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A large petition being read, wherein was something against quaking and trembling.

Just. Pear. How comes it to pass that people quake and tremble? Jam. The scriptures witness the same condition in the saints formerly; as David, Daniel, Habakkuk, and divers others.

Just. Pear. Did they fall down?

Jam. Yea, some of them did so.

Coale. David said all his bones were broken, but these were whole. James. So are these now.

Coale. Moses trembled; for he saw the face of God, and all Israel. James. Did all Israel see the face of God? that crosseth the scriptures.

Coale. They saw his glory. I shall see the Lord with these eyes; putting his fingers to his eyes.

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James. They must first be made spiritual: he cannot be seen with carnal eyes, for he is a spirit; and no flesh can see God, and live.

Coale. That light by which I am justified, is a created light. James. That light by which I am justified, is not a created light. Coale. That is true.

Just. Pears. To the word: what sayst thou to the scriptures? are they the word of God?

James. They are a true declaration of the word that was in them who spoke them forth.

Higginson. Is there not a written word?

James. Where readest thou in the scriptures of a written word? The word is spiritual, not seen with carnal eyes: but as for the scriptures, they are true, and I witness them true, in measure fulfilled in me, as far as I am grown up.

Just. Pears. Why dost thou disturb the ministers in their public worship. James. I have not disturbed them in their public worships.

Just. Pears. Why dost thou speak against tithes, which are allowed by the states?

James. I meddle not with the states; I speak against them that are hirelings, as they are hirelings; those that were sent of Christ, never took tithes, nor ever sued any for wages.

Just. Pears. Dost thou think we are so beggarly as the heathens, that we cannot afford our ministers maintainance? We give them it freely.

James. They are the ministers of Christ, who abide in the doctrine of Christ.

Just. Pears. But who shall judge? how shall we know them?

James. By their fruits you shall know them; they that abide not in the doctrine of Christ, make it appear they are not the ministers of Christ. Just. Pears. That is true.

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neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. Thou hast delivered my soul out of death: bless the Lord, my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name.' How darest thou profess the scriptures, and the holy men of God's conditions, which were raised and brought out of death; and if any witness the holy men of God's condition, thou persecutest them? O thou blind hypocrite! here thou showest thou never sawest hell's mouth yet, therefore thou never criedst in hell yet. O. 4. ‘That he was come to the infinite company of the first born, and the spirits of just men made perfect.'

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A. Paul said, (who was a minister of God,) but ye are come to Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven; unto God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. Paul was a minister of Jesus Christ by the will of God,' who encouraged the saints who were brought hither; but thou now persccutest them, and art a witness against them that confess they are brought hither; here thou showest, thou hast the spirit of error, openly: and art no minister of God, no, not of the letter; but art against the letter as it speaks, persecuting them that have the life of it.

O. 5. That he had heard the last trumpet sound, and seen the new Jerusalem.

A. Here thou showest forth thy spite and venom: if John was here, which saw the great city and holy Jerusalem descend out of heaven from God (John said, I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, come down. from God out of heaven) thou wouldst be a witness against him; and thou showest thyself in the generation that were ever persecutors, slanderers, and opposers of the power of truth. Where the same spirit is that was in John, he sees these things now, as he did then, but where the same spirit is not, which thou showest thou hast not, but a contrary spirit that persecutes them which do see those things-this is as a dog to bite and devour. John saw the trumpet sound, which shows thou art not come to the first. Blow the trumpet in Sion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble. Here be thou a witness against thyself, that thou art a witness against the truth, and in the generation of them that ever slew the righteous seed. G. 6. That John Lawson said he had God face to face.

A. Here thou showest thyself to be a witness against them that know God, and makest thyself manifest to be a heathen: for all are heathens that do not know God; and no man knoweth God, saving he that is born of God; and who are born of God, are owners of the truth, and not against it, but against the deceit. Jacob said, I have seen God face to face. Isaiah said, mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of VOL. III.

