THE MALICE OF THE Independent-Agent AGAIN REBUKED, And his Falsehood Detected; Chief about the Man Christ Jesus; in Reply to his Answer to a Sheet, Entitled, The Independent-Agent.  His Ly●s shall not so effect it, Jer. 48. 10. 
SInce that William Haworth (an Independent-Guide) hath pretended he was encouraged to print against us, and that we might well say, that we have all this while waged War not only with single W. H. but with all the Independent Party in England; and that be need not fear but that he shall have their Prayers and Encouragement to stand by him, etc. in his Book entit. J●s. Naz. p. 38, 39  
Thus eminent, thus popular, thus potent an Agent and Representative of all the Independent Party has W. H. rendered himself, which if true, their Cause must needs be concluded in him, either to stand or fall with him. But being closely urged in our last sheet against him, To produce his Deputation for this his undertaking against us under the hands of some of the chief Pastors of the Independent Congregations, or otherwise we shall absolutely look upon his Work as the Fruit of his own silly Presumption and Usurpation: as we had cause so to do since he bragged so loud, and so lively undertook to personate all the Independent Party in England. But instead of producing such Deputation, he gives us this put off, viz. My Deputation for this Work is from the Word of Christ, Jud. 3. I need no other Deputation, p. 8. of his sheet Answer.  
Whereas any Counterfeit may pretend the same from others Lines; an immediate Mission he pretends not for his Work against us; he comes off after a sorry and beggarly manner here; what's this to his approbation from his honourable Party, the Independents, whom he has taken on him to represent and personate? but we thought they were wiser than to trust their Cause in his Hands or Management; therefore how plain is it, that his Work against us in his several Books and Pamphlets, is a Fruit of his own silly presumption and usurpation, and that he is but a Counterfeit Agent, who appears to represent such an honourable Party, as he calls them, and not so much as two or three of those most honourable among them dare trust him with their Cause, or adventure to own him in print; 'tis probable the wiser sort of them also look upon Him to be a presumptuous Busybody, except some of his prejudiced Hearers, Benefactors, and such like.  
Note also, that we referred him for a more full Answer (to the Substance of his Book) than we have given about Christ's manhood, entitled, The Way Cast Up, etc. by George Keith: But this he takes no notice of, but proceeds to cover himself with his former Falsehoods and Reiterations of Matters already answered.  
To make his Independent Cause seem very credible, he gives us this proffer, viz. If the Independents please to take cognizance of the Debate, I dare appeal to them, pag. 1. What a wonderful Hazard this man dares run! that he dares adventure to appeal to his Own Party! It seems he has far more Confidence in them then they have in him, in that hitherto they dare not so far trust him as to allow him a Deputation, or vindicate his Work in Print, he is left to shift for himself; only he would make us ●elieve, he has them all on his side, because of his owning their Savoy Confession, whenas he has writ far more against the Quakers then that comes to in his several Books and Pamphlets, containing many false Doctrines, Contradictions, Slanders, Abuses and Perversions, which are not in that Confession; and had he not persisted therein, we might have forborn farther taking notice thereof; but we must yet show what a bad Cause his is, that needs Lies and Slanders for its Refuge.  
And now again, as to some of those horrid Falsehoods and Blasphemies which he most falsely saith Are the Quakers Doctrines, whereof he saith, Three are culled out of Thirteen, so that Ten remain upon us still, pag. 2. as if we granted all we have not cited, which also is an implicit Untruth; for we plainly tell him (after the citation of a few of his Slanders and Reproachful Language) viz. These, with many more Slanders and Revile are dispersed throughout W. H's last Book; see Independent Agent, p. 3.  
The first of the three that he says are the Quakers Doctrines, is, That the Ordinances of the Gospel are vain and ceased. This being denied, he quotes William Penn thus, viz. I affirm, Circumcision is as much in force as Water-Baptism, and the Pascal Lamb as Bread and Wine— the Appellation Ordinances of Christ I therefore Renounce as— Inevangelical— they are— not now required, Reason against Railing, pag. 108, 109. From whence this Independent Agent concludes, viz. There is Proof enough that the Quakers Doctrine is, that the Ordinances of the Gospel are vain and ceased. Wherein his Charge and Inference is still false, even as to matter of fact; as if the Quakers did so teach concerning what are really the Ordinances of the Gospel; which is a falsely begging the Question. W. P. believes not that Water-Baptism and Bread and Wine, practised by the Anabaptists, etc. (against whom he was writing) to be Ordinances of Christ, or now required; he does not say, that the Ordinances of the Gospel or of Christ are vain and ceased, but only that these are not such. See now how W. H. has plainly belied the Quakers.  
2. His second Doctrine charged upon the Quakers is, That it was the s Devil that suffered without the Gates, etc. for proof he brings u this Certificate, viz.  
WE whose Names are subscribed do testify, that when this Question was asked Samuel Pryor a Quaker (now dwelling at Hatfield Hall in Hartfordshire, by Joseph Saward, concerning the Soul of Christ being made an Offering for Sin, whether it was God or the Devil that was made an Offering for Sin? the said Samuel Pryor answered, That it was the Devil that was made an Offering for Sin.  
Joseph Saward, Sarah Saward, Sarah Farr.  
