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A54155	Judas and the Jews combined against Christ and his followers being a re-joynder to the late nameless reply, called, Tyranny and hypocrisie detected, made against a book, entituled The spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith rebuked, &c. which was an answer to a pamphlet, called, The spirit of the hat, in which truth is cleared from scandals, and the Church of Christ, in her faith, doctrine, and just power and authority in discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious endeavours of a confederacy of some envious professors and vagabond, apostate Quakers / by ... William Penn ; to which are added several testimonies of persons concern'd.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1307; ESTC R23117	100,153	131

in a former Book and it might have been sufficient to Reasonable Men For as I then said I did not Deny what I had spoke at the former Meeting but being Mis-understood I Explained it which gave Satisfaction We pretend not to be above Mis-hearings and Mis-apprehensions though above Wilful Evils It s well they have no greater Crime to accuse me of who are so Envious as to make use of such Trifling Inconsiderable Matters as this to Discredit us Well this I have further to say concerning the siad book That Hell hath opened her Mouth and the Dragon hath cast out Floods against the Church that is coming out of the Wilderness which the Lord our God is building upon the Rock Christ Jesus and the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against it And many hath the Lord established upon this Rock who are Inhabitants thereof and can sing for Joy in the midst of all Tryals and Excersises Storms and Tempests knowing that our Foundation stands sure and as there we abide we can never be moved having Salvation for Walls and Bulworks and being kept as in the Munition of Rocks where our Bread is sure and our Waters never fall Praises to the Lord forever James Claypoole John Osgood's Testimony I Having seen a Pamphlet called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected in which my Name is inferred in pag. 17. saying That whilst I in general terms deny all I do in particular deny nothing at all I say My Answer stated the Matter truly as it was and many are the yet Witnesses that know it to be so and to J. P. at his House it was so proved to be since the said Answer was printed And as to his Query in pag. 28. What is become of the Integrity of J. O. that he should put his Name among such Men as these I answer As for these Men I believe they would not affirm a thing with Pen or Toungue that they knew to be Untrue as this Pamphlet basely insinuates nor did I so much as in the least know of their Answer till I saw it printed And as for my Integrity it is known unto the Lord and to him have I approv'd my self in faithfulness even in Reproving the Extravagancies of him that I believe was the Grand Informer to him or them that made this Pamphlet and Sorrows many the Lord knows I have and had for him and oh that he had not been above Counsel then had he not been found Running the Race of Core nor Furnishing with Spears the Goliahs of Gath that this day Defie the Host of the Living God How have they made the Haerts of the Uncircumcised Glad How doth Askalon Rejoyce and Atheism say Ah! ha thus would we have it How is this Pamphlet furnished with Scoffs as Foxonians King Fox and Ironically Oh Innocent Holy Harmless People Well the Righteous Terrible Dreadful God will Avenge for these things What thought the Apostle said There where those things amongst the Corinthians that were not so much as to be named among the Heathens what must be their Portion that unto the Heathens made known this and thereby the God of the Christians Blaspheamed and the Way of Truth Reproached as it is at this day But with this sad Difference some of them that now are Agents in this Work have Tasted of and Witnessed unto theat Immortal and heavenly Power that was and is manifest amongst us and have gone from it and given heed to Fables Being Heady and High-minded they have stumbled and caused others to stumble they have Offended and treasured up the Offences of others unto their own Hurt John Osgood William Gosnell 's Testimony This is my Faithful Testimony for God his Truth and People and the Clearing of mine own Conscience As also given forth for Information of the Sober Enquirer and for'Condemnation of J. P. and his Confederates against whose Works I am and hope shall terminate my dayes in Judgment against that Spirit they serve Warning all to take heed of them who tender the Good of their Souls