i. e. these Quakers shall remain with you on Earth and shall follow you to the Lake My Fire of Indignation is kindled on you which shall burn for ever more All these Six Lines of their Fury is in the compass of one page of their 900 and of this their Reviling the Protestant Religion and Ministers his Vouchers Whitehead c. could not afford to abate any thing but as they say pour out full Cups of their Malice against the Ministers But out of the same Book which they say was writ by Command of the Lord the 31 day of the 10th Month 1655. unto all sorts of People yet these forging Foxonians have left out one whole Message to one sort of People called Cavaliers the Kings Friends p. 9. And in several places left out and altered and added Words and Sentences They proceed and say of the Ministers p. 190. Their Doctrines it 's not Doctrine are of the Devil They have filled the World with Damnable Heresies That Sprinkling Infants with Water is Baptism into the Faith of Christ and that the Steeple-house is the Church c. These are Damnable Heresies even to denying the Lord that bought them And say they this is the Doctrine of Devils And Lyes they speak in great numbers Page 195. These Teachers of this Generation are of them i. e. the Beast Whore and false Prophet of their Root and Off-spring c. Consider what God did to the Bishops and their Crew of Persecutors How the Lord overthew them P 261. You have been the Fountain of all this wickedness i. e. the Quakers Sufferings acted against the Just c. P. 162. Have been cursed Precedents to the Rulers and People who have followed your cruel steps of Envy And they have drunk in your Poysonous Doctrines not Doctrine Mens hearts have been filled with your Damnable Doctrine of Devils P. 269. The Time of your Overthrow draws near upon you all and despisable shall you be to all that fear the Lord. The Quakers Throats are open Sepulchres and not covered ones For say they Page 348. Their Worship and Ministry which stands not in exercise of pure Conscience but in Superstitious Idolatry His the Ministers Labour is abomination and deceiving of Souls And page 626. The Controversie hath been held forth between the Ministers of the Church of England on Antichrists part and the People called Quakers of the other part Here you see their Envy and Charge is against the Protestant Ministers in general Page 674. They say It 's not lawful for the Saints to joyn to your Ordinances nor own your Ministry No wonder they say their Testimony against Tythes is a Law of Christ's making for here they say It 's not lawful c. And page 672. To clear the Quakers from the guilt of the King's Sufferings and to incense the King and Nation against the Protestant Ministers say they If it be considered who they are that first raised the War against the King and Nation and who it was that first preached and prayed up the War and prosecuted it against his Father and who it was that cast out the Bishops and took their Revenues And yet none owned and encouraged Oliver and justified their Cruelty to King Charles the First 1648 more than the Quakers nay Fox and this very shameless E. B. condemned the King and his Friends and hath cast Infamy on his Name and Family as is before shewn and yet here have the face to say Their i. e. the Quakers Sufferings have been more cruel and unjust than towards them the King But they that can so contemn our Lords Sufferings and Blood and exalt their own as more Cruel and Unjust than His it 's no wonder that they also advance their own Sufferings above the Kings c. But they go on against the Ministers p. 687 Such as have been your i. e. the King's Enemies and and preach'd and pray'd and fought against you and now pray for you Can you trust that these will be faithful to you And whether thus to deny their former Oaths and Engagements is commendable Here these Quakers blame them for not keeping the Scotch Covenant or Solemn League which was against the King and House of Lords and to utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form as the Quakers elsewhere upbraid the Presbyterians for as is mentioned in T. C's Animadversions on G.W. 's Book But all these sufficiently prove the Maliciousness of these Quakers Spirits against the Protestant Ministers they accuse for not performing their Engagements against the King Lords and Bishops and yet also accuse them for what they did in performance Now were these Quakers as they falsely pretend they stand to their Principles and are the Kings Friends then they should not blame others for not performing but for engaging but it s plainly shewed they did not blame but encourage Oliver c. in what they did against both the Kings and boasted and bragged that they fought from first to last and accused Oliver c. for putting them out of the Army and it was because they maintained the Protestant Ministers and suffered Fox and Ed. Piot c. to be