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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

Concern therein by placing the Publishing and Printing of it upon another Person Now he is for exposing and doing what mischief he can against us having presumptuously given Sentence of our Destruction positively concluding that there is no hopes of our Repentance The Lord rebuke the Insolency Pride Presumption and Envy of this gain-saying Luciferian Spirit For what end does John Pennyman come so often into our Meetings to Preach and make a noise among us smiteing and reflecting upon the Testimonies of the Servants of Christ exalting himself as Judge over all What can his end be therein It cannot be to Preach us unto Repentance which he has already judged there is no hopes of neither can We and our Friends receive him as either Prophet or Minister of Christ though he intrudes himself as into the place of such an one or at least as if he would have People believe that he had some special Commission But he appears so very empty dry and dead that the least Child of Light doth see him and his forced presumptuous Messages to be both void of Life and Charity as well as of Faith and Hope having no Hope of their Repentance to whom he Preaches He hath told us the Righteous are as bold as a Lyon but where was his Boldness in the times of our late Sufferings and Persecutions when the Informers were abroad He came not then to Preach Prophesie or reprove among us he would then rather keep obscure than forfeit his 20 or 40 l. for Preaching in our publick Meetings To whom I conclude Oh John mayst thou yet be humbled unto Repentance Mayst thou yet find a place of Repentance for thy great Envy and all thy hard Speeches against the Lords Servants and People My Soul yet desires thy Repentance if a place be yet to be found that thy Gray Hairs may not go down to the Grave in Sorrow and Contempt thy days are hastning towards a Period recollect thy Self and consider thy ways and the evil and mischief thou hast attempted and done against the Lord's Heritage and Servants not only against the Living but also against the Dead who are at rest in Christ The Lord open thine Eyes and hasten thee to seek Repentance if it may stand with his good Pleasure otherwise thy Destruction hastens Remember and think of it From a Friend to Truth and thy poor Soul G. W. London the 14th 1st Month 1690 1 The Principal Passages OF A Letter sent to a Friend And here placed for a PREFACE Dear Friend J. O. SInce that thou madest Enquiry of me concerning the Book in Manuscript entituled The Quakers Unmasked c. what we thought to do in it This is to acquaint thee That though such kind of Controversies are not desirable nor pleasant to me any more than to thy self whom I know to be a Man of a peaceable Spirit and unwilling as well as I that the Religion of us and all Conscientious Dissenters should be exposed to open Contempt by such Controversies and raking up Occasions Yet upon a serious and strict Examination of the said Book with the principal Quotations Observations and Argumentative Passages I with some others have been stirred up and enabled by the Lord out of a Holy Zeal for his Truth and People and from a Necessity laid upon us to draw up and compose an Answer to the said Book First To reprehend his Envy and Malice And Secondly To vindicate our Innocency towards the Government and Consistency of our Addresses to the King with our Principle and Conversations as a People from the beginning And for thy Information take the following Account and General Notes of our Proceeding and Sense in this Matter viz. That we have an Answer in Manuscript already prepared to John Pennyman's late Book in Manuscript not willing to publish it until he first give us occasion by publishing his and that therein we have by sufficient Demonstration proved him guilty of apparent Lyes I. In the general Charge against the People called Quakers II. Against Particulars as also of most gross Hypocrisie and Contradiction to himself Malice and base Temporizing and manifest Falshood in divers Particulars as to Matters of Fact in clamouring against the People called Quakers for their Declarations and Addresses to the King of their peaceable Intentions c. All his Allegations and Retortions upon any other whatsoever cannot excuse nor hold parallel with himself as to matter of Fact His Unjustness in making General Reflections from some Particulars That we reserve our Answer in readiness for publication if his Malice prompts him to publish his not desiring or expecting any Mercy from him That his Book some of the Persons concerned in it do detain it being to be communicated according to the Title-page That his Book if published may be prejudicial to thousands of Innocent Unconcerned People in this Nation And no Advantage to the Author but to his great and utter Disgrace Shame and Contempt in the Eyes of all sorts of Moderate Indifferent People it tending to beget Jealousies and an evil Eye in the Rulers and may bring in question all Religion under the Name of Dissenters c. if the Lord prevent not That if John Pennyman will not be reduced to Christianity but proceed on in his Work to render us obnoxious to the Government which is the tendence of much of his Book some of our Friends out of their Zeal for God and his Truth Religion and People are resolved through God's Assistance and with his Permission further to detect and unmask him until he learns so much of Morality and common Civility as to live peaceably among his Neighbours and lay aside this his Factious and Turbulent Work against peaceable Subjects This in hast at present I am thy assured Friend G. W. The 29th of the 9th Month 1677. Christ's Lambs defended FROM SATAN's RAGE HAving lately had some Opportunity and Occasion to view a Book in Manuscript entituled The Quakers Unmasked signed by John Pennyman and charging the People called Quakers with Double Dealing Fals-heartedness Contradictions Confusions and Temporizing such Wickedness as can hardly be Paralleld as great Dissemblers Deceivers Deluders of the People as have appeared in this our Age Lyers False Prophets and to be avoided and witnessed against Deceitful Workers Hypocrites charging G. F. to be one of the greatest Hypocrites and Deceivers in this Nation deceiving the People threatning him with cutting down c. Here 's a hideous out-cry but the Falsness and Malice thereof will appear anon when we come to his pretended Proofs which consist of Collections taken out of their own Writings as he saith which he hath so placed that he saith those of the meanest Capacity may easily discern and see them to be as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders as have appeared in our Age And for all this he pretends the Discharge of his own Conscience His placing his Collections to make his Charge obvious against the People called Quakers are in two