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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57214	The epistles of Mr. Robert Rich to the seven churches (so called by him) viz. 1. To the Roman Catholick, 2. the Episcopal Protestant, 3. the Presbyterian, 4. the Independent, 5. the Anabaptist, 6. the Quaker, 7. the Church of the First-Born : containing his testimony to God's approbation of the good and aversion to the evil in all persuasions : together with an abstract of a letter of the authors, declaring his gift, or benevolence, sent to each of the said churches.	Rich, Robert, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1356; ESTC R28477	92,478	137

evil opprobrious Names which makes me say That I went to my Own but my Own would not receive me but sold me into Egypt by their many false Reports And poor Joseph found no greater Enemies than his Brethren were Nevertheless the Lord my God did not forsake me but found me out in the Innocency wherewith he had cloathed me and appeared to me in all my straits and was my Strength my Joy and Crown of Glory and at length brought me forth of Prison to stand before Princes assisting and carrying me with much Courage and through great Opposition to bear and finish my Testimony to Christ in the Saints And being cast out from my Brethren the Lord my God took me up and became my Teacher under whose Teachings I felt more of the Love of God and increased more in knowledg of the Things of God than when I sat under the Teachings of Men by whose Teachings I grew in Wisdom and in Stature unto the Measure of a perfect Man in Christ Jesus then I came to know that out of Egypt God hath called his Son to whom he hath given not only the Heathen but the whole World for his Possession and Inheritance In which Spirit of the Son I call to mind the sweet Union and Communion I had with the Quakers when they preached Christ the Light in every one that cometh into the World the Way to God the Father of Lights which Light sprang up so strongly in my Heart that with St. Paul it struck me down to the Ground where I felt the Root of the Matter in my Self so that I needed no Man to teach me but as the Unction that small grain of Mustard-Seed grew to a great Tree on whose body did hang all my Sins my Weaknesses and Infirmities which Seed of the Kingdom begot in me a new Heart and placed within me a right Spirit the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding fill'd with the Love of God Allelujah In the day when the People called Quakers were small in their own Eyes I dearly loved them who did not only preach Christ the Truth and Light in every one but with much boldness and courage and through great Persecutions defended the same living in much Love and Amity one with another which to me was a most lovely sight to see till there came to be a difference between J. N. and George Fox then G. F. by reason of his Enmity and Self-exaltation envied and persecuted J. N. and begat a most bitter wrathful Spirit in all his Friends against J. N. and all that stood by him in his Sufferings Thus G. F. was the Father that begat all those Divisions Rendings and Tearings that were then amongst the Quakers and since to this very day which with great violence lasted till J. N. took all the blame on himself and made himself of no reputation who was circumcised in Heart and Soul in which Circumcision he lived and died a true Israelite indeed But G. F. and his Party continued acting in another manner of Spirit for I have seen those pull hale and carry out of their Synagogue at the Bull and Mouth one Richard Freeman and the chief in this work was John Bolton with divers others At this time I perfectly saw that God had divided in Jacob and scattered in Israel and that a separation was making betwixt the Precious and the Vile amongst the Quakers And was it not the same bitter persecuting Spirit in G. F. that writ against J. Perrot's Book called Vnity and Amity For did not G. F. say This Book was writ with Cain 's Spirit Crying against his Sottishness and Ignorance affirming That a Cloud had compassed him that he went in the way of the false Prophets that his Spirit would give up the Children of God to Persecution Further alleaging That J. P. is one of Ham's Stock and that his gross Lies proceeded from a devilish hellish Spirit and that none that are in the least Truth will believe him and that he is a Liar and a Deceiver And the great Offence G. F. takes at this Book is that J. P. owns the Spirit of God's Grace and Light to be in Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Seekers and others also that he hath Unity and Amity with all that walk therein the which G. F. denying and calling it a Lye c. plainly shews he is an Enemy to all that will not bow down to him and call him Master or Father of their Spirits and that he is turned from the Faith once delivered to the Saints and that he is removed to another Gospel than what at first himself had preached and also writ against J. P. that he was like a Dog snarling and biting such as are in