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B09695	Railings and slanders detected: or The folly and heresies of the Quakers further exposed. Being an answer to an invective libel written by G. Whitehead, impertinently called, Antichrist in flesh unmasked, &c. which some of the Quakers call an answer to a book truly stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. In this brief discourse you have the slanderous out-cries of G. Whitehead, against Edward Paye, Henry Loader, and William Alcot, examined, detected, and confuted.	Paye, Edw. (Edward)	1692 (1692)	Wing P884; ESTC R181559	21,006	57

Men so to do would make void the Covenant of Life and Peace And see what my Antagonist saith Dip. Plu. p. 13. and then judge if the Scriptures be no Rule yea if it be Idolatry to call the Bible a means as G. W. expresly saith who also affirmeth that Faith grounded on the Scriptures is but an empty implicit Faith and bespeaks such Persons void of the knowledge of God and Christ and Salvation and to be yet in their Sins and that such Men walk by their own Fancies and Imaginations Christ Ascerded p. 11. Now if the Scriptures be a dead carnal Letter Ink and Paper saith Pernel in Sheild of Truth If they are the Precepts and Traditions of Men saith Nailor in his Love to the lost And as Helbro●… the Quaker said to James Nobs and his Wife If they are no better than an old Aim Hick's D. p. 29. If it be dangerous for the Ignorant to read them If to say an Ass hath as much Authority essentially in himself to teach and rebuke as the Scriptures If to account it blasphemy and diabolical to call the Scriptures the Word of God be not to contemn and vilifie them I am yet to seek what is I shall refer the Reader to our Book Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd where the rest of the Quakers Articles of Faith published in their late Pamphlet are particularly examined Now let the Quakers renounce and explode those Writings and Sayings of their Authors that stand upon Record that so directly contradict their new Faith professed by them and as was said we shall be glad of so great and happy a Reformation among them hoping some means hath been bless'd to work this happy change upon them In p. 24 25. G. Whitehead saith we have wronged his Words in Citation and Construction about the holy Scriptures and Person of Christ and likewise grosly abused wronged and mischarged G. Fo● J. Pernel G. Keith foully perverting and misconstruing their Words And he saith we have also abused vilified defamed and wronged W. Smith H. Smith J. Nailor E. Burroughs J. Penington S. Crisp W. P. and others Men of better Fame and Repute than our selves and more righteous and innocent than their Defamers Answer That forasmuch as G. Whitehead cannot or at least hath not shewed us wherein we have wronged them as to Matter of Fact we shall take these to be some of G. W's empty and swelling words of Vanity and look upon it as a presumptuous Blast blown without Proof or Demonstration and so it needs no further Answer at present Again I shall take no notice at all of the confused Profession of Faith that G. Whitehead makes in 27 28 29 30. Pages of his Libel but do think it had been much more to the present purpose had he instead thereof laboured to reconcile their Writings with their late published Faith The Conclusion Wherein I shall take a little Notice of G. Whitehead's Postscript G. W. cites Antichrist in Spirit c. p. 46. Where I referr the Reader to Saul's Errand to Damascus p. 6 7. Where G. Fox takes the Name of the eternal Judge of quick and dead to himself c. G. Whitehead saith this is notoriously false in Fact being saith he in the very same Book Saul's Errand recorded amongst those Matters falsly charged on G. F. by his Adversaries the Priests and others in the County of Lancaster in their Petition p. 1 2 3 4 5 6. of Saul's Errand where G. F. opposeth and answereth their Objections To all which I answer In the beginning of the Book Saul's Errand there is that part of the Lancaster Petition inserted p. 4 5 6 7. In which Petition G. F. is charged with taking to himself the Name of the eternal Judge of quick and dead c. The Lancaster Petitioners were several Men of Credit and Repute Now though G. W. says the charge was false and G. Fox denies it in that their Book c. What then Have not I more reason to believe the Affirmative of so many than G. Fox's Negative I know 't is a Faculty incident to you to deny Matters of Fact charged upon you be they ever so apparently true And who can think that a number of Men should agree together in charging G. Fox with a Falshood Though G. Fox denies their charge in his Book may not we answer it in your own Phrase p. 8 of your Pamphlet The Authority of the Quakers Books are utterly denied by us so that we have grounds to believe the Petitioners say true Why may not G. F. take the Name of Judge of quick and dead to himself as well as to approve of those blasphemous Titles given him by Jos Coal in his Letter from Berbadoes cited in Antichrist in Spirit p. 43 44 45 Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Light hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar of to the begetting of many again to a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee G. F blessed whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou G. F. rulest and governest in Righteousness and thy G. Fox's Kingdom is established in Peace and the Increase thereof is without end 21 day of the 12 month 1658. Now if G. Fox could digest and approve of all these Titles due only to Christ himself in the Opinion of all Christians Why may he not use the like Modesty in taking the name of Judge of quick and dead to himself The other Titles were approved and ordered to be recorded Why may not G. Fox take this Name to himself as well as to say in one of your Meetings Friends although I have not told it you I do now declare it I have power to bind and loose whom I please Now if G. W. hath the confidence to deny these things a further Test of them and others may be more fully given G. Whitehead's next causeless Out-cry is that I say the Quakers say that Christ hath no body but his Church quoting Saul's Errand p. 9. Which saith G. W. is notoriously false again for said he it was the Priest's Objection against L. F. that he professed that Christ had never any body but his Church Saul's Errand p. 2. Which saith G. W. was also false and there recorded amongst their other false Charges objected To which I answer First I do not charge the Quakers with saying that Christ never had any Body but his Church They own he had a bodily Garment But the Petitioners aforesaid charged the Quakers with saying that Christ hath no Body but his Church Now instead of G. Fox's owning Christ to have a Body besides his Church or distinct from his Church He replies That Christ's Church is his Body which I say is but a shuffle and not denying but implicitly granting the Matter of Fact And why may not G. F. deny Christ to have a Personal Body besides or distinct from his Church as well as G. Whitehead