that the Prosperity of his Affairs and our peaceable Fruition of the Exercise of our Consciences beareth the same Date Dated June 1637. Thus Reader you see that from England to Scotland and from Scotland to England they sounded his Fame in the Highest strain of words praying GOD for his Preservation and praising GOD for defeating his Enemies But alas Has King William been without Enemies Hath their been no Plotting against him I will not say by some of themselves No Contrivance nor no Conspiracies against his Royal Person Yea against the Kingdom that they cannot afford one Prayer for his long Life one Praise to God for his Deliverance Hath not he granted all they can reasonably desire of him I know they will be angry at me for reminding them of these things but why should they be hid that never hid any body Why should not they be discovered and known to be really what they are that for 30 years have made it their business or a great part of it at least to render all sorts of People as odious as they could and what they really were not and their end could be nothing but to exalt their own Horn c. But Providence hath so ordered it that the same Pit they digged for others they are justly fallen into themselves and are left as Mr. Baxter says in his Penitential Confession p. 63. 1691. viz. A disgraced broken Sect as the Quakers be amongst us now c. A broken Sect indeed divided wholly in many places One sort shut up the Meeting-house against the other divided in Cities and Towns yea almost in every Village The Foxonian Government is in many places quite thrown off See J. Hogs book and in others weakening every day Well but to return see another of their Addresses viz. The Humble Address of the People called QVAKERS to K. James II. from their Yearly meeting in London The 6th Day of June 1688. WE the Kings loving and peaceable Subjects from divers parts of his Domimions being met together in this City after our usual manner to * * Rather inâ—ect inspect the Affairs of our Christian Society THROVGHOVT THE WORLD think it our Duty humbly to represent to him the blessed Effects the Liberty he has gratiously granted his People to worship God according to their Consciences hath had both on our Persons and Estates For as formerly we had ever long and sorrowful Lists brought to us from almost all parts of his Territories of Prisoners and the spoil of Goods by violent and ill men upon account of Conscience We bless God and thank the King the Goals are every where clear except in cases of Tythes and the repair of Parish Churches and some few about Oaths And we do in all Humility lay it before the King to consider the hardships our Friends are yet under for Conscience sake being in the one chiefly exposed to the present anger of the Offended * * Oh! They knew how taking this would be cunning Foxes Clergy who have therefore lately imprisoned some of them till Death And in the other they are rendred very unprofitable to the publick and themselves both in reference to Freedoms in ††They thought this a good motive that so their Voices c. Corporations Probates of Wills and Testaments and Administrations Answers in Chancery and Exchequer Tryals of our just Titles and Debts Proceeding in our Trade at the Custom house serving the Office of Constable c. they are disabled and great Advantages taken against them unless the King's favour do interpose As we humbly hope he may relieve so we confidently assure our selves he will ease us what he can Now since it hath pleased thee O King to renew to all thy Subjects by thy last Declaration thy gratious Assurance to persue the Establishment of this Christian Liberty and Property upon an VNALTERABLE Foundation And in order to it to hold a Parliament in November next at furthest we think our selves deeply ingaged to renew our Assurances of Fidelity and Affection and with Gods help intend to do our parts * * To Vote c. for the effecting so blessed and glorious a work that so it may be out of the power of any one Party to hurt another upon the account of Conscience And as we firmly believe that God will never desert this Just and Righteous cause of Liberty NOR THE KING in maintaining of it so we hope by God's Grace to let the World see we can honestly and heartily appear for LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE * * And yet at the same time great Oppressors of it in your dissenting Friends but Hypocrisy will have its reward and be inviolable true to our own Religion whatever the Folly or Madness on that account may suggest to the contrary Thus Reader you see here is nothing wanting but bended Knees Here is in ALL Humility in ALL Fidelity with ALL Affection yea ALL ALL ALL All Prayers for him for long Life for prosperous Raign Laud and Praise in the highest for his deliverance for the defeating his enemies yea it would be too long to enumerate them besides Book after Book in favour of the Government and one Epistle after another and printed Letters first second and third sounding his fame throughout the World But since King William and Queen Mary came to the Crown as in the Letter to the Quakers was well observed NO Salutation NO Message NO Prayer for nor NO Address to K. W. and Q. M. made Publick NO Book writ in favour of him NO In all Humility NO In all Fidelity NO In all Affection NO Publick Prayers for his long and prosperous Reign NO Laud and Praise that his