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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Early works to 1800. Fox, George, 1624-1691 -- Early works to 1800. Society of Friends -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800. 2005-08 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-09 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-10 John Latta Sampled and proofread 2005-10 John Latta Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-01 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Winding-Sheet FOR Controversie Ended . SO Unpleasant are the Dead among the Living , and so Unfit for any thing besides a Grave , that to remove this Deceast Controversie out of sight , who was both Troublesom Living , and by her Numerous Corruptions , Noisom , now Dead ; I the least of all Men concern'd to be Kind , contribute a Winding-Sheet towards her Funeral ; unless in this I am remembred above others , whatever may be Peevish , Rude , Revengeful , and Impiously Unjust to Man , she has without all Consideration , besides her own Free-Will , left me for a Legacy . That I may not be False to the Truth , Cruel to my own Name , nor Unjust to the World , resolved I am to declare how I came thus in her Books , and to take a Serious View of this Last Will and Testament , and see if I can Vindicate the Truth , Defend my Self , and Detect her Villany to all People ; which Her must be an HE sometimes , I mean , Henry Hedworth by Name . I shall be very brief , yet Defend my self , Vindicate G. F. consider the Doctrines toucht on , of Light , Rule , Divinity , Humanity of Christ , Scriptures Perverted , and his Contradictions , Lyes and Revenge . Sect. I. William Penn Defended . § . 1. Pag. 1. COntroversie Ended . Too Big Words , and Happy ; but Unhappily applyed : Proud and Arrogant ; not The , or A Controversie , but Controversie Ended ; a Lye in the Front of it , while Civil and Religious Wars remain . But certainly , a Lye with a Witness , if It should in this respect not be Ended . An Ill-guarded Expression , and dangerous to H. H. Again , Pag. 1. § . 2. William Penn , their Ablest Advocate . Why Ablest , but because his Ambition Scorn'd to Engage a Mean One. Self-Pride , and not Justice to W. Penn. But to proceed , Pag. 4. § . 3. I looked upon him as a Man of some Learning , Judgment and Conscience ; but I find my self Mistaken , in reference to his Judgment and Conscience . How can he choose , who denies Infallibility ? But if Mistaken before , why not in the Quakers now ? and so , ad infinitum , being so fallible . Because then we did not utterly Reject him , in hopes of Good from him ; but since slighted , with his Dark Imaginations , he is like Satan from Heaven fallen among the Anabaptists , who indeed Glean but our Leavings , though they Foolishly , yet Gladly turn his Busie Agents . But let it be observed , that he not only charges my Judgment , but Conscience ; which none can do , that has not Inward Inspection ; if so ; does he not censure that as Arrogant in the Quakers , which he does himself ? What is it , but to make me a very Rogue , to Write against my Judgment and Conscience ? and why , but because I answer'd ; he invited me to it : and had I not done it I had been vanquisht ; and now I have done it , it is against my Judgment and Conscience ; Is this the Meek and Impartial Socinian , or Arrogance it self ? I appeal to the Unprejudiced in this Particular . His Failing or Foulness here , should Antidote all Sober Minds against his other Impostures . Again , Pag. 5. § . 4. If they set their Names to their Books , to have Praise of Men , I seek it not . Meer Deceit and Hypocrisie ! Controversie Ended never yet durst set her Name to any Publick Thing I ever saw from her . A very Night-Bird and Wanderer ; one , that looks and creeps about like a Vagrant . It is Honesty in us to own our Books , and an high Self-denial to suffer our Names to be subjected to the Reviling of every such Detractor . But take notice , that Paul , who so often begins with his Name , and every other Author extant , is reproved by this Angry Momus , But hear him . Pag. 5. § . 5. Next , He is much offended at a Quondam Friend of his , who was so Kind as to give away some Six-Penny Books to those he knew would not buy them . A Notable Charge ! And who was this Quondam Friend ? that Little Great Pragmatical Thomas Firmin : A Monster , all Tongue , and no Ears ; it seems he is now become an Enemy then , but for what ? because I abhor his Folly , Lightness and Foul Mouth . Who bid him buy the Books ? Was he beg'd to do it ? or did I sell them him ? or was he Angry he could not sell them himself ? What! Would he have added the Stationer , without Licence , to his many other little Trades ? It seems he took Money of as many as would buy them : and if he gave them to those that would not , let him look to that . But Disingenuous Men ? Christians ? No , I would detest to fasten such Dirty Scandals upon a Turk . Away with your Socinian-Agency . Is this the End of all your Creeping Daubs , Dissimulated Praise , and Hypocritical Address ? But indeed , what other could there be ? Pag. 6. § . 