imprisoned that they accused and threatened Oliver for and not for any thing done against the King c. But have in this very Book in their squinting way justified it for here you see they say they stand to their Principles of Faith c. Oh two-fac'd envious Hypocrites Again p. 766. say they Antichrists false Ministry and Worship and Doctrines God will confound Now if any say this is true it is so but it 's all the Worship and Ministry of the English Protestants they so term and defame And page 730. Ye all have deceived the World and the Blood of Souls rests on you ye have been as Canker-Worms and that have corrupted the whole World whom have you not deceived by your Lyes c. God is weary of you and the time is at hand he will pluck you up by the Roots and visit you with great destruction and your Names shall be a reproach among Men the Lord will bring unresistable Destruction upon you The Earth is weary of you which you have corrupted with your false ways and the Kingdom groans under your Oppressions and the Earth will spue you out Again In p. 521. these Quakers are charged to joyn with the Cavalierish Party i. e. the Kings In denial of it say they That Generation of Priests are joyned with the Prelatical Cavalierish Party this is known in the Nation in the North especially Here you see they were then against the Kings Interest as well as the Ministers whom they maliciously inform against therefore for And p. 523. say the Quakers They i. e. Honest People see that wicked Interest of the Clergy prosper more than the Freedom of the People and this I say from the Lord That while that Interest of this false Priesthood is so much favoured you can never prosper nor the Nations
by the Devil but sure it was a worse Spirit instigated you to print and recommend that wicked Defamation of the Protestant Bible and Ministers then that G. W. could say his brought a great reproach on Friends but this wicked action of yours are far greater reproach to the English Protestants and more justly to be condemn'd but you knew who you pleased and that you had them great in Power to stand by and gratifie and incourage you in defaming the Protestant Ministers so that it was not then your Interest and therefore might and did say you were not concerned no not to vindicate but to defame the Protestants and although in your last years Foxonian Conclave in White-hart-court in your Laws then made you use not the same Terms because you have been detected as Tythes and Church Rates c. but do in more squinting quibbling terms that your Design and Presumption may not be so easily seen impose the same things saying we recommend unto you the holding up the Holy Testimony of Truth and that in all the parts of it for Truth is one and changes not and say they what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning it reproves still and so what it justified in the beginning i. e. the Actions in 1648. c. it justifies still for say they Truth i. e. the Foxonian Spirit is one and changes not hereby have they confirmed all their former Seditious Doctrines in Print as well against the King as against the Protestant Ministers nay all their contempts of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth's Person Blood and Sufferings therefore whatever seeming fair Confessions they may for to deceive the Government now make of owning the present Government as consisting of King House of Lords and Bishops and Church of England as now Established and the Scriptures and Christ yet they have hereby i. e. their Meetings Injunction not only owned but also in as plain Terms as they durst commanded their Subjects to hold them up and in order thereto it is that they do so defend their old Blasphemies and Seditious Printed Ancient Testimonies of their Idol of Jealousie Fox c. whilst they pretend to believe and own the contrary And although this Tryal hath been long wrot yet had not been now published but that they instead of disowning these erronious Ancient Testimonies as they ought if they were True Protestants they cover and excuse them and pretend they are such quiet innocent ones in the Land and therefore that People may not be deceived by their good words but may see them as they are envious Slanderers and Persecutors of the Protestant Ministers is this now published also because these Foxonian Rabshakes are so shameless as to challenge it as out-doing the Devil their own Foxonian Spirit because after it was proved is said in discovery inlarged c. I find their Books stuft with such base Insinuations and Defamations of almost all People that the chief drift of them seems to be to render the New Testament and the true Faith in our Lord Jesus and the Ministers and Professors thereof Infamous and worse than the Papists and are so bold as to advise and direct to the taking away and destroying Property Now I say he the Devil hath out-done it in and by themselves as