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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44834	An answer to a declaration put forth by the general consent of the people called Anabaptists in and about the city of London which declaration doth rather seem a begging of pardon of the Caveliers then [sic] a vindication of that truth and cause once contended for : I seeing so much wickedness ... / from a true lover and owner of the people called Quakers ... Richard Hubberthorn.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Answer to a declaration of the people called Anabaptists.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3218; ESTC R16813	19,429	25

fifth particular is these Authors desire that countenance be not given unto nor trust reposed in the hands of Quakers being persons of such Principles that are destructive to the Gospel and inconsistent with peace and civil society Answ. Here your wickedness and the malice of your hearts is let forth against the despised People for their righteousness sake this spirit of yours would not onely discountenance them but destroy them from the face of the earth if it were in your hands and you are worse then Baalam ever was and far more blind then he for you are as it were seeking inchantments against the People of God for money and you see not the goodly tents of Jacob as he did nor the People that are altogether blessed Oh! ye envious persons that are even a preparing as much as in you is the destruction of a peaceable People and that would keep them in slaverie under you and you would have the countenance of the Powers of the earth but they must not and you would monopolize all the places of trust for advantage to your selves and you would hardly allow the People of God a place on the ground Oh! ye sinful hypocrites and flatterers and slanderers of the just but what need you have made such preparation against them do they seek places of honour among you do they delight in great places among men do they love to be great in this world nay their Kingdom is from above and they reject the countenance of the Beasts Authority and they reject any confidence that the dragon and unjust powers can repose in them and you need not have been afraid in this matter and thereupon slandered us and have back-bited us to the Powers of the earth what do you fear Even the thing which you fear will God in a Judgement bring upon you and there is a Government to be set up in this Nation even that which is of the Lamb and your Antichristian Monarchy the Beast with all his Heads and Horns shall fall to the ground and the Lord may bring your fear upon you to your utter confusion though you are making defences all that you can for your selves and your Kingdom and this seems to be a day wherein every mans heart is tryed and every man and sort of People is pouring forth the malitiousness of their hearts against the poor People in scorn called Quakers what say the Papists and Episcopal men Quakers are a new Sect and deceivers c. and what say the Presbyterians and the Independants of them Oh! they are Seducers they are Witches they are false prophets they are Vagabonds not worthy of countenance c. nor any place of trust in the Nation c. What say the Anabaptists of them O they are Blasphemers and Hereticks and irregular Persons and distructive to Gospel c. This and such like is the cry of these and all sorts of People against the poor dispised People whom the Eternal God hath made dreadful unto them all who shall be the Rod in his hand to break them and confound them and utterly to destroy their Antichristian Kingdom for they are beloved of the Lord though hated of all men and though the whole body of the Beast and Antichrist and every Horn of his Head do set themselves to War against the Lamb and his followers and though all these sorts of People mentioned and some others do at this very day pour out their fury and malice against this People yet shall they not be confounded for their trust is in the living God and as sure as the Lord lives the fear that People have of the prosperity of this People shall come upon them and without Weapon or Arm of flesh or the multitude of an Host of men will their God dash their Enemies to pieces and all ye Sects whatsoever that are risen in opposition against us what do we regard your fury and madness against us What do we fear your revilings you uncircumcised Philistines we mock at your terrour and we reject your strength as the strength of a straw we dispise your Authority which is not of God as the Authority of so many Bryars and Thorns we can glory over you in the Lord what are you and from whence did you come is not Babylon your City and is not the great Whore your Mother and the Mother of Harlots your Nurse And what is your growth but even like the grass of a Summers growth that 's soon cut down and withered and like the leaf of a Summer tree that utterly perisheth in Winter The mighty day of the Lord is at your door confusion is begun amongst you and the sword of one may destroy another and the strength of one shall rear another and the remnant that is left shall be destroyed and we must overcome them without Sword or carnal Weapon and this shall come to pass in a day and the eye that is yet blind shall see it and the child that is yet undelivered shall be a Conquerour over the Beast and over his Image and over all you false Sects and over every Horn that is risen up in envy against the Lamb and his followers the time of the Lambs Kingdom is at hand behold behold ye mountains of the earth the sentence of Eternal vengeance will pass upon you ye Hypocritical Professors ye Pastors Elders Members and Ministers of Churches so called the Decree of the Almighty is coming out against you you have provoked him by your wickedness towards him and his People even to the destruction of your own selves wherefore tremble before the Lord for his dread and the weight of his hand shall be upon your Consciences Oh Nation mourn over thy iniquities which have provoked God against thee and if men turn not unto him his sore Judgment will be upon thee we are not for this party or the other neither do we justifie one side in opposition to another for we see the earth is corrupted and all sorts of men that are this day striving one sort against another are in a wrong way and in a wrong spirit and we cannot side with any of them but we rather mourn over the Nation who is torn in pieces by the Ambitious spirit of her pretended Rulers and we desire the repentance of all and not the destruction of any and we are for Gods part and not for men E. BVRROVGH THE END