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A51569	Tyranny and hypocrisy detected or, a further discovery of the tyrannical government, popish-principles, and vile practices of the now-leading Quakers. Being a defence of the letter, intituled, The spirit of the hat, against the deceitful, defective and railing Answer, called The spirit of Alexander, &c. With a challenge, to refer the judgment of matters of fact to the verdict of twelve impartial judges, equally chosen. Also, many of their letters, papers, and transactions among themselves are made publick; wherein they contradict one another, and attribute titles to George Fox, that are proper only to Christ.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Mucklow, William, 1631-1713. Bemoaning letter.	1673 (1673)	Wing M3036; ESTC R201177	45,022	73

TYRANNY AND HYPOCRISY Detected OR A further Discovery of the Tyrannical-Government Popish-Principles and vile Practices of the now-Leading Quakers BEING A Defence of the Letter intituled The Spirit of the Hat against the Deceitful Defective and Railing Answer called The Spirit of Alexander c. With a Challenge To refer the Iudgment of Matters of Fact to the Verdict of Twelve Impartial Iudges equally chosen Also Many of their Letters Papers and Transactions among themselves are made publick wherein they contradict one another and attribute Titles to GEORGE FOX that are proper only to CHRIST But they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men London Printed for Fr. Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1673. Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected HOW dangerous a thing it is for a man to ingage himself publickly for any singular party upon the account of Religion is greatly manifest in the leading Quakers and especially in W. Pen from whose Parts and Education one would expect more than ordinary Candor and Ingenuity but having imbarked himself among those People who also by their Tenets are peculiarly disposed to have a high opinion of themselves and to contemn all others and having obtained a high repute among them he betakes himself to such pitiful shifts scurrilities and bravings to uphold their detected Cause and tottering Kingdom as one would think could not proceed from any man professing Christianity He that would have this evidently proved let him read his late controversal Writings especially his Winding-sheet and Spirit of Alexander After the Spirit of the now Quakers or Foxonians detected to be none of Christ's by severall Pieces that have come forth of late at length the Book intituled The Spirit of the Hatt made publick discovers their principles and practices in their government amongst themselves to be far different from what they profess openly when they invite people to be Quakers and that they act upon the same principles and in the same Tyrannical manner as far as their power reaches as the Court at Rome And this not only proved by instances of matters of fact seen and heard for the most part by the Author himself but also argued and compared with that principle which was held forth as the foundation of their way and upon which he certainly not one of the least ingenious among them became a Quaker What was now to be expected from these men thus detected may be seen in their Spirit of Alexander the Copper-Smith or Answer to the Spirit of the Hatt which I shall in short make some remarks upon And first we may observe that like contentious women where the matter is most evident against them there they make the gratest noise and are most clamorous and furious and make the greatest show of confidence and victory when the design of their owne vain-glory and greatness is manifested not onely by those that have considered them in their publick appearance but also by some within themselves that are privy to their Cabals and private transactions then the Divil must needs be hard beset and his condition desperate see Spt. of Alex. p. 1. because the foundations of their Kingdom shake and their subjects discover it and seek to withdraw themselves from their territories Who could have made a more apt inference from such premises 2. That though they call this Author's Relation Lies Forgery Defamation with abundance of terms of the like Foxonian leaven yet when they come to particulars they either 1. confess what they deny with an idle distinction except some few things or 2. Acknowledge them by saying nothing concerning them or 3 use some deceit in their terms of denial which every Reader cannot discover or 4. take an occasion from some circumstances perhaps not rightly set down to deny the whole matter 3. That W. P. doth in their names acknowledge that the substance of this Authors complaint is true H●●i●es p. 14 15. in his p. 8. namely that they 〈◊〉 him to yeild to their determination against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ience because the Body would have it so say●●● 〈◊〉 ●hat was yeilding to the Power And he under●●●●● 〈◊〉 opposition to the Author That his not so 〈…〉 but persisting is dissention but their disowning excommunicating and depriving of a liberty of marrying burying c. any person for that cause