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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54223	The spirit of Alexander the copper-smith lately revived, now justly rebuk'd, or, An answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, The spirit of the hat, or the government of the Quakers in which the confederacy is broken, and the devil's champions defeated / by a true witness of the one way of God, W.P. ; to which are added the testimonies of those persons whose names are chiefly quoted by the author of that pamphlet.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1374; ESTC R21606	19,027	28

past That God would give him the Heathen for an Inheritance and the utmost Parts of the Earth for a Possession James Claypool AS concerning the Letter called The Spirit of the Hat This I testifie It proceeded from a Subtil Dark Insinuating Treacherous and Malicious Spirit in words seeming to magnify the Name of the Lord but its Workings ever brought reproach and dishonour thereunto of which to my great Sorrow I have been a Concerned and Experienced Witness For Reader this know That the Lord God Everlasting having visited this Nation with the Day-Spring of Eternal and Immortal Life how were our Hearts affected and our Spirits revived and our very Souls made exceeding and unexpressibly glad Ah! how did the Solitary rejoyce How were the Mourners comforted How beautiful were the Feet of them that brought us Tidings of this blessed Day We knew throw Judgment and Burnings and no otherwise the Oyle of Joy and River of Gladness for the Antient Path which is Holiness to the Lord that was and is cast up and the Joy of many Generations was and is come and the Angel of his Presence that rewarded Disobedience with Judgment was known and his Mighty Arme that wrought Wonders of old that was and is with us And Oh! that the Nations knew this their Day of Visitation For of a certain Truth the Lord God of the Hebrews hath appeared unto us and his Message is He hath seen He hath seen the Afflictions of his holy Seed by reason of Sin and Iniquity and he is come down to deliver out of spiritual Darkness and Bondage Many have been and are the Witnesses hereof and are raised and raising to testify thereunto and their Testimony shall endure and remain Yet notwithstanding as of old many that have confessed to this Testimony have turned aside and given heed unto Fables and forgotten the right Way of the Lord and many Spirits have risen up to Stop the Passage of this blessed Work and many have turned aside and some are fallen as in the Temptations and Provocations in the Wilderness in Israels journying toward the blessed Land and as record is made in the Scriptures of what befel them in their Travels that Ages to come may hear and fear and not tempt and provoke the Lord as they did The same in some measure being in this Age also manifest in which I my self was concerned and saw the Snare and through the Goodness and Mercy of the Lord am delivered from and have often had it in my Heart to leave it on Record to Ages to come Therefore let him that reads understand When we had seen the great Plunges in Egypts Land and had travelled through the Red-Sea and saw the Wonders of the Lord in the Field of Zoar and Sang the Song of his Prayses upon the Banks of Salvation and were Travelling on in the Wilderness to Canaan's Blessed Land we were Proved Tryed Tempted and Assaulted by many Enemies and as we kept unto the Angel of his Presence we were kept and preserved from all Danger That was a Pillar of Fire by Night and a Cloud to cover us from hurt by Day and Angels Food we knew and the Water out of the Rock we saw and drank of the River of his Good Pleasure and the Desert did rejoyce and the Wilderness did blossom as a Rose But after all this we tasted the Waters of Merra and through want of Watchfulness liked not the Food of Angels but desired other Meat and Quaile sell amongst us upon which Judgment came and many fell for Disobidience and some are yet Monuments of his Mercies and some yet withstand their Visitations And that none may pretend Ignorance and that all may be left without Excuse the thing was this A Spirit arose in John Perrot pretending that the putting off the Hat in prayer was a Romish Tradition and that a higher Dispensation was to be waited for This and much more was asserted under a pretence of a more excellent Way accompanied with pretences of a more strickt and mortified Life which I sought for and was grieved that some that made a profession thereof did not walk answerable unto this in which trouble I with several was amused and muddled and not Watching in that that discovers the Enemy in every Appearance did not understand the working of that Spirit nor that Power that withstood this Spirit though often warned thereof by them that kept their Habitations For in a Mystery it did wotk and still doth and lead many to the Chambers of Death and Death is its Food for into prejudice it brought many that did eat as a Canker and the Good was not discerned but they were and some yet are as the Heath in the Desert that knows not when good comes And the Spirit that introduced that Practice is manifest and him by whom it was first asserted hath merited in the Hearts of several the Appellation and Detestation as of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat that caused many in outward Israel to Sin