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A85173	A faithful discovery of a treacherous design of mystical Antichrist displaying Christs banners, but attempting to lay waste Scriptures, churches, Christ, faith, hope, &c. and establish paganism in England. Seasonably given in a letter to the faithful in and near to Beverley. Containing an examination of many doctrines of the people called Quakers in Yorkshire, together with a censure of their way, and several items concerning the designs of God, Satan, and men, in these things, recommended to the consideration of them who are in good earnest for Christ.	Pomroy, John.; Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.; Glisson, Paul.; Kellet, Joseph.	1653 (1653)	Wing F568; Thomason E699_13; ESTC R202092	45,783	67

the Will of the Lord who ordereth the Plenty and Poverty increase and diminishing high and low estate of Persons and Nations Psal. 107. 36. to the end We desire it may be considered that besides the generall interest which the Sonnes of Adam have in the good creatures which was lost in the first Adam and repaired in the second during the day of Patience we say besides that there is a particular interest or propriety in the Creatures whereby one man may say this is mine and not thine which may be considered as diversly obtained 1. By the general distribution of the earth to the Fathers of the Nations For when the whole Earth was of one language and dwelt in the plain of Shinar their proud design of building Babel provoked the Lord to confound their languages in the daies of Peleg Then were they scattered upon the face of the earth and then did the most High divide unto the Nations their inheritance and the people of one language that sat down in any Countrey not yet inhabited according to the Providence of God setting the bounds of their habitati n took it for their inheritance and while there was room enough fed their cattel at large and removed their heards and flocks to fr sh feeding what wells they digged were their own each family removing together and planting together in the Cities which they builded The Elders of families being the chief rulers and the children of their Servants became also their servants Yet where others had planted they had leave also of the Inhabitants to sojourn with them and if they desired a piece of ground they did use to buy it of them Hitherto we may refer Israels title to the Land of the Canaanites because it was given them 430. years before they did inherit it yet after a peculiar and unparalleld manner to Abraham their Father because the children of Canaan that Servant of Servants were a wicked people and because it pleased the Lord to choose Israel for his inheritance Yet here did the Lord provide that each Tribe had their part by lot which did descend to their posterity by inheritance 2. Which is the second considerable in the obtaining of Propriety Children are surviving parts of their parents and have a true right to their Fathers inheritance by the Law of God Nature and Nations And though it may seem not so consonant to reason to make such wide differences in dividing inheritances among many Brethren as some do use yet it was the Law in Israel that the eldest Sonne should have a double portion to his brethren which by the appointment of God most just did perpetuate propriety and that in a way of inequality one having more than another And not onely so but for the preserving each private Interest the Lord commanded solemne curses to be pronounced against him that should remove his neighbours Land mark 3. But a private interest in worldly goods is also had by purchase which is an exchange of things equally valuable in lieu of each other 4. Also by the Victorious Issue of Lawfull Warre when nations offer injuries and violence to their neighbours reparation may be sought in Warre and the wrong-doers refusing to give satisfaction forfeit what they have to the Law of Iustice to make Reparation for the dammage But however propiety may be had it may not be violated no not by the desire of one after his neighbours house wise Servants Ox Asse or any thing that is his Exodus 20 17. Surely he that hath more of worldly goods than his Neighbours if his heart be prepared to serve his God and his generation hath an advantage to honour God probably more than ten men were that estate shared among them though they had like noble spirits But we think it needlesse to adde yet more in this matter saving that the Experiences of other Countreys give us warning of tumultuous attempts from this Generation But if it be disclaimed that any such thing is intended or desired of the crooked selfish proud griping injurious neration which we live among as the casting up each ones propriety in what they have under pretence of submitting them with the lowest of the people to serve the publ que which is a bait for the sonnes of disorder and violence if the preservation of each ones rightfull Possession by Law and Magistracy in way of force be taken away and that this be onely aimed at namely that they who are of the houshold Faith do as in the primitive times enjoy all things in common Our answer is That as for the practise of the Churches of Judaea Act. 2. their love did rise high at the first prevailing of the Gospell and propriety was cast up by no law or perswasion but that of Love as may be seen Acts 5. 