THE Quakers Unmasked; Their Double-dealing and False-heartedness Discovered; BY Collections taken out of their own Writings, which were Communicated to G. Fox, G. Whitehead, and others of their Preachers and Leaders.  
WHEREIN May be seen some of their Contradictions, Confusions, and Temporising: With some Observations thereupon by another Hand.  
ALSO, One of the Forms of their Oaths, used amongst themselves, with their Definition of an Oath: Likewise a Letter and Paper formerly sent to the abovesaid G. F.  
Whereunto are annexed some Remarks, etc. Also what an Oath is. In a Letter to E. S. Esq LICENCED, June 19 1691  
The Leaders the Leaders of this People have caused them to Err, because they received not the Truth in the Love of it; Therefore are they given up to Strong Delusions, to believe (and to tell) Lies.  
The Day is come, and now is, that the Hidden Things of Esau 's Nature, are to be, and must be brought to Light.  
O thou Sword of the LORD, How long will it be e'er thou be quiet? Put up thyself into thy Scabbard, rest and be still. How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a Charge?  
LONDON, Printed for J. Gwillim over against the Great James in Bishops-gate-street, and R. Baldwin in Warwick-lane, 1691.   

The Author of the following Collections to the READER.  
IT can hardly be credited by any, the care and fear I have had concerning the said Collections, lest they should have become public in the last two Reigns, which I would not they should for the Treasures of this World. This is a faithful and true saying, whether it can be believed or no.  
But now Liberty of Conscience being established by Law, I gave Ten of 'em, [i. e. The Quakers Unmasked,] to be shown or sold to any sober Person; unto which some of the Leaders of that People have lately put forth an Answer; and finding they are so far from acknowledging any thing to be amiss in their said Writings, that they endeavour either to cover, excuse, or justify them, which hath necessitated me to cause them to be reprinted in Quarto, that whoever have seen their Answer, may, if they please, compare it with this.  
And notwithstanding I sent them the said Book privately in writing, in the year 77. (hoping thereby to have prevented their farther exposing others;) yet, about a year after, I met with a Book of theirs, entitled, The Way cast up, etc. and therein several passages against the Presbyterians, accusing them of Rebellions, Seditions, and Fight Principles. p. 23, 52, 53, 54. And in the year 81. they put forth another Book, calling it, Peaceable Advice to the Presbyterians, etc. and therein, p. 1. accused them again with the same Principles; which being Printed at such a juncture, when the Popish Plot was endeavoured to be stifled, and turned upon the Protestants, caused a great grief not only to myself, but to many others; some of whom writ to the Quaker's Bookseller, desiring they might be stopped considering the season, etc. But they not prevailing in, their Request, I bought many of 'em, and went to several of their Meetings, where I spoke these Words, viz. I met with one of your Books against the Presbyterians, and as a Witness against that Hypocritical, Deceitful, Daubing, Temporising Spirit that writ it, and the Publishers of it, I am made to tear it in pieces before you. Which having done, they threatened to have me called in Question for it, etc. I say, considering these things, and that what I had writ to them in private did not hinder them from this continued exclaiming against others about these matters. It was thought meet to have 66 of The Quakers Unmasked, privately printed in Folio; which were chief intended to be given to some of the said People, so that it is plain my purpose and intention therein was only to prevent, if possible, their doing any more such things for the future; but not in the least to expose them to the then Governors, who I feared would have been but too severe, and too much exasperated against them for it.  
And though I have been made thus to advise and caution them from their running into these and many other Evils, (which they have run themselves into:) Yet alas! they have slighted, scorned, and rejected every thing I proposed, that might any way have conduced to their present Happiness, and everlasting Good; which being my chiefest end, aim, and endeavour; whether they will yet hear, or forbear, I am clear, and have that Reward with, and in me, which no Man non Men can give, or take from me.  
J. P.   

This following was writ by the Person that caused the 66 Books aforesaid, in Folio, to be printed.  
The Publisher to the truly Christian Reader.  
THE following Tract Providentially coming to my Hand, and being desired to Read and Consider it, I spent some Hours therein, to my no small Consternation, upon a double account. First, That the Land of my Nativity was not long ere this, an Aceldama, being so generally Apostatised from the Truth, and become a second Sodom Secondly,. To consider, That the Principal and Forwardest LEADERS of the People, who (while Faithful) were begirt with the Power and Strength of the Almighty GOD of Jacob, and brought to their PISGAH-SIGHT, should turn again to their Onions and Garlic, throwing by the ROYAL LAW of LIBERTY, and Re-espouse Egyptian Bondage.  
What shall we say to these things! Oh that the Souls of all that are yet Faithful, and have according to their measure, been given up to the Guidance of the Spirit, would Cry mightily unto the GOD of their Salvation; That every one concerned in the following HURRICANE, (which they have been formerly warned off, in Love and Meekness, about four years and half since,) may remember from whence they are Fallen, repent and do their First Works, (which is the principal End of the Printing hereof,) that so the Still Voice, may be Restored in all our Habitations, That all Weapons of War may be turned into Ploughshares and Pruning-hooks, and every One confess, The LORD is GOD, who only must and will be Exalted. Amen, amen, saith the Soul of thy Friend,  
J. G.  
Note. Where any Words are added that were not in the Manuscript, or in that Printed, they are put in Italic between these Marks, []. excepting 5 short Sentences in Black Letter, p. 3, 4, 5, which were left out for brevity but are now put in only to show they do not in the least vary the sense, as the Quakers allege in their Answer, no more than any other passage they have mentioned therein does.   

To the Reader. The three following Letters were writ to Mr. J. O. The first was Printed the other not.  

First Letter to Mr. J. O. sent with the following Book then not printed.  
I Having been ill and weak in Body near upon a Month; it put me upon a deep search and examination, concerning the Cause thereof; and finding myself clear in HIS sight who justifies in secret, I matter not who condemns: And now being a little raised up, and restored for a season from the Grave, I have further considered what my Work and Service is in my Generation; and do find a necessity laid upon me to be Instrumental for the discovering, unmasking, and manifesting your Preachers and Leaders, who have long exercised Tyranny and Cruelty over the Souls of the Righteous, and who (by their Threats and Flatteries) have caused many innocent Men and Women to bend and bow under them, contrary to their own Consciences; for which they must certainly give an account; and so must you that are the Upholders of them.  
The Book herewith sent, I desire may be showed to the Persons to whom it is directed; it will concern you to consult and consider how the Truth (which you have so long talked of in Words) may be Cleared, and the Hypocrite and Deceiver made to bear his own Burden, of which if I may be assured, my End in sending it will be fully answered, and it will be a sufficient Recompense for all the Care and Pains I have taken therein, and shall endeavour to prevent and stop its farther Publication. But if in the Pride of your Hearts, you shall kick and spurn against it, reject and despise my Counsel herein given you; then know that your Iniquities will be upon your own Heads, when I shall be clear in my Conscience concerning you.  

I am a Lover of TRUTH and RIGHTEOUSNESS, In whomsoever:  
But an utter Enemy to Deceit and Wickedness, In whomsoever:   
I got one to Copy out the Book fair over, but am not so well to see it carefully Examined; therefore if you find any mistake in the Quotations, let me know it in two or three Weeks time, and it shall be rectisied before it go farther.  
10. Oct. 1677. J. P.   

Second Letter to Mr. O.  
'TIS now near 6 Weeks since I sent you the Quakers Unmasked, etc. which I desired might be imparted to G.F. G.W. etc. from whom (or some of you) I expected an Answer; but not hearing from any of you concerning it, I take it for granted you are satisfied I have not wronged you in the Quotations, and therefore it may be returned by this Bearer.  
20. Nou. 77. J. P.   

But instead of returning the said Book, as I desired, he sent me part of a Letter writ to him by G. W. which occasioned me to write this following Answer.  
Third Letter to Mr. O.  
I Perceive by a Letter directed to you, there is an Answer to the Book I sent you; but it seems I must not see it before it is Printed, as you have mine; neither may I see the Falsehood, which in divers particulars, as to matter of Fact, (they say) I am guilty of, that if any such 〈◊〉 be, it might be amended; but they act herein more like Politicians, than either Miniters of Christ, or just Men; and deal by me in this, much as you did with J. Whitehouse against whom your Meeting drew up a Charge, yet would not give him a Copy thereof; but when it came to be your own Case, that some of your Friends were accused for Miscarriages, than you could say, It was below the Justice of all Nations not to give a Copy of the Charge. Thus you can say, and unsay, do and not do, as suits best (not with Truth, but) with your own Self-ends and Interests. If Truth and Plain-heartedness were with you, why should not I see your Answer, [before publication] as well as you see my Book? But Gild and Deceit makes shy. Call a Council of your wisest Men, to consult what you had best to do in this matter, in which your chiefest Preachers are greatly guilty of abominable Wickedness in the sight of GOD and just Men: And if a necessity be upon me [as now it is] to publish mine, (if you will not do the thing that is right to prevent it,) to bring out yours; then say the wise are taken in their own Craftiness, [which is now fulfilled].  
I cannot but wonder at their saying, that 'tis a violation of the Act of Indemnity what I have done in this business, when they (as well as myself) know that all things of that Nature are thereby pardoned, as to Men: But their transgression is of a deeper dye, than the breach of Man's Law only; for they have pretended to be Ministers and Messengers of the most High GOD, and what they writ was by His Authority, when really and truly it was but the Imaginations and Inventions of their own deceived Hearts; to manifest which, and to undeceive the Minds of the Simple, who are beguiled (as myself once was) by their specious and high Pretences, I have taken the pains to write out some of their Messages, which do apparently show they are but pretenders only; and have made use of the Name of the LORD to cover and carry on their own designs; and when it suits not with their Interests, than would they have such Messages hid, and not brought to light.  
Are these the Ambassadors of the most High, who for any worldly ends, or carnal considerations, would have His Commands and Requirings stifled, which they said they gave forth in His Name? Surely their Hypocrisy and Deceit appears, and will yet appear more and more.  
Behold, you great Goliahs! your strength is in an Arm of Flesh, but mine is only in the Living GOD, before whom all your deceitful Covers are manifest, which will stand you in little stead in the Day of Distress, that is coming upon you; for He will certainly plead with you for all your Abominations: You are full of designs to keep up your Esteem amongst the People; but the LORD (by whose Power I am raised up against you) will bring you low, and utter disgrace will come upon you, because you have not sought His Glory so much as your own; and if thou continues and joins with them in their Sins, thou must not expect to escape their Judgements.  
It is certainly so, that I have been your truest Friend, (though accounted your Enemy,) and have in all Faithfulness discharged my Conscience towards you; and what I am to do farther in this matter, it concerns me diligently to wait upon HIM who gives Wisdom to the Simple, to confound the Wisdom of the Wise; and I am assured that Simplicity and Innocency will stand, when all the cunning Contrivances of Men shall fall. I am  
The Friend in Truth, without Flattery, J. P. Dec. 19 77.  
I desire G. F. G. Whitehead may see this, or any you see meet.    

The PREFACE  
WHen I have considered how the Quakers, (i.e. G.F. G. Whitehead, and the rest of that Temporising, Imperious, Lording Party,) have Writ and Printed against the Presbyterians, Independents, and others for being Engaged in the late Wars, and what opprobrious, vilifying, and reproachful Terms they have given them for the same, it hath exceedingly amazed and astonished me, that they who were so Great Justifiers and Encouragers, not only of what had been done in the late Wars, but also did incite and encourage those that were therein engaged, not to leave off until they had set up their STANDARD at the Gates of Rome; as may be seen in their own Writings here following: And yet for them to upbraid others with that which themselves for many years were so deeply concerned and engaged in, is such a piece of Wickedness as can hardly be paralleled by any sort of People professing Christianity.  
This, this their Baseness, I have in secret acquainted them withal, but no Ear or Heed would they give to what I said, but still went on in their accustomed manner to Defame such as had not been more engaged, if so much as themselves, in the late Wars; yea, and that in the most revengeful and highest aggravating Terms, that 'twas possible for their Pen to express; witness those Words to the Nonconforming Ministers, in Answer to Mr. Faldo (viz.) But why, poor Nonconformists, after all their Preached up Battles, Spoils, Plunders, Sacrileges, Decimations, etc. Again, They are true Gospel-ministers, whose Gospel is Peace on Earth, and Good Will towards Men, and not Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and Princes, Rulers and People: No Worldly Armies, Battles, Victories, Trophies, Spoils, Sequestrations, Decimations, and the like Bloodthirsty and Tyrannical Projects, in which John Faldo and his poor Nonconforming Ministers have had their Hands, almost over Head and Ears, till they had well nigh lost their Ears and their Heads too. Much more of this Nature may be seen towards to the latter end of the lesser Column of this Book.  
What People, setting these aside, could have had the Face and Confidence to have writ such Language as this? Certainly not any; especially when they themselves had been engaged in the same Cause and Quarrel with those whom they now so much Reproach and Vilify.  
The Consideration of these things, with their pretending themselves to be the Only People of the LORD, and of their being the Only Ambassadors and Ministers of Christ, with the Discharge of my own Conscience, put me upon gathering these their Writings together, and having them so placed, that those of the meanest Capacity may easily discern and see them to be as great Dissemblers, Deceivers, and Deluders of the People, as have appeared in this our Age.  
Reader.  
THE first Column is what they writ before the King came in, the other is what they writ since his Return; and as for the Quotations, I have endeavoured faithfulness therein, and have cited both Book and Page, where their Words may be found, but they have left out many Passages, and altered several Words (that suited not with their Interests and Designs) both of E. B's and F. H's in the Re-print of their Works, which thou wilt have notice of as thou readest: And where I have abbreviated any of their Writings, or lest out any of their Words, which were not so material to be put in, or too large to insert, thou wilt find a little stroke, thus— but have not in the least either wronged the Matter or Sense thereby, as thou mayest see if thou peruse the Books I have quoted.  
But before thou proceedest to read farther, I am willing thou shouldst hear the Testimony they give of their own Writings, viz.  
If there you own the Prophets, Christ and the Apostles, you will own one Writings, which are given forth by the same Spirit and power. See G. F's. Answ. to the Westmoreland Petition, p. 30.  
You might as well condemn the Scriptures to the Fire as our Queries. Our giving forth Papers or printed Books, it is from the immediate, Eternal Spirit of God. You are now Answered from the Mouth of the Lord. See G. F. and R. H. Truth's Defence, etc. p. 2, 104, 107.  
Now if this their Testimony be true, than their Writings are to be had in as great and as venerable esteem as the Scriptures, or any holy Man's Words are; but if it be otherwise, then are they Liars and false Prophets; and to be avoided and witnessed against. Let these following Collections manifest the Truth thereof.  
[And now the time is come, that as they have laid open the Deceit, Wickedness, and Hypocrisy of other Professors that went before them; even so must their Deceit, Wickedness, and Hypocrisy be also laid open; For the LORD whom I no Respecter of Persons.  
But who shall live when GOD doth this!]  
J. P.   

Geo, Fox's Judgement CONCERNING KINGLY GOVERNMENT.  

