p. 1. Q. Num. 111 Friend in the fear of God hear and consider for it doth concern thee Pr. Pr. Behold how this Quaker writes to Oliver Cromwell not as an Usurper but as his friend how he calls upon his friend in the fear of God to hear and consider how much he was concerned for this Usurper as being his friend Q. p. 3. Q. Num. 112 Was it wont to be thus with thee did thy sword till of late ever return empty from the blood of the slain and the spoil of the mighty could the spirit that was risen up against the Lord in these three Nations stand before thee was ever any thing too hard for thee missedst thou in thy counsels at any time whatever thou didst put forth thine hand to do was it not brought to pass was not wisdom with thee and counsel as the oracles of God becamest thou not as the army of God at thy feet did not the proudest enemy fall down and bow didst not thou come upon Princes as upon mortar and as the potter treadeth the clay were not the hearts of honest men knit to thee as one man did they sigh at any time at the remembrance of thee was not the remembrance of thee to them sweet and pleasant as life from the dead as of him that removed the burthen from off the shoulder that delivered the poor from him that was too strong for him was it ever so with man in these latter generations as it was with thee whilst God was with thee whilst the Rock had not forsaken thee Pr. Pr. The drift of this Quaker in these lines was to magnifie Oliver Cromwell an Usurping Traytor as one whose sword took the spoil of the mighty before whom the spirit risen against the Lord in these three Nations could not stand as one for whom nothing was too hard as one whose counsels succeeded well as one with whom was wisdom and counsel as the oracles of God as one that became as the army of God as one at whose feet the proudest enemy quaere was not this King Charles the First fell down and bowed as one who came upon Princes as mortar and as the potter treadeth the clay quaere were not these Princes the Nobles of England Ireland and Scotland as one that had the hearts of honest men knit to him as one man quaere who were these honest men as one at whose remembrance honest men did not sigh as one whose remembrance was pleasant to those honest men as life from the dead as one with whom it was so in these latter generations as with no other man for as this Quaker saith God was with him as his Rock behold according to this Quaker how in the time of Oliver Cromwell's Rebellion high treason usurpation traytorous actings God was so with him as he never was with any man in these latter generations according to these quaking-lines a man may be a rebel a traytor a man in actual arms against the Kings Majesty his lawful Soveraign and yet be the best man in his generation one that hath Gods special presence with him and become as the army of God a man whom God his Rock doth not forsake where are those loyal Quakers that dare call these quaking-lines the movings of the Lord surely they are ashamed of this quaking brother in print and have much more cause to abandon the quaking spirit who leads themselves Q. p. 4. Q. Num. 113 Did not the Lord hear the groans of those who suffered because of their Consciences in the days of the Bishops pull'd he not up that generation in his anger swept he not away the powers that supported them in his sore displeasure though of many hundred years standing become he not terrible to the men of high stature brake he not in upon them with a furious blow of horrour and amazement did he not smite them with a wound incurable they and their King and their Nobles their mighty men of War their Captains and Counsellors their Priests and their Officers and their whole strength leaving their name an astonishment and a wonder and a curse unto posterity Pr. Pr. In these lines of this quaking Bishop we are told That the Lord did hear the groans of some that suffered because of their consciences in the days of the Bishops This is but a quaking-insinuation to make credulous fools believe that the late Bishops did persecute men for their consciences this was the old flabellum seditionis which this Quaker was fond of But mark how this Quaker saith that the Lord in anger did pull up like weeds that generation according to this misled Quaker the Lord is very angry with Bishops but that 's not all he tells us That the Lord swept away the powers that supported them in his sore displeasure To speak this Quakers mind more plainly The Lord was so angry with the King and Nobility that supported the Bishops as that in his sore displeasure he swept them like cobwebs or dirt away from the face of the earth Nay further he saith that the Lord became terrible to the men of high stature he broke in upon them with a furious blow of horror and amazement he smote them with an incurable wound But who were they that were thus afraid thus furiously dealt with thus incurably wounded This Quaker gives this