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A89634	The boasting Baptist dismounted, and the Beast disarmed and sorely wounded without any carnal weapon. In a reply to some papers, written by Jonathan Iohnson, of Lincolne, as an answer to a letter, sent him by Martin Mason, concerning some exceptions against several truths. / Published by a faithfull minister, not of the letter, but of the everlasting Gospel.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing M924; Thomason E877_2; ESTC R202884	14,536	17

God no pleasing of God till the heart be purified and no purifying of the heart but by Faith in the Son of God shining into the heart there convincing the creature of sin in secret and then how dare I do this wickedness and sin against my God Gen. 21.23 He fills heaven and earth with his presence Col. 1.26 who is not at a distance he is not a God afar off but nigh at hand even in the heart and sees the secrets of the heart But this is a Mystery to all carnall mindes it was a Mystery in the dayes of the Apostles hid from Ages and Generations past but was then and is now made manifest to his Saints the riches of the Glory of this Mystery among the Gentils Christ in them the hope of Glory hid from the wise and prudent of the world and revealed unto babes No other Christ no other Word do we preach but that which the Prophets and Apostles did bear witness of that which we have seen with our eyes and heard with our ears 1 John 1. Rom. 10.8 Heb. 5.6 John 6.68 that word which is even in the heart and in the mouth to this Everlasting Priest which hath the Word of eternall life do we exhort the people to be obedient and who keep to this Annointing in them need not that any man teach them nor such be seduced by the Serpent Thou tells me of confessing the Apostles saying This is the VVord of Faith which we preach and the hearing of that VVord of Faith the light in the conscience is the in-let to the Spirit of Promisc and then thou asks me if this be not the same which thou sayest c. O shameless man Dost thou not in that exception of thine to the first Position cry up the Letter and say the hearing and receiving of that is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and those who do not hear and obey that as the Teachings of God have not his Spirit and yet dares thou come thus impudently to bluster against me and tax me for a false accuser but shame shall cover thee and the hand of the Lord shall finde thee out Yet be it remembred that here thou hast owned the Light in the conscience to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise Thou bids me if I can prove any jugling by thee do it Hast thou not saved me some labour and done it thy self one while owning the Letter to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and another time owning the Light in the conscience to be the Spirit of Promise sometimes calling the Letter the Rule and sometimes the Spirit for the Rule Dost thou not say thy Foundation is not built upon Paul or Peter as they were men but upon their preaching the Word of God and Jesus Is not thy Foundation built upon the Letter dost thou not account that for the Word of God which they preached But what 's thy meaning to say upon their preaching the Word of God and Jesus Is the Word of God and Jesus two distinct things Is there any other Word of God beside Jesus Rev. 19.13 Rom. 1.16 Is not he called the Word of God Is not the Word of God beleeved in the Power of God unto salvation Does thou not beleeve the Letter to be the Word of God yet neither is it nor thy belief there the Power of God to save thee from the beastly sins of lying pride paslion and bitter spiritedness and confusion Thou makes thy self merry with that expression of mine That which gave forth the Leaves town it is my witness against thee and all thy deceitfull juglings Thou Replyes The Printer gave forth the Leaves and so the Printer thou sayes is my witness c. And then backs that lye with another Brat of thy own begetting that neither Printer nor any thing printed from the voice of Truth will witness with me or be for me But the tongue of the lyar is not to be beleeved Had I dealt with the deceitfullest Parish-Priest in the Nation could I have found a more filthy gloss put upon that innocent Expression that which gave forth the Leaves I own Could I have met with less ingenuity in a Pagan Priest then is found in this high-flown Pharisee But friends you may see the man is put to his shifts while he is fain to make use of this shushing Was it not the pure Spirit of the living God that gave forth the Letter That and no other Spirit do I own and that is my witness against the lying Spirit lording it in thee Ionathan Iohnsen who sayes the Printer gave forth the Leaves Shame cover the lyar does not the Printer sell them to the Stationers But know this Alying tongue is an Abomination to the Lord and the Lake is the Portion of the lyar Rev. 21.8 Poor man how art thou puzled