Mind it well this is no piece of a Quakers faith That the Scripture is the Word of God or that it is the Rule of faith and obedience to any Real Quaker amongst them Behold this Quakers Logick Because St. Peter knew Christ to be the Son of the living God by a special revelation from Heaven therefore the Scripture is not the Rule of faith May it not be said without offence Surely this Quakers Light within burnt dim in his socket he saw not well to write by it It 's no imposing upon the weakest understanding to say That the Light within is no such infallible Teacher as the Quakers brag of like the Papists infallible Judg it 's not without its gross mistakes Q. pag. 103. Q. Numb 8 And for Christs bidding his Disciples Go teach baptizing Mat. 28 I told thee that no water was mentioned and that Luke in Acts the first says before the Commission mentioned by Matthew could be given at least executed John baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence and then comes the Commission in force Go teach baptizing how with the Holy Ghost turning people from darkness to light from the power of Satan unto God Pr. Pr. The full import of this Quaking-Harangue is to tell that there is no such thing as Water-baptism You see plainly that baptism with the Holy Ghost thrust strangely by this real Quaker into Christs Commission hath outed Water-baptism from being a Divine Institution observe it well no water was mentioned a pitiful Cavil what then therefore Go teach baptizing is no part of Christs Commission according to the title of his Book this Real Quaker saith they are all Counterfeit Christians that hold baptizing with water the Real Quaker is for Go teach baptizing how with the Holy Ghost and with fire yet neither of them are by name exprest in Christs Commission If this be not in some measure to turn people from light to darkness from God to the power of Satan let the sober-minded Reader judg However this is most certain that to deny Water-baptism to be a Sacrament ordained by Christ himself is not the received Doctrine of the Church of England nor of any other serious Christians under Heaven Q. p. 105. Q. Numb 5 Now as for Water-baptism what Paul says of himself I may say of his Commission It was not behind any of the rest yet he denies Water-baptism to be any part of it and is as plainly rejected by him in point of institution as any thing in Scripture So that either Water-baptism is none of Christs Institutions or else Paul had no Commission to perform Christs Institutions which were strange Pr. Pr. I may without just offence ask Is not this stoutly argued from the Light within this Real Quaker to evince Water-baptism to be none of Christs Institutions Is it not a dishonour to an ordinary understanding to encounter such child-like reasoning May I not truly say Surely W.P. was at Oxford to lick glass-windows Is it the manner of his Light within of his bosom-teacher to dictate at this low rate However let it be duly considered that it is the avowed judgment of a real Quaker That Water-baptism is none of Christs Institutions and that this Quakers Paul was of the same mind which is a most gross mistake Q. p. 106. Q. Numb 10 C. i. e. Counterfeit Thou supposest the Doctrine of Justification by that righteousness which Christ fulfilled wholly without us to be a sin-pleasing and dangerous notion Quaker I do so Pr. Pr. Here we have consitentem reum the Real Quaker confessing himself guilty of a base Doctrine That Justification by that Righteousness which Christ fulfilled wholly without us is a sin-pleasing and dangerous notion Thus this great Gospel-truth Justification by faith articulus fidei stantis vel cadentis Ecclesiae a main Article of the Christian Faith in Luther's eye is but a sin-pleasing and dangerous notion in this Quakers account as the Papists call it a Putative righteousness so the Quaker accounts it no better than a sin-pleasing and dangerous notion Thus Justification by Christs righteousness imputed by faith which is a comfortable doctrine in the Church of Englands eye is basely murdered betwixt these two thieves Q. p. 107. Q. Numb 11 C. i.e. Counterfeit It is horrible wicked to conclude That what Christ hath done and suffered without us is to speak peace to the wicked whilst such Quaker Right Pr. Pr. To pick up the plainest sense out of these dark lines it seems to be this That it is horrible wicked to conclude that any are made righteous in Gods sight by what Christ hath done and suffered without us that it is no less than speaking peace to the wicked Thus the received Doctrine of Justification by faith in Christ is run down at a base rate Unless the perverting sense of a deluded Quaker be received that man commits an horrible wickedness that holds justification by Christs righteousness without him This is that daubing with untempered Mortar a sinpleasing-notion a doctrine which speaks peace to the wicked At this rate the Church of England is highly to blame for affirming that we are accounted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith That we are justified by faith only Artic. 11 is a most wholsome doctrine and very full of comfort Without doubt the Homily of Justification referred to in that Article is tainted with no Quakerism in this point Behold the Case is sad that imparted Righteousness may not be retained but imputed Righteousness like Ishmael the bond-womans son must be cast forth yea loathed as a sin-pleasing notion which is dangerous rejected as that which is horrible wicked Q. pag. eadem Q. Numb 12 But what sayest thou to my distinction about Justification Christs work was twofold First to remit forgive or justifie from the imputation of sins past such as truly repent and believe Secondly By his power and spirit working in the hearts of such to destroy and remove the very nature of sin to make an end of it to finish transgression present and to come the first removes the guilt the second the cause of it Methinks this should a little allay thy clamours Pr. Pr. It 's an old truth qui bene distinguit bene docet but this Quaker hath missed the Cushion With this distinction he doth only play the Mountebanks part he doth vainly please his fond admirers this counterfeit Balsom is ineffectual he juggles here is neither the whole truth nor nothing but the truth Like the Devil this Real Quaker hath the knack to deliver some truth according to the Scripture that he may the better manage his devilish design and put off his bad Wares The first part of this Quaking-distinction is very lame which any sober Christian will soon perceive The latter part of it is full of false doctrine the base design of this distinction is to make
Justification by Christs Righteousness without us to be a counterfeit doctrine Justification by inherent righteousness only is the chief mark at which this distinction is levelled Thus you see the Papists and Quakers are in a great measure hail fellows well met only the Quaker hath the honour to be the more perfect Dotard of the two Q. p. 108. Q. Numb 13 I grant that such as repent and believe receive remission or a justifying from former sins through the righteousness of God declared in and by Jesus Christ But is this compleat Justification It is a making inwardly just through a purging out of iniquity and mortifying of corruption and bringing in Christs everlasting Righteousness Pr. Pr. Here we have the Real Quaker a downright Papist he is professedly gone into the Tents of Rome He is become a stout Champion under the Pope's banner behold this Real Quaker dabling in gross Popery According to the tenour of his own words compleat Justification is a making inwardly just through a purging out of iniquity and mortifying of corruption and bringing in Christs everlasting righteousness Thus the nail is driven to the head by this doughty man of war Thus the doctrin of the Church of England is trampled under foot the Doctrine of Christs Righteousness imputed by faith once counted wholesome is by the Quakers Pen declared to be a Counterfeit but no Quakers have yet obtained by their Spirit to write any true Oracles But the worst is yet behind Q. p. eadem Q. Numb 14 If not then to exclude this and yet conclude men completely justified by what Christ hath done wholly without is a Doctrine of Devils for it leaves men in an impure state and allows the Devils Kingdom to continue in being Pr. Pr. These Quaking-lines make the Tenent as clear as day That complete justification by what Christ hath done wholly without is a Doctrine of Devils according to this Quakers base words in print the Church of England doth hold fast that which is a Doctrine of Devils a Doctrine which doth allow the Devils Kingdom to continue in being Without doubt this is a base aspersion cast on that Church which is beautiful in the eyes of all sober Christistians Christs Righteousness wholly without made ours by faith a Doctrine of Devils Whose eyes are not offended to see it in print Whose ears do not tingle to hear it read How base is the Light within W.P. to assert it Is this the genuine fruit of this Quakers Infallible Spirit Is this the true discerning which it gives Is it not