account of them saying They and their King their Nobles their men of war their Captains their Councellors their Priests their Officers their whole strength according to this Quakers mind the men of high stature were the Bishops but what became of them their King their Nobles their Men of war their Captains their Councellors their Priests their Officers their whole strength This Quaker saith basely of them to this purpose That the Lord in his anger left their name an astonishment and a wonder and a curse to posterity according to the plain meaning of this Quakers words to name no more the late King Charles the first of blessed memory was smitten with an incurable wound and his name is left in this Quakers account for an astonishment and for a wonder and for a curse unto posterity Let all wise men judg how this rebel and traiterous Quaker was moved of the Lord to write as he hath done Q. p. 4 5. Q. Num. 114 Wast not thou the man who didst bear as on a common shoulder the sufferings of the oppressed for conscience sake who with thee were appointed to the same destruction Went not then every such suffering to thine own heart Felt not thou every one of them on thine own shoulder Couldst not thou have laid down thy life for one of them How tender was then thine heart How sounding thy bowels Flowed not in the hearts of them all to thee In them and thee was there not one spirit and one heart For this cause did not the Lord call thee and raise thee up to head his Armies Made he thee not his Sword Did he not by
The PAPISTS Younger Brother OR THE VILENESS OF QUAKERISM DETECTED As it hath been Printed and Published by Themselves And an APPENDIX of the QVAKERS Unsound Faith which is also gathered out of their own Printed BOOKS By MISOPLANES and PHILALETHES Hisce oculis vidi hisce manibus tractavi Chemnit Praef Neque enim aliunde haereses obortae sunt aut nata sunt schismata quam inde quod sacerdoti Dei non obtemperatur Divus Cyprianus libro primo Epistolâ tertiâ Exod. 20. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour 2 Tim. 3.8 9. Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be manifest unto all men LONDON Printed for Edward Brewster and Simon Miller at the Crane in St. Paul's Church-yard and at the Star at the West-end of St. Paul's 1679. The PAPISTS Younger Brother OR The Vileness of Quakerism detected c. READER HE that shall endeavour to take a Quaker off from his conceited bottom may sooner remove a Material Church from the old Foundation However one blow at the Root may not be unserviceable My present design is not to trouble this delicate people to prevent this I shall only give them their own Meat cook't by themselves in their own dish It 's well known how the Poets were painted of old licking up what Homer did cast forth I shall only present the Quakers with that which their overcharged Homers have disgorged I hope this fair dealing cannot justly offend any of them I know it is in vain to tell the Quakers That their Quakerism is a compound of false-Doctrine newly-brought to light several old Errors new vampt Antichristian Popery put forth in a new dress The Quakers whose Names are so and so in the flesh cannot endure to hear that their false spirit hath been delivered of such pitiful off-spring However I shall endeavour to make their Pamphlets in print tell the Intelligent Reader at whose doors the Quakers pretended spirit would have their lamentable brats laid It 's probable what is written may movere bilem stir the Quakers choler but my design is only to remedy that status or windy spirit that troubles them that puts them upon all those irreligious heats with which they and others by them are so troubled To read their Enthusiastick follies transcribed out of their own Books may be a proper prescription for them Let not the Quakers nor any others believe that by answering fools according to their folly I do write one syllable against the Holy Ghost who is God or that I have scoffed the Quakers as being the Servants of God I know very well Pietas non patitur ludum Give me leave only to tell the Christian Reader That the Quakers do commonly beg the question they take it for granted always that they only are the People of God his peculiar servants which is but the true idolizing conceit of themselves true humility would make them look upon themselves with another eye their silly Quakerism would then be what it is indeed a true cause of their abasement before the Lord. To weigh the Quakers in the right balance to take a true estimate of them their Praters are but too like Baals Prophets by their followers that do not know them they are fondly doted on Mahomets Pidgeon and the Quakers Spirit are both alike in this neither of them are of God That man is a meer stranger to their Scribbles that knows not what manner of Saints they are in their own Calendar The People of God The Seed of God The Lords anointed ones that must not be touched The Saints