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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02355	The constancy of the people called Quakers. In their testimony against popery, sincerely asserted, in opposition to a perverss [sic] lybel, falsly stiled, A looking-Glass for the Quakers, (in two collumns) sallaciously mis-representing them: / Humbly offered to publick and impartial view.		1689 (1689)	Wing C5937A; ESTC R171508	3,295	3

THE CONSTANCY Of the People called Quakers In their Testimony against POPERY sincerely Asserted in Opposition to a Perverss Lybel falsly Stiled A Looking-Glass for the QVAKERS in Two Collumns Fallaciously Mis-representing them Humbly Offered to Publick and Impartial View THE Title bespeaks the injurious Design and Attempt of the Obscure Author Unjustly and Maliciously to Expose the People called Quakers either as Inconsistent with their Profession against Popery or as uncertain Temporizers and no real Protestants which is a Slanderous Insinuation for sayes he The first Collumn is what they formerly Published against Papists and the other Collumn is what they Published on their behalf when uppermost Wherein 't is observable that he renders all the words he has Cited in both his Collumns to be what the Quakers have Published concluding his Pamphlet to be Only the Quakers own Words without any Observations Page 8 or Remarks Which is apparrently False as well as Scandalous a great part of his Collections being none of the Quakers Words Language or Books but s●me other Nameless Pamplets which the Libeller unjustly fathereth upon the People called Quakers 'T is true he Quotes William Penn Page 4. in his second Collumn against Papists and Popes and their Persecutions c. and not on Papists behalf whereby he hath given the Lye to his Title Page And we doubt not but by the Grace of God William Penn will sincerely keep to his Testimony against Popery and Persecution However he be Unjustly Represented to the contrary by false Repotts Prejudice or Envy To his own vindication in Answer to the Letter directed to Mr Penn we Refer the Unprejudiced Reader for further satisfaction And we cannot see how William Penn or others of our Friends Writing against Persecution both among Papists and others and for Liberty of Conscience towards God can with any Colour of Reason be construed Page 5 either for Popery or in the Papists behalf as Papists there being nothing more contrary or repugnant to Popery it self or the design thereof then the free Enjoyment of a real Liberty of Conscience in matters of Religion and Worship which Popery it self allows not Dissenters tho we cannot therefore think it Christian to Retaliate upon Papists by rendering Evil for Evil to destroy them only for their Consciences in Religious matters thus none would be served What perswasive Arguments for Moderation have been written to Protestants in general or to the Church of England in particular against Corporal or pecuniary Punishments for Religious Dissent or for Repeal of Distructive Penal Laws in that Case some whereof being even against dissenting Protestants all conscientious Dissenters even Protestants themselves were and are of the same mind it being most natural for Persons when under Oppression to desire their Burthens may be wholly removed and blessed be God that some legal Restraint is put to those Laws a thing so highly commendable in the Civil Government And we see no cause of Retraction in this Case no more then for commending the Moderation of a Popish Prince in granting Liberty of Conscience to Dissenters when like to have been Destroyed and Devoured by Persecutors yet the same justice of distinguishing between the more moderate sort of Papists and the Cruel we have always allowed the Moderate Church of England People from the Persecutors therein And what if the Quakers have Exclaimed against the Papists former Persecutions in Queen Mary's days but Commended their Moderation in King James the Seconds days Or that the Quakers have condemned their Cruelties to the poor Protestants in France c. but acknowledged their late Lenity in England it follows not that the Quakers are double-minded but the contrary That they are of a single mind still against Persecution and for Moderation and Charity This is the true nature and state of our Case otherwise Abused Page 6 Again how notoriously has the Libeller falsified his Title page in page 6. not keeping within bounds of his own method Where in his first Collumn Popish Reservations as to Tests is implyed and the Blood and Cruelty that hath attended Popery and in his second Collumn an Express Test against Popery cited and both fathered upon the Quakers How then can the Second be what the Quakers have published on Papists behalf as his Title pretends What Credit can such silly contradictory confused Stuff be of with any Person of common Sence Nunc vide audi judica as his Terms are How the Lybeller has acted the part of both Knave and Fool in Print or