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A32812 A skirmish made upon Quakerism being a brief confutation of a most gross principle or point of doctrine published and maintained by one William Penn, a Quaker, in a certain book entituled Quakerism a nick-name for old Christianity, subverting religion and all duty both to God and man / by J.C. J. C. (John Cheyney) 1676 (1676) Wing C3827; ESTC R24826 11,214 16

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education he may know that there is a God and a Life to come and many things pertaining to Religion and Morality Will it hence follow that because we are men and have reasonable faculties there lyes no obligation upon us to obey any command of God further then our reason shall acquaint and certifie us and further then the light shall inform us What if the light be negligent idle sleepy unfaithful and bribed and shall let the sinner sin and dye in sin is God unjust for taking vengeance If the Coach-man sleep and the Horses run wood or if he drive so that the Coach is over-turned doth he not deserve correction But Penn and all his partakers conceit strange things of the light within and set it above Scriptures above all written and unwritten Laws and this is their very Principle That the light within in all things is to be our Rule and that the Scripture is inferiour to it and to be ruled by it and so God and Christ and the Spirit and Scripture and all Duty and Religion are made servants to the light within Whereas it is evident That the light within gives the Drunkard leave to be drunk the Worldlng to be a worldling and the impenitent man to be impenitent there is never a soul in Hell but he may have the light within for if the light within were faithful to God and the Soul it would not suffer sin to dwell in the soul it would not suffer any man to live in sin and dye in sin God charges man to be holy in all manner of conversation and man being so charged by God doth quire the contrary The light within which should be his guide like a negligent drunken Coach-man sleeps and the Horses run wood or he drives into pits and bogs So doth the light within take part with the flesh and Satan against God and suffers the soul to be sensual worldly and ungodly and so is at least a permissive cause of the sinners sin and damnation being charged to watch over the soul and doth not Now comes Penn and a Sect of people called Quakers and cry Vp with this light within and tell us that we must hearken to this in all things and further then the light within shall teach and lead us we are to give no hearkning to any thing that Scripture saith and if Scripture go farewell God and Christ and Heaven and all Law and Rule This is that Penn whose zeal for Quakerism exceeds that hath written sundry Books for it and in the end of his Book Reason against Railing pag. 185. doth commend unto us his own with other his Brethrens Works for an account of the Quakers Principles confessing That they do contain much of what can be said in behalf of their Principles and Practices vaunting as though they could not by reason be silenced nor confuted by sober Argument pag. 186. I refer my self and what I have here writ to impartial censure warning and entreating all people as they love their souls to take heed of Quakerism I would be glad to make the best I can of your Position but I must protest my Conscience and Conviction I cannot find out what to say to solve your Position and make it but a tolerable Errour All this while I speak not against you but your Errour you make bold and free to publish such matter to the World allow us the same boldness and freedom to detect your Errours and to do our best to save the Souls which be in danger to be subverted by your Principles Keep your poyson to your self and none will perish by it but your self but if you will needs vend it and in the view of all the Nation and such at least as know the English tongues set up a Position subverting all Religion and all Law and Government and levelling all holy and profitable Rules and Commands to mens lusts leaving no man in the World under any obligation to any duty to God or Man further then he is convinced in his conscience be it known to you that Jesus Christ hath his servants abroad to bear testimony for him against such God-baspheming and Soul-damning Errours and if you repent not this that I have writ shall rise up in judgment against you and shall be an aggravation of your misery in that day Prepare to answer the righteous Judge if your Conscience be blinded and seared now it will be open and awaken then Sept. 6. 1676. FINIS