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A43272	The lambs innocency defended, against lyes and slanders In answer to a second reply of a priest, who is called a minister at Lazonby in Cumberland called Simon Atkinson, who hath shewed his wolfish nature against those people called Quakers; ranking them up with the papists; falsly accusing them of those things which they utterly detest; but his weapons is turned against himselfe by one of the campe of the God of Israel, whose eye is opened in measure, ... working in the shadow of reformation translated into a fairer forme springing from the old corrupt root; and to see the bickerings of the night-armie running on heaps now in the dawning of the day; and the uncircumcised in Heart and Ears in flying from the light, and repoose of the same: and from the alarum of the spirits trumpet which is founded vvithin, for the cutting downe of the man of sin, and for the quenching of his motions. Written in defence of the truth as it is in Jesus, by a foole to the wisdom of this world, who, according to measure, hath tasted and obtained of the wisdome	Helling, Joseph.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1382; ESTC R216631	44,515	52

we are in good report and bad so far be it from us to be lifted up upon any oceasion And as for the shape of thy Answers in them thy wisedome is seen and I appeale to the Reader whether there be any truer thing to be quaried after then the Kingdome of God and the righteousnesse of it and whether S. A. be not in felse-exaltation who saith his answers hath more truth then I quarie after for the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse doe I quaerie after And now to come to the Answer of my Quaeties the first Word of my first quaerie being transcribed where or what Quae. 1. Where or what is the Kingdome and where is it to be found and what is the Righteousnesse of it Pr. Ans Where it is there is it to be found This answer is just as wise as thy question But secondly it is not amongst you though it is in and amongst the Saints I woane the Kingdome of grace for that ye are fallow from common grace and from the means of spirituall grace from Christ the King and from the standing Lawes of his Kingdoms so that truely you have need to inquire more seriously after is then you doe for you are far from it and quite out of the way to it A. Here thou are found a vain jangler mocking simplicity with thy fallen wisedom saying the Kingdom of God is nothing though in and amongst the Saints as though the Kingdom of God were in none but the Saints Reader mark Christ saith to the Scribes and Pharisees that the Kingdom of God was in them although they were opposers of him Luke 17.21 But S. A. s●ilf it is not amongst us viz. the Kingdom of grace contrary to Tit. 2.11 Iohn 1.9.10 which grace and light hath enlightened and appeared unto all men and it is both spirituall and common unto all in its appearance Tit 2.11 or else the world should be excusabl but the light shining and the grace appearing there is therefore now no cloake for sin But that we are fallen from this grace is false or from the means or from Christ or from his standing Law for this grace we own to be our Teacher as the Apostle did Tit. 2.12 and not a hireling Priest whose own the sheep are not and the means we own viz. the gist of God Christ the light who is given unto the Gentiles as well as unto the Jews Isay 49.6 and his Law we own according to the Prophets and Apostles testimony Ier. 31.33 Heb. 8.10 and these things we own and heare testimony of to be within us so that we need not goe forth as saith Christ and his Apostles Mat. 24.26.1 Iohn 2.27 whose command we have learned by his grace to be obedient unto and he viz. Christ Iesus is our way to the Kingdom who saith learne of me and got not forth he doth not say learn of Hirelings that makes bargales with their Parishioners for so much a yeare but he saith learne of me and he is our High-Priest whose lips preserve our Knowledge So I charge thee 8. A. to be a false-accuser and a lyar in this thy Answer to the first part of my qu●rie Pr. To the other part of thy quarie viz. What is the righteousnes of it I answer Not our own righteousnes which is imperfect Isa 64.6 but the righteousnes of Christ by faith imputed c. Phil. 3.9 this is the onely perfect righteousnesse in it selfe though the righteousnessse of Saints is also perfect in him but not meritorious his is the righteousnesse of God which is revealed from Faith to c. Rom. 1.17 the everlasting righteousnesse c. which first the Jews Secondly the Papists And thirdly the Quakers being ignorant of and all going about to establish their owne righteousnesse have not submitted to Rom. 10.3 