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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30560	A vindication of the people of God, called Quakers ... being an ansvver to a book, dedicated to them, by one George Pressick of Dublin : in which book many lyes and calumnies are presented against the innocent people of God ... / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6053; ESTC R2304	18,015	26

holy and righteous works and fruits and the children of the Devil who are the Reprobate are known also by their works and fruits of unrighteousness which they bring forth and this the Scriptures bear witness of 2. As for speaking little and living homely and sordidly If he means by homely and sordidly plainly and without superfluity this is also works and fruits of Holiness and it 's better to speak little than to utter multitude of vain words and it 's more justifiable to God and just men to be plain and homely as he saith in Apparrel than superfluity of naughtiness in vain attire and more holy for true holiness consists in the Power of God which crucifies all idle words and all superfluity in Apparrel and whatsoever is not like God And was this Accuser but as wise as he is envious he would never be seen to scorn the Quakers scornfully so called with speaking little and wearing plain and sober Apparrel but fools love to be medling to manifest their own folly as it is written Again The Accuser telleth another story of Muntzer how he did exhort some that were on his part viz. Anabaptists to kill every mothers son for a sacrifice to the Lord and saith he by this we may guess if Anabaptists and Quakers should get the upper hand what they would do c. Answ. 1. As for the Quakers getting the upper hand we strive not for it by carnal weapons to have victory over mens persons though we know the Lord will give us victory and dominion over the Beast and over the false Prophet for the Lamb shall get the victory and they that are with him who are called and faithful and chosen but this victory is spiritual and obtained spiritually and thus we believe the Lord will give us the upper hand even Victory over all our Enemies 2. But what a wicked envious surmise and suggestion is here couched under as if the Quakers if they had victory would kill every mothers son for a sacrifice and that they would make War c. The Lord rebuke his slanderous tongue who hath hatched mischief in his mind against the Innocent and presented you with forged lyes and surmises and imagined and guessed cruel and evil things against us who are far otherwise principled than as he guesseth but all this his own doings doth but manifest the folly of his own heart and his own wickedness for we are of the Spirit of Mercy and Peace and not of Murder and War not to kill mens Persons but to war with the Spirit of God against spiritual enemies that mens Iniquities may be slain and their Persons and Souls saved Again The Accuser pag. 4. tells a long story of Micher Hopman and others with him what things they held As they condemned the Baptism of Children they would not take an Oath they pulled down Magistrates they undertook to kill all Princes they taught that in their Churches all were holy and that it was lawful to have many Wives that all Learning is prophane and that mean men are fittest to expound Scriptures and there must be no ordinary calling in the Church but every man must speak as he is inspired And thus it is saith the Accuser with the Quakers and Popish Agents who are their Ring-leaders have been endeavouring in these three Nations these eight or nine years by-past c. Answ. 1. It is to be considered that all these things are fully charged upon us as bei●●●ilty thereof and so to every particular I shall answer As to that of the Baptism of Children we do say there is neither Command nor Example for it in all the Scripture God never commanded it nor did the Apostles ever practise it in their dayes but it is a Tradition of the Church of Rome introduced into the world long since the Apostles dayes and except better ground can be shewed for the practice of it than bare Tradition it is lawful to deny it as being no Ordinance of God in his true Church except I say that it can be proved that God ever commanded it or the Apostles and Saints practised it till which be done it is no errour to deny the sprinkling of Infants and to deny it to be the true Baptism into the true Church 2. Concerning taking an Oath we say Christ Jesus commanded Mat. 5. Not to swear at all and the Apostle Iames said Above all things my Brethren swear not so that to deny to swear and take Oaths is according to the Command of Christ and his Apostles and is no errour though the Accuser hath here charged it on us as a heinous crime but we do deny All Swearing in obedience to the Commands of Christ and our Yea is Yea and our Nay is Nay as Christ hath taught us without an Oath who hath commanded us not to take Oaths nor swear at all 3. As for pulling down Magistrates and killing all Princes and that it is lawful to have many Wives These are lyes and slanders charged upon us by a false Accuser for our Principle is to obey all Magistrates and all Princes in every thing either by doing or suffering and we would have Princes and Magistrates to rule and reign in the Power of God justly righteously and according to the Law of God and would not have them killed and pulled down And we say it 's better to keep in the single chast life than to have many Wives but any Accusation to make us appear vile this your Informer spareth not but according to his Work will be his Reward in the Day of the Lord 4. Concerning all being holy in the Church we say That every Member in the true Church of Christ is holy for the Church of Christ is his Body and every Member of his Body which are flesh of his flesh and bones of his bone are holy as he is holy in kind and quality and it is his Exhortation to his Saints Be ye holy for I am holy faith Christ So that to hold that every Member of the Body of Christ is holy is no errour though it be so reputed by an ignorant man 5. Concerning all Learning being prophane and that mean men are fittest to expound Scriptures I do say that Learning in it self is a gift of God and is not prophane though as to the knowledge of God and the things of his Kingdom learning in Tongues and Languages is little available for it 's the Spirit of God that teaches the things of God and reveals all the things of his Kingdom and none can know God but as the Spirit of God discovers him for the Disciples who were some of them unlearned men in books and letters had the knowledge of the matters of Gods Kingdom taught them by the holy Spirit and such as have the gift of the Spirit of God be they Poor or Rich are fittest to expound and understand Scriptures for none can understand the Scriptures nor the things therein declared but by the Spirit of