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
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. Who under the Profession of Primitive Truth are betraying it to the World and putting Truth 's Lambs into their Bears Skins for the World to worrey because they have no Power to do it themselves who have published their Wicked Book in Askelon the Fire of their Infamy and have told it in Gath the Wine-press to press out their sowr Grapes to set the Peoples Teeth on edge against the Lambs of God 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 such Fallen Antichristian Instruments as W.R. and such as are entred into the same Malicious Spirit with him C. T. When the Vnclean Spirit is gone out of a Man he walketh through dry places seeking Rest and finding none Then he saith I will return into my House from whence I came out and when he is come he findeth it empty swept and garnished Then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other Spirits more Wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there and the last State of that man is worse than the first Mat. 12.43 London Printed for John Bringhurst at the Sign of the Book in Grace-Church-street near Cornhill 1681. READER THe following Epistle of Caution to Friends being given me to Print it hath several times rise in my Mind to joyn a short Testimony to it against that Spirit of Division and its Fruits by way of Caution also that no more may be led astray through the subtil Wiles and Insinuations of the Enemy of their Souls who this day I am well satisfied makes it his business first to divide and scatter the Sheep from the Fold and then make a Prey upon them for thus it was with me for some time before I knew of W. R's Book being to be Printed and I being thus prepared by the Enemy needed no Arguments to induce me to that which was become so natural to me Wherefore Reader it rises in my Heart to Caution all such whom it may concern to take heed how they hear lest they hear amiss and how they speak lest by their speaking they add strength to those who are already in some measure led astray by the Enemy to look out at others when they should look at Home and not to harbour up anything one against another or against the Body though seemingly never so small for Prejudice will eat as a Canker nor construe every thing in the worst sense as I did for whoever do the Hurt will be their own as it was mine And as to W. R.'s Book which is part of the Fruits of that dividing Spirit gotten up of late among some professing the Truth entituled The Christian-Quaker Distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator c. it cannot but be expected that I who was in so large a manner concerned as to get it Printed and afterwards disowned it should shew some Reason for my so doing especially since it has been so noised about both in City Country by the Propagators and Encouragers thereof that a Friend Printed it I can do no less in Conscience to God and for the clearing his Truth and People than declare publickly that I was led thereto by the Enemy of my Souls Peace though I saw it not at first to be of an Evil Nature and when I saw my Peace was departed a weight lead came upon my Mind I would have had the peace of the Lord restored unto me while I was concerned in the Book but instead thereof my Trouble was encreased and I saw not a way to escape the Reward I then was sensible would be my Portion if the Lord was not merciful to me in which time of Exercise Breathings often went up to the Lord that if I might find favour in his sight he would be pleased to show me the way how I should come out of this snare great sin against him and enjoy his Peace and the answer I in that day received was That I was not to expect Peace with the Lord while I persisted in the thing which caused his Displeasure which was the real cause of my putting the Book out of my hands before finisht the Spirit of the Lord pursuing me from time to time shewing me of what an Evil Tendency it was till I had rid me of it though now I stand accused of Injustice for so doing and then did the Lord who had given me Trouble speak Peace to me and gave me access in measure to the Throne of his Grace for which blessed Work I desire he may be forever Praised and Magnified by and through me whilst I have a Being here And as to the Publishers of this Book of W.R. it rises in my Heart to entreat you all to sink down and wait low in the Valley of Humillity before the Lord and hearken to hear what Counsel the pure meek Spirit of the Lord who is the Healer of Breaches saith to you and yield unto it for if things were as is pretended in that Book which I cannot believe I aver the Lord is against any ones discovering the Nakedness of his Brethren or Fathers in his spiritual Israel this day as in the dayes of Ham or laying stumbling Blocks in the way of the weak as in the dayes of Balaam c. And let me ask you What advantage will it bring to the Lord's blessed Truth and what Edification will be reaped by it and what Honour will it bring to his Name When I was considering the thing after my Eye began to open a dread from the Lord seized upon me and the Lord shewed me that it would be a hanious offence committed against him and that I should thereby become Instrumental to declare in Gath publish in Askelon all the dirty villifying stuff therein inserted which was forbidden to the People of the Lord in the dayes of Old lest the Vncircumcised in Heart and Ears take occasion to rejoyce over the People of the Lord And what will Truths Adversaries at this day do less think you Well Oh Lord my God who hast shewed Mercy unto me if it be thy will extend thy Mercy unto others who are yet concerned in the spreading and publishing of that Book that they also may come to see their Error and great Sin against thee and Repent and so come to obtain Mercy at thy Hand before it be too late Amen And to all such who have or may have an itching Ear to read that Book it rises in my Heart to caution you to forbear satisfying your minds therein for the Enemy may take advantage upon you thereby to draw out your minds to take every thing for granted that 's therein inserted so cause you to look out at others instead of looking after the triming
