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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

suing many honest men at Law for Tythes and spoyling their Goods and fraudulently taking away Goods many times more than the Tythes demanded As also they have cast many into Prisons for Tythes several of whom have dyed in Prisons And thus have they dealt by many that are separated from them whom they do no work for nor preach to and such as can buy none of the Priests ware nor spend their money for that which is not bread knowing the Fountain of LIFE whereto all that thirst may come freely and freely drink without money or price and the gift of the Spirit of God within and a part in his Wisdom which is not to be bought nor sold for Silver or Gold Isa. 55. Job 28. So thus the Priests forcing Tythes and Goods from them they do no work for is both contrary to all Equity Reason or Scripture and their grievous oppression upon the Poor and the Nation hath caused the Nation to groan and the Land to mourn VI. Of their Persecuting and Compelling men ANd the Priests in shewing themselves to be envious men and persecutor's and going about to compel consciencious men that differ from them in Judgment to their Worship and Religion by an outward Power or Law of man and in their Instigating Magistrates to persecute such as cannot for Conscience-sake joyn with them Herein they have greatly shewed themselves to be out of the way of the Gospel and true Ministry for the way of the Gospel and its Ministers is to convince Gain-sayers and to beget men into the love of the Truth through the meekness of Love and Wisdom and so to convert them and not to use Persecution and compulsion to force them to an outward conformity against their Consciences and Faith nor to seek to be Lords over men's Faith 2 Cor. 1.24 as the Priests do wherein they have shewed themselves to be in the way of the persecuting Jews and Papists and not in the way of the Gospel-Ministers for neither Persecution Carnal weapons nor outward compulsion can convince of error nor convert men to the love of the Truth for they that may be thereby made conformable to an outward Profession or Worship it is but in hypocrisie whilst they are not convinced in their Consciences of the thing to be true which they are compelled to and this is but to make men Hypocrites and no further can it bring them For whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.23 And they who can alter their Religion by outward compulsion or for fear of suffering will change as the Times and Governments change as many of the hireling-Priests themselves do who when their Gospel will not bear them out against their opposers then they fly to the Magistrates and Persecutors for help when as the Ministers of Christ wrastled not with flesh and blood but with Principalities and Powers and spiritual wickedness in high places and their weapons were not carnal but spiritual and mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds Eph. 6.12 and therefore we finding the Priests contrary to them and in the way of the proud Persecutors and of the Beast which made War against the Saints and set up the compelled Worships and many of them in the way of Cain who hated his Brother for his Religion Joh. 3.12 1 Jude v. 11. we are commanded of the Lord not to uphold them nor joyn with them VII Of the manner of their Preaching ANd as for the PRIESTS Preaching what they have invented and gathered out of Authors and Books and not from the Spirit or Revelation of Christ within and their following such a form in their Preaching as dividing a Text into parts and branches and from their own humane knowledge raising Doctrines Reasons Uses Motives Arguments Consequences Applications c. They speak in the form and words which man's wisdom doth teach like heathen Orators and they preach by an Hour-glasse what they have gathered and imagined This the Priests manner and way of Preaching is contrary to the Preaching of the true Ministers for they ministred as they had received the gift of Christ 1 Pet. 4.10 and what Christ revealed in them and sent them to preach and they preached not the words which man's wisdom taught nor used the cunning sleights and devices of men but preached in the power and demonstration of the Spirit of Christ 1 Cor. 2. Eph. 4.14 2 Pet. 1.16 which is not to be limited to men's forms and inventions nor unto an hour-glass and therefore it is against our Consciences to sit under the Priests invented preaching by an hour-glasse it being so much contrary to the Saints preaching who were Ministers of the Spirit of the New Testament in the Revelation of the Mystery which is CHRIST within the hope of Glory VIII Of the manner of their Worship ALso it is against our Consciences to joyn with the Priests and their hearers in their formal and dead Worship at their Steeple-houses as their formal praying in their wills either in a form of their own inventing or by the Book of Common-prayer which was devised by men and then having a Clerk to say Amen which manner of worshipping we néver read of in the Scripture that the Saints used nor that the Saints in the Churches of Christ did ever sing David's Prophecies Prayers Complaints Lamentations in rime and meeter as Priests and People now do which were put into meeter by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others nor that ever the Churches of Christ had drunken Clerks to give them forth what Psalms they were to sing or to give them such a tune to sing by as the Priests and their hearers now usually have whose songs shall become howlings Amos 8.3 but the Saints and true Christians in the primitive times did pray with the Spirit cryed Abba Father by the Spirit of Adoption and they sung with the Spirit with grace and understanding and made Melody in their hearts to the Lord as the Word that dwelt plenteously in them led them Rom. 7.6 chap. 8.15 26. 1 Cor. 14 15. Eph. 5.19 Col. 3.16 and so the Saints served God in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the Letter and such did not set a company of proud covetous persecuting or prophane people of the world to sing Davids Confessions Prayers Complaints and of his Fastings Roarings and Tremblings in meeter in a Steeple-house or Masse-house as the Priests and their Clerks do who many times cause scorners and proud ones to sing That they are not puft in mind they have no scornful eye Psal. 131. And such as are given to sporting and wantonness to say that all the night long they wash their bed with tears See Psal. 6. in the Rime and such as feed themselves without fear and spend the creatures upon their Lusts and live in Fulness and Fatness to sing that they fast their flesh to chast and that they weep and mone and that for grief and pain of heart in