9.10 c. Ans That it s not our righteousnesse it s granted neverthelesse we must not cease to worke out our salvation seeing that man is justified by workes and not by Faith onely Iames 2.24 Secondly That it is the righteousnesse of Christ by Faith and that that righteousnesse is perfect in him and in the saints and that not meritorious as of themselves but by the righteousnesse of God which is revealed according to Rom. 1.17 is granted But lyart and false accusers is out of this righteousnesse albeit they may say as the Scripture saith as thou S. A. hath done who saith that the Quakers is agnorant of Gods righteousnesse and goes about to establish their own righteousnesse Here I charge thee again to be a lyar for Gods righteousnesse which it the righteousnesse of Faith we own which righteousnesse speaketh on this wise c. as in Rom. 10.6 but what saith it the Word is nigh thee in thy month and in thy heart Rom. 10.8 this is the Word of Faith and the righteousnes which is of Faith which we beleeve and Preach and if we or any other Preach another Gospel then the power of God Rom. 1.16 or another power than Christ the Power and Wisedome of God 1 Cor. 1.24 or any other righteousnesse then that which is of Faith which saith The Word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart I say let him be accursed so man be ashamed for thou art found one of them that saith The Scriptures is the Word of God and so hath not submitted unto the righteousnesse of God which saith The Word is nigh in the mouth and heart as before so in the gall of bitternesse thou art sound soming out thy own shame 2. Querie What it is that giveth the Knowledge of God and how Priests Ans God himselfe onely giveth the Knowledge of himselfe Iam. 1.5.17 Ier. 24.7 I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord. Ans That God onely gives the Knowledge of himselfe is granted and seeing that God gives man an heart to know him and is the onely giver of Knowledge Why then dost thou judge us because we doe not own your help counsell and Instruction here thou art manifest for God having given us hearts to beleeve and know him by his light which shineth in us as in them 2 Cor. 4.6 I say this light or grace which is one is sufficient for us as it was for them 2 Cor. 12.9 so him we own and witnesse to be the onely giver of Knowledge without the help of all the Learned Rabbies in the World who is of it Pr. Now he gives it I answer He gives it effectually onely by his Spirit but instrumentally by his Word Preached ordinarily he gives also some kind of Knowledge of himselfe by his Works both of Creation and Providence when he exercises the minds of men to consider them this answer is a truth though I know it wil not satisfie thy foolish fancy Ans That God gives the Knowledge of himselfe onely and effectually by himselfe who is a spirit is granted therefore to God who is a spirit and who is

Commission of the Ministry which was Go teach c. freely yee have received freely give and for his sake who gave this Commition we take pleasure in infirmity as the Apostle did a Cor. 12.10 and some in much patience which signes and wonders and mighty deeds as may be proved to the prayse of the loving God and we doe not make a gain of people as you doe no more then the Apostles did 2 Cor. 12.17.18 neither doe we goo to a Towne or parish to inquire what maintenance there is for a Minister as Tythes Gleabe-Lands c and give them a Sermon or two as you call them of liking But we goe to inquire who fears the Lord and owns the Spirit of God to be their Teacher which Teacher cannot be removed into a corner Isay 30.20 and with such we can take a little meat and drink which the Apostles was Commisioned to receive and here is our joy and proofe not onely in imitation but in life also witnesse a gainst all you who rules as Lords patterns of pride and covetonsnesse learning your Trade and selling your invenitions bearing rule by your weans which is a filthy horrible thing now in England as it was in Ieremiahs days Ier. 5.30 31. Oh ye Priests put it not from you for it sticks fast upon you Pr. And now to the rest of the Quaries I shall onely propose some cousiderations Ans I did but propound foure questions unto thee as in number and thou hast diverted two of them and answered two of them with lyes and true words and false accusations mixed together as one voyd of all sence making no matter what thou speake as is and may be proved Reader this is the querie which is not answered Whether the false Teachers and Decoivers may not be known by their fruits and whether they that bring●th forth the same fruits which was declared against by the true Prophet Christ Iesus and his Apostles of old be not the false