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A dialogue between George Fox a Quaker, Geo. Keith a Quodlibitarian, Mr. M. an Anabaptist, Mr. L. an Episcoparian With a friendly address to them all, by Sam. Reconcilable. By Trepidantium Malleus.
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last say By the Liturgy learn to pray Pray and praise God every day The Apostles Creed believe also Do as you would be done unto Sacraments take as well as you can This is the whole Duty of Man But if all Religion be exprest in those words Mat. 12. As you would that Men should do to you do you even so to them for this is the Law and the Prophets there is no necessity of Prayer Creed Sacraments so that in this short cut five of the Articles or Points or what you call them may be left out You will say in good time or bad time I fear That it is better to go to a Whore-house than a Meeting as others have said And at last carry your self as ridiculous as 't is said some of your Family do in publick that some say Are these your Ministers Wo to King William when you turn Jacobite G. K. Am I a Dog that I should do such things as these Mr. M. So said Hazael and yet you know what he did Your Church is an Arminian Synagogue Imputed Righteousness is scofft at by thousands and hardly heard of from the mouths of any one of her Priests And one of them lately whom God hath knock'd down greatly bewails it But no end is there of your corrupt Doctrines and Discipline G. F. Well George as soon as ever I heard that thou went'st to receive what the World calleth Sacrament and that in a Steeple-house too and that from a Doctor of Divinity as Men prophanely speak and soon after didst put off thy upper Covering to fleshly Men and so didst idolize them I was moved to come unto thee and my words thou knowest I call the Word of the Lord tho the Scripture be Dust Serpents Meat I therefore now open my Mouth and speak unto thee saying I have power to bind and loose on Earth tho I did not discover this a long time some Judgment shall as surely betide thee as London was burnt after Thomas Ebbit prophesied of it two days before G. K. But George I no more regard thy Prophecy than the Quakers did his who all as one Man said it was a Delusion and never mov'd their Goods But he after prophesied the Fire should end then here then there when it still raged and proceeded so that he was a false Prophet and thou art another The Curse causeless shall not come Neither regard I G. Whitehead's Prophecy who took an Oath in the Lord Mayor's Court in the year 95. yet on Record and many Quakers have taken Oaths in Chancery formerly tho not nigh home G. F. What if G. Whitehead or other Friends have leave from the Lord to do so must thou go and tell the World of it G. K. Yes yes I know you wait for leave from the Lord as you blasphemously express it to kill not only the Priests and the Hirelings but all such as say Where is the God of the Quakers tho for the present it must not be so That is to say you will not attempt it till you hope to effect it you will take then the first opportunity Several Quakers were in Monmouth's Army William Penn keeps Souldiers ready in Pensilvania I wish our Parliament and Government would think of it and crush you timely who believe all the Power will run into your hand and then you will mow down all your Enemys Mr. M. Strange Mr. Keith that you had not known all this when a Quaker 28 years Or had not left them sooner if you knew it I have heard T. M. say when Isaac Pennington's Book against you came out he took it out of your hand intending to answer it On a perusal of it finding this passage Can it be suppos'd that so ingenuous a Man and hard Studient as G. Keith should be so long with us and be an Advocate for us and not know our Principles He sent you the Book again with this Message Answer it who will I cannot Is it true G. K. I cannot deny it he did and I have heard That as great a Lover as he then was of me when he was put to it by others Whether he thought I was a Good Man he would never reply I pray is that true Mr. M. Yes and gave this reason That you took little notice as in your Books so in your Discourse of the Quakers worst of Doctrins An imaginary Perfection or sinless State tho when he had said much to you about it you seem'd to consent to what he said And when you came to the Presbyterian Ministers on a Monday at their then Meeting at St. Helens to get one of them to baptize some of your Followers and break Bread to them he desired those Ministers to press on you the sense of Sin and daily Imperfections And he once undertook to prove to you That the Holy God saw more Sin in the best Works of the best of Men than they saw in their worst Works And he so managed it that you were confounded and answered not a word