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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54223	The spirit of Alexander the copper-smith lately revived, now justly rebuk'd, or, An answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, The spirit of the hat, or the government of the Quakers in which the confederacy is broken, and the devil's champions defeated / by a true witness of the one way of God, W.P. ; to which are added the testimonies of those persons whose names are chiefly quoted by the author of that pamphlet.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1374; ESTC R21606	19,027	28

past That God would give him the Heathen for an Inheritance and the utmost Parts of the Earth for a Possession James Claypool AS concerning the Letter called The Spirit of the Hat This I testifie It proceeded from a Subtil Dark Insinuating Treacherous and Malicious Spirit in words seeming to magnify the Name of the Lord but its Workings ever brought reproach and dishonour thereunto of which to my great Sorrow I have been a Concerned and Experienced Witness For Reader this know That the Lord God Everlasting having visited this Nation with the Day-Spring of Eternal and Immortal Life how were our Hearts affected and our Spirits revived and our very Souls made exceeding and unexpressibly glad Ah! how did the Solitary rejoyce How were the Mourners comforted How beautiful were the Feet of them that brought us Tidings of this blessed Day We knew throw Judgment and Burnings and no otherwise the Oyle of Joy and River of Gladness for the Antient Path which is Holiness to the Lord that was and is cast up and the Joy of many Generations was and is come and the Angel of his Presence that rewarded Disobedience with Judgment was known and his Mighty Arme that wrought Wonders of old that was and is with us And Oh! that the Nations knew this their Day of Visitation For of a certain Truth the Lord God of the Hebrews hath appeared unto us and his Message is He hath seen He hath seen the Afflictions of his holy Seed by reason of Sin and Iniquity and he is come down to deliver out of spiritual Darkness and Bondage Many have been and are the Witnesses hereof and are raised and raising to testify thereunto and their Testimony shall endure and remain Yet notwithstanding as of old many that have confessed to this Testimony have turned aside and given heed unto Fables and forgotten the right Way of the Lord and many Spirits have risen up to Stop the Passage of this blessed Work and many have turned aside and some are fallen as in the Temptations and Provocations in the Wilderness in Israels journying toward the blessed Land and as record is made in the Scriptures of what befel them in their Travels that Ages to come may hear and fear and not tempt and provoke the Lord as they did The same in some measure being in this Age also manifest in which I my self was concerned and saw the Snare and through the Goodness and Mercy of the Lord am delivered from and have often had it in my Heart to leave it on Record to Ages to come Therefore let him that reads understand When we had seen the great Plunges in Egypts Land and had travelled through the Red-Sea and saw the Wonders of the Lord in the Field of Zoar and Sang the Song of his Prayses upon the Banks of Salvation and were Travelling on in the Wilderness to Canaan's Blessed Land we were Proved Tryed Tempted and Assaulted by many Enemies and as we kept unto the Angel of his Presence we were kept and preserved from all Danger That was a Pillar of Fire by Night and a Cloud to cover us from hurt by Day and Angels Food we knew and the Water out of the Rock we saw and drank of the River of his Good Pleasure and the Desert did rejoyce and the Wilderness did blossom as a Rose But after all this we tasted the Waters of Merra and through want of Watchfulness liked not the Food of Angels but desired other Meat and Quaile sell amongst us upon which Judgment came and many fell for Disobidience and some are yet Monuments of his Mercies and some yet withstand their Visitations And that none may pretend Ignorance and that all may be left without Excuse the thing was this A Spirit arose in John Perrot pretending that the putting off the Hat in prayer was a Romish Tradition and that a higher Dispensation was to be waited for This and much more was asserted under a pretence of a more excellent Way accompanied with pretences of a more strickt and mortified Life which I sought for and was grieved that some that made a profession thereof did not walk answerable unto this in which trouble I with several was amused and muddled and not Watching in that that discovers the Enemy in every Appearance did not understand the working of that Spirit nor that Power that withstood this Spirit though often warned thereof by them that kept their Habitations For in a Mystery it did wotk and still doth and lead many to the Chambers of Death and Death is its Food for into prejudice it brought many that did eat as a Canker and the Good was not discerned but they were and some yet are as the Heath in the Desert that knows not when good comes And the Spirit that introduced that Practice is manifest and him by whom it was first asserted hath merited in the Hearts of several the Appellation and Detestation as of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat that caused many in outward Israel to Sin And now as to the Insinuations by the Author of this Letter concerning the Meeting at Devonshire house in which my name is mentioned and my Case stated as a grand Proof of the Lordlyness and Corruptness of the Second Days Meeting there I have this to say I have as often been refreshed and comforted in the Good Presence of the Lord that there I have found and felt as in any Meeting I ever was in And the Opposition I had there related not to my Marriage as a Marriage or to hinder my proceed therein for that J. B. and all said at that time he had nothing against but that the Meeting could not passe it as their Approvement I being not in Unity with the Meeting as to that matter aforesaid So that the Letter doth not present the Matter truly as it was but in a prejudiced Spirit states things to render the Meeting and its proceeds odious both in that and several other particulars which I expect others may reply unto John Osgood I Having seen a Printed Paper to which the words above relate wherein my Name is made use of by way of Instance I find my self concerned to testifie on this wise That as the Blessed Eternal Truth was received by me in the Love of it through the Testimony of that Blessed People called Quakers I being soon after I was Convinced shut up in a Close Prison and continuing a Prisoner for divers years though the Bent of my Heart was after the Lord in a measure of Singleness yet the Enemy of Truth and my Soul being permitted to bring forth his work in a Mystery and therein to assault and gain Ground upon several of that People some whereof I had an Affectionate Esteem for hoping and believing well concerning them And I being at a Distance and much alone that spirit had an Influence upon me to the betraying of the Simplicity in me to the writing of that Paper therein mentioned and thereby to be an Occasion