them you inform the King in Print against them and if by your own Ancient Testimonies you may be tryed then are you guilty of Damnable Doctrines of Devils and Seditious Doctrines Blasphemy Persecution and are Conjurers and Witches for all these and many more hellish Names I can prove you have given the Protestant Ministers and not only in your small Libels which you have spread Thousands of but in reprinting them in great Volumes with high commendations on the wicked Authors as more than a Prophet excelling all see many Blasphemous Titles and what can be the intent thereof but that all these your Blasphemous Seditious Scandalous Ancient Testimonies against the Protestant Religion Ministers and Bible which you have the Confidence as to Print as a brazen Fac'd Book If you now Foxonian Quakers did not approve of that wicked Work of J. Coals why did not you Print against it as you did against D. S. Christian Answer to F. Bugg and as your White-hart-court Parliament did to G. Keith order it to be called in but your High Priest W. Penn knew well enough that whatever Scandal or Falshood he could invent to defame the Protestant Ministers it would be acceptable to some then in great Power at Court who were able to defend and reward him as G. F. and E. B. had in the Army formerly he had not Pensilvania for nothing and although to beguile the Church of England he tells them far be it from me to deprive them of their just Rights but what their just Rights are he tells us elsewhere that they the Protestant Ministers are that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon and that they are the best of Mankind to be spared these are the just Rights he is not willing to diminish them of but give them full Cups of his Fury and Envy and such is his eager Thirst after their destruction that he cannot be content to leave them until that day but if J. C. or any other can fetch from the Pope any thing to help to defame them W. P. and G. W. will be their Factors to encourage the vend of such Wares and such wicked Works is a sure way to Preferment among them they having many Rich Wives and great Trades among them which E. Pennington and such Runnagadoes as he wanted and for further proof that you Foxonians are not Christian Quakers see Isaac Pennington that Paganish Preacher's contempt of the Person and Blood of our Lord Jesus as a Garment Vessel c. as cited by F. B. c. and this Isaac Pennington takes on him to write to the Jews for their Conversion and Redemption and in the Discourse do not mention Faith in the Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Blood and Sufferings as on the Cross as the Four Evangelists do as St. Paul 1 Corinthians Chap. 1. and 2. but directs the Jews to a Seed a Principle within them as the Redeemer c. Now these Foxonian Quakers frame an excuse why they have not so frequently Preached Faith in that Man or Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth because as they pretend all Christendom have that Belief already and therefore no need for them to Preach it to them but here to the Unbelieving Jews who they cannot pretend do believe the outward History of our new Testament concerning him yet here this Paganish Preacher Isaac Pennington do not Preach him whom their Fathers nailed to the Cross c. our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as the Apostle Peter did therefore he could not be guided by the same Spirit they were but a Principle common to all Mankind and in every Man but he who brings not the same Gospel but another he is to be accursed also their fallaciousness appears that now of late they have more frequently Preached him as the Apostles did although there is not so much need of their doing it now since G. Keith has been raised up to do it but as their Forefathers did in St. Paul's time they Preach Christ in Envy and I believe some of you 24 aforementioned are convinced in your own Consciences that your Chief Priests Fox and Whitehead c. are guilty of Errors in some things of Doctrine and Practice which according to Foxes own Doctrine is sin and then by their own judgment they were of the Devil if they abide not in the Doctrine of Christ they are of the Devil they say Now seeing it s not only our privilege but our duty to try Spirits and in the Tryal of your Foxonian Spirit I here use your own Printed Method against the Protestant Ministers also your own Printed Doctrines rather than the Scriptures because you have contemn'd them and say its Blasphemy to say they are the word of God but of yours you say this is the word of God c. and in discharge of my duty not to let sin be upon you unreproved but to discover the deceivers is the only way to recover the deceived this is your own Doctrine and you declare you are contrary to the Ministers in Principle and Practice and we cannot own both you and them too but must disown one in your Epistle before E. Burrow's Works c. Now I say where or when did Christ or his Apostles accuse their Opponents to the Magistrates and indict them for those things they were worse and more guilty of themselves or when did they Imprison Fine and take away Men's Goods all which have been done by or for you Foxonian Chief Priests and S. Jennings c. they presented G. K. as a subverter of the Government which was Death by your Law these and other your wicked doings prove your Foxonian Spirit a Wicked Bloody Proud Envious Spirit and contrary to the Spirit of Christ and his Apostles for where do you read they did so indeed I read in Rev. 2. Chap. 10. v. it s said that the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison Now let People judge whether these wicked Actions of your Chief Priests be not more like the Devils then Christ or the Apostles and these Bloody Actions of your dear Brother Foxonian Chief Priest S. Jenning was so acceptable to your Pope Penn that I here he endeavoured to make him his Deputy Governour there doubtless as a reward for his Good Service in persecuting G. Keith and imprisoning and taking away W. Bradford's Goods for printing G. Keith's Defence also to encourage him and others in such Bloody Works and to deter others from daring to adventure to oppose any of your wicked Foxonian Preachers Errors as G. Keith had done now judge it s your own Doctrine that none should be Ministers that would have Creatures to be Imprisoned again say you did Christians ever cast into Prison any but Foxonian Priests have so done therefore are by your own Doctrine no Christians of Christ's making I could fill a Book with Quotations of your exclaming against going to Law and imprisoning
in the rest of the Book signed by four chief Quakers one of them T. Lawson and his Work espoused and recommended by the now Foxonians and just above this Chapter in the conclusion of the foregoing it 's said written from the Spirit of the Lord and this where this Hellish stuff is I think is of Fox's own indicting the Language and Method being so like his and was printed 1653. A Hundred times as much such Hell-fetcht Fury of these Quakers I can out of their Ancient Testimonies produce but these and what is afore and following shews that if the Protestant Ministers be such as they print them then as W. Penn says What remains but that the Rabble or the Government Sacrifice them c. This was because a Minister said that the Womb of Iniquity was in the Quakers Writings See it in the Quakers set in the true Light by F. B. p. 2. But then how much more guilty are these Quakers W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. not only thus to Defame the Protestant Ministers of this Age but all past and to come that pay Tythes or uphold the Ministers Kings Martyrs and all People Equivocating deluding Hypocrites He i. e. G. W. hath proved himself and all others mark it's all others to be so except Quakers and page 228. say they The Priest's work hath been to teach People to keep in and not to come out of their Lusts to Christ And page 267. say they You all Priests and Teachers mark it 's not some but all who are inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God have turned all People from the Light to the Darkness and so have kept Thousands and Millions of Souls in Damnation and keeping them in the way to Hell who are Satan's Ministers and this hath been the Work of your Ministry ever since the days of the Apostles as this Day and the People of the whole Nations witnessed Now if they think to quibble it off that it 's not all but them who have ravened from the Spirit they mean it 's afore shew'd they include all this by Fox and so well approved by Penn and to make it Canonical Scripture He Penn hath printed of him this wicked Fox Many have done well but thou Dear George hath excelled them all mark it not the Light in him but George altho' himself has pretty near match'd him for says he W. Penn These idle gormandizing Priests of England run away with 1500000 l. a Year under pretence of being God's Ministers no sort of People have been so universally through Ages the bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to Act their Eternal Targedy on Again says W. Penn There is not any thing so Proud Railing and sometimes Ignorant as a sort of Priests who think their Coat will bear out their worst Expressions for Religion An Ill-bred and Pedantick Crew the bane of Reason and pest of the World the old Incendiaries to mischief and the best to be spared of Mankind c. Surely William altho' He Fox excells all as went before him yet thou hast if possible exceeded him and gone further into the Pit of Darkness than he whil'st alive But thou had'st not Pensilvania for nothing but as much as thee could'st do something for the Devil and the Papists as I have said he knew who he pleased and that there were those in power able to Defend and Reward him for any injury he could do the Protestant Ministers Again say they in their Book A Serious Warning c. could people hear the cry of Thousands out of the Pit of Damnation they would intelligibly hear their Idol of Jealousy and Others thus lament Presbyterians and Independants under the Notion of Gospel-Ministers and Reverend Divines were the Men that seduced us hither by their Preaching Peace to us Had it not been for them we had turned from the evil of our ways and never came here Thus crys say they J. Indicot and this is the dolorous complaints of Thousands of our but yesterday Dear Countrymen if People were not in a Lethargy they would beware of you all as the Plague of the present time c. and in conclusion say I shall prove these very Men i. e. Presbyterians and Independant Ministers to be the very Men to be in Doctrine and Practice the very Floodgate of Atheism and Prophaneness is breaking in as a mighty Torrent upon this miserable Age. Is it not evident by all this Wrath and Reproach the Quakers vent against the Ministers that they i. e. these Quakers are more likely possessed with a Legion of lying Spirits than G. G. the Minister whom they say was so possess'd For notwithstanding all this and a hundred times more such defamatious Ancient Testimonies of theirs in print yet they now have the confidence to say in print because their wickedness is discovered c. they are Persecuted with shameful Reproaches and Blasphemies to murder their Reputations as Men not sparing living nor dead say they but who of Kings and Martyrs have they spared ever since the Apostles and to the end of Time Surely these Foxonians W. P. and G. W. c. as little read the Second Chapter to the Romans and are as Ignorant of that as they were of the Second Chapter of Matthew But they may say of them and any Scripture as they do in their Ancient Testimony Which their Truth taught them in the beginning in 1654. That is no command from God to me which he commands to another But this with the many others proves that they abide not in the Doctrine of Christ and so are by their own Doctrine of the Devil for they are more likely to be them grievous Wolves the Apostle foretold should come rather than Christ's Lambs as G. Whitehead c. has the Face to Stile themselves Now if you Ministers and Governours of the Church of England think that all this their Defamations do not affect you but the Dissenters yet know that they have represented you worse than them if it may be Therefore think not your selves unconcern'd but they were and are for driving that Nail they could easiest make go and the Dissenting Ministers in 1672. were more out of fashion at Court here than you as the Protestant Ministers were in France Now if it be true as W. Penn says that they who call Names for Religion c. be sure be no Christians of Christ's making then who made these Foxonian Chief Priests Christians i. e. W. Penn. and G. Whitehead to be sure not Christ And whereas W. Penn among his many other Defamations upbraids the Ministers with Ignorance Sure they are not Ignoranter than Himself and Fox c. was who as one infallible proof of his Ignorance as well as the fallibleness of their infallible Foxonian Spirit print our Lord Jesus as Born at Nazareth when Scripture says at Bethlehem But this shews how little they
