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A85141	The Holy Scriptures from scandals are cleared. Or An answer to a book set forth by the baptizers; to wit, Henry Hagger and Thomas Pollard, entituled, The Holy Scriptures clearing it self of scandals: but is scandalled or perverted, and so scandalized by them, as in this answer to theirs will further appear, so by them entituled, or bearing the title of an Answer to a book written by Richard Farnsworth, called, Truth cleared, or Truth lifting up its head above scandals: occasioned by a dispute at Harliston in Staffordshire, between Richard Farnsworth and Thomas Pallard, in the year, 1654. Also here is in this, the heads of an order, or late act made at Coventry, by the baptized people there, ... And something here is, in answer to a false prophet, called John Griffith, set out by him and several others, in a false prophesie or book, bearing the title of True Gospel faith, collected into 30 articles: or in the middle part called, A voice from the Word of the Lord, ... / Written by a servant of the Lord, in the sixth moneth, 1655. by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F487; Thomason E855_1; ESTC R202126	43,362	61

that the adversaries were not able to resist the spirit by which they were spoken as the Scripture witnesseth and behold the Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them Rev. 21.3 and the Lord God and the Lamb is the light and the Nations which are saved shall walk in it Rev. 21.23,24 so the light according to the manifestation of it is the forme that it was and as Christ hath said At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you John 14.20 but thy drift is to set up the letter of the Scripture instead of the light and here thou sayes in thy 8th did not the Apostles of our Lord Iesus declare and testifie the same things to others that they hear and say who shunned not to declare to others the whole Counsel of God yes in that the Apostle John said that the Message which they had to declare was the light 1 John 1.5 which thou seems to be so much offended at and Paul that Apostle declared and said that God which John called light would dwell and walk in his people 2 Cor. 6.16 and he also declared of the light and the glory of God and the heavenly treasure within 2 Cor. 4.6,7 and of the life of Christ to be manifest in mortal flesh verse 10. 11. and and the mystery of Godliness he said was great and also within Col. 1.27 But thou being blind and ignorant of the things and workings of the light and the spirit of God thou would have all without in the letter of the Scripture which doth but declare of them for in the 9th thou askes whether you can know the things which Christ and his Apostles did but by the Scriptures If thou know not thou knows not the Father dwelling in thee that so wrought by his power and spirit in them John 14.10.11,12 Gal. 1. Col. 1.29 And so if thou be in doubt and question the thing out of ignorance and darkness thou shews that thou knowes not the same spirit of Christ within Gal. 4.6 to bring to rememberance what Christ hath said John 14.26 which is the guid into all truth and shews things to come John 16.13 And being without the life of the spirit of Christ and of God to rule and guid in thee Gal. 4.6 Rom. 8.14 which spirit searcheth and revealeth the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2.10 which in the Prophets did also testifie before hand of the sufferings of Christ and doth now witness with them 1 Pet. 1.11,12 and thou that knows not the spirit to guide thee and reveal the things of God now as they did then thou art not of the spiritual but carnal minded men and so knowes not the glorious light of the Gospel of Christ that shineth within as such did and do that witness the power of God to salvation Rom. 1.16 and the holy unction within whereby they knew all things 1 John 2.20 But thou would have the Scripture to be the same which thou queries of and about in thy tenth and eleventh Queries and therein thy design is seen who thy self that followeth not the light walks after the dictates or evil sayings of thy own heart which is as thou sayes deceiptful and desperately wicked yet it is known and with the light reproved which thou art offended at And it is no better then folly and madness in thee and such like that would put the letter of the Scripture for the light and Gospel which is the power of God to salvation which light thou sayes is not sufficient to lead to happinesse c. And so denies Christ the true light to be sufficient to lead unto happinesse and denying the true light thou denies the true guide that leads into true comfort such as do follow the Counsel of it and that light which leads the obedient into true comfort it therefore leads them into true happiness and such did witness the consolation and so the happiness within that said As the sufferings of Christ did abound in them so their consolation also abounded by him 2 Cor. 2.5 and the light which shined in the face of Iesus through the new Covenant did shine within them and the glory