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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96399	The real Quaker a real Protestant, and the spirit of popery directly struck at in answer to a most malicious and scandalous book, entituled, The papists younger brother, by a disguised author under the titles Misoplanes and Philalethes, but on the contrary proved Philoplanes, Misalethes / by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1679 (1679)	Wing W1952; ESTC R42838	97,690	135

think to be saved hereafter No no. And after the words We is coming upon you all he leaves out who are Proud you must all give an Account before the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who is Terrible to the Wicked Behold the Day of the Lord cometh which will burn as an Oven and all that are Proud and all that do Wickedly shall be as Stubble Thus far J.P. And next after these words The Lord abhors all your Profession and your Hypocrisie the Priest leaves out these viz. It is not Profession that he seeks for it is Practice it is not the Sayer but the Doer that shall inherit it is not all that say Lord Lord that shall inherit but he that doth the Will of my Father The Lord looks for Fruits c. And next after these words You serve the Devil with your Hearts and Actions the Priest leaves out who is King of Pride and here you are in the broad and casie Way in the first Nature which is in the Fall separated from God whose Kingdom is not of this World Thus far J. P. See now how plain it is that J. Parnel does not threaten them with Destruction or Hell without Exception or meerly for being called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen Gemlewomen Madam c. but plainly shews them the Destruction and Misery that those Evil Courses Ways and Practices which too many live in lead to and that they that live or continue in Pride and Covetousness cannot escape Destruction is Evident For without Conversion there is no Salvation Again how plain that J.P. proposeth the Conditions that God requireth in order to a Reformation and consequently the Salvation of the same persons whom he Warns in these words viz. The Lord abhors your Hypocrisie 't is not Profession that he seeks for 't is Practice it is not the Sayer but the Doer that shall inherit The Lord looks for Fruits as before cited Again the Priest p. 73. in his Citation out of James Parnel's Book p. 34 35 36. he leaves out Let your Mouthes be stopt all you who act in Vnrighteousness And next after the words Away with all your Profession he leaves out and now Repent and then follows Tremble before the Lord and then he also leaves out Come down all you High and Lofty Ones and then follows Howl in Sack-cloth and Ashes And after the words p. 34. Who are for the Fire the Priest leaves out these viz. For Fruit he is come to seek for Therefore profess him no longer in words but now Repent and Return from all your Vnrighteousness for know you not that no Vnrighteous Person shall inherit the Kingdom of God No Vain Person nor Drunkards Swearers no Lyar no Proud no Covetous ones none who delight in Pleasures Sporting Rioting Chambering and Wantonness no Vnholy Vnclean Thing must enter Thus far James Parnel Now let all serious Readers judge how basely and fallaciously the Priest hath dealt with J. Parnel and the Qrs. on his Account to render him as Pronouncing Absolute Sentence of Damnation for evermore upon all that are called Pag. 74. Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen c. Pag. 75. as dooming them all without Exception to the Fire of Hell pag. 75. And not only so but the Priest has forged this as an Article of the Qrs. Faith viz. Article 45. We Qrs. do believe That all that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all accursed of God and shall be cast into Hell and that they are no better nor shall fare better then Lucifer Dives Haman Pharaoh Herod and the rest of their Fore-Fathers pag. 154. And to this very purpose he has forged Three Lying Articles in the Qrs. Name viz. his 45th 46th 47th Article Wherefore I testifie against this Priest as an Arrant Forger and one that has dealt most Basely and Knavishly with our deceased Friend's Testimony herein For in the reading of his Books he could not be Ignorant First That it was the state of Dives Haman c. and those that continued therein that were liable to their End to wit Destruction and that they that live in these Evils Pride Covetousness Oppression Excess c. do incur Destruction Secondly That our Friend warned them all