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Truth tryumphing in a suffering time over deceit and falsehood, or, William Prynn's book of Quakers unmasked clearly detected and the innocency of the people vindicated from the grosse abuses and injuries done them by him ... / by G.W.
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Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
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illegally or this manner of inveighing against a people be admitted of or owned as rational then who could escape his false censures and unjust judgments For Christ told his followers that men should revile them and persecute them and say all manner of evil of them falsly for hs names sake Now if any should have sworn that they had all manner of evil spoken of them could thâ—t be sufficient to prove them guilty of all manner of evil No sure but the quite contrary he told them they were blessed â—hen they so suffered And further mark his Information from â—oppinger That being at a Meeting of the Quakers he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome which were of the same Franciscan Order and Company that were now become chief Speakers amongsâ— thâ— Quakers and that he himself haed spoke amongst them in London about 30. times and was well approved of amongst them To which â— say these things being known to be so notoriously false as many in this City know that little need be said to them neither need we go about to prove a Negative or denyal of them for botâ— the weaknesse and fallacy of his matter is very apparent and had he â—amed these he calls chief Speakers it would further have appeared that he had notoriously belyed the Quakers because all â—hose that are owned as Ministers or Speakers amongst â—hem who have gone forth publickly in the work are so apparently known that many would have been able to have confuâ—ed this false Information of their being either Jesuits or any whit â—elated to them in their way or Orders but it seems the concealing of their names was in pollicy to make the Lying story more credible which how apparently it contradicts it self any thaâ— are rational may judge where after Coppinger told Cowliâ—â—aw that none came so near him as the Quakers and that tâ—o of the Francâ—scan Order was chief Speakers amongst them and that he was well approved of amongst them yet after this page 4. That this Coppinger told him two or three times that if he dâ—d love his Relgion and soul he should not hear them c. Look here what Contradiction here isâ— and how plainly the Quakers are hereby cleared fâ—om being sâ—ch as before they were Charged to be and that they do not own eiâ—her the Fryers or Jesuits neither are their Speakers such for if they were could it be a likely story that a â—ranciscan Fryer should disswade a man from hearing them and that aâ— he loved his Religion and soul see what is become of â— Prynnâ— story and proof against the Quakers and whether it be sufficient thereupon to give notice to those in present power to proceed against them under pretence of preventing such dangerous growing mischiefs which unrighteously he chargeth upon the Quaâ—ers And thus a lyingâ— slandering and persecuting spirit haâ—h uttered forth its Rancour and Venome against an Innocent people and should the Magistrates be led by him and such malicious spirits as to be perswaded and ruled by them what would become of the peaceable Subjects and of this Nation in general Though he and such Time-servers Hypocrites and Men pleasers who can turn any way with the times for their own Ends and Preâ—erment are Instruments fit enough Iudas-like to serve the persecuting spirit and to do the persecutors work and drudgery against the poor and despised people whom the Lord is with but they whose work and service is managed by such let them mark the End of their work in the day of the Lambs wrath when they that have taken Counsel together against the Lord and his anointed shall have a recompence of reward according to their doings and when the Kings of the Earth great and mighty men and chief Captains and both every bond and free-man shall hide themselve in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and say to the Mountains and Rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the â—hrone and from the wrath of the Lamb Rev. 6. Here neither Masters nor Servants that have a hand in this work and have but the Mountains to fly to shall be able to hide themselves And as touching the exception that Iohn Audland gave against Cowlishaw's Informaâ—ion and Oath aforesaid as proving it untrue where â— A. said That two of them reproachâ—ully called Quakers came from the North in the Moneth of Iune and came into Bristâ—l the 12. day of the Moneth called â—uly 1654. Which plainly enough proves the Information from Coppinger and Cowlishaw false where Coppinger in the Moneth of September spoke of their being to come to Bristâ—l within a Moneth or three weeks following and the other denying that any Quakers had been in Bristol before their discourse in September whereas two of them were there above a Moneth before in the Moneth called Iuly and had Meetings where they did publish the truth But William Prynne to colour over and glosse this false Information against the Quakers to make the Nation believe it for truth he saith of these two called Quakers being at Meetings at Briâ—â—oâ— on the 13th of Iuly That â—hat was unknown to Cowlishaw and most others c. And that they spake to â—hâ—se people not under the â—ame or notion of Quakers but only of Anabapâ—ists and Independents and that in Septemberâ— or at that time they began to take upon them the â—ame of Quakers c. To which I reply now mâ—rk what silly shuffling he hath â—ere made to prove the former Information anâ— Oath true aâ— if its being unknown to Cowlishaâ— that they were in Bristol in Iuly did prove his flatly denying them to have been there before Sepâ—emâ—er true For his not knowing that they were there manifests that he spake both unadvisedly and without knowledge â—nd gave that in upon his Oath which was false which seems to be done more out of prejudice against the peâ—ple called Qâ—â—kers then either honesty or truth So as â— A. is neither guilty of slander nor double Lie in his detecting this Information and Oath of â—owlisâ—aw as falsly W. P. hath accused him for who but one in prejudice and enmity would have given such a confused and false Information upon Oath against us But ' â—is no strange thing to us to be reviled and sworn against for as Daâ—iâ— said Mine â—eâ—emâ—es reprâ—aâ—h me all the daâ— and they that â—re mâ—d against me are sâ—orn agaâ—nst me Psal 102 8. And how apâ—arently false is it also to say that they spoke to those people thâ—n not under the name or notion of Quakers but only of Anaâ—aptists and Independents and that they began to take upon them the name of Quakers at the time of September which is a double falsehood for they were known to go under that name in thâ— North long before they came to Briâ—â—ol as also Coppinger as he saith in September told of being at a Meeting of the Quakers in London and at