I think seeing there is neither Comma nor Parenthesis to separate them words that's Crucified from the afore going and the following word within as is in page 131. I may conclude that G. Fox undervalues the Crucifying of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth without and publish that his i. e. Christ Crucifying was within Man only Thus by their own Judgment Fox is guilty of undervaluing the Crucifying of our Lord Jesus which I think amounts to as much as contemning them Therefore they have made him guilty of my Charge And altho' he Fox's Answers here and elsewhere be so squinting and two-fac'd that it 's difficult to prove any Charge against him in plain and clear express words of his but by what he opposes but herein not only his contempts of our Lord Jesus but his wicked Forgery is manifest and my Charge proved And by these and a few more proofs I have given in my Essay to allay G. Fox's Spirit and my Discovery c. inlarged These Quakers Errors and wicked Forgeries are fully prov'd but I hope I shall publish these and many more others But whereas Fox by His Forgery falsly represents this good Christian J. Bunyan as being against Christ's being within his People to prove that false and that as I aforesaid he does not oppose it but own it He says in the same Book The cause of Believers Hope is this Christ or the Spirit of Christ in them Again says he Some looking only on what Christ hath done and suffered without them resting in an Historical Faith of it without looking for the Spirit of Jesus to come into their Hearts without which they cannot rightly believe in Christ without them This proves these Quakers had no cause to oppose him on that score but his discovering their Errors and bearing witness to and for our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as being God's Christ did torment the wicked Spirit in Fox c. And through them cast out Floods of Forgery and false Accusation against him as in E. B.'s Works page 139. say they Thus much is the mind of the Pen-man's Spirit secretly smiting at the Doctrine of the true Faith Christ within and directing altogether without and afar off But what 's afore cited of J. B.'s proves these Quakers wicked Slanderers This may serve for Answer to their Book Entituled An Antidote c. A pretended Answer to The Snake in the Grass c. But that worthy Author hath in that Book and his Satan Disrob'd c. drove them out of their lurking holes only one i. e. Their Errors are so gross that it 's a shame to confute them Now H. Goldny W. Sanders c. do not call me Impudent Fellow as you did J. Pennyman on full Change without his speaking ever a word to you nor be not so envious against me as you were against the Christian Quaker D. S. for his Answer to F. B. on your behalf For in your Book Rabshekah c. I have leave to Print But if this envious Foxonian Spirit should be so powerful in you as it was in your Pope Penn and Cardinal Whitehead against G. K. and you should as they were be transported with Malice and declare me an Apostate in the Name of the Lord and curse me and blasphemously put to it Thus saith the Lord as they did yet I trust Christ without me will save me from your rage that you will not be suffered to serve me as Mr. Young the Minister lately was serv'd and that not by Thieves but some envious one like you and I hear he was threatened by one of your Foxonians and it s doubted was accordingly procured to be done to him Therefore if any such mischief befal me I am satisfied it will be by some of your procuring who walk in the steps of your Elder Sister Rome in many things and so may in this to procure them who discover your wickedness to be served as Justice Arnold was formerly But otherways let all your Foxonian Priests and Men of War in the Dragon Fox's Army Penn and Whitehead c. curse me and cry aloud to your God that wicked envious Foxonian Spirit from Morning unto Evening against me as your Fore-Fathers did I fear you not for my Trust is in my Lord Jesus of Nazareth without me whom you Foxonians have blasphemously contemned and under-valued yet I know the vile Person will speak Villany and his Heart will work Iniquity to practice Hypocrisie and to utter Error against the Lord but the great Corruption of Priests i. e. Foxonians is cause sufficient to separate from them This is their own Doctrine therefore all who be honest-minded Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked Men W. P. and G. W. c. your Chief Priests lest you be consumed in their Sins Postscript I Think it 's not unnecessary to give you some Passages out of the Copy of a Letter I have by me which was wrot about two years since SIR I Am glad to find some of our Clergy concerned in the Controversie with the Quakers considering the high Concernment it is of it being about the Foundation of the Christian Religion and as it 's the peculiar Duty of the Pastors to earnestly contend for the Faith And as I hear Mr Bugg who hath so eminently expos'd himself to their Fury is become a Member of our Church and thereby hath put himself under her Protection and she ought to take care of him And altho' the Quakers defame him with many reproachful Characters but do not as I find prove any matter of evil Fact against him or Heretical Principle but because he detects their Errors yet they brand him with the infamous Name of Apostate c. whereby I think they not only defame him but scandalize our Church and it affects not him only but all the Members thereof and the disadvantage thereby is not only the scandal but the hinderance it must be to deter others who may be willing to return to the True Faith and Church also Therefore I think if some Eminent and Powerful appeared in his