in that War who disserted the CAUSE before the King's Head was cut off then what are the Quakers who not only approved of what was then done but incited the Army not to leave Root nor Branch of Idolatry Oppression and Tyranny till they had set up their Standard at the Gates of Rome and to avenge the Blood of the Guiltless throughout all the Dominions of the Pope which had the Army obeyed would there not have been many more Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and People than ever was in England Let the Impartial Judge A Paragraph is omitted here for want of room Vnderstanding this Book was Printing and the two Letters of my Name transposed which are now placedright I writ the following Paper and ordered it to be inserted here J. P. OH Earth Earth Earth hearken and consider Was there ever such a People as G. F. G. W. and their Party that had such Foreheads and Faces of Brass who for about 20 Years have been reviling and recriminating others for those very things they have most highly been guilty of themselves yea and were greatly offended with those that would not go on further with the Work and Cause they were then ingaged in and did not only instigate and press Dliver Richard and the Army to Crumble Nations to dust and to Trample Deceit and Tyrants under c. but also exhorted them not to leave off till they set their Standard on Top of Rome Gates as is before mentioned and yet upon the King 's coming in how did they seek to clear themselves by accusing others as in the little Colum and in another Book of theirs lately come to my hands entitled Truth 's Character of Professors they laid open the Addresses and Applications which others had made to D. C. and R. C. making long Animadversions thereupon not only to defame but also to stir up the Powers against them as in p. 15. viz. Must the Weapons that they have been forming against others be turned into their own Bowels even by such as will have no more pitty in their Hearts towards them than they have had towards the Innocent And what must not Jealousie be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them as they have stirred up Jealousie in the Powers of the Earth against others c. And as they have sought to make others ridiculous even so shall they become contemptible in the Eyes of those which they by their Flatteries fawned upon who may for a season suffer them for their own Ends c. But this was not all that was designed by G. F. and his Ministers so early defaming crying out and stirring up the Powers against other Professors but also to blind those then in Power as if themselves had been altogether Innocent and clear touching those Matters And is it not strange that they should call the Presbyterians in the late times Rebels and Traytors for but endeavouring the King's Restauration and yet after he was come in most bitterly and invectively writ against them for being once Opposers of him Are not these the Persons that say Their giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God and that if ever we own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles we must own their Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power And that they have thousands at their Meetings that none of them dare speak a Word but by eternal Motion * A True Account p. 18. And their so speaking i.e. Speaking by the Spirit G. W. saith is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and Greater Ser. Apol. p. 49. What shall we say to these Men I am even struck with Amazement Astonishment and Silence that a People pretending so high should bring forth such wicked and ungodly Fruits and though some may be troubled that these are now come to light yet others will not a little wonder that they have been hid and kept secret so long And doubtless had they not still gone on insinuating by Flatteries with the Government and writing so reflectingly upon Dissenters with their Reproaching and Scandalizing other Sober Persons more Chast and Innocent than themselves These things had never come thus publick and so they reap the Fruit of their own Doings and that very way they thought to secure and strengthen themselves hath helped forward their own Destruction And seeing there is no hopes of their Repentance or Forbearance as to these things all other ways and means which have not been a few that have been used to prevent them proving ineffectual it is now thought meet thus to expose them this year 91. as they for many Years have exposed others that so if possible their Mouths and Pens may be stopt from any such Procedure hereafter and it may be when too late they 'll remember 'T was the Foolish and Clamorous Woman that pulled down her House which is falling a pace with her own Hands Here followeth one of the Forms of their Oaths which Stephen Crisy one of their great Preachers imposed upon one called a Quaker who had Mortgag'd his Land to him and others for a Sum of Money but before he would let him have the said Money notwithstanding he had Signed and Sealed and Delivered according to their Agreement he forced him though with much dissatisfaction to Sign and Seal this following which by their own Definition of an Oath is an absolute Oath Their Definition of an Oath is set down hereafter THE day month I do testifie in the truth of my Heart by these presents that whereas I have Mortgag'd an Estate of mine lying in in the County unto Stephen Crisp Iunior c. as by Deeds and Writings this day bearing date doth appear I say I do hereby testifie in the truth of my Heart and in the Presence of HIM that knoweth all things and in the presence of these faithful Witnesses that I have not before this Contract aforesaid contracted bargain'd sold or engag'd the said Estate to or with any Person or Persons whatsoever either directly or indirectly c. but that it was freely and absolutely both before and at the Sealing and Delivery of the said Mortgage above-mentioned in my power to sell c. Witness at Signing and Sealing Samuel Newton John Bolton two of their Preachers Now see their Definition of an Oath in their Answer to one J. S. who asserted that to say God is my Witness I say the Truth in Christ I lye not my Conscience bearing me Witness in the Holy Ghost I call God to Record on my Soul The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows that I lye not And that Jacob and Laban are said to Swear in these Form of Words So God is Witness between me and thee were Oaths Obs Any of which without laying the Hand on the Book or other Ceremony or more saying is not only an Oath but if Authorized by Act of Parliament is as
THE Quakers Unmask'd Their Double-dealing and False-heartedness Discovered BY Collections taken out of their own Writings which were Communicated to G. Fox G. Whitehead and others of their Preachers and Leaders WHEREIN May be seen some of their Contradictions Confusions and Temporizing With some Observations thereupon by another Hand ALSO One of the Forms of their Oaths used amongst themselves with their Definition of an Oath Likewise a Letter and Paper formerly sent to the abovesaid G. F. Whereunto are annexed some Remarks c. Also what an Oath is In a Letter to E. S. Esq LICENSED June 19. 