6. He proceeds , Measure his Book by the Title , The Spirit of Truth Vindicated against that of Error and Envy Unseasonably Manifested ( as if there were a Season for the Manifestation of Error and Envy ) in a late Malicious Libel . My Title is Serious : I did not say , The Spirit of the Socinians Tryed , according to that Discovery it has made of it self , in their ( Lamentable , yet Conceited Agent ) Henry Hedworth ; as he did of the Quakers and G. Fox , much less , affirm them to be Impostors , Lyars and False Prophet : No , God forbid , though Provok't thereto , by an Envious Libel , which Controversie Ended begun with us upon . Nor is there any Time or Season , in which to manifest Error and Envy justifiably , yet for all this Carping Zoilus , every thing has its Time , and even Wicked Men may , as to the Prosperity of their own Concerns , Unseasonably Time their Projects , as did the Author of that Discourse . For his Collection of my Expressions , with respect to his Epistle , let the Reader peruse my Book , and see the Occasion : There is nothing so Detestable and Hard as Impostor , Lyar , False Prophet ; nor so Foul as Puppy , Fool , Cheat , Knave , &c. But no more after this time of the Latter , as fresh Accusation , because Recanted , which is the first time I ever heard of it : only , that Free Way , as H. Hedworth mincingly calls it , of so speaking , and that not privately , as he pretends ; but in the Hearing of many , in a Publick Place , much better deserves a Bridewell , than an Exchange . § . 7. But W. P. ( like a Man that will Rob his Neighbour for Praise , rather then go without it ) saith thus , Sect 2. If we Excel in All Things ; I said , Whilst some of you Excel in Many Things . Here W. P. has committed a Double Falsity . 1. He puts All for Many . 2. Quakers indefinitely , for Some of Them. I have lookt among the Printers Errata's , whether he had not Corrected ALL for MANY , but I find no such thing : If I should grant him that Error ( without good Reason ) yet the other piece of Falsity , viz. Putting We , the Quakers in general , for Some of them , will abide by him , to the Gross Injury of Me , and Shame of Himself . This , Reader , which he layes so great a Stress upon , I will manifest to be deep Ignorance or Malice . 'T is true , ALL is put for MANY in the place cited , and has been by me Corrected with a Pen , and never was in my Copy . But what then ? do I answer it as All or Many ? If as the First , then I Err ; yet perhaps not designedly neither : but if as the Last , MANY ; what Hurt have I done . Sober Reader , hear my Book . If we excel in ALL Things , as he confesseth ( there 's the Cavil ) which is to say , there are but Few Things wherein we do not transcend all others : how possibly can we be Dangerous and Dishonourable to the Christian Religion ? Is the Christian Religion among the Few Things , wherein we are supposed wanting , which is the main Thing of all ? If so , what are the MANY ? Judge O Impartial People ! How Dis-ingenuously , and with what Envy he hath aggravated , that All for Many , when my own Answer makes no Advantage by it , but runs as it would have done had Many been instead of All : Is it true then , that to esteem it an Error in Printing is without Good Reason , for which there is so evident a Reason ? Does this Man make Conscience of a Lye ? An Idle Shifter . To his Second , He is here as False as in the Former ; for the Paragraph immediately fore-going , to which this has reference , speaks thus , He is pleased to allow us , at least , a great many of us to be Honest-Hearted , &c. If this takes in the Quakers in General , or if any such word as Quakers in General be mentioned , or by me made to be the Consequence of his words , and not rather some of them , I will confess to have wronged him : In the mean time , he has kept to his old wont of most Ungodly Defamations , and fastening upon Mens Writings Plain Untruths , but of his own making . God the Righteous Judge will Reward him . Pag. 9. § . 8. Lastly , But he tells us again , that in Sect. 8. which is Page 13. of my Spirit of Truth Vindicated , I say , I will not give him the Lye , and that in Page 92. I tell him , he has broke his Word with us , which in plainer English is , He has told a Lye , and would therefore fix the Lye on me ; saying , I am Unchristian and Uncivil . But if this be an Answer to my Just Objection against his Twice Breach of Promise with us , not to Reflect , yet immediately to do it , not to use Scripture or Reason , counting us Unworthy , yet endeavour at both ; let 's forever give off Writing . What ? tell me I Lye , because more then Seventy Pages of the Former Passage , in quite another case , I say , that breaking a Man's word , is , in Plainer English , telling a Lyar : If I did forbear it at first , it was meer Curtesie . The Author's Countenance in Lyes , might well justifie my saying what I did ; however , Lye and Contradict he did , and he denies it not , whatever I did : but it seems his Proud Spirit can't abide to be spoken plainly to ; and to tell Truth of him , or reprove his Lyes , must cost a Man as much Implacable Scurrility , as may be expected in case of Real Wrong , from the most Dissolute of Men. This is H. H. with his Grim Socinian Cavils burson'd with Folly and Revenge . For my Non-sence , or Ignorance in my Mother-Tongue , we will venture that with the World ; but the Press has injur'd me not a little . I deny that ever Non-sence went to it , whatever came from it . However , H. Hedworth is not my Judge . Sect. II. of G. Fox . § . 1. P. 15. NOw let us hear what he says of G. F. He that is not Infallible , is a Deluder : but G. F. is not Infallible , therefore G. F. is a Deluder . The first proved from G. F's Book , How can ye be Ministers of the Spirit , and not be Infallible ? And how can they but Delude People , who are not Infallible ? I Answer , G. F's words stand Immoveable forever : He that is a Minister of the Spirit , is Infallibly so ; and in that Ministry , is Infallible ; otherwise , the Spirit 's Ministry is Fallible , which is the Consequence of this Anti-spiritual Socinian , and not of G. F's Doctrine . Next , They who are not Infallible , as to the Things of God , they Teach , are not taught of God , nor of his Spirit of Grace , which gives Certain Unerring Understanding , and so Deluders . But G. F. never said , That every one that is not Infallible , is a Deluder in all things ; for a Man may be Fallible or Mistaken in some Matters wherein he is not a Deluder : But the Drift of G. F's words is this , That such Preachers who deny the Spirit 's Teachings , and Infallible Knowledge , as necessary to a Qualification of a Gospel Ministry , are Deluders ; and in this Sence , who pretend to Teach , and know not the Certainty , but the Incertainty rather of what they Teach , such are Deluders ; and by this will I stand , against this Vain Syllogizer , in Defence of that Defamed , yet Worthy Man , G. F. But he endeavours to prove G. F. himself not Infallible . Pag. 15 , 16. § . 2. Next , he that renders the Pronoun YE , where it is to be understood , or renders the Greek Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , BY , WITH , or AMONG , or TO ; or puts HE for WE , or what is equivalent , is a Perverter or Corrupter of Scripture , and not infallible , as saith G. F. of his Adversaries : but G. F. does so himself , Ergo a Perverter and Corrupter : the same about his being a Blasphemer ; since who corrupts Scripture , preaches what he has not from Heaven , therefore a Blasphemer . O the Logick , O the Ethicks , but O the Metaphisicks of this Under-Graduat in Philosophy ! What! Is this any more then Bumbast Repetition ? It was time for Controversie to End indeed . I say , that G. F. had to do with such as believed every Particle , yea the very Hebrew Points themselves to be part of the Scriptures , divinely given forth , as an unalterable and only Rule . He denies it , but asserts the Spirit of Truth that gave them forth to be the Rule , especially since Christ's Manifestation in the Flesh . The Priests therefore are Perverters and Corrupters if they leave out one Jot or Tittle ; but G. F. not so : for if the Sense be rendred , God never tyed People to the express words , says he ; therefore G. F. his not oblieging himself to that exactness , makes him no Perverter , unless he should be judg'd by the untrue Notion , other men have of a Rule that he submits not to , which were Injustice it self . This shows then how unwarrantably our Adversary useth my words against G. F. which are only due to himself ; and the Priests he defends , unless he could make their Case one , which he can never do : and therefore what I say to them , cannot be ascrib'd to G. F. but with manifest wrong . For the Doctrinal Mistakes , they shall be considered anon ; only thus far G. F. is no Perverter or Corrupter , and consequently no Blasphemer , if he put With for Among ; but the Priests are , who so grievously transgress their own Rule ; for they esteem it no less by their Opinion of it . Pag. 17. § . 