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A30031	New Rome arraigned And out of her own mouth condemned. Containing a farther discovery of the dangerous errors, and pernicious principles of the leaders and teachers of the Foxonian Quakers: which tend to overthrow the Christian faith, to obstruct the Jews conversion, to encourage Mahumetism, and to pervert the right way of the Lord; which whether so or no, deserves the examination and consideration of the Christian ministry of all Protestant Churches, as they tender God's glory, and the good of souls. To which is added, Ten articles of the Christian faith, wrote by Geo. Keith, who was persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian testimony. The second edition, with some alteration and additions, by Francis Bugg. Licensed, June 18th. 1694.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. aut	1693 (1693)	Wing B5377; ESTC R202485	69,734	77

Life called Christ where-ever it is found Doth not the Name Christ belong to the whole Body and every Member in the Body as well as to the Head Will. Bayly's Works in Quarto p. 306 307 308. For they his Disciples loved his Person for the sake of the Frame and Quality of the Spirit that dwelt in him or else what was his Person to them being mean and contemptible more than another Person But for that which dwelt in him they loved him Let none mistake I do not slight it nor the Person of any of his Brethren or Children as they are prepared to do the Will of their Father The Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. Your Imagined God beyond the Stars is utterly denied and testified against by the Light And whereas you say in the 8th That this Christ the Man of God is God and Man in one Person it is a Lye c. G. Fox's Mystery c. p. 206 207 250 254. If Christ that 's crucified be not within and that Christ that 's risen be not within I say that you are all Reprobates Now I say if there be any other Christ than he that 's crucified within he is a False Christ and he that hath not this Christ that was risen and crucified within is a Reprobate Though Devils and Reprobates make a talk of him without God's Christ is not distinct from his Saints nor his Body the Church for he is within them not distinct from their Spirit And thou say'st thou art saved by Christ without thee and so have recorded thy self to be a Reprobate And they that profess Christ without them and another Christ within them here is two Christs E. Burrough's Works c. p. 149. Query Is that very Man with that very Body within you yea or nay E. B's Answ The very Christ of God is within us we dare not deny him W. Smith's Primmer c. p. 8. Que. How may I know when Christ is truly preached W. Smith's Answ They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above but they that are Christ's Ministers preach Christ within The Christian Quaker and his Div. Test par 1. p. 97 98. The Serpent is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something which is spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then could he not bruise the Serpents Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an holy Principle of Light and Life that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpents Head and because the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ as testifie the Scriptures the Seed is one and that Seed is Christ The Sandy Foundation c. p. 21. The Justice offended being Infinite his Satisfaction ought to bear a proportion therewith which Jesus Christ as Man could never pay he being Finite and from a finite Cause could never proceed an infinite Effect for so Man may be said to bring forth God since nothing below the Divinity it self can rightly be stiled infinite E. B's Works c. p. 273. And this is to go abroad into the Nation and into the World the Sufferings of the People of God called Quakers in this Age is greater Sufferings and more unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles or in any times since The Counterfeit Quaker The Harmony c. p. 11. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Innoc. Triumphant Introd We sincerely own profess and confess Jesus to be the Christ The Harmony c. p. 45. Jesus in his Agony did sweat as it were great drops of Blood c. smote on the Head spitted on his Face crucified between two Malefactors Observation If the Counterfeit Quaker were sincere in this his Confession and as a Testimony thereof would retract his Errors I should be glad but whilst G. W. says in his Count. Conv. c. p. 72. I may see cause otherwise to word the matter and yet our Intentions be the same And The Harmony c. considering these Imputations viz of denying Christ undervaluing his Death and Sufferings contempt of Scripture c. if by any means this may help to clear up Truth and wipe off those Aspersions cast upon it It will not do they begin at the wrong end 't is not appearing in Sheeps Clothing only that will now do G. W's Paint will not serve nor all his cunning Glosses for as Irenaeus in his third Book against Hereticks very well says viz. Whilst Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poison of their foul Opinions And as St. Paul says No marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their work c. 2 Cor. 11. 