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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63474	An epistle of caution to Friends to take heed of that treacherous spirit that is entred into W.R. and his abettors (as appears in his malicious book, falsly called The Christian-Quaker, &c.) ... : with wholsome advice and counsel, by way of information, that the simple-minded may not be ensnared by the crafts and wiles of Satan through faith fallen antichristian instruments is W.R. and such as are encred into the same malicious spirit with him / C.T.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing T262; ESTC R20258	17,842	24

Famous in the Congregation men of Renown their Conspiracy was strong against Moses and Aaron and the reason was because they departed from the Faith and Fear of God and so loft the sense of his Love and Presence which in some measure no doubt they had known through the Word of Faith that was in their Hearts and might have retained if they had stood in God's Fear and then they would not have rebelled and so lost the Sense of that Accepted State with God which Moses and Aaron were kept in nor have Apostatized to have contradicted the good Conduct of Moses and Aaron according to God just Appointments nor have been Innovators under that Dispensation to have endeavoured the Alteration of the Government established by the Lord nor would they have endeavoured to have set up themselves over the People above their true Conditions and Places nor to have thrust out Moses and Aaron that so they might have done according to their own Wills and Lusts and so have been Arbitrary and Tyrannical in their Government without the Power of God in opposition to it for did not they profess Holyness and that all the Congregation was Holy and that Moses and Aaron took too much upon them and lift up themselves above the Congregation of the Lord Had they not these plausible Pretences which were it seems much taking with the Congregation into which by cunning Deceit and false Flattery they had insinuated and so the Cursed Presumption of these false Pretenders was punished with a Dreadful End The Earth opened her Mouth and swallowed them up und their Houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah all their Goods they and all that appertained to them went down alive into the Pit c. A Dreadful End and just from the hand of the Lord. So now let W.R. and his Adherents dread and fear the living God who have attempted such manifest Rebellion against Gods pure Power in his blessed People and holy Servants by rendring them Apostates and Innovators for what have they done to deserve the Name of Apostates and Innovators more than what the Lord has laid upon them and given them Power to do in his eternal Counsel What have they brought into the Church of God or been Instrumental in then to establish it in Peace and Unity And if God hath made use of G. F. more especially to bring good things from him to his Church or as his Messenger to be faithful in his Message to give in that blessed Gospel Order and holy Government of Christ God hath shewn unto him in his holy Spirit and so hath Contributed largely in this Work even beyond many others why should he or others found in such a blessed Service be Envyed and spoke Evil against and be accounted Apostates and Innovators and to take too much upon them Remember Korah and his company how they fell and were swallowed up forever with divine Vengeance and no question but Moses and Aaron were tender towards them to have reclaimed them from their great Presumption Pride and Arrogancy but they would not hear them but became desperate in their Encounter against God's Power and true Authority and therefore God would not spare them from Destruction but he was at that time entreated for the poor deluded Congregation and it is said they got up from the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram c. and the two Hundred and Fifty Princes who fell into desperate Presumption and endeavoured to run down Aaron and his Seed from the Priesthood these were consumed with Fire for their Presumption in offering Incense in opposition to Gods appointment under that Dispensation who had established that Service in Aaron and his Seed only So it is a most dangerous thing to oppose God's divine Power and holy Authority and run against and despise his anointed Ones whom he has anointed with his holy spiritual Oyl to minister unto and serve his Church and People in whatsoever he commands them who are Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter They that go from the Power of the Lord are Apostates and Innovators and it is they only that would Innovate or alter the holy Appointment of the Power of God and the Order and Government thereof because they themselves are gone from it in their own Particulars how can they love the Order Government and Discipline of the Power of God who love not the Government of it and to be guided by it in their own Particulars Thus came in the Apostacy thus came in Innovations and divers Alterations into the Church of God and a contending for them that was the ground of setting up