it is in Jesus Ephes 4. 21. yea leads into all truth and so gives proof and experiment of the goodness vertue and efficacy or power of the truth in the receit of it through such lifting up or demonstration of the Son of man and so of the truth as it is in him Joh. 16. 13 14. 2 The Jesus or Christ to whom thoubearest witnesse is such as whose second appearing without sin to the salvation of those that look for him with reference to those expressions Heb. 9. 28. is already past or hath been accomplised in thee This is clear in thy letter though there the word second bee left out which was oft urged by thee in discourse That Christ is come again in the flesh since his Ascension which also thou callest thy confessing the flesh of Christ and further signifies in following expressions This to bee thy confession of the flesh of Christ in thee or his comming in the flesh The second time even since h●s Ascension in thee And didst call in discourse his appearing again and the second time in thee in his body his flesh and spirit Christ holy harmelesse undefiled separate from sinners made higher than the heavens with many other such like expressions which some took in writing least thou shouldest deny them though not as any matter of Accusation against thee to thy harm as thou slanderest them which writing I not having by mee mention no more than I well remember And is the summe of it in thy Letter Whereas that Jesus the Christ which they have preached is personally received by and continuing with the Father in the heavens untill the time of the Restruction of all things Act. 3. 20 21. from whom all beleevers are personally absent while in these mortal bodies 2 Cor. 5. 6. His second and glorious Appearance in that body in which he once suffered for sin without sin to the salvation of those that look for him with all the blessed hope then ●o be revealed the fulness and Harvest of the Spirit and glorious Redemption of the body is yet to be waited for by all beleevers not accomplished in or to any of them all the time of this present world whence ●he Apostle propounds it as the posture in which the beleever stands all the time of this present world in which he hath ungodliness and worldly lust to encounter with looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Savior Tit. 2. 12 13. with 2 Pet. 3. 3. 11. 12. 1 Thess 1 9 10. Phil. 3 20 21. And so that salvation of them that look for him Heb. 9. 28. to the accomplishing of which he shall appear the second time and then without sin in any such imputation of it infirmities or sufferings by occasion of it as was upon him in his first Appearance even in the glory of his Father and with his holy Angels That salvation of them I say is clearly that total salvation that shall be revealed and accomplished in the last time 1 Pet. 1. 5. even after the natural death and in the Resurrection in which they shall be redeemed from the power of the grave in the first Resurrection and so from the hand of the enemy that the second death shall have no power on them but they shall be ever with the Lord posse●●ing the glorious rest and Kingdom for ever which appears in that its a position so placed as answering to the judgement after death mentioned in the former verse Heb. 9. 27 28. In that judgement after death unto which all in these bodies must come Then and therein shall he appear without sin to the salvation of them that look for him so that they shall stand in the judgement having righteousness and strength in the Lord yea in the Lord shall they be justified and redeemed from all their iniquities fully and perfectly and shall glory Isa 45. 24 25. Psa 130. 8. Yea when that Second Appearing of Christ shall be accomplished it shall not then be made or accomplished in an internal operation in this or that or many persons that we should need to look here or there for him but that one person shall appear personally in that his own body in our nature as now glorified with the Father even as he was seen go into Heaven so his second coming shall be visible to all as the lightning from the one end of the Heaven to the other and accomplished to them all at once and together 1 Thess 4. 14-16 Matth. 24. 26 27 28. To corrupt us from the beleef of the truth and expectation of which blessed hope and to int●oduce thy other Jesus whom thou didst witness to have appeared the second time in thee even to have come again in the flesh since his Ascension c. as before thou didst pervert these Scriptures that I well remember Luk 17. 20 21 Joh. 14. 3. The first of which thou mentionest now again in thy letter with a great deal of vaunting and reproach as if it spoke so much and so plainly to what thou hadst affirmed as to render it greatest folly shame and blindness to oppose such thy witness of thy self Let us therefore again a little look upon it and see if thou hast not grosly abused our Savior in perverting his words contrary to the plain intent and scope of them See if our Saviour do not in that place clearly signifie That his second coming in that body and therein the glorious revelation and bringing down of the Kingdom and glory is yet to be waited for even by his Disciples all the time of this mortality They themselves should desire to see one of his dayes and should not see it namely in this time and state of their mortality nor till they all come together with all that are his Let the whole Chapter be viewed from the twentieth verse to the l●st When he was demanded of the Pharisees When the Kingdom of God should come He answered The Kingdom of God commeth not with observation or outward shew of pomp or glory of this world of which his Kingdom is not as they expected Joh. 18. 36. neither shall they say loe here or loe there for be●old the Kingdom of God is