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A65886	A serious account in XXXV evident reasons (to all who desire satisfaction) why the people of the lord, called Quakers, cannot go to worship at those places called churches and chappels, and to inform the magistrates and ministers that such consciencious people (as are separated from these places) ought not to be compelled (from their peaceable meetings) to their worship and churches, so called, being a short discovery of the way, worship, and principles of the true ministers and persecuted people of God, in several exceptions against the practices, worship, and principles of the priests, both of the Presbyterians, and Episcopal-men, and others of the same affinity, in some of which principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned, but in others of them, both are concerned in the general / by Geo. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1956; ESTC R20306	27,063	42

Righteousness and the Word of that Oath by which he was made a Priest which was since the Law is the substance and end of all Oaths Shadows and Ceremonies that were under the Law For the Jews under the Law confirmed their Testimony to end strife and controversie by Swearing and bound themselves by an Oath or sometimes by Vows and Curses to walk in the Law of the Lord Nehem. 10.29 But the Christians in the Gospel and New-Covenant are bound in Conscience by the Power and Law of Christ in them which is a greater Bond than Swearing to do to all men as they would be done by and to perform Equity and Righteousness in that Love which is the fulfilling of the Law in the sight of God and man without swearing Oaths which were but a Figure or Shadow of this Inward Bond or Covenant confirmed by the Oath of God to the Seed of Abraham which the true Christians are of who witness the substance and end of all Oaths without and of the Iniquity and Strife which occasioned the Oaths XVI Of Revelation and Inspiration from Heaven ANd the Priests affirm That Revelation and Inspiration from Heaven is ceased and deny that any now may attain to Immediate Teaching or hearing of God's Voice from Heaven Herein have they taught people Errors and Falshoods and shewed that they never knew God nor are any of his Ministers For no man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Matth. 11.27 And the Righteousness of God was revealed from Faith to Faith in the Gospel which is the Power of God which Paul preached Rom. 1.16 17. So they in saying That Revelation and Inspiration is ceased have preached another Gospel than that which Paul preached and therefore are to be accounted accursed Gal. 1.8 And all the Children of God are taught of Him and so hear his Voice Isa. 54.13 Jer. 31.34 Heb. 8.11 So that the Priests who have neither heard the Voice of God nor received his Inspiration nor the Revelation of his Son and yet say they are his Messengers and Christ's Ambassadors they have shewed their deceit and hypocrisie and themselves to be such as the Unbelievers Joh. 5.37 who had neither heard the Voice of God at any time nor seen his Shape And they that have not the Spirit of Christ are none of his So they are none of Christ's Ambassadors but Antichrists and therefore we deny them XVII Of Sprinkling Infants ANd whereas the Priests do sprinkle Infants and some of them have dipped them and used the sign of the Crosse in doing it and call that the Baptism into the Visible Church c. Herein have they shewed themselves ignorant of the true Baptism and have set up a false and Popish Baptism which they have neither Command Precept nor Example for in the Scriptures of Truth either from Christ or any of his Ministers For the Baptism of Water which John who was a Prophet and a Fore-runner of Christ had a Command from Heaven to administer was to them that confessed their Sins and this was to cease as being a Figure of the inward Washing and one Baptism of the Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 Eph. 4.1 1 Pet. 3.21 for the Saints were all baptized by one Spirit into one Body which was the Church and did not call sprinkling or baptizing Infants the Baptism into the Church as the Priests do Neither do we read in Scripture of Godfathers and Godmothers among the true Christians to be the Infants Sureties and to promise that they should forsake the Devil and all his Works Thus we see the Error of the Priests and how their Worship is in vain who teach for Doctrines the Traditions of men Matth. 