Teachers now as they were then yea or nay This quaerie is digressed because it coma neer thee S. A. Pr. first Consideration Dost thou conclude in cold blood that either none or very few of the Ministers in England are truely godly and that either none or very few reall Saints are the seale of their Ministry in the Lord and is such sensoriousnesse safe and without flune Ans I doe conclude That the Ministers of Jesus Christ new in England who is called by the grace of God with Commission from the Spirit of God to Preach the Gospel freely as they have received in by the Revelation of Iesus in them as in Gal. 1.16 according to the measure of the gist of God Eph. 4.7 I say these are truely godly as they are obedient to the grace appeared mark and that the children of light who is called and obedient to the grace out of the fashions and customes of the world and out of all formally invented worships to worship God in spirit and in truth in the inward man Psal 51.6 I say this is the seale of their Ministry but that the Parish ministers who is called Ministers in England is truely godly that I do deny For he that loves me saith Christ keeps my Commandements now mark he hath commanded his to be perfect but the Priest of England denyes and pleads against his Doctrine herein he hath commanded not to sweare at all but the Priests of England pleads against hsi Doctrine herein he hath commanded not to sue any man at Law but the Priests of England resists his Doctrine here in suing poor people and swearing or causing some to sweare mens goods from them yes trebble sums Christ commanded to give freely as they had received but the Priests of England neither receives freely nor gives freely Christ commanded not to be called of man Master but the Priests of England both calls and is called Master with many more particulars which might be mentioned to this purpose all which shews That the Priests of England is out of Christs Doctrine and so hath not God 2 Iohn 9. so not truely godly And as for them which follows you which is thus found out of and oppose it against Christs Doctrine I say they make your Ministry manifert and seales it with their unbridled lungs and actions to be a barren fruitlesse Ministry voyd of sanctification which maketh Saints so you and your followers I doe deny to be either truely godly or reall Saints But I call them not in cold blood as thou quaeries neither according to flesh and bloods wiscom but by the spirit of truth and light of our Lord Iesus Christ I say I call you like Priest like people Hos 4.9 c. and this is no sinfull sensuring I commend my felse to every mans Conscience in the sight of God as the Apostle did 2 Cor. 4.2 and to the honest hearted every where who is but willing to compare your practises with the Doctrine of Christ and practises of his Aposels Pr. second Consideration Dost thou say or thinks that thy selfe mire hatest all daceit and sin whatsoever then the said godly Ministers and Sainits in England or else-where doe Ans I am not sufficient of my selfe to think any thing as of my selfe but my sufficiency is of God who hath opened my Book of Conscience wherein I find and reade the motions of the flesh to be an enemy to the motions of Gods Spirit which hath made me cry with tears for deliverance from that bondage so by the power of God I utterly tetest that nature in my selfe in the particular and in the generall which opposeth Christ and his Doctrine and doth conclude you to be no Ministers of Christ who wrests his Doctrine for selse ends and to your own destruction and them to be no Saints who follows such for the god of this world hath blinded their eyes that cannot see you to be painted Harlots lest the light of the glorious Gospel should shine unto them Therefore I say you are running from mountain to hill under pretence of Resormation and still without the doore in the fashions and customs of this world and in your airic Knowledge and Wisdom there you set up your building and also the foundation of your worship hatched by Tradition springing from imaginations the ground of changeable wayes● take notice of that Pr. third consideration Dost thou affirme that the detestable titles of blinde guides dumbe dogs greedy Dogs c. are given without sin to such Minesters and that their Doctrine and practises prova them to be such as Christ and his Apostles declares against Ans As for godly Saints or Ministers these titles are not given to such by us God forbid but I affirme and testisie by the spirit of truth with the Prophet that these titles are given without sin to you who is found seeking gain from your quarter as they were Isay 56.10 11. and you beare the expresse image of the false Prophets and false Apostles