Deceivers carrying two Faces in one hood looking two ways JANUS like these are Ambodexters and of the World 12. The Quakers who teach that preaching out of the Scriptures is Conjuration are of the World and Blasphemers 13. The Quakers who teach that they have a Spirit beyond all the Fore-fathers and thereby know not only who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates but also that none need to give them discerning or judgment in any Case or on any Occasion but that at ALL TIMES they are furnished both with Discerning and Judgment are of the World Deceivers Deluders and Impostors c. 14. The Quakers who teach that their own Books Epistles or Writings are THE WORD OF GOD are of the World and Deceivers 15. The Quakers who require and charge their own People and that in the Name of the LORD to read their own Writings Epistles or Books in their Meetings for Worship and never so much as request their hearers to read any Portion of Scriptures in the said Meetings are Deceivers Supplanters and Deluders These Doctrines I charge upon the Quakers as deduceable from their printed Books and Epistles and from which Errours they can never purge themselves but by unfeigned Repentance and a publick Retraction and Condemnation of the same And 't is to be feared their Pride is so great and that they are so fixed upon their Principle of Infallibility and Perfection that they cannot but will rather strive to cover and gloss over things However I presume I have given a fair Description of the Worlds Teachers and now let me tell you who are the true Ministers 16. Those are true Ministers of Jesus Christ who preach Repentance and Remission of sins in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and Obedience to the Commands of GOD according to the Rules of the Gospel recorded for our Learning in Holy Writ But E. B. says p. 233. I do believe there was never such a Generation of Teachers as these i. e. Priests are that ever took such wicked courses to their shame says E. B. do I rehearse it Answ This is very uncharitable as well as false in Fact and it looks the worse in that 't is rehearsed by such a Generation of Teachers as are amongst the Quakers who exceed all that ever went before them professing Christianity the Papists ONLY excepted both in Idolatry Blasphemy and Superstition yea and other gross Enormities of which I could give a large List a few for Example sake I shall mention as in the Cage where I have laid Superstition and Immorality together heaps upon heaps plain enough for your view if not I can yet lay these and many more plainer though I delight not in it were it not to humble you and to let you see notwithstanding your proud boasting of Perfection and that you and you ONLY are GOD's People and all besides you of the World Heathens c. that there is cause enough for you to make Confession of your Sins and ask Pardon too I very well know how Retrograde you run and how cross and thwart not only to the practice of the Saints in all Ages but even in this Age with respect to the Christian Doctrine and how you have in little minute matters affected an odd kind of singularity whereby you have separated your selves in Religious Matters as well as in Habit Manners c. As first for any kindness you will not say I thank you but which is tantamount I accept of thy love You will not put the Hat off but nod bow or conjue c. crying out against fine Clothes dainty Dishes lofty Horses Coaches c. until you could get them yea the Woe said you was to such as so did But now who exceed you in fine Clothes except a little Lace or Ribbons which for crosness sake you forbear dainty Dishes lofty Horses goodly Houses brave Coaches fine Perriwigs and what not nay even both Ministers and People witness London Bristol Stoak Erith Northampton and many other places You pretend you cannot for Conscience sake pay to the Trained Solers and yet can pay ten times the value towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France But for the LORDS PRAYER the APOSTLES CREED or TEN COMMANDMENTS not one of them in all your Books no they are too low and mean for your proud Lucefering Minds to teach Nay further as a Fruit of your Doctrine that the Name JESUS and CHRIST do as properly belong to your Believers as to HIM that suffered at Jerusalem you do give the Name of Emmauel and Allalujah to your Children As to Emmanuel it was by the Prophet foretold to belong to CHRIST Isai 7. 14. Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his Name EMMANUEL which being interpreted is GOD with us saith St. Matthew Cap. 1. vers 23. And thus do you manifest your Doctrine by your Fruit as likewise Allalujah an Attribute of Praise due only to GOD as Rev. 19. four or five times mentioned as well as in divers other places yet these Names your chief Leaders have given totheir Children But GOD hath and will stain your Pride more and more and make you at length see cause sufficient to confess your sins to GOD and ask Pardon for the same and that for Jesus Christ his sake who died for our sins and rose again for cur justification as the Evangelist says 1 Joh. 1. 9. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness who was the Propitiatory Sacrifice for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole World who now sits at the right hand of God as an Advocate and Intercessour in the same Body in which he ascended in the sight of the Galileans read 1 John 2. 1 2. Acts 1. 9 10 11. Luke 24. 51. Mark 16. 19. at the right hand of GOD in Majesty on high Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird. For her SINS have reached unto Heaven and GOD hath remembred her Iniquities Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for GOD hath avenged you on her Rev. 18. 2 5 6 20. 1. HERE lye the Men behold and view them well You know their Names and where they use to dwell You know their Parts you know their Fruits also If these be Saints LORD whether shall we go 2. If not why should you not Confession make And Pardon beg for Jesus Christ his sake Are you too proud or do you still disdain Or do you say such things with us are vain 3. Behold I say and mark the Prophets well They did Confess the Scripture doth us tell Their Sins
Their pretence that such as have the same Spirit which raised up Jesus are equal with GOD I must say 't is horrible Blasphemy yet it ought to be charged upon them until they publickly condemn the Book which hath little else in it but Blasphemy and false Doctrine and railing on the Publick Ministry However it never was corrected by Errata as is usual and hath gone for a Gospel Truth above forty years and as their Principle if they believe as they write and therefore I charge it upon them until they condemn the said Book And secondly their Impudence in saying that if we will own the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles we must necessarily own their Books this is of kin to the rest i. e. Blasphemy And thirdly for them to say If Christ the Light in them say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE why may He not speak I answer If they can work the same Miracles He did and produce as many Prophets that foretold of G. Fox's coming out of the North as I shall that foretold of Christ's coming then I shall believe them Fourthly What horrible Blasphemy is it to say 'T is dangerous to read the Scriptures and to call them Dust Death Carnal Serpents-meat as likewise the Ordinances of Christ and the Communion of Saints which Christians ought to hold and believe as an Article of their Faith And then fifthly to call the Publick Ministers Witches Devils Conjurers c. is very pernicious Such Books ought to be burnt as Jacob Baker a Quaker once confest he would burn it And sixthly for them to hold that they and they ONLY are in the Truth 't is the perfect Pharisee But for them to write that G. Fox was before Confusion or the many Languages were is monstrous Such Blasphemies ought to be posted As likewise Ja. Parnell to say that he was before Arguments was and was come to the end of all Arguments is notorious And seventhly so is it in G. Fox to say that he stands covered and neither he nor his name known in the world O what shall I say was there ever such wickedness And yet here is nothing so bad nothing so wicked nothing so false so Idolatrous so Blasphemous But G. W. can salve it he can vindicate or excuse it nay more then so he can procure twelve Witnesses to say We 〈…〉 declare on the behalf of the Quakers that what Fr. Bugg says is 〈…〉 and wicked for they never so believed so said nor so affirm'd c. 