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A65856	Christ's lamb defended against Satan's rage in a just vindication of the people called Quakers ... from the unjust attempts of John Pennyman and abettors, in his malicious book, styled, The Quakers unmasked, clearly evincing his by a lover of truth and peace, G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1917; ESTC R20009	52,095	70

the same Cause and Quarrel c. First let it be here noted That John Pennyman in his great Zeal for the Nonconformists and enmity against us hath still proceeded upon his great Lye against the People called Quakers ☞ As what People setting these aside could have had the Face when they themselves had beening aged in the same Cause See what an apparent Lye this is and I charge him with it To prove where the People called Quakers were so ingaged in the same Cause as to preach up Battles Spoils Plunders c. Garments rowled in the Blood of Kings Princes Rulers and People worldly Armies and Battles Victories Trophies Spoils Sequestrations Decimations c. from which he doth not vindicate and acquit John Faldo and his Brethren but only cries out of Reproach Revengeful and Aggravating Terms vilifying c. Such an Agent have the Nonconformists as John Pennyman who instead of vindicating them from these Matters commemorated against them on their occasion first given he belies the people called Quakers as being ingaged in the same and as if John Faldo and his Brethren were so big and eminent in John Pennyman's Eyes and such awful and formidable Persons he put this admiring question viz. What people setting these aside could have had the Face and Confidence to have writ such Language as this Oh wonderful is John Faldo and his Brethren the Nonconformists grown so potent so awful so austere or formidable that it is such a dangerous business to affront them by reminding them of their former Concerns in the Late Wars their preached up Battels c. even at such a Time when John Faldo Thomas Hicks the Baptist Forger of Dialogues and others both Presbyterians Independents and Baptists and their Learned and Reverend one and twenty Divines as they call them have endeavoured with all their Force not only to unchristian us but to render us as odious and obnoxious in the Face of the Nation not only to Religion but to Government as possibly they could with their Pens as Cheats Impostures yea the vilest of Men thus putting us in Bear-skins to make People destroy us in the open Streets or as if they would swallow us up at once witness the mustering up their Forces at Barbican Thomas Hick's Dialogues J. Faldo's Quakerism no Christianity and his Vindication thereof there rendring us as inconsistent with Human Society destructive of Government c. in our Principles wherein some Baptists and other persecuting Spirits plainly shewed its Sting and Venom but it cannot penetrate our Armour of Light nor hurt us These Occasions against us John Pennyman is pleased to take no notice of and yet counts it a heinous piece of Confidence to remind such Nonconformists of their former Preachings of Battles Sequestrations c. contrary to the Gospel of Peace and good Will towards Men wherein John Pennyman himself dares not adventure to excuse them though now he strikes in with them against us however he may see that there are some among us that has the Face and Confidence to oppose both John Faldo Thomas Hicks and John Pennyman in their great Enmity against us and I do not see that John Pennyman's espousing their cause and quarrel and abusing us as he hath done will stop our Pens considering the many occasions given against us not only in their late Invectives but also in the former cruel Persecutions and Sufferings which many of us indured both by Presbyterians and Independents their Ministers Magistrates and People in Oliver Cromwel's days Yea how many caused they in those days to be Imprisoned till Death Stocked Whipped besides the Stoning Beating and Abusing by the rude Multitude when incensed by their Ministers and Leaders c. of these things John Pennyman cannot be altogether ignorant nor of the Professors in New-England's Cruelty in putting several of our faithful Friends to death for their righteous Testimony whose innocent Blood the Guilty there have not washed their hands of nor have they here given a publick Testimony against that cruelty that we know of So let John Pennyman consider what credit he will gain by closing in with such Presbyterians and Independents I wish both he and they who are alive may examin themselves and repent and if he and they be still of the mind that our Pen hath been too sharp we are sure their cruel Hands their Goals in Old England and Gallows in New-England have been far sharper And now with their malicious Tongues and Pens not having Power to persecute as before by their Forgeries they would make the World believe that we are no Christians c. but we are better known to Christ and honest Men As also our so much bearing and suffering John Pennyman and his Party in their publick outrage and frequent disturbances and interruptions in our Meetings without exercising