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A85147	The ranters principles & deceits discovered and declared against, denied and disowned by us whom the world cals Quakers. With a discovery of the mistery of the crosse of Christ. And a discovery of the true light and the false, with their wayes, worships, natures, properties and effects. &c. A vindication for the truth against the deceit. to clear the truth, of scandalls written for simple ones sake, that desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F501; Thomason E830_14; ESTC R207442	21,296	22

have came to the hidden name but not abiding under the wrath the light vain mind is got up in you and the flesh is at ease but wo to all careless ones that are at ease in Sion Rev. 3.12 Rev. 22.9 Rev. 21.27 so soon as the pure law did break out in force and give in some refreshment to the seed in prison and the love and joy did spring into the imprisoned seed from him who lives out of time to refresh that which is captivated by that which lives in times and time and so the will turned into the conceiving of something from what was made out to the seed and the faln wisdom joined with the corrupt will and got liberty from under the cross and the Divell he wrought strongly upon the imaginations and so sought to comprehend the light and drew a vail over the heart and there he acted in the mistery of the iniquity after the pure were vailed and he brought all into question and pleaded for liberty to the flesh through his workings upon the imaginations and the comprehensions by carnall reason and the faln wisdom joining to conceive and comprehend to have all at command and be as God knowing good and evil and now saith the Divell all is good and there is nothing evil but as thou conceivest it to be so and thou art brought into the knowledge of this that is all good and it was but thy weaknesse to think that there was any thing evil now thou art the son of God and thou knowest it all is thine take thy liberty and rejoyce let thy heart be merry use all things in righteousnesse and there is no sin in them thou hast been so crittick that thou couldst scarce look chearfully or partake of any thing that was for thy comfort but now thou art a son and thou seest how thou hast been kept from thy l●berty meerly through thy conceits and apprehensions of ev●l and an angry God against sin and fear least thou shouldest go into a place thou callest hell but saith he now thou maist see it was but the weak and low apprehensions in those things there is neither hell nor Divell nor any such thing but what as was in thee and thou hast got through those conceits now rejoyce and be merry and take thy pleasure use thy freedom thou art a son and if a son then an heir and thou maist laugh the heathen to scorn poor fooles that they should so deprive themselves of their liberty and freedom as they do and be bound so to false conceits as they are because that their judgements are not rightly informed to know all things to be good and this which they call sin to be but a conceit and that i● they knew their freedom they might rejoyce and he glad c. and thus the Devill he works strongly upon the imaginations when the light breakes forth and the love comes to be made manifest to the seed in prison not abiding in the crosse the will is seeking to comprehend and get out from under the judgement and here Satan doth delude and deceive under fair colours like an angell of light and leads out into fleshly love fleshly joy fleshly liberty and fleshly pleasures and calls all good and calleth that a freedom by the son but it is but by the son of perdition that doth exalt himself above all that is called God and that liberty which he leads into is a false liberty and thou shalt find it whoever thou art that takes his counsell after that the light do arise in thee then he useth all his devices to deceive withall which before were not known afterwards comes to be made known and wo to them that turn out of the strait way and the daily crosse to seek ease to the flesh there they took counsell of the Devill and he will work them into such a strong combination with the powers of darknesse that they shall find that of the Apostle to be true those that were once enlightened and have tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew then again to repentance they crucify to themselves the son of God afresh and put him to an open shame and wo is thei● portion Heb. 6.4 5 6 7 8. for the earth that drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from God so do they that abide in the teaching and counsell of God who works them into a fruitfulnesse to bring praise to his name to receive his blessing which is as the dew of ●●aven to water nourish and comfort their souls but that nature which is contrary to the light and all that go out of the counsell of God and the daily crosse turneth into the crooked paths of fleshly delights and pleasures and dishonoureth the Lord and is as the ground that beareth nothing but thornes and is rejected and is nigh unto cursing and burning and so are they who turn the grace of God into wantonesse and lasciviousnesse and will not abide the fire and the sword to c●t down the thorny nature and the fleshly corrupt heart and to burn the earth and place of the serpents abode in them therefore must they know the eternall fire and vengeance of God to be revealed from heaven for they who sin wilfully after that they have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a fearfull looking for of judgement and fiery indignation of the Lord which shall devour the adversaries Heb. 6.4 to the 8.2 Thes 1.6 7 8 9. Heb. 10.26 27. Look to your selves all Ranters and Libertines who turns the grace of God into wantonesse the Devill he hath