matter of godly mourning that that which the Church of England accounts to be a most wholesom and very comfortable Doctrine this ill-principl'd Quaker should term a Doctrine of Devils May it not be said without offence Surely it is high time for the Kings Majesty the Defender of the Faith to gird on His Sword these that make so bold with this and other truths of God are but like stinging-Snakes in the bosome of Indulgence THE next Quaking-Book which I shall acquaint the Reader with is thus named in print Q. The nature of Christianity in the true Light asserted Written by a Servant of Christ G. Whitehead Printed in the year 1671. Pr. Pr. This vain-glorious Title stands like a Man of War in the Title-page thus In opposition to Antichristianism Darkness Confusion and Sin-pleasing Doctrines There this Man of War is not without a Looking-glass for sin-pleasing professors of all sorts Now let us use this Looking-glass that we may the better see the Quakers own face therein Q. pag. 3. This man hath grosly wronged divers of us by accusing of us as if we did oppose and seek to overthrow the plain testimonies and voices of all the Prophets and Apostles concerning the true Saviour or the Man Christ Jesus whom we have frequently confessed both as to his Divinity and as to his taking upon him a body prepared for him to do the will of God in according to the Scriptures of truth Pr. Q. Here is a parcel of good words to gull unwary Readers with as if the Quakers were more Orthodox in the Doctrine of Faith concerning our Saviours Manhood and Divinity than their own Pen hath already declared them to be That man knows nothing who knows not how the Devil to promote errors and false doctrines hath always used to dress himself his Agents in the garb of truth to get his bad Wares the better put off The Devil was in the right when he did profess to know Christ to be the Holy One of God but he had a devillish end in it After all the fair paint in these lines the Quaker will anon shew us his horns we shall ere long know him to be no tame beast before we have done with him his ill-inspiring spirit will appear you may certainly expect from this Quaking-Pamphlet most base pitiful stuff Q. p. 6. Q. Numb 15 Which word Purchase he thus explains in an unscriptural and nonsensical stile viz. That God-man purchased and compleated Reconciliation Justification c. with God at once without us which is as good sense as to say God purchased them of God Pr. Pr. You see how this Quaker takes his Adversary to task By the way we may observe that it is plain from the title of this Pamphlet that this Quaker makes the nature of Christianity to be downright Socinianism Here his inspiring spirit appears in print to Socinianize in a gross manner Reconciliation purchased by Christ God-man this Quaker saith is explained by his Adversary in an unscriptural and nonsensical stile As the Socinians do so this Quaker charges his Adversary to write no better sense concerning Redemption purchased than to say that God purchased of God an old Socinian cavil Thus the Light within is at unawares singing the old Cuckoes song Thus the Quakers Ignis fatuus his pretended spirit hath led him into a Socinian pit Thus the true Christian Religion by this Quaker is brought to a lamentable pass According to this Quaking-scribble the nature of Christianity is now asserted in the Light to establish a base Socinian Error as if it were the truth from heaven What a blind pitiful Elf is the Quakers Light within that it cannot discern Redemption by Christ God-man as a purchase made without us but as unscriptural and nonsensical God the Son made man purchasing our redemption of God the Father by the price of his own blood as God incarnate This is that blessed Truth explained which this Socinian-Quaker calls unscriptural and nonsensical However this point searched to the bottom toucheth the Quakers to the quick They cannot endure to hear of Christ God-man the Son of God purchasing of God the Father leans towards the Doctrine of the Trinity which the Quaker E.T. termed in mine and others hearing a blasphemous doctrine Q. p. 7. Q. Numb 16 The words Purchased and Redemption are used by R. G. in an unscriptural sense while he doth so nonsensically render it as God-man
are but so many covers which the devil hath for all his deceit that by these covers the devil is honoured both in Court and Country that they are all accursed of God that hide their sins with those covers of the devil that it is the devil that makes so many degrees betwixt rich men and poor men great Courtiers and honest men that the Lord hath made all the Nations of the earth of one mould and one blood or if you will that degrees of honour are not of the Lord for he hath made all the Nations of the earth of one mould and one blood See Numb 77. ARTICLE LVIII We Q. do believe That there is a perfect freedom from all manner of sin to be had in this life that to deny a sinless perfection in this life is to make Christ only a part of a Redeemer that to deny it is a great delusion of the devil that this Scripture He that saith he hath no sin is a lyar is brought by the devil that it is the devil who tells men that Christ died for all that if they believe in him their sins shall not be imputed to them though they sin daily that the righteous man sins seven times a day that all the holy men of God sinned that to deny a sinless perfection in this life is that Doctrine which maintains the devils kingdom that it is a doctrine which the devil delivers by the mouth of his Ministers that it is a doctrine whereby the devil carries on people in an easie delightsome way to the flesh that it is a doctrine which heals them up in their sins with a feigned faith that it is a doctrine which sets them on their lees that it is a doctrine which sets up a rest in the devils kingdom that it is a doctrine which destroys all tenderness of conscience that without being perfectly cleansed from all sin in this life no man can witness Christ to be his Redeemer or that he is come to destroy the works of the devil or that Christ is come to redeem him out of the devils kingdom that by being perfectly free from all sin in this life we Quakers do reign above the world death hell and the devil that without this perfection from all sin others are such whose eyes are outward only looking at a Redeemer afar off that they are manifestly the children of the devil who do deny a perfect freedom from all sin in this life that their faith is vain and their hope is bad that it is the feigned hypocrites faith and not faith in God that Paul did witness this perfect freedom from all sin that they who dwell in the righteousness of Christ sin not that those teachers who deny our quaking-perfection do err not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God that those teachers do deny the end of Christs coming that they bring another doctrine which they have from their father the devil that they are deceivers who creep into steeple-houses and lead silly people captive laden with sin that they daub with untempered mortar that they divine lyes that they heal the hurt of the people slightly that they sow pillows under their arm-holes that they make the people to dwell in sin as long as they live that they are their leaders who cause them to err that they are the utter enemies of their souls who perswade their hearts in sin that they have but a formed feigned faith that they are found to be lyars deceivers antichrists in whom the false Prophet rules See Numb 78. ARTICLE LIX We Q. do believe That Antichrist hath reigned over the world under a Gospel-profession ever since the Apostles days that there hath been a long time of cruel darkness and ignorance that the Lord hath a long time been as a stranger in the earth that they who were accounted to believe on God or Christ looked at him as a God afar off they knew not where that they who said that they believed that that was the Christ who dyed at Jerusalem and that he dyed for their sins and rose again and was sitting at the right hand of God were no Christians in truth but so called that they were the keepers of the Letter which they took for their rule to walk by that they gave forth their own imaginations on the Scripture that they set up Infant-baptism for which baptism there is no Scripture that they have no Scripture for the word Sacrament that they set up the two Sacraments of baptism and the Lords Supper that like Priests and people now they had carnal bread and wine that the Church in England and other places was planted by them that Bishops Arch-bishops Deans Priests and Deacons and Popes were set up by them that Antichrist did thus set up his Kingdom under a profession of the Gospel that in the reign of Antichrist tythes came up and Universities to make Priests by the will of man who had long robes like the Pharisees that in Antichrists reign Idols Temples called Churches were set up that in the same reign the Priests got into their Pulpits the chiefest places in the Synagogues being called of men Master Doctor and having the uppermost rooms at Feasts and greetings in the Markets that in the