names Matthew Mark Luke and John Dust c. Papers sent forth for detecting Error p. 6. In Epistles I lately saw George Bishop wrote to the King and Parliament That the Quakers were Innocent in no Rebellion not Dissaffected to him Yet he and Fox and others cursed the Presbyterians for attempting to bring in the King and when he came in they wrote to him of their Love to him and Faithfulness George Fox would call his Writings The word of the Lord the word of God though this was too high for Scripture only for Christ and their words Mr. Crisp a Reformed Quaker in his Babel builders unmasking themselves hath made a Collection of their Abominable Errors and Blasphemous Assertions taken out of Bâ—â—roughs's Works That the Sufferings of the Quakers were Greater and more Vnjust than those of Christ and the Apostles for tâ—ose said he suffered by Law and in some respect by a due Execution of Law p. 279. In another Book he tells the story of Solomon Eccles a great Prophet a Famous Man who burnt on Tower-hill His musical Instruments worth about two hundred pounds as Cruiso says He was a great Foxonian and after John Story a Quaker had condemned the Courts Fox set up Solloman Eccles came to him as I have had it also from a Quaker then present desiring to speak with John Story who craved excuse being very Sick and in constant expectation of Death Tell him said one of Eccles his Companions Solloman Eccles hath a message to him from the Lord when they were admitted he thus said O John Story thou hast condemned the Ordinances of Jesus Christ Womens preachings and Womens meetings the Church and Brethren have bound thee on Earth and thou art bound in Heaven Be reconciled to George Fox who is Gods Friend and the great Apostle of Jesus Christ this is the word of the Lord to thee This year shalt thou dye because thou hast taught Rebellion against the Living God He replyed as the Quaker present told me I expell to dye in a few hours yet I know the Lord sent you not But see the Goodness of God to detect such Villany the Man Recovered and Liv'd four or five year after now if he had dyed what a famous Prophet had Sollomen Eccles been Pray prophecy next Thus saith the Lord This winter O this Winter there shall be Snow and Ice yea I say Ice and Snow yet the next Summer many Flowers shall be seen in your Gardens yea much Corn in your fields and not only so but much fruit upon your Trees for so it is reveal'd unto me and by this you shall know that I am a True Prophet But suppose none of this should be why then all was understood not Carnally for that is nothing but Spiritually This Reformed Quaker profest to me No men can understand them by their words I mention not George Fox in his Journal comparing the best of Men with the worst of Men the Holy Laboâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 of Christ to Baal's 〈◊〉 Sorâ—â—â—â— â—â—das tâ—e Devil 〈…〉 this is so common Vast is the difference between Prâ—aching for hire and taking hire for Preaching The Priests under the Law liv'd by the Altar and a good Livelihood they had can words be plainer than those of St. Pâ—â—l As they that waited on the Altar liv'd by the Altar so hath the Lord ordained that they which Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.6.7 Now how is a Man said to live on any Employment but to have a Competency at least for himself and his and to lay up for wife and Children and himself too against Sickness and old Age The Disciples 10 Mat. 10. As Labourers were so worthy of their Hire that they were to be provided for by their Hearers they were forbid to carry Money of their own the thing is quite contrary to what our Perfectionists would drive at Christ worked then Miraculously and they were commanded to Trust Providence Paul took Wages of some Churches and Robbed them as we say I shall Rob you if we take freely he told the Corinthians He had power to forbear working which was enough as well as Barnabas and other Apostles If he wrought he complained of it to them and â—ays the fault on them Must we be reviled too or stoned because he was But I pray when did Fox work If any say he had much other work Paul had more The care of all the Churches lay on him Paul bid Timothy give himself wholly to those things Meditation or Studying and Reading 1 Tim. 4.13 How many pair of Shoos I pray did friend George make after he got so well by Speaking He grew Rich he eat the fat and drank the sweet and so the poor Shoomaker preaches up his Mortification You shall find how much George was concern'd at what others said of him I have heard of one much concern'd this way and ask'd one What do men say of me He replied Fools say you are a Wâ—se Man and Wise Men say you are a Fool and I pray which thinâ— you This Journal of G. Fox is now taught in their Publick Schools and read instead of Scripture in their Families from day to day This in a word is become the Quakers Bible they often have written against our Bible I now have written against theirs Jam Sumus ergo Pares Not only do the followers of George Keith condemn this Fox as a Notorious Deceiver and Impostor but the Harp-Lane Quakers disown his Discipline as the Womens Meeting c. though they are corrupt as to his Doctrine about Christ with the Grace-church-street Quakers who own both Doctrine and Discipline Well G. Fox's Wife once Margaret Fell tho' past Child-bearing was to have an Isaac the Midwife was sent for but nothing comes yet this was the Marryage that was a type of Christ and the Church I commend George among all the lyes he tells he added not this That they who went to Convert the Pope according to their expectation could by Inspiration speak to him in his own Language I have not so much Charity to believe that Conscience or Modesty kept him from this but an open Notorious Confutation Friends however made bold to whisper this among themselves and have been so impudent to tell me so That his followers differ about their sentiments concerning the Trinity and Scripture yet they care not for that whilst they all keep to the fundamentals of their Religion that Men put not of their Hats nor the Women Kirsey but both say Thee and Thou There are about One Hundred Thousand that have followed him as has been computed these make Heathens Christians and Christians Heathens It is expected when Muggleton is dead his Journal will be Printed also and his prophesies as some of his Disciples tell us though Fox and he damn'd one another as False Prophets times without number He that would know more of George Fox's Ignorance Lyes c. Read his great mystery and battledore a
