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A winding-sheet for controversie ended
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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Christ more equivocating then he has represented any Quaker Pag. 45. § 2. Of the word Humane he is very cheary and derides G. F's refusal of it making us to deny Christ's Manhood which never entred into our Hearts to do vindicating J. Newman's Book against us and endeavouring to prove that we deny the Flesh Blood and Bones to be the Christ quoting G. Whiteheads Book call'd Christ Ascended and J. Penington's Question to Professors c. But does not this man walk self condemn'd who himself believes no such thing and equivocates about the word humane for whilst the Independants and Anabaptist's understand a rational Soul in a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones H. Hedworth means a rational Soul in a spiritual glorified Body void of Flesh Blood and Bones which gives the Socinians such advantage over the Papist's about transubstantiation or else he varys from his Brethren Is he not then detestably unjust who would render the Quakers odious for not believing that common Doctrine which he himself by his principle rejects Pag. 62. § 3. About Swearing he thinks he has caught me fast G. F. sayes there is nothing for I protest 1 Cor. 15. 31. and I say that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used sometimes to express an Oath O poor shift is thy Game come so low Yes and it must come lower yet But I say there is nothing in that place respecting the Sense for I protest therefore G. F. said right § 4. Again he is Angry that I say Oaths were made from a Dis-Trust of Honesty in the Takers to give true Evidence without them and answers As if God had distrusted his own Honesty in Swearing unto Christ c. But what is this to my Confutation I say again That God therefore Swore as Distrusting their Faith and as being privy to their Weakness that all Doubt might be removed out of their Minds Oaths therefore came through Weakness not in God but Men which is removed by the Evangelical Righteousness that says SWEAR NOT AT ALL. Pag. 65. § 5. About Womens Speaking he tosses me off for an Equivocator Behold his Answer this ends the Controversie in this Point § 6. Of my Argument against Titles he asks Questions Why main't I do this and that and t'other he may answer them if he please Let him Enervate what I have said and say something he has not said If Contr. End will permit and I am for him However he will supply his want of Reason with Lyes gross enough to prove we Receive and Give Divine Honor to Persons among us That a Man should come many miles to see M. Fell fall down on his Knees his Hat in his Hand before her making his Humble Address and by the Compellation of My Dear Mother and Beseecht her to Pray for him It is either True or False if True he should have done the World Right in proving it for fear it should be taken for a Lye in the Crowd of those which many Professors tell of us and if False Let the Heavens and the Earth and his own Book bear witness against him in the Terrible Day of God But we know of no such thing That John Stubs did so calling M. Fell Everlasting Mother is a Down-right Falshood but being to go beyond the Seas He and she with many more fell down upon their Knees to Pray to Almighty God that his Presence might accompany him What an Infamous Construction has this Ishmaelite put upon a Most Holy Duty § 7. What Judas soever H. Hedworth associates with or holds in hand that informs him against us I neither know nor care but let it not be Criminal that I should say Every Chaste Marriage or Coupling with Fear as saith the Apostle Peter is an Emblem of the Holy Covenant and Marriage relation betwixt Christ and his Church Shall that which Professors often illustrate Christ's Oneness with his People by and think it no small Piece of Eloquence too be reputed Pride or Blasphemy in G. Fox O partial Man § 8. But G. Fox absolves Men they kneeling and many in the Ministry were wont to pull off his Shoes aboard of Ship Prove the first if thou canst and for being assisted if so it was to help a Man of a gross Body full of Aches through many tedious and uncomfortable Imprisonments where he has seen no Fire in the couldest Seasons but been wetted in his very Bed and his Chamber a small kind of a Pond with the like Severities cannot