Children of Light and of the Day are more and more confirmed in the belief of the Holy and Divine Authority of Sacred Scripture O Man thou wilt one day be tormented to thy great grief and sorrow of thy Heart in that thou hast been so sensual not only to joyn the Quaker and Iesuit together as Brethren in Iniquity but also hast Blasphemonsly excluded the Light of Christ within Man and Woman that the Quaker loveth and the Scriptures Extol highly and also Revelation from being Judge of Faith and Practice putting not that difference that deservedly thou might by distinguishing the Light of Christ from the Pope or his Church What! Is thy Darkness so great that Revelation from God is of no better esteem with thee then Pope or Church of Rome which thou seemest to hate also that its manifest that thou dost not love but hate the Light within and Revelation equally as thou hatest the Pope if not more wishing doubtless as bad to him and his Church as thou doest the Quaker which in time justly may be recompenced upon thee for thou not only thinks but speaks Evil and it will deservedly pursue thee Surely all that will may see how this Baptist Teacher if he had power in his hands hath a mind and how his Fingers itcheth to be fingering or roughly handling the Quakers by his pretended Trumpet sounding for to prepare his Imagined Bench of Iustice to Try Iudge and find Guilty the Quaker of Errour and Heresie Sins indeed if he could as readily prove against him as feignedly he hath charged him but I am sure the Reader may read long enough in his Progress of Sin before really he can find any thing of plain prooff of this against the Quaker how fallaciously and blackly soever in his Wicked Mind he hath charged him with the great Sin of Errour and Heresie and I think scarce any People of any other Profession save only Papists that his Charge runs so directly against The Reader must take for granted if he will that Anabaptists Independants and Presbyterians c. are quite clear of these his Charges and the Quaker whose Yea is Yea and whose Nay is Nay need not fear the uncertain sound of this Baptist Teachers Trumpet nor his Bench Jury or Witnesses that he hath pretended to Convict them by who might have saved that labour to call Sr. Sublime Matter with his thirteen Imagined Sirs more as phantastically he takes upon him to make Knights and Gentlemen at his pleasure none of them worth mentioning save to manifest the Folly and Ridiculousness of their Maker Surely the way he takes may bring distress upon Sion but will not help her nor comfort her when distressed I have heard that this Author of The Progress of Sin writ another Book called War with the Devil but if that be written from that Spirit wherein he writ this he will be foiled and sadly worsted by the Devil in his encounter and B. K. thou wilt know that the Quaker doth quite slight thy Romantick Conceit of thy Created Sirs and Gentlemen as thou calls them and all that which thou feignest they have to say against him thou audaciously condemnest and would have destroyed else what dost thou mean by thy thus not only holding up thy Wicked Fists against but striking and smiting as if thou had a mind to Blood and if thou delight therein it will pursue thee if thou had'st had any real Charity thou doubtless would have considered the several Laws of Men and Courts of Justice by which the Quakers are frequently exposed to Sufferings and Spoils already but it seems thou judgedst all of that kind too little Punishment for the Quaker although may be thou thinks it a great deal too much for you Baptists If thou hadst had any real matter thou could have proved against the Quaker with absolute power to have Tryed and Punished this thy supposed Criminal few Evil it 's like would'st thou have made the Days of his Pilgrimage thou bast given the Quaker little cause to expect better from thee then the Gallows which the Quaker met with from that Spirit that thy Court of Justice is managed by in thy Presbyterian Brethren in New-England They were going the way to quit that Country by the Gallows of the Quakers there had not the King in time stopt them and put a Bridle to their Murderous Proceedings in their Bloody Courts It may be easily seen what this Baptist Teacher would be doing had he power in his hands with the Quaker How far the Papists are guilty of his Charge they know best I wish all Men well desiring they might as well quit themselves of Errour and Heresie as the Quaker can which is his great Comfort and Happiness at this day which this envious Baptist Teacher cannot take from him nor all his Brethren in Iniquity with him and God I hope will send a good deliverance to the Quaker and deliver him from the Power of Hell acting its self in this Baptist Teachers Court He saith in his Preface to his Progress of Sin That he hath endeavoured to avoid all occasion of Offence not reflecting on any Mans person c. though all kinds of Sins be justly exposed and Sinners reprehended It 's true that thou hast not named any Persons but people as the Quaker and Jesuits so reflecting on them in thy Book that I find there 's no Baptist Independant or Presbyterian c. by the Name they are distinguished in their Profession of Religion but if Sinners as thou makes them be the persons of the Quakers and Jesuits thou hast plainly pointed at nay singled out them by the Name they go under not so by thy usurped power of a Court proceeding with any of the other Criminals for peradventure they are the best of the Flock in thy Eye thou wouldest spare as did Amaleck and however thou hast reprehended Persons or Sinners through thy