with thy carnal minde to maintain thee and to hold up thy carnal gift and these things which Christ forbids his to do so who said Freely you have received freely give but here thou art not and it shews that thou hast not received it freely therefore thou sellest that which thou callest thy gift which the Apostles never did 1 Cor. 9. 18. Paul was not hired when he was refreshed with the necessaries of the Barbarians O thou Enemy why dost thou accuse Paul and would make him like thy self let him alone for thou knowest him not nor his Ministery for he was a prisoner of the Lord a traveller of the sea when the Barbarians lodged him what is that to thee to maintain thee to bear rule by thy means which Ieremy cryed against Ier. 23. 14. holdest up the horrible filthy thing that is committed in the Land to justifie thee to be a hierling and to receive thy gift and here thou hast openly shewed thy self to be an accuser of the Apostle and wouldst make him like Balaam like thy self and would have the woman to help thee and those are thy nursing fathers Kings and Queens which hold up thy gift which the Prophet cryed wo against but it is that fools may utter forth their folly and be taken in their own snare Prov. 13. 16. here thou art answered the Beast that hath held up the false Prophet and the false Prophet shall both into the fier And thou sayst thou dost not take gifts of the world but if any Prophet of the Lord come among you son or daughter you shew your selves to be of the world you shew your selves to be strikers and of the Devil halling them out of the Synagogues Matth. 10. 17. and to be no Saints nor no Church of God nor no Ministers of Christ and here thou shewest thou takest of the world and thy self to be a Lyar for thou never readest of any of the Churches of God if any of the world came in among them that they halled them out and beat them but it shews the effect of thy ministery and blasphemy which sayth ye are Iews and are not but are Synagogues of Satan Rev. 2. 9. 3. 9. we have found thee out and tryed thee Query 5. Whether the Plagues be not added to him that adds to the Prophecy of the things written in this Book Priests Answer 'T is tru the Spirit of God sayth so Rev. 22. 18 19. I do believe it yet again the expounding and opening of it by the Light of the Spirit of God given in comparing it with other Scriptures is not that which brings the curse for then the Apostle himself would have been under it 1 Cor. 9. 9 10. Rom. 4. 3 6. Rom. 11. 3 4 5. For expounding it wherein I have added or taken away is not yet discovered by any of you and that is the waight of the business when thou didst write to me or any other the Lord judg and let all the Lords people judg whether he be not more apt by far to add to the Prophecy of this Book who by his doctrine begetsiâ— slight esteem of the Prophecy of this Book and perswades his hearers that his words are as true as any Scripture and he cannot err and therefore all is to be believed that he speaks and not to be questioned though many things are contrary to this Prophecy than they that are so much blamed by them and reproached dayly A Reply to the Priests Answer Thou sayst it is tru that the Spirit of God sayth that the Plagues are added to him that adds to the prophece of this Book here thou speakest a Lye thou sayst it is tru the Spirit of God sayth He that adds or diminishes to the prophecy of the Book which hadst thou not seen the Letter then hadst known no spirit and because the Letter sayth so that is thy spirit but as I finde thee adding wresting and lying I do see that the plagues are added to thee by the same Spirit that gave forth the Scriptures and of them thou knowest nothing in that thou speakest a Lye in that thou sayst thou dost know it for thou knowest it not to be a truth though the Letter speak it as they swore the Lord lived and swore falsly Jer. 3. â— if thou didst thou durst not add nor diminish thou sayst comparing one Scripture with another is not that which brings the curse for then the Apostle would have been under it and so with thy corrupt minde dost accuse the Apostle falsly and wouldst make him like thy self and who speaks of the Scriptures fulfilling which thou canst not witness but makest a trade of them without thee and wouldst have Points and Reasons of them as thou wouldst have made a poynt of the Resurrection in thy former writing and here the plague of God is due to thee and here I charge thee again and here the Fool is out of the truth and the Rod is for the back of the Fool Prov. 10. 13. Prov. 18. 28. and here is the Scripture fulfilled upon thee and thou sayst it is not discovered by any of us whether thou addest or diminishest here thou hast shewed thy self to be a Lyar thou hast been told both publickly and privately of it and of thy deceit and now seeing thou hast openly shewed thy self to be a Lyar here openly do I make thee manifest as a Lyar who wouldst justifie thy self in thy deceit but thou harlot art made bare and discovered Nah. 3. 4 5 6. who hast sitten long under a colour and here is the Scripture is fulfilled upon thee and the Prophets words tru we finde them fulfilled Prayses prayses be to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth for ever who gives his servants victory over the Beast and the false Prophet Rev. 15. 2 3 4. such as thou art who have been ensnared by thee therefore we see that Plagues are thy porcion thou sayst that plagues are the waight that we give thee it is so 't is thy due and porcion thou sayst the Lord judg and let all the Lords people judg 1 Cor. 6. 2. the Lord doth judg and the Lord hath judged and the Lords people doth judg all such as thou art Him that thou dost accuse as to add to the prophecy in the Book he doth not but witnesses it thou having not the same witness canst not believe and neither sees him nor the prophecy of the Book thou seest the outside of the Letter with thy visible eye as they did which saw the outside of the Vision of Daniel Dan. 10. 7. But we that do believe him do believe his Doctrine not an outward testimony but we have the witness in our selves which are one with him and it doth witness that he hath the Spirit of truth which cannot err but we do know thy spirit by the same Spirit to be the spirit of error and here thou wouldst not have the Spirit of God to be believed on but here
not this condicion but art in the world among Antichrists false prophets and Beasts and yet thou wouldst be busy among the Saints condicions but this I say to thee All who are come out from among such as thou art need not any man to teach them but as the Annoynting But they who do not continu they turn from the Annoynting and he that denieth the Father and the Son is a Lyar and an Antichrist he that hath the Son hath the Father also therfore we do know thee to be Antichrist who should come Friend thou speakest of Speaking and Hearing what is not agreeable to the Anoynting be silent O flesh for thou knowest nothing of the Anoynting thou art one of those whose mouth must be stopt thou art one of those dumb Prophets who hast nothing from the Anoynting but denyest it but onely thou hast got the form of words to make a Trade of it and denyest the thing it self Query 16. Whether they do not bewitch People that draw them from the Spirit within to observe the Ordinances of the world when as the Apostle sayd They did bewiteh you that drew you to observe Circumcision which was the command of God when he who was the substance of those Types and Figures was come Priests Answer The Lord rebuke this lying spirit that is amongst you who is that which goeth to draw people from the Spirit within to observe the Ordinances of the world name them and blame them those that are lead by that Spirit of God and have him in good earnest do make use of the Ordinance of Christ in a more spiritual manner not to draw them from the Spirit but but to draw them into the Spirits likeness possession and enjoyment the Lord rebuke that prophane Spirit among you that dares to call the Ordinances of Christ the Ordinances of the world that cares not what dishonour you put on Christ his Truth his Waies his Servants The Lord judg and let all the Lords People judg whose Eyes are open whether they do not bewitch poor creatures that carries them from beginning in the Spirit to end in the Flesh Gal. 3. 1. 3. from the Gospell to the Law from Justificacion by Faith to Justificacion by works from loving the Appearance of God to Strife Malice Hatred and to the Appearance of Sathan from Peace to a constant restlesnesse either in their own Spirits or outwardly troubling others by Writing Printing braâ—en-faced-Rayling and Reproaching without heeding whether they speak Truth or a Lye A Reply to the Preists answer Thou art he that goes about to draw people from the Spirit within them to observe thy carnall Tradicion and Imitacion and to observe the Ordinances of the World and it is thy Spirit which is that Lying Spirit which thou mencionest which the Lord will rebuke and must rebuke for thy Lord and God I do deny for the living Lord God of Heaven and Earth thou knowest not no more than a naturall bruit Beast Jude 10. for thy God is the God of the World and he is thy Lord and the Lying spirit rules in thee as thou hast made it to apear thou art he therefore I name thee and blame thee Camelford and the Lord will blame thee and rebuke thee Freind none of the Ordinances of Christ dost thou know for all thy Preaching is of thy selfe Christ never commanded it nor never commanded thee nor thy Praying nor thy Singing Christ never conmanded it but it is the Invencion of thy Brain and the invencion of man and to the Ordinances of Christ thou art an Enimy Thou dost openly show thy selfe to be a witnesse against them who are the Ministers of Christ and who abides in the Ordinance of Christ that witnesse against such as thou art but all the Ordinances of Christ Iesus we witnesse and own but thou to them art an Enimy therfore thee and all thy Ordinances do we deny and all that which thou calst spirituall manners for this is but thy Gloss and Colour that thou mayst appear beutifull with thy spirituall nocion but thou art discovered Praises be to the glorious Lord God Almighty for ever Thou sayst thou dost not draw them from the Spirit but drawst them into the Spirits likenesse here thou hast made a graven Immage and the likenesse of a thing and the Lord forbids that thou shouldst make to thy self any graven Immage or the likenesse of any thing that is in Heaven or in the Earth and here thou hast showed thy spirit to be a contrary spirit in this thou showest thy self to be a Lyar for thy worship is not so much as the likenesse of a spirit for the Spirit is one and it we own but thy likenesse of Spirit we deny Thou sayest again the Lord rebuke that Lying-spirit and I say to thee thy Lord we deny and the Lord God of Heaven and Earth doth now rebuke thee thou Lying-spirit for him thou knowest not and calest it a Lying-spirit for thou prayest to thy Lord to rebuke the Spirit of truth which shall confound thee and thy Lord here thou hast shewed forth thy prophanesse and blasphemy and it is made manifest what God thou servest even the God of the world Thou sayst let the Lord judg and all whose eyes are opened The Lord doth judg and hath judged and all the Lords people doth judg whose eyes are opened they judg thee and all such as thou art in Righteousnesse and see thee clearly Prayses be to the glorious Lord God The day from on high dâ—th spring A question thou askest whether they do not bewitch poor creatures that turn them from beginning in the Spirit to end in the Flesh Ans yea I say they do and thou art one for as thou saydst before in thy Query when thou askedst whether the Light was sufficient to lead people to heaven without any more adoe thou shewest all thy doings tend to draw People from the Light into the works of the Flesh and from waiting to be justified in the Spirit and to lead them into condemnacion and there thou art one that bewitches the people who know not the Spirit but those who are led and guided by the Spirit and walk in it deny thy Freedom in the flesh and thy liberty and all thy carnall Ordinances and Tradicions And it is thou that drawest people from the Apostles doctrin and from the Law of God within and from Justificacion to the Law of works into thy carnal imitated way but the Law of Faith and the Law of God and the Teachings of the Spirit this we witnesse and own as that which the Apostles was taught by and by this we seek to bring all People from under thy carnall teaching and we deny it all and thee both And whereas thou dost accuse us for drawing people from the Appearance of God to Strife Mallice Envy and Hatred and to the Appearance of Sathan herein thou hast shewed thy selfe to be a false accuser 2 Tim. 3 â— and a Lyar in
