BLOOD OF ANOTHER SAINT his INTENT (s) George Jesuit-like is excellent at directing the Intention WAS as to Papists and you whose Minds are Carnal who oppose the Light within and ALSO SIMPLY as to the ESSENCE of the BLOOD c. See his Book i. e. the Light and Life of Christ within c. Printed 1668. Thus much by way of G. Whitehead's Interpretation of Solomon's Words and Meaning which I take to be a fair Confession of the Charge of Blasphemy exhibited by Mr. Burnet But to confirm the Reader that the Quakers are defective in the Faith of the Christians in general I will shew another Passage of the same Kind thereby shewing the Quakers Harmony about the Body of Christ from another of their eminent Authors viz. So now this Christ was before the World began and was a Seed †i. e. A Principle within before any Name was given to it who in Process of time was Born of a Virgin but none knows him born or ever shall but of a Virgin he that hath Ears let him hear be thou Man but the Virgin the Power of the most High shall overshadow thee and that HOLY THING which shall be Born of Thee shall be called the Son of God and saith Christ a Body hast thou prepared for me mark the Distinction thou me and a Body this me that spake in the Body was the Christ They his Disciples loved his Person for the sake of the Frame and Quality of the Spirit that dwelt in Him or else what was his Person to them more than another Person But for that that dwelt in him they loved him let none mistake I do not slight it nor the Person of any of his Brethren or Children as they are prepared to do the Will of their Father (t) As the Blood of Christ so the Body of Christ hath by their Doctrine no Preference above the Body and Blood of another Saint c. W. Bayly's Works p. 291. And hereupon they do not only deny Christ even the Lord that bought them as in my Book Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. I have shewed beyond all their Glossing but also how they thereby take occasion to magnifie THEMSELVES their OWN Blood their OWN Sufferings as I shall yet briefly shew For saith Isaac Pennington The Name Jesus and Christ belong to the whole Body and every Member in the Body as well as to the Head A Question to Professors c. p. 20 27. Again saith Josiah Coale His Edward Burroughs's Blood will be upon you as the Blood of a Thousand Men Jos Coale's Epistle to E. Burroughs's Works c. Again saith Thomas Speed Do not rashly draw your Swords against those harmless ones i. e. Quakers whom your bloody Teachers cloath and represent to you in the ugly Garb of Blasphemers remember that the Son of God who suffered at Jerusalem was not Crucified by the strict Religious as an innocent or just Man but as a Blasphemer be not therefore prevailed with to release Barabbas (v) For the Name Jesus belonged to the Believing Quakers as well as to Christ the Head and so the whole Paralle holds good and give over Jesus to be Crucified to gratifie the Murtherous Appetite either of the Priests or the Multitude considering that tho' you may with Pilate wash your Hands and to those Eyes that are dazled with Fury against innocent Jesus i. e. the Quakers appear clear from his Blood yet before the pure Eyes of the Lord will the condemning Stain thereof be found upon YOU so fresh THAT YOU WILL BY NO MEANS BE THENCE CLEANSED BUT BY THE SAME BLOOD WHICH YOU SO CRUELLY SHED See The Guilty covered Clergy-Man c. p. 16 17. Again see Burroughs's Works p. 273. The Suffering of the People of God call'd Quakers in this Age is a GREATER Suffering and MORE unjust than in the Days of CHRIST or of the APOSTLES or in ANY time SINCE what was done to CHRIST and the APOSTLES was CHIEFLY done by a LAW and in a GREAT Part by the DUE EXECUTION of a Law c. Now to close up this Head let us hear what Father Penn says for none of them all express themselves more full to the Point in Hand viz. See The Christian Quaker and his Divine Testimony c. p. 107. To conclude We tho' this general Victory was obtained and Holy Priviledges therewith and that the Holy Body was not instrumentally without a Share thereof yet that the efficient and chiefest Cause was the Light and Life (x) Within p. 102. so that the Invisible Life was the Root and Fountain of all which is sometimes ascribed in the Scriptures to the Body by that common Figure or Way of speaking amongst Men the thing containing which is the Body for the thing contained which is the Life p. 209. Nevertheless not to the Body but to that Holy Light and Life therein (y) As in the Quaker's Body c. is chiefly ascribed the Salvation and to the Body however excellent but instrumentally p. 97 98. The Serpent is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something that is Spiritual but if that BODY of CHRIST were the SEED (z) Mark here Christ the promised Seed Gen. 3.14 the Son of David of Mary is plainly denied to be the Christ of God then could he not Bruise the Serpent's Head in all because the BODY of CHRIST is not so much as in any one †Yes by Faith Read Acts 4.10,12 Luke 2.11 and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an Holy Principle of Light and Life that being received into the HEART bruiseth the Serpent's Head AND BECAUSE THE SEED WHICH CANNOT BE THAT BODY IS CHRIST as testifie the Scripture The Seed is one and that Seed is Christ They are false Ministers that Preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above Smith's Primer p. 8. But they that are Christ's Ministers Preach Christ within Your imagined God beyond the Stars and your Carnal Christ is utterly denied that this Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lie c. The Sword of the Lord drawn p. 5. Reader I have taken in enough to shew the Marrow of the Quaker's Divinity and the Harmony of their Antient Testimonies And they tell you in a late Print That God is the same Truth is the same his People the same their Principles are the same c. The People call'd Quakers cleared c. p. 7. And in another Our Principles are now no other than what they were when we were first a People Primitive Christianity c. p. 53. Printed 1698. So that there needs no Comment only for further Satisfaction I refer to my former Books New Rome Unmask'd and her Foundation Shaken c. New Rome Arraign'd and out of her own Mouth Condemned c. Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. The Snake in the Grass c. Satan Disrobed
of you may think that these Doctrines of ours point to or aim only at extraordinary Commands as Moses going to Pharoah with some other Temporary Commands my very Doctrine shew it to be the Ten Commandments First By telling the Priest they might as well carry the Ten Commandments to Christ the Consequence of which is that Christ had as much need to learn them as we have Secondly in that we never Recommended the Ten Commandments to our Hearers that they should teach them to their Children and so from Age to Age one Generation after another as the Churches do and ever did both Jewish and Christian Thirdly Because we never read them in our Meetings nor in any one of our Books Recommend them to be so read This therefore may confirm you in our Ancient Testimony which have been to lay them by as a dead Letter Dust Death Serpents Food and Beastly Ware c. and I exhort you to be Bold and Valiant to maintain our Ancient Testimonies and this leads me to the third and last Inference namely Touching Baptism and the Lord's Supper Dear Friends I am now come to give you the Arguments of the Christians for Baptism and the Supper which is founded upon the Letter which our Apostle G. Fox said was Dust and Death viz. Their Sacrament is Carnal their Communion is Carnal a little Bread and Wine so Dust is the Serpent's Meat Their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Again p. 35. A Word to all you Deceivers who deceive the People and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemy and Hypocrisie That tell the People of a Sacrament and tell that it is the Ordinance of God Blush blush and tremble before the Lord God Almighty for dreadful is he that will pour forth his Vengeance upon you You who live in the Witchery and bewitch the People c. News coming up out of the North c. p. 14 35. Dear Lambs I first told you that the Authority the Christians make use of for these Two Ordinances is bottomed upon the Letter I have now shewed you a greater Authority for the disannulling them namely what is said by the Spirit of Truth through our Second Moses And to prove it read the Gospel wrote by me 1659. viz. * * Truth defending the Quakers c. p. 7. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any then to be sure in Geo. Fox is of as Great Authority as the Scriptures or Chapters are and Greater Thus Friends I first told you what Authority the Christians pleaded for these two Institutions of Baptism and the Supper namely the Scriptures I have likewise told you by what Authority we have laid them aside but lest all of you should not remember the Words the Christians quote not being much used to Scripture they are these Go ye therefore and teach all Nations Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you And lo I am with you always even to the end of the World Matth. 28.19,20 Again And he Christ took Bread and gave Thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying This is my Body which is given for you THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME. Likewise also the Cup after Supper saying This Cup is the New-Testament in my Blood which is shed for you Luke 22.19,20 Again Matthew hath it And as they were eating Jesus took Bread and blessed it and brake it and gave to the Disciples and said Take eat this is my Body And he took the Cup and gave Thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it for this is my Blood of the New-Testament which is shed for many for the Remission of Sins Matth. 