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<P>AN ANSVVER TO A Dark, Confu&s;ed PAPER: ENTITULED Several Things given forth by <HI>JOHN AYNSLOE.</HI></P>
<P>WHEREIN His Confu&s;ion and Dark Spirit is manife&s;t and reproved.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Benjamin Clark,</HI> in <HI>George-Yard,</HI> in <HI>Lombard-Street.</HI> 1683.</P>
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<HEAD>AN ANSVVER TO A Dark, Confu&s;ed <HI>PAPER, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have &s;een a Paper in Print; the Title of which was, <HI>Se|veral Things given forth by the Spirit of the Lord, through a Ve&s;&s;el prepared to do the Father's Will, known by the Name of</HI> John Ayn&s;loe: wherein <HI>J.</HI> A. applauds him&s;elf that he is &s;uch a Ve&s;&s;el; and would have the Reader to believe his things are given forth by the Spirit of the Lord; and &s;o to pin their Faith upon his Pre&s;cription, form and order, and believe as he believes; but I cannot believe that he hath given forth the&s;e things from the Light and Spirit of God, becau&s;e there are &s;o many &s;tings and bitings in it.</P>
<P>Though (thou &s;ay&s;t) <HI>thou recommends them to the Light from whence they came, that in the Light thou may&s;t have an under&s;tand|ing of all things that belong to thy peace:</HI> What is that, but that I may have an under&s;tanding of thy words, and from whence they came, which are not from the light of Chri&s;t which thou &s;peaks of.</P>
<P>And thou tells the Reader, there be many fal&s;e Prophers gone into the World; <HI>and if it were po&s;&s;ible they would deceive the very Elect;</HI> but thou dur&s;t not tell the Reader what they are, nor who they are, nor their Fruits; and thou &s;ay&s;t, <HI>the Light will di&s;co|ver
<PB N="4" REF="3">what &s;ort they are,</HI> &amp;c. The Light I have already, and need not thy numerous Pre&s;criptions, that tells me of fal&s;e Prophets, and doth not tell me the Fruits by which they are known: and again thou &s;ay&s;t, <HI>if thou wilt &s;ink down into it,</HI> (to wit.) <HI>the Light not having thy mind above it, nor puft up with the profe&s;&s;ion of it, for if thou art, then thou wilt be apt to mea&s;ure with the wrong mea&s;ure, and it will be thy &s;elf, and not the Angel with his mea&s;uring Reed. John,</HI> I fear this is ju&s;t thy own condition, pu&s;t up with the profe&s;&s;ion of Light, without the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, bu&s;ied with thy own conceits as thou &s;peaks of. But <HI>John,</HI> ha&s;t thou the Angels mea&s;uring Reed? and if &s;o, what is it? why doe&s;t not thou declare what it is? and what is that outward Court thou &s;peaks of? Why doe&s;t not thou explain it, and that which pertains to it? and thou &s;peaks of &s;uch that are bu&s;ie in their own conceits; they make their own waies right and all others wrong. This is Error and Deceivablene&s;s; for Chri&s;t is <HI>the Light which lightens everyman that comes into the World;</HI> why &s;hould any man think his waies to be better than anothers, &amp;c. <HI>John,</HI> doe&s;t not thou think thy way better than the <HI>Bapti&s;ts, Presbyterians, papi&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Turks,</HI> &amp;c, and why did&s;t not thou bring thy Maid, which was thy Hou&s;e-keeper, to the men and womens Meetings, before ye went together, if thou did&s;t not conceit and think thy way better than another? and if thou thinks thy way better than another, art not thou found in the conceits, error and deceivablene&s;s; but I tell <HI>J. A.</HI> that Chri&s;t, <HI>the new and living way,</HI> is better than all the waies that Man hath invented: But who did ever force <HI>John</HI> to believe as they believed, or as the Church believed? and what was the force that thou &s;peaks of? and thou &s;peaks of &s;ome that have denied them&s;elves, and takes up the Cro&s;s and follows him, &amp;c. and do &s;it down in the heavenly places in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, page 2. but doe&s;t thou judg, <HI>John,</HI> that this is the right way, and others wrong that do not &s;it here? and doe&s;t thou think it is a better way than others that do not &s;it here? and if &s;o, then thou ha&s;t judged thy &s;elf in error and deceivablene&s;s, &s;ee thy Epi&s;tle.</P>