Note here, that though they have varied in this Certificate from the words [Suffered without the Gate [first charged by W. Haworth, and instead thereof to [was made an Offering for Sin] which shows his Uncertainty and Fallacy in stating matters of fact; yet both, as stated by him and his Witnesses, being bad enough, are utterly denied by the Quakers, as falsely charged upon them. And by the way let's query of W. H. and his Witnesses about their Question, 1st, If the Question in the said Certificate be owned by the Independent Teachers, etc. as a Learned, Sound or Scriptural Question? And secondly, If the Independents do use thus to Catechise their People, viz. of the Soul of Christ being made an Offering for Sin, whether it was God or the Devil that was made an Offering for Sin? implying that the Soul of Christ (which was made an Offering for Sin, and which he poured out unto Death, etc. Isa. 53.) must needs be either God or the Devil; which is as condemnable as the Answer, which they say Samuel Pryor gave: for, to say it was the Devil, is Blasphemy; and to say it was God, is not only Unreasonable and False Doctrine, but also contraty to what W. H. has frequently said of the Soul of Christ's Manhood, as against its being turned into an Immense Deity; therefore he should have reproved Joseph Saward for his foolish and ungodly Question (seeing he own; it to be his) as well as Samuel Pryor, if guilty of such an Answer, and teach his Hearers better than thus irreverently to catechise any Persons, or to expose their Folly therein in Print, as he has done his Disciple's unsavoury Question, without Reproof. But hear what the Person accused says to clear himself, viz.  
THese are to certify all Persons concerned, that whereas William Haworth hath published in Print, that I Samuel Pryor was asked this Question by Joseph Saward, concerning the Soul of Christ being made an Offering for Sin, Whether it was God or the Devil that was made an Offering for Sin? unto which Question 'tis said that I answered, That it was the Devil that was made an Offering for Sin, subscribed Joseph Saward, Sarah Saward, Sarah Farr. Now this I affirm is a most false Accusation and wicked Slander; for never was any such Question asked me by Joseph Saward, or any other, nor did ever any such Blasphemous Words concerning the Soul of Christ proceed out of my Mouth, or enter into my Heart or Thoughts; and I am clear in the Sight of God. So the just God, that knows the Secrets of all Hearts, judge betwixt my Accusers and me in this matter.  
Samuel Pryor.  
Now hear what his Father and Brother say in this Matter, viz.  
THis is to certify all whom it may concern, that I am Father to Samuel Pryor, and that my Son was by me instructed in a Profession of Religion before he was one called a Quaker, and since that also hath been careful in reading the Scriptures; and having always lived with me, I have oftentimes discoursed with him about his Principles since he was a Quaker, and he hath been asked by me, whether he owned the Scriptures, (because he talked of a Light within him) he told me, he owned them from the beginning to the end, and that Christ which suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem was both God and Man, and that it was this Christ Jesus that was made an Offering for Sin, and not the Devil, as Joseph Saward, his Wife and Maid have wrongfully accused my Son, in saying, it was the Devil that was offered for Sin; for I never heard him speak any such words, neither do I believe he ever had such a Blasphemous Thought or Word: I myself have been a Hearer of William Haworth, and formerly had a good Opinion of him, until I found him so forward to print Lies.  
John Pryor the Elder,  
THese are to certify all whom it may concern, that I am Elder Brother to Samuel Pryor, and did live with him twenty years, and since he hath been called a Quaker I have had often Reasoning with him, and several Disputes, and he always owned Christ Jesus that suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem. And whereas Mr. Haworth hath printed an Accusation against him of Joseph Saward, and his Wife and Maid, I dare believe it is very false; for I never heard my Brother hold or speak such Principles and Blasphemous Tenants, as he is in that Certificate accused to say.  
John Pryor the Younger.  
Note that the said Samuel Pryor has come some years amongst us, called Quakers, and we never understood that ever it was his Judgement to sleight or disesteem the Sufferings of Christ for Sin, much less to speak any such contemptible words of Christ, or his Suffering, as are charged upon us concerning him; but if we could find, that he did but at unawares speak any such words as those before cited, in answer to Joseph Saward's absurd and tempting Question about the Soul of Christ, we should severely reprehend and admonish him about it; howbeit, if it had been so, 'twas no ingenuous part of W. H. or his Hearers to catch and snatch away words unadvisedly slipping from any Person upon a surprisal by a corrupt Question, and then to expose him in print to be knocked in the Head in the Streets or Highway for a Blasphemer, without first moderately enquiring into his Principle and Faith in the Matter after such words unwarily spoken; and not only so, but it must be charged as the Quakers Doctrine, how absurd and blasphemous soever: O disingenuous Persons! is this your Religion? far short of common Civility and Morality among the very Heathen.  
3. The third Doctrine charged by William Haworth upon the Quakers is most horrid, viz. That Mary was a Whore, and Christ a Bastard. And for Proof he bids us read the following Certificate, viz.  
THis is to certify all whom it may concern, that I whose Name is subscribed did hear James Naylor the Quaker say these words at York, in Contempt of Christ Jesus, viz. Mary was a Whore, and Christ a Bastard.  
William Craven.  
William Craven should have certified the time when, and in what place it was in York, and in whose Presence besides himself, that he did hear J. Naylor say these words in Contempt of Christ, and on what Occasion? he should have been plain, if he had not been conscious and afraid of being manifestly detected in this thing; for we are fully persuaded he is a False Accuser, and has most grossly belied James Naylor in this matter.  
1. Because he has written and divulged so much in his Books in Honour to Jesus Christ, according to the Scriptures.  
2. Because neither W. C. nor any other of his Brethren have given us any such Certificate against J. N. either in his Life-time, or since, for above these twenty years, until of late (many years after J. N's Death) that W. Haworth was minded through his deadly Malice to brand the People called Quakers therewith, as by telling the World, These are the Quakers Doctrines, viz. That it was the Devil that suffered without the Gates; that Mary was a Whore, and Christ a Bastard; which are so horrid and monstrous, that its with a Dread and a kind of Reluctancy that we are occasioned to recite them.  