or seeking Revenge against them being so far from encouraging any to beat or lay violent Hands on them that we have laboured to quiet those People that have had much ado sometimes to keep their Hands off them by reason of their turbulent Provocations all this sufficiently evidences that our Principle and Spirit is against Fighting for I am confident that had I. P. look't on us as Fighters c. he durst not have adventured to have given us such frequent and publick occasions of Provocation as he and his Party have done which he knows his Friends the Nonconformists would not suffer in their Assemblies but would have paid him and his Company off to purpose had he abused them and their Meetings as he hath done us and ours And to manifest John Pennyman and his two or three late Followers and Disciples what hideous disturbances have they frequently made in some of our publick Meetings in London And more particularly his Disciple B. Boyce who hath shewn a very venerable respect to him and T. P. little less for him in proclaiming him openly to be an upright or sincere Man and yet this John Pennyman's upright Man after his various attempts to the Magistrates to swear the Peace against divers that never did or intended him harm his outrage and violence in several Meetings has been notorious And John Pennyman's own Envy surpasses all this against the People called Quakers in rendring them obnoxious to the Government contrary to his own pretence as will yet further appear Now we come to his pretended Contradiction and Temporizing unjustly charged upon us the People called Quakers from our Writings which as he reckons are so placed that those of the meanest Capacity may easily see them to be as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders of the People c. and this hideous outcry and clamour he makes as 1st wherein he set G. Fox against G. Fox in his judgment concerning Kingly Government and withal let it be remarked that his Observations and Objections are chiefly made against those Declarations made to the King and present Powers signifying our innocent Intentions of living peaceably under their

Christian Testimony Again he cites these words to the King and Parliament 1661. viz. our Allegiance to the King our Lives have and shall manifest to him and you and all Men subscribed he saith by George Fox Edward Burroughs Francis Howgill John Crook Samuel Fisher Richard Huberthorn John Whitehead Samuel Thornton Leonard Fell John Boulton and twenty more and these he has ranked up for Temporizers Dissemblers c. having rendred all our Applications to the King of this kind but Hypocrisie and Temporizing Deceits as not to be trusted and this still to render us obnoxious more especially if his Book be Printed for see what he saith not only to cloud but to murder our Christian Testimony viz. and yet under all these Dissimulations and Temporizings do like the Whore in the Proverbs wipe their Mouths and proclaim themselves an innocent and harmless People and near his Conclusion charges G. F. and his Adherents with a late fawning flattering Address to the King and Parliament How now John is this thy abhorring to render us obnoxious to the Government God will smite thee thou malicious Hypocrite our Innocency shall out-live thy Envy and causeless Revenge and rise up in Judgment against thee What wilt thou be still be mad against us because our Friends gave Testimony against the Man that attempted to burn the Bible among other Books at the Exchange And wilt thou be still revengful because some were moved to testifie against thy extravagancy and riotous work with thy twenty seven Venison Pasties or so esteemed exposed to the Multitude And was not this thy wedding Dinner for Jews and Gentiles whom thou hadst invited to Merchant-Taylors-Hall And what was thy intended Mystery in all this Answer plainly for it was a very publick Frolick and whether or no had not the Bible been burned if the Officer at the Exchange had not prevented be plain and do not always smite at others and hide thy self nor put us off with telling us Thou wouldest not do it at the Will of any Mortal What immortal one would move any to attempt it An immortal God or an immortal Devil Couldst thou imagin that the immortal God would ever move to it And what moved thee now thus to vent thy Malice and Clamour not only against the People called Quakers in general but also against many particular Persons by Name the meanest of them more Righteous than thy self Dost thou not know that Edw. Burrough Fr. Howgill Sam. Fisher R. Hubberthorn Joh. Stubbs Edw. Piott George Bishop George Rose and Miles Hallhead are all deceased Yea some of them many Years in their Graves who dyed Prisoners sufferers for their Consciences towards God and yet thou wilt rank them among Temporizers Oh unrighteous Man is thy Conscience wholly seared since thy Essay towards the burning of the Bible for thou hast as little Recourse or Regard to the Scriptures or Truth 's Principle in thy Writing though once professed by thee as thou hast to Conscience which is none at all in sincerity Malice and the Gall of Bitterness has swallowed