That it is a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin to tell them They shall never be made free from sin so long as they were upon the Earth and brings Scripture to prove it He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himself and is a lyer but he to wit the Devil tells them Christ died for all and if they can but lay hold on him by Faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin dayly for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and he to wit the Devil takes Scripture to maintain his Kingdom And this he to wit the Devil delivers by the mouth of his Ministers which he to wit the Devil sends abroad to deceive the Nations These are his words onely those within the parenthesis excepted which do but lay forth his own sense which any man may easily see that reads them And now beloved note first That James Parnel doth violently strike at the very face of the Gospel of Grace for he in full effect saith that it is not onely a delusion but also it is a great delusion of the devil to teach men to know that there is no man that hath no sin in him which Gospel-Doctrine is maintained in plain and full effect in 1 Joh. 1.8 and to teach men to know That Christ died for all which are the Gospel-words of 2 Cor. 5.13 and to tell men That if they lay hold on Christ by Faith he will not impute their trespasses to them which saying is in plain and full effect maintained to be true Gospel-Faith in Rom 4.5 but James Parnel affirmeth in full effect That to teach men to know these Gospel-truths and words unaltered is no other but a great delusion of the Devil Doubtless some men do make evil of the Gospel of Grace by the Devils perverting of it to false deluding ends to them and so they are led to take liberty therefrom to continue in sin but it appears cleerly in that his aforesaid speech that this is not the mark which Iames Parnal shoots the Devils fiery darts at for he doth not finde fault that the Devil and his ministers do alter and falsifie the words of the Scripture and then use the Scripture so altered to decieve the Nations with but he luciferian-like affirmeth in full effect that it is a great delusion of the Devil to teach men by and with the plain Scripture-words unaltered and unfalsified which their toad-like venome being by them spat in the face of the Gospel of Grace appears evidently in that aforesaid speech of James Parnel's and the cause of all that their devil-like malice appears to be this because the infallible truth of the holy Gospel of Grace doth cry down their diabolically conceited-Christed Salvation by holy legal works wrought perfectly in mens bodies which is largely and firmly proved by Scriptures in this Treatise But the great and holy Apostle St. Paul that Gospel-Champion meets with them and he draws out Christs word and sword the Scriptures and therewith he strikes off the very head of that their imagined legal Christ in them at one Gospel-blow where he telleth both us and them also That he was set for the defence of the Gospel Phil. 1.17 and he saith thereto For necessity is laid upon me yea wo is unto me if preach not the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.16 Yet this their spite against the plain words of the holy gospel-Gospel-Scriptures is not the height of their malice against Gospel-truths for in that their speech aforesaid they do in full effect accuse all the holy Saints for their so freely and fully and truely acknowledging that they had sin in them which is to be seen 1 John 1.8 Eccles 7.20 1 Kings 8.46 2. Chron. 6.36 Psal 143.2 James 3.2 James 5.17 Phil. 13.12 13. 1 Cor. 4 4. and in many other places of the Scriptures but the quakers in that their aforesaid speech said in full effect that all those and all other such humble confessing Saints do teach not onely a delusion but also a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin and to maintain the devils kingdom by their so humbly and faithfully acknowledging that they had sin in them But now as they do vainly alledge against this in their records so methinks I hear the quakers yelling out and saying Ho Wade though St. David and St. Paul did once complain of sin in them yet after that they attained to full perfection and then they complained no more of their sin But you ignorant quakers see your folly in this also for the Prophet David doth rebuke you he saying Enter not into judgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 And now you quakers may see that by his affirming in full That no man living shall be justified in God's sight that the Prophet David doth even thereby acknowledge as fully that he himself could not either in or of himself in his own person be any ways justified in God's sight at any time so long as he was a living man upon the earth and this his humble and faithful plain acknowledgement doth firmly prove even against all contradiction that the Prophet David was not free from sin in him at any time whilst he live upon the earth and therefore he knowing that sin was in him that made him so affirm he did not say Blessed is the man that hath no sin nor iniquity in him but on the contrary to that he said Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity whose sin is covered Psal 32.1 2. So sin not being totally taken away but by Gospel-Grace not imputed or covered under the vertues of the precious blood of Jesus by his Gospel-Faith in Jesus And thus is fully proved that the Prophet David was never at any time free from having sin in him at any time whilst he was a living man upon the earth and thereby it is fully proved that you quakers are hellish seducing lyers And now concerning St. Paul he acknowledged that he was not free from sin even at the finishing of his course for as he affirmed he had sin in him Rom. 7. and acnowledged that he was not perfect in Phil. 3.12 13. even so along he further said I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith 2 Tim. 4.5 6. Now behold you quakers that St. Paul did not then even at the very finishing of his course glory that he was free from all sin in him No not one word so but he rejoycing in this onely when he had finished his course that he had kept the faith in his inward man intimating to releive him from his sin that even at the finishing of his course remained in his outward man or flesh which fully agrees to his saying in Rom. 7.25
Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves with a spiritual Sword of their own Forgery whose names are here under-written Their spreading spiritual Murder cries up to Heaven for Justice which appears clearly in this Treatise The Names of the twenty four Quakers who are found by their falseness to be Actors to destroy Quakery root and branch are 1. Iames Nayler 2. Iames Milner the false Christ and false Prophet 3. Richard Huberthorn 4. Christopher Atkinson 5. Iames Lancaster 6. George Witehead 7. Thomas Simmonds 8. Thomas Biddal 9. Iohn Barber 10. Iohn Sparrow 11. Anne Blake 12. George Fox 13. Francis Houghill 14. Edward Burroughs 15. Alexander Parker 16. Thomas Aldam 17. Anthony Person 18. Gervice Benson 19. Thomas Rawlinson 20. Robert Rich. 21. Robert Dring 22. Leonard Fell. 23. Martha Simmonds 24. Iames Parnel And herein is made apparent to publick view That these twenty four Quakers as a sample of the rest have manifested themselves to be amongst them notorious lyers foul-mouthed slanderers cowardly backbiters dangerous equivocating seducers palpable falsifiers of the very words of the holy Scriptures to deceive withal and in print falsifiers of their Opposers words being printed also and bold-faced perverters of holy Scriptures to deluding ends and desperate blasphemers they being undeniably tainted with these presumptuous sins even whilst they boast they have no sin in them and how they have been led to prove substantially that they themselves are of the Devil and not of Christ shewing herein also how the holy Scriptures do by apparent marks exactly set forth to view that the quakers are of those false Christs and false Prophets that shall deceive many foretold of by our blessed Saviour and how the holy Scriptures do prove that the quakers are of those that do act in the great sin against the holy Ghost their principal errors being herein also by Scriptures cleerly confuted the two false Witnesses Iohn Rove and Lodowick Muggleton whose fancies do now appear in print also who say they are taught immediately by Christ himself as the Quakers by their tenents also do but it 's shewed that their doctrines are flat contrary one to the other and yet both absolutely and horribly false and thereby also both the two Witnesses and the Quakers also are proved herein to be all of them deluding notorious lyers Written in love as a fair fore-warning given to all tender-hearted seeking unsetled Christians by Christopher Wade Then if any man shall say unto you Lo here is Christ or there believe it not for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect behold I have told you before Matth. 24.23 24 25. Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name 〈…〉 Christ and shall deceive many Matth. 24.4 5. London Printed for the Author 1657. Short Notes directing to some of the chiefest things in this Treatise JAmes Nayler quaker detected in my first and second Discourse Richard Huberthorn quaker detected also in my second Discourse James Milner quaker is detected in my third Discourse Christopher Atkinson James Lancaster George Whitehead and Thomas Simmonds quakers are detected together in my fourth Discourse Thomas Biddal quaker is detected in my fifth Discouse John Barber quaker is detected in my sixth Discourse John Sparrow quaker is detected in my seventh Discourse Anne Blake quaker is detected in my eighth Discourse Geoâ—ge Fox quaker is detected in my ninth Discourse Goerge Fox again and nine more quakers with him are detected together in my tenth Discourse Leonard Fell quaker is detected in my eleventh Discourse Martha Simmonds quaker is detected in my twelfth Discourse James Parnel quaker is detected in my thirteenth Discourse quakery it self detected more in my fourteenth Discourse the two false Witnesses John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton are detected in my Postscript 1 HOw substantially the quakers do declare themselves to be of the devil and not of Christ 2 That the quakers must upon necessity prove that notorious lying slandering cowardly backbiting deluding equivocation falsifying of the very words of the holy Scripturtes to deceive people withal and fearful blasphemies they must prove that these and such-like presumptuous transgressions are no sins or else by their being so manifestly guilty in these sins they do thereby totally destroy their quakery root and branch which is proved in the whole drift of this Treatise 3 The Scriptures proved to be the Word of God though the quakers deny it 4 That there are three dispensations of Gods minde to men approved of in the Scriptures first immediately until the Scriptures were written secondly mediately by the Prophets writings thirdly mediately by the writings of Apostles though the quakers to preserve their satanical enthusiasms from Scripture-controle will acknowledge none other but immediate revelations which is proved to be false 5 That there is no Scripture that is said to be letter that is death and killeth but the letter of the moral law and that onely though the quakers to preserve their Satanical enthusiasms do say without any distinction that the letter of the Scripture is carnal and is death and killeth but that is proved to be false 6 That the quakers do say openly that they are the way the truth and the life and that they are the judge of the world and that they are equal with God and Gods fellow and do say plainly and publickly I am Christ 7 That the quakers Doctrine is such that upon necessity they must be so grown up in quakery that they must be inabled to account of and esteem of themselves to be Christ a perfect Christ without sin or else they cannot have the least quakish hope to be saved 8 How plainly the quakers do make themselves appear to be of the false Christs and false Prophets shewing deceitful signs and wonders foretold of by our Saviour 9 That neither Christs person nor the heaven it is in is in mens bodies but is without men though the quakers tenents do falsly say that they are within men 10 That the quakers do fearfully blaspheme against the Holy Ghost and his inspired written Scriptures 11 How exactly the quakers do make themselves to be of those that do act in the great sin against the Holy Ghost 12 That the grounded language of the Scriptures do not require that a man be free from all sin in his person in his inward or outward man both in this life of mortality but that in his integrity he must be free from guile and hypocrisie in his inward man heart minde and intentions or else he cannot be saved though the quakers by their tenents do affirm that a man must be totally perfect from all sin in him even in his inward and outward man both in this life or else he cannot be saved which is proved to a hellish false delusion 13 That no man hath any cause in the least
here is say they to him the three Persons thou dreams of which thou wouldst divide out of one like a Conjurer What you foul-mouthed apostate Qâ—â—kers is the affirming that there is three Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead like the coâ—juration by the Devil Into what corner of Hell will you flie next for further directions do you not know that God the Father who is and ever was totally spiritual and never took upon him any Person of humanâ— nature as God the Son hath done that notwithstâ—nding God the Father is by his own Spirit in his holy Scripture set forth to be a spiritual Person where it is said in plain and full effect That God the Son is the express image of his Fathers person And if you Qâ—â—kers be not afraid that the holy Spirit doth inspire his holy servants to conjure like the Devil then you may venture upon it to read the 1 2 and 3 verses of Heb. 1. and there you may see that God the Father is affirmed to be a Person God is called Christ's Father often in Scripture And do you not know that the tide Father cannot possibly be rightly applied to a bare denomination or title onely without a Person must not any one be a Person first before he can be a Father methinks you might understand something aright And now concerning the holy Ghost Do not you know that out blessed Saviour doth often call the holy Ghost He where he saith But the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my Name He shall teach you all things John 14.26 He shall testifie of me John 15.26 And if you Quakers dare venture further then you may read John 16.13 14 15. Hah what 's that you Quakers say doth the Father send the bare name or title of the holy Ghost to teach men without a spiritual Person can the expression He be by our Saviour so often given to a