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A51569	Tyranny and hypocrisy detected or, a further discovery of the tyrannical government, popish-principles, and vile practices of the now-leading Quakers. Being a defence of the letter, intituled, The spirit of the hat, against the deceitful, defective and railing Answer, called The spirit of Alexander, &c. With a challenge, to refer the judgment of matters of fact to the verdict of twelve impartial judges, equally chosen. Also, many of their letters, papers, and transactions among themselves are made publick; wherein they contradict one another, and attribute titles to George Fox, that are proper only to Christ.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Mucklow, William, 1631-1713. Bemoaning letter.	1673 (1673)	Wing M3036; ESTC R201177	45,022	73

Ministry c. and of prejudice and hardness of heart and wickedness that now in the Ancient of dayes a Hat makes such work with you W. Pen. No Cross no Crown P. 7 8. Sixteen Reasons why Cap-honour and titular respects are neither honour nor respects Reas 1. Because if true honour consists in Hats Bows or Titles then are the most prophane and deboist the most civil since most expert in those vain Ceremomies which is impossible Psal 50.23 Isa 33.15 Reas 2. Because real Honour is a substantial thing manifested by obedience which therefore cannot stand in invented gestures which it must necessarily do in case the ceremony of the Hat be an honour or respect Reas 4. Because honour properly ascends not descends yet the Hat is near as frequently off to equals and inferiors as to superiors Reas 5. If pulling off a Hat or Title were to pay honour who so vile that could not honour but this is to make Honour as superstitious men do Religion to consist in some external appearances c. Read more in his Book which for brevity sake I may not transcribe J. Naylor concerning Worship Printed about 1656. God is a Spirit and in Spirit is he worshiped not with Mens hands not with bodily exercise farther then by the eternal Spirit the body is exercised so the imaginations thinkings and conceivings are shut out all mans ways mans times and forms mans decency and orders are all shut out and condemned with the Spirit in which God alone is worshiped Now I shall produce the Judgment of eminent men among the Quakers concerning the very controversy about the Hat after it was commenc't among them Isaac Pennington Some Queries in the power and drawings of the Spirit of the Lord c. Quer. 1. Whether this present ministration of life doth not point men to an inward principle there to wait for the Teachings of Gods Spirit within and not to go forth into reasonings about things either from Scriptures or otherwise after the manner of men Quer. 2. Whether those whom the Lord made use of to direct to this principle did then tell us that when we were turned thereto we must observe what comely orders were prescribed by the Apostles in the Churches and that they prescribed them by the Spirit of God and that if we were not found in the same comely orders we were not led by the Spirit of God or did they not rather tell us that the Epistles of the Apostles were writ to the then present state of the Churches and that we were not to take up the same practices unless we were led thereunto by the same Spirit Quer. 3. To this 3d Query G. Whitehead answers the 5th of the 4th month 1663. This is an unreasonable and impertinent Query especially as it is to in who are in the Ministry for we never went about to limit the Spirit of the Lord in putting off or keeping on the Hat in Prayer c. Will he now dare to disown and punish men for that practice which he acknowledges they may be moved to by the Spirit of the Lord O strange Is the putting off or keeping on the Hat in Prayer a thing of such a nature for the Spirit of the Lord so to be limitted about as that he shall not c. may not the Spirit of the Lord in some of his chosen vessels testify against it Oh let God alone reign in Israel Quer. 4. If this be brought in as a comly order is there not equal ground for bringing in all other things which the Apostles prescribed in those days to the Churches as comly orders also and so setting up the outward Court again which the Spirit of the Lord left out in the measuring of his Temple and withdrew from Qu. 5. Is not this the direct way to draw the mind into reasonings about Scriptures and from a simple waiting on the principle of Life where the true peace and unity alone is preserved and so necessarily a begetting into separation and division for it is not at this day different practices that divide but a departing from the principle and a propagating of unity by reasonings and considerations about things where it is easy to err and run into uncertainties and miss of the principle of life and its leadings which if the Lord suffer it to prevail will bring that desolation and reproach upon Israel which the enemy otherwise never could Thus far Isaac P. who surely is a man as able to give an account of the Quakers principle as W. Pen the Novice in that way If it be said that Isaac P. is of another mind now that makes for us and not against us for if he was for many years before a true Quaker and a great and approv'd Writer for that way of infallibility and then for some years after profess'd that as their principle and doctrine which he afterward recants doth he not evidently give the lye to himself and doctrine Can the Spirit of God reach a man for seven years together that he ought to keep off his Hat at Prayer and then for the next seven years teach him that he may keep it on sometimes and testify against the constant keeping it off and after that testify against that Testimony what blasphemy would it be to assert this And yet this is Isaac P's case Would to God he and they that are concerned with him would seriously consider what firmer grounds he has in such matters to believe himself infallible at one time more than at another If it must be resolved by the judgment of the Body then for ever give over the Doctrine of Infallible Teachings in particular persons and betake your selves to the Church of Rome whose Characteristick Doctrin that is But if every particular person is fallible whereon shall the Infallibility of the Body be grounded but to proceed to some other of these infallible Teachers John Crook the 22d of the 12th Mon. 1662. About Meats and Drinks Gestures and Postures Habits Times and Places DEarly Beloved Friends Meats are for the belly and the belly for Meats the head is for the hat and the hat for the head but God will destroy and lay all these in the dust Know your liberty therefore as to these things in the Lord as thing● below the life into which you are called onely use it not for a Cloak for envy or discord for as we read of Cain and Abel two men performing the same action attended with the same circumstances of occurrences and formalities and yet the one accepted and the other rejected In like manner may two persons be found in contrary actions postures or gestures and yet both accepted of God For if I should lay a bond upon my self therein I transgress the liberty of the Spirit either as to time constanoy or place or if another should lay a bond upon me or put a yoak about the neck of the disciples this is no more justifiable than the former