4. But that is not all surely the Holy Ghost foresaw that shortly no man should have the benefit of house and lands becausé the Romans should come to take away their place and Nation But it is cleer by Scripture-evidence that there was richer and poorer among the Churches of the Gentiles but the rich were charged to be rich in good works and the poor to work for their own bread As for the giving one Coat of two to him that hath none binds you not to give your coats to any beggar that first coms but the Lord Jesus hath left his people to the prudence of his Spirit in them and discretion to see the time when to give and out of their abundance to supply anothers conveniency and out of their conveniency anothers necessity and out of their necessaries anothers extremity There are certain other commands which are to be obeyed in their time with prudence For our selves we are not ignorant how our souls were carried after the Lord in the day of espousalls to give up all into his hands Soul Body Estate Credit Relations c. resolving to hold nothing but under his favour who gave us them to have and hold by a new tenure abiding his pleasure to whom we hope we shall never deny whatsoever he calls for in the manifest junctures of his word Providences and his Spirit in our hearts who may sometimes make an extraordinary case and call us as once Abraham Gen. 12. to leave his Fathers house and friends to try us as that young man who boasts of his obedientiall heart Mat. 19. Finally they say That God is now come to redeem his people from all outward Teachers and teach them himself and for proof this Prophecy they bring 1 John 2. 26. Jer. 31. 31. Isa. 54. 13. Joh. 6. 45. Heb. 8. 11. Ezek. 34. 11 12. Jer. 23. 23. COncerning Teachers Order and Church administrations we have written what may be here seasonably remembred withall declaring that we know not any prophecy in all the Scriptures that doth foresignify the taking away of all outward Pastors and Teachers until

accompanies that light to destroy every evill as it appears in them that yield up themselves to it and watch that their vain minds draw them not from abiding in the pure light of Christ Thus they say is help layed on one mighty to save even Jesus Christ who is the Author of eternall salvation to all them that obey him IT were a small thing O all ye that passe by if we and our names should sleep in the dust in everlasting silence and contempt But will not the stones cry out if we hold our peace while these deceits seem to lay all upon Christ and his Spirit while as in truth they lay nothing at all upon him Is the light of Nature the light of Christ as Mediatour nay Christ himself and the strength that accompanies that light the strength of Christ Then how is man become the Author of his own salvation while you change the name and call it Christ Moreover here is jealousie administred to the eie of an experienced soul notwithstanding their fair speeches by laying such stresse upon the watchings of man as if Man rightly do his part by watching and yielding up himself to the light in him he shall be ruled and directed by it and his vain and evill thoughts shall be brought into subjection yea so that he may possibly compasse an exact obedience to the Law of Christ or dictates in his heart in this life and so ly down in the bosome of the Father in the everlasting rest which is prepared for the People of God which rest these assertors are displeased at if we refer the Saints for to the resurrection and coming of our Lord Now however this light so shining in man being attended and the evils it discovers being watched and opposed by the power which accompanies this light which is Free-will may be brought to a marvellous Reformation yet it reaches not the work of Regeneration which may be collected out of this assertion duly minded Moreover it reserves to Man a power of turning away from the Lord Jesus and by his disobedience or vain mind notabiding in this light he may fall from that eternal salvation which began to be wrought in him by the power of light while he did abide in it as this Doctrine implies It is further observable that there is no mention made in any of their papers we have yet seen of eternall salvation from the wrath to come or condemnation of Hell by any Atonement price or purchase or blood-sacrifice of our Mediatour without us but of an Eternal salvation from the Dominion of evil by Jesus Christ who is eternal life in us which we partake of as we abide in him in obedience Thus making this eternall light of life to be in every man but not every man in it which a man may truly in their sense be said to partake of and again to fall short of as he is guided by this light or his vain mind every day But having given you the import of these sayings we shall proceed for your further satisfaction in this Argument to declare our faith and experiences leaving you to judge in your selves how far they agree or differ from us or rather whether they or we do differ from the revealed mind of Christ First we believe and know that according to the word of Promise there doth go forth Power from the Father and from Jesus Christ who by the Eternal Spirit doth quicken whom he will by the Gospel 1 Thes. 1. 