By what follows the Reader may see how uncertain and inconsistent William Craven (who is William Haworth's Witness) is with himself, viz.  
ABout those words concerning Mary and Christ, whereof William Haworth has charged James Naylor and the People called Quakers in Print, William Craven lately told me, That James Naylor was Prisoner in York Castle when he spoke those words, and that it was about thirty years since.  
Witness H. Stout.  
Which I suppose is as true as the Story he told of a Man, who being set upon a Watch on a High Tower (fell asleep upon a great Gun) and fell down upon a Pavement, and had no hurt, and came and knocked at the Castle Door, to the Amazement of theCLOSER that were within.  
H. S.  
Something farther added to William Craven's Certificate against J. N. as to time and Place, etc.  
THese may certify, that on the 15th of the 2d month, 1678. at the House of William Rudd in Hertford, W. Craven being asked in what year James Naylor should speak those words which were charged to be spoken by him in a Certificate under William Craven's Hand in Print in William Haworth's late Sheet, he further saith, that it was between twenty six and thirty years since and that he (J. N.) was then a Prisoner in York Castle, and that he could take his Oath of the Truth hereof.  
William Rudd, Richard Thomas.  
Note. So some through Envy and Malice, or Self-Interest, will Forswear themselves (and so become perjured) to injure others by Falsehoods and Forgeries. And if William Craven should swear to his Certificate before cited, with these Circumstances of Time and Place, it would be no hard matter (if it were before a Judge of Assize) to invalidate his Testimony, and prove him a Forsworn Perjured Person to his utter Disgrace and Shame; since 1st, 'tis evident that james Naylor, the Quaker, so called (who as such a one is accused) never was Prisoner in York Castle. 2. That between twenty six and thirty years since (before the 2d Month, 1678.) he was not a Quaker that we can understand (but an Independent, and one of the more Religious and Serious sort too) much less a Prisoner in York Castle as a Quaker (between twenty six and thirty years since) for it was near the latter-end of the year 1652. that he was Prisoner at Appleby in Westmoreland, and but the Summer before in the same year came forth as a Quaker, and it was some time after his coming forth that his Mouth was opened to preach and dispute for Truth, having before that been a Member of an Independent-Society at Horbery in Yorkshire, having been an Officer under General Lambert in his Troop; vid. Saul's Errand, pag. 29. and the Narrative of his Examination, pag. 2. with the following Testimony.  
York, the 13th of the 2 d Month, 1678.  
EDward Nightingale and Thomas Wait, who served their Apprenticeships in the City of York, and both having been Housekeepers near thirty years, the said Thomas Wait being all along conversant with Prisoners that came in upon a Conscientious Account, yet neither of them ever knew james Naylor a Prisoner in York Castle. Also Judith Key, Widow, aged about Eighty Years, and hath lived in the City of York Fifty years or upwards, and near Thirty years of the time hath gone under the Name of a Quaker, and her House always at Friend's service; she affirms, that in all that time she knows that James Naylor never was a Prisoner in York Castle.  
Witness their Hands 

Thomas Wait,  
Edward Nightingale,  
Judith Key,  
John Hall.    
THis may certify all Persons to whom this present Writing shall come, that I Audery Nuns, Wife of John Nuns, formerly Wife of Thomas Bayock Gaoler of York Castle, was well acquainted with James Naylor, and to my knowledge he was never Prisoner in York Castle in all his time.  
York, this 12th of April, 78. Witness my Hand, Audery Nuns.  
THis Audery Nuns abovementioned saith, that she and her former Husband Thomas Bayock entered in the year 1651. and kept the Goal six years (and saith, she durst swear it if required: she keeps an Inn in the City) This we are Witnesses to, as also to the Certificate above.  
Edward Nightingale, Jo. Tailor, John Hall.  
See now, Reader, how we have traced and evidently detected William Craven in his Certificate, and found him false in his Evidence, to his own and his Abettor William Haworth's utter Disgrace; for publishing such a malicious Slander against James Naylor, as that Mary was a Whore, and Christ was a Bastard; and W. Haworth most wickedly charging the People called Quakers therewith, as being one of their Doctrines, for which let Shame cover this Independent Teacher, and those that take his part.  
And now to conclude, we have this further to add, appealing to our more moderate Neighbours in Hertford, who have known us many years, whether they ever apprehended us to be of so Unchristian Practices in our Conversation; for if there be such Antichristian Principles and Blasphemous Tenants held and professed by us (as William Haworth and his Adherents have wickedly scandalised us withal) they would sometime or other break forth into Unsavoury and Antichristian Practices (as Christ saith) By their Fruits you shall know them. But it doth most evidently appear now what the drift of W. H. and his Accomplices designed in their scribbling and contesting against us, that by writing and asserting Lies they may render us as odious as may be (not only to get our Nest at Hertford (as he calls it) broken up (which W. H. saith, its high time it were) but also (as much as in him lies) to render us such as assert Blasphemous Principles (because he hath gotten some Forgers to witness it against one or two Persons (all which is denied) that so our Lives and Estates might be endangered through their Malice, by casting that upon many which is unquestionably false concerning any one, as by what hath been before said doth more fully appear.  
And as for our Principles, we are still ready by the Lord's assistance to maintain them by Scripture and otherwise in Print and Testimony to all ingenuous and impartial Persons: but it seems evident it is, our Destruction he longs for, or otherwise he would not print such horrible Lies of us: Oh Wicked Wretch!  
And now hear James Naylor's own Confessions to Christ Jesus, out of his Books.  
