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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

from God his appointed Food and Nourishment to eat the Flesh and drink the Blood of the Lord Jesus and discern the Lord's Body in true Temperance Sobriety and Moderation in Christ Jesus where there is neither Damnation nor Condemnation but a true real Growth and Encreasing with the Encrease of God unto a true and substantial Man in Christ Jesus such flourished in their Day and Time Age and Generation and are upon record a good favour to God and his faithful People who are made Partakers of the same blessed and heavenly Life with them Of this Line and Spiritual Generation are such now as live in the true reverend fear of God and in his Power and are shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace and so are safe preserved and continued in the Bosom and under the shadow of a most tender Father mindful of his Mercies and the Continuance of his Kindness who has kept them hitherto over all Apostates and Prophane to the praise of his everlasting Name who is God over all blessed for evermore But there were then and are such now as are Apostatized and gone from the Power of God and the Sence of those who are kept in it yet notwithstanding they may in words profess the Power and Truth as at first appeared and that is the ground of their Ignorance and Weakness of understanding and uncapableness to know and discern what is of God and what is of the Enemy who are his true and faithful Servants and People who still have kept their Habitations in the Truth and who are Apostatized and would bring in Innovations in contradiction to the will of God and his heavenly Power amongst his People and are become twice dead plucked up by the Roots and thorow Perversness Peevishness and Cross-spiritedness enter into the way of Cain and Spirit of Korah and his Company of which number and sort is W. R. and his Adherents that is such as own him in the Writing Printing and Publishing his Book falsly called The Christian Quaker c. But though he and others may harden themselves against good Admonition to their Destruction except they Repent and an Earthly Spirit may swallow them up as outwardly the Earth opened and swallowed up Korah Dathan and Abiram and their Confederates and also the fifty intruding and rebelling Princes and men of Renown so called were consumed with the Fire of the Lord Yet I hope the Lord will be merciful to many who yet see not through their Deceit yet may be somewhat intangled by them and mis-led through their false and insinnuating-spiritedness yet are not hardned to Perdition I hope God will deliver such in due time who in their Hearts singly and nakedly cry to him for a true Decission in matters wherein they have not yet a clear understanding and established Judgment Do not W. R. and his Adherents yet understand the way of the wicked Spirit whither it leads and how it has led many into an evil condition to forsake the living God and his Power and so became Grand Opposers of the same Heavenly Power and Cross of Jesus and some at last have been so fool-hardy to split and break themselves in pieces forever by Printing and Publishing against us out of Envy and Malice as W. R. has done as at large may be seen in his Book to render us degenerated gone from our first Principles and Power of God But how have such prospered Do they not remember the going out of many in J. N. his time and what Scandal they brought on Truth in that day by departing from the Power of God to the wounding of their own Souls and the Souls of many tender-hearted Friends and Brethren and would we not then have saved them with our tender Advice but some perished and became perfectly obstinate and ran out from the Truth and never more returned into it that we know of And did not R. R. and some others who became hardned in Prejudice Write and Print against us who kept our Habitations in the Truth and especially most maliciously against that dear Servant of the Living God G. F. who kept his Habitation and Authority in the living Truth over all those unclean Spirits who then troubled the Israel of God But that Day passed over and we saw through it and over it and they who then returned not through Judgment do not so much as retain the Profession of Truth Did not they then say We were gone from the Power and were Apostatized and were setting up Forms and preaching to the People like Priests c. But said they themselves were entring into a further Dispensation of Joy and Liberty and Love but that feigned love turned into Envy and at last it proved they were gone from the Power of God into their own Imagination which would not keep them from doing things unseemly and so became treacherous to their own Souls and to the Truth of God and some perished in their Gain-sayings And one R. S. a Cheshire Man when he turned from the Truth into Prejudice against Good Advice and Order have they not heard how he Apostatized and had his Children sprinkled by the Priest and so became Treacherous and false to God his People and his own Soul and then at last he did as W. R. and his Adherents have now done who own the Printing and Publishing his wicked Book called the Christian Quaker c. I say then at last he maliciously Printed to revile and reproach the Truth and the Possessors of it for when such as W. R. and his Abettors have hardned their Hearts against good Admonition until they have fallen into open opposition against the Power of God his faithful Servants and blessed People who keep the Truth then they have come to be shameless and to enter into the same Opposing Malicious Contradicting Spirit with the envious Priests and Professors and so have become blind Leaders of the Blind and they who have been such Leaders and who have been led by them have fallen into the Ditch and Perished in their Gain-saying except they have found a place for Repentance And many others when they have been hardned in Rebellion and Wickedness against the Truth and the Possessors of it who have kept their Habitations in it maliciously as now W. R. at last hath done have Printed and Published to the view of the World which when they have appeared so wicked it hath been a manifest fign of their Destruction and Death as to Truth as J. Penniman J. B. and others and so now W. R. at last Printing and Publishing his wicked malicious Book it is a manifest token of his Destruction as to Truth and the ruin and undoing of his Soul forever and the Souls of all who in this Spiritedness adhere to him and own the Printing and Publishing of his Book falsly called the Christian Quaker c. except they Repent And this from God I have received concerning his and their state at present and