and tormented because in my Paper I cry not up the Letter but owns Christ alone who is the Light in the conscience to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise Why does the Heathen rage Psal 2.1 and the man imagine such a vain thing as to think I should own thy Baptism with water which thou paintest over with the name of the Baptism of Repentance to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise These are thy words That which is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise into the heart is the door and the way but the Baptism of Repentance the hearing of Faith preached or beleeving is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise therefore the Baptism of Repentance and the hearing of Faith preached and beleeving is the in-let to the Spirit of Promise So that none by this mans Doctrine can have the Spirit who bow not to his sprinckling Tell me Ionathan didst thou not a little before own the Light in the Conscience to be the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and call me false accuser for saying thou denyedst it Matt. 23.32 Fye Ionathan lye wilt thou needs be a lyar whether I will or no thou art hastning on apace to fill up the measure of thy iniquities and then shall the wrath of the Lord seize upon thee Judge O ye wise in heart if this Babler be not a Bond-slave in Babylon does he not say and unsay Does he not here place his Water and beleeving in the Letter in the room of Christ by making them the Way and the Door or in-let to the Spirit of Promise whoever are not spiritually blinde will see the blasphemy of the Beast for Christ the Light of the world is the Door and the Way Ioh. 10.9 Ioh. 14.16 and so the in-let to the Spirit of Promise and where must the creature look for Christ if not within Is not that the Light of Christ which tells every man and woman in secret of every sin he doth commit and perswades the creature not to run on in the evill of his wayes Does not Christ stand at the door and knock

THE Boasting Baptist DISMOVNTED AND THE BEAST Disarmed and sorely wounded without any Carnal Weapon IN A REPLY TO Some Papers Written by Jonathan Iohnson of Lincolne as an Answer to a Letter sent him by Martin Mason concerning some exceptions against several Truths Published by a Faithfull Minister not of the Letter but of the Everlasting Gospel After the manner of men have I fought with Beasts 1 Cor. 15.32 The mighty men of Babylon their might hath failed they became as women her Bars are broken The Daughter of Babylon is like a Threshing-Floore it is time to thresh her Jer. 51.30.33 You onely have I known of all the Families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3.2 LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the west-end of Pauls 1656. The Boasting Baptist dismounted c. Jonathan Johnson THOU art grossly mistaken to think thy self garrison'd in Sion while thou art thus mewed up in the beastly pinfold of Babylon and hast no better Bul-works then her muddy Walls her tottering Towers to defend thee the meer Imaginations of thy own brain humane Inventions frethy falacies Antichristian Consequences conjured up out of the bottomless pit Though thou boastest in thy babbling and disdainfully tells me of the weakness and disarmed condition of me and those I am encamped with Mark 5.9 and that our weapon is but a Bulrush yet 't is not thee nor thy Fathers Legion can make one Souldier in the Camp of the Lord give one inch of ground to the lyar or turn his back to the uncircumcised Philistine and though the weapons of our warfare be not carnall yet do the wicked receive terrible wounds and so dost thou which will make thee gnash thy teeth in secret 2 Cor. 10.4 'T is the conquering Power of the Sword of the Spirit which is our Weapon that 's no Bulrush and that shall the Boaster witness when the wrath of the Lord falls upon him and by that shall Antichrist be destroyed Amongst other things I asked thee Eph. 6.17 hath every one that comes into the world heard and read the preachings of Christ and his Apostles as they are transcribed in the Bible and thou answers They have all heard But must the lyar in thee be received for the Oracle of God 2 Sam. 16.23 May not Millions of men and women in the world who dwell in those parts not counted Christendome witness against thee If an Egyptian Myst had not blinded thee thou couldst not have been thus besotted as to back thy lye with those places of the Letter Matt. 28.19 20. Mark 16.15 which in effect prove Christs command to his Disciples when they were upon earth to go and preach the glad tydings of the Gospel to that Generation they lived in The Commission nor the Execution whereof thou never heard me question but what 's this to the proof of thy answer to my question O see thy sottishness and be ashamed Remember thou art a Debtor to me for an Answer to those quaeries how is the Gospel preached to every creature under heaven if it he not by that Principle