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A65877	The pernicious way of the rigid presbyter and antichristian ministers detected and several weighty matters (in controversie, betwixt Sion and her adversaires, or between the true church and the false) discussed : to inform both magistrates, ministers, and people,	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1945; ESTC R22439	27,993	34

Man For neither is the Man without the Woman nor the Woman without the Man in the Lord and the Apostle admits of Womens praying and Prophecying in the Spirit of Truth And as there were true Prophets so there were true Prophetesses spoken of in the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament Exod. 15.20 Judg. 4.4 2 King 22.14 Neh. 6.14 Isa. 8.3 Luk. 2.36 Act. 21.9 And it is said Your Sons and Daughters shall Prophesie Joel 2. Act. 2. And did not Women Preach the Resurrection of Christ soon after he was risen Luk. 24.10 And that saying That a man can never be a Woman I say in some sence some Men may be accounted Women as the false Prophets in Israel and the Women that ruled over the People when Children were their Oppressors Isa. 3.12 Chap. 32. Jer. 51.30 Ezek. 13. and such as were deceived and led captive in the Apostles dayes were called silly VVomen 2 Tim. 3. And to his saying pag. 18. That the whole Country and he thinks the whole Land is acquainted with Anne Audlands presumptuous speaking in our Assembly and surely Anne Audland cannot deny but that she is a VVoman Answer As for presumptuous speaking that is not proved against Anne Audland but is denied as a slander and when at any time the Spirit of the Lord hath moved in Anne Andland to speak or in any other Daughter or Hand-maid of the Lord the Spirit ought not to be quenched nor Prophesie to be despised whether it proceed from true Prophets or Prophetesses See further of this matter in G. F. his Book concerning Sons and Daughters and Prophetesses speaking c. And as for C. VV. his Rhime in the end of his Book where he saith Instead of Papists are the Quakers come Disturbing all these parts of Christendom Their Plots are Hellish too their Deeds are evil Both boast of Christ no more my Muse is civil Answer Herein the world may see what a vain light and false spirit this man is acted by who hath herein appeared in the practice of Drunkards such as made Songs of David Psal. 69.12 or Fiddlers in his lying Rhime against us and when he hath falsly charged us with Hellish Plots and evil Deeds then saith his Muse is civil wherein he hath appeared more like a Fiddler or a Stage-player than a Minister of Christ and many more of these falshoods slanders and absurdities there are which I forbear to mention And as to his saying pag. 13. That here is the last Answer that ever he intended to send to the Quakers c. I say indeed more prudence had he manifested if he had kept silent than he hath done in many things he hath asserted and silence hereafter may be more safe for him and his Brethren than to utter words without knowledge And now I shall leave our Cause and the Controversie that is betwixt C. VV. and us to the Lord and all sober People to judge of Here followeth something concerning the true Christ and his being in his People in Answer to Matthew Caffin c. HAving lately met with a Book of Matthew Caffin's the latter part of which is entituled The great Error and Mistake of the Quakers concerning the true Christ and how he is said to be in his People c. Wherein he doth much wrong both that People and their Principles and abused the Truth it self and therefore I saw it expedient to note a few particular things upon some of the chief heads of his matter both for the clearing of the Truth and for the discovery of his ignorance and confusion to him and the rest of the Baptists since that he hath been such an old and eminent opposer of the Truth as many can testifie and as appears his malice and envy was so high against the People called Quakers that he hath vomited out his own shame against them whereby to render them odious in the sight of their enemies and that in such times as these wherein they are made as the greatest object of mens hatred persecution and cruelty which they have in a great measure undergone and are liable still to undergo more of the same from which suffering the Baptists themselves are not altogether free if they be faithful to their own Principles So that long ere this they might have learned more wisdom moderation and discretion than so to revile us now in the sight of our enemies as Matthew Caffin who is one of their Leaders hath done And now whereas in his matter against the Quakers he beg to relate some mens experiences in this wise viz. Certain men being troubled about their present conditions and thereupon following after as more excellent estate have on a sudden been greatly carried forth with inward power and zeal and wonderful quicknings after some matters of holiness so as scarce able to bear with the least appearance of pride covetousness or the like in others without reproof and at length have been secretly informed that the powerful working within them was Christ come in them c. but being somewhat fearful of delusions did thereupon give up themselves diligently to pray unto the Lord who at length graciously delivered them from the strong delusion c. To which I answer So it appears that these motions and operations did arise from a true power in those People which so far was the manifestation of Christ to and in them that they were not only led to follow after a state of holiness but also upon their praying diligently to the Lord he so far returned an acceptable answer to them as that he graciously delivered them from the strong delusion But mark Matthew Caffin's very next words and what a conclusion he hath made touching these inward motions and operations I say saith he the strong delusion for is it not so indeed when an evil spirit shall carry forth persons zealously to some things that is just holy and good though he no lover of holiness but really an Angel of darkness that seemingly may appear to be an Angel of light c. See how M. C. hath herein contradicted his former words and what gross ignorance and error he is in now to conclude that an evil spirit and an Angel of darkness carries forth persons zealously to things that be just holy and good and of such persons also he speaks this as before he confessed the Lord did graciously at length deliver them from strong delusion and so he hath done no better than put light for darkness and darkness for light And who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean And further mark how in the next page he hath again confuted himself for there he tells you That the one and the true Spirit of God being plainly to be known by his guiding and moving the Saints not only to be just holy and zealous in point of Conversation but also steadfast in the Principles of Faith c. when before he said it was an evil spirit that carries

