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The gadding tribe reproved by the light of the Scriptures. Wherin the true Protestants are encouraged to hold fast their Christian profession, maugre the Beast (i.e.) the pope; or the image of the Beast (i.e.) the Quakers, and their followers: to whom is given a mouth to speak great things. / By George Willington, schoolmaster in the city of Bristoll.
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corrupt for the tree is known by his fruit O generation of Vipers how can ye being evill speake good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speakes A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evill man out of the evill treasure bring forth evill things But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speake they shall give account thereof at the day of judgement so shall Iohn Audland for his cursed speakings in his Pamphlet Therefore judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come who will bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the heart and then shall every man have praise of God 1 Cor. 4.5 For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned I beseech all you that shall read or heare this little book in the bowels of Jesus Christ upon consideration of the premises to avoid and abandon with might and maine the private meetings and conventicles especially the books and erroneous doctrines and hellish Blasphemies of this new upstart impious generation commonly called and known by the name and title of Quakers and Shakers whose manner and custome is to fall a quaking and trembling with their whole bodies just after the manner of damned wretches at the last day to whom Christ shall say go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his Angels Beware saith our blessed Saviour of false Prophets which come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening wolves ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree bringeth evill fruit A good tree cannot bring forth evill fruit neither a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit * Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them Mat. 7.15 16 17 18 19 20. Then if any man shall say unto you loe here is Christ or there beleeve it not For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. Behold I have told you before Wherefore if they shall say unto you he is in the desart go not forth behold he is in the secret chambers * beleeve it not Mat. 24.23 24 25 26. Remember what the Holy Ghost saith Acts 8.9 There was a certain man in Samaria called Simon who before time in the same City used sorcery and bewitched the people of Samaria giving out that himselfe was some great one as these Quakers now do yet he was in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity ver 22 23. What Saint Paul said to the Galathians who were turned aside to new Lights to new Teachers such as the Quakers are the same do I say to the giddy headed people of the Church of England O foolish Galathians who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you This only would I learne of you received ye the spirit by the workes of the Law or by the hearing of Faith Are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh Have ye suffered so many things in vaine if it be yet in vaine Gal. 3 1 2 3 4. I marvell that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospell Which is not another but there be some that do trouble you and would pervert the Gospell of Christ But though we or an Angell from heaven preach any other Gospell unto you than that which hath been preached let him be accursed As I said before so say I now againe if any man preach another Gospell unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed Gal. 1.6 7 8 9. The mystery of iniquity doth already worke only he who now letteth will let untill he be taken out of the way And then shall the wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming Even him whose comming is after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse in them that perish because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeve a lye That they all might be damned who beleeved not the truth but take pleasure in unrighteousnesse 2 Thes 27 8 9 10 11 12. Saint Paul taught the primitive Romans and in them us First That it is the imputed righteousnesse of Christ only that makes us just in the sight of God Rom. 4.9 17 23. Chap. 3. from v. 19 to the end Chap. 5. totum 2. That our Election is of Gods free grace Rom. 9.12 Chap. 11.5 6. 3. That we are justified only by faith in the sight of God without good works Rom. 1.17 Chap. 3.20 28. Chap. 4. most part Chap. 5. totum 4. That the holy Scriptures are of divine authority Rom. 3.2 4. Rom. 9.17 Rom. 11.32 compared with Gal. 3.21 5. That no man since the fall of Adam can perfectly fulfill the Law of God in this life and therefore can by no means merit except it be wrath and damnation Rom. 3.19 c. Rom. 7.10 and so on to the end Rom. 11.32 Rom. 8.18 Rom. 6.23 Rom. 11.6 There is no salvation in any other but Jesus Christ for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved Act. 4.12 No marvell then that the blessed Apostle and servant of God Saint Paul useth the sweet and comfortable name Jesus five hundred times if I am not mistaken in his Epistles to the Churches for it is that saveth his people from their sins Mat. 1.21 6. That he that hath received a Ministry should waite on his Ministry and take heed to fulfill it Rom. 12.7 See Col. 4.17 7. That every soule must be subject to the higher powers and yeeld obedience to every one of their Ordinances though humane if not contrary to Gods word for there we are to obey God rather than man and be at his commands in point of Gods worship so far as belongs to the circumstances how and when being in things indifferent in their own nature and that he also professe to disclaime all opinion of holinesse worship merit and necessity there must we be subject and all this for conscience sake knowing that God is the Author of Magistracy and Magistracy is also good even when the Magistrate is evill Rom. 13. v. 1. to 8. Then he adds Chap. 16.17 18. Now I beseech you brethren * marke them which cause
