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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67211	Primitive Christianity continued in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers being in answer to a pamphlet entituled, Primitive heresie &c. and which may serve as an appendix to a book entituled, An antidote against the venom of the snake in the grass, by George Whitehead / Joseph Wyeth.	Wyeth, Joseph, 1663-1731.	1698 (1698)	Wing W3761; ESTC R27627	39,601	74

1655. By G. Whitehead c. sent of him for the Punishment of Transgressors and for the Encouragement of them that do well These we own and are subject to them for Conscience-sake knowing that such are not a Terror to Good Works but to Evil for such execute the Law in Righteousness upon them who are guilty of the Transgression of it for because of Transgression the Law is added and there the Law is executed in its place and in Righteousness and those that execute the Law in its place they are for the Establishment of Righteousness and Peace and contrary to the Law of Justice and Equity dare not Act in their own Wills nor for their own Ends And herein they seek not themselves nor their own Glory nor Honour but the Glory and Honour of God who is Honoured and Glorified among them who Act in Truth and Righteousness and love the Lord and to them our Souls are subject P. 23. And as for this present Authority and Government now in A Visitation of Love 1661. By Edw. Burroughs Being under the Name of King Charles the Second we do believe and acknowledge That according to the Purpose and Will of God and of his bringing to pass this present Government and Authority is set up and into its present being established P 6. 7. The Honour that is due unto Magistrates consists in True Magistracy Described 1660. By Henry Clark these two Particulars 1. Love 2dly Obedience First He that is in the Well-doing himself loves the Rulers that be set up of God who are Just and Rule in the Fear of God and is a Terror to the Evil-doers for When the Righteous are in Authority the Children of Wisdom rejoyce desiring of God that long they may Live and Prosper in the Work of the Lord and Love thinketh no Evil nor behaveth not it self unseemly toward the Rulers neither speaketh any Evil against him neither doth it revile the Judges Secondly Honour due to the Magistrate consisteth in Obedience either Actively in Doing or Passively by a Willing Patient and Meek Suffering under them for the Lord's sake And because Christ's Headship Kingship and Supremacy alone Sam. Fisher p. 34. of his Works we together with the True Church which is in God the Father and in Jesus Christ the Light can own in the Court of Conscience and in Matters purely Spiritual and of meer Religious and Soul Concernment and not any meer Mans much less the Pope's or any Priests in such Sacred Secrets therefore are we mistaken and misranked among such as are utter Enemies to the present King's Supremacy in these Dominions Whereby we do according to what the Spirit requires of us in all Civil Causes and Cases between Man and Man submit our selves to every Ordinance of Man himself I say in such cases even for the Lord's sake whether unto the King as Supream or to such as are sent of him to be a Terror to Evil-doers and a Praise to them that do well And if those who have the Sword in hand shall turn it against us for well doing and so act against the good Will of God or impose by God's Permission upon us contrary to our Consciences even there where we cannot obey actively we are willing to bear Patiently without Violent Resistance what God will leave us to Suffer from the Hands of such as should Protect us not Reviling nor Threatning nor Cursing but committing our Case in Quietness to him that Judgeth Righteously and our Souls to him in Well-doing And that Passive Deportment must be and is Judged by all to be Equivolent to that Active Obedience which others yield for Fear to what Laws soever is made among Men. Page 20. Our Principle is to bring all into a Peaceable Life To the King and both Houses of Parliament a Representation c. 1666. By John Whitehead Alex. Parker and Leonard Fell. out of those things that are Evil that the Law of God and every Law of Man that is grounded upon Reason and Equity takes hold upon and therein we are one with Justice Therefore distinguish between those whose Principles lead to Violence or other Evils that the Law of God and of Man which is equal takes hold upon and us who are one with Justice and lead from those things into a Peaceable Life as much as in us lyes with all Men which is according to the Practice of the Primitive Christians Page 101. And those Rulers Governours or Magistrates who The Life of God c. 1677. By William Gibson are a Terror to Evil Doers and a Praise to those that do well are worthy of Honour yea of double Honour and all such are duly honoured by us with the Honour which belongs unto them and we really and with Pleasure Honour and Obey all such not for fear of the Wrath but for good Conscience sake as the Apostles and Primitive Fathers did Page 481. It is our Principle and Testimony to deny and renounce G. Fox's Journal given the Parliament 1680. all Plots and Plotters against the King or any of his Subjects for we have the Spirit of Christ by which we have the Mind of Christ who came to Save Mens Lives and not to Destroy them and we would have the Kind and all his Subjects to be safe Wherefore we do Declare That we will Endeavour to our Power to Save and Defend him and them by Discovering all Plots and Plotters which shall come to our Knowledge that would Destroy the King or his Subjects These Quotations are I hope sufficient for the purpose Intended which is To Testifie our Constant Peaceable Principle and Practice in Obedience to Government and Magistracy yet as a close to all the foregoing Quotations from our Friends Books I will give one Quotation which Relates to near all the foregoing Charges and which is taken from a Paper lately given to the Parliament Occasioned by E. Bugg's Calumnies it 's Entituled The Quakers Vindication and was PRESENTED to the Members of Parliament in December 1693. We whose Names are Under-written being in Christian Society with the People called Quakers do in good Conscience Declare and Certifie all Persons Concerned 1. That we sincerely Believe and Confess That Jesus of Nazareth who was Born of the Virgin Mary is the True Messiah the very Christ the Son of the Living God to whom all the Prophets gave Witness And we do Highly Value his Death Sufferings Works Offices and Merits for the Redemption and Salvation of Mankind together with his Laws Doctrine and Ministry 2. That this very Christ of God was and is the Lamb of God that takes away the Sins of the World who was Slain was Dead and is Alive and Lives for Evermore in his Divine Eternal Glory Dominion and Power with the Father 3. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Inspiration of God 4. And that Magistracy or Civil Government is God's Ordinance

