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Show Truth Refcued from Impoll:ure-. PART. II. S. S. his Anfwer to the pretend~d ·Calumnies of the T R I A L Confidered. ' HAvin~ given my felf a loofe !hake of the Calumnies of his firft Seilion (favmg that Part which concerns the Power of Juries, to be confi· dered by it felf) I !hall defcend to examine his fecond, if pofiibly I may find more of Truth, Senft, and Civility. He pretends to fo much Scripture (and which is worfe, 3.pplies it to his own Sh3me) as to front his fecond SeEtion with the 5ah and Ioth Verfes of the Epiftle of ]udr. · Ver. 9· Yet Michael, the Arcb.Ange/, when comemJing uitb the Devil be di}juted about the Body of Mofes, durjl not bring agninjl him a railing .il.uu.fation, butfaid, The Lord rebNRt t btt. Ver. to. But1 theft fpeak Evil of tbofe Tbings which they know not. Upon this Text he preaches thus. pag. 4· Tbeft Pcopleca.Ued Quakers (if they are to he belie~ed) wilJ trU, they have tbis .iingdi~al Spirir, the Met!cneft oJ Mofes, the Patunu of Job, and ali 0• tber Graus; b11t the ~ontrary ttppeart, fol· 57· of W. Penn's Boo~ vide tbiJ Paffag<. But· above all, Di.ffenurr bad llule _Reafon to have txpeOed that hoarifh Fiercenefs from t1Je .Mayor of London, when they &onfider his eager Pro{ec11• tion of tbe King's Party underCromwel's Go"l)ernaentl 41 thinking he co111d never git.·~ too gr~at ~ Teflimony .oJ his Loyalty, to tba_t ne.w lnflrument, which mdu the old Saymg true, \'lZ. Tbat one Renegado u worfe than rhNe Turks. To which I anfwer, not as W. P. but as ODe they call a ~11alur. His Application of the firft Scripture will be this, If Micbnd did not bring a railing Accufation againft the Devil- then tbe Author of rhe Trial fhould not have brought one againft him. Iris fo plain what he has faid of him, that we need not funher bladen him. But this latter Part he grofly mis-underftands, and mit:applies ~ for 'fis denyed, that any Part of this Scripruro affords one juft Reproof, of that fo much abufed Author. We know how frequently the Dfvil himfelf has taken to the Scriptures for a Refuge ; and afrer thlS Man's ftrange Conftruftion, it will be t·ailing to tell a A1att J:.is Faulu: and truly, when I feriouily confider, how grofs and numerous his are, as by his very Book appears, metbintts be wa~ bard put to it for 11 Coverr. A railing Accufation, is a falfe, as well as wrathful one, which he proves page 5· the.refore a true, though fharp Reproof is none. I know it is the Humor of fuch, who would live ll.ntebuk'd, to render ie more crimi,ralto reprehend, than to conunit 11 Fa11lt ; that they may fave their Heads from the Knock of jufi: Cenfure. But who the Railet· was, we fhall take leave to m_ention in its Place: However, what has this to do with W. P. The iCcond Verfe, we are equa11y unconcerned ln. Could he have found a Text th-at fays, But theft fpeak fJJt!J.'of thofe Things, they know not; he might hJ\'C more Appro:1ch~ the Matter, by excluding our Science in the Law, in owning our great g__ood \Vill unto it. Of the lar1er, our Try· al, as by him reprefented, is a Demonftration, but I could wi!h he were no ,,-.orfc, than thofc concerned in chat Scripture, which wa1 to fpra!c evil of11Jings they knew not: For I am perf waded, be fpoke 111111i;tnm11/y evil of Tbi11gs, be knew did not Jefcrve it, \Ye VoL. I. Truth Rt]CIItil from hnpoftUt~:~,T . We do not only tell the Wotld, the Tendency ol' our Doarioe, is t\5 1610, incline Mankmd to_ Mu!t.nejr, and Pauenu, &c. bnt we blefs the God of ~ Heaven und Earth, many ten Thoufands do believe -the fume; add t~at · on better Evidence, than Hear·fay, or bare Repon. But whether S S. or his Junto, can