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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63079	A testimony for God's everlasting truth as it hath been learned of and in Jesus testifying against such as through unbelief have departed from, or been disobedient to the spirit that conuinces the world of sin : among whom R.C. hath appeared with his many things, to oppose and withstand the one thing, the spirit of life, that sets free from sin and death, which is the truth which the people call Quakers have and do testifie to and of / R.T.	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing T2062; ESTC R31972	39,797	48

answering gave them a question which they durst not answer neither would he give an answer to them neither should I nor any of the Lord's people that have learned why we came into the World and cannot spend our time here unprofitably but must answer the will of him that sent us that we may render our account with joy ever have put pen to paper to have answered R. C's first or last impertinent or false matters if not called of the Lord for his Truth sake and your sakes that may be hindred or hurt or kept out of the Way of Peace where we have found him whom our souls love and cannot but testifie of his good will unto all that his hands have made and that you may believe the Truth For no other Way Means nor Name did we ever find Salvation by or declare to be believed in for Redemption and everlasting Life then the Son of God and that was and is he of whom the Scriptures declare without any cover or deceit as our enemy intimates that he may deceive but in plainness before the great God that searches every heart and has and will Judge in Righteousness every false Speaker no other Christ have we faith in or testifie of then he that was conceived by the holy Ghost in the Virgins womb and brought forth in the fulness of time as it was prophesied of and was carryed into Egypt to be saved from Herod that pretended to worship but went to murder the Child Jesus This was he that made a good confession before Pilate and was slain by wicked hands but it was impossible that Death should keep him under so he rose and declared unto the woman that was a witness of his Resurrection that he ascended and gave her command to declare to others and so whatever the Scriptures that were given forth by the holy Spirit declare of Christ Jesus his body his Suffering and Rising and his Ascension we believe and he is ascended far above all Heavens that he may fill all things who was and is the everlasting God the mighty Counseller the Prince of Peace yet this I nor any ever knew savingly whatever we have heard or read of it but as it came to be revealed in us by his own Spirit which was the promise of the Father of the Son that were and are one forever and though R. C. blasphemously denies it he pours forth his Spirit on his Sons and on his Daughters and this is the Covenant that they should not depart from him but be taught of him and this was it the Apostles spake of That a measure was given to profit withal and more we know not of God nor Christ then of this we learn and as we receive thereof we give to others and all that believe therein find profiting thereby and are brought into the plain Way and feel their Redemption thereby and Jesus with them that saves from sin and so can no longer worship Idols and so all Image-makers come to be tormented from him that sits at Rome to the least of all the Harlots brood for of her they are and in her sorceries that imagine and sets up any thing to be looked to or trusted in for Life and Salvation but Jesus Christ which is only received and known by his own Spirit And this is the doctrine of the people called Quakers from first to this present day and forever at which all Image-makers rage and are tormented that their Diana's must come down and among which R. C. strugles that his may have a place to be for though he could never stoop to obedience of Truth yet he feels and knows it shakes his images as well as others and fearing the falling thereof makes lyes his refuge but the Truth has and shall come over all and my desire is even to the God of my hope that is Light and in him is no darkness at all that the honest in heart may receive this Testimony and it is true that what ever has been given forth by Prophets Christs mouth or the Apostles or any sent of God concerning or of the Son of God we believe but deny and witness against all the imaginations of the comprehending mind that measures heavenly things in the earthly carnal minde that never could discern the things of God so in this from first to last has the mystery of iniquity wrought and been brought forth talking of the flesh and blood of Jesus yet never come to eat thereof nor to know an effectual cleansing thereby but offering despite unto the Spirit of Grace which brings Salvation and whilst they are talking of the Blood that was shed at Jerusalem they trample the Blood of the new Covenant under foot from the Mother of Harlots to the least of her false begotten Children among which R. C. is to be testified against and the call of the Lord is to come out from all their Sorceries the images and likenesses of heavenly things to the Substance Power and Life that the Lord in this our day has visited us with the day-spring from on high the Hope of the Righteous in all Generations that many are come to partake of and receive Life the Life that shall never have an end this is by the Spirit of Life So blessed be all and every one that hath an ear to hear what the Spirit saith R. C. I Have lookt over thy many Queries and finding them unprofitable not tending to the edification of any but to stir up strise so I said in my heart If thou hadst believed the Scriptures or understood the words of Truth that hath often been sounded in thy ears thou hadst never asked such Questions some of which thou knowst we never denied and hadst thou ever come to the one thing in which there is no Error thou hadst not so run into the many things in which all err and though thy darkness be great as all must be that would have the knowledg of God and heavenly things by any other way then the Spirit of Christ yet I have cause to fear that in the Spirit that lusts to envy thou charges that upon us that thou doest not believe we are guilty of for thou hearing us so many years only to testifie of the one thing the Gift of God and the Spirit of Jesus that faithful and true Witness that was with God in the beginning and never hearing any that bear testimony to or for the Light speak of any other for Salvation but the only begotten of God couldst thou think we meant any other that thou shouldst devise so many errors and false Opinions to place on us and yet not be able to bring any of our words or writings that so many years together thou wert so conversant with to prove that we ever cryed up any such things as thou charges us with what will the end be of wilful sinning didst thou ever hear us set up or call to any witness but the Spirit of Christ and thou