your own Lamps And now having cased my Spirit of what lay upon me to write I shall at this time conclude with the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians Cap. 4. vers 1 2 3 I therefore beseech you that ye walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith you are called with all Lowliness and Meekness with Long-suffering forbearing one another in Love endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace John Bringhurst 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. HAving seen a Book written by W.R. I have considered the end of his Writing and Printing it which is to abuse and misrepresent the faithful People of the Lord who in scorn are called Quakers especially such as have been faithful to God in their Day and Generation eminently known to have been such in this our Day by being Instrumental to turn Hundreds and Thousands to Righteousness especially that dear and eminent Servant of God G.F. who for his Works sake in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus many do esteem and honour and honourable he is to this day though such as W.R. and his Adherents who because of Prejudice and Malice endeavour what in them lies to asperse him and abuse him and contradict his blessed Life in which he is still made Instrumental in the hand of the Lord to bring forth blessed things for the Service of God and his Truth from the Oracles of the divine Breath to the Praise of his Name forever The Title of his Book he has Printed is The CHRISTIAN QUAKER Distinguished from the APOSTATE and INNOVATOR Sad it is to consider the Work of the Enemy and the Spoil he endeavours to make in the blessed Church of God and First-born in this our Day blessed be the Lord and honoured be his Name forever who has kept a Remnant faithful from Back-sliding into Error Heresie and Schism who retain their First Love and the Sense they first received in his Eternal Power and Spirit and by this and through this Sense they are able to judge of things that differ And if the Devil say or any whom he has deluded and led into Blasphemy They are Apostatized or are become Innovators and so would cast an Odium upon them and falsly accuse them We know this is the same Spirit though it may be under another Profession that alwayes hated the Truth and despised the heavenly Counsel and order of it and there were such in the Apostles dayes who were unfaithful to God who abused such as kept the Faith and yet retained the Profession of Faith and Christianity in those Primitive Times yea Paul that eminent Servant of God and such as were his faithful Companions in the work of the Gospel were not spared by them who loved to reign as Kings without them and set up themselves as Apostles and Ministers to lord over Gods Heritage and to seduce the Simple-hearted from the Obedience of the Faith and so became Instruments in the hands of Satan to bring in the Apostacy which entered by departing from the Power of God and setting up themselves over the People by usurping Authority over their Consciences yet under the Profession of Faith and a good Conscience which notwithstanding they had made Shipwrack of This cursed Spirit of Satan is now entred into the Heart and Soul of W.R. and such of his Abettors as own the Printing and Publishing of his Wicked Book aforesaid wherein he has accused the faithful Brethren at large and with a full Mouth of that which he himself is grosly guilty of that is Apostacy and Innovation And for his calling his Book The Christian Quaker c. it is notoriously Blasphemous and far unlike the True Christian Quaker and let him prove when at any time any true Christian Quaker was Instrumental to bring forth such a Work as he has done in his Book and to gratifie such a People as he has done by Printing of it to the view of the World as it were to call and invite the Wickedest of men and most Malicious against Truth to see and behold the Quakers Differences and as much as in him lies to represent the Best of the Quakers as I may so say naked to the view of the Rabble and the worst of the Instruments of Satan by them to be Derided Mocked and Persecuted as their Lord and Master Jesus Christ was to render them Bad and Ungodly to put Weapons into the hands of the Wicked to War against them with and as much as in them lies to destroy their Lives and Testimonies in the Truth of Jesus Oh! what shame is this that W.R. and such as own him in his Writing and Publishing of his Book should call it The Christian Quaker c. when it is manifest to the wise in Heart that it was written from a worse Spirit than that of Ham who uncovered his Father's Nakedness to his Brethren and therefore was accursed Now Ham what he did may be said to be a hasty rash Action done on a suddain without Premeditation but W.R. his Work is far worse for he hath long premeditated and laboured to bring forth his Wicked Book in Print and by so doing hath endeavoured to uncover the Nakedness of such as once he counted his Brethren and Elders or Fathers whom God hath clothed but he hath as it were endeavoured to present them naked to the view of the whole World by the Publishing of his Book which already has been read and perused by People Priests and Professors who are great Enemies to the Truth and so at once has gratified them all by Printing and Publishing his Wicked Book against Gods faithful Servants but that alwayes was the Work of the Enemy in all Ages to do Wickedly For Cain Apostatizing from the Faith and Fear of God became Wroth because God accepted his Brother Abel's Offering and rejected his and therefore he turned against him and slew him Of this Line of Cain is W.R. and his Abettors and not of the Line of Abel for he envyed not nor hated his Brother nor sought to do him the least Injury so that his Wicked Brother Cain sell upon him without a Just cause as now W.R. does in Print against Gods faithful Servants whose Offerings are pure before the Lord and Tiâ—e will clear their Innocency that in what they do they seek God's Glory and the Prosperity of his blessed Truth Well this Blood will cry for Vengeance to God against W.R. and his Adherents as ever the Blood of Righteous Abel cryed against Cain for Murdering him Cain murdered his Brother's Body but W.R. does what in him lies to shed and let out the Life of his Brethrens Souls by rendring them Dead and Apostatized from the Truth that lives forever Those Apostates and Innovators Korah Dathan and Abiram and their Company with the Hundred and Fifty Princes of the Assembly
