i-f#r~tHe fpiindi^jg ' of.ti. Cojfegi" in thif:£oloiiy? u | • YALE-'VKIWISISSinnf ¦ BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE John Elliott Fund \L> CHARGE O F Error, Herejy^ Incharity, Fal/hopd, Eva* fim, Inconfiftency, Innovation, Impofi- tion, Infidelity, Hyjtocrijy, Tride, Rail lery, Afofflacy, Ter jury, Idolatry, Vii' lany, Mafphemy, Abomination, Con fufion, ' aittj JVbrfe than Turkilh Ty ranny. \ Moft juftly exhibited, and offered to be proved againft the moft noted Leaders, &c. of the People called Quakers, in their Church Capacity, before our Superiours in Church or State, when-ever they pleafe • to require it. By He nry Pickworth, dominated and Appointed as Elder and Over- feer over their Body, at one of their Aflemblies ;, for Difcipline near Lincoln. New /« Jann.es and Jambres mthftood Mofes, fi do thefe alfo refift the Truth : Men of corrupt Minds, reprobate concerning the Faith. But they fhall proceed no farther ; for their Folly .fhall be manifeft to all Men, as theirs alfo was. i Tim. iii. 8, 9. Ijt_ LONDON: Printed for S. Noble, in the Long-Walk, near Chrijl's-Hoffital. 1716. Friendly Reader^ AS a Charge of the Nd'tuYe contain d in thi Title Page to thefe Sheets, thoti may ft be affured, is no more pleafing to tne, tha.it it can be acceptable to the Perfons concerned, on account of my Prpfeffion to be one in Communibfi •with the Faithful amongft them '• It may weS b'i expected, thai I would not thus publifh the In flames I have to ajfign amongft others at d publick Conference in proof of the fame, had l not firft tried aU the Chriftian 'Means I could think of to prevent if ; iti order whereto, as thoti wilt find a* large Catalogue of fuch Letters and ¦t Papers at the end of my Charges, as I have front ' time to time prefented to their feveral Meetings ; of Difcipline ; and for that righteous Purpofe, I have not been wanting to renew my Entreaties therein to Richard Claridge, knd others of their Preachers, on the Third and Sixth of this inftant Auguft, to examine the "Truth of the feveral In« flames I refer to in" proof of them, in order to their Defence or Condemnationi to prevent itsfur-* ther Publication in Print, now that. I was come up to Londoner that purpofe ; which "Task nei ther he or they being to be prevailed on to under*" take any more than heretofore, in a well ground' id Sufpition, t doubt not, of their great Guilti- nefs in fhe generality of thofe Matters they iheri permitted me to read in th.ir Audience ; I durft n6t any longer delay to commit the fame to the Prefj in difcharge of my Ditty io God and bis abufed People, as I then told them, as 1 A- % ha4 had done others of their guilty Partakers before them. Wherefore, Chriftian Reader, hoping thou wilt noifiight the' Matter contained herein, upon ac~ count of my unpoliftid Method; fince, though fome few of the Inflames I refer to in proof *of my Charges, may not in ftriSinefs be altogether free from Exception ; yet as I have mention d none, but fuch, as collectively taken in their Native Senfe, ought to be allowed as good Evidence by their own Precepts and Precedents, / doubt not, but that on Examination thou wilt find aU my feveral Charges made good againft them, by fo many un exceptionable ones as thou wilt allow fujficienl, whatever they in their quibbling Defences, as their manner is, may pretend to the contrary, id prepbffefs their Auditors againft all Chriftian En quiry into the Truth of them ; in confidence where of L conclude, and proceed to the Matter in Hand. ( 5) CHARGE, &c. AS every one ought carefully to beware what he admits for a Principle, before he has certainly found it on a ftrict Exami nation true of itfelf by its own Evidence, left he only believe it fo upon the Authority of others, (as a late worthy Author hath we^ °k- fervedj ; fo thouglTnoije in the World, I am per- fwaded, have more vehemently cried out againft Metis wading in the holy Scriptures without a di vine Principle's Direction than the People call'd Quakers; through which Activity/ they tell us, See Tea's E. Men (mixing their own Fancies with the Spirit's Qifl.tohisWtf. Di&ates, which prompts them with Defires after dom juftified,. Religion,) fpoil all their Undertakings ; and then with his Vre- with a Fury as great as their Ignorance, . endea^"*5^"^* vpur the Overthrow of whatever ftands in their °f ^ Chrifti- way, and re'fufe to receive tneir Mark in their an Qua^er». foreheads, &c. yet have none in the World more T%?i$* err'd in this refpecl:, than the moft noted Leaders peni„g{on^ of the fame People, to the Ruin of their own Examination Reformation, as any may find thatpleafes to.perufe ^GroWx thofe feveral Books and Pages I refer to, in,'$oof and Caufes of of the feveral Crimes I moft juftly charge them New-England with in the Title-Page of thofe Papers, (as I have Verjecution, alfo. heretofore in a certain printed Half-Sheet, &c* publifhed at the 'Royal-Exchange, &c. in London) as a neceffary Caution againft their Corruptions : All which are occafion'd through fuch pervertions of Holy Writ, as they blame in others, as will appear under the Head of E i\i\0 i\, the grouncl of all the reft, as follows. A 3 Bi\- ERROR, Great Mift. *. Qlnce Firft, 'Becaufe they reacj in John the firft 47>J7>'>8. Chapter, &c. that the Life of the Word -was that aop, 2j-8. *r«e .Lzg£r, which lighteth every Man that cometh into -dnfmr to the the World, &c. They with a Fury as great as Church Faith, their Ignorance, from thence, with other Texts, t' ?• boldly conclude, That the common Light, meer Light^ Trjj?r *l- particular meafure of Light in all Men coming into Ridden Things ^eWorld, called the Light in every Man s Conscience, Pen s St 't f*s not only fufficient to their eternal Salvation as o'bey- Truth ?d, but is God and Chrift fubftantially and effentially throughout, within them-. The confequence of which Error Reafon againjlh&k< led them into the next, amongft many p- Railing, f, 9, thers ; for, 11,13,14,115, 41- Voice of him .that, is efcaped- from&ahWon, p. 8, 15. Hofeberthorn'* Pgbt of Chrift vpitftn, p. i& 19,, 20. Light and {.ife, p. 25, 26, 22, 3;. Nevis out of the J^orfh, p. 27, 33, 36. Painil'* Works, p. 277. Chriftian Quaker, Firft and Second Part throughout., Tep's Juxias, p. 10, CatonV Innocency clear d, p.' id, ii, 12, 17, 18, 19. Dipper plung'd, GnafWjI, , *¦.&' Reading ia John\\. 51, £?<:. pf Chrift gi- ^. io6- *n§ ^ F/ '« eat and Blood To drink,, in order to SeferWp^erjOur having eternal I*ife in and by him, ; they, £. s9; through the fame ignorant Fury, from thence with Fuce> Fall of other Texts (contrary tp our Saviour's own Ex- 0 grtat vift$te.phnatian, v. 63. iii a Spiritual Senfe) confidently f4>l> p- 19, deny him tp be a diftind: Exiftence in his glori^ wifdom. Mi ^ BodY» at the riSht Hand of God in Heavenj fied '' p iof " witll0Ut us> under pretence pf their eating his \eL Flefh ^d drinking his Blood fubftantially within Counter,, chri. them. The Confequence of which Error has alfo fiian- p. 78. led them into the following one,' as grofs as the flipper plung- former $ for * 38, 249. cond time, without- Sin unto Salvation : They from "• F°x'f Ge" thence, with other Texts, boldly deny his fecond neral Epift. vifible Coming, with his Saints with him, in like^L1 • . manner as he afcended, in order to the Reftim-^*/^ *" tion of all things, fo often foretold of in the Holy ,gt .¦£_ * "' Scriptures, and fo eameftly hoped for by the an- serious Exam. cient Chriftians, (as appears by thofe Scripture In- p. 36, 37, 38, ftances underwritten) under pretence, That as 39, 40. Salvation from Sin by the Light within every Man, Anfwer to the is the Day of Reftitution and Time of Refrefh- BP- "/Cork, ment from the Prefence of the Lord, fpoken of ;?• ^4> 85- fo they, with the reft of God's Saints' and Sti-APfendix ta vants have witneffed, his fecond coming by his Sfi-^fjV,0" af'"^ rit within them, wherefore thofe that looked for j^lf'/j his appearance in a bodily Exiftence without them chrift 'afce'nd- to fave them, might look till their Eyes dropt out ej. pt j 7, before they law him come for that end ; fince all contemn d that J>>uaker,p.92. Matt. 24,3, 27, 30, 37, 39- and 26. 64. Mark 8. 33. AHs 1. 11. and 2. 20. and 3. 19, io, 21. i Cor. 1. 8. and 15. 23. Colof. 3.4. 1 Thejf, 1. 7, 10. and ch. 2, throughout. Phil. 2. \6. ani 3. 20. 1 Tim. 6. 14. iTiio.fg. Tit, 2.1$. Heb. 9. 28. and 10. 37. James j-. 8. ! Pet. 1. 7,13, W4. 13. and 5-. 4. 2 Pm. 3. 4, 10, &c. jf"^ 2> 2^. and^.x. fudeiif. Revel. 1. 7, 8. and 2. a;, 26. 8 Erro r. Stature of that took heed to the Light, which hath lain hid Chrifiianity, in Darknefs, will ceafe from all outward expe&a- ,p. 29, &c. tions of his Coming ; with much more to this pur, Elwood^i? pofe. Through which corrupt Notion, together fwertoG. YL'sw'uh. Men's numerous Disappointments in their M rWcmal Calculations of the Time on't; which none 16 216* 2' d. know> or ls t0 know, but God alone, as our Sa- Torm white- ' vi°ur informs us) they, as well as others, have in had' s Works, a manner loft all belief in his faid Appearance, (as *. 51, Chrift faid they would) now that we have ground S, Eccles Mu to believe the Time is near, ' by thofe Signs upon fuk Letlure, us our Lord foretold mould -immediately precede p. 19, &c jt, in order to our better Preparation to meet him . Light and Life [^ v t^e ' pifpenfation of his Judgments, which are mthisf, p. ;8.t0 make 'way fork j'yet is there no Chriftian So- c°hrlfii ¦ piety under the Copes of Heaven, that the Lofs 3uaker, i/2 °^ tne ^?a't'1 °f his faid Coming, has had the Ef- &*rt,~p'n, fec-t it has on the gwd^er/, in their bold Renuncl- 1,6, \dVart, ati°n or" the Sign he was pleafed to inftitute to p.112,113. preferve it : For, FuceV Fall, p. 2, 3,4, f, 6, 7, 20, 21, 34, ColeV Teft. of the Father's Love, p. 6, 14,16, pen Cole'i Book. ¦ See the Text yhly. Not to infift on the Doctrine of Baptifm as truly tranft with, Water, which though I own was command- Uted. ed by Chrift to be practifed by his Twelve Apo^ P. 48, 49. ftles, till the "End of that Age, as in the Original, of the id till when he promifed to be with them for their Fan 0/ Ro- Incouragemenr, (as we find he was by the miracu- ^""'i Ious Gifts of his SP{r[t accordingly) yet as it was p^edZithm' oriS!nally th.e Baptifm of John, which was to de- Bzrctey's creafe, as it did by degrees in the primitive Apol. Church, which made Paul (who had not that Com- Rjghts of the miffionj thank God he baptized none of them, Chriftian' but Crifpus and Gaius, with the Houfhold of Ste, Church. fftanus, he being not fent for that purpofe, I con.r And Lacey'* elude, it ceafed in point of Obligation upon the general Ddu. Death of the Twelve' Apoftles, as the Supper of JZiSd. °Ur W diJ nor' ?s T dePr^'d RtPfr' wi*PW ffiJ' proof takes for ^ranted^ . - For Err o r^ 9 For reading in ABs ii, (§c. That when the Day Great Mift. p. pf Pentecoft w$s fully come, the Holy Ghoft miracu-'yZ- 161, 249. leufty defcended upon the Apoftles, according to ^wer to Chrift's promife in John xvi. 17. They from thence Church Faith, with other mifconftrued Texts, conclude, That\j 1 , ' the Lord's Supper with Bread and Wine was no 2.a'f '?' ** Gofpel Ordinance, or that miraculous EfFufion of -&,^ the Spirit was the fecond Coming of Chrift, which viva's Reply terminated the Ufe on't in point of Obligation, io the Vic. of Thro' which Antichriftian Notion, as the due Va-Banbery,/>.ijr. lue of his Death and Sufferings thereby comme- Counterfeit morated, is feldom preach'd up amongft them j Convert, p. fo they have not only finally come to lofe all true J°» 31- Faith in his fecond Coming in his glorified Man- AntidoteVe"-' hood, in order to the Reftitution of all Things,'*' Iir' IIZ= fo often foretold of, to their own Danger of a FJ[,° c- , Midnight Surprizal ; but by pretending, that the p . 0 0r Pafchal Lamb is of as much force as Bread andR^y^. Wine, (the continuance whereof is as much as va-port from the us lies, to pluck up the Gofpel by the Roots, for Committee, which Caufe the Appellation Ordinance of Chrift Counterfeit they renounce as Unfcriptural) expofe others to chriftian, p. be overtaken unawares in an unprepared . State, 99- through the fuddennefs of his Coming, as a Thief ^t^'*** in the Night ; againft which, as he commanded ¦^ak"'' ?* all to watch, fo he inftituted this holy Sign, and J* f' 48' made known the fame alfo by Revelation to St. \i&or exa, Paul, the better to forewarn us of it. mined.p. 28, Contemn d Quaker, p. 39,92. Quaker clear'd, p. 74. Qtfakerifm, a new Nick,. Name, p. 143, 144. Wifdom juftified, p. 68, 89. Reafon againft Railing, p. 108, 109. Serious Examination of " G. K. p. 30. Truth's Principles, p. 22. Truth prevdiltnt. Summary Propofttions. Chriftian Quaker, ift Part, p.u, 16,101. Howgil'/ Works, p. 436, 437. Fuce'j Fall, p. 31. Eccles'; Mufick Le&ure, p. ig, Qefence of the Snake, id Part, p. 106, Npw as all thefe their Errors proceed from their Idolatrous Preference of the commpn Light, meer Light, and particular meafure of Light, giv yen to every Man coming into the World, by the Father of Lights, as God and Chrift's only true feving. Light, Grace, and, good Spirit, the Holy ¦•'•'' Scripture • '.>"-••"-• IO iJRROR. See PenV Scripmre fpeaks of, as appearing to all Men in a brief An f-mer ^aY °^ Vifitation in order to their Salvation : By to a falfe and tneir moft confufedly applying fuch Scripture In? foolijh Libel, ftances to the one as relates to the otherj as may /. ij, 14. be found by their BooJts inftanc'd in the Margent BarcleyV A- amongft many others ; fo though thefe be bad e- fol.p. 305. nough, yet are they not all the Errors wherewith Veris Reafon they have infected us, by their Exaltation of its againft Rail- Directions as a Rule above Scripture, which, not- *"£¦> t- li> withftanding the fine gingling Titles of Infallible, J4> J >4'> ZJnerrable, Omnifcient, Omnipotent, Glorious Beam or f , r -t fyiy immediately proceeding from Christ, the Fountain Chriftian d rt eternal Light of Life, they beftow on it ; as it g. j,_ '"'is only a created Faculty, which Condemns or Spirit of Excufes what we are by Education or Concepti-r Truth, on made to believe to be Evil or Righteous, is throughout, as various in its Dictates through the means of "VicaridgeV of Adam's Fail, as Men's Education Sentiments j Truth and Innocency, p. 13. Quakers clear'd, p. 77, 81. Howgil'j- Works, p. '8, 19. Preface to FoxV Journal, compard with Vox's great Miftery, fehft'Epiflles, and Doctrinal Works on this Sub jet?. The one in as Paul and Martin* Luther witnefTed in their un- being thereby converted State, and. our Countryman Eiq; Blunt led to believe forrowfuliy experienced, through the Difturbanees ¦ce did. God he met with from the tedious Cries of fome nuf. Service m jed Tan^. t0 their Mahomet, for pardon of the fadi perfecting Sin? chejr Ligh: wjthIn tojd them they had com_ *'^ervants,m[aed in drinking a Glafs of Wine with him, ana tbe other .. ,• TT , ., ., r ' in thinking- contrary to his Holy Alcoran. And we now fur- be offended God in negletfing his Popifh Rules. See his Preface to bis Comment on the Galatians. In tbe due Confideration whereof, I cannot but advife all our , Quakers and others that read this, to prefer tbe Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Teftament, as a Light that jhines in a dark Place, till the Day dawn, and Bay Star arife in, their Hearts tbat leads to Chrift, far beyond this their magnified Light within from their Creation, according to our bleffed Saviour and his Apoftle Peter'j Inftruflions ; fince this Light within them can not be tbe Bay Star of which our Saviour and his Apoftle fpeaks, John v. 39. 2 Pet. i. 19, 20, &c. as our depraved Quakers dream, fince we are to malt for ii, which,, in their fup.pofitionr we need not. ther Error. ji ther find hy its Conduit of the depraved amongft us, which gives me fprrowful caufe to fear, thar, thofe our deluded Leaders (we have fo reverenced) will prove thofe falfe Prophets, (that cries Lo, here is Chrift, and lo there, &c. this, that and the other noted Quaker's Light) pf which our bleffed Savi our hath forewarn'd us $ fince inftead of the true and infallible Light of Life manifefted in all Men Bourignon'j at certain Seafons, whilft the Day pf their Vifita- Warning a- tion lafts, in order to their eternal Salvation, by gainft the him from whom it comes, this their magnified Quakers, p. Principle of the Light in all Men comirig into the 88, 254, &cf World, is really no other than the Light of na^ rural Confcience, of which the Apoftle fpeaks, that may become Darkriefs through their perfiftance in their Corruptions, as it hath in them, as I have air ready made appear in fome meafure, and fhall more fully evince by divers other Pervertions of Holy Writ it hath expofed them to, through their dependance on the Infallibility of its Conduit ; whereby they may come to fee, that inftead of leading them in all Things right, as they would perfwade the World, it hath in every thing almoft led them moft grofly wrong, fince befides the fore going Pervertions with refpect to Doctrine, it hath li?d them into the following ones with relation to Majefty and Miniftry : For, 6ihly. To pafs by their Fox's corrupt Sentiments againft Kings and Kingly Government hereafter notified amongft others of his Corruptions, as Doctrines they are accountable for, by their ap probation p.f his Books in their late printed Col lection of Titles of thofe wrote for their Truths- fake, though they in Words fometimes to ferve a turn will feem to deny them. ' Becaufe they read in Matt, v. 44, (Sc Chrift's Barcley V A? Command to love our Enemies, &c. They from thence pol. p. ;6j. with other Texts, moft ridiculoufly tell the World, compared ' that if the Magiftrate be a Chriftian, or defires to with p. $6pt be fo, he ought in the firft Place to obey this Sec. of tbe Command of his Mafter, and then he could npzfame' kill his Enemies, yejift their violence by force, or ftrike 12 Error. lox'sDociri-fc'ike again when they ftrike him, with more to ¦aal Works, ¦ this purpofe ; whereby as they make void in ef. p. 164, 1 68, feet God's Ordinance of Magiftracy, which they 179, 230. in Words pretend to own, 'tis the lefs wonder As Mrs. 1^ta-t rhis their grofs Error fhould alfo involve them Anna Bo'u- m others tending to their Difhonour, in order to ri^non hath weaken them in the Execution of their Office, by ivet/ obfer- reprefenting their Subjects as no ways inferiour ved, p. 160, to 'them j in proof whereof, 180, &c of ber Warning againft them. See Vox's No ?^/y. Becaufe they read m Efther iii, (Sc. That Crofs no hoiy Mordecai (as a Type of Chrift, and righteous Cl'?™Jt) ,°Z, Precedent to all true Chriftians, with relation to Keli' 1*uch Perfecuting Magiftrates or Minifters as for- FoxV iufllce ^eit t^ie^r Office ^Y incroaching on God's Prero- and fide- gacive through their Antichriftian Impofitions) de- ment p. 8. ny'd t0 how his Body, or give any other perfbnal Doctrinal Reverence to a perfecuting proud Hammon; They Works, p. from thence, with other mifconftrued Texts, moft 231. weakly conclude, that we may not bow our Bo- Selefl Epift. dies, or uncover our Heads in way of Reverence p. %66. to fuch Chriftian Magiftrates or Minifters as God B. Cole'j fetsover us, in order to our Defence from Foreign Quaker Invaders and Heretical Intruders, contrary to the cleared p. 22. j^jy AjjCients Practice, and Mordecai's Chriftian Bztcky s "preCedent, in his acceptance of that Reverential ^A 'd'p-l'ff Homage on his deferved Exaltation he had juftly m ~t '-'s ' reru^"ed to give his unworthy Predeceffor ; which Precedent in Extream has led them into another of the fame Q. Mary'* Nature ; For, Reign. Zthly. , Becaufe they read our Lord's Advice in Great Mift. Matt, xxiii. 10. againft our being called Mafters, />..i, 16, 71, (i. e. of our Faith in a Spiritual Senfe, one being 1 3 6, j 74, 207, pur Mafter, ' even Chrift) They from thence, with 7> i7i J9> other perverted Texts, not only conclude it Un-' *7> 19 j 3?> chriftian to call any Man whatsoever fo on any 46, 85, 103, pretence or occafion, who are not our Mafters iu l*8- . ' the common grofs Senfe, (contrary to the Anci- Wo kit ms PrecePts ind Precedents;.; but alfo from Eli- 01 s, p. ^,g yefufal to give flattering Titles, fome of them hay$ Error* ii have denied the giving any Titles to any Man as Good Council" Unchriftian, in what Station foever, how necefik-rejetfed, p. ry foever for Diftinction between Magiftrate and 49- Subject ; whereby as they weaken cheir Authority, by levelling the- Prince with the People, fo by their following Error of the Nature of the fore going, they make way for their Deftruction j in order whereto, 9thly. Becaufe they read in Micah iv, (Sc Thatlox'sDotfrt- in the laft Days, when the Mountain of the Lords nal Works, Houfe fhall be eftablifhed in the Top ofthe Mountains, p- 230. they fhall beat their Swords into Plow-Shares, and their Beclar ation Spears into Pruning-Hookj, Sec. They (forgetting from the what's foretold in Joel iii. 9, 10. compared with Harmlefs, their own ancient Teftimonies of their righteous &c- Ufe in the firft place, ro make way for that blef- G. Bifhop 's fed Day they fpeak of) from thence with other Warnings ta perverted Texts, conclude, 'Tis unrighteous for Oliver Crom- true Chriftians to ufe fuch like Weapons in their we'- own or Magiftrates, Defence, againft Domeftick Bardey'* Infulters or Foreign Invaders in the interim ; . un- Apol. der pretence, that as they are brought intp ihat Reafons why peaceable Difpofure , the Prophet Micah, &c. tbey could , fpeaks of, through their Obedience to the Light not fign the within, which is beyond the neceffity of them, GjAbjuratt- their Faith is fiifficient to preferve them from on> &c* Danger (with others of the fame Principle) with- * out the ufe of thofe Weapons the Prophet Joel fore- tels.the Service on ; wherein, as the feveral Sei zures of their Perfons and Effects by Turkjfh and French Pirates are enough, one would think, to convince them of their Error in the laft refpect, notwithftanding their particular Deliverances they boaft of ; fo the Doctrine of our Saviour in Luke xii. 39. compared with his Declaration in' John viii. 7. That fuch as are without Sin (as our pretended perfect Quakers account themfelyes.) are the only fit Perfons to eaft the firft Stone at Sinners, one would think fhould do it in the firft, were they not wilfully . refolved to continue in their Ignorance ; which yet we find them fb far from repenting of, as that they further ftreng- then *4 RROR* then themfelves therein, by their following per- vertionofthe Apoftle PWs Expreifibns : For, SoxsBoflri- lothly. Reading in 2 Cor. -a. 4, (Sc. compared nal Works, with Eph. vi. 12, (Sc. That the Weapons of "thi Apo- p. 130, 182, ftles Warfare were not Carnal, but Mighty through God 191.Pen'j Key, t-3S- Declaration from the Harmlefs. Barclay'* Apol.Quakers Plea. Anguis Fla- gellatus on thisSubjefl. to the pulling down of the ftrong Hold of Sin and Sa tan, and Spiritual Wick/dnefs in High Places, &C. They from thence with other mifconftrued Texts, in like manner conclude, That no true Chriftian Magiftrate or Subject may ufe Carnal Weapons (as they call Swords, Staves, Guns or Goals) in way of defenfive War againft Thieves and Mur- therers, (Sc under pretence, that all Wreftling with Flefh and Blood, and killing Creatures, have" been learned ofthe Devil ; directly contrary to our Lord and his Apoftles Chriftian Doctrine, in Mark, xiv. 48. ABs xxv. 11. Rgm. 1. 32.. and theirowri ancient Precepts and Precedents j which yet is not all the Errors they are guilty of, as will appear by what follows, with relation to their Legal Injuncti ons : For, ' iithly: Becaufe they readin Matt. v. 34, (Sc our Saviour's Command to his Difciples, Not td Swear at all, ike. in evidence that he would have us prefs after fuch a State of Hpiinefs as is beyond Oaths, fince What is more than Yea, yea, and Nay, nay, cometh of Evil, (as all Exhortations, Lawsv Orders and Magiftracy, as well as Oaths, do, by their own Confeffion) They, according tci' their ufual Method of Pervertion, alfo pofitively conclude from thence, (with that of James v. 12.) That all true Chriftians are" thereby abfolutely prohibited to Swear at all, or abjure others in Shield, p. %i, Truth and Righteoufnefs to fatisfie the Incredu- 82, 84. ious jn Matters of Religion, or end Strife betwixt Fox :s Great ^an an(j Man, jn Matters of Meum and Tutim, Miftery [of wriere it can»t ^e done without Oaths 3 to the Holy '• Prophets, our bleffed Saviour, his Apoftle Paulj with the holy Angel, the primitive Chriftians, and their own Contradiction, in thefe feveral tn- ftances noted in the Margent amongft many others- that might be mentioned : whereby ("as- they as t well $ ox's News coming up, p. 18. Mafon's In nocency clear'd, p. I &c. ParniP-r 179. Parnil'j Shield, p. Si, 82, 84. E'R R O R. 15 well may fo indeed) they in effect do renounce all Fifher * One Exhortations, Laws and Magiftry, as well as Oaths, Antidote as Matters that come of Evil, and confequently more againft Unchriftian ; in purfuanCe of which corrupt No- Swearing. tion, as they boldly tell the World, they have an BKrw'' Unciion from the Holy One, and know all Things, lVorks->- P- fo as that none need to teach them, who are from ICI ' 5Jg' under the Law, which was added becaufe of^'tkin"' Tranfgreffion, for which Caufe, as Chrift came to Swearing fulfil and end all outward Laws and Government denied. of Man, all Kings, Rulers, Judges, Juftices, Con- John White- {tables, Lawyers and Laws muft be cut down, head1'* Works with more to this purpofe j which, how' true fo-/>. 258. ever, when Chrift comes perfonally to Reign and Pen and Rule with his Saints with him, in the Times of Whitehead'* Reftitution fpoken of by all the holy Prophets freatife of and Apoftles, (Sc. are as well as Oaths, notwith- ~0llths> ftanding, till then to be continued as Ufeful, ^.throughout. ceffary and Chriftian, to rectifie the World, and^j6' md right the Oppreffed fo far as they are able ; let j-f' ' * ' IT" our depraved Quakers infinuate what they will to an\jc'j, \\ the contrary, in favour of their Pervertions of our l6% j^r. 4. Saviour's Words and Intentions, wherein they T, 2. and iz, further perfiit in what follows : For, 16. Matt. 16. d%, 64, 2 Cojvi.iS. and 12. 19. Galat. i.-to. I Thef.i.xj. Heb. 6.16. Revel. 10. 6, Cave'* primitive Chriftian. p. 77, 134, 374, 375. Mox's Select Epiftles, p. 153. Hovtgil's, Works, p. %6. Wooi- nch to tfie King, p. 9. i, izthly. Becaufe they read in Matt. x. 8, (Sc That Chrift's Minifters ought to preach freely as they have freely received (/. e. without compul- five Maintenance for their Preaching,) They from c * * thence with other Texts, weakly conclude, That oppreffed the free Gift of the Tythes of Men's Increafe x.o-pr-mte^.& wards the neceffary Support of fuch Minifters as^,. ,5 &c_ they believe to be true Ones, is not only a denial El wood'* of Chrift's being come in the Flefh and the Root Antidote a- of Rantrizm, (Sc but that to pay the fame to fuch gainft Ro- Impropriators as they are legally fettled on, by get'* 1»- the Nation'^ Reprefentatives for Civil Ufes, is alfoA*- U»- 16 Error* Yearly Pa- Unchriftian, and to be denied by all true Follows pers in Ma- ers of Je'fiis. All which grofs Errors, amongft ma* nufcript, as ny others of the fame Nature, as they firft learned •well as 0f ,-jjgj,. magnified Apoftle Fox, as may he found printed ones. up0n. Examination j fo confidering how numerous his Miftakes of this kind are, through his prefe rence of the Light within him from his Creation* (under the Denomination of Chrift's only true la ving Light) one would, wonder, we his bigotted Profely tes fhould fo long befool ourfelves in follow* ing him in his Extreams of this Nature, of which* befides the foregoing, I fhall prefent theWprld with the following Catalogue, as Matters his Folfl^vers of the fecond Days Meeting are 'alfo accountable for, through their approbation of his Writings, that # they and others may be aware for the future how they implicitly take things on Truft, without due Examination in reference to their Promoters ; fince had they not refolvedly fwallow'd at random eve*. ry thing he wrote, through their Idolatrous Opi nion of his peculiar Infallibility, (in conceit whereof they would not fubject his Writings to the Scrutiny others came under, as I am informed* Jeft it bring his . proud Pretences of that Nature into Sufpicion) they would never have fuffered themfelves to be thus bewildred by the ridiculous Pervertions of fuch a blundering B1- — kh d, who, inftead of expounding Holy Writ accord* ing to its Native Senfe, moft grofly abufed it for want of neceffary Diftinctions, as (befides the foregoing Inftances, wherein we generally fell- in with him) will appear by thefe following ones, wherein, as our truly fenfible Friends never did, I hppe none elfe will for the future approve him, except they be as Mad as our Second Days Meet ing ; fince, ift. Becaufe he read in i Samuel v, 8, (Sc. com pared with i Tim. vi. 15, (Sc That JJrael of Old was not only juftly blamed of the Lord for defiring a King to Reign over them, like the reft of the Nations without his Divine Direction, (un der whofe Government they then immediately t were Error. ij was as their King} but that the Apoftles owned See bis feve- no other King of their Confciences, but , Chrift ral Papers our Lord, and only King of Kings j he not only printed a renounces all outward Kingly Government, as in- llJtle before confiftent with Chriftianity now in this our Day ™e k[nS and Age, (with all inferiour Officers under them) c/7Wt' *»> An- but alfo boldly proclaims all fuch Apoftates and""1 °°' Traitors againft Chrift, as defired and dote (as he ™f£\]'s calls it) on an earthly King ; under pretence ofthe Newscomin* Cave Jofhua put thofe of the Canaanites in, being up 0llt 0f t£e the only fit place for them .- Again, North, Sec. idly. Becaufe he reads in i Cor. vi. 17. That he Qreat *>¦«- that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit, (as explained * j l6 ' ' the Verfe before, by him that is joyned to a 'Har-tj^ I7' lot being one Body) He makes no difficulty from 107, 248, • thence to conclude, Chrift is not diftinct, nor di- 2^8. ftinguifheii from the Saints ; under pretence, that there is a Tubftantial, effential and perfonal Union betwixt the eternal Spirit and Believers. ¦idly. Becaufe he reads in 1 John ii. 20, (Sc. That Great Mift. they who keep the Word of God, have an Vnilionp. lj^_ co,'^ from the holy One, whereby they know all things, [i. e: trary to his neceffary to be known by them,) He not only Supporter. concludes, That 'tis no Blafphemy to fay, the W. P. R?a- Saints know all things without diftinct ion, butT"" againft that they can difcern who are Saints and who are Railing, p. Devils, (Sc. without fpeaking a Word to them. , n- ^thly. Becaufe he reads in Mat. v. 48, (Sc Chrift's r ¦.„ Commands, to be perfeEl as our heavenly Father is rea .v " ¦ perfi&, and merciful as he is merciful ; He from ' *' .»' thence with other Texts* prefumptuoufly con-, ' *" eludes, TJiat we may not, only be as perfect and . merciful, but alfo as pure as Chrift and Gpd is, not only in Quality, but equally alfo* to the Holy Scriptures exprefs, Contradiction. "jthly. Becaufe he reads in Phil. iv. 5. That the Great Mift. Lord is at hand ; He from thence With other Texts^. .8, 9, 12, will have it, That he is not afar off in his bodily 16, 17, 6&, Prefence ; under pretence, that it is no Blafphemy 246, 248, , to fay, He is in us as God and Man, yea, whole M9> is8s Chrift, God and" Man, Flefh and Spirit Within 3 1J- us. * B 6tblju i § Error." ,. Great Mift. 6thly. Becaufe he reads i\om. viii. 1 4. Wat as many $¦ 5, Sec. as are iej yy t},e spirit of God, are the Sons of God; He from thence, with other Texts, concludes, ^ The Spirit does all the Saints do ; and fays, all the Saints fay fo, as that they neither fay, do, or judge any thing by any Underftanding of their own, but - what the Spirit does. Ibid. p. 68. -jthly. Becaufe he reads ABs xvii. 24, (Sc That God dwelleth not in Temples made with Hands, (i. e. fo as to confine himfelf to them) He concludes. All Temples fet up fince the Days of the Apoftles', in imitation of Solomon's, are Idols, Mafs-Houfes, Beaft-Houfes, (Sc. wherein God can't be wor-' fhipped. Ibid. p. 80, g^_ Becaufe he reade ABs xx. 28. of the Holy lHw * Ghoft makjng Overfeers in the Church ; he from thence concludes, The Officers and Oiprfeers of the Church are invifiblev Ibid. p. 29, fe ythly. Becaufe he reads in Gen. ii, (ScGod breath- ! 90, 100, ed into Man the Breath of Life, whereby he became a n 2.29, 273. living Soul ; he makes no Bones to conclude, Our Souls to be one Being with and parr of God, in finite in themfelves, and of the divine Effence. Ibid. 138. lothly. Becaufe he reads in Revel, xxi, (Sc Of all things being become new to them that are Chrift's j he concludes, The New Jerufalem fpoken of chdp<:. 21. is Witneffes come down from Heaven among' the Saints who know it. ibid. 153. nthly. Becaufe the Apoftle Paul in 1 Tim. i. 13." bids us, Hold faft the Form of found Words j he con cludes, That to fay you to one is a Sin. Ibid. p. 6j, nthly. Becaufe he reads, That the Holy Ghoft and 100, 127, Son are equal hi Power and Glory with the Father, 148. (which, as he pretends, they are come to Witnefs)'v he concludes, That he and his Friends call'd Qua kers are equal "with God. Ibid. p. 3. ivbly. Becaufe he reads, The Saints fit with 12, 210, zu, Christ 'n heavenly Places, &c. He concludes, The 214, 211, Body of Chrift is not out of the fight of his Saints, ' 246, 248, but perfonally within them, Flefli and Spirit, and'; 249. not without them, under pretence, that none have a Glory and a Heaven but within them 3 in pur- ; fuance of which Abfurdky, *Be<- , Error! .19 Becaufe he reads 1 Cor. xv* (Sc Chrift is the Ldrd Ibid* p> 4- from Heaven ; he will needs have it, That he is riot in Heaven in his Humanity. 14*4/3/7. Becaufe he reads, Chrift dwells in his Ibid. p. 149. Saints, and that the Apoftle faid, God will dwell in you, and our Converfation is in Heaven ; he not only will have it, That the Saints Bodies are Chrift s Body who was in them, but alfo concludes, God's Effence, Heaven, and Chrift's Perfon were in the Body of Pe ter. iphly, Becaufe he reads, that he that hdth two Ibid. p. .iji Coats ought to.give him that hath none ; he concludes, That Men oflght to give theirs to the next Beggar that asks them. All which (with the foregoing Errors, amongft many ofters of the fame Nature) being the natu ral Fruits of that goodly Tree or Doctrines, (i. e. the Light within every Man coming into the World) this our exalted Patron Fox firft taught us to adhere to, as a Rule above Scripture ; William jn ^s prgM Pen fo illuftrioufly magnifies, as the faithful Ser- rade t'0 /^ vant of Jefus Chrift, who had an extraordinary Journal* Gift in opening the Scriptures, by going to the Marrow of Things : 'Tis the lefs Wonder, that the faid William Pen and his depraved Collegues of our Second Days Meeting, fhould fuffer them felves to be led by him into' others of a higher Nature, by blindly following him to their Danger of Damnation, without true Repentance and A- ltiendment, as will appear by the enfuing Inftances Of their Herefte, which is the next Charge I have Undertaken (and now defend) to prove them guilty of, as follows ; In order w&ereto HEi\e$T, * 20 HER E ST. \ft. TF it be damnable Herefy to deny the Lord •"- that bought us, as the Apoftle 2 Pet. ii, (Sc. hath affirmed. Smith'* Pri- j^en fmce tnofe our depraved Quakers have fo mer, ift 1m- exprefly denied the Lord that bought us, by dif- preffwn, p. ownmg any otner God or Chrift, but what is with- , S-9'.f- eu' in-Man ; under pretence of their being falfe Mi- &r!imer^s> that Preach Chrift in HeaVen zb°™> compared ' none having a Glory and a Heaven, but what is ¦with p. 4<. within them ; thofe our depraved Quakers are of his Col- guilty of Herefy. leflion.Fox'* Great Mift,. p. 114- compared with p. 72, 183, 206,^210, &c. of the fame Great Mift. And p. 29. of E. Burrow* trisenfaitb of the Gofpel contended for. idly. If to deny the Body of our Lord, which afcended towards Heaven in the fight of his Apo ftles, to be his glorify 'd Body whom the Heavens muft retain, until the time of the Reftitution of all Things, fpoken of in ABs iii. 21, (Sc. be to de ny the Lord. that bought us. Then fince John Whitehead, a noted Quaker Quakers Preacher, has, in the Quaker's Name, not onlv in Refuge, p. effed demed that Body of ChrIftj by confeffing,' 3'*Af'x'' that he hath feveral times denied Tho. Grantharris a^nd the two Affertion, That Chrift hath now a, Body of Flefli Whitehead"* and Bones, circumfcript or limited in that Heaven brief Difco- which is above, and out of every Man on Earth, ¦very, p. 7, under pretence, that his Opponent flood in that 8, 9, 14, Sec. which difcerns not the Lord's Body of heavenly Flefh, Blood and Bones, which he affirms is with- Naylor'* Se- in us to eat upon. But alfo Jofeph Fuce, another cond Anfwor 0f their Preachers, in confirmation of this their to Thomas Doctrine, hath exprefly told the World, That he Moor, p.il>veent to his Father from his Difciples as a Shadow,- 14' 1S- and is at the Rjght Hand cf God in us all 3 his Body he had in the Womb of the Virgin, being tranflated into Heresy; 21 into that he had with the Father before the World be- Smith'* Ban- gan, &c . nerof Love, The afore-mentioned Whitehead, with this his P- 10." Cow- Brother Preacher, and all that abetted them ty trary to the the approbation of their Books, are guilty of Us-^,I'nf„y refy/'ln purfuance whereof, %%*% fet forth in p. 13, 2j. pf J. F.'* Alls and Monuments. Fox'* Great Mift. p. 37. Yox's General Epiftle, p. 18. luce's Fall, p. ij, 19, 21, &c. F. Howgil"* WorkJ, p. 289. ¦idly. To pafs by their Friend Atkinfon's denial of Chrift to be God and Man in one Perfon, (Sc uppn account of their Friend Whitehead's Hypo critical Renunciation of the Author on't, fince his Execution for Felony 1 If to»deny Juftification by the Righteoufnefs of $ox's Great Chrift, which he in his own Perfon fulfilled for Mift. p. 250, us, wholly without us, be to deny the Lord that Several Pa- bought US. pers printed Then our depraved Quakers, having exprefly 1*7?- p- 59, denied Juftification thereby, as a Doctrine of De- Pen'* Sandy vils, and an Arm of the Sea of Corruption, which Foundation, doth now deluge the World, (under pretence, that^1- 15- Chriftendom hath talked long enough of Chrift's Serious Apol. Flefli and Blood, which they who have eaten his?," H** Flefh, have paffed through, none being juftified, „JJTn'-, but fuch as fulfil the whole Law perfonallyjf *' y **;/" rhofe our depraved Quakers are guilty of He- Pen'sPart r?fy- of Chriftian Quaker, p. 97. Barrow's Collection, p. 16, 27, 33. Filhcr'* Rufticus, p. 8. Voice of him that is efcape d from Babilon, p. 4, &c. $thly. If to deny the Matter of Chrift's Bloody E , . (as to the vifibility of it) to be more than the Jm,,.^ s Blood of another Saint, be a Herefy, as no true cited b'yTh *• Chriftian, who is in any meafure fenfible of the Elwood *° Divinity of his Generation above others, will of- m, of bis fer to queftion : Then our depraved Quakers ha- T- uth de- B 3 ving fended, com~ i pared with Shewing'* Treatife of Thoughts, p. 37. Light, and Life, p, $9. ?2 H E R E S Y. ving fo exprefly denied it (as well as Verba) to be fo in their Writings, our depraved Quakers are guilty of Herefy. phly. If to deny the Perfon of Chrift to be di ftinct from every Believer, be Herefy, as none who believe ABs iii, (Sc will offer to queftion j .then thofe our depraved Quakers having fo ex- ''prefly denied his Perfon to be diftinct from every Believer, under pretence, that as Chrift is not diftinct from his Servants, as their Opponent ima- gin'd, the very Chrift of God being within thdm, thofe our depraved Quakers are guilty of Herefy. Great Mift. p. 207, 254, Burrow'*Collefl. p. 149. as cited Ang. Flag. p. 223. Howgif* Popijh In- quifition, f. 4$. • Atkinfon'* Sword drawn, p. &c. Whitehead'* Dipper plung'd, f.»3- See Mofes ' Weft'* Book aboutMarri- fige, together •with their feveral Or ders on that Subjefl, as potified in my 14 ln- ftances of fbeir Apor fiacy yet in MSS. Popifh ln- quifitionnewly erect ed, p. 45. Q. Fox'jun. Works, p, 4, J2. Duakerifm, a new Niok* -mmevp, P- 5- Heretical Impertinencies :- In order to the proof^* t(lSment whereof * F ftV'33 Chrijltan Quaker, ift Part, p. 97. Fox'* Great Mift. p. 106, 250. compa red with thofe Bugg mentions, p. 88, 92. of bis Narrative of our Sleeford Conference. Pifture of Quakerifm, p. 24, 25, 26, &c. Sect. 1. *if the Snake in fhe Grafs, and G. K'* feveral Narratives of his Proceedings in order to their Detection ; together with thofe feveral Inftances referred to in Part 1. of tbe Defence ofthe Snake againft G. Whitehead'* Antidote. INCHARITT. ift. T Think good to remind them of an excel* -*- cellent Definition of a true Chriftian, as fet forth by Mr. Baxter in his Sheet againft the Qua kers, wherein, after an ample Relation of the in- charitable Difpofure of divers other fuch befides theirs, he truly tells his Reader, The Man that will ftandfafe, and look. m tbe Folly and Mifery of all thofe SeBs with Prudence to his own Advantage,' muft be a fincere Catholick, Chriftian, faved from Infidelity and Impiety, having one God, one Mediator between God and Man, and one holy Spirit, being a Member of one Catholick. Church, which is not confind to the Seft' ef the Papists, of Anabaptisls, or any SeB, but con- tdineth all the true Chriftians in the World j though fome part of it be refin'd and pure, and others more der form'd and corrupt. , Having one Catholick. Rjile, the Word of God, and a Catholicl^Love to- all Chriftians in the World, with a care and defire of their Welfare, proportionable to their feveral degrees of Lovelinefs. [With more to this purpofe. B 4 AIJ 2.4 Incharity. AU which, if allowed a true definition of a See Eccles'* true Chriftian, (as none fuch will deny it to be) Quakers then muft our depraved Quakers be very talie Challenge, ones, in confining the Love and Favour of God compared to their own Sect, under pretence, of all others ¦with El- being Infidels, as they have done in what follows. wood's An- For not to infift on their moft uncharitable Con- tidote, &c. clufion, that all they who receive or pay Tythes, Brazen Ser- deny Chrift the true Light, and are put of the pent lifted Covenant, (Sc. UP> P-*l- If it be the effect of Incharity, not only to re- Trutb's De- nounce all other Proteftant Profeffors as Infidels, f?nce:, by forbidding their Profelytes to marry with any Works* p ai befides their own Sec* as {uch> but alfo by pr0" yjzfcsBook' claiming themfelves the. peculiar People of God, and about Mar- his whole Heritage, &c. under pretence, that as riao-e, God is only known among them, none elfe are in throughout, the Truth but the Quakers, all other Churches and Burrow'* Sects, by what Name foever known in the World, Wo-i ks,p. 64, being of the Seed of the great Whore, with much 416. more to this purpofe. ' Elwood'* Then thofe our depraved Quakers having fb afr Anfwer to firmed in thofe feveral Books inftanc'd in the Mar- ^'/?K\7 £'n' amonFft many others, as undeniable Evi- firft Nan-a- dences 0f tjjeir incharity in the higheft Senfe. In l'™'?-*11- proof Fifher'* Rn- PrQ?r fticus Acced. p, 3, 4. Fox'* Epiftle to his Great Mift. and Word from the Lord [as cited p. 9. of Rogers'* Quakers divided) with his Papers to the Council of State, Sec, wherein they tell the World, This is the Word of the Lord to you who are called Ana b apt ift. s, you take up a Command from the Letter, as they did in tbe Gala^ pans; here you are all comprehended with the Light, and feen to be Lyars, and are for the Lake. And this is the Word of the Lord fo you who are called Presbyterians, and you who read tbe Com- tnon-Prayer, you are wholly in Darknefs, and given up into it, fince whoever takes a Place of Scripture and makes a Sermon up on it, or from it, are Conjurers, and their Teaching is from Con juration ; wherefore, come forth ye Proteftants who are called Presbyters, Independents, Baptifts, Sec. the Quakers deny you all, none being in the Truth but the Quakers ; jor as, their Faith is, good for nought that fay, tbe Light that is in every Man is nei ther God nor Chrift. There's never any thrive that fpeak againft fhe Quakers, who are the peculiar People of God, the Apple of kirs $ye, and vibok Heritage, Sec. Incharity,' 2 $ proof of this my Charge againft them, it need be the lefs furprize to them to be found not over In nocent towards their own diftreffed Friends in one far inferiour j in purfuance whereof, As it hath been frequent with their Brother hood to Excommunicate on very flight Occafions fuch' as grow Poor amongft them, to fave the Charge of their Maintenance, as Thomas Pell and Widow Lee, of the Town of Swinefhead in our Parts, lately found by Experience j though the Parents of the latter, in a manner, ruin'd them felves by relieving them and their Preachers, who , flocked to their'Houfe from all Parts, whilft ought was in it to be had for them ; for which Caufe their Neighbours chain'd their Excommunication to the Whipping-Poft, as the only fit Place for it. So not to infift on their Incharity toward their poor, oppreffed Friend Ann Steed of London, toge ther with thofe feveral diftrefs'd ones Francis Bugg reminds them of in his Pilgrims Progrefs, &c. from whom they withdrew their Alms, on account of >. their Uncircumfpection to their Thou and Thee, . with their other Formalities. 'The Cafe of their abufed Friend George Begard- ner, formerly of the fame City, is next to be no tified, being fet forth in his Quaker's Hypocrify de- teBed, wherein, after he hath given the World an account how he was outwardly ruined by the lofs of his Employment, through his ufing their plain Language and manner of Carriage, whereby Po verty came fo upon him, as that he wanted con venient Food to maintain his Health, .through which he fell Sick and Lame together ; in which deplorable State, though one of them relieved him a while according to his Neceffity, they were fo difpleas'd with him, as that they not only judg'd andcondemn'd his Reliever, but alfo forely fnub'd and griidg'd him, as one that was like to be a Charge to them, which he not being able to bear in his great Mifery, forced himfelf abroad before he was able to go, whereby he brought himfelf fo lpw, as that he was conftrai.ned tp lie by it a.- gain j 2& Incharity. < gain 3 upon which, though he difown'd them in a Senfe of their caufelefs Cruelty towards him, yet as they had not publickly renounced him accord*! ing to their Church Difcipline, they judg'd it con-* venient that fome Perfon fhould flay all Night with him* with one Abigail Chapman as his Nurfe j but as the Chyrurgion they fent to him gave them to underftand, he was never like to be cured, they fbon; grew weary of relieving him j whereupon he fend ing for a Merchant of his Acquaintance, who had both Skill and Will to help the Poor, they foon laid hold of that,as an opportunity to leave him wholly, faying, Seeing he had left their Chyrurgion, and rejeBed their Nurfe and Maintenance, (which he had found* infufficient) they would difown him, as they did acj eordingly to his utter Ruin 3 by which he found the Mercies of thPfe his pretended Friends ho better than Cruelties towards him, as many 0- tbers have alfo done befides. In further proof whereof, The Cafe of their moft notorioufly abufed Friend Thomas Boyfe of London, comes next under Confi- deration, for whofe fincere Dealings with them for their great Depravity, they firft ruined him* asi to the Things of this World, and then (inftead 0$ relieving him according to his Neceffity) endea voured to Undo his Soul in the other, by for cing him againft his Confcience, to a flaviflrCor-- fcrmity" to their Corruptions, as appears by his own Relation, in a certain Treatife of the QuaM kers Wickgdnefs, printed OBober 1, Anno 1676. with the Allowance of Sir %pge,r L'Eftrange, en titled^ An Anfwer to their pretended Charity above'- Ingratitude, made manifeft in their barbarous Deal-' ifigs towards Thomas Boyfe 3 concerning whom the faid Treatife tells us, That he at length finding our Leading Men, (Sc. acting contrary to their declared Principle, was made willing in the Spi rit of Meeknefs and Righteoufnefs, to tell them of their Errors, Backflidings and Hypocrify'; wherein, inftead of hearkning to him, in order to their Reformation, they fell foul upon him by way of* Incharity! %j b£ Threammg witli great and terrible Words,1 which caufed a trouble upon his Mind. Some time' after which, in or about the Month of June 1673, he being "fuddenly taken in a ftrange man ner, to the Amazement pf feveral Hundreds of Quakers who faw him, fome of them thereupon moft falfly and unjuftly cry'd out Deceit ; whilft 0- thers affirmed, he was made a Publick Sign for his Wickednefs 3 after which time, his Speech be ing taken from him (as a Sign I am perfwaded of the Silence the Lord will fhort ly bring their Preachers to, as hath been foretold them) he continued Dumb for about the fpace' of three and thirty Weeks ; in five whereof he eat no Food at all, only drank- Water 3 in which diftrefs'd State, thefe his pre tended Quaker Friends, inftead of adminiftring to his (Jomfort, were not wanting to add Affliction to this their afflicted Friend, by falfly fuggefting, That he could not only Speak, but Work alfo if he lift, only diffembled, by making himfelf Dumb and Lazy ; whereas in truth, 'the faid Thomas Boyfe could neither Speak nor Work at all, (as by the Teftimony of two Perfons chofen to judge be tween him and the. Quakers, with others of his Neighbours, appeared,) whereupon they not only refufed to employ him in his Trade of a Taylor, upon his Recovery, which lay wholly amongft them 5 but by their Lies, falfe Accufations and Slanders (difpers'd among all that knew him.) per fwaded and hardned others againft him, not to let him have any Work neither, thereby endeavour ing, as much as in them lay, to ftarve him and his.Family ; which fo far took effect, as that he was at the Writing of this Treatife reduc'd to ex- tream Poverty, who before did Kelp to relieve them 3- in which diftreffed State, (though three- Quakers hypocritically offered to allow him Sufte- nance, on a Condition he could not in Confcience and Honefty confent to, without; being, as he de clared, undone for ever) they, inftead of relieving him, not only, faU on to call him Kjiaiue, Traitor, judas, &c. but alfo took him by the Legs, and £ dragg'd sS Incharity. dragg!d-him down Stairs, with his Head on the Ground, towards the Street, to expofe him to the Infolence of the Boys ; in order _ whereto, they gave out, he was Drunk, pretending to fetch a Con stable to take him away j whilft they had not fo much Charity as to give him a little Water to wafh off the Blood they had drawn of him. Af ter which he coming to. their Houfes, as well as Private and Publick Meetings, to know what was the Deceit and Wickednefs they accufed him of 3 they* inftead of giving him Satisfaction as' they1 were in Duty obliged, firft publifhed ;a Paper a-t gainft him, wherein they charged him with cauf- lefly difturbing them, (with other falfe and fcari-l ,dalous Imputations) and then laid their violent Hands on him again, fome taking him by the. Throat, others thrufting their Elbows on his Breaft, others punching his Belly and Stomach, whilft they had like to have taken away his Breath, inftead of doing him Juftice in Private or Publick for the Wrongs he had received from them ; yet none like thein for Chriftian Charity, Tendernefs;'| Meeknefs, Forbearance, and fuffering all Things^? without offering to lift up an Hand againft or hurt* any Man, if you will but believe them ; though none in the-World, I'm perfwaded, are fo Un charitable and implacably cruel as they be to their' very beft Friends* if they do but once tell theni of their Hypocrify, (Sc. as appears by their Treat ment of this their oppreffed Friend Thomas Boyfe, as well as what follows in the Cafe of that truly honourable Elder, and their worthy Chriftian Mo nitor, James Jack/on in Pav'd Ally in St. John's Street, London,, as publifhed, by himfelf in way of Anfwer to their Paper of Excommunication againft him, in a certain Treatife he printed, Anno 1708. entitled, An Appeal to Country Friends at this Gene- . ral Meeting, ckc. wherein he tells us, How they firft Excommunicated him, and thetf withdrew that Support they ufed to allow him, only for adhering to the Word of God through his infpired Prophet 3 complaining, That though; * - he Incharity. 29 he was in the 7 id Year of his Age, he was not only cut off from the Unity of the Quakers, for the Teftimony of Jefus, and faithful adherence to the Word or God, through his infpired Servants, but that they had alfo for that Caufe intirely with drawn all manner of their former Succour, Supply and bodily Maintenance from him in- his neceffi- tous* dark, decayed old Age. Neither doth their mercilefs Severity yet ceafe, fays he, but they ftig- matize me as an Impoftor, becaufe I truly acknow ledge the Goodnefs of God, in miraculoufly re- ftoring Strength to my bodily Eyes, by Faith in God's Power, at the effectual and fervent Prayer of his Servant John Lacey, Efqs fo as I can write % better without Spectacles, than I could two or three Years ago with them ; with much more to thispurpofe, as a further Evidence of their In- charitable Difpofure, through which as many fin cere Souls amongft us (who had their Dependance on their Supportment) have deeply fuffered. 'Tis no wonder that fome of the moft Confcientious of our Society fhould find themfelves concern'd to expofe their Depravity in this Refpect, as a Warning to others of their great Declenfion from that Chriftian Purity they at firft pretended, in or der to their Amendment 3 in proof whereof I re fer my Reader to the printed Complaint of a cer tain namelefs Quaker in London, in a Treatife he directed to Friends in and about that great and popu lous City, .dated 13. 11 Month, 1701. . Wherein, after he has given them a melancholy Account of the inexpreffible Hardfhip fome of their Brethren went under therein, for want of neceffary Relief : He in p. 17. in a forrowful Senfe thereof addreffes his Difcourfe to the Rich- eft amongft them, faying, Pray what remarkable great Things have been done by divers outwardly weal thy rich Friends, whom the Lord hath raifed up from a mean Efttate ? Querying p. 19. How is it that fome publick. Friends can be fo very free, and outwardly la borious inpublick,Meetings, in throwing off the Spi ritual 30- Incharity. Which brings rttm^ P°ri'on ?f. %re~ad on the People 3 and on the othef to mind fome- ^nd, fo fparingly liberal in the diftribution of their- what of their Temporal Inches upon the fore ftraitned amongft the rich Preach- Lord's People ? Page 20. Infomuch as fhe Charge' and er Ecclefton'* Burthen of the Poor, for the generality, lieth moft up- Charity to- on Friends of mean and indifferent outward Circunu •wards a poor fiance 3 from whence he has heard fome fay, theyfcarce- Fri end's ly deferve the Name of Friends , Which is ftill fhort, Wife in 0f that Incharity he in p. 23. juftly charges them- * Southwark ; as gUiity 0f, in both a Temporal and Spiritual' ww» *»*'"V Senfe, toward thofe, who through their Prodiga- %™:fitfn'nV-tY, become Objects of their Companion, to the time" of wh°m they are fo far from adminiftring to their herLying-in, Comfort in either refpeCt at their return ro them,, inftead of a ' (according to our Lord's Precedent in LukfxM, (Sc.) Penny in as that he fays, they are fent away with a Caft of Money their former Extravagances in their Teeth. {which fhe then greatly wanted) keftowed a long Prayer on her, as her Hus band told rrie, which gave him. fome caufe to th'mk, that if it had' been worth a Penny Jhe had gone without it ,; wherein he ailed fomewbat like thofe Pharifees we read on, who cried', Be ye warm ed, be ye filled;, &c. without adminiftring a Farthing in] order- tv either. But though this be according to the Tenor of their declar* ed Faith, that their God will defend them frojn Thieves and Mur~\ therers, without their Ufe of Carnal Weapons in order to their De^t fence-, yet how much foever they may attempt to excufe themfelv.es. by pretending Chriftians muft live by Faith and not by Si"ht, / doubt they in the end will find this of theirs in bothRefpeftsincon- Jiftent with tbe true one, which works by Love, our Saviour taught his true Followers, how much foever they in Wordspretend to it. Not to repeat thofe Inftances of their Incharity moft juftly expofed in the Snake in theGrafs, Bugg'* Pilgrims Progrefs, Rogers'* Quakers divided, ancf Rich'* Epiftle to the Quakers, &c. beyond their A- bility to defend themfelves, in their mean Effays, for that purpofe. The next Complaint of this Nature I muft re mind them of, was made by our truly worthy ¦ and ancient Friend Jone Whitrow, in a printed Sheet fhe in Anno 1701 gave away tov their Bro therhood: Incharity. $i therhood at their Publick Meetings in London} af ter GeorgcWhitehead had refufed the Permiffion of its reading in their Men and Womens Meetings in Manufcript, when fhe prefented it to his Hand by John Edge for that purpofe 5 in which printed. Sheet fhe directs herfelf to them as follows : To all you that are higheft in Profeflion, pre pare to meet the Lord, who is come, and coming to try all your fandy Foundations, and will difco-v ver your fecret Parts, who have pretended many Years to keep Things clean, and yet the Stink of your Works is gone up' before the Lord, and the Cries of the Oppreffed among you have ehtre'd into his Ears. You cruel and mercilefs People, who have Eyes and fee not, Ears and hear not, Hearts, but do not underftand to do your Duty towards the Poor, to them that are in Fellowfhip with you ; you hate the Poor, becaufe they are poor 3 you proud People, from whence came you ? Was not Adam your Father, and Eve your Mother ? And look back from your laft Original 3 Were George I Fox, Francis Howgil and Edward Burrow's Rich Men when they firft came amongft you ? As poor as whom you had been, had you not gone a Whoring fi'om the Lord after your own Inventions. Ye prefumptuous Ones', who are become Defpifers of them which the eveiiafting Bleffing is to ; and dare you come to vifit fuch in their fore and grie vous Sicknefs, in your proud, lofty, domineering Spirit, with hard Speeches and bitter Words, by Way of Examination and Judging, to add Afflicti on to the Afflicted, to fink the Spirits of theHelp- lefs, and fo inftead of fulfilling the Law of Chrift in helping to bear their Burthens, you make them heavier than before, and then give them a Bit with fo many Knocks, that the Bit you give, them (which doth not one half fupply their Neceffities.) • is fo full of your gravelly Spirits, that it is hard. for them to get it down. You that hoard up Thou fands upon Thoufands, is this your Self-denial and bearing the Crofs of Chrift ? Ye Worldlings, what Fruit do ye bring forth, that you fhould*ftile yourfelves J2 INCHARITY. yourfelves Saints above all others ? Had you been Faithful, you would not have wanted Wifdom nor Power to difpofe of your Lord's Money, which now you muft be call'd to an Account for your unjuft Difpofal of, giving to fome that have no need, and letting them want that are ready to perifh 5 as one of your Overfeers told me in her dying Chamber, (when fhe fent for me to ask For- givenefs for all the Wrongs fhe had done me, and defired my Prayers to the Lord for her.) And you being asked, Why you did fo ? Your Anfwer was, You muft give them to keep them under you : Wherefore, though you are a People that are preaching up Perfection, and crying up Truth, Truth, it's no more than what the jews did, cry ing, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord 3 whereas, the Temple of the Lord was thoroughly to amend their Ways, and not to fet up the Tra ditions of Men for the Commandments of God, as you do 5 therefore repent and do your firft Works, As hath alio or e'*"e ^°^ w*'* reir»ove your Candleftick, and been foretold chufe another People in your Room to your Shame, a by others People which are no People 3 for though yqu, as if and is now rael of old, be as the Sand of the Sea-fhore, there come to pafs is but a Remnant fhall be faved, and that Remnant- accordingly, faved by Fire, and that that is all Drofs fhall be con- to their no fumed 3 therefore repent and do your firft Works, ¦, fmall Morti- f0r that was the Word ofthe Lord to you, through fication. See me mS unworthy Meffenger, before the great John P^ny- plague in London, when I thought you to be a per- man sTracts, ^ peopie> becaufe you preached up the Doctrine *' X>t' „Z7u °f Perfection, and in thofe Days, feemingly a par a with r ,c , . f, . . . ' / - ; , ¦ ° 1 . RichardRan- felf-denying People 3 but alas, Man judges ac- fam'* Pub- cording to the outward Appearance, but God fees lick Teftimo- the Heart that is lifted up, and is not upright 3 in ny, amongft a deep Senfe whereof, I fome Years after vifited many others, your Affemblies in Sackcloth and Afhes, and was made to ftand Dumb before you, as a Sign that God will put all Flefli among you to Silence be fore him, which hath and will be fulfilled in its Seafon 5 in faithfulnefs to God, and in love to youfSouls, without all prejudice do, I fay it, who f could Incharity. 5| could write a Volume of my Sufferings, by falfe,1 lying, flanderous Tongues, which the Poyfon of< Afps hath been under, fharper than a twd-edgeci Sword to flay the Innocent, and deftroy my Tefti mony, which I have from the Lord againft all Un- righteoufnefs among you 5 yet have I never rofe up againft you, nor joyned with them that have, but have gone to the Lord with my Burthen, and he hath tdken it off and fuftained me with his Heavenly Love and Embraces 3 and in his Spirit of Mercy and Truth, I then humbly befought him, to fliew the Doers of Wrong their Evil, and bring them to Repentance, feeing the Caufe was his : But at this Time this would not do, With out laying thefe Things before you, .(though in a great Crofs to my oWn Will) to eafe me of a Bur then that hath long lain upon me, through the hea vy Complaint of your Poor, which I deiire you to take into Confideration. Thus far otir ancient and truly worthy Friend J. Whitrow, in Teftimony againft their great In charity, in! proof of this my Charge againft them ; which whilft we find them thus poffeft with to wards their own profefs'd Friends in their Life* . fas no wonder that (inftead of relieving fuch as forfake them in a Senfe of their Corruptions,) they fhould condemn' them to Hell at their Death, as they have done their ancient and once highly honoured Friend George Kgith, with thofe that take part with him, in their devis'd Epigram upon him' in Latin and Englifh, they fent me, and others of our Friends in our Parts, entitled, 34 iNCHARiTY. In Qeorgium Keithum Caledoniurto A± gojlatem, &c. Tranflated , The Triumph of the Light, and 0± verthrow of Keith and his Accom* pikes i as follows, jjTEith, Ecebolius like, now leads the Van *¦ O'th' forlorn Hope, Apoftate Julian, The Apoftolick. Faith once own d,- but now This Renegade the fame doth difavow. Poetick. Stories fab' loufiy report, Cm-Heaven itfelf the Giants made effort • But Keith, outdoes them 5 his proud Folly view., * Meaning T^ a fgSgp'j God attacked, but he the true * their Light Kejth mthingfCjg.res, into black.HeM he goes, tech las rhence Stygian Darknefs at the Light he throws : Td"them into ^ut th'Light hath ftill triumphed, over all this Incbari- F°r Ages taA *»d triumph ever fhall, table Difpo- Whilft baffled Keith, who better Things once knewf fure, ^bicb May rave i'th Darkyith his benighted Crew. if not timely repented of, will infallibly damn them. Thus, as they appear guilty of a Crime that unchriftians all infected with it, according to 1 Cor. xiii. \,i,(Sc, it may well be expected, they are not over-free of the Vice of Lying alfo, as a natural Confequent of it 5 , in order to the proof whereof, I next defeertd to give Inftances of their Falfhood, as follows* FA L $•»' i»> ances. Pen's Pre face to Fox's Journal. Righteous Judgment placed, p. 59, 61, 93. Whitehead's Truth and Innocency; p. 41. Accufer of" the Brethren eaft down, p;iz7- FALSHOOD. ti Lies. That any Member of the Church may come to their Yearly Meeting if they pleafe, and fpeak their Mind freely in the Fear of God, to arty Matter therein. . That to fay, a free Debate when any Dif ference arifes amongft us is ftifly deny'd, is a wicked Slander; That they know of tlo fuch fupream Affem- bly amongft them, as gives Laws and makes Orders for the Govern ment of their People j their Orders fet forth by the Power of God (as they pretend,) being not intended by theiri for Laws. That they know no thing they practife a- mong them as a People either in refpect to U- nity, Church-Govern- ment,Order, Difcipline, (Sc. but fuch Things as they have the Evidence of the Spirit of God for the practice of. *' • ¦ e z Proofs! The Falfhood where of, my felf, amongft many others, am a li-. ving Witnefs. See fygers's ChriftiatS Quaker, in five Parts j Preface to the Reader, and Poftfcript, (Sc iri proof of this Lie: Melius Inquirend. pi '¦9f ' ¦ Elwobd's TrutI feuded* ^.40, 41. I29r Elwobd's Truth de^ Witnefs, their Cbnti- , nuance of their impo-] fing Order apinft Mar riage of firft Coufens as Gofoel Difcipline, af ter they have in effecl: difown'd it as unchri- fiian, by their Allow ance of W.Parr's Daugh ter to trangrefs it. • Righ- 3* Inftances Righteous Judgment placed, p. 10, n, 14, 1 5. Relation of the un lawful Pro ceedings of the Magi ftrates of Harwich,p.3. Pen's Judas arid the Jews combin'd, h *\ . Wyeth's Pri mitive Chri- ftianity, /. 39- George Fox and Ellis Hoel(s Prim mer to teach Childr«|» Pew's Judas, p. 47- ' Fa lshoodi That they never en deavoured to compel and force tender Con fidences in Matters fpi ritual, to be conformed and in fubjection, con trary to their own Minds, and Light of Chrift in their Confci- ence. That they never pufh'd, pinch d, kick'd and trod upon the Feet and Toes, pull'd down or hall'd any Confcien- tious Enquirer or Op- pofer, (Sc out of their Meetings. That no lawful Caufe appearing to hinder, they never difcourage Marriage. ThztEfau by taking Wives of the Pofterity of his Uncle Ifhmael, grieved his Father Ifaac and his Mother S^cbecca. That John Whitehead gave Power, by Letter, to the Brethren of Lon don, to fupervife and See Rjch's Hidden' Things, with Tyranny and Hypocrify detect ed, compared with their Impofition on Thomas Boyfe, to condemn him felf againft his ConfciT ence, before they would relieve him. Prov'd a Lie by- the 'Teftimonies of Hhomas Boyfe, John PenymannxA William s\ogers, amongft many others heretofore as well as hereafter cited. Witnefs their feveral Orders againft Marri age of firft Coufens, heretofore as. well as hereafter mentioned. Directly contrary to the Texts they refer to* which plainly prove, that he married thofe to pleafe his Parents, after he had vex'd them* by marrying others not of Kin to him. Prov'd falfe by John Whitehead's own Tefti mony, as cited p..zo, ,21. of Tyranny and Hypo- Inflames, Fa j. shood. Lies. alter his Letter about putting off pur Hats in Prayer. That John Wiggans's Book, entitled, Anti- chrift's Strong Hold over- turn'd, &c. is unpaged. That RJchard Baxter faid in p. ii. of his Quaker's Catechifm, That the Gofpel, or Word, is the External Light, 37 Proofs. See Fox's ("with five o- ther of his Foxonian Friends) An fwer to it, printed An^ no 1665. Fox's Great Myftery, p. a9- Fox s Book in behalf of Women'sMeetings,^. 68. as cited p. 6i. of l\p- • gers's Chri ftian Qua-, ker. Pamil's That the Quakers Shield of are all of one Heart, all Truth,/!. 68, • of one Mind, all of one (Sc. with 0- Soul, and all fpeak the fame Things, Hypocrify , compared with his Letter, as quo ted by Pen himfelf, in p., 67. of his faid Judas and the Jews combin'd. Dlfprov'd by Wig gans's Book itfelf, com pared with F. Bugg's Retrofpective Glafs, p. 563. in detection of this their Falfhood. See Bugg's Reflecti on on their Lying Af- fertion, compar'd with Baxter's Book and Page they refer to in proof on't. That M!cahKs idola,-, Though the Scrip: trous Mother was a ture informs us, She was an Image Wor- fhipper. Vertuous Woman. ther Inftan- ces hereafter jjefer'd to. Difprov'd by their following Inconfiftences and moft unheard of Confufipns about their Affirmation, (Sc here- , after notified. C 3 M % Inftances. Juft Enqui ry,' t- ?.9i! (Sc |al shoo n. L««. Proofs- Witnefs his next Fai, fhood. Whitehead's Chriftian Quaker, zd Part, p. 1.8. . Some Ac count from Colchefter, p. •iz. Compa red with p. 2. of fieorge Whiteheads ifhmael and Bis Mother eaft out. Juft Enqui ry, T- 6. That George White head aim'-d at nothing' but Truth and Juftice on all Hands, and thro' the Lord's G00(ine^s> has long refolved not to decline or conceal Truth, to vindicate or excufe Error or Miftake in any. That Thomas Hicks Difprov'd in the In- own'd, That the Light ftance he refers to in in him or George White- proof of this his Affer- head, is a fufficient Rule. tion. ' That God had given Yet never could di- Ge'orge Whiteheaft the feern the Wickednefs Gift of difcerriirig be- and Uhgodlinefs of 'tween the Righteous himfelf, witnefs his fol- and the Wicked, be- lowing Lie. ¦tween, him that ferveth Gpd ind him that fer veth him not. That the repeated Reflections infinuated againft them concern ing Government, Mo narchy, Rulers* Laws, ' (Sc. are plainly anfwer- _ed, and their Innocen- py cleared in G. White head's Chrift's Lambs defended, together with his Some Reflections. See the Srfake in the Grafs, and Refutation of Whitehead's Chrift's Lambs, with my fore- gping-and following In ftances of their Difober dience to, and notori- .ptis Contempt of them. Juft Jnfiances. Juft Enqui ry, )• 9- compared with their Truth pre valent, 156. Truth pre valent, p. 156, -Truth pre valent, com- "pared with their Agnus Flagellatus,' hereaftercited. Quakers Plea,;. 5. 'Ang. Flag. p. 3 13, (Sc. Truth pr&- Valeht, p. 146/ Falshoo D. Lies. That the Quakershave always been true and conftant to the. Doctrine of Non-Refiftance and Paffive-Obedience, 39 Proofs. Witnefs their fight ing King Charles I. till they brought him to the End they glory 'd in. That their accufing Witnefs their Weft the Quakers, as having anfwering' to the North, a Hand in the overturn- p. 79* 89, 94, 96, (Sc ing King Charles I. is unjuft and falfe, compared with G. Bi- fhop's Book of Warn ings to O. Cromwel, p. 7, 9, 16, 11, 26, (Sc .That the Quakers fo Difprov'd p. z. (Sc called, were not aPeP- of G. Fox's. Select E- ple in the Time of thofe, fifties. Wars. That they never fought fince they were called Quakers, nor ever oWned the carrying of Arms fince they were a People. 5„ That thofe of- them . Who laid down their Arms in the Time of the Common-wealth, were from inwardCon- viction of their Un- ' righteoufnefs perfwad ed to lay them down. " Prov'd a^ moft noKv rious Lie, in their Weft anfwering to the North, G. Bifhop's Warnings, and their Friend Lur- ting's Fighting Saylor, (Sp. Proved a. Lie by Gj Fox and E. Burroughs-, 8cc. Complaints of their being turn'd out of the Army, becaufe they could not affift, and ftand by the Prieft, aijd fwear. C4 D?cla- 40 tnftancef. Declaration from the In nocent and Harmlefs 3 • QuakersPlea 3 De claration to thedeftract- ed Nation. Declaration from the Harmlefs. Ancient Te ftimony re newed, with their Qua kers Plea, Declarationand Remon- ftrance, (Sc Declaration •from the Harmlefs, Yearly E- pift. of Anno 1666. a> ci ted in F. Bugg's fea- fonable Ca veat, (Sc- -' Fax shood, Lies. . Proofs, That all Wars and Fightings with Carnal Weapons, for any End or under any Pretence whatfoever, they do de ny who have the Sword of the Spirit. That they know, it is • for ' Righteoufnefs fake that they have al ways fuffered. That they are made a Prey upon, becaufe they are the innocent Lambs of Chrift, and cannot avenge them felves. That have never de nied in Practice what they have profeffed in Principle. ' That the Body of their priends never re volted from the Princi ples of good and anci ent Friends once deli vered to them. Difprov'd by their Friend if.Penington in /. 214. of his. Works, compared with their Anfwer" tO Rjch's Hid den Things. Witnefs their Suffer ings againft the pay ment of impropriate Tytbes, Mihtia, and lawful Oaths. Witnefs their purfoit , of the fufpected Mur- ~ therers of their Friend Sarah Stout, wifh the Man they got hang'd in Chains for flipoting their Friend near Lon- d/rn. . r , Proyed a Lie over and pver under the Head of their Incori- fiftency, (Sc TheFalfhood where of is largely proved un der the Head of their Apoftacy. Whiftel Inflames". Whitehead's Anfwer to theLook-ing-Glafs for the Quakers. Whitehead'sLetter, as cited in the Account of the Life of John Peny- man, com pared with jp. 9. of John Whiterns Judas and .ChiefPriefts .fconfoiring, (Sc Whitehead's Appendix to Pirn's Reafon againft Rai ling, (Sc. RamblingPilgrim ex- pQfed^p.46. FalshoodI Lies, That the Book {tiled the Sfmonftrance, was none of their Book or Writing. 41 That John Penyman carried a Bible and Book of Martyrs to the jExchange to burn them. That they do not ap point "their Minifters before-hand to fpeak at fuch a Place, at fuch a Time, (Sc. . : - ThatBvJHM* Bugg left put thofe Words (Except thou Kepent) in his Re print of their Ifhmael and $iis Mother eaft out. Proofs.. John Penyman proves it was in p. 242, of the Account of his Lit . Denied and difpro- ved by John Penyman in p. 209, 234, 235, &c. of the Account of his Life, Witnefs their Morn ing Meeting at London, together with their fre quent fending for. fuch pf their Minifters as they beft like of, to preach at their Marri ages, Burials, (Sc com pared with their Fox's Directions in his Select Epiftles, and their pul ling and winking at each other to preach. The contrary where* of Francis Bugg hath proved by Evidence in his Reply to them. 43 Inftancef. Vindicife Verk.'p. 223, Falshood. Lies. Prooftl Whitehead's Light and Life within, *. 8, (Sc , Ehveod's Ac count from ¦Wickhatyt, p. 11, (Sc I That the Rector John Still&lgfleet^v3Csmf&&ken in entertaining fuch dif- •¦advahtagious Thoughts of them, as that' they are far from Retracting or Condemning any vile Error* with which they have been charged from undeniable Matter of Fact'. That William Burnet charged them wrong fully, in faying, Their Teachers ftudy twenty Shuffles, rather than dif cover their Principles when clofely befet. - That it fhall not b$ long before they that affirm arid undertake to prove, That the Order, Way ot Method of mar nagihg" the .Affairs of thfeir Church, (and now Ufed atnong them) is ¦contrary to the Scrip tures of Truth, becon- 1 yicted of Falfhood and Slander therein. - .Witnefs their 'many ignominious Diverfe$ they have ufed towards, me,to prevent their Ex. amination in Order-. to it. ' ' v "'.:• See Whitehead's An-/ tidote and Anfwer to Burnet, compared wi^i the Defence of the Snake, and Quakers Quibbles, wherein you will find a thoufand finch Shuffles. Whereas 1 hate fbuad it fe long before th#y offer to convict me *>f either Falfhood' or Slan der in my Charge of that Nature, as that by their deceitful Devices they have ufed to avoid it, they have given me juft Caufe to fear it will never be done. Quakers. Iriftances. Quakers Anfwer to the Athenian Mercury, printed 1692, as ci ted by John Penyman in his fever?! Tracts. Falshood. Lies. That Jofiah Cole nor John Audtmdever wrote thofe blafphemous Let ters to George Fox, as charged on them. 43 Proofs. Whereas John Peny man hath proved they did wsite them, in his feveral Traits, compa red with William Pen's Judas, beyond their A- Jbility to defend them selves. That the fifty five Charges of Thomas Collier a- Vox's feveral gaihft them, recited p.z, 4, 5, 6, 7. of their Friend Papers prin- Naylor's Deceit brought to Light, was all abomi-'^-^"00 • nable Falfhoods. 1*71. p- 71. ,,Th£ Generality whereof, as I not only know, but .alfo {when call'd to it) .fhall prove to be Truths, in evidence of this beinjj a Lie fifty-Fold high at leaft : So if any Relater of Matter of Fact (who is detected of Lying in any Circumftance) is not to be credited in the reft, till he can refcue himfelf from the Imputation of a Lyer in thdfe 5 (as the Quakers themfelves have affirmed) , Ivindfcie Jiope. (that fince I have proved them guilty ofVerif. p. 41. Lying in a many fuch Matters) they won't take it ill, that I account them unworthy of Credit In o% ther of their Relations* till they- in thefe have difcharged tnemfelves of Guilt 5 which, I muft teM them, very highly concerns them tP Undertake, if poffible* fince 'tis a Crime their great Patrons Fox and Whitehead, among many others of their de-R'\, ° ."£ praved Collegues, ftand juftly accufed m thofe fe- ^ ~, . yeral Books in the Margin, in evidence of thepen '^' Truth of our true Friend Robert Rich's Afteriion,^^ a„^ "that they care not who- they fiander, or what Lies they&ovtrs's tell, Chriftian Quaker, com pared with their Friend Ann Docwray'* Letter, as cited in BuggN "Pilgrims Progrefs. Introduction to Picture of Quakerifm. Re ¦ irpfpective Glafs, p. 558, 559, jtfo, $63, Sec. . Quakerifm further expofed, and Account ofthe Life of John Penyman',^. 8,9, 134, &c. 44 Evasion. tell, fo they may but advance their SeB, and debafe o- thers ¦. Wherefore, as Lyers fhall never inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, as they themfelves have affirmed, then fince they are fo far from repenting . of thofe they have told the World, as that they ufe all the deceitful Arts they can think of to hin der us from feeing them, in evidence that they'll never come there 3 the confideration whereof,; brings me to my next Charge of the Evafion, they ufe to conceal them 3 in order to the proof where of, it hath been juftly affirmed, EVASION. Tyranny «»^TPHat though they have been often accufed with Hypocrify J- calling then: Oppofers Relations of their Cor,, detected, p. rUption,%, Lies, Forgery, Defamation, with abun->; 5. compared . 4. top. 304. of his faid Great Myftery 5 as much to his purpofe, as if he had entertain'd his Reader with a Story about his Mag- ' » 40 JttV A SI O N. Magnified Hammock, and Exalted Glifter-Pipe, &c.' he fo magnificently bellowed on his bigoted Pro- felytes in His Laft-Will and Teftament 3 for which Caufe I think it hdt worth my while to fpend Time1 in Transcribing the whdle, wherefore fhall only add thefe few following ones to the foregoing Ca talogue, that his mifled Adherents may fee I have* not wrohg'd him. One James Btown faying, I know that many ofthe Quakers are Temperate, Sober, Self-denying People ! but this is but the Ty thing of Herbs, (meaning with' relation to the fewnefs of them.) This doughty Champion could not be content to accept this fmall Favour, without making this Reflection1 irf Way of Anfwer to it : "• P. 1 59. That it was the Dotlrine ofthe Apoftles, who preach-^ ed Chrift, the End of Tything and Herbs 3 and Self- denial, Soberneft arid Temperance, was not called The Tything of Herbs, &c. which with the reft pf his Evafions on this Subject, is as much to the pur-» pofe* as if he had faid nothing. Quoting his Opponent Baxter's Obfervation,1 P; 169. That Tradefinen and Princes Labour preferves Healthy but his confumed it ¦ He, to fhow his Parts in his Confutation, tells him, Here thou baft fhewed, That thy Labour, Work, and Miniftry is not of God, that preferves Health and Strength 3 for the Work, ef the Miniftry is to bringing to the faving Health, dndfreferve it, and not conf time it, as thy Work. doth. Whereby, in applying his " Scripture Proof to Health in an outward Senfe, f which related to Health in a Spiritual one 5 he, ¦¦ inftead of anfwering his Opponent, (according to his ufual Method) only evades him. P. 187. Quoting Francis-Drake's Aflertion, That the Will of Man remains in good Men and bad Men, in Hea ven, and in Hell, and in Earth 5 He for his Confu tation thus tells him, There is no Prophefy of the Scriptures carrie by the earthly Will of Man 5 but that Man's Will befub- dued and denied with the Crofs and Poiver of God, where- - by he that doth the Will ef God abides for ever, 4s he that Evasion. '49 that doth not, does not ¦ with mere to this purpofe.' Which, how true foever in a Scripture Senfe; in fome reflect, is fo far from being a Confutation of his Antagonift in his Senfe in this refpect, as- that it appears no better to me than another of his Evafions. Again, Reciting their Opponent Trevers's Affertion, That p. 324,. he that doth not expect the t\efuirc'clion of the Dead of his own Perfon, as Chrift rofe pom the Dead, literally un derftood, hath no true Hope of eternal Life, bom in his Z/ndcrftanding. He, by way of Anfwer thus teUs him, The Saints rtfing is in Chrift, and he is the P^fuf- rc&ion 3 they are of his Flefh, and of his Bone, and of his Spirit ; and the Saints are of the Flefh cf Chrift, that Jhw no Corruption, a:?d of his Bone 5 and that the Flefh of Chrift the Jews did not kjjocv, &c. Wherein, to pafs by his great Lye by the way [cf the Jews not knowing the Flefh of thrift/] his- An fwer is fo far from being a pertinent one to his Opponent's Affertion, as that it may well pafs for another of his Evalioos 3 of which his Book is too full by far, for me to fpare Time to particula rize on this Concern, of which Nature he hath alfo publifhed many others 3 wherefore fliall pafs it by, with the reft of his ' fcribling Impertinencies of the fame Import, referring my Retider to our Friends P^bert Rjch, John Pcrrot and William la gers, and .further Difcoveries- of his Crimes of this Nature, in their Books in the Margin ; and pro- Rich'* Hid- ceed to his obedient Son and moft officious Ad- den Things. vocate, George Whitehead's Detectiori in his Tranf- Pcrrot'* Le.t- greffions of the fame kind 3 in order whereto, as *''r> ,mf his Chrift's Latnbs defended ; Antidote againft Venom 5 ^°ocfs s ¦gambling Pilgrim expofed 3 and Sober F.xpoftulation,-fija^c\c'1" 8cc. are in -a manner proved, all Evafions, by the,'''^ J ' G. Whitehead. I do not read, That he is in Hea ven with' a Body of Flefh, Blood and Bones 3 it was changed. Jer. Ives, Wiether or no, that Blood that was fihed upon the Crofs, was a meritorious Caufe of Juftifica tion ! Am I juftified and purged by it } Which this G. Whitehead alfo like himfelf only ' Anfwers by way of Query, Whether or no,, that Blood which purgeth, cleanfeth and juft ifieth, is ftill in Being, feeing it is the Blood of Chrift that cleanfeth from all Sin, thrfe who walk, in the Light,. &c. All which are fo far from being fatisfactory and ' pertinent Anfwers to the Queftions ask'd,. as that they are in effect, no better than Evafions, as well, as what follows to his Opponent's Affertion.. Jer. Ives. The Blood of Chrift that was fhed upon . the Crcfs doth juftifie and fanBifie. To which he, according to his foregoing evafive manner, only Anfwers by way of Query. Is that Blood ftill in Being ? Jer. Ives. Anfwer to the Body, that was crucified, ' whether it be in Heaven, Tea or Nay ? • / , G. Whitehead. Ii it in Heaven without the Blood in it ?' Thefe* with other fuch like, are the Anfwers ,, he put off thofe enquiring Baptifts with on thofe weignty Occafions, which, how pleafing foever to his depraved Quaker Collegues, were fo far from being fatisfactory ones, as that they, with the ge nerality of the reft, were only meer Evafions. Which brings to mind an Observation of their Friend William Caton, in p. 25. of his Truth's Cha- " ralier, &c. where, taking occafion to reflect on 0- liver Cromwel\ favouring the Priefts againft the Diffenters, contrary to his former Pretehfions, ' he tells us, That he and his Parliament in Anno 1656, enabl ed, That if any mvlcfttd, hindred or difturbed them, when HVASION. when they were officiating or doing their Duty, or in their going to, or returning from their Places of Wor fhip, the Party fo offending was to be committed to Prifon, and there to remain^ without Bail or Mainr pri^e, until the next General Seffwns of the Peace to be holden for the County, 8cc. J\nd if upon Infirm a- tion, Prefentmcnt or Liditiment, finch Perfon or Per fons, fhall at the General Seffions of the Peace, be found guilty, for malicioufly, wilfully, or of pur- ?ofe molefting, letting, difturbing, or otherways trou- ling fuch Minifter or Publick. Preacher, &c Every Perfon fo convided, fhall forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds, or, at the Difcretion of the Juftices, fhall be fent to the Houfe of CoireBicn, to be fit to hard Labour, with fttch moderate CorreBion, as in the Difcretion of the faid Juftices fhall be thought fit, 8cc. Which Act, though the Quakers condemn, as the Garlick of Egypt, and four Grapes of Canaan, (as they well may, as applied to fuch Meflengers as God divinely Comminionates to detect intru ding Pretenders,) There is not one Word therein, but what may be vindicated in Terminis, according to their Me thod in anfwering of Charges againft them 3 but alfo in Subftance defended, after the manner Wil liam Pen moft unwarrantably vindicates their Friend Cole's idolatrous Letter to their admired Apoftle Fox, in his Judas and the Jews combin'd, -as the Reader may find by comparing them, In a deep Senfe whereof, I have often thought Holy David might as well have defended himfelf from God Almighty's Charge againft him, by his Prophet Nathan, in the Cafe of "Uriah and his Wife Bathfheba, as thofe our depraved Quakers defend themfelves againft their Opponents, by pretending, ' That he neither kjU'd Uriah with the Edge of the Sword, nor took, his Wife for his Wife, as the faid Prophet charged him 3 "Uriah being flain by the Hand of the Enemy, and Bathfheba a Widow before he married her. But as that Royal Soul well knew, fuch deceitful Devices would do him no favour, he honeftly confeft his Guilt in both refpects, (as D 3 °H H 54 - Evasion. our depraved Quakers ought alfo) without thinking, to hide the fame by fuch fliuffling Evafions. Of which as their Elwood's Anfwer to George Keith's firft Narrative, and Whitings Judas and the Chief Priefts combin'd to the reft, with others of their Con. troverfial Books, are too. full for me at prefent to particularize on this Occafion. I fhall conclude this Head with a few of thofe many palpable ones I find in their Wyeth's Anguis Flagcllatus 3 wherein. befides thofe noted by the Author of the Snake -in his unrefuted. Reply to it, I muft remind them, That inftead of anfwering his Opponent's Charge about their inveighing againft Minifters being Magi ftrates 5 he, in a Senfe of their Affumption of that Station in the Province of Penfilvania, wholly e- vades it. Again, zdly. Inftead of anfwering his faid Opponents Charge, concerning their Perfecution of George Keith, for reminding their Penfilvanian Friends of their Ancient Principles, upon their Declenfion from the fame, in the matter of Defenfive Arms 3 he alfo, as fenfible of their Guilt herein, wholly e- yades it. That, of George Fox's being magnified by them, as the Lord's' Anointed, (Sc. to fet forth Methods and Forms of Church Government amongft the Children of Light, (as they fancy to call themfelves) he, in a Senfe of the Truth thereof, in like man ner wholly evades it : As he in p. 