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B09713	Some of the Quakers contradictory testimonies about oaths and swearing; whereby it does appear their pretensions of being infallible, and that their books and papers are given forth by the immediate eternal spirit of God*, is but a vain boast, and a very great and strong delusion. ...	Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1417B; ESTC R233451	6,535	8

some of you have imagin'd that I have been made so often to visit and exhort you but that it was only in love to Truth and in obedience to the good Spirit of the ever Blessed GOD in whose Service I desire evermore to be found faithful J. P. 2 d of the Month call'd August 1696 AN ABSTRACT Of a Large Printed Paper from Pensilvania Intituled A Brief ADMONITION to the Elders and Ministers of the People called QUAKERS MAny Months have I been pressed in Spirit to Warn you the Leaders and Ministers of the People call'd Quakers viz. Tho' you were careful at your half Years Meeting of Ministers at Philadelphia the 6th of the 4th Month June last to Forbid your Friends wearing a Speckled Neckcloth a Ribband for a Hatband and the like and seem very Zealous to forbid your Friends to Marry with other Christian Professors Nay and to warn them on pain of Judgment not to have so much Society with your late Friends whom you call Separates as to go to their Weddings Preaching it up as a Sin so to do And the Yearly Paper from London warning their Friends to keep to the plain Language of Thee and Thou c. Yet know assuredly That tho' Your Religion lie in these Outward Ceremonies they are but Trifles And are Insufficient to divert Divine Vengeance which is certainly your Portion if you still neglect first to Clense the Inside from Pride and Envy against your fellow Creatures for refusing Conformity to your Ways And inasmuch as you declare to the World That you are Arriv'd to such a height of Perfection beyond other Christian Professors that you are so far free from Sin as that you have no need to ask Forgiveness From hence it is That you do never in your Prayers in Meetings ask Forgiveness of Sin Tho' t is apparent That there is no Religious Society this day in Christendom that are Guilty of more Whoredoms Adultries and other Foul and Abominable Actions than you have been the Number considered Therefore cease your Woes and Warnings against the Whoredoms and Abominations that are in the World and first cry out against those Things that are amongst your selves first Clense your own Camp and then Warn others to beware of these Evils c. The abovesaid Admonition with others being sent from Pensilvania some time ago put forth by one Daniel Leeds an Antient Quaker t is thought meet to have it Reprinted and to be Communicated to the Quakers here that so they may see notwithstanding their High Boast of being Free form Sin That the Whoredoms Adultries and other Immoralities of their Friends beyond Sea are as great as theirs are here And for which there is great cause of Sorrow and deep Humiliation which that this Paper might be Instrumental to produce amongst them would be to the Joy and true Rejoycing of some Sincere Souls that have Mourned for them and that still heartily desires their Repentance and Amendment of Life and that longs to see the Day wherein they might be truly Humbled and Repent This being the Way and there is not another for an Holy and Happy Reconciliation both with the LORD and all that truly Love Fear and Obey HIM and that are Zealous for HIS Honour and Glory of which Number the Publisher hereof desires Evermore to be found whilst he has a Being in this World that when his Days are Ended and his Work Finished for which he was Born he may lay down his Head in Peace and be receiv'd to Mercy with all the Holy Ancients Even so Amen and Amen is the humble Desire and constant Prayer of a Friend to the whole Creation J. P. LONDON Printed in the Month called July 1698.

