Marginal Antidotes, TO BE Affixed over against the lines of R. H. and E. B. their PAMPHLET, ENTITLED, The Rebukes of a Reviler. Written and Prescribed by JOHN STALHAM of Terling. PROV. 26.4, 5. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. LONDON, Printed for Edward Brewster, and are to be sold at his shop at the Sign of the Crane in St. Paul's Churchyard 1657. Marginal Antidotes, etc. Their Pamphlet thus Prefaceth. page 3. [WHereas the ancient of days hath appeared, etc.] A transforming mist, to amaze the simple Reader pag. 3. 4. 5. 6. as afterwards, pag. 18, 19, 20. Pag. 7. [shamelessly styling the pure light of Christ, perverse principle, and selfe-adorning-light] Quakers adore their own light, and magnify natural light, as if it were Gospel-saving light: this is from the perverse principle of their fleshly wisdom. Pag. 8. [O! How fain would J. S. sinful indeed] In the sense that Regenerate men have acknowledged. see Pag. 149. of my Book, entitled, The Reviler rebuked. Ibid, [Whether he means any one may not, (I determine not) strike them Corporally, etc.] Not any but those authorized, and that either Se defendendo, or for a criminal offence. Pag. 9 [Would wickedly make men believe, that these men's Tenants, sc. the Quaker's: are as Reprobate stuff as the Jesuits] Some of their Tenants, I said ' witness their Doctrine of Justification. [Their blasphemies as horrid as the Popish Parasites.] Witness Jam. Nayler and his followers. Pag. 10. [Would have some Stigmatised] For their crimes (I said, not bare opinions) which are notorious, and gross seandalous practices. Ibid. [Who art a reviler of the light of Christ, calling it perverse Principle] The liberty these men take to wrest, add, or detract, is hereby evident; for, I never called the light of Christ perverse Principle, but (as above) in that they set up something in the room, of Christ. i e. themselves and their common candlelight of reason, which they worship and adore (as some have of old the light of the Firmament) this self-adoring light is their perverse Principle. Pag. 11. [In the sight of his Church, that his shame may not appear before them] The Church here is ashamed of your Doctrines and walkings. Pag. 12. [All are Reprobates, but such in whom Christ is within them] Then all the Elect are Reprobates before Conversion. Ibid. [I ask a proof of this, sc. Christ's blessing of Infant-Baptisme] Many thousands have & will seal unto it. Pag. 13. [He seems to charge the Scripture with false Translations] The Scripture in the true sense, is the believers Rule. True Translations may vary in words, yet not Deviate from the true sense. Pag. 14. [His wickedness appears by reproaching, and reviling dead men, such as H. N. Jacob B. W. E.] This is no judgement (in my Epistle) passed upon the men, but upon and according to their Doctrines. Pag. 15. [Shall the honest Reader receive this for truth, that the light of Christ Jesus is a perverse Principle] This the fifth time the Answerer hath falsified my sense and words, as to this one passage. See Antidote upon his page 7. and 10. Ibid. [We demand what these Jesuitical plots and designs are, we do carry on] They are your scattering seeds of Popery, and fomenting seeds of division among Protestants and Puritans in profession, to carry them more and more back to Babylon. Pag. 16. [We do not allow that J. S. be our Interpreter] Your words compared, one Book, and page with another, and all examined by Scripture, interpret themselves. which was J. S. his faithfulness to discover how contradictious they are. Ibid. [His judgement is but out of his old lying heart] This is their charity (if we confess we have something of the old man in us) to judge that all we writ and speak, proceed from the old principle, and nothing from the new creature. Pag. 17. [Not in the light of the Spirit, do we in any one particular insisted upon by him, contradict the Scripture.] You do not see your contradictions, through want of Spiritual light, and eyes together. Ibid. [Out of J. S. deceitful heart] * I shall not retort, but pray for all simple Readers, and Revilers. Pag. [18, 19 For as much as many have been moved] Another transforming mist, and a bold, but feigned imitation of Luke Chap. 1.1. etc. Pag. 20. [And now as the Prophet Joel Prophesied, is it come and coming to pass, Joel, 2 2, 3, 4. 