of Light in the conscience Does not that which shews sin and evil in the Conscience draw the creature out of sin if the creature be guided by it And does not that which draws out of sin lead to christ the Saviour and is not that the first Principle Were not these things worth thy taking notice of Or did not that of God in thee convince thee of the truth herein but the man of sin in thee would not suffer thee to own the Truth Yet when thou writes again give a plain answer to each particular in the mean time take back this Brat of thy own begetting That the Principle of light arising in the conscience is from that preaching of Repentance and Faith by the Apostle So that take away the Letter and by this mans Doctrine there would be no Principle of Light arising in the conscience Oh the gross darkness of this Babylonian Shame cover the face of the lyar Was there not a Principle of Light in the people who lived before Moses writ the Letter VVas not Moses upon earth before the preaching of Repentance and Faith by the Apostles Nay dost thou not say in the same Paper That that sound of accusing or excusing is in all consciences If it be in all consciences as indeed it is then it must needs be in the consciences of millions of people who never heard the preaching of Repentance and Faith by the Apostles Now to thy scornfull question VVhere have I or any of those who run abroad come but they have heard the preachings of christ before our coming To this I answer The wrath of the Lord not his Blessing Psal 1. Gen. 1.2 1 Tim. 3.16 Col. 3.11 is to thee who sittest in the seat of the scornfull Now for the people they have all heard the sound of Christs voice preaching in their consciences but darkness being upon the face of the earth they knew not the Mystery of godliness Christ in them the hope of glory If thou wouldst own the letter as thou pretendest thou durst not deny christ to be in all Iew and Greek Barbarian Scithian bond and free I own no other Gospel but what the Apostles preached nor do we direct the people to any other thing then the Apostle Peter did that sure word of Prophesie the Light in their consciences unto which they do well if they take heed 1 Pet. 1.39 1 John 1. Rom 1.16 we only send them to the Seed of the woman which is the word of God the Unction or Christ within who is the power of God unto salvation But the Letter is not the sure word of Prophesie the Seed of the Woman the Unction or Christ within the Word of God or Gospel which is the Power of God unto Salvation I do appeal to that of God in every mans conscience if the Seed of the Serpent the man of sin be not within must not then the Seed of the Woman be there also Gen. 3.15 how shall the Seed of the Woman break the Sepents head if the Seed of the Woman be not where the Serpent is For this Royall Seed of God discovers the Tempter to the creature in his first motion if the creature minde to be guided by this good Seed Prov. 1.10 and as he beleeves in this Son of Gods love who reveals the man of sin the Thief is seen but not consented to the Devill being resisted flies away 1 John 12. so as many as receive this Royall Seed this Son of Gods Love the Light of Christ Jesus shining in their consciences by beleeving therein from him they receive power to become the Sons of God for through faith in Christ Jesus shining into the conscience all things are possible the heart is thereby purified and without Faith it is impossible to please

Rev. 3.20 Is not this door the heart of man Does he not fill Heaven and Earth with his presence Thy Redeemer is in the midst of thee O Israel Tell me Ionathan was the hearing of faith which thou brings in Gal. 3.2 for proof of thy blasphemy the hearing of the Prophets or of Matthew Mark Luke and John and the rest of the Apostles Or was it not a beleeving in that Christ which Paul preached to be in all Jew and Greek Barbarian Scithian Coll. 3.11 bond and free in that Christ who is the Light in all consciences preaching there to every man and woman upon earth And what shall be the condemnation of all Man-kinde Joh. 3.19 who never heard of the Name of Christ at Jerusalem if not the Light of Jesus Christ placed in the Conscience And wherefore is the Light of Jesus left there in the heart of every man and woman if not to lead man and women out of sin unto holiness And whether any thing without can redeem a soul from sin but that Jesus who is the Light of the world and shines into the conscience of every man and woman in the world When thou writes again answer those plain Quaeries without any Serpentine Evasions conjuring Consequences or Antichristian Falacies As for thy second Proof Acts 2.38 When thou and thy Friends can witness such a condition as these Convicts could in the four last Verses of that Chapter thou sayes somthing till then let the Babler be silent and leave his boasting for the Baptism of Repentance from dead works he knows not so long as he lives in lying pride and passion