He you know hath often appear'd against another sort of Men who ridicul'd Repentance or having Sin a burden And some great Men say he hath done that Work effectually He hath often said of you You came to Confession like a Bear to the Stake unwilling to confess former corrupt Principles and your Retractations are too short that you were impatient of any opposition in discourse but talkt in every thing so that the old Gentleman at Rome hardly thought himself such a piece of Infallibility He valued you more on Crose his Opinion of you in his History of Quakerism than on any Observations of his own G. K. I care not for him he cannot cope with me Mr. M. Be more modest Mr. Keith than to talk thus Many men at B. Head think otherwise when you were forced to put rampant Passions in the place of solid Arguments and Ravings in the place of Reason Try him once again if you please he is ready to prove when where and before whom you please that you have sin'd scandalously in your Conformity And to be plain with you he is now within hearing He hath heard every word that hath been said by every one of us since we thus came together G. K. There stands Sam. Reconcilable It is next to a Miracle his Clapper hath not been going all this while S. R. Indeed Gentlemen your Clappers have all gone so fast and have made so much work for my ears that I could not employ my tongue G. K. You are call'd Old Ishmael S. R. But whilst you are alive I can be but the Young one In short when I see you all thus fall out I hope honest men may recover their Goods You have all left the best Reformed Churches Presbyterian is but a Nick-name for an Old Protestant But end these Jars and come and dine with me to morrow being Lord's Day every one of you Mr. L. I never dine abroad on Sundays Mr. M. Nor I first days G. F. I will as soon eat minc'd Pies in Pietide I never dine with such as thee any where no not at my own House for it is said He that receiveth him into his House or bideth him God-speed is a partaker with him in his Sin S. R. Truly I do not intend to bid some of you God-speed nor reecive you as Lodgers in my House but after Dinner see you out as fairly as you came in G. F. But wouldst thou dine with any of us if we invited thee S. R. Yes and sup with you too if you please and shew good Nature against ill Nature Were I a Neighbour to a company of Jews or Mahometans I would be a kind one as Abraham was to the Cananites and the Children of Hell and I look on some of you as another such a Tribe the Papist the Quakers Lodowick Muggleton and Mr. Lesly damn almost all the World but their own Party But you G. Keith begin to unchurch others at the first stroke and may soon unchristian them too G. K. Away thou City Scavinger Y. as some call'd you finding fault with so many Partys and Opinions S. R. I am glad I am so well imploy'd I hope I shall make your doors clean whether you will or no. If I have carried away much Q. dirt much B. dirt much C. dirt much A. dirt a Scavinger is a necessary Officer all would stink without him Mr. M. I say to thee G. Fox Thou art like that Beast in the Revelations that had Horns like a Lamb but spoke like a Dragon pretendest Modesty and Perfection too but thy Mouth is full of bitterness and cursing thy Christ is only the Light within so that thou usest the word Christianity to destroy the â—hing And for you Mr. Keith who have now taken up Pomp and mere Pageantry in Religion and such fooleries as our first Reformers and old Church of England loathed you have returned as the Dog to his Vomit and as the Sow wash'd to â—he wallowing in the Mire All of you thus do who introduce Ceremonies not only condemned in the Word of God but your own Homilies As for thee once more George Fox thou Muggleton and Antonia Bourignon are three Grand Impostors she could never read and yet ever read she pretends to know mens Hearts and denys you and us to be Christians One word to you Mr. Keith at parting Pray Mr. Deacon your Work should lie with the Poor What Poor do you take care of G. K. Of my own poor self and work enough for my Life at present is a kind of a mendicant begging Life Mr. M. I believe then in this you are very officious more than the Scripture Deacons were Poor Man I doubt this is one Reason among others why your Hearers have such poor Preaching as they complain of every where as that the Yoke some would put on the Necks of the Disciples was the Yoke of the Covenant of Works when it is evident to be the Ceremonial Law and Circumcision in particular and many other Absurdities they say your Preachments are stufft with If you can pray most of you no better in the Pulpit some might direct to a place where poor Malefactors pray better G. F. What sayest thou to us all Sam. R S. R. Only thus contemning your Contempt I leave you FINIS