1691 The Leaders the Leaders of this People have caused them to Err because they received not the Truth in the Love of it Therefore are they given up to Strong Delusions to believe and to tell Lies The Day is come and now is that the Hidden Things of Esau 's Nature are to be and must be brought to Light O thou Sword of the LORD How long will it be e'er thou be quiet Put up thy self into thy Scabbard rest and be still How can it be quiet seeing the LORD hath given it a Charge LONDON Printed for J. Gwillim over against the Great James in Bishops-gate-street and R. Baldwin in Warwick-lane 1691. The Author of the following Collections to the READER IT can hardly be credited by any the care and fear I have had concerning the said Collections lest they should have become publick in the last two Reigns which I would not they should for the Treasures of this World This is a faithful and true saying whether it can be believed or no. But now Liberty of Conscience being established by Law I gave Ten of 'em i. e. The Quakers Vnmask'd to be shown or sold to any sober Person unto which some of the Leaders of that People have lately put forth an Answer and finding they are so far from acknowledging any thing to be amiss in their said Writings that they endeavour either to cover excuse or justifie them which hath necessitated me to cause them to be reprinted in Quarto that whoever have seen their Answer may if they please compare it with this And notwithstanding I sent them the said Book privately in writing in the year 77. hoping thereby to have prevented their farther exposing others yet about a year after I met with a Book of theirs intitled The Way cast up c. and therein several passages against the Presbyterians accusing them of Rebellions Seditions and Fighting Principles p. 23 52 53 54. And in the year 81. they put forth another Book calling it Peaceable Advice to the Presbyterians c. and therein p. 1. accused them again with the same Principles which being Printed at such a juncture when the Popish Plot was endeavoured to be stifled and turned upon the Protestants caused a great grief not only to my self but to many others some of whom writ to the Quaker's Bookseller desiring they might be stopt considering the season c. But they not prevailing in their Request I bought many of 'em and went to several of their Meetings where I spake these Words viz. I met with one of your Books against the Presbyterians and as a Witness against that Hypocritical Deceitful Daubing Temporizing Spirit that writ it and the Publishers of it I am made to tear it in pieces before you Which having done they threatned to have me called in Question for it c. I say considering these things and that what I had writ to them in private did not hinder them from this continued exclaiming against others about these matters It was thought meet to have 66 of The Quakers Vnmask'd privately printed in Folio which were chiefly intended to be given to some of the said People so that it is plain my purpose and intention therein was only to prevent if possible their doing any more such things for the future but not in the least to expose them to the then Governours who I feared would have been but too severe and too much exasperated against them for it And though I have been made thus to advise and caution them from their running into these and many other Evils which they have run themselves into Yet alas they have slighted scorned and rejected every thing I proposed that might any way have conduced to their present Happiness and everlasting Good which being my chiefest end aim and endeavour whether they will yet hear or forbear I am clear and have that Reward with and in me which no Man non Men can give or take from me J. P. This following was writ by the Person that caused the 66 Books aforesaid in Folio to be printed The Publisher to the truly Christian Reader THE following Tract Providentially coming to my Hand and being desired to Read and Consider it I spent some Hours therein to my no small Consternation upon a double account First That the Land of my Nativity was not long ere this an Aceldama being so generally Apostatized from the Truth and become a second Sodom Secondly To consider That the Principal and Forwardest LEADERS of the People who while Faithful were begirt with the Power and Strength of the Almighty GOD of Jacob and brought to their PISGAH-SIGHT should turn again to their Onions and Garlick throwing by the ROYAL LAW of LIBERTY and Re-espouse Egyptian Bondage What shall we say to these things Oh that the Souls of all that are yet Faithful and have according to their measure been given up to the Guidance of the Spirit would Cry mightily unto the GOD of their Salvation That every one concern'd in the following HURRICANE which they have been formerly warned off in Love and Meekness about four years and half since may remember from whence they are Fallen repent and do their First Works which is the principal End of the Printing hereof that so the Still Voice may be Restored in all our Habitations That all Weapons of War may be turned into Plow-shares and Pruning-hooks and every One confess The LORD is GOD who only must and will be Exalted Amen amen saith the Soul of thy Friend J. G. Note Where any Words are added that were not in the Manuscript or in that Printed they are put in Italick between these Marks excepting 5 short Sentences in Black Letter p. 3 4 5 which were left out for brevity but are now put in only to shew they do not in the least vary the sense as the Quakers alleadge in their Answer no more than any other passage they have mentioned therein does To the Reader The three following Letters were writ to Mr. J. O. The first was Printed the other not First Letter to Mr. J. O. sent with the following Book then not printed I Having been ill and weak in Body near upon a Month it put me upon a deep search and examination concerning the Cause thereof and finding my self clear in HIS sight who justifies in secret I matter not who condemns And now being a little raised
to leave off until they had set up their STANDARD at the Gates of Rome as may be seen in their own Writings here following And yet for them to upbraid others with that which themselves for many years were so deeply concerned and engaged in is such a piece of Wickedness as can hardly be parallel'd by any sort of People professing Christianity This this their Baseness I have in secret acquainted them withal but no Ear or Heed would they give to what I said but still went on in their accustomed manner to Defame such as had not been more engaged if so much as themselves in the late Wars yea and that in the most revengeful and highest aggravating Terms that 't was possible for their Penn to express witness those Words to the Nonconforming Ministers in Answer to Mr. Faldo viz. But why poor Nonconformists after all their Preach'd up Battels Spoils Plunders Sacrileges Decimations c. Again They are true Gospel-ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and Good Will towards Men and not Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and Princes Rulers and People No Worldly Armies Battles Victories Trophies Spoils Sequestrations Decimations and the like Blood-thirsty and Tyrannical Projects in which John Faldo and his poor Non-conforming Ministers have had their Hands almost over Head and Ears till they had well nigh lost their Ears and their Heads too Much more of this Nature may be seen towards to the latter end of the lesser Column of this Book What People setting these aside could have had the Face and Confidence to have writ such Language as this Certainly not any especially when they themselves had been engaged in the same Cause and Quarrel with those whom they now so much Reproach and Vilifie The Consideration of these things with their pretending themselves to be the Only People of the LORD and of their being the Only Embassadors and Ministers of Christ with the Discharge of my own Conscience put me upon gathering these their Writings together and having them so placed that those of the meanest Capacity may easily discern and see them to be as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders of the People as have appear'd in this our Age. Reader THE first Column is what they writ before the King came in the other is what they writ since his Return and as for the Quotations I have endeavoured faithfulness therein and have cited both Book and Page where their Words may be found but they have left out many Passages and altered several Words that suited not with their Interests and Designs both of E. B's and F. H's in the Re-print of their Works which thou wilt have notice of as thou readest And where I have abbreviated any of their Writings or lest out any of their Words which were not so material to be put in or too large to insert thou wilt find a little stroke thus but have not in the least either wronged the Matter or Sense thereby as thou mayest see if thou peruse the Books I have quoted But before thou proceedest to read farther I am willing thou shouldst hear the Testimony they give of their own Writings viz. If ther