26.26,27,28 Again Paul hath it For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you That the Lord Jesus the same Night in which he was betrayed took Bread And when he had given Thanks he broke it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME. After the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying This Cup is the New-Testament in my Blood THIS DO YE as oft as ye drink it IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME 1 Cor. 11.23,24,25 Beloved I cannot but allow that if the Letter viz. the Scriptures were of greater Authority than our Sayings or that the Words of Matthew Luke and Paul were of greater Authority than our Sayings I should be of the Christians side for nothing in the World is plainer said nor more possitively commanded But Friends in the beginning we were convinced by G. Fox that Matthew Mark Luke and John were Death Dust and Serpents Meat that the Scriptures were Beastly Ware that all that preached out of them were Conjurers that the Letter of the Scripture is Carnal Death and Killeth that such as once told the People of a Sacrament were Witches News coming up c. p. 14 35. Printed 1655. A brief Discovery of a Threefold State c. p. 9. Printed 1653. Saul 's Errand to Damascus c. p. 7. Printed 1654. And that therefore they ought not only to blush but tremble that such as preached Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above were false Ministers Witches Devils c. Smith's Primer p. 8. That it was Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God Fox's Great Mystery p. 240. Printed 1659. That Circumcision is as much of Force as Water Baptism and the Paschal-Lamb as Bread and Wine for says my dear Brother W. Penn the Continuance of those Two Ordinances as the Lord's Supper and Baptism would have been a Judaizing of the Evangelical Worship and to assert their Continuance would be as much as in us lies to pluck up the Gospel by the Roots Hence says our dear Brother that Appellation Ordinances of Christ I do renounce as Unscriptural and Unevangelical and can testifie from the same Spirit by which Paul Renounced Circumcision that they to wit Water-Baptism and the Supper are to be rejected as not now required c. W. Penn's Reason against Railing c. p. 108 109. And therefore I warn you all to take heed of Apostatizing from our Ancient Testimony as you have it in my Text for what we were convinced of by our Light in the beginning to be Evil to be Death Dust Serpents Meat 't is so still to be Beastly Ware and Conjuration 't is so still and therefore keep up to your Ancient Testimony my dear Lambs in all the Parts of it Ha ha ha hme hme hme silent After a little Silence Will. Bingley c. Friends Friends I am filled I am filled as with new Wine I am ready to burst at the joyful News I have heard to Day respecting our Ancient Testimony And oh
in the Power of the Highest in which thou Rules and Governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is Established in Peace and the Increase thereof is without end Judas and the Jews p. 44. Secondly Dear and Precious one in whom my Life is bound up and my Strength in thee stand by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my Strength is renewed I cannot Reign but in thy Presence and Power Glory unto thee Holy One (p) Holy George for ever John Audland's Letter to George Fox Thirdly George Fox said John Blaikling is blessed with Honour above many Brethren and Thousands will stand by him in a Heavenly Record that his Life Reigns and is Spotless whose Eternal Honour and Blessed Renown shall remain yea his Presence and the Dropping of his tender Words in the Lord's Love was my Soul's Nourishment The Christian disting Part 5. p. 77. Fourthly George Fox a Prophet indeed it was said of Christ that he was in the World and the VVorld was made by him and the VVorld knew him not SO it may be said of this Prophet G. Fox The Quak. Challenge p. 6. Fifthly To confirm all this William Mead now living when he gave William Harris one of George Fox's Journals he said to him Here W. Harris I will give thee one of Geo. Fox's Journals it is a very good Book yea better than the Bible Object 1. But some may say this is only W. Mead's Judgment surely the Quakers do not hold that either their Books or Fox's Journal is better or of greater Authority than the Bible for the Fathers and Councils all submitted to the Test of Holy Scripture as the VVord of God Answ To this I answer That W. Mead is a knowing Man I will not say a wise Man unless in that one Action of his whereby he vigorously opposed W. Penn and endeavoured to exclude him out of their Ministry when he was proclaimed a Traytor to his Country for being charged to be in the Plot with the Lord Preston and others and was therefore forced to hide many Years and for which his Preface to Fox's Journal was not admitted to be bound up with the Journal but waited upon it like a poor Lacquey with its Blue Livery I say this Action of his excepted I will not say he was a wise Man yet as I said he is a knowing Man and spake the Heart of Quakerism in saving George Fox's Journal is better than the Bible First As you have heard 't is question'd by the Quakers VVhether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of the Scripture indeed VVhether either or neither of them The Quakers Refuge fixed c. p. 17. But as for what G. Fox and Friends write it is from and by the Motion of God's Eternal Spirit and avouched so to be by a General Council of the Yearly Meeting (q) Held at London May 1695. And what any of our Friends speak from the Spirit of Truth is of greater Authority than the Bible and Chapters are Truth defending the Quakers c. p. 7. Now who can blame W. Mead on the Quakers Principles Is not a Certainty better than an Uncertainty Secondly The Scriptures lay many Obligations upon us it teacheth us the Observation of the Ten Commandments the Lord's Prayer the Apostles Creed Baptism and the Lord's Supper which the Journal does not at all teach nor inforce the Belief of only to listen adhere and hearken to the Light within and to obey its Dictates Therefore as the Journal is most certain so it is most easie and therefore the best Book and of most Authority and on the Quakers Hypothesis confirm all those Particulars above quoted Thirdly The Scripture teacheth to obey Magistrates as the higher Power and that we should submit our selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake Matth. 22.21 Titus 3.1 Rom. 13.1,2,3 1 Pet. 2.13,14,17 See also Tindal's VVorks Obedience to a Christian Man c. p. 111. But the Journal p. 40 to 400. and our Friends Books teach both by Precept and Example That the Light in every Man is the higher Power to whom all must submit and obey for to it all Power in Heaven and Earth is committed Jos Coale's VVork p. 93. and that this Light is one in the Male and in the Female but to a proud heady high-minded Man there is no Honour due tho' he be in a place to Rule Smith's Primer p. 43. And if so who can say that W. Mead spake unadvisedly in saying The Journal of Fox is better than the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles I think him a right Quaker a knowing Man and one that loves a Certainty better than an Uncertainty Fourthly The Scriptures teach That VVomen should obey their Husbands yea that they Reverence them and live in Subjection to them as their Head Gen. 3.16 Numb 30 to the end 1 Cor. 11.8 1 Pet. 3.1 Tit. 2.5 Colos 3.18 Ephes 5.22 quoting Sarah as an Example But the Journal teaches That the Light is the higher Power that it is one in the Male and in the Female and 't is the Light in each that is to be obeyed for to that all Power in Heaven and Earth is committed Smith's Primer p. 13. The Journal p. 50 to 450. and that there is to be no respect of Persons and if the VVife conceive her Husband to be gone from the Light and the Guidance of it and she be moved to rebel against her Husband betray his Secrets to his Adversaries yea to give publick Testimony against him she does well and shall have Praise of the same The Content Apostate c. p. 5. And for this Reason the Quakers do not put in or make the VVoman promise by their Marriage Certificate to obey their Husbands which as it is contrary to the Tenure of the whole Book of God both the Old and New Testament so 't is agreeable to G. Fox's Journal and their Antient Testimony See their Marriage Certificate Fifthly In a word the Scriptures teach That Children should obey their Parents and honour their Father and Mother that Servants should obey their Masters that Subjects should submit to their Governours and obey Magistrates that Christians should obey their Pastors who are over them in the Lord who watch for their Souls as those that must give an Account But the Journal p. 20 to 320. teaches the contrary both by Precept upon Precept as also by the Practice of their great Apostle G. Fox who not only broke the Laws in disturbing the Ministers in their Churches but taught so to do not only refused to pay Tythes but taught so to do not only slighted the Magistrates Command who oftentimes commanded a strict Fast to be kept but taught his Followers so to do Nay lately one Thomas Mash an Antient Quaker living at Newberry in Berkshire was moved by his Light within to open his Shop-VVindows on the Lord's-Day as on Market Days and set out his Goods to Sale this the Journal justifies p. 200 to the
