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A95789	Hell broke loose: or An history of the Quakers both old and new. Setting forth many of their opinions and practices. Published to antidote Christians against formality in religion and apostasie. By Thomas Underhill citizen of London.	Underhill, Thomas.	1660 (1660)	Wing U43; Thomason E770_6; ESTC R207275	38,367	59

upon the Husk c. p. 11. See way to the Kingdome p. 8. See perfect Pharisee p. 17 18. 22. That the Scriptures are not the Saints Rule of knowing God and living unto him but that which was before the Scriptures were written This is also your own concerning which anon more at large Atkinson ubisupra p. 1. Parnell p. 11. 23. That there is no need of outward teachings by reading or hearing of the Scriptures opened and applyed See perfect Pharisee p. 20. 24. That no mens interpretations of the Scripture or Arguments from them are to be received except those that give them are infallible See Quakers Cat. published by Mr Baxter where the Quaerists require Infallibility in a Minister And perfect Pharisee p 23. This is generally their strain We renounce and deny all your meanings interpretations arguments calling them adding to the Scriptures And concerning it we must have a brush or two with you anon 25. That the light in them is the Gospell and the more sure word of Prophecy so sure that some of them say That it is a like for to take a sentence out of their Letters and Preach from it as to take a sentence out of Pauls Epistles Discovery of mysticall Antichrist displaying Christs Banners p. 15 and 33. 26. That there is no call to the Ministry but an immediate Call which is generally proclaimed by them See perfect Pharisee p. 29. J. Parnell p. 16. 27. There is no Baptisme of Christ but with the holy Ghost and fire And no Supper of the Lord but in the spirituall part for as for the visible part The Bread which the world breakes is carnall and naturall See perfect Pharisee p. 28. and J. Parnell p 12 13. 28. That singing Davids Psalmes in English Meeter is to sing the Ballads of Hopkins and Sternhold King James his Fidlers And to sing them is to turn the Scriptures into lies and blasphemies One of them in a Letter here at Reading Henry Clarke in his description of the Prophets p. 9. 29. That God made not man to be Lord over Man but over Creatures and therefore amongst them there are no Superiours after the flesh But are there any Superiours over them then that are not among them see in the next Article J. Parnell p. 22 23. 30. That Christ comes to fulfill and end all outward Lawes and Government of man Ja. Parnell p. 18 19. The righteous are from under the outward Law for they are a Law to themselves Especially if Magistrates be wicked that is not of them the Author quoted in the Margin denies them utterly 31. Ja. Parnell p. 37. That there is no Sabbath now but an everlasting Sabbath and that our Sabbath is but a shadow of which they have the substance and that the first day in the week is no Sabbath 32. That we may not pray before and after Sermons or at set times daies and houres because these things were in the Generation which were enemies to Christ Quaeries sent to the Congregation at Stopport printed in a Book of Mr Eaton 33. That the Ratters themselves had a pure convincement which did convince them And what their convincements were most men know To wit that there is no Heaven Hell Resurrection Judgment to come that there is no sin but what a Man thinks to be so that all that they did was done by the Eternity in them c. Geo. Fox and J. Nailor in a book called A word from the Lord p. 13. 34. That that word 1 John 1.8 If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves was spoken by the carnall man Fr. Gawler See Antichrist in man by Mr Miller of Cardiff p. 7. Idem ibid. 35. That if a man hath sin in him he hath none of Christ 36. They will not acknowledge that Christ ascended with his body into Heaven Idem ibid. Since my Catalogue of the Errors and Blasphemies of the Quakers was Printed off I thought good to make this Addition following Of the Trinity WE deny the term of three distinct Persons which you call God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost Whitehead and Geo. Fox against Mr. Smith the Library keeper of Cambridg p. 2. Printed 1659. Of the Authority of the speeches and writings of the Quakers Quest Do you esteem of your speakings to be of as great Authothority as any Chapters in the Bible Answ That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures or Chapters are and greater as Christs words