I pray let him attempt First to come in We do not see he is in such hast you say You will not so casily take Members I grant according to your good old Constitution you should not We might be agreed about Communicants but according to the practise of some Innovators this Body hath for scores of years lost its Purgative Faculty and therefore is so unhealthy and giddy by keeping in those Dregs that should be thrown out you now take and keep Atheists Adultâ—â—â—rs Swearers Ignorant Persons noâ—◠〈◊〉 visibly such thus is its Discipline corrupted as well as Doctrine for its Doctrine it is one of the best Churches upon Earth You ask Why leave we the Church of England I affirm we cannot find it you have left it as I have proved in my Reprimâ—â—â— clearly fully accordantly which you reply nothing too and I love not Eandem Cantilenam Well The Presbyterians Persecuted in New England say you Whom Blasphemers of Christ Cursers of Magistrates in the Streets False Prophets c. Obj. In Scotland now What such as were found in Popish Cabals that say Their Interest and Religion is concern'd in the bringing in of K. James again But your Church early Persecuted B. Hooper for not wearing a Surplice who honestly condemas all Symbolical Humane Ceremonies in the worship of God in 〈◊〉 Preface to his Savory Exposition on the prophesie of Jonah Fox that Glorious Martyrologer was a Non Con Famous Mr Câ—â—â—wright and many more such must be involv'd in trouble for a few Popish Triâ—â—â—ets Were your New England 〈…〉 Saints such 〈◊〉 these Are your now Martyrs taken up and sent to Goal for being in a Corporation or within 5 miles of it Ruin'd for not coming to their Communion c. It is not the Suffering but the Cause that makes the Martyr for when Christ was crucified two Theeves were crucified with him Did ever any Presbyterian persecute as your Brethren Who countenanced Sham Plots By whom was Stephen Colledge Murthered Who condemaed him and rejoyced at his death I speak the more freely of him because I was with him often after his Sentence and before his Execution Who believes he came to Oxon with a design to seiz the King What be and be alone It is well known what the Earl of Anglesey said Could my Lord Howard after his Pardon and Discovery of another Plot confirm this No he knew nothing of the Shaftsburian Plot Mr Colledge with a shower of Tears solemnly protested to me when I beg'd his silence if in the least guilty I never expect mercy from God if I was guilty or know any man to be so that way Such Sham Plots put some on real ones which indeed were not successful as your Plot was against James the Second I dare say you cannot believe it say what you will That the Presbyterians rail'd at much at the Quakers as the Quakers at them Neither can you think the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments turn'd into verse by me so bad as you say Pray read how your Church hath done the Lords Prayer at the end of the Psalms approv'd to be Sung if mine be Vncouth Rhime Doggrel Prophaning of Scripture yours much more so I challenge any man to take the substance and words of the Ten Commandments more exact in one stave or eight lines others approve and more than so but you will not any thing that is mine and for that reason because mine I suppose some in Beâ—lam have talk'd better then you or some others yet out of it argued more subtilty I have heard of Mr Widdows famous for a Tract of Natural Philosophy that being heard to make a great noise in such a place some came to him and askt him what it meant The Devil said he hath appeared to me and told me be could prove I could not be saved I told him be was a Lyar from the beginning and would be so to the end The Devil began Syllogistivally He whose name is not written in the book of Life cannot be saved but thy name is not written in the book of Life Ergo thou carst not be saved I told him said he my name was written in the book of Life and therefore I denyed the minor so the Devil went on The Scriptures is the book of Life but thy name is not written in the Scriptures Ergo thy name is not written in the book of Life I denyed said he the minor again and told him my name was written in the Scripture he asked me where I told him Honour them that are Widdows indeed there is my name Widdows so I lasted the Devil and he is gone Were you in such an Academy or amongst such Collegiates as you phrase it perhaps you might hear things more Ingenious with your Ravings than now we do How is it you have not a word to savour the Quakers Prophesies Is it because you have such in your Church Arise ap Even that mad blasphemous Prophet Was it before the VVars that a Parson prayed Confound all the Enemies of thy Clearch and People a violent cough took him when over he thought he was in that part of the Pulpit Prayer for the Prelates and so went on By what Names or Titles soever they be Dignified whether the Most Reverend the Arch-Bishops the Right Reverend the Bishops and all inferiour Priests and Deatons You a Defender of the Church of England and take no notice of the Cassandrian Articles Non Resistance Bowing to the High Altar not indeed Book of Sports now thank our Meetings Desire some one to answer for you seeing you cannot for your self Now Sir you would let the world know you have read more then Cato's Verses perhaps the Sentences under for you bring us Noble Apotheigems In ipso limine titubare outinosunt est Nullum reprebenderis vitii cujus ipse queas reprebendi Faedares invidia est et Authori interdum perniciosa Ex me disces quidingenui homines serre non possunt O rare discoveries such as a Parson said