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A51569	Tyranny and hypocrisy detected or, a further discovery of the tyrannical government, popish-principles, and vile practices of the now-leading Quakers. Being a defence of the letter, intituled, The spirit of the hat, against the deceitful, defective and railing Answer, called The spirit of Alexander, &c. With a challenge, to refer the judgment of matters of fact to the verdict of twelve impartial judges, equally chosen. Also, many of their letters, papers, and transactions among themselves are made publick; wherein they contradict one another, and attribute titles to George Fox, that are proper only to Christ.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Mucklow, William, 1631-1713. Bemoaning letter.	1673 (1673)	Wing M3036; ESTC R201177	45,022	73

therefore we may well conclude it for truth and that they had nothing to say in excuse of it for it i● a most considerable charge against the Man of thei● adoration whom they can scarce mention without a● Epithet of praise as of innocent good holy uprigh● Man of God Prophet indeed and the like Tha● saying of S. Eccles cited by our Author wherein that which is spoken of Jesus or the True Light Job 1.10 is applyed to G. F. who is also said to b● that true Prophet whom John said he was not wh● is no other but Christ This Blasphemous Testimony was complained of by some of the Quakers themselves but they could not prevaile that it might b● recall'd for G. Fox had approv'd it both before and after it was printed but they got S. Eccles to writ● an explication of it which made the matter so muc● the worse that it was thought good to suppress tha● And notwithstanding these complaints from several hands yet I never could hear that G. Fox reprov'd him for it but he made him one of his select Disciples to accompany him in his travels for the propagation of his Gospel in America Where as is related in the Account of his proceedings read in the Quakers Meetting here at London he sent for at one time an Emperour and two Kings to come and hear him and they gave their attendance to the great Prophet G. Fox at whose name as was writ formerly by one of their Ministers even the Heathen tremble The said S. Eccles at a publick Meeting celebrated him in these words Blessed be the man that came out of the North Blessed be the womb that bare him and the paps that gave him suck And Josiah Coal an eminent Foxonian Minister writes thus to G. Fox from Barbado's 21 day 12 month 1658. Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many nations whose life hath reach'd through us thy children even to the Isles afar off to the begetting of many again unto a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose being and habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rules and governes in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is establish'd in peace and the increase thereof is without end This great Prophet I say is charg'd by our Author with opening Letters and altering the Contents that he took a Letter of John Whiteheads a most emiment Minister among the Quakers which was writ by him as he said in the name of the Lord and blotted out a line or more and wrote or caused to be writ to a quite contrary sense to wit That he did judge those that kept the Hat on and not those that kept it off or words to this effect whereas John Whitehead did therein justify both those that kept it off or on c. This Letter was as I am informed sent into Holland to the Quakers there which comming to the hands of Benj. Furly he discovered the forgery and it was sent back again and being complained of at a private Meeting by John Osgood William Penington and John Pennyman c. and John Bolton putting on 't to John Whitehead whether he did not give G. Fox liberty to alter it said No not any liberty to alter a substance which he said that was and at another time said he was abused therein c. Let the world see by this Instance from what Spirit it is these men speak and write in the name of the Lord when they can so flatly contradict one another more of this afterwards Let the world see also the Quakers way of answering Books when they can slip over such a charge as this against their chief Prophet which containes in it that which for the nature and kind of it is one of the greatest crimes that mortals can be guilty of 'T is the same with that of Ananias and Sapphira his wife Act. 5. which the Apostle Peter animadverted upon them by a miraculous infliction of Death for as he and his wife consented to bely the Holy Ghost as Erasmus allows and other learned men sense it to wit by pretending an inspiration and motion from the Spirit of God for the doing of that which they had no inspiration for and knew they had none So also G. Fox doth in this Letter make John Whitehead with the Holy Spirit to write that in the name of the Lord which G. F. knew that neither he nor the Spirit did write any such thing but the contrary Thus he doth at once belie both John Whitehead and the Holy Spirit of