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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51567	The spirit of the hat, or, The government of the Quakers among themselves as it hath been exercised of late years by George Fox, and other leading-men, in their Monday, or second-days meeting at Devonshire-House, brought to light : in a bemoaning letter of a by G.I.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.	1700 (1700)	Wing M3035_VARIANT; ESTC R32093	22,482	45

Lord without fear and be found in the Exercise of nothing in the Worship of God but what his pure Spirit leads unto and out of that Truth may spring up in the hearts of thousands by enjoying of this holy Liberty and that God may be exalted in the Earth that the Horn of all Oppressions may be broken and dasht to pieces to the praise of the Name of the Lord that the Light of his Glory may shine in our Temples in its strength and lustre not wanting a proud Lordly Body to rule over us nor a proud wanton lazy Ministry to monopolize his precious Truth from us but that every one may sit under his own Vine without fear and eat his Bread at his own Table And God bears me this Testimony That his Truth as it hath been declared is dear unto me and the Principles delivered my Soul doth own and therefore according to my Measure ought to have a place in the Body but from the Body of Christ and the Unity of his Spirit they cannot exclude me and therefore my Soul is abundantly satisfied and refreshed in my solitary Retirements and desires not to join hands to oppress any nor yet to give up my neck unto the Yoke of Bondage nor my Back to the Oppression nor my Judgment and Eyes to the Body Though I can give my Back to the Smiter and my Cheeks to the pulling off of the Hair yet it is through a patient suffering and not a fordid slavish subjection And altho' they daily exercise the Oppressions before-mentioned yet by their deceitful flatteries they make people believe That they are a harmless innocent and peaceable People suffering and hearing wrong but not doing any or if any persons Write or Speak their Grief that the Publick take notice of they will represent them under such terms as may render them odious and the more effectually to weaken their Testimonies they will fix upon them scurrilous and contemptible Appellation as Scotch-men Welch-men Tinker Taylor c. some of them utterly untrue and to prevent an inquisition into the truth of the matter they would make people believe that they are envious malicious and discomposed Spirits bad dirty factious and ranting Spirits who are gone from Truth and are out of Truth Such is the portion of those that appear in the least against their imperious tyrannical and lascivious Actions and what-ever Man detected the fallacies and destructive Cheats of imperious disdainful men but was thus reproached Must it be justice in them to complain of their Oppressions and Envy and Malice c. in us to complain of ours their years are but few yet verily they have been exceeding expert in learning of the Papists subtilties If I have any interest in a Burial-place and displease the Body by discharging of a good Conscience I shall be deprived thereof and be necessitated to seek a place for my dead else-where albeit the Truth as it hath been declared is dear unto and precious with me for say they Thou opposest Friends who are in the Truth Let the Spiritual Man judge whether this is not a setting up themselves yea let the reasonable Man judge whether this is not to dispose of my Right and Propriety by Will and Pleasure they are like the Pharisees of old who were more zealous to keep up their Traditions than the Law given from the Lord for they are more zealous to keep up their power as a Body than the Truth it self It appears plainly unto the Just and Righteous Man that G. F. and the rest of his Councel have endeavoured to subvert the Royal Law of Liberty and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government over the Conscience over the Flock of God These are the ravening Wolves which prey upon the little Ones in a Lordly Spirit This is that envenomed spirit which hath tainted their Judgments poysoned their Hearts and blinded their Eyes how hainous it is in the Nature how mischievous in the Effects of it which will best appear if it be examined by that infallible Law To do as we would be done unto This is the Foundation of all Laws out of which they are derived this is the Supream Law and the Health of the People and end of all Laws to which they are designed And how far this Spirit in them stands in opposition to this Law I shall further manifest They pretend and claim an Infallibility in Judgment c. not that I am against Infallibility but that it is in a special manner peculiar to them as they are a Body this I am against yet who more fallible in Judgment than they who more partial in Justice And what can be more dangerous and destructive to the well-being of a People than such a claim without it If they were in it assuredly they would boast less be more humble and chast more self-denying and mortified in their Conversations I shall be liable to transgress by breaking a Law hidden in their Breasts that must be a Crime which they are pleased to say is so all must be error which they please to call so What say they dost thou see dost thou feel that which the Body doth not thou art in an exalted Spirit the Body hath not unity with it if it had been a true motion the Body would have a sence thereof behold the Touch-stone and certainly in their degenerated Natures as many great enormities have been so greater will be produc'd Lust will become a Law Envy will become a Law Ambition and Covetousness will become Laws What Dictates what Divisions such Laws will produce may easily be discerned by the ●ate Vicissitudes to dispose of all to the maintenance of it self The bounds of the Royal Law they have removed and broken and this mischief must needs ensue in the stead thereof Tyranny establish●d and yet they will tell us It 's for the honour of Truth and its service from the Spirit of Truth What greater dishonour can there be to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth than to pretend ●is Holy Pure Spirit in the practice of Injustice ●nd Oppression and to make use of his great Name and Power to patronize their pride and ex●lted Spirits Such arbitrary courses have an ill Operation upon ●he Spirits of Men it weakens their Hearts and ●ools their Courage and begets in them a slavish Temper and Disposition and where this arbitra●y and unlimited Power is set up a way is open not ●nly for the security but for the Advancement and ●ncouragement of Evil and a means to Increase ●latterers Such Men are aptest to cry up the ●ody in all respects and are the only good Friends ●ut others though exemplary in their Conversations who cannot yield and comply against the light in their Consciences to some of their proceedings are subject to their Jealousie Censure if not an Ejection In days past the Lord raised up a Moses to be a Ruler and Leader to his People Israel who were then under Types Figures and

