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
or body of rich politick People and so purse proud and strong no one People i. e. dissenting Society is able to deal with them They are by their Jesuitical Politick way of Government united as one intire Body unto one Head or Conclave of Cardinals of Chief Priests in London Whitehead c. from and by whose Authority a vast number of their seditious Libels are spread all over England's Dominions and elsewhere and they are so formidable that scarce any eminent Magistrate but they can by some interest or other they have or can make influence for if any just complaint be against any of their Priests they can by their Meetings know who of them have most influence on such in Power most concerned and so can by their quibbles smooth and fawning pretences perswade thar they are Innocent and their Adversaries Malicious as in the case of F. Bugg's dedicating his Book Quak. Withering c. to the Bishop of Glocester on which G. W. made such interest or so influenced him that as Whitehead Prints it the Bishop rather favoured him G. W. than F. B. but had any of his i. e. that Bishops Flock left him and joyned with the Quakers and wrot but half so much in defence of the Quakers and discovery of the Church of England I think the Quakers would not so slightly esteemed it but this shews what advantage they have and make by their fawning and confidence to the damage and scandal of the Protestant Ministers for their seditious Ancient Testimonies not only grow by not being pulled up but they seed and increase which were there as much care taken to defend the Protestant Religion and Ministers by duly answering and suppressing their seditious Books as they do to destroy and suppress them wrot in discovery of their Errors they indite and excommunicate and take away Goods and Imprison and Fine for discovery of their Wickedness and prosecute and complained to the Secretary of State as in the case of F. B. G. K. and W. B. and is it not as fitting to suppress Error and Sedition as for them to suppress Truth also as much care ought to be taken for spreading such Books that are printed in defence of the Protestants against them as they do to spread theirs for although there have been some such wrot yet so few will buy them that the Booksellers are not willing to undertake to Print them which if they were encouraged by a common vend for such Books it might be some check to their Insolency and help to open the Understandings of People for how can it be expected but that the vulgar People and Strangers abroad should believe all their Contempts of the Protestant Ministers be true because so publick all over the Nation and other Parts without opposition not only in their small Pamphlets but also in great Volumes when them fierce Despisers Fox c. be dead with such long Epistles or high Commendations of them and their wicked Works by W. Penn and George Whitehead c. and more especially the Quakers being so formidable and great that as other Foreign Nations have an Agent or Minister residing about the Kings Court to negotiate and improve their Interest in the favour of the Government so have these Quakers their Agent a Person who is not the least in favour although he hath manifested himself an Enemy to the Protestant Ministers nay they Foxonian Quakers rather than they will want Dirt and Infamy to throw on the Protestant Bible Religion and Ministers they will take in aid from the Papists and forge or fetch News from the Pit of Damnation as is proved in this following Tryal and seeing they are so Great Powerful and Strong that no one Society is able to ballance them if were well all differing Protestants were more united against the common Enemy for their greatest danger of hurt is from Rome at home and seeing these Quakers will not endure the least affront as they think to their Persons or Papers but will with the utmost Power and Malice Prosecute and Punish as in their Indicting and Prosecuting F. Bugg as Seditious because he Printed the Figure of a Pillory for Twelve of their Chief Priests how was the Government and Nation alarm'd with it and in Pensilvania they presented George Keith as guilty or worthy of Death by their Law and it s to be feared would have dealt accordingly by him but that Providence took the Power out of their Bloody Priest Jennings's hands and Imprisoned the Man and took away his Goods that Printed G. Keith's Plea Will. Bradford and say it's Blasphemy to term their Paper Sinful Now seeing they will not bear the reproach they justly deserve then why must the Protestant Bible and Ministers be by them so defamed in Print to Posterity by them are not these things of higher concernment and more justly deserving punishment than them Persons they so punished consider this all you Protestants whom it most especially concerns if they be so presumptuous now what may they not attempt when they can effect their wicked design of destroying the Protestant Ministry They having already obtained in some measure to confront or be equal with the Peers of the Realm who formerly they reproached as well as the Ministers and this that they have gained may prove a bait to other ambitious Persons to pretend to be Quakers if but to exempt them from the reach of that Law it s hoped this will no more reflect on our Governours if they have been deceived by their false pretences than it did on Joshua and the Elders of Israel that the Gibeonites deceived I fear the case is much the same it may be feared their Pensilvania Pope W. Penn can already with the help of Twelve more of their London Cardinals Whitehead c. procure more Men or Money to their Interest than any one Subject in England if these give it as their Testimony or Judgment that it 's for the service of Truth and by the Spirit of God i. e. Fox 's Spirit there 's enough Quakers to give up their whole Concerns Spiritual and Temporal to that Spirit as their Barbadoes Church did whereby they sold Themselves Bodies Souls and Estates to that Spirit as in Babel's Builders c. may be seen at large Now consider you 25 W. Myers Tho. Cox G. Laytey Tho. Lower J. Vaughton N. Mark W. Bingly C. Marshall W. Sanders J Feild M. Russel J. Knight H. Gouldny D. Whorly c. you Foxonian Chief Priests and chief Men of War this Title and manner of Proceedings and the Hell-fetch'd Names and Terms are according to your own in print against the Protestant Ministers in general and not only formerly in Pamphlets but now reprinted and the Author highly applauded and recommended to posterity by your Chief Men of War in E. Burrows Works although you were not so extreme shameless as to reprint all his Wickedness but alter leave out and add in to forge them to your mind
yet this and other Seditious Defamings of the Protestant Ministers you have espoused and are your Ancient Testimony and however Wicked and Impudent you may term me yet know I here appear in your own Chief Priests Shape or Colours and whatever herein comes from the Pit of Damnation is not of my fetching thence but your own for I have these and many more in your printed Libels Consider you 24 how outragious you were against that Christian Quaker D. S. for his Answer to F. B. you say of D. S. it was a scandalous malicious Libel a mere trick put on you by some malicious Adversary to abuse you but you prove not your black Charge but you say so and it must go so but yours is a more malicious Libel and where as you say it was not by any directions or leave from you where did he say it was or what occasion had D. S. for your leave but herein your arrogancy is seen in not allowing D. S. or any to subscribe himself a Christian Quaker without your leave where got you this Power over others if you come no honester by your Money its but ill gotten Goods your Consciences knew he D. S. did not intend nor mean you as the Persons concern'd in that Name Christian Quakers for you know that by that Title the dissenting Quakers distinguish themselves from you Foxonians as W. R. in his Book therefore the mere trick was yours to deceive People into the Belief that you are the Christian Quakers when as you are not and had you your Pensilvanian Power here as your Dear Brother