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A43121	A collection of the Christian writings, labours, travels, and sufferings of that faithful and approved minister of Jesus Christ, Roger Haydock to which is added an account of his death and burial.	Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696.; Haydock, John. A brief account of the life, travels, sufferings, and death of Roger Haydock.; Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696. Skirmisher confounded.; Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696. A hypocrite unveiled.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1206; ESTC R25420	111,178	301

and Canting Pag. 90. He that turneth away his Ear from hearing the Law even his Prayer shall be Abomination R. H. queries Is not the Law Light And where is this Law and the Ear also that should be turned to it witho● 〈…〉 or within Man Pag. 7. All right Prayer must be in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ The bare naming of Christ is not enough Pag. 12. Whilst there is Grace in the Soul there will be a Root of Prayer Pag. 28. What is God to me if I have no Life or Spirit in me wherewith to seek him and apply my self to him R. H. queries Whether all Men have not need of Life on Spirit in them as well as Priest Cheyney wherewith to seek God and apply themselves to God And if so Why ●oes this Priest t●l the People The Quakers mangle God and Christ and cut them in pieces because they say God hath given People a Measure of Life Light and Spirit wherewith they may seek after and apply themselves to God Pag. 20. The Spirit doth interoede in us by a kind of a continual restless Motion and Importunity towards God Pag. 57. Wicked Poople were it not to still their Consciences they would not pray that little which they do R. H. queries Doth not the Light in the Conscience move them to Pray Is it as a drunken negligent Coach-Man Or rather Doth it not do its Office truly and is clear of the Priest's wicked Charge Hear him farther Pag. 84. This is the Language and Practice of Worldliness Stand by God stand by Christ and Eternal Life cense Conscience away Spirit let my Soul sink R. H. Sure God and Christ the Light and Spirit are not to be blamed since they are bidden Stand by and are turned from before the Soul can sink But what a Strait doth this bring the Skirmisher into who in his Book entituled Quakerism Subverted p. 31. tells us If the Light be blameless or in effect he saith for his words admit of the Consequence If there be any thing in Man though of God and not of Man that is Innocent and Blameless before God then the Quakers are in the Right and all that he hath writ as also his Skirmish must fall to the Ground and he must acknowledge himself to be utterly defeated and to have lost the Day Now that there is something of God in Man he also grants p. 28. of the same Book in these words There is something of God something of Satan Flesh and Spirit Light and Darkness Now to the Conscience of the 〈…〉 in the sight of God do I leave it 〈…〉 Judgment may be given betwixt the Skirmisher and the Quakers whether the Skirmisher be not utterly Routed Hear him farther Call to Prayer p. 103. So dangerous is it to resist the Spirit of the Lord and to imprison the Truth in Vnrighteousness and to go about to salve an Vlcerous Conscience by false Cures they may serve for a while but the day is at Hand when God will search in all R. H. The Priest grants the Spirit of the Lord may be resisted and the Truth in Unrighteousness imprisoned Now I query Whether this Resisting the Spirit and Imprisoning the Truth be within Man or without him Pag. 41. A Gracious Man saith the Priest may silently Worship God and Speak to God and so as none may hear but himself and yet be most fervent in Prayer And yet this Priest scoffingly saith p. 101 102. How many dumb and silent Meetings have you without either Prayer or Preaching P. 19. Men may give us Words and Forms to use but they cannot give us the Spirit of Grace and Supplication P. 17. 