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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45353	An account of familism as it is revived and propagated by the Quakers shewing the dangerousness of their tenets, and their inconsistency with the principles of common reason and the declarations of Holy Scripture / by Henry Hallywell.	Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?	1673 (1673)	Wing H458; ESTC R25413	52,525	144

looked for better satisfaction for his money when the Quaker upon demand of it replied That the Light within him told him that he owed him nothing SECT III. A third Manifestation of the Familists and Quakers being one and the same Sect is their abrogating and disanulling all outward Ordinances and Institutions of Religion That this was the Opinion of David George and H. N. cannot be unknown to any who have but heard or read any thing of them and their Persuasions See H. N.'s Epistle to the two Daughters of Warwick Sect. 5. 7. 10. And that those high-flown Spiritualists the Quakers are of the same mind needs no proof but is evident from their Practice in condemning and censuring men for using a Form of Prayer for baptizing their children for receiving the Sacrament for paying their Tithes and honouring God with their Substance setting apart a place and time for the Worship of God and indeed the whole Duty of Religion if there be any thing outward and of the body in it But that God who has commanded us to worship him in Spirit and in Truth has likewise commanded us to do it with our bodies as well as with our souls 1 Cor. 6. 20. and that bodily expressions by Gestures and Postures are to be used in Christian Religion as kneeling bowing and the like is apparent from the examples of Christ and his Apostles The Holy Jesus himself lift up his sacred Eyes to Heaven when he prayed for Lazarus fell on his face when he prayed in his Agony And St. Paul as himself says Eph. 3. 14. bowed his knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ He and St. Peter and the rest of the believers do the like more than once in the Acts of the Apostles Besides confessing praising and glorifying God by the Voice is as much an outward and bodily Worship as any other and therefore if God be not to be honoured and worshipped with bodily Worship we must not pray nor praise him with the Voice Again the very Frame of Christian an Religion presupposes a bodily and outward Worship of God for the Christian Religion is given to men who consist of Body as well as Soul and not to Angels and while we are in these bodies it is impossible but that they must partake in our worship of God yea when it is performed in the most spiritual manner of all Lastly if bodily Worship be not a part of Gods Service there can be no such thing as Idolatry when a man worships an Image As for Example Idolatry is the giving of that Worship to a Creature which is incommunicably proper to God now when a man bows his body to an Image as to an Object of Religious Worship he gives that honour to the Image which is proper to God therefore bowing the body is proper to God and a part of his Worship By this 't is evident what a loss these foolish people are at when they so impudently cry down bodily Worship they run hand over head and never consider the Conclusions that must be drawn from such dangerous Premisses for their very praying together is bodily Worship SECT IV. With a like silly and weak confidence they exclame against Forms of Prayer whenas our Blessed Saviour taught his Disciples a Form Matt. 6. 9. Thus therefore pray ye and lest we should think that this was only a Pattern as if Christ had said Pray after this pattern or to this sense St. Luke Chap. 11. expresses it When ye pray say Our Father c. that is do it in haec verba Moreover that this is a Form of Prayer to be used in the very words it was delivered appears sufficiently from the Occasion of it It came to pass saith St. Luke as Jesus was praying in a certain place that when he ceased one of his Disciples said unto him Lord teach us to pray as John also taught his Disciples where we are told first that John delivered a certain Form of Prayer to his Disciples Secondly that the Disciples of our Saviour besought him that he also would give them in like manner some Form of his making that they might also pray with their Masters Spirit as John's Disciples did with theirs For 't is ridiculous to think that either John's or our Saviours Disciples knew not how to pray before whenas they were Jews and had their constant hours of Prayer as the third sixth and nineth But besides all this I shall come nearer to themselves when an Enthusiastic Quaker at a meeting starts up and begins to pray I would fain know whether the rest of the Company join with him and go along with him in this Prayer or not If they do not to what purpose doth he pray in a vocal and audible manner for he might as well have prayed to himself as to speak aloud if it be not for Edification that others may join with him If they do join with him in that his Prayer is it not then a Form to all them that hear it and are not they bound to pray in those very words and expressions which he utters And though he be never so much over-flowed with the Spirit of the Lord as they talk yet the hearers are limited and confined to those very expressions which the inspired Prophet utters With what confidence then can men separate from the Church of God and run after these Whifflers when the case is so plain against them certainly any man that has but half an eye may see that they are mere cheats in these things Let it not be said then that men who can use their Reasons well enough in other things should be so far to seek in these as to be carried away against Scripture Sense and Reason and the Experience of every man only by the prate and talk of an ignorant sottish fellow Object But here they object that St. Paul in Rom. 8. 26. saith That the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered Therefore we ought not to put up our petitions to God in a Form of Prayer Answ Here we may see those very persons who deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God yet like the Devil make use of them for their own advantage But if it shall be manifested that the Text alledged has not one syllable in it that proves an immediate Inspiration of God both for the words and matter of Prayer their boasting will be found to be ridiculous and vain May not this then be St. Paul's meaning who all along before was discoursing of bearing the Cross that the Holy Spirit helps the weakness of our natures lifting and bearing up as it were a part of the burden of the Cross for us for that we know not which part to chuse or to pray for either a perfect deliverance from it or that we should continue longer under the