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A65856	Christ's lamb defended against Satan's rage in a just vindication of the people called Quakers ... from the unjust attempts of John Pennyman and abettors, in his malicious book, styled, The Quakers unmasked, clearly evincing his by a lover of truth and peace, G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1917; ESTC R20009	52,095	70

added especially since it concerned a Man who is deceased and dyed a Prisoner for the Testimony of Jesus and at rest and who in his Life-time bore a faithful Testimony for Truth and Righteousness 'T is a most base and revengeful Spirit in J. P. to rake E. B. out of his Grave to bring Infamy upon his name his Gospel Testimony which he bore and Prophetical Spirit which was in him now he is not here to answer for himself and not rather have prevented both by Friendly Advice in his life time when they were in Society but instead thereof it may be rather questioned whether he was not in those Cases too much beset with such unstable Spirits as J. P. who now might have put more charitable Constructions upon E. B. and us than he has done namely that he feared the effects of a Monarchy and that he was so zealous against the great persecuting Whore that has made her self drunk with the Blood of the Saints that therefore he would have had the Beast that has long carried her so to hate her as to cast her off as being a Man who in his Spirit simpathized with the Martyrs of Jesus and those Souls under the Altar of them that were slain for the word of God who cryed with a loud voice how long O Lord Holy and True dost thou not Judge and AVENGE our Blood on them that dwell on the Earth Rev. 6. 10. And whatsoever in any of the Writings cited by J. P. may seem disgustful as to Monarchy we have still this cure for it all that John Pennyman has prescribed namely that these things were writ out of these Mens Zeal and Fear that Monarchy would be oppressive and cause more Burthens or Impositions to be laid upon the Nation than before And this excuse was pretty warily contrived for if he had flung all that former Zeal and Fear into the dirt 't is not unlikely but he might have highly disgusted his Friends the Presbyterians and Independents c. And therefore as a Person that appears rather affected with these former Passages which intimate a Fear concerning Monarchy than with our late Applications to the King c. he has taken the great pains to collect and transcribe them the more at large and sorely to chide us the People called Quakers for making Declarations and Applications to the King Council and Parliament to perswade them of our faithful and peaceable Intentions or for any Relief from the Imposition of Oaths c. for this we are sorely chidden not only as Temporizers but also for a late fawning flattering Address to the King and Parliament as he is pleased to call it We meet with no such chiding for these particular Passages that seemed to dislike of a Monarchy in Cromwel's days for the Fear and Zeal that was therein shall either cure all that or else John shall relinquish the Medicine of his own preparing and wheel about again and wholly desert his Friends the Nonconformists both Presbyters Independents and others of his private Abetters and Cabalistick Council As concerning that passage to the Officers of the Army where after they are reproved for abusing the Power of God and loosing it and putting them in Prison that struck at the Root meaning the Quakers saith he there is this passage viz. Had you been faithful to the Power of the Lord God you had gone into Spain to require the Blood of the Innocent that there had been shed and have commanded them to have offered up their Inquisitions c. and knocked at Romes Gates before now and trampled Deceit and Tyranny under And demanded the Pope and commanded him to have offered up all his Torture-houses his Racks and Inquisition c. Hereupon we have several questions put upon us viz. Could any People have declared themselves more for fighting How should the Army set up their Standard upon the top of Rome but by fighting How require the Blood that has been shed in the Inquisition but by fighting Here he may think he has sorely opposed and puzzelled us But 't is no very difficult matter to answer with clearness herein and safety to our Christian principle against killing and destroying one another for either these Passages must be spoken as from a Prophet of God or only as a Christian however conditionally First if as a Prophet then he speaks not always what is desirable or pleasant to him according to his Christian Principle nor within the compass of his Understanding as a Man nor from any Human contrivance but what 's commanded him of God as relating to Judgments or Calamities which may be of divers kinds and then he may Speak and Prophesie of Wars and Destructions c. and yet not at all be of such a Spirit or Principle in himself as to maintain or desire Wars and Fighting as the Prophet Isaiah who was an Evangelical Prophet and against Wars and Fighting and saw the end thereof Isa. 2. 