Amor res est bona as St. Austin saith Perhaps you would convince me that you have yet your Grammar by you but all will not do Insipientes est discere non putarem c. Well Eris mihi magnus Apollo is right De mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that follows it was answer'd in my Vindicâ—ae and Reprimand too therefore I shall not answer now Only Are not those you Revile every 30th of January Dead VVas not Dr. Owen Dead who never swore to Richard Cromwel as Oliver his son lately assured me If I must I will produce the testimony of Dr Goodwin Mr Jenkins about Evangelista Quintus and also of Mr Sydrack Symson Dr Sanderson and many others whose little finger was thicker than my Loyns We are better reconcil'd than you think for except a few men that talk as you write You tell me of one that said of me I was fit for Bedlam but it was as the Quakers say Good
names Matthew Mark Luke and John Dust c. Papers sent forth for detecting Error p. 6. In Epistles I lately saw George Bishop wrote to the King and Parliament That the Quakers were Innocent in no Rebellion not Dissaffected to him Yet he and Fox and others cursed the Presbyterians for attempting to bring in the King and when he came in they wrote to him of their Love to him and Faithfulness George Fox would call his Writings The word of the Lord the word of God though this was too high for Scripture only for Christ and their words Mr. Crisp a Reformed Quaker in his Babel builders unmasking themselves hath made a Collection of their Abominable Errors and Blasphemous Assertions taken out of Bâ—â—roughs's Works That the Sufferings of the Quakers were Greater and more Vnjust than those of Christ and the Apostles for tâ—ose said he suffered by Law and in some respect by a due Execution of Law p. 279. In another Book he tells the story of Solomon Eccles a great Prophet a Famous Man who burnt on Tower-hill His musical Instruments worth about two hundred pounds as Cruiso says He was a great Foxonian and after John Story a Quaker had condemned the Courts Fox set up Solloman Eccles came to him as I have had it also from a Quaker then present desiring to speak with John Story who craved excuse being very Sick and in constant expectation of Death Tell him said one of Eccles his Companions Solloman Eccles hath a message to him from the Lord when they were admitted he thus said O John Story thou hast condemned the Ordinances of Jesus Christ Womens preachings and Womens meetings the Church and Brethren have bound thee on Earth and thou art bound in Heaven Be reconciled to George Fox who is Gods Friend and the great Apostle of Jesus Christ this is the word of the Lord to thee This year shalt thou dye because thou hast taught Rebellion against the Living God He replyed as the Quaker present told me I expell to dye in a few hours yet I know the Lord sent you not But see the Goodness of God to detect such Villany the Man Recovered and Liv'd four or five year after now if he had dyed what a famous Prophet had Sollomen Eccles been Pray prophecy next Thus saith the Lord This winter O this Winter there shall be Snow and Ice yea I say Ice and Snow yet the next Summer many Flowers shall be seen in your Gardens yea much Corn in your fields and not only so but much fruit upon your Trees for so it is reveal'd unto me and by this you shall know that I am a True Prophet But suppose none of this should be why then all was understood not Carnally for that is nothing but Spiritually This Reformed Quaker profest to me No men can understand them by their words I mention not George Fox in his Journal comparing the best of Men with the worst of Men the Holy Laboâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 of Christ to Baal's 〈◊〉 Sorâ—â—â—â— â—â—das tâ—e Devil 〈…〉 this is so common Vast is the difference between Prâ—aching for hire and taking hire for Preaching The Priests under the Law liv'd by the Altar and a good Livelihood they had can words be plainer than those of St. Pâ—â—l As they that waited on the Altar liv'd by the Altar so hath the Lord ordained that they which Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.6.7 Now how is a Man said to live on any Employment but to have a Competency at least for himself and his and to lay up for wife and Children and himself too against Sickness and old Age The Disciples 10 Mat. 10. As Labourers were so worthy of their Hire that they were to be provided for by their Hearers they were forbid to carry Money of their own the thing is quite contrary to what our Perfectionists would drive at Christ worked then Miraculously and they were commanded to Trust Providence Paul took Wages of some Churches and Robbed them as we say I shall Rob you if we take freely he told the Corinthians He had power to forbear working which was enough as well as Barnabas and other Apostles If he wrought he complained of it to them and â—ays the fault on them Must we be reviled too or stoned because he was But I pray when did Fox work If any say he had much other work Paul had more The care of all the Churches lay on him Paul bid Timothy give himself wholly to those things Meditation or Studying and Reading 1 Tim. 4.13 How many pair of Shoos I pray did friend George make after he got so well by Speaking He grew Rich he eat the fat and drank the sweet and so the poor Shoomaker preaches up his Mortification You shall find how much George was concern'd at what others said of him I have heard of one much concern'd this way and ask'd one What do men say of me He replied Fools say you are a Wâ—se Man and Wise Men say you are a Fool and I pray which thinâ— you This Journal