Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A97291
|
A dialogue between George Fox a Quaker, Geo. Keith a Quodlibitarian, Mr. M. an Anabaptist, Mr. L. an Episcoparian With a friendly address to them all, by Sam. Reconcilable. By Trepidantium Malleus.
|
Trepidantium Malleus.
|
1700
(1700)
|
Wing Y78; ESTC R230921
|
11,194
|
28
|
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN George Fox a Quaker Geo. Keith a Quodlibitarian Mr. M. an Anabaptist Mr. L. an Episcoparian WITH A Friendly ADDRESS to them all By Sam. Reconcilable By Trepidantium Malleus LONDON Printed for John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church Street 1700. A DIALOGUE between George Fox c. G. F. Ah dear dear George Keith the overflowings of my Bowels are towards thee I remember the time when thou declaredst me to be inspir'd and didst fall flat on the ground when I prayed and didst own and declare what I said That by the same Eternal Spirit by which Christ and the Apostles appointed Baptism and the Supper was I commanded to take them away One year on the 5th day of the 2d month tho it dropped from on high thou followedst me every where all day long How is it now G. K. I own I had many a good Token put into my hand by thee and thy means as well as Robert Barclay's This was the Gilt about the bitter Pill which made it go down the better I know now thou art an Impostor and Deceiver in a word an old Fox G. F. O thou Conjurer Devil and Beelzebub thou Wizard Lion and Serpent thou art for the Lake and the Lake for thee Mr. L. He is none of these but he is a Tarrier G. F. A Tarrier what is that I pray one that tarrieth for the Light within or the appearance of the Son of Man as the Scripture calls it for what the Sun in the Firmament is to the World that is the Light to Man as Friends have infallibly expounded that place Mr. L. Poor George thou that callest him a Conjurer I perceive thou art none Thou art so far from understanding things thou understandst not words A Tarrier is but a half Fox begotten of one on a Bitch yet no Creature hates a Fox so much as this amphibious Animal G. Keith now O Fox hates thy Discipline Doctrine and all I have taken pains with his scabby lousy Head these six years past which swarmed with thy Notions it is bad enough still G. K. Truly really verily and indeed I do believe Baptism and the Supper are all Ordinances but there is not a lawful Administrator upon Earth G. F. Thou art a mad Reformer to tell People they must be baptiz'd By whom by Sir Nicholas Nemo Mr. M. George Keith were that Philosopher alive who never laught but once and that was when he saw an Ass feed on Thistles he would laugh to see what thou feedest on Come among us administer Baptism by plunging the right way the only way G. K. Yes I know you are right in this matter and I have gotten an aged grave sound Baptist to be my Assistant at Turners-Hall and hear him with great devotion every first Day Mr. M. O what do I hear Blessed be the Day when the Baptists will have so Learned an Advocate for their Cause Methinks I see you already baptizing Men and Women and that all London and all the Regions round about will come to the Thames to be baptized of thee That there will be such joy as if the Heavens were again opened c. Mr. L. How now George Keith I thought you had been better informed by my Book about Baptism and by what Friend Y. wrote on that Subject a year since G. K. Yes I think you are in the right and I went to Friend Y's house to give him thanks for his Arguments Mr. M. It is said by some That on a certain or perhaps uncertain Island in Arabia dwell Men that have two Tongues were you born there Mr. Keith G. F. I believe in America there are Men that have not two Tongues only but twice too George came from thence Ever since he hath lost the pure Language he hath gotten all the Languages since the confusion of his Babel Then he is for the Baptists then for the Independents then for the Presbyterians and G. K. Hold George stop there I ever declar'd against Presbytery for that sort of Men never gave me one poor five pounds nor ever visited me nor much cared for a visit from me except one who is now against me too and I have made an Ass of him and have rid him to purpose and made him fall under his Burden Mr. M. Yes and in so doing he hath crush'd thy foot against the Wall and at last hath to the wonder of all opened his Mouth to reprove the madness of the Prophet O Sir you are a great Canter and a Recanter too blow hot and cold That were thy mad Notions of Transmigration of Souls true I should think the Soul of some changeable Eccebolius had entered into thee You can clip Notions and then new coin them to make them pass for yours G. K. I do every thing with unparallel'd pertness and confidence and wiredraw my Mouth and peep through my Fingers to see who comes into my Meeting when a company of credulous Fools think I am in a great fit of Devotion all the while and I seek to bring every Man to the wrack to make him of the same dimensions with me I spare none but like the Jackal in Arabia rather than want matter to feed on will take Mens Bodys out of the Grave All our Reformers I spare none G. F. I wonder seeing there is a Law in England against Wolves thou hast not been taken long ago Thou hast said and unsaid revil'd Jack Presbyter for conforming so much and then for conforming no more Mr. M. It hath been a Question a long time which did the most mischief Guttembergus by inventing of Printing or Bartholdus Swarts by inventing of Gun-powder G. K. I tell you all know I am a great Disputant I have a high very high opinion of my self and a mean very mean opinion of others In Disputes like Sampson heap upon heap heap upon heap I slay thousands Mr. M. Yes Sir and some say with the like instrument too the Jaw-bone of an A I am no Philosopher yet when you in your last Summons of us all at Turners-Hall laid down your Notions very magisterially and dogmatically you said My Philosophy teacheth me this and my Philosophy teacheth me that when you talked so madly of Creation and Production of Substances and Accidents c. that one Philosopher pull'd his Hat over his Eyes being hardly able to forbear laughing and Friend Y. look'd like a Turky-cock with indignation Many think the production of thy Brain to be like that of thy Mother unshap'd and deform'd If a blinded Papist cannot see who the Beast in the Revelations is when it is said The Kings of the Earth gave their Kingdom to him which none did but to the Pope no wonder if you see not your Mistakes G. K. G. Fox I have verified the old Proverb the Old Fox is caught at last Mr. M. Yes and another Proverb too Set a Thief to catch a Thief Mr. L. Mr. Keith let you and I withdraw a while that I