And I wish him no more harm for all his Faults and falacious Doings than an humble Submission and Acknowledgment for the same Now let us hear E. Burrough bemoaning Oliver after his Death A Testimony against a great Idolatry This also is owned by G. F. G. W. and their Party and is to be read in his Works 1672. IN the midst of my Considerations a Pity struck through me for once Noble Oliver that is now dead and I was grieved he should be thus abused being dead by such a stir about an Image made of him and I began to recal my former acquaintance with him and the former dealings of God towards him and what a gallant Instrument for the Lord he once was and how many Glorious and Noble Victories God once gave him and what good Parts and what a Gallant Spirit there was once in him and my Spirit run through many such things with a great deal of seriousness and pity and then said I Alas Alas is it ended all in this All his sormer good Service for God and the Nations all his Victories and good Actions and his beating down Superstition Is this the end of it all the making of an Image Is it all ended here And is this the End and final Farewel of once Noble Oliver p. 460. Alas for him who was once a great Instrument in the Hand of the Lord to break down many Idolatrous Images and did not once his Children Officers and his Brave Soldiers and Army pull down all the Images and Crosses and all such Popish Stuff where ever they met with it And shall we have no other Representation of once Noble Cromwel Is his Life and former Glory and Nobleness shadowed with the sight of a dead Image c. p. 461. Obs This might serve for a piece of a Funeral Oration for once Noble Oliver what a gallant Instrument for the Lord he once was And how many Glorious and Noble Victories God once gave him what good Parts and what a gallant Spirit there was once in him He had brave Soldiers and Army And I pray was not this Noble Oliver and his brave Soldiers of that one sort of People that profecuted War against the King Vpon such E. B. saith There is Guilt to be charged See his Visitation to the King c. p. 12. And notwithstanding the High Praises the Quakers gave of D. C. after his Death yet when K. C. came in then they compared him to Ahab Haman and Pharaoh * Truth 's Charactor of Professors c. 1660. p. 28 31 41. was not this done to flatter with the then Government and that too by speaking evil of the Dead Oh most disingenuous and unworthy Men This E. B. was not a greater Friend to Oliver and an Applauder of him and his Armies brave Exploits but he was as great a Decryer and Condemner of the Cavaliers and that Party See A Trumpet of the Lord Sounded c. 1656. p. 9. To all you who are and have been always Enemies to the very appearance of Righteousness who are called Delinquents and Cavaliers THus saith the Lord my Controversie is against you even my Hand in Judgment is upon you already and you are become cursed in all your Hatchings and Endeavours and from time to time my Hand hath been against you in Battel c. and though my Hand hath been evidently against you yet to this day you remain in Rebellion in your Minds in hatching Murder and Cruelty in your wicked Hearts and though your Kings and Princes and Nobles have been cut off in Wrath and your cruel desperate Inventions and Plots of Wickedness conceived in your cursed Womb have been broken and you cut short in your Desires yet you repent net nor will you see how you are given to be a Curse and a Desolation and a Prey in Houses and Lands and Persons to them whom I raised against you and gave power over you yet you are hardned and your Cruelty in the persecution of my Servants cannot be measured where you have any power you smite with the Fist of Wickedness and count it your Glory to despise my Name in the Vallies of Vain-Hopes you feed and on the Mountains of Foolish Expectation and conceive in your cruel Womb of Tyranny the overthrow of the Nations but in the bringing forth your selves are overthrown and it is not for well-doing that you suffer but my Hand is against you and my Iudgments are upon you and except you repent shall continue on Earth with you and follow you and pursue you to the Lake of Destruction where there is no Repentance and you and your Kings and Lordly Power by which you have thought to excrcise Lordship over my Heritage shall be enslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness in everlasting Bondage where he shall reign your Lord and King for evermore Obs That the whole Paper out of which the foregoing is extracted is left out in the Reprint of E. B's Works p. 100. Notwithstanding he writ in the Epistle thus Given under my Hand and Seal'd by the Spirit of the Eternal God And in p. 90. the word King is left out And also in his Answer to the Apprentices Petition 1659. These followinging Lines are all left out p. 609. Would you bring in a strange Nation even Tyrants and their Adherents to devour the Land and even to destroy your selves and your City would you set up an oppressing Monarchy which the Land hath once spued forth these things are to be doubted that if your Designs did prevail the Fruit of your Work would tend thereunto And notwithstanding they in their Declaration given to the King Jannuary 1660. Testifie that the Spirit of Christ which leads them into all Truth will never move them to Fight and War against any Man with