14. And that it may appear G. W. c. transform themselves into every shape behold their Books see how they contradict each other yet they 'll justifie or excuse all condemn none I have not taken a Passage or two only but I have traced them in their most approved Authors You see they call him that was born of the Virgin a Vessel a Garment and say they can never call him Christ and that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to every Member in the Body as well as to Christ the Head That his Disciples loved his Person for the sake of the Spirit which dwelt in him or else what was his Person to them more than another Person O horrible Contempt yea such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers Devils and Reprobates which make a talk of Christ without God's Christ is not distinct from the Saints says G. F. yea the same Christ that was crucified and rose again is within them and not distinct from them G. Fox and W. Penn say the Seed the Light is Christ which cannot be that Body because not in any Man In short they have acquitted the Jews and discharged Judas and freed Pontius Pilate of the horrible Crime of putting to death the Lord of Life and Glory what they can for as he was God he could not dye neither could they spit upon him scourge him hang him on a Tree but him that they call a Vessel a Garment a Man a Person him they slew and hanged on a Tree Acts 2. 36. Know assuredly that the same Jesus whom ye crucified and hanged on a tree hath God made both Lord and Christ Then not finite but a sufficient satisfactory Sacrifice for the Sins of

to F. B's Book c. when alas it doth not take notice of the twentieth part thereof I shall now proceed to prove upon them what I have Charged them with and that out of their own approved Books and Arguments deduceable from them But let it be noted that their ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES under distinct Heads numerically placed are taken verbatim out of their own Books which is plain Matter of Fact quoting both Book and Page but the Remarks and Arguments I draw from them are my own sence which how far they agree to Reason and Protestant Christian Principles I leave others to judge And in order thereunto I first divide my Charge into three parts as followeth viz. THE FIRST CHARGE 1. THAT THE Quakers DENY HIM THAT WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY WHO SUFFERED DEATH UPON THE CROSS AT JERUSALEM WHO ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN IN THE SIGHT OF THE GALILEANS TO BE CHRIST THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD THE Quakers FIRST ERROUR A Question to the Professors c. p. 33. Now the Scriptures do expresly distinguish between CHRIST and the GARMENT which he wore between HIM that came and the BODY in which he CAME between the Substance which was vailed and the Vail which vailed it Lo I come a Body hast thou prepared me there is plainly HE and the Body in which HE came there was the outward VESSEL and the inward LIFE This we certainly know and can never call the bodily Garment Christ c. REMARK By which 't is plain that they deny HIM that was born of the Virgin to be CHRIST for though they seem to own something which appeared in the Body as by the sequel of the matter you will perceive yet 't is plain and self-evident that they call HIM that was born of the Virgin that suffered Death on the Cross who was smote with the Palms of their Hands spit upon buffetted and run through with a Spear died was buried rose again the third day c. but a Garment a Vail a Figure c. For say the Quakers There was plainly HE and the Body in which HE came there was plainly the outward Garment and the inward Life c. And this we declare to all Mankind we can never call this Body this Garment that was thus subject to be smote to be buffetted to be perished to be crucified c. CHRIST But if that will satisfie you we will call something that was in that Body which was never born of a Woman never was mortal never smote never crucified nor by wicked hands slain and hanged on a Tree this if it will satisfie you we will call CHRIST being the same which we say is in us This and no other do or ever did we own to be CHRIST the Saviour of the World Now that this is a Fundamental Errour and tends to overthrow the Christian Faith I shall prove by the Testimony of the glorious Angels holy Apostles yea GOD himself recorded in Sacred Writ And first read Luke 2. 11. For unto you is BORN this day in the City of David a Saviour CHRIST the LORD And Acts 5. 30 31. The GOD of our Fathers raised up Jesus whom ye SLEW and HANGED on a Tree HIM hath GOD exalted with His right Hand to be a Prince and a SAVIOUR Again Acts 2. 36. Therefore let all the House of Israel know ASSUREDLY that GOD hath made THAT SAME JESUS whom ye have crucified both LORD and CHRIST Mark the SAME JESUS which was thus despitefully used that was thus crucified between two Thieves that was put to this ignominious Death viz. hanged on a Tree The VERY SAME JESUS the Apostle tells you and assures all the House of Israel that GOD exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour to be both LORD and CHRIST Again read St. Mark 9. 7. and Matth. 17. 5. And there was a cloud that over-shadowed them and a voice came out of the cloud saying This is MY beloved SON hear ye HIM Again read Acts 1. 10 11. And whilst they looked steadfastly toward Heaven as HE went UP behold two men stood by them in white Apparel which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing UP into Heaven THIS SAME JESUS which is taken up FROM you into Heaven shall so come in LIKE MANNER as YE have seen him go into Heaven And Acts 10. 