bare name or title onely without a Person As for God the Son you do acknowledge that since his incarnation he is a Person but know you further That Christ is called God's Son long before he took upon him a Person of humane flesh which you may see in full effect in Psalm 2. So is proved That there was a Trinity of Spiritual Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead even from Eternity before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary and a bare name cannot be a Son though you Quakers blasphemously account the three Persons in blessed Unity of the sacred Godhead to be like the conjuration by the Devil And your hellâ—sh language breaketh out still more largely by your telling of Mr. Townsend in full effect therewith in the same page 10. That he is shut up with the three Persons in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit What is in this your language any less then if you said That the three Persons are shut up with Mr. Townsend in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit it can be no less Oh horrible to what blasphemous height of iniquity against the holy Trinity will you Quakers mount And yet further to avoid conjuration you do pervert the Scripture to uphold your dreamed delusions for whereas God saith Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steal my word every one from his neighbour Jer. 23.39 this place you produce as if all men that are not taught by enthusiasms without the Scriptures which with you are counted immediate Revelations from God and you cite this place as if all men that are not so taught as you are do steal their Doctrine which they teach from their neighbours onely whereas it is evident in that chap. Jer. 23. even against all contradiction that God therein reproveth the Prophets that say I have dreamed I have dreamed and then to plant in their dreamed delusions into their neighbours hearts they craftily did as you quakers do steal God's true Words from their neighbours but not to teach others therewith but to make room in their neighbours hearts to settle in their dreamed prophetical delusions and this proveth to be your diabolical conjuration And wereas you say in your first page That Moses wrote forth Scripture and not Letter but the Word Herein I have taken you in a notable lye also for could Moses write Scripture without Letters or Characters but Moses five Scripture-books written with Letters proves all your four quakers lyers Thus every way by James Naylers sentence you abide not in the truth but are of the Devil and not of Christ And as for your frequent maundring to exclude the Scriptures from being the Word of God Because say you they are not that Word which was God and because God spake to his Saints of old immediately or before Moses and the Letter was Are these good Arguments you quakers to prove that the Scriptures are not the Words or Word of God But see your wilful ignorant folly in this also for we are taught that the Scriptures are the Word of Christ who is God and that so they are the Word of God undeniably except you dare deny that Christ is God Construe this place you quakers Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs Col. 3.16 Can you not see that it is not here said Let Christ the Word God and Man dwell in you personally as you quakers falsly say in full effect that Christ doth so dwell in your bodies but contrarily the Scripture-exhortation even by the inspiration of God is this you quakers Let the word of Christ it is not Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally but Let the word of Christ dwell in you and it is in the same place of Scripture shewed what that Word of Christ is viz. psalms and hymns and spiritual songs And those spiritual songs or hymns are Scriptures and they are herein in full effect affirmed to be the Word of Christ and Christ is God therefore the Psalms or Scriptures are hereby proved to be the Word of God though the Spirit of Satan in you quakers will not say Amen to that truth because he feels that that Word of Christ the Psalms or Scriptures will and must destroy his Kingdom of deluding quakery and therefore you his servants in ordinary must though there be three sorts or several dispensation of God's minde to the sons of men in three several ages of the world that is to say First by his immediate words to his Servants until his Scriptures were written during which time his Servants declaring what God spake immediately to them was mediately their preaching of the Word of God Secondly by God's commanding Moses and his other holy Prophets to write what was his minde towards men which is the scope of Rom. 16.25 26. during all which time the Prophets declaring in writings what God spake immediately to them is the mediate Word of God Thirdly by Christ the Son
his inspiring his holy Servants his Apostles to write his minde to men during which time also even unto the worlds end those his holy Servants his Apostles declaring in writings what Christ spake immediately to them concerning men is the mediate Word of Christ the Son of God and God and so in truth are the Words or Word of God And fourthly God's book of his glorious creatures continuing even from the creation of the World to the end thereof being subservient unto all those three dispensations of God's minde to the sons of men to make up a sweet harmony in visibly declaring of God's incomprehensible Glory Majesty Power Providence Mercy and Goodness even throughout the whole World yet notwithstanding all this though the Spirit saith in Scripture Let the word of Christ dwell in you and do not say Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally and though the Psalms or Scriptures are set forth to be the Word of Christ and though it be not said as you quakers dream That Christ the Son in his established ordinary way doth now teach men by his immediate words without the Scriptures and though it be said God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son note it is not said God doth speak to us by his Son as your tenents falsly say he doth now speak to men immediately but it is said God hath spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1.1 2. intimating plainly thereby That the Sons immediate speaking his minde to men in his established ordinary way of teaching them is gone and past and though it be said therewith to confirm that truth That the great Salvation at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him which can be no otherwise since the Apostles deaths but by their Scripture-writings and though our Saviour did not say Father I pray not for these alone but also for all them that shall believe on me through mine own immediate words spoken by me to them as your quakers fantastick brains imagine but not so though that false sense is the quakers killing livelihood but according to Heb. 1.1 2 3. so also Christ the Son saith in his prayer Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their words John 17.20 so not through the Sons immediate words but through theirs his Apostles or Disciples words who at first heard the Son speak immediately to them who are to confirm those the Son's words to us which did not hear the Son speak immediately to them And fifthly though it be so that if the Apostles confirming of the Son 's immediate words to us be not taken to be by their Scripture-writings left to us that then the whole world of men that have lived ever since the Apostles died are totally deprived of the Apostles confirmation