same Antichristian reign they stole the Apostles words and took a verse and studied from it a divination of their own brain and ran like the false prophets that in the same reign of Antichrist with feigned words through covetousness they made merchandize of the people and a prey of the sheep and sought about for fat benefices and like the false prophets sought for the fleece and cryed peace to those that fed them and prepared war against them that did not and sought their gain from their quarters and ruled with rigour that after this manner the Priests old fathers planted their Church and set every thing in form and tradition according to their imaginations that here is the ground and foundation of the Church of England that here are the old Fathers the Priests have talked so much of even Popes and Bishops that in this manner Antichrist hath long deceived the Nations under the profession of the faith of Christ that from one generation to another they have not known the Lord that bought them that by this it may be seen what lyars the Priests are how they came up and were ordained that they are the Ministers of Antichrist such as shut the Kingdom of Heaven against men that the people have been ignorantly led by their Priests as strangers from the Lord after the vain traditions customs forms ordinances and imaginations of man with a vain profession and feigned faith that they are still strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Saviour and Redeemer that in this manner both Priests and people do lye under the power of darkness and delusion that the Priests are the peoples leaders who cause them to err by their lyes that they are
but without doubt this is neither Old nor New-Testament Divinity to take one another by the hand as the Quakers are known to do to say how is it how dost thou do This is some of the Quakers true honour As for Thou and Thee the distinguishing characters of a Quakers vain faith they are so much in request as that for their sakes all other expressions of civil honour are with the Quakers out of date men scraping with their feet women courtesing and drooping as this Quaker speaks are by this rude man absurdly censured as being apostatizing Christians that are out of the power of God till the poor deluded Quakers came on the stage of this world no man was so silly as to tax hat and knee-honour To perch Quakerism higher according to these Quaking-lines at Court it is not lawful to kneel before the King nor to stand bare in his presence for they that do thus are not in the power of God but in the vain customs of the heathens as for Your humble Servant Sir that 's an old thred-bare complement which this Quaker is ashamed to own as for hat and knee-honour they that use them are as bad as heathens nay they are far worse they are apostates To pass over this Church and Kingdom this Quaker rings a sad peal for all Courtiers they are all apostate Christians such as have turned their backs upon the true Christian faith the term sounds harsh it 's this Quakers own they are such as are not in the power of God they are such as are in the vain customs of the heathens they are the rich and proud of the Land that get honour from their equals or inferiors Q. p. 41 42. Q. Numb 48 Ch. But is there not such an honour that belongs to Magistrates and men in Authority Fath. Nay Child such honour doth not belong to them neither are they honoured when it is done so unto them for true honour is from the heart and not from the hat Ch. But seeing such a thing is expected by men in Authority is it not better for me to give it to them than to offend them Fa. Thou must be careful Child how thou reasonest about it lest thou runnest into transgression for if thou respectest persons thou committest sin therefore mind the Lord and his teachings but the wo shall be to that in them which would be honoured with thy hat from whence the offence comes Ch. And doth not the Lord require any such things to be done Fa. Nay the Lord requires it not but the pride of mans heart seeks it for the Lord requires that thou shouldst honour all men in him and that is to give honour to whom it is due but unto a proud heady high-minded man there is no honour due though he be great in the world and be in place to rule but in the power of God the poor is as honourable as the rich and the beggar as he that rules and the honour is given as due unto the power and not unto any man's person Pr. Pr. In these lines this Quaking-father hath instructed his Child very ill taught him lies in the name of the Lord delivered to him abominable doctrine against the King the Lords anointed Let us unravel this Quaking-bottom in these lines it is evident that to the King placed in supreme power by God himself there is no such thing as hat-honour that belongs to kneel in his presence is no honour due unto him to speak like this Quaker Charles in querpo plain Charles as the Quakers drink healths to him is all that 's due to him for neither hat-nor knee-honour do belong to the King Thou King Charles hath but too often been used by some rude Quakers behold here is the root of this base spirit while the King is no Quaker in the power of God there is no outward honour due to his person this Quaker saith True honour is from the heart not the hat therefore according to this Quakers mind it 's but false honour to stand bare or kneel before the King to the King the chief Magistrate the Fountain of Honour there 's by the Quakers no true outward honour due But suppose the King as he hath just cause should be offended with his Quaking-subjects or any of his Courtiers for not giving him both hat and knee-honour which are due to him were it not better to give the King the honour than offend him In this case what must be done According to this Quaking-Instructor all his Quaking-friends and all Courtiers if they should be Quakerized must be careful that they run not into transgression by such reasoning for to honour the King with their hats with their knees is respecting of his person to whom no honour is due a sin which the Law of God will convince them of like this Quakers Child what must they now do Therefore to use this Quakers words that they may not offend the King they must mind the Lord and his Teachings Is it not hence plain that to honour the King with either hat or knee-honour is neither of the Lord not that which is taught by him Now consider well what is done daily at Court the Kings Majesty is outwardly honoured by all Courtiers what saith the Quaker to this By giving the King that outward honour his Courtiers do neither mind the Lord nor his teachings I am sure this is the naked substance the true import of his discourse To step on to track this Quaker a little further Look upon the King as he is as Gods Vice-gerent the Supreme Magistrate of this Kingdom who doth expect that all his subjects should acknowledg his high honour their own great distance with heads bare with knees bowing in his presence then mind what cursed doctrine is delivered by this quaking-father thus But the wo shall be to that in them which would be honoured by the hat according to this Quakers cursed doctrine the King the Nobility with all that are in Authority under him are accursed by this Quaker for taking that outward honour that belongs not to them as for outward honour to be given to the King or any other Magistrates this Quaker is basely bold to say it is more than the Lord requires this is that which mans proud heart seeks after Are not the Kings subjects by this Quaker ill principled taught here to deny outward honour to the Kings Majesty as if the Kings high honour were none of the Lords requirings in a Quakers mouth Charles how is it Let Charles live Plain Charles is honour enough for the King what is more cometh of evil for this Quaker saith the Lord requires no outward honour to be given to Magistrates and I am sure of these the King is chief To back this unchristian doctrine this Quakers spirit hath a lye put into his pen for the Lord doth no where require that we should honour all men in him neither is this to give honour to whom it is
