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id: A41791
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1691.0
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title:
  The slanderer rebuked, or, The vindication of Thomas Grantham against the malicious slanders of one Mr. Toathby, a seller of wool in the city of Norwich

summary:
  The slanderer rebuked, or, The vindication of Thomas Grantham against the malicious slanders of one Mr. Toathby, a seller of wool in the city of Norwich Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692. 1691 Approx. The slanderer rebuked, or, The vindication of Thomas Grantham against the malicious slanders of one Mr. Toathby, a seller of wool in the city of Norwich Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.


id: A41777
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5883
sentence: 192
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A41777.xml
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title:
  The forerunner to a further answer (if need be) to two books lately published against Tho. Grantham of Norwich wherein the spirit and temper of the Calvinists is discovered, particularly Mr. Calvin, Mr. Finch, and his little præcursor : to which is prefixed, the solid testimony of Mr. George Wither, against Calvinism, the worst of doctrines / by Tho. Grantham ...

summary:
  Grantham of Norwich wherein the spirit and temper of the Calvinists is discovered, particularly Mr. Calvin, Mr. Finch, and his little præcursor : to which is prefixed, the solid testimony of Mr. George Wither, against Calvinism, the worst of doctrines / by Tho. Grantham of Norwich wherein the spirit and temper of the Calvinists is discovered, particularly Mr. Calvin, Mr. Finch, and his little præcursor : to which is prefixed, the solid testimony of Mr. George Wither, against Calvinism, the worst of doctrines / by Tho.


id: A41779
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1680.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8667
sentence: 278
flesch: 62
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title:
  A friendly epistle to the bishops and ministers of the Church of England for plain truth and sound peace between the pious Protestants of the Church of England and those of the baptised believers written with the advice of divers pastors and brethren of the baptised congregations, by Tho. Grantham.

summary:
  1. That the Election and Ordination of Min●sters , of what Rank soever , be restored ( wher●in it shall appear to have been neglected ) in 〈◊〉 most solemn manner that may be , accordi●● to the Scriptures : 1. It 's here propounded , as greatly necessary to a tru● Christian state , that some effectual Course be resolve● upon , to keep ( as far as may be consistent with Trut● and Charity ) a holy and just Distinction , between thos● who lead wicked and Scandalous Lives , and them tha● live holily , according to the general Rules of Christianity , without respect of Persons .


id: A47381
author: Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
date: 1697.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8497
sentence: 539
flesch: 81
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title:
  The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.

summary:
  WE believe that Baptism is a Holy Ordinance of Christ , or a pure Gospel-Institution ; and to be unto the Party baptized , a sign of his Fellowship with Christ in his Death , Burial , and Resurrection , and of his being grafted into him , and of Remission of Sins , and of his giving himself up to God , through Jesus Christ , to walk in Newness of Life . That the Law God gave by Moses to Israel , was of the same nature of that given to Adam , being a second Ministration of it ; but not given for Life , but to make Sin exceeding sinful , and to shew how unable Man was in his fallen state to fulfil the Righteousness of God ; and so ( with the Ceremonial Law ) it was given in subservienty to the Gospel , as a Schoolmaster to bring Sinners to Christ.


id: A60617
author: Smith, William, d. 1673.
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mime: application/xml
words: 9248
sentence: 183
flesch: 49
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title:
  The Baptists sophistry discovered in a brief answer to a late pamphlet entituled The Quakers subterfuge or evasion overturned : wherein all people may plainly see ... / by William Smith.

