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The gadding tribe reproved by the light of the Scriptures. Wherin the true Protestants are encouraged to hold fast their Christian profession, maugre the Beast (i.e.) the pope; or the image of the Beast (i.e.) the Quakers, and their followers: to whom is given a mouth to speak great things. / By George Willington, schoolmaster in the city of Bristoll.
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corrupt for the tree is known by his fruit O generation of Vipers how can ye being evill speake good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speakes A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evill man out of the evill treasure bring forth evill things But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speake they shall give account thereof at the day of judgement so shall Iohn Audland for his cursed speakings in his Pamphlet Therefore judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come who will bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the heart and then shall every man have praise of God 1 Cor. 4.5 For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned I beseech all you that shall read or heare this little book in the bowels of Jesus Christ upon consideration of the premises to avoid and abandon with might and maine the private meetings and conventicles especially the books and erroneous doctrines and hellish Blasphemies of this new upstart impious generation commonly called and known by the name and title of Quakers and Shakers whose manner and custome is to fall a quaking and trembling with their whole bodies just after the manner of damned wretches at the last day to whom Christ shall say go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his Angels Beware saith our blessed Saviour of false Prophets which come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening wolves ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree bringeth evill fruit A good tree cannot bring forth evill fruit neither a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit * Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them Mat. 7.15 16 17 18 19 20. Then if any man shall say unto you loe here is Christ or there beleeve it not For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. Behold I have told you before Wherefore if they shall say unto you he is in the desart go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers * beleeve it not Mat. 24.23 24 25 26. Remember what the Holy Ghost saith Acts 8.9 There was a certain man in Samaria called Simon who before time in the same City used sorcery and bewitched the people of Samaria giving out that himselfe was some great one as these Quakers now do yet he was in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity ver 22 23. What Saint Paul said to the Galathians who were turned aside to new Lights to new Teachers such as the Quakers are the same do I say to the giddy headed people of the Church of England O foolish Galathians who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you This only would I learne of you received ye the spirit by the workes of the Law or by the hearing of Faith Are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh Have ye suffered so many things in vaine if it be yet in vaine Gal. 3 1 2 3 4. I marvell that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospell Which is not another but there be some that do trouble you and would pervert the Gospell of Christ But though we or an Angell from heaven preach any other Gospell unto you than that which hath been preached let him be accursed As I said before so say I now againe if any man preach another Gospell unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed Gal. 1.6 7 8 9. The mystery of iniquity doth already worke only he who now letteth will let untill he be taken out of the way And then shall the wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming Even him whose comming is after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeve a lye That they all might be damned who beleeved not the truth but take pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes 27 8 9 10 11 12. Saint Paul taught the primitive Romans and in them us First That it is the imputed righteousnesse of Christ only that makes us just in the sight of God Rom. 4.9 17 23. Chap. 3. from v. 19 to the end Chap. 5. totum 2. That our Election is of Gods free grace Rom. 9.12 Chap. 11.5 6. 3. That we are justified only by faith in the sight of God without good works Rom. 1.17 Chap. 3.20 28. Chap. 4. most part Chap. 5. totum 4. That the holy Scriptures are of divine authority Rom. 3.2 4. Rom. 9.17 Rom. 11.32 compared with Gal. 3.21 5. That no man since the fall of Adam can perfectly fulfill the Law of God in this life and therefore can by no means merit except it be wrath and damnation Rom. 3.19 c. Rom. 7.10 and so on to the end Rom. 11.32 Rom. 8.18 Rom. 6.23 Rom. 11.6 There is no salvation in any other but Jesus Christ for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved Act. 4.12 No marvell then that the blessed Apostle and servant of God Saint Paul useth the sweet and comfortable name Jesus five hundred times if I am not mistaken in his Epistles to the Churches for it is that saveth his people from their sins Mat. 1.21 6. That he that hath received a Ministry should waite on his Ministry and take heed to fulfill it Rom. 12.7 See Col. 4.17 7. That every soule must be subject to the higher powers and yeeld obedience to every one of their Ordinances though humane if not contrary to Gods word for there we are to obey God rather than man and be at his commands in point of Gods worship so far as belongs to the circumstances how and when being in things indifferent in their own nature and that he also professe to disclaime all opinion of holinesse worship merit and necessity there must we be subject and all this for conscience sake knowing that God is the Author of Magistracy and Magistracy is also good even when the Magistrate is evill Rom. 13. v. 1. to 8. Then he adds Chap. 16.17 18. Now I beseech you brethren * marke them which cause