And now as to the Insinuations by the Author of this Letter concerning the Meeting at Devonshire house in which my name is mentioned and my Case stated as a grand Proof of the Lordlyness and Corruptness of the Second Days Meeting there I have this to say I have as often been refreshed and comforted in the Good Presence of the Lord that there I have found and felt as in any Meeting I ever was in And the Opposition I had there related not to my Marriage as a Marriage or to hinder my proceed therein for that J. B. and all said at that time he had nothing against but that the Meeting could not passe it as their Approvement I being not in Unity with the Meeting as to that matter aforesaid So that the Letter doth not present the Matter truly as it was but in a prejudiced Spirit states things to render the Meeting and its proceeds odious both in that and several other particulars which I expect others may reply unto John Osgood I Having seen a Printed Paper to which the words above relate wherein my Name is made use of by way of Instance I find my self concerned to testifie on this wise That as the Blessed Eternal Truth was received by me in the Love of it through the Testimony of that Blessed People called Quakers I being soon after I was Convinced shut up in a Close Prison and continuing a Prisoner for divers years though the Bent of my Heart was after the Lord in a measure of Singleness yet the Enemy of Truth and my Soul being permitted to bring forth his work in a Mystery and therein to assault and gain Ground upon several of that People some whereof I had an Affectionate Esteem for hoping and believing well concerning them And I being at a Distance and much alone that spirit had an Influence upon me to the betraying of the Simplicity in me to the writing of that Paper therein mentioned and thereby to be an Occasion

first came among us and walkt with us that he was not in any such Practice As keeping on his Hat in time of Publick Prayer but believ'd and in some measure walked in the Way we profess conformable as we are and we hope for Conscience sake He dare not also say That he enjoy'd nor some Comfort from those Prayers that came through an Uncovered Head but acknowledgeth the contrary and at that time of Day all was well It was the Gospel the Truth the Way of God said he and others since of his Stamp they were Zealous also to promote it This now will be the Question Whether If any Person that had given those Signal Testimonies for a Way and People and so incorporated himself with them finding afterwards Fault with a Practice so Innocent so Reverent as keeping off the Hat in time of Publick Prayer to Almighty God should step out of that ●omely Order set up a New Mark and Standard whereby some should have their Heads covered others uncovered a most divided confused and unseemly Sight the Church in this Case may not Admonish andafter her due Admonition and the Parties tenacious resolute and captions Disputes for that unsutable Practice may not justly disown him as a Disputer about needless Questions and one that is gone out of the compleat Union of the Body and exercised by another Spirit Deny this and Farewel to all Christian Church Order and Discipline yea and Truth it self For it is an absolute Inlet to Ranterism and so to Atheism near whose Borders this Author dwells I say If the Scripture is to be credited this is sound Doctrine If the several Societies or Churches then gathered were not to pass Judgment till the Hereticks or Schismaticks were convinc'd of and acknowledg'd their Mistake they had never done it since upon such Conviction Acknowledgment they ceased to be such unless we should believe that notwithstanding they were convinced in their Consciences of their Errors or Dissentions they still persisted in the Belief of them which I will not affirm If then a Society or Church so anointed as aforesaid have that Power We do by Authority thereof as a Christian Society judge all Persons concern'd with the Spirit of this Author to be thus far led by a Delusive Turbulent Unchristian Spirit which if once given way to there is no Imagination so Sordid and Scandalous as it would not lead to and by this will we stand in the Day of the Lord when it will be proved no Popery but Gospel to do so with him and this Novice appear a Wretched Slanderer His Objection Were I among you could I Marry if an whole Nation since you deny it to Dissenters from you is Childish in every thing but the Malice of it If all the World but he were Believers he might ask the Apostle Paul that Question who said Be ye not unequally yoak'd together It is not the Fault of the Body that he dissents but his own Imaginations and Whimsies His Suggestion that we would then deny him a Burial because we should deny it him alwayes as one of us but especially our now Usurping his Property in a Burial Place is a down-right Forgery That our Friends require any Man to practise what they are not convinc'd of I utterly renounce in their Name and that as an Infamous Slander But that we will be well satisfied with any Member's Dispractice of an orderly Performance once cheerefully own'd is also true and most reasonable and orderly That we Exalt our selves is a Calumny of his making but we know our Places in the Body And for his saying Every Member is Equal it is false For though it belongs to the same Body yet not to the same Service some are