summary:
  For , how hast thou endeavoured to make the Nation believe , through what thou hast offered and sacrificed , That the Quakers are a Deluded People ; and that of 〈◊〉 it must be so , from something that happened between Richard A 〈…〉 son of Panton in Lincolnshire , and thy self , as thou assertest ? and in that particular Matter thou hast concern'd the whole Society of the People called Quakers ; and hast endeavoured to insinuate their Principles and Practices to be the same with that which thou chargest upon R. A. to be Erroneous : And hast not thou appeared very insolent in this thy Folly ? Ans. It is to be observed , That the very Ground of all the Buzzle and Noise , which thou hast made against the Quakers , is only from the bare and single Confession of R. A. and thy own Consequences and Conclusion from what he hath confessed and said , but thy groundless Conclusions do not prove so effectual for thy purpose ; as thou might'st vainly suppose when thou begun'st thy work : for though thou hast made such a Noise against the Light Within , and against the Quakers , because R. A. might tell thee , The Quakers did tell him , he was to mind the Light , to be guided by it ; yet the Light is not to be charged with R. A's Miscarrying , if he did Miscarry in any thing wherein he concern'd the Light : for if he did concern the Light in giving Judgment against thee , and then afterwards confest , that he was Deceived , and was a False Prophet ; this doth not make the Light to be a False Principle , nor those that are faithful to it , to be guided by it , a Deluded People : and if he did confess , that he was Deceived , it doth not follow , that the Light deceived him ; for there were never any false Prophets in the True Light , nor never any True Prophets out of it ; and so it is very clear , that R. A. was not guided by the True Light when he was deceived , and was a false Prophet ; neither doth it appear by all thou hast said , that he was guided by the Light , and yet he must be call'd a Quaker , because he might sometimes have something to say of the Light , and against Water-Baptism : and suppose this was granted , yet it doth not make him any more a Quaker , then for a man to speak of Water-Baptism and against the Pope would make him a Baptist ; and if such a man should do or say something that is a manifest Error , would you Baptists take it well , that his Error should be charged upon your whole Society , and you counted a Deluded People because of such a Miscarriage by that man , when he was never taken notice of to be owned by you ? it may well be concluded , That you would be ready to clear your selves , both from the man , and his Miscarriage ; and to blame such as should lay his Miscarriage upon you : And if you would not be willing to bear such a thing your selves , if cast upon you from such a Ground , why then do you so much busie your selves to do it unto us ?


id: A47606
author: Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
date: 1697.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8901
sentence: 608
flesch: 82
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title:
  A short confession of faith containing the substance of all the fundamental articles in the larger confession put forth by the elders of the Baptist churches, owning personal election and final perserverance.

summary:
  WE believe that Baptism is a Holy Ordinance of Christ , or a pure Gospel-Institution ; and to be unto the Party baptized , a sign of his Fellowship with Christ in his Death , Burial , and Resurrection , and of his being grafted into him , and of Remission of Sins , and of his giving himself up to God , through Jesus Christ , to walk in Newness of Life . That the Law God gave by Moses to Israel , was of the same nature of that given to Adam , being a second Ministration of it ; but not given for Life , but to make Sin exceeding sinful , and to shew how unable Man was in his fallen state to fulfil the Righteousness of God ; and so ( with the Ceremonial Law ) it was given in subserviency to the Gospel , as a Schoolmaster to bring Sinners to Christ .


id: A47522
author: Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
date: 1697.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13541
sentence: 762
flesch: 78
cache: cache/A47522.xml
txt: txt/A47522.txt
title:
  The glory of a true church, and its discipline display'd wherein a true gospel-church is described : together with the power of the keys, and who are to be let in, and who to be shut out / by Benjamin Keach.

summary:
  Many Reverend Divines of th● Congregational way , have written most excellently ( it is true ) upon th●● Subject , I mean on Church-Discipline ; but the Books are so voluminou● that the Poorer Sort can't purchas● them , and many others have not Tim● or Learning enough to improve them to their Profit ; and our Brethren th● Baptists have not written ( as I ca● gather ) on this Subject by it self● Therefore I have been earnestly desired by our Members , and also by on● of our Pastors , to write a small and plain Tract concerning the Rules 〈◊〉 the Discipline of a Gospel-Church that all Men may not only know our Faith , but see our Order in this cas● also . Yet n● doubt , the Church may Suspend him from his Communion , & exercisin● of his Office presently , upon hi● being fully Convicted .


id: A41786
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1676.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 15381
sentence: 584
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A41786.xml
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title:
  The quæries examined, or, Fifty anti-queries seriously propounded to the people called Presbyterians Occasioned by the publication of Fifty queries, gathered out of the works of Mr. Rich. Baxter. By J. B. Wherein the principal allegations usually brought to support infant-baptism are discovered to be insufficient. By T. G.

