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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39296	The account from Wickham (lately published by John Raunce and Charles Harris) examin'd and found false and warning thereof given to all such well-meaning persons among the people called Quakers, as through personal affection, want of consideration, or weakness of judgment have been betrayed, or may be in danger to be betrayed by them, or any other in the same dividing spirit with them, and led aside from the way of truth into a separation from the people of God, for whose recovery and preservation this is written / by Thomas Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1689 (1689)	Wing E611; ESTC R3890	22,353	20

themselves of it was to declare they did not consent to it but only by way of condescention for Peace-sake permit it to pass and that too with this caution that they should not take each other in any publick Meeting of Friends but among their own Relations that Friends might stand clear of them afterwards To which though I. R. and themselves agreed yet were they afterwards brought to a publick Monthly-Meeting of Worship where they took each other in Marriage amongst Friends and as Friends I. R. being there to preach on that occasion And when some Friends being grieved and offended thereat arose and departed in Testimony against it I. R. in reflection upon them and to abet the Marriage publickly said Let him that is without Sin cast the first Stone And this Couple soon after they were married there went and were married again by a Priest Plenty of Instances might be given of corrupt Marriages promoted and carried on by them over the Heads of Friends But by this one it may appear what sort of Liberty they stood for and what it is they call their Liberty in Christ. And it is to be observed that the Contest between Friends and them about this Couple was before any Marriage had gone to the Womens Meetings and was indeed it self the immediate Cause that Friends desired the Womens Meetings might for the future be also concerned in Inquiring into Peoples clearness upon Proposals of Marriage By which it may also appear how false and insincere these Men are who would lay the rise and ground of the differences in these parts upon Marriages going to the Womens Meeting But after that Friends having been fain to use the help of the Womens Meeting to examine that unhandsome Carriage of the fore-mention Woman towards her Father found needful to desire and advise such as afterward came to propose Marriage to lay their intentions first before the Womens Meeting it was truly lamentable to see and hardly credible by any but those that did see what shameless Marriages were obtruded upon the Meeting and by these Men and their Party vigorously animated and backt against the Meeting under pretence of Conscience in not going to the Womens Meeting The Instances whereof too many to be here inserted lie ready for a future Service as further Occasion may be given for it Ah had these Men and others whom they joyned with and who joyned with them stood only for their own and others Liberty in Christ had they walked as they had received from Christ and not otherwise they had not let up that Spirit of Loseness nor made these Rents and Divisions in the Church of Christ which they have nor lost that Savour which once in some measure some of them had to become as at this day unsavory-Salt Next they say That which hath seemed to draw People to please Men and to force them to practice things wherein they have not Faith we have no Fellowship with as knowing God owns it not See here on how slight and uncertain a Ground they have laid the Foundation of their wretched work of Separation which they have run and have drawn others more simple than themselves into That which they have taken such great Offence at and declare they have no Fellowship with they durst not say did positively draw people to please Men or did realy force them to practice thigs wherein they had not Faith but they say that which hath Seemed to draw and to force c. Had they indeed been any whit tender of the Honour of God the Prosperity of Truth the peace of the Church of Christ the Salvation of Souls could they think ye have made so great a bluster have proclaimed such open War as they have done and set up such open Ensigns of Opposition and Flags of Defiance against the Standard of the Lord of Hosts as their Separate Meetings are upon no sure Ground no better Bottom than an Apprehension that something Seemed to draw People to please Men Seemed to force them to practice things c So again in their second Page they say We clearly saw That if their Orders were proposed on such terms that all were to be rendered of a dark and bad Spirit that did not conform then c. Here ye see they cannot say that those things which they call Friends-Orders were proposed on such terms but If they were Accordingly they say they did withstand them that in effect did so propose them They know if they had said they had been proposed directly or positively on such terms they should have been immediately convicted of a direct and positive Lye. Therefore they use these shifting Expressions to hide themselves and deceive you In like manner they go on there and say We had great cause to be jealous several things proposed were not from Heaven but of Man. So here ye may see they don't pretend to have had a certain Knowledge a grounded Assurance that the things proposed were not from Heaven but a Iealousie only And consider I pray what was this Iealousie of their's grounded on a Foundation ye will see sutable to it self and to them We had great cause say they to be Iealous several things proposed were not from Heaven but of Man for in their Birth into the Church they Seemed not to bear the Heavenly Image neither shake hands with Holy Scriptures Here 's their Iealousie and the great Cause of it a Seemed not to bear the heavenly Image But sure it had beseemed them to have gone past Seeming beyond Iealousie and to have had a certain sure indubitable positive Knowledge of what they Seemed to be Jealous of before they had made a certain positive Rent Breach Division Separation from the Church of Christ as they have done Ah how hath the Lord abandoned them to blindness who have resisted his Light in the manifestations thereof that they might discover their own Nakedness The Lord make every one of you wise to improve these discoveries of their Folly and Falseness to the advantage of your own Souls that hereby ye may see and seeing shun that Seducing Spirit which hath led them into these pernicious ways and would through their means lead you in after them And for your further Information and Satisfaction in this matter I who I think may reasonably pretend to know as much what has been done in the Meetings of this Conntry as any other having seldom been absent from them do plainly and sincerely declare in God's Presence and Fear that I did never hear or know any of those things which they call Friends-Orders proposed on such terms as they suggest as that all were to be rendered of a dark and bad Spirit that did not conform But I do certainly know the things they contend against have been gently and tenderly proposed and in a Christian Spirit recommended to the Witness of God in the Consciences of those to whom they were proposed and while there has not appeared a rugged