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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09695	Railings and slanders detected: or The folly and heresies of the Quakers further exposed. Being an answer to an invective libel written by G. Whitehead, impertinently called, Antichrist in flesh unmasked, &c. which some of the Quakers call an answer to a book truly stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. In this brief discourse you have the slanderous out-cries of G. Whitehead, against Edward Paye, Henry Loader, and William Alcot, examined, detected, and confuted.	Paye, Edw. (Edward)	1692 (1692)	Wing P884; ESTC R181559	21,006	57

present in Spirit they are obliged to Prayer and Fasting and all other Gospel Ordinances till his second personal and glorious coming But what the Quakers have to do with Ordinances Prayer or Fasting I see not 2. Neither is there Reason to believe you dare in your Assemblies in Christ's Name rebuke any unclean Spirits lest you meet with the same Answer and Repulse as the seven Sons of Sceva did Acts 19. 14 15 16. And the evil Spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you And the Man in whom the evil Spirit was leaped on them and overcame them c. And to conclude my Answer to his long Story I ask George Whitehead why he had not denied this Gesture of Quaking and Foaming to Mr. John Faldo who gives him Provocation enough to do it See his Book Quakerism no Christianity pag. 12. Saith he How generally were their Meetings viz. the Quakers either silent or taken up with sudden and violent Eruptions of dismal Howlings and horrid Ravings Persons suddenly taken as with the Falling Sickness shaking and foaming at the Mouth and some lying flat on the ground as if stark dead And saith Mr. Faldo some such things as these I have seen and heard and that there are undeniable Testimonies of it that are so numerous and notorious that though now they have almost if not altogether left the latter sort of them they dare not deny that it was so And if they dare to challenge this with an Untruth I may requite them to keep alive their Remembrance with a good part of a volume of them Thus far Mr. Faldo whose Book is signed and approved by 21 Ministers of the Independent and Presbyterian Way I needed not to have taken this Pains since these Gestures are fresh in the Memories of many in this Nation And George Whitehead hath said nothing that denies the Matter of Fact charged in my Books p. 6 7. upon the Quakers he denies not Quaking and Trembling which was all the Instance was brought for and then I think for any Service G. W. hath done the Cause he had better have said nothing 3. George Whitehead saith in p. 16. that I have falsely cited and grosly perverted the Quakers Words and Authors and taken many false things on Credit not only the Story from the Westmorland Petitioners but also out of his Brother Tho. Hicks his abominable Forgeries and Lyes in his factious Dialogues And in p. 8. He prays his Reader to observe that much of our Book against them is taken out of other Books and Pamphlets of their Adversaries long since answered and refuted and their Authority is utterly denied by us as the Westmorland Petitioners who were envious Persecutors Tho. Hicks his abusive Dialogues who was proved a notorious Forger of Lyes And a malicious Libel stiled Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected Answer I am inclinable to think G. W. hath said some Truth in what hath been repeated nay I do in Charity believe it then I will shew you what I believe he saith Truth in 4. Namely That the Authority of the Quakers Adversaries Books is utterly denied by them I am strongly persuaded G. W. saith Truth in this for they that can deny the Authority of the Scriptures being the only Rule of Faith and Practice when alledged against them may well deny the Authority of all Books wrote against them whatsoever tho' the Matter be ever so true 2. As to the rest asserted by G. W. I will not tell him he lyes But I am well satisfied he is departed very far from the Truth And as to that Book Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected It treats chiefly of the Usurping and Lording Authority that some of the Quakers assumed over others and of others opposing and contradicting them as might be made manifest And as to what instances I bring from that Book as Josias Coal's Letter from Berbaldus to George Fox giving him those blasphemous Titles mention'd Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd p. 43. or any other passage from thence cited by me let G. W. deny them as to Matter of Fact if he dare 3. As for Mr. Hicks his Dialogues that George Whitehead calls Lyes and Forgeries and the Author a notorious Lyer and Forger c. It had been much more to purpose had G. W. shewed us what some of those Lyes and Forgeries were I have it 's true examined the Quakers Appeal by way of Charge against Tho. Hicks wherein they charge him with Lyes and Slanders and Forgeries and what not and I have perused Mr. Hicks's Answer to their Appeal where Mr. Hicks clears himself both of Lyes and Forgery I find his Answer to their Appeal subscribed and approved by no less than 22 Persons of Credit who testifie that they have compared Tho. Hicks his Citations with the Quakers Books out of which they were taken and find them truly cited then let the Reader judge who is the Lyer Tho. Hicks or G. W. Again G. W. seems to be angry with my Citation out of Mr. Hicks's Dialogue p. 24 25. In Antichrist in Spirit p. 14 15. As for us had the Scriptures never been we could have known what is therein contained I have also heard this from a Quaker my self But G. W. was not so fair as to mention this though it was the ground of my Demand And let the Reader observe what an apparent Perversion George Whitehead makes of my Words and the occasion of them p. 18 19. of his Pamphlet after he hath charged us with Forgery Now pray observe saith he what strange Test or Proof your Agent Edw. Paye puts upon us to evince an immediate Inspiration G. W. knows this Question was demanded to prove what is before mentioned Namely that had the Scriptures never been they could have known what was therein contained Now if this be so then let the Quakers resolve me what those things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21. 25. or what were the Contents of that writing on the ground Joh. 8. 68. Or else let their proud boasting of immediate Inspirations be condemned to perpetual silence c. Saith G. W. Hereupon you have passed unjust Judgment and falsely charged us with proud boasting and argued absurdly against immediate Inspiration as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all things that it knows I answer It is a strange thing to me that G. Whitehead doth not see that he condemns himself whilst he is judging another and it is a lamentable thing that the Quakers will admit of no distinctions But it verifies that true Proverb that the want of distinctions are the cause of mistakes Here G. W. will not admit of a distinction betwixt immediate Inspirations and the mediate or more common Gifts of the Spirit Now all Christians that I know of will admit of this distinction That it is one thing to be immediately and extraordinarily endowed and inspired with the Holy Ghost as the Prophets and Apostles