knowing their Ways and Works lead unto Death by Means whereof the Way of Truth is Evil-spoken to the Dishonour of God and Strengthening of the Wicked in their Doings FOr that my Soul loves the Truth and such who are the Faithful Servants thereof I do therefore reckon my self concerned with my Brethren as also for their sakes who have any Desires in their Hearts after the Way of Truth as it is by a Remnant Despised of Men in this our Day made known and testified unto to write something in Answer to what is charged against me in a Libel called TYRANNY AND HYPOCRISIE DETECTED which to the truly Sober and Unprejudiced Reader can be accounted nothing less then impious Railing and from an Ishmaelitish Spirit and from the Enemy of all Good in his Instruments manifested against such who are Resisters of Tyrrany and in the Uprightness of their Hearts Denyers of Hypocrise and in that give my Testimony against the said Pamphlet believing that whosoever is the Author thereof or Contributory thereto shall receive of the Lord our God the Just Judge of all who hath pleaded and will plead the Cause of his Truth and People the just Recompence of Reward according as their Work hath been which unto them who walk in the Light are seen to be Evil and They the Workers thereof bound in Chains of Darkness reserved to the Judgment of the Great Day nevertheless my Soul's Desire is if possible the may find a place for Repentance In Pag. 45. called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected are these words When I first saw Gosnell ' s Name in the Spirit of Alexander I expected nothing less then a Denyal of what is related to have been said by G. F. viz. Friends Although I have not told it you I do now declare That I have Power to Bind and to Loose whom I please In that thou didst nothing less then expect a Denyal c. doth manifest what Spirit thou art of viz. That which watcheth and waiteth for Evil and expecteth nothing less Why didst thou not set thy Name to that which thou hast heaped up that so we might have known ther and made some Enquiry after thee It s written That Fear surprizeth the Hypocrite Were thy Works such as would bring Honour to thee it may be we might have had thy Name at large but thy Works are manifest to be Evil and of the Flesh as are Railings Envious and Scoffing Speeches Slanders and Evil Suggestions So though thou concealest thy Name yet by thy Fruits thou art manifested to be an Evil Tree For an Evil Tree bringeth forth Evil Fruit. And why thou shouldst Expect a Denyal whilst sayest thou it seems is true let the Sober judge And so thou goest on as one of Ishmael's Brood with a Scoff saying How can it be otherwise that so Great a King and Prophet as G. F. should not have Power to Bind and Loose That there is a Power to Bind and

Principalities and Powers the Rulers of the Darkness of this World and Spiritual Wickednesses in High Places which center in the Invisible Dark Power of the God of the World that since the Beginning hath drawn and acted Man out of God's Counsel and Power in which the Kingdom stands For though we walk in the Flesh or Body we do not War after the Flesh for the Weapons of our Warfare are not Carnal but Mighty through God to the pulling down Strong Holds casting down Imaginations and every high Thing that exalts it self against the Knowledge of God 1 Cor. 10.4 5. And as our War and Weapons so our Kingdom is not Carnal but Spiritual not of this World but that which is without End and of this we are not ashamed It may not be unseasonable to take Notice of that Passage in his Book so often mentioned eagerly insisted upon and aggravated to the height of Ananias's Belying the Holy Ghost viz That G. Fox this Great Prophet as he in Abuse calls him should break open and alter the Contents of John Whitehead 's Letter which as he said was writ in the Name of the Lord and that to a quite contrary Sense making the Letter to judge those that kept the Hat on whereas J W. therein justified both those that kept it off or on Thus saith our Adversary doth G. Fox belye both John Whitehead and the Holy Spirit of God and that knowingly He proceeds Oh Prodigious Impudence He that counterfeits any Man's Name in a Matter of any Concernment deserves to be exposed on the PILLARY AND TO LOSE HIS EARS HOW MUCH GREATER PUNISHMENT DOTH HE DESERVE that Counterfeits both the Name of God and Man in a Matter of Religious Concern This sayes he is the Course that G. F. took to make his Injunctions to be observed But this is the Course more truly to make the Impiety of this Adversary more Notorious For first G. Fox never opened his Letter nor made any Alteration in it at