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A70887	The Quakers vindicated from the calumnies of those that falsly accuse them as if they denyed magistrates, and disowned government; and as if both in principle and practice they were inconsistant with either. In which is shewed, that the true and sincere Quakers (so called, for of them I write) are in the spirit and principle in which the justice of magistrates is obeyed, and in which magistrates are to administer their government, and that by their practice in good works they fulfill all just and good government. And that they have God's authority for their meeting together to worship Him, ... And that people in matters of religion and the worship of God, should rather be instructed and led by the Spirit of the Lord in Gods authority, ... Also, several objections answered, as to the exercise of secular force and compulsion over the conscience in matters of faith, religion, and the worship of God. By Edward Pyot.	Pyot, Edward, d. 1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing P4316A; ESTC R25210	46,417	48

The QUAKERS Vindicated from the Calumnies of those that falsly accuse them as if they Denyed MAGISTRATES and Disowned GOVERNMENT And as if both in Principle and Practice they were inconsistant with either In which is shewed That the true and sincere Quakers so called for of them I write are in the Spirit and Principle in which the Justice of Magistrates is obeyed and in which Magistrates are to administer their Government and that by their practice in good works they fulfill all just and good Government And that they have God's Authority for their meeting together to worship Him and the Name of Christ which is above every name to meet in And that their Worship in Spirit is allowed by the Scriptures of Truth and the practice of the Primitive Christians which was before either the Liturgie or the Masse-book was And that people in the matters of Religion and the Worship of God should rather be instructed and led by the Spirit of the Lord in Gods Authority than driven by the terrour of Magistrates and forc'd by the penalties and punishments of the outward Laws of Men. Also several Objections answered as to the exercise of Secular force and compulsion over the Conscience in matters of Faith Religion and the Worship of God By EDWARD PYOT But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of judgment and of might to declare unto Jacob his transgressions and to Israel his sin Hear this I pray you ye Heads of the house of Jacob and Princes of the house of Israel that abhor Judgment and pervert all Equity they build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity Mich. 3. 8 9 10. Knowing this that the Law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for the unholy and prophane c. 1 Tim. 1. 9 10. The Quakers vindicated from the Calumnies of those that falsly accuse them as if they denyed Magistrates and disowned Government c. IT is no strange thing if there be a talk among some people that the Quakers so called do deny Magistrates and disown Government for such there were in the times of Christ and of his Apostles who of malice some and others of ignorance slandered both Christ and his Apostles and the most sincere Christians of all Ages since with such false accusations and scandalous reports it was through envy and slander that Christ was by the Jews delivered as a Malefactor in this kind as Pilate well knew whom the chief Priest the B●ders and Scribes with their multitude accused of perverting the Nations and forbidding to pay Tribute to Cesar and of stirring up the people and this they did under pretence of friendship to Cesar who in their hearts they hated they told Pilate that he was not Caesar's friend if he let him go when he sought to release him as finding no fault in him and cryed for Barrabas to be released who did indeed prevert the people and made Insurrection and committed Murder in the Insurrection and for Sedition and Murther was cast into Prison And they laid in many great grievious complaints against the Apostles as touching the Law of the Jews and of moving Sedition and of turning the world upside down and they accused them of doing contrary to the Decrees of Cesar And the Christians in after-times were said to be seditious and rebellious and pernicious to the Emperour and whatsoever evils happened among the people they were imputed to the Christians as the causers thereof Thus the most sincere Christians of their times have been scandalized defamed and persecuted by the malice of them who through their subtilty and envie to Righteousness have endeavoured by all ways and means to bring the most Innocent and upright People into contempt with their Rulers and to possess the ignorant people with prejudice against them that having rendred them infamous and dangerous they might be persecuted as such and as such many have unjustly suffered by their Rulers and by the mis-led people have been disregarded and had in base esteem and accounted as the filth of the world and as the off-scouring of all things And therefore it is no strange thing if the most sincere Christians of these times that are now reproachfully called Quakers and Sectaries and their Ministers Ringleaders as the Christians in the Apostles times were called Nazarens and termed a Sect and their Ministers Ringleaders be now slandered and defamed as if they denyed Magistrates and disowned Government and were in their principle and practice inconsistent with both by the scandalous reports of some who through their envy to Godliness and Sincerity have evilly surmised and hatched such things without any cause given whereby the Rulers also have been incensed against the Innocent as a People disaffected to Government And this subtile and malicious working was in Oliver's dayes as well as now and hath been through all the late Changes although the Quakers never gave occasion to any yet occasions have been taken against them by all and they have been made offenders and have deeply suffered by all who never justly offended any nor are in principle or practice prejudicial to either Government or Governours but are for the establishment of both according to the Ordinance of God and by their honest conversation which is according to the will of God in well-doing which well becometh good Government they do answer the end of Government and their Principle teacheth them according to the will of God to submit themselves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake and they know it to be the will of God corcerning them that they may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men according as Peter writeth to the Christians that were scattered abroad in several parts That they should be of honest conversation among the Gentiles and submit themselves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether to the King as Supream or unto Governors as unto them that 61. 2. are sent of him for the punishment of evil-doors and for the praise of them that do well and that this to do was the will of God concerning them that with well-doing they might put to silence the ignorance of foolish men And if well-doing which indeed is an honour to Government and not a disowning of it and which deserves the Magistrates praise and therefore is no denying them was a sufficient ground to put to silence the ignorance of foolish men in this matter as to the Christians in the Apostles times why may not the well-doing of the Quakers now who as to their honest conversation innocent life and quiet behaviour towards both Rulers and People have a large testimony in the consciences of all that know them be a sufficient ground to put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as to this matter in this our day And those who so bewray their ignorance as thus to talk may not unfitly be