〈…〉 being solemnly avouched as in The holy fear of Almighty God 〈…〉 an Oath and if what these twelve affirm be false then they are perjured Persons in the eye of the Law and deserve to be Pillored And thereupon I charge them with Perjury with false-witnes bearing until they by publick retraction repent and give Satisfaction For as you will spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor Young no more will I I will not spare nor my eye shall not pity Friend or Foe which comes up with false Evidence yea so false as if they should say black is white and white is black I must say that as T. G. hath no need to depend on G. W. and that he must know that G. W. hath as little love for him as for some he hath wrote against yet I am sorry to see his Name there As for the others many of them have their dependency on the Chair and G. W being therein I marvel not at them provided their Testimony had been true but I am sure it is notorious false nay and that they themselves know it to be false I will give the World a SIGN which is this If they know and be conscious to themselves that their Evidence is false they will not come forth according to my Proposition in this Book made to meet me but if they be not conscious to themselves of false Evidence how false soever it is they will come forth to clear themselves and be glad I give them the opportunity and by this SIGN they shall be proved Come on you twelve Master-Builders can you read these sixteen Instances and not blush when you behold your Certificate and particularly the first third fifth and eleventh as also the first second and third Errours I say can you read the Passages taken out of your own Books wrote by your most eminent Preachers and yet affirm you never said so wrote so believed so nor taught so and not blush and be horribly ashamed But I have given a Sign to prove you and by it you shall be tried Again Can you read p. 77. of G. F's Great Mystery where he justifies Felony under a pretence of being moved by the Spirit of GOD and not blush What is all your Zeal gone or are you fearful of displeasing G. W. now he is got into the Chair Can you look on the fifth Instance and see how G. W. teaches that the Scripture is not the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament but the Letter which killeth c. And can you behold his contrary Pretences in his late Writings and not reprove him can you hear him pretend that he was moved of GOD to write Judgment Fixed c. and that GOD laid a necessity upon him to write that Book and that therein the neither consults the Events nor fears the Effects and yet proved to write notorious Lies And can you thus let him pass only with saying he was mistaken when he fathered all his Lies upon the moving of the Spirit of GOD even six Lies in number and great part of his Matter bottomed thereupon Can you hear and read his Excuses and Vindications of the Idolatious Letters wrote to G. Fox by Jos Coal John Audland John Blaikling and Sol. Eccles and can you be silent at these things Read my Parallel between the Papists and Quakers in New Rome c. p. 40. to 49. Can you take notice of the Names he and others have given my self and such as have opposed your Church Government and the imposing the observation of your Womens Meetings which some of you are no more in love with then some of us which wrote against the mischief of your Impositions I say can you behold the Names he c. gave us viz. Old canker'd Apostates vile Apostates unruly Beasts Runagades Treacherous Apostates Apostate Informers betraying Iudas's Devils Incarnate Wolves Doggs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil dark Devil-driven dungy Gods Heathens Atheists c. See some of the Quakers Principles and Doctrines c. p. 10 11. for more of this stuff nay such personal defamations and detractions which hath had such an Effect not only of our Profession in Religious Matters but upon our Persons and Imployments which in time may be further taken notice of Can you behold all this and a hundred things more which I might name which hath occasioned a great part of your Troubles And can you submit your Necks your
their Proofs that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah yet when the Jews come to know as that they may by reading their Books especially their Alcoran namely George Fox's Journal that they pretend to Miracles to sinless Perfection to Infallibility of Judgment and contempt of the Writings of Moses and the Prophets bringing their own Pamphlets in competition therewith This I say will tend to harden them in their Infidelity for ROME their elder Sister pretends to Miracles Perfection and Infallibility equal with them if not beyond them for they seem to vve with Jesus of Nazareth and his Disciples and G. Fox and his Disciples follow their Steps in a great measure as the said Journal and other of their Books will set forth And though the Papists will confess to the miraculous Conception and Birth of Jesus of Nazareth yet as History saith St. Kentegernes's Mother beg'd of Jesus that she might imitate his Virgin Mother in the Conception and Birth of a Child Accordingly in a little time she finds her self with Child but often protested she never knew Man And soon after St. Kentegerne was feign'd to be born The Papists grant That Jesus fasted Forty days 't is said St. Patrick did the like and St. Ardan is said to have fasted Fifty days They grant that Jesus fed Five thousand Persons with Five Loaves and Two small Fishes St. Patrick is said to have fed Fourteen thousand with one Cow two Stags and two wild Boars and that the next day the Cow was alive again They grant that Jesus turned Water into Wine but they pretend to turn Wine into Blood and Bread into Flesh after a few words of Consecration They grant that Jesus and his Disciples in his Name healed all manner of Diseases 'T is said that St. David invited St. Kined to come to his Synod St. Kined excused himself because he was crooked and lame whereupon St. David prays him streight and sound They grant that Jesus and his Disciples in his Name cast out Devils 'T is said that a Woman was dispossest of seven Devils at Lauretto by calling on the Virgin Mary for Help They grant that Jesus raised the Dead 'T is said St. Francis makes one dye and afterwards raised him up and restored him to Life again I have read the like of St. David St. Patrick St. Dennis St. Benno and others And the Quakers in their Book stiled A Reply to the Vindication c. say p. 14 Visible Miracles have been done amongst Us in the sight of the World c. The like Pretences are in their Epistle stiled This is only to go amongst Friends as anon will appear See also G. Fox's Journal p. 307. And had a large Meeting at a Constable's House on whom the Lord had wrought a great Miracle c. But mark Reader here is not the Name of this Constable nor the Town where he dwelt nor yet what Miracle it was whether dispossessed of a Devil lame and made to walk dead and raised again to life deaf and made to hear blind and made to see no nothing that may induce us to believe it Beside it is pretended to be wrought in 1666. and exposed to publick view in Print 1694. which shews it to be a fabulous Story and can only tend to