in that sense more Honourable then others This shows an Aspiring Discontented Mind in him that where he can't be Superiour he would be Equal He saith that with sorrow hath he seen pulling down haling out and thrusting forth of our Meetings and that we went as far as our Power and wanted only more to punish But could we do so as he wickedly falsly suggests we should have been perhaps more formidable to our Insolent Envious Perverse Opposers who come not for Conscience sake or to seek Satisfaction which we shall never refuse but to Disturb introduce a Rabble beget Laughter or any thing that might disquiet our Assemblies and as much as in them lies render them Unprofitable to the People If we ever so us'd any Conscientious Inquirer or Opposer let us know them It is Baseness it self to suggest our Ill-using of People in general and none named perhaps we have refused and condemn'd the bawling Opposition of such Apostate Slanderers as our Adversary but we appeal to God's holy Witness in all Consciences if that has been or is our Practice which is insmuated against us much less that his Uncharitable Expression If he had Power equal to our Will we would punish should have any place the Suggestion of the common Adversary For his saying that the Ministers are Ravening Wolves that prey upon the Flock● and that if they commit a Fault they are not to be judged by the Laity but their Peers or Equals It is easie with him to Slander but hard to prove What one Minister ever made a Prey upon this Authors Person or Estate let him give us his Name If Preaching the Everlasting Gospel in season and out of Season Rising early and laying down late Suffering Travelling and Spending and being spent in Body and Estate Sacrificing the Joy Strength and Pleasure of their Youth to the Service of the Living Eternal God and the Salvation of Peoples Souls if all this makes them Ravenous Wolves of Pray then hath he rightly denominated them but if this be Love unfeign'd to God and Men then will that Righteous Judge certainly reckon with this Apostate for all his Slanders and Calumnies against his Faithful and Painful Messengers For not being judg'd by the Laity but their Peers as he wickedly distinguishes be it known to all That if any such Person have committed an Injury against any of those who are not exercised in the Ministry then as well those as the Ministry are proper Judges but in Cases that may more strictly concern the Exercise of his Gift it is most equal reasonable that such other faithful publick Labourers as may be gotten together with some of the more approved among us whom we can call Elders should be Judges in the Case But how Only as they are upon serious Waiting to receive Counsel and Wisdom from God directed of his Holy Spirit to speak act or determine Now what great Matter of Evil Apostacy Popery Tyranny Lordlings c. can there be in so orderly a Practice O this Libertine Ranting Spirit that therefore hateth us because we would have it Ruled Guided and Govern'd with the Curb of Truth and not under a Pretence of Gospel-Liberty run out into

Prophaneness but where Men like the Pharisees have a Shew of Religion and their Fury hath eaten out their Moderation insomuch as that they are become Envious and Persecuting such we say are worse then Publicans as saith the Scripture Whoremongers and Adulterers shall enter the Kingdom of God before them But neither is this the Case in hand for he is far less excusable who having walked with Upright People deserts them then those Non-Conformists that were never of them Non-conformity may be Ignorance but Apostacy is wilfull distorting and erring from the Faith Worship and Discipline of the True Church and as a Christian turn'd Turk is observ'd to be most Cruel to the Profession so none so great Enemies to the Poor Quakers as those who have been reputed of them The worst Enemies are those of a Man 's own House 'T was Judas the Disciple that betray'd his Lord and none we hear of did Paul more wrong then Alexander the Copper-Smith Lastly His Judging their Recantations that deny'd their former Acts of Dissention and gave Testimony against them to have been done in an hour of Temptation is a Lye in it self and in him high Incharity and at most but a Begging of the Question I Challenge him to prove it If he can't he is a Belyer of God's Convictions upon the Soul Their profest Sincerity and Brokenness of Heart and Contrition of Spirit had been enough to have Melted any thing but an Adamantine Alexander the Apostate who not only was Bad but we never heard that he proved Good again the Doom I fear of this Perverter of the Right Way of the Lord who will certainly reward him according to his Works But because I design not to be long nor yet to give an Account to the World of our Church-Procedure nor are we oblieged to it for every nameless Accuser let this suffice to show the Baseness and Revenge both of the Author and his Publisher and their great Inconsistency with the Designs of each other and his with sound Reason Scripture and Himself God will Raise the Horn of his Salvation above all their Opposition he will Prosper his Truth Bless his People and Dissipate every Mist that Ignorance Rags or Malice of Ungodly Men may for a time cloud the Beauty of the one or call in question the Unspotted Reputation of the other by and He shall have the Glory whose it is forever I am a Servant to the