Disobedient Son He will say Nay For that is the common Epithet by which he describes the Obedient and is a Term that he puts in Opposition to Loyalty which he puts upon himself Now it is written Disobedience is as the Sin of Witchcraft Therefore say all good Men Disobedience is a Wicked thing and consequently of the Devil Now Reader see Before he sent himself and now he would hale all the People thither Thus the Vanity and Folly of his Idle Questions does appear when by only turning the Tables and shifting the Terms they do as certainly Damn him as conclude against us But now I come more closely to examine and see how his Extravagant Consequences can be the Natural Result of our Common Principle and Notion of the Light Within We according to the Holy Scriptures say That the Grace of God which bringeth Salvation appeareth unto all Men and that the Grace Light Spirit or Truth by all which and more Names it is called in Holy Scripture if obeyed in its Operation will of Sinners make Saints And when Men by the Grace of God are thus made Holy they are then Partakers of him who is the first Resurrection for whereas they were Dead in Sins they are now by the Grace of God made Alive unto Righteousness and so can then truly say with the Holy Apostle How can we that ar dead to Sin live any longer therein And when Men are thus risen from the Grave of Sin and made alive unto Righteousness they then are truly capable of so enjoying Marriage and all the other Comforts of this Life as to Glorifie God through Jesus Christ for that he hath made them Witnesses of him who is the first Resurrection and Partakers of these his Temporal Mercies As for the Terms of Children of the Light and Children of the World they are such as it seemed good to our Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles frequently to use as having in them a Significancy of Expression to denote the Wicked and the Godly which is Authority sufficient for us to use them in their proper places And it is Eternally true That Men by Believing in the Light notwithstanding his Idle Scoff may become Children of the Light And it is of necessity that them that are truly such must be Separate from and Discerners of the Children of this World i. e. Darkness and not so only but as they continue in that Light of Christ Jesus wherewith he hath enlightned them it will so renew the Spirit of their Minds as both to let them see their Duty and also enable them to do it for it is no Ignis faiuus no wild Enthusiasm it leads not into Idle or False Imaginations or Whimsies but is Solid Christianity and a true Guide to all Christian Actions and such as become the Profession thereof And the Deduction and Consequence is very plain That when by the Grace of God Mens Understandings are Illumin'd their Wills made Obedient their Passions Subdued and their Affections made Clean and Temperate then the Actions of the Whole Man will be very Regular and such an one must needs be a good Christian a good Subject a good Servant a good Husband or Parent and a good Neighbour Governours will be Safe Subjects Peaceable Relations Affectionate all Men love one another and God from all who over all is Blessed for ever will receive Praise and Thanksgiving Now our Practise in the case of Marriage is so well known that little need be said concerning it only thus much I may say that no Lawful Causes appearing to hinder we never discourage Marriage but when any such do appear it is agreeable to our Christian Profession to prevent them The Method we have in this Case of Marriage hath been laid before Men in Government and hath by them been approved as such that will answer the End proposed that is the Honour of Religion and Peace and Safety of Civil Society and Particular Persons and Families And beyond this I know of no Provision can be made in the Administration of Church-Discipline And if any after-Marriage do break Wedlock do become Vicious and turn from the Grace of God into Wantonness and do commit Fornication it cannot be chargeable upon that Grace and Light which had they kept obedient to would have preserved them nor upon that Discipline which while they continue within our Society is an absolute Hedge against such Disorder From all which I suppose it may by this time appear that our Common Principle and Notion of the Light Within is no more chargeable with Back sliders Faults than with his Falsities SECT VI. HItherto his Perversions and Malice have been manifest I now come to his Sixth Point or Charge That we Contemn Magistracy and Government His first Quotations are from himself in the Snake and therefore of no notice to me here What I first shall take notice of is a pieced Quotation he brings out of George Fox in his Great Mystery Printed 1659. p. 76. and here I find the first Sentence his Pen light on he cut asunder the place is thus The Power of God what follows he cut off Rules and Orders People when there is no outward Government Nay it these two words he cut off strikes down Government of Men and Governours all that follows he left out as in the days of Daniel and Pharaoh and in many other places in Scripture mentioned Now Reader Can any Father of the Inquisition be more careful to Expugn Passages offensive to Christian Eyes than this Man is to Expugn such as are offensive to his own The remaining part of the Quotation he hath pick'd and pieced out of page 90. and by his dislocating and pulling asunder the Sentences one from another some of them look with as wry Faces as if tortured in a Scotch Boot I will at least rescue one of them that we may see its Native Feature the place being thus Such as are turned into Corruption and are Hypocrites Great Myst p. 90. they are gone from the Higher Power which the Soul should be subject to and it 's gone over them and so here he is pleased to begin for the Lord's sake the Saints cannot be subject to that Power By the remaining Sentences he has done the like so that there is not one of them that speaks the Mind of the Writer The place is too long to transcribe here because I have many Instances to bring where it will appear that we always since a People have been Obedient to Government and Governours and that not for Fear but Conscience sake and have always testified against Plotting and Contriving the Hurt or Ruin of any which by our agreeable Practice is better Proof for us than all his own Lies or the by him Suborned Passages of our Writings are against us Some Testimonies concerning our Acknowledgment of and our Obedience to Government P. 10. And the Powers that are ordained of God who are The Path of the Just Cleared