that Bloody Foxonian Priest Jennings had in Pensilvania It may be feared D. S. might have faired as W. Bradford did his Goods taken away and imprisoned and his life also if you could had your wicked wills but that Christian Answer of D. S. had been of more service to you than any thing you ever Printed could your Pride have let it pass People might have thought you had been of that number of Christian Quakers who would not hide Iniquity nor acquit your guilty Idols of Jealousie Fox and Whitehead but now you have shewn your selves to be otherwise and intitled your selves and all the Foxonian Quakers to all their Errors wicked Contempts of the Protestant Bible Religion and Ministers which is more than you are able to answer ot make satisfaction for for all you be so rich how can you expect to be thought Men of sincerity when there are so many scandalous Ancient Testimonies of theirs in Print yet you dare not disown them for fear of reflecting on the wicked Authors Fox c. here following I prove you guilty of Malice against the Protestant Ministers in informing against them all along before the Restoration for being for both the Kings Charles I. and Charles II. for restoring him and your thirst after their destruction was so great that because you were prevented of your design against them then by the Restoration in 1660. assoon as ever the King was come in you wickedly alter your charge and then accuse them for being against him See J. Coal's Works The Whore Unvail'd p. 112. highly commended and espoused by G. Fox and his Margaret the Lamb's Wife W. Penn and George Whitehead there you espous'd the Papists defaming the Protestant Bible Religion and Ministers as a Brazen-fac'd Unjust Corrupt Book Pope or Devil if they will but defame the Protestants you Foxonians will be their Factors to vend and spread such Wares you cannot but know there are many of your Ancient Testimonies in Print that much more deserve to be disown'd than that of D. S. and if you would be thought Christian Quakers prove your selves such by condemning these Blasphemous Treasonable and Seditious Ancient Testimonies be not so shameless as to think its enough for you to say you believe according to Scriptures no more than it did your Forefathers in saying they had Abraham to their Father you could give it as a reason to excommunicate G. K. because he did not call in his Books against your wicked erronious Brethren S. Jennings c. you pretend they were of disservice to Truth but are not these your wicked Actions and Seditious Ancient Testimonies greater injury to the Protestant Religion than they for shame you Foxonians who be not Priests be not so Priest-ridden by them will you be so proud and fond of a little Reputation that rather than you will acknowledge you have been mistaken or mislead by them wicked Men Fox c. that you will rack your Consciences and sacrifice your Souls ah unwise Men you purchase it at too dear a rate And if you give not forth some publick Testimony against the Evils of your Chief Priests you are respecters of Persons and so Sinners and then by Foxes Doctrine of the Devil and indeed if the Devil be known by his Teeth as the old Proverbs say he is by his Feet then you have shewn what Teeth you have when you can come to bite as you did W. Bradford and would have done by G. K. and seeing you indicted F. Bugg for not performing that unusual Punctilio of Law to enter his Book in the Stationers Books are your Meetings and Schools according to Law in all circumstances if not if any disadvantage come to any of you thank your selves you have shewn the way and given example how think you to escape the Judgment of God who condemn others and do worse your selves how can you have the face as to print such Malicious Seditious and Scandalous Ancient Testimonies as be in G. F. E. B. and J. Coal's c. Works besides what you have by Forgery alter'd by leaving out and putting in says Fox Let all Fines belonging to Lords of Mannors be taken away and given to the Poor for they have enough this Judge of the World Fox can give or take away the Lords Properties Oh shameless yet say you many have done well but thou dear George excellest them all but pray how liked you it when a long Periwig and Sword were in fashion with you when it was like to be your own case consider this and what follows and if your can shew any such wicked Testimonies in G. Keith's Books now if you do not as publickly disown these your Chief Priest's wicked Ancient Testimonies as you have done D. S. then you are justly chargeable with them for in case you did not own them you would publish against them as you have done against D. S. and G. K. and order them to be called in as you did G. Keith's some of you W. Sanders the Wine-cooper in Company with H. Gouldny on the open Change in full Change called Mr. Pennyman an Ancient Upright credible Citizen Impudent Fellow but are not you worse then Impudent thus arrogantly to take upon you in Print to try and condemn the Protestant Ministers and not content therewith but to satiate your Spirits of Pride and Malice and to effect your Bloody Designs against
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
A Just and Lawful TRYAL OF THE Foxonian Chief Priests BY A Perfect Proceeding against Them AND They Condemn'd out of their own Ancient Testimonies And being brought to the Bar of Justice their own Ancient Testimonies have judged them Guilty and to be no Christians of Christ's making Thou shalt rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer Sin upon him Levit. 19.17 Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Psalm 137.8 But these Quakers say Scripture is not his God 's Voice but Declaration of what he spake to and by those holy Men c. Scorn'd Quaker page 19. Therefore I will give them their own Scripture Must not Jealousie be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them as they have stirred up the Powers of the Earth against others Truth 's Character p. 15. Having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name of Christians you deserve not that Name E. B.'s Works p. 419. LONDON Printed for the Author and to be Sold by B. Aylmer against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1697. ERRATA PAg. 11. Lin. 33. for see r. with p. 23. l. 7. the Comma that 's at in should be at it p. 27. l. 17 18. them words in the Parenthesis be not theirs p. 87. last line but one after the word justly r. deserve to be p. 89. l. 25. after the c. r. of and the Comma's that be at the should be at they for the Protestant Ministers are not their words p. 90. l. 37. after people r. they say p. 96. l. 31. after party r. says p. 111. l. 11. for word r. world Pages 200. and 201. should be 110. and 111. and there be some words inclosed in Parentheses inserted into some of their sentences which be not theirs only added for particular notice or explanation which although not so well distinguished as ought yet by the sense of the matter discernable The PREFACE Christian Reader THe Design of this following Tryal is To shew the wickedness of the Foxonian Spirit and the Chief Priests and Rulers among them That it 's an Antichristian Porphyrian Spirit appears by their bantering all who confess themselves Sinners For T. C. having said I desire my Imperfections nor these Quakers Revilings may not prejudice against reading this c. for they cannot represent me a greater Sinner than I thank God I think my self to be but by their villifying me they shew the weakness of their Cause and the wickedness of their Spirits For the Controversie between us is not what T. C. is but whether or no G. Fox c. has so printed as I charge them and whether those Expressions be not Unchristian c. For this these Quakers thus banter me A large Confession I promise you say they Why in good earnest he hath cut off all opportunities of being told of his Faults for the future by confessing the Indictment and pleading Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him now henceforth for ever Then we may take it for granted that whatever I have charged him with c. he is conscious he is guilty of consequently I have not wronged him in so representing him nay nor is it possible