not come in him and he said he looked for him to come no otherwise Some more Instances I may give in Fox's opposing J. Bunyan of their contempt of Jesus of Nazareth and his Forgery Also in page 643. J.B. speaks of the Spirit of Delusion how it deceives People saying at last it i. e. the false Spirit begins to c. Shewing the Soul a new Christ the new and false Christ is a Christ crucified within Dead Raised again Ascended within in opposition to the Son of Mary who was Crucified Dead Risen again without c. Again says J. B. This false Christ hath a false Faith c. to apprehend this Christ i. e. the false Christ Crucified Dead Risen again and Ascended within And says J. B. They have a Scripture to prove their Doctrine but it 's of the Devil 's making c. Now out of this Sentence of J. B.'s which I abridg G. F. forges three several false Sentences and is so wicked as to say to them all three they say i. e. J. Bunyan and J. Burton when it 's his own Forgery in page 206. says Fox They say it 's deluding poor Souls to hold forth a crucified Christ within Risen Ascended within Again Fox says They say false Christs hath a new false Faith to apprehend this crucified Christ within Observe here he forges J. B.'s word Christ singular into Christs plural is not this as bad as you for thou about which he and they have made such a noise Again says Fox they say it 's a Scripture of the Devil 's making to apprehend this crucified Christ within Here besides his wronging J. B.'s sense and meaning by taking his words so in pieces he Fox changes J. B.'s words a Christ crucified within into a crucified Christ within by transposing the words putting the word Crucified first and the word Christ after whenas in J. B.'s the word Christ is first and Crucified last But however this Forger Fox or them G. W. c. for him who mended his Blasphemy in his Letter by Capt. Drury to O. C. falsly cite yet observe the Sentence as J. B. says and not as they forge it he J. B. condemns it as Error to hold out A Christ Crucified within Dead Risen again and Ascended within in opposition to the Son of Mary who was Crucified Dead Risen again and Ascended without This Fox cites tho' falsly and opposes as Error and do thereby imply it 's not Error but Truth and that it's Error in J. B. to contradict it for in the Answer says Fox Which is contrary to the Faith of the Apostles which preached Christ that 's Crucified within and not another him that was raised from the Dead was risen observe it him that was raised was risen Doth this shew his extraordinary Wisdom or Ignorance or rather doth it not prove their extraordinary Failing who contrary to their own knowledge so falsly affirm of him But to return Again say Fox in his Answer to J. B. If there be any other Christ but he that was Crucified within he is the false Christ he that hath not this Christ that was Risen and Crucified within is a Reprobate c. Observe altho he falsly put it as J. B.'s Crucified Christ three times too falsly represent J.B. as opposing Christ's being Spiritually in his People which is false for he owns it as I shall shew yet in all his three answers he again transposes the words and puts the word Christ before Crucified altho' in his forg'd Sentence as J. B.'s he puts the word Crucified before Christ. Now this could not be an oversight because it 's three times in one page and answers between to every Citation in every one of which answers the word Christ is put first but in the forged Sentences all three the word Crucified is put first and cause they had for it for else J. B.'s words would not have appear'd to oppose Christ that was crucified being manifest within which was their design so to represent him nor could they had that seeming occasion to oppose him nor could they have rendered him J. B. such a Reprobate as they do for who that reads this or any such Book of the Quakers can think any others but when they say in print he or they say c. that it 's the words of the Person they cite only I having come after them and searcht them have discovered their wicked forgery and misrepresenting Mens words to defame them But in this opposing of J. B. Fox does in his squinting way contemn the Person of Jesus of Nazareth outwardly for as such he is not within and by imply makes the Light within every Man to be Christ that 's crucified and so do not as John the Baptist and St. Peter did direct to the Man or Person who was Nailed to the Cross and whom Herod saw and whom them after Saints had not nor did not see because he was taken up from them out of their sight I say this Fox not preaching the same Jesus of Nazareth as they did but opposing them that did so preach him shews Fox's Spirit or Light was not the same as the Apostles but a contrary one so Antichrist But further to prove Fox's contempt I think as to the terms Suffered or Crucified they import much the same when spoke in reference to our Lord's Death but that of the two the word Suffered most properly implies what he in Soul and Spirit or inwardly endured rather than the word Crucified for that mostly respects the manner or circumstances of his being put to Death and Suffering is more extensive to all he underwent inwardly as well as outwardly Now whereas one T. M. maintains the value vertue and dignity of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Personal Sufferings in his own Person without us in opposition to the Quakers contempt thereof and setting up something done in their Persons as is afore shewn G. F. opposes him as he does J. B. and says page 131. All be in the Fancy who be out of the state of witnessing Christ that Suffered within them and Rose again Observe the two words that Suffered be in the parenthesis but in case them two words had not been to put but been without them Parenthesis these now Foxonian Quakers say Now who would have concluded any otherwise but that G. F. undervaluing the Sufferings of Christ without the Gates of Jerusalem had published that his Sufferings were within Man only But now take it with the Parenthesis this alters the case Well then if it be so here the words that 's Crucified needed as much the Parenthesis about them as the words that Suffered because Crucified has more relation to his outward Dying than Suffered and it 's twice in this 206 Page Christ that 's Crucified within He that was Crucified within and in neither of these two Sentences not so much as a Comma to separate them two words that 's Crucified from the afore nor following words within Therefore
by the Devil but sure it was a worse Spirit instigated you to print and recommend that wicked Defamation of the Protestant Bible and Ministers then that G. W. could say his brought a great reproach on Friends but this wicked action of yours are far greater reproach to the English Protestants and more justly to be condemn'd but you knew who you pleased and that you had them great in Power to stand by and gratifie and incourage you in defaming the Protestant Ministers so that it was not then your Interest and therefore might and did say you were not concerned no not to vindicate but to defame the Protestants and although in your last years Foxonian Conclave in White-hart-court in your Laws then made you use not the same Terms because you have been detected as Tythes and Church Rates c. but do in more squinting quibbling terms that your Design and Presumption may not be so easily seen impose the same things saying we recommend unto you the holding up the Holy Testimony of Truth and that in all the parts of it for Truth is one and changes not and say they what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning it reproves still and so what it justified in the beginning i. e. the Actions in 1648. c. it justifies still for say they Truth i. e. the Foxonian Spirit is one and changes not hereby have they confirmed all their former Seditious Doctrines in Print as well against the King as against the Protestant Ministers nay all their contempts of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth's Person Blood and Sufferings therefore whatever seeming fair Confessions they may for to deceive the Government now make of owning the present Government as consisting of King House of Lords and Bishops and Church of England as now Established and the Scriptures and Christ yet they have hereby i. e. their Meetings Injunction not only owned but also in as plain Terms as they durst commanded their Subjects to hold them up and in order thereto it is that they do so defend their old Blasphemies and Seditious Printed Ancient Testimonies of their Idol of Jealousie Fox c. whilst they pretend to believe and own the contrary And although this Tryal hath been long wrot yet had not been now published but that they instead of disowning these erronious Ancient Testimonies as they ought if they were True Protestants they cover and excuse them and pretend they are such quiet innocent ones in the Land and therefore that People may not be deceived by their good words but may see them as they are envious Slanderers and Persecutors of the Protestant Ministers is this now published also because these Foxonian Rabshakes are so shameless as to challenge it as out-doing the Devil their own Foxonian Spirit because after it was proved is said in discovery inlarged c. I find their Books stuft with such base Insinuations and Defamations of almost all People that the chief drift of them seems to be to render the New Testament and the true Faith in our Lord Jesus and the Ministers and Professors thereof Infamous and worse than the Papists and are so bold as to advise and direct to the taking away and destroying Property Now I say he the Devil hath out-done it in and by themselves as in pages 10.11.31.32.34 to 38. of that Discovery and also more fully proved in the Sn. in the Grass c. and Satan disrobed c. and by George Keith in several Books printed by him Also in one Sheet titled an Essay to allay G. Foxes Spirit which may be Printed at large containing about Twelve Sheets but in this Citation they are Guilty of that they so defame T.C. for for they leave out these Words and Defamations whereby they not only wrong the Citation but the Sense also and your own Consciences cannot but know unless they be seared that its true although you are so proud you will not hear I have forborn naming some Persons and Books in respect to some concerned and although the Citations be short yet they are true and in your own Printed expressions I say if you think these things too hard with the Light of Christ search your selves and see if it be not the reward of your own hands and if you say wherefore am I made publick it s your own answer thou Foxonian Spirit hast committed thy lewdness before the Sun therefore openly art thou reproved who hast sinned openly also again you say in Print must not Jealousie be stirr'd up in the Powers of the Earth against them i. e. Professors as they have again others And although I am sensible your influence and interest is so considerable that I know not how soon I may feel the tender love of your Spirit as W. Bradford did yet I am not afraid nor discouraged from discovering you for all your Policy that who or what ever Interest govern you are sure to be of the rising side for you have some great among you of all sides and also I know and have proved that the Foxonian Rabshakes are not Children in Malice but Men yea strong and old Men in Malice and Contempt of the Scriptures and Protestant Ministers and do more justly deserve to be taken notice of by the Magistrate than the poor Country Justice did for using an cetera in his Warrant for Commitment of Fox or then G. Keith and W. Bradford did and seeing you term others Rabshakes let the Reader judge whether that name belongs not to you Foxonians Whitehead c. who gave these and many more names to Mr. Pennyman to defame him viz. you called him grinning Dog barking Cur the Devils Agent the Devils Porter the Devils Drudge-Vassel of Hell setting open Hell Gates Bond-slave of Hell cursed for ever cursed Serpent c. Unclean nasty Spirit c. although one of the cleanliest neatest Men in London but to prove the Foxonian Spirit is a nasty one observe as follows their nasty words as I find them in Print by one J. Wiggam who had some controversie with them they writ this to him this hath caused thee to spew out on a Paper for the Dogs to lick up they take so much of thy filthy spewing it causes them to vomit thou purges upward and downward thou needs one to wipe thee thou mak'st a pitiful stink through thy vomiting and purging thou besmears every one that comes nigh thee one may follow thee by the smell wilt not give over vomiting thou stinks all the Country over like a Man with a scall'd Head and Horse with a gall'd Back making People Vomit and Spew that they make such a stink thou may'st be asham'd with thy filthy spewing if thou wert not Impudent also Margaret Foxes Wife wrot thus to him thou hast committed Sacrilege which will never be forgiven thee thou art accursed and no other Portion canst thou have thou Infidel Child of Darkness the Curse Christ hath pronounced on thee thou art the Man thou Impudent