you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own oue Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and power See G. F's Answ to the Westmoreland Petition p. 30. You might as well condemn the Scriptures to the Fire as our Queries Our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God You are now Answered from the Mouth of the Lord. See G. F. and R. H. Truth 's Defence c. p. 2 104 107. Now if this their Testimony be true then their Writings are to be had in as great and as venerable esteem as the Scriptures or any holy Man's Words are but if it be otherwise then are they Lyars and false Prophets and to be avoided and witnessed against Let these following Collections manifest the Truth thereof And now the time is come that as they have laid open the Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie of other Professors that went before them even so must their Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie be also laid open For the LORD whom I no Respecter of Persons But who shall live when GOD doth this J. P. Geo Fox's Judgment CONCERNING KINGLY GOVERNMENT Taken out of a Paper of his written to the Presbyterians and Others before the KING was Restored TO all you that desire an Earthly King in England Who profess your selves to be Christians whether Presbyterians or Others Do not the Priests Presbyterians and many of the Rulers cry for an Earthly King And is not this the same Nature the Jews were in And do not they in This Crucifie Jesus Are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Now Elders if you say Peter said Honour the King This doth not hold forth that Peter bid them set up an Earthly King over them neither do you read that there were any Earthly Kings since the days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians c. And all these Antichrists and Presbyterians imitated Elders over them all Will Christ Reign and these Kings that have been made For Christ is King alone and makes his Disciples Kings to Reign upon the Earth These are true Christians and will these have any more Kings among them but Christ who are Redeemed from the Earth and earthly Kings I say That is the false Church that doth not live upon the Heads of these Kings Such as have the Prophets Christ and the Apostles Words the Sheeps Cloathing but out of the Life and Power that makes such work for an Earthly King Herod the King was Mad at the Child Jesus and sought to slay all the Children in Bethlehem of Judea There is ehe fruits of Earthly Kings and such a King would our false Christians and Elders have The Children of Israel when they grew would have Kings like other Nations that when People were gon from the Lord God then they set up Kings and when the Children of Israel served not the Lord God but went after other gods they desired a King which the Lord gave them in his Wrath Sam. 8. And in this manner Should a King Reign over them the King shall take your Sons and appoint them for his Chariots c. this is the fruit of your Kings The King will take your Fields your Vineyards your best Olive Trees and give them to his Servants this is the Fruit of your Kings c. Ignorant and foolish People that would have a King and Kings since the days of the Apostles The People will not hear when all these Fruits of these Kings are laid down to them But says Christians and false Elders there shall be a King over us and we also will be like other Nations So the Christians go out from Christ and set up Kings like Heathens Hos 13.11 You ignorant and foolish that is
the Inquisition of Spain and Rome and that the Quakers were some of those True learts appears by those other words of G. F's expostulating Why such as feared God and trembled at his Word should be put out of the Army which might have been a Blessing to the Lord in their Generation And in page 3. of the same Declaration they say thus So those that use any Weapon to fight for Christ or for the Establishing of his Kingdom or Government both the Spirit Principle and Practice in that we deny Yet these same Men viz. G. F. and E. B. would that the Officers and Souldiers should have set up their Standard a Top of Rome and have sent for the Turks Idol plucked up Idolatry and cryed up Christ the only King Oh wonderful Again see the Quakers Plea 1661. How peaceable the Quakers are and have always been p 7. NO better Testimony can be given of us and of our peaceableness and that we shall not Plot nor Rebel against the King than Experience it self Experience is the best Witness that we are peaceable and free from Plotting and Rebellion for we have always been so since we were a People both before and since the King came in Obs These peaceable Men not only approve of what the Army did against the King and his Party but would have them to continue Quakers in the Army and to enterprise the Subduing of Spain and the Pope and the Turk in their Spirit and to invite all that are against the Pope to take part with them and they promise the Protector that if he would own them they would own him in the Face of all his Enemies Counsel and Advice p. 7. And Francis Howgil says It was a good thing that the Parliament overthrew the late King and that it is no Rebellion to call away by which he means to Depose those in Power that perform not their Trust for the Good of the People See more of this hereafter Hear farther what G. F. c. say to the King and Council after the rising of the Fifth Monarchy Men p. 2. AND now that we should be reckoned amongst a People whose Principle is to Fight and avenge themselves which astonishes all them which know it I believe your own Consciences tell you that we are harmless and would do you no harm but wish your Good c. It 's known that those you have numbred us amongst never denyed the bearing of Sword nor Outward Weapons but whose Principle is to avenge themselves Obs Could any People declare themselves more for fighting than they did How should Oliver keep his Crown but by fighting How did he get it but by fighting How should the Army set up their Standard a top of Rome but by fighting How require the Blood that has been shed in the Inquisition but by fighting In short What should Men do with Swords but to fight and yet they were not only to wear their Swords but to cut down Idolaters with them and their Sword was to be the Sword of the Lord in their Hand And E. Burrough in express for Avenging the Blood of the Guiltless through all the Dominions of the Pope and exhorts the Army to do this going forth in their the Quakers Spirit How dare these Men appeal to the King and Council 's Consciences that they are harmless and would do them no harm when they not only approve of what was done in the late War but offered their Service to Oliver to own him if he would own them against all his Enemies and some of them gave Intelligence to the Army against Sir George Booth whorose to bring in the King See p. 13. of this Book And notwithstanding all that E. B. and others have written in Justification of the Parliament's Cause against the King yet at the King 's coming in that is in the middle of May 1660. then E. B. writes In his Book called A Visitation c. p. 12. IN the beginning there were but one sort of People that were in capacity to raise and prosecute War against the King and upon such there is Guilt to be charged in the Sight of God who have foregone their Principles and been deceitful both to God and Men. And as for us who are called Quakers we are clear from the Guilt of all his Sufferings c. How often do they blame the Protector and others for putting of honest and godly Men out of the Army It may be because they cannot put off their Hats c. and yet tell the King They have suffered all along because they would not take up Carnal Weapons to fight withal against any and are thus made a Prey upon because say they we are the Innocent Lambs of Christ and cannot avenge our selves Declaration p 6. given forth under our Names and in behalf of the whole Body of the Elect People of God who are called Quakers G. For R. Hubberthorn I. Stubs F. Howgil G. Roberts L. Fell S. Fisher H. Fell and others Farther in the Postscript thus And all Wars and Fightings with Carnal Weapons