[Possession of the Living Faith] printed about 1658. and reprinted 1664. and inserted after the Preface in the later Impression (viz.) Christ Jesus, the Immanuel, (of whose Sufferings the Scriptures declare) him alone I confess before men, for whose sake I have denied whatever was dear to me in this World, that I might win him, and be found in him, and not in myself, whose Life and Virtue I find daily manifest, etc. In the Fear of God the Father, in Honour to Jesus Christ, etc. He was a perfect Example at Jerusalem, p. 6. This Redemption I found in Christ Jesus, etc. pag. 20, 21. Concerning the Name of Christ, viz. That he sits at God's Right Hand in Heavenly Places— by his Sufferings to redeem them— and they who are gathered into this Name, hold it as a Holy Power, and DARE NOT BLASPHEME IT— Let every one that names the Name of Christ depart from Iniquity, which Name to such is Salvation, pag. 65. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, etc. That the holy Name of Christ may be glorified in you, etc. pag. 71, 74. (as printed with others of his Books.  
James Naylor's Love to the Lost, printed about the year 1655. He confesseth to the Redeemer Christ Jesus, pag. 18. The Reproach of Christ as great Riches, pag. 19 Christ honoured as Lawgiver, Judge and King, pag. 32. Christ Jesus God's Righteousness, pag. 36.— and his Son, pag. 37— to the same Spirit which raised Jesus from the Dead— all as they are baptised therein grow into one God the Father, and the Son Jesus Christ, pag. 47. Fellow Christ, pag. 50. Suffer the loss of all to witness Christ, pag. 51. God the Father hath given his Son for a Leader and Guide, p. 52. Now Israel— of them was Christ to be born, was made of a Woman under the Law, pag. 68 God the Father revealed, and his Power and God head in his Son Jesus Christ, which in him dwells, etc. pag. 70. [Thus far James Naylor.]  
Obs. Now see how contrary these serious Confessions of the Honour, Power and Glory of Jesus Christ, and his being the Son of God, etc. are to what William Haworth and William Craven have accused him; and how unlikely their Accusation is, and how it favours of a Lie and Forgery, or a gross Mistake at least against J. N.  
Also in his Vindication and Answer upon his Examination at the Sessions at Appleby, in the 11th month, 1652. in the Book entitled, Saul's Errand, pag. 25. Christ is not divided, if he be, he is no more Christ: I witness that Christ who is God and Man, etc.— separate God and Man and he is no more Christ, pag. 31. I own no other Christ but he who witnessed a good Confession before Pontius Pilate, pag. 32. This may sufficiently detect W. H. and his Reproachful Calumnies against J. N. and us about Jesus Christ.  
His Allegation for his saying, That these are the Quakers Doctrines, viz. [That it was the Devil that suffered without the Gates; and that Mary was a Whore, and Christ a Bastard] runs thus, viz. 'Tis enough for me to call those things of a Religious Concern which any Quaker writes or asserts in discourse Doctrines, while they all pretend always to be guided by one infallible Teacher, the Light Within, p. 3.  
1st, That any Quaker hath writ or asserted such Doctrine we find not; but the contrary (as before hinted) and look on't as mere Malice and Baseness so to accuse them.  
2. Set Case any one had so writ or asserted, it follows not that the whole People are chargeable therewith [as the Quakers Doctrines without exception] that's no good Consequence nor natural inference from their all pretending to be guided by the same infallible Teacher, the Light within.  
See what a rare Logician this man is! Either the Light within must be chargeable with such Doctrine against Christ and Mary, as before, or else all the Professors of it, because some pretending to it, have (if he says true) so discoursed. What gross Fallacy and false Logic is this! Whereas such an Absurdity was never the Assertion of the People called Quakers, viz. that either every one pretending to be guided by the Light Within, on distinguished by the Name [Quaker] is therefore guided by the same Light in all Discourses, or so to be owned by the said People. Therefore his general Inference is silly and groundless, as well as unjust and Fallacious. Would the Independent Congregations be thus argued against, as to be thus universally charged with all the Private Opinions or Discourses of every Independent, because they all pretend the holy Scriptures to be the Rule, as well as the Quakers do the Light of Christ within? Let them answer this Question, and see if the Reason will hold. Are they all willing thus to be concluded? If so, then  
1st, These, which are some of William Haworth's Doctrines; may be charged on all the Independents, viz. That [God] the Father poured out all his Wrath upon his Son Jesus Christ.  
2. And his Brother Powell's Doctrine, viz. That Jesus Christ was the Greatest Sinner in the World, vindicated by William Haworth.  
3. And his asserting, That Paul when a Christian counted his spiritual Obedience Loss and Dung for Christ; and that this is very good, sound, blessed and comfortable Doctrine, received by Millions of Saints in Heaven and Earth, etc.  
4. And that our own Righteousness (which the Apostle calls his own in Phil. 3. 9) consists in those Gifts and Virtues that the Spirit of God works in our Minds, and we express those outwardly, etc. [Thus far W. H.]  
Now who and how many of the Independent Teachers besides William Haworth will own and subscribe these Doctrines as Orthodox? le● them plainly answer us. If they are not generally owned by them, would they take it well to tell the World, these are the Independents Doctrines, which are so evidently impious against Jesus Christ, against the Gifts and Virtues of God's holy Spirit, and spiritual Obedience among Christians? ●ut besides his fallacious Attempts, to fasten these forecited Doctrines upon the Quakers (concerning the Virgin Mary and Christ) like a hardened wilful Person, having a Conscience seared. He persists in his general Accusations and Slanders upon Reports against that solemn Attestation that we have given to the contrary, in answer to those things before, which he has asserted to be the Quakers Doctrines, where we have said, viz. To all which in the Sight and Presence of the holy God we answer, We are certain that 'tis an abominable Slander in that General Charge upon the Quakers; and he hath most infamously abused us in this matter, in saying, These are the Quakers Doctrines, which we testify against as so gross and abominable that nothing like them hath entered into our Hearts ever to imagine, Much less to preach for Doctrine, as, That it was the Devil that suffered without the Gates; and that Mary was a Whore, and Christ a Bastard. And yet he tells the World, These are the Quakers Doctrines. What abominable Wickedness is this! thus to make infamous a People who abhor such Blasphemy, pag. 2. of our sheet Independent Agent.  