Taken out of a Paper of his, written to the Presbyterians and Others, before the KING was Restored.  
TO all you that desire an Earthly King in England,— Who profess yourselves to be Christians, whether Presbyterians or Others.— Do not the Priests, Presbyterians, and many of the Rulers cry for an Earthly King?— And is not this the same Nature the Jews were in? And do not they in This Crucify Jesus? Are not all these Elders Christians, that will dote so much of an Earthly King, Traitors against Christ?— Now Elders, if you say, Peter said Honour the King;— This doth not hold forth that Peter bid them set up an Earthly King over them, neither do you read— that there were any Earthly Kings since the days of the Apostles, but among the Apostate Christians, etc.— And all these Antichrists and Presbyterians imitated Elders over them all.— Will Christ Reign and these Kings that have been made? For Christ is King alone, and makes his Disciples Kings,— to Reign upon the Earth.— These are true Christians, and will these have any more Kings among them, but Christ, who are Redeemed from the Earth and earthly Kings?— I say, That is the false Church that doth not live upon the Heads of these Kings.— Such as have the Prophets, Christ, and the Apostles Words; the Sheep's Clothing, but out of the Life and Power that makes such work for an Earthly King.— Herod the King was Mad at the Child Jesus, and sought to slay all the Children in Bethlehem of Judea; There is ehe fruits of Earthly Kings, and such a King would our false Christians and Elders have.  
The Children of Israel, when they grew, would have Kings like other Nations, that when People were gone from the Lord God,— then they set up Kings; and when the Children of Israel served not the Lord God, but went after other gods,— they desired a King, which the Lord gave them in his Wrath, Sam. 8. And in this manner, Should a King Reign over them, the King shall take your Sons and appoint them for his Chariots, etc.— (this is the fruit of your Kings)— The King will take your Fields, your Vineyards, your best Olive Trees, and give them to his Servants. (this is the Fruit of your Kings, etc.) Ignorant and foolish People that would have a King and Kings since the days of the Apostles.— The People will not hear when all these Fruits of these Kings are laid down to them.— But says Christians and false Elders, there shall be a King over us, and we also will be like other Nations.— So the Christians go out from Christ, and set up Kings like Heathens, Hos. 13.11.— You ignorant and foolish, that is, looking after Kings, which turns from the lord— This is to you Christians, that would have another King.— You may see what work there was with the Kings of Edom and Esau.— And when the Children of Issrael grew into Esau's Nature, they would have a King.— So the Antichrists they will have a King,— as other Heathenish Nations would have, they will fight else, and this is Esau's Nature.— Now David and Solomon there are Figures in their being Kings. And see what work the Kings of the Midianites did, and the Children of Isral's Kings, who said, Thou art our King, Reign over us, both thou and thy Sons.— These, like our doting Christians, would have a King.— And read what work the Children of Israel made (when they were as Judges in the fear of the Lord) with the Kings of the Earth, the Kings of Canaan.— You may see what work the Children of Israel had with Sihon King of the Amorites, and Sthon King of Heshbon, and strange Kings of Bashan, Josh. 13— And you may see in the 12th. of Joshua, what work he made with the Kings, etc. And how God had hardened the Hearts of the Kings that they might be destroyed by them that had not King.— How they overthrew the Kings when they kept faithful to the lord— Josh. 11. And how the Lord fought for Israel, and what work Joshua made with the Kings, how he brouhht them out of the Care: A fit place for them: [saith G. Fox] for all Kings that be made in men's earthly Wills.— The Rocks and Caves are their Shelter in time of Distress.— And you may see what Fear and Dread was in all Nations and People, while the Children of Israel went on in the Name of the Lord; and so it will be again, when People go on in the Name of Christ, what a dread they will be in all Christendom to all Kings, and all such upon the Earth who are Kings and Princes made, but not by Christ; for all the true redeemed ones, are Kings and Priests, that reign upon the Earth, that knew their- Election before the World began. You may see in the third Chapter of Deuteronomy: How the Word of the Lord was fulfilled: How they went over the Kings and smote them in the Power of the Lord God:— And as the Children of Israel dwelled in the Fear of the Lord, the Kings fled before them:— So will they do before all them that live in the Power of God.— The Shout of a King was among the Children of Israel, while they felt the Lord of Hosts was among them; they trod down the Earthly Kings:— and all these Novice Christians that are crying up Earthly Kings, and following Kings, and fight for the Kings of the Earth, are not such as follow the Lamb.  
We know that these Kings are the Spiritual Egyptians got up since the days of the Apostles. Josiah and such as feared the Lord (in the time of the Law and the Prophets) the Lord accepted, which Kings was among the Jews, but you never read of any among the Christians, but among the Apostates since the Days of the Apostles.  
All which (and much more) you may read in the  Paper of G. F. Pag. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 26, etc.  
Observe. Here by way of Interrogation he affirms: That they who cry for an Earthly King, do in this Crucify Jesus, and are Traitors against Christ, and that true Christians will not have any more Kings among them but Christ: That the fruit of Earthly Kings, is to be mad at the Child Jesus, as Herod was: That they are Ignorant and Foolish People that would have a King and Kings, since the Days of the Apostles: That these Kings are the Spiritual Egyptians, etc.   

G. Fox to the Protector and Parliament. p. 62. 1658.  
AND now, Oh Protector! who hast tasted of the Power of God,— Take heed thou lose not thy Power; but keep Kingship off thy Head, which the World would give thee; and Earthly Crowns under thy Feet, lest with that thou cover thyself, and so lose the Power of God. ☞ When the Children of Israel went from that of God in them, they would have Kings, as other Nations had, as Transgressor's had, and so God gave them one.]— And ye Powers of the Earth, take heed of making Earthly Kings, or looking after Earthly Kings, lest you hurt and undo yourselves and others, but mind the Witness of God in you, that you may see what the Children of Israel went from, when they set up Kings as other Nations,— Ye Heathens,— that set up Kings, and know not the Lord, etc.  
From a Lover of your Souls and Eternal Good, and Establishing of Righteousness,  
G. F.   

Again, A Word from the Lord, etc. p. 15, 1654. (he saith)  
THE Word of the Lord God to you who are called Presbyterians, [and to you that read the Common-Prayer.] You are wholly in Darkness, given up to it, [and so your dark Minds have the Common Prayer.] And such would have a King to Reign, for there is that Nature that would have an Earthly King to Reign, in which Nature lodgeth the Murderer.  
G. F.  
Obs. [But the Quakers Messages and Addresses to K. Ch. 2. and K. Ja. they are for having an Earthly King to Reign, and consequently are by themselves judged to be in the Nature, wherein lodgeth the Murderer.]   

Of the Great Success that George For told Oliver he should have had, if he had been Faithful; in a Letter to him, Dated 11th. Month 1657. See Council and Advice, etc. p. 26, 27.  
OH Oliver Hadst thou been Faithful,! and thundered down Deceit, the Hollander had been thy Subjects and Tributers; and Germany had given up to have done thy Will; and the Spaniard had quivered like a Dry Leaf:— The King of France should have bowed under thee his Neck; the Pope should have withered as in Winter; the Turk in all his Fatness should have Smoked: Thou shouldst not have stood trifling about Small Things, but minded the Work of the Lord as he began with thee at first. Sober Men and true Hearts took part with thee: Oh take heed! and do not slight such, lest thou weaken thyself, and not disown such as the Lord hath owned; thy Dread is not yet all gone, nor thy Amazement; Arise and come out, for hadst thou been Faithful, thou shouldst have crumbled Nations to Dust; for that had been thy Place; now is thy Day of Trial, etc.  
G. F.  
Obs. The Success here spoken of should have befallen him by means of his Armies, wherein sober Men and True Hearts took part with him; such he exhorts not to slight, nor disown such as God had owned. Suitable to this he saith (in his Paper against Kingly Government, pag. 27. Why did you put out such as fear God out of the Army, which might have been a Blessing to the Lord in their Generation?  
Obs. This shows, That in G. F's Judgement (who pretends himself Infallible) such as Fear God, and Quakers, might fight, and that it was ill done to put such out of the Army.   

This following Letter shows that G. F. approved of oliver's Authority, about which he gives him and his Soldier's Charge, p. 36, 37.  
Friend,  
THou shouldst have invited all the Christians upon Earth in all Nations, that are against Popery, to thee; to comein and join with thee against Popery, for thou hast had Authority, stand to it, lose it not, nor abuse it, nor let any other take thy Crown, and do not stand cumbering thyself about Dirty Priests;— and thou hast had Power over Nations, for Nations begin to be on heaps; and invite all them that profess against the Pope in all Nations, to join with thee against him; and do not lose thy Dominion nor Authority, nor the Wisdom of God, but with that thou may'st order all; [☞ That will keep thee single in Heart and Mind to the Lord;] and let thy Soldiers go forth with a free willing Heart, that thou may'st Rock Natious as a Cradle; and keep thou in the Fear of the Lord, and all the Soldiers, and them that are under thee. This is a Charge to thee in the Presence of the Lord God, that thou, nor them may lose the Dread of the Lord, [☞ for that strikes a terror in the Hearts of all People] etc.  
I am a Lover of thy Soul and eternal Good, an Establisher of Righteousness.  
G. F.  
Obs. Is not this a Just Authority which so great a Prophet exhorts him to stand to, and not to lose nor suffer any to take his Crown. And yet this Authority is to be defended and enlarged by Soldiers, who are charged to go forth with a free willing heart, and to keep in the fear of the Lord, which argues they were in the fear of the Lord; and so either Quakers or as good as Quakers.   

In another Letter the same G. F. salutes Oliver thus, p. 27.  
Dear Friend,  
BE still and in the Council of God stand, and that will give thee Wisdom that thou may'st frustrate Men's Ends, and calm Men's Spirits, and Crumble Men under; and arise and stand up in the Power of the Lord God, [☞ The Lambs Authority,] and fear not the Face of Man, but fear and dread the Lord God; then his Presence, and Wisdom, and Council, thou shalt have to throw down the Rubbish, and quell all the bad Spirits under thy Dominion;— therefore live in the Power of the Lord God, and feel his Hand that is stretched out over the Nations; for a Mighty Work hath the Lord to do in other Nations, and their Quake and Shakes are but entering: So this is the Word of the Lord God to thee as a Charge to thee from the Lord God, etc.   

The same G. F. in the Name of the Church of Christ, and Elect Assembly,— Known in the Nations by the Name of Quakers, To Rich. Cromwell Protector, p. 47, 51.  
Friend,  
LIve in God's Wisdom if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength, than none shall touch thee, and all them that fear God will be on thy side, and take thy Part, and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings, yea, till death. And G. For after six pages of Instructions to him, concludes with these Words, viz. The Lord God Almighty preserve thee in his Wisdom, and Counsel, and Strength over the Heads of his Enemies in thyself, and in the World both.— And Friend, take heed of putting of honest godly Men out of the Army, [☞ or putting them out of their places, being justices of the Peace.] In so doing, thou wilt lame thyself, and weaken thy Authority, and remove thyself out of the Hearts of them that fear God.  
G. F.  
Obs. He approves of his Power, and prays for his Victory over his Enemies in himself and in the World both, (And pray was not the King and his Party some of those Enemies;) and he warns him of putting honest godly Men out of the Army, as he had done his Father before.   

But when Richard was gone off the Stage, and the Officers of the Army in Power, then G. F. applies himself to them in these words,  
OH Friends! The Power of God ye have abused;— the Just have been trodden under Foot,— who have been put out of the Army and Public Services:— Now had you been Faithful in the Power of the Lord which once stirred, this Nation needed not have been afraid of any Nation upon the Earth; but your Dread would have sounded over the World: But when you lost the Power of God,— with which you had brushed at the Outside of Things, than you turned against, and put them in Prison (meaning the Quakers) that struck at the Root.— And had you been Faithful to the Power of the Lord God which first carried you on, you had gone into the midst of Spain, into their Land, to require the Blood of the Innocent that there had been shed, and have commanded them to have offered up their Inquisition to you, and gone over them as the Wind, and knocked at Rome Gates before now, and trampled Deceit and Tyrants under, and demanded the Pope himself, and have commanded him to have offered up all his Torture-Houses, and his Wracks, and Inquisition, (which you should have found as black as Hell) and broke up the Bars and Gates where all the Just Blood hath been shed, which should have been required, and this you should have required, and this you should have seen done in the Power, when you had been the Dread of all Nations, and you had been a Dread to them, and should have set up a Standard at Rome, and then you should have sent for the Turks Idol, the Mahomet, and plucked up Idolatry, and cried up Christ the only King and Lord, and then People would have said you had gone on in the Cause of God and his Truth, etc.— And so if you had gone to have made Inquisition for Blood, and to demand all the Inquisitions abroad in the whole Christendom, whereby the Innocent Blood hath been shed; then all the People in the whole Christendont that feared the Lord God would have said with one consent, These are the Men that are gone out for God's Cause. Many valiant Captains, Soldiers, and Officers have been put out of the Army— because of their Faithfulness to the Lord;— it may be for saying Thou to a single Person, or for wearing their Hats, etc.— Oh how are Men fallen from that which they were in at first! when Thousands of us went in the Front of you, and were with you in the greatest Heat, etc. — Oh what a Sincerity was once in the Nation! What a dirty nasty thing it would have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords among them? Oh! how is the Sincerity choked, smothered, and quenched, by the Fatness of the Earth, whereby they have forgot ten the Lord, and his Arm and Power that once carried them on.  
And if ever you Soldiers and true Officers come again into the Rower (i. e. the Spirit) of God which hath been lost, never set up your Standard till you come to Rome, and it be a top of Rome, then there let your Standard stand, and look at the Power of the Lord God, and never heed Gold nor Silver, for the Power of the Lord will give you enough, etc. See To the Council of Officers, pag. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.  
G. F.  
Obs. He saith it was the Power of the Lord God that first carried them on, and had they been Faithful, they should have required Innocent Blood of Spain, and knocked at Rome Gates, and trampled Tyrants under, and demanded the Pope himself; and this they should have done as an Army [in the Spirit and Power of God, which they had lost] setting up a Standard at Rome, commanding the Turk, and crying up Christ the only King; [then all that feared the Lord [Quakers as well as others] would have said,— These are the Men that are gone out for the Cause of God and his Truth]. Then he complains, That many valiant Captains, Soldiers, and Officers have been put out of the Army,— because of their Faithfulness to the Lord; that is, for being Quakers, as he intimates; Then he cries out, saying, Thousands of us went in the Front of you. This was a time of Sincerity, when it would have been a dirty, nasty thing to have talked of a House of Lords. He counsels them not to stop till they have set up their Standard at Rome, and [never heed Gold nor Silver; for the Power of the Lord will give you enough; so E. Burrough says to the Army,; God will give their [the Papists] falslly consecrated Vessels and Treasures a Spoil and Prey to you, if you be faithful.]  
Compare this with what they say in the other Column.   

NOW I shall come to cite some Passages out of E. B's Books, he was one of their Chief Preachers, and in very great Esteem amongst them, his Works they took care to reprint in Folio, but withal to expunge some Passages, and alter others, which discovered too much of his Oliverian and their Fight Spirit. This Man is charged by jeremiah Ives, to have justified the late War against the King, and is defended by Geo. Whitehead, another of their chief Preachers,) saying, Serious Search, p. 35, 36.  
Thou art pleased to tell the World twice or thrice over, that we justify the late Wars against the King:— And why so? Because E. B. in severely warning the late Powers of their Downfall, did by way of Reproof tell Oliver what God had done for him, even in the same Letter to him, wherein he plainly also telleth him of the Great Oppressions which the People of God suffered under him, etc. See (saith he) E. B's Works, from pag. 551. to pag. 583. how plainly and faithfully he did warn Oliver and those Men then in Power, of their Overthrow. To be sure E. Burrough was no Temporizer.   

Now we are to see whether E. Burrough doth not Justify the late War against the King. Counsel and Advice. Printed 1659.  
In his Letters to Oliver, Protector, May 1657. he hath these Passages, Pag. 4.  
THE Lord gave thee the Necks of Princes to tread upon,— and their Dominions to inherit, and thou wast set a Ruler in much Dominion, and hast savour in his Sight, and in the sight of many People, who wished well unto thee for a Blessing: Many Victories honourable and remarkable was given unto thee, over them who had exalted themselves against God, and ruled in Tyranny over his People; whom the Lord pitied, and thou an Instrument in his Band, wast ordained by him to lead forth a People, whom he Blessed with thee, against a cruel People, and Generation of Oppressors, who exercised Tyranny over the Lord's Heritage, till they were taken away, and cast out, and are a Reproach unto the Lord and his People unto this day; and even so shall all be that follow their Example, and are Oppressors and Tyrants over the Seed of God, as they were.  
Note, These Lines in Black Letter are all left out in his Works, p. 552.   

