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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40738	The worlds honour detected, and, for the unprofitableness thereof, rejected, and the honour which comes from God alone, asserted, and reduced to practice, or, Some reasons why the people of God called Quakers, do deny the accustomary honour and salutations of the world ... by a friend to truth, who is no respector or regarder of persons, called a Quaker, B.F.	Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2541; ESTC R8091	54,243	70

Lord in that day I rather leave to the Lord than determine Object But some perhaps may say They were not reproved for it therefore it was not evil Answ. As it is not written that they were reproved so neither is it recorded that they were approved Besides we find not that Abraham was by the Lord reproved for saying that Sarah was his Sister nor Isaac in the like case for fearing the people of the Land nor Ioseph for swearing by the Life of Pharaoh the Custom of the Court and Country where he dwelt no dout nor lastly any of the Patriarks for having more wives than one Yet who believes not these things to be unlawful much less doth any man look upon it to be his duty to do so though these Worthies did so so that it is not their example without command Warrant or Approbation nay nor yet their approved Actions that must be our ground or rule to act by in this dispensation unless the same things should of us be required in this Dispensation Nay 't is not what others now do by the infallible leading of the Spirit of God even in this day that must be a ground for me to do the same thing but my Ground Rule and Guide must be in my self from the Lord Nay further it is not what the Lord led me to do yesterday by his infallible and unerring Life and Spirit in my own particular that must be my ground for doing the same thing this day without the same movings leadings and guidings also this day yea at that instant of time when I go about the thing And herein we differ from all Sects who are set down in a form either of what they take up by Tradition written or unwritten it 's all one to the Lord of which they have felt nothing from the Lord in themselves or at the best having found something of God stirring in them and leading them to it in dayes past are setled down in their Form and going on in the Practice satisfied with what they have felt whether they feel the same still or not and so are withered and offer up a dead Sacrifice to the Living God But we plainly say That he that goeth one Day or Hour or Moment before the Power or Life of God in the Worship of God is a will-worshiper and his worship is not accepted for I may do that this Day this Hour in the motion of the Spirit of God in which I may be justified of the Lord in my obedience to him which to morrow if I should go to do again I might do it in my own will and so instead of being approved and justified being not covered in the Action with the Spirit of the Lord shame before the Lord though not before men who only see the outside would cover my face And thus the Lord hath led his people out of many things never to return unto them again as Warring Killing Slaying Fighting for outward Possessions Lands and Inheritances Worshiping in Temples made with hands and upon Mountains as Holy Places with all the whole Body of the Iewish Worship Ceremonies and observing Dayes Sabbaths Months and Years once Commands of the Lord but long since rejected and done away for the abuse weakness and unprofitableness of them yea abhorred of the Lord and unlawful for his people to touch Object If any say these things are unlawful now because the Scripture testifies against them but shew us where the Scripture forbids to honour men by bowing putting off the Hat c. Answ. These things were unlawful because Paul testified against them but Paul therefore testified against them as in the Case of Circumcision because they were become unprofitable yea abominable and so unlawful else Paul had testified against that which was lawful that so he might render it unlawful for the future which is ridiculous to imagine And as for doffing the Hat bidding Good-morrow and such like stuff they are meer upstart Novelties which in those dayes no man once dreamed of but those things which were then practised as instead of these things were forbidden and reproved by Christ and particularly Greetings and Salutations in the Market places or upon the wayes calling men Master and Bowing whether before Men or Angels though formerly practised by divers Friends of God Before Angels though Abraham Lot and others bowed themselves before them yet Iohn was forbidden so to do see Rev. 9. See thou do it not for I am thy fellow Servant Worship God and Before Men though many have bowed themselves to the earth yet Cornelius was by Peter reproved for so doing when he fell at his feet with a stand up I my self am also a man as it is written at the Name of Iesus not of any man every knee shall bow Again Christ saith I receive not honour of men and testified against this very kind of honour these ceremonial toys and evil manners in the Scribes and Pharisees and publickly reproved them for being called of men Rabbi or Master and for these Crooked Market-street-Salutations and therefore certainly did not give them himself Object It s said Christ did not reprove the thing it self but only such men as loved desired and sought for that honour and those Salutations in publick and to be called of men Master c. Answ. This cover is too narrow and pretence too short for it is apparent that Christ reproved them simply for receiving those things saying How can ye believe that receive not only ye that seek but also ye that receive honour from men and seek not the honour that comes from God alone Mark that honour alone and sets himself as an example before them I receive not honour of men he saith not I seek it not I desire it not love it not take no pleasure in it but simply I receive it not and forbade his Disciples strictly to be called Master or Rabbi And in this Doctrine all his Disciples abode and all the Apostles as may be seen in their Writings Epistles and Letters which they occasionally wrote to each other in none of which is any mention made of Mr. Paul Mr. Peter Mr. Matthew Iohn or Iames neither are any of Paul's Letters To the Right Reverend Father in God his Grace Timothy Arch-Bishop or Bishop of Ephesus nor subscribed Your Honours most Humble and Devoted Servant nor to the Reverend and very Learned Mr. Titus Minister of the Word of God or Minister of the Gospel at Crete As the Bold and Irreverend Bishops and Pragmatick Priests of our times do without blushing bedaub each other with the Illustrious Titles of Reverend Right Reverend Divines Fathers Doctors or Masters while they at the same time make profession of being Ministers or Servants of Christ and his Flock And in their Prayers cry out no less Hypocritically then Audatiously To thee O Lord to thee alone belongs all Honour Glory Reverence Thansgiving and Dominion for thou alone art worthy c. And yet so

