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A60891 Something in answer to a book printed in 1678, called, The hidden things brought to light with Robert Rich of Barbadoes his name to it, and printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant & Castle in Cornhill. Rich, Robert, d. 1679. 1679 (1679) Wing S4658; ESTC R40618 33,644 43

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Something in ANSWER TO A BOOK Printed in 1678. Called The Hidden Things Brought to Light With ROBERT RICH of BARBADOES his Name to it And Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant Castle in CORNHIL He hath put forth his Hand against such as are at Peace The Words of his Mouth were smoother than Butter but War was in his Heart His Words were softer then Oyl yet were they Drawn Swords against the Righteous Printed in the Year 1679. An Answer to Robert Rich's Book c. WHerein he hath gathered up some old Letters and Papers that were written many Years ago by J. Naylor and J. Parrot And also something written and spoken to them by G. F. when they acted Things contrary to the Truth and likewise a Letter from R. M. of Barbadoes to J. P. Wherein the Envy and Malice of R. R. and others that have printed these Papers may be seen and not the Love of God First As for J. N. The Lord opened his Understanding that he came to see himself and gave forth a Book of Recantation and Repentance of his running out and became a good man again but so did not J. P. Did not he run into Swearing and Trooping and Drunkenness and Looseness And cd he not so dye without Repentance Let J. Taylor and Friends at Jamaica speak that had sorrow en●ugh with him and with Robert Maling also And it had been well if R. R. had come to have seen himself and repented a J N did then he would not have justified J P. in his running out which many came to see and repented and did bless the Lord for it But if R. R. had repented as J N. did then he would have let them lain quietly in their Graves and not have raked into their Ashes so many Years after they are dead But such Disquieted Apostases and Restless Spirits have no quietness but in such work that wanted some Matter to publish to the VVorld a fit work for Francis Smith to get Money by And these Letters of J. P 's nor J N 's R. M 's nor R. R 's were never sent to G F in their Life-time nor since they were dead he never saw them till printed in this Book to the VVorld this is an Unchristian Spirit in R. R. therest that have printed them and it shews much Malice and Envy of R. R. that hath done it so long after they were dead which J. N. hath Condemned and was Reconciled to his Brethren before he dyed and not to Print or send them to G. F. while they were living and this is not like Civil men And in the Preface there is manifested a great deal of Malice against G. F. First he saith All are subject to err And R. R. saith in pag. 37. that J. N. knew no Sin Contradiction And In J. P's Mouth there was found no Guile as in pag. 1. And yet J. P in pag. 19. calls himself Vnworthy man and that he is Vder and Worser before the Lord then we have presented him in the Eyes of men So let R. R. mark J. P. then hath he not Erred in this Book let him apply it at home and let t●e Reader see And thou sayest Every Man may know his own Heart but not anothers Answ D●d not Stephen Judge of the Hearts of others when he said to such as thee art Ye stiff-necked and Vncircumcised in Hearts and Ears c And as for thy despising Words as mean Servant c. That is but thy despising words like to the Jews that called Christ the Carpenters Son And we are not Injurious to Christians as thou falsly saith but established in the true Christian-Religion in the Light of Christ Jesus neither are we opposite to our own Principle the Spirit of Truth that leads into all Truth and goodness and all Persons that are truly sincere and in true simplicity we have Unity withal And this Book of R. R'● is not the work of Sin●ere Persons nor of such as are in the Simplicity of Truth And thou speaks of some in the simplicity of their Hearts have some time consented with him both in Doctrine and Practice bare an undeniable Testimony against him that he is highly Injurious to Christians and se●ks an unjust and oppressive dominion over their Consciences contradicts by his Practice his own Principle Answ Here thou hast fulfilled that Scripture Who went forth from us who were not of us But in simplicity of Heart that thou might have spared And in what is G. F. or others Injurious to Christians And in what do we seek an oppressive dominion over their Consciences and contradict by our Practices our own Principles So these are but thy Railing words which we deny But to testifie against unruly Spirits that make their Will their Conscience which is not this is not Injurious to true Christianity And thou tellst a great Story of the Pope the Princes and