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98. alfo does thofe of the Snake's, about the Sacrament, Stealing, Devil driven, Dungy Gods, Wo- . mens Meetings, Overthrow of Kings, Princes, Govern ments and Laws, with abundance more in almoft every Chapter of his Anguis, 8cc, that might be mentioned 3 compared with thofe Francis Bugg. (in p. 33. of his Finlfhing Stroke) reminds us of 5 wherein, though they moft ' grofly contradict the Ancient Chriftians Precedent (who accounted it P. 374. of Impious in any to diffemble, deny, or evade the Dr. CaveV Truth, whatever they fuffered for their faithful Primitive Maintenance thereof,) according to Dr. Cave's Re- Chriftianity.huor, yet have they the Confidence to tell the World, Inconsistency^ 55 World, They have not as fome others, gone about to conceal themfelves with devifed Fables, • but in Since rity and Truth, &c. have laboured to be made manifeft to all Men,-&cc. Whereas they are fo far from difcovering them felves by their written Defences, or verbal Con ferences, in order to the Manifeftation they fpeak Vivers'.r Vi- 6f 3 as that I, in a deep Senfe of their ignomini- car of Bim ¦ ous Concealment in the firft, am firft to'Requeft bur7 >'"f c/ our Superiors in Parliament, to Summons them to Cfirre e ' ?' the latter '5 well knowing, they'll ne're fubject" td *3' one without, if they can by any means evade it, how much foever they have pretended to it 3 the confideration whereof brings me to my next Charge of their Inconfiftency, as a natural Confequent of the Caufe that leads to it. INCONSISTENCT. TN order to the proof of which Charge,! muft re- A mind them, That as it hath been God Almigh ty's Way to chaftize the.Raflinefs. and Vanity of prefumptuous Pretenders, by permitting their Di- , . - vifions and Inconfiftencies to ruin their Work, as „^ he heretofore defeated theJSuilders of the Tower pa^' ^' 3' of Babel, as the- Chriftian Reconciler hath well pr;ntej \n. obferved 3 fo he has not been wanting to ruin theirs no x ggs. in like manner, by theii- prefent Divifions, and well viorth . moft grofs Inconfiftencies 3 ift proof whereof I univerfal muft tell them, Obfiervation, That as the Light within them from their Cre ation they fo highly magnifie, is neither God or Chrift, as they would perfwade the World 3 tho' it, with- ah other Spiritual and Temporal Gifts, proceeds ' from God's Diyine Bounty towards us, in order to bring us to Chrift : So it is the lefs furprize to me,, they fhould be fo inconfiftent' in thejr Sentiments as we find them concerning it, ' D 4 and% tf I n'co nsistekcy. and its Effects r.pcn them in their State of Depra., vitv 3 in pursuance whereof they tell usr Reafon c- One while, The Light within muft be God ; for g'aihfl Rail^ Gcd is Light ; and every appearance of God is God 3 , ing, p. 9. mid the Light that comes firm God, is God j With, Pm'sAnfiwer much more to this purpofe. to a falfe but fool/jh Libel, p. 13, 14. Compared with G. Tox's jun. Works. ¦Quaker; fm a Another while, denies in the Name of that a- ttewNick- bufed People, (as they are pleafed to call them-1 Name, p. felves) That ever they own dor prcfefs'd, The Light I9i- within every Man to be God. Under pretence, That the Light re-thin, is not God, but of God. j ox's Great One while, The Ligj)t --within all Men, is Chrift My fiery, f. himfelf, bodily within them ; no Accident, but divine 3, ii, 94, Sulfitance itfelf ' ; -and only formal ObjeEi of their Faith 1 Ji, 149. and Knowledge. } ciV Brief - Avfivcr, p. 13, 14. Defence of the People called Quakers, p. 14. •with Burro wV Preface to Fox'.r Great Myftery. Fox\f General E- fifth, f. 17. Whuchearl'.r Light and Life, p. 53. VicaridgeV Truth and hmocency, p. 13, 14, 1;. Preface to Another while, This Light within comes firom fox's Great Chrift, and leads to Chrift, the joyful Son of Rfghteoufi- My ft cry, nefs, who Jloincs forth unto.them, and in them. And compared never own'd, The Light within all Men is Chrift. with p. 118, 186. of the Booh. Nicliolfon'.r Standard, p. 36. WhitingV Judas, *. 173. True Light oxon'd, p. 11. . Naylor'i Deceit, Sec. p. 5. Great My fi. One while, The Lighswithin is given to all Men p. 11, 47 j coming into the Would, as their Way to God's King- ' 1.60. 'dim, and is in the Pharifees, in meafure, as well as Dottrinal the Saints. Works. Kowgil'-f Vv'orhs, p. 173, 31c. Pen'j- Spirit of Truth. ParnilV Another while, Tim Light the Pharifees had not, Works, p. 14. though they had the Scriptures, which bear Teftimony of it, One, Inconsistency. $7 One while, Aw with the Term, Common Light, F , G We deny the Term, Common Light, as improper to Mia an^ their Principle of Chrift, the only true faving Light Doffrinai they dired all to feck, after, as their chief Teach- [forks. er; under pretence, that they don't afcribe Sal- Compared vation to following the Light within, but to Chrift with Pen\r Jefus, to whom, the Light leads thofe that trifly fol- Reafon a- Jqw it. gainft Rail- % ing, p. 16. Counterfeit Convert, p. ;9. Vindicii Verit. p. 118. Foundation of Iythes jhaken,p. 138. At another Time, they not only own the Common Reafon a- Light given to. every Man coming into the World, to galnft Rail- be their chief Principle ; but alfo exclaim againft inS-> P- 9> iri fuch as little lefs than Infidels, as declare their x3' I,4'.1.6' - disbelief in its fufficiency to Salvation 5 under 4tr'TJtIj't pretence, that as the Light of the World is faving °/hroujrhout. in the leaft meafure of it, every meafure of Light Counterfeit within is God and Chrift, whom all ought to turn Convert, p. their Ears to. 58, 59, 63, 1 64. Anfwer to a falfe but fioolifn Libel,- p. 13, 14. HowgilS Works, p. 31;. Par'nilS Works, p. 118, 119, 117, 177. Whiteheads Ramb.Pil. p. zo. Preface to Box's My ft. One while, they are contrary to Chrift and the ?ox-s Select Apoftles that fay, Following the Light within is not £pifl/es p. fufficient. to fave without any other Means or Difi- 49 . covery 3 under pretence, That all, who are from ParnilV the Light within, are in Death and Damnation. Fruits, p. 14, 174. Box's Great Myft. p. 47, 115, 114. compared -with the fecond fide of the 41 Leaf of the Preface. Box's Reply to the pretended, Vin dicators of the Anfwer to the %T,d Query, p. 13, 33, 34. Pening^ ton'j; Works, p. 60. HowgilS Works, p. 601, 617. Smiths Pri mer, p.%. Smith's Catechifim, p. 57. Chriftian Quaker, ift part, p. it, &c. Whitehead'^ Power of Chrift, p,. 73. Antidote, p. 18. Rambling Pilgrim, p. 15. Epift. to FiflierS Rufticus, p. H, 13. John' j Bleffed Openings, p. 4. And Whiting' s Judas, &c.p. 173. Another while denies, that ever they pleaded Judas aifdthe for the Light within as fufficient to Salvation, with- Chief Priefts out Seep: 171: <[8 I N C O N S I S T E N C Y. out fomething elfe ; or, that by Chrift the true Light, they only mean, the Light within. *> Great Myfl. One while, 'Tw only neceffary to Salvation to preach \ p. 181, 106, Chrift within; under pretence, that it is no where 430. to be found written, Chrift is corporally in Heaven, , Burrow'sAn- fvier to John Bun/an, p. 19- Account from Colchefter, p. 16, Smith's Primmer. HowgilS Works, /V189. Ace. from Another while, True Faith in our Lord Jefus Chrift, Colchefter, as without us in the Heavens, is neceffary to be preach- > f.ii. ed and owned. Great My ft. °ne while, 2 Cor. xiii. 5, (Sc. is a full proof, ¦>; £.183,148, That the very Chrift of \God is within them; yea, 2.49. whole Chrift, God and Man. Truth pre- val. p. 7, 8. Antidote Veil. p. 109. Light and Life, p. 10. An- fitoer to a fa'lfe'but foolijl Libel,_ p. 13, 14. Whiteheads Another while difputes as earneftly againft Every ' ; Appendix Man's having Chrift the Son of God, in them 3 under to PenS Rea- pretence of its being only a Light of the Son, they fon, Sec. p. mean, appears in every Man. , 17. Light and Life, p. 13. Contemn d Quaker, p. 68, 69. Judas and Chief Priefts, p. 170. G- t Miill ^ne w^^e' Chrift >is Effentially and Perfonally) * io< 106* within them, Body, Soul, Flefh and Spirit, for them" ¦ion in, ' to eat on; under pretence, that how a Man can be 111, 148. faidfo eat any thing, and not have it within thern^ BurrowS is a Diftinction beyond their Underftanding. Works, p. 149. Quakers Refuge, p. 40* 41. PenS Counterfeit Chriftian, p. 78. Wifidom juftified, p. 106. PenS Chri- Another while, they tell the World, ..That the flian Qua- Body of Chrift is not fo mUch,as in any one. her, ift Part, p. .97., .98. Contemn'd Quaker, p. 85. PrirnitivttChriftianity, p. 1 j. Reafon againft Railing, p. 53. _ One. Inconsistency. 59 Qne while, Chrift is not a diftinct Being from the Great My ft, §aints, nor diftinguifhedfrom them. p. 16, 136, 174) 107, ijo. HowgilS Popifh lnauifition, p. 45. Another while, He is a diftinB Being from the Counterfeit Saints, and diftinguifhedfrom them. Communi- ca/it,.p.79. Real Quaher, p. 6, 108. One while, Chrift is in every Man as a Juftifier Great My ft. or Condemnor ; in purfuance whereof they cry,/"- 4> IO> '*> Know ye not that Chrift is in you, except ye be Re- J9> 47> 94* probates. Another while, As to Chrift's being in every Man, Light and that's not our Affirmation. Life, p. 13. One while, A Denial of Chrift being come in their -£aceeat under pretence, That as all muft witnefs him born ofvjfiMe]j0{ the Virgin within, fio they have witneffed him at the p. u. , Right-hand of God within them. Compared -with Wil liam BailyS Works. Another while, when they fay, Chrift. manifeft in HowgilS the Flefh 5 they fay, That holy Thing which was Works, p. brought forth and born of a Virgin, conceived of the 3°4> &c. Holy Ghoft, and received up into Glory, where he re- fides at the RJght Hand of the Father in the Heavens without them. One while, Chrift will come in the Clouds, or in BifhopV the Air, in a literal Senfe. Warnings to OliverCrbm- wel, p. 31, 37, 39^ 43., Rector corrected, p. 16, 41, to p. 4$. Voice from Babylon, p. J. to the end. Another while, Their Opponents might look, till Light and their Eyes dropp'd out, before they fi faw him come to Life -within, fave them. , p. 41, &c. Nature of ' CbriftitMity, p. 19. Serious Examination, p. 37, Sec. One 6p Inconsistency. Great My ft. One while, They difown the Work Human, they p. 146. ' deny tbe Word Human, as too low to exprefs the Per- ElwoodS fin of Chrift by 3 which, with' refpecl to the Divinityt\ Anfiwer to of his Generation, was more than Human 3 with KeithS firft much more to this purpofe 3 as if they had fuch a Narrative, mighty Veneration for it. /-¦s-oi. - Antidote Ven. 193. Howgu s Works, p. 131, 133. Antidote At another time, They pretend to own Chrift's liu. Ven. p. 16, manity, whilft they moft grofly debafie it,' by afferting,.. 31-. That as the Name Jefus and Chrift belongs to every i* PeningtonS Memher, as well as to the Head 3 fo what was his Per- Queftim to j~m^ q^ t\ieyt mme t\>an tj}e perfoh of another ? Un- P rope for s^ j^ pretence> -j^ £;y jylficiples loved it only for the g ' *, 'j Frame and Quality of the Spirit that dwelled in him 5 *. '91, 93^ ef with more to this purppfe, as a plain Evidence of, Fr Buo-wS their inveterate Opinion of it. XT' °? I' Narrative, Compared -with p. 300, 307, &c. of William BailyS Works. NaylorS One while, The Supper ofthe Lord. with Bread ani Love to the Wine, is owned by them to be inftituted by Chrift, tu Loft, p. 54, be obferved as a Sign till lois fecond coming. 55, &c. PenS Anfiwer to the Bifiop e/Cork, p. 83, 84, 90. PenS Reafon Another time they deny it, as any Inftitution of againft Rail- Chrift at all ; under pretence, that he came to abo- ing, p. 108, Hfh the very Nature of fuch Ordinances ; for which &c. Caufe they will have their Practice to be Popifh. Key, p. 15. Inventions. ¦ Smiths Pri- , mer, p. 36. PinderS Spirit of Error, -p. 10. PenS Key, One while, The People called Quakers cannot be t' a?'. fttd to deny the Lord's Supper of Bread and Wine 5 WhitingS under pretence of that being too hard.a Word. Judas,/>. 181. Another while they affirm, by that one Scrip ture, Heb. ix. 10. The Pafchal Lamb is of as much Authority as Bread and Wine 3 the continuance whereof, Inconsistency. 6i Whereof as of force, is as much as in us lies to Reafon a- pluck up the Gofpel by the Roots. For which g**«ft Rail* Caufe, the Appellation, Ordinances of Chrift they ing>P- IQ8> renounce as Unfcriptural 3 and can te-ftifie from the j0'' fame Spirit by which Paul renounced Circumci- chief p"- ft fion, that they are to be rejected, as not now re- C0^jl-r{"J quired. - p. Ig0. ', Ne-ws corning upt, p. 14, 34, ' One while, rhere is not the Word Sacrament, Great My ft. they deny the Word Sacrament, as a Term not to p. 51, 138. be found in the Holy Scripture. Ne-ws com ing, p. 14, Set. Several Papers printed 1671, p. 45. HubberthornS Works, p. 60. ParnilS Wot -ks, p. 460. DewsberrjS Colleflion, p. 133, At another time, they own it is found "m Da- Melius In- niel, Ephefiians, Coloffums, Timothy, and the Revela- quirend. p. tions, in the Latin Verfion; H6- One while, they own no other Heaven or Hell, Great My ft. but what is within .Man. p- tor, zio, 1 2.14- Another while they pretend they own, not only Retlor Ex^ a Heaven, but a plurality of Heavens alfo with- amined, p. cut them. x 10, 11. One while, Ifrael after the Flefh fhall be gathered The Voice of from all Countries, .and placed in the Land of Ca- him that -was naan, (Sc. and then fhall the Saints fit uponThrones, eficaped from and judge them and the World. Babylon, p. • - .7. Margin. Another while, as they had never" any fuch Pro- FoxS Decla- mife fince the Time of Chrift, fo he that prophe- ration to the fied of their being fcattered over all Nations, did ne- Jews, p. 143. ver prophefy of their being brought back, again. of his Doctri nal Works. One while, The Power fees the End of Forms, de- FoxS Great ftroys them, and brings to fee before Forms were, where Myft.p. 14S. Forms are not. , ^ PenS Wifi- 1 dom jaftifi- . • ed, p. 45. Another while pleads for, fets forth and enjoyns Se/e^ ,Epin the Ufe of their own devifed Forms, as Duties a. 3 eg 75/. ' the. Power brings into the practice of. • journal, p.. J12, 411, 4' 7, 464, &c- To 6.2 Inconsistency. Great Myft-. To call any Man Father upon Earth, as it ij Srteft Epift. contrary, to Matthew xxiii. 9, 10. they tell us, It is p. 160.. t0 expofie themfelves to the We Chrift pronounced, ver. 13; for their Tranfgreftion. Box's Selefi Yet flick not to call one another fo in a Religi- 1 Epift. p. 167^. ous Senfe, directly contrary to the Terms of their Jofiah ColeS tkeir „own alledged Text, to their own Contra- Letter to' diction. Fox. fjfew-Eng- One while, He that refipecls Perfons commits Sin, lands En- and it condemned of the Law for a Tranfgreffor. -fign, p. %7- Ibid. p. it. Another while, Grey Hairs are, honourable, and we ought to rife up and give place to him that is grieve in Years. Barcley Apol. To kneel proftrate, or bow their Bodies to. any p. 515, 519, Man whatever, is reprefented by them for fuch an 530, 531, unchriftian Practice/ as that they declare, they had 531. rather fuffer Death than do it. Quaker clear'd; p. it. Vindicia: Verit. £.31. • y. ,• . Whilft they at the fame time not only make Verit t*ie'r Servants and Apprentices ftand bare-head ,be- EoxS A-n- f°re tbem, but alfo plead for fuch Kneelings, Pro- -i pwer to Hid- ftrations and Bowings towards themfelves, in re- den Things, verence to the Light within them, as they renounce />• 34> 35> and refufe to others as unchriftian 3 in. purfuance 38. -with his of which contradictious Infolenae, feveral Let- ' s ters in the Account of James NaylorS Tryal. Innocency againft Envy, p. 1 8. PenS Judas, p. 104. WhitingS Judas, p. 108, add' BarcleyS Apol. p. 530. -with New-EnglandS Enfign, p. 12. BuggS Pilgrims Progrefs, p. 185. Box's five- As thofe that call themfelves Chriftians, are one ral Papers, while advifed by them not to let any Man bear f. 44, 46. Office, that will take an Qa'th, or refpect Perfons, Pr!"ted (as they call bodily Reverence to Magiftrates, (Sc.) * °" under pretence, that there is no Man in the 60- ParmlS r ' Works, p: . vernment; 2-44» Some Principles of the Ele3 People, p. 51. Ganacliffs, &c. Gof pel Truth, p. xi-. HubberthornS Collection, p. 197. Inconsistency. 63 vernment of Chrift tha$ is a Swearer ; not none fit to be allowed as a Witnefs that will fwear. That they may in nothing pafs without contradicting themfelves, They at another time, not only plead for and Witnefrfheir chufe fuch, but had alfo like to exclude one of their running -with Preachers out of their Holy Unity (as they call iO the Mob to for prefuming to reprehend them for this their In- chufe Mem- confiftency 3 in defence whereof hers for Par liament in Cities and Burroughs. Compared with William PenS Letter to Richard Townlhend, as cited p. 61. of the id Part of Fr. BuggS Great Myftery ;¦ -with their Profiecution of their Friend. Ranfam, for his oppofing them. ' One while they tell the World, $Wearing might PenS Reafon have been known to be unlawful by the Light againft Rail* .within, if it had not been written, Swear not at all. ing, p. 40, &c Counterfeit Chriftian^ p. 87, &c. ParnilS Colleflion, p. 450. : At another time, the Precept of our Saviour in Melius In- Mat, v, (Sc compared with , tha,t of the Apoftle q,uirend. p. James v. is alledged by them as the only Ground 98, 113. of their Refufal. ParnilS Col- lefiion, pr - 470, 471. PenymanS Life, p, 75.' Weft anfwering to the North, p. 14. ¦'<;:•¦ One While faying, God is my Record ; Behold be- p , fore God I lie not ; I call God for a Record upon my f n". , Soul; I obteft before God ; 1 an* clear before God ; I, ™ • /•1 1 • 1 • 1 r~ r r. 1 , r 1 aen J-hmes, folemnly declare in the. Fear of God; I charge ym by * _ „ the Lord; I charge you before God; as fure as the Hubber- Lord lives; as God is our Witnefs 3 with others of thorn' s Col* the like import, are no Oaths, but what they never lertion, p. gainfay in neceffary Cafes 3 being as occafion is, 315. as free to ufe any of them, as they are to ufe Tea BarcleyS A- - and Nay. itfelf. P°l p- 55°- FilherS one Antidote, p. 17. Quakers Plea, p. 7. Accufier of the Brethren eaft, p. 116. HowgilS Unchangeable Teft, and Anfi-wer to Smal- ~ wood. Wz-fiot's Defence, as cited p. 153. ofBugg'sHiddenThings. Whiteheads Epiftle from their Meeting for Sufferings. Quakers. Plea, p. 7. FilherS Anfiwer to Gauden, p. 14. BurrowS Works, f\ 13. Chiidgp Anfiwer to the Effay upon Mat, v. &c. 64 Inconsistency. <:,? PenS At another time they not only own, what is "2Ve«*«r* of more than Tea and My- is an Oath 3 but alfo, that Oaths fome of thofe above-mentioned, with others of Melius In- the fame Import, they have ufed, are exprelly quirend. p. granted by' them to be Oaths they cannot tub-, 105, 106. ject to. 1 HowgilS « Works. Rambling Pilgrim, p. 3 5- Fofit. and Teft. p. 51. RichS Hidden Things, p. 34. PenymanS Quaker unmasked, p. 15. El- woodS Anfiwer to G. Keith, p. 117. BurrowS One while, They own no King but Jefus, mr no Works, p. Officers under him ; under pretence, That all Ru- i44- - lers, Judges, Juftices, Lawyers and Conftablcs, might Compared^ ye cut jown w/^ the fame Power that cut down King -with Box's Chai.ies thc pirft ; that being the falfe Church which °North t p mUcn more t0 Z^'IS PurP°^e» according to the Di- " 18, 19 10 ctates of their Light within. Yet no fooner did 17'. and fie- his Son Charles the Second come to his Throne, veral Papers but that they fet forth Declarations thick and three- to the Pres- fold, wherein they, by the Dictates of the fame byter'ums, unerring Light, tell him, printed Antv 1660.. That as God wilt have the World ruled by Laws ani Sob. Expoft. qiv;i Government, and therefore hath appointed Kings, p. 101, 101, j-g tfiere ^as a mmifefi Hand of Q0d in' bringing in the r"£" . , , King 3 for which Caufe they not only lov'd, own'd and 1 ^ honour d him, with all inferiour Officers under him ; Weft anfwer- ^ut their Reverence was fuch, as that if they could tak} ing- to the &ny Oath at all, it fhould be that of Allegiance to him, North, p. it. la. purfuance of which felf-confiftent Principle in' Declaration nought but Incdnfiftency, from the Harmlefs, &c. HubberthornS Account of feveral Things, p. %. John Whiteheads Colle6lions. " Compared -with PenymanS Qitakers ContradicTions, Sec. Box's five- One while, It is not lawful to give fuch Titles ral Papers, to any King on Earth, Tour Majefty, Sacred Majefty, p. 5. Gracious Majefty, &c. ' . PcnsWifidoni 'fiiftified, p. t. BarcleyS Apol. p. 'iii, 519, jn, 531, 531. Another Inconsistency': Sj :, ¦ 'Another while,' riot only entitles one of their Hubber- Difcourfes, An Account of feveral Things that paffed thorns Ac- l/etween Us ^Sacred Majefty. and Richard Hubber- count, com- thorn 3 but alfo, befides. the Title of Majefty they pared with have given to our late Queen Anne, in their Ad- J°hn White- Irenes, (Sc they have printed and re-printed a heads 6VA Prophefy of William Lilly's, wherein they ftUe l'a,a*- \ K King James the Second, His Gracious Majefty ; in *£?* 'irs, ** -behalf whereof William Pen alledg'cl divers Aigit ££/£ W' ments in my Audience'. ^ Several Ad- dreffesi and Contetnn'd Quaker, p. %i. ,i, .. . One, while, Dreadful is the Lord, who is coming Nevis com- to change all your Laws, ye Kings, &c. under pre-- int uPi P- tenee, That the Lord is rifen to pverturn Kings, ™? i0> &c- Princes, Rulers, Judges, Lawyers and Confta- S^rr?w s , bles, (Sc. who with all Governments and Laws ^ /£ s> P° muft be cut down and ceafe, by, the fame Powefr Several P - that cut down King Charles the Firft. *e rs g;ven ' * ... : > '"¦' /(""r^,' />.. 9, to,,irs ii, I j, 14, 15, itf, 17, 18.' Weft anfiwering to the North; />• «9- Another while, not only pretend to , be for a" 0 . , , King, Government and good Laws, (Sc. but re- jj~atfr i prefent it as no fmall faVou'r of the King and Go- Ans/FfaV' vernment towards them; that they are pleafed to Seci'. i6i let them ferve in the Office of Conftable, (Sc. they Journal, p. have* foretold the Deftruction of.' 660. • Sob. Expo ft; f. 101, 101. ParnilS Works, p. 75, 81, ; 81.' Ganacliffs, <&v.' Go-' fpel Truths, p. 14. One1 while, they riot only own a Chriftian Ma, Weftanfiol geftry to be fent of God for the Punifliment of E- t0 the Norths >vil Doers, (Sc. but that, as he may for that end,/1- 21> l8> ¦¦:<¦ ufe 31' 50- r. ' '¦ ..,;.• 1 . •; , ,.,,,!/.? Some Prin ciples of the Ete ft 1 p.; 81, 81, HubberthornS.Co&tficff, pf &$, ijt. 138. Good Old Caufe, p. 3. ParnilS Colleclion, p. 8i,'8i, 84. Ganacliffs Anfwer, p. 14. State of the Cafe.' pefence of an A- pology, p. 3.. CrookS Works, p. 140, 141, Anfi-wer to Hidden. Things, p. 11. WyethS PrimitivejChriftian, p. 41, &c. SmithY Right dividing. D. BakcrS Guilt lefs, Cries, p. 19. Box's- feveral 'Papers,: p. j8.' E 66 Inconsistency. ufe the, outward Sword, fo they loudly call'd, for it as' a Duty 3 which if omitted, would let in all the Bruits upon us 3 fince, if the King fuffered .[¦'f r Swearers, Lyars, Drunkards, Oppreflbrs, Strikers ,. " and Fighters, to go without Punifliment, the Light in the Confeience will execute the Law of God upon him. Ne-ws out of At another time pretend, That as the Power of , the North. God (which ftrikes down all Governments,) orders Great Myft. People when there is no outward, Government} 2' 76' _ fuch Chriftians as are come to Perfection, cannot Vr'Zim'e'd defetld themfeIves hY Arms 5 for whkh ^aufe' if ' 1660 p'\ \ ^e Magiftrate be a Chriftian, or defires robe fo, Melius In- ' ^e ought in the firft place, (according to his Ma- tiuirend. p. Iter's Rule,) to love his Enemies, and then he could., 73, '&c. not command to kill, them, refift their Violence by Ang. Flag. Force, or ftrike again when they ftrike him. In p. 311. -with purfuance of which Nonfenfical Impertinence, Sect. 1 6. fays Fox, Now you Kings, Princes, Rulers, called :\ throughout. Chriftians, are not peaceable one with another,- and ft [ Barcley s A- are not ,•„ tf}e pr/;film that is from above; which if you p.ol. p. 560, „ere) fljgyg xoould be no Falling out, nor Strife, nor Hurt- 567) i°9- ingy or Warring one againft another, but loving one ano--; Doff- Wor s, t^ey. . {re Exm;fc ef Carnal Weapons being utterly in- p.i 3> 1 4> c'onfifient with the Gofpel of Chrift, for which Caufe ft Do ft Works ^y theVfie of them againft any Man whatever ; ¦ witfej *. 163, 151,' more to this purpofe 5 all which he, or fome of his 451. compa- Friends for him, elfewhere^ exprefly deniesand red -with his contradicts, in faying, Speech to O- liver Crqmwel, as cited p. 137. of bis Journal. Declaration-, from the Harmlefs, Preamble. Anfiwer to Harwood, refer' d to p.- 30. of RichS Hidden Things. BarcleyS Apol. Several Papers, p. 38. s . .. George Fox doth not meddle with Magiftrates' for ' in Anfwer beaming the~ Sword' for punifhing Evil Doers, &c- for to Hidden though he'did fuffer, becaufe he would not take up Things, p. Arms, or carry Weapons, and bear Office 5 yet this 19, n. - doth not prove, he is againft Magiftrates bearing Seiefl Epift'. the • p. 145. com pared -with FoxS Anfiwer to Harwood, as cited in RichS Hidden Things. I N C 6 $ S i S T E N C Y* 6 J the Sword", which he allow* of arid owns in l'ri place j though it feems, Others of his Quaker Bre thren do not 5 witnefs their following Decla ration. As concerning thofe xiho Are under the Oofpel of krxgt Flag. Peace, we have front the first fince wi were a People, p. 119, ndj declared, That God hath taken the Sword out of their &c- 3ii> Hands, they being redeemed out of the Fighting State, 366> 367- . wherefore our Quaker Magiftrates in Penfilvania from whenU need not have diftinguifhed (as the Snake iagge&sf'ome °f'.em: betwixt their ufittg Carnal Weapons, as Magiftrates, *re ' fSa^ft not Quakers* fince, if there had been any Fighting %y'^:axgs C. . , , * „ . 1 /¦ r -1 • 1 1 * r> P to carrj/ on 1. e. With the Ptrdtestheyyent after} it doth not fol- W(tr ~s ¦ ,t low, That the Fighters Were Quakers, there being other as jj/-ar ;t_ fUagiftrates, &c. that were not Quakers j with more j^ifi $ee to this purpofe j in. direct contradiction to all pi n. of the ivhich BookftiledBox Craft, Jmhich yet others make no fcrtiple ont See BafckyS Apoh <&V. They elfe where exprefly tell the World, Tbat $ /nJtb' ' they were never againft true Chriftian Magiftrates /*-*„ '* a bearing the Sword for the Punifhment of Evil Doers • i}eighty°Qt(e- well knowing, none elfe are fo fit to ufe the fame a-ft;01f * $s gainft fuch, as thofe that ard redeemed out of the E* Ano-. Flag, vii; there being a lawful Fighting, as Well as an un- p. .312. lawful one 3 with more to this purpofe j in pUrfu-» Something ance whereof, in Anfiwer to Hidden Things, p. 19, iii Smith's Right dividing, and PcningtonS Worksi p. 117. One while they declare, Thejr are hot againft Hu^ef- ftrikjng at Offenders by the Sword Civil. and Military, thornS Col- - provided he thatftrikps has skill to fudge what are Of- left ion, p. fences 3 nor yet againft talking Life in fome Cafes 5 the 141, as Wo being to hint that necejfttates the Chriftian to kill, printed. PcningtonS Works, p. 114. GrookS Works^ p. 178. Compared -with p. 4, &c< of SmithS Right dividing ; a Book fib -well liked by our Apoftatest as they have divided it from his Works, -which they -would its' ver have done, had they not been divided from their o-wn Wits. % % Anothet 68 Inconsistency^ BarclcyS A- Another while, to go about to reconcile, Refift . pol. p. i67. not Ev;i, with rifift Violence by Force 5 give alfo the compared other Cheek, wkh ftrike again ; Love thine ,Ene- nvith p. $6o. m-ies> w-lt^ \ purfiue them with Fire and Sword, &c. Box'sDoflri- is £0 about t0 reconcile Chrift with . Antichrift, nal Works, Qood wkh Evil> L;ght ^ Darknefs, and God P' l6.%' 119' with the Devil, fince he that commanded, them frlttUhe'"" not t0 Smar at all> hathalfo commanded them not t Harmlefs, to Kill. P-4-Box'sDoflri- C*nfr while they* cry out, . Did ever the Saints, l mal Works, complain to Authority to guard them ? Hear ye whited i p. 134. , ' Tombs, ye painted Sepulchre ; What Gofpel is this ye ' HowgilS ' profefis ? What God is this ye ferve, that muft be de- Works, p. 3. fended with Clubs, Swords, Rulers and Carnal Wea-> BurrowS pons} We never read, the Saints made Complaint to a- Works, pi wj, poxeer on Earth to fave and defend them, it being^' 507 • , below their Mafter s Command 5 wherefore, to any out-_. ?5ir?w * . ward Authority we cannot feek, &e. ' Declaration J J v' of Sufferings, jp. 33, 40. printed 1659. PeningtoftS Another while, As the Magiftrate. drawingout his] Works, pi Sword againft the Evil he is to cut down, will ex-It 2.16, 311, ceedingly thereby nourifh the Church 3 fo have regard to 3X3^ our fuffering Cafe we befeech you 3 fince, if the lndi-1 Eox s Select jns CBme t0 ro[j mr plantations or Houfes, t%avifh our Epifi.p-3 3, Wives or Daughters, or Murther our Perfons, &c..: 1 Id ' we ou^at to difcover and complain of them to the Ma- *^, ' "" giftrate, that they may be punifhed according to the The Cafe of DireBion of Chrift, Luke xii. 38. for which Caufe I Oaths to the was moved to tell King Charles the Second, That if he, .Parliament, did not flop Perfecution and Perfiecutors, he would be p. 6. ,as bad as they that went before him, faith Fox, Treatife of->* Oaths to King and Parliament, p. 16, Sec. Whiteheads One while, whatever any may fay of them Juft Ennui- with relation to their Reflection on Governments,- vJh t; 9- they have always been conftant to the Doctrine Truth and r. '\nnoc. p. 31. TeningtonS Great Queft. &c. p.- 14^ Preface to FiflierS Rufti- ens, &c. Inconsistency.^ 6g of Non-Refiftanee and Paffive-Obedience j the Lord having fo form'd them, as that they can't but be obedient. At another time exclaim againft their Opponents Hubber- at a loud Rate, for pretending to give up them- thornS An- felves willingly ana" peaceably unto whatfoever/"'^ '*H the Government is, or foall be eftablifhed in this Na- BaptiflfDe- tion, (Sc. as a Submiffion far below that Spirit, clar<*tion, p. which was once in fome of them 3 well knowing, h 4' j, that it was a good Thing that the Parliament over- ^rmnl "" threw King Charles the Firft 3 Nature may be ex- more u~t0 tended till it recoil, and Magiftrates punifhed that England adminifter not Juftice, and do even to Law. p. g. a„^ Advice to the Army, as cited p. 6. of PenymanS Quaker unmasked, viith p. 13, &c. of BifijopS Illumination. Weft anfwering to the North, 35.31. 1 One while, whatever is done in the Church, in BarcleyS A- chufing of Magiftrates, . except it be done by the P°l- p. S°4- Miniftry of God's Spirit, is vain and wicked, God NaylotV , , having promifed, He would chufe us Judges as at *tav* tl lthe the firft, &c. for which Caufe we are, not to med- ~^m die in the Choice of them, without an AfTurance (,^*" y of their being anointed of God for that End and church ofth Purpofe. Quakers, p! 19. MarchS ancient Teftimony, , "Another while, as Mageftry is a Civil Qffice As hM mf which the Unregenerate,. as well as the Regene- ml. c latg rate, (who are skilful in the Laws) may duly exe- ^ >n jfte„ cute 3 fo we may joyn in their Election, accord- ^ftedge'd, but ing to the Direction of our feveral outward Inte-tf^ (wj'th refts, without waiting for God's immediate In- relation to ftructiohs in the Choice Pf 'em. the Choice of Members for Parliament, as ¦ -well as .Sheriff's for Cities) been frequently preach ed by our depraved Pretenders in my Audience, Sec. Qne while, Let nothing be feen in our Meetings, but 'the Life and Truth, &c. And none to tpuench the Spirit, or go beyond, or without its Motion ; under E 3 pretence, 70 Inconsistency. Sele ft Epift. pretence, That as all Other Preaching is Conjuriu $¦ 3°7> 47?.» tions they who fay, They fend forth any to preach, *J9* do-falfly accufe them 3 wherefore, in the Name of Anfwer to t^g Living qb^ fay phey, let none prefume or dare to Weltmorr fpe(t\^ Words pretending to minifter, except eternally mi pt'"' moved * the fime bein& at Ha^d that Man'' mrd'1 Preface to ft"11 cea^e ' ffeal(-inS byyermiffton being the Inlet of Journal, . & ^pofttcy, &£, CrookS ¦ Works, p. 385. ParnilS Works; p. 418. ParkerS Mamfeft. p. 17, 18.. Evans's Travels, p. 18, Word in the Word, 'p.,z. BurrowS ' Works, p,7i. Sele ft Epift. Another while, as the Apoftle fent Peter and ?• 4*3; John unto the Samaritans, fothey plead for our go, PenymanS jng at tne fending one of another, without pre,' Trails, p. 7, tending to ftay whilft we have fuch a Motion, as lift7' To th6y formevly Pleaded for- ji. One while, the Lord fhewed their Fox, That he Journal, p. fhould fpeak. in Steeple-Houfes ; for which Caufe he 54> ii-> i°> went and preached there, as the moft convenient'' ¦,7*'l; Place that could be found. 79, 81, 8J, ?49» I5»» I77> 188, 476. Journal, p. Another while, he was to cry againft that great 16,61,61, Idol, and the Worfhippers therein, to bring "Peo, *3»74?75- pie off from thofe Places; and therefore denies Great Myft. their Churches fo called, as Mafs-Houfes, Beaft,, *r 6%h tl Houfes, (Sc wherein God can't be worfhipped j fwt ™L for which Ca^e he wa* I,ot t0 S° into them when reoptejwuo mvired pteet in Stee- ' ple-Houfies, ice. , Great Myft. One while, they are for invifible Officers, invu (. 80, ZJ3 , *>ble Overfeers, and invifible Orders in the Church fee. for our Directors. jlccufer of Another while, this appears malicious and ab- the Brethren ford 3 as if, becaufe Chrift's immediate Govern,. eaft, &c. p. ment is Inward and Spiritual in the Confcience j ??8. therefore he muft have no vifible Minifters, Or? ders ar4 Fprms, of Government in his Kingdom. On? Inconsistency. 71 One while, they are for Liberty for all Men ClarkS Rod • and Women to preach as the Spirit gives Utte- difcovered, ranee, without waiting for any Man's Allowance p- *8, 19, or Permiffion, by way of Certificate or otherwife ; 4°> 48. 5°> under -pretence, of fuch Attendance being Un- *'• fcriprural, as appears by the Inftance of Etekjcl °e" ™7V And Jeremiah's Commifiion, (Sc. -pfif'Z' New-England Enfign, p. 59. - At another time, fet forth Orders againft their EoxS Selefl own profefs'd Members, going forth to preach Epift les, p. without a Certificate of their Monthly Meetings Z9Z- Approbation ; as a plain Evidence, that theyrdoryt Journal. efteem them divinely Commiffionated as thofe an- p?ivate Mi asm Prophets were they refer to as their Pre- fl"tesp y?e ir cedents. , .£' One while for Toleration, Toleration, an univer- pen-j. prerace ¦fal Toleration, and full Liberty of Confidence, as con- to Box's fiftent with the Truth and their profeft Principles. Journal. PehirigtonS Teft, entitled, The Government vihicb Cbrijl excluded out of his Church. Epift. to Rufticus, p. 4, 5. At another time, exclaim againft their Oppo- Hubber- nents for offering to tolerate Epifcopacy, Presby- thorn, &c. tery, or any ftinted Form, as an Evidence of their Anfwer to - having loft Sincerity, through their Inclination to the Baptifts Idolatry. • Declaration, ' p. IS. PenS Alexander, p. 7. Spirit ofthe Hat, p. 11. as cited in Bu^gS Pilgrims Progrefs, and Pifture of Quakerifim. One while, they agree with Bifhop Winton, That Ven'sRejoytr- the Sparkj God hath placed in Men for their Guide, der to Faldo, is Confidence 3 and that their Teftimonies give, great p--^, 39. Honour to Confidence 3 in purfuance whereof, they S'kirmifher, almoft deafen the World with their impetuous^- 3"8> 3 9- Outcries for Liberty of Confcience. RealQuaker, Another while, the Principle they fpeak of, is £' *1)'M a not Confcience, (which may be depraved) bvn .re" ,-" " Chrift s Light in the Confcience. j, loS^ 10 Quaker cleared, p. 71, 81. Exam, of Grounds and Caufes, p. 64* E 4 One ' •£? ¦ Inconsistence JElwoodS One while, to charge their Yearly Meetingl Truth de- w[th afluming Power to make Laws, to bind the'.;. fended, p.H. Conferences of all that go under the outward Pro- rcd teK™ of Quak.ers> is without proof 5 it not being quiicnd.'/>. their Principle ' to make Laws without the leave, Counterfeit, of their Superiors. Convert, p. 51. Truth and Innocency, p. 41. Melius In- Another while, as all Societies have fome Laws' quirend. p. or Orders for the Government thereof $ fo have 119. compa- they fuch as Chrift hath taught them." red with ''" their Yearly Papers of Anno 1666, &c. many of which William1; R.ogers (in his' Quakers divided) declares, be oppofeft "as illegal in fh'cir firft Inftitution. • " "•'¦ " ''' >¦ • ¦ . ¦• Box's Sole ft One while, the Precedents of Ifiaac, Jacob, Boa%', Epift. p. 179- Huth and Tobias, who married their Kindred, are to be our Examples, fince they were not judged. ;j ToxS Order Anpther while, fuch Marriages. are abominable! of ha. 1675. Wickednefs, Villany, Confufion, and not to be Whiteheads r,ractifed under the Penalty of' our Exclufion, (Sc'i Defence. J; Eleventh One while, the Name Quakers is rightf 3 Scrip-I Paper 'of ture Name, and they own it. '' foine Papers '¦ - • • • 1 '*i fiveif forth. en's Qua- Another while, as the Name Quaker is a new kerifim, a Nick-Name for old Chriftianity, given them in new Nick- way of Derifion ;' they renounce and difown it a$ Name, Sec. a hateful Term of t) iftinction, (Se. though they Box s five- own Trembling and Quaking. '¦) ral Papers, _ j. P . 31. Weft anfwering to the North, p. 9, 10. Great Myft. One while, the Evil of faying 'You for Thou, con-1 p. 153, &c: fifts in its Impropriety to a' fingle Perfon, 'as' well Battledoor, as' Inconfifte'ncy with the Form ' of found Words ' 1,8, &c. the Apoftle commended. - • • .' Inpodufl. Another while, (when pinch'd for their faying"' Thee for Thou) the Ground of their Confcieritiouf-* nefs iii not faying Tou {ox Thou, is not becaufe o£ its Inconsistency. 73 its Impropriety, but (next the Scripture) becaufe penS No the Original of it was Pride and Flattery. Crojfs no Crown, com pared with p. 61, of his Anfwer to the Bifhop of Cork. ' One while, they_ for ever difown fuch, as under BarcIcyS pretence of the Spirit, act any Evil, or take that Works. ' from any which is none of their own. Wounds of an Enemy, p. 13. Quakers Paper of Auguft io. Anno 1670, Another while, as for any being moved of the Grgat M„„ Lord to take away your Hour-Glafs from you, by * „ ™ ' the eternal Power, it is owned. Tyranny and Hypocrify detefled, p. 38. One while, they hinder no Man from paying-Fifher^ Tythes,. that hath a Mind to jt, and whofe, Coa- for n'd Qua- feiences compel them even that way to maintain **r» P; S- their Minifters. \ gjjgj* Another while, exclaim againft them as Ranters,Elwood's < that plead for a Liberty to pay Tythes to fuch Antidote 4- Minifters as they own 5 under pretence, that they gainft Ro- that pay or receive Tythes (whether Priefts or g?Fs's Inf eft. Impropriators) deny Jefus Chrift to be come in (• 78- the Flefh. ' Whiteheads . ¦¦ Accujer, p. ioj. ClarkS Rod difcovered, p. 14, &c. One while,; If any ftand not in Unity with their Yearly Paper" Mjniftry andBo'dy of Friends, pretending' to be of An. 1666, pf them, arid will not admit, in Cafes of Contro- *V- compa- verfy, to be tried by the Church of Chrift, (as they ™d wit.hW, call their Sect) nor fubmit to the Judgment given \?a s De,~ by the Spirit, of Truth (as they call the Light) in {^f * "J* £ the Elders, (Sc. but kick againft it, as* only the ^"tA eaJL Judgment of Man, then they teftify in the Name Combind. ' ' of their Lord, fuch are to be rejected, as Perfons joyned in one with Heathens and Infidels. Another While, A$ the Apoftle John judged all the Seven Churches of Afia, and Paphnius oppofed ^ t|ie whole Council of Wee, fo (as whole AfTem- , '•¦''¦'. bjie§, 74 Inconsistency. BarcleyS blies, (Sc. both have and may err) they are not Works, p. againft any Member, how obfcure foever, jiidg- 218, &c. ing and condemning their whole Body, whofe;; Judgment is grounded on a very weighty and fo- - ' lid Foundation. Quakerifm, One while, no Command in Scripture is any a new Nick- farther obliging upon any Man, than as he finds a Name, p. 71. Conviction upon his Confcience 3 otherwife Men Brief Exa- fhould be engaged without, if not againft Con- mination, viction : A thing unreafonable, fince whofoever $• 3- , takes up any Command, as held forth in the Let- . Burrow j wijj be found a breaker" thereof in Spirit, t$c.i Works, p. ",-i 47, 105. A Defence, p. 16. ParnilS. Works, p. 131. PeningtonS Anfwer to SalterS Queries, p. 11, 19, 13, 14, 18, 30, <&c. Brief Exam. Another while, 'Tis a dangerous Principle, and,; and State, pernicious to true Religion, and which is worfej it Sec. p. j. is-, the .Root of Rantriqn, to affert, That nothing is England s a Duiy incumbent upon them, but what they are perjk Intereft, fixaded or convinced is their Duty 5 fince Holy Writ is $' 3 • the declared fundamental Law of Heaven. See Box's One while, Did not Chrift wafh the Difciples Paper, as Feet ? Did he not do that as a. Pattern and Exam-j cited p. 41. pie to thofe that came after him, that they fhould; of Robert ^o fo to one another ? Are not thofe Things to be; RichS Ac- a(g.ed amongft' the Difciples of Chrift? Where- count ftom £Qre ?• I0» Things. "'A!-'*16' nihgtonS Authority and Government w'hich Chrift excluded, &c. At 76 Inconsistency." PenS Brief At another time, Ufurp Dominion over the Exam, of Li- Faith and Confeiences of their own Friends ; un- 'berty Spiri- der pretence, that as every Man being left to the tual, p. 11. Grace of Gpd in themfelves, is a loofe Plea, tend- Ytafly Epift. ing to Rantriqn ; the Church having Power to ef An. 1666, giVe pofitive Sentence or Decifion in Matters Spi^ BarcleyS ritual and Temporal, which may be Obligatory W°w \ an£ uPon' t'ie Members ®f "» whether or no they fee Whitehead/ it their Duty to fubmit to it ; in purfuance of which 60 \t PremmPtu°as Affomption, i°- Tongues, and told them in way of Anfwer to their HowgilS Opponent's Objection of thofe Paffages, Works, p. r' ioi. R.H. Good Old Caufe, p. 7, 13. Cafhiered out of his General Col lection. 1 That the Quakeris hold no Government lawful, but Whiteheads in their own Hands 3 and that they have only right Truth and to rule over the whole Earth 3 and that it is lawful for Innocency* them to Fight, and fubdue tbe World under them 3 P' 6i • and that they expeft it 5 they utterly deny and te- ftifie againft, as grofs Calumnies, crying, for Shame, for Shame, malicious Perfecutors ! Though nothing more true of themy as will appear by their fol lowing Sollicitations tP he Relifted in the State- Trujbs Cha- Army, after they had for their Foxonian Singula- rpf'r$rs fities, (Sc. been turn'd out of it 3 in purfuance ¦ roJ^M')r^ whereof, ?' f One 78 Inconsistency.' tarrow'sand ^ne wk\le, T^ ca^ed ^oud^ °ut unt° Rkhanf FoxS Good Oromwel, to chufe the Lord (as they call their Light Counfel Sec. whhin) for his Counfellor, and exalt him and his p. 41, 44, 6 j. People, called Quakers j and the numberlefs Number of BifhopS that defpifed People would be a Strength, andftand by Warnings to him in the Day of Trouble, and defend him and his O.Cr6mwd,juft Government. In order whereto, They advifed &c. p. 1,9, the General Council ef the Army, to fet. at Liberty Good Old forthwith all the Confcientious People called Quakers* Caufe by R. then in "Bonds, becaufe of their Innocency, who had been t ^' */?' -a' c and juftifie the Parifh Teachers ; un- tainsandOf- c'er pretence, that (had it not been for fuch Impofi- ] fcers Sec. tions) they were never otherwife minded, than to have' p. 6, 7. flood in Defence for the Nation againft their Enemies Juft and that oppofed them 3 for which Caufe they defired, that'. equal Appeal the Good Old Caufe might be once more reviii'd, ani and State of fuch Men picked out, as would go on with it 3 with tbe Innocent much more to this purpofe. All which, notwith- Caufie of us ftanding, when the King came in, they turn'd their ¦who have Tongue, and told the World, been turned out of your Army, for the Exercife of our pure Confidences, whe are now perfecttted amongft Our Brethren, under the Name of Qua kers ,¦ compared with the Treatife entitled, Fox Craftj p. 10, '&C,.. Xivezs'sVi- That as they know Zion muft not be builded with car of Ban- Blood, they cannot with any Carnal Weapons either bury, p, 19. fight to defend or, offend ', wherefore, their refufingto Quakers Re- j-^n ty Affociation, was not out of difaffeBion to tht_:. monftrance, Govemmcnt, but purely becaufe tbey-could not for CenXj A^^'tT fc*ence fak.e> figbt, kjU or revenge, either for them^ . flimonv re-' fe^vesf or my ^Am etfe- ^n Purfoance Of which mewed, firft Principle, as they' did utterly deny all outward Wars, ,. Impreffion of Strife and Fightings, with outward Weapons, for any the 13 of the end, or under any pretence whatfoever 5 fib -they havi firft Month, never denied in PraElice, what they have profefs'd in 1695-6. Principle 3 having ufed no Force or Violence againft Declaration any fince they were a People ; the Lord lyiows their from the ll6* Work, i. e. of the Civil Wars in England, (ftiled J37> *39, by them the Good Old Caufe) they defired that fuch *4°' 14?- might be pick'd out as would go on with it 3 well p^//J^ f knowing their firft Engagements therein againft and 'Arfl the Bifliops, Prelates, King, Lords, and whole *-Xj &(/' Body of OpprefTors, was juftly and truly upon ac- Bifliops * count of purchafing and obtaining Liberties in Ci- Warnings to vii Rights, as well as in Matters of Confcience for O. Cromwel. themfelves and others, wherein they certainly To Generals, know, the. Lord appeared with them and for them, Captains, their Friend Hubberthorn (amongft others of them,) Officers, Sec. being in the Army in Scotland whilft the Land-was^- I',z> t&f- redue'd, and fometimes did preach amongft his5u"0w'-f . Companions that loved him. . Teft. at the * Front of HubberthornS Collect, with p. 83. Weft anfwering to the North, p. 16, 67, 68, 96, 101, 103. / Another while, That though fome of them that BarcleyS E- were engaged therein, no doubt, defigned-good p'ft- to. King Things) (Sc. yet they were always wrong in the Charles II. mumtvatrtbefr />• being bad Cattle, Horfes, Heifers and Bulls, &Q.fi£tnttd , that kick againft their Fodderers. • We have all been conftant faithful Friends to the Weft anfwer - Commonwealth, and in Arms for it ; having in the ing to the late Wars vindicated the Rights and Liberties of our North, p. 3, Country in the Field, with our Blood 3 in which fome 10, 96, ioi, of our Friends fought from firft to laft. Being once loi- called Sectaries, and in Anno 1650, Quakers 3 j/^' BurrowS we are not a new Religion, Habakkuk, Daniel, and^orks> P' all the Saints in all Ages being Quakers, whom tbe tft*\ „. Scripture fpeakj of before MoCes. . *°* J 3°"%r' Great Myft. p. 40, 61, 61. To the Generals, Captains and Offi cers, Sec. Title Page, Sec. G. Fox, jun. Works, compared with thofe feveral lnftances, cited />. 83, 84.. of the ift Part of the De* fence of the Snake againft Whiteheads Antidote. Contradict. We have not made War with Carnal BurrowS Weapons againft any, never fince we were a People Works, p. (mark fay they) it being not poffible George Fox 67z- fhould mean [when he faid, How are Men fain from AnS- F^ag- that which they were, when Thoufands of us went t' ii7' in tlie Front of you] Thoufands of Quakers 3 be- *ox1'/«™ "/ , caufe, at the firft of the War (which is the Time he^J^J-'" fpeaks of) there was no fuch Thing as a Quaker \yookich tt Jpoke or heard of- wherefore, fhew us if you can, that ^_ Charles We have ufid any Carnal Weapon fince we were a Peo- it, * -_ pie 3 fying in your Witnefis, and if it be true, we wilt ' confefs it. Will you ? We fliall foon fee that. The Captain would often fay, Thomas, take thy Friends and do fo and fo 3 and I took, my Friends, and did it far beyond his ExpcBation, "Upon which he would fay, He cared not if all his Men were Qua kers, for they were the hardieft Men in his Ship : For we called Quakers fought with as much Courage as ¦ any 3 and I was as great a Fighter as moft 5 and other of our Friends were Preachers whilft in Olivers Ar my, which they never left until they were turn'd out oj 82 Inconsistency. LurtingS it 5 we having nothing againft Fighting, if the Spirit . Fighting move us to it ; with much more to this purpofe 5 Saylor, p. yet are they fo far from making good their Pro- t8>19- mife in confeffing, That they have ufed any Carnal Weft anfwer- Weapon fince they were called Quakers, as that they ing to the exprefly deny it notwithftanding, to their exprefs North p. 96, Corntradidion> in fcying; 101, &c. ' D BurrowS Epift le to the Reader e/R. HubberthornS Collection. Tho. TpmfonS Teftimony concerning John Whitehead at the Front of his Works. G. Fox, jun. Collection, compared with their Preachers Teftimony in open Court, as recorded in their Book of Outlandifh Letters, cited p. 8. of the Quakers Contradictions ; in purfuance , of which Principle they will Fight yet, whatever they tell to the contrary ; witnefs their Armament againft the French Linkers in. Amber-Creek, fipoken of p. 13. of their Friend Daniel Leeds Fox- Craft. Fox' D ft '- ^° ta& uf ^rms outwardly, we utterly deny 3 and nal Works *f *5 not our Frinciple, nor is it in the Covenant of Life p. iz? 678. and Feace with God, but out of it 3 for even, ever An<*. Fla?. fmce ™e were A People, it. bath been our Principle and p. 334. ' PraElice, not to ufe the outward Sword. Carnal Wea- Epiftle to pans being of the firft Birth ; e/Pharoah, Gain, Ifh- Fifher's Ru- mael, Efau, Sodom, Babylon, Egypt, and the fticus, p. 9, Whore 3 wherefore you need hot fear us Fighting, un- Qttakers Re- ^er pretence of the Spirit s moving us to it 5 fince that monftrance, 0fi chrift we are guided by, is net changeable. p. 14. , ' Quakers Plea. Box's Journal, p. 133, 134. Declaration from the Harmlefs, p. z, 6, 8, &c. Brief Declaration, p. 4, 5, 6. News out of Sound an Alarm 5 Call to the Battle ;' Gather toge-- the North, p. t her for the Deftrutlion ; Draw the Swcrd; Hew down 17. with p. all 'fruitlefs Trees which cumber the Ground 3 HeWt 31, 41. with ltj)Wn an falfe Juftice, which is not Juftice 5 Hew down much more in M ,fe pmgrs ^ ¦ fhg £mh . sUy Baaj? ^aa[zm.muft tio-wgus, ig jia;n> and all the Hirelings muft be turned out of p.„ , the. Kingdom; The Sword cf the Lord is drawn againft Works elfe- y°-u a^ > for ^eftru^'lon ye are-> the Sword you cannot wbere'refer- efcafe i and it fhall be upon you e're long, the- Lord.of red to to Hofts hath fpok]en it ; Wo to him that is lifted up 3 the fame Plagues are thy Portion 3 And in defraying ye, God is purpofe. honoured. Contradict. Inconsistency. 8j Contradict. Oh horrid and implacable Malice ! SoberExpotl. Our Friends did not mean literally as of an out-,, -6 -/ ward wounding or treading under Feet any truly j'g. ' Honourable Gentry, or others, as'infinuated from Truth and thofe Paffages, which are all Allegorical Expreffi- innocency, ons, intending Spiritual Weapons and Warfare :/>. 62, 63,64. The Charge, that we Were for flaying and banifh- Compared ing. all the Clergy in the Kingdom, under the with p. 3, 41, Denomination oi Baal's Priefts, Hirelings, (Sc. and *¦?• of my againft Liberty of Confcience in Olivers Time, Narrative being what we have charged on our Adverfaries °J "J1* , asAbufes. (ord Confie- rence, which Miftake I was drawn into by G. Whiteheads deceitful Intrigues here mentioned. I write not this, for that we defire or need your Pro- Q-, B, MenelS teilion; though if Activity, Diligence and Fightings Tckd, p. 49. &c. for the Nation's Rights in general, do befpealt^our To the Par- Right to, enjoy them in particular, (as without' Contra- Hament of verjy it doth) we ought to have as much as any Men, the Common- having fought valiantly from the beginning of the Wars wealth of to the end of them. England, printed An no 1659. Compared with Weft anfwering to the N'ofth, and G. B. Booh of Warnings to O. Cromwel. Contradicl. -Oh horrible ! Did ever more dead« SoberExpofi,. ly Malice, bloody Envy and FalfhoOd appear va.P-i7- any Agent of Satan ? And how evident againft his own Confcience too, who knew the People called Quakers, profefs'd no other Sword nor Wea pons for them to make ufe of, but fuch as are Spiritual 3 and to be actively concern'd in no other Fighting, but in the Lamb's War. Though fome that are now called Quakers, were Quakers once in the Army under thePowef s againft the King,. Plea, />. 4, j < yet being now altered and turned in their Judg ments to the contrary 3 whatfoever our Judgments have been in.the Matter of the Lawfulnefs of War, we cannot juftly now be concluded to be a dan gerous People fo the King, becaufe fuch of us who F % were S4 Inconsistency." were once fo, are changed in our Principles, as to the Matter of War, (Sc. Declaration ContradiB. That Spirit of Chrift by which we from the are guided is not changeable, we being not fenfi- Hdrmlefs, i. \y\e tnat we have altered in any one Principle of ' Vindicix Ve- our paitn fince we were a People. nt. p. nS. r Vifitation For, that Principle which fome time led fome and Prefien- Men in Action, to oppofe Oppreflion, and feek tation, p. io, after Reformation 3 and that Principle of Since- 13 . figned x\ty which God did raife ue in many in the be-'. ginning of the Wars, which in fome Things act ed them forth, and carried them on 3 neither we, or I, can ever deny. Preamble to ContradiB. AH Wars and Fightings with Carnal with their Weapons for any end, or under any pretence what- Declaration foever, we do deny who have the Sword of the Spi- itfelf, from rit ; and all fuch as wrong 'us, we leave to thet, the Harm- Lord. This our Principle, not being as an Opi- lefis and In- nion- or Judgment, which may fail us, or in which. ^oeent, &c- may be Miftakes or Doubts, but it is the infalli- Quakers ^jg Qrouncj ancj unchangeable Foundation of our B TfL>*'?' Re^8i°n» &c- Though if any, through the fub- r ation I' "~detY °f che Serpent, becaufe of this our innocent 6 ' "' Declaration, fhould therefore fay, We now may ufe Declaration t^em as m ^ft, without fear of Oppofition from them. to the prefent We reply, A Wo be to 'em 3 it had been better for that diftrafled Man or People they had never been born ; fince as it is Nation, p. our Lord's 'only Rjght to Rule in Nations, and our - t, 9. Heirfhip to poffefs the uttermoft Parts of the Earth, He may command Thoufands and Ten Thoufands of his -, No Crofis, Saints at this Day to fight in his Caufe, &c. Though fto Crown, we can't as yet believe, he will make ufe of us iii &c, that way, being for the prefent given up to fuf fer, notwithftanding it be our Faith, That the Go-., ' vernment of the World fhall in the end be given into our Hand, when we fhall rule them with a Rpd of Iron. Thefe feveral Contradictions, with near a thou fand others, (I have in part collected in a diftinct Treatife on this Subject) though they became in- volv'd in, by following their Fox's Hurricanes in denying Inconsistency. 85 denying all outward War as unchriftian 3 upon that Indifpofure, Providence brought them over to Fight longer under fuch depraved Commanders, as had for Self-Intereft, (Sc. betrayed the Caufe they firft engag'd in : Of which Extream, though their Friend George Bifhop (in his Few Words in Seafiin) in effect forewarned them, at or about the Time they were bufie in publifhing their Declaration from the Harmlefs and Innocent Ones, againft all Wars and Fighters, for the SatisfaBion of KJng Charles the Second concerning them ; yet were they fo far from (topping in their Foxonian Career herein, as that they ran headlong after him into other of his con tradictious Hurricanes, in the Matters afore-men tioned 3 under pretence, of being led by the Quakers Light within, to be all of one Heart, all of one Plea, p. n. Mind, all of one Soul, and all to fpeak the fame FoxS Select Things 5 though inftead of their Infallibility laid Epiftles, p. "claim to, thofe their Inconfiftencies fhew, there 1°6- -* is no other People in the whole Univerfe have AnS- ^g- proved themfelves of fo many feveral Hearts, fo£; '+1-, many feveral Minds, and fo many feveral Souls, CU//°J- s by fpeaking fo many feveral incoherent and moft " e ton'>P- rididulous Things as they have done, to their A Meff-a„ Shame and Confufion. All which, as they are fuf- proclaim d ficient Evidences, That this their Magnified Light p. 3. ' within every Man coming into the World, is fo ParnilS Col- far from being God and Chrift's only true faving lection, p. Light the Scripture directs to, as they would per- 114. fwade the World 3 as that it is indeed only the John White- Light of Natural Confcience, given us by the Fa-hea/'-47- ation 5 which how neceffary foever to lead to'**^ Chrift, by its condemning Quality upon every real ,efP'iefts or Imaginary Occafion, is (with relation to Man's y-9 J Depravity on account of Adam's Fall) fo far from Truth and giving Life, as that it is liable to miflead all that ]„„Ccency, depend on its Conduct, whofe Judgments are^,. z?. not rightly rectified by a higher Guide, as it hath Reafon a- done them. Wherefore, if nothing but direct M^r- gainft Rail- therbe beyond Self-Contradiction, Perverfion and '"g> p- 167. Fijlfhood, as William Pen, in the Quaker's Name, F ^ "hath $6 Innovation. hath affirmed 5 then, as, he and his depraved Col- legues are proved guilty of all thofe Crimes in what I have written, we need not go far to know what they are next to 3 which leads me to my next Charge of their Innovation, as a natural Introduction of the Confequence he fpeaks on 3 in order to the proof whereof INNOVATION. See HowgilS TF it be an Innovation to fet up or bring in other Works, as ¦¦*¦ Precepts, Conftitutions, Orders, or Practices, cifedp:%<). £s?c> contrary. to thofe which were held forth in nrif n- the Primitive Times in the Holy Scriptures, as De Chnit. ^ ^^^ haVe confeffed, then thofe 6ur d.epraT pa^dwith ve4iOnesof the Second Days Meeting, (Sc having Burrows' Vi- &r ^rt^ feveral fpch Precepts, Conftitutions an4 fion of she Practices (under the Notion °f Rjghteous Order, Flock. Holy Order, Decept Qrder, Comely Order, &c.) as are Line of fo far from being according to thofe held forth in Truth, p. the Scriptures of Truth, as that they directly con- 9, &c. tradict them, thofe pur depraved Quakers areguil- Tzwth ex- ty of Innovation 3 in proof whereof alted, p. 1 16, Sec, Hjdden Things, p. 11, &c. Whitehead^ Mon. ift. , Their Order fet forth frpm the Yearly Meeting in Anno 1675, againft Marriage of firft .... , Coufens, (Sc. being fo far from agreeing with Ho ly Scripture Precepts and Precedents, in thofe fe veral Texts, Gen. xxiv. 7, 48, 50. ch. xxix, (Sc. Iftumb. xxxvi. 10, 11. Jof. xv. 17,. 1 Chron. xi. 20, (Sc. as that nothing can be devifed more di rectly contrary to them, (as I have largely proved in a diftinct Treatife on this Subject, entitled, A Rejoynder to G.W.'s Allegations in 'behalf of their faid Order, beyond his or his depraved Collegues Attempts to confute me) they are therein guilty of Innovation. idly, Innovation.' 87 idly. Their feveral Precepts, Conftitutions and Compared Orders fet forth by their Yearly Meeting in Anno with their 1691, (Sc. againft our Marriage with any other Devonfhife Proteftaht Profeffors befides their own Sect 3 un- Houfe Or der pretence, of fuch ' Marriages being a joyning der-> ^s c'lted with Infidels 3 being not only inconfiftent with P- % Sy 49- of thofe feveral Scripture Precepts and Precedents'^/0."^ mentioned in thofe Texts, Mat. xix. 6. i c^^-theTrFr)e»a 39. but alfo true Chriftian Experience, is alfo "an MofesWeftS Innovation. Book 0f Marriage, in defence of them. ¦idly. Their Order againft our Marriage with See the fame any of our own Friends, within lefs than a whole as fiet forth Year after our former Wife's Deceafe 3 under pre^ at York tence of limiting the hafty Mind, as they call it 5 Yfftrly. being in like manner directly contrary to the Holy Meeting, Ancient's Precepts and Precedents on thofe occa- ^JfaAe- fions, mentioned in thefe Texts, 1 Sam. xxv. 38, Truth exalt- 39, (Sc. 1 Cor. vii. 9, 39. is alfo an Innovation. ed md g_ ther Books in behalf of it. athl-i. Their Order in Anno 1707, grounded on p. 282. of their Fox's SeleB Epiftles againft our Mar riage without our Guardians Confient, &c. (without die leaft Allowance by way of Permiffion, on ac count of the Corruption of the Motives of their Diffent) being inconfiftent with the Senfe of thofe Scripture Texts, judg. xiv. 3. with ch, xxi. it. is alfo an Innovation. , 5 f/j/)'.,' Their Order, that none fhall be allowed tp propofe their Intentions of Marriage in their Meetings of Difcipline in London; \ckc the firft time, without bringing a Certificate pf their Clear- nefs, (Sc, from the Nation or Country they be long to, according to their Patron Fox's Rule 3 Select Epift. being contrary to Truth, Reafon and the Scrip- p. 283. Hires afore-quoted, as well as the Practice of moft pf the Counties in England, &c. is alfo an Inno vation. F 4 6thly. 88 Innovation." See the fiaid (,thly. Their feveral Precepts, Conftitutions and. Orders, as Orders in behalf of Wornens Meetings diftinct cited p. 33, and apart from the Mens, (with our Obligation to of F4 B '4JD *ay our Jncenti°ns °f Marriage firft before them) Chrift 1/ C 3S a Part °f our Church Government, being incon- berr. and' fiftent witn tnat °f r^e Apoftle Paul, I Cor. xiv. ftre'ngthned 34' ^c' according to the effect of William Pens' by their Explanation in p. ioo, ioi. of his Spirit of Truth Yearly Epift. vindicated, &c. is alfo an Innovation. of An, 1675. to the caufing of that Separation amongft them, with which they have been fo long afflifled, according to John RanceS Memori al. B.B'.'s Brief Hiftory, p. 81. to 8-7, 127, 155, 15$, andWil- liam RogersS Preface to his Chriftian Quaker. Ithly. Not to enlarge on their repeated Orders • againft our paying or receiving impropriate Tythes* together with their feveral Prohibitions of Oaths , of all forts, which as they have been juftly cryed out againft by others of their Friends, have by them been often contradicted in Practice. • Their feveral Orders againft our carrying Guns in our Ships, (Sc for our own or others Defence againft Pyrates, (Sc. being directly' contrary to the effect of our Lord's Chriftian Doctrine in Luke-. xii. 39. and xiv. 31. and xxii. 52. and their own ancient Precepts and Precedents 5 are alfo Inno vations. Yearly pri- Sthly. Their Order againft our Minifters going vateMinutc s forth to deliver the Word of God in way of pul> of An. 1698, nck Teftimony, (Sc without a Certificate of the 1699,1702. Meetings Allowance they belong to 3 being con- Fox s Select ftAry t0 ^g Ancients righteous Practice, ana their A ««' 1?1 own Chriftian Precepts and Precedents before their Numb ii* "* Depravity 3 with' many other of their Fox's tin- 26 &'c. ' fcl'iptural Impertinenctes, about Skimming-difh Ifa'i. 6. ' i, 9. Hats, Slit Peaks, Waftcoat Slits, unneceffary But- Mat. 10. '10. cons, fliort Sleeves, fhort black Aprons, painted Luk«r22. 3j.Bedftaves, Fire-Shovels, Scrues* porks, Compaf- % Cor. 3. 1. - fes, Compared with their DavidS Enemies difcovered, p. 140. HowgilS Works, P- 57) 3 55- ClarkS Rod, p. 28, 29. Innovation. 89 fes, Plows, Harrows, Andirons, You for Thou, &c. Tyranny ftiled by him The joyful Order of the joyful Gofpel, and Hypo-, comfortable Order of the comfortable Gofpel, ^glorious cr'fy deteit- Order of the glorious Gofpel, and everlafting Order offf' P- J-- the everlafting Gofpel, &c. are no better than Inno- r°JpJ*vre~ vations. p". 41" Journal, p. 322. Collection, p. 148, 149. Exam. Grounds and Caufes, p. 30, .31. Of the unchriftian Effects whereof, though they Rjchv Hid- have often by their own beft Friends been fore- den Things. warned in thofe Books and Pages inftanced in the RogersS ~ Margin, amongft many others that might be men- Chriftian tioned, to prevent, if poffible, their Impofition Quaker. upon us againft the Rules of Truth and Witnefs Tyranny and of God in our Confciences 3 yet have they been Hypocrify fo far from regarding their Chriftian Monitors detected. confcientious Outcries againft thofe their unchri- c t* moagftus3 as the Cafe of Edwood of Ealtrin, ih*{ r A, Thpm«* Crimen of Liverton in Nottingham/hire, Tho- f/1t^oz^ * mas Firmkjw and Jane Peele of Balland Monthly fiu^Scct Meeting in Torkjhire, and Widow Herd in this our „ '&c_ ' ^" County of Lincoln, amongft others I could men- Compared tipn, who hav.e had Baftards through thofe our An- TO/S,& Tho. achriftian Orders, and obftfuction of their lawful JohnfbnS Marriage, if I be not mifinformed. Letter.See Acts and Monuments, and Fab*ajaS Chronicle, &c. Compared with our En- jlilh various Laws, in the Cafe of King Henry VIII. as sited in ny Reply to G. Whiteheads Allegations. So I have a certain Letter wrote by G. White head (as I have ground to believe) in the Name )f G. Fox to Jolm Whitehead, dated the 22^ of the Ith Month 1683, concerning one Shipton of Tork.- hire, who having married his former Wife's Si- ter, contrary to-afiother of their Orders, he tens he faid John Whitehead, That if the faid Shipton 'ould not Condemn himfelf for thi/ his Tranfgreffion, s he had been admonifhed, by the Laws of Scotland ' ' fwb '92 Imposition." Sure, thofe fuch ought to be burned. Through the Terror of our depra- which fort of Menaces, as Giles Bernadifton of ved Quakers ciare jn Suffolk,, and Elijah Loveill of Huntington, baveflrange- &c.were moft vilely impofed on to Condemn them- 'J forgot felves, (as they were finally forced to do for Peace- themjelves, fake^ for marrying their firft Coufens. Our Friend tilth ^ J°^n An-floe (wk° ^ad taken his Wife in Marriage, World That without propofirig his Intentions twice before their ¦as the Lord Womens diftinct Meetings from the Mens, con- neveryet trary to their Order in that Cafe made and pro- faid to any videdj was by their Quarter Meeting- in Haiien, People, Go ham, excluded out of their pretended Holy Uni- make your, ty, becaufe he could not fall under their impofing felves Church Power, in condemning himfelf for doing what he Difcipline or- believed was his Duty, as the above-mentioned ¦ Government, per{bns had done 3 the Effects of which Ann- ^c:J«/a^ chriftian Dealings, had' not God preferv'd him, Authorit mIght have Prov"d hls. Ruin ; as they did hls De" ** , Vm^' y fender Francis Bugg in fome meafure, who not them to efta-^emS a^e t0 bear their impofing Ufurpatibris bli(h anyy with the fame Patience Anftoe did, filially und!3 they were himfelf by his furious purfuit pf them, through1 his guilty of 'U- j*uft Indignation againft the Impofitipn of their "un- furpation on fcriptural Innovations. the Preroga tive of Chrift, p. 6yii, Sec. ofK. HubberthornS Good Old Cauft, Sec. which they have, itjeems, not only now done themfelves in tlie Inftitution of their aforementioned Orders, Sec. but alfo are gro-wn fib' audacious therein, as to impofie Subjefiion upon us to thofie their Innovations, under the Penalty of our Exclufion from ChurckCtm. munion, - as. '-appears hy thelnftances here recited, compared -with that of their Friend Wilkins, ftated at large, p. 9,0, of the Col- lefiion of Papers, at the End of the Defence of the Snake, againft G. Whiteheads Antidote, Sec. well worth Obfervation. In favour whereof, they are grown fo aucfacU ous, as that, befides their Critical Impertinenc.ies about what Cloaths we fliall wear at our Marri ages, before they'll allow us to confummate our Intentions 3 fome of their Meetings of Difcipline have not only enjOyn'd the Parents, of fuch Chil dren as marry put of their Sect, to Difinherit, - them, under the Penalty of their Exclufion from Church- Imposition. 93 Church-Communion, (as Henry Mollinex one oi Witnefs their their Preachers, with no fmall Applaufe of this Friend their Devilifh Difcipline, not long fince informed Chafely of me) but alfo the Six Weeks Meeting of their J°rda"'/ Friends at Devonfhire Houfe in London, on the 15^^""'*^' of the 5rA Month 1690, fet forth an Injunction a- Bu^jw_ gainft the Burial of fuch amongft us as marry by hamihire z«g- m a Prieft, £&. who have not condemn'd their pre- nvjJ0 as \e tended Tranfgreflion 5 whereby as they do their was worth utmoft towards their Ruin in their Life, they ex- about 1700 pofe them to rot above Ground at their Death, if Pound,had a others take not more Chriftian care of thern than mind to buy their impofing Spirit will permit them. 'Ais intended Wife a Silk Gown to be married in, according to tbe Precedent of a Kinfmaii of his ; which being made known to the Friends, they utterly re fufed to let him take her amongft them, till the Young Woman en- gag' d herfielfi by Promifie, not to be married in it; under pretence, of its not becoming a Farmer's Daughter, as I am inform'd, though they allow them to their London Taylors Wives, without the leaft Scruple of their tepder Confidences, for what appears to tbe cen- trary. Nor is their Brotherhood in other Parts any whk fhort of their Englifh Friends Zeal, in the profecution of their Fox's Orders againft fuch as tranfgrefs them, by marrying with Infidels 5 (as they account all other Proteftant Profeflbrs" befides their own Sect) in purfuance whereof, one of their Irifih Friends, whofe Name is1 Richard Clarke a Goldfinith by Trade, lately told me, That they in Ireland having made an Order, That if any of their Children marry with one of another Profejjion, contra- * ry to their Fox's Injunction above-mentioned, their Pa rents fhall neither give them any Portion, relieve them ' with Provifton, or fuffer them Jo much as to come with in their Houfes in order to it : One of their Daugh ters, who having fo married, venturing to fit on the : Threfhold of her Father's Shop in Dublin, whilft he ferved her with fomething out of it for her Money 3 their Sanhadrin brought him under their Church Ferular, in order to his Exclufion out of their Communion, for this his Act of Hu- . .f manity 94 Of which one Robert Farmer of SafFron- Walden in Imposi tion. manity towards his poor diftrefled Daughter 3 th« Effects whereof he had felt to his Temporal and Eternal Ruin, in all probability, as many others have done, had not he (with no fmall difficultly) avoided it, by affuring his tender hearted Bro therhood, (of the Order of St. Lucifer) That as he had let her have nothing but what fhe boneftlp paii for (of which the faid R. Clark was Witnefs) hi would not for the future grieve their Holy Spirit by re lieving her to their Orders Contradiilion. Not to infift on their vile Abufe towards their Friend Johnfion of Thorn in Torfhire, in caufirig his Coufen's Parents to fend her many Miles from him, in order to break off their intended Marri age, to their own and their Parents great Diffatis- factioh, as he told me fome time before he ob tained her. I cannot pafs by their Cruelty to their Friend' Fhat P»rP°fi< George Good John Harvy; Not to infifton the Impertinence of thofe en- flaved Bigots (the above-mentioned Subfcribers) G. Whitehead makes ufe of,,, as the only fit, Inftru ments ,to carry on his impofing Purpofes; who, as they falfely pretended to have confidered the Matter of my Book before they read a Line of it, have almoft all fince been under each others Church Ferula, for their fcandafous Actions. Though this their fineNick-a-Nack appeared fo juftly odious to William Pen, at a private Meeting in London foon after, where I obtained a Hearing on't, as that he enjoyn'd its Authors, to race it out of .their Monthly Records at 'their return home; as they did accordingly, to the eternal Ignominy of fuch pretendedly infallible Noncons .¦ Yet was its, Expulfion far from quafliing my Antagonifts in their Impofition upon me, ro Condemn my felf for doing; what I believed was my Duty, as will ap* pear by what follows. G For 98 Imposition* For being greatly grieved at their Monthly Meetings Difappointment, their Quarterly one thought themfelves concerned to take the Matter under their Cognizance, to fee if they could make better work of it 3 in purfuance whereof, they fent Meffenger after Meffenger, to impofe on me to Condemn my felf -for oppofing their Holy Or der, and G. Whitehead's Allegations in its behalf, in order to avoid my threatned Exclufion from a^ mongft them 3 wherein, not being able to effect their end, through the Senfe God had given me of their Innovations, Corruptions,- (Sc. they cited me to appear before their next Quarter-Meeting, as I did accordingly : where falling on to expound the Levitical- Prohibitions, according to their Monthly Precedent, which I refuting by Holy Scripture and Primitive Chriftians Conftructions, they, through their flaming Fury againft me and the TrUth I maintained, finally proceeded to draw up their threatned Paper againft me, for want of Ability to confute me. The Contents whereof I alfo difcovering the Falfhood and Folly of, in a- • hother private Meeting in London the Year after, they were, through the Means of William Pen, a- gain alfo obliged to raze the fame out at next their Quarter-Meeting, as may be found by their Re cord, to- their Shame and Confufion. However, as the corrupt Order, the Caufe of thofe confufed Effects, ftill remain'd uncancell'd as true Chriftian Difcipline, how Unable foever : its Inftituters were to defend it 3 fo our Quarter- ' Meeting being told by G. Whitehead's chief Emif- faries, That wite-William Pen had done in my jf»» vour, was only to palliate my Spirit, to maf^e me more compliant to their Innovation ; inftead of folliciting to have the faid Order obliterated, according to my Chriftian Entreaties, they perfifted ftill more vigoroufly than ever in their impetuous Impofitioh upon me, to Condemn my felf for my oppofitioh on't 3 in purfuance whereof, after they had broke off my Proceedings with my-Coufen, in Reverence to the Contents of its chief Promoter and Advo cate Imposition* 99 fcate G. Whiteheads Inftructions, they thought them felves concerned to bpbofe my Mai'riage amongft them, with any other Perfon whatever, till I, a- gainft my Confcience, condemn'd my felf for op pofing his Arguments in behalf of their fiid Order againft Coufens, as I, to my no fmall furprizal* fboo after found by Experience. For making Suit to one Winifred Whitchurch of London, in order to that righteous Purpofe, I was met with a Letter of his officious Agent* Ah* Who not Morrice of Lincoln, to John Whitehead then at Lon-lmg tfter Am, va admonifh her Father, By no -means to cmfent i>f°^e-> an^ to my Proceedings, fince I neither believed in their h™ f*ted "* Order againft firft Coufens Marriage, nor would ^er>1ffd prevailed on to Condemn my disbelief therein j which ^^LL^ being fiich a barefac'd piece of Popery, as that ed tg the con- good old Man's Soul abhorr'd, as he told me, upon trary, had a fight of their Letter, he could not conform to not I 'been them in anfwering the Contents of it, to their no chiefly In- finall Mortification ; which redoubling, inftead aiftrumental quafhing their Fury, they ftudied another Device in the Difi- to obtain their Ends on me, which in fome mea- charge of fure (though not fo fully as they hoped) fucceeded *"»< to their Wifh. For their feveral abortive Exclufions drawn up againft me, through their wicked Whiteheads In stigations, proving infufficient to anfwer his un-* godly Ends, whilft my Rejoynder to his Allegations , in their Orders behalf ftood over his Head unan- fwerable, he would by no means be prevailed on to admit me tp propofe my Intentions of Marri age in their London Meetings of Difcipline with the laid Winifred, (though no ways of Kin to me) till he had made me promife to make away my Book in behalf of firft Coufens Marriage againft him, fot want of ability to confute it j the which Im-« pofition, as I was forc'd to fubmit to, to my no fmall Trouble and Damage, in coming back neat a Hundred Miles to Tranfcribe it before their rieXt Six Weeks Meeting, (as a neceffary Trick for the TrickerJ 3 fo that he might be fure, as he . thought, to get-fhut of it, he,, according to Rome's Q % corrupt ico Imposition. corxupt*Precedentrrowards John Wickcliff's Bones,' and his own Scottifh Law upon Shipton, took great careto order his Agent Robin/on to fee me com mit it to the Flames in his Prefence, and give him Notice when done, as he did accordingly 3 which yet did not give me Liberty to make the Publica tion I was oblig'd to by then* Rules the next time I came up,- through, another of their Orders See the fame of. their. Fax's Invention, which requires us to bring as^ cited in a Certificate of our Converfation and Clearnefs his Selefl E- from, all other Women, (Sc. before we give notice fifties. the firft' time' of our faid Intentions, contrary to the Method ufed in our County of Lincoln, &c. (which, as it regularly can, it only does infift on it at our .fecond Publication^ through the want of which Formality, as I was moft abufively fent home again another Month till I obtained it,, fo when I had, I had ftill like to have been never the better When I came up again, through the violent ¦ Oppofitipn of this abominable Impofer, for want of my Condemnation of the Matter of my Book, left another Phcenix fhould arife out of its Aflies, as hath fince done to the no fmall Mortification o|„ fuch an audacious Impoftor, whom nothing can be too bad for. 3 fince it is not only me, but many 0-' ther of our fincere Friends alfo, whom he (and' his depraved Collegues of the Second Days Meet ing) hath moft bafely abufed by their unwarran table Impositions 3 who, in like manner, ftfuggled hard to prevent their Effects, by removing the Caufe in their firft Inftitution, (Sc. as I am not only ready to prove by the feveral .printed Books and Papers of our true Friends Robert Rich, John Perrot, William Muckjow, George Bifhop, Benjamen. Fur ley, John Wilkjnjon, John Story, John Swintcn, Thomas Crifip, William Rogers and John Penyman, a- mong others 3 but alfo by divers private Letters of John Lyeth, John H gg, John Whitehead, John Cox,' John Grafton and Martin Mafion, now in mv Cu- ftody, in anfwer ro George Fox, George Whitehead' And'John Blakeling, with their Accomplices, in. be half of their Innovations, when called to it : In the Imposition. ioi the Inftitution whereof tho' Geo." Fox had a -grfe# hand 3 yet as I, in a Senfe of his variable Ditpo- fition in the Matter of Kingly Government, Ma giftracy, buying of Tythes and Marriage Proceed ings, (Sc. have ground to believe, he might have been reclaim'd from his Errors in thofe refpects, through the means fome amongft us ufed for that end, had not George Whitehead ftrengthned him therein by his officious Defences ;'¦ under pretence, gee f,-ts j.c_ That as the heavenly Motion to make Orders cufier, p. 41. came not on George. Fox alone, he could defend his compared Caufebetter than he himfelf could 5 fo how blame- with p. 6. of worthy foever George Fox was in their firft Inftitu- W. RogeisS tion, George Whitehead is much more condemnable Quakers a in* fupportihg what would otherwife have long divided fince come to nought, for what Fox could have y.°P /ft' done towards their continuance, had he wkh-heldy^*'-/^' his defenfive Hand from their Impofition : Where- ^fab* as it in he and his Abettors have fhown themfelves appaaJs that fo far remote from our Friend If. Penington's Opi- this George nion, That we may ferve God acceptably in different" Whitehead Practices, that they have proved themfelves, thofe has all along unlearned Woolfifh Dogs Ed. Burrow's had a Vifion been the of, who inftead of bringing our Strays-Sheep into Wheel with- Chrift's Fold of Reft, by driving them gently, ac-'«* the Wheel, cording to our. Lord's. Method, have drove therathat wrought quite away from ir, by biting them, to the ruin al[ our Mift- of them and their Fleeces, through their furious J0f tunes, fib purfiiit of them in the Impofition of their Foxoni- ' ,i ¦>"'""¦ ve~ an Iihpertinencies, before cpnvinc'd of the Truth Q^Jre:e If of them 3 where" they are like to regain accord- rome 0f our ingto the faid Vifion, till thofeWoolfifh Curs be Barkfhire chain'd up, and their Gbatifh Collegues cafliier'd Friends to from iamongft us, who have thus disturbed them; bis Face, That it is he that hath been our chief Difturber ; . 'tis he that hath poyfon 'd the Minds -of many well-meaning People ; it being he, that by his falfe glojfing and bafie perverting, bath drawn. the_ Edge of our chief Op ponent's Pens againft us, who, if we ftill ftand by, and will not bring him forth, nor condemn his. Errors, th,eir Hand '(as one of tfjemfays) will ftill be heavier upon US, as -vfe have' found true by Experience. . / G 3 fr /' 102 Imposition. See George IlMfrcler whereto, as our truly worthy Friend BifhopS George Bifhop, &c. forewa'rn'd them of the Cpnfe- Waming a- quence of their impofed Innovations j Whereby t gainft themj fays Benjamen Furfey, if any Separation happen aT as cited p. nvmgft ui, it would be through George Whitehead ?4> 67- ef m£ p,is partners Lording, Ridged, Driving Spirits, fti"* *n ta,ki% uPor? t^}em t0 frefiribe Rules and Orders for . .„ J*0" themfelves and all others of the fame Body, whether, tared with *^e ^°r^ ^ea^ t^em *nt0 t^3em or m ' wherein as they • *.¦ 17. of the perfifted, the Lord himfelf would break them, in Teftimony 0/ turning them one againft another, according to Jf. Penington their true Friend. John Wilkinfon'% Prediction, as in Thomas they have fince found he hath done, to their Shame CrifpS Col- and Confufion : The Confideration whereof brings lefHon of to mind another predictive Vifion of another true Teftimonies ; Friend of ours, ofthe final End of them, entitled, and p. i8. -phis is wiW Mary Mitchell ./Ztw, who dwelt at Bright Part 4. of Hemfton in Suffex, and laid down the Body at Aber-" Ch^/i* ¦ deen *n Scotland, in a good Condition, after fhe had Ou k U travelled far in that Land, on Truths, Account, fhe ha* with p'icrj, ™n2 a puMckTeftimony, fice. of the Account of the Life of John Penyman. Which Vifion is, as related by her felf jn a cer tain printed Half-Sheet fhe publifhed afore her Departure, as follows, Note This On the 3 69- are guilty of Infidelity. Brief D if cc, very, p. 14. Appendix to Reafon againft Railing, p. 17. FuceS Fall of a great vifible Idol, p. 15, 19, n. Sword of the Lord drawn, p. 5. Bur rowS Works, p, 38. HowgilS Works, p. 151. Ang. Flag. p. 204, &c. %dly. If they that believe not in Chrift as God and Man in one Perfibn, be guilty of Infidelity 3 then thofe our depraved Quakers having exprefly decia- See their red their disbelief in him as God and Man.; under Sword ofi tbe pretence, that the Affertion That Jefius Chrift is God Lord drawn, and Man in one Perfibn is a Lie 5 thofe our de-V- $¦> &c- praved Quakers are guilty of Infidelity. as defended \ P- i74- of their Vox's Great Myft. as cited p, J71. of Fr. BuggS Retrofipeflive Glafis. %dly. If they that expect, not Juftification by and through the Blood of Chrift, as it was Jhed without the Gates of Jerufalem $r that end and purpofe,, be guil ty of Infidelity 3 then thofe our depraved' Quakers having fo exprefly declared, That they fee no need x of direliing Men, either to tfefus Chrift or his Blood for Juftification; under pretence, That as the Scrip ture np .where fays, It was Jhed at Jerufalem for f that iorS • Infidelity. Geo. White- that end; fo the true Apoftle directed them to the heads Light Light (meaning the Light given to all Men coming of Chrift into the World) for the Blood of Jefus to cleanfe ¦within, p. them, (Sc. which Light as they come to, they 38,39,53, Ceafe remembrihg his Death at Jerufialem, as a &c- Doctrine that need not be preached 3 with more Great Myft. to ^^ purpofe 5 the depraved Quakers are guilty Vv?ralPa-°S™^ Pjrs printed 1670,- p. n, 58, 59. Serious Apol. p. 148. White-. 'houfeS Dofl. of Perfieflion, p. 19. Quaherifm a new Nick-Name, p. 6, n. ttfhly. If thofe that believe not the Blood of Chrift Jhed upon the Crofe to be more excellent and precious than the Blood of any other Saint, as to the Effenct and Matter of it, be guilty of Infidelity 3 then our Antidote depraved Quakers having fo exprefly denied it to Ven. p. 113. be more than the Blood of another Saint, as to tbe Light of Matter and Vifibility of it ; - thofe our depraved Chrift with- Quakers are guilty of Infidelity. i»,p. 58,59. ~ in Defence of their Friend Solomon Eccles. Apol. p. 148. Not to infift on their Denial of Juftification by Reafon a- that Righteoufnefs of Chrift, which he in his own gainft Rail- Perfon fulfilled 'for us, wholly without, as a Do- ing,p. 67. ftrine of Devils, and Arm of the Sea of Cor ruption, (Sc. %thly. If they that believe not in Chr'tft any other wtiy, than as a certain Seed or Principle in Man, to which the Promife was made, be guilty of Infidelity { Jacob found then thofe our depraved Quakers not believing in in a Defiart Chrift any other Way, than as a certain Seed or Ptin- L_and,p.6,7. ciple in Man to which the Promife was mdde 3 under Brief Difico- pretence,' That the Body he took upon him in the very, in An- Womb of the Virgin, ftridtly confidered, is not fwer to John t{,e s€ed fpoken of in Gen. iii, (Sc thofe our de l-low, p. n, praved Quakers are guilty of Infidelity. NaylorS Levi to the Loft. PenS Part ofthe Chriftian Quaker, as they call it, p. 97, 98. Ang. Flag. p. 113. compared with tbe In- ftance recited, p. 115, I x6, 119, 134. of tbe ift Fart of tbe Defence of the Snake, againft G. Whiteheads Venomous Antidote, Sec. '6thly. If Infidelity^ $07 6thly. If they that expect not to be faved by Chrift without a performance of the fforkj ofthe Law, and anfwering every demand of Juftice^ 8cc» may be faid to be guilty of Infidelity 5 then thofe our de- BurrowS praved Quakers having fo plainly told the World, Works, p. That God doth not aciept of any, where there is any 31, 33. corn- failing, or who doth not fulfil every demand pf Juftice^ pared with under pretence, That juflificatitm of Perfant, is not p. 15. of from the imputation of another sRjghteoufneJs, but the Pen'J Sandy actual performance and keeping of GoSs righteous Sta- Foundation, tutes, &c. fince, if that Doctrine was granted, Go<£sand$- "> Ways would not be equal, &c. thofe our depraved »/' f 6\ °L Quakjrs are guilty of Infidelity. %2%'£~ perfefl Pbarifee, as cited p. 1. of the Quakers Jefus. Ven's Serious Apol. p. 148. Ithly. If they that expect not Chrift's fecond com ing in his glorified manner, with his Saints with him in order to the Reftitution of nil Things, according to the Senfe of thofe Scripture "texts heretofore notified under the Head of their Error, - may be accounted guilty of Infidelity ; then thofe our depraved Qua kers being fo far from expecting any fuch glori ous Appearance ©f Chrift for that glorious pur- P6fe, as' that they ^exprefly tell I the World, ^<«john white. thoje who took. "eed to the Light, will ceafe from all nea,iS Re- outward expectation of his coming, their Opponents proof from might took, till their Eyes dropt out, before they fan) him the Lord fo come tp fave them 3 under pretence, of their ha- p. 4. 