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A67839	The foxonian Quakers dunces lyars and slanderers, proved out of George Fox's journal, and other scriblers; particularly B. C. his Quakers no apostates, or the hammerer defeated: amanuensis, as is said, to G.C. (as he sometime wrote himself) Gulielmus Calamus, alias, William Penn. Also a reply to W.C. (a church-man, the Quakers advocate) his Trepidantium malleus intrepidanter malleatus, &c. By Trepidantium Malleus.	Trepidantium Malleus.	1697 (1697)	Wing Y80; ESTC R218927	36,337	100

I pray let him attempt First to come in We do not see he is in such hast you say You will not so casily take Members I grant according to your good old Constitution you should not We might be agreed about Communicants but according to the practise of some Innovators this Body hath for scores of years lost its Purgative Faculty and therefore is so unhealthy and giddy by keeping in those Dregs that should be thrown out you now take and keep Atheists Adult●●●rs Swearers Ignorant Persons no●● 〈◊〉 visibly such thus is its Discipline corrupted as well as Doctrine for its Doctrine it is one of the best Churches upon Earth You ask Why leave we the Church of England I affirm we cannot find it you have left it as I have proved in my Reprim●●● clearly fully accordantly which you reply nothing too and I love not Eandem Cantilenam Well The Presbyterians Persecuted in New England say you Whom Blasphemers of Christ Cursers of Magistrates in the Streets False Prophets c. Obj. In Scotland now What such as were found in Popish Cabals that say Their Interest and Religion is concern'd in the bringing in of K. James again But your Church early Persecuted B. Hooper for not wearing a Surplice who honestly condemas all Symbolical Humane Ceremonies in the worship of God in 〈◊〉 Preface to his Savory Exposition on the prophesie of Jonah Fox that Glorious Martyrologer was a Non Con Famous Mr C●●●wright and many more such must be involv'd in trouble for a few Popish Tri●●●ets Were your New England 〈…〉 Saints such 〈◊〉 these Are your now Martyrs taken up and sent to Goal for being in a Corporation or within 5 miles of it Ruin'd for not coming to their Communion c. It is not the Suffering but the Cause that makes the Martyr for when Christ was crucified two Theeves were crucified with him Did ever any Presbyterian persecute as your Brethren Who countenanced Sham Plots By whom was Stephen Colledge Murthered Who condemaed him and rejoyced at his death I speak the more freely of him because I was with him often after his Sentence and before his Execution Who believes he came to Oxon with a design to seiz the King What be and be alone It is well known what the Earl of Anglesey said Could my Lord Howard after his Pardon and Discovery of another Plot confirm this No he knew nothing of the Shaftsburian Plot Mr Colledge with a shower of Tears solemnly protested to me when I beg'd his silence if in the least guilty I never expect mercy from God if I was guilty or know any man to be so that way Such Sham Plots put some on real ones which indeed were not successful as your Plot was against James the Second I dare say you cannot believe it say what you will That the Presbyterians rail'd at much at the Quakers as the Quakers at them Neither can you think the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments turn'd into verse by me so bad as you say Pray read how your Church hath done the Lords Prayer at the end of the Psalms approv'd to be Sung if mine be Vncouth Rhime Doggrel Prophaning of Scripture yours much more so I challenge any man to take the substance and words of the Ten Commandments more exact in one stave or eight lines others approve and more than so but you will not any thing that is mine and for that reason because mine I suppose some in Be●lam have talk'd better then you or some others yet out of it argued more subtilty I have heard of Mr Widdows famous for a Tract of Natural Philosophy that being heard to make a great noise in such a place some came to him and askt him what it meant The Devil said he hath appeared to me and told me be could prove I could not be saved I told him be was a Lyar from the beginning and would be so to the end The Devil began Syllogistivally He whose name is not written in the book of Life cannot be saved but thy name is not written in the book of Life Ergo thou carst not be saved I told him said he my name was written in the book of Life and therefore I denyed the minor so the Devil went on The Scriptures is the book of Life but thy name is not written in the Scriptures Ergo thy name is not written in the book of Life I denyed said he the minor again and told him my name was written in the Scripture he asked me where I told him Honour them that are Widdows indeed there is my name Widdows so I lasted the Devil and he is gone Were you in such an Academy or amongst such Collegiates as you phrase it perhaps you might hear things more