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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63474	An epistle of caution to Friends to take heed of that treacherous spirit that is entred into W.R. and his abettors (as appears in his malicious book, falsly called The Christian-Quaker, &c.) ... : with wholsome advice and counsel, by way of information, that the simple-minded may not be ensnared by the crafts and wiles of Satan through faith fallen antichristian instruments is W.R. and such as are encred into the same malicious spirit with him / C.T.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing T262; ESTC R20258	17,842	24

and done away and the living innocent-hearted Ones may be encouraged in their Obedience and Faithfulness to God helped and assisted in their Sufferings and the Disobedient and Vnfaithful may be exhorted to Obedience and instructed in things relating to their Conditions that all Loose Liberty may be kept out of the Church of God and Youth or Young People whether Male or Female may not be encouraged to a Loose Liberty in any thing but may be truly subject to the Power of God and the Order of it in his Church that all may be kept pure and clean And what God hath joyned together let no man or men put assunder or divide in crying down Womens Meetings some rude ungodly-spirited Ones calling them an Idol and an Image and presenting Marriage before them they call Dancing about an Idol and such filthy and unsavoury stuff as that is is cast out from the unclean Spirit of foul and unsanctified minds and some say They deny Womens Meetings Root and Brauch and much more such Unsavouriness and Abusive Language proceeds from them who would be sticklers in the Church of God and would reign as Kings without their faithful Brethren to set up themselves in an abusive presumptuons proud scornful and disdainful Spirit And these are such as are Sticklers and Promoters of W. R's Printed Book aforementioned and some such are his Factors in selling them for him though J. S. their great Friend and Elder sayes He is not against Womens Meetings So see what confusion they are in Now faithful Womens Meetings are blessed of God and we are living Witnesses of God's heavenly presence with them and Wo-will be to those who endeavour to scatter them and pull down the Services which they are appointed unto better they had never been Born except they Repent and that which is their great Confirmation against all the Opposition of the wicked Spirited that rise up against them is the feeling of God's blessed heavenly Power and Presence in the midst of them which is a manifest sign of God's accepting of them in their coming together to wait upon him and present themselves before him to do that Work and Service in his Fear and Dread which they are appointed to do So let all slanderous Tongues forever be silent in calling such Meetings or the Services performed in them in the good Order of Truth and Gospel Power Innovations and Apostatizing from the Truth and a setting up empty Forms Images and Idols but God's Power in all Ages hath had its Form and Manner of Appearance and who shall limit it and say Thus far shall it bring forth and no farther Therefore I charge every one in the fear of God to take heed of kicking against the Pricks and turning against any thing the Power of God brings forth to be done and observed and that all be tender of the Services one of another which God may appoint unto that the Spirit of God may not be quenched in any or that either Men or Women be discouraged from going on in the Work of the Meetings in what the Lord may have for them to do but rather let us encourage them as much as in us lies that so without Interruption the heavenly Power of the living God may still have its Passage through Men and Women Male and Female Young or Old both in their Meetings and out of Meetings and let all take heed of a cross Cankered Spirit which through Prejudice is ready to carp at every thing that good and honest Friends do in their Meetings and pleased with little or nothing for they that are entred into that Spirit are become Fighters against God in a large Measure and Disturbers of the Church's Peace But some may object These things were not in the Beginning when Truth broke forth amongst us but are Innovations brought in since and are of a dangerous Consequence to the establishing and setting up Forms and bringing in the Apostacy I Answer What was in the beginning we very well know and far better than many do who talk so much of it We know the Power of God was in the Beginning and raised up many to Life who had been dead in Sins and Trespasses that was its first Works and the effects of it was Righteousness and so the Lord is raising and hath raised up a People that they may serve him and may be his in this Day wherein he is making up his Jewels and these blessed Jewels are not made up at once but through the divers Operations and Ministrations of his Power and before there was a People raised there was no occasion for Men and Womens Meetings but by degrees Truth encreased and many were raised and afterwards some can out into Scandalous and Disorderly Practices in Marrying and in Disorderly Living c. And also besides these things other true Necessities called for Men and Womens Meetings to be established gradually and settled as now is by the Power of God But some who in the beginning as was in the Apostles dayes may have known the breaking forth of the Power of God and divers