for me to wrong him c. Little need be said to shew the Injustice of the Foxonians besides their Scoff and Banter But for that they say How can he i. e. T. C. expect any other but to be banter'd c. And not only T. C. but all who confess themselves Sinners are so dealt with by them But to take a little notice of these Quakers Injustice for as to their Bantring T. C. must expect no other from them They say of T. C. He hath pleaded Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him which is false for T. C. does not confess nor have they proved he is guilty of what they charge him with but they have wronged him For altho' the Prophets confessed as David c. that their iniquities were great and St. Paul said of himself I am the chiefest of Sinners yet they were falsly charged and wronged by your Fore-fathers and they laid to David's Charge things that he knew not and Paul was not guilty of them Sins your Forefathers accused him of Acts 24. But they wronged him as you have T. C. Nor do I find that any of the cruel Jews since Paul's confessing himself the chiefest of Sinners ever made so wicked and Porphyrian a Bantering use of his words as you have done as to say They cannot wrong him nor is it possible to wrong him Paul for let me represent him how I will I cannot represent him a chiefer Sinner than he says he is Nay say these Quakers his i. e. T. C.'s Concession includes not only all this i. e. Whoremonger Swearer Drunkard c. but all other Sins whatsoever But if they pretend they say These Sins we hope he is not guilty of what then Altho' they hope so yet by their own Doctrine they may charge him with them and punish him accordingly its not possible for them to wrong him But now in case that Passage were not so properly worded as it ought I see not so much difference between a greater Sinner and the chief of Sinners as to be so Unchristianly dealt by But humble Christian Acknowledgments are so contrary to their proud Pharisaical bragging Prayers as G. W. ' s at the end of his Judgment fixt c. that causes them to gnash their Teeth so against them but their own Doctrine in their Book Rabshekah c. p. 70. is a proper Answer to them herein and to most of their Books say they I defie the Father of Lies himself to out-do this and I having proved some part of their Book Rabshekah c. was writ or given forth by a wicked Spirit I suppose you will confess it was all given forth by one Spirit therefore let the Reader judge what the rest of it can be E. B. 's Work 's p. 148. There 's some Faults in this Tryal c. which I desire the Readers Charity in passing them by as the smallness of the Letter because I was desirous to bring it into as few Sheets as possible and indeed I did not expect it would have taken up so many but while it was in Printing I Inserted several more Proofs of my Charges into several places as I thought most suitable which I find causes it in some places not to Read so smooth as it ought Also I have shortened it in some partiat the latter end because I find the same Matters are fuller and better Treated on in the Second Edition of the Snake in the Grass c. And I understand that Worthy Author intends a full Reply to the Quakers pretended Antidote c. Whereby I question not but he will discover the Poison of Asps from under the Tongue of G. Whitehead in that pretended Antidote c. as well as he has Discovered the Flames
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
they had so highly owned and encouraged O. C. and R. C. c. yet they inform against the Ministers for so doing not only in E. B.'s Works but in other Pamphlets as Peaceable Advice c. Truth 's Character c. There they inform against them for as they i. e. the Quakers say comparing him to Elijah and for owning him as their Supream Governour and because they said they were his real Friends c. And say these envious Quakers If you mean O. C. he was rather like Ahab who killed and took possession And say they Did not O. C. the like And you i. e. Ministers who flattered him have been like Ahab's four hundred Prophets that with one accord declared good to that wicked Man i. e. O. C. Yet you see here before how the Quakers also owned and encouraged him even in his 1648 Action and were far from blaming him then for killing and taking possession And although I have shewn Fox termed him his Dear Friend yet they inform against the Ministers for saying they were his Real Friends From whence it 's evident the Foxonian Quakers were more like the four hundred Baal's Prophets than Elijah for they did not then blame O. C. for killing and taking possession but like Ahab's Prophets with a lying Spirit in their Mouths declared good to him with one Mouth G Fox and E. B. c. as is before and more fully in the Snake in the Grass c. shewn And their own Printed Defamation of the Protestant Ministers to the King may justly be returned to themselves Alas for the King Shall he find any among them if they be all of one Mind and Judgment as they pretend or any at all of that Fraternity Foxonian Priests that have not been disloyal changeable and unconstant in their way And the very self-same Men Fox and E.B. c. sometimes have been for one Man and in a little time for another and so proved themselves absolute time-serving Polititians to serve their own sordid Interests May not the King easily know it when he considers who it was that encouraged and approved and actually fought from first to last and justified them in their cruelty to Charles the First 1648 even the Foxonians and who it was i. e. Fox and E. B. c. that writ so many flattering Letters to Oliver and then to Richard and then changed from that and cry'd up a Commonwealth again and then the Army and Committee of Safety and presently after the Restoration pretend to own Him i. e. Charles the Second by all which it appears that no one sort of Men in England are so disloyal and inconstant as that Generation of Foxonian Priests And who can put Trust in Such that have thus served Time and Dissembled for their own Ends And how shall the King ever without great danger to himself put Trust in such as the Foxonian Chief Priests And how can they beg the Kings Lords and Bishops especially whom they have so defamed and reviled to exempt them from the Laws which other Subjects are liable to without shame to themselves And it s but reasonable that the King and Parliament should be truly informed what they i. e. these Foxonian Chief Priests are and what their Practices have been c. For peradventure they may think them by their fair Words to be that they are not and its pity but that such should be better informed and this innocent Paper is writ to tell them that know you not so well as your Neighbours do This is your own Printed Doctrine and is thus turned home to your selves you shameless and envious Quakers against the Protestant Ministers in general And in their Book Truth 's Character p. 19. say they Many joyned with them i. e. the Ministers in their Plots Designs and Conspiracies c. These few Instances I have here given are but Samples of the Quakers Envy against the Protestant Ministers as the Grapes the Spies brought in comparison of what there is in their Printed Books And what I have here done is not out of prejudice to the Quakers Persons but as in Jeremiah 38. the Blackmore in consideration of the great Evil these Men the Foxonian Quakers have done to the Protestant Ministers and Religion by condemning not only one Man but the whole Generations and Ages past present and to come into not only a Dungeon and Mire but into the Dungeon of Hell it self there to stick fast as is here shewn I do hereby endeavour to my poor Ability to draw or help them out Here your Spirit is proved more like Haman's than Christ's and in your own words in the same Libel I say Your intent of thus accusing them must needs be out of Malice for to incense the King against them to destroy them Also in the same Pamphlet say you I must desire the King and Nation that such Men be taken notice of attempting so high to be the Kings Informer against as good Subjects of the Nation and better too as themselves O how abominable is this both to God the King and Kingdom that these things i.e. the