Judas and the Jews combined against Christ and his followers being a re-joynder to the late nameless reply, called, Tyranny and hypocrisie detected, made against a book, entituled The spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith rebuked, &c. which was an answer to a pamphlet, called, The spirit of the hat, in which truth is cleared from scandals, and the Church of Christ, in her faith, doctrine, and just power and authority in discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious endeavours of a confederacy of some envious professors and vagabond, apostate Quakers / by ... William Penn ; to which are added several testimonies of persons concern'd.

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Judas and the Jews combined against Christ and his followers being a re-joynder to the late nameless reply, called, Tyranny and hypocrisie detected, made against a book, entituled The spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith rebuked, &c. which was an answer to a pamphlet, called, The spirit of the hat, in which truth is cleared from scandals, and the Church of Christ, in her faith, doctrine, and just power and authority in discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious endeavours of a confederacy of some envious professors and vagabond, apostate Quakers / by ... William Penn ; to which are added several testimonies of persons concern'd.
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Rebecca Travese's Testimony.

A Testimony in the Spirit of Love, against that Malitious Spirit that in certain Apostates and their Abettors exercises Tyranny and Hypocrisie, every where.

TO you, Friends, is my Love, who are in the Enquirings after the Lord and his Truth, that you may come to be Partakers of the same Inheritance of Life and Glo∣ry that many are made Witnesses of through Believing: And the Power thereof we cannot but testifie of, as by the Effectual Working and Operation in our Hearts, we feel, not only to set us free from that which imbondaged us in times past as well as others, but hath brought us to the Liberty of the Seed of God, which above and before all, seeks the Glory of God; and this hath enriched us with Grace and enduring Mercy, whereby we feel all our Iniquities taken away, and Transgressions blotted out, in and for the Name and Power of Christ, which in us is become the sure Hope of endless Glory; and this hath made us, Us, That hold the Faith, willing to proclaim the good Will of God unto all, that others with us might come to set down in the Heavenly Places, with Christ, our alone Head and Life, and be delivered from those Runnings, Strivings, and Inventions, Tossings, Tumblings and Turmilings, that all

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Image-Makers are in, not being possible to find Rest, but in and by the Light, which from the Rest comes and to the Rest ga∣thers, into which many are entred, and cannot be disturbed or made afraid, and it is Everlasting: And the Satisfaction and Peace of this true & abiding Love rests upon us, and constreins us, to call and invite them afar off, as those near, to come freely to the Fountain of Living Water, without Money and without Price; For a Remnant are come to know, that there is, and shall be a daily adding of them to us that shall be saved; for the Work of the Lord must prosper, notwithstanding all the Force and Subtility of them that contrive against it.

The Building must be finished, all things are prepared and preparing thereunto, and the House of the Lord shall be estab∣lished upon the Top of that that resisteth it; and the Foundati∣on is already laid sure and steddy, and every Stone hewen and fitted thereto, is pretious; and the Command of our King, none can reverse, for he is Almighty, and works according to the Counsel of his own Will; 'tis Counsel indeed, close hid from all Sorts of Workers in the dark: So they fret and are angry, the Hea∣then rage; but theirs is a Fury that consumes it self, and soon goes out, if not added to by new Fewil. And these of all Sorts, have manned their Weapons to the utmost, and done what ever they can to hinder the Increase of this Work; yet these are not the worst Enemies, for it is the People that imagine vain∣ly, that ever withstood the Appearance of God in the World (search the Scriptures) Christ came unto his own, them that pro∣fest a Waiting for him, and they rejected him, they crucified him; yea, he that walkt with Christ, and sometimes cryed, Hail Master, he, and these Pretenders are the Betrayers in all Generations, and Hinderers of the Work of the Lord; here the Power of Darkness in all Generations wrought, mind Scriptures through, all that desire to be kept from resisting the Just and Holy One. Though many Enemies, Nations and People; Withstood the Servant of the Lord Moses, in his great Work whereunto God had called him; yet none did like Mischief as that gain-saying Spirit in Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and Balaam that was for and against Israel, who had been a Prophet, and loving the Wages of Unrighteousness,