harden the Jews especially if they read the Quakers Golden Calf or Legend of Stories viz. G. Fox's Journal And now I proceed to shew the Quakers Books to be of two sorts insomuch that 't is hard to know what a Quaker is by his Writing and yet forsooth all their Writings are pretended to be wrote by the special Motion of the Eternal Spirit and are the Products of Infallibility which is one main Reason they cannot retract any Error how gross and notorious soever The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker David's Enemies discover'd p. 7. And these the Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel as thou i. e. Priests and thy Generation do c. G. Whitehead C. Atkinson The Harmony of the Old and New Testimony and the fulfilling of the Prophecies of the Prophets c. OBSERVATION Reader observe that though I grant in the Holy Scriptures there was and is great Harmony as in the first Impression hereof printed the Year before theirs I have more largely made appear yet in the Quakers Doctrine there appears nothing but Discord and Confusion for G. Whitehead and his Brother Atkinson they cannot call the Letter the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel nor New Testament yet J. Tomkins and W. Penn they can as above which shew they can appear with two Faces viz. G. W. c. cannot call it the New Testament yet to wipe off the Aspertions that have come upon them by reason of G. W's c. Doctrine J. Tomkins and W. Penn can Thus as G. W. says they see cause otherwise to word their Matter The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker Dear George Fox whose Being and Habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rules and governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is established in Peace and the Encrease thereof is without end Josiah Coale from Barbadoes and justified by the Quakers in their Book Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. The Harmony c. p. 97. Jesus shall be great and called the Son of the Highest and the Lord shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Read Isa 9. OBSERVATION How is it possible that the Jews should be converted to the Christian Faith by the Quaker's Doctrine who attribute that to Geo. Fox which is only due to Christ but rather harden them in their Infidelity through their Blasphemy The Perfect Quaker The Holy Scriptures The Examination and Tryal of Geo. Fox at Lancaster Assize c. p. 21 And before I came to the Bar I was moved to pray that the Lord would confound their Wickedness and Envy The thundering voice answered I have glorified thee and will glorifie thee again And I was so filled full of Glory that my Head and Ears was so filled full of it that when the Trumpets sounded and the Judges came up again they appeared as dead Men under me Geo. Fox John 12. 28 29. Father glorifie thy Name Then came there a Voice from Heaven saying I have both glorified it and will glorifie it again And the people that stood by heard it and said it thundered others said an Angel spake to him OBSERVATION Reader here is G. Fox's manifest Blasphemy in assuming a glorified state whilst in the mortal body but this the Quakers have left out of his Reprinted Journal p. 290. but in p. 17. G. F. thus says of himself Now I was come up in the Spirit through the flaming Sword into the Paradise of God I knew nothing but Pureness Innocency and Righteousness
the whole World Thus have you made the Apostles false Witnesses who have charged the Jews with slaying the Lord of Life and Glory As to the Sufferings of Christ the Question still remains unanswered I know you now see cause to say his Sufferings were grievous Sufferings sweating drops of Blood yea great Sufferings Thus far G. W. is got but George you know there is degrees of Greatness there is magnus major maximus great greater and greatest of all Now the great Query is Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest Ed. Burroughs says the Sufferings of the Quakers was greatest And G. W. hath not yet said the Sufferings of Christ was greatest no other word will do I still pursue the Terms of my Query and wait to have it answered but I find G. W. pinched and in a great strait and knows not which way to wind him Condemn Ed. Burroughs's Expression as a Lye that he cannot do for a World for he was by G. W. counted a Prophet a Son of Thunder one in whom was the Almighty Power of God Can such a man lye Can he err No they cannot give Evidence against themselves so not fit to be of a Jury not fit for any place of Trust in Government not fit to have yea and nay pass for an Oath If so then if the Jury be most Quakers they 'l never give it against themselves they are not impartial they cannot be impartial they are the greatest respecters of Persons this day on Earth E. B. has said The Sufferings of the Quakers is greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles which is horrid blasphemous yea they thereby undervalue the Sufferings of the Lord of Glory and exalt their own as greater Sufferings This they cannot deny nor this they cannot condemn see the Fruit of Infallibility having once spoken whether true or false a Lye or a true Story both must be infallible they cannot retract they cannot confess their Sins to God how then should they retract and acknowledge their Errors No not for a World then down goes Infallibility the principal Studd of their new kind of Popery The Perfect Quaker in favour of their own Books An Epistle from their Yearly Meeting 1675. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Several Petitions answer'd c. p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Papers and Queries for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God Several Papers given out for the spreading of Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord this is the Word of God G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. Anno 1693. Dear Friends it 's advised that you be careful in spreading all such Books writ in defence and for the Service of Truth Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for remembrance and notice B. B. The Perfect Quaker's Perfect Contempt of Scripture Saul's Errand c. p. 7. The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. A brief Discovery c. p. 7. The Priests of the World are Conjurers raising dead Doctrines dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death Notable Conjurers P. 8. The Commission of Baal's Priests came from Oxford and Cambridge the same poisonous Fountain is filthy the Streams are no better Simon Magus would have purchased the Holy Ghost with Money even the Sir Simons of our Age run to Oxford and Cambridge Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death really they are Bloodhounds still hunting and gaping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Ja. Naylor's Answ to the Jews p. 4 22 25. It 's Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God it is the Devil which contends for the Letter to be the Word of God The Quaker's Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scripture was Moses or Hermes or whether both these two or not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false c. News coming up c. p. 14. Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Counterfeit Quaker facing round about Quaker's Vindication p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God c. Count. Conv. c. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World A treble Observation upon a triple Quaker Courteous Readers whether Christians or Jews what think you Is the Counterfeit Quaker sincere Do you believe that he means what he says namely that the Scripturesare of Divine Authority and that he prefers them before all the Books extant in the World If so you may believe Transubstantiation Can you think I say that he believes the Scripture is of Divine Authority when he tells you that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust and Serpents-mear and that the Scripture is Beastly Ware that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ or whether either or neither and that what was spoke by good and wise Men was ill applied and ill expressed and what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true c Answer me for my part I cannot G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of
