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A95027	Something in answer to two late malitious libels of William Rogers; intituled, the sixth and eighth part of his (falsly so called) Christian-Quaker, &c. : Being a further caution to Friends, to take heed of that treacherous spirit that is entered into William Rogers and his abettors. : Who under the profession of primitive truth, are betraying it to the world ... / Published for the clearing of truth against William Rogers's lies and slanders ... C.T.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.; Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709. Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator. Part 6.; Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709. Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator. Part 8.	1682 (1682)	Wing T265; ESTC R184889	30,402	42

Something in ANSWER To Two late MALITIOUS LIBELS of William Rogers Intituled The Sixth and Eighth part of his falsly so called Christian-Quaker c. Being a further Caution to FRIENDS To take heed of that Treacherous Spirit that is entered into WILLIAM ROGERS and his Abettors Who under the Profession of Primitive Truth are betraying it to the World and puting truths Lambs into their Bearskins for the World to Worry because they have no power to do it themselves who have published their wicked Books in Askalon the fire of their Infamy and have told it in Gath the Wine Press to press out their sower Grapes to set the Peoples teeth on Edge against the Lambs of God Published for the Clearing of Truth against William Rogers's Lies and Slanders and for the Information of the simple-minded that they may not be insnared by the Crafts and Wiles of Satan through such fallen Antichristian Instruments as William Rogers and such as are Entered into the same Malitious Spirit with him C. T. 2 Tim. 3. v. 8. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the Truth Men of Corrupt minds Reprobate concerning the Faith V. 9. But they shall proceed no further their folly shall be manifest to all Men as theirs also was V. 13. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived London Printed for John Bringhurst Printer and Stationer at the Sign of the Book in Grace-Church-Street 1682. AN ANSWER TO William Rogers William Rogers I Have read something in thy two Books called the sixth and eighth part of thy Book called The Christian Quaker reflecting upon me at a gross abusive rate because I withstood thee in Print in thy Printing that malicious Book called by thee The Christian Quaker c. And good ground I had to withstand thee as I did For reading in thy Book I understood thy drift intent to be to render dear G.F. by Name several others dragged by their Names in thy Book with my self included and indeed all Friends who are in Unity with us who are the Church of Christ to be Apostates and Innovators and thy self with thy Adherents to be the christian-Christian-Quakers in thy false sence as plainly appears in thy Book which I suppose thou wilt not deny So this being the true state of the case we must either submit to thee or thou and those of thy Spirit to us But that we are Apostates or Innovators that is Revolters Backsliders from the Truth deserters of our Guide and Captain Christ Iesus And Innovators or such as bring in new things into the Church and alter or contradict the true Government and State of it we utterly deny and reject thy false Charge and all that are concerned with thee And my Charge from God upon thee is true Thou art of a Rebellious Mind and standest up as Korah and his Company did against Gods faithful and true Servants who have and do keep their Habitations in the Truth to this day And thou art of a slanderous Tongue and void of a good Understanding How long wilt thou pervert the Truth in thy gainsayings and stand in opposition to the Lords power and reject Gods pure Counsel to thee through his Servants and their tender desires for thee which sometimes have reached thy Conscience But take heed lest thy Rum come and there be none to help thee And when thy work is over without Repentance with Judas thou go to thy proper place What adoe thou makest because I have quoted no particular sentence out of thy Book but in the general as in my Title Page and other places I have given the Reader to understand that the matter of my Charge against thee is in thy Book called The christian-Christian-Quaker c. These are my words in the Title Page To Friends To take heed of that Treacherous Spirit that is entred into William Rogers and his Abettors as appears in his Book falsely called The Christian Quaker And if the ground of my Charge against thee be not the ground of thy Book and in thy Book over and over then I have erred and am not to be believed But thou canst not justly deny nor any of thy Abettors but that thou hast rendred us aforementioned to be both Apostates and Innovators and if thou dost deny it thou dost overthrow the foundation of thy Book And none need to pin their Faith on my Sleeve to believe this but in the Light of Christ to Read See and Believe for themselves in this matter And to thy wicked Book I refer the Reader whether this be not the main Subject of it and so is notorious false and blasphemous Read Rev. 2.9 I know the Blasphemy of them which say they are Iews and are