be esteem'd Pride much less receiving Divine Honour in the Judgment of any but one as Malicious as H. Hedworth bent implacably to seek our Ruin by all the Slanders he can collect from Men or Devils Sect. VIII Of his Contradictions § 1. TAke this small Parcel of Contradictions which must needs touch his proud Heart as his very Words or the result of them The Light is Infallible the Light is not Infallible The Light is a Rule the Light is not a Rule The Leading Quakers are Impostors Now we shall see whether there he any Prudent and Honest Men among the Governing Quakers G. Fox may have the Spirit of God who is an Impostor yet God is not wont to give his Spirit but to his humble Servants and Friends or those whom he will employ G. F. hath an Infallible Rule in him G. F. has not an Infallible Spirit in him Thus is the Light render'd by him an Infallible Fallible Rule and no Rule and G. F. what this Guiddy-headed Socinian is pleas'd to have him Sect. IX Of several Frothy Lying and Reproachful Passages § 1. WHether my Book of 17 Sheets of Paper or his Pamphlet of 4 and an half be most weighty and argumentative which clear'st of contumely Lightness Reproach and a spirit of Revenge I leave with such as impartially read both only I will sum up a few of the many bitter sayings and untruths he casts upon us that all may see how notably he has improv'd his time in this little compass W. P. his huffing Book they do but equivocatly confess the Divinity and plainly deny the Humanity of Christ Billingsgate Language The Nature of his Argument required him to call G. F. and the Quakers Impostors Lyars False Prophets Uncivil Unchristian Censors of the World that the Scriptures to an uninspir'd Man are like a Gazzet to a Privy-Councellor O irreverent Comparison That W. P. charges G. F. with Folly Malice Weakness a Lye as if some Poetick Deity inspir'd him Pride and Idleness Inspiration that is Fancy His Prophet George 't is such as God's Infallible Spirit in G. F. writes O Blasphemous Expression It seems then that God's Spirit can write Non-sence by H. Hedworth's irreverent saying for 't is that he Charges upon G. F. The Quakers detest to think of Christ's being remote from their own dear Hearts Is that so criminal as that it should be mock'd C. l. 3. 16. J. 17 15. abused to serve that Godly he means wicked Doctrine of the
A Winding-Sheet FOR Controversie Ended SO Unpleasant are the Dead among the Living and so Unfit for any thing besides a Grave that to remove this Deceast Controversie out of sight who was both Troublesom Living and by her Numerous Corruptions Noisom now Dead I the least of all Men concern'd to be Kind contribute a Winding-Sheet towards her Funeral unless in this I am remembred above others whatever may be Peevish Rude Revengeful and Impiously Unjust to Man she has without all Consideration besides her own Free-Will left me for a Legacy That I may not be False to the Truth Cruel to my own Name nor Unjust to the World resolved I am to declare how I came thus in her Books and to take a Serious View of this Last Will and Testament and see if I can Vindicate the Truth Defend my Self and Detect her Villany to all People which Her must be an HE sometimes I mean Henry Hedworth by Name I shall be very brief yet Defend my self Vindicate G. F. consider the Doctrines toucht on of Light Rule Divinity Humanity of Christ Scriptures Perverted and his Contradictions Lyes and Revenge Sect. I. William Penn Defended § 1. Pag. 1. COntroversie Ended Too Big Words and Happy but Unhappily applyed Proud and Arrogant not The or A Controversie but Controversie Ended a Lye in the Front of it while Civil and Religious Wars remain But certainly a Lye with a Witness if It should in this respect not be Ended An Ill-guarded Expression and dangerous to H. H. Again Pag. 1. § 2. William Penn their Ablest Advocate Why Ablest but because his Ambition Scorn'd to Engage a Mean One. Self-Pride and not Justice to W. Penn. But to proceed Pag. 4. § 3. I looked upon him as a Man of some Learning Judgment and Conscience but I find my self Mistaken in reference to his Judgment and Conscience How can he choose who denies Infallibility But if Mistaken before why not in the Quakers now and so ad infinitum being so fallible Because then we did not utterly Reject him in hopes of Good from him but since slighted with his Dark Imaginations he is like Satan from Heaven fallen among the Anabaptists who