Besides Watersprinckling is not once named there Does Christs Baptism consist of outward water Or is not his a Baptism of sufferings with the Holy Ghost and with Fire And art thou baptized with this Baptism and so much dross of lying false accusing pride and passion not burnt up in thee Answer those three quaeries in singleness of heart or else let the Serpent in thee be silent As for thy last proof 1 Ephes 13. What was this Word of Truth if not Jesus the Word of God the sure Word of Prophesie which shined in their dark hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 1 Coll. 26. which they knew not Was not this the Mystery unto them and all the blinde Gentiles And was not this through their Faith therein the Gospel of their Salvation Were they not sealed by that Holy Spirit of Promise by beleeving in this VVord of Truth within them which cannot be corrupted nor removed into a corner Answer those quaeries Ionathan without any jugling or else let the mouth of the lyar be stopt for ever mentioning the Name of the Lord. Now to the second Position Thou breaths forth such Fume as comes from the bottomless Pit and sayes I reckon thee among Drunkards because I say the Drunkards make their boast in this belief If there be falshood in my words Was not the Devil in Peter when Christ said Get thee behinde me Satant why does not the Serpents wisdom seek to confute them but the words are true and so the Devil 's dumb as to such a work for the righteous Seed of God arises in thee judging and condemning thee to be drunk with pride passion lying wrath and false accusing and that makes the Devil in thee rage he would not be disquieted but the man of sin must be tormented Read thy figure in the Pharisee 't is seen by the Light who it is that hath two horns like a Lamb yet speaks like a Dragon casting forth floods of Indignation and Serpentine Accusations upon the simple Turn to the Light of God within thee and that true Prophet Nathan-like will tell thee 2 Sam. 12.7 Thou art the man Ah! Shames thou not with thy false tongue to tell me I contemn the Faith in the sufferings of Christ and thus arrogantly to ask me How dare I thus contemptuously speak of my Redeemer Thou canst not call him thy Redeemer till the Serpents head be broken in thee and the lying Devil cast out of thee because in my Paper I writ to this effect Thou and they who feed your selves with the meerfrothy verball Faith in the sufferings of the Man Christ Iesus at Ierusalem and yet wallow in your wickedness are not saved or redeemed from your sins Judge O ye honest hearted of the Nation whether this language be a speaking contemptuously of my Redeemer yea or nay Are they who wallow in their wickedness redeemed from sin by saying they beleeve in the sufferings of Christ at Jerusalem Then what 's the difference between a Saint and a Sinner Then what need is there of purifying the heart But the children of the Lord know none are redeemed from sin but such as do forsake sin who cease from doing evill and turn from the evill of their wayes Is the proud one redeemed from pride while he continues in that sin Is he not a servant of sin that liveth in sin Is the cholerick hasty nature subdued and that man redeemed from passion while the passionate Devill hath dominion over him the Lamb of God is meek and lowly and so are all his tender Lambs Now judge O ye wise in heart if the Scriptures call not him who suffered at Jerusalem the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 May I not use the Language of the Apostle Paul in that place is it any sin for me to call him by that Name which he gave himself Read Ioh. 8.40 But now ye seek to kill me a Man that hath told you the truth Yet I did call him the Man Christ Jesus Peruse my Paper once again Ionathan see if I said not No other Iesus do I own but that Lamb of God which was slain from the beginning of the world Did I not say that I did own and reverence the Spirit of the living God in him Col. 29. Psal 45.7 and that the sulness of the God-head dwelt bodily in him He was anointed above his fellows Cease then thou slanderer from thy scandalous Accusations for my Redeemer I do reverence Thou tells me in two severall places that I crucifie Christ again and yet breaks forth into rage because I tell thee Ye have condemned and kill'd the Just he doth not resist you Jam. 5.6 He is slain in thee and asks me if the Lamb that was slain be not alive for evermore In thee he is slain in his Saints he is alive but the Heavens which contain him is a Mystery to thy dark minde So let the Sot be silent I need none of the lyars counsel the false Prophets prating is not worth listning to the bold Blasphemer shall be met with for his Blasphemy Thou bids me leave those false Luminaries and turn my feet into the Testimonies of the true Light Wouldst thou have me renounce my Redeemer is this the reverence thou wouldst have me to do him to call him a false Luminary because the blasphemer terms him