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A26776 An answer to (vindicate the cause of the nick-named Quakers of such scandalls and untruths as is falsly cast upon them in a lying pamphlet, otherwise called) A discourse concerning the Quakers set out by T.L., or, as I understand the signification of the letters, Tho.? Ledger / by Geo. Baiteman. Baiteman, George. 1653 (1653) Wing B1094; ESTC R4254 26,089 36

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AN ANSVVER To Vindicate the Cause of the Nick-named Quakers of such scandalls and untruths as is falsly cast upon them in a lying Pamphlet otherwise called A Discourse concerning the Quakers set out by T. L. or as I understand the signification of the Letters Tho Ledger By GEO BAITEMAN A Word to the Reader of this Booke IT is common among the sonns of men every one to vindicate his own cause whether he be in the right or wrong For Solomon saith Every man seems to be just in his own cause And the truth is every one will speake the best he can in his own behalfe But Christian friend whatever thou art that Readeth these ensuing Lines I would have thee to understand that I have not written these Lines in my own defence or to vindicate my selfe of any aspersions that any can cast upon me in any kinde whatsoever for though I am a man who have undergone and at this day doe undergoe the heavy burthen of false aspersions cast upon me by the fools of the times who neither know me nor themselves yet to me they are no more then the barking of curs the which may affright children for my backe is broade enough to beare all the weight of these burthens and am possessed with a Spirit that maketh me easily passe by all the censures of men and had the cause been my own which is included in these Lines I thinke they had never come to the beholding but my Spirit is such that it leadeth me out rather to justifie others then my selfe for I would have thee to know that my Sect or Profession Tenets or Religion call it what thou wilt is neither of that sort of People called Quakers neither am I Papist Prelacyan Presbyterian Independant Anabaptist Famelist Brownist Arryan Atheist Free-willer Free gracian Raunter Saduccy or Lihertine c. then make of me what thou pleaseth yet such a one I am as knoweth my right hand from my left and that is enough for any man to know and by that light in me I am made in some measure to see what is of God and what is of man and what is of the spirit of darkenesse I professe unto thee I am not the Enemy of any man neither doth any mans Forme or Religion trouble me but wish all men well in their way yet I must tell thee that I am not unacquainted with the wyles of Satan in Formes and out of Formes and likewise of Gods working both in Formes and out of Formes and what I have found by experience I wish that all men had found the same and a● hundred times more And I must tell thee I am led out to owne the truth of God where ever I see it in a Forme or out of a Forme but the purest truths is not manifested in Formes though Formes may have their time and in their time is tollerable if not Idolized And to give thee a true Reason why I was led out to draw these Lines it is to vindicate the truth in its appearing in some people in these dayes the which is disposed to the scandall and reproach of most people in these times some by wrong imprisonment some by beating some by threatning some by false accusations and scandalls some by Petitions and some by writing lying Pamphlets all of these arising from the very malice and instigation of the Devill who would have these poore people destroyed for he well knoweth that if these goe on his kingdome will fall Amongst those whom the devill moveth to act and speake against these people one T. L. or Tho Ledger hath written a lying Pamphlet the which I have here answered in some of his false accusations therein and if time would but have permitted I would have answered them more fully but what is here spoken I hope may serve to give thee satisfaction of the truth in these people and if thou have but any light of God in thee thou wilt see and mayest easily judge that these people are no other then such as God hath marvailously called to himselfe to make the riches of his goodnesse knowne in their soules and what ever either Formalists or other say against these people take thou heed thou be not as one of them for better were it for thee to have a Mill-stone hung about thy necke and throwne into the midst of the Sea then that thou shouldest offend one of these that beleeve in God in whom Christ liveth and they in him And for thy better information in the truth I haue drawne these Lines the which I freely commit to thy Christian consideration and the Lord give thee a good understanding that thou mayest learne to have a good opinion of any People in whom the truth of God doth appeare And my desire is that the God of Truth may make his Truth knowne to thee whereby thou mayst be made to know what evill is in thy selfe and the emptinesse of all things acted and created let thy Forme be what it will This is the worst I wish thee Geo Baiteman An Answer to vindicate the cause of the nicknamed Quakers c. THere is two great monsterous evils in the world and they are common among the sonns of men and from these two evills ariseth all other sinnes and wickednesse whatsoever acted spoken or thought either against God himselfe or against any appearance of God in his creature Man and by the venome which ariseth from these two evills one man is set against another in bitter envyings evill wishings evill speeches evill actings c. Now these two great evills is the very ground and originall Rice of all other evill as is before-said the one of these hath its proper being in one of the chiefe faculties of the soule viz. the Reason and by the operations from thence proceeding the sonnes of men becommeth much deprived of the pure understanding of the truth as it is in Jesus And the other great evill hath its proper being in another chiefe faculty of the soule viz. the Will from the operations of which evill ariseth all disobedience and rebellion against the Truth as it is in Jesus yet the difference between the sinns arising from these grounds is great though nothing that ariseth from either be good the evill effect proceeding from the ground or cause in the Reasonable part will be found inferiour to these which ariseth out of the Will Yet wise Solomon saith Without Knowledge the Soule is not good Prov. 19. 2. And God complaineth by the Prophet That his People perished for want of knowledge Hos. 4. 6. And Solomon who knew how wicked the sonns of men were without knowledge and how darke and blinde they were in the understanding the dictates of God without Knowledge how oft doth he counsell men to seek W. sedome and prize her above Gold But who is that wise man that can truely distinguish between the Wisedome of God and the light which is in Reason which may be much increased