not but are of the Synagogue of Satan This is become thy condition who callest thy self a Christian Quaker but indeed art of the Synagogue of Satan that Adversary And what if I have neither particularly quoted Part nor Page of thy Book yet what I affirm is true Unto which for proof of what I say I refer the Reader to thy Book and justifie my Charge against thee and Charge thee with Rebellion and gainsaying the Truth and Power of God in his faithful Servants For we Charge thee in the Presence of God and before his Angels and Men to be a false Accuser of the Brethren and to be guided by a malicious evil Spirit And now as for my not quoting Part and Page out of thy Book I did not go about particularly to Answer thy Book but to bear my Testimony against thee not to be of God in that Spirit thou writ it And in Rev. 2.15 is spoken by John of the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans which he hated and quotes not what that Doctrine was nor Chapter nor Verse and yet is not reflected on as not to be believed in one word he speaks c. And whereas thou quotest something out of the third Page in my Book and quarrel'st with the two last words for ever because I say To the Praise of his Name for ever having before spoken of the Lords eminent Instruments in his Hand as dear G. F. and others opposed by W. R. as Apostates and Innovators Thou sayest by the words for ever If I mean G. F. that is to the Praise of G. F.'s Name for ever Then thou sayest I should have added so and so c. And so bringest in several ●fs and runnest with thy Horns especially against G. F. But this is quibling and scurrilous and catching according to the Nature of the Spirit thou art led by For who will take it so But to put all out of doubt for the sake of the simple it is to be read according to my Mind and Meaning To the Praise of the Lords Name for ever Now William These foolish things from a perverse and malicious Airy Mind thou hast been Publishing and telling as in Gath and Askalon that the uncircumcised Priests

nor believe Nay William thou and you are seen and your wicked work is weighed in the Ballance of Truth and found too light and Woe and Misery from God will be your Portion except you Repent Your Nakedness doth appear for want of anointing your eyes with eye-salve that you might see c. For truly since you went from the Light of Christ by which you were convinced by which all God's People are now at this day kept in Unity I do plainly see with that eye-salve God hath given me that you are got into a Spirit of Rudeness Lightness Scornfulness and despising those that truly fear the Lord so that it is enough to convince every sober-minded person what Spirit you are led and acted by that they may see with the Light of Christ how you are fallen from the pure truth of the Gospel into Looseness like so many Way-marks for God's people to shun c. W. R. Thou makest a great Pudder and muddlest thy head about our Orders in part 8. p. 5. and twice in pag. 6. And about outward prescriptions in the same Page twice and pag. 10. there thou art at it again and speakest of Decrees and Prescriptions twice over then pag. 13. thou art at it again c. Answ But William why dost thou make such a confused noise about our Orders as though thy Head was amazed And dost so worry them with thy muddled Head that thou hast not been able to give a perfect list of them though it has been of thee demanded What those Orders are that our Friends have imposed upon you For with thy own muddled Head thou thinkest to muddle others Heads with thy making a noise about our Orders Prescriptions Decrees and Government but neither thou nor J. S. nor J. Wilkinson have yet given a full and particular Account of them what they are and stated them aright with the day when and the Year they were given forth that people might have seen them together with a Catalogue of thy own I. Wilkinson's and I. Story 's Decrees and Orders what they are thou shouldst have brought them forth that people might have seen them and been able to judge of them So give over thy making a Noise and Clamouring and Brawling against our Orders Prescriptions and Decrees as long as thou dost not discover them all to the people what they are that people may not be deceived by thee and pin their Faith on thy Sleeve for in this thy empty work thou hast but been beating the Air. And as for the Fruits of a Careless Loose Libertine Dark Spirit W. R. with all his I●'s in all his Writings hath not proved against G. F. but hath manifested them to be the Fruits of his own Spirit whose Tongue is become no slander nor words of any Credit with them that fear the Lord. And J. Wilkinson and W. Rogers have not answer'd G. F's Question yet though W. R. be at it again in his 8th part pag. 8. viz. Whether or no an Heavenly Member of Christ's Body that is such as are born again of the Spirit and of the Immortal seed by the word of God turns to Dust Yea or Nay For G. F's Query was not about an Earthly Member nor an Earthly Corruptible Body but an Heavenly Member Part 8. pag. 2 3. W. R. says It 's the duty of some c. to pin their Faith on the sleeves of C. T. c. Again This small Tract is now written for the sakes of such among the people called Quakers as are not yet Principle'd to pin their Faith upon other mens sleeves Answ Are not the spreaders