c. Primitive Heresie c. and George Keith's Three Narratives and Mr. Crisp's Animadversions c. to avoid Repetition Yet least those Books may not come into some Hands which this may I thought it needful to give these brief Hints for Information Object 4. But still some may urge What! Hath W. Mead no other Reason for his saying Fox's Journal was better than the Bible Answ I do not grant that he hath any good Reason that 's far from me neither do I know of any better I know of some other which with him may go far which in brief are First George Fox's Miracles which he writ in his own Name like those of Simon Magus Acts 8.9,10 cap. 19.13 and certain Vagabond Jews Exorcists but these lying Wonders came too late some 20 some 30 Years after they were said to be done no Body knows where nor when nor who were cured nor no Witness to attest the Truth thereof Read Fox's Journal p. 167 170 171 103 27 28 407 258 70 370 371 373 503. 2 dly Because Fox pretended that God sent a Trooper to him whilst Prisoner in the House of Correction as he sent Saul to Annanias Journal p. 45. 3 dly Because he Fox pretended he had Visions as had Ezekiel p. 69. 4 thly For that Fox pretended that the Keeper of the House of Correction came Trembling to him as the Goaler did to Paul and Silas p. 37. 5 thly That he saw the Heavens open as St. Stephen did p. 47. 6 thly That he spake like an Angel in Beverly Church the wonderful Things of God p. 55. 7 thly That he was a Prophet like Isaiah spake the Word and it came to pass p. 67 78. 8 thly That he saw a Pool of Blood and and a Channel of Blood in the Town of Lichfield p. 53. when there was not a drop of Blood much less a Channel or a Pool of Blood c. However by these and the like lying Wonders †As more large in the Picture of Quakerism Part 2d the Quakers like the deluded Samaritans of old are made to believe with W. Mead That the Journal of Fox is a better Book than the Bible and that George Fox as well as Simon Magus was some great Man even the Power of God see Journal Third Index under the Letter M. and thereupon gave him Divine Attributes due only to Christ which Whitehead their Drudge to help them at a dead lift was forc'd to bring in his Innuendo's to set forth the Intents of Coale Eccles c. Innocency against Envy c. p. 18. CHAP. VI. Shews George Whitehead c. their Hypocrisie Answereth an Objection Do not the Quakers maintain their own Poor Their Vncharity thereby discovered Reader I Am now upon a fresh yet a necessary Subject for as the Quaker-Teachers have cry'd down all Protestant Ministers as Covetous Lovers of filthy Lucre and thereby raised their own Fame as the Prophets of the Lord called forth from their own Country and from their Father's Houses from both Riches Honours and Preferments to come with their Lives in their Hands for the Good of Souls this Noise I must confess went a great way with me in my young Years and I know it doth with many And therefore I think it needful to discover their Deceit in this particular as well as to shew how far they maintain their own Poor and what they mean by those Words THEIR OWN POOR for as their Hypocrisie is Misterium Maximum so it requires some Time and Skill to unfold it in order to which I shall thus proceed Object 1. But say some G. Whitehead printed F. Bugg a conceited Fool one that cannot write true English Judgment Fixed c. p. 233 243. and also of little Credit Likewise that the Author of The Snake in the Grass is a Necessitous Malicious Expulsed Priest one who writes for his Bread a Villain a Venemous Obnoxious Sculking Vermin c. with abundance more of the like nature A Sober Expostulation c. p. 2. Primitive Christianity continued c. and G. W. 's Letter to G. Keith May 3. 1698. Answ First As to my self tho' I had not that Learning which I am satisfied my Parents once designed yet I thank God and my Parents for affording me both a Competency of Learning and Judgment to deal with the Quakers who are not over-learned no not G. W. when he came first amongst us witness his Book Jacob found in a Desart Land c. printed 1656. which I am sure is so foreign from true School-Learning that there is not in the whole Book one Page good Grammar-English as well as some part meer Nonsence Yet I will not call him Fool nor yet nothing of a Scholar for perhaps he might be then entered in his Accidence And I will also grant that since that having leisure enough and lived with his Feet under other Men's Tables whilst I was occupied in Trade and Worldly Business he has acquired a greater degree of Learning yet not so much neither as always to write true English as in his Letter to Mr. Archer is manifest so that he might have pass'd by my want of Learning c. 2 dly As to his Reflection on my Credit when I came first amongst the Quakers I had sufficient to live upon and to maintain my self in the rank I was brought up in yea to give and not receive At 16 Years old I had by my Grandfather an Annuity given me of 6 l. per Annum until I was 21 Years old and then Thirty Pounds per Annum besides what my Father gave me and tho' I have met with many Losses and that in divers Kinds yet I thank God who hath hitherto enabled me to maintain my Post and to defend my Faith and Christian Reputation against the Malicious Attempts of G. Whitehead and his Confederates besides G. Whitehead might have forborn since most of my Losses have been by the Quakers having had Eight or Nine break in my Debt some paying nothing some paying 5 s. in the Pound some 2 s. 6 d. in the Pound (a) Viz. Enoch Barwick about Two Years since for 18 l. I had but 45 s. I will mention one more namely Tho. Plumstead Brother to Francis Plumstead at the Cross-Saws in the Minories London and still an Eminent Quaker living in Ireland but no Conscience he makes of paying me and that it may appear true I will recite the Note I have still under his Hand viz. May 12. 1676. Reckoned with Francis Bugg of Milden-Hall and all Accompts being then cleared there rests due to Francis Bugg Sixteen Pounds Four Pounds whereof is to be paid to him Six Months after the Date hereof and the Twelve Pounds remainder not exceeding Four Years Witness my Hand the Day abovesaid Tho. Plumstead However he never had the Honesty nor Conscience to pay one Penny of it which is now Interest and Principle between 30 and 40 l. and greater Sums than this and of as
Eminent Quakers I can mention if need be But I understand the World so well as not to make these things the Subject of my Discourse nor did I ever mention any such thing in Print only G. W. gives now Occasion for it 3 dly As to the Author of the Snake in the Grass c. I am sensible G. W. does as much abuse him and indeed what Opponent ever had G. W. that he did not abuse However he has been and still is a Gentleman a Man of great Learning and Piety and cloathed with Zeal as with a Garment for the Christian Religion and well accomplished every way to display the Errours of the Quakers and is preparing an Answer to G. Whitehead wherein he I believe will trace him step by step in all his crooked and by paths But G. Whitehead I have not done with you yet you tell us in the History of your Call to the Ministry saying The Lord hath called me from my Native Country and from my Father's House and from outward Riches and the Honour of the World c. Jacob found in a Desart Land c. p. 8. I do well remember that when I came first amongst you this was a great part of your Cant as if you had been some Lords Sons yea Men of Breeding Riches and Honour and left all for the sake of Souls when alas upon a strict Enquiry of which I have not been wanting I find you in this as well as in almost every thing else horrible Deceivers for you left your poor Country for a Richer and like Yorkshire Hostlers are observed seldom or never to return thither again You came from Penury to Plenty from Labour and Toil to Ease and Pleasure you came from your Father's poor Cottage which I have been told by them that saw it that it is not worth 50 s. to Houses worth 500 l. a good Exchange believe me and you were so far from being possess'd with outward Riches that you came a poor Boy on Foot and liv'd upon Alms amongst us sometimes a Month here Six Weeks there more or less as you could find Entertainment the mean time improving that little Learning you had as well as to instruct the Children in the Family But George thou left thy Honour too how came that to pass What Worldly Honour wert thou endued with Was it to carry a Letter to a great Person sometimes for a piece of Victuals Very well I think that is as much as ever during thy Dwelling in thy own Country thou didst arrive to and for this in time thou hadst the Honour to send thy Servant and ride thy self on Horseback with a London Linnen-Draper riding before thee Benjamin Antrobus and John Kent worth some Thousands for ought I know riding behind thee carrying thy Portmantle and thy self George in the middle like some Peer Thus George instead of leaving thy Riches thy Honour c. thou left thy Penury and Contempt and by Deceit like thy Brother Sam. Cater who pretended he suffered 20 l. when he suffered not a Groat but by that Pretence got 10 l. clear into Pocket Picture of Quakerism drawn c. p. 106 to 111. at large But HARK George I find you so deceitful that I fear thou hast laid a Foundation in this thy Jacob found in a Desart Land and with Design too to have thy Friends after thy Decease when they collect thy Works to magnifie thy Call to thy Ministry out of thy Father's Country for the sake of Souls when alas it was for filthy Lucre-sake in leaving thy outward Riches when alas it was to get Riches and Honour Object 2. But may some say What will the Quakers give such notorious Accounts of their Call to their Ministry And are they generally of such a mean Abstract and yet so advanced Where is the Self-Denial they so often boast of And why do they debase the Clergy