of the Most High God Thus like Simon Magns they give out that themselves are some great ones to whom many silly people give heed from the least to the greatest as if the false-inspired Quakers were carried forth by the great power of God By the way consider it well it 's a woful mistake to think or believe that the Quaker's pretended spirit is the ever-blessed Spirit who is God The vile Doctrines contained in the Quakers printed Books are enough to dash this base conceit this vain belief in pieces As for my own particular I do look for hard measure from my Neighbour Quakers for this kindness of love to undeceive them I have already been sufficiently without any just cause blackmarkt by them A Judas A Persecutor of Gods people A black Devil The Porter of Hell loaded with all the Plagues of Hell exposed to all the Devils of Hell These are some of those unchristian evil-speakings which some Quakers have used of me But I need not tell the Impartial Reader how black the Quakers mouths are nor how fell they are against any Priests nor how expert they are at dying white black the greatest innocency hath not escaped their blacking liue I thank God they are not my Judges I must neither stand nor fall before their bar I am not one jot the worse for being their filth and off-scouring I am not in the least induced to retaliate I shall only transcribe their own Books to serve as a looking-glass to let the serious Reader see what base Doctrines are broacht against God above against the Kings Majesty below against the Gospel the Doctrine which is after godliness against the Scripture which is the Word of God against Jesus Christ whose Satisfaction is denied whose being God-Man is derided whose Person is not owned by them A larger list of the Quakers base Doctrines shall be summed up in the close of this Discourse which may not unfitly be called The Quakers vain belief or corrupt Creed At present I shall not wire-draw one line in their Books to speak more than their own words will bear I shall only bespeak the Readers patience for their very idle discourses this trouble I cannot avoid I do before-hand assure the Reader That his patience will be sore put to it to read such impertinent rude ignorant blasphemous corrupt mean stuff fathered on God who is Truth in whom is no darkness The Books made use of I shall name as I find them named and printed By these Letters Q. Pr. the Reader will easily know which words are onely taken out of the Quakers Books THE first Book that offers it self to be considered is thus penned The Counterfeit Christian detected and the real Quaker justified By a lover of Truth and Peace W. P. Printed 1674. Q. Pag. 78. Q. Numb 1 Give me one place that mentions Christ to be a distinct Person without us Art thou so destitute of common sense as to think of proving the Quaker to be no Christian because he denies a Doctrine not expressed in Scripture and yet at that instant to magnifie the Scripture as thy sole Rule Verily thou makest thy self a derision to all wise men Pr. Pr. The whole drift of these Quaking-lines is to affirm That Christ is no distinct person without us To assert that our Saviour is a distinct Person without
this worship I do declare to be deceitful and abomination to the Lord which is but Cains sacrifice O England I do declare against all these thy Teachers and against this thy worship as from the mouth of the Lord all thy imagined formal worships and carnal traditions and ordinances is the Lord risen to declare against O people your Teachers hath beguiled you and fed themselves with the fat but your souls are hungred by them they love the wages of unrighteousness and follows the error of Balaam for reward and have devoured souls for dishonest gain the Lord is rising to require his flock at the hands of the idols shepherds O ye idol dumb shepherds you have scattered the sheep and have fed your selves with them ye shall no longer wear garments to deceive you have long deceived the simple by your lyes the mystery of witchcraft is not now hid O England thy prophets are treacherous persons thy Judges judges for reward thy priests preach for hire thy rulers are evening-wolves which seeks for the prey all thy corrupt judges and officers and rulers will the Lord cut off and he will avenge the cause of the poor that is oppressed by priests in their tythes by lawyers in their fees by officers in their unrighteous dealings the sword of the Lord is drawn in thee O Nation and put into the hands of them which is scornfully called Quakers and thy unjust rulers and officers cannot hurt them O Land depart from all thy teachers lest thou be partaker of their plagues Pr. Pr. In these virulent lines you have seen this brainsick Quaker blacking the Teachers Worship and Magistrates of England by raking in this dunghill no little filth will appear behold how the Teachers of England are aspersed foully by this quaking zealot to write his mind more plainly they