thee up and Darkness is become thy Habitation Dost thou not remember that Fr. Howgill dyed in Prison and that both E. B. R. H. and others were Prisoners when taken sick and dyed And dost thou not know that not only Sam. Fisher but John Crook John Boulton and many others have been great Sufferers since the King's Restauration and must all these be now infamously ranked among Temporizers Dissemblers c. Is this thy Conscience and Charity John Pennyman And is thy Malice so great against William Deusbury so that thou must needs endeavour to expose him to the Displeasure of the present Government to add Afflictions to his Bonds who is known to be a sincere upright peaceable Man and great Sufferer both in the Time of the late and present Powers yea and in present Suffering and Confinement for his Conscience and Testimony And what Hurt has honest Tho. Salthouse done thee that thou must needs go about to expose him too And also Isaac Pennington who is known to be an Innocent Harmless Man and hath been a great Sufferer even under the present Power What would not thy Malice suffer thee to let him alone but thou must needs render him obnoxious for writing something to the Parliament and Army printed 1659. about their backsliding and turning aside from the Good Old Cause c. And to aggravate the Business against him thou puttest the Question Was not then the Armies Cause just in his Opinion and their Fighting Lawful c. p. 17. How now John Pennyman hast thou neither a regard to Men nor Truth Hast thou done as thou wouldest be done by thus to expose Men and question them for that which thou thy self darest not adventure openly to oppose Therefore I would ask thee What is thy Opinion concerning that Cause called the Good Old Cause to wit Liberty to tender Consciences removing Oppression and preserving Men's Properties formerly pretended to in the Old Army though not well mannaged and pursued was this Cause pretended to just yea or nay in it self Why dost thou cover thy Deceit desert Truth in any Case and peevishly expose Conscientious Men for formerly confessing it One Passage to the Parliament and Common-wealth 1657. Let the Reader a little take notice of it for perhaps he may smile at John Pennyman's Design in citing it The Passage as he cites it runs thus p. 28. viz. Let all these Abbey-Lands Gleab-Lands that is given to the Priests be given to the Poor of the Nation and let all the Great Houses Abbies Steeple-houses and Whitehall be for Alms-Houses or some other use for all the Blind and Lame to be there What could be J. P's Design in citing this Passage If it was to make the King and Court angry with our Friends for advising to make White-Hall an Alms-house for the Blind and Lame as that seems most likely to be his Design I dare say he will miss of it for I am perswaded the King would have been better pleased and thought it more Charitable that his House should have been an Alms-house for the Poor Blind and Lame than that Oliver and his Crew should there set up their Nests pamper feed and gluttonize themselves for the Humility serious Praying and Tears were lost when they had killed and taken possession were got to White-hall and there settled at Ease in fulness pride and idleness even while many innocent Men were deep Sufferers for their tender Consciences in cold noisom Goals Holes and Dungeons with Bread and Water their Victuals being snatched from them their Bed-cloaths taken from them by Force and they forced to lye upon Straw in cold low dark Goals for above a Year together In these and such like Sufferings I my self with many others of our Friends had a deep share in Oliver's Days and that under Presbyterians and Independents I affirm and yet they have not manifested Repentance nor made Satisfaction J. P. has

out which had you lived in you and the Nations had been quiet therein and all the Oppressed had had Liberty and the Lord had been the Joy of every ones Heart and the Spoil of the Enemies had not taken up the Possession of the Heart as it hath so that the Lord hath no place nor his People but the just hath been troden under Foot and made a Prey on every hand Left out by J. P. Observ. A just reproof of and Testimony against their Oppression Unfaithfulness and Persecution when many of us lay in Goals at that Time for whom several hundreds went several Times to the Parliament to offer up themselves to lye in Goals and Dungeons for them and in their stead that were in Prisons that they might come forth but instead of granting Friends Desire in that Case they threatned to whip them And when our Friends were excommunicated in Scotland that they might neither buy nor sell A poor Man who had bought a Loaf had it fetched from him because he was excommunicated by the Presbyterians upon which Colonel Ashfied being a Justice of Peace in that Country made an Order That in such Case People might buy and sell with our Friends though they were excommunicated so that had not G. F. good reason to write to the Council of Officers against their displacing such Men that were so tender towards us when the ruder sort of Soldiers came with Swords and Pistols