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A67839 The foxonian Quakers dunces lyars and slanderers, proved out of George Fox's journal, and other scriblers; particularly B. C. his Quakers no apostates, or the hammerer defeated: amanuensis, as is said, to G.C. (as he sometime wrote himself) Gulielmus Calamus, alias, William Penn. Also a reply to W.C. (a church-man, the Quakers advocate) his Trepidantium malleus intrepidanter malleatus, &c. By Trepidantium Malleus. Trepidantium Malleus. 1697 (1697) Wing Y80; ESTC R218927 36,337 100

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others whether William Penn had ever any Convincements except of the Folly of this People and how soon he might take the Chair when George was gone and play King or Pope with this Ignorant Tribe What is James Naylor honoured by him that unheard of piece of Blasphemy whom many Quakers cannot endure to hear of I knew a Man born in the same Town with him who told me How all began with Spiritual Pride after be was a great Repeater of Sermons be would hear no more he knew enough c. What if Friends should come to Mr. Penn or Benjamin Coole or others in the name of the Lord to lay aside their Perriwigs would they obey No no but laugh at it How can they then expect that others should on these pretences throw away the Ordinances of Christ Richard Richardson a great Quaker hath written a Book against Perriwigs how Condemned they are by Sober Heathens Antient Christians c. at last he tells us How John Mulliner a Friend about Northampton was made to leave that Trade and to burn one of his Porriwigs before his Servants that John Hall a great Man sitting in a Meeting was shaken by the Lords Power and so pull'd off his Perriwig and threw it away Now were not these Inspired What means the New Colledge to teach Inspired Persons to Preach c. Did not our Preface-Maker threaten Frends If such orders of his were not observed to break their Meetings though he seems to write so zealously for the sufficiency of the Light in Man c. A Collection out of G. Fox's Journal WE have here the account that Margaret Fell the wise of G. Fox once of Judge Foll gives of her Husband it is laden with Impertinencies and little circumstances of his Life At last she tells us How when he came into the Steeple-House she hearing him cryed out We are all Theeves we are all Theeves we have taken the Scriptures in words and have known nothing of them in our selves That Thomas Salthouse followed him I knew him he was an Idle Vagrant never did work that they were at last weary of him and would have him work once I met him and he urged that of Paul against us these hand have ministred to my Necessities so would Fox say yet neither of them would work Who would regard such shameless Beasts G. Fox's Journal I had a Gravity and Studiousness of mind when young above others I took care not to eat or drink much I kept to Yea and Nay my Relations were about to make a Priest of me but they made a Shoomaker of me when I was with my Master he was Blessed when I left him he broke People generally loved me for my Innocency and Honesty I saw many possessed not what they professed I was a long time almost in despair and I walked many Nights by my self Priest Stephen wondred at my Answer why Christ said My God My God why hast thou Forsaken me I said He dyed for the Sins of Men and dyed not as God The Priest said it was a good full answer such ●s be had not heard afterwards be would highly applaud me and what I said to him on the weck days he would Preach in First Days for which I did not like him I was so dryed with Sorrow that they could not get one drop of Blood from my Arm or Head I would not go to Marriages but Visit after and if they were poor I would give them some Money c. They that set up for Great Persons often tell us of the Convictions of their Childhood though nothing to what others have known that keep silence I suppose his Dulness made his Parents make a Shoomaker of him when they saw he was not fit to be a Priest like him that said to the maker of an Image of Christ of a knotty piece of Wood that would not do If you cannot make a God of him make a Devil of him Well But why followed he not his Trade I believe if the Truth were known he was such a Blockhead he could never make one pair of Shoos well and if his Shoos were no better than his Teachments he could not live by that Trade and so tryed another I believe not a word of the story of Mr. Stephens a Child of 10 year old might answer as well Well George was a Mad-man too was in Despair he was then tempted to commit sin he tells not what was here not Love Melancholy No doubt this poor Shoomaker was Ambitious of the honour and wealth he got by Marryage and Speaking I doubt Reader whether thou art able to believe a Minister should Preach on the Lords Day what he got from a Quaker week days especially such a Notorious Dunce as this who was not able to express himself but others must word his thoughts for him and so is this Book no doubt changed to purpose Now for his Revelations Nigh a Gate a Consideration arose in me all Christians are Believers both Protestants and Papists and the Lord opened to me that if all were Believers then all were born of God Make Sense of this or Truth Reader if thou canst At another time in the field the Lord opened to me That being bred at Oxford and Cambridge was not enough to fit a Man to be a Minister of Christ and I stranged at it I would take my Bible and go into the Fields and Woods and told my Friends It is said you need not that any Man teach you but as the Anointing teacheth them and the Lord would teach them himself Then I met with a sort of People that said Women bad no Souls but I told them Mary said My Soul doth magnify the Lord. Choice Observations Reader and no doubt we have here the choicest flowers of what he laid up gathered by Friends When I had these openings many troubles and temptations came upon me in the Morning I wished for Evening and in the Evening for Morning the Openings answered one another many Openings I had of Scripture and the Revelations Wonderful Ones no doubt I sat in hollow Trees by day and walked mournfully by night Yet none of us reported he was in a Mad-house at Box c. Then even then I heard a voice saying There is one Jesus Christ who can answer to thy condition If this were examin'd perhaps we should be told this was not vocally but mentally an inward voice that is motion might serve the turn One Brown had Prophesies and Sights of me on his death b●d and he spoke openly of me and what the Lord would bring forth by me I prayed when the house seemed to sh●ke and they said It is now as was in the Apostles days Pe●●●● two or three giddy Women 〈◊〉 thus prate and that is enough for a Quakers Miracle I was come up in Spirit through the Haming Sword into the Paradise of God I knew nothing but Pureness Innocency and Righteousness so that I was come up to the State of