i. e. these Quakers shall remain with you on Earth and shall follow you to the Lake My Fire of Indignation is kindled on you which shall burn for ever more All these Six Lines of their Fury is in the compass of one page of their 900 and of this their Reviling the Protestant Religion and Ministers his Vouchers Whitehead c. could not afford to abate any thing but as they say pour out full Cups of their Malice against the Ministers But out of the same Book which they say was writ by Command of the Lord the 31 day of the 10th Month 1655. unto all sorts of People yet these forging Foxonians have left out one whole Message to one sort of People called Cavaliers the Kings Friends p. 9. And in several places left out and altered and added Words and Sentences They proceed and say of the Ministers p. 190. Their Doctrines it 's not Doctrine are of the Devil They have filled the World with Damnable Heresies That Sprinkling Infants with Water is Baptism into the Faith of Christ and that the Steeple-house is the Church c. These are Damnable Heresies even to denying the Lord that bought them And say they this is the Doctrine of Devils And Lyes they speak in great numbers Page 195. These Teachers of this Generation are of them i. e. the Beast Whore and false Prophet of their Root and Off-spring c. Consider what God did to the Bishops and their Crew of Persecutors How the Lord overthew them P 261. You have been the Fountain of all this wickedness i. e. the Quakers Sufferings acted against the Just c. P. 162. Have been cursed Precedents to the Rulers and People who have followed your cruel steps of Envy And they have drunk in your Poysonous Doctrines not Doctrine Mens hearts have been filled with your Damnable Doctrine of Devils P. 269. The Time of your Overthrow draws near upon you all and despisable shall you be to all that fear the Lord. The Quakers Throats are open Sepulchres and not covered ones For say they Page 348. Their Worship and Ministry which stands not in exercise of pure Conscience but in Superstitious Idolatry His the Ministers Labour is abomination and deceiving of Souls And page 626. The Controversie hath been held forth between the Ministers of the Church of England on Antichrists part and the People called Quakers of the other part Here you see their Envy and Charge is against the Protestant Ministers in general Page 674. They say It 's not lawful for the Saints to joyn to your Ordinances nor own your Ministry No wonder they say their Testimony against Tythes is a Law of Christ's making for here they say It 's not lawful c. And page 672. To clear the Quakers from the guilt of the King's Sufferings and to incense the King and Nation against the Protestant Ministers say they If it be considered who they are that first raised the War against the King and Nation and who it was that first preached and prayed up the War and prosecuted it against his Father and who it was that cast out the Bishops and took their Revenues And yet none owned and encouraged Oliver and justified their Cruelty to King Charles the First 1648 more than the Quakers nay Fox and this very shameless E. B. condemned the King and his Friends and hath cast Infamy on his Name and Family as is before shewn and yet here have the face to say Their i. e. the Quakers Sufferings have been more cruel and unjust than towards them the King But they that can so contemn our Lords Sufferings and Blood and exalt their own as more Cruel and Unjust than His it 's no wonder that they also advance their own Sufferings above the Kings c. But they go on against the Ministers p. 687 Such as have been your i. e. the King's Enemies and and preach'd and pray'd and fought against you and now pray for you Can you trust that these will be faithful to you And whether thus to deny their former Oaths and Engagements is commendable Here these Quakers blame them for not keeping the Scotch Covenant or Solemn League which was against the King and House of Lords and to utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form as the Quakers elsewhere upbraid the Presbyterians for as is mentioned in T. C's Animadversions on G.W. 's Book But all these sufficiently prove the Maliciousness of these Quakers Spirits against the Protestant Ministers they accuse for not performing their Engagements against the King Lords and Bishops and yet also accuse them for what they did in performance Now were these Quakers as they falsely pretend they stand to their Principles and are the Kings Friends then they should not blame others for not performing but for engaging but it s plainly shewed they did not blame but encourage Oliver c. in what they did against both the Kings and boasted and bragged that they fought from first to last and accused Oliver c. for putting them out of the Army and it was because they maintained the Protestant Ministers and suffered Fox and Ed. Piot c. to be imprisoned that they accused and threatened Oliver for and not for any thing done against the King c. But have