be the Light of or in the Conscience as thou affirmest Answer if thou canst VI. Query Was it not the true Christ of which John speaks he was slain in the great Street spiritually called Egypt and Sodom and is he slain in that Person that was visible at Jerusalem or who or where Answer if thou canst VII I query John saith he that is born of God sins not how should he for the Seed of God abides in him is that Seed Christ in his Person Answer for the Apostle Paul saith he speaks not of Seeds many but the one Seed Christ VIII Query And did this promised Seed Christ never break the Serpent's head but in the Person which was made manifest at Jerusalem and if he did where and how answer IX Query Whether it was the Person at Jerusalem that came down from Heaven and was the Son of man in heaven that could only ascend to Heaven or what Answer X. Query And whether that Talent taken from the unprofitable Servant and given to another was the Worm that never dies or a formative Light or the spirit of the earthly humane Soul or the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil as E. A. talks of or what Answer if thou canst XI Query Whether doth the Son of God abide with his to the end of the World is it in Light or in Person Answer XII Query Whether Christ who told his Disciples he that was with them would be in them whether he hath fulfilled his Promise for he cannot lye and if in them is it in Person or by Light Answer plainly XIII Query Whether the Unction or Anointing which the Apostles said should teach them all things was Christ in his Person without or Christ in them answer XIV Query Christ told those that followed him except they eat his Flesh and drink his Blood they had no life in him So I query whether it was that Person they were to eat and drink or what if thou canst answer XV. Christ saith he that eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood hath Eternal Life now I query if they eat that Person or who they are that have Eternal Life answer if thou canst XVI Christ saith he that eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him now I query if this dwelling be in Person or in Light answer plainly XVII Query Whether the Accuser of the Brethren that was to be cast down from Heaven was the spirit of a man or the light of nature or the Worm that shall never dye or the Habitation and Dwelling Place for God and his people since in thy writings thou mak'st all these one Answer plainly Several Lyes in R. C 's Second Page 1. THat we say Christ is only an Example These are but a few of thy many false Accusations 2 That we despise his Flesh and trample his Blood under our feet 3. That we set up the creaturely light in Conscience for Christ and his Light 4. That we deny him to be the Christ that in his Person was an Offering for Sin 5. That we deny Christ in Heaven 6. In thy 16th page that our Teachers teach entrance into Rest by Works of obedience to the Light of Nature These things thou never heard'st nor read'st by any of those thou call'st our Preachers So thou publishest to the World that we hold that which thou think'st and so declar'st thy self a false Accuser Postscript THis rose in my heart for your sakes that would know the will of God to do it and are rather waiting to have him work your works in you then labour in your own imaginations to know and comprehend the incomprehensible God in your minds where all Images and idolatrous Worships have been framed and brought forth yea from the same ground all wickedness and blasphemies from the first transgression to this day by all that went out from God and then as Cain would offer of their own and so have his generation all along to this day those born of the Flesh warred against those born of the Spirit who worshipped in the Faith as we do confessing to know nothing of God and his everlasting Truth but as we are taught and led of this Spirit and in this know both Father and Son and receive power thereby to become the Sons and Daughters of God and cannot but declare of his Glory and Good will who hath sent us that according to the measure received of him we may Glorifie him of whose Grace we have received Grace for Grace and know his continued Good will even to all and every one that believes in his Light and Word of which the Scriptures testifie both by Prophets and Apostles as it is written Amos 4. 13. 1 John 1. 1. Heb. 4. 12. and of another Light and Word did we never Write or Declare then of Jesus the First and the Last which they that have erred from are offering despite to us as R. C. in his Practice and Writing doth who having walked some Years amongst us as if he had been one of us yet not bowing to nor believing in the true Light where Power is received grew in Envy against those that were in it by which he and such like have been given up to a Reprobate Minde to change the Invisible God into the likeness of Corruptible Things as R. C. hath in his first and last as may be seen and read in his vain Imaginations of God and Christ uttering his Lyes and Blasphemies against God and his Tabernacle some of which I have in my foregoing lines recited that all may see he is contrary to Scriptures and Truth and to us that no more any may be deceived by him Rebecca Traverse PAge 6. l. 4. for were read was l. 8. for saith thou read say'st thou Pag. 13. l. 4. for thou comest to be read thou comest to see P. 15. l. 14. for and they his read and theirs P. 19. l. 16. blot out too and. P. 23. l. 35. for thy seeming read seem THE END