are no better than the false Prophets of Israel covetous teachers who seek their gain from their quarter thieves who steal the word their preaching is but the divination of their own brain which they sell for money that their teaching is for the fleece that they are no Ministers of Jesus Christ what then are they this Quaker saith that they are seducers blind guides antichrists such as lead poor blind people into the ways of destruction that they are such as are not sent of God that the people do not profit under their Ministry for their souls are in the dark heathenish nature leaning as he saith in the imaginations to speak this Quakers mind they are very wicked teachers for these iniquities lying swearing drunkenness covetousness and oppression and living according to the course of this world do rule among the Priests from the Prophet to the Priest as he saith every one deals falsely in this Quakers account the teachers of England are no more but hirelings and greedy dumb dogs the Quakers who pretend to be taught of God do deny them all he saith that the teachers of England are in the way of the Pharisees who we know were accursed of Christ that they do blindly lead the people as the Pharisees did of old that as cheats use to do they have beguiled the people that like the false Prophets they have fed themselves with the fat but starved the peoples souls that like Balaam they have loved the wages of unrighteousness followed Balaams error for reward that they have devoured peoples souls for dishonest gain that they are the Idols shepherds yea Idol dumb shepherds that have scattered the sheep and fed themselves with them that they wear garments to deceive that they have long deceived the people by their lyes that they have a mystery of witchcraft that they are treacherous persons Priests preaching for hire that they are oppressors by whom the people are oppressed in their Tythes that they are dangerous teachers not fit to be heard for this Quaker saith O land depart from thy teachers lest thou be partaker of their plagues now let us see how the worship of God used in England is despised by this Quaker to come to particulars he names reading singing preaching all which do belong to Gods publick worship but what saith this Quaker of this worship take his own words he saith that this worship is carnal that it is no worship of God that it is an imagined worship by which the living God is mocked that our reading singing preaching is heathenish no true worship of God that this worship is deceitful and abomination to the Lord that it is Cains sacrifice that all this he doth declare from the mouth of the Lord which is an unparallel'd quaking boldness Now let us likewise see what this Quakers mind is touching the Magistrates of England he being of age shall speak for himself who saith thus That these iniquities to wit lying swearing drunkenness covetousness and oppression and living according to the course of this world do rule among the rulers in this Nation from the least of them even to the greatest every one is given to covetousness that the Judges of England he saith are Judges for reward that the rulers of England he saith are evening wolves who seek for the prey that they are those corrupt judges officers rulers whom the Lord will cut off that they are such officers as do oppress the people in their unrighteous dealings but now this Quaker saith that the sword of the Lord is drawn in England and put into the Quakers hands what 's meant by these words I do wholly leave it to the wisdom of the Magistrate to interpret though I have hitherto forgot it yet let it be remarked that by the false Light within this Quaker hath seen a lying vision for England which is this that all her teachers are drunk with the Whores cup of Babylon which is full of abominations I shall add no more but leave the serious Reader to abound in his own sense upon those quaking-words Thus I have done with this hot-headed Quakers Pamphlet THe next quaking-book to be briefly considered is called The warnings of the Lord to the men of this generation particularly to those in power who are lately passed away and to them that remain as they were given forth in sundry Letters and sent to Oliver Cromwell Richard his Son late Protectors c. whom for brevity I have omitted but may be seen in the Title-page by his Servant George Bishop who is moved of the Lord now to publish them London printed by M. Inman 1660. Pr. Pr. This quaking Pamphlet you may see was in this Quakers account of high value it 's vain-gloriously called the warnings of the Lord whereas no Quaker will confess that the Scripture is the Word of God this traytorly book is called The warnings of the Lord behold how this abettour of rebellion this publisher of high Treason George Bishop said that he was moved of the Lord now to publish them as if this lamentable scribble were the Lords immediate work Now let us pass on to the Book it self Q.