3 4 5. and the Indignation of the Lord upon all Nations and his Fury upon all their Armies Isa. 34. 2. yet this Evangelical Prophet said O Assyrian the Rod of mine Anger c. I will send against an Hypocritical Nation c. see Isa. 10. 5 6. And further all yee Beasts of the Field come to devour Isa. 56. 9. And Christ Jesus himself who said my Kingdom is not of this World for if it were my Servants would fight yet prophesied of the sad and miserable destruction of Jerusalem and of those Murderers that slew the Heir and said to those Hypocrites fill ye up the measure of your Fathers Iniquities and this was that all the Righteous Blood shed might be required at their hands And several Instances of Gods Judgments might be brought out of the Revelation of John against the great Whore c. So that a Man may speak as a Prophet and be yet a Christian of divers Calamities and Judgments which he cannot be active in and yet not destroy his Christian Principle Secondly But if as a Christian only and within the compass of a Christian Freedom and understanding these aforesaid Passages are spoken then I may lawfully conclude that the design thereof was not to incite to Fighting Killing or Bloodshed but rather that it was writ from a Belief that if they had eyed the Lord and aimed at the removing Oppression and Persecution they might have been such a dread of Nations as is expressed in the same Paper that possibly they might not have met with such Resistance if any in that case for who knows not that they were formidable for a time And what success they might have had for such an end our Adversary cannot determine However to require their Inquisition and to knock at Romes doors proves no violence all this might have been done by Embassies as in the case of the D. of Savoy that persecuted the poor Piedmontors the Stock of the Waldenses For he proves not an incitation unto Bloodshed and Slaughter

in the said Papers but only that they should have required the Innocent Blood that had been shed after they had set up their Standard at Rome according to what many of them had often promised before they fell on persecuting and imprisoning our Friends and herein they were reproved of breach of promise that many of the old Army had made not to lay down their Arms till they had set up their Standard at Rome and broke down Oppression there But on the contrary to fall upon Oppressing and Imprisoning Men for Conscience here might they not justly from their own former pretences and promises be asked why do ye Imprison us or suffer us to be Imprisoned As many were in the Protectors name and time why do ye not go to Rome and break down the Popes Inquisitions and in point of Justice require the Innocent Blood that has been shed by that persecuting Power And might they not have required this as Magistrates and seen what satisfaction would have been made according to their own engagements But when they set up Persecution in England they lost their Power and Dread and became Weak and Feeble till the Lord overturned them And yet though it ' cannot consist with our Christian Principle so much as to avenge our selves War with carnal Weapons or incite others to War and Bloodshed And G. F. who is the Man chiefly struck at in this matter even in Cromwel's days did manifestly testifie against Wars and Fighting as also against Plotting and contriving Insurrections and this both by Words Writing and Suffering and exhorted the Soldiers to do violence to no Man neither accuse any Man falsely and this in the same Paper wherein he reminds them of Rome c. Howbeit there remains both Judgments and Vials of Wrath from God in store for the Persecuting Whore or Mystery Babylon wherever she sits upon the many Waters which are Peoples and Multitudes and Nations and Tongues Rev. 17. and 18. Chapters that has been drunk with the Blood of the Saints and made both Nations and Kings drunk with the Wine of the Wrath of her Fornication And whether at Rome or throughout all Christendom that Spirit of Persecution cannot escape nor they that joyn with it in acts of Cruelty whether Papists or Protestants Kings Princes or People But as for O. C. and his Agents though looked upon to be a Beast yet he was not so serviceable a Beast or Horn as those spoken of in the Revelations chap. 17. 