God and that knowingly For I do not doubt but the Quakers do frequently write and speak that in the name of the Lord and as from his infallible Spirit which is false but they perswade themselves it is true but here we have G. F. writing that for the words of the Lord and the judgment of the infallible Spirit in John Whitehead which he himself knew to be false O Prodigious Impudence He that counterfeits any mans name in a matter of any concernment deserves to be exposed on a Pillory and to lose his ears how much greater punishment doth he deserve that counterfeits both the name of God and man in a matter of religious concern Neither may they hereafter pretend in their excuse for this omission that G. Fox the man chiefly concern'd was absent for both John Bolton and Samuel Newton two Zealots against the Hat-men were both present at the said private Meeting and stood in the justification of the alteration and others that are here present know very well the circumstances of this business and it 's like some of them as well as G. Whitehead were privy to the aforesaid forgery as Sapphira was to that of her husband Ananias This is the course that G. F. took to make his injunctions be observed as well in Holland as in England 13. The next instance shal be that of M. Bowman and Eliz. Baily mentioned p. 33. Now you must know that G. F. and his Peers have under pretence of good and comly Order at length injoyned all Quakers that will marry that they first come before the Meeting and refer the matter to them and acquiesce in their determination who will be sure not to pass it if the party desiring Marriage one or t'other differ from them in the least Ceremony as appears in that of J. Osgood that of W. Mucklow and in that of Oliver Holms and * An honest plain Couple came before the Mens Meeting desired to be married Their Integrity was fully attested yet because the Man could not say after Prayer and Fasting for resolution in the Question that he thought it an evil to go and be married with the Priests according to the Law they would not pass it Others they have refused for carrying great Guns in their Ships and yet John Thompson a Quaker Master of a Ship owned by G. R. S. N. and other Quakers not only carried Guns but

if Perrot be condemned Fox cannot stand That he doth stand among the greater number of Quakers proceeds meerly from his Interest Cunning c. And as the whole party of the Hat-men is to be opposed to the whole party of Foxonians so in particular George Bishop of Bristol is to be opposed to every one of those eleven Ministers for he was so far from attesting to their Testimony as every Quaker had it been true ought to have done that he contradicted it and wrote a large Letter in opposition to it The substance of which is this viz. Having considered their Paper in the Spirit of Truth he is moved of the Lord to let them know 1. That it is much that they so few so young and so very little in comparison of the Body or those whom they count Elders should take upon them to determine in things of so high a nature c. which if they are to be done ought to be done by the full consent of those who are in Authority in the Church if so be there be such an Authority so to determine and not by a few and those not at all deputed in the thing If you say saith he you have not determined so as to impose upon the Body of Friends but only given your own judgment in the thing I answer you are very positive and plain in the determination And so repeating their Preface he collects which is in the nature of a Civil Commandment Then he recites their first particular and sayes which is as much as an Institution Then of the second Particular he saith which is an Inhibition Of the third Particular he saith which is Doctrine Of the fourth he saith which is Correction Of the fifth which is Admonition Of the sixth which is Exhortation Of the Conclusion he saith this is Instruction Next he saith The Spirit of the Lord in this day and in the days of the Apostles bears not the same proportion then were Apostles Pastors Teachers Elders c. but in this day the Spirit it self is Pastor Teacher Elder c. so that if the Spirit move any to declare or speak that is the Apostle Teacher Elder c. So that we have not now things in the disposition of Persons but according to the Power which moves in everyone so there is not that Hazard as to Apostacy as was in that day so I know no Pastor Teacher Elder c. but as I find moving in any to any of these things and that which would be otherwise than this leaps into Apostacy and will seek to bring in dark night againe and will be secluding the thing to the person and not the person to the thing and as for my part if that day should prevaile or these things which your Paper semes to hold forth and inforce I have no other expectation but that the same exercise we shall receive at your hands as we together received from the hands of those who would have held us in Captivity 3. The Seed is come in which the Ministry is to end Now for you because you Ministred to think