to Christ and yet thou professest thy self to be a Minister of Christ and yet knowest not Antichrist Query 15. Whether they be not Seducers that draw People from the Anoynting within them and tells them they must have a Teacher without them when as he who was a Minister of the Gospel sayd You need no man teach you but as the same Anoynting teacheth and the promise is to him that abideth in it eternal life Priests Answer If thou canst prove and make good thy charge that I draw People to look from the Anoynting within them to the Teachers without them spare me not God hath taught me to instruct those whom I speak to not to look on or rest on the outward Teacher but to look unto the Spirit of Christ the Teacher even within them where he is to have that made out to them by his light and power that they here speak of the Ministers without and that thy own conscience must needs convince thee of to be tru unless thou art wilfully blind which is I fear a judgment upon many of you The Lord make out discover more more let it fall where it will who are Seducers of the People and whether they be not so that teach perswade People that every man hath the Anoynting in them and a Light that will lead them to Heaven without any more ado I am much mistaken if the Preacher of the Gospel that thou speakest of prove not the very thing in 1 John 2. 18 19 20 26. reade and consider and God give thee to understand note what John sayth in that place cited by thee 1 John 2. 27. and you need not that any man teach you but as c. in this to me not quite taking off men from speaking and hearing but onely from speaking and hearing what is not agreeable to the Anoynting men are to speak as the Anoynting speaks and then they are as the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4. 11. A Reply to the Priests Answer Thou wouldst have it proved have the charge made good that thou drawest People from the Anoynting within them to the Teacher without them I answer thou dost openly shew that thou dost draw People from the Anoynting within them for he that is taught of the Anoynting need not any man to teach him but as the Anoynting and he that sayd so did not bear rule by his means as thou dost and hast got the Form of words and mayst speak those words but if any come to witness that they need not any man to teach them Heb. 8. 10 11. as the Saints did them thou sayst he denyes the means which God hath afforded because they will not hold up thee and justifie thee in thy beastly and carnal worship and callest that tempting of God and fancy and desperate folly when we come to witness the Anoynting that they need no man to teach them herein thou hast shewed forth thy folly and fancy and desperate wickedness foolishness and madness as Balaam did when the dumb Ass rebuked him thou sayst God hath taught thee but thou art a Thief and a Lyar and hast stollen the word for thou denyest that which should teach thee the Light which God teacheth by the Light which enlightneth every one that cometh into the world Iohn 1. 9. yet thou denyest the immediate teaching of God I charge thee for if any witness to be taught alone with the Anoynting and deny all mens teaching but onely the immediate Spirit which all the men of God were taught by that thou sayst is a tying up of God and herein thou hast shewed forth thy self that thou dost not know the immediat Teaching nor the Anoynting for those who are taught with the Anoynting do deny thee and all such as thou art Thou sayst God hath taught thee to instruct others thou hast nothing from God to instruct others withall but keepest them in thy immitated Forms and Customs dead and husky prayers and what thou dost get with studying and devising of thy own Brain that thou feedest poor ignorant people withall and sayst God instructeth thee here I charge thee to bee a Lyar and the wo was denounced against such as thou art therfore we deny thee as the Prophets of God denied them for the same is made manifest to us now which lets us see thee as it did them then Prayses be to God for ever Friend the Light and power of God thou deniest and art ignorant of and that which should exercise thy Conscience for thou deniest the Light that enlightneth every one that cometh into the world And why dost thou talk of the Light and of the power of God who art ignorant of the Light and disobedient to it but the God of this World hath blinded thy eyes 2 Cor. 4. 4. and therfore thou endeavourest to keep others in the same heathenish nature thy selfe art in wherfore to my Conscience thou speakest nothing nor canst speak to the Conscience for thou deniest the immediat Teaching and callest that a tying up of God O thou blasphemer Thou desirest to let the Plagues and Judgments fall where they will upon them who are Seducers thou needest not desire the Plagues for they are thy porcion and here thou hast shewed thy selfe to be blind and ignorant indeed for thou dost not know a Seducer nor thy own condicion therfore thou art not fit to teach others A Question thou askest Whether they be not Seducers that teach and perswade peeple that every one hath the Anointing in them a Light that will lead them to Heaven without any more ado Answ Here thou shewest forth thy foolishness indeed for thou wouldst bring peeple forth into the doing the works of the flesh into the broad way which work is death and the End of all thy Ministry is to draw peeple from the Anoynting and from the Light within them and to draw them to thy Teaching wherby thou makest thy selfe manifest to be a Seducer All who do witness the Anoynting and walk in the Light 1 Iohn 2. 8. such thou lookest upon to be Seducers with thy dark mind who canst not see them who draw peeple from thy dark Ministry to mind the Light of God within them as the Apostle sayd take heed to the Light of God within you and this thou dost look upon to be seducing that it is not sufficient for to guide them to Heaven but that they must come out from the Light within them to thy Doing which we deny and all thy preaching practise and Invencion which is witchcraft and here I charge thee to be a Witch and to bewitch the people Thou dost bring a place of Scripture 1 Iohn 2. 18 19 20. which thou exhortest to read which is a Rod for thy own back concerning you need no man to teach you but the Anoynting for many came out with us but it is manifest they were not of us because they did not continnue with us but thou art uncome-forth and thou knowest
Light which is Christ which he hath enlightned them withall and he that loves the Light brings his works to the Light and there is no occasion of stumbling to him that walks in it and loves it and this Light is not a Chapter without which the Teachers of the World read Thou that hatest this Light thou hast it it lets thee see that all thy Deeds are evil if thou bringst thy works to it it will reprove thee Iohn 3. â—0 and this is the condemnacion of the World and here every one hath a Teacher whose mindes are informed Iohn 8. 12 to that in every mans conscience do I speak which should exercise it which shall eternally witness me and eternally condemn thee and you all who are haters of Light and what hast thou to do to talk of Iohn and of Christ and of the Churches and of the Angels and knowest not the first Principle yet Heb 5. 12 which should guide thee out of the World and bring thee to Repentance but to this thou art an Enemy to and among the Antichrists which say Lo here and Lo there Matthew 24. 23 30 Query Why do you teach exhort write Papers and print Books Answ In thy Query before thou askest whether the Scriptures were written for our instruction and now thou askest why do we exhort and teach here thou shewest forth that thou art tormented and thy terror begins for our giving forth Papers or Printed Books it is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God to the shewing forth the filthy practises of the Worlds Teachers and thine who with a pretence and fair colours and glosses and with a seeming Religion deceives the simple and thy own soul too we have bin long under captivity by you and such as you following your imaginacions but God hath raised up a Light within us by which we see you Deceivers without us and all the blinde Guides Matth 23 16. so for the simple ones sakes who are led by the blinde as we are moved by the immediat Spirit of Christ to write to teach or to exhort or to put in Print and this is it which doth torment thee but it is but the beginning of thy sorrow and this is from the immediat Spirit of Christ which thou art offended withall as ever the Pharises were but thou shalt see more Papers and more Printings and as the immediat Spirit grows there will be more abominacions and filthiness layd open and all Deceit will be discovered and the Truth spread abroad and cherished which will and doth trouble thee as Herod was when Christ was born Matth 2 3 31 Query What is Conscience where is it seated in man and what is its office and duty Answ Thou hard-hearted Pharaoh hast thou been a Professor so long and yet askest what is Conscience thou full of subtlety and Tempter it is that which thou makest shipwrack of 1 Tim 1 19 shut up from thy dark understanding and thy dark Reason it is seated below the hypocrisie in thee thou art a Tyrant to it and rulest over it yet in thy carnal knowledg thou wouldst know it to talk of it but Plagues and Curses are du to that nature which thou must know before thou know the office or duty of it as thou speakest for yet thou art in the hardness of thy heart and here thou hast overturned thy self thou hast before asked many Queryes but the intent is to maintain thy carnal state which seares the Conscience the tender part in man but Friend if thou hearken to the Light to that in thy Conscience do I speak 2 Cor. 5. 2. it will let thee see what Conscience is thou hard bea rt and it will exercise thy Conscience towards God and towards man Acts 24. 16 and here shalt thou see its duty and office and where it is seated and by it how thy understanding is enlightned and by it how thy heart is cleansed if thou hast an Ear thou mayst hear thou that wouldst be taught what Conscience is and where it is seated for shame lay away thy filthy Profession who wouldst know where Conscience is it is under thy hypocrisie who art comprehending Conscience with thy carnal Wisdom and Reason but thou must be confounded and condemned with that which should exercise thy Conscience 2 Cor 5 11 and here thou hast shewed forth thou dost not know the first Principle but art without and one of them whose Conscience is seared 1 Tim 4 2 32 Query If thou have the Spirit of Christ and in a large measure as some give out of thee taking upon thee to be a Teacher as also sending many Queryes to others I require of thee an Answer to these Queryes not in ambiguous and doubtfull terms as the Devil in his Oracles but in plain Language affirmatively or negatively full and clear according to the Spirit in the Gospel-times that he that runs may reade it or else confess thou art led with a spirit of deceit and darkness which would not willingly descover it self Answ Thou sayst if I have the Spirit of Christ which I have and witness it but as taking upon me in the will to be a Teacher as you are made Teachers that I do deny I do deny the will and you both 1 Cor 2 17 and all who are made Ministers by the will of man but the sending forth Queryes which grieve thee to others is that you may shew forth your folly as you have done in answering them by your dark minde which cannot comprehend the Light in which they are given forth but shews forth your darkness blindness ignorance and folly and despight against the Spirit of Grace being Enemies to Jesus Christ which is the Light in us and hath discovered and layd open your deceits and blindness and to all who have their Eys in their Head your folly is made manifest 2 Tim 3. 9 And thou hast here discovered thy ignorance and shewed forth thy folly in these Queryes thou dost require an Answer to these Queryes in plain Language which thou hast sent I have spoken plainly to thee and not flattered thee and as touching ambiguous terms they are thy own as the Devil in his Oracles thou art guarded with them I comprehend thee and see thy Cloathing and thy Affirmative and thy Negative proceeds from thy cursed minde but sound and clear I have answered thee according to the Spirit that is in the Gospel but to thy dark minde they will be dark for thou neither knowest the Spirit nor the Gospel for I have answered thee in the Gospel-time and he that hath the Spirit may run and reade it and reade thy spirit to be the spirit of Error erred from all them that did preach the Gospel which ever were we are not led by a spirit of Error but it we do deny therefore we do deny thee therefore openly and freely and nakedly do I declare my self to the discovering of the spirit of Error which is in thee and all thy blinde Guides who is led by the Spirit of Truth hath discovered you to be in the deceit and in darkness without God in the world the Plagues of God are to be poured upon the Beast and the false Prophet and the Beast and false Prophet are to be cast into the fier Rev 20. 10 there is thy porcion now do not call this railing and rash judgment for thou knowest the Letter thunders and speaks forth such words to such as thou art who livest in that nature Friend this is thy day of visitacion 2 Cor 5. 11 to that which is in thy Conscience I have spoken which shall eternally witness me and condemn thee 1 Cor 4. 2 The mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it The Preparacion of the Heart in Man and the Answer of the Tongue â—â— from the Lord Prov 16. 1 FINIS NOw all you who are doting about Questions and are Ministers of Questions and not Ministers of Grace nor Edificacion but are busi-bodyes tempting and laying Snares and digging Pits lye are now fallen into the Pits which ye have digged for others and you who are wise are taken in your own craftiness and you are now answered from the mouth of the Lord and discovered and to every one is rendred his du and porcion but you sollowing the steps of your fathers the Iews you as they did marvel at his Answers though he was the Son of God Luke 20. 26 now you are answered own your porcion for I have kept back nothing what I received freely from the Lord freely I have declared unto you without parciality or having mens persons in admiracion because of advantage not favouring deceit nor giving liberty to sin for the Lord hath given us a mouth and wisdom which all our Gain-sayers are not able to resist and we walk in the pure wisdom of God and wisely towards you that are without redeeming the time and our speech is with Grace seasoned with Salt and we know how to answer every man Col 4. 5 6 Prayses Prayses to the Lord for ever who takes the wise in their craftiness and confounds and brings to shame all his Enemyes and discovers all Serpents with their twistings and twinings and subtle and cunning temptacions and hath fulfilled his Apostles words in his Sons and Daughters in making their folly manifest to all men and they shall proceed no further 2 Tim 3. 9 and now the painted Serpents the well-favoured Harlots the divers coloured Beasts and the wily Foxes are discovered to his Sons and Daughters that they cannot spoyl the tender Plants which the Lord himself hath planted in his Peoples hearts the Plants of his Renoun grows and flourisheth Prayses Prayses to the eternal powerfull God for ever Let all the Sons and Daughter of the Lord prayse the Lord Let all the Fathers and young men Children and Servants bless and prayse the Lord for ever who reigns for evermore Richard Hubberthorn
so it is not another meaning to the Scripture but their own meaning though covered and veyled till cleared and opened and yet thou goest on and sayst we give another meaning to them which if thou canst charge me with and make it good spare me not if not this in the paper is of no validity for it was given to me but that the Apostle's meaning was often dark to a weak eye before expounded thou must needs confess if thou shalt but view two or three for a trial and clear up the meaning of the Apostle in Rom. 5. 14. A Reply to the Priests Answer Thou sayest what a man can doe is one thing and what hee doth or desires to doe is another thing here thou shewest thy selfe to bee compleat in thy selfe And thou sayest that no man can give an exposicion besides the meaning of the Scriptures and thou thinkest we should be quiet we cannot let thee be quiet who livest in thy thinkings and deceivest peeple with thy imaginacions whom God is come to scatter and God is against thee who art giving exposicions upon the Scriptures and wouldst have them who live in the power of the Scriptures to let thee alone but thou art hee who wrests the Scriptures 2 Pet. 3. 16. who ever was denyed therefore thou art discovered to them who live in the power of them all Scripture is vayled and covered from thee and so thou wouldst give a meaning to them and so under a colour make peeple beleeve it is the same meaning but thou art discovered who sayst I charge thee I can dost thou not say the Scriptures are dark I charge thee to have spoken a Ly and art a lyar and dost not see the Scriptures at all and all thy imaginacions of them are lies thou sayst the Scriptures are dark to a weak ey here I charge thee to be a Lyar before the Living God the darknesse is in thy selfe and not in the Scriptures Luke 11. 33. 34. therefore thou dost wrest the Scriptures and dost make a Ly upon them and turnest them into a Ly Ier. 5. 22. O thou enemy of God tremble before him thou hast nothing to doe with the Scriptures Friend thou wouldst have mee to vieu one Scripture or two for a tryall the Scriptures we know but thou sayst they are dark thou art full of darknesse and they are as they speak he that can receive it let him he that hath an ear may heare what the Spirit sayth thou wouldest have me to give Exposicions upon the Scriptures as thou dost whom the plagues are aded to for as it is written the plagues are added to â—hâ—m that addeth to the Prophecy of this Book Rev. 22. 18. and there is thy porcion but wee know the Scriptures and own them as they speak but all thy Expositions of them wee do deny for with them thou dost bewitch the peeple but the plagues of God will be poured upon thee for thou dost neither know the Scripture nor God but art a lyar and of thy father the Devil Iohn 8. 44. Thou dost also bid me clear up the meaning of the Apostle in the fift chapter to the Romans verse 14. so heer I charge thee again that thou dost wrest this Scripture for men of corrupt mindes do wrest them and so thou art but the Scriptures are clear it is thy corrupt mind and heart that must be cleared Let the Scriptures alone thou hast nothing to do with them thou vayn man dost thou talk of clearing up the Scriptures who art full of filth and corrupcion woulst thou have that cleared which was spoken from the Spirit of the Lord thou blind hypocrit and Pharisy all peeple who walk in the light may see how thou hast uttered forth thy folly and record against thee 4 Query Shew me by the Scriptures where the Ministers of Christ ever took Tythes or Augmentacions of the world Pr. Answer I shall answer but for my selfe seeing the paper was sent to mee in particular and my Answer is that I take no Tythes no nor Augmentacions from the world and that thou knowest well enough but that thy Kainish nature in thee to use thy own expressions hath made thee blind it is not any Augmentacion unlesse it have somthing added to what I had before now thou knowst I have nothing besides it nor before it from any of you all All I have is a Gift from the State and why may not I take a Gift from the State call them the world or what thou wilt as well as George Fox and James Nayler take a Gift from the world among you I know not but I would willingly be resolved in this A Reply to the Priests Answer Thou sayst thou takest no Tythes nor Augmentations of the world but thou confessest thou takest a gift who goest in the way or Balaam for gifts and rewards Iude 11. and art in his generation so art one of these filthy dreamers which Iude speaks of therefore wo unto thee who shall perish in the gaynsaying of Core 1 Pet. 3. 16. O thou false accuser where canst accuse either George Fox or Iames Nailer of taking gifts of the world as thou dost here thou wouldst make them like thy self and a colour for thy own filthiness by accusing George Fox and Iames Nailer because they bear testimony unto the truth and testifie against thee and thy gift that thy deeds are evil and wouldst fetch up the Apostles to maintain thee in thy filthiness Acts 20. 33. he did eat no mans bread for nought and so coloured Beast wouldst colour thy self with the Apostles words to maintain thy self in the generation of Balaam which the Apostle cried wo against and wo is thy portion therefore own it and there is thy resolve Priests second Answer to the fourth Query Besides God hath said The Earth shall help the Woman and did the Woman reject that help because t is from the Earth Answer me He hath said Kings shall be nursing fathers and Queens nursing mothers to his people shall Gods people then refuse to take their fatherly and motherly kindness Answer me Are we not to be thankfull and take their refreshing as from Gods hands for he stirs up their hearts to it whosoever they be that do it Paul did not run away and refuse kindness when it was offered him by the Barbarians Acts 28. 7 10. neither did he refuse a lodging from them which no question was of some value A Reply to the Priests Answ Thou wouldst be answered whether the Earth helpeth the woman yea or no. Answ Yea the earth doth help the woman against all such Dragons as thou art the Scripture we do witness is fulfilled and Kings and Queens which are nursing fathers and mothers thou art an enemy to Isai 49. 23. and knowest not but as a Thief hast gotten the words of the Apostles and so with them wouldst maintain thy gift O thou blinde Pharisee are these thy meanings that thou wilt give to the Scripture