one and that too much too Secondly Do you think he values and prefers the Scriptures before all Books extant in the World I think not my Reasons are many First you hear he calls the Scriptures Dust Death and Serpents-meat Beastly Wares dangerous to read see Truths Defence c. p. 101. yea so uncertain that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Pen-man of Holy Writ is a question But as for what G. Fox c. wrote their Yearly Meeting testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea the same Men that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents-meat judge Reader which they prefer Yea G. W. avouches that what is spoke from the Spirit of Truth in any much more in them is of equal nay of greater Authority than the Scriptures judge Reader which they prefer They say 't is Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and that 't is the Devil that so pleads Yet they say of their own Epistles This is the Word of God judge which they preferr They say we may as well burn the Bible as their Papers and Queries judge which they prefer Come G. W. what Gloss have you in store your Paint begins to vanish and your Jugglings will not now do And as to you that are mis-led by your Teachers I exhort you to read the Scriptures and pray to God to open the Mysteries of Salvation held forth in them that so you may come to have your Judgments rectified Likewise read G. K's Ten Articles which came providentially to my Hand which being sound and orthodox I have exposed them to publick view for general Service desiring from my Heart that you may receive them in the same love they were writ and now exposed yet if you will not hear me nor receive them I of all Men may bear with you in that I once was as averse to Information as the most of you but I obtained Mercy in that I did not wilfully persist against Conviction c. Some of the Principles of G. Keith and his Friends 1. That Bodily Sickness and Death came in by the Fall 2. That Christ has now in Heaven a Soul and a Body that is not the Godhead but the Temple of it and most gloriously united therewith 3. That Christ's Body that was crucified and buried without us rose again without us and is now in Heaven without us 4. That the Man Christ Jesus will come again in that Body without us to judge the Quick and the Dead 5. That there shall be a general day of Judgment that all the deceased Saints are in expectation of 6. That we get not the Resurrection of the Body either in this mortal Life or immediately after Death 7. That Faith in the Man Christ without us as he died for us rose again and is gone into Heaven wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ is universally necessary to make Men true Christians and Children of God born of the Free Woman who have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father 8. That Christ's Obedience and Righteousness which he performed in himself without us is imputed to us by Faith for the Remission of Sins 9. That Christ is not only God's Elect but all that shall be saved from the beginning to the end of the World are God's Elect being chosen in him not only before they believe and repent but before the Foundation of the World 10. That all and every one of the Members of the Church of Christ who are at age and can speak ought to confess with their Mouths in the hearing of some of their Fellow Members the Fundamental Principles of their Christian Faith before they can be own'd to be Members of the Church that by the same as well as by a Good Life and Conversation it may be known who are qualified to be Members of our Church which is Aboundary Terms and Bond of our Union the Spirit being the Principal which may be easily done by Answering to some plain Questions This is a Copy of G. Keith's c. sound and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith proposed to the Quakers of whom I wish it may not be said Oh how oft would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but you would not but now the things which belong to your Peace are hid from your Eyes I remember G. W. queried of me Count. Conv. p. 15. Whether I when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation Answ I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism as by my Book de Chr. Lib. c. which he so often quotes to justifie the Quakers from what I now charge them with may be seen yet I do freely acknowledge that I was in great Errors particularly touching the Point of Justification for I then expected Salvation thro' my Obedience to the Light which the Quakers taught was sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation it attained through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts Again G. W. says Count. Conv. p. 29. Not reading the Scriptures in our Meetings for Worship is no Proof that we have not a Spiritual Worship nor Evidence that we disbelieve the Doctrines contained in them Answ I do not give it as the only Evidence but as a Demonstration yet if you did in good earnest believe the Doctrines and Precepts of Christ in the Gospel to be blessed and holy as you pretend you would read the Scripture and prefer the Bible before any other Book extant in the World you would read the Scriptures in your Meetings if any Book at all and if you recommend any Book to your Friends beyond Sea it would be the Scripture But since you do neither but instead thereof read and recommend your own Epistles and that as you say for the spreading of Truth this is a Demonstration that you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy and an infallible Evidence that you prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures unless you be arrant Cheats indeed to read and recommend that which you know is worst and hide and keep from them that which is best which I can hardly think And as impertinent as G. W. renders my Ten Reasons I find him not able to confute them As for his Pretence to Pray after the manner Christ taught his Disciples I deny it for it you kept to the manner though not to the form you would not be alone But let the Reader observe all the Prayers of Steph. Crisp R. Ashby W. Bingly and others printed at the end of their Sermons nay all your Books extant in the World and he will not find this passage Forgive us our Sins as we forgive them that