39 40 41. the same is again verified of the SAME JESUS And thereupon I do affirm and testifie and charge it upon them in the presence of GOD Angels and Men that they disown and deny Jesus Christ whom GOD hath ordained to be Salvation to the ends of the Earth and a propitiotary Sacrifice for the Sins of the whole World to be CHRIST And that there is not another Name given whereby men shall be saved than this SAME JESUS who was so named of the Angel before he was born of the Virgin Matth. 1. 21. Luke 2. 21 27. who was crucified hanged on a Tree rose the third day and ascended visibly up to Heaven and there sits at the right hand of GOD making intercession for us sinners who believe and hope for Salvation through his Merits Death and bitter Passion and the imputation of his Righteousness who was foretold by the Prophets and in due time was manifest And this is HE that Israel by Faith drank of that the Apostles testified of whose hands handled and eyes saw and we by Faith do now behold and by HIS Spirit the Comforter whom HE promised to send are inabled to believe And this I further testifie That from Adam to the days of the Apostles there never was a Man saved but by Faith in this Messiah or Son of GOD nor since to this day nor will be to the end of the World but by this SAME JESUS who was thus born who suffered death who thus rose again and visibly ascended for so say the Scriptures There is not another Name given under Heaven by which men shall be saved but by the Name of JESUS even as St. Peter often and very emphatically illustrates saying This SAME JESUS And this Jesus the Quakers say they cannot call CHRIST for though I grant this was H. Penington's great Errour yet as G. W. says he was a wise Man and a Scholar nay let me add A Man I believe that was more simply honest than hundreds of their Teachers And how far GOD's mercy may extend to him and other devout Heathens I will not determine yet Errour is Errour still and the Fundamental Truths of the Gospel ought to be testified to by all true Christians according to the holy Scriptures THE Quakers SECOND ERROUR A Quest c. p. 20. To whom do the Names and Titles of JESUS and CHRIST chiefly and in the first place belong Do they belong to the Body which was took by HIM or to him too hims by the way who took the Body The Body hath its Names and Properties Now the Query is which

one and that too much too Secondly Do you think he values and prefers the Scriptures before all Books extant in the World I think not my Reasons are many First you hear he calls the Scriptures Dust Death and Serpents-meat Beastly Wares dangerous to read see Truths Defence c. p. 101. yea so uncertain that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Pen-man of Holy Writ is a question But as for what G. Fox c. wrote their Yearly Meeting testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea the same Men that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents-meat judge Reader which they prefer Yea G. W. avouches that what is spoke from the Spirit of Truth in any much more in them is of equal nay of greater Authority than the Scriptures judge Reader which they prefer They say 't is Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and that 't is the Devil that so pleads Yet they say of their own Epistles This is the Word of God judge which they preferr They say we may as well burn the Bible as their Papers and Queries judge which they prefer Come G. W. what Gloss have you in store your Paint begins to vanish and your Jugglings will not now do And as to you that are mis-led by your Teachers I exhort you to read the Scriptures and pray to God to open the Mysteries of Salvation held forth in them that so you may come to have your Judgments rectified Likewise read G. K's Ten Articles which came providentially to my Hand which being sound and orthodox I have exposed them to publick view for general Service desiring from my Heart that you may receive them in the same love they were writ and now exposed yet if you will not hear me nor receive them I of all Men may bear with you in that I once was as averse to Information as the most of you but I obtained Mercy in that I did not wilfully persist against Conviction c. Some of the Principles of G. Keith and his Friends 1. That Bodily Sickness and Death came in by the Fall 2. That Christ has now in Heaven a Soul and a Body that is not the Godhead but the Temple of it and most gloriously united therewith 3. That Christ's Body that was crucified and buried without us rose again without us and is now in Heaven without us 4. That the Man Christ Jesus will come again in that Body without us to judge the Quick and the Dead 5. That there shall be a general day of Judgment that all the deceased Saints are in expectation of 6. That we get not the Resurrection of the Body either in this mortal Life or immediately after Death 7. That Faith in the Man Christ without us as he died for us rose again and is gone into Heaven wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ is universally necessary to make Men true Christians and Children of God born of the Free Woman who have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father 8. That Christ's Obedience and Righteousness which he performed in himself without us is imputed to us by Faith for the Remission of Sins 9. That Christ is not only God's Elect but all that shall