thou shewest thy self that would question truth for there is nothing in thee born up in thy understanding to receive truth withall here thou shewest thy self to be an open Lyar to say he acts contrary to the Prophecy who is one with it and bears testimony to it and the truth of it against all such false accusers 2 Tim. 3. 3. as thou art for false accusers should arise Tit. 2. 3. and here thou shewest thy self to be one who accusest the Spirit of the living God to be more false than those that have the spirit of Antichrist who shall be consumed and turned into the Lake by the brightness of his coming 2 Thess 2. 8. the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it Query 6. What Scripture have you that speaks of the word two Sacraments which you tell the people of and what Scripture have you to act such things Priests Answer Certainly Satan hath blinded your mindes you would never have put forth such a Question else for the substancial Word the Lord Iesus that we preach of him the Scripture speaks every where and for the Word as the Declaracion of the minde of God in and by Christ to poor sinners the Scriptures are plentifull take two or three Iohn 5. 24. Iohn 8. 31. Iohn 12. 48. Iohn 15. 3. Iohn 17. 20. Ephes 1. 13. Many more I might add but that I have a check on my spirit for gratifying your folly so far as I have done in this particular A Reply to the Priests Answer In thy Answer thou sayst that Christ is the substancial Word thou sayst so because the Letter declares he is the Word but no other knowledg hast thou but this is no answer to the word two Sacraments for Christ we know who is the Word but the word two Sacraments which there is no Scripture for which you tell people of which is an addicion to the Scripture and a thing that never was practised among the Saints as thou being one with thy fellows that holdest up those things the Query was what Scripture you have to act such things but Satan hath blinded your eys 2 Cor. 4. 4. 1 Iohn â— 11. which will not let you justifie those things which you act which shews that you serve but an ill Master that will not bear you out neither can you own the Scriptures as they are but you must give Exposicions upon them and poynts and your imaginacions and conceivings who would have the Scripture cleared but it is thy evil eye and minde that must be cleared Matth. 6. 23. for the Scriptures are as they speak thou sayst the Word you preach Alack for thee thou never knewst the Word if thou didst thou wouldst not speak of clearing up the Scriptures as in thy other Queryes thou speakest of Query 7. What Scripture hast thou to stand praying in the Synagogues before Sermon and after and where the Apostles did so or ever took a Text to treat upon Priests Answer Observe that place Matth. 6. 5. and thou shalt see that the thing Christ ayms at is not so much the posture nor the place but their end of praying in the Synagogue and that was to be seen of men for he did not before nor after condemn the dutyes of fasting praying alms-deeds but taught his Disciples how to do the same things though to avoyd the hypocrisie of others in doing of them and though another may be in the same place and posture as they were yet he may have other ends than they had which thou canst not lightly judg of as Christ did for Christians in prayer with upright hearts are not bound up to any place 1 Tim. 2. 8. And for praying in the publick meeting place and among the Assembly it was so common and usual that the place even had its name from it it was called the House of Prayer Matth. 21. 13. Isai 56. 7. and the hours of prayer were known by the Apostles Acts 3. 1. And that it was so in the times of the Gospel may be seen by Pauls Doctrine about it in the 1 Cor. 11. from the 9. to the 18. verse and in 1 Cor. 14. 13 14 15. For the times of prayer before Sermon and after the Apostle gives a general Rule 1 Cor. 14. 26. Let all things be done to edifying now what way is more edifying and building than for the servants of God to wayâ— on the great Builder God in Christ for help in the beginning of their work and in the close after mercyes received in speaking or hearing to speak good of the Name of our God in blessing and prayses the thankfull heart shall not want goodness from God but more fully the Apostle is clear in it 1 Tim. â— 1. That first of all prayers must be made to begin with that and that the thing is noâ— without example to conclude our speech with prayer see that in Acts 20. 36. This was likewise his manner in the close of his Epistles as may be seen in seven of his Epistles which I could never see in any of your Letters you like not prayer so well it seems And after that comes in thy frivolous and simple Question this is all I see thy hand to and therefore I call it thine Or ever took a Text to treat on I may well answer thee as Christ did the Saduces Thou errest not knowing the Scriptures for look Acts 8. 35. whether Philip took not a Text to treat on to the Eunuch out of Isai 53 7. Acts 10. 34. where Peter took a Text out of Deut. 10. 7. Acts 13. 17. out of Exâ—d 3. 14. and above all we have the example of Christ in this in his Sermon Luke 4. 17 18. who took his Text out of Isai 61. 1. in the Synagogue and he took a Book to reade it too though I believe he had the Scripture more in his heart than any of your Teachers thus having answered this Query I have one word to say to thee or the Inditer of it before I go on and that is this you have in this to me discovered a profane spirit that findes fault with our often seeking and calling on God and blessing his Name I am jealous that you are acted by the spirit of Satan amongst you you are so like those spoken of in the 3 of Mal. 7. 14 15. Reade and God give you to understand it well for to me it appears that the Spirit of God is quite of another nature that says Pray continually and without ceasing in every thing give thanks Ephes 6. 18. 1 Thess 5. 17 18. it calls and encourages to the thing Psal 50. 15. A Reply to the Priests Answer A Scripture thou wrests to maintain the Answer of it in Matth. 6. 5. Christ bids his Disciples pray not as the Pharises did for they prayed standing in the Synagogues but when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and shut the door and here thou art a Lyar of Jesus Christ and pervertst his words
had commanded when the everlasting Offering was come and against the outward Temple but thou art blinde and canst not see it Pharise like but thy minde is seen to be contradictory who wouldst contradict the truth and doth not see the end of God in fulfilling his Types and Figures and when they are fulfilled he doth contradict them and therefore do we contradict thee which actest these things God never commanded that which God had commanded was contradicted as Circumcision and the outward Temple and the Sabboth and all the Priests were denyed with them who had received Iesus Christ and here thou hast shewed thy self to be a blinde Pharise which knowest not the precepts nor commands of God but followest thy own imaginacions and thy own invencions which I have charged thee withall formerly and here I charge thee to be a blinde Guide Matth. 23. 16. and therefore came the Apostle to contradict all the Jews who held up the Figures after the substance was come but thou art blinde as the Pharises were and worse for when the Apostles had received the substance they contradicted the Pharises which held up the Types and Shadows which God had commanded and killed them that did witness the substance come but thou natural brute Beast who knowest nothing of God nor his truth must be consumed by unquenchable sier thou speakest of an Assembly of Christians coming together to worship God but a company of the world may come and thou joynest with them here thou shewest plainly that thy worship is no tru worship of God for they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth Iohn 4. 23 24. for such are they which he seeks to worship him but not in the Steeple-house the mighty day of the Lord is coming and God that made the world doth not dwell in Temples made with hands therefore come down thou painted Beast which deceivest the people God will overturn thee and thy worship and all such as thou art and them who are of God God is sending them forth to give you the Cup double that ye have given to them thou sayst an Assembly of Christians coming together to worship God are not bound up so close but a company of the world may come in and joyn with them here thou shewest that thy Assembly are all of one spirit and here thou shewest plainly that thy spirit and their spirit is the spirit of the world and not the spirit that was in the Apostles and Saints which sayd What concord hath Christ with Belial and what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness 2 Cor 6. 14. and here thou hast raced thy self out of the tru worship of God and I know thy spirit is not bound up but it is at liberty in the world in the broad way and therefore with them it can joyn and so here thou shewest thy self to be of a contrary spirit to them that preached the Word the Ministers of the Word are not Ministers of the Letter wherein it doth appear that thou art a Minister of the Letter a wrester of it those who are the Ministers of the Word speak forth freely and testifie against such hierlings as thou art who art bound up in thy form and set place and against all thy customary praying and singing for the preaching of the Word is to declare freely to all it is not bound up but such as thou wouldst limit it who doth keep poor simple people in bondage under thee I do believe God hath a people which is in captivity under thy dark imitated Forms and such as thine and who are misled by such as thou art for we were all under such blinde Guides as thou art until God of his infinite love did shew us his way and his light and your ways therefore in the presence of the Lord God do we testifie against all such practises as thine and for the simple ones sakes who are under such blinde Guides as thou art do we let forth our selves that they may see how such as thou bewitchest them and keepest them from worshipping the living God by thy imaginacions Gal. 3. 1. Thou bringest a place 1 Cor. 14. 23 24. to maintain singing of Davids Psalms in a Meeter but in that Scripture there is no such thing in it here again thou openly shewest thy self to be a perverter of the Scriptures and a wrester of it what communion hath the believer with the unbeliever here thou shewest thy self to be one of Babylon full of confusion and confused in thy words contrary to the Scripture and a wrester of it for the world knows not God by all its wisdom Thou sayst that your Congregacion is required to speak good of God O you Generacion of Vipers how can you being evil speak good things Mat. 3. 7. Here thou crossest Christs words thou wouldst have the Generacion of Vipers to speak good things An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit how can you speak good of God that speak nor good of his people the Pharises when they met together did they speak good of God when they sayd Christ was a Devil and gathered together with the chief Priests and sought to put him to death Iohn 11. 53. and in this generacion thou art taking counsel against Christ and against his anoynted incensing the rude multitude against them and is this speaking good of God Query 9. Whether a man shall overcome the body of sin while he â—â— on the earth yea or no Priests Answer There are divers and several victories over sin as first a victory over the dominion and reigning power of sin Rom. 6. 14. this is not given by the power of man but by the power of grace there is a victory over the condemning presence of sin sin cannot so hurt any elect Vessel as to throw him into â—ell and eternal wrath and condemnaâ—ion Rom. 8. 1. There is a victory over the being of sin in the flesh and whatsoever curse thou sayest on me for the same I must profess that I am of the minde that victory â—s not fully enjoyed while we are on the earth for then and not before when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption Death is swallowed up in victory 1 Cor. 15. 54. and the Apostle cals the body of sin the body of death Rom. 7. 24. A Reply to the Priests Answer Friend thou bringest so many Scriptures which is to the throwing down of thy own self as Rom. 6 14. and thou desirest to be satisfied to the contrary to thy belief for thou believest that man shall not be made free from sin as long as he is here and here I will shew thee that thou hast a lying spirit for in Rom. 6. they sayd they were made free from sin for while they were servants of sin they were made free from righteousness and here thou shewest a contrary spirit to that which was in the Apostle and thou desirest to be fully satisfied in those Scriptures in Rom. 7. 18.
