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A40205 Instructions for right-spelling, and plain directions for reading and writing true English with several delightful things very useful and necessary, both for young and old, to read and learn / by G. Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1683 (1683) Wing F1851; ESTC R10555 40,035 132

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Ye the plural Number and to be spoken unto more than one Sch. I am very well satisfied that Thee and Thou is the proper Languge to a single Person and You to more than one but the People called Quakers will not put off their Hats nor bow nor give flattering Titles to People what Scriptures have they for that Mast With God there is no respect of perfons and James said If you have respect of persons you commit sin and are convinced of the Law as transgressors and in Job Elihu said Let me not I pray you accept any mans person neither let me give flattering Titles unto Man for I know not to give flattering Titles in so doing my Maker would soon take me away Job 32.21 22. Sch. They say the people called Quakers deny the Scriptures Mast No they own the Scriptures more than any people for they walk in the Light of Christ Jesus and by following him do witness the Scriptures fulfilled in them and people that live in sin and that are guided by the evil Spirit they are contrary to the Scriptures and it is a Book sealed to them and they who hate to be reformed have nothing to do to speak of the Saints and holy men of Gods conditions mentioned in Scripture Sch. The People called Quakers do not call their Days and Months as other Professors do Mast No Professors and People are so far degenerated from Truth that they have lost the very form of sound Words used by the Primitive Christians Sch. How did the Primitive Saints call their days and months Mast God made the World in six Days and rested the seventh Day and he called the Evening and the Morning the first Day and the Evening and the Morning the second Day and the third Day c. And Christ rose on the first day of the Week and they came to the Sepulchre when the Jews Sabbath was ended on the first Day of the Week and upon the first Day of the Week the Disciples met together And in Ex. 12.2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months it shall be the first month of the year to you And in Ex. 16. Moses writeth the fifteenth day of the second Month and the Scriptures say the third Month and fourth month c. Schol. Who invented these Names of Sunday Monday c. and calling the month March April May c. Mast The old Pagan Saxons in their Idolatry were the first that brought in the names of the Days after that manner and these called Christians have retained them to this day The first Day of the week they worshipped the Idol of the Sun from whence came Sunday The second Day of the Week they worshipped the Moon from whence came Moonday or Monday the third day they worshipped the Idol of the Planets which they called Tuisco from whence came Tuesday and from the Idol Woden came Wednesday and from the Idol Thor came Thursday and from the Idol Friga came Friday and from the Idol Seater came Saturday And the Heathen called Mars the God of Battle and from thence they called the first Month March And Venus they called the Goddess of Love and beauty and from thence they called the second Month April And Maja a heathen Goddess called Flora Flora and Gloris were called the Gooddesses of Flowers Unto Maja the heathen Idolaters used to sacrifice from thence was the third Month called May and upon the first day of the same Month they used to keep Floralia Feasts to the two Goddesses of Flowers viz. Flora and Cloris and Flora was a Strumpet in Rome that used on the first Day of that Month to set up a May-pole before her Door to entice her Lovers from whence came May-poles to be first observed And from the heathens Goddess Juno is the fourth Month called June And in honour to Julius Caesar a Roman Emperor is the fifth Month called July and the sixth Month took its Name August in honour of Augustus Caesar and September October November and December are called from the Latines And one Janus a King of Italy was for his Wisdom pictured with two Faces whom they honoured as a God and from this name Janus was the eleventh Month called January And Saturnus Pluto Februs were called the Gods of Hell whom the heathen said had the rule of the evil Spirits there and from Pluto Februs was the twelfth Month called February Sch. Who have been the Ministers and Instructers of these people that they are erred so from Scripture-Example Let me have some marks and signs by which I may know the Deceivers and false Prophets Mast The marks the Scriptures give of Deceivers and false Prophets are these I shall set them down in short that thou maist remember them the better 1. They are such as bear rule by their Means Jer. 30.31 Mat. 10.19 20. 2. They are such as seek for their Gain from their Quarters Isa 56. 3. They seek for the Fleece and make a prey upon the People Ezek. 34.1 2 3. 4. They are such as preach for Hire and Divine for Money Mic. 2.11 5. They cry Peace so long as People put into their Mouthes but when any come to see them to be Deceivers and cannot put into their Mouthes nor give them Gifts then they prepare War against them Mic. 3.5 Hos 6.9 6. They run when the Lord never sent them and prophesie Lies in his Name Jer. 14.4 7. They stand praying in the Synagogues They love the uppermost Rooms at Feasts and the chief Seats in the Synagogues and love Greetings in the Markets and to be called of men Master and they make them broad Philacteries on their Garments that they may be taken notice of for they do that they do to be seen of men and are proud and covetous and they come of Cain's Stock for they are full of Envy and are in Balaam's way who was erred from the Spirit of God and received the Wages of Unrighteousness and so do they 2 Peter 2. Judge 11. 8. They are such as sprinkle Infants for which they have no rule in Scripture and tell people it is an Ordinance of Christ when it is but one of their own Inventions and so are Liars and Deceivers 9. They tell people they shall never be free from Sin whilst they live here 10. They are made Ministers by the Will of man and men uphold them If thou meetest with them and seest those Fruits brought forth by them then beware of them for they have got on sheeps Cloathing but inwardly they are ravening VVolves Sch. How may I know the true Ministers Mast I may give thee some Marks how to know them 1. The true Ministers of Christ as they have received the Gift of God freely so they minister freely from the same as good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God and they do unto all Men as they would have all Men do unto them 2. They do not strive for Mastership like the false Prophets but