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A65836	The apostate incendiary rebuked, and the people called Quakers vindicated from Romish hirarchy and imposition in a serious examination of VVilliam Mucklows Liberty of conscience asserted against imposition, but proved a liberty which is in Christ Jesus, and against unity and order in his church / by one whose rejoycing is the testimony of a good conscience toward God and man, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1673 (1673)	Wing W1890; ESTC R39076	20,163	27

and setled among us by his Power and in the Unity of the Spirit and not by any Man's Imposition whatsoever and therefore the Foundation of this Man's Work against us is both groundless and he hath stated the matter very falsly and disingenuously for in the same Spirit and Power of Christ we have endeavoured to remove Joh. Perrot's Imposition who was the great Examplar of disorderly keeping on the Hat in time of publick Payer among us as they may remember he first gave the Occasion and Offence to the Church of Christ by severely imposing it and judging our innocent Practice of putting of our Hat in publick Prayer to be Accursed Idolatrous a Romish Tradition and to be repented of as his Soul had done c. Whereby together with his Example some were seduced into a Party and Prejudice this in the Name and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ we witnessed against and that imposing exalted Spirit as repugnant to that Unity and good Order which in the beginning the Lord led us freely into upon which J. P. the Imposer being frustrated of his singular Rule and Sect-Mastership did grant a Relaxation leaving all to the free Spirit of God in keeping on or putting off the Hat in Prayer contrary to his judging the latrer Idolatry Accursed c But afterward his pretended Liberty of Conscience extended to this that he might do that to day in Truth and Righteousness which to morrow he might be ashamed of or be denyed in by the same Spirit Sordid Ranterism and Blasphemy and after he went into Jamaica he could get into worldy pomp and preferment put of his Hat to Men and in officiating the place of a Clark most strictly tender Men Oathes c. insomuch that some that had admired him then were ashamed of him and his Ranterism and some of them who for a time were drawn aside and darkned who were of the more honest and conscientious after some Labour of Love used with them to convince them came to a Sence of the Power of God which rent the Vail and broke their Hearts brought them to judge that dividing Spirit and reduced them back to their first Love and primitive Order therefore his Charge of inforcing Uniformity and Unity in outward Gestures upon Men before Conviction and so far retaining and letting in the complying Hypocrite which he flings upon those that are accounted renowned Elders among us in the City of London Is all of it utterly false and also contains a slanderous Aspertion against those that are let in and owned among us as being complying Hypocrites which he cannot prove nor instance any of them that hath thus hypocritically complyed before Conviction nor that we have Unity with such I doubt not but many can with good Conscience testifie against him in this Matter and he might have given a more honest Account if his Conscience were rightly exercized for hath not he himself been sought in Love and Tenderness both by perswasive Means for his Conviction with Patience and long-Suffering by Friends that wished him well to reduce him out of that Spirit of Prejudice and Opposition which would cover it self with the Hat that he might have come into the Unity of the Spirit and Society of the Lord's People But he hath rejected Counsel and persisted in Hardness and Wilfulness crucified and slain the just one in himself and become an open Enemy having entred into Judas's Way both to the Grief of God's Spirit and People with whom we include his tender Wife or Mother or those Relations whose Respect to the Truth and People of God might have some Influence upon him if he were not a surly wilful and conceited Man yet his great Pretence is for Liberty of Conscience but what a tender Conscience he hath we may casily judge from what follows First In his Query viz. Whether it hath not been experienced how difficult it is to root out such when once they have reduced a People to this Belief and they in the Exercise of this Authority because the Honour of being invested in such a Capacity doth obliege Men to secure themselves in this superior Orbe and stirs up Men of Parts and Ambition to support such an Hirarchy in Expectation that it will at last fall unto themselves 2dly By his insinuating against us in Print as supporting such an Hirarchy as usurps the Place of the Head breaks in sunder the Unity of the Body sets up another Head besides Christ with Romish Positions such kind of Apellations Principles and Pretences as the Church of Rome did obtain her unlimitted Power by How now William Is this thy tender Conscience Moderation Love and Charity professed towards the People of God called Quakers O envious Man and peevish Incendiary who art thus reviling and slandering them in the Sight of the Sun do not these thy invective Insinuations savour of the Malice of Satan in the height Tending to stir up Persecution to destroy and root us out if the Lord were not a Wall about us and to beget that Jealousie in the Powers against us that 's more cruel then Death and even at this Juncture when the Stream appears against the Papists and Rome's Hirarchy Let the Lord and all that fear him or are charitable judge concerning thy Conscience and Charity towards us in these inveterate Suggestions who yet knowest in thy Conscience that we deny the Pope and Rome's Hirarchy But though the Romish Hirarchy usurping the Place of the Head enforcing Men to an Uniformity before Conviction making them Hypocrites Arbritary Rule or Judicature excommunicating Persons meerly for their tender Consciences be all utterly denyed and detested by us Yet in the true Church which Christ was and still is the Foundation and Head of God was known to be the God of Order and not of Confusion and he afforded Helps and Governments in the Church which could be no such Usurpation or Arbritaries as this Man falsly insinuates against the ancient Friends and Elders amongst us There were Elders that did rule well Overseers made by the Holy Ghost and they had Power from God therein to set divers things in order and not only to exhort perswade and admonish Persons among them but also to reprove rebuke and in the Name and Authority of Christ to command charge enjoyn and in that Sence to impose among themselves matters or things telating to Society and good Order in the Church as we know no religious Society but hath a Care of its Preservation as in the Wisdom of God they saw Cause the Churches of Christ had also Power and Authority in his Name to reject withdraw from exclude out of their Communion obstinate and disordily Walkers among them and all this before Rome's usurped Hirarchy See Mat. 18. Ch. 17. ver 18. 1 Cor. 12. 28. Ch. 11. ver 34. Ch. 5. 4 5 2. 2 Thes. 2 15. Ch. 3. 6. ver 14. Tit. 1. 5. Rom. 16. 17. 1 Tim. 1. 19 20. Phil. 4. 8 9. 1 Cor. 14. 37.