in pages 10.11.31.32.34 to 38. of that Discovery and also more fully proved in the Sn. in the Grass c. and Satan disrobed c. and by George Keith in several Books printed by him Also in one Sheet titled an Essay to allay G. Foxes Spirit which may be Printed at large containing about Twelve Sheets but in this Citation they are Guilty of that they so defame T.C. for for they leave out these Words and Defamations whereby they not only wrong the Citation but the Sense also and your own Consciences cannot but know unless they be seared that its true although you are so proud you will not hear I have forborn naming some Persons and Books in respect to some concerned and although the Citations be short yet they are true and in your own Printed expressions I say if you think these things too hard with the Light of Christ search your selves and see if it be not the reward of your own hands and if you say wherefore am I made publick it s your own answer thou Foxonian Spirit hast committed thy lewdness before the Sun therefore openly art thou reproved who hast sinned openly also again you say in Print must not Jealousie be stirr'd up in the Powers of the Earth against them i. e. Professors as they have again others And although I am sensible your influence and interest is so considerable that I know not how soon I may feel the tender love of your Spirit as W. Bradford did yet I am not afraid nor discouraged from discovering you for all your Policy that who or what ever Interest govern you are sure to be of the rising side for you have some great among you of all sides and also I know and have proved that the Foxonian Rabshakes are not Children in Malice but Men yea strong and old Men in Malice and Contempt of the Scriptures and Protestant Ministers and do more justly deserve to be taken notice of by the Magistrate than the poor Country Justice did for using an cetera in his Warrant for Commitment of Fox or then G. Keith and W. Bradford did and seeing you term others Rabshakes let the Reader judge whether that name belongs not to you Foxonians Whitehead c. who gave these and many more names to Mr. Pennyman to defame him viz. you called him grinning Dog barking Cur the Devils Agent the Devils Porter the Devils Drudge-Vassel of Hell setting open Hell Gates Bond-slave of Hell cursed for ever cursed Serpent c. Unclean nasty Spirit c. although one of the cleanliest neatest Men in London but to prove the Foxonian Spirit is a nasty one observe as follows their nasty words as I find them in Print by one J. Wiggam who had some controversie with them they writ this to him this hath caused thee to spew out on a Paper for the Dogs to lick up they take so much of thy filthy spewing it causes them to vomit thou purges upward and downward thou needs one to wipe thee thou mak'st a pitiful stink through thy vomiting and purging thou besmears every one that comes nigh thee one may follow thee by the smell wilt not give over vomiting thou stinks all the Country over like a Man with a scall'd Head and Horse with a gall'd Back making People Vomit and Spew that they make such a stink thou may'st be asham'd with thy filthy spewing if thou wert not Impudent also Margaret Foxes Wife wrot thus to him thou hast committed Sacrilege which will never be forgiven thee thou art accursed and no other Portion canst thou have thou Infidel Child of Darkness the Curse Christ hath pronounced on thee thou art the Man thou Impudent
not more recommendations thereof than these Quakers have given of this but the same Principles is in their other Ancient Testimony in the beginning which they now injoyn their Subjects to hold up But judge Reader if these Foxonian Cardinals Whitehead c. were not very Shameless in that they durst thus maliciously accuse the Protestant Ministers to the King so soon as 1660. for being against his Father and for Oliver and them Governments when as themselves that is Foxonian Quakers were so highly guilty in the same Case and here I have proved their being out of Christ's Doctrine and so by their own Doctrine to be of the Devil for here afore you see how heinous a sin they make it even as Crucifying our Lord for saying the Protestant Religion was in danger to be rooted out by the Quakers here its plain they did not do as they would be done by for in the same Libel they inform against the Protestant Ministers as dangerous to the King these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. reflect on and endeavour to incense the King against the Men the Creatures they strike at them therefore their Spirit or Light which they blasphemously term Truth and the Spirit of God c. cannot be the same Spirit as Christ and the Apostles had by their own judgment now seeing it s not Christ's Spirit and they say there are but Two Spirits Gods and the Devils and themselves have judged it I have now proved them the Foxonian Chief Priests so Wicked