the guide of every true Christian as it is written As many as are led by the Spirit are the Sons of God and no more and what we find not the Spirit of God leading us unto we can have no faith in and whatsoever is not of Faith the Scripture saith is six therefore we leave them 2. We have moreover found the Spirit of God limiting us in them and leading us out of them in which practices we also lived yet not without the Judgement of the Lord oft-times in our selves for them though we knew it not while we walked in the vanity of our minds after the Traditions of the world darkened thereby in our understandings and greatly strangers from the Life of God unto which life being now turned and come to receive the enlightnings thereof day by day in our Hearts we have chosen it for our Leader and it leadeth us out of all dead works of which sort these are therefore we forsake them and as it is required at our hands testifie against them 3. In this Light springing from the Life of God or the Word of God 1 Iohn shining in our Hearts we see the whole Mass of it to be a weak unprofitable thing not able to answer the end for which it is said to be practised viz. to shew Honour Respect and Love and so ought to cease especially when a better and more serviceable means is discovered which we being found in are altogether careless to answer the Will of any man or Custom of any Nation therein but do lay it a side and trample it under our feet as a thing of nought 4. We find it tending meerly and solely to strengthen feed and please the Spirit of Ambition in men and women by which they are led to destruction wherefore we cannot practise those things lest we should be found guilty thereof which so far as in us lies we desire and seek to prevent even of our enemies themselves 5. We find it the very same kind of Honour and Salutation which Christ so sharply reproved in the Scribes and Pharisees and strictly forbad to his Disciples and hath severely judged and broken down in us and therefore if we should be found in them we should return to build that which God hath thrown and is throwing with an everlasting destruction and so we should become more lovers and pleasers of men than of God 6. We find it even the whole Corps of it to be an Invention of man degenerate man springing from a corrupt vain mind in a false and groundless conceit to corrupt ends and is waxed more and more corrupt in the use thereof every day than other for which causes we can have no unity with them nor touch but avoid them as defiled and polluted which the Lord loatheth as much as ever he did any of his own Institutions when they became corrupted and defiled by the Sons of men as the Scriptures plainly declare but this custom of doffing the Hat especially as an Honour and Worship never had its rise from God but from men of corrupt minds as will very readily appear if we do but consider that no People or Nation but those called Christians since the Apostacy do practise it for neither the Iews who had their outward Law both in relation to the Worship of God respect to Magistrats never were commanded any such thing neither ever practised any such thing among themselves when they entred into their Synagogues nor yet do there nor before their Magistrates nor to one another but in these Countries where they follow the Custom of the Country Neither do the Turks observe it as an honour but look upon it as a shame or reproach or an odious thing Nor do we read that the Apostles or Primitive Chrstians ever practised any such thing to Magistrates or to each other Yea admit further which cannot be proved that the Apostles themselves had practised it among themselves to each other yea to all they met good and bad as now it s practised that cannot bind us now nor limit the Lord to it more than to other of his Institutions for several Reasons before mentioned But as for us we believe the Hat to be an Earthly thing not the Honour which is from Above but from Below made for covering the nakedness as well as the other cloaths and with which God nor man neither is nor can be truly worshipped more than by putting off the Shooe Glove Coat or any other Garment neither do we believe that its any part of the Worship of God nor renders the Worship any thing the more well-pleasing or acceptable to the Lord but is far below the Worship of God yea or Dignity of a man that is a man indeed and therefore all that are contending for the honour and worship of the Hat are contending for the honour which is below which the Saints and People of God never did and therefore this honour will into the dust If any now urge upon us the example or practice of any of the Holy men of God mentioned in Scripture for bowing because they bowed both to Angels and Men we say that bindeth us not now to do the same things we must take heed to another rule and guide in this day than their Actions As for example it s said of Abraham He bowed himself to the Earth before the three Men or Angels and also before the People of the Land Concerning Iacob it is said He bowed seven times to the Earth till he came past his Brother Esau and concerning David That he fell upon his face to the ground and bowed himself three times c. Object Now say people Will ye condemn these Holy Men of God or will ye be more holy than they Answ. Far be it from us to condemn those Worthies of the Lord the Lord hath justified them and who shall condemn them but to desire to be even more holier than they if it can be we hope will offend no true Christian nor be used as matter of accusation against us Yet if these or any other at any time did any thing without command or approbation from the Lord or against his Will we are not to take them for our example in such things I judge all will grant well then That they did bow c. is indeed written but that they had any command for it nor praised or approved in it where is that written search and tell us Abraham went to buy a Burial place of that strange people Iacob was afraid its plainly said and called Esau Lord though there was a promise that the Elder should serve the Younger yea he said in his fear that he beheld his face as if he had beheld the Face of God may we therefore speak such words to any wicked man consider it David was also in great Trouble and sore Affliction Now these things considered what might move them so to do or how far they were approved or not by the