In another Letter to him he writes thus, dated September 1657. Pag. 16, 17.  
Friend,  
IT is upon me, and also I am pressed in Spirit thereunto, to give unto thee, even unto the Oliver, Protector, the perfect measure of thy Dominions, etc.— Many Enemies thou hast which watch over thee for Evil, and not for Good, who would rejoice in thy overthrow. And first there is a People scattered through all these Nations, who are full of Wrath and ravening Envy towards thee, Even of those known by the Name of Malignant's Party; in whose Hearts, to this day, there is continual hatred, and evil surmising lodgeth against thee, and all thy Offspring; and I believe— that daily advantage they seek against thee, by subtle Conspiracies and secret Plottings of Maliciousness in their Evil Hearts, seeking by all means, if it be possible, how to be avenged, and not slipping any advantage how to revenge themselves and the Cause of their King.— I know the Lord hath Cursed them and their Endeavours to this day, and thou hast had Dominion and Power given thee of God to bruise them and to break them to pieces; and what thou hast done unto their King should not be reckoned against thee by the Lord, if now thou wert Faithful to what he requires of thee, etc.  
Note, And promote their Cause, is put in instead of The Cause of their King, p. 559. And the word blasted is put in instead of Cursed. And all the Words in Black Letter are left out in his Works, p. 560.  
Obs. How he calls the Protector and his Party, a People whom the Lord blessed, against a cruel People and Generation of Oppressors, that is, those called the Malignant Party, that were for the King; he saith also,; The Lord hath cursed them and their Endeavours to this day, and that if the Protector would own them, (the Quakers,) they would own him in the Face of all his Enemies, p. 21. the chief of which were then the King 's Party. How should they do that without fight?   

And in a Letter of his to the Protector and Council. 12th. Month, 57 he saith, p. 23.  
WHat! Hath the abundance of this World's Glory and its Treasure quite overcome, and stolen away your Hearts wholly from all sense and ceiling of the unjust Sufferings of your Brethren (meaning the Quakers,) who have in times past, as faithfully as yourselves, served the Nation with their Lives and Estates, to the purchasing of this Peace and Freedom out of the hands of Tyrants?  
Tyrant's is left out, and the word Opposers put in its stead. E. B's works, p. 563.   

In another Letter to the Protector, which was given to him the 6th. Month, 1658. about a Month before his Death, he writes thus, p. 33.  
ARise and stand up for the Lord, and he will give thee strength and Victory, and will make thy Horn as Iron, and thy Hoof as Brass, to push down and tread under the High Places of Idolatry in all the Apostatised Churches both Papists and others.  
And as concerning thy War and Armies abroad in Spain; something there is in it known to the Lord, seek not thine own Honour in it, but be Faithful, and leave the issue of all things to the Lord; make no Covenant with Idolaters, but tread down their Idol-Gods that they have set up; and hue down their Mountains in which their Confidence stands, and Blow up their ground, that the Seed may be sown after thee. It's Honour enough to be the Lord's Ploughman, p. 35. These foregoing Lines in Black Letter, are left out in the reprinting of his Works, p. 568.  
Obs. How he exhorts the Protector to push down, and tread under the High Places of Idolatry: and where? In all the Apostatised Churches, both Papists and others: And this he intimates is to be done by his Armies, and he would not have him to make any Covenant with Idolaters, etc. These are the Men that in their Declaration (since the King came in) deny both the Spirit, Principle, and Practice of them that use any Weapon to fight for Christ or his Government. And yet hear in the following Passage, how this E. Burrough declares to Governor Lockart and the Officers in the Name of the Lord, that if they went forth as an Army in that Spirit that was among the Quakers, they should then overcome their Enemies, Take his own words as reprinted and not expunged, and so owned afresh by G. F. [G. Whitehead] and their Party. 1672.   

An Alarm sounded in the Pope's Borders. 1659. E. B's Works. p. 536.  
AND this lay upon me to declare in the Name of the Lord (to Governor Lockart and his Officers,) That if they did enterprise any business, as they were an Army, in a Spirit in Opposition to us, and in that Spirit that did reject us, and deny us, and gainsay us; then should they never prosper in any Enterprise whatsoever: But if they went on in any degree in the Fear of the Lord, and in that Spirit that was among us, than should they overcome their Enemies, and none should have Power over them to overcome them.  
Obs. What was it they were to do as an Army [in the Quakers Spirit?] See that in his Instructions to the English Army, etc. in and about Dunkirk, viz.  
AND that there be no more a looking back— till you have visited Rome, and enquired after, and sought out the Innocent Blood that is buried therein; and avenge the Blood of the Guiltless through all the Dominions of the Pope, the Blood of the Just cries through Italy and Spain, and the time is come, that the Lord will search it, and seek it out, and repay it, and it would be your Honour to be made use of by the Lord in any Degree in order to this Matter.— And this also believe, that the Lord will do it, or make way hereunto, even by you, the Men of our English Nation, if you be faithful, etc. p. 537.  
What are these few poor Islands that you have run through, and laid many Mountains low? they are but little in comparison of the great part of Christendom in which Idolatry and great Oppressions do abound, which the Hand of the Lord is against, and which he will take Vengeance upon, p. 538.  
But there are many Mountains in the way, wherefore hue down the Tops, strike at the Branthes, make way, that the Axe may be laid to the Root of the Tree, that your Sword, and the Sword of the Lord may neither leave Root nor Branch of Idolatry, Oppressions, and Tyranny;— your Sword is to be lifted up against them. It is the Lord's Work, I know, to make Men truly Religious, but yet the Lord may work by you to break down the Briars, and Thorns, and Hills, that have set themselves against the Lord. P. 538. God will make their Riches and their falsely consecrated Vessels, and Treasures, even a Spoil and a Prey unto you, if you be faithful, etc. p. 539.  
Your work hath been, and may be honourable in its day,— and your Victory hath been of the Lord— So be low in your own Eyes,— and seek the Glory of God, and the Freedom of the Oppressed, and in that you will be Blessed, and prosper, till you have set up your Standard at the Gates of Rome. p. 540.  
I am a Lover of your Souls,— E. B.  
Obs. That both the Army-Sword, and the Sword of the Lord were not to leave Root or Branch of Idolatry. In so doing, he promises them Blessing and Prosperity.   

The same E. Burrough to Rich. Cromwell chosen to be Protector, See Council and Advice, p. 53.  
AND as for thy Father, the late Protector, great things and honourable did the Lord do for him in raising him up, and casting out his Enemies before him; and giving him Victory and Power, and Renown through Nations; and we know the Lord shown favour to him, and gave him Strength, Wisdom, and Valour, and a Right Spirit; and he was called of God into that great Work to subdue the grievous Tyrannies once ruling over Tender Consciences, and to break down the great Oppressions which for Ages had caused the Just to groan, and the Lord was with him in Victory, and went before him, and was his Defence, and preserved him from great dangers; and from the Wills of all his Enemies, and made him prosperous against them all.— And as for thee who art now set up in his stead, we certainly believe that the Hand of the Lord is in this Matter, etc. Note, Tyrannies is left out, and the word Cruelty put in, in his Works, p. 574.  
As concerning the Armies abroad, let faithful and just Men that will not seek themselves, be put in trust, for the Army is of great Concernment to thee, to stand or fall through them, as to Man's account; and the War against Spain, be faithful to God in it, and let trusty Men have Authority, the Lord may accomplish something by it to his Honour, and to thine, if thou be meek and humble, and walk with the Lord, and to say no more about it, there is something in it known to the Lord, and he may bring it to pass in its Season, p. 64.  
London, 18th. 8th. Month, 1658.  
These Lines in Black Letter are all left out in his Works, p. 580.  
Obs. He saith that the Lord in casting out his Father's Enemies, and giving him Victory, did not only do great things, but honourable, that he shown him favour, and gave him a Right Spirit. [Is it not plain the Quakers held that God commanded a Right Spirit to Fight, and that Oliver was called of God thereto?]   

E. Burrough to the Protector's Kindred, his Wife and Children, p, 37, 38.  
Friends,  
REmember that by the Lord you were raised from a low Estate,— he gave you the Palaces of Princes, and threw out the High and Mighty before you, because of their Wickedness, which was great in the Sight of the Lord. Oh! remember this every one of you,— and be of a tender Spirit,— and exalt not yourselves,— lest the Lord cast you down, and make your Name and Posterity a Reproach, as he hath done many before you, even for that cause was the Generation of the Stewarts cast out.  
Note, All these Words in Black Letter, are left out in his Works, p. 569.  
Obs. That he saith, for exalting themselves in Pride, etc. was the Generation of the Stewarts cast out, and their Palaces bestowed on the Protector and his Family [And pray G. W. etc. was not White-Hall one of those Palaces?]   

Now let us hear what Francis Howgil saith in Justification of the late War. See his Advice to the Army, Committee of Safety, etc. 1659. p. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.  
THE Long-Parliament against the late King, which in Man's account could be looked upon to be no other than Rebellion; yet God gave a signal Testimony to the one, while they stood in the Power of God, and against the other.  
The ancient Courtiers having found so much Ease and Profit by the late King, turned all Cavaliers, and cried up the Prerogative of the King above Law and Equity, etc. Setting that aside wholly which all Good Government was intended for, as the Safety of the People, and freedom from Oppression, Tyranny and Usurpation, and that none might be embondaged in the Worship of God; but when he (to wit the late King) and his Assistants sought to enthral all, and Embodage all, both in Civil and Ecclesiastical things, (as they were called,) the Long-Parliament and People that aided them at that time counted it no Treason to oppose him, seeing the End was not answered he should have satisfied; and God decided the Controversy in overthrowing the one, and establishing the other for a season; yet many are so blind to this day; that they judge the Nation cannot be established in Freedom without a King, as though such a Name were essential only to Freedom, and without it could not be obtained; but the judicious will see this Ignorance, etc.— So now many are so doting on the Name of a Parliament, as though it were Essential, etc.— and cry up the Privileges of Parliament, as the former did Prerogative, and would fight about a Name,— and lose the Thing intended, though they be the Representatives of the People to do good to the People, and not hurt, they are accounted as good Servants to God, but if they would— set up a particular Interest to the Imbondaging of the whole, and then cry up their Privileges to do what they list, Than it is no Rebellion in God's Account, neither in the account of Just Men, to call them away when they do not perform the Thing intended. And as for the Long-Parliament by whom God did Good Things, and Great Things, in the overthrowing that Power which was deviated from the aforesaid End (to wit) the late King,— What they did, they had the Approbation of God and Good Men; yet they went not through with the Work purposed and intended. Note, All these Lines in Black Letter are left out in F. H's Works.  
When a Company of greedy hireling Priests came from Leicester-shire to sound their Trumpet in the House, and to tell you they had not engaged with the rest of their Brethren in Cheshire and Lancashire, with George B●oth, they were immediately called in, and thanks returned, as though they had done some great Service for the Nation that they joined not in the Rebellion; but them who were your real Friends, called Quakers, who gave you and the Army intelligence about the late Insurrection in Cheshire, who were spoiled by the said Rebels of their Goods, &c— could never receive any satisfaction or encouragement from you, etc. Note, All the foregoing Lines in Black Letter are left out in F. H's Works.  
Obs. He saith God gave a signal Testimony for the Parliament against the late King: That it is no Rebellion to call them (who were in Power) away, when they do not perform the Thing they are entrusted for. That God did good and great things by the Long-Parliament, in overthrowing the late King; wherein they had the Approbation of God and good Men; that they who joined with Sir; George Booth, joined in Rebellion, that at the same time, the Quakers were the Parliaments real Friends, and gave them and the Army Intelligence.   

See also E. Burrough to the new Committee of Safety. 1659. to the same purpose concerning Deposing Governors. E. B's Works, p. 593.  
AND though some of you (present Rulers) be looked upon as great Traitors and Tyrants in your dealing towards them, [i. e. the Parliament]— but alas! this is nothing, for the Lord doth not account as Men,— and if you were faithful to what the Lord requires of you, in your Proceed, what you have done unto them, [i. e. in turning them out,] should not be reckoned on account against you, neither by God, nor Good Men.   

Likewise see the Declaration of their Faith touching Governors, E. B's Works. p. 442. Printed 1672.  
WE believe that all Governors and Rulers ought to be accountable to the People and to the next succeeding Rulers for all their Actions which may be enquired into upon occasion; and that the chiefest of the Rulers be subject under the Law, and punishable by it if they be Transgressor's, as well as the poorest of the People. [Note, This Article of their Faith they also printed in the year 71. in their Book called, The Principles of Truth, p. 51. But as I was not, so I am not willing any Observation should be made thereon, and that for their sakes.]   

Now hear E. B's Advice to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, etc. against Hereditary Government, 6th. October 1659. [But after K. C. 2. was restored, than they left all this Paper out in the Reprint of his Works:]  
AND while thus it hath been, in our Nation, that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditarily, and by the Succession of Birth,— and thus it hath continued for many Ages— and our Nation hath been under the Bonds of Slavery in this respect, even because Men Governed that ought not;— and while Men for Earthly Honour— in Birth an Breeding have claimed to be Princes over us successively, and to be chosen our Rulers according to Custom,— and because of this the Freeborn People have deeply suffered the cruel Oppressions of proud and ambitious selfseeking Men, who have long Ruled for themselves and not for the Lord, and have come into place of Authority otherwise than by Appointment and right Calling from the Lord, And thus the Government of our Nation hath been out of Course,— while great Darkness hath remained upon the Hearts of the People, which hath so blinded them that they have not known their own Bondage, nor yet how to be redeemed into perfect Liberty, while they have subjected themselves (through Ignorance) to be ruled by such Men as had no right from God to that Place of Rule and Government.  
But now the Lord God our Deliverer hath begun to appear for the Freedom of the Nations, and hath showed us the Captivity and Bondage that our Forefathers have lived under, and we ourselves been liable and subject to, by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively, and we being forced to live under the Authority of such Men as had no right from God thereunto, as I have said: And now our Eyes are opened to see better things, and we are in good Expectations that the Lord will Suddenly so appear as to free us from future Oppressions in this respect, etc.— And these things we are waiting for, to be brought to pass in their Season, and the Hand of the Lord will accomplish it; if not by you, than even contrary to you. Therefore take this my Council even as you hope to prosper; for this I know from the Lord, upon the rejecting or receiving hereof dependeth your Standing or your Fall, your Renown or perpetual Reproach; even your Blessing or your Curse; and the time is at hand that many shall confess the Lord gave good Counsel to you by his Servant.  
E. Burr.  
Obs. That in his Judgement it was through Ignorance that the People subjected themselves to Hereditary Governors, or such as had no right to the Place of Rule, or to the Government, standing in a Single Person successively; and he reckons it a piece of Slavery the Nation hath long been under, that our Kings have attained to the Throne Hereditarily, and yet G. F. etc. (of late) tells the King and Parliament that their Hearts and Hands could seal to the Substance both of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. And G. F. saith, If he could take any Oath at all, upon any occasion, he should take the Oath of Allegiance, which Oath binds to the King, and his Heirs and Successors. Now if this be not Contradiction and Temporising, what is?   

See moreover G. F's Paper (taken out of the same Book, that the Abstract against Kingly Government was taken) p. 42.  
To all such as feed the Priests till they turn against them.  
THE Black Presbyterians— and Priests, and Cavaliers, which are stirring; you being out of the Power which first had Dominion over them; what now are Priests, Cavaliers, Presbyterians, saying, Curse you Meroz, that will not come to fight against the Mighty! (meaning the Parliament,) and all the honest People in the Nation, to destroy them. And what! are they now bawling against you, as they have against the Quakers? Will nothing satisfy the Priests and the rest, but Blood? Have they not been the stirrers up for War and Blood always? What now! are they so fat fed, that they curse them that will not come to fight against the Parliament? Have you fed them so fat, that they kick against you like wild Horses, that they snort, that there is such a snorting among them against their Feeders? Have you said them like wild Bulls and Heifers, that now they run against you with their Horns? Surely the Fodderers of these have not well looked about them; have not these been called Ministers of the Gospel? But now how comes it that they preach up War? These are bad Cattle, Horses, Heifers, and Bulls, that kick against their Fodderers. And run with their Horns against their Fodderers.— I must tell you the Sun is set upon all the Priests in this Nation, and such as be like minded, and that is the Word of the Lord God to this present Age, and many more.  
G. F.   