trespass against us No nor yet after that manner for though you must needs know that you are Sinners as well as others and have transgressed the Laws of God in both Tables yet you can neither make Confession of Sin to God nor beg Pardon for Christ's sake which not only shew that you do not Pray after the Manner but that you do not pray in the Name of Christ to God the Father as the Mediator and Intercessor between GOD and Man which is an infallible Proof that as you therein differ from the Faith and Practice of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs yea all Protestant Churches to this day so you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy which teach Men so to do which is one Reason Secondly In that you warn charge and command your Disciples to read and cause to be read in your Meetings not only in England but beyond Sea your own Papers Epistles and Books whilst you not only lay aside the Scripture as useless but declare to all the World they are Death Dust and Serpents-meat Beastly Ware and that such as preach out of it are Conjurers Notable Conjurers Thirdly Because you say it's Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and yet allow your own Books that Title giving forth That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater questioning whether Moses be the first Pen-man thereof Fourthly A fourth Reason is because you deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper which the Scriptures teach saying Go teach all Nations baptising c. this do in remembrance of me c. Which the Apostles Primitive Christians and Martyrs practised who had the Spirit as much as you and witnessed Christ's second Coming as much as you Fifthly Your laying aside the use of the Lord's Prayer both in Manner and Form as aforesaid Sixthly Your laying aside the use of the Ten Commandments Seventhly And the Apostle's Creed Eighthly If you question whether Moses was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ and what the Prophets spake true or false you I say cannot believe what you question Ninthly You teach that such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers but the Scripture tells you That Christ is risen and sits in Glory at the Right Hand of God in Heaven above And Tenthly Because you rob Christ of his Divine Attributes and put them upon your glorified George Fox calling him the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness c. See your Epistle This is only to go amongst Friends largely recited in this Introduction p. 5 6. which notwithstanding G. W's Denial is plainly proved to mean G. Fox yet to strengthen the said Proof see J. Whitehead's small Treat p. 4 5. After these things in the year 1648. God who had compassion on his People did cause a Branch to spring forth of the Root of David which was filled with Virtue for the Covenant of Life and Peace was with him and he spread and shot forth many Branches which did partake of the fatness of the Root and the weary came to rest under his Branches In him also was the word of Reconciliation which turned the Hearts of the Children and the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just And in the year 1655. I being a Branch of this Tree meaning G. Fox the life of its Root caused me to blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit of the Lord came upon me c. I say G. F's saying that he rise out of the North was prophesied of c. and the recited Epistle saying O thou North of England who art reckoned barren c. and J. Whitehead setting the date of the rising of this Branch and Star 1648. and that in 1655. he also becoming a Branch of this Tree 't is manifest that what I said in New Rome unm c. p 79 to 87. was not without warrantable ground as by the coherence of their Doctrine doth manifestly appear And since your Books thus interfere let us prove whether they be sincere or which shall we take to be their Judgment in good earnest Answ That they are not sincere I have already given ten Reasons but that I may renew your memory I will add one more viz. In all their Meetings for Worship of GOD they never read one Chapter of the Bible nor one of the Epistles of the Apostles for this thirty years but 't is frequent with them to read their own Epistles as herein I shall further shew only one instance for the present I may recite to confirm you in the truth of their practice and by which you may measure great part of their pretences viz. Several Papers given forth for the spreading the Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the LORD take heed of judging one another To you all this is the Word of the LORD to spread over all I charge you in the presence of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst ALL FRIENDS AND BRETHREN EVERY WHERE to be read IN ALL MEETINGS This is THE WORD OF GOD. G. Fox 1. Pray observe first the design of sending their Books up and down it is TO SPREAD TRUTH and this might be done as well by recommending the reading of the Scriptures or some Portion thereof if indeed they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained therein be holy and blessed unless they will say their Books have a greater measure of holiness then the Scriptures which in the best sence they must believe unless they cheat the World most abominably to send them that which they know to be worse or least for their profiting Secondly You may observe what a Charge is given viz. I charge you in the PRESENCE of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst all Friends what to do namely for a Publick Liturgy or Form of Divine Service viz. To be read in ALL MEETINGS Well what Authority had G. F. to impose this upon the poor People namely This is THE WORD OF GOD. Now if they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained in the Bible to be holy and blessed why do they not charge their People to read some part of the Scriptures for their Instruction but alas they have disputed against the Scripture being the Word of GOD but now you see they stile their own Nonsence to be THE WORD OF GOD and charge their poor ignorant People as such to receive it and as such to read it and as such to send it up and down into all the Countries and all Places and who dare gainsay the mighty Power of G. Fox Who as Ios Coal says hath his habitation in the power of the Highest who rules and governs in righteousness and his Kingdom is established in peace and the increase thereof is
without end and to this W. Penn says well done or very well in his Vindication of this Idolatrous Letter of J. C. to G. Fox So that you may conclude with Irenaeus who in his third Book against Hereticks thus Whilst Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poyson of their foul Opinions Now therefore the best method that I know of to try whether there be any sincerity in these cunning Sophisters G. W. c. IS to take William Penn's method with the Papists who after he had shewed their pretence to one thing when they were really for another first said W. P. Let them renounce their Errours and then let us hear what they will say A short instance of his method I may recite in answer to the Objection A Seasonable Caveat against Popery c. p. 3. They i. e. Papists are grown so complaisant as none seem more exasperated at Persecution than themselves WHILST THE VERY FATHERS OF IT decrying the fierceness of some Countries WHOSE INCENDIARIES THEY WERE AND STILL ARE and imputing the Blood of poor Protestants to some unwarrantable Civil soore THEREBY ABUSING THE MAGISTRATE WITH THE EXECUTION OF THEIR OWN CONSPIRACIES Nay for all their venerable esteem of the Popes Infallibility they have not stuck to censure his roaring Bulls THOUGH PROCURED BY THEIR OWN MEANS and all that might express their new tenderness that many unacquainted with their practices are ready to believe them what they say themselves to be whose Moral is to have two strings to their Bow to be ambo dexter and furnisht with meanings to sute the compass of all occasions Thus far W. P. And whoever observes these Quakers turnings and windings in all their Juglings and Ledjerdemain will find they tread the same Path tho' in another manner for who will or can pretend more plainly to own the Precepts and Doctrine of the Bible to be holy and blessed and yet in other Books say 't is dust and death the Serpents Meat and that to preach out of them is Conjuration and that the Minister of the Letter is the Minister of Death and that 't is dangerous to read the Scriptures and so in most things they look two ways JANUS like insomuch that for W. Penn's four Instances of the Papists Hypocrisie I could easily give you forty of these Quakers two-fac'd Practices looking one way and rowing another in short see W. P.'s Method and if you would understand these Quakers aright use it viz. p. 35. To conclude says W. Penn if we would not receive a Thief until he has repented let the Papists first Recant his volumous Errours c. And so say I let the Quakers first condemn their Errours and these their Books which contain them and manifest their sincerity touching