Book thou wilt be found a Forger of Lies and false Fictions against the Quaker whom in page 241. thou exposest under the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay with pretended Zeal and seeming Sanctity might thou not almost as well have exposed by their proper Names most that are called Quakers whose Zeal for God in this day I doubt not but will prove right and their Sanctity really of the Lord Jesus Christ notwithstanding the vain Taints Scorn and Derision wherewith in thy Progress of Sin thou hast appeared against speaking of Yea and Nay and the Quakers Zeal and Sanctity I hope that will abide right and sincere towards God and his Work when the Zeal and Sanctity of this Baptist Teacher will stand him in little stead his Zeal being Fury and his Sanctity Enmity coming sorth in a confused heap of Imaginations and Divinations of his own Brain which if it had not been crasie might have foreseen he gave some just occasion to the Quaker and Papist to be offended at him for joyning them together in a Brotherhood in
False Fictions AND ROMANCES REBUKED In Answer to Pretended Matter Charged against the QUAKER in a Book Intituled The Progress of Sin c. Written by B. K. His Lies and Slanders therein returned back upon him and the Speakers of YEA and NAY in Truth Vindicated By JAMES PARK Psal 7. 14. Behold he Travelleth with Iniquity he hath conceived Mischief and brought forth Falshood Ibid. v. 16. His Mischief shall return upon his own Head c. LONDON Printed in the Year 1684. False FICTIONS and ROMANCES Rebuked c. I Have lately met with a Book intituled The Progress of Sin c. it appears to be written by the Author of War with the Devil in the Title Page for his Name is only set B. K. towards the latter end of his Progress of Sin he seems concerned in his Majestical Attempts to Try Condemn and Execute Tyrant Sin as he calls it but could not plainly tell how to demonstrate its Nature in any sort of People especially the Quaker whom he Exposeth and Derideth for his speaking Yea and Nay beginning with him by a Misrepresentation of his Zeal and Sanctity then making him speak what I dare say he never said nor can he prove it But however Tryed and Condemned to reproach must the Quaker be by this Baptist Teacher really for what it remaines for him to make appear in his next Progress of Sin if he knew how for in his last he hath come so far short thereof that I think every sollid Christian Reader may apprehend him so baffled in his War with the Devil and Progress of Sin as now set at variance and fighting with his own shaddow and his War with the Quaker is as if he had no skill to make one fair blow at him although his Wicked Fists are lifted up high enough to knock him on the Head at once were not the Angel of Gods Presence with him to keep him in safety from the power of his Fists of Wickedness Sober Men may judge that he might have forborn his barking and biting also at the Quaker at his ravenous rate at such a day of suffering as this is upon all Dissenters from the publick Worship of the Nation what in his Progress of Sin I found by way of Charge against the Quaker I return him this following Answer being as much as I judged Expedient it might deserve Truth or Reallity not appearing in his Proceedings against the Quaker by his Imaginary Court or what he hath printed in his Progress of Sin against him he imagined 't is like it might be some pleasing Food to such of his Brethren that are most in Enmity Prejudice against the Quaker if none else would bite at it or taste it however certain I am it can do good to none plainly proceeding from an Evil Fountain the Father of Falshood Deceit and Lies B. K. in page 241. of thy Progress of Sin c. Thou hast taken upon thee in thy dark Imaginary Mind and Spirit to search for and find out Mr. Erroneous's House as thou call'st it of the Town of Heresie where thou say'st Sin was found hid under the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay with pretended Zeal and seeming Sanctity What! Could'st thou not find out thy Mr. Erroneous's House of the Town of Heresie no where but under the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay as in 〈◊〉 Unrighteous Smite it appears the Quaker thou aim'st thy blow at with thy Fist of Wickedness Errour and Heresie if thou had'st searched for it with the Light of Christ and the Spirit of the Lord thou needest not to have gone so far as the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay to have found it for thou might'st have found it near thee under thy fashionable painted false Cover with thy Multitude of Words that want not Sin nor shall profit the People at all however thou may flatter thy self in thy vain Imagination the true Zeal and Sanctity of the People that have been directed by the Lord and the Rule of Scriptures to Yea and Nay in all our Communication thou can'st not make void and if thou Swear or thy Communication be not Yea and Nay then it cometh of Evil Mat. 5. 