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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91468	Goliahs head cut off with his own sword; in a combat betwixt little David, the young stripling, who stands in the power and strength of his God, and great Goliah the proud boaster, who stands in his own strength, glorifying in the arm of flesh, and contemning and despising little David, because of his youth. In a reply to a book, set forth by an un-named author, under pretence of an answer to thirty six queries, propounded by James Parnell, whom he in scorn calls, the young Quaker. And also an answer to severall counter-queries, propounded by the same unnamed authour, whom I understand to be one Thomas Draton, a teacher of the world, at Abbey Rippon, in Huntingtonshire, ... and also he that takes his part, who writes himself W.P. who knowes not the power of God, and therefore glories in the length of time, and the multitude of years. ... / Given forth from the spirit of the Lord in the behalf of Israel against the armies of the aliens, who muster up themselves against the Lord, and his authority: by a friend to the common-wealth of Israel, who is known to the world, by the name James Parnel. Who is a sufferer in outward bonds, for the testimony of the everlasting truth, in Colchester Castle. 1655.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P531; Thomason E861_1; ESTC R203310	65,568	94

GOLIAHS HEAD Cut off with his own Sword In a Combat betwixt little David The young Stripling who stands in the power and strength of his God and great Goliah the proud Boaster who stands in his own strength glorifying in the arm of flesh and contemning and despising little David because of his youth In a Reply to a Book set forth by an un-named Author under pretence of an Answer to thirty six Queries propounded by James Parnell whom he in scorn calls the young Quaker And also an Answer to severall Counter-Queries propounded by the same unnamed Authour whom I understand to be one Thomas Draton A Teacher of the World at Abbey Rippon in Huntingtonshire wherein his folly and ignorance is much layd open and the pride and deceipt of his spirit much manifested And also he that takes his part who writes himself W. P. who knowes not the power of God and therefore glories in the Length of time and the multitude of years But Solomon who was a wiser man then great Goliah said that the honourable age is not that which is of long time neither that which is measured by the Number of years but wisdom is the gray hair and an undefiled life is old Age. And therefore let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the strong man glory in his strength for it is vanity Given forth from the spirit of the Lord in the behalf of Israel against the Armies of the Aliens who muster up themselves against the Lord and his Authority by a friend to the Common-wealth of Israel who is known to the World by the name James Parnel Who is a sufferer in outward bonds for the testimony of the everlasting truth in Colchester Castle 1655. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. The Title of the aforesaid Book An Answer according to truth that trembles not nor quakes nor quaileth given to thirty six Queries propounded by James Parnell commonly called the young Quaker to an ancient Country Minister with some Counter-Queries by the said Minister unto the said young Quack and his fellows HEre thou mayst be ashamed to stile thy selfe an ancient Minister Reply Heb. 12.21 Jer. 23.9 Job 4.14 Ezek. 12.10 who manifests such an Ishmaels spirit who with reproachfull words makes a scoffe at the power of truth which the Ministers of God in all ages witnessed which made them to quake and tremble And though the truth neither quake nor quaileth yet all that owned the truth owned and witnessed quaking and trembling which truth thou manifests thy selfe but a professor of and a stranger to the power and a despiser thereof and therefore out from among the Ministers of Christ thou art raised Eccles 12.3 And thy Answer is not according to truth but a Lie as shall further be made to appear hereafter by him whom thou calls the young Quack and it seems fear surpriseth the heart of the Hypocrite P F. 22.14 15. Priest so that thou art ashamed to own thy work with thy name And whereas thou sayst Courteous Reader we are forced notwithstanding so many Pāphlets extant against the people called Quakers to give answer to thirty six Queries of James Parnells the young Quaker Although thou hast boasted thy selfe an ancient Minister Rep. and contemns me as a young Boy yet here it appears that thou art glad of others to help thee to answer my Queries as these words before mentioned doth testifie And yet it is but a Pamphlet as thou and thy helpers do confess that those many are that are extant against the people called Quakers And then thou run on in way of reproach and scorn against me because of my youth but the wisdom of Solomon answereth you That a poor and wise Child is better then an old foolish King who will no more be admonished Eccles 4.13 And therefore when you think of your age consider also your folly and let that stop your mouthes from professing your selves Ancients who manifests such a Light scornful spirit and hates to be reformed And whereas thou sayst thou doubtest not Priest but his Queries are the dictates of others deceiving and being deceived which they yet put under the Boyes name for the Credit of their cause Here also without doubt Rep. thy unbelieving heart is manifested who without ground measurest others according to thine own heart who because thou makest use of the dictates of others as here doth plainly appear therefore censurest others which doth not adde credit to thy cause because thou boasts of thy age But according as thou believes Priest so be it to thee yet nevertheless thou shalt finde that the truth I shall maintain against thee who with thy unbelieving heart art deceiving and being deceived and then thou runs on in the pride of thy spirit accusing of me to be ignorant of the truth of God because as thou sayst Priest of the false wording of my Queries But with shame might thou speak it Rep. for openly hast thou manifested to the understanding Reader thy selfe to be a meer stranger both to God and his truth also who would limit the truth of God to a humane art which many of the Children of God had not Act. 4.13 and therefore the power of God was the more manifested And when Peter and John was brought before the learned men to wit the chief Priests and the Rulers and they wondered at them because they perceived they was unlearned men and thus with thy wisdom and thy great learning thou art shut out of the truth in the naturall but by this I do not own thy accusation to be truth against me for I have a Copy of the Queries of my own hand writing which was the originall of those that was sent to thee which will bear testimony against thee to be a false accuser and how thou thy selfe hast wronged them and misworded them because they was in the crosse unto thy wisdom And to maintain this thou bringest a story in Erasmus nevertheless the story which thou bringest doth not at all touch me but may fitly be returned into thy new bosom where it shall lie Then thou and thy Agent beseeches the Reader to read without partiality which if he do he will judge no otherwise of you then as I have declared but will see how you have uttered forth your folly and foamed out your shame in going about to contradict the truth And at the end of this your Epistle to the Reader I finde W. P. which I judge to be one of thy Agents to this your shamefull work to which thou darst not own thy name My first Querie Where 1 Qu P An. and how and by what wast thou called to the Ministry which thou professest And in thy answer to this Querie thou goest about to plead many excuses whereby to fly the answering of my Queries saying it is easier for him that is yet in