behalf not espousing any miscarriage in his Management if any such be it would be a Check to their Insolency and encourage his Discovery For in their Answer to the Queries they do not give Dr. Lancaster those foul terms as formerly they had done to Men of his Character on such Occasions which I cannot ascribe to any change in their Judgment or Spirit but their Tongues are ty'd by their Interest they know with whom they have to do I take the boldness to impart my thoughts of the Reasonableness and advantage it may be for some Eminent in our Church to concern themselves against the Heresies and Scandals of these Quakers besides what I have above hinted 1. They i. e. the Quakers are as they say in their Book Intituled Innocency Triumphant Printed 1693. page 30. By Divine Providence Recognized by the Government as Protestants so that the Protestants of England are
my Heart pricked as with some sharp thing I felt it was that Spirit gave it forth i. e. the aforementioned Paper I denied the reading of it for in the Life of God that Spirit was judged therefore with the Spirit that is true is that Spirit judged which called that the Spirit of the Prince of the Air which ministred forth that which was titled How Sin is strengthened c. and in conclusion says Therefore with the witness of God in all who live in the sence of it judged it is according to the Eternal Judgment i. e. the Spirit wrot the first against J. N. I forbear their Names in respect to the Persons tho' I think they be both dead Here is both as from God peremptory against one another and one must be high Blasphemy if not both Many more Instances I could give to prove their being at difference among themselves or one with another and therefore by their own Doctrine are so far from being guided by the Spirit of Christ that they have it not nor never received it or else G. W. c. were Conjurers in printing this if it was not from the Mouth of the Lord. But if they object they do not differ but it 's some that go or fall off from them and the Truth that differ and oppose them no more do any others who agree for wherein they agree they do not differ nor do them of the Protestants differ among themselves who be of the same mind no more than the Quakers altho' they differ one from another in some lesser matters yet they all agree and hold one Head and Foundation and are not so uhcharitable as you Foxonian Quakers are Now here is one great reason why these modern Quakers so endeavour to excuse and cover and vindicate the Errors of their first Founders Fox c. because they will not acknowledge any difference or change in their Judgments for if they do they are Self-condemn'd Apostates Therefore it is that they reprint their old Books in great Volumns and alter by leaving out and putting in as they see cause especially their treasonable seditious Doctrines because they were afraid to own them But it 's apparent that the same Arguments as they use against the Protestants to prove them not to have the Spirit of Christ are conclusive against themselves also and they the Foxonian Quakers inexcusable in condemning others for that they are guilty off themselves and their saying they are not of them that oppose them is not more than others may say for themselves for if G. W. says W. R. c. were Apostates W R. says G. W. and G. F. were so and better proves than they G. W. c. do and better to believed But if there were no other proof of their wickedness but their hellish Fury c. against the Protestant Religion that 's enough And these wicked envious Hypocrites the Foxonian Quakers c. to get in favour with the Papal Interest then in Court have raked into the Graves and Sepulchers of the Ancient Martyrs and Fathers of the Protestants nay have been so presumptious and arrogant as not to spare the Sepulchers of Kings but torn them out and cast as in the open Street with infamous terms on their Persons and Families as well as their Power and Government and yet will not endure to have their Errors discovered and testified against but will Punish Fine Whip and Imprison and take away Goods and Life too if they could have reach'd it Now you English Protestants Surely if the People of Israel were so concern'd for the Levites Concubine as in the 19 and 20 Chapters of Judges surely here is some cause of inquiry Consider and Remember of good old Tobit He would not suffer his Brethren to be thrown out in disgrace unburied but hazarded his Life But here these Foxonian Quakers do not only condemn them that be unburyed but barbarously violate the Sepulchers of the Protestant Kings Lords c. Bishops Martyrs and Ministers and cast Infamy on them to make them hateful and odious to the Young of this Age as well as future For they say it 's for their Children and that the Heathen may see your shame and hiss at you Protestant Ministers that is the very intent and drift of these now Foxonian White-hart-court Conclave of Chief Cardinals Whitehead and Penn c. to bring reproach and infamy on the Protestant Ministers Now as these Quakers say there is but two Spirits that of God or the wicked one Therefore if the Quaker's be Gods then the Protestant Ministers in general especially all who pay or uphold Tythes and the Laws for them you are all guided by the Spirit of Antichrist and are denyers of Christ and under all these Hell-rak'd afore Names and Terms of the Quaker unless these now Modern Quakers do as G. Whitehead enjoyned Mr. Pennyman that is publickly condemn these their mad and wicked printed Defamations of the Protestant and it 's no harm to their Persons nor Estates for the now Quakers so to do seeing the Persons chiefly concern'd be dead only Whitehead and Penn. And in case they do not