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becomes a Tempter, and layes the Snare, that they might Sin against God, and be divided from The Blessing: And so mind who hindred the Building of the Temple of the Lord in the time that Deliverance drew nigh; when the great and noble Travil of the Holy Servants of the Lord that were Zealous for the Restoring of the Captivated to their former Liberties and Rights in the Place that then was owned and appointed of the Lord, and ever to be remembred, was and is the Courage, Boldness and Constant Watchfulness of those Worthies, Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubabel, that discerned the Falseness and Trea∣chery of those pretending Friends, that did not only seem to approve their Works, and offer to build the House of the Lord, but to assist them, saying, Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do, and that they had done it for a long time; but they being discerned and refused by Zerubabel and the other Worthies of Israel, then they manifested themselves to be Hinderers of the Work of God, and hired Counsellors against them to frustrate their Purpose, whose Work a little before they pretended to be assistent to, and after write against them with great Accusa∣sations, Ezra the 4th. and the 14th. and Nehemiah the 4th and the 1st. Sambalet and Tobiah they mocked, taunted and scoff∣ed to make ridiculous and little Worth the then Endeavours and good Orders, that these Noble Men put in Practice for the Restoring of the House of God. And so to you, Friends, to whom my mind is directed that are weak in the Faith, I writ, that you may be warned, that you may be strengthened against this Treacherous Spirit: Do not these Scriptures run parallel with them that have brought forth such Accusations, whether false or true? Is not their End one who have joyned with, and taken Counsel of such, whom they know were and are contra∣ry to the People and Truth, that they formerly seemed to be of and for, to make Odious and Ridiculous in the Sight of all Men, with their Orders? And though some of them under Pretence did act with them, and would have Lorded it as much as any, until discerned and dealt with for their Unorderly Practice, and Unsubjectedness to them that in the Spirit serve the Lord con∣tinually, So Friends, This is it I would have you observe in all things and at all times, that that Spirit that professeth Truth

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and talkes of Truth, and seems for it, and yet is against it, is not of God, though it seems so; for here first sprang, and is continued that monstrous, Anti-Christian Brood, that hath fil∣led the Earth with Darkness, Blood and Cruelty, and with these shall those be judged, that in this our Day have given and taken Offences, to lay Stumblings in the Way of the Simple; But Glorified be the Power that hath broke forth, before which they must all fly; yet here and there a few crawle up to use their Strength against the Increase of his Power, the Word of whose Mouth shall destroy them, and the Brightness of his Coming shall utterly consume them: for they are such of whom the Apostle complained, had done him much Wrong; for they hindred as much as in them lay the Purpose of the Lord in the Earth. And this hath been the Work of many in this our Day of God's Appearance, from the beginning thereof, and by such as came to see the Glory of Truth, and heard gladly for a Season, as they that receive the Seed in the high way, where it was either lost, or carried away by the Fowls of the Air: and these could never fell All for the Kingdom, nor take up the daily Cross, so mist the Life, and came to be carri∣ed about with Winds, and missing of the Righteousness of God, have gone about to establish their own, and blindly Zealous, have watched others Vineyards, and neglected their own; so Withering and Fruitlesness hath come upon them, until they are twice dead. These were and are known by their Mur∣murings and Complainings, yet listed up in their Minds, by their own Righteousness, which as sure as God's Righteous∣ness layes low, and makes to grow in Love; so Man's begets Envy and watcheth for Evil, and feeds upon it, and is filled with it: So as they living in Love can think no Evil; so they out of it can imagine no good of them, from whom by Pride and Envy they are divided, and so exercising their Minds in the Evil. Never did hungry Beasts more earnestly seek their Prey to devour it, then these Back-sliders have and do watch, to catch the Miscarriages of any such as do profess the Faith; and if they can find a little, they make it a great deal by Whisperings and Back-bitings, and large Intimations, more by much then the Substance, and in all pretending to be in an