the leading men contradict one another notwithstanding they profess the infallible Light to be their guide then he that has the strongest interest among the Elders shall judg the other party and if he or they do not submit themselves to this judgment he shall be condemned in the name of the Lord and deprived of all both Ecclesiastick and civil priviledges which they can by any means hinder him of And besides if he make any publick complaint and do not conform to their wills they will then load him with all possible reproaches and rather than fail they 'll say he is broken in his brain or distracted as they did of John Pennyman so if he be a man who in respect of his Trade or Calling doth depend upon them or those they have intrest in he and his family shall be pitilessly ruined This is the substance of what this Author has set forth and which W. P. defends 5. Now who this Author is I know not and I do not perceive him concerning himself to make any reply to the Quakers railings perhaps he thinks as the truth is that his vindication is so evident to every one that will but impartially read his Letter that there 's no need of more For who can otherwise than presume this man capable of giving a just and true account of the Quakers chief principle upon which himself was owned and receiv'd by them and continued with them some years And 2. who can read and not clearly perceive that the practice he found among them doth absolutely subvert that principle For if every man must upon pain of sin walk according to the Light in his own particular then he cannot without sin walk according to the Light in G. Fox See Cont. Dial. p. 63 64 65. or other Men when that is contrary or diverse from his own 6. As for my self and other Christians this Letter serves us most effectually to prove 1. That these Quakers their crying up the Light within or the infallible rule and guidance of the Holy Spirit in every particular Conscience as the supream Judge is but a shooing-horn to draw people in and that when they are brought over to them by that means then they must be ruled and guided by the judgment of G. Fox and the ruling Elders So 't is manifest They preach that in their Doctrine which they contradict in their practice 2. That some Quakers and it 's more than probable that the most of them believe and practise by tradition and imitation of their Leaders perswading themselves in the mean time that they are taught by an infallible Light in themselves so to do 3. That the Body of the Quakers consists of such a sor● of implicite Beleivers for when this man and his Companions gave themselves so much liberty as to examine things to find a particular conviction they could find no such thing and its easy to perceive by his reasoning that he is more able to examine things than one of a thousand of them So that 4. Quakerisme properly is not built upon that Principle rightly understood viz. Every man ought to believe and practise according to the Light in himself for in that respect we and all honest men are Quakers but upon a false and mistaken notion and sense of it viz. That what the leading men teach for the Light in every man is indeed so 5. This instance gives a full answer to that common evasion of the Quakers when we plead that we also walk according to the Light of God in us they presently reply that we are of the world and in the customs and reasonings of it but if we would come out of the world and be obedient as they are we should experience the Truth as they do Well! we have here an experienced man and he 's not alone that has given obedience as they to the Light in himself which because it contradicts the will of G. Fox and the Ruling-Elders he is disowned by them Now then 't is evident they would not have us to follow the Light in our selves but the Light in Geo. Fox c. and that the Assurance and Infallibility from Experience they talk of is meerly a strong Confidence in G. Fox and his Companions 7. But to come to the particulars of the Cause We are bespatter'd saith W. Pen p. 4 5. because we abhor renounce and rebuke with severity that rude Imagination of the * G. F. did not so in the Book entituled True honour amongst the Jews p. 7. And is not this Cap-honour from below and worshiping the Beast and Dragon And p. 9. For the bowing the Hat is a will-worship Hat on in publick Prayer which did we use we should but be esteemed by you Professors the worse Answ Very likely Sir But do you order your selves in the Worship of God by the reason of gaining our esteem Why do you not answer your Friend's Argument drawn from your own Principles You acknowledge a Respect and Reverence due unto Magistrates but you deny them that of the Hat why Because it 's low and perishing and may be trampled on there 's no solidity in it The Hat-honour Hat-worship Hat-humility is an honour below but men that be in the Law of God they mind not the Hat G. F. And will you give that as a reverence to God which you say is too low for men Doth G. Fox say in Print to them that keep on their Hat at your Prayers You give no more reverence unto God than unto a Horse and yet keep it on before Princes and Governours to whom he allows at least more reverence than to a Horse But whence is the obligation of putting off the Hat at Prayer The Quakers do not pretend the Authority of the Scripture 1 Cor. 11.4 Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered dishonoureth his head And John Perrot has long ago urged that against them For if it be unlawful to cover the head in Prayer 't is so also in Prophesying or Declaring which notwithstanding they practise if the one be lawful the other cannot be unlawful And why saith our Author should it be lawful to have the head covered when a Minister returns high praises to the Lord and matter of Excommunication to do the same in time of his Prayer p. 33. We say There 's no Divine Command for it it becomes an outward token of reverence to God from the custom of the Country that useth it for such toward men Therefore in the Eastern Countries where they use it not for a reverence to men neither do they use it toward God but have their heads covered at publick Prayer G. F. p. 10. The Jews did not put off their Hats when they went into the Synagogues or Temples c. P. 11. The Priest was not to uncover his head in the Sanctuary Lev. 21.10 which is contrary to the Priests now in the Temples P. 4. And the Turks count it an odious or hateful practice