of G. Fox is now taught in their Publick Schools and read instead of Scripture in their Families from day to day This in a word is become the Quakers Bible they often have written against our Bible I now have written against theirs Jam Sumus ergo Pares Not only do the followers of George Keith condemn this Fox as a Notorious Deceiver and Impostor but the Harp-Lane Quakers disown his Discipline as the Womens Meeting c. though they are corrupt as to his Doctrine about Christ with the Grace-church-street Quakers who own both Doctrine and Discipline Well G. Fox's Wife once Margaret Fell tho' past Child-bearing was to have an Isaac the Midwife was sent for but nothing comes yet this was the Marryage that was a type of Christ and the Church I commend George among all the lyes he tells he added not this That they who went to Convert the Pope according to their expectation could by Inspiration speak to him in his own Language I have not so much Charity to believe that Conscience or Modesty kept him from this but an open Notorious Confutation Friends however made bold to whisper this among themselves and have been so impudent to tell me so That his followers differ about their sentiments concerning the Trinity and Scripture yet they care not for that whilst they all keep to the fundamentals of their Religion that Men put not of their Hats nor the Women Kirsey but both say Thee and Thou There are about One Hundred Thousand that have followed him as has been computed these make Heathens Christians and Christians Heathens It is expected when Muggleton is dead his Journal will be Printed also and his prophesies as some of his Disciples tell us though Fox and he damn'd one another as False Prophets times without number He that would know more of George Fox's Ignorance Lyes c. Read his great mystery and battledore a
others whether William Penn had ever any Convincements except of the Folly of this People and how soon he might take the Chair when George was gone and play King or Pope with this Ignorant Tribe What is James Naylor honoured by him that unheard of piece of Blasphemy whom many Quakers cannot endure to hear of I knew a Man born in the same Town with him who told me How all began with Spiritual Pride after be was a great Repeater of Sermons be would hear no more he knew enough c. What if Friends should come to Mr. Penn or Benjamin Coole or others in the name of the Lord to lay aside their Perriwigs would they obey No no but laugh at it How can they then expect that others should on these pretences throw away the Ordinances of Christ Richard Richardson a great Quaker hath written a Book against Perriwigs how Condemned they are by Sober Heathens Antient Christians c. at last he tells us How John Mulliner a Friend about Northampton was made to leave that Trade and to burn one of his Porriwigs before his Servants that John Hall a great Man sitting in a Meeting was shaken by the Lords Power and so pull'd off his Perriwig and threw it away Now were not these Inspired What means the New Colledge to teach Inspired Persons to Preach c. Did not our Preface-Maker threaten Frends If such orders of his were not observed to break their Meetings though he seems to write so zealously for the sufficiency of the Light in Man c. A Collection out of G. Fox's Journal WE have here the account that Margaret Fell the wise of G. Fox once of Judge Foll gives of her Husband it is laden with Impertinencies and little circumstances of his Life At last she tells us How when he came into the Steeple-House she hearing him cryed out We are all Theeves we are all Theeves we have taken the Scriptures in words and have known nothing of them in our selves That Thomas Salthouse followed him I knew him he was an Idle Vagrant never did work that they were at last weary of him and would have him work once I met him and he urged that of Paul against us these hand have ministred to my Necessities so would Fox say yet neither of them would work Who would regard such shameless Beasts G. Fox's Journal I had a Gravity and Studiousness of mind when young above others I took care not to eat or drink much I kept to Yea and Nay my Relations were about to make a Priest of me but they made a Shoomaker of me when I was with my Master he was Blessed when I left him he broke People generally loved me for my Innocency and Honesty I saw many possessed not what they professed I was a long time almost in despair and I walked many Nights by my self Priest Stephen wondred at my Answer why Christ said My God My God why hast thou Forsaken me I said He dyed for the Sins of Men and dyed not as God The Priest said it was a good full answer such â—s be had not heard afterwards be would highly applaud me and what I said to him on the weck days he would Preach in First Days for which I did not like him I was so dryed with Sorrow that they could not get one drop of Blood from my Arm or Head I would not go to Marriages but Visit after and if they were poor I would give them some Money c. They that set up for Great Persons often tell us of the Convictions of their Childhood though nothing to what others have known that keep silence I suppose his Dulness made his Parents make a Shoomaker of him when they saw he was not fit to be a Priest like him that said to the maker of an Image of Christ of a knotty piece of Wood that would not do If you cannot make a God of him make a Devil of him Well But why followed he not his Trade I believe if the Truth were known he was such a Blockhead he could never make one pair of Shoos well and if his Shoos were no better than his Teachments he could not live