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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87731	A warning from the Lord to the teachers & people of Plimovth. With a few queries to the parish teachers of this nation, that have great sums of money for teaching the people. / From them which are scornfully called Qvakers, but witness the teaching of Christ.; Warning from the Lord to the teachers & people of Plimouth.	Killam, Margaret, d. 1672.; Patison, Barbara.	1655 (1655)	Wing K473; Thomason E861_14; ESTC R206660	5,133	8

that the waie of the Ransomed the Redeemed ones ye know not whose feet are turned out of the path of the Just Barbara Patison Queries to the Parish-teachers of this Nation who have great Sums of Money for teaching the people Que 1. What is the ground and cause and reason of your people to observe the time called Easter Whitsuntide and Christmas as it is called by you and your people which are your Flock 2. What is the cause and ground and reason that against such times aforesaid they deck themselves with new sutes of Apparel and have some certain Play-Daies and much destroying of the creatures at those times upon the lusts of the people which are your Flock 3. What is the ground and cause and reason that about the time called Christmas there is so much provided of the creatures that which the people calls good Chear which abundance is provided against that time and wasted upon the lust and destroyed and this is in most places through the Nation amongst the parish-Teachers people which are your Flock 4. What is the ground and cause and reason why people disguise themselves and play at Gold-games as they call them and have Wassel-Cups as they call them in the time called Christmas and so much great doings at houses called Gentlemens houses at that time so we desire you which calls your selves Ministers and Orthodox men to give the ground out of Scripture for the things that your people practise out of the Apostles practise and where Christ or his Apostles commanded anie such things give us some example out of Scripture for such things before mentioned which your people practise and whether this be a good example to eat and drink and rise to play and whether it be not forbidden in the Scripture yea or no 1 Cor. 10.7 5 Whether such as live wantonlie on the earth sporting themselves in the daie time are not them that live in hipocrisie speaking high swelling words of vanity and such as kills the just who lives in wantonness upon the earth and whether such as lives in pleasures are not dead while they live yea or nay 2. Tim 5 6. 6. Whether such as provide so much of the creatures against those times called Easter Whitsuntide and Christmas be not such as the God of the world hath blinded their eies who minde earthlie things whose God is their bellie and in their shame they glorie Thess 3.19 7 Whether such as live in those things before mentioned shal not perish in their own corruptions And you that profess your selves to be sent of Christ to watch for the peoples souls and your people lives in these things whether their blood wil not be required at your hands yea or nay Ezek. 7 18. 8 Whether all these observations of these times Christmas Easter and Whitsuntide the fine apparel made against these times the fine Diet and past-times and pleasures in these things whether all these be not pleasing to the flesh yea or nay And whether those that observe the daie and profess the name be not they that crucifie the life yea or nay whenas the Apostle said I am afraid of you least I have bestowed upon you labour in vain Gal. 4.10 11. And this is for all the naturall Teachers to answer and to give grounds from the Scripture why they observe these things before mentioned or where the Apostles did observe any of the Saints daies either Matthew Mark Luke or Iohn Peter Iames or any other I am the light of the world and lighteth every man that cometh into the world saith Christ that all men through him might believe and this is the Light which shews you sin and evill which if you love the light you love Christ if you hate the light you hate Christ whose deeds are evil and you know your deeds to be evill with the Light which comes from Christ who saith learn of me I am the way and the truth and the life no man cometh to the Father but by me who owns the light that every man is enlightned withall nor none believs in the truth but who believes in the Light that lighteth every man that commeth into the world that they might belive all they that profess the Scriptures profes a belief do not believe in the light they are all as as the scribes pharise●s who professed the scriptures a belief in God Christ that was to come did not believ in the light therefore to the light in every one of your I speak which come from Christ who saith learn of me I am the way to the father here you wil find your teacher which wil bring you of of all your teachers of the world lying on your beds and going up and down about your occasions if you love it if you hate it here is your condemnation the Light I am the Light of the world and lighteth every man that cometh into the world saith Christ learn of me I am the way to the Father no man cometh to the Father but by me who lighteth every one that cometh into the world that all men through him might believe and this is the Light that shews you sin and evill that you should not lye nor swear nor be drunk nor take Gods name in vain and shews you evill thoughts evill notions evill desires this is the Light that comes from Christ who saith learn of me this teacher you wil find as you are lying in your beds and as you are going up and down and when they say lo here is Christ lo there is Christ you need not go forth it wil bring you to ceas from all the hirelings which Christ speaks of and bring you to cease from all who have the chiefest places in the assemblies and stand praying in the Synagogues which Christ cryed wo against Mat. 23. to forsake all such as are seeking for the fleece which the Lord sent Ezekiel to cry against Ezek. 34. and to forsake all such prophets priests as bear rule by their means which the Lord sent Ieremiah to cry against Ier. 5. and to forsake all such as seek for their gain from their quarter which the Lord sent Isaiah to cry against Isa 56. and to forsake all such as divine for money make a prey upon the people which the Lord sent Micah to cry against Mic. 3. these was in the light which cried against the false teachers before mentioned those which be in the lightnow cannot hold them up that hears Christ obeys the commands of God who saith this is my beloved son hear him all the children of the Lord are taught of him as you may read in Is●i●h the ministers of the world they say the letter is the light the Scriptures is the word the steeple house is the Church sprinckling of infants the baptism which is contrary to the Scriptures which saith the Church is in God Thess 1.1 God is the word Christ is the light Ioh. 1. And the Saints witnessed the one baptism by one spirit into one body and these are contrary to the scriptures therefore who are taught of God denies their teachings practise who through feigned words covetousness makes merchandise of the people goes in the way of Cain after the error of Balaam who preaches for gifts rewards as you may read in Peter in Iude and the last chap of the Romans From them who are scornfully called Quakers but witness the teaching of Christ