4r> &c- Light and Life of Chrift within, p. 18, 40, 41. Some Principles ofthe Eleft .People, p. 71. luce's Fall, p. «., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19, 10, 34. Ap pendix to Ven's Reafon againft Railing, p. 16, 47. -Antidote Venr p. m, 1 9 y, L9.7. EccIesS M-uficktLeflure, p. 19, io. NortonS Manufcripts as cited p. 98.' of tbe id Part of tbe Defence of tbe Snake, againft Whiteheads Antidote, In io8 H V P O C RI S Y, In further proof whereof,; the Reader may find many more Inftahces in Robert Gourdon's Chriftia- ' nity vindicated, pbmpared with Seft. io. ofthe Snake in the Grafs,' and Defence of the. farne againft G. Whiteheads Antidote, with G. Keith's Sever4 Narratives of his feveral Conferences, &c. to which I refer them for more full fatisfactiori, and fhall defcend to give Inftances of their, Hypocrify, as a natural Confequent of this their Crime that leads to it. ETTOCRIST. As S an Introduction to my proof of this Charge, I think good to remind the World, that a cer tain Quaker, taking occafion fome time fince to declare his Senfe of New-England's Hypocritical bloody Church of perfecuting Presbyters, thus P: 5. of expreffes himfelf 3 I have fometimes, fays he, fiaii New-Eng- within my felf,, a Man that hath a covetous deceitful landS En- rotten Heart, lying Lips, a fimooth fawning flattering fign, &c. Tongue, fhort Hair, and deadly Enmity againft thofe called Quakers, that oppofe their Ways j fuch a Hy pocrite is afit Man to be a Member of any NeWr England Church. ... In like manner may we now juftly fay, as I . have alfo often faid within my felf, That one that . has thofe corrupt Qualities, with a Thoufand more as bad or worfe, if. he wear but plain Cloaths, fay Thee . and Thou, keep on his Hat before Magiftrates, refuft a religious Oath, deny the ufe of Dcfenfive Arms, own George Fox as the Lord's Anointed One, and have but Malice enough againft all that oppofe his unchriftian Impofitions, &c. fuch a Hypocrite is a fit Member oj our depraved Quaker Church. Hypocritical to pur pofe ! As I fhall >fhow as follows, Since Hypocrisy. t Sec. the Claim of it in their own Diffenters from their Compared Corruptions, as a loofe Plea tending to Rantrizm. 'w,th E1_ woodS An tidote againft RogersS Infeft. p. 78. and PenS Spirit of the Hat, as cited p. 97. of Fr,. BuggS Pilgrims Progrefs. idly. What greater Hypocrify than for them to See Pening- affirm, That they do not condemn all the Chriftian c°nS Works, World but thernfelves, as their Opponents have charg-P- 3I0> &c. ed them 3 under pretence, That they own the Wal- WyethS denfes of old, with all the fincere hearted of all Per- AnS- Flag- fwafions now, as their Chriftian Brethren. „,, ; V" ¦* ¦ 'Whiteheads Sober Expoft. p, 94. &c. Power of Chrift vindicated, p. ±%, %q, luith more proofs in my Manufcript of their Apoftacy. Whilft they are fo far from any fuch true Chriftian Charity, as that befides their repeated Bu£row "' E; Condemnation of all other profefs'd Proteftants, as £ Y, ' '["ju0/* * The Seed of the great Whore of Rome, (Sc if any of p0*S Selefl their Members happen to Marry in any other Pro- Epift. pi 177 teftant Society befides their own Sect, they not i79, i,go. ' only ParnilS Works, p. 114. Weft about Marriage', throughout. FoxS Heathens Divini ty, Sec. BurrowS to the Camp of, the Lord, p. 1, EcdesS Mufick Leflure, and Quakers Challenge, Sec. no Hypocrisy. ©ply difown him asa Perfon joyn'd with Infidels in the time of his Life, but alfo refiife them Bu* rial amongft them after they are Dead ; under pretence, That none others are in the Truth fort ¦ Quakers- FoxS Great %dly. What greater Hypocrify than for them to Myft. p. x-jx. cry out againft others as Apoftates, in keeping Profeffers their Meeting-Houfe Doors with armed Force; Catechifim, ieft any fhould be moved by the Spirit of the P-i6- Lord to foeak from the Lord amongft them Papifts Strength broken, p. 59. BurrowS Epift. p, n. PenymanS Whilft they themfelves are guilty of the fame Tracts, td Crime in effect towards their own Friends, in Pa>t,p.i,-i., keeping fuch of them out by force, as are moved 3, 4> S> 6> 8> by the fame Spirit to declare againft their Corrup- 10, &. tions. In way of Excufe whereof, Whiteheads qtbly. What greater Hypocrify than for them to Truth and pretend, That their Yearly Meeting Door is not Innocency, lock'd, barr'd or bolted, as prohibited, becaufe; t- Ai- they have a private one ("under Sufferance they keep guarded) that is nor. ' ' , Whereas they well know (what I amongft 0- ther have often found by Experience) That their Yearly Meeting Houfe proper and publick Doors are lock'd, barr'd or bolted, contrary to the Laws Direction, to their own Contradiction. In De fence of which unlawful Practice, See insets ^ly' What 8reater Hypocrify than for them Preface to one whi5e t0 pretend, T*«f their Tedrfy Meetings are" tbe xd Edit. not for Worfhip but Difcipline, in order to efcape|| of his Pil- legal Punifliment for keeping their publick Doors grimsPro- lock'd, barr'd or bolted, to prevent their Chriftian grefs, p . Monitors from Entrance to detect their Corruptions* 56, 60. Compared with p. II. of Whiteheads Reply to his mode ft Defence. Juft Cenfure, p. y6. Truth and Innocency -, p. 39, 66. Pen's Preface to FoxS Journal, Quakers Plea, p. 1 1. Whilft they at another time confefs, (what is well known by Experience) That thofe Meetings are as well for Worfhip as Difcipline, to their own Con futation. £,thlj, Hypocrisy. iii ithly. What greater Hypocrify, than for their Penfilvanian Collegues, not only to cry out of (but alfo moft abufively profecute) fuch of their own profefs'd Friends as confronted their Errors, in the * Time of their Meetings for Worfhip, as a Fact unfufferable amongft them. Whilft they were fo far from cenfuring any oi Herefy and their ancient Friends that confronted the National Hatred, p. Miniftry in the Time of their Worfhip, as that 4> S- they quietly permitted (if not encouraged) their Preacher DelavaU to interrupt' George Kgith in his publick Teftimony in their own Meetings, before his Exclufion out of their Communion, contrary to their own Provincial Law, that enacts,* That no Man be difturbei in the practice of his Religion, tho' of a different Perfwafton, to their own Contra diction. Ithly. What greater Hypocrify than for them to DewsberryS affirm, That they durft not for Confcience fake difho- Colleflion, nour their Holy Profejfion, by giving Bond for their P' 83 • Appearance in Courts of Judicature, when required by An. Account Authority; under pretence, of their being fuffici- "I Jome ently bound by the Truth they profefs, to appear #™/T»/ *?. according to their Promife without them. %.f ' *' ¦ Whilft yet they ftick not to enjoyn one another se'e their to bind themfelves in fuch Bonds> to ftand to the private Mi- Award of fuch Perfons as they depute to end their nutes of their Differences in Matters of Meum zndTuum, un- Yearly Meet- der the Penalty of their Church Cenfure for i«g of Anno their Refufal 5 through their well grounded Ex- l697> &c. perience of the infufficiency of their magnified Truth, to oblige them to do their Duty to each o- ther without them. Again, Bthly. What greater. Hypocrify than for them to DewsberryS affirm in like manner, That they durft not difhonour Collection, their faid Profejfion, by giving Bonds for their goodP- 77. 78- Behaviour, till the Time of their promifed Appearance, at the Demand of Authority 5 under pretence of their being hound by their Truth, to behave themfelves well without them. Whilft at the fame time they fet forth Orders to bind one another from lawful Marriage a full * Year iii Hypocrisy; Year after their firft Wife's Deceafe, as a Duty" ' See their the Spirit obliges to 5 under pretence, they fhoulij- York Yearly otherwife be liable to feek new Wives in a Month Order, com- or iefs after their firft wasdead, were they not by pared with {uch Orders confin'd from 'em* their Friend WatysrlVIyersS Defence of it, FoxS Jour- As thefe carl be h8 grgatet Hypocrify than for nal, p. 6i.i„ them to deny uncovering their Heads; or bowing tzi- their Bodies to any Chriftian Magiftrate or Mini*',. ColeS Qua- Q-eV) as an unchriftian Practice they can by no kers cleared, means fubjeCt to. BarcleyS Apol. p. 515. 5*9> S3'* Picture of Quakerifm, p. 90. Whilft they at the. fame time not only make] ; Vindiciae ^^ $ervanrs and Apprentices ftand bare-head. Yerit- before them, under pretence of Conveniency, (Sc ilZTElvy'M^o plead for fuch bodily Homage toward/ % lg their own approved Teachers, as Duty toward? Kaylo'rS^»- them,' in Reverence to the Light within 3 though fwer to Hid- their renowned Barcley renders fuch Pretences as an den Things. Inlet to Idolatry. Sot FoxS Letter to the Parliament, at tbe End of NaylorS Trial. Whiteheads lothly. As it is the higheft Hypocrify for Antidote, them to plead King Charles's Act of Indemnity (a^ $- *4- mongft other Impertinencies of their own lnve'ii- Truth and £ion) as fufficient Anfwer to their Opponent's Innocency, objection, of their Fo*'s virulent] Reflections on P~} \'~, Kingly Government in the Time of the.Common- r\Sj wealth, as if they were how of a different Sen- Lambs de- ' ' timent. ' When in evidence of the contrary, they have fo audacioufly commemorated thofe Reflections Books of his (with the reft of their Heretical ones) in their late printed "Collection of Titles, as wrote on Truths Account, and printed for its Service 5 fo I hope they won't blame me for reminding them .of his apd their Hypocritical Vp's and Down's, as Charges they have yet to clear themfelves of alfo on this Subject. In order whereto, itthlfi fended. Hypocrisy. 1 15 i 1 My. What greater Hypocrify than for theii- Seehisfieve- Patron Fox to cry out in our Names, againft all ral Papers Earthly Kings, (Sc. as Antichriftian 5 under pre- *° the Pres~ ' tence, That as Chrift was King alone, the Cave Vtenans, 'Jofhua put thofe of the Canaanites in, was a fit place (£'//'"[ for them 3 with much more to this purpofe, in or- „f„/ffA~lwo der to prepoffefs the World againft King Charles's 1660, with Reftoration. \ his Sum of ' Whilft yet in the very fame Year that thofe his fuch Parti- Railleries were printed, when the faid King came culars, p. 1, in, he fticks not to tell the World, That the fuppo- Sec. fition of his being an Enemy to the King, was utterly Compared falfe ; he being Jo far from being an Enemy to the King, with the his Love was Jo to him, as that he could fay, it was3°ftrnftj- °f of the Lord he was Ip> "• them) he not only affirms, All Kings and Emperors 1 6m fince the Days of the Apoftles, have been Jet up among News out ofi the Apoftates, (for which Caufe the true Chriftians the North, p. ought to live upon the Heads of em) 3 but alfo 18, .19, 10. tells the World, That they that mind them are Ene- H . mies H4 Hypocrisy. BurrowS mies to the Cmfs of Chrift, and Traitors to the Author' Collection. 0f ,> . fittce> as there fhall be no King but Jefus, all Kings and Rulers muft down and ceafe 3 as a plain evidence, that he meant hot only perfecuting Kings, as they would perfwade the World, But all outward Kings iu general, to his Defenders Contradiction. te BifhouS t-Vhly. What more abominable Hypocrify than Warnings to ^or tnem (^er AeY had almoft deafned their Per- O.Cromwel fecutors in Oliver's Time, .(Sc. with their impe- p. 10, 11, tuous Outcries, How valiantly they had fought againft 14; 19, %7. the King and his Cavaliers, in behalf of Liberty and Weft anfwer. Property; as a Matter that merited their Favour, to- ing to the wards them) Nor thi p. 96, 101, 103. Epiftle to the Generals, Captains and Officers, &c- p. 1, 3, 6. .' 6. of his late Picture of Quakerijm. n6 Hypocrisy; are fo far feparated, degenerated and apoftati\d froni the DoBrine, Principle, Spirit and Practice ofthe true Pioteftants, as that though they call themfelves Chri-. : ftians and Proteftants, they are no more true Chrifti ans and Proteftants than the'Papifts (from whom the Proteftants feparated) were the true Church, becaufe they fiaid Jo ¦. But alfo that part of their Fox's and Burrow's Epiftles remain uncenfured, wherein they exclaim againft a Succeffion of our Englifh Kingly Government in an Hereditary Line.as a great Grie vance this Nation hath been enflaved with. l-jthly. What greater Hypocrify than for their Juftice Jennings, with the reft of his Penfilvanian wh' hw j Collegues, to Swear in effect to defend the Queen, *lJC d V Jin faying, We whofe Names are here-underwritten, do their Patron . ' . °'- .r J. r , , , , . , r Whitehead < ftncerev promi/e and Jolemnly declare, in the prejence inp.it. of of Almighty God, That we will bear true Faith and- bis Rambling Allegiance to her Majefty Queen Ann, and will her Pilgrim, Sec. defend to the utmoft of our Power, as well as Jup-t, owns to be port and maintain, &c. the Limitation and Succeffi on Oath, to, ofthe Crown, againft tbe pretended King James, (Sc \ his and their Contradiction, as elfiewhere notified. See Daniel And as foon as they have done, in effect, Swear LecdS Great back again, by their annex'd Declaration, That by Myftery o J (fa their Promife' (as they call it) to maintain and Fox craft defend the faid Limitation and Succeffion, 8cc. their etij covered, frue jntent m^ Meaning is, to do all and every thing p. i o, ii. according to their Duty in order to it ; P RJO VID ED * Thev *f ^e mt und-erft°od~> * That they thereby oblige them- (hould have felves to 'ufe Force and Arms, which for Confidence fiakj added, Un- they cannot do : Whereby they undo all again, in 'lefs it be to leaving our Queen expofed, and the Succeffion in fave our as much Danger as they found it, to their own felves or Contradiction 3 in purfuance whereof, Sloops, and then we fnallmake no ficruple on't, having freedom to ufe the Sword as Magiftrates, or hire others to ufie it for our own Ends, though we Damn it as Unchriftian in our Queen's Defence. \%thly. What greater Hypccrify than for them to pretend, That the Reafon why they could not fign the Hypocrisy. hj the Affectation, according to the A(i of Parliament in See- their an- that Cafe provided; was not out of any Diffiatisfiaclhn cient Jefti- to King William, but only, becaufe they could not for mony., as Confcience fake fight for themfelves ¦> or any Man elfe. , they call it, ' of the 13^ -.. of the firft Month, Anno 1695-tf. with p. 14. ofW. Pen's Preface to FoxS Journal compared with F. B.S Pilgrims Progrefs, p. 193, When as their Friend William Mead, not only See the lat- made no fcruple to fight with the Padder that af- ter Part of faulted him, in order to the Defence of himfelf J. P.S Qua- and Money 5 under pretence of the Spirit's affift- ker unmask ing him 3 but alfo (befides their Warring under '*¦> j» way Oliver Cromwel againft the King and his Cavaliers) pf Reply to 'jis well, known, their Penfilvanian Collegues not Vl.spre- iong fince hired Men to fight againft Babit and ^*f^e'tf"': Crew of French Pyrates, to retake their Sloop they Q^mt "'/ bad got out of their Harbour 3 as an evidence, witb\(. Pe- that they would have fought themfelves for any nino-tonS real Confcientious Scruple they had, had there not Great Que- been others to have been.got to fave their Bones for ftion, p. 14. their Money. Declaration to the di ftracted Nations. R. H. Good Old Caufie. RichS HiddenThings, F, B.S Quaker ifm drooping, p. 137: Not to infift on their Hypocrify in offering H„£ber_ to fubfcribe the Subftance ofthe Oath of Al- taain's D;r legiance, whilft yet they refufe Submiflion to all courre ^b the Forms of it as Unchriftian3 as if their Tefti- # , charles mony againft Qaths confifted in their Difallowance n. ' to Swear fiibftantiallY, whilft others only Swear John White- formally, which I wifh was the worft Fault they Weid'sWorks, are guilty of. p- 1*3 , 1^4- 183. HojvgilS Trial, 4th. and 6th fide. FoxS Trial, p. ip, &c-, as cited ¦p. 6. of Quakers unmasked. ¦ lothly. What, more horrid Hypocrify than for Compared them to pretend, That the Lord hath Jo formed them, "outb their as that they cant but be Obedient to the King, as an Ar- Priend Ste- gument againft the Impofition of Oaths on them for ^£*UP * their better Obligation to it 5 when as they (thro onphjs Qua- the Experience of their Unfaithfulnefs toward k c,.^-. H i ' each 1 1 8 HYPOCRISY.' tir, as cited each other oh their verbal Promifes) have refufed p. 15. of to lend one another Money upon their written Quaker un- Securities by Mortgage, (Sc till their _ wanting masked-,' and Brotherhood has given them fatisfaction their p. S.. ofthe Land was not pre-ingaged 5 by his fubjection to Defence of ti>eir Impofition of fuch Terms of Afleveration to it* together tjje contrary, as they have owned to be a fubftan- ¦witb the tial Oath. Ireatije en titled, The Quakers Wickednefs, p. 5, &c. and their Friend Ri chard ThorfipfonS./Wi.s/flr*»»i? in venturing to Trufl fhem upon their Wird without Bond, which he fiddly rued in my Audience a little before his Expiration. WyethS Pri- lothly. What more notorious Hypocrify than for, mitive Chri- them to affirm one while, Jhey own a Chriftian Ma- ftianity, p. geftry, as God's Ordinance for the Punifhment of Evil 41, &c. . ^ Doers, by the Sword Civil' and Military ; under pre- Peningtoaj- tence „f there being' need of it, to keep dbwn the unruly C v r I Fari' wh'1^ Men are cmP°fed °f Fleft> and BloB(l i /rf£>/«.o«.~ ^kh m0tp t0 tMs Pul'P°fe. __ Noble Salut. p.. 17, Sec. ParnilS Colleflion, p. Si, 81, 84, lotf. BarcleyS^- Whilft they another while invalidate the 2nd: ^ pol. p. i6-£. of it, by renouncing the ufe of the outward Sword, compared in' their Hands againft fuch, as Unchriftian 3 un- ¦with p. i6c, der pretence, That if the Magiftrate be a Chriftian,' 1£?' , ir or dafires to be fio, he will love Ins Enemies, according, ViversjK/- 4X) &is herd'} Rule, -and not fir-ike again when theft «r*/ Ban- ^% A/ * / S k -. ¦< .. * bury farther J '- torrefied, p. 18, 19. %ift. What greater Hypocrify than for them to See their an- pretend to active Obedience to all Laws of the'' 'cient Tefti- " Government's enacting in Civil Cafes, for which . 'mony renew- Caufe they ' pay Subfidy Money, with all other ed, ™jtb. i>Ues of -that Nature, as Duties they are oblig'd *i"JTt " £0 bv tlieir' owri PrinciPles- jl°\ Whereas they are fo far from the performance .ind Salchoiife Anfiwer to the Bifhops, Sec. Queries, p. 13. . Com pared with p. 14. of their ClarkS Rod, .together with their El- woo'HS Antidote; p.. 7S. and G. Whiteheads Accufer, i>, 105, Sec v • ¦ -¦• ¦ '*' 0f Hypocrisy, 1 19 pf that Duty in its true Extent, as that befides their Averlion to fet forth the Militia at the Ma giftrates Commandment, they not only generally refufe to pay the Tythes of their Increafe to the Impropriators (on whqm they are legally fettled for Civil tJfes) as a Denial of Chrift's being come in the.Flefh, and the Root of Rfntriqm. ; but one pf their moft noted Preachers and Directors, made no fcruple to hide his Alamodcs under his Window Seat, (if I be not mifinformed) in order to their illegal Concealment 3 in purfuance of which Hyr pocritical Inconfiftency lidly. As it is no lefs than Hypocrify for them Sge BarcleyS to deny giving Money towards buying, i\ryns,-?Pol-%-lii- Drums and Colours, (Sc to fet forth the Militia *^ the firft at the Magiftrates Commandment, in order to their al e' coml own and the Nat'ipns Defence ; under pretence avft,re. ™ ' 11 1 ,rr 1 . - 1 ¦ A , r 1 n 1 their common all outward Wars being m this Gojpel-Day utterly un- praf}jce tri lawful- the laft.. Whilft they at the fame Time make not the leaft fcruple to pay Taxes towards the carrying on a vigorous War againft France ; fo 23 dly. What more manifeft Hypocrify than for See their fe- them to pretend, They cannot for Confcience fake lift ver al Decla- up a Carnal Weapon againft any Man in their own or rations a- others Defence, though they lofe their Lives for their gainft all omiffton of them. Wars and ' Whilft yet they, like thofe bloody Popifh Lo-FiSht^ pufts the Bohemians complain'd of, (for fetting the heretofore Civil Powers upon them, when they "would not inJianced-> Fight themfelves)* make not the leaft fcruple to '%*£ *'" . defend their ancient Friends Inftlgatiohs of Oliver Quakers' ' Grow/pel, mdnisOlherian Succeffors, To. Fight their pjea an^ %e_ Antagonifts all the World over, 'till they had deftroyed m0nftraace them inlway of Offence ; under pretence, of its be- sec. compar ing the Means to make way for the Kingdom of red with Chrift upon Earth 3 wherein they, as. Perfons beft John Fox's H 4 fitted Acts and Monuments, p. 631, 644. Quaker, Fox' and BurrowS Good Coupfiel. Pening- toflS Examination of Grounds and Caufes fi p. 16, Sec. BiltfcopS Warnings- to O. Grofawel. Weft anfwering ' to -the Ifhrth. E. Bur- *tfwS Collection, and WycthS Ang. Flag. I2Q Hypocrisy. fitted for that Work, declared their Defire and Hope of being concerned in it 3 in consideration whereof Ang Fla? ^ot t0 ™fift on the"' Hypocritical Pretence in P fio &c way °*" Excufe for this their Hypocritical Inconfi- y "* ' ftency, That the Prophets Ifaiah and Jeremiah fum moned others to War, whilft themfelves were not con cerned in it 5 which is fo far from being a Paral lel Cafe' to their Trumpetting others to Fight as their Duty, whilft they refufe to Fight themfelves : as Unchriftian 3 unlefs they can prove that thofe Prophets like them, denied thofe Wars they fum moned to, as Unrighteous in themfelves, and.Un- Iawful for them to pradtife, Judas and ityhly. What more abominable Hypocrify than Chief Priefts for their Friend Whiting to charge George Keith confipiring, with Abufe and Forgery, in making their Patron t- 3°- George Whitehead fay in p. 13. of his Truth and In- '! nocency, That they, i.-e. the Quakers, are the Ten Thoufands of his Saints, in whom the Lord is come to execute Judgment upon all, Sec. under pretence of there being no fuch Thing in the Page he men tions. -4 Whereas the faid Whiting knew well enough, j there are not only the Words George Keith quotes in p. 13, as applicable to the Quakers, but that the Word Quaker is in the very firft Line of the very next Page to that George Keith quoted alfo, in evi dence that George Whitehead intended them 3 in purfuance whereof See FifherS z^thly'. As the Quakers have exprefly reprefented Works, p. themfelves, the Saints wbojhall rule the World, for 99, 101- which Caufe they follicite for the Government of, R. H. Good -lt , uncJer pretence, of their not being ignorant Old Caufie. 0f what belongs to it. BurrowS ° Mefage, p. 3, &c. and Works, p. 588, $13, 751. FoxS fournaj, p. 541. Select Epiftles, Sec, Papers to Parliament, Epift. What more audacious Hypocrify than for George Whitehead to go about to' evade their Opponents Cohftructions of their Friends Prophefies (of Gods putting a two-edged Sword into the Htmfls of his Saints, (9 Hypocrisy. 121 to execute Vengeance on the Heathen, md Punifhments SoberExpoft. on the People) in a literal Senfe j under pretence,^. J7. 'of its being as unlikely they fhould mean fo, as Ramb.Pilg. 'twas impoffible for them to Thrafio the Mountains o/BurrowS the Earth (fome of which in the North of Engr Works, p. land are a Mile or two high) to Duft, with an In- 8J> m» *ij, ftrument that hath Teeth. When as befides the Ji- 75 l- teral Import of the Terms of their faid Prophe- Decl"ratio» fies (compared with their own Explanations in that *„ i dl~ Senfe) they have exprefly owned, That by Moun-J^"n tains, they mean the Kings of the Earth ; to the How°iis4* plain Confutation of this -iheir horrid Deluder's Works p. e Pervertion 3 through which my felf, amongft 0-31, 3 ^ oj., ' thers, have heretofore been moft grofly miflead 93$ 9;] 9^ and abufed. ioz, 103, 158, 340. ' FoxS Great Myft. p. 34. Truth and Innocency, p. 30. Ambrofe Riggs to the whole Flock, p. 7. NaylorS Collect, p. 31, 31, 33,34, 35, Sec. BuggS Vox Populi and Quaker drooping, Sec. i6thly. What greater Hypocrify than for the faid George Whitehead, after a Thoufand of his Effays of this Nature, to conceal their Corruptions that lead to thofe Effects by his evafiye Writings, in way of Anfwer to their Opponents, "Jo affumethe Confidence notwithftanding to tell juffs»aui. the World, That through the Lord's Goodnefs, he has rJ * ] " long refolved not to decline or conceal Truth, to vindi- compared cate or excufie Error or Miftake in any, if you will with his Hy- believe him 5 . though none in the World, I am poor it ical perfwaded, was ever fo grofly guilty of Hypocri- Appeal to tical Equivocation as he is j in purfuance whereof God, That • he knew he bad endowed him with a Chriftian Spirit and Righteous Judgment (Hid Underftandihg, Sec. as publifhed in his Judgment Fixed. _ zjthly. What more notorious Hypocrify than for Innocency a- . him to pretend, That their Idol Fox was not Jo ig-gainft Envy, norantof all thofe feveral Languages of Italian, Sy-P- l6- Com- riac, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Spanifh endP*fe* ^M Galdejan, (Sc. as their Adiierfaries reprefented him 3 b'ffelemn fin order no doubt to perfwade the World, the Affirmation $attledoor of above thirty Languages he fet his?*™^™" G. F. to, was moftly of his own compofmg.) 'to'lox^wui - --, mm ' 132 Hypocrisy. Whilft in direct Contradiction to thofe his Hy^ pocritical Pretentions-, he hath fince made no Boness, to affert upon his new devifed Quaker Oath, That thofe Jcandnlous •¦ Shreds cf Nonfenfe, called his Laft Will and Teftament,- were of his own Hand Writing; in proof that he underftood not his own Mother- Tongue : Again, See their ^ot *? 1Ti^ on. ^eir Meeting for Suffer- Treatife of i#gs Hypocrify, (this George Whitehead was the Oaths, com- occafion of) in fetting forth our ancient Friend's fared with Offers to exprefs themfelves on good Occafions iii W. Smiths thofe folemn Terms they mention in their Epiftle Works, p. of the 17th of the zd Month 1696, in order tp Ity. perfwade us to fubject to them in Courts of Ju dicature, as tendered to us by way of ftinted Form, when-ever called to it, according to their Precedent. When as it appears from fome of their Authors, Explanations, as their Epiftle recites them, com pared with the reft, as they lie in their Books, that they never defigned them for that End ami Purpofe. Aug Flag ' %%thly. What more abominable Hypocrify than throughout. f°r ^'im and n*s depraved Collegues, to cry out a- NaylorS gainft their Opponents; as Abufers of their Words4 Anfwer to- and Senfe in their Books 5 under pretence, of their. Tho. Moor, not having taken all their Words, or not exactly p. 9. as they wrote or fpoke them. Whiteheads When as, befides their Pervertions of their own Guilt, as Friends Words and Senfe in the above-mentioned expofed in Kpiftle, they are not only grofly guilty of the F. Bugg j j^me crime (if it be one) towards thofe they ex- #r*j*f* t0 claim on 3 but alfo fo audacious therein, as to pre- Prc ,rffs'm fume m defend thelr FoX'S pel'vertiolis of Holy s'/iroHe- Scripture, as a Practice warrantable from our Sa- fliveGlafis, viour and his Apoftles Precedent 3 under pretence, and Qua- that a Quotation may be faid to be truly made, if kerifim fur- it contains the whole Meaning , of the Write*, ther expo- though it recites npt aty his Expreffipns 5 in pur- fied, eompa- fuance whereof red with PenS Spirit of Trut.b, and Ang,. Flag. p. 15$. - * g iyth'ly. Hypocrisy. 12$ , 'ztthly. As they Hypocritically tell tfre World, Truth and That as they are not under a neceffity of reciting while Innocency, Quotations, they never reproved any, t^fio through De- p. fy. fed of Memory, or. for Brevity, lejfi^eut, put- in', or Spirit of changed a/ Word, &c. fo they did mt ''alter the Senfe Truth vindU of their Writings, , cated,p.i0j. When as their Whitehead's, Wyeth's and Whi- Fr- BuggS ting's feverai Anfwers to theii- Opponents* chiefly ffl^-fr t0 confift of fuch Reproofs for the Faults themfelves ™»rJuft are as guilty of as thofe they reprove for em. e{"re>d •with Whiteheads Antidote, WyethS Ang. Flag, and Whitings Anfwer to KeithS Narrative. , Not to infift on their Fox's Hypocritical Preten- Select Epifi. fions, That we rtot only may, but alfe ought to go to * .t, $xhdrt and Infihult, &c. at the fending one of ano- Compared I ther, without waiting for a Motion (meaning from with Tyran- tke Lord) to do it. ny andHy- Whilft his Foxlings moft wickedly refufe to re- po'rifiy de- turn What they Ileal from us, or do us Juftice forte fled, p. the publick Lies they have told on us 3 . under pre- 38- Account tence, of their being not obliged to it, without */ '** L'fe the Lord require it. V John Pe" * nyman, p. 24, &c. and f 3. of his feveral Tracts. As it was no lefs than Hypocrify for this their Apoftle Fox, to advife one Friend to purchafe Tythes, whilft he recriminated the Payment of them as LTnchriftian in another. 30th. What more notorious Hypocrify than for See RogersS their faid Apoftle to fend forth a Paper of Re- Chriftian flectious Queries, againft our fecuring any part- of Quaker, ift our Eftates from the Spoylers, on a Religious Ac- ff'/'J,1* count, in one refpect. 5"'*/°* *: Whilft he at the fame time made no Bones t0 r nu'^"s - allow and incourage his Friend Mary Penington, to /omf^yg'JS ' fecure a part of" hers from thefii on the fame Ac- TO^f w.Ro- count, in another. gersV p'h Pari, and p. fcj. of Ms (th Pftrt of hrs Chriftian Quaker ; together with the faid JWary Penington' »wrf her Son's Difenet of bim. 3 'A' 124 Hypocrisy. Several Pa- %ift. What more horrid Hypocrify than for-) pers gi-tien this their Fox to declare it to be, The only Work, of forth for the thfir Miniftry to draw People from the outward Teach- ' fpreading ofingf 0f MaN} t0 ty imme4iate Teachings of Chrift's ¦¦ Truth, p. ii spirit within, as their only Guide in all Things; un- Anno T I der Pretence> Tl}at the World- was ruled by outward C d' H.K'W> but the Saints Rule was within them ; the with his Se- ^°r^s Rec°rd wai without them, but the Saints with. lect Epifiles, *n ^oem 5 f^e Worlds Guide without them, but tbe p. 3*68, 416.' Saints within them 3 with more to this purpofe. of whofe Whilft yet this very fame Fox himfelf was fo far Hypocrify from confining himfelf and Followers to any fuch thofie that inward Rule, as that he on the contrary took up- toouldfiee 0n him ,to Teach our Teachers, by an outward" .' more, may one 0f his own Invention, when to preach, where to, perufie the preach, what to preach, to whom to preach, how long 5th Paft of (0 preacijt ]wy to preach, and what's worfe than V? S"s. s that, moft grofly falfe Doctrine too ; to his own Con- Chriftian md[a{^J Quaker. RufticusAc- l^dly. And as it was no le(s than Hypocrify in cademicos their renowned Fifher, to reprefent his Opponent t.\f. Daufon's Declaration, That he trufted his Reader (by , Compared what he had wrote) would be confirmed in his bad. 'withG.W.'s Opinion of the Quakers, as a confeffing to all the ; Abufe of World, The end of his Endeaxmurs was a Converting of T. C'.S Ex- his Readers to bad, Sec. So, preffion, as cited p. 156. of the Defence of the Snake. See the End Not to infill on William Pen's Hypocrify, in ren- c/F. BuggS dring Perfecution as Infeparable from Popery, in Picture of one fort of his Books 5 which in another, he will Quakerifim, have to be no natural Confequent of it. drawn to the Life, Sect. 5. p. 44. to p. 58. Together with BuggS Hiftory of Quakerifim. , G. White- lldly. What greater Hypocrify than for George hez&'sManu- Whitehead, after he hath fo tenacioufly condemned ficript in my Marriage of firft Coufens, as Abominatioh, Wick- Cuftody. ednefs, Filthinefs, Villainy, Confufion* (Sc, to de clare to William^ Parr o£ Nottingham, (when he came up to follicite their Second Days Meeting's Permiffion Hypocrisy. ii$ Permifuon of his Daughter's Proceedings with" her Second, for the fatisfSction of their Nottingham , Monthly one) That he was fo far from oppofing fuch Proceedings with Second Coufens, as that he had nought . againft Marriage with Firft, if any amongft us found themfelves difpofed to it ; upon notice whereof, Not* tingham Months Meeting acquiefc'd, whofe fquea- mifh Confciences otherways would not have been brought to admit Marriage with Second, what Danger foever the Perfons had been expofed to for want of it 5 in purfuance whereof, mthly. As there can be no greater Hypocrify HowgilS than for this Whitehead and his Followers, to cry Works. out agairift the Pope's Prohibition to Marriage of Priefts, as a Doctrine of Devils, the Apoftle con demned. * jn j,-!S Pa^ Whilft they ftand guilty of a Crime ofthe fame c;ficf, pro_ Nature, in their feveral unretracted Orders againft pofial, and Marriage of others,, altogether as Righteous,/ Law- Refleftion ful and Expedient, if their Friend * WiUiam Pen 'and Maxims, may be credited. ift Part., ¦$yhly. What more notorious Hypocrify than for Crooks Cafe them to reprefent the ancient Chriftian Fathers ofSwear- and Martyrs, as Oppofers of all Oaths as Unchri- *"£> P- IO» ftian, (from fome few Inftances of fuch as fcru- ?f Cm pled them, through their Miftake of our Lord and ^"T' „ his Apoftles Prohibitions.) Tr)*tr f When as (letting afide irreligious Ones of Hea- Oaths thenifli Invention, with others to begin Strife) they pareJ \lth cannot be ignorant, That the Generality of thofe r.. BarcleyS Fathers commended and practis'd them as Chrifti- Apol. on an Duties on good Qccafions to end it 3 according thofie Svb,- to Few's ABs and Monuments, and Dr. Cave's Rela- jects, and tion.- The like in the Cafe of Defenfive Arms, SkidimoreS which the Chriftians never denied or refufed," Primitive when not clogg'd with fome finful Impofition in Simplicity, the Execution by their Prince 5 as thofe our de-£ " 6,131. praved Quakers have alfo Hypocritically pretend- °?e, e,r. ed, in favour .of their unlawful Laws "and Orders ^veralTe againft them. ftimonies 'in FoxS Afls and Monuments, p. ill, 1091, 1127. And G. KeithS Confutation of R. BarcleyS Apol. &C: with Dr. CaveS Primitive Ckrijiidnity on thofe occafions. j6thly. iz& Hypocrisy; - t ,' . > • ' . » ' - . Weftanjwer- :'je^&fy. What- greater Hypocrify than for the^', ing to the . to. aflfert, T^hat any-Party of Men under a Government' North, £.86. ta^ftke Laws, (not being lawfully authorised fo to do] Truth and j- th fiindfrg of others, is treafon. lnnoc.p.41. J * ^ Yearly E- Whilft yet they themfelves, who have no fuch fifties of Authority, have taken upon tbem to make Laws Anno 1666, (to bind their own People, in the Cafe of Oaths, i^75, ttf93, Tythes, Defend ve Arms and Marriage, (Sc.) bf. &c. compa- their own Confeffion, as apparent IrifbinCes of their red with own Treachery. their Cla- ' ridgesS Melius Itiquirend.' I ox's Great ' Not to infift on their Hypocrify j in denying as! Myft.p. 1, Unc'hriftian calling any: M,zn Mafter, , in. a Civil 16, 7i,.&ci Senfe, (in reference to Mat. xxiii. 10, (Sc) who Compared are not really fo in the Common Senfe j whilft; •with his Se- yet, they ftick not to call their Patron Fox' Fatkff,- left Epift les, 0f ma^iy. Nations, ,iii a Religious Senfe, diretftly t' r6?'^, , , contrary to verfie 9. who really never wasfo in a'gV JbfiahCole,Senfe/ Letter,, as cited and defended in Pen's Judas and the Jews combin'dl Vindicia: Ve- y/thly. What more provoking Hypocrify than' rit.^>. 213. for them to pretend, That their Adverfaries are miftaken in entertaining fuch difadvantagious Thoughts of them,, as that they are far from re&aStty ing or condemning any vile Error with wfjich they have . been charged, from Undeniable Matter of Fact. Antidote When as they are fo far from retracting any Ven. p. 25. fnch vne Error, when proved upon them by fuch\; as cited p. Evidence, as that they moft wickedly avoid it, by Sf h \ 1 ^ pretending, 'their Accufer is their profeffied Adverfdryf °1 / na es or one of their profeffied Friends they have declared their ffainli it Difunhy with for his Apoftacy in fo treacheroufiy char- * , T-r gingthem, &c. cMohn Pc- l^thly. And as it is no lefs than Hypocrify for nvman p. ' them 10 cry out, of its being below the Juftice of 92, 93.Co7»-aa Nations tb charge, without giving the Perfons parked nvitb charged, Copies of their Charges againft them. W.GibfonS -Whilft yet at the fame time the; make no Con- cafie, andG. fcience, to refufe Copies of their own Charges to K^sTrJal. t their! Hypocrisy: 127 their Friends they have charged, lisft their Fal- fhoods therein fhould (according td their Deme rits) be moft juftly detected. Wtbly. What more provoking Hypocrify than BurrowS for them to pretend, that fair and equal MJputati-. Return t0 ons, is the beft way , to folifto Religious Reformations, tkeMinifters ¦according to Kjng Charles the- Firft's Sentiments ; for e/London, which Caufe1 they highly boaft of their ancient i&c. as cited Demands of them 3 under pretence. That the Day p. Mi- of k at Hand, wherein thofe that guard. Baal (as they the Anfwer Call the National Priefts) fhould have their Trial be- t0 the Anti- fere the People; they can Challenge the whole World to dote. *. detect them 3 none in the Light being afraid to bring urr°wS their Deeds to be Try'd by it 5 with much more to P^T*~ f this purpofe. My fiery Whilft yet they are fo far from fuffering their throughout. ¦ Deeds to be brought to any fuch Trial, in any fox-j. jour'. litch Difpute when called to it, as that I am for- nal, p. 460. feed to requeft our Superiors in Parliament to Se left Epift. anfwer their ancient Petitions, in fummoning/>. 6i. them to it ; in a Senfe of the impoffibility to bring CatonS them to any fuch Trial, without being forc'd Cloud ofiWit- toir. „ neffes,ch. 17. In confideration whereof, I have often admired ^linoP and at their moft audacious Hypocrify in crying out, Let Pftners, every Thing have its due Weight, we being willing to ry°J"tood, •abide the Confequence of a fair Trial; under pretence, q v- l> That it hath been their great Vnhappirtefs, that they ap{,rg„C J have not hitherto been known as they are 5 they being ^ay call ufi Drunk, with the Whores Cup, that will obtrude their p. 21*. Doctrines without Trial, fince they knew* that nothing Epiftle to but what will abide the Fire fhall ftand, &C Reafon a- gainft Rail- ,ing, with p. 284. FoxS feveral Papers, p.,13. A faithfulTeftt- theny to God and my Country, p. 12. Content. Apoft.p. if. New- EnglandS Enfign, p. 4, 59, 79. PenS, Preface to his Sandy Foun dation, and Epiftle. to Reafon againft Railing, p, 2, 4. A true Relation, p. 6. 'Sox's feveral Papers, printed 1660, p. 33, 34, Quakers Plea, p. 8. Margaret FellS Letter to King Charles II. p. 3. BurrowS Works, p.. 657, 658. Whilft 128 HYPOCRISYi Nay fo eager Whilft by their moft fcandalous Declenfions,- they were when called to it, they make it appear notwith- formerly to ftand ing, They love an Examination as Lucifer does the come to Tri- Light, which has given me juft Caufe to think, That • Ir kr they (lind not thofe their Friend Hovgil fpeaks of^ pu ic Con- are tj,e> Men to whom the Eye-Lids of the Morning are jerences, as as t^g ^^ ef Deatfj . the appearance ofthe Lord appealed to *° affrights them, as that they tun from it as a Thief Caefar in be- that digs through a Wall, after he hath broke open a half of his Houfe in the Night; wherefore muft feek out other Innocency, Devices to promote their Corruptions, rather than {though an fuffer their Deeds to be brought to the Light by improper a fair Examination in a free Conference, accoraS Judge in jng t0 their magnified Pretenfions 3 in purfuance5 Matters of whereof, Confidence) fib were their Adverfaries but equal Heathen Magiftrates over them, they tell the World, They durft refer their Caufe to Trial before tbem,. in p. 67. of their Friend PeningtOnS Examination of Grounds and Caufies ; though now they durft not refer it to profefs'd Chriftian Ones!, Jo Cowardly are they become fince their Apoftacy ; which 4 brings to mind the recited Advice ofi their Friend John Penyman, p. 293. of the Account ofi his Life, That if it was in their Hearts to build a Houfe for the' Lord, it would do well to build it only' •with try'd Stones, fince there are many who like them would be Buil ders, that love not to be Try'd. See hislnvi- Not t0 mfift ?n tIie'r ^rien^- Claridge's Hypocri-' tat ory Poft- fy, ' in reprefenting Judge Hales as a Favourer of fcript to their- Doctrines, in his Nature of True Religion 5 John Stilling- who was fo far from it, as that he forewarned his fleets Honeft Children converting with the Quakers, Whofe poy- Neighbours, fenous Opinions, he affirmed, carried a Contagion in as cited p. them worfie than the Plague. t-Afi- °f . Vindicia; Veritat. with p. 166. of R. ClaridgeS Melius Inquirend-.. compared with p. ziz. of the jd.Part of the fiaid Judge Hales'.* Contemplations, and p. 15, &c. of his Nature of Chriftianiiy, as cited in the Introductory Preface of F. B.S Pifture of Quak'erif»l> \othly. What more abominable Hypocrify than for this their renowned Claridge, to fet forth a pre tended Confefficn of a namelefs Author (in a pre tended Letter from a Clergyman in the Country to * a Hypocrisy. 129 a Clergyman in the City, concerning the Quakers) That for his pari, he does belieUe, they are the People whim God hath raifed in this dreggy Age ofthe World, to refine -it. When as I had the faid Letter fent to my Hand in Print, long before this his Commendation of it, as on6 of his own Writing, after he had left his Prieftly Office, to turn Quaker • whereby (hoW WyethSiV/- much foever they Hypocritically cry out againft mitive Chri- Mens going about to advance what they call. Truth j by ftianiiy^p.7. Pie F^raudes) it is obvious, that rather than want * Profelytes, they won't ftick to cheat People into their Faith and Church, by fuch notorioufly im pious ones, as this of their Claridges, for want of found Arguments to convince them of the Truth of it. _ Wherefore, if there be no Hypocrites in the true Church of Chrift, as their Friend Fumjworth, in/>. 13. of his Rod to whip out the wild Boars, hath af firmed, I doubt it will appear, that theirs is a falfe one 5 pr' this' their Clandge, with the reft of his depraved Collegues of the Second Days Meetings (who approved his faid Poftfcript) are of thofe un clean Animals that muft be whipp'd out of it, fines there is hardly any others in the whole Univerfe guilty of fuch abominable Hypocrify as I have proved them 3 which, .inftead of making them 'proud of themfelves and their pretended Refor mations, one would think, the Senfe thereof fhould of all others make them the moft humble j yet are they above all others, I am perfwaded, guilty of that damnable Sin of Pride alfo, through which Lucifer fell in the beginning, as I fhall in the next place prove by. fuch ; Ihftances, as I am apt to think, they'll ne'er attempt to refute before impartial Auditors in a Verbal Conference, if they can poffibly avoid.it. In the interim muft tell the World, that if they want- more proofs of their Hypocrify, they may .read the Books filled Tyranny and Hypocrify detected ; PenymanS Tracts ; Quakers Contradictions ; Quakers Vnmasked ; Quakers Quib bles j RichS HiddenThings brought to Light, and I Rogers'* ? IJO Pride. Rogers/ Chriftian Quaker ; together with p.ix,i%] 13, 17, 21, (Sc. of Fr. BuggS Prologue, and p. P- 75, «5, 563, £&:. of his Rettofpe&ive Glafs ; and there find 86, 87. ofthe enough to evince, That the Day of Vifitation (of Account of which their true Friend John Penyman foretold his Life, well them) is near to come upon them, wherein no Hypo- worth their Cf. 0). rucj} tiguhU.minded Men as they are, can univerfal a j perujal. -ft VRIDE. TN order to my proof of this Charge, I muft tell , thofe our depraved Quakers, That as it was the effect of Pride in their magnified Patron Fox, to pretend to Anfwer two hundred of their Oppo nents Books, in his Great Myftery of the Great Whore, as he calls it : When as it is fo obvious by his impertinent Effays therein for that end, he nei ther underftood thofe Books, or rightly knew how to anfwer thofe few Scraps he cull'd out of them ; PenS Spirit fo it is no lefs than Pride in his depraved Col- of Truth. legues, to attempt to defend his feveral Anfwers, WyethS Pri- ifi order to fupport his anil their proud Pretences mitive Chri- to Infallibility in their religious Sentiments 5 whilft fl-.fff^ftj- 6' by their deceitful Shufflings in their Effays for that purpofe, they fo plainly prove themfelves Self- Condemned. Again, Vindicia;Verit./). 2, 218, 214, 225. RogersS Chriftian Quaker, $tb Part, .p. 30. As it was no lefs than Pride in their faid Patron Fox, to pretend to write, an Epiftle, all in Latin, to the Magiftrates of the Ifle of Millita, 8cc. en titled, Scrippu uncula, Quadam Anglico Latin Tongue 3 fo to pafs by his Einige Fragen Anlegegeben, &c. to all E- IcElors, Princes, Statelmen, &c. It was a high de gree of the fame Spirit of Pride in him, not only to Pride. i 3 1 to fet his Hand, in the firft place, to the Book See hisPre- ftiled, A Battledoor for Teachers and Profeffors to face to the learn Singular and Plural, of above Thirty Languages fa'd Battle- in General, but alfo to fubfcribe his Name to the door-> com- Latin, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldea and Syriac Pared ™''h Battledoors, in particular in the Body of it 3 under ^'^'."f pretence, that as they were forced to ufe fome of ^m^ltr^r their Terms of Art, which he was quite over, all t0 ti,'e Mafter Languages being no more than Duft to him who was 0r %-,„„ jj. •¦before Languages were, &c. in order to perfwade wardS Free- the World, He was their chief Tranflator ; when by School, near thofe fcandalous Shreds of Nonfenfe, called His the Conclu- Laft Will and Teftament, 'tis fo obvious to all the fion' ofi it ,- World, he underftood not his own Mother-Tongue, whereby Again, fome of his enflavedVaf- fials have been led to believe, that be had not only "7, but 70 Lan guages given him in one Night by Divine Revelation, of which Jo- ieph Rogers, a noted preachingQnaker, now or late of Great Mark- ham i»Nottinghamlhire, is a pregnant lnftance, who declared him- fielf lately one af thofie implicite Noncons amongft others referr'd to in p. 60. of the Hiftory ofi Quakerifim. To pafs by his Primmer for all DoEiors and Scho lars, &c. amongft others of the fame Nature, wherein he proudly calls them, Novices, Fools, &c. crymg, Don't hip nor skip, anfwer 3 for you have fometimes Tongue enough, let's fee now how it can wag, with more fuch Infolence. As it was no lefs than Pride in him to pretend, Title-Page (in his Title-Page to his Vindication of the Anfwer t0 N^vs to the Twenty three Queries, fubfcrib'd by him) TV comin£ "P> fuch as read his. faid Book, thorough, might find fuch *c' comP"- Things in it, as had never been written or printed ; 'ge ™J*,. Pf (wherein he muft needs be wrong, unlefs he meant v°e',-al Peti-~ for Nonfenfe) ; fo to pafs by his pretences to be pro- tions na_ phefied ofi, and Name not known in the World, &c. fiv>ered. It was no lefs than abominable Pride in him, to fet forth divers Volumes of Directions and Or ders, under pretence ofthe Spirit, as Divine Rules for us to obferve,' with refpect to Difcipline, Do ctrine and Practice 3 as we expected to avoid the Penalty of- thofe feveral Cenfures he therein be- I z flows 132 Pride. Truths Se- flows on their Tranfgreffors. When as thofe vo- fonce, p. z. luminous Directions, Rules, Orders, (Sc are fo compared far from being the refult of that bleffed Principle, with their he as falfly as proudly laid claim to, as that they Paper about are (generally fpeaking) no other than his own Edicts, Ca- g^fs Comments on certain partially pick'd Paffages nons, &c. out 0f p^oiy Scripture, by the help of a Concor- Jet forth An-dance> in beha]f 0f * falfe or friVolous Subjects, S°/t7l' -a as may be found upon Examination. Again, p. 360, &c. compared with his Journal and Doctrinal Works, p. 159, 160, i65. and Epiftle recited at the End of Tyranny and Hy pocrify, Sec. * Such as the Unlawfuhefs of all Oaths,' Tythes, Skimmingdifb Hats, Boot-hofie-Tops, tafled Bandftrings, Fidlers, Pipers, Bear- baiters, Cock-figbte.rs, Miracles by Dead Men's Bones, yon for thou, with a high Commendation of painted Bed-ftaves, Saws, An- dirons, Sec. on our Sign-Pofts, amongft a many other fuch Nick-a- Nacks he was perpetually amufing us with. See Defence As n was a h'S*1 degree of the fame Spirit of of the Snake Pride in him, to prefume, as the Prince of Life, againft G. to Difcipline the Emperor, Turk., Pope, Kings of W.'sAnti- England, France, Spain, Portugal and Poland, &c. dote, zdPart in crying out, I'll break, your Names, and mar your p. 160. Images with the Spirit of Truth ; wherefore, come out, compared^ j challenge you all, &c. under pretence, That as they with Fox s w/00 ijaci the fame Spirit that raifed up Jefus from the d ' d™ Dead, were equal with God, he had not only Power to P e 'n e . bind and loofe whom he pleafed, but the Rod of God afore-men- a^° Qonm,ttted to his Hand for to corrcB the Nations, tioned. Se- and VQ^° trampled upon Princes like Morter. So it veral Papers was n0 ^s than abominable Pride in him, to take triven forth, upon him to fettle a fort of a pretended Spiritual in Englifh Commonwealth' amongft us, by inftituting Men ' and Laxia, and Woinens diftinct Monthly and Quarter Meet- p. 5, 10,170. ings of Difcipline, to execute hisOrders, and then Pap Jis proudly call on us To take our Poffejfwns in it, and -Strength ¦ cme broken, p. -56, 93. SaulS Errand. News out ofthe North, p. 15, 16. and Kice JoneS Manufcript, Sec. ' with RogeisS Chriftian Quaker, tfb Part, p. 30. Tyranny and Hypocrify detected, p. 15, &c. PenymanS Life, p. 104. BuggS Narrative, pi 150. and Vox's good Counfel ejected, p. 16, 37, &c. f R IDE. I Jj come and fit down with him on his Throne ; who, as he was an Eftablifher of Righteouftiefs, had Infallibi lity of Judgment committed ts him in all Things, if you will believe him. Wherefore whilft the Head was thus infected with the hateful Sin of Pride, through which Lu cifer (that Son of the Morning) firft fell in the beginning, it is the lefs Wonder the Members alfo fhould be found tinctur'd with the fame Crime* in order to their eternal Ruin, if not prevented by their fpeedy Repentance ; in proof whereof As it is no lefs than Pride in them, to reprefent r. h. Good themfelves as the only proper Perfons to Rule the Old Caufe. World ; under pretence, That the Godhead dwells Anfiwer to bodily within them ; whilft yet they are fo unfit for the Baptifts that Station, as to renounce the Executive, part of Declaration, Government, in denying the ufe of all (Jutward/1- 6-> *3 >'$*'• Weapons, in the Hand ofthe Chriftian Magiftrate, DewsberryS as Unchriftian, in the Nations Defence. Works, p. 139- ClaridgeS Counterfeit Clergymans Letter to a Clergyman. Cbrifl exalted, in Anfwer to John Timfon, p. 18. Together wither. Howgil and Ed. BurrowS Colleftions on this Subject, &c> Which Principle of theirs brings to mind the Obfervation ofi the Author of TheTheatre of God's Judgments upon Rebels, ch. 3. part 2. p. 14. where he truly tells us, There is another fiort of Trea fon, and another Rank of Traitors, as pernicious as the former, and as odious to God and Man, fuch are they as forfiake their Country in the Time oj Necefftty, or refufie to Fight in the Defence of it -, as the former dre called Fugitives, the latter are Cowards ; who deferve no lefts Punifliment, as appears by divers Examples ; fince, as the firft were noted with this Ignominy, To eat their Meat ftanding, whereto they were fiworn, fio the latter were fio hatefiui to the ancient Romans, as that they efteemed them not worthy to be redeemed from Captivity, who had rather be taken baj'ely, thai; die honourably and valiantly in Defence of their Countiy, as our Traiterous Quakers would it fieems, rather than Fight for their Liberty, through the Strength of their Foxonian Delufions. What more abominable Pride than for them to be fo conceited in their pretended Infallibility, notwithftanding, as to refufe to fubject their Fox onian Impertinencies to an impartial Examination in their own Meetings of Difcipline, in order to ~ I 3 their i$4 Pride. Whiteheads their amendment. In purfuance of which pi'bvo- Trutbpre- king Infolence, valent, p. ^s lt ;s n0 jefs than abominable Pride in them, 4Z> .4'- to fet themfelves forth as God's Jewels and renown- minltion' "ble Children> t0 whom he hath Siven the SPirit °f - ' *' difeerning betwixt the Righteous and the Wicked, be- E>ewsberryS tween ^'m that ferveth God and him that ferveth him Collection^. not-> according to Malachy iii. 17. Whilft yet they i7i, I93>' are fo far from any fuch difeerning, as that they 201. have not hitherto difcerned the grofs Errors in To the Camp Doctrine and Difcipline, or great Wickednefs in of the Lord, Practice that is amongft themfelves: So 'tis no p- *• lefs than notorious Pride for them to ftile them- Immanuel, , felves God's peculiar People and whole Heritage 3 un- P'.1' ,, der pretence, that as God is only known among them, Elwood s mm otfoers are -n (y.e -j-rutf} iut Quakers. Anfwer to G. KeithS firft Narrative, p. 2,1 1, 212. Apoft. Incendiary, p. 3. Ambrofe Rigg to the whole Flock, p. 2. FoxS Great Myft, p- 31, Pearl found, and EcclcsS Quakers Challenge. New-Eng- Again, As it was the effect of a proud Spirit in landS En- them to cry out, Oh what will become of you in that fign, p. 8. jyayt ^hen a Dog dare not lift his Tongue againft the Several Pe- Quakers. f*'"u/l~ 'Tis no lefs than horrible Pride in them to af- Jwere , p. , g^ That People may as well burn the Scriptures as Hubber- /'3e"' Qg*k?r-Books ; under pretence of their Books thornS being wrote from the fame Power and Spirit the Holy Truths De- Scriptures proceeded, for which Caufe (as there Is no- fence, p. 2. thing therein but what may be defended as eafily Anfwer to as fome Parts of the Holy Scripture) they are ready Weflmore," to vindicate them with their Blood when called to it. land Petiti on, p. 30. Vindiciae Verit. p. 2, 218, 224, 225. Serious Apol. p, 49. F. HowgilS Work'. WyethS Primitive Chriftianity, p. 6. Ang. Flag. p. Ji. Advertifiement in the Poftman, as cited p. 173. of F. h.'s'Narrative. Account of the Life of J. Penyman, p. 78. and Quakers Contradictions. Serious Examination, p. 13, 14, &c. So what is it lefs than abominable Pride in them, to give it as their Senfe, Advice, Admonition and Judgment, That no fuch flight and contemptible Names Pride. i j $ Names and Exprefltons, as calling Men and Wo- Yearly E- mens Meetings, Courts, Seffions, Synods, 8cc. ortsheir piftle of An- faithful Friends Papers (as they call their unW- n? lflh <« ful Laws and Orders) Mens Edicts or Canons. \ c'ted Pi '*> vesv. of G. Whiteheads Sober Expoftulation. As it is no lefs than Pride in them to reprefent El woods their Books, as preferable to thofe of the Greekf"rther Dife and Latin Fathers 3 under pretence of George c°ver~> "» P- Keith's being guilty of Irreverence, in fuppofing V^ ^|a~ them to be written by no better Guidance, than _ r b?' theirs who lived and wrote in thofe dark Times Anfiwer to of Apoftacy .• So as it is through this proud Con- q. K.'s firft ceit, that we have been made to believe, that all Narrative. their * Church Laws and Orders (with their fe- FoxS Select veral Books in behalf of them) are like the Medes Epiftles, p. and Perfians, infallibly unalterable 3 they will 360. ftruggle after a moft> furprifing rate, rather than PenS Guide give the leaft Caufe of Sufpicion to the contrary, ">iftaken, p. by razing out any of their Yearly Meeting Mi-+°' ,?"*h nutes once agreed on amongft them, how ruinous Whitehead* foever to their own Proceedings, and pernicious : "l"/'^*/ to their own Profelytes. In evidence whereof, as '"^J q f°*. their continued Refufal to vacuare their Order a- aea-ina J1 gainft Marriage of Firft Coufens (amongft others riageof firtt I have confuted beyond their Attempts of De- Coufens. fence) is good proof j it may not be amifs, on this * a Copy occafion, to notifie another pleafant Inftance, that ofi which came within my Obfervation, with relation to Church- fome Reflectious Papers fent from Penftlvania to Laws, Sec. their Yearly Meeting in Anno 1691, in the Cafe being to be of George Kfitb, which they finding themfelves un- refd in one der an abfolute Obligation to read therein, by '/ the,r I 4 Venue Meetings in ¦ our Parts ; A young Man, whofe Father bad bequeathed him a Meeting-Houfie, was defirous to have that Honour confer^d on bim, which the. chief Leaders thinking him unworthy of, on account of the Sacrednejs ofi the Things contained therein ; he, in requital of their proud Con tempt of him, took the Advantage offiome Defect in their Title, to turn tbem out of the fiaid Meeting-Houfie, as a Place too good for their illegal Laws, Sec, to be publifhed in, of which they as ftor- rowfully, as unfiucctfisfully, complained at our next Quarter- Meeting. 136 Pride, Vertue of a former Order of their Inftitution, contrary to a Minute they had then precipitantly drawn in their Journal, upon account of the un acceptable Report that had been given concerning ' them, by the Perfons deputed to examine the Con tents of fuch as were proper to be prefented them 3 they, to extricate themfelves from this unhappy Dilemma, a long while fqueez'd their Wits to no effect moft amazingly, till their famous Elwood fi nally found out the Way to unloofe this Gordian Knot, by giving it as his Judgment, That they might read all in Order, as Perfons ignorant of the well-, known Contents of them, notwithftanding their Record, to his no fmall Applaufe, and infallible CollegueS great Confolation. All which, as it fliows the horrid Pride of their Hearts, in not owning themfelve Fallible in their Church Capacity, on the moft evident Demonftra- See FoxS tion in the proof of it 5 I know no better way to Vifit ation to make them fenfible of this their Enormity, than the Jews, by thus expofing the feveral Caufes on't, fince their Title-Page. blundering Patron Fox was fo far from contribu- Epiftle Ge- ting any thing towards that righteous Purpofe, aSs neral, p. n, that he greatly ftrengthned them in it, by noifing 13, 14, I5, them with a We be the Royal Seed Elect and Precious &c. with p. hefore the World began ; We be the anointed of God, I3°, xil» and as the Apple of his Eye, amongft whom he is only- fy' G*"t ^umn > ^e are "f f^e fure %olig'on that never chan- M "ft toire &es » are f^e Preacher's of Rigkteoufhefs, whom all f her with p- the Nations of the Earth fhall call bleffed, and of ijj 134 whofe King, all the anointed Kings on Earth are but 27 8?. of his as 4 Figure, and ends them all; with much more tp Select Epift. this purpofe. Jn order to fecure which high Fa- compared vours to his enflaved Profelytes, as he proudly told with p. 7, 8, them, They might come into a Temperance atyove all 138. of F. the World 5 and a Patience above all the World; and B.S Prologue a Moderation above all the World; and a Wifdom a- to his Great hove all' the World ; and a Knowledge above' all the Myftery of World; and an Vnderftandhg. above all the World; tra L and a Sobriety above all the World 3 and a Gravity a- Sehn Epift Pove all the World, &c. ,Sp he puffed them into * ,,9 f,0'fucha Fool's Paradife, through their imaginary f- ?38> ?39- Pride. I37 Attainment of thofe Excellencies, as that they will not only needs have their perfect Quaker, to be ShewingsS Meeker 'than Mofes, Stronger than Sampfon, Wifer Treatije of than Solomon, Patienter than Job, and as Inndcent Thoughts and as Chrift; butaho ftrenuoufly perfwade themfelves >m«ginati- (as they would all others) That the Name Jefus and °2f> P- **? Chrift belongs to every Member of them, as well as to reJ ^/jfjT- Chrift the Head ; in favour of which proud Conceit Peninmon'/ as this their Reverend Fox proudly tells the World, Queftion ta That the Quakers are in the Power of God, and in the Profeffor s, Authority of the Lamb, above all Houfes upon the p. 17. Throne ; fo in order to their unqueftiqnable Belief DewsberryS of it, he advifed them to keep down the wife Part, Collect, p. till they come to defpife it, that he might the more »47- and G, eafily fubject them to thofe his Fooleries, whereby Fox'J Great he has enflaved us 3 which, whofoever does but^A-P- 31. offer to tell our depraved Teachers of, are fure to have a Wafps Neft about their Ears, whereby they fhall be flung to purpofe, through their abu- five Exclamations, as my felf, amongft many o- ther of our true Friends hath often experienc'd, as will be largely proved in my next Charge a- gainft them 3 in the interim muft tell them, That as this their Patron Fox hath greatly provoked God by his proud Pretences^ to be raifed up to reform the State, and correct the Errors of the Learned, as his officious Collegue George Whitehead hath done alfo by his Defence of him, in thofe his pre- fumptuous Undertakings 3 fo as he hath moft juft ly caufed the grofs Ignorance of the one to be providentially expofed to all the World, by the Probation of feme Nonfenfical Scribbles of his in Doctors Commons, as his Laft Will and Teftament, he hath alfo moft rightpoufly led the other to be lafh'd by the Mob, throughout England, &c. for his-pfficioufnefs in folemnly witnefling the fame to be his own Hand-Writing, for the more full fa- tisfaction of fuch as might queftion it, on account of his lofty Pretenfions, That Fox was not fe ignorant of thofe fevejal learned Languages inh'ts Battledoor, as his Opponents reprefented him. The confideration pf which juft Ignominy, as I defire tuay be a per petual :38 R A I L E R Y. petual Warning to all fuch afpiring Pretenders a- mongft us, how they encroach on ;Go,d's Preroga tive for the future 5 fo as a further Caution a- gainft the irreligious, Effects of their Tranfacti- ons, I fhall defcehd to give Inftances of their t\a^ lery, as a natural Confequent of their proud Af- fumptiqn. In order whereto. RAILERT. A£ S Mr. Baxter in his- one Sheet printed in Anno,. .1659. againft them, tells us, That, in thofie ; their early Days, he had more vailing Language frot^,, one of them in.one Le{ter, than ever he heard from all < the Scolds in the. Country in Twenty^ Tears before, to , Pen's Serious his Remembrance. So as we are fo.. far from hear-;i Apol. p. 165. ing any of their Brotherhood cenfured by them. , in Defence for their Raileries towards him and others, (in cal- of J. Naylor, ling them Dogs, Devils,, tkc.) as that they plainly,, compared tell' die World, , That if their Friends Treatment of with p. 156, thfitcurfed Stopk. of Hirelings, (as they call all the ofi his faid National Priefts) had been Ten Theufand Times more SeriousApol. jignificantt earneft andjhitrp, it had been but enough, "*t"j ?r. and they would, then Jay, not enough 3 but that they of his Rea- ^a^ ^etlrned to, acquiefce with fuch Denunciations as fon againft the Holy Spirit (as they call their Light within) was Ratline pleafed to give through them. We may well think they are finely come on in fuch BMingfgate Rhe- torick. by this Time we live in. In, propf where,- > of> '-'.:..-.'¦.. . -i, .If to call a Man, a deceitful Tongue-Lying Prieft; malicious Incendiary.; fcqrnful,, malicious Perfon ; un- „ „ confeionable, mercenary, woolfifto Prieft, whom God. compared wilt 4eflr°y for ever7 f P- Real Quaker a Real Proteftant, are with him equally '*ed guilty of Railery. Again, with their March ancient Teftimony. If to call theii- own Monitors amongft our felves not only Apoftate Informers, Treacherous Hypocrites, Falfe Brethren, Deceitful Workers, Betraying JudasS, Dogs, Wolves, Devil-driven dungy Gods, 8cc. But alio the Spirit they are infiuene'd by, Hellijh Spi rit ; dark.jealous Spirit ; a crofs canker d Spirit 3 dif- orderly, loofe, libertine Spirit ; earthly, dark. Spirit j ! feign d, dark* earthly Spirit 5 dark., fulfil, fophiftical Spirit 5 Bel'iaiS Spirit ; earthly, canker 'd, rufty, mur- thering Spirit, 8cc. for difcovering their grofs De pravity, in order to their Repentance, (3c may ' be accounted Railery, Then our depraved Quakers having fo called. RogersS Ci- their Monitors amongft us, in thofe feveral Books tation in bis in the Margin, with abundance more that might Preface to be mentioned, thofe our depraved Quakers are Quakers a guilty of Railery. "Again, divided Peo- ° ' pie, out of G. W.S Preface to bis Judgment fix' d, compared with Robert San- dilandS to his Righteous Judgment placed, and p. 5. of the Book. G. W. Accufer, as cited p. 201. of F. B.S De Chrift. lib. G. FoxS Poftfcript to J. B.S Teftimony in that -which Separates. Pen's Win ding Sheet, p. 1, 2, 3,4. and Alexander, p.j, 7, 12. as^citedp.$. pf the Quakers Contradictions. ' To pafs by their nafty Terms of Scal'd Heads, HoldenS , N gaul'd Horfe back., fpuing, purging, fitinking and' wi- Letter to ping, &c. they too often fluff their defenfive Books Mr- WlS~ and Letters with. • . f°jV * "" If not only to call their Opponents, amongft o- ^6 if\le ther Chriftian Profeffors, Conjurers, Thieves, Rob- zlf part If hers, Antiehrifts, Witches, Devils, Scarlet coloured t(,e Defense Beafts, dead Beaft, painted Beaft, brazen fiae'd greedy ofthe Snake Dogs, whiffling Curs, barking Dogs, Rattle Snakes, againft G. blinHW.'s Antid. 140 Railery. Quakers blind Sots, dark. Sots, Blood-hounds, Raging like So. Principles, domites, Lizards, Moles, Tinkers, green-headed Trum- p. 8, 9, io, peters, Wheelbarrows, Gimcraclts, Whirlpools, Whir- n, &c. as ligigs, Moon-Calves, Tatterdemallions, Serpents, Vi- printedhn- perff Minifters of the Devil, ravening Wolves, Even- no 1693, ing Wolves, Bears, nafty Spirits, Bond/laves of the FifherS Ru- jyevHf &c. ftictts Acade- Bu'taif0 thofe amongft their own Friends, Old ^1C?S» in canker d Apoftate, Phigellus, Hermogenes, Hymenius, Ow&rT Bax- P^tletes, Darkj Envious, Inveterate, Adamantine, At ter Topibs lexander the Apoftate, Grinning Dog, Devil's Agent, and Dawfon. Devil's Emijfary, Devifs Drudge, Devil's Porter, PenS Alex- Vajfal of Hell, Curfed Serpent, Devil's Bondftave, De- ander, p. 1, vils Incarnate, Chief of Devils, Sec. be to be guiky *, 14, 16. of Railery. Whiteheads Then thofe our depraved Quakers having fo caL Preface to \ec\ their Oppofers,. amongft themfelves and others, his Judg- jn their feveral Writings without good Caufe for ment fix' d. -„ tjj0fe our depraved Quakers are guilty of RaU Pox, Brief j Dificovery, ' p- 7, 8, 9» i°- Pen'sGuide miftaken, p. 18. Vox's Truths Defence,; p. Si, 82. ParnilS Works, p. 412. Compared with feveral other' proofs of this Nature in p. 200. of the Snake, p, 3, 10. of Peny manS Quakers Contradiflions ; RichS Second Letter in Manu- feript, and p. 28. of F. B.S Prologue and Defence of the Snake a-. gainft G. WS Antidote, id Part, p. 111. "Sox's Great Wherefore, if Rollers fhall never inherit the Myft.p- 237- Kingdom of God, becaufe he that Rails, Reviles and Yox'sfeve- calls Names, is no true Chriftian, if the. Quakers ral Papers, themfelves may be credited. p. at. prin ted 1671. Compared witbVen's Reafon againft Railing, p. 169. and Addrefs toProteftants, p. 242, &c. Defence of the Snake againft G. W.S Antidote, xd Part, p. 5*, 62. Then thofe our depraved Ones of George Fox's Order, having Rail'd, Revil'd and Call'd Names to purpofe, in thofe feveral Inftances above-noted, amongft many others.that may be mentioned, thofe our depraved Quakers fhall never inherit that King dom, to be fure, without true Repentance and Amendment, fince they are fo far from being true Chri- Railery* t^t Chriftians, as that they herein fall fliort of Moral Heathens, who would feorn, I am perfwaded, to treat their Opponents with fuch Billing/gate A- fperfions ; which yet they appear fo far from re^ penting of, (though often put upon for that pur pofe) as that they ftill moft audacioufly perfift in their Wickednefs of this Nature towards their un- condemn'd Brotherhood, upon their leaft offers to confront their Abufes 3 as appears by a Relation one Samuel Beard of Windon near Luis in Sujfiex, lately fent me in Writing, concerning the Treat ment he had met with from thofe pretendedly inno cent, harmlefs, fuffering Saints, only for his faluting a modeft Gentlewoman at her Husband's own Motion 3 which without regard to their own nu merous Enormities of a far worfe Nature (fpeci- fied in the Spirit of the Hat, and Tyranny and Hypo- Compared crifiy detected) they have not only reprefented as with tbe Re- fuch a heinous Crime, as he ought to be exclu- lation of ded out of their Communion for 3 but alfo one their Friend Ambrofe Galloway, a moft officious Agent of their ThurftonS, Quarter Meeting (who after a far more immodeft *£'. Tranf- ' Manner is faid to have handled the GoalersMaid, aa,ons "> P- when he went to vifit his imprifon'd Father) has \be\dp' rt run on to fuch a heighth in this their furious Pha- 0r tfo jje^ rifaical Quaker Zeal, againft the faid Samuel and fience of the his two Brothers, who took his part, as to call them Snake a- Three Rogues, faying, Don't be Mealy-mouth 'd ; 'tisgainft G. no matter if ye were all turn'd outt Korum, (as he W.S Anti- phras'd it) Dathan and Abiram 5 Reprobates, Apo- dote. ftates, Raskals, Blockheads, Puppies, Baftards, Vil lain, Bully, Mumper, Slippery Fellow, Legions, De vils, Three Rank,Batchelors, Caterwauling Sea-Crabs, Jackanapes, who Grin like Hounds, Dogs gnawing upon me as the Dogs gnaw Flefh 3 Daniel; wifh thy felf damn'd 3 Daniel witl be a Sacrifice for the De vil, with much more fuch Quaker Rhetorick 3 all which he was fo far from being duly reproved for in a Church way, by thofe conceited Reformers of this dreggy Age of the World, when put up on it for that purpofe, as that he in one of their Quarter-Meetings took liberty to declare, That thofe 142 Apostacy. thofe Names were as vindicatable as to call a Spade i Spade, without their leaft Cenfure for thofe his ungracious Afperfions. So far are they from con demning that Spirit of Railery wherewith they are influenced, as that they efteem it no fmall part of their Religion to defend it 3 as an Evidence of See Con- their moft deplorable Apoftacy, from that holy and t'.mn'd Qua- bleffed Spirit of Truth which was the firft Author ker, p. i$.to0f their Religious Separation from the Worlds P- 64- Corruptions 5 which is the next Charge I defcend to make good againft them, by fuch Inftances as, I am perfwaded, they'll never attempt to refute -. In the Interim muft tell them, That as they have Viz. FoxS been long guilty of this Vice of Railery, as ap- Great Myft. pears by thofe Books and Pages mentioned in the p. 6-l. Margin, they have been alfo moft juftly reprehend- PenS Epiftle ed for their Perfiftance in it, without the leaft to their fhew of Repentance, as they may find if they Friend Ii- pleafe to perufe p. 79,80, &c. ofthe Account, of flierS Works, the Life 0f John Penyman, to which I refer them, in Defence anci proceed to give Inftances in proof of their A- of this their pgftaCy that occafion'd it, as follows. Crime, com--1 J pared with p. asi.. o/James ParnilS Collection. BuggS Introducto ry Preface to his News from New-Rome, and p. 38, &c. of his FU nijhing Stroke, ATOSTACT. '"pHough I have largely proved them apparently A guilty of this Charge, by feveral particulars fpecifiedin a certain Manufcript I, in Anno 17 10, read in the Audience of divers of the Chief of them, beyond their Attempts to defend themfelves, which might fave me the pains of further expo? fing their Guilt by others, till they have difcharg ed themfelves of thofe 5 yet fince my Chriftian Labours therein for their Welfare have been fo far from obtaining the defired effect in their Humili ation, Apostacy. 143 ation, as that they could not prevail with them, to allow themfelves Time to examine the Validi ty of the Inftances I referr'd to in proof of my faid Charge, for fear the Clearnefs of the fame fhould bring them to that Remorfe their Luciferian Spirit won't at prefent fubmit to. , As this their Apoftacy was foretold them by See Swin. their Friends John Swinton, William Dewsberry, mn's pro_ John drook&nd George Fox the Younger, amongft ma- phetick Pa ns others 5 that nothing may be wanting on my pers mentis part towards their further Conviction of their oned in Ty- Apoftacy in thofe particulars mentioned in the faid ranny and Manufcript, I fhall defcend to fhow them how Hypocrify greatly they are depraved in the very Root of detected, their Religion, that they may be the. lefs furprized compared at their Apoftacy in the Branches thereof. . In or- ^w?De"^ der whereto, £rry,^ ColJ leftion, and p. of John Crook, with p. 5. of G. FoxS General le and Tender Greeting. As it is well known to all who have in any mea fure perufed their Doctrines, as laid down in their moft ancient Books; - That the firft Foundation of their Religious Separation from the Worlds erring Ways and Worfliips, was the Spirit of God ob jectively operating on their Souls and Bodies, at Times and Seafons, fo as to caufe them to Trem ble moft fenfibly when it was upPn them, through which they came to be denominated Quakers, in or about the Year 1650, though they were a ga thered People in feveral Parts of the Nation di vers Years before, under the Denomination of Se-; paratifts, &c. according to their own Relations j fo their Apoftacy was occafion'd through their De- fertion of that moft noble Principle, in preferring The Dictates of the common Light in all Men coming into the World (under the Denomination of God and Chrift's' only true faving Light) in the place of it ; as appears by a Comparifon of their Fox's Latter Sentiments in his Select 'Epifties and Doctri nal Workj, with the firft part of the Journal ofi his *. ,-• Life,- 144 Apostacy. , Life, and his other Books and Papers inftanc'd in Croyfes j £he Margin 3 wherein, as he feldom mentions the int meer Light within, and much lefs the common the Quakers, ^^ [n ^ Mankind COminginto the World, (ac- Retiorcor'- cor^lng t0 ms Supporter P Dy its effects on him, in faying p. 10. of his count of the ^jj journalt Such and fuch Things were at fuch a Trials of T^g 0pened to nie by the Eternal Light and Power ; ~ a . and a pure Fire appeared within me. And p. ti. I Evans and , . r , Tr , „ rz Mary Che- being mai*e to pray, the Lord s Power was Jo great, vers p. 145. l^at f^e Houfe feemed to be Jhalien, which made feme Paper fent Profeffors then and there declare, It was now as in thi forth into Days of the Apoftles, when the Houfes were Jhakpi. the World, P. 16. A true Voice arofe in wie, which faid, There1; p. 5. is a living God who made all Things. P. 17. Such n Great Myft. mighty Power of God, that They (i. e. the People) />. 40, 87. were greatly fhaken. P. 26,1 Now the Lordts Powei. Several Pa- wasj0 mighty upon trie, dnd fe ftrong in me, that! pers printed couf^ mt fo^ hut was made to cry out, &c. infiomutb \ / tf *V/?' as ^ey were amaZd at the Voice, And p. 27. Both J e , *•' ' Priefts and People were aftonijhcd at the wonderful SomePr'in- Power that broke forth. P. 28. By the healing Venue ciples, p. 15. whereof many have been delivered from great Infirmi- Antidote, p. ties; the Devils made fubject. And p. 28. The Churches. 6, 44, feern d tofhake, &c. compared with much more of Way eaft up. his and other of our Friends Experiences of, the' RichS Hid- Effects of this Divine Light of Life in their firft den Things, coming forth, largely notified in p. 82, 103, 156, p. 42. - 375. 0f the faid Journal, together with Mile'sHal- R..S. Dread- £M/S Books, and George Fox the Younger, with the ful and Ter- fi,-^ Part of Francis Howgil's and Edward Burrow's Ven and"' Works' But when he came t0 defertthis noble' Whiteheads Prin' Chriftian Quaker, concerning the fufficiency' of the Light within e- very Man to Salvation. Good Counfel and Advice rejected, Sec. Declaration to the prefent diftrafted Nation, Sec. Apostacy. 145 Principle, by preferring the Dlctates_ of his own" sse Pcny- ¦ Spirit, in the Impofition of his written Rules, man sTrafls, Laws and lawlefs Orders upon us in the place of p. 15. it 3 under pretence of their being the refuks of Compared , his Light within (in evidence of his Apoftacy James with the faid Naylor foretold us, by declaring His Fall Was but James Nay- • the Figure of anoihers (meaning this George Fox's) . ? Zft°P,,e'~ that 'the Man of Sin might be repealed by the falling Uck re"'' J/1 \ ° S J (> mo„y as away amongft us.) ^ .„ Ro_ bert RichS Book. John CrookS Works, p. 113. to p. 117. G. Fox; jun. Works, p. 33 6, 385. PenymanS Life, p. 295. Then it was, that he and his depraved Adhe- See FoxS rents fell on io deafen -us with the repeated Re- feveral Pa- commendations ofthe Light within, the Light with- Pers> Prin- in every Man coming into the World, the Light, the te^ l67*y P- Light, the ever bleffed Light, the marvellous Light llb 20> %l> within every, one, the Light whiih is pure, the Light „ '. ^|' ,„ which is unchangeable, 'the Light which is infallible, -p. & ¦ """/ the Light which is eternal, the Light which is Chrift, i^ror^s the Light which is God, the pure Meafure of Light gome Prin-" within every one, which whofoever eWns for tlpeir Tea- ciptes, p. 27. cher; are all conie to be oni Light, find need never Man News out of more to teach them, but as this Light within teaches the tiorth, them. Through their fuperftitious Reverence top. 11, 27, the Dictates whereof, as feme' of them won't ad- 33, 3ft- mit any other Method to be ufed in theii^Preach- BarcleyS A- ments,left the Doctrine of the * Spirit fhould burn'M P'}°i- * their Fingers 3 fo they have by. degrees not only ¦BennetSr ln ora,er to their Purgation, which Power of rhey are now come beyond, into a State of Still-. Chrift vin- ne^"s, wherein God's Voice is more diftinctly dicated. heard, than whilft they were under thofe terribltf Tox'sDoftri- Shakings and Quakings) but alfo (befides their nal Works, Renunciation of thofe miraculous Operations as p. 28, in, ufelefs, theyheretofore magnified as Chriftian) have" &c- of late moft impudently denied fuch bodily Agi- Great Myft. tature (as they wrote Book after Book in behalf £' %1' o °f in, themfelves) as Fits of Convulfion in them, tern and Diabolical Poffeffion in others 3 yet do they pers, p. 27, (jnfteacj 0f repenting of this their Apoftacy) af- Seleft Etift ^ume tne Confidence to pretend themfelyes to be p.oc. ' in Chrift, the noble Seed, that never fell, nor never will Antidote fid I, never chang'd, nor never will change 3 yea, never Ven. p. 6. fell, nor never chang'd, nor never will fall, or ever No. 7. change, &c. though they have to their own Con- Quakers tradiction, n'ot only in one refpect exprefly own'd< Plea. that they are really chang'd 3 but by their notori ous Inconfiftencies almoft in all refpects have pro- See RichS ved, They have often fell, and often changed, ever will Hidden fall, and always change, till there be none,1 1 am per. Things. - fwaded, under their Denomination, either to fall or RogersS change, as our truly Worthy Friends Robert Rich^ Chriftian J0hn Perrot, John Wilkinfon, John Story, William, Jguaker. Mucklow, Thomas Crifp, John Penyman and Anntt Tyranny and ^cur^nm> amongft others, have foretold them. Hypocrtjy ° detefted. Colleftion of Teftimonies. BabelS Builders. PenymanS Life, and iWn.BourignonS Anfwer to B.F. And not without reafon fufficient, fince befides their Apoftacy from their firft Foundation Principle ofthe Divine Word of Life, in taking upon them to guide our People by Innovations of their own Invention (under pretence, of their being the Di ctates of the Light within them from their Crea tion) Apostacy. t4j Mon) they have riot only fallen from the Truth,' Righteous and' the true Chriftian Sentiments of theif own an- Judgment cient Friends', in the Matter of Marriage of hw-Placea> P- ful Kindreds, choice of earthly Law-makers, Re- *°9' nunciatiort of the ufe of Defenfive Arms, Denial „'->h,anr of Religions Oaths, Preference of formal Affif- ™P"b'»fi- ftiaticrris, Refufal of the Payment of impropriate Something ttythes, National Militia, Bodily Reverence, ;„ Anfwer preaching, without Licence, Alteration of the to. Hidden Word of God, arid Denial of free Audience in things, p. - their Meetings of Difcipline, amongft many others, 28. as I have proved in* my afore-mentioned Manu- BurrowS Ca- nufcript. . Jhier',d. Epiftle to the. Parliament of the Commonwealth, , Sec AleiSfider ParkerS E- P'lftle to all tbat are Lovers of and Believers in- the true Light, p. id. Jof. ColeS Teftimony of the Father's Love, p. 19. But alfo whatis worfe thari that, they have fallen Select Et>i(l from the very Life of Truth it felf, as daily ap- ,,, J0^ 'fom'_ pears by the lifelefs Harangues of their moft noted pared with Leaders, who were the Original Introducers pi" their Letter their Corruptions 3 under which Perfons may much to Friends fooner get a good * Sleep to the F*efrefhment of e/Mumby their Bodies, than any Spiritual Confolation to the Meeting ,¦ ., Comfort of ' their Souls, as divers befides my felf and p. n. of have obferv'd. the Account of ihe Life e/Johri Penyman.' * An Impediment their Hearers are now al moft irrecoverably infefted with ; under a fio -rrowful Senfe where- '#/, one-ofi their Preachers IMely told us at' Sleeford, That finding. them almoft all a Sleep in their Meeting at Gainsborough, among ft others h'e hdd-pifited-'i he was forc'd to clap his Hands hard together' ftamp his Feet often- apon his Form;,, and thrdfh them near two Hours' by the Clock, to awake them ta hedr bim. , Which Uhhappinefs, . as it was firft occafioned by their Effays to amend their Religion, iii for- faking the Foundation Principle of it, through their Exaltation1 of their own prudential Devices as Gofpel Orders, in order, as pretended, to keep Things fweet and' clean 5 fo, in a Senfe of their Lofs of Zeal fot God, by fetting themfelves in the place of God, through their Impofition of thofe K z their APO ST ACY^ their Inftitutions 5 Our ancient and truly worthy (though their greatly abufed) Friend Martin Mafiti of Lincoln, feveral Years fince, moft forrowfully bewailed the fame, in a few Lines in Verfe, he fent a Right-Hand Man of George Whitehead's (as he called himfejf ) in order to their Reftoratiori, which, as I wifh may obtain their Effect for that End, I fhall infert as follows, verbatim. S^ealfor the living God, where is it found ? Not there, I fear, where, once it did abound j Thai holy Virgin Zgal for ZionS Kjng, Where is its Manfions i Hath it takji the Wing, And left this earthly Orb 3 would it not ftay -% With thofe who once were Children of the Day 5 ?¦ How comes it! have they loft their Guide, their Way}* Pure Holy Virgin X^eal, return again, And take thy Manfions in the Sons of Men, There is a Remnant that defires to be True Servants to the Living God and Thee. Rpturn, return, thou glorious Son of Light, )«* 1)nto thy own, and let not darkfome Night . > Clofe up their Days, who once were Stars moft bright. ¦* Come to, thy own again, and let them Jhine, Once more in that bleft Firmament of thine. Thus far brave Martin Mafon, whofe fincere Concern for diem, under a forrowful Senfe of. their fad Depravity, was fo far from being accep-,. ted in Love by the Perfon to whom he fent it, as that he in his of the zd of the %th Month 1672, in anfwer to it, renders it the Effect ofi Pride,Wrath, Difidain and Paffion, proceeding from the Spirit Cain was provoked by io kill his righteous Brother, as ap peared by the palcnefis of his Countenance amongft the ' Children of Light, (as he called them that joyned . with him againft this their worthy Monitor) 3 to which he the fame Day returned on the fame Letter this fliort Reply, as his fufficient Defence from fuch a depraved Calumniator. Pridf, P E R J U R Y.' J49 Pride, Wrath, Difdain and Paffion are thy own, ' 'Tis too well known, In Love I came, and thou'rt to blame * The falling of my Countenance to Name, Ma\e Lies thy Refuge, John ! Fie, leave the Trade} . My Soul upon the God of Truth is ft aid, And of John Whiteheads Threathings not afraid. M. M." Wherefore as thofe that will Lie through the ftrength of their Apoftacy from the Spirit of Truth and Righteoufnefs, may well be expected to make no Confcience to fwear to them 3 fo a true Senfe ¦ of their Guilt herein, brings me to my next Charge of their Perjury, as a Crime they have alfo moft • forrowfully to Anfwer for before the Great God who made them, in the terrible Day near approach ing, as will appear by what follows, TERJURT. TpHough this Charge will be look'd upon by mar ny, as a Pun upon the Quakers, rather than what is like to be proved on them, on account of their fufferihg Teftimonies againft all Oaths, as Unchrlftian 3 yet as I have proved in fome mea sure, under the Head pf Hypocrify, and fhall more effectually prove, when called to it on this Occa fion, That they have not only Sworn, but alfo of fered to Swear fubftantially in their own way not withftanding, under the Denomination of Solemn Attgfitations (which they have owned, Oaths was anciently accounted). My prefent Eufinefsis pot fo much to prove their Solemn Affirmations to be Oaths, (which fome of their own profefs'd Mem bers have been at no fmall pains of late to do to my my Hand) as to evince, that they have on thofe Terms and others, forfworn themfelves. In order whereto K 3 Not i|p Perjury. J. CrookS Not to infill on their Perjury, as expofed in. Works,'p.%i. Francis'Buggh Preface to his Vox Populi, and Qua- Compared ' kfrifm further expos' d, beyond their Attempts to de-; with p. fendthemfelves. The firft Inftance P fliall exhibit. o/J. White- in proof of this Charge, is out of p. 137. of their heads Col- great Apoftle Fox's Journal 3 wherein,1 as he tells lection, and ;us, How he was moved of the Lord to write a a private _ .paper'to the Protector, by the Name of Oliver Crom- £e"er °f !?'!S ell, (though I rather think it was Olefer Cromel in m to his ^ Original, according to the Contents of a Let- Foxoniai" £er ^ **ave *"een °^ ^'s own Ha.n4- Writing) where- 'Collegues up- W he did, ln the f?refence of the Lord, declare, on that Oc- That he did deny the wearing or dx swing a Carnal 'cafion, -with Sword, or any other outward Weapon, againft any Man; their Att- which being not only -directly contrary to his Ad- fiwer to it, monitions to the faid Oliver, and his Officers and 'wherein they Soldiers, To go forth with a free and willing Heart, blame him that t}}ey might rock. Nations as a Cradle, in flaying alt- not, for oft fy tijeir outward, Sword, that would not be ruled by their fe,r^It0. Light, Sec/ but alfo grofly inconfiftent with his ¦the Oath put commenciations ofthe Exercife ofthe fame in the ileSubflance Hand of the MaSiftrate aSail*ft Evil Doers, (Sc. of it" though ln rhe very fame 'Page, he, in the Name, of the they declare, ^ord, forfwears (in their Quaker way) the wearing They wifh he or drawing of it ; as apparent Inftances pf his GuilJ bad not fib- of Perjury, as the Natural Fruit of this goodly ¦feftedfio far Tree of Doctrines, William Pen * fo illuftrioufly as he did, in magnifies, for want of a true Senfe pf his Cor? repeating fo ruptions 3 wherefore, 'tis the lefs wonder, That much of the he the faid William Pen fhould be found guilty al- Form of it. f0 0f the faid Crime, this his exalted Patron Fox' See more p. f^ft taueht him. In order to the" proof whereof ' 10. < of the .'" . -1 id Part of John PenyijianS Quakers Contradictions:, on this Sub ject. See fox's Good Counfel fo Q. Cromwel, &c. p. 37, 26. Cent- pared with f. 1, of bis Epiftle to all Officers end Soldiers of tlie Armies in England, &c. end Anfwer to, Hidden Things. * In his Preface to his faid Journal. P 180. com- Not to infift on his Declaration in his Reafon. a- frr.