THE Unequal Unyoked AND The Equal Yoked, AND Light separated from Darkness, & Darkness and Blindness joined together.  
In Answer to a Paper that would join together Truth and Untruth, the true Worship and the false.  
And here it is discovered, and the Author thereof in part rewarded, by joining him justly to those he unjustly joined others to.  
By a Lover of Justice and Equity, and Hater of the Contrary, PETER PRICE.  Her Priests have violated my Law, and have profaned my holy things; and have put no difference between the Holy and the Profane; neither have they shown difference between the  and the Clean, and have hid their Eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them, Ezek. 22.26. And as Troops of Robbers wait for a Man, so the Company of Priests Murder in the way by consent, for they commit Lewdness, Hosea 6.9. 
London, Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch, 1683.   

The Unequal unyoked and the Equal yoked, etc.  
THere came a Paper to my hands, from a Bishop, as I am credibly informed, and I have strong Reasons to believe that it came from his hand, or some of his Priestly Generation. 1st, Because the Comparisons came not from the Spirit of God, but from a Darknist, who is ignorant of the Truth of God, that did not see the difference between us and his Father, the Pope: 2dly, It is plainly seen, that it came from a malicious Heart, that would have a suffering peaceable People still to suffer, and so doth join with the Oppressors to oppress the Oppressed; and thus he saith;  
That any man may see and discover how near Quakers and Papists are in Opinion, let them read these following Comparisons of the one to the other.  
1. Quakers claim the Spirit to Infallibility, so doth Pope and Papists.  
Answ. The Spirit of God is Infallible, which we do own and possess; and wouldst thou have us to deny the Spirit of God to be what we know it to be, because Papists, as thou sayest, do own it so to be! It is clearly seen that thou art a stranger to the Spirit of God, who wouldst have it to be fallible; and not only so, but also any Enemy to it, that would undervalue the unchangeable and infallible Spirit of God. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his, Rom. 4.9. and vers. 11. He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal Bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you; and vers. 15. But ye have received the Spirit of Adoption. The People of God in all Ages had (and now have) the Spirit of God to be their Teacher, Counsellor and Instructor in all things, and it is given to every man to profit withal; and if we cannot claim title to the Spirit of Infallibility, what benefit may we expect from that which is given to fail, to change or to alter? But the fallible deceivable Spirit doth inquire after large Live, great Wages, and most Hire, Benefit and worldly Riches to enjoy; and this is an earthly, worldly, selfish, greedy, covetous Spirit, which ever was (and now is) against the Spirit of God, and all those that were (and are) led by it. This is the Wolf's devouring Spirit that casteth to Prison, and devoureth the goods of them that cannot feed it: Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison, Rev. 2.10.  
2 Quakers make themselves the sole Church, so Papists.  
Answ. Here we are falsely accused; for we do not make ourselves the sole Church; for what we are is of the Lord, and not of ourselves, and he hath made us Members of his Church, and the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved, Acts 2.47. The Church is the Body of Christ, Col. 1.24. And we could not make ourselves the Body of Christ, the Body must be like the Head; for by him they are redeemed out of the Sins, which the World doth live in; for they, by Christ their Head, are washed, cleansed, purified, fitted and prepared for himself to dwell therein. These, and such as these, are the Church of God.  
3. Quakers hold no Salvation, but in their Meetings, so do Papists but in their Communion.  
Answ. Here we are again falsely accused, for we hold Salvation no where else but only in and through Jesus Christ, the Son of the living everlasting God.  
4. Quakers are Recusants, so Papists.  
Answ. How now, Bishop and Priest! (I speak to them only that are guilty) would you now make us Recusants because we cannot seed your greedy Bellies, nor maintain you in your Pride and Covetousness? we dare not feed that which Christ came to destroy, the which would destroy Christ in his Members.  
5. Quakers deny Bishops to be jure divino, so Papists, witness the Council of Trent.  
Answ. We do deny you to be what you are not, and we do own you to be what you are; for we wrestle not against Flesh and Blood, but against Principalities, against Powers, against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World, against spiritual Wickedness in high places (as they did) Ephes. 6.12. Your jure divino is your spiritual Wickness in high places. Come down exalted boasted Selfishness; the everlasting Bishop we own, and those that are called and chosen by him, are also by him made divine, and it is his right to oversee the Soul; but you that covet after filthy Lucre we deny.  
6 Quakers are of rebellious Tenets, so Papists.  
Answ. Let all People that are not defiled with Tithes, judge who are most quarrelsome, troublesome, burdensome, and whose Tenets are most Rebellious against all appearance of Godliness, and who are bad Examples, you or us? As the high Priests did stir the Magistrates and People against Christ Jesus and his followers, persuading the People, that he did those mighty Works which he did through Belzebub, & that his Followers were movers of Sedition, and turners of the World up-side down. So likewise this man, who is one in Enmity and Malice, with his Predecessors (the high-Priests) hath falsely belied us, expecting thereby to stir Persecution against us; so his envious Spirit is seen and judged.  