3. But Sol. Eccles's Testimony makes G. F , little other then a God , therefore G. F. a Blasphemer ; which is the meaning of his quoting it ; but this Lye is for the Lake . Neither G. F. nor S. E. nor the Quakers own any such Inference ; neither was the Resemblance in that of the Worlds being made by him . Good Men may be resembled to Christ in one thing , not in another ; Methinks he that believes him only to be an Example , should not deny such Doctrine : but he is angry it should be thought , Christ made the World be came into ; he cannot abide that Verse should meet him any where . Neither should he refuse S. E. a mystical Defence for himself , had he thought great things of G. F. when he himself believes it was not the Visible Creation : No ; he thinks , Christ no more made this World , then T. Firman did . What then ! Will he call Men Blasphemers from other mens Principles ? But let him take World which way he pleaseth , the Comparison lay not there ; And if it was esteem'd Dis-ingenuous in me to mention two Letters of a Man's Name , by way of Reproof , for open Slanders against a man by name at Length , after he had retracted , though I knew it not : certainly it is dishonest with great Aggravation , to question that which has been so often explain'd and denied , as taken by the World , and that in Print too . But what would not H. Hedworth do , to dirt the Quakers : but we are not to be Hang'd by his Straws , nor Fetter'd by his Cobwebs — Now let sober Persons judge , whether the Beginner of this Controversie knew well how to employ his time , who thought to run down a Folio Book of neer 400. Pages , the Author , and with him the Quakers , as Impostors , Lyars , and False Prophets , with five or six Sheets , stuff'd with dull Ignorance , and Cavils , at G. F's putting Within for In , In for Among , &c. O shallow Head ! O Envious Heart ! The Spoils in thy Triumph will scarcely cover the Brow-beats , thy own Weakness has given thee , in the sight of the World. Sect. III. Of the Rule . § . 1. BE it known to the World , that this Socinian Agent , who in the Dark Hectors every Perswasion , has shown himself unworthy the Name of a Man , who has turned his Book upon 25 Scripture Arguments , 6 Reasons , 2 Answers to 2 Objections about the Quakers denying the Scriptures , 15 most clear Authorities , from Papists , Protestants and Socinians themselves , to prove the Infallible Spirit of God to be the true Christian Rule of Faith , without so much as taking them into any other Consideration , then to fasten down-right Lyes upon us in general , and me in particular ; affirming , that I say Men are to be guided by immediate Inspiration , in opposition to Scriptures , &c. a Lye as Black as Hell , such words are not to be found in my Book . And the very next Paragraph , Now , if this be his Meaning , then tell me if Tollet . Mald. Dr Ham. Hutch . Soc. Sclith . Crel . were of his Mind ? Here he doubts what before he asserted : Rare Confutation to 31 pages of serious Christian Argumentation ! Well , I will suppose those men never understood it so ; nor did ever any Quaker in England , to his great Dishonesty and Shame I assert it : for we say , that the true Knowledge of the Scriptures , is most Heavenly and Divine Knowledge ; but the holy Spirit that brought those holy Men out of that they reprove , and into that blessed State they Exhort to , is onely able to make that Condition Ours , by its secret Strivings , Discoveries , and Operations . We know God may , and does by his Spirit reach to the Conscience , by Scripture and Preaching ; but then it is the holy Spirit that makes it efficacious , by fresh and living Touches , and we cannot call it our Faith or Knowledge , till quickned to it by that Eternal Spirit , be it mediately , or be it immediately ; and this shall Break the Serpents Head , Maugre the Force of these Lattern and Mungril Socinians ; which roundly checks his saying , That I bestow'd 32 Pages to prove G. F's Spirit to be Infallible ; for that belongs simply to God's alone , and then those that are led by it , which was my Question , and in which sense he is , and all such Persons are Infallible , as he himself confesseth pag. 27. and if he fool'd himself by any other Belief of us before , let him look to that . But he quarrels at my Use of the Word Spirit , and thinks it Erroneous , that God should be intended by it . God is a Spirit , nor can he be without his Spirit : But H. H's Notion of a Spirit , is a created third Person , and so God is separated from his own Spirit indeed ; A Doctrine of late standing . Pag. 10. 11. § . 2. But perhaps I should not have been so free with him : To conclude , He allows G. F. to have a Conscience , that to be an Infallible Rule , that God is the Author of it , that the Spirit may be said to have taught G. F. that God did work upon him by it &c. therefore I infer , G. F. to have an Infallible Rule in him ; and that both Conscience , and the Spirit of God are said by him to be this Infallible Rule ; which , Reader , is more then any Quaker in England ever said , unless Conscience be taken for Christ's Light within , or God's Light within ; for H. H. abhors to think Christ should be God enough to illuminate any Man in that sense . But let it be observ'd , that this Person , who calls the Light of God in the Conscience an Infallible Rule , call'd it Imperfect in his Letter , contradicting his Dialogue-Man , J. Faldo , and himself too ; For then must every Man have a Rule in himself . Sect. IV. Of the Light of Christ Within . § . 