Infamous for Lying that all the world can confute him The Papists in their Casulstical Writing have asserted It was lawful for a Priest if suspected and taken to say or swear it before a Justice of Peace or a Judge Quest Are you a Priest Answ No that is of Bacchus or any Pagan God Quest Did you ever read Mass Answ No that is not with a design to tell you of it c They can deny at the place of Execution any Treason or Murther and say they are as innocent as the Child to Night born Why because forfooth they have been since absolv'd nay if occasion be that they dyè Protestants too that is they protest again the rieresies of the times It was well said of Mr. Mead the true English-man in the late Reign to his Immortal Honour when Sir D. C. told him of the Quakers Knwery about five years since in Brislot in cheating the King a piece of Roguery too long to relate the men chosen as the best of them by his Majesty's order to decide the matter were so vile that he said thou hast them upon the hip spare not a man of them B. C. i◠a Foxonian Quaker Ideal with him as such not a separate Quaker these roundly answered to Dr. Lancasters Questions Bp. of Londons Ciraplain about Christ c. when the Foxonians did it sophistically the Separate ones answer'd well to alltl equestions from Philadelphia in Pensilvania when the Foxonian ones there refused to do it they swallow all that Fox once said and now Penn without chewing To Revile and Curie is Common Oh! what puputridstinking words come from the mouths of the pretenders to Pure Breathings No doubt when some of the Quakers Fellow-Heathen in America hear their hard character of the best Ministers with us they think we are like Canabals or like Infernal Fiends Some when they drank of the old doctrine of Christianity desired not their new 5 Luke 39. but said as he of the wine The Old is better Deism is now a thriving weed in England and Quakerisin is of kin to it The Deist observe and Quakers are very friendly one to another how writes Mr. Nor is of Love to God as Creator Benefactor Why not Redeemer I have been ask'd the question Is be a Deist I do not say he is this is he that hath written so favourably of the Quakers to his perpetual shame I am informed the Quakers Preach more a crucified Christ within a year or two then ever they have done this thirty year Well G. Keith and other Reformed Quakers have taught them to speak well but have they yet taught them to think or believe well They say no All but meer Tricks Ignoramus Whitehead now Preacheth Christs Body is in Heaven that was once in the Grave Well if you be Inspired Persons now you were Impostors once Now for some of B. C's Assertions the naming of which is enough or more than enough for any that have read my Quakers Impostors or Apoststes proved from their Avowed Principles and contrary Practises he saith That he found not Truth or Serse till be came ro p 62. of that Book That the Bristol Quakers never left their meeting in the last Persecution unless when Sick c. not Lawrence Steel or others That the Quakers generally bow not to men c. That George Whitehead and William Penn did ever hear their open Testimoney that in my bro◠I grant the Quakers are more just than others and careful not to tell a Lye That I plead for Lying as a Lawful thing That I bring 2 Tim. 15. When I call to mind the unfeigned faith that dwelt in thy Grandmother Lois c. as a place of scripture for playing at Bowles and Nine-pins These and many more things I dare be bold to say He knows all to be false He must have a face of brass that asserts this No wonder Quakers cry shame and Mr Penn sent me so civil a Message to disown his being concerned since the Cry about it This man hath cut the throat of their cause If I prove they Bow I prove them Apostates on this mans Confession then Penn is an Apostate and the Quakers so and B. C. himself so and that since he wrote this Book as well as before as Quakers themselves confess Other things I shall Reply to That I had a fit of Love Mell ancholy made my Confessions and put up in a Mad-house BOX Hence I am call'd what he pleas'd times without number as he had this from the Devil so I suppose W. C. from his Book if this be false if I never was one hour in any such place What Defamers are these Who shall believe any thing on their Evidence as all my Friends and Enemies too acquainted with me know these stories to be some of the most Impudent Falshoods that ever were written as I declare they are and I never heard the stories till now so I say as the Epistle I will give Five Pounds to any man that shall prove it I hope no Ministers for my sake will regard what these Monsters not Men say of them and People not Regard That R. V. denies That be corfessed to me their Minds were changed about leaving the place of Publick Worship in time of Persecution That Monsieur Whitehead denies he expounded Solomon's Fool for a Holy Man Whoso is Simple Prov. 9.4 Give me any form of Words as an Oath or Protestation before God I will use them That I heard both these two things with my own Ears the Cretians are alway Lyars and so are the Quakers Should I say I this day saw a Quaker carryed along Drunk by six Men holding his Hands Legs Body that I never saw none so carryed but he I care not for their denying when so many Spectators know it True That he knows not the story of the 40 days Fast c. Never heard von of Mrs. C. of Plymouth if her husband A. be alive let him thank you not me you force me to it I care not to mention names for reason-mentioned in that Book That W. P. denies the story of Mr. Nicholet whom he caused to be turned out of his place for Licensing a Book against Popery in the Reign of K. James the 2d Why had not Mr. Penn gotten this under Mr. Nicholet's own Hand Let him yet do it it much concerns him No no his guilty Conscience keeps him from desiring it Mr. Nicholets honesty credit from doing it That I say I have 〈…〉 me yet I write what I have read and heard Every Child B. C. excepted would know the sease of this Did any one think tho I am far from my Study and friends I must forget all that ever I read and heard too That I said I would not propose a Question to William Pnen and yet did about not serving Protestant but Popish Kings in Wars when the sense is plain I proposed it not for an Answer to me he being suspected to
for fear of Popery and Slavery 2. Then â—ould 〈…〉 be no Papist if he believed it Unlawful to Persecute Men for Conscience in the common Acceptation of the Words then had the Pope Erâ—ed and a Council and that in no small matter but alas K. James knew Prose ution of men for Heresic was ro Persecution for Conscience besides an Peroneous Conscience was no Conscience Quit non est scientia c. 3 The Addressers would say privately All was but a Trick of K. James No wonder he Laughed at them when they were gon and PVAW'd c. I have been every where of late years Plagued about those Scandâ—lous Addresses Some would call a Second Judas a Second Cyrus and the Destroyer of their Countrey the Repairer of their Breaches Well done B. C. to call them that did it to Repentance I have called on them all little enough Now Friend C. let me ask thee a few Questions Was it not shameful to censure me and another man for not putting our names to our Books and thou never put thy name to thine I gave it out to all I was the Author May I not debate the matter with Jews Mahometans and others and yet be conclusive in the Doctrine of Christianity Why Child what ails thy Noddle Is it proper to censure me for being Comical after I gave my reasons and they not considered p. 6. Is it true W. Penn Expounded on Mat. 18.17 Tell the Church a sense denyed in one place confirmed in another to serve a Turn I see there was a little Mistake in putting the names of the Book could not so great a Lyer as thou that talks of my being once in a maed-house that deniest Quakers Bow Couldst not thou have said Some Enemy or the Printer or others put in those Words or that some Letters accidentally jumpt together and make these unhappy Sentences Where is Inspitation now when he was lately told some Quakers deny any Body of Christ in heaven c. He said they were Ignorant tho Sincere What friend William is the Light and Infallible Spirit come to this Did I say in my Book The Quakers were more humble than others c. Away thou shameless Man What wilt thou saynext Or that The Quakers were more Just than others No I did not so wrong them Did I not give a true account of Barclay about the Light p. 79. Look once again May not Perfectionists long continuing so at last reform and so God be merciful to them in their Conversion be a proper Petition I am not used to deal with such silly Arguers Suppose I should plead the cause of him that wrote the story of Henry Windor let it not displease seeing he was joyn'd with me who he is I know not He is said to be