Hear now Is. Penington, an Eminent Writer among them, [and one of good repute,] to the Parliament, the Army, and all the well-affected in the Nation, who have been faithful to the Good Old Cause, 1659. p. 1.  
THat there hath been a Backsliding and turning aside from the Good Old Cause, even by the Army (who formerly were Glorious Instruments in the Hand of God) hath been lately confessed.— The Name of God hath been Blasphemed in the whole Earth, and that Holy Spirit and Power (which many Hearts can witness, was the Beginner and Carrier on of this Work) made a Scoff and Derision to the Enemies of Truth in these Nations, and in the Nations round about, who watched to see the Issue and Result of these things. The Controversy was very great and eminent, and drew many Eyes upon it, the Lord was appealed to on both sides to decide it, and many know that by his Presence and Power in the Army the Stolen was turned (even when they were very very low, and cried out for Prayers, and made large Promises in the Days of their Distress;) yea, the Lord did not desert the Army, but heard their Prayers, and the Prayers of his People for them, carrying on the Deliverance, until he had given a perfect Victory into their Hands, etc.  
Obs. That by the Lord's Presence and Power in the Army, the Controversy was decided, and the Army made Glorious Instruments for the Good Old Cause, was not then the Armies Cause once Just [in the Quakers Opinion] and their fight lawful and approved of God?   

Miles Halhead and T. S. two Eminent Men of their Ministry, follow with their most plain Testimony, Wounds of an Enemy, etc. 1656. p. 23.  
When the Presbyterians saw the Army (who were made the Sword of the Lord— against Papists and Bishops) would not submit to the Covenant, they drew the Sword against them, and not prevailing in a first War, many of them joined with the Papists and Bishops, and the Common Enemy, (meaning the King.) And now an Oath of Abjuration— is tendered to them to Swear— who have been most faithful to the Commonwealth, and its Army, and have born the Brunt and Heat of the Day in the late Wars, with the peril of their Lives in the Field, and the loss of their Estates, against the Popish, Prelatical, and Presbyterian Party.  
Hath this Generation witnessed the Word of the Lord to be true above many Generations? before whose Eyes, and by whose Hands the Righteous God hath executed his Dreadful Judgements on the Enemies of his Elect;— hath he despised the Image of the King and Princes, and Nobles, and the great Ones,— and poured forth their Blood as Water on the Earth, and made them a fearful desolation, in the Cause of his People, and of Justice, and of Equity.— In the Iniquities that they have committed, and in the Sins wherewithal they have Sinned, hath He cut them off, and made them the dreadful Examples of his Vengeance, p. 75, 76.  
Obs. The Contents of this is plain to every capacity.   

Take also George Roffs Testimony, another of their Ministry.  
TO thee Oliver Cromwell, thus saith the Lord, I had chosen thee among the thousands of the Nations, to execute my Wrath upon my Enemies, and gave them to thy Sword, with which I fought, for the Zeal of my own Name, and gave thee the Enemies of my own Seed to be a Curse and a Reproach for ever, and made thee an Instrument against them,— and many have I cut down by my Sword in thy Hand, that my Wrath might be executed on them to the utmost. See Righteousness, etc. p. 11.  
Obs. Here the Lord is represented fight with Oliver's Sword against God's Enemies. I think here is Justification sufficient of the late Wars, enough to make George Whitehead (and therest) ashamed.   

Hear again E. Burrough and F. Howgil pleading the Quakers Faithfulness to the Commonwealth's Interest, and bringing to Mind the utter Destruction of the Bishop's and King's Power, as of a stone sunk into the Sea, which riseth not again.  
To Henry Cromwell and his Council. The Visuation of Ireland, etc. p. 21, 22.  
YOU have endeavoured to give sentence of Banishment of us out of your Nation, who are freeborn English-Men, and have always been faithful and true to the Commonwealths Interest from first to last even until now.— What became of all the Perseccutors of old? What became of the Bishops? What became of that Power that held them up, are they not all sunk as a Stone into the Sea, and become a Reproach.   

Again E. B. to the Heads,— Judges, etc. p. 19  
If such you uphold by a Law— which act those things the Scripture speaks against— God will lay your Honour in the dust, and cast you out of the Seat of Judgement; as he hath done the Power of the King and Bishops before you. Note, All the Lines in black Letter are left out in his Works, p. 84, 85, 86.   

Let us now hear News out of the North, etc. A Book set out by G. F. and written (as he saith) from the Mouth of the Lord. 1655.  
DReadful is the Lord and Powerful, who is coming in his Power to execute true Judgement upon all you Judges, and to change all your Laws ye Kings.— All you Rulers must down and cease,— You must be cut down with the same Power that cut down the King who reigned over the Nation; in whose Family was a Nurse for Papists and for Bishops,— Judges, and Justices,— Beast and False Prophet; the Lord God will pour out his Plagues upon you, the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it, and except you repent you shall all likewise perish, and be consumed as the King was, and perish with the same Power. The Lord God hath sent his Prophets oft to tell you so, p. 18, 19  
The World knows me not, but I testify the Truth, etc.  
G. Fox.  
Obs. What Man could have wrote more against a King and King: lie Government, than this G. Fox hath done, and that in the Name and Authority of the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, (as he saith,) and yet no sooner was the King invested in his Father's Throne, but the said G. Fox, through Deceit, Fear, and Flattery, writes a quite contrary Language. See the other Column p. 1, 2, etc.   

Again hear also what G. Fox and other Quakers tell us in the West answering to the North, Writ 1656 the next year after News out of the North, etc.  
One jer. Ives (taking notice of their frequent Abuses to others about the late War) citys a Paessage of theirs out of E. B's Works in Justification of the late Wars; and further saith, The Book in The West answering to the North, p. 79, 89 94, 95, 96, 97. hath much to the same purpose, which (saith he) I am unwilling to write out, because I am not willing to expose you. G. Whitchead replies thus in his Serious Search, p. 37. I cannot but observe the Man's Dissimulation and base Insinuation in this implicit kind of accusing us, hereby to render us more suspicious and obnoxious than if he had dealt plainly; meaning, than if he had printed those Passages; some of which here follow; by which the Reader may see somewhat of G. W's Disingenuity and Serpentine Nature.  
TO what purpose have been the hang by the Neck,— and other exemplary punishments executed on Judges, Justices, and Ministers of State for Arbitrary acting;— Why was Strafford's Head cut off, and Canterbury's, and Charles Stewart's as Traitors, for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws, etc. p. 78.  
Charles Stewart and his Lords committed Men, as Canterbury aforesaid, and early he heard of it in Parliament:— and for his other Arbitrary Actions, and what followed thereupon— and befell him in particular needs not be mentioned, being recorded every where in the Blood and Misery of the late Wars, and the Destruction of Him and his Family; the dreadful and sad Examples of His Righteous judgements who reuders to every one according to his Deeds, p. 79.  
Obs. Because some of their Friends were committed, and in the Warrant no mention made of the Protector or his Authority, they farther write thus;  
Doth not here appear from the Grave, the Spirit that was in Christopher Love and his Fellow Traitors; who being within the Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, took upon them to Commissionate divers Men to treat with Charles Stewart the proclaimed Traitor of the Government, p. 89. Call to mind the former days, and let the things that are passed come into your Remembrance even what this Generation would have done, their Synod, and Accomplices to Conscience, and to whom this Generation joined (in the years 1648. and 50. and so forwards) even with the Common Enemy, Charles Stewart, etc. p., 94. And forget not the wonderful Deliverances from them; all which the Right Hand of the Lord effected, etc. p. 95. Multitudes of People flocked out of the City to Westminster to complain of their sufferings,— which Charles Stewart called Tumults,— and by the Guard one of them was slain; at the place of the shedding of whose Blood was Charles Stewart's Head struck off, and his Blood poured forth on the ground, A remarkable Record of the Righteous judgements of God, p. 96, 97.  
And this his Law (Judge Nicholas) standing in his own Will,— is less to be endured,— than in any of the Judges and Chief Justices that have gone before him, whom Justice hath cut off for Arbitrariness, or in Strafford, Canterbury, Charles Stewart, or any of these latter Generations.— And the Legislative Authority that made him a Judge, and the Righteous Ends of the Wars for Liberty and Law, in which he appeared, and these Innocent Servants of the Lord, who have been all of them always faithful to the honest Interest of the Nation, and many of them for it have drawn the Sword, and fought in the Field from first to last, p. 102.  
Obs. Here that what they say concerning the King, is said not only as the Opinion of others, but as what they also approve, saying, That those things were remarkable Records of the Righteous Judgements of God.  
With what strange kind of Confidence did G. W. writ, when he said, that if I. Ives had printed the foregoing Passages, they would not have rendered them so Suspicious and Obnoxious, as his barely mentioning the Book and Pages did. And though he may delude and blind their Proselytes with such deceitful and Fig leaf covers; yet certainly he will not dare to do so before Authority, but rather down upon his Knees and beg Pardon for his Audaciousness and Insolence, in speaking so slightingly of such strange and prodigious Say as are before cited. And I wish him no more harm for all his Faults and fallacious Do, than an humble Submission and Acknowledgement for the same.   

Now let us hear E. Burrough bemoaning Oliver after his Death. A Testimony against a great Idolatry. This also is owned by G. F. G. W. and their Party, and is to be read in his Works, 1672.  
IN the midst of my Considerations, a Pity struck through me for once Noble Oliver that is now dead,— and I was grieved he should be thus abused, being dead, by such a stir about an Image made of him,— and I began to recall my former acquaintance with him, and the former deal of God towards him, and what a gallant Instrument for the Lord he once was, and how many Glorious and Noble Victories God once gave him, and what good Parts, and what a Gallant Spirit there was once in him,— and my Spirit run through many such things with a great deal of seriousness and pity; and then said I, Alas! Alas! is it ended all in this? All his  good Service for God and the Nations, all his Victories and good Actions, and his beating down Superstition? Is this the end of it all, the making of an Image,— Is it all ended here? And is this the End and final Farewell of once Noble Oliver? p. 460.  
Alas for him! who was once a great Instrument in the Hand of the Lord, to break down many Idolatrous Images,— and did not once his Children, Officers, and his Brave Soldiers, and Army, pull down all the Images, and Crosses, and all such Popish Stuff where ever they met with it?— And shall we have no other Representation of once Noble Cromwell? Is his Life and former Glory and Nobleness shadowed with the sight of a dead Image? etc. p. 461.  
Obs. This might serve for a piece of a Funeral Oration for once Noble Oliver; what a gallant Instrument for the Lord he once was! And how many Glorious and Noble Victories God once gave him, what good Parts, and what a gallant Spirit there was once in him! He had brave Soldiers and Army! And I pray was not this Noble Oliver and his brave Soldiers of that one sort of People that profecuted War against the King; Upon such, E. B. saith, There is Gild to be charged, See his Visitation to the King, etc. p. 12. [And notwithstanding the High Praises the Quakers gave of D. C. after his Death; yet when K. C. came in, than they compared him to Ahab, Haman, and Pharaoh 
* Truth's Charactor of Professors, etc. 1660. p. 28, 31, 41. , was not this done to flatter with the then Government, and that too by speaking evil of the Dead! Oh most disingenuous and unworthy Men!]  
This E. B. was not a greater Friend to Oliver, and an Applauder of him and his Armies brave Exploits; but he was as great a Decryer and Condemner of the Cavaliers and that Party. See A Trumpet of the Lord Sounded, etc. 1656. p. 9   

To all you who are and have been always Enemies to the very appearance of Righteousness who are called Delinquents and Cavaliers.  
THus saith the Lord, my Controversy is against you, even my Hand in Judgement is upon you already, and you are become cursed in all your Hatching and Endeavours, and from time to time my Hand hath been against you in Battle, etc.— and though my Hand hath been evidently against you; yet to this day you remain in Rebellion in your Minds, in hatching Murder and Cruelty in your wicked Hearts, and though your Kings, and Princes, and Nobles, have been cut off in Wrath, and your cruel desperate Inventions and Plots of Wickedness (conceived in your cursed Womb) have been broken, and you cut short in your Desires; yet you repent net, nor will you see how you are given to be a Curse and a Desolation, and a Prey in Houses, and Lands, and Persons, to them, whom I raised against you, and gave power over you, yet you are hardened, and your Cruelty in the persecution of my Servants cannot be measured; where you have any power you smite with the Fist of Wickedness, and count it your Glory to despise my Name; in the Valleys of Vain-Hopes you feed, and on the Mountains of Foolish Expectation; and conceive in your cruel Womb of Tyranny the overthrow of the Nations, but in the bringing forth yourselves are overthrown, and it is not for well-doing that you suffer; but my Hand is against you, and my judgements are upon you, and except you repent, shall continue on Earth with you, and follow you, and pursue you to the Lake of Destruction, where there is no Repentance; and you and your Kings, and Lordly Power (by which you have thought to excrcise Lordship over my Heritage) shall be enslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness, in everlasting Bondage; where he shall reign your Lord and King for evermore.  
Obs. That the whole Paper out of which the foregoing is extracted, is left out in the Reprint of E. B's Works, p. 100 Notwithstanding he writ in the Epistle thus; Given under my Hand, and Sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God. And in p. 90. the word King is left out. And also in his Answer to the Apprentices Petition, 1659. These followinging Lines are all left out, p. 609.  
Would you bring in a strange Nation, even Tyrants, and their Adherents to devour the Land, and even to destroy yourselves and your City; would you set up an oppressing Monarchy, which the Land hath once spewed forth; these things are to be doubted, that if your Designs did prevail, the Fruit of your Work would tend thereunto.   

And notwithstanding they in their Declaration given to the King, Jannuary 1660. Testify that the Spirit of Christ which leads them into all Truth will never move them to Fight and War against any Man with Outward Weapons. Yet E. B. being moved of the Lord (as he saith) by his Spirit thereunto, gives forth thus, To the present distracted Nation of England, etc. 1659.  
WE have chosen the Son of God to be our King, and he hath chosen us to be his People, and He might command thousands and ten thousands of his Servants at this Day to fight in his Cause; He might lead them forth and bring them in, and give them Victory over all their Enemies, and turn his Hand upon their Persecutors; but yet his Kingdom is not of this World, neither is his Warfare with Carnal Weapons.— neither hath He chosen us for that end, neither can we YET believe that He will make use of us in that way; though it be his only Right to Rule in Nations, and our Heirship to Possess the uttermost Parts of the Earth, but for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names-sake, etc. p. 8.  
We are Friends to any appearance of Good that may come forth in Truth and Sincerity, and as Righteousness doth appear in any, we are ready to join with it in our Prayers and Desires; yea, and otherwise,— we shall rejoice therein, and add our help thereunto that it may prosper, for the Establishing of Righteousness in the Earth; our all is not dear unto us, though hitherto we have been silent, and not meddling with this Party or the other, etc. p. 14.  
Note, 1. This was published in the Name of the Quakers, and subscribed by [J. P. and] many [others].  
Note, 2. All the Lines in Black Letter are left out in E. B's Works, Printed 1672. p. 603. [Their design therein is plain, they having writ contrary thereto upon the turn of times.] and the words and our help thereunto, are altered, as may be seen, p. 606. and in p. 662. These words, Tyrants shall not have Power over you, are left out. And, p. 600. Thy Kings. And p. 605. With Kings are left out.  
Obs. He says, He [the Son of God] might command Thousands and ten Thousands of his Saints at this day to fight, but we cannot yet believe, that He will make use of us in that way, but for the present we are given up to bear and suffer, etc. So that they were not then of that Mind, that the Spirit would never move them to fight.   

