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B09695	Railings and slanders detected: or The folly and heresies of the Quakers further exposed. Being an answer to an invective libel written by G. Whitehead, impertinently called, Antichrist in flesh unmasked, &c. which some of the Quakers call an answer to a book truly stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. In this brief discourse you have the slanderous out-cries of G. Whitehead, against Edward Paye, Henry Loader, and William Alcot, examined, detected, and confuted.	Paye, Edw. (Edward)	1692 (1692)	Wing P884; ESTC R181559	21,006	57

in their Prophecies and Writings were and another thing to have such common and more immediate Gifts and Graces of the Spirit that are promised by Christ to them that obey him as a Seal of their present Acceptance and future Inheritance The use of these more immediate or common Gifts are to help our Infirmities and to bring to remembrance our Lord 's revealed Will in his Word Things that are secret and not written not at all belonging to us but to the Lord. But observe G. W's plain perversion of my Words First saith he as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all Things it knows Do I demand of you to tell me all things that Jesus did or that the Holy Spirit knows You know I do not and then what an idle Evasion is this And because we pretend not to immediate or extraordinary Inspirations therefore we come short of being Christ's Ministers or Ambassadors and have shut our selves out from any share in the Spirit of Christ or Divine Inspiration and how then will you prove your Call to baptize People in Water Answer Then by G. W's Logick because we do not pretend to such immediate and extraordinary Inspirations as to know what had been contained in the Scriptures had they never been written We fall short of being Christ's Ministers or Ambassadors and have shut our selves out from having any share in the Spirit of Christ c. One that hath but his Senses would be inclined to think that this Consequence is much beside the Truth and yet if this be not true G. W. cannot imagine how we can prove our Call to baptize People in Water But to inform him in this Matter we have a sufficient Call for it from the Commission of Christ our great Prophet who is to be heard in all things Matth. 28. Mark 16. And the frequent Examples of the Apostles who admonish and exhort us to be Followers of them as they are of Christ and to keep the Ordinances as they were delivered so that we need not immediate Inspirations for our Call or Authority herein But I am persuaded G. W. hath made use of these many nonsensical Quibles to evade resolving the Question Now let him resolve me in some of those things that Jesus did that was not written and what was wrote on the ground And let him or any other Quaker do it either by a mediate or immediate Inspiration or Revelation And if they cannot do it then let their proud boastings of immediate Inspirations Revelations and Knowledge in things above what is written cease for ever c. And I shall still wait for an Answer Again p. 21. Saith G. W. To deem them Impostors that say Christ is within thee or them is to render the holy Apostles Impostors who preached Christ within the Word nigh in thy heart Rom. 10. 6 7 8. which therefore was not separate from them and only at a distance yea and to render themselves also Impostors who have confess'd the same Truth of Christ within referring to our Book p. 22 23 69. Antichrist in Spirit c. Which I refer the Reader to Answer Besides the gross Slanders that G. W. casts upon us it is a lamentable thing to see how miserably he abuseth the Text Rom. 10. 6 7 8. He only mentioning that part that he thinks is for his Turn The Word is nigh in thy heart leaving out In thy Mouth even the Word of Faith which we preach which the Apostle there explains thus If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved c. Can any thing be more clearly expressed ver 9. Yet G. W. will not distinguish betwixt the Word of Faith that the Apostles preached and the Object of Faith to whom this Word directs and because we cannot neither did the Holy Apostle understand the Word here to be Christ Therefore G. W. is so daringly confident that he charges us with rendering the holy Apostles Impostors and our selves also I shall spend no more time on this Particular but leave the impartial Reader to judge of G. W's gross perversion of this Text. And in p. 22. George Whitehead charges me with wronging and abusing them about the Titles of their Books as if higher than they give the Holy Scriptures perverting them by leaving out the explanatory part of the Titles And he Instances in H. Smith's Book A True and Everlasting Rule c. Being the first Part of the Title But I leave out the next following viz. from God discovered and for this here is a loud Out-cry of Wrong Abuse and Perversion c. I ask G. W. does those Words from God discovered added to The True and Everlasting Rule diminish the heighth of the Title You would persuade your Reader to believe so or else why do you quarrel at it The Title was higher than you afford