by that Trade and so tryed another I believe not a word of the story of Mr. Stephens a Child of 10 year old might answer as well Well George was a Mad-man too was in Despair he was then tempted to commit sin he tells not what was here not Love Melancholy No doubt this poor Shoomaker was Ambitious of the honour and wealth he got by Marryage and Speaking I doubt Reader whether thou art able to believe a Minister should Preach on the Lords Day what he got from a Quaker week days especially such a Notorious Dunce as this who was not able to express himself but others must word his thoughts for him and so is this Book no doubt changed to purpose Now for his Revelations Nigh a Gate a Consideration arose in me all Christians are Believers both Protestants and Papists and the Lord opened to me that if all were Believers then all were born of God Make Sense of this or Truth Reader if thou canst At another time in the field the Lord opened to me That being bred at Oxford and Cambridge was not enough to fit a Man to be a Minister of Christ and I stranged at it I would take my Bible and go into the Fields and Woods and told my Friends It is said you need not that any Man teach you but as the Anointing teacheth them and the Lord would teach them himself Then I met with a sort of People that said Women bad no Souls but I told them Mary said My Soul doth magnify the Lord. Choice Observations Reader and no doubt we have here the choicest flowers of what he laid up gathered by Friends When I had these openings many troubles and temptations came upon me in the Morning I wished for Evening and in the Evening for Morning the Openings answered one another many Openings I had of Scripture and the Revelations Wonderful Ones no doubt I sat in hollow Trees by day and walked mournfully by night Yet none of us reported he was in a Mad-house at Box c. Then even then I heard a voice saying There is one Jesus Christ who can answer to thy condition If this were examin'd perhaps we should be told this was not vocally but mentally an inward voice that is motion might serve the turn One Brown had Prophesies and Sights of me on his death bâ—d and he spoke openly of me and what the Lord would bring forth by me I prayed when the house seemed to shâ—ke and they said It is now as was in the Apostles days Peâ—â—â—â— two or three giddy Women 〈◊〉 thus prate and that is enough for a Quakers Miracle I was come up in Spirit through the Haming Sword into the Paradise of God I knew nothing but Pureness Innocency and Righteousness so that I was come up to the State of
large Folio also They the Quakers can tell who are are Saints who are Devils who Apostates without speaking a word He denies p. 99. That Christ has a Humane Body or a Humane Soul Asserts plainly That the Soul of man is a part of God that it came from him and goes to him again p. 272. and p. 99. That Christ is not distinguisht from the Father if as Penn pleads he meant Separate then George though Inspired was ignorant of words and in the name of the Lord condemned them that rightly used them You are says he p. 114. conceived in sin David did not say You are but I was Profoundly answered His answer to Dr. Owen's Chatechism is fit only for Laughter He answers John Gilpin's Book a book worth reading of Quakers bewitch That he was Drunk after he left the Quakers and a Warrant was out for him the usual Answer Page 244. The Immortal Seed are the Saints and then they are not Dust and Ashes Abraham was so In his Battle-door we have a large book about Thou and You what it is in Latin Greek Hebrew Syriack Samaritan Dutch German French all Languages to me saith he is dust who was before all Languages were O Blasphemy the whole of this Book is a Cheat this Fool understood not English much less what he wrote of which was anothers words He could write Hebrew Letters and many were hung up in Friends Houses to make them believe he did all by Revelation an Ungodly Cheat. I shall only propose to the Quakers a few Questions 1. Seeing the Papists pretend to Infallibility Miracles and Prophesies and the Muggletonians too why should you be credited more than they Had any one man of you the gift of Tongues George Fox himself when he was sent abroad when in America he sent for one Emperor and two Kings to Preach to them they understood not his English he was a barbarian to those barbarians if you say the Testimony was inward I pray be sure keep it there trouble not us with it 2. Can any Atheist or Papist speak worse of the Holy Scriptures than you It is well known Sam. Fisher said They were not capable of being but a Lesbian Rule a nose of wax and askt this question How could any on be Infallible that they were not a cunning devised sable I have not seen his works in Folio these many years but I remember such playing on this subject and that in verse too as is not fit to be named 3. How abominable is it in Disputations and Discourse to use words Janus like with two faces or a double sence one to quiet an Objecter another to satisfie Friends privately You are good at Hocus Pocus the old phrase from the Papists Hoc est Corpus turning a Wafer into a Body yet you will call a man Lyar if he repeat your sense if not exact words should you say a Shilling and I repeat it 12 pence if to seâ—â—e â— turn you would say you never said so How often do Friends answer to what is not asked and evade what is You sometime ask us What Scripture for Absolute and Relative yet use such words your selves 4. How much are you unlike the People you were Muggleton long since cursed you That your Visions and Revelations should fail Blessed said you of