of the Son's words to us who heard not the Son speak immediately to them and so those vast multitudes of people have not had nor have not any means to know the great Salvation which the Son at first began to speak or teach to them his Apostles immediately for them to confirm to us mediately by writings which considered sheweth the vanity of the quakers deluded fancies And sixthly though St. Paul who affirmeth That he did not receive his Doctrine from man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.12 and so being an Apostle that heard the Son speak immediately at first to him also and so was one of them that did confirm those the Son's words to us in writing I say Though even he that great Apostle saith to the Thessalonians For this cause thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the word of God ye heard of us then not immediately of the Son not so but the word of God ye heard of us to wit of those that heard the Son speak to them immediately ye received it not as the word of man or our words but as it is in truth the word of God 1 Thes 2.13 And seventhly though Moses that admired pen-man of God's Works for us and minde to us hath discovered in his Scripture-writings the particulars of God's wonderful Works which he wrought in his first five days-works of Creation which were all past before any man had any being or before man was and therefore could not possibly be taught to Moses by any man but onely by God's teaching of him and though all this of God's immediate teaching Moses appeareth in his recorded written Scriptures yet even yet I say notwithstanding all these and many more such-like infallible inspired Scripture-Testimonies of God which do firmly prove That the holy Scriptures are in truth the mediate Word of God to us yet say by experiences which God hath formerly for my humiliation and instruction permitted Satan to act in my body for a time even the same strong delusions in kinde which Satan acts in your quakers bodies though my heavenly Father in great mercy hath delivered me from them yet I know that your quakers diabolical spirit in you will not permit you to acknowledge that truth though he doth give you leave frequently to affirm That the Scriptures are true as the Devil of old spake some truths to usher in his manifold deceits even so he over-powers you quakers though you say the Scriptures are true yet to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving teachings and are led to deny in that respect the second dispensation of God's minde to men declared in the writings of his holy Prophets and also God's third dispensation of his minde to men by his inspired writings manifested by his holy Apostles And as he thereby limits the supreme holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one dispensation of God's minde unto the sons of men And that by this his first dispensation of his minde to men by his immediate words that so the devil the father of lyes by his servants quakers may make elbow-room for his enthusiasms to teach men crafty devices closely contrived both to deceive themselves and others also and that his freedom in this destructive way may not be disturbed by the contradiction or controle of holy Scriptures he hath taught you the â—eâ—diest way to please him and you as cheerfully imploy your selves in his business And thus you four principal quakers have made your spiritual pestilential infectious black spots appear upon you to publick view and your brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid looks very fiercely upon you I 'll warrant you to justifie that you all are of the devil and not of Christ And herewith know you quakers That we your Opposers do not trust to nor expect to be taught by the Letter of the Scriptures written with ink on paper as you shrawme out against your Opposites but by the Spirit of Christ
moral Law onely are the Letter which God did write with his own finger in stone on Mount Sinai Thus strongly your confounding of â—e whole Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers with the Letter of the Law written and engraven in stone which is called the ministration of death and the ministration of condemnation verse 9. of which killing condemning Letter the Apostles were not not made Ministers promiscuously and confusedly as if the Letter of them both are the Letter that is carnal death and killeth is by the force of your own Scripture-words by you used and abused totally confounded for ever and thereby sent back to the infernal den in which it was hatched for the New Testament is there said to be the ministration of the Spirit vers 8. and the holding forth the word of life Phil. 2.16 because the very Letter of the New Testament or Gospel containeth in it the mediate inspired teaching written Word of Christ the Word that was and is God and the Letter of the Law is in comparison to the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel affirmed to be the oldness of the letter Rom. 7.6 Do you quakers ransack thorow the whole Scripture see if you can find any Scripture that is called the letter that is carnal death killeth and it is not declared therewith That it is the letter of the Law onely And how having shewed how powerfully my Lord Jesus hath torn down this your refuge and with his written Word and Sword of his Spirit hath hewed in pieces your murthering Agag that would have murthered the holy mediate teaching use of the whole Scripture-letter I shall proceed FIFTHLY I do direct my pen to discourse with Thomas Biddal quaker who also with the four former audacious quakers doth deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God for he being with me I cited to him this place And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Ephes 6.17 I then telling him That the written word of God is the sword of the Spirit but is not the Spirit it self and that the Scriptures are the Spirits word and spiritual sword also But he answered me saying That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are both one and the self-same thing As if he should have said A man is his sword and his sword is the man And these ridiculous shifts they are inforced to make for fear the holy Scriptures should be proved to be the Word of God but to their perpetual shame our Saviour Christ though he was furnished in himself with superabundant ability to have confuted and confounded the devil If he had but said I Jesus say unto thee Satan yet for our examples he would not conflict against the devil with his own all-sufficient spiritual power onely without his Scripture-sword but to confound the devil withal he takes up his Spirits never-failing sword his written Scriptures and therewith he enters the lists against his powerful spiritual inverate enemy the devil and overthrows him with that his Word and written sword by his saying to the devil in his perverting of Scriptuers against him Thus it is written Thus it is written Thus it is written Satan and by his confounding the devil therewith he gratiously teacheth us even by his own example by the spirit of Faith to take up his Spirits never-failing word and sword the holy Scriptures and to fight valiantly and undantedly therewith against the devil himself in his temptations and also against the deluding assaults of Thomas Biddal and all other brain-sick quakers Satans officious servants And accordingly the Apostles did lay aside all their glorious heavenly raptures and visions in case of teaching men and