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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45353	An account of familism as it is revived and propagated by the Quakers shewing the dangerousness of their tenets, and their inconsistency with the principles of common reason and the declarations of Holy Scripture / by Henry Hallywell.	Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?	1673 (1673)	Wing H458; ESTC R25413	52,525	144

as perfect slaves to their Pride Hatred Malice Covetousness and Lust as any people in the World One of these perfect Creatures was accused lately for getting his Maid with Child And when R. B. a Quaker advised with Lacock concerning a Marriage intended by him with a rich Woman Lacock told him it was not fit for him having begun in the Spirit to end in the Flesh and no sooner had R. B. desisted in his Suit but Lacock takes the woman and marries her Was not this a perfect Cheat The Quakers pretend very much to Inspiration and Prophesie and so did Marcus an old Heretic who abused many silly women under colour of conferring on them the gift of Prophecying The same Marcus had a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a familiar Spirit by which he brought himself into credit with his deluded Followers and I have had it confidently affirmed that about the first rise of the Quakers in the North of England several persons by Gloves and Ribbands and divers Charms and Incantations were really bewitched by them And doubtless many of their Quaking Fits wherein they fomed at the mouth trembled throughout all parts of their bodies hideously groaned their visages distorted and tumbling upon the ground were real possessions by the Devil It were easie to draw out the Parallel between them into a greater length but that I think it would be too burdensom and tedious to the Reader forasmuch as it is true of them what Irenaeus said of the Heretics of his time Per singulos dies affectant novum aliquid adinvenire That every day they affect to bring in some novelty and dangerous Opinion I shall rather chuse now to represent them under the Notion of Familists CHAP. II. Of the Authors of Familism and the Quakers Agreement with them in their Doctrin IT was not long after David George had disseminated and spread abroad his pernicious Errors but they were greedily sucked in and embraced by Henry Nicholas who being of a crafty and subtle Temper a plausible and winning Deportment as if the Stars had pointed him out for a grand Impostor carefully concealed his Doctrin at Munster in Westphalia where he was born and in the mean time diffused it by Letters and Emissaries instructed by him in many places of Germany forty miles distant from him so that the Sect of Familists grew and increased for a good while before it was known who was the Fomenter of it At last he removes to Amsterdam sets up the Trade of a Mercer and professes his Doctrin calling his Fraternity and Society The Family of Love and in his Writings gave a Symbol or Cognizance Charitas extorsit per H. N. as may be seen at the end of every Epistle or Treatise of his For his Person he was corpulent of a good Presence and Sanguine Temper shrewdly suspected of Incontinence with some Women in his house and 't is no wonder if he should not bathe his begodded Humanity as he phrases it of himself in carnal and sensual Pleasures when the great Arcanum and Mystery of his Doctrin was mere Sadducism that is A Denial of the Immortality of the Soul and a Life to come From Amsterdam he sails over into England and here divulges and communicates his destructive Errors among a company of Artificers and silly Women who being unstable and not well principled in the Rudiments of Christian Religion became an easie Prey to this white Wolf He wrote an Epistle to two Daughters of Warwick dissuading them from Regeneration by the Word of God read or preached calling it ceremonial elementish and false and laboured to persuade the Maids to a spiritual new birth through his Doctrin His Errors were afterwards discovered and refuted by J. Knewstub in a Book dedicated to Ambrose Earl of Warwick and printed at London by Order from the Queen 1579. He pretended a Revelation from the Angel Gabriel He affirmed that Christ was neither God nor Man but the State of his Doctrin and that every one of his illuminate Elders was Christ He held a Perfection without sin and that the whole History of Jesus Christ was not to be understood in a literal but Mystical and Allegorical sense that there is no Heaven Hell nor Judgment but what is in this Life and that all outward Ordinances in Religion are foolish and trifling things But I shall trouble my self no further to collect the Heads of his Doctrin since I shall take a general view of it by comparing the Doctrin of the Quakers and that of H. N. together SECT I. H. N. says that not only the Law of Moses but the Ministration of Christ and his Apostles were only temporary things instituted to bring men to the full and perfect Reige of the Spirit and as Children when they arrive to a good competency of understanding and can read well they throw away their horn-Horn-books and Primers so the Pedagogy of the Law and Gospel are to be cast aside when men come to the Spirit and this Dispensation of the Spirit is only in the Familists and in their doctrin And that this is the full sense of the Quakers appears from their own Books which they cunningly spread abroad to infect and poison the minds of weak and ignorant People In the Book called A Declaration of the Faith of Quakers penned by four of that Gang John Crook says thus We believe by the same gift of Grace that there are several Ministrations and several Operations according to 1 Cor. 12. and all by the same Spirit as before and after the Law by Moses and after by John the Baptist and Christ and his Apostles and in all those the Ministration had acceptance with God through the management of the Spirit and its rejection and dislike of God for the want thereof And by this Spirit were the Scriptures given forth and the Holy men of God did speak prophesie preach and pray as they were moved and for want of it the Letter did and doth kill And for the further appearance and pouring out of this Spirit answerable unto the work and service that God had for them to do they were to wait as Christ commanded his Disciples to do at Jerusalem to receive the promise of the Father for by this Spirit he that speaks speaks as the Oracles of God And therefore as it was the practice of the People of God in old time to wait for the moving and stirring of this Spirit that they might speak as it gave them utterance in the evidence and demonstration thereof so do this People called Quakers now and according to its moving in their hearts they minister according to the signification of the Spirit whereby they understand both what and when to speak and when to be silent Although this sweet sugared speech seem to be without deceit yet there is gall and wormwood mixed with it and in this new wine drawn from their own Cellar which lies deep in the lowest Region of the Body there is a