the Scriptures before and one would be under a strong Temptation to believe that Addition makes it higher and not lower Now I would seriously ask G. W. when and how God made this discovery to H. Smith that the Scriptures are thus useless to guide in the ways of God and how can you profess in your Faith that the Scriptures are profitable for Doctrine Instruction c. since there is a sufficient Rule to guide in all the ways of God without them Again saith he we know none among us that call the Holy Scripture a dead or carnal Letter And p. 24. he puts us to prove that the People called Quakers or any Persons continuing in Society with them do say Mark that that the Holy Scripture is but a dead carnal Letter or that we so call the Doctrines or Testimonies contained in them Answer what may not the Quakers prove or deny at this rate There are these Difficulties proposed First we must be sure the Persons do at this moment continue in Society with the Quakers Secondly that they do now in the present Tense say The Scriptures are but a dead or carnal Letter and this is not enough if this be done For by Scriptures they do not mean the Writings or written Words of the Old and New Testament but Faith Repentance Holiness c. p. 22. Though the outward Letter or Writing in it self alone be dead And saith G. W. now I leave the Reader to judge whether he doth not own the Charge And if he will deny that any approved Quaker did ever whilst so call the Scriptures a dead and carnal Letter let him do it if he dare Having followed G. W. in answering his impertinent and absurd Evasions I shall give the Reader a Breviate of the sweet convincing Language the Quakers use to treat their Antagonists withal And first I shall begin with Tho. Lawson in his Book against William Jefrey Thou Image-maker thou Cockatrice hatching Eggs Vultures Eye and this because William Jefrey said Christ was ascended

and should they go about to do it with their Equivocal Stuff they know they shall appear in an evil Case Well but it may be some Advocate for the Quakers may be ready to say That although the Quakers first Original and Ancient Authors of that Antiquity as 1648. and since for I think they do not pretend to any greater Antiquity See John Whitehead's small Treatise p. 4. He saith That in the year 1648. God who had Compassion on his People did cause a Branch to spring forth of the Root of David which was filled with Virtue for the Covenant of Life and Peace was with him c. and much more matter of this Blasphemous nature you have in the Book and Page aforesaid But who the degenerate Plant of this strange Vine was I know not except James Naylor And saith John Whitehead In the year 1655. I being a Branch of this Tree viz. the Branch aforesaid the Life of this Root caused me to Blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit of the Lord came upon me Ibid. But to return suppose that these Antient Authors did at first and since till very lately run into gross and abominable Errors about the Holy Scriptures denying them to be the Word of God and Rule of Faith and Practices and did deny Christ's being at God's right hand in the Glorious Heavens beyond the Stars and did deny the Humanity of Christ and Justification by his Works Righteousness and Merits c. yet they may now have seen their former Errors and it may be by some means they have been convinced thereof so that now they are become good Orthodox Christians and therefore they have published a Christian-like Profession of Faith c. Answer But then ought they not to have renounced their former Writings that directly contradict it and then we should have been heartily glad to hear of so great and so happy a Reformation in and amongst them But now I think upon it to put them upon renouncing any of their former Writings or Authors Works will be a greater affront than the other and I shall incurr G. Whitehead's displeasure worse than before for how can they do that since all their Authors Books be they ever so full of Railings Falsities and Blasphemies yet they intitle them to the Divine Majesty and his Eternal Life and Light given forth from his Mouth and Sealed by his Spirit c. So that I see not how they can renounce what they have written but must look upon all as infallibly true on their account as the Pope and his Conclave looks upon their Councils Edicts and Decrees so that as the Laws of the Medes and Persians they are never to be altered or renounced Then lastly which way could the Quakers expect to escape being defamed or discredited why it is like they did suppose that the Honourable Assembly in Parliament had matters of greater moment in hand than to compare their former Writings with their new Faith So that if we had not concerned our selves to peep into their Writings and compare them with their newly professed Faith and publish'd this to the World namely That the Quakers former Writings and their late Profession of Faith are as really alike as an Apple is to an Oyster and agree as directly as Light and Darkness it had not been known But G. Whitehead saith in p. 6. That this Confession of Faith was sincerely own'd and