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B09695	Railings and slanders detected: or The folly and heresies of the Quakers further exposed. Being an answer to an invective libel written by G. Whitehead, impertinently called, Antichrist in flesh unmasked, &c. which some of the Quakers call an answer to a book truly stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. In this brief discourse you have the slanderous out-cries of G. Whitehead, against Edward Paye, Henry Loader, and William Alcot, examined, detected, and confuted.	Paye, Edw. (Edward)	1692 (1692)	Wing P884; ESTC R181559	21,006	57

present in Spirit they are obliged to Prayer and Fasting and all other Gospel Ordinances till his second personal and glorious coming But what the Quakers have to do with Ordinances Prayer or Fasting I see not 2. Neither is there Reason to believe you dare in your Assemblies in Christ's Name rebuke any unclean Spirits lest you meet with the same Answer and Repulse as the seven Sons of Sceva did Acts 19. 14 15 16. And the evil Spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you And the Man in whom the evil Spirit was leaped on them and overcame them c. And to conclude my Answer to his long Story I ask George Whitehead why he had not denied this Gesture of Quaking and Foaming to Mr. John Faldo who gives him Provocation enough to do it See his Book Quakerism no Christianity pag. 12. Saith he How generally were their Meetings viz. the Quakers either silent or taken up with sudden and violent Eruptions of dismal Howlings and horrid Ravings Persons suddenly taken as with the Falling Sickness shaking and foaming at the Mouth and some lying flat on the ground as if stark dead And saith Mr. Faldo some such things as these I have seen and heard and that there are undeniable Testimonies of it that are so numerous and notorious that though now they have almost if not altogether left the latter sort of them they dare not deny that it was so And if they dare to challenge this with an Untruth I may requite them to keep alive their Remembrance with a good part of a volume of them Thus far Mr. Faldo whose Book is signed and approved by 21 Ministers of the Independent and Presbyterian Way I needed not to have taken this Pains since these Gestures are fresh in the Memories of many in this Nation And George Whitehead hath said nothing that denies the Matter of Fact charged in my Books p. 6 7. upon the Quakers he denies not Quaking and Trembling which was all the Instance was brought for and then I think for any Service G. W. hath done the Cause he had better have said nothing 3. George Whitehead saith in p. 16. that I have falsely cited and grosly perverted the Quakers Words and Authors and taken many false things on Credit not only the Story from the Westmorland Petitioners but also out of his Brother Tho. Hicks his abominable Forgeries and Lyes in his factious Dialogues And in p. 8. He prays his Reader to observe that much of our Book against them is taken out of other Books and Pamphlets of their Adversaries long since answered and refuted and their Authority is utterly denied by us as the Westmorland Petitioners who were envious Persecutors Tho. Hicks his abusive Dialogues who was proved a notorious Forger of Lyes And a malicious Libel stiled Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected Answer I am inclinable to think G. W. hath said some Truth in what hath been repeated nay I do in Charity believe it then I will shew you what I believe he saith Truth in 4. Namely That the Authority of the Quakers Adversaries Books is utterly denied by them I am strongly persuaded G. W. saith Truth in this for they that can deny the Authority of the Scriptures being the only Rule of Faith and Practice when alledged against them may well deny the Authority of all Books wrote against them whatsoever tho' the Matter be ever so true 2. As to the rest asserted by G. W. I will not tell him he lyes But I am well satisfied he is departed very far from the Truth And as to that Book Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected It treats chiefly of the Usurping and Lording Authority that some of the Quakers assumed over others and of others opposing and contradicting them as might be made manifest And as to what instances I bring from that Book as Josias Coal's Letter from Berbaldus to George Fox giving him those blasphemous Titles mention'd Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd p. 43. or any other passage from thence cited by me let G. W. deny them as to Matter of Fact if he dare 3. As for Mr. Hicks his Dialogues that George Whitehead calls Lyes and Forgeries and the Author a notorious Lyer and Forger c. It had been much more to purpose had G. W. shewed us what some of those Lyes and Forgeries were I have it 's true examined the Quakers Appeal by way of Charge against Tho. Hicks wherein they charge him with Lyes and Slanders and Forgeries and what not and I have perused Mr. Hicks's Answer to their Appeal where Mr. Hicks clears himself both of Lyes and Forgery I find