old for your Quakings are they that tremble at my Word yet some said The Devil ' trembled in them What is he blessed then Now you tell us That as when a man taketh Physick he is much disordered in his Body till his distemper be gone so you till sin was purged out What have none that turn Quakers for almost forty year past any sin in them to be purged out as well as the first Quakers Nothing was more common at first then this Scripture They shall not teach every man his Neighbour saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the greatest to the least yet G. Fox taught them every where and it hath been often said in Meetings Friends you are to take notice William Penn will be here next First Day But how could they tell on their Principle whether he should be moved to speak to them I close this part of my Work with the words of Mr. Rogers a Bristol Quaker he wrote a Poem call'd A Scourge for George Waitehead an Apostate Quaker in the close of which he hath these words Let George Fox and they that uphold him Remember 't was Jereboam that caus'd Israel to sin and as his name was branded to Posterity so shall theiâ—s 〈◊〉 We cannot own them to be Head and Law-givers their Church Government Orders Canons Ecclesiastical are become a Reproach Taunt By-word in the Nation as a just recompence of their Pride Apostacy and deep Hipocrisie The QUAKERS No Apostates Or the Hammerer Defeated c. Examin'd MY Learning is talk'd of by this Man to make Trophies for his Victory yet it seems my Arguments are light If by light said one in the like case you mean clear I wonder you cannot see them if by light you mean trivial I wonder you cannot answer them I thought I had in my first Book so smitten the Quakers that I need not to have smitten them a second time Because Repetitions are tedious especially of Impertinencies I shall not trouble you with many of his words neither shall I actum agere of what is my own I see I have so broken their Teeth that they cannot bite though they can bark This Man of impotent malice having lost his reason falls a Raving and Lying prodigiously beyond all Men as shall be proved I had taken no notice of him nor W. C. the Church-man had it not been for my foregoing work being the seeblest Adversaries I ever had Reader know for the veneration this man and some few more seem to pretend to for the Scripture it is nothing they deny it to be the word of God any more than their own Books which are Writings of Truth Are they good subjects that deny King William to be Lawful King of England because they grant him lawful Prince of Orange As vast a difference is there between the light of Nature and that of Scripture as between the light of a Glow-worm and the light of the Moon in the Night time I brought a writ of Error against the Quakers and see how frantick they grow their Errors are so many that if one should ask a Quaker What is thy Name instead of the blasphemous answer of one my name is I am he might reply in the words of the Demonaick in the Gospel to Jesus Legion for we are many ask their Principles one tells you one thing another another and all from the same Infallible Spirit nay the same man shall transform himself into several shapes they cannot stand before Scripture or Reason when the Sun appears the night of Bats and Owls is come I profess my self to be ashamed to meddle with this Accuser who is so
Infamous for Lying that all the world can confute him The Papists in their Casulstical Writing have asserted It was lawful for a Priest if suspected and taken to say or swear it before a Justice of Peace or a Judge Quest Are you a Priest Answ No that is of Bacchus or any Pagan God Quest Did you ever read Mass Answ No that is not with a design to tell you of it c They can deny at the place of Execution any Treason or Murther and say they are as innocent as the Child to Night born Why because forfooth they have been since absolv'd nay if occasion be that they dyè Protestants too that is they protest again the rieresies of the times It was well said of Mr. Mead the true English-man in the late Reign to his Immortal Honour when Sir D. C. told him of the Quakers Knwery about five years since in Brislot in cheating the King a piece of Roguery too long to relate the men chosen as the best of them by his Majesty's order to decide the matter were so vile that he said thou hast them upon the hip spare not a man of them B. C. i◠a Foxonian Quaker Ideal with him as such not a separate Quaker these roundly answered to Dr. Lancasters Questions Bp. of Londons Ciraplain about Christ c. when the Foxonians did it sophistically the Separate ones answer'd well to alltl equestions from Philadelphia in Pensilvania when the Foxonian ones there refused to do it they swallow all that Fox once said and now Penn without chewing To Revile and Curie is Common Oh! what puputridstinking words come from the mouths of the pretenders to Pure Breathings No doubt when some of the Quakers Fellow-Heathen in America hear their hard character of the best Ministers with us they think we are like Canabals or like Infernal Fiends Some when they drank of the old doctrine of Christianity desired not their new 5 Luke 39. but said as he of the wine The Old is better Deism is now a thriving weed in England and Quakerisin is of kin to it The Deist observe and Quakers are very friendly one to another how writes Mr. Nor is of Love to God as Creator Benefactor Why not Redeemer I have been ask'd the question Is be a Deist I do not say he is this is he that hath written so favourably of the Quakers to his perpetual shame I am informed the Quakers Preach more