Foxonians accusing the Protestant Ministers should pass unreproved No by no means seeing its your own i. e. Quakers Doctrine and you will not endure to be termed Quakers but say in Print Such an one is an Evil Doer in a high degree on whom the Sword of the Magistrate is to pass And this Foxonian Spirit in this afore Trial is proved to be like that 23d of the Acts and 21th who have bound themselves as they had to destroy Paul to destroy the Protestant Ministers So altho' them Quakers immediately concerned may not be above forty Men yet consider how many of them there be that have or will like their Barbadoes Church give up their whole Concern Spiritual and Temporal to this wicked Spirit of Fox's which they term the Spirit of God in their Womens Meetings It 's themselves or their own Ancient Testimonies in the Beginning that condemn them and I only mete to them their own measure And that the Design of the Foxonian Spirit is to defame the Protestant Religion and Ministers appears in their Printing this Popish scandalous Libel so large and eminent contrary to their usual manner for in this Answer to the Papists they cite but a few Lines together and take it into pieces but this that particularly defamed the Protestant Ministers in which as they say they are not concerned they Print whole at large in four Pages And had they not thought and intended it to scandalize the Protestant Ministers they might have answered to that Chapter as in E. B.'s Works p. 148. As to the rest of thy Book I suppose you will confess it was all by one Spirit and it 's proved some of it 's given forth by a Lying Spirit then judge what the rest is I say they might have waved it by some such Answer and not have so remarkably and at large printed that if
and shall give an account for it one day But these may quibble it off that this was against them in Oliver's times and it 's against such as be in Errors c. I Answer that they accounted the Church of England Ministers worse than them and for Errors c. They count them all such as at large may be seen in the Epistle before E. B.'s Works Another proof of the Arrogancy of this Foxonian Spirit is in their Book Counterfeit Convert c. p. 72. They say That their Testimony against Tythes should be maintained is not a Law of their own making but of Christs This is in Answer to something said to them in T. C.'s Animadversions p. 39. where T. C. objects against their Arrogant and Unchristian Judgment they have passed on all Christendom Kings Lords Martyrs and all People who pay Tythes altho' freely as is Christianly held in W. R.'s Christian Quaker and opposed in theirs intituled An Antidote in Answer to W. R. But it 's this the Quakers Imposition and Tyranny over others Consciences that they will not allow them to be Christians but Antichrists and mark them as such and Deniers of Christ It was this their Unchristianing all who can freely pay Tythes without constraint that T. C. objects against and this they make a Law of Christ's making thereby positively Judging the Laws of England for Tythes to be opposite to Christ's Laws and so the Upholders of such Laws of all Degrees Deniers of Christ and Antichrists and not only the Law-Makers and Maintainers but those who pay them freely For THAT Unchristian Testimony of theirs it was T. C. termed a Law of their making c. In Answer hereto they do not deny its a Law but deny it 's of Their making but of Christ's say they This Book was by them delivered to the Parliament Here Sentence is past on all Degrees past present and to the Worlds End when the Court of our Judges the Foxonian Cardinals of their Second Days Meeting will please to order Execution I know not But further To prove these their Testimonies as they term them be Laws observe also in their Book intituled Rabshekah c. page 90. they say Formerly he i. e. T. C. having transgressed in some matters Again say they And by his said Transgressions c. Now where there is no Law there is no Transgression but here they charge and punish for Transgression for not obeying their Laws contrary to the Law of the Nation and say It 's not of their making but of Christ's This is of very high rnd general Concernment for it affects as well as reflects on Laws and Law-Makers as well as Law-Obeyers and which is of most force or which must have preference either the Law of the Nation or of the Quakers Why if as they say that theirs against them who can freely pay Tythes is of Christs making then the Quakers Law or Testimony is of greatest force because it 's of Christ's i. e. Fox's making This is larger and better treated on in The Snake in the Grass c. the Second Edition with Additions I only say Either the Quakers are very Arrogant or else by their Doctrine the Law-Makers and Laws of England are contrary to Christ's And I think these Quakers Reflections and Scandal they have laid on the Laws and Religion and Ministers of England much more deserve to be taken notice of by them in Power than Francis Bugg's Book with the Picture of a Pillory did which on the Quakers Complaint against him as Seditious was seized by a Messenger by Order of a Secretary of State and he F. B. Indicted for three Crimes Defaming or Scandalizing G. W. c Quakers But the Quakers scandalizes the Laws and Law-Makers and Observers in all Ages since the Apostles until the End of Time who pay or uphold Tythes altho' freely and therefore is very Arrogant as well as Unchristian And this proves it is not Liberty of Conscience but Power over others Consciences they aim at and also proves their Deceit in pretending theirs are but Counsel and Tender Advice for altho' to deceive they use such gentle Words as Recommend or Tender Advice yet you see they expect exact Obedience and punish as Transgressors for not obeying their Orders as the Laws of Christ or of his making Now are not these Quakers very Wicked and Arrogant in doing as they have Not only to the Ministers but defamed the Memories of Kings and Martyrs ever since Christ that paid or shall pay Tythes And they have been so drunk with furious Malice as to violate Sepulchers and trample on the Graves of the Dead nay they have been so ignoble base and meanly scurrilous as to bestow their Billingsgate Rhetorick not only on other Men but Kings more especially Charles the First that cannot answer for themselves because in their Graves It is not fit they i. e. these Arrogant Quakers should pass without Rebuke therefore to expose the poorness and wickedness of their Spirit which they blasphemously term Christ's to the view of those of a more Generous and Christian Temper and to manifest what a kind of Antagonists the Ministers have I have here collected a part of their Abuses of those good Men some of them now at rest who never deserved at these Quakers hands I am perswaded these Demonstrations of Rancor against them These Quakers Malice is so great against the Protestant Ministers that I have not offered a third part of the Abusive Expressions they have used against them both here afore and following All this and more is their own in their Book Rabshekah c. page 68. because G. Fox's and their Wickedness was discover'd which these now Quakers are so far from disowning as they ought that they contrariwise vindicate them and exalt the Authors Fox c. with high Commendations A mighty Prophet and more than a Prophet endued with the Almighty power of God which lived and reigned in him and this Epistle aforementioned wrot by him is such a choice Revelation with them that it 's twice printed and put before 2 Books one of Fox's in 1659. and another since printed by them Foxonian Quakers 1672. of above 900 pages in Folio stuft with bitter Revilings and Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to the great scandal of the English Nation as following is shown And it 's the Protestant Ministers in general that fot upholding them he G. W. threatens the Magistrates And for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is not Christ's but that which influenced Haman to seek the Destruction of the Jews appears by the Fruits of Malice and Defamation following that they have vâ—â—ted against the Protestant Ministers and it 's chiefly the Ministers Support that is their Grievance and only take that of Tythes for their pretence as being likely to take with covetous and poor People c. For formerly when some considerations were in hand on the hideous Noise they made against Tythes for some
