of teachers, arming yourselves, and making lies your refuge against them that are come to the anointing, which you are all gadded from, giving judgment against yourselves, who will not have people to own the light Christ Jesus, who doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world.' And none own the anointing within, who own not the light, which you who have apostatized from the apostles deny. And the Quakers are risen up in the night of apostacy, and discover you all what you are in, and what you went from, and what hath been lost since the days of the apostles. And an earthquake is coming upon you that hath not been since the foundation of the world, out of which earthquake we are come, into that which cannot be shaken. The Quakers are not the gadding tribe, they have the anointing in them, and as it shall teach them, they shall abide in the son of God and in the Father.

But it is manifest that thou and the whole world are gadded from the anointing within you which should teach you, and so are turned against the saints and the Lamb. And have been the harlots, and the mouths of the false prophet, blaspheming God in his tabernacle, and have drunk the blood of the saints, and martyrs, and prophets, and made war against the saints to overcome them, and have overcome them; but the Lamb and the saints shall get the victory.

P. And thou tells us of a creed and Catholic faith, commonly called the apostles' creed, which creed and Catholic faith, except a man believe, he cannot be saved,' &c. See page 16.

A. Who taught thee all this language? Where did the apostles teach thee any such thing as the Catholic creed?' The apostle teacheth us no such thing as a Catholic creed. Didst thou not learn this of the pope who apostatized from the apostles?

And the twelve apostles taught thee no such doctrine as the Catholic creed, and thou sayst, they signed it. Nay, the pope signs thee that creed, and the sacraments; thou hast the pope's signature. But we are come to the foundation of God, which was before the pope was, and we gad not. Thou shouldst not tell lies, and say they gad that come unto God, the elect of God; God's elect, Christ the light, was the salvation before thou and the pope were.

P. And thou say st, Doth any forsake the ministry to follow a new light,' &c. See page 17.

A. That ministry that deny the light that enlightens every man that cometh into the world, (as this gadding tribe of ministers, and profes. sors, have done and do since the days of the apostle,) deny the foundation of God. The light we own which every man that cometh into the world is enlightened withal, which is the foundation of God; and deny them to be any ministers of Christ, that deny the light that en

lighteneth every man that cometh into the world, and his ministers we

own.

P. And thou sayst, Do not forsake the temple and truth of God, to follow the bleating of Jeroboam's calves in Dan and Bethel,' &c.

A. Now whither art thou gadded? Art thou not gadded in this from the apostles' doctrine, to the temple which the apostles brought the people off from? where is thy light now? How ownest thou Christ, who keepest people to the temple? and tellest them of Jeroboam's calves in Dan and Bethel? Where is there any people gadding thither? Hast thou lost thy reason and sobriety, to publish thy madness to the nation? And did not Christ say the temple should be thrown down? Matt. xxiv. And Stephen witnessed against it, and was stoned to death: and thou art calling people to it; and your Popish mass-house, which you call your temple, and which you have set up since the days of the apostles, is like unto the idol set up at Dan and Bethel.

P. And he saith your ancient divines are them that have entered in at the door,' &c. See page 20.

A. How can you and your ancient divines enter in at the door, when you deny the light that enlightens every man that comes into the world, which is Christ the door? Therefore it makes you to gad up and down without light, in the dark. Now is the stone fallen upon you, and the rock you are splitting yourselves against. Now shall the saints know the song of the lamb, rejoicing over the beast and the false prophets. P. He saith, The written word the ingrafted is able to save the soul,' &c. See page 21.

A. The ingrafted word is able to save the soul, but the letter, the written words, are not. The Pharisees had the written words, but stood against the saviour of the soul. And how art thou gadded here in thy judgment? How art thou like to own the word that saves the soul, when thou denies the light?

P. He is stirring up the magistrate to persecute, his own mouth condemns him, who pretends love,' &c.

A. And thou that gads abroad in thy mind to stir up the magistrate to prosecute, art not in the life of the apostles, nor Christ, but in the spirit of the false prophets, and antichrists, and one in that which all persecutors come from, out of the truth.

P. Again thou say st, we ought not to judge,' &c. See page 23. A. Let all people that read thy gadding tribe, see if thou dost not judge, and so comest under judgment, by thy own words. And the time was come to the apostles when they went on to the 'eternal judgment,' which we own. But this is not for such as are crying up temples and persecutors, nor stumbling at the light: your measures are all

too short for this, your whole gadding tribe that are out of the light that every man is enlightened with that comes into the world.

P. Again thou sayst, 'The apostles were to call the ministers of Christ immediately, and the immediate call from God is not enough,' &c. See page 24.

A. So thou hast set up the mediate before the immediate, and judgest the immediate not sufficient. But thou art corrected by the scriptures, and the apostle corrects thee, who saith, I received it not of man, nor by man;' and bade others look at Jesus the author of their faith. And the apostle does not say that they were to call men mediately, he doth not teach such doctrine as that their ministers were called mediately, nor did he send them forth so, but it is thou that art gadded from the counsel of God. And the apostle confutes thee, who said he was an apostle not of men nor by men,' and all the apostles went forth by the immediate power of God, and the church of God was gathered by the same power. But you are the mediate, fallen from the apostles, and made by the will of men; but now with the immediate you are all comprehended.

