which of the Kings sworn subjects have minded the Spirit of truth when they took those oaths By their so swearing have they not done that which comes of evil or of the Devil the evil one Is not this rare quaking-stuff according to this Quakers false doctrine it is altogether unlawful for any of the Kings subjects to swear subjection to him any more lest they fall into condemnation as for any oaths which are truly lawful they are so condemned by this Quaker as that there is no Scripture-warrant for them in this day to plead Scripture for those oaths that are in truth righteousness and judgment it 's like using an old Almanack out of date it may well be said To what end did St. Paul tell the Christian Hebrews of God swearing by himself and that an oath is to put an end to all strife for had this Quaker been in St. Pauls time he would have catechized him otherwise that he did not understand the Scriptures that St. Paul had taught other doctrine than the Lord Jesus had done for he faith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea That solemn oaths are as bad now as vain oaths That swearing was lawful under the old dispensation but unlawful now Then St. Paul might have known this new-light-doctrine That Christ ended the dispensation of oaths where strife was If all this be not ungrounded abominable doctrine delivered by this Quaker then let wise unbiassed Readers judg Q. p. 50 51. Q. Numb 52 Ch. Father inform me concerning the observation of days as holy-days and Sunday which some call Sabbath-day and some the Lords-day and whether the Lord requires that I should observe them Fa. If thou observest a day observe it to the Lord but he requires not the observing of particular days for the Seventh day was holy in which he rested from all his works and that was the Jews Sabbath and they observed it to the Lord as he commanded but Christ Jesus hath fulfilled it and ended it and those called Holy-days are set up in the Apostacy in which the Saints have been killed and martyred upon which days the Apostles rejoyced and feasted and they are called Festival days and thou art to abominate the observing of them because they were set up in the blood-thirsty spirit and for that called the Lords-day or Sabbath-day people do not understand what they say for the Sabbath is the Seventh day and the observing of that is ended in Christ and that called the Lords-day is the first day of the week and the name Sunday is from the heathens who celebrated that day to the Sun and so called it Sunday but Child every day is the Lords day and thou art to observe them all unto him and who come to Christ and believe in Christ come over the observation of days into the one day of the Lord which is as a thousand years Pr. Pr. In this Quakers long discourse the set-time for Gods publick Worship is run down at an ignorant rate from observing a day to the Lord it 's ignorantly asserted That God requires not the observing of particular days when the King and Parliament made the last Act for the better observation of the Lords-day then according to this Quaker they did nothing but make a Law to establish Will-worship for as this Quaker saith the Lord requireth not the observing of any particular days it 's here confest notwithstanding what was said by this Quaker to the contrary that the Seventh day was the Jews sabbath-Sabbath-day as the Lord commanded behold here was a particular day required by God to be observed by the Jews behold again how this Quakers spirit hath inspired him to write a contradiction but as for us Christians under the Gospel there is no particular day to be observed to the Lord there are no Holy-days owned by this Quaker these days are like so many brats of Babylon rejected by him these days he saith were set up in the Apostacy at that time when the Saints were killed and martyred doth not this Quakers ignorance in effect count all Holy-days to be Apostatical days Are not these the Festival days which his Child is instructed to abominate the observing of What is more plain from these Quakers words than this That Holy-days observed by the Reformed Churches abroad and the Church of England at home are abominable days not fit to be observed But why are Holy-days to be abominated This Quaker gives this reason Because they were set in the blood-thirsty spirit it 's hard to understand the meaning of these words however we have no Holy-days which this Church observes but such as were at first set up by a blood-thirsty spirit surely if this Quaker had lived in those days of old he would have faln as strangely foul upon the Jews Feast of Purim as being from another blood-thirsty spirit but this Quakers aking-tooth is at the Lords-day or Sabbath-day in this matter the Prophane and the Quakers are well agreed they do neither of them make conscience to observe this day to the Lord for that called the Lords-day or Sabbath-day this Quaker saith that the people do not well understand what they say to speak according to this Quakers own words both King and Parliament were faln low