worse then Mad worse then the Hammerer why the two Quakers that came to Henry Winder and his Wife from the Lord that they had Murthered a Child and must dye the Spirit would appear in the Court They were Meiancholly or Mad says B. C. 1. They were owned by the Quakers before in and after to their Death 2. This Madness was not discern'd by the Justice or Judge or Quakers or others but the Quakers clos'd in with them 3. If any thing falls out as they say They be the Lords Prophets if not they were then mad Was Sollomon Eccles Mad when he Prophesied falsly to John Story not when he prophesied of the burning of London of which Friends took no more notice then the Men of the World and so never mov'd their Goods saying It was a Delusion Was W. Penn Mad when he prophesied against Thomas Hicks For the story in Bristel of a Quaker that said Thus saith the Lord give the man his Rope again it is denied so is every thing else but I pray Why not as well as when G. Fox was about to Eat The word of the Lord came unto him saying Eat not as before Now B. C. to humble thee if it may be for thy Folly and Falshood I will suppose I should apply my self to thee in the same Language thou hast done to me and with the like Falshood What wouldst thou say of me what many now do and many more will of thee Suppose I should besprinkle thee with some of thy Oratory to me and another Thâ—â— impostor in thy Colours fit for Box or Bedlam in thy south thou wert burnt in the band at Bristol for a Highway-man yea thou wert Pillored and thy Ears were cropt off for Sedition Thou refusest to Preach to the Quakers under Five Hundred a Year None of my Friends in Bristol ever deserted St. James's Back c. in the last Persecution and I will prove it for it is well known John Weeks was committed to Prison therefore neither he George Founs Samuel Winney nor I did ever refuse to walk up and down the City on week days or to Preach in our Publick Places to a thousand at a time Lords Days O thou Impudent Man Mad-man c. Thou didst prove the Vnlawfulness of Bowls and Nine-pins from Mat. 1.2 And Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat Judas and his Brethren He must set up for the trade of Lying that doth it more than thou every lease is full of Nonsense None have so much the command of the Peoples Purses as the She Speakers yet to avoid Reflections as much as may be I have thus spoken to thee c. But there is no end of this should I thus do might I not fear as Cain you had as good cut off a man's arm or leg as thus desame him VVell one consideration is comfortable a Quakers word is no Slander You have been known to be Notorious Lyars in your highest Pretences your greatest Speakers I had almost forgotten to tell the Reader that B. C. in the name of Friends says As Scripture contain the Word and Command of God to us so they are the word of God c. No more need to be said your cause is gone I therefore declare my work lies with Mr. Penn to him were my Questions sent and seeing he cannot answer and therefore wisely attempts it not I intend no more to answer such scriblers as B. C. I leave you with St. Paul's words Gal. 1.6 8 9. I marvel you are so soon removed to another Gospel but though we or an Angel from Heaven Preach any other Gospel unto you then which we have Preached unto you let him be Accursed as we said before so say I now again if any man Preach any other Gospel unto you then that ye have received let him be Accursed Which words have been wisely and seriously used by some Ministers when Quakers have come from far to them to deliver a Message forsooth from the Lord against the Outward Word and Outward Christ and Outward Baptism and Outward Supper Now for the Man of Wit Civility and Learning the Author of Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidanter Malleatus Or the
Fox's Journal a new Folio Printed lately since his death and your large Preface if I prove him a Lyar c. your Cause falls to the ground for be was your first Apostle or rather Deceiver I doubt as you do not so you cannot believe the Fables you relate of him Some think You Sir in another disguise to be the Author of the book W. C. William Calamus I fear it is so I hope it is not if not I question not but you know him I appeal also to you whether the design of my Reprimand were to answer both Papers as be said when I never saw the first till I finisht my Reprimand and then put in a few lines about Cato c. or not 1. To prove G. Keith no Apostate tho' very Erroncous and proved the contrary from his charge of Election c. Then 1. The Arminians in their Church are Apostates too which must not be granted 2. Then the New Church of England is an Apostate Church from her Doctrine Discipline and Manners which I have done at large The Vnion with Rome c. Is this an answer to say I am no Arminian What then Are such as be Apostates You are an Ungrateful Wretch thus to reflect on the Church of England What if I were my Argument leads me to it I am provoak'd to it yet the New Church I reflected on my work lay not so much with them that own her Doctrine or Old Discipline that keep from the Lords Table Men Ignorant Scandalous Contentious that use not the new uninjoyn'd Cercmonies lowing to the High Altar c. What is be that writing of Reprolation could not distinguish betweens Non possibile and a Non futurum Who says God makes any mans Salvation impossible others besides G. Keith have denied it God hath made my being unable to flee 〈◊〉 non possibile naturally but ne'er ordain'd my being born in Constantinople so be made it a non futu rum so of Christs Legs not broken he made it not an impossible thing but a thing not future 2. My design was to reprove him for favouring the Foxonian Quakers whom I proved to be Blasphemers Imposters c. by proofs not commonly known therefore I intituled my Book a Reprimand not a Vindication I dare appeal to you whether things are not so and therefore such is be as if unparaled Lying Rudeness and Impertenencies had contended which should make his Reply most Infamous To all this account of the Foxonian Quakers he replies without attempting to vindicate them We are Fools and be bath sound me I thank him very good Company worthy good men of his own communion and zealous for it too as Mr. Bugg and Mr. Snake for so I us'd to callinm seeing he puts not his name to his book as I do not to mine yet all know the Authors Mr. Keith's being my Tutor I laugh at it I speak it without vanity and I suppose be knows it be need be no more my Tutor than I his nothing is more evident to me that W. C. wants not only a Tutor lut Schoolmaster to teach him to make True Latin and Verse as the after account will prove I take him to be a man of no True Learning though a man of some wit only childish terms and nauseous phrases sometimes spoils that too the broken Latin Sir locks like yours who have little knowledge of that Tongue less of the Greek though you once would venture upon a criticism forsooth with Mr. Faldo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which occasions a little merriment there are that know your Excellency lies not that way lut in some other parts of Learning Politicks History and Theology Thine in the Light without the Outward Name THE FOXONIAN Quakers DUNCES LYARS and SLANDERERS Proved out of George Fox's Journal c. PREPARE thy Ears Reader to hear Legions instead of History and Fables as prodigious as those in Father Cressy's Church-History both fit to be lookt into these Winter Evenings when Stories are most acceptable for Merriments sake Mabomet was but little skill'd in this trick when on the back of his Elborae he rode up to Heaven receiv'd the Law and came back again By the way I have it from good hands that