15. And how thereby many that have had the name of Christians have been captivated and led in great ignorance and neither they nor their Teachers have forsaken the Devil or all his works notwithstanding their pretended promising to do it when they are in Sin which is the Devil's work and contend for it telling men that none can be clean or free from sin on this side the Grave and thus they shew their Confusion and Error XVIII Of Bread and Wine which they call the Lords Supper ANd neither do we ever read in Scripture That Christ's Ministers did give the people of the world Bread and Wine in a Steeple-house at certain times of the year and call it a Sacrament the Communion and the Lord's Supper and preach it up so to continue in the Church as the Priest do Herein do the Priests make an Idol of outward Bread and Wine and keep people in shadows instead of bringing them to the substance For 1. they have no proof in the Scripture to call Bread and Wine a Sacrament but from the Papists 2. The true Communion stands not in outward Bread and Wine but in the Body and Blood of Christ which is the substance and end of outward Figures and Shadows 3. The Bread and Wine which the Priests give People in Steeple-houses at Easter and Appointed times like the Papists cannot be the Lord's Supper for Drunkards Covetous Proud and prophane Persons who are in their sins and so eating at the Table of Devils can receive their pretended Sacrament of Bread and Wine who cannot eat at the Table of the Lord 1 Cor. 10.21 nor come to his Supper as to sup with him and he with them as they do who open to him when he knocks and receive him Revel 3.20 4ly Neither is it proper to call a little Bread and VVine which people receive on the day-time a Supper it being more like a Dinner for in this the Priests are both out of the Form of Christ and the Saints Practice and out of the Power for it was in the Night in which Christ was betrayed that he was at Supper with his Disciples not with the VVorld and gave Them not the VVorld the Bread and the Cup to shew forth his Death till he come And at his Supper he ate the Passeover with them according to the Law Matth. 26. Luke 22. which the Priests do not so much as truly imitate but the Passeover and these outward things were but Figures and to cease as other Figures under the Law were which Christ passed through in the dayes of his flesh and fulfilled them and blotted out the hand-writing of Ordinances and nailed it to his Crosse. So that after Christ had suffered and fulfilled the Figures that related to that state under the Law and did manifest his Coming and the Power of his Resurrection in the Saints these Shadows and Figures were not of force by a Law though some of the Churches did use them for a time by permission But the Apostles laboured to bring them from off these Shadows and outward things to the knowledge of the Mystery of Life within for said the Apostle If ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the World why as though living in the World are ye

A SERIOUS ACCOUNT In XXXV Evident Reasons To all who desire Satisfaction Why the People of the Lord called QUAKERS cannot go to Worship at those places called Churches and Chappels And to inform the Magistrates and Ministers That such Consciencious People as are separated from these places ought not to be compelled from their Peaceable Meetings to their Worship and Churches so called BEING A short DISCOVERY of the Way Worship and Principles of the true Ministers and persecuted People of God in several Exceptions against the Practices Worship and Principles of the Priests both of the Presbyterians and Episcopal-men and others of the same affinity in some of which Principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned but in others of them both are concerned in the general By Geo. Whitehead London Printed for Robert Wilson at the Sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-mill in Martins Le Grand 1661. THE CONTENTS Of the following REASONS 1. COncerning the true Worship and Meetings which God hath called us to and of what he hath called us from 2. Of the Education of the Priests 3. Of their humane Learning 4. Of Tythes and forced Maintenance 5. Of the Priests Unreasonableness in spoyling mens goods 6. Of their Persecuting and Compelling men 7. Of the manner of their Preaching 8. Of the manner of their Worship 9. Of their Sinning in their best Performances 10. Of the Trade of their Preaching Then the falshood of the Priests and Professors Principles 1. Concerning the Light 2. Their confusion about the Light 3. Of the Offer of Salvation 4. Of the Death of Christ. 5. Of Perfection 6. Of the Priests Exhorting to endeavour after it 7. Of Election and Reprobation 8. Of Original Sin 9. Of the Serpent and the forbidden Fruit. 10. Of Justification and of Sanctification 11. Of the Believer's Faith and its Work 12. Of the Priests meanings upon the Scripture 13. Of the Gospel 14. Of the Foundation and only Rule 15. Of Swearing 16. Of Revelation and Inspiration from Heaven 17. Of Sprinkling Infants 18. Of Bread and Wine which they call the Lords Supper 19. 