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A65856	Christ's lamb defended against Satan's rage in a just vindication of the people called Quakers ... from the unjust attempts of John Pennyman and abettors, in his malicious book, styled, The Quakers unmasked, clearly evincing his by a lover of truth and peace, G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1917; ESTC R20009	52,095	70

added especially since it concerned a Man who is deceased and dyed a Prisoner for the Testimony of Jesus and at rest and who in his Life-time bore a faithful Testimony for Truth and Righteousness 'T is a most base and revengeful Spirit in J. P. to rake E. B. out of his Grave to bring Infamy upon his name his Gospel Testimony which he bore and Prophetical Spirit which was in him now he is not here to answer for himself and not rather have prevented both by Friendly Advice in his life time when they were in Society but instead thereof it may be rather questioned whether he was not in those Cases too much beset with such unstable Spirits as J. P. who now might have put more charitable Constructions upon E. B. and us than he has done namely that he feared the effects of a Monarchy and that he was so zealous against the great persecuting Whore that has made her self drunk with the Blood of the Saints that therefore he would have had the Beast that has long carried her so to hate her as to cast her off as being a Man who in his Spirit simpathized with the Martyrs of Jesus and those Souls under the Altar of them that were slain for the word of God who cryed with a loud voice how long O Lord Holy and True dost thou not Judge and AVENGE our Blood on them that dwell on the Earth Rev. 6. 10. And whatsoever in any of the Writings cited by J. P. may seem disgustful as to Monarchy we have still this cure for it all that John Pennyman has prescribed namely that these things were writ out of these Mens Zeal and Fear that Monarchy would be oppressive and cause more Burthens or Impositions to be laid upon the Nation than before And this excuse was pretty warily contrived for if he had flung all that former Zeal and Fear into the dirt 't is not unlikely but he might have highly disgusted his Friends the Presbyterians and Independents c. And therefore as a Person that appears rather affected with these former Passages which intimate a Fear concerning Monarchy than with our late Applications to the King c. he has taken the great pains to collect and transcribe them the more at large and sorely to chide us the People called Quakers for making Declarations and Applications to the King Council and Parliament to perswade them of our faithful and peaceable Intentions or for any Relief from the Imposition of Oaths c. for this we are sorely chidden not only as Temporizers but also for a late fawning flattering Address to the King and Parliament as he is pleased to call it We meet with no such chiding for these particular Passages that seemed to dislike of a Monarchy in Cromwel's days for the Fear and Zeal that was therein shall either cure all that or else John shall relinquish the Medicine of his own preparing and wheel about again and wholly desert his Friends the Nonconformists both Presbyters Independents and others of his private Abetters and Cabalistick Council As concerning that passage to the Officers of the Army where after they are reproved for abusing the Power of God and loosing it and putting them in Prison that struck at the Root meaning the Quakers saith he there is this passage viz. Had you been faithful to the Power of the Lord God you had gone into Spain to require the Blood of the Innocent that there had been shed and have commanded them to have offered up their Inquisitions c. and knocked at Romes Gates before now and trampled Deceit and Tyranny under And demanded the Pope and commanded him to have offered up all his Torture-houses his Racks and Inquisition c. Hereupon we have several questions put upon us viz. Could any People have declared themselves more for fighting How should the Army set up their Standard upon the top of Rome but by fighting How require the Blood that has been shed in the Inquisition but by fighting Here he may think he has sorely opposed and puzzelled us But 't is no very difficult matter to answer with clearness herein and safety to our Christian principle against killing and destroying one another for either these Passages must be spoken as from a Prophet of God or only as a Christian however conditionally First if as a Prophet then he speaks not always what is desirable or pleasant to him according to his Christian Principle nor within the compass of his Understanding as a Man nor from any Human contrivance but what 's commanded him of God as relating to Judgments or Calamities which may be of divers kinds and then he may Speak and Prophesie of Wars and Destructions c. and yet not at all be of such a Spirit or Principle in himself as to maintain or desire Wars and Fighting as the Prophet Isaiah who was an Evangelical Prophet and against Wars and Fighting and saw the end thereof Isa. 2. 3 4 5. and the Indignation of the Lord upon all Nations and his Fury upon all their Armies Isa. 34. 2. yet this Evangelical Prophet said O Assyrian the Rod of mine Anger c. I will send against an Hypocritical Nation c. see Isa. 10. 5 6. And further all yee Beasts of the Field come to devour Isa. 56. 9. And Christ Jesus himself who said my Kingdom is not of this World for if it were my Servants would fight yet prophesied of the sad and miserable destruction of Jerusalem and of those Murderers that slew the Heir and said to those Hypocrites fill ye up the measure of your Fathers Iniquities and this was that all the Righteous Blood shed might be required at their hands And several Instances of Gods Judgments might be brought out of the Revelation of John against the great Whore c. So that a Man may speak as a Prophet and be yet a Christian of divers Calamities and Judgments which he cannot be active in and yet not destroy his Christian Principle Secondly But if as a Christian only and within the compass of a Christian Freedom and understanding these aforesaid Passages are spoken then I may lawfully conclude that the design thereof was not to incite to Fighting Killing or Bloodshed but rather that it was writ from a Belief that if they had eyed the Lord and aimed at the removing Oppression and Persecution they might have been such a dread of Nations as is expressed in the same Paper that possibly they might not have met with such Resistance if any in that case for who knows not that they were formidable for a time And what success they might have had for such an end our Adversary cannot determine However to require their Inquisition and to knock at Romes doors proves no violence all this might have been done by Embassies as in the case of the D. of Savoy that persecuted the poor Piedmontors the Stock of the Waldenses For he proves not an incitation unto Bloodshed and Slaughter