and Malicious against the Protestant Ministers that they have informed against them to Oliver c. for being for the King and assoon as ever the King was restored they were so abominable shameless as to inform against them for being against him when themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree and were not content although they had Chr. Love's a Ministers Life but they accuse the Ministers in General as in pag. 12. it s said for the Parties this Case respects it runs through generally the whole Ministry of the Nation and in their Book Information to the Army c. pag. 7. say they when a company of greedy Priests came to tell you they had not engaged with G. Booth in the Rebellion but your real Friends Quakers who gave you and the Army intelligence about the Insurrection in Cheshire i. e. Sir G. Booths for the King were spoiled by the Rebels c. and in their Book the West to North pag. 102. say they these Innocent Servants of the Lord G. Fox Ed. Piot Many of them have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from first to last also p. 16. say they the Laws c. The defence of them we have in the late Wars vindicated in the Field with our Blood But this and many others they have left out in reprinting the Letter in G. Fox's Journal as may hereafter be more fully shown But in the mean time take this caution not to trust nor believe these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. in what they print or recommend to you as the works of their Fellows Fox c. or as other mens words they have so altered them in many places by leaving out and adding to forge them to their purpose Therefore you may judge what abominable falshoods they will impose on the World hereafter when those few now living who are able to detect them be dead but there is a Collection of as many as are found to be published that by that you may judge of the rest of their Works what grose Forgers they are and will be And seeing they say they are contrary in Principle and Doctrine to the Protestant Ministers and we cannot as they say own both but must deny one Therefore either all the Generations of Protestants in all Ages to the end of Time not only Ministers but Princes and all Estates and Degrees must be condemned as Antichrists and Apostates as these Foxonian Quakers have and do record them to posterity except one Thorpe c. or else these Foxonian Quakers Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies which their Truth at first taught them must be condemned and disowned Now whether is most reasonable that these few Foxonian Quakers most of them being dead except W. Penn and G. Whitehead come under the deserved blame of false Accusers and men influenc'd by a wrong Spirit and their Blasphemous and Seditious Testimonies publickly condemned or their infamous Contempts and Slanders be recommended to after Ages for Divine Revelations and the wicked Authors as the only Prophets of God in this Age. What can be their intent but that their Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies may be of as great or greater Authority than the Holy Scripture But as a further proof that they these Foxonian Quaker's Spirit is not Christ's the Apostles and all Protestants but an avowed Enemy to the Protestant Religion and Ministers in general They are not content with their own volumnious defamatious Slanders they have filled the World with by their printed Libels but to gratifie the Papist's interest which then was great and able to defend and reward them therefore they joyn with their elder Sister Rome and print in 1671 with their own in J. C.'s Works highly extolled by W. Penn and G. Whitehead Fox and his Wife A Papist scandalous Libel wherein they term the Protestant Bible Brazen-fac'd Book and villifie the beginning of the Reformation and give the Protestant Ministers the same Hellish Names as their own Books do and say to see such stand in a Pulpit with such a Brazen-fac'd Book as is their unjust Bible and term it corrupt and a perverse Book Such Brazen Faces had these Foxonians when the Papists interest was great Haman like improving their interest to destroy the Protestant Ministers because they would not bow to their blasphemous Spirit This shews what kind of Protestants they would have proved if what they then expected had taken effect even serving the Protestants as they had done all the former Governments from 1648. to 1660. own and encourage them while they prosper but when like to fall or gone then exclaim against them and would do by the Protestants as they have by the Dissenters Inform against them when it 's for their interest and tell the Papist their elder Sister how shall she ever without great danger to her self put confidence in such Hereticks as the English Protestants be And it 's not unlikely but that they printed at large this seditious Libel of the Papists against the Protestants and put it into their Works in such a remarkable Character as an earnest-penny that they may come in with their elder Sister Rome for a share when they see it for their interest to pull off their Masks Another proof I shall give that their Light or Spirit is not from Heaven above but more likely from the Pit of Damnation below for to Defame the Protestant Ministers in a Book Entituled A Serious
