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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59958	William Penn and the Quakers either impostors, or apostates which they please: proved from their avowed principles, and contrary practices. By Trepidantium Malleus.	Shewen, William, 1631?-1695.	1696 (1696)	Wing S3427A; ESTC R221166	53,999	145

old Teachers or rather Deceivers taught otherwise The Soul was a part of God came out of him and returns to him again You sensless Wretches could a part of God ever sin or be made miserable That Christ was the Anointings of God which were once in the Man called Christ when he died his Body turned to dust and since the same Anointings are in others and they are the Christ of God as really as he was and therefore some have been so worshipped as he was The Scriptures are no Rule to them Let therefore the Reader remember what I doubt few consider If they dispute with you by Scripture it is but to take you in your own way if he casts you he hath you but if you him he is where he was before Why He cast you by your Rule Scripture but you cannot him by his that is The Light within So that the Quakers Judgment must be tried by his Judgment and his Opinion by his Opinion and his Light by his Light I know some Quakers will say Were it not for the Scriptures we had been in a miserable condition and they will believe nothing said against them but these know not the bottom of Quakerism The Quakers generally are very ignorant and yet very conceited For Ignorance In opposition to us they say It is not true Christ had but Three Offices 1. Of a King 2. Priest 3. Prophet But go on 4. Bishop 5. Pastor 6. Teacher c. as if variety of Names did make variety of Offices For Pride I could give notorious Instances which are not convenient Luther in his Table-talk speaking to some to whom the Devil did sometimes visibly appear with his Temptations To be rid of him said he remember he is a Proud Spirit Let a F He will soon be gone for he cannot endure Contempt It may be some when the Quakers in the heighth of Pride Talk backwards answer them so if I have err'd in my Manners I have err'd by a great Example Luther And now as I have considered William Penn the Quaker so I will apply my self to him according to his Grandeur or Magnificence To WILLIAM King of Pensilvania May it please Your Majesty I Humbly offer it to Your Consideration 1. Whether the first Leaders of the Quakers being proved not to be inspired or sent of God coming with Blasphemies and yet pretending to Inspiration Prophecies all which are proved to be Delusions are not evidently Cheats and the worst sort of Deceivers 2. What induced the Quakers not to trouble the Churchmen in their Assemblies as they did the Presbyterians of old Some say they were much worse than the Churchmen for they were Hypocrites but these shew what they are Others say They were much better than the Churchmen and there was a Seed of God among them to be called out and all from the same Infallible Spirit May not all these be Pretences and the true Reason this Should they disturb or come in naked in their Churches or there prate or rave they shall be punish'd now though they often escaped then 3. Though they so often talk of The Light within where do they ever read the Phrase in Scripture except in one place as if wrote on purpose for them 6 Mat. 23. If the light that is in thee be darkness how great is that darkness 4. Whether You and Your Brother James late King of England were not mere Pretenders for Liberty of Conscience when You rowed one way and look'd another both oppressing Your Subjects contrary to Your Protestations 5. Do not You know more Instances of Quakers pretended Miracles false Prophecies than some of us can tell you I care not to name Persons nor Circumstances for the sake of their Relations Know You not of them that have openly declared in the Name of the Lord That by To morrow or within such a Month such a Judgment should come on a Place that came not I will tell you if you ask me but I suppose You may as well tell me who put Stones into the Oven saying They should be made Bread but when not Bread but Stones came out said to his Wife Woman because of thy Vnbelief is it thus To whom she replied If my Vnbelief continued some of the Stones Stones one would think your Faith should have made half of them Bread Govern your Subjects without Carnal Weapons for they are not lawful If they smite one another on the one Cheek let the other be turned also If any one take away their Cloak let him take the Coat also lest their fighting by virtue of Your Majesty's Commission should be told in Gath and published in the streets of Askelon Great are the Complaints there in Your Kingdom Many because they are not Quakers are much imposed on and abused I pray remember what became of Your great Friend and Brother James late King of England when an Oppressor lest being Brethren in Iniquity Your Majesty should flee into France and there once again keep him company And therefore William King of Pensilvania I pray You to imitate Your Brother William King of England a Man who shineth in His Integrity Wisdom and great Conduct of all His Affairs a Man whose Life is a System of the best Morals in the world So keep Your Subjects from some late abominable Practices of Drunkenness Whoredoms and Oppressions lest the Prophecy of John Owen against Friends should be verified That their Light that Ignis Fatuus would at last lead them into a Bog or Quagmire of Filthiness and Prophaneness For if such great Wickedness should abound among the Perfect Ones Your Majesty may say to them and they to Your Majesty what was said to Simeon and Levi Brethren in Iniquity You have made me stink in the nostrils of the inhabitants of the land Your Majesty's Humble Servant Anonymus NOW Friends How will you answer me I am sure no Sober Rational Answer can be given Either you must deny the Principles laid down or Practices though proved Either that they never asserted That the Place of Publick Worship must not be left for any Persecution Or That they kept to those Places in the greatest Heat Or that Ministers were not testified against for their Learning or Fisher followed for his real as Penn for his imaginary Learning Or that bowing to man was never condemned or not now practised c. But this would be unheard-of Impudence What must I expect now I have hedged them in A Confession and Humiliation No. I know them too well to expect it yet without despairing of it if lying and and railing may be their Resuge Scripture and Reason are gone out of sight I expect they will talk of me to me or send Letters in the old Dialect they were wont to do to the best of men and now sometimes do one to the other when they fall out about Doctrinals or other things as may be seen in Books before-named Were it not for the sin I would not desire