the Lord establish'd the Kingdom in his hand and when he caused the Law of the Lord to be taught in Judah that the fear of the Lord fell upon all the Kingdoms of the Lands they made no war against Jehosaphat see 2 Chron. 17. and 10. and Chap. 20. 29 30. therefore the fear of the Lord and his Power was and is a better Defence to a Kingdom or Nation than Wars and Fighting Now having proved from few Instances what a manifest Hypocrite and malicious Temporizer John Pennyman is as also his obscure Agent who writ his Observations I shall proceed to evince more of his Falshood Slander Baseness and Shallowness in his Reflections and Observations not looking upon it a sufficient Vindication of our selves and our Innocency only to discover his Malice Out-rage and Inconsistency but I have something to demonstrate on the behalf of our Judgment Practice and Conversation as we are a People which any indifferent and unprejudiced Reader may easily perceive or distinguish from his envious Objections and Invectives and how consistent we are and have all-a-long been in our Judgment and Practice having still the Testimony of a Good Conscience to rejoyce in both in the Sight of God and Men both with respect to the Kingdom and Government of Christ as head over his Church and Law-giver to his People and to the Governments among Men. First then to his Preface on which much of his Work had a Dependence where he thus proceeds viz. When I have considered how the Quakers have Writ and Printed against the Presbyterians Independents and others for being ingaged in the Late Wars c. it hath exceedingly amazed and astonished me That they who were so great Justifyers and Encouragers not only of what had been done in the Late Wars but also did Incite and Encourage those that were therein ingaged not to leave off until they had set up their Standard at the Gates of Rome c. And yet for them to upbraid others with that which themselves for many Years were so deeply concerned and engaged in c. who had not been more engaged if so much as themselves in the late Wars When they themselves had been ingaged in the same Cause and Quarrel with those whom they now so much reproach c. Thus far J. P. To all which I do conscientiously answer that he hath most grosly and palpably belied the People called Quakers in these Passages divers ways First in rendring them without exception of Persons not only Justifiers of the Late Wars and of what had been done therein without exception of Things done but also equally concerned with the Presbyterians Independents and others therein Secondly In rendring the People called Quakers as being as much or more ingaged in the Late Wars as the Presbyterians Independents c. When in the Time and Heat of those Wars the People called Quakers were not a People nor so gathered and constituted as a People under that Name Principle or Profession as now as 't is well known in this Nation whereas 't is not unknown That both Presbyterians Independents and some others were both gathered and constituted as distinct Peoples and as such both Ministers and their People many of them concerned in the Late Wars how far both in Preaching Subscriptions and Actings is also well known yet hope that some of them have learned better things ere this time a Day so that in this Case there is a vast disparity between them and the People called Quakers therefore the very Ground and Foundation of John Pennyman's Quarrel against us in this Matter as being so greatly ingaged in the Late Wars and Justifiers of what had been done that is all that was done in those Wars This I affirm to be a great Lye against the People called Quakers and yet grant him That divers who have been since and now are of us the People called Quakers have formerly been concerned in the Late Wars while under the Notion of Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists and other Perswasions yea many also who served the King in those Wars until they became better principled and of another Spirit through the Appearance of the Day of Christ and his Power unto them whereby many were made not only to lay down their Commissions and Offices desert the Army relinquish Fighting but also to break their Swords Spears and other Weapons of War and to convert them into necessary Uses according to that Evangelical Prophesie of Esaiah ch 2. as knowing that Christ's Kingdom is not of this World and therefore his Servants must not Fight and at his Command every one must put up and lay aside their Swords as well as Peter yea Peter must not fight for Christ but suffer with him if he intends to reign with him Here many who had been concerned in those Battles that were with confused Noise and Garments rowled in Blood are now come to that which is with Burning and Fuel of Fire in order to the Consumption of all that Fuel Lust Pride Enmity and Ambition from whence Wars have risen and which have been the original Cause thereof though many were zealous and consciencious according to what they believed in those former Wars even of those several Perswasions before-mentioned and my shewing our Adversary's Falsness in his Comparison between the Quakers and Presbyterians in this Case is not to vilifie or reproach them or any others because concerned therein hoping some of them are now better informed but am necessitated to mention them in this Case to shew the Disparity and Falsness of this Adversary's Comparison who now appears as a rigid Persecutor to take up and maintain a distinct Quarrel against us for the Presbyterians and Independents against the Quakers as for not only upbraiding but reproaching and vilifying them for being ingaged in the Late Wars while he falsly saith We were so great Justifyers and Incouragers of what had been done therein Hereupon as the principal Occasion of all his Quarrel after his charging us with the most revengeful and highest aggravating Terms that was possible for our Pen to express He thus proceeds viz. witness those Words to the Nonconforming Ministers in answer to Mr. Faldo viz. But why poor Nonconformists after all these preached-up Battles c. Again they are true Gospel-Ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and good Will towards Men and not Garments rowled in the Blood of Kings and Princes Rulers and People no worldly Armies Battles Victories Trophies Spoyls Sequestrations Decimations and the like c. And then J. P. as a Person highly disgusted at this and as greatly simpathizing or rather temporizing with the Presbyterians Independents and probably some of his private discontented Counsels or Cabals to aggravate this particular Instance against the People called Quakers he addeth these Words viz. What people setting these aside could have had the Face and Confidence to have writ such Language as this certainly not any especially when they themselves had been engaged in