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A57303	The good old way and truth which the ancient Christians many ages and generations ago witnessed unto in the world from age to age, even from the dayes of Christ unto this very time, wherein the same doctrine, life and practice is witnessed unto by us who are in contempt called Quakers, through many tribulations, which our ancestors, the most ancient and true Christians that ever were upon the earth, sealed unto, with the loss of their lives and liberties, by which, in short, is fully manifested, in what is treated of herein, that the doctrine of the Quakers, in denying to swear any oath, and their refusing to pay tythes, and many other things they practise, was the doctrine and practise of the most famous and renowned Christians, both testified of in the Scriptures of truth, and the books of martyrs : also, a brief discovery of the ground and rise and tythes, manifesting them no Gospel-maintenance, but was testified against by the best and most ancient Christians many ages ago / written by ... Ambros Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.; R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing R1483; ESTC R17133	29,214	42

calls himself thy Vicar on Earth hath broken both these Commandments for he maketh a Law to compel men to Swear and by his Law he teacheth that for a man to save his life may forswear and Lye and so Lord through comfort of him and his Laws the people need readeth to Swear or Lye nay oft-times to forswear themselves Lord here is little truth c. Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 527. Sixthly It is one of John Wickliffs Articles whose Works were as much esteemed by the Protestants in England and Bohemia as dispised by the Papists and their Clergy having his bones taken up and burnt forty one years after his decease and his Books were also burned by the Papists and this Article was condemned with many other by the Counsel of Constance That all Oaths which be made for any Contract or civil Bargain between man and man be unlawfull John Hus and Jerome of Prague were condemned for holding of John Wickliff's opinions Ex Actis Consilij Con. stat vol. 1. fol. 606. Seventhly Walter Brute a Teacher among the People of God in the Age of Scorners called The Devil's Servant or Lollard against whom the Pope and King Richard the second and the then ungodly Bishops made so much ado to have the Name of Truth extinguished and the Professors thereof cut off This is Walter 's Testmony concerning Oathes I believe and obey the Doctrine of Almighty God and my Master Jesus Christ which teacheth that Christian men in the affirmation of Truth should pass the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees of the old Testament or else he excludeth them from the Kingdom of Heaven for he saith Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And as concerning Oathes he saith It hath been said of old time Thou shalt not forswear thy self but shalt perform those things unto the Lord thou knowest But I say unto you thou shalt not Swear at all neither by Heaven nor by the Earth but let your communication be yea yea and nay nay for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil Therefore as the Perfection of the ancient men of the old Testament was not to forswear themselves so the Perfection of a Christian man is not to Swear at all because he is so commanded of Christ whose Commands in no wise must be broken although the City of Rome is contrary to the Doctrine of Christ Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 653. Rich. 2d's days Eightly Chrysostom who was a Bishop of Constantinople in commendation of whom much is said in the Ecclesiastical History he blameth them greatly that brought forth a Book to swear upon charging his Clerks that in no wise they constrained any body to Swear whether they think a man sweareth true or false saying It is a sin to Swear well c. Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 701 702. Ninethly Jerome who was an ancient Father and Teacher in the Church whom all the Protestants owned upon that place Matth. 5. 37. and James 5. 12. these were his words It was permitted under the Law to the Jews as being tender and as it were Infants that they might offer Sacrifices to God lest they should sacrifice to Idols so they might swear by God not that it was rightfull so to do but because it was better to swear by God then by false gods and Devils but the great Evangelist admits not of an Oath since every true saying is equal thereunto c. Tenthly In like manner doth Theophilist an ancient Father of the Church whom the Protestants own and have often cited his Doctrine for proof upon the place in controversie saith Learn hence that under the Law it was not evil for one to Swear but since the coming of Christ it is evil as is Circumcision and in sum what ever is judicial for it may become a child to suck but not a man Eleventh And Ambross saith upon Psalm 110. Let him then Swear that cannot repent of his Oath and a little after the said Ambross saith Do not immitate him in swearing whom you cannot immitate in following and indeed the principle solution given by him is Swear not at all Twelfth Many other Saints and Martyrs I might instance at large both in Henry the fourth and Henry the sixth's days whereof some were burned some cruelly handled who said It was not lawfull to Swear in private Cases Vol. 1. pag. 896. Hen. 6. days Thirteenth In Henry the fourth dayes it is said That neither the Pope nor Prelates neither any Ordinary can compel any man to swear by the Bible-book or any Creature of God for saith a Master of Divinity It is not lawfull either to give or to take any Oath upon a Book for every Book saith he is nothing else but divers Creatures of which it is made Therefore to swear upon a Book is to swear by Creatures and this swearing is ever unlawfull Acts and Mon. vol. 1. fol. 701. It would melt any tender heart to hear of the Cruelties and Tortures which that Blood-thirsty spirit invented to destroy the Bodies of those who kept the Commands of Christ and could not be forced to swear by all the Cruelties that the power of darkness either in Henry the fourth's dayes Henry the sixth's dayes Richard the seconds or Queen Maries dayes could invent to torment their Bodies withal which was not a few as may be seen upon record at this day in the first second and third Volums of the Books of Martyrs But they who loved Christ and kept his Commands in those dayes had power and strength given them to endure what ever the Lord suffered wicked hands to inflict upon them by which their Faith and Patience was fully tried and manifested but after the Iniquities of their Adversaries were full the Lord brought swift and fore destruction upon them divers manner of wayes as a just reward of their Blood and Cruelty as may be read at large in the latter end of the said Books For God in every Age shewed his severe wrath against the Spirit of Persecution about Worship and Sacrifice unto him Gen. 3. even from the dayes of wicked Cain unto this hour that spirit is accursed and drove out from the presence of the God of Israel where ever it appeareth at this day even as it was in the dayes of Pharaoh Saul Nebuchadnezer Herod Pilate and all the Chief Priests and after them the wicked Emperors and Kings and after them the divers Popes and their Bloodthirstly Rabble of Clergy and all other under what Name or Form soever at this day where that spirit of Persecution yet remains the Curse and Vengeance of the Almighty doth pursue it where ever it goes though God suffer long as he did Pharaoh and the rest to vex Israel till their iniquities was full even so the Lord in these latter Ages hath suffered many to act much violence and wickedness against his Heritage for their obedience

