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A65886	A serious account in XXXV evident reasons (to all who desire satisfaction) why the people of the lord, called Quakers, cannot go to worship at those places called churches and chappels, and to inform the magistrates and ministers that such consciencious people (as are separated from these places) ought not to be compelled (from their peaceable meetings) to their worship and churches, so called, being a short discovery of the way, worship, and principles of the true ministers and persecuted people of God, in several exceptions against the practices, worship, and principles of the priests, both of the Presbyterians, and Episcopal-men, and others of the same affinity, in some of which principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned, but in others of them, both are concerned in the general / by Geo. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1956; ESTC R20306	27,063	42

subject to Ordinances c. Touch not tast not handle not which are all to perish with the using after the Commandments and Doctrines of men Col. 2. Eph. 2.15 So Christ through suffering made way for a further dispensation of the Mystery of Life than was in the Shadows or Figures and they who were come into this Mystery were come to witness that the Bread which they brake was the Communion of the Body of Christ and the Cup which they drank was the Communion of the Blood of Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 and Christ the living Bread is in the Saints 2 Cor. 13.5 and we are come to sup with him and he with us and so are come to his Table and his Supper which Drunkards Covetous Worldlings and Earth-worms who can receive the Priests Sacrament so called cannot eat nor drink at and by the knowledge of the Mystery which is CHRIST WITHIN are we come to see beyond the Shadows and Figures and beyond the Traditions and Inventions of men which the world are doting about And we may not turn back again from the Substance into the Shadows nor into the Traditions of men like the world nor yet eat with them in their Idol-Temples or Popish Mass-houses contrary to the Apostle's Doctrine 1 Cor. 8.10 2 Cor. 6.17 XIX Of the Church ANd the Priests in calling a Steeple-house or Popish-Masse-house a Church do erre contrary to the Scriptures for the Church is the Body of Christ and the Church is in God built up of living stones Eph. 1.22 23. 1 Thess. 1.1 but so are not the Popish Masse-houses which the Priests do falsly call Churches XX. Of the Seal of the Covenant AS also they do erre in counting that they are the Church of Christ from their Infant Baptism which is Popish as imagining themselves thereby to be baptized into the Church and calling that the Seal of the Covenant when as the Saints were baptized by one Spirit into one Body which was the Church and they were sealed with the Spirit of Promise unto the day of Redemption Eph. 4.30 1 Cor. 12.13 XXI Of Bishops and Presbyters ANd all that go under the names of Bishops and Presbyters and Elders who are out of the Spirit that the holy men of God were in who gave forth the Scriptures and are ordained or instituted and set up by the wills of men who are neither truly called ordained nor qualified according to God's Will They have gotten the names but are out of the true nature which the Saints and Elders in the true Church were in for covetous proud lordly men and Persecutors who would lord it over God's Heritage and over men's Consciences and Faith such are out of the life and state of the true Ministers and so are of Antichrist for the true Elders and Bishops were such as were endued with the Power and Gift of God which brought them into the blameless Life and to shew forth a good Example to others and so made them apt to teach others And these Bishops were not given to Wine nor strikers nor greedy of filthy Lucre nor Brawlers nor Covetous nor lifted up with Pride but patient 2 Tim. 3. And the Apostle Peter who was a true Elder and a Witness of the Sufferings of Christ and a partaker of the Glory that was to be revealed he exhorted the Elders to feed the Flock of God taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind neither as Lords over God's Heritage but being Ensamples to the Flock and such were to receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away 1 Pet. 5. and such were instrumental in the hand of God to gain and convert others to the Truth but where we find Ministers of a contrary spirit and in contrary practices though they go under the same names that the other had we cannot own them And therefore these lordly proud envious covetous and persecuting Ministers are to be denyed whether they go under the names of Bishops Elders Pastors or Teachers for it is not the names that make men true Ministers but it is the gift of God which brings into the true nature and life of Righteousness yet we read not in Scripture of Arch-Bishops and Lord Bishops that were set up in the true Church nor of Deans Arch-Deacons Prebends Chapters Curates c. nor that the Ministers of Christ as Peter Paul Timothy Titus or any others of them did wear Surplices in their Worship nor that they kept a company of Singing-Boys or Queristers in the true Church to sing in Surplices in a Popish House or to repeat an invented form one after another but these things were invented and set up in the night of Apostacy when men were degenerated from the Life and Worship of the true Christians and fallen into Antichristianism and Popery XXII Of the Priests Ordination ANd when the Priests could not prove their Education and fitting to their Ministry at Schools and Colledges by natural Learning to be according to the Scriptures and practices of the true Ministers then have they fled to that of 1 Tim. 4.14 to prove their Ordination by the laying on of hands to be right where Paul said to Timothy Neglect not the Gift that is in thee which was given thee by Prophecy with the laying on of the Hands of the Presbytery or Company of Eldership and this have the Presbyterian Priests brought to prove themselves true Ministers and yet these Priests have told us That immediate Teaching Revelation and Prophesying is ceased and so they have overthrown themselves and shewed themselves to be neither truly called nor ordained neither are they fit to ordain others and the Scriptures they bring for themselves are against them for Timothy and the Elders in the true Church were truly qualified and made Ministers by the Gift of God and the Revelation of Christ in them which Gift was given them by Prophecy and that they were not to neglect so they did not say that Prophesying Revelation and immediate Inspiration were ceased as the Priests do but the true Elders in the laying on of Hands which they did in the Power of God and not in man's will approved of such for the Ministry whom they knew were fitted for the work of it by the Gift of God in them And Peter and John were Elders in the true Church 1 Pet. 5.2 2 Joh. 1. 3 Joh. 1. but they were not brought up at Schools and Colledges to their Ministry neither did they say that Revelation and Prophecying was ceased like the Priests but were Fishermen who through following Christ and his Revelation of Life and Power came to be fishers of men and true Ministers so that such as are out of their Doctrine Life and Spirit as the hireling Priests are who are set up and ordained by the wills of men as corrupt as themselves are neither fit to ordain others nor to minister to others And such as do hate and persecute men for their

