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A35020	The general history of the Quakers containing the lives, tenents, sufferings, tryals, speeches and letters of the most eminent Quakers, both men and women : from the first rise of that sect down to this present time / being written originally in Latin by Gerard Croese ; to which is added a letter writ by George Keith ...	Croese, Gerardus, 1642-1710.; Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing C6965; ESTC R31312	344,579	528

the certain ruine of his Soul and to the latter a risk of losing his Life but my Fighting is to abstain from all these Quarrels Wars and Arms nay not only to abstain from them but to conquer and subjugate those Passions and Lusts from whence they arise I am a Soldier waging War and fighting but so as to provide for the Peace and Safety of my self of you and all Men both here in this Humane Society and also with God Which Practice would to God both ye and all the World would study to imitate Wherefore I desire of you that ye give me no more trouble of this Nature and that ye be aware of running your selves into a worse condition than ye are in already lest by indulging your selves this liberty of sinning against God the Emperor of the World his wrath be kindled against you and when the time for Vengeance shall come and the Door of Mercy shut up ye perish for ever This Discourse was so far from putting a stop to the fury of his Adversaries that it spurr'd on their fierceness and cruelty the more which they express'd not in Imprisoning him as before but in casting him into a nasty stinking Dungeon digged under Ground where Thieves and Malefactors were kept But after other six Months he got out from thence also And this Affliction did not in the least scare him from prosecuting his Design but he still became bolder and brisker Propagating his Doctrine not only in the Counties of Nottingham Darby and Leicester which were the Theatre and Stage where this great Engine did first appear but through all York-shire Lancaster and the vast Tract of Lands called Westmorland in all which places he unweariedly preached his Doctrine and Discipline being followed by vast numbers of the People This is certain that none of all the Quakers ever preached or discoursed so often and unto so many different Hearers as George Fox and he himself never made so many Discourses as in these places and at this time But because he could not be present every where to speak Face to Face he now began to write Letters to several Societies and likewise to particular Men Instructing and Admonishing them in what he imagined most necessary to be known and practised And to this day are to be seen in many peoples hands whole bundles of Letters wrote by him to the same Persons Though he did not express any great strength of Discourse or Reasoning in these his Letters for that he both wrote such Characters as were not easie to be read and also in so rude and simple a Style sometimes most difficult and intricate that it is a wonder any Man so much exercised in speaking and discoursing should have been the Author of them The first Letter he wrote was in the Year Fifty to his Friends which I shall here insert It was wrote Originally in English and is translated from the Original into Latin which done from the Latin into English again for the Original is not in our hands runs thus The Lord is King over all the Earth wherefore all ye Nations praise and magnifie your King in true Obedience purity of Holiness and Sincerity O! consider in true Obedience how ye should know the Lord with Vnderstanding mark and consider in silence in submission of Mind and ye shall hear the Lord speaking to you in your Minds His Voice is sweet and pleasant His Sheep hear his voice and will give ear to no other And when they hear his voice they rejoyce and obey and also sing for joy O! their hearts are filled with Eternal Triumphs They sing forth and praise the Eternal God in Zion Their Joy shall none take from them Glory be to the Lord for ever G. F. In this same Fiftieth Year Elizabeth Hooton born and living in Nottingham a Woman pretty far advanced in Years was the first of her Sex among the Quakers who attempted to imitate Men and Preach which she now in this Year commenced After her Example many of her Sex had the confidence to undertake the same Office This Woman afterwards went with George Fox into New-England where she wholly devoted her self to this Work and after having suffered many Affronts from that People went into Jamaica and there finished her Life But I return again to Fox While he thus continued so forward and zealous for Preaching his Doctrines his condition was very various strange Events and Accidents falling out of which I think it convenient to give you a short Account It happened in Yorkshire in a Town towards the East Part of it called Beverlar that he went into the Church being mightily mov'd in Spirit where he first kept himself silent till the Minister had finish'd his Sermon then before all the People he thunder'd out his extemporary and reviling Harangues and presently convey'd himself away thus he escaped safe and unpunish'd Some few days after that at Crantsick as the Minister had just read the Text of his ensuing Discourse being a Man of considerable Worth and Fame he fell upon him with a Discourse the only purport of which was to express his contempt of the Dignity Order and Religion of this worthy Divine Which Action might have brought him into extream danger for every body almost accounted it a signal of so great Impudence and Insolence that they thought no Vengeance too great nor no Resentment too high for so villainous and injurious a Crime yet he escap'd unpunish'd But I come to give you a larger Account of a certain Sermon of his Being in Leicester his Native Country he had occasion to Travel in that Country with some of his Friends He spyes from afar a certain Town not knowing which it was but having asked of his Friends comes to understand that it was Lichfield Thither he presently resolves to go and pronounce Curses against all the Citizens high or low or of whatever degree for they were all equally unknown to him While I call to remembrance the Ancient Annals of the British Affairs it comes into my Mind that at this very Town in the time of Dioclesian the Emperour there was a great many Christian Martyrs miserably afflicted and tortured with all manner of exquisite Torments And then in the Reign of Henry the Sixth King of England there was a Battel fought betwixt the King and the Earl of Salisbury near to this place in which great numbers of Men were slain on both sides and the King's Army almost totally routed So that on both these occasions this Ground was covered with the Blood of so many Men. And besides in Fox's own time while that Fatal Civil War was raging in England betwixt the King and the People in the same Fields and this very same Town there was a great deal of Humane Blood shed all which Fox was not ignorant of Thither I say did he presently direct his course and because he did not know the right Road for he had now parted from his Friends being impatient

