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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37216	A testimony against hypocrites and deceivers in defense of the truth	David, John.	1690 (1690)	Wing D375; ESTC R8994	13,317	15

A Testimony against Hypocrites and Deceivers in defence of the Truth OF all the Hypocrites and Deceivers I have seen or read of from the beginning of the World to this present time you who term your selves the Ministers and set up your selves as Elders and claim Authority over your Brethren whom you call a Visible Body Church and Society and are called QVAKERS are the most shameless brazen-fac'd and stoutest Instruments of your Master and have out strip'd all the rest of your Fore-fathers as may be seen read heard and understood in two several Books of yours the one Intituled the Spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith the other Intituled Judas and the Jews c. Coin the first born of the first Man Adam slew his Brother but he stood not in a long dispute when charged for it though he at first Motion said Am I my Brothers keeper yet presently he fell in his Argument and made no large Reply in defence of his Treachery The Sons of Jacob sold Joseph their Brother but they did not stand to the Justification of the Fact but sought to cover it as long as they could but when they came into distress they confessed and said That misery came upon them because they pitied not their innocent Brother's cry The Centurion and those that were with him watching when they saw the Wonders the great Earth quake that the Vail of the Temple was rent c. at the giving up of the Ghost feared greatly saying Truly this was the Son of God Judas the Traytor did not stand for the justification of his wicked Act when he saw how he had betraied the Innocent but said I have sinned c. The persecuting Priests of late years here in England who stoned whipped imprisoned haled out of the Synagogues the poor Quakers at their first appearance would seek to make some coverings for to hide their wicked Persecutions and would not with such confused boldness stand in open justification of lying Testimonies after it should be openly published in their faces as you in your said Books have done And for proving of this Truth let him that runneth read First you say You are standered greatly because it is said of you that you deny Liberty of Conscience and you appeal to God's Holy Witness in all Consciences for your proof I Answer Let all People that do in any measure own a Witness in their Consciences consider first what you your selves confess you never liked the word Liberty of Conscience and you seek to cover your selves under pretence that you did not mean it of outward but of inward liberty Again I Answer You say you liked not the word as commonly used Alex. the Coppersm p. 8. Is not the word Liberty of Conscience most commonly used by Men in requiring a liberty to exercise themselves in Matters of Religion and Worship according as the Spirit of the Lord makes manifest within in the Conscience And hath not this Request been from time to time in all Ages made by Professors of Religion unto Magistrates and Rulers desiring their Liberty Was not this the Request of Moses and Aaron when they were sent of the Lord to appear before Pharaoh King of Egypt And did they not say then unto Pharaoh that the Lord had sent them to require a Liberty for the People to go three days journey into the Wilderness to worship their God and was not this Request for a Liberty to an outward exercise of God's Worship Nay did not Moses and Aaron say when Pharaoh said they should go but leave something behind them that they must bring all with them because say they we must hold a Feast unto the Lord And is it not then about the outward exercise of God's Worship that was the Message of Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh for Liberty Yet notwithstanding you reply and rejoin over and over seeking to uphold yourselves in this great Confusion and whereas you appeal unto God's holy Witness in all Consciences if ever you so used any Conscientious Enquirers as to thrust them out of your Meetings pag. 11. And you say It is baseness to suggest your ill-using of People in general and none named And thus when the Truth in plainness of Speech is laid open against you that you cannot in any measure deny but that the very words testifie in plain terms against your practice yet with boldness you would make People believe putting meanings contrary to the sound of your own words which your Fore-fathers the Professors that went before you would not adventure so far though they would put meanings to the Scriptures which was other Mens words yet would not they be so brazen-fac'd as to belie their own Expressions by putting contrary meanings thereunto Secondly You say you are not fallen from the first Principle of Doctrine first preached by the People called Quakers though you uphold maintain preach declare and publish in print That putting off the Hat in Prayer is an innocent and a reverent practice and comely order And though you have also declared and published in print that you have your time for Publick Prayer and that you have purchased parcels of the Earth on purpose to lay your dead Bodies together from the People of distinct ways Now let all that will not be wilfully blind consider how far this Doctrine will concur and agree with the first Principle of the Quakers Doctrine and Declarations both in words and writings when they came first forth and went into the Professors Meetings and declared against all their outward Forms and Observations against all their Hour-glasses and Watches limiting themselves unto times for to pray or preach yea they stood with their Hats on in the times of the then Professors Prayers saying That God must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth that is before Time was and will continue the same when Time vanisheth away and be no more And when the Professors withstood them saying the Apostle said Every Man praying or prophesying with his Head covered dishonoureth his Head They answered That Christ was Head within them and that Christ was the same Son of God in Male and in Female and where-ever the Son appeared to speak whether in Male or in Female he discovered himself unto all that would receive and obey him And the Quakers Doctrine then was for the rising of the Witness in every Conscience and that all should cease from Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils and turn the mind to within and there to wait for Teachings and that none should look out for Teachings but wait in silence and be faithful to the measure be it ever so little it is sufficient It is the whorish Woman whose Eyes gad abroad whose Feet abide not in her own House and she that swept her House found the lost Groat in her own House And the Wise Virgins had Oil in their own Lamps the Foolish Virgins were shut out whilst they went abroad for Oil The Eye that looks out unto others