And having heard of their Preaching up Armies, Victories, Spoils, etc. Let us hear a little farther of G. F's advising the Parliament to Sequestrations, etc.  
G. F. To the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England.  
LEt all those Abby-lands, Gleab lands, that is given to the Priests, be given to the Poor of the Nation, and let all the great Houses, Abbeys, Steeple-houses and Whitehall, be for Almshouses (or some other use) for all the Blind and Lame to be there. Again,  
Let all those Fines that belong to Lords of Manors be given to poor People, for Lords have enough. p. 8. 1659.   

And in their Papers sent to the Parliament about Tithes, 1659. p. 65, 63.  
IF you Query how shall the Impropriators be satisfied who bought the Tithes of the King? have you not his Parks and his Rents, have you not his Houses to sell and make up their Money and give them again, etc.— You should have sold all the Gleab lands, and sold all the Bells (saving only one in a Town,) and Colleges and their Lands, and given them all to the Poor of the Nation, etc.  
If you Query, How you should do with the Impropriators? cell all the Gleab lands, and the Bells, except one in a Town, or two in a City (to give notice of Fire,) and all the late King's Parks and his Rents, that had Tenths, and sold the Tithes, to make up these to give to the Impropriators that have bought Tithes, and the Abbeys, and the Monasteries, which much of the Tithes were given to; if you do intent to satisfy the Nation, and deny yourselves of his Parks, Houses, and Rents; so let them be sold, and the Colleges sold, and all the Tithes that belong to them thrown down, etc.  
P. 59 And you may sell all the Gleab lands, Abby-lands, and Monasteries, and Nunneries, and Kings Rents, and his Houses, and the Bells to pay the Impropriators, who have bought the Tithes of Kings, let their Rents and Parks be sold to pay them again, and let the Earth be restored again to its place; and they that have bought them of Colleges, let the Gleab-lands be sold to pay them; So let the Earth be Redeemed.    

G, Fox HIS JUDGEMENT Concerning Kingly Government, since the King was Restored. Declar. P. 3, 4.  
AND now because several of you, who are most concerned in this Government, are not acquainted with our Principles and Practices, neither have known our Innocency and Sufferings,— and that no Prejudice were let into your Minds from others Words, which proceed from secret Envy, Malice, and Hatred, and not from any just Ground they have against us.— We do therefore Declare, to take off all Jealousies, Fears, and Suspicions of our Truth and Fidelity to the King and these present Governors, That our Intentions and Endeavours are, and shall be Good, True, Honest, and Peaceable towards them, and that we do Love, Own, and Honour the King and the present Governors.  
Observe, It is to be noted, That this Declaration of G. For's, etc. was delivered to the King the very next Month after he came in, so early were they in their Temporising, that at the first reading of this among the Quakers, they had writ, That they were his Loyal Subjects, and they had suffered much, as himself had done. Which Words were highly opposed by one of the Assembly, who told them, That if they put it out in the Name of the Quakers, he would Print against it. Whereupon those Words were left out, and the Book put forth in the Name of G. F. and Others, that subscribed it, in behalf of themselves and those in the Same Unity with them. How cunning was this Subscription! For who would have thought that by those in the Same Unity, was not meant every, Quaker? And yet they meant only those that were of the same Mind with the Subscribers, which many were not.  
II. Observe, Behold here the Man who before the King's Restauration declared them Traitors against Christ who cried for an Earthly King, and the true Christians will not have any more Kings among them, but Christ! Are they not in their own Judgement become Apostates? for now they say, They love, own, and honour an Earthly King. And in their Visit. to the King, p. 7. say to him,  
IF thou take some speedy course for the repealing and making void those Cruel Laws.— haply thou mayst be as Moses to stand in the gap'twixt God and thy People.  
[Did the Quakers verily think that K. C. was like to be asecond Moses, or did they say so only to daub and flatter him?]  
Again in the Trial of G, Fox in 1664. p. 8. 10. he saith, (the Oath of Allegiance being tendered to him,) That if he could take any Oath at all, upon any occasion, he should take that Oath: And also said, He honoured all Men, much more the King.  
Oh Gross Dissimulation! What temporising is this? What unheard of Hypocrisy is here? Will this Fig-leaf Garment cover the deceit of this Guide 's Falseness and Perfidiousness from thy Discerning and Censure? I suppose not. However, more of this thou mayst see in what follows.  

G. F. G. W. and their Party's Declaration in the Year 1660. after the King came in, p. 2.  
ALL Bloody Principles and Prastices we (as to our own particular) do utterly deny, with all Outward Wars, and Strife, and Fightings with Outward Weapons for any End, or under any pretence whatsoever.  
Observe. Notwithstanding this, G. F. and E. Burrough undertake to direct and principle Oliver and Richard, and the Officers and Soldiers what to do, and how, viz. That they should go forth with a free willing Heart, and not stop till they come at Rome, and blames them for turning, and charges them not to turn Sober Men and True Hearts out of the Army, and to require the Blood that hath been shed in the Inquisition of Spain and Rome: and that the Quakers were some of those True learts, appears by those other words of G. F's expostulating, Why such as feared God and trembled at his Word should be put out of the Army, which might have been a Blessing to the Lord in their Generation.  
And in page 3. of the same Declaration, they say thus; So those that use any Weapon to fight for Christ, or for the Establishing of his Kingdom or Government, both the Spirit, Principle, and Practice in that we deny.  
Yet these same Men (viz. G. F. and E. B.) would that the Officers and Soldiers should have set up their Standard a Top of Rome, and have sent for the Turks Idol, plucked up Idolatry, and cried up Christ the only King. Oh wonderful!   

Again see the Quakers Plea, 1661. How peaceable the Quakers are, and have always been p 7.  
NO better Testimony can be given of us and of our peaceableness (and that we shall not Plot nor Rebel against the King) than Experience itself; Experience is the best Witness, that we are peaceable, and free from Plotting and Rebellion; for we have always been so since we were a People, both before and since the King came in.  
Obs. These peaceable Men not only approve of what the Army did against the King and his Party, but would have them to continue Quakers in the Army, and to enterprise the Subduing of Spain, and the Pope, and the Turk in their Spirit, and to invite all that are against the Pope to take part with them; and they promise the Protector, that if he would own them, they would own him in the Face of all his Enemy's Counsel and Advice p. 7.  
And Francis Howgil says, It was a good thing that the Parliament overthrew the late King; and that it is no Rebellion to call away [by which he means to Depose] those in Power that perform not their Trust for the Good of the People. See more of this hereafter.   

Hear farther what G. F. etc. say to the King and Council after the rising of the Fifth Monarchy Men, p. 2.  
AND now that we should be reckoned amongst a People whose Principle is to Fight,— and avenge themselves; which astonishes all them which know it. I believe your own Consciences tell you that we are harmless, and would do you no harm,— but wish your Good, etc. It's known that those you have numbered us amongst, never denied the bearing of Sword, nor Outward Weapons;, but whose Principle is to avenge themselves.  
Obs. Can any People declare themselves more for fight than they did? How should Oliver keep his Crown but by fight? How did he get it, but by fight? How should the Army set up their Standard a top of Rome, but by fight? How require the Blood that has been shed in the Inquisition, but by fight? In short, What should Men do with Swords, but to fight, and yet they were not only to wear their Swords, but to cut down Idolaters with them, and their Sword was to be the Sword of the Lord in their Hand. And E. Burrough in express for Avenging the Blood of the Guiltless through all the Dominions of the Pope, and exhorts the, Army to do this going forth in their (the Quakers) Spirit.  
How dare these Men appeal to the King and Council 's Consciences, that they are harmless, and would do them no harm; when they not only approve of what was done in the late War, but offered their Service to Oliver, to own him (if he would own them) against all his Enemies; and some of them gave Intelligence to the Army against Sir George Booth, whorose to bring in the King. See p. 13. of this Book.   

And notwithstanding all that E. B. and others have written in Justification of the Parliament's Cause against the King, yet at the King's coming in, that is in the middle of May, 1660. then E. B. writes, (In his Book called, A Visitation, etc. p. 12.)  
IN the beginning there were but one sort of People that were in capacity to raise and prosecute War against the King, and upon such there is Gild to be charged in the Sight of God; who have foregone their Principles, and been deceitful both to God and Men. And as for us who are called Quakers, we are clear from the Gild of all his Sufferings, etc.  
How often do they blame the Protector and others for putting of honest and godly Men out of the Army; It may be because they cannot put off their Hats, etc. and yet tell the King, They have suffered all along because they would not take up Carnal Weapons to fight withal against any, and are thus made a Prey upon, because (say they) we are the Innocent Lambs of Christ, and cannot avenge ourselves. Declaration, p 6. given forth under our Names, and in behalf of the whole Body of the Elect People of God who are called Quakers.  
G. For, R. Hubberthorn, I. Stubs, F. Howgil, G. Roberts, L. Fell, S. Fisher, H. Fell, and others.  
Farther in the Postscript thus: And all Wars and Fightings with Carnal Weapons we do deny, who have the Sword of the Spirit. This the People called Quakers do witness to all the World.  
Again in P. 4. And this is both our Principle and Practice, and hath been from the Beginning, so that if we suffer as suspected to take up Arms, or make War against any, it is without any ground from us, for it neither is, nor ever was in our hearts since we owned the Truth of God, neither shall we ever do it, because it is contrary to the Spirit of Christ, his Doctrine, and the Practice of his Apostles.  
These words of theirs may serve for a Reply to an Answer they make to an Objection, that many of them have been in the Army against the King, and Kingly Authority, to which they say (Quakers Plea, p. 4.) Though some that are now called Quakers were once in the Army under the Powers against the King, when their Knowledge and Judgements were not otherwise framed, but were of that Principle and Practice that Fight and going to War in itself, was lawful, etc. yet being now altered, and turned in their Judgements to the contrary, and that it is not lawful (in the Administration of the Gospel) to fight against, or go to War with Carnal Weapons in any wise; there is now no danger of Us, and now [We] are all of that Mind and Heart, that— it is on all Occasions whatsoever unlawful to go to War and Fight.  
This pretended change of Judgement in G. Fox and his Preachers, is not to be taken for a change of their Judgement, for they say, it neither is, nor ever was in our Hearts since we owned the Truth of God [to take up Arms] which is a Contradiction to their giving directions and charges to the Protector, Officers, and Soldiers concerning Fight, exhorting them thereunto, and to go forth as an Army in their Spirit; and blamed them for putting honest sober Men, and those that trembled at the Word of God out of the Army, and advising them to take such in again. For G. F. and his Preachers can no more change their Judgements than the Pope can change his Decrees without forfeiting his Infallibility.  
That they formerly exhorted Men to fight, and would fight themselves, and now deny all Fight on any pretence, is to be imputed to their Temporising and Deceit. For in the Book, entitled, Counseland Advice, etc. p. 44. G. F. and E. B. tell Richard Protector, That if he would walk with the Lord, and preserve his People (meaning the Quakers,) then (say they) Thy Name shall be greater than was thy Father's, and the numberless number of this (now) distressed People will be unto thee a Strength, and stand by thee in the day of trouble, and defend thee and thy Just Government, and their Hearts snall cleave to thee, and thou shalt prosper for their sakes, and none of thy Enemies shall have Power over thee to destroy thee. And in p. 4●. they say, Friend, live in God's Wisdom, if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength, than none shall touch thee, and all them that fear God will be on thy side, and take thy part, and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings, yea, till death.  
But see how the ease was altered in 1662. for then they tell the King and Parliament thus, And our Allegiance to the King, our Lives have, and shall manifest to him, and you, and all Men. Subscribed by G. For, E. Burrough, F. Howgil, S. Fisher, R. Hubberthorn, G. Whitehead, S. Thornton, L. Fell and, 20 more.  
And notwithstanding that no People declared themselves more fully for the Long Parliament Protectors, and Army than they, on condition they would own and protect the Quakers; yet how shamefully do they reflect on others, and proclaim their own Innocency!;   

See their Paper to the King and Council 1660. p. 5.  
OH King! we would have thee do nothing against thy Prosperity and Nobility, Oh! hath the like ever been done as is done to us, (who are an Innocent People, and thy Friends, and not thy Enemies) among all the Princes in Christendom to mingle the Innocent among the Transgressor's! Again, p 6. Oh that we should find such things among you that have been Sufferers by the Same, as we have suffered before you.  
Obs. What Hypocrisy is here, when they pretend that themselves suffered for Righteousness, and the King and his Party for wickedness and Tyranny? With like Deceit they say in their Declaration given the King, Jan. 1660. subscribed by twelve of their Grandees, p. 6. In the days of the Parliament and Committee of Safety, we were looked upon as Plotters to bring in King Charles.  
So G. Fox and I. Stubs in G. whitehead's Book, The Divinity, etc. tell the Presbyterians and Independents, that when the People of God called Quakers, were gathered together in divers places to Worship God, than (say they) you said they were Plotting together against Oliver, to bring in King Charles.  
Again, Touching Fight, they have taken care to record what one of their Ministry saith,— We directed all People to the Spirit of the Lord God in them— and if that led them to fight, I had nothing against it, fol. 4. [Recorded in their Book of Outland Letters, and was spoken before a Court at Barbadoes, where he was questioned touching their Principle in that case.]  
But in their Declaration to the King, 1660. They say, p. 2. We certainly know, and so testify to the World, that the Spirit of Christ which leads us into all Truth, will never move us to sight and war against any Man with Outward Weapons, neither for the Kingdom of Christ, nor for the Kingdoms of this World.  
In the former Passage they suppose the Spirit of the Lord might lead to fight; here they are positive that it never will. And in their Testimony to the Magistrates, etc. subscribed by G. For and 11 more. They say all Plots, Conspiracies, Alders, Assisters, or Conspirers thereunto, against the King, we always did, and do utterly deny to be any of us. [And presently after the Execution of that worthy Patriot, the Lord Russel, they present their fawning Address (which G. Whitehead, Francis Camfield, and Gilbert Layty carried to Windsor) to K. Charles 2. Insinuating that the Lord R. and his Companions were Guilty and they Innocent, and that they did not desire the least hurt either to the King's Person or Government, or to the Person of his Brother the Duke of York, and that they were clear from all Hellish Plots and Traitorous Conspiracies, etc. being Works of the Devil and Darkness, etc.  
But what's the reason the Quakers do not now declare against the late Hellish Conspiracy etc. seeing one of the chief of them is accused of it by open Proclamation?]  
And in their Paper to King and Council, p. 7. they say, We are against Violence and Plots, and Wars, and Fightings, they are below in the Fall from God. And this we say, which is more to us than an Oath.  
See now what Credit is to be given to G. F. and his Ministers in their most solemn Professions, such as Oaths are amongst conscientious honest Men! For it is well known that many Officers and Soldiers turning Quakers whilst in Arms, continued so till they were thrust out; and they that put them out are much blamed by G. F. and E. Burrough, etc. for so doing, and are advised to take such in again. These are the Men that advise the Protector (as we have noted) to push down and tread under the High Places of Idolatry in all the Apostatised Churches, not only Papists, but others. And in another place, To cry up Christ the only King and lord Yet in their Remonstrance p. 14. 665. They say, We ourselves know that Zion must not be builded with Blood, nor the Church of God by Weapons of War, nor Religion propagated by Violence, therefore we cannot strive with these Weapons nor with any Carnal Weapons of War, either fight to defend or offend.  
Let the Reader judge now whether G. F. G. W. and their Party, their reproaching, and railing on the Presbyterians and Independents, and other Parties for their joining and abetting the late War, and approving the Execution done upon the late King and his Party, crying up Oliver and Richard, and the Old Parliament, and the Army, etc. and then when the King came in, changing their Language, crying up this King, &c, Whether, I say, G. F G. W. and their Party, are not far more guilty, and more abominable in these Matters than any other Party whatsoever, whilst they so contumeliously upbraid others, and have done the same things; and yet now under all these Contradictions, Dissimulation, and Temporising, do like the Whore in the Proverbs, wipe their Mouth, and proclaim themselves an Innocent and harmless People, and others alone guilty.   

