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George Emmot, who calls himself a spiritual Quaker converted. Who is turned with the dog to the vomit, and gone in the way of Core, exalting himself, and gainsaying truth, and gone in the way of Cain, into his first birth, and turned against the second.

DID God smite thee for thy pride? Did God let thee see the false worships in the steeple-houses in the sheep's clothing? Did God let thee see the deceit of the tithes in the priests? Did God let thee see the vanity of respecting of persons, and honouring of the creatures? Wast thou turning from these things, as thou confessest, and art thou now turned to them again? By whom the way of truth comes to be evil spoken of. Is not thy latter end worse than the beginning? Will not all thy words be thy burden, and fall heavy upon thee? Thy time is not past, George Emmot.

And as for all the revilings, scoffings, and mockings in thy book, they are not worth mentioning among sober people, and raking in the dust for. Hast thou turned the grace of God into wantonness, which had taught thee to deny the ungodly lusts of the world, and would have brought thee to salvation, and so forsaken the covenant of the Lord God, the law in thy mind, and in thy heart, whereby thou might have been taught to know the Lord? But now thou art run out to teachers that may be removed into a corner, that will poison thee, and that do put some into corners and prisons, because they will not give them mainte

nance.

That which brought thee to leave off thy ribands, and vanities, and lusts of the world, was the grace of God which thou hast turned into wantonness, and published it to the nation. (See page 6.) And thou art turned to that which the grace taught thee to deny.

P. He saith, The steeple-house is a holy place, more holy than a house,' see page 8.

A. The pope hath taught thee this, and his teachers and thou are gotten into the holy place like the Pharisees, and, as says the apostle, have defiled it: and thus your and the pope's doctrine is got up since you have apostatized from the apostles, which apostles brought the Jews off the holy places thou speaks of; and while you and they have been in these holy places, you have been in the unholiness.

Henoch Howel's book, entitled, The Quaking Principles, dashed to pieces by the standing and unshaken Truth.

He hath dashed himself to pieces upon the rock, as his torn language in his book discovers. And his principles are here as followeth: a great part of which book of his is not worth mentioning, but turned back upon himself, who must bear his own burthen in the day that burns as an oven; that his works are tried, he shall remember; to the witness in him I speak.

P. He makes the scripture to be the only weapon whereby Christ overthrew the devil.' See page 3.

A. Who bruiseth his head, and was before scripture was. Yet the scripture is for correction and doctrine, furnishing the man of God in his place, and Christ the seed was before scripture was. And all them that have scripture and not Christ, cannot overcome the devil, you and the Papists doing his work; for they that overcome him, it is with the power, and those have the scriptures of truth, which the devil is out of. P. He saith, The scriptures is the hope.' See page 4.

A. Which is contrary to the scripture, which saith, Christ is the hope;' and they that had the scripture, stood against the hope, Christ. P. He saith, There is nothing in man to be spoken to, but man.' See page 5.

A. How then ministered the apostle to the spirit? And Christ spake to the spirits in prison;' and Timothy was to stir up the gift that was in him: and the spirit of the Father speaks within them, and the light shines in the heart,' which God hath commanded to shine out of darkness.' And the son of God is revealed in me,' saith the apostle. Here the scriptures are for correction of thee, and reproof of thee, who said, 'There is nothing to speak to in man, but man;' for the apostle saith, That which may be known of God is manifest in man, for God hath showed it unto them.' Rom. i. And the apostle was manifest to every one's conscience in the sight of God, and that was of God which the children disobeyed.

P. He calls that a dark delusive light.'

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A. John calls Christ the light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world,' which we speak of, so he is fighting against the foundation of God that stands sure. And thus the man is striking at the rock, and splitting himself; and is not come to John, but is as dark as the Pharisees and heathen, whose darkness cannot comprehend the light that John saith, lighteth every man that cometh into the world;" that shineth in the darkness, that is the true light. John i. chap. So you that deny the light which Christ hath enlightened every man that

cometh into the world withal, are the enemies of Christ, that would not that he should reign over you, who are by him to be slain; and so that scripture which he mentions there in page 10. stands for himself, who gets his words, and calls him Lord, but doth not do as he saith. And ye all that are in the darkness stumble at the scriptures, who see not the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world."

P. He saith, They that deny the honour of men, are witches and wizards,' page 14.

A. Wilt thou say that Mordecai was a wizard, and had a familiar spirit, that would not bow to Haman? And the apostle found fault with them that worshipped the creature more than the Creator, who is God blessed for ever. And all the familiar spirits and wizards fell down and worshipped Nebuchadnezzar's image, while Daniel could not bend to their image nor inventions.

P. And again thou saith, "They that love God, and love Christ, keep his commandments.' See page 14.

A. And thou art bringing many scriptures to oppose the commands of Christ, who saith, 'Be ye not of men called master.' So thou art seen not to be of the spirit of Christ, but the spirit that is gone out into the world, that is, antichrist, and opposeth his doctrine who is the end of the prophets, and was before Abraham was; and so hast given judgment of thyself, that thou neither lovest God nor Christ.