to wit the Great Ones with the Priests and People to Repent and to Return from all their Vnrighteousness c. But this the Priest was willing to leave out and take no notice of that he might render the Qrs. more Odious and incense the great Ones against them as guilty of great Vncharitableness Religious Foolery Melancholly c. says because they are not Trembling Qrs they must all to Hell Mind this Melancholly Qr. how he hath packt them up for Hell pag. 73. We may rather say Mind this Deceitful Scornful Priest that has thus forged and play'd the Knave and fordidly abused the plain Testimonies and serious Warnings of a deceased Servant of the Lord and then Scoff at Trembling But the Day will come that the Fearfulness and Horror that will surprize such Hypocrites Atheistical Spirits and Abusers of Truth and Religion will cause him to Tremble and Quake and his Reward will be according to his Works and the Glorying of such in Wickedness will be their shame It s time for this Hypocritical Scornful Priest to Repent J. Parnel's plain Testimonies and Warnings both to High and Low without respect of Persons shall rise up in Judgment against this Temporizing Daubing Flattering Priest that hath so foully and shamefully abused and perverted them to incense the Powers against us like one of Jeroboam's Priests against the Lord's Prophet see Amos 7.10 13. even in as great Envy as Amaziah shewed against Amos to Instigate the King against him Hath this Priest shewn himself against us for warning the great Ones He may see that J. Parnel was not such a Minister as could Daub and Flatter great Persons for a fat Benefice or Augmentation nor such an one as could have their Persons in Admiration for Advantage like those Covetous Temporizing Priests that can renounce and break their Covenan● Turn from the Directory to the Common-Prayer Wheel about with the Times Sail with every Wind to save their Livings or procure fat Places or Benefices Creep Cringe Complement and Flatter great Persons Pag. 95. and give their Flattering Titles of Your Excellency Your Grace Your Honour Your Lordship Your Worship Your Humble Servant Sir c. as this Priest has taught and all for their own Ends and Advantages § XXV Whereas the Priest is offended at J. Parnel distinguishing between the Letter and the Life as between the Shadow and the Substance p. 70 71. The Priest hereupon saith That the Scripture by this Quaker is unjustly term'd the Letter p. 76. Whereupon I ask him if the Apostle doth not distinguish between the Letter and the Spirit in these Scriptures Rom. 7.6 That we should serve in Newness of the Spirit and not in the Oldness of the Letter

say The Scripture proceedeth from Christ but is not Christ for he is the Light the Life the Word the Judge the Guide of all his true Followers And why may not he be called the Rule as well as the Way the Truth c Pr. Ibid. This Qr. is guilty of Weak Reasoning because Christ is the Word the Light the Life therefore the Scripture is not a Light the Word of Life a Judge a Guide a Tryer of Spirits rare Quaking Logick Answ He grants the Qrs. Assertion that Christ is the Word the Light the Life wherein he has weakened his own Cause but his Inference upon the Quaker I deny for that the Qr. does not argue in the Terms he doth For the Priest cunningly puts in A Light A Guide A Judge A Tryer of Spirits as applicable to the Scriptures wherein he greatly varies the Terms from The Light The Guide c. to A Light A Guide But that the Scriptures of themselves abstractly are these without Divine Assistance he proves not if he dare affert it muchless that the Scriptures are the Word of Life or the Living Word let him prove that I deny his Position for Christ is the Living Word Pr. pag. 62. At this Door hath been brought in all the Filth that hath been east upon the holy Scripture The Scripture is not the Light What is it then Darkness saith one Qr. not to be minded in any thing saith another Answ There is no Filth cast upon the holy Scripture by asserting Christ to be the Word of Life the Light the Judge the Guide c. Again I am confident that he has wrong'd two Qrs. so called in his dark Accusation not telling us what Qr. would call the holy Scripture Darkness or what Qr. did say 't is not to be minded in any thing This is a blind Story I am apt to think of his own forging for no real Qr. would speak so slightily of the holy Scriptures Though there are Parables that are called dark Sayings in the Scriptures which yet cannot properly be called Darkness Pr. Ibid. The Scripture