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<P> And <HI>J. A. Thou &s;ay&s;t they took my Jewels, and deckt them&s;elves, and plaid the Harlot; and &s;uch cannot agree among&s;t them&s;elves; a lordly &s;pirit, bearing rule in them; they &s;mite one another, and would be Lords:</HI> But who the&s;e be <HI>J. A.</HI> hath not declared, &s;o that he hath been beating the air; but <HI>J. A.</HI> &s;aith, <HI>&s;ome of the&s;e are ready to &s;ay we are Sons, if they be, it is but as</HI> Hagar <HI>and</HI> Le|ah, <HI>they mu&s;t not inherit with</HI> I&s;aac, &amp;c. <HI>but mu&s;t be ca&s;t out with Bag and Bottle. John,</HI> ha&s;t thou given forth the&s;e things from the Spirit of God; I fear malice and envy hath blinded thee, for where was ever the Sons of <HI>Leah</HI> ca&s;t out with Bag and Bot|tle? (as thou &s;ay&s;t) <HI>Hagar</HI> and <HI>I&s;hmael</HI> were; is this the An|gels mea&s;uring Reed in thee? for read <HI>Ruth</HI> 4.11. where it's &s;aid, <HI>The Lord make the woman that is come into thy Hou&s;e like</HI> Ra|chel, <HI>and like</HI> Leah, which two did build the Hou&s;e of <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> &s;o here thou may&s;t &s;ee that <HI>Leah</HI> and her Sons were e&s;teemed as well as <HI>Rachel.</HI> was not <HI>Judah</HI> &s;on of <HI>Leah?</HI> and is not Chri&s;t called <HI>the Lion of the Tribe of Judah?</HI> and did not Chri&s;t come of the Tribe of <HI>Judah? Rev.</HI> 5.5. and our Lord &s;prang out of <HI>Ju|dah, Heb.</HI> 7. how doe&s;t thou &s;ay thou ha&s;t given forth the&s;e things from the &s;pirit of the Lord? any common Profe&s;&s;or will judg thee, and &s;ee thy error that thou belies the &s;pirit of the Lord: And <HI>John,</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t, <HI>we &s;ee the King in his Glory, and behold his Face continually,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>he being given for &s;alvation to the ends of the Earth, that we look not for another.</HI> Who doe&s;t thou mean, <HI>Chri&s;t the Lion of the Tribe of</HI> Judah? and was not <HI>Judah Leahs</HI> &s;on, which thou &s;ay&s;t mu&s;t be ca&s;t out with Bag and Bottle as well as <HI>Hagar, &amp;c.</HI> and <HI>John,</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t, in page 3. <HI>if any man mini&s;ter of him&s;elf, or of his own abilities, he mini&s;ters to &s;elf in another, and feeds that which is for death, both in him&s;elf and others, and will not profit, but will redound back again upon him as un&s;avoury.</HI> This which thou ha&s;t mini&s;tred here is un&s;avoury, &amp; redounds back again upon thy &s;elf, which may feed Self and Death; which is from Self, and not the Spirit of God. And <HI>John, thou &s;ay&s;t the Church is in God,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and there is none knows her but tho&s;e that are Members of Her; and all &s;uch are Members of his Body, of his Fle&s;h, and of his Bone, though not all of one outward Profe&s;&s;ion or
<PB N="6" REF="4">Society of People, but is &V;niver&s;al.</HI> What <HI>John,</HI> not all of one outward Profe&s;&s;ion or Society? What, do they not profe&s;s Chri&s;t the Way, the Light he Truth, and his Faith and Wor&s;hip? I &s;ay, do they not confe&s;s this outwardly before men, and &s;uffer for it, and yet Fle&s;h of Chri&s;t's Fle&s;h, and Bone of his Bone, not all of one outward Profe&s;&s;ion or Society? Then what is the Profe&s;&s;ion or Society, if they be not all of one outward Profe&s;&s;ion or Society? The Apo&s;tle &s;aith to <HI>Timothy, fight the good fight of Faith, lay hold on Eternal Life, whereunto thou art al&s;o called, and profe&s;t a good Pro|fe&s;&s;ion before many Witne&s;&s;es. I give thee charge in the &s;ight of God, who quickens all things, and before Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who before</HI> Pontius Pilate <HI>witne&s;&s;ed a good profe&s;&s;ion,</HI> 1 Tim. 6.12.13. <HI>Wherefore ho|ly Brethren, Partakers of the Heavenly Calling, confider the Apo&s;tle and High Prie&s;t of our Profe&s;&s;ion Chri&s;t Je&s;us. Seeing then that we have a great High Prie&s;t, that is pa&s;&s;ed into the Heavens, Je&s;us the Son of