to settle your selves in the place of the Heir and to inforce your station is not to allow that the Seed is come and whether your Paper doth not so speak view it over again and let that which should judge in the matter Friends and Brethren take heed how you set up your Laws and Constitutions over his dominion many have attempted it and have been broken to pieces and if you do the same the same will be your portion from the hand of the Lord. In the Power you are safe but when once you go to outward things to preserve your station and keep you up as Papers strivings c. you err so much from the Power and this will work you down also if you oppose your selves against his Kingdom Bristol the 3d of the 11 month 1666. Here we have the infallible Spirit of the Quakers in G. Bi hop giving judgment against the eleven Elders that they had gone from their Principle into the way of Apostacy and prophesying their downfal And he that knew George Bishop or has read his writings will I think find reason enough to take his judgment concerning their principles as soon as any or all of the eleven Elders So that they have not only offer'd this affront to mankind viz. That they profess in Principles and Practices necessary to man's happiness to distinguish themselves from all other men and for the truth and certainty of those principles and practices they bring no evidence but the inward Testimony of the Light in every man and yet condemn all men as unfaithful to that Light how innocent soever in their own Consciences that are contrary to them or agree not with them which is in effect to give the lie to every man besides themselves and to say that all the World except Quakers are lyers And the thing is true in respect of primitive Christianity which they pretend to that it brought such evidence with it to them to whom it was fully preach'd that no considerate man would disbelieve it but he must be a lyer and wilfully blind But these men do not only thus affront all mankind that consent not to them but also they conclude even all Quakers that agree with them in all their Principles and Practices wherein they differ from others to be self-condemn'd if they subject not themselves to their Judgment in so small a matter as is the covering or uncovering the Head when others pray and things of that kind For I never heard that any Hat-man kept on his Hat when himself prayed except Perrot And so they contradict in the Name of the Lord that very voice in men which they have taught them to give heed to as the voice of the Lord. So when J. Pennyman carrying all his Books to a Friend of his near the Exchange was mov'd to burn some waste papers there in his passage pouring out some Quakers Books which he having a little before born Testimony to G. Fox and Whithead's face against their deceitful Declaration and another Scurrilous Paper they were so offended at him for that G. Whitehead next day in a Letter to J. P. calls this his undertaking to burn their Books not a word of the Scriptures as is in their printed Paper to take with the People a mad and wicked action to which the Devil instigated and led him Which Letter he order'd G. L. to get from him afterward when J. P. complain'd of the wrong he had in having the Letter taken away from him surreptitiously G. Whithead reply'd that he was moved of the Lord to send it and understanding that it was not receiv'd in the same love in which it was sent he was also moved of the Lord to send for it again to which J. Pennyman reply'd that he had neither opened nor read that Letter nor knew from whom it came till the said G. L. came and

convincement at first but then immediately and on the contrary derides John Pennyman and Mary his Wife for her Farrendine Gown and Sattin Bodice Thus he lays about him like a mad-man The Author has vext him and he wrecks his fury upon M. Pennyman We may see what a kind of Gentleman he is a true Knight would have spared a Woman that gave him no offence and not have stript her to her Bodice and exposed her in the open streets with her Name and Crime in her forehead but all this is sutable to a Peer of G. Fox's Kingdom XXII But as for J. Pennyman he is one who for many years has had his Soul vext by seeing and hearing the things complained of by our Author and such like insomuch that he has often bore Testimony against them and therefore they conclude him of the same spirit with the Author which was sufficient to entitle him to all the reproach they could cast upon him which dealing of theirs with their shameful covering or denying the matters objected and bold challenge to make them good fell out to the advantage of our Authors Letter for thereupon May 30 1673 J. Pennyman went to the Quakers Meeting in Grace-Church-street and there openly declares that though he was wholly ignorant of either the writing or printing of the Spirit of the Hat yet knowing many of the matters therein inserted to be true he was willing to give John Osgood who knew them as well as himself and others a private meeting to manifest the same and