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A57816 An answer to a scandalous paper of T. Hicks, term'd A rebuke to T.R. &c. with a reassumption our former complaint and charge against T. Hicks / by a lover of truth, Thomas Rudyard. Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692. 1674 (1674) Wing R2176; ESTC R29339 14,120 48

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Matches and so divert our Battel to encounter a Cheat. Alas In all that is written against us I desire no more of the Unprejudiced Reader then to compare the Citations observing the prior and subsequent Discourse to consider the Author's Circumstances and Ends and his Judgment I will abide but as to him or any other although Articulariter they might be answer'd on that or other Subject his and their Ends being discover'd I shall not abridging the Freedom of any other renew my former Resolve That if J. Ives will still appear as a Privateer against us thinking by his Brawling Outcries to still the Noise of our Charge of Forgery c. exhibited against T. H. stiffle our Just Complaints against W. K. c. by my Consent he shall rail on Rabshekah-like c. till the Just Hand of the Lord overtake him This is still my Mind and other Answer I design him not but expect and cannot but press T. Hicks to give us a Publick Meeting and in a Free and Open Assembly answer our Charge exhibited against him he knows and so many of his Brethren that our Request in this case is but reasonable And that the Reader may know it is not without good Cause that we press to publick Hearing and Discussion of the Controversies betwixt us T. H. I shall instance some of the many abominable wretched and as I may say Hellish Doctrines Opinions and Practices which he feign'd and forg'd falsly imposed and malitiously insinuated to be ours 1. That notwithstanding we have ever since before we were reproachfully call'd Quakers declar'd own'd the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Authority and that the Holy Men of God gave them forth as they were moved of the Holy Ghost and that they are the Words of God though Christ according to the Holy Scriptures is only called the Word of God Joh. 1. it being his proper Name as Rev. 19.13 Yet T. Hicks has malitiously insinuated and affirmed that we render the Holy Scriptures to be of no more Authority then Esop 's Fables and esteem them inferior to our own pamphlets 2. That although we really and truly believe and have ever in Words and Writing openly attested and witnessed that the Blood of Christ only cleanses from Sins and that his Blood was shed upon the Cross as an Universal Sacrifice yet T. H. wickedly affirmed That the Blood of Christ in our Esteem is worse then the Blood of a common Thief 3. That although we have ever declar'd that by Faith In Christ and his Grace are we sav'd that there is no other Name given by which Salvation is brought to our Souls Yet T. H. has falsly and abusively affirmed That the Quakers owning Jesus Christ is indeed no other then a meer Mystical Romance 4. And although the Lord by his mighty Hand and outstretched Arm has redeem'd his Remnant from a vain Conversation and separated us from the many and unfruitful Works of Darkness which not only griev'd his Good Spirit but kept us in Bondage to the Enemy of our Souls and Mankind and instead thereof hath rais'd and begotten in us a Desire and earnest Breathing that the whole Creation may return to God and come under the Government of that just holy and equal Law To do as they would be done unto yet T. Hicks to vilifie scandalize and traduce us as well in our Civil as Religious Capacities in the Hearts and Spirits of the Generation in which we live hath falsly and malitiously and without just Cause insinuated and promulg'd these Wicked and Abominable Positions of and concerning us viz. 1. That the Tendency of all the Quakers Reasoning about instituted Religion is to debauch Mankind 2. That their Meetings are only and principally to Decoy Trapan and inviegle others 3. That their Principles improv'd are Destructive to all Human Society 4. That their Religion is a meer Cheat calculated only to the Service of the Divel and their own Lusts 5. He falsly insinuates that they pretend Revelation to excuse them the Paying of their just Debts thereby presenting it Dangerous for Persons to deal with them These with many more are the Matters in Charge against him already exhibited in Print for which we can do no less then require a Free Open and Publick Meeting and Auditory that if we prove him not a Forger Lyar and Slanderer he may be fairly acquitted else that if upon a Disquisition of these and many others he be found Guilty that he may bear the Weight and Burthen of his own Work according to that just and equal Law Deut. 19.16 If a False Witness rise up against any man to testifie against him that which is Wrong Vers 7. Then both the men between whom the Controver●●e is shall stand before the Lord before the Friest and the Judges that shall be in those Dayes Vers 18. And the Judges shall make diligent Inquisition and behold if the Witness be a False Witness and hath testified falsly against his Brother Vers 19. Then shall you do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his Brother so shalt thou put the Evil away from among you Vers 20. And those which remain shall hear and fear and shall henceforth no more commit any such Evil among you Vers 21. And thine Eye shall not pitty but Life shall go for Life Eye for Eye Tooth for Tooth Hand for Hand Foot for Foot London the 16th of the 9th Month 1674. By T. Rudyard