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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54003	A just rebuke to one & twenty learned and reverend divines (so called) being an answer to an abusive epistle against the people call'd Quakers subscrib'd by : Thoman Manton, Thomas Jacomb, John Yates, John Sheffield, Anthony Palmer, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doelittel, Richard Baxter, William Cooper, George Griffith, Matthew Barker, John Singleton, Andrew Parsons, Richard Mayo, Thomas Gouge, William Jenkyn, Thomas Watson, Benjamin Needler, William Carslake, Stephen Ford, Samuel Smith / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1674 (1674)	Wing P1131; ESTC R208998	24,420	33

these words And is this to Deny or throw Dirt upon the Scriptures If any shall object W. Smith's making the Spirit necessary to the profitable Reading of the Scriptures let them go to W. Tindal J. Bradford Bp. Jewel J. Philpot Luther Calvin Peter Martyr and others they will preach them the same Doctrine which I have observ'd in my Rejoynder and may easily be found in my Catalogue of Authors 2. My second Instance shall be this That he maketh W. Smith call the Scriptures Traditions of men Earthly Root Darkness Confusion Corruption All out of the Life and Power of God which he only asscribed to degenerated Men their Worship Imaginations and Traditions Shall this be call'd Proof or Perversion Doubtless a Proof of nothing but of that hateful sort of Perversion 3. That the Quakers understand by Knowledge according to the Flesh the Vse of the Vnderstanding though sanctified which is also a grofs Abuse both of our Words and Sense 4. That I. Penington should call Visible Worship as such the City of Abomination This is a downright Forgery and your Praise of his Proof makes you Accessories Look on it as you will 5. That by Traditions of Men we understand the Scripture or written Word A base Abuse of our Words 6. That the Quakers mean by the Vail that is over People their Belief of the Man Christ Jesus born of the Virgin Mary to be now existing in Heaven An Impiety of ●is own Inventing and your Approving 7. From W. Smith's saying that the present Practice of the Sacraments as Baptizing with a Cross and counting the Bread and Wine the Flesh Blood of Christ arise from the Pope's Invention You in the Person of John Fal●● give out That W. Smith calls the Lord's Supper the POPE's INVENTION At this rate what will your Testimony be worth Little certainly with such as know Good Coyn from B●d 8. From Edw. Burrough's making the Light of Christ within to be One in Nature with the Spirit of Christ J. Faldo infers That the Quakers hold the Soul to be God as if that had been said of the Soul which was said of the Light of Christ shining in the Soul or that they were Synonymous What cannot a Man of his Skill in This black Art do yet this is your own Reverend Author who for his Proof against the Quakers is not a little in your Books 9. Because G.F. rejected that carnal Notion that confines the Infinite Omnipresent God to a Residence only above the Stars he makes no Difficulty of inferring That we deny the Manhood of Christ Jesus As Absurd as Base 10. From our affirming that such a kind of Reading of Scripture as the Pharisees us'd and to those Ends makes men harder to be wrought upon to true Conversion then the Heathen John Faldo infers That reading the Scriptures and getting Knowledge thence puts men into a worse Condition then the Heathen and that there is scarcely any thing more Dangerous then reading the Scriptures Yea he accuses us of Charging the Miscarriages of mens Souls on the Knowledge the Scripture BY GOD's BLESSING doth convey Behold at what rate your Reverend Author hath investigated our Principles you have said truely in saying he did it throughly for he hath scarcely toucht any Thing that he hath not throughly abused yet this is the Man whose Attempts so obnoxious as you see you have adventured to commend You say you judge it among other Things for the PROOF of it to be especially useful for those who desire Information concerning the Quakers and their Principles That ever Men of your Age Experience and Reputation should precipitate themselves into any Thing so foul and scandalous Can you believe this is Imitating God and being Just to the Quakers I hope your Condition is not yet so dangerous I think fit further to add for the Information of the Ignorant that J.F. began with us in this Book call'd Quakerism No Christianity I answered him in a Book entituled Quakerism a New Nick Name for Old Christianity against this he put forth his Vindication unto which I made my Rejoynder consisting of TWENTY THREE CHAPTERS in which I vindicated our Principles stripping them of those frightful Vizards and hateful Disguises he put upon them confirmed them by many Scriptures and Reasons and to compleat our Defence produced in favor of the whole above TWO HUNDRED TESTIM●NIES out of both ancient and modern Authors Besides all this I faulted his Conduct and Behaviour in this Controversie in above FOUR HUNDRED PARTICULARS and that under distinct Sections None of which hath he taken notice of how much soever it stood his Credit upon but after his own Proof of his Books wanting a Vindication he reprints it to consummate the Controversie To me it is a manifest Token that the Man hath gotten to a Ne plus ultra therefore goes back again and doubtless were not his Cause deeply sunk it should never need the Help of One and Twenty Divines and those term'd so Learned and Reverend as you are to recover it and yet you see at what a Rate you have performed your Task We have Hopes you will be better advised the next Time I am sure your Circumstances need it And that you have as well abused us in your STYLE as Proof and therefore proportionably deferve the Censure of Impartial Readers I shall produce some Instances out of your Epistle and his Book I may say yours for ye have made it so by adopting it First In your Epistle A strange Sort of People preach another Gospel and endeavour to seduce well-meaning Souls Poison of their Anti-fundamental Doctrines Infidelity among them Jugling Socinianized Persons Papists Carthusians Franciscans and other such like Monks and Nuns Judicially deserted of God arrived to Pride and Ignorance seek Back-biting Reviling and Reproaches nauseous Conceitedness Deluded Souls Barbarous Language Pittiful Ignorance No Christians subverting Christianity Wasps of Satan's Hiving This is the Language of your own Epistle that do not love Reflections nor Railing if we will believe you Now for the Style of your Reverend Author in his Books whom you would have us believe is a Friendly Person to the Quakers Of our Light Ignis fatuus the second Anti-christ the Quakers Idol Pernicious Guide and Saviour Fancyful Teacher And in his Vindication A Sord●d Sinful Corrupt and Ridiculous Thing Of our Religion and Friends Quakerism made its Way by and began in Blasphemies against the Lord Jesus Christ Quakerism entered the World as if Hell were broak loose and Possessions of Satan were to make Way and fit Souls for the Quakers Spirit Blasphemy and Idolatry Our Friends Quakers so called Dark-Lanthorn-Men being hid with Palpable Knavery and Impudence Absurd and Blasphemous Idiots Prodigiously Wicked Oh the Hell-Dark Expressions of the Quakers Preachers speak the Amazing Delusions of Satan And in his Vindication A Presumptuous and Blind Accuser a Sophister an Haman