Bishops and such as are led away with carnal Interest and Passion Ambition Singularity Self-conceitedness and desire of vain Glory c. Answ The Authors of this Book might very well apply this at home for it suits their own Spirit and neither G. F. nor the Quakers do condemn them that walk in obedience to the Light of Christ in their Consciences but such are disobedient to the Light of Christ that call Darkness Light are condemned by the Light And Pride and Sensorious Passion as thou call it though might have kept at home And thou sayest that G. F. and the Quakers c. fly to the great Number they are the Body c. Answ Nay art not thou boasting in thy great Number of Dissenters see the Preface But the Quakers fly to Christ Jesus who is the head of their Body the Church they being living Members and dost thou envy at this And had the Light in thee ruled over thee and the rest of Opposers thou and you would have been in Unity with the Children of Light and the Light of Christ which lighteth every man that cometh into the World is the true Light and unerring Guide by which every man may see himself and judge himself and see his Saviour that dyed for him And thou sayest The Principles of Protestantism and all the Reformation which requires every man to judge for himself against any Number c. Answ But they had better follow Christ and his Light and Spirit and not their own Judgments by which they might be baptized by one Spirit into one Body And we have not openly betrayed our Principle the Light in every man as thou falsly sayest but maintain it And as for the Papists talking of their gre●● Number let them answer for themselves it s nothing to us And for thy reckoning up a Catalogue of them that have been Quakers and afterward dissented from them Thou hadst thy liberty and hast put thy self in the Number with the rest of the contrivers of this Book And thou might have put in how
●e saith For in the New Covenant Christ is come to fulfi●l those Forms and Figures that were in the Old and a for other Sects let them answer for themselves And where did ever the Apost●es t●at preached the New Covenant tell them that God wou●d beautifie some Forms with his presence to day and then he would with-draw himself out of them to morrow and leave them as Idols And R. R. doth advise That all Men walk as they see and have received from the Lord and none to look out at others Then we must not look at R. R. nor his Book nor his Teaching Again R. R. saith Not call any Man Father or Master of their Spirits but God only See that R. R practise what he saith And hath not R. R. Traditions and Forms of his own who cries so much against Forms see his prescriptions and advice in his Book And we have forsaken our Fathers and Mothers Traditions which we were brought up in and do obey God rather then Man And thou that ●akest such work about Si●gular and Plural and Hat and Swearing to Magistrates Is not this thy Fathers Traditions and old Customs And G F and we it was alwayes our Principle that all should follow the Light of Christ to be their Guide to Christ from whence it comes and this not as thou scoffingly sayst to leave the Guide and follow thee and this Light leads out of the Apostacy and doth not lead into Vsurpation as thou scoffingly savst it led first out the Church of Rome but it leads into Humility And G. F. is not offended as thou scoffingly sayest at him that makes Conscience or no Conscience of an Idol But G.F. cannot encourage any Consciences to an Idol but to the Light of Christ that turns from Idols to him in which the true Love Liberty and Unity is in the Light of Christ who reconciles to God and all things in Heaven and in Earth And R. R. speaks of Leaving each other to the guiding of the holy Spirit of God in that Form that they are brought up in Answ Then why doth R. R. cry out so much against Forms in the Quakers doth he not here condemn himself and Gods Spirit and Grace and Truth the Apostles preached and brought both Jews and Gentiles out of the old Forms they were in into the New Covenant where they were all taught of God And if R. R. had minded Love Mercy and Truth and brought forth Fruits of true Christianity in Humility Harmlesness and Meekness and the Spirit of Christ he would not have made so much strife about outward Traditions and there would not have been such a Noise as he hath made in his Book about his Brass and Tinklin Simballs and if thou wouldst cease thy Envy and Disputing Back-biting and Surmising and Slandring with thy Tongue if thou and others would learn thi Lesson at home it would do well And R. R. thou sayst With Innocent Harmless Tender Loving Spirit of Crace I commend thee and all men c. And yet didst not thou say before in pag. 33. That G. F. was turned to the Witch of his Mand and in pag. 37. saith that He hath exercised Cruelty against J P. and hunted him as Saul did David by Papers of an Evil