10, 11.] An abuse of the Prophet Joel, who is literally to be understood in the place quoted, and Chap. 2. to be Expounded by Chap. 1. ver. 3.6.12. etc. Pag. 21. [The ground in him, and the heart, out of which this abundance of words in his book proceeds, is the root of all error] see 2d Animadversion upon pag. 16. Ibid. [Yet the root of all sin is in him, and seen by him not mortified] Because Paul, said there dwelled no good thing in his flesh, did he therefore writ no truth in his Epistles? It followeth as well as these men's reasoning. An old Heart and a new, are both at the same time; not reigning, but the old remaining in part, and the new reigning over the old, in the same Christian. See 113. 114. pages of my Book, Pag. 22. [Such who be in the state as J. S. confesseth he is] J. S. said not that he is in the state of sin, but that sin (the root of every sin) is in him, and others during the state of natural Life. Pag. 23. [The Letter taken strictly, being legal, etc. The Spirit is given by this] Not by this, but by that part of the word which is the Gospel promise. See my Book pag, 4. Yet the Spirit worketh by the Legal Letter, see how page 6. Pag. 24. [Though J. S. say, that not one man in the World knows God to be God, till he finds him in the Scripture, If he had so said, it were to be taken in, the sense given in my Book, pag. 66. but my words are to be read as they are pag. 69. Not one man etc. knows him (speaking of Christ) to be God, till he finds him in the Scripture. John 1.45. Pag. 25. [Again, I. S. saith, that the Authority of the Scriptures is owned among the Jews to this day] The Authority of Moses and the Prophets. I only speak of. see my 13. page. Ibid. [J. S. saith, as deep things as the Spirit hath revealed, they are all in the Scripture. Answer, Nay.] As Gold pieces of 10. and 20. ● are in the gold One. Ibid. [There was things revealed which was unutterable, and many things written which is not in the Scriptures, as the Book of Nathan the Prophet. etc. we know by Scripture the e was such things revealed, and such Books written. see my 17. & 18. with 67. pages. Pag. 26. [Why doth he not as well hear witness that Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans was read as the Word of the Lord amongst the Colossians?] Because he is no Jesuit, nor one that would be wise above what is written. Ib. [Why doth he not read to his people that which was written to the Laodiceans?] Paul speaks not of any Epistle that himself, or any other (appointed as Pen men of Scripture) did write to the Laodiceans, but of one sent from Laodicea. Let the deluded read Colos. 4.16. once more. Pag. 27. [We know John's Testimony is true, Joh. 21.25.] John meaneth nor, that there was any substantial truth necessary to be known to salvation, which is not revealed in the written Word, but that the Spirit ordered the copious mysteries of the Gospel (with respect unto our infirmity) to be contracted within a narrow compass of lines. R. H. in this and former pag. doth but murmur and object, as the popish Rhemists, The Heretics will needs have all in Scripture. Pag. 28. [Working all their works in them, and for them according to the Scriptures.] Agreed, in true Scripture-sens. Ibid. [See if the sword of the Spirit was ever in the Devil's mouth.] The Devil takes up the sword without the Spirits aim and edge. Pag. 29. [By this Scripture Prov. 22.19, 20, 21. the Lord is made the ground of faith, and not the letter.] See the true explanation of this Scripture in my 32 page. Page 31. [He hear adding his own, etc.] R. F. sure meaneth what he speaks of, viz. Every man's light, and this he saith is pure: Can it be pure and not purify, and renew? Ib. [We never have said, that every man's judgement is renewed with the light.] What then is that which G. F. hath prompted to his Novices in his Catechism? pag. 22. which light (speaking of every man's light, if owned) gives them the knowledge of the glory of God, and brings them to true judgement. Ib. & Pag. 32. [2 Pet. 1.20. To this J. S. adds, not heart-prophesie, nor breast-prophesie.] Arising and residing only in the mind, but written down in books, etc. J. S. added also; As the Apostle excludes not heart-prophesie, so he includes expressly Scripture-prophesie. Ibid. [The Apostle did not bid them wait till the Daystar did arise in the Scriptures.] No, but till the Daystar did arise in their minds, by the reading and heeding of the Scriptures, that's his plain meaning. Pag. 33. [And in another translation saith, that he is the express figure of the Father's substance.] The Popish English Rhemists. Ib. [Till he find the word three Persons, and Trinity in the Scriptures, let him own his own rule to judge him to be no messenger sent by God's Spirit.] If we find the word [●●e son] in one place, and the word [Three] in another; where Father, Word and Spirit are spoken of, it is enough to justify the use of the word [Trinity] and to prove the thing. Ib. [Mark this, A person dwell in the Saints not personally.] No, not