7. Quakers, as they piece up the Word of God by wild Fancies, pretended Revelations, so Papists by Traditions.  
Answ. The Word of God thou knowest not, which cannot be pieced, broken, changed or altered; thou dost botter know how to compel the People to maintain thee (whilst thou hast the Magistraies on thy side) than to speak of things that are too high for the Nature thou art in; but the Natural man parceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2.14.  
8. Quakers are against Common-Prayer, so Papists.  
Answ. Thou who art sensual, it is, that needest the Common-Prayer, who hast not the Spirit of God to pray by, which the holy men of God had to teach them to pray, and to declare the things revealed to them by the Spirit of God.  
9 Quakers for nothing in the Bible but what serves their turns, so Papists for Latin, which the Vulgar cannot understand.  
Answ. We are for what the Scriptures are for (and it doth all serve our turn) and against what the Scriptures are against; they are against Hirelings that run for their Wages, and against all manner of Ungodliness, and so are We; yet all doth make for us, (which came from the Spirit of Truth) and against you, from the beginning of Genesis to the end of the Revelations; therefore we cannot mislike any part of the Scriptures of Truth; for they were declared by the Spirit, which is our Teacher.  
10. Quakers, they alone Godly, so Papists, Holiness of Life being one of the Marks of their Church.  
Answ. It seems, by these thy Comparisons, that thou dost disallow of Godliness, and that the Marks of thy Church is Wickedness; and it is true, for what manner of Wickedness, that can be thought of, but is committed among you, who call yourselves the Church of England, the miserable Sinners, without Health in you? witness your general Confession.  
11. Quakers will be judged by no man, so Papists.  
Answ. The Worldly, Earthly, Natural, Selfish-minded man is not to judge any; but he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man, 1 Cor. 2.15.  
12. Quakers have been of our Liturgy, so Papists.  
Answ. It is true, we have been too long in the ungodly Life, (where still you are) and then you did love us, but since we came out of that Life to lead a godly Life, and to testify against that Life (which we did, and which you do, to this day live in) then did you hate us, persecute us, and speak Evil of us; read Ephes. 2. v. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. and there it may be seen what we were, and what we are, according to the operation of the same Grace.  
13. Quakers would have no Secular Power for Clergy, so Papists.  
Answ. Poor man! thou having not the Wisdom and Power which is of God, art in the Wisdom which is foolishness with God; read 1 Cor. 1. from vers. 17. to the end, and thou shalt or mayst see what your Wisdom, Power and Glory is, and what it will be made of. In the 5th Comparison thou wouldst be jure divino, and here secular Power; it seems, the Honour that hath an end, and the corrupt Riches, your hearts are fixed upon, and the more you have, the more you desire to have; so that nothing can satisfy your greedy Hearts, like your greedy unholy Father, the Pope, who would have all Power to himself.  
14. Quakers will propagate Religion by the Sword, when able; so Antichrist and Mahumet.  
Answ. Here thou hast not yoked us with Pope and Papists, but with Antichrist and Mahumet; it seems thou hast better thoughts of Papists, than that they will fight for their Religion, or else thou wouldst have put them in with us in this, as well as ●n all the rest of thy false Accusations: In this thy cruel Envy and bitter Malice towards us, more than any other People, is made manifest, and in thee this Scripture fulfilled, but as then, he that was born after the Flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now, Gal. 4.29. The Enmity is against the Seed begotten of God, and in time he will clear the Innocency of his suffering peaceable People: If we had relied or had any thoughts of purting our Trust in outward Weapons, or in the strength of man, we had been by men destroyed before now; but the living Lord God, the King of all Kings, the Judge of all Judges, the Bishop of our Souls, he is on our side, he is our only Strength, Keeper, Preserver and Redeemer, our Teacher, Counsellor and Instructor; he doth lead us, and we are the Lamb's Followers, and he doth own us to be his People, and the Sheep of his Pasture; so that we fear not what the uncircumcised in heart and ears can do to us; for before our Father, who hath begotten us from amongst you, must you all stand and appear, and he will judge you according to what you do against his Children, except in time you will Repent.  
15. Quakers pretend Miracles, else why do they decry human means of Learning? so Papists.  
Answ. Miracles done by Christ were not believed by an envious persecuting Generation, even so it is now; and we are for Learning, and do keep our Children at Schools, but we are against all that make bad use of their Learning, and by it come to be burdensome to others, and make themselves more like Lucifer than if they had been without it: We are not against any good thing, but against making a bad use of any thing that is good.  