God; let us hold fa&s;t our Profe&s;&s;ion,</HI> Heb. 3.1. &amp; 4.14. was not this Profe&s;&s;ion publi&s;hed forth outwardly from an inward po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, el&s;e how could it be before many witne&s;&s;es profe&s;t? And again, are not all the Members of Chri&s;t's Body, that are Fle&s;h of his Fle&s;h, and Bone of his Bone? are they not of one outward Profe&s;&s;ion and Society of People, if they be not all one? yet they are all one Fle&s;h, and Bone of Chri&s;t? and (<HI>John,</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t) in page 1. <HI>The Woman hath not power over her own Body; nei|ther doth the Frue Church challenge any &s;uch thing, nor make any &s;tir about it, but re&s;ts in the Bo&s;ome of her Beloved.</HI> But the Apo&s;tle tells ye, <HI>the Wife hath not power over her own Body, but the Hu&s;|band; and likewi&s;e al&s;o, the Husband hath not power over his own Body but the Wife;</HI> But this thou ha&s;t left out; and if <HI>J. A.</HI> and others were of the True Church, and did re&s;t in the Bo&s;ome of Chri&s;t, and had no power, nor did not &s;trive about it, then by what power I ask <HI>J. A. W. R. T. C. F.</HI> B. and thou thy &s;elf have made all this &s;tir and &s;trife, and printed &s;o many confu&s;ed Books again&s;t God's People; but the&s;e are &s;uch Trees, their Fruits have not declared that they re&s;t in the Bo&s;ome of Chri&s;t; and as ma|ny as receives Chri&s;t, he gives them power which are of his
<PB N="7" REF="4">Church, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to judg of the difference among&s;t them&s;elves, and to judg Angels and the World; and doe&s;t not thou give a Rule in thy Epi&s;tle? try their Spirits, the Fal&s;e Prophets Spirits? the Light will di&s;cover <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and yet thou &s;ay&s;t, <HI>a Woman hath not power over her own Body,</HI> &amp;c. But when Chri&s;t &s;ent forth his Mi|ni&s;ters to preach the Go&s;pel, he gave them power, and &s;ome had power over their own wills: and the Apo&s;tle &s;aid, <HI>They had power and would not abu&s;e it,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9. and this Power is from Chri&s;t, which Chri&s;t gives to his Church. Can <HI>J. A.</HI> &s;ay the Church takes not upon her to end Controver&s;ies, but leaves all to Her Husband; neither doth She judg Her Fellow-members. All judgment is committed to Her Husband; and yet art not thou judging in thy fir&s;t page of them that make their own way right and others wrong? And did not the Apo&s;tle judg and di&s;tingui&s;h things pertaining to true Con&s;ciences, and &s;eared Con&s;ciences? <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.13. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 8.1. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.2. If the Apo&s;tles, or the Church judged without power, then they were to blame by thee: and though Chri&s;t hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him, yet he hath given to his Church power, and the &s;pirit of judgment and of a &s;ound mind, But if <HI>J. A.</HI>'s Church leaves all Controver&s;ies pertaining to her Husband, than why did <HI>W. R.</HI> &amp; <HI>T. C.</HI> &amp; <HI>f. B.</HI> and many others print and publi&s;h &s;o ma|ny Controver&s;ies pertaining to Con&s;cience; &s;eeing that ye have no power from Chri&s;t but have left them to him? is not thy Pre&s;cription here contrary to your practice? and <HI>J. A.</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t in pag. 4. <HI>neither can She,</HI> to wit, <HI>the Church di&s;po&s;e of any thing, no not of her Dowry, it is re&s;erved for her Husbands Heir.</HI> But this Husband we mu&s;t under&s;tand is Chri&s;t, than who is Chri&s;t's Heir? as is &s;aid before, it is not the Church? <HI>She can not di&s;po&s;e of any thing, no not of her Dowry, J. A.</HI> &s;aith, but he hath not explained what is her Dowry? whether it be her Gifts which &s;he hath received from Chri&s;t? which is <HI>for the perfecting of the Saints, the work of the Mini&s;try, the edifying of the Body of Chri&s;t and not the Churches of Chri&s;t,</HI> Coheirs or Joynt-heirs with Chri&s;t; and what is the Churches Dowry as thou calls it? Is