Pray that if it be possible he and they all who unit with him in this work of Wickedness may find a place of Repentance for their case is miserable and Wo and Misery will be their portion forever except they Repent for the God of Heaven is angry with them and it will break forth upon them and they shall know that he is the Living God with his People that they may stand and be established by him forever and that neither W. R. nor his Adherents will be able to pull them down even such whom he hath so vilified and abused in his Book and especially that dear Servant of God G. F. whom he hath so basely bespattered in his Book and Printed and Published this to the World as I may say to put such a monstrous shape upon him as that the very worst of men may fall upon him Is this Love nay it is Wickedness and monstrous Iniquity and the burthen of W. R. and his Adherents which they must bear for these things will be too heavy for them and Truth will prevail over all and God will put his Beauty and Comliness still more and more upon such as dear G. F. and others who are faithful to the living God and a thorow Decission will come that in the end the Simple-hearted that fear the Lord in their Hearts may be undeceived of the false Coverings of W. R. and his Abettors and then they will be easily seen and discerned as they are in their Nature to the view of every Upright-hearted Friend that loves the Truth and so their rank will be found to be the same with R. S. J. Penniman R. R. and the rest afore-mentioned who went the same way and at last grew wicked in Printing and Publishing as W. R. hath now done And whereas some professing Truth have been offended with Mens and Womens Meetings as now established amongst us by the Power of God and the Practices of such Meetings calling them Innovations viz. That it is a bringing in of new things into the Church or altering the state of it c. Unto this I Answer That Government and Good Order is needful to be established in every Family much more in the Church of God that every Member of the true Church may know its Place and Service in the Body fitted thereunto by the Power of God then will it fall in naturally and in course that every Member will know its Office and whereunto it is called with the heavenly Call of Christ Jesus and these are they that take their Possessions in the Life Power and Wisdom of God and are fit to do service in the Church and of such Members is and ought to be the composition of Mens and Womens Meetings who reverence and fear the Living God and have a care of his Service and that all that profess Truth and that are turned to it may be preserved in it then such faithful Members and savoury sanctified Ones whether men or women when they meet together in their Meetings meet with the Lord in the midst of them and his pure Wisdom and Power to guide them in that they are called unto as they faithfully and truly wait upon him in such Meetings so the Work is the Lord 's they are about and those that are faithful unto God and Eye his Power and seek his Glory in the course of their Lives will not fail to do the same in these Meetings and as so then let the Wise in Heart judge Whether this be not the Way of God for the establishment of Gospel-Government in his Church that all may be kept sweet and savoury in his House to his Praise forever And how this can be called Innovation and Apostatizing into Forms is certainly Monstrous and great Ignorance where the Power of God is kept unto for no other Meetings we do affirm in Gods Presence we account right but as they are Constituted in the Power God and kept in it and this we affirm to have been the Primitive Christians Practice so long as they kept to the Power but when there is a going from the Power and that comes to be lost as to them then all Meetings are alike to such and so came in the Apostacy and Innovations after the Primitive pure Times and then the Key of knowledge came to be lost and Antichristian Formality to be set up and gradually many strange Ceremonies and superstitious Things to be observed and that was all wrong and the Order of God's Power and Truth was awanting in those times as to the true Church and the true Government of it because their Churches so called were said to be visible Churches consisting of Nations or Parishes c. But the true Church was invisible to the Carnal-minded Ones and such as did not fear the Lord nor worship him in Spirit and Truth though God had his Witnesses in the darkest times of Ignorance Popery and Superstition which had spread over all and Nations had drunk the Whores Cup of filthy Abominations yet some Witnesses were raised up by the Lord to bear witness against the Wickedness and Abomination of those times Now the true Church of God which is coming to appear out of her Wilderness state begins to flourish and to become as a Garden watered and pruned by the pure Power of God and for this end God in our Dâ—y has raised up many Witnesses blessed be his Name forever and they are at work in his Garden the Heavenly Plantation of his own Hand and seek his Glory in all things And now the Heavenly Wisdom sees meet to give sorth again true Gospel-Order and Discipline as in the Church of Christ before the Apostacy entred and makes choice of such as are capable in this Work and Spiritual-minded and when they come together they can rejoyce in the enjoyment of God's presence with them and the Holy Order of the Gospel is committed to such whether Men or Women And whether in these Meetings or in other Meeting any thing be said or done thorow Infirmity or want of a good Understanding in some who may come to such Meetings that does not overthrow the constitution of any Meeting the Power of God hath set up and is the Authority of but the Endeavour is and ought to be that there may be a growth in the Truth in all these things by such as are faithful untill the House of God be established in its Glory and God's heavenly Wisdom and Power shine through all So the Foundation of good Meetings and good Order in the Church of God is truly laid amongst us by the Lord and it is he that lays those good things upon us which we do in our Men and Womens Meetings in relation to good Order in Marriages and many other necessary things which are done in such Meetings bring honour to God for the state of the Churches is enquired into that every true Necessity may be answered and if possible every disorderly thing may be separated
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 takâ—â— 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