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A just and lawful tryal of the Foxonian chief priests a perfect proceeding against them and they condemn'd out of their own ancient testimonies ...
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Crisp, Thomas, 17th cent.
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1697
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Wing C6952; ESTC R24790
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Warning c. they say could people hear the cry of Thousands out of the Pit of Damnation they would here others thus lament Presbyterians and Independants under the Notion of Gospel-ministers were the Men that seduced us hither This is say they the cry of Thousands of our dear Countrymen This was in 1675. for the Episcopal Clergy they had Damned them years before But this shews you are well acquainted in Hell but altho' I dare not pretend to be so conversant with Hell as you yet have cause to suspect that you forge false intelligence from thence for you who are so accustomed to abuse both living and dead may be thought to do the same here also and I rather think there is and will be more there so crying against your Idols of Jealousie Fox and Whitehead c. and that it's Fox's blasphemous lying Spirit as was in your brother Foxonian Priest Solomon Eccles that lying Prophet of yours that hath influenc'd you to invent and print this envious Slander against the Protestant Ministers to gratify your elder Sister Rome and this shews that you are hers if not the Devils as you charge Mr. Pennyman Factors Porters and Agents to promote spread and vend her Wares and that you agree and like well her contempt of the Protestant Bible and the Ministers and if all Rome and your own hellish Names be not enough you will to help out forge news from the Pit of Damnation also to help and altho' you seem to envy against your elder Sister Rome it 's for Preheminence because you must be exalted above all But you like well and take her part in defaming the Protestant Religion Bible and Minister nay you are so Brazen-fac'd as to inform against a Protestant Minister G. G. for as you say praying for Oliver's Army sent to high Spaniola thus Lord bless the Army of the Lamb against the Beast and give them success and you term him notorious lying Prophet possess'd with a Legion of lying Spirits and in the conclusion warn People against the Presbyterian and Independant Ministers in general as the Plague But why are you so angry I find it 's because they had subscribed to an Epistle wrote in recommendation of a Book of J. â—aldoes in discovery of your Errors But have not you here recommended this wicked Work J. C.'s Book wherein is this contempt on the Protestant Religion and Bible c. as a Brazen-fac'd false and perverse corrupt and unjust Book and the whole Generation of English Protestants For after many of your hellish characters of Witches c. given them there then say you if the Teachers be such what must the Protestants themselves be c. Your espousing and recommending this and your own Defamations are of much worse consequence to the Protestant Religion than theirs was to Quakerism or than W. Bradford's printing for G. K. whom you imprisoned and took away his Goods but in these afore instances you have proved your selves no Friends but Enemies to the Protestant Bible and Ministers And surely it 's high time for all Protestants to have a care of Rome at home i. e. the Foxonian Quakers for an Enemy within is much more dangerous than at a distance But let 's examine whether you Foxonian Quakers are not guilty of owning Oliver's Army as well as G. G. whom you so maliciously inform'd against or at least what may amount to as much There is enough afore quoted of yours against Hereditary Government c. and to O. C. say you in your Book good counsel c. several Soldiers have been turned out what should they do there if as you say you deny all outward Fightings with outward weapons for any end or pretence whatsoever compare this and others of yours before 1660. and your fallacious pretence to the King but you have a reserve in your last yearly White-hart-court Conclave you may by the Authority of that reassume these or the contrary which you please of your Ancient Testimonies again For indeed most of your flattering Addresses and pretended ownings of the King c. are as fallacious and squinting as your confessions of Faith for any one may make such a submission to a company of House-breakers when they have bound him and his Family or to any Pirates when by them at Sea overcome and taken there is something of God in it and in such fallacious general terms as they would have put of the Parliament with when their act about Swearing was in hand but the weakness of it was shewed them and they advised how to amend it which was done when they see their squinting one would not do And I find little in all their ownings of King Charles II. but if ever the 1648 cause should come in fashion but that they might reassume all their Ancient holy Testimonies against King Lords and Bishops in the beginning their terms are so loose and general they will serve for the Turk or Pope c. as appears by their using their squinting term Cesar in Queen Marys Life but to shew the Quakers owning Ol. C's power for which they inform against the Ministers say they to him He God gave thee the Necks of Princes to tread on and their Dominions to inherit and thou an Instrument in his hand was ordained mark that to lead forth a People whom he blessed with thee was not this the Army against a cruel People and Oppressors who exercised Tyranny until they were taken away the King and his Party and cast out and is a reproach unto the Lord and his People themselves unto this day Much more I could recite but this proves their owning Ol. Crom. Army as well as G. G. whom they term a lying Prophet possess'd with a Legion of lying Spirits but he was a Protestant Minister and they be all such with them But they may pretend it 's not for going against the Spaniards as G. G.'s was that we owned him Ol. Crom. but it was in his being against the King Lords and Bishops which you owned and encourag'd him in which was as bad but for your owning of Ol. Crom. against the Spaniards you say to him concerning the Armies and War in Spain there is something in it known to the Lord make no Covenant with Idolators And again say you concerning the Armies abroad is of great concernment to thee to stand or fall thro' them as to man's Account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it a true gipsy Prophet and whether he deserved a Prophet or a Gipsy's reward judge But how this agrees with their novel fallacious pretence 1660. aforementioned which Fox's Name is to and 11 more and yet this Fox encourag'd Oliver saying to him Friend thou should'st have invited all Christians that are against Popery to thee Again invite all that profess against the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee against him c. But these and much more they have left out in the reprint But it 's