they had not thought it advantagious to them to defame the Protestant Ministers and to get in favour with the Popish Interest And to this and other their wicked envious Works and Books their own Words are a fitting and sufficient enough Answer I dare defie the Father of Lyes himself to out-do this Rabshekah pag. 70. It concerns all Protestants Ministers and People to pray to God and use all lawful means that they these fierce Despisers Foxonian Quakers get not into Power here as they have done in Pensilvania and as they in Print say Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord against the mighty Foxonians But as they say Give the Whore double as she hath done so let it be done unto her And whereas they say they differ in the Root from all People nay you agree with your Sister Rome to defame and destroy the Protestant Ministers And if as you say in Print The Parliament have Recognized you for Protestants they have not as it were Unprotestanted the Protestant Ministers But I believe the Parliament knew not but were deceived by your false Pretences as Joshua and the Elders of Israel were by the Gibeonites of your Printed Contempts of our Lord Jesus and the Scriptures Laws Kings Lords and Protestant Ministers especially And it 's worthy Consideration whether or no if that they have so Recognized these Foxonians as Protestants whether then all their Errors and Wickednesses may not be charged on the English Protestants in general and they answerable to any Foreign Adversary Papist Jew or Pagan for them and also induce Strangers to believe all their Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to be true and they the Ministers to be such false Prophets and Antichrists and Sorcerers c. as these Quakers have in Print published them to the World more especially when Acts of singular Kindness are passed in their Favour without their disowning these their Ancient Seditious Testimonies as to exempt them from the Law that all other the Commons of England are bound to and a kind of Peerage granted them above all others and either these Quakers contemptuous and defaming Doctrines must be condemned or all the Protestant Ministers and People stand on Record as such Devils Sorcerers and Antichrists as they have Printed them not only in Thousands of Seditious small Libels but in great Volumes with high Commendations on them and the Authors affixed to them by G. Whitehead c. who is the Common Voucher for them More than a Prophet endued with the Almighty Power of God which reigned in him Worthy Prophet of God See more of these blasphemous Expressions of and to Fox in the Snake in the Grass c. and a blasphemous Letter written to Fox by a Foxonian Preacher as in T. C.'s Discovery c. Now what tends all this to but to gain their Contempts Credit or Preference with or before the Scripture Terming the Doctrine of the Church of England Doctrine of Devils Damnable Heresies a meer Cheat c. And the Minister a Teacher of Lasciviousness Now judge you Protestants whether it were not better that W. Penn and G. Whitehead and some few more of the Chief of the Foxonian Chief Priests come under the blame or shame of being mislead by Fox and they condemn or disown those Printed Errors of theirs or else to gratifie the Pride and Malice of Ten of them for I think there is not more of them fierce Despisers now living to have all this Infamy and Contempt of theirs in Print of the Protestant Religion and Ministers so convey'd to Posterity as Divine Oracles for there can no dammage come to the People Quakers in general or to these Persons nor no more desired of them than that they publish something to clear the Protestants in general as they required of G. K. and Excommunicated him because he did it not from their Calumnies and as them Twenty-four afore-mentioned did against the Christian Quakers Answer to F. Bugg and else these Foxonians more justly deserve to be Excommunicated from the Protestants than G. K. did from them What! Shall they have such Power and Zeal for Errors and is there none in Power that have as much Zeal for the Protestant Religion and Ministers And these Foxonians of all People ought not to refuse to condemn their Errors because they exact the same from others for faults much less criminal But let them but observe their own Doctrine to 21 Divines it 's I fear true on themselves say they Your credit is a temptation to you sacrifice it for the sake of your own and others Souls upon the Altar of self-denial think not repentance a Work too mean for you because you have been so long Preachers to others a just rebuke p. 32. Mind this I pray you Foxonians especially W. P. the Author and it will be an aggravation of your guilt in case you practice not what you Preach to others and a farther proof of the truth of my charge against you Therefore be not high minded but take your own advise G. W. be ingenious and confess thy Error I advise thee not to out-face thy own Conscience And this Spirit of Fox's which now influences G. Whitehead c. is the same as was in Corah c. For as then they oppos'd and resisted Moses so doth this Foxonian Spirit in these Quakers condemn our Spiritual Moses the Lord Jesus of Nazareth But this proud Foxonian Spirit thro' his Instrument Fox says he is Christ the Eternal Judge of the World the Son of God and as a Father in Christ say they of Fox he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him Overseer and endued him with an excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding one of the Lords Worthies And many more such Blasphemous Titles have these Foxonian Quakers given to their Idol of Jealousie Fox in their Journal Printed in Folio and preserved in the Library at Oxford to spread his Fame to the Defamation and great Scandal of the many Generations of Protestants Martyrs and Ministers And notwistanding they so Blasphemously exalt him he was either very wicked or else such a Blockhead that he understood not common Sense for five Ministers wrot a Book detecting these Quakers Errors Intituled The Perfect Pharisee charging them with 17 Errors this was answer'd by Fox in his great Mystery p. 74. but he as was usual with him slips the material things and quarrels with some expressions more insignificant They published another Book Titled A farther Discovery of the Quakers c. in vindication of the truth of their Charge on the Quakers Now of the 17 Errors they charge these Quakers with the third is in both their Books that the Quakers hold that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence this is rehearsed in their 5 th p. where they begin to recite all the 17 Errors of the Quakers afterwards they state these 17 Errors and prove and then confute them
Now this 3 d. altho it be recited in their 5 th pag. yet it 's again mentioned in p. 31. Now Fox pretends to answer this Book of the 5 Ministers in his 227. page and in his beginning says of them and their Book thus In it are their Principles as follows and next begins and for Principle puts generally Pr. and says thus Pr. First that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence giving it as the 5 Ministers Words and Principle and so make a long squinting Answer and out of all the 30 pages pickt out about six lines of the whole and quarrels with but when he comes to p. 31. where the five Ministers again recite the same former Error of the Quakers then in his page 229. he gives it as their Principle It is Blasphemy to say the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence Here he truly states their Principle altho' not their Words but in his long side-long squinting Answer says to them You five have judged your selves to be Blasphemers who said the Soul was part of the Divine Essence and yet 't is Blasphemy to say so Thus you see this silly Goose of a Fox here confirms his afore Chargeing the five Ministers that they said The Soul was a part of the Divine Essence whenas they never so said only recited the Quakers Words and Error Just as if one hearing a Person speak Treason and being called to witness it and rehearsing the Words the Witness who only rehearses what he heard should therefore be charged with the Treason for this Goose Fox doth not only in p. 227. give it as their Principle but in his 229 page where he owns they term it Blasphemy he also confirms it that they said The Soul was a part of the Divine Essence whenas they only recite it But it 's to be feared Fox was not so much ignorant as wicked in this because he makes his Advantage to render the five Ministers as contradicting themselves But take it in the best sence that Fox was so silly a Goose as to understand no better but to take what they recite as to be their own Principle as he here did at best Another Instance of Fox's Weakness or Wickedness is in their Books Great Mystery page 247. Fox falsly says of C. W. He saith God limits the Supream holy One by the inspired Writings of the Apostles c. And in Answer Fox says And the holy One is not limited by the Words of the Apostles who fulfils them c. Now by Fox's Answer and his saying He saith c. it 's evident he gives this his Forgery as his Opponents Words and any one who reads it would so think but they are not but are one of Fox's many Forgeries For C. W.'s Words be thus pag. 13. Your Quakers Diabolical Spirit in you he over-powers you Quakers to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving Teachings and as he i. e. the Diabolical Spirit thereby i. e. by perswading them to slight Scripture limits the Supream holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one Dispensation of Gods Mind to Men Here it is evident that C. W.'s Word is HE and relates to the Diabolical Spirit which this wicked Fox forges into GOD and what W. C. says the Diabolical Spirit does Fox says he C. W. says God does besides the Forgery hereby it 's proved that it 's the Diabolical Spirit which Fox takes for God or Christs Spirit as also his Forgery proves This is mention'd in my Essay to allay G. Fox's Spirit p. 7 8. with about Twenty more Instances of Fox's wicked Forgeries and Perversions But they have a Cover for Fox's Wickedness and Ignorance in W. Penn's Epistle in recommendation of him and his Journal that it proceeds from one side of his Understanding which was towards the World c. which they there acknowledge was somewhat dark or weak but such Quibbles shew that the Inventers were not so weak as wicked and that his i.e. Fox's Judgment was not quite round Infallible but had a Fallible Side But I say This proves these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn c. very false Witnesses so blasphemously to exalt such a wicked Man or Spirit as Fox and his were and they W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. are Masters of so much Sence that it may justly be feared they have in this exalting and vindicating this wicked Fox sinned against their own knowledge and they may be reminded of their own Counsel Do not go about to out-face thy own Conscience but confess thy Fault for you have too highly exalted him and he hath exalted himself and must be abased All this proves their now Foxonian Cardinals Penn Whitehead c. to be as bad as he I do not mean as silly but as wicked and false to say as they have in Print God hath endued him with such an Excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding But be it known W. Penn understands his own Worldly Interest better than Fox did Divinity But say the Foxonians of this miserable blasphemous vagrant cobling Wretch Fox This holy Man was raised up by God in an extraordinary manner for an extraordinary Work So was Pharaoh and other wicked Instruments But I have here proved them false Witnesses therefore shall not go unpunished but who say unto the Wicked Fox thou art Righteous are to be Cursed But altho' these Foxonian Quakers so deifie and exalt this wicked Spirit of Haman in their Idol of Jealousie Fox yet they can contemn and undervalue the Person of our Lord JESUS and his Blood as mean and contemptible and say Doth not the Name Christ belong to every Member as well as to the Head Your imagined God beyond the Stars and your carnal Christ is utterly denied by the Light To say this Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye and the Blood let out of his Side by the Spear on the Cross after he was dead was no more than the Blood of another Saint They are false Ministers that preach Christ without c. Hereby they make St. Peter a false Minister And of our Lords Person say they It was Mean and Contemptible And hundreds more such horrid Contempts have they Printed which are excused and justified by the now Foxonian Quakers and the wicked Authors not only vindicated but their wicked Works highly magnified by W. P. and G. W. And altho' these now Foxonians to gratifie some then in great Power at Court left out and altered their Treasonable Ancient Testimonies yet their Contempts of the Protestants especially the Ministers they have not abated but rather aggravated especially W. Penn. And for further proof that this Foxonian Spirit is not Christ's I shall give you one instance of the arrogancy thereof in G. Whitehead in a brief Treatise c. says he Magistrates that uphold such blind Guides as this R. Baxter a Protestant Minister who is in such Errors and Confusion they grosly abuse their Power