-ed'witb gainft Railing, That fio Jure as God liveth, &c- if ¦ 5?c- The Matter I infift on, is his foiemn Deqlara- As cited by tion in p. 48. of his Great Cafe of Liberty, That WeG.W.inp. (i. e. People called Quakers) take the Righteous Holy.^9-ofbis E- God to Record, that we hold no Principle deftrilBive toPf'f ftom , the Englifh Government. When as, befides their re- ^"^^uf- , peated Renunciation ofthe Oath of Allegiance,^. ^„^. *¦' as Unchriftian, their well-known Principle of the J Unrighteoufnefs of the ufe of the outward Sword, (or any other Carnal Weapon, as they call them) in way of Defenfive War againft Domeftick In- fulters, or Foreign Invaders, not only tends to the Deftruction of our Englifh, but alfo of all other Civil Governments thr6ughout the Upiverfe, to his exprefs Contradiction. Wherefore, as thofe his aboye-cited Terms are Counterfeit an Oath, according to his own Diftinction in p. J?vertfi ?"¦ 72. of his Treatife en that SubjeB, (compared with " J,'- thofe of their Books in his Unity, mention'd in X^ft\lir pC' the Margin) fince he hath not only Sworn in them, ct-ton an^' but aifo forfworn fnmfelf, by fwearing to a Fal* Teftimony fhood 5 I hope he Won't take it ill, that I charge againft all him with Perjury, and all that abetted him herein, Oaths, as (as well as in the Inftance recited/;. 14. of Tyranny cited in John and Hypocrify) until- he or his Friends- have cleared PenymanS him by their Defences 3 the which, I can hard- Quakers ly perfwade my felf, he or they will attempt, Contradi&i- through a true Senfe of nis Guilt herein. °ns. The next. Inftance I urge in proof of this my See his faid Charge againft them, is their Friend Farnfworth's f^Z™ ' Anfwer in open Court, before the Mayor of Ban- $'af„\°s2 if, ' 'Swears be of the Devil, as their Patron' Fox hath af- &c> °f bis firmed 5 then he himfelf with thofe his depraved ^faTinal 1 Collegues cannot be of God to be fure 3 fince Wm"ksx they have not only fworn, but alfo forfworn themr felves in thofe feveral recited Matters, amongft o- thers that might be mentioned 3 which grofs E- normity, as they were led into through their imr , plicite Bigotry to their Apoftle Fojc's Impertinen- cies, for want of timely dealing with him, in or der to his Repentance of his Corruptions, through the Opinion they had of him, as fome extraordi nary One 3 fo the Confiderarion thereof brings me to my next Charge of their Idolatry, as a natural ^'Confequent of that fuperftitious Reverence they bore him. IVOLATRT. TN .order to the proof of this. Charge againft • them, 'tis neceffary to notifie, That as Spiritual ' Idolatry is juftly reputed the worft fort of Idola- t try by learned Authors 5 that we may pot want In ftances of their Guilt of this worft fort of that Crime, we need go no further than p. 15, 16,45. of their Old FoxS Pecari found in England, compared with p. 3 1, (Sc. of his Younger FoxS Works 3 where taking occafion to magnifie the Light within every Man coming into the World, according to Willi am Pen's Notion in his Spirit of Truth, as he calls * Sure the* it, they, in the Name of it, cry, I the Light within meant them- ¦ will make you bow unto my N/fme, the Light 1 yowlhall felves, fince feel, it is not natural nor weal^i * far it fhall breab.none elfe are you to pieces 5 I the Light in you, will confound all your Jo fhattered, Wifdom 3 and I the Light in you, will take all Peace *nii broke from the Earth : yea, I'll brim you to your Wit's End; t0 P'scesi v ¦¦¦'."' j> ,. and confoun ded as they «re, by their defendant on its- Almightineft, «.t their only Pre- fiery er. 154 Idolatry, See SmithS fg burn your Heavens, and I'll bum your Earth ; fit Primmer, far,? within, and I'll burn without ; I'll bring Plaguei p. 13. Com- within, and Plagues without, until I b/ave confumed] pared itsitb ym ^ wy w;# mt ovm met the Light within ; to f'Vr°(^°~ w^ich all Power in Heaven and Earth is committed i |iah Cole s ^.^ much more w ^ purp0fe> All which, how Whore un- ^ ^^ &$ underftood wkh refpecl: Co Chrift, T^ of his the only true Light of Life, who appears to all mr'ks,wbere Men at certain Seafons, immediately by his Holy tbe Reader - Spirit, in their Hearts and Souls, to call them to may find e- Repentance and Amendment of Life, whilft the hough of this Day of their Vifitation lafts 3 yet as applied to the their Idola- Common Light within every Man coming into the, try, to fur- World, according to our depraved Quakjr Notion^ feit bim. js idolatry in the higheft Senfe, by exalting a See Ano-7 Creature in the place of the Creator. Of the. un* iiae.^?'^, happy Effects whereof, as they have been ofte»; 91° and Fr. forewarn 'd by their Opponents tp no purpofe, 'tis BuggS Re- the lefs wonder, that they fhould be found guilty! trojpeftive of the fame Crime in the common grpfs Seqfe, b| Glafs, p. their Idolatry "sowards one another, a§ will appear 579. com- j,y what follows. , pared with ' *. 4. of his Great Myftery of the Little Whore, Viz. Thomas For npt to tranfcribe their Friend Audland and; Crifp, in his Cole's moft Idolatrous Letters to their magnified ApJ Babels Bull- pottle pox ; both which, as they are proved to be' ders. ^ pf their own Hand Writing by their*Opponents, RogersS a^d 3s fuch owned by their Friend William Pen, in Quakers a ^\s Poftfcript to his Juft Rebuke, compared with his divided Peo- judas ^ ty jews CQmhin'd, to the eternal Con- ple, ift Part, futat-l0n af thejt iate fhuffling Queftioners of the Tn'anny and Truth of 'em 3 'tis the lefs furprize to me, that, Hypocrify he the laid William Pen fhould be found guilty of detected, p. the fame Crime himfelf alfo, towards tjiis his Re- I9. ' verend Fox, in the Idolatrous Encomiums he (in PenymanS his Preface to the Journal of his Life) beftaws> on feveral hlfflj Tracts, and Account ofthe Life of John Penyman. Snake in the Grafs, p. 179: Compared with, PenS Invalidity of, John TaldoS Reply, p. 354. Counterfeit Coti-oert, p. x». and Judas and the Jews combin'd, f. 44, 45. and WhitingS Judas and Chief Priefts, p. ip, &c. Idolatry. j«j$ him ; where, notwithftanding thofe ridiculous Im- /„ purf„_ pertinencies his feveral Writings are cpmpos'd of, ance of whieh ;' together with the numerous Errors, Herefies, and Idolatrous moft grofs Inconfiftencies, amongft other Misfor- Difpojhre, tunes Spiritual and Temporal, he hath invplv'd as they e- him the faid William Pen, and others of his bigot- fteem'dthem- ted Adherents in, by implicitly following his J?an-/ejves obtig- cies, he flicks npt to proclaim him,. A chofen Veffel ; eff *° d'- . a blejfed and glorious Inftrument, who abundantly ex^K^ft". celled in fingular Qualifications and Services, which are G" etf worthy to be fet forth as ah Example to all fttcceeding jjj^ Nfjf Times, for a juft Memorial ta that Worthy and Ex- conformity eeUent Man ; God-s faithful Servant, and Apoftle to to the For tius Generation : whofe Words were as Texts to many mality of fairer Declarations; in all which, he was witnejfed to propofing hist be of God, being Jenfibly felt to fpeak, that which he Intentions pf had received of Chrift, and was his own Experience in Marriage that which never errs nor fails .5 one whom they that before the _ know moft, will fee moft reafon to approach him with Womens di- Reverence and Fear 5 a Man of an innocent Life ;': Meet- no Bufie-Body, nor Self-feeker, nor Touchy ; but Inof- '"fft f~ fenfive, Meekj Modefti Bafte, Steady, Tender, Loving, CJ„J"tle *m_ gompajfionape, Long-Juffering, Morciful, ready to for- ^j-gd s^ give, unapt to. take or give ' Offence, of an excellent fe{fton on Spirit and Savour, who, in all Things acquitted him- others to fo felf like a Man ; yea, a ftrong Man, a heavenly they not only iminded Man, a Divine, a Naturaiift, &c. fo as it may thought gooi be fiaid, though many Sons have done vertuoufb in this, to exempt our Day, yet, dear George, thou excelleft them all ; his reno.wn- with a many more florid Encomiums to the fame ed Scribbles purpofe 3 moft of which, as my felf amongft ma-,/roiW their ny Others, know to be falfe and undeferved of him, sff end Days fo. they that can't difcover a Strain of Idolatry in Meetings ^Scrutiny ¦ they bring others under ; as a Subjefiion below the Injallibility of his Holi- nefis ; but alfo thought it their Duty to excufie him, in giving his Advice to bis Benefactor M. Peniogton to fecure a Part of her E- ftate from the Spoilers, when they came tofieize for her Husband's 'Nonconformity, contrary to bis Advice to others, to offer their Alt as their Duty indifipenfible, in evidence of bis Super-excellency «bove 'em, if their true Friend William Rogers o/Briftol may be credited, in, p. 33. of the 7th Part of bif Chriftian Quaker, &c. compared with others. ¦*s« I D O L A T R Y. the wholei muft be more blind than Balaam, whe^ he could not fee the deftroying Angel of the Lordf ¦ juft before him. 5e*Chriflo- I thought tp have given a many more Inftances pher Taylor's of their Idolatry out of their approved Writings,; Epiftle of here, towards this their Fixed Star, and moft Re- Caution, verend Fox, who, as "they efteemed more than a, with others Man, they accounted it no lefs than Blafphemy to cited p. 4. attempt to detect him 3 under pretence, That as €nlgeTSd- be fhould never turn to Duft*, his Name fhould be (Quakers di- had .n ikaing Remembrdrtcc, &c. But as they -vided, com- A ° Vc , , „ ' _ c . , .' . tared with are generally notified in Sect. 8. ot the Snake in their feveral the Grafs> and t- 41' 47, M°> 253> i65- of F. B.'s, Recommen- Pilgrims Progrefs, with p. 33, (Sc of the qth Part datory Epi- of Rogers's Chriftian Quaker, and Quakers divided,, ftles, at the p., 1, (3$. beyond their Ability to defend them*'" Front of his felves in their vain Attempts for that purpofe 3' I Select ones, (hall only tell them, find Doflri- nal Works. * Though I rather think, it ftiall fooner Rot and ftink as the Dung for his Apoftacy and'Iyranny, as our true Friends^ Robert Rich and John Wilkinfpn, &c, have long fence foretold him'. That if to call, him, Dear and Precious ; one m whom my Life is bound up, and Strength in theeftaruM by whofe Breathings I am nourifhed, and by thy Prek fence prefervd, &c be to Idolize him. See the fame Then their Preacher Audland .having fo called] as cited in him ip his Idolatrous Letter he fent him 3 their" P- 8; °fKo' Preacher Audland was guilty of Idolatry in fo I- gers s^Qua- dolizing h[m. kers divid ed, compared with the whole, as tranficribcd at the Conclufion of tbe Snake. If to call him, The Father of. many Nations, whofe Life reach'd through us his Children ; one who rul'd and govern d in Rigbteoufheft, whofe Kingdom was. without end, &c. be to Idolize him. • In their Ju- Then their Teacher Cole having fo call'd him in das and the a Letter he fent him, which they declare their Jews com- Approbation of 3 their faid Teacher Cole, with his }J' ftj"2^r fiends that abetted him, are with him alfo &c- guilty of Idolatry in thus Idolizing him. II Idolatry. itf if to flatter him,, as One bleffed with Honour • whofe Life reigns, and is fpotlefs and innocent ; and eternal Honour and bleffed Renown Jhall remain ; as one whofe Prefence, and dropping of his tender Words in the Lord's Love, was his Soul's Nourifhment, &c. be to Idolize him. Then Blakeling the Quaker Preacher having fo See the fame flattered him, in a Certificate he wrote concern- as cited p. for he was not 3 be to Idolize him. adding the Word Fox there , whom tbe Author means, fince it i^ according to their%great PenS Precedent in p. 93. of his Counterfeit Chriftian. Then their depraved Quaker Preacher Eccles, Quakers having fo affirm'd of him in his Book they approve Challenge, of 5 their "depraved Preacher Eccles, with thofe P- 6- that approved his Book, are guilty of. Idolatry in thus Idolizing him. If to prefume to blefs him, in "the Terms of Bleffed be the Man that came out of the North, and bleffed be the Womb that bare him, and the Paps that gave him Juck.i (under pretence of his being one at whofe Name the Heathen trembled, &c.) be to I- dolize him. Then this their, wife Solomon Eccles having foSeep. 42. of bleffed him, according to the effect of his own their True Confeffion, in a certain Letter of his, cited by Account, as WiUiam Pen in his Judas and the Jews combin'd, the cited p. 73. faid Solomon Eccles, with thofe that abetted him, "f *^e Ac~ are guilty of moft grofs Idolatry in thus Idolizing e"""f °fth.e him. In purfuance whereof, Life of John x ' Penyman, with p. 19- ofi Tyranny and Hypocrijy ; and p. 26. of the Qua kers unmasked, with p. 73, 74, 75. ofi"W. V.'s fiaid Judas and tbe Jews combin'd. Laftly, i^S Idolatry; PenS Tudas • ^afi^>, N** t0 enlarge on their many idolatrous ;i 104. ' Profti-atibns before, and undeferved Adorations of WilkiiifoiiS dte their Idol Fox,, defended by the Leading Quo- Letter, as kers, as done in Reverence to the Life of Chrift eited Part in him, after he had become, in a manner, whol- 4. p. 43. of ly a Stranger to it, by exalting the Light within W. RogersS him from his Creation in the place of it, tin-! Chriftian der the Denomination of the only true Light or* Quakers di- £ife, Jtinguifhed, , compared -with G. VI. 's Innocency againft Envy, p. 18. Righteous Judgment, Sec. p. 109. Rich's Hidden Things; and fox's fev'er'il Letters at the End of their Account from the Cbmntiftee of Parlia ment, concerning tbe Trial of James Naylpr.i About which, as they were ftr'angely confounded; when they went to Sufamia Blandferd to evidence their Innocency, by her Advice to them, to rave ne fur ther in ihet Matter, in a Senfe of their Guilt in her Prefencei **• . firth Methods And Forms of Church Government, efi^ VThoma4' ^'ft Mont^ly dnd Quarterly Meetings of Menr and,- CrifpS Ba- Womens diftinil from the Men, &c, be to Idolize bels Bull- him in the place pf the Light they confefs they ders, com- were at firft turn'4 to, as their only Guide in all pared with Things. the recited ¦ . , X Manuficrjpts, Part 2. p. j. of W. RogersS Quakers divided'^ Righteous Judgment, pi 109. and RichS Hidden Things, &c. ...""j; In ptirfiuance Then the depraved Quakers havirtg fo exalted nuhereof, as him in their afore-mentioned Encomiums:, (Sc rife their Prea- depraved Qyakprs are guilty of Idolatry towards cber Taylor tfcs their Reverend Fox in thus Idolizing bim., as *b^ v'fll otners of their Brotherhood have been alfo to-i fr *"/¦ e wards their much honoured Pen, who therein fup- mofli^dola- Porteci them 3 in purfuance whereof, , as Pen and troufly cried &« depraved: GoIIegueis" thus magnified' their. greatf" t D Ol A T R Y. i *rt Apoftle Fax, fo Fox in like manner illuftrioufly exl eut j^^ alted this their moft famous Pen, in a Poemical n^ar and Harangue juft now before me, entitled, EminentSer. vant ofiGidi The Character of Mr. Pen, Efquire, George Fox, That matcblcfs Man, whom Ages wilt admire ; who isJUU Ajfuredly, there are but few fuch Men ">ade Infer u- In all the World, as is this Mr. Pen 5 mental in For if his Heart and Tongue go both together; the H«»d of Wekjwvinet where to find out fuch another. the Lord, t» With much more to this pmpofe. blefed By the laft Lines of which, as it feems, they the'l!)rac7e7 had not over-great Confidence in his Cbnftancy to 0f t^e D;_ their Caufe, notwithftanding thofe their florid En- v-ine Breath feomiums 3 f» leaft he fhould thereby be fet up a- to the Praife bove their moft Reverend Fox, they (as his yafitofHIS Reward for his Officioufnefs in exalting their Fox Name for and his Light within, as a God) thought it their ever ,- Jo 0- fafeft Courfe to take him down in Time, by gi- tbers were^ ving him to the — — -~±Long Scrawl, for Writing/0 inftuenc'd without their Licenfe to King James the Second, through it had notfbme of his Votaries ftept in and preven- cfnceit °f ted them. his peculiar . Holinejs, as to declare, This George Fox was more than a Man, and fhould fe ver fall, if their true Friend William Rogers, in p. ij. of the 6th Part of his Chriftian Quaker, may be credited. Though I have a more proper Character be- ftow'd by the Spirit; of Truth on him, through z truly infpired Friend of ours, than our Quaker Vo- Vi-z. John emical one 3 - which notwithftanding he fiked not Potter; half fo well, as I found by the Fury it inflam'd him with, when I read it in his Audience the Day after its delivery 3 for which Caufe I defign'd to bury it in Oblivion, according to his Solicitations, in hopes of his Repentance and Amendment with out its publication 5 but fince he is fo far from any fuch Thing, as that he hath more fully verified the Contents on't, by his difingenuous Refufal to make way for my Audience at our Yearly Meet ing in Anno 171%. according to his Pretenfions 5 I f think See Mr. Dot- ton's Warn-. ing concern ing him, the Subftance -whereof I fent him in a private Letter, ac cording to his own Defire. Ido latry; ¦ think It my Duty to recite the fame,~ as' a perpeii tual Warning againft fuch an^exalted Diatrep les, as- God hath declared, he will humble by his fevere VU^ fitations ; as he hath fince done, by expofing him ** to Nebuchadne^er's Fate, iii fome meafure 3 out of ; which I have ground to believe, he will never know Redemption, till he in like manner be brought to aeknPwledge, That the moft High (and not he, or his deprav'd Collegues Fox and IVhite- head, &c.) fhall only Rule in the Spiritual, as well as Temporal Kingdoms of Men, let them vainly, hope ,whd l they will to the contrary. The faid Prophetick Warn- '*> ing being as follows, verbatim. Tou, my Children, beware of the Foxj for he has more Craft than Honefty 3 a Pollution he is known to , be 3 but his Goodnefis all are Strangers to, except thofiM who will have him fe ; but you know, that .nothing iii made Good by beingyfteemed fio : Be ye aware of him; .j tmd know, he is an Enemy to my Appearance 5. for as A a Pope hath he placed himfelf, and as filch is he adorft\ by thofe fimple Ones, whom by Craft he hath intangled,: ¦ Be ye aware of him, for he hath laid a Snare, and AH doubts not to entrap ye therewith ; . fee that ye go not ' within his reach ; and whatfoever his Pretences m«f$ be, be you deaf thereto ; and I further Charge you, that you anfiwer not his Civil Rgquefts, except I commanii J°u- .--'.- • 1 ¦ I Which Prophetick Declaration being Unwitting:! ly delivered by a Perfon wholly ignorant of hisl then Ingagement with Efquire Lacy, and othersl of our truly infpired Friends, in way of Confe-1 rence, in Lombard-Street, London; and -immediate*! ly fent in Writing out of Holborn by another that; knew of it, for their Direction in their Behaviour towards him 5 wherein as it proved of great Ser vice to the Perfons concerned, may be of ufe to fhow others, That God who fees Mens Hearts, when they endeavour mofl to conceal themt is fometimes juft ly pleafed to debafie fuch lofty Pretenders, as Men are ". ignorantly led to Idolize, for want of a true Senfe of their inward Corruptions ; - as he has done this out exalted Pen, and his famous Patron Fox, bv ftrU Villa ny. ioi king the orie with Lukdcy in his Life, as he did the other with Death in His Preaching. Wherefore, if thofe Magiftrates that punifh not Idolaters, be fo far from acting according to the Light in the Confcience, as that for their bear- gg ing the Sword in vain 3 that in the Confcience will jj"ut,ber- take hold upon, condemn and execute the Righ- tjlorn'J. q0j-_ teous Law of God upon them, according to the iec-il0„. Quakers Sentiments.. Then fince nb other Proteftaht Profeffors are fo grofly guilty of that Crime, as I have proved them, I hope they won't take it ill'to be punifhed accor ding to the Rules of their own Light for it 5 as well as their next Crime of Villany, which is what I alfo undertake to prove them moft grofly culpable Of, as follows. In purfuance whereof VILLANK 'ift. AS it is no lefs than Villany in them to cry Examination ¦^ out againft our ufing the fame Pleas againft and State of . Impofers amongft our felves, we haveUfed againft Liberty Spi- ¦ oth.ers.5 under pretence, of its not being theleaft ritual, p. Evil this Spirit.of Strife, (aSthey call it) is guil- 9, 13.. ty of, that it ufes. the Words, Liberty of Confcience, and Impofition, againft their Brethren, amongft us, in the fame manner our, ancient Friends have been always accuftomed to intend them, againft the per fecting Priefts and Powers of the Earth 5 as if that which is a Crime in the Priefts, (Sc is a Du ty when acted by the Quakers. . , . . , • zdly. What greater Villany than for them to Ex- -fe tbe ->e~ communicate thofe then; true Chriftian Monitors Val"ces "*£/_ for, leaving tfieir Society^ through a Senfe of their '^.fe^ in Corruptions : Whilft they are fo confcious of the Quakerifim Juftice of their Separation, as that they have fome- drooping, p. times refufed to give them a Copy of their Papers I3'9. of Exclufion 3 left they fhould be expofed by the Pilg.Prog. L Excluded^. 9, l62 VlLLANYs ¦Hiftory of Excluded according to their Demerits, for their Qjiakerifen, Abufes contained in them. In purfuance whereof;, P'l*s- , RogersS Chriftian Quaker. Tyranny and Hypocrijy, with Parr s Cafe againft GallowayS, and Pearfens Cumberland Friends, com pared with that of John Whitehoufe, mentioned p. 92. of the Lift of John Penyman. BuggS Pit-] -$dly. What greater Villany than for them to ex- grims Pro-' pofe thofe their Confcientious Diffenters to Ruin g>efis,p.i<)o, jn their outward Eftates, by printing againft their a?3> *-96i Corruptions upon their own Bottom, in order to ^9> - reclaim them ; by abridging them of their Prjvi- fTOj/row jejge ;n printing and publifhing their Books a- p\, ' mongft them, at a publick Charge, for that Righ- El woods teous purpofe 5 and as foon as they have thereby Truth de- obtained their End in their impoverifhment, to fended, p.%6. render their Loffes in their fliam Defences, as the Paper of Or- juft Reward of their Oppofition, to the aggrava- '< ders Jet tion of thofe their diftreft Monitors Misfortunes, i forth by 1 1 and greater hardening of their depraved Profelytes of their jn tneir Corruptions. In purfuance of which Vii- ;, Preachers, lanous Enormity, ' Anno 1660. 1 .'• Ang. Flag. p. 142. and TaylorS Epiftle of Cauthn againft Reading Adverfaries Books, as they call them. Preface to \thly. What greater Villafly than for them to W. R.S add Affliction to the Afflictions of thofe their af- Chriftian flicted Friends, by hindring, as much as poffible, Quaker, a]j amongft themfelves and others, from buying, Marg. Ac- fening> or any otherways dealing with them 5 ' ac- T^'de-6' cordinS r0 thil.r PoPim Precedent the Divine John /"d ' d % ^retold °f» in order to compleat their outward ii S ' Ruin, to the Ruin alfo of their poor Families 3 and P. B.S Pit- when they have by thofe their little lefs than bar- grims Pro- barous Acts, provoked them to fome Indecency in grefis,p.i%$, Word or Action, .to aggravate their Weaknefs to 290. their Souls Deftruction, if poffible, by rendring 'Quakerifim' them diftracted or craized in their Intellects, as drooping, .''-. they p. 140. Quakers Wickednefs, and p. 29, 51. of the Account of the Life of John Penyman, compared with the declared Experience of 11. Peat- fon, &c.' iii Cumberland. 1 VfLLANY. l6j ihey reprefented rrie and others of their Monitors"; in order to have all we fay againft their Corruptions rejected as the effects of our Madnefs 3 for which I doubt not, the great God in whom we truft, will with his juft Vengeance, in his own due time, re ward them, fince they, are fo far from preventing the fame by their true Repentance of thofe Villa- nous Practices, as that they further perfift therein by more of the like Enormities. For, Sthly. Not to infill on their Villanous Affump- See Cla rion, to make Laws and Orders to bind their Peo- ridgeS Mc- ple, in the Cafe of Oaths, Tythes and Marriages, hus Inqui re, without being lawfully call'd thereto, which ren<*- P- **• themfelves formerly own'd to be Treafon. and **• pe" nmgronS Queftion propounded, p. 8. Compared with Weft anftwering to the ¦North, p-. 80. What greater Villany than for them to keep™ .„. thofe Laws, when made, from our publick Know- ^.epre'henft- ledge, (contrary to their own Rules to others) in 0„^# . ¦'/ forbidding few or no more Copies of the fame to Peoples *an- be printed, than they have Monthly and Quarter cient Liber- Meetingsin England, &c. where, after once read-//Vj, p. 27. ing, they are clofely kept by their Bigots, till they BurrowS have an opportunity to furprize and abufe us, by Works, p. their unexpected Profecution 3 as they ferv'd me -11- in my Proceedings in order to Marriage, to my no Compared ho fmall Damage and Trouble. In purfuance '""f* t'!e'r Whereof, repeatedAdmoniti ons in their Yearly Meetings, in my Audience, tSthly. What greater Villany than for them to li mit us by thofe their illegal Laws, (Sc to their See their Pa- own Sect for Juftice, in Cafes of Meum and Tuum, per 0f Orders &c. againft our own Con Cents 3 under pretence, fign'd by That as they are the Saints who fhall judge the World, G. W. and it is [according to St. PaulS Rule) unrighteous for us others of to go to Law before others. When as they are fo far their Mini- from doing us Juftice, notwithftanding, when weft ri»g Appeal to them, as that (befides their burning the Friends, in " papers fometimes, wherein our Defences are con- Anno l666, ' ' ¦ La' rained, 164 Villany. CatonS Mo- rained, to fave them the labour of their Examina- derate En- tion) they have not only made no Bones to vio- quirer, firft iate the;r 0wn Decrees, in behalf of the Perfons ' Impreffion, moft in tneir favour, againft the Rules of Juftice and Truth 5 but alio (befides their late deceitful failure of Juftice towards WiUiam Pfirr of Notting ham, and his oppreffed Children, againft Ambrofe Galloway and his, wicked Partners, at Luis in Suffix) have moft villanoufly refufed one of their She Friends in our Parts a Hearing in a Church way, againft fuch of their Brotherhood as fhe juftly ac cufed with tempting her Husband away from her, by conveying him off with another Man's Wife of their own Kin, in the place of her. Whiteheads Truth and Innocency , p. 2J, 24. Sober Ex poft. p. 438. PoxS Jour nal, p.A,6$, 542. Select Epift. t- 438 HubberthornS Account from the Children of Light, p. 19. Toge ther witbT. B.S Picture of Quakerifim, p. 134. Compared with the forrowful Experience of Robert Stanly of Waddington, Daniel Brittain and his Son near Bofton, William Parr of Nottingham, Samuel Beard of Windon, George Gopd of Nafeby, and his Chil dren, with the Widow Tibbat, late of Lincoln, as fine is in effect become, through their Villany. , Hoi's Jour nal, p. 541. Account from the Children of Light, p. 19. printed 1660. by R. H. and J.N. ModerateInquirer, P-ll- Declarationto tbe Di- Jlratted Na tion, p . 8, 9. Good Coun fel rejected, f. 10. 7thly. To pafs by their villanous Tranfactioris . towards our ancient Friend John Perrot, hereafter notified under the Head of their Tyranny. What greater Villany than for them to amufe Os with their repeated Outcries of the Unrighteouf- nefs of our filing any Man at Law, and much more our Friends called Quakers 5 under pretence, That as they are the Saints who fhall fudge the World, ' they are not to be judged by the World, &c. in order to make their own difbwn'd Brotherhood, (Sc. think themfelves fecure from legal Profecution for ' Debts contracted in Trade with them. Whilft yet befides their frequent Arrefts of the World's Peo ple, as they call them, for their Self-Intereft, (con trary to thofe their Pretenfions) they upon the lea£ malicious Pique, or groundlefs Sufpicion, flick not to fend, and caufe others to fend their own ap proved Preachers (amongft others' of their profefs'd Friends) to Goal, many times moft caufelefly, by their unexpected Arrefts, to their Difhonour, as » ' well Villany. 165 well as great Danger of Ruin, without the lead Bigotry and Cenfure in a Church way, from any of their Bro- Partiality therhood for their fo doing 3 as William Gibfion of ruinous, &c. London, Elihu Johnfon and William Parr of Notting- Compared ham, with Ifaac Pearfion of Harig in Cumberland, a- 'with their mongft many others of their Brotherhood, have Arreft of forrowfully experienced, to their Shame and Con- their Friend fufion 5 wherefore, whilft they are guilty of frch™Jw' &<=• villanous Practices towards their own profefs'd Bre- men '°11qu thren, we may have juft caufe to fear, they ^&%Js ConfrV- not over-free from it towards the Holy Ancients ^#;w and and others. In purfuance whereof GibfonS ' feven Arrefts in" one Day, through their Procurement. %thly. As it is no lefs than Villany in them to ta- See G. W.S citly condemn Holy Abraham, Ifaac and Jacob, Mamtfeript, Amram, Othniel, Boas, Ruth and Tobias, &c. as a- in Defence bominable wicked Villains, in reprefenting fnch'of their Or- Marriages of lawful Kindreds as God led them to der againft practife, as Abomination, Wickednefs, Filthinefs, Marriage of Confufion, Villany, (Sc. Frirfe Cou- othly. What greater Villany than for them to-lfns> 'j? w«Jf affirm, That their Principles have not taught them to "¦> AnJ™ef Condemn all the World but themfelves (as their Op- " "V . e~ ponents have charged them) under pretence, That \e)flif B'f they own the fincere hearted of all Perfiwafions to be>em.cJm_ t^eir Chriftian Brethren. Whilft yet they" are fo far pared with from any fuch Chriftian Charity, as that (befides If. Pening-r their refufal of Chriftian Burial to their,own Chri- tonS Works, ftian Monitors, in fuch Places amongft them asp. 108*310, they joyn'd in the Purchafe of for that endand3JI> 3J*> purpofe,) they in fome Countries affume the Con- 3*3 ¦ fidence to enjoyn their Profelytes, to difinherit fuch AnS' ^*%-P- of their Children as Marry in any other Proteftant 193> 301> Community, on the Penalty of their Exclufion *4°; from their Church Communion 3 under pretence, nt,oelu"'>~ of all others being Heathens and Infidels. °M an 'hath his Day, p. 14, 15. Juft Enquiry, p. 3. Addrefs to Proteftants, p. 19, 99, 104, 177. Spirit of Truth, p. 11. G. F. jun.- Collect. p. 191. G. W '-.S Real Quaker, : p. 100. Truth andt lnnoc. p. 46. CrookS Epift. of Unity, p. 18. CrookS Colleft. p. 45. BurrowS Works, p. 74, 75, 113, 341, 417.419.' HowgilS Works, p. 16, 41, 42, 45. Anfiwer to. Hidden Things, p. 4, 14, 1 5. WhicingS Judas, p< 182. BilhopS Works, p. 28, 19, 31, 34. lotbly. 166 Villany. PenS Judas, lothly. As it is moft villanous for them, upon p.'K). ' our Friends Difcovery' of their grofs Errors (in Something their Renunciation of Religious Oaths, Defenfive in Anfwer Arms, and Payment of the National Militia, (Sc)t to Hidden to expofe their Difcoverers, as Perfons turn'd to. Things, p. Swearing, Fighting and Trooping, (Sc in order to 3» 9- prepoffefs their deluded Adherents againft all En- Compared qu;ry int0 the Truth they affert, by defaming its with p. zg, Maintainers, as Perfons infamoufly odious and fcah»* as. ot. the j 1 c HidL dalous. So, Things they pretend to Anfwer: See John Pc- i ithly. It is no lefs than Villany for them to ex-i nymanS pofe their Opponents amongft others, under the Colleftion ^/reproachful Denominations of Cobbet the Taylor, Paffages at Bunyen the Tinker, &c. in order to prepoffefs their the End of Readers againft all Examination into the Truth of his Tracts, tne;r Charges, through the meannefs of their CaU p. 9. Loft ];ngS . whilft they exclaim at a loud rate againft- a? t, with fucn pra(fliCes in others towards them as Unchri-, t.XV& -¦ Again, ' Account of the Life ofi the fiaid John Penyman, compared viith pi i6z. of their great ClaridgeS Melius Inquirend. &c. See their nthly. Not to . enlarge on their villanous Exr Eook.ftiled, clamations againft their Antagonifts, as worfe than Seven Par- the depraved Ifraelites towards "Chrift and his Fol? ticulars, p. ]owers> inv refilling to Jet them preach in their' 3°'.31j Churches fo called when they requeft it. Whilft p^'manS l^e^ are ^° ^Ax themfelves from allowing any fuch letter to Liberty to thofe they exclaim on in their Affem- Pen and blies, when they attempt it, as that they as villas Whitehead, noufly as illegally have refufed to admit their own in his five- profefs'd Brotherhood, to deliver the Word of Ex-: ral Trafts. hortation, in their own Meetings, if what they Compared fay tends to their Errors. Reprehenfion. with their • abufive Oppofition to the fiaid John Penyman, es notified p. y, 6, &c, of tbe faid Letters, and RogersS Quakers divided, &c. izthly. What greater Villany than for them to cry our, Let there be no Law, but that Man may ask. 0 Man Villany. 167 Man h QUeftion, either going to, coming ftom, or in See FoxS the Steeple-Hbufe, (as they call it) under pretence, Epift. to the That none are worthy of the Name of a Minifter, but Parliament fuch as are able to fat is fie all Doubts, and a-nftwer all ofthe Com- Queftions, &c. Whilft yet they are fo far from, al- monwealth, lowing any of their own diffatisfied Brotherhood P' 6' . p to ask them a Queftion in their own Meetings, in ve'a-ve^' order to their Information, as that they not only KrsJfl endanger the breaking the Bones of the Queftio-{?^ '^f- ners, by fhoving them over their Forms, Hand o- wiJ^e^ , ver Head, in order to their legal Profecution ; but q,,^^.^' s alfo (befides their other vile Abufes towards their jurtber ex- Chriftian Monitors hereafter related under tae pofed, p.ix. Head of their Tyranny) would be accounted true,pjflu're'Bf' Minifters, whilft they are fo far from fatisfying all Quakerifim, Doubts, and anfwering all Queftions put to them, throughout. as that they not only ufe all the deceitful Means Account of they can think of, to evade an Examination in a the Life ofi Church way, in order to the fatisfaction of any J- Penyman, . of 'em, but alfo too often commit greater Villany, P- 84> ?-9I- to prevent us of the Juftice we fue for againft <*»* feveral their Abufes. In purfuance whereof Z?af?s,' s _ Boyfe s Qua kers Wickednefs, RogersS Chriftian Quaker, in all the Eight Parts ¦ with their late notorious Abufe to J. P. in Grace-Church-Street Meeting-Houfie, of which our publick News-Papers gave ample Re lation. BuggS Picture ofi Quakerifim, p. 114, ijy. PenS Judas, j'. ioi, 113. And Account of the Life of John Penyman, p. 7. 240, 241. \athly. As their pretence, Tliat their publickjmix'd See their Pa- Mooting5 i* neither a proper Time nor Pjace (for thofe per to York they have falfely aecujed, arid abufivcly vilified there- Yearly Meet- in) to dttempt to defend themfelves againft their Afper- ing againft Jions, only ferves for an additional Evidence of ^ichardRanr their Villany. So, fam- Com- pared with PenymanS Tracts, p. y, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Second Part ; and p. 1. of the Third. 1 ithly. If it be Villany to alter our Friend's Let ters, to the Abufe of the Author's Senfe and In- tentions^ and, forge Certificates in the Names of others, as Evidence in their behalf, who knsw L 4 nought l3S Villany, Tyranny and nought of the Matter contained in them, as none Hypocrify Dut gUilty Villains will offer to queftion. Then detefted, m- flnce tnofe our deptaved Quaker Teachers (with 1 W'7 whom I have this Controverfy) have been juftly c'o t S fth accu^e^ Wltn both thofe Crimes, amongft others Life tf/kihn °^ t^ie ^ame Nature, beyond their attempts to deT Penyman *. ^en^ themfelves, who have owned a Nihil Dicit 74, 240- 241'. t0 be a confeffing of Judgment 3 Thofe our der Pifture ofi praved Quaker Teachers are herein guilty of Villa-1 Quakerifim, ny, by the effect of their own Doctrine, beyond p. 134, 135. Contradiction. In purfuance whereof, Quakers di vided, p. 6. PenS Judas, p. 102, 113. Ang. Flag. p. 432, 433. Truth defended, p. 61, 107. Miniftry ofi the Church of England defended, p. 3. Ann DocwrayS Letter, cited alfo p. 11. 0/ Peny manS Tracts.' Laftly. Not to infift on their villanous Perver.r tion of part of a charitable Donation in our Pans, to the building a Meeting-Houfe (together with their Attempts to pervert the reft, in the Repairs pf another) to the wrong of their Poor, contrary to the Donors Intentions 3 for which Caufe, a-, mongft others, they are finely wip'd out of itsS Difpofure, by one that I hope will take better Care of it. See PenS What greater Villany than for them, (on our Preface to Complaint of thofe their Abufes) to encourage us fs 3om~ to come up to their Yearly Meeting in London, as ' ,' '. ' , the only one for the redrefs of our Grievances 5 for «. 218 216 which end chey tell us, Every one amongft us, how \6<. of Ro- obf cure foever, may there have liberty to eafe his Mind bert Barcley s/w/y, concerning any Matter he efteems Error in the Collection. Church, without being cramp'd to any ftinted Method ElwoodS in his Proceedings in order to it 3 under pretence, of Truth de- their being Wicked, that abridge us of that Pri- f ended, p. vilegp, *3> 52, 63- ' Whiteheads Truth exalted, p. 6. Burrow s Faithful Teftimony, p. 9. PenymanS Life, p. 293. Parnil'j Watcher, ^.198, 19.9, 200. Whiteheads Reflorxorrefled, p. 64. CatonS Cloud. ' BuggS Re- trofipefliveGlafis, Parti, p. 559>57<;- Rich's Hidden Things. PenS Judas, p. 102. GibfonS Bigotry and Partiality ruinous, with Perrot S Anfiwer to FoxS Villames, &c. Blasphemy. ' yilege.; (Sc.) Whilft yet they are fo far from al-' lowing us any fuch Liberty notwithftanding, in pur obfcure Capacity, when we have come there many fcore. Miles for that purpofe j as that they have Time after Time, as villanoufty a,s illegally, forcibly oppos'd me Entrance therein ; when, be fides my Privilege as Overfeer and Writer in theip behalf, I have had our own Quarter Meetings Al lowance on Record for that end, according to the Method of their own prefcribing 3 fo much dp thefe pretendedly Innocent, Harmlefs and divinely a- nointed Ones (as they love to call themfelves.) dread a fringing their Deeds to Light, by a fair Exami nation, according to their magnified Pretenfions. Wherefore, if they that will Lie for God, and Cheat for Religion, be no better than Villains, as the Quakers themfelves have confefs'd 5 then, as I have proved them guilty of both thefe Crimes, a- mongft many others in what I have written, I hope they won't blame me for applying that Character (they have bequeathed themfelves) as juftly due to them. In Confequence whereof, it is no great wonder, That they who have fo long acted villanoufly towards Man, fhould finally be found guilty of. Blafphemy againft the great God who made them, in advancing their own Impertinen- cies, as the immediate Dictates of his divine Word of Life, and themfelves in the place of Him, as will appear by the proof of this my Charge upon them as follows. In order whereto, BLAST HE MT. ^JOt to' repeat all thofe feveral Blafphemies moft 'juftly charged on them, in a certain Treatife, entided, Some few of the Quakers many horrid Blafphemies, fince the fame may be read at Igifure by any that defire it. As ifb Blasphemy^ See his Let- As it is no left than* Blafphemy in their great t ter to Oliver Apoftle Fox, to pretend himfelf to be the Son of \ Cromwel, as Gg^ and eternal Judge of the World 3 who was before e'fed P- l r?- Languages, and neither he or his Name known in the "IS," i™' World; who had a KJngdom which was not of the . w. s'juj pf/brm . whereiii he had power to bind and loofe whom Enquiry, fe ^^ News out of fhe North, Title-Page, with p. Ij &c. Several Pe titions anfwered, p. 19,30. PenS Judas,, p. 85. Rice JonesS^Mo». BuggS Pifture of ^utskerifm^ p. 14. FoxS Great ^° 1Z Was A *"£# degree of the fame Blafphemy Myft.p. 125. *°r hita. tP exalt his Nonfenfical Scribbles, as the Several Pa- infallible Word of the Eternal Gpd, in ftiiing theai pers printed Certain Papers which are the Word of the Lord ,3 the 1671. p. 60, Word of the Lord to Ziop 5 all Friends every where, 6-l. with 0- this is the Word of the Lord to you 5 hear the Lori thers cited God; with much more to this purpofe 3 through p. 6r. o/F.the Conceit Whereof, he at length became puf- B.'sNarrat. fe(j up with a moil Blafphemous Imagination, That Doctrinal y$ was ^mi w;thGod, and fhould never turn to Duft; Works, p. 29. uftcjer pretence of his having the Spirit that was,' Saul s Er- ,* , • • ^ rand, p. 8, * &c. Epiftle of lox's, p. 1,4. with his Anfwer to J. Wilkinfony as cited p. 47, 48. ef the 4.1b Part of RogersS Chriftian Quaker. Manufcripts Many amongft us was not only led to Hononr-«i refer d to ^ him as the Lord 's Anointed, and Chrift's great Apof in Rogers s fii^ or^a'msd of him to fet forth Methods anft Formf. Chriftian 0j- q^^ Government for the Children of Light in this.'. -fHaker> 0Ur Day, as Mofes was to fet forth Laws for the Chil-t with Pan 9 '~drm *f Ifrael in hh mJ> 3S afore-notified 5 But' *. T0. *°me t0 W°hze him fo Blafphemoufly, as to de. Compared dare, That if there was a Motion or Revelation that with Rebec- did arifie in them, that they might think. was of God#; ca TraverfeS^e? if he fhould deny it to be of the Lord, they Jhouii' Letter, as be fubjetl to his Judgment, though it contradicted cited p. 103. their oWn fuppofed Divine-one. of FenS Ju- das, and RogersS Quakers ¦: di-pided, &c. By Blasphemy. iyi By all which as it's evident, that he blafphe- PenirigtonS moufly exalted himfelf in the Place of God, above Anfwer to all that is called God ; fo it's alfo obvious, his en- an Eff«y to- flaved Profelytes as fuch ador'd him, in proof of wds allay- this my Charge againft them, wherein they fur- '"£. 9- Fox ¦* ther. involv'd themfelves by following him in o- P'r!t>P-65- thers,'as will appear by what follows. For not to infift on their blafphemous Pretenfi- DewsberryS on, That they witneffed, the Godhead dwelt bodily in chJ'ft e"al- \is two Converts, BurroWs and Howgil. . > P' l8- " in anfwer to John Tdmfon, as cited in Quakerifim drooping, prio6. Pe- glkgtonS Queftion to Profeffors, p. 276. As it is no lefs than Blafphemy in them to pre tend That the Name Jefus and Chrift belongs to the whole Body, and every Member of the Body, as well as to Chrift the Head. -So to pafs by their blafphemous1 "> Title to their Friend Fuce's Book, [of The Fall of a great Vifible Idol} incerted with relation to his fup pofed Overthrow of his Opponent's Faith in Chrift's Reception at the Right-Hand of God in his glo rified Humanity in the Heavens without us, till he per- fonally come again the fecond time, in order to the Re- ftitution of all Things, according to ABs iii, &c, ] As it is tip lefs than Blafphemy for them .to fet R themfelves (as Well as their Patron Fax) in the p Jj^f place of God, by exalting their Body fas they call his^ulk ** their Teachers, in conjunction wifh their faid Fox divided as Head) above all that is called God, through with' their their Impofition of his and their Innovations, as Yearly Pa- ,-¦ Divine Laws, as Duties upon us to fubmit to, in per of Anno Cafes Temporal and Spiritual 3 under the penalty 1666. Com- of our Exclufion from Church Communion, whe- pared with ther of no we confent to them. their feveral So not to infift on their blafphemous Preference Of ders re- , of the Common Light in every Man coming into "fed under the World, in the place of God and Chrift alfo, the Head °f by attributing the PoWer ofthe Creator to the^ion °~ Creature, ?ox>s 'Seha Epiftles, p. 360. CatonS Innocency clear'd, p. 10, 11, ia, 17, r8, ??.» &c-. G. Fox jun. Collections, and my other Proofs under the Head of their Impofition. 172 Blasphemy. Creature, as afore-notified under the Head of I- , dolatry. See Cole and If to give fuch Titles to a Mortal Man, as are AudlandS /- only properly due to God and Chrift, be to be dotatrous guilty of Blafphemy, as the Quakers themfelves have Letters, as confefs'd 5 then the Quakers having not only given cited in the fuch Titles to their great Patron Fox, but alfo ac- Snake . cepted fuch themfelves as are only properly due to God and Chrift, as hath been proved under the Head of Idolatry, the Quakers are guilty of Blaf phemy by their own Confeflion. Again, Whiteheads if ro injure the Fame of another, by villifying Definition Revilings and flanderous Reproaches, (Sc be to be ef Blafphe- gU;ity 0f Blafphemy, as the Quakers have alfo con. my, at the £e{pe j . then thofe our depraved Ones having been I L^Efifa/e "•'proved guilty of both thofe Crimes to purpofe, to the Rea- un^er die Head of their Railery, thofe our deprj.. der in his ve& Ones are guilty of Blafphemy, by the efT Truth pre- feet of their own Confeffion. In further proof valent. whereof, Great Myft. Laftly, If their exalted Patron Fox and his Ad* p. 1, 94, 99, mirers were Orthodox, in their owning a Trinity 246, 247 > ef Perfons in the Divine Effience, in occafionally ftin ' 248, &c. ling fhe Father a Perfon, the Son a Perfon, and the PenS An~ jj0iy Ghoft a Perfon ; as they have done in their fe- /¦'"''» Mug-veral Writings, (Sc. Then he and his depraved. gleton, p. cogues muft he not only guilty of Blafphemy T- tTe of *n denying the Term Trinity of Perfons in the God-- Oaths p. head, as a Popifh Invention 3 but of what, incom- 141 &c. parifon of it, may be juftly called, The Blafphemy Judas and of Blafphemies, in damning this moft holy and ever the Chief bleffed Trinity to the Pit of Hell ; under pretence, Priefts, p. That as they never read of the WordTr'mity, theThr^e 53. Perfons their Opponent dreamed cf, which he would di-. Compared viJe out of One like a Conjurer, are all denied, and he ivithWhize- femt up with them in perpetual Darknefs for the Lake head and^ W *&e P^S 3 with more to this purpofe, as an un*. Tflf " |* deniable proof of this my Charge agaipft them. p. 18. Sword ofthe Lord drawn, p. 5, -&c. PenS Sandy Foun dation, &c. p. 11, 13, ij. „, In Blasphemy^ iyj ,. In a deep Senfe of the Truth whereof, though See his Te- jioneft John Penyman was required of God to of. ftimony in fer many of their Books to the Flames,at the Royal bloody Cha- Exchange, London, as a Teftimony againft the Blaf- r after s, as phemies contained in them 3 yet inftead of an- ™certed p. fwering the End of the Lord therein, by removing \8' &'• "f the Caufe of his flaming Difpleafure, by Oblite- ^-™** rating and Condemning the fame, according to^jj"a '¦?** their Chriftian Duty and John Penyman s Exhorta- pen>s juda, tions 3 G. Whitehead in the Name and Behalf of his <,. 40) ^.f- deprav'd Collegues (befides his lying Affertion of Compared John Penyman s defign being to burn the Bible with with thofe their Books, which he utterly difclaim'd) mzkes fteverai Blaf- iio Bones to add to the long fcore of their Blafphe- phemies' of mies, By condemning the holy Spirit that influenc'd theirs, as him in that Service, for an inftigation of the Devil, expofid, p. as an additional Evidence of this my Charge a-171' z8?> gainft them 3 from which, as I expect their Dif- \o6> &e; °f charge at leifure, I fhall defcend to give proofs of £ 3§, *a their Abomination, as a natural Confequent of their 0fHe.if/tt^ blafphemous Allegations 3 being well fatisfy'd, that wbor*, 'r-e- though they (in their Sober Reply, as they call it,y^v to p. prefiented to Parliament) pretend, That they always are 38. 0f his ready to make it appear, that neither their Books are Finishing Blafphemous, nor Principles pernicious : As they ne- Stroke. ver were, they never will be ready to make any fuch Thing appear before a proper Auditory, if they can poffibly avoid it, notwithftanding thofe then* lofty Pretenfions 5 fince, as they have told the World, That for any to fay Things in the Name ofthe See their Lord, or that are moved by him to fpeak. and do, and Friend are not, is the greateft Blafphemy and Forgery under WeftS Boohs Heaven 3 they having fo often faid, wrote and Jomi Peny- done Things in the Name of the Lord, as imme- ma" r*fer* diately moved by him, which they have fince ex- u ' '" P' t6- pung'd out of their Collections, and detefted in °* the'Ac~ Practice as not to be flood by 5 we may very well c°f"t0J hi conclude, they'll never attempt to acquit them- '¦'e' felves of a Charge they have been at fuch pains to prove juftly due to them 3 the which, if they fhoii.ld offer at, I doubt not but that their Quakers Challenge, in conjunction with others in my Cufto- 174 Abomination* dy thfiy haVe declared their Approbation of, will be found a proof of the Truth of it, beyond their Confutation j in confidence whereof I conclude this Subject, and proceed to give Evidence of their next Crime, as follows. ABOMINATION. See Fox and Hubber thornS Truths De fence, p. i, IP2. IO4, 107, <&e. TN order fo the proof whereof, Firft, As. tile Quakers have declared, That their Adverfiar'm may as well burn the Scriptures as their Books 3 under pro tence, That their Bookj are given forth by the feme Power and Spirit the Holy Scriptures proceeded,; for which Caufe they are ready to vindicate them with their Blood, when called to it. Howgil s Works, p. 18, G. BiihopS Warnings to the King and Parliament, p. 18, ire. FoxS Anfwer to the Weftmoteland Petition, p. 30, *° befides the denial of the payment of manTother impropriate Tythes and the Militia, &c. by one of their ' Part °* t*ie": Members, as unchriftian Impofitions Books on they can by no means fubmit to, according to the thofe Sub- Dictates of this their Light within, which' another yefts. Com- part pledds for and pfadtifes as a Chriftian Duty pared with they are oblig'd to by the Laws of the Land, and WiUiam Ro- infallible Dictates of the fame unerring Light, gersS Chri ftian Quaker diftingUifeed, and their Friend John BurgefsS Pta- £tice, &ci See Pen and One affirms, He cannot by any means fwear at alt, Whiteheads at the command of the Magiftrate, &c. whatever he Treatife of fuffers for his Refufal. Oaths, Sec ' Whilft another not only fwears, but alfo for-: eompared ^ fwears himfelf without any Magiftratical Obliga- ™'rtG'Fontiontoit,Adjurat. in p. 153. of his Select Epift les, and GibfonS Certificate ofi G. W.S Perjury, as cited p. 2.6. o/F.B.S Introduftion to his Narrative of our Sleeford Conference, See Pen's ^e can'z Ea'ce t*ie'ir foiemn Affirmation in way Wifdom ju- 0^ a ftinted Form, though he lie in Goal for his Jt ified, p.<)«. Denial on't 3 under pretence of its Leing to ac- witb Had- knowledge himfelf Hypocritical and Deceitful to dock and fubject to it. HeathcoatS Another net only can and does, but accounts Imprifion- the other fuffers juftly for his Refufal on't 5 under ment -, com- pretence of its being a neceffary means to find out pared with tne Truth, and reconcile Contenders. In Confe- their Second quence whereof Dtfys Meet- * fag's Epiftle of tbe xd Month, 1696,- and feveral Church Cenfures -againjt thefdid Sufferings. Vi z. William One folemnly affirms in its prefcribed Terms, Pen. and petitions the Parliament againft it> in Tefti-. mony of his diflike of it. Ano- CoNFUsibisr. , 17s) Another refutes to fubject to it, and writes Book Rich. -Ck* after Book in behalf of it, in evidence of his great "dgeS No- Union with it. -viltyi&c. . . . ,, comparest with their Friend SkiddonS Anfwer to it. i One can't Vote for his Landlord of another Pro- Seed.?; feffion to be a Member of Parliament, though he jun. Advne,, be tunfd out of his Farm fof it: Z }*™% . , . . Naylqr s, Compared with S. E. and others, of their refufing Brethrens Cor refpondence". Another can and does notwidiftariding, as his C- See William; fteemed Duty, without any fuch Obligation to it> Petfj Letter inl. B. s Book, compared with their Practices according to it. , . One can't, carry Guns in his, Ship for his own See their fe- . Defence, or allow others, to do it: veral year& Another can arid does notwithftanding, whzt-PaPefs.t' ever the other fays againft it. Sainft lti 1 compared % .•with G. F. and KobertKich' s Advice for it ',: in Hidden Things, and Atifwer to it'. ,' ..One cannot thank ye for any Favours .you be- Witnefs the (low on them 3 under pretence, of .all Honour, late famous Glot'y and Thanks being due only to God alone. Contefl be- , , Another riot only can and does, but accounts twixt S. Pelf St. Paul's Thanks to Felix his Defence, to the o- one of their thers Confutation. sbe Prea- chers, and S: Shaw a Hearer, on this Weighty Subject'. . , ^ One ean'i put off his Hat,' or bow his' Body to See lox'sfe- his Superiors, becaufa Mordecai refufed bowing to feral Books Haman, though he be find for his Irreverence. againft it, Another both can and does, as his efteemed Du- compared _ ty, by Vertue of the Holy Ancients Precedents, ^'tbbisoitsn • j and Robert RichS Argument, in their Account of James NaylorS Trial be fere the Committee of Parliament, and Hidden Things, for it. 1 M * One its i §6 Confusion* Seethe , t One can't take Pay for writing Marriage Cer- Proofe re-- tificates, (Sc. becaufe their, great Patron Fwf-ad- fer'd to in. vifed, That nought of that Nature fhould be done F.B.SP/Vr for Money. grims Pro- Another not only can, and does, but highly blames grefs, p. [he other, for reminding them of their Fox's Ex- 127. Com- hbrtations to the contrary. pared iuith their great ElwoodS Refleftion on W. R. for reminding them of their Sox's Admonitions, as cited by F. B. in his faid Pilgrims Progrefs-, Sec. ¦ '- Witnefs their One won't go abroad to preach without .his Qua} Preacher kjr Friends Licence, according to their prefcribed Jofeph Ro- ruiCj • though he accounts the Work of God is gers s De- greatly hinder'd by their refufal of it. claration ' - in my Audience. Compared Another will and does notwithftanding, with •with Tho- out offering to ask for- li?"-' under pretence of it mas Kent, Deing againft the Light within him to wait for it. Gibton, and other of their Preachers frequent Praftices. All which confufed . Inconfiftencies iri practice/ with abundance more I could remind them of, as they are involv'd in, through their adherence to the Light within every one of them coming into the World, as a Rule above Scripture, according to their Fox's Directions 5 fo they are the lefs to be wondered at, whilft they are fo grofly. con founded in the Terms by which they denominate it 3- which, though in part mentioned under the Head of their Inconfiftency, I think good further ' to remind them of on this occafion, as follows. For, See FoxS One while, The Light within is the only true News out c/eternal God. the North, p. 36. and Great Myftery, with G: Fox jun. Colleftion'. PenS Brief Anfwer to a falfe but foolijh Libel, p. 13. Vindicrac, p. 60. Pen's- Anf. Another while, It is not God, but of God. to J. Faldo, p. 192. Another Confusion. 181 i Another while, 'Tis Chrift, and every meafure FoxS Gene- of it is Chrift. r"lEM' P-17- Great Myft. p. 3,'94> i5i. M9- *«>''*' BurrowS Preface to it. N'ews out of the North, p. 33, 36. Whiteheads Light and Life within, &c, p. 53. Pen's Brief Anfwer, p. 13, 14. Another while, The Light that proceeds from BurrowS Chrift. *"!*" t0 , v- Fox s Great Myft. with p. 128, 1S6. of the. fiaid Great Myft- ' Another while, 'Tis the Law within, which Common- whofoever yields not Obedience to, are to be go- -wealths Re- verned by a Law without,. membrancer, p.i9. At another time, By the Light within, they un- ColeS.j2»«- derftand a glorious Beam or Ray of the Light, Iters clear'd, which from the Sun of Righteoufnefs Jefus Chrift,^- 78, 81. fhines into Mens Hearts, in order to lead to Fox'-r Great Chrift. Myft..p.i6%. Another while, 'Tis both God and Chrift, from JohnS Blefi- which there is no Appeal. fed Open. ings, p. 4. ¦George's News out of the Nprth, p. 19, 21, 2j, 27, 33*36, &17:' nefs what follows concerning the Body of Chrift. ie'e"Fpift. Quakers Challenge. Quakers Plea. J. Whiteheads Reproof from the Lord, p. 1, 2. Colleftion, p. 47. PenS Judas,' p. 17, 179, Brief Examination, p. 7. BurrowS Meffage, p. 3. corruptly cited in his General Collection. K. Evans and Chevers Book. Which one will have this Light within to be 3 FoxS Great under pretence, That the Light within is Vehiculum Myft. p. 12, Dei; the Bodv, Flefli, BI004, and Bones of Chrift. uo, 21 ,, 114, 212, 248.. Viceris Truth. and Innocency, p. 3$. ~EAwao&',s Anfiwer to G- KeithS firft Narrative, p. 6z. and BaccleyS Apol. Ano- 1 82 Confusion. Whiteheads Another while, The Body of Chrift they own; Brief Difeo- is his Church 3 under pretence, That to hold Chrift very, in. an- hath another Body befides his Chprch, is a hold: fwer to jng jje ^th two Bodies. Ye'c to run round John Horn, ^ -¦*.•.-:¦ Contemned Quaker t p. 83, 84, 85. Whiteheads Another while, They own Chrift anpther Body Quakers Re- befides his Church. •Jugefix'd. ¦-¦' u See FoxS One while, His Body of Flefh, Blood and Great Myft. Bones is personally within them to eat upon 3 un as- cited un- der pretence, That the great Controverfy they der the Head have With all Men, is in behalf of Chrift's being 6f Error. come in the Flefli, (i. e, in their Flefh) where he JuccS Fall -fa at tjje Rignr 0f God in Heaven within them., oj a great - j;ifible Idol, p. 4, 5, 21, &c. ElwoodS Truths Defence, p. 131. penS Wifdom juftified, p. 106. Whiteheads Truth prevalent, f i, &c ElwoodS Another while, when pinch'd for this bare-facfl' Trpths De- Herefy, they own, That Chrift has a Bpdy diftincl fence, p. from them at God's Right Hand in the Heaven 11 4i t-lh. - without, them, fo far as not to be in any Many Poftfcript. *o Directly contrary to all which the Malice of - -,' ¦ the lndependant. rebuked, p. 24. Hubber- -At another time they tell us, That to hold the ihornS "Dif- Saints were not juftified by that Chrift which was 'for ence of within them, is no lets than to preach Two Chrifts, -tie Call of and Two Bodies of Chrift, which they deny • uh- God, p. j, det pretence, That Chrift's Bcdy is not diftinct J1- from the Spirits pf al{ Men, nor perfonally abfent, Weaknefs a- as ^-ls 'Adverfaries imagined. .Yet to run round .boveWick- abj ¦ ;•- ednefs, p. ; 43. Whiteheads Anfwer to John .Horn, />• 8, 9, 14. NaylorSSf- ' land, Anfwer 'to Moor, p. 13, 15, -<&>c. See the a- Another while, Exclaim againft their Opppnents, bove-menti- for holding Chrift : hath a Myfiical Body. '' " ' 'snedDifco- .-.-i-no'fG. Whiteheads, in the Pages cited in Anfwer to John Horn. '¦' ' '- - ''"" ' ' ' '59 Confusion. iSj So grorfy are thofe pretended Reformers of this Morgan dreggy Age of the World confounded in their watJcinsS Notions about the Body of Chrift ; in evidence, Day mani- that they have loft all true difeerning of it, through f eft ing, p. their contemptuous difufe of the Sign he inftitu- 7, &c. ted in Commemoration of his Sufferings in it 5 fox's&oftri- wherefore 'tis the lefs wonder they fhould be fo nat Works. grofly confufed as we find them in their Faith of Several Pa- his Second Coming in it, as well as of the Day ofPers> P' XJ> the Lord, wherein they are involv'd in a Thoufand V". ^ T .„ Up's and Down's, in one while affirming, The pj^'ffff mighty Day of the Lord ("wherein they have wit- ^or^j * netted his Second Coming) is come; another while, 40g> l0f it is a coming 3 then it is a haftening 3 then appear- j;ox t0 aji ing in the North 3 prefently arifing in the South 5 then People that it willjuddenly come 3 then it is nigh at Hand 3 then meet in Steer juft at the Door; then juft a coming; greatly haftening ;ple-Houfes, to us he is come 5 then near for to come ; mightily ha-p- }, J> 5> ftening 3 with abundance more to this purpofe in x S • their Books in the Margin on this Subject, wherein NichotfonS their Confufions are as endlefs, as they are alfo a- Standard, p. bout the People who are to make way for it, by h %^ ' .y' their Execution of God's Judgments in order to it. ur^ 1 3 1 j. Jof, ColeS Teftimony, p. 6, 14., EvanS Travels, p, 106. DewsberryS T>-Kf Propbejy, Title-Page, and Collection, p. m, &c. But fince the true Chrift comes as tbe Lightning out ofthe Eaft into tbe Weft, according to' tbe relation of Holy Writ, this of the Qua kers Light cannot be the true Chrift to be fure, fince it comes fio od- ly from tbe North to tbe South, if their Books may be credited. Which one will have to be the Saints, by whom Humphry the Lord will thrafh the Heathen in his Anger, and SmithS bath his Sword in the Blood of the Slain ; wound, con- Sitind/ing found and over-turn for ever the Horfe and his Rider, Voice, p. 6, 7. the Cefptain and his Troops, the Ancient and Honoura- s< FilherS ble ; with more to this purpofe. Whereas contrary Works, P- to him J9> *»- . Scorn d Qua ker, p. 32, &c. BurrowS Works., p. 164, 164, 426. HqwgilS Works, p. 86. ParnilS Works, p. 42*... Another declares, That in order to this great Work; it is his belief, That (inftead of the Heathen being M 4 ihrajh'd) HowgilS Works, "p. 394, J9J- See FoxS Good Coun fel to O. C p'. i6^ 27." compared•with their Judas «»a? 1 §4 Confusion," , , thrafh-d) rtkg. Lord Will Jpare the Heathen, and exalt .,* tfteir-Hom ,$ and they fhall be a Scourge, and as the '- Lord's Bat tie- Ax, to bring down the Pride andHaughj iinejs of the bloody City of Rome, and all the Prote- ftant Printes of Germany, that, are not wholly $epar- ted. from her Corruptions, Directly contrary to, whom Another of thofe All-a-minds would have itr That 'twas Oliver Cromwell the Lord had raifed up: ¦ for that righteous end ; in order whereto, he, uppn his, Declenfion to go on with the Good Old Caufe, as he called it, loudly calPd out, O Oliver ! Oliver.!* Thou fleeuldji not have food cumbering thy felf aboyt* ¦ChiefP ' fl s a few ^'ir,y Priefts, but have gone on as thou didft at confpirinJ $rft ' fcr ^ft thou been faithful, thf Hollander had. &c. p.<)&^ been thy Subject, and Germany had given up tohavf- ¦&c, done thy Will, the Spaniard had ¦ quiver 'd like a dry Leaf .the Kjng oj ^France fhould. have bowed under' thee his Neck., the Pope have withered as in Winters, and tlx Turk in fill his Fatnefs fhould have Jmoakfd ',. in C.onfideration whereof, as his Dread was not; all gone, nor his Amazement, he bad him, Arif&- and come cut, that he might crumble Nations to Dufi,* for that was his Day ; with much more to this pur pofe. Contrary to whom notwithftanding Another no lefs infallible will have it tp be the" Great Turk, whom God hath referved for Ms greuj. Work.; in purfuance of which Prophetick AfTu-., ranee, he loudly cries out, O Turk ! Turk ! , And with this Voice do I cry unto thee, O Turk ! Who art fet over many Regions, that over many more thou mayft Reign, until fill the Earth be fubdtted for thee for evermore : Arife and ftand up, andjhine.fortb,- O Turk ! I fay unto thee, O Turk ! And now ought ; I to be accurfed, bec/iufe my Love is conftrained to be . more unto the. Seed, of the Turk, than unto the Flefh » of EnglandS Inhabitants ; for many will fiand amd^'d at thy. Beauty and Renown, O Turk! with much more to this purpofe. All which notwithftanding See their John of John' sVi/i- tation of Love, and Gentle Gree ting of the Turk, p. 4, 7.1, 16, 21. printed in ' 1658, when he was- deep in their. U- nity, out. of •which thky afterwards nioft unworthily caftjierd him. Others Confusion, 185 Others of the Infallible will have it tp be a.ifaacpe_ grofs Miftake of the Dictates of their unerring npjgcons Light within 3 under pretence, That as the Lord Works, p. will raife up tome Inftrument in England to carry 91, 137, 140, on this great Work, from whence Salvation fhall 144. 189, go forth to the Ends of the Earth 5 fo it fhall be i95. 313, 'the Quakers who fhall effect the fame to purpofe. 3* 5- In order whereto, as they tell the World, They^S^i- Jhtf tread down the Wicked, who fhall be as Afhes un- gJP sW°™- der the Soals of their Feet 5 fo in purfuance of this vef Crom their Conceit, they loudly call'd on the General wel " Council of the State Army, (after their noble OU- 4I . vers Deceafe, and his -Son Richard's Expulfion) AnderfonS Ta call back, every honeft Man that was cajhier'dfor one Groan the Caufe, and fet At Liberty forthwith all the Canfei- more, p. gt entious People called Quakers then in Bonds, becaufe 1$. of their Confcience to God, the Good Old Caufe, that CheefemanS they might beajfiftant injmiting the Midianites that ^ Epiftle to vexed them with their Wiles 3 under pretence, That K'nS Charles as the Lord might command Thoufands and Ten Thou-* Second, fands of his Saints at this Day to Fight in his Caufe, t'- J' , ' who he had already made dreadful to the Wicked, inj.fi?^Sf whofe Hand they fhould be a Rod to breakj, confound -Love * and utterly, deftroy their Antichriftian KJngdom. In x- ^6 order whereto, As the Englifh Army [then at Dun- HowgilS kirk, could never expect Succefs againft their Enemies, Work°s, p. but as they went on in the Spirit that was amongft the 102, 256, Quakers, the Lord would make the Quakers as a. Li- 2 57. on among the Beafts, from which none can deliver 3 DewsberryS and his Battle- Ax wherewith he will break, in pieces Colleftion, the People, the Horfe and his Rider ; thrafh the Earth ;.P- 66> 1 1 1 > beat the Mountains' to Chaff 3 rule the Nations with a1TLi> I9«> Rod of Iron; put his high Praife s in- their Mouths, ty*' 4 pifitle to the Englifh Army at Dunkirk? compared with p. 3S9, 391, 589. of his Colleftion, which I often wonder'd how it efcaped G.'W.S Purga tive Hand, fince William DewsberryS, to all faithful Brethren, printed 1661, p. -l6. to the fiame purpofie, is fib abufively expulfiei out of his Colleftion, amongft many others, to make their Modem Sentiments quadrate with their Ancient ones. BurrowS Declara tion to the Diftracted Nation, p. 8, &c. BurrowS This is only to go amongft friends. BurrowS To the Camp of the Lord in Eng land, firft ltnpreffien, p. z., 6, 7. 8, 9, 1 86 Confusion. .Hubber- and a two-edged Sword in their Hands, whereby they thornS An- fhall execute Vengeance upon the Heathen, and Pu- fwer to the nifhments upon the People ; bind their Kings in Qaptifts? De- Chains, and Nobles in Fetters of Iron, till they have duration, fubdued all Nations that won't come under their Laws, f- H- and all Kings become Tributary to them. In purfu- loxS News ance whereof, they cry out, Ride on, ride on, be coming up l(fve^ brethren and. Fellow-Soldiers, make all plaiWbe- mtt of the jorg yQU .. ffcgfh m witjj tj)e mv fhrejhing Inftrttment %* " ^o *^** ° Teeth ; beat the Mountains to Duft ; make S Iifhers' theHeathen tremble, and the Vncircumcifed fall by the Works, p.i% Swovd; the Lord of Hofts is with us, and goes before so &c . ** 3 Jfare none, neither Ox nor Afs, neither Old nor Scam' d Qua- Toting, kill, cut off, .deftroy, bath your Swords in the ker, p. to, Blood of Amalek, and hew Agag to pieces ; for the 3»» 33 • Nations doth defie our God, and faith in their Hearts, By which Who is the God of the Quakers ! under pretence, they mean -phat for DeftruBion they are, and the Sword they ctm- *he Kings of mt efcapef which, fhall be upon them ere long ; with lb? Earth, muej1 more to tnjs purpofe. trs their x x Friend Ambrofe FUgg hath confeffed, in bis. Epiftle heretofore in-. Jta&ped on another occafion, compared with their NaylorS Deceit,., brought to Light, p. I, &c. with many other Inftances largely ci ted in Fr. Bug'gS Pilgrims Progrefis, p. 203, 238, 241, &c. Vox ' Populi, p. 14, iy, r6, 17. and Narrative of our Sleeford Confe rence, amongft many others. AU whieh, how true foever of the true Saints of God, is, I am fure, very falfe Predictions, as ap plied to the Quakers, as they now ftand in their their depraved State 5 wherein, inftead of being the Thrafhers-of others, they are the only fit Ob jects to be thrafh'd by all, till they have learned more Wit, which yet they give us but fmall Caufe to hope for 3 fince befides, their Confufion about the Perfons who are to be the Executors of God's Indignation upon the depraved Church of Rome, and her Supporters, they are alfo grofly confoun ded about the Nature of the Weapons they are to ufe in order to it 3 the which as one part will have to be an outward Sword 5 under pretence, that fheir Adverfspes might a* well Jind fault,. with St. Pfter, Confusion. 187 Peter, as the Quaked for being Swords-Men 3 fo in PcningtotiS favour of their Notion they cry out amain, A Sword, Works, p. H Sword, a Sword, is coming upon all the High Plaoes 591. the wife, fubtle, dark. Counfellors, Builders, Paftors FoxS News, find Teachers of England 5 hold forth the Sword, lay coming up, hold of the Spear, march into the Field, give the P0sore p- '8, 20, Blood to drink., who fhall have her Cup through our z8> &e- Hands, none being able to ftand before the Ged of the WeftbnS Quakers, flfc Warnings ^" -' from the Mouth of the Spirit, p. i, 3, 4. Dan. BaketS guiltlefis Cries, p. 19. M#rgip, and D. B. yet one Warning more, p. 22, 23. FilherS ¦Meffage, p. 32, 33. BurrowS Mejfage, p. 4, Colleftion, p. 69, 100, 101. HowgilS Works; p. 17, 31, 102. Which Notion others not liking by any means," fince King Charles the Second came in, on account of the dangerous tendency of it, will needs have' the Swofd propheiy'd of, npt to be an outward but inward Sword 1 " which, as they affirm, is al ready gone over their Oppofers, to wound, cut, kill and mortifie all that ftand m the Way of the Refitrreition ff their Light within 3 They, in order to affright ^ox's Great the Pope and his Popelings with the Terror of this Myftery, p. their Spiritual Sword, moft vehemently cry out, i7z. '. Tremble, thou Pope, tremble, fear, quake, tremble 3 Doctrinal tremble you Cardinals,, tremble you Jefuits, tremble Works, p. you Priefts, tremble, tremble^ tremble, Woes, Vials, i97> r?9» Thunders, Plagues and Earthquakes is come and coming 103> &c. upon you ; the (harp glittering Sword of the Almighty • is drawn, and hangs over thy Head, thou Pope, &c. which will hew thou and you to pieces 3 with much more to this purpofe. All which being fpoken with relation to this their pretended Spiritual Sword they reckon themfelves to be poflefs'd of, is direct ly contrary to their Admonitions to Oliver Crom- News com-; wel and States Army, to hew, hack., kill them with ing. up, p, their Carnal one, till the Land was cleared of their 18, 19. Filthinefs 3 in further evidence of their unheard of Confufion 3 which if one do but put thofe pre tended Innocent andHarmlef?, Unerring and Hea venly anointed Ones in mind of, by mowing them the Incoherence of their Sfcntiipnents, which with ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦' ¦¦'•'• " ¦ ¦' ¦ their, 188 Confusion. See fox's their Blood they pretend to' vindicate, in Honotar Poftfcript to 0f their Infallibility, they prefenfly exercife the \"*.tt%lff- ^orce of this their Spiritual Sword upon us moft J. B.sfefti- unmercinilly, in not only calling us Dark. Hellifh Zfcb'felS* Sfirit' darl<.fealous Spirit, dark, earthly Spirit, dari 'rites -com- fefaratc SPirit> feParMe dark. Spirit, dark, fiibtle fir- pared with '/biftical Spirit, dark, canker d, crofs canker 'd rufty Spi? G. W.S Ac. rit> &c" tyl — *° in finally giving us to the Devil, tufier,' as cf-t0 be ^Y hltn tormented in Chains of Darknefs e- tedp'.-.oi. ternally, as their Great Tomjon lately did me !at */F. B.S De our Quarter Meeting at Lincoln, for my pretend', Chrift. Lib. ed prefumptlon in oppofing his and his depraved and the Je- Coljegues Heretical Abfurdides. • all which how ver at In- terrible foever to their ehflaved VafTals, a thoufand ftances under fech Showers of their Foxonian Wildfire fhall ne- the Head of ver affright me from publickly fhowing them the, j,,,.' horrid Confufions they are involv'd in, by follow- VidicutZs *?g th?ir Fox's foPPifll Fancies for Chriftian VerL A-b'furdlties ^es' ^n"or^er ro tlie*1' Repentance and future A- in this re- mendment, that, ihey may efcape thofe dreadful jpeft they Judgments they pronounce on others, fince thofe kecame in- more private Methods I have, heretofore ufed for volv'd in that purpofe, have not been able to bring them about tbe to To much as an Examination in a Church way in Time of tbe order to it 3 in purfuance of which Chriftian Duty King's com- muft tell them, ing in, thro'' the EnemiesTransformations, in renouncing tbe righteous ufe of the outward Sword in way of Defenfive War againft Rebellious ln- fiulters and Foreign Invaders, as the Reader may find in p: 6, &c. of their Brief Declaration, &c. compared with their true Friend .George hiihop's Fore-warnings, in bis Fev) Words in Seafion, which it would bave been well for them they had made a right ufe of. , That they are not only thus confufed in the n ' j'rr means tnar « r0 ma^e w4y for the coming of and Terrible Chr'l&' hut alfo moft grofly confounded in their Voice prin- ^a'tn as t0 z^ manne>-* or" ms coming 3 the which ted 1660. ^ oae Part reprefents ro be after an outward man- B'iltiopS£- ner> *° as t0 ke .^en. both ^V Frieqds and Ene- piftle of mies 5 another in direct Qppofition will have it Love, p. to be only an inward one 3 under pretence, That 1 2, &e.' as they have already feen.his coining, .fo thofe that. come Confusion- 189 come to the Leadings of the Light within they Bifhopx direct to, will ceafe from aH outward expectation Warnings t» of it 3 as a.plain Evidence pf this my Charge a- O. c. p. 39. gainft them in this refpect, though not all the In- to p. 44. ftances I have to alledge in proof their Confufion R- ^-'y in other. ' vflce. °fh'ltt that is efica- ped from Babylon, p.- 4, j, 6, 7, 10, 11. Reftor iorrefted, p. 4$. Antidote Ven. p. 243. FuceS Fall. ElwoodS Anfwer to G. K.S Narrative, p. ji, ifii, 164. John Whiteheads Reproof W&rks, p. ji. Dorothy WhiteS Diligent Search, p. 4. ' For not to infift on their calling the Scrip- See NaylorS lures The Word of God, in fome of their Books, Weaknefs a- Which Title they renounce and condemn as no lefs oove Wicked- than Blafphemy in others : 'Tis worth one's while neJs' P' 4- to obferve, how their Light within has taught them, LJ ' , „ to prefer fome Parts of thofe Holy Records, ^^ax'sG^' t our iAdifpenfable Rules in their meer literal Senfe M a . g in fome refpects, whilft it rejects others as Pofi- cf B.S Mene tive, as no ways obliging to us 3 under pretence Tekel, p. 22. of Chrift's Spirit fas they call their Light within) PenS Reafion not being confinable to Scripture Forms, whereby againft Rai- they have involv'd us in the utmoft Confufion, for ling, p. m, want of a certain Rule to direct us 3 wherein we 112,113,^. are like to remain for what this their magnified compared Light within can do for us, (how ufeful foever in w't^ P- 4J- its right place) till God be pleafed to extricate us "j . wn'Jf out of it, by the objective Operations of his Holy "fff'f' and unerring Spirit of Life they are become too * ' great Strangers to, for us to confine our felves to their diftinction of Pofitive from Difpenfable Texts, how dogmatically foever they have enfor ced the fame upon us in feveral Inftances, fome of which are as follows 3 as firft, That of our Saviour in Mat. v, £&. againft FoxS Gteat Swearing at all, they will have in all refpects Po- Myft-p-i-7-> fitive. ¦¦«-'' 178, 179. 180, 181, 239. Vcn's Treatife of Oaths, witl) infinite others of their Books on this Su-bj.eft.- , But 100 CoNFUSldN. Great Myft. But his Command iff Luke xxii, (3c: To take" £.112, 124, Bread and Wine in coriimemoration of his Death1 161. with aud Sufferings, until he* cfcmq again in the fame; thofe others fiod he afcendea j Not: inftanc d ' . iinder the Head of their Error. FoxS Select That of Mat. xxiii: 16. againft our being called Epiftles, p. pr calling Men Mafters, who are not our Mailers f.66, 267. in an outward Senfe ; Pofitive. HowgilS _ ,, Works, p. 22J-. HubberthornS Collection, p, 138V See FoxS Bu^ that of verfe 9. againft our being called, or ' Precept and calling Men Fathers, who are not really our Fan ¦; Precedent* thers in that Senfe 3 Not. p. 267. of , , ¦ .1 his faid Select Epiftles} 'compared with J. ColeV Idolatrous Letter to this Fox.' BarcleyS A- That of Mat. v. 39. To turn the Left Cheek to pot. p. 5J7. him that fmites us on the Right * Pofitive. Apol. p. 470. But that of Johnydn. 14^ ij. To wafh one ano! Reafion a- ther's Feet, as Chrift wa!fhed his Difciples Feet 3 gainft Rail- Not, ing, p. ill. v t >;> r , ,_ . . j Great Myft. That of Luke Iii. n. Concerning He that hatfi ? p. . two Coats imparting to him that hath none 3 PgH fitive. See Quakers But that of Chap. vi. 35; To' lend, hoping for '. unmasked, nothing again 5 Not. tonfirmed by common Experience. fox's fie ve- That of Rpm.yd'ii. 3. Concerning our owing no ral Papers, Man any thing but Love 3 Pofitive. p. 87. Line of Righteoufnefs, p. 7. i Select Epift. But that of Mat. x. 13. If they perfecUte you in A BarcleyS A- city flee into another 3 Not. pot. p. 51a. , t PenS Alex- That of the Apoftle 1 Cor. xi. 7. .againft pray- ander, Judas -m„ f$c_ wjth 0ur Heads covered 3 Pofitive. and the Jews. RichS Hidden Things, j. u, 12. Bui Confusion^ ioi i- ' But that of our Saviour, Mdt. vi. 9I After this PenS Reafon manner pray ye, faying, Our Father, &C. Not. againft Rai- . ting, p. in, 112, 113. Wifdom juftified. p. 43. That of the Apoftle concerning the Chriftians Great Myft. Weapons not being Carnal but Spiritual, they will p- have in all refpects Pofitive. apology, with tb'eir fieveral Declarations againft all Wars and Fightings, Sec. But that of Rom. xiii. 7. concerning our paying Apology % 'Tribute to whom Tribute is due, ("fo far as 'tis de- P- inanded for the fetting forth the Militia, in order to the Nations Defence,) 5 Not. That of 1 John iii. 9. concerning He that is born Great Myft. of God; doth not commit Sin 5 Pofitive. Wifidom % . juftified, p. 1 1 J. Truth defending, p. 11. PeningtonS Works, p. 407. But that of Chap. i. 8. If we fay we have no Sin Great Myft. we deceive our felves ; Not. P- I0> 37. 89. Truth prevalent, 8cc. That 6f Mat; v. 48. Be ye perfect as your heaven- Great Myft. ly Father is perfeft : Pofitive. Several P*-« pers, p. 10. Guide miftaken, p. 38. But that of 1 Kjngs viii. 46. compared with ShewingS Job ix. 20. There is no Man that Jinneth not, and Treatife of can fay his Way is perfect; Not. Thoughts, with PenS Part ef Chriftian Quaker. That of 1 John ii. 20. concerning our' having an Great Myft. XJnEiion front the Holf One, and know all Things; Po- P ¦ *¦> *> «*• fitive. t Several Pa pers, p. . Judas and the Jews, p. it. But that of lNC»r. xiii. they have not, to the beft of theii of An.- 1696. Remembrance, met with any one period in any of their Primitive ancient Books, which they cannot ftand by, and with Chriftianity, as little difficulty vindicate, as fiome Paffages in the p. 6. , Ne'w-Teftam'enl ; they being -Hot fenfible that they have Vindicia: Ve- altered in any one Principle of their Faith fince they rit. p. 118, . -were a People, being the Jame in evdy refipcB they-were 2:4, is'c. fifiy Years (igo. We muft be impofed on to rever rence their Inconfiftencies of , all forts, as the in-' f fallible" Confusion. i£ J fallible Dictates of God's immediate Word of Life* and their depraved. Patrons as his only true Mi nifters, how much foever they interfere with the) true Senfe of Holy Writ, and dne with another, as I already have in fome meafure, arid yet fhall more largely prove, by-7 the Cbnfulion they have . been, and yet are over Head and Ears involv'd in, about their foiemn Declaration, (as they, call their hew-devifed Quaker Oath) occafion'd in great mea fure by their Epiftle from their Meeting for Suffer^ ings, on the ftth of the zd Month, and ift of the 3 itf3> 0f Ir. with Hub berthornS Dificourfie with King ¦Charles*, compared -with their late Paper of Abjuration, and Letter m its behalf. From whence, with others of the fame Nature, the Members of the faid Meeting not only took upon them to offer the Words, ' In the Prefience of ¦Almighty God, the Witnefs of the'Tfuth of what weSeJ,tlheJot° jay, to be enacted as a ftanding ftinted Forni they %p "¦'"{'¦ prayed the Parliament to accept, as what we could „fW*r 'o"n the fubject to when called to it, in all Cafes of Evi- ^th ^ Febj dence j but alfo earneftly prefTed us to make no l69f N fcruple 194 Confusion* fcruple of its under pretence, of its bein£ cohfii ftent to what thofe our ancient Friends had offered long before for the fame purpofe. ~ But as others, ofi Examination of their ah Jedg'd Inftances as they lie in the Authors Books- found they offered none of them to be enacted as a ftanding ftinted Form} to be tendef'd us in all Cafes we might be conqern'd to .give Evidence in, as thofe Apoftate Pretenders would now perfwadg us ,5 but only declared what they could fay, as left to their own freedom on good and neceffary Occafions 3 they declared, they could by no means fubject to that Form, the Authors of the above-* mentioned Epiftle had fo prayed for the enacting of, wherefore devifed the following one, as what they could more freely fubject to, vi%. See their ' You fhall declare or fpeak.the Truth, the wl>ole Truibt private Mi- and nothing but the Truth in the prefent Cafe* accorfc nut es from ing to the befit of your Knowledge ; To which Friends their Yearly Anfwer may fa Yea, or Yes. Meeting, 1702, wherein, as they interfere with their infallible Brotherhoot in the matter oj their Affirmation, they by teaching the ParJidmenii to oblige the Magiftrates to exprefs themfelves in tbe Plural Num* ber to a fingle Perfion, contradift tbernfelves ; all which are but ill ways, in my efteem, to wear of tbat Diffidence in lefts than, an Age others have of their Sincerity, according to the declared hopes of the. Author of their Primitive Simplicity^ pi 173. But if upon Trial this Cailriot be obtained, then the Friends diifatisfied, that they may come as near as they can to what their Friends and Bre thren have already accepted, (as if they had not offered and prayed for it) do offer this, vi%. I A. B. do fencer ely and folemnly declare and affirm, that in the Matter to which I am called to give Evi dence, I will fpeak. 'the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, according to the beft ef rd) Knowledge. And beyond this they declare they are not eaffe to go,. though it feems others of thofe All-a-mindt were 5 fince they tell us in the fame Paper, That though thofe are agried to be the Terms on ytlfich thofe Frienii CoftFUsidN; *95 Friends that arei uneafie fhall folicite for Eafe, fet with ihis caution, That if upon fuch Solicitation,- tbe-a- mendment in thofe Terms cannot be obtained, no En deavours fhall be ufed by any to make void or deftroy the prefent fiolemn Affirmation. Directly contrary to all which riotwithftandingj others of them are not only for making void and deftroyirig the Affirmation they fpeak of, (under CrookS Col- pretence, that as Oaths were not anciently called union, p. Imprecations, but Atteftations, it is^no lefs than one, gx. compar- though ftiled an Affirmation) but alfo declare them- red with felves, on good Grounds, uneafie with any other tbeir.Friend of their devifed ftinted Forms, under the moftSkiddonS feafy Terms of Tea and Nay \ fince as it is neither late Anfiwer hecefiary or fafe, for any to promife upon thofe to*.. Cla- TermS, To fpeak the whole Truth, with relation to npe> hel'e" tome Circumftances, as fuch a Promife would un- aJ*^r no '" avoidably oblige them, ([contrary to our ancient/' ' Practices in fuch Cafes) , fo there may be fome times occafion lb ufe fuch foiemn AffeverationS as may amount to an Oath, to find out the Truth more effectually, where oiir bare Tea and Nay is confronted by another of equal Authority, to the plouding of it, as hath been found by Experience : -Wherefore, whilft thofe their offered Limitations have thus confounded the Body of our Church in out- Yearly Meetings, it can be no wonder to find our Country Quarterly Affemblies ftrangely confuted about them 5 of which ours at Lincoln on the ntb pf the 17? Month, Anno 1711-13, was a pregnant Inftance 3 Where,- after a reading of our London See their Brethrens various Letters for and againft the next Friend Ami Parliament's Sollicitation for the revival of the faid Everat s Let- Affirmation, they could by no means agree in a ter t0 them, Refult either way as from the faid Meeting, fince 'wJ3€/e'!' . ori enquiry, Two of the Five Monthly Meetings thoJe *., 1 y %. . . -. , . \ r . . r rr. own deviled (that competed it; were for it, the other Two a- characters gainft it, and the odd One, half for it and half a- m.e a$ ljbe_ gainft it; to their unheard of Confufion 3 through raiu as Je- which, as they wrangled .feveral Hours about it, fervedly Re calling one another Party-Men, Apoftates, Idolaters, flowed on faith what elfe came firft to Tongues-end, to realc them-. N % their ig6 CONFUSI ON* J» fro«/^*dieirDifpfeauire one at another, in favour of their thofie pie- confufed Sentiments, fo confidering their ancient tended Cbil- petentions to be all of one Heart, Mind and {Soul dren of jn ajj Things, I could not, as I told them, but won* i£b* "I'- der> that *^ftead "J~ thelr 0nenefs> theJ /houl'1 he thu* [grotbeir ^gund imjoh'd in ^r Friend FifherS endlefs Circle Dar^knW of an eternal No, fo, fo, no, no, fo, and not accept herein) he- *^e Chriftian means I fropofed to extricate them out of come Sons ef*l> ^ fetbjeEting the Caufers of it to an Examination tbe Night, i" a free Conference, according to Truths Difcipline, as hath been and their own ancient Exhortations. Wherefore foretold whilft thofe their moft famous Meetings of Difci- tbem. pline are thus inharmonious in their confufed Seri- tunents, it can be the lefs furprize to find particu lar Perfons ftrangely confounded in their incohe rent Notions on this Subject, of which (inftead of many that might be mentioned.) I fliall only give one fingle Inftance as a Specimen of the reft, and it fhall be their well approv'd Friend and fa- The firft of movs Preacher George Depiidge, now or late of Bal- ¦which, as it ^ Qf Haufirdfhire, who, befides his feveral in confiftent Letters in my Cuftody, concerning our ear Notice which he will have but as the Light of the Moon than bis laft, to ic, as a Caution io Friends how rhey offer to •which was lay ought againft them, by whom he believes God extorted will in this and other Nations work Wonders,, from bim, ffje. Whilft in another, he not only condemns it through tbe as a Delufion of the Devil, and them for the worft fmart of our fort 0f {^anterJr bin: alfo ranks their Predictions London with Bickjrftaff's, as a Warning to us to have a LordiCburch caxR Q£ them) m evidence of his various Difpo- Jmt Id) fo- *"re concernmS inem J a11 which is far fhort of "rit'tie bis r^e many Minds he has been in about the Affir- £ra i mation in Conteft. In purfuance whereof / One while he told me, That as upon afirhms. Confidcration ofthe Nature of it, he found nothing in his Mind againft our Subjeftian to it, as impofied up on us in Courts of Judicature, &c. in Cafes of EvU dence, for which Caufe he durft not offer to prepojfeft Friends Confusion. 