in their understandings when they made an act for the better observation of the Lords-day in their debates they said they knew not what who named it either Sunday Lords-day or sabbath-Sabbath-day had this Quaker been consulted they might have known thus much that the seventh-day-seventh-day-Sabbath is ended in Christ that the Lords-day is the first day of the week that Sunday is from the Heathens but in truth every day is the Lords-day so that to declare this Quakers mind truly there is indeed no such day as the Lords-day to be observed by any Christians for every day of the week is to be observed as the Lords-day and this is not this Quakers single opinion for he saith that they who come to Christ and believe in Christ do which is strange come over the observation of days is not this Quakers meaning this That all real Quakers do neither observe Holy-days nor the Lords-day not Holy-days as this Church appoints nor the first day of the week as being the Lords-day which is their degenerating from the practice of the Primitive Christians to say no worse of them but whither do the Quakers come when they are gotten over the observation of days for my part I cannot tell this Quaker is of age let him speak for himself who saith that they come into the one day of the Lord which is as a thousand years and here I leave him I Shall transcribe no more out of him but proceed to some of James Parnel's Pamphlets the Book which is made use of is called Q. A Collection of the several writings given forth from the spirit of the Lord through the servant of God James Parnel who bore a faithful testimony for God and died a Prisoner
Father this is no point of this Quakers Faith this is only the confession of Presbyterians and Independents who are his adversaries brethren 4ly Jesus the Son of Mary doth not to use his own words exist outwardly bodily without us at Gods right hand according to this Quaker this is a false doctrine for which there is no Scripture-proof as for Gods right hand this Quaker doth scoffingly ask what or where is it is it visible or invisible within us or without us only Thus Jesus the Son of Mary sitting on Gods right hand in Heaven is no article of this Quakers faith 5ly Christ the Saviour the Son of Mary is no outward bodily existent person without us distinct from God to hold Christ our Saviour to be a distinct person from God the Father is no part of this Quakers faith The light within guides no Quakers to own this great Gospel-truth their spirit inspires none of them to be sound in this doctrine of faith Light of Light very God of very God is none of their faith 6ly Christ the Saviour the Son of Mary is not to be worshipped as God Mind it well the Hypostatical Union on is not owned by any Quaker because the Quakers do deny our Saviour to be God man in one person therefore they deny that the Son of Mary is to be worshipped as God 7ly That Christ the Saviour the Son of Mary is outwardly bodily glorified at Gods right hand is no Scripture-truth Lastly to call Mary the Mother of God is a Popish saying which to be sure is not Scripture-language in this Quaking discourse the learned may observe many old Heresies revived however by this Quakers golden Calf the nature of true Christianity is made naked it is stript off its primitive glory it may now truly be called Ichabod for by this Quakers most ugly doctrine the glory is departed from it Q. p. 51. Q. Numb 26 Whereas thou goest so often over with these words Jesus Christ the Son of Mary whom thou callest God-man I ask thee if this be not of kin to the Papists calling Mary the Mother of God and where did the Apostles so often or ever use these expressions Jesus Christ God-man the Son of the Virgin Mary and who were they that said Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Mary But Peter gave an higher testimony of him when he said Thou art Christ the Son of the living God But do not the Papists honour him as much as thou in their frequent calling him the Son of Mary as thou hast done Pr. Pr. This Quakers discourse serves to tell us that it is no piece of this Quakers Christianity to hold that Jesus Christ our Saviour is either the Son of Mary or God-man for he is angry with his adversary for going so often over with these words Jesus the Son of Mary and for calling him God-man this Quaker tells us to call Jesus the Son of Mary is that which is neer of kin to the Papists who call Mary the Mother of God Certainly this Quakers Light within is very dull-sighted which can neither discern Jesus to be the Son of Mary nor Mary to be the Mother of God the Son according to his Manhood Jesus Christ God-man in one person is a great stumbling-block in this Quakers way it 's against his Light within him to acknowledg Christ to be God and Man in one person therefore it must in his eye be Popery to call Christ the Son of Mary and Mary the Mother of God the communication of properties is a doctrine of which this Quaker takes no notice it 's not to tell whither an ignorant confidence will hurry those that are led