other settled Maintenance of Godly Ministers they opposed that also In the year 1659 say they to the Committee of Safety If you should take them Tythes away and settle anything by way of Compulsion on the People for any Ministry you leave us in Bondage and we must declare against that as against Tythes and we cannot pay that nor the other c. And after the Nonconformists that were turned out of Places had Meetings and their Hearers gathered by Collection what the People freely gave G. Whitehead enviously informs against them saying of them Who being dismounted from their Parochial Bishopricks c. are now for the Ratling of their Platters which have been very beneficial to many Have their Platters rattle more secretly c. The Nature of Christianity pag. 5. That the Protestant Ministers live torments these Quakers being they have blasphemously prophesied their begging and Starving And say they If the King c. Repeal the Law inforcing Tythes and convert them into some necessary Civil Use it would appear whether we should not pay our parts and whether the Royal Exchequer would not be conveniently supplied without the Tenth from the Priests page 50. of The Quakers Case c. In this case G. Whitehead's Spirit looks more like Haman's than Christ's as in Esther 3. it 's said If it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay Ten Thousand Talents of Silver into the hands of those that have the Charge of the Business to be brought into the Kings Treasuries And in the Epistle before E. B.'s Works To all the World they say their difference was not only with some Sects or Persons but say they with all Sects in these Nations Priests and Professors and have just cause to deny their whole Religion And say to the Ministers In the Name of the Lord you are contrary to them i e. the Apostles in all your Doctrines in all your Ways and Practices and say they Our Spirits were fill'd with Indignation against the Priests and with and against them we began War and against them as the Fountain of all Wickedness and as being the Issue of Profaneness from them hath Profaneness gone forth in all Nations Deceivers Antichrists this was our first Work to thrash down Deceivers the Protestant Ministers false Idle Shepherds Wo wo unto these Shepherds saith the Lord God Fox they shall be confounded they shall be broken down and never builded any more the Lord will pluck them up by the Roots and they shall never again be planted Their whole Ministry hath a dependance on Popery All savours of Popery Their whole Religion in all parts thereof degenerated c. You see it 's the whole and every Part that they are against of the Protestant Ministers and Reliligion in these three Nations and in page 1. they say It 's from the Lord and they term the Ministers A cursed deceitful Ministry And in page 88. to prove the Protestant Ministers false Prophets charge them that they speak what they have studied for then surely they would have condemned Timothy for obeying Paul who bid him study c. Even say they a Divination of their own Brain Take other Mens Words See the Snake in the Grass first Part p. 316. where the Quakers are proved to have done the same Nor have heard the Voice of God but take Chapter and Verse But surely then Fox was a very false Prophet for he took others words altho' durst not or could not tell Chapter and Verse because he usually corrupted it by adding or diminishing as he pleased And in obedience to their Law or Act made by their Conclave of Cardinals to hold up their Holy and Ancient Testimony of Truth in the beginning and that in all the parts of it c. Now this afore against taking or reading Chapter or Verse being a part of what their Truth taught them in the Beginning being since by Re-printing also further confirmed may be some cause that they are so offended with G. Keith for or because he has a Bible before him and sometimes reads some Scripture-Text therein And I hear W. Penn did in their Publick Meeting in his Preachment reflect on it saying Christ did not preach out of a Book or to that effect But he might more truly have said Christ nor his Apostles did not preach in or with Periwigs as he c. does And altho' he c. be so offended at G. Keith's reading in the Bible and term it Preaching yet he may read in the 4th of Luke and 16th That as his Custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath Day and stood up to read and there was delivered unto him the Book of Esaias and when he had opened the Book he found the Place where it was written c. Surely he had less need of the Book or opening it than W. P. or his Master Fox either yet he did it altho' these Quakers not only do not follow his Example therein but are offended and revile others for so doing as here shewn but perhaps this Infallible Fallible Spirit of Fox's in W. Penn was as ignorant of this Scripture as he was of the place where our Lord was born But their preferring Fox's Journal or Work before the Bible appears by their fixing it i. e. Fox's Journal in their Publick Meeting and not only W. Penn but several others of them have shewed dislike to G. K.'s using the Bible at Turners-Hall Again Pag. 10. Say they All thy Teachers O England are denied by them who are taught of God O People your Teachers have beguiled you Your Reward will be Vengeance and your Charge will be Murthering Souls The most innocent among you will be found guilty of Innocent Blood G. W. can you be so ingenuous as to exempt Dr. Stillingfleet from these your Scandals And page 101. which they say was sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God to the Priests and Teachers Thus saith the Lord Fox My Controversie is against you of all others and my Judgments shall be on you to the uttermost for you in Hypocrisie c. have exceeded all others Abominably loathsome is your filthiness in preaching for hire c. They go on against the Ministers saying They had made Merchandise of their Peoples Souls Prophaneness is gone forth from you into all Corners of the Earth c. Again You have shut the Kingdom of Heaven against Men to the destruction of Thousands and Ten Thousands And your Prayers have been to your Idol God for all sorts from whom you could receive a Reward Original the Womb of Witchcraft You pray to your dead Gods Deceiving Thousands Whose Blood you are absolutely guilty of Your Rebellion is the Crime of Witchcraft which cannot cease to do Evil for you have bound your selves in the Covenant with Hell My Cup of Indignation is the assured Portion of your Lot and Blood shall you have to drink as your Reward from me My Plagues
verses of the 10 th Chapter of the Romans altho' they thousands of times use the foregoing words yet I remember not that ever I heard them mentioned in any Quakers Meeting before G. Keith did since his last coming into England nor in any of their Books nor remembred I that there was such Expressions in Scripture so Ear-boar'd as other be was I to them Let them produce these aforementioned Scriptures used by S. C. or any of their printed Sermons or Books as to the intended service of them in Scripture I will undertake to produce a hundred if not a thousand times for one of their using them other Let this be the touch-stone and for their undervaluing Scripture I can give hundreds of more contempts of theirs These their contempts of our Lord's Person Blood and Sufferings and exalting their own These Foxonian Quakers will not disown but underhand have approved and confirmed them and enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and hold them up for these be their Ancient Testimonies that their Truth taught them in the beginning and they say it changes not so it seems by their so justifying and excusing those Blasphemous fierce Despisers the Authors and their wicked Works But for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is an evil one appears in the case of J. Gilpin who relates how he was deluded to Blaspheme c. And after it pleased God he was sensible and acknowledg'd his Delusion by neglect of Hearing Reading and Prayer c. and harken only to a Voice within me says J. Gilpin because what was spoken by it was seconded by lying Wonders c. This Voice he says led him to a Fidlers Door where he knocked and sald Behold Christ stands at the door and knocks J. Audland a Foxonian Preacher who wrot the blasphemous Letter to G. Fex followed him and he says as he went he was moved to proclaim I am the Way the Truth and the Life Again he says my Hand was carried to take up a Knife and carried with it towards my Throat and the Voice said unto me open a hole there and I will give unto thee the Words of Eternal Life Many more prodigious Actions he did by the power of the Voice or Spirit within him and he says many Quakers came to him and bid him harken to the Voice within Now Fox Answers this Book in Great Mystery and in citing them words of Gilpins aforementioned that he confesses his Error by harkening only to a Voice within me says he Now G. Fox in page 298. terms this wicked deluding Spirit or Voice The Voice of God within he saith says Fox he began to consider how he had offended God by his neglect of external means Prayer c. and harken to the Voice of God only within Hereby it 's apparent what Spirit or Voice influenced him Fox even the same wicked one that led Gilpin for he Fox terms that the Voice of God and so proves himself to be one of them who was given over to Delusion to believe a lye and as he Fox so his Followers Whitehead c. are by the same Spirit guided to vindicate and excuse him Also in Cumberland two Women Quakers and Preachers charged their own Sister and her Husband to have murdered and buried their own Child and caused the Man and his Wife to be tryed at an Assizes for it many wicked blasphemous passages there was in the whole Tragedy too long to relate here in the printed Narrative by the Man himself Henry Winder Entituled The Spirit of Quakerism c. worth reading This most murderous and blasphemous Spirit thro' these two Women's Preaching Quakers affirmed this was A message from the Lord by the Revelation of Jesus Christ The whole Tragedy is most Blasphemous and when made publick not disown'd but rather incourag'd by the Quakers in general so fat as I can see by the Narrative and it 's this same wicked Spirit which so defame the Protestant Ministers and which Penn balsphemously calls the Holy Spirit But from these few sad Instances it 's apparent that the Quakers when they mention Jesus Christ do not mean that Man or Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth but a Spirit or Light in them and all Men as their terms of distinction shew They make Jesus Christ to be a Denomination or Title which they give to any Spirit they please as the King doth Titles of Honour Whereas in your Book Rabshekah c. you boast of your Principles as for you as Hearers in charity we may believe you but if you like not these seditious and erronious Ancient Testimonies in Print of your chief Priest why do not you publish against them as against D. S. Until you do so you are chargeable therewith But if you mean by your Principles Fox c. their Ancient Testimonies you are very shameless For that of Fox's in ordering Lords of Mannors Property to be taken away c. But whenever that is put in Execution I advise to begin with his Successor W. Penn's c. and see how they like it for what Right have you to Fines or Quit-Rents more than Lords have here or the several under Propriators of Tythes If you have the Kings Patents or Grants so have they or what 's as equivalent being confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliament more than yours and by them who had as much Original Right as them from whom yours was granted But the Protestant Ministers are as great an Eye-sore to your chief Priests as the Jews were to Haman But why may not they enjoy what is granted and given to them as well as any of you For W. Penn works no more for his Fines or Quit-Rents than many of them do nor so much neither I think But if you say It 's the Compelling you oppose that 's false For as in the Snake in the Grass appears you oppose any freely paying as is manifest by your opposing W. R. As also Unchristian all who pay Tythes as Deniers of Christ and Antichrists so that you are not for Liberty of Conscience but for inforcing of Fox's Laws above the Laws of the Nation as is evident in your so charging and reviling T. C. as a Transgressor But whoever takes House or Lands Tytheable does or may know before-hand it 's under such Duties And whereas your last yearly Paper says Truth is the same and changes not in 1660. you told King Charles you deny'd all outward Fighting for any End or Pretence whatsoever Now either your chief Priests Fox and E. B. c. were of this mind in O. C.'s c. times or else changed Now if not changed but always of the same mind then they G. F. c. failed to complain of some being put out of the Army What should they do there they ought to have voluntarily quitted it Also G. F c. did fail so to encourage Oliver as is before shewn Therefore either they were and be Changed since O. C's time or were Hypocrites if
