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A65856	Christ's lamb defended against Satan's rage in a just vindication of the people called Quakers ... from the unjust attempts of John Pennyman and abettors, in his malicious book, styled, The Quakers unmasked, clearly evincing his by a lover of truth and peace, G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1917; ESTC R20009	52,095	70

Pardon which he pretends so greatly to respect It appears that these Passages tending to clear us our Adversary designedly left out the more to recriminate and abuse us In p. 12. he cites a Passage out of E. B's Works p. 442. That all Governours and Rulers ought to be accountable to the People and to the next succeeding Rulers upon occasion and that the chiefest of the Rulers be subject under the Law and punishable by it if they be Transgressors c. No doubt when our Adversary writ this he thought he had a great advantage against the People called Quakers but he argues nothing nor infers any thing from the words If his Intention thereby was pursuant to his general charge against us to render us guilty of double Dealing false Heartedness and Temporizing this Passage cited by him against us proves no such thing but is a plain Indication to the contrary or if it was to render us obnoxious he hath missed his End It plainly concerns such Rulers and Governments as were Elective as E. B. his precedent words for choosing them by the Consent of the People do plainly intimate and it was first writ in the Days of the Commonwealth-Government And for Rulers or Representatives that are chosen being accountable to the next succeeding Rulers if there be Cause what has he against the matter it self What could be J. P's Design in this Citation before without Observation or Remark upon it If he tells us plainly and make his Objection I think it will be no difficult matter then to answer him both on a Religious Account and secundum Hominem which at present I find no necessity for Moreover Reader we find much of the same Stuff and envious Quarrels raked up against us in divers other Pamphlets as are in John Pennyman's Book particularly in Fr. Bugg another Apostate his Pamphlets though not so largely as in J. P's but as malicious which are elswhere answered In p. 13. he again charges us with baseness and temporizing and having out-done and even surpassed the Deeds of the Wicked that he says he is stopt for Words are too short to manifest us he saith Whereby it seems he wants Words bad enough for us in so much that he is stopt he saith But how is he stopt Does his Envy and Malice rise up to his Throat and like to choak him He has given us Language and Words hard and bad enough to render us as Infamous as he can as charging us with such Wickedness as can hardly be paralleld and as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders as have appeared in our Age Lyers false Prophets Hypocrites c. But now he wants Words to manifest us The Railery he has belched out has not manifested us can he not study and invent some worse and harder Language against us However he is far louder in his Clamour and Revilings than in his Proofs In p. 13. he reflects upon a Book entituled Truth 's Character of Professors for laying open the Addresses and Applications which others had made to O. C. and R. C. with long Animadversions thereupon which he falsly saith was to stir up the Powers against them charging G. F. and his Friends as having been most highly guilty themselves of those very things Wherein he hath also dealt very unfairly and unjustly we do not believe there was any such Design in W. C's setting out that Character as either to defame others or to stir up the Powers against other Professors but that it was to shew their Priests c. their manifold Flatteries and Temporizing in their superlative Characters Applauses and Addresses which he cannot parallel from our Friends Applications either then or since In p. 14. our Adversary again deals very unfairly and unjustly by G. W. about some of our Friends saying They give forth Writings from the Immediate Eternal Spirit of God and by the same Spirit and Power that was in the Prophets Christ and Apostles unto which he falsly addeth viz. And their so speaking G. W. saith is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater His Words and their so speaking are J. P. his own Abuse and Perversion where did ever G. W. say That the Quakers so speaking of their own Books and Writings is of such Authority He denies the Comparison and Charge as stated and I the person concerned do solemnly declare It was never in my Heart Judgment or Intention to undervalue the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament but to esteem them not only as given by Divine Inspiration and to prefer them before all other Books and Writings extant in the whole World J. P. injuriously mistates the Case and leaves out the explanatory part of G. W's Answer in that Case and J. P. has been better informed therein than now he represents it Therefore Impartial Reader please to take our Answer in this Case as it is laid down in our Book Entituled the Christianity of the People called Quakers Vindicated p. 13. We always confess the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration and prefer them before and above all other Writings or Books and in no wise question the Truth of them yet we must needs allow the Holy Spirit from whence they came the Preference and its immediate Teaching and Speaking in the Soul as of greater Efficacy Power and Authority to that Soul than the bare Writing or Scripture without or only Reading thereof though it contain the same Words immediately taught And so Christ and his Apostles living and powerful Preaching in and from the powerful motion of the Holy Spirit as being of greater Efficacy Power and Authority than the outward Writing or Scripture it self simply or abstractly considered as distinct from that Spirit though the words preached and the words written may be the same For the Gospel as livingly preached came not in Words only but also in Power and in the Holy Ghost 1 Thess. 1. 5. For the real Authority Efficacy and Service the Holy Scripture has upon a Soul is from the Holy Spirit or word of Life giving the true belief and right understanding thereof Again our Adversary proceeds to give Judgment and Sentence against us as helping forward our own Destruction and presumptuously addeth these words and seeing there is no hopes of their Repentance or Forbearance all other ways or means that have been used proving ineffectual It 's now thought meet thus to expose them c. p. 14. Thus he has proceeded to give Sentence upon us and to justifie his manner of exposing of us and Printing his Invective against the People called Quakers His Self-contradiction is notorious where in p. 15. he saith I abhor that Practice that is to render us obnoxious to the Government when but in the Page before he concludes that there being no hopes of our Repentance it 's now thought meet thus to expose us as he has done though he seems to extenuate his own Fact and