5. so he makes his Gospel his Power his Arm Rom. 1. 16. Isa. 53. 1. Thus doth he who waits to be gracious seek and save lost sheep beseech and overcome rebellious sinners who did not could not pitty themselves The day will discover how in a mystery the work of salvation is conducted through those intermissions in which for some moneths and years sometimes a soul once awakned sleepes again untill the resolved outgoings of Free grace at length quicken and work Faith unfeigned in such a one so that if thou canst tell how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child then maiest thou come a little neerer to trace out this work of God We are then the children of God being not born of blood or obtaining this privilege by a carnal descent from or good education under godly parents nor of the will of the flesh which is will composing it self to religious observations for carnall ends nor of the will of man though improved heightened to the utmost of humane activity though to close with the Gospel sound by power of free-will but of his own will begate he us by the word of truth Iames 1. 18. Indeed here is the hiding of his power under exhortations admonitions rebukes perswasions offers and promises in the Gospel because as all creatures glorify God in their kind so man as rationall must glorify God his Maker in closing with the Chief Good and eternal life in the Redeemer which is therefore so offered as the most reasonable thing most feeding perfecting and making happy the capacious and necessitous souls of men Yet the secret interposures of Almightynesse in his regeneration are so undeniably affirmed in Scriptures and seald up in the experiences of the sanctifyed that it doth appear it was not their Watchings strivings willings runnings but his mercy and compassions according to the mystery of his will that ingaged him to make a difference where he found none yea often taking of the worst of men to bring them unto Christ that it might yet more fully appear to all men that of his Mercy he saveth us Secondly But in the next place when any soul by this Preventing grace is brought to Christ having once tasted how gracious the Lord is in his dear Son he is taught to wait on Christ for the Renewings of strength morning by morning and doth desire the milk of the Word that he might grow thereby Thus doth the remembrance of the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the sights of his glory in the true sanctuary ingage him as David Psa. 63. 1 2 6 8. to seek wait and follow on to know the Lord Yet to the praise of his Grace the Father doth not only meet halfway his returning Prodigals or backsliding children but in the continuance of his preventing Mercy seekes saves calls upon his own while they are in the wildernesse forgeting their duty or turning out of his way to the right hand or to the left It s true he that waits cannot be exempt from the reproof of the sloathful servant if he be not exercised in Gods ways as Prayers Meditations Assemblies of Saints watching obedience c. Thus he that waits and walks shall renew his strength to wait still untill the Lord come as the latter and the former Rain upon the earth But though this be Mans duty yet it is the pleasure of the Lord to make his wind blow when he listeth and

check chide and call home the wandrings of his people to make his grace exceeding glorious Thirdly Neverthelesse though we are tyed to all Means yet hath the Lord tyed himself to none so as that he may not in his Soveraignty withhold mercy untill his own time But if power alway go with light what shall we think of Paul who found the Law of his Members warring and leading him captive against his Will though he gave up himself to the Law of his inward man Rom. 7. 14. unto the end Surely the topstone of the whole frame of Spiritual graces and privileges is not laid untill the resurrection and second coming of Jesus Christ which is cleared in the Scriptures calling it our Adoption as it was written of Christ and of the day of his resurrection Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee also making our Life to be hidden untill then stating the life of a Christian now to be in Faith and hope which looks beyond death and charactering a true Saint by his waiting looking for and loving the appearing of Christ Heb. 10. 37 38. 1 Thess. 1. 10. Heb. 9. 