16. that shall hate the Whore and make her desolate and naked and shall eat her Flesh and burn her with Fire because God hath put it into their Hearts to fulfil his Will ver 17. too course a work for Saints and Lambs of Christ and yet Gods Will it should be done Now to foresee or foretel such a Judgment to be of God is one thing and to incite Men to Wars and Bloodshed is another And this latter I affirm stands not with the Principle nor Practice of the People called Quakers nor do they declare themselves for Fighting as they are most falsly accused And as to the question How should the Army set up their Standard at Rome but by Fighting There does lye a plain exception and certain Instances against the general State of this questionary Argument which yet I bring not as comparative altogether but only with respect to that Dread that was believed by some would have attended the old Army had they been faithful to the cause pretended and gone to Rome for that end declared My exception is first in the case of Gideon the Host of the Midianites fled and were overcome and yet not by Fighting on Gideons part but by a mean Stratagem as to outward appearance viz. that of their Pitchers Trumpets and Lamps but the hand of the Lord was in it see Judg. 7. And secondly in the case of Jehosaphat King of Judah when the Children of Ammon Moab and Mount-seir came against Judah the Lord told them by his Prophet Jehaziel be not afraid nor dismaid by reason of this great Multitude for the Battel is not yours but Gods 2 Chron. 20. 15. And did they then go against this great Army to fight them No but having first sought the Lord they sung Praises to the beauty of Holyness and when they began to sing the Lord set ambushments against the Children of Ammon Moab c. see ver 22 23. And it s said concerning Barak Jeptha Sampson David Samuel and the Prophets that by Faith they subdued Kingdoms turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens c. Heb. 11. 32. which therefore was not all by Fighting but that there has a hand and power of God appeared in these things and in Revolutions most sorts will confess except Atheists Object The Army was made the Sword of the Lord against Papists and Bishops M. H. T. S. and the Lord is represented Fighting with Olivers Sword G. R. And what then So the wicked are call'd his Sword Psal. 17. 13. And O Assyrian the Rod of mine Anger Isa. 10. 5. And Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon my Servant Jer. 25. 9. and 43. 10. See the places quoted And also Jer. 49. 28. and 50. 17. and Ezek. 26. 7. and 29. 19. and 30. 10. So that sometimes God makes use of evil Men to execute such Judgments as well as Men zealous and sincere for a good end therein And also that Passage cited about inviting all Christians and Nations that are against Popery to come against it c. This is taken as looking somewhat Warlike however had they so done in all probability they had been so formidable and frightful to the Pope c. that he would have delivered up his Mitre c. that there would have been the less occasion if any for War and Bloodshed But says our Adversary they gave Directions and Charges to the Protector and Officers and Soldiers concerning Fighting exhorting thereunto c. p. 13. I find no such Charge and Exhortation and I cannot believe it without more plain and direct evidence As also that charge in his Book so often cast upon us viz. That they viz. the Quakers approve of what the Armies did against the King and his Party which I affirm is utterly false as stated and especially as charged in general For we rather have lamented that War and Bloodshed as a National Calamity and Judgment for the Sins of the People And though we confess and our Adversaries cannot deny that the Sword was one of Gods four Judgments upon Idolaters and Oppressors Ezek. 14. 21. and Jer. 34. 17. and so justifiable as from God whose Judgments are all just yet it is possible Men may be Unrighteous and selfish therein in killing and taking Possession and so not justified in their immediate acting therein That G. F. and many others concerned with him in the Testimony of Jesus Christ have not varyed from their Christian Testimony against Fighting nor Temporized Apostatized or been deceitful therein

Now John darst thou yet say that our acknowledgment and submission as before is Temporizing or that they are Dissemblers and Deceivers therein If thou darst let this one instance among many others confute thy blindness and rebuke thy malice as namely the case of Samuel that faithful Servant of the Lord when Israel cryed to have a King set over them like other Nations this thing displeased Samuel or was evil in the Eyes of Samuel according to the Hebrew and yet for all this when the Lord had commanded him to hearken to their voice and shew them the manner of their King c. Samuel in Obedience to the word of the Lord anoynted Saul and kissed him and said is it not because the Lord hath anoynted thee c. see 1 Sam. chap. 8. 5 6. and chap. 10. 1. Dare John Pennyman say that Samuel was a temporizing Hypocrite herein or was Samuel insincere in this matter And may he not see how nearly this suits the case of G. F. and others whom he so bitterly enveighs against yea did not Samuel's concern herein exceed the occasion J. P. carps at Which shews his implacable Envy and Revenge still to render us obnoxious to the Government contrary to his pretence of abhorring such practice Now I. P. see what an envious Hypocrite thou art and how manifestly confuted And yet further from Scripture Testimony which I must bring over thine head see Dan. 2. 20 21. Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever for Wisdom and Might are his and he Changeth the Times and Seasons he removeth Kings and setteth up Kings See here how plainly he confesseth it is God that doth these things and also said unto Nebuchadnezzar the God of Heaven hath given to thee a Kingdom Power and Strength ver 37. and yet for all this confessed that in the days of these Kings the God of Heaven should set up a Kingdom which should never be destroyed and the Kingdoms shall not be left to other People but it shall break in pieces and consume all these Kingdoms and it shall stand for ever ver 44. And did not Nebuchadnezzar confess to God's Power and Kingdom as above his own How plainly in his Visions did he see and confess to the Kingdom of God and his Christ as over all these earthly Kings and Kingdoms Beasts and Horns mentioned Dan. chap. 7. yea concerning the Ancient of days and the Son of Man that there was given him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all Kingdoms Nations and Languages should serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away and his Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed ver 14. Did Daniel herein contradict himself or temporize in confessing that it is God that changeth Times removeth and setteth up Kings and that even Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon had his Power and Strength given him of God Dan. 2. 37. and was not Daniel one of them that stood in the King's Palace And did not the King make Daniel Ruler over the whole Province of Babylon Dan. 6. 21. But Daniel sat in the Gate of the King Or did he temporize with King Darius in saying O King live for ever And yet for all this he confessed to the Kingdom of God and of his Christ as above all these earthly Kings and Kingdoms and that it should stand for ever And what more hath G. F. said viz. That Christ will reign over all these Presbyterians imitated Elders their earthly Kings c. knowing also that such Trees as they were would be more apt to chuse a Bramble for a King than the Vine Olive or Fig-Tree And what he means by these earthly Kings is apparent in these words Herod the King was mad at the Child Jesus and sought to slay all the Children in Bethlehem and Judea there is the Fruits of earthly Kings and such a King would our false Christians and Elders have mark by earthly Kings Persecuting Kings as the Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and his anoynted yet he that sitteth in the Heavens shall vex them and his anoynted shall break them c. see Psal. 2. throughout And the Kings of the Earth were such that committed Fornication with the great Whore who was drunken with the blood of the Saints and who as it s said reigneth over the Kings of the Earth see Rev. 17 and 18. Chapters And was it not the Apostate Christians that doted so much for such-earthly Kings to be set over them to inforce People by outward Coertion to their form of Religion Did ever the true Christians call out for such Kings to be set over them Did not Christ say the Kings of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them but it shall not be so among you Now where 's the Temporizing We retain and are not ashamed of our Principles for Christ and his Kingdom above all the Dominions of the Earth yea and his Soveraignity and Kingship over our Consciences we cannot give to another we trust in and serve the Living God and the Devil and all his Agents and Apostate Incendiaries shall not deter us out of this And yet our Adversary judgeth us Apostates for declaring our Love and Honour to the National King saying are not they in their own judgments become Apostates for now they say they Love own and Honour an earthly King So that in this Man's Sense it is an Apostacy for any one to shew Respect and Honour to the King though by the Providence and over-ruling Hand of God restored especially so long after they have shewn a dislike to some Mens endeavouring to set up a King in their earthly Wills but if he make the worst on 't he might more safely have said they are reformed in their judgments who own the King after such dislike than that they are Apostates But the Man's malice makes himself obnoxious And where do we use these very Words Earthly King on this occasion but that we love own and honour the King whom here this Man has judged an earthly King does this shew us to be Apostates what a factious peevish Spirit is this we have to deal withal Could not the Primitive Christians shew their Respect and Honour to Kings and Governours but they must be Apostates from Christ or his Kingship over the Conscience or was their fearing God and honouring the King a Contradiction or Temporizing as if we could not Fear God and Honour the King too Oh malicious Man where hast thou lost both Honesty and Wit did not Shadrach Meshach and Abednego yea and Daniel also who were Children of Judah serve and attend upon the King of Babylon in his Court dare this Man charge them with being temporizers therein whereas yet they could not obey the King's Command wherein it was contrary to the Law of their God but must rather incur the Penalty and Hazard of a fiery Furnace and a Lyons Den than bow to an