Ansvvers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers, by Philip Bennett, who cals himself a minister of Christ, but is found a deceiver; answered by them to whom they were directed. Also, ansvvers to severall other subtil queries put forth by one Iohn Reeve, who lives in the City of London, who cals himself the last messenger and witnesse unto the true God, but is found a false witnesse, and a lyar, and a perverter of the right way of God. / Answered by Edward Burrough, and Francis Howgill, who are witnesses unto the truth against this subtil serpent-like generation.

These are matters of great concernment, and if you refuse to answer them in writing, spare your tongues and spare your Papers, for I will henceforth neither hear the one, nor read the other.

Ans. Thou saith, these are matters of great concernment; We see that that which makes thee manifest, and such as thou art, and which layes thee open to poor ignorant people, which is deceived by thee and led into the ditch, and their souls kept in death by thee, to make this manifest is of great concernment, as these dark black stumbling Queries, and thy conjured words hath done▪ which thou hast no Scripture for, as ambiguity, efficacy, exclusively, antecede, and non-imputation, assume, and assumption: Now let all people read and consider what they do that holds such as thee up, who is shut out from God, and shut out from the Saints life and lan∣guage, and art shut out of the Scriptures, though thou makes a trade of them for mony, and deceives poor people, but thou knowes nothing of the life and power that gave them forth; So thou art to be condemned with the Light, and with the Life which gave forth the Scripture. Let all people read Deuteronomie 18. from the 9. verse to the 15. There the Priests and the Levites which was ordained of God; was to have no inheritance among the people, but the Lord was their Inheritance, and they were to have it of that which was offered up to the Lord, and this is a figure of the everlasting Priesthood, which ministers out of the everlasting Treasure; and the

Lord God commanded Israel, that not to do as they did when they came into the land, nor to go after their abominations, as you may see, but gave Israel their land to possesse, that did hearken unto such as the Lord had not sent, which was a∣bomination to him, and the Lord saith to Israel, Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God, and in the 15. verse the Lord thy God will raise unto thee a Pro∣phet from the midst of thee, of thy Brethren like unto me, unto him shall ye hear∣ken; And so to the end of the Chapter, he that hath an eye may see, and the Lord is the same that he was, and he will not suffer the abominations that is committed in this Land, but is discovering the abomination of it; A horrible and a filthy thing is committed, which Ieremiah cryed against, covetous men preach, drunkards preach, swearers preach, lyars preach, strikers preach, and proud men preach: Oh, wonderfull, where is your eyes? Try your Priests by the Scriptures, see if they be not found in the same Generation that all the false Prophets and the deceivers were in which the true Prophets of God cryed against, and discovered, and in the steps of the Scribes and Pharisees, that Christ cryed w•• against; and see if they be not the Antichrists and the Deceivers which are entered into the world, which Iohn speaks of, which cannot confesse Christ come in the flesh; but transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, so hath not God, neither knowes him; but preaches for sin, and against perfection, and denyes the Light which enlightens every one that comes into the world, and so keeps people in blindnesse and ignorance, and out of the knowledge of God, and never any that followes them shall ever come to the knowledge of the true and living God, therefore all people see where you are, and minde the light in your consciences, which is pure, and which testifieth against all sin, and it will let you see all your blinde guides which deceives you, to be in sin, and ignorant of God; for they deny that which should make him manifest, there∣fore beware what you hold up, and give over going after them, to that in your con∣sciences I speak, which shall witnesse me eternally to speak the truth, if you obey it, and shall condemn you eternally, if you disobey it.

These blind guides that are in this Land, denies the Prophets which Moses wrote of, which is the substance of the Priesthood, which was before, and here they are found in the same generation, in the sorcery and in the witchcraft, which the Lord commanded should be put out of the land, where the children of Israel went to possesse.