P. And he here accuseth Paul, and saith, Paul saith, he is not perfect.'

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A. When Paul saith, 'As many of us as are perfect, are thus minded,' and brings himself in the number; and speaks wisdom among them that are perfect,' page 15.

John Timpson's book, called, The Quakers' Apostacy from the perfect rule of the Scriptures discovered.'

A true title is this, to his book, of his own condition, as his book doth witness himself in the apostacy, whose work is to oppose the light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world,' that John bore witness of. So opposing the covenant of God, of life, and peace, and the foundation of God which stands sure, Christ Jesus, he may as well say nothing, or do nothing. But the stone is set upon his head, and the foundation of God is laid, witnessed by the prophets, Christ, and the apostles; and the scriptures are owned by them in scorn called Quakers, and the light they speak of, who are come out of the apostacy, and so from among the apostates. And as for the lies and slan

ders in his book, they are not worth mentioning, but they shall turn upon his own head, whose immodesty hath discovered them.

P. In his preface to the reader, he saith, It is an expression of a dark, deluded mind, to say that God is not distinguished from the saints.'

A. But God and Christ are in the saints, and dwell in them, and walk in them; and he in whom Christ is not is a reprobate, and out of the apostle's doctrine.

P. He saith, we have broken the everlasting covenant of God.'

A. Because we own the teaching of God by his spirit, and the light which doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world, which is the covenant of God.

P. He saith, The scriptures is the rule of life.' See page 4.

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A. Contrary to Christ, who said, the spirit should lead them into all truth.' And they that are the sons of God, are led by the spirit of God.' And the churches were to hear what the spirit saith, for the spirit led them to speak forth scripture.

P. He saith, It is a contradiction, and a confused senseless thing, to preach the word of faith in the mouth, and in the heart.' See page 6. Again he saith, Most senseless is this profession of Christ in the mouth, and believing in him with the heart, God that made all things.' These are his words, page 8.

A. It is not a senseless profession to preach the word of faith in the heart, and in the mouth; and to say, 'God will dwell in you,' and the word is in the heart, and in the mouth.' The word is God; and thou art senseless and fallen into confusion, in the contradiction, out of the apostle's doctrine; for the apostle saith, Christ in you,' and 'with the mouth confession is made to salvation.'

P. And he calls it a notion, to say that Christ lighteth all, and that therefore the light is Christ.'

A. So here he is kicking and spurning against the light, Christ, 'that lighteth every man that cometh into the world,' which is the rock, the foundation of God, the corner stone, which is fallen upon thy head, and all are in the notion that are out of it.

P. He scoffs at the Quakers, because they say, they have the word of God in them.'

A. Christ's name is called the word of God.'

P. He saith, God blessing or blasting his own word to some, according to the different ends intended by himself." See page 9.

A. Now the word of God is not blasted: God never blasts his own word, but it is they that disobey the word that are blasted. For the word of God doth its service, and accomplisheth the end which it goeth forth for, and doth not return in vain, And it is the sword of the spirit; and that is not blasted. It is a hammer and a fire,' and it lives

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and endures for ever. So thou art blasted, who sayst, God blasts his own word,' and art to be cut down by the word of God for thy blasphemy.

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P. He saith, The Quakers are deceivers,' because we say that Christ is not in outward observations and forms.' And John Bunyan saith, that he is distinct from the saints,' and would have him in the forms, &c. See page 13.

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A. We say he hath triumphed over the ordinances, and blotted them out, and they are not to be touched; and the saints have Christ in them, who is the end of outward forms, and thou art deceived, who thinks to find the living among the dead; and Bunyan is deceived, who said, 'He is distinct [separate] from the saints;' and so you are a company of pitiful teachers.

P. He saith, Every true christian doth believe that the holy scriptures alone are to be the object of faith,' &c. page 17.

A. So he hath thrown out God the giver of them, and Christ the author of them; for many have the scriptures, and deny Christ the author and object of faith.

P. He asketh, Did you ever read of law and testimony in the heart?"

&c. See page 18.

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A. Yea, God saith, I will write my law in their hearts.' was in David's heart; the law was in the apostle's heart. timony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy,' and that is in the heart. See Heb. viii. Rev. xix. 10.

P. He saith, The covenant of God is not to all in the church of Christ.' See page 19.

A. Which is contrary to the scriptures, for where the church is, there is the covenant, the head Christ Jesus. And God saith, I will give him for a covenant to the Gentiles;' those are the heathen. And ‹ I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;' and these are called the people of God. And therefore thou art in the fall, in ignorance, and a man without understanding, and affirms thou dost not know what; and silence would become thee better than to publish thy shame in print, for they are not in the church of God, that are not in the covenant of God.

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P. And he saith, The scripture is the sure and perfect rule.' See page 20.

A. The scripture saith, Christ is the bishop of the soul; and God hath all souls in his hand. And many have scriptures, but the bishop. of their souls they know not, but they remain in death, and the life they want that gave them forth, and so are all on heaps about the scripture one with another, and calling them the rule; but the spirit of God that led them to speak forth the scriptures, was the rule to the saints

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