from sin if not upon earth seeing that no unholy nor unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God it is a great delusion of the devil to keep people in sin to tell them they shall never be made free from sin so long as they are upon the earth but he tells them Christ died for all and if they can but lay hold on him by faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin daily for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and so he takes Scripture to maintain his Kingdom this he delivers by the mouth of his Ministers here he carries them on an easie delightsome way to the flesh and so heals them up in their sins with a feigned formed faith here they settle upon their lees set up a rest in the devils Kingdom here all tenderness of conscience is done away whosoever witnesseth Christ their Redeemer shall witness that he is come to destroy the works of the devil to redeem out of the fall out of sin out of the devils Kingdom which is sin this we witness who through the Lamb our Saviour do reign above the world death hell and the devil none can witness this whose eye is outward looking at a Redeemer afar off and still live in sin try your faith and hope who plead for sin all your faith is vain and your hope which doth not purifie the heart it is feigned hypocrites faith not faith in God this the Apostle witnessed and that he was made free from sin and more than conquerour through faith in Christ Jesus they who dwell in the righteousness in Christ sin not this is the devil which pleads for sin your teachers which tell you you can never get out of sin nor be cleansed from sin here err not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God but deny the end of Christs coming bring another doctrine which they have from their father the devil and so are the deceivers which Paul speaks of who creep into steeple-houses and lead silly people captive full of sin and corruption they daub you up with untempered mortar divining lyes they have healed the hurt of the people slightly sowed pillows under their arm-holes these are your teachers that make your habitation in your sin while you are upon the earth so your leaders cause you to err the utter enemies of your souls who perswade your hearts in sin here all your feigned formed faith is unbottomed all your Priests found lyars deceivers antichrists in whom the false Prophet ruleth Pr. You see that the Quakers are accused justly Pr. for asserting a perfect freedom from all sin on earth of this false doctrine this Quaker is a sorry champion many Scriptures in his Pamphlet hath he heaped together to uphold this errour but very ignorantly many foul charges hath he drawn up against those that are not of the same weak mind with him man perfect without sin before the fall is the white which this Quaker hath in his eye he tells us pag. 98. that this was Christs work to redeem to man that which man had lost behold according to this Quakers mind nothing less than a perfect freedom from all sin on earth was the end and aim of Redemption by Jesus Christ to deny a perfect freedom from all sin in this life is according to this Quaker to make Christ only a part of a Redeemer and to establish a middle place betwixt earth and heaven in which to be made-free from sin to assert this great truth that there is no perfect freedom from all sin to be attained to in this life is as this Quaker doth basely speak a great delusion of the devil to keep people in sin pag. 98. He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himself and is a lyar behold what this bold Quaker saith to this what saith he he saith this is no other but a Scripture brought by the devil but observe him a little further he saith that the devil tells men that Christ died for all that if they lay hold on him by faith their sins shall not be imputed to them though they sin daily that the righteous man sins seven times a day that all the holy men of God sinned that the devil doth thus take Scripture to maintain his Kingdom and that this is that doctrine which the devil delivers by the mouth of his Ministers behold how Gospel-truths are by this Quaker said to be told men by the devil and how Gods Ministers are said by him to be the devils mouth in delivering the foresaid truths except Quakers who dare affirm it that all those Ministers of the Gospel are the devils mouth in saying that Christ died for all that their sins shall not be imputed to them that believe in Christ though they sin daily that the righteous man doth sin often in one day that the holy men of God have sinned that do deny a perfect freedom from all sin attainable in this life But now let us observe what this Quaker saith further to teach that there is most certainly no quaking freedom from sin in this world this is according to this Quaker that doctrine whereby the devil carries on people in an easie delightsome way to the flesh a doctrine which heals them up in their sins with a feigned faith a doctrine which settles them on the lees a doctrine which sets up a rest in the devils Kingdom a doctrine which destroys all tenderness of Conscience to speak this Quakers mind without being perfectly cleansed from all sin no man can witness Christ to be his Redeemer nor witness that he is come to destroy the works of the devil nor can he witness that Christ is come to redeem him which are his own words out of the fall and out of the devils Kingdom it 's no marvel that the Quakers do ignorantly plead for a perfect freedom from all sin in this life for this is their top-gallant errour which makes them as this Quaker saith to reign like Kings above the world death hell and the devil which makes them I may more truly say miserably proud in their own eyes no less holy and happy than Christ himself is without this haughty over-holy dotage of this Quaker all other Christians are of no account they are saith this Quaker such whose eyes are outward they do look at a Redeemer afar off still living in sin by this quaking doctrine of Perfection this Quaker saith pag. 101 That the children of God and the children of the devil are made manifest behold in this Quakers account they are manifestly the children of the devil who do not hold a perfect freedom from all sin on earth thus this idolized Perfection of the Quakers serves to unchristian all but themselves according to this Quaker the faith of all Christians is vain and their hope is no better their faith is the faith of all hypocrites no true faith in God if they do not
own a quaking-perfection as for St. Paul this Quaker tells us untruly that he did witness this perfect freedom from all sin that this was his being more than a conquerour surely this Quaker never understood Rom. 7. in vain doth this Quaker tell us that they who dwell in the righteousness of Christ sin not for the Scripture records no such over-holy inhabitants it 's true it 's the devil who pleads for sin and let that mans mouth be stopt for ever that doth so but to affirm the in-being and dwelling of sin in the best of men in this world is no siding with the devil in the same plea but this Quaker hath laid a foul load on those Ministers of the Gospel who teach that none can be perfectly cleansed from all sin in this life he saith to this purpose like the Sadduces they do all err not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God they do deny the end of Christs coming they bring another doctrine a doctrine which they have from their father the devil they are deceivers who creep into steeple-houses and lead silly people captive but this Quaker is mistaken for St. Paul never said so pag. 103. he saith they are such teachers as are accursed they are daubers with untempered mortar such seers as see vanity such as divine lyes such as heal the hurt of the people slightly such as sow pillows under their arm-holes such as sooth people up in a false peace such as make the people to take up their habitation in sin as long as they live such leaders as cause them to err the utter enemies of their souls such as perswade their hearts in sins now give me leave without offence to say oh quaking-perfection from all sin in this life oh brain-sick whimsie to what extravagant assertions to what devilish expressions to what foul aspersions hast thou transported this poor deluded Quaker let all wise unquakerized persons judg if this quaking-error can be that unbottoming doctrine which declares our faith to be feigned our Priests to be lyars deceivers antichrists such in whom the false Prophet rules surely because this Quaker was not rightly instructed to distinguish well betwixt the being and ruling power of sin therefore the holy Scriptures have been sorely tortured to speak what he would have them in favour of his false doctrine hence I hope was the true rise of this Quakers gross mistakes base assertions and foul charges but I have done with this Pamphlet not for want of more pitiful matter but because I hasten to the next Pamphlet of this James Parnel called The Watcher it 's a conceited Title in it the baseness of Quakerism is drawn to the life but I shall not dwell upon it I shall only transcribe so much as may serve to lay open the Quakers pitiful teachings you will soon perceive that this Watcher is none of the watch-men of the true Israel Q. p. 138 Q. Numb 79 to p. 145. Antichrist hath reigned ever since the Apostles days over the world under a Gospel-profession here hath been a long time of cruel darkness and ignorance the Lord hath been a long time as a stranger in the earth they that were accounted to believe on God or Christ looked at him as a God afar off in the Heavens without far off they know not where they that said they believed that that was the Christ that died at Jerusalem and that he died for their sins and rose again and was sitting at the right hand of God c. were baptized with water and called Christians when as before they were called Heathen and those had the writings of the Prophets and Apostles which are called Scripture and so were the keepers of the Letter that they look for their rule to walk by they gave their own meanings and imaginations upon it they sprinkled their children and by that