Truth and them that Love it William Penn. Innocency further Cleared And the Spirit of Alexander the Copper-smith Further Detected Or The Full and Plain Testimonies of those very Persons whose Names are quoted by the Author of the Spirit of the HAT in favour of it which doubtless give the greatest Credit to that Malicious Piece in the Minds of People given forth against the Wicked and Pernicious Design of him that writ it and for the Clearing of God's Truth and People WHereas the Author of the Spirit of the HAT insinuates That our Ministry is guilty of Uncleanness Whoredoms and such like Beastly Practices under a feigned Commendation of us under-written as Prosecutors of such Persons that they may be brought to Judgment We do declare in the Fear of the Everlasting God That though we abhor with our whole Souls such Unrighteous Practices and if such things were we should we hope clear our Consciences for God and his Living Truth and People Yet we do declare in the Uprightness of our Hearts that we know of no such nor can acknowledge any such to be either of our Ministry or our Body much less those who are Eminent among us as hath been Wickedly Suggested by the Author of The Spirit of the Hat whom we have found Painful and Faithful to God his Truth and People Therefore to say we were hindered from bringing them to Judgment whom we never went about to charge neither can we is a Wicked Envious and Palse Suggestion of the Adversaries of the Truth and this in God's Fear we testifie to the World John Bolton Samuel Newton AS for that part of the Bemoaning Letter so called which doth more particularly concern me I observe this That the Author under the specious Shew of Pity and Compassion to the Oppressed doth traduce me as well as others First In setting me in Opposition against John Bolton Next In Insinuating as if I had been so Hipocritical as for Peace sake to Judge that in Publick which I Justified in Private As to the first I say There may be between two of one Judgment through a Mis-understanding of each others Words and Intentions a seeming Opposition and yet really none and so was the Case between J. B. and my self For the Intent of my words and that which answered my Judgment was That it would not recommend any to us to judge a Thing for Evil unless they believed it was so but that every one should be left to God's Witness in their Consciences to Condemn what that condemns and to Justifie what that justifies and not to condemn or justifie barely upon the Motion or Judgment of others which is true and will stand to our Justification against this Slanderer who would introduce That the Tyranny of our Elders is such as to impose upon the Weak and Simple that which they cannot believe But I being mis-apprehended there was an Occasion to call for the Judgment of the Meeting for if my words had extended so far as that nothing was to be accounted an Evil unless the Guilty Party saw it to be so which is the Principle of the Ranters and not of the People of God called Quakers the Zeal of the Lord might well rise against it where it was supposed to be for that would excuse all Scared Consciences who commit Sin with Greediness and drink up Iniquity as an Ox drinks Water But when my Words were repeated and explained and the Intent of my Mind seen and understood J. B. was satisfied and all others as far as I know So it appears that I had no Occasion neither did Condemn that in Publick which I Justified in Private and the False Accusation is cast off and returned upon the Author And herein I must commend the Care of J. B. that he would not have any thing of a Wrong Judgment remain with a Brother And this I have further to add that though latet anguis in herba yet the Snake is seen in the Grass and that this twining Serpent hath no place in my Heart but is forever judged by me as coming from the Bottomless Pit and thither must return and God's Truth is over all Justified and shall spread over the whole Earth to his Glory who has began the Work and will finish it in his Time and these Mists and Fogs that do arise from the Pit cannot darken the Son of Righteousness who is appeared in the Hearts of a Remnant and whose Glory shines and will shine over all to the fulfilling of that which was prophesied of him in Times

of Stumbling to others and to Weaken the Hands of them I should have been a Strength to and to Strengthen the Hands of them I should not have been a Strength to And when I came to see it I came forth in absolute Judgment against that Paper and the spirit in which it was writ and what I did in it I did it absolutely to the Lord and to answer his Pure Manifestation and Appearance in my Heart and durst not do otherwise in the Pure Fear of the Lord who in a signal Manner Appeared in me and by a strong Hand and lifted up Arm opened my Heart and raised a pure Zeal and Indignation in it against that Treacherous Lying Spirit and my care was to clear Truth and its Testimony and Faithful Friends whom I found the Enemy had struck at through me and the Judgment I gave forth against that Paper was not given forth in an Hour of Weakness and Temptations but in the Strength and Dominion and Evidence and Clearness of Truth and stands and will stand forever And I do further testifie that the Spirit that hath wrought in a Mystery against Friends and to break their Unity under swelling Pretences of further Discoveries and