print against these wicked printed Doctrines of their Chief Priests they are to be looked on as owners thereof and justly chargeable therewith For if they did not own them they would print against them as they did against Mr. Pennyman and D. S. Think not the reminding you of these your Ancient wicked Testimonies and Actions hard dealing for as you say We do not desire to uncover your Nakedness you had not had thus much if you had not been the occasion of it your selves E. B.'s p. 617. By your so maliciously informing against and defaming the Ministers when you Quakers were guilty oâ— the same and besides what is aforementioned I find in E. B.'s 672. page you there also to incense tne King against some you mention some Passages out of a Letter to one viz. There is more danger in these Quakers to trouble and over-come England than in the King of Scots c. And there you to aggravate comment on these words thus It 's manifest what the bent of their Spirits was against the King then tho' now they change their Tale c. But I say let but their i. e. these Quakers own words here mentioned be considered and their Hypocrisie and the temper of their Spirits he shall see this is but part of the measure you have meted to others Much more I can produce in further proof of the wickedness of this Foxonian Spirit if they proceed in their old way of denying the Truth and slandering them that discover their wickedness which is very great even Pride Envy and Hypocrisie who in 1661. say The Government of King Charles was set up by the purpose of God Compare this with what is afore and in the Snake in the Grass against it Notwithstanding these Quakers so defame the Protestant Ministers and accuse them to render
A Just and Lawful TRYAL OF THE Foxonian Chief Priests BY A Perfect Proceeding against Them AND They Condemn'd out of their own Ancient Testimonies And being brought to the Bar of Justice their own Ancient Testimonies have judged them Guilty and to be no Christians of Christ's making Thou shalt rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer Sin upon him Levit. 19.17 Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Psalm 137.8 But these Quakers say Scripture is not his God 's Voice but Declaration of what he spake to and by those holy Men c. Scorn'd Quaker page 19. Therefore I will give them their own Scripture Must not Jealousie be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them as they have stirred up the Powers of the Earth against others Truth 's Character p. 15. Having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name of Christians you deserve not that Name E. B.'s Works p. 419. LONDON Printed for the Author and to be Sold by B. Aylmer against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1697. ERRATA PAg. 11. Lin. 33. for see r. with p. 23. l. 7. the Comma that 's at in should be at it p. 27. l. 17 18. them words in the Parenthesis be not theirs p. 87. last line but one after the word justly r. deserve to be p. 89. l. 25. after the c. r. of and the Comma's that be at the should be at they for the Protestant Ministers are not their words p. 90. l. 37. after people r. they say p. 96. l. 31. after party r. says p. 111. l. 11. for word r. world Pages 200. and 201. should be 110. and 111. and there be some words inclosed in Parentheses inserted into some of their sentences which be not theirs only added for particular notice or explanation which although not so well distinguished as ought yet by the sense of the matter discernable The PREFACE Christian Reader THe Design of this following Tryal is To shew the wickedness of the Foxonian Spirit and the Chief Priests and Rulers among them That it 's an Antichristian Porphyrian Spirit appears by their bantering all who confess themselves Sinners For T. C. having said I desire my Imperfections nor these Quakers Revilings may not prejudice against reading this c. for they cannot represent me a greater Sinner than I thank God I think my self to be but by their villifying me they shew the weakness of their Cause and the wickedness of their Spirits For the Controversie between us is not what T. C. is but whether or no G. Fox c. has so printed as I charge them and whether those Expressions be not Unchristian c. For this these Quakers thus banter me A large Confession I promise you say they Why in good earnest he hath cut off all opportunities of being told of his Faults for the future by confessing the Indictment and pleading Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him now henceforth for ever Then we may take it for granted that whatever I have charged him with c. he is conscious he is guilty of consequently I have not wronged him in so representing him nay nor is it possible for me to wrong him c. Little need be said to shew the Injustice of the Foxonians besides their Scoff and Banter But for that they say How can he i. e. T. C. expect any other but to be banter'd c. And not only T. C. but all who confess themselves Sinners are so dealt with by them But to take a little notice of these Quakers Injustice for as to their Bantring T. C. must expect no other from them They say of T. C. He hath pleaded Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him which is false for T. C. does not confess nor have they proved he is guilty of what they charge him with but they have wronged him For altho' the Prophets confessed as David c. that their iniquities were great and St. Paul said of himself I am the chiefest of Sinners yet they were falsly charged and wronged by your Fore-fathers and they laid to David's Charge things that he knew not and Paul was not guilty of them Sins your Forefathers accused him of Acts 24. But they wronged him as