and heavenly Treasure as well as the light which the Scripture declareth of therein was revealed within them and so the true comfort and comforter was within them who did experience the sufferings before Rom. 8.18 John 14.26 2 Thes 1.10 2 Cor. 3.17,18 and 2 Cor. 4.5,6,7 But the Letter is not that light c. as thou would have it though it declare of it c. which light of the glorious Gospel thou art a stranger unto for thy dark reason cannot comprehend it who art in those and so thy brain expectations thou speaks of and art out of that Covenant which thou out of darkness art quering after and about that art such a lyer and false accuser and with the liers and false accusers art a partaker as this Book maketh manifest which stands a witness against thee and them c. Henry Hagger that refuseth the glorious light of the Gospel of Christ and would set the Letter up instead of the light spoken of or queried about in thy 11th refusing it to follow or walk by as thou sayes instead of his thy own imaginations or dictates and sayings of thy evil heart which is so deceitful and desperately wicked the heart thou speaks of in thy Query And now according to thy 12th such as thou art being found out after query or search that hath so lyed and sought as thy Brethren hath done to set up the letter of the Scripture instead of the light and spirit or power of God unto salvation which is the Gospel of Christ and refusing the light within also and that which Paul and the Gospel-Ministers witnessed in them who called it the glorious light of the Gospel of Christ in the face of Jesus which was in them and shined within in their hearts 2 Cor. 4,4,5,6,7 in which light the Nations that are saved shall walk Rev. 21.23,24 which light we chuse to walk by and in as Paul and the faithful in Christ did giving thanks unto the Father of lights James 1.17 who of his own will begot us with the word of truth James 1.18 who hath made us meet to be partakers of what the Saints doth inherit of the Inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1.12 And so we are required to hold such accursed as denies Christ within which Paul preached and said to the Colossians great is the mysterie of godliness Christ in you whom we preach c Col. 1.27.28.29 and such we are to deny as denies the light within which the Gospel preachers witnessed in them 2 Cor. 4.6.7 which thou opposeth and stumbleth or art offended at as the Serpents seed ever was But the light and the Spirit of truth we own to be within us which is not darknesse as thou would have it but being

Henry Hagger and Iohn Griffith are though they may have a forme of godlinesse from the letter yet denying the light and life or power of godlinesse in the Spirit they are to be turned away from and denied Thy Queries and considerations differs somthing in the name yet little in the nature or matter but to them I shall returne this answer as followeth To thy first that the light which is of the Spirit of God in man which doth convince him of sin the transgression of the law 1 Joh. 3.4 if it be obeyed and followed it will lead as it doth us him out of darknesse and sin into the light of life Joh. 8.12 and so into the life of the law and not from it which is the end of thy Queries for the righteousnesse of the law is fulfilled in such as walke not after darknesse and the flesh but after the light and so after the Spirit Rom. 8.3,4 or in short and to thy Question in breife that the light of God in man doth not lead him contrary to his law and testmony in the Spirit But according to it and so through the law into the Gospel so that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walke not after the flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 and therefore thy lie and slander in thy first Querie turnes back upon thee againe and also those in thy second who art given over to lie and speake falsly as thou hast done And to thy second such as despise the light of the Spirit and the living truth and undervalue the light of life Joh. 8.12 preferring the letter before it and set the letter above the Spirit they must needs be in darkness and so the God of this world hath blinded their mindes as he hath done thine and such liers and false-accusers of the light and the truth least the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ which is the image of God should shine unto you and unto them 2 Cor. 4.3.4 But the Scriptures we do not undervalue as thou saies nor dispise these are two of thy lies neither do we walke in darknesse no more then such did that preferred the light of the Gospel above the letter and were Ministers of the light and Spirit within and not of the letter 2 Cor. 3.6 and they preached not themselves but the light and the Lord Jesus as we do and said God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse did shine within them even in their hearts as it doth in ours to give us the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and this treasure have we in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us And they that preached the light and the Lord