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A65856	Christ's lamb defended against Satan's rage in a just vindication of the people called Quakers ... from the unjust attempts of John Pennyman and abettors, in his malicious book, styled, The Quakers unmasked, clearly evincing his by a lover of truth and peace, G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1917; ESTC R20009	52,095	70

Pardon which he pretends so greatly to respect It appears that these Passages tending to clear us our Adversary designedly left out the more to recriminate and abuse us In p. 12. he cites a Passage out of E. B's Works p. 442. That all Governours and Rulers ought to be accountable to the People and to the next succeeding Rulers upon occasion and that the chiefest of the Rulers be subject under the Law and punishable by it if they be Transgressors c. No doubt when our Adversary writ this he thought he had a great advantage against the People called Quakers but he argues nothing nor infers any thing from the words If his Intention thereby was pursuant to his general charge against us to render us guilty of double Dealing false Heartedness and Temporizing this Passage cited by him against us proves no such thing but is a plain Indication to the contrary or if it was to render us obnoxious he hath missed his End It plainly concerns such Rulers and Governments as were Elective as E. B. his precedent words for choosing them by the Consent of the People do plainly intimate and it was first writ in the Days of the Commonwealth-Government And for Rulers or Representatives that are chosen being accountable to the next succeeding Rulers if there be Cause what has he against the matter it self What could be J. P's Design in this Citation before without Observation or Remark upon it If he tells us plainly and make his Objection I think it will be no difficult matter then to answer him both on a Religious Account and secundum Hominem which at present I find no necessity for Moreover Reader we find much of the same Stuff and envious Quarrels raked up against us in divers other Pamphlets as are in John Pennyman's Book particularly in Fr. Bugg another Apostate his Pamphlets though not so largely as in J. P's but as malicious which are elswhere answered In p. 13. he again charges us with baseness and temporizing and having out-done and even surpassed the Deeds of the Wicked that he says he is stopt for Words are too short to manifest us he saith Whereby it seems he wants Words bad enough for us in so much that he is stopt he saith But how is he stopt Does his Envy and Malice rise up to his Throat and like to choak him He has given us Language and Words hard and bad enough to render us as Infamous as he can as charging us with such Wickedness as can hardly be paralleld and as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders as have appeared in our Age Lyers false Prophets Hypocrites c. But now he wants Words to manifest us The Railery he has belched out has not manifested us can he not study and invent some worse and harder Language against us However he is far louder in his Clamour and Revilings than in his Proofs In p. 13. he reflects upon a Book entituled Truth 's Character of Professors for laying open the Addresses and Applications which others had made to O. C. and R. C. with long Animadversions thereupon which he falsly saith was to stir up the Powers against them charging G. F. and his Friends as having been most highly guilty themselves of those very things Wherein he hath also dealt very unfairly and unjustly we do not believe there was any such Design in W. C's setting out that Character as either to defame others or to stir up the Powers against other Professors but that it was to shew their Priests c. their manifold Flatteries and Temporizing in their superlative Characters Applauses and Addresses which he cannot parallel from our Friends Applications either then or since In p. 14. our Adversary again deals very unfairly and unjustly by G. W. about some of our Friends saying They give forth Writings from the Immediate Eternal Spirit of God and by the same Spirit and Power that was in the Prophets Christ and Apostles unto which he falsly addeth viz. And their so speaking G. W. saith is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater His Words and their so speaking are J. P. his own Abuse and Perversion where did ever G. W. say That the Quakers so speaking of their own Books and Writings is of such Authority He denies the Comparison and Charge as stated and I the person concerned do solemnly declare It was never in my Heart Judgment or Intention to undervalue the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament but to esteem them not only as given by Divine Inspiration and to prefer them before all other Books and Writings extant in the whole World J. P. injuriously mistates the Case and leaves out the explanatory part of G. W's Answer in that Case and J. P. has been better informed therein than now he represents it Therefore Impartial Reader