Ch. 4. 17 19. with many more Now let us consider W. M's tender Conscience as to the Lord his further Manifestation c. for his wearing his Hat in time of publick Prayer where he tells us that we greatly err who say the keeping on the Hat is a Practice introduced unless we can prove it is done upon a religious Account when as in Truth it is only a Custom left which they formerly practized this agrees with what they say in their Spirit of the Ha p. 24. That they keep it neither off nor on upon a religious Account Then this bespeaks their meer Indifferency in the Case if not upon a religious Account there is no such tender Conscience nor farther Manifestation in the matter on their parts wherefore their Pretence of both is a meer Dissimulation and Cheat and if then this Man's Conscience were not asleep or much hardned he might see it is in his Wilfulness and Opposition that he hath persisted in such a reproved and offensive Gesture as he hath neither the Exercise of Conscience nor Religion in See what his asserting Liberty of Conscience amounts to he should have rather entituled his Paper Liberty of self-Will and a perverse Spirit asserted against the Unity and Order of the Church of Christ and People of God called Quakers And how do we err in saying their irreverend Posture is introduced when it was both brought in and imposed long after they accustomed the contrary in the Church But his main Allegation is He wants or finds not the Lord's Requiring for the Practice of him How should he know his Requiring for that which he is prejudicially engaged against And in such a hardned wilful State that feels not the living Union wherein he hath resisted the holy Spirit in his People and quencht it in himself and how should such a one that despises the Church of Christ and reviles the Lord's People in that State joyn with them either in the Unity or Order of Life This Man therefore playes the hardned Hypocrite and Dissembler while he seems to complain of being excluded out of our Communion when he desires it not with us having excluded himself and odified us as grosly as he can to the World His Complaint of Excommunication denying him and others the Benefit of Marriage and Burial having a Propriety therein only for the Omittance of keeping of the Hat in time of Prayer is neither fully nor truly stated for first we do not deny them Marriage in it self but among us and as being out of Unity and Charity with us which is more then only for the said Omission we may not in Conscience be their Witnesses 2dly Denyal of him Burial He hath not Cause to cast that upon us without Distinction 3dly Yet our Friends have Reason to take Care whom they admit Burial among us to prevent Reproach as much as in them lies His saying They give that Meeting this Appellation THE BODY is not true but also falsly scornfully given in the Spirit of the Hat to the Meeting in Devon-shire-House for the Lody is but one and hath many Members so also is Christ which is not made up of one particular Meeting but of the universal Church of Christ or general Assembly of the first-born and the Tryal of Motions and Unity is by that Life and Spirit which searches all things and whereby the spiritual Man judgeth all things and not by a few that seek Preheminence nor do such sway over us or our Body as he falsly insinuates who himself is one of the same Spirit Many are filled with Prayer and Praises to the Lord in silent Meettings who notwithstanding sometimes requires some outward Expressions thereof both in Words and Gestures and that in deep Humility of Soul with unvailed Spirits and Heads too which for this Man to oppose and shew a publick Sign against is no token of Humility but of Hardness and self-Exaltation As for what Gestures we may use in our private Devotion and Prayer whether walking by the Way or on our Beds it follows not that we must needs be in the same posture in publick Prayer in Meetings any more then we are to follow our usual Labours or Vocations in our publick Meetings and we are not accountable to Apostates of the manner of our private Devotion What we do is singly to the Lord without Respect to Spectators none being present but in our Assemblies he who is the God of Order and not of Confusion hath called us to express or shew forth Reverence and Order for the Sake of others and to do all things to Edification and God's Power Presence we feel with us in what we do but one while this Man is heaping Questions against our Practice another while his Complaint is only about imposing Postures upon our Fellow-Members which is false for they give us no such Occasion nor hath he approved himself as our Fellow-Member who hath slighted our Testimony and Exhortation and refused to hear the Church being one of them that went out from us for that they were not of us for had they been of us they would have continued with us To his Query Whether the Head mentioned in Cor. 11. may not be covered with a Hat off and uncovered with a Hat on Answ. The Head Christ whom he means may but this Man hath nor rightly considered the Apostle's Words in restraining them only to that Sence of the Head when they also relate to an outward Order or different Postures of Men and Women see ver 5 6 7 13. which argue that the Women would be uncovered then which was not comely in them as in the Men and the men's being uncovered appears to be in Opposition to the Jews Vails and Coverings under the Law as for the Head Christ he ought not to be covered in the Women any more then in the Men. Que. Have not some kneeled sat and stood in publick c. Whether a Cap is not as real a Covering to the Head as a Hat Answ. No that it is not but these Questions are to excuse himself and recriminate our Friends he states not the Ground of the Difference which lies chiefly in that Spirit of Division and Opposition in himself and some others which should it seek to make Discord and Parties either about kneeling Cap on or Cap off in Prayer the Life and Power of God in the Church would rise up in Judgment against it and the Discord-Makers he triffles touching wearing a Cap standing or sitting for God allows a Conveniency and what is expedient for the Necessity of the weak and aged and feeble in Body who are not in Prejudice or Opposition in what they do yet however where the substantial part of true Worship is known which is in Spirit and Truth with a naked bowed and broken Heart before the Lord there will be no Straitness nor Scruple to express it with uncovered Head and bended Knees as to the Lord which was practiced among