confirmed their sayings with our Saviours infallible word and sword the Scriptures frequently saying Thus saith the Scriptures But what saith the Scriptures It is written and such-like expressions And it is well known That the Apostles were better taught then any quaker whatsoever Again Thomas Biddal what infernal spirit taught thee to boast That thy large railing seducing letters directed to me and others were written from thee to us from the Spirit of the Lord as if thou hadst been a Messenger sent to us immediately from the Lord whereas to thy shame the same queries that thou therein makest appear in the same words and form in a printed book written by another man to thy hand before thou wrotest thy lying letters to us Thus thy Luciferian aspiring pride appeareth further even to publick view Again Thomas Biddal whither were thy giddy brains ranged when thou saidst in my hearing That Faith and Christ are one and the same thing as thou didst say That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are one and the same thing What now Thomas canst thou not creep out of the road-way to hell wouldst thou make people believe thy false spirit that when St. Paul said We preach Christ crucified 1 Cor. 1.23 that Paul and other Saints meant to have said if they had not forgot it We preach Faith and it crucified What Thomas was Faith crucified for thee If thou saist That Faith is crucified to death in thee I shall readily believe thee Thomas though those thy sayings are to be abhorred And now to sum up together thine own begotten titles without addition to them thou hast proved thy self to be a very ignorant person a notorious lyer a proud luciferian and an audacious perverter of holy Scriptures and thereby art an enemy to God and his Truths and thereby also art a Traytor to mens souls And because you quakers do refuse the Gospel-imputation thou art not onely fallen under the eternal condemnation of God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid fastens upon thee Thomas proving thou art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ Doubtless Thomas God had formerly given thee and others by thee a fair forewarning to avoid these delusions of the devil for thou Thomas Biddal some yeers now past was as appears inforced by the devil openly to declare That thou wert one of the two witnesses of God mentioned in the Revelations and thou didst thereupon make use of another man's new sackin-cloth which lay by him so far as to carry it to a Taylor a neighbour of thine thou knowest to whom and thou Tho. Biddal didst then lay a heavy severe charge upon that Taylor to make thee a suit of aparrel of that sack-cloth by such a day being within a little while after that it might be ready at that day for thee to put on and to prophesie in as being one of the two witnesses aforesaid then sent from God But that neighbour of thine the Taylor prudently discerning that thou wert deluded though he took the sack-cloth of thee to satisfie thy present resolute humour yet he totally neglected to make thy sackcloth-suit and
deceitful Tutor hath given you the slip again and hath enforced your own tongues to betray you again and to publish your own perpetual shame for by that your saying you do acknowledge in full effect with James Parnel your brother quaker aforesaid That your own confessing and forsaking your sins if you did so are and can be no other but your own meritorious works or fruits meriting and deserving mercy for you said That by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy And thus you again tender up the aforenamed ten principal quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrits by your affirming as being ing quakers That salvation cannot be merited by works but the devil leaves you not here neither but by that your affirmation he hath enforced you quakers most shamefully to pervert that inspired holy Scripture Prov. 28.13 for you over-stare Solomon's ground first laid for that his affirmation he first teaching men how to honour God in a right manner saying Honour the Lord thy God with thy substance and with the first fruits of thine encrease Prov. 3.9 hereby letting us know That God is not honoured except a man do first perform his Gospel-duties by God at that time established by mens obediently offering up to him typical sacrifices and oblations out of mens substance and first fruits of their encrease then typifying Christ to be sacrificed and his blood to be shed And it appears that if men then did not at first not only confess but also forsake their supreme sin against the Gospel of Grace and then obediently offer up to God in the very manner by him prescribed sacrifices oblations and offerings then typifying Christ to be offered up to God his Father and to be sacrificed for mens sins that that man neglecting that Gospel-duty was to be cut off from amongst his people according to Lev. 17.8 9. and they were also to bear their iniquity still Lev. 7.18 whatsoever their confessing and forsaking their other legal sins were And thus is proved that you quakers by your refusing the Gospel-imputation of the vertues of Christ lifted up and sacrificed without you for your sins as those typical sacrifices and Moses typically lifting up the brazen Serpent in the wilderness were all performed without men for mens healing And by your wilful persisting in the supreme Gospel-sin aforesaid you quakers confiding in your own meritorious confessing and forsaking your sin if in truth you do so as in truth you do not yet even by that performance you have cut your selves off from amongst God's people and whatsoeuer you fantastically fancy to the contrary you do bear your iniquities still even in your own self-Christed condition and by Scripture all legal exhortations in Scripture are to be subjected under the aforesaid supreme Gospel-sence for without mens confiding in the Gospel-Faith in Christ's blood shed all the quakers-Christs and all the quakers or any other man's Reformation is in Gods sight no other but noysome deformation for God himself inspiredly tells us plainly That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 you quakers And you quakers say That your man Christ in you is spiritual and a Spirit cannot die nor have his blood shed as when our Saviour's person was spirituallized in by and at his Resurrection it was impossible for him to die or have his blood to be shed again see Rom. 6.9 the vertues of which his blood shed you having desperately refused for your justification you having made it appear That your supposed Man Christ in you cannot possibly have his blood shed in you for your sins acted by you both before and more presumptiously now in your self Christed-quakery so that you have neither the vertues of Christ's real bloodshed without you nor within you to appear for your justification and therefore you cannot possibly confide in the vertues of any blood shed And thus you have again firmly staked down your luciferian Christs to be justified only by your own Popish works in your own confessing your legal sins and your supposed meritorious forsaking them and thereby you have rendred up again the forenamed ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites for behold you quakers if you have but one corner of a seeing eye left you to look out of your selves by what God inspiredly saith in his Scriptures which you frequently acknowledge are true see I say how highly God doth by them advance Christ's death and bloodshed and doth