197 Friends by Word or Writing againft • it.- Yet afters ward coming to vifit Meetings in our Parts, where hearing Richard Ranfiam publickly reflect on our London Friends officioufnefs in offering it for that end and purpofe, he found himfelf confcienrioufly concern'd to joyn with him in his publick Tefti- mons againft their Error in it. Which Mind he no longer held in, than whilft he got from our Town to Lincoln, where meeting with the Meeting for Sufferings Epiftle afore-men- tion'd in favour of it, heprefently comes back in amaze, to tell me, How happy he Was to befo well fettled in his Mind, as he found himfelf by its peru- fal 5 fince, as he clearly faw thereby, it was no more than our ancient Friends had offered, feveral Tears before our London Brethren had prayed the Parliament to ac cept jt, inftead of the Oath impofed on others ; fo inftead of blaming their Chriftian Tender of it, in order to be enacled, he was fully convinced, that he and his Friend Ranfam were juftly blame-worthy for their oppofing it. Which Mind he not long remained in, not withftanding this his great Confidence ; for per-, ceiving how eafy a Matter it was for thofe our London Lords to beguile fuch poor well-meaning Souls as he, by fuch deceitful Epiftles as this of their Meeting above-mentioned, which had thus deluded, him, I took the pains once more to un deceive him, by the explanatory Part of thofe Te ftimonies recked therein, as they lie in the Au thors Works; whereby, as I plainly fhewed him, they were fo far from offering any of thofe fo iemn Terms they mention, to be enacted as a ftanding ftinted Form, to be tendered us on all Occafions we might be called to give Evidence in, as thofe our Lonaon Friends had there reprefented them, as that fome of them exprefly denied it in Termittis, as they haye therein recited them, " to their exprefs Contradiction. s Uppn which, as this our pretended infallible Preacher Deplidge found himfelf once more re-^ duc'd to his Senfes, I had the fatisfacYion alfa once more to fee him change his Mind again, con- N 3 trarj^ 19? Confusion^ $ee whitr trary to his own expectation, and our depraved ingS Judas' .Friends ufual Method, who though they, like Sa- and Chief tvrs jn pjeij^ ^re evef ]afliing one another for theii' Pr,eJ*s>t- 9 6- Inconfiftencies in Doctrine, Difcipline and Pra_- wi'tlZ ' t0 r^e 8reater aggravation of each others cf John Pe- -Torment, will (inftead cf repenting of their Sins nymanS^*-*31 0Ccafi°n it) a. thoufand times impofe Sub. pehdix to i/j-miffion upon us to their Incoherencies, under the feveral penalty of" Pur Exclufion from Church Communis Trafts, in on, than condemn any of them (after a true Chri- proofi ofi this ftian manner) to fave a Soul, how ridiculous foe* Charge a- ver in their Compofition 5 through which as they gainft them, are involv'd in the utmoft Confufiqn in all theip feveral Meetings of Difcipline in England^ &c. (as, well as ours at Lincoln) where they are bufie in See RichS tearing each other to pieces, as their true Friends Hidden Libert RJch, William Muckjow, John^Rance, John lb mgs. . fyiibjnfmt John Penyman and Anna Bourignon, a-i rf'l" "J t ^inongft many others, have foretold them. Tyranny and Hypocrify . Chriftian Quaker, in $ Parts. Account pf the Life of John Penyman, and feveral Trafts, with A. B.S Faithful Warnings-. So they may thank their Second /Days Meetings Behold thofe (that Synagogue of Satan) Offers of the faid Af? our Tante- firmation, to be enacted as a ftanding ftinted Form', io'obian Lob- as the firft occafion of it in this refpect ('as they eocks, what were formerly in others) 3 in behalf whereof, as. marvellous they fet forth their faid Epiftle in Anno 1696, pleafure they wherein they endeavour to prove it no Oath, by take m crack- the Teftimony of their Friends Fifher and Barcley, inhS.6-f'l &c- *° m anfwer thereto, one of their diflatisfied t'b'/c ' Friends in Anno 1713. writes a large Letter, and um by ioiil- puhlifhps it in Print, wherein he proves it to be' uring their ^ Oath by Scripture Teftimony, -whatever the Loggerheads other fays to the contrary 5 in reply to whom, a. together, as nother of: thofe All-a-minds prints another Epiftle the Confie- j the fame Year, ftiled, A Letter from a fiatisfied to quence of a dijfaiisfied Friend, (under the Letters G.H. baok- tbeir Foxo- ed by a fplendid Epiftle of another of the Infalli- nian Imper- ble, entitled, The Affirmation -vindicated, fubfcrib-' tinencies. ed Anonymous Philalithes) in proof of its-being no J -'- Oath, Confusion* ?99 Oath, by the Teftimonies of their above-mend* pned Fifher and Barcley, &c. for want of Scripture Evidence 3 in confutation whereof, another of the Infallible prints another Epiftle the fame Year, entitled, An-Bffay upon the Fifth o/Matthew, where in he proves, by Scripture Evidence, the faid Afr firmation to be an Oath, or what is inclusively for* bidden in Mat^. v. $e. as equivalent to one, yet will not condemn fUch as took it, though their Practice, he will by no means allow as Precedential to others 3 under pretence, of thofe being their ' Days of Ignorance wherein -their ancient Friends'JVhofe Name offered it 5 in anfwer whereto, another of the is Richard fjnerring writes another Epiftle, entitled, Novelty Clandge, and Nullity of Dififatisf action, ' wherein, he pre- «*• ^"f firft ' N 4 tends *J'g*'fi* ~ < Clergyman, then a prea.ching'Baptift, next a Writer for the Quakers, and now an Apoftatf, according, to bis Brother SkiddimoreS Reprefientati- qn, In his Primitive Simplicity* as an Introduftion to his next change to Atheijfin, if he prevent not by his [publick Condemnatir on of thofe l>is Foxonian lmpertinencies, as well as) Deteftion of bis Opponents Heretical Affertion, That their Affirmation is no Oath as taken by the Spirit's Direction, fince be may as well fay, That Before God, By God, &c. arena Oaths as fio taken (as well as fhe Affirmation) ; fe is their renowned Pen is [in p. 239. of his Qj/ftherifim a new. Nick-Name) pleas 'd to tell tbe World, That they renqunce that Conftruftion of tbe Ranters, tbat Evil is no Evil as qny ar,e le,d.to it. by. the Spirit ; if he don't renounce this Notion of fyis Friend Sfs.\&&.in\Qte.'s, b\e will give them caufe to think^ His Qua, kpr Friends are all turn'd Ranters., through their Confufion about this their Affirmation ; the which as they we- e originally drawn in£o by, their grand Deluder George Whitehead, *r tbe only Device be could invent to avoid thofie Sufferings he. a,nd his Pupils grew iiseary of for their unwarrantable Refufal of ail Oaths as Vncbri- Jtian, All his Note at their Yearly Meeting in Anno 1714, was, OFriends! Let the Confideration ofthe Cries, the fad Cries ofthe Boor apdOppreffed, prevail with you, not to oppofe. our endeavours for the renewing of it : Not that he- cared for the Poor any more than, his^lder Brother of Old did, (Witnefs bis refufal to allow the Widoip WhitrowS Epiftle to be read in their favour among them) but that he might tbe more eafily gull his Oppofers into a compliance to this Child of bis Brain, by fuch Hypocritical Pretenfions, as fiomt of our Brotherhood, then in effect told bim, sis 1 am credibly in formed. 3po Confusion: tends it to be no Oath, l?ut what, may be horiefti ly taken without interfering with our Lord's Pro, hibition. The Author of the Eflay above-menu, tioned (as confident of the contrary) writes ano ther Epiftle, entitled, Primitive Simplicity, 8cc. Wherein, though he owns it may be taken as di- , reefed by the Spirit, whereby it becomes no Oath, he affirms and proves it is one, as practifed with-! out fuch Direction 3 in confutation whereof, the whole Sanhedrin of the Second Days Meeting prints another Epiftle to the :Quarterly Meetings, wherein, for want of Courage to attack Primitive Simplicity in its fubftantial Parts, they pretend, the Author has fadly wronged them in the Preface to it, about the Word Extrinficli. In Confequence of all which Up's and Down's, one Party of thofe pretendedly unerring Ones prays the Parliament to renew the Act that en- joyns our Subrriimon to it, whilft the other as' ear- neftly folicits them to alter or abrogate it to all ends and purpofes. Their old Friend Francis Bugg prints another E-. piftle, and prefents it to Parliament the Year a- bove-mentioned, entided, Quakerifim further expo- fed, wherein he proves fome of thofe pretendedly infallible Ones Lie, others Swear, others Lie and' Swear, and others Forfwear themfelves (ip evi dence of their not being to be credited on their . ' foiemn Affirmation, as they call it, and much left on their bare Tea and Nay without it) to their moft intollerable Confufion, Wherefore as they wpuld he but in an indifter rent Cafe, if our Superiors fhould be pleafed tP grant them their Requeft, ip enabling, the Punifh ment of Liars to be the fame with Falfe Swear ers, fince they might from hence have juft caufe to fear, the generality of their Brotherhood would foon become Earlefs. I muft remind their prefent Prefident George Whitehead (with the reft of his depravad Collegues of their faid Meeting,) That as their Adherents are moft grofly confounded, &nd cpnfound. one another in all their feveraf Meetings Confusion. 20 1 Meetings in England, &c. through their officious . Offery of this their Affirmation, to be enacted as a ftanding ftinted Form for us to be fubject to in Courts of Judicature, as afore-noted. They alfo moft ftrangely confounded their laft Yearly Meet ing in Anno 1713- by their Pro's and Con's about it 3 wherein, as I am told, one affirm'd it To be no ' Oath, according to his Light within, and therefore de clared he could take it byway of a ftinted Form in te- rene Cafes when-ever called to it, in Reverence to thofe our ancient Friends, quoted in their Epiftle, who firft offered and prayed for the allowance of it. Another afferts, In the Prefence of the Great God, who was Witnefs. of his Sincerity, that as he was livingly '' fenfible it was an Oath, or what was equivalent to one, he could not for Confcience fake Jubject to it, what ever he fuffered for his denial of it. In way of Reply to whoirj, another cries out, Hey ho ! Here's mad work, indeed ' Here's this our Bro ther takes one Affirmation to deftroy another. In defence of whom another loudly cries out, It is an Oath, it is an Oath, away with il, away with it for Truth fake, I can never endure it, my very Life and Soui furges againft it ; with much more to this purpofe. Whereby, as the faid Meeting was irreconcila bly divided, one part declares themfelves zealous for the Continuance of it, whilft the other as im patiently preffes their Proteftations to be entred on Record, as their ftanding Teftimony againft it,; through which, as both Parts were more deeply than ever involv'd in Confufion, fo how ufeleft foever Oaths ('as well as Laws, Orders and Ex hortations, all Which alike come off, or becaufe of Evil, by the Quakers own Confeffioh) may be allowed amongft Chrift's true Followers, with refpect to their own proper Service, who are by his holy Unction preferved beyond the rieceffity of' them 5 as well as how Unrighteous foever they are as ufed in Communication; or as im- pofed in way of ftinted Form in all Cafes of Evi dence in Courts of Judicature, according tp our depraved Quakers encouragement in dieir Petitions jifpre-nptifj^, 4? ?.Q2 Confusion. Since as As they are all ufeful Expedients in their Places," thofie formal notwidiftanding, I' muft take the liberty to tell 0"ths have thetfi, They will never be able to extricate them- not tbat Re- fe]ves out 0f their Inconfiftencies in this refpectj1 TfulT'lo (as wel1 as Ehac of Defenf»ve Arms) «H *«Y (w»* duce not the tne ancient Chriftians) acknowledge that Religious effeft of Re- Oaths may be talsen,' to end Strife betwixt Man ligious ones, and Man, (as well as Righteous Laws executed as the Qua- with the outward Sword to fupprefs Wickednefs) kers have by true Chriftians, where it cant be done with- had opportu- out them, according to Scripture Prophefies and. wity to ob- the Apoftles. Precedent,, lev their Fox, Pen and ferve, in the Whitehead: (with the reft of their depraved Col- Cafie of their Wues) pretend what they will to the contrary. Friend Mi- ° ' r ' ' ¦ \ - * chaelRufTel; who having in their Grace-Churdy-Strecc Meeting^ Houfe religioufly forfworn himfelf, by declaring, That if bepre^ ferred not Jerufalem before bis chiefefV. Joy, then let his Tongue. cleave to tbe Roof of bis Mouth, and bis Right-Hand: forget its Cunning. Wherein, as be was known to do otherwife, G,od was pleafed to anfiwer his Prayer with a Vengeance, by fh-iking Ijiiq •with Death on tbefipot, as a. perpetual Warning to all fuch prefump- ' tuous Prefiumers, in defence of this my Chriftian Diflinftion, tb£\ Authors of our Second Days Meetings Epiftle declare1 therein -,'they can't allow of. Viz. Herefy ,.,,,, Thus whilft our Englifh Quakers are confounded and Hatred, at this rate, about thofe feveral Matters, amongft Account of manv others, (who have the beft Advantages to" great Divi- reguiate themfelves) 'tis, the lefs, wonder to find C°nS' s of ^t\r Penfthfinian Cplfegues moft ftrangely confu* three1 vari- ^ m the'tf; Defences, frqm their old, Friend George ous Judg- ' faith's feveral Charges pf this Nature againft ments a- them 5 the Account whereof being more than or, gainft G. dinary Divertive, as well as Inflictive, I thought JCeit'h, and to have exhibited at large, as I find it related in G.Keith Wthpfe feveral printed Books inftanc'd inthe:Mar<, peter BofsS giP, amongft Others 5 but upon a confideration of Trial and tne Difficulty pf the Task, on account of the Oh. Narrative, ligation it laid me under to tranfcribe the whole **' f m.\ -. Books, pared with Thomas El wood, JohnPentngtpni Samuel JenningsJ.«»till they finally wearied him not only of their Society, but alfo of this our Englifh Nation too 3 who fox that Peace-fake he could not enjoy amongft thofe pretendedly Meek, Innocent and Harmlefs Ones,1 , . • by1 all his Prayers and Tears, was forc'd to feek his Bread, where he found his Grave, in a Foreign Ifland j on Whom his.truly honourable ;ahd ever worthy Supporter Robert Rich, who deeply fym- pathiz'd with him in his Sufferings (as well as his Predeceffor J, N) defervedly bellowed this fol-, lowing Epitaph upon him, in Anno 1676, fome. time before his bodily Dilfolution, entitled, In Memoriam Johannis Perotti. Sweet rbas thy Voice, and ravifhing thy Strain, Thy Silver Trurnpei founded" not in vain; In vain did ZipnS Enemies we fee Labour by Cruelties, to ctnquet thee j Patience and holy Zeal did overcome The Cruelties of Antichriftian Rome ; Thy Sufferings therefor Truth, what Tongue can tell .J The Zeal GoU gave thee, few do parallel j In ShiioS holy tnkj, thy learned Pen Was dipp'd, which ravifhed the Sons of Men : When thy fair Fabrickj fall'n, if ere I come, TU drop fome Tears upon thy honoured Tomb; -Thou Heaven-born Seed, bleft let thy Memory bet The Love of Men, and Angels honour thee. Thus as the Lord was pleafed to raife up our ancient Frjends, to difcover a perfecuting Spirit as the Quinteffence of divers concealed Corruptions in great Pretenders to Liberty and Property in Oliver. CromWel's Time, by their confcientious re* fufal to put off their Hats, or bow their Bodies in Token of Subjection to perfecuting Minifters, &lc. of proud Hawk's Nature, according to holy Mor- decai's Worfe ihto Turkifh Tyranny. Soa ¦+ . -* , ... , . . „ decafs Precedent, and our. bleffed Saviour's Chri- Efther 3. it "ftian Doctrine, in thofe feveral Texts iri the &c. com- "Margin, pared with t- ..-;:<«¦• Mat. 21. i64 , ;¦-,..' John 5. 44. and 12. 43. When thofe our Leaders "came to be fo far de- See FoxS praved, through their furious purfuit of their Fox's feveral Pre- Hurricanes, as tp forbid us that practice towards fef'pfi ons in all in general, under the penalty of our Exclufion his Si-left E- from Church Communion',', contrary to Scripture t'J;lfsl, 8£: Precepts, our own ancient Principles, and Chrift's ™?™G- K\s Saints and Martyrs Chriftian- Precedents in all *& l™f//Z Ages: It is no great wonder, that the Lord fliould Ground of in like manner raife tip Witneffes amongft us, to Surmifes. detect the fame Spirit of Perfection in them, by Compared their confeientipus refufal to put off their Hats, by with Gen. way of Formality* when they prayed, that the 23. 7. and Faithful might fee, how ill the Depraved were a- 33. i, 2, j-. ble fo bear with that Noncohfoftnity in, their own L'evit. 19. 1 j„ Friends, they had fo loudly exclaimed againft the Deuc- i- 17- Impofition of them in others 3 of which our long and l6- J?- mournful and truly confcientious (though- their1 Sam- a** greatly abufed) Friend Ifaac Ptnington is my next 1Ji. Evidence. 2 Kings 1. 14. and 2. iy. and 4. 37. Efther 8. j. Dan. 2. 4S. Mat. 18. 29. Luke 14. 10. and 17. 16, and 8. 41. John 11. 33. Lament. 4. 16. ' Who being confclentioufly concerned to write See the fiaid certain Queries to thofe our Apoftate Impofers, in Queries-, as behalf of John Perrot s Caufe againft them, (where- cited p. 6%, in he declared, The Power of God was upon him for°fT^anny his better Affiftance) they never left perfecuting his a/d,yL0Cj!* greatly bowed down Soul with their bitter Cen--^; !^eJ &res> under the Notion of Church Difcipline,un-TO^v?tfgi "ithey had made bim (as they did our Friend John t0 p.i'z. of 10k alfo in effect,) - publickly acknowledge,- The -tys Pens ing came of the Devil, and the End of the PoWer Judas and ¦upon him i(he fpeaks of) was to lead him againft' iha' tbe-Jewscom- ^SpiriiVerrot was dBed by 3 had he undeiftood the bined, and Signification of it, though as Perrot declared, H: the Account impofed not his Practice as a Duty on others, as they of the Life of ; 0 '.-.-¦ ^yJ-P^y^11. 2 1 6 Worfe tLh Turkiili Tyranny. did his leaving of it, fi he did nought in it but what the Lord required of hirn ; fo trarifcendent is their Church Tyranny to their enflaved Vaffals, when acted under pretence of Tenderpefsj 'above Tur- , kffh bodily Torture 5 Ms that they have thereby fubjected thofe with eafe to their impofing Spirit^' the other never could conquer, as appears by this Inftance of bur Friend ifaac Penington, with others that follow. See the fame For not to relate all the Tyraririical Effects of as in part their Spiritual Barbarity, treated of in the Trea- recited, p. tife entitled, Tyranny and Hypocrify detefted. The 40, &c. of next Inftance I fliall communicate in proof of this the fetid Ty- ^y charge, is the Cafe of our ancient, arid once ranny and weI1 efteemed Scottifih Friend John Swintoh, who ¦v^"e"-j' being confcientioufly concerned, to declare to* us; '•witbi 10 ^ an Epiftle in Anno 1664, what the Lord had cf the' Ac- made known to him concerning our Leaders theri count of the growing Depravity, (confbnant to the Contents'of Life of John another he had wrote four Years before,) he there* Penyman. in fays, J have feen the Anger, Fury and Indignation ofi the Almighty God, ready to break, forth into a migh- ty Flame 3 yea; the Leaders, many of them, not ftanM ing clear herein, (meaning as to outward Thing"! IfraelS Wound lies deeper in more Spiritual and In ward, and therefore the more incurable : Pride, Con* ctitednefis. High-mindednefs, Love of Dominion, Sel- fifbnefs, an exalted Spirit, and an itching Mind, to declare Words in and above the Seed of the KfngiwA, hath deeply entred Ifrael 3 yea, the Leaders, the Lea ders 3 with much more to this purpofe 5 which their Luciferian Spirits being by no means able to bear from him, they forthwith impofe on him to Condemn his faid Chriftian Teftimony, with the Spirit that therein influenc'd him : Which he was fo far from, when they firft fqueez'd his rightly fenfible and truly confcientious Soul, t>y their op- preffive Church Cenfures in order to it, as that he not only declared, His faid Epiftle was writ in the exprefs Motion of God, and in his manifeft Leadings out of and beyond .all Thoughts and Reafenings 5 but thdt the Lord was therein with him in all hisRecourfes from iv Worfe than Turkifh Ty ranny \ 5 i i] from his own hired Houfe, through Northumberland Biftooprick, Yorkfhire, Liricolnfliire, Norfolk, Suf folk and EfTex to London, for which Caufe he was there again, to acquaint Friends; That it was juftified in every Tittle of it, fo: as that he could not retract itf ,„ — orjhe leaft Syllable of it, or deny the Spirit in which it was written, fince he (hould be rebellious to his Light and Life if he offered it ; with much more to ' this pUrpofe. Upon which they falling on to per- fecute him moft unmercifully, by repeated Show ers of their Church Thunderbolts, in order to his Exclufion 3 under pretence of God's Honour and his People's Prefervation from his Delufion 5 which he riot longer able to bear, through his Lothnefs B-ehold the ro be eafliier'd their Society, (which they fet forth Effefts of , as the only true Chriftian one,) finally fell under ferfaking the their perfecuting Fury, in retracting his laid Pa- tpuCatbo- per, and judging the Spirit in which it was writ- fJl^a'K *, ten, according to their ungracious Injunctions, (di- °J , rM ' $ f ectly contrary to God Almighty's exprefs Requi- ^-,£ « 'p^rfi . ring; and his own declared Duty) under pretence, under any -, That the Child might not be divided, nor the feamlefs di ft ingui lb- Coat rent, through his Chriftian Ccnftancy, to that his ing Cba- s pretended Friends irreconcilable Difunity ; little drearn- rafter, ing, he made way for thofe very Confequents he whereby, as .hoped to avoid by his fcandalous Conformity, to a four Spi- the .high aggravation Pf his Tormentors worfe than rit of Incba- Turkifli Tyranny; and out great Confufion, as hath rity coines *'* iince been found by Experience. bl "dvtntjd . ' ? • , ' r as Holy Zeal for-ReligioHi it cali be no fiirprize to truly fenfible Souls, that Ty\ rannicat Impofition fhould naturally attend it. For thofe our London Lords, being about this time not a little perplexed with divers Teftimonies of -this Nature, . agairift' their, then growing De pravity 3 upon account of their Fox's Exaltation ; to the no fmall Impediment of their; impofed U- niformity, and new-forg'd Innovations 5 they, iri prdento filence their Opponents, and; ftrengthep themfelves more effectually, in the Poffeffions their ^ y „ou^ faid Apoftle bequeathed them, in his affuined Hie- u*, «. 311* ' rarchy*' fet forth a Teftimony, as they call it, from , r ' r.xi O i their 2is Worfe thin Turkifh Tyranny. See tbe fame t^eir General Meeting, fighed by George Whitehead^ ¦ns cited at Jofiah Cole, Alexander Parker, John Whitehead, Tho- ' targe in mas Loe, Stephen Crifp, Thomas Green, John Moon, Geofry Bui- Thomas Briggs, James Parky and Richard Farnfwortht \oc\n'sTefti- met together at London in the 3d Month 1666, to mony againft be communicated to the faithful Friends and £1- the ¦ Quakers ders'vn. the Countries, by them to be read in thew falfe Do- feveral Meetings, and kept as a Teftimony ampngft Urine, ' Further defiring, th#t faithful and found Friends and all ~_ Brethrpi * from time to time, may have the view of t^r! being. 'fuch Things as are printed upon Truths Account (as condemned " formerly hath been ufed to be) before they go to the by them as Prefe. unfound By all which, with other Impofitions of the Apoftates, fame Nature, in their faid Paper of Orders, i3c and Hea- rhough they doubted not to have enflaved us irre- thenifh h- trievably, and fecured their affumed Government-A*1^-. uncontroulable : yet they found themfelves mifta- Who would ken. in both refpects, as will appear by that Chri- e^ffr ,ave, ftian Qppofition they met with amongft us, where- tff"$ **¦ **** in their Oppofers had not wanted their Reward,^^^^" had they alike ftood the Torrent of their veno- f,ers (Jjfc - " mous Impofition, as fome few (who came nobly TOiy/ 0fRe- forth againft them, as Perfons refolved to Con- flection op quer, or perifh in the Encounter) I muft confefs, the Romifli did not, to our no fmall Difconfblation, as will Churchx cry- appear by thefe following Inftances I am obliged ed out% A-! to remind my Reader of upon this frefh occafion. tafe '¦ w*° In purfuance Whereof kn flW* *">* "¦*•¦. . that loves not to be blind, that the Church amongft tbem is the Priefthood, tbe O 3 Jev 214 Worfe thin Turkifh Tyranny. few cunning Men govern tbe Majority, and entitle their Coneeifn the Canons of Chrift's Church ; and all this comes from the Igno rance and Idlenefs oj the People, that give the Pride and Induftry of the Clergy an opportunity to effeft their Crafts upon them) in p. 1 1 J. of Addrefs to Proteftants, fhould, by imbodying themfelves as our Church, have fio long gull d us, by magnifymg their Conceits for Chrift's Holy Ordinances, through our Ignorance and Idlenefs^ in not ctflling them to Account fooner for if ; of which NegleQ, fince they have thus forewarn'd us, how Ignorant and Idle foever others of our Friends may be, fin giving them opportunity to purfue thofie their Romilh Crafts upon them, 1 hope 1 fhall take fiuch care to expofe the fame, as ftiall leave them no juft caufe for to. .com plain of me. See the fiaid Our fincere hearted and once greatly admired G. B.S Pro- Friend George Bifhop of Briftol, is firft to be no- phetuk Te- tified, as he was' the firft that cried out aloud, in ftimony, as. ^e Name of the Lord, againft this Rbmifh Paper cited p. 34. q£ Article's as an Innovation, which, if the Day d^fi -h'^ J)°ould prevail, or thofe Things it feems to hold forth crifv deleft- ^n^ enforce> he declared, he had no other expectation' in thofe Books in the Margin amongft o- j0j,n story thers, tp their Impofers no 'fmall, Mortification 3 revUi'd, Sec. as 2 1 8 Worfe, than Turkifh Tyranny. as that they fell on to perfecute them Tooth and Nail, by forged Certificates, flanderous Accufatii pns, grofs Lies innumerable, ftoppages of their publick Teftimonies, and repeated Threats of their, eternal Damnation, &e. whereby as they wound-1 ed the Soul of the one nigh to Death, their re nowned Prophet Eccles told the other in his Sick- nefs, This was the Word of the Lord to him, That he fhould die that Tear, bepaufe he had taught Rebellion^ t againft him, in order to the Deftruttion of his Body ; which being proved a falfe Brbphefy by his living prefervation tome Years after, they, to fhew their • ill Refehtment of their prophetick Difappointment, next proceeded to exclude them out of their Com munion, in order tp their Souls Deftruction 5 and then forbad thofe that joyned with them in their Teftimony againft that Spirit of Oppofition, To make Bargains with that which is out of the Truth, as they call it, or Reafon with it, by entring in,io Propo-' fills or Articles with it ; but feed it with Judgment^ till they anfwered by Condemnation, Sec. !l Through which barbarous Treatment, as they moft Tyrannically harrafs'd the one all his Lifd they gready grieved the Spirit, oppreflively reti! the Soul, and finally pined the Body to Deattfof the other, according to their own profefs'd Friends; Relations in thofe Books afore-mention'd, in fork ther proof of this my Charge againft them. • * Whereby, inftead of bringing their profecuted Friends John Wilkjnfon und John Story's Chriftian Teftimonies. under the Feet of their Perfecutors George Fox and George Whitehead's Antichriftian Ty-si rannies, as their flattering Prophets predicted^ I am well fatisfy'd, that the Day is dawr'd, "their true, Friend J. Ranee fpeaks of in his Prophetick Tefti-i mony concerning them, wherein he truly tells us, The Georges both muft be brought down, , And to the Johns muft veil the Crown, , For they have long abufed them, t By Tongue, by Writing, and by Pen $ Bin Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. 219 ¦. But now the Day ef Trouble's come, And they muft reap what they havefown$ Evenftr let all Impofers fall, WiSbfe Brethrens Confcience would enthral. In order to which juft Judgment I muft tell them, Whiteheads That as they have greatly aggravated their Crimes Judgment of this Nature, by their barbarous Treatment alfo fix'd. of our truly worthy Friends John Ranee, Charles Counterfeit Harris, John Hog, John Lyeth and John Cox, ^.Convert. mongft many other of their Chriftian Monitors, ^a.ndilandS in thofe their Books and Papers inftane'd in the y'tfi*e°"s Margin, G?c. wherein, as they ftigmatiz'd them Pens'Alc'" with the odious Characters of Hymenes, Philothes, anjerp Alexander the Copperfimith, Devil driven, dungy Gods, State of Li- curfed, crofs, canker'd, feparate, treacherous Spirits, berty Spiri- betraying Judas's, &c. (in order to prepoffefs their tual. Adherents againft their confeientious Outcries of Judas and their Corruptions) fo when they could not by thofe the Jews means obtain their envious Ends, fo fully as they combin'd: aim'd at, they (according to thek afore-mention'd Compared devifed Scheme) proceeded to Excommunicate "lv,t/J thofe them out of their Church Communion, as Perfons^""* joyned in one with Heathens and Infidels 3 where--/? vera{ An~ by notwithftanding, being not able to filence thenv?";/ri" they fell on to pull, pufh, pinch and thruft them p s "' out of their Publick Mix'd Meetings, as Troublers^" "' i'of their Ifirael. Through all which, when they ftill perfifted in the difcharge of that Duty God re quired of them in their Innovations and Repre- henfions, they publickly told the World, That they were Mad, CrackrBrain'd and Crai^'d in their Intel lect's, in order to prepoffefs them againft their Chri ftian Difcoveries, and fet the Mob upon them to abufe them 3 whereby ftill not being able wholly to flop their Chriftian Teftimonies, whilft the Caufe of their Outcries remained unremoved. That they might come no ways fhort of fulfil ling the Divine John's Predictions, concerning their R\mifh Predeceflbrs, in hindring them to buy or fell, in order to their Impoverishment, they in Conformity to their Fox's Admonitions, Te make no * i © Worfe than Turkifh Ty ranny." no Bargains with that which k out ofthe Truth, as he called it5 made it their Bufinefs to diflwadefuch Tradefmen as they dealt with from further deal ing wirii them, in way of Merchandize, or other- wife j through Which, as they undid our ancient and truly honourable Friends fhomas K^ent, as well as Thomas Boyfe of London, amongft many other of their Chriftian Monitors, whofe greatly opprefled Souls and Bodies, with their diftreffed Families, SVe his Chri- cry aloud for Vengeance under God's Holy Altar .ftiftnQuaker, againft them 3 fo they finally ruined our truly wor- Part 1. p. thy and ever faithful Friend William- Rogers, once 71.tef.t3. a confiderable Merchant in Briftol, fot his early compared , Oppofition of their impofed Innovations, in behalf ¦with his Pre- 0f ' j0j,n Wilkjnfon and John Story's Chriftian Caufe fe"and againft them, as lie himfelf told me a little before £ r'th'o kis bodily Diflblution 5 in order whereto. they de- „ C'0r'l'is ' clared, That as Briftol fhould be an Anvil to beat up- Quaker s a on> *^e Trumpet of the Lord was founded to Battle, divided and the War was begun 3 they loudly cried oiit,: People .' In Come. up to the Battle, Curfeye Meroz, and help.tht • confequence Lord againft the Mighty. In purfuance whereof of which M- they furioufly fell upon him till they had ruined^ juftice, .'me him. > of his Cu- ftomers, of no fmall Note amongft them, declared in a Letter be • fent him upon his leaving off' to deal~with him, That as be was fa-;. tisfied bis (i. e. William Rogers) Spirit was a wrong Spirit, as hi, isas tbat there was a God, fio the Murtherers of Sir Edmund-beiryj on their Repentance, would fiooner bave found Mercy with God, than he the faid William Rogers would upon his Repentance of bis Oppofition, (meaning George FoxS Orders, and tbe Spirit he made them in) Jo damnably bad bis Foxonian Influence infatuated .them. [ See Chriftian Quaker, Part 7. p. 37. "! Whofe great Oppreffions, though he defired. to forgive, yet he could not but remember in his dy-< ing Expreffions, which are (as they were' taken "in Writing by a young Woman, on the 11th of the Month of March, Anno 1708-9, at his own re queft, when he was near expiring, (confonantto that worthy Chriftian Warriour Martin Luther, we read of in p. 838. of Fox's Atls and Monuments)'\ as follow, verbatim. M) ., Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny; 221 My heavenly Father, I earneftly pray thee, in the. Name, and for the Sake of thy Son Jefus Chrift, that. thou wilt pardon all my Sins, and take me out of the Body to reft in Peace with thee ; and forajmuch as ma ny have been guilty of divers Anions, whereby I have been wrong'd in my outward Eftate and Subftan.ce, the Confequences whereof have been injurious to many di- ftreffed Families, as fSell as my own, I leave it to the Lord; and as I have no Envy in my Heart to any one% fo I believe the Lord will fe preferve me to the laft Mo ment of my Time in this World ; and there is an Evi-. . dence thereof to me, that I forgive every one that hath done me wrong, and do defire the Lord, if it tend to his Glory, may do the like. Thus this our truly worthy Friend, as he faith fully ferved the Lord and his People, by his un wearied Travels for their Welfare, whilft' on this fide the Grave, fo he forgot not thofe in his Pray ers at his Death, who had in his Life-time fo.bar- baroufly ufed him, by their attempts of his Fa- mifhment, in order to expofe him to fuch a lin- gring Death, as far exceeds the expeditious Flames of Turkjfthfyranny, according to the Bifhop of Sa- See tyfif^ lisbury's iRelation 3 which, though bad enough, is #, o/$alis- ftill far fhort of that they act upon us, under pre- buryS Pre tence of Chriftian Tendernefs, byway of Church face to his Cenfure 3 whereby as they have made many a- late Pajloral taiongft us lead a Life worfe than Death, by fting- Care, well ing their bowed down Souls to the quick, in con- worth Obfer- demning the Holy Spirit that infiuenc'd them in nation. their Chriftian Teftimonies againft their Corrup tions, for the Devil's Inftigations, fo our ancient, truly honourable, and ever conftant Friend John Penyman of London, is a pregnant Inftance of this my Charge againft them. Who, as he was one of the Lord's Hidden Ones •from his Profecutors Vulturous Eyes, under a cou ple of fignificant Clouds of God's Indignation a- gainft their blafphemous Books 3 and renewed Tenders of his unlimited Love to the fincere of all Societies, on account of thofe pretended Perfecti- onifts abufe of it 3 they made him the conftant ' ~' "'" Object 22 a Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny." Object of their unbounded Fury above forty Years' fucceflively, for his Chriftian Reprehenfion of their Few's Apoftacy, Hypocrify and Blafphemy, till the ; Lord in pity to his long, mournful and greatly op- , preffed Soulj was gracioufly pleafed by Death to remove him out of the reach of his unwearied Troublers, into thofe bleffed Manfions of Light and Love they fhall never enttV without true Re pentance and timely Amendments whofe fuffering Cafe, as it is. more than ordinary Inftnictive, I think my felf obliged to give fome account ofthe firft Caufe of it, as more largely exhibited in the Account of his Life, well worth our univerfal pe- f ufal j wherein we are inform'd, That he manifeftly finding a great Apoftacy in our Leaders, Who, after they had fo induftrioufly decried all Forms, (in, preference of the Divine, Power that brings beyond them,) degenerate into, Set thejaid meer Form* in fetting up George Fox in the place' Account, p. °f Chrift, to be bur Lord and Law-giver j he, y. with fome other fincere Followers of Chrift, left. them iri part about the Year i666j and ufedmuth to retire into the Fields by themfelves j notwith ftanding as to Works of Charity and fuch good Offices, they ftill frequented their Civil Meetings, and flood by them iri their Sufferings, and fuffered^ with them • till ambngft other Differences about their outward Affairs in the Years 1661 and 1662,, one material Thing was, with relation to the Books given to Parliament about their Sufferings, where in they printed many falfe Relations 5 which, when he and one John Ofgood, with fome others', ¦ had info, mation of, they being greatly troubled at fuch Things, acquainted the Mens Meeting* about outward Affairs therewith, telling them, What a fad Thing it was, for fuch as pretended to be guided by the fame Spirit the Scripture was written^ to publifh fo many Lies as had been dene to the Par liament ; which caufing very great Debates a- mongft thofe pretendedly unerring Ones, for fe veral Weeks together, which reflecting on George Fox and one Ellis Hooks, the Orderers of thofe Matters* •-. Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. a a -j Matters, an Ancient g»/»fer, and zealous for Georgiwhich Any i. Fa*, told them, That he being the firft Promoter and dent' Quaker Manager of Friends Sufferings, they ought «tf to be I doubt, was , taken out of his Hand, contrary ro the Opinion of thee George John Penyman and others, fenfible of his Infuffici- Whitehead, ency j whereupon Gilbert Laytie and Gerrard Rp- the better to bertt, with one Amor Stoddert, three principal lead-°^<"'» thy ing Quakers, and great Admirers of Fox, kept him "fumed af- flill in the faid Imployment, to the great difiatis- cende mcy <><¦ fiction of others ; amongft whom this our Friend vfr. *s> *"" John Penyman, who feeing George Fox's Honour and J* , ox * Will might be prefer'd before them, in a Matter ^the'whe I they had been at fo much pains to rectifie, broke w;thin the forth into thefe Words, I have notjorfaken my Kjn- u^heel that Ared, my Acquaintance, and the Glory of this World, ever guided for Truth and Righteoufhefs fake, to come and uphold all our Mif- Iniquity amongft our felves ; and fo departed, intend- fortunes, tis ing never to go more amongft fuch Hypocritical bath been Pretenders, and horrid Apoftates, as he had found found by them. Experience ; fince as Fox »/ bimfelf was a moft infignificant (though well-meaning) Tool, 1 doubt not, but. he might ha-i'e been reclaimed firom his Errors, by tbat Chriftian means thofie our Friends ufied for that end, had ft net thou, George, ftrengtbned bint therein, by thy officious Defenses, under pretence, tbat thou couldjl defend his Caufe better than he himfelf could, as afore-notified ; for which, the Time is near, Ceorgej when thou muft anfwer to thy fidrrow, I doubt not, unlefis prevented by thy fpeedy and publick Repentance. But being upon account of his Priches and Ho- nefty prevail'd with, by his Friend John Ojgood, ftill to continue their Aflemblies, in hopes of their Amendment, through his religious Influence 5 he, inftead thereof, faw a great many more fuch like Practices, Which adding Affliction to his greatly af flicted Soul, caufed him, with John Of good andfome others, again to retire into the Woods near Han^ gers-Green, about three or four Miles from London* and there lament and bemoan thofe our Leaders fad Degeneration and Apoftacy, in giving up their Underftandings and Judgment to George Fox, not pnly in thofe outward Concerns, but alfo in thofe that $24 Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. thae were more Spiritual and Supernatural, which they are ftill fo far from being reclaimed from, as that they own and juftifie. themfelves therein, in p. 3, (3c. of their Epiftle of Caution, printed An no 1 68 1. compared with their Anfwer to that Chtirge,* printed the Year after ; notwithftanding all which, this their Chriftian Monitor (on whom they had begun to have an evil Eye before.) being loth to wholly forfake them, in December Anno 1660. weat^ to their Meeting in White-Hart-Court, where, af-' ter one of their Preachers had done, (he ftanding upon a Form,) had preferitly his Breath and Sen fes taken from him for about half an Hour 3 as he had alfo the Day after at Weftminfter Meeting- Houfe 3 from whence he the next Day went to Recount, p-. that pf Wheeler-Street, wherein he had a great Pain Ii, ia. all the while Jafper Ban was preachirig, which ceafed as he had done fpeaking. By the firft of which Signs, as the malignity ofthe Foxonian Spi rit they had let in for their Teacher was notably? denoted, fo the latter was a forrowful Omen of the Sufferings he fhould meet with at their Hands,; for his Chriftian Teftimony againft his Ufurpati-i ons, as appeared by the Sequel. For being about this Time at a Monday Meeting at Devonfhire Houfe, whilft George Fox was fpeak ing, he was forc'd to utter thefe Words, I am to proclaim the Day of the Lord, which is come to gather the Outcafis, and to cleanfe the Camp- pf Evil-Doers. -4 Which George Fox Owned to be the Word of the . Lord 5 not then fufpecting, but that he own'd him and his Fellow-Preachers tp be Minifters of Chrift. 14. Though, as this our Friend Penyman had then :; ground to fufpect the contrary, fo he had a ftrong ' perfwafion, that he fhould in a little Time be made | ro Speak or Act fomething, which fhould caufe the Quakers in general, to rife un as one Man ar | gainft him 3 and as he believed, fo it came to pafii and that in an extraordinary and wonderful man- * tier, upon the following Occafion. One Worfe than Turkifh Tyfahhy; £2$ One John Bolton bringing Him a Paper, erititled,' A Declaration from the People of Gpd called Quakers;' defiring him to go along with him to the then Mayor with it 3 but he finding thofe Words there in, That we have always paid our Taxes ani AJfeJfe nients, and other Gues and Duties, more than any Peo ple, according to our Abilities, was much diffatisfied Widi it> arid told the faid John Bottom, He knew it was not true, there beingfeveral Taxes which J;B. him felf, with divers others, eefufed to pay 5 for which caufe foe could neither own or confent to that Paper, or fteft ene-ftef with it. Which being told George Fox, as he fuppofed, he (with another Perfon unknown to him, who had fpoke againft him, and that Claufe in particular, in their Devonfhire Meeting- Houfe) was fent for to George Fox .at the Houfe of Edward Man without Bijhopjgate 5 Where hearing George Fox, and others, difcourfing about paying of Taxes, (3c when' they had done, he told them; He had femethingto lay before them, which had foiAe- time been the firiouS Exertife of his Mind, which teas this 3 I being, faith he, to fend out a Man to ferve in Thus early the Train d Bands, refufed, becaufe you difowned thofe did our Fox thai did, and yet paid the Tax of the Royal Aid, and begin fits that ef carrying on the War againft the Dutch 5 and Frror, and thofe I did pay, for you allowed and owned they ought *!" Impofi- to be paid 5 and I looking Upon it, thdt this Various tion thereof fraStice was not agreeable with Truth, fince itfiiemd °ff>tbers *" more juftifiable to me, to pay towards theTrain'd Bands ." -y \ * to prevent the then endanger d Invafion of the Dutch, ^ feems ' than thofe Taxes you allowed of, in as much as Defend frighted at five Wars are more allowable than Offenfiive. To which the King's George Fox reply 'd; & eft or at ion ,- That the Son paid faxes, and there is a State dbove wherein, as TaxeSj and if t Jhould declare all I know concerning this J. P. Taxes, you could not bear it 3 with iriore fuch lofty *»d others NPthirigs to the fame purpofe. followed , him through an implicite Bigotry; they, on the difcovery of its Inconfiftency with bis other Injun ftion, foon found caufe to repent of it,, as a Warning to, others againft it ; though our Foxoniahs are fiuch Fools as ftill to fterfiftin it, bow ridiculous fioever in its own Nature, or pernicious in its Confequence i £ All_ 226 IV&fe thm tui'kifh Tyranny. ' 'All which, as it was no Satisfactory Anfwer td the Argupient afore-mentioned, fo.it was very far from fatisfving this pur judicious Friend Johft Pe nyman ; whereby though George^ Fox and George , Whitehead were confirm 'd in, their late, created Jea- fo'iifie, That. he did not like of their Doings, i yet as. he was one ,of no fmall Figure in the World, with refpect to his. Riches and Honefty, they held theiri itching Hands off him for the prefent, though., it was not long before they and their Agents perfe- cuted him to purpofe with their venomous Tongues^ as an Introduction to their enfuing Abufe of his Perfon, as will appear by what follows. For George Fox and George Whitehead having pu| forth another Paper on the i ith of April, entitled, A Teftimony from the People called Quakers, wherej.] in they villifying. Major Cobbet and Mr. Bunyon^a Baptift Minifter, in calling the one Cobbet the Tay lor, and the other Bunyon the Tinker, with the like Reproaches to others ; and the faid Paper being , put into the .Hands of one Henry Stout, to carry. to the then Lord Mayor of London, in order- to -prepoffefs him againft what thofe Audiprs alledged; againft the Errors of the Quakers ; this our Friend?, getting a fight of 'it at. the Exchange, as Stout. paf- . fed along with it, fhewed his juft diflike of the .' fame ; upon which' J'ohnbfgood, with the faid^FfeM-, ¦ ry Stout, perfwaded him to go with it to George Fox> '¦' and- George Whitehead, then at Edward Man's with-. out Bifhopfgate, and defire them to flop and fup-. prefs it., with relation to thofe fcandalous Abufes . . in it, before it went further to our Defamation,:. Inftead of which, George Whitehead endeavoured to juftifie it, by divers impertinent Allegations,in order,' "to prevail on him to fign it. To this our aggriev'd Friend juftly replying, That it was below the Nobi lity of Truth. to give fcurrilpus Language, or reproacff . any about the Meannefs of their Trades or Employments^ as that Paper did ; George Whitehead took him up* . with great fharpnefs, in faying, He fhould mt exalt himfelf over Friends ; which adding Affliction to this their Chriftian Monitor's afore afflicted Soul, in a ' Senfe Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny'.' 627 Senfe of their fad. Depravity, he plainly'rbld hiirij That as Truth was his- Teftimony, he could feoner ceafe? to be, than fubferibe it, and fo departed with a fad and heavy Hearty beggiiig arid crying 'to the Lord, That he would roul birh in Infamy to his Grave, ra- t (,\ ther than ever fuch Things fhould come forth in his Name. After which, being livirigly concerned to' deliver divers Prophetick Teftimonies of their Downfal, in our Publick Mix'd Meetings 3 one having a Senfe of the Greatnefs of his Exercife, on Account of thofe our Leaders Apoftacy (againft whom he teftified, which he forefaw would center in Tyranny) was made to come to his Houfe and' tell him, That he had that to pafs thorough, Fire and io. Faggot would be little to him in comparifon of\ ' as he in p. 14. of his Several TraBs, declared he hacf found by Experience 5 as will he further manifeft on the following occafion. He being on the z%th of the 5*$ 'Month, called July 1670, required of the Lord, to pack up all the printed Books he had (amongft which were dir vers Volumes of our Quakers Writings) and carry them to one Mr. Bates of CornhiU ; it was fo or dered, that as he was going through the Exchange in his way, he wds to fit down arid. reft him, and order the Porters that carried the two Baggs of 1$". Books to reft them 5 one of which Baggs being - fill'd (efpecially towards the Top) with old News- Books, fo as that he faw no other therein, he de fired one of the Porters to bring him a Candle £"' againft .which time, he havirig taken out two or three Waft-Papers; orders the Porter to pour out, the Books about the Middle of ' the Exchange,] (there being theh: no Monument there) when ha- . ving put Fire to the Papers in his Hand, with twot or three of the News-Books, a- Man that -was1* fweepirig the Exchange was ordered by fome there to put it put, as he did accordingly, before there was to his apprehenfion a Quarter of a Sheet burnt 5 Upon which, as it was imagin'd by the; Quakers, that he would have burnt all the Books iti" both Baggs (as wfelf as their Quaker Books) amongft » . . . P z whichi $28 Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny* which was the Bible, directly contrary to his de clared Intentions by Word and Writing, they not dflly procured his bodily Imprifonment, but alfo difowned him, as one led by the Devil into thsif, t6, ifr %t, ruicked and mad ABion, as they called it, for which. jt, 33, ^i, he might come down, come down,' fince Lucifer might 5'> J3> *4» fab', might fall ; the Mouth of the Lord hadjpoken it 95, in, 131, by his Servant George Whiteheads with more to *4J» 1 S3, this purpofe. Upon the reading whereof, as he 160, 185, burft. £jrtjj jnt0 a vi0]ent Paffion of Tears for their 1I7' 1*0' fakes that wrote it 3 fo as foon as he could fpeak Compared t0 the %?¥' that brought him it, he faid Ii if •with his E- not enough for you to have reprefented me to be dtjttatt- piftle for ed, but you mujl aljo aceufe my Lord to be a Devil t tbe Higbeft It had been better for you that you had never been born, Vrofeffors, whoever had a Hand, or were concerned in this Paper 3 p. 6, &c. in a deep Senfe of their Blafphemy 5 wherein as'he Quakers was concerned more than ever to cry out againft Contr adifti- their moft deplorable Apoftacy in our Publick. Af- ons, p. n. fehiblies, (3c as a Warning to others 3 fo in de* Several fence of their perfiftance in it, as one publicktyj ra s'f- oppofed him for an unclean and pafty Spirit, ano- idp9't ther fell on to thrufl him, ' another to pufh hinV * . , f„„„ another to pull him, another ro punch him, and! ther with others to ftigmatize and abufe him, in calling him* Thomas El- A Companion with Renters ahd Whoremongers, a Blaf- woodS An-A fhemer, a Madman, Crai\dr Crack-brain d, Devil'tj^ tidote a- Drudge, Devifs Agent,. Devil driven} abfolutely di^ gainft Ro- ftracled, as he ufed to be when the Weather was hot 5 gersS In- with abundance more fuch vile Afperfions, as the j eft ion, p. natural Effects of their venomous Malignity 5 57> ©*<¦• whereby, as the. Sufferings they inflicted onfcis long bowed down Soul had been found worfe to him than Fire and Faggot, as had been foretold him, fo he found himfelf concern 'd to commemo rate the lame in bloody Characters in the Account , of his Life, as a pepetual Monument of their Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny, in further proof of this my Charge againft them. All which being occafioned by their, fuperftiticus Exaltation of their Apoftle Fox's Impertinences for Divine Verities, under the frightful Outcry of, Ah ! Hew dare you fay, '1 George Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny, 229 George Fox hath taken upon him to give forth Ms pire&iont, 8cc. when fo many are living Witneffes, that thofe DireRions have pyoceede4 from the 'Spirit ef God through him ? So thpy have been fo far from repenting of their barbarous Treatment of this, their worthy Monitor, as that they perfift in the like to others, as appears by their Antjchriftian Dealings toward our fincere and truly confcientious. Friend Richard Ranfam, of Norwich Charter Meet ing, in order to his Ruin ip Soul and Bpdy,# under pretence of prefervihg him 3 which riot being hi therto publifhed in Print, as the other is, I fhall exhibit an Account of the Occafion of it, and how they came to be/ baulk'd therein, as given me by the faid Richard ' Ranfam himfelf, amongft others of their Brotherhood, as follows, _ The faid Richard Ranfam being djfpofed by the) Lord (as he firmly believed,) to vifit Friends in London, in or about the Year 1700 3 when he came 10 Barnet had 4 more than ordinary Concern op his Spirit, with relation tp the Weight of his Ser vice When he came there; which was ijiade knowp ro him to be by way of Teftimony againft ou? Leaders Officioufnefs in ufiirping pod's Preroga tive, by joyning with the World, in chufing us Law-makers in their own Wills, according to their feveral feeming outward Intereft^ without his Dir vine Direction 5 together with their offering their devifed Affirmation to be enacted as a ftanding ftinted Form, to be tendered to us in all Cafes, wherein we might be called to give Evidence in Courts of Judicature, (3c. contrary to the Rules pf Truth, and their own ancient Sentiments. The firft of which Tranfactions, as they have often SteG.T-,,)\in. been forewarn'd of, in a more private way, hyCo^eff'on- Word and Writing amongft our felves, to no ef- ^°f?tef feet, he was concerned to reprehend them after a ™ Edward more publick one, in their mix'd Meetings of ^"aj *'* Worfhip, for their future Inftruftion 3 through. ^hjZnes which they were fo greatly enrag'd at him, as that NaylorS inftead of repenting of either, they firft dealt with Works. him iri their Meetings of Difcipline for his thus P 3 breaking 2 3P Werfi than Turkifh Tyranny. hreakitig out againft, publicity defaming of, ' andftmft, ' ting at, not only Friends, but their Miniftring' Bre thren alfo, as Perfons giving Way to the Spirit of the World, in creeping to Great Men, and going down to Egypt for Help, in baulking the Teftimony our ancient Friends fuffered for, with more to this purpofe ; in order to make him Condemn himfelf as publick- ly as he had expofed them : Which not obtaining the effect they airri'd at in his Conformity (through his not being to leffen any Thing of what he had deli vered, as he' told them) they proceeded to, dealjrith him after a more publick way, for his prefump- tuous Affront- of them,: in order to his final Exclu- on, by a long Letter they fent' to Tork. Yearly Meeting againft ' him 3 wherein, after they had (under pretence of Love to the bleffed Truth, arid \ great Tendernefs towards him ) advifed their A- s- gent John Taylor, and the reft' of Friends in Totkj j to admonifh him to return home, and preach ne more in his unreconciled State 3 fence (inftea^ of giving them fatisfaftion concerning his fiaid diforderly and dangi- roufly breaking- out againft -them) he declared, He could leffen nothing of what he had declared or publifhf ed amongft them :. They defired in the fame Dear f 'y fhefro~ 'Love and Teriderhefs'j That- if any Woman Friend or wh "Tears Friends', from London or Effex, travelled with him, 1, *? , they mivht in like manner admonifh them to return are about to ., J ,9 . . , .> ¦ ¦ . ¦- , .J .,..'.- , ¦ , devour us home aljo, it being contrary, to their Advice tliat they went with him 3 with riiore to this purpofe. Their horrid Impofition' and Hypocrify where- 1 in, though I Juftly detected in a Letter I fent them *' in anfwer to this of theirs he gave me, beyond their attempts to defend themfelves ; yet," as their defign to rnake him bend to their Wills, in con demning himfelf for doing what he believedwas his Duty", or exclude him out of their Cdmmuni- ; on, in order to his inward apd outward Deftructi- on if poffible, appeared imtriove'able'5' they never left pelting him with their Spiritual Thunderbolts, •¦* under the denomination of Brotherly Love, Friend ly Admonition, and true Chriftian Tendernefs, as their mariner is, till they -had made him give Jw- wich Worft than Turkifh Tyranny. gii 'wich Meeting fomething like, what, they aim'd at» though it Was not it, (no more than J. W.'s anil y. S.-'s was) as appeared by the Contents of it, as follow, verbatim; Dear Friends and Brethren, to whofe' Hands' thefe may come. T^Hereas I have been made fenfible,. that many have * taken Offence at fiomething I have offered in Meetings in way of Teftimony, I am forrowful that any Thing I have faid fhould be an Offence, to any faithful friend, and do truly defire, that if it hath fe happen i that fuch Fricvfts. would pafs it by ; and I do hope, that for the Time to come, I JhaH do nothing to grieve^ my Brethren, whofe "Unity I tenderly defire to be'pre- ferv'd in. At a Meeting in Nor wich the %d of the 3d Richard Ranfam. Month, 1701. This is a true Copy ofwlyit was delivered by Richard Ranfam at the aforcfaid Meeting, ' in a tender frame , of Spirit, as Witmfi our Hands ohn Cade, John Gurney, Samuel Drake, ohn Hunt, . John Fenn,) Stephen Anuis," ohn Manning, John Middleton, James Turner, 'ohn Fiddeman. Now as this was what pur faid oppreffe.d Friend found freedom to fignifie for Peace-fake, as well as to fecure his publick Teftimony ' and Perfon a- * See p. 8£. mongft. us unmblefted, as he told me 3 fo though ofbisAutho- it' fatisfied Norwich Friends, (as it wou.ld have all r"yn^df°' Others amongft us, were they really fo far from v'\ ?'?*%[' n > .?¦_'_.'; ¦' .,-_J ,• . which Chrift impofing on our Confciences as' that they rejoyce evc/ujej' nt when they find any fo tender as tp ftart at my the end of his Thing they have ribt a Senfe of the Service of, acr Examination cording to their Friend Peningtons * Pretenfions) 0f Grounds yet was it far from fatisfying his perfecuting Ad- and Caufes, verfaries- of the Second Days Meeting at London, &c. L-- - P 4 (not- Behold what Dear and endeared 232 Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny", f notwithftanding their pretended Dear Love, Good Will and Chriftian Tendernefs towards him) as appeared by their Minute in Anfwer to it, com municated to John Fiddeman by their Agents Bo- water and Langhorne, in an Inclos'd, directed anjl compofed, as follows, London, 23a? of the \th Month, 170 \. Dear Friend John Fiddeman, AFter Salutation of our endeared Love to thee and "£¦*- Friends, we have, by order of our Second Dap endeared Meeting, fent the Minute of the faid Meeting, in re- ove> ¦. en~ lation to Richard Ranfam, which thou art defired to. Pe ceable- communicate to Friends of Nprwich concern' d. "this nefs and being what* s needful from thy loving Friends, Charity thofe John Bowarer, * ^ ) our Apoftates Robert L^nghornei! • fiuff their 4. Papers with, 16th of the \th Month, 1 70 1. *'i C°Vm r A Ftl?er °f R^ard RanfamS received, which this Cruelt Wi- Meeting doth not efteem fatisfiaftory to them ; al li urban ce though Friends tenderly define his Reconciliation in the find Tyranny peaceable Spirit of Chrift, and that he manifefts it towards us, accordingly in Charity and peaceable Conversation upon our con-: herein, ficientious Nonconfer- Thus though this our poor oppreffed and truly mity ! confcientious Friend ftoop!d as near them as pofr fibly he could with a fafe Confcience, in giving them that Satisfaction Norwich Friends were con tent with, and they could in reafon defire 5 yet as he could not ruin his Soul eternally, by condemn-? ing the Teftimony, they confefs he told them^ He could leffen nothing of, through his firm belief of its being what God had given him to bear amongft them; thofe Mealy-mouth'd , Soul-murtheriog Miscre ants of the Second Days Meeting, were far from being fatisfied therewith, who aim'd at nothing lefs than his eternal Deftruction, by his forc'd Conformity through their Church Tyranny, ¦ un* d,er pretence of preferving him, had not Norwich Friends, Worft than Turkifh Tyranny. 255 Friends prevented, in a Senfe pf his Sincerity, (as A Drun- pur truly worthy Friend John Fiddeman informed hard, a me) to their no fmall Difconfolation. Through Wberemon- which perfecuting Difppfure, as thofe our pretend- Ser* "Thief ed Perfectionifts have exceeded the Sins of the and " M~~ '* Wicked in the Eye of the Almighty, in turning *££« hm put of the Throne of our Cpnfciences, by en- 10 „perretu throning themfelves therein, to the unexpreffible tinehuiker; Afflicftion of. many fincere Souls smongft us, who fince though have been concerned to cry out againft their App- thofe be Sins ftacy and Cruelty : 'Tis the lefs wonder to me, of a high that one Nicholas Comben ftiould (according to the Nature a- Precedent of the Man at Jerufalem before its De- gainft the ftruction) after a moft furprizing ,rate be often law of God, made to cry out in their Publick Meetings, A Woyetthey to you Quakers ! A Wo to you Quakers > And the Wi- ebitfls affeft dow Whitrow to ftand Dumb every firft Day, for *»e bodies a whole Year together, before them ia Sackcloth "f en' and Afhes 5 as a Sign that God would put all Flefh p»«l** j °jL. to filence among them, who declared, She could ^fnn\eai j„fi write a Volume of her Sufferings, by their falfe, lying p0fit ions up- and flanderous Tongues, which the Peifon of Afps had 0n Confci- been under. Through the venomous Malignity ence being whereof, as they have often ftruck our dear Friend Sins againft Ann Steed off her Seat in a Swoon, according to the Holy her own Relation hereafter notified j fo they have Ghoft, affefl not only actually wounded to Death divers other God himfelfe confcientious Ones amongft us, but alfo murther'd t0 the Damr Children unborn, by their Tyranny to their Pa- nat,on °f rents, for their Nonconformity to their Innova- :>ouls- tions, pf which I fliall give the following Inftances, jn lieu of many others that might be mentioned. The firft of which is the melancholy Cafe of pur well known Friend Thomas Stubbs of Homcafil* in this our County of Lincoln, who, for conde- fcending to his Daughter's Marriage with one of the Worlds Pepple, as they call them, contrary to their Few's Order in diat Cafe provided, was fp dreadfully rated by one Aaron At kinfon and others of his Fellow-Preachers, for this his pretended moft heinous Tranfgreffion,as that they firft wound-, ed his caufelefly oppreftfec| Soul, and then finally broke ??4 Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. broke his Heart, whereby his faid Daughter be came a Fatherlefs Child, and his dear Wife a moft diftreffed Widow, whom we are forced to relieve by our general Collections, to the high Infamy of thofe our Foxonian Impofers, and further Evidence of their Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny, according to this my Charge againft them 3 as an additional proof Whereof See their (To pafs by thofe feveral Inftances' of this Na- T?>enfa-' ture &• '^ugg- mentions in his Books againft them, s Tefi'~ . as what hath rendered them Worfe than Jefuits, ^tcTin Ir "' an<* mac*e tnem juftly odious, by fome of their BugwS Pit- own Friends Confeffipns.) * grtms Pro- Their moft ' deplorable Abufe of our Friend Ben- erefe, Sec. jam.cn Fowler, of Luis in Suffex, being lately decla red to me by one of their Brotherhood, is not to be pafs'd over in filence 3 who being difpofed to take a young Woman in Marriage, who was his Firft Coufen, according to the Holy Ancients Pre cedents, was (upon notice of his Mind therein) violently oppofed by our Preachers, (3c. in his Pro ceedings, on account of George Fox's Order againft them 5 whereby, as they found it impoffible to Confummate their righteous Intentions;, in taking each other in that Holy Ordinance, according to the Method practifed amongft us, and efteeming ihemfelves Man and Wife in the Lord (being loth to go to a Prieft, the Woman being a Preacher) they finally took liberty to' marry themfelves, by a foiemn Contract in private, without their Qua ker Friends Allowance 3 whereupon the Woman becoming with Child, fhe neverthelefs continued a Preacher amongft us, -till near the-Time of her Delivery 3 when being ftill defirous to avoid Re-> flections as much as poffible, by their being out wardly unjoyned according to our Quaker Method, both fhe and her Husband preffed moft, earneflly for their admittance to take "each other, as Man and Wife before them 5 which thofe our Pharifai- caSy Holy Ones ftill continuing to refufe moft im- moveably, according to the Doctrine of their Or ders Promoters, they a.t length fpund freedom to * confirm Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. 2 j f confirm their private Marriage before a Minifter of the Church of England, rather than difhonour .their Profeffion in being outwardly unmarried at all 3 which though they were alfo. provoked to by theQuakers Outcries^ Get you to a Prieft, get you to a Prieft, get you gone to a Prieft, if you will be mar ried, fince you fhall never be manried amongft us ; yet when they had fo done according to their Directi ons, they never left harraffing them by their pre tended tender Church Cenfures, (to make them Condemn themfelves againft their Conferences for their pretended Tranfgreflion) till they broke the poor young Woman's Heart, and brought her di- ¦ftreffed Husband into an irrecoverable Corifump- tioh, whereby they both periflied as Victims of t their Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny ; who, though sJefc^'s they pretend themfelves to be the only Meekj In- \f\J,r t0 nocent and Harmlefs Ones, that would not hurt a Worm, ao c on* are really the moft Impofing, Conjcience-forcing, Soul- murthering, tormenting Tyrants, that ever the Sun Jhone on. Wherefore, if they be Friends to Rome and not See their to [England, who perfecute for Religion and Con- Defence «- fcience, under any pretence whatfoever, as onxgt'mft the 'Quakers themfelves have confeffed 3 Norfolk . Then fince thofe pur depraved Ones have fliown clerSy-> P- themfelves Friends to Rome and not to England,16* &Cm by thofe their worfe than Rpmifh Cruelties, who' pretend to be fartheft from them 3 they have juft caufe to fear, that as all the Blood fhed from righteous Abel unto that of ^acharias, whom the de praved Ifraelites flew between the Temple and the Altar, was required of that Generation that mur- thered our bleffed Saviour, all fhed from the Time of his Apoftles, by the Scarlet-coloured' Whore of Rome, &c. to this our murthered Friends of Luis' in Suffex, will be required of them, and their de praved Collegues who were the caufe of it, by their unwearied Impofition of their Antichriftian Innovations 3 from which, as I heartily pray, fo I doubt not, but that the great God in whom we truft will iri his own due Time deliver us, as he hath %\i Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. hath, (by the Mouths of their perforated Moni tors, his moft faithful Servants) more than once foretold us, In the mean while muft tell them, That though thofe be bad enough, yet are they pot all the laftances I have to alledge ip proof of their Cruelty, fince as thofe only relate to fuch as are generally grown up in this World, to the State of Men and Women, I muft, according to my promife, in the next place remind them of fuch Innocents as they have murthered before they were born into it, through their moft inhuman Barbarities to their oppreffed Parents. In order whereto The Cafe of our Friend Jane Baily of Gloceftef, as fhe herfetf- gave.it me on tbe zid pf April An no 17 14, is a pregnant Inftance. Who being livingly concern'd to fpeak a few Words in their Meeting at Glocefter, by the Power pf God, as fhe inform'd me, one WWiam Maning* ton, with one Henry Ingley, and John Cox, amongft other of their barren Collegues, being uneafie* with aqy thing of Divine Life la whomfoever ic appeared, declared their Difunity with her Chri ftian Teftimony 3 which fhe notwithftanding, j at Times, being copfcientioufiy concern'd to deliver in their faid Meeting, by way of Admonition, (3c. againft their Depravity, William Manington, with pne Edward Humphreys, drew her out of the fame by force, in the Life-time of her Husband 3 who dying foon after, and owing a certain Sum of Mo ney to one Charles Cook, which this his poor Wi dow being not able to pay fo foon as the faid Charles Cook. L defired, thofe her Adverfaries above- mention'd, " put upon him to prefs her to get one bound with her for the Payment thereof within three Months after her Husband's Deceafe, and take a Counter-Bond of her for his Security ; which fhe giving him accordingly, with defign to difcharge the fame when due, by Sale of the Ef fects her Husband left her, they never left har- raffing her faid Bondfman, till they had prevail'd on him to fue his Counter -Bond before it was due, as Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. 2 J 7 as he did accordingly ; which driving her away from her five fmall Children and Native Country, to feek her Bread where fhe could find it, for Want of Ability to anfwer her Profecutor on fuch an unexpected Surprizal, they as falfly as wicked ly ijhereupon reported, She was run away with ano ther Woman's Husband, as a cover for their own Cruelty, and Obftruclion of others Chriftian Cha rity rawards her, in order to Starve her, as fhe had ground to believe, from their fuperior Barba rities preyioufly acted againft her of a Spiritual Nature 3 wherein they not only declared their dif- union with her Chriftian Teftimony againft their Corruptions, as afore-notified, to expofe her to thofe ruinous Confequents that too often attend their Exclufions ; but alfo run on fo far in their Pharifakal Fury againft her, as to declare, That as thofe they bound on Barth, were moft certainly bound in Heaven to aU Eternity, fo they, by virtue of this their Authority, affirmed, They bound her, ia brder to her delivery to Satan, to be by him tormented) to all perpetuity, for her prefumption. Through the Terror of which Sentence, the E- nemy of her true Happinefs fuggefting to her poor bowed down Spirit, That fhe was irretrievably chain ed down in a State ef Damnation, though fhe knew no juft Caufe fhe had given for it; the Imagina tion thereof not only made her Mifcarry of the Child her Husband left her with, to the Deftructi- 011 of her innocent unborn Infant, (as they had ferved one Sarah Perriu before her), but alfo full (even Years made her lead a Life worfe than Death, by bowing down fier caufelefly oppreffed Soul near to Defpair, under the dreadful Confe quence of their moft uncharitable Sentence j thro* which fhe had in all likelihood everlaftingly pe riflied, had not her bountiful Creator, in his great Mercy (for his Son Jefus fake, in whom fhe truft- ed) miraculoufly redeemed her from her Fear, by audably faying, as fhe wander °d by St.- Martins in Newgate-Street^ That tbe Quakers Vnity is out cf the Bonds ef Peace with me, faith the Lord; where by* 2 $8 Worfe thdn Turkifh Tyranny^ \sf, as fhe was iriftantanioufly made to leap up for joy of Heart in. the 'Street, fhe thereupon found immediate Redemption from thofe Chains of Darknefs they had,, through her implicite Bigotry;1 infolently affumed Confidence to bind her in. Li a deep Senfe of which happy Deliverance, as fhe ' ' defires to blefs and magnifie her. moft high and ho ly-Redeemer, whilft fhe hath a Being, fo I have no caufe to queftion, but fiich innocent Souls as fhe fliall fing his Praifes in the Land ofthe Living; when thofe unwearied Perfecutors. fhall mourn arid weep, through a forrowful Senfe of their own Confinement in thofe Chains of Darknefs they.pr'e* tended to bind her, if riot prevented by their fpee- dy Repentances; which they give us but fmall caufe ro hope for 5.. fince, befides thofe their Cruelties': chiefly, of a Spiritual Nature, which as thus exe cuted upon us by our pretended Friends, (in order to. our Spiritual and TemppralRuin) under pretence^ \ \ of God's Honour and our Prefervation, are much , harder to be. born .with,, than the bodily Torture of our profeffed Enemies, according to the Royal Pf.55.i1, Efalmift's Obfervatiori, and our fuffering Brethrens ij, 14. declared Experience, in proof of this my Charge, againft them 5 .yet would not I have any think^i that thofe our Spiritual Tyrants would not perfe- cute us alfo outwardly as well, as inwardly! worfe than the Turkjjh Sultan, had they Power to their Will for it,, fince we maty well conclude, Thar they would iperfecute our Perfons worfe than thofe" j j vile Mifcreants do, or ever did profefs'd Chri^' ftians, had they but Turkjjh Laws enacted in their ' favour, whilft they have inflicted fuch barbarous Cruelties upon us, as come not much.fhortof them, before they are furnifhed with fuch, to fup- port them 5 as I fhall make appear by the enfuing Inftances, as a fmall earneft of their further Aims as follow. In order whereto, Firft, . , Not to repeat their Inhumanities toward our an cient Friend and their Chriftian Monitor Thomas Boyfe of London, heretofore noted on another oc cafion. The Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. 239 '. The Cafe^of their greatly abufed Friend Robert Larrence, late of Harborough in the County of Nor thampton, fhall have the next place in my Cata logue of their perfecuting Cruelties 5 who as he was one that had an early Senfe of our Leaders growing Depravity, was as early concern'd to detect their Corruptions 5 upon which they (like thofe New-Englanders IJaac Peningtm fpeaks of, See p. 70. of who firft iraprifoned our ancient Friends, and then his Exami- prc/ceeded to Blood, to prevent their Chriftian nation of Teftimonies againft them) firft fell on to reproach Grounds and him in Private, and then to pull,,pufh, pinch and Ca"feest &c- otherways abufe him in their Mix'd Meetings in Publick, to prevent, if poffible, his Chriftian Out cries againft their Apoftacy, as will more fully ap pear by the, relation of their Barbarities towards him, as he gave it me. in Writing, at my now Dwelling-Houfe, on the 194& of the 6th Month, 17 1 1. in order to remind them of, for their better Inftruction, where he declares as follows. ' I being difpofedin my own Mind, as well as ' exprefly warn'd by our Friends called Quakers, ' ;to he at Northampton Quarter Meeting in Anno '• f7°7> about a Difference between me and one ' Thomas Vnderwoodin thofe Parts ; when I came * there, and after fome time of Silence, addreft ' my felf, to eafe my Confcience, in a fhort Te- '. ftimony for the Edification of the Auditors, the ' laid Thomas Vnderwood pull'd one Samuel Wright * of Wellingborough by. the Coat, to kneel down * tp Prayer, (according to their, late devifed Me- ' thod) in order to flop me, as he did according- ' ly j when. Wright had done, I flood up again, ' And after I had fpoke a few "Words, Edward Coo- ' fer ',of Northampton, with one Benj amen Bradfhaw, * and others, cried, Down with him, Down with * him ; upon which the faid Edward Cooper^ with ' his Accomplices, laid hold on me, and pull'd me ' down the Gallery Stairs, with my Head fore- ' mpfk* whereby, they hurt me fo againft the Rail i of the Stairs, as that I was forc'd to cry our, ' Wilt 40 Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny.* WiU ye Murther me ? WiU ye Murther me ? Where? upon one Batlin, an artcient Quaker, crying out,' Hey Day ! I little thought to have feen the Devil dance at this rate in our Northampton Meetings Houfe, others aflifted me j fo as that* amongft other Damages occafion'd by their Abufe of mef' one Quakers Coat was torn on his Back, and the Skirt thrown on the Floor j upon which, the Towns People hearing the Noife, cried, The Quakers are Fighting, the Quakers are Fighting, and came rttftring in to my Affiftance 5 where* ' upon they letting go their Hold of me, crying, We fhall have no Meeting hereto Day, I got li berty to ftand Up again, and fpoke feveral Hours to the Auditors great fitisfaetion, amongft wljpnv feveral Quakers would have ftaid, "but that the Malicious drew them out by force, to the great diffatisfactidn of the Sincere amongft us. ' After I had done, and grew cool, I felt the fad Effects of their Cruelty upon my bruited Body, through which I lay five Weeks in Bed helplefs, under the Surgeon's Hands at Harbo- rough, to my great Damage in my outward Con cerns, as well as unfpeakable Affliction j from which after the Lord my God had reflored me in fome meafure, I having nothing but Love and ' Good- Will towards my caufelefs Perfecutors, ofc rered Reconciliation to George Warner and Daniel Cattel, (two of the Worft of therri,) upon their j j acknowledgement of their hearty Sorrow for the Wrong they had done me 3 which they refufing,j ; ; I, as one hopelefs of obtaining Right amongft ;¦ thofe who had thus caufelefly Wrong'd me, found myfelf concern'd to bind them over to Northamp-^ 1 1 ton Afftzes, in order to obtain Juftice by Law, '"! not knowing whether ever I fhould perfectly re cover my Health again 3 before which, they ha ving a defire to withdraw their Recognizance* for fear of their Lives if I died of my Bfuifes* which yet there appeared fome Danger of, they got feveral Friends to requeft me to ceafe my Profeeution againft them 3 which I at lengtff ' contented Wotfe than Turkifh Tyranny. 241 ' coriferited to, upon their promife to pay thfe ¦''¦ Charge I had been at, in binding them j (I, fot ' Peace-fake, paying the Surgeon Ten Shillingsoe- ' yohd their Deferts or reafonable Expectation) ' however being fenfible, that Judgment was juft- ' ly due to them notwithftanding, in a Church ' way for their great Abufe. of me, as a Warning ' to others, I defired i. Hearing of the Matter ' before divers Country Friends, that came to .the ' Town where I dwelt from feveral Parts, for that ' purpofe , but inftead of admitting any fuch 'Thing, after they were freed from the Danger ' of the Law, my Perfecutors caufed the Meet- ' ing-Houfe Doors to be lock'd up where they ' were to meet, which obliging the Country ' Friends to go to anothet private Room in our ' faid Town of Harborough; they fent for' my ' Perfecutors to come thither,, in order to the Ex- ' animation of their Caufe againft 'me 3 which .they ' refufing to do, I defired the Friends to go. , to ' William Smith's Houfe, where one of my great- ' eft Oppofersjwas, and requeft him to. let me have ' a Hearing there 3 who with fome reluctanc'y re- ' ' plying, The Devil might come. if he would, (mean- ' ing me whom they called foj 3 my Oppofers re- f fufed them .a Hearing when they came, under ' pretence, That, as thofe Country Friends came ' not by their Monthly Meetings Direction,, ac^ ' cording to George Fox's Order in that Cafe pro- ' vided, they would not admit a Hearing of the '• Matter before them 3 to which they made an- ' fwer, That fince they would not admit them the ' Hearing defired, towards the ending t.he Difference ' betwixt us in Love, they would write four Papers for ' the JatisfiaElion of Friends in the four Quarters of the 1 Nation, to fighifie, that as they found nothing to lay ' to my Charge, they defired I might be lovingly re- ' ceived by Friends in all Parts, where I might be-con- ' earned to Travel in the Service- of Truth 5 as they ' did accordingly. Ar which my Perfecutors were ' fo highly enraged, as that they wrote to their ' Collegues in London, to oppofe me there and -' q : eir«- 242 Worft than Turkifh Tyranny. ' elfewhere, by fending as many Papers againft ' me, as the others had wrote in my favour 3 as .'; they did accordingly, upon the lying Accufation '• of one Peter Pea, that I had ftoll'n a Mare I had ' honeftly bought and paid for, without admitting ' me fo much as a Hearing before them at toy * defire, in order to my defence againft his moft ' horrid Abufe of me. So far is Juftice from be^ ' 'ing had from thofe our pretended Saintifh Friends, ' that are to judge the World, if they may be cre- ' dited, as that an Examination is not to be ob- f tained amongft them in order to it, how much ' -foever they pretend to it 3 which yet is not all ' the effects of their Enmity againft me. ' For not to notifie all the Abufes I have met '.with in England.-a.nd Ireland, through the means ' of their Circular Letters againft me, I cannot •* well omit to relate thofe I, in Anno 171 1, receive ¦* edfrom the Hands of their depraved Collegues,^ '-at the Houfe of one John Chantrey, within the ' Liberties of Bofton in Lincolnfhire, where being ' declaring cfae Truth, to the Auditors great fatis-; ' faction, two Spalding Quakers, amongft others,, ' fent by one Rpbert Collier (a certain dry Preacher ' of thofe PartsJ into the Room where I was, * they, after divers other Abufes (according to their, * Brother Poa's Precedent) charged me with being, ' a Cheat, who had not only chang'd my Name, anil; ' threatned to fire Houfes, but had got a Man's Mart ' from him alfe< fclononiaufly, for which the Owner- ' was in purfuit of me, who was a Vagabond, and de*- * ferved to be apprehended by an Officer, which woulf ' be fuch a good Deed, as that they could find in their * Hearts to fei^e me themfelves, in order to my legd * Profecution.; with much more to this purpofe: ' All which, as I knew to be falfe in fact^ and un- * deferved of me, fo I offered to prove the fame •' before impartial Perfons in the pretence of my ' Accufers, whenever they durft face me for that * end and purpofe. In Teftimony whereof I hereto' [ fet my Hand the ic,th of the 6th Month 171 1. Tefte Samuel Shaw, ' Robert Larrcwct. Henry Pickportb, That Wwfi than Turkifh Tyranny. 24? That the World may fee fomewhat of the Oc cafion, as well as more of the Effects of their un- chriftian Treatment of this their Chriftian Moni tor, as he himfelf" gave me an Accoumf of it fome Few Weeks after the foregoing Relation, 'tis ne ceflary to acquaint them, That one Thomas Vnder- wood, a noted dry Preacher of Farnton, being in formed of Larrence's difpofurC to dwell at Harbor- rough, where he commonly exercifed his Gift of Preaching, and fearing the Luftre of Larrence'i fam'd Teftiinony would eclipfe his dry Harangues, gladly made ufe of one John King's Whifperings againft him, (as nor being right in their Unity,) the better to carry on his envious Defigns of his Extirpation, for oppofing their Truth, as they call It 5 which Larrence having fome Notice of, went to this Vnderwood's late one Evening, to know what he had to charge him with, by bringing forth his Accufer,. 'whilft he was there to defend hiihfelf 3 which though he (according to our de- ptaved Quakers ufual Method,) was far from doing; under pretence of his being under Obligation by promife tP the contrary, yet he ftuck not to make ufe of his obfcure Author's Afperfions, to carry ori his above-mentioned Defigns againft Larrence, in order to his Spiritual and Temporal Ruin. Iri purfuance of which uririghteous purpofe, Inftead of manifefting that Chriftian Charity; they above all others pretend to, in permitting Larrence to lodge at his Houfe that Night, he moft inhumanly turn'd hint out of it about the middle of the fame, whereby he might have perifhed ins the Dark, had not a poor Woman (who happen'd to be up at the end -of the Town) unexpectedly entertained him. Upon which one Humphrey Woolrich, another Quaker Preacher of the honefter fort, happening to come that way, , Robert Larrence defired to have a Hearing ofthe Matter before him, to end the Differ rence in a friendly way, that true Love, if poffi ble, might be conferv'd betwixt them 3 to-whom one Examination, Vnderwood appearing the Aggreflbr, Q 2, Bum* 244 Worfe than TurkifhTyr'anny. Humphrey told him, He might confefs he had- dene Larrence Wrong ; to which he hypocritically an- . fwering, That if he had, he was ferry for it ; Hum phrey told him, He might drop his Iffs, and confeft he had: done the Wrong ; which he was fo far from, ' as that he refolutely perfifted in his inveterate 'En j mity againft Larrence, without the leaft fign of Re- morfe, as appears by the following Effects of it. For he and his Aflbciates being encouraged, in their perfecuting Defigns againft Ldrrence, by the fcandalous Precedent of their Northampton Friends aforementioned, lock'd up their Meeting-Houfe Doors at Harborough, to prevent any Meeting there,rather than Larrence (hould preach 3' which he notwithftanding efteeming himfelf confeientioufly concern'd to do, as he told me, ordered one of hii ; Servants to lift the Grave- Yard Door off the Hooks', that he might eafe his Mind there to the nume rous Auditors that came flocking to hear him, as j he did accordingly 3 which William Smith, a drun ken Quaker Wooicomber (one ef Vnderwood's A- bettors) hearing of, faid, to his perfecuting Cbm- rades, Wliat think.ye, Friends ? The Devil is got into our Grave-Yard, and is preaching to the Peoplij notwithftanding our -precautions. Another t\me,Rpbeit Larrence feeing theMeetingJ Houfe Doorsppen, went in, and finding this their drunken Brother Smith fitting there with one other Friend ; ,he, as foon as he faw Larrence, cries out, Waatc'ornefl thou hither for ? . Why deft thou not go to the Hellijh Crew cf Presbyterians, (3c. rather- than thus trouble usr ?-. Upon which others coming in; Smith rifes up, and tells them, Friends, the Devil is come hither to Day, wherefore we fhall have tuo Meeting ; and then goes forth and draws the reft with him, and forthwith locksthe Door wjth Lar rence within, and hires one John Irons to .hold the Bolt of the other Door within fide, to ,keep him from opening it to let the Towns People in 3 and after fome time, enters himfelf again,' and looks! Larrence in the Face, and cries, Now fhou Devil, preach to the Peft if thcu wilt, for we fhall all le&vt thee j upon which .the Towns People coming up, \ brought/* Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. 245 brought Gavelicks to break the Door, and call'd for Ladders to pull down the Houfe, faying, They had like to have murthered him at Northampton, will they murther him here ? Through the Terror oF whofe Menaces, Irons at length drew his Bolt, and let them all in 5 which his Quaker Adverfaries hear ing of, cried one to another, Friends, what thinkje ? Irons has opened the Door, and let the People in, and the Devil is preaching to them. Note, They had been at a Torkfhire Oftler be fore (who had murthered a Man) for to be their . Door-keeper, to keep this their Chriftan Monitor from amongft them, faying, We make choice of thee, as the only fit Man for this Service, hearing thou art a rough. Fellow 3 which he, as bad as he was, re futed notwithftanding, through a Senfe that it was a Fighting againft God, as he afterwards' declared, to their no fmall difconfblation, Thus all their Devices of this Nature not effect ing- their envious Ends to purpofe, they at'length •fell to the Rpmifh Practice, in feeking to the Se cular Power for their Help to filence him 3 in or der whereto, their officious Agent Smith, amongft others, went to Juftice Beamon for a Warrant, to take him by force, and carry him to Gdal without Bail or Mainprize, if he came again to their Meeting- Houfe, whether* he preach'd or no 3 which they fhowing htm at his own Dweliing-Houle, in evi dence of their defigned Execution of it, * if he conform 'd not to- their Impofitions 3 he, after a ihoft juft denunciation of God's" Vengeance againft . them, for their ^repeated Cruelties of all forts, (ac cording to our Lord's Rule in Mat. x. 23. j found freedom to withdraw himfelf from the Affemblies of thofe that had thus unrighteoufly rejected him, till the Lord fhould be pleafed to recommiffionate him to vifit them. In the mean while, as they had ruined him in his outward Efface; at leaft, by thofe .their continued Barbarities, he, in a Senfe pf the concealed Wickednefs 6f many. of them, thought himfelf obliged to give publick Notice pf their Abominations, by proclaiming a{ a pub- ,,• ¦ •' Q ^ ' lick 24.S Wdrfi than Turkifh Tyranny. lick Market-Crofs in Yorkshire, That fame of them were Rogues, feme Whores^ feme Tlieives, and fo on . to the end ofthe Chapter, that all. might be aware ctf fuch felf-condemn'd Hypocrites, and perfecu ting Apoftates,. as he had found thein 3 with which I conclude this Tragical Inftance of his great Suf? ferings, by thofe his pretended Friends, and pro ceed to give account, of another of the fame Na? ture, more full to our purpofe. In order whereto To pafs by feveral other Evidences of their Cru elty of this kind, I have in Print by me to produce on otcafion ; the next I muft remind them of, is the forrowful Cafe of their long opprefs'd,and moft barbaroufly abufed Friend and true Chriftian Mo nitor, Ifaac Pearfon of Harigg near Carlifte in Cumber land, who, for want of real Matter againft, they fi nally fell out with him for hisKindnefs to the dear Wife of his Bofom, in attending her in the Time of her Labour, as he had been wont to do with- her good liking on fuch occafions 3 whofe fuffering Cafe, as it is more largely expofed in a certain* Treatife of his, entitled, The implacable Cruelty of the People called Quakers, printed at the Conclufion of their Yearly Meeting in Anno 171 3. upon their refufal to do him Juftice upon his Complaint to v them 3 I fhall only trouble the Reader with an Abftract thereof- as he gaye it me out of his Mar nufcript, and other Papers before printed, as fol- Ipws : ' This is to fatisfie all whom it may concern, that whereas I Ifaac Pearfen of Harigg in Cum berland, who having been fix feveral times ad mitted to attend my dear Wife in her Labour, according to the Cuftom of many in the Country I dwpll in, was deified the feventh, by one Fran? pes Oftill, a flarch'd Quaker Pharifee, who (though pot invited, yetj in her intrufive Spirit, took up on her to rebuke me for my faid kindnefs to my Wife, bidding me begone out oftheHoufe, calling me & Filthy Fellow 3 not only fetting my dear Wife againft me, through her railing Reflections, but alfo threatned to complain of me tpour Monthly I Meeting,. Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. 247 Meeting, as fhe did accordingly 3 who, inftead of reproving her for her diforderly endeavours to make Difference between me and my Wife, fell in with her, telling me, I might eondemn my felf for this my unfevoury AElion, as they called it, under pretence, That it was not only a filthy Thing, but alio as great a Sin as that done by Benjamen, mentioned in the 19th of Judges; and though I told them, That I did not fee ft to be one, nor was accufed with Sinning in that Matter, in rny Wife's former Labours, to which I was witj) her free Confent admitted; and the Evidence ajainft me confefs'd, That I was of no evil Behaviour whilft hi the Room with her, but my beipg there was enough! Another faid, I warm'd my Feet by the Fire, then walked about the Room, my Countenance being red, and therefore it looted as I was angry. Upon which the Women being withdrawn, part of the Mep advifed me, to. write a Paper of my Condemna tion of my felf, faying, The Midwife had declared, by a Certificate under her Hand they then produc'd, my Wife was twelve Hours longer in her Labour than. otherwife fhe would have been, had I been abfentt (though I was not one Hour together in the Room) 3 which my Wife, then in the Meeting, contradicted in my behalf, faying, It was not as affirmed, fhe knew her own Condition better thanfe, And though my Wife's Mother, with one Fran ces Wilkjnfen, (by a Certificate under their Hands) teftified, That as I did not ftay whilft my Wife was delivered, nor was of any evil Behaviour in Word or Deed whilft I fiaid. The Midwife" al- fo utterly denied before Witnefs, That ever fhe gave fuch a Certificate, as this pretended holy ©ftilj (or her Confederates) had forged in her Name; de claring, That as fhe was fenfible, God fet the Time of Womens Delivery, Mans being there could not hinder. Upon which, though the Monthly Meet ing were advifed by fome to go foftly on, and confider well what they did ; before they , pro ceeded to Judgment 5 yet the Pharifaical Zealots ' , amongft them, being the Majority, they would Q. 4 j by ? 48 Worft than Turkifh Tyranny. ' by no means be prevailed on tp ceafe their Pro- ' "fecu'tion, till they' had drawn up their Paper of ' my Condemnation, for this my reputed moft ' heinous Enormity, as follows, verbatim. From our Monthly Meeting at Beckfoot, the 13th of ' the loth Month; 1706. v W*. "Hereas Ifaac Pearfon of Harigg, hath made Pro fejfion of the Truth, and affembled amongft. us the People called Quakers, for feveral Years, of -fate hath behaved himfelf difiorderly in the fime, of his Wife's Travelling with Child to be delivered ; to the Reproach of our Holy Profejfion, and Grief of many Friends, as did evidently appear before us, by feveral Behold the Perfins that' wets then prefent, who were Eye-Witneffes- ,x .e"ri ¦ Wherefore our Monthly Meeting doth adjudge him guil- ¦ ,£- ty cf Great Diforder, and a being ailed by a wilful their Paper Spltit^ notwithftanding what he may pretend for fo do- of Exclufion 'ng- And although' he hath been advifed, and duly ad- which affefls mchifhed, ' according to the juft Rules of our Society not only If. not to do the like any more; he rather flights Counfel Pearfon, but and will net be yeformed, for we have patiently waited all others, a long Time for his Amendment. Thefe come therefore \ xow,& here- to teflifie to all People whom it may concern, fir the after, who clearing of the Truth, and the Friends thereof, That we "' °r 'ft1 "it j,OTe no Wherefore as thofe who fay*, They are Chriftian Magiftrates, whilft they perfecute the Innocent, .are ' _Jt " ". Heathens' Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. q$t Heathens who know not God, if their Teacher Dews- Collett. p, ISerry may be credited 3 till they can prove, that 83, &c. thofe Turkifh Infidels (from whom their Friend Philly told this Jennings, He had met with more truly Noble and Manlike Treatment than he had hitherto re ceived from him): ¦ Have reprefented it the worft of Sufferings, to fuffer by great Pretenders to Liberty without Law for Trifles 5 and made'Men fuffer not only with out, but againft Law, for' doing their Duty. Defired, That there might be no Law againft asking any Man a Queftion, in going to, coming from, or in the Steeple-Houfe, as they call it. Im- prifon Men without Examination, for fignifying in a private Letter their diflike of the Iniquities ,pf thofe they wrote toy in order to their Repen- •tance. ; s f , Pretend to take no Advantage in their Sfagiftra- tical Capacity,- for reflectious Words iftjpken by way of Church Cenfure in their Religious Pne 3 ^nd do it at their very firft opportunity. .• i Declare againft the ufe of all outward Weapons, as .unrighteous in their own or the Nations De fence ,3 and profecute their* Profelytes as Subver- ters of, their Government, for Querying, Whether <$hey, in procufingfuch, and hiring Men to Fight with tihem, contrary to their own profefs' d Principle, ought not to be difowned for fo doing. . •;, Condemn the Prohibition of printing and pub- lifliing Books in Mens Defences without Licence, as a Popifh Practice of pernicious Confequence ; and imprifon the Perfons,' feize their Working Tools,: and fupprefs the Licence they had given their pwn Friends, to follow an Employment for •their Livelihood, in order to Starve.them and their diftreffed Families, -for doing fo .without their Ap-- probation. ';•'.' ... Print Books and Papers without putting the Printers Names to them 3 and profecute their pro- ffefs'd Friends for. doing fo, by a Law made in a- nother Nation, that did not, (in Truth or Reafon,} s,°wn them/, ;;,;.'..;,'¦;. .•¦./;¦.¦.'" : ..'..-..,:.. , , , ' Cry $66 Worfe than Turkifh Tyranny. Cry out againft menacing and packing of Juries^ to obtain a Verdict againft the prefented, to fatisi v fie their Profecutor's Will on them, as an illegal v Practice 3 and practife it themfelves towards thofe they have a Prejudice againft, in order to obtain their envious Ends on them. Pretend to be for a Liberty, for the Profecuted, to except fuch of the Jurymen as they know to , be prejudiced or partial 3 ahd refute that Privi lege to their own Friends, upon their legal de mand of it. Exclaim againft Impofition of Submiffion againft Mens Judgments in Matters of Religion and Con fcience", as an unrighteous Practice 3 and impofp actual Obedience to their own falfe Notions, un der pecuniary Penalties, 6c of their 0W11 In-, vention. Fine Men Five Pounds, under pretence of their affronting them in their Magiftratical Capacity, by Words fpoken in their Religious, one 3 whilft fpeafv kihg'loofly of the Great God who made themj fliall be only Five Shillings. Complain againft Mens Brofecution, without fhowirig tiietn the Law'at their requeft, on which their Proceedings are grounded 3 arid perfecute their own true Friends by Fines and Imprifon ment, whilft they refute, to produce the Law .that prpves'them Tranfgreffors. Cty out againft Perfons fitting in Judgment up on Men in their own Caufes in ''Courts of Judica ture,' in order to perfecute them by Fines or other- wife, as a Practice abominable 3 • and fit there as juftices Of the Peace themfelves, to lay fuch pines and Forfeitures, as themfelves are the CommiffiV pnated Receivers of. ";' ¦'¦ Declare, Appeals to their Provincial Couit or Kings that reign over them, to be lawful and ne^' ceffary, in order to Mens Redrefs from the Grie- , vances of their inferior' Ones 3 and refute to allow them when legally : made by fuch of their own Friends as are moft notorioufly abufed by them, as thofe our depraved Quakershave done in this and pther Cafes afore-memioned, j ( 267 ) I muft needs ftill conclude, That they are not Ottly worfe Perfecutors than thofe Turkjjh Tyrants the Chriftian World, hath fo long juftly complain ed of. but alfo more guilty than thofe vile Mif- creants of the wicked Ways that lead to fuch bar barous Treatment, let them pretend what they will to the contrary. T'Hus far with relation to my Twenty Charges, ¦*¦ of which thofe afore-cited Inftances amongft others, I defigrt to infift op as Proofs, whenever our depraved Leaders think good to give me a Meeting before impartial Auditors, in a free Con ference, according td their ancient Pretenfions 3 till when, as I fliall not think it worth my while to take notice of fuch nibling Impertinences, as they (as their manner is) may perhaps publifh in Print in their Defence, (whereby they deceive themfelves, and delude their Readers, as I fhall alfo fhoW by a Comparifon of their Books, with thofe they pretend to1 anfwer) I would have all to know, that though I chiefly accufe George Fox and George Whitehead, with their depraved Col leges of the Second Days Meeting, as the firft In troducers of our Corruptions, yet' as almoft all the reft of our Preachers and Hearers are guilty there of in Fact, or by way of Connivance, in refilling to bring their Authors to an Examination in a Church . way, in order to their Defence or Con demnation, according to Chriftian Difcipline, and their perfecuted Brethrens numerous Solicitations 3 they are fo far culpable' of our chief Teachers En ormities, and . therefore may juftly expect to feel fo far the Effects of their Confequents. In the mean while, as I am ftill one with them in their. profefs 'd Principle of immediate Revelation (tho* they be not only departed from the due' Senfe of it, through the preference of their Light within them from their Creation in the place of it, but alfo (by their exaltation- of their own Innovations, : as ( 268 ) "as Chrift's Divine Inftitutions, have hardened the, Chriftian World againft all Pretences to it) what ever Indignity may be judged requifite to put up- pn fuch audacious Importers as they have proved themfelves, as- a warning toothers, fince they have, Humphry fo boldly tQi S7°- granting the fame Authority he gave unto St. Pe ter alfo unto his Succeffors, which are now called ' Popes of Rome, in whofe Power it is to orda'ui Archbifliops, Bifliops, Curates arid other Ecclefi aftical Orders, unto whom the Chriftian People , ought Obedience, faith thePapift. Epiftle from jgp though i. general Car„e be not laid upon eve^ the Yearly rv Member, r&uching the good Order and Go- M!eh"th vernmentinthe Church Affairs,., yet the Lord hath ¦ %J M 'th* "kid'it more upon fome, .'in whoiri he hath opened \6l, °"as c/-_ Counfel for that end, 2nd. particularly in our dear ted p. 1;. „/" Brother '"and1 God's faithful Labourer George Foxj their exalt- wherefore, though Friends iri the beginning were ed Diotre- turned to the Light in their, own Confciences, as phesf their Guide to Salvation, yet when there were.-a Accufier of great number, gathered into the Knowledge pf the the Brethren^ Truth, then the Heavenly Motion' came upon eaft demvn, George Fox, as the Lord's anointed and chofen, ha," p. 84. v;ng tne care 0f the Churches, §j being the great, ** Apoftli k 271 ; Apoftle of Jefus Chrift, and one whom the Lord kogersS "hath ordained to be in the place amongft the Chil- Chriftian dren of Light in this opr Day, as Mofes was a- Quaker, mongft the Children of Ijrael in his Day, to fet £"" l- P-9' forth Methods and Forms of Church Government, g ' '* 4- F- -and to eftablifh Monthly and Quarterly Meetings ^\ *'p-i of Men and Women,' who are called the thurch, g'r;,'nf pj.e~ whofe Counfel, Advice and Judgment is to be fnh-„rers f/jt, mitted unto, by every one who profeffes himfelf a dit. p. a\. Member of the Church of Chrift, fays our depra-Tyranny and •ved Quaker. Hypocrijy, ¦ , ¦ ¦ &c •PenS Judas, p. 73, 74, 7;. compared with WyethS Ev.afion of tbe Charge in his Anguis, in a Senfe of the Truth of it. Wherefore, as I am appointed Chrift's Vicar on Atfs and Earth, foour Decrees are to be efteemed of equal Mon. p. 13?, Authority with the Writings of the Apoftles, yazVi l6%-> 547* the Pope, S7°*. Arid as I am thus chofen as the Lord's Anoint- See the Let- fed, and great. Apoftle of Jefus Chrift, whofe Book ter to Wil is wrote from the Mouth of the Lord, by him ham Rogers; who is naked before the Lord, cloathed with as cited p. Righteoufnefs 5 rifen up out of the North, which H- of the Was prophefied of 5 fo you may as well condemn 4'* Part of the Scriptures to the Fire as our Queries, faith ftf Ci,riftia-a Fox. Quaker, Compared v&itb FoxS fieverM Petitions.- anfiviiererl, p. ;tfb. News out of the North, Title-Page, with p. j, 41 ., '&c.. Truth defended, p. 2., 1045' .151, 104, &c. _ • ' , Thus then appeareth the 'Greatnefs of my Prieft- Acts and liood, began in Melchifedeckj folemnized in Aar-on, Men. p. y6yf continued in his Children, is perfected in Chrift, 74s- reprefented iri Peter, exalted in the Univerfal Church, who has power to correct all Kings with their SubjepT^, faith the Pope, .And as I am elect before the World began, to jfchpm Languages are no more than Duft, who " (vas before Languages were, and. Name not known . t 272 ; Several Pe- in the World, I have not only Authority to diredj: titions an- Kings, Emperors and Popes, but the Rod of God fiwered:, p. alfo committed to my Hands, for to correct thp 60. Nations, who knows the Power, and Spirit, and News com- Sword of the. Saints, , that executes the, judgmenrjj, ing up, p. to bind, and chairi, and fetter Kings and Nobles, l,10-,-l faith Fox. Introduction , : ..,.'. to Baitledeor. Great Myft. p. 86. Journal, p. 178.' R. JonesS Manuficript. RogefsS Chriftian Quaker, Part 4. p. 84. Defence of the Snake againft Whiteheads Antidote, p. 160. Afis and All the 'Earth is my Diocefs, and I the Ordina- Monuments, ry of all Menj having the Authority of the King p. 769. 0f all Kings upon Subjects, 6c faith the Pope. FoxS four- And as the Care of all the Churches is- upon ; nal; p. 134, me, who am the Prince of Life, and trample upon i-j%, with Princes like Morter, . npt paring for a Cart-Load the Title- of their Warranty ,fo except you take Counfel of, Page, and the Juft, you [the Parliament] fhall not fit, faith p. 10. o/^SFox. , -.., feveral Pa- ,, . . pers in Englifh and Latin, to the Magiftrates of Militse, together1 •with his feveral Papers to the Parliament, p. 69. figned by 7000, of his Handmaids, as confirmed by tbe feveral Teftimonies in hisj Doctrinal Works'. Acts and Wherefore, though I can't ftoop to any Man in Monuments, way of Reverence, yet in Honour to my Pater- p. 110. - mty} I expeift my Toe to be killed;' faith jhe Popet See his Do- And though I cant bow my Body to any Man etripal in way of Honour to them, yet as I have pleaded Works on by my Letters to Parliament for fuch reverential this Subject. Poftures, towards us, I not only allow my Profe- \ Compared lytes to, prpftrate themfelves three Hours together •with his- fe- on the bare Floor before, me, put alfo hath put . •veral Letters fpnn m-y Jbottokifs, in reverence to that of God to Parlia- within me> j^ {rox< mentj at the * ¦ end of the Account of] .NaylorS Trial, together tiiith p. 37, 4.6 ' $V. e/RichS Hidden Things, and FoxS Anfwer to it; p^ 34, 38; withp. 6.ofH3.rwaod.'sT6allPeople, andp. ijj, 0f F. B.'s, PilJ grims Progrefs. Snakes Defence, zd Part, p. 175. fe" ( m: ) fn Primacy; I' arn Abel, in Government Noah, Arts and 'In Parriarchdom Abraham, in Order Melchifedeok, Monuments^ in Dignity Afro*} in Authority M°ftftt in Judicial ?• 7*9- Seat Samuel, in Zeal Heliasi in Meeknefs David, in Power Peter* and in Unction C/>r*/r, faith the Pope. " T And as I am beyopd the State of the firft Adam scrip"/ u whp fell, who am the Son of God, and eternal cui. Quedain Judge of the World, who was In the Paradife of An'crlko, *. ,God, likp an Angel in Beverly Church, fpeaking j, °q,.$yJ the wonderful Things of God, having my Leather SaulS Er- „ .Breeches on, fo (as it was faid of Chrift) the thun- rand, p. e. dring Voice at Lancafter Affizes faid to mie,. / ha,vte Preface to . glorified thee, and will glorifie thee again, with wh\ch-Battlcdoor, fay Head and Bars -were fill'd, faith Fox. Fox'-!' Trial 4 at Lancafter, p* ij. and Spirit of Envy j &c. p. i. Letter to O. GromwcJ, as cited p. ill, 143. of P. B.S Hidden Things, and p. 46, 47. of his Pilgrims Progrefs, with p. 174. Hiftory of Quakerifim. RoeersS Quakers divided, p. 11. Compared with their Qu-akers Challenge f. £. Cole and AiidlandS Letters, end PenS Defence of them in '•-. bis Judas and tbe Jews c'ombin'd, I I have power to change Time and Times, alter Afls and land abrogate Laws, and difpence with the Pre- Monuments, cepts of Jefus ' Chrift 3 as where Chrift biddfeth/1- 7^,769. Peter put Up his Sword, admonifliing his Difciples, hot thereby to revenge themfelves, do not Iexhort to draw out the fame, contrary, to the Precepts of Chrift 3 from whence it may feern well verified of me, that was fpoken of Chrift, faith the Pope. '¦ And as I have not only power to alter the Names of Days, Times and Months, with what is fet Grtdt Myft,, •forth as the Word of God, as well as allow Tranf-^,- Jft: •greflion pf the Laws of a Nation, in the matter f-!ritofL3~ «f the Militia, Impropriate Tythes and Oaths, 6c. *^Si ^'f' but alfo to difpence with the Commands of the pe^trint'd JUw of God, ' in allowing my Converts liberty to i^'. * 47# take away the P-rieft's Hour-Glafs, as well as di- SaulS Er- ' ' fpence with the Precepts of Jefus- Chrift, in re- rand, p. 6. nouncmg the Lord's Supper with Bread and Wine, News out if and commanding to put up the outward Sword, the North, p. in Gafes wherein it fhould be drawn 3 ir may 5,15,41. S- feesn ¦- t ( 274 ) cette*. to O. feern well verified of me, Which was faid of Chrift," „romwel, .That I am. the faMe Door that ever was, the feme gscitedp. i.-Qhrill to Day, Tefterday, and for ever, s faith Fox, -. J a parallel*. ... ., Spirit of Envy , Sec. p. 1. HarwaodS Letter, as cited />.., 80. of the' Firft Part of the Defence of the Shake,' againfi Whiteheads Veno mous Antidote. Tyranny and Hypocrijy, p. 38. PeuS Judas, p: 48, 67, fyc. RogersS Chriftian Quaker, Part 5. p. 44, AS- Acts and Wherefore, Bleffed St. Peter, and thou Paul zU Monuments, f0> give ear unto me, the Things that I fay are p. 183. true, and this Matter I take in hand for Truths fake, that my Brethren may more pbfequloufly 0- bey me, faith. the Pope. News out of And now all dear Ones, and dear Hearts I tbe North, fpeak, , Hear the Word of the Lord, this is the Title-Page, Word ofthe Lord, this is God's Word to you, and p. 10, wrote from the Mouth of the Lord, hear the Lord 14, 15, &c . God, the Things that I fay are true, and this Mat-* Several Pa- ter I take in hand for Truths fake, that my Friers? pers, printed .may adhere to me, who am an Eftablifhet of Righ>; 1 67 1 . p . 24 , teoufnefs, faith Fox. ' 35, 47, 60. Doctrinal [forks, p. 19. Good Counfel, p. 17, &c. Compared •with the Snake, p. 176. Acts and How far foever any may claim under me Infal- Monuments. Utility in fome Things, yet I only claim Infalli bility in every Thing, fiaith the Pope. See his Ge- . ^pd as I knew a State of Purity at eleven Years. neral Epift. ' 0f ^,e> fo j am one unco wnom Infallibility hath' as cited p. been committed in all Things, foVi Fox. 191. of the. ° ' J Snake, compat'edwith p. 189. of Ang. Flag; Tyranny anftHypb- cr'fy-> t- 45- Imogen's Chriftian' Quaker, Part 1. p. 95. Parts,.) p. 3c. part 7. p. 38. Preface to Quakers divided, and p. ;, 6. ef the Book, with p. 74, 104. of the Account of tbe Life of John Penymau. See his fievc- I like not Liberty of Confcience, I will never ral Refufals allow Liberty, of Confcience 3 What, Liberty to in Acts, and the Schifmatick ? Np : What, Liberty to the He- Monuments, retick ? No: What, Liberty to the Apoftate ? N6: and Hiftory No Liberty out of the Church, faith th'ePope. M oftheCoun- . J r oil of Trent. Nor v 275 ; ¦Nor do I like the Words Liberty of Confcience^ .?« his De- What, Liberty to the Epifcopals ? No : What, Li- claration, <*f ierty to the Presbyter ? No: What, Liberty to cited p. ii. he Independant ? No: What, Liberty to the ofthe Spirit Baptift ? No i No Liberty out of the Power, faith °f the Hat, Fox. and p: 97. ' of Pilgrims Progrefs. R. HubberthornS Works, p. 218. BurrowS Works, p. Si 5. and FoxS Defence in Pen's Alexander, &c. For as Chrift committed the Power of binding Acts and and loofing to Peter, whofe Succeffor I am, fo I Monuments, :an bind and loofe whom I pleafe, faith the Pope, t- l6l-> 49 J> 59i, 767, 768. And as . the Power of binding and loofing be- See EcclesS (ongs to the Saints, which my Friends Cole and Ec- Letter to J. des exercifed on our Oppofers Muggleten and Sto- s- as cited y, in binding them in eternal Chains, fo I do now/*- 57- «/F. ieclare what I have not before told you, that 1 1?ugS'-p p>- can bind and loofe whom Tpleafe, faith Fox. . f»r">fQua- , kertfm, and Hidden Things, p. 110. Pilgrims Progrefs, />. 159. ' Coh'sWorks, p/143. PenS Judas, p. 8 J. Tyranny and Hypocrify, p. 45. Ro. gersS Chrijiian Quaker, Part 4. p. 30. JonesS Manufcript, and f>. 74. of tbe Life of John Penyman. ¦ Wherefore, fee in your ordinary Vifitationsi Act's and Whether Divine Service at the prefcribed Times, Monuments, Days and Hours, be duly obferved, Affemblies/'- l859> duly frequented, Preachers Chriften Children, fee ' 5 ' 3 • the Font be comely kept, Holy Water always rea dy, anyPriefts have Women, teach any Doctrine contrary to the Catholick Faith and Unity, go de- ieently apparell'd, have their Crowns and Beards |iaven, keep-Regifters of Chriftenings, Burials, Marriages, arid Books of Names of fuch as are feonciled to the Church, faith the Pope. \ \. And fee alfo, my Friends, in your Quarter FoxS Jour* Meetings, that your Monthly, Weekly and Firft nal, p. 354. Pays Meetings be duly kept at the Times pre- FoxS Seve- fixed, ', Affemblies well frequented, none marry ra{ Papers, contrary to our Orders, preach contrary to.ourf • 6o> 6t- orient Teftimonies, wear Lace, Ribbons, Cuffs, Si, " Boot- (276) Sete tt Epift Boot-hofe-Tbps, fuperfluous Buttons, Skimmltig- p. 148,174' ^im Hats, Slit-peak Waftcoats, pay Tythes, givfe *7«, 301, ' Money towards fetting forth the Militia, fay Ton 359. with for Thou, keep their Shops fliut on the' World's their Yearly Holy-Days, paint any Thing on rheir Signs, but Papers in a Bedftaff, Fire Shovel, Fork, Compaffes, Plow, Print and Harrow, Andiron, (3c, not omit to keep a Book Manufcript. of Record of the Condemnations of the Tranf- G.W.'sRam- greflbrs of our Orders, faith Fox. bling Pil grim, p. 13. HowgilS Workst p. 11$. Tyranny and Hypocrify, p. 71. _ F. B.S SeaJ'onable Caveat, p. 44. Quakerifim drooping, p.. 134. all which Foxopian Impertinences are moft juftly expofed in Mrs. Anna feourignonS Faithful Warning. Acts and Befides thofe Rules, with the Directions I ha"V* Monuments, caufed to be adminiftred with relation to p. 1558. the Goods of the Untverfity, I have prefcribed how many Majfes, Pater-Nofters and Ave-Mari'is every Man fhould fay when he enters into the Church, what he fhould do there, how long , he fhould tarry, how many Prayers he fhould iaj£| what and how long he fhould fing, when he fhoulll ftand, when he fhould fit, when he fhould curte^j fie, and how he fhould meditate, when he hath left off to preach, faith the Pope. See his Se- And befides the feveral Directions I have given left Epift. . with relation to the Goods of our Church, I have p. 18, 17 j, alfo prefcribed my Friends, when to preach, where 285, t88, ... to preach, to whom to preach, what to preadij 359> 368, how long to preach, how to preach, bow ro pray) Jh 92-> i54s how to fing, how to found, and how to behave ,; 416, 4«3, themfelves when they have leftoff eo fing, 319. toge- pray and preach, to/> Fox. ther with bisc ' r J feveral Manufcripts, and Letter to W.Rogers. Journal, p. Alexander Parker'.? To all who arc Lovers oj the Light, p. 19. J. B.S Picture of Quakerifim f p. S4, %4. Acts' and Wherefore, like as a good Houfholder caftetn < Monuments, Wheat into the Ground, well ordered for that pur- i f- J0?* pofe, thereby to get the more Increafe j even fo ' we Will and Command, that the Preachers of 5 Gods 'if ( 277 ) God's Word, preach according ro his Matter pro- pofed, and not otherwife, and chiefly concerning the Adoration of the Holy Crofs, worfhipping of Images of Saints, going on "Pilgrimage, of the . Crucifix, bowing of Knees, offering Frankincenfe, luffing, Oblations, and lighting of Candles, £&?. faith she Pope. And as the Spirits of the Prophets were fubject Select Epift. tp the Prophets, £3>c. in going forth to preach,^. 413, 13, when fent by each other, without flaying till they 154, 3*8, had a Motion in themfelves to preach, fo I exhort 301, 41*, yotf to preach fuch and fuch Doctrine to the Magi- 4*7>' 37-*> ftrates, fuch and fuch to the Heathen Men, fuch 1?°> z6f> gnd fuch ro the Blacky and Indians, fuch and fuch ' 49 > 369- to the Apoftate Chriftians, and fuch and fuch to our own Friends, particularly, that they be diftinct from all the World in their Language, in their ^ays, in their Love, teaching Books, Yea and Nay, jihou and Thee, Singular and Plural, many Things pom pne Thing, one Thing from two Things, many Ways from one Way, many Churches ftom one fChurch, many Words from one Word, and many (Women from one Wornan, &c. Jaith Fox. In purfuance of whieh Godly Care of our Holy Frauds of Church, I have confirmed a. certain Order ofNuns^ Romijh ijgevifed by my Prieft Arbrifal, wherein, as I have Monks, p, given the Women fuperiority over the Men, fp i75> 1S1. $heyhave, by virtue of their Authority, c^ufedthe Men, fometimes moft juftly, to flrip themfelves ftark naked, to receive their Difcipline for their Tranfgreffion, faith the Pope. "^And after I had received this Gofpel and preach- ^tlett Epift, edh, I was moved to fet up Womens Meetings,^' ?49> ?S°3 under the Denomination of The joyful Order of the 3*8> ?*?> |aV/W Gofpel, comfortable Order ofthe comfortabteGofpel,*6*' z%lJ yjhrious Order of the glorious Gofpel, and, everlafting Or- V*fr an, der ofthe everlafting Gofpel, by virtue ofthe Precedent ii'f"^ \ of Micaiah's Idolatrous Mother, and thofe good Wp- .^^' ' men that wove Hangings for the Groves in the Hou fes of the Sodomites ; together with thofe vertuous |©nes, Ely's Sons lay with, who affembled by Troops j for which Caufe as I have given them S 3 fuperio- ( 2'J% ) Jncourage- fuperiority over the Mens by enjoyning fuch as are Hfen.t to all t0 be married, firft to propofe their Intentionsbe-., Womens fore tneiI1> under the penalty of their fevere Difci- ,-r Meetings in ^intj f0 whoever flights or contemns them, are to ; tfilmpref- be Judged and condemned, faith Fox. Jion, p. 13, 43, &c. per George Fox, with his Order itfelf, as ci- tcdp.-%-}, 84. o/F.B.S Pifture of Qjtakerifm. RogersS Chriftian jQuaker, Part 1. p. 6z, £4, 65. with p. 9. compared with Pbrt 4. p. 91. and Ann Whitehead and Maty ElfomS Book in behalf of />.-> ' ' ' Acts and Wherefore, having nothing ro do with thofe: I . Monuments. Excommunicate, neither buy or fell ' with them'1 : that trarifgrefs our Inftitutions, faith the Pope. See RogersS "And you that have given your Teftimony agairift' Chriftian that Spirit' of Oppofition of our Orders, ftand in' Quaker, Pre- your Teftimony, till they anfwer by Condemna-' face, with tion, ancj Jq n0t ftrive or make Bargains with that f ¦ 3 6, 3 7- which is out of the Truth, faith Fox. of the 7th J 1 Part, compared with. G. Whiteheads Accufcr, p. 146, . 5°> 6°y to me ro Swarthmore, when I fent for them, faith 6$, 96. Fox. •pith the Preface and Poftfcript, Fol ,( 279 ) ". For their incpuragement wherein,I do bequeath See Frauds unto my moft holy ahd,mbft devout Son G. W. one °f Rornifo cpnfecrated Rofe 3 to my moft, obfequious Son W. Monks, p. P. one holy Naifj. to my moft Catholick Son ?.9°>1<5l> *3S> W. one Gang of St. Agnus' s Teeth 3 to my moft ^ ^ 4- obedient Son J. F. one of our Lady of Loretto's loth Art:t/e ' Bricks 5 to my moft officious Son i^. C. one of Sr,1(,y our Par_ Mary Magdalen's Jaw-bones 3 tp my moft dearly Uaments lm- fcelpved Son £. D. two Foot and a half of St, peachment of Francis's Cord 3 and to L. L. my moft Chriftia* Fattier Phil- Son, one dainty Wafer God, to pardon all his Sins, lips, the and his Pofterity after him 5 all which holy Re-Queen's Con*. licks, amongft many other fuch, I doubt not, but fejfor, that they will reverently adore with that Venera- Compared tion that is juftly due to them, faith the Pope. ™tth ¦»?."" ' ' feperftitious Donations of this Nature, mentioned in fox's Acts and Monuments, and other Proteftant Writings, too numerous to particularize on this occafion. And befides my Bounty of one half given to™. „,.,, Sarah Frickehfeild, that ferviceable young Woman Offox'sputs to me, and my Daughter RacbaU, I do give to Sa- ie inmfnA, rah Mead my Tortoifhel Comb-Ca'fe 3 to N. Mead eftbat re- my flaming Sword 3 to Dan Abram my Seal 3 to nowned Vir- J. R^ my other two Seals 3 and to my moft valu- tuofe Nick able Son Lower, my Saddle, my Bridle, my Spurs, Gimcrack, my Boots, my inward Lethereths,: .my Leather^ Steels Tatter Hood, and my . Hammock, with the Thing they tells us of, rive Glitters with 5 ampngft many other fuch who having Nick-a-Nacks 5 all which make no Noife of, but/"" °ff a do them in the Liff, as now ordered, faith Fox. -£0°dJ"rt "f his EJtate in fuch natural Curiofities, as Toads, Beetles, Humming-Birds, Sec. . •when he died through his over eager purfuit of a painted Butter-r fly, bountifully beftowsd on his Friends,' his Collection of dead •Butterflies, Drawers of Shells, Crocodile Eggs, Nefls of Graf- hoppers, Indian Cabbages, Rattle-Snake Skins, Rats Tefticles, Whales Fizzles, &c. for want of better Matters to give them ; wherein 1 am apt to think our famousVen and. prefent Country Pope muft imitate them alfo, if he bequeath any Thing, be having be- ftowed the beft part of his real Eftate, in defence of finch Princi ples, as much exceed, not his FoxS Glifter-Pipe, and Gimcrack . 1 Curiofities, if I bent much mi/taken.' S 4 Notr i 289 y Acts and .Notwithftanding thofe' my bountiful Benevo- Monuments, lences, if you difobey my Injunctions, as I muft p. $6, j9«j Excommunicate you.out of oUr Holy Church,; in 599, itfji, Qr^T t0 your spirimai and Temporal Deftruction,' J9 -fo if ypu will but believe my Doctrine of Tran, fubftantiation, , &c. againft your Confcience and Eye-fight, 1 will for this" time pardon your ObflU nicy, faith the Pope. Hidden And as it will be a breach of Unity, if thou 'things John Perrot perfift in keeping on thy Hat when we brought to pray, as thou affirms the Lord requires thee, fo dp Light, p. but thou act againft thy Confcience, in puilirig it 7V "9- off, ' as I exhort thee, and thou fhalt have mine Chriftian arjj my Friend's Love along with thee, faith Fox. Qudke^part } ° ' J 4. ^.78. Tyranny and Hypocrify, p. $, 11, n. Account ofthe- Life of John >Penyman, p, 91. compared -with Mrs. Anna Bourig-. non' s. Relation of their threatned Excommunication of one of their Friends,- p. 104. of her Warning. See the %tb Otherwife,. by the Authority of God the Father Book of the Almighty, and of the bleffed' Virgin Mary,- St, continued peter and St. Paul, with all ' the Holy Saints, we Hiftory of jExeommunicate, utterly Curfe arid Ban, commit the Martyrs,. ^ deJiver M ±s jy^Lpf Hell/him or her, What, ^'sVite'd^in' tbeverheor fhebe, that have, "in fpight of all the' Preface Hofy Saints, (3c fixed up with 'Wax, fuch curfed to Fr. Bu thou Perrot ; and Oh thou filthy p7l'°p,'tc}. Beaft Camelferd, np Prayers can we fend to thee, ' # ' * . but (28i ) but for thy Deftructlon, thou Man of Sin and E- ., _. nemy of Chrift, O thou Impudent and Brazen- *°x's ¦**¦***•* feed, thou Hypocrite and Pharifee, thou art dam- JJ*V*'' V ned openly, thou art in the Sorcery, in the Witch- lftrJ£jff0 craft, and in the Adultery, and in the corrupt Jf,,j,i/M Seed, whofe Bleffings are curfed, O thou flande- Brief Hifte, rous Beaft, thou natural brute Beaft, I chargethee ry, and p. to be a Witch, thou deaf Adder and Serpent, thou 56. of his Child of the Devil, Blafphemer and Enemy of all Picture of Rtghteoufneft, thou blind Sot, thou dark Sot, the Quakerifim, Plagues of God are due to thee, that is thy jPor- 'compared tion, and thy Torments are begun, and fo farewel ""'**'•*¦• to thee, faith Fox. CrznfsftriftAccount , of BabylonS Merchants^ $x.. Now if thofe Things Ido, be fai$;#;te;,done, Aft? and '- Not of Man, but of God, -whf&eAnyb^rtW^if tne l^on^ments, \mGod, faith the -me. *®'' ' * P-7H, m*-. And as he thac hfiof the feme Spirit that raifed SaulS Er- ttp Jefus from the Dead is equal with God-, (the rand, p.%. Which as I witnefs,) it muft needs follow Cwhat thou &c- makeft fuch a pother about) that I am equal with Journal. Gpd, faith Fox. Gre ** Myfi' p. 67, 100, 117, 148. Doctrinal Works, p. 19. IJowgilS Works. And to the intent that all may fee I lack not Acts stnd Witneffes, if I lift to bring them forth, you fhall Monuments^ bear the whole Choir of my divine Clergy brought £«|7$8. Put, with a full Voice, teftifying in my behalf, That I, the Vicar of Jefus Chrift, home power onThings Celeftial, Terreftial and Infernal, &c. All the Earth bemg my Diocefs, ¦and! the Ordinary of all Men, &c. what can.be more effectually fpoken, to fet forth the Majefty of myjurifdiction, which I have re ceived immediately of the Lord, ofthe Lord, I fay, and of no Man, having the Authority of the King of all Kings upon Subjects, I am all in all, and above all, faith the Pope. ,)And as I am one wrhom Thoufands will ftand by in a Heavenly Record, That my Life reigns, and is fpotlefs, the dropping pf whofe. tender Words in ( 2 82 ) See Blake- ?~ in the Lord's Love vyas my Childrens Nourifhi lingS Certi- ment, fo I am made to call upon my Miniftring ficatevftbis friends, faying, Sound, found, found abroad, ye Fox, ds ci- faithful Servants of the Lord, and Witneffes in . his I Bu' a"' Name 5 found, found, found, ye Trumpets ofthe Lord^ Pilgrims t^>dke them that be afleep in * Death and Hell 3 found, Progrefs found, found, that all may hear the Voice of God, the compared fecond Adam, the Voice of the. Light 3 found, found, with J. Aud-found, ye Trumpets, the. melodious Sound ; found abroad, land and. > that, all the Deaf may hear the Voice of the Bride- ColeS blafi- groom, theVoice, of the Bride, the Voice of the great phemous Let- Prophet, the Voice of the great Shepherd, the Voice of ters, .and p. the great Bifhop, the Voice of the great Kjng, faith 319.0/ FoxS Fox, Journal, •with p. 7.7.' of the $th Part of Chriftian Quake?, &c. * 1 doubt thofe that, are in the latter, don't find it a place to fl.esp in, whatever he hath done in his Way thithet, who, inftead of dejerving thofe lofty -, Eulogies, fhall havefiis- Name ft ink as the Dung, for his horrid Treachery, Apoftacy and Tyranny, before. ibis our Age be expired, as our true Friends Robert Rich and John Wilkinfon in effeft foretold him, and that not -without reafon fuf ficient, fince if be that takes upon him to' eftablifh Religion, Wor- fl)ip, or. Difcipline, &c. as Head of tbe Church, be an Ufurper eh the Prerogative of Chrift, as the Quakers have confejfed, in p. 15. of their Good Old Caufe demonftrated; then this vur exalted Fox having taken it upon him- to be fuch an Eftablijher, as afire- notified, this Our exalted Fox mujl be an Ufiurper of Chrift's Pre rogative, by their own Cdnfejfion ; of which, as he and his Sup porters -were forewarn d by the Lord himfelf, through his Servant Edward Burrows, in. an Epiftle of his, as cited p. 81. of the firft fart of W. R.S Chriftian Quaker, I have no caufe to queftion^ but that he is fhort ly to :appear,with his Righteous Judgments up- en the Earth, to. execute .his Woes- on them for their prefumption, as the faid Ef B, therein exprefly foretold them, ~ In Obedience to which Luciferian Impofitions, the Pope's Popelings, with our Fox's Foxlings, in moft blafphemous Contort, fall on to found thofe their Gods Eulogies, as follows, ' The Pope is that Light that is come intp the World 5 in the Pope is all manner of Power 3 a certain divine Power in the Pope $ the Pope is the t chief ( a»3 ) chief' of Bifliops 5 the Pope is the Heir of the See Preface Apoftles 3 our Lord Gpd the Pope, S3c. faith the to theSecond Papift. ; f;**^ grims Progrefs, compared with the Bifhop of OtentoS Oration, as cited p. a- of tbe id Part of RogersS Quakers divided. Our Fox is the Light of the World 3 him by Teachers of whom the World was made 3 and doth enlighten the World every one that cometh into the World 5 the Fa- unveiPd, ther of many Nations, whofe Kingdom is efta-i1- z6> &c- blifhed in Righteoufnefs, and Life reaches through Qsa^rs us his Children, who cannot live but in his Pre- Cha"™g<>> fence 3 wherefore, as it was faid of Chrift, That.^ ' he was in the. World, and the World was made by him, ufi out gp '"£ and the World knew him not ; fo it may be faid of North, p. this true Prophet {Fox'] whom John faid, He was jy, ^ fre- not. Since though, many Sons have done vertu- BlakeliiigS- oufly in this our Age, yet, dear George, thou ex- Certificate, celleft them all, . who art more than a Thoufand Pen's Preface of us 3 Glory unto thee, Holy One, for ever, to his Jour- thou art the King of Ift'ael, all Nations fhall Wor- nal- fhip thee, who art a God, and not a Man, faith Audland and the Quaker. Colt's Let- a * ¦'- ter. Hidden Thing's brought to Light, p. 40, $V. Rogers' 's Chriftian Quaker, ph Part, p. 57. and '7th Part, ^.38. Quakers divided, p.%, &c. PenyfrianS Life, 73, 74.' Snake in the 'Gr afs, p. 117, 118. BuggS Pilgrirtis Progrefs,. Sec. .. 1 know our FoxS depraved Collegues will cry out with open Mouth, I wrong them grievoufly in'thofe my Reprefeniations of their E-xpreJfions, und.er pretence of their meaning not being that he was God and Chrift, but tbe Spirit 'Within him, as they have often explained themfelves ; but as this is no more, in effeft than the Papifts will fay for themfelves in theirs, concerning the Pope, fo fince they in fact exalted this their fq'x in their Place and Station, by magnifying his Dec'uments from tbe Light within bim from his Creation, as God and Chrift's Divine Rules, immediately proceed ing from the uncreated Word of Life ; 1 muft needs tell them^, that as the Jewifh High-Prieft [who joined in our Saviour's Crucifixion) was made to deliver a Prophetick Teftimony, in proof of . bis being .the Chrift of God, and only true Mefftab, to tbe contr adi ftion of his own Tranfiaft ions towards him -, it is no fiurprize to me, that they iii like manner fhould be thus caufied to (all their Fox in Terr, minis, ( 284) minis, what he bad afiumed in Faft, againft their own Intentions, in. evidence of (heir juftlnfat-ugtian in his blafphemous E'xaltation.,and in juftification of thofie my Reprefentations ; tbe due Confederation , •whereof, as it will be found a Key to unlock all tbemyfterious Ini quity of their own and PaWon FoxS Defences againft their Oppo nents Charges of this Nature, fe inftead of thinking to hide thofe (heirBlafpbemies from the fight of the A/mighty God and his faithful Servants any longer, by fuch deceitful Pretences.,, it highly con cerns them to confefs their Guilt herein to all the World, as feon as poffibly may be, in order to avoid, if poffible, tbe dreadful con- fequence of their- further perftftanee in thofe their Popifh Enor mities. Afts and Wherefore, refolved that as our Holy Father Monuments, the Pope hath forbidden Marriage in Kindred, to p. «54, 748. the feventh Degree, they may not (but for the Publick Good with Kings and Princes,) be difpenc'd . with, faith the Papift. . See FoxS And as our Reverend Patron F«jc, ("who was a own Te-fti- careful Overfeer of our whole Flock) fet forth an mony of him- Order againft Marriage of Firft Coufens, which felf, in p. (by the Terms of it) may be extended to the fe„ 354. of his venteenth Degree, as well as the feventh 3 refol- jeurnal, Ved that neither Firft Coufens, or any other Kin-, w'*£ /*"•-/" dred, (that we judge comes within the Bounds of Barkfhire •¦ jK prohibition) be difpenc'd with to any amongft &ief\gtf.nh faith the Quaker the Front of ' r ^ his Doftrinal Works, compared with thisOrder e/^Vnno 1675. G, W.S Defence, and Crifp, Wooda^ParrS, &c. Obftruftions in Coftfewence of it, Afts and Refolved, That every Woman, after the Death Monuments, 0f her Husband, ! remain Twelve Months a Wi- p. i«5,i9- dow, or lofe her Joynture, faith the Papift. See G. W.'-r Refolved,, "That none amongft us be allowed to tetter, toge-' marry Within; left than a Year after the Death of ther with their firft Husband or Wife, whatever Neceffity their OrU44. Divine Service, or be buried amongft us, faith the compared Papift. with p. 6ya, tJ , 785, &e. of the Hiftor-y ef the Council of Treat. And Refolved, that whoever amongft us marries See their De. by a Prieft, or with an Unbeliever, (as they ac- vonfhire count all other Proteftant Profeffors befide them- Houfe Order felves) be rejected, as Perfons become one with0/'** t$tb Infidels in their Life, and refufed Burial amongft °fthe S'b us when they are Dead, faith the Quaker, Month, 1 690, ' *" * w/7AFoxS Select Epiftles, p. z^7. Through which Antichriftian Innovations, as Acts and the Pope's Fifh-Pond became fluffed with Thou- Monuments, fands of Baftards Heads, as a perpetual Warning P- *9> i?7> againft fuch ungodly Impofitions. I3'8> 139. v 10I»" 833, 1116, 1 1 17, &c. So our depraved Quaker Church hath been aug- See thefe-" ¦ mented by a Brood of the fame fort, out of Chri- verit In- ftian Wedlock" in like manner, through the fame ftances in my Doctrine of Devils, of their Fa*s Promotion. Refeynderto G. W. together with thofe mentioned under the Head of Ihipofition.- What doting, frantick Wretch is this Grafted of Afts and Lincoln, that fo boldly and, raflily dare judge of Monuments^ Our Doings ? By fweet St. Peter and Paul, were it p. 319. not, but that upon our own Clemency and Good Nature we have refrain'd, we would hurl him down A horrible „ Lie by the way, though altefted in their Qua kers Remon- Jlrdnce, and feveral De clarations,compared with this our ( 2§<5 ) down to fuch Confufion, as would make him a Fable, a gazing Stock, an Example and Wonder ment to all the World, fays the Romifh Pope. And was it not, that we are a People whofe Prihciple$ have taught us to pafs by "all Injuries, with whatever is faid or done to us, without offering to defend or revenge our felves by fuch Carnal Weapons, as Swords, Spears, Goals, (3c. we fhould have this Picltworth laid full low in Iron Chains, for his audacious Affront, in publifhing his Charges'* againft us at the Royal Exchange in London, fays Pen our Country Quaker Pope. Friend W. F.'j Self-denying Favour to/wards me. In Order whereto, We Thomas, Archbifhop, by Affent, Content and Authority, do Degrade thee William Sautree ; in token whereof, we take, from thee the Book of our Church Legend, and do de prive thee of all and fingular manner of Dignities of fuch a Recorder, fays the Papift. And We Thomas Rpbinf on, &C by an unanimous Agreement at this our Quarter Meeting, do De grade and Depofe thee Henry Pickworth ; and in token thereof, do now take from thee the Record tion to their Book of our Tranfactions, thereby depriving thee Order a- of the Dignity and Privilege of being our Recorder, gainft Firft fi\ith the Quaker. Coufens a- bove toYears ago, aud at Times continued by' Intervals, when they bad returned me it, till upon my further purfuit of tlieir Innova tions, they finally took it for altogether. Afts and Monuments, p. 501. This was firft tranfi- afled upon my Oppofi Afts and Monuments, p. 507, 814, 830. Hiftory of tbe Trent Council, p. joi, 305, 309 For as it is a manifeft and plain Cafe, that he doth Wrong and Injury to our moft Reverend Council, who revolteth from the Things therein once difcufs'd and decided, becaufe Nothing is to be called in Queftion, that hath been defined by General Councils, faith the Papift- 371. Sp it is as manifeft and plain a Cafe, that he dpth Wrong tp our Yearly Meeting, who revolteth * from (>87) from theThings once agreed therein, fince as we have given it as our Senfe and Judgment, that ho Yearly Epift. fuch contemptuous Names, (as calling Men and "-S Anno . Womens Meetings, Courts, Seffions, Synods, &c. orj'"' *"*' faithful Friends Papers, MensEdi&s or Canons, &c.) rnongK others- be fuffered amongft us, we can admit nothing to i„certed in be called in Queftion, that is given from the Light f. B.S Sea- in our Body, to which all Power in Heaven and finable Ca- Earth is committed 3 the Doctrine of more Judg- veat. ment being given to the Church, than to the invi- G. W.'sMa- dual Members of it, being not an Error in the nufcript in Church of Rome, but their Error is, in accounting behalf of theirs (and not ours) the true Church, faith the theirOrders. Quaker JofiahCple* ** ^- ' Works, p. 93. F. B.S Pilgrims Progrefs, p. 14, 19. and W. PenS Affertion, as cited p. 15. of Tyranny and Hypocrijy detected. Wherefore, Refolved at this our Council, That Hiftory of if the Proteftants will not fubfcribe to our Opi- the Council nion in the Eucharift, they ought not to have Au- of Trent, p. dience in the reft, faith the Papift. 453 > 855. And Refolved at this our Meeting, (3c. That if Thus as they William Rogers and Henry Pickworth^ will not con- ferved Wil- demn themfelves for calling us Apoftates, they fhall ham Rogers, not be heard by us in a Church way, in what "s he. told they have to alledge, in order to prove us fo, faith me' ' , , , fame Method in their Dealings towards me. For it was determined from the beginnirig of Hiftory of our Council, and ever fince obferved, That no- the Trent > thing may be propofed therein, but by the Le- Council, p. gates of his Holinefs, wherefore we cannot admit ^i 684, any elfe to propofe Matters to be difeufs'd in our 64' 399- faid Council,, much lefs that the Proteftants have any part therein, faith the Papift, And as it hath been long ago agreed on in our Yearly Meeting, and ever fince obferved, That no thing be propofed therein, but what is firft perufed and allowed of, by fuch as we have deputed for. Siiat purpofe, by our Priefident's Direction 3 fo we can V, zso ) can by no means admit any to offer what is hot firft by them read and approved, much lefs con tent to pur Diffenters Entrance amongft usj in or der to eafe their Minds of what lies upon them to with the Op- offer towards our Rectification, faith the Qftakcr. pofitio:i 1 and others have met with upon their Orders occafion. ElwoodS truth de fended. Compared Council of Wherefore, as it is manifeft, That none have a Trent, /. Voice in our Council, by the Right of the Canon, 6 1> 64, 399- but Bifhops and Abbots by Cuftom, and fome o* thers by the Pope's Privilege 3 the others that de fire to be heard, ought to fubmit themfelves to the determination of thofe, faith the Papift. By G. F. not And as we the Mitiiftring Friends, who are cal- Chrift, nor fed to Labour and Watch for the Good of the to Saints, Souls of our Auditors, have a true difeerning of but "'"" the working of that Spirit, which leads into Di- See their v;gon or Exaltation above the Body of good and ;' P'f '• ancient Friends, whomever revolted from the Faith once delivered to us 3 We do unanimoufly, , and with the Lord's pretence, reftifie, That fiich ought not to have Dominion, Office, Rule or Go fpel Authprity in the Church 3 none being to have a Voice in our Yearly Meeting, by our Rules, but Elders, Correfpondents and Reprefentatives, with fome few others by our Patron's Intereft 3 all o- thers that defire to be heard, ought to fubmit to the determination of thefe 5 it being abominable . Pride, when any particular will not admit of the Judgment, of the Witnefs of God [i.e. Light}. within Friends, faith the Quaker. of Anno 1666. FoxS Select Epijiles, p. 190. Tog/ether •with PenS Preface to FoxS Jour nal, compa red with their con ftant Exclu fion of all others. Afts and Monuments, p. 634. Meaning their Light, a.s afore- notified. Wherefore, He that doth contemn the Church," which is theSpoufe of Chrift, and he ithat gives lefs Credit to the Decrees of -this our Council at Bafil, than unto the Gofpel, is ta be accounted a prophane Ethnick, and Publican, faith the Papift. And if any pretend to be of us, and in Cafes of Controverfy Will not admit to be tried by the Church of Chrift, nor fubmit to the Judgment gi ven by the Spirit of Truth, in the Elders and Mem- ' * bers hers of the fame, but kick againft their Judgment See Yearly 1 as Only the Judgment of Man 3 it being confiftent Epift. 1666. with the Doctrine of fuch good and ancient Friends, above-men^ as are found in the Faith once delivered to us 5 f toned, as 'then we teflifie in the Name of the Lord, that he "*'/ tt.nd. or fhe perfifting in their Rejection, together with w P *» his thofe that countenance or encourage them, ought jujas" d to be rejected as Perfons joyned in one with rle2L-the-iCVjScom. thens and Infidels, faith the Quaker. bin'df. Pray let Things be kept fecret which are hart- Hiftory of died in our Congregations, as well to avoid Op- the Council policion, as becaufe Things are held in greater of Trentj p. Reputation apd Reverence, when they are not *9, 33, 478. known to all, faith the Papift. \> And as we have often advifed, That Things be Sele ft Epift, kept private, which are agreed on in our Yearly, ^. 196. [Quarter and Monthly Meetings, that Adverfaries G. W.S Ma- [toay not know of them, fo we have, from time to nufteript in irdered, that few or more bf our Yearly Papers behalf of Rbe printed, than there is Quarterly or Monthly their Order ^Meetings in England, &c. faith the Quaker, , againft Firft L ' Coufens - fMarriage, compared with their repeated verbal Admonitions in their faid Yearly Meeting in ifty Audience, P In purfuance of which Antichriftian Exhortati- See Afts and ons, as the proud Bifhop of Rome, and his Popifh Monuments, "Gardinals, would by no means fuffer the Truth off* 186, 188, ' his and their Doctrines to be tried in a wayoftf*J> 810, 'free Conference, in a free Council, or otherwife, 8-+4> 911* 'left their Corruptions fliQuld be detected, and at I0*7> tb76* jfurned Authority expofed, according to their De- IJ4*' l884* niedts, as J. Fox in his A8s and Monuments hath 1 well notified. I So would not our Fox and Whitehead, with their See $0*'sfe- I Accomplices, by any means allow their Deeds to veraJ p"Pe,'s tbe brought to the Light, in the fame way and™ ' *. es~ 1 manner in our Yearly Meetings, for the fame rea- &e'I'« jJjl, fon, how much foever they have by Word or Compared''' Writing pretended to it,, as our ancient Friend ^^h willi- '§ViHiam Rogers, as well as myfelf, hath often ob- am Ko<*crsS f6rved. . Preface* and Poftfcript to bis Chriftian Quaker. T Not- ( *$o ) Acts and Notwithftanding, as the Pope's Emiffaries have' Monument^, mstc}e no Bones to Excommunicate Perfons out of p. hi, 8.38, the Church moft audacioufly, .(without a Hearing' 1 iq6. q£ jjjgj,. caufej in their Abfence, as well as with* out giving the Accufed a Copy of their Charges* in order to their Defences. See RogersS So hath our Fear's Vaffals been guilty of the fame Chriftian Crimes alfo, in all refpects,. towards John Wilkjrbi • Quaker S fen^ John Story and John Whitehoufe,- amongft 0- Prefece- and thers, as hath been largely proved, beyond their Poftfcript. Abilities to defend themfelves. Tyranny and' Hypocrify, p. 58. Pilgrims Progrefs, p. 107. Picture of Quake-' rifm, and Account of the Life of}. Penyman, p. 91. Afts and Through which corrupt Practices, as the Popifh Monuments, Church of Rpme laid their Chriftian Monitors un- p. 608. (jei. a neceffity to publifh their ^uft Charges, a- gainft them, in the moft publick Places of Con- verfe in the City of Conftance, in, order to their Difcharge for their abtjfive Afperfions. As appears So our depraved Quaker Churchy by fuch ungodgj hy W. Ro- ^1 Actions, hath in like manner laid me, and 0- ' "ers, Tho. thers of their true Friends* under the like neceffi- Crifp, and ty to expofe them to all the World, by a publica- cthers of our tion of our juft Charges in City and Country a- Fr lends gainft them 3 which they have been fo far. from Booh. and making a right ufe of, through their true Repen- Papers, with tance of their great .Wickednefs, as that they Toxand have hardened themfelves and Collegues therein,! /Whitehead s by Railing againft us, as Tellers of their Weakneffet, ypocntica ?-w Qath md publifhim them in Askalon, contrary Anfwers to c ¦ -.- ¦ 1 J ¦ , 1 1 • t_ them t0 ^cnP£ure Exhortations 3 through which provo king Infolence, „ Aits and When the ancient Proteftants were concern'dito Monuments ftand up in the Popifh Aflemblies, to clear them- p.'iS6~i). felves Viva Voce of their Adverfaries- Abufes,. by mowing the Chriftian Courfes they had previously taken to prevent it 5 they ufed to caufe them to be pull'd out by Violence, ' in order to their bodily, Punifhment by the Civil Magiftrate, as DifturberS' of their Church, for want of Ability to anfwer,: them. So ( 29i ) So hath it been the Practice of thofe cur de- As appears praved Quakers, to thruft, pul], pinch, fight and in- the Cafe haul out of their Priblick and Private Meetings for of John \ e- t the fame end,, as Troublers of their Iftael, in like nyman, Ro manner, fuch amongft us as have been concerned bcrt Lar- to teflifie againft their Corruptions. rence, Tho mas Boyfe and Ifaac Pearfon, amongft others afore-mentioned. f Notwithftanding, we deliver thofe that tranf- Acts and grefs our Holy Ecclefiaftical Laws ro the Secular Monuments, foWer, to be bound by them, yet it is our Chri-/>- 998. fiian Method, to befeech them earneftly in the OTOwels of Jefus Chrift, that fuch fevere Punifh- H|ent, as in this behalf is to be done to them, "Iky be fo moderated, as that no Rigour may be ufed towards them, fays the Papift. i" And though we were for having the Priefts ba iled and fiain in Oliver'? Time, under the No- ^J™ out°f on of Baats Priefts, and were the caufers of™ ffA^*«> Ms and Fowler's Heart-breaking, Penyman and J* 3 1 ' mfion's Imprifonment, Perrot and Rich's forfakins ,» T "f % ,„."' ir' J r j -n r J r > o i * the Life of Vae Kingdom, and Boyfe and Larrence s, Ike. bar- j^ paf jfpous Bruifes and Bloodflied, by hauling them mail) * [s [put ef Pur Meetings and Galleries, £?c. into the 31, jj, J3/ -Msri Street, in order to their further Punifliment Good Coun- oy the Civil Magiftrate, for their Oppofition tofel rejected, our Inftitutions, £&. yet 'tis well known, how p- 3 5- 'tenderly we have dealt with them, and with what fyr'ntnya-nd "great earneftnefs we have fought their Welfare, htyfucr'fy-> ms our depraved Quaker. $• x J> <&c- - i • PenV Judas, />-. 18, 11, 3 J. RogerS Chriftian Quaker, in y Parts. BoyfeS Shakers Wickednefs, with Pens Quakers Charity. Rich's Hidden Things, p. I j, 18. compared with p. 31. of their Namelefs An- faer to it. . f ^Wherefore, fuffer none to preach, teach or de- Afts and fend any Errors, or. read Hereticks Books, neither Monuments, admit John Wic\clijf,. Nicholas Herferd, Philip Re- P- 43 *> 448> §pdpk,%'ckc. (who are vehemently fufpected of He- $a6> 93°>. refy) unto the Office of Preaching, whilft they 9 9 ^ 1633. clear their Innocency before us, faith the P-apift. -¦'¦ T a And (292 ) Yearly Pa- ^n<* 1*Ur^ei' n0 Divifions or Schifms amongft us,1 per of 1 666 nor rea<^ Adverfaries Books, neither admit Richard', Chriftophcr B^nfam, nor any Woman Friend or Friends from Taylor j E- London or Effex, to Travel with him to preach, piftle of but admonifh him and them to return home, and Caution, ' be firft reconciled (as we have done here in Lon. compared don) by condemning himfelf, for his diforderly, -with the Se- breaking out againft our Miniftring Brethren, ($cl eond Days fince our depraved Minifters ought (whatever hath" Meetings been their Gifts,) to leave off Miniftring till 'they; Letter to fe reconci\ed to the Church, faith the Quakers. -• a* Meeting, concerningR.icha.ti Ranfam. Rogers's Quakers divided, jfu 14. and Chriftian Quaker dijiingui fired from the Apoftate and Innovator. i Afts and Alfo fee, that no manner of Perfon from hence^ Monuments, forth Print, or prefume to bring, fell, receive or p.\6S, 991, detain, any written or printed Book, Propofitioiv 1076,1514. p0fition> Sentence, Word, Syllable, or Lette$| which is, or fhall hereafter, be made againft thiji Faith Catholick, or agairift the Decrees, Laws and Ordinances of Holy Church, faith the Papift. , v And as it hath for ,a long time been our Prai Yeat y Pa- $.;ce) t0 overfee fuch Books as are to be printed,! al r cited In ' t0 1*ee t*iat a" our Monthly and Quarter Meetings* *. 38 41 refpectively take notice of aU Friends Books, thats 43, oVf.B.S are 01" may ^e ^en': t0 them for that end. 3 and if Seafenable any out °f the Unity of '-the Body of Friends, Caveat, con- print, publifli, or offer to fale, any that is not of Jonant to tbe Service for the Truth, or approved by Friends, Six Weeks ' we do Warn and Charge all Friends to beware, and Meetings take heed of having any Hand in printing, pub-. Direction, liming, or ipreading fuch Books or Writings, faith,. the 30th tjK Quaker. Day of the - , toth Month 1690, and Chriflopher TaylorS Epiftle of Caution. A, Afts and In purfuance of which Antichriftian Injunctions, Monuments, as the Pope and his Popelings have not fluck to /'• it> 3°4> falfity ancient Councils and Writings,, by purging 1116. out fUch Parts of them, as difcovered his Antichri- ari Ufurpation and Cruelty. , So ( *91 ) So hath our Fox and his Foxlings in like man- See their «r, made no Bones to race out fuch Parts of our Abufe of J. indent Friends Books and Papers, as detected Whiteheads :heir Error, Apoftacy and Tyranny. In Confe- Ll!"er) . quence of which Wickednefs v"*b their„ 1 other moft abominable Expulftons, under tbat Title, compared with their taper of tbe lithoftbe 6th Month 1693. Pilgrims Progrefs, p. 151. to 168. ' As thofe pretendedly Holy Rpmijh Priefts judg'd Frauds of it far better to fupprefs all publication of the lafci- Romifh rious Intrigues of their Monks, Friers and Nuns, Monks, p. than to expofe them to the World, to the juft Ig- 1 73 • nominy of thofe idle Profeffions, left the Here ticks (as they call them) fhould make their Advan tage of it. | So hath it been the practice of our pretendedly Tyranny and ¦pcYify'd, Innocent and Harmlefs Quakers, to ufe Hypocrijy, fell the deceitful Arts their Light within could fnr-p. 47. to p will them with, to conceal the bodily Debauche- 51. Com- ' ries (as well as Religious Corruptions) of their pared -with chief Teachers, by difcouraging all Attempts of PenS Judas, ftheir Difcovery, in order to their Repentance,)?- 4*> &c ilfft their Oppofers fhould detect their pretences to ^fd their Infallibility bv fuch Inftances of their Imperfecti- RePrefe»ta- on 5 notwithftanding bZ! *'~ IS, diftracted for her publick Acknowledgment (of a Right-Hand- ^Mmrs of G. Whiteheads frequent ufe of her Perfion, before he -went to exhort us in our publick Meetings at Lincoln) after her Re- tfintatice. [f The Lord who hath thus advanced us to the Afts and ,f Office of the See Apoftolick, is our Witnefs, how Monuments, we both Day and Night, revolving in our Mind, P- 817. [doxogitate nothing more, than how to fatisfie the 'Parts of a good Pallor, in attending the Health jjsnd Cure of the Flock, infomueh as there is no jtae particular Sheep therein, fo infected, fo fick, |nd fo far gone aftray, who our defire is not to re cover, feek and reduce into the Lord's Fold again, liow much foever we have fuffered by their Re proaches, faith the Romifh Pope. T 3 And ( 294 ) G. W.s And as I make my Appeal and Supplication a- Judgment gainft this jealous, dividing, rending Spirit, that fix d, hath appeared in Strife, (3c againft thy Servants 5 p. isa- as fo thou knoweft, O Lord, that as thou haft eh- cttedp.ztf. doweciffle w;.th a Chriftian Spirit, and With Faith,, Pit '¦ ' S Patience and Rejoycing under all my Sufferings,' Progrefs tnou ^a^ endowed me alfo with the Spirit of * " Righteous Judgment, Underftanding and Zeal, ia defence of thy Gofpel, Ariipn. Amen, faith theftoul'.of George Whitehead, our prefent City Quaker Pope, Afts and Wherefore, fince this Martin Luther contetrip- Monuments, tuotifly continues to expofe our Holinefs, by his, ^.604,811, Heretical Books, we Will and 'Command, Under! infi, 1116, the Virtue of Holy Obedience, that you ft&it-: ii.46, &c. jy burn, or caufe to be burned, his Errors, iri the j fight of the Clergy, under the penalty of our high' Difpl'eafure, fays the Romifh Pope. - ¦) Cenfonant : -And as we have Time after Time commanders to their Henry Pickworth to make- away his reflectious Boob Prafiice to againft Our Holy Order, which 'he ftill conterti^S T. -Bugg, in tusufly refutes 3 fo we exhort thee Thomas Robiti-if burning his fen to burn, or fee -Henry Pickworth burn (dr fome", Papers in otherways make away) the fame, -as he expecly'toi his Defence, ^et on vvtrh his Marriage amongft us, Jays' Gebr-gli for want of Whitehead , our Cit y Quaker Pope, p Honefty to- J ^ * *, Examine [as well as Ability to An fever) them, of which he inf.: 134, 139. of bis Pi'ttu-re of 'Quakerifim, alfo moft juftly complainetM' % Afts and In purfuance . of which Antichriftian Exhorta--> Monuments, tions, as'the Popifh Bigots are fo ftrict in the Olv t- x933 * fervation of their Popifh , Rules,, as that they will3 have Afhe's on Afh-Wednefddy, thPUgh they act'1 ne ver fo much Wickednefs at Night 5 refute tP ear Flefh on Fridays for Confcience-fake, though they [, fcruple not to Swear, Drink and Dice all the,; Night. '?: TVitnefe G. So have I known of our ftardh'd Quakers, whoa Good and J. though they Would not tranfgrefs their Fox's aridfj Skirm, and Whitehead's Rules, in buying Tythe-Corn -Of a? their Friends Prieft 3 call Firft-Day, Sunday 3 a Steeple-Hotifeq ferupulous a Church -3 fay You for Thou 3 Thank ye, for Fa-), Super ftrip- vours received 3 wear a weedlefs Button 3 or take an ( 295 ) an Oath to end Strife between Man and Man for tion 0ph-s Confeience-fake, whatever any fuffered for want Letter elfe- of it : Will not only not flick to buy flollen Com, where men- f§c. of Mens Sons and Servants, but alfo cheat you tioned «- in Bargains and Bills of Account moft unmerci- mongft other ¦fally, if not well Jook'd to, wherein they as cer- fiuch vile tainly come off foot-free, as thev are furely fevere- Practices, ly cenfured for the leaft Omiflion of thofe their «'** 'Mr Apoftles Impertinences. ' omijfion tu -. do Juftice ,vpon our Complaint to tbem, for which, our Friend John Penyman, in p. 109. of the Account of his Life, moft juftly expofed them. m:, Thus as Ignorance in the Church of Rome paf- Frauds of jteth for Chriftian Simplicity, in favour whereof Romiifi they attribute, Bleffed are tlie Poor in Spirit, &c. to Monks, p. iperfwade their Votaries to lay by the ufe of their %61>' Reafon, the better to choufe them into a Subjecti on to their Innovations, and pick their Pockets for *> their Indulgences. » * So nothing is more. cry 'd out on by our Quaker R fBisots, than the Exercife of our Rational Facul- 0°^"* ties, in our detection of their Impertinencies, to yls chrifli- jfcnflave Us the more eafily, through our Stupidity 3 „„ Shaker '5n favour whereof, as they call loudly iipon us to comp. -with exclude the Reafon, the Wifdom, and the Jealou- part 4.^.33. fy, and have our Eye to the Brethren, that if we of bis Book, uon't fee, we may follow them that do 3 under together with pretence, that as we-muft be Fools for Chrift's p- 7- of G. fake, Wifdom will undo us, for which caufe we W.S Accu- muft not only 'keep down the Wife part, but alfo fer\ and p. come to defpife it. In order whereto ±}9'> of £ Fox. j- Select Epiftles, and p. z.$. of EcclesS Mufick Lecture. '"' Confider, That as without the Church there Afts and ¦can be no .Salvation, fo let not Vain-Glory hav-e Monuments, the upper Hand-: Nor do thou, Hugh Latimor be P- 1654, 'wife in your own Conceit, but humiliate your Ig?7> i7 Boot-hofe Tops, needlefs Buttons, denies lawful Ma-Tfr^t °aths' refufeS t0 uncover his Head> °r b0W hU in the Or- Body to his Superiors, ftrictly keeps to his Thee tiers behalf. and Tbou, renounces the Lord's Supper with Bread Vindicise ' and Wine as Unchriftian, keeps a clofe Difci- Verit. p. i. pline, owns G. Fox to be ordained in the place of News from Mcfes as the Lord's Anointed, to inftitute Womens New-Rorae, Meetings, and obey his Orders without wavering, p. Si. * none ( 297 ) none of which as they fee caufe to retract, they Tyranny . cannot difpence with the breach of any of them, and Hypo- though we lofe our Lives by our fubjection to crijy, p. them, being well fatisfied, that their Friends Mean- T-- ings were found. PenymanSLife. ' BourignonS Warnings, p. 6i. Thus as Superftition is faid to creep in by Popifh ASts and Monks, through their Ignorance of our free Juftifi- Monuments, cation by Faith in Jefus Chrift 5 being yoked and P< JS5, 776, tied in all their Doings to certain prefcript Rules 8l3' "J** and formal Obfervations of the Pope's Invention, IJ ' lo8, in Watching, in Sleeping, in Eating, in Rifing, in Praying, in Walking, in Talking, in Looking, in Tafting, in Touching, in Handling, in their Ge- ftures and Veftures, &c whereby inftead of per- fevering in the true Faith above-mentioned, they came to fwim in Superftition and Pharifaical Hy pocrify, till they had loft both Religion and Senfe. So as thofe Noncons among us, of Fox's Order, See his Do- are in like manner yoak'd and tied in all their Urinal .Preachments and Practices, by prefcript Rules and Works. formal Impeninencies of his devifing, under pre- c°fipared rence ofthe Spirit 3 'tis no great wonder, that ih-T'lpff*' ftead of a growth of the Article of our free Jufti- '***/*/*«*» fication by Faith in Chrift Crucify 'd, £&•• diey^' *' I4 ' fhould only grow, in the firft, fecond, third and Together fourth Day, Thou and Thee, Yea and Nay, with TO,;^ tf,eir theip other fuch Singularities, wherein they (with Morning their Monkifh Predeceffors) pride themfelves, Jtill Meetings in they have fp far loft Chrift's Religion, as that they order to the have alfo with them in great Meafure, loft both right diftpo- Chriftianity and their- Wits. In further proof/*™ of their whereof ~ miniftring Friends Ser vices, left the Spirit fhould confound tbem, by not doing it fo re gularly. Compared with their learned Friends Subfeription of his Letter to John Steeple-Houfe at the Sign of the Superftitious Thing in Sixth-Day-Street, through his Foxonian Notion of the Unrighte- aufinefis to dire ft it To John Church at the Sign of tbe Cardinal's Cap in Friday Street ,- whereby as he bad like to bave crack' d tbe Poft-Mafler's Brains to find but the Perfon he aijn'd at, be Jh.ewed bimfelf not over ftock'd with Senfe, Wc. , ( W ) MVhhe'sWay. We amrmj Thar as good Works are the meri torious Caufe of our Juftification, (/. e. fuch as the Church hath enjoyn'd) fo we expect Salvation bf , pfciforming them, and not by Chrift alone without them, faith the Papift. . FifherSRu- And as good Works are the meritorious Caufe fticus Acca- 0f 0U1. Jpftificatioh, fo we expect to be faved by , demicos, ^^ as thrift (meaning the light within) works -Boot"* 58 *n us' an^ not ^ w^at ^e ^at^ {*ane ^ ^"fi**6^ 10 to ti inhlsownPerfon without us, faith. the Quaker. Afts and 'Tis a Toy that you have found out of your Monuments, own Head, as though a Man not believing as the 1- ' 5 ii- Church believes were of the Church, faith, the Fapift. See PenS And 'tis in vain for any to pretend to be a Mem- Apoftate ln-ber of the Church, Who doth not believe as the cendiary, p. true Church believes. (For which Caufe we can't 9316,17. ftgn a Certificate in thy Favour Henry Piokjvorth, RichardfonS fince thou neither believes in our Order againft liigredi-ents, p }rfl. Coufens Marriage, nor hath condemn'd thy *. 3, &c. re],f f01. tjjy gnheliefi therein,) faith the Quaker. ly ranny and ,*¦-». Hypocrify, p. ij, &c. Compared with their Friend MorrisS Let ter to J. W. mentioned under the Head of their Impo'ficion. Acts and Wherefore, pray obferve the evil Luck'Of fuch - Monuments, as favoured not Pur Religion 3 and again, die good p. 1 481. Hap and Protperity of the Queen's Highnefs '(*. e. 'Queen Mary) becaufe fhe does, fays the -P-apift. Mask taken A"nd pray obferve the evil Luck of Rogers, Buggr oft as cited parrot, Wi'lkjnfon and Penyman, tkc. w'ho'oppofed J? B 'jlm/c,ir^0'fe' Orders, &c. and again, the good Hap from New- °^ Pen' Atkjnfon, Antrobus, Warrin, Wfllove-by, Ruft, Rome com- Finder, Leacockj Tburfttfn, Langhorne, Smith, Cater, pared with Plumftead and Sandiland, &c. * who wrote and J. W.S Ang. preach'd powerfully in behalf of them 3 for which j?lag. p. 141. Caufe we prophely, That thou Henry Pickyeorth •w»rfElwoodS will alfo come to Nought in this World, and be Truth de- Damn'dinirhe next, faith the Quaker. fended. * Some of which Holy Owes broke inDebt,othersdied in Goal for Non-payment, one wash an£d. for Felony, another drown d, ano ther cut his own Throat, another bang'd himfelf, another went di- Jh-afted, C 299 ; ftrafled, another broke his Neok, one was for stabling with his Friend JobfonS Maid, another was catch' d picking up Whores in fhe Street ,- ^wherefore, as the Lord my God hath been gr'acioufly pleafed to a'dd as many Hundreds of Pounds to my Sub fiance in this World, as there is Years fince the Death ofi King William, viben they firft' began to predict my Downfall, as &c- faved, faith the Quaker. Iof' ?<""; -.' nal,p. 376, EcclesS Quakers Challenge. The Proteftant Minifters are Intruders, Thieves, A._S. thefe- Robbers, Hypocrites, ravenous Wolves, Murthe-Jult^J^ '-cap. rets,. Sons of Belial, falfe Prophets, and Priefts of jg^T .*£ Baal, bcfeiys the. Papift. yhe Religions, ( JOO ) See my The Epifcopal Minifters, Gfc. who oppofe our Proofs under Doctrines, are not only Thieves, Robbers, Hy- the Head of pocrite,s, ravenous Wolves, Bears, Murtherers, their Rai- Sons 0f Belial, falfe Prophets, &c. but alfo a par- lery, com- cej 0f venomous, obnoxious, creeping, skulkmg pared v>m Vermin, feith the Quaker. ter to Q. K. as cited.pi toi. of I. B.S Pilgrims Progrefs, &c. A. S. the Je^ Your Bible is a brazen-fac'd Book, an un juft fuit, ibid, and perverfe Bible, and nor the Word of the Lord, or any certain Rule, as you reprefent it, faith the Papift. FilherS The Bible is a Lesbian Rule, Nofe of Wax, rot- Works. ten Foundation, and in no Senfe the Word of God, Way to the bur dangerous for ignorant People to read, faith Kingdom, thg r^aker, f- 4- Bayly S Works, p. 195. FoxS Great Myft. p. %\6. Truths De fence, p. 101. Mene Tekel, andWhitehezA's Rambling Pilgrim, p. 44. Ifiimael, <&c. eaft out, p. 14, &c. , ' Afts and But as for our Books, we have juftly entitled Monuments, them, Evangelium Eternum, Evangelium Spiritus p-}2-6- Santli, the- everlafting Gofpel, the Gojpel of the Holy Ghoft, &c. faith the Papift. FoxS Seve- And we have alfo as juftly entitled ours, The ral Papers, Everlafting Gofpel, True and Everlafting Rule, Truth printed and Innocency, Trtith Prevalent, Truth Triumphant, 16-ji. Banner of Lave, The Word of the Lord, and the Word Title of cfi tj,e Lorei t0 zion, $c. faith the Quaker. TavlorS Epiftle. Together with thofe fieveral Titles referr'd to in «. jo. of F. B,S Prologue and Introduction to bis Picture of Qua- feiifm, p. il- Afts and When we kneel or pray, to Images, we never Monuments, Worfhip the dead Images, but the Things they re- p. 777. prefent, faith the Papift. And when we kneeled or proftrated our felves Whiteheads before our great ^Apoftle Fox, we never ador'd the Innocency, Perfon of George Fox, but the Life of Chrift with- p, 18. in him. Wherefore, why might not Micaiah's Mother be a Vertuous Woman, as Gesrge Fox faid, though ^ 5°l ) though flie worfhipped Images, fince as flie dedU Anfwer to cated the Silver to the Lord, what fhe did, flie Hidden did to the Lord, faith the Quaker. Things, p. 34- RichfcrdfonS Ingredients. Compared with p, $30. oj BarcleyS Apo logy* of the 4th Edition, U > their own contr adi ftion. Whereas you fay, Chriftians cat Chrift's Body Spi- Acts and ritually, in their receiving the Lord's Supper, &C. Men. p. that is but a blind.fhift or defcant, for we in the l84J> 1961. Sacrament really, carnally and fubftantially eat it, faith the Papift. And whereas you fay, Tou eat Chrift's Body by Quakers Re- Faith in the feme, as it is circumfcrib'd or limited in fegefix'd. that Heaven which is above, And out of every Man on $ox's,Seve- Earth. We do on the contrary affert, That as his ra{ Papers, Body is not fo circumfcrib'd, we really and fubftantially trintecl eat it, as tee feel it within us, faith the Quaker. 1671, p. 61. Compared tiith his Great Myftery, in tbe pages mentioned under the Head of their Error. In purfuance of which Impertinence, as the Ro- Frauds of manifts feldom take any place of Scripture in the Romdh Literal Senfe, befides their Sacramental Words, Monks, p. Hoc eft Corpus Meum, This is my Body 3 where they lS $• keep to the Literal Senfe moft obftinately. So how averfe foever our depraved Quakers are FoxS Great from taking Chrift's Command, Do this in remem- Myftery, brance of me, 8cc. according to their true Literal viith his Senfe 3 Kyiow ye not that Chrift is in you, &c. they Profelytes will flick to and underftand in their Literal %rofsf{ver.al T>'- Senfe moft tenacioufiy. In favour of which Ah-{enees fJ "> r- ,- heretofore furdity' notified un- der tbe Head of their Inconfiftency, &c. As the Papifts in fetting forth their fine Pulpit Frauds of Thoughts, feek to back them by fome Tex-, of Ronuih Scripture that feems to favour them, to which for Monks, p. the moft part as they give a forc'd Turn, or moft l87> 1 *• grofly pervert it, they commonly quote nothing but Ends and Scraps of VerTes, without telling what ( )02 ) what g«>es before", follows after," or where to find what they quote. See their So our Foxonian Preachers, in fetting forth their Pervertion fine Quaker Thoughts in honour of their Imperti- ef nences, in like manner. attempt to prove them by in their E- fome Text of Scripture, to which for the moft' pijlle of An- part they not only give a forc'd Turn, but alfo Sfc- no 1 666, ten pervert the Text, as well as. put us off with ninth thofe ari End or Scrap of a Verfe, without telling us mentioned in WHat goes before, follows after, or where, to find p'sN/rr*'- What they ^UOte- tive, compared with W. PenS Spirit of Truth, in Defence of G • F.S Pervertions of Holy Writ. ¦Frauds of And when thofe Popifh Miffibners have furnifh- Romifh e(j themfelves with a good Stock of Sermons up- Monks, p. on different Subjects, they forthwith fend to Rome, 301* and demand a Miffion of the Pope, to go and; preach them in fuch Towns and. Provinces as they defign for. Witnefs Jof. So do our Quaker Preachers (after they have got- Rogers, now ten a good Stock of fuch Subjects from their Light or late of within, as they have a mind to preach) in like Great Mar- manner repair to London, to requeft George White- kam in Not- fond, our prefent- City Quaker Pope's Allowance, tingham- tp preach them in fuch Towns and Countries as . flute, who th are difpofed for. being big ' x toith fiuch Foxonian Notions, as the poor Quaker Minifters in Hol land «»i/-Switzerland, &c. now ignorantly fuffer for, told me, (when I laft faw him in London) That as he had much in his Mind to our Friends in thofe parts, he knew nothing to hinder his defign d Vi- fit'ation of tbem, but tbewant ofG. Whiteheads Allowance, which as he vias then jufl going to fo/licite for, he afterwards told me, be had obtained it accordingly, to his no fmall Conjolation. Frauds of In defence of which Ab.furditi.es, as it is obfer- Romifh ved to be the Papifts Method, i. To falfly gather, Monks, p. '2, Perverfely recite, 3. Craftily handle, 4. Mali-' 301- cioufly mangle, 5. Unrighteoufly add or dimi- nifh, and 6. Moft wickedly wreft to a wrong meaning, the Books of fuch Proteftants as they pre tend to Anfwec. So C 3°W So have our depraved Quakers in like manner," to my knowledge, been juftly charged with a- voiding all folid Anfwers, by fome petty Cavil, in i. Confefiing what they deny with an idle Diftin- ction. a. Acknowledge their Opponents Charges, In proof byiaying nothing, or what's nought to the pur- whereof, fee poll. 3. Ufe fome Deceit in their Terms of De- Whitings nial, which every Reader cannot difcover. Or 4- AnfeD>ef^ t0 Take occafion from fome Circumftance, perhaps ~: K- *.4f* not rightly placed, to deny the whole Matter 3 a- Hereticks, Apoftates, Atheifts, &c. but alfo finally top. 45 j. of excommunicated and perfecuted one -another, ac-F. HowgilS cording to Francis Howgil's Relation. , Collection.. They by forfaking their Primitive Principle of the Spirit of God, through their Advancement of their Fox's erring Dictates in the place of it, not only in like manner fell on to Quarrel one with another, about their pretended holy, decent and comely Orders, Womens Meetings, and formal Affirmations, t§c. but alfo proceeded fo far in their Enmity againft each other, as firft, To call one -a- nother Dark., ¦ Separate, Canker'd, Apoftate Spirits^ DSvil driven, Dungy Gods, betraying Judas'* 3 and then to Excommunicate, Perfecute and Abufe one ¦f another, Afts and Monuments, t- '338. 1339- Fraud, Sec. p. 17. 4th part. See PenS No Crofis no Crown. Treatije of Oaths. BarcleyS Apol. C *°4 ) another, as afore-notified ; notwithftanding all which, both affume the Confidence to claim Chrift, his Apoftles and Followers iri all Ages, as their Patrons againft their Oppofers. In purfuance whereof Come forth St. Auftin, come forth St. Ambrofe^ Hierom, Gregory and Chryfoftome, (3c Now Dance Chrift, now Dance Peter, now Dance Paul, Auftin, Ambrofe and Hierom, (Sc againft thofe He reticks, fays the Papift, till the Preacher and his Pulpit hath come tumbling headlong together. So as Chrift, his Apoftles, Martyrs and ConfeC- fors in all Ages are manifeflly ours 3' Come ye E- pifeopalians, come ye Presbyterians, come ye Indepen dents, come ye Baptifts, come out of your Holes, come out of your Dens, and let's hear how you do Sing. Come forth Matthew Coffin, come Jeremiah Ives, come FoxS Primer William Barnit, come Thomas Vincent, Lamb, for all Do- Porter, and Muggleton the Sorcerer, with you Jefuits, Priefts, Monks, Friers, Star-Gamers, and all the De vil's Conjurers. Howl ye Papifts, howl, howl, howl ye Priefts, howl ye Baptifts 5 Woes, Judgments, Plagues and Torments will affuredly come upon you, fays the Quaker 3 till they have (with' their afore-menti oned Predeceffors) in like manner foil'd them felves to Death by their Babblements *. Yet (will they pretend, that as the leaft Member of their Church hath Power to judge of Hearts, Ears and Lips of Apoftles, Minifters and Meflengers, Cj'c.) we muft be iriipofed on ro believe, That there is no other Society of profefs'd Chriftians in the whole Univerfe, fo remote from the Papifts as theirs is, though none in the World are in Do ctrine, Difcipline and Practice become fo exactly like them, through the Enemies Transformations, for want of fubjecting thofe that were the occa fion ftors and Scholars. Epiftle to be read in Churches. Quakers Challenge. BuggS Pil grims Pro-\ grefs, p. 155 FoxS Jour nal, p. 46-j. Sober Reply to Norfolk and Suffolk Petitions, p. 14. Innocency with her open Face, p.'jo Witnefs Michael Ruffel, together with their great l'atron Fox, the firft of which as be was ftruck with Death with' in, the other met with the fame Fate as he cam: out of their Gal lery, as 1 am credibly informed. (•'Jo J ) non" bf u£ to a timely Examination in a free Con* Thefe that ference, according to their ancient Pretenfions and would fee true Friends Solicitations. «""•» •/ «*»' Quaker Po pery, may perufe William RogersS Chriftian Quaker, in j parts, with the other parts fence publifhed, together with his Quakers ,di- vi ded, firft and ftecond part, and there find enough iii confirmation' of thefe my Charges on this occafion. Wherefore as God hath a Time to judge the P. 199- °f Great Whore, according to Revelations xvii. when If- Pening- the Time of his Judgments comes upon the Earth, ton'-f Co^ he begins with his own Houfe firft, and fo with l'm°»- C.°f~ that which hath taken upon it to feparate from Ba-?are '"'iL bilcn, to fee what he can find of Babilon there\n,\fftft'V and he will judge that, before he fall upon the Warnings ro Great Body of the Myftery of Iniquity, according o.Cromwel. to 1 Pet. iv. 17. Heb. x. 30, (3c if their long mournful Friend Ifaac Peningtm may be credited. Inafmuch as we have found a great deal of Ba- bilon in thofe our pretendedly moft refined Prote ftant Quakers, we have from thofe their own al- ledged Texts, (compared with the E%ek,.ix.) great Caufe to fear, he will begin with them in the firft place, according to the Chriftian Prophefies of many others' of their true Friends, befides this I- faac Peningtm : Which, fince they liked not my Collection, with Relation to others, I fhall pre fent them with a fhort Catalogue of concerning^ themfelves, to fee if they can meet with any bet ter Treatment from their Hands, (as they are more than I am obliged to, with relation to the Proof of my Twenty Charges) one would think tthey fhould, they look fo like one of their beloved Popifh Works of Supererrogation 3 in order where to, Firft, To pafs by thofe feveral Namelefs ones in the Several TraElt, and Account of the Life ef John Pe- "nyman, (all which fhall be moft furely fulfilled in their Seafon) that of our Friend John Perrot, as fet forth in a Prophetick Treatife of his, printed in 1682,, a little before his Expiration, (concerning tha Empires of Greece and Germany, together with iSe Kingdoms of France, Sp*'^ and England) as he U .was 1 3<* ; was the firft that was preferred in bis Ghufttan Teftimony againft their Depravity, through the ut moft Effects of their Church Tyranny, he fhall have the firft place. in this my Collection, who in a'Senfe of their Falfhood,' Idolatry, Pride, Hypo crify, Apoftacy and Cruelty, v was made to pro nounce the Lord's juft Judgment againft thofe who had once been his Sanctuary, as follows. ' Wo, wo, unto the Sanctuary of the Lord, ' for it is polluted 3 Wo to the Mountain of the ' Lord, for it is at eafe 3 the Habitation where the ' God of Jacob fhould dwell, is become the Habi- ' tation of Devils 3 the Day is coming that it fliall ' be plowed like a Field 3 and the Families of the * Mountain fhall Worfhip apart, yea, every one ' apart, and their Wives apart : Behold, a De- ' folation is coming from the four Winds, which ' fhall fcatter the Inhabitants of the Mountain, be- * caufe they trufted in themfelves, and not in the ' Lord 3 they thought that their Mountain fhould ' be their Safety in the Day of Trouble, but ly- * ing Vanities fhall not deliver in that Day 3 nei- ' ther fhall taking the Lord's Name in vain be a * Refuge 3 for they have gone aftray from the; ' Ways of the Lord 3 every one walks in and: ' loves his own Way, and is gone a WhWing af- * ter other Gods 3 their Covetoufriefs is their De- » light 5 they walk not in the Truth, neither do * they love it, but Deceit is their covering all the ' Day long 5 they profefs and draw near to the ' Holy One in Words, but their Hearts are far '-. from him 3 they walk craftily with their Neigh- * bour, and deal deceitfully with their Friend, and * make the Profeffion of the Lord's Holinefs their * covering 5 they fill their Mouths with vain ' Words, and condemn the Things which they do, ' and yet' hate him that reproves in the Gate 3 ' fliall not the Lord vifit for thefe Things 3 fliall ' not the Holy One take Vengeance fuddenly 3 for * the.Pride of their Hearts, their Foolifh Imagi- ' nations, and their Spiritual Idolatry in High ' Places 5 which would conftrain the Lord to their i' Mountain, and the Holy One to their Habitati- ' ons : as ( 307 ) * ons 5 is he not the God of the whole Earth ? ' Shall Men limit his Spirit, or teach him to un- ' derftand, who is the Fountain of Wifdom' ? ' Surely no : The Time was when thou waft a ' fmall People, and little in thine own Eyes 3 thou ' didft walk in Simplicity 5 Innocency was thy ' Covering, and Lowlinefs of Mind became thy * Habitation 5 Truth in the inward Parts was thy ' Delight, and the Lord rejoyced to do his Plant ' good, and to blefs it, and increafe it, that it ' might flourifh, and bring forth good Fruit 3 but ' when the Time came chat he expected Fruit, ' behold nothing but Barrennefs, and Deadnefs, ' and wild Grapes 3 What fhall the Lord do to * this his Plant ? He will prUne it and drefs it, * and cut off alt the dead and * barren Branches, and # § ., ' thofe that bring forth wild Grapes, and graft other q p fffj ' Branches in 5 a Day of Vengeance from the Lord g, w. with 1 is coming, which fhall try all Flefh, and it fhall their depra- * begin at the Lord's Sanctuary firft : Wo, wo, vedCollegues 1 unto thofe that have known the Way of Truth, of the Se- * and have not walked anfwerable to it, but have cond Days ' made Deceit their Covering, and have walked Meeting, * like carelefs Daughters, at eafe in the Flefh 3 the whom the ' Lord will vifit with Wrath 5 he will overturn, Lord hath ' overturn the deceitful Mourners of the Sanctu- alread3> f*~ ' ary 3 the weeping and fighing Women fliall. hot ^*" °t q' 1 prevail in that Day, which make a Noife'for Va- jour L ^*" * nity, and hang down their Heads for an Hour, pe()p}e tj,at '¦ like a Bulrufh, in Deceit 5 thofe Things are an are no peo_ ' Abomination to the Lord, and his Soul hates ple, who * them 3 he will furely be aveng'd on fuch a Veo-Jhall take the * pleas this, the Prophaners of his holy Name 3 Crown from With much more to this purpofe 5 all which as he off their often declared his belief of in his Life, fo he died Meads, and in Faith of the Truth of it. ha^ them contemptible, as divers of their true Friends-have foretold them. The next is our truly worthy Friend, (and ho- neft John Perrot's Supporter) Robert Rich, a confi derable Merchant, and one of the eminentefl Qua- -- y i- . £«« printed in Anno 1669, and reprin- C jo» ) See his faid kjrs in London, who, as he ftood by the faid John Prophetick Pemt) and aeeply fuffered with him in all hisDi- hisTolk1 '* ftre.fles' he alfo worthily reigns with him over of Letters t'ie'ir Perfecutors, by his Prophetick Teftimony of ' their Downfall 3 wherein, after he had forrow- fully complained of the Spirit of Antichrift in George Fox, as What would needs wreft from him ted 1676, «.rwhat he was not willing to part withal [to wit, his cited in John Confcience] under no lefs penalty than Excom- PenymanS munication, he tells us, feveral Tracts, and F. BuggS Pilgrims Progrefs, of the id Edit. ' I have long feen the Abomination that mak- . eth defolate, ftanding amongft the Quakers ; wherefore hear the-Word of the Lord, ye Ru lers of Sodom, and People of Gomorrah, 'tis that Spirit of Antichrift that hath encompafled your Jerufalem about, as with Armies, by which we know, the Deftructton thereof draweth nigh 3 finally, 'tis that Spirit of Wickednefs, in the Form of Righteoufnefs, that hath already torn your Crown from off your Heads, and difcover ed your Secret Parts, * fo that the Scab of Con tention and Strife is feen, that will never leave or ceafe to divide you, till the Name of a Quaker be come a Hift and a Scorn amongft the Nations 3 and you that for your vaft Number of your Tribes,.. have feem'd to magnifie your felves in your in creafe of Children 5 Wo be to you that now give Suck, and take fo, much. pains to add to your Sect 3 for behold, in one, Day, Lofs of -Children arid Widowhood fliall come upon you .