will mind to cast them all by and ty God up to work immediatly without means to humor their fancy this is to tempt him Mat. 4. 6 7. to confine him which God cannot like he will not take it long from proud flesh I am perswaded the Scripture you bring in Isai 2. ult Cease from man will not serve your turn for many Prophets and Apostles and men of God taught after that even by the command of God and Christ besides you cry Cease from man but you practise quite contrary witness the running of many of you many miles to hear George Fox and you use writings and printings which are outward means of teaching A Reply to the Priests Answer Here thou hast shewed forth presumption and lying to say that many are grown up under your teaching to see God alone the onely Teacher and that Christ is all in all the Alpha and Omega and thou thy self not to know the first Principle nor they whom thou teachest Heb. 5. 12. for if it were so that they knew the second Covenant and the Law of God written in their hearts they would all deny thee for it teacheth them to know God and need not to say Know the Lord and needed not any man to teach them who witnessed the Anoynting and need not any of thy carnal means as thou talkest of for the means that God doth teach his people is by his Spirit Gal. 3. 5. for they that did draw them from the spirit within them bewitched them and so dost thou and they that drew them from the Anoynting within them bewitched them and so dost thou which tellest people of a carnal means so that Scripture which thou bringest Matth. 4. 6 7. it is for thy self for thou temptest Christ and wouldst have him to bow down to thy false worship to thy carnal means as the Devil did Christ then own it and witness it for it is thy condicion herein thou hast shewed thy self to be a false Prophet sowing pillows under the peoples arm-holes and flattering and keeping them in carnal security and tellest them that Christ is their Teacher when thou who art blinde and carnal art set up for a Teacher who makest a Trade with the Scriptures and neither knowest Christ nor the Spirit nor the teaching of Christ as thou speakest of and so keepest all people in blindness and ignorance from waiting upon Christ and friend whereas thou dost accuse us of tying God up to work immediately herein thou shewest that all that thou hast is but fancy and lying in thy carnal state who tempts God and draws all others to tempt him and shewest thy self void of all them that spoke forth the Scriptures for all Scriptures being given forth by the inspiracion of the Spirit and holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost was not all this immediate and eternal and here thou hast openly shewed thy self to be carnal and not knowing them that gave forth the Scriptures and wouldst draw all others into the same carnal state with thee and it is thou that wouldst ty up and dost ty up with thy carnal minde and limit the holy One as may appear by thy blindness and ignorance and the people that thou teachest who drawest them under the carnal Form and here thou hast denyed the immediate teaching of God Isai 54. 13 14. which all the Saints of God witnessed and followed the ways of and all that ever know the Lord and here thou hast shewed that thou dost not know the Lord but livest in high blasphemyes and in the state of the Scribes and Pharises who professed God and Abraham but were of their Father the Devil and there thou art in the same generacion doing the lusts of thy father the Devil who was ever an enemy to Christ as thou mayst reade thy self in the generacion of all them Teachers as thou hast openly shewed thy self Friend it is thy own proud fleshly minde that doth confine God but thou art discoverd and it shall not be long but thou shalt be more manifest to thy open shame thou hast walked long enough under a cover but now thy skirts are uncovered and thy nakedness appears and a Scripture thou bringst Isai 2. 22. Cease from man which thou sayst will not serve our turn but it doth serve our turn for we own it and witness it fulfilled therefore do we cease from all men which hold up the carnal means which thou speakest of and all hierlings and all them that bear rule by their means and all them that seek for their gain from their quarter and all them that are called of men Master and hath the chief place in Assemblyes and all they that paynt themselves with other mens words and all them that go in the way of Cain and Balaam for gifts and rewards Jude 11. and all those that have the form of godliness and not the power and all those that wrest Scripture to their own destruction and give meanings and carnal senses upon it and all such as lead â—illy women captive which thou hast sayd to be us ever learning and never able to come to the knowledg of the truth 2 Tim. 3. 7. for thou sayst they shall never overcome as long as they are here and thou believest here but thou art one that livest in thy lust here thou hast shewed that thou art one that the Prophets and servants of God cryed against who were taught immediately by the Spirit of God and this was not after man neither according to man the Apostle sayd the Gospel that he preached was not after men for he had not received it of man that taught it all such we own but all such as are in the way of man as thou art we utterly deny them which holds up these abominacions which all the Prophets of God cryed against and here thou hast raced thy self out from among them all those that God sent and commanded as thou sayst since the Prophet bade them cease from man Isai 2. 22. those were not made by the will of man neither was their teaching according to man but it was immediate eternal which thou knowst nothing of as thou makest it appear and such we own but thee we do deny for thou art blinde and knowst it not And as touching the Books and Writings and Printings which thou accusest us of and running so many miles the Queen of the South came to hear the wisdom of Solomon and the Prophets of the Lord somtimes they were moved to speak against such as thou art who livest in the abominacions and somtimes were moved to write as one of the Prophets did and here thou shewest thy self â—gnorant of the Scripture and envious against the same power and the same eternal Word which is now discovering your abominacions as the Word did then so the eternal Word doth now and thy minde being carnal and outward looking up at things outward and so thou shewest thou hast nothing eternal born up
in thy understanding and so thou lookest upon the same which we speak or give forth in writing to be the same carnal minde that thou art in and so thou judgest all the Prophets and Christ and the Apostles to be in the same carnal state as thou art judging Scripture according to thy carnal minde 2 Cor. 3. 6. 3. 4. and so to thee truth is a savour unto death as it was ever but wee are moved of the Lord to write forth or to speak it is not an outward means as thou lookest upon but it is to the conscience of every man from that which is eternal to that which shall eternally witness it but thou art high up in thy hypocrisie and hast mens persons in admiracion because of advantage for the gift therefore it grieves thee to see the immediate and eternal teaching of the Lord alone who is teaching of his people and guiding them up to himself by his Spirit whose Sacrifice God doth accept Gen. 4. 5 who are in the second birth but thou art Cain and because thou seest the works of God and God accepts not thy Sacrifice therefore thou shewest forth thy envy against the righteous Seed in all thy words Query 13. Whether they be not Antichrists and do disobey Christ that have the chiefest place in the Assemblyes stand praying in the Synagogues called of men Master which things Christ did forbid his to act and cryed wo against them that acted such things Priests Answer No question what is against Christ in the flesh is a part of Antichrist and to be destroyed but as yet none of you all that I know have proved that the uppermost seats in the Synagogues were Pulpits there seats were more for honor than for service that Christ forbids and reproves and these places were taken out of love to them and for the Title of Master I would to take off the offence if that would do it that all would agree to call me by my name I take not the Title in love of it nor to have dominion by it and the Wo is against this yet I know there were Masters of the Assemblyes so called by as wise a man as any amongst you for ought I know Eccles 12. 11. A Reply to the Priests Answer In thy Answer to this Query thou canst not justifie the chiefest place in the Assemblyes therefore thou must own the Wo upon thee and Friend thou bringst a Scripture in Eccles 12. 11. to cross Christs words herein thou shewest to be a fighter against â—hrist for to maintain thy Mastership that thou mayst be a Master of an Assembly and here openly thou shewest thy self to be a Pharise and in the Pharises state sayth Christ A greater than Solomon is here Now thou hast shewed forth thy venom and ignorance indeed and openly to act against Christ and openly to be an Antichrist and a Pleader for the state of the Pharises and to contradict Christ Thou sayst no question but that which is against Christ in the flesh is a part of Antichrist thou hast shewed thy self to be an actor against Christ in the flesh and an Antichrist and shewest that thou never knewst him in the flesh nor in the spirit for he that walks in the spirit doth not fulfill the lusts of the flesh but hath crucified them and all things are become new Rom. 8. 13. but as thou sayst and dost believe that a man shall never overcome as long as he is here so shewing forth the old Bottle and what is within thee Matth. 9. 17. here is poured out which neither knows God nor Christ in the flesh nor in the spirit but hast poured forth thy blasphemy against Christ and his Doctrine and all who hold up his Doctrine and live in it and love Christ Query 13. Whether those be not Antichrists and of the Devil and no Ministers of Christ which do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ yea or no and which hold up those things Christ forbad Priests Answer Thou strainest at a Gnat and swallowest a Camel thou takest great care of Mint and Annis and neglectest the weighty things of the Law who preachest up that which Crist for bad prove what thou speakest if thou darest trust God as I desire to do wait with me for the time that God shall discover who abides with him and in his Doctrine and who doth not so far as it is revealed and open A Reply to the Priests Answer In thy Answer to this Query thou sayst we strain at a Gnat and swallow a Camel because we deny that which Christ denyed who were called of men Masters as the Pharises were who strained at a Gnat and swallowed a Camel Matth. 23. 7. and thou mayst say that Christ did so for Christ spoke against them who were called of men Masters and taught his not to be so nor to call any man Master and here thou hast justified that which Christ forbids And thou dost accuse us that we do take care of Mint and Annis because we say Whosoever abides not in the Doctrine of Christ is a Devil and here thou hast shewed thy self that it is thou that takest care for those things that pass away which Christ did forbid thou bidst me prove thee to preach that which Christ did forbid here in thy very words thou preachest up that Christ forbids and cryes Wo against and here I chargethee in the presence of the living God who will render vengeance in flames of fieâ— Jer. 51. 6. Nah. 1. 2. and here thou hast shewed thy self to be in the Doctrine of the Pharises and of the Devil and accusest us with tything Mint and Annis who art a Lyar for all those things you hold up and we deny and it is thou that dost justifie them Dost thou not hold up these frivolous things the chiefest place in the Assembly and to be called of men Master laying heavy burdens upon the People and stand praying in the Synagogue this thou strivest to hold up which we deny the commands of Christ thou callest them Mint and Annis which is a Ly and here thou wrests the Scripture to thy own destruction I charge thee here and have proved thee to preach that which Christ forbad and shut thee forth to be any Minister of Jesus Christ eternally or knowing any thing of him thou wouldst have me to wait with thee if I dare trust God I waited with thee too long but thou art now revealed and discovered thou man of sin and son of perdicion 2 Thess 2. 3. who art exalted above all that called God and thy Doctrine is discovered and the end of it for it leades to perdicion for out of the bottomless Pit it came and thither it must go and in thy Queryes thou desirest to know which is most like Antichrist and here thou shewest that thou dost not know Antichrist but we know thee to be Antichrist 1 John 4. 3. and acting in those things which Christ never commanded contrary