please to take our Answer in this Case as it is laid down in our Book Entituled the Christianity of the People called Quakers Vindicated p. 13. We always confess the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration and prefer them before and above all other Writings or Books and in no wise question the Truth of them yet we must needs allow the Holy Spirit from whence they came the Preference and its immediate Teaching and Speaking in the Soul as of greater Efficacy Power and Authority to that Soul than the bare Writing or Scripture without or only Reading thereof though it contain the same Words immediately taught And so Christ and his Apostles living and powerful Preaching in and from the powerful motion of the Holy Spirit as being of greater Efficacy Power and Authority than the outward Writing or Scripture it self simply or abstractly considered as distinct from that Spirit though the words preached and the words written may be the same For the Gospel as livingly preached came not in Words only but also in Power and in the Holy Ghost 1 Thess. 1. 5. For the real Authority Efficacy and Service the Holy Scripture has upon a Soul is from the Holy Spirit or word of Life giving the true belief and right understanding thereof Again our Adversary proceeds to give Judgment and Sentence against us as helping forward our own Destruction and presumptuously addeth these words and seeing there is no hopes of their Repentance or Forbearance all other ways or means that have been used proving ineffectual It 's now thought meet thus to expose them c. p. 14. Thus he has proceeded to give Sentence upon us and to justifie his manner of exposing of us and Printing his Invective against the People called Quakers His Self-contradiction is notorious where in p. 15. he saith I abhor that Practice that is to render us obnoxious to the Government when but in the Page before he concludes that there being no hopes of our Repentance it 's now thought meet thus to expose us as he has done though he seems to extenuate his own Fact and

Christ's Lambs Defended from Satan's Rage IN A JUST VINDICATION Of the People called QUAKERS Their Christian Sincerity Innocency and Respect to the Civil Government and the Good Ends thereof from the Unjust Attempts of John Pennyman and Abettors in his Malicious Book styled The Quakers Unmasked Clearly evincing HIS Falsheartedness Temporizing and Envy against an Innocent People Peaceable Subjects certain Prophets and Servants of the Living God herein Commemorated Accommodated to the Capacity of every Impartial and Intelligent Reader by a Lover of Truth and Peace G. W. Frowardness is in his heart he deviseth mischief continually he soweth discord therefore shall his calamity come suddenly suddenly shall he be broken without Remedy Prov. 6. 14 15. Behold he travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood he made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made his mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate Psal. 7. 14 15 16. LONDON Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard-Street 1691. TO THE Impartial and Friendly READER A few Advertisements relating to John Pennyman's Book styled The Quakers Unmask't wherein the Reader is desired to Observe FIrst That the said Book was sent in Manuscript to some of Us in the year 1677. except some Words and Passages since added and others omitted in the Printed 2dly That this Ensuing Treatise in Answer was quickly writ in the same year 1677. and kept private for many years as 't is said in a written Note his has been with an Intent to publish this Answer in Print if I. P's Envy should prompt him so to publish his 3dly Liberty of Conscience being established by Law this is placed upon his Book in writing as the reason of its now Publication Which looks as if he envied our present Liberty by his pernicious Book tending to bring Persecution again upon us by rendring us obnoxious to the Civil Government as much as in him lyes But we thank God we enjoy the Liberty we have by Law and that we have cause to hope the Government will not be so credulous of such odious Invectives against Us as to be influenced thereby to lessen our Christian Liberty 4thly Note that this Ensuing Treatise being first writ in the year 1677. those Passages in it relating to our Sufferings then as placed in the Present Tence relate to that time and not to this now wherein it is Printed Wherein we now enjoy our Religious Meetings peaceably and free from Persecution for which we truly bless God and thank our Superiors in the Government 5thly Please to observe that I. P. in his said Printed Book explains the Quakers by viz. George Fox and his Party and instead of I. P's words in his Manuscript this pretended change of Judgment in the Men that are Quakers is not to be taken for a change of Judgment in the Quakers He hath it thus in Print p. 6. viz. This pretended change of Judgment in G. Fox and his Preachers is not to be taken for a change of their Judgment which is still to bring an Odium upon Us