so, as to make the Holy Spirit and a Saint one person, doth he dwell; but mystically, as in his spiritual Temple. Pag. 34. [Saying, that the Godhead-light is not the Redemption-light.] Objectively so called (not Subjectively) that is, light or knowledge given to every man about the Godhead. Pag. 35. [As God is, so is his light, and so is his Godhead, not created, etc.] God's own essential light is, uncreated, and his very nature. The light that Adam was qualified with before the Fall and which every man (as a man) hath a spark of since the Fall, was and is given from the Creation, and by the things that are made. Read Rom. 1.20. and believe. Ibid. [In page 64. saying, Light without Scripture is no light.] i e. Besides, or not according to Scripture, as is explained in that page. Ibid. [Was the saving light made by that which was written.] I never said [made] but made known it is by the Scripture, and there to be found. Page 36. [As page 68 he saith, That God was, and is the Word, according to Joh 1.1.] I said not so, nor is it so expressed, Joh. 1.1. But the Word was [and is] God, yet God the Father is not the Word. Ib. [In page 70. saith, Christ is more in the Scriptures, then in the Saints, which is false.] There is more of Christ's purity in the Scriptures, then in the Saints, yet is he greater than the Saints, and the Scriptures also. Ibid. [In pag. 73. he saith, Christ speaking in the Scripture, saveth by the Scripture, which is false, etc. Christ saveth by his life and grace meritoriously, and efficaciously, by the Scripture declaratively, through faith, given as a means of our application of him. All this witness is true. Page 37. [Neither is there such a word written in the Bible, that say, men is saved by Scriptures] Read Acts 11.14. with Acts 26.22. and understand. Ibid. [Doth that light (of Scripture) etc. darken men's minds.] Yes, by accident, (as the Sun dazleth and dimmeth weak eyes) but of itself, and from the Spirit, it enlighteneth men's dark understandings. Ib. [He saith 75 page, Gospel-light never entered, never shined into men's hearts. i e. By the power & product of nature, read my 75 page to this effect. Ib. [To this let all take notice, and consider whether of these two (Contraries) they are to believe; the one saying, God shineth in their hearts by Gospel-light; and the other saith, It never entered into men's hearts.] Both are to be believed, although Paradoxes to carnal reason. Pag. 38. [Priest J. Stelham etc. Or what you will call him. Ibid. [The Scripture speaks of no such distinction as of a Moral Law, etc. And Ceremonial etc.] Gross ignorance or wilful blindness. Pag. 39 [But I say that Covenant in which Adam was etc. he stood in that, and by that etc.] But you know not what to call it, whether that of works, or Christ's of grace. Ibid. [He speaks of three Covenants] not so, see my 90 p. Pag. 40. [I say that there is but two Covenants spoken of in Scripture, as the Apostle to the Hebrews; In that he saith a new covenant, he maketh the first old.] These (mentioned, Heb. 8. last) are but two different Administrations of one and the same Covenant of grace; the one antiquated and out of date, the other in force: see my 91. page. Ibid. [That which said, do this and live, promised life, and mentioned Christ] J. Nayler did not so understand it, See my 104. page. Ibid. [And such denied which speak of a Covenant, that mentions nothing of a Saviour: and that to be the Rule of true believers.] The moral Law, or decalogue, in its Rigour, and as a covenant of works formally is not a believers rule: but materially, or in respect of good things, and evil things forbidden therein, It is Christ's rule to every true Believer, and none of his Commandments, are grievous to the Regenerate heart, and part. Pag. 41. [The more a soul is sanctified, the more he sees a Mote, to be a Mote; and a Beam, to be a Beam] Yet he sees so much in his Motes which was my expression (in my 112. pag.) that he sees more evil in a sin of a thought, a vain thought, than another will, or can see in a wicked oath, or blasphemy: and he will aggravate them in confession, according to due circumstance, as a Beam. Ibid. [Paul had not victory over sin and death, while he groaned under it] How boldly and falsely is this spoken? When as (with one breath) Paul is both groaning and giving thanks about his present condition. Rom. 7.24.25. see it farther cleared in my 114. 115. pages. Ibid. [God never justified any as a sinner, but as made obedient through faith] What will you make of those Scriptures? Rom. 4.5. and chap. 5. ver. 8.10. see my 120. 