Outward Weapons Yet E. B. being moved of the Lord as he saith by his Spirit thereunto gives forth thus To the present distracted Nation of England c. 1659. VVE have chosen the Son of God to be our King and he hath chosen us to be his People and He might command thousands and ten thousands of his Servants at this Day to fight in his Cause He might lead them forth and bring them in and give them Victory over all their Enemies and turn his Hand upon their Persecutors but yet his Kingdom is not of this World neither is his Warfare with Carnal Weapons neither hath He chosen us for that end neither can we YET believe that He will make use of us in that way though it be his only Right to Rule in Nations and our Heirship to Possess the uttermost Parts of the Earth but for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names-sake c. p. 8. We are Friends to any appearance of Good that may come forth in Truth and Sincerity and as Righteousness doth appear in any we are ready to joyn with it in our Prayers and Desires yea and
put such out of the Army This following Letter shews that G. F. approved of Olivers Authority about which he gives him and his Souldiers Charge p. 36 37. Friend THou shouldst have invited all the Christians upon Earth in all Nations that are against Popery to thee to comein and joyn with thee against Popery for thou hast had Authority stand to it loose it not nor abuse it nor let any other take thy Crown and do not stand cumbring thy self about Dirty Priests and thou hast had Power over Nations for Nations begin to be on heaps and invite all them that profess against the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee against him and do not loose thy Dominion nor Authority nor the Wisdom of God but with that thou may'st order all ☞ That will keep thee single in Heart and Mind to the Lord and let thy Souldiers go forth with a free willing Heart that thou may'st Rock Natious as a Cradle and keep thou in the Fear of the Lord and all the Soldiers and them that are under thee This is a Charge to thee in the Presence of the Lord God that thou nor them may loose the Dread of the Lord ☞ for that strikes a terror in the Hearts of all People c. I am a Lover of thy Soul and eternal Good an Establisher of Righteousness G. F. Obs Is not this a Just Authority which so great a Prophet exhorts him to stand to and not to loose nor suffer any to take his Crown And yet this Authority is to be defended and enlarged by Soldiers who are charged to go forth with a free willing heart and to keep in the fear of the Lord which argues they were in the fear of the Lord and so either Quakers or as good as Quakers In another Letter the same G. F. salutes Oliver thus p. 27. Dear Friend BE still and in the Councel of God stand and that will give thee Wisdom that thou may'st frustrate Men's Ends and calm Men's Spirits and Crumble Men under and arise and stand up in the Power of the Lord God ☞ The Lambs Authority and fear not the Face of Man but fear and dread the Lord God then his Presence and Wisdom and Councel thou shalt have to throw down the Rubbish and quell all the bad Spirits under thy Dominion therefore live in the Power of the Lord God and feel his Hand that is stretched out over the Nations for a Mighty Work hath the Lord to do in other Nations and their Quakings and Shakings are but entring So this is the Word of the Lord God to thee as a Charge to thee from the Lord God c. The same G. F. in the Name of the Church of Christ and Elect Assembly Known in the Nations by the Name of Quakers To Rich. Cromwel Protector p. 47 51. Friend LIve in God's Wisdom if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength then none shall touch thee and all them that fear God will be on thy side and take thy Part and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings yea till death And G. For after six pages of Instructions to him concludes with these Words viz. The Lord God Almighty preserve thee in his Wisdom and Counsel and Strength over the Heads of his Enemies in thy self and in the World both And Friend take heed of putting of honest godly Men out of the Army ☞ or putting them out of their places being Iustices of the Peace In so doing thou wilt lame thy self and weaken thy Authority and remove thy self out of the Hearts of them that fear God G. F. Obs He approves of his Power and prays for his Victory over his Enemies in himself and in the World both And pray was not the King and his Party some of those Enemies and he warns him of putting honest godly Men out of the Army as he had done his Father before But when Richard was gone off the Stage and the Officers of the Army in Power then G. F. applies himself to them in these words OH Friends The Power of God ye have abused the Iust have been trodden under Foot who have been put out of the Army and Publick Services Now had you been Faithful in the Power of the Lord which once stirred this Nation needed not have been affraid of any Nation upon the Earth but your Dread would have sounded over the World But when you lost the Power of God with which you had brushed at the Out-side of Things then you turned against and put them in Prison meaning the Quakers that struck at the Root And had you been Faithful to the Power of the Lord God which first carried you on you had gone into the midst of Spain into their Land to require