See their Book, entitled, The Guide Mistaken, 1668. p. 50, 51, 52. They writ thus,  
AT the beginning of the Wars [jonathan Clapham] a most precise Stickler for a Reformation— But when the. Independents were possessed of the Authority,— 'twas then the Beheaded King was by this Guide both Preached and Printed as a Toe of the Image, the little Stone, cut out of the Mountain without hands, was to smite; and therefore says, The Fall of the ten Kingdoms was begun; the Lord is risen out of his Habitation, gainsay not; for who seethe not the Alteration is of the lord In another place says he, There can be no clearer Evidence that God is about this work of breaking own this great Image, and smiting the very Feet and Toes thereof, than this present Victory over the Scottish Forces at Dunbar, (which we are now to render Thanksgiving to God for,) the Cause of this War being whether this Image shall be upheld, or the Feet, and the Toes broken. In short, O ye honoured Worthies whom the Lord hath raised up to effect these great Changes, carry on the Lord's Work, that your People may not have cause to say, we have changed our Tyrants, not our Tyranny.— 'Twas also then in a Dedicatory Epistle to O. Cromwell, allowed by him of England, Scotland, Ireland, etc. Protector, to whom amongst other extraordinary Compliments, I cannot let pass these Expressions, where he invites him, as God's Delegate in Honour to Jesus Christ, and out of the love to the Churches of Christ, for whose welfare, you have this Power committed to you;— concluding thus, The Lord of Heaven and Earth bless your Highness with the continuance of his Gracious presence with you, that as you have done valiantly in the High Places of the Field, (that is fought against the King and Bishops) so you Govern as righteously and happily in the Gates of the City.  
Oh gross Dissimulation! Now 'tis he turns Eugagement Man, and is employed by the several Churches in Norfolk to Richard Cromwell on the Death of Oliver, as their Representative about the Petition or Address made by the Priests in general, which term the Father, Moses, and the Son, the Joshua, that should Conduct them to the Holy-Land:— After the King came in, This Guide— changes Oliver, Richard, or Parliament, for Charles,, (once a TOE of the Image that the little Stone was to smite) of England, Scotland, Ireland, etc.— The Beheaded King (once the first broken Toe of the Image) now he Commemorates with an Anniversary Sermon, etc.— What temporising is this? Oh what unheard of Hypocrisy is here! But Reader, What is thy Opinion of the Matter? Can Oliver be Moses, Richard be Joshua, and Charles Defender of the Faith all together, p 53. Reader, Will this Fig-leaf-Garment cover the Shame of this Guide's Nackedness from thy Discerning and Censure, I hope not, etc.  
[Obs. If the Episcopal Party had done this, would not the Quakers have called it a breach of the Act of Indemnity, and disingenuous? But for themselves to do it who had as much need of an Act of Pardon as others, What was it?  
Again in their Answer to John Faldo, Quakerism a new Nickname, p. 109.  
And why, poor Nonconformists, after all their Preached up Battles, spoils, Plunders, Sacrileges, Derimations, etc.  
Again p 119. These are true Gospel Ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and good will towards Men, and not Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and Princes and Rulers and People, no worldly Armies, Battles, Victories, Trophies, Spoils, Sequestrations, Decimations, and the like Bloodthirsty and Tyrannical Projects in which John Faldo and his poor Nonconforming Ministers have had their Hands almost over Head and Ears, till they had well nigh lost their Ears and their Heads too.  
[Obs. Was not this to expose and render obnoxious to the Government, and that in a time when the Nonconformist Ministers were under Persecution? Should any have exposed the Quakers at such a season, What would they not have said couching the treacherousness and baseness of it? And it seems this Mr. Faldo whom they thus vilify, was too young to be concerned 〈◊〉 those Projects. But what might he now say of some Quakers in relation to the present Government?]   

See also their Book, entitled, A Just Rebuke to xxi Divines. p. 25.  
HOw did the Presbyterians excite the Parliament in these very. Terms! Eliah opposed Idolatry and Oppression, so do ye; down with Baal's Priests: which is as much as to say, Away with your Arch-Bishops and Bishops, the whole Ministry and Worship of the Church of England. Again, The Mouths of your Adversaries are opened against you, that so many Delinquents (that is to say Royalists) are in Prison, and yet but very few of them brought to their Trial, (did he mean to release them.) And saith another of your Eminent Brethren before the Commons, Aug 28. 1644. Ye cannot Preach nor Pray them down immediately— well, that which the Word cannot do, the Sword shall.  
[Obs. Again, Is not here exposing and rendering of Persons as obnoxious to the then Government as they could?]  
This following is a Copy of a Letter I writ to G. W. 22. February 1678. being above a Year after the foregoing was sent them.   

G. Whitehead, I have lately seen your Book, entitled, The Way cast up etc. and therein these following Passages, viz.  
ANd how many Garments were rolled in Blood by Instigation of the Presbyterian Teachers, the whole Nation was a Witness; so that many thousands were made Widows and Fatherless by that War they stirred up the People unto, etc. p 23.  
[Obs. Was not this that War, in which the Quakers said the Army were Glorious Instruments in the Hand of God, and that God by his Spirit and Power was not only the Beginner but the Carrier on of that work, and that it was his presence and power in the Army that gave them perfect Victory? And abundance more to the same purpose. Observe the other Column.]  
P. 52. Some of the Presbyterian Nonconformist Preachers are fled beyond Sea, others lurk in Corners here and there, and keep private Conventicles; where many times they preach Sedition against their Lawful Prince; by instigation of whom, that Insurrection happened in 1666.  
[Obs. Can any thing more be said by the Common Informers, or by the most inveterate Enemies of separate. Meetings, than these Men here say and publish against the Presbyterians? Is not this a high degree of Malice against them, and Flattery of their Persecutors?]  
P. 53. And some of them have Printen Books in defence of the Lawfulness of making War against the Supreme Magistrate, etc.  
[Obs. And have not the Quakers Printed Books to the same purpose, particularly F. H. and E. B. To the Committees of Safety. See the other Column, p. 12, 13].  
P. 54. And in very Truth, the Presbyterian Church will never be able to purge herself of the Iniquity of killing many thousands in the three Nations, by the occasion of a most bloody War raised up through the Instigation of the Presbyterian, Teachers.  
[Obs. If the Presbyterians be thus guilty of shedding of the Blood that was shed in that War, who disserted the CAUSE before the King's Head was cut off, then what are the Quakers; who not only approved of what was then done, but incited the Army not to leave Root nor Branch of Idolatry, Oppression, and Tyranny, till they had set up their Standard at the Gates of Rome, and to avenge the Blood of the Guiltless, throughout all the Dominions of the Pope; which had the Army obeyed, would there not have been many more Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings, and People, than ever was in England? Let the Impartial Judge.]  
A Paragraph is omitted here for want of room.   

Understanding this Book was Printing, and the two Letters of my Name transposed, [which are now placedright,] I writ the following Paper, and ordered it to be inserted here. J. P.  
OH Earth, Earth, Earth, harken and consider! Was there ever such a People as G. F. [G. W.] and their Party that had such Foreheads and Faces of Brass? who for about 20 Years have been reviling and recriminating others, for those very things they have most highly been guilty of themselves; yea, and were greatly offended with those that would not go on further with the Work and Cause they were then engaged in, and did not only instigate and press Dliver, Richard, and the Army, to Crumble Nations to dust, and to Trample Deceit and Tyrants under, etc. but also exhorted them not to leave off till they set their Standard on Top of Rome Gates, as is before mentioned; and yet upon the King's coming in, how did they seek to clear themselves by accusing others, as in the little Colum; and in another Book of theirs (lately come to my hands) entitled, Truth's Character of Professors, they laid open the Addresses and Applications which others had made to D. C. and R. C. making long Animadversions thereupon, not only to defame, but also to stir up the Powers against them, as in p. 15. viz. Must the Weapons that they have been forming against others be turned into their own Bowels!— even by such as will have no more pity in their Hearts towards them, than they have had towards the Innocent. And what! must not Jealousy be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them, as they have stirred up Jealousy in the Powers of the Earth against others, etc. And as they have sought to make others ridiculous, even so shall they become contemptible in the Eyes of those which they by their Flatteries fawned upon, who may for a season suffer them for their own Ends, etc.  
But this was not all that was designed by G. F. [and his Ministers] so early defaming, crying out, and stirring up the Powers against other Professors, but also to blind those then in Power, as if themselves had been altogether Innocent and clear touching those Matters.  
And is it not strange that they should call the Presbyterians in the late times, Rebels and Traitors for but endeavouring the King's Restauration; and yet after he was come in, most bitterly and invectively writ against them for being once Opposers of him. Are not these the Persons that say, Their giving forth Papers or printed Books, it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God? and that if ever we own the Prophets, Christ, and the Apostles, we must own their Writings, which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power: [And that they have thousands at their Meetings, that none of them dare speak a Word, but by eternal Motion: 
* A True Account, p. 18. ] And their so speaking [i.e. Speaking by the Spirit] G. W. saith, is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are, and Greater. Ser. Apol. p. 49.  
What shall we say to these Men! I am even struck with Amazement, Astonishment, and Silence, that a People pretending so high, should bring forth such wicked and ungodly Fruits: and though some may be troubled that these are now come to light; yet others will not a little wonder that they have been hid and kept secret so long: And doubtless, had they not still gone on insinuating by Flatteries with the Government, and writing so reflectingly upon Dissenters, with their Reproaching and Scandalising other Sober Persons more [] and Innocent than themselves; These things had never come thus public, and so they reap the Fruit of their own Do, and that very way they thought to secure and strengthen themselves, hath helped forward their own Destruction.  
And seeing there is no hopes of their Repentance or Forbearance, [as to these things] (all other ways and means (which have not been a few that have been used to prevent them) proving ineffectual,) it is now thought meet thus to expose them [this year 91.] (as they for many Years have exposed others,) that so if possible their Mouths and Pens may be stopped from any such Procedure hereafter; and it may be, when too late, they'll remember, 'Twas the Foolish and Clamorous Woman that pulled down her House [which is falling a pace] with her own Hands.   

Here followeth one of the Forms of their Oaths, which Stephen Crisy, one of their great Preachers, imposed upon one called a Quaker, who had Mortgaged his Land to him and others for a Sum of Money; but before he would let him have the said Money (notwithstanding he had Signed and Sealed and Delivered according to their Agreement) he forced him (though with much dissatisfaction) to Sign and Seal this following; (which by their own Definition of an Oath, is an absolute Oath. Their Definition of an Oath is set down hereafter.)  
THE— day— month—: I— do testify in the truth of my Heart by these presents; that whereas I have Mortgaged an Estate of mine, lying in— in the County— unto Stephen Crisp junior, etc. as by Deeds and Writings this day bearing date doth appear; I say, I do hereby testify in the truth of my Heart, and in the Presence of HIM that knoweth all things, and in the presence of these faithful Witnesses, that I have not before this Contract aforesaid, contracted, bargained, sold, or engaged the said Estate to, or with any Person or Persons whatsoever, either directly or indirectly, etc. but that it was freely and absolutely, both before, and at the Sealing and Delivery of the said Mortgage , in my power to sell, etc.—  
Witness at Signing and Sealing, Samuel Newton, John Bolton, (two of their Preachers.)   

Now see their Definition of an Oath in their Answer to one J. S. who asserted that to say, God is my Witness. I say the Truth in Christ, I lie not, my Conscience bearing me Witness in the Holy Ghost. I call God to Record on my Soul. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows that I lie not. And that Jacob and Laban are said to Swear in these Form of Words, So God is Witness between me and thee, were Oaths.  
[Obs. Any of which, without laying the Hand on the Book, or other Ceremony, or more saying, is not only an Oath; but if Authorized by Act of Parliament, is as much a Legal Doth, as any now in use amongst us.;]  
THE Quakers Answer to J.S. These Forms of Speeches used by the Apostle, and by Jacob and Laban, So God is Wituess between me and thee. God is my Witness, etc. are of themselves (without the Addition of somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge) neither Oath or Swearing; which somewhat more, as an outward Sign or Pledge, was that which gave the Denomination of an Oath or Swearing, etc. Again, That the Forms of Speech used by Jacob and Laban, and by the Apostles and others— of themselves, without adding of somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge, are neither Oaths or Swearing. It is worthy Observation, that where mention is made of an Oath or Swearing in the Scriptures of Truth, there is also mention made of some outward Sign or Pledge which was added to the Forms of Speech by them used; which somewhat more being added, was that which gave the Denomination of an Oath or Swearing to the Forms of Speech; without which addition of somewhat more than Yea or Nay, as a Sign or Pledge, the Forms of Speech of themselves, was neither Legal Oath or Swearing.  
A second Testimony concerning Oaths, p. 3, 4, 5.   

A Copy of a Letter and Paper (mentioned in the Title-page) sent to G. F. March 17. 1674/ 5.  
I Being engaged (as well as some others) to manifest and lay open Deceitful Workers and Hypocrites; I am farther to appear and manifest thee to be one of the greatest Hypocrites and Deceivers in this Nation, and until thou own thy Condemnation, and leave off deceiving the People; assuredly, the Sword that's now drawn is not to be, nor must not be sheathed till thou and such Deceivers as thou art be cut down. This following I am to send thee; concerning which I shall wait some time for thy Answer before it go farther; and what thou writest too or concerning me; set thy own hand to it, and get not others to set their Names to thy words and works of Wickedness as thou hast done.    