I think seeing there is neither Comma nor Parenthesis to separate them words that's Crucified from the afore going and the following word within as is in page 131. I may conclude that G. Fox undervalues the Crucifying of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth without and publish that his i. e. Christ Crucifying was within Man only Thus by their own Judgment Fox is guilty of undervaluing the Crucifying of our Lord Jesus which I think amounts to as much as contemning them Therefore they have made him guilty of my Charge And altho' he Fox's Answers here and elsewhere be so squinting and two-fac'd that it 's difficult to prove any Charge against him in plain and clear express words of his but by what he opposes but herein not only his contempts of our Lord Jesus but his wicked Forgery is manifest and my Charge proved And by these and a few more proofs I have given in my Essay to allay G. Fox's Spirit and my Discovery c. inlarged These Quakers Errors and wicked Forgeries are fully prov'd but I hope I shall publish these and many more others But whereas Fox by His Forgery falsly represents this good Christian J. Bunyan as being against Christ's being within his People to prove that false and that as I aforesaid he does not oppose it but own it He says in the same Book The cause of Believers Hope is this Christ or the Spirit of Christ in them Again says he Some looking only on what Christ hath done and suffered without them resting in an Historical Faith of it without looking for the Spirit of Jesus to come into their Hearts without which they cannot rightly believe in Christ without them This proves these Quakers had no cause to oppose him on that score but his discovering their Errors and bearing witness to and for our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as being God's Christ did torment the wicked Spirit in Fox c. And through them cast out Floods of Forgery and false Accusation against him as in E. B.'s Works page 139. say they Thus much is the mind of the Pen-man's Spirit secretly smiting at the Doctrine of the true Faith Christ within and directing altogether without and afar off But what 's afore cited of J. B.'s proves these Quakers wicked Slanderers This may serve for Answer to their Book Entituled An Antidote c. A pretended Answer to The Snake in the Grass c. But that worthy Author hath in that Book and his Satan Disrob'd c. drove them out of their lurking holes only one i. e. Their Errors are so gross that it 's a shame to confute them Now H. Goldny W. Sanders c. do not call me Impudent Fellow as you did J. Pennyman on full Change without his speaking ever a word to you nor be not so envious against me as you were against the Christian Quaker D. S. for his Answer to F. B. on your behalf For in your Book Rabshekah c. I have leave to Print But if this envious Foxonian Spirit should be so powerful in you as it was in your Pope Penn and Cardinal Whitehead against G. K. and you should as they were be transported with Malice and declare me an Apostate in the Name of the Lord and curse me and blasphemously put to it Thus saith the Lord as they did yet I trust Christ without me will save me from your rage that you will not be suffered to serve me as Mr. Young the Minister lately was serv'd and that not by Thieves but some envious one like you and I hear he was threatened by one of your Foxonians and it s doubted was accordingly procured to be done to him Therefore if any such mischief befal me I am satisfied it will be by some of your procuring who walk in the steps of your Elder Sister Rome in many things and so may in this to procure them who discover your wickedness to be served as Justice Arnold was formerly But otherways let all your Foxonian Priests and Men of War in the Dragon Fox's Army Penn and Whitehead c. curse me and cry aloud to your God that wicked envious Foxonian Spirit from Morning unto Evening against me as your Fore-Fathers did I fear you not for my Trust is in my Lord Jesus of Nazareth without me whom you Foxonians have blasphemously contemned and under-valued yet I know the vile Person will speak Villany and his Heart will work Iniquity to practice Hypocrisie and to utter Error against the Lord but the great Corruption of Priests i. e. Foxonians is cause sufficient to separate from them This is their own Doctrine therefore all who be honest-minded Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked Men W. P. and G. W. c. your Chief Priests lest you be consumed in their Sins Postscript I Think it 's not unnecessary to give you some Passages out of the Copy of a Letter I have by me which was wrot about two years since SIR I Am glad to find some of our Clergy concerned in the Controversie with the Quakers considering the high Concernment it is of it being about the Foundation of the Christian Religion and as it 's the peculiar Duty of the Pastors to earnestly contend for the Faith And as I hear Mr Bugg who hath so eminently expos'd himself to their Fury is become a Member of our Church and thereby hath put himself under her Protection and she ought to take care of him And altho' the Quakers defame him with many reproachful Characters but do not as I find prove any matter of evil Fact against him or Heretical Principle but because he detects their Errors yet they brand him with the infamous Name of Apostate c. whereby I think they not only defame him but scandalize our Church and it affects not him only but all the Members thereof and the disadvantage thereby is not only the scandal but the hinderance it must be to deter others who may be willing to return to the True Faith and Church also Therefore I think if some Eminent and Powerful appeared in his behalf not espousing any miscarriage in his Management if any such be it would be a Check to their Insolency and encourage his Discovery For in their Answer to the Queries they do not give Dr. Lancaster those foul terms as formerly they had done to Men of his Character on such Occasions which I cannot ascribe to any change in their Judgment or Spirit but their Tongues are ty'd by their Interest they know with whom they have to do I take the boldness to impart my thoughts of the Reasonableness and advantage it may be for some Eminent in our Church to concern themselves against the Heresies and Scandals of these Quakers besides what I have above hinted 1. They i. e. the Quakers are as they say in their Book Intituled Innocency Triumphant Printed 1693. page 30. By Divine Providence Recognized by the Government as Protestants so that the Protestants of England are
Lyar night Owl wicked Lyar and as I can find the cause of all this nasty and rabshake Language from them was because he disputed against them about the Light in every Man and published something about it now if you can shew me such nasty Words from J. P. and he to have been the Devils Porter to spread fetch or forge false Intelligence from the Pit of Damnation and the Papists in Defamation of the Protestant Religion and Ministers as I have produced of yours then I grant his Spirit as nasty and as much rabshake as yours but in case it be so that will not clear your Spirit from being a nasty and rabshake one but if you cannot smell this your Foxonian Spirit to be a nasty one you have lost your senses else you may follow this nasty Foxonian Spirit by the smell and herein your Chief Priests be proved to be the Devils Porters and which they wrongfully charge on others without proof and this your matchless Pride and Insolency in accusing the Protestant Ministers to the King for being for Ol. Crom. when you were more guilty caused J. P. to write out the Quakers Unmask'd c. and send to you privately to make you sensible of your Error but your Pride cannot bear reproof but threatned him F. B. and T. C. for mentioning it but it s now in Print but I think that which encouraged you so to defame the Protestant Ministers was because you was as sure of encouragement and countenance if not reward in that Work from some then great in power as your Fathers Fox c. formerly they having many of the chief in the then Army who countenanced them then as W. Penn c. lately And I say in case you do not as publickly testifie against these Wickednesses of your Chief Priests as you did against the Christian Quaker D. S. then all you Foxonian Quakers are chargeable as guilty of them and your pretended counterfeit new Confessions ought no more to be believed or clear you than a Thief when he is convict of Theft his saying he really believes the Ten Commandments may clear him but the Foxonians falsly accusing the Protestant Ministers and endeavouring to render them odious prove its true as they themselves say that Runnagadoes are the violentest Enemies against them they have deserted for none are more implacable Enemies to the Protestants than Fox Whitehead c. who once professed the same this their own Doctrine is proved true in them Foxonian Chief Priests G. W. c. For I think if all Algier were searched that of all the Runnagadoes that have been there this Hundred Years there cannot be found so many Defamations and Contemptious Expressions in Print of the Person of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Blood shed on the Cross as there is of these Foxonian Quakers in their Printed Books in London its pity that this Protestant City should be the only Garden of the World to breed and nourish such Plants and send or sell the Seed of such degenerated Plants of a strange Vine what must London out-do Algier in defaming the Christian Religion especially the English Protestant Ministers to encourage loose Atheistical Persons in the same Work for reprinting these their wicked Works with such high commendations on the Authors affixed before them tends to the Destruction of the Protestant Religion as the Gun-Powder-Treason did and the chief Actors therein no more deserve commendations than them and these Quakers have approved of those wicked Actions in their Ancient Printed Testimonies now under-hand injoyn'd their Subjects to hold them up for these of theirs were from the Spirit of Truth or the Spirit of Error if from the Spirit of Error its needful they testifie against them as publickly as they did against the Christian Quaker D. S. for owning Fox and Whitehead Guilty therefore in case they do not disown them its Evidence they do own them as the Testimony of Truth and so are confirmed and injoyn'd by their 1696. White-hart-court Conclave to be maintained and held up as some part of the Testimony of Truth Now consider you Quakers who be honest minded although deceived by your Priests G. W. c. who are so wicked as to accuse this Man as endeavouring to have them destroyed nay crucified too because he justly and truly complaining the Protestant Religion was in danger by them to be rooted out and yet they in the same Pamphlet are so wicked so early as in 1660. to accuse the Ministers in general as dangerous to the King and for being against him and for the former Governments although they themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree for says they to the King Friends then called Cavaleers you are become cursed in all your endeavours the purpose of your hearts have been known to be always against Truth it self and though your Kings c. have been cut off in wrath and says except you repent of endeavouring to re-establish the King and that Government you and your Kings c. and lordlly Power by which you have thought to exercise Lordship over my Heritage shall be inslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness where he i. e. the Devil shall Reign your King and Lord for evermore this they say was from the Lord and sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God Yet these Forgers the Foxonians could leave the whole Message out and great part of these Citations again says E. B. to O. C. of the King's Friends I know the Lord hath cursed them and what thou hast done unto them and their King should not be reckoned against thee by the Lord if now thou wert faithful c. i. e. take away the Ministers and their Maintenance for that was one of the sins they counted O. C. c. then guilty of for say they to O. C's Council the same false Prophets Protestant Ministers you establish by a Law which deceive the Nations again says the same E. B. to the Parliament and that in 1659. but about 6 Months before the Restoration while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditary and by the Succession of Birth as hath been the custom in our Forefathers days that knew no better whereby the Inhabitants have been always suffering and liable to great Oppressions being under such a Government falling from Parents to Children after the manner of the Heathen Nations again p. 3. the Lord hath begun to appear and shewed us the bondage our Forefathers lived in and we our selves been subject too by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively now our Eyes are opened to behold better things and pag. 6. say to the Long Parliament it s on me to lay it before you even as the Contenders for England's Liberty whom the Lord honoured in the Beginning to remove Tyranny c. But this whole Libel and other Treasonable Ancient Testimonies of theirs is left
not more recommendations thereof than these Quakers have given of this but the same Principles is in their other Ancient Testimony in the beginning which they now injoyn their Subjects to hold up But judge Reader if these Foxonian Cardinals Whitehead c. were not very Shameless in that they durst thus maliciously accuse the Protestant Ministers to the King so soon as 1660. for being against his Father and for Oliver and them Governments when as themselves that is Foxonian Quakers were so highly guilty in the same Case and here I have proved their being out of Christ's Doctrine and so by their own Doctrine to be of the Devil for here afore you see how heinous a sin they make it even as Crucifying our Lord for saying the Protestant Religion was in danger to be rooted out by the Quakers here its plain they did not do as they would be done by for in the same Libel they inform against the Protestant Ministers as dangerous to the King these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. reflect on and endeavour to incense the King against the Men the Creatures they strike at them therefore their Spirit or Light which they blasphemously term Truth and the Spirit of God c. cannot be the same Spirit as Christ and the Apostles had by their own judgment now seeing it s not Christ's Spirit and they say there are but Two Spirits Gods and the Devils and themselves have judged it I have now proved them the Foxonian Chief Priests so Wicked and Malicious against the Protestant Ministers that they have informed against them to Oliver c. for being for the King and assoon as ever the King was restored they were so abominable shameless as to inform against them for being against him when themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree and were not content although they had Chr. Love's a Ministers Life but they accuse the Ministers in General as in pag. 12. it s said for the Parties this Case respects it runs through generally the whole Ministry of the Nation and in their Book Information to the Army c. pag. 7. say they when a company of greedy Priests came to tell you they had not engaged with G. Booth in the Rebellion but your real Friends Quakers who gave you and the Army intelligence about the Insurrection in Cheshire i. e. Sir G. Booths for the King were spoiled by the Rebels c. and in their Book the West to North pag. 102. say they these Innocent Servants of the Lord G. Fox Ed. Piot Many of them have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from first to last also p. 16. say they the Laws c. The defence of them we have in the late Wars vindicated in the Field with our Blood But this and many others they have left out in reprinting the Letter in G. Fox's Journal as may hereafter be more fully shown But in the mean time take this caution not to trust nor believe these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. in what they print or recommend to you as the works of their Fellows Fox c. or as other mens words they have so altered them in many places by leaving out and adding to forge them to their purpose Therefore you may judge what abominable falshoods they will impose on the World hereafter when those few now living who are able to detect them be dead but there is a Collection of as many as are found to be published that by that you may judge of the rest of their Works what grose Forgers they are and will be And seeing they say they are contrary in Principle and Doctrine to the Protestant Ministers and we cannot as they say own both but must deny one Therefore either all the Generations of Protestants in all Ages to the end of Time not only Ministers but Princes and all Estates and Degrees must be condemned as Antichrists and Apostates as these Foxonian Quakers have and do record them to posterity except one Thorpe c. or else these Foxonian Quakers Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies which their Truth at first taught them must be condemned and disowned Now whether is most reasonable that these few Foxonian Quakers most of them being dead except W. Penn and G. Whitehead come under the deserved blame of false Accusers and men influenc'd by a wrong Spirit and their Blasphemous and Seditious Testimonies publickly condemned or their infamous Contempts and Slanders be recommended to after Ages for Divine Revelations and the wicked Authors as the only Prophets of God in this Age. What can be their intent but that their Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies may be of as great or greater Authority than the Holy Scripture But as a further proof that they these Foxonian Quaker's Spirit is not Christ's the Apostles and all Protestants but an avowed Enemy to the Protestant Religion and Ministers in general They are not content with their own volumnious defamatious Slanders they have filled the World with by their printed Libels but to gratifie the Papist's interest which then was great and able to defend and reward them therefore they joyn with their elder Sister Rome and print in 1671 with their own in J. C.'s Works highly extolled by W. Penn and G. Whitehead Fox and his Wife A Papist scandalous Libel wherein they term the Protestant Bible Brazen-fac'd Book and villifie the beginning of the Reformation and give the Protestant Ministers the same Hellish Names as their own Books do and say to see such stand in a Pulpit with such a Brazen-fac'd Book as is their unjust Bible and term it corrupt and a perverse Book Such Brazen Faces had these Foxonians when the Papists interest was great Haman like improving their interest to destroy the Protestant Ministers because they would not bow to their blasphemous Spirit This shews what kind of Protestants they would have proved if what they then expected had taken effect even serving the Protestants as they had done all the former Governments from 1648. to 1660. own and encourage them while they prosper but when like to fall or gone then exclaim against them and would do by the Protestants as they have by the Dissenters Inform against them when it 's for their interest and tell the Papist their elder Sister how shall she ever without great danger to her self put confidence in such Hereticks as the English Protestants be And it 's not unlikely but that they printed at large this seditious Libel of the Papists against the Protestants and put it into their Works in such a remarkable Character as an earnest-penny that they may come in with their elder Sister Rome for a share when they see it for their interest to pull off their Masks Another proof I shall give that their Light or Spirit is not from Heaven above but more likely from the Pit of Damnation below for to Defame the Protestant Ministers in a Book Entituled A Serious
Warning c. they say could people hear the cry of Thousands out of the Pit of Damnation they would here others thus lament Presbyterians and Independants under the Notion of Gospel-ministers were the Men that seduced us hither This is say they the cry of Thousands of our dear Countrymen This was in 1675. for the Episcopal Clergy they had Damned them years before But this shews you are well acquainted in Hell but altho' I dare not pretend to be so conversant with Hell as you yet have cause to suspect that you forge false intelligence from thence for you who are so accustomed to abuse both living and dead may be thought to do the same here also and I rather think there is and will be more there so crying against your Idols of Jealousie Fox and Whitehead c. and that it's Fox's blasphemous lying Spirit as was in your brother Foxonian Priest Solomon Eccles that lying Prophet of yours that hath influenc'd you to invent and print this envious Slander against the Protestant Ministers to gratify your elder Sister Rome and this shews that you are hers if not the Devils as you charge Mr. Pennyman Factors Porters and Agents to promote spread and vend her Wares and that you agree and like well her contempt of the Protestant Bible and the Ministers and if all Rome and your own hellish Names be not enough you will to help out forge news from the Pit of Damnation also to help and altho' you seem to envy against your elder Sister Rome it 's for Preheminence because you must be exalted above all But you like well and take her part in defaming the Protestant Religion Bible and Minister nay you are so Brazen-fac'd as to inform against a Protestant Minister G. G. for as you say praying for Oliver's Army sent to high Spaniola thus Lord bless the Army of the Lamb against the Beast and give them success and you term him notorious lying Prophet possess'd with a Legion of lying Spirits and in the conclusion warn People against the Presbyterian and Independant Ministers in general as the Plague But why are you so angry I find it 's because they had subscribed to an Epistle wrote in recommendation of a Book of J. â—aldoes in discovery of your Errors But have not you here recommended this wicked Work J. C.'s Book wherein is this contempt on the Protestant Religion and Bible c. as a Brazen-fac'd false and perverse corrupt and unjust Book and the whole Generation of English Protestants For after many of your hellish characters of Witches c. given them there then say you if the Teachers be such what must the Protestants themselves be c. Your espousing and recommending this and your own Defamations are of much worse consequence to the Protestant Religion than theirs was to Quakerism or than W. Bradford's printing for G. K. whom you imprisoned and took away his Goods but in these afore instances you have proved your selves no Friends but Enemies to the Protestant Bible and Ministers And surely it 's high time for all Protestants to have a care of Rome at home i. e. the Foxonian Quakers for an Enemy within is much more dangerous than at a distance But let 's examine whether you Foxonian Quakers are not guilty of owning Oliver's Army as well as G. G. whom you so maliciously inform'd against or at least what may amount to as much There is enough afore quoted of yours against Hereditary Government c. and to O. C. say you in your Book good counsel c. several Soldiers have been turned out what should they do there if as you say you deny all outward Fightings with outward weapons for any end or pretence whatsoever compare this and others of yours before 1660. and your fallacious pretence to the King but you have a reserve in your last yearly White-hart-court Conclave you may by the Authority of that reassume these or the contrary which you please of your Ancient Testimonies again For indeed most of your flattering Addresses and pretended ownings of the King c. are as fallacious and squinting as your confessions of Faith for any one may make such a submission to a company of House-breakers when they have bound him and his Family or to any Pirates when by them at Sea overcome and taken there is something of God in it and in such fallacious general terms as they would have put of the Parliament with when their act about Swearing was in hand but the weakness of it was shewed them and they advised how to amend it which was done when they see their squinting one would not do And I find little in all their ownings of King Charles II. but if ever the 1648 cause should come in fashion but that they might reassume all their Ancient holy Testimonies against King Lords and Bishops in the beginning their terms are so loose and general they will serve for the Turk or Pope c. as appears by their using their squinting term Cesar in Queen Marys Life but to shew the Quakers owning Ol. C's power for which they inform against the Ministers say they to him He God gave thee the Necks of Princes to tread on and their Dominions to inherit and thou an Instrument in his hand was ordained mark that to lead forth a People whom he blessed with thee was not this the Army against a cruel People and Oppressors who exercised Tyranny until they were taken away the King and his Party and cast out and is a reproach unto the Lord and his People themselves unto this day Much more I could recite but this proves their owning Ol. Crom. Army as well as G. G. whom they term a lying Prophet possess'd with a Legion of lying Spirits but he was a Protestant Minister and they be all such with them But they may pretend it 's not for going against the Spaniards as G. G.'s was that we owned him Ol. Crom. but it was in his being against the King Lords and Bishops which you owned and encourag'd him in which was as bad but for your owning of Ol. Crom. against the Spaniards you say to him concerning the Armies and War in Spain there is something in it known to the Lord make no Covenant with Idolators And again say you concerning the Armies abroad is of great concernment to thee to stand or fall thro' them as to man's Account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it a true gipsy Prophet and whether he deserved a Prophet or a Gipsy's reward judge But how this agrees with their novel fallacious pretence 1660. aforementioned which Fox's Name is to and 11 more and yet this Fox encourag'd Oliver saying to him Friend thou should'st have invited all Christians that are against Popery to thee Again invite all that profess against the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee against him c. But these and much more they have left out in the reprint But it 's