- For of this I am moft certain, That a bitter ly- itfg and perfecuting proud Spirit inhabits your Tents 5 which Babilonifh Garment hath long been feen to lie hid amongft that Tribe call'd the Miniftry and Leaders of the Quakers. Even fuch Spiritual Wickedriefs, which if practis'd amongft the Presbyterians or Independents,. (3c. (who ye dit they (like the Old World], will take no Warning, "Judgments foretold off overtake thim. * See Charles MarfhalS Prophetick Teftimony hereaftercited, com pared with tbe Confufi- ons now a- mongft tbem, in further proof of the Truth of this our Friends Prtphetick Declaration, by all which notwith ftanding own, I fear whilft the Deluge of ( ?°9 ) '.own, and can fee nothing that is Good in) they ' would abhor themfelves therein 5 which you, as ' with a Whore's Forehead, boldly maintain and 4 defend 3 you are in truth thofe that juftifie your ' felves before Men, but God knoweth your ' Hearts, f and the Day is at hand, even at the Door, ft Which Day which will difcover, reveal and preach, as upon the is now come, 1 'Houfe Tops, many and great Abominations which yet fey I, O! ' lie hid amongft you, that Jo you may be judgedac- that thef> * cording to your Deeds. ¦- , could fee -¦[ and be fenfi ble thereof, and humbly bow themfelves under the Hand oj God, in true Contrition of Soul, for their great Provocations, tbat hit threatned Vengeance, ifipofflble, might be averted, as they have of ten been advifed. ' I am conftrain'd, contrary to my Nature, to' *> plead like a Man of Contention, againft fliis ' proud, pharifaical and perverfe Generation 5 this ' Leviathan and crooked Serpent, in whofe No- V ftrils (unlets a Hook be put,) would fwallow not ' only the Rivers, but alfo the very Sea into him- ' felf, vi%. receive all, though never fo Unclean ¦ ' in Heart and Spirit, if outwardly they will but ' own him, receive his 4- Mark., and walk in out- * Thee and ' ward Obfervation and Shew conformable to Thou, Yea * them, who while they profefs themfelves free and Nay, ' from Sin, and being the only Children of God, Plain Cloths, ' are notwithftanding found bitter Perfecutors of the ™'th 9fher ' Truth, and Enemies to the VnStion, the anuintedfuch e.U™tial ' One, in whomfioever he doth appear, thereby rendring^0""'' "¦' our ¦* themfelves guilty of all the innocent Blood which ffu V" u 1 hath been fpilt, from the Blood of righteous A- iffers r-in *' f bei even to this Day 3 all which Blood cries aloud t^e-ir 'c0n- ' for Vengeance upon the well-favour'd Harlot, fancy * Myftery, Babilon, who in the Golden Cups of whereto they « goodly fhew of an outward Profemon, hath in- chiefly value ' wardly (with a bitter, ravening and devouring themfelves. ' Spirit) made her felf Drunk with the Blood of * the Saints and Martyrs of Jefus, accounting a.nd ' calling fuch as (like Caleb and jcjhua) mind not / * their own Reputation, Name or Fame, in com- * parifon of their Duty to God and his People, U 3 ' Ran- ' Ranters, Atheifts, Blafphemets, Devils, &c. fo they ' may wourid the Truth, and flay the innocent De- ' fenders thereof 3 whofe harmlefs Souls I fee ly-' ' ing under the Altar of Truth, forely oppreffed * As it at- ' ^or dieir Teftimony thereunto, and. crying oat, readv hath * ^m ^on&> Lord God, Holy and True, will it be e'er 'Jregun to dt ' ^ou ^°fi judge and revenge our Blood ; for whofe E- in their cow- ' le& fake the God of my Salvation will arife, and be- ardty De- ' hold Enmity, Lies, Falfhood, &c. even that Spirit clenfion to ' of Wickednefs, will furely fly, hide it felf and fink. defend them- ' again into the * Bottomlefs Pit from whence it felves from ' came ; " with more to this purpofe, After which ««y feft he further tells them, Charges < Tnat as their bitter Spirit, like Baalams of at their « OJd> hith ]ed them ro Curfe whom God wiI1 tinA-*'' BIefs' and bring over them, they muft fall, and 'noi-70') a&c ' w"'1 Haman, &««/ anc* Herod, be enfnared and wherein as ' takejn, even in the fame Pit of cruel Deceit which' I beheld' ' c^ey have digged for their innocent Brethren. the Sinners ' So thus far, fays he, I am clear from the Blood in Zion to ' of all Men, in that I have not ceas'd, both by be afraid, ' Words and Writing," to forewarn of the coming end the ' of this Antichrift among the Quakers, who (tho' Heart of the ' for their Shew and Numbers have been as the Hypocrite to < stars of Heaven) are for their Pride and Enmi- tremble, in ' m;ty t0 be call down, whofe Fall is the Riches order to . of the WorId# - their pre dicted down fall ; fo the fame brings to Mind a Dream of this our ancient Friend Robert Rich, concerning George Fox their Patron in Anno I6jy, whom the Lord having previoufly jh own him to be a Star falt'n from Heaven -. He thought he was a Hunting a Fox with Hounds, till be ran into a great City, where they being at a Lofs to find him, he at length efpied him in a private Corner, at which he fallinga Whooping and Hallowing in his Sleep, a DogBlood-red, as be thought, ran the Fox quite out of his retiring Place, upon which be awoke -, 1 hope it will not be long e'erjhe Red Dog be well known, that unkennels the Fox reprefented to him. The which, as they had done well, fay I, to have timely weigh'd and confidered, . in order to their true Repentance, to avert thofe threatned Judg- Judgments, Co I muft remind them pf others of their approved Friends Prophetick Teftimonies to the fame purpofe. In purfuanCe whereof, ' That of our Friend Thomas Vpjher, in a certain Manufcript of his lately brought to my Hand, directed To friends in Ireland and elfewhere, under the Title of A mournful Word to the merry hearted in Zion, dated Dublin, the fyth of the %d Month 1699, fhall have the next place in this. my Collection. Wherein, after he hath in reference to" Luke vi. 25. amongft other Scripture Texts, feverely reprehended our depraved Brethren, for the foolifh Talking, Laugh ing and Jefting that is amongft them, he truly tells them, ' That as "they have taken up their Reft too ' foon, the Lord is about to difturb them, and * rouze them up out of their falfe Security 3 for I ' proclaim, fays he, in the Lord's Power, that the ? Time haftens and draws on apace, that Judg- * ment fhall eminently and fearchingly begin at ' the Houfe of God, in his Sanctuary, amongft his ' People, that are peculiarly call'd by his Name j • and the "Unfaithful, the Hypocrite and Rptten-hear- ga^ News ' ted fliall Tremble, with the fhaking Horror of fior q. w. ' his fearching Judgments, infomuch as the very j. p. w. B. ' Pillars of their Houfe fhall Tremble. In a deep and J. W. Senfe whereof he further tells them, with the reft . of tbat de ceitful Tribe of the Second Days Meeting, iiiht as they have been prov'd Unfaithful, Hypocritical and Rotten-hearted to purpofe, may well expeh tbat fhaking Horror, dec. herein foretold of to be theii- Portion, from what of that Nature has already been obferved^ t^ attend them, ' They fhall Weep and Mourn in folitary Pla- * ces, and ftrew their Tears in fecret Corners, if ' that they are not willing to come out to Judg- * ment, at the Sound and Alarm of the Trumpet ' of his Eternal Word 5 and take warning, be hum- ' bled, and cry mightily Day and Night before ' the Lord, that he may take Vengeance fpeedily * upon that idle Spirit that is amongft them : " U 4 " With ( JI2) with-much more to this purpofe. In Confirmation whereof, He further declares, That he was under a ne- ceffity to remind them, of the late * Prophecy of that Ancient, Eminent and Faithful Meffenger and Minifter of Jefus Chrift, William Edmundfon in Dublin at this Half- Years Meeting, That a drcadfel Day of Di fir efts wai haftening en apace, and fhould fure* ¦ ly come to pafs, in which the Lord would Dung the Ground in this and other Nations, with the Carcajfes of Men, ds well as fhakp the fair and lofty Buildings of many, with the pleajant Things they delighted in, as furely as ever it w appear in publick, Teftimony without a right Cemmiffu , on from the Lord, that he might be glorified, and bin People -comforted ; with much more to this purpofe. Whereby though he and his Scribe Tomfon (like Baalam of Old , concerning the depraved Ca naanites) feem'd to have a Senfe. of our chief Lea ders- Apoftacy, as a Warning to themfelves, (3c. of their Corruptions. Yet have we caufe to fufpect, they are as deep in the Dirt as the other is in the Mire, from the Prophetick Teftimonies of Three others of their profefs'd Friends, by way of Voice 'and Signs, at our Midfwmmer Quarter Meeting in Anno 17 11. whofe Names are Samuel Shaw, Timothy Burgis and Mary Pdrkf, all of this Town of Steeford, where-, in, as thp firft plainly heard a Voice which cried; aloud within him, with relation to thisT/>e»»<# Wil-} fen, A Wo is me for him, a Wo is me for him, a Wq is me for him,, three Times fucceffively, to his no fmall furprifal, confidering the peculiar Reverence. ; he heretofore bore him 5 fo the fecond was made to roar out after a moft difmal rate againft his de praved CoUegue 3 and the laft forcibly carried off her Seat Time after Time towards the Gallery," with her Fill doubled and Arm fhaking moft afto- nifhingly towards them and the reft o£ their Fel low-Preachers, as they feverally rofe up to exer cife their Gifts, as an evidence of God's threatned Vengeance againft them, to their great Amaze ment 3 all which was further confirmed to us by the powerful Operation of the Spirit: upon T. B. a few Mornings' after, when he was bemoaning their deplorable State, in forcibly caufing him to pur forth his Hajid out of Bed, and take hold of a Bi ble in his reach, and read the firft Chapter that opened, which proved to be the Ninth of Ezekiel, as an Additional Inftance, that the Contents there of will (for their Error, Herefy, Apoftacy, Hypo crify, (3c. without true Repentance,) moft forrow- fully affect them, how much foever fome of them may have hardened themfelves againft all fears of it, on account of the unhappy failure two of the * faid "ce to our • to he, they would excel all others 5 but this is Foxonian « not the Cafe with them now, for they being ig- Motions) fe '¦« norant of my Righteoufnefs, go about to efta- * {a?"e i* blifh a Righteoufnefs of their own, but have not £Lil* * fubmitted themfelves to the Righteoufnefs, which "iv d^a^ai * is by Faith in my Son : They pretend to the grea- yy m fili-'' ' teft Humility, but, know ye my Children, this „ent obedi- ' doth not confift in their Form 5 for true Humi- ence to this ' lity confifteth in this, That they_ behold them- Prophetick 'felves fimple, foolifh Nothings, ignorant Crea- Difpenfati- ' tares, laying themfelves low at the Feet of their on, to the ' Lord, and -fubmit to his TeachingS3 but this they Honour of ' pretend to, is what they wilfully and obftinately God> an^ my ' reject : They are a proud, felf-conceited, a Pha- SouFsfiatU- , rifaical People,* but this they, cannot bear to hear, J" *"" 'for C $20 ; for they are a People Wife in their own Eyes, and fay in their Hearts to others, Stand by, I am Holier than thou ; they are as a Smoak in my No- flrils, and as a Fire that burneth all the Day. This, this is the Abomination my Soul hateth, but Wo, Wo, Wo, to the Rejectors of the Mef fage of my Spirit, which I have promifed fliall guide them in all Truth 5 but this they think they are guided into already, and think they need no higher Teaching 3 but Alas, Alas, what fliall I fay to thefe Things ? Shall their Righte oufnefs plead for them ? No 3 for this is not a fufficient Plea for them. Remember, I fay, they are eftablifhing one of their own 3 for fhould ye ask many of them, what is the Ground of their Faith ? What it is they hope to be faved by ? They would come fhort of a fufficient Anfwer," they are ready to plead their Righteoufnefs^ their Obedience, their Humility, but this is riot fuffici-1 ent, for only Bleffed is the Man to whom the Lord imputeth not Sin, likewife, Bleffed is that Man in whofe Heart there is no Guile 3 but where fliall be found fuch a Man? Only the Man Chrift Jefus, for it was him alone that was the true Ifraelite in whom there was no Guile found, and in no other 3 but thefe their Babilcnifh Ways fhall be brought down in a little time 3 for thofe who are the greateft Condemners of Babilon, they, I fay, are in the midft, yet they are blind and cannot fee, nay, many of them are even as bad as thofe that go to the Pope for Pardon, for whilft they look at their own Qualifications, as I may fay, many, many of them do, as pleading of their own Righteoufnefs to be meritorious, they tinder-va lue my Son and his Righteoufnefs, never corifi- dering what Perfection they muft ftand in 3 for as I laid already, 'tis in him who is without Guile, for in him I behold ye perfect, and wherein there is the leaft Imperfection, I can not behold fuch fpotlefs 3 but this is in my Son alone, for their own Righteoufnefs is of no va lue : 0 my Children, This is not their Cafe ' alone_, C 321 ) ' alone, but, many, many befides them 3 fearch di* ' ligently and fee, whether ye are, not ignorant of ' this alfo 5 ca.ft your Eyes inward- Can ye fay, I ',,khow wherein my Perfection lies 3 fee that ye ' are empty of every Thing that is in Oppofition ' to this, for Thoufands of Oppofitipns and Ten '.Thoufands rife up in your Souls* for this is that * which oppofes my Son, and undervalues him : ' ."What think ye of him, who trod the Wine-Prefs ' alone, and of the People there was none with ' him, did he npt perfect the Work? Did he. (not * Cry but, It was finifhed ? let none therefore plead ',any Thing of their own Works, for this is an A- ' Domination to me, therefore abhor it in your * felves : Did he not bear the 'Wrath due to you? 1 And had he not done it, you had all been mife- , f rable :. For nothing can ye do, no Righteoufnefs ' of yours is fufficient to prevail widi me for ths " leaft Sin of yours, how much lefs then for, the ' greateft ? O ! confider therefore, and give Glory * to him, to whom it is due, "let him have all, the ' Glory, who is the Beginning and Ending of your ' Salvation, who. is now at the Right-Hand ofthe ' Father pleading for you, who will appear in nis ' glorious Majefty, and will give ro every one his *, Reward, even according to >their„Righteoufnefs : ' But, confider my' Children,' what is faid of him, ' He is the Lord your Rjghteoufnefs ; therefore in this ; *,Righteoufnefs ye fhall be found, but the Wicked ' according to their Doings .- Therefore admire ¦ *- diat Righteoufnefs ,in the Lamb, ' in which all ' his Cfturch ihuft be fpotlefs, and in which Ray- 4 ment flfe fhall be adorned, fo as the Bridegroom ' may rejoyce over his Spoufe.3 this is the Wedding ^'Garment ye muft ftand in, therefore fee none of ' you come fhort of this. , Thus far the Holy Spirit through M. TurnerK-$.\\ detection of their Infidelity, the Caufe of all their Misfortunes in this World, and Danger of Eter^ ftal Damnation iii "the other, if they come not to a timely Senfe of it,' in order to their true Repen- $nce of the Caufe that leads to it 3 for which end' X" '. I ( J22 ) I muft next remind them of what, the fame Holy Spirit fpoke, through his- faithful 'Servant and their once well approved Friend Guy Nutt, on the ink of 'Novemherxfio, to an Affembly or their People in ' Meath-Street in Dublin, as fet forth in a printed Treatife, entitled* A Warning of' the Holy and E7 temal Spirit to the People called Quakers, (3c where* in we are told as follows, ' That as1 he the faid Guy Nutt was fent to. the ' faid Meeting by the. exprefs Commandment of ' the Holy Spirit, feveraj times repeated through * himfelf and others, whilft three of their Prea- * chers were fpeaking, he was for the moft part of * the Time under the Operation of tlje Holy Spi- ' rit, which was vifibly feen by the moyihgs, of * his Body 3 at laft he ftood up in the Power and ' Spirit Pf the Lord, fliaking his Right-Arm, and ' often turning himfelf about, with his Eyes of ' pen, as a Sign ofthe Difpleafure of God againft ' them : After the third Preacher had fpoken, he ' fpeaking in Conclufion ofthe Light, the Spirit * through Guy Nutt faid, ' But you have departed from tfie Life. ' Upon which a Preacher falling to Prayer, when i he had done, Guy Nutt under the powerful Ope- ' ration of the Holy and Eternal Spirit of God, I fpoke as follows, ' The great I Am hath fent me unto you, the God v * of Ifrael hath commanded me to come unto your Afe ' fembly 5 Thus faith the Lord, you have forfaken the ' Lord, ayid I will not JheH your felemp AJfcmblies, ,f until you return again unto me, the Lord. , * The Preachers hurrying the People out of the * Meeting, the Spirit continued on Guy Nutt, and 4 he with a loud Voice faid, ' Whether you will, hear, or whether you will for~ * bear, the Mouth of the Lord hath fpoken, I have de- ' livered and declared the Mejfagc of the Lord, faith- ' fully -. Tou judge not the Father lefs, neither doth the * Caufe of the Widow come near you 5 your. Pride, and ' your Covetoufnefts doth teflifie unto your Faces ; your * Silver ani your Gold will not deliver you in that great i and * dnd tertibfebay of the Lord that wit break], forth', ' who will come in flaming Fire, Yenning Vengeance on ' all that know not God, nor obey' his gracious Gofpel ; ' . Tqu opprefs one another, your Prdy&s is an Abomina- * tion 3 your covering the Altair of the Lord with Tears, * your otitfttkfhew cannot deceive the Lord, though you * deceive the People j you makg mention of the Lord, ' and call your felves by the Name of the God o/Ifra- ' el, but not in Truth, nor in Rjghteoujhefs : Confii- 1 der thefe Things, and turn unto the Lord your God j ' you ftay your felvei upon the God oj rIfrael, you fay het * is your God, ani ye are his People ; you have loft the' , ' Innocency of the Dove : you appear before Men to be ' Righteous, although your Righteoufnefs is as filthy '• Rdgs; the Lordhdth now fent forth this Voice, to 4 warn the People 5 you came forth in the Power of God, but you have finned it away, fpeakjng Lies, and ut- '• tering Words of Falfhood; the Searcher of all Hearts ; ' is come 5 what you do in fecret, the Lord will caufe „ ' it to be proclaim' 'd on the Houfe Top. ' He bemg commanded by the Spirit to vifit ' their Meeting again on the 14AA iriftant, being' ' the Day caR'd Tuefday, and coming into their Af- * fembly when no Perfon was fpeaking, he, under * the Operation of the fame Holy Spirit, fpoke as * follows, ' Ton came out iff the Power of the Lord, but you ' halite departed from this Power, and that Power is ' departed from you, you fpeak. the Imaginations of your * own Heart: ' Then they oppofed him, on which he faid, ' The Porter and Spirit of the Lord is upon me, who 4 Jhatl hinder ? Fear you ahd tremble, confider ytur ' fWdfe and be Wife : Have you forgot fince the Lord ' didfhake the Bodies of the People called Quakers ? ', The Lord's Controverfie is with you-. ' Then they laid Hands on him, pulling and ' forcing him Put of their Affembly, he being all' 'the while under the Operation of the Spirit, ' faid, ' Tou were turn d' out of the Synagogues your felves, 4 and now yott turn others out. ¦'¦'¦'¦'- X a ! Then ( 3*4 ) '"Then they turn'd him out of their Yard intd ' the Street, the Spirit being ftill upon him, he ' turn'd to them and faid thus, ... ' Tou fhall be made a Derifion unto all People. ' On which he and. his Friends returned to their ' Lodging, where foon after the Spirit came on ' him again, and faid, ' Tou fhall return again. 'Which Order of the Spirit, was obey 'd, and * they remaining. till the Meeting was near done,- ' he being under the Operation of the Holy SpL- * rit almoft all the Time, turning himfelf often- ' round, fhaking his Arm, . which was lifted up,> * as a Sign of God's Difpleafure againft them, was by .them drove out again into their Yard, .calling ' him Falfe Prophet ; he being flijl under the Opera- ' tion of the Spirit, fpoke faying, . . • ' Tou fhall now hear the Voice of the True Prophet j ''; that is come to Teach his Peopfe himfelf. Thus far Guy Nutt concerning the Voice of the Xord to our depraved Quakers, vyhofe Coming I have caufe to fear will be to their forrow, from ,"' what was further fpoke to them by two others of his infpired Servants and Meflengers (whofe Names axe.Mary Kilmer and Mary Beer) at their Meeting, at Briftol, thi 16th of the fame Month of No vember, Anno 17.10, where divers of them amongft others being affembled, the Spirit through Mary t\eimer declared a* follows, ' The Lord hath font forth a Voice, and it is. ' the Duty of every Soul to heaxken fo that Voice, ' for behpld, the great and terrible Day of the ' Lord, is at Hand, and he that will not make, ' hafte and get himfelf ready, fhall be for ever ex-. ' eluded that Kingdom which is going to be efta- ' blifhed 3 therefore let every Soul flee unto the ' Lord 3 for quickly, and Wo upon Wo fliall * come upon the Inhabitants of this City, for the '..Lord hath beheld, your Iniquity, and his Wrath is kindled, becaufe of your Tranfgreflion and *' Sins, , -lie will no longer bear with your Pride '. and Infolence, therefore be warned, for the Lord 'has • has fpoke/ and he will furely bring to pafs what '-he hath faid, therefore let every Soul Fear and ' ¦ Tremble 5 for he who is will quickly make his ' Power known. When Mary Kfimer began to fpeak, one of the Quaker Women that had been preachifig before, cried out, A Spirit of Divination, A Spirit of Di vination, &c. another faid, God was a God of Order and not of Confufion ; upon which another cried, Pull them down, pull them down, bidding the Peo ple depart, depatt, but the greateft part flaying, to the no fmall Mortification of the reft, one of them advis'd the People to be fettled and fixed, and not mind the Lo here's and Lo there's, but beftable, with more to this purpofe 3 after Which (and that Ma ry Ksimer had donej one Paul Moon cried out, How durft thou pretend. to Jpeak, here in the Name of It feems Ma^ God with fuch a vain Hedd-Drefs on ? Whereupon ry Keiraer the Spirit falling upon Mary Beer, fhe fpoke a$ bad not the follows, Quakers ¦'-,-',. , ',,' Mark on her forehead, for want of which, as they could not own the Holy Spi rit tbat fpoke through her, I doubt not but if the Angel, the Di vine John Jpeaks of had now appeared, and fiworn Time fhould be no longer, as' he {/id 'in the Revelations, they would have difiowned him' as a Meffenger of Satan, for theriin contradicting theDoftrin of George Fox their' Apoftle, as well as they didM&ry Keitucr/er her Heai-Drefs they fpeak of. '* Who is "it that rifeth up againft God ?. Have' f you fet your, felves in the Temple and Seat of * God, judging as Gods, and fhall not this your * Wifflom be confounded ? Who is it ye profefs « to wait for, that ye thus refufe a Voice coming < forth in the Name of God ? Are ye Rich and * Full, and need nothing more ? If fo, ye know « the Sentence already paft upon fuch 5 therefore «, let every one Fear 3 ye are warned, therefore f can ye not plead Ignorance in that Day, where- * in the Judgments of God will defcend, not only ' upon the Iprophane BJafphemers of his Name, < but all thofe that .call themfelves his People, and * ferve him not : Why is it ye are thus ftupid and X 3 ', *linA» ( v* ) *: blind '?, What is it thus lulls yo«: afleepi fo asthif ', ye will not be awakened, though; the Lord hint-' ' ; felf fpeak unto you ? It is not a Thing lightly to • ' ' be efteem'd, neither to be trifled with, for he ,' that is Holy, will have every Heart fo that ap- ' proacheth unto him : Are ye all cloathed with ' the Robe of Righteoufnefs, which will give you ' admittance into his Kingdom ? Are ye ready to ' enter in when the Bridegroom cometh ? Are yst ' fuch wife Virgins as have prepared your Lamps. '. with Oil, ftanding with your. Loins girt, ami '; your Lights burning ? If fo, then I fay, rejoyce '•and be glad, for behold the Bridegroom of your 'Souls cometh, to receive his Church fpotlefs un- * to himfejf 3 but let all that are not fo prepared* ', get ready, Mourn, Weep and Lament, for the ' Day of Defolation is at Hand, and the Time of -;* avenging himfelf upon his Enemies is even no*$) ', come 3 be ye therefore ready that ye may ftand :* before him. . ¦ ; The next is a Warning of the Holy Spirit, de livered to the fame People called Quakers, at a publick Meeting of theirs in Worcefter, Anno ljiz, through his Servant Hannah Wharton, as follows, ' By what Rule da ye judge ? Who is he that ' darkens Counfel by a multitude of Words ? Sajr ' vation is eftablifhed upon an everlafting Cover ' nant .- Be it known unto you, O People, whe- '-< ther ye will hear or no, . ye muft truft, the ' Righteous God will difcover your Hypocrify 5 ' known unto him is the Secrets of all Hearts 5 f the Day of the Lord is at Hand;, wherein he will ' fever the, Precious from the Vile 3 the Almighty ' hath fent his Voice this Day 3 they that do re* ' fufe it, refute him that fpeaketh from Heaven j * every Man's Work muft be tried in this Day, the ' Pollution of Men's Works muft be purged in * and by the Blood of Jefus, elfe will he remain * filthy 3 O ye defpifers of the Righteoufnefs and J Blood of Jefus, know ye, God will judge ye. Thus ( 1*7 ) Thus far the Warnings of our Modern infpired Friends, concurrent to our Quaker Prophets afore- , mentioned, concerning God's flaming Difpleafui e againft them (as well as othersj for their nume rous Provocations therein fpecified 3 with which, as the fincere amongft them hath true Union, their Ancient and ever Honourable Friend James Jack- fen hath particularly fignaliz'd himfelf, in fetting forth fomewhat of the Effects of their Apoftacy, Pf the following Lines in Verfe, well worth their Obfervation. r fe Citizens wist the Name of Quaker bear, *<1'--T See his Ap- From your firft Love degenerated are, • peal to Coun- Wliich is the Mark, -whereby Chrift's Flock, is known, try Friends Where this is hft, the Lord will fiuch difiwn ; againft the 'Tis mere Delufion, to fuppofe we can " City Quakers Religion without Charity maintain; '< vnchriftian lb, once belov'd of God, are now become Carriage to- Acceldema, Spiritual Sodom* -, TT, \ ,'" '' In whom all Chriftian Tendernefs Moft, And this Worlds Spirit hath their Hearts engroft. Where Chrift in his Divinity is crucify d, And infpir'd Mejfengers abus'd and villlfy'd; Where they that wait on th'Spirit's Minlftration Muft be cut off by Excommunication ; PVhefe Chrift's Jpeakjng in Man, and the Effufion Of th'Holy Ghoft, are Condemn d for Delufion; Where Hypoaritcs fo impudent are grown, That he that' s'mefl Guilty cafts the firft Stone, And he that hath a Beam in his own Eye, The fmalleft Mote in's Brother's doth efpy ; And he that muy with Pharifees be parallel, Strain at the fmalleft Gnat, andfwallow a Camel - * ' Here they tbat own immediate Revelation, Scorn and contemn th' Almighty's Injpiratien. The formal Quaker thus, till Teeth meet, bites, Such feeming Saints prove real Hypocrites ; And as for Blafphemy, that's over all their Sin dfcendant, Epidemical, <¦-- What fhall we fay to common Sinners now, When Cfrjr Friends the toorft of Crimes allow ? X 4 But p. ii, 13. ( ?2g ) .But fence ye thus the Holy Ghoft defie, 'Tis a clear Sign that your Deftrullion's nigh ; Can you be fetfeat Home, or bleft abroad,- Wlio' tints wage War againft the Living God? ''*•¦ Tour Judgment-Seat, Pulpits and Mobb unite »'¦'- -¦ Againft the Truth, to judge, to preach, to figiit :" i Nay, then there's Cdufe, tho' once '.your great Ally Heaven fhould turn en you its whole Attillery. Won't ye from Enmity againft, Chrift refrain, ^ 'Till Flames of. burning Brimftone .onyou rain, C Oh then you II gnafh your Teeth and gnaw yourTongues\ (for pain,* The Mobbs Club^Law fplitsCafe.of Confcience, they < Throw Stones by Sentence, and Anathema 5 Here you are arm'd with Jhert-horn'd Arguments, Others with Tip flaves, Fines, . Imprifewments, Caveats, falfe AccUfiations, - Pillories, >'¦ With Brick-bats, pirt, Squibs, Dung, with Taunts* - .-.-.¦•" ... '. ' ( andLies'S Thus fturdy Giants proudly ftorm. the Skies. » Heaven's Arms are Thunders, Lightnings, Tempefts '¦• ',' ( dire, Sword, Famine, Peftilence, Earthquake, Water, Fire. Stand off Spectators, clear the Stage, give way, See whether Chrift or th' 'Dragon win the Day. Thus far our ancient and truly worthy (though their gready oppreffed) Friend Jjames Jackson; to whofe Prophetick Teftimony 1 had fome Thoughts of adding a late one of their Friend -. Eleanor Hd&-m dok., to the fame purpofe, but as the fame is pub lifhed in Print, where it may behead by -all that defire it 3 (inafmuch as their much admired Friend Charles Marfhal, was (at their Publick Mix'd Meet ing at Horflydown in Anno 1683) made to declare in their Au4ience, That their Glory was departed, . and Crown takjn from them, and given to another Peo- See ber Bookfo' as the Widow had in effedlalfo foretold them) of Warnings. I mau conclude this my Collection of Prophecies with what has been made known, by way of Vi fion, (3c to pur Friend Ann Steed of London, " in confirmation of them, as fhe in Arim 17 10, gave m« ( J*9 ) me an Account thereof in Writing, by the Lord's exprefs Direction ; which as it contains an ample Relation of their, Apoftacy and Spiritual Tyranny •heretofore fo juftly complain'd of, I. Jthall rrani fcribe at large, in order to their better Inftruction; as follows, -¦- ' I being in the Year 1694 one Morning in. VI- ' fioft, faw my felf coming fspm Deptferd, near a * place called the Half-way Houfe, where was a 'fhort Lane enclos'd with Hedges newly prup'd; •' and the cut Thorns, Briars and Nettles laid crofs -' over the Path whereon I was to paft 5 at the «n- ' trance of which Lane was a Bridge, by one end f of the Rail whereof flood the Lord Jefus Chrift .' in a foiemn Vefture, and turn'd himfelf to me * and fpoke thefe Words, .,* I am thy Captain, I go before thee, obferve well my ' Jcootfteps, follow thou -pie. ' Then he went on before me over thofe rend-' ' ing Thorns, Briars' and Nettles that lay over -the * Path in the Lane j and I in great concern of * Mind, took diligent heed to fet my Feet exactly ' in his Footfteps throughout the fame 3 in which ' though the Thorns, (3c hurt me oluth, yet as * he trod down all the worft of them, I carefully ' followed him through. and over them all, till I ' came at the end of the Lane, when my Lord dif- ' appear'd, and the Vifion clos'd, By which I was 'foiefhown. the Sufferings I have fince met with ' for my Chriftian Teftimony againft the Depraved ' amongft our People called Qiiakers upon the fol- .' lowing Occafiqns j in order whereto ' A few Months after, this,, the Lord laid a li*- ' ving Concern upon me, one Morning about the it fifth Hour, to go then to my dear Friend Charles •'• M#rfhal, to ask him two Queftions, to bear-his - ;fAnfwer to them. ....- ,,. . . ;'j Accordingly I went to his Houfe, though in f fome meafure crofs to my own Wili, on account -' ofthe earlinefs of rthe Morning 3 where when I -' came, notwithftanding I found him up, and was ' readily, let in to him, his Servant feeing drawing 1 on. < 11° ) on Jiis fi^ots, in order to his going a Journey with freed 5 and as foon as he heard me in a Room, before I came at him, he called me to come in aind fit down, faying, ifhaU be with thie immediately. ¦" ¦• - ¦¦< ' Accordingly he came to me as foon as his Boots were on, and took me by the Hand; and looked earneftly in my Face, and laid, ' Thou' Servant of the moft High God, I know thy Bufinefs, and what thou art borne xfout, ; I few thee this Morning in it Vifion of tbe Lord -. The Anfiwer to thy Queftions I have left by my iWife, nettffity cal ling me to be gone in three Minutes, Friends wait ing for me at an Inn where my Horfe » ; wherefote let me fee thee at my Return, if the Lord will, thdt we may have feme Communication together. And then pointed trie to the Room where his Wife was, of whom he told me> I fhould have' his An fwers to my Queftions. ' Accordingly I went to her full of Heavenly Joy, and after a very loving- Salutation, fhe faid to me, I fuppofe thou art the Friend my Husband faw in a Vifton this Morning, fit thee down? and dtin\ a Dips of Chocolate, and I witl give thee his ¦ Art- fiver te thy- Queftions, in order whetetd let me hedr them. '• '¦''¦ ' Queftion i. Ought Men te quench the Spirit ? * Anfwer, No. * Queftion 2. Ought they to defpife Prophef/ing ? ' Anfwer. No. ' Upon which I took my Leave of her, and re turned to hiy outward Habitation again, with infinite fatisfaction to my poPr ^bowed down Soul. ' Then as nigh as I can remember, about a Week after, I had the like Impulfe to gp to Francis Stamper on a prefixed Day, about Eight in the Morning, when finding him in his -Shop doing fomewhat at a Watch, he fpying me thro" the fame Window I faw him, went round to wards the Door ori the infide, as I did on the out- fide to meet him, and faid when I came to him, J Thou "¦- ' Thou Servant tffhe moft High Ged, that artgrtau ' ly beloved, I know thy Bufinefs, and what thou art- '. come about. Kytoweft thou, faid I (in a fofentn A- '. mazement) wjsttt J am come about } tje anfwered, 'I few thee this Morning in a Vifion of the ¦¦Almigh- *. ty, wilt .thott pleafe to walk, up Stairs with me ? I ' anfwered, Tes, very wittingly. :-*¦ When we came in the Chamber, he fat him ' down on a Couch, and faid Sit thee down heret ' which I had no fooner dpne, but the glorious 's Power and Prefence of the Lord fo over-fhadow- * ed for about half an Hour, as that we were both ' diffolved into Tears of Joy dnexprefiible, in '- which we were made free in Communication to * each other of: what' had been fliown us in the 1 Vifions ofthe Ateiighty, confirmed by their Cbn- ', Jiftency and harmonious Agreement one with a- * norher, to my great Confojation and Incourage- ' ment in my future Services. ' For I having been fome time preparing, by the * feveral Exercifes of the Spirit thp Lord brought ' upon me, to go forth in way of Teftimony in '. our publick Meetings againft the great Depra- ' vity of many of our moft noted- Leaders in this ' City of' London, 5 1, in a Senfe of my own Weak- ' nefs, was a few Months after this greatly bow- ' ed odewn in my Spirit, under a Senfe of the 'Weight of my Service amongft them, which f fome Friends perceiving by fome Words I deli* ' vered, Elizabeth Collet, Hamnah Haynes zndMar- \g&r,et Drayton were fent to me, to enquire into ' the Occafion of' my great Exercife, as well as '¦ with relation to.the Sufferings' I met with from ' my Husband, who all dealt very tenderly with ' me 3 but others perceiving my Concern to be ' chiefly on a Spiritual Account, they, for fear I f flictald go forth in a Spirit of Prophecy againft ' feme amongft us, endeavoured to diffwade me> .' faying, They would upon my defefting undertake to * anfwer to God for me, or Words to that purpofe, ' Whereunto I returned, That as the Concern I am i engag'din, I do believe, is tbe Lord's j it is not you-, * ibm ( ??.« > fbutl, that muft anfwer for my Difobedience, if * Guilty. ' However, upon' Account bf their great uneafi- J nefs with any thing of that nature from me, I,' * in a Senfeof my. own Weaknefs to breakthrough' * that hard-heartednefs I found amongft .our chief ' Leaders, earneftly entreatedthe Lord for three ' Weeks together, to fuffer me to lay down the * Commifllon at his Feet again he had given me,' ' if it might confift with his Divine Pleafure," ' wherein he was at length gracioufly pleafed to ' grant my humble Requeft for about eleven Years" ' fpace 3 after" which it was renewed again with ' more Authority than before, fo as that after fe- ' venteen Weeks great Exercife of Soul in order ' to my Preparation, I was finally,' with no final! ' reluctancy, caused to go forth to moft of our ' Friends Meetings in and near Town, to deliver": ' what the Lord had laid> upon me to declare ' therein. 'The firft Meeting T went to was Long-Acre * Meeting, and the firft Words that forcibly open- * ed my Mouth therein under a terrible trem- J bling of my Perfon, were as follows, ' The Glory of God is departed from Ifrael, and the I Ark, of God is taken. ' Which laft Words was fhown me to have Re- * latibn to fuch amongft us as had dealt falfly with ' the Covenant 5 in the delivery whereof j the ' Teeth of fome were obferved by one Elizabeth ' Clark, to check in their Mouths, as fhe afterwards! ' told me. ' The Week after this, I was epnftrained by the ' Power of the Lord, to go to Weftminfter Meeti ' Ing, to declare the near approaeh of the. Great ' and Terrible Day ofthe Lord 5 wherein the firft * Words' I fpoke, by the powerful Force of the ' Holy Spirit irrefiftibly operating on my Soul and ' Body, were as follows, ' Who is this that cometh from Edoni, with dy'd ' Garments from Bozra, travelling in. the Greatnefs of { his Strmgth ? It is I the Lord, mighty to fave ? Why I art ( 333) t,,ari thou Red in thine. Apparel^ astne that treads in ' the Wine Fat ? I have trod the Wine-Prefs alone, , ' and of the People there was none with me ; I will ' tread them down in mine Anger, and trample them ' in my Fury ; I will fprinkle my Garments With tlieir * Blood, and willftain all my Raiment ; for the Day ' 'of Vengeance is in my Hetprt, and the Tear of my Rg- 'Tde'emedis come. * All which Words being delivered under a 'great Trembling of my Perfon, I was made in '-"¦that Pofture to put forth my Hand towards Ri- ' chard Needham in the Gallery before me, and fay, J- Take thou thofe Words home with thee. * 'After which I removed, and fate me down in ' an obfcure Place in the Meeting, under a living' 'liSenfe pf the further Concern I had yet to go thti- 'i rough 3 when feeling great Pain in my Body, , as '•a Woman in ftrong Travail, through the.Anguifh '; whereof, as I was finking down to the Ground, ' I cried mightily to the Lord to preferve mefrom' ' falling, whereupon my Pain was inftantanioufly ' 'Lremoved, and I got Strength to recover my felf, ' fo as to keep my Seat, ' After this I was conftrained to go ' to Grace-' ' :€hurch-Street Meetings arid, there, in greater Pow- l er than ever, declare as follows, ' God has called a ravenous Bird from the Eaft, the '.Man that Jhdlt execute my Judgments from afar' '¦Country; I have fpoken it, I will alfo bring it to" '..pafs,.Ihavepurpofed it, a,nd it fhaU ftand ; and! ' faw an Angel ftand in the Sun, and. he cried with' a 'Joud Voice, faying to all the Fowls flying in the midft ' of Heaven, Come and gather your felves together un- *' t'» the Supper of the great God, that you may eat 'the Flefh of Kings, and the Flefh of Captains, and'Wh'tch was ' , the Flefh of Mighty Men, and the Flefh of Horfes, '»"de known ', .and the Flefh of them that fit thereon, and the Flefh ;" her to be 'wf- all Men, both Bend and Free, both Small and^0fe lordly i n~,.. Pretenders ^¦Qrreat. > . .-.¦-. „ amongft us, stid others who had affumed the Place of Kings, Captains and Ru lers over our Faith and Confidences, cenfenant to our 'Friend George SifflopS Prophetick Teftimony in p. 17* of his Book of Warnings to t Ki"g ( 334 J King Charles II. compared with p. 4, $. of his fturden of Babylon, and p. 11, 14, 15, z6. of bis llluminMions, -with his whole Epiftle ef Love, in defence of this our Friend A. S.S Co-nflru'ction. ' Whilft I was declaring, this Prophetick Warn-" * ing under the powerful operation of the Lord's* ' Holy Spirit, with my Eyes fhut towards the, Gal-' ' lery, where George Whitehead fate amongft others- '. of our Preachers, the faid George Whitehead^ a*sl ' was afterwards inform'd, beckon'd to Samuel * Waldmfeifd to kneel down to Prayer, to end the ' Meeting, in order to flop me, as he did aceor- ' dingly3 upon which, after he had done,, fome" ' publick Country Friends, that had a Divine Serife *: of the greatnefs of my Concern, came to me a- ' mongft others, and gave me their Hands, in much' ' fweetnefs, to my' great Comfort,, one of which1 ' more couragious than the reft, bidding me Go up' ', Stairs to the Miniftring Friends in the Chamber, and* 1 askithem what I had fpoftm thm gave them Offenke* 4 againft me ? Which putting Courage into my poor ' drooping SouL I went up accordingly, and found ' George Whitehead with his. Back towards me,, re- ' fleeting hardly upon me (do a Friend that fate *¦ with his Face towards- him) as a Woman poffeft ' ' with ftrange Notions Friends could not hove U-* ' nion with 3 which the Friend he fpoke to per- ' ceiving me hear, by Signs gavel him Notice of ' my being by him 5 upon which he fuddenly turn- ' ing himfelf, and catching hold of my Hand as " one in amaze, L in a forrowful Senfe of his ' caufelels HardnelV towards me, thus fiud unto ' ' him, ' George, what have I done, that thou Jhouldeft ' thus pour Contempt on me lik? Water ? Whereto he ' ' anfwered, Thou preached falfe DjtBtine. I asked ' him, Wherein? Didft thou not Jay, A Ram from ' the Eaft i- I anfwered, No, A Ravenous Bird from ' the Eaft. Then, faid he, I miftook\thy Words. Up- ' on which, O George, faid I, is it a ground for * thee to pour Contempt upon a poor Creature, through a ' Miftakp of her Words } ' Where- (335) , * Whereupon fome Friends, queftionlngi _ whe2 * ther there were any fuch Words in the Scripture \ as I mentioned, one inftantly turned to a Bible * and found them 5 upon which George Whitehead ' being greatly confounded, go; off his Sear, and ' walked about the, Room in much uneafinefs ; * »\yhen Samuel Waldenfetld comipg up, I was made ' to meet him, and take hold of his Hand and fay, ' O Samuel, how comes it to pafs, that thou Jhouldcft * aB fiuch a Thing As thou haft dime this Day towards '*. me ? Whereupon he, in a Spirit of Love embra- '¦ ced me, and acknowledg'd, he was forry for I what he had done in that Matter. ' After this, the fame Day, I was moved of the ' Lord to 1 vifit our worthy Friend John Butcher, *¦ who though not at the Meeting, had heard of ' my Exercife and Sufferings therein 3 foon after ' I came he fate dow.n to Supper, and bad. me fee ' down with him j ipunediately after which, he ' handed me a particular Difh prepared for his: ' own Eating, and wifh'd me to take it, and would ' not be denied by my Entreaties. ' After Supper, we fell into Difcpurfe of the Af- * fairs of the Day, concerning which he expref- ' fed his great diffatisfaction with Friends Beha- ' viom- towards me, faying, He wifh'd he had been ' there to prevent it. ' That Night I, at his and his Wife's Requeft,' ' Lodging at his Houfe, he found himfelf obliged ' the next Morning to inform me, how his dear ' Wife wa$ ordered in a Dream, to warn him not ' to appear againft me in Judgment, faying, as I A. remember, Have thou nothing to do againft that * Juft Woman 5 upon which he carried himfelf ve- Jlry tenderly towards me. ' However, I being uneafie in my Mind not- ' withftanding, upon account of other Friends ' Hardnefs towards me, (who whilft they in Words '. fometimes feemed to own me, by their Actions at ' others fliew the contrary) thus faid unto him, I John; C 33° ) ' John, I befeech thee let me know the worft, whe- * they I be owned or difewned by you ? Whether it be ' the one or the other, it fhall be equal to me. Up- ' on which, How Ami/fays he with a foiemn Look," ' how doft thou mean Equal ? I mean, faid I, juft as 'I fay. Why wouldft thou, fays he, willingly be cui ' oSfrofo the Liiiing in Ifrael ? I anfwered with a 1 Weight unexpreflible, All the Art of Devils and ' Men will never be able to cut me off from the Living ' God 0/ Ifrael. Upon which, Well, come Ann, fays ' he, comfort thy felf, for this Day I defign to make ¦ ' thy Trouble my Trouble, and thy Grief my Grief; 1 which bringing great eafe to my ' difeonfolate ' Soul, I refolved to wait the Iffue by his Anfwer 1 at his Return 5 in order whereto, he forthwith ! went to divers Friends of rriy Acquaintance, to ' enquire concerning fny Gonverfation, W"no givirig 1 him a high Character of my InnocenCy and Ho- ' nefty, as I was afterwards inform'd, he from ' them went to others, where meeting with con-' ' trary Intimations? as I had ground to believe, he ' refufed to fee me at his Return (inftead of giv- 1 ing me the Arifwer I waited for)- to the great en- 1 Create of my Burthen. ' After which, fome Friends thinking to divert nry Concern of this Nature fo much to their dif- fatisfaction, made ufe of this John Butcher, a- mongft others, to make Reconciliation between" me arid my Husband, from whom I was necet- fariiy feparated through the mean's of his-great Wickednefs towards me, (concerning which they were no Strangers) thinking our dwelling toge ther might be a mearis to preferve me from my Notions, as they called them 3 to which I affen- ting to humour them, much againft my own In clinations, under a, Senfe of the Danger I fhquld be expofed to through his barbarous Difpofure, (for which the Lord might juftly hold them ac countable, as I told them) immediately found my Fears verified, by his feveral Attempts of my DeftruCtion ; in prdej- whereto, as he fet aSkreeri on Fire ai the bottom of the Stairs to the Cham- -' her ( 3373) ber where I lay, to burn me iii my Bed whilft afleep, (ftom which the Lord miraculoufly prer ferved me, by commanding me in a Vifion of the Night, To arife And hafte down Stairs without Cloaths, when I found it in Flames near the Stairs Foot) whereupon' miffing the end of his cruel Defign therein, he all of a fudden feem'd more. than ordinary kind to me, fo as that he would nbt be denied going along with me to one of our Affemblies, where he thought I might be conT cern'd in way of Teftimony 5 which. I through the perfwafion of fome Friends contented to, up on the promife of one Francis Davis, that he would take care to prevent my Oppofition, to his Difcouragement 3 but as1 the Enmity of the DeT praved was1 too inveterate to be bounded by hi* Influence, one William Rpbinfin ,(a moft perverfe Emiffary of theirs,) being abetted' by William Bingtey who fate next Him,, as I began to fpeak, cried out alPud td me, Woman fit thee down and be ftill ; whereby as my Life was inftantly wound ed, and Chriftian' Teftimony flopp'd for the prer font; fo rriy poor Husband was ftruck as pale as Death', to the laying an irremoveable Refolution, in him of my Ruin (under pretence, that he ha4 long fufpected I was Jed by vain Notions, their Oppofition had therein confirmed him,) Which he thereupon again foon after attempted, as follows. ' I being to go through a certain riarrowPaffage tPwards one of our Meetings; of which he be ing advifed, went another way to meet me, in •order to knock out my Brain's therein, which the, Lord being gracioufly pleafed to make known to me as I went,* by bidding' me Run for my Life, I thereby got through the fame, juft. as I faw him, crofs over to meet me for his barbarous end a- bove-meritioned 3 which he ftill hoping to ac- complifh, at another ebfeure Place a little fur ther ori, his bloody Defign being again made known to me by the fame powerful- Command, tb Ran for rriy Life, I there alfo faW mV wonde'r- Y * ful '.. ful Preservation, by his not reaching the Place ' whilft I w^s got out of Danger 3 in a deep Sepfe ' of the Lord's Goodnefs. wherein, I a few Days '4 after ask'd him, faying, Dear Husband, what have ' I done, that thou fhouldft thus ftcek. this poor Blood ' of_ mm, by the Murther of me fuch a Day infuch ' and fuch a Lane ? Concerning which, though ha ' hefitated a while, he at length confeffed, It was ' true by his God, though he wondered how I knew his ' Defign, which none but himfelf was acquainted [with. ' Now. as the unrighteous Dealings of thofe our ' depraved Friends towards me, in flopping my * Chriftian Teftimony by their abufive Interrup- ' tions, was attended with thofe dreadful Confe-* ' quents, for which ,;hey fhould have anfwered ' had they taken effect, as I told them 3 fo though ' the Senfe of their Injuftice therein caufed one ' William Armftrong to cry out in the afore-men- 4 tioned Meeting, What a difinal Thing is this, that ' the Word cf the Lord muft not be declared amongsl ' us, whilft Mens Words are allowed to be preached 1 without controul ; whereby though William Bing* ' ley by his Palenefs appeared inwardly fmote* yet ' as he and his Collegues are fo far from repenting ' of their Wickednefs of this Nature towards me; ' as that they moft audacioufly perfift therein to-< ' wards others of the Lord's faithful Meffengers,- ' (who have in like manner been confeientipufly e concerned to teflifie againft their Corruptions) ' I have good ground to believe, that their Glory is ' departed anil Crown taken from them, and given to- ' another People not uniform, (as our truly worthy ' -Friend Charles Marfhal in my Audience long fince '. foretold them) by the following Vifion the Lord- ' hath been pleafed to give me, about the third' ' Hour one Morning in the fixth Month Anno 1709, ' concerning them, when I was awake, ,and in a ' moft fenfible Condition. ' I beheld the Lord Jefus Chrift at my Left-Hand,: * in a perfonal Appearance, in a large Room, ' where were a great many of the chief Leaders ' of •« "Jaf the People called Quaker^ fome of which had J Crowns upon their Heads,, amongft whom were * Theodore Egtefton, George Wliitehead, William Bing- 1 1*}* John Feitd, William Warren, George Owner, ' Wiltiam Pen, John Butcher and Samuel Walden* ' feild, all fitting. ' Francis Moult Coming in, went directly to 'the- gee -g j_ £nr^ ' odore Eglefton, laid both his Hands upon his. rowS.fi/ii/27fr 'Crown, arid went away with it 3 notwithftatkh-e/ Anno ' ing I faw a Chair fet for him in Chrift's glorious 1651s, Only ' Kingdom upon Earth now near approaching, to go amongft ', which he might obtain if he preffed hard for it, Friends, 'hut if there, he might content himfelf without therein as \ a Crown. * 1 **' Fv'bfrl ""' ' Then John Potter being under a aloft power- a^e fe-'^ ': ful Operation ofthe Lord's Holy Spirit, after the p^'fL™,,- '.June manner I faw htm, go* before the Believers mlf^"t. A ' (in this glorious Difpenfation of God's Holy Spi- ac'cn-d^g'to ' rit lately broke forth) iri Enfield Chace, came, Re.VeJ,. 1, e. ,' and. with great Authority laid both his Hands in Thofe our '1 ike manner upon the Crown George Whitehead unfaithful 'Ahad upon his Head, (which was more magnifi- Ones fieem to mens than the reft) arid faid, Did I not charge thee uffeme from *Tto hold faft what thou didft receive ? Hadft thou 0- thence the \beyed, none would have been able to have taken thy Title and S\ Crown from thee-; and then with an angry fnatch' °flfce °f ' took it off, and went away with it, under the ~fnfts and _', powerful Operation above-mentioned. Princes mer % ' Then William Bingley's Crown next fell, from ej^ Confci- ' his Head, with fuch a mighty force as if it Would^r . J£'d~er 'ihave been broken all to pieces 3 upon which he-prete',ue^ ¦|in a dreadful Concern and great Amazement cri- j^, as\^e Sed out, Our Crowns are fatten from off our Heads; Son of Righ- yjWo unto us that we have Jinncd I ¦ teoufinefis is ¦~jl* The next* John Field's fell ajfo from off his appeared out '.iHeadwith a mighty force, though riot fo great as of the North, 'William Bingley's. After which, William. War±fe out of the VWstotter'd exceedingly, as. if it alfo was a go^ NorthKmgs, 'Ling td fall, but I did riot fee it fall* ^''"{"'Z-j ,; ° ' Prophets did 'mne forth, who uttered their Voices as Thunders, laying their 'Sviords on the Necks of their Enemies, ft-6m whoM" they never re- tirned ivithout Slaughter j gccording to the Contents of their fiaid : Y 1 Epiftle. < 34o } I Efiftte. , But: whoever tur ancient Friends might be acctruhte^i1 a Spiritual Senfe,-, as thofe our Apoftates Crowns are de ferved^ taken from tbem for their Male Adminift ration of their Office, ac cording to their faid Friend Ed. BurrowS Maxim, in p. 441. if bis General Collection, that all Rulers and Governors are to be ac- . countable to their next Succeffor s for their M'tfmanagement, Sec. I hope their Power of Slaughtering more of us is now taken from tbeitt by viay of Confeqttenie, let tbem now flrUggle as much as thtg •will to retain if, under d'V din Conceit, that their defipified Govern ment is to rule over all Kingdom's, and to their Laws all the Na tions ofthe Earth fubmit,- according to Ed. BurrowS Prediction in />. m. of his faid Collection. In which State as fhe "Ife faw Thomas Lower « - mongft 0- tbers, fio there were forni in the Degree of Lords and Ear Is, &c. ' Then I beheld one different from the reft ori ' the Head of George Owner, at which I greatly ' marvelled 5 whereupon the glorious Perfon that ' all the while ftood by my Left-Hand, faid, Wbf ' admire ft thou at the Difference betwixt that and the .' reft ? He is not in the KJngly Power amongft thi? ¦ ' People, but in the Dukedom,' wherefore that thoufeeft ' upon his Head is a Coronet 3, Which alfo tottered as ' William Warren's, P many of whofe Names fee vias undecptainted vii.'k- ' Then I beheld William Penn, John Butcher and Samuel Waldenfeild with their Crowns on their Head^jj upon the beholding of whom, I under a grearQoncern of Soul for them, broke forth in' great bowednefs in fupplication to the Lord, ,and faid, p Lord God, I befeech thee, hear a poor Crea ture, fuffer not thofe Crowns to be taken from them, neither do thou, but humble them, that they may take them off themfelves, and lay them down at thy Feet, who is only worthy of all Honour , Praife, Might, Ma jefty and Dominion ; whichi have reafon ta be lieve he, in his own due time will incline thein' to, from another Vifion he in his Divine Gooij!.' nefs was pleafed to give me concerning them and others, which was as follows. '' * I being v often livingly concerned before th£ Lord for this People, who notwithftanding con- temptuoufly rejected me and my Chriftian Tri- \M ( 34? ) l.yels for their Welfare, a few Months before the ' jahove-mentieqed Vifion, being fate at Work by ' ,my Bed-fide'with my Child one Morning, at my '. lodging at the Dwelling Houfe of our ancient and . truly worthy Friend James Jack/on, fell into deep ', Vifion, wherein I faw the Dead Corps of the ',|Pepple called Qftakfrs, heaps upon heaps, amongft Vwhpm was prefented William Perm, John Butcher '.. and Samuel Waldenfeild ; upon the fight of whom ' I was bowed in deep Supplication before the '. Lord, and faid, O Lotd God, for thy dear Son's fake, ' who now lies profit ate at thy Feet, begging for thefe' '_ my dear Friends, and not for any worthinefe of mine, ' fave than, fave thy People ; upon which my Life ** went from me^ fo as that I fainted 3 then I faw ' the Father take up.his beloved Son with both his , '. Hands, and thereupon looked fmiljng upon me, 'r which was a ground of Hope to my mournful iHiSoul,rhat my fincere Petitions were anfwered for ' them. ..In the time of this Vifion one Sarah Wiltjhire, ijjVh'o was diftant from me in another Room in 'Vi$5ed, and neither heard or faw me, had an im- ' ;mediate Senfe given her of my great Exercife, '..through which fhe was made to rife out of her 'Bed, and put on a Petticoat and Gown loofe, and , come ipto my Room, where finding me in this ' my concerned Condition, fhe faid, ,' Dear Mrs. Steed, what is your Affiiilion ? I have ' an invifible Senfe of it 5 your great Concern is thus ' for your People 5 but be of good cheer, although the ' Elders piay difeegard your Prayers and Tears, the 4 joung Generation witl be bettered by them 3 upon ' which Words I immediately found my Strength 'return, and arofe from where I was .fallen, and 'faid, Has my God fent thee to comfort me in this my ' iifeonfelate Condition? Tes, fays fhe, for I was made ' fenfible of it, and could not lie longer, without com- ' ing unto thee, if I might have had a Thoufand Y 3 A«d ( *42 ) 'And, though this pur greatly diftrefled'Friead^ declares, fhe'has lately had another Vifion, wfiert-: in flie faw the Eagles of the Heavens defcend upr on the Flefh of rnany called Quakers, and te!ir> them to pieces with marvellous vehemence 3 yet for the Comfort of the young Generation, who hath not wittingly fubjeifted to their Elders Cor ruptions, I'fhall recite anpther the Lord hath beep pleafed in Anno_ 1767 alfo to give her concerning them, which fhe relates as follows. , ' I being in the Year above-mentioned awake ' in my Bed feveral Hours weeping, under a forT ' rowful Senfe of our Leaders depravity, in exaltr * ing therrifelves in the place of God as Gods, by ' their unchriftian Impofitioris of their own Inno- * various and formal Harangues for the Spirit's '- Dictates,' fell into deep Vifion, wherein I faw ' my felf going up' a Hill/ made known to me to ' -fed the Hill of Tfon 3 on my Right-Hand as I paf- ' fed, I faw a Plantation, with many pleafant. '«' Plants, growing frefh, fragrant and green 3 ;hnt * amongft the reft, that which moft delighted / ie ' was Rofema'ry; abundance of which I alfo faw ; * from end to end of the Plantation, but all wi- , ' tbered Branches, at which I 'was forrowfully cOnT *cerned, and thereupon bemoaning it, I ftooped ' down arid handled it, apd underneath each long ' Leafj between the Leaf and the Stalk, I perT •* ceived the appearance of green Ones fpririglng * forth, by reafon of Life in the Root, at which ' my very Heart rejoyced with "Joy unexprefiible, * and I'cried out in a heavenly Rapture, Here's ' Life in this pretty Thing that I fi entirely love j ' upori which I awoke, and an infpeaking Voice ' thus faid to flie, This Rcfemary thou haft feen is thy ' People. ' At another time, lately in the Day-rime I was ' in Vifion, wherein I faw my felf going to Fter-. * fiydowh Meeting, where looking up at the Wmt ' dows, Doves fate thick at the fame 3 at the Clo- ' fure whereof it was opened to me, that thisPeo7 ' fie fhould again return to the Lord, as Doves to " . ' " " 1 th« C J43 ) ' the Windows* according to the fignification of f ray former Vuion concerning them, to my great ' Confolation,. after my forrowful Soul had bien ' fo long oppreffed under, a Senfe of their general f Depravity, occafioned through our Leaders Apo- ' ftacy and Spiritual Tyranny, by which many ' have been long driven away from Chrift's true ' Fold of Reft, under pretence of bringing them ¦ into the fame, according to pur deceafed Friefld ' Ed. Burrow's Vifion pf the Flock concerning them, ' moft unworthily expung'd amongft others out of ' his publkk Collection by their depraved Comr ' pilers 3 for which the Time is near when they ' fhall anfwer to their Sorrow, if not prevented ' by their fpeedy Repentance. Since the foregoing Relation, I the Tranfcriber having occafion to be at London about fome Con cerns of my own, as well as others, in Anno 171 1; went to vifit this our Friend Ann Steed, who then found her felf concerned to give me a further Ac-: count of our depraved Pretenders unchriftian Dea* lings towards her, to flop her Chriftian Teftimo ny againft their Corruptions, which fhe relates as follows. ' About four Years fince, fome Friends being ' very uneafy with my publick Appearance in their ' Meetings for Worfhip, upon account of what I ' had delivered in way of Prophecy, as well as 0- * therways againft them, under pretence of my faiT ' lure in Prediction, about the appearance of ' Chrift in this Nation, they not only dealt with ' me after a fevere manner in their Meetings of ' Difcipline, but alfo openly oppofed my Teftimo- ' ny in our Aflemblies for Worfhip, as aforenoted, ' in order to filencp me 3 which not having the ef- ' fedl they defired, Theodore Eglefton advifed me to ' frequent the Meeting appointed at Sarah Sawyer's ' chiefly for that purpofe, rather than thus difturh ' them in their more numerous Aflemblies 3 where- ' in the Lord being pleafed to give me liberty to '* anfwer his Requeft,, my Mouth ftill continued to ' be opened there as elfewhere, fa way of Tefti- i¥ 4 t mony ( 544 > 4 mony againft Friends Depravity ; through a deep f Senfe wheflfeof,! had fome time before been con- * kerned to call upon thern to appoint a' foiemn * Faft, in order to their preparation to mourn a- ' part, and their Wives apart, in the deepeft Hu- ' Puliation, that the Lord's threatned Judgments ' .for their Apoftacy and Spiritual Cruelty, if pof- ' fible, might be averted 3 which adding to their ' former uneafinefs, inftead of moving thena to an- ^ fwer my Chriftian JExhoriiatiori, they fent one ' ¦ Of their Emiffaries after another, to filerice me fi there alfo,' as the Lord was pleafed to fliow me| ' ' as each came in for that purpofe ; who having ' riot power to execute their Cbmmifilon,' through '. the Lord;s reftraining Hand, Tliomtt%Busby andi ' Thomas Ry niton at length were1 directed to fupply •."theit Deficiency, ' who falling fliort of Courage -' in like manner to effect their Order in the Meet- fing, Tliomas Busby attempted it as foon as it was ' over, by fignifying how uneafie Friends were '. with my preaching amongft them 3 but' doing it '¦ after a timorous manner, as one confcious ofthe ' deficiehcy of his Commilfion, Thomas Ryaltbn * made up- what was wanting,1 by affuming Confi- ' dence to reprehend me as follows, faying, "' Artn, why dccft thou continue thus io-imprfc Words ' upon Friendsi -iQiiwing how uneafy we have been with " thesfmce thy appearance in public k,, on account of thy ( * feilure in Preditiion? ' But as I well know the Prophecy he aim'd at ' was fubftantially fulfilled by Chrift's glorious ap- ' pearance in and upon the French Prophets who ' then landed in England, I anfwered as follows, ¦ ¦- ' Friend Thomas, as I am livingly fenfible, that I ¦'¦ delivered fhe Prophecy thcu fpcakfft of by the Lord's ' immediate DireEiicn, let his end be what it will in ' it, fo thcu -greatly iercngeft me, in fuggefting, I have 4 impofed Words cf my "own upon Friends on that or 0- ' ther occafions; wherefore as I can appeal to God, the 4 itlcne fearcher of Hearts, in behalf of my Innocency'-, 4 J not only Query, who made thee a Judge In this Spi- I ritual Matter, but alfo greatly wonder, how thou or ""'. -•-.. .. « „„j. ( 345) * any other Man dare thus affume the Judgment Seat ' of Chrift, till the Wing of the gfeAt Cherub over- ' fhadow you ? At which being inWardly fmote, he "f gave me his Hand, and fo left me. ' Whereupon Theodore Eglefton perceiving the ' endeavours of their Meflengers unable to filence ' me, comes next Firft Day himfelf to the Meet- ' ing for that purpofe ; Where when I had eafed ' my Mind by a fhort Teftimony, he flood up, and ' after a round about in other Matters, as an In- ' traduction to his defigned Stroke at me, (of ' which the Lord had given me a forefight) he pro- ? ceeds to figriifie his great Copcern of Soul, That * one whs bad- Jo often beheld the goodly Tents of Jacob, * and beautiful Tabernacles of Ifrael amongft them, ' Jhould, 'by giving way to falfe Notions, Sec' go about 4 Ukf Baalam of old, to deface their glorious and "beauteous State, by her falfe Prophefies and prefimnp- 4 tuous Intrufions, with more to this purpofe 3 where* ' by my Life being fo wounded as to caufe me to ' faint away as I fate on my Seat, when it re- « turned again, I plainly heard a Voice which faid ' to me, Thou flialt for a while withdraw thy felf ' from thy People, and when I fend thee again, fee that ' thou readily obey me. Thus fat our fincere hearted Friend apd their Chriftian Monitor, by whofe caufelefs Sufferings, as all may fee fomewhat of that Spiritual Tyranny which reigns in "our Lordly Leaders of the Second Days Meeting, through the venomous Influence Whereof they have often fturig pur bowed down "Souls to Death, tinder pretence of preferving them, as they divers times ferved her 3 in further proof of my Charge of their Worfe than Turkifh Tyran ny, originally occafioned through the Enemies Transformations, whereby they are deluded them felves, arid with eafe delude others 5 of which this Theodore Eglefton is a forrowful Inftance, whp, as the Lord fhewed this our Friend Ann Steed, was led by a Spirit of Magick in his above-mentioned Reflections, the fame Magically diverted the Af fections of all Friends there affembled from her 'in (340 in an inftant, fo as that not one of them would give het their Hand after the Meeting was ended, as they were wont rp do at aU pthers moft affect i* onately 3 through whofe caufelefs Cruelty, though (he, amongft many other fincere Souls amongft us, have been great Sufferers,yet let the Caufers there of affure themfelves, That though God's terribly Judgments will be manifeft in all the World, for their provoking Enormities, in order to make way for Chrift's peaceable Government, as Holy Scrip* ture a? well as our Modern Prophets bath foretold us, yet fhall they have their Gup in the firft place, Ezek.. 9. 6, in the terrible Day near approaching? according to Pc- Holy Writ, concurrent to another Prophetick Vi* fion the Lord hath lately, fliewp her concerning •-them,, unlets prevented by. their fpeedy Repen tance 3 in order, to which righteous end, I fhall alfo recite the- fame as fhe related it, as follows. ' I being the firft Day after that called Whitfen- ' Week, Anno iiii. early. in the Morning, awake ' in rny Bed, the Lord was pleafed to fignifie to 4 my Spirit, that he would make fomething known ' to me before I arofe 3 jaboutan Hour after which ' I fell info deep Vifion, wherein I faw the Wives ' of fome called Quaker stra.vllh'd before their- Hus- ' bands Faces, their delicate Sons and Daughters ' flain with tlie Edge of the Sword, and them- * felves led into dreadful Captivity. After which, ' going along the Streets of London, I faw three ' Women, with whom another being talking, faid, ' This is a dreadful Calamity that this Citj is vifited • with, for there ft not Bread to be bought for Money. ' Then I looked forward, and I taw one Woman ' drop down dead with Hunger, upon which I 'giving a great fhrug as I lay, prefently faw anc- ' ther drop in like manner, which caufed me to ' fhrug as before 3 then teeming rp my felf to be ' going in Company with fome others to a Meet- ' ing.of the Infpired, I feft them a while to walk 4 by the fide of a Hedge, where I faw a Brier- '- BufhJpaded with Berries, whereto putting forth i my Hand, I gathered half a Handful at, once, ' . without ( 347 ) ' without peingprick'd on my Fingers, which I ' immediately eat, and rhey being very fweer to * .my Tafte, I put Forth my Hand again, and ga- * thered a whole Handful at once, and in like man- * ner eat them all as before with great delight, ' nothing being fo pleafaht to me in all my Li& ' before 3 upon which being tranlpprted with Joy, ' it was laid to me, The Briers on which thefe grow ' is thy People, and thefweet Berries the pleafant Fruit 4 they fhall bear, after they are prun'd of their Prtckj, ' .with which thou, nmongft others of my faithful Ser- 4 vants, hath beenfoferely wounded without Caufe. Thus fat of their Chriftian Monitors Prophe tick Teftimonies of God's threatned Vengeance a- gainft them, for their Error, Herefy, Hypocrify, Blafphemy and Tyranny, l3c confonant to thofe pf the Holy Prophets of Old, concerning their Romifth Predecefrors, to whofe Actipns theirs ap pear fo exactly parallel 3 in the difcovery whereof as I have been remarkably aflifted by fuch Books and Papers as their Brethren in their IJnity have been made to furnifli me with, I durft not but thus make ufe of them in their Detection, that others. may avoid thofe Rocks for the future that hath fo fatally fplit them 3 in order whereto, That hone may think I have thus expofed them in Print, through fome perfonal Prejudice I bear them for the Wrongs they have done me, before J had (ac cording to Gofpel Order) ufed all private means. |o reclaim them, I muft (befides a Senfe of my own Irinpeency) in the next place Convince the World,' how much I haveftruggled with them Year after Year, by Wosd and Writing, to prevent it. In order whereto, as their Order againft Marriage of Firft Coufens, 0c. Was. the firft thing I faw a- mifs amongft them 3 fo as George Whitehead, upon notice of my Coming up to their Yearly Meeting in Anno 1696, to propofe my Reafons againft ir, (without our Quarter Meetings Reprefentation for that end, according to his prefcribed Rule) in an Unufual Fury declared, He' dw Arrant he would filence me j Ij in confederation of hj$ Difingenuity there- ¦! in, C 348 ) in,, found my felf concerned to fjgnifie my Diffa- fistaction concerning. the faid Order the Year af ter, by a few Lines directed to' the fai($. Meeting, as follows. .-,- ;: Dear and worthy Friends . affembled at this Tearly Meet ing, to ferve? the Lord, his Truth] and People. *" ..¦'¦»' 4 Y$7"Hereas great diffatisfaction hath for fome ** 4 Years refted upon my Spirit, with rela-. 4 ,tion tp a certain Teftimony heretofore fet forth at a Yearly Meeting, againft Marriage of Firft .Coufens, which is alfo extended tp fome other Degrees of Kindred, that, are both, Righteous, Lawful and Expedient to Marry jp, as I offered • to make appear by divers Scriptural Arguments * the laft pearly Meeting 5 all- which was refufed 4 a Hearing therein, becaufe I had not firft laid ' them before the Quarterly Meeting I belong to. *, Whereas, my dear Friends, I neither know of 4 any fuch Order of 7*ruth that enjoyns us to fol- 4 low that Method, nor with fubmimon believe 4 there is any fuch to be found amongft us, fince 4 as the faid Teftimony (or Order as 'tis common- ^ly called) was fet forth at a-r Yearly. Meeting • 4 none inferiour thereto can, -in my Opinion, pro- ' perly take cognizance of the Contents of it : *" However, as it is.not in Obftinacy notwithftand- 4 ing, that I don't now follow that Method, but 4 becaufe my Manufcript (wherein my Arguments * are contain'd) was detained put of my Hand by *'. fome Friends in London, whilft our laft Quarter 4 Meeting was over, I hope you will not any * longer . delay to take my faid Arguments into * your ferious Cphfideration on that occafion, fince 4 as you can at moft gain but another Years time ' of me by that Diverfion, , fo I muft affure you, 4 that I durft not for a World let fall my Chriftl- 4 an Teftim'oriy ... againft thofe apparent Errors 4 whereof the Order is compofed, (together with 4 thpfe evil Effects I have found to attend it) till 4 convinced of the contrary by good Evidence, .' ' 4 not C 349 ) 4 not doubting but you will find much .more weigfii* 4 in my Arguments againft it, than many amongft? 4 you may at prefent think of, as fome about us' 4 have done before you. In hopes of your Confi- 4 deration whereof, I commit you to God for Di- 4 rection and Counfel in this and all other Con^ 4 cerns that may come before you 5 being fully 4 perfwaded, that fuch a weighty -Affembly will 4 neither flight or condemn me before I be fully 4 heard, in favour of any concerned therein, fince 4 Truth admits of no refpect of Perfons in Judg- 4 ment, who am your ever true, though greatly 4 traduced Friend Henry Pickyoorthl From my Lodging at the Bricklayers Arms in Warwick-Lane, Lon-^ don, thelitis of the 3d Month, 16 f 7. Now though this procured me riot the Audience' t hoped for in the faid Meeting, for the Reafons' above-mentiPnedi yet fome few Friends, for Cu-' riofity fake* ) (father than with defign to rectifie the Errors I objected) was pleafed (at John Whitehead's Requeft) to allow me a private Hearing of part of my Allegations againft the faid Order, at a fefeeV Affembly of their own Appointment 5 the Iffue whereof incouraging me to come Up to our next Yearly Meeting, in hopes of Audience, therein of" the whole, though I there again met with the fame Repulfe as before 5 yet as I then obtained another private Hearing of the reft of my Argu ments before a few Perfons in another private Meeting, through WiUiam Pen's Influence, fo the Iffue thereof incouraged me to come up to our next Yearly Meeting, in hopes of a publick one there in of the whole, that the Matter might be finally ended by the Orders Defence or Condemnation ; in order whereto, that nothing might be wanting ' on my part, I had taken care to propofe rriy faid * Arguments to both our Monthly and Quarter" Meeting (356) Meeting alfo, according ro the Rule they prefcri bed me, as may be found by my Account of thofe Friends Tranfactions that laft gave me Audience, I communicated to our Quarter Meeting the fame Year, in a few Lines- directed and compofed as follows.bear Friends affembled dt this our Quarter Meeting At. Lincoln, and all others whom it may concern. ' TI7"Hereas it is not unknown to fome amongft ** ' you, that for divers Years a Diflatisfacti- * on hath refted on my Spirit, with gelation to a * certain Teftimony heretofore fet forth at a Ge- 4 neral Meeting in - London, againft Marriage of 4 Lawful Kindred ; the which Teftimony as I 4 proved to be grounded on Error, and attended 4 with very hurtful Effects, in my Allegations a- 4 gainft it, in reply to George Whitehead's Argu- 4 ments in its behalf (which has Iain above a Year * at his Door unrefuted) I was perfwaded to pro- * pofe the Confideration thereof to our laft Mbnth- e ly Meeting, from whence it was refer'd to you 5 4 but as the Matter moft properly concerned the 4 Yearly Meeting, and I being occafionally there 4 this laft Year, I found it my place to propofe it 4 to the Members thereof 3 in favour whereof 4 (though I could not obtain Audience therein, for 4 want of your Deputation for that end, yet) our 4 worthy Friend William Pen, amongft others, was 4 pleafed to give me a private Hearing of the 4 whole, in a felect Affembly of their procuring 3 4 at the Conclufion whereof they came to thefe u- 4 nanimous Refolves, which to prevent Mifinfor- 4 mation on this occafion, I am obliged to acquaint 4 you with. 4 ift. Tbat as they found much heat in my manage- 4 ment of the Controverfie, they defired to know whether 4 I could content my felf to ceafe all further Profecu- 4 tion cf my Arguments againft the faid Order, and ', tafs fa fuck Occafions. as I conceived myfelf to have 4 received (3Si ) ' received from George Whitehead and otherj in our 4 Parts upon its Account.' . 4 To which I returned, 4 That as I never intended te publifli my Reply to ' George Whitehead, if he would clo me vpid the ' Church Juftke without it, in condemning what he ' could not defend, fo I could be content to pafs by all 'fuch Oc£i{fkns as I had received- from him, er our * Monthly Meeting, upon his Retratlion of his Errors 1 f in the Orders behhlf, and- their obliterating fuch Rc- ' cords out of our Monthly Book, as declared thein Dif f unity with me in my Oppofition to it ; yet as there SJ' was nothing in the Matter of my Manufcript bttt i? what I would (through the Lor&s Affiftance) unfterl 4 take to defend* fe I durft not for the World renounce ' my Arguments againft his Allegations, or lei fall my 4 Chriftian Teftimony againft the Order he advocates, ' till it was difewned, fince I did not find they -would '... undertake to defend either. 4 Whereupon, after divers fruitlefs perfwafions ' of me to take up the Matter on otiier Terms * than Truth would allow me, WiUianiPen at length * in the Name of the reft was pleafed to declare, ' That as I ought not to be condemned before my Argu- * ments were confuted, (which he then found none to at- ' tempt) I might have liberty not only to advife Friends t4 to be ' more condefeending to fuch Marriages for the 4 future than the Order allowed, but alfo to. publijh , ' my Proteftation againft the Order it felf amongft 4 them, if I could not be eafte without it. Which li- '¦'¦ berty I hereby make ufe of, in entring this my 'Chriftian Proteftation agairift it accordingly, as ' a moft pernicious Innovation, compofed of as* ' many Lies as Lines, as more fully appears by my ' Manufcript againft it ; fince f^4 ift. The fetid Order pretends to be grounded on a Uv'mgJSenfe of theTruthof God ¦ When as I have " in my faid Manufcript proved it To be compofed ' of a moft grofs Mifeonftruction of the Dead Letter, 4 fince '' idly. It afferts, that Marriage of near Kjndred J was tinder the Law exprefly forbidden -. When as I t i have (350 4 hive proVed, "fix** Marriage of near Kindred is not 4 therein fo much as once exprefs' d. 4 -}dfy. It in like manner as unrighteoufly tells 4 us, That they Were in the time ofthe Law allowed by 4 wa) ef Ccytdefienfton : When as I have plainly pro-! 4 ved by the Law it felf, That they were thereby e& * prefty commanded as Duty. . . 4 Athly. It untruly afligns The upholding of Tribes 4 as an extraordinary occafion for an allowance of fuch * Marriages : When as I have proved That was no 4 occafion at all; fincf as the leaft Tribe of the Ifrae- 4 lites had more than Twenty Thoufand Males upwards 4 of Twenty Tears old. therein^ they might as well up- 4 hold them by marrying with any other of their Tribe', 4 who might be far .enough from near of KJn to them. ' ' ,$thly. It pofitively affirms, Tliat the nearer their ¦ 4 Marriages Were,, the more unholy "they were acccunt- 4 ted : When as I have proved by the Inftance of 4 Boas, &C. That the nearer they were, the more Holf) 4 they were accounted. 4 6thly. It particularly oppofes Marriage of Firft * Coufens as unrighteous, &c. When as I have proJ 4 ved Holy Scripture particularly prefers them ai Duty l to be praftifed before othersi And 4 fthly, As it mpft ridiculoufly pretends to. a Re- ' demption from thofe Jewifh Kindreds and Tribes; I which I have proved we never was under ; fo , , 4 ithly. It unrighteoufly infinua.tes Sutb Mjtrri- * ages to be the frqdutj of irregtdar Affections : When1 * as I have proved, Tliey were generally moft ¦ fanRifici 4 that prailifed. them. r 4 tjthly. It in like manner affirms, Others to 4 be more Natural and of better Report, whichi 4 Holy Scripture on the contrary reports to bi! 4 worft. • 4 tothly. It untruly foggefts Such Marriages to-be 4 the product of Weaknefs : As I have proved The 4 Holy Ancients were led into the practice of by the 4 Lord's Affiftance. 4 nthly. It without diftinct ion difallows Such 4 Marriages (as it reprefents unlawful) to be broken, 4 to the plain Contradiction of the Law itfelf, on f 4 which- (i§3) ' Which it pretends to be grounded, that declares} 4 All that are really fo was to be diffolvcd. ¦ 4 Laftly. It in like manner difbwtis: Any fuch PrA- 4 Ricet being our Precedents or Examples to imitate r 4 When as I have plainly proved, The Holy Scrip- 4 tures for that end prefer them. 4 From all which I conclude, That If nothing 4 ought to be believed or owned for true Doctrine 4 of Teftirrioriy, but what is according' to the* Serip- 4 tures of Truth, as attefted in the Late Vindica- 4 on of our Chriftian Principles prefented to Par- 4 liamept, then this Order ought to be difowned ' to all ends arid purpofes, as an unchriftian In- 4 novation of moft pernicious Confequence, fince: 4 hothing can poflibly* be devifed more contrary^ to 4 Scripture than I have proved it. 4 For which Caufe, my dear Friends', as I here-; 4 by proteft againft the fame as an Unrighteous, 4 Unlawful and Unchriftian Prefcriptioti, of' the, 4 Nature of thofe the Apoftle fpeaks bf i Tim. iv.j 4 1,3. I hereby alfo defire, that ye enter this my, 4 Proteftation in your Record, as my ftanding Te- ' ftiiiiony againft it, in otder to its more general 4 Publication, till its Effects be avoided by a Re- 4 moval of the Caufe, as you hope to efcape God's 4 juft Difpleafure for your Omiffion, Who am your, 4 ever well-wifhing Friend Henry Fickpeortbl .Sleeford, %id of the • tyh Month f 16981 Now notwithftanding the abov^-meritioned Mx"-^ tract of the Order's Corruptions, as the Ground of this my Proteftation againft it was carefully by me prefented to our Monthly Meeting, the fth of the ift Month, Anno 1698^9, and to our Quarter1 Meeting on the tjth of die fame, for the Ends therein fpecified, yet Were the Members of both fo far from Entring it in their Redord, according to my Requeft therein* as that (having received George Whitehead's Advice to the contrary) they proceeded to give judgment againft me for rp-> Z quoting ( w ) cfififtwlg it • tjje .Cohg^tipp whereof laid a Neceffity upon me tp $ra,w up a Secopd Edition of my faid Manufcript m Anfwer to George White- hefitf, and prefent it tp, our next Yearly Meeting J to-^hlch the ehfuing comprehenfive jLinep being inferred as Preface, I communicated the .f^njve %o their feripus Cpnfideration asfpllows. To aU. thofe .my dear Friends 4nd Brethren, who feek, the Honour of , God find Prafperfty of fy%s Truth arid People at this Tearly Meeting, are thefe my enfuwg' Lines humbly d\iret{ed. ; Dear Friends, [ X S it is .igpr, unknown to divers amongft you, -*"' ' that' a great L)ifl"arisfa4tiop bath for.divers Years remained on my J^lipti, with relation to a. certain Teftimony faid to be fee fprth at a fo iemn General Meetingpf .tpany faithfulFriends in Anno 1675, againft Marriage 0f Fifft Cou fens, f§c. The which as I ,knaw to be ground ed pn Error, and attended -w'ffk very unhappy Effects, fothe fsime was "ipme Years fince with Vigour oppofed as an abfolute Bar to my Pro ceedings with a Friend in that degree according ly 3 notwithftanding, as J found nothing in the Laws of God or Man to obftruct .me, I efteemed it my Duty to Anfwer in Writing fome Objecti ons "of a particular Member of our own Month?. ly Meeting againft my Defign 3 1 with the Dit- , quifition whereof, he not thinking convenient to.truft his own Judgment, immediately polls tip my Letter, for a Reply, to George Whitehead of Lond.cn 3 inftead of which, he prefents their Or der with a few Lines of his own in its behalf 5 by all .wjbich notwithftanding, J was fo far from being . con vine 'd of any Unrighteoufnefs ia fuch , Proceedings as the Order pppofes, as /that I fhorrly after returned him an Anfwer .djejefito^ , untp whieh as he was pleafed to Reply, % again refuted the fame in my enfuing Rejoynder 3 fince \yhich, as he h#th not though1 ft[ to attempt any ' further (355) i t further Defence, I went up to propofe the Cod- tent-s of the fame tp our next Yearly Meeting in London, as a perpetual Obftruction to the Or^ 4 der's further Effects of this Nature amongft Us ; 4 where, under pretence of my hot having firft * regularly prouofed my faid Rejoynder in our 1 Monthly Meeting, &c. I was denied a Hearing ' therein 3 but as I never knew any fuch Gofpel ' Order on Record, that fo enjoyned me, fo (as 4 no Inferiour Affembly can properiy take cogni-» '' zance of what a Superiour can only redrefs) I : firmly believed that there was none j for which ! Caufe, my dear Friends, as I efteemed this ig- ; noble Diverfion only an Inftance of the Author's known Guiltinefs, fo according to the Gofpel Precedent of St. Paul and Barnabas, (who laid their own and others Diffatisfaction about Cir- cumcifion, &c. before the Council of the Apo- ; ftles and Elders at Jerufalem directly) I made ! bold to propofe the fame again at another Yearly ; Meeting, wherein I was alfo as afore repulfed. Upon which our ancient Friend John Whitehead, in a deep Senfe of the Right of my Caufe, pro- Cured me a private Hearing of that part of my Rejoynder that moft immediately related to the Order it felf, in a particular Meeting of his own procuring 3 the Conclufion whereof centring in its tacit Condemnation in Matter and Form, gave me good hopes of its final Abrogation at our next Yearly Meeting 5 in order whereto, I again there propofed my faid Rejoynder, in hopes of their final Conclufion of this Controverfie amongft us, by the Order's priblick RerratftioB. ' But though I was therein again alfo difappoin- ted under the former pretence, yet our worthy Friend William Pen, to his Praife be it fpoken, who confidering how nearly the Matter affected himfelf, (upon account of the Hand he had in it amongft -others, by his own Corifeiuon) fhewed more Nobility than the reft, iri procuring md another private Hearing of that part of my Ma-< nufeript, that moft immediately related to George ; Z a ~' White* (350 Whitehead's Allegations, before a few Friends, chiefly of his own chufing ; the effect of whofe Judgment tacitly centring in George Whiteheads Condemnation, (together with our Monthly Meetings, &c. injurious Tranfactions towards me on his occafion) in favour of the publication of my defigned Proteftation againft the Order a- mofigft Friends, as in the enfuing Edition of my afore-mentioned Manufcript is largely proved, I, in a Senfe of my own Inability in a Matter of that Nature, was in. hopes that the next Yearly Meeting would fave me that Trouble, by re moving the Caufe through the Order's Abrogati on 3 fo in reverence to thofe moft immediately concerned in it, (as well as to avoid all Reflecti on of my eager purfuit of it, being the product of my prefumptuous Officioufnefs) I deferr'd ro further prefs thein to it, till that now Two is ex pired, and nothing done to that purpofe. ' Wherefore as I indeed have had more than or dinary occafion to fee into the Errors and ill Ef fects of this Order, (together with fome Human Limitations of the fame Nature) I durft not a- ny longer keep filence in a Matter that fo nearly affects the Honour of God and Profperity of his Church and People, whatever Calumnies I may be expofed to in my Proceedings about it, fince as I am made fenfible^ That all true Marriages are only of God's Promotion, no Man can chufe another a fpitable Wife, no more than they can make amends for fuch a Difappointment. Where fore, my dear Friends, that nothing may for the future on my part be wanting towards our Re demption from this Impofitidiii as well as to leave all thofe without Excufe who were chiefly concerned in it, I have been content to propofe my faid Proteftation. on the jth of. the ift Month of this prefent Anno 1698-9. to our. Monthly Meetinp, and the 11th to our Quarterly one, to have the Matter there confidered, in order to their reference thereof to you at this Yearly Meeting to be 'finally heard and ended according ' to (317) to the Difcipline you have propofed as moft Chriftian 3 but as Works bf Darknefs always fliun the Light, as our Lord foretold us, fo not withftanding the Order's, Advocates fpacious De clarations of their willinghefs to allow me a Hearing in our Yearly Meeting againff thein, af ter I had fubjected to this their propofed Method in order to it 3 they defigned nothing lefs, as ap peared by George. Whitehead's treacherous Advice jn a few Lines to Thomas Rpbinfen, to wifli the Members of our faid Meetings to take no, notice of my Allegations againft him or the Order, that he might cover his defigned Oppofition to my - Appearance amongft you at this Yearly Meeting, : with my want of their refererice of the Matter thereof to your Confideration, as I have ground . to conclude from thofe his Tranfactions. 