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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50257	An answer to the switch for the snake A book so called. Discovering the weakness of the Switch, which the leading Quakers (of the second days meeting in London for government) have lately (as I am told,) given into the hands of each Parliament Man. Vice is nourished, and gets life by covering it, saith a heathen author; even so it is with errors in religion. Humbly shewing, that it is impossible, that the pens now in controversie, against us Quakers, should be put a stop to, before there's an order given forth, (from the second days meeting) for the reformation of our numerous preachers in the country. And also a book of retractions of all the errors in our Friends printed books, be published, with an appendix and postscript. By William Mather, a lover of (the well meaning persons, especially among) that people.	Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695.; J. W.	1700 (1700)	Wing M1284; ESTC R221796	17,005	18

your Reformation in Doctrine and Practice You know where this cursed thing is that causeth all this disturbance you still hide it but out it must come and be beaten to powder What! do you think people are blind Do not you say They all have Light from the same Fountain of Light with you Did not God give them this Light to know Truth from Error by Your making New Creeds or Articles of Faith according as your Opposers desire you will not do they cannot believe you are sincere until you retract those Errors in your Books printed before your late Creeds And if some of the Authors are dead what then you that have recommended their Works by Epistles to them must retract them It 's no shame to do it it hath been often done for good men after death by the Survivers in Christianity It 's a Princely thing saith a Worthy Author to acknowledge an Error and to forsake it And this I have been a Quaker above 40 years I took it well when any one saw a fault in me and told me of it Is it not a fault in the Members of Two Meetings in Wickham in Buckinghamshire not to love one another and is it not a great Fault that the Preachers in both Meetings in pretending they both preach from the utterance of God●s Spirit yet preach contrary to one another To conclude As to this my Loving Testimony to the Truth I am sure that thou George Whitehead will not hate and scoff me as thou hast done thy Opposer in the Switch if God's Grace is thy Guide Oh! therefore George Arise in the Authority of the Divine Grace that thy Name may be had in worthy Remembrance when thy Body is in a Grave And like good Josiah labour to get every thing removed out of our Spiritual Israel so called that in any thing is contrary to Christ's inward and Spiritual Grace and his Divine Precepts in holy Scripture that Jeremiah's Prophesie may be fulfilled in us viz. All that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the Seed which the Lord hath blessed Isa 61. ●9 Men seeing our Innocent Patient Meek Quiet Humble Blameless and Inoffensive Lives and Conversation to the Glory of God for ever This in Truth is the real desire of my heart for the People called Quakers in general God knows I lye not because so many of them are come so far out of the Wilderness of this wicked World's Vanities even to the very borders of Canaan a resting place in God's Grace It pi●ies my Soul that any such Innocent Souls should fall short of that rest by hearkening to the Preachings of the Lifeless Preachers above-mentioned who are Taught to preach neither by Grace nor Holy Scriptures but what comes next into their Imaginations which is a Rock that many Souls have been split upon Bedford Nov. 25. 1699. I am a Lover of the Souls of all Men W. M. An Appendix BY way of Appeal to the most serious amongst the People called Quakers that by Grace and Holy Scriptures they may consider in the fear of the Lord Whether some of our confident Teachers were not the cause of the many Imprisonments c. we endured I cannot number mine in the time of K. C. II. who in the first year of that Kings Reign viz. 1660 the suffering Clergy of the Church of England being just coming out of the suffering they endured in Olivers time c. that one of our Teachers should Salute them in the following manner in his Book called A strict account of Babylons Merchants c. By Richard Crane Printed for Thomas Simons at the Bull and Mouth c. Go to saith R. Crane ye Merchants of Babylon who are now in this day bringing forth and exposing to sale your old Cankered Rusty and Moth-eaten Ware Rage not neither be angry if you be brought to your Rule which you say is the Scripture And tho' you gather some heat from the Sun K. C. II. that is newly arisen and from it receive some small Vigor and like the Insects and the Reptilia of the Earth who creep out of their holes at the Suns warmth by which they are vivified yet know such are not Permanent but the withdrawing of the Suns heat from them soon return to their holes and some Perish you may take this as a Figure For there is a cup prepared for you being mixed with Plagues Woes Miseries Sorrows Torments and Eternal Burnings which you shall not pass for you are found from the Lord God worthy and a trebble portion is to be given unto you Being Ignorant of the Soul or what it is your Cure is you know not what or to what and so truly Physitians worth nothing Your Medicine which you pretend to cure Souls with I would ask whether it be a Simple or a Compound being made up of so many Fragments of divers sorts therefore a Compound As the first Ingredient in your Composition so much cryed up is your Prayer called Common * Which W. Tomlingson the same year 1660. in his word of Information compares to the Whore● cup mentioned in the Revelations R. Farnsworth 2 years after that in his Plea to the Bishops Labours to prove out of the Common Prayer that the Quakers agree with it in Principle Doctrine and Practice Also Fra. Lea in his Looking Glass for Episcopal People 1674. writes ten approved Prayers out of the Common Prayer Book to shew how the Quakers agree with it so deserve Liberty of Conscience that all may come out of Error the Quakers have long prayed for saith he Even so do now the opposers of the Quakers Error and that J. ●ield above named will prove they are all of one mind and heart as be used to say they were then let him Reconcile his Brother Preachers sayings above and indeed so it is I hardly know any thing more Common except Cursing and Swearing In some things you parallel Simon and Elimas the Sorcerer Act. 13.8 23 you are even discovered and known to be as you are viz. Antichrists Deceivers Sorcerers and Ravening Wolves Flames Flames Flames of Fire is prepared by the Lord to consume you as dry stubble In the Light of the Eternal God I have beheld you and all your Actions and take them altogether and Rake the Pit of confusion and bind up your self in a bundle If I should parallel you with Salvage Beasts I could not truely do it I think be they never so fierce but Men of Prey such as you are is quite out of kind and not to be parallel'd by any thing that draweth breath Oh! Full of all Subtilly Children generated of the seed of deceit brought forth out of the Womb of Wickedness and nourished up at the Breasts of Witchcraft The true Light certainly did not move this Man to Rage at this rate and rocked in the Cradle of Idleness Wo is me for the day which I see is coming upon you from the Lord and all them that you