<PB N="8" REF="5">it not Eternal Life which Chri&s;t gives her, <HI>which Dowry is re&s;er|ved</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t <HI>for her Husband's Heir, which &s;he cannot di&s;po&s;e of;</HI> then &s;he is not Heir with her Husband, <HI>to wit,</HI> Chri&s;t's Heir mu&s;t have the Dowry; therefore let me know, who is Chri&s;t her Husband's Heir, &s;eeing the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>Chri&s;t is Heir of all things,</HI> Heb. 1. and <HI>John,</HI> how dare&s;t thou father the&s;e things upon the &s;pirit of God; and <HI>John,</HI> is not the Church and the Mini|&s;ters of the Spirit to help &s;uch as are weak in faith? and what dur&s;t thou, preach, print, and &s;peak if thou would&s;t not have People to believe as thy Church believes? which if thou mini|&s;ters to the &s;pirit from the &s;pirit, it would reach to the &s;pirit, and be a &s;avour of life to the life, but thy words doth not reach to the &s;pirit of God, nor the outward rea&s;on of men: and <HI>John,</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t, <HI>the Saints &V;nity &s;tands not in outward ob&s;ervations, F.B. W.R.T.C.</HI> hath made a great noi&s;e of <HI>outward orders, forms and ob&s;ervations,</HI> but never tells what they are, for we know that <HI>the Saints &V;nity &s;tands in the &s;pirit of God;</HI> and <HI>John,</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t <HI>all are to be left free to the exerci&s;e of the faith which they have re|ceived, and not to &s;tretch it,</HI> (Mark!) <HI>to &s;atisfie their Lu&s;ts:</HI> ah <HI>John!</HI> is this given forth by the &s;pirit of God from thee? Can the Faith which Chri&s;t is the Author of, the My&s;tery, which is held in a pure Con&s;cience: Can this faith be &s;trecht to &s;atisfie thy lu&s;ts, or any man's lu&s;t? ha&s;t not thou &s;hewed thy &s;elf ig|norant, of the true, pure, &s;aving-faith of God's Elect; thou ha&s;t &s;poken many words but doe&s;t not under&s;tand what thou &s;ay&s;t: and <HI>John,</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t <HI>Conformity is an ea&s;ie way, there is no Cro&s;s to be taken up in it; Self and Fle&s;h &s;ets it up, and Fle&s;h and Self conforms to it, the Seed Chri&s;t cannot, he is without Form; he appeared in &s;everal Forms but tied to none: If any man admire the Form that he hath appeared in, he for&s;akes that Form and leaves it de&s;olate.</HI> What, are the&s;e &s;everal forms that Chri&s;t hath ap|peared in but tied to none? The Word is general, did Chri&s;t leave the form of Godline&s;s, and the form of &s;ound words, and the form of Doctrine? <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. and Chri&s;t, who being in the form of God, <HI>Phil.</HI> 2. hath Chri&s;t left this form of God de&s;olate?
<PB N="9" REF="5"><HI>thou &s;ay&s;t be is tied to no Form;</HI> and mu&s;t not Chri&s;t's Members admire the Form of God that he was in, and practice his form of Godline&s;s and Doctrine, and &s;ound words that he hath taught as they are led by his power and &s;pirit? and <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aith, &s;peak|ing of Chri&s;t by Prophecy, <HI>his Vi&s;age was marred more than any mans, his Form more than the Sons of Men;</HI> but <HI>J. A.</HI> &s;aith <HI>the Seed Chri&s;t he is without Form;</HI> but the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>he was in the Form of God,</HI> and how could they marre his Vi&s;age and Form if he had it not as a man? but the Prophet &s;aith, <HI>there was no &s;uch Form or Comline&s;s, nor Beauty, that when we &s;ee him, we &s;hould de&s;ire him;</HI> and that may be very well &s;aid now to many, and to be made conformable to the Image of the Son of God, and being conformable to his Death; Is there no cro&s;s in this Conformity? Doth Self and Fle&s;h &s;et up this Conformity? Nay, Self and Fle&s;h is crucified by this Conformity; and if thou had&s;t been guided by the Spirit of God, thou would&s;t have made a di&s;tinction betwixt the True Conformity and the Fal&s;e: <HI>J. A.