〈…〉 ●ows how to pray to God further than God shall teach and enable him R. H. querieth Whether it be not safe for all then to feel God's Spirit with them to teach them in Prayer Hear what the Priest himself saith Pag. 21. When the Spirit of the Lord is from Man he can do nothing Prayer sticks in his Mouth like Choak-Cheese Thus much by the Priest in Honour of the Light Grace and Spirit of God in Prayer I shall here add some of the Priest's Lyes and so proceed Pag. 122. The Quakers declare themselves to be Hypocrites Pag. 50. Christ answers Get you gone away with you to wit the five foolish Virgins ye are Workers of Iniquity I never knew you Pag. 140. I am passed through the Red-Sea Egypt is behind me I am escaped out of Sodom I am from under the Bondage of spiritual Pharaoh the Devil who once was my Father and Master Skirmish p. 2. The Quakers Prof● build their Religion and Hopes upon the Scriptures Call to Prayer p. 15. God hears wicked Men in their distress and grants them many good things in answer to their Prayers Answ This contradicteth the Scripture If I said David regard Iniquity in my Heart the Lord will not hear me Psalm 66.18 Besides these there are many other forged Lyes in his Books which for Brevity sake I pass by at this time He tells the World p. 115. That he hath discoursed with some Quakers who have confessed to him that they never Pray without a Motion from God's Spirit R. H. queries Why should they pray without God's Spirit J. C. himself confesseth elsewhere as I have hinted before That nothing can be done in Prayer without the special Help of God's Spirit yet he blames the Quakers for refusing to Pray without the Spirit move them But had they not better do so than go before or without the Spirit and have their Prayer stick in their Mouths like Choak-Cheese as said John Cheyney before But in this I have reason to suspect Forgery That 〈◊〉 Quakers should confess to him They in many Years have not had a Motion to Prayer Now if his Tale be true let him give us the Names of such if it be false let his Iniquity stop his Mouth and let Shame come over him But to proceed Call to Prayer p. 42. God is a Spirit and he requires Spirit in every Performance and nothing but the Life and Spirit and Zeal and Fervency in all our Duties and Services will please him Mal. 1. and last Cursed be the Deceiver which hath a Male in his Flock and voweth and sacrificeth unto God a corrupt thing R. H. Well enough for the Downfal of this Skirmisher The Priest confesseth he hath a Male asserts God requireth nothing else neither will he be pleased with any thing else but Spirit Life Zeal and Fervency He grants That the Deceiver who hath a Male may sacrifice to God a corrupt thing to wit A Cold Distracted Lifeless Dead Prayer and such Prayers Offerings and Sacrifices are Abomination to God no more pleasing to him than was the cutting off of a Dog's Neck or offering Swines Blood and unto such Deceivers the Curse is due Now how near this Priest 〈◊〉 Prayers are thereunto read in his own Words published to the World which need little Animadversion

which is kindled against you because of these things and you perish not in his hot Displeasure And Friends You who are Called and Chosen and Faithful for a Remnant of such I know there is amongst you who keep your Garments unspotted of the World answering the Pure in all Dwell you in the Feeling of the weighty Life which hath seasoned you that in it you may Read me Feel me and Embrace me in the Arm of my Father's Love even as you are Read Felt and Embraced that tho' outwardly separated yet in that Inseparable Bond of Unity in which we are One and our place One even with the Son to behold his Glory we may lie down together and Solace our selves together in the Overcoming of our Father's Love whose Care is over us and whose Love flows towards us To whom be Glory for Ever and Ever Your Brother in true Love R. Haydock Lancaster-Castle the 2d of the 8th Month 1674. THE SKIRMISHER CONFOUNDED Being a Collection of several Passages taken out of some Books of John Cheyney's who stiles himself The Author of the Skirmish upon Quakerism In which is the Baseness Wickedness Contradictions Lyes Hypocrisie Unbelief Confusion and Blasphemy of that Skirmishing Priest Discovered and He Laid Open to the View of every one who shall read with a Single Eye Collected by a Friend to the Truth and a Well-wisher to the Souls of all People ROGER HAYDOCK Isa 54.17 No Weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every Tongue that shall rise up in judgment against thee thou shalt condemn This is the Heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their Righteousness is of me saith the Lord. Psalm 7.15 He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the Ditch which he made London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle 1699. THE SKIRMISHER Confounded c. JOhn Cheyney in his Book entituled A Call to Prayer c. in the Preface to the Reader saith thus I would be loth to fasten any Error upon any Person which I can perceive him not to