were they entertained into their Church and Faith thus came up Infant-baptism for which there is no Scripture nor example they call this an ordinance of Christ they had their two Sacraments for which word they have no Scripture they had the carnal bread and wine as the Priests and people have now thus they planted their Church in England and other places then Bishops were set up and Archbishops and Deans and Priests and Deacons and Popes and the Bishops bore rule by their means and the Priests preached for hire thus Antichrist set up his Kingdom under a profession of the Gospel then Tythes came up to maintain the Priests contrary to any rule of the Gospel then Universities were set up to make Ministers or Priests thus they were set by the will and tradition of man as the false Prophets always were then they had long robes like the Pharisees then they set up Idols-Temples which the blind now call Churches or houses of God then they got up into their Pulpits the chiefest places in the Synagogues called of men Master Doctor had the uppermost rooms at Feasts and greetings in the Markets as it is now and then they stole the Apostles words as the false Prophets stole the word from their neighbour so did and do those took a verse and studied from it a divination of their own brain and so do the Priests vow they run like the false Prophets then with feigned words through covetousness they made merchandize of the people made a prey of the sheep as they do now began to seek about for great Livings and fat Benefices left a lesser ran to a bigger there was their beloved which they sought for as the false Prophets who sought for the fleece not for the flock cried peace to those that put into their mouths but they that did not put into their mouths they prepared war against them haled them before Courts and Benches as they do now thus they sought their gain from their quarters and ruled them with rigor so that the Priests reigned like Lords over the people thus your Priests old fathers planted their Church and so set every thing in form and tradition according to their own imaginations here is the ground and foundation of the Faith and Church of England here are the old Fathers and old Authors that your Priests have so much talked of even the Popes and the Bishops thus Antichrist hath long deceived the Nations under the profession of the faith of Christ one generation hath gone and another come and have not known the Lord that bought them many may see by this what lyars the Priests are how they came up and were ordained they will be found the Ministers of Antichrist such as shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men all people may now see how ignorantly you have been led as strangers from the father of light after the vain traditions customs forms ordinances and imaginations of man with a vain profession and feigned faith still strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Saviour and Redeemer thus you lye under the power of
thus they sought their gain from their quarter and ruled like tyrants with rigor according to this Quakers mind you see that since the Apostles days all Priests in the Christian Church have been basely covetous vile cheats bloody wolves sordidly self-seeking minding the fleece more than the sheep like the false Prophets greedily seeking their gain from their quarter ruling like tyrants with rigor thus according to this Quaker our Priests old fathers planted their Church and so set every thing in form and tradition according to their own imaginations behold since the Apostles days to speak this Quakers mind fully there hath been no Christian Church but such as was planted by the old fathers of our Priests and this Church was planted by them after the worst fashion according to their own imaginations that we may not mistake this Quaker he tells us plainly his particular thoughts of our own Church saying here is the ground and foundation of the Faith and Church of England here are the old Fathers and old Authors that their Priests have so much talked of even the Popes and Bishops behold according to this Quaker both the Faith and Church of England are Antichristian Popes and Bishops in this Quakers account Antichrists creatures are those old Fathers who planted this Church and Faith according to their imaginations who are so much talked of by our Priests but he saith Thus Antichrist hath long deceived the Nations under the profession of the faith of Christ behold according to this Quaker not only the Church of England but all other Christian Nations since the Apostles days have thus long been deceived by Antichrist under the profession of the faith of Christ according to this Quaker there hath not been one jot of true Christianity in this Church or in any part of the world for many hundreds of years by-past he saith one generation hath gone and another come but they have not known the Lord that bought them behold ever since the Apostles dayes all Christians in the world have not known the Lord Jesus Christ their Redeemer according to this Quaker they have all been Antichristian I may truly say That this Quaker is so taken with this Antichristian glass as that he saith many may now see strange sights what lyars the people are how they came up and were ordained that they are the Ministers of Antichrist that they do shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men the people may also see saith this Quaker how ignorantly they have been led estranged from the Father of Light carried after vain traditions customs forms ordinances imaginations of man deceived with a vain profession and feigned faith kept strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Saviour and Redeemer behold according to this Quaker what base persons all the Priests of the Church of England are for in his account they are all lyars Ministers of Antichrist as bad as the Scribes and Pharisees were in Christs time for they shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men blind Teachers of the people estrangers of the people from God the Father of Light such as have carried them after vain traditions and imaginations of man deceivers with a vain profession and feigned faith such as have kept the people strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Redeemer but this is not all for this Quaker saith That both Priests and people do lye under the power of darkness and delusion of Antichrist behold in the Church of England according to this Quaker it is like Priests like people the power of darkness belongs to both they are both so far from true Christianity as that they are both under the delusion of Antichrist but according to this Quaker the Priests are the greater offenders of them two for they are he saith the peoples Leaders who cause them to err by their lyes they destroy the people for want of true knowledg they lead them captive in their sins they do only differ from the Heathen in name and profession Behold once more that according to this Quaker the Priests of the Church of England are teachers of lyes by which they cause the people to err soul-murtherers destroying the people for want of true knowledg like the Devil they lead the people captive in their sins they are nothing else but Heathens in truth Thus you see that this quaking-Watcher hath seen nothing belonging to true Christianity for a long time even ever since the Apostles days in the world or in the Church of England as for this Church and Kingdom according to this Quaker there is nothing but Antichrist and what is Antichristian to be found in them Q. p. 145 to 149 Q. Numb 80 You are fighting killing and devouring one another as they do whom you account Heathen you are drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers back-biters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors as they are both Priest and People you are envious and malicious both Priest and people you are dissembling cozening and cheating and defrauding one another of the earth What sin is there among those you account Heathen that is not amongst you and doth abound Be ashamed you Priests of England to see the fruits of your Ministry so laid open before you you are those who come near the Lord with your mouths but your hearts are far from him you are hypocrites and your hearts are full of deceit envy wrath bitterness covetousness pride earthly-mindedness self-love self-wisdom you are out of the life and practice of the Apostles and the children of light your Teachers are such as bring another doctrine and climb up another way who are shut out for Thieves and Robbers Pr. Pr. In these quaking-lines we have railing without reason and Scripture abused to this end behold all the people and Priests of the Church of England are by this censorious Quaker declared to be guilty of most notorious crimes they are all according to this Quaker either as bad or far worse than any Heathens are behold how bad this Quaker hath made all Priests and people of this Church and Kingdom to be without exception quarrellers murderers drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers backbiters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors by these black names doth this Quaker point them out behold is this the Christian Charity that thinks no evil Is this the Christianity that speaks evil of no man But in p. 146 this Quaker doth a little seem to eat his own words but they are soon disgorged As for those people and Priests that are not drunkards swearers c. this Quaker makes them as bad as the rest as if he were in Gods stead he ransacks their hearts to make them no better than those heart-wicked Pharisees were of old according to this Quaker in the Church and Kingdom of England the peoples Priests are no Christians but idolaters their conversations are worse than heathens for they abound in gross wickedness more than they as