16. Quakers they are Martyrs, when punished for Faction, Sedition and Separation; so Papists, punished for Treason.  
Answ. Here again we are falsely accused, for Faction and Sedition we deny, and it could not be proved against us, neither were we punished for it, neither can any of you truly make it appear, that we are Factious or Seditious; but as to the word [Separation] I confess that we are separated from your ungodly Lives, unprofitable Ceremonies and unfruitful Meetings, and have our Meetings and Worship in the Spirit and living Truth of God, and in this we do rejoice, and to this I would have you all to come, that with us you may partake of the spiritual Virtue that we enjoy, and is not known but to the Birth begotten of God, which only hath right to call God Father, and is hidden from that Nature that ravens for Hire and Wages, and not to gain Souls to Christ.  
Here thy Comparisons are answered, and thy foolish Malice made manifest, and that which thou wouldst cast upon us, (undeserved) returned to thee and them, according to your Deserts, as followeth;  
1. Bishop and Priest having not the Infallible Spirit of God, (at some of them confess) do gather and come together by sound of Bells, so Pope and Papists.  
2. Bishop and Priest do feed the People with what men command them, so Papists.  
3. Bishop and Priest do cast a little Water on children's heads and the sign of the Cross, to make them Christians, so Papists.  
4. Bishop and Priest are set at work by men, and receive their Wages from men, so Papists.  
5. Bishop and Priest have Crosses on the Houses where they worship, so Pope and Papists.  
6. Bishop and Priest do compel the People to maintain them, so Pope and Papists.  
7. Bishop and Priest do exalt humane Learning above its place, so Pope and Papists.  
8. Bishop and Priest do wear their several sorts of Caps, and other sorts of vain useless Garments, according to what Title they give themselves; so Pope and Papists.  
9 Bishop and Priest would punish all that will not join with them in their Worship, so Pope and Papists.  
10. Bishop and Priest are such Persecutors of others, that they cannot be equally yoked without Pope and Papists.  
11. Bishop and Priest having not the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, cannot subsist without Law in their own Courts, carnal Weapons, or help of Magistrates; so Pope and Papists.  
12. Bishop and Priest cannot live by the Gospel, which they have not, but by the Tithes, which they will have, while they can; so Pope ane Papists.  
13. Bishop and Priest count all Faction, Sedition, Heresy and Separation, that separate from them, and cannot feed their Lusts and Pride, so Pope and Papists, that will not join with them in their Mass. Bishop and Priest, in what do you differ from the Pope and his Deputies? Had it not been a shorter work to show in what you do differ, than in what you are one with them? Wherein doth your Worship and Discipline differ from the Pope and Papists?  
14. Bishop and Priest, you may be joined with Pope and Papists in your Bowings, Bend, Stoop and vain Gestures and Postures, Forms, Traditions, Customs, Fashions and Ceremonies, which do not at all concern the Worship of God, which is to be in the Spirit and in Truth, and not in the aforesaid vain things, or the like.  
15. Bishops, we are not against the Name; for such a Bishop as is allowed by the Scriptures of Truth, we allow of, read 1 Tim. 3. but such you are not, but Persecutors of the Life and Godly Condition that they did live in, and you and your Families are more like proud Morriee-dancers, than modest civil orderly Christians: And seeing you and your Followers in a sad desperate Condition, I cannot choose but in love acquaint you with it, and declare against it, that you may be left without excuse, and keep my Conscience clear towards God and you. And what I say in this case to you, I say to all that are in your Condition, Repent, Repent, Repent in time, before it be too late, and the Door of Mercy shut, and you kept out with the wicked World, which go the broad Way and wide Gate that leads to destruction, where many do go; for the narrow Way and straight Gate that leadeth to Salvation, where the little Flock hath and doth strive to enter in, you do not love, but speak evil of; for Covetousness, Pride, Malice and Selfishness cannot enter in there: These and the like are the burdens which hinder, and must be cast away, or else not entering in for such; so Pope and Papists.  
16. Oh! how my Heart doth pity the People which by you Bishops and Priests are deceived; of such there was a Complaint, and of you there is a Complaint, 2 Cor. 4.3, 4. But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid in them that are lost, in whom the god of this World hath blinded the Minds of them which believe not, lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, should shine unto them. The Gospel, which is hid, is the Power of God, and the God of the World that doth hid it, is the Devil, and the means that the Devil hath to hid the Gospel, and to blind the Mind, is Sin; Your Sins have separated you from God, and your Sins do 'cause him to hid his face from you, and your Sins hinder good things to come unto you; and he that committeth sin is of the Devil; and we know that we are of God, and the whole World lieth in Wickedness, John 5.19. And the holy men of God in all Ages did declare and cry against the Sins which you now live in; and they that can truly witness a godly Life now, do deny you, and cry against you: And as the Godly by the Ungodly formerly did suffer, even so it is now; so one with Pope and Papists in Persecution.  
