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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30075	A testimony against the 66 judges called Quakers who writ an epistle (as they call it) against John Story and John Wilkinson and those that joyned with them ...	Bullock, Jeffery.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5427; ESTC R29912	14,509	18

love concluded For which blessed be the Name of the Lord whose Loving Ancient and Fresh Power and presence was with us But truly with bowed Spirits and grieved Hearts have we perceived the obstinate and obdurateness of some that have gone into the Self-will despising Heavenly Dignities and casting tender Love and Intreaties behind their backs setting up and continuing in and promoting false and pernicious Jealousies Mutterings and secret Smitings whereby they are darkned in their Understandings and so have through the Power of the Enemy of the King of Righteousneses and Peace set up a kind of Standard of Seperation from that blessed Fellowship and Communion of the Churches of Christ sweetly possessed together to the Dishonour of God his Truth and People More especially John Wilkinson and John Story notwithstanding the many Visitations and Admonitions of Love and Life even in the deepest Travails and that from time to time and year to year particularly the sence and admonition of the last yearly Meeting writ in great love that they might return and be reconciled to their Brethren before they offer their Gifts which they have rejected And forasmuch as it appears to us that they will not come to us nor near us in the peaceable Truth which we have frequently and truly desired for their good but that they go on in their opposition and evil smiting against the Faithful Brethren and Practice of the Church of Christ refusing to dissolve their separate Company in the North or clear their Hands of them by a faithful Testimony against them or so much as blot their Names out of their Paper of Separation And because we are sensible they have made an ill use of our Forbearance even to the strengthening themselves in their Separation and cover their evil Designs among some simple-hearted Friends persevering therein by Word Writing and Practice we are constrained after this continual waiting and exhortation thus slighted by them for the Glory of the Name of the Lord and sake of the Peace of the Churches of Christ that we may stand clear in the Power of God of the Blood of all in the great and notable day of Account more publickly to reprove and judge them And we do hereby reprove and judge that jealous rending and separating Spirit and them and their separate Company as being in the Spirit of Separation and that by the Spirit and Power of our God we warn all to whom this comes to beware of the said John Wilkinson and John Story whose way at present is not the way of Peace and Christian Concord For if it were they would not offer their Gift till reconciled to their Brethren And therefore Brethren stand up in the Power and Wisdom of God for the Testimony of Truth against that wrong murmuring and dividing Spirit and where they come warn them to go home in the name of the Lord and be reconciled to their Brethren and not go thus up and down to offer their Gift which in this State is not a Peace but a Division offering contrary to the Precept of Christ Jesus our Lord first being reconciled whatever their pretences be and therein will you acquit your selves in Gods sight and shew true Love and Friendship unto them and those that may be hurt by them which our Souls most earnestly desire ye that it may be truly well with them both here and for ever And from the Lord we say had they loved the Prosperity of Zion and the Peace of Jerusalem more than their own Self-will and Self-separation and had they sought the Unity that is in the Truth and sweet Communion of Brethren which stands in that Love that thinks no evil and that Wisdom that is gentle and very easie to be intreated with the Brethren sweet and precious had been our Fellowship to this day And it is our Godly Exhortation to you Friends and Brethren of Monthly and quarterly Meetings that you watch in the Light and Power of God against this separating Spirit that smites at the blessed Fellowship of the Churches of Christ and where it enters any in Gods love to admonish exhort and warn such to take heed of that ravenous Spirit and to keep the Unity of the Peace of the Family of the Lord the Houshold of Christ which we are and if notwithstanding your Christian Dealing and Forbearance such persons persevere and go on in their separate Spirit and Practice let Gods Truth be clear of them and Truth set over their Heads according to that blessed Order of the Gospel of Christ setled amongst you And dear Brethren be careful not to suffer your Meetings which were gathered not by the will of Man but by the Power and Wisdom of the Lord God to be disturbed over-ruled and spoiled by heady obstinate and contentious Persons that disturb the Peace of the Church of Christ neither fear Man but eye the Lord and wait in his Wisdom and Power to be guided and ordered and so go on to your work in the name of the Lord For the Seed of Life and not the Wisdom which is from below must rule and have the Dominion for ever But forasmuch as the way of the working of the subtil Enemy hath been to suggest that it is the design of some to make themselves Lords over Gods Heritage and to set up an Arbitrary Power in the Churches of Christ and then to run out into severe Exclamations against Impositions crying up Liberty of Conscience thereby casting a mist before the Eyes of the simple and a Stumbling-block in the way of the weak Thus we feel our selves constrained in the love of our Lord for the good of all to declare and the Lord that gathered us and preserved us to this day is our Record that we deny and abhor any such thing for we have one Lod Judge and Law-giver and that is Christ Jesus unto whose Light Power and Spirit we have been turned and in that have worshipped him and had Fellowship together to this day and are your Servants for his sake and we are assured in the Lord that those that keep in the Light Life and Power of Christ will have Fellowship with us and truly our Fellowship is with the Father and the Son and though it is far from us to bruise or hurt the poorest or least member in the Church of Christ who may not have that clearness of sight and strength of Faith which the Lord hath brought us to but that they may be cherished yet by that Salt that we have in our selves from the Lord we are enabled to savour between the Transformations of the Enemy and the scruples of the Innocent and as to be tender of the one so to give Judgment against the other and our day hath lamentably shown us the effect of that Spirit that under a pretence of crying down Impositions and pleading for Liberty and doing nothing but what it is free to endeavouring to lay waste the blessed Unity of the Brethren and so

A TESTIMONY AGAINST The 66 Judges call'd Quakers who writ an Epistle as they call it against John Story and John Wilkinson and those that joyned with them subscrib'd by the said 66 Judges which is here inserted with an Answer thereunto subscribed by 67 of the said People published to this end that all may take notice how the Spirit of Antichrist hath entred into the Quakers Teachers in this our Age and Generation LET all People take notice to whom this Writing shall come That there is a Generation of Antichristian Preachers called Quakers in this Land of England who make it their great business yearly to meet together at London and when as they are met together for to call into question such things as they have nothing to do withal that is such things as are of a Spiritual Concernment the which thing alone belongeth to the Light or Measure of the Spirit in every one 's own particular to judge of and it doth not belong to the Light in others for to judge others in matters of Conscience Religion and Worship who owns the same Light or Measure of Divine Life to be the only Rule for them to walk by but the place of all such Teachers is to judge themselves and not their Brethren as Christ said Judge your selves and ye shall not be judged But now if these men did but own themselves to be 〈◊〉 Brethren or in a Child's State or in a Servant's Place to God as ●hrist did who took upon him the form of a Servant and also he learned Obedience to his Father as a Son or if these men did but consider how Christ behaved himself as a Servant among his Disciples although he was Lord of all and also how he taught them that those among them that did desire to be greatest should be willing to become least and so a Servant to others Then would they not have acted as they have formerly done towards their Brethren in the West and North of England and elsewhere in setting themselves up as Judges over their Brethren in matters of Conscience Religion and Worship towards God but they would rather have recommended every one to abide in their own measures and so to have left all as had been convinced to God the Judge of all who at the first did convince them and not to have set up themselves as Judges over their Brothers Consciences as the Sixty Six Judges have lately done in the year one thousand six hundred seventy seven in their Paper sent to the Quakers in the West of England the which Paper was written against John Story and John Wilkinson and those which did joyn with them wherein they did judge them to be of a rending separating and dividing Spirit But one main thing that the 66 Judges have neglected in that Paper sent to the Quakers that is they should have drawn up first a Bill of Indictment of the particular Criminal Facts that these Quakers had been guilty of before that they had passed or given forth such a sensorious general Judgment against them the which thing you Judges neglected But so far as I can understand that the Criminal Facts which these Quakers are charged to be guilty of was that these Quakers in the West and North of England they did not receive and embrace the orders of George Fox and also they refused to be tryed by those who did own the said Orders Decrees and Impositions of George Fox and the rest of those Preachers who had formerly made it their business to meet together in Council and to send forth Orders and Decrees among the Quakers as Rules for them to observe and walk after which thing was practiced above ten years ago by those who were called the Eleven Elders for They also sent forth a Paper of Orders among the Quakers but by many of the Quakers the said Paper was disowned although those which sent it forth among the Quakers said that it was given forth in and from the Operation of the Spirit of God but surely those Quakers which did disown the said Paper they did not believe what those called the Eleven Elders had asserted For had they believed that the said Writing had been given forth in and from the Operation of 〈◊〉 ●rue Spirit they dared not to have opposed it nor yet to have disowned it but their disowning of it doth give forth a certain Testimony that those Quakers believed that it came from a wrong Spirit for the Eleven Elders they did not stand to maintain it nor yet to give forth a Testimony against those Quakers which did disown the said Writing which they ought to have done if it had been given forth from a right Spirit And now here followeth the Copy of the Writing sent by the 66 Judges to the Quakers in the West of England and also their Names to it and likewise the Quakers Answer to it and so let the Light or true Spirit or Gods Witness judge in all those who shall read the said Writing whether that which was given forth by the 66 Judges did not come forth from the spirit of Antichrist or from Satan in them transformed into an Angel of Light Let the Light in all that shall read them judge Jeffery Bullock From a MEETING held at Ellis Hook's Chamber in London the 12th of the 4th Month 77. Our dear Friends and Brethren THE Lord who is the Ancient of Days the Unchangeable and the Holy One of Israel that was and is to come our Rock and Strength for ever hath graciously brought us together by his own Power and is with us and hath covered us with his Love and Spirit and filled our Hearts with his undeclarable Kindness the sence of his Mercies hath exceedingly overcome us and cemented us together and blessed sweet and very precious to our Souls is the Heavenly Unity of Life amongst us wherein at this Meeting the Lord our God hath crowned us with Glory Dominion and Peace blessed for ever be his pure Name Oh how good it is for all to keep in the Living sence of God and his Truth where plentious Redemption and Preservation is known where the Murmurer and Repiner can never come therefore all that are in the muttering dissatisfied and jealous Nature full of Doubts and Reasonings and Objections go from their pure Eye and out of Truth 's Habitation in themselves and so come to suffer loss O Dear Brethren at this time as on like occasions hath been frequent with us the care of the Peace and the welfare of the Churches of Christ came upon us and blessed be the Lord things are generally well and flourishing and Truth grows famous though Sufferings abound in many places yet it is well with Friends and the Lords power reigns and great hath been the Concern of Friends about the Sufferings of our Brethren and other things and blessed Meetings have we had wherein things have been clearly opened sweetly and tenderly treated on in much love and brotherly