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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57584	A scourge for George Whitehead. An apostate Quaker: an espouser of doctrines and practices tending to Romish-like bondage: a persecuting defamer of the real Christian-Quaker: a publick informer against William Pen, to his defamation: the author of a scandalous book, (written against my seventh part of the Christian-Quaker, &c.) stiled, judgment fixed, &c.	Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1860; ESTC R214742	12,611	14

A SCOURGE FOR George Whitehead An Apostate Quaker An Espouser of Doctrines and Practices tending to Romish-like Bondage A Persecuting Defamer of the Real Christian-Quaker A Publick Informer against William Pen to his Defamation The Author of a Scandalous Book written against my Seventh Part of the christian-Christian-Quaker c. Stiled Judgment Fixed c. THe Impartial Reader perusing the two Books out of which the ensuing Doctrines are collected may easily be convinced that G. W. if he wanted not Schollarship might as Author of one and Approver of t'other sooner obtain Preferment at Rome than amongst the real Christian Quakers He owns himself to be a Member of a Weekly Meeting held in London termed a Second-days Meeting The said Meeting have approved R. B's Book of Government which pretends to shew R. B's Anarchy Title Page That the Antient Apostolick Order of the Church of Christ is Re-establish't amongst the People called Quakers And on that foot treats on the Order and Government pleaded for by him and his Brethren Notwithstanding one part of the said People disown all Pretences to the Outward Establishment of or Subjection to any Outward pretended establish't Government over themselves as a Society of People that only excepted wherein Charles the Second now Reigns King of England c. having prov'd a pretence to an establish't Government I shall next note some Doctrines which as applicable to the Governours are very pernicious First G. W. in his Apostate Incendiary pag 16. thus asserts I affirm that the true Church is in the true Faith that is in God and we must either believe thus as the true Church believes or else it were but both a Folly and Hypocrisy to profess our selves Members thereof And in the same page further saith That he who seems to own the Church of Christ as a member of her and yet tells the world that 't is a most dangerous position that we are to believe as the Church believes is a treacherous Enemy to the Church of Christ Secondly 'T is averr'd on the behalf of the Church That they have power to decide and remove differences arising between themselves touching outward things and on that occasion assert not that the assent of parties differing ought first to be obtained and therefore the power asserted is absolute and the sentence in Pursuance thereof definitive since no appeal is declaratively admitted See R. B's Anarchy pag. 39. Thirdly In R. B's Anarchy page 48 't is thus written ' Whether the Church of Christ have power in cases that are matters of conscience to give positive sentence or decision which may be obligatory upon believers The Answer is in these words J answer affirmatively she hath Fourthly In R. B's Anarchy pag. 68 't is thus asserted There never will nor can be wanting in case of controversy the Spirit of God to give Judgment through some or other in the Church of Christ so long as any Assembly can properly or in any tollerable supposition be so termed Secondly that God ordinarily hath employed such whom he hath made use of in gathering his Church though not excluding others Thirdly That their de facto giving a positive Judgment in such cases will not import Tyranny Usurpation neither will the pretences of any contradicting them or refusing to submit on the account they see it not excuse them of being guilty of disobeying God What greater Door can be opened to blind obedience and yet the aforesaid doctrines are Vindicated by G. W. and his brethren under the Notion of being the Church of Christ and so consequently invested with the authority before asserted but the actions of some of George Whiteheads brethren espoused by him have proved them to have been the Synagogue of Satan and therefore on due consideration of the preceding Citations may not an honest man of the Church of England reasonably thus say unto my adversaries How unjust have you been in representing our Church as being kin to the Church of Rome for a small Ceremony and yet have had the impudence to account your selves defamed when justly compared to her Doth it not now appear that your Principles smell too rank of Popery and that not in a Ceremony or some little Circumstance but in Doctrine whereby the very life and props of the Romish See and Power opposed by Reformed Protestants is asserted and vindicated Thus much as to G. W. and his brethrens Doctrine Before I speak of the Practical Part of their Religion I shall put the Reader in mind that where ou●ward forcible Power is wanting a false Church cannot seize the Body and Estate No thanks