believe That the Bishops in the late Kings time were persecutors that that generation was pulled up in the Lords anger that the powers that supported them were swept away in the Lords sore displeasure that the Lord was terrible to the men of high stature that the Lord did break in upon them with a furious blow of horrour and amazement that he smote with an incurable wound the Bishops and their King and their Nobles and their mighty men of war their Captains and Councellors their Priests and their Officers and their whole strength that the Lord left the name of Bishops King Nobles mighty men Captains Counsellors Priests Officers to be an astonishment and a wonder and a curse unto posterity See Numb 113. ARTICLE XCIV We Q. do believe That Oliver Cromwell was the man who did bear as on a common shoulder the sufferings of the oppressed for conscience sake who with himself were appointed to the same destruction that their sufferings went to his heart that he had a fellow-feeling of them on his own shoulder that he could have laid down his life for one of those sufferers that his heart was then very tender that his bowels did sound for them that the hearts of all his fellow-sufferers flowed in to him that in them and him there was but one spirit and one heart that for this cause the Lord did call Oliver Cromwell and raise him up to head the Lords armies that this Oliver Cromwell was made the Lords sword that the Lord did by him execute his vengeance on those generations See Numb 114. ARTICLE XCV We Q. do believe That the Puritans were great sufferers under the Bishops that Charles Stuart was inexcusable touching their sufferings for not remedying them according to his power that the disaffection of great men and Nobles and Rulers and Bishops and Priests to that way of the Puritans did not keep them from the judgment of God that the judgment of God hath taken hold of Charles Stuart and his Children and his party and hath made him his Children and party a dreadful example of the Lords vengeance and that this judgment was executed on the late King his Children and party by Oliver Cromwell's sword as an instrument See Numb 115. ARTICLE XCVI We Q. do believe That Oliver Cromwell was the Lords battel-axe and his weapon of war to the cutting down of the late King See Numb 116. ARTICLE XCVII We Q. do believe as our friend Nicholas Knight hath written That all the Teachers of England whether they are Episcopal or Presbyterian or Independent are false Ministers no true teachers who are not sent who have no commission from God who go forth in their own names only in the will of man that they are no Ministers of Christ that their doctrine is false and traditional that it is not from heaven but men below that they do teach for doctrine the traditions of men that they are the false teachers that they preach a divination of their own brains that they come not in at the door that they climb up another way that they speak in the wisdom of mens words that they are men-pleasers by feigned words that they are deceivers that they are seekers of their own praise that they seek more the fleece than the flock that they preach for hire and divine for money that for a pretence they make long prayers like the Scribes and Pharisees and devour widows houses that they say and do not that they limit the Church of Christ to a Nation that they are blind leaders of the blind that they do hold the truth in hypocrisie and unrighteousness that they hate to be reformed that they have a form of godliness and deny the power that they are deceivers and being deceived cause the name of God to be blasphemed and evil spoken of that they do observe months and days and consecrated places that their preaching is limited to days hours hour-glasses to the wills of men to outward observations traditions and ceremonies that these trees may be known by their fruits that out of the evil treasure of their hearts they bring forth evil things that they are an ill savour that they are Clouds which hold no water that they are sounding brass and tinkling cymbals that they do not profit the people that they are too light in the balances of the Sanctuary that they do neither believe nor understand what they preach that they have no experience of the word of life that like those silly women they are ever learning but are not able to come to the knowledg of the truth that they flee the Cross that they are unwilling to forsake all for Christ that they do chuse rather to be subject to the corrupt laws and wills of men than to Christ that they lay heavy burthens on mens shoulders which they touch not with one of their singers that they respect their own interest ease profit and security that they count gain to be godliness that they are hirelings that they do preach up the power and dominion of the devils leading into sin above the power of Christ over sin in this life that they do exalt the devils power who is their master