a crucified Christ within a year or two then ever they have done this thirty year Well G. Keith and other Reformed Quakers have taught them to speak well but have they yet taught them to think or believe well They say no All but meer Tricks Ignoramus Whitehead now Preacheth Christs Body is in Heaven that was once in the Grave Well if you be Inspired Persons now you were Impostors once Now for some of B. C's Assertions the naming of which is enough or more than enough for any that have read my Quakers Impostors or Apoststes proved from their Avowed Principles and contrary Practises he saith That he found not Truth or Serse till be came ro p 62. of that Book That the Bristol Quakers never left their meeting in the last Persecution unless when Sick c. not Lawrence Steel or others That the Quakers generally bow not to men c. That George Whitehead and William Penn did ever hear their open Testimoney that in my bro◠I grant the Quakers are more just than others and careful not to tell a Lye That I plead for Lying as a Lawful thing That I bring 2 Tim. 15. When I call to mind the unfeigned faith that dwelt in thy Grandmother Lois c. as a place of scripture for playing at Bowles and Nine-pins These and many more things I dare be bold to say He knows all to be false He must have a face of brass that asserts this No wonder Quakers cry shame and Mr Penn sent me so civil a Message to disown his being concerned since the Cry about it This man hath cut the throat of their cause If I prove they Bow I prove them Apostates on this mans Confession then Penn is an Apostate and the Quakers so and B. C. himself so and that since he wrote this Book as well as before as Quakers themselves confess Other things I shall Reply to That I had a fit of Love Mell ancholy made my Confessions and put up in a Mad-house BOX Hence I am call'd what he pleas'd times without number as he had this from the Devil so I suppose W. C. from his Book if this be false if I never was one hour in any such place What Defamers are these Who shall believe any thing on their Evidence as all my Friends and Enemies too acquainted with me know these stories to be some of the most Impudent Falshoods that ever were written as I declare they are and I never heard the stories till now so I say as the Epistle I will give Five Pounds to any man that shall prove it I hope no Ministers for my sake will regard what these Monsters not Men say of them and People not Regard That R. V. denies That be corfessed to me their Minds were changed about leaving the place of Publick Worship in time of Persecution That Monsieur Whitehead denies he expounded Solomon's Fool for a Holy Man Whoso is Simple Prov. 9.4 Give me any form of Words as an Oath or Protestation before God I will use them That I heard both these two things with my own Ears the Cretians are alway Lyars and so are the Quakers Should I say I this day saw a Quaker carryed along Drunk by six Men holding his Hands Legs Body that I never saw none so carryed but he I care not for their denying when so many Spectators know it True That he knows not the story of the 40 days Fast c. Never heard von of Mrs. C. of Plymouth if her husband A. be alive let him thank you not me you force me to it I care not to mention names for reason-mentioned in that Book That W. P. denies the story of Mr. Nicholet whom he caused to be turned out of his place for Licensing a Book against Popery in the Reign of K. James the 2d Why had not Mr. Penn gotten this under Mr. Nicholet's own Hand Let him yet do it it much concerns him No no his guilty Conscience keeps him from desiring it Mr. Nicholets honesty credit from doing it That I say I have 〈…〉 me yet I write what I have read and heard Every Child B. C. excepted would know the sease of this Did any one think tho I am far from my Study and friends I must forget all that ever I read and heard too That I said I would not propose a Question to William Pnen and yet did about not serving Protestant but Popish Kings in Wars when the sense is plain I proposed it not for an Answer to me he being suspected to
West-Countrey Wise-A-ker Crackbrain'd Reprimand to a late Book call'd Mr. Keith no Presbyterian nor Quaker but George the Apostate Hammered about his own Numscul being a Joco Satyrrical Return to a late Tale of a Tub emitted by a Reverend Non-Con at present residing not far from Bedlam By W.C. NOw Monsieur I hope I have pleas'd you to the heart and no more will you send a Hue and Cry after me for taring away a Rag of the Title of your Book What a Blustering Title is here I must not examine its Grammar or Oratory because the Writer is a great stranger to both as will be soon enough discovered In the mean while I remember I have heard that when K. James I. was about to Knight one Williams of Essex he asked him what his Christen Name was He answered penny ruden buden budibras penny knip knap clip clap clun clap I think said the King the Old Nick was thy Gadfer that gave thee such a name Sir Ruden I cannot tell what Williams arise said he whoever gave him his name let the world judge who made your Title for you who is the Father of Eye the Slanderer of the Brethren Well Mr. Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidantur Malleatus I can't tell what let me parly with you Empty Casks make great Sounds Your Title that Blazing Comet doth it presage any mischief certainly it s own disappearing You tell the World strange news of me that I assure you I never heard till now Had you it from the Infallible Spirit and Writings of Friend B. C. of my Love Melancholy and being at Box mentioned and hinted 10 times in your little Pamphlet Always on the same Tune you know what Creature is so When was this when was I at Box or any such place Oh I have hit it it was when the Presbyterian said If ever Jesus Christ was D it was when he made the Lords Prayer which W. C. makes no bones of to write plainly though a Turk would hardly wirte so of his Mahomet What will not Church and Quakerish Jacobites say W. C. a Church-man he says and perhaps the first letter may stand for Wicked Well Mr. W. C. you Wicked Church-man I promise any of your Brethren Five Pound if they can before me prove your Charge You say You are afraid lest by answering me you should be forced to go to Bedlam too c. Sure here are had simptomes of hastniag there but alone for me and in the close of all you anticipate an objection to your Readers What think you Sirs am not I almost as mad as my Antagonist to answer his rambling stuff How doth W. C. answer by granting the thing but promising Reformation Excuse it this once I will trouble you no more Well then You have been once mad if this be granted your Readers are mad too if they regard such a mans promise out of his fit much more if in it I never heard what the fate was that besel me for my High Demands for Preaching Had you it from B. C. you are grown a great Church-Friend to Friends you write of Mr. Penn Mr. Whitebead and other Quakers with great veneration and devoir and have many a good word for them They Allegorize not away the Literal Sense if Scripture though it is so notoâ—â—ous they have done it often though to serve a turn they shall call for the Literal Sense Take it up look on it lay it aside again but Mr. Keith and I are both fit for Bedlam it is pitty the Hospital in Moor-fields should part-us c. Nay which is more strange Mr. Bugg a Reformed-Quaker and now a Zealous Pious Church-man cannot escape the Lash He Mr. Pennyman and Mr. Crisp left the Quakers on disgusts and particular Pecques why had you not told what they were for fear of a Confutation All know they left them only for their Blasphemies Heresies and Abominable Practices But that which is almost unpardonable is your Vilifying the Man whom all the World Admires an high Episcopal Man too the Author of the Snake in the Grass All that wrote against the Quakers before play'd with them till he wrote that unanswerable piece p. 17. That his writings are collections of those Gentleman 's before named which is say you as if we should take an account of the Presbyterians from Bishop Laud or Heylen or of our Church from Bellarmine and Harding Well macht Mr. Churchman say I but the mischief is his Collections are not in their Books in good truth Sir you might well ask your Reader Whether he did not think you mad Mr. Snake consulted the Authors he cites and it would have been a most Injurious Charge to so great a Man to be so unworthily Reflected on had it not been by such a D as all must see that are Schollars and read your Book He Mr. Keith and I in our Three New Ways of Dealing with the Quakers help not one another to Materials after you censure us all as if Fools or Madmen you tell us Such Fools as you think to make Fools of them Quakers You ask us How doth it appear Mr. Keith is Reformed He desires you to appear so do I there is no end of Printing in your way Cite at large and then dispute what is the sense of this word and that word but neither you nor William Penn will meet Mr. Keith or me Come torth you Cowardly Defamers shew your Faces if you dare Because Mr. Keith changed not in any one Article of Faith may he not therefore be â—â—anged in other things You say You set as a looker on That the Joy of all Ministers about G. K. is groundless and they be all mistaken What is the Bishop Lord Mayor and Clergy mad too as well as G. K. and Trepidantium Mallous Conformists know not who you are You seem to own your self to be a Jacobite though not a Socinim and that I have hit the mark about your being paid by the Quakers for the Service you do them and ask me Why may not I as well as Dr. Stubbe It is an old question Why may not one man play the Knave as well as another Perhaps you are of the opinion of H. P. in the time of the War when one call'd him Knave said If thou wert not a Fool thou wouldst be one too now Yet you tell me I would unsay all I have written against the Quakers for Money Well Brother I am then no fool tho' so often call'd so You ask me Whether when I had a Priviledge Place I ever put on my Surplice No Sir when I was at the worst I was never so Mad yet as to put my Shirt on all my Cloaths I will not only as soon but sooner take Du Moulins Fools Coat which though he would wear all would not Would not a Fools Coat well become a Minister of the Gospel when I was a Preacher at Brislington and Charleton I had Presbyterian Ordination I baptized according to the Directory I