i. e. these Quakers shall remain with you on Earth and shall follow you to the Lake My Fire of Indignation is kindled on you which shall burn for ever more All these Six Lines of their Fury is in the compass of one page of their 900 and of this their Reviling the Protestant Religion and Ministers his Vouchers Whitehead c. could not afford to abate any thing but as they say pour out full Cups of their Malice against the Ministers But out of the same Book which they say was writ by Command of the Lord the 31 day of the 10th Month 1655. unto all sorts of People yet these forging Foxonians have left out one whole Message to one sort of People called Cavaliers the Kings Friends p. 9. And in several places left out and altered and added Words and Sentences They proceed and say of the Ministers p. 190. Their Doctrines it 's not Doctrine are of the Devil They have filled the World with Damnable Heresies That Sprinkling Infants with Water is Baptism into the Faith of Christ and that the Steeple-house is the Church c. These are Damnable Heresies even to denying the Lord that bought them And say they this is the Doctrine of Devils And Lyes they speak in great numbers Page 195. These Teachers of this Generation are of them i. e. the Beast Whore and false Prophet of their Root and Off-spring c. Consider what God did to the Bishops and their Crew of Persecutors How the Lord overthew them P 261. You have been the Fountain of all this wickedness i. e. the Quakers Sufferings acted against the Just c. P. 162. Have been cursed Precedents to the Rulers and People who have followed your cruel steps of Envy And they have drunk in your Poysonous Doctrines not Doctrine Mens hearts have been filled with your Damnable Doctrine of Devils P. 269. The Time of your Overthrow draws near upon you all and despisable shall you be to all that fear the Lord. The Quakers Throats are open Sepulchres and not covered ones For say they Page 348. Their Worship and Ministry which stands not in exercise of pure Conscience but in Superstitious Idolatry His the Ministers Labour is abomination and deceiving of Souls And page 626. The Controversie hath been held forth between the Ministers of the Church of England on Antichrists part and the People called Quakers of the other part Here you see their Envy and Charge is against the Protestant Ministers in general Page 674. They say It 's not lawful for the Saints to joyn to your Ordinances nor own your Ministry No wonder they say their Testimony against Tythes is a Law of Christ's making for here they say It 's not lawful c. And page 672. To clear the Quakers from the guilt of the King's Sufferings and to incense the King and Nation against the Protestant Ministers say they If it be considered who they are that first raised the War against the King and Nation and who it was that first preached and prayed up the War and prosecuted it against his Father and who it was that cast out the Bishops and took their Revenues And yet none owned and encouraged Oliver and justified their Cruelty to King Charles the First 1648 more than the Quakers nay Fox and this very shameless E. B. condemned the King and his Friends and hath cast Infamy on his Name and Family as is before shewn and yet here have the face to say Their i. e. the Quakers Sufferings have been more cruel and unjust than towards them the King But they that can so contemn our Lords Sufferings and Blood and exalt their own as more Cruel and Unjust than His it 's no wonder that they also advance their own Sufferings above the Kings c. But they go on against the Ministers p. 687 Such as have been your i. e. the King's Enemies and and preach'd and pray'd and fought against you and now pray for you Can you trust that these will be faithful to you And whether thus to deny their former Oaths and Engagements is commendable Here these Quakers blame them for not keeping the Scotch Covenant or Solemn League which was against the King and House of Lords and to utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form as the Quakers elsewhere upbraid the Presbyterians for as is mentioned in T. C's Animadversions on G.W. 's Book But all these sufficiently prove the Maliciousness of these Quakers Spirits against the Protestant Ministers they accuse for not performing their Engagements against the King Lords and Bishops and yet also accuse them for what they did in performance Now were these Quakers as they falsely pretend they stand to their Principles and are the Kings Friends then they should not blame others for not performing but for engaging but it s plainly shewed they did not blame but encourage Oliver c. in what they did against both the Kings and boasted and bragged that they fought from first to last and accused Oliver c. for putting them out of the Army and it was because they maintained the Protestant Ministers and suffered Fox and Ed. Piot c. to be imprisoned that they accused and threatened Oliver for and not for any thing done against the King c. But have in this very Book in their squinting way justified it for here you see they say they stand to their Principles of Faith c. Oh two-fac'd envious Hypocrites Again p. 766. say they Antichrists false Ministry and Worship and Doctrines God will confound Now if any say this is true it is so but it 's all the Worship and Ministry of the English Protestants they so term and defame And page 730. Ye all have deceived the World and the Blood of Souls rests on you ye have been as Canker-Worms and that have corrupted the whole World whom have you not deceived by your Lyes c. God is weary of you and the time is at hand he will pluck you up by the Roots and visit you with great destruction and your Names shall be a reproach among Men the Lord will bring unresistable Destruction upon you The Earth is weary of you which you have corrupted with your false ways and the Kingdom groans under your Oppressions and the Earth will spue you out Again In p. 521. these Quakers are charged to joyn with the Cavalierish Party i. e. the Kings In denial of it say they That Generation of Priests are joyned with the Prelatical Cavalierish Party this is known in the Nation in the North especially Here you see they were then against the Kings Interest as well as the Ministers whom they maliciously inform against therefore for And p. 523. say the Quakers They i. e. Honest People see that wicked Interest of the Clergy prosper more than the Freedom of the People and this I say from the Lord That while that Interest of this false Priesthood is so much favoured you can never prosper nor the Nations
the true Believers were Witnesses as well as the Apostles Therefore it is plain it was a material personal seeing and handling that the Scripture intends and not imaginary as the Quakers For they in their Rabshekah say T. C. hath crucified him i. e. their Christ It 's this blasphemous false-accusing Spirit of Fox's which T. C. opposed and terms their Christ therefore their fallacious squinting Confessions are but deceit while they will not disown but justifie their Ancient Blasphemous Testimonies and enjoyn their Subjects to maintain them But if they meant truly as the words import then there needs nothing but Yea or Nay to most of these Queries where they make reviling long squinting Answers The first Query is Was the Son of God or Word made Flesh or made of a Woman more than once I say Nay But they say The Word made Flesh we witness which dwells among us and we behold his glory c. But the Saints said dwelt and beheld as past Further say they VVhen thou canst witness the VVord made Flesh once then thou wilt know whether the Son of God was made of a Woman any more than once The Second Query Did the Man Christ Jesus really suffer Death as on the Cross at Jerusalem oftener then once I say Nay They say The Man Christ Jesus we own and witness the Lamb's Book of Life which was slain from the Foundation of the World the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World c. The third Query Did the Man Christ suffer in his own Person for that end and after that manner which he did once upon the Cross before or since the time i. e. his Crucifixion on the Cross I say Nay They say Christ Jesus in his own Person doth suffer by thee and by thy Generation he suffered at Jerusalem and doth suffer where he is manifest by you after the same manner And say they Wouldst thou have Christ have more ends in suffering than one This Answer plainly proves what I before said that by owning Christs Suffering and Crucifying at Jerusalem they mean not his Personal Bodily Sufferings but inward as in Abel and Peter and so in them now for they say he doth suffer after the same manner i. e. as he did at Jerusalem Now this cannot respect his Bodily Sufferings on the Cross outward for so he doth not now suffer but they say he doth suffer after the same manner Now mind the terms of the Query and their Answer and it 's plain they do not mean as all other Christians do but in another sense This Query and their Answer sufficiently prove their contempt Fourth Query Was not that Death the Man Christ suffered once and but once on the Cross so satisfactory that God doth not require any Suffering on that account I say Yea it was and God requires no other They say The Death of the Man Christ Jesus which suffered at Jerusalem we own and witness mind that Witness the same Christ say they that suffered at Jerusalem we witness made manifest Now this they give as so full and plain a Confession that they say of it to P. B. the Querist Here thou Lyar art made manifest who said that we denied that Christ that dyed at Jerusalem But this is no Answer to the Query for the Query is not Whether or no it was Christ that suffered at Jerusalem but about the Value or Vertue of his Death to satisfie Gods Justice to which they reply nothing but quibble and rail but dare not Answer plainly Yea or Nay But it 's plain hereby they own not Satisfaction by that one and once offering of himself as in the Hebrews But they go on and cavil saying Whereas thou queriest whether the Justice of God be not satisfied for the Sins of the Elect say they Where do'st thou find that God requires satisfaction for the Sins of the Elect c Implying the Elect sin not now they term themselves and Christ also the Elect. The fifth Query Be you reconciled to God by any other Obedience than that particular Obedience Christ performed in his own Person once on the Cross I say Nay But they banter and make no positive Answer The sixth Query Did not the Man Christ suffer as a Publick Person in the Elects stead c I say Yea. They say For the Redeeming of the Elect from under such Mouths as thine did and doth Christ suffer ' Here squintingly making his now suffering in them or any Saint equal or of the same effect and value and to the same end as his Personal Suffering without us For say they For the Redeeming c. did and doth c. So that the Work of Redemption was not finished nor perfected as on Christ's part by that one and once offering himself but by his now Sufferings in them The seventh Query Is the Sufferings of Christ now in the Saints all the Satisfaction is made to God for Sins past present and to come I say No. They answer Is not Christ the same now as ever And is not the Sufferings of Christ satisfactory where-ever What wilt thou have to satisfie if Christs Sufferings do not satisfie Hereby plainly implying Yea in the Affirmative that their now Sufferings which they blasphemously term his is all the Satisfaction is made to God for Sins so plainly denied the Lord that bought them and trampled his Blood under foot for altho the Words now and all be not in their Answer yet they be in the Query c. and you must not mind so much their squinting Answer but also the Terms of the Query The eighth Query Was not that Body of Jesus consisting of Flesh Blood c. offered on the Cross the one and only Sacrifice for Sin and to which alone exclusively the Saints did before and since do look to be Justified by without any other Works I say Yea but they answer neither yea nor nay but revile The ninth Query Is there not another Righteousness by which Saints are Justified than that Christ works in and by them I say Yea. They answer Thou preaches another Gospel and would have another Righteousness than that of Christ which he works in and by Saints We witness Justification by Faith c. plainly implying Nay to the Query and so excluding the Obedience and Sufferings of our Lord as without us from being the Righteousness for the Justification of Believers The eleventh Query Is the Justice of God fully satisfied for all the Sins of the Elect ere he appear to their Souls I say Yea. But they answer neither but say Doth the Elect sin Shall the Elect dye And they as I said before term themselves the Elect and so imply they sin not therefore have no need of any to make Satisfaction for them or of asking forgiveness The twelfth Query Is the holy Lives or Works of Saints excluded from the Act of Justification c. I say Yea. But they answer squinting quoting 1 Pet. 1.18 but imply Nay that