and tending unjustly to render Us obnoxious and offensive to the Civil Government contrary to our Christian Testimony and peaceable Living 6thly Instead of his own proper Name John Pennyman which is set three times over in his Manuscript he hath by Philo Aletheia in his Title Page in Print and afterward P. I. five times over in Print which 2 Letters of his name are transposed as he understands p. 13. which with the Publication of his Book seems to be placed not upon himself but upon another Person I. G. So that John appears more cunning than innocent in this point He has his Publisher and Transposer of the two Letters of his Name either to extenuate the fact or for some cover or subterfuge for himself he has travelled in pain to bring forth such a monstrous false birth and accepted of another Persons Aid to Midwife it into the World for mischief and causeless Revenge It seems when his Book was printed he had lost some of his Confidence and Zeal for his work or at least some of his Friends had not so much for him as he seem'd to have when he first writ it in thus varying his Name in his Title Page and Book Concerning some Passages added in his printed Book p. 10. about Jer. Ives his Insinuation from a Book titled West answering the North. Where he saith I am unwilling to write out because I am not willing to expose you To this I. P. unjustly cites only a small part of G. W's Reply Thus in his serious search I cannot but observe the Man's Dissimulation c. In this implicite kind of accusing us to render us more suspicious and obnoxious than if he had dealt plainly And then I. P. takes upon him to deal more plainly by reciting and observing some Passages out of the said Book West answering the North. As observing as he saith with what strange kind of Confidence deluding and blinding our Proselites not daring to do so before Authority but rather down upon his Knees and beg Pardon for his Audaciousness and Insolence Fallacious doings c. this against G. W. To all which we may truly say that we have cause to thank God we have more just and impartial Men in Authority and more just Judges than J. P. for he has dealt very unjustly and maliciously by G. W. in this matter as if he either spoke slightingly or assented to all those sayings cited out of West answering the North. Whereas the contrary is apparently manifest in G. W's very following words in his serious search p. 37. After the words cited viz. hereby to render us more suspicious and obnoxious than if he had dealt plainly J. P. unjustly leaves out these following words which are explanatory to the matter viz. especially whilst he accuseth us over and over with Justifying the late Wars against the King when as that very Book quoted by him entituled The West answering to the North Printed 1657. doth in the whole Tenour of it severely reprehend those in Power to wit Oliver and his Ministers for their Oppressions Cruelties and Arbitrary Proceedings which they pretended to condemn in those before them though there might be some words too harsh in the said Book as reflecting backward but with an Intent to judge them then in Power Yet it is to be considered as chiefly writ by two Officers or Captains of the old Army being Common-wealths Men as I understand who had not as then wholly got over the Warring Spirit however did simpathise with our Poor Innocent Friends when they beheld their deep Sufferings as in some degree sharing with them though it 's probable some remainder of their former sharpness of Spirit was left wherein they had been animated by such zealous Chaplains as Jeremy yet those Books quoted by him were extant long before the King's

thousands of us c. were with you in the greatest Heat Observ. That was as zealous Army-men before the People called Quakers were brought forth who looked not for the Spoil but the Good of the Nation and now thus should be served by those that are set down in the Possession of the Spoil that they should requite us so in the End Oh the Lord's Truth the Lord's Power and the Lord's Arm is more dear to us than all who have not sat down in the Spoil c. who are come to the Lord who hath given us Victory and hath brought us to the Light that takes away the Occasion and Root of the War Observ. Those who zealously aimed at an Universal Good and were not self-ended came to see the End of Wars and ceased to be Soldiers then Oh what a sincerity was once in the Nation What a dirty nasty thing it would have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords among them J. P. p. 8. Observ. That was among them who made People engage against them yet made themselves Lords so manifestly contrary to their own pretences And sat down in the spoil of the House of the Enemies left out Observ. Thus J. P. has frequently abused us in leaving out and passing by many material passages and catching and snarling at others occasional and circumstantial E. B. to R. Cromwell After he tells him of his Fathers Victories and Prosperity J. P. leaves out the following remarkable words viz. But yet we know