</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t the <HI>form is but the Grave-clothes that the Crucified is wrapt in when the life is &s;lain; but when the Re&s;urrection is known, the Grave-clothes are left behind,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>they who are in the fir&s;t Re|&s;urrection, they contend not about Forms, but &s;it together in heaven|ly places, above Forms in Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> But <HI>John,</HI> is not Chri&s;t in the Form of God in the heavenly places? and what are the Saints above this Form? and who hath contended &s;o much about Forms as <HI>J. A.</HI> &amp; <HI>F. B. W. R. T. C.</HI> &amp; <HI>J.W.</HI> You made a great noi&s;e about Forms in Print, and yet thou &s;ay&s;t, the <HI>Church doth not take it upon Her to end Controver&s;ies, but leaves them to her Husband.</HI> So, in this you have manife&s;ted your &s;elves not to be of the Church by your practice, and do not lie in her Bo&s;ome; and <HI>J. A.</HI> where doe&s;t thou prove the Grave-Clothes that when Chri&s;t was crucified he was wrapt in to be the Form, for when the Life was &s;lain, thou &s;ai&s;t the Form is but the Grave-Clothes, in the&s;e words, therefore I prove this New Doctrine or Innovati|on; and is this the Form that the Conte&s;t hath been about betwixt form and &s;pirit and form and freedom; and now with
<PB N="10" REF="6">&s;ome, no Conformity to form no Unity Form being its Weapon, or Bond; now are the&s;e Grave-Clothes? this Weapon, with &s;ome no conformity; and if the Grave-Clothes be the Form and the Weapon, and the Bond; &s;urely <HI>John,</HI> that Weapon will not hurt thee; but <HI>John,</HI> thou mu&s;t prove the Form is the Grave-Clothes, for we cannot <HI>pin our Faith upon thy Sleeve,</HI> tho' thou fathers it upon the Spirit of God, which hath no an&s;wer to God's witne&s;s in our Con&s;ciences, nor Hearts; and <HI>J. A.</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t God hath taken away its power from it, to wit, the Form; but hath God taken his power from the form of &s;ound words, the form of Doctrine, the form of true Godline&s;s? and hath God taken away his power from Chri&s;t? who being in the form of God, <HI>&amp;c. Phil. a.</HI> hath not Chri&s;t all power in Heaven and in Earth given to him? and <HI>J. A.</HI> doe&s;t thou think to throw down all Forms without di&s;tinction, thou throws down thy own form and pre&s;criptions in preaching and print|ing, and going to outward A&s;&s;emblies; &s;o thy &s;pirit and work is come forth to be tryed with the Spirit of God, not to be of God in this work like the fal&s;e Prophets Spirit, who put no difference, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and therefore thou had&s;t better have been qui|et, than to have done this work, for it hath brought no credit to thee, and therefore call in thy printed Paper again where thou ha&s;t &s;pread it abroad.</P>
<P>This <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to <HI>John Ayn&s;loe</HI>'s Paper I &s;ent to him in a friendly way, inclo&s;ed in a Letter, wherein I de&s;ired him to con&s;ider what he had done, and to call in his confu&s;ed Paper, that young and weak Peoples minds might not be hurted and abu&s;ed there|with; and al&s;o gave him a months time to con&s;ider of it, and to call in his printed Paper, if not, he might expect this An&s;wer to be publi&s;hed in Print, but no an&s;wer I received from him, but I was informed he made &s;light of it, therefore is this An&s;wer to his Paper (which he had a Copy of as afore&s;aid) publi&s;hed in Print, in love to all young and tender-hearted People, who&s;e Faces are <HI>Zion</HI>-wards, that they may mind the Light of Chri&s;t
<PB N="11" REF="6">Je&s;us, which di&s;covers &s;uch <HI>Babel</HI>-Builders with your Works, which is with the Fire of God's Jealou&s;ie to be burnt, for a day of Con|&s;umption is determined upon them, &s;aith the Lord.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>London, <DATE>the 5th. Month. 1683.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>From One that Travels for the Pro&s;perity of</HI> Zion, <HI>JOHN TYSO.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P N="1">I. <HI>A.