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A40738	The worlds honour detected, and, for the unprofitableness thereof, rejected, and the honour which comes from God alone, asserted, and reduced to practice, or, Some reasons why the people of God called Quakers, do deny the accustomary honour and salutations of the world ... by a friend to truth, who is no respector or regarder of persons, called a Quaker, B.F.	Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2541; ESTC R8091	54,243	70

Lord in that day I rather leave to the Lord than determine Object But some perhaps may say They were not reproved for it therefore it was not evil Answ. As it is not written that they were reproved so neither is it recorded that they were approved Besides we find not that Abraham was by the Lord reproved for saying that Sarah was his Sister nor Isaac in the like case for fearing the people of the Land nor Ioseph for swearing by the Life of Pharaoh the Custom of the Court and Country where he dwelt no dout nor lastly any of the Patriarks for having more wives than one Yet who believes not these things to be unlawful much less doth any man look upon it to be his duty to do so though these Worthies did so so that it is not their example without command Warrant or Approbation nay nor yet their approved Actions that must be our ground or rule to act by in this dispensation unless the same things should of us be required in this Dispensation Nay 't is not what others now do by the infallible leading of the Spirit of God even in this day that must be a ground for me to do the same thing but my Ground Rule and Guide must be in my self from the Lord Nay further it is not what the Lord led me to do yesterday by his infallible and unerring Life and Spirit in my own particular that must be my ground for doing the same thing this day without the same movings leadings and guidings also this day yea at that instant of time when I go about the thing And herein we differ from all Sects who are set down in a form either of what they take up by Tradition written or unwritten it 's all one to the Lord of which they have felt nothing from the Lord in themselves or at the best having found something of God stirring in them and leading them to it in dayes past are setled down in their Form and going on in the Practice satisfied with what they have felt whether they feel the same still or not and so are withered and offer up a dead Sacrifice to the Living God But we plainly say That he that goeth one Day or Hour or Moment before the Power or Life of God in the Worship of God is a will-worshiper and his worship is not accepted for I may do that this Day this Hour in the motion of the Spirit of God in which I may be justified of the Lord in my obedience to him which to morrow if I should go to do again I might do it in my own will and so instead of being approved and justified being not covered in the Action with the Spirit of the Lord shame before the Lord though not before men who only see the outside would cover my face And thus the Lord hath led his people out of many things never to return unto them again as Warring Killing Slaying Fighting for outward Possessions Lands and Inheritances Worshiping in Temples made with hands and upon Mountains as Holy Places with all the whole Body of the Iewish Worship Ceremonies and observing Dayes Sabbaths Months and Years once Commands of the Lord but long since rejected and done away for the abuse weakness and unprofitableness of them yea abhorred of the Lord and unlawful for his people to touch Object If any say these things are unlawful now because the Scripture testifies against them but shew us where the Scripture forbids to honour men by bowing putting off the Hat c. Answ. These things were unlawful because Paul testified against them but Paul therefore testified against them as in the Case of Circumcision because they were become unprofitable yea abominable and so unlawful else Paul had testified against that which was lawful that so he might render it unlawful for the future which is ridiculous to imagine And as for doffing the Hat bidding Good-morrow and such like stuff they are meer upstart Novelties which in those dayes no man once dreamed of but those things which were then practised as instead of these things were forbidden and reproved by Christ and particularly Greetings and Salutations in the Market places or upon the wayes calling men Master and Bowing whether before Men or Angels though formerly practised by divers Friends of God Before Angels though Abraham Lot and others bowed themselves before them yet Iohn was forbidden so to do see Rev. 9. See thou do it not for I am thy fellow Servant Worship God and Before Men though many have bowed themselves to the earth yet Cornelius was by Peter reproved for so doing when he fell at his feet with a stand up I my self am also a man as it is written at the Name of Iesus not of any man every knee shall bow Again Christ saith I receive not honour of men and testified against this very kind of honour these ceremonial toys and evil manners in the Scribes and Pharisees and publickly reproved them for being called of men Rabbi or Master and for these Crooked Market-street-Salutations and therefore certainly did not give them himself Object It s said Christ did not reprove