nothing Thou deaf Adder and Serpent who art full of Cockatrices Psal 8. 4. for if thou couldst see but thou art blinde thou mightst see the same gift amongst us as was among the Apostles for we witness the same by the same spirit according to the operacion but the lying spirit in thee can judg no otherways of truth it self but to be a lying spirit for it is in the generacion of them that know nothing of the truth for that Spirit that we are led by thou knowest not for if thou wert led by the same Spirit we should be one with thee but Friend thy spirit is tryed and known to be the spirit of Error thou sayst the Prophets erred not in declaring the minde of God to you thou knowest not the Spirit that the Prophets were guided by nor thou knowest not the minde of God though thou hast the outside a declaracion which is to the visible eye without thee but art in the generacion of them that could tell by the Prophets words where Christ should be born yet they sought to put him to death Mark 14. 64. the chief Priests and so thou art one of them which is an Enemy to Christ where he is born now as they were them and as Iannes and Iambres witstood Moses so dost thou resist the truth out of a corrupt minde in the state of Iannes and Iambres out of the faith a Reprobate as thou hast openly shewed it but thou shalt proceed no farther for thy folly is and shall be made manifest 2 Tim. 3. 9. Thou sayst thou hast taken pains to answer these Queries thou hast wrested many Scriptures as it is made manifest to maintain thee in the state of the Pharises and to maintain thee an Enemy against Christ and to maintain thee to be one of Balaams Prophets and to maintain thee to be one of the hierlings and to justifie that which Christ forbids and to maintain thee to hold up that horrible filty thing that is committed in the Land and to bear rule by thy means Ier. 5. 30 31. which the Prophets cryed against and with the Prophets words and Christs words and with the Apostles words thou wouldst shelter thy self and make thy self a cover to maintain thee in thy filthiness but the Lord God of power is coming to uncover thee and lay thee more and more open and make thee bare that thy filthyness may appear to the end that the simple ones who are in captivity under thy subtlety and snare of iniquity may be delivered and peoples mindes directed unto God that â—e alone may be exalted to whom be all prayse honor and glory for ever And Friend thou sayst that thou desirest that the Lord would open our eys thou tempter of the Lord thy Lord we deny and thy Prayers we deny the Lord hath opened our eys Prayse and glory be to him for ever the Lord hath opened our eys without thy Prayers Matth. 20. 34. therefore we deny them they are abominacion and contrary to thy means hath the Lord opened our eys 1 Iohn 1. 1. neither is there any thing of God in thy Answers but thou and thy imaginacions are raced out for ever and all thy pains thou speakest of are the works of thy own hands which were ever cryed out against Thou desirest we may escape out of the snare of Satan where it is broken we have escaped out of thy snares where they are broken Psal â—24 7. and therefore out of thy dominion and from under thy power are we come and see thee to be one that the Devil ensnares who art one of his Souldiers and not of Christs fighting for the Devils Kingdom and fighting against the Saints with thy carnal weapons and against â—he Lamb but the Lamb hath got the victory over the Beast Prayses prayses be to the Lord God Almighty for every Amen FINIS QUERIES sent by Gabriel Camelford to the People who out of reproach and envy of the blinde and dark world are called Quakers Answered by the Spirit of the Lord which doth enlighten and shine in our hearts and those that live in the pure light of God and can reade with the Spirit may see him taken in his own Snare and condemned out of own mouth and his Deceits layd open Query 1. WHat is a Reprobate 2 Cor. 13. 5. Answer Whereas thou wouldst know what a Reprobate is thou art out of the truth hated of God a Childe of the Devil an Enemy of Righteousness the Son of Perdicion in whom Christ rules not but the works of the flesh who knows not the Light that enlightneth every one that cometh into world but denyes it and hates it Query 2. Whether Christ be in a Reprobate to lead him to God Answ Thou askest thou knowest not what Shall ever a Reprobate enter to God Jacob have I loved Esau have I hated and Christ condemns the Reprobate and the Reprobate hates the Light Iohn 3. 19 20. as thou dost which shews forth the works of darkness and there thou art a Reprobate and one that knows not the Light that enlightneth every one that comes into the world and this Light shall condemn thee who keepest others in the same nature with thy fair glosses and colours which thou settest upon the Scriptures which must go into the Lake and into perdicion who livest in thy filthy and fleshly imaginacions which ever was cursed from God Psal 101. 5. an Enemy of Righteousness whom the Lord according to his promise will scatter who livest in thy imaginacious and conceivings Rom. 1. 21. and there thou art Query 3. If so why are not all men brought to God Answ Because they hate the Light as thou dost and lovest the darkness tather than the Light because thy deeds are evil Dost thou profess thy self to be a Minister of Iesus Christ and queriest why all men are not brought to God here openly thou hast shewed thy self to be a Hater of the Light for shame give over and blush Christ sayth I am the Light which enlightneth every one which cometh into the world Ioh. 1. 9. which thou art ignorant of he that loves the Light and walks in the Light there is no occasion of stumbling but thou that hatest the Light thy deeds are evil and therefore thou stumblest Iohn 11. 9 10. and there is thy condemnacion which is the Light and with such blinde Guides as thou art are poor people lead from the Light within them which should guide them to God to hearken to thy imaginacions and to fall down to thy images but the Plagues of God will be poured down upon the Beast and the false Prophet Deut. 28. 59. and thou art one which keepest people from God Query 4. Whether any man hath power to resist in the day when he comes to draw the soul to himself Aâ—sw Here thou shewest that thou dost not know the power of God neither hast tasted of it but standst in the power of Satan and dost resist and deny but
and is all the righteous bloud shed and in that nature which thou wouldst know these things in it was ever hid from who have the chiefest places in the Assemblyes and called of men Master Matth. 23. 7. and in that generacion thou art which the Wo was ever preached to try thy self for to that in thy conscience which should exercise it do I speak 2 Cor. 4. 2. and when it doth appear it will witness me 2 Cor. 5. 11. the time is coming and now is that not at Ierusalem in your highest profession of Christ nor your highest glorious nocions of him which you live in nor none of your Steeple-houses nor none of your Exercises as you call them nor the daintiest Dish you have will be meat for the tru worshipers of God for they have run to this Steeple-house and that Steeple-house and to this mountain and that mountain and here is a dainty Dish and there is a dainty Dish sayth the Harlot which hath long deceived the simple ones but now all you Harlots are discovered which have deceived the Nations and now Abraham shall arise who is the Friend of God whom thou knowest not but art in the generacion of them who professed Abraham and freedom and God to be their Father but were of their Father the Devil Iohn 8. 44 4â— doing his work who was a Murderer crucifying the just who are in the fall and not come to the beginning for thy Father was a Murderer since the beginning and Dives must be turned into Hell and the Dives with your dainty Dishes must be layd low and you who profess the New Ierusalem will be found to be in the old Ierusalem where the Lord Iesus Christ was and is crucified in your Ierusalem now in the highest place of Worship the tru worshipers of the Father in Spirit and Truth witness it to be so and the time is come that the Scripture is fulfilled and the words of Christ Iohn 4. 23. Praises Praises to the Eternall glorious God of Heaven and Earth for ever and ever who now hath made his Power known by which we see the Deceits of you all 6 Query Whether it be not Gods Ordinance that the inward living spiritual powerful word of God whereby all the Saints of God are taught and the tru inward spirituall Worship of the Saints should in the outward appearance of them be held forth in earthen vessels as under a form of Speech or word yea or no Ans Freind in this Query thou hast uttered forth thy weakness and thy ignorance in the form of the Letter doth appeare yet Serpent-like thou art full of Subtilty but thy nakedness doth appeare openly The word of God is as a Fire and cannot be limited no not with thy carnal Reason It is as a Hammer to beat thee to peices and as a Sword to cut thee asunder whensoever thou comest to know this powerfull word of God And this is the word which the Prophets spoke from who cryed Wo against all them that sayd the Lord sayth and he never spoke to them and cryed against all them that bear rule by their meanes Ier. 5 30 31. the horible filthy thing is committed in the Land which is and was held up with Preist and People but now the same living spirituall eternall Word is made manifest and is preached abroad against all you Hyerlings and greedy dumb Dogs which have not a word from the Lord but seek for your gain from your quarters and get up into the cheifest place of the Assemblies and are called of men Masters and stand praying in the Synagogues he that is the Word cryed Wo against all such and them that had this Word he bade them not to be as they were Math. 23. 