is become like a Dung-Cart to receive what Filth the Qrs. and Papists have to throw into it Answ This is an abominable and slanderous Comparison against the Qrs. who have fully exprest their Reverend Esteem of the holy Scriptures both in Doctrine and Conversation Pr. pag. 64. Are not those Streams which make glad the City of God basely foulled by him Answ He counts the Scriptures those Streams and thereby sets them in the place of Christ who is that Man that shall be as an Hiding-place and is compared to Rivers of Water in a dry place Isa 32.2 And there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad Rivers and Streams Chap. 33.21 And this was in Zion the City of our Solemnities and in Jerusalem a quiet Habitation Vers 20. 'T is these Streams of the Water of Life that make glad the City of God whereof the Scriptures testifie Pr. Ibid. The Scripture saith this Qr. is the Idol of all Gospel-Ministers to get Money by Pag. 67. They count the Holy Scripture an Idol Answ A plain Perversion and Falshood again the Qr. saith no such thing nor so accounts of the Scripture but that your Leaders cause you to err for their own Ends and of the Scripture they MAKE an Idol to get Money by He does not call the Scriptures the Idol but that such Make an Idol thereof to get Money by and these are no Gospel-Ministers Those Priests who make a Trade of Scripture and exalt it in the place of Christ make an Idol of it but it is not so in it self Pr. That the Scripture is not the Word nor a Light unto our Feet nor the Rule Guide Teacher or Judge because Christ is so An Oracle from this Qrs. Lying Spirit p. 65. Answ By way of Eminency we own Christ to be the Word also the Light the Rule the Guide the Teacher the Judge the Law-giver the Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver Isa 33.22 Yet we don 't hereby deny the Scriptures to be a Rule or to contain Words of God Pr. Ibid. That the sure Word of Prophecy is no Light shining in a Dark place Answ Yes the more sure Word of Prophecy is a Light shining in a Dark place in many Dark Hearts whereunto men do well to take heed until the Day dawn and the Day-star arise in their Hearts This Word was before the Scripture was writ The Priest calls the Scripture the sure Word of Prophecy but tells us not what Scripture nor wherein the Comparison is of its being the more Sure Word of Prophecy Concerning the Judge and the Light within and Benefit of Christ's coming see what John Preston saith in his Book Entituled The Doctrine of the Saints Infirmities pag. 106. viz. The Office I say of Christ is to teach men Judgment and this he doth with much Tenderness Compassion and Gentleness 1. To teach men the Just and Righteous Ways of God so the Word is taken in the Old Testament to ENLIGHTEN men to judge of the Ways of God Christ is often compared to a Shepherd that feeds his Flock Pag. 107. And he is also called the true Light which lightneth the World If Christ had not come into the World there would not have been one spark of God's Image left in man neither Adam nor his Posterity should have known any thing but a Cloud of Darkness should have seized on mens Minds But now by Christ's coming every one even the Wicked have this benefit that they have seen common Light Christ lighteth every one that cometh into the World in some sort teacheth them so much as shall make them inexcusable And pag. 111. If Christ were not God and Man that is If he were not patient in an Infinite manner he could not bear with us c. Observe how contrary to this of Christ's teaching men Judgment and being that true Light which lightneth every man c. our Adversary hath proceeded against the Light of Christ within both before and after these passages and how he hath opposed the benefit of Christ towards us both as God and Man contrary to J. Preston's account who was a man doubtless of better Fame Religion and Learning in his Day than our Adversary Pr. Ibid. Surely 't is matter of Lamentation that a false Christ the Light within who is not God and Man in one Person must by the Qrs. be thus exalted to lay the honour of the Scripture in the Dust Pag. 67. How fond the Qrs. are of their Light within to exalt this Idol Answ No such Design in the Quakers in exalting the Light within as to lay the honour of the Scripture in the Dust 'T is no dishonour to Scripture to exalt the Light of Christ within and however this Priest might have given the Light of Christ a better Epithete than a False Christ or this Idol especially since he hath given us this Concession