you have T. C. Nor do I find that any of the cruel Jews since Paul's confessing himself the chiefest of Sinners ever made so wicked and Porphyrian a Bantering use of his words as you have done as to say They cannot wrong him nor is it possible to wrong him Paul for let me represent him how I will I cannot represent him a chiefer Sinner than he says he is Nay say these Quakers his i. e. T. C.'s Concession includes not only all this i. e. Whoremonger Swearer Drunkard c. but all other Sins whatsoever But if they pretend they say These Sins we hope he is not guilty of what then Altho' they hope so yet by their own Doctrine they may charge him with them and punish him accordingly its not possible for them to wrong him But now in case that Passage were not so properly worded as it ought I see not so much difference between a greater Sinner and the chief of Sinners as to be so Unchristianly dealt by But humble Christian Acknowledgments are so contrary to their proud Pharisaical bragging Prayers as G. W. ' s at the end of his Judgment fixt c. that causes them to gnash their Teeth so against them but their own Doctrine in their Book Rabshekah c. p. 70. is a proper Answer to them herein and to most of their Books say they I defie the Father of Lies himself to out-do this and I having proved some part of their Book Rabshekah c. was writ or given forth by a wicked Spirit I suppose you will confess it was all given forth by one Spirit therefore let the Reader judge what the rest of it can be E. B. 's Work 's p. 148. There 's some Faults in this Tryal c. which I desire the Readers Charity in passing them by as the smallness of the Letter because I was desirous to bring it into as few Sheets as possible and indeed I did not expect it would have taken up so many but while it was in Printing I Inserted several more Proofs of my Charges into several places as I thought most suitable which I find causes it in some places not to Read so smooth as it ought Also I have shortened it in some partiat the latter end because I find the same Matters are fuller and better Treated on in the Second Edition of the Snake in the Grass c. And I understand that Worthy Author intends a full Reply to the Quakers pretended Antidote c. Whereby I question not but he will discover the Poison of Asps from under the Tongue of G. Whitehead in that pretended Antidote c. as well as he has Discovered the Flames
Warning c. they say could people hear the cry of Thousands out of the Pit of Damnation they would here others thus lament Presbyterians and Independants under the Notion of Gospel-ministers were the Men that seduced us hither This is say they the cry of Thousands of our dear Countrymen This was in 1675. for the Episcopal Clergy they had Damned them years before But this shews you are well acquainted in Hell but altho' I dare not pretend to be so conversant with Hell as you yet have cause to suspect that you forge false intelligence from thence for you who are so accustomed to abuse both living and dead may be thought to do the same here also and I rather think there is and will be more there so crying against your Idols of Jealousie Fox and Whitehead c. and that it's Fox's blasphemous lying Spirit as was in your brother Foxonian Priest Solomon Eccles that lying Prophet of yours that hath influenc'd you to invent and print this envious Slander against the Protestant Ministers to gratify your elder Sister Rome and this shews that you are hers if not the Devils as you charge Mr. Pennyman Factors Porters and Agents to promote spread and vend her Wares and that you agree and like well her contempt of the Protestant Bible and the Ministers and if all Rome and your own hellish Names be not enough you will to help out forge news from the Pit of Damnation also to help and altho' you seem to envy against your elder Sister Rome it 's for Preheminence because you must be exalted above all But you like well and take her part in defaming the Protestant Religion Bible and Minister nay you are so Brazen-fac'd as to inform against a Protestant Minister G. G. for as you say praying for Oliver's Army sent to high Spaniola thus Lord bless the Army of the Lamb against the Beast and give them success and you term him notorious lying Prophet possess'd with a Legion of lying Spirits and in the conclusion warn People against the Presbyterian and Independant Ministers in general as the Plague But why are you so angry I find it 's because they had subscribed to an Epistle wrote in recommendation of a Book of J. â—aldoes in discovery of your Errors But have not you here recommended this wicked Work J. C.'s Book wherein is this contempt on the Protestant Religion and Bible c. as a Brazen-fac'd false and perverse corrupt and unjust Book and the whole Generation of English Protestants For after many of your hellish characters of Witches c. given them there then say you if the Teachers be such what must the Protestants themselves be c. Your espousing and recommending this and your own Defamations are of much worse consequence to the Protestant Religion than theirs was to Quakerism or than W. Bradford's printing for G. K. whom you imprisoned and took away his Goods but in these afore instances you have proved your selves no Friends but Enemies to the Protestant Bible and Ministers And surely it 's high time for all Protestants to have a care of Rome at home i. e. the Foxonian Quakers for an Enemy within is much more dangerous than at a distance But let 's examine whether you Foxonian Quakers are not guilty of owning Oliver's Army as well as G. G. whom you so maliciously inform'd against or at least what may amount to as much There is enough afore quoted of yours against