totally exclude works whether wrought by men or by any spirit in men whatsoever for mens justification in Rom. 3.24 25. Or secondly for the forgiveness of mens sins Ephes 1.7 Or thirdly for the doctrinal foundation of mens faith see Ephes 2.8 Or fourthly for mens reconciliation to God see Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.19 Or fifthly for mens Redemption see Ephes 1.7 1 Pet. 1.13 Or sixthy for the onely way for mens encouragement to enter by Faith even into the holy place before God Heb. 10.19 All which places and very many more such are fastned to mens faith in Christ's death and blood shed without men and they are all confirmed by that grand Scripture-principle That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 and works are totally excluded Blood is blood you quakers and works are works but they are not Christ's is blood And yet you high-flown quaking Christs are so stifned in impudency that you are not ashamed to establish your Christed indignity by popish meritorious works and yet desperately to face it out and in full effect calling the living God of heaven and earth to testifie for you that you mean no such matter But know you quakers That though it is written Work out your own salvation Phil. 2.12 yet the Apostle in the very next Chapter sheweth how they should work that out he telling them that they were to work or strive for the Faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 through Faith in Christ's blood Rom. 3.25 but not of works Ephes 2.8 And beloved the quakers choice principle being That every believer is justified by Christ alone without Imputation There is in this also included That as Christ himself hath authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of man John 5.27 and so hath power to forgive sins on earth Matth. 9.6 that so every quaker Christ man or woman must upon necessity conclude that they have authority to judge and justifie their own particular persons to be as free from all sin in them as Christ himself is and thereby they justifie themselves to be Christ for they refuse any Christ to be without them to judge and justifie them And thus that dark speech aforesaid comes forth cleered shewing how and by what authority every believer to wit every believing quaker do justifie themselves and so every such believer is justified by a self-quaker-Christ alone without any imputation which being done then there is a quakers self-constituted Christ holy and perfect in all respects inherently without any additional imputation of
and he also sheweth us what kinde of Faith it was which he even at the very time of the finishing of his course onely gloried in and that his faith was not a believing on him that justifieth no man but such men that are free from all sin in them and so are perfectly and inherently godly men no not so neither but on the direct contrary he sheweth to us and you quakers also that his saith was his believing on him that justifieth the ungodly whose faith is counted to him for righteousness Rom. 4.5 he thereby plainly declaring that though he had sin him in his outward man or flesh even at the very time of his finishing his course yet that his faith in his inward man was even at that very time his righteousness with God by Christ and accordingly he even then gloried onely in this that by his fighting a good fight he had kept the faith even at his finishing his course and agreeable thereto the whole scope of his Gospel is the advancing of mens faith in Christ's precious blood shed without them and his totally excluding works from mens justification And hereby it is firmly proved that St Paul was not free from sin in him at the very finishng his course And as these two examples of St. David and St. Paul do set forth the true conditions of all Saints whilst they are living on earth so it again proveth that you quakers are satanical decieving lyers And whereas I do finde that James Nayler hath laid his foul fingers of quakery upon the undefiled truth of that verse Rom. 4 5. I shall wash off that soyl God willing at some other time And now to shew you quakers whom I finde to be groping in the dark the eyes of your understandings being darkened and dazeled with your inward great quakish light you boast of what is the true cause next under the devil himself your teacher why you quakers do so frantickly and wildely straggle quite away from the truth of the Scripture which is first because you frequently affirm that the Scriptures are not your Rule and truly in this I do verily believe you for I do finde it to be even so In the second place that though God hath inspiredly declared in his Scriptures that there is an inward and outward man in one and the same man in Gods account and estimation yet you are trayld away from this true Scripture-distinction so far that by your quakish Doctrine you do vainly conclude That if any man be free from the guilt of sin in God's Gospel-account that that man even upon necessity must be totally free from all tincture of the pollution of sin in him both in his inward man or minde and in his outward man or flesh also which is directly contrary to the Scriptures for St. Paul saith I delight in the law of God after the inward man Rom. 7.22 which saying of his doth unseperably set forth that there was even at that very time an outward man comprehended in St. Paul's person which he calls his members vers 23. his flesh vers 25. more cleerly to set forth his distinction he further saith With the minde I my selfe serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin vers 23. and he yet further cleereth this distinction where he twice affirmeth If I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin dwelleth in me vers 16. and vers 20. and it 's already proved that St. Paul was not free from sin in him no not at the finishing of his course And therewith he doth cleerly shew That as in him so in all other Gospel-believers an inward man or spirit of the minde wherewith and wherein they serve the Law of God as St. Paul did Rom. 7.25 without guil and hypocrisie in their integrity and this St. Paul owned to be in himself which inward man so acting is esteemed of God to be the man or that he which is born of God in every true Gospel-believers person which sinneth not neither indeed can sin in that sin which is unâ—o death though thorow the strength of temptations working upon the infirmity of their outward man or flesh there may be some sin that is not unto death sound in their persons all which St. John who was born of God yet even then acknowledgeth himself to be amongst other Saints one sinner 1 John 1.8 onely he distinguisheth betwixt that sin which is not unto death in which even that person who is born of God in his inward man may probably through infirmity be found sinning in his outward man and that sin which St. John intimates is against the holy Ghost which is unto death which he that is born of God neither doth nor can sin because he is born of God all which truths St. Iohn sheweth in full effect in 1 Ioh. 3.9 and more fully in 1 Ioh. 5.16 17 18. but the quakers Tutor will not permit them to see the Truth But St. Paul yet further confirmeth his distinction aforesaid where he saith in plain and full effect That with his outward man or flesh he served the law of sin Rom 7.25 and this his outward man or flesh though it was even then a part of his own person yet he owned it not to be himself for he brands that his outward man or flesh to be another