the thing it self but only such men as loved desired and sought for that honour and those Salutations in publick and to be called of men Master c. Answ. This cover is too narrow and pretence too short for it is apparent that Christ reproved them simply for receiving those things saying How can ye believe that receive not only ye that seek but also ye that receive honour from men and seek not the honour that comes from God alone Mark that honour alone and sets himself as an example before them I receive not honour of men he saith not I seek it not I desire it not love it not take no pleasure in it but simply I receive it not and forbade his Disciples strictly to be called Master or Rabbi And in this Doctrine all his Disciples abode and all the Apostles as may be seen in their Writings Epistles and Letters which they occasionally wrote to each other in none of which is any mention made of Mr. Paul Mr. Peter Mr. Matthew Iohn or Iames neither are any of Paul's Letters To the Right Reverend Father in God his Grace Timothy Arch-Bishop or Bishop of Ephesus nor subscribed Your Honours most Humble and Devoted Servant nor to the Reverend and very Learned Mr. Titus Minister of the Word of God or Minister of the Gospel at Crete As the Bold and Irreverend Bishops and Pragmatick Priests of our times do without blushing bedaub each other with the Illustrious Titles of Reverend Right Reverend Divines Fathers Doctors or Masters while they at the same time make profession of being Ministers or Servants of Christ and his Flock And in their Prayers cry out no less Hypocritically then Audatiously To thee O Lord to thee alone belongs all Honour Glory Reverence Thansgiving and Dominion for thou alone art worthy c. And yet so

hurries you into wrath and fury and to offer violence to any Innocent man for his Conscience to God-wards in such a thing of nought as a few pittiful dead dull groundless Ceremonies ye will be thereby found fighters against God and justifie the violence offered to your selves for your Consciences by your Enemies when they had power over you and not onely so but also contract the guilt of all the Innocent Blood shed from Righteous Abel to this day by all the Persecutors that ever were for whosoever is found in the Persecuting Nature and Spirit is a Member of that Body let his profession now differ never so much from many of the old Persecutors in other ages and agree with the greatest and meekest of Sufferers it matters not 't is not a few Words or Articles that changeth the Nature or Spirit The Murtherer is the Murtherer still though got into a peaceable mans Habit He that was a Lyar from the beginning is so still though he may change his garbe The Wolf retains his Nature though in the Sheeps cloathing Therefore upon you will lie the guilt of all and where the guilt lies there the wrath abides and the stroak of God's Vengeance will assuredly follow and not tarry and heavy and dreadful will it be when it comes So Awake awake take heed I say beware what ye do and it is for your sakes that we thus call unto you more then our own for as for us we are nothing careful nothing Solicitous in these matters but are freely given up to the Lord our God patiently and rejoycingly to suffer whatsoever ye shall have power to inflict upon us for ye are limited though ye may be apt to think it is not so as hath often been manifest both in our Native Country at Rome and other places under the Pope's Dominions and amongst the New England Persecutors If any deem themselves in the Truth and believe us to be in the wrong and because their Bishops Pastors Teachers Priests c. tell them they may without any more adoe use the Power they have to Oppress Suppress and Ruine us and ours or any for their tender Consciences and exercise of their Religion which is every mans due and no man de jure doth hold at the Will or Pleasure of any earthly Ruler whatsoever but immediately from the God of Heaven whose immediate Subjects they ought to be in all such things I say If any hereupon shall begin attempt or undertake such a thing they will thereby manifest themselves to be no Christians in that they do unto others that which they would not that others should do unto them under which Law Christ Jesus hath indispencably concluded all his Disciples that are ever were or ever shall be so from the Prince to the Peasant none excepted whether in or out of Authority And that man or company of men will be found in the Great and Notable day of their Account and Tryal before the judgement of Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Arch Rebbels and Traytors to Invaders and Subverters of so far as in them lies his Kingdom Rule and Government and Oppressors Tormentors and cruel Murtherers of his Innocent Peaceable harmless Subjects Therefore again I say Beware and look to the end sit first down and reckon the Charge the Trouble the Cost and the Reward and further know That it is in vain to attempt such a thing its impossible to effect such a thing it demonstrates weakness want of understanding in him that shall begin it for the work is endless it will be alwayes doing and alwayes to do and never have an end besides the Curse of God attending such an enterprize If it were but to Banish Ship off Imprison Impoverish Ruine or cut off a certain number of men now visible admit