the Blood of the Innocent that there had been shed and have commanded them to have offered up their Inquisition to you and gone over them as the Wind and knock'd at Rome Gates before now and trampled Deceit and Tyrants under and demanded the Pope himself and have commanded him to have offered up all his Torture-Houses and his Wracks and Inquisition which you should have found as black as Hell and broke up the Bars and Gates where all the Just Blood hath been shed which should have been required and this you should have required and this you should have seen done in the Power when you had been the Dread of all Nations and you had been a Dread to them and should have set up a Standard at Rome and then you should have sent for the Turks Idol the Mahomet and plucked up Idolatry and cryed up Christ the only King and Lord and then People would have said you had gone on in the Cause of God and his Truth c. And so if you had gone to have made Inquisition for Blood and to demand all the Inquisitions abroad in the whole Christendom whereby the Innocent Blood hath been shed then all the People in the whole Christendont that feared the Lord God would have said with one consent These are the Men that are gone out for God's Cause Many valiant Captains Souldiers and Officers have been put out of the Army because of their Faithfulness to the Lord it may be for saying Thou to a single Person or for wearing their Hats c. Oh how are Men fallen from that which they were in at first when Thousands of us went in the Front of you and were with you in the greatest Heat c. Oh what a Sincerity was once in the Nation What a dirty nasty thing it would have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords among them Oh! how is the Sincerity choaked smothered and quenched by the Fatness of the Earth whereby they have forgot ten the Lord and his Arm and Power that once carried them on And if ever you Souldiers and true Officers come again into the Rower i. e. the Spirit of God which hath been lost never set up your Standard till you come to
abroad in Spain something there is in it known to the Lord seek not thine own Honour in it but be Faithful and leave the issue of all things to the Lord make no Covenant with Idolaters but tread down their Idol-Gods that they have set up and hew down their Mountains in which their Confidence stands and Plow up their ground that the Seed may be sown after thee It 's Honour enough to be the Lord's Plowman p. 35. These foregoing Lines in Black Letter are left out in the reprinting of his Works p. 568. Obs How he exhorts the Protector to push down and tread under the High Places of Idolatry and where In all the Apostatiz'd Churches both Papists and others And this he intimates is to be done by his Armies and he would not have him to make any Covenant with Idolaters c. These are the Men that in their Declaration since the King came in deny both the Spirit Principle and Practice of them that use any Weapon to fight for Christ or his Government And yet hear in the following Passage how this E. Burrough declares to Governour Lockart and the Officers in the Name of the Lord that if they went forth as an Army in that Spirit that was among the Quakers they should then overcome their Enemies Take his own words as reprinted and not expunged and so owned afresh by G. F. G. Whitehead and their Party 1672. An Alarm sounded in the Pope's Borders 1659 E. B's Works p. 536. AND this lay upon me to declare in the Name of the Lord to Governour Lockart and his Officers That if they did enterprise any business as they were an Army in a Spirit in Opposition to us and in that Spirit that did reject us and deny us and gainsay us then should they never prosper in any Enterprise whatsoever But if they went on in any degree in the Fear of the Lord and in that Spirit that was among us then should they overcome their Enemies and none should have Power over them to overcome them Obs What was it they were to do as an Army in the Quakers Spirit See that in his Instructions to the English Army c. in and about Dunkirk viz. AND that there be no more a looking back till you have visited Rome and enquired after and sought out the Innocent Blood that is buried therein and avenge the Blood of the Guiltless through all the Dominions of the Pope the Blood of the Just crys through Italy and Spain and the time is come that the Lord will search it and seek it out and repay it and it would be your Honour to be made use of by the Lord in any Degree in order to this Matter And this also believe that the Lord will do it or make way hereunto even by you the Men of our English Nation if you be faithful c. p. 537. What are these few poor Islands that you have run through and laid many Mountains low they are but little in comparison of the great part of Christendom in which Idolatry and great Oppressions do abound which the Hand of the Lord is against and which he will take Vengeance upon p. 538. But there are many Mountains in the way wherefore hew down the Tops strike at the Branthes make way that the Ax may be laid to the Root of the Tree that your Sword and the Sword of the Lord may neither leave Root nor Branch of Idolatry Oppressions and Tyranny your Sword is to be lifted up against them It is the Lord's Work I know to make Men truly Religious but yet the Lord may work by you to break down the Bryars