37. Thou art so hasty and furious for the Tryal of thy pretended Sin of Errour and Heresie which thou unwarrantably say'st was found under the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay that with thy Fictions and Lies like thy Brother Hicks thou resolvest to dispatch his Tryal to Try and Sentence him that speaks Yea and Nay contrary to his Knowledge of thy intent he having no summons before thy Narrative of the pretended Tryal of him was Printed and thou wast afraid Thou should'st not have Room the Press calling upon thee to Abreviate c. But if thou hadst had true Christian Charity towards the Despised Speakers of Yea and Nay thou wouldst have been more Cautious and Deliberate in thy Proceedings then to Judge and Sentence him and not really to tell him thy Unchristian Design against him Room to Range in I see not how thou couldst want and if thou hadst kept this thy Evil Work from the Press till any Press in London called for it I question its coming at any of them God be thanked the truly Zealous and Sanctified Quaker is not in thy hold as thou imaginest if he were really so no good or comfort hast thou given him cause to expect from thee but what Chief Constables Hand is he in away with thy Fictions and Imaginations be plain if false Forgery and Deceit have not so blinded thee and hardened thy heart that thou knowest not how and what Officers were they thou darkly mentions Doest thou not know that thy Trumpet hath given an unâ—ertain sound and there is none that are come to that which is certain will hasten to or matter thy unjust and unrighteous Trumpet and Tryal with thy foolish Imagining a Bench. Page 242. thou pretends Sacred Scripture to be Judge of thy Bench attended with so many of thy Imagined Sirs framed up in thy Sensual Mind that seldome if ever hath been known the like to try Tyrant Sin but if all thy Sirs except Anti-Christian Opposition might really have heard the Quakers Just Plea for himself without thy taking upon thee to make up a Judge and Jury of thy own devising most of thy Sirs might have seen just cause to adhere thereunto and not according to thy Evil desire have brought the Quaker in Guilty with Tyrant Sin I know not what or whom thou meanest let them concerned look to that for some other People besides the Quaker thou must also aim at which thou was not so willing plainly to name The Sacred Scripture the Quaker owns the Authority of to discover and condemn Sin and Errour contrary to what thou like thy Brother Hicks in his Dialogues hast forged that upon the Quaker as said by him which he nor thou cannot prove against the Quaker or that it was ever said by him whom thus grosly thou hast
Iniquity and guilty of Imposture Heresie and Errour But he must make another Statute Book then the New or Old Testament for this Court of his Erecting to Proceed upon before he can make good his Charge against the Quaker for the Old and New Testament sufficiently witnesseth for the Quaker against this unjust Accuser and his Whimsies B. K. I Charge thee in the Truth of God which is over all thy deceit to bring forth thy High-Constable mentioned by thee to prove the Quaker such a Criminal as thou hast rendered him page 245. that his Name is Imposture alias Erroneous and what Heresie thou took the Quaker Prisoner in Or that he endeavoured to hide under the Cloak of Light Life and Power Though that is a better Covering to hide under then Darkness Death and its Power Will not Woe from God come upon thee and all People that cover themselves with a nother Covering then that of God's Holy Spirit which is one with the Light Life and Power of God forever Divide or seperate them if thou canst what is thy Cloak thou hast over thee that is contrary to the Light Life and Power of God surely it is but Darkness and Death or Figg-leaves that hide not thy Nakedness from them that are in this Light Life and Power of the Lord such see sufficiently the shame of thy Nakedness although People not come thereunto may look upon thee as well gifted and thy Confused Work of Eminent Worth Thou Forger of Lies and Enemy of the Truth and Righteousness what Quaker was it that yet ever denyed the Scripture Authority Or said to it Art thou the Iudge of Sin and Errour away with thee shew where this was said and the time when or else thou gives the Quaker ground to proclaim thee a very great and grand Son to the Father of Lies and to cry Away with this Son of Pordition and the Quaker may well believe thou art not the Just Man that sinneth not who hast proved so unjust to him and that if ever thou had any goodness like the early dew it is passing away and that thou art so drunk with and needlesly cumbers thy Mind about many things to no purpose in thy late troublesome Work is very apparent to him that hath an eye to see with thou one day wilt be made to know besure that that thou hast written against the Quaker is black false and offensive enough making him in thy sensual Mind to call Sacred Scripture A Dumb Idol whereas the living God knoweth that the Quaker never had such a thought much less spoke it at any time And thou hast not at all proved thy Charge against the Quakers in the margin of thy aforementioned page that they deny The Sacred Scripture to be the judge of Sin and Controversie about Religion and Worship but I doubt that thou dost busie thy self so in Controversy about Religion and Worship of God that thou wilt scarce in all thy Travels come to that Pure Religion that is undefiled before God or his Worship in Spirit and Truth So till thou have fairly and fully proved the Crimes against the Quaker which thou hast published as his Sin enough will lye at thy door where I leave it till thou find a place for Repentance and then thou wilt find thy Travails to be those of Ungodliness at least so far as they relate to the Quaker even a travelling with Iniquity and the bringing forth Falshood with the poyson of Asps under thy Tongue for the great Mystery of Godliness in thy Imaginary Travails canst thou never find out nor give a right Description of but art a great Stranger thereunto and as if the Profession of Godliness were a sufficient Cloak for thee If thou hast any thing of the Form of Godliness yet the power thereof thou seems very ignorant of so that the Quaker hath