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One blow at the feet of the imposing formal Quaker's image: or, Rather an epistle of love and good will to them, to shew them their great weakness (if not folly) in saying thee and thou ... / writ by Nich. Eed ...
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Eed, Nich.
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your Duty to serve them in Love or because so many do use this in Deceit shall not a true Man use it at all It cannot reasonably be supposed that our King and Magistrates looketh to be bowed unto as Gods upon the Score of Worship because they do allow so much Liberty of Conscience but for my part I and I do believe Thousands more do know that you Formal Quakers have not your Fellows among all sorts of Protestants for requiring and compelling according to your Power to be bowed down unto in matter of Faith and Conscience in things relating to Worship and you to cry out so against others for Giving and Receiving Honour or Titles of Honour as My Lord c. counting it Blasphemous Titles See what a Father amongst you received as at large in the Quakers Principles Doctrines Laws and Orders reprinted p. 12 13. which was taken out of some Letters sent to G. F. in his Life time Dear G. Fox Who art the Father of many Nations whose Life reacheth thro' us thy Children whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou Rulest and Governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is Established in Peace and the Increase thereof is without end Josiah Coal dear and precious one in whom my Life is bound up and my Strength in thee stands by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my Strength is renewed blessed art thou for evermore Life and Strength comes from thee Holy one dayly do I find thy Presence with me for I cannot reign but in thy Presence and Power Pray for us all Pray for me that I may stand in thy Dread for evermore I am thine Begotten and Nourished by thee and in thy Power am I preserved Glory to thee Holy one c. John Audland If G. Fox had not liked these why had he not buried it and reproved them that gave it but instead of burying it G. W. hath this Passage in his Innocency against Envy p. 18. Now seeing a high Father or King amongst you received such Titles and another justifieth it as well as he can in saying How proves he They gave and intended those Names and Titles to the Person of G. F. and not to the Life of Christ in him whereof he was a Partaker c. The beginning of their Writing is Proof enough of it Dear G. F. c. But if I take it in your Sense then why may not you as well bow and submit to the Life of Christ in the King do you make a Reprobate of him and refuse to submit upon that Score O base O base my Brethren when will you come to see the Spirit of Pride which leadeth you to say in your Hearts to others Stand off come not near me I am Holier than thou did those who bewitched the Galatians think you use greater Socery than you But if you object and say We know God led us into these low outside as some may esteem them foolish things and God may and often does confound the VVisdom of the VVise and make their Knowledge Foolish and he does this often by weak and foolish means Answer That is true and may not God do the same now to a Hypocritical People Pray search your selves with the Light you so much preach and see where there be not a just Cause for the Lord to deal so by you Concerning Tyths I do not believe Tyths to be due to any Gospel-Minister by Divine Law neither do I believe that your King and Parliament would have settled it upon the Church had it not been done before they came yet nevertheless I can pay it and do find as much Peace in my Conscience in doing of it or more than I did in denying it and I do now pay it not for fear of wrath but in Reference to the Example of Christ who altho' no Divine Law required him to pay tribute yet he paid it to an Heathen Emperour for Peace sake being an outward thing And his Apostle did exhort us to perform our Duty to the outward Power set over us by God himself St. Paul saith Let every Soul be subject to the higher Power Rom. 13. meaning the outward Power concerning outward things or else why did he say For this cause pay you Tribute and Custom and when he writes to Titus exhorts him to put others in mind to obey Magistrates Titus 3. 1. and Peter saith Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake c. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14. Now some Quakers have expounded Peter thus for the Lords sake mind that say they that Ordinance of Man which upholds Antichristian Laws as that of Tyths cannot be for the Lords sake and therefore exhorts to bear a Testimony against them but pray Brethren is not this to revile the King and Government and so against the manner of Christ the Prophet Jeremiah the Apostles and also against the Law of Moses who said Thou shalt not revile Exodus 22 28. And with what an Impudent Face can you suppose the King and Parliament have not as Lawful Power under God to make Ordinances concerning outward things and to require a Submission of the People in general as G. Fox had and G. Whitehead and his Councel hath over their People in particular If you say you believe they have a Lawful Power to make Ordinances concerning outward things then say I Why do not you teach the People actually to submit Do you think a good Conscience leadeth you to suffer for a Testimony against a Lawful Power or do you think because some have expounded Paul to the Romans thus Let every Soul he subject to the higher Power for there is no Power but of God that is say they the Power of Truth within which we are setting up that is it the Soul should submit unto and it is upon this Score that they teach the People not to submit actually to the outward Supream Power do you think the Supream Power have not as much Divine Law on their side for that Ordinance of Tyths as you formal Quakers have for your Ordinance of Womens Meetings distinct by themselves and apart from the Men Pray Brethren mind the Exhortation of the Prophet who said to the Church in his Age Bring your Necks under the Yoke of the King of Babylon and serve him for why will ye dye Jerem. 27. 11. I believe if any dosuppose so you will not say King William is one of the Kings of Babylon but if a Spirit of Pride and Imposition over others Conscience be some of the Marks of Babylon's Kings then G. Fox was and G. VVhitehead is more like Kings of Babylon than King VVilliam But some may say Jer. 51. 6. saith Flye out of the midst of Babylon and deliver every Man his Soul be not cut off in her Iniquity for this is the time of the Lord's Vengeance Very well this compared seemeth as tho' that might be allowed in Captivity which might not in