we do deny who have the Sword of the Spirit This the People called Quakers do witness to all the World Again in P. 4. And this is both our Principle and Practice and hath been from the Beginning so that if we suffer as suspected to take up Arms or make War against any it is without any ground from us for it neither is nor ever was in our hearts since we owned the Truth of God neither shall we ever do it because it is contrary to the Spirit of Christ his Doctrine and the Practice of his Apostles These words of theirs may serve for a Reply to an Answer they make to an Objection that many of them have been in the Army against the King and Kingly Authority to which they say Quakers Plea p. 4. Though some that are now called Quakers were once in the Army under the Powers against the King when their Knowledge and Judgments were not otherwise framed but were of that Principle and Practice that Fighting and going to War in it self was lawful c. yet being now altered and turned in their Judgments to the contrary and that it is not lawful in the Administration of the Gospel to fight against or go to War with Carnal Weapons in any wise there is now no danger of Vs and now We are all of that Mind and Heart that it is on all Occasions whatsoever unlawful to go to War and Fight This pretended change of Judgment in G. Fox and his Preachers is not to be taken for a change of their Judgment for they say it neither is nor ever was in our Hearts since we own'd the Truth of God to take up Arms which is a Contradiction to their giving directions and charges to the Protector Officers and Souldiers concerning Fighting exhorting them thereunto and to go forth as an Army in their Spirit and blamed them for putting honest sober Men and those
not rather that he was glad of it as no doubt he is In p. 6. to the Reader Our Adversary again p 14. says he 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 his Apostles unto which he falsly addeth 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's own Abuse and Perversion Now I beseech you Sir read the Passage in p. 14. and see wherein J. P's Abuse and Perversion lies It lies in this that he added these words and their so speaking and did not put them in a different Character to distinguish them from G. W's words though they did not alter the sense at all if you leave them out the Passage is as much to the same purpose as if they were in Did ever any Writer charge his Adversary with Abuse and Perversion upon so slender an account What an affront is it to the simple-hearted Reader to write at this rate This is the Man that in his Letter to J. O. threatens Mr. P. farther to detect and unmask him if he will not be reduced to Christianity Does he mean by Christianity Quakerism which it seems teaches him to use the basest Equivocations and Slights that can be found in any Writer Of his Book p. 3. He utterly denies it as a Slander that the Quakers formerly exhorted Men to fight and would fight themselves I must refer you to The Quakers Vnmask'd c. to judge whether that is a Slander or not It will abundantly satisfie you whilst you understand their Writings in the plain honest sense of the Words without their after Equivocations J. P cites one of the Quakers Ministers saying We directed all People to the Spirit of God in them and if that led them to fight I had nothing against it for this saith G. W. he quotes fol. 4. but tells us not what Book But why did he not tell J. P so 13 years ago when he desired to know what Errors they sound in the Quotations if there were any however to satisfie him that it was a true citation he took it out of the Quakers Book where Foreign Letters were recorded which was first in J. O's custody and afterwards in J. P's P. 4. The Quakers tell Rich. Protector ' That he would walk with the Lord and preserve his People then thy Name shall be greater than was the Fathers and the numberless number of this Now distressed People will be unto thee a strength and stand by thee and Defend thee and thy just Government Sir If you had been Protector I persuade my self you would have thought these People would have fought to defend you and your Government But whatever they or you thought then the meaning now is according to G. W. c. they would defend him and his Government By Righteousness Prayers and Faith and by Contributions Taxes c. or the fear of the Lord as in the days of Jehosaphat Would you not judge that Man perjured that should swear Allegiance in such terms with such a meaning And must we not take the Quakers words for as binding as an Oath Next p. 5. you will please to note what G.W. Answers to the Charge of upbraiding others with that which themselves for many years were as deeply concerned and ingaged in c. To all which saith G. W. I do conscientiously Answer He hath most grosly and palpably belyed the People called Quakers in these Passages divers ways First in rendring them without exception of Persons not only Justifiers of the late Wars and what had been done therein without exception of things done but also equally concerned with the Presbyterians Independents and others therein But do the Quakers when they charge these things upon the Presbyterians c. make any exception of Persons or Things And yet it is well known and it is proved out of their own writings in The Quakers Vnmask'd c. that their Chief Leaders approved of the greatest things done in the late Wars against the King and to his Person whereas the Presbyterians generally dis-approved of them Besides they say their giving forth Papers or Printed Books is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God and that their Preachers are guided by an Infallible Spirit and that they are of one Mind and Judgment and the like and therefore an indefinite and general charge will affect them more generally than other Parties G. W. says p. 6. The War began in 41. and in 48 the King was Beheaded and all this while no Quakers heard of till about 50.51 52. when there was no Wars in England for them to be concerned in how false then is J P. to say The Quakers were as much or more concerned in the War against the King as any others But G. W. confesses that divers who have been since and now of us Quakers have formerly been concerned in the late Wars And J. P. has made evident their approbation of what was then done and that many that turned Quakers in the Armies continued there till they were turned out that the Protector is blamed for putting them out by G. Fox and others that they are called Sober Men and true Hearts that feared God and trembled at His Word valiant Captains Soldiers and Officers it may be for saying thou to a single Person or for wearing their Hats c. the distinguishing Characters of Quakers from others Whereas he says there was no Wars in England in 50.51.52 it is a piece of his cunning and is false for Worcester Fight was in the year 51. and Sir George Booth's Insurrection in 1659. when the Quakers gave intelligence calling them Rebels for but endeavouring to bring in the King and for some years there were Wars both in Scotland and Ireland and upon the Sea and in Flanders See E. Burrough's Alarm Sounded c. 1659. The Quakers Vnmask'd c. p. 6. 9. You see then how G. W's Answer is both false and deceitful P. 7. 8. G. VV. charges J. P. with an apparent lye in saying the Quakers had been engaged in the same Cause so as to Preach up Battels c. But I pray Sir what difference is there between Preaching up Battles c. and exhorting Generals Officers and Soldiers to go forth against mighty Enemies till they had subdued them and set up their Standard a top of Rome and done many other things which were to be done by Fighting And that in the Quakers Spirit See E. B's Alarm Sounded c. p 28. P 9 10. G.W. Commends the Quakers for their forbearance towards J. P. and is confident that had J. P. look'd upon them as Fighters c he durst not have adventured to have given them such frequent and publick occasions of provocations and frequent disturbances and interruptions