and the sellers of W. R's malitious Books the pinners of their Faith upon his sleeve And yet they are so confused that they will not stand by him in it But it was always my Judgment to Judge such as Pin their Faith upon thy sleeve or J. S's or J. W's or upon any else For the Faith of God's Elect stands in Christ the Author and Finisher of it And what need was there that any one that reads my Book against thee should pin their Faith on my slieve But W. R. hast not thou Judged us often over in thy malitious slanderous Book to be Apostates and Innovators Was not this a just ground for me to declare thee to be of Korahs Spirit and of Cains Line And if thou hast not in thy Book rendred us such as Apostates and Innovators unto which I refer the Reader then clear thy self if thou canst or else the Burthen of my words in my Testimony against thee in that Spirit thou writ that Book must certainly lie upon thee And herein I have not wronged thee I affirm it and still charge thee in the same true Judgment to be of Korahs and Cains Line to be sealed down under Eternal Judgment and Condemnation from God for ever except thou Repent and we stand over thee in the Authority of God's Power and of such as Abet to thee and adhere to thee in that Malitious Proud and Lofty Spirit thou art entred into W. R. saith part 8. pag. 5. That 't was safer to have a Dependency on this measure of Christs Light in our selves than to have an Eye out to the measures of others Answ Hath not W. R. shewed his Darkness and theirs that incouraged him to Print his Book For can any see the measure of the Spirit of Christ and his Light in others but by the measure of the Spirit of God in themselves in which they come into Unity But where did ever either I or any of our faithful Brethren bring any to look and have a Dependency upon the Measure in others and neglect the measure of the Spirit of God in themselves by which they should be guided to become the Sons and Daughters of God This was never our Principle but thou wouldst insinuate such a thing W. R. And in Part 8. pag. 10. thou speakest of a Visible man to be an Eye to see for the rest of the Body and pag. 11. thou bringest the same and Part 6. pag. 16. thou art muddling thy head again about the same thing and tellest of a late Doctrine viz. Have your Eye to the Brethren And sayst further The substance of this Doctrine hath of late been publish'd also in Publick Meetings c. As in the Natural Body the Eye is placed to see for all the rest of the Members so also in the Spiritual and hath been explained so as it hath been sometimes taken that G. F. is an Eye for the whole Body and other times as if some other Persons were an Eye for a Meeting c. Answ But who have publish'd these Doctrines whom thou hast so backbited in Print thou hast not named their names so must I pin my Faith on thy slieve for the proof thereof But hath not my Caution to the simple-hearted that they should not be deceived by thy lying slanderous Book tormented thee and thy Spirit because of thy wicked Works

Days Meetings all thy brawlings and Clamours against the Friends Concern'd in that Meeting they in the Lords Power do not regard as knowing thy words to be of no Credit with them that fear the Lord. And W. R. are not all the Books that thou hast Printed against the Faithful in which thou hast shot all thy Wicked Darts with thy foul Language like unto J. Story and J. Wilkinson's Condemnation thou drew up for them which thou calledst a Rattle to please Children And could there have been more Wickedness known in Man and Dissimulation than that way For was not thy Intent thereby to deceive And was not that a mark and a Badge of thy great Apostacy from the Light of Christ and his Truth But the Children of the Light neither thou nor J. Story nor J. Wilkinson were able to deceive And therefore thou Roarest now like a Bull in a Nett and reproachest such Faithful Friends as here desired thy Eternal Good And all thy Printed Books are like unto the Rattle thou speakst of to please Children and they must be Children indeed and simple and Betrayed from Christ and his Light that believe thy Rattles But all that walk in the Light and are grafted into Christ see over thee and them and thou canst not deceive them And therefore thou art in such a Toss and Tempest and in a fretful Restless Spirit And what W. R Wouldest thou have a Meeting to wait upon the Lord to Manifest thy Words Works and Spirit The Lord hath sufficiently discovered both thy Words Works and Spirit by his Eternal Power and Spirit and judged them Thou sayst Thou art for Peace Then call in all thy Dirty Wicked Books and Condemn them And do not oppose the Light of Christ and his Grace the Truth and the Spirit in his people nor the Gospel the power of God in Men and Women which hath led them to Christ and God to meet in his Power and Spirit by which they are gathered to him to take care of Gods Truth which is their Duty that he be not dishonoured and the Camp of God may be kept Clean And to see that all Marriages may be performed desently and in Order that Christ in the Female as well as in the Male may have an Eye in them that both Male and Female being Faithful to God may be Meet-helps together in Truth and in Righteousness and Holiness in Christ Jesus But if thou dost proceed and goest on Gods Eternal