by it to call Jesus Christ the Son of Mary God-man are those expressions saith the consident Quaker which were never used by the Apostles Behold what is the result of this ignorant confidence is it not this abominable assertion to the shame of true Christianity that Jesus Christ God-man the Son of Mary is no Gospel-truth taught by Christs own Apostles To go one step further to call Jesus the Son of Mary is according to this Quakers language to honour Christ no otherwise than those that said of him Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Mary Let us remark it once more it 's but a slight a vulgar dishonour put on our Saviour to call him Jesus the Son of Mary nay it 's Popery which is commonly counted Antichristianism to call Mary the Mother of God how ignorantly doth this Quaker decry Jesus from being the Son of Mary because St. Peter testified of him saying Thou art the Son of the living God therefore it is a false Popish testimony that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Virgin Mary Tremulus naviget ad Anticyras this pitiful Quaker wants a necessary dose for his pericranium common sense is ashamed of such mean arguing at this day no serious Christians none but deluded Quakers do deny Jesus Christ to be the Son of the Virgin Mary the Papists who believe many lyes are not so grosly deceived as this Quaker hath shewed himself to be in this point Q. Q. Numb 27 THe next Book to be considered is the Quakers Primer by S. C. and George Fox the younger Pr. Pr. Like the canker to the trees in the nursery so the mischievous design of this pitiful Primer is to corrupt from their infancy the young striplings of this Church and Kingdom under pretence of right-spelling to poyson them with Quakerism in their minority this is that leaven which is designed to sowre the whole lump to diffuse Quakerism through the whole body of this Nation a mischievous design if not timely prevented by his Sacred Majesty and those that are in authority under him there is in this Quaking-Primer magnum in parvo very much base doctrine contained in a few leaves Q. Q. It is called a new Book for Children to learn in by S. C. and George Fox the younger Pr. Pr. This latter hath shewed himself to be a crafty seeds-man by whose means little children are cunningly imposed upon therefore the more care is fit to be taken to prevent his dangerous attempt Books not so dangerous as this is have been burnt by the hand of the common hang-man as the Author is gone to his Judg so this Book deserves a black mark for his sake and its pestilent doctrine Q. p. 6. Q. Numb 28 A child may learn the fear of the Lord by taking heed unto the Light Pr. Pr. I might truly say that this Quaking-Primer begins with a lye thereby to corrupt childrens minds the Light within which is no express Scripture-phrase is indeed a meer fancy the real Quakers Idol which all children are early taught by these Quakers to fall down to and worship it 's false doctrine to make the Light within to be the teacher of the fear of God the holy fear of God which cleanseth both heart and life is taught by taking heed to Gods Word in this
behold they are such as rule with respect of persons they give forth laws in their own wills behold their laws are the corrupt issue of their corrupt wills as for righteous laws we have no such made in this Kingdom they are such Magistrates as do persecute the righteous as do encourage the heathen who know not God behold they are unchristian Magistrates like Ishmael they do persecute the righteous as for baptized Christians they are the heathen that know not God who are encouraged by our Christian Magistrates nay behold and wonder this Quaker goes on to tell us That our Magistrates have that which is strange Cain slaying Abel within them and they themselves do as strangely suffer Cain to slay Abel without them Is not this proclaiming our Magistrates to be men of blood bloody Magistrates He saith likewise that the wicked have more liberty in the Nation than the righteous have behold they are wicked Magistrates wickedness is indulged by them because of these corrupt Magistrates who wink at deceits for carnal ends who uphold iniquity and oppression who tread truth under foot this Kingdom is spoiled by them the land abounds with iniquity oppression and treachery behold how this land is said to be corrupt by the Magistrates whom this Quaker calls corrupt Magistrates He saith also that corrupt Magistrates put such in office behold the King and Parliament are corrupt Magistrates who put corrupt Magistrates in office He saith moreover that these corrupt Magistrates do uphold corrupt Ministers and false prophets which this Nation is full of behold here are corrupt Magistrates corrupting the Church as well as the Kingdom behold also these Magistrates are the Beast that do uphold the false prophet behold also how the Beast-like Magistrates and the falseprophet-like Ministers do like brethren in the same iniquity combine together against the simple that is the Quakers who are so in the worst