Hereditary Government c. and to O. C. say you in your Book good counsel c. several Soldiers have been turned out what should they do there if as you say you deny all outward Fightings with outward weapons for any end or pretence whatsoever compare this and others of yours before 1660. and your fallacious pretence to the King but you have a reserve in your last yearly White-hart-court Conclave you may by the Authority of that reassume these or the contrary which you please of your Ancient Testimonies again For indeed most of your flattering Addresses and pretended ownings of the King c. are as fallacious and squinting as your confessions of Faith for any one may make such a submission to a company of House-breakers when they have bound him and his Family or to any Pirates when by them at Sea overcome and taken there is something of God in it and in such fallacious general terms as they would have put of the Parliament with when their act about Swearing was in hand but the weakness of it was shewed them and they advised how to amend it which was done when they see their squinting one would not do And I find little in all their ownings of King Charles II. but if ever the 1648 cause should come in fashion but that they might reassume all their Ancient holy Testimonies against King Lords and Bishops in the beginning their terms are so loose and general they will serve for the Turk or Pope c. as appears by their using their squinting term Cesar in Queen Marys Life but to shew the Quakers owning Ol. C's power for which they inform against the Ministers say they to him He God gave thee the Necks of Princes to tread on and their Dominions to inherit and thou an Instrument in his hand was ordained mark that to lead forth a People whom he blessed with thee was not this the Army against a cruel People and Oppressors who exercised Tyranny until they were taken away the King and his Party and cast out and is a reproach unto the Lord and his People themselves unto this day Much more I could recite but this proves their owning Ol. Crom. Army as well as G. G. whom they term a lying Prophet possess'd with a Legion of lying Spirits but he was a Protestant Minister and they be all such with them But they may pretend it 's not for going against the Spaniards as G. G.'s was that we owned him Ol. Crom. but it was in his being against the King Lords and Bishops which you owned and encourag'd him in which was as bad but for your owning of Ol. Crom. against the Spaniards you say to him concerning the Armies and War in Spain there is something in it known to the Lord make no Covenant with Idolators And again say you concerning the Armies abroad is of great concernment to thee to stand or fall thro' them as to man's Account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it a true gipsy Prophet and whether he deserved a Prophet or a Gipsy's reward judge But how this agrees with their novel fallacious pretence 1660. aforementioned which Fox's Name is to and 11 more and yet this Fox encourag'd Oliver saying to him Friend thou should'st have invited all Christians that are against Popery to thee Again invite all that profess against the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee against him c. But these and much more they have left out in the reprint But it 's
evident they have Ancient Testimonies against and for War and so may uphold and maintain either as is most for their sordid Interest as they have about Swearing but for their owning and encouraging Oliver and all them Governments from 1642. to 1660. against the King and Monarchy especially the Family of Stuarts I could give a long Book of Citations altho' soon after the Restoration they were so shameless as to inform against the Ministers therefore and they were by Mr. Pennyman privately advised of that Error but their pride and malice was such they would not bear reproof Now what great deceit is it in them after all their complaints because they were turn'd out of the Army and boasting how they had fought from first to last and encouraging Oliver to go on yet when that interest against the King which they had so encourag'd and espous'd was defeated then to be so shameless as to pretend they were against all Fighting c. Surely if a Pirate that has taken and robbed a Merchant Man at Sea and afterwards the Merchant and Seamen again overcome the Pirates and recover their Ship and Goods would it excuse the Pirates then to say they are against and utterly deny all outward Wars and Fightings with outward Weapons for any end or under any pretence whatsoever Surely such a sham would not excuse them no more should these Quakers he excused But yet again for a sloop in Pensilvania where the Government was in their own hands they could Fight nay because G. K. reminded them of their pretended Ancient Testimony against Fighting they presented him as in p. 6. But it 's worthy of consideration whether or no that if G. K.'s reminding them of their Ancient Testimony were such a high crime whether or no the Assertors Promotors and Holders up of that principle and Ancient Testimony in England be not as dangerous and punishable as well as by them in Pensilvania and that to be looked on as a sham for here afore it 's proved they could Fight and can Fight and have a reserve for it when their Spirit command them for in their Declaration c. 10 th Month 1659. a little before the Restoration say they He i. e. God might command thousands of his Saints at this day to Fight in his cause and give them Victory over all their Enemies but again say they neither can we yet believe mark that yet he will make use of us in that way tho it be his right to Rule in Nations and our heirship mark that to