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A57315	A true prospect for the bishops, priests & deacons and all other within the jurisdiction of the Church of England who are professors of the common prayer, through which they may see how far they are short in faith, principle and practice of divers sound truths therin specified : also the proper right of the Quakers to divers good things therein vindicated and pleaded for ... / published by Ambrose Rigg.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1499; ESTC R25100	19,344	24

the Hypocrites in former ages did and have no more answer from God then they had for we know that God heareth not sinners but if any man do his will him he heareth John 9. 31. Now if this Scripture be true what is all these mens Prayers worth who both are sinners and can never beleive they shall be otherwise in this life this is a degree of unbeleif beyond what ever I read of among the Jews therefore such we can never receive as Ministers of Christ who hath no more faith in him but we do renounce them as a faithless Generation who cannot please God in these their Prayers being not in faith for without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6 So it is far contrary to justice and right reason to persecute us for coming out from such whose works declares to all men that their faith is not according to their words and this is the only cause for which we have undergone such afflictions this many years and not only that we have or do deny any thing that is sound truth either in the Common Prayer book as it is now established or in any other way of worship for it is not unknown to many thousands what our lives practises and principles are both in things appeartaining to God and also in civil things amongst men So it is and will be very ridiculous to persecute us under the notion of Heriticks when it is so manifestly contrary In another of their Prayers They desire God to shine into their hearts that the night and darknes of sin and the mists of errors on every side driven away he brightly shining within their hearts they may all their life space go without stumbling or offence and may decently and seemingly walk as in the daytime being pure and clean from the works of darkness Let all who reads over these lines with a single eye judge how far these men are from beleiving what they here desire for if men by the light of God shining within their hearts can go all their life space without stumbling or offence why is the Quakers persecuted for holding forth this light for all people to be guided by do we think that the Common-Prayer Readers of these times will own this if so why do they so much condemne it in Pulpit and Press if not why do they profess it with their mouths when their hearts are so far from the beleif thereof this is but feigned humility and will-worship which is double Hypocrisie so either they must deny their own words in all these foregoing Prayers or else they must acknowledge the Quakers holds more of the sound truths in the Book of Common-Prayer then they themselves do in principle and practise and therefore for shame give over persecuting of them and reprove the Priests for their confusion and hypocrisie and unbeleif that they may repent thereof if the day of long-suffering be not over for many hath been turned aside through their inchantments from the way of truth and life which the Lord hath set before them Therefore by the Law of God and the King they are not to be upheld nor protected in their hypocrisie and wil-worship being utterly repugnant to the sound truthes in the Common-Prayer book which by law is established In the Collect for the 19th Sunday after Trinity Wherein they desire the Lord mercifully to grant that his holy spirit may in all things direct and rule their hearts c. This hath been counted absurd also in the Quakers to beleive any such thing as the spirit of God to direct and rule their hearts in all things oh how they have been abused by the Priests and their followers for owing what is prayed for in this Collect and if it be the mercy of God to grant his holy spirit to direct and rule the hearts of his people in all things then why are such made a prey upon unto whom God hath shewed this mercy in giving them his holy spirit to direct and rule them in all things who are not under the Law of God neither hath it power over them Gal. ● 18. much less ought the penalties of the Law of man to be inflicted upon them yet such now are and in all ages have been oppressed by the Lawes decrees and constitutions of men who erred from this spirit though they professed it in words because such who were guided by this spirit in all things could never walk answerable to their wills witness the Apostles who were guided by this spirit Acts 5. 28. 29. witness the three children who was directed with the spirit of God Dan. 3. witness Mordecai Esther 5. 9. and a cloud of witnesses more in the Scriptures So here again the Quakers life and doctrine are answerable to the truth here inserted and the Priests manifestly contrary In the Collect for the 21. Sunday after Trinity Wherein they desire God to grant unto his faithful people pardon and peace that they may be cleansed from all their sins and serve God with a quiet minde Again this is as far from the Priests faith as the east is from the West for if it be possible for men to be cleansed from all their sins and serve God with a quiet mind according to this Prayer how will this sute with the Priests doctrine who saith men cannot be cleansed from all their sins nor never come to peace here but must be in a continual warfare as long as they live and consequently not serve God with a quiet mind according to this Collect I suppose their faith is much repugnant to this if they were throughly examined yet notwithstanding they make use of these Prayers and sentences now for their gain and for fear of punishment yet I verily beleive there is not one among 500 of them that beselves ever to receive these things praied for while they live for what is counted more absurd at this day then for any to beleive that they can be cleansed from all their sins and serve God with a quiet mind yet these very men that cries out blasphemy against such and tell them they need no Saviour as the Priests hath often said of the Quakers will pray for the attainment of these things aforementioned therefore let all Gods faithful people judge how feigned formal Hypocritical and faithless their praiers are which can never enter into the ears of the Lord of Sabboths who only hath respect unto the righteous and his ear is open to their cry Psal 34. 15. but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth ver 16. If this be true as certain it is then the Prayers of these sinful men are an abominable sacrifice which is neither heard nor regarded by the Lord nor his people but here also let the Quakers and the Priests be laid in the ballance together and see whether is more equivolent to Scriptural truth in the Book of Common-Prayer