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A40250	Several papers some of them given forth by George Fox; others by Jame [sic] Nayler, minister of the eternal word of God, raised up after the long night of apostacy to direct the world, to wait for the revelation of Jesus Christ, and to turn their minds to the true light, that they may be reconciled to God; of the world is not worthy, and therefore doth hate, persecute, and whom inprison them, under the name of Quaker[s]. Gathered together and published by A. P. that the truth may be spread abroad, and deceit be discovered. Wherein the plain, honest, and sober conversation of the saints in fear and trembling, is justified, against the idle bablings of formal professors ... and of all sorts of persons, under pretence of civility. Also the priests of England, with their imaginary doctrines and worships discovered to be the grand enemies of Jesus Christ; and the true worship of God in spirit and truth made manifest. ... With a word to the people of England ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. aut; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Killam, John. aut; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing F1904; ESTC R218791	32,715	40

to teach others or did the Lord ever send out any to teach who hath not this spirit yea or no Certain Queries to all you Prophets that Prophesie for hire and all you Priests that teach for money and bear rule by your means and all you Shepherds that seek for your gain from your quarter answer these for they are given forth for the generall good of all people 1. Q. VVHether you will own Jeremiah to be a true Prophet which cryed against the Priests that bare Rule by their means and whether you will justifie these that bear rule by their means which Jeremiah cryed against 2. Whether you will own the Prophet I say to be a true Prophet of the Lord which the Lord sent to cry against them that sought for their gain from their quarter and whether you will hold up these shepherds which seek for their gain from their quarter now as he cryed against them 3. Whether you will own Ezekiel to be a true Prophet of the Lord which the Lord sent to cry against the shepherds which fed themselves with the fat and cloathed with the wooll and made a prey upon the people and whether you will justifie these shepherds that seek for the fleece now and for the Woll and the Fat and make Prey upon the people which Ezekiel cryed woe against 4. Whether you will owne Micha to be a true Prophet of the Lord which the Lord sent to cry against the hireling Priests and Prophets that Preached and Prophesied for money and whether you will justifie these things now which the Lord sent him to cry woe against then 5. Whether you will justifie such as Jesus Christ cryed woe against which was called of men Master and had the chiefest places in the assemblies and stood praying in the Synagogues and laid heavy burdens upon the people and loved salutations in the Markets and whether you will justifie these things which he cryed woe against 6. Whether you will justifie sprinkling infants seeing there is not a word of Scripture to prove it 7. Whether you will justifie singing Davids Psalms his quakings prayers and tears and his condition turned in Rime and Meeter and sung in the world yea or no 8. Whether ever any of the Apostles or Ministers of God did receive Tythes after Christ was risen yea or no 9. Whether ever any of the Disciples of Jesus Christ or believers that believed in him after he was risen did pay Tythes according to the old time after the substance was come yea or no 10. Whether these be not the Teachers spoken of which stand rayling in the Pulpit and are in envy and sue men at the Law and are proud and covetous be not them which goe in the way of Caine and through covetousness make merchandise of the people and are they not to be cryed against now as Paul and Peter did then 11. Whether these be not the Teachers that seek for great augmentations and great Benefits and Tythes be not as they which the Scripture speaks of which run greedily after the error of Balaam who perished in the gain-saying of Cora seeing the Apostle said He covered no mans silver nor gold nor apparel but wrought with his hands that he might be example to all that followed him 12. Whether they do abide in the Doctrine of Christ which compels people to swear or the Doctrine of the Devil when Christ saith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea and nay nay whatsoever is more is evil 13. Whether the outward Temple was to be held up after Christ was risen yea or no seeing Stephen was stoned to death for witnessing against it 14. Whether a man shall be made free from the body of sin while he is upon the earth yea or no 15. Whether you will own that Christ which said be not ye called of men Master or whether you will be called of men Master and so deny that Christ 16. Whether that was the true Christ that forbid these things and whether you will own that Christ as an Example to follow him who is the way the light and the truth An Exhortation to all people that have a desire to know the Truth that the Truth may make them free EVery one that hath a desire to know the truth that the truth may set you free mind the light of God in you that shews you sin and evil that which checks you when you do amiss either when you lie or swear or are proud or covetous or oppress or envy or hate or backbite one another or use any deceit there is something in you that will check you and tell you that you should not do so if you hearken to it that which shews you your vain thoughts and wandring desire and wicked imaginations if you hearken to that and let it guide your minds It will turn them within and shew you how you have spent your time and bring you to consider of your waies and your doings that you may forsake that which is evil and turn to the Lord that he may have mercy upon you this light within if you hearken to it it will not suffer you to do any wrong to any man but to do to all as you would be done by and obeying it it will teach you to deny your selves of pride and covetousness and oppression and drunkenness and lying and swearing and vain talk and foolish jesting and all vain delights and pleasures whatsoever and minding this light within to be obedient to it it will cross your earthly wille and turn you out of the lust and filth of the flesh and lead you out of all the worlds waies and words and customs and fashions and worships and delights and vanities whatsoever and bring you to delight in the Lord to do his will in yielding obedience to his commands in what the light doth require of you to be done that you may cast off the works of darkness as this light within makes them manifest to you this light within you will not suffer you to eat and drink to make your selves wanton if you harken to it and let it guide your minds this light within will not let you wear apparel to make your selves proud and burthen and oppress poor creatures if you hearken to it and here is your teacher this light obeying it and here is your condemnation this light disobeying it this light is not without you a chapter or a verse but the light is within as it was in them that spake forth the chapters Ye have a light to the which you do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts Take heed to that light left ye be condemned by it obeying it it will shew you the way to salvation disobeying this light it will condemn you Now you have time prize it and take heed of rejecting the counsel and admonition of the Lord to your souls