1. THis gravel'd him sorely : his beloved Socinianism is shaken by it ; this will have him that was , and is called Christ , to be the only Wise God , whether H. Hedworth will or no. But that he might avoid discovering of himself , and his Judgment of the first 10 Verses of John's History , he would not say a word ; the Design had been known , and Plot broken , with which he hopes to blow up some Independants , and abundance of poor Anabaptists : therefore does he willingly pass over my Eight Arguments for the Divinity of Christ , and his Light within , and the Testimonies of Ancient and Modern Writers in their Defence . O notable Champion ! He needs a better Prayer to excuse his Weakness , then that in Controversie-Ended . Pag. 23. But he sayes , that I am mistaken about 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , or Coming ; that the Arabick and Aethiopick , the three French and Low-Dutch Translations are for him ; that I wrong Erasmus , by putting too ambiguous , for ambiguous ( a Triffler ) that Maldonat says , my Sense is neither false nor absurd : Grotius much approves of the Exposition which is extant in Cyr. and Aug. Dr Hammond reads it so . § . 2. But I will prove him an Ignorant , or malicious Lyar. The Arabick hath it thus ; Quod erat Lumen verum illuminans omnem hominem . Venturus in mundum ; That was the true Light which inlightens all Mankind . Here I acknowledge is a full stop , What then ? therefore is not the Whole Adam or All Mankind inlightned that ever came into the World by this Light ? Yes surely ; the place proves it to be before , and distinct from that Coming : Nor doth he prove the Contrary . He that was about to come into the World ; this begins the next Verse in the Arabick , and must have relation to Word , unless he would have it quod Lumen venturus , which can never agree any more , then his Lux venientem ; yet this Man of Accidence will have it so : But still the place will have it , that Christ was before he came ; though he and his Abominate all such Doctrine , for which alone , they deny his pre-illumination . § . 3. The Aethiopick has it , Et is est Lux Justitiae , quae illuminat omnem hominem venientem in mundum , and he is the Light of Righteousness , who inlightens all Mankind coming into the World. Nothing can be plainer then that Coming is joyn'd to Man , not to Light. Had we an Imprimatur in our Budget like H. H. ( the Fruits of T. Firman's Treats to the Licensary Chaplins ) I would have had it in the Original Characters ; but Difficulty in Printing , and Unskilfulness in Compositors hindred : However , he has grosly bely'd these two Translations , and unworthily reflected on the Learned Interpretors , whose shoes his utmost Skill cannot prefer him to the Carriage of . § . 4. The Three French and Dutch Languages ( he is not Master of any more then of the other ) he also wrongs . Let him give to the World , but under the hands of any learned and Serious French Men , or Dutch Men , that Venant , or Komende , or Coming , was so intended , or is so received , as this great Master of Ignorance impudently avers to the World , and the Controversie , as to that part , shall end with me too . Reader , he has obtruded a very Lye upon thee . § . 5. But is it so Criminal to put too Ambiguous for Ambiguous ? It belongs to him to think I wrong Erasmus ; but none else can have so little Wit or Honesty . I am content with it so . § . 6. But he brings in my Maldonat , as he tearms him , my sense is neither false nor absurd . He wrongs his words : but suppose them so ; If Maldonat be for us , then our sense is neither false nor absurd : very well ; suppose against us , it implies they may be taken also for us ; which way soever , we have an Interest in them . But hear Mald. Christ illuminates all , that is , offers Light unto all : the other ( not my ) sense is neither false nor absur'd , but in my Judgment not proper . I am better pleas'd , saith he , with the concurrent Interpretation of the Greeks , that Christ tenders his Light to all mankind ; if they are not effectually inlightned , it is , because they refuse to embrace it . Now let this gross Abuser of his Reader appear , if he dare , in Defence of his Quotation ; his own Lyes obtruded upon the Simple , will clip his Wings . § . 7. Grotius and Dr. Hammond run the Socinian strain , but not with their end ; they refer coming to Light , as discovering the Excellency of that Dispensation to all former Illumination ; and the Socinians , to cut off all pre-exsistence of him who in time was call'd Christ , antecedent to that Appearance : We deny the latter , and the former I largely own in my Spirit of Truth Vindicated : for Lighteth and Inlightneth , they are one , with respect to the Soul , that being in man ; therefore in and within is the same : but Inlighteth , stricktly taken , I did confess , to signifie a State of belief in the Light. Sect. V. Of Christ's Divinity . § . 