other settled Maintenance of Godly Ministers they opposed that also In the year 1659 say they to the Committee of Safety If you should take them Tythes away and settle anything by way of Compulsion on the People for any Ministry you leave us in Bondage and we must declare against that as against Tythes and we cannot pay that nor the other c. And after the Nonconformists that were turned out of Places had Meetings and their Hearers gathered by Collection what the People freely gave G. Whitehead enviously informs against them saying of them Who being dismounted from their Parochial Bishopricks c. are now for the Ratling of their Platters which have been very beneficial to many Have their Platters rattle more secretly c. The Nature of Christianity pag. 5. That the Protestant Ministers live torments these Quakers being they have blasphemously prophesied their begging and Starving And say they If the King c. Repeal the Law inforcing Tythes and convert them into some necessary Civil Use it would appear whether we should not pay our parts and whether the Royal Exchequer would not be conveniently supplied without the Tenth from the Priests page 50. of The Quakers Case c. In this case G. Whitehead's Spirit looks more like Haman's than Christ's as in Esther 3. it 's said If it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay Ten Thousand Talents of Silver into the hands of those that have the Charge of the Business to be brought into the Kings Treasuries And in the Epistle before E. B.'s Works To all the World they say their difference was not only with some Sects or Persons but say they with all Sects in these Nations Priests and Professors and have just cause to deny their whole Religion And say to the Ministers In the Name of the Lord you are contrary to them i e. the Apostles in all your Doctrines in all your Ways and Practices and say they Our Spirits were fill'd with Indignation against the Priests and with and against them we began War and against them as the Fountain of all Wickedness and as being the Issue of Profaneness from them hath Profaneness gone forth in all Nations Deceivers Antichrists this was our first Work to thrash down Deceivers the Protestant Ministers false Idle Shepherds Wo wo unto these Shepherds saith the Lord God Fox they shall be confounded they shall be broken down and never builded any more the Lord will pluck them up by the Roots and they shall never again be planted Their whole Ministry hath a dependance on Popery All savours of Popery Their whole Religion in all parts thereof degenerated c. You see it 's the whole and every Part that they are against of the Protestant Ministers and Reliligion in these three Nations and in page 1. they say It 's from the Lord and they term the Ministers A cursed deceitful Ministry And in page 88. to prove the Protestant Ministers false Prophets charge them that they speak what they have studied for then surely they would have condemned Timothy for obeying Paul who bid him study c. Even say they a Divination of their own Brain Take other Mens Words See the Snake in the Grass first Part p. 316. where the Quakers are proved to have done the same Nor have heard the Voice of God but take Chapter and Verse But surely then Fox was a very false Prophet for he took others words altho' durst not or could not tell Chapter and Verse because he usually corrupted it by adding or diminishing as he pleased And in obedience to their Law or Act made by their Conclave of Cardinals to hold up their Holy and Ancient Testimony of Truth in the beginning and that in all the parts of it c. Now this afore against taking or reading Chapter or Verse being a part of what their Truth taught them in the Beginning being since by Re-printing also further confirmed may be some cause that they are so offended with G. Keith for or because he has a Bible before him and sometimes reads some Scripture-Text therein And I hear W. Penn did in their Publick Meeting in his Preachment reflect on it saying Christ did not preach out of a Book or to that effect But he might more truly have said Christ nor his Apostles did not preach in or with Periwigs as he c. does And altho' he c. be so offended at G. Keith's reading in the Bible and term it Preaching yet he may read in the 4th of Luke and 16th That as his Custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath Day and stood up to read and there was delivered unto him the Book of Esaias and when he had opened the Book he found the Place where it was written c. Surely he had less need of the Book or opening it than W. P. or his Master Fox either yet he did it altho' these Quakers not only do not follow his Example therein but are offended and revile others for so doing as here shewn but perhaps this Infallible Fallible Spirit of Fox's in W. Penn was as ignorant of this Scripture as he was of the place where our Lord was born But their preferring Fox's Journal or Work before the Bible appears by their fixing it i. e. Fox's Journal in their Publick Meeting and not only W. Penn but several others of them have shewed dislike to G. K.'s using the Bible at Turners-Hall Again Pag. 10. Say they All thy Teachers O England are denied by them who are taught of God O People your Teachers have beguiled you Your Reward will be Vengeance and your Charge will be Murthering Souls The most innocent among you will be found guilty of Innocent Blood G. W. can you be so ingenuous as to exempt Dr. Stillingfleet from these your Scandals And page 101. which they say was sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God to the Priests and Teachers Thus saith the Lord Fox My Controversie is against you of all others and my Judgments shall be on you to the uttermost for you in Hypocrisie c. have exceeded all others Abominably loathsome is your filthiness in preaching for hire c. They go on against the Ministers saying They had made Merchandise of their Peoples Souls Prophaneness is gone forth from you into all Corners of the Earth c. Again You have shut the Kingdom of Heaven against Men to the destruction of Thousands and Ten Thousands And your Prayers have been to your Idol God for all sorts from whom you could receive a Reward Original the Womb of Witchcraft You pray to your dead Gods Deceiving Thousands Whose Blood you are absolutely guilty of Your Rebellion is the Crime of Witchcraft which cannot cease to do Evil for you have bound your selves in the Covenant with Hell My Cup of Indignation is the assured Portion of your Lot and Blood shall you have to drink as your Reward from me My Plagues
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
the true Believers were Witnesses as well as the Apostles Therefore it is plain it was a material personal seeing and handling that the Scripture intends and not imaginary as the Quakers For they in their Rabshekah say T. C. hath crucified him i. e. their Christ It 's this blasphemous false-accusing Spirit of Fox's which T. C. opposed and terms their Christ therefore their fallacious squinting Confessions are but deceit while they will not disown but justifie their Ancient Blasphemous Testimonies and enjoyn their Subjects to maintain them But if they meant truly as the words import then there needs nothing but Yea or Nay to most of these Queries where they make reviling long squinting Answers The first Query is Was the Son of God or Word made Flesh or made of a Woman more than once I say Nay But they say The Word made Flesh we witness which dwells among us and we behold his glory c. But the Saints said dwelt and beheld as past Further say they VVhen thou canst witness the VVord made Flesh once then thou wilt know whether the Son of God was made of a Woman any more than once The Second Query Did the Man Christ Jesus really suffer Death as on the Cross at Jerusalem oftener then once I say Nay They say The Man Christ Jesus we own and witness the Lamb's Book of Life which was slain from the Foundation of the