THE DEVIL turned QUAKER: OR, The Damnable, Devilish, and accursed Doctrines and Designs, of these desperate, deluded, and deluding people; called, QUAKERS: Their damnable Opinions, and horrid Blasphemies; touching the Person and Deity of our blessed Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST.  
ESPECIALLY, The Devilish Practices, and accursed Blasphemies and Opinions, of one JAMES NEYLER; a Ring leader of that Sect: Who blasphemously declared himself to be GOD, and was publicly worshipped as God, by his wicked Disciples, at BRISTOL: who now lie in Prison, to receive the reward due unto them for the same.  MATTH. 24. 23. 
There shall arise false Christ's, and false Prophets, and shall show great Signs and Wonders, but (saith our Saviour) believe them not.  JUDAS 17, 18. 
Remember the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how they told you, there should be Mockers in the last times, etc.  
London, Printed for John Andrews, at the White Lion in the Old Bailie. 1656.   

The Devil turned Quaker.  1 JOH. 4. 1, 2, 3. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false Prophets are gone out into the world? Hereby know we the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now according it is come. 
IN the last days, saith the Apostle, 2 Tim. 3. Perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: From such, saith the Apostle in the fifth verse, Turn away.  
And that we may the better discern and avoid these seducers, the Apostle sets them out unto us, as well in their pretences and outward actions and carriages, as by their inward principles and corruptions, as you may see in the sixth, seventh, and eighth verses: Of this sort, saith he, are they that creep into Houses, and lead captive silly Women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts; ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.  
In the fix first Verses of this Chapter, the Apostle setteth forth unto us, the practices of these ungodly sinners; and that men might be forearmed against these seducers, he tells us at the sixth Verse, how we should know them; Of this sort, saith he, are they that creep into Houses, and lead captive silly Women. Now as james and jambris withstood Moses, so do these resist the Truth; Men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But in the ninth Verse, saith the Apostle, They shall proceed no further; for their folly shall be manifest unto all men.  
Now according to this method of the Apostle, shall I proceed; in setting forth unto you, the corrupt, horrid, and blasphemous practices, of these ungodly, and irreligious sinners of our times, known by the name of QUAKERS: First, I shall discover unto you, by the Lord's assistance, their horrid, and of all good Christians to be abhorred, practices and opinions: In the next place, I shall endeavour, God willing, to set forth unto you, the Blasphemies, and accursed delusions, of these monsters of men and enemies of all righteousness, the QUAKERS; a generation of Vipers, of late, by the power of Satan, sprung up amongst us: Having done this, I shall by God's assistance, give you some few motives and encouragements, to persuade you, in the fear of the Lord, to beware of these wicked ones, whom the Lord, I hope, will ere long consume with the breath of his nostrils, and suddenly scatter them in his wrath, like a mighty Whirlwind. Beware of false Prophets, saith our Saviour. And then lastly, having discovered unto you the folly, and madness of these Seducers, I shall conclude all, in a word of advice, to all those that fear the Lord, in these three Nations; to beware of these wicked and ungodly men; As the Apostle persuades, in the second Epistle of Peter and the third Chapter: Having before described such a generation of wicked ones as they are; in the seventeenth verse, he concludes all, with heavenly advice and admonition, to all that desire to fear the Lord: Ye therefore beloved, saith the Apostle, seeing you know these things before, beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness; but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST.  
And now I begin with the first; The horrid and accursed Principles of these wicked men: First, they do blasphemously deny God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is God, blessed for ever; impiously and blasphemously saying, God is in them, and the Light within them, is God; when indeed there is no light at all in them, but darkness: As the Psalmist saith, Their very inward thoughts are darkness, and blindness of mind; who being past feeling, as the Apostle saith, Have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to commit all uncleanness with greediness. It's the Devil that is in them, and not God, the Devil he deludes them, and he reigns and rules in these Children of disobedience; they are of their father the Devil, and his instruments they are, to delude and destroy, both their own and other men's souls.  
Secondly, they deny the blessed word of God, and despise it; tearing it in pieces, and refusing to walk according to the rule of it, saying; They have the Word within them and that there is no need of any other Word, they have it remembered to them by the Spirit. And this also is a delusion of the Devil; for as the Apostle saith, Tim. 3. 16. All Scripture is given by inspiration, and is profitable for Doctrine and for Instruction, that the men of God may be perfect. So likewise 2 Pet. the first Chapter and last Verse; Ye have have a more sure word of Prophecy, whereunto ye do well to take heed, as unto a light that shineth in dark places.  