hold and I would Candidly Interpret all Words so far as I can with Conscience and Justice to the Truth The next Page of the same Preface to the Reader thus I do not know 〈◊〉 by their Opinion of the Light within Devils and Damned Souls may be saved In his Book entituled The Skirmish c. p. 4. Penn 's Position doth justifie the Irish Rebellion the French Massacre the Marian Persecution the Ten Persecutions of the Primitive Churches the Gun-Powder Treason P. 13. of the same Book I would be glad to make the best I can of your Position Auimadversion Can there be greater Baseness than under pretence of Candor to be thus Absurd Is it not great wickedness in this Skirmisher to make such Ungodly Consequences of so Harmless a Position and yet afterwards say He would be glad to make the best he can of it Here followeth the PRIEST's Contradictions John Cheyney The Skirmisher against OR fighting John Cheyney Himself Assertion 1. CAll to Prayer p. 117. I dar● say let the Light within alone and say nothing to it and it shall never move any Quaker or ungodly Soul to pray till Death or the Flames of Hell shall awake them 2. P. 119. A Quaker or any other may live a secure Flesh-pleasing Life all his Days and never have one effectual Motion to Prayer if he be ruled by the Light within 3. P. 119. The Quakers could hardly devise a more sin-pleasing Doctrine than never to pray without a Motion from the Light within 4. P. 109. Their grand Principle of the Light within is not consistent with Right Prayer 5. P. 76. The Spirit of God is a Spirit of Supplication he commands and moves to Prayer p. 20. The Spirit doth intercede in us we could do nothing without the special Help of God's Spirit without the special Help of God's Spirit we can do no Spiritual Work 6. Quakerism Subverted p. 18. The Light within tells me there is a God 7. Skirmish p. 13. The Light within which should be Man's Guide takes part with the Flesh and Satan against God 8. Call to Pray p. 111. They are no People of Prayer and make no use of Prayer P. 101. A Prayerless People of a Prayerless Religion Prayerless Pretenders to Holiness 9. Skirmish p. 13. If the Scriptures go farewell God and Christ and Heaven and all Law and Rule 10. O Lord thou know'st that I am what I profess my self to be Thy Servant sincere and upright John Cheyney Contradiction 1. CAll to Prayer p. 119. For though the Light may move yet it will be but a weak Motion and the Motion of the Darkness or Fleshly Part will overcome 2. P. 119. That which should Move them to Prayer the Light within is over-powered by the Darkness 3. P. 118. I 'll tell thee what keeps me from Prayer when my Conscience and the Light within moves me to Prayer my Sloth and Laziness my Deadness want of Life and Hunger and Spirit in my Soul 4. P. 3 4. Right Prayer is not meer Words nor a meer Work of Nature nor bare Humane Industry and Striving without the special Grace and Concurrence of God 5. P. 115. Their great Assertion that Prayer is not to be done without the Motion of the Light within some have confessed they never Prayed without the Motion from the Spirit of God P. 98. You need no Motion of the Spirit to tell you when to feed and cloath your Bodies but you need a Motion from the Spirit to put you upon to dress and feed your Souls 6. P. 101. Trust not that blind deceitful Guide within you the Light within you left it lead you into Everlasting Darkness 7. P. 61. When God and Conscience have called to this Duty a lazy carcarnal self 〈…〉 Mind has kept us away 8. P. 114. If Report be true when they do Pray for I have heard and believe that sometimes they Pray 9. P. 62. Must a hungry Man need a Scripture to tell him how often he must Eat No more doth a hungry Soul need a Scripture to tell him how often he must Pray Besides these Contradictions out of his Books I shall add one more out of two Manuscripts written with his own Hand which I think he will not deny and I am certain in this he hath no cause to blame the Printer as sometime he did but if he denies it I can both produce and prove it 10. Given forth by a weak Believing Christian and Disobedient Servant of Christ John Cheyney I shall here set down some of his Confessions to the Light Grace and Spirit of God and then discover his Lyes c. Pag. 120. THE Light then prevails Habitually and there is a kind of continual Exercise of the Soul by Internal Prayer Pag. 122. The Soul and Heart of Prayer is within seen to God Pag. 4. There is a great deal of Praying outwardly which is not right and sincere Praying outwardly Balling