1. IT is denied by the Socinians , and own'd by us . To say as Controversie Ended doth , that we make Christ one with God in Nature , proves it for us ; their Personality , which we deny , and he objects , is no part of the Essential Unity ; therefore it hurts us not . But whether it becomes Independents and Baptist's to please themselves in their Labours , who say Abraham was before Christ , and deny him to have made this World more then H. Hedworth , or T. Firman , &c. let the more Sober of them judge . Sect. VI. Of Christ's Manhood . § . 1. THe Manhood , or Humanity of Christ , so called by Controversie Ended , is equivocally taken by the Author ; for the Humanity of Christ implies something else proper to Christ , which he denies ; as one Passage ill-guarded by him , discovers , when he slights and scorns this Consciencious Expression in my Book , We dare not say the intire Christ was that Visible Body which died at Jerusalem : then , that Body was the Christ , and not the Body of Christ : For know Reader , they hold no other Word ( Scriptures excepted ) then that which became Flesh , by a kind of Transubstantiation , and that the Soul as well died as the Body ; which is their Meaning of those Words , He poured out his Soul unto Death , thus far agreeing with Noetus of old , more gross then Sabellius , his Schollar ; and with Muggleton the Sorcerer of our dayes : So that whilst he suggests we deny the Manhood , and equivocate about the Divinity ; he truly , denies the Divinity , and equivocates as to Christ's present Humanity , so called . See into what , but too many Independents and Anabaptists are Running : Let them do as they will ; for us , We own Christ's Manhood , as firmly as the Scriptures testifie to it , but we cannot say , the Manhood was the intire Christ , though Christ took that Manhood upon him , in which to do the Will of God ; and it was ( we confess ) instrumentally a Saviour to the World , and our Faith herein we leave with God. Sect. VII . Of the Scriptures pretendedly Perverted by G. F. § . 1. AS these Scriptures about Fifty in number , most of them consisting in , them for him , with for among , in for within , &c. and G. F. have been irrefutably defended in my Spir. of Tr. Vind. from his utmost reflection , nor does he say any thing in his Controversie Ended , more Forceable , if any thing at all ; so truly have we got thus far the Weather of him , that in Answering the Scriptures Socinianiz'd , and his Account of the Unitarians , alias Socinians Faith , he has fully declared himself Socinian ; for he calleth it perverse Doctrine , to call God the Word , though if the Word be God , it is most reasonable : Also , that Christ should be named Father , though the Prophet stile him , the Mighty God , and everlasting Father ; but we will be more perverse in his sense : he boldly affirms that he Glory Christ pray'd for , was a Glory in Decree , for which he quotes Grot. and Aug. they meant , with respect to Christ's Manhood , as having a rational Soul , like other Men ; not that he , Christ , who took that Manhood , had not actual Glory before the World began , he who was before Abraham . In short , who ascended , first descended , and who was to be glorified , first humbled himself ; which I prest , and aptly proved , but he meddl'd not with it , nor the main strength of my Book at all . Let it suffice , that his sense of these words , makes Christ more equivocating , then he has represented any Quaker . Pag. 45. § . 2. Of the word Humane , he is very cheary , and derides G. F's refusal of it ; making us to deny Christ's Manhood , which never entred into our Hearts to do ; vindicating J. Newman's Book against us , and endeavouring to prove , that we deny the Flesh , Blood and Bones to be the Christ : quoting G. Whiteheads Book , call'd Christ Ascended ; and J. Penington's Question to Professors &c. But does not this man walk self condemn'd , who himself believes no such thing , and equivocates about the word humane : for whilst the Independants and Anabaptist's understand a rational Soul in a Body of Flesh , Blood and Bones , H. Hedworth means , a rational Soul in a spiritual glorified Body , void of Flesh , Blood and Bones , which gives the Socinians such advantage over the Papist's about transubstantiation ; or else he varys from his Brethren . Is he not then detestably unjust , who would render the Quakers odious , for not believing that common Doctrine , which he himself by his principle rejects ? Pag. 62. § . 3. About Swearing he thinks he has caught me fast . G. F. sayes there is nothing for I protest 1 Cor. 15. 31. and I say that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used sometimes to express an Oath . O poor shift ! is thy Game come so low ? Yes , and it must come lower yet : But I say , there is nothing in that place respecting the Sense , for I protest ; therefore G. F. said right . § . 