20. Of the Church and Seal of the Covenant 21. Of Bishops and Presbyters 22. Of the Priests Ordination 23. Of the Common-prayer-Book 24. Of the Priests grosse Ignorance about their Publick Baptism 25. Of the true Church and its Head I. Concerning the true Worship and Meetings which God hath called us to and of what he hath called us from THe LORD GOD of Truth and Righteousness hath gathered us by his mighty Power out of the worlds Ways Worships and Traditions which were never set up by the Power of God and from the Priests and Teachers of the world which are made and set up by the Traditions and Wills of men who preach for filthy lucre and gain which thing was ever abhorred and denyed by all the true Ministers and holy People of the Lord who feared God and hated Covetousness in all Ages as also we are brought by the Power of the Lord God out of the Worlds Temples or Houses which are falsly called Churches and brought into the Worship of God which is in the Spirit and in the Truth Joh. 4. VVhich Worship Christ taught when he foretold the end of that Worship which was at Jerusalem in the Temple which once God commanded to the Jews under the Law which with the outward things that pertained to it and to the Priests and Worshippers in that Temple as outward Musick Instruments Singing Tythes Offerings were all to cease as Figures or Types when a more inward and mysterious Way and Worship in the Spirit was brought in and revealed by Christ to the Saints and Christians of the New Testament who as they grew in the power of God to enjoy the enduring Substance and end of Figures and Shadows they grew out of these outward things that were but as Figures into the knowledge of the glorious Gospel and the Mystery of its Fellowship which outshined and transcended all these shadows under the Law See Heb. 9. chap. 10. which Gospel and Mystery we are come to know and witness to the praise and glory of our God And to this Testimony did the holy Apostles and Ministers of Christ bear large Witness as did the Martyr Stephen when he preached Christ whom the people were to hear in all things and he that would not hear was to be cut off Deut. 18.18 Act. 7.37 and 3.23 and called them stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears who were in their blind zeal for the outward Temple and so witnessing to Christ the substance and end of the Temple He told them The most High dwelleth not in Temples made with hands and for his Testimony he was stoned to death Act. 7.47 48 51. And so we being brought to hear and learn of Christ the Prophet whom the People were to hear in all things lest they were destroyed and being made a spiritual house Church and living Temples in which God dwells and walks according to his Promises 2 Cor. 6.16 who hath brought us out from the Idols Temples false Worships and Teachers we may not uphold nor joyn with that Worship that is upheld in these places which the world calls Churches and Chappels which God never commanded nor set up but the Papists and such as were apostatized from the Life of the Saints into men's Traditions and Inventions neither ought the Magistrate to compel us to these places of Worship against our Consciences but as it is the just duty of the Civil Magistrates to punish evil-doers and to be a praise to them that do well Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2 14. So they ought rather to protect than hinder our peaceable Meetings which are in the Worship into which God hath called us by his Spirit And whether our Meetings be in houses or fields we being brought to meet together in the Name and Power of Christ we meet according to the Example of the People of God and true Christians in the primitive times when they were brought both from the Jews Temple and from the Gentiles Temples and Worships and sometimes met in houses sometimes abroad in the Fields and upon Mountains sometimes by the Sea-side c. as many examples might be mentioned See Matth. 5.1 Joh. 20.19 Act. 10.27 chap. 12.12 and 16.13 and 20.8.20 and 28.30 Heb. 10.25 Mal. 3.16 So would it have been just or righteous to have persecuted these Christians for meeting in houses and to have termed their Meetings Conventicles or to have made any Laws against them for the breaking of their Meetings and for imprisoning them for meeting in houses as many of the People of God have been dealt with for no other cause but for being in their Example and Life And it is as much against our Consciences and the Law of God in us to deny to meet together in the Name of Christ wherein we have long and often met as it was against Peter and John's Consciences to deny to speak in the