17. Bishop and Priest have Organs and Singing-Boys in their Worship, so Pope and Papists.  
18. Bishop and Priest do take to themselves what belongs to God, to judge of Conscience in matter of Religion; so Pope and Papists.  
19 Bishop and Priest are for Churching of Women, so Pope and Papists.  
20. Bishop and Priest do idolise the Parish-house, where they meet to Worship, and call it a Church, and hold it to be a more holy Ground and virtuous Place than other Ground and Places, witness what a vain Meeting, Preaching, Blowing and Praying there was (the Service cannot be acceptable, where the end is not right) to consecrate and sanctify the new builded Church (as they call it) at Glaisbury in Radnorshire, by William Lucy, Bishop of St Davids (so called) and his Hireling Priests (as it is generally reported) there was so much Idolatrous Practice, Ceremonies and unprofitable Worship there then, as if it had been by the Pope in Rome; for their old Church being on the Sandy Foundation, was undermined by the River Wey, which hath made a separation between the Priest and his Church, so that he nor his Parishioners cannot go to their Church, nor their dead Church to them; but the Gates of Hell, the Devil and all his Power cannot prevail against the true Living Church in God; but the River Wey is too strong for the old House, falsely called a Church. The true Church from the false you may know, if you read and believe the Scriptures, Mat. 16.18. & 18.17. Acts 2.47. and 20.28. Ephes. 5.24, 25. Col. 1.24. 1 Tim. 3.15. compare what Christ and his Apostles did declare the Church to be, and what the Priests do call a Church, and you shall or may see great disserence; and the cause of my Writing is, that you may come to be Members of the true Church, where Christ is the Head.  
21. Bishop and Priest do pretend to keep Holy days in remembrance of some holy men that are dead these many hundred years ago; so Pope and Papists; for by the Pope they were set up.  
22. Bishop and Priest, many of your Forms, Customs and Traditions are contrary to the Scriptures of Truth; so Pope and Papists.  
23. Bishop and Priest do compel the Country in their Parishes to buy and keep them sine Linen Cloth, as much as will make them a Garment to cover their black Clothes (but it will not cover their black ugly Sins) and they call it by the Name of a Surplice, that they wear during their common Service, and burying their dead, and Churching their Women (as they call it) Oh, the blindness of Popery!  
24. Priests in our Country do go from house to house to Church Women, with their Sexton to carry their Book and Surplice, and to say Amen, and they will have Money for so doing; so (by report) do the Papists, their pretended holy Water.  
25. Bishop and Priest do keep Courts to punish Offenders, and when they do appear, they must contract for a Sum of Money, and it must be such a sum, that every Member, according to what he paid for his place, must have such a Sum that he may live by it, and then the Offender shall have forgiveness of his Sins, and pardon under Hand and Seal: Lest I should mistake, and the Papists not be so bad as you in this thing, I shall not compare them with you.  
26. Bishop and Priest, you and your Courts have been more troublesome and burdensome to some of us, the People, than all other Courts and Taxes that we have paid since your heavy Yoke and cruel Bondage came upon us, which makes us to feel the weight and burden of it in our Estates, and in our Consciences.  
27. Pope and Bishop, Papist and Priest, you are here (and may be more at large so) yoked together, that you cannot be separated while you continue in your Will-worship, and compelling Fellowship, and carnal Ordinances, and dry empty Forms, and forcing People to join with you whether they will or no, and your cruel Deal with those that cannot for Conscience sake join with you in your Self-Worships, which do not profit Soul nor Body. I say, while you do use the same means, and live in the same Condition as Pope and Papists do, what difference is between you and them? And who will join in Worship with such a cruel merciless selfended People, as many of you are, except it be some in a slavish Condition, out of fear, or some that make gain from your unchristian Wages, or some other by-ends, as it appeareth, and as we find by the fruit of your corrupt Trees, which you have been all this while planting and dressing, and while they do feed you, you are at peace with them, be they never so bad and wicked; for if you will tell them of one fault, they can tell you of another, if not of two; so like Priest, like People, as the Scripture doth declare; if you should deny this, will not your Parishioners confess it? Christ said, When thou are converted, then strengthen thy Brethren. From what is evil, and to what is good are you converted? except it be from a small Means and Wages to a greater, which is no Conversion, but Promotion: While you live in Covetousness, you cannot do the People any good; a good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit, neither can a corrupt Tree bring forth good Fruit, Mat. 7.18. and in vers. 15. Beware of false Prophets, which come to you in Sheep's Clothing, but inwardly they are ravening Wolves. V 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits, do men gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? Here you are plainly seen and known to be the false Prophets; your Fruit doth make you manifest to every honest single-hearted man. And are not many of you as cruel as Woles, and your good fruits a● hard to be had as Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles. And is there any in the