summary:
  Whether these things be surely suggested against Mr. T , and whether you ought not to have set down his opinion in his own words ? and whether he doth not mainly oppose himself against Mr. Baxter's Pretended Law for Infant Church-Membership and Baptism , whiles yet he denies not Infants a saving Promise , or the Promise of saving Prepriety in God. Antipedobapt . And if the Church at Jerusalem , Rome , &c. had any Infant-Members therein , in the sence wherein you would have them Members , why do you not name some one Infant so made a Member , sith you know it would suffice , Wherher if the Jews grafting in , must in all Points answer to their breaking off , their Infants must not come to other Ordinances as well as Baptism ? or will you say Infants cannot partake with their Parents of salvation without Baptism ? or whether was the Infants of the Jews exposed to damnation by their Parents unbelief ?


id: A41787
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1674.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 15429
sentence: 587
flesch: 70
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title:
  A religious contest, or A brief account of a disputation holden at Blyton in the county of Lincoln between Mr. William Fort minister of the perochial congregation at Blyton on the one part, and Thomas Grantham, servant to the baptised churches on the other part : whereunto is added Brief animadversions upon Dr. Stilling-fleet his digressions about infant baptism in his book intituled, A rational account of the Protestant religion, &c., in both which are shewed that the generality of the nations now professing Christianity are as yet unbaptised into Christ : 1. Because their sprinkling and crossing the fore-head is not the right way of baptising, 2. Because infants ought not to be baptised.

summary:
  And as eviden● it is , that Acts ● 38. 39. intends not Infants seeing the persons there to be baptised , even every one of them , are required first to repent ; a duty of which Infants are wholly uncapable ; and the promise there mentioned is clearly meant of the gi●ts of the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of promise in a special manner , according to the Prophesie of Jo●l , the extent of which promise is only to the called of the Lord , v●rse 39 ▪ and this interpretation also is avouched by learned Protestants , See Diodate on the Text , and Erasmus on the same ; Dr Jer. Taylor in his book of confirmation doth fully expound this place , of the promise of the Spirit both to the Parents , and to the Children , as they are the called of the Lord , and not to infants in that capacity . But I answer , for both these cau●es Infants are not to be bapti●ed , and sith their incapacity depends upon the nature of the institution these two reasons are resolved into one ; Now the institution of baptism , whether we consider it as delivered by God to his Servant John , and by him to us ; or as it is established by precept from Christ , for a perpetual Ministry in his Church to the end of the world ▪ we shall find it delivered by both in such sort , as it is exclusive of infants ; for , in the first place it is deli●ered as the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ; Mark 1. 4. and every sinner who is said to be baptised by him , is said to be baptised confessing their sins , verse 5. which we know is not to be expected of Infants .


id: A41783
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1671.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 20503
sentence: 590
flesch: 61
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title:
  The Pædo-baptists apology for the baptized churches shewing the invalidity of the strongest grounds for infant baptism out of the works of the learned assertors of that tenent, and that the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins is a duty incumbent upon all sinners who come orderly to the profession of Christianity : also the promise of the Spirit [b]eing the substance of a sermon on I Cor. 12, I, to which is added a post-script out of the works of Dr. Jer. Taylor in defence of imposition of hands as a never failing ministery / by Tho. Grantham.

summary:
  To b●ptism il●umira●ion , — And to Confirma●ion he reckons tasting the Heavenly gift and being made par●akers of the Holy Ghost ▪ By the thing sig●ified declaring the sign , and by ●he miste●y the 〈◊〉 ▪ Upon these words ●t Chrisostom● discoursing sayes , That all these are foundamental Articles : that it that ●e ought to repent from dead works ; to be baptized ●●to the Faith of Christ , and be made worthy of the gift of the spirit , who is given by imposition of hands and we are to be taught the misteries of the Resurrection and Eternal Judgement . Walfridus Strabo de rebus Eccl●s●●c 26. tells us , that we must know at ●h● fi●st believers were baptized simply in Floods and Fountains .


