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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65871	A just enquiry into the libeller's abuse of the people called Quakers in his scandalous pamphlet, falsly stiled, Some of the Quakers principles, doctrines, laws and orders, &c.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1938; ESTC R38636	12,114	34

A Iust Enquiry INTO THE Libeller's Abuse OF THE People called QVAKERS In His Scandalous Pamphlet falsly Stiled Some of the Quakers Principles Doctrines Laws and Orders c. They Shoot in Secret at the Perfect c. But God shall Shoot at them Psal. 64. London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle at the Crooked Billet in Holywell-Lane Shoreditch 1693. A Just Enquiry into the Libeller's abuse of the People called Quakers c. THere 's two or three Falacies in the very Title of the said Pamphlet 1 st In charging what 's contain'd therein upon the Quakers in general as being their Principles Doctrines Laws and Orders c. Whereas in truth divers of them are neither the Quakers Principles Laws nor Orders but disown'd by the said People though this Nameless Author has unjustly represented them as if they were some Principles all intirely Transcribed and that from the Quakers in general without exception which is a notorious abuse For 't is also very Obvious That many of them are very Partially unfairly and injuriously cited minced curtalized Picktpach't and scrap'd up thereby wronging some former Antient Writings of perticular Persons deceased and not here to answer for themselves as George Fox Edward Burroughs Francis Howgill John Burnyet William Smith John Audland Josiah Cole and others and some yet alive abused Others very falsly represented being taken on Trust on an Implicit Faith out of our Long-since Refuted Adversaries Books and Pamphlets 2 dly That those pretended Principles and Doctrines c. of the Quakers at least many of them are Rendered to be of dangerous Consequence When we can easily make it appear that Many of them even as cited by this Obscure Accuser are agreeable to the holy Scriptures and Testimonies of Holy Men consequently not of any dangerous Consequence though in many things the Libeller appears very Injurious as well as Envious Whereupon I enquire 1. What dangerous Consequence can be in our Knowing or Believing our Election i. e. in Christ before the World began pag. 1. Ephes. 1.4 2. Or what dangerous Consequence in our believing or Testifying that Christ hath given us Discerning and Judgment Or that we are of God and they that own God will own us or any who are his Children 3. Or in our Believing the Tabernacle of God to be with us that is with all his People whom we include as of us or with us who are not against us nor Envious nor exalted in Pride or Self-conceit but looking towards the Lord as in every Nation and People they that truly fear God and work Righteousness they are accepted and so far of us 4. What dangerous Consequence can be in asserting That Christ's Ministry or Teaching is to Bring up the Hearers to Perfection to the measure of stature and fulness of Christ pag. 2. 5. Can none Quakers or others in these Dayes truly declare that they are or may be moved by the Immediate Spirit and Power of God to Write or Preach without dangerous Consequence pag. 2 3. 6. What dangerous Consequence can be in asserting That they that have the Form and not the Power and that are not Infallible in their Counsel and Judgment in their Ministry are none of Christ's Ministers pag. 3. 7. Is not the Spirit of Christ Infallible and the Ministry thereof Infallible And are any Christ's Ministers who have not his Spirit to Instruct them pag. 3. 8. The distinction between the Letter and the Word or Spirit and between the Ministry of the Letter and that of the Spirit pag. 3 4. as between the Shadow and Substance the meer Writing in outward Characters and the holy divine Doctrines and Truths therein contained or holy Scriptures as intending the same Is so Scriptural that I know no true Christian will deny such distinction muchless deem it of dangerous Consequence We never esteemed or called the Holy Scriptures that is the Holy Doctrines or Precepts thereof but a Dead Letter c. This Matter is fully answered and explained in a late Treatise entituled Antichrist in Flesh Vnmask'd and in many others But yet further Section 8. Touching the Scriptures implying that we call them the Husk the Letter which Killeth Earthly and Carnal Letter c. This is not Justly nor truly stated and may Cause mistake and Misapprehension as if the Divine and Christian Doctrine and Testimonies contained in the Scriptures were included in the Term Letter Husk c. which could not be the Intention of any of our Friends in that case but of the meer outward Writings as in Paper and Ink the Shadows and Types the Legal and outward Ministration as Distinguished and Separated from that of the Spirit Life and Substance Cor. 3.6 7. Rom. 2.29 Please also to take G. F's Explanation and Sence that by Letter he means Paper and Ink but saith the Scripture the thing it speaks of is Spiritual the Word is Spirit