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A57585	The sixth part of The Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator being a just defence against the reproach of scandalous tongues and pens : and a proper looking-glass for a meeting in London, termed the second-days meeting, who are reputed the approvers of three books, or papers against a treatise entituled, The Christian-quaker, &c. in five parts given forth by W.R. on behalf of himself and other friends in truth concerned / by W.R.; Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator. Part 6	Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709.	1681 (1681)	Wing R1863; ESTC R970	19,105	26

published being above fourscore Sheets to manifest the reasonableness at least of one recriminating part of his Title but that he hath not done nay he is so far from it that he doth not pretend to cite one word out of all my Book more than the beginning of my very Title viz. The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator yet his Impudence is so great as page the 3d. to accuse me that my end in writing and printing is to abuse and misrepresent the faithful People of the Lord and especially such as have been Faithful Especially that Dear and Eminent Servant of God George Fox and to contradict his Blessed Life in which saith Christopher Taylor he is still made Instrumental in the Hand of the Lord to bring forth Blessed Things for the Service of God and his Truth from the Oracles of the Divine Breath to the Praise of his Name for ever As to Christopher Taylors last cited word for ever if his meaning be with relation to George Fox I say that if he had added if he keeps his Place and Habitation in the Truth to the end it would have shewed a better Understanding since we learn from the Holy Scriptures That if a Righteous Man turn from his Righteousness and commit Iniquity his Righteous Deeds which he hath done shall not be remembred To be plain if his meaning be as aforesaid Note his Brother John Blaykling ascribed Eternal Honour to George Fox See the Fifth Part of the Christian-Quaker page 77. it is cause of Jealousie that Christopher Taylor thinks that George Fox is more than a man as a publick Preacher on Discourse had touching George Fox once told me and not only so but such an one as shall never err nor fall else what is the meaning that Christopher Taylor should not only use the word for ever so unwarily if he spoke it with relation to George Fox but also reflect upon me at that ungodly rate as he hath and yet not mention any one particular thing distinct from a general Reflection more than what he saith of me touching George Fox as aforesaid for if a meer Opposition to George Fox or some other Man against whom I have written be not in it self Evil even as a meer Opposition to the Son of God that never erred is there is no reason for any one to take notice of one word written by Christopher Taylor against me especially since what I have brought forth in Print touching George Fox was after I had written to him many Letters of my Dissatisfaction concerning him and used my utmost Endeavour by writing to the General Meeting by speaking and writing to many Eminent Friends in the City of London and at length by Travel into divers Parts of the Nation on purpose to manifest the necessity that lay upon me to clear my Conscience in Print unless Satisfaction might be so far given as that I might obtain a hearing before Friends in Truth but that could not be obtained and my naked end was that if my complaint should appear to them to be just even as it was in it self it might without respect of Persons be taken notice of accordingly For a more particular account of my Christian Proceedings and Reasons for appearing in Print I refer to the Preface and Postscript to the first five Parts of the Christian-Quaker 'T is worthy Observation that there is a Preface to Christopher Taylors Epistle subscribed by John Bringhurst wherein he thus saith To all such who have or may have itching Ears to read the Book meaning the Christian-Quaker it rises in my Heart to caution you to forbear satisfying your Minds therein for the Enemy may take advantage upon you thereby to draw out your Minds to take every thing for granted that is therein Inserted and so cause you to look out at others instead of looking after trimming your own Lamps The Consideration of these Lines compared with one Part of Christopher Taylors Title viz. with wholsome Advice and Counsel by way of Information that the simple-minded may not be ensnared leads me to observe That the best way as to me appears that our Opposers have to keep the Simple-Minded from being insnared is to pin their Faiths on such as John Bringhurst and Christopher Taylor are and an uncertain number of uncertain qualified Persons called the Second-days Meeting 'T is easy to discern what a Body of Darkness is comprehended under such sort of Council for if it take place then those who are Simple-minded are no longer to see and hear for themselves but in the most favourable Construction must according to a late Doctrine have their Eye to the Brethren and yet me-thinks I behold a confusion amongst our Opposers even relating to this matter for the Substance of this Doctrine hath been of late also published in publick Meetings for Worship as before is hinted at viz. 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 that it hath sometimes been taken That George Fox is an Eye for the whole Body and other times As if some other Person were an Eye for a Meeting neither of which Explanations agrees with this Doctrine Have your Eye to the Brethren Many Heads and Horn● may be exalted with such kind of Doctrines as these by which the Preachers of the Light of Christ as in the beginning may become a scorn and dirision Oh Babylonish Building the God of Heaven saith My Soul appear in his due time to pull it down Root and Branch that so that bright and glorious day wherein we were made Partakers of a measure of Christs Light Spirit and Grace renewing the Mind unto God by the vertuous Operation thereof in our own illuminated Hearts whereby we came to drink clear and pure water out of our own Cisterns may not at length be so obscured and overshadowed with such a Vail of Darkness as that any one of us may be zealously affected to partake of the muddy waters of anothers Cistern and reject our own that is pure So much at present may suffice to say on the occasion taken from Christopher Taylors Epistle I now come to take a little notice of Thomas Laurence's Sheet the Title runs thus William Rogers his Christian-Quaker manifested to be Antichristian he tell the Reader That he hath written a Book against Seperatists That the Price thereof is a Half-penny That he is 81 Years of Age and that two chief Points in Writing is to be Plain and Short That mine is neither Plain nor Short but Ambiguous Tedious Doubtful loaded with many Lerters Suppositions and Jealousies Reiterations and Parenthesis many and long Objections that will both trouble and weary the Reader I confess Thomas Laurence hath avoided the Rock that I by his Account have run upon however as short as he is he is not free from many Mistakes I will not call it his Brethrens