is no breach of the great Gospel Charter of Liberty This is that which W. P. labours to do and for that purpose useth no other Arguments than the Papists in the like case who are the onely persons that I know of that challenge such a power for the Protestants do not challenge it the Church of England challenges onely a prudential power of determining some Ceremonies as of the Surplice Cross and Kneeling to be convenient at this time but not by vertue of an infallible Spirit or as of Divine Authority which the Romanists do and the Quakers As for the Arguments that this Author urges against this usurpation W. P. passes them by and gives instead of answers clamours and railings against him As for the Arguments that W. P. useth they being the same with those of the Papists against the Protestants they may be found answered and refuted every where in Protestant writings 4. But that which this Author doth chiefly insist on and which indeed is most proper for him and the choice and prosecution of it renders him Ingenious is That in this Doctrine and Practice of theirs they manifestly contradict the chief principle and main foundation they at first held forth whereby they have commended themselves to the world and have gained to be their Proselytes some honest hearted people and among the rest this Author For indeed the Quakers chief principle namely That every one ought diligently to take heed to and walk according to the Light in himself is of such evident truth in the plain sense of the terms that there can scarce be found either Christian or Heathen that understands what he saith that can deny it for it is in substance this That every man ought diligently to observe and do what God doth by any meanes convince him to be his Duty Now considering that this was cryed up by the Quakers as the old Truth brought to light by them 't was no wonder that their Doctrine was received by some wel-minded people that were not so happy as to know themselves aforehand to be possessors of this common principle and there 's no question but all of them that do it honestly do it upon the same ground But herein lyes the mystery of their iniquity which this man has been so ingenious and happy as to discover namely That he who shall receive the forementioned principle as evident in his own heart shall afterward be induced to believe that whatever the cheif Quakers teach is as evident and that this evidence is from the immediate Revelation of God's infallible Spirit within himself But if it happen that

cannot be kept inviolable against their covert enemies by whom they mean the Hat-men who are not afraid to speak evil of Dignityes G. Fox and his Adherents and despise Government they therefore do unanimously and with the Lords presence as they say testifie 1 that such as exalt themselves above the Body of good and ancient Friends G. Fox c. ought not to have any dominion office or rule in the Church of Christ 2. That such as are not in unity with the Ministry and Body have no gospel-Gospel-Authority to be Judges in the Church and their judgment ought not to be regarded that it is abominable pride when any particular will not admit of the judgment of the witness of God in Friends G. Fox's and their opinion to take place against him for he that is not justified by that is condemned in himself and harden'd a notorious Heretick 3. They testifie in the name of the Lord that the Church has power without the assent of dissenters to determine Controversies and that such Persons as will not submit to their judgment consistent with the Doctrine of antient Friends that is of G. Fox and his Party but oppose it as the judgment of man ought to be rejected together with those that countenance and encourage them They are joyned in one with Heathens and Infidels 4. That such disapproved Ministers ought what ever have been their gifts to leave off ministring till they are reconciled to the Church and if approved persons degenerate to division and countenance faction that is the Hat-men the Church has authority to deal with them in the same manner to which if they submit not warning ought to be given in General-Meetings to beware of them and to have no fellowship with them 5. They warn and charge all Friends that they have no hand in publishing the Books or Writings of such as are not of unity with the Body and we farther desire that from time to time faithfull and sound Friends and Brethren G. Fox and his Party may have the view of such things as are printed upon Truths account as formerly it hath used to be before they go to the Press 6. They advise that such as are made Overseers of the slock of God by the Holy-Spirit admit not the weak to that trust and that none be admitted to order publick business but those that seek the good of all that is submit to the great Body of G. Fox and his party They conclude thus So dear Friends believing that you will be one with us against those who would limit the Lord to speak without Instruments that is will obey the Light in themselves and not be subject to the dictates of G. Fox and his party and reject the counsel of the wise men and the testimony of the * For they perceived many of