were of greater Authority when he spake then the Pharisees reading the Letter This was Writ and Published by Geo. Whitchead and Geo. Fox the younger in their Truth defended against Mr. Tho. Smith of Cambridge 1659. And themselves say it was written from the Spirit of Truth in Geo. Whitehead and Geo. Fox the younger see the Title Page of Truth defending the Quakers and p. 7. here it is plainly though most grosly and blasphemously affirmed that the Quakers speakings are of greater Authority than the Scriptures Of the Morall Law or Ten Commandements No Rule to the Christians life Whitehead and Geo. Fox against Mr. Smith p. 18. In which Book also these Doctrines are owned That Christs coming in the flesh was but a Figure p. 20. That it s no sin to mend an old Doublet on the Communion Table on the Lords Day in Sermon time though forbidden by the Parrishioners p. 20 21. Of Justification Good works are the meritorious cause of our Justification Fisher the Quaker in the Dispute with Mr. Tho. Danson at Sandwitch Printed 1659. These following Stories I had from my very good Friend Mr. W. Allen of London who will if occasion be satisfie any concerning the truth of them By which as well as by some of the former may be seen that the Devill doth extraordinarily act in and by many of the Quakers A Maid in London being met by a Quaker who addressed himselfe to her with suits of Love was perswaded to drink with him The Quaker took something out of a Paper and put into the drink and in discourse told her she should come after him and that he need not come after her The Maid after this found pressing inclinations within her selfe to go to the Quakers Meeting and was brought into strange Raptures and found her mind exceedingly turned against the Bible And some Christian Friends of hers having observed her to have been under sore distempers as well of body as mind for a certaintime at last kept a day of fasting and Prayer for her having her then in their company though not without much relactancy on her part Whilst they were thus seeking God for her she found her selfe greatly tormented and her body sweld so much that they were fain to unloose her Cloathes to give her ease But before they had finished that daies work she found her selfe delivered and since acknowledged to me the great mercy of God to her in recovering her

Circumstance of time he fetches their Original but from the year two hundred and seventy but I find them above two hundred years sooner even in St. Paul's time as may be seen in my next Chapter This Difference is not very great But for the other point That the Quakers can plead more for themselves from the first two hundred seventy years then Mr. Baxter for the present Orthodox Religion laid down in the Saints Rest or the Confession of the Assembly I do heartily profess I differ from him as much in my opinion as he doth that loves to speak truth from him that will say otherwise for advantage and as a Protestant different from a Papist And in this Difference I have all Learned Protestants of my side the Papists and Quakers I think are for him CHAP. III. The Quakers chief Predecessors in the several Ages of the World since Christ AS to the main design of the Spirit of Hereticks viz. The disgracing and opposing of Christ and his Gospel both the Scripture Ministry and Ordinances The Quakers are the chiefest Instruments upon the earth as will appear by their Opinions and Practices And these were the chief of their Predecessors in the several Ages of the World since Christ was upon the earth 1. The false Apostles that did so oppose the true ones and teach Justification by the workes of the Law that they occasioned Saint Paul to write the Epistles to the Romans and Galatians against them and charge them with setting up a new Gospel which infection proceeded so far that those who before would have plucked out their eyes for him did now take him for their enemy 2. Simon Magus a Leader of a deluded Society and an opposer of the Apostles and the Gospel of Christ pretended himself to be God and Christ that seemed to die at Jerusalem denied that Christ was really come or did suffer also the Resurrection of he body and brought in the promiscuous use of Women Jacks Chron. 186. 