to the Commands of his Son and they who love him now keeps his Commands as they did in the dayes of old for he saith unto his If ye love me keep my Commandments and his Commandments is not grievous but joyous 1 John 5. 2 3 4. and John said Hereby we know that we know him if we keep his Commandments for he that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandments is a Lyar and the Truth is not in him 1 John 2. 3 4 5 6 7. By all which it is more then manifest that the most ancient true and faithfull Christians in their day and time gave a testimony against Swearing at all and suffered for it both under the Pope and many Heathen Emperors but they who would be accounted Christians now having got the power into their hands are found in the same spirit of Persecution as they were in under which the true Christians alwayes suffered and do act as furiously according to the power given them from above as they did in dayes past and no doubt would run as high as they did in Burning Hanging Gibbitting and Strangling if they had the least colour of Law to countenance them therein By all which let the sober and honest hearted judge whether the Quakers Doctrine of not Swearing be any new Doctrine or not and whether our Sufferings this many years for our obedience to the Commands of Christ be not vindicated both by Christ and all his Disciples in their dayes and by all the ancient Christians before cited and whether they who now calls themselves Christians are not far degenerated from the Life and Doctrine of Christianity though they retain the name and from the practice of the ancient Christians breaking Christ's Commands and forcing others so to do which in time will pull down the wrath of God upon their heads if they repent not For it is not every one that saith Lord Lord that shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven Matth. 7. 21. It is not the name of Christianity nor a Profession of Christ's words recorded in the Scripture that will hide you in the day of the Lord that hastneth which shall burn as an Oven wherein all the Proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that cometh shall leave them neither Root nor Branch Mal. 4. 1. the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it For the Earth is filled with violence and the Land mourns because of Oathes Jer. 5. and the Proud are counted happy and they that work wickedness are set up and they that tempt God are even delivered Mal. 3. 15. and they that reprove Iniquity in the Gate are made a prey upon for which God hath begun to visit this Nation with his sore Judgments which will bring desolation in the end to them who continue in the aforesaid Abominations Object And furthermore some wicked and malicious spirits have said we who are called Quakers will not sware because we desire to plot and contrine mischief against the King and Government c. This is altogether false and groundless as many years experience will witness for us who were never found plotting against any Government under which we have been but have from time to time patiently born the rod of the wicked since we were a people and if we durst break the Command of Christ to Swear any Oath we should as willingly swear obedience to the Power and Government under which we are as any Oath that could be tendred us this for my own part I speak heartily willingly and freely without any reserve of mind whatever and if any should have power given them to imprison my body so long more as I have suffered here if I would not consent to hurt the Kings Person or the person of any I could as willingly suffer for the denial of that as I have for my constant obedience and adhering to the Command of Christ who saith Swear not at all for the same Jesus commands me not to war with flesh and blood but to love my Enemies and though I should suffer five times more then I have done I could never be brought to redeem my self through the destruction of the person of another though never so wicked and ungodly for I know Vengeance is the Lords and he will repay it Rom. 12. 19. and therefore have I committed my just and innocent cause unto him who in every Age and Generation of the World recompenced Tribulation upon them that troubled his people 2 Thess 1. 6. though he spared some of them long to see if his long suffering would lead them to repentance but as they heardned their hearts against him and his people he manifestly appeared in many Judgments against them to awaken them as he hath done of late years against those who have oppressed his Royal Seed in this Age which he hath caused to spring up in his people scornfully called Quakers which shall spread over the face of the Earth yea it is as easie to stop the course of the Sun from running his course as a Giant as to hinder the growth of the Seed of God for he hath blessed it and no inchantment shall prevail against it yea if all our bodies should be destroyed in whom it is risen yet after us shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed in it for the more it is persecuted the more it grows as when a Vine tree is cut the more it is cut the thicker it spreads so doth the Truth at this day as in Ages past He was made perfect through Sufferings Hebr. 2. 10. and he is the same still and will remain when all the wrath of man which works not the righteousness of God shall have an end and be no more and therefore we cannot fear him that kills the body and hath no more that he can do but are taught both to love and fear him who after he hath killed the body hath power to cast both into Hell Matth. 10. 28 29. and therefore are we made a gazing stock to the World now and have as little love from the world as our fore-fathers had in dayes past marvelling not why the world hateth us seeing it hated him who is the Prince of Life and condemned him to death as a Blasphemer and a Deceiver before it hated us Luke 5. 21. Matth. 27. 63. for the Servant is not greater then his Lord and it was the chief Priests that was the chief Murtherers of him for they stirred up the Rulers to do it Luke 23. 13. which happily otherwise they would have dreaded and so brought Innocent Blood upon their heads and upon their Posterity for ever And who is it now that stirrs up the Rulers against his Appearance Is it not the chief Priests who both are and ever were the greatest Enemies that he and his people had upon the Earth who knows that if people should cease from man