SEVERAL PAPERS Some of them given forth by George Fox others by Jame Nayler Minister of the Eternal word of God raised up after the long night of Apostacy to direct the world to wait for the Revelation of Jesus Christ and to turn their minds to the true light that they may be reconciled to God of the world is not worthy and therefore doth hate persecute and whom inprison them under the name of Quakers Gathered together and Published by A.P. that the Truth may be spread abroad and deceit be discovered Wherein the plain honest and sober conversation of the Saints in fear and trembling is justified against the idle bablings of formal Professors the wicked fashions and heathenish customs of this Nation and of all sorts of persons under pretence of civility Also the Priests of England with their imaginary Doctrines and Worships discovered to be the grand enemies of Jesus Christ and the true worship of God in spirit and truth made manifest Also the occasion of divers scandals concerning the Scriptures Baptism Lords Supper Resurrection Magistracy and Ministry cast upon them by the Priests removed With a word to the people of England who in several Forms have long flattered themselves with their Ministry Churches and Ordinances but upon tryall are found to be the Synagogues of Satan Persecuters of the Truth and enemies of the Gospel And a few Queries propounded to Tho. Ledgard of Newcastle or any of those he ranks with himself under the notion of Anti-Quakers Printed in the year as the world accounts 1654. To the Reader THere is a Paper for the Press given forth by George Fox wherein all may see That Forms of Religion Ordinances as they are called and observations where into people are led by the searchings of Wisdom and the light of their Reasons and Vnderstandings from the Letter of the Scripture are nothing but the worship of the first Nature the Sacrifice of Caine which God doth not accept And that the worship of God in spirit is not known to such neither indeed can be for to that eye it is hid and the Revelation of Jesus Christ and of the deep things of God by the spirit is a Mystery to them not understood which is intended if the Lord please to be made publick as soon as this is finished P A. To all who love the Lord Jesus Christ Mercy and Peace be multiplyed unto you WHo have been scattered abroad in the cloudy dark day from mountaine to mountaine and worshipping that which they know not following the imaginations of others which they spake from the divination of their own braine and not from the mouth of the Lord shepherds that fed themselves and cloathed themselves with the wool and sought after the Fleece and so made a prey upon us and do upon the people but God as he promised saith he I will gather my sheep from your mouthes and seek them which have been scattered in the cloudy dark day hath gathered us an doth feed us upon the mountaine in a good pasture and so we witness the Promise of the Lord fulfilled and as the Lord said I will seek that which was lost and bring again that which was driven away who hath one shepherd Jesus Christ herein do we witness the Lord fulfilling the Scriptures in us and I witness the lost sheep is found and the Lord hath brought back again that which was driven away and here do we deny all the Teachers of the world who speak a divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord for who spoke from the mouth of the Lord denyed them then so do we by the same word and we deny all them that seek for gain from their Quarters which are greedy dumb doggs as the Scripture saith and all those who take the peoples money and sell the Letter which was spoken forth freely For Isaiah that spake from the mouth of the Lord he denyed such things and bid all come freely without money and without price to hear the voice of the Lord that their souls might live and to make with them an everlasting Covenant even the sure mercies of David and this Covenant I do witness therefore I deny with the same word wherewith they spake the same things the Scripture denyeth and all those that bear rule by their means and hirelings which Preach for hire and Prophesie for money For Jeremy who had the eternal words denyes such things Micha denies such things and Jesus Christ who was the Word said The hireling would fly because he is an hireling and this word the Lord hath made manifest which gathers our hearts together up to God and opens to us the Scriptures whereby we see the deceits of the Priests of the world now of the same generation and nature and acting those things there is no Scripture for which the holy men of God did not practice And for taking Tythes in the old time Levi which was to receive Tythes the strangers the fatherless and widows were to come and eat and be filled within his gate but this was according to the Law and here you see the Priests of the world do not act according to the Law in which were Types and Figures of Christ and when Christ was come those he sent forth were not to have a bagg nor a stick to defend them nor two coats nor brass nor silver but freely ye have received freely give The workman is worthy of his meat so they neither walk according to the Law nor the Gospel therefore we deny them and the Ministers of Jesus Christ which went into the world they had no portion of the world but whipping stocking prisoning But them that were gathered out of the world in the eternall word which met together and were of one heart one minde one soule to such they say If we minister unto you spirituall things is it a great thing if you minister to us carnall things But this was spoken to them upon whom the end of the world was come and this I do witness what the Scripture doth say God commanded an outward Temple Circumcision the Sabbath given as Figures and Types and Shadows of Jesus Christ so when Jesus Christ the substance was come and when he was crucified and risen who believed in him Preached his Resurrection and so went up and down in the Synagogues and into the Temple Reasoning and Disputing with them that held them up to bring them out of the Figure up to Jesus Christ who was the substance so all which were gathered together in the substance met together and then the Church was in God and they denyed the outward Temple which God commanded being made the Temples of God and denied Circumcision outwardly being circumcised with the Spirit and denyed the Jewish Sabbath outwardly and observing daies For he that believes is entred into his rest