the Precepts and Doctrines of the Scriptures SO as to recommend the reading some Portion thereof in lieu of their own Epistles I say let them first Recant what is really erronious secondly condemn the Books thirdly make a a solemn profession of some certain and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith and then and not whilst then they ought to be reputed as Christians As to what G. W. offers in his Charitable Essay c. p. 2 3. in your Vindication about you Creed cited by me in New Rome c. rather confirms what I say then otherwise as will more fully appear by comparing the same with what followeth in this Discourse as well as shew G. W's twelve Assistants their great Errour and Mistake And in answer to them and their blind false and implicite Certificate I do affirm that what I have quoted as the Quakers I will prove theirs and what I now quote under the Title of ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES and in other places are the Quakers own Books and Writings neither do I wrong them And if the twelve will ingage under their Hands either to prove what they can justifie by Scripture and condemn under their Hands what they by Scripture cannot justifie I will take the like number and meet them on a Months notice at Bishop Stafford which is more than half way and by the Testimony of Scripture let the matter be decided and if you refuse this for shame complain no more of being wronged neither let your Drudge G. W. as in his Just Inquiry c. p. 14. says as he doth viz. THE LIBELLER HAS SHAMEFULLY MISREPRESENTED US as is usual with you and all Hereticks to complain of being wronged and misrepresented c. As for instance 1. Tell the Papists of worshipping Images praying to Saints the Sacrifice of the Mass that they believe their own Traditions or Epistles as firmly as they do the Bible that they believe Transubstantiation Indulgencies c. as drawn up by Pius the Fourth according to the Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent and the CONSEQUENCES of these their erronious Principles and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED 2. Tell the Arians that they are Enemies to the Divinity of Christ they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for say they all that we contend for is only for such a moment of time as may make good the Relation of a Father and a Son 3. Tell the Nestorians that they made two Persons in Christ and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for all they designed was to avoid the Blasphemy in calling the blessed Virgin the Mother of God 3. Tell the Eutychians their Errour in saying there was but one Nature in Christ and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for say they we do not mean thereby to destroy the Properties of the Humane Nature but only to assert that its Substance was swallowed up by the Divine And therefore in all Complaints of this Nature it is necessary to come to particulars and to examin with care and diligence the matter complained of and then to give Judgment in the Case and therefore I cannot be thought to misrepresent you nor wrong you if I charge you with Particulars and those Particulars too taken and fairly quoted not out of such Books as have been wrote against you which yet might be true enough but out of your own approved Books wrote by your most Authentick Writers solemnly professing to all the World I would not wrong you nor misrepresent you nor to my knowledge have I done it if you think I have I have given you a fair opportunity to make it appear if you will meet me on the Condition aforesaid and if you can shew me wherein I have I further ingage to do you Justice by a Publick Reparation And by these Measures I have proceeded from first to last and by the help of GOD I am resolved so to continue as long as I have to do with you But one thing by the way I would have you take notice of and that is
this If it were enough to be Accused then none would be Innocent so on the other hand none would be guilty if it were enough to complain of being misrepresented July the 25 th 1693. Francis Bugg To write no more I long since did intend But none but GOD knows now when I shall end For still I find when I think all is done As much to write as when I first begun NEW ROME ARRAIGNED And out of her own Mouth CONDEMNED The PREFACE READER EDw. Burrough long since put forth a Challenge in the Name of the Quakers that they would gladly be manifest to all the World and in order to it and to clear themselves from some Imputations cast upon them they proposed to meet and Dispute with any whether Priests or People of any Perswasion yea or any one of them at any Place and at any Time and for what Number they pleased as by me recited in my last New Rome unmasked c. p. 2. Upon which I went to their Meeting in Mildenhall Nov. 22. 1691. and there accepted of their Challenge and told them I had a Charge to exhibit against them if they would ingage to vindicate themselves and their Principles Tho. Brewster a Quaker then present bad them Answer me with silence So then I read the Charge to them consisting of ten or twelve Errours as in New Rome c. p. 3 4 5. and left a Copy of the said Charge with them and told them That if they did not answer me according to their Proposition that I should expose them which I was loath to do for the sake of some amongst them But no answer could I get After which I printed c. and when my Book came out I went again to their Publick Meeting and renewed my Charge on the 20th of Nov. 1692. and offered then to prove it against them where was present Sam. Cater and John Cade two of their Preachers But still they refused to debate the matter with me or to argue the Point fully I told them I did not come to disturb them but if they would set a time either S. C. and my self singly or let him take two four six or ten and I would take the like number and we would appoint a convenient time and place This they refused and to this day have declined any such method though proposed by them in print and now at last I have received a single sheet stiled A Charitable Essay c. which neither they nor I can call an Answer only in p. 8. Twelve of the Duakers sums up in gross four Particulars by way of Certificate and at the end thus concludes viz. Whereupon we do in the holy fear of Almighty God and in behalf of the said People declare and testifie That all these and all other his F. Bs. Accusations of the same kind or depending thereupon are utterly false wicked and malicious and never so believed so said nor so affirmed by us as charged against us but contrary to our Perswasion Principle and Profession c. Behold the Answer of these Twelve Elders is contained in less than half a Page and how far their plain Say-so will prevail against plain Matter of Fact unless with their own infatuated Disciples let the wise in heart judge And in answer to this said Certificate I do thus say That to my knowledge I have not set down one Line nor Word as theirs that is not theirs nor yet raised one Argument upon theirs but may naturally be drawn from the Premises and if they think I have I with the like number will upon reasonable notice meet them at any place within twenty Miles or more of my dwelling and produce both Book and Page and if they can shew me wherein I have wronged them I will make them publick Satisfaction on condition that if what I have wrote as their Principles be by me so proved that then they will condemn what is apparently Erronious and as this will be a fair opportunity for them if they think themselves wronged as they pretend to clear themselves from my Accusations as they call them so will they have an opportunity to manifest Francis Bugg to be both wicked and malicious yea and I will also subscribe to this their Sentance if I do not clear my self and fully prove my Charge against them But as a sign that they do not think nor