Nations like you, or to be compared to you i● Cruelty and Oppression? And 〈◊〉 not they blind, and want true Understanding, that cannot see, that you have the Marks that the false Prophets in all Ages had? witness the Scripture, from the beginning to the end, where it speaks of false Prophets You cannot hid yourselves in this the day of the Lords Power, made manifest in and to his People; for this is the day that the Lord God makes up his jewels, and doth separate his People from amongst you the Goats, Wolves, Thorns and Thistles, and we are his People, and the Sheep of his Pasture; and we know his living voice, and the dead voices of you, who to him are strangers, we will not hear nor follow; for you cannot ●ead us but where you are, in the dark Kingdom of this World, but the Lord, who is our living Shepherd, he hath and doth lead us to his Kingdom, which is not of this World, as Christ said; and in his Kingdom he doth feed his little flock, and there by him they are refreshed, nourished and preserved out of your cruel hands and corrupt food that is to perish, and cannot feed nor serve your turn in time of need: And our food, our rest, peace, joy, comfort, happiness, fellowship and well-being is a hidden Mystery to you Priests; if not, you would not seek us to come to you back again, where you have been too long already, and are resolved in the Name of our God never to come back; Go not to them, but let them come to you, saith the Scriptures. Is there any reason that we should pay you wages while you do us no service, and we deny you and your Service? yet notwithstanding you would reap where you do not sow, and have the wages where another doth the work, and feed your greedy Bellies upon other men's Rights and Labours; & you make many poor in making yourselves rich; and many do go bare and far hard to maintain your pride and fullness. And thus you persecute God's heritage, and are the greatest Oppressors and Vexers of the People as any this day in this Kingdom: And if he that had not the Wedding Garment was cast into utter Darkness, where is wailing and gnashing of Teeth, what will become of you that are clothed with the Garment of unrighteous Gains? If he that was among the People of God, and for them, and as to outward appearance, one of them, was thus dealt with, what will become of you that are against them and their Meetings, and hinder them, and break their Meetings? And if Christ did say to them that in his Members did not visit him in Prison, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting Fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels, what will he say to you that do cast him, in his Members, into Prison? seeing that Christ said so to them that were too short in their Duty towards his People, what will he say to you that are cruel and spiteful towards his People? read Mat 25.32. to the end, and you may see the reward of both the godly and ungodly, the portion of the faithful and unfaithful. And if the five foolish Virgins came too short, the door shut, and they kept out that were in company and profession with the wise Virgins, what will become of you that do not only hate the company and profession of the godly, but also set yourselves to strive against them, that they may not trim their Lamps and prepare themselves to make read to enter in with the Bridegroom: And plainly this is your work, to hind the little flock to meet and follow the Lamb their leader. And if th● Righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly & sinners appear? I Pet 4.18. If those whom God hath separated from the ungodly world, and united them to himself, to witness for him, and against the Sim of the World, if they have nothing to spart, but scarcely be saved, Oh! where shall they appear that live in sin, and plead for sin, and say, they must sin whilst they live in the earthly body. No thanks to cease when you can sin no longer in the body. If you must live in Sin whilst you are on thi● side the Grave, when will you live in Righteousness, seeing the Scripture saith, Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves Servants to obey, his Servants you are, to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of Obedience unto Righteousness? Rom. 6.16. For the wages of sin is death, v. 23. They that serve sin, or live in it, are Servants to the Devil, and cannot serve two Masters. And is not the Lord God, that made the Heavens and Earth and all things therein, stronger than the Devil to lead out of sin? for as God will not lead to sin, so the Devil will not lead to any thing that is really good; and many People are led by the Devil, and not by God who made them. And if they live and you dwell in sin, what good do you to the People for your hire and wages? They could live in sin, and keep that to maintain themselves that doth maintain you; and are not you the unprofitable Servants, while you and your followers do live in Sin? And are not you to receive your wages with the unprofitable Servants that did live in sin as you do? Was it not sin that did separate from God, and lead into the fall, and doth separate from God? And is it impossible to remove that which did separate from God? And must People still remain in the fall, and from God? And while you live in that which keepeth from God in the fall, how can you come out of the fall to God again? And can you obtain forgiveness of sin, while you live in sin? And must not sin be forsaken? They that forsake their sin shall have mercy, saith the Scripture; bet do not you say to the People, They have mercy, though they live in sin? A false Doctrine, which proceeds from a dark unclean Spirit, and not from the Spirit of God.  