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Answer to Samuel Eaton's book, called
• The Quakers Confuted,' Page 34
Answer to John Bunyan, Rich. Spence-
ley, John Burton, and John Child's book,
called A Vindication of a book called
Some Gospel Truths Opened,'
44
Answer to Doctor Glisson's paper con-
cerning James Parnel's death,
53
Answer to George Emmot, who calls
himself a spiritual Quaker converted, 54
Answer to Enoch Howet's book, called
"The Quaking Principles dashed to Pieces,'
55

called "The Holy Scripture Clearing it-
self from Scandals,'

Answer to Ralph Farmer's book, called
Satan Enthroned in his Chair,' &c. 154
Answer to Magnus Byne's book, called
The Scornful Quakers Answered,' 156

Answer to Robert Simpson, Robert Pur-
nil, John Andrews, Thomas Ewen, Brian
Hanson, and Richard Moon's book, called
The Church of Christ in Bristol, recover-
ing her Veil,'

Answer to Jonathan Clapham and Wil-
liam Jenkin's book, called 'A Discovery of
the Quakers' Doctrine to the Protector,'

174

Answer to John Timpson's book, called
'The Quakers' Apostacy from the perfect
rule of the Scriptures discovered,' 56 Answer to the book of William Thomas,
Answer to Richard Baxter's book, called of Ubly, called a Vindication of the Scrip-
'The Quakers' Catechism,'
tures and Ministers.
187

74
Answer to a book, called 'The Quaking
Mountebank,' &c.

80

Answer to Ellis Bradshawe's book, call-
ed the Quakers' Whitest Devil,' 81
Answer to Francis Blake's book, called
'Choice Collections of Scripture, against
the Practice of the Quakers,' &c.

82
Answer to Luke Fawne, Samuel Galli-
brand, Joshua Kirton, John Rothwell, Tho-
mas Underhill, and Nathaniel Web's book,
called 'A Second Beacon Fired,'

83

85

Answer to John Toldervie's book, called
The Foot out of the Snare,'
Answer to Thomas Collier's book, call-
ed 'The Looking-Glass for Quakers,' 88
Answer to John Deacon's book, called
'A Public Discovery of a Secret Deceit,'
92

Answer to George Willington's book,
called 'The Gadding Tribe Reproved, 98
Answer to Joshua Miller's book, called
'Anti-Christ in Man the Greatest Idol,' 101
Answer to Ralph Hall's book, called the
Quakers' Principles Quaking,' 106
Answer to Richard Baxter's book, called
'A Second Sheet to the Ministry, justifying
our call against the Quakers,' &c.

111

114

Answer to T. Higginson's book, called
The Testimony of the True Jesus,'
Answer to Jeremiah' Ives' book, called
'Innocency above Impudency,' &c.

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Answer to Giles Firmin's book, called
Stablishing against Shaking,'

ib.

Answer to Thomas Collier's book, called
'A Dialogue between a Minister of the
Gospel and an inquiring Christian,' 210

Answer to John Billingsly's book, called
Strong Comforts for Weak Christians,' 215
Answer to Immanuel Bourn's book,
called A Defence of the Scriptures, and
the Holy Spirit speaking in them,' 220
Answer to Thomas More's book, called,
'A Defence against the Poison of Satan's
Design,'
224
Answer to Thomas More's book, called
'An Antidote,' &c.
229

Answer to Matthew Caffin's book, called
'The Deceiving Quaker Discovered,' 239
Answer to William Jeffries' book, called
'Antichrist Made Known,'

246

Answer to the agreement of fifty-eight
ministers of Christ, (as they call them-
selves,) in the county of Worcester, and
parts adjacent,

249

254

Answer to John Stalham's book, called
The Reviler Rebuked,'
Answer to Ralph Farmer's book, called
124The Great Mystery of Godliness and Un-
godliness,'
288

Answer to Francis Harris' book, called
"Queries to the Quakers,' &c.

130

Answer to Francis Higginson's book,
called, 'A Brief Relation of the Religion of
the Northern Quakers,'

140

Answer to Edward Boules' book, called
The Duty and Danger of Swearing
Opened,'

297
Answer to Samuel Hamond's book,
called The Quaker's House built on the
Sands,'
303

Answer to Priest Bennet's 'Looking-
310

132
Answer to Francis Fulwood's book, call-
ed 'A True Relation of a Dispute,'
Answer to the book of Thomas Weld,
Richard Prideaux, Samuel Hammond, Wil-
liam Cole, and Wm. Durant, Ministers of
Newcastle, called 'The Perfect Pharisee,'The Seventh-day Sabbath,'
143 Answer to John Burton's and John Bun-

glass,'

Answer to Thomas Tillam's book, called
314

Answer so the book of Thomas Pollard, yan's book, called 'Some Gospel Truths
a member of the church about Litchfield, Opened,'

337

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