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book_n	call_v	people_n	quaker_n	2,523	5	9.6997	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57814	The Anabaptists lying wonder, &c., returned upon themselves to be tedious or prolix in observation of the ways and methods the Anabaptists have trodden in or observed to bring out their pretended prodigy, might be as erksom to the reader as 'twould be inconvenient to pretermit and not at all to take notice of them ...	Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692.	1672 (1672)	Wing R2174; ESTC R35152	6,781	12

speaking about a Quarter of an Hour and seeing Ralph James come by called him to hear also the Person that spoke was within the Grate a Prisoner and that he never had any further acquaintance or knowledge of them or their Principles save only he once had a Book that spoke of the Suffering of the People called Quakers in New-England So that it appears that his hearing a Quaker a Quarter of an Hour through a Grate in company of his Elder and declaring his dislike to their Water-dipping is the ground R. J. and his Brethren have to call him Quaker And admit he did discourse for the Light of Christ within when it gave some sight of the Baptists Darkness his Instability and Uncertainty as it proves him no Quaker so it s no Proof against the Principle of Life within nor at all doth it invalidate its Authority as Guide and Rule both of Mind and Actions of such who faithfully obey it Not a word in their Narrative that he made his Confession of Faith to or amongst the Quakers as he had done to the Anabaptists why then is he called a Quaker for afterwards he never had further Acquaintance with them Surely any rational man will Laugh at this their Folly 2. But to the second Averment of the Anabaptist that R. A's Child was Leprous and Himself Wife and Children afflicted with Pain How 's that proved the Front of their Pamphlet boasts of credible Persons Eye and Ear Witnesses which we expect 1. View the Narrative it self says R. J. one of his Children as he said spotted all over Where 's the Eye and Ear Witness What such a Hand and Token of God and not to see it An Elder of a Church and not to visit a distressed Family Uncharitableness beyond measure Was there one of his Neighbours Kindred or Acquaintance that saw this No Do any other of the Testators say they saw it No not a word of that for had they averred such a thing the contrary had been with much ease prov'd against them by the whole Neighbourhood where he liv'd but they all say R. A. said so and it proving false these pieces of Deceit with as great Facility as Confidence charge the poor Man with Lying to them if it were not so and thus remains the Controversie at this day But further 2. Can any man believe that such a Judgment and such a Mercy should attend a Family and the Remembrance thereof should not engage him that had received so great a share thereof to proclaim it first but here appears the very contrary under his own hand 3. Read the holy Scriptures of Truth did Christ himself or the Lepers Halt and Blind spread abroad the Miraculous Works wrought upon them Did he ever go back to such as were healed and entreat them to speak that his Father might be Honoured as Ralph James declares he did in his Letter of the 16th of February 1671. pretending he had no other End but that God might be Honoured O horrid Hypocrisie and Deceit It is impossible that such an Imposier should six a Credulity in any man having his Wits of the verity of such a Romance surely no. 4. Supposing this man told his Elder that he should become as Miriam according to those frequent Confessions which this Preacher makes for himself and Brethren to his God or that he should be full of Spots and Sores from the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot what then must it needs be meant outward visible Diseases does the Preacher mean such when he confesses to God That there is no part which is not infected nothing less whether he said so or not to the Preaching Anabaptist is not material for us to answer for that proves him no Quaker in Principle or Practice although dissatisfied with the Anabaptists Railing Probably that poor man frequenting their Meeting hearing his Preacher intollerably inveigh against the absent Quakers manifested his Discontent to such Discourse and in the heat of his affection might afterwards speak to the Preacher as the Preacher usually doth in his Confessions to his God that he should be as Miriam and for any thing appears he may be so to this day 5. But where is the evident Token of God's Displeasure and the Justification of this Hypocritical Elder before the poor Publican and the Eye-Witnesses of these visible noisom Distempers they boast of Not one Neighbour a Witness to this pretended Prodigy but say He said so a poor Proof to charge a single Person and much more inconsiderable to charge a Body of People 6. But since he said so is all his Charge hear also what he has subscrib●d then take the natural consequence of its truth or falshood who affirms That he was clear and his Family from any such Distemper as bodily Lepro●●e but that he was tossed in mind by their windy doctrines he owns subscribed the 20th 1st Mon. 1670. 7. As a further Testimony Katherine Hall that for many years has habited by him in Panton affirms she never knew nor heard any thing of such Infection or Distemper amongst them witness her subscription 20th 1st Mon. 1671. How much Truth there is now in their pretended true Relation let the impartial Reader judge But to do these Imposters Justice let 's examine their Witnesses else they 'le pretend they had no fair tryal we might object against them as Parties and so set them aside but let 's give them liberty their Evidence I question not will appear as deceitful and confused as their testing Preacher and center in one and the same pitch of Falsity and Folly 1. Peter Stacy an Independant was at Rason Fair the 14th of September but what year he omits for fear the distance of time appearing might invalid his Testimony but yet avers that then R. A. owned the truth of the Relation which was made but the 27th of April last to which he subscribes the 24th of February 1671. which was above two Moneths before the birth of the Narrative this deserv'd an Errata to help it or a Post to help him 2. John Laming the 18th of April asserts that the Paper of the 27th of April 1672. was truth he might have said that it would be true and as J. Anderson told him for he pretends not to be Eye or Ear-Witness to any thing but the poor Man blessing his Child 3. Tho. Baldeck he 's one of the pretended Sacrifizers for the Leper and attest that they desired the Churches Prayers for the Recovery of the great Judgment but not a word of any Answer they had What 's this to the purpose 4. Thomas James affirms that Febr. 29. 167● Anderson the Quaker did confess the truth of what 's asserted against him and that he confessed that his Wife was never at such a Meeting before which may very well be and most probably she never was at any such since by any thing they pretend or has been heard 5. But last of all to close