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Hatred of Evil and to cry to others, Stand farther off, for we are Holyer then these: So after a doing some years Threatnings to make the Lord's People Odious in what they would publish and bring forth; and having done what they can to the utmost that way, and that not accomplishing their End, now they lay their Stress on the severe Government of the Quakers, which some of these Revolters once knew was set up in the Wisdom of God, to hinder such Evils as they were used to speak against, and to reform, and gather nearer unto the Truth of God; but this Order being like to smite some of them, they strike hard at those that are exercised therein, their End being in all to present the People of the Lord, and their Way, Worthless and Bad, that so they themselves might not be so manifest in the Forsaking and Withstanding the Good Way of the Lord, and that they might shut up that Kingdom to o∣thers, into which they themselves would not enter. And tha to all they may be manifest, their Works declare them; for every Lye is of the Devil: and how many they have publisht in their late Books of Darkness, to which they have been ashamed to joyn a Name, can I tell, nor am I covetous to know; for, who in the Faith stands wars not with Flesh and Blood, but with Spi∣ritual Wickedness in High Places; and I have had, and have as sensible a Feeling of that Spirit from whence it comes, and whi∣ther it must go, that brought forth that called, the Spirit of the Hat, and that called, Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected, or an Answer to Alexander the Copper-Smith; and it is the same that the Prophet Micha had a Sight of, that Lying Spirit, which went into the Mouthes of the Seduced Prophets: and though I never read the last of these Pamphlets, in that my time not be∣ing like to be long on Earth, I was not willing to Mis-spend so much of it; but one reading the Title to me, a Renewed Strength I found against that Spirit that brought it forth, and that it did with Re-doubled Strength strike at W. P. as one whose Pen had hit them; and had he never writ a Word, he judgeth them in Denying the Glory of this World, the Vain Hope of which hath bewitched some of them to draw back: And another read to me that Lye made of me in the last of these two Books, which I must speak something to that little part

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that was read to me of my Son J. O. and I. I need not say much of my Son J. O. for he through Grace, is made able to display and resist them; only this I would have all the Simple take notice of their Scornful Taunts, and Willingness to ren∣der him and I, as Speakers Falsly, or being like unto them; and indeed, in this they much resemble God's Enemies in for∣mer Ages, as in other things, and to his Judgment are they left, I having not a Purpose at this time so much to answer them, for whom my Hope is near worn out, as to hold out my Hand, with many Brethren, that the Honest-hearted might be delivered from those Perdicious Wayes they walk in, and are alluring to, by their Subtility and False Speeches.

And by Question they ask, How could this accute Man say, The Meeting would not hinder his Marriage? To this, as a Wit∣ness, I answer, I heard, with many more, J. B. whom they most accused to hinder, say, That they had nothing against his Marriage; and this some of their Confederates know.

And for what they say of me, as being a Great Mother and Go∣verness among these People, is but to set me on high, that the Dîrt they fling, may the more come upon me; for some of them, that are so Miserable, as to contribute to this Work of Darkness, in Fighting against Truth, know, that I have Gladly and Long been a Servant to this People of the Lord, and no more Go∣vernment have I coveted or gained, but by Love, and in Love possess. And for the Charge writ against me, it is utterly false in Matter and Words, as these Accusers have stated it; for those words, they say, I cried out, no Man nor Woman, that was present in that great Congregation, will witness it, if they fear to Lye, and there are may many Witnesses of what I said; and though I was permitted to speak a few words at that time, that one or more of their Informers heard me say, I had con∣demned, as not expedient, to have been spoken there; but they being in the Dark, have altogether mist it, and placed a Lye of their own making in the stead of what I spoak: But I unfeign∣edly desire, that they may find a place of Repentance for this; and all other their Evils. But it is followed with another Falsity; for say they, By her Authority, and J. O's Interest,

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they proceeded te Marry without's License. As to License from any Man or Woman to Marry, I have often publickly (as called to it) born my Witness against, and with the rest of the Lord's People declared, We make no Marriages, nor break no Marriages, nor Marry any, but every True Man and Wife should known their being joyned of the Lord, and so were these Couple; yet did not, nor durst not go brutishly together, as some preten∣ding more Holiness, then others have done; but this prudent Couple, according to the Example of Holy Men and Wo∣men, had many Witnesses of the People of the Lord, and in an Orderly, Solemn Assembly took each other, and the Pre∣sence and Power of the Lord sealed to it; and she was a Bles∣sing to him to whom the Lord gave her all her days: And I was so far from the Exercise of Authority in that Matter, that I know not that I Invited one to the Marriage, much less Commanded; and J. O. used no Interest in that Matter, that I know, then what he gained by Love; and had these Accusers come to, and kept in this Love, they had been kept out of that Spirit of the Accuser, that now from time to time acts them to seek Occasi∣on against the Brethren, and the Truth; and then, whether False or True, as those that Rejoyce in Iniquity, they publish it, that they may Murder in the Way.

And if any Righteous Soul, grieved and burdened with their Bringings forth in Mischief, Write or Answer them sharply, they imagine they get Strength by it, and shew it to Adversaries of Truth, as if the People of the Lord did Amiss in Clearing the Truth, and throwing back the Dirt on them, from whence it comes (but let all take notice, that the Prophet Elijah was Justified in his Reproaching of Baal's Priests in their Blind Worships and Mad Fury; for the True God appeared to him for his Justification, as be doth unto us, that abide in his Power unto this day) But for the Taunts and Mockings of Samballat & Tobiah, they are recorded for their In∣famy forever: For, what is the Chaff to the Wheat, saith the Lord?