in this very Book in their squinting way justified it for here you see they say they stand to their Principles of Faith c. Oh two-fac'd envious Hypocrites Again p. 766. say they Antichrists false Ministry and Worship and Doctrines God will confound Now if any say this is true it is so but it 's all the Worship and Ministry of the English Protestants they so term and defame And page 730. Ye all have deceived the World and the Blood of Souls rests on you ye have been as Canker-Worms and that have corrupted the whole World whom have you not deceived by your Lyes c. God is weary of you and the time is at hand he will pluck you up by the Roots and visit you with great destruction and your Names shall be a reproach among Men the Lord will bring unresistable Destruction upon you The Earth is weary of you which you have corrupted with your false ways and the Kingdom groans under your Oppressions and the Earth will spue you out Again In p. 521. these Quakers are charged to joyn with the Cavalierish Party i. e. the Kings In denial of it say they That Generation of Priests are joyned with the Prelatical Cavalierish Party this is known in the Nation in the North especially Here you see they were then against the Kings Interest as well as the Ministers whom they maliciously inform against therefore for And p. 523. say the Quakers They i. e. Honest People see that wicked Interest of the Clergy prosper more than the Freedom of the People and this I say from the Lord That while that Interest of this false Priesthood is so much favoured you can never prosper nor the Nations
they had not thought it advantagious to them to defame the Protestant Ministers and to get in favour with the Popish Interest And to this and other their wicked envious Works and Books their own Words are a fitting and sufficient enough Answer I dare defie the Father of Lyes himself to out-do this Rabshekah pag. 70. It concerns all Protestants Ministers and People to pray to God and use all lawful means that they these fierce Despisers Foxonian Quakers get not into Power here as they have done in Pensilvania and as they in Print say Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord against the mighty Foxonians But as they say Give the Whore double as she hath done so let it be done unto her And whereas they say they differ in the Root from all People nay you agree with your Sister Rome to defame and destroy the Protestant Ministers And if as you say in Print The Parliament have Recognized you for Protestants they have not as it were Unprotestanted the Protestant Ministers But I believe the Parliament knew not but were deceived by your false Pretences as Joshua and the Elders of Israel were by the Gibeonites of your Printed Contempts of our Lord Jesus and the Scriptures Laws Kings Lords and Protestant Ministers especially And it 's worthy Consideration whether or no if that they have so Recognized these Foxonians as Protestants whether then all their Errors and Wickednesses may not be charged on the English Protestants in general and they answerable to any Foreign Adversary Papist Jew or Pagan for them and also induce Strangers to believe all their Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to be true and they the Ministers to be such false Prophets and Antichrists and Sorcerers c. as these Quakers have in Print published them to the World more especially when Acts of singular Kindness are passed in their Favour without their disowning these their Ancient Seditious Testimonies as to exempt them from the Law that all other the Commons of England are bound to and a kind of Peerage granted them above all others and either these Quakers contemptuous and defaming Doctrines must be condemned or all the Protestant Ministers and People stand on Record as such Devils Sorcerers and Antichrists as they have Printed them not only in Thousands of Seditious small Libels but in great Volumes with high Commendations on them and the Authors affixed to them by G. Whitehead c. who is the Common Voucher for them More than a Prophet endued with the Almighty Power of God which reigned in him Worthy Prophet of God See more of these blasphemous Expressions of and to Fox in the Snake in the Grass c. and a blasphemous Letter written to Fox by a Foxonian Preacher as in T. C.'s Discovery c. Now what tends all this to but to gain their Contempts Credit or Preference with or before the Scripture Terming the Doctrine of the Church of England Doctrine of Devils Damnable Heresies a meer Cheat c. And the Minister a Teacher of Lasciviousness Now judge you Protestants whether it were not better that W. Penn and G. Whitehead and some few more of the Chief of the Foxonian Chief Priests come under the blame or shame of being mislead by Fox and they condemn or disown those Printed Errors of theirs or else to gratifie the Pride and Malice of Ten of them for I think there is not more of them fierce Despisers now living to have all this Infamy and Contempt of theirs in Print of the