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A serious & seasonable warning unto all people occasioned by two most dangerous epistles to a late book of John Falldoe's, subscribed by Richard Baxter [and 24 others] brethren all ---- in iniquity ... whose slanders and lyes against the holy people called Quakers are hereby reproved / by C.P.
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Pusey, Caleb, 1650?-1727.
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A SERIOUS SEASONABLE WARNING UNTO All People Occasioned by two most Dangerous Epistles to a late BOOK of JOHN FALLDOE'S Subscribed by RICHARD BAXTER Tho. Manton Tho. Jacomb John Yates John Sheffield Ben. Needler Rob. Bragg A. Palmer Tho. Cole Tho. Dolittel Will. Cooper Will. Carslake Th. Wadsworth Geor. Griffith Matth. Barker John Singleton Andr. Parsons Steeph Ford Fran. Warham Rich. Mayo Tho. Gouge Will. Jenkins Tho. Watson Sam. Smith Will. Tutty Brethren all in Iniquity Whose Bow is alway ready bent With Quivers of Malice against the Innocent For loe the wicked bend their Bow they make ready their Arrows upon the String that they may privily Shoot at the Vpright in heart Psalm 11. 2. Whose Slanders and Lyes against the Holy People called Quakers are hereby Reproved By C. P. These things have I written to you concerning those that seduce you 1 John 2. 26. They are impudent Children and stiff hearted but surely they will not hear neither indeed will they cease for they are a rebellious house yet shall they know that there hath been a Prophet amongst them Ezek. 2. 4 5. London Printed in the Year 1675. To the People called Anthony Palmers CHURCH Mr Friends my knowledge of you hath been long about this time 20 years my Love to you can never expire being unfeigned I heard of you first at a place called London-house and am constrained to remind you of that day You then were a Reproached Suffering People and it was then a Reproach to go to your Meetings several of you in that day being Imprisoned for bearing a Testimony against the Sins of those times and in that day you being humble and meek the presence of God was amongst you in so much as a Rumer of it went through the Nation and you were visited by many choice Spirited men your heart were melted by the powerful strivings of Gods Spirit Oh ye degenerated People remember that Day But you resisting the Holy Spirit Pride and Lust and Self-seeking gat up amongst you and then you defiled your selves by touching with the Iniquities you had testified against and then a Spirit of Strife and Division entered you and brake you to pieces and ye went into Sects and Parties one Party publickly declared against another as Old Leaven purged out and thus ended your Glory and by this means were many honest hearted that uprightly sought the Lord amongst you scattered Now it is not possible to utter the grief that was in my heart in that day for I dearly loved you And when the Lord brought that great Desolation upon all professing Interests 1659. whereat even the whole world was amazed then great was my expectation that by affliction you would be turned to the Lord and that accordingly again his Presence would be found amongst you and you know what a noise you then made in your many days of Fasting Prayer then in sincerity seeking to be establisht in Religious matters expecting to be strengthned by a neerer fellowship with you so as to abide in the tryals of that day I sought to be neerly related to you and was admitted as one of your Members and the Lord knoweth I closed with you in uprightness towards him and true love to you which pure unfeigned Love still resteth upon my heart unto you And here I cannot forget and it may be good for you to be minded of it that at that time one of your Chiefest to my great disappointment told me in the hearing of several of you that you were sensible that the Presence of God was suspended from you endeavoring to satisfie me that God doth often suspend his presence from his Church I then answered that if I found a want of the Lords Presence I alway charged it upon my self as the cause of it Now after some considerable time of tryal I found you spake truth to my very great distress finding that the presence of the Lord was not amongst you and dismal and dark was that day when I came to see that I sought the Living amongst the Dead Now Oh People God Almighty that scarcheth the heart and tryeth the reins knoweth that I am deeply sensible of your state who have only a name to live but are dead and in true love to you have mourned for you and fervently desired your Salvation and indeed hoped well concerning you until lately finding the name of your Teacher A. Palmer amongst many more to a Book publisht by John Faldoe as Approvers deep sorrow even seized upon me that the Teacher of you a People that for many years have loudly proclaimed to the world That Love to all Saints is a Foundation Principle of your Fellowship should set his hand in a way of Recommendation to the world of the said book to an Epistle stufft with most detestable lies and slanders of and against a People that by many years experience I have found to be a holy People walking in the fear of God blameless and sound in the faith of the Gospel whom by your aforesaid Principle you ought to Love and knowing them to be clear of those foul things laid to their Charge by your said Teacher both as to Doctrine and Conversation I forthwith sent your Teacher one of William Pens Answers to him and his Brethren Moniters And thus wrote to him Anthony Palmer IT is so plain hereby proved that thou art guilty of Lies and Slanders against Gods People called Quakers that he that Runs may Read it and that thou art so guilty I hereby charge upon thee if thou art the A. Palmer there meant as I believe thou art and I send this that thou mayst see thy Error which if thou wilt acknowledge and send it me under thy hand that thou dost see and acknowledge thy Sin herein I shall be right glad otherwise if in some short time I do not receive such an account from thee thou mayst expect that I shall in that Congregation whom I knew I judge many years before thou didst and whose Souls Salvation I desire bear my Testimony against thee as a Slanderer and Lyar not fit for the Communion of such much less to be a Teacher of any People pretending to Christianity The 19th Day of the 10th Month. 74. After waiting many days having a great desire to have heard of his eyes being open to see his great Sin herein as saith the Prophet Amos 5. 12. I know your manifold Transgressions and your mighty Sins they afflict the Just It was in my heart to clear my Conscience publickly amongst you but my expected Opportunitie being disappointed by one of your Meeting denying to inform me where you intended to be Assembled it entered into my heart to commit my Message unto you into writing Oh People In bowels of tender Love to you I beseech you to consider the evil and danger of that Spirit that slandereth and belieth the Innocent as your Teacher hath herein done and have a care I warn you least he begetteth the same