converse with the New Testament And they have so intollerably scandalized the English Protestants that it's as they say not fit it should pass without being taken notice of and that by them it more concerns but especially the Ministers they vent their Fury against and set themselves so violently against Tythes because they thought them a great Support to the Protestant Ministers and a likely Argument to prevail with the vulgar covetous luke-warm and poor People which are a great Party in the Nation considered as incouraged by these Quakers who have printed so many of their envious and wrathful Doctrines against the Ministers as Prophecies or by the Eternal Spirit c. And they are obliged to drive on the same design for fear they appear as they are proud envious blasphemous Lyars And for further Proof that they have no more if so much kindness for the Episcopal Clergy than for the Dissenters observe what they say Did you not once make a Solemn Covenant with God that you would utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form Did you not spue it up And will you turn again and lick up your own Vomit O do not so do not run wilfully into destruction and before I have shewed you how these Quakers blame them for not keeping the Covenant By the foulness of the Expressions you may judge from whence the Spirit came Also one having commended Bishop Hall's Works the Quaker in contempt replies Thou at last fliest to the muckiest hole of all Was not Bishops voted down and some of them put to Death for the unjust Causes they maintained Therefore be not deceived by their present Flatteries For the Protestant Religion and Ministers are no better now but as bad Sorcerers and false Prophets and Teachers of Lasciviousness with them now as then and the Magistrates as much in fault now with G. Whitehead c. for upholding them as then Now G. W. thou said'st to J. P. because he shewed justly deserved contempt to some of your seditious Pamphlets that he was instigated by the Devil but who but he instigated Thee and W. Penn c. thus to vilifie the Protestant Ministers as you have and to be so arrogant as to threaten the Magistrates and accuse them for abusing their Power for as you say either the Spirit of Christ or that of the Devil leads Men. Therefore all these your Blasphemies and Treasons and seditious Practices and Doctrines herein mention'd be some part of your Ancient Truth 's Testimony which it taught you in the beginning or of Error Now if it be not the Testimony of the Spirit of Truth then they ought to be by you disowned and you were not lead by the Spirit of Christ in reprinting them and so blasphemously exalt the wicked Authors but by that of the Devil by your own Doctrine and in case you do not disown them it 's a plain proof you do hold them as your Ancient Testimonies which your Truth taught you in the Beginning and so are by your last years White-hart-court Conclave of Foxonian Cardinals G. W. c. enjoyned your Subjects to maintain and hold up for say you Truth changes not but that you do own them appears by your squinting general Answers and Acknowledgments you now make to deceive the Government with for should you answer'd plainly yea or nay to the two Queries in the Snake in the Grass then you had either discovered your Errors or else contradicted your Ancient Testimonies But now if you have any honesty and plainness to which you so highly pretend make known which of these many printed Ancient Testimonies of yours you do disown for so many of them as you do not disown as you did D. S.'s Answer to F. B. your are justly chargeable with as them you enjoyn your Subjects to maintain and hold up as your Ancient Testimonies for your silence herein will be taken as consent Now as I have shewn you some of these Quakers rage and of their envy against the Protestant Ministers I will also give you some Reasons they give to prove the Protestants Apostates c. which I think includes themselves as well as others in E. B.'s Works page 835. say they All you who are divided in your Knowledge and Judgment about the matters pertaining to God's Kingdom you are Apostate Christians and you never yet received the Spirit of Christ mark that and that is the Reason of all your Divisions in Religious matters c. Page 838. As Christians are brought again to receive the Spirit of Christ and walk therein all Strife and Division about Religion will cease c. And other Marks of false Ministers be They have a place they call Church and observe one day in a week to worship and a few hours in that day and an Hour-glass Now if the Quakers be found to have Strife and Divisions about Religion then by their own Judgment they are condemned as not to have yet received the Spirit of Christ But then by what Spirit they have been moved and whose Ministers and Embassadors they have been judge That they have had Divisions among them early is proved by the Difference between G. Fox and his Party and J. Nailor and his Party also that of G. Fox and his Party with J. Perrot and his Party and that Difference between Fox and his Party and J. Story and J. Wilkinson and their Party in the North and West as also that between the now Foxonians and G. Keith and his Party in Pensilvania besides many more I could mention as Reading c. as abundance of printed Books on both sides proves especially W. R's Eight Parts of the Christian Quakers c. And his second Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apostate Quaker c. And whereas G. W. c. terms G. K. Apostate G. W. is there made to be one himself and Judgments Signed by many on both sides one against another I will give you some passages out of two Letters for proof of their Religious Difference besides what is in print in hundreds of Books one Quaker of Fox's Party Several Papers have come from J. N. since his being in Prison I hearing and seeing to be justified by several that what is there writ came from the Spirit of God and that they are witnesses of the same with him I knowing the contrary writes as follows A Parable about a Tree is made and six Persons named The fruitless Tree says he that cumbers the ground in J. N. is the Root Let his Papers cease to go abroad for more may be deceived by him than the others his being secretly covered with words of truth to cover lyes c. Another Quaker of J. N.'s Party contrary to this afore says One morning being awake in my Bed the word of the Lord spake to me thus go to G. R.'s and speak for James and finding that which is Eternal moving me I went after some time one laid a Paper before me pressing me to read it but finding