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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89135	Antichrist in man the Quakers Idol. Or a faithfull discovery of their ways and opinions by an eye and ear-witness thereof. Together with an answer and confutation of some dangerous and damnable doctrines justified, in a paper sent by them unto me: as also one of them taken with a lie in his mouth before the magistrates. / By Joshuah Miller, a servant of Christ in the work of the Gospel.	Miller, Joshua, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2061; Thomason E868_1; ESTC R207650	27,464	39

in Bedlam anon they go with bended back arms infolded thus mocking the Lord their Maker that hath made them otherwise sometimes they weep and howl Pharisee like to he heard of men As if they were in Hell already for Christ tels us the damned shal so do Matth. 34.51 besides the disfiguring their faces makes them Pharisees Mat. 6.16 I wonder much at their weepings if they have no sin as some of them affirm Again I have heard them hum like a swarm of Bees as if Beelzebub the God of Flies was there Well dear Christians some of you have read the life of Kilpin a great Quaker but lately brought back to Christ How he manifests that he was often possessed with the Divel As also you have heard of the fly that came to two men in a Bed at Wrexham Le ts be warned by these things to hold fast to Christs person keep your faith and profession without wavering Heb. 10.23 Le ts not be Rubenites unstable as water for we shal not excel Gen. 45.4 I beseech you to conform to wholsom words of the Lord Jesus 1 Tim. 6.3 for Popery came in at this door And unlesse our God prevent it Heathenism will creep in the same way Secondly I advise you to withdraw from the company of these men and in so doing you will keep the Scripture rule and find much peace and comfort in your soul An Heretick after the first and second admonition reject Titus 3.10 though I beleeve many are not Hereticks amongst them but are like silly sheep-meerly-deluded pity them and pray for their return yet take heed of touching Pitch lest you be defiled therewith if any man brings not the Doctrine of Christ receive him not into your house nor bid him God speed 2 Epist John 10. if many had kept this word they might have-been kept from the hour of Temptation that now hath overtaken them we are forbid to keep company with a railer too 1 Cor. 5.11 As these men are Thirdly keep and ask for the old paths not in which wicked men have trod but all the Saints before you many have lost their zeal to contend for the faith Jude 3. truly they have need to be inquired after Jerem. 6.16 the indifferency of spirit about Christ his Ordinances and Ministry hath exceedingly hurt the souls of many take heed lest that word Jerem. 18.15 fall to your share because my people have forgotten me they have burnt incense to vanity and they have caused them to stumble in their ways to walk in a way not cast up mark how full this Scripture is to condomn such people as bring such opinions that was never cast up by the Apostles and Prophets for they never bid men turn into the light within no nor never said to any man to the light in thy conscience I speak this word was unheard of till now neither is there any such expression in all the Scripture To sum up my discourse I understand that Popery and vain Philosophy is the foundation of their religion the Jesuits without doubt are unknown to them and us amongst them the Lord reveal this man of sin and I question not but he shal not be hid In order to this take this relation Ireceived from good hands A Gentleman of this County upon the Road meets with one that seemed a stranger to him they fell in discourse upon the Quakers the stranger justified them to be a people of the highest light and holiest conversation After this he owned and justified Transubstantiation also and this man is since found to be one Baras supposed to be a Romish Priest it s more then suspicious they are nean of kin to the Pope when his Emissaries will plead for them for I am sure they condemn the true Protestants as Hereticks Seeing they are against all Ministers as Antichristan the Pope laughs in his sleeve at this for he hath told them so for this is known to all men of understanding that the Church of Rome denies any Gospel Ministry in England therefore the Pope and the Quakers in this agree And that you may without spectacles see that his Agents are not strangers amongst them take this following relation as a most evident demonstration hereof The Information of Geo. Cowlishaw Ironmonger of the City of Bristol taken before the Magistrate of the said City On the 22. Janu. 1654. WHo informeth upon oath that in the moneth of Sept. last this informant had some discourse in Bristol with one Mr. Coppinger an Irish man formerly a School fellow of his that came thither purposely for his Passage into Ireland who told this informant that he had lived in Rome and Italy this 8 or 9 years and had taken upon him the order of a Friar of the Franciscan Company and he told this Informant that he had been at London lately for some moneths and whilest he was there he had been at all the Churches and meetings publick and private that he could hear of and that none came so near him as the Quakers and that being at a meeting of the Quakers he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome the which two persons were of the same Franciscan order and company and were now become chief Speakers amongst the Quakers and that he himself had spoken among the Quakers in London about 30 times and was well approved of amongst them And this Informant further saith that the said Coppinger asked him what kinds of opinions of religion there was in Bristol and the said Informant told him there were several opinions and judgements the said Coppinger asked him whether there had been any Quakers in Bristol and the said Informant said no whereupon the said Coppinger told him 2. or 3. times that if he did love his religion and his Soul he should not hear them Whereupon this Informant told him that he thought none of them would come to Bristol who expresly replied that if this Informant would give him five pounds he would make it five hundred pounds if some Quakers did not come to Bristol within three weeks or a moneth then following And on the morrow the said Coppinger departed for Ireland his native place and about 18 days after there came to this City two persons bearing the name of Quakers This matter is well known to many in the City that this Oath was taken by the foresaid person onely John Audland in his Paper against Mr. Farmer saith that they were in Bristol before the time herein mentioned which may wel be and yet Mr. Cowlishaw speak true that they were not there to his knowledge And herein I leave all men whose wits are not bewildred with fancies to judge whether this mans testimony upon Oath is to be beleeved before all their railings and paper denials These things are for our warning to take heed of this mystical Antichrist in man who appears under all forms to the intent to destroy both forms and religion also when they call all our