be saved from the beginning to the end of the World are God's Elect being chosen in him not only before they believe and repent but before the Foundation of the World 10. That all and every one of the Members of the Church of Christ who are at age and can speak ought to confess with their Mouths in the hearing of some of their Fellow Members the Fundamental Principles of their Christian Faith before they can be own'd to be Members of the Church that by the same as well as by a Good Life and Conversation it may be known who are qualified to be Members of our Church which is Aboundary Terms and Bond of our Union the Spirit being the Principal which may be easily done by Answering to some plain Questions This is a Copy of G. Keith's c. sound and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith proposed to the Quakers of whom I wish it may not be said Oh how oft would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but you would not but now the things which belong to your Peace are hid from your Eyes I remember G. W. queried of me Count. Conv. p. 15. Whether I when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation Answ I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism as by my Book de Chr. Lib. c. which he so often quotes to justifie the Quakers from what I now charge them with may be seen yet I do freely acknowledge that I was in great Errors particularly touching the Point of Justification for I then expected Salvation thro' my Obedience to the Light which the Quakers taught was sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation it attained through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts Again G. W. says Count. Conv. p. 29. Not reading the Scriptures in our Meetings for Worship is no Proof that we have not a Spiritual Worship nor Evidence that we disbelieve the Doctrines contained in them Answ I do not give it as the only Evidence but as a Demonstration yet if you did in good earnest believe the Doctrines and Precepts of Christ in the Gospel to be blessed and holy as you pretend you would read the Scripture and prefer the Bible before any other Book extant in the World you would read the Scriptures in your Meetings if any Book at all and if you recommend any Book to your Friends beyond Sea it would be the Scripture But since you do neither but instead thereof read and recommend your own Epistles and that as you say for the spreading of Truth this is a Demonstration that you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy and an infallible Evidence that you prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures unless you be arrant Cheats indeed to read and recommend that which you know is worst and hide and keep from them that which is best which I can hardly think And as impertinent as G. W. renders my Ten Reasons I find him not able to confute them As for his Pretence to Pray after the manner Christ taught his Disciples I deny it for it you kept to the manner though not to the form you would not be alone But let the Reader observe all the Prayers of Steph. Crisp R. Ashby W. Bingly and others printed at the end of their Sermons nay all your Books extant in the World and he will not find this passage Forgive us our Sins as we forgive them that

the Church and the Light in them the Christ this I take to be his meaning And that it may appear so I will produce a Text out of their own Scriptures I mean out of Jos Coals Works p. 332. in answer to John Newman about the Body of Christ he thus expresses himself viz. If by the Body of Flesh that Christ had he means his Church which the Apostle speaks of which was the Body of which Christ was Head and they Members of then I am one with him for his having that Body after his Ascension I never denied nor intend to do And such a Body we own Christ had after his Ascension Thus then it appears plainly that they deny HIM to be Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered death on the Cross in that they say nothing which was Mortal was called Christ and they say the bodily Garment we can never call Christ And when J. W. made his distinction between Christ and his Body it doth appear by J. Coals Testimony that CHRIST after he ascended had no other Body but his Church consequently did not ascend in His Body which was seen apparently Acts 1. 9 10 11. So that the Light in the Quakers is the one only Christ and the Quakers the Body of Christ And no other Christ nor Body of Christ do I by their Doctrine find that they own and thereupon do Charge them to deny CHRIST who was crucified dead and buried but is risen and in the same Body ascended and in the same Body sits at the right Hand of GOD never more to die but ever liveth it make intercession for us THE Quakers FIFTH ERROUR Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 14. Christ is the Substance of all Figures and his Flesh is a Figure G. F. REMARK Reader pray observe First they distinguish between Christ and the Garment he wore meaning his Body which suffered on the Cross which bodily Garment they cannot call Christ. 