Dr. Pocock averr'd That the story of the Dove in his Bar was a Fables that be found the Turks knew nothing of it and that Grotius ' confest to 〈◊〉 he look up the story only oncommon some Cressey makes no bones of Miracles by a Parenthesis Who was raised from the Dead Jacob Beoman and Muggleton had their Lying Wonders and all to prove their contrary Messages from God foretold 2 Thess 2.9 But the greatest wonder was That these Impostors were regarded a Distempered Body and Mind may make Men imagine strange things A late Author of more wit than Honesty in his Interest of Reason in matters of Religion seems much to doubt When or Mâ—homet knew himself to leâ—an Imposter but having the Falling-Sickness did think the Angel Gabriel did appear to him c. What shall we then think of the story of Sergius the Monk and his Indoctrinating his Young Pupil who never knew Letters For Popish Miracles I believe the Rosary scattered up and down at Hounslow-Heath where only King James appear'd as a Man of Valour did more good against Popery than all the Learned Tracts of Bishop Tillotson and Bishop Saillingfleet tho' all were as gravely â—old as Fox's Journal full of Heresies Lying Wonders done in a Corner Revilings what passages were for Oliver and against the Stuarts are left out so those words G. F. the Son of God Did not the Prophets words continue the same in all Changes yet this was the man who was call'd as Simon Magus The Mighty Power of God but his Wickedness was so great in pretending to bring contrary Messages from the Lord that Thousands of Quakers abhorr'd and disown'd him as a Deceiver c. Mr. Penn in his large Preface says The Quakers declar'd a Perfection from Sin but held not a Perfection in Wisdome and Glory in this Life Well Friends had once no Sin whatever they have of late the Ranters from whom they came and derived some pure Principles thought Drunkenness no sin nor Uncleanness for there could be no Adultery among those old Friends for Adulterium quasi ad alterum and that was impracticable among them for they were Corpus Vnum But Oh! the Wonderful Humility and Modesty of Mr. Penn that Confesseth They be not so Wise and Glorious as they in Heaven No truly not many of them so wise as those accounted here on Earth not Wise but Otherwise Mr. Penn tells us G. Fox on a high Mountain in York-shire had a Vision He saw People as thick as motes in the Sun that should in time be brought home to the Lord Many saith he had Convincements who are now at Rest Thomas Salthouse James Naylor c. Well whoever had Convincements it is doubted by Thousands of Quakers and
Adam before be fell the Creation was opened to me I was at a stand whether I should practice Phisick for the good of Mankind seeing the natures and vertues of the Creatures were so opened to me Wonderful Depths were opened to me beyond what words can declare p. 10. All I meet with cannot bear mans coning to Adam's state before be fell Reader Tremble at the next Blasphemy How then can they bear to hear of man's coming to the measure of the fulness of Christ which he before said be did Observe Reader what Nonsense and Impertinencies are in these Openings I doubt not Drunkenness and Swearing are no sins in comparison of such belying of God Whoever said It was enough to go Oxford to be made a Minister No many there and that come from thence are too Ignorant to be such I knew one there a good Schollar that Preacht that could not tell me whose Wife Sarah was how many Tribes there were I knew another who when he preacht on 1 Eccles 2 began thus Vanity at the first was but a little imp but now it is grown to such an exuberant Whale that it can swallow three Jonas's at a morsal c. I have heard of one in Exon Colledge coming down late to dine in the Hall was asked the reason Oh said he I was reading the pleasantest story that ever I read in my Life if it be true What story said they then he began to tell the story of Joseph and his Brethren Now Friend George it is opened to me that it is not enough for a man to be brought up in a Shoomakers-shop to be made a Minister The Lord would teach them c. Some kept to this and cared not for any mans teaching but after all George sets up for a Teacher himself contrary to his first sayings when You need not that any man teach you Is none of the Hereticks he had Detected for John at that time taught them by his Epistle George was Adam's equal for Perfection and what Christs too yet the aforenamed Goldney a famous or rather infamous Quaker among other notorious untruths by him and Wyat denyed That any Quaâ—ers beld Perfection no not George Fox himself for I knew him said he then run on Thou art a Lyar Report and we will Report Report and we will Report Had George been a Physician none had Cur'd half so many as he had kill'd why had he not acquainted Physicians of those Vertues and Operations of the Creatures Opened to him for the good of Mankind No no the Cheat had then soon been discovered How did Mr. Penn and other Friends like the Pudding that George put Herbs into c. when they were almost choakt with eating it Truly I believe they had rather have been at a Friends Spiritual Supper at Bristol who invited several all sat an hour or more at the Table none were helpt nor did Eat the meat carried away Friends I invited you to a Spiritual Supper which made some Quakers-joqne when one said Truly he sound great refreshment there I could prove all if they dared to face me On goes George The Lord said to me go to such a Steeple-house and testify against that Ido'l and the Worshippers there I cured a distracted Woman Many were cured of Infirmities and Devils were cast out One hearing a Priest in a Steeple-house the word of the Lord came to him dost thou not know my Servant is in Prison so he came to me One said of me there was never such a Plant bred in England O Pharisaical Vain-glorying I was moved of the Lord to put of my Shoos and to go through the City of Litchfield and cry Wo to the bloody City of Litchfield I saw in the street a pool of blood and my feet were warm I knew not what it was but I was told in Dioclesian's time Thousands of Christians were there Martyr'd so I was to go without any shoos in their blood Who can believe this Fable One said to a Justice of Peace an Angel came in at Beverly Church It was said George Observe the trick he soon got in and went out It was strange to see a man come in without a Band. Bands and Hatbands were once condemned by the Infallible Spirit as well as Lace and Ribonds I cryed preach freely Did George do so People were moved by my Groans Did he not groan on purpose I saw a Profession without a possession See how proud the Fool was of a common Gingle going up and down among Illetirate Countrey People When they saw the man with leathern Breaches come in the Priests would be gone Terror surprized the Hippocrites Some of them would say The Hireling fleeth but forgot it was when the Wolf cometh the Quaker I had a Vision of a Bear and two Mastiffs that should pass by me and do me no barm which was the Constable So may we call every idle dream a Vision from the Lord. Meat was set before me as I was about to Eat the word of the Lord came to me saying Eat not the bread of him that hath an evil eye that is a thought or motion arose Immediately I arose from the Table and eat nothing c. Every Whim was at first a word from the Lord till they mistook Places Persons and Things and then Folly to all men His Miracles were no more real than Popish ones of the Rood of Grace Christs Blood the blood of a Duck in a vial c. when he tells of Outward Ordinances know Reader the design of this Book is a Lye in this thing We affirm That as Food or Phisick lookt on handled tasted neither kill hunger