by slandering us your old cause taught you better all this will not serve your turn for God is stripping the veil off peoples minds and they will ere long see with their own eyes not yours and the unprejudiced know you are false accusers herein and that all sensualists are judged of us and not of us for we follow peace and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. 21. MONITERS Few among them are men of so much understanding and competent Principles as to be able and willing to give a methodical account intelligibly of what they or their party hold HEre is a Lye Couchant he that rides conquering and to conquer notwithstanding all your weapons of opposition hath in our day riden prosperously that in our Nation at this day is many thousands of true Israelites of which great number it may be suppos'd you 25 are not acquainted with 100. And yet you are so confident as to affirm us all fools but a few Oh ye Artists and men of Methods that are wise to deceive We are not ashamed to grant that we are come to that Wisdome that the world calls folly being willing to become fools that we may be truly wife as the Apostle testified in his day and it 's not novelty for such as preach in the wisdom of God to be called babblers by such as you We are come to that which giveth subtilty to the simple and in that mistery how should we be intelligible to you carnal men whose wisdome is from beneath sensual divelish But before you upbraid us for our ignorance oh Rabbies you should answer Rusticuss by S. F. What will you boast and put off your harness as victorious and sing and ring a victory and never have engaged your enemy If Rusticuss hath put you all to silence why do you so mock at the Rustick You prate against the Rustick and yet run away from him Well ye Rabbies we grant you cannot understand but I tell you the reason is because you were never with us at the School of Christs Cross We know you come from Cambridge Oxford but you are not yet entered in the School of Christs Cross and that 's the reason we who speak the wisdome of God in a Mistery are to you unintelligible We know you have read worldly Authors and have hundreds or thousands a year to pick here and there and then inclose it in your Bible and tell the people thus say the Fathers of the Church thus the Antient and Modern Divines the Text is thus divided into parts these the points of Doctrine thus illustrated these the Inserences these the grounds and reasons of the point these the Uses and thus applyed Lo your Trade and by this craft you fill your bellies and maintain your Families in worldly pomp and thus the spirit that is in you lusteth to envy against the poor and meek of the earth and call them fools and mad men babblers unintelligible of inconsistent Principles Well if ignorance be the Mother of our Devotion we know we have heard and learnt of the Fathers who calleth not many wise nor mighty and confoundeth things that are by that which is not But oh that you Doctors could see that God is in this day turning the wisdome of wise men backward and perfecting his praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings which glorious work though you joyn hand in hand against you shall not go unpunisht for Sions brightness is arising and her God is her glory and in vain do you form weapon after weapon for none of them shall prosper the Lord hath spoken and who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord commandeth it not the Virgin Daughter of Sion laughs at all your plots and conspiracies trusting in the arm of the Lord that hath brought your councels to nothing and yet yet again will make you Diviners mad Oh ye Doctors Remember that hand that subverted all your councels and brought down your lofty nest in 1659. you that deceived the simple ones of that day by your long Prayers and days of Fasts in several places in this City charming them with Lyes until the hand of the Lords Vengance brake forth without remedy could ever this age expect again to hear of you whose light of your eyes and breath of your nostrils is so long agone dead and twice buryed Now oh people can you chuse but stand amazed to see these men so impudent as ever again to appear as your Moniters how many of your dear Fathers Husbands Brothers and Kindred have in this age by these very men been seduced into destructive ways to soul and body to the ruine of many antient and honest Families I say to all people reflect but your own Experience of these men the best Teacher as themselves say and more need not to be said than to remind you of your own experience of these men These men are better known to me than to every one and my feet were well nigh slidden into the everlasting pit of destruction by their seducing Doctrine and it 's my concernment to warn others and I do say could people hear the cry of thousands out of the pit of damnation they would intelligibly hear their Idol of Jealousie and others thus lament Presbyterian and Independants under the notion of Gospel Ministers and Reverend Divines were the men that seduced us hither by their preaching peace to us and crying the Lord is with you had it not been for them we had obeyed the Light in our Consciences and returned from our evil ways and had never come here thus cries John Indicot and others of New England and this is the dolorous complaint of thousands of our but yesterday dear Country men Oh people consider what I say unto you that you would but reflect your own expeperience of these men Oh G. G. how darest thou ever appear again shure thou hast forgotten thy Westminster Flatteries thou most notorious lying Prophet whom I heard thus to pray at Pauls Lord Bless the Army of the Lamb against the Beast give them success The Army that by thy Master was sent to Hyspaniola to rob the Spaniard so then there the Army of the Lamb was hewed to pieces in the woods in Hyspaniola by a few Moors Oh sad Moniter possest with a legion of lying Spirits Solomon saith He that saith to the wicked thou art righteous him shall the people curse Prov. 11. 26. That is thy portion O G. G. by way of eminence Oh if people were not in a Lethargy of seâ—urity they would be aware of you all and shun you as the Plague of the present time Oh People These Priests you see no Changlings are Such as they were such like to be ever They change their Coats and vary their Notes But always you may observe their lure Is strain'd to grasp after filthy lucre Though often routed yet they rallie And face any way to fill their bellie Their net is