and Thorns and Hills that have set themselves against the Lord. P. 538. God will make their Riches and their falsly consecrated Vessels and Treasures even a Spoil and a Prey unto you if you be faithful c. p. 539. Your work hath been and may be honourable in its day and your Victory hath been of the Lord So be low in your own Eyes and seek the Glory of God and the Freedom of the Oppressed and in that you will be Blessed and prosper till you have set up your Standard at the Gates of Rome p. 540. I am a Lover of your Souls E. B. Obs That both the Army-Sword and the Sword of the Lord were not to leave Root or Branch of Idolatry In so doing he promises them Blessing and Prosperity The same E. Burrough to Rich. Cromwel chosen to be Protector See Council and Advice p. 53. AND as for thy Father the late Protector great things and honourable did the Lord do for him in raising him up and casting out his Enemies before him and giving him Victory and Power and Renown through Nations and we know the Lord shewed favour to him and gave him Strength Wisdom and Valour and a Right Spirit and he was called of God into that great Work to subdue the grievous Tyrannies once ruling over Tender Consciences and to break down the great Oppressions which for Ages had caused the Just to groan and the Lord was with him in Victory and went before him and was his Defence and preserved him from great dangers and from the Wills of all his Enemies and made him prosperous against them all And as for thee who art now set up in his stead we certainly believe that the Hand of the Lord is in this Matter c. Note Tyrannies is left out and the word Cruelty put in in his Works p. 574. As concerning the Armies abroad let faithful and just Men that will not seek themselves be put in trust for the Army is of great Concernment to thee to stand or fall through them as to Man's account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it and let trusty Men have Authority the Lord may accomplish something by it to his Honour and to thine if thou be meek and humble and walk with the Lord and to say no more about it there is something in it known to the Lord and he may bring it to pass in its Season p. 64. London 18th 8th Month 1658. These Lines in Black Letter are all left out in his Works p. 580. Obs He saith that the Lord in casting out his Fathers Enemies and giving him Victory did not only do great things but honourable that he shewed him favour and gave him a Right Spirit Is it not plain the Quakers held that God commanded a Right Spirit to Fight and that Oliver was called of God thereto E. Burrough to the Protector 's Kind ed his Wife and Children p 37 38. Friends REmember that by the Lord you were raised from a low Estate he gave you the Palaces of Princes and threw out the High and Mighty before you because of their Wickedness which was great in the Sight of the Lord. Oh! remember this every one of you and be of a tender Spirit and exalt not your selves lest the Lord cast you down and make your Name and
Posterity a Reproach as he hath done many before you even for that cause was the Generation of the Stewarts cast out Note All these Words in Black Letter are left out in his Works p. 569. Obs That he saith for exalting themselves in Pride c. was the Generation of the Stewarts cast out and their Palaces bestowed on the Protector and his Family And pray G. W. c. was not White-Hall one of those Palaces Now let us hear what Francis Howgil saith in Justification of the late War See his Advice to the Army Committee of Safety c. 1659. p. 3 4 5 6 7. THE Long-Parliament against the late King which in Man's account could be looked upon to be no other than Rebellion yet God gave a signal Testimony to the one while they stood in the Power of God and against the other The antient Courtiers having found so much Ease and Profit by the late King turned all Cavaliers and cryed up the Prerogative of the King above Law and Equity c. Setting that aside wholly which all Good Government was intended for as the Safety of the People and fréedom from Oppression Tyranny and Vsurpation and that none might be embondaged in the Worship of God but when he to wit the late King and his Assistants sought to inthral all and Imbondage all both in Civil and Ecclesiastical things as they were called the Long-Parliament and People that aided them at that time counted it no Treason to oppose him seeing the End was not answered he should have satisfyed and God decided the Controversie in overthrowing the one and establishing the other for a season yet many are so blind to this day that they judge the Nation cannot be established in Freedom without a King as though such a Name were essential only to Freedom and without it could not be obtained but the Iudicious will see this Ignorance c. So now many are so doting on the Name of a Parliament as though it were Essential c. and cry up the Privileges of Parliament as the former did Prerogative and would fight about a Name and lose the Thing intended though they be the Representatives of the People to do good to the People and not hurt they are accounted as good Servants to God but if they would set up a particular Interest to the Imbondaging of the whole and then cry up their Privileges to do what they list Then it is no Rebellion in Gods Account neither in the account of Iust Men to call them away when