the Life of Truth and so like a Dog thinks he will die This and much more hath G. F. writ against J. P. pursuing and hunting him as Saul did David like a Partridg on the Mountains from Country to Country from Region to Region and from City to City whithersoever he went these venemous Arrows were shot against him At this time I perfectly saw a Star fall from Heaven called Wormwood or the Dragon's Tail with which he drew to the Ground a third part of the Stars of Heaven then I saw a War in Heaven a Religious War the Dragon against the Lamb Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and his Angels Which bitter Spirit of the Dragon did write or indite John Bolton's Book printed 1670 intituled Judas and his Treachery c. In which Book he saith The thirty pounds Robert Rich sent to the Poor amongst the Quakers was the price of Blood and Judas his Treachery That Robert Rich is a Vagabond on the Earth one that hath not an Habitation in the Living God That he is a Contender against God's Blessed and Holy Way the Way of Life with whom Robert Bacon is joined That they were Idolaters and judged them to be the Whorish Spirit and that the Mystery of Iniquity in R. R. and R. B. was brought forth to open view And all along his Book is full of the like Expressions not only against R. R. and R. B. but the same Railing Accusations are also against Innocent J. N. and J. P. and for no Evil said or done against any one of them as in their own Consciences they well know To all which Railing Accusations R. R. saith The Lord rebuke thee About the same time another Book was writ against R. R. and R. B. by Ger. Roberts Geo. Whitehead and E. H. intituled Impudency and Ranterism rebuked in which they call the Spirit of R. R. which sent thirty pounds to their Poor A drunken ranting Spirit a fained Love and the Gift they call Cain's Sacrifice Balack's Reward and Balaam's Wages Judas's Oblation and a Superstitious Idolatrous Gift Also that R. R. is a wandring Star a raging Wave of the Sea that he is a Sow wallowing in the Mire a Dog casting up his Vomit that he is that Fool which

the Kingdom of Heaven Which Holy Spirit wrought so mightily as to beget the New Man Christ Jesus in me by whom I had peace with God and good will to all his Creation Which Spirit of Love moved me to send Thirty Pounds to be distributed amongst the Poor of the Roman-Catholick Church as a sign of my Love and good Will to them which I understood you received in the same Spirit of loving-kindness I sent it Not as Judas that betrayed his Master into the hands of Sinners for Thirty pieces of Silver but from one that witnesseth the Resurrection of Christ from the Dead whom by my sins I had formerly crucified and put to open shame but having repented and amended my former bad Life by help of his Holy Spirit of Grace Christ in me I came to see that those of all Religions that feared God and acted righteously towards Men were accepted of him and dearly beloved by me in which Spirit of Love the Ground and Pillar of Truth the End of the Law and Bond of Perfection I found freedom in my self to look into all sorts of Religions and knowing the Rock Christ Jesus on whom all the Holy Men of God are built and having a discerning by God's Grace between the Precious and the Vile between him that serveth God in the Spirit of Truth and him that only pretendeth to serve him but with a false Spirit in which Spirit of God I saw the difference between the true Church of God and that which is the false Church In this Understanding I did read many Books written and allowed by the Roman Church viz. The Bible translated out of the Vulgar Latin by St. Jerom the Old Testament Printed in two Tomes by the English-College at Doway and the New Testament printed at Rhemes and have weighed and considered the Reasons St. Jerome gives for translating it out of the Vulgar Latin rather than out of the Hebrew and Greek which were much corrupted as he saith by Jews and Hereticks c. And having purged the Latin Version from Faults committed by Writers c. laying aside all other Latin Editions which St. Jerome saith were in his time almost innumerable which Translation out of Vulgar Latin though in many things defective yet in some I find better to agree with the Truth than that translated into English out of the Hebrew and Greek As for Instance The Vulgar Latin translates Isa 12.3 You shall draw Water in joy out of the Saviour's Fountains The other You shall draw Waters out of the Wells of Salvation Psal 38.6 the Vulgar Latin saith Doubtless all things are Vanity The other Psal 39.5 saith Verily every Man at his best estate is altogether vanity which seems not to be true for the Regenerate Man which is born of the Spirit and hath Christ the New Man in him is not altogether Vanity for Christ is the Eternal and only begotten Son of God full of Grace and full of Truth Allelujah John 1.14 the Vulgar Latin saith The Word was made Flesh and dwelt IN us The other The Word was made Flesh and dwelt AMONGST us Which Translation I apprehend was to gratify those that