within us that we needed not to go forth out of our own Houses having an Holy Anointing within us to supply the wants of our Souls and lead us into all Truth And the Lord did daily add unto the Church and raised up many to go forth in the Power to Preach the Everlasting Gospel whereby the Church multiply'd and encreased to the astonishment of the Nations How low and humble were they in their Spirits how few were they in Words Their yea was yea and their nay nay Ah! let me take up a Lamentation How are the Mighty fallen How have the Stars ceased to give their Light How are the Poor distressed and the Young Ones bruised by the High Mountains and Lofty Cedars whose Habitations were once in Heaven but now upon the High Places of the Earth to impose upon the Conscience and to Establish an Arbitrary Power by a Law these are the armed Beasts and the many Antichrists which break the Unity in Spirit and the Bond of Peace This brings in Divisions causeth Differences contentions and Emulations It roots up the good and eats as doth a Canker whereby the Unity is divided and the Peace broken But the Unity that the Lord approves of is for every one to act according to his measure and growth in the Truth All are not strong therefore all cannot be in the same Exercise no more than a Child can be found in the Exercise of a Man So that the disuniting-Spirit doth not barely lie in being of another Mind and Judgment but in the imposing of its Judgment and Practice which appears plainly by Paul who clearly judged that the ground of the Differences in the Church lay very much in the judging one another in Meats and Drinks c. It 's the great Promise of the Father in these latter Days That he will write his Laws in our Hearts and put his Spirit into our inward Parts to lead us into all Truth and out of all appearances which his Spirit manifests in us to be in the Imitation and after the Traditions of Men. Is it then reasonable for the Spiritual Man to be found in the practice of doing before a Law written but rather wait at the Feet of Jesus till God Reveals And he that walks according to this Rule shall know his Doctrine and be led to behold his Glory and Witness an Unity in Spirit with his Brother though in a different Exercise How doth this differ from the World's and the Foxoman-Unity which is to yield subjection to the Order of the Body so called though no manifestation within And this Unity they glory in by this is their Kingdom upheld from this they are able to boast Who is able to make War with us Who can stand before us Do not all fall that have risen up against us Are not these the high swelling Words of proud Babel whose towri g thoughts must be abased Whose practice hath been to Crush the Tender Ones in their Bodies Souls and Spirits This Language hath mine Ears heard this practice hath mine Eyes seen to the grief and wounding of my Soul This combined Unity I have no pleasure in its Nature is known by its Image its Birth by the exercise of its Power My Friend Observe What difference is there in these things between George Fox and the Papists The one saith No Liberty out of the Church The other No Liberty out of the Power Saith the Papist What Liberty to the Sectary No What Liberty to the Heretick No. And George Fox saith What Liberty to the Presbyter No What Liberty to the Independant No What Liberty to the Baptist No. Liberty saith he is in the Truth The difference lies only here The one hath greater Power to compel than the other The Papists say Believe as the Church Believes So likewise saith G. Fox But I say Nay I am not to believe a thing barely because the Church believes it but because it 's manifested in me else I am to wait till God Reveals it I was told the abovesaid by two there present The Church of Rome claims a Power of Excommunication of them that will not submit to their decent and comely Order though in it self the thing be meerly Circumstantial Ceremonial or as they term it indifferent and their reason is It Judgeth the Power and smites at the Authority and say they it 's an Inlet to Division and thereby is Unity violated Behold a resemblance thereof it hath been often said unto me The Hat is nothing but it is out of the comely Order it judgeth Friends who are in the Power who testifie against it and it breaks the Unity and therefore we cannot suffer such to Marry or Bury nor to partake of any Priviledge as a Member of the Body and this is in the substance Excommunication For Excommunication chiefly lies in a Man's being deprived of the Benefits and put out of the Protection of the Law as also from being a Member of the Church The Severity is the same with us for where could I Marry or Bury if we were an intire Nation Or how can I take a Wife without a Witness Or how can I have a Witness if to be one is lyable to the same Misery Selected Bodies ought to be found in the Exercise of Moderation Tenderness and Mercy as if they were a Nation I always find when once such put forth their Hands to afflict for Conscience sake as their Power groweth strong so doth their Oppression But perhaps they would say We do not eject for Conscience sake but because of an obstinate Will which opposeth Friends The Papists justifie themselves by saying of the same I remember a Judge likewise made the same reply when a Friend mentioned Conscience Certainly it cannot be an Evil in one and Right in the other no more than it is Cruelty in the Papists Persecutions and Just in the Protestants It will be a noble Example in those that stand upon the Advantage-ground to Act in Moderation Tenderness and Mercy And although it is the Policy of the World's Churches c. under a pretence for Unity not to hear the tender Conscience yet the Church of Truth will and where they are found will account them as Brethren and not to think it a sufficient ground to refuse them after Admonition if they persist but to wait till God perswades them And this is the Royal Law of Liberty the other is the Yoke of Bondage from which we are not to be entangled after the Traditions of Men. This great Charter of Liberty is violated and greatly broken in many particulars If I have a Cause before the Elders but especially if I am a Dissenter it 's frequently urg'd give it to Friends if I do not a farther Snare is offered namely Dost thou believe Vs to be in the Power of God If I say Yea then What wilt thou not leave it to the Power of God in Friends Thou art in confusion to believe Vs to be in the Power