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B09695 Railings and slanders detected: or The folly and heresies of the Quakers further exposed. Being an answer to an invective libel written by G. Whitehead, impertinently called, Antichrist in flesh unmasked, &c. which some of the Quakers call an answer to a book truly stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. In this brief discourse you have the slanderous out-cries of G. Whitehead, against Edward Paye, Henry Loader, and William Alcot, examined, detected, and confuted. Paye, Edw. (Edward) 1692 (1692) Wing P884; ESTC R181559 21,006 57

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and should they go about to do it with their Equivocal Stuff they know they shall appear in an evil Case Well but it may be some Advocate for the Quakers may be ready to say That although the Quakers first Original and Ancient Authors of that Antiquity as 1648. and since for I think they do not pretend to any greater Antiquity See John Whitehead's small Treatise p. 4. He saith That in the year 1648. God who had Compassion on his People did cause a Branch to spring forth of the Root of David which was filled with Virtue for the Covenant of Life and Peace was with him c. and much more matter of this Blasphemous nature you have in the Book and Page aforesaid But who the degenerate Plant of this strange Vine was I know not except James Naylor And saith John Whitehead In the year 1655. I being a Branch of this Tree viz. the Branch aforesaid the Life of this Root caused me to Blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit of the Lord came upon me Ibid. But to return suppose that these Antient Authors did at first and since till very lately run into gross and abominable Errors about the Holy Scriptures denying them to be the Word of God and Rule of Faith and Practices and did deny Christ's being at God's right hand in the Glorious Heavens beyond the Stars and did deny the Humanity of Christ and Justification by his Works Righteousness and Merits c. yet they may now have seen their former Errors and it may be by some means they have been convinced thereof so that now they are become good Orthodox Christians and therefore they have published a Christian-like Profession of Faith c. Answer But then ought they not to have renounced their former Writings that directly contradict it and then we should have been heartily glad to hear of so great and so happy a Reformation in and amongst them But now I think upon it to put them upon renouncing any of their former Writings or Authors Works will be a greater affront than the other and I shall incurr G. Whitehead's displeasure worse than before for how can they do that since all their Authors Books be they ever so full of Railings Falsities and Blasphemies yet they intitle them to the Divine Majesty and his Eternal Life and Light given forth from his Mouth and Sealed by his Spirit c. So that I see not how they can renounce what they have written but must look upon all as infallibly true on their account as the Pope and his Conclave looks upon their Councils Edicts and Decrees so that as the Laws of the Medes and Persians they are never to be altered or renounced Then lastly which way could the Quakers expect to escape being defamed or discredited why it is like they did suppose that the Honourable Assembly in Parliament had matters of greater moment in hand than to compare their former Writings with their new Faith So that if we had not concerned our selves to peep into their Writings and compare them with their newly professed Faith and publish'd this to the World namely That the Quakers former Writings and their late Profession of Faith are as really alike as an Apple is to an Oyster and agree as directly as Light and Darkness it had not been known But G. Whitehead saith in p. 6. That this Confession of Faith was sincerely own'd and consented to as one condition of their present Liberty Well then we hope you in plainness speak your Faith therein for if you did dissemble your Principles to obtain your Liberty it was but a bad way to get at it But we hope better things Now would the Quakers but clear themselves in these their First and Primitive Errors and corrupt principles in point of Faith we should be heartily glad to hear thereof First That they would never more deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God and Rule ●f Faith and Life which they have done ●●●●●…ly That they would never more am●●… the Scriptures to be of no use in order to the true Knowledge of God This they have formerly done Thirdly That they would no longer hold it to be a sin Ay the sin of Idolatry and Breach of the Second Commandment to take the Practices of the Saints Recorded Commanded or Approved c. in the Scriptures for our Examples and Rules This you have done Fourthly That they would never more affirm That whatever is commanded in Scripture is no Duty to us except we receive the Command by immediate Inspiration as the Prophets and Apostles did Fifthly That they would never more deny the Resurrection of the Bodies of Men from the Graves of the Earth as they have done Sixthly That they would never more deny the Body of Christ of Flesh and Bones to be raised from the Grave and to be now in the Glorious Heavens above beyond the Stars This they have also done Seventhly That they would never more deny Gospel Ordinances as Baptism in Water and the Lord's Supper Administred in Bread and Wine which the Quakers do both despise and contemn Eighthly That they would forever renounce this pernicious Tenet of believing that no Blessedness is to be enjoyed by the Saints after Death the Body never being to be raised to any further Blessedness no more than 〈◊〉 enjoyed a thousand years before they 〈◊〉 and that the Soul is part of God came 〈◊〉 ●rom God and shall return into God again being part of his Essence Ninthly That they would never more deny Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits and for time to come never call it a Doctrine of Devils as they have formerly done Tenthly that they would never say and affirm that the Light within is Christ and God as they have too commonly done And finally that they would leave off their Billings-gate Complements and learn to treat their Antagonists more moderately and mildly for evil Communications will corrupt all their good Manners if they have any And waiting for this Reformation in them I shall now proceed to examine G. W's long Story and loud Out-cries about the Westmorland Petitioners which is my next Work About the Story of the Westmorland Petitioners G. W. spends several pages in cavelling with what I say Antichrist in Spirit c. pag. 78. namely That Quake●●●● is not derived from a Person but from ● Gesture used much amongst the Quakers formerly in ' their Meetings as was manifest by what was alledged against them by the Westmorland Petitioners who alledged that their practice did exceedingly savour of Sorcery because of the Swellings Quakings Roarings and Foamings that were amongst them in their Meetings I also cite the Quakers Answer to this Petition p. 35. where they deny not Swelling Foaming and Quaking But they deny Sorcery and Blasphemy they justifie their Quaking and Trembling as being used by the Saints of old c. James Naylor p. 16 and 17. of his Book The Power and Glory of