THE SIXTH PART OF THE Christian-Quaker Distinguished from the Apostate Innovator BEING A JVST DEFENCE Against the Reproach of Scandalous Tongues and Pens AND A PROPER LOOKING-GLASS for a Meeting in London termed The Second-days Meeting who are reputed the Approvers of three Books or Papers against a Treatise Entituled The Christian-Quaker c. in Five Parts given forth by W. R. on behalf of himself and other Friends in Truth concerned By W. R. 2 Tim. 3.13 But Evil Men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived London Printed for W. R. In the Year 1681. The SIXTH PART OF THE Christian-Quaker Distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator c. The INTRODUCTION DID my own Reputation as a Man or Christian lie only at Stake I might the sooner satisfie my self to remain in silence patiently to undergo the unjust Reproach of scandalous Tongues and Pens and solace my self with the Enjoyment of that Inward Peace which the Lord through his Mercy hath in the midst of all my Exercises for the clearing of my Conscience made me Partaker of But when I consider what Multitudes of the weaker sort of People are apt to be deceived by imbracing Shadows instead of Substance and Lies for Truth taking their measures of some Friends more from the reproachful and scandalous Terms undeservedly given by our Opposers than from Matter of Fact committed or any real ground of Conviction that such have merited our Opposers recriminating Reflections it hath been one Motive amongst others occasioning me once more to appear in Print and one part of my end therein is that some short discovery in a few Lines may be made so far as at present I find freedom in the Truth of the ways and meanes by which some simple-minded Friends have been betrayed to reproach their Friends and Neighbours when in reality they have had no just cause so to do unless a declared Dissatisfaction touching George Fox or others of Party with him on just occasion shall without any manner of Examination be deemed such In order to what I have premised I shall take a little notice of three Printed Books or Papers against the Book Entituled The Christian-Quaker c. The First In the Name of Christopher Taylor contains two Sheets three Quarters and is Printed for John Bringhurst The Second In the Name of Thomas Laurence containeth a part of a Sheet and the price thereof as he tells his Roader is an half-penny Printed for Benjamin Clark The Third Is partly in the Name of John Pennington and partly in the Name of his Mother Mary Pennington and contains two Sheets Printed also for Benjamin Clark Before I take notice of any thing therein contained I think meet to inform the Reader that the scope of their writing * Note A Reply to the said Book is ready for the Press and Names of Persons for whom they are Printed compared to what I find written in the 12th Page of the Immoduction of a Book against the Christian-Quaker in the Name of the Second-days Meeting are sufficient Evidence to Intelligent Persons among the People called Quakers that they are given forth by the Approbation of a Meeting usually consisting of uncertain numbers of uncertain qualified Persons called the Second-days Meeting in London who though they may pretend themselves to be invested with Spiritual Power to correct or suppress what is brought before them yet let all Friends know that these few Lines will remain as a Record to the Infamy and Shame of such as have approved such undeserved unchristian-like Language and Treatment wherewith the aforesaid Books or Papers are stuft as by these few Lines is made appear The Consideration hereof occasions me to signifie that one part of my Concern to take notice of the aforesaid Books or Papers is more to discover what is acted under Pretence of that Church-Government whereof the said Second-days Meeting is a part than to detect the Persons whose Names are subscribed to them and so leave every Readers Judgment free how far this Discovery renders them guilty of abominable Wickedness and Deceit 'T is frequently brought to my Ears that our Opposers common Discourse is That I have written a wicked Book against the Faithful Friends of Truth that if all I had therein written were true yet the Spirit that gave it forth must be wrong and the same with Hams because it discovers the Nakedness of a Father and publisheth it in Gath and Askalon to make the Vncircumcised rejoyce and such as dislike it on this ground have desired that it might be called in again This Discourse I am willing first to take notice of because by the scope of the aforesaid Books it seems to be the sense of the Givers forth and Apprevors there of If the meer discovering of Nakedness by one * Note John Pennington in the first page of his Complaint acknowledgeth me a Professor of Truth Professor of Truth against another be a Sin then doubtlese Paul was such a sort of Sinner in leaving it on Record That he withstood Peter the Eldest Apostle to the face because he was to be blamed for his Dissimulation Read the 2d Chapter to the Galatians and if any say Paul published it not in Gath and Askelon To this I answer that from the 14th verse of the said Chapter we learn that Pauls Reproof was before all men his words are these But when I saw that they went not the right way to the Truth of the Gospel I said unto Peter before all men If thou being a Jew livest as the Gentiles and not like the Jews why constrainest thou the Gentiles to do like the Jews I shall now leave it to the consideration of such as are acquainted with George Fox's Actions whether Peters Dissimulation be not a proper Looking-Glass for George to behold his Face in witness his Advice to Mary Pennington to secure Worldly-Estate from the Spoiler when 't was likely to be seized for Obedience to Christs Command compared with his reflecting Paper touching making away Estates from the Spoiler in time of Persecution for Worship of God according to the Apostle's Counsel witness his advice to Nathanael Crips and Robert Arch to buy their Tithes compared with his known Severity at other times against Payment of Tyths Witness his Advice to Friends in general not to Judge one another nor to lay open one anothers Weakness behind one anothers back nor yet to Back-bite and yet behaves himself in his Travel as if 't was great part if not the chief part of his Business so to do Witness his Counsel to follow Reports until the Original Reporter was found and yet take liberty to hear and receive Backbiting Reports against his Friends and not only so but to hide the Reporter when the Matter hath been denied that this hath been his State I am capable for to prove see Christian-Quaker 5th Part Pages 42 43 44 45 46 24 25 54 55 8. 'T is also observable as