Righteousness and the Word of that Oath by which he was made a Priest which was since the Law is the substance and end of all Oaths Shadows and Ceremonies that were under the Law For the Jews under the Law confirmed their Testimony to end strife and controversie by Swearing and bound themselves by an Oath or sometimes by Vows and Curses to walk in the Law of the Lord Nehem. 10.29 But the Christians in the Gospel and New-Covenant are bound in Conscience by the Power and Law of Christ in them which is a greater Bond than Swearing to do to all men as they would be done by and to perform Equity and Righteousness in that Love which is the fulfilling of the Law in the sight of God and man without swearing Oaths which were but a Figure or Shadow of this Inward Bond or Covenant confirmed by the Oath of God to the Seed of Abraham which the true Christians are of who witness the substance and end of all Oaths without and of the Iniquity and Strife which occasioned the Oaths XVI Of Revelation and Inspiration from Heaven ANd the Priests affirm That Revelation and Inspiration from Heaven is ceased and deny that any now may attain to Immediate Teaching or hearing of God's Voice from Heaven Herein have they taught people Errors and Falshoods and shewed that they never knew God nor are any of his Ministers For no man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Matth. 11.27 And the Righteousness of God was revealed from Faith to Faith in the Gospel which is the Power of God which Paul preached Rom. 1.16 17. So they in saying That Revelation and Inspiration is ceased have preached another Gospel than that which Paul preached and therefore are to be accounted accursed Gal. 1.8 And all the Children of God are taught of Him and so hear his Voice Isa. 54.13 Jer. 31.34 Heb. 8.11 So that the Priests who have neither heard the Voice of God nor received his Inspiration nor the Revelation of his Son and yet say they are his Messengers and Christ's Ambassadors they have shewed their deceit and hypocrisie and themselves to be such as the Unbelievers Joh. 5.37 who had neither heard the Voice of God at any time nor seen his Shape And they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his So they are none of Christ's Ambassadors but Antichrists and therefore we deny them XVII Of Sprinkling Infants ANd whereas the Priests do sprinkle Infants and some of them have dipped them and used the sign of the Crosse in doing it and call that the Baptism into the Visible Church c. Herein have they shewed themselves ignorant of the true Baptism and have set up a false and Popish Baptism which they have neither Command Precept nor Example for in the Scriptures of Truth either from Christ or any of his Ministers For the Baptism of Water which John who was a Prophet and a Fore-runner of Christ had a Command from Heaven to administer was to them that confessed their Sins and this was to cease as being a Figure of the inward Washing and one Baptism of the Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 Eph. 4.1 1 Pet. 3.21 for the Saints were all baptized by one Spirit into one Body which was the Church and did not call sprinkling or baptizing Infants the Baptism into the Church as the Priests do Neither do we read in Scripture of Godfathers and Godmothers among the true Christians to be the Infants Sureties and to promise that they should forsake the Devil and all his Works Thus we see the Error of the Priests and how their Worship is in vain who teach for Doctrines the Traditions of men Matth. 15. And how thereby many that have had the name of Christians have been captivated and led in great ignorance and neither they nor their Teachers have forsaken the Devil or all his works notwithstanding their pretended promising to do it when they are in Sin which is the Devil's work and contend for it telling men that none can be clean or free from sin on this side the Grave and thus they shew their Confusion and Error XVIII Of Bread and Wine which they call the Lords Supper ANd neither do we ever read in Scripture That Christ's Ministers did give the people of the world Bread and Wine in a Steeple-house at certain times of the year and call it a Sacrament the Communion and the Lord's Supper and preach it up so to continue in the Church as the Priest do Herein do the Priests make an Idol of outward Bread and Wine and keep people in shadows instead of bringing them to the substance For 1. they have no proof in the Scripture to call Bread and Wine a Sacrament but from the Papists 2. The true Communion stands not in outward Bread and Wine but in the Body and Blood of Christ which is the substance and end of outward Figures and Shadows 3. The Bread and Wine which the Priests give People in Steeple-houses at Easter and Appointed times like the Papists cannot be the Lord's Supper for Drunkards Covetous Proud and prophane Persons who are in their sins and so eating at the Table of Devils can receive their pretended Sacrament of Bread and Wine who cannot eat at the Table of the Lord 1 Cor. 10.21 nor come to his Supper as to sup with him and he with them as they do who open to him when he knocks and receive him Revel 3.20 4ly Neither is it proper to call a little Bread and VVine which people receive on the day-time a Supper it being more like a Dinner for in this the Priests are both out of the Form of Christ and the Saints Practice and out of the Power for it was in the Night in which Christ was betrayed that he was at Supper with his Disciples not with the VVorld and gave Them not the VVorld the Bread and the Cup to shew forth his Death till he come And at his Supper he ate the Passeover with them according to the Law Matth. 26. Luke 22. which the Priests do not so much as truly imitate but the Passeover and these outward things were but Figures and to cease as other Figures under the Law were which Christ passed through in the dayes of his flesh and fulfilled them and blotted out the hand-writing of Ordinances and nailed it to his Crosse. So that after Christ had suffered and fulfilled the Figures that related to that state under the Law and did manifest his Coming and the Power of his Resurrection in the Saints these Shadows and Figures were not of force by a Law though some of the Churches did use them for a time by permission But the Apostles laboured to bring them from off these Shadows and outward things to the knowledge of the Mystery of Life within for said the Apostle If ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the World why as though living in the World are ye