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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88837	The lip of truth opened, against a dawber with untempered morter. A few words against a book, written by Magnus Bine priest, in the county of Sussex, which he calls, The scornful quakers answered, &c. But he himself is found the scorner, and the lyer, charging me with things I never spoke, nor never entered into my heart to speak. / Tho. Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing L725; Thomason E889_9; ESTC R206504	49,355	60

grace that brings salvation to all that love it and let me tell thee this thou that lives in folly selfishness and covetous practises thou hates the light John 3.20 and so knows not how far it leads nor what knowledge it teaches them that love it and obey it but in thy corrupt reason art limiting the light which comes from God who will not be limited but this I say who disobey the light in the conscience which comes from Christ they know not how far the light leads them nor what it teaches them who love it and obey it Thou sayes This light is imperfect c. not as anything is so to God but to us it is so as vailed by our fleshly mind Page 97. I answer To say that the light is vailed by the fleshly mind that is true and thy pride folly selfishness jeering and covetous practises are fruits of the fleshly mind but to call it imperfect in what way soever that is a lie and thou art found to be the beast opening thy mouth in blasphemy against God Christ the true light which lighteth every man c. he is the gift of the Father given to Jew and Gentile Isai 42.6 7 and is not every gift of God perfect Jam. 1.17 but again fearing thy deceit and blasphemous speech will be found out like a twining crooked Serpent thou goes on and sayes not as any thing is imperfect to God now he would perswade us that nothing is imperfect to God and if this be believed the Serpent may bring forth his works under the account of perfect works then is the Ranters design brought about their standard lifted up who would perswade people that the●e is but one power even God and every work is his and in every work he delights and though in words thou testifie against the Ranters yet is thy bottle full of their dregs which thou would make people drunk withal and he who had the seven Spirit of God and the seven stars he said I have not found thy works perfect before God Revel 3.1 2. so there is something imperfect as to God though thou deny it Again thou sayes When Christ c. springs up in us and shews it self to be our light and guide then the true light is come it was but flesh before but reason and nature and law now it is the truth c. Page 67. I answer Thou speaks thou knows not what which thou and all thy brethren the Priests can never prove it appears thou art the darkness not comprehending the light so evil of it thou speaks calling the light which every one is lighted withal flesh reason nature c. when as the light is but one and changeth not and pure in its least measure and is vailed under the flesh reason nature and in its measure testifies against the deeds of the flesh and it is flesh corrupt nature and reason in thee that so falsly judges of the light of Christ John saith light shines in darkness John 15 and Paul saith light hath shined out of darkness 2 Cor. 4.6 now it is the same in darkness as out of darkness and it moves in darkness to lead out of the flesh the f●ln nature and corrupt reason but it is not these and Peter wrote to some that had a light shining in a dark place and he exhorted them to take heed to it until the day dawned and the day star arose in their hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 he cals it a shining light not flesh nor reason as thou dost and would he exhort them to take heed to flesh where no good thing dwels what a heap of confusion thou utters forth and thou sayes when Christ is come then the true light is come it was but flesh before c. O thou wicked one who vomits out thy filthiness against the gift of God doth not the Scripture say every one is lighted with the true light John 1.9 and thou speaks as it were not true the light is but one and true in the least measure and John 3.20 and the evil doer is lighted with the true light but he hates it and so lives in the flesh and reason but the light is pure not false nor flesh nor reason nor corrupt nature and in a slighting manner thou cals it the Law well the law is light saith Solomon Prov. 6.23 and spiritual saith Paul so prove by Scripture that the light wherewith Christ lighteth every one is flesh reason corrupt nature for the nature of God thou will not term after so disdainful a manner Thou sayes There is a vaste difference between the light that is in us while we are in the state of nature and the light that is in us when we come to be in the state of grace Page 98. I answer The light wherewith Christ lighteth every one is one and the same in him that hates it as in him that loves it Joh 3 20 21. but him that loves it him it leads to life he that hates it it is his condemnation Iohn 3.19 and grace it is the same in him that turns it into lasciviousness as in him that is taught by it to deny ungodliness the same in him that receives it in vain as in him that is saved the one resists and the other receives the tender of salvation in it and by it the same Seed as fell on the good ground the same fell on the high-way stony and thorny ground Math. 13. and thou who would divide and put a difference in that which is one for ever it thou sees not because darkness hath blinded thine eye Thou saies In the state of nature the light is but reason and it tends to the building up of man and Self yet saith thou Christ is in nature as a spark under ashes page 98 I answer The Lord will plead with thee thou lying tongue whose table is full of vomit and seduces all that believe thee who ceases not to speak evil of the Lord of life and the Prince of peace a blind Watchman thou art thou that calls the light reason while man is in the state of nature that thou art to prove and with all thy ranting twines thou cannot and thou saies the light tendeth to the building up of Self O be ashamed of thy lies light and Self are contrary to each other and no communion is betwixt them did Christ teach people to deny Self and doth his light now build up Self is he changed from what he was he that doth evil hates the light and the light reproves him and thou saies it builds up Self is Christ in and by his light the condemnation of the world which lives in darkness which is Self John 3 19. how is it then that the light which is given for salvation to the ends of the earth builds up Self O thou shameless lyar self grows our of that light but is condemned by the light and thou confesses thou art inwardly reproved for thy covetous practises that