sense By this Beast that is the Magistrates the Law is made a stalking-horse to deceive the simple Behold how the Law is basely said by this Quaker to be perverted and abused by the Magistrates of this Land Now let us see how the Quakers stand affected to Magistracy in this matter he tells us plainly That such Magistrates and such Government we honour not behold no Magistrates no Government which have not the Quakers image or superscription on them are honoured by any simple Quakers in effect this Quaker opens his mind thus That by the Magistrates and Government of this Kingdom the righteous that is the Quakers do suffer as Gods people have done under the Ten Persecutions he saith also to this purpose That the Magistrates of this Land do like Haman stand in their own corrupt wills and would destroy as he would have destroyed Mordecai the Quakers for not bowing to them that they do like Pharaoh the Israelites pursue the Quakers unjustly to death That they would like Nebuchadnezzar burn all Quakers to death for not worshipping the Image of the Beast that they do like Herod who beheaded John the Baptist stand in their own wills to kill the Quakers Now let us hear this Quaker divine and tell us what shall become of the Magistrates of this land behold he saith they are like Haman Pharaoh Nebuchadnezzar Herod who did not escape the hands of the Lord according to this Quaker all the unquakerized Magistrates of this land shall have a miserable end they shall all to the Devil at last but behold this diviner hath seen a vain vision which is this that Christ comes to end all outward Laws and Government of man and he himself will reign as truth and righteousness grows the Law is fulfilled and passeth away behold this Quaker is strangly turned Antinomian against all humane Laws according to this Quakers vain mind St. Paul was mistaken in saying Let every soul be subject to the higher powers if this Quaker had been in those days he would have withstood St. Peter to his face once more for commanding those scattered Christians to submit themselves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake he would have told these two Apostles that they did err in so teaching for Christs coming is to fulfill and end all outward laws and government of man it 's no Quakers duty to be subject to the higher powers all they have to do is to obey the Light within them as for submitting themselves to the King as supreme or to those that are in authority under him or to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake this subjection belongs not to any Quakers for Christ is come as this Quaker saith to end all outward laws and government of man by the truth and righteousness which grow in Quakers the Law is fulfilled and passeth away now behold how all Quakers with their false Christ the Light within them are in print a lawless generation of people professed opposers of the government of this Kingdom and it is vainly fancied that Christ himself will reign to the overthrow of all humane laws and government with reference to this brain-sick folly this Quaker doth weakly fancy the Magistrates of this Kingdom to be such as do beat the truth because they are no deluded Quakers but what saith this Quaker to this he saith but Pharaoh God will plague and confound what is the meaning of these strange words is not this it the supream Magistrate who is no Quaker no more than Pharaoh was is the Pharaoh here whom God as this Quaker saith will plague and confound now let us view those Magistrates whom the Quakers do own and honour to be sure they are no such as this Kingdom hath this Quaker sets them thus out in their colours such Magistrates as are guided by the light of God in the conscience and rule by it we own and honour in our hearts such are a terrour to evil doers such bear not the sword in vain this government is of God you see how clear it is that the Quakers do own and honour only those Magistrates in their hearts that are real Quakers as for the King and all other Magistrates that are not guided by the Quakers light in their Consciences nor do rule by it the Quakers do neither own nor honour them in their hearts Unquakerized Magistrates are no terrour to evil doers they do bear the sword in vain their government is not of God now behold and judg how the real Quakers do oppose and deny the lawful Magistrates overturn the Laws and overthrow the Government of this Kingdom Q. p. 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93. Q. Numb 75 We are accused to be destructive to all superiority and honour breeding and manners because we cannot put off our hats nor follow the fashions of the world but speak the plain word Thou to any one rich or poor in the beginning God Thoued Adam and Adam Thoued him here was the plain language betwixt God and Adam God Thoued Moses and Moses Thoued him this was