into and continued in Prison at Aberdeen for many months He then wrote a book of the immediate Revelation of Christ in Man which is a Summary of all their Doctrine the next year W. Penn on the same score was put in Custody at London Penn and some of his Companions had a Conference with the Presbyterians touching their Doctrine of the Trinity and Justification of Sins wherein neither party could convince the other by Argument Nay at last not so much as hear each other speak When this had given rise to a great Confusion Penn being firm to his purpose and restless till he had effected it betakes himself to a Retirement for Writing Shortly after he publishes a book shaking these three Presbyterian Doctrines pretending to fight with the Testimonies of Scripture and Reason Implanted into the knowledge and understanding of Men viz. That there is one God subsisting in three distinct and separate persons that there 's no Remission of sins without full Satisfaction and that Men are Justified by imputed Righteousness I make choice of those words which Penn does in English as suited to the proper Idiom of that Tongue which now others when they speak of Theological Subjects do use These words I suppose he the rather pitch'd upon because the Presbyterians snarl'd at his former expre●●ions about the first Article concerning the separate persons in the Trinity as if Penn had been more verbal than real in his Controversies This did not only inspire the Presbyterians but also the English Clergy with anger and hatred which broke out into Reproaches that his book show'd his mind and what he was viz. A denier of the Trinity and so not at all to be suffer'd amongst Christians Upon these Clamours Penn was Imprisoned where he wrote a book call'd The Crown not without the Cross handling the Actions of Life and not Articles of Religion not barren of things or swell'd with words but fruitful of matter ponderous and sententious for its phrases and polish'd with the Ornaments of orat'ry so that his Enemies Scruple not to praise his skill and industry Penn was set free by the Kings desire who also because danger seem'd to threaten his fortune which he had Considerably in England and Ireland by the endeavouring of some so to shorten his wings that they might ne're again grow did so protect him as to prevent the seizure and confiscation of his goods About this time by his Rashness Boldness and Impudence Salomon Eccles felt the smart of what he drew on himself which he might have avoided This Zealot whom in the former book from a Musician we made Quaker so Contemn'd the sweeter Children of the Muses as to expose their Instruments to the cruelty of the flames He was no sooner made Preacher than he Acted his part with such eagerness as answer'd the expectation of his own Party and fill'd the Ears and Tongues of the contrary In the year 67 he wrote a Dialogue concerning the excellency and use of the Art of Musick betwixt himself as opponent and the Defendents of that Art whom he brings in speaking and so silenc'd as to raise himself Trophies of Praise and Victory The next year he published a Challenge daring Presbyterians Independents Baptists Papists and all other Doctors and Pastors to try by this Experiment with him who were the true Worshippers of God That without either meat or drink for seven Days and Nights they might devout themselves to watching and praying and they on whom Celestial fire should fall down might be esteem'd to receive that Eternal Testimony for the true Religion that 's acceptable to God But there was none found so frothy or vain as to enter the Lists with so foolish a Challenger tho these words pass'd unresented what followed the next year had not the same success For Eccles in a town of Galloway in Scotland knowing of a Popish Meeting at some distance puts a Chassing-dish with fire and brimstone on his head and goes to their assembly with three of his Associates and giving the fire to his Friends who received it on their knees on the blazing of the flame he denounces to all the sudden danger of being devour'd with fire if they did not presently forsake their Idolatry Returning from thence into the City and repeating his famous precept and sign that they might also learn the wisdom to amend who rewarded his Sermon and sign no better than with blows and ill words and then with a Jayl upon his Enlargement and return to London he Commences the like Admonition in Bartholomew-fair to the whole Croud in the Ring of the Rabble but a sharp Man attacking him had disarm'd him of his shield and given him a mark to put him in mind of that time and place had not another of some note and honesty defended Eccles with his naked Sword and deliver'd him from the hands of the enraged Multitude The Quakers themselves take such Actions to be unwarrantable and inconsiderate not long after Eccles went to Ireland and at Cork in the great Church the service being ended he thunders that solemn Scripture some so often abuse The Prayers of the Wicked are an Abomination to the Lord. Whence being dragg'd into Prison and then whipt through all the streets by the common Hangman he was thrown out of the City as a Vagabond and factious fellow whose deprav'd mind ill custom and foolish humour stir'd him up to pervert and trouble the people Afterward Eccles went into New England where at a Sermon being greatly mov'd with anger he Prophesied a Judgment as ordain'd by God to fall on a certain person within a time he prefix'd but the falsehood of his Oracle giving him experience of his vanity and afterward to confess by a publick writing the folly and error or his own Rashness having at length imitated an Ingenuous Man in this for as it 's best to do nothing to be repented of so it's next best by Repentance to repair what 's done amiss Whilst the Don 's of the Quakers were thus punished In England Scotland and especially in Ireland their whole Society met likeways with great opposition for refusing to forbear their assemblies which having mention'd already what I find to be observable I shall here content my self barely to Name Fox this year went into Ireland yet did little there but visit his friends and advise each of 'em to what he Judg'd for their Advantage Fox having thence return'd in England and till then by reason of troublesome Incumbrances been oblig'd to lead a single life having now got some liberty and ease grew weary of the lonelyness of a Solitary bed tho otherways free and pleasant in it self and in this mind he addrest himself to Margaret the Widdow of L. Fell his old Friend with whom he had lodg'd and afterward by the advice of both their Friends he marry'd her neither to supply the beggery of the one nor gratify the lust of the other and therefore they were less