Operations of it and in that day had good desires raised up to persevere in the way of his Judgments until Judgment should be brought forth to Victory and so begun in the Spirit and served God in what he called them unto as they were faithful yet notwithstanding this though Truth might be precious to such then and alwayes is to every one that keeps in it and wait to know the way of it in submitting their Will to the Will of God that his divine Wisdom and heavenly Spirit may still guide them and direct them yet notwithstanding we know some have stept out of the Simplicity of Gods Truth and have entred into their own Reasonings and dark Wisdom and bruitish Knowledge and so have stumbled at what God hath and now is bringing forth concerning our Men and Womens Meetings aforesaid and the like and the Services of such Meetings appointed by the Power of God and so seeing the Prosperity of such Meetings and Services they are entred into a fretting peevish-spiritedness against such things and so gradually hardning through setting up their own Reasons in their own Wills and leaning to their own Understandings have grown into such a Confidence either against such Meetings or some of the good Services of them that at last they have become so prejudiced that that which at first seemed to be but as a little Fault-finding or Jealousie in their Minds is gradually come to be grown into a Mountain of Opposition and for want of a perseverance and enduring to the end in that Spirit in which they begun well some have fallen and are falling from the Power of God and from the Sense of their Elders and Brethren in the Truth and have run out against them and some at last have Printed and Published as now W. R. hath done who could not abide sound Life and Doctrine And therefore I pray and beseech

from God his appointed Food and Nourishment to eat the Flesh and drink the Blood of the Lord Jesus and discern the Lord's Body in true Temperance Sobriety and Moderation in Christ Jesus where there is neither Damnation nor Condemnation but a true real Growth and Encreasing with the Encrease of God unto a true and substantial Man in Christ Jesus such flourished in their Day and Time Age and Generation and are upon record a good favour to God and his faithful People who are made Partakers of the same blessed and heavenly Life with them Of this Line and Spiritual Generation are such now as live in the true reverend fear of God and in his Power and are shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace and so are safe preserved and continued in the Bosom and under the shadow of a most tender Father mindful of his Mercies and the Continuance of his Kindness who has kept them hitherto over all Apostates and Prophane to the praise of his everlasting Name who is God over all blessed for evermore But there were then and are such now as are Apostatized and gone from the Power of God and the Sence of those who are kept in it yet notwithstanding they may in words profess the Power and Truth as at first appeared and that is the ground of their Ignorance and Weakness of understanding and uncapableness to know and discern what is of God and what is of the Enemy who are his true and faithful Servants and People who still have kept their Habitations in the Truth and who are Apostatized and would bring in Innovations in contradiction to the will of God and his heavenly Power amongst his People and are become twice dead plucked up by the Roots and thorow Perversness Peevishness and Cross-spiritedness enter into the way of Cain and Spirit of Korah and his Company of which number and sort is W. R. and his Adherents that is such as own him in the Writing Printing and Publishing his Book falsly called The Christian Quaker c. But though he and others may harden themselves against good Admonition to their Destruction except they Repent and an Earthly Spirit may swallow them up as outwardly the Earth opened and swallowed up Korah Dathan and Abiram and their Confederates and also the fifty intruding and rebelling Princes and men of Renown so called were consumed with the Fire of the Lord Yet I hope the Lord will be merciful to many who yet see not through their Deceit yet may be somewhat intangled by them and mis-led through their false and insinnuating-spiritedness yet are not hardned to Perdition I hope God will deliver such in due time who in their Hearts singly and nakedly cry to him for a true Decission in matters wherein they have not yet a clear understanding and established Judgment Do not W. R. and his Adherents yet understand the way of the wicked Spirit whither it leads and how it has led many into an evil condition to forsake the living God and his Power and so became Grand Opposers of the same Heavenly Power and Cross of Jesus and some at last have been so fool-hardy to split and break themselves in pieces forever by Printing and Publishing against us out of Envy and Malice as W. R. has done as at large may be seen in his Book to render us degenerated gone from our first Principles and Power of God But how have such prospered Do they not remember the going out of many in J. N. his time and what Scandal they brought on Truth in that day by departing from the Power of God to the wounding of their own Souls and the Souls of many tender-hearted Friends and Brethren and would we not then have saved them with our tender Advice but some perished and became perfectly obstinate and ran out from the Truth and never more returned into it that