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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41270	An apology for the people called Quakers, and an appeal to the inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk, or whom else it may concern	Field, John, 1652-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing F861; ESTC R15981	8,513	18

charged It 's hoped their Patient Suffering and Peaceable Deportment under all the various Revolutions of Government will sufficiently Evince the contrary and their Passive and Patient Suffering wherein for Conscience sake they could not Actively obey may well demonstrate their Regard to Magistracy And altho' in some things they have seemed to differ from those of other Perswasions yet who can Convict them of Error in any Fundamental Doctrine of the Christian Religion or of their not holding that which is truly Essential to Salvation and agreeable to the holy Scriptures Which holy Records how ever they have been Misrepresented or falsly Accused as Slighters and Contemners of them I do declare on their behalf they have always had and still have a high Esteem of and true Value for them above all other Writings or Books and their frequent use of them and pressing their Children and Servants to the reading therein may sufficiently Demonstrate to those that know them the Innocency of this abused People Be you therefore like the Noble Bereans search the holy Scriptures and you may see their Writings and Doctrines are not contrary thereto but may be plainly proved thereby For they desire not any farther to be Credited or to have what they Write or Preach received by any but as its consonant thereto and answers that Holy Principle and Divine Oracle that the Great and All-wise Creator of all things hath placed in every Man's Heart and Conscience Suspend therefore your Censure and forbear your Complaints till the Contrary of these things are cleared to you by sound Reason and plain Scripture without any corrupt Meanings false Glosses or Interpretations And if they were a People mistaken in any Point or were Clouded in their Understandings would it not I beseech you consider much more become those that esteem themselves Learned Ministers of the Gospel in Meekness to Instruct and by sound Doctrine to Convince them rather than to call them and Charge every one of them to be Blasphemers and make no Proof thereof It 's true the Quakers complied to meet them at West-Dereham the 8th of December 1698. altho' there was not a Mutual Consent of the things proposed in the Letters that passed between them relating to the Conference as those that peruse the Letters may find yet so Eager were these Men and Resolute that in their last Letter to the Quakers they tell them Their Measures are Fixt and they may chuse whether they will Meet them upon the Terms resolved upon or No Yet the Quakers went and in the presence of the People requested to have the Authors Names Titles of Books and Pages they pretended to prove their Charges out of but instead of that were Hallowed and Hissed at by some of those Clergy-Men as such of you as were present may well Remember And if these People must be accounted Blasphemers if they disown not those Books or their Friends that Writ them without seeing the Books or what 's in them how can they be either just to their Friends or true to themselves for ought any Man to condemn another without full Hearing and due Examination or would those Clergy-Men account it just that any should charge them as the highest of Criminals and Condemn and Sentence them as such for what some of their Brethren have Writ in Books which they never saw nor read nor knew the Contents of or would they be so unjust to themselves and false to their Brethren as to acknowledge them Guilty in such sort and condemn them for Writing that they themselves neither knew or never saw If not Why should the Quakers without seeing the Books and examining the Contents be obliged to condemn their Friends for Publishers of Blasphemy or be esteemed Blasphemers Consider this I beseech you and examine whether it agrees with Christ's Doctrine All things whatsoever ye would that Men should do unto you do ye even so to them for this is the Law and the Prophets Or whether there is any ground to conclude that the Chargers would ever have refused to have given the Account desired by the Quakers if they had been well assured that by the Express words of these Books out of which they pretend to prove their Charge it would be clearly and evidently proved Let these things be duely considered Oh ye Inhabitants of the Counties aforesaid or to whom this may come and let Christian Moderation be exercised towards your Peaceable Neighbours and Country-Men Remember the Anthem the Angels sounded when they published the Gospel was Glory to God on High on Earth Peace and Good Will to Men. And if we all endeavour to be found in the Practice of this it will render us more like to him that we all Profess who said By this shall all Men know that ye are my Disciples if ye have love one to another It 's those that dwell therein that wear his Badge For whoso hateth his Brother is a Murtherer and ye know that no Murtherer hath Eternal Life abiding in him for Envy slayeth the silly One and Hatred is the Badge of a Persecutor and renders People too like him that first Envied and was Wrathful and then Murthered his Brother because the Lord had regard to his Sacrifice Yet the Lord said to Cain If thou dost well shalt thou not be accepted And if thou dost not well Sin lies at the Door And while Sin lies there it 's a Bar to keep Man from Acceptance with God altho' he may Sacrifice and Offer he 'll fall short of his Duty whilst that 's loved and lived in But he that Envies not but Loves his Neighbour as himself keeps the great Commandment of him that in all things we ought to hear and it 's those that abide in his Love that knows of his Doctrine Therefore Oh ye Inhabitants aforesaid and all People of what Degree Rank or Quality foever let a serious Consideration which is an Effect of true Wisdom and a due Examination which all Wise Men ought to use be had and made by you before you Exclaim against a People ye know no Evil by be not hurried into a Misapprehension of this Peoples Doctrines by Men filled with prejudice and whose Interest prompts them in General to Lurk in which lies Deceit and therein under pretence of Mischief Threatning Danger Venemous Doctrines Blasphemous Books and Pernicious Principles tending to subvert the Fundamentals of Christianity do but endeavour to draw you into the like Enmity with them Let your Experience now which you have had of this People under the various Revolutions of Government in this Nation for above Forty Years speak for them whether they have not been of those that are quiet in the Land but these things which are false and slanderous Stories suggested without Ground or Proof are like Demetrius's Exclamations against Paul saying Moreover ye See and Hear that not alone at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul hath persuaded and turned