with any tolerable Shew ofModefty condemn ·the ~1111kers, as deftitute of .Med.nefr":J.nd PMienc:t, Jbo ~:ivc!'fo much wan rod both, as they (inilrumemally,) have give~ tho; clearell Evi· den·ce of the contrary, by their inhumane PerJecutions, as WCU :Is We haVtl done it, ~yfuf!ering the fame,, I nmfure wi!J ke the ~uefli'bn. , • He begtns hJS Apology thus; Page 5• An h1gb Chnrt,< agnln/1 Sir Samtl~l Starling, tben Lord M11yot (if true) Cujus contrarlum Verurrl ~ q,tl t-b'lrtfore a railing .J1ctufotion; and tbllt Light (wh'icb is ~S theY .f3y) fl1ilhm lbtmfrlve. _(by whiCh they are aaed, and fpeak' as they pietendJ ntbrSpmt ofth<Droli, The Fatb<r ofLyu. Tllele Words both deny, and give a Charg<, but with how much Tnlth and Reafon I lha11 ex:Jmine, and begin With the latter. I take this Exprefiion to be the mcft venomoas df all his Liffrl ah~ feems to come hot from a blafpheming gna£hing Spirir, tbrougb a "Jextl Confciouftef.t of Guilt. The Light we ~rofcfs to be-gnided by, is fo far from .bl:lnlt!_he ~ilir of the De.v1l, the Fathet ofLyes; that it's of God tiJt F11tlilr oJTrutJ;; ·•·P: Here may we- read the Text, ihfened in the Period ofh is Title P~g~ For he Jpeakr evll of Divine Ditniliet, who fpeakS againft the Lig'ht; fbl ~~~ . I .And btthatf•P he btU FrUawjhip with Gcd, nnd "'''11' nbl in rbr Light1 be lyu, and dettivtr himfdf. And if dtis fcurrilOus Libeller had ever known, what it was to Qtie'} this holy Light, hewould.have for born fo impudent an Aifertion .- B~f 'tis an evident Sign of a feared Confcicnce, as well as great Ignorance, to p11blifh to the World, :bat Light i-s the Spirit of the Droit, :1nd not of.God. .How many Times do the Scriptures commemorat~ Goa, and Cbfi/l'by this Epithet ? Chrift was promifed by that very Name. !will givf hi~ for a Ligh1, to lighten the Gentiles, and John faid of him, that be wa1 thttf'tlk Lig~t1 that e11ligbtneth every Man, And Chrift gives this Tefiimony of himfelf, I am the Light of the World. Alfo the Apoftle Pnul, whatever'is reproved, U made mani/ejl hv the Light, arid John thus, God U Light, ~~~ If you walk in th1 Light, ~ God H Jjgbt, &c. And in the Revelar!dnS: The Lamb !ball be thy Light, &c. And of God, it's faid, he dwells in Light : God is Light, and in him is no Darknefs at all, f5c. Bur in this Mart there is the very Blacknefs of Darttnefs, who ca1Js Light, Darknefs, and Darknejs, Light \ Evil, Good, 1111d Good Evil. Next .I cannot chufe but obferve, how abruptly he fa Us from the Ma~tet of his Chapter, to blafpheme our holy Light, an high Charge, tbe conrr~ rywhereof i-s 1rue: .dnd th11t Light, robich iS i11 them, i-s tbe Spirit o_f rht Dlvil. Behold the Confufion and Inchlrity, of the Man, nay, a !ud~ pulling upon his own Head, the Vengeance-of the God of Light. . ~ Did he, or any elfe, ever hear us pretend to own another Lithf, than in the Phrafes, ::1nd from the Scriptures before mentioned? I ~m affur~ they did not: And though I deny his Impura1ion, yet whar if I, or anY !<_ut~ker on Earth, or all of them, had afted injurioufly to him, or any Man; mufi that bleffed Light, we fay, is given of God (and more thari pretend we are guided bv) he vilified for our Failings. No~ is it lefs than Wretched Blafphemy,' for any to fay, that beca~fB S. S. tsa moft horrible Impoftor, therefore the Grace, or Light, a;;hrc5 God IJtU given him, i-s the Spirit of the Droit. Bur this proves to me his Impiety beyond all other Demonfhations l forn o1hing's more common, than where Men with wilful Obftinacy, have lived a rebelltousand wicked Life ag1inft God's Light and Spirit in the_if Confciences, th4re to fpurn with gnafhing Teeth, and fca1ded Tongut:s, ui R r r • blafphemow!i |