Great Mystery fol. 78. And further he Explains viz. the Scripture it self without the Spirit that gave it forth is a dead Letter in it self the Spirit is it that gave forth the Scriptures Gr. Mist. fol. 127. Wherein he distinguisheth between the meer Letter and the holy Scripture between the Letter and the Doctrine between the Writings and the Gospel or Word declared of because the one will decay the other is permanent the Books and Writings in Ink and Paper will wear out so will not the Word Iehoiakim King of Judah could Burn Jeremiah's Roll or Book writ with Ink by Barach but not the Word of the Lord nor the Words thereof for the same Word caused all the former Words to be Written again after the Roll was burnt Jer. 36. This is no contempt of the Scripture no more then it is of the Earth and the Heavens to say they shall Wax Old and Perish But the Word that made them Endureth Psal. 102.25 26. Heb 1.11 12. Dust cannot properly be said of the holy Scriptures or Doctrine but that the Letter or Writing will decay and some pervert it and in setting the Shadow above the Substance and the Letter above the Spirit and thinking to have eternal Life therein will not come to Christ that they might have Life The Devil and Serpents have perverted and abused the Scriptures and turned the Truth thereof into a Lye But the Truth remaineth the Truth is Truth still and the holy Scripture it self or Doctrine of Truth therein cannot be broken The Husk that intends no contempt upon the holy Scripture but thereby intending the meer Letter or Writing it is not the Kernel the seed the Living Word Spirit or Life which the Scriptures testifie of Those Repeated Stories and Reflections insinuated concerning Governments Monarchy Rulers Laws c. pag. 4.5 6 7. Enviously and perversly Raked up by Patches Mincings and piece-meal out of old Books the most part writ in the Common-Wealth's Days are plainly answered and our Innocency cleared in several late Books one Intituled Christ's Lambs defended from Satan's Rage Another

and not to be stood by but only excused the intention of the Writter on his own Explanation as declared in our Friends Book Judas and the Jews pag. 75. And not the Nonsence of his words in his challenge but corrected the incoherence by his own declared intention accordingly as where he applies The World was made by him only to Christ. Innocency c. pag. 18. Wherein I aimed at nothing but Truth and Justice on all hands which I prefer to all Personal fame and interests and through the Lord's goodness have long resolved not to decline or conceal Truth to vindicate or excuse Error or mistake in any Concerning the Charge against several Ministers of some divine Attributions to G. F. in two Letters pretended the first said to be from Josiah Cole in 1658. above thirty four years ago The other from John Audland and dated from Bristol 1665. Whereas in Thomas Camm's account who was much conversant with John Audland in his last Sickness 'T is declared in his Testimony That J.A. finisht his Course here in the 1st Month 1663. And the same Account in a late Letter to me Tho. Camm confirms according to their Register of Burials c. in Westmorland That John Audland was buried the 24th of the 1st Month 1663. being the very last day of that Year according to the usual beginning of the Year on the 25 th of the same so that John Audland dyed about two Years before the date of the said pretended Letter from him to G. F. How could he then write the Letter to G. F. two years after he was dead That pretended to be from J. C. our Adversary says Is vindicated by W. P. and other Chief Quakers in Judas and the Jews pag. 44.45 46. Is it so Yet does he not attempt to refute that Vindication which tho' it was of the Substance of it only Supposing the Copy for granted as cited yet I still question the Copy whether true in all parts as I have done therefore shall not undertake to Warrant it in every part●clar or word in it as it has been divers times slung at us both by F. Bugg and some Baptists and yet each apparently vary in their own Recital thereof in their Pamphlets as F. B. has done in his One Blow more pag. 7.1691 And in his Battering Rams pag. 29.1690.91 Wherein tho' I have cause still to Question the Verity and Authority of his Copy yet cannot find nor see that he can justly infer either Idolatry or Blasphemy on Josiah Cole in particular muchless against the Quakers in General from any thing as yet reiterated out of his pretended Letter by Bugg Baptists or the Libeller § 31. But further to clear Josiah Cole and his Friends from their Reproach of Idolatry and Blasphemy in relation to G. F. or any other Creature as utterly contrary to his Christian Principle and Profession We 'l have recourse to his own plain Testimonies on Record for and in behalf of the same Lord Jesus Christ of whom the holy Scriptures testifie in his positively declaring No other Name under Heaven to be saved from Sin by but HIS who preached himself the Light of the World and who Lighteth every Man that cometh into the World John 1.9 and against the Pope and Church of Rome and the Pope's Headship affirming that Christ never ordained a Visible Head to his Church but that Christ is the Head and Foundation and that Prophet whom Moses prophecyed of whom the People are to hear in ALL things Deut. 18.15 and that Christ is the Governour and Head of the People called Quakers and their Church And that Christ is the Word which was in the Beginning with God Joh. 1.1 And that Christ was the Spiritual Rock which followed Israel and which they all drunk of 1 Cor. 104. And that Christ ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill all things Ephes. 