still reason sufficient to turn away from thee and all such Formalists and deceitful Works of Iniquity Written in the Fear and Dread of the Lord God for the honour of his Name and to clear his Truth and People that walk in it from the reproach and scandal this Opposer hath endeavoured to cast upon the same with his Fictions and Romances by a true lover of Godliness in Life and Power highly esteeming the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures Something further partly by way of Query WHat Quaker was that which in page 248. is said to say I am sure I should have known as much of Christ as now I do if I had never heard of the Scriptures And what Quaker was it that 't is said in that page was quite silent upon thy doating unnecessary Question pretended to be put to him to wit What things Jesus did that were not written and answer it thy self if thou canst And what marvel is it that many of thy Evil-devised Court were ready to smile and cryed out How are these People Deluded Who and how many in thy Court were they that were ready to smile and cryed out How are these People Deluded before the things charged against them were at all proved Art thou not ashamed to pretend that thou hast confuted the Quaker whilest 't is nothing but that which thou in thy Evil Heart hast Imagined and forged against him that thou smitest at That there is wholsom and sound Judgment against Sin and Evil throughout the Scriptures was always plainly owned by the Quaker yet we know not where it calls it self Sr. Sacred Scripture or that thou hast plainly proved it to be the only Judge of Sin and Rule of Faith and Practice Might'st thou not as well have placed this Authority properly more immediately upon Christ Jesus as he is the Word of God who was in the Beginning with God and before the World was and the Scriptures were written But ought the Light of Christ Jesus and Revelation of God so to be slighted and rejected by thee as to be no rule of Faith and Practice or that it may not be concerned in Judging Sin And may it not be affirmed a certain and undeniable means to discover Deceivers and Impostors where ever they are or whatsoever they may pretend to and no other Light or Revelation doth the Quaker exhort People to come to or believe in but the Light of Christ and Revelation from God of his Son Christ Jesus by which none are left to an uncertainty as thou blindly imaginest What Quaker was it that asked for Mediums and that to make out what we say and affirm produce him if thou can or that said to thee Thou looked for a sign though probably he had not been mistaken if he had told thee so Hast thou convinced the Pagan thou speakest of that what thou sayest is true the Quaker cannot believe Fictions bring thy Pagan forth that the Quaker may discourse him upon this subject Is the agreement betwixt the Papist and Quaker that thou storms at any thing but what thou hast made the Quaker to be that he never was and to say what he never said to say What is Sr. Sacred Scripture but a Lifeless Fellow a pittiful Paper-Judge a Dead Letter which words the Quaker denys utterly putting thee upon the prooff thereof Also when any Jesuit said to any Quaker thereupon Well said Brother or A Nose of Wax certainly That which was before time I do believe will in due time make fully manifest whether the Papist and Quaker or Papist and the Anabaptists do most agree and whether this Anabaptist-Teacher may not prove too much like a Nose of Wax when his Faith and Practice comes to be further tryed How dares thou say in the Margin of thy Book page 247. That there came in pretending to thy Court an Out-Landish Man of a tauney Complexion that called the Scriptures of Truth thy pretended Judge Lord and said He was a Pagan Born an Indian dwelling in the furthest parts of America that manifested any Contradiction to the Quaker about the Light of Christ within or its sufficiency as the Quakers do really affirm and bear Testimony of it But how then can any of you Baptist-Teachers any more render us as Pagans to the World seeing the Pagan and you so well agree But how came the uncertain sound of thy Trumpet to be heard as far as America How many Indians or Pagans hast thou by thy pretended Judge convinced of the Evil of their ways and doings without the Light of Christ Jesus which thou so hates and endeavours to exclude from being any Judge of Sin Being as thou darkly sayest wholly Ignorant or know nothing of one great statute-Statute-Book wherein many positive good Laws are written which the Prisoner at the Barr hath abominably violated page 247. I think of so little as thou hast writ against the Quaker never more Mallice Deceit and Falshood appeared Can there be any Statute-Book or Good Lawes in it and the light of Christ within people be wholly Ignorant or know nothing of one great Statute Book c I would thou saw thy own Confusion and Ignorance of the Light of Christ and the way thereof How can the Light of the glorious Gospel that shines in Peoples Hearts be ignorant or know nothing of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ or any Precept or Ordinance thereof which the Prisoner as thou calls him at thy pretended Bar hath Abominably violated without any prooff against thy supposed Prisoner at thy Imagined Bar And prove what are those good Laws as thou calls them he hath so violated as for the Good Lawes of the Old and New Testament the Quaker hath not violated but is a doer thereof which is more justifiable in the eye of the great Law giver then to profess and talk of the Lawes of God and be a daily breaker and not doer of the same J. P. THE END