darkness and delusion of Antichrist both Priests and people your leaders cause you to err by their lyes you are lost for want of true knowledg only differing from the heathen in name and profession Pr. Pr. These quaking-lines serve to tell us that this quaking-watcher hath seen a base vision concerning the true Christian Religion and the Church of England in particular according to this brain-sick Quaker there hath been in the whole world no true profession of the Gospel since the Apostles days behold a black mark is set by this Quaker upon all Christians since that time to speak this Quakers mind more fully in all ages of the Christian Church since the Apostles days instead of Christ Antichrist hath reigned over the world under a Gospel-profession instead of true Gospel-light he saith there hath been only a long time of cruel darkness and ignorance as for the Lord this Quaker saith he hath been a long time ever since the Apostles days as a stranger in the earth behold according to this Quaker there hath been no true Christianity nothing but Antichristianism cruel darkness and ignorance and estrangedness from the Lord in all ages of the Christian Church ever since the Apostles days now let us proceed this Quaker is still bold to tell us that ever since the Apostles days all the believing on God or Christ hath been nothing else but an unprofitable looking at him as a God afar off in the Heavens without they knew not where according to this Quaker you may perceive that there have been no truly faithful Christians in the world since the Apostles days to speak this Quakers mind ever since the Apostles days they were only vain believers who said they believed that that was the Christ that died at Jerusalem rose again sits at the right hand of God c. who thus believing were baptized with water and called Christians behold how by this Quaker believing in Christ that died c. is slighted and likewise the baptizing of those Christians who did so believe in Jesus Christ in effect all this is lookt upon by this Quaker to be a pitiful piece of Christianity as for the Scripture this Quaker saith that was the Letter whereof these called Christians were the keepers which they took for their rule according to this Quakers mind the Scripture hath been the mistaken rule of all Christians to walk by ever since the Apostles days as for any Commentaries written upon the Scriptures since the Apostles days this Quaker saith they were but their own meanings and imaginations behold how all Expositors of the holy Scriptures both ancient and modern are basely asperst by this Quaker their Expositions have been no more but their own meanings and imaginations obtruded on the Scripture As for Infant-baptism used in all ages of the Christian Church this Quaker like an Anabaptist saith there is no Scripture nor example for it that it is in vain called an Ordinance of Christ then saith this Quaker that is in the reign of Antichrist they had their two Sacraments but without any Scripture-warrant for the word Sacraments as for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper this Quaker calls it only carnal bread and wine thus in the reign of Antichrist this Quaker saith the Church was planted in England and other places behold according to this Quaker both the Church of England and other particular Churches planted since the Apostles days in any part of the world are all under the dominion of Antichrist their baptism with water is no Ordinance of Christ the Lords Supper is only carnal bread and wine both Sacraments without Scripture-warrant but mark what follows Then that is in the reign of Antichrist in the long time of cruel darkness in the time of the Lords absence from the earth were as this Quaker saith Bishops set up and Archbishops Deans Priests Deacons Popes the Bishops bearing rule by their Means Priests preaching for hire Behold how this Quaker gives us a distinct sound of the Antichristian Hierarchy which hath continued since the Apostles dayes Thus according to this Quaker in all Centuries of the Christian Church since the Apostles days not Christ but Antichrist hath set up his Kingdom under the profession of the Gospel thus the Christian Church hath since those days had no Ecclesiastical Governours but such as were Antichristian thus all Bishops Archbishops Deans Priests Deacons as well as Popes have been in this Quakers account Antichristian for above sixteen hundred years by-past being masked under a vain profession of the Gospel Then that is when Antichrist reigned Tythes saith this Quaker came up contrary to any rule of the Gospel behold how Tythes are made by this Quaker to be Antichristian too a maintenance contrary to the Gospel Then that is in the Reign of Antichrist Universities saith this Quaker were set up to make Ministers or Priests behold Universities by this Quaker are all made to be so many Antichristian Schools thus according to this Quaker after an Antichristian manner were Priests set up by the will and tradition of men as the false Prophets always were of old then in the foresaid reign of Antichrist University-Priests had their long robes like the Pharisees according to this Quaker Ministers habits are both Antichristian and Pharisaical