Sword of his Spirit is drawn against thee and that Spirit that takes thy part and therefore be warned For its Judgment is begun and his Sword will not be put up untill it hath perfected its Work And when thou feelest it cut and the Terrors of the Lord upon thee for thy Wicked Works sake in which thou hast cryed Peace Peace but instead of Peace Peace nothing but Destruction will come upon thee Then William O the Horror when the Vengeance of God is upon thee for abusing people with thy deceitful Rattles Then remember the tender Bowels of them that sought thy Eternal Good and would have reclaimed thee for hadst thou kept to the Witness of God and Judged J. S. and J. W. thou hadst never followed this Disorderly Spirit of the son of Perdition which is exalted above all that is called God in thee which seeks to betray Gods people and his Truth Judas like to the World But if ever God should be so Merciful to thee as to bring thee down to his Witness in thy self thou wouldest Lament the Day that ever thou espousedst that Spirit that led J. S. and J. W. from the Truth and so turned against the Faithful Friends and Children of the Light W. R. Thou goest over and over in thy Books with slighting Expressions against our Church-Government and that in a lofty scoffing despising way But I must tell thee Christ who is the Governour hath established by his Light Power and Spirit his Government in the hearts of all his Children of Light who are living Members of his Body his Church which he is the living head of and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevaile against it And by Christs Light in themselves every Male and Female in the Church sees their service and their Duty to God And W. R. Thou art busying and mudling thy head about G. F's Trade thou hadst better let G. F. and his Trade alone who never did Dispise the smallest honest calling upon Earth W. R. says Part 8. pag. 8. Let G. F. know whether he can receive it or no that probable the Name of a Quaker might not have been despised so much by many as it now is had he but followed the example of W. D. and other his fellowlabourers keeping at some honest outward calling instead of mudling his head to bring about a Conformity to his outward Orders For I am fully satisfied in my Conscience that that noisom scent that hath risen like smoak from the bottomless Pit hath been occasioned from an Antichristian Promotion of his outward Orders so far W. Rogers Answ Now the Reader may see this Mans Spirit he hath not given a Catalogue of these outward Orders that the Reader may see them And his Clamorous Tongue is but from his Antichristian Spirit and Evil Conscience and the noisom smoak of his bottomless Pit but he cannot darken Gods Air for the Sun of Righteousness is arisen with healing in his Wings which shines over all but God will judge him for his foul Language and hard speeches for many weapons have been formed against G. F. since he was about 19 years old and moved of the Lord to forsake all and to follow the Lamb. But how can W. R. tell and be so confident that G. F. hath not some concerns in the outward Creation having a Family He hath not proved the Contrary which he must do or else stop his Mouth for shame for if he had not how is it that he hath been under sufferings and exercises some Years in several Courts for not paying Tithes and his quoting W. D. in the case is meer flattery But what outward calling was that J. Story followed and J. Wilkinson when they were at Bristol let Friends of Bristol and Wiltshire speak where they were and what it was whom he calls his honourable Brethren and how have they kept the Name of a Quaker from being despised there What a malitious Spirit guides thee to defame if possible G. F. that dear and faithful Servant of God who through his Grace hath been such a Faithful Instrument in his hand that by him thousands have been converted to God through the Gospel committed to him and have been shod with the preparation of it to defend them from the Briars and Thorns the Exercises and Troubles of this evil World to bring them to Peace with the Lord. And the Authority of God is with him still to preserve him to stand over the Devil and thy foul Spirit and all the Agents and

Instruments of Iniquity whose Life hath been preserved through great sufferings And those wicked Darts which have been shot at him by thee and such Apostates and Envious ones as thou art have recoiled back again into their own evil Souls And who yet ever hated him and scorned him as thou dost that ever prospered as to Godward but in the end perished and withered And W. R. thy disdain and folly and malice appears in Reflecting about G. F. his following no outward Calling who is in his Calling and Service exercised with all his might that in the end he may give up a blessed and faithful account through the Eternal Spirit of the Ever-living God of his Calling and Service he was in his young years called unto forsaking all other Callings and Concerns in this World to do the Work he was called unto and is still in his Calling and who in this our day hath travelled laboured and suffered more on Truth 's Account than he hath done Who is still spending himself that in the end he may be spent in the Work of it and lay down his head in Peace and Joy in the Lord. And I am sensible that