rightly of things that differ and approve of that which is most excellent and which is acceptable and well-pleasing in the sight of God yea and against the witness of God in them and the feeling of their own consciences And is not to rule by force the Lambs of Christ and to give law and rule to their faith and consciences by penalties and punishments contrary to what is written Zech. 4. 6. Not by Might nor by Power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Is the strength of men then and their Force and Laws Penalties and Punishments the means appointed by God to teach people the knowledge and fear of God or Doth the Wrath of man accomplish the Righteousness of God or are these Jam 20. the weapons of the Spiritual-Warfare by which people are to be subject unto the Lord in his Spiritual-Worship and Service And is that Worship well-pleasing or acceptable to God which is forc'd only by the fear and punishment of men or doth God seek such Worshippers as by carnal compulsion worship him Nay are not these of the weapons with the which the many-headed Beast with his Horns and Crowns which rise out of the Sea have made War with the Saints for these many hundred years and have so overcome them as to their bodies as that many have lost their precious Lives in Prisons and Dungeons and at the Gibbet and the Stake Was the material Temple by Zerubbabel to be rebuilt without the help of Secular Force and must there be the exercise of Inhumane Cruelty for the building of the Spiritual-Temple and House of God which in the Lord is the Pillar and Ground of Truth Is not the Lord Jesus Christ now the builder of his Church and is not He only given as a Leader and the Commander of his People in Spiritual things for is not all Power in Heaven and Earth by his Father given unto him for the establishment of his Heavenly and Spiritual Kingdom and Government and as the Lord of his own House is it not to be left to him to order it and to govern it without the help of the force of man for is not the Spirit and Power of Christ of more efficacy for the government of his Church than might and power by men And how is God glorified in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages ● 3. world without end if the Church be gathered and governed by the Authority and force of men Is not the Law of God which by his Spirit is written in the hearts of his People and his Fear and the Dread which by him is put upon them the Covenant by which they are to draw near unto him in his holy Worship rather than the Laws and Penalties of men And is not the Lords Covenant with his People the only force that is to say without the force of men which by him is put upon them as to his own Spiritual Service and Worship And as to the Lord is not his Covenant sufficient without the force of men as it is written As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord My Spirit which is upon thee and my words which I have 59. put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever And in the day of the Lord's Power are not his People willing without carnal compulsion by Secular force and violence And did not the Prophet Micah full of Power by the Spirit of the Lord and of Judgment and Might declare against the Heads of the house of Jacob and the Princes of the house of Israel who built ● c. 3. ● 10. up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity And what remains now in this day of tryal for the Quakers the true Successors of the holy Prophets and Martyrs of Jesus but to succeed them in their Sufferings and fill up that which is behind of the Afflictions of Christ for his Bodies sake which is the Church for whilst Laws are made and executed upon them to limit them in their Meetings by which they are made offenders who otherwise are blameless and whilst their Meetings together in the fear of the Lord and in obedience to his Law and Commandment and in his Worship and Service are rendred as the Transgressions of the Laws they exceeding the limited number of Four c. which otherwise and without that limit are enjoyned by the Spirit of the Lord and strictly required not to be forsaken by any either wilfully after they have received ●b 10 the knowledge of the Truth or for fear of Man who when he hath killed the body can do no more lest greater sufferings from God may be expected to wit a certain fearful looking for of Judgement and the fiery Indignation of God who can both kill the body and cast the soul into Hell And what then now remains for the Quakers in these exercises and tryals of their Faith and Patience but to offer up their Bodies a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable to God as their reasonable service and patiently to suffer all these cruelties which men may be permitted to inflict upon them for of necessity must they not either suffer or flee their Testimony and deny Christ before men and expose him to open shame before his enemies and them that hate his appearance and that persecute him in his members And will not Christ deny them before his heavenly Father that deny him before men and will not Christ shame them when in the glory of his Father he is made manifest who are ashamed of him and of his Testimony when in his members he is despised and persecuted And though the Meetings of the Quakers are by men rendred unlawful because of the Laws that are made against them yet are they therefore sinful in the sight of God or unlawful by the Law of God or are their Meetings therefore displeasing to the Lord because they are envied and persecuted by men Would Daniel's praying to his God have been the transgression of a Law if there had not been a Law made purposely against it or was his praying then and his making supplications before the Lord his sin against the Lord even then when there was a Law made against it which they called a Royal Statute and a firm Decree which altereth not And although the Meetings of the Quakers are made transgressions before men because of the Laws that are made against them yet is it either a transgression in it self or a sin before the Lord for innocent Lambs and the harmless Flock of Christ in obedience to the Voice of their Shepherd to meet together and to be gathered in his Name and he in the midst of them to feed them and to fold them that they might be fed in his green Pastures and refreshed with his living Fountains of the