Law that had its rise from the Pope for Tythes and wee 'l tell our hearers that the Magistrate gives us them and wee 'l threaten to trouble and Sue them if they will not pay us and thereby seek to terrifie and affright People that they may be forced to pay us and so we will drive on our Trade by all the Policy and force we can and seek by all means to have the Quakers suppressed either by Persecution Imprisonings or taking away their Goods for Tythes in many places to the value of five or ten times more then the Tythes come to and now if these things will not do to overcome these Quakers as we see notwithstanding all their sufferings they grow and encrease upon us then will we make more complaints against them and tell the Magistrates they are a dangerous People they will overthrow both Ministers and Magistrates and will not spare the Supream Magistrate himself if they be suffered to go on therefore now let them be Banished for we cannot live in quiet nor quietly drive on our Trade for them but they will need be Checking and Reproving us for our taking Tythes and Preaching for gain and our seeking to compell men to our way and Worship and to Impose Religion upon men contrary to their Faith and Conscience All these things with many other deceits are these Treacherous Clergy-men and Persecuting Priests guilty of in themselves as by their Fruits and Doctrines is apparent So that the Lord hath made them contemptible and base before all People Mal. 2.9 And whereas in pag. 11. C. W. Accuseth us of Insolencies and Lybels which he saith so far as they reflect upon the Publick and do tend to the disturbance and subversion of the Nation and Common-wealth so far the Magistrate is bound not to suffer such Insolencies to go unpunished c. For when the Child shall behave himself proudly against the Antient and the Base against the Honourable Isa. 3.5 Then the Magistrate must remember that he ought to punish evil doers and if he do not punish such disorders but is sparing in this kinde because of a Temporizing Spirit and out of base fear or because of any selfish Carnal Policy God will assuredly punish him for his Sin of Negligence Answ. 1. As for Lybels or Insolencies tending to the subversion of the Nation which this Priest would have the Magistrate to punish us for hereof he hath accused us falsly and shewed a spirit of Envy and Persecution against us for which I know no ground he hath against us either to accuse us in this manner or to seek to Instigate the Magistrate against us but onely because the Lord our God hath raised us up in Righteousness to bear witness against the deceits and unrighteous Practices Persecution and Oppression that such Teachers as are of his Affinity are guilty of and their making a Trade and a Gain of their Preaching which we have in the Spirit of Truth born witness against both in our words Writings and Books which scornfully and falsly this Priest calls Lybels though wha we speak and write be agreeable to the Scriptures of Truth and neither this said Priest nor any of his Brethren the Priests have ever yet cleared themselves of those things which we have laid to their charge in our Books 2. What we speak and write in Truth and Righteousness against the Priests oppression covetousness and Preaching for forced Maintenance doth not at all tend to subvert the Nation as he would possess the Magistrate but to establish the Nation in Peace and free it from much bondage oppression persecution and suffering which the covetous hireling Priests have brought upon it which if it were free from those things and people left free to the Lord to lead and order them by his Spirit in matters pertaining to Religion and Conscience and only the Magistrates to punish evil doers and to be a praise to them that do well and not to lend their ears to the Priests to be their drudges and executioners in persecuting and imprisoning conscientious men because they cannot maintain them in their oppression I say then the Nation would be more at peace and all that are conscientious and moderate in it more satisfied And the Priests might be tryed if they would Preach freely and live of the Gospel as the true Ministers did for if God hath ordained that they that Preach the Gospel shall live of it he is able to fulfil his own Ordinance without their forcing Maintenance by a Law from people or suing them at Law for Tythes in which thing the Priests have manifested themselves to be both out of the Ordinance of God and example of all his Ministers 3. By their so much seeking to incense the Magistrate to punish and persecute us for bearing witness against their covetous practices and false principles it appears they are afraid their Trade should fail them and go down as it hath already failed many of them whilst they are putting one another out of their Livings and places where they have upheld their unrighteous Trade for their Bellies as those that bite and devour one another 4. And as to that of Isa. 3.5 of the Child's behaving himself proudly against the Antient this was in Israel when they oppressed one another which pride and oppression we are not guilty of but the proud and covetous Clergy But whereas this C.W. accuseth us as behaving our selves proudly against the honourable one seeming reason for it a little before is pag. 10. he saith That we do continually all along use those disdainful tearms of Thee and Thou and the like scornful expressions and saith That this is directly contrary to the Rule of the Gospel c. and it is also contrary to the example of the Apostle Paul when he was reproached by Festus c. the Apostle doth not say Thee and Thou but most noble Festus c. Act. 26.24 Answer This accusation reflects upon all the Holy men of God spoken of in Scripture who used the words Thee and Thou to a single person and You and Ye onely as pertaining to a number or to more than one as if they all used disdainful and scornful expressions and as if they therein directly transgressed the Rule of the Gospel this is but a bad and unequal judgement and apparently false for Paul himself used Thou to Festus and several times both Thee and Thou in signification to King Agrippa who was in greater Authority than Festus Act. 25.10 Chap. 26.2 3 27 29. and multitudes of examples more might be instanced for this As also this man can use Thee and Thou to God in his Prayers and he and his Brethren have learned that plain language in their Grammer which distinguisheth between the singular and plural number though now he hath accused us with using disdainful tearms for using that plainness of speech which he hath formerly learned in which thing the very Hea●hen may judge the pride of