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A43754	A brief relation of the irreligion of the northern Quakers wherein their horrid principles and practices, doctrines and manners ... are plainly exposed to the view of every intelligent reader : together with a (brief reply) to some part of a very scurilous and lying pamphlet called.	Higginson, Francis, 1617-1670.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. Sauls errand to Damascus.	1653 (1653)	Wing H1953; ESTC R34465	75,893	103

be yet more of them he quickened his Horse with his Spur and declined to the other side of the Lane At the turn of the way were two more Muskets discharged upon him where in all probability he could not have escaped the intended mischiefe had not the Lord mercifully frustrated the bloody Intentions of those his unknown Enemies These men fled immediately the darknesse of a long Winter night which they had before them it being then about the end of December helping to conceale their persons That these men that attempted this Murther were of this Sect is not certainly known but it is strongly presumed and concluded that they were none other by all the Country for these reasons 1. He was generally reproached and threatned by the Quakers for sending Nayler to Prison some of whom were not long before heard to say they would pick his Skin full of holes 2. That very day before there were many of that malicious Sect in Appleby that came to visit Nayler who might take notice of his being there and be invited to take that opportunity of executing their bloody purposes 3. This Gentleman is of such known honesty and Ingenuity that he is generally beloved in the Country and hath not I dare say an Enemy in the world one quarter so cruell as to thirst after his blood except among that Rabble That multitudes of Scurrilous Libels against Ministers and private persons have been fastened to their doores thrown into their houses pinn'd on Pulpit Cushions on the Lords daies and on the Church doores without any name affixed by those Pretenders to Christianity is a thing well known For satisfaction of the Reader I shall give him a true Coppy of one that was affixed one Lords day about the beginning of Ianuary last unto the Church-door at Lancaster which Dr. Marshall openly read to the people there assembled that they might perceive the strange temper of the Spirits of those men by such their unsavoury Eructations A Copy of a Scurrilous Paper affixed to the Church Doore at Lancaster THis is the Idols Temple where the worship of the Beast is upheld down with it down with it Revel 15. 7. 8. Revel 1. 2. 5. God that made the World and all things therein dwels not in this Idolls Temple that is made with hands Act. 7. 47 48 49. Act. 17. 21. Neither is he worshipped in this Idolls Temple with mens hands Act. 17. 24. God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth for the Father is seeking such to worship him Ioh. 14. 23 24. All the World wonders after the Beast and worshippeth the Beast but those who have found their names written in the Book of life and they that worship the Beast and receive his Mark in their Forehead as sprinckling Infants and worshipping the works of their own hands following the imaginations of their hearts they must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture Revel 14. 9 10 11 12. This Idolls Temple that is made with hands is a place for Night-birds and Screech-Owles to meet each one to the dishonour of the true God that dwelleth in Temples made without hands at new Ierusalem where the Temple of God is with men Revel 21. 3. Drunkards and Swearers Revellers and Scoffers and Scorners and proud and wanton ones and Hypocrites and Dissemblers Enviors Haters back-biters Persecutors Lustfull ones and contentious Persons and Earth-wormes meets here the fearifull and unbelieving peevish and perverse and contentious ones meets here in their Idolls Temple to satisfie their Lusts and saith the Lord this people draw neer me with their mouths and honour me with their lips but their hearts are far from me But know yee not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of Heaven but must be cut down and cast into the fire and have their Portion in the Lake that burneth be not deceived God is not mocked This is a Deceiver that standeth up here to deceive the people every seventh day proud and covetous and speaketh a Divination of his own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord and so makes the people light and vain but the Lord is against him hold him not up All the Children of the Lord are and shall be taught of the Lord Jer. 31. 34 Isa. 54. 13. 1 Joh. 2. 