Protestant Religion and Ministers so convey'd to Posterity as Divine Oracles for there can no dammage come to the People Quakers in general or to these Persons nor no more desired of them than that they publish something to clear the Protestants in general as they required of G. K. and Excommunicated him because he did it not from their Calumnies and as them Twenty-four afore-mentioned did against the Christian Quakers Answer to F. Bugg and else these Foxonians more justly deserve to be Excommunicated from the Protestants than G. K. did from them What! Shall they have such Power and Zeal for Errors and is there none in Power that have as much Zeal for the Protestant Religion and Ministers And these Foxonians of all People ought not to refuse to condemn their Errors because they exact the same from others for faults much less criminal But let them but observe their own Doctrine to 21 Divines it 's I fear true on themselves say they Your credit is a temptation to you sacrifice it for the sake of your own and others Souls upon the Altar of self-denial think not repentance a Work too mean for you because you have been so long Preachers to others a just rebuke p. 32. Mind this I pray you Foxonians especially W. P. the Author and it will be an aggravation of your guilt in case you practice not what you Preach to others and a farther proof of the truth of my charge against you Therefore be not high minded but take your own advise G. W. be ingenious and confess thy Error I advise thee not to out-face thy own Conscience And this Spirit of Fox's which now influences G. Whitehead c. is the same as was in Corah c. For as then they oppos'd and resisted Moses so doth this Foxonian Spirit in these Quakers condemn our Spiritual Moses the Lord Jesus of Nazareth But this proud Foxonian Spirit thro' his Instrument Fox says he is Christ the Eternal Judge of the World the Son of God and as a Father in Christ say they of Fox he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him Overseer and endued him with an excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding one of the Lords Worthies And many more such Blasphemous Titles have these Foxonian Quakers given to their Idol of Jealousie Fox in their Journal Printed in Folio and preserved in the Library at Oxford to spread his Fame to the Defamation and great Scandal of the many Generations of Protestants Martyrs and Ministers And notwistanding they so Blasphemously exalt him he was either very wicked or else such a Blockhead that he understood not common Sense for five Ministers wrot a Book detecting these Quakers Errors Intituled The Perfect Pharisee charging them with 17 Errors this was answer'd by Fox in his great Mystery p. 74. but he as was usual with him slips the material things and quarrels with some expressions more insignificant They published another Book Titled A farther Discovery of the Quakers c. in vindication of the truth of their Charge on the Quakers Now of the 17 Errors they charge these Quakers with the third is in both their Books that the Quakers hold that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence this is rehearsed in their 5 th p. where they begin to recite all the 17 Errors of the Quakers afterwards they state these 17 Errors and prove and then confute them
wonderful Where are your Eyes Try your Priests by Scriptures See if they be not found in the same Generation that all the false Prophets and Deceivers were in See if they be not the Antichrists which cannot confess Christ come in the Flesh preach for Sin against Perfection and never any that follow them shall come to the knowledge of God These blind Guides deny the Prophets which Moses writ of It 's a Slander and Untruth and are found in the Sorcery and Witchcraft c. Thus they begun and end reviling the Protestant Ministers and they not only condemn this Minister to the Lake and Bottomless Pit but the Queries also We have given Judgment on thee and them say they So that it 's not only the Protestant Ministers but the Doctrines of the Protestant Faith as these twenty Queries contain have these Quakers also judged to the like condemnation with the Ministers All this Envy and Fury in seven Pages in Folio have they Reprinted whereas two or three Lines might have contained sufficient Answers had they believed and owned these things according to the Scriptures as they pretend And the Doctrines and Practices of the Protestants as sprinkling Infants c. they say is Damnable Doctrine of Devils a meer Cheat and your singing David's Experiences in Rhime and Meeter is a very Lye unto you and say they The Law which commands to pay Tythes we cannot be obedient to it and the Reason they give is Because it is contrary to the Law of God p. 313. And say they If the House i. e. Publick Churches were for any good purpose or honest Practice as for Poor c. the People of God would not deny to uphold it but because it 's ONLY a place to commit Idolatry in mark hâ— is Only P. 347. And say they All you Churches