Fore-fathers have lived under and we our selves been liable and subject to by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively and we being forced to live under the Authority of such Men as had no right from God thereunto as I have said And now our Eyes are opened to see better things and we are in good Expectations that the Lord will Suddenly so appear as to free us from future Oppressions in this respect c. And these things we are waiting for to be brought to pass in their Season and the Hand of the Lord will accomplish it if not by you then even contrary to you Therefore take this my Council even as you hope to prosper for this I know from the Lord upon the rejecting or receiving hereof dependeth your Standing or your Fall your Renown or perpetual Reproach even your Blessing or your Curse and the time is at hand that many shall confess the Lord gave good Counsel to you by his Servant E. Burr Obs That in his Judgment it was through Ignorance that the People subjected themselves to Hereditary Governours or such as had no right to the Place of Rule or to the Government standing in a Single Person successively and he reckons it a piece of Slavery the Nation hath long been under that our Kings have attained to the Throne Hereditarily and yet G. F. c. of late tells the King and Parliament that their Hearts and Hands could seal to the Substance both of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And G. F. saith If he could take any Oath at all upon any occasion he should take the Oath of Allegiance which Oath binds to the King and his Heirs and Successors Now if this be not Contradiction and Temporizing what is See moreover G. F's Paper taken out of the same Book that the Abstract against Kingly Government was taken p. 42. To all such as feed the Priests till they turn against them THE Black Presbyterians and Priests and Cavaliers which are stirring you being out of the Power which first had Dominion over them what now are Priests Cavaliers Presbyterians saying Curse you Meroz that will not come to fight against the Mighty meaning the Parliament and all the honest People in the Nation to destroy them And what are they now bawling against you as they have against the Quakers Will nothing satisfie the Priests and the rest but Blood Have they not been the stirrers up for War and Blood always What now are they so fat fed that they curse them that will not come to fight against the Parliament Have you fed them so fat that they kick against you like wild Horses that they snort that there is such a snorting among them against their Feeders Have you sed them like wild Bulls and Heifers that now they run against you with their Horns Surely the Fodderers of these have not well looked about them have not these been called Ministers of the Gospel But now how comes it that they preach up War These are bad Cattle Horses Heifers and Bulls that kick against their Fodderers And run with their Horns against their Fodderers I must tell you the Sun is set upon all the Priests in this Nation and such as be like minded and that is the Word of the Lord God to this present Age and many more G. F. Hear now Is Penington an Eminent Writer among them and one of good repute to the Parliament the Army and all the well-affected in the Nation who have been faithful to the Good Old Cause 1659. p. 1. THat there hath been a Backsliding and turning aside from the Good Old Cause even by the Army who formerly were Glorious Instruments in the Hand of God hath been lately confessed The Name of God hath been Blasphemed in the whole Earth and that Holy Spirit and Power which many Hearts can witness was the Beginner and Carryer on of this Work made a Scoff and Derision to the Enemies of Truth in these Nations and in the Nations round about who watched to see the Issue and Result of these things The Controversie was very great and eminent and drew many Eyes upon it the Lord was appealed to on both sides to decide it and many know that by his Presence and Power in the Army the Stale was turned even when they were very very low and cryed out for Prayers and made large Promises in the Days of their Distress yea the Lord did not desert the Army but heard their Prayers and the Prayers of his People for them carrying on the Deliverance until he had given a perfect Victory into their Hands c. Obs That by the Lord's Presence and Power in the Army the Controversie was decided and the Army made Glorious Instruments for the Good Old Cause was not then the Armies Cause once Just in the Quakers Opinion and their fighting lawful and approved of God Miles Halhead and T. S. two Eminent Men of their Ministry follow with their most plain Testimony Wounds of an Enemy c. 1656. p. 23. VVHen the Presbyterians saw the Army who were made the Sword of the Lord against Papists and Bishops would not submit to the Covenant they drew the Sword against them and not prevailing in a first War many of them joyned with the Papists and Bishops and the Common Enemy meaning the King And now an Oath of Abjuration is tendred to them to Swear who have been most faithful to the Common-wealth and its Army and have born the Brunt and Heat of the Day in the late Wars with the peril of their Lives in the Field and the loss of their Estates against the Popish Prelatical and Presbyterian Party Hath this Generation witnessed the Word of the Lord to be true above many Generations before whose Eyes and by whose Hands the Righteous God hath executed his Dreadful Judgments on the Enemies of his Elect hath he despised the Image of the King and Princes and Nobles and the great Ones and poured forth their Blood as Water on the Earth and made them a fearful desolation in the Cause of his People and of Justice and of Equity In the Iniquities that they have committed and in the Sins wherewithal they have Sinned hath He cut them off and made them the dreadful Examples of his Vengeance p. 75 76. Obs The Contents of this is plain to every capacity Take also George Roffs Testimony another of their Ministry TO thee Oliver Cromwel thus saith the Lord I had chosen thee among the thousands of the Nations to execute my Wrath upon my Enemies and gave them to thy Sword with which I fought for the Zeal of my own Name and gave thee the Enemies of my own Seed to be a Curse and a Reproach for ever and made thee an Instrument against them and many have I cut down by my Sword in thy Hand that my Wrath might be executed on them to the utmost See Righteousness c. p. 11. Obs Here the Lord is represented
fighting with Oliver's Sword against God's Enemies I think here is Justification sufficient of the late Wars enough to make George Whitehead and therest ashamed Hear again E. Burrough and F. Howgil pleading the Quakers Faithfulness to the Common-Wealth's Interest and bringing to Mind the utter Destruction of the Bishop's and King's Power as of a stone sunk into the Sea which riseth not again To Henry Cromwel and his Council The Visuation of Ireland c. p. 21 22. YOU have endeavoured to give sentence of Banishment of us out of your Nation who are free-born English-Men and have always been faithful and true to the Common-Wealths Interest from first to last even until now What became of all the Perseccutors of old What became of the Bishops What became of that Power that held them up are they not all sunk as a Stone into the Sea and become a Reproach Again E. B. to the Heads Judges c. p. 19. If such you uphold by a Law which act those things the Scripture speaks against God will lay your Honour in the dust and cast you out of the Seat of Judgment as he hath done the Power of the King and Bishops before you Note All the Lines in black Leter are left out in his Works p. 84 85 86. Let us now hear News out of the North c. A Book set out by G. F. and written as he saith from the Mouth of the Lord. 1655. DReadful is the Lord and Powerful who is coming in his Power to execute true Judgment upon all you Judges and to change all your Laws ye Kings All you Rulers must down and cease You must be cut down with the same Power that cut down the King who reigned over the Nation in whose Family was a Nurse for Papists and for Bishops Judges and Justices Beast and False Prophet the Lord God will pour out his Plagues upon you the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it and except you