consented to as one condition of their present Liberty Well then we hope you in plainness speak your Faith therein for if you did dissemble your Principles to obtain your Liberty it was but a bad way to get at it But we hope better things Now would the Quakers but clear themselves in these their First and Primitive Errors and corrupt principles in point of Faith we should be heartily glad to hear thereof First That they would never more deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God and Rule ●f Faith and Life which they have done ●●●●●…ly That they would never more am●●… the Scriptures to be of no use in order to the true Knowledge of God This they have formerly done Thirdly That they would no longer hold it to be a sin Ay the sin of Idolatry and Breach of the Second Commandment to take the Practices of the Saints Recorded Commanded or Approved c. in the Scriptures for our Examples and Rules This you have done Fourthly That they would never more affirm That whatever is commanded in Scripture is no Duty to us except we receive the Command by immediate Inspiration as the Prophets and Apostles did Fifthly That they would never more deny the Resurrection of the Bodies of Men from the Graves of the Earth as they have done Sixthly That they would never more deny the Body of Christ of Flesh and Bones to be raised from the Grave and to be now in the Glorious Heavens above beyond the Stars This they have also done Seventhly That they would never more deny Gospel Ordinances as Baptism in Water and the Lord's Supper Administred in Bread and Wine which the Quakers do both despise and contemn Eighthly That they would forever renounce this pernicious Tenet of believing that no Blessedness is to be enjoyed by the Saints after Death the Body never being to be raised to any further Blessedness no more than 〈◊〉 enjoyed a thousand years before they 〈◊〉 and that the Soul is part of God came 〈◊〉 ●rom God and shall return into God again being part of his Essence Ninthly That they would never more deny Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits and for time to come never call it a Doctrine of Devils as they have formerly done Tenthly that they would never say and affirm that the Light within is Christ and God as they have too commonly done And finally that they would leave off their Billings-gate Complements and learn to treat their Antagonists more moderately and mildly for evil Communications will corrupt all their good Manners if they have any And waiting for this Reformation in them I shall now proceed to examine G. W's long Story and loud Out-cries about the Westmorland Petitioners which is my next Work About the Story of the Westmorland Petitioners G. W. spends several pages in cavelling with what I say Antichrist in Spirit c. pag. 78. namely That Quake●●●● is not derived from a Person but from ● Gesture used much amongst the Quakers formerly in ' their Meetings as was manifest by what was alledged against them by the Westmorland Petitioners who alledged that their practice did exceedingly savour of Sorcery because of the Swellings Quakings Roarings and Foamings that were amongst them in their Meetings I also cite the Quakers Answer to this Petition p. 35. where they deny not Swelling Foaming and Quaking But they deny Sorcery and Blasphemy they justifie their Quaking and Trembling as being used by the Saints of old c. James Naylor p. 16 and 17. of his Book The Power and Glory of

with that Body that God raised him from the dead again Thou Heathen because W. J. said the Will of Christ was made known by the Scriptures Thou Lyer Bundle of Lyes thou Esau selling thy Birthright a Mute for the Night-birds Cormorants Bitterns Owls Ravens Dragons wild Beasts Satyrs Vultures Screich-Owls and that because W. G. said that the Saints have not the glorious Kingdom in possession but by promise This for Tho. Lawson the Quaker in his Book against W. Jefrey c. I shall again mention Famous Edward Boroughs in his Answer to Mr. Bennet's 20. Sober Questions as appears in Boroughs Works in Folio from p. 29. to 34. a Breviate thereof take as followeth Thou Reprobate and Child of Darkness the Light condemns thee and thy Generation eternally We Witness thee to be in the Sorcery and Witchcraft Thou art darkness it self thou Dragon thy Queries are conjured in the Black-Art out of the bottomless Pit thou Diviner we Witness thee to be the Beast that Wars with the Lamb thou Antichrist that lookest at Christ's death at Jerusalem alone thou art seen with the Light and with it condemned thou blind Pharisee and Blasphemer thou Jesuit art thou pleading for a Christ afar off thee thou art under the Woe and from that Woe thou shalt never fly Let all People see whether thou be not a blind ignorant Sot Here thou replyest thy sottish Questions concerning the Body of Jesus as the Devil did about the Body of Moses Thou disobedient one upon whom God will render Vengeance in flaming fire thou art Accursed thou Beast to whom the Plagues of God are due upon whom the Wrath of God must be accomplished thou art shut out from God for ever thou blind Hypocrite thou dark sottish Beast