divers Forms and Meetings out of the Power in which Forms and Meetings Gods Power and Presence was awanting these the Apostle bids turn away from who had retained the Form of Godliness but denyed the Power But the Antient Apostles and Elders of the Church of God kept the Faith which stood in the Power of God and unto them was the continuance of his Oracles and heavenly Openings Visions and Revelations that in the holy Spirit and Power of the Living God they might serve obey and worship him these when they met together and had Councils and Meetings for the Service and Benefit of the holy Church of God did wait in the Spirit of Life to receive from God his Mind and Authoriy which they might lay upon the Churches or signifie to them what was to be done suitable or agreeable to every State and Time the Church was in according to her growth and encreate in the spiritual Light and Grace and therein the Spiritual-minded and Simple-hearted waiting upon the Lord come to be satisfied with the divine Will of God opened and communicated to them by the Lord through his Servants and Gospel Ministers And the Simple-hearted Christians did not cry out against Paul and others of those his Primitive Fellow-Labourers and call them Innovators and Apostates or such as were fallen from the Faith or to take too much upon them but with Love and good Will in the Faith observed the Decrees of the Apostles and Elders and all was sweet and lovely amongst them in so doing and the false Apostles false Brotherhood false Ministers and Antichrists had no place there so long as they kept blessedly together in the Fellowship of Gods Eternal Spirit and Power for then did they shine together in the Lustre and Brightness of Gods Wisdom and Image of Jesus Christ mutually serving one another in the Love of God and edifying one another in the most holy Faith and in that state a greater than Solomon was known amongst them Christ Jesus and the Primitive pure Love of God to possess their Hearts so that those who kept their Habitations together in the fear of God and Faith that stands in its Eternal Power were the true Church and Body of the Lord Jesus in which was the true Harmony and spreading of the heavenly Table for every Child to receive

God that none may fall into this Snare who are yet preserved out of it but that they may be preserved simple before the Lord as in the beginning when the Lords Power broke forth in them and melted their Hearts into Tenderness so will God bless them and still keep them in the Simplicity of his Truth and honour them that they may witness the Election to obtain and never to be deceived by false Glosses and fair Pretences c. I remember formerly God preparatively was at Work in order to reveal that Mystery which had been hid from Ages and Generations since the Apostles dayes and some were convinced of Sin and had sights of good things to come and in some measure came to be separated from the Sins of the Times and they did see a necessity of separating from the gross Multitude in their Worships and so did desire to seek after God and to wait upon him and the Lord touched them sometimes and made them sensible of the necessity of still pressing forwards after the enquiry of better things than they then were made Partakers of and some of these who after this continued simple and had their Eye to the Lord and were so pursued with Judgment for Iniquity that they could not fully give up the Reigns to it and so were under the Spirit of Judgment and Bondage or at Times as I may say great Fears these thus travelling on in their Spirits and being kept in this Exercise when the Power of the Lord broke forth in our Nation it met with many such and they received the Truth with us in the Love of it and came to witness the Operation of it and are preserved in it will be sorever as still they press forwards in their true Enquiry to discern know the Way of God's Spirit and the Products of his holy Power Now there were some who as aforesaid were touched and convicted with the Light of Christ Jesus in their own Consciences and for a time continued seeking after a farther Condition than that of living in Sin under the Notion Profession of Christianity but after a time going from the Simplicity of Innotent Enquiry after the Lord and his Power and Gospel they became Wise in Notions and aspired to Christianity with the Fragments of Old Broken and Weak Experiences together with the Addition of their own Comprehensions Wit and Invention and so became Wise in their own Conceits and so fell back into the low Worldly Things in a Worldly Spirit a Self-Righteous and a Pharisaical State Now these when the Truth and Doctrine of the Light of Jesus in the Evidence of God's mighty Power came to be published as the Pharisees did so they did even rebel against it and as bad as the common Priests became our bitter Enemies under specious and fair guilded Pretences c. Now this I relate as a Caution to those now who have received the Truth in the Love and Simplicity of it that they may take heed and keep to it in Simplicity that their Understandings may be kept open and their Hearts chaste and pure to Christ and God then will they in the Faith still follow on to know that at last they may come to be so established that the Devil can have Power no more to deceive them with all his Glosses and fair Pretences but they who are Careless and keep not to the Simplicity of Truth as it is in Jesus but let out their Minds into a false Liberty and in their Hearts are disobedient to God though they have known the Power of God in some measure and once were desirous to know his Salvation yet notwithstanding going from the Power and Cross of Jesus into a false Liberty of ushering their own Self-Wills and Wits in Truth 's Matters endeavouring to comprehend the Simplicity of the Way of God's Spirit and the Products of his heavenly Power by leaning and trusting to their own Understandings though otherwise they may appear in a Self-Righteousness with fair Pretences and Glosses to deceive the Hearts of the Simple yet for all this God will find them out and this is too much the Condition of W. R. and his Adherents who had they kept to the Simplicity of the Government of the pure and chaste Power of God in their own Particulars they would not have grown so Fool-hardy as to be seen Publishing and Patronizing such a Treacherous Wicked Book as that falsly called The Christian-Quaker c. Now one thing more I have to say at this time in relation to such tender simple-hearted Friends as may be ready to stumble at the appointing of Mens and Womens Meetings fearing lest it should bring in Formality and usher in an Apostacy and some are too ready to strengthen such a jealousie in them by telling them Now you see the Apostacy is coming in for so it came in in the Primitive Times by setting up Councils and Meetings c. Unto which I Answer Though some have in this day been found too much promoting such false Doctrine amongst simple People to make them evil affected with our blessed Meetings in the Power of Christ yet I say the Apostacy first came in by departing from the Power of God and then their Meetings were empty Forms without the Power and they fell into Confusion and Disorder and many Sects and divers false Opinions and so all along to our day the Apostacy hath continued amongst all who have not come to the true Faith that stands in the Power and this we clearly came to see when we were convinced of Gods holy Truth and to declare as we still do and I hope ever shall against all such formal Worships as are set up by the Will and Wit of man but had they stood in Gods Counsel they would have known the Heavenly Worship in Spirit and Truth and been one with us in this day but their Meetings being out of the Power is the Ground we cannot own them and therefore the Primitive Meetings before the Apostacy came in now come to be restored amongst us and the heavenly Power of Jesus to be the Author of them and not a worldly Pope or Bishop c. And so let none be jealous at our appointing Meetings for Gods Work and Service in his holy Truth because they may be very sensible of the Antichristian Meetings all abroad where the Meeters and Assemblers together band together against Gods holy Truth and the Possessors of it And let none be jealous That we have not the same Care of God's Honour and Glory that we had when the Truth broke first out amongst as but rather believe that our Godly Care is encreased and doth still encrease and that we are still of God neither dare nor can appoint or set up any thing against the Truth but for the Service of it as the Lord moves us and that the Power of the Lord may still be the Authority and Ground of all our Meetings and all Friends may encourage one another in that which is Virtuous Holy Clean and Comely to the Praise of the Everlasting and only Wise God who lives and reigns forever And this in pure Love was upon my Spirit to write as a Caution to Honest-hearted Friends to take heed of that Spirit of W. R. and his Abettors and of J. S. and J. W. who shelter under it who will not be seen to Print themselves but have afforded W. R. matter to fill up his Book with who is so Imperious and Malicious that it seems he tak●● little heed what he saith or doth Thus have they and their Adherents endeavoured to betray us to the World Judas-like and like all others who have been found in the same Evil and Ungodly Work with them And I truly desire they may come to see what Master they serve and whose Work they are doing and Repent and call in and judge all their Evil Work which they have Printed and spread abroad to defile Simple and Ignorant Minds with for the Wise in Heart see both it and them and are taught how to avoid it all C. Taylor London the 12th of the 3d Moneth 1681. Page 3. line 15. dele who P. 6. l. 36. dele give in THE END Books Printed for John Bringhurst viz. The Life of Christ magnified in his Minister Or certain Testimonies thereof relating to his Faithful Servant GILES BARNARDISTON c. Price 3 d. An Epistle of PAUL to the LAODICEANS Price One half Penny An EPISTLE of Caution to FRIENDS to take heed of that Treacherous Spirit that is entred into W. R. and his Abettors as appears in his Malicious Book falsly called The Christian Quaker c. Price Three half Pence