It appears that this Independent Preacher had not the Modesty to tell the World, that such and such things are reported of some among the Quakers; but such lying Reports as he has against us, he both espouseth and asserts them positively, as, These are the Quakers Doctrines, their Blasphemies; not these are reported to have been discoursed by some among them. Thus the man's Outrage, Malice and Revenge exceeds all Bounds of common Reason, Civility or Humanity, as if he were mad against us, and envied not only our being at Hertford (wishing that our Nest at Hertford were broke up, as his words are) but even our Prosperity and Being (as a People) upon Earth, as deserving to be stoned to Death by the Righteous Law of God, if it were in force, pag. 3. But 'tis much if he and his Accomplices and Abettors be not made ashamed of his Malice and Outrage ere we have done with him, if he will not study Quietness among his Neighbours, not doubting but God who is with us will rebuke his Baseness and Malice against us; who having falsely accused us from malicious and false Reports of others, Suspicions and Jealousies of his own, proceeds thus, viz.  
W. Haworth, My Thoughts are, That the Quakers no more believe Christ to be a real Man in Heaven, than I believe there is a Man in the Moon, pag. 4.  
Reply, No wonder he should harbour Evil and Unbelieving Thoughts of us, and what we have confessed to Christ's real and most glorious Manhood in the Heavens, since he is so apt to believe, assert and spread lying Reports and Slanders against us for Truths, if it were possible to destroy us from off the Face of the Earth: Such as are given up to believe and assert Lies, will disbelieve and oppose the Truth: He would have us appear bad, and therefore he'll believe no good of us. But why thinks he the Quakers do not believe Christ to be a real Man? His main and frequent Reason is, he saith, We say that the Soul of Christ is in every Saint, and that his Body is changed as to substance, pag. 5, and 7. of his Sheet. For the first he quotes the 6th page of our Testimony, where we confess Christ's Spiritual Presence with his Saints, which he dares not deny, he having confessed Christ's Soul to be his Spirit from Luke 23. 46. in his Antidote, and we have opposed his arguing against the extent of Christ's Soul (or Spirit) to the Saints on Earth, seeing he is both God and Man; his Soul or Spirit, even as Man, as Mediator, virtually and effectually (through his divine Power and Authority) extends and reaches to the Saints on Earth; and at length he is made to grant, that the Man Christ is virtually present on Earth, in his Book Jes. of Naz. p. 20. l. 7. But how can this be, that Christ's Soul should be in the Saints on Earth? for then (says he) 'tis immense, and turned into a New God, pag. 5. of his Answer. Whereas it is virtually in the Saints, through the Divine Power of the Father, being both God and Man, without destroying, annihilating or confounding the Properties of the Manhood with the Deity, or leaving his Body dead in Heaven, as has been most vainly argued by this Independent; for does the Virtue of the Vine in the Branches and Fruit leave the Vine or Root empty and dead, because it extends to every Branch?  
Besides his own Confession, viz. That the Deity perfects all good IN US, but then the Humanity is in union with it, and ACTS with it, and they must not be put asunder; and that the Deity acts in it and through it as an Organ or Instrument.  
What's more plain, then that the Deity & Manhood of Christ do act together in Union in perfecting all good in us? Does not then the Soul of Christ extend to the Saints on Earth? When will this Adversary see how he is self-condemned and confuted! For do the Deity and Manhood of Christ together act and perfect all Good IN US, and yet his Soul have no place in us, nor so much as extend to us? And what though the Manhood does not extend so far as the Deity, which is infinite, is it a good Inference, that therefore it cannot extend to Saints or Men on Earth? Are they so infinitely remote from the Man Christ Jesus their Head? But his Inferences and Arguing against us in this matter is like his concluding, that we deny the Manhood of Christ, from our confessing to the Change, Spirituality, and Glory of his Body, and the powerful extent of his Soul, and spiritual Presence to and in the Saints on Earth, which does not at all lessen the substantial Dignity, but exalt it; so that instead of denying or dissannulling the Man Christ Jesus, we magnify him more than William Haworth allows of, that is the ☞ Case.  
One great Exception that lies heavy upon our Adversary William Haworth's Argument, and which he gets not off nor answers, is his confessing Satan to be an Angel, yet but a Creature; and notwithstanding, that he is here on Earth to tempt the Saints because he is not yet bound in Hell, pag. 36. of his Jesus of Nazareth. So that still he allows Satan more Power to tempt the Saints (though in many places at once far distant) then the Man Christ to relieve them, though he be their Mediator and Head, and is touched with the feeling of their Infirmities, and succours them that are tempted, and has promised to be with his Disciples to the end of the World.  
But says William Haworth, It is the Will of God, that Satan should yet be here on Earth to tempt the Saints, he is not yet bound up in Hell.  
What then! is it the Will of God, that the heavenly MAN Christ Jesus (who is the Son of God) should remain bound in Heaven, so as not to visit and relieve his Saints or Members on Earth; nor his Soul or Spirit so much as extend to them? Has Satan more Liberty and Privilege given him of God than his dear Son Christ Jesus has? Oh miserable and uncomfortable Doctrine!  
