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A40257 Something in answer to a law lately made at the first sessions of the General Court held at Boston in New-England, May the 28th, 1679 : and published by their order, Edw. Rawson, Secretary : the title of the law, viz. Meeting-houses not to be erected without licence, &c. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1679 (1679) Wing F1911; ESTC R36421 11,382 20

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King's Subjects so only for their Tenderness of Conscience you that pretend Liberty of Conscience And this was never the practice of true Christians nor the Apostles nor Ministers nor Messengers of Christ Jesus And so the Strife is from that inwardly Ravening Spirit like Wolves in Sheeps Clothing and Lust in your selves from whence arises your War who will not let peaceable People meet to worship God in Spirit and in Truth as Christ hath commanded For it is not the Work of you Herodian Caesars to prescribe God a Worship For Christ hath set up a Worship above sixteen hundred years since But God be thanked that your Beasts Horn reaches no farther than New England for if it did it would soon pull down our Meeting Houses in England and other Meeting-Houses also that are contrary to you in all the Kings Dominions and make their Houses forfeited and sell them and the Land and Wayes too And though you say the price of them must be given to the Country but is it not very likely that the Beast after he had pushed them down with his Horn would swallow down the price of all And did not Ananias the High Priest tell Felix That Paul was a Pestilent Fellow and a Mover of Sedition among all the Jews throughout all the World and a Leader of the Sect of the Nazarenes Acts 24. And so are not you found in the very same Language and Spirit against the Life of Christianity and such as walk in it And did not the Jews ask Paul What he thought of that Sect to wit of the Christians and they said They knew it was every where spoken against Acts 28. And so we know it is not only spoken against now by you that are of the Birth of the Flesh but they are persecuted that are born and led of the Spirit and walk in Christ the New and Living Way And doth not the Apostle call Strife Wrath Sedition and Heresie the Works of the Flesh with Envyings Murders and Revellings and they that do such things should not inherit the Kingdom of God Galat. 5. And have not these Fruits of Error and Heresie and Sedition and Division you speak of been found in you with your Wrath Strife Envy Murders and Revilings which is a Work of your Flesh and not a Work of the Spirit of God as witness your envious Reviling and Murdering of the Servants of God whom you ●●●nged For when it was asked Broadstreet one of your New-England Rulers By what Law he Hanged the King's Subjects and Servants of Christ He said By the Law that they put Jesuits to Death in England And farther he was asked Whether he did believe they were Jesuits And he answered Nay And he was asked Whether he had a Hand in Hanging them He said Yes and from that time we could not get a sight of him but like a Wild Beast that had worryed the Doves and Lambs of Christ hid himself in his Burrows And are not you them that seduce people with vour fleshly Minds and preach Peace to the Birth of Flesh to which there is no Peace and not to the Birth of Spirit but war against it and one builds a Wall and another daubs it with Untempored Mortar but when the Storm and the Over-flowing Shour and the Hail-stones of God's Fury shall fall upon your Wall it will destroy it Ezek. 13. where you may read and see how he marks you out And as Solomon saith The Righteous is more excellent than his Neighbour but the Way of the Wicked seduces them Prov. 12.26 Examine your selves if you be not in that Way And did not the Heathen look upon Jerusalem and the Jews to be a City and a People of Sedition Ezra 4. And so was not God's People alwayes branded with such Calumnies and persecuted as you have done in New-England by the Birth of the Flesh that persecutes them that are born of the Spirit And did not Paul confess to Felix when Ananias the High Priest and the Jews accused him That after the Way which they to wit the High Priests and Elders and professing Jews called Heresie so did he worship the God of his Fathers believing all things that are written in the Law and the Prophets c. and herein did he exercise himself alwayes to have a good Conscience void of Offence both towards God and towards Men Acts 24. And so can the People of God called Quakers say now concerning the Persecuting Priests and Governours of New-England And in 1 Pet. 2. there you may read of the Damnable Heresies of the Covetous False Teachers who with feigned words made Merchandize of people which denyed the Lord that bought them which went in the Error of Balaam who loved the Wages of Unrighteousness And was not Balaam hired to prophesie against Israel and to Curse them And are not all your Priests hired Read Numb 13. Deut. 23. And so have not your Teachers turned from the Command of Christ who saith Freely you have received freely give And do not you deny the Lord that has bought you in your Lives and Practices though you confess him in words Christ who hath given himself a Ransom for all and tasted Death for every man and saith He came not to destroy mens Lives but to save them But you destroy the Lives of them that Christ dyed for Here do not you manifest your selves to be in this Heresie and pernicious Wayes And are not your Teachers such as covet