therefore to G. W. c. who wanting such power do not so do The Church of Rome though invested with outward power was not guilty of that untill such time she promulgated such kind of Doctrine as before is cited and that with application to her self even as G. W. c. terming themselves the Church of Christ designes these with application to themselves and not to advance either the Pope or Church of Rome Having thus premised I shall add a few instances of a lower sort of Persecution being the utmost that G. W. and his brethren are capable to inflict viz. Excomunications or what imports the same together with Notorious Undeserved Defamations being one Practical Part of their Religion J. B. by a Meeting in London was Excomunicated so far as Excomunication can be imported by these words viz. That we do not only testify against that Spirit which hath as aforesaid led him into that disorderly Practice but also against him whilst joyned thereunto nor can we have Spiritual Communion and Fellowship with him untill unfeignedly he shall return unto the Truth by Condemnation of that work and spirit See F. B. de Christiana Libertate p. 198 199. Note the disorderly Practice and Work was as their paper expresly signifies his dispersing into several Parts of this Nation my Books stiled the Christian Quaker But in their Paper they do not insert one sentence thereof as demonstration that the Book was erroneous Oh deed of darkness And though they exorted him when before them to condemn what he had done and read some Objections to part of the Book yet refused to give him Copy thereof though frequently demanded by him further adding as an inducement to answer his demand that if he found the Objections to be as they said he should readily joyn with them in condemning what ever should appear to be evil G. W. and his brethren vindicate a Paper given forth by C. M. and 65 more against John Wilkinson and John Story proved in my seventh part of my Christian Quaker pag. 22 to be worse in some respect than the Bull of Leo against Martin Luther My words on that occasion are as followeth In the Paper given forth by C. M. and 65 more against John Wilkinson and John Story treated on in the second part of the Christian Quaker pag. 92. 't is thus said And we do

Devils incarnate who have lost their first Love to truth become degenerate without natural Affection Dogs that are without Wolves Raging Waves of the Sea See his Introductory Epistle G. W. is not only contented so to fame himself as a Church Governour but he hath also so confidently discours't of Skill in Law as that he is taken to aim at the Repute of being a very Learned Lawyer How so The unnamed Penman of the Accuser turned my word Concerned into Represented and as such treats thereon On that Occasion I replyed thus It may be said of many Thousands of our Visible Native Country-men that they are at some times and seasons exercised in an outward Order under the Goverment of the King but if thence they should declare that they are the Representatives of the King's Government 't would be deemed a mode of Speech tending to the Annihilating of the King's Prerogative For this G. W. thus treats me Herein the man is under a mistake in this Allusion his Skil in the Law and the King's Prerogative and Government has failed him The truth is I gave no Instance to illustrate my Assertion I shall now supply that defect by instancing one thing amongst many that might be mentioned Many thousands of our Native Country-men are on the 1st day of the Week exercised in an orderly manner in hearing and uttering Religious Service establish'd by Law under the King's Government Of all these it may be said That they are exercised in an Outward Order under the Government of the King but it cannot be said of all such that they are Representatives of the King's Government which chiefly is represented in his Courts Methinks G. W. should be ashamed of his ridiculous Opposition on the foot of his Skill in Law for that by a contrary Assertion to what I laid down every common Porter if a Native exercised as aforesaid might then be declared a Representative of the King's Government though no legal Officer This puts me in mind to note that G. W. hath lately publish't in his Name a Book stiled Due Order of Law and Justice against irregular and arbitrary Proceedings I shall a little examine how well such a Title becomes his Book He opposed giving J. B. Copy of the Meeting 's Objections against my Book for the spreading whereof he was declared against as aforesaid this was sign of great Disorder and Injustice in G. W. If G. W. handles the Matter of Law well I know he must then thereby condemn his own and his Brethren's Practices if ill then it may become a shame to put such a Title by which he may obtain the Repute of a Learned Lawyer from such as know him not O proud Conceited Man Even as G. F. was reputed to be inspired with the Knowledge of Tongues by subscribing to many framed Sentences in divers Languages witness his Battledore though he is not gifted to write or speak sense in his Mother-Tongue in