To his arguing, That the Soul of Christ cannot be in Millions Myriad of places, no not in two places at once; for than it would be immense, turned into a New God, etc.  
He has argued better for Satan then thus. Is Satan immense then? He has placed Satan's Liberty to tempt the Saints on Earth and limiting Christ to Heaven (the mean while) upon the Will of God, Jes. Naz. pag. 36. so that his Plea of Christ's Soul or Manhood not being God or immense is now removed as no Argument either to prove it in no wise IN the Saints, or not extending to them on Earth; seeing Satan himself reacheth to many places at once; and Christ Jesus is above and greater than he. And sure the Will of God is more eminently concerned in Christ the Mediator, for the Good of Mankind, and the Consolation of the Saints in their Trials, then in Satan's tempting them. And seeing we have always believed and confessed the Immortality and entire Being's of the Souls of all other Men, it must needs be evidently unjust to accuse us with denying the Manhood of Christ, or Jesus of Nazareth, to have a Being both as to his Soul and Body, as this Adversary has frequently insinuated.  
And as for Christ's Body being changed, as to substance, which he often infers upon us, from our arguing against his asserting Christ's Body (in Heaven) to be a Natural Body, of an Earthly Substance. The Terms Natural and Earthly, as given to the Glorious Body of Christ were and are offensive to us, as well as contrary to his own confessing, that it is such a Glorious Body, that it is more bright than a Thousand Suns. So that then it must needs be a very glorious heavenly Body, which sure is not the same with Earthly (neither is Natural and Spiritual both one quality.) And we believing such a Change in the Body of Christ, we do not thereby (nor ever did) conclude, that the Body of Christ which suffered was annihilated, and that his Flesh saw Corruption. No such matter. May there not then be a wonderful Change in the Body, and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroyed? Nor does it follow from our not believing nor owning his Characters of natural and Earthly on Christ's Glorious Body, that therefore nothing of that Body remains, or is in being, as he falsely and frequently argues in his Books. For he has confessed, Christ hath a Glorious Body, and all the Saints shall have like Bodies, Phil. 3. ult. And that both his is, and theirs will be spiritual, heavenly, glorious for Qualities, pag. 29. of his Jesus of Nazareth. And grants it Angelical, Spiritual, Celestial as to Qualities, pag. 31. ibid.  
If SPIRITUAL, and HEAVENLY or CELESTIAL, etc. be Qualities, then NATURAL, and EARTHLY, and CARNAL are Qualities also. And if we must believe our Adversary when he says, Christ's Body in Heaven is very glorious, spiritual and heavenly for Qualities, yea, brighter than a Thousand Suns, than we must not believe him where he says, 'tis natural, earthly, etc. which are contrary to spiritual and heavenly. If he'll yet infer, that then there's nothing of the Substance in being, we deny his Inference, it being also contrary to his own Confession, viz. That the same Substance remains: so that it may be so wonderfully changed as to Qualities, and yet the Substance neither destroyed, lost, or nullified.  
But to wave many more of W. Haworth's Untruths and false Consequences in his Books and Sheet, take two or three Instances of his Falsehoods and Forgeries, which are very obvious in matter of fact, in the 6th and 7th pages of his Sheet touching Christ's Ascension, where he says, that When we say, the same man ascended, by ascending into HEAVEN (he says) we mean the Globe which we call the EARTH: Which is all one as to say, that by HEAVEN we mean EARTH. For proof of this notorious and most absurd Falsehood he refers the Reader to the 16th page of his last, and saith, According to our Principle there was nothing of the Man Christ to ascend.  
As if we allowed nothing of the Man Christ, either of Spirit or Body to have a Being (after his Resurrection) to ascend; a most horrid Falsehood brought to prove another such as his Book and Page quoted is stuffed with. His pretended Reason is answered elsewhere in this, viz. If the Body was changed as to Substance, etc. For though it was changed, and become more excellent, refined and glorious in the Substance, it follows not that 'twas annihilated.  
He addeth, And the humane Soul Immense.  
Another Falsehood still imposed on us in his own Unscriptural Phrase. Though Christ be God and Man in a most glorious Union and Power, yet the Manhood is not the Deity, nor the Deity the Manhood, yet inseparable in the Heavenly Man Christ, who is Lord from Heaven.  
W. H. saith, He remembers one of G. Fox 's Interpretations, that when 'tis said, he took upon him the Seed of Abraham, that Seed was the Light within. On this we asked, Where does Geo. Fox so interpret that Scripture? we do not believe he ever did so. William Haworth gives us this answer, viz. I did not say, I received it in his Books, but I Remember, etc. I have heard it, and from good hands, whether they have heard it from his Mouth, or read it in his Books, I know not— I do believe it.  
Rep. Observe how wonderful Credulous this man's Malice makes him against us, to make a direct Charge from a Report, viz. That he remembers that it was one of G. Fox's Interpretations on the Scripture cited. But now he remembers he hath heard it so REIORTED, and he does believe it. One while, he remembers it was Geo. Fox's Interpretation; another while, he believes it, as having had it from other Hands, but whose Hands he tells us not, that we may know or inquire how good: it is greatly to be questioned, whether he has not herein belied good Hands to cover his Lie against G. F. and us. But to support his Credit in this matter, he bids us, Hear Naylor interpret this thing in the very same way, Love to the Lost, Preface, viz. So to the Light within— makes for the gathering Creatures together, to that one Name and Seed wherein all the Nations of the Earth are blessed. Do but see how hard the man's put to it for a Proof to save his Credit. But how much besides the Point in two respects, 1st, as to the Person; 2dly, as to the Thing: for 1st, James Naylor is not G. Fox. 2dly, The Light of Christ within (or what proceeds from him the Root) making for the gathering Creatures together in that one Name and Seed, wherein the Nations are blessed, is not the same with saying, That Seed 
Rom. 1.  of Abraham, which according to the Flesh Christ took upon him, was the Light within; nor either of them the Interpretation of that Scripture. For that Name and Seed wherein Nations are blessed, is Christ himself. Not that the Fleshly Seed (taken by Christ) was the Light within. How miserably hath this Adversary come off! Oportet mendacem esse memorem.  