his Answer to their Appeal subscribed and approved by no less than 22 Persons of Credit who testifie that they have compared Tho. Hicks his Citations with the Quakers Books out of which they were taken and find them truly cited then let the Reader judge who is the Lyer Tho. Hicks or G. W. Again G. W. seems to be angry with my Citation out of Mr. Hicks's Dialogue p. 24 25. In Antichrist in Spirit p. 14 15. As for us had the Scriptures never been we could have known what is therein contained I have also heard this from a Quaker my self But G. W. was not so fair as to mention this though it was the ground of my Demand And let the Reader observe what an apparent Perversion George Whitehead makes of my Words and the occasion of them p. 18 19. of his Pamphlet after he hath charged us with Forgery Now pray observe saith he what strange Test or Proof your Agent Edw. Paye puts upon us to evince an immediate Inspiration G. W. knows this Question was demanded to prove what is before mentioned Namely that had the Scriptures never been they could have known what was therein contained Now if this be so then let the Quakers resolve me what those things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21. 25. or what were the Contents of that writing on the ground Joh. 8. 68. Or else let their proud boasting of immediate Inspirations be condemned to perpetual silence c. Saith G. W. Hereupon you have passed unjust Judgment and falsely charged us with proud boasting and argued absurdly against immediate Inspiration as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all things that it knows I answer It is a strange thing to me that G. Whitehead doth not see that he condemns himself whilst he is judging another and it is a lamentable thing that the Quakers will admit of no distinctions But it verifies that true Proverb that the want of distinctions are the cause of mistakes Here G. W. will not admit of a distinction betwixt immediate Inspirations and the mediate or more common Gifts of the Spirit Now all Christians that I know of will admit of this distinction That it is one thing to be immediately and extraordinarily endowed and inspired with the Holy Ghost as the Prophets and Apostles

all blessed for ever the true God and eternalLife the one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith 2. How doth it appear that the Quakers do believe the Humanity of Christ Since John Whitehead Dip. plu p. 13. Jesus Christ a person without us is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Mugletonians Again G. W.'s Appendix to Reason against Railing p. 21. The Socinian tells us of a personal Christ and that the Man Christ Jesus our Lord hath in Heaven a place remote from Earth a humane Body But doth he believe him to be the eternal God whilst he imagines him to be a personal Christ a humane Body so limited and confined to Remoteness c. The Quakers Profession of Faith Quest Do you believe and expect Salvation and Justification by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ or by your own Righteousness or Works Answer By Jesus Christ his righteous Merits and Works and not by our own God is not indebted to us for our deservings but we to him for his Free Grace in Christ Jesus whereby we are saved through Faith in him not of our selves c. The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith G. Fox Great Mystery of the great Whore p. 71. He saith Christ's Nature is not humane which is earthly for that is the first Adam's c. And yet they profess to believe the Humanity of Christ See G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 16. Saith he John Bunyan saith God is distinct from the Saints and Bunyan is deceived who saith he is distinct from the Saints and so you are a Company of pitiful Teachers See Mr. Haworth's Animadversions upon the quibling Libel from the Hartford Quakers stiled A Testimony for the Man Christ Jesus p. 11. One William Bates a Quaker said more than once That what Christ took of the Virgin had now no Being c. Sept. 19. 1676. in the hearing of Daniel Doughty John Albury and Stephen Tothil Mr. Pen's Justification is not by the Imputation of anothers Righteousness but from the actual performing and keeping God's righteous Laws Pen's Sandy Foundation p. 25. E. Burrough's Works p. 33. God doth not except any where there is any failing or who do not fulfil the Law and answer to every demand of Justice See Mr. Pen ' s Serious Apology p. 148. Justification by the Righteousness of another or which Christ fulfilled for us in his own Person wholly without us we boldly affirm to be a Doctrine of Devils and an Arm of the See of Corruption that doth now deluge the World See again Mr. Pen ' s sandy Foundation p. 25. 30. It is a great Abomination to say God should condemn and punish his innocent Son that he having satisfied for our Sins we may be justified by the Imputation of his perfect Righteousness O why should this horrible thing be contended for by Christians I shall pass this when I have only given you one instance more See Edw. Burrough's Works p. 32 33. in Answer to the 12 Question it being this Whether the holy Lives and Works of the Saints be not excluded from the Act of Justification from the Guilt of Sin Edw. Burrough's Answer Thou dead Beast Thou art a Stranger from the Life of God and excluded from the holy Life of the Saints and their Works Thou art un-redeemed from thy vain Conversation and so art not justified nor never shalt be and by the same that the ●…nts are justified thou art condemned into the Lake for ever I shall now leave the Reader to judge Whether the Quakers own Writings and their late pretended Faith profess'd do not directly contradict each other About the Three Divine Witnesses in Heaven the Humanity of Christ and that they expect Justification by his Works Righteousness and Merits c. and not by their own The Quakers Profession of Faith in the holy Scriptures They say they believe in the Three Divine Witnesses that bare Record in Heaven according to Holy Scripture-Testimony And in their last Article they propose the Question thus Quest Do you believe and own the Holy Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration and to contain all Matters of Doctrine and Testimony necessary to be believed and practised in order to Salvation and Peace with God They answer and say yes we do and by the assistance of Grace and good Spirit of God which giveth the Understanding of the Mind of God and meaning of holy Scriptures we always desire to live in the Faith Knowledge and Practice of them in all things appertaining to Life and Godliness holy Scriptures being given by divine Inspiration is profitable for Doctrine Correction and Instruction that the Man of God may be perfect throughly furnished to every good Work able to make the Man of God wise to Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus The Quakers professed Faith directly contradicted by their own Writings and Authors Fox and Hubberthorn Truth 's Defence p. 101. They say the Scriptures are no standing Rule and that it is dangerous for the ignorant People to read them I and yet profitable for Doctrine and Holy Scriptures too G. Whitehead's serious Apology p. 49. That which was spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater Pernel's Sheild of the Truth p. 19. He also that saith the Letter that is the Scriptures as written is the Rule and Guide of the people of God is without feeding upon husks and is ignorant of the true Light James Nailor's Light of Christ p. 19. God is at liberty to speak to his People by the Scriptures if he please and where they are given by Inspiration doth so And he is also at liberty to speak by any other created thing as to Balaam by his Ass Tho. Lawson in his untaught Teacher Read p. 6 7 8. The Scriptures are not a Rule whereby to know the Will of Christ See also H. Smith's True and Everlasting Rule from God discovered for I must remember that part of the Title or else G. W. will be offended and say I wrong him H. S. affirms that there is no other Rule Way or Means by which Men shall ever come to walk with God but by that which is manifest of God in him and that it is sufficient to guide in all the ways of God without Scripture or any other outward Rule How then are the Scriptures profitable and necessary as pretended in your Profession of Faith See also J. Nailor's Answer to the Jews Read p. 4 22 25. It is Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God It is the Devil that contends for the Scriptures to be the Word of God See Burrough's Works p. 62. He that persuades People to let the Scriptures be the Rule of Faith and Practice would keep People in Darkness for who ever walks by the Rule without them and teaches

Men so to do would make void the Covenant of Life and Peace And see what my Antagonist saith Dip. Plu. p. 13. and then judge if the Scriptures be no Rule yea if it be Idolatry to call the Bible a means as G. W. expresly saith who also affirmeth that Faith grounded on the Scriptures is but an empty implicit Faith and bespeaks such Persons void of the knowledge of God and Christ and Salvation and to be yet in their Sins and that such Men walk by their own Fancies and Imaginations Christ Ascerded p. 11. Now if the Scriptures be a dead carnal Letter Ink and Paper saith Pernel in Sheild of Truth If they are the Precepts and Traditions of Men saith Nailor in his Love to the lost And as Helbro●… the Quaker said to James Nobs and his Wife If they are no better than an old Aim Hick's D. p. 29. If it be dangerous for the Ignorant to read them If to say an Ass hath as much Authority essentially in himself to teach and rebuke as the Scriptures If to account it blasphemy and diabolical to call the Scriptures the Word of God be not to contemn and vilifie them I am yet to seek what is I shall refer the Reader to our Book Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd where the rest of the Quakers Articles of Faith published in their late Pamphlet are particularly examined Now let the Quakers renounce and explode those Writings and Sayings of their Authors that stand upon Record that so directly contradict their new Faith professed by them and as was said we shall be glad of so great and happy a Reformation among them hoping some means hath been bless'd to work this happy change upon them In p. 24 25. G. Whitehead saith we have wronged his Words in Citation and Construction about the holy Scriptures and Person of Christ and likewise grosly abused wronged and mischarged G. Fo● J. Pernel G. Keith foully perverting and misconstruing their Words And he saith we have also abused vilified defamed and wronged W. Smith H. Smith J. Nailor E. Burroughs J. Penington S. Crisp W. P. and others Men of better Fame and Repute than our selves and more righteous and innocent than their Defamers Answer That forasmuch as G. Whitehead cannot or at least hath not shewed us wherein we have wronged them as to Matter of Fact we shall take these to be some of G. W's empty and swelling words of Vanity and look upon it as a presumptuous Blast blown without Proof or Demonstration and so it needs no further Answer at present Again I shall take no notice at all of the confused Profession of Faith that G. Whitehead makes in 27 28 29 30. Pages of his Libel but do think it had been much more to the present purpose had he instead thereof laboured to reconcile their Writings with their late published Faith The Conclusion Wherein I shall take a little Notice of G. Whitehead's Postscript G. W. cites Antichrist in Spirit c. p. 46. Where I referr the Reader to Saul's Errand to Damascus p. 6 7. Where G. Fox takes the Name of the eternal Judge of quick and dead to himself c. G. Whitehead saith this is notoriously false in Fact being saith he in the very same Book Saul's Errand recorded amongst those Matters falsly charged on G. F. by his Adversaries the Priests and others in the County of Lancaster in their Petition p. 1 2 3 4 5 6. of Saul's Errand where G. F. opposeth and answereth their Objections To all which I answer In the beginning of the Book Saul's Errand there is that part of the Lancaster Petition inserted p. 4 5 6 7. In which Petition G. F. is charged with taking to himself the Name of the eternal Judge of quick and dead c. The Lancaster Petitioners were several Men of Credit and Repute Now though G. W. says the charge was false and G. Fox denies it in that their Book c. What then Have not I more reason to believe the Affirmative of so many than G. Fox's Negative I know 't is a Faculty incident to you to deny Matters of Fact charged upon you be they ever so apparently true And who can think that a number of Men should agree together in charging G. Fox with a Falshood Though G. Fox denies their charge in his Book may not we answer it in your own Phrase p. 8 of your Pamphlet The Authority of the Quakers Books are utterly denied by us so that we have grounds to believe the Petitioners say true Why may not G. F. take the Name of Judge of quick and dead to himself as well as to approve of those blasphemous Titles given him by Jos Coal in his Letter from Berbadoes cited in Antichrist in Spirit p. 43 44 45 Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Light hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar of to the begetting of many again to a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee G. F blessed whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou G. F. rulest and governest in Righteousness and thy G. Fox's Kingdom is established in Peace and the Increase thereof is without end 21 day of the 12 month 1658. Now if G. Fox could digest and approve of all these Titles due only to Christ himself in the Opinion of all Christians Why may he not use the like Modesty in taking the name of Judge of quick and dead to himself The other Titles were approved and ordered to be recorded Why may not G. Fox take this Name to himself as well as to say in one of your Meetings Friends although I have not told it you I do now declare it I have power to bind and loose whom I please Now if G. W. hath the confidence to deny these things a further Test of them and others may be more fully given G. Whitehead's next causeless Out-cry is that I say the Quakers say that Christ hath no body but his Church quoting Saul's Errand p. 9. Which saith G. W. is notoriously false again for said he it was the Priest's Objection against L. F. that he professed that Christ had never any body but his Church Saul's Errand p. 2. Which saith G. W. was also false and there recorded amongst their other false Charges objected To which I answer First I do not charge the Quakers with saying that Christ never had any Body but his Church They own he had a bodily Garment But the Petitioners aforesaid charged the Quakers with saying that Christ hath no Body but his Church Now instead of G. Fox's owning Christ to have a Body besides his Church or distinct from his Church He replies That Christ's Church is his Body which I say is but a shuffle and not denying but implicitly granting the Matter of Fact And why may not G. F. deny Christ to have a Personal Body besides or distinct from his Church as well as G. Whitehead