as a Tribe of Covetous Worldly Teachers Since if others be like Whitehead none exceed the Quaker Teachers in Worldly-mindedness Answ First Well to Answer this Objection take G. W. for one Instance 2 dly Sam. Cater who was a poor Journeyman Carpenter and when he led James Naylor's Horse into Bristol crying Hosannah to the Son of David and put in Prison he was well acquainted with Vermin Rags and Penury however 't is believed he is worth now besides Portioning out his Children some Hundreds 3 dly John Kilborn another Journeyman Carpenter as poor as either Whitehead or Cater when they first set up for Speakers now a Wealthy Man 4 thly William Bingley a poor Taylor wrought for 4 d. or 6 d. a Day in the North with Tho. Denison or others now a Rich Man 4 thly Samuel Wallingfeild a Glazier formerly but since a vast Rich Draper in London 6 thly Tho. Green a Mason or Bricklayer now a Man worth many Thousands 7 thly George Fox a poor Journeyman Shoemaker died worth Abundance and liv'd in as much Plenty as most Knights in England 8 thly Stephen Crisp formerly a poor Weaver but died very Rich. I have known most of these Eight Persons near 30 Years some longer and setting the Glazier and Mason aside which possibly might make up jointly 100 l. if need were but the other Six I do verily believe was not all worth 100 l. unless they had sold their Axes Saws Thimble and Needles Beds Stools Shuttle and Awl But such is the Art of their Preaching how much soever they decry Gifts and Rewards in others that put what Geo. Fox and Steph. Crisp died worth to what the other Six living for ought I know together and by the most modest Account that I can get together with my own Estimation their Estates thus got by Preaching is not so little as Twenty Thousand Pounds but some think nearer Thirty Thousand Pounds Now then I dare engage to produce 500 Clergymen whose Fathers were Men of Estates who brought them up at Schools and Colledges with great Expence and Charge and that since they came into the World have been frugal Men and liv'd as many Years in their Office of Preaching and yet have not advanc'd their Fortunes to this degree And yet to behold how their Books are fill'd with reproachful Language as well as their Sermons against the Clergy as a Tribe of Mercenary Hirelings Lovers of filthy Lucre Followers of Balaam for Reward seeking their Gain from their Quarters Greedy Dogs Babylon's Merchants Covetous Devils Thieves Robbers A Brief Discovery of a threefold State c. p. 5 7 8 9 10. Yea says W. Penn And whilst the Idle Gormondizing Priests of England run away with above 150000 l. a Year under Pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so universally thro' Ages the very Bane of Soul and Body to the Universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon c. The Guide mistaken p. 18. And
Testimony and they are not chang'd they tell you so as I have herein before observed Seventhly And as a Pregnant Instance of the dangerous Consequence of this their Six-Week Meeting and their common Stock or Fund observe that of Joseph Clark one of their Preachers before noticed who tho' he pretended he was moved of God their usual Pretence for their Villanies yet when J. Field and their Fund failed him he presently pays his Tythes professing also that he then could pay them as well as other Taxes which is a clear Demonstration that such as stand it out and will rather spend 20 l. then pay 13 s. is because they are supported by this Illegal Fund c. And Lastly You may by this recited Epistle observe the Confederacy of their Yearly-Meeting and Six-Week Meeting to spread their venemous Books to infect both Youth and Aged Male and Female Old and Young and all under the fine Notion of the Service of Truth meaning Quakerism For if they meant the Truth of the Christian Doctrine they would at one time or other read a Chapter in their Meetings at one time or other recommend to their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings the reading of some Portion of the Holy Scriptures But not a Word of this in their Epistles not a Chapter read in their Meetings for Forty Years together but their own Epistles their own Prophesies their own printed Exhortations These they not only read in their private Meetings in their Families but they must Record you see this recited Epistle in their Quarterly-Book and sometimes read it Oh! 't is a precious Epistle And now Christian Reader I cannot but think my self unable to give a full and compleat Caution against the spreading of the Gangrene of Quakerism and therefore give me leave in the Words of Mr. Ralph Farmer a Minister formerly of Bristol to rehearse part of his Exhortation in his Book i. e. The Myst of Ungodliness c. viz. Now beloved if thou beest a Christian what say'st thou Is not here a Mystery of Ungodliness to the Purpose Where was it hatch'd think'st thou Could any less than all the Devils in Hell keep a Conventicle to Contrive and Plot this Black and Hellish Treason against the Majesty of God Jesus Christ and the Holy Scriptures Oh! ye Christian Magistrates who rule for Christ and to whom you shall one Day give an Account of your Government how you have ruled for him and how tender you have been of his Honour what is become of your Zeal for Christ and his Glory Good Sirs if these wretched Souls have such Liberty of Conscience to think thus contemptuously of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Gospel let them not upon Pretence of Liberty of Conscience be so audaciously Blasphemous to write and speak thus And O ye Servants of the Lord my Fathers and Brethren in the Ministry of our Dear and Ever-blessed Jesus you that are the Pastors of the Lord's Flock and the Watchmen for the Sheep of his Pasture lift up your Voices and spare not cry aloud to all your Congregations and forewarn them that they be not a Prey to Satan's Devices let the Wolves know that you are not Dumb Dogs and cannot bark and Idol Shepherds that can neither hear nor see nor understand any thing and that at a time of Need can say nothing certainly certainly such as these may ill look for their Gain from their Quarters they deserve it not who so they may be fed care not nor care to discover what devouring Beast comes to destroy the Flock of Christ But you my dear Brethren who are set over the Lord's Folds and who watch for their Souls as those that must give an Account and that have a Desire to do it with Joy and for the Profit of your People read and practise what St. Paul gives in charge to the Pastors of the Church at Ephesus Acts 20.28,29,30,31 and let me give it thee here in his own Words what he gave forth to his Son Timothy I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the Quick and the Dead at his Appearing and Kingdom preach the Word be instant in Season out of Season reprove rebuke exhort with all Long suffering and Doctrine for the time will come and it is now when they shall not endure sound Doctrine but after their own Lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers having itching Ears and they shall turn away their Ears from the Truth and shall be turned unto Fables but watch thou in all things endure Afflictions do the Work of an Evangelist or Gospel Preacher make full Proof of thy Ministry c. CHAP. XI Shews the Quakers Second-Day Meetings and Hypocrisie thereof with its ill Consequences in order to Deceive Reader I Am now come to their Second-Day Meeting even to that Meeting where Satan dwells and where he employs his Archest Emissaries I shall not wrong them as believing I must one Day give an Account for my Actions before the Man Christ Jesus who shall Judge both the Quick and Dead at the Great Day where I hope I shall not be afraid to meet G. Whitehead with this Testimony in my Hand so on the other Hand I shall not spare them hide nor cover them who have by their Wiles by their Books of two sorts deceived the Nations deceived many of the Magistrates many of the Clergy nay my self for I could not have wrote thus Fifteen Years ago †No if I had not seen their deceitful Practices and measur'd them by the Scriptures I could not have known them rightly I took them then at least some Years before to be Prophets at least sincere and to meet there for the approving of what was Right Sound and Orthodox and for condemning the contrary But behold I have found the contrary and that by sad Experience yea I have found that their whole Business is to deceive and carry on a Design yea a Confederacy under the fine Notion of Unity and Concord I have laboured many Years under great Difficulties I have spent my Estate I have spent my Strength I grow into Years I have a Conscience to Discharge I think I cannot do it unless I compleat that Discovery which I have began Tho' I find it prejudicial to my Health and other Business I find my self conscientiously concerned in this weighty Affair I do know that the Reverend Author of the Book entituled The Snake in the Grass * To whose Works I refer the Reader c. have done exceeding well he hath done beyond what I am able to do 't is a Learned Piece and becomes a Learned Reader But I am directing the greatest part of what I say to the more unlearned †i. e. The common People who are not so well School-Learn'd to such whether Quakers or others as sometimes must spell as they read and read over and over before they can understand this makes me sometimes write over and over