Also, where William Haworth accuseth the Quakers; Now to say, That what Paul saith in Rom. 4. 6. is contrary to what David saith in Psal. 32. 2. For this he quoteth the eighth page of our Vindication, Doct. 11. with this addition, viz. They cite the words of Romans 4. 6. and then say contrary to Psalm 32. 2. Thus (says he) they set one Scripture against another.  
Rep. Here he has committed an abominable Falsehood twice over; 1st, in his Jes. Naz. pag. 8, 9 and 2dly, in his Sheet. For in our Vindication there is no such thing, as that what Paul says, Rom. 4. 6. is contrary to Psal. 32. 2. Neither do we say, that these words cited Rom. 4. 6. are contrary to Psal. 32. 2. Nor yet do we set one Scripture against another, as he has most falsely accused us, but his own false Exposition and Perversion on David's and Paul's word; in Psalm 32. 2, and Rom. 4. 6. As where David describes the Blessedness of the Man unto whom God imputeth Righteousness without Works. What Works, says William Haworth? and than answers, Done by the Spirit surely; for such were David 's Works: see his Antidote, page 18. line 25. Whereas 'twas not David's words, but these last words of William Haworth, viz. [DON BY THE SPIRIT SURELY] (these were showed by great Characters) that we opposed to David's words, Psal. 32. 2. As to say, That God imputeth Righteousness without Works done by the Spirit; this we affirm is contrary to David in Psalm 32. 2. where the blessed Qualification of that man unto whom the Lord imputeth not Iniquity is intimated, viz. in whose Spirit there is NO Guile. Now a man's Spirit can neither be sanctified nor clear from Guile without the Work of the Spirit of God. Therefore to say that a man is imputatively Righteous or blessed of God, without any Works done in him by his Spirit, is erroneous, and directly contrary to David's Testimony in the Psalm cited; See now where the Contradiction is evidently placed by us. 'Tis between W. Haworth and the Prophet David, and not between the Apostle Paul and David.  
Another of William Haworth's Forgeries is, that William Bates saith, He is ONLY SORRY for his Weakness and Oversight in giving him any such Answer. We told him, he addeth [Only Sorry] and makes himself work on this Lye. To come off with an Excuse here, he tells us, The word [ONLY] the Printer should have put into another Character. As if another Character would make that true which is an apparent Lie, as in his saying, That William Bates (in his Retractation) saith, he is only sorry, etc. for 'twas none of his saying, nor sense of all he says in his Retractation; and neither consist in the Emphasis which a different Character may show. And William Haworth does not at all amend his matter, by saying, that William Bates mentions not any more that he is sorry for, but that he gave him such an Answer; If for nothing else, for that only. Here he makes his own implicit Consequence, to prove that William Bates said that in his Retractation which he did not say, viz. that he is ONLY SORRY, etc. which words are not there. William Haworth is a Forger in this and many more things against us then as yet we divulged. Besides, William Bates did not only acknowledge his Weakness in giving any such Answer, as is cited in his Retractation; but also clears the People called Quakers from teaching or holding any such thing to his Knowledge; and likewise from William Haworth's Reproaching them on that Occasion, as being No Christians, but Seducers, etc. which with many more False Aspersions he has cast upon us.  
Subscribed on the Behalf of Truth, ourselves, and the rest of our Friends concerned, Hertford, 3d mon. 1678. 

Henry Stout,  
Henry Sweeting,  
Richard Thomas,  
Richard Martin,  
Edward Plumsted.     

The Publication of this has been occasionally delayed; for 'twas writ not long after our Adversary's Answer came out.   

A Postscript, in Answer to William Haworth 's QVESTIONS.  
SInce that William Haworth hath been far louder in his Charge against us then in his Proofs, either from the Dispute at Barbican, London, which in his Antidote he unjustly quoted; or from any of our Writings since pretended by him for Proof, viz. That we deny the Manhood of Christ, and Jesus of Nazareth to be the Christ. But on the contrary, to discover his shortness and failure of proof, he is fain after all to Query us, and put Questions to sift us further (p. 8.) for matter against us. However, we'll adventure a brief and plain Answer.  
Question, I do but query what is become of that Flesh wherein he (i. Christ) was manifested? is that Flesh now in being? and if so, where is it, in every place, or circumscribed in Heaven?  
Answer, That Flesh saw no Corruption, but was raised from the Dead, Acts 2. 31. Christ did rise in that Body wherein he suffered, and in the same ascended into the Heavens, where the Patriarch David did not, as to his B●dy, which was in the Sepulchre, Acts 2. 29, to ver. 36. And that very Body of Christ which was raised from the dead, or that flesh which saw no Corruption, how should it but be in being? 
‖ In our Testimony for the Man Christ, pag. 7. we plainly told him our Belief, viz. That the Man Christ did neither vanish nor perish in any thing essential to him, either as to his Soul, Spirit or Body.  (that is, in that Spiritual Sense we have given) seeing he died not again, according to Rom. 6. 9, Knowing Christ being raised from the dead, dyeth no more, Death hath no more dominion over him; his dying was only as to the Body, he was put to death as concerning the Flesh, therefore the Flesh was raised from the dead. [Circumscribed] It is so far circumscribed or encompassed in the Heavens as 'tis capable of, and as is proper to it; and though it be spiritual and glorious, yet a Body, therefore not in every place where God is. [And as he has told us, It is not limited or confined to any one place or corner (as it were) of Heaven.] To be Omnipresent is only proper to God, and not to Bodies.  