like some Malicious Shatter-Head Apostate to bring an Innocent People under Reproach and Contempt by fallacious Abuses and notorious self Contradictions But they have prayed for the late King in their Addresses and wished him well and what then So have a great many of the Church of England in far more high and flourishing Expressions and Rhetorick in their Addresses to and Prayers for the Late King And have they not also frequently prayed for him in their Lyturgy too Are they all therefore favourers of Popery or of Papists as such At this rate who may escape the reproachful Pens of such Libellizing Incendiaries How shall the Doctrine or Practice even of the holy Apostles and Primitive Christians go free viz. to Pray for all men even for Kings and all in Authority that under them they might live a peaceable and quiet Life in all Godliness and Honesty and God knows we have aimed at no other And this Christian Conversation towards Authority c. we hope in God ever to own and stand by in the same Christian Spirit Having also in our Address to King James 2. dated 6th of June so called 1688. Plainly declared viz. That we hope by God's Grace to let the World see we can honestly and heartily appear for Liberty of Conscience and be Inviolably true to our own Religion whatever the Folly or Madness of some men on that account may suggest to the contrary c. Where 's now the double-mindedness May not this bespeak to the World our Sincerity and answer and confute the Folly and Envy of our Adversary As to some Advice Reasons or Arguings cited about Repeal of Tests c. p. 5. 6 7 8. he has not produced his Authors nor of divers other things cast upon the People called Quakers and we know not who they are thus cloudy and abmiguous is he in his Page 6 7 8. works of Darkness and designs against us How proves he the Remonstrance he mentions to the Parliament after the Death of Sir Edmonbury Godfrey to be the Quakers Remonstrance We possitively deny that 't was theirs as the Libeller says ' t was It neither resembles the Quakers in Matter nor Stile in many things Where did ever the People called Quakers thus dictate to the Government or use such war-like Language as this viz. Let every Protestant Family be well armed c. Let there be an Act with a strict Page 8 Penalty c. That it shall be Treason for any Papist to entertain any Priest Jesuit or Seminary in their House With much more of like nature unjustly cast upon the harmless Quakers as their words And if our Adversary durst shew himself and were particularly questioned about every nameless Pamphlet he has quoted as ours we are perswaded he would be hard put to it for proof To conclude our Sentiments real Sence and Clearness in these matters from Popery unjustly insinuated against us may be summ'd up thus viz. First Our plain and ample Testimonies and Judgments given against Popery Idolatry and Superstitions Persecutions and Cruelties clears us not only from Popery but from being of any Party with them as Papists and those Testimonies we stand by Secondly Our Testifying against Persecution both in the Church of Rome and as we have deeply suffered under it from many of the Church of England especially of the Clergy is Evidence that we impartially and sincerely disown Popery and the Spirit of it for Persecution is no better then Popery where-ever it is and it can be no variation from our Testimony to speak more favourably of the Moderate sort in both Churches then of the Ridgged and Persecuting in either we must still own the Good in all sorts and disown the Bad where-ever it is Thirdly Those Churches or Societies who profess Reformation from Popery and yet justly chargable with the Sin of Persecution which is Popery against Dissenters from them are the more guilty in the sight of God because of their Insincerity in such their pretences to Reformation Fourthly Our Request to the late King for Release of near One thousand five hundred of our poor Afflicted Friends out of Goals and strait Confinements and his delivering them and us and ours from the Spoilers the Mercinary and Merciless Informers and other Persecutors and Spoilers and our Returns of thankfulness when Granted and Effected tho by a Popish Prince no ways Entitles us to Popery nor have we cause to be ashamed of such Applications or Gratefulness We were Thankful to God and the King then for the Good we actually received and hope we shall never be ungrateful now and therefore we are not justly chargable with Double-mindedness as the Li●eller has Insinuated falsly applying James 4.8 9 10. to the Quakers Blessed be God who hath preserved us the same still in our Integrity and Sincerity towards him and in our Innocency Peaceable Conversation Love and Good-Will towards all men high and low Kings Rulers and People and the more Good any of them do us the more they naturally Oblige us c. London the 30th of the ●d Month called May 1689. Written in behalf of the Peaceable People of God called Quakers by some of them THE END