in the rest of the Book signed by four chief Quakers one of them T. Lawson and his Work espoused and recommended by the now Foxonians and just above this Chapter in the conclusion of the foregoing it 's said written from the Spirit of the Lord and this where this Hellish stuff is I think is of Fox's own indicting the Language and Method being so like his and was printed 1653. A Hundred times as much such Hell-fetcht Fury of these Quakers I can out of their Ancient Testimonies produce but these and what is afore and following shews that if the Protestant Ministers be such as they print them then as W. Penn says What remains but that the Rabble or the Government Sacrifice them c. This was because a Minister said that the Womb of Iniquity was in the Quakers Writings See it in the Quakers set in the true Light by F. B. p. 2. But then how much more guilty are these Quakers W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. not only thus to Defame the Protestant Ministers of this Age but all past and to come that pay Tythes or uphold the Ministers Kings Martyrs and all People Equivocating deluding Hypocrites He i. e. G. W. hath proved himself and all others mark it's all others to be so except Quakers and page 228. say they The Priest's work hath been to teach People to keep in and not to come out of their Lusts to Christ And page 267. say they You all Priests and Teachers mark it 's not some but all who are inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God have turned all People from the Light to the Darkness and so have kept Thousands and Millions of Souls in Damnation and keeping them in the way to Hell who are Satan's Ministers and this hath been the Work of your Ministry ever since the days of the Apostles as this Day and the People of the whole Nations witnessed Now if they think to quibble it off that it 's not all but them who have ravened from the Spirit they mean it 's afore shew'd they include all this by Fox and so well approved by Penn and to make it Canonical Scripture He Penn hath printed of him this wicked Fox Many have done well but thou Dear George hath excelled them all mark it not the Light in him but George altho' himself has pretty near match'd him for says he W. Penn These idle gormandizing Priests of England run away with 1500000 l. a Year under pretence of being God's Ministers no sort of People have been so universally through Ages the bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to Act their Eternal Targedy on Again says W. Penn There is not any thing so Proud Railing and sometimes Ignorant as a sort of Priests who think their Coat will bear out their worst Expressions for Religion An Ill-bred and Pedantick Crew the bane of Reason and pest of the World the old Incendiaries to mischief and the best to be spared of Mankind c. Surely William altho' He Fox excells all as went before him yet thou hast if possible exceeded him and gone further into the Pit of Darkness than he whil'st alive But thou had'st not Pensilvania for nothing but as much as thee could'st do something for the Devil and the Papists as I have said he knew who he pleased and that there were those in power able to Defend and Reward him for any injury he could do the Protestant Ministers Again say they in their Book A Serious Warning c. could people hear the cry of Thousands out of the Pit of Damnation they would intelligibly hear their Idol of Jealousy and Others thus lament Presbyterians and Independants under the Notion of Gospel-Ministers and Reverend Divines were the Men that seduced us hither by their Preaching Peace to us Had it not been for them we had turned from the evil of our ways and never came here Thus crys say they J. Indicot and this is the dolorous complaints of Thousands of our but yesterday Dear Countrymen if People were not in a Lethargy they would beware of you all as the Plague of the present time c. and in conclusion say I shall prove these very Men i. e. Presbyterians and Independant Ministers to be the very Men to be in Doctrine and Practice the very Floodgate of Atheism and Prophaneness is breaking in as a mighty Torrent upon this miserable Age. Is it not evident by all this Wrath and Reproach the Quakers vent against the Ministers that they i. e. these Quakers are more likely possessed with a Legion of lying Spirits than G. G. the Minister whom they say was so possess'd For notwithstanding all this and a hundred times more such defamatious Ancient Testimonies of theirs in print yet they now have