possess the utmost parts of the Earth but for the present mind the present we are given up to suffer but how long that present will continue it were worth knowing Again say they as Righteousness appears in any we are ready to joyn with it in our Prayers yea and otherwise mark this otherwise if it may not be made to mean what they please and further say they when ever it Righteousness shall appear we shall rejoyce and add our help thereunto that it may prosper mark help for the Establishing of Righteousness in the Earth our all is not dear unto us tho hitherto we have been silent c.. But most of this and much more I find they have left out in the reprint of E. B.'s Works altho' they say the substance of it was given forth by E. B. being moved of the Lord and signed by 15 of them in respect to some I forbear their Names But it 's worth minding in what squinting 2 Fac'd words they express themselves here just as they do in their confessions of Faith and their intended sham owning the Government This is a digression but to return I have here afore prov'd their owning O. C.'s Army against Spain but it may be objected that I have not proved they term Oliver's Army the Lamb's but Fox terms Oliver his Dear Friend yet in 1660. these Quakers inform against the Ministers for saying they were his real Friends and bid him stand up in the Lambs Authority and for their owning of Rich. Crom. to him they say of themselves they wish well to thee and be established in Righteousness and Peace in thy Government Again if thou walk with the Lord c. and preserve his People Quakers then shalt thou prosper and thy Name be greater than thy Fathers and the numberless number of this People Quakers will stand by thee and defend thee and thy just Government observe how strong and numerous they thought themselves then in Rich. C.'s time and say they their Hearts shall cleave unto thee and thou shalt prosper for their sakes and none of thy Enemies shall have power over thee to destroy thee tho' many may seek thy Life Live say they in God's Wisdom then none shall touch thee and all that fear God Quakers will be on thy side and take thy part Here the Father of lyes in G. F. could promise altho' not perform Again say they to him R. C. thou art now set up in his i. e. Olivers stead the hand of the Lord is in the matter if but to try thee O profound Prophet or else a Gipsy and say they it 's he the Lord hath brought it to pass This shews they owned R. C. in their squinting way as they did the King Next to prove their owning the Army in turning out R. C. and the Parliament say they to the Soldiers in their Information c. to the Army if they i. e. the Parliament cry up their priviledge to do what they list then it 's no Rebellion to call them away Again if they will not harken to the cry of their Masters the People but it may be call them Rebels if they should be turn'd out mark them words Masters the People when they are gone from that in which their power stood Again to encourage the Army they say the long Parliament counted it no Treason to oppose him the King seeing the end was not answered he should have satisfied and God decided the controversy by overthrowing one and establishing the other for a season Again say they the Army in putting a stop to that which did retard from the end aforesaid the good old Cause in God's sight is no Rebellion Much of this is left out in their reprint but these prove the Quakers owning the former Powers against the King and say they to the Soldiers put no Cavaleers in place in 1659. and of them Cavaleers say they thus saith the Lord you are become cursed in all your hatchings the purpose of your Hearts hath been known to be always against my powerful Truth But in 1660. to the same People say they You are now justly raised up to correct them i. e. the former Usurpers as I afore say flatter all Powers in being but like Rats fly from a faling House and exclaim and inform against them when gone Their Hypocrisie is great and to be abhorred as well as is their Envy against the Protestant Ministers And notwithstanding
other settled Maintenance of Godly Ministers they opposed that also In the year 1659 say they to the Committee of Safety If you should take them Tythes away and settle anything by way of Compulsion on the People for any Ministry you leave us in Bondage and we must declare against that as against Tythes and we cannot pay that nor the other c. And after the Nonconformists that were turned out of Places had Meetings and their Hearers gathered by Collection what the People freely gave G. Whitehead enviously informs against them saying of them Who being dismounted from their Parochial Bishopricks c. are now for the Ratling of their Platters which have been very beneficial to many Have their Platters rattle more secretly c. The Nature of Christianity pag. 5. That the Protestant Ministers live torments these Quakers being they have blasphemously prophesied their begging and Starving And say they If the King c. Repeal the Law inforcing Tythes and convert them into some necessary Civil Use it would appear whether we should not pay our parts and whether the Royal Exchequer would not be conveniently supplied without the Tenth from the Priests page 50. of The Quakers Case c. In this case G. Whitehead's Spirit looks more like Haman's than Christ's as in Esther 3. it 's said If it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay Ten Thousand Talents of Silver into the hands of those that have the Charge of the Business to be brought into the Kings Treasuries And in the Epistle before E. B.'s Works To all the World they say their difference was not only with some Sects or Persons but say they with all Sects