8 9 10. And this Word is made manifest in the Saints which is declared abroad but thou who livest in Appearance and wouldst see things in Appearance in thy carnall wisdom and Reason â—hou art shut out from this knowledg for to thee it is death to thy carnall minde therefore freely do I publish the Eternall Truth abroad and as knowing you that you have not a word from the â—ord but are in that generacion of those that did shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men neither go in your selves nor suffer others laying heavy burthens upon the People and will not toutch them with one of your fingers but what you do you do it to be seen of men making broad your Philacteries and devouring Widdows houses Math. 23. 45. who art desolate from Christ who hast got the Form of Christs words but art in the steps of the Scribes and Pharises who had got the form of Moses and the Prophets and were enemies and strangers to the Life of God Moses and the Prophets and their Form you have got in your comprehension in the earthly vessel and that 's your heavenly Treasure but now you are tryed with what you hold forth in a Form of words but the word of God is powerfull and in him is no Form but thou art a Theif and a Robber who stealest the Prophets words Ier. 23. 30. who art without who knowest not the Word nor the Lord nor the tru Ministers of the Word shutting out thy self in the dark world and Querying whether the Word should be held forth in earthen vessels if thou hadst an Eye or if thou hadst an Eare thou mightst hear and see it preached dayly but as I said to thy first Query thou knowst not the Light whith enlightneth every one that commeth into the world but art ignorant deaf and blinde one that hates the Light that makes thee let forth so many stumbling Queries for hadst thou the Light thou wouldst not stumble but be as a Citty set upon a Hill but thou art without who hast shewed forth such a dark minde but that minde is for destrukcion for if thou didst walk in the Light and love it it would lead thee to the Day which would let thee see all things and there would be no ocasion of stumbling but thou art him that hates the Light so all thy Preaching as thou callest it leads from God being blinde and leads the blinde and must both go into the Ditch together but we who are Ministers of the Eternal Word see it and dwell in the Light and declare freely without a Bag or a Staffe without Brass and Silver or two Coats for the workman is worthy of his meat freely you have received freely give Math. 10. 8. therefore we do deny your preaching and for the simple ones sake who are in the Simplicity who have been ensnared by you who are in the Subtilty and such as you are who have let forth these Queries for we know your Spirits though you have not let forth your names so who are in the simplicity seeking after the Truth for their sakes have I let forth my self and shewed forth your folly Query 7. Whether the Idols Temple and the Worship that 's done therein
be onely visible things as a house of Wood and Stone and outward appearances as Forms and Rites and Customes that were observed therein Or the Idols Temple and the Worship that 's done therein be not also in mans Spirit and Mysticall Inward and Invisible as to sence according as it is begotten of the spirituall Prince of Darkness yea or no Answ Whereas thou wouldst be informed who art querying without in whom lodgeth the Mystery of iniquity which minde holds up the Forms and the Rites and the Customs and the Idols Temple of Lime and Stone which is the mysticall Spirit which thou speakst of for if thou own the Light which enlighteneth every one that comes into the world which is Christ it would bring thee into the Cross which is to thy carnall minde and let thee see the Prince of the Ayer rule in thee who art a Childe of disobedience where the Mystery of iniquity lodgeth and this light would let thee see the carnall minde in whom all the Images lodge and the Idols Temple and the carnall part being wrought out within and the Devils tremble and the Earth shaken Isay 2. 19. and thrown down there which is the foundacion of all images for that within holds up these without the carnal part within holds up the carnal Temple without and that looks at all these Rites Customs Forms and Tradicions thou speakst of and the minde that is perishing is that that holds up all these perishing things in whom the Mystery of Iniquity lodgeth 2 Thes 2. 7. but if thou wert obedient to the Light and loved it it would bring thee to know God and to escape the prince of the Ayer which holds up all these things without thee for Israel when he had forgotten his Maker builded Temples so thy carnal minde ruleing and disobeying the Light which would guide thee to God that carnal mind within brings thee to hold up Temples without thee and so thou art in the Pride and the Highness of minde for out of Pride whose Dominion is Satan came these Queries but who are made the Temples of God are holy and deny all your outward Temples of the Preists and and all your carnal Observances which you live in who profess the new-Covenant or the Gospel or Christ or the Word but I will deal plainly with you you are not come to know the old Covenant for from the inward doth all Idols and Images arise and there is many Idols and Images which thou bowest down to with out thee then look within thee and thou art full of Imaginacions and Images both within and without Pro. 6. 18. for as the spirituall Prince of Darkness as thou speakst they have their Idols and Images without as ever it was in all that Generacion which thou livest in and when thou hast denied the outward Idols all of them by the Light of God which thou hatest then thou shalt see them within thee thou that stumblest at the Light art he that holdst up all these Images Ezek. 7. 20. in whom the mystery of iniquity lodgeth for the Light of the body is the eye which shews all these things and that it is which I sayd to thee before thou knowest not for thou art full of Images within thou knowest it not born up in thy understanding to guide thee for it is the Light that enlightneth every one that cometh into the world Iohn 1. 9. which thou art an Enemy and a stranger to and stumblest at which Light shall be thy condemnacion Iohn 3. 19. 8 Query If the inward living invisible Word of God which is the Teacher in no way held forth under a Form as to outward appearance to men in earthen vessels why do I see thy Expressions and Exhortations come forth in Print Answ To the eighth Query Thou full of subtlety spuing forth thy Venom and askest in the Query before wheâ—her the word should be held forth or no and now thou dost hear something that is published abroad which is a cross to thee and which makes manifest you are stirred up and doth torment you therefore dost thou push with thy ten Horns nevertheless thou sendest not the Queryes to him whom thou dost accuse and sayst why see I thy Expressions in Print and sendest them to another but such is thy rage and fury and now it doth appear to all men though it hath layn close the eternal Word hath stirred him up but Friend I declare plainly to thee God Almighty of Heaven and Earth hath raised up a Light in the hearts of People 1 Pet. 2. 9. and he is coming to teach them himself whereby your abominacion and filthiness is discovered to the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty and according to his promise he hath poured forth his Spirit that his sons and daughters begin to prophecy Ioel 2. 28 29. Prayses be to the Lord God Almighty who now is setting up his Kingdom who sends his sons and Daughters abroad some to prophecy and some to preach and to declare his Name Freely ye have received freely give Matth. 10. 8. and some write and some speak face to face so you shall see it nearer you ere long and as the Prophets of the Lord who spake his Word somtimes spoke and when they were moved to write they writ â—nd published it abroad so do we the same being absent in body sending forth writings or Printed Books to declare to the simple mindes the deceits that ye who are blinde Guides have led them in but Iesus Christ the Light now shines by which ye are seen and discovered therefore stop your mouths be ashamed who have never had word from God Micah 3. 7. for the Lord God is coming to stop your mouths ye dumb Prophets and Dogs Thieves and Robbers who have stollen the words of others whom ye know not Jer. 23. 30. but the Earth hath got the Declaracion which is Earth and so speaks the Earth for the Earth but O Earth hear the Word of the Lord for wo is to ye that inhabit the Earth and now the Devil begins to rage because the Word of God is sounding abroad and the Trumpet is blowing which makes the Inhabitants of the Earth to tremble but all your Preaching we do deny and all your Blessings for as it is written as the Prophet sayd their blessings were cursed and their seed were corrupt Mal. 2. 2 3. and in their generacion you are the Light which is Christ is made manifest which lets me see you to be in that generacion which hath gathered us up to God and lets us see thee without God 9 Query Whether to exhort a man to attend to that Light which is within which his eye can see and which his ear can hear and which his understanding can comprehend and of which â—e can give a Reason be not to draw men to attend to visible things and to worship in the Idols Temple and to bow down to the Image of things which he hath