Bishop and Priest, how can you but deny Perfection in this life, while you deny the effects of Christ's coming (which doth perfect his work in his People) and are not his works to be done within, where the Serpent's head is to be bruised? And can his head be bruised without Christ, the only means ordained of God to do it? and so his work in you is not yet done, but his Enemies work in you doth yet stand, which is sin and uncleanness, & this makes you to oppose the work of Christ, which is, 〈◊〉 bind the strong man, and to cast him out of possession, and to lay the Axe to the Root of the unfruitful Tree (which by God was never planted) and the Serpent and his seed, and all that doth belong to him turned out, root and branch, and all that belongs to the Enemy of God, by Christ, the higher Power, destroyed. And then the Image of God wrought, and the fruit of the Spirit known and witnessed; as it is written, And such were some of you but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus; and by the Spirit of our God, 1 Cor. 6.11. And they said, Christ in us the hope of Glory; and know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be Reprobates? 2 Cor. 13.5. Thus Jesus Christ hath and doth do his works in his People, whilst unbelievers do talk of his coming, and sin in them still remaining, which is the work of the Devil.  
Bishop and Priest, Christ saith, Learn of me, and you say, learn of us, and them that do not, are prosecuted in your Courts, and cast into Goal, and goods taken from them. And Christ said, Feed my Lambs, Joh. 21.15. Feed ye the Church of God, Acts 20.28. Feed ye the flock of God, 1 Pet. 5.2. Mind what Christ saith, Feed my Lambs, my Church, my flock. And in effect you say, We will make you all feed us, or else we will have a suit in Law against you, and recover trible damage, and drive away your  or goods, or cast your Bodies to Prison until you pay us. This we believe you will do, and you have done already: The People of God that had the largest measure of the Spirit of God, and of the Virtue, Wisdom and Knowledge of God, were Servants to the rest, and good Examples, and did exceed others in meekness, mildness, lowliness, and all manner of humility, according to the largeness of that of God, which they had received. And you, according to what of men you have received, are by them preferred and entitled, Lords, Bishops, Masters, Priests. So herein one with Pope and Papists, and also one with the Heathen, exercising Lordship over the People (contrary to Christ and his Disciples, who were all Brethren, and he their only Master, Mat 23.) and so bear sway and rule over the People, and compel them as Servants to you, or more like slaves than servants; for Servants may change their Masters, if they do not like them, but the People cannot change you, be you never so cruel and bad although they do complain, and deny you and your stolen ware out o● other men's works, and not from the Spirit of God. Is it not a slavis● condition to compel a People to what they know will not serve thei● turn, & to make them pay for that, altho' they do refuse it? If it we●● upon the account of worldly things, it would be the better borens; b●● it doth concern our Soul's Health and Salvation, and everlasting Happiness and Well-being, world without end. And the Lord God whom we obe● can deliver us out of our merciless hands; but if we should obey yo● you cannot deliver us out of the just hand of God; therefore we little matter what you can or will do, while we keep our Consciences void of offence towards God and men. You are easily to be known; your rising up hath brought many down; You are black without and dark within; your making thick hath made many thin; those that do feed you, you cry peace to, and those that do refuse to follow you, are your Adversaries, be they never so good; so that we do plainly see, that you did not come for our good, but for our goods; not to feed the flock, but that the flock may feed you, as it is written, Woe to the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves: should not the Shepherd feed the flock? ye eat the fat, and ye cloth you with the Wool; ye kill them that are fed, but you feed not the flock, Ezek. 34.23. Here you may see, that you do the same works as the false Shepherds did before you, and we declare against you, as the godly did against them; ye kill them that are feed, (mind that) do not you seek to destroy that which is led by the Lord, and by him begotten, which is the New-birth, wherein dwelleth Righteousness; with it doth all things become new; therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a New-Creature, old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new, 2 Cor. 5.17. Is there any thing in you become new? or is the corrupt Birth still alive, from which nothing that is good can proceed, and so you cannot witness yourselves to be new Creatures in Christ, but in self and selfishness, and seek yourselves more than Christ, and the good of the People: You run for (and after) the things of this World, and the Kingdom of God you cannot see, who do not witness the New-birth, as Christ said, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, Joh. 3.3. God said of your Fathers, who did as you do (viz. run and were not sent) I have not sent these Prophets, yet they run; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesy, Jer. 23. People, let him that wisheth you well, desire you to read over this chapter in the fear of God, and consider of it, and lay it to heart, & you may plainly see, that those were the Fathers of the false Prophets now; and it may be now said to these, as it was then said to those in this chapter, and elsewhere. I say, let them be compared in the old and new Testament with the false Prophets and Hirelings then, and you may see these (where they were, doing what they did) sowing Chaff instead of Wheat, and telling a Dream instead of preaching the living Word of God, that was with God in the beginning, John 1. And