Thirdly, they are lose and lascivious in their lives and conversations, despising both Ministry and Magistracy, together with all humane Society; presumptions are they, as St. jude saith in his Epistle; They are not afraid to speak evil of Dignities, walking according to the imaginations of their own base hearts; the good Lord rebuke them, and undeceive them. Ungodly men they are, as St. jude saith, Turning the grace of God into wantonness, and denying the Lord God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; leading captive silly Women, laden with divers lusts, going naked about the streets, in a most odious and beastlike manner, belching forth blasphemy against the great God of heaven, saying, They are commanded to do so. Wells they are, without water, raging waves of the Sea, foaming out their ow● shame; trees that are twice dead, plucked up by the roots: Whose end, as St. Paul saith, is to be burned.  
Likewise, they cast off the ordinances of Jesus Christ, accounting them as needless and unnecessary: They have no need, they say, of the Word of God, nor no need of Prayer; they are above these things, above Ordinances; yea, I may truly say, they are past grace: For, say they, We may live as we list. They have no sin in them at all, but whatsoever they do is good, being according to the light within them, and the motions of the spirit, with which they are possessed: But miserable wretches as they are, they deceive their own souls▪ as St. john saith, in the first Chapter of his first Epistle, and the last Verse. If the spirit within them bid them do any thing, though it be never so wicked, they say, it is God: The Lord anoint their eyes with the eyesalve of his spirit▪ and cast out of them this foul unclean spirit, with which they are possessed; that they may see the evil of their ways, and abhor themselves, and repent of their Blasphemies; that so the Nation may be no longer deluded by them.  
Secondly, for the practices of these wicked men, how foul are they? and what a height of wickedness and uncleanness is there amongst the most of them? What roar and howl do they keep when they meet together? alrighting even the Beasts that hear them, as if God were served by their roaring and howling like Dogs? What Witchery and Sorcery is there amongst many of them, so that those that have but come to see them, have been bewitched by them, to follow their pernicious ways, and so have brought everlasting destruction upon themselves. As one near to Newberry of late, who ran naked into the Congregation upon the Lord's Day; and after, giving away all his estate which was worth two or three hundred a year, he ran away in this condition from his wife and children. Likewise, one near Durham, who had been a great Professor of Religion for a long time, and a man of good parts, but something given to Novelties; going to hear these people called Quakers, was presently bewitched by them, that he ran up and down the Town in a confused manner, crying out very blasphemously; I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: and thus he continued for the space of two or three months, sometimes running naked about the streets in the night, being as he said, so commanded to do, by a voice within him; which voice was the voice of the Devil, with whom he was really possessed, as he himself hath since confessed, it having pleased God since, to bring him out of the snares of the Devil, after a most miraculous manner, that others might see and take notice, and abhor those wicked ways. The Devil having possession of him, he was sometimes carried forth so violently by the power of Satan, to act and utter such strange things, that he soon became the chief among them; to the great grief and sorrow of all his friends, who persuaded him with tears to desist from those wicked and pernicious ways; but all in vain, for he was still possessed with this blasphemous opinion, That God was in him, and that what ever he did was from God; when it was only from the power and delusion the Devil, as he himself since, hath to the glory of God, confessed.  
This man being in his bed, the voice within him, spoke unto him as follweth: That he was CHRIST, and came to live and abide in him; and that he should have two Angels always to attend upon him. At which, there appeared two in the likeness of Sparrows, coming down the Chimney, which came and sat upon the wall by his beds-side, which he conceited were the two Angels spoken of before. After which, the voice within him began to speak again, in a most wicked manner, saying, That he was Christ, and was come to dwell in him: all which he believed. Then upon a sudden was he carried, by a more than ordinary force, from his bed, and his hand conveyed to a knife which lay in the room: Having this knife in his hand, the point of it was presently set to his throat, and a voice heard, saying, Open that I may enter in. At which it pleased God to smite this man's heart, and by his Almighty power to hold back his hand from cutting his own throat therewith; and then through the mercy of the Lord to him, he saw how he was deluded by the Devil, and so fling away the knife, and ever after forsook and abhorred these wicked and accursed ways, to the great joy and rejoyeing of all his friends. The truth of this Relation was testified under his own hand, together with the hands of the Mayor and Minister of the Town, with several others.  
The next I come to speak of, is one james Parnel: Who most blasphemously said he was Christ and that they should see he could do miracles. And then the Devil deluded him to fast forty days, and forty nights; which he said he would do, that so they might see that he was God. He being in prison at Colchester for his blasphemy, there began his Fast, and for several days he would eat nothing, and seemed very pleasant: but being narrowly watched that he might eat nothing privately, and so delude the people, he in less than a fortnight's space began to desire food, which was daily offered him before, if he would have eaten it; and then being a weary of his fasting, he began to eat, but to little purpose; for what he eat, went through his body as fast as he eat it, and then when he would have eaten, it gave him no sustenance; and so in two or three days after, he died in a most miserable manner, being guilty of his own death.  