Something of G. F's Deceit and Hypocrisy discovered.  
'TIS not unknown what great Desires and Long there was in the generality of the People of this Nation (in the Year 1659.) to have a King, by whom they expected to be freed from those Impositions they were under; but some others fearing if it were so, it would be for the worse, caused a zeal in some particular Persons to write against Kingly-Government; amongst the rest we find G. Fox, who (did not only write his own judgement barely as a Man (as others did,) but as a Man of GOD, taking upon him to instruct all others,) put forth a Book the same year 59 entitled, Several Papers given forth by G. 
But is this to render him Obnoxious to the Government; no I abhor that Practice, but base and self-ended Spirits are to be humbled, and not think themselves fit to cry down other People's Religion that have by Treachery Persecution and Falseness too much reproached all Religion, as saith Judas and the Jews; i.e. G. F. etc.  F. wherein he writes about ten pages against a King, and therein tells the Presbyterians, etc. There was no King owned among the true Christians, but only amongst the Apostates, since Christ's time;— That they were Traitors to Christ that desired a King;— and farther tells them what a King would be to them, (if they had one,) repeating those words Samuel spoke to the Israelites:— Then he bids them look what work Joshua made with the Kings that were in the Cave (a fit place for them) says G. Fox, p. 13.  
But no sooner the Scene of Affairs changed, but he changes his Dialect, and the very next Month after the King came in, he (with some others) put forth a Declaration, and therein they writ, That they owned and honoured the King and the present Government;— yea, they had flatteringly writ therein, That they were his Loyal Subjects, and that they had suffered much, as himself had done, etc. And being called before a Court (in Lancashire) where the Oath of Allegiance was tendered him, he told them, that if he could take any Oath in any case, he could take that Oath; and farther said, he honoured all Men, much more the King, etc. What! Is this the Man that said They were Traitors to Christ that desired a King? etc. and now himself says, he honours all Men much more the King, etc. Oh Strange! Is this he that is so highly esteemed and exalted by his Proselytes, and even adored by some of his 
* Josi. Cole. Sol. Eccles, etc.  Preachers, who style him, The Father of many Nations. That Generations to come shall call him Blessed. Whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest. At whose Name the Heathen tremble, (or were pricked at the Heart 
† A True Account, etc. p. 42. .) The Blessed Man that came out of the North. Who hath been faithful in the Lord's Business from the Beginning. That true Prophet, whom John said he was not. And many more such like Appellations, as, Innocent, Good, Holy, Upright Man of God. Prophet indeed, etc. Well, but what doth he say of himself? viz. That he is beyond the State of the First Adam that fell; in the State of the Second Adam that never fell; yea, that his very Marriage was above the State of the First Adam in his Innocency, in the State of the Second Adam that never fell;— and that he never fell nor changed. And yet how hath he turned about with the Wind? which he saith they that are in the Fall do, and are in the changing changeable ways, etc. And by his thus turning, and changing, doth it not manifest him to be in the Fall, Fallen, and changeable State, according to his own Words? And yet how far is he from the least acknowledment thereof, that he goes on and says, He hath power to bind and to lose whom he pleases? And takes upon him to make Laws and Orders for People, and appoints them Time and Place when and where to Worship; yea, this is he that presumed to alter (or caused to be altered) [unto which G. Whitehead was Privy] the very substance of a Paper that was declared to be writ from the Spirit of GOD; and so adulterated, sends it beyond Sea, which John Osgood, William Penington and myself complained of to some of the Chief Preachers, but not one of them would (or through fear durst) say that he had done amiss therein, notwithstanding the Forgery was so manifest; and the Author said (when he came to see it) that he was abused in it, etc. and this coming lately to public view, is still so far from being disowned or condemned; that Judas, etc. endeavours to cover and justify it with this Saying, The Spirit of the Prophets must be subject to the Prophets. Oh horrid Impudence and Wickedness! not only to commit so great an Iniquity, but to bring the Holy Man's words to Patronise and Justify such an Enormous Fact. Certainly none that truly fears GOD, who shall come to the knowledge of these things, will either own him to be a Servant or Prophet of the LORD, until he come to Repentance for these and other his Wickednesses; among the rest, that of getting Persons to set their Names to his abusive Papers and Writings, and also that of his vilifying, reproaching, and belying those that oppose him, (how virtuous and innocent soever they be:) Can any parallel him herein?) with his (and his Adherents) late fawning, flattering Address to the King and Parliament; wherein are these words; And the Oaths provided to testify Allegiance to the King, and denial of the Pope's Supremacy in Causes Civil and Ecclesiastical, the Refusal whereof incurs a Praemunire; has been executed upon such whose Hearts and Hands could seal to the Substance thereof.— And yet their Consciences not allowing them to Swear at all (because of the Command of Christ;) for that Only they have been the sole Sufferers thereby.— And (towards the Close) they say, That if they be called to bear witness, or any Office, to or for she King, or their Country, and testify their Truth or Faithfulness, to one or both, in which Cases Oaths are usually required and imposed. They desire and request that an Act or Provision might be made, That their Yea, and Nay, may be accepted and taken instead thereof, etc. Concerning which I shall say little more at present, but conclude with a few words formerly writ by another [concerning them] viz.  
What will you do? You Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites, you that have been long making clean the outside of the Cup and Platter, but inwardly are as Ravening Wolves, your Fruits will make you manifest; you Hypocrites, your Name will be a stink among the Heathen for the LORD will find you out, whose Glory He will not give to any other, nor His Honour to any of your Graven Images: My Soul loathes all your false Covers; ye Hypocrites, I cannot but declare against all your false ways.  
J. P.  
The Days of Visitation are come, the Days of Recompense are come, Israel shall know it, I will recompense them according to the Works of their own Hands: They have sown the Wind, and they shall reap the WHIRLWIND.  
FINIS.   

For the Preachers and Leaders of the People, called, QUAKERS.  
YOUR Day into Darkness is turned; the Sun is gone down over you: You have had a large Day and Power given you, to have done the Will of GOD; but you have abused the Power, and slighted your Day, and have refused to do the LORD's Work, and have sought yourselves, and not the LORD; therefore in Justice and Righteousness is the Day, wherein you might have wrought for GOD, taken from you, and the thick Dark Night of Confusion is come upon you, wherein you are groping, and stumbling, and cannot work: The DECREE is gone out, and it cannot be recalled. You are not the Men (as ye stand) in whom GOD will appear to work Deliverance for His People, (and yet Deliverance shall come;) but as for You, ye have rejected the Counsel of the LORD, and grieved His Spirit, and He hath long born you; yea, You are departed from the LORD, and His Presence is departed from You: Indeed He hath hewed with You, (and if you had been faithful to the End, He would have honoured and prospered You, and have been your sufficient Reward:) Ye were His AXE, but you have boasted yourselves against Him: Therefore as you have hewed and broken others, even so must You be hewed and broken.  
O ye Treacherous, Wilful, Proud, Selfseeking People! who have despised the Counsel of the LORD, and would not take warning, though He hath sent His Servants among you, some of whom you have despitefully used; What will ye do now? Whom will you now flee unto for help? Seeing you are departed from the LORD. Remember your End, which hastens greatly; Breach upon Breach, Division upon Division shall there be, until HE come to Reign whose Right it is.  
They that trust in, or lean upon You for help, it is as if they leaned upon a broken Reed, which is not able to help itself nor others. You have been made to do many good things, but you would not go through with the Work which GOD will have accomplished, and therefore are these things come upon you. Therefore tremble and dread before the LORD, Ye who have been as strong Oaks, and tall Cedars; for now shall your Strength fail you, and you shall be weak, even as the weakest of Men: But if you would yet submit to GOD's righteous Judgements, you might come to witness your Souls saved in the DAY of the LORD; though many are to be thrown by (because of grievous Backslidings) as not counted worthy to be the LORD's Workmen.  
There is a small Remnant yet among you (for whom my Soul breathes) who may be Winnowed out; and if they will own the Judgements of the LORD, and truly and throughly deny themselves, and sollow His Leadings, He will heal their Backslidings; but they that will continue with you in your Sins, shall partake with you of your judgements.  
The foregoing Words (excepting the Title) were writ (by another) 1659. to the then Rulers, upon whom they were fulfilled; and so as certainly shall they be fulfilled upon you.  
J. P.  
[This was Printed, and given them in April 1673. much of which being already fulfilled, and believing the remainder will, in its appointed season; causeth me to have it reprinted and placed here, that whoever reads and considers it (as also what W. R. F. B. T. C. W. M. and others have written concerning them) may plainly see they have been warned of their great Apostasy and Downfall many years ago.]   