they do not perform the Thing intended And as for the Long-Parliament by whom God did Good Things and Great Things in the overthrowing that Power which was deviated from the aforesaid End to wit the late King What they did they had the Approbation of God and Good Men yet they went not through with the Work purposed and intended Note All these Lines in Black Letter are left out in F. H's Works When a Company of greedy hireling Priests came from Leicester-shire to sound their Trumpet in the House and to tell you they had not ingaged with the rest of their Brethren in Cheshire and Lancashire with George Bâ—oth they were immediately called in and thanks returned as though they had done some great Service for the Nation that they joyned not in the Rebellion but them who were your real Friends called Quakers who gave you and the Army intelligence about the late Insurrection in Cheshire who were spoiled by the said Rebels of their Goods c could never receive any satisfaction or incouragement from you c. Note All the foregoing Lines in Black Letter are left out in F. H's Works Obs He saith God gave a signal Testimony for the Parliament against the late King That it is no Rebellion to call them who were in Power away when they do not perform the Thing they are intrusted for That God did good and great things by the Long-Parliament in overthrowing the late King wherein they had the Approbation of God and good Men that they who joyned with Sir George Booth joyned in Rebellion that at the same time the Quakers were the Parliaments real Friends and gave them and the Army Intelligence See also E. Burrough to the new Committee of Safety 1659. to the same purpose concerning Deposing Governors E. B's Works p. 593. AND though some of you present Rulers be looked upon as great Traytors and Tyrants in your dealing towards them i. e. the Parliament but alas this is nothing for the Lord doth not account as Men and if you were faithful to what the Lord requires of you in your Proceedings what you have done unto them i. e. in turning them out should not be reckoned on account against you neither by God nor Good Men. Likewise see the Declaration of their Faith touching Governours E. B's Works p. 442. Printed 1672. WE believe that all Governors and Rulers ought to be accountable to the People and to the next succeeding Rulers for all their Actions which may be enquired into upon occasion and that the chiefest of the Rulers be subject under the Law and punishable by it if they be Transgressors as well as the poorest of the People Note This Article of their Faith they also printed in the year 71. in their Book called The Principles of Truth p. 51. But as I was not so I am not willing any Observation should be made thereon and that for their sakes Now hear E. B's Advice to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England c. against Heriditary Government 6th October 1659. But after K. C. 2. was restored then they left all this Paper out in the Reprint of his Works AND while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditarily and by the Succession of Birth and thus it hath continued for many Ages and our Nation hath been under the Bonds of Slavery in this respect even because Men Govern'd that ought not and while Men for Earthly Honour in Birth an Breeding have claimed to be Princes over us successively and to be chosen our Rulers according to Custom and because of this the Free-born People have deeply suffered the cruel Oppressions of proud and ambitious self-seeking Men who have long Ruled for themselves and not for the Lord and have come into place of Authority otherwise than by Appointment and right Calling from the Lord And thus the Government of our Nation hath been out of Course while great Darkness hath remained upon the Hearts of the People which hath so blinded them that they have not known their own Bondage nor yet how to be redeemed into perfect Liberty while they have subjected themselves through Ignorance to be ruled by such Men as had no right from God to that Place of Rule and Government But now the Lord God our Deliverer hath begun to appear for the Freedom of the Nations and hath shewed us the Captivity and Bondage that our
not rather that he was glad of it as no doubt he is In p. 6. to the Reader Our Adversary again p 14. says he deals very unfairly and unjustly by G. W. about some of our Friends saying They give forth Writings from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God and by the same Spirit and Power that was in the Prophets Christ and his Apostles unto which he falsly addeth And their so speaking G. W. saith is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater his words and their so speaking are J. P's own Abuse and Perversion Now I beseech you Sir read the Passage in p. 14. and see wherein J. P's Abuse and Perversion lies It lies in this that he added these words and their so speaking and did not put them in a different Character to distinguish them from G. W's words though they did not alter the sense at all if you leave them out the Passage is as much to the same purpose as if they were in Did ever any Writer charge his Adversary with Abuse and Perversion upon so slender an account What an affront is it to the simple-hearted Reader to write at this rate This is the Man that in his Letter to J. O. threatens Mr. P. farther to detect