</HI> Thou &s;ay&s;t but &s;ome of the&s;e are ready to &s;ay we are Sons, but if they be, it is but of <HI>Hagar</HI> and <HI>Leah,</HI> they mu&s;t not inherit with <HI>I&s;aac,</HI> but mu&s;t be ca&s;t out with Bag and Bottle; and then thou tells a &s;tory of the fal&s;e Church, challenging a power to them&s;elves over their Members, to cut off and &s;et on as they plea&s;e; and that by an infallible Spirit as they &s;ay; and a woman hath not power over her own body; neither doth the True Church challenge any &s;uch thing, nor make any &s;tir about it, but re&s;ts in the Bo&s;ome of Her Beloved, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> now <HI>John,</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t <HI>Hagar</HI> and <HI>Leah,</HI> and their Sons mu&s;t be ca&s;t out with Bag and Bottle; who mu&s;t ca&s;t them out? what mu&s;t the Sons of <HI>Leah</HI> as well as <HI>Hagar</HI> be ca&s;t out? what <HI>John,</HI> wilt thou excommunicate the Sons of <HI>Leah?</HI> and then mu&s;t not <HI>Judah</HI> go out as well as the re&s;t? and Chri&s;t the Lion of the Tribe of <HI>Judah?</HI> for thou &s;ay&s;t they mu&s;t be ca&s;t out with Bag and Bottle, it is well thou wilt &s;uf|fer them to have a Bag and a Bottle, and yet the woman hath not power over her own body; neither do the Church challenge any &s;uch thing, to wit, Power, nor makes a &s;tir about it: hath &s;he no pow|er as thou &s;ay&s;t, to ca&s;t out <HI>Hagar</HI> and <HI>Leah</HI>'s Sons with Bag and Bottle? and yet they mu&s;t be ca&s;t out too; and this thou &s;ay&s;t thou ha&s;t given forth from the &s;pirit of the Lord, but it is from thy mi&s;|carrying Womb which thou &s;peaks of; but <HI>John,</HI> who hath made a &s;tir about it, to wit, the Power? hath it not been <HI>J. S. J. W. F. B. T. C.</HI> and thy &s;elf? have not your printed Books and Papers made it manife&s;t to your &s;hame and nakedne&s;s? but if the woman have not power over her own body; neither doth the True Church
<PB N="12" REF="7">challenge any &s;uch thing, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> then by what power do they of|fer up their Souls, Bodies and Spirits to the Lord?</P>
<P>And <HI>J. A.</HI> did&s;t thou give licence or power to <HI>W. R. T. C.</HI> and <HI>F. B.</HI> to publi&s;h thy name &s;o often in their wicked Books again&s;t God's People? or did&s;t thou ever reprove them for &s;o doing con|cerning thy taking thy Hou&s;e-keeper to thy Wife? which is pub|li&s;hed to all your &s;hame: <HI>John,</HI> when thou wente&s;t to the mens Meeting, and told them thou did&s;t intend to take thy Hou&s;e-keeper to thy Wife, or to that effect; did not Friends ask thee where was thy Hou&s;e-keeper, and de&s;ired that &s;he might come next Meeting with thee, to the intent they might hear what &s;he &s;aid to it, and thou coming no more, nor &s;he at all before Friends, that they might hear what &s;he &s;aid to that which thou had&s;t pro|pounded before the Meeting in her ab&s;ence. How <HI>John,</HI> could Friends be witne&s;&s;es without hearing of you both face to face, but &s;he never appeared before them, nor thou again about the mat|ter: and did ye not go both together; and now becau&s;e Friends judged &s;uch a di&s;orderly practice, and &s;uch was judged as the Ca&s;e of <HI>J. H.</HI> and another in <HI>Kent,</HI> and another in the <HI>North</HI> about twenty years agoe, who &s;tood up in the A&s;&s;emblies, and &s;aid they intended to take &s;uch a one, and the woman not there; and this is below men, for they would hear what the women &s;aid to it if they be witne&s;&s;es, and therefore we judged &s;uch practices a|bove twenty years agoe, that none might deceive or abu&s;e young women or widows behind their backs, but that both might be heard face to face, with con&s;ent of their Parents and Relations: and how often doth <HI>W. R.</HI> &s;peak over and over in his Book again&s;t judging, and not hearing face to face? and how would Friends have judged of <HI>John Ayn&s;loe</HI>'s Marriage, without hearing her at a Meeting with him what &s;he &s;aid to his Propo&s;al: nay <HI>John,</HI> thou mu&s;t not think to impo&s;e &s;uch wicked and di&s;orderly things upon God's People; nor <HI>W. R.</HI> nor <HI>F. B.</HI> who hath &s;o often publi&s;hed thy name in their Books again&s;t us about thy Marriage; which pra|ctice was below civil men, and is judged with the &s;pirit of Truth.</P>
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