●●is following is chiefly intended for and recommended to the serious perusal of the People called Quakers whom it nearly concerns E●●RY Dispensation hath but its Season wherein the Light of it is to shine but afterwards it must be put out and be buried in the Dark And when this is out of date Persons are to be valued no more by it but the highest in this Light and Worship will be laid as even with the Meanest as the highest and strictest Jews were when their Dispensation fell with the lowest Gentiles Little did Israel think they could have been so deceiv'd about the coming of the Messiah little did they think the Messiah could have laid their Laws and Ordinances so flat at His coming as he did It is impossible for the Eye of that Wisdom by which the Jews and the Quakers have judged viz. only by outward appearance to pierce into the various Ways and Appearances of GOD. Nothing is darker than the foregoing Glory when a new One succeeds none are farther from espying GOD in a new Discovery than many of those that had the clearest sight of HIM in the Old Look to your selves in time lest this strange Catastrophe overtake you unawares Dispensations and the Fight under Dispensations is not yet ended We must contend and remain strange a while longer There is a Gulf as yet between us that we cannot meet Ye cannot know me if it were so that I knew you You will prosecute me with Hatred tho I should woo you with the greatest and entirest Love J. P. Some of the Quakers Contradictory Testimonies about OATHS and SWEARING whereby it does appear their Pretensions of being Infallible and that their Books and Papers are given forth by the immediate Eternal Spirit of GOD * George Fox and R. H 's Truth 's Defence c. p. 104. is but a vain Boast and a very great and strong Delusion Vide Audi Judica   Here follow their contradictory Testimonies First see their Book A Treatise of Oaths presented to the King and Parliament 1675. signed by William Penn George Whitehead and 11 more First see their Book Reason against Railing in answer to Tho. Hicks where they use an express Oath as recorded in Scripture Jer. 4.2 5.2 1. WE look upon 't to be no less than a presumptuous tempting of GOD to summon him as a Witness not only to our terrene but trivial Businesses such as we should doubtless account it an high Indignity always to solicite an earthly Prince to give his Attendance about What! make GOD the Great GOD of Heaven and Earth our Caution in Worldly Controversies as if we would bind HIM to obtain our own Ends It is to make too bold with HIM and to carry an undue Distance towards HIM that made us an Irreverence we can by no means away with p. 17. 1. O That these heavy things might not be laid to thy Charge for SO SVRE AS THE LORD LIVETH great will be the Wrath that shall follow p. 180.   Next see their Epistle from the Meeting for Sufferings to their Friends in England and elsewhere c. Printed about the time of their last yearly Meeting 1696. It seems needful to us to acquaint you that it was the Sense of this Meeting that somewhat might be done to satisfy all that may be in doubt or that may have it in their Minds as Matter of Question what solemn Words Friends might use or admit of and not vary from our known Principle Swear not at all And in order thereto to shew the Testimonies of Friends formerly express'd p. 4. viz. 2. Let your Yea be Yea Nay Nay for whatsoever is MORE than these cometh of Evil p. 19. And in p. 74. they bring Chrysostome to confirm this as not only to be of Evil but that it is an absolute Oath 2. We are willing at all times and upon every good Occasion Is not this more than Yea and Nay beyond which they say Christians ought not to go to affirm or deny in Yea or Yes in Nay or No and that as in the Presence of GOD or GOD is our Witness or we speak the Truth in Christ c. p. 7. And Francis Howgil in Answer to Dr. Smallwood says 3. Object What shall we say is beyond Yea and Nay Answ Without doubt an Oath not Perjury sith this is altogether manifest and none needs be taught it that it is of Evil and not so much superfluous as altogether contrary Now that is superfluous which is added needlesly and too much which surely is an Oath p. 74. 3. We are ready to testify the Truth before the LORD or in his Presence as concerning any Matter which concerns the Glory of GOD But now they have bound themselves up to a certain Form of Words or the Good of our Neighbour without being pinch'd or bound up to a certain Form of Words imposed upon us p. 9. Again And in their Book A Position and Testimony against all Swearing under the Gospel Printed 1692. and sold by Tho. Northcot in George-yard they say   4. The calling GOD to witness to bind any Affirmation Promise or Denial especially when relating to temporal and lesser Matters most understanding Men and especially the Learned in most Ages accounted it an Oath p. 22. 4. The LORD is Witness or I speak the Truth in Christ or this is Truth in the Presence of GOD or the like none of these will serve but tho he and the Rulers do say they are Oaths yet it would never be received p. 10. 5. And indeed the appealing after any manner to GOD as a Judg or any ways using his sacred Name or mentioning any thing whereby it may be implied as by Heaven Earth c. being only designed for a further strenthening and confirming the Truth of my Speech Affirmation Promise or Denial when relating only to humane worldly and inferiour Matters may be granted to be an Oath but otherwise not so when used only upon a Divine and Religious Account p. 23. 5. And Sam. Fisher says GOD is my Witness GOD is my Record my Conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit and such like the Quakers says he gainsay in solemn Cases no more than themselves * Is this true Let the Quotations in the other Column be re-examined p. 12. 6. How can any invoke GOD for a Witness or any other purpose or any ways imploy or use His sacred Name for a Security in earthly Matters if it was not a proper Oath p. 31. 6. And in his Answer to Bishop Gawden treating of those Expressions of Christ and Paul saith And none of them which as Occasion is they are not as free to use not as impos'd by Men tying them to their Wills to any one of them but as moved † But of late have tied up themselves whether Motion or no. to any one of them as the LORD giveth Utterance as they are to use Yea and Nay it self yet