nor cure pains so the bare talking or knowing of Scripture will not do without a deep impression on the heart yet the work of God lies with the head for knowledge as well as with the Heart for Grace Must Men Experience Scripture and know it after They were of old commanded to teach their Children the Law Christ said How readest thou None said Theeves Theeves I thought to have gone on to George's Epistles full of Blasphemy and Falshood but I grow weary of such stuff and I suppose so doth the Reader too After this Impostor and False Prophet condemned teaching by Man but by the Light he becomes a Teacher himself after he disown'd all Courts himself The Light was Sufficient He pretends a word from the Lord to set up such Assemblies by them was the Light tryed thousands of Quakers seeing this â—are-fac'd Iniquity hated him for his Hipocrisie The Author of the Spirit of the Hat cries out O Popery O Prelacy O Presbytery This was the thing we condemned in them Mr. Rogers wrote smartly against them and tells you what a bag of Iniquity Friend George was Whereas George call'd Ministers False Prophets they were strictly neither false Prophets nor true ones they were True Teachers but pretended not to Prophesie George Fox in another book I have seen calls the Scripture and
large Folio also They the Quakers can tell who are are Saints who are Devils who Apostates without speaking a word He denies p. 99. That Christ has a Humane Body or a Humane Soul Asserts plainly That the Soul of man is a part of God that it came from him and goes to him again p. 272. and p. 99. That Christ is not distinguisht from the Father if as Penn pleads he meant Separate then George though Inspired was ignorant of words and in the name of the Lord condemned them that rightly used them You are says he p. 114. conceived in sin David did not say You are but I was Profoundly answered His answer to Dr. Owen's Chatechism is fit only for Laughter He answers John Gilpin's Book a book worth reading of Quakers bewitch That he was Drunk after he left the Quakers and a Warrant was out for him the usual Answer Page 244. The Immortal Seed are the Saints and then they are not Dust and Ashes Abraham was so In his Battle-door we have a large book about Thou and You what it is in Latin Greek Hebrew Syriack Samaritan Dutch German French all Languages to me saith he is dust who was before all Languages were O Blasphemy the whole of this Book is a Cheat this Fool understood not English much less what he wrote of which was anothers words He could write Hebrew Letters and many were hung up in Friends Houses to make them believe he did all by Revelation an Ungodly Cheat. I shall only propose to the Quakers a few Questions 1. Seeing the Papists pretend to Infallibility Miracles and Prophesies and the Muggletonians too why should you be credited more than they Had any one man of you the gift of Tongues George Fox himself when he was sent abroad when in America he sent for one Emperor and two Kings to Preach to them they understood not his English he was a barbarian to those barbarians if you say the Testimony was inward I pray be sure keep it there trouble not us with it 2. Can any Atheist or Papist speak worse of the Holy Scriptures than you It is well known Sam. Fisher said They were not capable of being but a Lesbian Rule a nose of wax and askt this question How could any on be Infallible that they were not a cunning devised sable I have not seen his works in Folio these many years but I remember such playing on this subject and that in verse too as is not fit to be named 3. How abominable is it in Disputations and Discourse to use words Janus like with two faces or a double sence one to quiet an Objecter another to satisfie Friends privately You are good at Hocus Pocus the old phrase from the Papists Hoc est Corpus turning a Wafer into a Body yet you will call a man Lyar if he repeat your sense if not exact words should you say a Shilling and I repeat it 12 pence if to seâ—â—e â— turn you would say you never said so How often do Friends answer to what is not asked and evade what is You sometime ask us What Scripture for Absolute and Relative yet use such words your selves 4. How much are you unlike the People you were Muggleton long since cursed you That your Visions and Revelations should fail Blessed said you of old for your Quakings are they that tremble at my Word yet some said The Devil ' trembled in them What is he blessed then Now you tell us That as when a man taketh Physick he is much disordered in his Body till his distemper be gone so you till sin was purged out What have none that turn Quakers for almost forty year past any sin in them to be purged out as well as the first Quakers Nothing was more common at first then this Scripture They shall not teach every man his Neighbour saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the greatest to the least yet G. Fox taught them every where and it hath been often said in Meetings Friends you are to take notice William Penn will be here next First Day But how could they tell on their Principle whether he should be moved to speak to them I close this part of my Work with the words of Mr. Rogers a Bristol Quaker he wrote a Poem call'd A Scourge for George Waitehead an Apostate Quaker in the close of which he hath these words Let George Fox and they that uphold him Remember 't was Jereboam that caus'd Israel to sin and as his name was branded to Posterity so shall theiâ—s 〈◊〉 We cannot own them to be Head and Law-givers their Church Government Orders Canons Ecclesiastical are become a Reproach Taunt By-word in the Nation as a just recompence of their Pride Apostacy and deep Hipocrisie The QUAKERS No Apostates Or the Hammerer Defeated c. Examin'd MY Learning is talk'd of by this Man to make Trophies for his Victory yet it seems my Arguments are light If by light said one in the like case you mean clear I wonder you cannot see them if by light you mean trivial I wonder you cannot answer them I thought I had in my first Book so smitten the Quakers that I need not to have smitten them a second time Because Repetitions are tedious especially of Impertinencies I shall not trouble you with many of his words neither shall I actum agere of what is my own I see I have so broken their Teeth that they cannot bite though they can bark This Man of impotent malice having lost his reason falls a Raving and Lying prodigiously beyond all Men as shall be proved I had taken no notice of him nor W. C. the Church-man had it not been for my foregoing work being the seeblest Adversaries I ever had Reader know for the veneration this man and some few more seem to pretend to for the Scripture it is nothing they deny it to be the word of God any more than their own Books which are Writings of Truth Are they good subjects that deny King William to be Lawful King of England because they grant him lawful Prince of Orange As vast a difference is there between the light of Nature and that of Scripture as between the light of a Glow-worm and the light of the Moon in the Night time I brought a writ of Error against the Quakers and see how frantick they grow their Errors are so many that if one should ask a Quaker What is thy Name instead of the blasphemous answer of one my name is I am he might reply in the words of the Demonaick in the Gospel to Jesus Legion for we are many ask their Principles one tells you one thing another another and all from the same Infallible Spirit nay the same man shall transform himself into several shapes they cannot stand before Scripture or Reason when the Sun appears the night of Bats and Owls is come I profess my self to be ashamed to meddle with this Accuser who is so