then that is when Antichrist reigned Idols Temples called Churches or houses of God were set up according to this Quaker all publick places consecrated and set apart for Gods publick Worship are neither the material Churches or Houses of God but Idols Temples and Antichristian too then that is in the reign of Antichrist the Priests got into their Pulpits the chiefest places in the Synagogues being proudly called of men Master Doctor according to this Quakers mind Pulpits for Priests are become Antichristian too and the Antichristian Priests are got into them like so many Scribes being proud Masters and Doctors having the uppermost rooms at feasts and greetings in the market like the old Pharisees Scribes and hypocrites then that is in the reign of Antichrist began to speak this Quakers mind the Ecclesiasticall thieves who stole the Apostles words as the false Prophets did who took a verse and studied from it a divination of their own brain just as the Priests do now they run like the false Prophets according to this Quaker ever since the Apostles days all Gods Priests have been thieves like the false Prophets preaching a divination of their own brain like false Prophets running without God sending them then that is in the reign of Antichrist thorough covetousness they made merchandize of the people with feigned words like wolves upon sheep they preyed upon the people they sought about for great livings for fat benefices they ran from a lesser to a bigger living the beloved which they sought for like the false Prophets they sought for the fleece not regarding the flock they cried peace to them that put into their mouths they prepared war sued lawed those that did not feed them
thus they sought their gain from their quarter and ruled like tyrants with rigor according to this Quakers mind you see that since the Apostles days all Priests in the Christian Church have been basely covetous vile cheats bloody wolves sordidly self-seeking minding the fleece more than the sheep like the false Prophets greedily seeking their gain from their quarter ruling like tyrants with rigor thus according to this Quaker our Priests old fathers planted their Church and so set every thing in form and tradition according to their own imaginations behold since the Apostles days to speak this Quakers mind fully there hath been no Christian Church but such as was planted by the old fathers of our Priests and this Church was planted by them after the worst fashion according to their own imaginations that we may not mistake this Quaker he tells us plainly his particular thoughts of our own Church saying here is the ground and foundation of the Faith and Church of England here are the old Fathers and old Authors that their Priests have so much talked of even the Popes and Bishops behold according to this Quaker both the Faith and Church of England are Antichristian Popes and Bishops in this Quakers account Antichrists creatures are those old Fathers who planted this Church and Faith according to their imaginations who are so much talked of by our Priests but he saith Thus Antichrist hath long deceived the Nations under the profession of the faith of Christ behold according to this Quaker not only the Church of England but all other Christian Nations since the Apostles days have thus long been deceived by Antichrist under the profession of the faith of Christ according to this Quaker there hath not been one jot of true Christianity in this Church or in any part of the world for many hundreds of years by-past he saith one generation hath gone and another come but they have not known the Lord that bought them behold ever since the Apostles dayes all Christians in the world have not known the Lord Jesus Christ their Redeemer according to this Quaker they have all been Antichristian I may truly say That this Quaker is so taken with this Antichristian glass as that he saith many may now see strange sights what lyars the people are how they came up and were ordained that they are the Ministers of Antichrist that they do shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men the people may also see saith this Quaker how ignorantly they have been led estranged from the Father of Light carried after vain traditions customs forms ordinances imaginations of man deceived with a vain profession and feigned faith kept strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Saviour and Redeemer behold according to this Quaker what base persons all the Priests of the Church of England are for in his account they are all lyars Ministers of Antichrist as bad as the Scribes and Pharisees were in Christs time for they shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men blind Teachers of the people estrangers of the people from God the Father of Light such as have carried them after vain traditions and imaginations of man deceivers with a vain profession and feigned faith such as have kept the people strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Redeemer but this is not all for this