4. Thus far Josiah Cole in the Collection of his Books pag. 36.60.94.100.105.320 321 332. where more at large he magnifies our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ in his divine Being and Offices Therefore our Adversaries that have reproached him and us on is account with Idolatry and Blasphemy or wresting Christ's Scepter out of his Hands as some have done have very grosly defamed him and others and shewn their inveterate Malice and Persecuting Antichristian Spirit which the righteous Lord will rebuke And as for G. F. who was an Eminent Instrument in the Lord's hand for the good of many he was so far from opposing or denying Christ or his divine Offices Dignity Divinity or Blessed Manhood and so far from accepting or assuming to himself any such Dignity or Honour only peculiar to Jesus Christ That he did own himself a Servant of our Lord Jesus Christ and did Preach and Pray in his Name and to him and not in his own as many Thousands can Testifie These last Lines the Libeller has very unfairly omitted and concealed in his recital of my words in his 33. Article against me pag. 13. out of Innocency against Envy pag. 18. Thus it has been the Common Course of our most Envious Adversaries to conceal what ever in our Writings tends most to clear us And G. ● is more fully Cleared from ●hese Adversaries Reproach in this matter by his own naked and innocent TESTIMONY of WHAT we believe in behalf of Christ both as God and Man according to the Holy Scriptures and of His Miraculous Conception by the holy Ghost and being Born of the Virgin Mary and of his Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascention c. Printed 1677. Farther testifying to his Divinity Great Mystery fol. 254 That by Christ the Light all things were made and created and that he was Glorified with the Father before the world began Of whom the Scriptures testifies And that this Christ is the same to day yesterday and forever that the Saints came to Witness WITHIN them Not another Christ nor many Christs With many more sincere Confessions to the true and very Christ of God of the same import which would fill a Volumn to recite a few whereof being sufficient to clear both G. F. and us from the false and foul imputations of Idolitry and Blasphemy or denying the One true and ever Blessed Lord Jesus Christ of whom the Holy Scriptures Testifie and from promoteing or adoreing any other Man or Creature in Christ's sted as we have been most unjustly defamed and the Righteous God knows and will plead our Innocency and Clear us in this matter we doubt not And as to that pretended to be John Audland's Letter to G. F. Sect. 32. There 's 16. or 17. lines of Mater added in it more than are in F. B 's Coppy One Blow more page 7. Thus confused and varied Transcripts are cast upon us to defame and brand us with Idolitry c. without either Produceing us the Original Leters pretended to be from I. C. and I. A. or any Credible Authority to prove the verity of their differant

Copies tho' demanded both of Bugg Baptists and Athenians so called since we both questioned their broken Printed Copies with their dashes and c's And now I still Question the Truth of this as enlarged against John Audland and we disown it as it is let the Libeller Produce the Original Letters or sufficient Authority of Credit and no parties against us to prove his Copy exactly true in all parts and perticles thereof where there 's any stress of the Sence concerned for the Charge is high and requires strict proof in all Essential points as common Law and Justice doth of Indictments in Criminal Cases otherwise our Adversary's Copy of the said Letter may be of as much Credit as that J. A. writ it two Years after he was dead as before Both J. A. and J. C. were well known to many and still remembred to be sincere upright hearted Men fearing God and eschewing Evil who truly honoured and preached Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God our blessed Lord and Saviour as their own Testimonies on Record do still plainly Evince And that John Audland was a man of more Wisdom and of a more sensible Christian Spirit than to detract from or lessen the Honour Glory or Dignity only due and peculiar to Jesus Christ or to attribute the same to any other or to prefer G. F. or any Man or Creature else as the Fountain of Life in Christ's stead but only as an Instrument in God's hand for the Turning of many from Darkness to Light even to Jesus Christ the true Light for Life and Salvation Besides 't is no new thing for sincere Christians to praise the Lord God and to pray to him and to confess to the Power and Goodness of God in Christ Jesus the Fountain of Life even in a Letter or Epistle to a Friend or Friends as the Martyrs divers of them did in their Letters which if such their Confessions c. had been by their Adversaries turned and applied to the Persons or Friends they writ unto it had been a very foul abuse and perversion of their Letters and Intentions and so may this be to defame J. A. and his Friends for his sake for any thing yet appears to the contrary His confessions to Jesus Christ as the Fountain of Life and Strength and to his Power c. may possibly be wrongfully turned and attributed to another If we might see the very Letter it self from J. A. we could say more to it to manifest and clear the Truth To conclude this Point 1 st I find not that the said Letter is directed and applied by John Audland himself unto G. Fox 2 dly I do not approve thereof as cited and directed by our Adversaries with the date of 1665. unto G. F. As for John Audland's Christian Principle and clearness in behalf of Jesus Christ we have reason Charitably to credit his own Testimonies rather than Libels or any thing his and our Adversaries enviously suggest and turn or throw upon him or us to defame him and his Christian Reputation Now they know he is gone he is not here to answer for himself therefore his own Innocent undoubted Testimonies on Record shall speak for him and his holy Respect and Honour as is only due to the very Christ of God and against his Enemies In behalf of Jesus Christ according to the Holy Scriptures John Audland thus writes The Lord our Righteousness by whose Grace we are saved hath chosen us in Christ Jesus who hath all Power and Authority committed unto him and upon whose Shoulders the Government is laid pag. 116. Of the Collection of the Books and written Epistles of John Camm and John Audland And further Christ Jesus since the Fall of Adam hath perfectly fulfilled the Law of God and there is Salvation in NO OTHER pag. 117. ibid. Again of Christ The true Shepherd laid down his Life for the Sheep and he is the Door where no Thief can enter c. pag. 120 Christ is not born by the will of man pag. 122. That Christ expounded the Scriptures was never denyed by us he opened their Understandings to understand the Scriptures and the Spirit of Christ is one in all his Saints pag. 124. Dear Hearts other Foundation can no man lay then that which is laid already which is Christ Jesus the Light of the World the Way to Life and Everlasting Rest c. pag. 157. Let nothing seperate you from the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Light our Life and our Redeemer pag. 161. I must walk according to the Commands of Christ and his Apostles p. 180. Walking in the Spirit which mortifies the Deeds of the Flesh being subject to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ here is rest to the Soul pag. 188. We see the Way of Life to all that believe in the Name of the Lord Jesus p. 190. The Jews had a Law by which they Judged the HOLY ONE that he ought to dye pag. 202. Christ said Love your Enemies Pray for them that Persecute you p. 203. We find acceptance with God through Jesus Christ p. 222. You are washed sanctified and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God pag. 250. The Seed of the Woman which all the Promises are unto Yea and Amen in Christ by which the Serpent's Head is bruised is but one which Seed is Christ pag. 269. Dear Hearts walk in the pure Eternal Love and Light of God that so you may come to the pure Life of God to follow the Captain of your Salvation who was made perfect through Sufferings p. 275 They i.e. the holy Prophets prophesied of Christ who was born not by the Will of Man supposed to be the Son of Joseph which was the Son of God pag. 287. These Passages are as many more might be truly Collected out of John Audland's Works and Writings to shew 1 st That he truly owned and honoured the true Christ the only begotten Son of God according to the holy Scriptures 2 dly That therefore no divine Attributations Confessions Honour or Worship only due and peculiar to our Lord Jesus Christ could he ever intend to any other besides him 3 dly These of J. A. his Free and Voluntary Confessions to the very Christ of God and his Light and Life c. are plain Indications of his clearness from the gross and absurd Imputations of Idolatry and Blasphemy wickedly Insinuated by his and our Adversaries 4 thly And how easily may such Apostate Adversaries wrong the Dead when they make no Conscience to wrong the Living as they have done in plain matter of Fact and what Credit then can their Scandalous Pamphlets or their Envious and defaming Suggestions and Reproaches many whereof are omitted here be of to any impartial Readers or Persons indifferent There are divers of those other Articles exhibited by the said Libeller in the said Pamphlet which are truly cited and owned by us which I need not vindicate until the Libeller come forth and make his Objections and own his said Pamphlet stiled Some of the Quakers Principles c. and subscribe his Name thereunto George Whitehead London in the 1 st Month 1693. THE END