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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
Publication: London, :: Printed for Giles Calvert, at the black-spread-Eagle, at ..,; [1654]
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Subject terms: Quakers -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
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1 Quer. In thy first particular thou queries, Whether these men were sort forth by the eternall Spirit to preach, which in the least cannot demonstrate what the onely true God is in himself; and how he is a distinct being from all living creatures, and how he reigns in the Elect by a created Word, voice of spirituall motion onely.

Answ. Those men were not sent forth by the eternall Spirit to preach, who have not received it, and such knowes not God, what he is, no•• where he is, but in their imaginations imagines him to be like a creature, by being i•• a creature by place or habitation, God is a Spirit, and he is not distinct from living creatures, for in him living creatures lives, moves, and hath their beings, and he is not far from them, nor distinct from them as he spake, who was sent by the eternall Spirit to preach, he reigns in the Elect not by a created word, voice, or a created spirituall motion, for the Word which lives in the Elect, from which voice and motion pro∣ceeds, is not created, but is uncreated, even as God is uncreated, for God is that Word, and here thy ignorance appears, by calling the Word which lives in the Elect a created Word, or voice, or motions, and here be a witnesse against thy self that thou speaks from darknesse, and not from light, which darknesse cannot comprehend the shining of the light, and this discovers thee more to be a false witnesse, and not the true witnesse of God, and therefore thy portion must be portion of false wit∣nesses, read what it is.