Quaker saith That both Priests and people do lye under the power of darkness and delusion of Antichrist behold in the Church of England according to this Quaker it is like Priests like people the power of darkness belongs to both they are both so far from true Christianity as that they are both under the delusion of Antichrist but according to this Quaker the Priests are the greater offenders of them two for they are he saith the peoples Leaders who cause them to err by their lyes they destroy the people for want of true knowledg they lead them captive in their sins they do only differ from the Heathen in name and profession Behold once more that according to this Quaker the Priests of the Church of England are teachers of lyes by which they cause the people to err soul-murtherers destroying the people for want of true knowledg like the Devil they lead the people captive in their sins they are nothing else but Heathens in truth Thus you see that this quaking-Watcher hath seen nothing belonging to true Christianity for a long time even ever since the Apostles days in the world or in the Church of England as for this Church and Kingdom according to this Quaker there is nothing but Antichrist and what is Antichristian to be found in them Q. p. 145 to 149 Q. Numb 80 You are fighting killing and devouring one another as they do whom you account Heathen you are drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers back-biters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors as they are both Priest and People you are envious and malicious both Priest and people you are dissembling cozening and cheating and defrauding one another of the earth What sin is there among those you account Heathen that is not amongst you and doth abound Be ashamed you Priests of England to see the fruits of your Ministry so laid open before you you are those who come near the Lord with your mouths but your hearts are far from him you are hypocrites and your hearts are full of deceit envy wrath bitterness covetousness pride earthly-mindedness self-love self-wisdom you are out of the life and practice of the Apostles and the children of light your Teachers are such as bring another doctrine and climb up another way who are shut out for Thieves and Robbers Pr. Pr. In these quaking-lines we have railing without reason and Scripture abused to this end behold all the people and Priests of the Church of England are by this censorious Quaker declared to be guilty of most notorious crimes they are all according to this Quaker either as bad or far worse than any Heathens are behold how bad this Quaker hath made all Priests and people of this Church and Kingdom to be without exception quarrellers murderers drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers backbiters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors by these black names doth this Quaker point them out behold is this the Christian Charity that thinks no evil Is this the Christianity that speaks evil of no man But in p. 146 this Quaker doth a little seem to eat his own words but they are soon disgorged As for those people and Priests that are not drunkards swearers c. this Quaker makes them as bad as the rest as if he were in Gods stead he ransacks their hearts to make them no better than those heart-wicked Pharisees were of old according to this Quaker in the Church and Kingdom of England the peoples Priests are no Christians but idolaters their conversations are worse than heathens for they abound in gross wickedness more than they as
account that the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance or any other Oaths injoyned by any Authority on earth are altogether unlawful because Christ hath commanded not to swear at all that no swearing is warranted by the Scripture that the dispensation of Oaths where strife was is ended by Christ who saith Swear not at all that vain Oaths and solemn Oaths are both alike forbidden by Christ See Numb 51. ARTICLE XXXIV We Q. do believe That all Holy-days are set up in the Apostacy that there is no observation of particular days that in calling the first day of the week the Lords-day or sabbath-Sabbath-day people speak they know not what that the name Sunday is heathenish that every day is the Lords-day See Numb 52. ARTICLE XXXV We Q. do believe as our dear friend James Parnel hath written that they are no truly faithful Christians who do deny that there is a perfect freedom from all manner of sin to be had in this life that their faith is not the true faith if it doth not cleanse them from all their sins See Numb 53. ARTICLE XXXVI We Q. do believe That the Scripture is not the Light nor the Word nor the Life nor the Judg nor the Rule nor the Guide nor the tryer of spirits See Numb 54. ARTICLE XXXVII We Q. do believe That the people and teachers are ignorant of Christ the Light that they dote on the Scripture with their dark minds that they do like the blind Pharisees seek life in the Scripture where it is not to be found See Numb 55. ARTICLE XXXVIII We Q. do