Spirit which thou hast begotten and raised in others against him c. Answ R R. this Langua●e comes not from a Loving Sober Tender Spirit a the R●ader may see which thou often goest over to swell up thy book with thy bitter Railing Language which is the old Liquor that comes out of the old Bottle and not from the new And as for Exercising Cruelty E●mity and Hunting as Saul did David by Papers and an Evil spirit all this R. R. might have applyed to his own Spirit which he thinks to beget in others against the Innocent but one day the Lord will Reward him and them that promote his Work according to their Deeds For the Lord knoweth our tender Care and Love was for the preserving of J. P. though all was slighted And thou sayest That G. F. Accused Threatned and Cond●mned J. N. as one departed from Truth c. and that he had lost his Authority Answ J N. did confess it when that he came to see himself and Repented But Threatned and Condemning these are thy own aggravating Words For J N di● con●ess G. F's and others Tenderness to him when he saw himsel● an● Repented And R. R. saith That G. F tempted J N. with fair Speeches and Premises if he would bow down and be obedient to him to which Threats and Promises J. N. he●● si●●nt c. G. F. thereby thinking he was cast under Subjection and head forth his Hand to J. N. to Kiss as a Testimony of his Favo●●●o him and his Obedience to thee and J. N. refusing then G F ●ffered him his Foot and said He was mistaken And R.R. appeals to G. F's own Conscience for the Truth of this who saith He received it from J. N's own Mouth when he went to Bristol to receive his Crucifixion Therefore R R. concludes That G. F. hath lost his Guide and is led by the Spirit of Diotrephos Answ In all this R. R. hath manifested himself to be of a malicious Spirit and a Forger of most of these Words For these are Lyes to say that G. F. did tempt with Promises or Threats or he thinking to have brought him under Subjection by it these Words are from R. R's Imaginary Spirit and not from Love And after J. N. had given G. F. many hard words w●en the poor ma● was out and dark G. F. would have taken him by the Hand and J. N. would not and G. F. was many time moved to pray for him and oner on his Knees and J. N's Spirit was so stupified with Darkness that he slighted it as them that were with G.F. then can test fie and alter he had given G. F. many hard words J N. said He would Kiss G. F. But what if G. F. said it was his F●o● as a Testimony against that lofty Spirit which ●oor man after he condemned And as for the Spirit of Diotrephos R. R might have kept at home And G. F. did not fall from his Guide because he did not follow J. N. nor J. P. nor R. R. as R. R. would have it be And why could not J. N. R. R. have told G. F. of these things while J. N. was living but R. R. tells it to the World so many Years after J.N. was dead and after J.N. had given forth a Paper of Condemnation of that Spirit that led him others forth but it s like such condemned stuss is Food for R. R. to rake up and to feed on and also to feed the Prejudiced People and the World withal but this is not the Spirit of Christ Jesus nor Love that R. R. talks so much of in Words and we could have wished that R. R. had condemned himself and his Work as J. N. did
turn back upon thy self And as for G. F's fall unlamented yet R. R. commends him to the Spirit of Graces but R. R. might have applyed it to himself and not to him who is in the Election and Seed of Life that will never change nor fall For who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect for it is he that justifies who art thou that condemns and as for poor Worms enthroning as Lord and King that is false and is R. R's Forgeries altogether so it s he that may Curse his God and King and we do ascribe unto God only and to his Son the Light and Life of our Souls Glory to God forever And as for thy scoffing and saying Babylon is fallen among the Quakers like a Milstone never to rise again We would R. R. had seen himself with the Light of Christ and judged himself in his Confusion and his Babylon fallen then he would not have applyed it among the Quakers but he might have seen the Quakers in the Light of Christ the New and Living way who are the Living Stones the Houshold of Faith And R. R. saith at the Command of the Lord for Love's sake c. He hath written and sent these things as return of thy own Money into thy Sack that thou mayst see from whence thou art fallen and consider whose Image and Superscription thou bearest whether the Lamb or the Dragon in which Spirit of the Lamb I am a Lover of thee Answ So Mark then G. F. must see by these things that R. R. is returned he must see how he is fallen and whose Image he bears whether it be the Lambs or the Dragons But hath not R. R. forgotten himself who saith We must cease from Man And that the Light ought be the Guide or Rule to every one