this living Word came to the Prophets of the Lord, saying; and what the Word ●f God said and made known to them, that was written in the Scriptures ●y several of the Prophets; and John did witness the same living Word, which Word was Christ; and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in Blood, and his Name is called the Word of God, Rev. 19.13. and those whom God did send, did direct the People to the same Word of God, and said, The Word is nigh thee, even in thy heart & in thy mouth; that is the Word of Faith which we preach, Rom. 10.8. Not only what Paul did preach, for he said what we preach. And they did direct where the People might find the Word in the Mouth & in the Heart; all that do not direct the People to this living Word, have but a dream to tell them, Jer. 23.28. Mind what a dream is: A man may think to be where he is not, and to do what he doth not, and to see what he doth not see; just so are all these Dreamers, who do not direct the People to Christ, and where to sinned them. But if ever these Dreamers will awake out of sin and unrighteousness, they will come to see, that all that which they have done is but as a Dream, and not Truth; and as there was in former Ages false Prophets, as well as true Prophets of the Lord, even so it is now. And the Lord God formerly made use of the meanest sort (in the account of the World) to confound the wise, so now, as it is written, For ye see your calling, Brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called; but God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the things that are mighty, and base things of the World, and things that that are despised, hath God chosen; yea, and things that are not, to bring to nought things that are, 1 Cor. 1.26, 27, 28. As it was then, even so it is now, and the worldly Wisdom and its learning, and all that it can do, is too short to bring man into Rest & Peace with God; it is not the learning bought for Money, but the free learning of Christ, that doth give People the saving knowledge; therefore in vain is it for you to strive in your own strength, wisdom and its learning; come to Christ, that you may see that you are poor, that you may receive the Gospel, and that the Eye which the god of the World hath blinded may be opened, and you out of the Devil's Prison may be set at liberty, to serve the living God: And this will he better for you, than to think you are what you are not, and deceive yourselves and others; and better than to obtain high Places and large Riches in the world, which are uncertain, if lawfully obtained.  
Bishop & Priest, this is not a time for you to think to hid yourselves, for the Lord God doth raise his witness in his People, and he doth open their understandings, and they come to see what they did not see, and to love that which is good, and to hate the evil and declare against it, as faithful Witnesses for our God: And most of the People do now see your ungodly, covetous, selfish Lives and Practices, and how little good service you have done in the Country, and how troublesome & burdensome you have been, and how you have exalted yourselves in Pride above measure; your Coaches, Horses and vain Attendance do witness it: The People will come more and more to see you, as their Understandings will be opened, and they enlarged in the knowledge of God. And now there are many out of fear (of your High-places, Threaten and Courts) that do heat and follow you, more than out of love to any good they receive from you: And as People do come into the true fear of God, the slavish fear will wear off from them, and you they will not follow; for Pride and Self-exaltedness will have a fall, and great will the fall of it be: And this is our Joy, that the Lord will reign, whose right it is, who is worthy to be exalted, honoured, magnified, glorified, praised, and forever obeyed. He, the Lamb of God will have the Victory, and it is in vain for you to strive against him who gave you Breath, and can take it from you when he will; Stand in awe, and sin not, and strive not against Christ in his Temple, in his People, as the Scripture saith, Know ye not, that ye are the Temples of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Cor. 3.16. He that defiles the Temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are, v. 27. What! know you not that your Bodies are the Temples of the holy Ghost, ch. 6.19. Ye are the Temples of the living God, as God hath said, 2 Cor. 6.16. You know not what you do in hating those People whom God loveth, and dwelleth in. You strive to draw from God those that strive to draw you to God. You seek to destroy those that seek to save you from destruction. You would draw us from good to the evil, and we would draw you from the evil to the good. You would draw us from the Teachings of the Grace of God, to be taught by you 〈◊〉 and we would draw you to the teachings of the Spirit, that makes ali●● to God. You would draw us from a heavenly Condition to the earthly, where you are; and we would draw you from the earthly to the heavenly, where we are, through the mercy of our God. And thus you reward us evil for good, and we desire to do you good for evil. You hate in us what God loves, and we hate in you what God hates, and what ye ought to hate, which is Sin. You not believing in the Infallible and Discerning Spirit of God, cannot judge the things of God 〈◊〉 right, but do as it is written; Woe unto them that call evil good, and go●● evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitte● for sweet, and sweet for bitter, Isa. 5.20. You may here read you● selves, and see your condition; you do as in vers. 23. take away th● Righteousness of the Righteous from him; and it is our desire to take aw●● the unrighteousness of the Unrighteous from you, and that all may co●● to know the Righteousness of Jesus Christ, and in him to witney their Souls Health and Salvation, and with us to partake of the heavenly Enjoyments, that in the Treasure-House of our God is to be enjoyed and thus we wish that all men may come to the acknowledgement of the Tr●●● that they may receive Forgiveness of their Sins, and be saved from the Wrath of God that cometh on the Children of Disobedrence, Col. 3.6. Rom. 1.18. ch. 2.