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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96383	Antichrist in flesh unmask'd, the Quakers Christianity vindicated, from the malicious and injurious attempts of [brace] Edward Paye, William Alcott, & Henry Loader, in their late defaming confused book falsly styled, Antichrist in spirit unmask'd, or Quakerism a great delusion, wherein their causeless outrage, folly and falshood are deservedly exposed.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1888; ESTC R186514	11,564	37

Brother Thomas Hicks his abominable Forgeries and Lies in his fictions Dialogues and others long since refuted to his own and his Compurgators and Abetters utter Shame and Disgrace And you who are such credulous Approvers and Espousers of this Edward Paye's malicious Work against us do charge us with this horrid Lye viz. That the Holy Scriptures this Generation of Men contemn and vilifie God knows the contrary and he will judge righteously between us You have herein Grossly Belyed and Defamed us our real Intention and our Solemn Profession for the Holy Scriptures and sincere Esteem of them as therein we have been Credited by the Government and many others we doubt not but we shall still have Credit against your shameful Lyes and Defamations to the contrary whereby you have most Diabolically and Foully Foamed out your own Shame and Envy as will farther appear That the Foaming Unclean Spirit and Lying Devil is not cast out of you Oh! how well it would be for you if you would humbly wait for and own Christ's Appearance in Spirit and Power to cast out that Unclean Lying Spirit that Possesses you and has moved you to approve and divulge so many gross Lyes as are in your said Book Out of your Brother Thomas Hick's Dialogue you represent the Quaker to answer thus viz. When we make use of the Scripture it is only to quiet and stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule p. 14. This is one of your Brother Hick's gross Forgeries in the Quaker's Name which you have taken on Trust out of his fictitious Dialogue Oh! blush and be ashamed of adopting and promoting such False Deceitful Stuff and also of your subjoyning in the Person of the Quakers this Forgery viz. We own not the Scripture we seemingly allow it but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule These Words subjoyned to Hick's Forgeries I charge upon you Edward Paye William Alcott and Henry Loader as abominably False and Slanderous Will this Deceitful Method bring any Honour to you or honest Proselytes to your Church think ye Would you be Popular and Famous by such gross Forgery Is this the Fruit of your Religion you Dip and Proselyte People into You are hard put to it It is a Sign your Dispensation is decreasing and your Glory eclips'd when you can espouse and invent such gross Forgeries and make Lyes your Refuge Wo unto you Lying Hypocrites When and where did ever we the People called Quakers say as you say in our Name viz. That we own not the Scripture we seemingly allow it but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours c. These your horrid abusive Forgeries will be a sore Blot and heavy Burthen upon you And now pray observe what strange Test or Proof your Agent Edward Paye puts upon us to evince Immediate Inspiration viz. Now let the Quakers resolve me by their Immediate Inspirations What those Things were that Jesus did that are not written John 21.25 And what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground John 8.6 8. or else let their proud Boastings of Immediate Inspiration be condemned to perpetual Silence and Shame cover their Faces And waiting for their Resolve herein c. p. 15 16. And why so If we do not resolve by Immediate Inspiration what those things were that Jesus did that are not written John 21.25 And what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground John 8.6 8. Hereupon you have past Unjust Judgment and falsly charged us with proud Boasting and argued absurdly against Immediate Inspiration as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all things it knows or could write as many Books of those Things Christ did as was supposed the World it self could not contain John 21.25 And then by this you Baptists will greatly fall short of being Christ's Ministers or Embassadors and have shut your selves out from any Share in the Spirit of Christ or Divine Inspiration And how then will you prove your Call to Baptize People in Water Though herein you have most egregiously contradicted your selves in pretending to Christ in you from 2 Cor. 13.5 and to be the Temples of God 1 Cor. 6.19 To be in Christ new Creatures 2 Cor. 5. p. 22. And to have the Spirit of Christ or else none of his p 23. And that Christ gives his Spirit to them that obey him Acts 5.32 p. 69. But does he give the Knowledg of all those other things that he did which are not written to all them that obey him think ye Or otherwise is it just to condemn them all to perpetual Silence and Shame for owning that Christ has given them his Spirit when they cannot tell all those other things Must we needs be as omniscient as the Spirit of God is or else be condemned as wholly destitute thereof Do you think you have well argued or given just Judgment in this Matter Oh! Blind Guides self-contradicting and self-condemned Hypocrites How hath Antichrist appeared in your Proud and Envious Flesh against Christ in Spirit On Matthew 24.26 you say It is more than probable That Christ pointed at this Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he is in the Secret Chambers which is a gross Lye by the way ay within thee not at a distance from thee c. To deem them Impostors that say Christ is within thee or them is to render the Holy Apostles Impostors who preached Christ within the Word nigh in thy Heart Rom. 10.6 7 8. which therefore was not separate from them and only at a Distance yea and to render your selves also Impostors who have confessed the same Truth of Christ within p. 22 23 69. from 2 Cor. 13.5 1 Cor. 6.19 2 Cor. 5.17 Eph. 2.22 John 16.7 Acts 5.32 Thus you Anabaptist Preachers have contradicted your selves as well as shewn your Antichristian Spirit against Christ within and that you are blind Guides and self-contradictory Opposers of the Mystery of Christ as well as Defamers of us for his sake You most shamefully belie the People called Quakers in your Comparison p. 18. where you say The Names they i. e. the Quakers give the Holy Scriptures viz. no better than an Old Almanack Precepts and Traditions of Men c. Pray where do they that is the People called Quakers give the Holy Scriptures those Names you charge upon them They are such gross notorious old Lyes that it is high Time for you to be horribly ashamed thereof as they are quite out of date with all sober minded People that know us so we doubt not but you who are now the Promoters thereof will be as much out of Credit as the first Fomenters have long been You abuse and wrong us about the Titles of our Books as if higher than we give to the Holy Scriptures perverting them by leaving out the Explanatory part of the Titles as for instance A true and Everlasting