see pag. 35. And we cannot believe that R. R. was commanded of Gad to write these Lyes and forged Expression but from a Malicious Spirit and not Love which R. R. might have kept in his own Sack which is his own Dross which is not the heavenly Coyn but suits his own Image and not the Image of God which G. F. and his Friends are in blessed be the Lord forever And the Love of Cain may be seen in all thy Book and not the Love of the Lamb. Then R. R. boasts himself how he hath leapt over a Wall a whited and a painted Sepulchre Answ Poor Man hast thou not been whiting and painting thy Sepulchre with thy airy Notions all along in thy Book look within who buries the just within thee under the Corruption and Rottenness there And G. F. never desired J. N. to fall down and Worship him nor give that Honour to man that belongs to God these are R. R's Lyes And R. R. saith That J. N. and several others went down upon their Knees before G. F. to confess as divers have Reported that were Eye-witnesses Answ These are more Horrid Lyes of R. R's and his Reporters and Eye-witnesses are False For J N. in the Buil and-Mouth before several Hundreds of People kneelled down there and judged and condemned his Out-goings and Runnings out from the Truth upon his Knees on the far side of the Room from G.F. So that G. F. saw not when he kneeled down but he did it voluntarily of himself and there was no others that kneeled down at that time except Friends did when they went to Prayer And now let all the sober judge whether this be not a Malicious Envious Spirit in R. R. to Forge and Invent such Lyes and throw them upon G. F. near Twenty Years after because J. N. did condemn with the Light of Christ that Spirit that led him out to grieve God and his People in a publick Assembly on his Knees and it had been well if R.R. had done the same as J. N. did then that might have stopt thy angry raging Waves of this Sea in which R. R. foams out his own shame And R. R. saith in pag. 40. That John Killam of Balby a Woman fell down before G. F. on her Knees near half an Hour and he never Reproved her And then R. R. saith Is not this to Worship Man which is Idolatry Answ Here is more Envy and Wickedness What should G F. reprove her Joan Killam for it was a Woman as thou fayest though thou hast set it John and what if she had fallen down or kneeled down two or three Hours what is that to the purpose this is not falling down and Worshipping Man which is Idolatry But in this thou hast reproved G. F. and why did not R. R and J. K. tell G. F. of this above Twenty Years ago when he was at Balby and shewed ●i●ike then of her falling down if it was so but R R to bear this in his mind above twenty Years doth not this manifest that he has an evil Heart and hath watched for Evil and now above twenty Years after to publish it to the World Let the sober judge whether this be from the Spirit of the Lamb he speaks of or Envy And R. R. saith Salomon Eccles cryed up G. F. to be a God and not a Man Answ These are horrid Lyes of R R. For S. E. never said such words as these are And then R. R. saith Whether this is not Blasphemy against God and to Worship the Creature more then the Creator Now here all the Sober may see after R. R. hath forged Lyes and fathered them of G. F. and published them to the World and then Queries Whether it be not Blasphemy and then when he hath done with his Lyes cries Hallelujah And whether this be not the Spirit of the bloody Whore and Dragon that drank the Blood of the Saints and of the Jews that Persecuted Christ and the Apostles as Blasphemers when indeed they were not Oh! that R. R. might come to Humility and condemn this Lying Erring Spirit in himself and come to Repentance for his Evil Work as J. N. did that is all the hurt we wish him And its like that many in the Country could not receive R. R. as at Jo. Crocks and Banberry in his Airy Notions and the Whore had not bewitched them neither did they set up man instead of the Anointing these foul Expressions from R. R's Unsanctified Spirit he might have kept at home And R. R. saith He met with G. F. and he spoke to him of many things and he found him as wise an Angel of Light and as one as had all Knowledge c. and understood all Mysteries And then thou sayest He was a Star fallen from Heaven and then fallst a Railing with thy bottomless Pit Locusts and Smoke with that Name thou speakest of whose Nature is to destroy And it had been well if thou hadst taken G. F's Counsel who keeps his Habitation and hath kept it since the beginning and with the Light of Christ thou mightst have seen him so and not a Star fallen but thy self fallen and have
