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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70370	A letter to the clergy of the diocess [sic] of Norfolk and Suffolk wherein they are desired to challenge the Quakers once more ... to prove which of them are Christ's ministers, which may be done according to the method herein laid down, with very little disputation ... / by a member of the Church of England.	S. J.	1699 (1699)	Wing J33A; ESTC R37812	8,048	10

Unbelieving Jews what if I should say you are worse than the High Priests were in Christ's Days that accused him before Pilate for they had no Example before Them you were not their Example but methinks they might be yours Remember what Christ said to Saul when he was a Persecutor who did it out of more Zeal than I fear you do Why Persecutest thou me And said in another place He that doth it to the least of these doth it to Me I think you have not prov'd these Men i. e. the Quakers to be false Preachers if you have pray tell us when and how you did it We expected you would have done it in Print and that with all Expedition which would have been more Serviceable to your Cause than a Blind Certificate which gives no Certain Knowledge of any thing and will only serve to please the Simple and Ignorant of our Church as Toys do Fools and Children the most material of which is not the Matter But the Company of Names which are to it Sure if your Corner Story you speak of gave such full Satisfacton and Proof for the Auditory to Cry out Blasphemy Blasphemy It might have been Extraordinary Encouragement for you to proceed in your Proofs and that in the Face of the Sun which would look more Honourable for you than a Blind Corner Story which I know not any heard but your Selves The High Priest had a Judas at work for Mony to Betray Christ into their Hands one that was a Follower of Christ that betrayed him for Mony Have not you a Judas at work now for Mony to Betray the Quakers One that was a Follower of Them pray where is the Difference between these two Traytors Why the Difference is Twofold the First was a Iudas the Latter a Bugg Secondly Judas had Thirty Pieces of Silver which was paid by the High Priest the Latter had his Mony not only from the High Priest but a Recommendation also not only to the Lesser Priests throughout the Diocess but the Laity were desired to Contribute to so Good a Work And now Sirs he is made a Serviceable Prop to our Church But now I Remember my self there is another thing in which these two Traytors differ'd Notwithstanding Judas had made his Bargain for Thirty Pieces of Silver when he had done his Work Horrour and Condemnation so siezed him that he brought back the Mony saying He had betrayed the Innocent which the high Priest and Those with him little mattered when the Work was done but said See thou to that and went and Hanged himself which shews his Sorrow and Regret Is there Sorrow and Regret in the Latter We must leave Events to Him that is Higher than the Highest I would not meddle too far in that but desire the Consideration of all that if he should come to show any Remorse on that Nature whether they do not think he might Meet with the same Treatment his Brother did I shall further say 't is the End that Crowns all Now Sirs a little further to consider do the Quakers hold Errors How do you know it You are not competent Judges You say you are full of Rottenness from the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot there is no Soundness in you Christ forbad such Judging in these Words Thou Hypocrite first cast out the Beam that is in thy own Eye then thou shall see clearly the Moat that is in thy Brothers Eye Have we not a Vulgar saying The Kettle calls the Pot Black You know your selves to be as Black within as without and so confess your Selves and your Crimes to be such in your daily Actions and for you to Charge them looks strange you might Remember the Words of St. Paul Thou that sayest a Man should not Commit Adultery dost thou Commit Adultery Thou that Abhorrest Idols dost thou Commit Sacriledge Rom. 2. 22. Or as if he had said Thou that sayest a Man shall not Blaspheme and dost thou Blaspheme You Charge the Quakers with Blasphemy and is not that yery Charge Blasphemous In saying The Light within as taught by them leads them into these and many more Errors Is Christ the Author of Blasphemy You have now Charg'd it upon him with a Witness if we believe the Testimony of the Holy Scriptures in particular of himself who said John 8. 12. I am the Light of the World he that followeth me shall not walk in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life See Luke 2. 32. He was given for A Light to Enlighten the Gentiles and the Glory of my People Israel See Luke 11. 34. and 16. 8. John 1. 7 8 9. All Points out Christ to be the Light So that Sirs you have not only Charged the Quakers but Christ too as high as you Charge them Was he ever Charged higher when Personally on Earth Tho' he was then so Charg'd pray who was it by By the Priests I 'll warrant you Matth. 26. 65 66. What further need have we of Witnesses Behold now you have heard his Blasphemy what think you They answered he is Guilty of Death What think you my Masters of those People that gave Sentence He is Guilty of Death Was not this like your Corner Story of the Peoples Satisfaction From which they cried out Blasphemy Blasphemy You call Christ your Master and your Selves His Ministers If you be so I hope you will Obey his Commands if you think the Quakers are the Tares and your selves the weighty Wheat which the People will and do judge you should let them grow together till the Harvest the End of the World and in the time of Harvest I will say to the Reapers c. but you would not let them grow together if you could help it Do not you Contradict Christ's Words And yet call him Master he says He will say to the Reapers you say you will do it your selves By this he must not do his own Business but you will do it for him like Hanging of Men for God's sake Therefore by this pray who is Master Christ or You That you are so forward to do his Work for him and such Work as he hath forbad you is it your great Love to Him or your great Envy against the Quakers that you cannot abide them any longer in your sight if you could help it Perhaps you 'll say The Quakers made this I tell you the Quakers knew no more of my Writing it than your selves for I am no Quaker nor I think I never heard them Preach Six times in all my Life but this I can satisfie you of that I have heard them but Twice these Six Years Neither have I joined my self with any other Religion but with the Church of England and if you come to Prove your selves Christ's Ministers I shall then never Forsake you but Love and Respect you as such But if you do not nor cannot then I must remember the Words of St. Paul to Timothy where he saith There should come such having the Form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof from such I must turn away If you do not Meet and bring such Witnesses as aforesaid I must with many more conclude You to be the Men the Apostle spake of that are in the Form of Godliness but denying the Power therefore I dare do no other than Turn away from you though you pretend you have stop'd the Gangrene except you take effectual Care the old Sore being falsly Healed will break out again and perhaps make the Wound then prove Uncurable as in Jer. 15. 18. Now Sirs I shall draw to a Conclusion desiring you to take the Advice of Doctor Gamaliel in these Words Ye Men of Israel take heed to your selves what you intend to do as touching these Men. Let them alone For if this Counsel or this Work be of Men it will come to nought But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye are found even to Fight against God Acts 5. 35 38 39. Thus Gentlemen I hope you will pardon me for not setting my Name at large to this Letter the Omission of which was because I take you to be in Cain's Envious Spirit about killing his Brother Abel and for what Reason may be easily known because his Sacrifice was Accepted and his Brother 's Rejected I see your Envy is so great against them you would Hang them if you could and perhaps you would do the same by me if you knew me for giving you this Advice If the Man that wrote these Lines you fain would know Then come to me the Man to you I 'll show S. J. FINIS