2. They teach that the Names Jesus and Christ do not so properly belong to HIM that was born of the Virgin suffered c. as to something in the Body the Light c. which they say is in themselves 3. And that the Light in them is the same Christ which suffered at Jerusalem 4. That the Body of Christ is like ours of AN EARTHLY PERISHING NATURE 5. That nothing which was Mortal was called Christ and consequently not HE that was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered on the Cross as an acceptable Sacrifice 6. That Christ hath no other Body but His Church since his Ascension proved out of their own Books which they say are given forth by the Eternal Spirit So that the Light in the Quakers is all the Christ they own and they being in their own esteem Believers and consequently the Church Christ hath no other Body so the Quakers are all and all 7. That the Flesh of Christ is but a Figure Thus have they what in them lye overturned the Fundamentals of Christianity for Christ was so far from being a Figure that all Figures and Types ended in Him and HE the Substance of them all as I shall shew by the Prophesies of the Holy Prophets in two Columns And whereas G. W. in his A Just Enquiry c. p. 2 3. by his cunning Glosses not only vindicates some notorious Errours but also excuses the Consequences of them as not being of a dangerous tendency and therefore rather than to trace him in his crooked Path I shall choose to make it appear that the Fruits Effects and Consequences of these and the like Errours are very dangerous in hopes that as it will tend to strengthen my Charge of their not owning CHRIST c. if any thing be still wanting to prove it so will it be a means to strengthen and confirm others in the Principles of the Christian Faith against the Prevalency of such Seducers as G. W. c. are as by their Fruits do now appear DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THESE ERROURS 1. Saul's Errand c. p. 8. He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD. P. 7. And if Christ be in you must he not say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE The Letter of the Scripture is Carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth All that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the mouth of the LORD 2. Several Petitions answered c. p. 30. But if ever you own the Prophets Christ and his Apostles ye will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Power and Spirit 3. Truths Defence c. p. 101. The Letter which killeth is dangerous and the Ministers of the Letter are the Ministers of Death to you it is dangerous to read or speak of it 4. The Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. Your imagined GOD beyond the Stars and your Carnal Christ to say GOD and Man in one Person is a Lie 5. David's Enemies Discovered c. p. 7. And these i. e. Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule and the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel as thou and thy Generation do For Paul said he was a Minister of the Gospel and of the New Testament and not of the Letter which thou calls the Gospel and New Testament thy Ministry is in the Letter which killeth c. by G. Whitehead and Chr. Atkinson 6. A Brief Discovery c. p. 7 8 9 10. The Priests of the World are Thieves Robbers Conjurers Antichrists Witches Devils Liers a Viperous and Serpentine Generation Blasphemers scarlet coloured Beasts Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Ware for a large price the Letter which is dust and death whited Walls greedy Doggs really they are Blood-hounds still hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell barking and raging like Sodomites G. F. and others 7. Truths Defence c. O thou filthy Beast thy beastly Worship no Prayers can we send to thee but for thy destruction thou Man of Sin and Enemy of thou Hypocrite O thou impudent and brazen fac'd thou art in the Sorcery and in the Witchcraft and in the Adultery O thou slanderous Beast O thou natural brute Beast O generation of Vipers And here thou Serpent thou art damned openly And here I charge thee to be a Witch and to bewitch the People a Reprobate hated of GOD a Child of the Devil an Enemy of Righteousness the Son of Perdition O thou false-hearted dissembling Hypocrite the Plagues of GOD are due to thee and that is thy portion thou child of the Devil thou blind Sot thy Torment is begun and so fare thee well But thou art a Conjurer and livest in Conjuration thou Enemy of GOD and Man of Sin for destruction thou art ordained to go therein thy fear of it doth begin and the

as the Quakers do account it sufficient But with that worthy Martyr Dr. Robert Barns say Acts and Mon. p. 610. I believe in the holy and blessed Trinity that created and made all the World I believe that without Man's Will or Power Christ Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost and took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary that HE suffered thirst hunger and cold which as he was God he could not do mark that old Friends and other Passions of our Bodies sin excepted according to the saying of St. Peter And I believe that this his Death and Passion was the sufficient Ransom for my sins and the sins of the whole World and I believe that through his death he overcame sin death and hell and that there is no other Satisfaction unto the Father but his Death and Passion only and that no Works of Man did deserve any thing of GOD but only Christ's Passion touching our Justification For I know said this humble Martyr that the best Works that ever I did is impure and imperfect And according to the Faith of this worthy Martyr the Publick Ministers teach and I believe not but that Dr. Barns was a good Man walked circumspectly had great regard to the Dictates of his Conscience and the Guidance