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Hell broke loose: or An history of the Quakers both old and new. Setting forth many of their opinions and practices. Published to antidote Christians against formality in religion and apostasie. By Thomas Underhill citizen of London.
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Underhill, Thomas.
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1660
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upon the Husk c. p. 11. See way to the Kingdome p. 8. See perfect Pharisee p. 17 18. 22. That the Scriptures are not the Saints Rule of knowing God and living unto him but that which was before the Scriptures were written This is also your own concerning which anon more at large Atkinson ubisupra p. 1. Parnell p. 11. 23. That there is no need of outward teachings by reading or hearing of the Scriptures opened and applyed See perfect Pharisee p. 20. 24. That no mens interpretations of the Scripture or Arguments from them are to be received except those that give them are infallible See Quakers Cat. published by Mr Baxter where the Quaerists require Infallibility in a Minister And perfect Pharisee p 23. This is generally their strain We renounce and deny all your meanings interpretations arguments calling them adding to the Scriptures And concerning it we must have a brush or two with you anon 25. That the light in them is the Gospell and the more sure word of Prophecy so sure that some of them say That it is a like for to take a sentence out of their Letters and Preach from it as to take a sentence out of Pauls Epistles Discovery of mysticall Antichrist displaying Christs Banners p. 15 and 33. 26. That there is no call to the Ministry but an immediate Call which is generally proclaimed by them See perfect Pharisee p. 29. J. Parnell p. 16. 27. There is no Baptisme of Christ but with the holy Ghost and fire And no Supper of the Lord but in the spirituall part for as for the visible part The Bread which the world breakes is carnall and naturall See perfect Pharisee p. 28. and J. Parnell p 12 13. 28. That singing Davids Psalmes in English Meeter is to sing the Ballads of Hopkins and Sternhold King James his Fidlers And to sing them is to turn the Scriptures into lies and blasphemies One of them in a Letter here at Reading Henry Clarke in his description of the Prophets p. 9. 29. That God made not man to be Lord over Man but over Creatures and therefore amongst them there are no Superiours after the flesh But are there any Superiours over them then that are not among them see in the next Article J. Parnell p. 22 23. 30. That Christ comes to fulfill and end all outward Lawes and Government of man Ja. Parnell p. 18 19. The righteous are from under the outward Law for they are a Law to themselves Especially if Magistrates be wicked that is not of them the Author quoted in the Margin denies them utterly 31. Ja. Parnell p. 37. That there is no Sabbath now but an everlasting Sabbath and that our Sabbath is but a shadow of which they have the substance and that the first day in the week is no Sabbath 32. That we may not pray before and after Sermons or at set times daies and houres because these things were in the Generation which were enemies to Christ Quaeries sent to the Congregation at Stopport printed in a Book of Mr Eaton 33. That the Ratters themselves had a pure convincement which did convince them And what their convincements were most men know To wit that there is no Heaven Hell Resurrection Judgment to come that there is no sin but what a Man thinks to be so that all that they did was done by the Eternity in them c. Geo. Fox and J. Nailor in a book called A word from the Lord p. 13. 34. That that word 1 John 1.8 If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves was spoken by the carnall man Fr. Gawler See Antichrist in man by Mr Miller of Cardiff p. 7. Idem ibid. 35. That if a man hath sin in him he hath none of Christ 36. They will not acknowledge that Christ ascended with his body into Heaven Idem ibid. Since my Catalogue of the Errors and Blasphemies of the Quakers was Printed off I thought good to make this Addition following Of the Trinity WE deny the term of three distinct Persons which you call God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost Whitehead and Geo. Fox against Mr. Smith the Library keeper of Cambridg p. 2. Printed 1659. Of the Authority of the speeches and writings of the Quakers Quest Do you esteem of your speakings to be of as great Authothority as any Chapters in the Bible Answ That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures or Chapters are and greater as Christs words were of greater Authority when he spake then the Pharisees reading the Letter This was Writ and Published by Geo. Whitchead and Geo. Fox the younger in their Truth defended against Mr. Tho. Smith of Cambridge 1659. And themselves say it was written from the Spirit of Truth in Geo. Whitehead and Geo. Fox the younger see the Title Page of Truth defending the Quakers and p. 7. here it is plainly though most grosly and blasphemously affirmed that the Quakers speakings are of greater Authority than the Scriptures Of the Morall Law or Ten Commandements No Rule to the Christians life Whitehead and Geo. Fox against Mr. Smith p. 18. In which Book also these Doctrines are owned That Christs coming in the flesh was but a Figure p. 20. That it s no sin to mend an old Doublet on the Communion Table on the Lords Day in Sermon time though forbidden by the Parrishioners p. 20 21. Of Justification Good works are the meritorious cause of our Justification Fisher the Quaker in the Dispute with Mr. Tho. Danson at Sandwitch Printed 1659. These following Stories I had from my very good Friend Mr. W. Allen of London who will if occasion be satisfie any concerning the truth of them By which as well as by some of the former may be seen that the Devill doth extraordinarily act in and by many of the Quakers A Maid in London being met by a Quaker who addressed himselfe to her with suits of Love was perswaded to drink with him The Quaker took something out of a Paper and put into the drink and in discourse told her she should come after him and that he need not come after her The Maid after this found pressing inclinations within her selfe to go to the Quakers Meeting and was brought into strange Raptures and found her mind exceedingly turned against the Bible And some Christian Friends of hers having observed her to have been under sore distempers as well of body as mind for a certaintime at last kept a day of fasting and Prayer for her having her then in their company though not without much relactancy on her part Whilst they were thus seeking God for her she found her selfe greatly tormented and her body sweld so much that they were fain to unloose her Cloathes to give her ease But before they had finished that daies work she found her selfe delivered and since acknowledged to me the great mercy of God to her in recovering her