above Christ that they preach up outward worship bodily service outward forms ceremonies and observances of outward ordinances and traditions of men of worship in outward Temples and consecrated places and outward conformity out of the life and power of godliliness in Common-prayer service and singing of Davids Psalms that they please themselves with an outward melody of voice and organs that they labour to bring people to an outward communion under an outward profession and name of Christians that they make them Christians by an outward washing that their fellowship is only in and with the world that they do not what God requires at their hands that they are preachers up of the Kingdom of the Beast and false Prophet that they are bewailers of the great City Babylon that their trade and merchandize do depend on her that they are pretended Ministers of Christ that they are Antichrists Ministers that the Gospel preached by them is of Antichrists setting up that they are led by the spirit of Antichrist that they make merchandize of the words of God that they are not Ministers of the Spirit that they are hypocrites who draw near to Christ with their mouths but deny him in their works that Episcopal Presbyterian and Independent are alike corrupt teachers that they do all preach in their own wisdom of words that they do differ from the true Ministers of Christ his Gospel and life that they do all want a thorough-reformation that they have taken up their stations in formalities that they are rejected of God that they are such from whom the Lord is departed that they are denied of the Lord to be his Ministers that they are such teachers to whom as our friend Knight saith the Lord saith who hath required these things at your hands wherein you have polluted my name that they seek their own more than Gods that they have not the Spirit that they are turned aside to fables that they are quenchers of the Spirit that they are despisers of Prophesie that they do speak evil of that which they understand not that they are none of Christs Ministers in the Spirit that they convert not any unto God that they go forth in the will of man that they are not of God that they are false shepherds that they speak their own words that they compose their own Sermons in their own wills and wisdom that they are no true guides in the way of life that they are deceivers and seducers who wax worse and worse that they run in the way of Balaam that they are false guides who lead to destruction whose ways are the ways of death whose end is everlasting misery that they are ready to blaspheme that holy name whereby we Quakers are called See Numb 116 117. ARTICLE XCVIII In the last place We Q. do stedfastly believe as George Fox and Richard Hubberthorn our friends do That our dear friends W. P. G. Whitehead William Smith G. C. and George Fox the younger James Parnell George Fox the elder and Richard Hubberthorn Edward Burrough George Bishop and Nicholas Knight have written and printed their fore-named Books and given them forth from the immediate eternal Spirit of God and therefore by good consequence they and their writings are no less to be believed than the Penmen of the Scripture the Prophets and Apostles are FINIS The Names of the Books cited in this Treatise with the Page where the Author begins to extract the Quakers corrupt Creed out of them I. THE Counterfeit Christian detected and the real Quaker justified By a lover of Truth and Peace W. P. Printed 1674. Page 4 II. The nature of Christianity in the true Light asserted Written by a Servant of Christ G. Whitehead Printed in the year 1671. Page 13 III. The Quakers Primmer by S.C. and George Fox the younger Page 27 IV. Two Treatises viz. a new Primmer and a new Catechism both written by William Smith Printed 1668. Page 33 V. A Collection of the several Writings given forth from the spirit of the Lord through the servant of God James Parnel who bore a faithful testimony for God and died a Prisoner under the hands of a persecuting generation in Colchester Castle in the year 1656. Published 1675. Page 59 VI. The Heathens Divinity set upon the heads of all called Christians G. F. Printed in the year 1671. Page 118 VII The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the North or the day of the Lord dawning By one whom Ishmaels brood calls a Quaker whose name in the flesh is James Naylor London printed 1653. Page 128 VIII A Warning from the Lord by one named of the world Edward Burrough Page 129 IX The Warnings of the Lord to the men of this generation particularly to those in power who are lately passed away and to them that remain as they were given forth in sundry Letters and sent to Oliver Cromwell Richard his Son late Protectors c. by his servant George Bishop who is moved of the Lord to publish them London printed by M. Inman 1660. Page 135 X. A Comparison between the true and false Ministers by Nicholas Knight Printed 1675. Page 141