for those people and priests that are not so bad as others in this Quakers account they are but cursed hypocrites as for any true Christianity this Quaker saith there is none to be found among them for the people are out of the life and practice of the Apostles and the Priests are cursed Teachers who bring another doctrine thieves that climb up another way if this Quaker hath not born false witness against his neighbour then let any sober impartial Christians judg surely this poor man was in a great quaking-heat swadled up in much consident ignorance which made him cry out Be ashamed and blush you Priests of England why so to see the fruits of your Ministry so laid open before you had this Quaker lived in those days then he would have looked upon the sins of Israel to have been the fruits of their Prophets Ministry or if he had been alive in Christs time he would have said that the sins of the Jews were the fruits of Christs Ministry and of his Disciples I may truly say the Quakers may truly be ashamed and blush to see so much inspired folly in print I need add no more in so plain case Q. p. 150 151. Q. Numb 81 Here you may see what England's Church which England's Priests have planted now differs from the heathen set drunkards aside set swearers aside set lyars aside set proud ones aside set covetous ones aside set railers aside set murderers aside set whoremongers aside set wild ones prophane ones wanton ones aside set quarrellers and fighters aside hypocrites dissemblers persecutors aside backbiters extortioners lustful ones aside then see where England's Church is Pr. Pr. In these rude quaking-lines we may easily see what thoughts this Quaker hath of the Church of England that in this Quakers account this Church is none of Gods Vineyard nor of his own planting with him it is only England's Priests Church which differs not at all from the heathen to speak this Quakers mind more fully England's Priests Church is nothing but a corrupt body consisting of bad members they are either as bad or worse than heathens that are members of the Church of England what can this Quaker mean by all this setting aside here mentioned is not this his quaking-mind that the Church of England is no sacred fold for Christs sheep for if the wicked like goats were set aside then it would appear what kind a Church it is he that considers those quaking-lines well may well conclude that the Quakers do believe that the Church of England is not the Church of God nor any member of the holy Catholick Church that Mystical body whereof Christ is the head behold once more that according to this Quakers mind drunkards swearers lyars proud ones covetous ones railers murderers whoremongers wild ones profane ones wanton ones quarrellers sighters hypocrites dissemblers persecutors back-biters extortioners lustful ones that is the worst of men are the chief members of the Church of England for saith he set these aside then see where England's Church is I need not tell the Judicious Reader that this Quaker hath shewed himself grosly ignorant of the nature of a particular visible Church if this man had lived in the Wilderness or in the Prophets days or in the days of the Apostles then at this rate of ignorance he would have unchurched the Church of God as he hath unchurched at this day the Church of God in England however all the right-bred children of the Church of England may now see what filth what disgrace hath by this Quaker been cast upon their Mother I may truly say that this deluded Quaker hath said enough to make the Church of England to become a den of thieves Antichrists dominion and the devils Kingdom which is no doubt a most base aspersion Q. p. 177. Q. Numb 82 And are made partakers of the Divine nature of Christ by which they are made Christians Pr. Pr. In these few words this Quaker hath given a most blasphemous account of all Quakers for he saith that they are made partakers of Christs Divine nature that they are Christians thus made behold here is our Saviours Godhead shared amongst the Quakers behold here are the Quakers made more than coheirs with Jesus Christ no less God than himself is like George Fox the old Quaker they are all equal with God himself with reference to this high base doctrine it may truly be said that every real Quaker is truly godded with God and christed with Christ for according to this abominable quaking assertion they are all partakers of that same Divine nature which Christ hath Mr. Higginson in his relation of the Irreligion of the Northern Quakers hath this passage pag. 3. One Williamsons Wife a disciple of Milners when she came to see him at Appleby said in the hearing of divers whose names might here be inserted if it were needful that she was the eternal son of God when the men that heard her told her that she was a woman and therefore could not be the son of God she said no you are women but I am a man This relation I shewed to two Quakers yet living hereby to let the blasphemous folly of Quakerism appear in its own colours to them but they were so far from blushing that they did both of them justifie this abominable blasphemy saying that all this might be made good at this horrid boldness I became silent but now behold here is Parnel a Quaker boldly but basely affirming that all Quakers are partakers of Christs Divine nature hence according to this quaking-blasphemy it appears evidently that women as well as men-quakers are no less the eternal sons of God than Christ himself is for they do alike partake of Christs Divine nature to back this intolerable blasphemy this Quaker in the next lines was not ashamed to misapply St. John's words as he is so are we in this world this horrid blasphemy is so apparent I shall dwell no longer upon it nor make any inferences from it I may truly say that James Naylors notorious blasphemy was the genuine issue of this abominable doctrine according to that infallible spirit who is said to guide all Quakers this is an infallible quaking-principle That all Quakers are partakers of Christs Divine nature besides it 's no wonder that this Quaker said p. 174 Thus is God with us manifested in the flesh thus all real Quakers are in their own vain imaginations godded with God and christed with Christ no less God incarnate than our Saviour that man is a stranger to Theologia Germanica who sees not how the leaven of that little Book hath sowered the Quakers whole lump this quaking-blasphemy is so gross that for its sake the Quakers may well be ashamed of their Light within Q. p. eâd. Q. Numb 83 Here is the true Church where there is but one Teacher one Lord one Faith one Baptism one Light one Life one Way one Shepherd and one Sheepfold one Priest over the
account that the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance or any other Oaths injoyned by any Authority on earth are altogether unlawful because Christ hath commanded not to swear at all that no swearing is warranted by the Scripture that the dispensation of Oaths where strife was is ended by Christ who saith Swear not at all that vain Oaths and solemn Oaths are both alike forbidden by Christ See Numb 51. ARTICLE XXXIV We Q. do believe That all Holy-days are set up in the Apostacy that there is no observation of particular days that in calling the first day of the week the Lords-day or Sabbath-day people speak they know not what that the name Sunday is heathenish that every day is the Lords-day See Numb 52. ARTICLE XXXV We Q. do believe as our dear friend James Parnel hath written that they are no truly faithful Christians who do deny that there is a perfect freedom from all manner of sin to be had in this life that their faith is not the true faith if it doth not cleanse them from all their sins See Numb 53. ARTICLE XXXVI We Q. do believe That the Scripture is not the Light nor the Word nor the Life nor the Judg nor the Rule nor the Guide nor the tryer of spirits See Numb 54. ARTICLE XXXVII We Q. do believe That the people and teachers are ignorant of Christ the Light that they dote on the Scripture with their dark minds that they do like the blind Pharisees seek life in the Scripture where it is not to be found See Numb 55. ARTICLE XXXVIII We Q. do believe as our beloved James Parnel saith That the Scripture is a dead letter See Numb 56. ARTICLE XXXIX We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are the peoples leaders who cause them to err that the