27. Of a long time it was a constant practise of some of the most impudent of them to enter in a scornfull manner with their hats on into the publike Assemblies in some places and to raile openly and exclaim aloud against the Ministers with most reproachfull tearmes in time of the dispensation of Gods Ordinances calling them byars Seducers Baals Priests Deluders of the people and bidding them come down from the high places There is fulnesse of Witnesses for this in Kendall and Lancashire and other places And this not onely before but since the Justices at Appleby ordred the binding of such Disturbers to the Peace but alas what can bind them to Peaceablenesse whose Spirit is tumultuous or what can Law do when Conscience is seared and takes tumultuousnesse for a Duty Mr. Coale who was employed to preach abroad in this County where the most eminent necessity of this County lay viz. Where the Country was destitute of a Preacher hath had much experience of them and hath professed that long it was before he could have any peace or safety but the Lord stood by him Two or three of the ablest of them have dogg'd him from place to place and come severall times to his house with horrible railings And lately not many weeks since two or three at once in the open Street fell upon him with such horrid expressions as might shew to all the world the boyling of a most Hellish Rancour and with such fury that he was beholden to Friends to rescue him from them The next Lords Day three of these wanderers came into the Congregation at Kendall and called to him to come down belching forth such tearms of Baals Priests c. and Hellish reproaches as filled both the Congregation and streets after with Tumult The violence offered by some of this people in an open Auditory to one Master Crosby had proved little lesse then the losse of his life as himself hath affirmed openly if the Lord had not been on his side What was complotted against another Minister as he gathereth from a Letter sent him by one of that confederacy but a friend at that time as God so ordered it I cannot relate but the said Minister could not as he said conjecture lesse then some grosse abuse intended against him as he was discoursing with Fox had not one present prevented it Others have been desired by some friends to keep out of their way for they heard a mischief was intended them What Eye in these parts where this people live is not a witnesse of the tumults and uprores they make in Markets What ear hath

or women or others are by their proselyted friends who desire to make them as bad as themselves brought to heare him speak or discourse with him it is another of his Customes to talk and hold them a while by the hand and it is confidently reported that many he hath thus handled though some of them before their comeing to him did exceedingly disaffect both him and his Impieties even to hatred and though they stayed but a while with him and heard nothing from him that might either morally perswade or rationally convince them of the evill of their former way or if any greater Excellency in his new way yet so strangely have they been wrought upon and altered that they been all on the suddaine earnest feirce impetuous in both for it and him and do now much more violently affect his wicked Religion then ever before they did distaste it Such heady fiery diverters of many Men and Women to their way makes sober Christians think that though there be nothing that is divine either in it or the Propagators of it yet there is much Diabolicall attraction and Art in both Many have profest that having left their society after dislike of their wayes they have been for a while so distempered both in minde and body that their bodyes have been all wett with sweat in their Bedds and they could not get a winck of sleep These and such like accidents especially that faculty which most of their Speakers have to cause their hearers fall into such Diabolicall Ecstasies above described hath induced many understanding Christians to believe that these blasphemous hereticall Impostors are accompanied with the power and workings of Satan Of their FASTINGS THey use also Fastings which are some sometimes prescribed by their Speakers to their Novices and continued by those that observe them for many dayes together but their Fasts are as the Apostle calls the humility of VVill-worshippers A voluntary humility not savouring of Religion not joyned with Prayer but undertaken as a foolish imitation of the miraculous forty dayes Fasts of Moses Elias Christ and the long three weeks abstinence of Daniel and three dayes Fast of the Apostle Paul and as is conceived for the procuring of Revelations and inspirations as they think of the Spirit And they that use such ceremonies to purchase them may have them I beleeve from one Spirit or other Many of them have fasted themselves so weak they could scarse go and till their faces have gathered blacknesse One of them of late I could name hath fasted himselfe so weak that he could scarcely speak or go otherwise then by the help of some to lead and support him a servant made that lived in the house with him reports that shee is certaine that for foureteen dayes together he neither eat nor drunk a crum or drop of any thing some that have lately seen him are of opinion he is starved almost past recovery but whether death will be the issue of his Fasting or no must be left to the providence of God and to a little time to determine But where are such ungodly Murtherous Fasts as these prescribed in the Word David George of Delfe a Blasphemous Impostor whom George Fox resembles as much as one Egge another had frequently his