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A89189	A sober ansvvere to an angry pamphlet, or, Animadversions, by way of reply, to Robert Barclays late book (entituled, Truth cleared of calumnies) in answere to A dialogue between a Quaker and a stable Christian by VVilliam Mitchell.	Mitchell, William, 17th cent.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2294; ESTC R43708	69,116	149

A SOBER ANSVVERE TO AN ANGRY PAMPHLET OR ANIMADVERSIONS By way of Reply to Robert Barclays late Book entituled Truth cleared of Calumnies in answere to a Dialogue between a Quaker and a Stable CHRISTIAN By VVILLIAM MITCHELL Matth. 24.24 For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shal deceive the very Elect 2. Pet. 3.17 Ye therefore Beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness Aberdene Printed by Iohn Forbes An. 1671 An Epistle to ROBERT BARCLAY VVhich may serve for an Admonition to the Quakers in and about ABERDENE SIR I have considered the Preface prefixed to your book wherein you give an account of the rise of Quakerisme in this place under the notion of the LORDS raising up the witnesses of this day and the opposition it met with And First It is alledged that your supposed witnesses and yet real enough in bearing testimony against the truth were reproached as demented distracted and bodily possessed Sir did you ever hear any speak in this place thus of Quakers Or rather are you not too apt to take things upon trust without weighing what truth or falshood may be in a report Yet it is not to be thought strange though Quakers had been charged with all this when as men of Faith Credit and eminent Piety in our neighbour Nation have testified of their extraordinary quaking going naked in the streets even the women of them and some pretending to a power of raising the Dead and for this end taking them out of their Graves calling them by name to arise and walk but their ineffectual attempts of this kind made them to returne covered with confusion and shame and yet as much hardened in their delusions as ever See Sam Clarks Mirror pag. 259. 262. 263. 267. See the Perfect Pharisee published by the Ministers of New-Castle pag 41. 48. see Pagits Heresiography pag. 250. 257. Secondly You say they were called nothing better then Iohn of Leyden and his Complices Sir I hope you are not ignorant that Iohn of Leyden and those that followed him were much led by revelations and delivered their Doctrines as being moved of GOD and that with as much confidence as any of you pretend unto And at first they spake against bearing Armes and would not suffer a man to weare a Ring nor a woman a Silken Gowne they made a great shew of Humility and their ordinary communication was about Mortification But what their after carriage was we are sufficiently informed by those that have written of their principles and of their practises see Pagits Heresiography pag. 13. Thirdly You speake of some serious and sober professours in and about Aberdene who in the year 1663. began to find the Savour of that Life in the testimony of that so much reproached people which some yeares before had stirred in others Sir that people whom you call so much reproached have with very much bitterness reproached others and cast as much obloquie upon the best persons that have differed from them as ever a generation of men did Are not their opprobrious termes so far from any good savour that they rather savour of a Spirit of rancour and bewray a root of bitterness to be within And let not Quakers think to shelter themselves under the practise of Christ and his Apostles who were wont to speake of Pharisees and other open enemies of the Gospel as being a viperous Generation children of Hell and of the Devil now let us search the records of Scripture and as I suppose it will not be found that Christ and his Apostles carried thus to those that professed subjection to the Gospel and owned Christ to be the Messiah shewing earnestness of desire that Souls might be saved being willing to take any course for promoting and furthering this great and glorious designe And Sir because you speak of Professours who had found that savour of life in the testimony of Quakers which before had stirred in others It is probable you will not take it well to say that those others were Ignatius Loyola and his followers and yet in very deed the Quakers carriage is very like unto theirs which Doctor Stillingfleet in his late book of the Idolatry of the Church of Rome notably demonstrats there he tels of a Sect in Spaine called Alumbrado s or the Illuminati this Sect under a pretence of mental prayer divine contemplation and union with GOD they despysed Sacraments and Religious exercises Of this Sect Ignatius Loyola the father of the Iesuits was vehemently suspect to be Those of his own order who have write his life Maffeius Orlandinus say First that it was his custome not to give men any titles of respect but to call them by their common names and resolved he would not break this custome because to do it proceeded from too great fear of men Secondly He preacht in an Enthusiastical manner going up and down the streets preaching to all persons and to all sorts of men and being examined confessed he was unlearned Thirdly When afterwards he was committed to prison he preacht to people with great zeale and they gloried much in his sufferings and the rest of the prisoners making their escape by the negligence of the keepers Ignatius and his adherents would not stirr Fourthly Being to forme a society he had for that purpose used himself to all the Arts of insinuation imaginable obliging men with expressions of the greatest kindness bearing all affronts with wonderful dissimulation Fifthly Having gotten persons to be of his mind he used all means to prevent any difference hapening among them Sixthly They preach in the streets and market places and invited people to hear him and no doub● saith my Learned Authour he converted many from the use of laces and ribbands And saith he I know not whether any of the innocent religious order of the Iesuits had any hand of forming this new Society among us as hath been frequently suggested but if one may guess the father by the childs likness Ignatius Loyola the Founder of the Iesuits was at least the Grand-Father of the Quakers See these things at length in the above mentioned Treatise pag. 305. 313. 314. 315. 316. 317. 320. 321. 324. 325. Moreover Sir If you would have others to savour and relish life in your testimony ye must study more self-denyal and shew forth first less pride be not too big in your own conceit consider Isaiah 65.5 Even be content with Burying places that better then your selves do lye in and do not seperat from us as children of Heth this is intolerable sauciness Secondly Shew forth less passion and anger the Scripture saith the Man of GOD must be gentle and meek 2. Tim. 2.25 reviling doth better become Shimei's then Saints Thirdly Shew forth less censoriousness do not say that men who can manifest