THE GADDING TRIBE REPROVED BY The Light of the Scriptures Wherin the true Protestants are encouraged to hold fast their Christian Profession maugre the Beast i.e. the Pope or the Image of the Beast i.e. the Quakers and their Followers To whom is given a mouth to speak great things By George Willington Schoolmaster in the City of Bristoll Rev. 19.20 And the beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the marke of the beast and them that worship his image These both were cast alive into the Lake of fire burning with brimstone Luk. 11.35 Take heed that the light which is in thee be not darknesse Mat. 6.23 If therefore the light that is in thee be darknesse how great is that darknesse Heb. 13.8 Iesus Christ yesterday to day and for ever London Printed by W. Hunt for the Author 1655. The gadding Tribe reproved by the light of the Scriptures A word from the Word even that Word of Truth to that Serpent-Generation called Quakers Especially to that conniving Seducer Iohn Audland and the rest of his Brethren in iniquity who have of late set forth a malicious Pamphlet against our godly Magistrates and faithfull Ministers Entituled The Innocent delivered out of the snare and the blind guide falne into the pit Mat. 23. v. 24 27 28 33. YE blind guides which straine at a gnat and swallow a camell Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye are like unto whited Sepulchres which indeed appeare beautifull outward but are within full of dead mens bones and of all uncleannesse Even so ye also outwardly appeare righteous unto men but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquity Ye serpents ye generation of Vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell Luk. 16.15 ye are they which justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Acts 5.3 Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lye against the Holy Ghost Act. 8.22 23. Repent therefore of this thy wickednesse and pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitternesse and in the bond of iniquity Mat. 7.1 2 3 4 5. Judge not that ye be not judged for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you againe And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beame that is in thine own eye Thou hypocrite first cast out the beame out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearely to cast out the mote that is in thy brothers eye Why boastest thou thy selfe in mischiefe O mighty man The goodnesse of God endureth continually Thy tongue deviseth mischiefes like a sharpe razor working deceitfully Thou lovest evill more than good and lying rather than to speake righteousnesse Thou lovest all devouring words O thou deceitfull tongue God shall likewise destroy thee for ever he shall take thee away and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living The righteous shall see and feare and shall laugh at him Psal 52. v. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Act. 5. v. 35 36 37 38 39. Take heed to your selves O ye Quakers what ye intend to do as touching these men to wit godly Magistrates and faithfull Ministers for before these daies rose up Thendas boasting himselfe as you now do to be some body to whom a number of men about foure hundred joyned themselves who was slaine and all even as many as obeyed or beleeved him were scattered and brought to nought After this man rose up Iudas of Galilee in the daies of the taxing and drew away much people after him he also perished and all even as many as obeyed him were dispersed And now I say unto you Quakers refraine from these men to wit the Ministers of Gods Word and also our godly Magistrates to whom every soule must be subject Rom. 13.1 and let them alone write not such bitter speeches against them for if this counsell or this worke to wit of the Ministry be of God ye cannot overthrow it it will stand stand Yea stand and flourish too in spite of your hearts maugre your beards therefore desist from your wicked purposes hatcht in hell lest happily ye be sound even to fight against God It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks Act. 9.5 Thou mayest get a bloudy Shin or Heele for thy labour If any man lust to be contentious we have no such custome neither the Churches of God 1 Cor. 11.16 When Elymas the Sorcerer withstood the Apostles Paul and Barnabas Paul filled with the Holy Ghost set his eyes on him and said as I may say to thee Iohn Audland O full of subtilty and all mischief thou child of the devil thou enemy of all righteousnesse wilt thou not cease to pervert the right waies of the Lord Acts 13.8 9 10. And whereas thou wortest as thou saidst that late Pamphlet afore-mentioned in regard those men against whom thou hast wrote have endeavoured to render thee and thy crue odious to the world I must be bold to tell thee that that late Pamphlet hath rendred thee and thy Sect more odious by reason of the cursed speakings that are in it which thy malicious spirit hath belched out against Gods Magistrates and Ministers they are odious speeches I blush to name them If you are men sent from God as you pretend you must needs have the spirit of God and if so you would shew forth the vertues of the spirit which are set down by Saint Paul Gal. 5.22 23. But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse faith meeknesse temperance against such there is no Law Now what doth the Apostle adde v. 25 26. If we live in the spirit let us walke in the spirit Let us not be desirous of vaineglory provoking one another envying one another Now by this spirituall touchstone is made manifest what spirituall Saints your Sect are for if the spirit were in you you would bring forth the fruit of the spirit which the blessed Apostle cals in the singular number fruit not fruits which is very remarkable for where there is one of these fruits in reality there they are all in some measure though not alwaies discernable so consequently it appears that thou wantest the spirit in regard thou wantest love as thy fore-mentioned Pamphlet doth declare As I began with the words of the ever blessed Jesus so I shall conclude all I have to say directly to thee Iohn Audland and to the rest of thy brethren in iniquity with the words of the same ever blessed Jesus Mat. 12.33 to the end of v. 37. Either make the tree good and his fruit good or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit