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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43052	To all people that profess the eternal truth of the living God this is a true and real demonstration of the cause why I have denied and do deny the authority of George Fox ...	Harwood, John.	1663 (1663)	Wing H1104; ESTC R29869	9,445	8

us he vindicated and justified the practise of Water-baptism in Humphrey Wooldridge who in water baptized a woman one of his disciples he sent forth to minister which was a publike fact and required publike acknowledgement and judgement according to his own Rule and Law 7. The same G.F. when he is in London takes upon him the place of God and orders those he accounts Ministers in his will and sends them to the several Meetings in and about London saying to them particularly to my knowledge Thou must go to such a place and to another Thou must go to such a place or such a place is ordered for thee and thither they must go whether they have any command or motion from God to go or no and in his absence leaves one of his most eminent servants to order the rest esteemed Ministers in his place on the first days who also orders them by word of mouth or gives them a piece of paper which thing the soul of the righteous God lothes and the seed of his life bears testimony against for the which he must come to judgement 8. He sent forth Milborough Smith into the Ministry and bid go and be a Mother in Israel when she was with a Bastard-Child and was shortly after delivered of it which shews his insufficiency and want of discerning to officiate such a place as also his fallibility and usurpation which is likewise for publike judgement 9. The said G. F. in envy writ a paper in pretence of an Answer to a Book of innocent John Perrots called Vnity and Amity which he sent amongst friends in the time of his persecution which was judged by the eternal Power and Life of God in several of his suffering servants which was also a publike fact for publike judgement amongst friends And here he hath turned his hand against the chosen and annointed of God which wil in the end prove to his own hurt 10. George Fox in his Book tituled The Honor amongst the Iews calls the Hat an earthly thing and a thing below the Worship of God and the dignity of a man and speaks much against the putting off the Hat but now he goes to set it up as part of God's Worship and saith He hath unity with none but such as put off their Hats in prayer So makes it clearly manifest that he is changeable and fallible and that his unity stands in an earthly thing and in that he confesseth is below the worship of God and here he would set up a form and tye the Lords free people to the performance of an external practise contrary to the liberty of the free Spirit of Life which ought in all things to order and exercise Gods chosen Remnant who are only and alone to be ordered in the performance of all duties and practises according to its leading and immediate motion which is also to be denied and judged out at the entrance or inlet of idolatry into the Church which all impositions and penal injunctions lead unto 11. He also reviled and reproached me and judged and condemned me in several papers which he hath spread up and down the Countreys amongst Friends for the very same thing which he acknowledged in Gerard Roberts Chamber two yeers or more ago that the power had remitted which shews his envy and confusion But this his end in so doing as the clear-sighted in Israel may discern he thought thereby to raise prejudice in Friends against me that they might not receive me nor my testimony that so I might be quite disabled and the strength of truths testimony God hath manifested in me might be taken away that so I might have no power to call him to an account for these things God hath laid upon me to charge against him But blessed be the Name of the pure God for ever who hath given and doth give me strength and courage in his truth to clear my Conscience in obeying his wil in this thing which in the end wil come heavy upon him 12. His cowardliness in shrinking in the time of persecution his shifting from place to place both in this City and Countrey to shun a prison or to avoid suffering is for judgement many in Israel took notice of it where there was danger he sent others and would not go himself He sent Thomas Richardson to Ely but refused to go himself when Friends desired him and the man was put in prison and would have given it under his hand if friends would have suffered him that he knew not whether the Light of salvation was in every man or no. And such dark ignorant men he sends forth to burden the Seed in Friends yet they will cry up his Name and receive Orders from him and be his servants or slaves which the Light of pure wisdom disowns and judges and he must come to the bar of Justice and receive the sentence of condemnation for such things for the truth will not nor such as live in it justifie him in these or the like practises 13. He sent papers of enmity and set his servantr on work in Barbadoes and Virginia to judge and reproach innocent John Perrot Jane Stoakes and Elizabeth Harris who were moved to go in the service of the Lord which is contrary to truth love and mercy which practise is also for perpetual judgement 14. The said George Fox did cause John Fretwell Christopher Gilburn and James Naylor with several others to go down upon their knees before him publikely amongst Friends which is gross idolatry and there and then upon their knees to make their confession and own judgement upon what he charged against them before he would own them or receive them into unity amongst Friends which practise the Seed of God lothes and abominates and it is but according to his own Rule and Law that he upon his knees should confess to and own publike judgement upon what is charged against him for if a man make a Law he ought to observe and keep it 15. His writing and speaking against Pulpits and high-places upheld by others and allowing such like things in our own Meeting-places which he hath been told of is for judgement and his several forms concerning Marriage First He sent on this Orders to the several Churches to publish Marriages three times publikely in meetings and now he sends forth another to contradict that to lay it before Men-friends Meetings as also before Women friends Meetings and they must have their approbation before they take one another and this shews his chargeable spirit and his fallibility and all these his prescribed Laws and imposed forms are out of the truth and with it judged yet the Marriage in the Lord is owned to be lawful and honorable and publication also according to the immediate motion of the Spirit of Love and Life that joins in one and makes of two one flesh 16. The said G. F. hath allowed after notice of John Moon 's going abroad in the Ministry and hath