free-willing Heart that thou may'st rock Nations as a Cradle ††This is their Ancient Testimony and keep thou in the Fear of the Lord and all thy Soldiers and them that are under thee This is a Charge to thee in the Presence of the Lord God I am a Lover of thy Soul and Eternal Good an Establisher of Righteousness G. FOX * * The Righteousness of Gâ—d c. p. 11. To thee O Oliver Cromwell thus saith the Lord I had chosen thee among the Thousands in the Nations to execute my Wrath upon my Enemies and gave them to thy Sword with which I Fought for the Zeal of my own Name and gave thee the Enemies of my own Seed to be a Curse and a Reproach for ever and made thee an Instrument against them And many have I cut down by my Sword in thy Hand that my Wrath might be executed on them to the utmost G. Roffe These I affirm were your Ancient Testimonies in Print which deserves to be burnt on Tower-Hill Secondly I must acknowledge it is according to your Old Testimony with Respect to your Hypocrisie viz. in pretending to pay your Acknowledgment to the King for his Kindness and yet never mention by Name what King you mean'd when two Kings laid Claim to the Crown and for which your Paper was justly rejected as a Fruit of your Hypocrisie of which your Second-Day Meeting is full Thirdly It was according to your Ancient Deceit in not owning King William to be your Rightful and Lawful King and yet to tell the House of Lords that your refusing to Sign the Association was not in Opposition to his being declared Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms which piece of Hypocrisie the Lords soon perceived and sent you packing with your Paper Fourthly It was also according to your Ancient Testimony in wheeling about and worshipping the Rising-Sun to bring in your April Testimony with the King's Name three times over and to own him your Rightful and Lawful King and YET to leave your Promise of Signing the Association Fifthly It was according to your Old Testimony of Deceit and Hypocrisie to pretend in your said April Testimony That you owned King William III. to be Rightful and Lawful King and yet in your March Testimony to pretend your Conscience would not allow you Liberty to Sign the Association according to the Act of Parliament in that Case made and provided as above-recited in regard you could not avenge your selves But being told by my Paper which I presented to the Lord's House which was in Reply to yours That you told R. Cromwell You would be a Strength to him and stand by him in the Day of his Trouble and Defend him and his just Government c. Then in your next Paper to wit your April Ancient Testimony you left out your refusing to Sign the Association as well as the Cause why you could not Sign it * O deep Deceit 'T is well for you that the Lords did not perceive this namely because you pretended you cannot take Revenge For alas in that my said Paper I had shew'd the Lords That you had prosecuted a Man for killing a Quaker gave 50 l. for the Discovery of him got him and procur'd him to be hang'd in Chains and yet could not avenge the Blood of your Prince †Tâ—ey can revenge the Blood of a privaâ—… 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 reâ—…ge the Bâ—…d of their Prince Hâ—peful Subjects They deserve Protection apace O tender Consciences Thus you make Conscience your Stalking Horse in all your Villanies besides your Indicting my self and others are Demonstrations that you can seek Revenge for Personal Wrongs and Injuries and 〈◊〉 you cannot for Conscience-sake stand by and defend King William as you promised you would Richard Cromwell in his JUST GOVERNMENT c. Some Inferences from the Eleventh Chapter IS it so then that this Second Days Meetings is as the Helm to the Ship the Wheel within the Wheel which set all going and that they can leave out of their Reprints such Prophesies as suit not with the Times This shews them arrant Impostors Is it so that neither Second-Days Meetings nor Yearly Meetings have ever yet given out one Publick Address to King William III. nor one Congratulatory Paper to acknowledge Him their Right and Lawful * For their Ancient Testimony April 3. 1696. and their late Paper presented to the King Feb. 7. 1697. were both drawn up of a Friday King and that they refused to Sign the Association with the rest of His Majesty's Subjects What reason then have they either grounded upon Reason or Merit to expect such singular Favours from the Government as they would seem to insinuate they have And why boast they so much upon their Right of Priviledges when they 'll comply with nothing but what suits with their Interest and Design And where they are call'd to any Publick Test either for their Fidelity to the Government or to stand by and defend the King they then at every turn plead their Conscience in Excuse from their Duty What! Hath no Body any Conscience but they Is it so that their Ancient Testimony is so utterly against Monarchy against Parliaments and Magistrates as to say We stand Witnesses against Parliaments Councils Judges Justices who make or execute Laws in their Wills over the Consciences of Men or punish for Conscience-sake and to such Laws Customs Courts or Arbitrary Usurped Dominion we cannot yield Obedience that the Parliament is the Beast and the Church of England the Whore of Babylon that no King is to Rule but Jesus c. See Burrough's Works p. 203 501 524. I have instanced three several Acts they 'll not obey And thereupon they 'll obey no Act of Parliament which cross their Design What reason is there for their so boasting at every turn of their being Recognized as Protestants when their Principles are not only repugnant to all Christians but their Practice to all Protestants the World over and till they repent thereof and retract their Errours they are a Scandal to Christianity and a Reproach to the Name of Protestant I have by me the Address of the Honourable House of Commons made in February 1697. and His Majesty's Gracious Answer thereto I have also His Majesty's Gracious Proclamation which consists chiefly of Two Parts the one against Vice Immorality and Prophaneness the other Part against Writing Printing or Publishing Pernicious Books and Pamphlets containing impious Doctrines against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith c. I have also by me a Copy of the Quakers Paper presented to His Majesty dated the 7th of February 1697. wherein they own him King as the Jewish Captives did Belshazzar Dan. 5.21 and thereby themselves Captives wherein they take some notice of the first Particular but not a Word of the latter But this Chapter is extended beyond what at first I intended so shall not at
the Judgment that is written in my Eternal Decree and Unchangeable Councel saith the Lord. This Honour have all my Saints this is the Heritage of my Servants saith the Lord And their Righteousness and their Reign their Salvation and Redemption and all their Dignity is of me only and of me only and not of themselves shall they acknowledgee it to be Saith the Lord God Almighty who is now doing all this his Holy Will and good Pleasure and who is he that shall ever Disannul it Given forth under my Hand as the Lord himself gave it into my Heart to see and into my Mouth to speak and unto my Hand thus at large to write it the 25th of the 7th Month 1656. Samuel Fisher Pray is not this a Fifth-Monarchy Sermon No it 's a Quaker Sermon but it 's all one Doctrine and may become one Practice p. 102. Ibid. i. e. The Quakers are the truest Catholick Church in the World c. If so then your Saints are intended for this Holy War Friends I am the longer in this Sermon because my Text requires it namely To shew you our Ancient Testimony in all the Parts of it And if any of the World's People at any time should understand this Discourse for 't is much if it do not come abroad then tell them we mean all within we are an Inward People And whether we mention War and Fighting Swords and Spears Ox or Ass Kill Cut off Destroy take Vengeance of the Heathen Subvert and Overturn Nations Kingdoms c. all this we mean within and this have and this peradventure will satisfie them And now Friends I shall instance but one Proof more to evince what our Ancient Testimony was and is in all its Parts and then I shall with Prayer conclude and it is in an Epistle intituled This is only to go amongst Friends ††Writ by Fr. Howgill whose Daughter was in Bridewell London and Edw. Burrough in Dublin Printed Anno 1656. Which Epistle contains great part of our Ancient Testimony for it answers to George Fox's Title Page News coming up c. and it answers to Josiah Coale's Letter where he saith Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reached through us thy Children whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou George Rulest and Governs in Righteousness And Thy Kingdom is Established in Peace and the Increase thereof is Without End * * Josiah Coale's Letter from Barbadoes recorded in the Book of Outlandish Letters and by W. Penn vindicated in Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. It answers also our Brother Solomon Eccles who said It might be said of G. Fox as it was of Christ that he was in the World and the World was made by him and yet the World knew him not The Quakers Challenge c. p. 6. For if he was a King and had a Kingdom and such a Kingdom as of the Increase thereof there was never to be an end then you may conclude Friends that he was the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness spoken of in Scripture but mark This Epistle is only to go amongst Friends * * Indeed it was fit to go amongst none but Quakers and Fifth Monarchy-Men so very well intituled viz. And O thou North of England who art counted as Desolate and Barren and reckoned the least of the Nation yet out of thee did the Branch * * * Viz. Geo. Fox which was prophesied of and now is fulfilled c. his News out of the North Title Page Printed 1655. spring and the Star arise which gives Light unto all the Regions