three dayes Fasts The Heathen Priests in China use abstinence sometimes for thirty dayes together to procure abilitie to Prophesie The savage Indians in New England that are trained up for Powwowes so they call their Wizards use to fast many dayes before the Devill appeares to them and they make their compact with him And some Maides there are that know what Saint Agnes Fast meanes and Papists we know have their Fasts as well as Quakers All Fasts are not holy Fasts some are Superstitious and some are Diabolicall No more of them Of their Railings THey are also as horrible Railers as ever any Age brought forth a Generation whose mouths are full of bitternesse whose throats are open Sepulchers c. The Billinsgate Oister-women are not comparable to them It is ordinary with them in the Letters they write to other men to call them Fooles Sots Hypocrites vaine men Beasts Blasphemers Murtherers of the just It is a customary thing with this Gang of people in their discourse with others to tell them they are Dogs Heathen c. One of Kendall going to the Buriall of a Minister his acquaintance met a woman of this Sect by the way and asked her if she had seen the Corps go by I saw saith she a company of Heathen go to bury a dead Dog Such language is common in the mouthes of their principall Speakers and none more notorious this way then Fox their prime Oracle If any man in their Meetings speake any thing in opposition to what they deliver or askes any Question wherein he desires to be satisfied not agreeable to their humours or manifests the least disrelish of what they say it is enough to provoke such Tearmes To give one Example Nayler at a private Meeting in Sedbergh asked an honest Christian Samuel Handley whether he was without sin or no Handley replyed he was a Sinner hereupon Nayler called him a Theefe a Murtherer a Cain and justified himselfe to be without sin They raile against the very Aedisicies wherein we meet together to worship God against the Ordinances there practised against the Doctrine there taught but never reason like men or Christians out of the Scriptures against the Corruptions they conceive to be in them Yea they spare not the Pulpit that is they say the Seat of the Pharisee the chiefe place in the Synagogue the high place that is to be demolished and broken down Yea sometimes they spare not the Dignitie of Magistracy but speak evill of them as far as they dare But their hate and spite is specially against the persons of Ministers and calling of the Ministry which they impiously revile with open mouth even all the Ministry of England without exception calling them the Priests of the World Conjurers Theeves Robbers Antichrists Witches Divels Lyars and a Viperous and a Serpentine Generation Blasphemers Scarlet coloured Beasts Babylons Merchants selling beastily Ware whited Walls ravening Wolves greedy Dogs Baals Priests Tithemongers Deceivers Hirelings c. Such Titles as these they give them not onely in their printed Books and Papers but often-times when they meet them in the Streets and in the very publike Assemblies while they are preaching the word that whole Congregations may be witnesses of their Impiety They affirme that all the Ministers in England that preach in Steeple-houses are Lyars of Jesus Christ that they uphold the Kingdome of Antichrist that they do all for filthy Lucre that they run greedily after the way of Cain to envie and murther and follow after the waies of Baalam That they seek to the Powers of the World to guard them in their Pulpits It seemes if they durst they would pull them out so I heare they had very lately dealt with

to the face of the world While they would defend themselves before you they bewray themselves and if you be intelligent Readers will stink in your nostrils Nor wil you need that any man should take the pains of any reply the book is big with folly madnes It is self-accused and carries its confutation with it Here is therfore notice taken chiefly of the calumnies charged upon some Ministers in Westmerland as to matter of fact lest they should triumph in our silence and the world look upon their relations as Truth to which you may expect an answer so true that if need be it may be attested on Oath by a multitude of witnesses A brief Reply to a very scurrilous and lying Pamphlet called Sauls Errand to Damascus shewing the Vanitie of the praises there given to the Sect of the Quakers and the falsitie of their Relations which are c. THe first Epistle in Souls errand to Damascus inscribed I suppose chiefly to that sort of the People whose irreligion and horrid impieties have been in the forner part of this Book sufficiently manifested intrudes to raise up your honour and procure a precious esteem for them among those that are Saints indeed and therefore tels them That the Lord Jesus Christ and Christ with all his Train and bids them glory in their habit and perswades them they wear the signal Favors of the King of Kings by which the Authour saith he knowes to whom they belong because they love the Brethren Reply REader we could wish that not one of that apostatized Generation but were such indeed that they all had that