Rule being the first Words of the Title you leave out the next following in the same Sentence viz. from God discovered thus you deal very disingenuously by them and others p. 18 c. We know none among us that call the Holy Scriptures a Dead or Carnal Letter nor do we own the Words By the Holy Scriptures we intend the Holy Testimonies and Doctrin of Faith and Practice therein contained which is both Living and Spiritual to them that are alive unto God in Christ Though the outward Letter or Writing in it self alone be Dead the Holy Matter contained in it is Living to them that are Living and Spiritual There is the Letter of the Shadows of the Law and Old Covenant which is abolished by Christ and therefore Dead And all Shadows and Carnal Ordinances comparatively are but dead Letter When Paul preferred the Newness of the Spirit to the Oldness of the Letter and the Ministry of the Spirit above the Letter this was not to slight or contemn the Holy Scriptures No more do we in allowing the Holy Spirit the same Preference which the Scripture allows Moreover to them that are Dead to the Spirit to God and Christ the Scripture is Dead the Words therein are Dead and even the Spiritual Living Ministry is Dead as to them The Savour of Death unto Death in them that Perish but the Savour of Life unto Life in them that are Saved As the meer Characters or Letters as written in Paper and Ink have no Sound nor Voyce till Sound be given them by the Reader so the Words contained in them or Preaching from them have no Life but as the Spirit gives it without which all Preaching is Dead and Fruitless I am persuaded in Conscience That in these things our Friends real Intentions in their Writings is explained and never to contemn the Holy Scriptures and our Adversaries hard and ill Constructions answered And though the Holy Spirit from whence the Holy Scriptures proceeded be of itself All sufficient to guide in all the Ways of God both with and without the Scriptures or where they are not in Writing this is not to contemn or slight them where they are but to use them with the help of the same Spirit rightly to understand and practise them It being the Inspiration of the Almighty that giveth Vnderstanding of the Mind and Will of God and without which the Scriptures cannot be truly understood It was from the same Inspiration or Spirit of God the Holy Scriptures first came and from thence they had their Authority and real Credit And by no other Argument or Demonstration can the Divine Authority of Holy Scriptures be effectually proved or evinced to such as question their Authority but by the same Holy Spirit of God in Man bearing Witness to the Truths therein contained It must be something superior to the Scriptures that must so prove their Divine Authority to them that question the same which we do not at all blessed be God and therefore Challenge these Adversaries E. Paye and W. Alcott to prove that the People called Quakers or any Persons continuing in Society with them do say The Holy Scripture is but a dead carnal Letter or that so call the Doctrins or Testimonies therein contained for we positively deny any such Expressions Note also that these Adversaries have apparently perverted and wronged George Whitehead's Words both in Citation and Construction about the Holy Scriptures and the Person of Christ p. 11 12. and 22. And likewise grosly Abused Wrong'd and Mischarged G. Fox James Parnell G. Keith foully perverting and misconstruing their Words p. 28 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 59. And they have also Abused Vilified Defamed and Wronged W. Smith H. Smith J. Naylor E. Burroughs Isaac Pennington S. Crisp W. P. and others Men of better Fame and Repute than themselves and more Righteous and Innocent than their Defamers Now I would seriously enquire of you William Alcott and Henry Loader 1. Was Edward Paye deputed and approved by your Congregation or any select Assembly of Elders or Ministers of the Baptized People or Churches to Write and Publish his said Book against the People called Quakers Or did he do it on his own Authority and Head with your Approbation only 2. What Ministers or Elders of your Churches besides your selves did peruse and approve of Edward Paye's said Book before Printed and of the Printing thereof to defame us as a People 3. Is the said Edward Paye indeed esteemed among you and your Society a good Christian a Person of a Godly and Sober Conversation of sound Judgment Piety and Parts meet to manage Matters of Controversie about Religion 4. Do you intend to stand by him the said Edward Paye in all the Matters that he has Written in Charge both against certain Persons and against the People called Quakers in his Book Pray give us your direct and plain Answer to these Questions the Reason whereof being 1. That Edward Paye and you also have concerned us as a People in your severe and unjust Accusations in his and your Book 2. That we have an Answer drawn up more Comprehensive and Particular reserved for Publication if we may find a farther Occasion or Necessity for it Therefore 't is but equal and reasonable you should be so Ingenuous as to tell us plainly whether your said Book with our Answer may affect your selves only or your whole Society of People seeing it affects us as a whole Society of People If your Book against us be only your own private Act whose Names are to it and not more generally owned nor stood by among your People we would be so just as not to reflect it on your whole Society or People London the 2d of the 1st Mo. 1691 2. By a Lover of Peace and the Souls of Men George Whitehead TO conclude in general against your false Charges and manifold Abuses and Calumnies contained in your said Book i. e. Antichrist in Spirit to anticipate farther Objections on the Matters herein We sincerely Profess and Declare in the Sight of God and Men that we do faithfully Believe and Profess That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by Divine Inspiration And that the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven above namely the Father Son and Holy Ghost are one True and Eternal God Blessed for evermore whose Omnipresence and Omnipotency we also Believe and Profess And the Divinity and Humanity or Manhood of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Eternal Word of God And that in the fulness of time he took Flesh being Miraculously Conceived by the Holy Ghost and Born of the Virgin Mary and suffered the cruel Death of the Cross as an Universal Offering and Sacrifice both in his Body and Blood shed thereon for the Sins of the whole World and was Buried and Rose again the third Day and Visibly Ascended was seen in his Ascending and passed into Heaven and Glory And that he Ascended far