is proved by the Scriptures which thou thy selfe hast quoted which shall here stand against thy selfe Levit. 27.30 31 32. and Numb 18.24 but the Lord did not give it since to the professed Ministers of England but thou sayst man gave it and therefore gave that which was none of their own for it is unjust for any Prince or Ruler to give away the labour or Inheritance of his Subjects unto them that never laboured for it and unto these who under pretence of the Gospel do delude and beguile the souls of his Subjects for their dishonest gain as you professed Ministers of England do and therefore they whose eyes are opened Mich. 2.5 do see you and therefore accounts it a sin unto God to uphold you or put into your mouthes whom the Lord is against and therefore you even prepare Warre against them and it is neither pious nor lawful for any Prince or Governour to force any of his Subjects by a Law contrary to their Consciences and also the Inheritance of the Levites was stated by a Law of God and yours by a Law of Man and they was ordained and set up by God but you by man by whom you are upheld and maintained contrary to Scripture so they come by the will of God you by the will of man they was maintained by the will of God you by the will of man they were of God as all his true Ministers are now and you are of man as all the false Prophets and false Ministers ever was so that there is much difference betwixt you and them and betwixt the Interest that they had in Tithes and the interest that you now claim so that they that robbed them robbed God as in the Scripture which thou hast quoted Mal. 3.8 which shall stand against thee and if the ground of your interest was well searched it would be found that you have it from the Pope and his upholders whose supremacy your selves deny in words to blinde the World but in practice you own it and claim it and again if this which thou speaks of was given to the Ministers of the Gospel then you that are hirelings and the Ministers of Antichrist have no right nor title in it and the Ministers of the Gospel they also do deny it whose care is to make the Gospel free and without charge and therefore cannot oppress any neither will their Consciences serve them to take the increase of others labours by Law or compulsion and therefore it is most just that the Labourer should in peace injoy the fruits of his labours and such idle drones as you who neither labour for God nor for the good of man but are the destroyers both of body and soul should not eat according to the Apostles Rule in 2 Thes 3.10 and thus unto it you have no legall nor civil claim as thou calls it but your Birth-right is as a messe of Pottage neither is your Claim and Title as lawful as a Sonnes is to the Inheritance of his Father as thou sayst but you climbe up another way so are Theeves Robbers John 10.1 Whether ever the Ministers of Christ had or stood in need of an outward Law Qu 11. to compel people to maintain them as thou and such as thou now hath and doth And in thy Answer thou confessest P. Answ that those that are righteous or truly spirituall needs no such compulsive Law to force them for they are a Law unto themselves but thou sayst that the greatest part of the professors in the visible Church alwayes were and yet are earthly-minded and neither do nor can rightly value spiritual and heavenly things But in all thy pretended Answer thou dost not at all resolve the substance of my Query but rather in thy silence in it dost yield thy self out of the practise of the Apostles and by thy own confession it is manifest that neither you professed Ministers nor your Auditors are righteous nor truly spiritual for you stand in need of a compulsive Law to force people to maintain you and the people stands in need of a compulsive Law to force them to maintain you which thou confessest the righteous need not but though you have a compulsive Law the righteous will not maintain you and thus out of thy own mouth thou art judged and the rest of thy Brethren to be the false Prophets who profit not the people at all and again thy own confession proves it that the greatest part of your Church is earthly minded and no wonder while the Teachers themselves are so and thus your Church is the Synagogue of Sathan which is built up of such professors and therefore blush and be ashamed of your Ministry Oh what have you been doing this many years who have wrought no better Reformation and herein you shew your Ministry to be earthly who have no better seals then earthly minded professors who stand in need of a Law to compel them to maintain you and this is as true a saying as any thou hast in thy Book that the greatest part of the professors in your Church are earthly minded but in that thou accusest the Church in the Apostles dayes to be the same thou art a lyer and a false accuser neither canst bring any proofe in the Scripture to maintain what thou sayst but it will witness against thee Act. 4.33 34 35. Act. 5.1.8 for the multitude that believed were of one heart and one soul so that they sold their possessions and laid it at the Apostles feet and it was distributed to every one according as they had need the Ministry took such place in them And whereas there was two found that was earthly minded yet there needed not a Law of man to compel them and the Law of man also was against the Apostles as it is against these now that walk in the same steps yet they do not need a Law of man to force a maintenance for them from worldly or earthly minded professors as the false Prophets and deceivers alwayes did who was alwayes sheltered and upheld by the will of man because they could wink at their iniquity and cry peace to them as thou here dost because they put into thy mouth therefore thou flatters them and daubs them up but it is with untempered morter But the Commission which Christ gave to his Ministers was Ezek. 22 22.28 Mat. 6.25 Mat. 12 11 12 13 14. Take no thought but into whatsoever City or place they entered they was to enquire who was worthy and if they was not willingly received they was to shake off the dust of their feet and so leave them but is it not well known that all your care is to take thought where to get a fat living instead of inquiring who is worthy and there if you have but Authority from man you will have it whether they receive you yea or nay so with shame mightest thou bring any example from the Apostles