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book_n	call_v	principle_n	quaker_n	1,601	5	10.2010	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54213	The skirmisher defeated and truth defended being an answer to a pamphlet, entituled, A skirmish made upon Quakerism / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1676 (1676)	Wing P1364; ESTC R21605	31,443	43

Soul Religion and Life these he thinks he leads away in Tryumph after him for I am if he may be believed by my Doctrine an Heretick a Blasphemer an Atheist a Traytor a Regicide a Paracide a Murderer of my Kindred and Neighbours a Destroyer of all Government Divine and human and a common Enemy to Mankind unfit for this World and for Heaven in the next unless I repent which ought to be very questionable to so dissolute and impious a Wretch as this pretended Minister of the Gospel in his Skirmish hath been pleased to render me what remains but that the Dogs or the Lyons devour me the Rabble or Government sacrifice me I am only fit for Prey if this be true what now shall I do Revile him by no Means revenge my self by a bitter and invective Answer no such Matter but may not I be angry with him not a Jot what then Pity and Inform him though a Parson I think so too wherefore overlooking all such Provocations I begin and proceed in this Method First I cannot but take it very ill in Case I were unsound in any one Doctrine not through Inadvertency but knowingly and premeditately that he without any further Search or unquestionable Proof should fault and impeach the Way I profess and upbraid an entire People with my Mistake I ask if this be the VVay to perswade me that he is a true Minister of the Gospel one that is zealous to promote the Commandments of God that in doing this hath broke That of loving his Neighbour as himself and doing unto others as he would have them do unto him William Penn holds a gross Error therefore the People call'd Quakers and the Way they profess must be skirmish'd upon with the foul Names of Murderers Rebels Traitors Atheists Heresie Blasphemy c. What Part of Logick or Philosophy is this none I think I am sure there is neither Law nor Gospel for it but 't is too frequent with many to live in the Transgression of those Commandments they verbally admire even then when they are pleading for them In the next Place I must needs observe to him his Disingenuity in telling me He would be glad to make the best of my Position after he had manifestly made the worst he could his two Sheets being stuft with the most abominable Consequences it had been possible for any Man to invent or aggravate against me this seems to be a Degree beyond Ignorance and looks very scurvily for a Man of his Function and Pretences Skirmishing laid aside But that which weighs the most with me to suspect my present Adversary of unfair Dealing to let such Words as Forgery slip for this Time is his taking my Matter to Pieces clipping Sentences and dropping that by the Way which read with the rest would in my Apprehension have defended the Passage from the Possibility of any reasonable Exception Shall four Lines and an half of a Book of above 250 Pages and those cull'd too out of three several Places reprobate the Book the Author his Religion and the Body of People he relates to I hope he has so much Conscience and Conviction left upon second Thoughts if for my sake he is not out of Charity with both as to condemn this Sort of proceeding with us but perhaps he will tell me I make too much of it and that it was but a Skirmish if so then no Battail or solid Encounter of both Armies and if not how come we and our Religion to be defeated and taken in his Apprehension doubtless this must go but for a Vapour and proves the Parson more a Man of his Words then of his Deeds Nor is this all the Ground of my Jealousie for unless he had met with my Book by Accident and had cast his Eye only on those three Places not reading what went before came between or followed after a thing scarcely possible and upon that transcient Notice had sally'd forth and skirmish'd upon me a Rashness no Man in his Wits would be guilty of or that when he had fallen so patly on those three places he resolved to see no more for Fear of being better informed a Disingenuity greatly unbecoming a Man of his Pretensions it must and will follow that he did knowingly and on Purpose omit both giving his Reader the Reason of this Part of the Controversie between me and John Faldo and my Sense at large in Defense of our first Position which done would have sav'd him the Trouble and Danger of a Skirmish and me the present Pains of giving him this Repulse And here I entreat the Readers Patience for a little Digression if yet it be one John Faldo writes a Book call'd Quakerism No Christianity in it he charges the People call'd Quakers with several erroneous Principles whereof one is in general Terms That we deny the Scriptures upon this he bestows 9 Chapters One of them is taken up with this Title That the Quakers affirm the Doctrines Commands Promises and holy Examples expressed in Scriptures as such not to be at all binding upon them To this Book I return'd my Answer entituled Quakerism a New Nick Name for Old Christianity I follow him Chapter by Chapter in my Course I undertake him upon this Head To prove his Charge he produces a Passage out of Edward Burrough's Writings much at the same Rate that this Adversary quotes me and such Harmony they hold that they fall both upon the same Construction of us as if they had compared Notes or had abused us by Instinct This I complain of in my Answer to J. F. how comes J. C. to make the same false Step and yet have read that Answer E. Burroughs's Words were these as cited by J. F. That is no Command of God to me what he commanded to another did any of the Saints which we read of act by the Command which was to another not having the Command to themselves This J. F. improves at the same Rate that J. C. doth mine to wit That it opens a Way to all Lewdness and Impiety and hath all Iniquity in the Womb of it extending these Words to all Laws which as I make appear in my Answer however overlookt by this Man were limited by E. B. and me to Temporary and extraordinary Cases Had J. F. been quiet here I could have hoped that he had both seen and sorrowed for his Mistake but he persists in his horrid Abuse of E. B. and begins at the same Rate with me for defending him This is in his Vindication of his former Book to which I Rejoyn at large in Defense of my Answer resume the Controversie entirely distinguish of his Fallacies and Misrepresentations and assert and maintain our own Principles confirming them with some Hundreds of reputed Authorities as well of former as more modern Ages In this Discourse hitherto unattempted by any I make a further Defense of E. B's and my own Sense from J. F's Mis-construction which it had become this