seen the Locusts and Smoke at home in thy own Pit which now is come out And then thou tellst of thy Dream and hunting the Fox with Hounds which thou didst much affect and art thou turned into this same loose Nature again and thou applies thy filthy Dream to G. F. one of the Lambs of Christ thou wast hunting him in Esau and Nimrod's Nature But when thou art Confounded and thy Mount on Fire then remember the Journal of thy Life And G. F. hath not been hid the Prisons and Goals manifested that neither hath he hid himself under smooth Words For hast not thou been finding fault with his Words calling them Rabshekas and Reproaches all along thy Book see in pag. 32. Now to say they are smooth what Contradictions are these and said He Reproached J. P. in speaking plainly to him And thou sayest That G. F. loves none but who calls him Master or to receive his Mark or Number of his Name This is false in R. R. who is given up to forge Lyes and three times thou goest over to fill up thy ●ook withal in the Enmity that G. F. gave J. N. his Hand to Kiss which is false For G. F. would have taken him by the Hand and he re●used it and then thou fallst a Railing at G. F. and one day thou wilt know that it was not the Spirit of the Dragon nor Words without Life that G. F. spake to thee neither doth he bear any Enmity to the Innocent but is out of the Enmity the Lord knoweth it and if thou wert in the Love thou wouldst see it And then thou manifests thy Envy against E. B. and saith that He spoke great things and spoke many Mysteries and then scoffingly sayst So did Balaam that erred from the Spirit Doth not R. R. here manifest his Spirit like Ishmael his Hand against every man who thus compares E. B. that Innocent Servant of the Lord with Balaam and if thou hadst laid down thy Crown and denyed thy self as did others thou wouldst not have brought forth such as is in thy Book And thou tellst Of the Beast that hath yet a Golden Head standing and the Dragon tearing and rendring But if thou hadst seen this tearing Spirit in thy self thou wouldst have stopt thy Mouth And R. R. saith He sees the People are weary of the Manna that comes down from Heaven Gods Spirit and Life in them This is thy own condition with other of thy railing Expressions in this page and these Words thou hast not spoken by the moving of the Spirit of Grace for thou art not seasoned with it as may be seen in pag. 41. and 42. And as for the Flesh-Pots of Aegypt thou speakst of see if thou be not seeding in them And R. R. saith He had rather speak five Words from the Spirit of Grace moving then ten Thousand Words from hit Vnderstanding though never so true c. Answ R. R. need not Praise himself in this whose Words proceeds neither from the Spirit of Grace nor from a good Understanding as sober People that read his Book may see and judge and thou that condemnest the Innocent and justifiest the Wicked mayst read thy Portion And R. R. saith O Jerusalem how oft have I sought to find Love in thee towards thy Brethren c. how oft have I pursued after it bearing all Sins and Evils on my Body that he might gain the Love of his Brethren Answ R. R. these are but boasting Words without Life as thy Fruits declare it in thy Book and the Fruits of thy Spirit doth not manifest Love And R.R. saith He believes he might have been received into Fellow ship amongst us But then he saith he must first have turned the Truth of God unto a Lye and speak Evil of things that he knew to be good and denyed his Testimony and betrayed Jesus Answ Nay such a Spirit as this we could not have received into Unity but let R. R. look at home and see if he hath not done this already and if that be Good which J. N. hath condemned and if that be R. R's Testimony and a betraying of Jesus that the Light of Christ condemns R. R. may keep his Testimony to himself And we cannot believe that R. R. did bear all Sin and Evil on his own Body as he saith in pag. 44. Then R. R. tells us Of he that loves his Enemies speaks Evil of no man rewards Evil with Good and doth not salute his Brother only this it he that is Heir of all things and must Reign Answ But where is the Life of this Love in R. R Let the Reader see if he hath shewed forth the Fruits thereof in his Book and if not then he cannot Reign with Christ according to his own Judgment Doth he speak Evil of no man Doth he love Enemies hath not he rewarded Evil for Good And wast not thou before in thy Book contending more for Tradition then the Command of Christ who saith Swear not at all read pag. 35. and 44. And thou speakst of the Son of the Bond Woman called of Men Master c. which wilt not let his Brother go free c. Answ Art not thou called of men Master and callst others Master Read thy self and come down from thy Mount to the Witness of God in thee and see if thou canst put a difference between the two Seeds in thy self And thou sayst thou hast seen many mighty Men fall But it were better that thou didst see thy self in the fall And thou sayst Abide thou in that which thinks no ill and thou wilt be safe Answ R. R. had better have taken this Counsel to himself And R. R. saith When others Hearts shall fail