by what Name soever you are known you are the Seed of the great Whore and she hath brought you forth Here the Church of England may see it 's not only the Dissenting Ministers altho' their Envy is chiefly against them but all P. 4416. Have altogether forgotten God Christians all their Prayings Preachings Singings Baptisms breaking Bread and all that you perform as unto God is an Abomination unto him The very practice of those things now by the Christians being degenerated is become Idolatry c. p. 432. Again say they The Lord shall destroy your Worship and confound it and no more is the Lord worshipped in Steeple-houses they are left desolate c. Your worship in Steeple-houses is an Abomination to him P. 481. Again say they In the Name and Authority of the Lord we declare against your whole Worship p. 479. Again say they Sprinkling Infants and calling it the Baptism into the Faith of Christ and the Seal of the Covenant it 's an Institution of the great Whore p. 489. And particularly of the Ministers of the Church of England say they This we say Their Office nor Call is not from the Lord nor by the Authority of his Spirit nor according to Scriptures and is not from Heaven but rather from the Whore of Rome p. 638. All this and much more of their hellish Rage and Envy against the Protestant Religion and Ministers in one Book Reprinted in Folio and in 1672. promoted and espoused by G. W. c. to bring the Protestant Religion and Ministers into contempt scorn and hatred in future Ages For to confirm and seal and fix it lastingly say they You called Christians you having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name Christian you deserve not that Name and declare it in the Name of the Lord. Here it 's plain the English Protestants and these Quakers cannot both be Christians one must quit the Title p. 419. and say The Heathen shall see your Nakedness and your Shame and shall hiss at you p. 421. But how doth this agree with what W. Penn now pretends to as I hear He said that they own all except three of the 39 Articles of the Church of England and the three they differ'd in were about Discipline and not Doctrine And yet here you see they say All the Protestants Doctrine and Practices False the whole Religion of the English Protestants they Deny These be their Ancient Testimonies their Truth in the beginning taught them before 1660 which is now in 1696. under hand enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and this Noval owning of the Thirty Six Articles is the Counterfeit Quakers New Testimony But they say their Truth changes not but they may now change their Words and Actions and yet mean the same as they did 1656 for their design was to defame in order to root out the Protestant Ministers and if they do not effect it they prove themselves Lyars and false Prophets and impudent Blasphemers therefore in order to drive on their design they print these Defamations and say It 's for you and your Children To plant this Root of Bitterness in after Ages as well as in other Nations is the design of this Foxonian Spirit in G. W. c. And they have great Advantage for this Work in their great Schools or Houses where they teach their youth and read to them or cause them to read their great Volumes of Fox's c. Works and where these Foxonians are the Masters Governours or Teachers and whither their chief Foxonian Priests resort and as they say in Print This is worthy of taking notice of How abominable is this say they that these things should be much more that they pass unreproved i. e. their Envy against the Protestant Minister c. For altho' they thus Unchristian all English Protestants Yet the Heathen who make no Profession nor have not the knowledge of Salvation by our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as in the New Testament these under the Name of Pious Gentiles they allow to have Faith that they may degrade and under-value the Authority of the New Testament and the Necessity of believing the Relation thereof concerning the Dignity and Value of the Personal Sufferings and Blood of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth outwardly And seeing they have so much hatred to the English Protestant Ministers and so much Charity for the Gentiles let them i. e. the Foxonians go for Gentile Preachers And by these afore and what follows it 's proved that these Foxonian chief Priests G. W. c. are influenc'd by an evil Spirit if no other matter were proved against them but their wrathful terms and envious prosecuting the Protestant Ministers these shew them Uncharitable and therefore Unchristian That theirs is not Christian Charity is evident by their Partiality for notwithstanding they Unchristian for saying they be saved by Christ without them and recorded such for Reprobates and Ignorant ones too of Christ within and give it as a sure Mark of the Devil 's being in such and all who pay Tythes altho' freely as Deniers of Christ and mark'd them for Antichrists yet you see how kind they