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A65843 A brief treatise on the truths behalf in discovery of falshoods which are dispersed abroad in two papers of Richard Baxters ... the one intituled One sheet for the ministry, the other A second sheet for the ministry, and he hath pretended the one against malignants among whom he hath numbred them called Quakers and uttered forth his envy in several lies and revilings against that people called Quakers, whose known integrity shall stand a witness against all such deceivers and revilers as he is proved to be perpetually ... / by George Whitehead. Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. 1658 (1658) Wing W1897; ESTC R26353 18,488 26

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of the true Church were built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the chief corner stone who was is the saints foundation and that building which is not builded upon Christ shall as surely fall as R. Baxter is proved to be no Minister of Christ and that is sure enough Priest In page the 14 he brins an objection which is But you are not ordained by Bishops his answer is almost all in England are till of late if that will serve our parish Presbyters are Bishops c. Answ. Here he goes about to justifie the Bishops that was in England ordaining of priests so that in this he is setting up that which before he pretended they had taken down as in his other sheet in page the sixth he saith have not the Ministers themselves been the pincipal instruments of taking down Bishops Deans and chapters Arch-Deacons Prebends and all means of preferments and what have they got by it so he that is here setting up that which before he hath pretended that the Ministers have taken down here he makes himself a transgressor and people may take notice further against this priest for a lyar that all means of preferment which the Bishops was preferred in the Priests of England have not taken down seeing that almost all of them till of late are ordained by the Bishops so they are not Christs Ministers but Bishops Ministers and if all the Bishops means of preferment were taken down by the Priests then what means the Priests taking Tithes and upholding such great oppression as causeth the creation to groan and their suing people at Law and their causing of them to be imprisoned that refuse to pay the Priests Tithes for conscience sake surely here is Bishops Ministers upholding Bishops Tyranny and that by Bishops Lawes that are corrupt and unrepealed as may be made appear This Priest hath quite cast himself into the mire and hath made his call void for he saith in his 16 page the truth of our doctrine depends not on our calling Then it is manifest that their calling is a false calling for if it were of God it were according to true doctrine true doctrine that 's preached in obedience to a true calling depends on or hath unity with that calling Priest He that hath no just call shall answer for what he doth as an intruder but the people shall have for all that the fruit of his Ministration and preaching and Baptism and other acts shall not be null to them Answ. That 's false for they that ran and the Lord sent them not they had not a just call from God they could not profit the people at all therefore their teaching was null to the people as yours is who are not built upon the foundation of the true Prophets and Elders accordingly as it is made appear in the foregoing words as also is your unjust call and here thou goest about to vindicate an intruders preaching when as the Apostle witnessed against such Colos. 2. for intruders are mainly puft up in their fleshly minds and even so is he that would have them to be preachers Priest In page the ninth The necessities of the Church continue we still need a Teaching Ministry and for that he brings Heb. 5. 11. Ans. In Heb. 5. there is no such word as that the necessities of the Church continue here he is proved to be a perverter of the Scripture as it may be seen in that place for those unto whom the Apostle spoke was dull of hearing so he reproved them for when as for the time they might have been teachers they themselves had need to have been taught but he did not say they still needed teaching by Ministers as this priest would have the Church to continue in necessity and so then if the necessity of the Church continue the Church is not supplied Oh what blindness is here that ever people should be blinded and led by such blind guids as this they may be in want and necessity still ever learning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth indeed that are lead by them and never come to receive the promise while they are led by such but the promise of God was fulfilled in the Churches who were taught of God as he had promised they shall not need to teach every man his neighbour saying know the Lord but they shall all know me from the least to the greatest saith the Lord Heb. 8 and John wrote to them that needed not that any man should teach them for they had the annoiting from the father which taught them of all things but this said Priest hath been much pleading for himself and such as he is to be the principal members parts and supporters of the Church but it may be truly said that such Churches as have such as he is for their principal members and supporters that they are both blind and lame dumb from speaking any thing from revelation or immediate teaching from God but them of the true Church witnessed both for they might all prophesie one by one 1 Corinth 14. 