4. Again , he is Angry that I say , Oaths were made from a Dis-Trust of Honesty in the Takers , to give true Evidence without them ; and answers , As if God had distrusted his own Honesty in Swearing unto Christ , &c. But what is this to my Confutation ? I say again , That God therefore Swore as Distrusting their Faith , and as being privy to their Weakness , that all Doubt might be removed out of their Minds . Oaths , therefore came through Weakness , not in God , but Men , which is removed by the Evangelical Righteousness , that says , SWEAR NOT AT ALL. Pag. 65. § . 5. About Womens Speaking he tosses me off , for an Equivocator . Behold his Answer ; this ends the Controversie in this Point . § . 6. Of my Argument against Titles , he asks Questions , Why main't I do this , and that , and t'other ? he may answer them if he please . Let him Enervate what I have said , and say something he has not said , If Contr. End. will permit , and I am for him . However , he will supply his want of Reason with Lyes gross enough , to prove we Receive and Give Divine Honor to Persons among us , That a Man should come many miles to see M. Fell , fall down on his Knees , his Hat in his Hand before her , making his Humble Address , and by the Compellation of My Dear Mother , and Beseecht her to Pray for him . It is either True or False ; if True , he should have done the World Right in proving it , for fear it should be taken for a Lye in the Crowd of those which many Professors tell of us : and if False , Let the Heavens and the Earth , and his own Book bear witness against him in the Terrible Day of God. But we know of no such thing . That John Stubs did so , calling M. Fell Everlasting Mother , is a Down-right Falshood ; but being to go beyond the Seas , He , and she , with many more , fell down upon their Knees to Pray to Almighty God , that his Presence might accompany him . What an Infamous Construction has this Ishmaelite put upon a Most Holy Duty ? § . 7. What Judas soever H. Hedworth associates with , or holds in hand , that informs him against us , I neither know , nor care : but let it not be Criminal , that I should say , Every Chaste Marriage or Coupling with Fear , as saith the Apostle Peter , is an Emblem of the Holy Covenant , and Marriage relation betwixt Christ and his Church . Shall that which Professors often illustrate Christ's Oneness with his People by , and think it no small Piece of Eloquence too , be reputed Pride or Blasphemy in G. Fox ? O partial Man ! § . 8. But G. Fox absolves Men , they kneeling ; and many in the Ministry were wont to pull off his Shoes aboard of Ship. Prove the first if thou canst : and for being assisted , if so it was , to help a Man of a gross Body , full of Aches , through many tedious , and uncomfortable Imprisonments , where he has seen no Fire in the couldest Seasons , but been wetted in his very Bed , and his Chamber a small kind of a Pond , with the like Severities , cannot be esteem'd Pride , much less receiving Divine Honour in the Judgment of any , but one as Malicious as H. Hedworth , bent implacably , to seek our Ruin , by all the Slanders he can collect from Men or Devils . Sect. VIII . Of his Contradictions . § . 1. TAke this small Parcel of Contradictions , which must needs touch his proud Heart , as his very Words , or the result of them . The Light is Infallible : the Light is not Infallible : The Light is a Rule : the Light is not a Rule : The Leading Quakers are Impostors ; Now we shall see , whether there he any Prudent and Honest Men among the Governing Quakers ; G. Fox may have the Spirit of God who is an Impostor ; yet God is not wont to give his Spirit but to his humble Servants and Friends , or those whom he will employ : G. F. hath an Infallible Rule in him ; G. F. has not an Infallible Spirit in him . Thus is the Light render'd by him an Infallible , Fallible , Rule , and no Rule , and G. F. what this Guiddy-headed Socinian is pleas'd to have him . Sect. IX . Of several Frothy , Lying and Reproachful Passages . § . 1. WHether my Book of 17 Sheets of Paper , or his Pamphlet of 4 and an half be most weighty and argumentative , which clear'st of contumely , Lightness , Reproach , and a spirit of Revenge I leave with such as impartially read both ; only I will sum up a few of the many bitter sayings and untruths he casts upon us , that all may see how notably he has improv'd his time in this little compass . W. P. his huffing Book — they do but equivocatly confess the Divinity , and plainly deny the Humanity of Christ , Billingsgate Language ! The Nature of his Argument required him to call G. F. and the Quakers , Impostors , Lyars , False Prophets , Uncivil , Unchristian , Censors of the World ; that the Scriptures to an uninspir'd Man , are like a Gazzet to a Privy-Councellor ( O irreverent Comparison ) That W. P. charges G. F. with Folly , Malice , Weakness ( a Lye ) as if some Poetick Deity inspir'd him : Pride and Idleness ; Inspiration that is Fancy ; His Prophet George ; 't is such as God's Infallible Spirit in G. F. writes . ( O Blasphemous Expression ! It seems then that God's Spirit can write Non-sence by H. Hedworth's irreverent saying ; for 't is that he Charges upon G. F. ) The Quakers detest to think of Christ's being remote from their own dear Hearts ( Is that so criminal as that it should be mock'd ) C. l. 3. 