P. And thou brings many scriptures to oppose Christ's commands, and the apostles' doctrine, which say, 'Be ye not of men called master,' &c. See page 28. For thou sayst, Christ doth not mean as he speaks: for thou sayst the meaning is not, that is unlawful to be called master.' A. Here thou showest whither thou art gadded: one that teaches to break Christ's commands. But the wo that is denounced in the same chapter where the command is, belongs to thee. So an antichrist that teacheth to deny Christ's commands, and despiseth his authority; and one that calls him Lord, and doth not the thing that he commands. But it is not such that enter into the kingdom: and this thou shalt witness at last when thy words fall heavy upon thee.

Joshua Miller's book called, Antichrist in man the greatest idol.'

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Which is a fit title for himself; who calls that antichrist, and mystery Babylon, that justifies within; contrary to the apostle's doctrine who saith, we are justified by faith in Christ Jesus,' which is in the heart. As for the rest of his slanders and lies in his book, they are not worth mentioning, but these that follow.

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P. He calls them devout men' that denied the light that hath enlightened every man that cometh into the world,' &c.

He saith, The Quakers are the saddest and most deplorable spectacles of revolted professors that ever I heard or read of, since my knowledge of them,' &c. See page 2.

A. The Quakers have revolted from you apostates that are inwardly VOL. III.

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ravened, as the converted Jews did that were turned to Christ; for the Jews revolted from the temple and the priests, and turned to Christ, from the other Jews, and owned the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world, which you revolters deny, that have reigned since the days of the apostles, and so are ignorant what we are come to, and the apostles were in, and that which was before you and they were.

P. He saith, The angels of light, which are holy and without sin, may be devils,' &c. See page 3.

A. The devil fell from the light, from the holiness, and so he cannot transform into that. And all holiness which is not in the light, is such as the Pharisees were in, and the whole world, and is condemned with the light.

P. He saith, Salvation by the light within is cursed,' &c. See page 6.

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A. Contrary to the apostle, who saith, the light that shineth in the heart gives the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus.' And contrary to John, who saith, 'every man that cometh into the world is enlightened;' and as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God.' And the power of God is the gospel of salvation to every one that believes in the light; and he that believeth in the light hath the witness in himself. And the apostle turned them from the darkness to the light. And the word of faith that saves the soul, was in their hearts; and there were the glad tidings, the gospel. And priest Shaw saith, 'The gospel is the four books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.' But the apostle saith it is the power of God; and saith, many have the form, but deny the power.' So now here himself he hath cursed; so this same man is a curser, as the Papists are. Both he and they are found out of the doctrine of Christ and the apostles, who say, 'Bless and curse not.' And the Scotch priests likewise are cursers, as in the Scotch principles' ye may see; and no one knows salvation but by the light within, which doth enlighten. every man that cometh into the world, which is the salvation to the ends of the earth.

P. And he calls his steeple-house St. Andrews.' See page 7. A. Never did prophets nor apostles give such names to houses, but the pope, who is his teacher.

P. He saith, 'It is an error to say, that the light which every one hath that cometh into the world, is sufficient to salvation, without the help of any other means or discovery,' &c. See page 9.

A. Contrary to Christ, who brought the Jews off from all other helps to himself, and said, Believe in the light while ye have the light;' and, that they that believed in the light should not abide in darkness.' And 'no man cometh to the Father but by me,' saith Christ.

For he was the way, the truth, the light in men, and the life, and there is no salvation by any other name but by him. And none know the blood of Christ which cleanseth, and the offering for the sins of the whole world, but with the light which cometh from Christ Jesus, who is sufficient, who is the salvation to the ends of the earth; so he is the only means without any other help. And as the anointing in people doth teach people, they shall continue in Christ: and as they walk in the light as he is in the light, they shall have fellowship with the Father, from whence all helps come; and Christ will dwell in man, and walk in man, and what need have they any more helps?

P. He saith, It is an error to say, we are justified by that which Christ doth in us,' &c. See page 9.

A. Contrary to the apostle, who saith, We are justified by faith in his blood;' and the faith is in the heart, and the blood is in the heart that purifies it, and held in a pure conscience. And the word of faith is within. Rom. x. And faith gives victory over the world, and that which gives victory, justifies. And Christ is within, who is justification, and sanctification, and condemnation; each of these is found within; and thou art in the error, and not fit to talk of these things, which thou understandest not.

P. Again he saith, It is an error (if not damnable) to say Christ is the means, and that there is no other means of salvation,' &c. See page 13.

A. And Christ saith, No man cometh unto the Father but by me;' and he is able to save to the utmost. And he shall be my salvation to the ends of the earth,' saith the Lord. And saith the apostle, 'God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himself." And he that hath the son of God hath life,' and the Father and the son are one, and there is no salvation in any other.

P. He saith, That Christ gives light to no man under that name but believers,' &c. See page 13.

A. Contrary to John, who saith, he doth enlighten every man that comes into the world,' that all might believe through the light. And contrary to Christ's own words, who bid them believe in the light while they had it; and he that did not believe was condemned already; and he that did believe, had the witness in himself.

P. He saith, 'It flatly contradicts the whole scripture, to say, that the light wherewith Christ hath enlightened every man, &c. will save,' &c. See page 14.

A. God saith, I will give him for a covenant, for a light to the Gentiles, and new covenant to the house of Israel and Judah; and he shall be my salvation to the ends of the earth;' and such believing in it are saved, and not believing are condemned.

P. The wise heathen philosophers had a greater measure of light in