in these Nations Priests and Professors and have just cause to deny their whole Religion And say to the Ministers In the Name of the Lord you are contrary to them i e. the Apostles in all your Doctrines in all your Ways and Practices and say they Our Spirits were fill'd with Indignation against the Priests and with and against them we began War and against them as the Fountain of all Wickedness and as being the Issue of Profaneness from them hath Profaneness gone forth in all Nations Deceivers Antichrists this was our first Work to thrash down Deceivers the Protestant Ministers false Idle Shepherds Wo wo unto these Shepherds saith the Lord God Fox they shall be confounded they shall be broken down and never builded any more the Lord will pluck them up by the Roots and they shall never again be planted Their whole Ministry hath a dependance on Popery All savours of Popery Their whole Religion in all parts thereof degenerated c. You see it 's the whole and every Part that they are against of the Protestant Ministers and Reliligion in these three Nations and in page 1. they say It 's from the Lord and they term the Ministers A cursed deceitful Ministry And in page 88. to prove the Protestant Ministers false Prophets charge them that they speak what they have studied for then surely they would have condemned Timothy for obeying Paul who bid him study c. Even say they a Divination of their own Brain Take other Mens Words See the Snake in the Grass first Part p. 316. where the Quakers are proved to have done the same Nor have heard the Voice of God but take Chapter and Verse But surely then Fox was a very false Prophet for he took others words altho' durst not or could not tell Chapter and Verse because he usually corrupted it by adding or diminishing as he pleased And in obedience to their Law or Act made by their Conclave of Cardinals to hold up their Holy and Ancient Testimony of Truth in the beginning and that in all the parts of it c. Now this afore against taking or reading Chapter or Verse being a part of what their Truth taught them in the Beginning being since by Re-printing also further confirmed may be some cause that they are so offended with G. Keith for or because he has a Bible before him and sometimes reads some Scripture-Text therein And I hear W. Penn did in their Publick Meeting in his Preachment reflect on it saying Christ did not preach out of a Book or to that effect But he might more truly have said Christ nor his Apostles did not preach in or with Periwigs as he c. does And altho' he c. be so offended at G. Keith's reading in the Bible and term it Preaching yet he may read in the 4th of Luke and 16th That as his Custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath Day and stood up to read and there was delivered unto him the Book of Esaias and when he had opened the Book he found the Place where it was written c. Surely he had less need of the Book or opening it than W. P. or his Master Fox either yet he did it altho' these Quakers not only do not follow his Example therein but are offended and revile others for so doing as here shewn but perhaps this Infallible Fallible Spirit of Fox's in W. Penn was as ignorant of this Scripture as he was of the place where our Lord was born But their preferring Fox's Journal or Work before the Bible appears by their fixing it i. e. Fox's Journal in their Publick Meeting and not only W. Penn but several others of them have shewed dislike to G. K.'s using the Bible at Turners-Hall Again Pag. 10. Say they All thy Teachers O England are denied by them who are taught of God O People your Teachers have beguiled you Your Reward will be Vengeance and your Charge will be Murthering Souls The most innocent among you will be found guilty of Innocent Blood G. W. can you be so ingenuous as to exempt Dr. Stillingfleet from these your Scandals And page 101. which they say was sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God to the Priests and Teachers Thus saith the Lord Fox My Controversie is against you of all others and my Judgments shall be on you to the uttermost for you in Hypocrisie c. have exceeded all others Abominably loathsome is your filthiness in preaching for hire c. They go on against the Ministers saying They had made Merchandise of their Peoples Souls Prophaneness is gone forth from you into all Corners of the Earth c. Again You have shut the Kingdom of Heaven against Men to the destruction of Thousands and Ten Thousands And your Prayers have been to your Idol God for all sorts from whom you could receive a Reward Original the Womb of Witchcraft You pray to your dead Gods Deceiving Thousands Whose Blood you are absolutely guilty of Your Rebellion is the Crime of Witchcraft which cannot cease to do Evil for you have bound your selves in the Covenant with Hell My Cup of Indignation is the assured Portion of your Lot and Blood shall you have to drink as your Reward from me My Plagues