taken share and deeply drunk in that persecuting Spirit and to aggravate his Matter against us on their behalf he has that Passage reflecting upon the Nonconformists twice over cited in his Preface from our Pen as his Phrase is quoting Quakerism a new Nick name As also in p. 27. he has the same Passage over again with another out of William Penn's Book styled A just Rebuke to one and twenty Divines reminding the Presbyterians of their former Proceedings c. so that he appears so much disgusted at a Reflection upon the Presbyterians c. that he begins and almost concludes his invective and bitter piece about it as offended that they were upbraided such a deeply concerned and zealous Presbyterian Agent is John become I may give the Reader a hint of one Fling that John has at me if he had had Sedition or Treason against me to be sure I should have heard of it and many more besides His Fling is this viz. about F. B. who he saith was one of the chief Preachers of the Quakers and in very great esteem among them This Man is charged by Jer. Ives to have justified the late War against the King and is defended by George Whitehead another of their chief Preachers p. 9. To all which I answer as a Man not Conscious to my self herein Do but see how fallaciously and deceitfully the matter is stated by this peevish Incendiary as namely upon his repeating the Anabaptists charging E. B. with justifying the late War against the King without any Distinction he addeth and is defended by G. W. which looks like as if I do defend such a Justification of the late War against the King What is this but Malice and Wickedness to render me obnoxious and seditious to the Government and so uncapable of so much as the Act of Indemnity As for a present defending of that War which I never was concerned in nor is there any Words of that import in my answer to Ives see Serious Search which John quotes but leaves out the principal Matter wherein I defend E. B. in his testifying against the Men then in Power and the Quakers from Ives his most unjust Accusation against them in these general Words viz. You justifie the late War against the King What Impostors c. This our Adversary has most enviously seconded as one beholding to the Anabaptist Preachers and was not he a zealous Chaplain more than a little concerned in the Old Army against the King himself who not very long after his open scurrilous Behaviour boasting vapouring and malicious Work against us was soon cut off by Death Now J. P. has enlarged upon his Work against us to render us odious to the Government and me in particular as defending such a Justification of the late Wars against the King as his Words may be easily taken rather than defending our Friend or Friends from that Charge which not only my self but also many thousands of us and among us are wholly clear of nor did I ever like Wars and Blood-shed being a simple-hearted harmless People towards the King and all Men and do eye the over-ruling Hand and Power of God and dayly fear him for our Preservation being in his Holy Will resigned to be patient and passive under what Government he is pleased to set up Moreover let the Reader please to take notice how evident John Pennyman's Abuse Deceit and Falshood is on some Passages he cites out of a Paper entituled A Declaration from the People called Quakers to the present distracted Nation of England 1659. p. 12. where upon these Passages viz. We have chosen the Son of God to be our King and he hath chosen us to be his People and he might command thousands and ten thousands of his Saints at this Day to fight in his own Cause and give them Victory over all their Enemies and turn his Hand upon their Persecutors but yet his Kingdom is not of this World neither is his War-fare with Carnal Weapons c. neither hath he chosen us for that End neither can we yet believe that he will make use of us in that way c. But for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Name 's sake c. Upon which John Pennyman has this Observation viz. So that they were not then of that Mind That the Spirit would never move them to fight And this he brings to contradict their Declaration to the King 1660. Testifying that the Spirit of Christ which leads them into all Truth will never move them to fight and war against any Man with outward Weapons 1. In the first place I intreat all that read this to take notice That the aforesaid Declaration which J. P. has the said Observation upon viz. That the Quakers were not then of that Mind That the Spirit would never move them to fight was as he saith true subscribed by many but tells not the Reader That he even John Pennyman himself was one of those many who subscribed it As I am sure his own Name is to it with thirteen or fourteen more wherein he hath dealt most disingenuously and deceitfully thus to reflect upon the Quakers and E. B. about it without giving any notice how far himself was concerned in it by subscription which he must needs see and call to mind if his Malice did not befool him to overlook or not heed the Subscriptions but his casting it upon E. B. as being moved by his Spirit to give that Paper forth shews that he has of late looked on the Conclusion of it it being there said That the Substance of this was given forth the twentieth Day of this tenth Month being moved of the Lord by his Spirit thereunto through Edward Burroughs and is now judged meet to be published to the Nation in the behalf of us and our Friends under our Hands viz. Ger. Roberts Thom. Hart Gil. Latey John Anderdon Joh. Osgood Robert Benbrick John Boulton Ellis Hooks William Crouch Gobert Sikes James Strutt John Pennyman John Crook E. Billings and Ben. Furley See now here is J. Pennyman among the rest espousing and highly owning the Declaration aforesaid as the Substance of it being then given forth at the Motion of the Lord by his Spirit and published in the behalf of them who subscribed it and their Friends Well I have seriously perused the said Declaration and I must confess it looks so impartially and with so much Innocency and Freeness from a fighting Spirit and so plainly confessing our Choice of the Son of God to be our King and his Choice of us to be a People and that his Kingdom is not of this World and that his War-fare is not with Carnal Weapons as also that neither is his Victory by the murthering and killing of Men's Persons nor hath he chosen us for that end c. with divers other Passages to the same purpose as in p. 8. viz. We do not war against any with