Scripture is their Idol to get money by that by the Scripture they do lead the people into blindness that they do in vain worship a God whom they know not that they do dethrone Christ Jesus by exalting the Scripture See Numb 57. ARTICLE XL. We Q. do still believe That the Scripture is not the Word of God nor the Light nor the Rule nor the Guide nor the Teacher nor Judg concerning matters of faith and life See Numb 58. ARTICLE XLI We Q. do believe That the Priests of England do maintain the authority of the Scripture which is their Idol only for their own ends to uphold their corrupt maintenance and deceitful Ministry See Num b. 59. ARTICLE XLII We Q. do believe That the Priests of England have nothing but the Scripture without which is a dead letter that they are without the true Light that all those are in darkness and confusion who call the Scripture their Rule and Guide and that the Priests of England are like them and that they know not the truth See Numb 60. ARTICLE XLIII We Q. do believe That they bring another Gospel into the world who call the four books Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel See Numb 61. ARTICLE XLIV We Q. do believe That it is a false light in any which leads them to profess the Scripture to be their Rule who do not live well See Numb 62. ARTICLE XLV We Q. do believe That all that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all accursed of God and shall be cast into hell and that they are no better nor shall fare better than Lucifer Dives Haman Pharaoh Herod and the rest of their forefathers See Numb 63. ARTICLE XLVI We Q. do likewise believe That all who are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all very wicked that they do only make a profession of godliness that their worship is formal and imaginary that their Chaplains are wicked like themselves that they are like the worshippers of the golden Calf that they and their Chaplains are Heathens that Priest and people do live without God in the world that they are all accursed of God that their works are the works of the Devil that they serve the Devil with their hearts and actions that they are no Christians but Heathens both Priest and people See Numb 64. ARTICLE XLVII We Q. do believe still That all Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam young and old rich and poor and beggars men-servants and women-servants who are no Quakers are the children of the Devil fruitless trees that cumber the ground which are for the fire stubble to be burnt unrighteous persons to be cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone that thither they must go that there they must lye for evermore with Dives and Haman that they are all as bad as Dives Haman and the High-Priests Pharisees and Rulers were who put Christ to death that their belly is their god that they and all their earthly honour shall be laid into the fire See Numb 65. ARTICLE XLVIII We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are like Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses that they do likewise withstand the truth that they are University-men with their Magick Arts and Imaginations that they do get a form of the Prophets Christs and Apostles words to trade with that they do deny the power of godliness that they are Traytors to Christ men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith See Numb 66. ARTICLE XLIX We Q. do believe still That the Scripture is a dead letter that it is the husk which is usually thrown away that they are Swine feeding on husks who make the Scripture their Rule and Guide that he is a deceiver one that erreth that knoweth not the Scripture who saith the Scripture is the word of God that he puts the shadow for the substance who takes the Scripture to be the word of God that that man is without that he is a swine feeding on the husk that he is ignorant of the true light who saith that the Scripture is the rule and guide of the people of God See Numb 67. ARTICLE L. We Q. do believe That there is no other baptism but the baptism of Christ with the Holy Ghost and with fire that baptism with water is but a formal imitation and the invention of man that it is a meer delusion and that they are all heathens and no Christians who are so baptized and cannot witness the other baptism See Numb 70. ARTICLE LI. We Q. do believe That there is no such thing as Sacramental bread that it is only the bread which the world breaks that it is carnal and natural that the cup is such like that there is no such thing as the holy Communion for it is the communion of the world that communion which is natural outward carnal that that which is called the Lords-table is the table of devils that in receiving that which they call the Lords-supper they do feed upon the husk and shadow See Numb 71. ARTICLE LII We Q. do believe That the
lost for want of true knowledg that they do only differ from the heathen in name and profession See Numb 79. ARTICLE LX. We Q. do believe That both the Priests and people of England are very wicked like the Heathen that both Priests and people are envious and malicious that they are dissemblers cheaters defrauders of one another that there is no sin amongst Heathen which sin doth not abound amongst them that the Priests of England are very wicked that they do draw near the Lord with their mouths but their hearts are far from him that they are hyporrites whose hearts are full of deceit envy wrath bitterness covetousness pride earthly-mindedness self-love self-wisdom that they are out of the life and practice of the Apostles that they are such teachers as do bring another doctrine that they do climb up another way that they are shut out for thieves and robbers See Numb 80. ARTICLE LXI We Q. do believe That Englands Church was planted by Englands Priests that it differs not from the heathen that Englands Church consists chiefly of drunkards swearers lyars proud ones covetous ones railers murderers whoremongers wild ones prophane ones wanton ones quarrelers and sighters hypocrites dissemblers persecutors backbiters extortioners lustful ones that if these were set aside then Englands Church would be no where to be found See Numb 81. ARTICLE LXII We Q. do believe as our friend James Parnel hath written That we are partakers of the Divine nature of Christ by which we are made Christians and that God is with us manifested in the flesh See Numb 82. ARTICLE LXIII We Q. do believe That the true Church is no where but amongst our selves where there is but one teacher and one Lord one light and one life that is the light of life within us one faith which overcomes all manner of sin and makes us free in this life from all sin one way which is the despised way of Quakerism one shepherd who is the light within us and one sheepfold which is made up of us Quakers wheresoever dispersed one Priest over the houshold of God who is the light within belonging to this houshold which we Quakers are one hope which none but we Quakers have one baptism which is not with water one language which is Thou one family which by H. N. was called the Family of Love one God and Father of all who is the Light within all Quakers that they that cannot witness all this to be true are strangers to Christ and strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel See Numb 83. ARTICLE LXIV We Q. do believe as George Fox writes That the Priests of England are going mad in preaching for rewards and gifts in cursing excommunicating and imprisoning so that Balaams Ass may reprove them all See Numb 84. ARTICLE LXV We Q. do believe That to build a Material Church is to build an old Mass-house that to warrant the building of such a Material Church by any Scriptures or the Kings law is to deny Christs coming in the flesh See Numb 85. ARTICLE LXVI We Q. do believe That to know God according to the Scripture is no true knowledg of him that the Priests of England though they have the Scriptures and declare him according to those Scriptures do neither know God nor Christ See Numb 86. ARTICLE LXVII We Q. do believe That the Religion and Worship used in England are of the Priests own setting up in their steeple-houses that neither God nor the Lord Jesus did set them up See Numb 87. ARTICLE LXVIII We Q. do believe as George Fox and Richard Hubberthorn our friends have written that the Scriptures may as well be condemned to the fire as our friends papers of Queries may See Numb 88. ARTICLE LXIX We Q. do believe That the Scripture is the earthly Letter See Numb 89. ARTICLE LXX We Q. do believe That the Letters written by Quakers are given forth by the same Spirit that the Prophets and holy Apostles had See Numb 90. ARTICLE LXXI We Q. do believe what is not true That the Apostle said Take heed to the Light of God within you See Num. 91. ARTICLE LXXII We Q. do believe That all true Quakers have the same gift of the Holy Ghost or gift of Miracles that the Apostles had See Numb 92. ARTICLE LXXIII We Q. do believe That we are one in the Eternal Unity and that George Fox the Elder is one with us in this Eternal Unity See Numb 93. ARTICLE LXXIV We Q. do believe That the dark time and power of Babylon hath