it were five or ten hundred thousand in a Nation Male and Female Old and Young perhaps some Tyrannical men might perswade a Prince this might be done and perhaps some bloody Tyrant might think it could be effected and say in himself Well! I 'le rid my Land of all these Sects and Schismaticks of all these Hereticks and Seducers and then I shall be quiet in my Land I shall have Peace and no Division c. this hath a fair shew all to tempt But alas a wise man will see that these men are all absolutely deceived and seduced in themselves these Counsellors are besotted and hastening to their own destruction for no man can see a day nor hour before him in this wretched work for when thus this number now seems ruined or rather while it is doing the number is doubled yea seven times doubled And this is evident to every ingenious man that hath but been observant and taken notice of the Histories that he hath read of old and things he hath seen of late years that the blood of the Persecuted the Oppressions of the Oppressed are as Seed cast into the ground which brings forth increase thirty sixty and a hundred fold and thus the work hath alwayes and alwayes will swell under their hands and the guilt of innocent blood increaseth and the measure of their iniquity is filling up till at length the Cry the strong and vehement Cry of innocent blood pierceth the Heavens and enters the Ears of the Lord of Hosts who ariseth to render vengeance upon these Cains and mighty Nimrods of the earth and deliver the remnant of his people out of their Iaws and then their torment will be great yea greater than they shall be able to bear though they should have many Kingdoms under their Dominions and as much variety of Pleasures as their vain hearts can invent for their diversion yet a little contemptible worm from our God shall gnaw at the root of it all and cause it to wither and take away their peace and terror and dismayedness shall be their inseperable Companion paleness shall cover their Faces and the true and faithful Witness and Rewarder shall open the Books and produce the Records that are written against them and the works of their Hands and Counsels of their Hearts shall be their perpetual torment for Suum invidia torquet auctorem Mischief brings torment upon him that deviseth it And in that day it will appear that we had more ground to deny these things then you had to keep them up when the Lord had by us his People brought forth a Testimony against them and endeavoured the removal of them meerly because it was your custom and ye would have it so and the contrary would breed disorder and confusion amongst you and for no other ground at all indeed whereas we have forsaken and denyed them in our own practice and testified against them in others for these several weighty Reasons 1. Forsaken them in our own Practice because we have not found the Spirit of the Lord leading us unto them nor saw any ground in the same for them which yet ought to be and is

the guide of every true Christian as it is written As many as are led by the Spirit are the Sons of God and no more and what we find not the Spirit of God leading us unto we can have no faith in and whatsoever is not of Faith the Scripture saith is six therefore we leave them 2. We have moreover found the Spirit of God limiting us in them and leading us out of them in which practices we also lived yet not without the Judgement of the Lord oft-times in our selves for them though we knew it not while we walked in the vanity of our minds after the Traditions of the world darkened thereby in our understandings and greatly strangers from the Life of God unto which life being now turned and come to receive the enlightnings thereof day by day in our Hearts we have chosen it for our Leader and it leadeth us out of all dead works of which sort these are therefore we forsake them and as it is required at our hands testifie against them 3. In this Light springing from the Life of God or the Word of God 1 Iohn shining in our Hearts we see the whole Mass of it to be a weak unprofitable thing not able to answer the end for which it is said to be practised viz. to shew Honour Respect and Love and so ought to cease especially when a better and more serviceable means is discovered which we being found in are altogether careless to answer the Will of any man or Custom of any Nation therein but do lay it a side and trample it under our feet as a thing of nought 4. We find it tending meerly and solely to strengthen feed and please the Spirit of Ambition in men and women by which they are led to destruction wherefore we cannot practise those things lest we should be found guilty thereof which so far as in us lies we desire and seek to prevent even of our enemies themselves 5. We find it the very same kind of Honour and Salutation which Christ so sharply reproved in the Scribes and Pharisees and strictly forbad to his Disciples and hath severely judged and broken down in us and therefore if we should be found in them we should return to build that which God hath thrown and is throwing with an everlasting destruction and so we should become more lovers and pleasers of men than of God 6. We find it even the whole Corps of it to be an Invention of man degenerate man springing from a corrupt vain mind in a false and groundless conceit