we know of And did not R. R. and some others who became hardned in Prejudice Write and Print against us who kept our Habitations in the Truth and especially most maliciously against that dear Servant of the Living God G. F. who kept his Habitation and Authority in the living Truth over all those unclean Spirits who then troubled the Israel of God But that Day passed over and we saw through it and over it and they who then returned not through Judgment do not so much as retain the Profession of Truth Did not they then say We were gone from the Power and were Apostatized and were setting up Forms and preaching to the People like Priests c. But said they themselves were entring into a further Dispensation of Joy and Liberty and Love but that feigned love turned into Envy and at last it proved they were gone from the Power of God into their own Imagination which would not keep them from doing things unseemly and so became treacherous to their own Souls and to the Truth of God and some perished in their Gain-sayings And one R. S. a Cheshire Man when he turned from the Truth into Prejudice against Good Advice and Order have they not heard how he Apostatized and had his Children sprinkled by the Priest and so became Treacherous and false to God his People and his own Soul and then at last he did as W. R. and his Adherents have now done who own the Printing and Publishing his wicked Book called the Christian Quaker c. I say then at last he maliciously Printed to revile and reproach the Truth and the Possessors of it for when such as W. R. and his Abettors have hardned their Hearts against good Admonition until they have fallen into open opposition against the Power of God his faithful Servants and blessed People who keep the Truth then they have come to be shameless and to enter into the same Opposing Malicious Contradicting Spirit with the envious Priests and Professors and so have become blind Leaders of the Blind and they who have been such Leaders and who have been led by them have fallen into the Ditch and Perished in their Gain-saying except they have found a place for Repentance And many others when they have been hardned in Rebellion and Wickedness against the Truth and the Possessors of it who have kept their Habitations in it maliciously as now W. R. at last hath done have Printed and Published to the view of the World which when they have appeared so wicked it hath been a manifest fign of their Destruction and Death as to Truth as J. Penniman J. B. and others and so now W. R. at last Printing and Publishing his wicked malicious Book it is a manifest token of his Destruction as to Truth and the ruin and undoing of his Soul forever and the Souls of all who in this Spiritedness adhere to him and own the Printing and Publishing of his Book falsly called the Christian Quaker c. except they Repent And this from God I have received concerning his and their state at present and

God that none may fall into this Snare who are yet preserved out of it but that they may be preserved simple before the Lord as in the beginning when the Lords Power broke forth in them and melted their Hearts into Tenderness so will God bless them and still keep them in the Simplicity of his Truth and honour them that they may witness the Election to obtain and never to be deceived by false Glosses and fair Pretences c. I remember formerly God preparatively was at Work in order to reveal that Mystery which had been hid from Ages and Generations since the Apostles dayes and some were convinced of Sin and had sights of good things to come and in some measure came to be separated from the Sins of the Times and they did see a necessity of separating from the gross Multitude in their Worships and so did desire to seek after God and to wait upon him and the Lord touched them sometimes and made them sensible of the necessity of still pressing forwards after the enquiry of better things than they then were made Partakers of and some of these who after this continued simple and had their Eye to the Lord and were so pursued with Judgment for Iniquity that they could not fully give up the Reigns to it and so were under the Spirit of Judgment and Bondage or at Times as I may say great Fears these thus travelling on in their Spirits and being kept in this Exercise when the Power of the Lord broke forth in our Nation it met with many such and they received the Truth with us in the Love of it and came to witness the Operation of it and are preserved in it will be sorever as still they press forwards in their true Enquiry to discern know the Way of God's Spirit and the Products of his holy Power Now there were some who as aforesaid were touched and convicted with the Light of Christ Jesus in their own Consciences and for a time continued seeking after a farther Condition than that of living in Sin under the Notion Profession of Christianity but after a time going from the Simplicity of Innotent Enquiry after the Lord and his Power and Gospel they became Wise in Notions and aspired to Christianity with the Fragments of Old Broken and Weak Experiences together with the Addition of their own Comprehensions Wit and Invention and so became Wise in their own Conceits and so fell back into the low Worldly Things in a Worldly Spirit a Self-Righteous and a Pharisaical State Now these when the Truth and Doctrine of the Light of Jesus in the Evidence of God's mighty Power came to be published as the Pharisees did so they did even rebel against it