law in his members flesh or outward man warring against the law of his minde v. 23. which his inner man or minde he owneth to be himself v. 25. that sinned not And now behold you quakers how amongst others these three holy and with God highly esteemed Saintâ— Job David and Paul do accordingly yet further confirm this Scripture-distinction unanimously together Behold I say how stifly stoutly and boldly that holy man Job stood it out even with God himself to justifie himself in his inner man to be perfectly without guile in his integrity he desiring in that respect saying Let me be weighed in an even ballance that God may know mine integrity Job 31.6 and yet notwithstanding all this height of his boldness to justifie himself in his inner mans perfection in his integrity yet he durst not in the least measure stand to justifie himself to be free from sin in his outward man but on the flat contrary he as it were mournfully said If I justifie my self mine own mouth will condemn me if I say I am perfect it will prove me per verse Job 9.20 see also the 30 and 31 verses therein No no though he so boldly stood it out even with God to justifie the perfection of his integrity of his inward man yet he as it were cries out against the imperfection that was even then in his outward man and in this respect he soars up upon the wings of his faith and flies quite out of himself to rest in his Redeemer onely he then saying I know that my redeemer liveth c Iob 19.25 and even so you
the quakers malicious iniquity for in that their speech aforesaid they have in a high manner blasphemously seized upon the Holy Ghost himself also for they in that their speech have in full effect charged upon the Holy Ghost that he is the chiefest supreme Teacher not onely of a delusion but also of a great delusion of the Devil to maintain the Devils Kingdom by his the Holy Ghosts inspiring and thereby teaching all the Holy Saints aforesaid and all other such so humbly and faithfully to acknowledge that they had sin in them even when they were born of God and by his inspiredly teaching them to affirm that there is no man that sinneth not 1 King 8.46 2 Cor. 6.36 and also that there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 And now this their fearful blasphemy against the Holy Ghost himself being considered on and how fearfully the quakers I say the quakers because it is evident that they do highly esteem of that blasphemous book of James Parnel's now considering that therein they have also fearfully blasphemed against the Holy Ghosts teachings in the Scriptures they in full effect counting those Gospel-Scriptures not to be fitted by the Holy Ghost for any mans benefit but for the devil to take up unâ—â—ered to maintain his the Devils kingdom and also noting that they have therein so horribly blasphemed against the Gospel precious vertues of Christ's death and blood shed and observing that they have audaciously affronted if not blasphemed against the whole Trinity which appears in full effect in my fourth Discourse and considering how they are proved to be of those false Christs and false Prophets shewing false signs and wonders in my tenth Discourse and also considering that they have made it manifest in their Doctrines which are in the Treatise detected That they have trodden under foot the Son of God and do count the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and that they do despite the Spirit of Grace these being the three marks appropriated to discover the sin against the Holy Ghost which is in full effect shewed in Heb. 10.29 and noting therewith how the quakers have from their own presumptuous wicked personal facts in full effect adjudged themselves to be of the Devil and not of Christ which appears evidently in my second Discourse and considering also that it is very well known that very many of them if not all of them have not onely received the knowledge of the Truth but have also been professors of the same before they were quakers but now they be fallen away from the Truth see how apparently all those destructive marks are found upon them that are mentioned in Heb. 10. from the 26 to the 31 vers It appears by and in all these respects and many other in this Treatise appearing that they the quakers are not onely of the false Christs and false Prophets aforesaid but also they the quakers are acting in the great and unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost and that they so persisting will run themselves unpardonably into the everlasting fearful curses thereto belonging notwithstanding whatsoever they are over-powered to conceit of themselves to the contrary And now thou James Nayler hast stopped thine own mouth from ever again uttering forth such a proud Goliah-like challenge as thou hast done where thou in the 23 pag. of thy Satan's Design discovered sayest And though we be counted the greatest offenders that ever was in the whole world by the heads of Sects yet is there not one of you that is able nor willing to judge us and our practice and judgement with the practice of the Saints in which they walked and plain Scriptures without meanings This is thy haughty challenge Iames. But now do you note That you quakers your own selves have even totally spared your Opposers that labour to judge you by the practice of the Saints which they have walked in for by your undeniable numerous presumptuous sins of your personal facts and false Doctrines you quakers have made it so manifest even against your own selves that you do walk in such notorious presumptuous sins which the Saints practised not which appears fully and truly in this Treatise that there is no need at all no not in the least measure for your Opposers to bring Scriptures neither with meanings nor without meanings to prove that over again which you have already so cleerly and firmly proved against your own selves that you quakers do walk in many notorious wicked practices even in a full affronting direct opposition against and quite contrary to the Saints practice and yet to make more sure work totally to spare your Opposers that labour Satan thy Master James hath exalted thee to be the Judge James in this cause and by thine own and the other quakers notorious presumptious sins though lurking under your outward glistering varnish yet judiciously to condemn thy self James and all them also to be lyers and so not abiders in the truth and so that thou and they also are of the devil and not of Christ which appears by thine own just law James by me related in thine own words in my second Discourse And thus thou thy self James hast made that thy aforesaid vaunting challenge not onely frivilous but ridiculous also And now considering that you sinful quakers do refuse the gracious help of the Gospel imputation I am constrained to leave you all under the justness of your brother quaker James Naylers fiery condemnation aforesaid And as for your thundring out severe charges and threatning fearful curses in print in full effect against all men that do oppose your quakery know all you quakers that I do set them all as light as levity it self even to be as ayry as your quakish legal couzen ing German the Popes roaring bulls and cursings with Bell Book and Candle for in the presence of my God who knoweth the truth hereof I do affirm as is before somewhat touched That he my heavenly Father for my humiliation and instruction hath formerly permitted the Devil to exercise his enthusiasms and seeming heavenly joys and speaking-voyces in me and to work his powerful quakish temptations in me distinctly as it were step by step even in the same manner that he the Devil doth now act and speak in you quakers and doth thereby teach you and over-rule you and deceive you quakers and doth also by permission thereby enable you to deceive others also And but for brevity sake I would relate at large the particular quakish gradations of the Devils former works in me how he would have perswaded me that I was Christ and he falling in that how he would have over-power me to believe that I should be a great admired Prophet and many other quakish luciferian exaltations he would have powerfully-fastned on me and in me sutably to the same order without Scripture-warrant even as he doth now work in all deceiveableness in you quakers and how that