4 Wherefore, my dear Friends, as Holy Peter and all the Seyen Churches of Afia, together with divers General Councils, as well as private and publick Aflemblies of prbfefs'd Chriftians, both * have and ftill may err, according to our Friend ' Robert Barcley's Confelfion 3 fince we are not t'p . entertain Herefies, though introduced as a Crofs . to the Flefh, through a voluntary Humility in the .Meeknefs of Angels, according to the Doctrine of the Apoftle Paul in Colof. ii. 18, 13, &c. k •concerns you not to be over-confident, that our Yearly Meeting hath not erred in the Matterof this Order, how much foever its Promoters al* ready have, or may hereafter pretend to God's Power and Pretence iri its Inftitution, fince I not only certainly know, but alfo have in my enfuing ' Manufcript proved it to be all Error from End ' to End, beyond its Ipventors Attempts to con fute me 3 in the due Confideration whereof, as X doubt not but that you will find George White head's Allegations fo too, if you pleafe to exa mine thofe Reafons I have urged againft them, as I hereby once more moft humbly requeft you, who am your ever well-wifhing Friend r Dated $d Month, 1699. tfenry 'Pickjenrth. % 3 W* , C i>* ) This,, no more than the Manufcript it prefac'd, being permitted ro be read in that Yearly Meet ing for want of our Quarter Meetings reprefenta- tiori thereof for that pUrpofe, (which I not being then able to obtain, through George Whitehad's wick ed, Inftigatidns againft it) and being uneafie to fet Truth be bafSed by fuch indirect Methods, I found. my felf concerned to go up to our next Yearly Meeting again, in my private Capacity, to fee if ,more Juftice might be obtained from its where ex pecting to be oppofed at Entrance, as their manner is, to Perfons undeputed, I fent in-the following Lines by pne or their Members, to provoke them, if poffible, to anfwer the Contents of them. Dear Friends affembled at this Tearty Meeting, to- ferve the Lord, his Truth' and People^ 4 'T'Hpugh it be well known, that I have feveral -*- ' times propofed my real DiflatisfactiPn ufl- ' to you heretofore, againft an Order or TeftimOr 4 ny faid to be fet forth at a General Meeting in 4 London againft Marriage of Firft Coufens, ($c. 4 the which I not only affirm, but alfo (in a cer- ' tain Treatife ready to be prefented you) have * proved to be grounded on Antifcriptural Con- f 'clufions, and attended with very hurtful Iffedte 4 amongft us, beyond the Contradiction of thofe 4 chiefly concerned in its Inftitution, whieh-cSn 4 only be avoided by removing the Cawfe ; yet in- 4 ftead of having thp Occafion condemn'd or de- c fended by you (who only have Power for that end * and purpofe) I have not only hitherto been; de- 4 nted a Hearing amongft you, but alfo fome 4 Friends pf London, in the Name of the Second * Days Meetings have lately taken it upoti them to ? oppofe me tbat Chriftian Priviledge in our Meet- 4 ings of Difcipline in the Country, to the high 4 Aggravation of our great Guifringfs, as well-as 4 directContradiiftion of that Difcipline themfelves 4 have heretofore propofed as moft Chriftian 3 for I which Caufej my dear Friends, as thofe Tranf- (3*9) 4 actions towards me are fo far from being a lilrf- * ly means to convince me of Error, if Guilty, as 4 that I efteem*them off a moft dangerous Tenden- 4 cy, to thp evil Example of pthers 3 fo fince our 4 Friend Thomas Eldwood hath declared, That who- Account ' ever impeaches or undertakes ta prove any Qrder or from Wick* 4 Teftimony now ufed ttmongft us to be Antifcriptural, ham. 4 it fhall not be long e're they be convitledof Falfhoed 4 and Slander therein; not knowing whether I may 4 be admitted to come in amongft you, (having 4 been heretofore obftructed) I hereby demand as 4 my Righ^, a fair Hearing. by you, (or a feleft 4 Affembly of your Appointment) on this and fome 4 other Occafions of dis fame Nature, in order 4 to be fo convicted, if poffible, in this my Charge 4 againft you, or otherways to have the Matters- J 4 ; oppofe eoi)demnfd- as publickly by your Yearly 4, Papers as. they have thereby been propofed a- 4 mpngft us, that you may not ajdmipifter me juft 4 occafion to expofe your great Weaknefs in thofe 4 Cafes, to the Lord s People in general, through 4 the further Neglect of your Duty towards me 4 and your felves in this Matter,, as you tender the 4 Honpur of God and your own Reputation, con- 4 cerning which I hereby tenderly requeft your '_ final Refplve by the Bearer, or otherways as the 4 Lord may in his Wifdom direct you 3 in. hopes 4 whereof (with my, real Love to you all in the 4 Truth that is unchangeable) I conclude and reft I your ever truer though greatly traduced Friend- From my Lodging, at the Wnvj, Piclrwortfo Bijckiayefs Arms in Warwick-Lane,Lon-don, the 20th of the u,%d Month,- 1700. Thus far with relation to-my Proceeding* chief.,. ly againft the Order above-mentioned^, all which as its Author contemptuoufly flighted, in refuting to admit me a Hearing in a Church way amongft $iemr or fo much as return me any "Anfwer to my Z 4 Letters \ 3°° ) "Letters tp their.Meeting, which .1 had fome. caufe- - to think would in the end break forth iri fome un, • acceptable Effects to them 3 yet as I then faw np more of their Corruptions in Doctrine, Difcipline of Practice, I (iri Reverence to their Yearly Ex hortations to keep a c'lofe Difcipline, as they call it) continued a ftrict Promoter of the. reft of their Innovations, &c. as neceffary Rules of our Duty, as may be found by my feveral Controverfial Wri-« tings and Difcourfes with Francis Bugg and others, together with the feveral ' Papers of^ Exclufion I have drawn up by our Meetings Order againft " their Trarifgreffbrs, in popes that this (with ano ther or two of the fame Nature) were all the Er rors that Was, amongft them in their Church Ca-. parity 3 but as the depraved Rpmanifts refufal to condemn thofe Antichriftian Indulgences Martin Luther oppofed, as the only Error he then faw a, mongft them, gave him ah opportunity to difcover many others in his Confcientious Purfuit of them, See the Pre- ([n a deep Senfe whereof he could have no reft mil face to bis he had left never a Hoof of Popery unoppofed, as Comment on he tejjs usj fo j be;ng fajthfol jn my oppofition of f^ Galatians this 0rder, the Lord not only gracioiifly fhewed me, but alfo laid a neceflity upon me in like* man ner, in fome meafure to oppofe others I at firft was unfenfible of, as may be found in thofe fourteen Par-a titiculars I in Anno 1708 drew up in Writing againft the Depraved .amongft us 5 the which I having of- fered a private Hearing of tn their Second Days Meeting, on the 27th of the 1 oth Month of the Year above-mentioned, in order to their Defence or Condemnation before I further expofed them, which they prefumptuoufly refilling, I found my felf concerned tp bring my Manufcript, wherein thofe Particulars were contained, along with me to pur next Yearly Meeting, to be. there confidered amongft them 3 for which end I, in Complaifance to their devifed Method, firft prefented the ConT fideration thereof to our Pwn Monthly Meetings In order to its Direction from thence to our next Quarterly one, as it was accordingly 5 in which, though; ( 3*' ) though I could not obtain the favour to gain it a Hearing amongft them, through the prevalency of their Depravity, yet the Members thereof thought good to Elect me one of their Representatives for ' the Service of their next Yearly Meeting, in order to its Examination therein, as appeared by the Mi nute they fent up for their fatisfaction 5 which yet ' was fo far from effecting its end, as that notwith- . ftanding William Penn and Robert Barcley's lofty See W. P.'s Pretenfions, That any of our Church Members may Preface to come there and Jpeak, their Minds freely about any Mat- *»• Vox's ter in'Conteft, it could by no means prevail With Journal, the faid Meeting to grant me Admittance into con,Pfred vtheir Affembly,,, as appeared by the abufive Refi- %%% », fiance I met with from their Agents when I at- jLj/L-J ' tempted it on the 13^ of the ajh Month Anno * **' 1709, being the firft of their Meeting 3 in defence • of which they alledged, That as they found Six no minated for our County's Service, contrary to an Order ^of theirs, which allows but bf Four, I ought to takf patiently my Exclufion as the Effeft of their Order, and not any Difpleafure they bore me upon any other occa fion. The which Cavil though I refuted, by tel ling, That as our Quarter Meetings nomination of Six was only for them to agree amongft themfelves, betwixt that and the Tearly Meeting, which Four could with 'moft conveniency go (according to our ufual Practice, 'and their, ewn Precedent in other refepeBs) left if few er were nominated, there might happen not to go e- nough, 'and not to contradiEl' their Qrder of Four ; fo inftead bf Four, as there was only one come befides my felf, inftead of objecting againft me, as one fent too many, they ought rAther to blame our Quarter Meeting for fending no more. However, being prepoffefs'd againft me up; on Account of the Matters I came about, (not withftanding their contrary Pretenfions) by a Reflectlous Letter privately fent them by three WhofeNames tufie Novices in our Parts, who difliked of my ari! Thomas Nomination, as I was informed, contrary to the Robinfon, Hypocritical Pretenfions of the laft of its Subferi- Peter Nay- pers in my Audience the fame Evening? That he lor and wil- was h%m Jalland, ( *62 > was gfetijwas appointed to go j all I cpuld fay for my' Admiffion could only prevail with them to per mit me a Hearing before fuch of their Brother hood,, as had freedom to meet me at the Printer's Chamber of their own Accord that Evening j the which though I was no' ways obliged to accept, as J> told them, fince my Charges concerned the Year ly Meetings in General, yet as .1 was willing to receive Information from any Particular amongft them or others, if it was found I had wronged themi fo in hopes that fuch as might then appear, would not only Hear, but alfo Examine the Truth of my Charges by Evidence,- in order to their De* fence or Condemnation in the Yearly Meeting then affembled} according to the Difcipline of the Truth they profeffed, I fhould then condefcend to read the fame 'amongft them at the time appointed for that rightedus purpofe 5 which though they pofi- . tively promifed when met, they moft grofly failed In performance, as will appear by what follows, For no fooner had I read my Charges* but that inftead of examining the Truth of themj (by the Evidence I referr'd to in proof of them)- according to their Pretenfions 3 they,, after fome frivolous. Quibbles to mafeure" the Auditors ftom a Senfe of their Corruptions, (like fome, bad Bifliops I have read ofi who after they had broach'd fome Here fies, and thereby . fet the Church together by the .Ear*, inftead bf manfully flaying, to- defend this fame, when called upon for that end) all prepared to be gone, under pretence of tbe Night's coming on. Upon which I pr'effing thfeir promife, as a. Duty I expected their faithful performance of, jWilliam Pen at length in behalf of the reft,- en* gagpd,^ T%at fince they were not likf to have Time <* examine tlie Truth of the Inftances I referr'd to *n froof of my Charges, they would make up what- was wanting at that Place fome Time Jhortly, to my full fety H-sfAcJion ; which divertive Motion though I was, forced to comply with for want of a better, yet as it was more than ever I could obtain before," I thought good to quicken then; Performance of it a few (3*3) few Days affei', fe? a Letter to the faid William' Pen ip th* Yearly Meeting time, as follows. Loving Wrientf William Pen, 4 Clnce thoU-jSanifefted a Spirit of true Nobility *•* f above jinany others at our laft private Meet* ' ing, in giving me ground by thy promife to e!*-> 4 pe&- Another fhordy, in order to examine by E» 4 yidence the Truth of the Matters charged irr 4 my Manufcript, (heretofore offered at the Second 4 'Pays Meeting) out of which, though I would 4 have none of our Profefnen excluded, that'e-' * fteem thetafelves e»nfeientiPufly concerned to fee 4 Auditors, yet as George Whitehead; Thomas JE/-' 4 wood and John Feild, as well as thy felf, amongft 4 others Of the1 moft noted Members1 of the faid * Meeting (with whom I ahi prevented of the op- ' portunity I expected, to eafe my M,md freely, 4 through my unaccountable Exclufion Put of this 4 our Yearly Affembly) : are chiefly concerned 4 therein, I muft requeft thee to do me the favour 4 to give as many of them as thou canft Notice 4 by thofe Lines or etherWays ar this time, ta Be f there, in order to clear themfelvts, by a fair De- * fence or Condemnation, that they may haVe rip 4 caufe to corhplain of their being ptibti'ckly ex- 4 ppfed^ before' they have had an opportunity 6f- 4 fered.tp difcharge themfelves by a Verbal Con- • ference. In order whereto, as 1 wifh the faid 4 Meeting may be fome Day this Week, if poffible, 4 at a cbrlvenittnt place, on account of my ObK- 4 -gatiotfto be at Home the next upon preflmg Oe- 4 cations, I hope thou wilt ht pleafed tp give me 4 fpeedy Notice, by Wbrd or Writing, when arid 4 Where yo^-ap^oint it, who am ypur truly loving, 4 though gteariy' abufed Friehd Henry Pickptorth', ftofyn, i6th eftbe ajh Month, 17*59. Now thpugh this Wa"s fatithfuUy delivered him" \n the.YtoTly-MeSi^g-the Diy it Was dated, yet ';•. w§re (3*4) were he and his Collegues fo far from giving me Notice, when and where they would meet me, ac cording to my Requeft therein, as that by fome Difcourfe I had with him she next Evening, I plainly perceived they- had no mind to meet me at all, how much foever they had pretended to it 3 which caufed me to fend him another Letter into jhe faid. Meeting, on the, 18th of the fame Month, directed and compofed as follows. Friend William Pen, 4 T Perceive by the Difcourfe I had with thee laft 4 Night,, you have a Mind to evade the Meet ing you promifed me at our laft, to examine, the- Truth of my Charges by Evidence, under pre tence of the multiplicity of Bufinefs you are qV> therways engag'd in ; but as I have ground to efleem it much, rather the. effects of your own known Guiltinefs of thofe feveral Errors I charge you with, (which are of a ruinous Tendency to Body and Soul whilft perfifted in) I am the more concerned at yourdifingenuous Diverfions, which are fo far below the Truth ye profefs, as, that you would, efleem them below you as Men, did not you prefer your own vain Reputation amongft your mifled Adherents above the Honour of Gpd, and Welfare of his abufed People 5 fuch mean Devices being fo far remote from the Na ture of George Fox ahd Edward Burrow's, &c. an cient Offers, to fubject all our Doctrines and Practices to a fair Examination before our moft inveterate Oppofers, as that it directly contra dicts Thomas Elwood's Pretences in his Account from Wickham, That if any- Charge any Orders a- d'er the Head ' rnongft us, to be contrary to the Scriptures of Truth, of their Hy- 4 (as I do thofe I oppofe) they fhall therein foon be - piicrify, &c, ' conviEled of Faljhood and Slander ; of which, ifei- ' ther he or you can fairly convict me by Scripture Evidence, (3 c I fhall be as ready to own my Er rors, as I efleem you obliged to Condemn yours as publickly as you have thread them, if you cannot 4efend them, according to the Rules of ^ I that See E. B.\r Preface to Tax's Great Myft. com- , pared with my foregoing ( 3*5 ) that Chriftian Difcipline you have herein appa rently fwerved from i by which fort of Practices as you have alfo heretofore abufed ijnany fincere Souls amongft us, who have departed this World with a Chriftian Teftimony againft your Apofta cy and Tyranny, fo though you may poffibly think to avoid being publickly expofed to the Members of our Prpfeffion, according to your Demerits, by abridging me of the Advantage you have to publifli your evafive Defences to mafcure them in their Ignorance, according to the Pre cedent of another depraved Church towards Martin Luther, &c. you have heretofore juftly complained of 5 yet I am well fatisfied, that the Great God will find you out with a Vengeance, for your Wickednefs in thofe refpects, as hath often been foretold you, if not prevented by your foeedy Repentance and Amendment, in bringing your Deeds to the Light, by a fair Examination before impartial Auditors. In order whereto, as I expect a publick Meeting with you this After noon, or the next Second Day at furtheft, at a convenient Place, to decide the Matter by Evi dence, according to the effect of thy Promife a- mongft others towards me, ' at the reading of my Papers (upon account whereof, as I have ftaid in Town beyond my Convenience or Intentions, in Complaifance to thy Defires) inafmuch as I efleem thee of a more generous Difpofure than many others amongft us, I am concerned to lay it peculiarly upon thee as a Duty, to give pub lick Notice of it, by reading thefe Lines or other- ways at this Affembly 5 of Which I expect an Account to be fent me to our Friend Jofeph To- vey's in Lombard-Street, with all poffible Expediti on, as thou wilt anfwer the effects ofthe contra ry before God and his Peoples who am, as I ever hope to remain (notwithftanding your Unkind- nefs in my unaccountable Exclufion out of this your Yearly Meeting, for the Service whereof I was rightly deputed) your fincere-hearted and '. truly well-wifhing Friend, Henry Pkkyortb. London, i%tb,ofthe tyb Month, 1709. Thig ( 1*6 ) This being Alfo delivered the faid William Pert asjdire&edj in the Time pf their Yearly Affem bly, how Uttle foever my other affected them, did not a little nettle him, as appeared by the Flames he came to me in about an Hour after, when their Meeting was near terminating 3 whom he accufed with no left -than prefumptuous Infolence, in of fering to fuggeft therein. As if Friends, would not meet me according to their Promife for the Ends ab©ve-mentioned 5 whereas he affured me, I might depend they would moft furely do about tbe Second Hour, at their Printer's Ghanaber oil the Third Day following, being the swyHnftant j in order whereto, as be had given them Notice according to my Defire, fo he would lay afide thofe many weighty Services that did attend him, for to attend it ; with more to this purpofe. The Confi- djeiation whereof made me not a little reflect on my Severity towards Perfons of fuch unexpected Magnanimity 5 all which was :caufelefs, they pro ved not fo long winded, as will appear by the SequeJL For propofing no 'fmall Satisfaction to my felf and others, upon this glorious profpect of a fair' Audience j inftead of Two of the Clock, I rook care to he at the Place appointed by Twelve,' where inftead of meeting with any of the Meeters,' I only met with a ftiort Note of WiMam Pen's, ftuck in the Printer's Shop, fluffed with lofty Nothings,' as the Reader Will find by the following Contents' bf it. "LXEnry Pickworth, Iftaidfer thee above an Hour, '*"*• and came into the City en purpofe from James'*, that have weighty Affairs on my Hands that call for every Moment of me, to prepare fir a Hearing Fifth' Day before the Queen's Council, of great Moment to me and Friends in America, fo -wifh thee well, being thy real Friend William Pen. This (befides the Confufion he appeared to be in by its compiled Contents) being fuch a deceit- t ful' ( fr )'¦ fulDlverfionas -1 little expected ftom a Man of his Character, after his many magnificent Preten ces to Impartiality, Candour, Sc. (verified the Truth of WiUiam Rogers's Declaration a few Days Compared before in my Audience, Jha't i fanUf find they ™>tb p. 7,- would not le" brought to an Examination of their Er- l0> l*> M< tors in an Affembly rightly conftituted for that fur'p, \r • pofi, how much foever they pretended to it) fince as his ,*¦' pf*!? *"* pretended Concern on the Fifth Day could not af- Part '% bis feet my Hearing at a publick Meeting of pui? chriftian Friends on the Third, (which might: have been Quaker di- without (as well as with) him, had not his Part- ftinguijhed ners known Guilt prevented) I was refolved to from the A- find him out, if poffible, to fee how he would de- pofi ate and fend it. In prder, whereto, being told, That the Innovator, Houfe of Henry Goldne'y was the moft likely phce, concerning I immediately went thither j where being given to bis own Ex- underftand he was fat down to Dipner, I thought ^r'!.'w "f good to wait whilft he had done 3 after whichhe, tbe fame Na- with fome nneafinefs came down, and wifh'd me tHre' to foHow him into the Printer's Chamber in the Court, where inftead of giving me the Satisfacti on I defired, by fending for his Competitors to ex amine by Evidence the Truth of my CJharges ip the Sheets -I had lent him at his requeft, in order to their better preparation for it 3 Jie firft lets me know, he had left my Manufcript behind him, (that I might be fenfible what Care he had taken to fecure them from the Effects pf its Examina tion, if they had met) and then plainly told me, George Whitehead would not meet me at all, in a Senfe of my uncompliAnt Difpofure, which was the rea fon that deterred the reft. Thus inftead of granting me the Audience in their Yearly Meeting I had moft juftly demanded, all their glorious Boafts of my Allowance of it in a private one came to -nought. However, as the faid William Pen had^told us,'. That fitch, as faw any Errors creeping into the Church,. ought fo cry out as earneftly againft them, as if they believed all befides themfelves were afleep ; I could nor * for all this sbe eafie, to let thofe. I faw in ours pafs, • '~ unex- \ ( & ) unexamined in order to ^ their' Amendment, what Repulfes foever I met with in purfuit of them. Wherefore, being called up to London .about fome, private Concerns of my own, in the io*Z> Month Anno 17 1 o, (where meeting with pur Second Days Meeting's Hypocritical Thanks to the Queen, for her promife of Maintainance of the Indulgence inviolable, &c. as if they knew thetnfeives guilty! of Crimes that wanted one, fo contrary to their an cient Pretenfions) I took that opportunity to ac quaint them once more of my Diffatisfactionj with thofe theii- concealed Corruptions, (3c by a few Lines, as follows. Friends, 4 '"PHough your great Provocations in refilling to A 4 Hear (and much more to Examine) in a 4 regularly conftituted Meeting, fuch Evidence as 4 I have heretofore offered in proof of fuch Char- 4 ges'as Ihave been confcientioufly concerned to * exhibit againft a depraved Party amongft you, has 4 given me juft Caufe to detect you 'in Print long 4 before this, according to your Demerits 5 yet as 4 I am loath to expofe you to fuch Sufferings as 4 you might poffibly meet with, through the pub- 4 licatibn of Matters of this Nature, until you 4 have utterly fruftrated me bf all hopes of your 4 Amendment without it, I hereby let you know, 4 that (though my Concerns brought me to Town ' upon other Occafions) I am willing to take this 4 opportunity once more to offer you a Hearing of ' the fame , in Manufcript for th^t righteous pur- 4 pofe, at this your Affembly, that you may avoid 4 the effects of its further Publication, by remo- 4 ving the Caufe, if upon Examination you can- 4 not defend it. In order whereto, as I am now 4 waiting at my Friend Jofeph Tovey's in Lombafd- 4 Street, expecting your Anfwer per Bearer, or ' otherways, fo nothing but your fiifpected Guilt,- * I am perfwaded, can make you refute it, who 4 am your true, though greatly abufed Friend Henry Piebvorth, this v 3°y ) This being carefully delivered them by one Ma ry Waller in the time of their Meeting, ac their .Chamber in White-Hart Court, Grace-Church-Street, in the Month above-mentioned 5 they, inftead of lending their defired Anfwer by her, fent Word, That they would convey their Mind to me by a Meffen ger of their own, as they did fome Hours after ac* cordingly, by whom they let me know, That as they had adjourned their faid Meeting till the'tyh Hour in the Afternoon upon my Account, I might then appear before them, if I thought convenient, when they would be ready to hear fuch Charges as I pretended to alledge againft them, or Words to that purpofe. In anfwer whereto I returned, That as I purpofed to wait upon them at the, Time they prefixed, fo I defired, that they might not cnlyf Hear, but alfo take Time to Examine the Truth of my Charges, by fuch Inftances as I had ready to ajfign in proof of them, of which I. wifh'd their Meffenger to give them Notice accordingly; But though we met at the Time appointed, yet were they fo far from offering to Examine the Truth of the Inftances I referr'd to in proof of my Charges, as that George Whitehead and John Feild, with the greateft part of the reft, (according to their former Method) got away before I had tho roughly read them, contrary to their Pretenfions when I began them, in a deep Senfe of their Guil- tinefs I doubt not in the feveral Matters I menti oned 5 upon which one fell to Curie me, another to Preach to me, another to Pray me, and another to Threaten me with terrible Things if I expofed them more publickly. All whofe falfe Fire, as I told them, fhould not (without their Repentance and Amendment) divert me, fince as I had ground to believe, That it was nothing but their known Guiltinefs that made them make thofe bluftering Noifes, to prevent their milled Auditors from a true Senfe pf it, fo nothing, but their publick De fence or Condemnation fhould ever deter me ; ppon , which Doctor Heathcoat defired, He might have Lihrty allowed him to ask, me one ferious Que- A a ' ftion ,( 370 ) film for hit own fatisfaBion 3 which beipg granted l*i«vhe proceeds to tell the Friends, Than though God had made him truly fenfible, that ¦ J had charged them in, my Manufcript with a many dangerous Truths, which he wifh'd they hAd never gt- ipen occafion for-. Yet the Queftion he wanted me to refblve him was, Wliether. I was guided in my Charge by my own Humane Reafon, or the Prineiple of Divine Revelation they pretended to be led by ? To which when I rofe up to make Anfwer, he (according to the Precedent ofthe reft of his Fel lows) inftapriy turned his Bacfe and hurried in bafte doWn the Stairs like one Thurider-ftruck, crying out as he ran, I propofed not my Queftion fo create Debate, but for my own Satisfaction, as appears by my Words, wherefore won't be prevail! d on to ftay to- hear ought of that Tendency by all thy Ptrfwafions. Where in, inftead of acting dike a nobte Enquirer, ac cording to the Precedent of thofe Bereans of Old the Apoftle commended> he rather .imitates that of a certain cowardly Taylor I have heard of,, who (when he had fallen for Fear under, a Man of Straw, he had unexpectedly felfd in his Cups, by a ftroke with his Wartd) cried lamentably hard for his' merciful Difcharge, under pretence, that he came there only to fhow his Valour, by fmiting atone he hoped would not hurt, and not with ., the leaft intention to venture the hazard of beipg ftnote by him. Thus far with relation to the' fourteen Particu lars afore-mentioned, of their Apoftacy fron\ the Truth, and Our ancient Chriftian Principles in ferted in my faid Manufcript 5 whereat being more than ever concerned, on Account of the, fatal Con- fequents that ' naturally attend fuch ignOminipus Diverfioris as tjiey exercifed me:with, as the Lord was pleafed to give me a further Senfe of their o-. ther great Corruptions fpecified in thofe Papers, as forrowful Additions to my foregoing Difcove-' ries 3 which our Quarter Meeting again allowing tae to propofe to our enfuing Yearly one, ', to be' there ( 171 ) t&ere defended or condemned as became theit£ I once more found any felf concerned to take ano- • ther tedious Journey thither, to offer the fame to their Confidexswion for that righteous purpofe ; where meeting with tbe like repulfe as before notwithftanding at Entrance, by their more than ufual Guard there placed for that end, I iigain ad- dreffed my felf to the afore-inentionted WtlfiOm 'Pen, in hopes of obtaining Audience aiPongft thetti - through his Influence, Which he promifing me to , ufe his utmoft to accomplifli, but not being able to effect, 'through the Averfion of others, I thought good to fignifie my Mind to the Members of the faid Meeting in General, by a few Lines in way of Anfwer to fuch Reafons as they had affign'd b*y their Agents, as the ground of my Expulfion Aoih amongft them, as follows. A ' lyb ofthe %d Month, 1711." Friends, * T TNderftandihg by fome . Difcourfe Ihaa'this ' Afterrioon With William Pen, amongft 6- 4 thers, that you are not willing to grant our Quar- ' ter Meeting s Requeft, in admitting me a Hear- 4 ing in this our Yearly Affemblyy of fuch Things 4 as I efleem my felf confcientioufly concerned to ¦* lay before you, as Errors in the Church disc 4 ought ro be rtdrefs'd 5 under pretence, thati 4 have disjoyned my felf from your Society, hy 4 joyning with the Prophets, and reprefentrng 4 Friends Apoftates : Which are your Miftakes in 4 both refpects, fince as I have not disjoyned my 4 felf from the Sincere of our Profeffion by jbyn- 4 ing with the Prophets, ' as you untruly pretend, 4 fol do not call all Friends Apoftates, as you in- * definitely charge me without proof 5 wherefore 4 I have ground to believe, (that inftead of the 4 Reafons you alledge for my Rejection) 'tis i the 4 known Guilt of the Parties who introduc'd riiofe 4 Errors I have to acquaint yoii of, that makes 4 them thus refute to bring their Deeds to the 4 Light, left they fhould be juftly reproyed,. when A a 1 1 they 'Cm') they come to be impartially examined J fo as the parallel of your Actions towards me is no where to be found fo compleat, as in Rome's Proceed ings towards the Ancient Proteftant Reformers at the Council of Trent, I hereby muft tell you, that as I juftly claim, my Liberty of Entrance into this your Affembly, upon account of the Station I am plac'd in, as Overfeer of that part bf the Church to which I belong, according to the Difcipline of Truth ye profefs, you have hi therto as illegally as unrighteoufly debarred me, fo I alfo require your Audience of fuch. Matters as I have to propofe amongft you, according to our Quarter Meeting's Requeft, as you will an fwer the contrary before God and his faithful .People, concerning which I defire your fpeedy Anfwer per Bearer or otherways, who am with due Refpect, yours ¦", . * Henry Pickworfh. This ftill (together with our Quarter Meeting's feveral Reprefentatibns and Requefts fent them in Writing, &c) not being able to move' them to admit me Entrance into their faid Meeting, any more than my former, and their Corruptions be ing in divers refpects of a moft damnable Tendeni cy, I durft not but go tip again to their next Yearly Meeting, in order to lay thofe feveral Maty ters before them, I had Evidence ready to offer in proof of 5 where meeting with the fame Repulfe as before at Entrance, I drew up the Heads of my feveral Charges, with a defign to publifh them in Print, as follows. London, the 10th Day of the \th Month called June, 171a. 4 'TTHefe are to Certifie all whom if may con^ ' cern, That whereas I have for feveral Years been made fenfible (amongft feveral others of our Friends called Quakers) ¦• of the growing Depravity of many of our moft noted Leaders, ' ' in ( 373 ) in Matters of Dp£fcrine, Difcipline and Practice, through which the generality of their Adherents have been corrupted, to the danger of their e- ternal Damnation, if not timely prevented 3 I, in difcharge of my Duty, as Overfeer and El der of their own Election, have not been want ing to figpifie the fame to them, from Time to Time in a friendly way, by Word and Writing, ip order to their Repentance and Amendment, to> prevent if poffible, their being more publickly expofed for their prefumptuous perfiftance there- ip 5 but fince they have been fo far from anfwer ing the righteous End of my Chriftian Travels for their Welfare, as that they have heretofore as well as now again at this our Yearly Meeting, refufed me the Audience I defired among them; in order to their better information, by illegally barring up their publick Doors, and keeping me out by Force at their private one 3 I find my felf confcienrioufly concerned to fignifie hereby to all the 'World, That I not only Charge, but alfo heretofore have in fome Meafure, and now a- gain offer to prove, before impartial Perfons e- qually elected between us, or otherways, in a publick Affembly, that the faid Leaders are guil ty of 1. Error, %, Herefy, 3. ttncharitablenefs, 4. Faljhood, 5. Evafion, 6. Inconfiftency, 7. Innova tion, 8. Impofition, 9. Infidelity, 10. Hypocrijy, n. Pride, 11. Rftilery, 13. Apoftacy, 14. Perjury, 15, Idolatry, 16. Villany, 17. Blafphemy, 18. Abomi nation, 19. Confufion, and 2.0. Worfe than Tur kifh Tyranny, in their Church Capacity 3 in Evi dence, that the Abomination bf Defolation fore told by our Saviour to be , fet up in the Holy Place, (i. e. People profeffing Infallibility and Perfection, (3c) as previous to the terribly Day of the Lord, preceding the peaceable and uni verfal Reign of Chrift, of which the, Holy Scrip ture fpeaks, is now fet up amongft them. 4 Wherefore; inaftpuchas Mens refufal to bring their Deeds to the Light, by a fair Examination before impartial Auditors in verbal Confsrences, A a -3 4 has ( 174 ) See their « has- been the occafion of thofe unhappy Schifms Yearly Paper' wherewith the Chriftian Church in al! Ages hath ef Anno <¦ ^een afflicted-, according to our Friends appro- x666\cemf 'ved Sentiments 5 I hope,, that^fince thofe' de- g"w ™'*Ad ' Pmve<^ Teachers have taken care to fecure their vice int «" ' pernicious Errors from publick Difcovery by of the Copies ' Books, in forbidding fuch to be printed or pub- of feveral ' ' iiflied among us, as are not wrote in Union of Letters, ' their Body, as they call it) our; Superiors will printed the f for once be pleated- ro oblige them, by Chriftian fame Year, 4 means, if poffible, ro fubmit to the Examination [ as cited p. ' defired in a free Conference, for their own and 30. of 'Ed. ' our Pofterities future Security from the fatal Bcckam'j <¦ Confequents of their deftructiVe Corruptions, Brief Difico- < according to rhelr ancient Petitions in other re- ve,y- ' fpects, fince! find my Chriftian Entreaties fa-, 4 mongft others of our Friends) unable to perfwade See Tax's ' them to ir without it, who am a hearty" Well- ¦ Several Pa- < -wither to- all %ions true Travellers in every ^Vr^'hPi ' Chriftran_-Society, wirhout reflect to Sects and A faithful c pai.^es on& above another, any further than they for '(lod^ and' exceed each- other in true Faith and Holinefs, my Country ' wh'cb thofe out- depraved Pretenders are become * ii. ' Strangers to, 'ii. J fha II, through God;. Almighty's Contentious ' "Affiftance, evince by good Evidence, by: their Apoftate, ' own approved Writings in' tfreiy Cuftody, a- />. 15. ' mongft others, When,ever they have the Cou- New-Eng- ' rage to' meet me in a publick Affembly, rightly Un&'sEnftgn, ' •conftituted for that righteous puroofe. Witnefjs f- 4> 59> 79- ' my Hand ' Grounds- and pjgnry, pickyoortb, Caufes, p. Sleeford hr Lincolnfhire, , $7- Catan'j- Cloud, p. 11, xx. jShiakers Plea, p: %>. M'argareti Eos'* Letter to King Charles 1 1 . ^.,3,4. w-jtb Ed* ti\xi&o\y's Preface to fox's Great Myftery of Iniquity. Being, after I had tranfci'ibedthe foregoing for thePrefs, notwithftanding loath to Print it, before I had ufed all. the Chriftian mean? I could poffibly think of to prevent it, for fear of fome unforefeen Cottfequences aftending,it, P thought good ro fend them ( 375) them a Copy thereof, in a few Lines of my piit- pofe to publifli the fame in Print, if not prevent ed by their Allowance of the Hearing I defired a- mongft them, that they might avoid its Effects by removing the Caufe, as they were in Duty obliged j the Contents whereof is as follows. Friends, 4 V"Our difingCnuous Dealing toWards me, in "** 4 refilling me Entrance into this our Yearly 4 Meeting, iri order to lay your feveral Corpipti- 4 ons before you, having laid a neceffity upon' rrifc 4 to Print the inclos'd, in further difcharge of my 4 Duty to God and his abufed People, I have, m 4 tender Compaffion to the fincere amongft you, 4 prevailed on my felf to let you have a fight of it 4 before it be publifhed, to fee if the Darigers that * may from thence arife, may caufe you to prevent 4 it, by giving me Notice, by a feW Lines or d- 4 therways, this Evening (directed to my Lodging 4 at the Rgd-Lyon Without Bifhopjgate) that you Will * allow me free Audience amongft you Very fhort- 4 ly for the afore-mentioned purpofe ;:' who am f yours in the' Truth Henry Pickpnorth. $tk of 'the \th Month, 17 12. The foregbingj with the inclofed therein, being directed ia William Pern, for the Service of the faid Meeting, was comriiunicated by him to George Whitehead [that Arch Emiffary of Satan} to have his Advice in the Matter, who upon reftifing the fame, were fo far from communicating its Cbntents to the reft of Friends there affembled, in order to have their Approbatiori therein, as that he took up on him not only to conceal the whole as much as hi ecsnld from the kriowledge of the Meeting, but alio declared tofuch as accidentally heard of it, Tliat he could not confent to my Audience amongft them ; under pretence, T-hat di I had disjoyned my felf from their Body iri- effeB, by joyning with the Prophets, I was not .ta>be takpt notice of in what I had to alledge againft A a 4 them, ( 37* ) them, having been long a Troubler of their Ifrael 3 with more to this purpofe, as I was informed. Which evafive Reflection as I had fpfficiendy re futed in the Letter I fent them the Year before, I forthwith got .the inclofed printed, in order to af fix at the Royal Exchange, and other publick Places 'of Recourfeup and down the" City, C$c. according to my firft Determination. Notwithftanding, after I had about a Hundred ready in my Hand for that purpofe,. being ftill [loath to expofe them, whilft all hopes utterly-'fail-; ed me of obtaining Juftice .without their publica tion, I thought gbod to fend them two or three of the faid printed Papers into their Meeting on the 11th Inftant, to fee if their. Confideration might move them to prevent the publication of the reft, "by allowing me the Hearing I defired amongft them 3 which not effecting my end, how much fo ever fome of their Members thereupon in Words pretended to it, I waited till the next Day, when riot hearing any thing from them to that purpofe, I ordered a Friend of mine to paft up three of them in the Court before the Meeting Doors, to fee if they might prevail on them to prevent the publication of the reft, by doing me and them felves, (3c. the Juftice I aimed at 3 which they yet not being able to effect, I the next Day defigh'd to publifh the reft 5 to the further delay whereof, the Lord was pleafed to lay a necefficy upon our ancient and truly worthy (though greatly abufed) Friend Thomas ft^ent, to come up to the City that Morning, thirteen Miles on Foot,- through a Di vine Senfe he gave- him, that he had fomething to do jri it for his Church and People, though he knew not what it was rill he came there, where finding me in the Street with the faid Papers irt my Hand in order to publifli, it was inftantly made known to him, as his Service, That he might go to the Meeting, to endeavour to perfwade them to prevent their Confequence, by admitting me to the Hearing I defired amongft them, according to their own ancient Difcipline and the known Rules flf ( 377 ) of Truth • which yet he being not able to prevail on them to allow me, through the Strength of their Stupidity, our Friend WUliam Parr of Not tingham was, with Tears in his Eyes, concerned to go to William Pen on the fame, Account the fame Day, to whom though the faid William Pen de clared his willingnels to grant my Recjueftj for the eafing my Confcience, yet he declared it out of his power, on account of George Whitehead's Aver- fion 3 which being no fmall Affitfftfon to others of our Well-wifhers, in a Senfe ofthe Righteoufnefs of my Requeft, our Friend.' Jofeph Tovey ftill de fired me to. delay, till he had tried if he could ob tain any better. Succefs in his Attempts for that end 3 inftead of which, though he found them like the Seditious at Jerufelem before their Deftruction, bufie-in quarrelling one with another, in calling each otjaniP'i>'4» Canker 'd, Separate, Apoftate Spi rits), (yHpl'the Printers Shop at the Entrance of thejjs?pcieting) about their Affirmation, (3c. as E- vi'afee of their Depravity within, whilft they were thus befieged without, yet all agreed not withftanding in refuting this my righteous Requeft to them 5 upon which he, with our afore-menti oned Friepds (feeing their dreadful Infatuation^ came away with great eafe in the. publication of my Papers, in a forrowful Senfe, of God's flaming Dif- * pleafure againft them for their repeated Provoca- * In a Vifion tions 5 upon which I fpread them accordingly, to concerning their no fmall Difconfolation ; all which hath not the Great yet prevailed on them to fee if the Houfe they &&* Myfle- have built he laid with tried Stones, there being •?» •abyfon* many that would be Builders, who love not to be cf, f- J-^i- tried, of which Number they have proved them- "/ '** "yfT felves, as one of their ancient Friends * not long jjfe 0"J* rf finCe foretold them. nyman. Thus far proceeding without my defired Succefs, my next Work was to lay their Contagious Cor ruptions before our Superiors in Parliament, ac cording to the Contents of my Paper, to have them convened, if poffible, to a publick Hearing by their : Authority, for the future Security of ¦ them- ( 37« ) theinfekes" and Pofterisyfrom their infectious Cor£' -fequentsy according to their ancient Petitions a- fore-mentioned 3 yet as that Courfe appeared to me both difficult and dangerous, notwithftanding the Caufe they had. given me to take it, by the damnable Nature, of their Corruptions, and abtt- five Devices they ufed to conceal th&ta, I ftill waited another Year, when not being able to ob tain the Gonfentof bur Quarter Meeting, to offer rriy Allegatiensagaiinft them at their Yearly Affem- -bry as heretofore, through the Prevalently of: the dtepraved Parties InftSgatioris to the contrary, I was eohftrained in my Spirit to go up thither again fox that end without their Reprefentatioi^ where, up on their refufal) to let me in as heretofore, left orie fhould mifcatry, I fent in three Copies of the enw , filing Lines, to the Hands of Benjanien Bangs, ES- ward Dykes arid John Whiting,, for the Meetings Service, directed and compofed as follows. Dear Friends AndBrethren affembled at this our Yearly Meeting, to ferve the' Lord, his Truth and People f 4 "O^Heiieais it is- not unknown to feveral int your "* ' Affembly, that 1 was confcientioufly com. 4 cerned the laft Year^ to publifli a Charge of dS» 4 vers grofs Errors in Doctrine, Difcipline and 4 Practice, againft a depraved Party amongft * you,. upon, account of your Refufal to Examine 4 the 'Validity of. fuch Inftances as I then had (by 4 our Quarter Meeting's Allowance; arid now a- * gain-.hasve) ready rooffer in proof of it 5 fo as I *¦ have ground' ro eftedm. your Oppofition againft 4 my Appearance among you for that end, (by il- , 4 legally barring up your Meeting-Houfe publick 1 Doors, and. keeping me out by force at the pri- '¦ vate one) to be: the effect of that Parties well. (- grounded fufpicion of their own Guiltinefs in the * feveral Matters Icharged rhem, whereby thege* 4 nerality of their Adherents' have been corrupted} 1 I doubt not;, but that thofe their Errors will, up- *- on Examination, be found to be the Babilonijh ¦ * Gar- ( 379 ; * garments and moft accurfed Things^ yo3 was, 4 the laft Firft Day in this your Meering-Houfq, 4 admonithed to purge from among*ft you 3 in pur. 4 fitance of which Chriftian Duty, I hope you • won't any longer delay to oblige that Party, to ' bring their Deeds to the Light by a fair Exami- 4 nation in a free Conference, before" a felect 4 Number of the feveral Quarter Meetings Re- 4 prtfentatives, regularly elected by you in a 4 Church way (not exclufivft of others) at this, 4 youx Affemply, how much foever the Guilty may 4 endeavour to diffwade you from it, by sfperfing, * of me, as a contentious Pretender and Breaker 4 of their peace, &c. fince as I can appeal to God, 4 the only Searcher of all Hearts, in behalf of the 4 Sincerity of my Intentions in thofe myProceed- 4 ings towards them, (for which Caufe I hereby 4 engage to Condemn my felf as publickly as I ' have accufed them, if it appear I have wrong'd 4 them) fo as in a Senfe of the' improbability of 4 rectifying Matters amifs by .the Profs, for want 4 of the Privilege to Print and Publifh fuch Books, 4 amongft Friends;, they have for their evafive De-, 4 fences 5 I hope, that how much foever the Gtez^Of whom our 4 Man of youx .Houfe may endeavour to diffwade Friend Mzry ''you ftom the Examination defired, in Order to.Mitchel * ' keep you unfenfible of the Rubbifh he hathfpeaks *'» her 4 broughrinto ir, (through which you are in fornef^'fto" afere- 4 meafttre aheady, and hereafter will be tavch.ftot'fta' 4 more involved, in Confufion) you will not any • longer joyn with, him and his deprav'd Cbllegues, 4 ofthe Second Days" Meeting, in concealing their, 4 Corruptions, by fhroudirig them, from juft Judg. 4 ment, in r-efufingme Audience in thofe feveral 4 * Matters I have to lay before you, in proof of my ' Charges againft them, as you expect ro efcape 4 the high Difpleafure of an incenfed, God, and. 4 juft Indignation of his abufed.People 5 fince as it 4 is the Duty of every one amongft us, how ob- * fcure' foever, to cry out as earneftiy againft Er- 4 for iri the Church upon his Difcoveny of it, as if 4 he believed all befides himfelf were afteep, according i ^ ( 3*o) to your own approved Sentiments, I hope yous won't blame me, if upon your Refufal to Exa mine the Truth of my Charges now in this your. Affembly, I find my felf, amongft others, obliged to fplicite our Superiors in Parliament to bring you to it, according to the effect of your ancient Petitions, by a way perhaps more ungrateful, 'to fecure pur felves and Pofterity from the fatal Con- fequents of your„ Corruptions,, in order to avoid , the effects of whofe Refentment. As I fhall ex-. pect your Anfwer hereunto this Evening, if pof-, fible, at my Logging at our Friend Jofeph Tovey's in Lombard-Street, fo if I hear nothing of it, as it will give me good Caufe to conclude, the Parties I fubfcribe ft to for the Meeting's Service, have, by the Direction of the Depraved, concealed the , Contents of it from the general knowledge of the Members, as others heretofore ferved me, with relation to my laft before I publifhed it 5 fo as fuch like Dealings in the Pope's Agents at the Trent Council, made that Church juftly odious to all Proteftant Nations 5 your following their Precedent herein, to fecure your Leaders evil Deeds from being brought to the Light, by a fair Examination in the Conference defired, for fear they fhould be juftly reproved, will be fo far from healing the Wound they have given you, as that by attempting fo do it by fuch deceitful means, whilft their Corruptions remain, you will not on ly expofe your felves to the Ignominy of their de praved Brethren above-mentioned, in the Ages preceding, but alfo finally render the Name of a Quaker, for their fakes, a Hiffing, a By-word, Contempt and Scorn to all fucceeding Generati ons, as hath been, by your own beft Friends, long fince foretold you 3 which \ hope the fincere among you will duly confider, in anfwering my Chriftian Requeft herein, in order to your own and Poflerities prefervation from thofe dreadful Confequents, that otherways you will find will 4 attend your unchriftian Connivance, who am, as * V < T V • ( J«i ) ' I ever hope to remain; whatever any may fuggeft 4 to the contrary, your ever well-Wifhing Friend Henry Picltsvortb. London, 17th of the -^d Month, 1713. ) Now though the foregoing was carefully deli vered to the Parties I fuperfcribed it to, in the Time of their faid Meeting, receiving Information, that all the three Copies of it were moft wickedly concealed from the Members thereof, notwithftan ding hay Precautions, as I fufpected, I found my felf concerned to give them general knowledge of it two Days after, by a Hundred of the enfuing Lines in Print, communicated by my own Hands,' that they might not plead Ignorance of my Chri ftian Requeft therein, directed and compofed as follows. Dear Friends and Brethren, affembled at this our Tearly Meeting, to ferve the Lord, his Truth and People, 4 TyHereas the laft Fourth Day I directed three " 4 Letters to three feveral Members of this \ your Affembly, whofe Names are Benfamen * Bangs, Edward Dykfs and John Whiting, to let you * underftand, that if you ftill refufe to admit mea 4 Hearing of fuch Inftances in a Church way, as I 4 have ready to offer in proof of the feveral Char- 4 ges I was the laft Year concerned to publifli in 'Print, againft a depraved Party amongft you, ' through your illegal prevention of my Appearance ' in your Affembly for that righteous purpofe, (by ' barring your publick Doors, and keeping me out ' by force at your private one) I fhall, with the af- 4 finance of fome others of our oppreffed Friends, '4 be obliged to folicite our Superiors in Parliament 4 to bring you to it, for the future Security of our 4 felves and Pofterity, from the fatal Confequences 4 of their deftructive Corruptions, (according to 4 your ancient Petitions in other refpects)3 the 1 Contents of which Letters being abufively con- 4 cealed from your knowledge by the Partie^a- 1 ' bove- * bove*g»t»ed> I could not be eafie to take thbfc 4 fevere Cpurfes, until I had given you this gene-' 4 yal Notice of my Requeft therein, to prevent our ' Superiors juft Indignatio&lf poffible, againft your 4 concealed Abominations, by your removing the * Caufe of them, in bringing jbofe your Teachers 4 Deeds tp the Light, in way of free Conference ' i» this your Affembly, in order to their Defence * or Condemnation, according to the Difcipline of 4 die Truth ye profefs, and my earneft Entreaties, 4 before ye be forced to it by a Way more ungrate* 4 ful, which otherways cannot be avoided 5 fince 4 as your A Now though the afore-mentioned was not only directed, but alfo delivered to the Hands of this Andrew Pitt, in their Meeting time, according to, his Inftructions, in hopes of its having the Effect -propofed, through his Affiftance 3 yet inftead of a- ny fuch Thing, he preferidy comes out, and tells me, I was quite wrong ftill, through a Miftaltp of his' Words, fince 1 Jhould not have directed it to tbe Meet ing without Name, but Charles Harford (their Clerk. for its Service) by Name 5 which though I looked upon to be only a Quibble of his, to get fhut of the Task he had undertook, through th$ difficulty he (3%) he found to perform it 3 yet being refolved to leave1 po Stone unturn'd towards getting them to the Hear- - ing defired, if poffible, I told him, That fhould be t.o • 'T'Hat whereas I, in a deep Senfe of diverS grofs ¦*• ' Errors, Herefies and Blafphemies, afnongft a 4 many other great Abominations our chief Teachers 4 have unhappily involv'd us in, for want of fub- ' jecting themfelves to a timely Examination in our 4 Yearly Meetings, in order to their detection, ac- 4 cording to the repeated folicitations of my felf, a- 4 mongft many others of our true Friends, have been 4 confcientioufly concerned to prefent feveral of the 4 enclofed Petitions to our Superiors in Parliament, 4 to oblige them to a fair Hearing before others, * according to their ownRequefts on other occafions. 4 The end of which Petition, the worthy Mem- 4 bers ( 4 bers there affembled being, willing to Anfwer up- 4 pn your Requeft, (from whom it can only be re- 4,gulaely prefented, asi am credibly inform'd) I hum- '3iy hope, that as my proof of the feveral Charges 4. therein will not only obviate our faid Teachers 4 unworthy Reprpfentation of fuch ofthe Clergy as 4 Jbave heretofore detected mapy of their Corrupti. 4 ons, for Baal's Priefts, treacherous Incendiaries,, 4 malicious Informers, (3c but alfo be inftrumenta^ 4 in all likelihood to bring many of their mifled Ad- ' herents to the true Catholick £hurch of Chrift, 4 from whence' they have been Jong led aftray by 4 their faid Teachers Delufions 3 . 4 Your Reverences will be fo much your own, * and our mifled Brethrens Friends, as to joyn with 4 me in requefting out Superiors to fummon the' 4 Caufers of it to a publick Conference, before im- 4 partial Perfons by them elected as Judges for De? 4 cifion, according to- the Contents of my enclofed 4 Petition, - as you tender the Honour of C°d apd 4 Our eternal Well-being 3 fince as you can hardly ' eyer hope for fuch another opportunity, to have 4 that Chriftian Work (many of you have been enT 4 gag'd in againft our Errors) done to your Hands, 4 without your further Appearance in it, I cannot 4 perfwade my felf, but that what weighty Concerns 4 foever ' you may be ingag'd in for the Church's 4 Welfare, as-this refpects the eternal Well-being of * fuch a great Body pf People, you will with me 4 conclude, that it above all others merits your moft 4 feripus and expeditious Confideratiop 3 who am 4 yours fo far as I am cpnvinc'd you are one with 4 the Truth as it is in Jefus, whilft _ From my Lodging at the Golden Henry Pickyvtrth. Key in Newgate-Market, •,,. London, April 12,. 1-7 14. -, ( The foregoing Petition coming to the fight of pur si\d Friend Francis Bugg, he thought himfelf oblig'd to fignifie his approbation of it, by a few Lines of his own annex'd to it, in favour of the Content? of it, directed and compofed iri effect as foljows. -, B b 3 Moft, ( 39© ) Moft Reverend and Reverend, Sec. ' TTHough the above-mentioned Perfon is not yet •*• ' fo far one with our Church in all Things as - ' I could wifh him, yet as the mpft amazing In-v 4 ftances he hath read in my Audience, fince he 4 4 came to Town, in proof of his Charges againft 4 the chief Quaker Teachers, hath given me good, 4 hopes of hisfurther Conformity, (as well as mifled 4 Brecbrens Conviction of their Errors in order tq 4 it) I hope you will not difcourage him in his pre- 4 font purfuit of them, through your refufal to joyn 4 with him, in foliciting our Superiors to fummons, 4 them to the Hearing defired, according to his Pe- 4 tifion 3 fince as the righteous end of it is what^ 4 many of our Reverend Clergy (as well as my felf)v 4 have long forefeen to be the only Method to wound ' their Quakerifim at the Heart, fqr the Reafons he. 4 mentioris amongft others ; for which Caufe their ' Teachers have ufed all the deceitful Arts of late 4 they can devife to avoid it, as appears by their a-? 4 bufive Anfwers to the Clergy of Norfolk, and Suf- * fellas Petitions, compared with the Appendix tq 4 my Pilgrims Progrefs, &c. So though this Petition 4 ner, as well as my felf, is againft their ProfecuT 4 tion by pecuniary Penalties or corporal Punifhr 4 nients, till..their Errors break forth into Acts of 4 Sedition^ jet as they were originally occafioned * by their implicite Bigotry to their idolatroufly ex- " alted F fertion, that I occafionally frequented them to give ,them Difturbance 3 both which are as falfe as falfe can be invented, fince befides thofe I conftantly fre quent with their prqfefs'd Friends at Sleeford, as I have been at feveral of their faid Aflemblies at Lon don of late, as divers can teflifie, .contrary to this their extenfive Aflfirtion, (though my other Services in their behalf have prevented my fo frequent Atten tion of theirs at Lincoln, as might poffibly by them be expected) fo I. have been fo far from ever Affem- bling with therii to give them Diftm'bance, through a.contentious Mind, on thofe Occafions they fpeak of, as that the great God doth know, (as they themfelves might alfo know, if they would once be fo juft to God or- themfelves, as to examine Things) that my chief end hath been to make them truly fenfible of the Caufes . of thofe Difturbances which is every where amongft them, that the fame might be re moved, by their juft Condemnation of the original Authors of them 5 wherefore, inftead of my being one of thofe Capfefs of Divifions the Apoftle. fpeaks of, that ought to be avoided, (as they without proof would perfwade the World) they have hereby given me juft Caufe to fear, they themfelves will prove of thofe ftrongly deluded ones, the Apoftle directs us to let alone' in their Ignorance, that, they might be Damned for not believing the Truth when it is told theni 3' fince they have thus unrighteoufly re quited me for my Chriftian Endeavours, to make them truly fenfible of the fame, in order to their deliverance from thofe fatal Snares they are entan gled in, through their implicate Bigotry to their de praved Leaders grofs Errors and Antichriftian In novations 5 though they, like their perfecuting Pre- xvi. 2. deceffors, our Lord forewarned us of, are become fo blind perhaps as to think, that by this their abu- ftve Paper againft me, they do God great Service, wherein they in the end will find theriifejves moft "grofly miftaken. Excpm. And as he hath publickly joyned himfelf in ] Community ( 395 ) Community with thofe called French Prophets, feme of whom hath (with him) declared us to be Apoftates, &c. Anfw. This Paragraph, inftead of mending the Matter, only ferves for an Additional Evidence of its Authors Falfliood and Folly, fince as it is impok ftble I fhould joyn my felf in Community with thofe called French Prophets, according to the Native Senfe of the Word, (which fignifies, an enjoying of all Things in Common) fince there is no fuch Commu nity practifed amongft them 3 fo inftead of their ha- - Ving (with me) charged them wrongfully with be- ; ing Apoftates, as they would hereby perfwade the World* there could not well be a more pertinent Inftance, than their above-mentioned Falfliood, af figned by them in proof of the Truth of it 5 which 1 would have them well confider of, in order tp their Repentance and future Amendment, as a Duty . that far better becomes them, than fpending their Time in Excommunicating the Faithful. Excom. As alfe may further appear from his tempo rising refleBious Papers in Print, in which he affumes ( through the Vanity of his Mind) the Title of an Elder and Overfeer over us, &c. which but the more difcovers his own Folly (if not Spiritual Pride alfo) and ill De ferts of thofe high Epithets he hath fo often dignified himfelf withal, Anfw. Not to infift on their Terms Temporising, RefleBious, Sec. as if the Government was as culpa ble in defiring to have their depraved Teachers brought to a publick Hearing, as I was, in order to their Errors Detection 3 which as the effect fhows to be a falfe Infinuation, the fame only ferves to ma nifeft their Irreverence to be as great towards their Superiprs in Parliament, as their Enmity is towards ;me out of it. I cannot brit admire at their audacious Affertion, ' That Iaffume, through the Vanity of my Mind, the Title of an Elder and Overfeer over them, occ. when as (to pafs by their ridiculous Infinuation by their Et cete ra, as if I affumed the fame over others as well as the Quakers) the chief of them cannot but remem ber* thaj I was fp far from affuming thofe Titles, . * whep ( 39* ) when they fome Years fince conferred them upon. me, at their Monthly Meeting at Waddingtert, (by the Lord's Direction, as they declared, after long waiting for his Inftruction) as that I can prove by good Evidence, when called to it, I fignified my un- firnenefs for that Station in my own efteem, more than once to avoid them. Wherefore^ inftead of difcoyering my own Folly and Pride, by' undefervedly dignifying my felf with thofe Titles, as they would perfwade the World, _ I am very fure, they have added to the foregoing dis coveries of their own Hypocrify and Falfliood, in this their unrighteous Affertion, which I am afraid fome among them are too much hardened in, through their wilful Ignorance of their Errors, and caufelefs Enmity towards me, to repent of as they ought, how much foever it concerns them. .Excom. Which notwithftanding it is well known, unto diivers of us, how meanly he difcharged the Office he would Jli'll pretend -to. Anfw. This their Reflection, like all the reft, doth not fo much wound me as it does them that made it, fince as my unwearied Proceedings at their Monthly, Quarter and Yearly Meetings, He Time after Time, to bring their depraved Leaders tp an Examination in a Church way, in order to their Repentance of their contagious Corruptions, may evince to all the World, that I have difcharged the Office they conferred upon me, beyond any per haps of their Oyerfeers before me 3 io jf my Chri ftian Endeavours have not obtained their defired ef fect, not I, but themfelves and their Yearly Repre- fentatives, are to be blamed as the occafion of it, through their mean management of their infipid In ftructions for that end and purpofe, the which, as J have ground to tbelieve fome of them have already, I hope to live to fee pthers ,(of tbe moft fincere a- mongft them) repent of. Excpm. Many with us, that have a right knowledge of him, cannot but be fenfible how unfit he is to be a Reformer of others, except he were better Reformed him- Anfw. This C 397 ; Anfw. This is as invidioufly exhibited as the reft of their random Reflections, Inftead of affecting me, like their other, only ferves to wound them, (and thofe in their Unity, who, by their Lord's Di rection, declared themfelves engaged to chufe me to Reform them) fince I am either fit for that Ser vice they chofe me, contrary to this their Infinuati on, or the God they fo folemnly fought to for their Iriftructor therein, was none of the true one; But be i that as it will ; how mean an Opinion foever they may have of the Spirit that was their Guide in my Election as their Overfeer, fince I offered to detect jJBofe Corruptions I faw amongft them, (excepting one or two of the wifeft of their Affembly, that fhew their diflike of this their Paper againft me, through a well-grounded fufpicion of the Truth of my Charges, as well as deep Senfe of their difor- derly Proceedings in order to it) I doubt not but *hat the Authors of it were fufficiendy confident, that which influenc'd them in drawing it, was the Infallible One, let me prove what I will to the con trary, by the Falfhoods it is compofed of '; though if ever they were led by that Principle in any Thing, I have ground to conclude, from the over-fight I have taken of diem fince my Election, it was when they fo happily chofe me for that Chriftian Service, they now ufe all the deceitful means they can de- vife to diveft me of. Excom7 ^Wherefore, for the Caufes above-faid, with™ r more that mighf be added, We find ourfelves concerned tg p„t j„f„r to declare to all to whofe Hands Ms may come, That we Chrift's fake, can have no Vnity with him, nor own him as one of our according to Society, &c. till by unfeigned Repentance and Amend- Chriftian ment of Life, in true Humility of Heart, and Contrition Principles of' Spirit he turn unto the Lord, fo as that for all his ttnd the Pri- %ard Speeches, and what elfe of III he hath done unto us, fitive Chri- he might come to obtain Mercy and Forgivenefs fromft,ens Frees- Him 5 which that he may, is the hearty and fincere de- dt?!s' ^ fire of his greatly traduced, though Chriftian and, well- Jh,ch> as •n - rr- j they manifeft wifhing Friends. ,f. rJfi; J J> , . , . ... - . . . „ . their (juiltt- Signed in behalf of this our Meeting, per me , ngp r tbat Jofeph Richarfon. Apoftdcy 1. charge their Leaders isitb, they alfe flievi their ill deferts oftheTi- tle ( 39* ) tie of Chriftian Friends* they here fo bountifully dignifie themfelves' •with ; fince as none can be true Chriftian friends, '•¦ivbo thus inftnu- ate their Expectations to be faved by God, through Repentance, Sec. [•without regard to Chrift's Merits by his Death and Sufferings) as they dd by their omiffion to mention them, fe inftead of-efteeming them what they repute themfelves, I account them fuch mortal Ene-. mies to the trite Chriftian Religion, Sec. as Jtands juftly excluded from that Holy Communion, tbey thus pretend to exclude others. ¦ Anfw. This their conclufive Paragraph being alfo bf a piece with the reft, only ferves to fhow our de praved Quakers odious Method in dealing with their Chriftian Monitors, in their Church way, amongft themfelves 3 againft whom, for want of real Matter of Fact to ground their abufive Exclufions on, they (according to their Apoftle Fox's Rule) ftick not to fupply that Deficiency by' moft inviduous Suggefti- ons of what they had and could fay againft theril, or they would never thus think to affright me, and , amufe their Readers with a wherefore^ for the Caufes . above-faid, with more that might be added.. Since as their pretended Caufesaforefaid, are on ly to be found in Terra Incognita, for what their Pa-> per recites of them, I have ground ro conclude, their threatned more that might be added, will upon f jh"* Examination on their Publication, in like manner tbC th onty Prove a -Bell without a Clapper, as a proper' eave forth a- Counterpart to this their Noife about Nothing • gainft John " through their deep Senfe whereof, as we find none" Anfloe, John °f their lofty Pretences therein, (to unwearied Tra- Barnard, veis, great Labour of Love, true Chriftian Dealings* William in firft fpeaking to him in private, and then before Wilkins,«»^ two or three, according to Chrift's Rule, fhowing ethers moft him his Evil, and in much Brotherly Love, how and unjuftly, as wherein he hath wronged us, &c.) they ufed to gild cited in Fr. their Papers of Exclufion with * 3 fo inftead of uri- ^"Sg/ De dertaking to defend their Teachers, or ufe their In* Chnft. Li- tereft. t0 0bi|ge tnem to defend themfelves from my fence of thi' Char8e of Error> Herefy> Inchtlrity, Idolatry, VUlanfi Snake a- ' ^affiemy an£i Tyranny, amongft many other fuch.vilp gainft G. Enormities, I offer, through the Lord's Affiftance, to Whitehead'* prove them moft grofly guilty of, when-ever they Antidote, durft meet me in an Affembly of their own profef- and others, fed Friends, rightly, conftituted for that end and put* pbfes ( 299 ) pole '\ they think they fufficiently fupply that Omif fion, by Hypocritically advifing nie to Repentance, Amendment, Humility, Contrition, (&. that I may not only obtain my Union again with fuch Apo ftates as I have proved them, but entitle my felf to their Prayers to God alfo, for Mercy and Forgive- nefs for 'all my hard Speeches, arid what elfe of 111 I have done them ; though they, poor Men, are fo far from proving me guilty of any 111 towards them, as that fome of their Chieftains have fhown them felves not a little concerned, that by all their feandi- ings, they could find nothing of real Fact againft me to put'in the Paper of my Exclufion j which coming to the Ears of George Pell of Swinejhead in our Parts, a certain rich crafty Pretender in their Unity, (who made one of his Sons knock Hemp for his Bread, ro keep him from Starving, and abfolutely broke the Heart of the other, through his niggardly Cruelty, according to his Neighbours Relation) he declares that he told them, He could' tfft&uA&y fupply that De ficiency, to their no fmall ConfiUtion ; in order Where to, as he had feen a piece of ilf-tann'd Leather of mine about 9 Years ago, which he thought coft me fomething, fo for want of other real Matter to grace their Paper with, he thought that Fact fufficient to ca- Ihire me out of their Holy Coirimunion, wherein, notwithftanding his magnificent Flourifhes to per fwade them to enter it, as a Matter remarkable, they in their great Charity, it feems, thought good to omit it, and give me to, the Devil for nothing, in this their fine Nick-a-Nack, fign'd by their Order per their Friend Jofeph Rieharfem; whofe unwarrantable Acti vity therein I am the more concerned at, as he is one whom the Lord hath not only (with me in fome mea fure) given a Divine Senfe of our depraved Leaders ; Corruptions, bur alfo hath caufedhim in one manner (as he hath me in another) to cry out aloud againft them in their publick Aflemblies in London, &c. iri order to their true Repentance, and timely Amend- inent, for which f believe he would riot have wan ted his Reward, had he continued in" that Faithful- nefs to the end, I hope God will preferve me, who am, notwithftanding his and his depraved Brethren* un- ( 4°<> ) unchriftian Dealings -towards trie, their truly well- wifhing, though moft unworthily abufed Friend Henry Pickworth* Sleeferd, Sept: za. 17 14* Now notwithftanding the Quarter Meetings, a* fore-mention'd Agents^had advifed me to appear at this their Meeting the Day of the Date hereof, ro fliow Caufe why their afore-cited Paper fhould not- then be publickly given forth againft me, according to the Dgfign of it, if I then gave them riot fuch fatisfaction as Truth requires^ yet did I no foPner enter the Meeting-Houfe for that purpofe, but that I was commanded by their Preacher Collier to de part from, amongft them, under pretence,- that I was difowned by them, and had therefore nought to do in their Affembly 3 in anfwer to which peremptory Com mand, I as peremptorily returned, That as the Warn ing I had received by their Agents, to Appear there, and fhow Caufe why their Paper of Excommunication fhould not be given forth againft me from (he faid Meeting, fufficiently intimated,, that I was not yet difowned by them, as he falfly pretended, fo if I wot; (as I was not) as I had a part in their Meeting-Houfe, by joyning in the Chargp of its EreBion with the reft of them, I Jhould not depart the fame at his or their Command, unlefs he or they could fhow me any Law of God or Man that o-> bliged me to it 3 for want of which they at length af- fented to my continuance amongft them, in order to hear what I had to fay in my Defence from their Paper, to the further detection of, their pretended Infallibility, and this their bufie Preachers no fmall Difconfolatipn. In order to which end, I waited till the reft of their Bufinefs was concluded, without concerning rny felf with any of their Debates about their fri volous Impertinencies, until a certain Paper of their great Patron Whitehead's was read, againft their AU lowance of fuch Minifters to go forth to preach, as had not firft fatisfied their Creditors for what Debts they owed them 3 which Direction, as it would have prevented that Holy Prophet of Old, we read of in 2 Kings iv. 1, (3c who died Infolvent, from de- t liveririsj S 46t > Iiveririg his Prophefies, had it been practifed then? or he now living amongft us, as I told them 3 fo as they all pretended to be guided by that Eternal Word in their Religious Concernments, the Holy Scriptures direct to, as they really ought to be in fuch publick Services, I Could not but give my Judg- ment againft it, as another of George Whiteheads An- tichriftian Impofirions, ih further proof of that A- poftacy I charged him with 3 wherein, though the Meeting fo little regarded what I faid at the firft, as that they in way of Contempt of me, declared their determination to Record the fame as their ftanding Rule in fuch Cafes, according to his Directions 3 yet upontheir Friend Temfon's Declaration, That as there: wot more in my Words than they at prefent confidered, he had no Vnity With G. Whitehead'* Inftructions, they itiunediately chang'd their Mind* and refolved to drop it, as an Admonition unchriftian ; to the fur ther difcovery of their caufelefs prejudice againft me, as well as more full Detection of that Infallibi lity they boaft of. After this Matter Was Pver, and the Minute of their foregoing Meeting relating to their Paper a- gainft me being read, they demanded to know, What I had to fay for-my felf, in order to prevent its defigned publication ? In Anfwer whereto I returned, That as I had feveral Reafons there ready drawn up in Writing^ to communicate to their Confideration againft it, I hoped they would give me time to read the fame in their Audi ence, before they recorded their Conclufion to publifli it* as a ftanding Teftimony of their Difunity with me, ac cording to the Declaration of their Agents that brought it to my Hands for thatpurpofe. The which the majo rity at length contenting to, againft the good liking of the reft, I proceeded to read my above-menti oned Anfwer accordingly. Upon the Hearing whereof, the whole Meeting beiiig notjaiitde nettled, to fee their Hypocrify and Falfhppd fo juftly expofed therein, to their no fmall Shame and Confufion, they wifhed me to let them have my faid Anfwer for about fourteen Days, to fee if .they could refute it 3 which I freely grariting, up on their promife to return it me at the Time limU Cc ted* ( 402 ) ted* had it then fafely brought tack to my Hand «¦= gain,' without the leaft Syllable in Confutation of it* though upon a Confultation about it that Evening* fome of the Chief of them loudly pretended to its In the interim, as they then declined to attempt it in way of Conference, (as I expected they would .ever continue to do in all Ways whatever, notwith-* ftanding their Boaftings) I defired to know of theiP. Whether they defigned to publijh their feid Paper, if my Exclufion from this fkeir Meetings as feme fret ended, tjiat I might take care to Copy as many of my Anfwers as they publifhed Copies of theirs againft me .•> Whereto they making no Reply a good while, (according ra their ufual Cautioufnefs in fuck dangerous Cafes) one Samuel Hewet being of a more (generous Spirit than the reft of their Brotherhood, flood up« and told tbem, My Demand was reafinaftle,; upon which they at length with one Voice declared, That it fhould not be publifhed, - it. fhould not he publifhed, to : their. great Collier's detection of FaHhood, and their pre tended. Infallibilities further Confutation. Thus; as I ftill remain a Dear Brother, Father, Elder and Overfeer of their Society, fafe from thofe threatned Confequents of my Exclufion, for what appears to the contrary 3 , fo diis, their fine Nick-a. Nack, like all the reft of their former ones, came to nought. ,4j -,,,-. , However, fome of them who were loth to have me come off thus eafily, having whifpered ir to their Preacher Tomfen and others, That I did not own -their Light within them from their Creation, to be God or Chrift, or fufficient to Salvation, according to their De clarations 5 heinot only tPok occafion to call me tp an account for; this my, pretendedfalfe Doctrine, at a private Honfein Lincoln that Evening, but alfo al- ledged feveral Arguments in order to prove it what they denominated, ft 3 'the which I refuting by Scrip- ture Evidence, and its confuted Effects upon them wJhjQpretended to be guided by it,' he apd ,a Cam- bridgeJhireWoman-Preacher in his and their Unity defigned, as it feems, to pay me off forely in their publick Preachments 5 in order whereto, the Woman firft ftanding up, and quoting the firft 3 Verfes of the ift ( 4°3 ) ift of Jofm the Evartgelift, in favour of ttelr Notion^ when fhe came at the 4^, fhe thought fit to tranfpofe the Words, from In him was Life, cVc. to In him was Light,and that Light was the Life ofMcn,that fhe might thereby the better prove her Quaker Doctrine of Their Light within them being God and Chrift, Sic. and the ftiore effectually confute my Oppofition, to her Au-i ditors greater Confblation 5 which Holy Work her CoUegue Tomjbn was fo highly pleas'd with, as that upon her, Ceffation, he moft affectionately fell upon the fame Subject, which he not only rtioft vigorous ly p'rofecuted from the fame mifapplied Text, but alfo from that of i Pet, i. 19. which fure Word of Prophecy there fpokenoif, he would. have to be this Light within, which we are not only to take heed to until, but when the Day'is dawned, and Day-Star, the Apoftle fpeaks of, is arofe in our Hearts 3 di rectly contraty; not only to thepurport of his own alledged Text, but alfo the Context, which fhows; 'it was the harmonious propbeffes in the Holy Scrip tures of our Saviour Jefus Chrift, the Apoftle ac. courited a more fure Word than that-audible one in the Mount, and not the Light within every one com ing into the World, as our depraved Quakers fancy* though it, With all our other good and gracious Gifts James i. 17. coriie from God and Chrift, in order to lead to him, as otir only true Light of Life and Object of Sal vation. However, this Tomfen being refolved tp have this Text underftood'in his depraved Quaker Senfe, he, in further Confirmation of it, affured us, That this Light within was the Gift-cf God, .poken of in Rom. v. 15, (3c. which inftead of mending his Matter, fur- Compared ther confuted him 3 fince as we are to make a Di- TO;^ x Cor_ ftinction betwixt the Gift and the Giver, if we will X1. 4. ^.^j. be Orthodox, his attributing our Salvation to the Eph. 4. 8. One which is only due to the other, inftead of ma- aft -which he king good his Doctrine, proved him a moft grofs I- covertly re- dolater,as I told him after the Meeting was ended <;fer'd to, tho' in a Senfe whereof, he ran away like one Thunder- he did not ftruck, without offering fo much as the Shadow ofexfrcIly an Anfwer to my Confutation, however being con- * sm- fident of the Truth of his Abmrdities whilft he was preaching. Ces, That ;itt ( 4©4 ) That he might not be wanting in their way of proving it, he fell on to pifur his Vials of Quaker. Vengeance upon thofe Apoftates, as he called us that denied it, as Perfons defined, of God, and difowned of his peculiar People, as he called his Partakers 3 ' for their Confirmation wherein, he one while pretend ed to Pray for «j,another while declared us,Caft out of their Vnity ; one while, , defired our Repentance, A- mendment andForgivcnefs for all our hard Speeches jprer fentlv after, prophecyihg a blaftingand withering Mil-r dew from fhe Lord to attend us 3 one while, 'the Lord was Witnefs, how he and his Friends fought our Good, and defired our Souls Welfare 3 another while pronoun ced us Wandring Stars, for wham the Blackriefs ofDarkr nefs was referved for ever, Thus as he tried me (at whom he chiefly ftruck) with Fire and Water, to make me Condemn my felf for fpeaking the Truth of them, beyopd their Courage to attempt to defend themfelves, fo that his deluded Admirers might be fure he was divinely commiffionated in thofe his Jnconfiftencies, he fur ther told them, That though the Wiapons' he exercifed upon us were not Carnal, they were Mighty and Spiri tually Gutting to wound the Trfinfgrejfor. Under th? Terror whereof, when Iwasfpfar from falling down, as^one fmote at the Heart, as that I boldly fac'd him as one cpntemning his Menaces, in a Senfe of my Innocency and their notorious Guiltinefs in the Matters I charged them, he told his Auditors, That though fuch Apoftate Spirits, might (through the prefumptien of their deceived' Hearts) ouubrave a while the Lord's threatned Judgments in the Mouths of his Servants, yet (hey might affure themfelves, he would i-n. , the end meet with tbem with his Fiery Indignation, in Flames of Vengeance, beyond all Redemption, unlefis pre vented by their fpeedy Repentance 3 under the belief whereof, they, like thofe Popifh Bigots the ABs and Monuments fpeak of, (that were fadly confounded upon a Cry of Fire in the Church, at pppr Bennetts Degradation, whilft the opprefs'd Confeffor with his Wax Taper, only flood uncopcern'd) appeared , moft forrowfully eaft down in their Spirits, through his difmal prqfpeCt pf my future TormenE, whilft ( 4°S ) I, as confcious of my own Innocei|cy7 only fat void pf all Fears of it upon thofe occafions, as I hope jny God in whom I truft, will for the future preferve me in all others, notwithftanding all their Progao- ftieatipns. Thus, inftead of obtaining the Audience I ftrug- gled for, having got nought but fuch unmerciful Bans as thofe in my Proceedings in order to it, and being deeply fenfible that their Corruptions were of the moft damnable Tendency, though our Superiors (as well a9 our Quaker Teachers) refufed to take Notice of my Chriftian Complaints of them j I could npt fufficiently difcharge my felf of their Con. fequents in my own efleem, without giving this publick Notice of the fame in Print, according to the Quakers declared Wifhes, that the World might not only know, but for the future alfo beware of jhem 5 in order whereto, as I had divers Advantages providentially brought to my Hands, both by the Quakers and others, fo (having learned their Max im, Not to confult Events or fear EffeBs in the perfor mance of my Duty) I durft not any longer delay thp printing thefe Sheets againft them, notwithftanding the frhall hopes I have of obtaining my Chriftian End therein, through a Senfe of my unqualifiednefs for fuch Services 5 however, asi hope the Judicious will not flight the Matter contained in thepi, thro" the Cpurfenefs of my Method, which Is the beft my Education hath furnifhed me with, I have ventured on this Undertaking, without defiring fuch Affi ftance as fome may judge requifite on fuch occafions. In Anfwer whereto, though I doubt not but G. Whitehead, (or fome other of his hardened Emiffa ries) will come forth with an O Henry ! we pity ¦ thee 5 not believing thou thinkeft our Friends meant as thou haft reprefented them, having otherways explained themfehes ; How proveft thee this }. Where foundeft thou that ? Who told thee t'other ? The Lord knows our In nocency ; this and that is uncharitably faid j fuch and fuch are not qurvery Words 5 them and the other are not juft fe exprefs' d by us ; thou haft not taken all our " , Whole Paragraphs, nor regarded our Explanations 3 fe- liojufly, we are wronged by thee; ingoodConfcieme m.e deny Witnefs G. W.'s Sober Expoftulati-on,RamblingPilgrim, Antidote a- gainfl Ven.' Compared i -withy/yettis Ang. Hag. and Whi ting' j Judas and the CbiefPrieftscombin'd, Sac.See G. K.'j feveralChal- lenges, as cited p. S-> 6. ofthe De fence of the Snake a- gainft G. W.'s Veno- pious Anti dote, -well viorth Ob- fierv ation. (406 ) 'demy this Charge, And cant own thi t'other 5 for Shdme, for Shame-, belye not- the Innocent by thy hard Speeches, tending to <6ur Perfecuthn 5 the Lord rebuke thy foul Spi rit ; with perhaps^ Fbxonlm Culfe by the Way, and a whining Prayer at the end of it tp the Clergy, Gfc. to put a ftopto me, according to George Whitehead's Precedenttowards Fr.B«gg,8cc.with abundance more fuch deceitful Goby's and hypeeritical Exclamations as their Defenfive Books are fluffed with, for Want of Ability to defend themfelves from the Stibftarice of their Opponents Charges againft them 5 by Which deceitful Tricks, as many Reverend Bifhops, and Honourable Statefmen, have fuffered themfelves to be led into a far better Opiriidn of their Since rity than they have deferved, (to the unhappy Di- verfion of that Chriftian Examinatiori of their Cor ruptions, divers of their own Church Members (as well as my felf, (3c) have often folicited for) fo it will be their endeavours ftill to delude them, ahd divert it by their perfiftance therein, I doubt not, though they fink m Hell for it, if they think good to make any Replication 3 in order whereto, (as I have not Time to review all the feveral Volumes out of which I have taken my Quotations, to fee they be fo exactly tranfcribed and paged as might be requifite on this occafion) they will no doubt infift moft ftrenuoufly on fuch Inftances as are de ficiently worded, or moft difficult to be proved by me, to divert our Superiors Examination of thofe unexceptionable Ones I refer-to in Evidence of my Charges, as '• their manner is, if they will but there by be prevailed on to let them reft untaken notice of in their Blafphemous Abfurdities and Tyranni cal Impofitions 5 which, as I hope the Lord our God will, for the future, incline rhern to be aware of, as they expect to avoid his juft Difpleafure for their Omiffion of fo great a Duty, I hereby once -more humbly re'qUeft their performance of, as I hope all others will that read me 3 fince as I am utterly out of hopes of their being brought to the Examination defired, by their Detection in Print, through the unfuecefsfulnefs I and others have found pf that Method, for the Reafons heretofore men tioned^ (i467 ) Honed 3 fo I fhall not at all think it worth my while, to fpend my Time and Subftance in refuting fuch nibbling Impertinencies, as I expect they will ftaff their printed Anfwer with, (if they think good to pubjifh pne) Whilft they fcaadakmfly con tinue to decline tb attempt their Defence in a pub lick Conference,, frpm thofe unexceptionable In ftances. I have ,-alledg'd, in proof of my feveral Q»a^g»S againft them, how much foever they may pleafe themfelves, and delude their Profelytes, by tfcjBi reprefentation of their vain Scribbles againft me as unanfwerable .upon this occafion, who am- their truly well-wifliing, though greatly abufed '¦?.:. ' sO ' ¦', -'^'- " ". Henry Pickworth. -•n«\ ': ?. f^jv:, ¦: ' v.- ¦ t w NOW (4o8) Ifaiah 30. 8, TtTo W go write it before them In a Table, and 18. compar'd d.\. mte ;t i„ A pt00^f ,bM fr may be for the Time •antb Matt. t0 cem,t for ever am} CTer- »4< 48- . That this is a rebellious People, lying Children that will not hear the Law of the Lord, which fay to the Seers fee not, and to the Prophets frophefie not unto us right Things, fpeak. unto us fimooth Things 5 Frophefie Deceits^ get you out of the Way, turn afide out of the