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A51569	Tyranny and hypocrisy detected or, a further discovery of the tyrannical government, popish-principles, and vile practices of the now-leading Quakers. Being a defence of the letter, intituled, The spirit of the hat, against the deceitful, defective and railing Answer, called The spirit of Alexander, &c. With a challenge, to refer the judgment of matters of fact to the verdict of twelve impartial judges, equally chosen. Also, many of their letters, papers, and transactions among themselves are made publick; wherein they contradict one another, and attribute titles to George Fox, that are proper only to Christ.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Mucklow, William, 1631-1713. Bemoaning letter.	1673 (1673)	Wing M3036; ESTC R201177	45,022	73

asked him concerning it Thus we see that G. Whitehead could pretend a motion from the Lord not only to condemn with detestation what his Friend was mov'd to but also to send one to get away that which was become another mans propriety and that upon a false suggestion Moreover G. W. said he would not return it except the Lord requir'd him What strange Doctrine is this replied J. P. that thou wilt not return me that which was stolen from me except the Lord require thee XVI Moreover let those that have been careful to compare the judgment of the Ruling Elders with the Truth in those things that might by future events be discerned tel us whether particular persons or the Juncto has been more deceived God in his Providence did as has been commonly related for ends best known to himself raise up among the Quakers a man by name Thomas Ebbit who came out of Huntington-shire to London in great haste to Prophesie the burning of the City and arrived here a day or two before that dreadful Fire began This Man as I am informed the Elders who so highly pretend to the discerning of Spirits took unto them and examin'd him concerning it and instead of approving his Prophesie they did almost perswade the Man that it was a Delusion and so in a matter that so highly concerned them as well as others I never could hear that any of them gave credit to him but were as far from discerning Truth in that Word which came to pass as any of their Neighbors and suffered equally with them in that general Calamity And so this Prophet who if they had given heed to him might have been a great glory to their party is the shame and reproach of them all to whom his Tidings came but especially to the Judging Elders Supposing now G. F. and his adherents to be the old Prophets as they would be estemed we see by this instance they can contradict the Word of the Lord in the younger Prophets as did the old Prophet 1 Kings 13. But me-thinks the sad fate of that young Prophet for giving heed to the old one should sufficiently caution the young Quakers against believing the old ones contrary to the Light in their own particulars XVII Having now seen G. Fox's forgery in the Name of the Lord and the Elders contradicting the Elders in the same Meeting in the Name of the Lord and the whole Body of Quakers divided in the Name of the Lord between the Foxonians and the Hat-men and G. Bishop by the same Spirit opposing the Eleven Ministers Let us now take a view of Jo. Swinton opposing himself in the Name of the Lord. And whereas he saith p. 22. in extenuation of his fault in writing that Paper which he is charged with in the Spirit of the Hat p. 34. that soon after he was convinc't to be a Quaker he was shut up in a close prison and continued a prisoner for divers years and being at a distance and much alone was betrayed to the writing of that Paper mentioned and when he came to see what he had done by it he came forth in absolute judgment against that Paper and the Spirit in which it was writ and this judgment was not in an hour of Temptation c. So he acknowledges the Truth of what our Author has told concerning him but he deny's the inference namely that his Recantation was rather in an hour of Temptation If it be true as true it is that this recanted Paper was wrote in Newgate 1664 then we may justly complain that this man who has sometimes born a great place and title comes far short of that ingenuity that might be expected from him for Newgate was far enough from being a close prison there being very many of the Quakers prisoners with him at the same time also I find him come to that proficiency in Quakerism in the year 1660 that he undertakes to write a Paper directed To all the Friends to Truth in the Nations and he begins thus Dear Friends I am commanded of the Lord God c and in the process I speak what in the Infallible I see and know This they say was written from the Gatehouse-Prison here he tels them the enemy hath entred and I say in the dread Authority and Power of the Living God hath leavened many and the Seed hath been and is burthened in many particulars and in one another The world hath entred Self hath entred the high mind hath entred c. In the year 1664 I find another Paper of his written at Franly in Cheshire the 27th of the 6th month And the Recanted Paper called a * Therein he writes thus For Friends in the Name and Authority of the Living and Eternal God I have seen the Anger and Fury the Indignation of the Almighty God ready to break forth into a mighty flame yea and the Leaders many of them not standing clear herein speaking of outward things Is this all Nay nay Israel's wound lies deeper is more Spiritual and inward and therefore the more incurable Pride Conceitedness High-mindedness love of Dominion Selfishness an Exalted spirit an Itching mind to declare words in and above the Seed of the Kingdom hath deeply entred Israel yea the Leaders the Leaders c. Lamentation c. bears date the third of the ninth Month which was about ten weeks after Let the Reader judg whether his being a close Prisoner and much alone and at distance be a righteous excuse it 's observable that in this time of Temptation as he now calls it he wrote that which is as likely to have been prophetical as any thing he ever wrote for in the beginning of the great Sickness which we know was followed by the Fire he saith thus O London London thy Tryals are but beginning These are but the beginnings of the evils that are to overtake thee Desolation Desolation shall enter into thy Bowels yea even into thy very bowels 29th of the month called July 1665. Afterward in the year 1668. I find a Paper of his dated 26th of the 6th month directed to the Mens Meeting wherein he tells of his coming to London the Winter foregoing and of the constructions put upon his 64th Paper which saith he was writ in the express motion of God and in his manifest leadings out of and beyond all thoughts and reasonings c. and that upon every recourse to God the searcher of his heart in that matter he had always renewed justification and acceptation Then he gives an account of what passed between him and them at a Meeting with the Elders how they judged his Paper in the Name of the Lord and would have him to aquiesce in their judgment that being in his own hired House it rose in him to visit Friends in London again that the Lord was with him as he passed in Northumberland Bishoprick Yorkshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Suffolk Essex And he concludes thus which Paper I am again