121. pages. Pag. 42. [The ungodly, they were first called (out of their ungodliness) as whom he called, them he also justified] Whom he calleth he justifieth, but he calleth sinners, them therefore he justifieth; He calleth sinners, that they may believe to their justification from guilt, to their sanctification from filth, and them he glorifieth, First in Title, last in Possession. Ibid. [J. S. Would set the Law, & justice of God at a difference with the Gospel, etc.] This Scribbler Rants here (if you observe it) with his Pen, as if he understood neither Law nor Gospel. Ibid. [The Righteousness of God, will not leave men disobedrent, nor sinners, if ever they come to mercy] But till they come to mercy doth Law-Justice set them free? Gospel-Justice indeed, for Christ's, the sureties sake, moved by mercy, absolves them; But the Justice of God unsatisfied by men's best conformity to the Law, finds them guilty, binds them hand and foot over to condemnation, and execution. Ibid. [That Doctrine is accursed from God, which saith, the Justice of God's Law, finds men sinners and leaves men so] Let sinners tremble (who believe not on true Gospel-justifying righteousness in Christ alone) nor at this man's Cursing, but at the Curse of God's Law, Gal. 3.10. Pag. 42. 43. [He concludes, it had been better the Scripture had not been known or written.] It had been better (I said) for him that shuts out Scripture from being Christ's Organ, or the Spirits Instrument, and means of Regeneration, that he had never known the Scripture, or written a word about it, see my 138. page, and observe a mere forgery in this Answer. Pag. 43. [J. S. Saying, the Saints in Heaven hoped for the perfection of their bodies: at the Resurrection, and again contradicts that saying, that at death they have a final perfection, etc. not at all, for the Saints perfection at death is only in their Spirits, or souls separated from their bodies; which Bodies though they be perfectly redeemed already by prayers, yet not so by power: till the Resurrection. Ibid. [If people mind the Scripture, there is no such Doctrine in it, as the Saints have not received the Redemption of their bodies.] If the blind lead the blind, what will follow? Let people turn to Rom. 8.23, 24, 25. And preserve their eyesight, or recover is, if lost. Pag. 45. [If any turn from the truth into any act of uncleanness: then they take that as a proof against those that abide in the truth] It is proof sufficient a 'gainst absolute perfection in this life, from which none (had they it) shall ever fall, as did Adam, and the Angels. Pag. 46. [These are they that plead for a life in sin, while here: and that say, the Saints glorified in Heaven do yet hope, etc. Christ himself expecteth the final prosternation of his enemies, Heb. 10.13. The Saints glorified may well hope for the Resurrection of their bodies, when Death, the last enemy, shall be destroyed. Ibid. [He speaks of a warfare (which yet he himself never came unto) How then feels he himself to be sinful, and hates the body of sin, so as to desire and wait for the utter extirpation of it in himself? Ibid. [It is not sin that is the Condemnation, but the light: which lets men see their sins.] We must pardon his Ignorance (who thus writes) for sin is the proper cause, and light but the accidental casion of men's condemnation. Ibid [This I shall affirm, that none comes unto godly sorrow, but they deny dwelling sin; and they that do not deny indwelling sin, denies godly sorrow.] Here is a pretty subtlety couched under ambiguous terms; but know, it is one thing to deny pleasure in consent, love and obedience to indwelling sin, as do all humble godly-sorrowing Saints, and another thing to deny that sin dwelleth, or remaineth in all the Saints upon earth, as hath been the Quakers Doctrine, the consequence whereof is to disclaim godly sorrow, for fin dweling in them; for have they any cause to be sorry (as to themselves) for that which is not radically in them? Pag. 47. [He is setting up obligations] No legal ones Ibid. [Of Reading, Hearing, Praying, Preaching, to which he saith, Life and Salvation is promised] As they are ordained means of grace, to which God hath annexed his promise in their right order and use, not as mere duties done with a legal frame of Spirit. Ibid. Page. 47. [All promises are to the seed] What seed? but that one Seed Jesus Christ, primarily, Gal. 3.16. and to all at Second-Hand, who are Christ's true seed. Gal. 3. last. Ibid. [Who reads his Book, may see his proofs for Infant-Baptisme; By consequence, he would have Scripture speak &c] So let him read, and search the Scriptures, where many a truth is only taught by consequence. Pag 48. [He never commanded them to be Baptised with water.] This is as true as that