round about in Thee i. e. the North the Son of Righteousness appear'd with Wounding and with Healing and out of Thee the Terrors of the Lord proceeded which makes the Earth to tremble and be removed out of Thee †††i. e. Out of the North came Geo. Fox James Naylor R. Hubberthorn Geo. Whitehead Edw. Burrough c. Kings Priests and Prophets did come forth in the Name and Power of the most High which uttered their Voices as Thunders and laid their Swords on the Necks of their Enemies and never return'd empty from the Slaughter †††i. e. When they were in Oliver's Army Lift up your Voice blow the Trumpet sound an Alarum out of the Holy Mountain proclaim the Acceptable Year and the Day of Vengeance of our God gird on your Sword upon your Loins put on the Tried Armour and follow him for ever who rides on the white Horse and is cloathed with the same and makes War in Righteousness Ride on ride on my beloved Brethren and Fellow-Soldiers make all plain before you thresh on with the new Threshing Instrument which hath Teeth beat the Mountains to Dust and let the Breath of the Lord scatter it make the the Heathen †††i. e. All the Christians tremble and the Uncircumcised fall by the Sword the Lord of Hosts is with us and goes before us spare none neither Ox nor Ass neither Old nor Young * * * No where the Quakers have Power expect no Quarter Kill Cut off Destroy Bathe your Sword in the Blood of Amaleck †{inverted †}††{inverted †}††{inverted †}†The Quaker's own Writings are their best Construing Books and will best Interpret their Meaning who this Amaleck is viz. Geo. Bishop in his Warnings of the Lord p. 19. Printed 1660. i. e. he cries out to the Officers of the Army Remember Amaleck says he the Soul-Murdering and Conscience-Binding Clergy-man blot out the Remembrance of Amaleck from under Heaven News out of the North c. p. 27. Proclaim thus Slay Baal Baalam must be slain and all the Hirelings must be turned out of the Kingdom p. 18. and all the Egyptians and Philistines and all the Uncircumcised and hew Agag to pieces *âŽ* *âŽ* *âŽ* Dreadful is the Lord who is coming to change all your Laws ye Kings p. 20. The Government shall be taken from you Rulers this Tree of Government must be cut down and Jesus Christ in us will Rule alone break the Rocks in pieces cut down the Cedars and strong Oaks make the Devils subject cast out the Unclean Spirits raise the Dead shut up in Prison bring out of Prison cast in your Nets launch into the Deep divide the Fish bind the Tares in Bundles cast them into the Fire put on your Armour and gird on your Sword and lay hold on the Spear and march into the Field and prepare your selves to Battel for the Nations doth defie our God and saith in their Hearts who is the God of the Quakers * * * A proper Question fâ—r few if any know That we should fear him and obey his Voice Arise arise and sound forth the Everlasting Word of War and Judgment in the Ears of all the Nations sound an Alarum and make their Ears to tingle our Enemies are
all its Parts A small Treatise wrote in Alisbury Prison the 3d. Month 1661. by J. Whitehead Jo. Whitehead the Fourth Bird. where he saith 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 Vertues for the Covenant of Life and Peace was in him Jo. Whitehead the Fourth Bird. 'T is well Calculated for about 1648. Fox first rose in the North only did not spread forth his Branches till about 1650. And he Fox spread and shot forth many Branches which did partake of the Fatness of the Root and the Weary came to Rest under his Fox 's Branches and in him Fox was also the Word of Reconciliation which turned the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just And in the Year 1652. I John Whitehead being a Branch of this Tree Fox the Life of its Root caused me to Blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit as a Key opened his Fox 's Treasure and shewed me for he was before Languages were that which was from the beginning Read p. 4 5. of the same Treatise Thus then has this J. Whitehead put all out of Doubt and quite confuted G. Whitehead and overthrown all his Arguments by confessing Matter of Fact If I have made Whitehead oppose Whitehead 't is no more than in other Cases I have done for the Quakers having no Bottom no Solid Foundation but all speaking as their Light move them it 's casie to see how they interfere and jarr only G. W. has this Faculty he can otherwife word his Matter and yet mean the same A right Jesuit a Doctrine first coin'd in their Mint and only serve to their Ends whose Work has been to sow Divisions make Rents and beget Schisms c. The next Bird shall be John Audland in a Letter of his to G. Fox from the West of England an Abstract thereof is as follows viz. John Audland the Fifth Bird. Dear and Precious one in whom my Life is bound up and my Strength in thee stands by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my Strength is renewed Blessed art thou for evermore and Blessed are all that enjoy thee Life and Strength comes from thee Holy one daily do I find thy Presence with me which doth exceedingly preserve me for I cannot reign but in thy Presence Fox and Power Pray for me that I may stand in thy Dread Fox for evermore I am thine Fox Begotten and Nourished by thee and in thy Power Fox am I preserved Glory unto thee Fox Holy One for ever Reader These are the Birds in the Cage tell me are they not all of a Feather Do they not all agree in the main That G. Fox was the Quakers Branch and Star yea their All in All the Bottom and Corner and Top-Stone of their Building Pray spare me the Pains of a large Comment I think there is no need he that runs may read and he that reads may understand the Foundation of Quakerism no marvel then if it wither no marvel if it fall like a Millstone into the Bottom of the Sea never more to rise But let me add another Bird since I have Plenty c. Jo. Blaikling the Sixth Bird. Here followeth the Testimony and Certificate of John Blaikling to the clearing of the Aspersions that William Rogers c. cast upon G. Fox that 's blessed with Honour above many Brethren and that Thousands will stand by him in a Heavenly Record unto the Integrity of his Soul to Truth that still lives with him That his Life Reigns and is Spotless Innocent and still retains his Integrity whose Eternal Honour and Blessed Renown shall remain yea his Presence and the dropping of his Tender Words in the Lord's Love was my Soul's Nourishment c. The Christ Quaker disting c. 5th Part p. 77. Come George Whitehead give me thy Hand ☞ ☜ I 'll take thee out of the Cage and do thee this Honour not to be a Partner with the last Six Blasphemous Birds but as a Witness for them that we may hear what thou canst say on their Behalf But I 'll put thee in again and keep thee there lest thou flyest up and down the Nation and do more Mischief Oh George thou art a plump Bird thou' rt grown fat I find well what canst thou say I affirm that G. Fox does deny the same i. e. these Divine Attributes in reference to himself as a particular Man or Person whose Days and Years are limited only the Truth of the Immortal Seed Christ in him he stands to maintain against all Opposers and Apostates Judgment fixed c. p. 19. And as to his Francis Bugg 's Charge of Idolatry if not Blasphemous Names and Titles given to Geo. Fox in certain Letters how proves he Francis Bugg that they gave and intended those Titles to the Person of Geo. Fox and not to the Life of Christ in him Innocency against Envy c. p. 18. How George I 'll tell thee how because Josiah Coale said Dear G. Fox c. by this I know they intended G. Fox for if they had intended those Titles to the Life of Christ in him they would have directed their Letters suitably saying Dear Life of Christ in G. Fox c. This I hope will satisfie thee if Reason could take place if not I despair of giving thee or thy Friends Satisfaction But George for thy Comfort if thou wilt mean as thou say'st according to the Import of thy Words and on that Foot retract and condemn these thy Fallacious Covers and Excuses and thy own apparent Errors and the Errors in thy Friends Books which thou hast most impudently glossed over with thy Hypocritical Paint I will take thee out of the Cage if not there lye for ever singing Here is Perfection here is Perfection c. Thus much shall serve in answer to G. W.'s Book intituled A Sober Expostulation c. p. 54 55 56. as well as to shew what manner of Birds are in the Cage of this sort namely Blasphemers and Idolaters and next let me take out Six of the other sort namely of their Vicious Teachers against whom G. Whitehead would not write a Book for the World No seriously I believe him his Sincerity is so true to their Ancient Testimony besides if he should there being so few of them clear that here would be Hell broke loose for if they should write one against another all would come out and then they 'd appear a dark sort of Quakers indeed Christopher Atkinson the Seventh Bird but the first of the last Six beforementioned who was since hang'd for Felony And Christ Atkinson was G. Whitehead's Fellow-Traveller Fellow-Sufferer Fellow-Writer and Fellow-Preacher But so it was that he got Ursula the Maid-Servant of Tho. Symonds with Child when he was a Sufferer for their Ancient Testimony in Norwich-Goal but this was not all