believe as our beloved James Parnel saith That the Scripture is a dead letter See Numb 56. ARTICLE XXXIX We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are the peoples leaders who cause them to err that the Scripture is their Idol to get money by that by the Scripture they do lead the people into blindness that they do in vain worship a God whom they know not that they do dethrone Christ Jesus by exalting the Scripture See Numb 57. ARTICLE XL. We Q. do still believe That the Scripture is not the Word of God nor the Light nor the Rule nor the Guide nor the Teacher nor Judg concerning matters of faith and life See Numb 58. ARTICLE XLI We Q. do believe That the Priests of England do maintain the authority of the Scripture which is their Idol only for their own ends to uphold their corrupt maintenance and deceitful Ministry See Num b. 59. ARTICLE XLII We Q. do believe That the Priests of England have nothing but the Scripture without which is a dead letter that they are without the true Light that all those are in darkness and confusion who call the Scripture their Rule and Guide and that the Priests of England are like them and that they know not the truth See Numb 60. ARTICLE XLIII We Q. do believe That they bring another Gospel into the world who call the four books Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel See Numb 61. ARTICLE XLIV We Q. do believe That it is a false light in any which leads them to profess the Scripture to be their Rule who do not live well See Numb 62. ARTICLE XLV We Q. do believe That all that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all accursed of God and shall be cast into hell and that they are no better nor shall fare better than Lucifer Dives Haman Pharaoh Herod and the rest of their forefathers See Numb 63. ARTICLE XLVI We Q. do likewise believe That all who are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all very wicked that they do only make a profession of godliness that their worship is formal and imaginary that their Chaplains are wicked like themselves that they are like the worshippers of the golden Calf that they and their Chaplains are Heathens that Priest and people do live without God in the world that they are all accursed of God that their works are the works of the Devil that they serve the Devil with their hearts and actions that they are no Christians but Heathens both Priest and people See Numb 64. ARTICLE XLVII We Q. do believe still That all Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam young and old rich and poor and beggars men-servants and women-servants who are no Quakers are the children of the Devil fruitless trees that cumber the ground which are for the fire stubble to be burnt unrighteous persons to be cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone that thither they must go that there they must lye for evermore with Dives and Haman that they are all as bad as Dives Haman and the High-Priests Pharisees and Rulers were who put Christ to death that their belly is their god that they and all their earthly honour shall be laid into the fire See Numb 65. ARTICLE XLVIII We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are like Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses that they do likewise withstand the truth that they are University-men with their Magick Arts and Imaginations that they do get a form of the Prophets Christs and Apostles words to trade with that they do deny the power of godliness that they are Traytors to Christ men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith See Numb 66. ARTICLE XLIX We Q. do believe still That the Scripture is a dead letter that it is the husk which is usually thrown away that they are Swine feeding on husks who make the Scripture their Rule and Guide that he is a deceiver one that erreth that knoweth not the Scripture who saith the Scripture is the word of God that he puts the shadow for the substance who takes the Scripture to be the word of God that that man is without that he is a swine feeding on the husk that he is ignorant of the true light who saith that the Scripture is the rule and guide of the people of God See Numb 67. ARTICLE L. We Q. do believe That there is no other baptism but the baptism of Christ with the Holy Ghost and with fire that baptism with water is but a formal imitation and the invention of man that it is a meer delusion and that they are all heathens and no Christians who are so baptized and cannot witness the other baptism See Numb 70. ARTICLE LI. We Q. do believe That there is no such thing as Sacramental bread that it is only the bread which the world breaks that it is carnal and natural that the cup is such like that there is no such thing as the holy Communion for it is the communion of the world that communion which is natural outward carnal that that which is called the Lords-table is the table of devils that in receiving that which they call the Lords-supper they do feed upon the husk and shadow See Numb 71. ARTICLE LII We Q. do believe That the