And I did not, nor do not intend to Controvert, or Answer the Writings of these Enemies of Truth, having not so much as read them through; only a few Lines, which being False,

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Truth required to come over, and upon the Head of the False Worker is it set: and I did not then cry out (as they say) in my own Concern, nor do I now write to serve my selfe, but the Truth; and the End hath and shall declare the Ground of all Actions. And as the Fighters against God have and do scatter from him and gather into the World, with the Vain Customs thereof; so those that have and do contend, earnestly for the Truth, have no other End or Aim, but to preserve in, and gather to the Grace of God, which Teacheth to Deny all Ʋn∣godliness and Worldly Lusts; and many Thousands they are that to this day are preserved thereby out of the Net that these Subtil and Deceitful Ones have laid, and are laying: But Sufficient is the Grace in which we have believed, and thereby we receive Power over all Spirits which are gone out, and hatch Mischief, and bring forth Lyes. But Praises be to the Power, that hath brought many into the One Mind, that above and before all they seek the Encrease and Enlargement of Truth; and these have the Mind of God, and know he is on their side, and laughs to Scorn all his Enemies: And our Communion and Fellowship is Holy, and within the Holy Place, where the Unclean and Inventers of Evil could never come; for the Un∣feigned Brotherly Love gives an Enterance thereunto; but they out of it, not seeking after this, grow in Envy, by lu∣sting thereto, and offering Despight to the Spirit of Grace in themselves, they bring forth the same against all us, that are guided thereby. And I am bold in that Spirit that cannot Lye, to say to all in this Gainsaying Spirit (as I did many Years since to some in the same Spirit; and some of these Evil-Workers did hear it, and are Witnesses it is fulfilled on them of whom it was then testified, J. P. and C. B. and others) if they return not, they are and shall assuredly be swal∣lowed up of the Earth, and link into it, cast again into the Sea, from whence they were taken, as bad Fish indeed out of the Net. But Holy is the Lord, and his Name shall be Mag∣nified of all the Upright Ones; for their Redemption is sure; and these are daily coming forth with Songs of Thanksgiving, and the High Praises of the Lord are in their Hearts and Mouths forever and for evermore, Amen.

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Friends, that are plain-hearted, and love Righteousness, and though but turned Sion-ward; and you, that for the Truth have sold All, you are all very dear unto me, as I know I am, and must be to you: for, as we are all of one Begetting, and are come to the one Hope, and are nourished at the one Breast, where the Milk of the Word causeth to grow, into the Oneness of that Spirit, which sets free from Sin and Death, here we have Unity, and bear one another's Burdens, and in the Life of the Head are affected with the Suffering of every Member, that hath Life therein, and with his Compssions come to be filled, and having Fellowship in his Suffering, are grieved and oppressed with the Works of the Adversaries every where, and at all times, that ever since the Entrance of the Night of Apostasy to this time are as truly Persecuting Christ Jesus in his Members, and Slaying him in the Streets of the great City, spiritually called, Sodom and Aegypt, as Paul persecuted ••••m when he got Letters from the high Priests to take Men or Women that were of that Way, and bring them bound to Jerusalem: And as sure as the Apostle John saw his Crucify∣ing in the Spirit of Prophecy, so certainly with all the Conten∣ders, and Gain-sayers, and Resisters of the Testimony of Jesus (which Testimony is the Spirit of Prophecy) be found Fight∣ers against God, who mischievously have taken up all Mis∣carriages and Mistakes, and with their Misunderstandings and own dark Imaginations, adding Lyes of their own making; whereby some have been weakened, and others turned out of the Way and the Truth, come to be questioned by the Ignorant, whereby the End of these Revolters is made manifest: And though I have not so much as said in my Heart, I would they were cut off from the Lord; yet sure I am, they have gone about as much as in them lies to pervert the good Way of the Lord, by making the People believe, the Quakers allow Ʋcleanness or Ʋnrighteousness, in that some professing it, have gone out as they, and practised those things that the Light testifieth against (and yet when in good Order, by Men loving Holiness, there is a Meeting to reform or divide such far from us, in the outward) this offends them also) So, may not all see the Restlesness of

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this Spirit, that would throw the Guilt of those that have offended, on those Innocent ones that are travelling for the Re∣moval of all Evils: But there are many Thousands, to the Praise of the Power of God be it spoken, that are kept not only out of Uncleanness and all Unrighteousnes, but are in the true Re∣ligion which keeps from the Spots of the World, and their Com∣munion stands where the Blind could never see.