id: A41788
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19846
sentence: 1075
flesch: 82
cache: cache/A41788.xml
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title:
  St. Paul's catechism, or, A brief and plain explication of the six principles of the Christian religion, as recorded Heb. 6., 1,2 with some considerations of the principles of natural and universal religion, as previous, and yet subservient to the rules of revealed and positive relgion: containing also, the duties of children to their superiors, written chiefly for the instruction of young Christians, children and servants in all Christian families / by Tho. Grantham.

summary:
  For the Gosp●● of the Grace of God teacheth us to deny all Vngodlyne●● and worldly Lusts , and to live soberly , righteously , and g●dly on this present Life , Tit. 2. 11 , 12. Christians are ●●rictly obliged to observe all things whatsoever Christ comm●●ded , Ma● . Christ made of God un●● us Righteousness , 1 Cor.


id: A47612
author: Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20257
sentence: 818
flesch: 83
cache: cache/A47612.xml
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title:
  Spiritual songs being the marrow of Scripture in songs of praise to Almighty God from the Old and New Testament : with a hundred divine hymns on several occasions as now practised in several congregations in and about London : with a table of contents / by Benjamin Keach, author of the war with the devil.

summary:
  3 Wise-men behold the Star , Which was their stedfast Guide , Until it pointed forth the Babe : Let God be Glorify'd ! 4 Heaven and Earth rejoyce O Lord ! and shall not I ? All Glory to God and the Lamb : Or , A Hymn of Thanksgiving for the great Salvation of Christ . 1 NOw let us sing our Saviour's Praise , and spread his Glory forth ; His Honour wholly let us raise that shines through all the Earth : 2 Who would not fear and praise thy Name thou great and glorious One , The World shall worship Thee , to whom thy grace and goodness's shown . 3 All Glory , Pow'r , and Honour , Thou art worthy to receive , For all things , Lord by the were made , and by thy pleasure live .


id: A41780
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1687.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 22048
sentence: 628
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A41780.xml
txt: txt/A41780.txt
title:
  Hear the church, or, An appeal to the mother of us all to all the baptized believers in England, exhorting them to stedfastness in the truth, according to the scriptures : together with some farther considerations of seven queries, sent to the baptized believers in Lincolnshire, concerning the judge of contriversies in matters of religion : in three parts / by Thomas Grantham.

summary:
  Sometimes the Church at Alexandria , sometimes the Church at Constantinople , and especially the Church at Rome , pressing very hard for Precedence of Honour , and Preheminence of Power ; few minding the poor afflicted Church at Jerusalem , the true Mother of all true Christian Churches ; when yet the Holy Ghost hath left a high Commendation upon those who do follow Her , both in the effectual Reception of the Gospel , not as the Word of such or such a man , ( though preached by Apostles ) but as it is in truth the Word of God , 1 Thess . And whether the first clear mention of it be not from Tertullian ? and whether the Learned do not confess that he opposed it in the third Century as an irrational and unwarrantable Custom ? Also , whether that Church , whose manner of admitting Persons into her Communion , her Constitution and Government , are according to the Scriptures , Mat. 28. 19 , 20. Heb. 6. 1 , 2 , &c. be not the true Church of Christ ?


id: A62868
author: Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
date: 1659.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 25276
sentence: 908
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A62868.xml
txt: txt/A62868.txt
title:
  Felo de se, or, Mr. Richard Baxter's self-destroying manifested in twenty arguments against infant-baptism / gathered out of his own writing, in his second disputation of right to sacraments by John Tombes.

summary:
  Infant baptism -- Early works to 1800. As it happens to fellow-travellers , when they are all out of the right way , one conjectures this way they should go , another that , and sometimes they are at hot disputos and contentions about their way , and many by-ways are attempted , yet still the farther they go the more out of the way , till they come into the Road again : So it hath been with Baptizers of Infants ; they are fallen into many new devices to maintain Infant Baptism , the ancients with the Papists imagining that by it Gods grace was given , and that it was necessary to save the child from perishing , the Lutherans that by Baptism a seed of faith and some relative grace was given to Infants ( to which Doctor Samuel Ward , Bishop Davenant , Doctor Cornelius Burges , Master Thomas Bedford , Master James Cranford , and others have of late much inclined ) others opposing these have fallen into as bad conceits of the Covenant of Gospel grace , as made to a believer and his seed , Baptisms succession to Jewish Circumcision , and fetching a rule from thence , as others from the Jewish Baptism .