World the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World c. The third Query Did the Man Christ suffer in his own Person for that end and after that manner which he did once upon the Cross before or since the time i. e. his Crucifixion on the Cross I say Nay They say Christ Jesus in his own Person doth suffer by thee and by thy Generation he suffered at Jerusalem and doth suffer where he is manifest by you after the same manner And say they Wouldst thou have Christ have more ends in suffering than one This Answer plainly proves what I before said that by owning Christs Suffering and Crucifying at Jerusalem they mean not his Personal Bodily Sufferings but inward as in Abel and Peter and so in them now for they say he doth suffer after the same manner i. e. as he did at Jerusalem Now this cannot respect his Bodily Sufferings on the Cross outward for so he doth not now suffer but they say he doth suffer after the same manner Now mind the terms of the Query and their Answer and it 's plain they do not mean as all other Christians do but in another sense This Query and their Answer sufficiently prove their contempt Fourth Query Was not that Death the Man Christ suffered once and but once on the Cross so satisfactory that God doth not require any Suffering on that account I say Yea it was and God requires no other They say The Death of the Man Christ Jesus which suffered at Jerusalem we own and witness mind that Witness the same Christ say they that suffered at Jerusalem we witness made manifest Now this they give as so full and plain a Confession that they say of it to P. B. the Querist Here thou Lyar art made manifest who said that we denied that Christ that dyed at Jerusalem But this is no Answer to the Query for the Query is not Whether or no it was Christ that suffered at Jerusalem but about the Value or Vertue of his Death to satisfie Gods Justice to which they reply nothing but quibble and rail but dare not Answer plainly Yea or Nay But it 's plain hereby they own not Satisfaction by that one and once offering of himself as in the Hebrews But they go on and cavil saying Whereas thou queriest whether the Justice of God be not satisfied for the Sins of the Elect say they Where do'st thou find that God requires satisfaction for the Sins of the Elect c Implying the Elect sin not now they term themselves and Christ also the Elect. The fifth Query Be you reconciled to God by any other Obedience than that particular Obedience Christ performed in his own Person once on the Cross I say Nay But they banter and make no positive Answer The sixth Query Did not the Man Christ suffer as a Publick Person in the Elects stead c I say Yea. They say For the Redeeming of the Elect from under such Mouths as thine did and doth Christ suffer ' Here squintingly making his now suffering in them or any Saint equal or of the same effect and value and to the same end as his Personal Suffering without us For say they For the Redeeming c. did and doth c. So that the Work of Redemption was not finished nor perfected as on Christ's part by that one and once offering himself but by his now Sufferings in them The seventh Query Is the Sufferings of Christ now in the Saints all the Satisfaction is made to God for Sins past present and to come I say No. They answer Is not Christ the same now as ever And is not the Sufferings of Christ satisfactory where-ever What wilt thou have to satisfie if Christs Sufferings do not satisfie Hereby plainly implying Yea in the Affirmative that their now Sufferings which they blasphemously term his is all the Satisfaction is made to God for Sins so plainly denied the Lord that bought them and trampled his Blood under foot for altho the Words now and all be not in their Answer yet they be in the Query c. and you must not mind so much their squinting Answer but also the Terms of the Query The eighth Query Was not that Body of Jesus consisting of Flesh Blood c. offered on the Cross the one and only Sacrifice for Sin and to which alone exclusively the Saints did before and since do look to be Justified by without any other Works I say Yea but they answer neither yea nor nay but revile The ninth Query Is there not another Righteousness by which Saints are Justified than that Christ works in and by them I say Yea. They answer Thou preaches another Gospel and would have another Righteousness than that of Christ which he works in and by Saints We witness Justification by Faith c. plainly implying Nay to the Query and so excluding the Obedience and Sufferings of our Lord as without us from being the Righteousness for the Justification of Believers The eleventh Query Is the Justice of God fully satisfied for all the Sins of the Elect ere he appear to their Souls I say Yea. But they answer neither but say Doth the Elect sin Shall the Elect dye And they as I said before term themselves the Elect and so imply they sin not therefore have no need of any to make Satisfaction for them or of asking forgiveness The twelfth Query Is the holy Lives or Works of Saints excluded from the Act of Justification c. I say Yea. But they answer squinting quoting 1 Pet. 1.18 but imply Nay that
converse with the New Testament And they have so intollerably scandalized the English Protestants that it's as they say not fit it should pass without being taken notice of and that by them it more concerns but especially the Ministers they vent their Fury against and set themselves so violently against Tythes because they thought them a great Support to the Protestant Ministers and a likely Argument to prevail with the vulgar covetous luke-warm and poor People which are a great Party in the Nation considered as incouraged by these Quakers who have printed so many of their envious and wrathful Doctrines against the Ministers as Prophecies or by the Eternal Spirit c. And they are obliged to drive on the same design for fear they appear as they are proud envious blasphemous Lyars And for further Proof that they have no more if so much kindness for the Episcopal Clergy than for the Dissenters observe what they say Did you not once make a Solemn Covenant with God that you would utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form Did you not spue it up And will you turn again and lick up your own Vomit O do not so do not run wilfully into destruction and before I have shewed you how these Quakers blame them for not keeping the Covenant By the foulness of the Expressions you may judge from whence the Spirit came Also one having commended Bishop Hall's Works the Quaker in contempt replies Thou at last fliest to the muckiest hole of all Was not Bishops voted down and some of them put to Death for the unjust Causes they maintained Therefore be not deceived by their present Flatteries For the Protestant Religion and Ministers are no better now but as bad Sorcerers and false Prophets and Teachers of Lasciviousness with them now as then and the Magistrates as much in fault now with G. Whitehead c. for upholding them as then Now G. W. thou said'st to J. P. because he shewed justly deserved contempt to some of your seditious Pamphlets that he was instigated by the Devil but who but he instigated Thee and W. Penn c. thus to vilifie the Protestant Ministers as you have and to be so arrogant as to threaten the Magistrates and accuse them for abusing their Power for as you say either the Spirit of Christ or that of the Devil leads Men. Therefore all these your Blasphemies and Treasons and seditious Practices and Doctrines herein mention'd be some part of your Ancient Truth 's Testimony which it taught you in the beginning or of Error Now if it be not the Testimony of the Spirit of Truth then they ought to be by you disowned and you were not lead by the Spirit of Christ in reprinting them and so blasphemously exalt the wicked Authors but by that of the Devil by your own Doctrine and in case you do not disown them it 's a plain proof you do hold them as your Ancient Testimonies which your Truth taught you in the Beginning and so are by your last years White-hart-court Conclave of Foxonian Cardinals G. W. c. enjoyned your Subjects to maintain and hold up for say you Truth changes not but that