Ingenious with your Ravings than now we do How is it you have not a word to savour the Quakers Prophesies Is it because you have such in your Church Arise ap Even that mad blasphemous Prophet Was it before the VVars that a Parson prayed Confound all the Enemies of thy Clearch and People a violent cough took him when over he thought he was in that part of the Pulpit Prayer for the Prelates and so went on By what Names or Titles soever they be Dignified whether the Most Reverend the Arch-Bishops the Right Reverend the Bishops and all inferiour Priests and Deatons You a Defender of the Church of England and take no notice of the Cassandrian Articles Non Resistance Bowing to the High Altar not indeed Book of Sports now thank our Meetings Desire some one to answer for you seeing you cannot for your self Now Sir you would let the world know you have read more then Cato's Verses perhaps the Sentences under for you bring us Noble Apotheigems In ipso limine titubare outinosunt est Nullum reprebenderis vitii cujus ipse queas reprebendi Faedares invidia est et Authori interdum perniciosa Ex me disces quidingenui homines serre non possunt O rare discoveries such as a Parson said Amor res est bona as St. Austin saith Perhaps you would convince me that you have yet your Grammar by you but all will not do Insipientes est discere non putarem c. Well Eris mihi magnus Apollo is right De mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that follows it was answer'd in my Vindic●ae and Reprimand too therefore I shall not answer now Only Are not those you Revile every 30th of January Dead VVas not Dr. Owen Dead who never swore to Richard Cromwel as Oliver his son lately assured me If I must I will produce the testimony of Dr Goodwin Mr Jenkins about Evangelista Quintus and also of Mr Sydrack Symson Dr Sanderson and many others whose little finger was thicker than my Loyns We are better reconcil'd than you think for except a few men that talk as you write You tell me of one that said of me I was fit for Bedlam but it was as the Quakers say Good

West-Countrey Wise-A-ker Crackbrain'd Reprimand to a late Book call'd Mr. Keith no Presbyterian nor Quaker but George the Apostate Hammered about his own Numscul being a Joco Satyrrical Return to a late Tale of a Tub emitted by a Reverend Non-Con at present residing not far from Bedlam By W.C. NOw Monsieur I hope I have pleas'd you to the heart and no more will you send a Hue and Cry after me for taring away a Rag of the Title of your Book What a Blustering Title is here I must not examine its Grammar or Oratory because the Writer is a great stranger to both as will be soon enough discovered In the mean while I remember I have heard that when K. James I. was about to Knight one Williams of Essex he asked him what his Christen Name was He answered penny ruden buden budibras penny knip knap clip clap clun clap I think said the King the Old Nick was thy Gadfer that gave thee such a name Sir Ruden I cannot tell what Williams arise said he whoever gave him his name let the world judge who made your Title for you who is the Father of Eye the Slanderer of the Brethren Well Mr. Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidantur Malleatus I can't tell what let me parly with you Empty Casks make great Sounds Your Title that Blazing Comet doth it presage any mischief certainly it s own disappearing You tell the World strange news of me that I assure you I never heard till now Had you it from the Infallible Spirit and Writings of Friend B. C. of my Love Melancholy and being at Box mentioned and hinted 10 times in your little Pamphlet Always on the same Tune you know what Creature is so When was this when was I at Box or any such place Oh I have hit it it was when the Presbyterian said If ever Jesus Christ was D it was when he made the Lords Prayer which W. C. makes no bones of to write plainly though a Turk would hardly wirte so of his Mahomet What will not Church and Quakerish Jacobites say W. C. a Church-man he says and perhaps the first letter may stand for Wicked Well Mr. W. C. you Wicked Church-man I promise any of your Brethren Five Pound if they can before me prove your Charge You say You are afraid lest by answering me you should be forced to go to Bedlam too c. Sure here are had simptomes of hastniag there but alone for me and in the close of all you anticipate an objection to your Readers What think you Sirs am not I almost as mad as my Antagonist to answer his rambling stuff How doth W. C. answer by granting the thing but promising Reformation Excuse it this once I will trouble you no more Well then You have been once mad if this be granted your Readers are mad too if they regard such a mans promise out of his fit much more if in it I never heard what the fate was that besel me for my High Demands for Preaching Had you it from B. C. you are grown a great Church-Friend to Friends you write of Mr. Penn Mr. Whitebead and other Quakers with