cannot be kept inviolable against their covert enemies by whom they mean the Hat-men who are not afraid to speak evil of Dignityes G. Fox and his Adherents and despise Government they therefore do unanimously and with the Lords presence as they say testifie 1 that such as exalt themselves above the Body of good and ancient Friends G. Fox c. ought not to have any dominion office or rule in the Church of Christ 2. That such as are not in unity with the Ministry and Body have no Gospel-Authority to be Judges in the Church and their judgment ought not to be regarded that it is abominable pride when any particular will not admit of the judgment of the witness of God in Friends G. Fox's and their opinion to take place against him for he that is not justified by that is condemned in himself and harden'd a notorious Heretick 3. They testifie in the name of the Lord that the Church has power without the assent of dissenters to determine Controversies and that such Persons as will not submit to their judgment consistent with the Doctrine of antient Friends that is of G. Fox and his Party but oppose it as the judgment of man ought to be rejected together with those that countenance and encourage them They are joyned in one with Heathens and Infidels 4. That such disapproved Ministers ought what ever have been their gifts to leave off ministring till they are reconciled to the Church and if approved persons degenerate to division and countenance faction that is the Hat-men the Church has authority to deal with them in the same manner to which if they submit not warning ought to be given in general-General-Meetings to beware of them and to have no fellowship with them 5. They warn and charge all Friends that they have no hand in publishing the Books or Writings of such as are not of unity with the Body and we farther desire that from time to time faithfull and sound Friends and Brethren G. Fox and his Party may have the view of such things as are printed upon Truths account as formerly it hath used to be before they go to the Press 6. They advise that such as are made Overseers of the slock of God by the Holy-Spirit admit not the weak to that trust and that none be admitted to order publick business but those that seek the good of all that is submit to the great Body of G. Fox and his party They conclude thus So dear Friends believing that you will be one with us against those who would limit the Lord to speak without Instruments that is will obey the Light in themselves and not be subject to the dictates of G. Fox and his party and reject the counsel of the wise men and the testimony of the * For they perceived many of their hearers wearied and offended with their long preachings c. would have had them to return home to their Imployments and Callings but the proud way of living they had betaken themselves to they were not willing to leave and therfore strengthen themselves in it by severe Injunctions Prophets which gethered you and would not allow him liberty in and by his Servants to appoint time and place wherein to meet and call this Formal and the Meetings of Man c. 15. Now let all considering men judg whether ever such an arrogant imperious and audacious Paper was given out by such a number of Mortals The Pope hath never I think taken so much power to himself as to determin matters of this nature and in this manner but in a General Council and with their concurrence but herein these men transcend him and all that ever went before them That they did owne those men to whom they wrote to be led and guided and that they ought in all such matters to be led and guided immediately by the infallible Spirit of God and they did owne that those against whom they wrote had been led and guided by the same infallible Spirit and gave at this time no other evidence of their not being now led by it but only their dissent from these men in the matters mentioned the cheif whereof in particular was The not putting off the Hat to their prayers which things considered their giving Charges and Laws in the Name of the Lord to the persons aforesaid is nothing less than arrogating a Spiritual and Divine Power over that which they teach ought to be hearkned to as the Infallible and Divine Spirit and that in those matters which some of themselves have acknowledged might be otherwise ordered by the Holy-Spirit of God As John Whitehead who is one of them in the matter of the Hat in the Paper forementioned and Geo. Whitehead in that other Paper sent to J. Perrot And did they not own John Perrot for a true Friend and that he was sent of God according to their Principles to preach at Rome and did they not own his Sufferings there to be for the Truth and Perrot sayes in his Paper I have received by express commandment from the Lord God of Heaven in the day of my Captivity in Rome viz. to bear a sure Testimony against the Custom and Traditions of the taking off of the Hat by men when they go to pray to God the which they never had by Commandment from God To this agrees what G. Fox saith in the Book of True-honour c. aforementioned where he calls Worship with the Hat voluntary Humility and not of command by Christ and his Apostles And must now this Revelation to this eminent Prophet and Sufferer given him in his Captivity be despised and condemned for a delusion because it is not approv'd by George Fox must the apprehension of Scandal bear sway against such a Revelation amongst those People whose practice is full of Scandals and liked the better by them on the account of distinguishing them from others Is it not evident enough that the true reason of their not receiving his testimony was its contradiction to the practice of G. Fox had it been reveal'd to him first it had been receiv'd readily but now it must be rejected Here we may perceive clearly what it is that influences these men in the owning or disowning of Divine Revelations however there 's no gainsaying but that notwithstanding all the advantages that any Ruling Quaker has he may be grossly deluded and take that for an infallible Revelation from God which proceeds indeed from the spirit of deceit For thus Fox and his party say Perrot and his party did and the like might Perrot say of Fox And Fox or his party cannot give any the least solid ground whereby to decide the Controversie between them Therefore we conclude justly that these men as Rulers and Prophets are led by a Self-contradicting Proud Blasphemous and Tyrannical Spirit For they equally pretend Revelation and if there be any advantage in this matter it is on Perrot's side and not on Fox's so that