id: A41774
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1663.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29083
sentence: 1055
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A41774.xml
txt: txt/A41774.txt
title:
  The Baptist against the papist, or, The Scripture and Rome in contention about the supream seat of judgment, in controversies of religion together with ten arguments or reasons, discovering the present papal church of Rome to be no true church of Christ : wherein it is also evinced that the present assemblies of baptized believers, are the true church of Jesus Christ / by Tho. Grantham ...

summary:
  THE SECOND PART , SHEWETH , That the present Papal Church of Rome , is not the Church of Christ , for divers important Causes or Reasons . The Seed of the Woman ( or Gospel-Church ) are all such as have the Faith of Jesus , and keep the Commandments of God , at least in Profession ; for that is the thing that is absolutely necessary , in order to any Person 's admission into the Church of Christ , John 3. 5 , 6. 2 Cor. 5. 16 , 17. Rev. 12. ult . Gal. 3. 26 , 27 , 28. 2. All the Children of the new Covenant , or Church of Christ , do DIFFER from the Church under Moses , SO , as that they , each individual , do so know the Lord , as that they need not , in some sort , teach one another , saying , Know the Lord , Heb. 8. Jer. 31.


id: A41790
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1671.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36396
sentence: 1098
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A41790.xml
txt: txt/A41790.txt
title:
  A sigh for peace, or, The cause of division discovered wherein the great Gospel promise of the Holy Ghost, and the doctrine of prayer with imposition of hands, as the way ordained of God to seek for it, is asserted and vindicated, as the interest and duty of Christs disciples in general : in answer to a book intituled A search for schism / by Tho. Grantham ...

summary:
  That which — we have heard , which we have ●●en with our eyes , which we have look'd upon , and our hands have handled of the word of Life . — tha● which we have seen and heard declare we unto you 1 John 1. 1 , 5. But why so ? verily because there is only one Lord Jesus our Saviour , whom the Heavens must retain till the times of the resti●ution of all things ; even so , if there were not a succession of Apostles , it were one of the easiest things in the World to discover a false Ap●stle .


id: A85422
author: Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.
date: 1653.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37302
sentence: 1011
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A85422.xml
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title:
  VVater-dipping no firm footing for Church-communion: or Considerations proving it not simply lawful, but necessary also (in point of duty) for persons baptized after the new mode of dipping, to continue communion with those churches, or imbodied societies of saints, of which they were members before the said dipping; and that to betray their trust or faith given unto Jesus Christ to serve him in the relation and capacity, whether of officers, or other members, in these churches (respectively) by deserting these churches, is a sin highly provoking in the sight of God. Together with a post-script touching the pretended Answer to the Forty queries about Church-communion, infant and after baptism. By John Goodwin, a servant of God in the Gospel of his dear Son.

summary:
  For {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , to teach , doth not signifie to teach men so , as to make them willing to obey the Gospel , For what can be more evident then that the Apostle by the particle , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , as manyas , in the Scriptures before us , did not intend to divide the beleeving members of the Churches of Rome & Galatia , from the unbeleeving party of men in these places , but only beleevers themselves amongst themselves , the baptized , from the un-baptized ; considering that in the former of the said places , he expresseth himself thus ; Know ye not that so many of Us as were baptized into Jesus Christ , &c. and in the latter , thus : For as many of YOV as have been baptized , & c ?


id: A41782
author: Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
date: 1684.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 43765
sentence: 1667
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A41782.xml
txt: txt/A41782.txt
title:
  The loyal Baptist, or, An apology for the baptized believers ... occasioned by the great and long continued sufferings of the baptized believers in this nation / by Thomas Grantham ...