defend and reward them Therefore these Foxonian Humans G. W. c. revived all that For page 595. say they Them called Ministers the way of their setting up sending forth Maintenance Standing and Defence and in every particular of their being such they are the greatest and woful Oppression in the Nation the most abominable and unjust Cruelties and Tyrannies are acted through them as any other thing in the Nation and they are as such aforesaid the woful Cause of the Nations groaning under merciless Dealing and there is on their account the guilt of Blood Injustice and Oppression on this Nation their Iniquities cries for Vengeance on their own heads for they are full and near finished God's Eternal Vengeance is their next Reward from the Eternal God The Earth is oppressed by them the Inhabitants groan under them and the Righteous God is vexed through them and they are the Men of high Indignation and fierce Wrath and all their Practices as such are the Eewel of his Anger The Nation is weary and the Lord is weary because of these Men. If this be the Ministry must be encourag'd by you you shall never prosper but bring a Curse on all your doings because hereof The hand of my Lord is against them I believe you G. W. c. for its him mentioned 2 Thess 2.4 and from E. B. your Father in Envy against the Protestant Ministers hadst thou thy such malicious Doctrine For you go on in your bloody Fury and Malice saying And whomsoever shall seek to defend them shall not prosper c. And in p. 618. their rage is so inveterate against the Protestant Ministers that they fall out with the Baptists because they Christian-like say It 's their Duty to preserve them i. e. the Ministers from all violence c. In Answer say these Foxonians What are you about to make a League with Antichrist Will you now bind your selves to preserve them from all Injury as they are Ministers too And in R. Huberthorn's Works these Foxonians have reaked out the same Fury against the Baptists and say Can you stand by them and preserve them while Baptizing Infants and not tell them its Antichristian And say Do you not say You will not tolerate Miscarriages in things Religious Is not this a Miscarriage in thing Religious to baptize Infants And do you not tolerate this Miscarriage while you stand by to preserve them in it c. Here you may see the Quakers Envy to the Ministers and that their Design is not Liberty of Conscience as they falsly pretend for here they do not only incense the Nation against them but revile the Baptists because they do not run with them into the same Excess of Blood-thirstiness For these Quakers G. W. c. drive on their same wicked defaming the Protestant Ministers in this R. H.'s Works as in E. B.'s For say they also to the Baptists They are not against tolerating Episcopaoy and Presbytery c. yet against Popery why will you not tolerate Popery as well as Episcopacy say they Have not the Professors of Episcopacy murthered and slain and do labour to murther and slay as well as the Papists And why will you tolerate the Common-Prayer among the Episcopalians and not the Mass-Book among the Papists See their respect to the Church of England This was in 1659. when they did not believe the Restoration was so near for all their pretended Gypsie Prophecies as is apparent by their encouraging the Army as long as there was any hopes and informing and exclaiming against Sir George Booth and quarrelling with Monk's Party But to return and give Audience to this Ambassador E. B. and his Attendants G. W. c. They say p. 621. There is the Guilt of Blood lying on this Nation in the Case of Tythes and the hand of the Lord Fox is gone out against it and against all Contenders for it c. But all this their Rage is general Now hear their Loving Answer as they term it to one Minister who sent them some Queries to Answer and behold their Wrath and Bitterness altho' p. 565. they pretend that what any can object against their Doctrine let it be stated in plain words in Queries c. a sufficient Answer shall they receive Again They make the same Offer in their Epistle Let the Priests or any of them object what they can against us c. they shall have Liberty for what they alledge And by the strength of Christ we shall confute their Proofs And now hear how they confute this Man whether by the strength of Christ or Antichrist the Foxonian Spirit The Minister P. Bennet's Queries sent to the Quakers to Answer and to clear themselves from the guilt of denying Christ that dyed at Jerusalem I abridge But know that they can confess and own the same Christ that dyed suffered and was crucified on the Cross at Jerusalem and yet not mean Him that Man or Person the Son of Mary our Lord Jesus of Nazareth whom Herod saw who was Nailed to the Cross c. But the Spirit in him and so the same or the Light in all Men for they say He is crucified and suffers now and so did ever since the Fall and so he did in Jerusalem And that they do not mean the Person or Man JESUS but the Light in them and all Men when they confess to Christ is evident for they are charged to deny the Ascending of his Body and in Answer say they p. 42. We witness the same Christ made manifest in us and his Resurrection not because Paul said so but we have seen it and are Witnesses of it Also in W. Baily's Works pag. 173. they say the same Now for a seeing by Faith it is own'd by all Christians and that is not the difference between the Quakers and others but whether that material seen and handled Person by Herod and them who Nail'd him to the Cross be the Son of God and Saviour This they do in effect altho' not in plain terms deny for they maintain the Jews never see the Saviour Now Herod see our Lord Jesus then he was not the Saviour must be the consequence of their Doctrine or Herod saw him not But as to their Answer to the afore Charge in E. B.'s Works p. 42. If such a seeing as they can pretend to would serve then Peter was by their Doctrine and as they in Print render him a false Minister for he told the Saints they had not seen nor did not see him but they saw him as these Quakers do Also in Acts 1.21 It 's said Of these Men which have accompanied with us all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us from John's Baptism unto the same Day he was taken from us must one be ordained to be a Witness of his Resurrection Now if such Witnesses as these Quakers pretend to be would have served then there was no need of such a one as these mentioned for all