believe themselves so wronged as they pretend although I do not pretend to their Art of Prophesying yet I do and dare pass my word that they will never meet me and subscribe the Condition aforesaid And I have no other reason thus to believe but that I know first 't is their way to make a large Protestation of their avowed Innocency when Guilty and that secondly I know they cannot but be conscious of great guilt in denying and out-facing such manifest Truths as in that half Page they have done As to G. Whitehead in the Introduction I have taken some little notice of him and what he hath said which is but little being not a sheet neither hath he taken notice of the twentieth part of my Book so that it still stands unanswered and unshaken by their peny Rattle which they have put forth to please their Disciples for something they must say or the People will cry Where is the Answer to F. B's Book and so I proceed to the Charge THE CHARGE 1. The Quakers denies him who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered death upon the Cross at Jerusalem who rose again the third day and ascended into Heaven in the sight of the Galileans to be Christ the Saviour of the World 2. They deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptuously of them and over-valuing their own Books 3. That their Teachers are Deceivers of the People Favourers of Blasphemy Excusers of Idolatry and of a different Faith from the Apostles Primitive Christians and blessed Martyrs and that their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith REMARK This is the Charge which I publickly exhibited this is the Charge I offered to prove against them which as it is heavy so it stood them upon to have defended themselves if they had been able so to do since they had two of their Preachers present besides hundreds of People to bear witness what passed Nay though conscious to themselves of being guilty as that I take to be the very reason of evading a Dispute yet notwithstanding it had been for their interest if they had been humble and for Truth and Righteousness as they pretend who upon Conviction of their Errours ought to have made open Confession thereof to GOD's glory as was the practice of the ancient Martyrs upon a sight of the Papists Superstitions in which they had walked However since they would not accept of the said Challenge nor yet meet me according to my frequent Proposals nor answer my Book but come only out with a single sheet and tell their People this is an Answer
as the Quakers do account it sufficient But with that worthy Martyr Dr. Robert Barns say Acts and Mon. p. 610. I believe in the holy and blessed Trinity that created and made all the World I believe that without Man's Will or Power Christ Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost and took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary that HE suffered thirst hunger and cold which as he was God he could not do mark that old Friends and other Passions of our Bodies sin excepted according to the saying of St. Peter And I believe that this his Death and Passion was the sufficient Ransom for my sins and the sins of the whole World and I believe that through his death he overcame sin death and hell and that there is no other Satisfaction unto the Father but his Death and Passion only and that no Works of Man did deserve any thing of GOD but only Christ's Passion touching our Justification For I know said this humble Martyr that the best Works that ever I did is impure and imperfect And according to the Faith of this worthy Martyr the Publick Ministers teach and I believe not but that Dr. Barns was a good Man walked circumspectly had great regard to the Dictates of his Conscience and the Guidance of the Light abstained from that which was evil and followed that which was good and every way as became a good Man as compleatly as the most perfect Quaker in England notwithstanding their high boasting yet you see he did not lean upon his own Deservings but upon the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ even the Merits of HIS Death who suffered thirst hunger and cold who was born of the Virgin and made like unto us sin excepted c. nor did he pretend to a sinless Perfection as the Quakers vainly boast of but humbly acknowledged that the best Works that ever he did was impure and unperfect and this made him rely and lean wholly upon the Merits of another even the Sacrifice of that Immaculate Lamb Christ Jesus his Death and bitter Passion which the Quakers never preach up as necessary to believe Search all their Epistles read in their Meetings hear all their Sermons if ever you hear such a Passage as came from this humble Martyr I will be your Bond slave And thus have I given an additional Proof that the Quakers are of a different Faith from the Martyrs and all true Christian Churches and when I came to understand these their Fundamental Errours which was after I had wrote three or four Books against them in reproof of their Hypocrisie about outward Ceremonies Church Government their pretending to preach write suffer and do all things freely when alas it was all but a cheat they took Money Gifts and Reward for all nay sometimes as in the Instance of Sam. Cater 10 l. where they suffered not 10 d. See New Rome p. 54. to 68. I say after I had thus been brushing at the outside or skirts of Religion for some years it pleased GOD in mercy to open my understanding and to shew me by the Rule of Holy Writ and through the Assistance of His Holy Spirit the Quakers great and Fundamental Errours and then I could not be silent but that too for the sake of many amongst them who have a Zeal I bear them record though not according to knowledge but was constrained to unmask their blind Guides who have caused them to err And if in my Zeal against their pernicious ways I seem to exceed they of all People may bear with me And now to the Trial now to the Examination Who are the true Ministers and the false who are the Worlds Teachers Alluding to the Quakers distinction whose Maxim is to call all but themselves of the World or the Worlds People or the Worlds Teachers c. and who are the Ministers of Christ And though I dare not pretend to know Gods People so as to give an infallible Character of another Mans state as the Quakers do yet I hope to make a truer Description than they have done But for this I must have a Rule and that Rule must be the Holy Scriptures and by the evident Testimony of that let my Work stand or fall A DISCOVERY OF THE WORLDS TEACHERS 1. The Quakers who teach that the Names JESUS and CHRIST do not properly belong to the Body that suffered upon the Cross at Jerusalem nor preach'd it up as a necessary Article of Faith to believe that Salvation is obtained through the Merits of his Death and Passion They are of the World they are the Deceivers and Antichrists 2. The Quakers who teach that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to the whole Body and to every Member in the Body as well and as amply as to Christ the HEAD are of the World and Deceivers 3. The Quakers who teach that the Body of Christ was of an earthly perishing Nature like ours are of the World and Deceivers 4. The Quakers who adore Mortal Men and give those Divine Attributes to Geo-Fox due only to CHRIST are of the World and Deceivers 5. The Quakers who teach that he that hath the same Spirit which raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD and which Spirit they pretend to have and by it give forth their Epistles c. and therefore of the World great Deceivers and horrible Blasphemers 6. The Quakers who teach that Josiah Coal being dead is ASCENDED and that IN Edw. Burroughs whilst living was THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD and that the FULNESS dwelt in him of Grace and Vertue are of the World and gross Idolaters 7. The Quakers who teach that Geo. Fox's coming