enemies are defeated here is all NO NO NO NO Tho thanks be to GOD he is now settled peaceably in his three Kingdoms COME what can you say for your selves Are you like those 1 Sam. 10.27 The children of Belial who said How shall this man save us And they despised him See your 12th principle and brought him no presents no Prayers no Addresses I know you have too much espoused the Romish principles some of which are 1. We must believe as the Church i. e. your Church believes 2. That the your Church cannot err 3. That she hath power to bind and loose 4. And that it is abominable Pride not to submit to her i. e. your Judgment You may remember you have had many Favors by Their Majesties particularly Liberty of Conscience established by Law which is one and not the least and yet having had three Annual Meetings in London not one Address c. Nay worse than so And as an aggravation of your Ingratitude you made an ORDER for the calling in the Widow Whitrow's Books she being formerly of your Society which was writ but in favour of this Government what Scripture had you for that You say that Christ and his Apostles did not require you to pray for Kings by Name I say so too
but in this next let him acknowledge hat he hath made such Confession as craved such Pardon If he should say he did or that it is their practice his People would witness against him as a Lyer for upon their principles of Perfection and Infallibility it is impossible for him or them to make such a Confession and ask such Pardon since the year 1654 when he came forth in the Ministry as he pretends and then he says something Again VVhen the Author of the Book The Qua. Volumn c. recits part of their own Declaration viz. We have chosen the Son of God to be our King and he hath chosen us to be his People and he might command Thousands and Ten Thousand of his Servants at this day to Fight in his Cause He might lead them forth and bring them in and give them Victory over all their Enemies and turn His Hand upon their Persecutors neither can we yet believe that He will make use of us in that way Tho it be his only Right to Rule in all Nations and our Heirship to Possess the utmost parts of the Earth but for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for His Name sake Which is a plain Demonstration that when they gave forth that Declaration they did not know but God would make use of them in that way though they did not as yet believe he would but that for the Present they were given up to suffer c. Oh but says G. W. this Particle Yet is not rightly Construed they have put ad huc for tamen when 't is as plain as Possibly it can that according to our usual Dialect and according to the Grammatical sense too that the word yet relates to time and ought not to be rendered tamen viz. Nevertheless as is more evidently made appear in a Printed Letter to E. S. Esq Stiled Some Remarks c. p. 4. to which I refer the Reader Well might Christ say Woe be to you Scribes and Pharises and Hypocrites which strain at a Gnat and swallow a Camiel Mat. 23. For they have taught their People to be so stiff and Stout * I once was one of them but I thank God I am escaped their Snar and perceive their Juggles and do now abhor their deep Hypocrisie c. as that they will not pay their Assestments to the Trained Soldiers and that under a pretence that it is not lawful to use nor yet to contribute towards the use of a Carnal Weapon And yet at the same time they have and can pay to the Royal Aide Tax and that of carrying on the War against the Dutch and carrying on the War against the French As if it was not as great an evil to pay towards an actual Offensive War as to pay towards the sending out our Trained Solders for the Defence of our Nation Not granting either to be an evil when there is just cause for it But I mention this to shew how our Pharises Strains at a Gnat and Swallows a Camiel For of the Two an Offensive War is not so necessary as a Defensive War Good Reader These are the People that exalt themselves above all other Professors whatever reckoning all save themselves to be of the World out of the Truth Heathens Apostates and without the Poale of the Church and themselves the only People of God and that they and they only are in the Truth and for distinguishing themselves from others they have taken up some singular Observations as saying thou not you to a single Person calling no Man Mr. but John Thomas William c. and the like not that I thank you for any kindness but I receive thy Love not carrying the Feet but the Head foremost of their Dead they condemn the Courtesie of putting of the Hatt to any others though of their Apprentices they exact it to themselves * This Piece of Hypocrisie I testifyed against more then 16 Years since which was before S. Cater and I did differ about his fine by Letter to their then Yearly Meetings In short they affected singularity in most things that are Customary in England how Innocent soever now I would ask my Reader what of real Vertue or singular Goodness is in these things suppose the whole world did observe them would they be at all the better for it However by these things they have cut off all others how Religious and Sincere soever Read the Quakers Unmasked c. p. 26. And there you shall see that their great Prophet G. Fox believed himself to be in a State beyond the First Adam that fell and in the State of the