31. And this priest also saith in the foresaid page that there is no salvation promised but to the Church and brings Ephes. 5. 23 25 26 27 and Mark 16. 16. to prove his deceit when there is no such word in these scriptures as he brings them for but if he had said that there are none in whom the promise of salvation is fulfilled but them of the true Church he would not need have been questioned for so saying but Christ who is the covenant and the salvation of God he is promised to be his salvation to the ends of the earth and he is given for a light unto the Gentiles and the scripture foreseeing or foretelling that God would justifie the heathen through faith Gal. 3. 8. and they shall be called the people of God that were not his people so that the promise of God reached unto a people before it was fulfilled and before that they were united into the Church but this blinde guide hath made manifest his ignorance concerning the promise of salvation as he hath done concerning many other things he hath given forth in his lying papers who saith that many thousands are damned for want of the light but in this he is also in errour for thousands are condemned by the light because they hate it and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather then the light because their deeds are evil John 3. And this said priest in his second page would accuse them he calls Quakers for being the Papists Agents but this we deny and return it back again upon him for both the Papists their wayes worships superstition and deceits and adherents we clearly witness against in life conversation and doctrine as in many things is evident to the World in many of our books and manner of our life and for them he calls Seekers among whom he numbers us All that are seeking worshipping or waiting in their own wills and imaginations we deny but they that seek in sincerity so as to find the right way we own them according to the true light wherein the drawings of God is manifest unto them that believe in the Light which doth inlighten every man that cometh into the world And R. Baxter saith this is the saving Gospel that the Seekers Quakers and their brethren preach that the scripture is not the Gospel c. I answer If the Quakers preach a saving Gospel then out of thy own mouth art thou judged to revile and speak evil of the Ministers of the Gospel and then why hast thou written so much against the Quakers as thou calls them if they preach the saving Gospel which is everlasting which was before the scripture was But didst thou mean as thou hast spoken if thou did then why do not you Priests preach that which here thou saist we preach But what thou R. Baxter hath uttered in these two sheets is not the first time thou hast set thy self against the innocent and against the Truth with thy lies and confusions as the Reader may be further satisfied concerning thee if he read the Answer to thy book called The Quakers Catechism and that book tituled Many strong reasons confounded in answer to another lying sheet of thine against the Quakers And here thou art proved a Deceiver a Raylor and false accuser of the innocent a teacher and disperser of lies and false doctrines and thy call to be a false call and thou and the rest that own thee to be out of the true foundation Therefore stop thy mouth and give over thy trade for shame and be confounded for the light is risen and the morning is broken forth which discovers all you blinde guides and destroyers of souls and your filthinesse shame and confusion is made appear and your noysom smell of wickednesse oppression pride and deceit is come up before the Lord who will consume you by the breath of his mouth and will scatter you and break you and stamp you to pieces Dread and tremble you Babylons Tradesmen for the time is a coming that your ware shall not be esteemed of and you shall wail for the misery that is coming upon you and let all that love their souls save themselves from this wicked generation of deceivers and return to the Lord God and walk in his light which shineth in their hearts to receive the teachings of his wayes that the true promises and Ministry they may partake of and deny the false ministry and ministers which we are made through the truth to witnesse against and renounce with their dishonesty and we preach not to keep people alwayes learning but that they may bee turned from the darknesse to the light and come to see the true Ministry fulfilled in them by the spirit of Truth This onely lay upon me to give forth for the Truths sake to clear it and them that are in it from lies otherwise I should have been willing to have suffered under them for it is no pleasure nor advancing to me to search in the Priests confusion THE END And if the reader would be further satisfied touching the ground and rise of Tithes he may seriusly view a book called the great case of Tithes truly stated by A. P.