long reigned and the works of the Beast that by these they are descended that profess Scripture to be their rule See Numb 94. ARTICLE LXXV We Q. do believe That there is a way to go through Moses and through the Prophets and through John to come to Christ that when a man hath gone this strange way then he may see that the Light is but one See Numb 95. ARTICLE LXXVI We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are Ministers of the Letter that they are persecutors of the Spirit See Numb 96. ARTICLE LXXVII We Q. do believe That Jesus Christ remains in the Heavens that the same that did descend did ascond that it is disputing as the devil did about the body of Moses with Michael the Archangel to enquire what manner of body Christ hath that such enquirers are to be rebuked as the devil was by the Archangel that the body of Christ is but one which is the Church See Numb 97. ARTICLE LXXVIII We Q. do believe That to redeem and make free from sin is done with the body of Christ which we have told you is the Church See Numb 98. ARTICLE LXXIX We Q. do believe That Christ lives in that body which is the Church that in this body which is the Church the Saints shall arise See Numb 99. ARTICLE LXXX We Q. do believe That both Philosophy and Logick are of the devil See Numb 100. ARTICLE LXXXI We Q. do believe That except the Church which is his body Christ hath no true humane body no more than God the Father hath that that man looks upon Christ with a carnal eye that looks upon him to have a true body as he hath that that man knows the fathers body that knows Christ to have a true humane body which is without sin that that man is full of subtilty that doth query how the Son may be distinguished from God the Father that they make both many Gods and three Gods who do distinguish the Son from the Father See Numb 101. ARTICLE LXXXII We Q. do believe That there is no Baptism with water that they are filthy dreamers and lyars of Christ who tell people that this Baptism is an Ordinance of Christ that it is but sprinkling a little dirty water on Childrens faces that Christ did never send his Disciples on this dirty errand See Num. 102. ARTICLE LXXXIII We Q. do believe That there is no Sacramental Cup to be
darkness and delusion of Antichrist both Priests and people your leaders cause you to err by their lyes you are lost for want of true knowledg only differing from the heathen in name and profession Pr. Pr. These quaking-lines serve to tell us that this quaking-watcher hath seen a base vision concerning the true Christian Religion and the Church of England in particular according to this brain-sick Quaker there hath been in the whole world no true profession of the Gospel since the Apostles days behold a black mark is set by this Quaker upon all Christians since that time to speak this Quakers mind more fully in all ages of the Christian Church since the Apostles days instead of Christ Antichrist hath reigned over the world under a Gospel-profession instead of true Gospel-light he saith there hath been only a long time of cruel darkness and ignorance as for the Lord this Quaker saith he hath been a long time ever since the Apostles days as a stranger in the earth behold according to this Quaker there hath been no true Christianity nothing but Antichristianism cruel darkness and ignorance and estrangedness from the Lord in all ages of the Christian Church ever since the Apostles days now let us proceed this Quaker is still bold to tell us that ever since the Apostles days all the believing on God or Christ hath been nothing else but an unprofitable looking at him as a God afar off in the Heavens without they knew not where according to this Quaker you may perceive that there have been no truly faithful Christians in the world since the Apostles days to speak this Quakers mind ever since the Apostles days they were only vain believers who said they believed that that was the Christ that died at Jerusalem rose again sits at the right hand of God c. who thus believing were baptized with water and called Christians behold how by this Quaker believing in Christ that died c. is slighted and likewise the baptizing of those Christians who did so believe in Jesus Christ in effect all this is lookt upon by this Quaker to be a pitiful piece of Christianity as for the Scripture this Quaker saith that was the Letter whereof these called Christians were the keepers which they took for their rule according to this Quakers mind the Scripture hath been the mistaken rule of all Christians to walk by ever since the Apostles days as for any Commentaries written upon the Scriptures since the Apostles days this Quaker saith they were but their own meanings and imaginations behold how all Expositors of the holy Scriptures both ancient and modern are basely asperst by this Quaker their Expositions have been no more but their own meanings and imaginations obtruded on the Scripture As for Infant-baptism used in all ages of the Christian Church this Quaker like an Anabaptist saith there is no Scripture nor example for it that it is in vain called an Ordinance of Christ then saith this Quaker that is in the reign of Antichrist they had their two Sacraments but without any Scripture-warrant for the word Sacraments as for the Sacrament of the Lords Supper this Quaker calls it only carnal bread and wine thus in the reign of Antichrist this Quaker saith the Church was planted in England and other places behold according to this Quaker both the Church of England and other particular Churches planted since the Apostles days in any part of the world are all under the dominion of Antichrist their baptism with water is no Ordinance of Christ the Lords Supper is only carnal bread and wine both Sacraments without Scripture-warrant but mark what follows Then that is in the reign of Antichrist in the long time of cruel darkness in the time of the Lords absence from the earth were as this Quaker saith Bishops set up and Archbishops Deans Priests Deacons Popes the Bishops bearing rule by their Means Priests preaching for hire Behold how this Quaker gives us a distinct sound of the Antichristian Hierarchy which hath continued since the Apostles dayes Thus according to this Quaker in all Centuries of the Christian Church since the Apostles days not Christ but Antichrist hath set up his Kingdom under the profession of the Gospel thus the Christian Church hath since those days had no Ecclesiastical Governours but such as were Antichristian thus all Bishops Archbishops Deans Priests Deacons as well as Popes have been in this Quakers account Antichristian for above sixteen hundred years by-past being masked under a vain profession of the Gospel Then that is when Antichrist reigned Tythes saith this Quaker came up contrary to any rule of the Gospel behold how Tythes are made by this Quaker to be Antichristian too a maintenance contrary to the Gospel Then that is in the Reign of Antichrist Universities saith this Quaker were set up to make Ministers or Priests behold Universities by this Quaker are all made to be so many Antichristian Schools thus according to this Quaker after an Antichristian manner were Priests set up by the will and tradition of men as the false Prophets always were of old then in the foresaid reign of Antichrist University-Priests had their long robes like the Pharisees according to this Quaker Ministers habits are both Antichristian and Pharisaical then that is when Antichrist reigned Idols Temples called Churches or houses of God were set up according to this Quaker all publick places consecrated and set apart for Gods publick Worship are neither the material Churches or Houses of God but Idols Temples and Antichristian too then that is in the reign of Antichrist the Priests got into their Pulpits the chiefest places in the Synagogues being proudly called of men Master Doctor according to this Quakers mind Pulpits for Priests are become Antichristian too and the Antichristian Priests are got into them like so many Scribes being proud Masters and Doctors having the uppermost rooms at feasts and greetings in the market like the old Pharisees Scribes and hypocrites then that is in the reign of Antichrist began to speak this Quakers mind the Ecclesiasticall thieves who stole the Apostles words as the false Prophets did who took a verse and studied from it a divination of their own brain just as the Priests do now they run like the false Prophets according to this Quaker ever since the Apostles days all Gods Priests have been thieves like the false Prophets preaching a divination of their own brain like false Prophets running without God sending them then that is in the reign of Antichrist thorough covetousness they made merchandize of the people with feigned words like wolves upon sheep they preyed upon the people they sought about for great livings for fat benefices they ran from a lesser to a bigger living the beloved which they sought for like the false Prophets they sought for the fleece not regarding the flock they cried peace to them that put into their mouths they prepared war sued lawed those that did not feed them