the confidence to say in print because their wickedness is discovered c. they are Persecuted with shameful Reproaches and Blasphemies to murder their Reputations as Men not sparing living nor dead say they but who of Kings and Martyrs have they spared ever since the Apostles and to the end of Time Surely these Foxonians W. P. and G. W. c. as little read the Second Chapter to the Romans and are as Ignorant of that as they were of the Second Chapter of Matthew But they may say of them and any Scripture as they do in their Ancient Testimony Which their Truth taught them in the beginning in 1654. That is no command from God to me which he commands to another But this with the many others proves that they abide not in the Doctrine of Christ and so are by their own Doctrine of the Devil for they are more likely to be them grievous Wolves the Apostle foretold should come rather than Christ's Lambs as G. Whitehead c. has the Face to Stile themselves Now if you Ministers and Governours of the Church of England think that all this their Defamations do not affect you but the Dissenters yet know that they have represented you worse than them if it may be Therefore think not your selves unconcern'd but they were and are for driving that Nail they could easiest make go and the Dissenting Ministers in 1672. were more out of fashion at Court here than you as the Protestant Ministers were in France Now if it be true as W. Penn says that they who call Names for Religion c. be sure be no Christians of Christ's making then who made these Foxonian Chief Priests Christians i. e. W. Penn. and G. Whitehead to be sure not Christ And whereas W. Penn among his many other Defamations upbraids the Ministers with Ignorance Sure they are not Ignoranter than Himself and Fox c. was who as one infallible proof of his Ignorance as well as the fallibleness of their infallible Foxonian Spirit print our Lord Jesus as Born at Nazareth when Scripture says at Bethlehem But this shews how little they
them odious like as Haman did the Jews yet hear how they deifie and exalt themselves and one another You have heard how they exalt this fierce Despiser E. B. Of the Father of their wickedness George Fox in their Journal say they He was the Instrument in God's hand to preach the Everlasting Gospel hid c. The Lord revealed it to him and made him open the New and Living Way A Messenger to my House in Swartsmore say Margaret Fox whither he brought the blessed Tidings of the Everlasting Gospel As a Father in Christ he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him an Overseer and endued him with such an Excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding and yet knew not the difference between the same degree and a degree of the same but puts one and they now pretend he meant the other Nay W. Penn is so false to his own Conscience and Knowledge as to exalt him above all as is before shewed Also see three blasphemous Letters writ of him by J. Coal S. Eccles and J. Audland being already in Print all three Foxonian chief Priests and Preachers Also another of their Idolatrous Preachers says of Fox The Droppings of his tender Words in the Lords Love was his Soul's Nourishment Where shall you find such a high Character of any of the Words of our Lord JESUS And to Oliver Cromwel he titles himself An Establisher of Righteousness and says From him whom the World calls George Fox who am the Son of God Now it 's not the Light that the World calls G. F. but that Blasphemer or Man and Person G. Fox the World called so but this Blasphemy the White-Hart-Court Conclave of Foxonian Quakers Whitehead W. Penn c. they have forged for this Blasphemy these Words And I set my Name to it This is in their Printed Letter of his to Oliver by Captain Drury And in Saul's Errand c. they do not deny but vindicate Fox saying He was Equal with God and he was the Eternal Judge of the World And in their Book News out of the North on the Title say they Written from the Mouth of the Lord i. e. that Blasphemous Fox from one who is naked cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World Yes it was that vagrant blaspheming Cobler Fox risen out of the North which was prophesied off but now is fulfilled c. And in p. 41. say To your Consciences I speak who am not of the World therefore the World knows me not I am not known to the World but well known to God To every one of you I have cleared my Conscience Now hereby it 's plain it 's not the Light but Fox that thus blasphemed And in E. B.'s Works page 64. They say of themselves Quakers Whom God hath chosen to place his Name in and to take up his Habitation among above all the Families of the Earth the Tabernacle of God is with you and only among you is God known c. You are God's only Witnesses c. Ye are the Royal Seed and Off-spring of the Lord All Nations shall call you blessed And in page 66. they say of the North