he abused his great Deliverances and Authority and did not set free the Oppressed but left Mountains of Oppressions and grievous yokes of Bondage unbroken down and unsubdued and the Lord smote him and took him away in judgment because thereof Left out by J. P. p. 13. Observ. See how plainly this Protector was reminded of his Fathers abuse and negligence on purpose to warn him of the like evils and judgment And before in the beginning of the Letter to R. C. p. 52. The Lord God over the Kingdoms of Men Ruleth and Reigneth he Buildeth and Breaketh down and Planteth and Plucketh up he pulleth down one and setteth up another and who may say what dost thou Observ. See here was an Eye to the Hand of the Lord in revolutions from whom both promotion and abasement comes and this is no Temporizing nor admits of it West answering North. It 's said upon Peter Ceeleys falsly accusing G. F. with telling him privately of a design and perswading him to joyn therein Which design was that he could raise four thousand Men in an hours warning and involve the Nation in Blood and bring in K. Charles And this he was accused of before Judge Glin Chief Justice of England to take away his life Note p. 27. J. P. p. 11. 1656. Quoting G. Rofe to O. C. entituled The Righteousness of God to Man viz. after executed on them to the utmost these following words are left out by J. P. viz. but thou art fallen from thy first Integrity and in the spoil art exalted and set up in the Glory of the World in thy Name and by thy Power do my pure Seed suffer and Tyrants rule over my People and by thy Power and in thy Name do they persecute them and imprison unto death and have spilled the Blood of my innocent People to satisfie their corrupt desires but surely I will visit for these things and much do they lie upon thee And if thou lettest Tyrants get rulè in thy name and by thy Power on thee and thy Seed will I require the Blood of the innocent that hath been shed in these late days under thy Government c. Observ. How plainly the Oppressors in those days were charged and warned and prophesied against which in a great measure is fulfilled already F. H's Information and Advice to the Army on both parts and Committee of Safety 1659. P. 2. Should not all Rule and Authority be for the good and safety and well being of a Nation or Commonwealth Observ The true end of Government always owned and desired by us P. 3. Was not Israel governed sometime by Judges sometimes by the Elders and sometimes by Kings And while they stood in the Councel of the Lord and the People hearkned to them was not the Lord among them c. P. 5. And this I have to say to that part of the Army who stand so much upon the Name Parliament If you should manage your Weapons for a sound or a name or something that may suit you though damnifie many thousands it will not go well with you therefore be not rash nor hasty to shed Blood upon this account but take Counsel in time lest an out-stretched Arm stop you in your way c. and you may repent too late Observ. How impartially he writes for the real end of Government without respect of Persons or Names when we were so much accused for denying Government P. 6. After late King in J. P' s. Book p. 15 he leaves out these following words viz. Yet the Ax must not boast it self against him that hewed only with it for a time to accomplish his end and when he pleases take up another Instrument and let the first lye still Observ. The Hand of God in setting up and putting down Men in Power confessed Before the words a Company of greedy Hireling Priests came from Lestershire to sound their Trumpet in the House c. he leaves out these words p. 7. viz. But truly you stick in the Mire c. had your Ear open to them that could complement and flatter and their business you would hear and return them thanks but them who had been your dearest Friends c. coming in all Love and Humility and represented their sad Suffering unto you of their long Imprisonment and how above twenty dear precious Men suffered till death in Prison for that grand oppression of Tythes could not be heard And again when a Representation came unto you from many thousands c. it was laid by as wast Paper Observ. How plainly they were reprov'd for setting up Temporizers and slighting conscientious Sufferers P. 10. Remove the present oppressions Satisfie the Nations with deeds words will not with things and not with names that will not do and it is not a King a Parliament a Protector a Council or a Senate we look at c. for when Kings Parliaments and Councils are gone from the power of God they are for the Thraldom of a Nation and not for its Liberty but this I forewarn you what ever you do meddle not in the things of God or about Religion c. let that alone c. Observ. Still the good End of Government for true Freedom was pressed for more than Words or Names when we were under great Persecution Several Papers by G. F. 1659. P. 42. After the Words have not these been called Ministers of the Gospel but now how comes it that they preach up War he leaves out