great veneration and devoir and have many a good word for them They Allegorize not away the Literal Sense if Scripture though it is so noto●●ous they have done it often though to serve a turn they shall call for the Literal Sense Take it up look on it lay it aside again but Mr. Keith and I are both fit for Bedlam it is pitty the Hospital in Moor-fields should part-us c. Nay which is more strange Mr. Bugg a Reformed-Quaker and now a Zealous Pious Church-man cannot escape the Lash He Mr. Pennyman and Mr. Crisp left the Quakers on disgusts and particular Pecques why had you not told what they were for fear of a Confutation All know they left them only for their Blasphemies Heresies and Abominable Practices But that which is almost unpardonable is your Vilifying the Man whom all the World Admires an high Episcopal Man too the Author of the Snake in the Grass All that wrote against the Quakers before play'd with them till he wrote that unanswerable piece p. 17. That his writings are collections of those Gentleman 's before named which is say you as if we should take an account of the Presbyterians from Bishop Laud or Heylen or of our Church from Bellarmine and Harding Well macht Mr. Churchman say I but the mischief is his Collections are not in their Books in good truth Sir you might well ask your Reader Whether he did not think you mad Mr. Snake consulted the Authors he cites and it would have been a most Injurious Charge to so great a Man to be so unworthily Reflected on had it not been by such a D as all must see that are Schollars and read your Book He Mr. Keith and I in our Three New Ways of Dealing with the Quakers help not one another to Materials after you censure us all as if Fools or Madmen you tell us Such Fools as you think to make Fools of them Quakers You ask us How doth it appear Mr. Keith is Reformed He desires you to appear so do I there is no end of Printing in your way Cite at large and then dispute what is the sense of this word and that word but neither you nor William Penn will meet Mr. Keith or me Come torth you Cowardly Defamers shew your Faces if you dare Because Mr. Keith changed not in any one Article of Faith may he not therefore be ●●anged in other things You say You set as a looker on That the Joy of all Ministers about G. K. is groundless and they be all mistaken What is the Bishop Lord Mayor and Clergy mad too as well as G. K. and Trepidantium Mallous Conformists know not who you are You seem to own your self to be a Jacobite though not a Socinim and that I have hit the mark about your being paid by the Quakers for the Service you do them and ask me Why may not I as well as Dr. Stubbe It is an old question Why may not one man play the Knave as well as another Perhaps you are of the opinion of H. P. in the time of the War when one call'd him Knave said If thou wert not a Fool thou wouldst be one too now Yet you tell me I would unsay all I have written against the Quakers for Money Well Brother I am then no fool tho' so often call'd so You ask me Whether when I had a Priviledge Place I ever put on my Surplice No Sir when I was at the worst I was never so Mad yet as to put my Shirt on all my Cloaths I will not only as soon but sooner take Du Moulins Fools Coat which though he would wear all would not Would not a Fools Coat well become a Minister of the Gospel when I was a Preacher at Brislington and Charleton I had Presbyterian Ordination I baptized according to the Directory I

Catechised in the Church in What is the chief end of Man c. Mr. W. Churchman tells me He could trov G. Keith 's Questions to be Prepositions if need were He can say more of the Aberdeen business then I do know or are like to know for him is a fine way of answering I ask you one question Whatever place Mr. Keith Allegorized in Scripture Did he once disown the Literal Sense this his Adversaries you plead for have done though sometimes they would own it Politickly Shew one place where he is guilty here For your Citations It is no more a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones when it Riseth then say I Not the same Numerical Body He ever own'd it the same for Substance though not Qualities What think you of the stub stance of the Egg and Chick coming of it of Rain when Ice or Snow So his other is not that Flesh that shall be raised the Apostle saith not That Body c. 1 Cor. 15.27 53. Yet this Mortal shall put on Immortallity How shall it arise Various opinions are about it among them that are sound in th● Doctrine of the Resurrection For your great Contradiction p. 13. about 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 Christ as universally ●●●essa●● to S●●vation ●nd yet True C●ristia●●y may sul●●●●n about the ●●●●●edge of Christ in the ●●●●r he says ●●ny know little of the History of Christ 〈◊〉 Birth manner of Life and Death that must know him to be a mediator and Saviour and how far God may even to Heathens discover a Mediator before they dye who knows