Another Stumbling-Block that these that are making the Offences, lay in the Way of the Simple, is, as if we honour and set up Man in the Place of God, or we were Worshippers of Angels, which is indeed Idolatry; To which I am called to say something, as be∣ing presented with others, whom I am bold to say, believe all Obedience, Honour and Thanks-giving belongeth unto him that sits upon the Throne, and to the Lamb for evermore, and are not guilty of what this malitious Spirit would present them to be: But being acted by the same Spirit that they were that said, this Man sayes, he is the Son of God and therefore ought to dye; So they not being in the Spirit that revealeth the Son of God, thinks we worship Man for him; but he that knew Christ revealed in him, bids follow him, as he followed Christ, and that if I forgave any, I forgave it (saith he) in the Person of Christ. This I speak to the Simple and Upright-hearted that they may be delivered out ot the Snare of the Cunning Hunter that seeks the pretious Life, and to such it will be gi∣ven to know, what is hid from the Serpent, that is still blind, and on Dust feeds; and the Children's Bread, I nor any in the Faith, dare give unto them. But that every honest Heart may see what Spirit acts in these Purposers of Evil, I take notice of another Passage where this Libeller names my Name, and indeed, I knew not of it when I writ the former Part, but an ho∣nest young Man in the Street told me of it, and then I looked on that which they accuse me with; some times before that and after it, I read, and being by the Power of the Lord, whom I serve in my Spirit, made as willing to remove any Offences, as these, by whom the Offences come (and on whom the Wo must come) are, to lay Stumblings, and I shall freely confess to that which is true in their Charge, and deny the Falshood in

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this, as the former; and I shall begin with that in the 19th. Line, pag. 44.

It's not unusual (say they) with the Quakers to give as much Credit to one another, as is the setting their Names to things they know not.

Answ. Friends, take notice how Ignorant the Carnal Man is of the things of God, and not knowing that Nearness and Strength of Love, that is among the Disciples of Christ, he brings it among the rest of the Rabble of his Accusations, that, the Quakers credit one another in such matters, as indeed no Money-Lover nor Unbeliever could never do; for every Decei∣ver is afraid to be deceived; but who out of the Deceit is brought into the Faith and Love that is unfeigned, cannot fear that a Brother will deceive or hurt him, and had rather bear the harm of a False Brother (if it should so be suffered to be) then mistrust or think Evil of him that is the Faith: But the Accuser of the Brethren, with all his Adherents are out of this Faith, and are Strangers to this Love by which it works. And though I never knew such a Practice among the Quakers (not in one President) ever offered to me or any, to put their Hands to what they know not, but this here rehearsed, and is this only by what he himself and my Maid said, some of which I know to be true and some false; but I had Joy that all should know in this Pack of Falshoods, this Truth, That the Quakers have, and do still credit one another. But whether it was so or no that G. F. sent to our House to have J. P. and my Husband put their Hands to such a Paper as they knew not; all I know of it I may speak of: My Maid-Servant then living with me, many Years since told me in a Morning when I came down, that there was a Man with a Paper to have some Friends put their Hands to, and that J. P. was a wise Man because he refu∣sed it, and this I upon some Occasion, told J. P. of, for I do not believe he ever heard my Maid say so to him; but he being affected with his own Commendations, hath repeated it before me more then once, that my Maid should say he was a Wise Man: What was said, was said to me, and from me he had it, and to my Knowledge, I never heard my Maid to say: Nor did I