and as bad as the common Priests became our bitter Enemies under specious and fair guilded Pretences c. Now this I relate as a Caution to those now who have received the Truth in the Love and Simplicity of it that they may take heed and keep to it in Simplicity that their Understandings may be kept open and their Hearts chaste and pure to Christ and God then will they in the Faith still follow on to know that at last they may come to be so established that the Devil can have Power no more to deceive them with all his Glosses and fair Pretences but they who are Careless and keep not to the Simplicity of Truth as it is in Jesus but let out their Minds into a false Liberty and in their Hearts are disobedient to God though they have known the Power of God in some measure and once were desirous to know his Salvation yet notwithstanding going from the Power and Cross of Jesus into a false Liberty of ushering their own Self-Wills and Wits in Truth 's Matters endeavouring to comprehend the Simplicity of the Way of God's Spirit and the Products of his heavenly Power by leaning and trusting to their own Understandings though otherwise they may appear in a Self-Righteousness with fair Pretences and Glosses to deceive the Hearts of the Simple yet for all this God will find them out and this is too much the Condition of W. R. and his Adherents who had they kept to the Simplicity of the Government of the pure and chaste Power of God in their own Particulars they would not have grown so Fool-hardy as to be seen Publishing and Patronizing such a Treacherous Wicked Book as that falsly called The Christian-Quaker c. Now one thing more I have to say at this time in relation to such tender simple-hearted Friends as may be ready to stumble at the appointing of Mens and Womens Meetings fearing lest it should bring in Formality and usher in an Apostacy and some are too ready to strengthen such a jealousie in them by telling them Now you see the Apostacy is coming in for so it came in in the Primitive Times by setting up Councils and Meetings c. Unto which I Answer Though some have in this day been found too much promoting such false Doctrine amongst simple People to make them evil affected with our blessed Meetings in the Power of Christ yet I say the Apostacy first came in by departing from the Power of God and then their Meetings were empty Forms without the Power and they fell into Confusion and Disorder and many Sects and divers false Opinions and so all along to our day the Apostacy hath continued amongst all who have not come to the true Faith that stands in the Power and this we clearly came to see when we were convinced of Gods holy Truth and to declare as we still do and I hope ever shall against all such formal Worships as are set up by the Will and Wit of man but had they stood in Gods Counsel they would have known the Heavenly Worship in Spirit and Truth and been one with us in this day but their Meetings being out of the Power is the Ground we cannot own them and therefore the Primitive Meetings before the Apostacy came in now come to be restored amongst us and the heavenly Power of Jesus to be the Author of them and not a worldly Pope or Bishop c. And so let none be jealous at our appointing Meetings for Gods Work and Service in his holy Truth because they may be very sensible of the Antichristian Meetings all abroad where the Meeters and Assemblers together band together against Gods holy Truth and the Possessors of it And let none be jealous That we have not the same Care of God's Honour and Glory that we had when the Truth broke first out amongst as but rather believe that our Godly Care is encreased and doth still encrease and that we are still of God neither dare nor can appoint or set up any thing against the Truth but for the Service of it as the Lord moves us and that the Power of the Lord may still be the Authority and Ground of all our Meetings and all Friends may encourage one another in that which is Virtuous Holy Clean and Comely to the Praise of the Everlasting and only Wise God who lives and reigns forever And this in pure Love was upon my Spirit to write as a Caution to Honest-hearted Friends to take heed of that Spirit of W. R. and his Abettors and of J. S. and J. W. who shelter under it who will not be seen to Print themselves but have afforded W. R. matter to fill up his Book with who is so Imperious and Malicious that it seems he tak●● little heed what he saith or doth Thus have they and their Adherents endeavoured to betray us to the World Judas-like and like all others who have been found in the same Evil and Ungodly Work with them And I truly desire they may come to see what Master they serve and whose Work they are doing and Repent and call in and judge all their Evil Work which they have Printed and spread abroad to defile Simple and Ignorant Minds with for the Wise in Heart see both it and them and are taught how to avoid it all C. Taylor London the 12th of the 3d Moneth 1681. Page 3. line 15. dele who P. 6. l. 36. dele give in THE END Books Printed for John Bringhurst viz. The Life of Christ magnified in his Minister Or certain Testimonies thereof relating to his Faithful Servant GILES BARNARDISTON c. Price 3 d. An Epistle of PAUL to the LAODICEANS Price One half Penny An EPISTLE of Caution to FRIENDS to take heed of that Treacherous Spirit that is entred into W. R. and his Abettors as appears in his Malicious Book falsly called The Christian Quaker c. Price Three half Pence