Jesus they had the same light c within them which thou being in darknesse stumbleth at 2 Cor. 4.5.6,7 Colos 1.27.28.29 3. That true light which is of God in man the Scriptures declareth of and according to Psal 119 130 where it saith The enterance of thy words giveth light which words had enterance in David before he spake or writ them then the words that giveth light or the teachings of the Spirit of God that giveth an understanding is within as David witnessed who said Light was sowne for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart Psal 97.11 and the law of his God was within him even in his heart Psal 37.31 and the word were hid in Davids heart Psal 119.11 which word were as a lampe and so a light to him even the word of God in his heart but thou would have the letter to be the word and the light and there thy designe and also deceipt is seene And in thy 5th thou asketh what that light which is in any man teacheth him more then the Scriptures teacheth him I answer that the Scriptures witnesseth with the light and the teachings thereof yet the light teacheth such as obey it when they have not the Scriptures or Printed Bible to looke on and teacheth such as obey if they be not book learned and teacheth them more then the Scriptures yet hath taught thee that art given over to lie as in thy latter part of that Querie also where thou saies thou hast seene an end of all perfection then an end thou saies of that light that these men pretend c The light that we do not pretend only but witnesse also is that light which is without end and was in the beginning with God Joh. 1.1.2,3,4,5 which light darknesse cannot comprehend therefore take notice of thy slander and lie if thou have seene an end of that light hast thou not seene an end of God who is light 1 Joh. 1,5 and also of his work When thou hast considered of it acknowledge thy rashnesse and folly for the light which is our witnesse will witnesse against thee for it and reprove thee in secret for acting and speaking so contrary to it which light is the condemnation of such as hate it which light doth reprove and forbid thee for doing evill which light the Scriptures witnesseth with as in thy 5th yet the letter is not the light as thou would therein have it and though the Scripture be profitable for doctrine for reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect and thorowly furnished unto all good works it is through faith in Christ Jesus and so through the light Joh. 1.9 Joh. 8.12 as the first and cheife or moving cause and therefore the light is more then the letter take notice of that for the light and Spirit is the convincer and guides such as obeyeth it into all truth and sheweth things to come revealing also the deepe things of God so doth not the letter do that which is the worke of the light and Spirit of God though it declare of it and witnesse unto it Iohn 16. 1 Cor. 2.9.10 Thy sixth is whether there was not a greater light in the Lord Iesus then ever was in any man else or ever shall be and thy seventh is whether he did not declare it and make it known by his words and actions more then ever any man else could do I answer that Iesus was the true light and is according to those two Scriptures which thou hast cited John 1.9 and John 8.12 And as he is called the light of the world so did he call them that saw with his light and were in it the light of the world also as in Mat. 5.14 and for manifesting it more by actions c he said that it was the Father which was in him that wrought the works John 14.10 and he said also that what he did some should do and greater works also John 14.12 and there was great works done by others from the same light and power or working of the Father in them and for words there was such spoken after he had sent them the Holy Ghost

true Spirits order to further make manifest your disorder and also your Spirit of delusion and errour And again you say God will judge the secrets of all hearts by the written word or letter of the Scripture when the Minister of Christ saith the contrary who saith that God will Judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ Rom 2.16 then not by the lettet of the Scripture and the Son saith All judgment is Committed unto him and the Father hath given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son but he hath not given authority to the letter of the Scripture to execute judgment because it is the letter of the Scripture and declareth or testifieth of the Son but is not the Son then the Scripture is not the judge of all hearts but the Son is so to wit the judge of all hearts as the Scripture declareth Joh. 5.22 and Joh. 5,26.27 Act. 17 31. Take notice how you would deprive Christ of his Kingly office and take the authoritie from him to put upon the letter and hath againe thereby further manifested your Spirit of errour THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Are cleared of Scandals OR AN ANSWER TO A BOOK Written by Thomas Pallord Henry Hagger As they say In Answer to a Book set ●orth by Richard Farnworth wherein they pretend to clear