the Holy Ghost is no Person. Ibid. [He cannot prove in Justice, that ever Infants-Baptisme, was either commanded, or practised] with what equity or reason can you call for a command for water-baptism to Jnfants, who deny it to the Adulti, or them of years? Pag. 49. [J.S. Proves not that any thing which Christ instituted amongst the Saints only, was practised in the World, among such who are not called] He never undertook to prove the Lord's Supper, (for which R. H. is speaking) to be common to all. [Pag. 50.] Wast paper. Pag. 51. [He hath condemned all his own praying, who confesseth he is wicked, etc.] Wicked was not his expression 〈◊〉, but sinful; it is his shame, and grief to be so; but it's his glory and comfort that he 〈…〉 himself to be so. Ibid.] All the saints upon earth, who have the Spirit of Christ, shall witness against J.S.] 〈…〉 is a wide 〈…〉 as any 〈…〉 pamphlet is stuffed withal. Pag. 52. [What is this to the purpose, to prove the world must sing] 〈…〉 The Reader will here find much waste paper. Page. 54. [The Call to the true Ministory and Eldership is not by man, nor of man, but by the Lord, according to Gal. 1.1. That Scripture is vindicated and cleared in my 211 page. [Pag. 54.55.] More waste paper. Pag. 56. [When the Law of the Land ceases to maintain them, which will come sooner than they expect, then may they beg their bread, or perish for want.] This man may as well prove a falls Prophet as false Teacher Pag. 57 [If he have not the same Call, by the same Spirit, as the Apostles had, he is no Minister of Christ.] Are all Apostles? or is this man blinded with— Pag. 58. [God promised to teach his people himself, and this man holds forth that he intended it not, etc.] He intended it not only by an immediate way. God teacheth his people himself, when he teacheth them by the Ministry of men of his sending, Mat. 23.24. Pag. 58. [Which Spirit is immediate.] He comes immediately from the Father, and the Son, yet gives out himself ordinarily, and only by means of his own appointment. Pag. 59 [He separates betwixt the words and the voice, or breath.] By voice Joh. 5.37. is not meant breath, or Spirit, but what you read of Deut. 4 12. Mat. 3. last. & 17.5.2 Pet. 1.18. Christ distinguisheth between God's written Word, and his immediate voice from heaven, and yet divides not his Spirit and Breath from either. His Word is not his Spirit, yet his Spirit is in his Word: his voice is not his breath, and yet it is not without it. Pag. 60. Waste Paper. Pag. 61. [As if there were two righteousnesses of Christ. Yes, as well as two natures. Ibid. The righteousness of Christ is but one, by which all the Saints are justified.] More truly said than you are ware of. Ibid. Acts of holiness, etc. this is a righteousness of ours, saith he.] Yes, in thematter of justification not to be admitted. Ibid. Let men see his ignorance.] Blind men. Ibid. Though it be wrought by the strength of Christ in us, yet as to justification, Paul (he saith) would not be sound in it. This mark again, Reader, canst thou see any thing here but ignorance?] The blinded Reader he must needs be, whose eyes the Lord open, & then he may see a mystery of godliness in our doctrine, and a mystery of iniquity in yours. Ibid. Mark again, What was the converting of many hundred of souls by Paul, and many other works of God wrought by him but dung and loss, so J.S. holds forth, i.e. in the matter of Justification, this is ignorance indeed, etc.] None but your Ignoramus's will believe you. Ib. The Question is, what this honour is that he calls civil? When you come to you selves you will understand it. Pag. 63. Neither Major nor minor proved.] They were proved before in the whole discourse about swearing, from pag. 235. to 241. Ibid. They that charge Christ and the Apostles with contradicting Scripture, are enemies to God, etc. but J.S. hath done so, ergo. When you prove your minor, your conclusion may be true. Ibid. He charges us, that we contradict our selus, which accusation we bear with as much patience as we do his former. That is, none at all, that is visible in your writings. Pag. 64. These things I leave with the Reader.] Wise and intelligent let him be, and not one of your Novices. Ibid. To deny Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John's declarations of the Gospel, to be Gospel, is no denial of the Scripture.] You neither know what you deny, nor what you affirm, but go to School (in time) to Mark 1.1, 2. and know what that meaneth. Pag. 65. rightly paged. [The example of Abraham's servant is nothing etc.] It is something to prove my servant may and caught to call me, as I am, his Master. Ibid [J.N. doth not say the Letter is the