You have many in your Church and too many in ours that assert more than this That Heathen Turks c. that never disown their Mabomet may Love God and be Saved are these Apostates too For that is my Question not whether G. Keith wrote Unsoundly at one time or contradicted himself at another For that mistaken passage in his Exact Narrative He had not changed in one Principle of Religion for Thirty Year or more He did not mean by Principle Opinion as you seem to understand him but Artitle of Faith Sure he confessed before 〈◊〉 Change in Opinion about many things as Matthew 28.19 but he was Baptized himself in Infancy which he owns c. You tell us not what bitter Expressions he once dropt against Presbyterians and others but in the general Hard ones only that he call'd y●● Prelacy Limbs of Antichrist your Mi●●stry Ambitious Lordly without Ze●● for God and you bid me look in his Books Why Sir I thought you had known that not only G. Keith but the Scots Presbyterians Rutherford Gelaspee and many others call'd them so too and at home the Anabaptists and some Independents and Presbyterians themselves have done the like Doth this prove them Apostates No no more nor so much as the names you give our Ministers and Meetings too gross to foul my Paper with prove you to be so For Election I take him to be more found than you your Citations of him your joques compare together If you prove him a Corrupt Man a Man that had forgotten himself and dropt an Unadvised word at Turners-Hall I had not been his Voucher but an Apostate he was not by any Arguments of yours and therefore you a Libeller what your design was in that abusive Pamphlet he that runs may read I know he hath corrupt notions many and great and yours of the New Church of England Remember there I keep not the Old one not few or sinail how I have proved that I need not tell you so well you thought it not safe to Reply but only rage You Vngrateful VVretch c. I profess when 〈◊〉 look upon my Reprimand I wonder how you could call your Return an Answer Was it Ignorance or Malice perhaps both but no wonder when you tell the Quakers that I have written nothing to purpose against them I suppose you do not cannot think so Why answer you not my Questions to Mr Penn he could not B. C. attempted it but hath ruined their cause and advanced mine by making Lyes his Refuge which I suppose makes Mr. Penn disown any hand in it I say it again My work was not fully ●●●●ify G. Keith 〈◊〉 whether he hat● contradicted himself but to detect W. Church-man 's design which was to strengthen the hands of Penn and the Foxonian Quakers to wound the Separate Ones this is obvious to any Sober Reader to be his Design Did G. K. ever reject the Literal Sense as they often did of Scripture If he said Christ within was the Object of Faith did he say only as within denying Christ without to be so which all know the rest did times without number I am glad we have him so far I wish more I doubt not he is C●●pable yet not so vile as W. C. makes him he will shortly answer for himself Further W. C. proves him an Apostate by denying Election c. I replyed Then are the Arminians Apostates which is to be abhorr'd by Sober Men He says I am no Arminian No and yet joques after B. C. and sports himself with you of the Election of Grace 〈◊〉 Reprobate VVorld you babes of Grace which Pious Sober Arminians do not Well if he be not so are such Arminians as appear in a great Figure and who are numerous in the Church of England Apostates I proved at 〈◊〉 the New Church of England is an Apostate Church on his Principles not mine I am answered You are an Vngrateful VVretch to reflect on that Church that gives you your Liberty We humbly and heartily Thank His Majesty and the Parliament for continuing the Liberty we had before but will you not thank us for helping you to secure your Liberty by joining with you to effect the late happy Revolution How odious would it have been after all to have made our Circumstances worse than King James did yet to be plain Had not he given a Toleration we might have been to seek for it for some of you Suppose a Man on the Highway is full of Rage Beats me takes away my Money and was about to cut my Throat there comes a Highway-man to destroy both he calls for my help we kill him he cuts not my Throat after all I am beholding to him I confess but is this an answer to my Objection Then is this Church an Apostate Church c. which I have abundantly proved consequent to his Opinion to say You are Vngrateful and never answer one of my Arguments Is this Disputing The Title of my Book shews what I designed not a Vindication of G. Keith against all his Citations no but to convince B. C. of his feeble Arguing about Apostacy In what sense Baptism with Water is is not a Fundamental I shall take no notice of an old objection when my answers are not considered Let him read once again my Reprimand Mr. W Churchman you tell What care you should take to keep G Keith out of your Church