SOME REMARKS Upon a Book, entitled, Christ's Lambs defended against Satan's rage, etc. Being the Quakers Answer to The Quakers Unmasked, etc.  
In a Letter to E. S. Esq  
SIR,  
HAving had the curiosity and opportunity of reading, The Quakers Unmasked, Their Double dealing and False-heartedness discovered, etc. I thought it impossible for the Quakers to vindicate themselves from that Author's Charge; which made me desirous to read their Answer; and having perused it, I can scarce forbear to Remark some few Passages, which are clear Confutations of their boasted Innocency, Plainness, and Christian Charity.  
In the Advertisement to the Reader, G. Whitehead takes notice that The Quakers Unmasked, etc. was sent them in Manuscript in the year 1677. and that Liberty of Conscience being established by Law, and placed upon the Book in writing, is the cause of its now publication. Which (says G. W.) looks as if he envied our present Liberty. Behold the Spirit of this Answerer! Mr. Pennyman kept his Books unpublished for 13 years together, lest it might be any occasion of the Quakers Persecution; but when Liberty of Conscience is established by Law, he publisheth 10 or 11 of them, presuming there is now no danger of their being persecuted. Does this look as if he envied their present Liberty, and not rather that he was glad of it, as no doubt he is.  
In p. 6. to the Reader. Our Adversary, again p 14. (says he) deals very unfairly and unjustly by G. W. about some of our Friends, saying, They give forth Writings from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God, and by the same Spirit and Power that was in the Prophets, Christ, and his Apostles; unto which he falsely addeth, And their so speaking (G. W. saith) is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are, and greater; his words (and their so speaking) are J. P's own Abuse and Perversion. Now I beseech you, Sir, read the Passage in p. 14. and see wherein J. P's Abuse and Perversion lies. It lies in this, that he added these words [and their so speaking] and did not put them in a different Character, to distinguish them from G. W's words, though they did not alter the sense at all; if you leave them out, the Passage is as much to the same purpose, as if they were in. Did ever any Writer charge his Adversary with Abuse and Perversion upon so slender an account? What an affront is it to the simple-hearted Reader to write at this rate? This is the Man that in his Letter to J. O. threatens Mr. P. farther to detect and unmask him if he will not be reduced to Christianity. Does he mean by Christianity, Quakerism, which it seems teaches him to use the basest Equivocations and Slights that can be found in any Writer?  
Of his Book, p. 3. He utterly denies it as a Slander, that the Quakers formerly exhorted Men to fight and would fight themselves. I must refer you to The Quakers Unmasked, etc. to judge whether that is a Slander, or not? It will abundantly satisfy you, whilst you understand their Writings in the plain honest sense of the Words without their after Equivocations. J. P citys one of the, Quakers Ministers, saying, We directed all People to the Spirit of God in them, and if that led them to fight, I had nothing against it; for this, saith G. W. he quotes, fol. 4. but tells us not what Book. But why did he not tell J. P so 13 years ago when he desired to know what Errors they sound in the Quotations, (if there were any; however to satisfy him that it was a true citation, he took it out of the Quakers Book, where Foreign Letters were recorded, which was first in J. O's custody and afterwards in J. P's.  
P. 4. The Quakers tell Rich. Protector, ' That he would walk with the Lord, and preserve his People, than thy Name shall be greater than was the Fathers, and the numberless number of this [Now] distressed People will be unto thee a strength, and stand by thee, and Defend thee and thy just Government. Sir, If you had been Protector, I persuade myself, you would have thought these People would have fought to defend you and your Government: But whatever they or you thought then, the meaning now is, according to G. W. etc. they would defend him and his Government, By Righteousness, Prayers, and Faith, and by Contributions, Taxes, etc. or the fear of the Lord, as in the days of Jehosaphat. Would you not judge that Man perjured, that should swear Allegiance in such terms, with such a meaning? And must we not take the Quakers words for as binding as an Oath?  
Next, p. 5. you will please to note what G.W. Answers to the Charge of upbraiding others with that which themselves, for many years, were as deeply concerned and engaged in, etc. To all which, saith G. W. I do conscientiously Answer, He hath most grossly and palpably belied the People called Quakers in these Passages divers ways. First, in rendering them, without exception of Persons, not only Justifiers of the late Wars, and what had been done therein, without exception of things done, but also equally concerned with the Presbyterians, Independents, and others therein. But do the Quakers when they charge these things upon the Presbyterians, etc. make any exception of Persons or Things? And yet it is well known, and it is proved out of their own writings in The Quakers Unmasked, etc. that their Chief Leaders approved of the greatest things done in the late Wars against the King, and to his Person; whereas the Presbyterians generally dis-approved of them. Besides they say, their giving forth Papers or Printed Books, is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God, and that their Preachers are guided by an Infallible Spirit, and that they are of one Mind and Judgement, and the like; and therefore an indefinite, and general charge will affect them more generally than other Parties.  
G. W. says, p. 6. The War began in 41. and in 48 the King was Beheaded, and all this while no Quakers heard of, till about 50.51, 52. when there was no Wars in England for them to be concerned in, how false then is I P. to say, The Quakers were as much, or more, concerned in the War against the King as any others. But G. W. confesses, that divers who have been since, and now of us, [Quakers,] have formerly been concerned in the late Wars. And J. P. has made evident their approbation of what was then done, and that many that turned Quakers in the Armies, continued there till they were turned out, that the Protector is blamed for putting them out by G. Fox and others, that they are called, Sober Men and true Hearts that feared God and trembled at His Word, valiant Captains, Soldiers, and Officers, it may be for saying thou to a single Person, or for wearing their Hats, etc. the distinguishing Characters of Quakers from others. Whereas, he says, there was no Wars in England in 50.51.52. it is a piece of his cunning, and is false; for Worcester Fight was in the year 51. and Sir George Booth's Insurrection in 1659. when the Quakers gave intelligence, calling them Rebels, for but endeavouring to bring in the King; and for some years there were Wars both in Scotland and Ireland, and upon the Sea, and in Flanders. See E. Burrough's Alarm Sounded, etc. 1659. The Quakers Unmasked, etc. p. 6. 9 You see then how G. W's Answer is both false and deceitful  
P. 7. 8. G. W. charges J. P. with an apparent lie, in saying, the Quakers had been engaged in the same Cause, so as to Preach up Battles, etc. But I pray Sir, what difference is there between Preaching up Battles, etc. and exhorting Generals, Officers, and Soldiers, to go forth against mighty Enemies till they had subdued them, and set up their Standard a top of Rome, and done many other things which were to be done by Fight? And that in the Quakers Spirit. See E. B's Alarm Sounded, etc. p 28.  
P 9, 10. G.W. Commends the Quakers for their forbearance towards J. P. and is confident that had J. P. looked upon them as Fighters, &c he durst not have adventured to have given them such frequent and public occasions of provocations and frequent disturbances and interruptions. To this, J. P. saith, he hath always been careful never to interrupt them, nor to give them any disturbance otherwise than by speaking a few words, either before they began to Preach, or when any one of them had done Preaching; and though the words which he spoke they could not gainsay, but were true; yet because they looked upon t, that in what he spoke he meant them therefore (notwithstanding his peaceable behaviour) he has sometimes found himself in much danger from the Quakers, who have frequently done violence to him themselves, and that in the place where he has a Propriety.  
P. 10. They would excuse G. Fox in what he says against an Earthly King, etc. by turning it into an Earthly oppressing King, and setting an Earthly King over them, p. 11. But did not King Charles the Second (to whom they addressed so early, professing their Innocency formerly, and their present Truth and Fidelity to him) challenge the Supreme Power over the Church? Are not all these Elders Christians, that will dote so much of an Earthly King Traitors against Christ? says G. Fox; And whom did they dote upon but Charles 2 (and afterwards upon King James) whom the Quakers do now love, own, and honour? Neither do you read, saith G. F. that there ever was an Earthly King since the days of the Apostles, but amongst the Apostate Christians. So then according to their own Principle, when King Charles 2. was among the Quakers he was among Apostate Christians; or else they temporised and changed their Principles, holding that there might be an Earthly King among true Christians. And how could they profess their Innocency to the King, and that none had any just cause against them, since they had maintained such Principles as aforesaid? The case of the Prophet Samuel was far different from that of the Quakers, he was chief Magistrate himself, and they a little part of a People that had put to Death their King, and kept out the Heir by Arms, (of both which the Quakers sufficiently approved.) Now, suppose, Samuel had been the Representative of the Quakers, and the Heir made King contrary to his mind and endeavour, would he have addressed him, and said. You are not acquainted, O King, with my Principle and Practice, neither have known my Innocency and Sufferings, they that speak against me as a Person that was an Opposer of your Kingship, and did vehemently exhort the People from subjecting themselves to your Arbitrary and Oppressive Power, had no just ground for that Charge. I love, own, and honour you and your Government. Might not the King have answered him, Are not you ashamed, Samuel, to play the Hypocrite in this gross manner? Do you brag of your Principle, and Practice, and Innocency before me in this matter, since if the People had acted according to your Principle, and done as you would have had them, I should never have recovered my Kingdoms? If you are innocent, who is guilty? Is this your Innocent Plainness? Who then is Equivocating and Deceitful? Your Pride will not suffer you to acknowledge any Error in Principle or Practice, because ye have professed to speak and write from the immediate Eternal Spirit of GOD, though you are found fallible and foolish as other Men.  
P. 15. The Quakers Unmasked, is cited, saying, Are not they in their own Judgements become Apostates, for now they say we love, own, and honour an Earthly King. G. W. answers, p. 16. And where do we use these very words Earthly King on this occasion, but that we love, own, and honour the King, (whom here this Mau has judged an Earthly King,) does this show us to be Apostates. Remark Did you ever read a more frivolous Answer? Was it any other King but that very King Charles 2. whom they had writ so bitterly against, under the Name of an Earthly King? he was an Earthly King before, when they said, They were Traitors against Christ that will dote so much on an Earthly King; but now the Quakers love, own, and honour him, he shall not be called an Earthly King. He was an Earthly King before when the Episcopals and Presbyterians doted on him; but now he is become the Quakers King he must be somewhat else; I presume not a Heavenly King; but this is somewhat of the Quakers plainness.  
P. 19 G.W. says, I am persuaded that reproving him [O. C. Protector] for putting such [as feared GOD, sober Men and true Hearts, because of their faithfulness to the LORD,] out of the Army for their Consciences, was MORE upon his breach of Promise, than with an intent to have them always continue in it, in order to War and Fight. Here G. W. or whoever writ this passage, would seem to have some sense of Conscience; for his saying MORE is a comparative with what follows; and argues that it was written with an intent to have had them always to continue in the Army in order to War and Fight, though MORE upon his breach of Promise. I doubt we shall not find G. W. etc. guilty of so much openness again throughout the whole Book. Do not the Quakers hold that none fear GOD truly and rightly but themselves? That they are in the Truth, and none but they; and only among them is GOD known?  
Christ was not contradictory to himself in bidding his Disciples to sell their Garments, and buy Swords, and consequently to wear Swords (as Peter did,) because He saith my Kingdom is not of this World, or from hence; but Christ was contradictory to the Quakers sense of that saying, because if it was not lawful to Fight, in any case, Christ would never have bid them buy Swords: But I did not intent to argue the lawfulness of Fight, only G. W. brings it in needlessy.  
P. 21. One of their chiefest Preachers had said, It is no Rebellion to call away those in Power; by which J. P. understands to Depose those in Power that perform not their Trust: G. W. calls this a perverse addition of a meaning, as if to call away and to Depose were both one in common acceptance. But G. W. is not pleased to tell us what other thing was meant by it, and I am persuaded that no Man but a forewarned Quaker will take them for other than both one.  
But I must hasten; read his 23 page, and you will find it amount to this, Had you [the Army] been faithful to the Power of the LORD GOD, you had gone into Spain to require the Blood of the Innocent,— and knocked at Rome Gates, etc. [And done wonderful great things by wicked and unchristian Fight, or otherwise by the fear and terror of your Power, Arms, and Conquests without Fight,] or as the Host of the Midianites fled and were overcome. and yet not by Fight on Gideon 's part, but by a mean Stratagem. Quere, Whether they that kill by Stratagem do not Fight? And when the Ephraimites slew Oreb and Zeeb, and brought their Heads to Gideon, and pursued Midian, they did not Fight? Judges. 7.25. And whether Barack, Jepthah, Samson, David, Samuel, and the Prophets, who by Faith subdued Kingdoms, and turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens did not Fight? G.W. has found out all these ways of an Army's Conquering without Fight. Sir, I know you are an impartial Man, can you think seriously (not that any Man to whom the Quakers wrote, or any Man that should read what they wrote, would understand them in any such sense, without Fight; for I take it for manifest no Man did; but) whether they that wrote, or even the Quakers themselves, (till now they are pressed with these passages,) ever thought of such Senses? And if not, where is the Quakers plainness, whereof they so nauscously boast?  
P. 24. G. W. says, It cannot consist with our Christian Principle, so much as to avenge ourselves. Who are more ready to avenge themselves in Word and Print than Quakers? How have they railed and reviled their Opposers? Witness those Names G. W. calls Will. Rogers, F. Bugg, Tho. Crisp and others, in the Preface to his Book, Judgement fixed, viz. Apostate-Informers, Treacherous Hypocrites, False Brethren, and Deceitful Workers, Betraying Indas', Devils Incarnate, who having tossed their first love to Truth, and gone out from us, are become degenerate, without Natural Affections, Dogs that are without, Wolves, and raging waves of the Sea, that foam out their own shame. And a multitude of other such like Names do they call those that oppose, and cannot conform to their outward Prescriptions and Impositions, besides their frequent violence with their own Hands, 
* 
See the complaint of one of their own People, touching this matter,  
It hath been their lot to be haled, (with violence) out of the Assemblies,— Did I think to see the same violence offered in our Assemblies! Nay, but with Sorrow, mine Eyes have seen pulling down, haling out, and thrusting forth of our Meetings, and they went to the utmost, as far as their Power; and doubtless they wanted not Will but Power to punish.  
And although they exercise the Oppressions , (and much more as may be seen in the said Book;) yet by their deceitful flatterits, they make People believe, That they are harmless, innocent, and peaceable People, suffering and bearing wrong but not doing any. And if any Person write, or speak their Grief, they will represent them under such terms as may render them odious; and the more effectually to weaken their Testimonies they will fix upon them scurrilous and contemptible Appellations, as Scotchmen, Welsh men, Tinker, Taylor, etc. Some of them utterly untrue; and to prevent an Inquisition into the matter, they would make People believe, that they are envious, malicious, and discomposed Spirits, bad, dirty, factions, and ranting Spirits, who are gone from Truth, and are out of Truth. Such is the Portion of those that appear in the least against their imperious, tyrannical, and lascivious Actions: And whatever Man detected the Fallacies, and destructive Cheats of imperious, disdainful Men, but was thus reproached?  
Must it be Justice in them to complain of their Oppressions; and Envy, and Malice, etc. in us to complain of ours? Their years are but few; yet verily they have been exceeding expert to learn of the Papists, Subtleties. Spirit of the Hat, p. 29, 36, 37.   and what is a great part of this Book of G W. etc. but avenging themselves of J. P.? They might have said all they had to say in their own vindication, without those manifold reproaches, and even Curses, which they belch out against him, such as that in p. 30 God will smite thee, thou malicious Hypocrite. Our Innocency shall rise up in Judgement against thee. Read to the end of that Paragraph. Of this nature is G. W. glorying, that Jer. Ives not long after his malicious Works against us [Quakers] was soon cut off by Death, p. 33.  
I must desire you, Sir, to read p. 34, 35, 36, 37. of their Vindication of that Declaration to which Mr. P—'s Name was amongst the rest subscribed, and then judge what disingenuity and deceit there was in him, to insert the substance of that Declaration, without telling that his own Name was to it, since his Name was not to those after Declarations, which are inconsistent with this. 2. Whether it is possible to give a more Equivocating Answer to any charge, than G. W. etc. has given of this? They say, God might command Thousands and Ten Thousands of His Saints, at this Day, to Fight in His own Cause 
† This passage, and the like, the Quakers left out in the reprint of E. B 's works, knowing (it seems) they would expose them in their clear sense; but being brought to light, they then study to put an equivocal sense on them. . But it must not be taken for granted (says G. W.) that therefore he would do it. But that which GOD may do, and which we cannot yet believe that He will make use of us in that way, and therefore for the present we are given up to bear and suffer, &c We must needs conclude that this is one of those things that GOD hath made no DECREE to the contrary, but that He may Will it to be done, even by us in the future, though He hath not done it at present. And all that G. W. etc. has Criticised upon the Equivocalness of the term YET, does but bewray his and their Equivocation; for though YET may be taken for Nevertheless, when they say, but YET His Kingdom is not of this World; notwithstanding it cannot be so taken, when they say, neither can we YET believe, etc. but it must be taken to denote the time to this present [adhuc, as yet] in exception to the time to come; especially when it is farther explained by the clause, for the present; which is necessarily opposed to the time to come, and imports clearly that Fight may be commanded as in the Future, as now bearing and suffering is commanded. I am very confident that G. W. etc. cannot produce any one instance out of any Man's Writings, that understood well the English Tongue, of the use of the term Yet, in such a Phrase and Construction, in any other sense than of Time. But if all unconcerned Readers must and will understand it in this sense, than G. W's Answer is full of gross Equivocation.  
These are the People that exalt themselves above all other Professors whatsoever, that they reckon all them to be of the World, out of the Truth; and themselves the Only People of GOD, and that they are in the Truth, and none but they, Christ's Lambs, and the like. And for distinguishing themselves from others, they took up some Observances, or Ceremonies, which did it effectually; such as saying Thou not You to a single Person; calling no Man Master, but John or Thomas, etc. not I thank you, but I receive thy love; not carrying the Feet but the Head foremost of their Dead, and the like. They condemn utterly the courtesy of putting off the Hat to any. In short, they affected singularity in most things that were customary in England, how innocent soever: And under the notion of not Swearing, they only refuse the Ceremony of an Oath, as the laying the Hand upon, and Kissing the Book. Now, I pray Sir, what of true Religion, or real Goodness, is there in these things? Suppose the whole World did observe them, would they be at all the better for it? However, by these things they have cut off all others, how religious and sincere soever. And if any Man oppose what they say or do, instead of meekly answering, they are ready with the most virulent, opprobrious, and threatening Language and Writings that can be found in any sort whatever. They will diligently seek out, and take up any thing may reproach one; and will insinuate Crimes that Men are most free from: Thus have they changed the Meekness and Gentleness of Christianity, into Fierceness and Churlishness; Humility and Modesty, into Arrogance and Self-conceit; Peaceableness into Contentiousness; Mildness into Clamour; and Blessing into evil speaking and reviling; Plainness and Simplicity, into-Equivocation and Craft; and all this under the Profession of the most unspotted Innocency and Sincerity. Truth, Righteousness, and Holiness.  
But I would not be understood to impute these Immoralities to the Quakers in general, nor to all their Teachers and Leading Men, but to the Foxonian Party that love to Govern and have the Pre-eminence, who have endeavoured to suppress those who have at any time proposed any thing contrary to their Sentiments. Thus in a few years, instead of being led and guided, and being obedient every one to the Light in himself, they were obliged to submit to the sense of the greater number of the Governing BODY, though never so contrary to their own sense. Nay, this Imposing Spirit proceeded so far, at a Quarterly Meeting in Barbadoes, where they did not act with that Caution and Cunning as here at London, that they made and subscribed this following Order, viz.  
I desire to give up my whole Concern, if required, both Spiritual and Temporal unto the Spirit of God in Men and Woman's Meetings, as believing it to be more according to the Universal Wisdom of God, than any particular measure in myself, or any particulars with whom the Men and Woman's Meetings have not Unity.  
The Actings, Writings, and Speakings of that kind I have spoken of, being observed by some 
* W. Rogers, T. Crisp, F. Bugg, W. Macklow, J. Story, J. Wilkinson, Charles Harris, J. Rance, Tho. Curtis, J. Ansloe, and many more.  among them, who were either too wise, or too honest to be persuaded, that those corrupt Fruits could proceed either from the Spirit of God, or from the Light within, that they grieved and mourned to see that excellent Principle of Reformation, The Light in every Man, so grossly perverted and undermined, that they were made to oppose and testify against them.  
Sir, I might go on throughout G. W.'s etc. whole Book, and show many more gross Equivocations, Palliations, and Deceits; but I will not proceed farther, lest I may seem to question your Judgement, in not observing those things that are so evident. But I think we that read Books have just cause of indignation against those Quakers, who have the face to impose upon the World such abominable Stuff, under the Notion of the Teachings of the Light, of the unspotted Innocency and Christian sincerity. But it may reasonably be thought they writ not for vindication of themselves to those that are of the World, (as they call all that are not in their Form;) but for their own Party, that are so blindly addicted to their Leaders, that they swallow every thing they say without consideration: Unhappy Men! that have given up their Minds to the Glory of a singular Party, in contempt of all others, and can find no other way of vindicating themselves. I may need your excuse for writing so much, and therefore will now subscribe  
Sir, Yours A. C. May 23. 1691.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
SIR,  
AND besides what I said about Fight, I am credibly informed, that some Quakers have not only fought, but that with great Courage and Magnanimity. The first I shall mention is Mr. William Mead an eminent Person, who being set upon by three High-way-men, and having only a Cudgel, or Staff, in his Hand, did not only bravely defend himself therewith, but knocked down one of the Robbers so wounded, that the other were forced to carry him away, whilst Mr. Mead escaped their Hands. The next shall be one Matthew Renshaw (Master of a Ship,) who fought both with great and small Guns, till he was overpowered by the Turks. Another, one John Thompson, who fought exceeding stoutly, and killed a great many Men before he was taken by the Enemy. These two Masters were not only Quakers themselves, but their Owners generally, if not every one, such. More might be named, but these suffice to show that the Quakers will fight in a just Cause, and that stoutly too; which puts me in mind again of G. Fox To the Council of Officers, etc. p. 5. who says (of those that had been put out of the Army for being Quakers,) Of whom it hath been said among you, that they had rather have had one of them than 7 Men, and could have turned one of them to seven Men.  
And since my writing the above, I have spoken with Mr. Pennyman touching the Accusation against Stephen Crisp, mentioned in The Quakers Unmasked, folio p. 14. and which in their Answer, p. 14. they say, Steph. Crisp absolutely denies, that he either forced him, or that the Party did show any dissatisfaction before he Signed and Sealed the said Paper. Oh! what shall we say to these Men, who not only use Equivocatious in their Writings, but do absolutely deny matter of Fact? to which Mr. Pennyman was an Eye and Earwitness, and is ready to attest it, if called thereto; but would not then subscribe as a Witness, being greatly dissatisfied with the unworthiness of the demand.  
I will add here something concerning the Nature of an Oath, whereby it may appear that the Quakers are mistaken about it.   

Of the Nature of an Oath.  
WHen the Author to the Hebrews says (Ch. 6.16.) Men verily Swear by the greater; and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an end of all strife; he plainly shows us, that an Oath is the greatest and utmost Evidence of Truth and Sincerity that can be given; for if a Man openly appeals to GOD, who searcheth the Heart, and therefore knows not only what is outward in Men's Words and Actions, but their most inward thoughts, that Man gives the utmost assurance he can possibly give; for he that falsifies in the presence of Men, calling them for Witnesses, who know the matter, and whose office it is to ludge and punish, incurs all that reproach, infamy and other punishments, which so great an offence and abuse deserves: So he that falsifies in the presence of God, calling Him for Witness, incurs the greatest punishments of Divine Vengeance, as one that makes God Almighty a Partner and Confederate to a Lie, presumptuously and to his very face. So that however God perhaps is not expressly invocated to do vengeance upon him, yet in appealing to God as a Witness, that is employed, because He is such a Witness as is also the Supreme Judge, whose Justice and Truth is herein appealed to. Therefore calling God to Witness is as much an Oath as any other form of Words, as having as much evidence and assurance as any other Form whatever, and as great Penalties attending it. Now to assert any thing in the presence of Men expressly, is all one as to call them for Witnesses: So also to assert any thing in the presence of God expressly, is all one as to call God for Witness.  

Farther see several Forms of an Oath. viz.  
I Do hereby testify in the Truth of my Heart, and in the Presence of HIM that knoweth all things, and in the Presence of these Faithful Witnesses, 
* The Quakers Form. p. 25.  etc. Or, GOD is my Witness. I call GOD to record on my Soul. The GOD and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ knows that I lie not. GOD is Witness between me and thee. Any of which (or the like) without laying the Hand on the Book, or other Ceremony, or more Words, is not only an Oath, but, [as saith a knowing, judicious, and worthy Person,] if Authorized by Act of Parliament, is as much a Legal Oath as any now in use amongst us.   

And as the Quakers have been mistaken about an Oath, so they have been about their paying of Taxes, in that they allowed and paid the Royal Aid Tax, and that of carrying on the Waragainst the Dutch, and the like; yet they would not pay towards the Trained Bands, notwithstanding they are chief intended for a Defence; and the other, not only to Defend but to offend our Neighbours, as the Government sees cause. So that 'tis plain, the Tax they then refused was more justifiable than that they allowed and paid, inasmuch as to Defend is more allowable and justifiable than to Offend.  
FINIS.