deceived you and you seek to deceive others preaching to them liberty when you your selves are the servants of sin but wo and misery is your portion yet the Lord may pluck some as brands out of the fire that they may be witnesses for the truth against the deceits to forewarn all of that dangerous way whereby the Divell lyeth in wait to deceive if it were possible the very elect but for the elects sake doth the Lord discover your deceits and false light Liberties Rests and pleasures which you live and take delight and pleasure in wo is your portion for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and this I testify unto you from the word of the Lord. But you may object and say Object Gal. 5.1 Rom. 14.14 2. Cor. 5.18 did not the Apostle say stand fast in tnac liberty wherewith Christ hath see you free Gal. 5.1 and he said all things are lawfull for me but all things are not expedient and I know and am perswaded by the Lord Iesus that there is nothing unclean of it self but to him that esteemeth it to be unclean to him it is unclean and to the pure all things are p●re and

who lives in the lust the old nature and the fall know it not for great is the mistery of godlinesse from whence all purity springs and blessed are they who are reconciled to God and under the dominion and government of the spirit of truth where the pure life and the heavenly food is and spirituall lawes statutes and ordinances are to walk in and the Lord God and the Lamb the light and glory of the spirituall kingdom where all variecies is in their purity but who are yet reconciled to God are under the dominion of the Prince of darkness and sucks poison from the corrupt ●oor and so feeds the flesh and wallowes in the mire and lust of their own conceivings inventions and fleshly imaginations and so are under the curfe and wrath of the almighty but God hath not called us to uncleaness but to holiness 1 Thes 4. I know she vain light mind and the carelesse dark spring will say Object let the seed of the serpent be accursed and let it be damned so that God save his own I care not what he doth with me c. But be thou assured and know this Ans that as the seed of the serpent is accursed from God he that is joined to the seed of the serpent is one and body and soul and all is polluted by reason of sin and except thou know thy redemption by the power of the Lord to separate the seed of the serpent and thou asunder and to un●te thee to the power of truth thou wilt be accursed from God both soul and body and all that is one with the serpent and be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the presence of the holy Angels for as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to 2 reprobate mind to work all uncleanesse with greedinesse 2 Thes 1.7 8. Rom. 1.18 29. and when they knew God they glorifi●d him not as God but became vain in their imaginations and their foolisih hearts were darkened for the mistery of iniquity doth work there strongly with all deceiveablenesse of unrighteousnesse in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes 2.7 8 9 10 11 12. Thou maist say that there is no evil nor no Divell Object Ans but thou shalt knew that there is a Divell and a hell and a root from whence all evil doth proceed and though thou saist it is but a conceit yet be sure O vain man whatsoever thou art God will be aveanged of thee and suffer the tormented to plague thee for thy spirituall wickednesse blasphemy and despight to the spirit of grace for all sins and blasphemies against men shall be forgiven but the sin against the holy Ghost which is to sin wilfully after grace received and to speak evil of the power of truth that sin shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor in that which is to come Thou maist say it is but a conceit to tell of sin and the Divell Object Ans but it is but a deceit which tells thee there is none and so thou art swallowed up in uncleanesse and the custome of sin taketh away the conscience of sinning and thou art seared and makes no conscience of what thou dost but thou maist as well say it is but a conceit to say the Sun is not the Sun it is but a conceit to think so as to say there is no sin nor Divell but good and evil are all alike c. But will any who are endued with naturall knowledge believe thee if thou saist there is neither Sun nor Moon night nor day they are all alike only they conceive it to be day and night Sun-light and Moon-light but it is but their conceit that they have of these things But is it so because thou sayest so will not the very naturall man that hath his naturall sight and knowledge of those things tell thee thou art a lyar and speakes but only thy conceits and fleshly conceivings and carnall inventions but it is vain for thee to deceive one that hath his eyes in his head in those things But if it were to a naturall blind man that never saw any of these but were born blind thou mightest deceive him in those things soon to tell him there is neither night nor day Sun nor Moon but as mens conceits carrieth them forth to conceive of these things according to their low apprehensions that they have of those things thou mightest deceive a blind man in those things because that he never saw them but only as he heard others speak of them but he that seeth and knoweth or those things he will tell thee thou art a fool to labour to perswade him to believe thy conceits when he seeth it to the contrary evidently before his eyes So on the contrary to say there is neither God nor Divell heaven nor hell nor sin nor sorrow will any believe thee that knows those things whose eyes are in his head hath evidently seen the nature and property of these he that is born again and enlightened by the spirit of Jesus Christ knows that thou art a lyar to say that good and evil righteousnesse and unrigteousnesse is all one and proceeds from one root it is but only their low apprehensions and conceits to think otherwise as thou sayest but thy saying is false And I testify against thee that sayeth so be what thou wilt or who thou wilt thou art guided by a lying spirit and art of thy father the Divell who was a lyar from the beginning and the father of it Joh. 8. 44. the Divell that deceived thee was a lyar from the beginning and he hath since the beginning got into thy heart and hath been working upon thy imaginations and drawn thee out into conceits and carnall imaginations of things through the wiles and craftinesse of his deceiveablenesse whereby he hath plunged thee into the pit of inventions and divinations of thy own brain but thou art shut out of the truth and art blind and ignorant altogether of unfolding the divine and heavenly mystery and art kept in the fountain of filthinesse of the Divells suggestions who acteth thee by the power of darknesse and casts a mist before thy eyes the eyes of thy understanding that thou shouldst be blind and groap by thy faln wisdom and the knowledge in the history but art yet in wickednesse and deep in the mistery of iniquity and knowest nothing but the evil it self and calls that good but the wo is to thee that dost so for thou art blinded by seeking to comprehend the light by thy carnall wisdom thou mayest as well seek to comprehend the Sun in thy band for light

shineth in darknesse but darknesse comprehends it not Joh. 1.5 This then is the message that God is light Ioh. 1.5 and in him is no darknesse at all if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darknesse we lye and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another Ioh. 1.5 6 7 and the bloud of Iesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1.5 6 7 he that dwelleth in God dwelleth in light but he that is out of God is in darknesse and walketh in crooked paths that leads to destruction Therefore I say unto you who desire to fear the Lord as John said to the brethren Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous but he that doth not righteousnesse is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother in this the children of God are made manifest 1 Ioh. 3.9 10. and the children of the Divell 1. Joh. 3.9 18. Here is two seeds acted by two powers and receiveth strength from two roots the seed of God acted by the power of God and all who are in unity with that seed are crucified to the world and dead to unrighteousnesse Christ being made manifest to destroy the works of the Divell who is the bright morning star I am the root and off-spring of David Rev. 22.16 saith Jesus Christ and he that is unjust let him be uniust still and he that is saithy let him be filthy still there is the evil seed but he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still there is the good seed and righteousnesse springeth from one root and is of God and all who act in righteousnesse who are acted and guided by the divine power of God are one and are in covenant with God but all unrighteousnesse doth spring from another root Rev. 22.10 11 12 13 14 15. Isa 5.22 23 24 Rev. 22.16 17. Isa 28.13 14 15 16 17 18 19. and those who are of unrighteousnesse are of the seed of the serpent and are acted and guided by the power of the Divell Rev. 21.10 11 12 13 14 15. and I witnesse the same with the Scriptures by experience that good and evil it from two roots distinct and two powers therefore be not deceived for God will not be mocked Heb. 1.14 15. Act. 26.28 Rev. 13.4 Rev. 16.10 11 12 13 14. Rev. 19.11 12. to the end of the chapter You who are of the unrighteousnesse and of the seed of the serpent are one and all in covenant with the Divell and have made a covenant with death and Hell that the Scriptures maybe fulfilled Isa 28.15.28 chap. 1. 2. Isa 5.18 19 20 21 22 13 24. But you can deceive none but such as are of the same seed of evil doers with you who are of the serpent and lives in the fall and the lust of the flesh forsaking the fountain of living mercies to delight in lying vanities but the seed of God is springing up and begin to grow and righteousnesse will be a terrour to unrighteousnesse and the seed of God will be a torment to the seed at the serpent and the Lord ruling in his Saints will be a terrour to the heathen Howl ye serpents and all ye dragons for you will be found out and have the vialle of wrath and indignation poured forth upon you howl ye lustfull ones who delight in unrighteousnesse the Lord will be avenged of you Isa 1.24 Isa 3.11 all vengeance is mine all I will repay saith the Lord sury to mine adversaries you would have two kingdoms but Esaus dominion is yours and the hatred of God it to you all who delight in unrighteousnesse and and ye shall desire to see one of the daies of the son of man out shall not or the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it and this declare I unto you from the word of the Lord. The mistery of the crosse of Christ and the law in the heart taking hold upon sin and all unrighteousnesse to cut it down and cast it out through the working of the divine power of God in Mankinde The crosse is inward Ioh. 16.7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 v. Luk. 9.23 24 25 26. 1 Cor. 1.17 18. 〈◊〉 6.14 to the cutting down of sin and uncleanesse within the pure light of God which convinceth of sin and evil and witnesseth against all the branching forth of the unrighteous power of darknesse in man when his mind will and affections would run forth into the world to conceive some comfort to himself out of die visible objects his heart is soon taken through the outgoing of his eye with the things of the world and he transformes the very image of what part of the creation soever his eye was out after and sets it up in his heart if it be a house field horse oxe or any other creature he is taken with beauty or riches and so his heart is stoln away into the earth and he sets his affections on the things below God and his will falls down to worship silver and gold and such like things making them his Gods to delight himself in and when his heart is running out after the love and honour of the world there is a principle of purity within tells him all is but vanity and this calls for equity equity to take of oppression and cruelty but the lustfull proud nature crosseth that principle of purity and draweth the heart after vanity when the Divell bears rule in the heart working into the mistery of the iniqnity but that of purity which calls for equity still cryeth out and tells man all is but vanity and calls and cryes in his heart for purity and to set up truth and righteousnesse and to do to all men as he would be done by for that is the Law and the Prophets and to love God with all his heart and his neighbour as himself and to give over folly and vanity this is the crosse to iniquity which calleth and cryeth for justice and equity and love and pity let that be heard and obeyed in you and it will shut out jollity and cut off vanity and work into unity with that which calleth for purity and crosse the lustfull proud nature that hardness of heart may not rule over justice and equity Consider oh man that thou art mortall and must return to dust and be cast into torment and burning if thou wilt not give ear to the cry of the poor that which is pure in thee that it may work thee into charity and shew thee the way that leads to eternity and cut of oppression and tyranny that diligence may rule in thee that thy lusts may be slain that would break the bonds of amity the pure light will witness against the dark nature in thee and strike at the

up torment in thee for thy unrighteous actions then thou apprehending the wrath of God against sin in thee thou wouldst be applying the promises of the Saints conditions which was to another seed to heal the wound in thee when the seed of the serpent gets a blow by the stroak of the righteous judgement of God But this will confound thy wit and muddle thy memory and scatter all thy conceits and imaginations and crosse thy will in its expectations tell thee thou art reprobate from God in that nature then thou shalt see this is not a naturall light that doth so oppose and strike at all naturall wayes worships tongues learnings and vanities it will work thee into unity with it if you give up to be guided by it and lead thee into eternity but it will confute and confound and condemn thee if thou do not obey it and so thou art left without all excuse thou naturall blind man that lives in thy motions and high conceits but thou art found out and thy place of aboad and art in Sodom and Egyptian darknesse this light shineth in darknesse but darknesse comprehends it not thou that wouldst go about to comprehend the light of thy subtilty and serpentine wit thou art an enemy to God and to thy own soul and thou wouldst fain know much that thou mightest have it at command to talk of but thou wouldst not put in practice therefore thou knowest so much as will serve to condemn thee For thy disobedience to the light the light will not be comprehended by thee thou theif thou wouldst fain comprehend it that thou mightest thereby be exalted and thou wouldst rob God of his glory and take it to thy self and thou wouldst command the light that thou mightest be a Lord thy self but it stands out of thy reach and it will not be commanded by thee though thou mayst conceive something from it and catch it to talk of yet except thou do walk accordingly it will tell thee thou art for destruction and this light will be thy condemnation who ever thou art that dost not obey it and it will scatter thy imaginaons and dash down all thy conceivings and high motions and tell thee thou art yet unreconciled to God and check thee and break thy peace if thou do but give ear to it it will witnesse for me in thy conscience this light is within thee Ioh. 1.9 Ioh. 8.12 Psal 36.9 Isa 49.6 Isa 1.60 19. 2 Pet. 1.19 2 Cor. 13.5 Col. 1.23 it is not without in books nor Scriptures The Sriptures do declare of it but they are not the light it is within and springs from a divine root and thou canst not comprehend it therefore wait upon God in obedience to it and it will teach thee and shew thee the way to salvation and the way to condemnation and set before thee life and death good and evil chuse thee whether thou wilt join to if thou join with the good seed thou wilt find power against sin to withstand the evil and it will judge and break down wickednesse in thee and slay the seed of the serpent and administer to that which is captivated through the lust and raise it up that thou may worship with it a God near hand and as the seed of God doth arise in thee it will open parrables and dark sayings and bring every secret thing to judgement in thee and the seed being raised up by the power of the Lord to rule over the deceit it will not bend to the Divell if he would give it all the world one seed raised up out of one grave by one power and brought into one covenant baptized by one spirit into one body though ten times ten thousand in particulars yet they are but one in the body one faith one seed one baptizing one supper one covenant one God and father all one heart and one soul serving God in one way worshipping him in the spirit and with one mouth all glorifying his great and glorious name and who are of this seed are of Abraham and where it is carryed up into power it will tread upon the seed of the serpent and strike at the