of the Light abstained from that which was evil and followed that which was good and every way as became a good Man as compleatly as the most perfect Quaker in England notwithstanding their high boasting yet you see he did not lean upon his own Deservings but upon the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ even the Merits of HIS Death who suffered thirst hunger and cold who was born of the Virgin and made like unto us sin excepted c. nor did he pretend to a sinless Perfection as the Quakers vainly boast of but humbly acknowledged that the best Works that ever he did was impure and unperfect and this made him rely and lean wholly upon the Merits of another even the Sacrifice of that Immaculate Lamb Christ Jesus his Death and bitter Passion which the Quakers never preach up as necessary to believe Search all their Epistles read in their Meetings hear all their Sermons if ever you hear such a Passage as came from this humble Martyr I will be your Bond slave And thus have I given an additional Proof that the Quakers are of a different Faith from the Martyrs and all true Christian Churches and when I came to understand these their Fundamental Errours which was after I had wrote three or four Books against them in reproof of their Hypocrisie about outward Ceremonies Church Government their pretending to preach write suffer and do all things freely when alas it was all but a cheat they took Money Gifts and Reward for all nay sometimes as in the Instance of Sam. Cater 10 l. where they suffered not 10 d. See New Rome p. 54. to 68. I say after I had thus been brushing at the outside or skirts of Religion for some years it pleased GOD in mercy to open my understanding and to shew me by the Rule of Holy Writ and through the Assistance of His Holy Spirit the Quakers great and Fundamental Errours and then I could not be silent but that too for the sake of many amongst them who have a Zeal I bear them record though not according to knowledge but was constrained to unmask their blind Guides who have caused them to err And if in my Zeal against their pernicious ways I seem to exceed they of all People may bear with me And now to the Trial now to the Examination Who are the true Ministers and the false who are the Worlds Teachers Alluding to the Quakers distinction whose Maxim is to call all but themselves of the World or the Worlds People or the Worlds Teachers c. and who are the Ministers of Christ And though I dare not pretend to know Gods People so as to give an infallible Character of another Mans state as the Quakers do yet I hope to make a truer Description than they have done But for this I must have a Rule and that Rule must be the Holy Scriptures and by the evident Testimony of that let my Work stand or fall A DISCOVERY OF THE WORLDS TEACHERS 1. The Quakers who teach that the Names JESUS and CHRIST do not properly belong to the Body that suffered upon the Cross at Jerusalem nor preach'd it up as a necessary Article of Faith to believe that Salvation is obtained through the Merits of his Death and Passion They are of the World they are the Deceivers and Antichrists 2. The Quakers who teach that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to the whole Body and to every Member in the Body as well and as amply as to Christ the HEAD are of the World and Deceivers 3. The Quakers who teach that the Body of Christ was of an earthly perishing Nature like ours are of the World and Deceivers 4. The Quakers who adore Mortal Men and give those Divine Attributes to Geo-Fox due only to CHRIST are of the World and Deceivers 5. The Quakers who teach that he that hath the same Spirit which raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD and which Spirit they pretend to have and by it give forth their Epistles c. and therefore of the World great Deceivers and horrible Blasphemers 6. The Quakers who teach that Josiah Coal being dead is ASCENDED and that IN Edw. Burroughs whilst living was THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD and that the FULNESS dwelt in him of Grace and Vertue are of the World and gross Idolaters 7. The Quakers who teach that Geo. Fox's coming out of the North naked not known prophesied of writ from the Mouth of the LORD c. are Deceivers Impostors and of the World 8. The Quakers who teach that the Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter say they and that such are Ministers of the Letter are Ministers of Death which is Serpents-meat that say the Sacraments are dust c. are of the World and great Deceivers 9. The Quakers who teach that it is as justifiable to burn the Bible as the Books wrote by Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead and others of their way are Decivers and impudent Impostors 10. The Quakers that teach that the Scriptures are uncertain and that what the true Prophets say is false and what the false Prophets said is true what good men spake therein is ill applied and what wise men spake therein is ill expressed and that whether Moses or Hermes was the first Penman of the Scripture is uncertain they are false Apostles deceitful Workers and their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith 11. The Quakers who teach in one Book that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are not the New Testament not the Rule for Christians to walk by and teach in another Book lately that the Scriptures are the New Testament Holy Scriptures c. are