all the Witnesses of God in his Tabernacle will arise to judge and witness against thee and thine Abettors in that foul Spirit by which you are acted to Blaspheme God his Truth and faithful people And now if W. R. by outward Orders means the Men and Womens Meetings which G. F. and many other faithful Brethren and Elders in Christ were moved in the Power and Spirit of the Lord to direct people to set up such Meetings did and do answer the Spirit of God in all that fear him and with the Spirit of God we witness the Authority of them to be the Power of God And we do witness with the Spirit of God a great service in them and for them to see and take care for the Poor and for the Widdows and Fatherless and to exhort and admonish such that walk not according to the Gospel of Christ Jesus or cause his Name to be dishonoured or blasphemed And to see that all that do Marry have their Relations Consent and be free from Intanglements with all other Persons in Relation to Marriage and to see that the Widdow and Fatherless be not wronged in their Estates in Marriage And we do not limit the Faithful Women in Jesus Christ from their exercise and care in such things but that all things may be seen to be done in Truth and Righteousness to the Praise and Glory of God And these be the outward Orders W. R. speaks of that stink and are so noisom like the smoak from the bottomless Pit and from an Antichristian Promotion in W. R's Eyes and Nose I tell him we will stand by them in Gods Power and Spirit against his wicked spirit and God will Judge him for his foul and wicked words W. R. Thou saiest part 6. p. 5. 22. what is frequently brought to thy Ears c. and thou saiest witness the Persecution raised against J. S. J. W. and proceeding against John Ainloe at a Quarterly Meeting in the Isle of Ely And I really pitty J. A. that he should ever have given the least occasion wherefore such a wicked adversary as thou art should be an advocate for him against us Alas Poor J. A once Dear to me my Soul wishes thee well But why did not W. R. set down the matter of Fact that the Quarterly meeting had against John Ainloe together with the informers Names that brought these things to his Ears and not to hide them under his dark Curtain But has W. R. sent his informations to the said Quarterly meeting that the informers have given him that he might know the Truth of it before he publisht it to the Nations in Print But we can expect little otherwise but General Clamours from this Spirit And it is a gross abuse and slender to say that ever Persecution was raised against J. W. J. S. by the Children of Light but they sought their good who willfully resisted all tender Admonitions And though with thy Wicked Spirit thou over and over smitest at G. F. and other Faithful Elders yet both he and many others can say Many Weapons have been formed against him and us by Apostates and prophane But the Lord saith no Weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every Tongue that shall rise up in Judgment against thee thou shalt condemn This is the Heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their Righteousness is of me saith the Lord so God has Restrained the Weapons and he gives Spirit and Power to Condemn those Evil tongues as thine that rise up in Judgment against them And something I have to say concerning that Scripture thou bringest Gal. 2. further to manifest thy folly 6 part p. 5. W. R. thou saiest if the meer Discovering of Nakedness by some professor of Truth against another be a Sin then doubtless Paul was a sort of sinner in leaving it on Record that he withstood Peter to the face because he was to be blamed for his Dissimulation read 2d Chap. of the Gal. To this I answer that from the 14. verse of the said Chapter we learn that Pauls reproof was before all Men c. Answ This proof W. R brings to cover himself in Printing of his book and to abuse the faithful And this proof he brings for a looking-glass for G. F. to behold his face in as he scornfully says And now reader trie his Doctrine whether it be not a proper Looking-glass for himself and his Company For 1st did Paul publish what he blamed Peter for and withstood him in and did he spread it up and down in the Nations yea and beyond the seas as W. R. or some of his Abettors have done and have not some Priests and professors got them that are Enemies to the Light of Christ let W. R. prove that Paul did publish a book against Peter as he hath done against Friends and Pauls leaving it upon Record was in his Epistle to the Galatians and was not that the Church of Christ there And therefore I put W. R. to prove it that Paul did publish and spread his book among the unbelieving Jews or Gentile Galatians Now we must trie W. R. with the Scripture he brings that the Reader may see how he hath abused the Scripture For in the 2d Chapter to the Gal. vers 14. to this he saith that from the 14. verse of that Chapter we may learn that Pauls reproof was before all men But let W. R. take his Looking-glass and see whether he learns any such thing in the 2d Chap. to the Gal. vers the 14. The Apostles words are these But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the Truth of the Gospel I said unto Peter before them all c. Now before them all who were them all were they all the believers then present he doth