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ever tell him, or hear him speak those words, That she believed her Master would have done it, until now I see it in Print, so I can∣not but take notice of their adding that which is False, to make their Matters hold together: nor do I remember that Time, or Day or Week, that I said any thing of George Fox, these words, that he repeats, as though I spoak them at the same time; but that I did at some time speak those words to J. Pennyman, and it may be to some others, I deny not; for in the Love of the Lord I travelled for him, and some others of them, that were in Danger by their Imaginations to fall into the Pit of Perdition; and so, as one that lived in the Love of God, I according to the best of my Understanding, endeavoured their Return and Safety, by imparting to them what I had found to be my Profit and Safety, and bowed to him and several of them, in telling them, that in the Light none errs; yet that I was such a Child, as for many years I might not know my Right-Hand from my left: and if there were a Motion, or Revelation did arise in me, that I might think was true (and we that are in Unity in the Spirit of God, may and do speak our Motions one to another; for the Spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets; and the Order of the Church was, that they might Prophesie one by one, and the rest might Judge) yet if G. F. should deny it to be of the Lord, I should be subject to his Judgment therein, as one in Christ before me: This, or to this purpose I spoke, and deny it not. But that this Despiser, of Dignities may attain his own End, to pervert the Good Way of God, by giving them to know what I was, he said, A Great Prophetess: Now if he did believe what he saith (though it was then a young time with me, being nigh Ten Years ago) he should have followed my Example, and have brought his Moti∣ons to some in Christ before him, to have tried his Motion, and so by Counsel have been delivered from those Wanderings and Runnings, and Mad Actions, that he ran into, when he brought that Truly-Valued Book, called the Bible (that I and many are come to the Comfort of, and know, that it hath been the Mighty Power of God that hath preserved it from the Hands of those that would have utterly Extinguished or Destroyed it) to be burned: But Praises be to the Lord, that hath preser∣ved

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i unto this Day, to give Testimony to the Light and Spi∣rit which gave it forth; though J. P. may be reckoned among the Intenders, that would Destroy the Bible, who brought it to the Exchange, with other serviceable Books in their Places, and setting some on Fire in order to burn them, was prevented in this his Work of Darkness; and being by me and others dealt with for this and other Mad Actions, intreat∣ing him to come to Repentance, and no more follow the Ima∣ginations of his own Brain; but he being too high for Coun∣sel or Intreaty, returns us Hatred for Love, and goes on in Im∣penitency and Malitious Practices unto this time, as all the High-minded and Despisers of Counsel ever did; and there∣fore no marvel that he presents me, as one doing Amiss, in say∣ing, I should subject to one in Christ before me in any Case: So all the Honest and Plain-hearted will come to see their End and Spi∣rit, and beware thereof. And I have Justification with God in giving Honour to whom Honour is due, and have no Man's Person in Admiration, and know G. F. did never seek for Ho∣nour, nor hath been trusted in or bowed to, as a Man; but who seeth him that is sent of God, must hear and obey him; and if any have or do exalt, or worship any but the Seed, Christ, to whom all Honour, Worship and Obedience is due, they have another God, and practise another Doctrine then G. F. hath been the Messenger of; for unto him, the on∣ly Begotten of the Father, he came to gather, and as he hath received, hath given unto us, that in the one Everlasting Co∣venant, testified of by him, and all sent of God, we may know the Father and the Son, whom he hath sent: And many through believing can say, He is ascended. and lives for ever∣more; But such as are out of the Faith, Reprobate from God, could never see the Descendings not the Ascendings of the Son of God, who is to be Honoured as the Father: And they that are without Guile may see the Heavens open, and the Angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man; But all out of the Spirit of Truth are Wonderers and De∣spisers, thinking and speaking Evil of those things they know not.

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We read of one that came to Christ in the outward, and said unto him, Good Master, What may I do to have Eternal Life? Christ answered him with a Question, Why callest thou me Good? None (saith he) is Good but God. This was a Parable to me, when out of the Faith, but in the Faith it is given to know the Deep Things of God: And I only mention this Scripture to throw back the many Accusations, that these Carping Spirits do cast on us, as if we Idolize Man, or Men, when all in the Faith know, all Power, all Good is of God, manifest and revealed in the Son by that Eternal Light and Spirit in which we worship; And, none ever come unto the Father, but by the Son, nor, none ever come unto the Son, but whom the Father draweth: And all those that are in the Dark, prophane that Name whereby we are saved; but our Peace they cannot Break, nor the Purpose of our God Hinder; for it must be accomplished: The full Time is come and coming, in which all things shall be put under his Feet in whom we believe.

And so I shall Conclude, with minding J. Pennyman; and that though I have Cause to believe, He Tauntingly cal∣leth me, A Great Prophetess, yet I would have him call to Mind what I writ to him when he was a Prisoner at Bi∣shops-Gate: and as it hath in part been fulfilled, the full Truth thereof shall come upon him, and be made mani∣fest to many; and if not, the Lord hath not spoken by me

Rebecca Traverse.

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