a Through-Discourse or Debate on some Subjects if some of his Books and publick Discourses may be thought a proper Proof in the Case The remembrance of this can never credit G. W's Reflections on F. B. for want of Schollarship I shall now add something touching G. W's Hypocritical Pharisaical Spirit though he is guilty in divers parts of his Treatise of many Errors more than this Paper detects him of yet at length he speaks on this wise Thou knowest O Lord that though thou hast endued me with a Christian Spirit and with Faith Patience and rejoycing under all my Sufferings c. yet thou hast also endued me with the Spirit of Righteous Judgment Understanding and Zeal for the Glory of thy Holy Name and Truth Methinks G. W. should have considered that though he may deceive Fools and have now and then a Smile from a Hypocrite yet that God cannot be deceived by telling him a parcel of Lyes but his great Sin is his as it were calling God to witness by saying Thou knowest when in reality 't was in a Case wherein a notorious Lye dropt from his Pen for his very Book will appear in Judgment against him that at the penning thereof he was far remote from acting the part of a Righteous Judge And many Instances not herein cited might be collected to prove the same 't is so notoriously wicked that 't is no marvel to me that G. W. justifies the unnam'd Penman of the Accuser pag. 52. though by W. P's Rule in his Winding-Sheet for Controversy Ended the said Penman for not putting his Name to his Work may be compared to a very Night-bird a Wanderer one that looks and creeps up and down like a Vagrant And though in the Seventh Part of my Christian-Quaker an Hue and Cry is recorded after the Name of the Penman yet I suppose G. W. was asham'd or afraid to become an Informer in that Case by a positive Discovery of the Man's Name His Confession pag. 52. that he hath a share therein and sees no cause to retract but stand by it is no positive Discovery I hope G. W. will accept these few Lines as a sufficient SCOURGE to correct a part of his Errours and to abate a part of his Wrath Pride and Confidence if not I now make this offer unto him That I shall be ready to meet him in some Publick Place to be agreed upon between us both where Liberty may be allowed that any Persons whatever may freely hear and my end is that I may then have opportunity to treat more largely on the foregoing Subjects and that he on behalf of himself and Brethren may have opportunity to vindicate themselves if he can from the guilt of Error now laid or that further may be laid to his charge by reason of what he hath wrote in his Book Stiled Judgment Fixed though frequently read Judgment Fired which would have been a very proper Title to his Bundle of Wrath and Malice For since 't is so that one Part of the people called Quakers are principled from the Second-day Meeting 's approved Councel not to read my Books and that another Part need no further evidence to convince them that G. W. c. stand by and espouse a wrong cause and that others termed Newters will not concern themselves in the Controversy there is no reason to trace G. W. nor yet any other Book against me in all it's Perversions false Quotations and other Evils and Errors by a thorow Answer especially since a few lines are sufficient to manifest that the Root from whence their Bulky-Rubbish springs is evil The Lord soften G. W's Stony-Heart that he may be Converted and Healed POSTSCRIPT W. D. wrote to G. W to know whether he would stand by this Doctrine namely that there can be no vnity without Conformity and that the People of God or Children of God are or must be in vniformity G. W. writes to W. D. and cites the Doctrine and then adds his answer in th●se words Ans True 1st with respect to a Conformity to the death of Christ to the Image of the Son of God 2dly They must be in vniformity with respect to the vnity of the Spirit the vnity of the Faith being of one Judgment according to their measures of Degrees Growths in Christ as they come to be of one Heart and Soul vnited in Love there is a vniformity in Substance though not genera●●y nor is it required in all Circumstances Hence I observe that G. W. straines the word vnity to import vniformity and to be as a Proof that Gods Children are or must be in vniformity and yet he confesses to Measures of Degrees and Growths in Christ which admits of various Forms though the vnity in Spirit may not be broken Next I observe from the latter Part of his words that there are Requirers of vniformity in Substance though not generally in all Circumstances Hence I query 1st Who hath power so require God's People to be in vniformity 2dly What are the Substantiall Formes that must be and can't be dispens'd with 3dly What are the Circumstantial Forms that may be disp●●…s●d with and not required 4thly Whence the Requirers had their Power to enjoyn vniformity 5thly Since Christ is the Substance whether they are not vsurpers who require his members to subject to outward Forms terming some Substantial and others Circumstantial W. R. LONDON Printed 1683.