lies scandals slanders aspersions to the world so it is meet that the Reader consider from whence thy message came from a risen Devil as thou confesses and the Devil is a liar from the be ginning and it may be well that thy two Parish hearers consider who is their Teacher and to whom they give their tyth no marvel if thou lie of us and plead for titles of honour tyth and unneedful gaudy attire seeing thou confesses the Devil is risen in thee so out of thy mouth thou casts water as a flood after us but we have a place in the clefts of the Rock so us thou cannot touch our heads are lifted up above many waters Thou sayes The elect Seed Lucifer he cannot he must not deceive totally and finally Page 117. I answer The elect Seed is not known of the world but it the world alwayes hated and by thy generation it alwayes suffered and now God is risen for his Elects sake and it he is redeeming and it denies thee and all the seed of evil doers so is grief riling in thy bosome against it so ye simple ones love the simplicity of the Gospel be sober be vigilant for your adversary the Devil is risen high in Magnus Bine as he confesses and many thousands to devour and betray you of your birthright so hold fast so shall none take your Crown Thou sayes I scoff at the worship not in my Temples made with hands and that I roar in the midst of my Congregations against many of the most precious Saints of God Page 118. I answer In Temples made with hands God dwels not Acts 17. nor in your Popish houses who have cast our them but uphold their Idol and buy and sell in it the worship in Spirit and in truth we own and none else and in that thou sayes I roar against the most precious Saints of God that is a lie and adds to the number of thy lies the Saints I own but such as live in rage violence and imaginations which thou cals Saints such I bear witness against that they may be convinced and when a lost sheep is found I am glad Thou sayes I seek to bring all into confusion and to make all the name of Religion a very scorn among the Heathen Page 118. I answer This is a lie among the rest and in as much as the Devil is raised in thee thou must spue out thy venom cast out thy floods and the truth finds thee and all thy fellow builders to be in confusion one setting up his opinion and another throwing it down Babels builders building up and throwing down all in several opinions so that your own hearers say they know not what to cleave to among you you are so contrary minded and that Religion which keeps out of the worlds spots I own Jam. 1.27 and this thou and all thy Saints are out of who be in rage violence and imaginations and the Devil who is the Author of all filthy spots being raised up in thee thou rails preaches and prints and writes against them that witness this Religion to make the Heathen more bitter against it and all that known not God are Heathen and he that sins hath neither seen God nor known God 1 John 3 6. So thou that lives in thy covetous practises in the worlds spots art a Heathen but thou can give a meaning to this Scripture because the worlds spots it owns not and thou that bridles not thy tongue but pours out lie after lie thy Religion is vain Jam 1.26 Thou inquires Whether ever Christ commanded to preach the light of Nature instead of the light of Grace Page 122. I answer Them that Christ sent forth preached Christ 2 Cor. 4.5 and Christ we preach who is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world Iohn 1.9 and he cried out against such as thou art who art called of man Master stands praying in the Synagogues loves greetings in the Markets c. Math. 23 and against such we witness and he is the true light and all other thy lights be darkness so in Christ the true light we deny them Thou inquires Whether ever Christ commanded to preach up the power and freedom and will of man Page 122. I answer Those he sent preached himself whom no man in his will could ever receive and thou who art called of men Master art in thy own will so receives him not but stumbles at him a man of sorrows acquainted with gref this is he whom none in their power and will ever could receive for no man comes to him but as the Father draws Iohn 6.44 but the disobedient resist his drawings Thou inquires Where did Christ command to preach op our merits holiness and observations and to make his bloud and cross a scorn among the Heathen Page 122. I answer Never for in Christ we are accepted and that freely without any works of man or merits or self-holiness and the Kingdom of God comes not with observations and his bloud alone cleanseth from sin and his cross is the power of God to salvation this we affirm and that thou whose mind is in earthly things in covetous practises as thou confesses art an enemy to the cross of Christ Phil. 3.18 19. Thou inquires Where ever Christ called the Scriptures letter ink and paper Page 122. I answer That the Scriptures are called the letter in many places it is to be found if thou deny it hereafter I shall shew it thee but if thou be offended at me for calling it so let the Reader consider how it can be an offence in me so to call it and not in thee who all over thy book calls it the letter yea six or seven times in one leaf side and 2 Epist Iohn 12 I would not write with paper and ink so to search into all the lies and filthy stuffe in thy book it would be tedious for the Reader to read Thou sayes Michael durst not bring railing accusations against the Devil knowing that as he is a Creature he hath his life and being in God but as he turned into self and pride c. so he became a Devil FINIS