deny Christ come in the Flesh of the Sanctified and so exalt the Flesh of Jesus equal to or above the Spirit which dwelleth in all true Believers Allelujah 1 Pet. 1.13 the Vulgar saith Trust perfectly in the Grace which is offered you in the Revelation of Jesus Christ The other Hope to the end for the Grace that is to be brought unto you at the Revelation of Jesus Christ This I also apprehend was to gratify those that say Revelation is ceased and also deny Revelation to continue in the Church of Christ to the end of the World which is contrary to Scripture and the Saints experience Read Mat. 11.27 Gal. 1.16 1 Cor. 2.10 Mat. 28.10 Romans 16.26 the Vulgar Latin saith To the obedience of Faith in all Gentiles The other saith Made known to all Nations This I suppose is also to gratify those that deny Christ the true Light that enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World whom to obey is Eternal Life and Salvation both to Jew and Gentile Allelujah Heb. 1.1 The Latin saith God spake to the Fathers in the Prophets and last of all spake to us IN his Son The other saith God spoke to the Fathers by the Prophets and hath in the last days spoken to us BY his Son Which Translation is to set up Man the Letter to be our Teacher and to lay aside Christ the Word in the Heart the Saints only Teacher Heb. 12.15 The Latin saith Lest any Man be wanting to the Grace of God The other Lest any Man fail of the Grace of God Which seems to deny that the Grace of God which bringeth Salvation and hath appeared to and in every Man to be sufficient to Salvation And in the Margent the Latin saith on that Text If we be not good there is no lack on God's part who offereth his Grace freely to all the defect is in our selves that answer not God's calling by his Grace Which I take to be sound Orthodox Doctrine Jude 14. The Vulgar Latin hath it Our Lord is come in his holy Thousands that numberless number which no Man can number The other saith The Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints Which doubtless is to countenance a carnal personal appearance of Christ at his second coming who as he went a Cloud received him out of their sight even so in the like manner shall he return in a Cloud of Witnesses in his holy Thousands Allelujah Zach. 5.10 The Vulgar Latin hath it And I said to the Angel that spake in me The other I spake to the Angel that talked with me Which later Translation most assuredly was to gratify them that deny Christ God's Angel to come in the Flesh of the Sanctified Allelujah 1 Pet. 1.3 4. The Latin hath it Who according to his great Mercy hath regenerated us into an Inheritance that cannot fade conserved in the Heavens in you The other saith Reserved in the Heavens for you This likewise I apprehend is to gratify that Spirit which denies Christ to be in the Saints and Heaven to be there where Christ is which Spirit I take to be the Spirit of Antichrist I have likewise read and considered the Arguments Annotations Tables and other helps for the better understanding of the Text which I find in Divine things both useful and profitable As for Example Annotation before the Psalms saith That the whole Sacred Bible is a sealed Book and not rightly understood till the Seals be opened by the Key of God's Spirit And you say on Gal. 4.24 The Scriptures besides the literal Sense have a more deep spiritual and allegorical Sense not to be understood but by the same Spirit that writ them And you also say That there is no way to know Canonical Scriptures but by the Church Which is a Truth if you mean the Spirit

saith in his Heart there is no God and bray a Fool in a Mortar and he will never be the wiser and that this folly hath bin with him ever since the days of J.N. All this and much more for nought else than for R. R. his Gift to the Poor of their People Which Language let G. F. and his Friends well consider whether it proceeded from the Spirit of the Lamb that loves Enemies or from the Dragon that casts his Floods after the Man-Child to devour him who is the only begotten of God in the Saints he must rule and reign though G. F. and his Men of War never so much rave and rage I say that the only begotten of God by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost in the Saints the Virgin Daughter of Sion whose Name is Immanuel must surely rule reign Even so Amen Allelujah What had you against J. N. more than that God had taken away his Judgment from him and then led him into the Wilderness to be tried and tempted by G. F. and others and to suffer by that Spirit that then ruled in the Children of Disobedience who in all meekness and patience did bear and suffer the enmity and cruelty of all his Persecutors as a good Example And what had you against R. R. more than that he stood by J. N. in his Sufferings and for pulling off his Hat at the Command of the Lord as a sign of Love to them that understood that sign better than if he had saluted after your mode and fashion in giving the Hand Also that he pulled off his Hat which was to testify that the Hat might be made