their hearers wearied and offended with their long preachings c. would have had them to return home to their Imployments and Callings but the proud way of living they had betaken themselves to they were not willing to leave and therfore strengthen themselves in it by severe Injunctions Prophets which gethered you and would not allow him liberty in and by his Servants to appoint time and place wherein to meet and call this Formal and the Meetings of Man c. 15. Now let all considering men judg whether ever such an arrogant imperious and audacious Paper was given out by such a number of Mortals The Pope hath never I think taken so much power to himself as to determin matters of this nature and in this manner but in a General Council and with their concurrence but herein these men transcend him and all that ever went before them That they did owne those men to whom they wrote to be led and guided and that they ought in all such matters to be led and guided immediately by the infallible Spirit of God and they did owne that those against whom they wrote had been led and guided by the same infallible Spirit and gave at this time no other evidence of their not being now led by it but only their dissent from these men in the matters mentioned the cheif whereof in particular was The not putting off the Hat to their prayers which things considered their giving Charges and Laws in the Name of the Lord to the persons aforesaid is nothing less than arrogating a Spiritual and Divine Power over that which they teach ought to be hearkned to as the Infallible and Divine Spirit and that in those matters which some of themselves have acknowledged might be otherwise ordered by the Holy-Spirit of God As John Whitehead who is one of them in the matter of the Hat in the Paper forementioned and Geo. Whitehead in that other Paper sent to J. Perrot And did they not own John Perrot for a true Friend and that he was sent of God according to their Principles to preach at Rome and did they not own his Sufferings there to be for the Truth and Perrot sayes in his Paper I have received by express commandment from the Lord God of Heaven in the day of my Captivity in Rome viz. to bear a sure Testimony against the Custom and Traditions of the taking off of the Hat by men when they go to pray to God the which they never had by Commandment from God To this agrees what G. Fox saith in the Book of True-honour c. aforementioned where he calls Worship with the Hat voluntary Humility and not of command by Christ and his Apostles And must now this Revelation to this eminent Prophet and Sufferer given him in his Captivity be despised and condemned for a delusion because it is not approv'd by George Fox must the apprehension of Scandal bear sway against such a Revelation amongst those People whose practice is full of Scandals and liked the better by them on the account of distinguishing them from others Is it not evident enough that the true reason of their not receiving his testimony was its contradiction to the practice of G. Fox had it been reveal'd to him first it had been receiv'd readily but now it must be rejected Here we may perceive clearly what it is that influences these men in the owning or disowning of Divine Revelations however there 's no gainsaying but that notwithstanding all the advantages that any Ruling Quaker has he may be grossly deluded and take that for an infallible Revelation from God which proceeds indeed from the spirit of deceit For thus Fox and his party say Perrot and his party did and the like might Perrot say of Fox And Fox or his party cannot give any the least solid ground whereby to decide the Controversie between them Therefore we conclude justly that these men as Rulers and Prophets are led by a Self-contradicting Proud Blasphemous and Tyrannical Spirit For they equally pretend Revelation and if there be any advantage in this matter it is on Perrot's side and not on Fox's so that

if Perrot be condemned Fox cannot stand That he doth stand among the greater number of Quakers proceeds meerly from his Interest Cunning c. And as the whole party of the Hat-men is to be opposed to the whole party of Foxonians so in particular George Bishop of Bristol is to be opposed to every one of those eleven Ministers for he was so far from attesting to their Testimony as every Quaker had it been true ought to have done that he contradicted it and wrote a large Letter in opposition to it The substance of which is this viz. Having considered their Paper in the Spirit of Truth he is moved of the Lord to let them know 1. That it is much that they so few so young and so very little in comparison of the Body or those whom they count Elders should take upon them to determine in things of so high a nature c. which if they are to be done ought to be done by the full consent of those who are in Authority in the Church if so be there be such an Authority so to determine and not by a few and those not at all deputed in the thing If you say saith he you have not determined so as to impose upon the Body of Friends but only given your own judgment in the thing I answer you are very positive and plain in the determination And