Believers witness?] Where learned J.N. that the believers witness is in himself, but from the Scripture, see my 245, 246 pages. Ibid. [Joh. 5.39. Doth say, the Scripture testifieth of him, but it doth not say, that he is revealed in the Scripture, etc.] What difference is there between testifying and revealing, in this case especially? You, and your whole sect love to contend about words. Pag. 66. The Apostles of Christ did not preach what they had gathered from Scripture.] Go learn what that Sermon of Paul means, Act. 13. and whence he had his Quotations, verf. 18, etc. vers. 22, 33, 34, 35, & vers. 40. Ibid. [In the next he will be proved a false Prophet.] When the Scripture is found false, from whence I preach, than I shall be found a false Prophet. Ibid. [That E.B. compiled a book out of Scripture-Collections is false.] I supposed you would pretend to it, at least, who affix above a hundred Texrs of Scripture to your warning to Under-Barrow: Did the Spirit bring every Chapter and Verse to mind? and did you read none of the Quorations before you wrote them? Did the Spirit teach you to misapply them? Ibid. [Neither is this self Contradiction, to ask which of the Saints had witness of their soul's union, to seek in the Letter, and yet to affirm the Spirit opens, and brings that which is spoken to remembrance] The contradiction is discovered in my 253.254. pag. Pag. 67. [Let J.S. first answer the Quere in plainness, which is an honest Quere.] The Quere (not over honest, while put forth in disparagement of the Scriptures) was plainly answered in my first Book, to this effect: The witness of a souls union is not in the Letter only, but also in the Counter-pane written in a believers heart. See contradictions of Quakers pag. 21. Ibid. [Who saith, the Spirit is in the Letter] See how cleared in the Reviler rebuked, page 4. and 254. Ibid. [He hath also slandered Christ to be imperfectly holy] Christ was none of the Penmen nor are the Secretaries of the Holy Ghost slandered, if judged inferior, in wisdom and holiness: to what they wrote. Pag. 68 [And though we say the Saints teacher cannot be removed into a corner, as saith the Scripture: and that the Saints will find their Teacher as they lie in their beds, both these are true] The Scripture saith not [cannot] but [shall not] see Isai. 30.20. speaking of the teaching Levites, Prophets, and men of God: But if your Saints. Teacher cannot but be public, how will you find him in so private a place as your beds? Pag. 69. Rightly Paged, [Undervaluing words of the pure light of Christ] Ibid. [It is no contradiction to say, that every man is lightened by Christ with the true light, * True saving light, turns men out of their natural condition. Act. 26.18. and yet to say, some men are living in a natural condition.] But comparatively in respect of Christ himself, and Gospel-saving-light. Pag. 69. [He that lighteth every man, etc. Is not base beggarly scraps, as J.S. it is.] Learn I beseech you, at last, to distinguish between the Light-given, and the Light-Giver. Pag. 70. [I would know of him where the Gospel works, if not in men's Consciences.] Albeit Gospel-conviction is seated in the Conscience, yet it works about the conviction, which ariseth merely from a natural Conscience, as such, see my 266. pag. Ibid. [He that can understand that Scripture John 1.5. Shall see the truth, etc.] Whether you understand it or no, let the judicious Reader observe by the context opened in my 54. page. Ibid. [The rule of the Spirit of God is above the Scripture] as much as to say, he Scripture is above the Scripture. But the naked truth is, the spirit of God ruleth by the Scriptures. He is above his Rule, but the Saints (even as such) are under it. Pag. 71. [Let him charge them that are guilty sc. for putting off that for redemption light, which is but old-creation light.] That is R.H. and E.B. with men of their deluded and deluding persuasion. Ibid. [His whole Section I leave to be read in his Book] See my 276. p. I understand not this nonsense. Ibid. [Neither did we ever affirm, that Christ is not in the Reprobate, and so is not in all] Ibid. [Neither do we concerning Justification contradict ourselves.] You must take their word for it, who will, not or cannot try their Doctrines by the Scripture Touchstone, and compare one of their say with another. Ibid. [What would J.S. have said of John, who told them they needed no man to teach them.] The Apostles meaning 1. Jo● 2.27. is vindicated from these men, and cleared in my 41. pag. Pag. 74. [Though God spoke by G.F. to him (viz. E. Bor.) ough) this doth not contradict the teaching of the Sporit of God] It clearly showeth that E.B. had not all