you do own them appears by your squinting general Answers and Acknowledgments you now make to deceive the Government with for should you answer'd plainly yea or nay to the two Queries in the Snake in the Grass then you had either discovered your Errors or else contradicted your Ancient Testimonies But now if you have any honesty and plainness to which you so highly pretend make known which of these many printed Ancient Testimonies of yours you do disown for so many of them as you do not disown as you did D. S.'s Answer to F. B. your are justly chargeable with as them you enjoyn your Subjects to maintain and hold up as your Ancient Testimonies for your silence herein will be taken as consent Now as I have shewn you some of these Quakers rage and of their envy against the Protestant Ministers I will also give you some Reasons they give to prove the Protestants Apostates c. which I think includes themselves as well as others in E. B.'s Works page 835. say they All you who are divided in your Knowledge and Judgment about the matters pertaining to God's Kingdom you are Apostate Christians and you never yet received the Spirit of Christ mark that and that is the Reason of all your Divisions in Religious matters c. Page 838. As Christians are brought again to receive the Spirit of Christ and walk therein all Strife and Division about Religion will cease c. And other Marks of false Ministers be They have a place they call Church and observe one day in a week to worship and a few hours in that day and an Hour-glass Now if the Quakers be found to have Strife and Divisions about Religion then by their own Judgment they are condemned as not to have yet received the Spirit of Christ But then by what Spirit they have been moved and whose Ministers and Embassadors they have been judge That they have had Divisions among them early is proved by the Difference between G. Fox and his Party and J. Nailor and his Party also that of G. Fox and his Party with J. Perrot and his Party and that Difference between Fox and his Party and J. Story and J. Wilkinson and their Party in the North and West as also that between the now Foxonians and G. Keith and his Party in Pensilvania besides many more I could mention as Reading c. as abundance of printed Books on both sides proves especially W. R's Eight Parts of the Christian Quakers c. And his second Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apostate Quaker c. And whereas G. W. c. terms G. K. Apostate G. W. is there made to be one himself and Judgments Signed by many on both sides one against another I will give you some passages out of two Letters for proof of their Religious Difference besides what is in print in hundreds of Books one Quaker of Fox's Party Several Papers have come from J. N. since his being in Prison I hearing and seeing to be justified by several that what is there writ came from the Spirit of God and that they are witnesses of the same with him I knowing the contrary writes as follows A Parable about a Tree is made and six Persons named The fruitless Tree says he that cumbers the ground in J. N. is the Root Let his Papers cease to go abroad for more may be deceived by him than the others his being secretly covered with words of truth to cover lyes c. Another Quaker of J. N.'s Party contrary to this afore says One morning being awake in my Bed the word of the Lord spake to me thus go to G. R.'s and speak for James and finding that which is Eternal moving me I went after some time one laid a Paper before me pressing me to read it but finding
Hypocrites not to be believed If Changed either your Truth hath changed or they gone from it and so that and you i. e. the Quakers not the same and so may change again as is for your sordid Interest as in the case of the Sloop in Pensilvania Also you are as uncertain and falacious in your main Principle of the Light within as in the case of Fighting In Great Mystery p. 58. you cite one saying To say the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer is Error Again They that say the Light in every Man that condemns of Sin to be Christ the Redeemer have set up an Idol c. To both these Fox answers To the first he says Contrary to John who saith This is the true Light which enlightens every Man Here he corrupts the Scripture And to the Second says he Doth not Christ say I am the Light of thâ—â—â—rd c. Here he doth not disprove what the Mâ—â—â—â—firm'd but squintingly justifies that as Truth which the Man opposes as Error i. e. That the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer and that it 's no Error so to affirm but Truth and that it 's contrary to Scripture to oppose so saying But in another Book intituled A Vindication of Truth c. by J. N. in Answer to the same Man and the same Passage as is Answer'd to in Great Mystery p. 58. In this Vindication c. p. 51. there is many Particulars which the Man as J. N. says charges on the Quakers as their Affirmations of which there you say to the Man Be ashamed of thy Lyes which thou hast cast on us which never entered into our hearts to do nor speak which thou falsly accusest us withal There is twenty one Particulars The Ninth is this say you That we say the Light in every one is Christ the Redeemer Then after the mentioning all the twenty Particulars which the Man charges the Quakers as holding or saying in p. 5â— of your Vindication c. you say Divers more Deceits hast thou made up into Lyes and laid on us as if we said them when it 's thy own wickedness c. Here you may see that to the same Man and Sentance in one Book i. e. The Great Mystery c. what the Man opposes as Error is owned as true and his opposing it made contrary to Scripture And in the other Book i. e. A Vindication c. the same Words or Sentence disown'd Again page 4. There J. N. charges the Man for saying that he said The Light shining in every Man is Christ a thing not wrot nor intended by me Says J. N. again page 8. The Man is charged with a Lye for saying that the Quakers say the Light within every Man is the Word Again page 11. There says J. N. Thou tells thy former lye over again saying I say the Light within every Man is the Spirit of Truth Again says J. N. It 's a lye that I say the Light in every Man is God's Righteousness Perfection c. Again page 12. that a measure of the Eternal Divinity is in every Man by turning to it out of all Sayings Operations Scriptâ—â—â— or Christ without the same doth purge away Siâ—â—â—d redeem unto God All which is thy own wickedness heaped up from thine own lye Again p. 16. says J. N. I do not say the Light in every Man is God's Son c. And in unity with this says G. W. As to Christ's being in every Man that is not our words c. Also in page 27. says J. N. thou tells four horrible lyes on me the second is that J. N. calls the Light within the Eternal Spirit Also in your Book Deceit brought to Day light c. You charge the Man with many lyes one is his saying that you hold the Light in every Man is Christ page 5. Also in E. B.'s Works page 298. There E. B. being charged as saying that every Man has the Spirit of Christ in Answer you by way of denyal say I never said nor thought so Now if the Light within every Man be not Christ nor the Spirit of Christ nor of Truth nor the Word nor God's Righteousness nor God's Son nor the Eternal Spirit as afore is shew'd you have in your Ancient Testimonies in print held formerly How then is it Or why did you excommunicate G. Keith as an Heretick for saying The Light within was not sufficient without something else i. e. Christ Jesus Either these aforemention'd denyals in your Ancient Testimonies be the Testimonies of Truth or Error if of Error then you ought to publish against them and the Authors but your not so doing you are chargeable with owning them and so either you and your Truth hath changed or contradict your selves For afore I have shewn that in your Great Mystery you contradict what you say in your Books A Vindication c. and Deceit brought to Day Light c. In one passage your Books do contradict each other one owning the same the other denies as also in your excommunicating G. Keith as an Heretick for asserting the same as some of your own Ancient