1 Tim. 2.9 And now my beloved ones consider seriously that the Devils instruments can by the Devils power and permission work deceitful miraculous signs and wonders even as is deceitfully wrought at the quakers meetings and preachings even so powerful beloved as shall deceive if it were possible the very elect And now my Reader I pray thee to note seriously that in James Naylers before recited severe sentence of condemning all Christians that have any sin to be found in them in these words of his But who says they know Christ and are redeemed and commit sin not keeping his commandments is a lyer and so abides not in the truth and anoynting and so is of the devil and not of Christ These be his words And now I pray thee observe that he is led not onely according to his use falsly to add words to that Text 1 John 2.4 but also although our Saviour Christ hath made a cleer distinction betwixt his Gospel-commands and his Fathers moral Law-commands where he saith If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love John 15.10 and although this distinction sets forth a true abiding in the Doctrine of Christ as but for brevity sake I could by Scripture shew much more largely yet James Nayler as aforesaid is satanically overpowered to confound into one law the Fathers killing moral law written on Mount Sinai and Christs mount Sinai's healing Gospel-law of life which runs in this and the like gracious tenure He that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness Rom. 4 5 But as James hath done so whilst he remains a quaker he must confound the Gospel-law and the moral law into one and the same law or else as quakery cannot stand so James Nayler and the quakers could not so easily make choice of moral law works to be wrought in mens bodies for their saluation and so also the devil would fall short by his quakers to declare that they themselves are notorious sinners and yet do deny the Gospel-imputation and that so they themselves are of the Devil and not of Christ FOURTEENTHLY My fourteenth Discourse is directed to all the quakers for you quakers considering the plain evidences that your quakish conducters have published by their as it were throwing filthy stinking mire and dirt in the very face of all quakery Now you quakers haue a just cause not onely to howl but to howl out loud for it appears that you quakers are very expert in howling for John Gilpin in the 3 pag. of his book â—â—e calls the quakers shaken printed London 1655. affirmeth that whilst he was a quaker he was constrained to fall down on his bed where he howl'd in a terrible and hiddeous manner to the great astonishment of his family which he also there saith is usual with them to wit the quakers and also Mr. Samuel Clark in his 461 pag. of his book he intituled A Mirror or Looking-glass doth declare That in anno Christi 1653. there came some quakers out of the North into Wales to win some Professors to their party boasting themselves were perfect and without sin which some of the principallest quakers here have affirmed of themselves in my hearing and he declareth That at those quakers meeting there after long silence had such risings and swellings in their bowels sending forth such shreekings yellings and howlings as not onely affrighted the Spectators but caused the dogs to bark the swine to cry ond the cattel to run about to the astonishment of all that heard them but it can no ways be proved that people have shreeked as Night-Owls yelled as infernal Syirits and have howl'd as devoured dogs and wolves at peoples meetings at the preachings of the true Gospel of our blessed Christ and far much more less that dogs and swine and other cattel are then are thereby forc'd into such a violent distempered rage nor that little children who are utterly uncapable to understand either what is done or said at the preaching of the true Gospel do fall down and roar and their bellies swell and foam at the mouth then and thereby as appears that besides men and women so tormented that even little children also are in that manner fearfully tormented at the quakers meetings or preachings of quakery which the quakers do not deny though it be charged upon them which appears in Saul's Errand And I now acknowledging my self to be really a very unworthy Servant of my blessed Lord Jesus Christ yet I remain unto all true Gospel-believers and considers in my blessed Lord Jesus his death and precious blood shed without men and also to all them that do desire so to believe Their affectionate and officious Servant in Christ Christopher Wade POSTSCRIPT NOte That all James Nayler's proud Luciferian behaviours all his disciples blasphemous exaltations of James Nayler at Bristol even with no less then divine titles as appears in print are all of them strong confirmations of the justness of all the accusations that are charged upon the quakers in this precedent Treatise And it is to be marvelled at That considering the Scriptures do fight so fiercely against all your quakery that you quakers do not quite forsake all and any use of the Scriptures to support you and why you do not act from your enthusiasms only and alone and in your wandring courses to knock your hand upon your brest and say Here here 't is and then continue to tell the people a long story that you are sent from heaven and are taught from heaven but then it will be also to be wondred at how exceeding ignorant those people must be that will believe you And concerning your Mystery you so much boast of know all you quakers That the Mystery of God's will concerning men is not lock'd up in quakery but is made manifest by the Scriptures of the Prophets Rom. 16.25 26. and is also made manifest by the Apostles see Ephes 3.7 9. Ephes 1.9 Col. 1.26 but you quakers know it not And now my Reader thou mayest take notice conveniently That since my finishing of this my foregoing Treatise there is by providence come to my hands two short books printed both of them appearing to be composed by the joynt consent of two men whose names are as they therein say John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton who say That they are taught by immediate revelations from Christ himself as appears without God's mediate help by his Scriptures even as the quakers do in full effect say they pretend also that they onely are the two Witnesses of God mentioned in the Re elations they do say That their commission is to this effect they saying God hath chosen us two onely and hath put the two-edged sword of his Spirit into mouths that whom we are made to pronounce blessed are blessed to eternity and whom we are made to pronounce cursed are cursed to eternity and