so repeating their Preface he collects which is in the nature of a Civil Commandment Then he recites their first particular and sayes which is as much as an Institution Then of the second Particular he saith which is an Inhibition Of the third Particular he saith which is Doctrine Of the fourth he saith which is Correction Of the fifth which is Admonition Of the sixth which is Exhortation Of the Conclusion he saith this is Instruction Next he saith The Spirit of the Lord in this day and in the days of the Apostles bears not the same proportion then were Apostles Pastors Teachers Elders c. but in this day the Spirit it self is Pastor Teacher Elder c. so that if the Spirit move any to declare or speak that is the Apostle Teacher Elder c. So that we have not now things in the disposition of Persons but according to the Power which moves in everyone so there is not that Hazard as to Apostacy as was in that day so I know no Pastor Teacher Elder c. but as I find moving in any to any of these things and that which would be otherwise than this leaps into Apostacy and will seek to bring in dark night againe and will be secluding the thing to the person and not the person to the thing and as for my part if that day should prevaile or these things which your Paper semes to hold forth and inforce I have no other expectation but that the same exercise we shall receive at your hands as we together received from the hands of those who would have held us in Captivity 3. The Seed is come in which the Ministry is to end Now for you because you Ministred to think to settle your selves in the place of the Heir and to inforce your station is not to allow that the Seed is come and whether your Paper doth not so speak view it over again and let that which should judge in the matter Friends and Brethren take heed how you set up your Laws and Constitutions over his dominion many have attempted it and have been broken to pieces and if you do the same the same will be your portion from the hand of the Lord. In the Power you are safe but when once you go to outward things to preserve your station and keep you up as Papers strivings c. you err so much from the Power and this will work you down also if you oppose your selves against his Kingdom Bristol the 3d of the 11 month 1666. Here we have the infallible Spirit of the Quakers in G. Bi hop giving judgment against the eleven Elders that they had gone from their Principle into the way of Apostacy and prophesying their downfal And he that knew George Bishop or has read his writings will I think find reason enough to take his judgment concerning their principles as soon as any or all of the eleven Elders So that they have not only offer'd this affront to mankind viz. That they profess in Principles and Practices necessary to man's happiness to distinguish themselves from all other men and for the truth and certainty of those principles and practices they bring no evidence but the inward Testimony of the Light in every man and yet condemn all men as unfaithful to that Light how innocent soever in their own Consciences that are contrary to them or agree not with them which is in effect to give the lie to every man besides themselves and to say that all the World except Quakers are lyers And the thing is true in respect of primitive Christianity which they pretend to that it brought such evidence with it to them to whom it was fully preach'd that no considerate man would disbelieve it but he must be a lyer and wilfully blind But these men do not only thus affront all mankind that consent not to them but also they conclude even all Quakers that agree with them in all their Principles and Practices wherein they differ from others to be self-condemn'd if they subject not themselves to their Judgment in so small a matter as is the covering or uncovering the Head when others pray and things of that kind For I never heard that any Hat-man kept on his Hat when himself prayed except Perrot And so they contradict in the Name of the Lord that very voice in men which they have taught them to give heed to as the voice of the Lord. So when J. Pennyman carrying all his Books to a Friend of his near the Exchange was mov'd to burn some waste papers there in his passage pouring out some Quakers Books which he having a little before born Testimony to G. Fox and Whithead's face against their deceitful Declaration and another Scurrilous Paper they were so offended at him for that G. Whitehead next day in a Letter to J. P. calls this his undertaking to burn their Books not a word of the Scriptures as is in their printed Paper to take with the People a mad and wicked action to which the Devil instigated and led him Which Letter he order'd G. L. to get from him afterward when J. P. complain'd of the wrong he had in having the Letter taken away from him surreptitiously G. Whithead reply'd that he was moved of the Lord to send it and understanding that it was not receiv'd in the same love in which it was sent he was also moved of the Lord to send for it again to which J. Pennyman reply'd that he had neither opened nor read that Letter nor knew from whom it came till the said G. L. came and