to corrupt ends and is waxed more and more corrupt in the use thereof every day than other for which causes we can have no unity with them nor touch but avoid them as defiled and polluted which the Lord loatheth as much as ever he did any of his own Institutions when they became corrupted and defiled by the Sons of men as the Scriptures plainly declare but this custom of doffing the Hat especially as an Honour and Worship never had its rise from God but from men of corrupt minds as will very readily appear if we do but consider that no People or Nation but those called Christians since the Apostacy do practise it for neither the Iews who had their outward Law both in relation to the Worship of God respect to Magistrats never were commanded any such thing neither ever practised any such thing among themselves when they entred into their Synagogues nor yet do there nor before their Magistrates nor to one another but in these Countries where they follow the Custom of the Country Neither do the Turks observe it as an honour but look upon it as a shame or reproach or an odious thing Nor do we read that the Apostles or Primitive Chrstians ever practised any such thing to Magistrates or to each other Yea admit further which cannot be proved that the Apostles themselves had practised it among themselves to each other yea to all they met good and bad as now it s practised that cannot bind us now nor limit the Lord to it more than to other of his Institutions for several Reasons before mentioned But as for us we believe the Hat to be an Earthly thing not the Honour which is from Above but from Below made for covering the nakedness as well as the other cloaths and with which God nor man neither is nor can be truly worshipped more than by putting off the Shooe Glove Coat or any other Garment neither do we believe that its any part of the Worship of God nor renders the Worship any thing the more well-pleasing or acceptable to the Lord but is far below the Worship of God yea or Dignity of a man that is a man indeed and therefore all that are contending for the honour and worship of the Hat are contending for the honour which is below which the Saints and People of God never did and therefore this honour will into the dust If any now urge upon us the example or practice of any of the Holy men of God mentioned in Scripture for bowing because they bowed both to Angels and Men we say that bindeth us not now to do the same things we must take heed to another rule and guide in this day than their Actions As for example it s said of Abraham He bowed himself to the Earth before the three Men or Angels and also before the People of the Land Concerning Iacob it is said He bowed seven times to the Earth till he came past his Brother Esau and concerning David That he fell upon his face to the ground and bowed himself three times c. Object Now say people Will ye condemn these Holy Men of God or will ye be more holy than they Answ. Far be it from us to condemn those Worthies of the Lord the Lord hath justified them and who shall condemn them but to desire to be even more holier than they if it can be we hope will offend no true Christian nor be used as matter of accusation against us Yet if these or any other at any time did any thing without command or approbation from the Lord or against his Will we are not to take them for our example in such things I judge all will grant well then That they did bow c. is indeed written but that they had any command for it nor praised or approved in it where is that written search and tell us Abraham went to buy a Burial place of that strange people Iacob was afraid its plainly said and called Esau Lord though there was a promise that the Elder should serve the Younger yea he said in his fear that he beheld his face as if he had beheld the Face of God may we therefore speak such words to any wicked man consider it David was also in great Trouble and sore Affliction Now these things considered what might move them so to do or how far they were approved or not by the

admiration as the persons of the meanest but it is for advantage sake And these are they which despise the Dominion and speak evil of the Dignities which the Apostles speak of and these can one while have mens persons in admiration and then again despise them as the worst of men but when it is but when the Advantage comes no more from them but from another hand and so they alwayes keep in with the Advantage as that shifteth they turn and are alwayes found in its quarters How hath this been manifest in our Nation in our dayes as long as the Honour Preferment and Hire came from the King so long he and his were good and he the Lord 's Anointed and your prayers in publick were for him but when his power ceased that he could not advantage you and the Advantage must come from the Parliament then They were the Higher Power and Supream Authority when they were dismiss'd and 〈◊〉 ●●otector began to favour you to establish himself though it 〈…〉 his destruction and shall be of all that joyn with you then 〈◊〉 your good man and the flattering of Highness you gave him 〈◊〉 his Person in admiration for advantage sake counting him your ●●●ses that had as it were led you out of Egypt though ye be resolved to dye there and brought you almost through the Wilderness of a Confused