after Money and have erred from the Faith c. which Faith the Apostles were in which coveted no man's Silver nor Gold nor Apparel And are not you all erred from this True Christian Catholick Faith who have made Laws to Banish Hang and Whip Spoil Goods and take away the People of Gods Meeting-places to make Merchandize of their Houses and Lands and High-wayes to them And the Apostle saith A man that is an Heretick after the first and second Admonition reject Here the Apostle doth not say Whip him and Banish him and Hang him and pluck down their Meeting-Houses and sell them and their Land and Wayes though he was an Heretick But such you have not proved us the People of God called Quakers to be but have made a great Noise like a great hollow Cask that will hold no Water about Error and Heresie Schism and Sedition but have not defined what any of these things are nor wherein they are guilty of these things whose Meeting-Houses you make Laws to forfeit pluck down sell and demolish with the Land and High-wayes to them belonging And you may also read your Error in 2 Pet. 2.17 18 19. and in Jude 11. such as went under the Name of Christians like you but out of the Faith and Love of God For is not your way Cain's who kill about Religion and in Corah's that gainsay it Now where did ever Abraham Isaac and Jacob kill any because they would not be of their Religion and pluck down their Meeting Houses
to separate and seduce God's People from Christ and the Unction which they have from him by which they come to continue in the Son of God and in the Father through which they feel the Love of God by which they are kept above the fear of man and what he can do unto them which Love bears and endures all things and envyes not So blessed be God through Christ for this Love who hath shed it abroad in his Peoples Hearts And the Lord forgive you all your Persecution of his People and that you may Repent if it be his Will who desires not your Destruction but your Salvation G. F. The 19th of the 7th Moneth 1679. Postscript AND whereas Joseph Shaddeck writes to William Croutch a Letter dated the 30th of the 4th moneth 1679. That one John Higginson preach't at Salem the 29th of the 4th mon. 79. and in his Sermon said That Fox and Penn and several others of the Quakers were now found out to be Jesuits and had a great hand in carrying on the Plot in England and that the Wandering Quakers were the Cause of stirring up the last bloody Wars by the Indians in these parts But these are all invented and forged Lyes as it is well known in England that are cast upon Fox and Penn but Fox and Penn abhor their Slanders and the forged Lyes which the said John Higginson preach't at Salem for Gospel It is like he wanted something to make up his Hour-Glass And those are also forged Lyes from a slanderous Mouth and Tongue to say That the Wandring Quakers were the Cause of stirring up the bloody Wars by the Indians in New-England Nay these are the Wandring Stars that forge these Lyes and cast up their Mire and Dirt against the Innocent For the very Records of the beginning of those Wars give the New-England Priests with the Raisers of the Forgeries before those Wandring Stars the Lye and that they are Forgers of Lyes against the Innocent People of God called Quakers For their very Innocent Principle and the Nature of their true Christianity who are Partakers of the Divine Nature of Christ doth abhor and deny such Practices and Plots of the Jesuits of stirring up Bloodshed and Wars For our Lord Jesus Christ came not to Destroy mens Lives but to Save them So it is contrary to the Nature of Jesus Christ our Lord and contrary to the Nature of the true Christians that receive him as Fox and Penn do and such receive him whom the Priests of New-England call Wandring Quakers with their slanderous Tongues and Forgers of Lyes who make Lyes their Refuge and are the Preachers of Lyes to the People instead of the Gospel we do believe that the Magistrates Priests and Agents of New-England would have had it so and therefore endeavouring to make people believe Lyes that they might be damned and this is to stir up Wars and it is the Devil 's Wo●k in them who is their Father and a Lyar from the beginning to stir them up to Lyes Envy Malice Wrath and Evil-speaking against the Innocent And therefore as Paul saith to Timothy Such Evil Men and Seducers as you shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived whose latter-end is worse than your beginning which are Wells without Water and Clouds carryed about with Tempests though you may speak great swelling words of Vanity to whom is reserved the mist of Darkness and Blackness forever But the Proverb is upon you The Dog the Biter is turned again to his Vomit and the Sow to the wallowing in the Mire who throw your stinking Vomit and silthy Mire upon the Innocent People of God in scorn called Quakers So you have eaten of the Fruit of Lyes and are compassed about with them as you may see in Hosea 10 11. And a False Witness wi●l utter Lyes a Deceitful Witness speaks Lyes as you may see in Proverbs And have you not bent your Tongues like Bows to utter Lyes and taught your Tongues to speak Lyes Jer. 9. And have you not caused the people to err by your Lyes Jer. 23. And a Lying Tongue is but for a moment and Lying Lips are an Abomination to the Lord Prov. 12. And so have not you like Ahab sold your selves to work wickedness as in 1 Kings 21.20 in your Lying and Slandering and Persecuting the Servants of the Lord and what you cannot do with your Hands you do it with your Tongues THE END