seen in Heaven and Earth yea or no Answ to the ninth Query In it thou art compleat if thou didst see thy self in the mystery of iniquity fencing with thy weapons which are spiritual wickednesses which lodgeth in the highest place and with thy thoughts and imaginacions as it doth openly appear to him that obeys the Light so thou drawest People to look after visible things and to worship in the Idols Temple 1 Cor. 8. 10. to that which thy Reason can understand and thy carnal eye can see and thy carnal ear can hear so thou worshipest the Host of Heaven and that is thy Heaven and thy Earth but Heaven is Gods Throne and thou with thy carnal eye canst never see that but drawst all under to thy worship and that thou bowest down to to thy own imaginacions within and then thou settest up somthing without thee and bringest others to bow down to thy Images and Idols without thee which thou â—ast set up which flows from the spiritual wickedness within thee in the highest place and there thou dost climb up to the highest Pinnacle and he that will bow down and worship thee thou givest thy glory to him if he will not thou drawest out thy carnal weapons to murder him for all the Ministers of the Letter are Persecutors of the Spirit where thou shewest thy self to be one but Friend the Light which is exhorted to take heed unto 2 Pet. 1. 19. thy dark minde cannot comprehend thy ear cannot hear thy eye cannot see therefore dost thou stumble as he who was the Light sayd and he that waits in the Light which Light is Christ it guides him up to God and to the Church in God and to bow down to nothing buâ— God 1 Thess 1. 1. and it teacheth to know things that be eternal and invisible by which Light we deny all thy Images Forms Rites and Customs all thy Images within thee and the Idols without thee for thou art full of them Praysed be the Lord God Almighty who is come to teach his children and hath gathered us from your mouths who made a prey upon us who wandred from Mountain to Mountain but now the Lord hath fulfilled his Promise and is fulfilling it for thou art full of Images and art the well-coloured Beast and hast the well-coloured Robes and art the Harlot out of the truth Nah. 3. 4. who deceives with thy evil eye to draw People to visible things 10 Query Whether to say obey the Light that is within and that is life and disobey it that 's death be not to speak according to the tenour of the old Covenant which sayth Do this and live yea or no Answ to the tenth Query In the Observance of outward things and Tradicions there is a difference in the obeying of the Light within and observing things without as the Apostle sayd Take heed to the Light within you untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts 2 Pet. 1. 19. who witnessed the new Covenant and they that did obey the Light within saw through the old and saw Christ so a new command I give unto you yet not a new but an old if thou hast an ear thou mayst hear but as I sayd to thee before it is that which thy Reason cannot comprehend nor never shall and ye are sanctified through the obedience of the Spirit John 17. 19. 1 Pet. 1. 22. and thy intent in these Queryes is to draw into disobedience from the Light of God within them to follow the imaginacions of such as thou art but who doth obey the Light thou art discovered to them and thou and all who hate this Light it is thine and their condemnacion and eternally shalt thou witness me for to the Light I speak which thy dark minde cannot comprehend and all who disobeys the Light holds the truth in an unrighteous minde Rom. 10. 16. but the Lord Jesus Christ is coming Who will render vengeance in flames of fier upon all them who know not God and that obeys not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thess 1. 8. now thou mayst call this the old Covenant and the Covenant of Works who livest in the mystery of iniquity and art disobedient who art one in that generacion that is disobedient to the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ and seekest to keep others in the same generacion from obeying the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ with all thy beastical power in these ten Queryes who hast uttered forth thy ten Horns that pusheth with them against the Lamb and against the Saints Dan. 7. 7. but the Lamb hath got the victory over the Beast and over the false Prophets the Light that doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world this Light he dwelleth in which sees thee which hath answered these Queryes who art without yet so as not to the feeding of that minde and reason which must die in thee for Plagues and Wo and Judgment and Vengeance and Flames of Fier will the Lord render upon thee who doth not obey the Gospel 2 Thess 1. 8. and so fare thee well for in the Pit and Fall thou art one that doth disobey the Light and hatest the Light and stumblest at it and there thou standest condemned for to that in thy conscience do I speak 2 Cor. 4. 2. which shall eternally witness me 2 Cor. 5. 11. FINIS Certain QUERIES given forth by a sort of high Professors that dwell in Farnez Fels in Lancashire and sent to George Fox which are answered by him and their subtlety and deceits discovered and layd open 1 Query WHether Jesus Christ have a Body in Heaven if he hath whether it is the same that appeared among men in the flesh or what manner of Body hath he Is he a particular Man or Person incompassed with a Body to live in for ever or is it the Body which the Saints shall have when all flesh shall be raised to the last Judgment Answ Thou wouldst know whether Iesus Christ have a Body in Heaven he remains in the Heavens if thou hast an Eare thou mayst hear And whereas thou wouldst know whether it be the same that appeared amongst men it is the same that did descend the same did ascend Ephes 4. 10. he that hath an Eare to hear let him hear and whereas thou wouldst know what manner of Body he hath here thou art disputing as the Devil was about the Body of Moses with Michael the Archangel who sayd The Lord rebuke thee so say I now the Lord rebuke thee who art disputing about the Body of Christ for the Body of Christ is but one which makes free from the Law and sin and he is the Head of the Body which is the Church but this to thee is a mystery and he liveth in his Body Rom. 7. 4. and whereas thou wouldst know whether it be the Body which the Saints shall have Col. 1. 18. when all flesh shall be raised to the last Judgment here
thy Reason but Truth hath comprehended thee who art for destruction thou high Blasphemer and Lucifer like VVhereas thou askest whether is he but the Gift and Dispensator and Maker out of the Fathers love to sinners as a Mediator and Advocate betwixt the Fater and them he is him whom the Father loveth who is the Mediator who is thy destruction God so loved the world that he gave his onely begotten Son into the world that whosoever believed on him should not perish but have everlasting life Iohn 3. 16. Friend thou art but querying to seed thy fleshly minde who art one of them that crucifiest him high in thy presumption so to thee he is no Mediator and to thee he is no Gift nor made manifest but art querying without of him and one of them that say Lo here and lo there Matth. 24. 23. and thy knowledg is the Letter and that is the Original and Gift and Manifestacion which is dust which â—eeds thee Serpent which the Curse is upon and it is the Seed of the Woman that must bruise thy Head as God who hath promised and sayd Gen. 3. 15. and this must every one witness who witness Christ thou with thy evil eye lookest at Christ and God at a distance and the Father and the Son at a distance as thou saydst before he set him at a distance which crosseth the life of Christ who sayd I in thee and thou in me Father as thou and I are one Iohn 17. 21. and he that hath the Father hath the Son and the Son is in the Father and in the Fountain but thou to this art ignorant who art scraping with thy carnal Reason to get up to the highest Pinnacle to tempt Christ who sittest as a Judg upon the Father and Christ and who crucifiest him and knowest not God but thou must be judged with him even the spiritual man and as it is written the first man is of the Earth earthly and the second is the Lord from Heaven 1 Cor. 15. 47. but thou sayst Christ is not truly God O thou false Judg who knowest neither God nor Christ who art making a separacion betwixt the Son and God and who art setting Christ at a distance who sayth he is in the Father and who makest a Ly upon the Scriptures and speakest contrary to them which thou callest the Original for it sayth In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and became Flesh and dwelt amongst us Iohn 1. and they knew him not no more do ye know him now who dwels amongst us but seek to crucifie him where ever he is made manifest who hath his being in the Father thou Enemy of God and of all Righteousness who sayth so not the Substance and Fountain in the bult and dignity in thy bult and dignity he is not here thou hast shewed forth thy self thou Lyar who sayst Christ is not in the bult as thou callest it and dignity who presumptuously wouldst sit as a Judg upon him to whom all power in Heaven and Earth is given to the Son Matth. 28. 18. who is in the Fountain and the Fountain in him who is in power and dignity who shall overthrow thee and thy dignity thou who art raced out from God and the Son and again thou queryest what is Christ it is him thou crucifiest and seekest to crucifie and slay and here thou Tempter who art without art querying whether Christ hath a Body and the Father none shewing thy self not to know the Lords Body for the Son is in the Father and they are one and with thy carnal eye lookest upon him to be like thy self if thou knowest his Body thou knowest the Fathers for they are both one thou full of subtlety who art querying how the Son may be distinguished from the Father he that knows the Son knows the Father and he that sees the Son sees the Father for he is in the Father and they are not to be distinguished but it is thou who art without in the world who art making many Gods as the world doth 1 Cor. 5. 8. Ier. â— 28. and art distinguishing who art distinguished from the Father and the Son who art making and makest three Gods and knowst none nor hast none but the God of the World to rule thee and here thou twining Serpent who art ensnaring art ensnared who art full of subtlety and catcht in thy wile who hast been rabbling upon thou knowst not what with thy filthy minde and talkest of thou dost not know what so thou art turned and must be turned into that which to thee will be hot and the Son and the Father are one I and my Father are one Iohn 10 30. and not two but to thee he that hath an Ear let him hear but here thou hast none who hast a busie minde medling with that which doth not concern thee and so thou shewest thy self where thou art 6 Query Whether there be a pure and an eternal Light in every Male and Female if a true and saving Light in and to every one how is it that there shall so many perish Is Satan stronger than God Shall or can flesh and bloud quench and extenuate the Spirit in his operacion and so the arm of the Almighty shortned frustrated and made void by the disobedience of flesh Is there a power in every man as he is man to be saved if he will Answ Christ sayth I am the Light of the world that enlightneth every one that cometh into the world Iohn 1. 9. The one he loves the Light and brings his works to the Light and walks in the Light and to him there is no occasion of stumbling Iohn 3. 20 21. and you that hate the Light you stumble and know not whither you go who hast put forth so many stumbling Queryes and with thy dark minde thou canst not comprehend the Light but Light comprehends thee and sees thy end and intent which Light shall be thy condemnacion John 1. 5. and thou sayst How is it that there shall so many perish that which asketh the question must perish who hates the Light as thou dost and gayusays the truth shall perish as Core did Iude 11. and the Eternal pure Light shall be thy condemnacion in thy own mouth shalt thou be judged who livest in the disobedience of the pure Light and slightest his mercyes and turnest the free Grace of God into wantonness the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it who is the Lord God of Heaven and Earth and my arm is not shortned sayth the Lord and Satan is exalted above all that is called God in thee 2 Thess 2. 4. thou son of perdicion and that which is of God in thee is imprisoned and thou with thy fleshly minde crucifiest the just and quenchest the Spirit as the Iews did who crucified Christ as thou readest in the Letter Iohn 19. and in that generacion thou art if thou hast an Ear thou mayst hear thou Enemy of