repent you shall all likewise perish and be consumed as the King was and perish with the same Power The Lord God hath sent his Prophets oft to tell you so p. 18 19 The World knows me not but I testifie the Truth c. G. Fox Obs What Man could have wrote more against a King and King ly Government than this G. Fox hath done and that in the Name and Authority of the Lord of Lords and King of Kings as he saith and yet no sooner was the King invested in his Fathers Throne but the said G. Fox through Deceit Fear and Flattery writes a quite contrary Language See the other Column p. 1 2 c. Again hear also what G. Fox and other Quakers tell us in the West answering to the North Writ 1656 the next year after News out of the North c. One Ier. Ives taking notice of their frequent Abuses to others about the late War cites a Paessage of theirs out of E. B's Works in Justification of the late Wars and further saith The Book in The West answering to the North p. 79 89 94 95 96 97. hath much to the same purpose which saith he I am unwilling to write out because I am not willing to expose you G. Whitchead replies thus in his Serious Search p. 37. I cannot but observe the Man's Dissimulation and base Insinuation in this implicite kind of accusing us hereby to render us more suspicious and obnoxious than if he had dealt plainly meaning than if he had printed those Passages some of which here follow by which the Reader may see somewhat of G. W's Disingenuity and Serpentine Nature TO what purpose have been the hangings by the Neck and other exemplary punishments executed on Judges Justices and Ministers of State for Arbitrary acting Why was Strafford's Head cut off and Canterbury's and Charles Stewart's as Traytors for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws c. p. 78. Charles Stewart and his Lords committed Men as Canterbury aforesaid and early he heard of it in Parliament and for his other Arbitrary Actions and what followed thereupon and befel him in particular needs not be mentioned being recorded every where in the Blood and Misery of the late Wars and the Destruction of Him and his Family the dreadful and sad Examples of His Righteous Iudgments who reuders to every one according to his Deeds p. 79. Obs Because some of their Friends were committed and in the Warrant no mention made of the Protector or his Authority they farther write thus Doth not here appear from the Grave the Spirit that was in Christopher Love and his Fellow Traytors who being within the Jurisdiction of this Common-wealth took upon them to Commissionate divers Men to treat with Charles Stewart the proclaimed Traytor of the Government p. 89. Call to mind the former days and let the things that are past come into your Remembrance even what this Generation would have done their Synod and Accomplices to Conscience and to whom this Generation joyned in the years 1648. and 50. and so forwards even with the Common Enemy Charles Stewart c. p. 94. And forget not the wonderful Deliverances from them all which the Right Hand of the Lord effected c. p. 95. Multitudes of People flock'd out of the City to Westminster to complain of their sufferings which Charles Stewart called Tumults and by the Guard one of them was slain at the place of the shedding of whose Blood was Charles Stewart's Head struck off and his Blood poured forth on the ground A remarkable Record of the Righteous Iudgments of God p. 96 97. And this his Law Judge Nicholas standing in his own Will is less to be endured than in any of the Judges and Chief Justices that have gone before him whom Justice hath cut off for Arbitrariness or in Strafford Canterbury Charles Stewart or any of these latter Generations And the Legislative Authority that made him a Judge and the Righteous Ends of the Wars for Liberty and Law in which he appeared and these Innocent Servants of the Lord who have been all of them always faithful to the honest Interest of the Nation and many of them for it have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from first to last p. 102. Obs Here that what they say concerning the King is said not only as the Opinion of others but as what they also approve saying That those things were remarkable Records of the Righteous Judgments of God With what strange kind of Confidence did G. W. write when he said that if I. Ives had printed the foregoing Passages they would not have rendred them so Suspicious and Obnoxious as his barely mentioning the Book and Pages did And though he may delude and blind their Proselites with such deceitful and Fig leaf covers yet certainly he will not dare to do so before Authority but rather down upon his Knees and beg Pardon for his Audaciousness and Insolence in speaking so slightingly of such strange and prodigious Sayings as are before cited
that trembled at the Word of God out of the Army and advising them to take such in again For G. F. and his Preachers can no more change their Judgments than the Pope can change his Decrees without forfeiting his Infallibility That they formerly exhorted Men to fight and would fight themselves and now deny all Fighting on any pretence is to be imputed to their Temporizing and Deceit For in the Book entituled Counseland Advice c. p. 44. G. F. and E. B. tell Richard Protector That if he would walk with the Lord and preserve his People meaning the Quakers then say they Thy Name shall be greater than was thy Father's and the numberless number of this now distressed People will be unto thee a Strength and stand by thee in the day of trouble and defend thee and thy Just Government and their Hearts snall cleave to thee and thou shalt prosper for their sakes and none of thy Enemies shall have Power over thee to destroy thee And in p. 4â— they say Friend live in God's Wisdom if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength then none shall touch thee and all them that fear God will be on thy side and take thy part and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings yea till death But see how the ease was altered in 1662. for then they tell the King and Parliament thus And our Allegiance to the King our Lives have and shall manifest to him and you and all Men. Subscribed by G. For E. Burrough F. Howgil S. Fisher R. Hubberthorn G. Whitehead S. Thornton L. Fell and 20 more And notwithstanding that no People declared themselves more fully for the Long Parliament Protectors and Army than they on condition they would own and protect the Quakers yet how shamefully do they reflect on others and proclaim their own Innocency See their Paper to the King and Council 1660. p. 5. OH King we would have thee do nothing against thy Prosperity and Nobility Oh! hath the like ever been done as is done to us who are an Innocent People and thy Friends and not thy Enemies among all the Princes in Christendom to mingle the Innocent among the Transgressors Again p 6. Oh that we should find such things among you that have been Sufferers by the Same as we have suffered before you Obs What Hypocrisie is here when they pretend that themselves suffered for Righteousness and the King and his Party for wickedness and Tyranny With like Deceit they say in their Declaration given the King Jan. 1660. subscribed by twelve of their Grandees p. 6. In the days of the Parliament and Committee of Safety we were looked upon as Plotters to bring in King Charles So G. Fox and I. Stubs in G. Whiteheads Book The Divinity c. tell the Presbyterians and Independents that when the People of God called Quakers were gathered together in divers places to Worship God then say they you said they were Plotting together against Oliver to bring in King Charles Again Touching Fighting they have taken care to record what one of their Ministry saith We directed all People to the Spirit of the Lord God in them and if that led them to fight I had nothing against it fol. 4. Recorded in their Book of Outland Letters and was spoken before a Court at Barbadoes where he was questioned touching their Principle in that case But in their Declaration to the King 1660. They say p. 2. We certainly know and so testifie to the World that the Spirit of Christ which leads us into all Truth