and tore Friends from off their Knees when at Prayers And the persecuting sort of Justices and others frequently breaking up our Meetings under pretence that we were plotting to bring in King Charles c. And the Words by which Nations about you are lifted up and stand at your Doors are left out by J. P. Observ. This came from a Prophetical Sense of their declining and downfal After Cause of God and his Truth he leaves out without any End to your selves but the good of all People for the Releasement of all People out of Thraldom Bondage and Captivity J. P. p. 8. Observ. This was the End for which the Army was told of going to Rome c. viz. the breaking down Oppression and not to destroy kill and take possession But when you lost the Power then came the Innocent to be cast into Prison above twenty hundred have been persecuted and imprisoned within these few Years for Conscience-sake towards the Lord. Left out After God's Cause he leaves out That set open the Prison Doors that will let none be persecuted for Religion But now you have Prisons to break down at home where lyes about two hundred Prisoners in Dungeons and nasty dark Holes for the Word of God Left out P. 3. Those things at home to be thrown down which are destructive to the being of Creatures Ibid. For above twenty of the Innocent Lambs have been persecuted and their Blood shed in the Streets and high Ways and imprisoned till death in this Nation within these few years And godly and peaceable Meetings have been broken up by Men with Bills Staves and Pistols and their Blood lies upon this Nation and God hath required it and will require it of their Heads who might have stopt this Martyrdom a great while ago which was in their power and did it not For Bonds Prisons Fetters Houses of Correction Dungeons do yet attend the Lambs and Babes of Christ in this Nation who have been tryed these several years c. whose Blood hath been shed and they beat and cruelly bruised and tortured and whipped as Vagrants their Flesh tortured till it has been ragged and yet this hath not asswaged the Adversary For the Lord is risen who will plead the cause of the Innocent not by Sword nor by Spear but by his power c. Left out Observ. Here was no cause for a charge of Temporizing nor any dependance on Sword or Spear nor any siding with those Oppressors but very plain and faithful dealing Ibid. p. 5. Who obeys Christ loves his Enemies and is in him the Truth who saves Mens Lives but who is out of the Truth will kill and compel and persecute to death Observ. See how plain this is against Killing Compulsion and Persecution and for the saving of Mens lives Before many valiant Captains c he leaves out many Justices of Peace Faithful c. to keep the Peace and to keep down the rude Multitude you have put out whereby you have been the cause of letting all the Bruits upon them that matter not Law nor Religion c. J. P. p. 8. After many valiant Captains Soldiers and Officers have been put out of the Army he leaves out whereby the Rude have fallen upon them and they been counted as a thing of nought c. Oh the Blood that hath been shed in this Nation for Truths sake This related to the cruelty inflicted on many called Quakers Oh what knocking down in Markets and Steeple-houses and going to Meetings and sending Men up and down with Passes as Vagrants Men worth three or fourscore Pounds a Year These Men that persecute and whip Men of three or fourscore Pounds a Year c. p. 5. Observ. Was there not great Cause to reprehend them for turning out such Captains Officers and Magistrates as laboured to keep the Peace to quiet the rude Multitude and to preserve the Innocent And were not such to be commended in their Place Had we not cause to own and esteem such as endeavoured our Preservation and not to shew our selves ungrateful much more than those that sought to destroy us What has J. P. against this when we went in the hazard of our Lives daily Oh how are Men fallen from that which they were at first when thousands of us went in the Front of you J. P. p. 8. Observ. But this was not as Quakers but before they were such and it is known G. F. was never a Soldier as before And were with you in the greatest Heat c. Thus far J. P's Quotation The reason whereof was in the precedent Words which he takes no notice of viz. Oh what breaking of Windows unthatching of Houses Men coming in disguised with Swords and Pistols into Meetings binding some Hand and Foot carrying them into the Fields leaving them there all Night in the Winter-Season Oh what Havock hath been made of the People of God that they have rode in and trampled among them with their Horses and pluckt him up by the Hair of the Head that was on his Knees praying to the Lord whereby the Persecution in this Nation hath given an ill Savour unto the Nations hereabout and rings abroad in the World That when Friends are moved of the Lord to go into other Nations to declare the Truth of God and his Word they cast it upon them and imprison many and say they will serve them and do to them as their own Nation does Then follows Oh how are Men fallen from that which they were in at first when