3. Menander his Disciple And 4. Saturnius his Disciple who said that Marriage and Generation were of Satan many of whose followers would not eat of my living sensitive creature 5. Basilides taught that it was not Jesus but Simon of Cyrene in his shape that was crucified And that saving Faith did not terminate in him that was crucified but in Jesus that came in the shape of a man and was thought to have been crucified 6. Carpocrates and the Nicolaitans some of them made themselves to be equal with Christ and some the same with him they used multitudes of amazing words Inchantments and were familiar with Devils The Cerinthians Cordonites Ebionites Valentinians and Marcionites who had all the general name of Gnosticks from their own proud pretences of the Knowledge of such mysteries as the Catholick Church was ignorant of but were called by the names of their respective succeeding Leaders because every one added to or altered somewhat from the Doctrine of the former yet holding the same in the main These were as Irenaeus shews Lib. 1. cap. 30. all the Disciples of Simon Magus the Witch and continued the substance of his Doctrine with some additions though some of them would not own his name All the fore going were against the Christian Doctrine Ministery and Ordinences The Arrians who denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ and that he was the only begotten Sin of God Coequall and Coeternall with the Father and the holy Spirit and consequently his Merit and Satisfaction and Justification by the imputation thereof and his Ministers The Katharoi who affirmed that they being justified were perfect and free of all sin as the glorified in Heaven Anno 1118. Adamites devised a Church to be as a hot house to keep them from cold The Service time they were all naked men and women the Virgins preached unto the rest their Church they called Paradise and themselves Adam and Eve Epiphan haeres 52. Priscilianus a Gnostick said the Soul was of one Substance with God mans actions were governed by the Stars condemned the eating of flesh parted married Couples ascribed Creation of the flesh to wicked Angels Aug. lib. de Haeres Pelagius a Monk of Bangor he held that man without the grace of God was able to fullfill all the commands of God that the Just have no sin in this life that Children have no original sin Aug. de Haeres See Baxters sin against the Holy Ghost All these Hereticks with their Heresies and Blasphemies were in the Church many hundred years ago and condemned by Councils and Fathers and many of them witnessed against from Heaven by dreadfull judgements For the truth of my Collections I appeal to all that have read the ancient Histories of the Church which are of as clear evidence as the Chronicles that give us the Names and Reigns of William the Conquerour Henry the Eight and Queen Mary So that it is not lawfull for any man to say these Stories are lies untill after diligent search he find them to be so or untill upon his enquiry of honest learned men they say so which will never be Mahomet growing famous for Wealth and Magick by the advice of Sergius a Monk called himself the great Prophet of God denied the Sufficiency Perfection and Authority of the holy Scriptures but stole abundance of the words names and things therein contained to make up his Speeches and his Alchoran also the Trinity He held Community of Women was an Enthusiast pretending to Revelations and Infallibility CHAP. IV. Of the Quakers of Germany in Luther and Calvins time that opposed Christ at his then coming to reforme the Church COme we now to the Quakers of Germany though not so called These were some of the principal of them Nicholas Stork Tho. Muntcer Dr. Belthazer Hubmore Melchior Rink John Hut Jo. Deuter Lodovick Hetzer Phifer John Becold Rotman Harman Staxrede Henry Rolles Knipperdoling Cipperbroke Creching John Mathews David George Conradus Jo. Trajer Seekler David George Gasper Swenckfield Baxters Sin against the Holy Ghost When Satan perceived that he could no longer keep up the Tyranny and Errors undisturbed but that Christ would send out such a light as should disgrace and dispell his darkness he renewed his old attempts again and setteth upon Christ in his own Kingdome and falls upon the Reformation in its own quarters to disgrace it by the diversity of evil Doctrines and practices of those who pretended to be Reformers They began in a seeming simplicity of harmlesness as if the Reformers had not reformed enough but they must carry on the work where we left it and cast out children from the Church as we cast out Superstition and Errors But when the spirit within them had once vent and field-room for agitation it soon discovered it self to be of the great Deceiver as will abundantly appear by the ensuing Epitomy of the Stories of some of them Muntzer and his company at Mulhuze chose a new Senate of their Party to seize upon the