and unmask him if he will not be reduced to Christianity Does he mean by Christianity Quakerism which it seems teaches him to use the basest Equivocations and Slights that can be found in any Writer Of his Book p. 3. He utterly denies it as a Slander that the Quakers formerly exhorted Men to fight and would fight themselves I must refer you to The Quakers Vnmask'd c. to judge whether that is a Slander or not It will abundantly satisfie you whilst you understand their Writings in the plain honest sense of the Words without their after Equivocations J. P cites one of the Quakers Ministers saying We directed all People to the Spirit of God in them and if that led them to fight I had nothing against it for this saith G. W. he quotes fol. 4. but tells us not what Book But why did he not tell J. P so 13 years ago when he desired to know what Errors they sound in the Quotations if there were any however to satisfie him that it was a true citation he took it out of the Quakers Book where Foreign Letters were recorded which was first in J. O's custody and afterwards in J. P's P. 4. The Quakers tell Rich. Protector ' That he would walk with the Lord and preserve his People then thy Name shall be greater than was the Fathers and the numberless number of this Now distressed People will be unto thee a strength and stand by thee and Defend thee and thy just Government Sir If you had been Protector I persuade my self you would have thought these People would have fought to defend you and your Government But whatever they or you thought then the meaning now is according to G. W. c. they would defend him and his Government By Righteousness Prayers and Faith and by Contributions Taxes c. or the fear of the Lord as in the days of Jehosaphat Would you not judge that Man perjured that should swear Allegiance in such terms with such a meaning And must we not take the Quakers words for as binding as an Oath Next p. 5. you will please to note what G.W. Answers to the Charge of upbraiding others with that which themselves for many years were as deeply concerned and ingaged in c. To all which saith G. W. I do conscientiously Answer He hath most grosly and palpably belyed the People called Quakers in these Passages divers ways First in rendring them without exception of Persons not only Justifiers of the late Wars and what had been done therein without exception of things done but also equally concerned with the Presbyterians Independents and others therein But do the Quakers when they charge these things upon the Presbyterians c. make any exception of Persons or Things And yet it is well known and it is proved out of their own writings in The Quakers Vnmask'd c. that their Chief Leaders approved of the greatest things done in the late Wars against the King and to his Person whereas the Presbyterians generally dis-approved of them Besides they say their giving forth Papers or Printed Books is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God and that their Preachers are guided by an Infallible Spirit and that they are of one Mind and Judgment and the like and therefore an indefinite and general charge will affect them more generally than other Parties G. W. says p. 6. The War began in 41. and in 48 the King was Beheaded and all this while no Quakers heard of till about 50.51 52. when there was no Wars in England for them to be concerned in how false then is J P. to say The Quakers were as much or more concerned in the War against the King as any others But G. W. confesses that divers who have been since and now of us Quakers have formerly been concerned in the late Wars And J. P. has made evident their approbation of what was then done and that many that turned Quakers in the Armies continued there till they were turned out that the Protector is blamed for putting them out by G. Fox and others that they are called Sober Men and true Hearts that feared God and trembled at His Word valiant Captains Soldiers and Officers it may be for saying thou to a single Person or for wearing their Hats c. the distinguishing Characters of Quakers from others Whereas he says there was no Wars in England in 50.51.52 it is a piece of his cunning and is false for Worcester Fight was in the year 51. and Sir George Booth's Insurrection in 1659. when the Quakers gave intelligence calling them Rebels for but endeavouring to bring in the King and for some years there were Wars both in Scotland and Ireland and upon the Sea and in Flanders See E. Burrough's Alarm Sounded c. 1659. The Quakers Vnmask'd c. p. 6. 9. You see then how G. W's Answer is both false and deceitful P. 7. 8. G. VV. charges J. P. with an apparent lye in saying the Quakers had been engaged in the same Cause so as to Preach up Battels c. But I pray Sir what difference is there between Preaching up Battles c. and exhorting Generals Officers and Soldiers to go forth against mighty Enemies till they had subdued them and set up their Standard a top of Rome and done many other things which were to be done by Fighting And that in the Quakers Spirit See E. B's Alarm Sounded c. p 28. P 9 10. G.W. Commends the Quakers for their forbearance towards J. P. and is confident that had J. P. look'd upon them as Fighters c he durst not have adventured to have given them such frequent and publick occasions of provocations and frequent disturbances and interruptions