West-Countrey Wise-A-ker Crackbrain'd Reprimand to a late Book call'd Mr. Keith no Presbyterian nor Quaker but George the Apostate Hammered about his own Numscul being a Joco Satyrrical Return to a late Tale of a Tub emitted by a Reverend Non-Con at present residing not far from Bedlam By W.C. NOw Monsieur I hope I have pleas'd you to the heart and no more will you send a Hue and Cry after me for taring away a Rag of the Title of your Book What a Blustering Title is here I must not examine its Grammar or Oratory because the Writer is a great stranger to both as will be soon enough discovered In the mean while I remember I have heard that when K. James I. was about to Knight one Williams of Essex he asked him what his Christen Name was He answered penny ruden buden budibras penny knip knap clip clap clun clap I think said the King the Old Nick was thy Gadfer that gave thee such a name Sir Ruden I cannot tell what Williams arise said he whoever gave him his name let the world judge who made your Title for you who is the Father of Eye the Slanderer of the Brethren Well Mr. Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidantur Malleatus I can't tell what let me parly with you Empty Casks make great Sounds Your Title that Blazing Comet doth it presage any mischief certainly it s own disappearing You tell the World strange news of me that I assure you I never heard till now Had you it from the Infallible Spirit and Writings of Friend B. C. of my Love Melancholy and being at Box mentioned and hinted 10 times in your little Pamphlet Always on the same Tune you know what Creature is so When was this when was I at Box or any such place Oh I have hit it it was when the Presbyterian said If ever Jesus Christ was D it was when he made the Lords Prayer which W. C. makes no bones of to write plainly though a Turk would hardly wirte so of his Mahomet What will not Church and Quakerish Jacobites say W. C. a Church-man he says and perhaps the first letter may stand for Wicked Well Mr. W. C. you Wicked Church-man I promise any of your Brethren Five Pound if they can before me prove your Charge You say You are afraid lest by answering me you should be forced to go to Bedlam too c. Sure here are had simptomes of hastniag there but alone for me and in the close of all you anticipate an objection to your Readers What think you Sirs am not I almost as mad as my Antagonist to answer his rambling stuff How doth W. C. answer by granting the thing but promising Reformation Excuse it this once I will trouble you no more Well then You have been once mad if this be granted your Readers are mad too if they regard such a mans promise out of his fit much more if in it I never heard what the fate was that besel me for my High Demands for Preaching Had you it from B. C. you are grown a great Church-Friend to Friends you write of Mr. Penn Mr. Whitebead and other Quakers with great veneration and devoir and have many a good word for them They Allegorize not away the Literal Sense if Scripture though it is so notoâ—â—ous they have done it often though to serve a turn they shall call for the Literal Sense Take it up look on it lay it aside again but Mr. Keith and I are both fit for Bedlam it is pitty the Hospital in Moor-fields should part-us c. Nay which is more strange Mr. Bugg a Reformed-Quaker and now a Zealous Pious Church-man cannot escape the Lash He Mr. Pennyman and Mr. Crisp left the Quakers on disgusts and particular Pecques why had you not told what they were for fear of a Confutation All know they left them only for their Blasphemies Heresies and Abominable Practices But that which is almost unpardonable is your Vilifying the Man whom all the World Admires an high Episcopal Man too the Author of the Snake in the Grass All that wrote against the Quakers before play'd with them till he wrote that unanswerable piece p. 17. That his writings are collections of those Gentleman 's before named which is say you as if we should take an account of the Presbyterians from Bishop Laud or Heylen or of our Church from Bellarmine and Harding Well macht Mr. Churchman say I but the mischief is his Collections are not in their Books in good truth Sir you might well ask your Reader Whether he did not think you mad Mr. Snake consulted the Authors he cites and it would have been a most Injurious Charge to so great a Man to be so unworthily Reflected on had it not been by such a D as all must see that are Schollars and read your Book He Mr. Keith and I in our Three New Ways of Dealing with the Quakers help not one another to Materials after you censure us all as if Fools or Madmen you tell us Such Fools as you think to make Fools of them Quakers You ask us How doth it appear Mr. Keith is Reformed He desires you to appear so do I there is no end of Printing in your way Cite at large and then dispute what is the sense of this word and that word but neither you nor William Penn will meet Mr. Keith or me Come torth you Cowardly Defamers shew your Faces if you dare Because Mr. Keith changed not in any one Article of Faith may he not therefore be â—â—anged in other things You say You set as a looker on That the Joy of all Ministers about G. K. is groundless and they be all mistaken What is the Bishop Lord Mayor and Clergy mad too as well as G. K. and Trepidantium Mallous Conformists know not who you are You seem to own your self to be a Jacobite though not a Socinim and that I have hit the mark about your being paid by the Quakers for the Service you do them and ask me Why may not I as well as Dr. Stubbe It is an old question Why may not one man play the Knave as well as another Perhaps you are of the opinion of H. P. in the time of the War when one call'd him Knave said If thou wert not a Fool thou wouldst be one too now Yet you tell me I would unsay all I have written against the Quakers for Money Well Brother I am then no fool tho' so often call'd so You ask me Whether when I had a Priviledge Place I ever put on my Surplice No Sir when I was at the worst I was never so Mad yet as to put my Shirt on all my Cloaths I will not only as soon but sooner take Du Moulins Fools Coat which though he would wear all would not Would not a Fools Coat well become a Minister of the Gospel when I was a Preacher at Brislington and Charleton I had Presbyterian Ordination I baptized according to the Directory I
Catechised in the Church in What is the chief end of Man c. Mr. W. Churchman tells me He could trov G. Keith 's Questions to be Prepositions if need were He can say more of the Aberdeen business then I do know or are like to know for him is a fine way of answering I ask you one question Whatever place Mr. Keith Allegorized in Scripture Did he once disown the Literal Sense this his Adversaries you plead for have done though sometimes they would own it Politickly Shew one place where he is guilty here For your Citations It is no more a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones when it Riseth then say I Not the same Numerical Body He ever own'd it the same for Substance though not Qualities What think you of the stub stance of the Egg and Chick coming of it of Rain when Ice or Snow So his other is not that Flesh that shall be raised the Apostle saith not That Body c. 1 Cor. 15.27 53. Yet this Mortal shall put on Immortallity How shall it arise Various opinions are about it among them that are sound in thâ— Doctrine of the Resurrection For your great Contradiction p. 13. about 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 Christ as universally â—â—â—essaâ—â— to Sâ—â—vation â—nd yet True Câ—ristiaâ—â—y may sulâ—â—â—â—n about the â—â—â—â—â—edge of Christ in the â—â—â—â—r he says â—â—ny know little of the History of Christ 