all that I dare affirm in so many Words much less that he belyed the Holy Spirit and least of all that he did it willingly I perceive by his Conclusion he acknowledges that the Holy Ghost as really moved in J. Whitehead as in Peter contrary to his own Principle Any thing will they All grant that they may Slander or Injure us in the Minds of the People How knows he it was a True Motion Doth he not deny it may be known If so then how dare he be so positive in the Censure of G. Fox Will he make the Motion Uncertain and yet certainly judge G. F. for a Forger who was yet Innocent I leave it to the Reader what to call this part of his Tale. Secondly J. Whitehead gave Power by Letter at that time to the Brethren of London to supervise and alter it as they should see convenient and no otherwise was G. F. concerned in it then as one assenting with other of our Friends that according to Power given and their best Understanding did alter it for the better and herein did J. W. testifie his Unity and Fellowship for the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets So that what was done was no more then what J. Whitehead left Power to do and which the Scripture justifies Wherefore Prodigious Impudence belongs not to G. F. but this hardy Adversary and Prodigious Cruelty Persecution if not Murder too is he guilty of that would have him not only Pillary'd and lose his Ears but his Life too or something very near a kin to it This is confirmed page 33. where he charges us to be Blasphemers and that such ought to Dye by the Law of God in former times The Consequence is plainer then his Power to execute it Oh the Mercies Oh the Forgiveness of these exceeding Meek Suffering Bruised Little Ones as they would have as think But Oh Deceitful and Blood thirsty Generation who have endeavoured what in you lies to betray with your Treacherous Kiss of pretended Love to our Souls our Faith Reputations and Lives too into the Hands of some Bloody-minded Jews who are not of the Circumcision in Spirit but lust against those that are that they may be stirred up against us But God will reckon with you and them too for these things This Adversary takes an Occasion to fasten a Lye upon a Paper set forth in the Name of the Quakers but he sayes writ chiefly by G. F. and G. W. in saying That we have paid our Taxes and other Dues more then any People according to our Abilities When sayes our Adversary their Neighbours know all over England there are at least some Taxes or Assessments which they have peremptorily refused But why must we be branded for Lyars because of that Saying or our Adversaries base Aggravation I do affirm That we have been oversest more then any and Paying those Extream Assessments gives good Ground for Saying what we did But indeed some Hat-Spirits perhaps could not say so but why Because some of them are so leavened into another Spirit that they almost question the Payment of any as M. Boreman now called M. Pennyman did I must not be plainer least the Cabal further represent me one that exposes Person to the Lash of Government Wherein we can pay we do what ever they come for and in some Cases wherein we cannot answer their Demands for Christ's Peaceable GOSPEL sake They commonly Take three times the Value seldom if ever Returning any again But this our Adversary calls no Paying Sure I am it is Loosing more then our Adversary dare adventure for if I mistake not he can send out all those things rather then suffer though perhaps against his Conscience also Well but if we will believe him there is such an Arrogant Imperious and Audacious Paper given forth by R. Farnsworth A. Parker G. Whitehead J. Coale J. Whitehead T. Loe S. Crisp T. Green T. Moon T. Brigs and J. Parks as he thinks was ever given forth by Mortals A Charge too great and a Reflection so sharp that it had need be one of the worst Papers that was ever writ Now let us hear what it is 1. They allow not such to have Dominion in the Church who exalt themselves above the Body of Good and Ancient Friends Now what hateful thing did they deliver in this wholesome Christian Saying It seems this Enemy of God and true Righteousness would have liked us better if Bad Friends had been suffered to exercise the Dominion over the Body of Good and Ancient Friends But he starts out thus That by the Body of Good and Ancient Friends is meant G. Fox and his Adherents which sort of Interpretation well becomes such a Caballistick Writer for after those Allowances I will misrender the best Cause Pretences or Actions in the World It is an arrant Falshood He was then far from them Neither had they him in their Eye in doing it but God's Honour and the