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A65854 The Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers vindicated from antichristian opposition sincerely tendered in behalf of the aforesaid people and their ancient friends by some of them. Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. 1690 (1690) Wing W1912; ESTC R27067 25,012 34

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Answ. There were better and more effectual Preachers who were Plow-men Shepherds Herds-men Fishermen c. 1 Kings 19.19 Amos 1.1 and 7.14 Mat. 4.18 19. John 21.7 1 Cor. 4.12 than you who by the help of your acquired Arts and Learning contrive and study Sermons and fill your Heads out of other Men's Books and Authors instead of waiting upon God for Light and Understanding in divine Matters The true God is not limited he teacheth the Plowman Discretion and is more felt and known by an honest Plowman at his Plow than by a corrupt Priest in his Study or Closet setting his Imaginations at work filling his Head with Notions out of other Mens Works and Lines made ready to his Hand H.O. Where is your Presbytery Who lays on Hand Who sets apart among you Who is set apart to the Work I know them not Answ. We have true and faithful Ministers among us called and set apart by Christ Jesus and owned and approved of by faithful Elders in Truth and the Church of Christ though they do not come under the Hands of your Presbytery H.O. Some say John Payton of Dudley speaks sometimes yea and the Women often talk in your Churches an hour together is this your Christianity Ans. Good Christian Women to whom God has made good his promise Joel 2.28 29. may be required of him sometime to speak among his People in Humility and Godly Fear and be no worse nor less Christians for that There were Prophetesses and Godly Women in the days of the Holy Prophets and among the Primitive Christians who were also Teachers of good things H.O. When you turn Quakers you forsake all Fellowship and Communion with all other People whatsoever Is this a part of your Christianity c. Is this Obedience to the Apostles Doctrin forsake not the assembling of your selves together Ans. Israel shall dwell alone and not be numbred among the Nations the Lord 's peculiar People are a chosen People called and chosen out of Kindreds Tongues and People and must be separate from the unclean God has called and gathered us by his Arm of Power out of all empty Professions and to turn away from all such as have a Form of Godliness but deny the Power from all the proud and covetous hireling oppressing Priests and Teachers made by the Will of Man And we are required to assemble our selves inwardly to wait upon and Worship God in Spirit and Truth distinct and separate from them who are But formal outside traditional Worshippers H.O. You will have no Communion with any other above ground or below you have in Stowerbridge a constant able ancient profitable Preacher able to divide the Word aright in the publick Assembly you have also others in the licensed House that preach Truth there frequently Ans. If this his able ancient Preacher at Stowerbridge be Dr. Ford who he pleads for and the same S.F. D.D. who has printed the perverse fallacious and abusive Scheme to prove our ancient Friends unchristian and antichristian And if the Preachers in the licensed House he talks of be such as H. Osland himself we have but very poor Encouragement to go to hear or learn of either because of the Envy and Abuse of the one and the Ignorance of the other H.O. But you have built you a Fabrick to binder from attending at either Ans. Our Meeting House or New Fabrick as he calls it is one Cause of Dr. Ford's and H.O. his present Envy and perverse Scribling against us they envy our Liberty and Prosperity and have now begun the Quarrel with us to misrepresent and defame us which shews a partial persecuting Spirit in them which is far from either a true Christian Spirit or State of Saints H.O. What are there no Christians no Saints in either Are ye the only called and chosen How went the Spirit and the Grace of God by the other Assemblies to sit down with you Ans. This Question is much like that of Zedekiah the false Prophet to Micaiah the true when he had smote him on the Oheek Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee 1 Kings 22.24 But this was no proof against the true Prophet nor for the false and as poor an Argument for H.O. against the Quakers H.O. Must you be Christians because you deny the Communion of Saints Ans. A false Charge the Communion of Saints which is Spiritual we never denied but are come in measure into it through the Power and Goodness of our God in Christ unto us H.O. Doth the Preaching of Dr. Ford and our hearing of him unfit us for Fellowship with you Or our hearing a young lively Non-conformist Ans. Which does he prefer here as better Preacher the Learned Dr. or Lively Non-conformist by this distinction His thus pleading for hearing Dr. Ford the Parish-Priest at the publick Assembly or Parish-Church so called or a young lively Non-conformist as he calls him at the licenced Meeting House does bespeak such an indifference between Conformity and Non-conformity as thereby he has at once given away and betrayed the Cause of all consciencious Non-conformists and Dissenters into the Hands of their Persecutors and Adversaries so as to give them occasion the more to insult and persecute if they have opportunity But we hope all that are conscientious and mean honestly will see and refuse such Indifferency such Insincerity such Medly such Neutrality and Hpocrisie as this Lukewarm Temporizer and Hypocrite has here pleaded for His zealous Brethren of the Presbytery of Scotland c. would not endure such his Indifferency and detestable Neutrality as being a Violation of their solemn League and Covenant which it seems he has dispensed with H.O. Doth the Preaching of John Payton and such as he make you only Saints or is it the Preaching of the Women Ans. These are but silly Scoffs and Flouts from a proud and scornful Spirit and prove nothing against us we are a Religious People who conscientiously dissent both from the Parish Priests and such Linsy-woolsey Temporizers as himself and doubt not but the Lord has inspired and rais'd up and made better and more powerful Preachers probably some poor industrious Men and Women than himself or his said Dr. ever were H.O. Nay you will have no fellowship with us in the Bowels of the Earth you will not sleep with us in the Dust for you have many Grave-Yards up and down Ans. What sad Complaint is this what Cause has he for it what great hurt do we do them in not burying our Dead with them surely none at all they have the more room then And 't is no new thing to purchase Burying Places some of the Holy Ancients have been presidential in that Case See Gen. 23.4 11. and 49.30 and 50.13 H.O. Now your Belief of God and Christ and other good things you express in your Paper prove you only Christians in part but not that you are compleat in him Ans. 'T is well he has