Toleration as ye called it very near the good Land of Mastery and Tyranny over mens Consciences which you longed vehemently after and his son Richard who seemed to be more through-paced to your interests than the old man he was your Ioshua and Solomon to bring you into it and build your Temple in which you would have offered Sacrifices mingled with the blood of men and hoping to draw the man in by such fawning Titles ye termed him the light of your eyes and breath of your nostrils like arch Hypocrites and notable proficients at that art as if ye had studied nothing else for several years together at the Vniversity but to teach your hearts to dissemble and your tongues to flatter Then ye thanked God that the Lord had cast out the King and eased the Land of tyrannical Bishops and blessed the Nation with such Rulers but now they are cast forth for espousing your interest and the King is returned again and all Honour Preferment and Benefices must come from the King and Bishops your bellies now teach you to turn your tongues and thank God that a Tyrant is cast out and the true Heir restored together with the Antient Honourable and grave Ministry of the Church of England and His Grace is now come in fashion with you again But certainly both Kings and Bishops cannot but see your deceit and who you serve and will trust you no more than they would professed Hypocrites and doubtless they see enough that what ye at one time have in admiration for advantage sake and cry up as the only Dominion Government and Dignity at another time ye speak evil of and despise when the advantage is to be reaped from the adverse party Therefore O ye Kings Princes and Rulers of what degree soever think not that such as do thus honour worship and respect your Persons are therefore the more free from being of that ungodly crew of false Teachers which Iude saith do despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities for it is but for the advantage and Emolument sake that they do it try them else Besides mark it this very having mens persons in admiration or respecting their persons for advantage sake is one of the marks by which these filthy dreamers are to be known as you plainly see in the Apostle's words Therefore also judge not us rashly to be those despisers of Dominion c. because we cannot honour reverence worship or respect your Persons nor have them in admiration for any advantage sake that we might thereby enjoy or disadvantage that we might thereby avoid For that is no good consequence nay the contrary is the Affirmation of the Apostle viz. That such as have mens persons in admiration for advantage sake are the very false Teachers which he saith do despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities From whence it is yet further evident That the true Honour of Magistrates consisteth not in worshipping respecting or admiring their persons for advantage sake but in yeelding all due Obedience to the Power and Ordinance of God in all things And the same Honour is due in all things from all inferiour Relations to their Superiours as from Children to their Parents Servants to their Masters and Wives to their own Husbands c. Yet that none of these Relations may think that they may command what they list and then look upon all under them as bound actually to obey them in all things whatsoever because the Scripture saith be obedient in all things they may plainly see that universal is every where limited again to that which is good as is here shewn as also what that honour is 1. To Rulers Honour the King Qu. How or with what honour Answ. Be obedient to every humane creature whether to the King as supream or c. 1 Pet. 2.13 How far in all things consistant with the will of the Lord and a good conscience and therefore submit your selves not only for wrath but for conscience sake for the Lord's sake which cannot be in things contrary to both 2. To Parents Children honour your father and mother Qu. With what honour or how Ans. Obey them in all things In all things how far Ans. Obey them in the Lord for that is right this is well-pleasing to the Lord Ephes. 6. but this cannot be in any thing forbidden by the Lord. 3. To Masters Let as many Servants as are under the yoak count their own Masters worthy of all honour 1 Tim. 6.1 Qu. How Being obedient to their Masters according to the flesh in all things Col. 3.22 Qu. But how in all things in all what things Ans. In all things that may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things agreeable with a good conscience with simplicity or singleness of heart and in the fear of the Lord in all things which ye can do as unto the Lord or as unto Christ for thus are ye required to be obedient in all things which cannot be in any evil thing Col. 3.22 Tit. 2.10 Eph. 5.8 4. To Husbands Let the Wife see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that she fear her Husband Eph. 5.33 Qu. How is that to be Answ. By being good and obedient to their own proper Husbands Tit. 2.5 Ephes. 5.22 24. in every thing Qu. How in every thing Ans. in every good thing as unto the Lord Eph. 5.22 in the fear of God Col. 3.18 as it is fit in the Lord. So that it 's plain that these general terms Be obedient in all things Submit your selves in every thing to every humane creature whether to the King as Supream or to the