them for fear that have begotten Children in Adultry that have imagined Mischief in their Hearts against the Innocent and have climbed up into their Fathers Bed But R. R. might very well have applyed this at home and kept it there and not have let it gone out into the World For we the Believers in the Light of Christ Jesus do own every appearance of him whether it be in Groaning or Sighing Hymn or Song and those are manifest that do betray the simple Ones whose Blood lies under Skirts and R. R. might have kept these last sayings at home And R. R. writes to his Dear Heart and saith Enter thou not into their Secrets nor say a Confederacy with the Blood-thirsty man c. Answ Is not this R. R's condition who would make G. F. a Blasphemer and what must Blasphemers be done withal and whose Bloody Hands must first be upon his Head Is not thy Nakedness here seen that hath long lain hid in secret and hast thou not Preached it now atop of the House of the Worlds Spirit And thou would see the dear Lamb once more under the Fig-tree not opposing Gods Spirits leading c. nor lending an Ear to Reports Answ But why hath not R. R. applyed this at home and practised it then he would not have Printed so many false Reports and Lyes of twenty Years standing as have been before instanced and if he had not followed his own understanding and his passionate angry Spirit and fathered the Fruit of it upon the motion of God as in pag. 40. it might have been better with him and not to have plucked up the Wheat with the Tares And thou sayst We should be in one Love and the Lord rebuke him that seeks occasion c. Answ Now let all tender sober Christians judge whether R. R. is not come under this Rebuke by his own Judgment hath not he sought occasion and made occasion in matters of Strife which has been twenty Years standing some more and some less and which were dead and buried and forgiven by us long ago which dead thing thy Spirit hath raised up which every Spirit raises its own but thy Spirit hath manifested not to bear the Fruits of the true love of God in Christ Jesus but the Spirit of the World that lusts to Envy Height Pride and Arrogancy and Turbulent and Revengeful as you may see in pag. 40. and throughout his Book Of what thou sayst thou hast returned to G. F. in this thou hast manifested thy self to be void of the Lamb-like Spirit of Jesus and the true Humility Learning of him nor one of his Disciples thou dost not bear that Badge or Mark by which they are known neither hast thou shewed forth the Nature of Grace which should Salt and Season thy Words let the Reader see whether the words in thy Book are not Unsavoury And many more Scoffing things there are in thy Book which indeed are not worth mentioning but this which is written it is for the sake of the Simple For our Lives are out of Strife in Christ Jesus our High-Priest who is over his Houshold of Faith in whose House there is Bread enough Praised be the Lord. And they that be out of this Light be out of his House then they may Mummur because of the Famine From them who love God and his Son and all that he hath Created who Worship God in the Spirit and Truth which the Devil is out of whose Fellowship stands in the Gospel and Power of God in which the Devil cannot come who desire R. R's Repentance that he might become a new Man and put off the old if it be the Will of the Lord. THE END
G. F. is against Magistrates bearing the Sword nor the Government of Christ Jesus For Christ saith his Kingdom is not of this World if it were his Servants would fight And R. R. after he hath spoken in pag. 30. of the Magistrates Imposing Faith and Worship c. Then he saith Let G. F. consider whether the same Spirit of Imposing upon others hath not been evidently demonstrated in his Vnquiet and Vncharitable proceeding against his Brethren which is no better then the Beast where ever it be found though among the Quakers Answ R. R. why canst not thou speak without Reflection as for Uncharitableness thou hadst better have kept that at home for hadst thou been in the Love thou wouldst not impose upon us to believe J. H's false Articles against G. F. because thou believest them who believest a Lye which G. F. hath sufficiently cleared And in comparing G. F. and the Quakers like to the Magistrates imposing F●ith upon People In this thou art out of Charity and thy comparison is too lite ●or G F. and we turn people to the Light of C●rist who is the Author of their Faith And though our Friends in Rhod● Island had the Government for many Years though they had many forts of Religions among them yet they did not impose Religions nor Faith upon any And so thou goes on and tellst a Story of the Pope and Lucifer c. and the true Fai●h and Worship of Christ c. and how the Apostacy sprang and from whence it sprang and of such whose Tallon are grown like Monsters and such as are supporters of false Prophets c. Answ But R. R. if thou sawest thy self with the Light of Christ and what Spirit thou art of it were better for thee and if thou seest thy own Tallon and what thou hast supported and where thou art And thou speaks of informing G. F. and others how far he owns the Civil Power in pag. 30. and 31. as in things only External and transferring Jurisdiction upon the Shoulders of Christ Jesus So also thou mayst Reflect from hence of thy deportment towards others c. Answ In this thou dost not reach nor hit the matter in thy Accusation For the Government of Christ and the Civil Power we know very well without thy Information and the Lord is to rule in the Conscience with his Light Grace and Spirit and it hath been our desire that all might obey the Lord and the Magistrates either Active or Passive And as for thy many other Reflections indeed they are not worth mentioning And in pag. 32. That which G. F. writ to J. P. which thou callst Reproaching did not he turn like a Dog to the Vomit and what was his End let them of Jamaica speak and what was his pretended Paper of Curses in keeping on his Hat in time of Prayer and afterward could put it off to Men as R. R. often speaks of in this Book And G. F's Words were not from the Spirit of Rabshekey neither are they written against G. F's own Life and Practice neither are they particular'd to himself neither is he fallen upon the point of his own Sword and so wounded that he can never recover Nay it s R. R. that would have it so but he is mistaken And thus saith R. R. hath the Bramble with the consent of the Trees made himself King over the Children of Pride Contention and Strife Nay this R. R. might have applyed at home for is there not Contention and Strife in thy own Breast and hath lodged there this many Years and now is come forth concerning so many persons after they were dead which thou hast published to the World and we knew J. P. very well and thee and would he and thee had known your own Spirits And thou sayest Where hath J. P. smitten at G. F. in all his writings and this he challenges G. F. to prove with all his Men of War c. Answ These are scoffing Expressions and let the Reader see in J. P's long paper read pag. 4. where I suffered T. R. to Taunt very sharply at him c. These are false Expression and where he goeth over and over how we told him of his Charges and Costs which was his own fault speaking that to others which we spoke privately to him and making comparison in abusive way of divers Ministers Expences at home and his Reflecting upon Friends for telling him of his Evening-Meetings that brought Persecution and Sufferings upon Friends that some turned their Backs of the Truth and making comparison with the Meetings kept at G. Roberts's And what are these words Perfideous-dealing Truce-breaking as in pag. 12. and 13. and G. F's Judgment Hasty and Rash and G. W's forwardness see a Catalogue of these things in pag. 13. Thy ill dealing with me a Catalogue of his bad Language might be gathered up though he scossingly saith I have proof of thy piety what they are Besides his Language in other Papers and all these things were false and not true for the Lord knoweth our Tenderness and G. F's towards him But all these things have been buried in Oblivion But R. R. this raises the Dead and not the Living And if J. P. and R. R. had been in that Love that can bear all things then why did you so complain and if J. P. had denyed himself and was of no Reputation his Letters nor thine do not shew it so and if he had waited for the Resurrection from the Dead his End would have manifested it and not gone into such loose Actions And as for thy speaking of that Shame and Reproach wherewith his Enemies did cover him if not from the Generation G. F. calls Friends and yet from others that must succeed him as David did Saul in the Kingdom Answ And if R. R. and his others do succeed J. P. take heed lest your end be like his and not like Davids but Sauls And as for Reproaches that R. R. might have kept at home the Lord knoweth we sought his good in Writing or Speaking to him and not to Reproach him And R. R. saith G. F. is now turned to the Witch of the Mind man 's own Wisdom c. which can certainly raise all man's fancies or fears to trouble him and then walk like him possessed among the Tombs and Ghosts of Darkness and converses with those evil Familiars Zims and Imms of the Desart c. Answ If R. R. hath not manifested a great deal of Enmity here in these Railing Expressions let the sober in Heart judge and whether he hath not banished the Spirit of Faith Love and Charity from him and his slandrous foul Mouth had better have kept these Lyes at home and applyed them to his own Spirit and to such as pr●nted his Book for G. F. is clear of them And then R. R. makes a great Noise about J. P's Amity and Vnity and about the papers concerning his Hat and saith That J. P. sometimes pluckt off