an Idol both in keeping it on and in pulling it off And what had you against J. P. more than for owning the Light of Christ in Presbyterians Independents Baptists Seekers and others even in all that believed in it and followed it And is not the Light of Christ in every one the Ensign to gather together all of every Sect and Nation those that follow it into Unity with the Lord and Amity one with another And why was G. F. so bitter against J.P. for declaring that no such beggarly Element as the Hat off or on is any part of God's Worship And if G. F. must be obeyed in these things rather than the Light of Christ in our selves whether then G. F. and his prescribed and imposed Forms be not the greatest Idol that ever was set up by a Professing People let the Witness of God in every one be Judg. I have lately read a Manuscript subscribed George Fox writ to all that would know what those People called Quakers are and shewing their Experiences which they have seen and gone through to Priests and Professors Which Paper contains fifty Paragraphs In the first and second G. F. saith We thought it a hard thing for Cain to kill Righteous Abel but when we look'd within our selves we saw that envious wrathful Man that slew every appearance of God within and ready to slay the Righteous without Then G. F. goes on speaks against Adam's Fall and against Joseph's Brethren for selling of him into Egypt c. and tells Priests and Professors That if they look within they shall find this Nature in themselves And I tell G. F. that he need not go so far to seek this evil Nature in Priests and Professors Let him look but within himself and consider his own Actings against his Innocent Brethren and he will find Cain's Nature there and Cain's Sin to lie at his own Door and will know him that sold Joseph into Egypt c. And this Spirit was the Cause of G. F's own Fall who was once an Angel of Light and had a place in Heaven but is fallen from thence like Lightning and is now become an Angel of the Bottomless Pit where he rules and governs over all that have not their Names written in the Lambs Book of Life continuing their forms of Godliness their long Preachings and long Prayers from the Comprehension of Truth but not with the Life and Power thereof thus ye suffer that Woman Jezebel which calls her self a Prophetess by good Words and fair Speeches to seduce and deceive the Innocent amongst you keeping them always learning but can never come to the Knowledg of the Truth as it is in Jesus unless they cease from man's Teachings and come to the Teachings of God in themselves which alone truly teacheth the way to Life and Salvation Allelujah I have also read a Testimony from the Brethren met at London the third Month 1666 subscribed by eleven of your Ministry Also from a Meeting at Bristol the 27th day of the 7th Month 1669 subscribed by 36 Persons Also from a Meeting at Ellis Hooks the 12th of the 4th Month 1677 against John Wilkinson and John Story subscribed by 66 of your Ministers All which in general contain very bitter Censures and high Condemnations against many of your own People who have divided from the Body of Friends so called by your selves wherein you testify That those ingaged in the Spirit of Separation ought not to have any Rule or Dominion in the Church of God whereof the Holy Spirit that was poured forth upon you as you say hath made you Overseers But your Fruits will make you more manifest than your Words Also That all that are joined to that Spirit of Separation who stand not in Vnity with your Ministry their Judgments ought not to be regarded amongst Friends And further You declare your selves the Witnesses and Ambassadors of the Vnchangeable Truth and the Elders of the Church of God who of right having kept your Habitations in the Truth ought to judg of things which differ and this your Judgment to stand good and valid amongst Friends against all that oppose it Also that if any pretending to be of your Membership will not admit to be tried in case of Controversy by the Elders and Members of this your Body but oppose it as the Judgment of Man you then testify in the Name of the Lord against them that he or she with all those that countenance these Refusers are to be rejected as joined in one with Infidels and Heathens These together with G. F's Paper in vindication of Prescriptions dated the 4th Month 1678 imposing upon the Consciences of Men as also the particular Invectives against John Wilkinson and John Story both importing the same Spirit of Dominion and Rule over the Conscience which is the proper Heritage of God I have both seen well-weighed and considered and while I contemplate your present State by comparing it with the Principles with which you were first inspired I cannot but take up that Lamentation concerning you which the Prophet of old did concerning Israel How is the Mighty fallen How is the Gold become dim the fine Gold how is it changed Even the Sea-Monsters draw out the Breasts and give suck to their young Ones but the Daughters of my People are become cruel like