Second Adam that never fell that his very Marriage was above the State of the First Adam in his Innocency In the State of the Second Adam that never fell and that he never fell nor changed That he had Power to bind and loose whom he pleased and much to the same purpose The next thing I shall observe to the Reader is whereas they have often Called Printed and Exposed me a Contentious Apostate a Self condemned Apostate c. That I have endeavoured to avoid Contention and that I am not what they represent me I must devide these Two charges viz. Contentions from a Self condemned Person which last I Reserve to speak more fully to in the body of the Book since 't is only a finer and softer word for a Heretick and therefore though at present they have not power to do much mischief yet they have Malice they have Envy they have False Glossings they have the Art of Forgery they can Invert Pervert VVrest Amuse and Abuse their Reader And by keeping behind the Curtain they can mislead wise Men for they have their Evasions their Equivocations their Mental Reservations viz. Only let forth so much at a time as that the unwary Reader would take them to be plain simple and well meaning and that they had no Skill in the Art of Juggling But if you mark well what I say you shall find that they can pretend to meet to Dispute their Opposers Priests or Professors and for that Reason too that Truth may be manifest and Error denyed disowned and rejected But behold they mean no such thing it is far from their Intention as anon will appear they can call all the Doctors and Schollers in Europe out of their Holes Dens c. As if they themselves were ready to come forth into the Field with their Slings and Stones and Bags but alas t is but like the Jugglers striking up his Sleeves and making bare his Arms. And the like I say tis what they never mean for 't is impossible to get them out of their Holes Dens and Lurking places where they lye Skulking to deceive the People Thus Reader you see they have got the Papists Tools and Implements I know of nothing wanting but the Law on their Side and therefore I am concerned to Vindicate my Christian
Truth and Equity of his cause might appear that his Name and Fame his Estimation and Reputation in this World both as a Man and Christian might not be blasted by the slanderous Tongues and Pens of the malitious Papists who then as their off-spring now studied how they might blast the Name Fame and Reputation of such as opposed them and himself to live no longer in Obloquy or Scorn under the Name of Heretick or a self-condemned Apostate as he had for Nine or Ten years together In whom also he found his Family and Kindred rebuked and under some reproach for his sake and he no way able to clear himself unless his Prince would grant him Audience And as this was his case so have I found something of the same Nature from Geo. Whitehead Sam. Cater and the rest of that Tribe who in most things so far as their power reaches follow the Track of the Papists And for proof of what I here lay down I must refer the Reader to my Book Intituled The Painted Harlot Whipt and Stript c. and other Books of my Writing where I have defended my self from the venome of their poysoned Arrows For first they printed me an Informer as hateful a Name as was then in being And when I obtained the Certificate before recited and that they saw that would not do then they call me in print Beast Dog Woolf Enemy of all Righteousness Child of the Devil Devil Incarnate Fool Novice and what other ill-bred Language their Tongues could invent Then in my Book The Quakers Detected c. I made them also ashamed of such Billingsgate-Language And now the Crime they would fix upon me is An Apostate A self-condemned Apostate An Apparent Apostate which are the worst of Names and had they power to their Wills I might justly fear the Fate which others met with from their Predecessors the envious Papists But as it hath pleased God to enable me to graple with the Lyon * viz. Their Term Informer and the Bear †That it is their railing Language as Devil Beast Dog Woolf and the like so I trust he will enable me to overturn this great Philistine I mean this Bullwark of theirs raised against my Name and Reputation I mean the charge of a self condemned Apostate I have read of M. Luther's Resolution Zeal and Christian Courage against the Pope and his pretended Infalibility and other holy Cheats saith the Historian He charged the Pope not with Life but with Learning not with his Doings but with his Doctrine not picking at the Rine but plucking at the Root not seeking the man but shaking the Kingdom yea and charging him with plain Heresie And still urging and reducing things to the Foundation and Touchstone of the Scriptures * See Fox's Acts and Monuments p. 402 to 417. opened the Eyes of many c. How far my weak endeavours may be said to bear the same Complexion with Respect to this People I will not determine but this I am sensible of there is as much need now to unmask their Leaders and to let their Hearers see their crafty Jugglings whereby they mislead them as there was in the days of Luther and under a sense thereof I am willing to lay out my Talent assuredly believing that though what I now write may not prevail with their present Infatuated Disciples yet both in this Age and Ages to come It will be a means to prevail upon the examining Bereans even such as will search the Scriptures whether what they hold and teach be according to them yea or nay Obj. But 't is objected by G. Whitehead in his Third Charge in his Book stiled The Conten Apostate recharged c. p. 5 6. That Francis Bugg is neither Conscienciously a Religious nor Ingenuous in his writing c. for that he makes no conscience of writing malicious Lyes notorious odious Forgeries and Slanders to villifie and defame others c. And for particular instances to evince his charge he cites sometimes four words in a line then skips to another part of a line taking a bit here and a bit there without the least demonstration or Convincing Argument Thus he jumpeth and leapeth this way and that way floating as a Ship without either Helm or Anchor still shewing himself like the Papists great Champion Mr. Harding against Bishop Jewel as you may read in the Preface to the Defence of the Apology of the Church of England c. where Mr. Harding saith Mr. Jewell is the open Enemy of the Church Mr. Jewell is worse than Ananias that condemned St. Paul Mr. Jewell playeth the part of Antichrist Mr. Jewell is proud Mr. Jewell is Lucifer and serves the Devil Mr. Jewell is a Forger Mr. Jewell is a Lyer an Impudent Lyer Mr. Jewell most falsly corrupteth c. But as I believe Mr. Jewell was clear of the Papists foul Charges So have I been very careful not to mis-represent these People or their Principles much less to forge a Lye a thing I abhor for truth is plain and hath no need of such wicked acts to uphold it and therefore good Christian Reader peruse what is writ on both sides endeavour to know the cause thorowl◠and then judge uprightly And if after a thorow Examination thou dost not find that they pretend to have a Spirit beyond the Fore-Fathers and thereby know who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates and that none need to give them discerning or Judgment but that by vertue of this extraordinary Spirit they pretend that on all occasions and at all times they are sufficiently furnished c. Then I have wronged them and mis represented them which would indeed be both disingenuous and unconscionable But if they do thus pretend and set these things out as their principles in print and thereby deceive the simple and by vertue thereof and of the like prodigious errors then I think it my duty publickly to Reprove them when all private means will not reclaim them Again If after a thorow Examination thou findest that they deny the second person of the Trinity that they do not own Him that was born of the Virgin Mary that sate upon Jacob's Well that was spit upon smote with the Palms of their Hands thrust a Spear into his Side hanged on the Tree wrapt in the Linnen Cloths Died was Buried and rose again the third day to be the Christ of God Then wilt thou see it high time for a Testimony to be born against such false and erroneous Doctrine and dangerous Principles which are Pernitious to the very Foundation of the Christian Religion Again If upon a thorow Examination thou shalt find that they set it forth in print as their principle that the Name Christ belongs to every Believer as well as to him that was born of the Virgin as aforesaid Then wilt thou find Christ's words fulfilled who said Mat. 24.5 Many shall come in my Name saying I am Christ and shall deceive
But since you prayed for and addressed your selves to King James by Name why can you not as well pray for Their Majesties by Name Well but since you can bring the Scriptures to cover and excuse your not addressing or praying for them by Name where do you find any Text for calling in and hindering the Sale of the Widow Whitro'ws Book aforesaid That is the Question which in your next you are desired to answer And tho I hope you did not order it to be burned as I am told and that by one of your own People too that George Whitehead ordered my Books to be burnt throughout all his Dominion I am sure therein he followed Rome exactly The way is first condemn the Man then condemn his Books but first burn the Man then his Books And sometimes when she cannot help it she do's otherwise and so do you you have first condemned me as a Self-condemned Apostate next my Books you have order'd to be burnt But I have not as yet heard that you have ordered a Stake to be prepared for me I do thank GOD you cannot 't is an old saying 'T is good that curst Cows have short Horns You that burn my Books if you had power which GOD grant you never may I would not trust you to burn me I tell you what thoughts soever I had of you in 1686 I have worse thoughts of you now And G. W. is one principal Man that hath raised these thoughts First By his defaming me endeavouring to destroy my Reputation according to the Jesuits Morals and the Papists Practises to the Martyrs all along Secondly By charging me in divers things as a great Criminal where his Conscience tells him I am clear * Particularly his second Charge in his last where he finds no Cause And Thirdly That instead of seeking Peace in the way of Peace he acts as contrary thereto as light is to darkness And tho he writes three Books against me in nine Months time yet he exposes me the Contentious Person And thus he goes on and says He neither consults Events nor fears Effects And the People his Disciples love to have it so if they did not they would not suffer such a Make-bate such a peevish waspish Man to sit and scrible one Book after another and yet will not come forth to prove his Accusation nor defend his Charge wherewith he and his Brethren stand charged And now by this my Book I do hereby challenge four or six of their ablest Preachers to come forth in the vindication of their Twelve Principles in the first Chapter if they can giving me a months notice and I will GOD permitting meet them in Milden-Hall and prove them erroneous and pernicious to the Christian Religion As also accept of the Three Charges exhibited by George Whitehead against me in his last Pamphlet styled The Contentious Apostate recharged c. And this will be better than everlastingly to print And tho in 1682 you would take no notice of what is said de Christiana Libertate p. 213. nor in the Painted Harlot c. p. 70 71. Yet if you look therein you may perceive my then Resolution in case you proceeded in that base and unworthy way in which S. Cater began tho indeed I always took G. W. to have a hand in that Book I say I was resolved to spare no Arrow which might light on the skirts of this well-favour'd Harlot tho I can say I have been slow and if I could any way have prevailed with them in the least to have acknowledged their Faults wherein they had done amiss it would have abated the edge of my Pen which has been severe upon G. W. as his just Demerit for his great Injustice and base way of writing Thus at present I only refer him to his Grandfather's practice Pope Leo X. * and others see Fox's Acts and Monuments Fox's Acts and Mon. p. 238 416 417 483. p. 238 416 417 483. But to return I remember George Fox put forth 2434 Queries to all the Scholars and Doctors in Europe to answer and bid them come out of their Holes Dens and lurking places into the Fields we shall see said George whether you can draw your weapons c. The said Questions consist chiefly in these and the like words viz. Quest What is a Genetive Case What is a Dative Case What is a Participle What is a Dipthong What is a Noun Why are these Declined And why is the word called Declined Who was the first Author of it And by whom it came And why is the word called Adverb And what is an Adverb the word itself and where was its rise c See for more of them in Battering Rams c. p. 18. This Book G. F. intituled A Primer for all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe printed 1659. And now what if I for once thrust in a Query amongst these or at the end of them as I found it the other day in an untoward Book intituled The Jacobites Catechism p. 5. to George Whitehead * He and three more deliver'd this Address at Windsor to King Charles the Second wherein they shewed what they were for who about the time of the Execution of the Lord Russell presented to King Charles the Second an Address crying out extremely against all HELLISH PLOTS AND TRAYTEROVS CONSPIRACIES The meaning was against the Lord RVSSELL the Lord Essex Sidney Cornish Bateman c. The knotty Query is this that followeth c. Query What made the Quakers no more concerned for the loss of those brave Patriots of your Country Essex and Russell c. who lost their Lives in defence of your Country and its Liberties c Come George this is as I said a knotty Question it will be difficult for you and W. P. to answer for all your subtilty and cunning tho many observe you are much fill'd therewith as most of the Jesuitical Race Well I will not insist too much on this Point lest you say I expose you But why should you talk of Exposing I only tell you your Duty And are you so proud having had the Rein to propose Questions to Bishops Ministers Presbyterians Anabaptists and all sorts caling them Witches See Edw. B's Works p. 54 55. A just Rebuke to 21 Divines c. The Way cast up c. Saul's Errand c. Truth 's Defence c. Plain and peaceable Advice c. Rusticus c. Devils Sots Conjurers Beasts Tinkers Moll 's Lizards Fiery Fighters such as can defend their Religion with the Sword to be turned into the Pit eternally Blood-thirsty Tyranical Projects c. Now if I should call you so then you might say I expose you but I only tell you of your Duty and remind you of the Leaven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisy CHAP. VII Shews that forsaking the Quakers is no Apostacy from the Articles of the Christian Faith I AM now come to the Conference I had with George Whitehead
a Dispensation for then I doubt not but you would have construed the words AS YET to relate to time and ought not to be render'd tamen viz. Nevertheless and that you was but to do things freely for the present viz. until you could get money for doing it then Adhuc had been the Grammatical Sense of the words As Yet and not Tamen And who knows but your minds may alter when you see it for your purpose We see your Interest will lead you to change and who knows but W. P. in PENSILVANIA may understand both the Latin and English Sense of that your Declaration which says viz. We have chosen the Son of GOD to be our King and he hath chosen us to be his People and he might command Thousands and Ten Thousands of his Servants TO FIGHT in his CAVSE But yet his Kingdom is not of this World Neither can we YET believe that he will make use of us in that way But for the PRESENT we are given up to bear and suffer c. I say if in G. Fox his Order that nothing about Marriages and Church-business should be done for money he had said That AS YET let nothing be recorded for money but