out of the North naked not known prophesied of writ from the Mouth of the LORD c. are Deceivers Impostors and of the World 8. The Quakers who teach that the Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter say they and that such are Ministers of the Letter are Ministers of Death which is Serpents-meat that say the Sacraments are dust c. are of the World and great Deceivers 9. The Quakers who teach that it is as justifiable to burn the Bible as the Books wrote by Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead and others of their way are Decivers and impudent Impostors 10. The Quakers that teach that the Scriptures are uncertain and that what the true Prophets say is false and what the false Prophets said is true what good men spake therein is ill applied and what wise men spake therein is ill expressed and that whether Moses or Hermes was the first Penman of the Scripture is uncertain they are false Apostles deceitful Workers and their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith 11. The Quakers who teach in one Book that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are not the New Testament not the Rule for Christians to walk by and teach in another Book lately that the Scriptures are the New Testament Holy Scriptures c. are
Lake that burneth and the Pit thou art for to be turned into eternally but thou livest in Philosophy and Logick which are of the Devil G. Fox R. Hubberthorn REMARK Reader Here are some of the Consequences of their erronious Principles in denying the LORD that bought them for after they had erred concerning the Faith and made shipwrack of a good Conscience and denied Christ how soon did they contemn the Scriptures profane his Ordinances revile his Ministers with design no doubt as by the sequel we may perceive to exalt their own Horn. I could not well omit some few of their dreadful Names given to the Publick Ministry in general as elsewhere I have observed But before I sum them up let me add a few more of their Consequences and a little observe what good Names and Divine Attributes they gave to each other for as none ever came near them for railing and reviling stigmatizing and abusing their Opposers as if Hell was broke loose so never did any People exceed them in magnifying each other exalting one another to the Sky nay had they studied many years they could have scarce found out worse words for their Opposers and better and finer and dilicater words high praises and magnifying expressions for themselves and even so they have done by the Scriptures calling them Dust Death Carnal Husk Serpents meat and the like contemptuous Names whilst they have invented most excellent Names for their own Nonsensical Pamphlets and venomous Books fit to corrupt a Nation and destroy a Country as THE WORD OF THE LORD A MESSAGE FROM THE MIGHTY GOD THE WORD OF GOD A LIVING TESTIMONY and a hundred other such like Titles they give to their confused Nonsence to take the eyes and ears of the weak and unstable DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ERROURS 8. The Quakers Challenge p. 3. The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they 9. Ios Coal's Letter to G. Fox justified by W. Denn and others Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reach'd through us thy Children even to the Isles afar of to the begetting many again to a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose being and habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rulest and governs in Righteousness AND THY KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED IN PEACE AND THE INCREASE THEREOF IS WITHOUT END Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. 10. A Battledoor for Teachers and Professors All Languages are to me says G. F. no more than dust who was before Languages were Introduct Again p. 214. And next follows a few words to the whole matter by G. Fox who is before Confusion or many Languages were 11. News coming out of the North p. 15. I am saith G. Fox the Door that ever was the same Christ yesterday to day and for ever And Title Page Written from the mouth of the LORD from one who is naked and stands naked before the LORD cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World risen up out of the North which was prophesied of but now is fulfilled And p. 14. Your Original is Carnal Hebrew Greek and Latin and your Word is Carnal THE LETTER and your Baptism is Carnal and your Sacrament is Carnal and their Communion is Carnal Their Original is but dust which is THE LETTER which is death their Church is dust so the Serpent feeds upon dust and their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Pag. 34 35. A voice and a word to all you Deceivers who deceive the People and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemies and Hypocrisies that tell People of a Sacrament and tell them it is the Ordinance of GOD Blush blush and tremble you who live in the Witchery and bewitch the People 12. Several Petitions answered c. p. 60. My name is covered from the world and the world knows not me nor my name G. F. 13. G. F.s. Great Mystery c. p. 77. And as for any being moved of the Lord to take your i. e. Priests Hour-glass from you by the Eternal Power it is owned 14. A Musick Lecture c. p. 22. I do affirm that if John the Apostle had said he had been a sinner he had lied See New Rome unmasked p. 40. to 49. and you will see a whole Catalogue of Idolatrous Letters and other Abominations which are too large to recite here for I find I shall inlarge beyond what at first I intended 15. Jos Coal's Testimony of Edw. Burrough viz. That he was a Man endued with the ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD which lived and reigned in him c. 16. W. Penn's Testimony for Jos Coal in his Works O the soft and pleasant streams of LIFE IMMORTAL that have run through him to refresh the LORD's Heritage And now he is truly ascended above every Trouble 16. THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS p. 19. And O thou North of England who art counted as desolate and barren and reckoned the least of the Nations yet out of thee did the BRANCH spring and the Star arise which gives Light to all the Regions round about In thee the Son of Righteousness appeared with wounding and with healing Out of thee Kings Priests and Prophets did come forth and laid their Swords on the neck of their Enemies Put on your Armour and gird on your Sword and lay hold on the Speer and march into the field and prepare your selves to battel for the Nations do defie our God and say where is the God of the Quakers Arise Arise and sound forth the everlasting word of War and Judgment in the ears of all the Nations Sound an Allarum make their ears to tingle Our Enemies are whole Nations a rebellious People that will not come under OUR LAW Stand upon your feet and appear in your Terrour as an Army with Banners let the Nations know your power and the strength of your hand cut down on the right hand and slay on the left let not your eye pity nor your hand spare but wound the lofty and tread down the honourable of the earth give to the great Whore double and give to the little Whore treble for she is worthy whose Abominations have exceeded all that went before her dash her Children against the stones and cursed be every one that riseth not up to the help of the LORD against the Mighty Spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor young kill cut off destroy hew Agag in pieces make the Devils subject cast out the unclean Spirits shut up in Prison bring out of Prison cast in your Nets launch into the Deep divide the Fish bind the Tares in Bundles cast them into the fire c. REMARK Reader here is Matter enough to write a Volume upon but having treated largely upon some of them in my last I shall only touch briefly upon some of the Heads and so leave them to the Consideration of the wide World First