a Singular Larger Zeal whether of that Spirit which leads unto the Practice of wearing the Hat in Publick Prayer or such like to Catch the Mind of the Young and Simple they not being aware of his Devices is the same though under diversity of Appearance that works in the Children of Deceit Disobedience to incline and intice them to all manner of Cruelty Lust and Vanity and is the Ranting Spirit is Corah's Spirit that resisted murmured against the Servant of the Lord in former days and therefore we find that Apostates from among us and Professors of all sorts and Prophane can and do center here in one Spirit of Enmity and Opposition against the Truth and its Followers and Witnesses and of this the Lord hath made me deeply sensible and through the Mercy and Power of the Lord God a Zeal and Indignation lives in my Heart against that Cursed Twining Spirit and a Care and Travel in measure for all that have been Entangled by it that they may see and be sensible of it and may be raised up to come forth in a clear and full Testimony against it without Reserve John Swinton ANd whereas it is said by the Author of that Scandalous Pamphlet call'd The Spirit of the Hat that he remembers a Paper to have been sent down to Hartford subscrib'd by a Dozen of the Great Ones as this Malecontent scoffingly terms them that it had this Passage in it That if any Person had as he thought a Command from God to do any thing or put forth any thing in print he must come and lay it before the Body and AS THEY JUDGE THEY MUST SUBMIT p. 18. querying If this was not an Arbitrary Government bound by no Law but what G. F. and a few more please and affirming That it was much disliked there This we under-written say and that in God's Fear who are Men well known in that Place that we know of no such Paper so sign'd or sent Consequently there could not be any such passage Neither was it possible that we should dislike it unless we should dislike what was not So that five great and manifest Lyes meet in these few Lines 1. That there was such a Letter 2. That it had that Passage in it 3. That Twelve of the Great-ones as he reproachfully calls them sign'd it 4. That it was disliked And Lastly that he remembers all this He that can remember things that never were may be reasonably supposed to make those things It shows his Malice to invent and great Wickedness to affirm such Invention for very Truth God will plead with this Traducer of the Innocent in a Day when he shall not escape his Indignation This is our true Testimony for the Clearing God's Truth and People Henry Stout Nicholas Lucas Richard Martin I Perceiving the Wicked Design of this obscure Author of the Spirit of the HAT is not only to bring a Reproach upon Christ's Government and good Order among us his People as Tyrannical and Oppressive to tender Consciences which is an abominable Slander but also to sow Discord among us I must signifie this to the World that his Work is neither of Credit nor Effect with me or us For 1 he hath manifested himself to be a Belialite or a Son of Belial without a Yoke and without the Bounds of Truth and Good Order so that for him the Spirit of Ranterism is more proper and significant then the Spirit of the Hat however he makes that his Cover 2 He is deeply a Partaker not of the least of those seven Abominations Prov. 6. 17 18. 19. Being guilty of a Lying Tongue an Heart that deviseth wicked Imaginations and is a false Witness that speaketh Lyes and one that soweth or rather would sow Discord among Brethren And wherein he attempts it between me and that upright Man of God G. F. I tell him and the World That his Bait and Wicked Device shall not take with me since the Lord in Mercy hath opened my Understanding to see beyond Prejudice and Darkness upon which the Adversary of Mankind seeks occasion to Divide and Scatter where God hath Gathered and United And the occasion that this Son of Belial and Spirit of Ranterism takes wickedly to represent me and G. F. to the World as divided was a Mistake that I was under and an unadvised Expression privately spoken which did reflect upon the holy Zeal of that Man of God which when I came to see it was my Burthen and the Lord's Reproof I own'd on that and to his Testimony and Judgment I stand against that Spirit of Prejudice which did in dayes past weaken and vail my Understanding while I stood not in the Unity of his Ministers and People in which State the Life and Refreshments in the Body were not partaken of as now felt thorow the Lord's Love which hath reached my Soul and engaged my Heart to himself and People not in any thing to offend but to watch against the Dis-uniting Spirit and to live in Union with the Church of Christ whose Light is sprung up and arisen out of Obscurity Praises to our God for ever for whom I stand a Witness in my Measure against all loose disobedient Spirits Backsliders Ranters and against that disorderly irreverent Carriage of keeping on the Hat in publick Prayer and the dis-uniting Spirit that sought to set it up impose it among us which when it could not carry one its Design but was opposed by the Power of God ●mong us it cryed out Oh! Imposition upon Conscience Pope Arbitrary Government Rule without to lead us from the Movings of God's Spirit Rule and Government of Christ within as this Apostate who one while pleads Conscience another while the Spirit 's Requirings another while