Like unto him is now one james Nailer, now in prison at Bristol for the like blasphemies. This man being a principal man amongst the Quakers, was looked upon by them as their God, all of them owning and receiving for truth what james Nailer spoke, whose blaspemous opinions are very well known by most men. This james Nailer taking upon him to be Christ, and by his accursed sect and followers was so owned and looked upon, yea, and worshipped as Christ. This blasphemous fellow, did in September last passed, ride through the City of Bristol on Horseback, conducted by others of this wicked sect, who went bareheaded along by his Horse side; others strowing the way as they went, blasphemously cried out, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest, Holy, Holy, the Lord, the Holy One. Having passed quite through the City in this blasphemous manner, he took up his Inn, where his wicked Disciples washed his feet, and the women wiped them with the ha●s of their heads. For which accursed, and abominably blasphemous practice, he was after committed to prison there, and is now sent for up to London by the Parliament, to answer for the same, who I hope will give him the reward of his iniquity. Oh! that wretched sinful men should dare thus to blaspheme the living God Children of the Devil they are, and Enemies of all Righteousness; who have forsaken the right way, and are turned after vanities.  
By the Law of Moses Blasphemers ought to be stoned to death, as it is recorded in the 24 of Leviticus, vers. 16. He that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord, shall surely be put to death, and all the Congregation shall stone him. This is the Law of God delivered by Moses: God will not have such wicked wretches, that shall dare to blaspheme his holy Name, to go unpunished: and truly, men ought not to pass it over unpunished; he is accounted a very bad servant, that shall hear his master abused, and take no notice of it; the Name of God is abused, and his Honour and Majesty is abused by these wicked wretches, and shall they not be punished for this! shall one man be punished for speaking ill of another, and shall not wicked men be punished for blaspheming the great God of heaven and earth! O I tremble to think what will become of these accursed wretches, when they shall come to appear before the Lord, to answer for all their wicked blasphemies. Certainly this is an iniquity, as job saith, job 31, 10▪ to be punished by the Judge. And if, as St. Paul sairh, Rom. 13. 4 the Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain, but is the Minister of God to execute wrath upon him that doth evil; then certainly, if he let such blasphemies as these go unpunished, he beareth his sword in vain, and is, in stead of being a terror unto the evil doers, an encouragement of them in their sins, and thereby bring upon themselves the guilt of other men's sins.  
Now than Christians, I hope these things will affright you from these ways, and cause in you an abhorring both of the opinions and practices of these wicked ones: O that you would tremble to think of the sad condition of these men, what will become of them, if they repent not, Hell fire and brimstone shall be their portion for ever. O Christians, I beseech you for the Lords sake, read the Epistle of St. jude and likewise the second Chapter of the second Epistle of St. Peter, and consider what is there said; compare what is there written, with our times, see how the opinions and practices of men in our days agree with these the Apostles there speak of: There were false Prophets, saith the Apostle, even as there shall be false Teachers, who shall bring in damnable Heresies, denying the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction, If ever there was a time when these things were, certainly it is now: O how do false Prophets and Teachers abound and increase! O what horrid blasphemies and accursed opinions are there broached and practised among us! The Lord cast out from among us that foul spirit of error and blasphemy that so much abounds; give a check, O Lord, to Satan, and stop the current of blasphemy, for thy own Names sake. O Lord arise, and beat down the power of Satan, and let him no longer reign in the hearts of disobedient and gain saying people. O do thou turn them, O Lord, from sin and Satan, unto thee our God; and establish righteousness and truth, and increase the Kingdom of thy dear son all the world over. O all ye Quakers, Shakers', and Ranters, what ever you are, that blaspheme the Name of God, and despise his Word, repent of your blasphemies, and turn to the Lord, who will have mercy upon you; lest if you persist, the wrath of God be poured forth upon you to destroy you.  
Now then consider all of you, and every one of you, and every one that reads or hears this; Consider, I say, and see the dreadful judgements of God against such sinners as you are, and repent of your wickedness, and abhor it; break off your sins by repentance, and look upon Jesus Christ, whom you have pe●rced, and whose blood you have trampled upon, and despised by your blasphemies.  
Which that you may unfeignedly do, the Lord in mercy send out his light and truth, and scatter all these mists and fogs of error heresy and blasphemy, that now so much abounds; and bring down the power of Satan, and set up the Kingdom of Christ; and settle and establish righteousness and truth in the midst of us; and make us a praise, and the glory of the whole world: Even so come Lord Jesus, Come quickly.  
FINIS.   

Courteous Reader,  
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