summary:
  And because due Qualifications , and Election , is as necessary to a true Minister of Christ , as Ordination , seeing it 's most certain , that unless God do first make Men Ministers , it 's impossible for the Church ( rightly ) to make them Ministers . To avoid this damning Iniquity , we are willed to consider our new Birth , and as new-born Babes to evidence our delight to be in the sincere Milk of the Word of God , not in the Vanities of this World , where we are but Pilgrims and Strangers ; assuring us , that as Christ is the sure Foundation to support his Church :


id: A35520
author: Curwen, Thomas.
date: 1665.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 69690
sentence: 1463
flesch: 57
cache: cache/A35520.xml
txt: txt/A35520.txt
title:
  This is an answer to John Wiggans book, spread up and down in Lancashire, Cheshire and Wales, who is a baptist & a monarchy-man wherein may be seen how he exalts himself, against Christ the light, that doth enlighten every man : and also some of his, and his peoples erronious principles, and assertions, which he and his people held in a dispute, with some Quakers ... / from the prisoners at Lancaster, whom he then opposed being then a prisoner, Thomas Curwen, William Houlden, Henery Wood, William VVilson ; also here is an answer to his appendix annexed to the book by Margaret Fell.

summary:
  And whereas thou faith thou art not inclined to multiply words to occasion strife , and yet thou contradicts thy self , and multiplys many words to no purpose against the saving Light of Christ , and which is saving , who said he would give for a Covenant of Light , and is the peace between God and man ; and that which thou multiplys is against him , which occasions nothing but strife and confusion , and not peace , for the Peace is in Christ , the Light which thou canst not abide to hear on , that every man has a saving Light ; because it marrs thy trade , and thy great Diana would be taken away ( to wit ) thy Gain ; for preaching Christ the Light , mar'd the great Diana and all the Workmens Gain , as thou may read in the Acts : And thou said thou would meet us in a spirit of Love and meekness , but it proved otherwise , when thou appeared at the dispute . All these is nothing to the matter in hand , for the Dispute was not about the Saints having the Light , for because Believers had it , and was grown to such conditions , this doth not make out that the Unbelievers had it not ; for God sends Rain both upon the just and unjust ; and God so loved the World that he gave his onely begotten Son into the World to enlighten the World ; that whosoever believed in him should not perish ; and such as do believe in him have faith , and comes to be Sons , and comes to receive Christ to dwell in them , and rule in them ; but those that hate Light , will not have this man to rule over them ; and hath not God dealt to every man a measure of faith through the Grace that is given ; and doth not the Grace of God which appears to all men , bring Salvation ? which is sufficient and justifies ? read Timothy , Tit. 2. Rom. 12. and had not the unprofitable servant a Talent to improve , and was not that Talent , saving as well as the talent of the other two , that did improve them , if he had improved it , and doth not some that 's wicked , make shipwrack of Faith , and of a good conscience , and turn the Grace of God into wantonness , 1 Tim. 1. 19. these departed from the faith , and erred from the faith , and cast off their faith , and Tim. 5. 8. and the 16. 10. now by thy assertion thou sayes , these had not faith , &c. And whereas thou sayes , We brought nothing to weaken thy arguments but that Scripture in the first of Iohn 9. which saith , That is the true Light that enlightens every man that comes into the World ; which we say is saving : but many other proofes we brought ( but thou regarded none ) out of Iohn and Esaiah , to prove that Christ was the Light and Salvation to the ends of the Earth ; and so thou are not only ignorant of Scripture , but darker then the Common-Prayer Book , for it saith , Almighty God which sheweth unto all men that be in error the light of thy Truth , to the intent they may return into the way of Salvation , &c. and as for thy accusing us for wresting the Scriptures and hard censures , we speak them as they were , but it was thou that wrested Scriptures to maintain thy assertions , but could not ; and when thou manifested thy ignorance , M. F. told thee of thy ignorance , and as it did , and yet doth appear , and by denying and opposing the light , thou manifested thy self to be a miserable Creature , and an enemy of God , and denyed the Lord that bought thee ; and Rich.