〈◊〉 Birth manner of Life and Death that must know him to be a mediator and Saviour and how far God may even to Heathens discover a Mediator before they dye who knows You have many in your Church and too many in ours that assert more than this That Heathen Turks c. that never disown their Mabomet may Love God and be Saved are these Apostates too For that is my Question not whether G. Keith wrote Unsoundly at one time or contradicted himself at another For that mistaken passage in his Exact Narrative He had not changed in one Principle of Religion for Thirty Year or more He did not mean by Principle Opinion as you seem to understand him but Artitle of Faith Sure he confessed before 〈◊〉 Change in Opinion about many things as Matthew 28.19 but he was Baptized himself in Infancy which he owns c. You tell us not what bitter Expressions he once dropt against Presbyterians and others but in the general Hard ones only that he call'd yâ—â— Prelacy Limbs of Antichrist your Miâ—â—stry Ambitious Lordly without Zeâ—â— for God and you bid me look in his Books Why Sir I thought you had known that not only G. Keith but the Scots Presbyterians Rutherford Gelaspee and many others call'd them so too and at home the Anabaptists and some Independents and Presbyterians themselves have done the like Doth this prove them Apostates No no more nor so much as the names you give our Ministers and Meetings too gross to foul my Paper with prove you to be so For Election I take him to be more found than you your Citations of him your joques compare together If you prove him a Corrupt Man a Man that had forgotten himself and dropt an Unadvised word at Turners-Hall I had not been his Voucher but an Apostate he was not by any Arguments of yours and therefore you a Libeller what your design was in that abusive Pamphlet he that runs may read I know he hath corrupt notions many and great and yours of the New Church of England Remember there I keep not the Old one not few or sinail how I have proved that I need not tell you so well you thought it not safe to Reply but only rage You Vngrateful VVretch c. I profess when 〈◊〉 look upon my Reprimand I wonder how you could call your Return an Answer Was it Ignorance or Malice perhaps both but no wonder when you tell the Quakers that I have written nothing to purpose against them I suppose you do not cannot think so Why answer you not my Questions to Mr Penn he could not B. C. attempted it but hath ruined their cause and advanced mine by making Lyes his Refuge which I suppose makes Mr. Penn disown any hand in it I say it again My work was not fully â—â—â—â—ify G. Keith 〈◊〉 whether he hatâ— contradicted himself but to detect W. Church-man 's design which was to strengthen the hands of Penn and the Foxonian Quakers to wound the Separate Ones this is obvious to any Sober Reader to be his Design Did G. K. ever reject the Literal Sense as they often did of Scripture If he said Christ within was the Object of Faith did he say only as within denying Christ without to be so which all know the rest did times without number I am glad we have him so far I wish more I doubt not he is Câ—â—pable yet not so vile as W. C. makes him he will shortly answer for himself Further W. C. proves him an Apostate by denying Election c. I replyed Then are the Arminians Apostates which is to be abhorr'd by Sober Men He says I am no Arminian No and yet joques after B. C. and sports himself with you of the Election of Grace 〈◊〉 Reprobate VVorld you babes of Grace which Pious Sober Arminians do not Well if he be not so are such Arminians as appear in a great Figure and who are numerous in the Church of England Apostates I proved at 〈◊〉 the New Church of England is an Apostate Church on his Principles not mine I am answered You are an Vngrateful VVretch to reflect on that Church that gives you your Liberty We humbly and heartily Thank His Majesty and the Parliament for continuing the Liberty we had before but will you not thank us for helping you to secure your Liberty by joining with you to effect the late happy Revolution How odious would it have been after all to have made our Circumstances worse than King James did yet to be plain Had not he given a Toleration we might have been to seek for it for some of you Suppose a Man on the Highway is full of Rage Beats me takes away my Money and was about to cut my Throat there comes a Highway-man to destroy both he calls for my help we kill him he cuts not my Throat after all I am beholding to him I confess but is this an answer to my Objection Then is this Church an Apostate Church c. which I have abundantly proved consequent to his Opinion to say You are Vngrateful and never answer one of my Arguments Is this Disputing The Title of my Book shews what I designed not a Vindication of G. Keith against all his Citations no but to convince B. C. of his feeble Arguing about Apostacy In what sense Baptism with Water is is not a Fundamental I shall take no notice of an old objection when my answers are not considered Let him read once again my Reprimand Mr. W Churchman you tell What care you should take to keep G Keith out of your Church
Distinguish between Justification and Sanctification c. A Curate of his Preached on the 30th of January on that Text He stilleth the Madness of the People On went he to work to prove The People of England were a mad People in that they chose mad Representatives to sit in Parliament and he would prove they were Mad in that they voted against the Succession of his Royal Highness the Duke of York in that they sent for and committed to Prison his Majesty's best Subjects particularly one now present Mr. Thomson c. But said he as you to your Readers You will say this is a mad discourse if I am Mad said he I am sure you cannot say as Festus to Paul Much Learning hath made me so the People smiled and said No they would clear him there You Sir write like one if you are such I also and all that read your book cannot but clear you too in that point It is too large here to tell the world of the manner of Mr. Keith's Convictions of a Meeting in England in Pensylvania c. he hath done it Now That it cannot be charged on him That ever he denyed Christs Body in Heaveâ— c. which the others did Curtis in Redding now still doth Owns no Christ nor Heaven nor Hell without him c. Can it be imagin'd W. Penn and G. Whitehead had not appear'd when G. Keith call'd a Meeting at Turners-Hall had they not known they were guilty How many vain pleas were there to excuse their Non-Appearance I forgive you from the heart for these Abuses but were I Quaker and you had so abused me in Print perhaps I had made my Fleshly Arm to have smitten thy Outward Man I thank you for the kindness you have done me Slander is sometime the greatest that makes all even Enemies to Pity and Pity paves the way for Love and I suppose your story about the Presbyterians the Lords Prayer no one will believe for my sake they that object against the use of it say what I suppose you cannot answer It was made under the Legal Dispensation that is when Circumcisions Sacrifices c. were in force nothing in it is explicitly asked in the name of Christ if it be the Laudable custome of all the Churches to conclude a Prayer or Grace if never so short with a Through Jesus Christ our Lord Is this form proper for us now Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name implicitly sure what you shall ask the Father in my name explicitly you shall receive after this manner pray you Ties to things not words Say thus to such a man saith the Master to the Servant He doth his business though in other words I will not say whether the use of it be a matter of Liberty which lies between Sin and Duty Be