also many other matters of as high concern and of as great wickedness which saith he for about these thirteen years my self with several others in those dayes bore a faithful Testimony against The next day W. Pen J. Osgood J. Claypool and W. Brend came to his house and demanded of him to give them a particular charge * They would not grant John Whitehouse a coppy of his charge which John Boulton and others had drawn up against him which he soon drew up and sent to W. Pen containing twenty four particulars many of which are intimated in these Papers The 23d against George Fox discovers his hypocrisie and dawbing which we publish not as W. P. doth any base Insinuation that may make his adversary obnoxious to the Government To which W. Pen according to his wonted modesty replyes that they wondred to see so empty an Account after so great a charge publickly exhibited that they had agreed among themselves that before they proceeded to a meeting be should let them know if this were all be intended to insist upon and if the issue of that Tryal should be the decision of the controversy between them they would not have their charge piece-meal with more to that purpose To which J. P. returns that he had done enough at present Thus these great Champions evade the answering of this fair Challenge And now though our Author's name doth not appear yet we have that which gives more vallidity to his Work the publick attestation of a credible person personally given For names to Books have been not seldom forged and who knows whether W. Pen will publickly attest to all those Pamphlets and things in them that are printed with his name If he will then let him hear what a judicious Country-Gentleman writes to his Friend upon the reading of The Spirit of Alexander and the Winding-sheet W. P's words of J. P. are more scornful than can be seem any pretender to sobriety His stomack is neither nice nor squeamish He can I see talk at the rate of a Coffee-house Pamphleteer and account it a piece of high self-denial to set his name to his jerking answers This man is more mild than that learned and conscientious man who upon the reading of his Winding-sheet gives him in his Letter the title of Buffoon and much more of that import which I do not remember VV. P. His treating of J. P. and his Wife in this manner puts me in mind of his calling it a horrid lye that they with the Papists prefer a loose person before a Non-conformist p. 15. for what are J. P. and his Wife our Author and the other ingenious Quakers whom they call Hat-men any other but Nonconformists whom yet he treats as Apostates the worst of men so that his answer to that charge which he calls a horrid lie proves it a clear truth if there were nothing else as there wants not enough to bear evidence XXIII Now for conclusion to this very unpleasent work which the benefit I hope many will reap from it has put me upon I shall further alledg several testimonyes both out of G. Fox VV. Pen himself and divers other of their approved men against the honour and reverence of the Hat which now they impose upon peril of all sacred and civil privileges that are in their power to deprive their people of King G. Fox True Honour among the Jews P. 8. The Honour and Worship with the Hat and that humility so called is voluntary and voluntary humility and not of command by Christ and his Apostles c. P. 11. For the Hat is an earthly thing and a thing below and they that trouble fine imprison about it cannot chuse but mind earthly things and mind things below and circumstances and customs and fashions of the world and feigned humility in which there is no substance which is below the Royal Seed and the nobility and dignity of a man and the honour above and the Worship of God and the true humility which goes before true honour that is above P. 13. Now is not Christians worse then these who make such a work and adoe about putting off their Hats which are for the covering their nakedness But the true Jews would not put off their Hats in the Synagogue nor in the Temple c. 1653. G. Fox and Rich. Hubberthorus Reply to the Northern Ministers in a Book called Truths Defence c. P. 22. And when you read them the Psalms Hats you keep on and when you sing them Hats you put off and here you worship the works of your own hands c. 1653. G. Fox in a Book called Several Papers c. P. 5. And when they read the Psalms they keep on their Hats and when they sing them they keep off their Hats here they worship the work of their own hands all such practices we deny About 1659 G. Fox To the Judges and Lawyers P. 10. Now the Hat-Worship that Honour that Idol is set up by transgressors but men that be in the Law of God which is over transgression they mind not the Hat P. 25 Now puting off the Hat is but a custom got up among the Christians since the Apostles in the Apostacy a vain custom set up by traditions which is a worship of Men and of the Beast and honour below and an Idol set up by Transgressors P. 27. O what a covering of darkness is got over you speaking of the then