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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

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

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 D●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