who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes 2.10 11. 5. The impudence of sin that with a Brazen Whoorish forehead dare hold forth its abominable Doctrines of Devils and rebellious practices for precious truths and holy workes as may be seen in this History 6. The patience of God that a Nation of the greatest provocations is not utterly destroyed That London the source of these Abominations hath not been yet made more miserable than blasphemous Cracovia 7. The nature and consequence of scisme and causeless separation from the Church and Churches of Christ Where as many as will may turn Masters and orderless no marvell if confusion and every evill work follow besides one sin many times causes God to give a man up to another and so on 8. What great need all that think they stand have to take heed least they fall Oh let us watch and pray be jealous of our selves and trust in the Lord in the use of all the meanes that he hath appointed A great reason of falling from the truth is peoples pride and selfe-confidence and want of that tenderness of Conscience and fear of sinning that puts a man upon care pains and diligent inquiry in the matters of saith and life to prevent our miscarrying 9. How wicked a thing it is and how highly displeasing unto God to call all persons whatsoever that pretend to godliness and though free from common notorious and unmasked wickedness a godly party or godly persons whenas many such pretenders hold forth such opinions as deny the Lord that bought us and maintain the works of the flesh and damnable Heresies And woe be to him that calls good evill and evill good which respects persons as well as things 10. How much it concerns all the Servants of the most high God the Disciples of Jesus Christ both Magistrates Ministers and People from this Alarm to Arm themselves as the faithfull Souldiers of Jesus Christ and by all holy wayes and meanes to set themselves against this flood of Blasphemy and Error and the Captain thereof who strives to be sole Prince of England This this with all his Armies is the common enemy he hath many Armies great Revenues he hath great experience craft and policy which never appeared so much as it would if he could perswade the Christians of these Nations that error is truth and wickedness godliness and the incouraging of them a good old Cause 11. What cause we have to fear that while persons of such corrupt minds and heads increase our Judicatures even from the highest to the lowest will be in danger of being corrupted because they are made up of the distributed people unless it were made a fundamentall Order of those Courts that none who are either by Apostacy or Education enemies to Christ and the known avowed Christian Religion shall be members thereof 12. That the Quakers have no reason in the world to cry out of perfection nor to boast of their sufferings as they do for it s as plain as the Sun that they have suffered as evill doers for being uncivill to Magistrates disturbing Gods People in their Assemblies for being busie bodies or some other known wickedness and if so all their charging the Courts Justices Constables and those that assisted or abetted them with persecution falls flat to the ground 13. What a great mercy of God it is that though there are so many thousands of them their number is not greater they being such an unruly people and so full of deadly hatred against Jesus Christ his Ministers People and Ordinances If they had power to their will they that now frequently affront and disturb a Minister and Congregation would pull the Minister out of the Pulpit and instead of being turned out of the Church would turn out the Congregation and then our bloud might be mingled with our Sacrifice And moreover would not they that scorn to petition a Parliament or be uncovered before the greatest Throne of a Nation pull them out by the eares if they were able unless all Civill power were in their hands and then what Persecutors they would be may be easily concluded from the sight of their teeth before hand 14. That it is high time for all the Redeemed ones the Sanctified ones the Children of the great God the Favourites of Heaven honest godly sincere Christians Children that will not lye to improve their interest in God through Jesus Christ for this poor sinfull divided Nation that God would not impute unto the Nation the Abominations of many and so depart from us and suffer us to relaps into Popery or Paganisme But that he would arise for the recovery of the interest of true Religion that is brought very low in England as indeed it is abroad in other Nations It s time for God to arise for men have made void his Law That God would either deliver us from unreasonable men and give us such Magistrates as shall be nursing Fathers to his Church Or prepare us so for sufferings that we may be ready to dye for the Name of the Lord Jesus his Person Natures Word Offices Ministry Ordinances thereby demonstrating as much as in us lies the power of godliness the transcendent exceilency of true Religion above the honours pleasures profits of this world and life it self that so through God blessing our very sufferings may indeere our Religion unto surviving Generations When they shall consider not only what it cost their Ancestors by way of testimony to the Truth but what it wrought their hearts unto as the Instrument of the Spirit of God making them to forgoe all for God their portion and Jesus Christ their Redeemer CHAP. V. AS to Satans design in stirring up such kinds of people I had a purpose to have done it more fully than now I shall for having taken up more Paper already than agrees with the small price I intended this Book to be sold for that so it might come into the more hands of such as I Writ it for viz. those that do not know so much as myself I shall at this time say but thus much Satans design is That he may solely rule in and over every Man and Woman in these Nations to their everlasting damnation that not one of our Children and Posterity may be saved To which end he would reduce us unto Popery or Infidelity as abundantly appears by the foresaid Doctrines which according to his will are propagated all the Land over by all the ranks and orders of his Kingdome These Opinions following are affirmed to be the Opinions of the Quakers by Toldervey who was a Quaker which he affirmes in his Retractation Intitled The foot out of the snare THat the Word of God is not the Scripture but the life or the substance whence the Scriptures are spoken That the substance the Word of life is the measure of God manifested in man the gift of the holy Spirit manifest in flesh made known in all That