16. J. 17 15. abused to serve that Godly ( he means wicked ) Doctrine of the Father , Son and Spirit , their not being distinct , but all one ( what Derision is this at the Holy Unity ) Learn'd Non-sence ! G. Fox 's Spirit did never elevate to such a degree of Jargon . our Polyglettist W. P. The Family of Light call'd Quakers ( Mockage ) want of all Honesty and Conscience : Rage , Passion , Revenge , Odious , Detestable , &c. Profound and vehement Prattle . Enough , enough H. H. Sect. X. Of his Prayer , and my Conclusion . § 1. REader , it is after a Pamphlet so Stuff'd with Wrath and ill-Language , that the Author of it darts to address himself to Jesus Christ by way of Prayer . I matter not his Prayer , but shall make this sober advantage of it ; ( 1 ) that he minds God no more , then if he believed Christ to be him , which he poor Man abhors ; ( 2 ) That he commits Idolatry , and makes God himself an Accessory , in both praying to another then God , one they repute but purely a Man , and sa● , God requires them so to do ; ( 3 ) That I affirm , it is impossible for one that is but purely a Man , as they say Christ is , to wield all Power in Heaven and Earth , the alone office and capacity of a God by Nature ; and more beyond the best of Men , then they are the most stupid of Beasts ; if Beasts then would be no more such , could they be changed into such excellent Men ; neither could that excellent Man be longer Man , but the most high God , which is impossible , could he be chang'd into that capacity of Rule , which is alone exerciseable by , and peculiarly demonstrative of him that is the only wise God. § . 2. But indeed , his Margin proves to us , he takes him for a Man , and none of the best Linguists neither : for least he should not well understand the English word Delivered , he refers him to TRADITA in the Margin , though both Translations , and one as good as the other , for the Original Word is Greek ; which either H. Hedworth do's not know , or he doubted the skill of him he prayed to , or else he did foolishly to correct by a Translation , the Original Word being ready . But after all his Prayer ( and a little Mercy he seems to shew us in it , though if we never have any , till that forc'd Piece of Business procure it , we are never like to have it ) behold the Man is at Revenge as fast as he can . Now it will appear , whether there be any Prudent and honest Men among the Governing Quakers ( yet just now he more then once judged them for Impostors , Lyars , Equivocators , and what not ) by their Dealing with Will am Penn. Very well ; Is this the Man that writ Queries for Liberty of Conscience 1670. ( but no more of that ) who would put the Quakers upon Persecution , now the Powers are for liberty . Here 's your Meek , Suffering Socinian : but does he own our 〈…〉 , then his Appeal is something ; if not , he Appeals idlely and unjustly : but since he does seem to appeal to them , and supposes them to have right to deal with me , it is apparent , that he owns it so far as concerns a Judgment betwixt us . For I affirm , against what he saith , p. 25. That Paul therefore appeal'd to ( aesar , because of his ability both to know his Case , and do him Fight : and therefore in the Case of this Mans Appeal , both the Light , and our Friends , are thereby judg'd Able , and himself to be concluded by their judgment ; which is this , That H. Hedworth , first , Author of the Spirit of the Quakers Tried , then of Controversie Ended , is a Busie-Body , Cavilling , Conceited , Proud , Wrathful , Equivocating , Slandring , yet Cowardly Man , that loves Debate ; but is both unable to maintain what he begins , and afraid to own it when he has done : But since he is with-drawn , and his opposition seems to have given up the Ghost in CONTROVERSIE ENDED , we bestow this SHEET to bury her out of the World , that the Noisom Errors , Slanders , and Reveng , which broke out upon her , living , and make her yet stink , though Dead , may be buried in the Grave of perpetual silence . ●●th day 12th Month 1672. So wisheth a Lover of the Person of H. Hedworth , and a Friend to Peace and all Righteousness . William Penn. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A54246-e10 Pag. 12 , 13 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61. See p. 60 , 61. See Spir. of Tr. Vind. Pag. 16. See Pag. 54 , 55 , 56. Pag. 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43. Pag. 63 , 64 , 65 Contr. End. P. 10 , Sp. Qu. Tr. P. 40. Contr. End. p. 58 , 56 , 10 , 11. p. 6. S. Q. T. p. 1 , 2. Pag. 68 , 69 , 70. The Anabaptists came to the Bull and Mouth to demand Judgment against W. P. about ALL for MANY , already answered . Were they not well employ'd ?