from whence they came O thou North of England Out of thee did the Branch Fox spring and the Star arise which gives Light unto all the Regions round about Out of thee the Terrors of the Lord proceeded which makes the Earth to tremble Out of thee Kings Princes and Prophets Fox and Burroughs came forth in the Power of the most High Gird on your Swords Prepare your selves to Battel for the Nations defie our God Fox Our Enemies are whole Nations Rebellious People that will not come under our Law and will not have our King Fox to reign but despise his Law Let the Nations know your power and the stroke of your hand Give unto the great Whore the Protestants double say they As she hath loved Blood give her Blood Let none of the Heathen Nations nor their Gods escape your hands Your Captains i. e. this E B. Fox c. are mighty Men Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord Fox against the Mighty The Beast i. e. Magistrates is mighty and the false Prophet i. e. Ministers is great and they keep the Nations under their Power but O thou Beast and thou false Prophet you shall both be tormented together And in J. Coal's Works they say God hath raised us up according to his purpose and determination and fore-knowledge to be faithful Witnesses And again to the Quakers Consider what the Lord hath done for you Hath he done so for any People on the Earth Why Did Christ dye only for you Again Therefore it may be said that us Quakers hath he known above all the Families of the Earth page 82 83. And in W. B.'s Works page 173. The Eternal God hath sworn this People i. e. Quakers only shall prosper of all the Families of the Earth who fear his Name and tremble at his Word they that bless them shall be blessed and they that curse them shall be cursed c. And in p. 111. they make themselves to be the Assembly prophesied of Jer. 50.9 to come out of the North as also is afore shewn and term themselves the Seed the Elect and they say There is but two Seeds Christ that never sinned and the Seed of the Serpent Now they will not own themselves to be the Serpent's Seed but to be the Elect Seed of Christ as in Huberthorn's Works the Seed the Elect his own Seed the Arm of the Lord c. And to the World he is manifest through us as being his natural Branches All the Dominions of the World are not equal in Treasure and Wisdom unto thee You hath he chosen of all the Families of the Earth to place his Name among c. And your Laws shall all the Nations of the Earth become subject unto All that riseth up in Judgment against you Quakers shall be confounded thou chiefest Son of his Love By E. B. And says G. Fox The Quakers are in the Power of God upon the Throne p. 318. And in W. B.'s Works say they We are them of whom Enoch prophesied the Saints and they are charged to say They are as pure as God In Answer Fox does not deny it but in justification of it says As he is so are we in this present World page 232. And being charged to say He was the Way the Truth and the Life and the Eternal Judge of the World he doth not deny it but quibble it off It was not so spoken he doth not say G. Fox is Christ as if when any one Answers to a question and says I am c. yet because they do not pronounce their own Names but say I am c. therefore they may deny they so said because of the changing the terms I am into G. F. or he said he was therefore they deny Also another quibble
they have to excuse Fox's Blasphemy That it was not Fox but Christ said I am Christ c. in or by Fox as they say in one Book Must we deny him the Mouth to speak by But surely by this Figure John Baptist need not when he was asked to have said I am not he for he had the Light iâ— him But what Blasphemy can be spoken but may be excused by such Quibbles as they use to excuse the blasphemous Ancient Testimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning But by the same Rule every one of them may say as Fox did and take the same blasphemous Titles and they may be given to any Quaker as well as to Fox Also in page 242. Great Myst they cite one saying The Apostles were Eye-Witnesses c. In the Answer says Fox All may see what you have received not received the Gospel by the same means the Apostles did who are not Eye-Witnesses as the Apostles were hereby implying the Quakers had or did see Christ in the same manner as the Apostles did For the seeing by Faith no Protestants oppose as I know therefore that could not be the seeing the Man intended whom Fox opposes but the Man meant a seeing with bodily Eyes and it 's in this sence G. Fox opposes and banters the Man and does thereby imply he was not Christ but someching in him and so in Fox was the Christ and he i. e. Jesus but the Vessel Garment or Shell that the Kernel Christ dwelt in And hereby the Foxonian Spirit is proved to be a proud self-exalting Spirit as well as an envious and contemptuous one which according to Scripture must be