indeed Glean but our Leavings though they Foolishly yet Gladly turn his Busie Agents But let it be observed that he not only charges my Judgment but Conscience which none can do that has not Inward Inspection if so does he not censure that as Arrogant in the Quakers which he does himself What is it but to make me a very Rogue to Write against my Judgment and Conscience and why but because I answer'd he invited me to it and had I not done it I had been vanquisht and now I have done it it is against my Judgment and Conscience Is this the Meek and Impartial Socinian or Arrogance it self I appeal to the Unprejudiced in this Particular His Failing or Foulness here should Antidote all Sober Minds against his other Impostures Again Pag. 5. § 4. If they set their Names to their Books to have Praise of Men I seek it not Meer Deceit and Hypocrisie Controversie Ended never yet durst set her Name to any Publick Thing I ever saw from her A very Night-Bird and Wanderer one that looks and creeps about like a Vagrant It is Honesty in us to own our Books and an high Self-denial to suffer our Names to be subjected to the Reviling of every such Detractor But take notice that Paul who so often begins with his Name and every other Author extant is reproved by this Angry Momus But hear him Pag. 5. § 5. Next He is much offended at a Quondam Friend of his who was so Kind as to give away some Six-Penny Books to those he knew would not buy them A Notable Charge And who was this Quondam Friend that Little Great Pragmatical Thomas Firmin A Monster all Tongue and no Ears it seems he is now become an Enemy then but for what because I abhor his Folly Lightness and Foul Mouth Who bid him buy the Books Was he beg'd to do it or did I sell them him or was he Angry he could not sell them himself What! Would he have added the Stationer without Licence to his many other little Trades It seems he took Money of as many as would buy them and if he gave them to those that would not let him look to that But Disingenuous Men Christians No I would detest to fasten such Dirty Scandals upon a Turk Away with your Socinian-Agency Is this the End of all your Creeping Daubs Dissimulated Praise and Hypocritical Address But indeed what other could there be Pag. 6. § 6. He proceeds Measure his Book by the Title The Spirit of Truth Vindicated against that of Error and Envy Unseasonably Manifested as if there were a Season for the Manifestation of Error and Envy in a late Malicious Libel My Title is Serious I did not say The Spirit of the Socinians Tryed according to that Discovery it has made of it self in their Lamentable yet Conceited Agent Henry Hedworth as he did of the Quakers and G. Fox much less affirm them to be Impostors Lyars and False Prophet No God forbid though Provok't thereto by an Envious Libel which Controversie Ended begun with us upon Nor is there any Time or Season in which to manifest Error and Envy justifiably yet for all this Carping Zoilus every thing has its Time and even Wicked Men may as to the Prosperity of their own Concerns Unseasonably Time their Projects as did the Author of that Discourse For his Collection of my Expressions with respect to his Epistle let the Reader peruse my Book and see the Occasion There is nothing so Detestable and Hard as Impostor Lyar False Prophet nor so Foul as Puppy Fool Cheat Knave c. But no more after this time of the Latter as fresh Accusation because Recanted which is the first time I ever heard of it only that Free Way as H. Hedworth mincingly calls it of so speaking and that not privately as he pretends but in the Hearing of many in a Publick Place much better deserves a Bridewell than an Exchange § 7. But W. P. like a Man that will Rob his Neighbour for Praise rather then go without it saith thus Sect 2. If we Excel in All Things I said Whilst some of you Excel in Many Things Here W. P. has committed a Double Falsity 1. He puts All for Many 2. Quakers indefinitely for Some of Them I have lookt among the Printers Errata's whether he had not Corrected ALL for MANY but I find no such thing If I should grant him that Error without good Reason yet the other piece of Falsity viz. Putting We the Quakers in general for Some of them will abide by him to the Gross Injury of Me and Shame of Himself This Reader which he layes so great a Stress upon I will manifest to be deep Ignorance or Malice 'T is true ALL is put for MANY in the place cited