will never move us to sight and war against any Man with Outward Weapons neither for the Kingdom of Christ nor for the Kingdoms of this World In the former Passage they suppose the Spirit of the Lord might lead to fight here they are positive that it never will And in their Testimony to the Magistrates c. subscribed by G. For and 11 more They say all Plots Conspiracies Alders Assisters or Conspirers thereunto against the King we always did and do utterly deny to be any of us And presently after the Execution of that worthy Patriot the Lord Russel they present their fawning Address which G. Whitehead Francis Camfield and Gilbert Layty carried to Windsor to K. Charles 2. Insinuating that the Lord R. and his Companions were Guilty and they Innocent and that they did not desire the least hurt either to the King's Person or Government or to the Person of his Brother the Duke of York and that they were clear from all Hellish Plots and Trayterous Conspiracies c. being Works of the Devil and Darkness c. But what 's the reason the Quakers do not now declare against the late Hellish Conspiracy c. seeing one of the chief of them is accused of it by open Proclamation And in their Paper to King and Council p. 7. they say We are against Violence and Plots and Wars and Fightings they are below in the Fall from God And this we say which is more to us than an Oath See now what Credit is to be given to G. F. and his Ministers in their most solemn Professions such as Oaths are amongst consciencious honest Men For it is well known that many Officers and Soldiers turning Quakers whilst in Arms continued so till they were thrust out and they that put them out are much blamed by G. F. and E. Burrough c. for so doing and are advised to take such in again These are the Men that advise the Protector as we have noted to push down and tread under the High Places of Idolatry in all the Apostatized Churches not only Papists but others And in another place To cry up Christ the only King and Lord. Yet in their Remonstrance p. 14. 665. They say We our selves know that Sion must not be builded with Blood nor the Church of God by Weapons of War nor Religion propagated by Violence therefore we cannot strive with these Weapons nor with any Carnal Weapons of War either fight to defend or offend Let the Reader judge now whether G. F. G. W. and their Party their reproaching and railing on the Presbyterians and Independents and other Parties for their joyning and abetting the late War and approving the Execution done upon the late King and his Party crying up Oliver and Richard and the Old Parliament and the Army c. and then when the King came in changing their Language crying up this King c Whether I say G. F G. W. and their Party are not far more guilty and more abominable in these Matters than any other Party whatsoever whilst they so contumeliously upbraid others and have done the same things and yet now under all these Contradictions Dissimulation and Temporizing do like the Whore in the Proverbs wipe their Mouth and proclaim themselves an Innocent and harmless People and others alone guilty See their Book entitled The Guide Mistaken 1668. p. 50 51 52. They write thus AT the beginning of the Wars
much a Legal Dath as any now in use amongst us THE Quakers Answer to J.S. These Forms of Speeches used by the Apostle and by Jacob and Laban So God is Wituess between me and thee God is my Witness c. are of themselves without the Addition of somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge neither Oath or Swearing which somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge was that which gave the Denomination of an Oath or Swearing c. Again That the Forms of Speech used by Jacob and Laban and by the Apostles and others of themselves without adding of somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge are neither Oaths or Swearing It is worthy Observation that where mention is made of an Oath or Swearing in the Scriptures of Truth there is also mention made of some outward Sign or Pledge which was added to the Forms of Speech by them used which somewhat more being added was that which gave the Denomination of an Oath or Swearing to the Forms of Speech without which addition of somewhat more than Yea or Nay as a Sign or Pledge the Forms of Speech of themselves was neither Legal Oath or Swearing A second Testimony concerning Oaths p. 3 4 5. A Copy of a Letter and Paper mention'd in the Title-page sent to G. F. March 17. 1674 5. I Being ingaged as well as some others to manifest and lay open Deceitful Workers and Hypocrites I am farther to appear and manifest thee to be one of the greatest Hypocrites and Deceivers in this Nation and until thou own thy Condemnation and leave off deceiving the People assuredly the Sword that 's now drawn is not to be nor must not be sheath'd till thou and such Deceivers as thou art be cut down This following I am to send thee concerning which I shall wait some time for thy Answer before it go farther and what thou writest to or concerning me set thy own hand to it and get not others to set their Names to thy words and works of Wickedness as thou hast done Something of G. F's Deceit and Hypocrisie discovered 'T IS not unknown what great Desires and Longings there was in the generality of the People of this Nation in the Year 1659. to have a King by whom they expected to be freed from those Impositions they were under but some others fearing if it were so it would be for the worse caused a zeal in some particular Persons to write against Kingly-Government amongst the rest we find G. Fox who did not only write his own judgment barely as a Man as others did but as a Man of GOD taking upon him to instruct all others put forth a Book the same year 59. entitled Several Papers given forth by G. But is this to render him Obnoxious to the Government no I abhor that Practice but base and self-ended Spirits are to be humbled and not think themselves fit to cry down other Peoples Religion that have by Treachery Persecution and Falseness too much reproached all Religion as saith Judas and the Jews i.e. G. F. c. F. wherein he writes about ten pages against a King and therein tells the Presbyterians c. There was no King owned among the true Christians but only amongst the Apostates since Christ's time That they were Traytors to Christ that desired a King and farther tells them what a King would be to them if they had one repeating those words Samuel spake to the Israelites Then he bids them look what work Joshua made with the Kings that were in the Cave a fit place for them says G. Fox p. 13. But no sooner the Scene of Affairs changed but he changes his Dialect and the very next Month after the King came in he with some others put forth a Declaration and therein they writ That they owned and honoured the King and the present Government yea they had flatteringly writ therein That they were his Loyal Subjects and that they had suffered much as himself had done c. And being called before a Court in Lancashire where the Oath of Allegiance was tendred him he told them that if he could take any Oath in any case he could take that Oath and farther said he honoured all Men much more the King c. What! Is this the Man that said They were Traytors to Christ that desired a King c. and now himself says he honours all Men much more the King c. Oh Strange Is this he that is so highly esteemed and exalted by his Proselites and even adored by some of his * Josi Cole Sol. Eccles c. Preachers who stile him The Father of many Nations That Generations to come shall call him Blessed Whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest At whose Name the Heathen tremble or were pricked at the Heart †A True Account c. p. 42. The Blessed Man that came out of the North. Who hath been faithful in the Lord's Business from the Beginning That true Prophet whom John said he was not And many more such like Appellations as Innocent Good Holy Vpright Man of God Prophet indeed c. Well but what doth he say of himself viz. That he is beyond the State of the First Adam that fell in the State of the Second Adam that never fell yea that his very Marriage was