brought down For altho' they give themselves and one another such high Titles yet because a Minister termed another Minister Reverend Man they say Are you not ashamed to court one another with false and flattering Titles Ye shameless and presumptuous ones who durst assume that Title to your selves which is appropriated to the Lord alone c. Now having given some proofs of the Quakers highly exalting themselves and one another I will shew how they exalt their own Sufferings and Blood also above our Lord's in this fierce despiser E. B.'s Works page 273. say they The Sufferings of the People of God in this Age is greater Suffering and more Unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles What was done to Christ and the Apostles was chiefly done by a Law and in great part by due execution of a Law c. Oh horrible Blasphemous undervaluing of our Lord's Sufferings and exalting theirs as above His and justifying or excusing them who Crucified him Also altho' they so contemn our Lord's yet of theirs i. e. the Quakers Blood in print say they to some Magistrates Do not rashly draw out your Swords against those harmless Ones whom your bloody Teachers represent to you as Deceivers be not prevailed on to release Barabbas and give over Jesus to be Crucified to gratifie the murderous Appetites of your Priests Consider altho' you may with Pilot wash your Hands and appear clear from his Blood yet before the pure Eyes of the Lord will the condemning stain thereof be found on you so fresh that you will by no means be from thence cleansed but by the same Blood i. e. the Quakers which you so cruelly shed Here they Answer that Pagan question of Is Pennington's i. e. can outward Blood cleanse c. Yes you see theirs can altho' our Lord's cannot as they imply Theirs is the Blood of cleansing no other means not by the Blood of our Lord outwardly shed but by the same i. e. the Quakers Blood Also I shall further prove these Foxonian Quakers lead by an evil Spirit by their contempt of and undervaluing the Scriptures and exalting their own above them Fox on the Titles of his Pamphlets says To all Friend every where this is the Word of the Lord unto you all And in another Entituled A Message from the Lord c. says three times this is the Word of God and yet says Great Mystery 247. The Scriptures they are not the Word of God as thou blasphemously affirm And in the Scorned Quaker c. page 19. The Scripture is not his Voice but so far as truly Translated A Declaration of what he spake to and by those Holy Men that were moved to write c. Here you see they not only undervalue our Translation but render the Scripture as an old Almanack or Gazette as to its being binding to us the Ten Commandments or Christ's Sermon on the Mount not God's Voice to us Yet I have afore prov'd Fox said his is the Word of God and G. Whitehead Entituled a little Pamphlet of his The Voice of Wisdom c. Now if G. W.'s be the Voice of Wisdom then it 's Christ's Voice Thus you see how they exalt their own Writings above Scripture and yet have the Arrogance to pretend they prefer Scripture before all other Books and Fox says in his Message from the Lord c. Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel c. with the Light all this Doctrine is seen to be false And in News out of the North c. So Dust is the Serpents Meat their original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter And you say says Fox That Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel which is Carnal c. Again says Fox that the Letter is the Word and that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are the Gospel and all your abominations are discover'd Now none means them four Words or Names be the Gospel but the Doctrine in and by them four Books by them four Evangelists is the Doctrine of the Gospel and it 's this Fox opposes for when Fox put on his this is the Word of God it 's not supposed he meant the Paper and Ink but the Doctrine therein or thereby signified as when the Quakers will not suffer their Papers to be called Mens Edicts it 's not thought they mean the Paper abstractly considered but their Laws therein made for their Subjects to obey And therefore it 's the Doctrines of Scripture and not the Paper and Ink Fox undervalues and condemns and his and Whitehead's Blasphemous Imaginations they Blasphemously term the Word of God and the Voice of Wisdom and make their Preachings and Writings to be God's by them but all others to be Man's and outside Teachings carnal Letter even the very Scriptures unless when they as their Fathers did against our Lord use them to contemn the Christian Faith for altho' they so often use some Scriptures as Christ in you except you be Reprobates c. The Word is nigh in the Heart c. thousands of times yet I challenge them to shew me how often if ever they press that 15 Chapter of the 1 of Corinth the first seven verses or the 9 and 10