28. Blessed are they who are the children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus though all their life time they be found groaning under the burden of sin buffetings of Satan and are in heavinesse if need be through various Temptations which are to make them vile and little in their own eyes knowing what maketh them to differ And that Jesus might perfect his strength in their weaknesse and his Grace in their guiltinesse And might trie their faith which shall be found unto praise and glory at the appearing of Christ the hope of which is as an Anchor to their souls which Saves them from sinking under their pressures and perishing in their stormes Then shall they that now die not having received the Promises which are sure to all the seed receive them and the Crown of righteousnesse at that day who fight the good fight finish their course and keep the faith This putteth not the day of the Lord far from us as some charge us no more than did Abraham Isaac and Jacob who saw the Promises a farre off and because they apprehended themselves not likely to inherit them in this life on earth therefore they confessed themselves Pilgrims and strangers whose portion was not in this life Heb. 11. 16. Neverthelesse as we look for compleat victory over all and the last of enemies Death at the resurrection so we are to hasten to it 2 Pet. 3. 12. in all holy conversations and godlinesses if by any means we might attain unto the resurrection Phil. 3. 10 11. by being as like Christ as may be who in that he died he died unto sin and the world and in that he liveth he liveth unto God though for the changing our vile corruptible mortal natural bodies like unto his glorified body the Apostle looked not for it nor his Crown until the coming of Christ Phil. 3. 21. But that we may take the foxes and the little foxes that spoil our vines which began to have tender grapes let 's yet make search and see how for the driving on the great design of overthrowing the Gospel as administred by Man and weakning the Authority of the holy Scriptures they seek to perswade all Men that that light in them is the Gospel and the sure Word of Prophecy to which they would do well to take heed until the day dawn and the day-star arise in their hearts It may be the Accuser of the Brethren will say we are zealous in our own cause though our Consciences tell us we ought to be angry yet without sinne when we see the way of life stopped up from the children of men which we doubt not to demonstrate to the seeing eye in reference to the Gospel it self and its ministration First then to manifest that this assertion puts men quite beside the way of Salvation We pray you to consider that if it be not the voice of the Gospel but of the Law mans heart who hath no more light than the eternal Word enlightens him with as every one that cometh into the world then who so bids him seek righteousness peace and life in attendance and obedience thereto puts man beside the way of life Rom. 9. 32. Rom. 4. 5 14. Gal. 2. 16 21. But that it is the voice of the Law and not the Gospel hath been proved before by sundry couched Arguments as that Scripture and experience makes the moral Law the Counterpane of the Law ingraven in every mans Conscience Also that Man naturally establisheth his own self-righteousnesse which is of the Law Beside the book of Natural Conscience is the Creation and Providence which administer in themselves to the discursive faculty the knowledge of the Godhead as binding Man to glorifie God as God not as Father Saviour or Redeemer Should we here grant that he that walks up to the Law or light of Nature shall have the light of Grace or Gospel revealed to him although we never read nor knew the Gospel bestowed on any Person or People upon that account or the Spirit received by the works of the Law yet we do more than doubt whether ever there stood before the throne of Glory or shall any such who without Gospel-light and grace did obey the Law please God or rightly approach unto him for we know that faith in Jesus as dying for us and rising for our justification is the first stone in the spiritual building and the Fountain of Love Man loving God because he is first beloved of God without which mans specious works most upright worships are abhominations threapt on the Lord Wherefore the Lord builds not on the first Adams foundations or Covenant of works on which the higher man builds the more losse he suffers when he is brought to Christ but layes a Foundation in Sion even Christ in the Law of Faith or Covenant of Grace and thereupon builds all things new Secondly Moreover we add that if this Position take away the true and proper ministration of the Gospel it must needs shut up the Kingdom of God from Men For what are good tidings if they be not told But to the best of our understandings by this Assertion is the ministration of the Gospel taken away For we do not know that ever the gospel was published or promised to be made known without the ministration of man or without hearing But rather as Jesus Christ said I am with you in teaching to the end of the world so intended he teaching to be to the end also it was the Apostles care that the truth might be committed from one to another from age to age 2 Tim. 2 2. likewise the promise is Isa. 59. the last verse that the Word should not depart from the mouth of Jesus Christ and his seed and his seeds seed for ever and that the