Adam before be fell the Creation was opened to me I was at a stand whether I should practice Phisick for the good of Mankind seeing the natures and vertues of the Creatures were so opened to me Wonderful Depths were opened to me beyond what words can declare p. 10. All I meet with cannot bear mans coning to Adam's state before be fell Reader Tremble at the next Blasphemy How then can they bear to hear of man's coming to the measure of the fulness of Christ which he before said be did Observe Reader what Nonsense and Impertinencies are in these Openings I doubt not Drunkenness and Swearing are no sins in comparison of such belying of God Whoever said It was enough to go Oxford to be made a Minister No many there and that come from thence are too Ignorant to be such I knew one there a good Schollar that Preacht that could not tell me whose Wife Sarah was how many Tribes there were I knew another who when he preacht on 1 Eccles 2 began thus Vanity at the first was but a little imp but now it is grown to such an exuberant Whale that it can swallow three Jonas's at a morsal c. I have heard of one in Exon Colledge coming down late to dine in the Hall was asked the reason Oh said he I was reading the pleasantest story that ever I read in my Life if it be true What story said they then he began to tell the story of Joseph and his Brethren Now Friend George it is opened to me that it is not enough for a man to be brought up in a Shoomakers-shop to be made a Minister The Lord would teach them c. Some kept to this and cared not for any mans teaching but after all George sets up for a Teacher himself contrary to his first sayings when You need not that any man teach you Is none of the Hereticks he had Detected for John at that time taught them by his Epistle George was Adam's equal for Perfection and what Christs too yet the aforenamed Goldney a famous or rather infamous Quaker among other notorious untruths by him and Wyat denyed That any Quaâ—ers beld Perfection no not George Fox himself for I knew him said he then run on Thou art a Lyar Report and we will Report Report and we will Report Had George been a Physician none had Cur'd half so many as he had kill'd why had he not acquainted Physicians of those Vertues and Operations of the Creatures Opened to him for the good of Mankind No no the Cheat had then soon been discovered How did Mr. Penn and other Friends like the Pudding that George put Herbs into c. when they were almost choakt with eating it Truly I believe they had rather have been at a Friends Spiritual Supper at Bristol who invited several all sat an hour or more at the Table none were helpt nor did Eat the meat carried away Friends I invited you to a Spiritual Supper which made some Quakers-joqne when one said Truly he sound great refreshment there I could prove all if they dared to face me On goes George The Lord said to me go to such a Steeple-house and testify against that Ido'l and the Worshippers there I cured a distracted Woman Many were cured of Infirmities and Devils were cast out One hearing a Priest in a Steeple-house the word of the Lord came to him dost thou not know my Servant is in Prison so he came to me One said of me there was never such a Plant bred in England O Pharisaical Vain-glorying I was moved of the Lord to put of my Shoos and to go through the City of Litchfield and cry Wo to the bloody City of Litchfield I saw in the street a pool of blood and my feet were warm I knew not what it was but I was told in Dioclesian's time Thousands of Christians were there Martyr'd so I was to go without any shoos in their blood Who can believe this Fable One said to a Justice of Peace an Angel came in at Beverly Church It was said George Observe the trick he soon got in and went out It was strange to see a man come in without a Band. Bands and Hatbands were once condemned by the Infallible Spirit as well as Lace and Ribonds I cryed preach freely Did George do so People were moved by my Groans Did he not groan on purpose I saw a Profession without a possession See how proud the Fool was of a common Gingle going up and down among Illetirate Countrey People When they saw the man with leathern Breaches come in the Priests would be gone Terror surprized the Hippocrites Some of them would say The Hireling fleeth but forgot it was when the Wolf cometh the Quaker I had a Vision of a Bear and two Mastiffs that should pass by me and do me no barm which was the Constable So may we call every idle dream a Vision from the Lord. Meat was set before me as I was about to Eat the word of the Lord came to me saying Eat not the bread of him that hath an evil eye that is a thought or motion arose Immediately I arose from the Table and eat nothing c. Every Whim was at first a word from the Lord till they mistook Places Persons and Things and then Folly to all men His Miracles were no more real than Popish ones of the Rood of Grace Christs Blood the blood of a Duck in a vial c. when he tells of Outward Ordinances know Reader the design of this Book is a Lye in this thing We affirm That as Food or Phisick lookt on handled tasted neither kill hunger nor cure pains so the bare talking or knowing of Scripture will not do without a deep impression on the heart yet the work of God lies with the head for knowledge as well as with the Heart for Grace Must Men Experience Scripture and know it after They were of old commanded to teach their Children the Law Christ said How readest thou None said Theeves Theeves I thought to have gone on to George's Epistles full of Blasphemy and Falshood but I grow weary of such stuff and I suppose so doth the Reader too After this Impostor and False Prophet condemned teaching by Man but by the Light he becomes a Teacher himself after he disown'd all Courts himself The Light was Sufficient He pretends a word from the Lord to set up such Assemblies by them was the Light tryed thousands of Quakers seeing this â—are-fac'd Iniquity hated him for his Hipocrisie The Author of the Spirit of the Hat cries out O Popery O Prelacy O Presbytery This was the thing we condemned in them Mr. Rogers wrote smartly against them and tells you what a bag of Iniquity Friend George was Whereas George call'd Ministers False Prophets they were strictly neither false Prophets nor true ones they were True Teachers but pretended not to Prophesie George Fox in another book I have seen calls the Scripture and