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A51587 A testimony against periwigs and periwig making, and playing on instruments of musick among Christians or any other in the days of the gospel being several reasons against those things / by one who for good conscience sake hath denyed and forsaken them, John Mulliner. Mulliner, John. 1677 (1677) Wing M3059; ESTC R31060 19,265 24

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I never met with a better Friend in all my Life then the Spirit of God for it never crosseth that which is according to God's Will but if God's Will be not done this Spirit brings Pain and Trouble upon the Soul if it be minded So I would desire any ingenuous sober Reader without Prejudice to judge if it had been their own Case whether they would not have left off this Employment of Periwig-making rather then to have went on with so much Condemnation in themselves and these be the Reasons and Occasions why I left them off And now you my loving Neighbours and Acquaintance I would not have you think that how I have denyed my self and took up this Cross as to come among his poor scorned People and left off my Musick which was a great Delight to me and likewise this Employment of Periwig-making which I have told you was so hard for me to part with that now I think my self safe enough No God is my witness this day from whom I have my Breath Being I have as much need of keeping my Mind staid upon God as ever I had in all my dayes And whatever I have done it is no more but my Duty to God to answer his Requirings in my Conscience and here I lie still upon the Free Mercies of God through his Grace in his Son Christ Jesus my Saviour to be saved and I care not what I go through for Christ's sake And here I find a Pressing forward to the Mark of the Price of the high Calling which is in Christ Jesus And at the end I do not question as I keep faithful to God I shall obtain the Salvation of my Soul and that is enough And whereas there is most dreadful speeches cast against this poor scorned and scoffed People of God who are called Quakers as if they had their very Principle from the darkest Hell and some have told me They come from the Jesuits and Papists and very ha●dly people have spoken concering them But truly Neighbours and Acquaintance I would intreat you to let me speak in this matter and I hope I have not behaved my self so badly amongst you for almost this twenty years but I may have a little C●edit for what I say So long as I have come amongst them which I think is 13 or 14 years I never understood any such thing but the very main Aim that they have and do drive at is to have People be faithful to God in what they know in themselves and this is that plain down right way they have drove at and do and God hath prospered them and will do let all those that are Opposers of this Principle of God do what they can They can as well stop the Sun from shining the Rain from falling as hinder this spiritual work from prospering in the Hearts of his People for it is beyond the strength of man to hinder it They were not set up by man nor can man pull them down And as for the Jesuits and Papists I know not what they are as to their Principles neither indeed do I desire to know but those that are not as they should be I desire the Lord may make them so But as to my own part I will tell you what my Faith is and what I do believe call me what you please nor I never desired to believe otherwise That is I do believe in God who is the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven Earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary and that he did suffer under Pontius Pilate and the third day he rose again from the dead and sits at the Right Hand of God his Father who shall judge both the quick and the dead and I do believe that God hath a Church where there is the Communion of Saints in his Spirit and Power and I do believe The Forgiveness of Sins the Resurrection of the Body and Everlasting Life according to the Testimony recorded in the holy Scriptures but indeed I do not believe thar at your publick Places of Worship that this is the Church of God nor your Assemblies are the Communion of Saints for it is not the Saints Life to live in Cursing and Swearing in Pride and Drunkenness in Envy and Malice Hatred and Covetousness c. but in the Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth But alas what of all these Evils is there not committed in this age amongst those that do assemble themselves together in your Publick Assemblies where there is so many Prayers of Good Lord deliver us from them which I say I am a witness for God he stands ready to deliver you if you will come to him But you will not come to him that you may have Life John 5.39 And again the Saints do not believe that Christ Jesus the Son of the living God did pray to his Father to put his poor Creatures upon those things which were impossible to be done for when he wished his Disciples to pray he said to them Pray thus Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom com thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven and so forth Now some among you say God's Will cannot be done here we must live in sin so long as we live There is no Freedom from sin on this side the Grave no Peace with God to be known here Oh! what a damnable Doctrine is this if men would but plead for God's Kingdom as they do for the Devil 's and would but believe that God was as able through the Light and Life of his Son Christ Jesus Rom. 5.10 For if when we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his Life To save them from their sins as the Devil was to keep them in their sins we should have brave living and yet all will say God is above the Devil For the Lord sake Neighbours and Acquaintance consider these things for God is my witness this day I plead not with you for your silver nor your gold nor for any thing that you have in this world but beseech you to be reconciled to the Principle of God in your Conscience And how many Scriptures is there to perswade you to a Holy Life as Without Holiness none shall see God Heb. 12.10 For they verily for a few dayes chastened us after their own Pleasure but he for our Profit that we might be Partakers of his Holiness Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven John 3.3 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not But he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that Wicked one toucheth him not Be ye therefore Perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is Perfect Mat 5.18 And many more Places to this purpose and yet you say the Scripture must be