the truth of Scandals but are found Lyars and the Lyes is sent them back in a bundle or number that they may see their deceipt and Spirit or Lies Errors and Slanders THo Pallord and Henry Hagger who are mighty in the work of your Father John 8.44 you pretend to clear the truth of Scandals but of it are Lyars and Scandallers and evil Speakers and false Accusers and therefore that you may take notice of the fruit of your Fathers Spirit by which you are guided and taught to lie I have viewed your work or scandalous and deceitful Book and gathered out of it being numbred up the sum of 60 and odde or Threescore Lies and more besides many that I have passed by these being sufficient for to manifest your Spirit and the deceit of your heart as also severall lies gathered out of a Paper written or caused to be Printed under the name of John Griffith oue of the water Baptizers with you or in your number and I hare also sent them back amongst you into the lyars Generation again take them and keep them for they are returned back upon you and into the lyars generation from whence they came that Truth may be kept clear and you appear in your lying colours or be laid open who are such great deceivers unto your shame who hath taken upon you to slander and revile the Lotds people by you in disdain called Quakers and also to Prophesie or publish your lies in pretence of the Lords Name But to bo wort I shall lay several of them down return them back upon you from whence they came Tho Pollard Thou hast set down things which I neither spoke nor writ and says I affirmed them when I did not and therefore thy gronnds being lies that which springs out of them is so as well as thy Grounds or Heads but I turn them under and drive them back with the rest of thy Lies into the Serpents seat ugain lyars Generation from whence they came E●…or or Lie the first In thy third page Thou says it is such a deceipt that they that say they have no sin the truth is not in them but thou cannot prove thy saying therein whose fallacy is laid down in that word they which includes any when the Scripture says not so as thou dost and therefore in that thou hast lyed of the truth and truths friends as it appeareth And here thou goes about to prove that Christ and such as are in him hath no truth in them and that is contradiction to the Scripture and the Spirits Doctrine for thou fetbheth Christ in with them and includes all in that word they saying They that say they have no sin the truth is not in thom as much as to say They that are without sin are without truth and have no truth in them but Christ and such as are in him are without sin Therefore if they say they are without sin there is no truth in them as thou says for that is contrary to thy proofless Argument Pollard or Hagger whether of you laid it down take notice of your folly therein here thou would by that have Christ and such as are in him to have no truth in them see what a trick the deceit hath taught thee in that for first it is said of Christ That he sinned not and so was without sin for no guile was found in his month and therefore he was without sin and the truth was in him contrary to thy lying of him for he is both the way the truth and the life Joh. 14.6 and is without sin but full of truth and such as abide in him they sin not as saith the Scripture 1 Joh. 3.5,6 then such as abide in Christ sin not as the Scripture saith they are without sin 1 John 3.9 and the truth is in them for such said That as he was so was they in this present world 1 John 4.16,17 Pallard take notice of thy Errors and Lies and also of thy contradiction of the Scripture For they that did abide in Christ and sinned not 1 John 3.6 they were so far trom being without truth or having no truth in them that they were full of grace and truth for the Spirit of God was in them which was truth and no lie 1 John 3.24 And secondly the word of God was in them 1 John 2.14 and they were strong in the Lord and the power of his truth for they had overcome the wicked one and the word of God were abiding in them and so the truth of God abode within them for saith Christ to his Father Sanctifie them with thy word thy word is truth John 17.17 Then they that had overcome the wicked one and were sanctified through the truth and were without sin having also the word of God abiding within they were full of truth and not without it or no truth in them take notice of thy absurdities and lies for they had the holy Unction within them that were without sin and that was truth and no lie 1 John 2.20 and 27. and greater was he that was in them then he that was in the World 1 Iohn 4.4 take notice of thy lie and that trick of thy deceit Error or Lie the second Thy second Lie is that thou saies we boast of perfection perfection in and by Christ we own else we should deny the truth and the worke of grace according to the working of the Spirit of God as it is witnessed according to the Scripture and by the Ministrie of Christ in the new Covenant Math. 5.48 and Eph. 4.11.12.13 1 Cor. 2.6 Heb. 6.1 Heb. 12.22.23 but though we witnesse