above the State of the First Adam in his Innocency in the State of the Second Adam that never fell and that he never fell nor changed And yet how hath he turned about with the Wind which he saith they that are in the Fall do and are in the changing changeable ways c. And by his thus turning and changing doth it not manifest him to be in the Fall Fallen and changeable State according to his own Words And yet how far is he from the least acknowledment thereof that he goes on and says He hath power to bind and to loose whom he pleases And takes upon him to make Laws and Orders for People and appoints them Time and Place when and where to Worship yea this is he that presumed to alter or caused to be altered unto which G. Whitehead was Privy the very substance of a Paper that was declared to be writ from the Spirit of GOD and so adulterated sends it beyond Sea which John Osgood William Penington and my self complained of to some of the Chief Preachers but not one of them would or through fear durst say that he had done amiss therein notwithstanding the Forgery was so manifest and the Author said when he came to see it that he was abused in it c. and this coming lately to publick view is still so far from being disown'd or condemn'd that Judas c. endeavours to cover and justifie it with this Saying The Spirit of the Prophets must be subject to the Prophets Oh horrid Impudence and Wickedness not only to commit so great an Iniquity but to bring the Holy Man's words to Patronize and
Justifie such an Enormous Fact Certainly none that truly fears GOD who shall come to the knowledge of these things will either own him to be a Servant or Prophet of the LORD until he come to Repentance for these and other his Wickednesses among the rest that of getting Persons to set their Names to his abusive Papers and Writings and also that of his villifying reproaching and belying those that oppose him how vertuous and innocent soever they be Can any parallel him herein with his and his Adherents late fawning flattering Address to the King and Parliament wherein are these words And the Oaths provided to testifie Allegiance to the King and denial of the Pope's Supremacy in Causes Civil and Ecclesiastical the Refusal whereof incurs a Premunire has been executed upon such whose Hearts and Hands could seal to the Substance thereof And yet their Consciences not allowing them to Swear at all because of the Command of Christ for that Only they have been the sole Sufferers thereby And towards the Close they say That if they be called to bear witness or any Office to or for she King or their Country and testifie their Truth or Faithfulness to one or both in which Cases Oaths are usually required and imposed They desire and request that an Act or Provision might be made That their Yea and Nay may be accepted and taken instead thereof c. Concerning which I shall say little more at present but conclude with a few words formerly writ by another concerning them viz. What will you do You Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites you that have been long making clean the outside of the Cup and Platter but inwardly are as Ravening Wolves your Fruits will make you manifest you Hypocrites your Name will be a stink among the Heathen for the LORD will find you out whose Glory He will not give to any other nor His Honour to any of your Graven Images My Soul loaths all your false Covers ye Hypocrites I cannot but declare against all your false ways J. P. The Days of Visitation are come the Days of Recompense are come Israel shall know it I will recompense them according to the Works of their own Hands They have sown the Wind and they shall reap the WHIRLWIND FINIS For the Preachers and Leaders of the People called QUAKERS YOUR Day into Darkness is turned the Sun is gone down over you You have had a large Day and Power given you to have done the Will of GOD but you have abused the Power and slighted your Day and have refused to do the LORD's Work and have sought your Selves and not the LORD therefore in Justice and Righteousness is the Day wherein you might have wrought for GOD taken from you and the thick Dark Night of Confusion is come upon you wherein you are groping and stumbling and cannot work The DECREE is gone out and it cannot be recalled You are not the Men as ye stand in whom GOD will appear to work Deliverance for His People and yet Deliverance shall come but as for You ye have rejected the Counsel of the LORD and grieved His Spirit and He hath long born you yea You are departed from the LORD and His Presence is departed from You Indeed He hath hewed with You and if you had been faithful to the End He would have honoured and prospered You and have been your sufficient Reward Ye were His AX but you have boasted your selves against Him Therefore as you have hewed and broken others even so must You be hewed and broken O ye Treacherous Wilful Proud Self-seeking People who have despised the Counsel of the LORD and would not take warning though He hath sent His Servants among you some of whom you have despitefully used What will ye do now Whom will you now flee unto for help Seeing you are departed from the LORD Remember your End which hastens greatly Breach upon Breach Division upon Division shall there be until HE come to Reign whose Right it is They that trust in or lean upon You for help it is as if they leaned upon a broken Reed which is not able to help it self nor others You have been made to do many good things but you would not go through with the Work which GOD will have accomplish'd and therefore are these things come upon you Therefore tremble and dread before the LORD Ye who have been as strong Oaks and tall Cedars for now shall your Strength fail you and you shall be weak even as the weakest of Men But if you would yet submit to GOD's righteous Judgments you might come to witness your Souls saved in the DAY of the LORD though many are to be thrown by because of grievous Backslidings as not counted worthy to be the LORD's Workmen There is a small Remnant yet among you for whom my Soul breaths who may be Winnowed out and if they will own the Judgments of the LORD and truly and throughly deny themselves and sollow His Leadings He will heal their Backslidings but they that will continue with you in your Sins shall partake with you of your Iudgments The foregoing Words excepting the Title were writ by another 1659. to the then Rulers upon whom they were fulfilled and so as certainly shall they be fulfilled upon you J. P. This was Printed and given them in April 1673. much of which being already fulfill'd and believing the remainder will in its appointed season causeth me to have it reprinted and placed here that whoever reads and considers it as also what W. R. F. B. T. C. W. M. and others have written concerning them may plainly see they have been warned of their great Apostacy and Downfal many years agoe SOME REMARKS Upon a Book entitled Christ's Lambs defended against Satan's rage c. Being the Quakers Answer to The Quakers Vnmask'd c. In a Letter to E. S. Esq SIR HAving had the curiosity and opportunity of reading The Quakers Vnmask'd Their Double dealing and False-heartedness discovered c. I thought it impossible for the Quakers to vindicate themselves from that Authors Charge which made me desirous to read their Answer and having perused it I can scarce forbear to Remark some few Passages which are clear Confutations of their boasted Innocency Plainness and Christian Charity In the Advertisement to the Reader G. Whitehead takes notice that The Quakers Vnmask'd c. was sent them in Manuscript in the year 1677. and that Liberty of Conscience being established by Law and placed upon the Book in writing is the cause of its now publication Which says G. W. looks as if he envyed our present Liberty Behold the Spirit of this Answerer Mr. Pennyman kept his Books unpublished for 13 years together lest it might be any occasion of the Quakers Persecution but when Liberty of Conscience is established by Law he publisheth 10 or 11 of them presuming there is now no danger of their being persecuted Does this look as if he envyed their present Liberty and