of him that is the way the truth and the life and therefore the fittest to teach the true way unto life Iohn 14.6 See what he saith Ioh. 10.1 and so on Verily verily I say unto you he that entereth not in by the door to wit of a true and lawfull Call but climeth up some other way the same is a thiefe and a robber and such are the Quakers and some others but he that entereth in by the doore is the Shepheard of the sheep and such are your ancient Divines so much cried out against on all hands To him the porter openeth and the sheep heare his voice and he calleth his own ship by name and leadeth them forth And when he putteth forth his own sheep he goeth before them and the sheep follow him and they know his voice And a * stranger will they not follow * but will fly from him not run after him but run from him for they know not the voice of strangers O do not you as you tender your soules good follow strange teachers strange lights but keep close to your old teachers and continue in the things which you have learned knowing of whom ye have learned them 2 Tim. 3.14 The more the men of this generation do cry down the Ministry of man the more let us prize them and esteeme them highly in love for their works sake 1 Thes 5.12 13. Keep close to the Scriptures to the written word even that engraffed word which is able to save your soules Iam. 1.21 make that your guide and then God will be your guide even unto death Psa 48.14 And after death he will give you a Crown of never ceasing glory Rev. 2.10 Let Gods Law be the light for your feet and the Lanthorn for your paths Psal 119.105 Let us follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edifie another Rom. 14.19 Study those things exactly which most concerne you avoid vaine questions and fruitlesse contemplations and vaine janglings and controversies and labour especially to know Gods nature aright and the distinct manner of his worship how you may serve him study to know your own particular offences and to know that that Jesus which was crucified at Ierusalem above 1600 yeares ago is your Saviour and was crucified for your sins and that there is no way and meanes to be saved but by in and through him Act. 4.12 made ours only by faith Ioh. 1.12 And as you professe the truth so practice the truth that so you never defile your holy profession by a scandalous conversation Col. 2.6 And because these are the last and perilous daies in which men shall have the shew but deny the power of Godlinesse 2 Tim. 3.5 it lies you upon to know in what things the power of godlinesse doth consist that the full bent of your soules may be placed on these things It consists in righteousnesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost in humility patience goodnesse meeknesse and truth in mercy mortification of the flesh government of the affections and of the tongue in heavenly mindednesse in selfe-deniall and contempt of the world in the life of a pilgrim in long-suffering and in gentlenesse in sobriety and temperance in faith and communion with God in brotherly kindnesse and charity amongst men I commend unto your reading and meditation the 13. of Deuteronomy Mat. 24. 2 Pet. 2. 2 Tim. 3. and the Epistle of Saint Iude and in generall the whole Bible Iosh 1.8 Deut. 6.6 7 8 9. TO assert or to confute the severall Tenets of this gadding Tribe is beyond my purpose in regard our Divines have done it so well already both in the Pulpit and in the Presse yet notwithstanding I shall say something to those principles of theirs which are called lower principles which as far as I know are not yet writ against by any And this I shall do as neare as I can in the words of the Scripture that so it may be the more convincing and undeniable except of those who deny the Scriptures TO begin first with judging If we aske them why they take upon them to judge Their answer is The Saints shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 For to prove that the principle is theirs I can bring five witnesses besides my selfe to justifie that two known and professed Quakers with whom I discoursed did alledge this in answer Confut. It is not said the Saints do but the Saints shall judge the world and that is at the day of judgment and this they shall do three waies 1. By way of assent in approving the sentence of Christ 2. As they are members of Christ the judge saith a moderne Divine 3. By their example which shall be alledged to condemne the wicked So by this Scripture they have no warrant for judging others That we ought not to judge I have shewed at the beginning See Mat. 7.1 2 3 4 5. 1 Cor. 4.5 Rom. 14.3 10 11 12 13. and many other if we will judge let us judge our own selves that we may not be judged of the Lord 1 Cor. 11.31 2. They are not true Ministers which are called by mans Ministry or by a mediate call from man Proofe That this is their Tenet all that ever heard them know and their books do generally declare it Confut. Luk. 9.1 and 10.1 shews that Christ in the daies of his flesh ordained Apostles and Disciples and sent them to preach Againe there is an undeniable place Act. 13.2 3. There we read of Barnabas and Saul that they were separated for the worke of the Ministry As the Church ministred to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said separate me Barnabas and Saul for the worke whereunto I have called them Marke the words I have called them to the worke there is the immediate call from God but that is not enough separate me Barnabas and Saul for the worke whereunto I have called them I have called them immediately you must call them mediately And how was this done Why v. 3. And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away Marke what follows So they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost c. So againe very notably Act. 14.23 When they had ordained them Elders in every Church and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord on whom they beleeved So againe 1 Tim. 4.14 There saith Saint Paul to his Son Timothy Neglect not the gist which is in thee which was given thee by prophesie with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery So Tit. 1.5 said the same Apostle to Titus For this cause I left thee in Creete that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting and ordaine Elders in every City as I had appointed thee See the charge againe he gives his son Timothy 2 Tim. 2.2 The things which thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithfull men who shall be able to