Testimonies do Also whereas here afore I shewed you deny every Man to have the Spirit of Christ yet in Great Mystery c. p. 9. to the same Person who denies that every Man has the Spirit of Christ and charges you with an Error for so saying yet you charge him with it as an Error to deny every Man has the Spirit of Christ and in contradiction thereto you Answer John said Every Man is enlightened c. And the Spirit of Truth he shall reprove the World of Sin c. Mark say you All People here is Saints here is Disciples here is the World get from under this how thou canst for under Reproof thou art come c. And here are all Men says Fox to the same Person and words or Sentence In Great Mystery you oppose him for saying every Man has not the Spirit of Christ and yet in E. B.'s Works you term him lying Tongue for charging you as saying Every Man has the Spirit of Christ and say You never said nor thought so Why sure if as in Great Mystery you imply they have it then you ought to think and believe so And J. Bunyan says Every Man as he comes into the World receives a Light from Christ as he is God which is Conscience which some call Christ tho' falsly This will shew a Man there is a God c. This you answer by way of Denial in E. B.'s Works p. 143. I do deny them i. e. who call the Light Christ and thee if thou hast not made a Lye of some body Now in Great Mystery p. 208. to the same Sentence in your Answer there you say Christ saith I am the Light of the World c. and doth not say its Conscience you have given Christ a New Name that calls him Conscience Will Conscience blot out Sin Christ
will Here by opposing J. B. and in Fox's squinting way he owns the Light Bunyan calls Conscience to be Christ and yet again in E. B.'s Works you deny the Doctrine and them who call that Light Christ thereby denying G. Fox nay and your selves too For if it be sufficient to Salvation without any thing else then it must be Christ Also about the Seed they seem to write confused saying There 's but two Seeds of God and of the Serpent and they say Christ is the one seed and the seed is Christ and in the Lip of Truth T. L. says now Christ is risen for the Elect i. e. seed sake and it he is redeeming page 55. And in Love to the lost they say In this seed as it 's redeemed hath the Saints fellowship page 47. Here they imply the seed is not the Redeemer but the Redeemed yet it 's either Christ or the seed of the Serpent Yet in seeming contradiction they say in Love to the lost that seed which Man hath sinned against must make the Atonement page 3. Here again it 's the Attoner or Saviour and to this add their Excommunicating G. K. as an Heretick because he said The Light was not sufficient to Salvation without something else i. e. the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us without us This by S. Jennings in Pensilvania and yet above three years after this N. Marks publickly acknowledg'd They had nothing against him for Doctrine or Conversation or to this effect Thus confusedly contradicting themselves or one another they prove themselves to be Babel's Builders Now your thus contracting one another or your selves owning and disowning the same things are both your Ancient Testimonies whereby you have or may make this deceitful advantage you can produce either of them as you see is most for your sordid Interest and so affirm or deny what you please as your Ancient Testimony and bring proofs accordingly But your own Judgment you have passed on the Ministers takes hold on your selves who have condemned others and are guilty of the same things How think you Foxonians to escape the Judgment of God Who condemn others for differing yet you differ one from another or contradict your selves in one Book denying that which in another Book you seem to own and not only in small matters but in your main Foundation Principle A further proof of the wickedness of the Foxonians and their Spirit is in that they shuffle and quibble and wave to answer but to two of the seven Queries sent them as in The Snake in the Grass c. And they were there urged to it and reminded of their quibbling yet they durst not Answer plainly yea nor nay but use their old Trade of quibbling long squinting Answers The two Queries were these i. e. Do you believe in a Christ without you now in Heaven And the other is thus Is Christ now and for ever to come really a Man in true and proper humane Nature without all other Men These Queries be short and plain therefore if these Quakers truly believe as they now pretend they might and would have answered yea to both and that had been satisfaction but then that had contradicted some of their Ancient Testimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning which they now enjoyn their Subjects to maintain and hold up in every part for their Ancient Books of Fox and E. B. have opposed and contradicted the Protestant Ministers for affirming these Truths and therefore if they had answered yea they had contradicted them and so changed and they durst not answer nay plainly because then they had discovered their Blasphemy and Hypocrisie both Therefore to hide themselves and deceive they make such long squinting two Fac'd general Answers but it 's their own Doctrine and true on themselves deceit lurks in Generals and whatever they pretend yet their opposing and Contradicting others for affirming these Truths do prove they do not believe in a Christ without them or in Heaven any otherwise but as he is within them only as in W. S.'s Catechism Also in a Book Entituled The Deceived Quakers c. by Mr. Caffin where in page 29. he says G. Fox Affirmed that he knew him i. e. Christ come within him and he looked for him to come no otherwise This Book G. Fox answers to and in page 211. cites some of these words viz. G. Fox said he knew Christ come in him And in his answer page 142. says Christ is in you except you be Reprobates so Reprobates witness it not c. Now M. C. did not deny but own the Spirit of God dwells in the Saints but it 's the latter part of Fox's Sentence that is objected against i. e. that he looked for him to come no otherwise so denying his i. e. Jesus of Nazareth that was nailed to the Cross so coming again And this latter and chiefest part of the Sentence Fox leaves out and cites not but does not deny that he so said Therefore it 's plain it 's their Ancient Testimony of Truth in the beginning and they say Truth is the same and changes not This Book of Caffins was printed 1656. Therefore whatever deceitful general Confessions they may now make unless they disown this of Fox's it's clear they do not believe nor look for Christ Jesus of Nazareth to come any otherwise than as he is come within them so no outward coming of an outward Jesus as was taken away from the Apostles and therefore no outward or other Day of Judgment but what they have already within them And this passage does not only prove Fox's Error in opposing Christ Jesus of Nazareth's coming again without Men or outwardly which now the Quakers pretend to own and thereby plainly implies nay to the six Queries being the second which they in The Snake in the Grass are again desire'd to answer which Queries altho' twice put to them yet they will not answer with plain yea or nay but in deceitful generals they lurk to hide their Errors and to avoid the shame of their pride and folly in their pretence to be guided by the infallible Spirit whenas they expose themselves to more shame and add wickedness to their former Sins hereby But I say not only that their Error herein i. e. this false citing of Fox's words to Caffin aforementioned is discovered but more of their wickedness by their leaving out the latter part of the Sentence which was the most material and objected part they falsly represent this M.C. as opposing Christ's Inward or Spiritual coming in his People which he M. C. did not also by this false citing of M. C.'s words they hid their Error but by this they prove themselves false Accusers and Forgers to false cite Men's words to falsly represent their Principles and that they or at least Fox did not believe in a Christ to come really a Man in true and proper humane Nature without all other Men for so he was