so wise as not to Talk of your Churches kindness I was once to be Tryed on the 35th of Elizabeth one was then questioned for saying the Bible was good for nothing but to make men humoursome that he received the Sacrament in Spain as well as at Bristol where they pleased for him that the Communicants in their Church lookt like a company of Geese that were to be cram'd that he had nothing to do at Church but to see fair Women when this was heard many were in a rage for questioning this Gentleman about such things as these this was no Fanaticism and believed that it was Spite not Zeal in their Brethren that put some on complaints which they found true Well Mr. Jacobite for all observe you deny not this though you do your being a Church Arminian or Laudencian I pray remember what your friend Mr. Penn wrote to Pensylvania of Mr. Keith I am sorry any should quarrel with Honest and Learned G. Keith my Love to him let him enjoy his Principles he shall want no encouragement from me for I love his Spirit and honour his Gifts and peculiar Learning Tongues Mathematicks and Platonick Studies yet to please others Mr. Penn play'd the Proteus and Excommunicated him in London with such Zeal or Fury that he said He knew not whether he Sate Stood or Kneeled yet had so much wit not to prophesie against him as he blasphemously and wickedly did against others which came not to pass therefore Mr. Whitehead hath done that in these words Thus saith the Lord Thou hast poured out great reproach and contempt upon my Servants and People I will assuredly pour out great contempt and confusion up-thee Yet we hope he will go to the Grave in Peace as did Thomas Hicks You Mr. Wicked Churchman who are such a Lying Historian cannot you set up too for a Lying Prophet and be talkt of as such with Mr. Penn and Mr. Whitehead your dear Friends If it be objected by my Readers why I have not been less facetious in dealing with my Adversaries I have answer'd to it in other Books and shall only add Some think to give always grave answers to ridiculous Persons and Things is to make the answer ridiculous too Well Sir To draw to a close Whatever bad Properties I have too many some say I have this good one To be easily Reconciled If we fall out we must fall in again I know no other Remedy amongst Men unless those that by a figure we call so If you please to come to my Lodgings I am plain without a complement you go no where where you can be more welcome and the subject of our discourse you shall choose not I an Amicable Conference or Silence about these things as you please I have often said It is not falling out that doth so much mischief in the world for that is to most unavoidable but not falling in again If you signifie your Reconciliable Temper for you seem to be too facetious to be malitious be pleas'd to let me know when â—here and with whom I may wait upon you and kiss your hand Anger saith Solomon Resteth in the bosom of Fools I am not in the least disturbed by what you have done against your self and for me Eventually Postscript SINCE this Book went to the Press Mr. Keith hath witten a Just Vindication and his long promis'd and long lookt for Retractions are now in the Press and to them I refer W. C. and his Friends the Quakers I declare I never read nor never will Mr. Keith's former Books nor dispute what he meant by this word and that for I stand by him no farther than he by the Old though late Exploded Doctrines of Christianity The Author of the Snake in the Grass this day hath Learnedly appeared in his Vindication against Mr. Ellwood a Quaker The Title of this Masculine Tract is Satan Disrob'd where he tells us Imputed Righteousness when examin'd was In putted Righteousness 〈◊〉 Men need not seek to Jerusalem to Christ Blood Quakers have Printed Ellwood says it was a mistake of the Printer too for whoever did go there to seek his Natural Blood
shed he says they condemn them that plead for an Outward Sanctification Who of us ever said Sanctification was an outward thing a great Preacher among them no Jo. 14 said In my Fathers house are many Manchets he applied it White-bread Fine Provision was in God's House yet all was by Inspiration One Printed such a Friend was Meeker than Moses Stronger than Sampson Wiser than Solomon more Patient than Job Harmless and Innocent as Christ himself That some pretended to come beyond the Outward Christ or Jesus That Isaâ—c Pennington wrote to the Jew and never names the Outward Christ but the Light within That they have condemned going beyond Yea and Nay and attesting God to any thing and made such things Oaths yet now have consented to this Form on the Parliaments giving them this favour In the Presence of Almighty God the Witness of what I say As the Lord Liveth they said was an Oath yet denyed W. Penn swore when he said As sure as the Lord Liveth because the word sure was added which made it the Higher Read p 45 46. about Penn's Prophesie of Thomas Hicks what Lyes and Folly was used to secure Mr. Penn from being a False Prophet which no man can do and this will be a stain and curse on his name He names T. Curtis and others that deny or will not own what Penn's followers are forced to say after Mr. Keith This Ingenious Author on whom our Conforming Episcoparian flings dung as well as on me became once more an Advocate for Mr. Keith who is his Intimate and Correspondent That nothing but Conscience indâ—â—ed him to this Change 〈◊〉 being against his interest in the World c. They tryed Mr. Keith in Pensilvania for his Life about his Doctrine and no doubt had put him to Death had not his Majesty at the nick of time sent over a New Goverrour W. Penn then Absconding the world too well â—â—ows for what they there sent out warrants to 〈◊〉 Printers and Pâ—â—lishers of Books against them He tells how Mr. Pennyman left the Quakers because they would not in London proceed against Friends for Lying Deceit Vncleanness that was fully proved against them whilst they would continue in the Vnity He proves Cressius the Dutchmans History of the Quakers very lame and defective as about Burâ—oughs's Sufferings when the quite contrary was known that learned Man was too credulous and believed their Lyes and publisht them The Whoredoms of Arcler proved for which he â—â—ed and here received read in that Book I justifie the late hand of God on my mind and Body after many years ease a both But was Spira mad Was Mr. Rogers of this City so Mr. Traâ—ross of Cornwal who pin'd away for a â—ime to name no others Such as â— C. and W. C. who Lye c. as if â—ast feeling are not so safe as Spira â—f whom Mr. Perkins hath spoken favourably and given weighty reasons â—â—d Mr. Baxter more in his Christian Directory no Scoffers know what lie between them and their Graves A tempestious winds arise on a sudden on Marriners who just before were in a Calm and it may be at their Musick which may not only â—oss them but cast them away and none can allay but he whom the Winds and the Seas obey so may an inward Tempest do Remember that of David Search me O God and know my heart c. and that of Paul Examine your selves whether you be in the Faith c. for the best may say as Heman I am even distracted through thy Ferrors yet was he no Mad Maâ— None accused him of I know not what Impieties neither doth my Conscience Accuse of such idle stories that those men and Mr. Sylvester like an old Quaker have set on foot none of which I ever saw and they dare not face me Is their cause good They are Suspitious Commodities that cannot bear the Light It is expected when Muggleton is dead his Journal will be Printed also and his Prophesies as some Muggletonians tell yet Fox and he damned one another as False Prophets times without number FINIS