the Soldiers with a Spear pierced his Side She turned her self back and saw Jesus Jesus saith unto her touch me not for I am not yet ascended Thomas said except I shall see in his Hands the Print of the Nails and put my Finger into the Print of the Nails and thrust my Hand into his Side I will not believe Then saith he Jesus to Thomas reach hither thy Finger and behold my Hands and reach hither thy Hand and thrust it into my Side and be not faithless but believing And Thomas answered unto him my Lord and my God And many other Signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his Disciples which are not written in this Book but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you might have Life through His Name John 1.5,23,34 20.14,17,25,27,28,30,31 Thus then it is evident That the same Jesus that was Born of the Virgin Mary the same Jesus which Suffer'd at Jerusalem is the Christ which the Apostles preached and which all true Christians believe in yet as evident That the Quakers do not own him nor believe in him For as above noted Isaac Pennington says there was the Outward Body which they can never call Christ Isaac Pennington's Question to Professors c. p. 27 33. G. W.'s Judgment fixed c. p. 336. W. Penn he says But that the Outward Person which suffer'd was properly the Son of God We utterly deny W. Penn 's Ser. Apol. c. p. 146. Well but let us hear this George Whitehead who thus reply'd saying I deny that the Quakers teach that the Name Jesus and Christ belongs to every Member in the Body as amply as to the Head Where proves he Fran. Bugg as amply Says Geo. Whitehead W. Baily's Works p. 229 230 307. The Sword of the Lord drawn c. pag. 5. Mark Reader here is a Tacit Confession of the Words as well tho' he carps at my Word amply which I put in for Illustration sake it not being a Quotation but a Charge which I still offer to make good if he will meet me on his own Proposition for I take the Word amply to mean no more but as Plainly as Evidently as Apparently and the Quakers say that the Name Jesus and Christ belongs to every Believer as well as to the Head This Whitehead denies not this he disowns not only carps at the Word amply And therefore my Advice to all my Fellow-Labourers is to take this my Method give New-Rome Charge after Charge as Geo. Keith has done see his Three Narratives as Daniel Leeds is a doing A Trumpet sounded out of the Wilderness c. p. 141. who has been a Quaker about 20 Years and let this be the Test between Christianity and Quakerism If the Quakers be Innocent and Sincere tho' mistaken thro' Error they 'll come out if Insincere and Self-conscious of their Hypocrisie they 'll not appear but Rave and Rail like Rabshekah at a distance by this Test shall the Plot be discovered and the Conspirators be made manifest And I am not without Hopes but that what I have said in Conjunction with my Fellow-Travailers will be a Means to preserve some from running Headlong as the Swine did into the deep Lake of Quakerism and and to convert others that are misled as well as be useful to the Church of God in general Which God of his Mercy grant for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Fran. Bugg August 25. 1699. FINIS A COLLECTION OF Some Passages Touching those call'd QVAKERS Which were Writ with much more of the same tendency by several that were or still are amongst that People WHEREBY The Reader may plainly see and perceive what Spirit it is that Acts their Preachers and Leaders and how they have been foretold and faithfully warned of the Day of Perplexity Reproach and Ignominy that is come and coming upon them O thou Sword of the Lord how long will it be e're thou be quiet Put up thy self into thy Scabbard rest and be still How can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath given it a Charge I cannot hold my Peace because thou hast heard O my Soul the Sound of the Trumpet the Alarum of War Reader THese Passages in this Page of Ann Docwra and Robert Sandiland's Writing I have added since I had a Proof from the Printer of those Collections following He i. e. S. Cater a great Preacher has written more than is true concerning me he is very Bold and the most Confident Liar that ever I met with I laid the Record against J. Ainsloe before him also G. W's False Certificate about the said Record In his Book Judgment Fixed c. it is an abuseful Forgery for some of those whose Names are to the Certificate absolutely disowns it and say they set their Hands to none it is very sad said she that Men should be so Bold in their Wickedness A. D's Letter to Mr. Crisp March 25. 1684. I know it is common says she with some of them in their Books of Controversie to put the Names of such Persons as they account their Vassals both to Certificates and Books sometimes without the Consent of the Parties whose Names are Inserted and sometimes with their Consent through slavish Fear of having their Trades obstructed and thereby Ruined See A. D's Printed Broad-side i. e. The New Projecting Formalist Characteriz'd c. Which Impious Practice of theirs is confirmed in their shameful Forgery in R. S's Book Righteous Judgment c. as at large in a Letter of his to me printed in my Modest Defence c. p. 20. may be seen And as to splitting Sentences mincing and mangling and thereby marring the Sence of their Opponents no People so False so Perfidious and so Deceitful that I know of F. B. A COLLECTION OF Some Passages Touching those call'd QUAKERS c. I Have long seen saith R. R. the Abomination that maketh Desolate standing amongst the Quakers Wherefore hear the Word of the Lord ye Rulers of Sodom and People of Gomorrah 't is this Spirit that hath encompassed your Jerusalem about as with Armies by which we know the Destruction thereof draweth nigh Finally 't is that Spirit of Wickedness in the form of Righteousness that hath already torn your Crown from off your Head and discovered your Secret Parts so that the Scab of Contention and Strife is seen that will never leave nor cease to Divide you till the Name of Quaker become an Hiss and a Scorn amongst the Nations This Witness is true And you that for the vast number of your Tribes have seemed to magnifie your selves in your increase of Children Wo be to you that now give Suck and take so much pains to add to your Sect for behold in one Day loss of Children and Widowhood shall come upon you This Witness is true Of this I am most certain that a Bitter Lying and Persecuting Proud Spirit inhabits your Tents which Babylonish Garment hath
long been seen to lye hid amongst that Tribe called the Ministry the Teachers and Leaders of the Quakers even such Spiritual Wickedness which if practised amongst Presbyterians Independents or others whom ye disown and can see nothing in them that is good they would abhor themselves therein which you as with a Whore's Forehead boldly maintain and defend You are in truth those that justifie your selves before Men but God knoweth your Hearts and the Day is at Hand even at your very Door which will Discover Reveal and Preach as upon the House-tops many and great Abominations which yet lye hid amongst you that so you may be judged according to your Deeds This Witness is true as St. Paul said Tit. 1.12,13 I am constrained contrary to my Nature to plead like a Man of Contention against this Proud Pharisaical and Perverse Generation this Leviathan and Crooked Serpent in whose Nostrils unless a Hook be put would swallow not only the Rivers but also the very Sea into himself viz. Receive all tho' never so unclean in Heart and Spirit if outwardly they will but own him receive his Mark Of Thee and Thou and the Hat and walk in outward Observation and Shew conformable to them who while they profess themselves free from Sin and being the only Children of GOD are notwithstanding found bitter Persecutors of the Truth and Enemies to the Unction the Anointed One in whomsoever he doth appear thereby rendring themselves guilty of all the Innocent Blood which hath been spilt from the Blood of Righteous Abel even to this Day All which Blood cryeth aloud for Vengeance upon the well-favoured Harlot Mystery Babylon who in the Golden Cups and goodly Shew of an outward Profession hath inwardly with a bitter ravening and devouring Spirit made her self Drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus This Witness is true I have observed that those that forsake Father and Mother the Sect that nourish'd and brought them forth to follow the Lord fully and Holy as did Caleb Joshua and Jesus c. not minding their own Reputations or Fame not loving their Lives to the Death such I say have been accounted as in all Ages so by this Hypocritical Proud Self-righteous Generation as the worst of Men calling them Ranters Atheists Blasphemers Devils any thing even all manner of Evil so they may wound the Truth and slay the Innocent Defenders thereof whose harmless Souls I see lying under the Altar of Truth sorely oppressed for their Testimony thereunto and crying out How long Lord God Holy and True will it be e're thou dost Judge and Revenge our Blood For whose Elect sake the God of my Salvation will suddenly arise and behold Enmity Lies and Falshood c. even all that Spirit of Wickedness will surely fly hide it self and sink again into the bottomless Pit from whence it came They care not whom they slander or what Lies they tell so they may Advance Strengthen and increase their Party and Sect. By all which it evidently appears that the Spirit of Deceit and Falshood is crept in and doth inhabit amongst this People You are now like that Evil Spirit cast out running to and fro walking in the dry places of your Elders Traditions those you call good Old Friends seeking rest but never shall find any so long as Balack and Balaam that bitter Spirit leads to Curse whom God will surely Bless and bring over you for ye must fall and with Haman Saul and Herod be insnared and taken even in the same Pit of cruel Deceit which you have digged for your Innocent Brethren and herein for some time will the Faith and Patience of the Saints be exercised Thus am I clear from the Blood of all Men