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A91371 A serious & seasonable warning unto all people occasioned by two most dangerous epistles to a late book of John Falldoe's, subscribed by Richard Baxter [and 24 others] brethren all ---- in iniquity ... whose slanders and lyes against the holy people called Quakers are hereby reproved / by C.P. Pusey, Caleb, 1650?-1727. 1675 (1675) Wing P4250; ESTC R42571 16,674 24

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by slandering us your old cause taught you better all this will not serve your turn for God is stripping the veil off peoples minds and they will ere long see with their own eyes not yours and the unprejudiced know you are false accusers herein and that all sensualists are judged of us and not of us for we follow peace and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. 21. MONITERS Few among them are men of so much understanding and competent Principles as to be able and willing to give a methodical account intelligibly of what they or their party hold HEre is a Lye Couchant he that rides conquering and to conquer notwithstanding all your weapons of opposition hath in our day riden prosperously that in our Nation at this day is many thousands of true Israelites of which great number it may be suppos'd you 25 are not acquainted with 100. And yet you are so confident as to affirm us all fools but a few Oh ye Artists and men of Methods that are wise to deceive We are not ashamed to grant that we are come to that Wisdome that the world calls folly being willing to become fools that we may be truly wife as the Apostle testified in his day and it 's not novelty for such as preach in the wisdom of God to be called babblers by such as you We are come to that which giveth subtilty to the simple and in that mistery how should we be intelligible to you carnal men whose wisdome is from beneath sensual divelish But before you upbraid us for our ignorance oh Rabbies you should answer Rusticuss by S. F. What will you boast and put off your harness as victorious and sing and ring a victory and never have engaged your enemy If Rusticuss hath put you all to silence why do you so mock at the Rustick You prate against the Rustick and yet run away from him Well ye Rabbies we grant you cannot understand but I tell you the reason is because you were never with us at the School of Christs Cross We know you come from Cambridge Oxford but you are not yet entered in the School of Christs Cross and that 's the reason we who speak the wisdome of God in a Mistery are to you unintelligible We know you have read worldly Authors and have hundreds or thousands a year to pick here and there and then inclose it in your Bible and tell the people thus say the Fathers of the Church thus the Antient and Modern Divines the Text is thus divided into parts these the points of Doctrine thus illustrated these the Inserences these the grounds and reasons of the point these the Uses and thus applyed Lo your Trade and by this craft you fill your bellies and maintain your Families in worldly pomp and thus the spirit that is in you lusteth to envy against the poor and meek of the earth and call them fools and mad men babblers unintelligible of inconsistent Principles Well if ignorance be the Mother of our Devotion we know we have heard and learnt of the Fathers who calleth not many wise nor mighty and confoundeth things that are by that which is not But oh that you Doctors could see that God is in this day turning the wisdome of wise men backward and perfecting his praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings which glorious work though you joyn hand in hand against you shall not go unpunisht for Sions brightness is arising and her God is her glory and in vain do you form weapon after weapon for none of them shall prosper the Lord hath spoken and who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord commandeth it not the Virgin Daughter of Sion laughs at all your plots and conspiracies trusting in the arm of the Lord that hath brought your councels to nothing and yet yet again will make you Diviners mad Oh ye Doctors Remember that hand that subverted all your councels and brought down your lofty nest in 1659. you that deceived the simple ones of that day by your long Prayers and days of Fasts in several places in this City charming them with Lyes until the hand of the Lords Vengance brake forth without remedy could ever this age expect again to hear of you whose light of your eyes and breath of your nostrils is so long agone dead and twice buryed Now oh people can you chuse but stand amazed to see these men so impudent as ever again to appear as your Moniters how many of your dear Fathers Husbands Brothers and Kindred have in this age by these very men been seduced into destructive ways to soul and body to the ruine of many antient and honest Families I say to all people reflect but your own Experience of these men the best Teacher as themselves say and more need not to be said than to remind you of your own experience of these men These men are better known to me than to every one and my feet were well nigh slidden into the everlasting pit of destruction by their seducing Doctrine and it 's my concernment to warn others and I do say could people hear the cry of thousands out of the pit of damnation they would intelligibly hear their Idol of Jealousie and others thus lament Presbyterian and Independants under the notion of Gospel Ministers and Reverend Divines were the men that seduced us hither by their preaching peace to us and crying the Lord is with you had it not been for them we had obeyed the Light in our Consciences and returned from our evil ways and had never come here thus cries John Indicot and others of New England and this is the dolorous complaint of thousands of our but yesterday dear Country men Oh people consider what I say unto you that you would but reflect your own expeperience of these men Oh G. G. how darest thou ever appear again shure thou hast forgotten thy Westminster Flatteries thou most notorious lying Prophet whom I heard thus to pray at Pauls Lord Bless the Army of the Lamb against the Beast give them success The Army that by thy Master was sent to Hyspaniola to rob the Spaniard so then there the Army of the Lamb was hewed to pieces in the woods in Hyspaniola by a few Moors Oh sad Moniter possest with a legion of lying Spirits Solomon saith He that saith to the wicked thou art righteous him shall the people curse Prov. 11. 26. That is thy portion O G. G. by way of eminence Oh if people were not in a Lethargy of se●urity they would be aware of you all and shun you as the Plague of the present time Oh People These Priests you see no Changlings are Such as they were such like to be ever They change their Coats and vary their Notes But always you may observe their lure Is strain'd to grasp after filthy lucre Though often routed yet they rallie And face any way to fill their bellie Their net is