head of it where ever it sees it who are of the seed of the serpent are one though ten hundred thousand and are in unity with the deceit the beast and false prophet and in the false worships worshipping the works of their hands and the imaginations of their own hearts and they are acted and guided by the power of the Divell but they shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God powred out without mixture and be tormented night and day Rev. 14 9 10 11. and all that seed shall be shut out and shall never enter into the city of the living God but death and hell shall be cast into the lake of fire this is the second death and whosoever is not found written in the Lambs book of life must be cast into the lake of fire Rev. 20 14 15. and the seed of the serpent never was nor never shall be written in the book of life and those that are joined with that seed are one and shall never enter into the holy city for the seed of God and the seed of the serpent have enmity placed betwixt them and they can never be reconciled together and that which defileth shall not enter for without is all that seed cast and is reprobate from God and must not enter into the kingdom Rev. 21.8 Rev. 22.15 Blessed are they that do his commands that they may have right to the tree of life and enter into the city through the straight way Rev. 22.14 he that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Rev. 21.7 This seed where it hath overcome through the power and strength of the Lord and is set above it doth comprehend all languages kindreds and tongues and all BabyIons wayes and worships and doth triumph and rejoyce over them all and sees where the Antechists and deceivers all are and from whence they all come and whither they shall return again The Ranters Principles and deniall of them by us ON the first day of the seventh moneth we met with one Robert Wilkinson of Coaton in Leistershire and he said he was born of God and could not commit sin and said he was both God and the Devill and he said there was no God but him nor no Devill but him and he said whom he blest was blest and whom he curst was curst and he said he was a serpent and so he is he said the Apostles were lyars and deceivers and I gave him a Bible to prove that and he said die Bible was a pack of lyes and there was neither heaven nor hell but here and yet he was both in heaven and in hell and he had as lieve be in hell as in heaven and he said he was a serpent and a whoremaster and before he said he was born of God and could not commit sin Now all that are in the light may see this confusion and this Beast is full of blasphemy and the vengeance of God he shall not nor cannot escape Wo to the Ranters this book is as a testimony against you from us whom the world calls Quakers and you and your wicked principles we deny and hold them and you accursed GaI. 1.9 The Apostles were not as many that did corrupt the word of God but were of sincerity and in the light of God spake they in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 and he was no lyar nor deceiver though the wicked ones counted him one Joh. 7. as thou wicked one dost and the Apostles were not lyars and deceivers as thou Wilkinson Ranter said they were The world called them deceivers and counted them deceivers as I told thee yet they were true though counted deceivers by such as thou art the Apostles were the Ambassadours of Christ and they prayed the Corinthians in Christs stead to be reconciled to God 2 Cor 5.20 and Christ was no lyar nor no guile was found in his mouth and they were without guile as he was Rev. 14.5 1 Thes 4.6 7 8. Pev 18.20 But thou Wilkinson and you Ranters false Apostles are full of guile and deceit that sayes the Apostles of Christ were lyars and deceivers when first they were Christs Ambassadours and secondly they were workers together with him and he did not work in the iniquity as you Ranters do for they in all things prove themselves as the ministers of God 2 Cor. 6.11.2.7 which thou Wilkinson and you Ranters are enemies unto thirdly they had wounded the hidden things of dishonesty and did not walk in craftinesse 2 Cor. 1.12 as thou Wilkinson and you Ranters do and fourthly they were a sweet favour of Christ with them that were saved 2 Cor. 2.15 but thou Wilkinson and you Ranters stinks and are an ill savour amongst them that walk with the dogs sorcerers and liars Rev. 22.15 Wilkinson of a God thou art born with but thy God as I told thee before is the God of the world that hath blinded the mind and the minds of all you Ranters wicked ones and from them the Gospell is hid as it is written 2 Cor. 4.3 4. and that God that is of the world and the Devill is one which is the father that begat thee and all the generation of lyars and lustfull ones such as thou art Joh. 8.44 and the serpent thou art a whoremaster as thou saidst and art in the mystery of Babylon committing fornication 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.10 20 21. Rev. 20.15 Rev. 21.27 and art full of the filthynesse thereof Rev. 15. thou beast that carryeth the whore shall go with her into perdition and all whoremongers and adulterers God will judge and the serpent thou art and you Ranters Scorpions Serpents you shall not escape the damnation of hell Mat. 23.33 for heaven thou hast nothing to do to talk of who hath no part nor portion in it for the lake thou art and the tormentor thou shalt know as Dives did and thou wiucked one and you wicked Ranters and the wicked and all that forgot God shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 Mat. 25 41. with the light are you seen and all thy crooked wayes thou crooked serpent with the light comprehended and with the light for ever condemned and all the Gods of the heathen shall be famished FINIS