Q. How do they but deny the Manhood of Christ, that say, the Body of Jesus is changed as to Substance, and his Soul is in every Saint?  
Answ. 1st, They do not deny the Manhood of Christ that say his Body is so changed, as to the quality and glory of it, that it is a spiritual, heavenly and glorious Body, in a higher state than when on Earth under Sufferings: this is no annihilating of the Body. 2dly, That his Soul doth powerfully extend to, and is in every Saint in some sense and degree; this must needs be, if it act together in union with the Deity in perfecting all good in us, as our Adversary has coufessed; as also, that it is virtually in the Saints Though we grant that it is in more fullness in himself then in us, yet of his fullness we have all received.  
Q. They own they say the real Birth, Suffering and Resurrection of Christ; but do they own bis Intercession in his Manhood as an High Priest in Heaven?  
Answ. Yes, we do. He is entered into Heaven itself to appear in the Face of God for us; yet not wholly exclusively out of the Saints. For this High Priest, who is set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens, is a Minister of the Sanctuary, and of the true Tabernacle which is with men, even with such whose Minister & Leader Christ is. And God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our Hearts, crying Abba, Father. The Spirit makes intercession with Sighs and Groans, etc.  
W. H. So that as man he is not materially here on Earth.  
Answ. An impertinent and fallacious Addition, if he own him not as man in any sense on Earth. For doth not this imply, that as Man he is immaterially on earth. If by materially he means he is not corporally on earth, as in the days of his Flesh, we grant it. But then we may not deny his being on Earth Spiritually and virtually as Man, he being the spiritual and heavenly Man, the Lord FROM Heaven, and a quickening Spirit. Else how are any on Earth quickened by him? And how did he walk in the midst of the seven Golden Candlesticks, which were the seven Churches? Rev 1.  
W. H. These are Scripture words, Acts 3. 21. Whom the Heaven must receive (or contain, the reading will bear it) until the time of the restitution of all things. Is not that [whom] the Man Christ? His Deity cannot be contained any where.  
Answ. 1st, Whom the Heaven must receive or take, it is not contain nor retain: and sometimes Heaven in the New Testament-Scriptures is put for God himself. 2. It is [time's] in the plural, viz. whom Heaven (chief respecting God that dwells therein) must receive or take until the times of the restitution (which is the reparation or reformation) of all things, spoken by the holy Prophets. Those times are the Gospel times, and the last days, wherein God is making good his Promise of the Blessing in Christ to all Nations, in turning every man that receives him from Iniquity, Acts 3. 26 So that now the last Adam or second Man is revealed from Heaven, and known to be a quickening Spirit, and the Lord FROM Heaven. That [whom] was Jesus Christ, the Heavenly Man, whom Heaven received into Glory, into a more hidden condition (when the Earth had contemned and rejected him) until those more glorious times of his Out-going and Discoveries in the latter days, for the gathering of Nations and Peoples, and blessing them, in turning them from their Iniquities. And though those Times of Restitution are begun, he who is the Restorer shall yet more fully and universally appear for the accomplishment of that his Work.  
Q. Is not Heaven a place remote from the Earth?  
Answ. Heaven is higher than the Earth, and so distinct or remote. But there is a plurality of Heavens; some more near, and some more remote: as also spiritual Heavens, as well as natural.  
Q. Is not Containing Circumscribing?  
Answ. What's contained within the compass or circumference of place, more or less, may be said to be circumscribed.  
W. H. So that as man he is not on Earth locally.  
Answ. Why is [locally] added? In what other sense then locally is Christ as man on earth? Is he not on earth spiritually as a quickening Spirit, being the Lord from heaven? even that man by whom came the Resurrection of the dead? who quickens whom he will? If in no sense this second man appear on Earth, how are any quickened by him?  
Q. Is that Restitution of all things fulfilled; or yet to come? answer plainly.  
Answ. That Restitution of all things, spoken by the Mouth of all God's Prophets is not wholly fulfilled. But both the times thereof are begun, and Jesus Christ is about and carrying on the work of restitution foretell. The Deliverer is come out of Zion, and the Restorer of Paths to dwell in is come; he is on his way: And he will yet more fully and gloriously appear to fulfil the Promises spoken of him.  
W. H. Obj. But belike they have a notion, which in time they will speak out, That Christ was Man before he was a Man, i. e. (which Penington saith) heavenly Flesh, Blood and Bones came down from Heaven, and tabernacled in that Body; That was the Man Christ that came into the Man Christ.  
Answ. Whether he has rightly cited Isaac Penington in all these words or no, is some question. What Book and Page of his they are to be found in, he tells us not. That I. P. in some Questions hath distinguished between that Flesh and Blood of Christ which came down from Heaven (which is meat and drink indeed, of an inward, spiritual & eternal nature) and the Body, Flesh or Veil, that was prepared for him, is true. And what has our Adversary to say to this? Does it thence follow, that Christ was man before he was a man? or that there are two man Christ's, one that came into the other? what absurd Nonsense would this man brand us withal? might not Christ the Son of God be the heavenly man, the mediator, before he took upon him the Body that was prepared for him? which is not a being man before he was a man, but before he was so invested, or came into that Body. Surely his saying, A Body hast thou prepared me, Heb. 10. 5. does not make him two man Christ's.   
THE END.