in that I have not ceased both by Words and Writing to forewarn of the coming of this Antichrist among the Quakers who for more than Ten Years last past have been that poor Ass speaking as with Man's Voice reproving and withstanding the Madness of this Lying Wrathful Bitter Persecuting Spirit knowing right well when it entred and You thereby came to reject the Lord that he should not Reign over You by his Spirit of Light and Love but rather chose to your selves a King for to Judge and Rule You who was not the Unction nor the Anointed of the Lord nor yet the Olive Fig nor Vine that could heal rejoice or bind you up but the Bramble and King of the bottomless Pit that shall so Rend Tear and Devour you till not one Stone shall be left upon another which thing tell G. F. that Fox your King By what is written you may see how this high and Luciferian People the Quakers who for their Shew and Numbers have been as the Stars of Heaven and who for their Pride and Enmity are to be cast down whose fall is the Riches of the World So that the first in Profession are now become the last in Possession of the Kingdom which standeth not in Words nor yet in Outward Appearances but in Humility and Love unfeigned yea in Righteousness Peace and Joy c. The foregoing Passages are taken out of Robert Riche's Letters which were Printed 1669 and Reprinted 1676 7 He was a Merchant and was one of the Eminentest and Ancientest Quaker that Lived in London I know says R. R. G. F. is raised up of God for this very end to Try Refine and Purifie many as Pharaoh was and tho' many fall in the Tryal under his Power yet many will be delivered into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God I likewise see that daily more and more will fall off from that Body and that some that separate from them will with Daniel stand in their Lot and follow the Lord in the Spirit of the Lamb more fully than they have done These two last Paragraphs was Printed in 1680. P. 19. II. HOW low and humble were they i. e. Quakers in their Spirits in the beginning How few were they in Words Their Yea was Yea and their Nay Nay Ah! let me take up a Lamentation How are the Mighty fallen How have the Stars ceased to give their Light How are the Poor distressed and the Young Ones bruised by the high Mountains and lofty Cedars whose Habitations were once in Heaven but now upon the high Places of the Earth to impose upon the Conscience and to establish an Arbitrary Power by a Law These are the Armed Beasts and the many Antichrists which break the Unity in Spirit and the Bond of Peace P. 10. The Foxonian-Unity is to yield Subjection to the Order of the Body so called though no manifestation within And this Unity they glory in by this is their Kingdom upheld from this they are able to boast Who is able to make War with us Who can stand before us Do not all fall that are risen up against us Are not these the high-swelling words of Proud Babel whose tow'ring Thoughts must be abased Whose practice hath been to crush the
tender Ones in their Bodies Souls and Spirits This Language hath mine Ears heard this Practice hath mine Eyes seen to the grief and wounding of my Soul P. 11 12 c. This Witness is true This Spirit of Antichrist in G. Fox c. would wrest from me what I am not willing to part withal to wit my Conscience under no less Penalty than Excommunication c. P. 16. This Witness is true These ill Ministers i. e. G. Fox c. conjoin together to subvert our Laws and Liberties given by the Great Jeâ—ovah And assuredly though they are lifted up as it were into Heaven in their Proud Imaginations the Righteous God will Blast all their Exalted Expectations and they shall Die and Perish in the General Dissolution because they have not regarded the Fatherless nor pitied the poor in Spirit nor compassionated the tender Conscience which feared to Sin against the Lord but Crushed Spoiled and Oppressed without Bowels of Mercy those that had little strength to help themselves invaded their Rights violated their Liberties and endeavoured to take the Meat from the Children and give it unto Dogs P. 26. This Witness is true And although they daily exercise the Oppressions before-mentioned yet by their deceitful Flatteries they make People believe that they are a Harmless Innocent and Peaceable People suffering and bearing wrong but not doing any Or if any Persons write or speak their Grief that the Publick take notice of they will represent them under such terms as may render them odious and the more effectually to weaken their Testimonies they will fix upon them scurrilous and contemptible Appellations as Scotch-men Welch-men Tinker Taylor c. some of them utterly untrue and to prevent an Inquisition into the Truth of the matter they would make People believe that they are Envious Malicious and Discomposed Spirits Bad Dirty Factious and Ranting Spirits who are gone from Truth and are out of Truth This Witness is true Such is the Portion of those that appear in the least against their Imperious Tyrannical and Lascivious Actions and whatever Man detected the Fallacies and destructive Cheats of Imperious and Disdainful Men but was thus reproached Must it be Justice in them to complain of their Oppressions and Envy and Malice c. in us to complain of ours Their Years are but few yet verily they have been exceeding expert in learning of the Papists Subtilties P. 36 37. This Witness is true It appears plainly unto the Just and Righteous Man that G. Fox and the rest of his Counsel have endeavoured to subvert the Royal Law of Liberty and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government over the Consciences of the Flock of God These are the Ravening Wolves which Prey upon the little Ones in a Lordly Spirit This is that envenomed Spirit which hath tainted their Judgments poysoned their Hearts and blinded their Eyes P. 38. And I affirm the Lord did not raise them up to bring us off from the Barren Mountains to feed upon them who are now become a Desart nor from under our Oppressors to turn Oppressors themselves Let them remember the Army it is their Figure ☞ And if the Lord's Anger waxed hot against them for their unfaithfulness what will be the Portion of these who have so deeply Apostatized from clearer Manifestations P. 41. Dear Friend It hath pleased the Lord to raise thee up to bear a Testimony against an Adulterous Tyrannical and an Hypocritical Generation P. 44. W. Mucklowe an Eminent and Ingenious Quaker in a large Letter with abundance more to the same effect Printed 1673. Intituled The Spirit of the Hat c. and is Reprinted this Year 1700. Titled A Bemoaning Letter c. III. THE Day is come that as they have laid open the Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie of other Professors that went before them so must their Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie be also laid open for the Lord whom I serve is no respecter of Persons This Witness is true Printed 1671. in a Letter to G. F. by J. P. IV. YOur Day into Darkness is turn'd the Sun is gone down over you You have had a large Day and Power given you to have done the Will of God but you have abused the Power and slighted your Day and have refused to do the Lord's Work and have sought your selves and not the Lord Therefore in Justice and Righteousness is the Day wherein you might have wrought for God taken from you and the thick Dark Night of Confusion is come upon you wherein you are groping and stumbling and cannot Work The Decree is gone out and sealed against you and it cannot be recalled you are not the Men as ye stand in whom God will appear to work deliverance for his People and yet deliverance shall come but as for you ye have rejected the Counsel of the Lord and grieved his Spirit and he hath long born you yea you are departed from the Lord and his presence is departed from you Indeed he hath Hewed with you and if you had been faithful to the end he would have honoured and prospered you and have been your sufficient reward ye were his Ax but ye have boasted your selves against him therefore as you have Hewed and Broken others even so must you be Hewed and Broken This was Printed 1673. and Reprinted 1677 8 1692 and 1696. directed for the Preachers and Leaders of the People called Quakers By J. P. V. WHat will you do You Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites you that have been long making clean the outside of the Cup and Platter but inwardly are as Ravening Wolves your Fruits will make you manifest You Hypocrites your Name will be a stink among the Heathen for the Lord will find you out whose Glory he will not give to any other nor his Honour to any of your Graven Images my Soul loaths all your false Covers I cannot but declare against all your false Ways M. D. an Ancient Quaker and is Printed in a Letter to G. F. 1682. VI. I Being ingaged as well as some others to manifest and lay open deceitful Workers and Hypocrites I am farther to appear to manifest thee to be one of the greatest Hypocrites and Deceivers in this Nation and until thou own thy Condemnation and leave off Deceiving the People assuredly the Sword that 's now drawn is not to be nor must not be sheath'd till thou and such Deceivers as thou art be brought down This Witness is true In a large Letter to G. F. by J. P. 1674 5. and Printed 1682 1691 and 1696. VII THe Day is come and now is that the hidden things of Esau's Nature are to be and must be brought to Light See Quakers Unmask'd c. Title Page writ to G. Fox G. Whitehead c. 1677. and Printed 1682 and 1691. VIII AND let G. Fox and those that uphold him remember that it was Jeroboam the Son of Nebat that caused Israel to Sin and as his Name was Branded to Posterity so shall theirs