FOR THE PRESENT do things FREELY c. Then you might have lawfully taken 50 l. per Annum according to G F. his infallible Law But since there is no such words of Exception in the recited infallible Order you are found Transgressors thereof and do take money contrary to your Pretences If you say the Business is more now then there is more Persons to do it But if you can thus alter then who knows but the word YET may in time be rightly understood especially in PENSILVANIA as 't is in your said Declaration G. Fox also said in his several Papers given forth about the Year 1658. Friends you ARE to do the Nations Business freely and that is the way to get into the hearts of the People * See Painted Harlot c. p. 47. c. A notable Stratagem indeed and as well improved but says G. W. †The Contentious Apostate and his One Blow c. p. 22. We think this is not true we know no such Order printed in that Year if at all Here is another of his Equivocations for tho' in my Book One Blow c. p. 6. it is said to be printed in 1650 which is an Error in the Press and corrected by an Errata in p. 14. viz. 1659. Thus he shuffles and seeks ways to evade the matter which is certainly true for I have the Book by me and still contrary to his Pretensions for in Judgment Fixed p. 365. he thus saith For I examin the Errata's even of my Adversaries Books as they are noted before I answer the matter c. Now this is either true or false i. e. he either examins the Errata's or he does not If he does not then he proclaims himself a Lyar to the whole World in Print If he does and yet takes no Notice of the Correction of an Error but publish the Error as he hath done this of 1650 instead of 1659. then is he still the more like himself A grand Deceiver one that pretends fair yea so fair as that he pretends to examin the Errata's even of his Adversaries Books before he answer them And yet behold it is no such matter thus deceitfully false do I find him in many places too large to recite and therefore I do hereby resume my Charge as in Battering Rams p. 11 12. viz. In this you deceive your People in that you pretend to Teach Preach Suffer and Record Marriages and other Publick Offices freely without Money Gifts or Rewards And by reason of this fair Pretence you not only have deceived the Simple but also taken occasion thereby to vilify and speak contemptuously of all other Publick Preachers First the National for taking Tythes and other Dues as a setled Maintenance by Law Established which is not so burthensom as you are to many of your Hearers notwithstanding your smooth Pretences to the contrary And next the Presbyterians and Independents whom you bespatter about their Bason c. wherein perhaps their Hearers put their free Contributions for their Ministers Subsistence and all this while VALVE your selves upon your FREE PREACHING FREE SVFFERING FREE WRITING c. And at the same time you know 't is common for all these Church-Officers amongst you to take money c. These things discover your Hypocrisie and you cannot abide to hear of them but T. Ellwood hath confessed them W. R. manifested them the recited Letter suggests them and I do affirm them CHAP. XI Shews that the Forsaking the Quakers is no Apostacy from the Articles of the Christian Faith BY this time it may be expected That whereas in my former Books I have made some distinction between the Foxonian Party and the Storian Party amongst the People call'd Quakers sometimes terming the one Christian Quakers the other Antichristian the one Protestant the other Popish c. And that if there be a real difference in their Principles I should and ought in point of Justice to continue the distinction and not to condemn the Innocent with the Guilty c. To all which I do say there is great Reason so to do and in order to it as I have set forth the Principles and Practices of the Foxonian Party so now I shall set forth what the Storian Party holds and shew it to be sound And that tho' they do dissent from the established Religion yet they hold the true Faith at least for substance as may be seen by the Articles of the Faith of John Cox whilst he was a Minister amongst the Storian Party which I call the Christian Quakers in a little Book printed Anno 1689. intituled The Articles of the Christian Faith believed and written by me John Cox c. And I never heard that any of his Hearers contradicted the said Book or any part of it and therefore in Charity I am oblig'd to think they hold the same Faith First in his Epistle to the Reader he thus saith And to explain my self I agree in every Particular with those called the Apostles Nicene and Athanasius Creeds c. OF JESUS CHRIST ARTICLE II. P. 6. I believe in one Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the onely begotten eternal Son of God the Father conceived by the Holy Ghost manifested in the Flesh born of the Virgin Mary and suffered and dyed for our Sins without the Gates of Jerusalem and rose again the third day for our Justification And I believe all else concerning him according to the Holy Scriptures OBSERVATION The difference betwixt the recited Article in this fundamental Point and their Article set forth in their 2d and 3d Principle in the first Chapter is obvious I shall recite some few passages more and so leave it with some few Observations c. OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES ARTICLE IV. P. 7. I believe