Genuine and reall glory upon their souls which this Enemy would varnish them over with to deceive those that know them not But alas how shall the most extended Charity that knowes them be perswaded to entertain such a high opinion of them If to hate the Truth as it is in Jesus to adulterate oppose it to worship the mentall Idols of their own imaginations If to cast off and deny all Christs Ordinances if zealously to maligne revile reproach taunt speak all manner of evil falsely against all the Ministers of his Gospel without exception and against the most honest godly spiritual Christians that live near them If this be to love Christ then may this people be thought to love the Lord Jesus indeed But if to live and delight in those Impieties be not love but reall hatred to Jesus Christ then may this people if any in the Christian World be justly reputed his professed Enemies We must confesse their love to those of their own society seems to be much and sometimes discovers it self too unhandsomely and uncivilly to give a vantage for a Spiritual and Saintlike love But be their affection eminent among themselves it is too palpably turned into the gall of bitternesse against all not of their principles so that the Authour of the Epistles to justifie his sayings must be forced to condemne all the Professors of Christ except his own Epileptick society as none of the Saints Brethren or Train of Jesus Christ. If any of those who dwell in the Bosome of the Son of God and by the flamings of their own souls in love to Christ and to his Saints do know the proper colours and operations of a divine affection can say there is any spark of what the Epistle pretends to of love to Christ and his Train in this Generation I must confesse our sight much lesse able to see it then our soul is ready to desire the Lord by his converting power would plant it in them In the second and third Epistles He again represents them as peaceable holy humble self denying men precious Christians such as have for some time past forborn to concorporate in parochiall Assemblies wherein they professe themselves to have gained little of the knowledge of Christ such as demean themselves without giving any offence to those that for God c. and after calls their meetings Christian and peaceable Exercises Reply THe Authour of those Epistles it seems thinks to gain advantage upon the Readers affections for this people by telling him what a well qualified people they are how pious how peaceable humble selfdenying How easie is it to call evil good and good evil We could wish from our souls they were all what is spoke of them and it is our prayer to the Lord for them that they may yet become such be cloathed with those Christian Graces and filled with these gifts of the Spirit which are Ornaments of great price before God But true it is the contrary is too manifest Their Blasphemies and hellish Errors their superstitions irreligion selfconceitednesse their uncharitablenesse censoriousnesse constant Sabbath-breaking living according to the Impulse of their own wils their professed Enmity to Christs Gospel the preaching of the Word and violent endeavours to overturn all Ordinances and wayes of Worship and invecctives against them their incomparable reproachings of the servants of the living God and turbulent behaviour more fully spoken to in the former Narrative do too openly declare them to the World to be quite opposite to what this man would represent them to be viz. to be Enemies to peace and piety and full of the worst kind of pride and arrogancy of that which is Spiritual If Lancashire produce a fairer crop and the pasture of theirs be different from ours if they be there better fed and taught then with us we are glad they are not so ill in any place as ours But we fear those of this society with them do fall under the same unanswerablenesse to the praise of these Epistles as these in Westmoreland do We speak of whom we know and do conclude that they are so unlike to prous and peaceable men that as it would be a mercy to some Congregations if they might waite upon the God of their fathers in peace so we have reason to solicite the Lord in our prayers that he would still continue to spread the skirt of the Magistrates protection and power over the Churches without which we must I a n to prepare for those times wherein the people shall perish for lack of vision and the Prophet shall say with Elijah It is enough Lord let me d e. For their forbearance to concorporate with parochial Congregations It is no commendation to them that they refuse to be hearers in such Assemblies where the Word of God is purely preached It is no sin to hear the Word in a mixt Congregation Christ himself preached most frequently to unconverted Multitudes nor had his Disciples learned from him to forbear to concorporate with them as far as came to the hearing of the Word among them He sent forth his Apostles with Commission to preach the Gospel to all Nations to every Creature and therefore it was the dutie of every Creature the worst of sinners as well as the best of Christians where ever they came to hear them It would rather have ben matter