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Here you may see that the portion of the Disobedient is the Wrath of God, and you must all be either obedient or disobedient to Christ. Oh! that you would mind it, consider it, truly weigh it, and lay it to heart, whether of these you are, that ye may not deceive yourselves in thinking to be what you are not, and so come short of your expectation; for you must reap of what you sow, (and how can ye expect to sow one kind of Seed, and reap of another?) as it's written, Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that he shall also reap; for he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap Corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap Life everlasting, Gal. 6.7, 8. People, come to Christ the Light, that ye may see what Seed ye sow, and be no longer deceived by the windy Doctrine of ungodly men, who draw nigh unto God with their Mouths and with their Lips, but their Hearts are far from him, teaching for Doctrine the Traditions of men; this is Scripture; and these are the Deceivers which the People are to draw from, and to come to the Grace of God to be taught, which was and is the Teacher of the Godly; For the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying Ungodliness and worldly Lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world, Tit. 2.11, 12. This is the true Teacher, the Grace of God; and the true Messengers of Christ did and do direct the People to the Grace of God, which will not deceive them. And these that in truth do direct them to that which will not deceive, cannot be Deceivers; but those that do direct the People to any other thing or things, from the living Teacher, that will not be removed into a corner, are Deceivers and deceived, Isa. 30.20, 21.  
Bishop and Priest, the living God saith of Christ, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased, hear ye him: And you have that which ye have received of men, who have set you at work, and it doth well please you; and if we will not hear and pay you, you persecute and brand us with Names of Reproach, and will stir up the Magistrates against us; thus you have done, and this you are yet like to do. But this is the Work of Christ, who did and doth work love, peace and good will towards me● and forgive Enemies? or is it not the Devil's work to make strife and ill will, destroy Goods, cast to Prison, and stir up the Magistrates against a peaceable People? If, this be not the Devil's work, whose work is it? for I am sure it is not of God; for the righteous God by his Word in his People, in all Ages did declare against those things (and the like) of your Practice. And as for those People formerly, which did the same work as now you do, who may be called your Fathers; John said to them, O generation of Vipers although they did come to his Baptism, not having fruits meet for Repentance● were not accepted, but called, Generation of Vipers, Mat. 3.7.8. And woe unto you Scribes, Pharisees and Hypocrites, for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heave● against men; for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in, Mat 23.13. Is not this now your work? you will neither enter in yourselves, nor suffer them that are entering to go in: Can you say● that you have entered into the Kingdom? or can you deny that you do no● seek to hinder others to enter in, and keep them in the Kingdom of th● World, where you are? or can you give a true account of the Way to th● Kingdom, or of the Government therein? or how and when you did enter into the Kingdom, and what you did meet with by the way? or who o● your followers did follow you then? or can witness that ever you did direct them then? and how could you direct others where you yourselves are strangers? And so as it written, The People do perish for want of knowledge, and the Leaders of the People do cause them to err, and they that are led by them shall be destroyed? And as Elymas did turn away the Deputy from the Faith; so do not you now turn the People from the living Faith which is the gift of God, to a dead form of Worship; and why may no● we say thus to the Guilty now, sigh it was said to one of old more sharply, if ye do the same work as he did, and pervert the right way of the Lord 〈◊〉 Acts 13.7, 8, 9, 10. I can plainly make it appear, that you (I speak to the guilty) do the same works as your Forefathers, the ungodly Generation did, and is not their reward due to you? and did not Christ, and Paul hi● true Messenger, say, that the ungodly in the Ages before, were fathers of th● ungodly in their age? even so may we say now. And it was not their saying that they were Abraham's Children, made them so to be, while they were 〈◊〉 their Father the Devil (as Christ said) and doing his works; neither will 〈◊〉 serve your turn to say, that you are Children of God, while you do hate and hurt his People, which is the work of the Devil, as hath been proved. Speaking, when God requires Doing, is not regarded; when the works are contrary to the words, the heart is deceitful; and from the old heart, that is n●● by God renewed, cannot proceed any thing to please God; for when th● old corrupt Nature speaketh true words, they are not accepted with God and although they say, The Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely Jer. 5.2. F●● what soever is not of faith, is sin, Rom. 14.23. But without Faith it is impossib●● to please God, Heb. 11.6. Faith is the gift of God, and is within to be found and the meek, mild, lowly and single 〈◊〉 hearted ones do sinned the precious Peace, and are enriched with th●● 〈◊〉 Riches that shall never be tak●● from them: But greedy Worms 〈…〉 and feed themselves with th●● which will not serve in time of ●eed and necessity.  
THE END.