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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87231	The Quakers quaking: or, the foundation of their deceit shaken, by scripture, reason, their own mouthes at several conferences. By all which will appear, that their quaking, ministery, doctrine, and lives, is a meer deceit, and themselves proved to be the great impostors of these latter times: / by Jeremiah Ives.	Ives, Jeremiah, fl. 1653-1674.	1656 (1656)	Wing I1103; Thomason E883_3; ESTC R207296	36,620	64

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And Luke calls Theophilus Luk. 1.3 Most Noble Theophilus And Christ himself bids his Disciples Not to covet the uppermost rooms at feasts lest a MORE HONORABLE person come in and then they be bid sit lower Luke 14.8 By all this you may see that though we must not respect persons in Judgement or do any thing for a rich man because he is rich without respect had to the equity of the cause or give flattering Titles to men to whom it is not due as to call one Master and say I am his Servant when I owe him no service yet this doth not hinder but a man may and ought to acknowledge himself a Servant when he is really and truly so And though it be flattery to give Titles that are not due yet it is a duty to give them where and when they are due Seventhly they are not Infallible as they pretend This I prove because if one propose a question to one of them he shall give one answer propose the same to another he shall give another answer quite contrary to the former and so if you shall go on to a fourth or fifth not one of five nay I dare say not one of ten shall give the same answer with the first and yet sometimes these men do make the harmony that is among them an argument that they are infallible when no Trumpet that sounds forth any thing of Religion to the world gives a more uncertain sound then theirs And truly I know nothing wherein they were ever so well agreed as they were office at their Meetings in Kent wherein they all agreed to meet together many times and said nothings Truly if this dumb spirit had alwayes been among them it had been happy for many thousand souls in this Nation who are now miserably deluded with their fair words Eighthly I shall further prove in opposition to another Errour of theirs That Christ had and yet hath another Body besides his Church And my first Argument is this viz. If Christ had a Body that was broken for his Church then he had a Body besides the Church But he had a Body that was broken for his Church Ergo. The major is unquestionable or else Christ gave the Church to be broken for the Church if he had no Body besides the Church which is absurd The minor is proved from Matth. 26.26 Luke 22.19 where Christ saith of his Body that it was broken for them By this you may see these men either cannot or will not distinguish between the Body of Christ which is glorified in the Heavens and the Church of Christ which is his Mystical Body upon Earth and who if they continue faithful shall have their vile bodies made like unto his glorious body according to that of the Apostle Phil. 3.21 Thus Reader thou hast an account of a sew of those many vain Errours that are profest by this generation of men who go up and down to subvert whole houses and congregations and to pervert the right and straight wayes of the Lord. But I hope the Lord will put a stop to these mens careers that they may proceed no further that their folly may be made manifest unto all that every one may take heed that he be not led away wit the errour of the wicked and fall from his own stedfastness I shall now proceed to shew the Reader that these conceits though they are newly risen among us yet they were such wherewith the Churches of Christ have been pester'd even in the Primitive Times and that not onely in the dayes of the Apostles but in the Ages following wherein men did rise up and say They were sent of God and afterwards grew into such Blasphemous Opinions as these men are now fallen into some saying They are the Eternal Judges of the World others saying The Day of Judgement is past Others saying They have Divine Revelations others saying They are Christs and That they are the Way the Truth and the Life c. And that these men do agree with most of the Hereticks both Ancient and Modern I shall mention some few among the rest As first they have affinity with Hymeneus and Philetus who said That the Resurrection was past already 1 Tim. 2.18 in that they as I have already shewn say The Day of Judgement is past already Secondly they have affinity with the Gnostici which said They knew all things See Epiphan Haeres 26. So say these men and thereupon one of them namely Farnworth being asked If he knew what two men spake one to another being apart from them he answered That though he did know yet he was not bound to answer the question because saith he it is an unbeliever that asketh it Again they agree with the fore-cited Hereticks inasmuch as they taught That Christ did not take flesh really but in a figure so say these for one of them being asked this question answers That Christ was but a figure See Sauls Errand to Damascus pag. 54. Thirdly they have affinity with the Manichees whose Ring-leader Manes call'd himself The Comforter and said He was Christ Euseb lib. 7. cap. 30. So do some of their Teachers saying They are the Way Truth and Life Fourthly they have affinity with the great Heretick Seleucus who denied the Humanity of Christ to be in Heaven and Water-baptism He lived in the time of Theodosius Magnus See August lib. de Haeres Both which Errours are maintained by the Quakers though they are repugnant to holy Scriptures Fifthly they have affinity with the Papists in the great Master-veins of Popery As 1. the Papists do introduce all their vain conceits by this Maxime That the Church cannot Erre and from thence it is that the Quakers do usher in all their Dreams viz. That they are perfect and cannot erre 2. The Papists do make the writings of their General Councels of equal Authority with holy Scripture So do the Quakers make their pernicious Pamphlets And at this they exceed the Papists for the Papist will not say That none of their Priests have erred neither will they say That the Writings of any particular man except the Pope is Infallible but these Quakers say That their Writings are of equal Authority with hely Scriptures although they are the private conceptions of either particular men or womens brains 3. They agree with the Papist Priests in that they would make the outside of their conversations an argument to demonstrate the truth of their Apostolical sending In like manner as I have formerly said James Nayler and Boroughs and divers others of their false Apostles being asked How they could prove they were sent of God answered That their lives did make it manifest because they denied themselves in point of Apparel c. By this it appears that the Quakers are compounded with most of the grossest Errours that the Church of old were incumbred withall Sixthly and lastly they do in many of their fore-mentioned Errours agree with their lorefathers