as they then said unto us have not you received some good among us in those Ordinances so say you he dare not say that he enjoyed not comfort from those Prayers that came through an uncovered Head And although that you cannot with all your wresting and twining in your Serpentine Wisdom shew no ill Fruit brought forth but still cry a dark Spirit a Spirit of Envy and Malice and the like and when we require you to prove your Assertions and Allegations by laying open what fruit of that evil Spirit is brought forth you say we keep on our Hats when you Pray by that means we disturb the Churches Peace and this is all you can alledg against us and for this cause are we called Hat-men and herein you have no matter of Fact to lay to our charge for when we come to the Meeting we come in a peaceable manner with our Hats upon our Heads and as we come so we abide quiet and in that there is no matter of Fact done on our part yet you complain that your Churches Peace is disturbed as those Pastors and Elders in those Days did by us and you thrust us out of your Meeting for declaring Words in a peaceable manner as those Professors did in those days by us and it is true and no baseness in this I will stand to this Testimony when ever you please to call upon me And the Apostle did not command the Corinthians to put off their Hats and observe Times for publick Prayers as you would wrest his Words which are Every Man Praying or Prophesying with his Head covered dishonoureth his Head and moreover he said we have no such custom neither the Churches of God And the Apostles did write unto the Gentiles that believed If they would abstain from Meats offered unto Idols and from Blood and from things strangled and from Fornication they would do well and herein is no injunction laid upon the Consciences of Individuals And here we find you bringing in another Gospel and preaching another Doctrine differing from the Doctrine of the Apostles who preached Christ the Power of God to Salvation in all them that believe and differing from the Doctrine of the People called Quakers at their first coming forth who preached the Light within every particular to be the true Teacher and that in the Light was power sufficient and they did not preach the power that the visible Body of Friends had in it self as you do and therefore we own the Apostles Doctrine and the Doctrine of the People called Quakers which they first preached and which we believed and deny your Doctrine The Apostles Doctrine was That the Wife is bound by the Law as long as her Husband liveth but if her Husband be dead she is at liberty to be married to whom she will only in the Lord and Isaac being gone to meditate in the Field Rebekah coming with her Damosel and Abraham's Servant lighted off the Camel and Isaac brought her to his Mother Sarahs Tent and Rebekah became his Wife here is a record of a Marriage in the old Testament How did Abraham the Father of the Faithful order his Servant to go for a Wife for his Son and how did Isaac of whom the Lord said For in Isaac shall thy Seeed be called take his Wife and here is the Apostles Doctrine concerning Marriage that when the Husband is dead the Woman is at liberty to marry whom she will only let her wait upon the Lord for counsel and not run out to Men for advice and let them see in it and shew it to other Men and that none go together but before a dozen Friends there was no such order prescribed either by Abraham the Father of the Faithful nor by his Son Isaac who was promised unto Abraham nor by the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ neither did the People called Quakers bring any such orders among us at their first coming forth as many of you very well know and one of the eminentest of you acquainted me how that a couple that were come out of the North unto West-Chester betook themselves in marriage there If you please to examine me further I will give you further account We do own a true Marriage and the Bed undefiled and those that God joineth together we seek not to put asunder neither do we busie our selves to lay further injunctions upon People than the Holy Men of God of old times laid for we do very well know that all sober-minded Men and Women whose Minds are turned unto the Light in their Consciences will as they abide faithful and obedient to the Light behave themselves toward God and towards one another in sobriety and meekness as becometh honest People so to do and as for others whether they be those that despise the Light or those that pretend to a wrong freedom because they profess the Light and so by their miscarriages bring a scandal upon the Children of the Light we do deny both and have no fellowship with the unfruitful Works of darkness neither do we pretend unto any such outward Authority as to meddle with those Exercises any further than we are concern'd and our admonition unto all is That every one do stand still and wait upon the Lord in that measure given him of God to profit withal for Counsel and not run out unto them that cry Lo here and lo there is Christ and in this we have not fallen from the Principle of Truth nor from the Doctrine of the Holy Men of old Times recorded in the Old and New Testament nor from the true Doctrine first received of the People called Quakers And I can appear and give in my Name and stand unto this my Testimony at noon day And as for those filthy lewd Actions which some of you have been charged with not fit to be mentioned amongst any manner of People that have any civility much less amongst Professors of Religion and above all unfitting that those that profess the Light should have any such things justly charged upon them I do declare and testifie that I am ignorant of any such thing acted amongst those of my Neighbours and Acquaintance although we differ about the aforesaid Orders The Lord forbid that I should in any measure slander you or any People in the World beyond my knowledg nay rather I would be checkt for concealing than that I should over-run my self in such things and in all this I do not flatter I take God's Name for my Witness who will reward every one in Righteousness and true Judgment In this therefore let every Tub stand upon its own bottom And for your charging the said Author to be envious malicious and a wicked Apostate Slanderer in what is declared in his Letter against some Particulars of you I find you therein far differing from the Disciples of the Lord Jesus who when he told them that one of them was a Devil immediately made no more ado but lookt every