thou polluted Beast And much more to this purpose you will find in the Book and Pages of Edward Boroughs the Quaker aforesaid Now is it not hard to believe the Testimony the Quakers give of this Man namely that he was a Faithful Servant and Prophet of the Lord And yet he thus Sentences a Man to Woe and Condemnation for ever and that for asking some sober and serious Questions Take also a Breviate of Mr. Penn's sweet Language to Mr. Faldo in Answer to his Book Quakerism no Christianity See Mr. Faldo's Reply to Mr. Penn's Answer p. 93. Saith Mr. Faldo I shall rake but into one of your Books for the following good Language and leave large gleanings of all these lovely Titles and Eipithets you afford me and my Work ' Behold you Priest failable errable Priest scoffing independent Priest ungodly Priest busie Priest cavilling Priest over-doing Priest Antichristian Priest Mountebank Priest this taunting Priest stingy Priest mercenary John Faldo a Quack a Religious Bone-setter the Priests break-neck the Priest and his Poppit-play Doctrine vaunting strutting John Faldo insolent Vilifier ignorance or malice it self our malignant Adversary John Faldo ignorance malice and revenge black as Hell it self in malice impious scoffs impudence strange impudence the impudence of his wickedness sordid pedantry he vomits his Scriptures he brings no more to purpose than Toby and his Dog a Doctrine of Devils a lye a lye to be sure a very lye devilish falsities a downright lye an errant lye a wicked lye the last great lye of his second part of lyes a wicked lye minted out of Hell Mr. Penn ' s Answer to Mr. Faldo p. 43. 65. 79. 64. 109. 117. 140. 208 210. 74. 107. 116. 40. 46. 110. 157. 204. 213. 214. 203. 215. And much more that follows being more general Railings and Reflections 4. Take a Breviate also out of this small bundle of Railery written by G. Whitehead against Edward Paye Henry Loader and William Alcot thus sweetly worded The Envy and Bitterness they are maliciously envious against our present Liberty as Men of a turbulent persecuting Spirit they have grosly belyed us in their bitter lying invectives their envy and bitterness is carnal blind and dark these envious turbulent Teachers in their rage and railery Lord deliver every well-meaning person from you and your Envy such malicious Preachers as these Anabaptists who as persons possessed with a lying unclean Spirit are now still foaming out their own shame and malice their work of malice and falshood in their puff'd-up envious Flesh they have grosly belyed us and do charge us with this horrid lye your shameful lyes you have grosly belyed us you have diabolically and foully foamed out your own shame and envy as will appear that the foaming unclean Spirit and lying Devil is not cast out of you the unclean lying Spirit that possesses you such gross forgeries horrid and abusive forgeries a gross lye O blind Guides self-contradicting and self-condemning Hypocrites you are blind Guides they are gross notorious old lyes Woe unto you lying Hypocrites Antichrist in Flesh c p. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. 11. 15. 16. 17. 18. 20. 21. c. And more such stuff as this Now doth not this make it manifest that the Quakers are no Changlings But is it not strange that these people that call themselves God's Lambs should act so like raging Bears and when endeavours have been used to still their ragings many times their Answer hath been as Tho. Lawson to Will. Jefery Dost not thou know the Saints shall Judge the World they being the Saints and all they condemn the World Take a Breviate of some of the Quakers Profession of Faith The Quakers Profession of Faith Q. What 's your Belief concerning the Blessed Trinity as our Term is Answer Our Belief is that in the Unity of the God-head there is Father Son and Holy Ghost being those 3 Divine Witnesses that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit and that these three are one according to Holy Scrip. Testimon The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith 1. Respecting the place where these Divine Witnesses are or what Heaven they intend 2. How it appears that they own the Humanity of Christ 3. How it can be that they own Justification by Christ briefly examined Smiths Primer p. 9. They that are false Ministers Preach Christ without and bid people Believe in him as he is in Heaven above Swor'd of the Lord p. 24 your carnal Christ is utterly denied by the Light your imagined God beyond the Stars J. Pernel's Satans design discovered p. 19 25. saith That by Preaching Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his work done on Earth as Tho. Lucock being asked by W. J. where that Heaven was into which Christ Ascended He answered claping his hand on his Breast saying within me within me so that the Heaven the Quakers intend is within them in their corruptible bodies The Quakers Profession of Faith Q. Do you believe the Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God or that Jesus Christ is truly God and Man Answer Yes we verily believe that Jesus is truly God and Man according as the Holy Scriptures testifies of him God over