by the immediate teaching of the Spirit, and still your contradiction holds, as I have demonstrated it, in my 280.281. pages, or if you'll say, and it be your meaning, that God teacheth mediately here, to bring us to immediate teachings altogether in Heaven; and that outward teaching, leads to inward, and inward to outward: while we are here, it will argue ingenuity, a concession of truth, and an eating of former clashing expressions. Pag. 73. Rightly paged [E.B. doth never say, that the light of Christ is nature all and carnal, but the light of man] Who gave man that light? Answer E.B. for yourself, and others. Ib. [E.B. Speaks of man's light, and J.S. foolishly opposeth him, etc.] Who, I ask again, gaveman that light? Ibid. [Neither Christ nor his blood, is in Scripture.] This is your ignorant Blasphemy. Ibid. [Let it be moved.] Where and whither? If it be moved at the Mouth by Aldergate, let a room be built for it in the Land of Shinar. Pag. 74. [He saith the Scripture was given by the Spirit for a Rule, this we desire a proof of by plain Scripture, till than we deny it] If any man will be ignorant and obstinate: Let him be ignorant and Obstinate. Ib. [He saith, the Spirit gives out himself by Scripture, and yet he saith, he never said the Scripture did give the Spirit, and this is an absolute contradiction] In your apprehension, who knew not what a contradiction is, and what it is not. Ib, [He saith, our possessing perfection, and Quaking after Moses example, cross shins on the other.] Professing (I said) yet I will hold, in your languager, much more. Ibid. [But wherein he doth not show] The thing shows itself; see my first Book, page 25. Pag. 75. [And yet doth own Prayer in the Spirit, and who are moved by the Spirit morning or evening, or at meals, or otherwise] The Spirit moveth to payer (as to each other duty) by the Scripture-Rule, and according to it 1. Thes. 17.18. Tim. 4.4. Act. 27.35. Rom 14.6. Pag. 76. [And this is truth, let J.S. gather what he can from it.] J.S. gathers, that you would engross the Spirit to yourselves, which if it breath in your prayers, well; he is sure it breathes not in your Writings. Ib. [Speaking that which is not in the Spirit, we check.] You check the Spirit in others, and grieve the Spirit (where it is) in any of yourselves. Page 77. [According to the light of Christ Jesus in every man's conscience, which is but one in all.] This helps your nonsense, page 71. (rightly paged) but contradicts what was there delivered [Christ is not in the Reprobate.] Ibid. By these words [No Law must be concerning Religion] we do not mean, that we should not have a Law according to Religion, but no Law to limit to, or from this or that manner of Religion.] It appears by this you do not always mean as you speak: but it were well your meanings were better than your say; now learn to write and speak better, and we shall the better judge of your meanings. Pag. 78. [We are not they that would have any Magistrates to bind themselves from striking at offenders, who are truly able to judge of offences.] Agreed, and then all in my Epistle Dedicatory (charged with lies, slanders, presumption, arrogancy, flattery and cruelty) will stand good against your charge. Ibid. and Pag. 79. [As for the rest of his Book (sc. the Appendiz.) etc. His lies I do deny, from first to 8. Animadversion] Here is all along, but your nay, against my yea: Whereof I give too home proof, for your patience to bear it. Let my Appendix be viewed and reviewed. Pag. 79. [So that from the first of his Book to his last, his whole work is borne witness against not to be of God, but of the Devil] If R H. (as it seems by the posture of letters) listed himself to fight in the Front of the Pamphlet, and E.B. in the Rear, although they toss and racket my name up and down as a Tennis-ball, from the beginning to the end, yet they do but beat the Air, and strike at themselves, and hurt not me; For pag. 50. one saith, he pursues me not in every Argument; the other saith, From the first of my Book to the last, my whole work is born witness against. How these things accord, let the Reader judge. Now R.H. and E.B. if you can receive the censure of a discerning Christian (of no inferior rank) it was this; All the reason of this your Book may be put into an Eggshell, and for my part, I have no more taste of it (except in such few passages, where you are reduced to a better explication of your minds) then of the white of an Egg. Pag. 80, 81, 82, 83. [Ah! J.S. against whom hast thou set thyself, &c] To all these four last pages (with many other passages in the book) it is the King of Heaven's commandment, Prov. 26.4. not to answer you a word. FINIS.