are to the Gentiles and to their blasphemous lying Brethren Foxonian Preachers S. Eccles notwithstanding he S. E. was proved such a blasphemous Lyar yet they are so charitable to him that in Antidote c. p. 225. they believe he died in Peace And to G. Whitehead's Brother C. Atkinson that lascivious Blasphemer his Blasphemy against God and Christ say they As to those offensive Words we do not affect the terms neither are they proper to the true Christ But by their Charity to him it may be feared they think them proper enough to our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Person which you term Mean and Contemptible a Vessel a Garment This your Charity to your blasphemous Brethren and your Uncharitableness to the Protestant Minister shews your Zeal nor Charity are not Christian For you say G. G. the Minister was possessed with a Legion of Lying Spirits And of J. Faldoe you say that He and thousands of our dear Countrey-Men were in the Pit of Damnation crying out on the Ministers Such a damnable Sin do these Foxonian Priests make it for any to discover and oppose their Errors But they may blaspheme and deny the Lord if they wâ—ll but Idolize Fox as Solomon Eccles did and they shall dye in Peace with these charitable Foxonians And their Unchristian Spirit further appears in their Excommunicating G. Keith altho' twelve Months after they had acknowledged they had nothing against his Doctrine nor Conversation but they pretended he was Apostatized from the Spirit of Meekness and Charity But he was rather departed from their wrathful uncharitable Spirit against the Protestants and more come into the Spirit of Charity And that which they charge on him as Uncharitable c. was because he testified against their Errors and maintained the Truth altho ' they make other Pretences as that he on some great Provocations in Discourse gave some harsh Names to some of their Erroneous Preachers Now consider all these afore and after of their hell-fetch'd terms and wicked Actions of theirs to the Protestant Ministers Kings c. and all People I say Consider whether all these do not prove them either to be gone from or rather that they never had the Spirit of Meekness and Charity and therefore more justly Excommunicated from the Protestant Society than G. Keith did according to their own Judgment and Practice For let Algier be search'd if all the Runnagadoes there for this hundred years past have so villified and defamed the Protestant Religion and Ministers as these Foxonian Priests have done How can you especially you Governours of the Church of England expect to convert any to your Religion and Church while that and you lye under such foul Scandals so publickly in this and other Nations without contradiction and the chief Actors and Promoters in favour and incouraged in Reprinting these Blasphemies in great Volumes as in E. B. and Fox's wicked Works which may have cost near a thousand pounds and I hear they are Reprinting more of that Blasphemer Fox's to the value of 2000 l. charge and this also doubtless intended to be preserved in the Library at Oxford for a Monument of Infamy to the English Protestant Ministers And in the Title Page they put high Titles of the Authors and term them worthy Prophet true Prophet and Servant and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God an Ambassador by special Authority and special Commission from Christ and say they of the wicked Author Generations which have not yet a Being shall count thee blessed because of the want the Inheritance of the Lord hath of thee my Substance is almost dissolved but you have taken care his wicked Works shall not be wanted Again say they of him The first Fruits unto God since the Apostacy endowed with the Almighty Power of God which Lived and Reigned in him By his Fruits herein produc'd you may judge what Power and Spirit they Foxonians be ruled by which they term Christ It ought to strike Terror and Amazement in all Protestants to consider how they exalt themselves and defame the Protestant Ministers and say At the desire of many Friends that the Labor and Works of this valiant Soldier of Christ to continue on Record as Monuments of his Service for the Lords Consider the time of their venting their Fury against the Protestant Ministers and the time of the French King 's dealings with the Protestant Ministers and their Churches there and this is not only the effect of one Man's passion but the premeditated Work of these Foxonian Chief Priests G. Whitehead and W. Penn especially who in his Serious Apology says If the Quakers Expressions against the Ministers had been Ten Thousand times more significant-and sharp against that cursed bitter stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and says he we have nothing for them but Wo's and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations c. and laid them asleep whil'st they have cut their Purses and pickt their Pockets W. Penn is not in jest here but serious and in earnest to confirm maintain and hold up the Ancient Testimony their Truth taught them in the beginning which they now enjoyn their Foxonian Subjects to hold up and maintain in all the parts of it for their Truth changes not say they and therefore W. Penn confirms his Fathers Fox and E. B.'s cursed Envy against the Protestant Ministers for further say they in their Book A Brief Discovery c. The Protestant Ministers they are Conjurers Thieves Witches Devils Lyars Stewards of the Devil's Magazines who go about to Murther the Child Jesus where he is manifest even these bloody Herodians they would devour the Child Jesus c. Hold up a Worm-eaten Beastly Form yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers scarlet-colour'd Beasts selling Beastly-ware they sell the report of others Riches the Letter which is Dust and Death c. Now this cannot be the Paper and Ink as the Quakers now pretend for the Ministers do not as they say sell that but it 's the Doctrines of Scripture they thus condemn for as afore they say the report of other Mens Riches Now the Paper and Ink is not the report but the Doctrine or Matter signifi'd by the Letters wrot in the Paper with the Ink. This shews the now Quakers fallaciousness in their now forged excuses for their Ancient Testimonies of their Truth in the beginning But in this Book they go on and say of the Ministers Possessing nothing but Heathenish stuff c. Really they are Blood-hounds but if they be not to be sure your Foxonian Spirit is hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell still barking and raging like Sodomites c. Wo wo is their Portion and of the upholders of that Treacherous Crew the Protestant Ministers Here is the Judgment passed on all Kings and People by these Quakers and all this and much more such Hellish Envy and Scandal in two leaves besides what 's
my Heart pricked as with some sharp thing I felt it was that Spirit gave it forth i. e. the aforementioned Paper I denied the reading of it for in the Life of God that Spirit was judged therefore with the Spirit that is true is that Spirit judged which called that the Spirit of the Prince of the Air which ministred forth that which was titled How Sin is strengthened c. and in conclusion says Therefore with the witness of God in all who live in the sence of it judged it is according to the Eternal Judgment i. e. the Spirit wrot the first against J. N. I forbear their Names in respect to the Persons tho' I think they be both dead Here is both as from God peremptory against one another and one must be high Blasphemy if not both Many more Instances I could give to prove their being at difference among themselves or one with another and therefore by their own Doctrine are so far from being guided by the Spirit of Christ that they have it not nor never received it or else G. W. c. were Conjurers in printing this if it was not from the Mouth of the Lord. But if they object they do not differ but it 's some that go or fall off from them and the Truth that differ and oppose them no more do any others who agree for wherein they agree they do not differ nor do them of the Protestants differ among themselves who be of the same mind no more than the Quakers altho' they differ one from another in some lesser matters yet they all agree and hold one Head and Foundation and are not so uhcharitable as you Foxonian Quakers are Now here is one great reason why these modern Quakers so endeavour to excuse and cover and vindicate the Errors of their first Founders Fox c. because they will not acknowledge any difference or change in their Judgments for if they do they are Self-condemn'd Apostates Therefore it is that they reprint their old Books in great Volumns and alter by leaving out and putting in as they see cause especially their treasonable seditious Doctrines because they were afraid to own them But it 's apparent that the same Arguments as they use against the Protestants to prove them not to have the Spirit of Christ are conclusive against themselves also and they the Foxonian Quakers inexcusable in condemning others for that they are guilty off themselves and their saying they are not of them that oppose them is not more than others may say for themselves for if G. W. says W. R. c. were Apostates W R. says G. W. and G. F. were so and better proves than they G. W. c. do and better to believed But if there were no other proof of their wickedness but their hellish Fury c. against the Protestant Religion that 's enough And these wicked envious Hypocrites the Foxonian Quakers c. to get in favour with the Papal Interest then in Court have raked into the Graves and Sepulchers of the Ancient Martyrs and Fathers of the Protestants nay have been so presumptious and arrogant as not to spare the Sepulchers of Kings but torn them out and cast as in the open Street with infamous terms on their Persons and Families as well as their Power and Government and yet will not endure to have their Errors discovered and testified against but will Punish Fine Whip and Imprison and take away Goods and Life too if they could have reach'd it Now you English Protestants Surely if the People of Israel were so concern'd for the Levites Concubine as in the 19 and 20 Chapters of Judges surely here is some cause of inquiry Consider and Remember of good old Tobit He would not suffer his Brethren to be thrown out in disgrace unburied but hazarded his Life But here these Foxonian Quakers do not only condemn them that be unburyed but barbarously violate the Sepulchers of the Protestant Kings Lords c. Bishops Martyrs and Ministers and cast Infamy on them to make them hateful and odious to the Young of this Age as well as future For they say it 's for their Children and that the Heathen may see your shame and hiss at you Protestant Ministers that is the very intent and drift of these now Foxonian White-hart-court Conclave of Chief Cardinals Whitehead and Penn c. to bring reproach and infamy on the Protestant Ministers Now as these Quakers say there is but two Spirits that of God or the wicked one Therefore if the Quaker's be Gods then the Protestant Ministers in general especially all who pay or uphold Tythes and the Laws for them you are all guided by the Spirit of Antichrist and are denyers of Christ and under all these Hell-rak'd afore Names and Terms of the Quaker unless these now Modern Quakers do as G. Whitehead enjoyned Mr. Pennyman that is publickly condemn these their mad and wicked printed Defamations of the Protestant and it 's no harm to their Persons nor Estates for the now Quakers so to do seeing the Persons chiefly concern'd be dead only Whitehead and Penn. And in case they do not print against these wicked printed Doctrines of their Chief Priests they are to be looked on as owners thereof and justly chargeable therewith For if they did not own them they would print against them as they did against Mr. Pennyman and D. S. Think not the reminding you of these your Ancient wicked Testimonies and Actions hard dealing for as you say We do not desire to uncover your Nakedness you had not had thus much if you had not been the occasion of it your selves E. B.'s p. 617. By your so maliciously informing against and defaming the Ministers when you Quakers were guilty oâ— the same and besides what is aforementioned I find in E. B.'s 672. page you there also to incense tne King against some you mention some Passages out of a Letter to one viz. There is more danger in these Quakers to trouble and over-come England than in the King of Scots c. And there you to aggravate comment on these words thus It 's manifest what the bent of their Spirits was against the King then tho' now they change their Tale c. But I say let but their i. e. these Quakers own words here mentioned be considered and their Hypocrisie and the temper of their Spirits he shall see this is but part of the measure you have meted to others Much more I can produce in further proof of the wickedness of this Foxonian Spirit if they proceed in their old way of denying the Truth and slandering them that discover their wickedness which is very great even Pride Envy and Hypocrisie who in 1661. say The Government of King Charles was set up by the purpose of God Compare this with what is afore and in the Snake in the Grass against it Notwithstanding these Quakers so defame the Protestant Ministers and accuse them to render
they have to excuse Fox's Blasphemy That it was not Fox but Christ said I am Christ c. in or by Fox as they say in one Book Must we deny him the Mouth to speak by But surely by this Figure John Baptist need not when he was asked to have said I am not he for he had the Light iâ— him But what Blasphemy can be spoken but may be excused by such Quibbles as they use to excuse the blasphemous Ancient Testimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning But by the same Rule every one of them may say as Fox did and take the same blasphemous Titles and they may be given to any Quaker as well as to Fox Also in page 242. Great Myst they cite one saying The Apostles were Eye-Witnesses c. In the Answer says Fox All may see what you have received not received the Gospel by the same means the Apostles did who are not Eye-Witnesses as the Apostles were hereby implying the Quakers had or did see Christ in the same manner as the Apostles did For the seeing by Faith no Protestants oppose as I know therefore that could not be the seeing the Man intended whom Fox opposes but the Man meant a seeing with bodily Eyes and it 's in this sence G. Fox opposes and banters the Man and does thereby imply he was not Christ but someching in him and so in Fox was the Christ and he i. e. Jesus but the Vessel Garment or Shell that the Kernel Christ dwelt in And hereby the Foxonian Spirit is proved to be a proud self-exalting Spirit as well as an envious and contemptuous one which according to Scripture must be brought down For altho' they give themselves and one another such high Titles yet because a Minister termed another Minister Reverend Man they say Are you not ashamed to court one another with false and flattering Titles Ye shameless and presumptuous ones who durst assume that Title to your selves which is appropriated to the Lord alone c. Now having given some proofs of the Quakers highly exalting themselves and one another I will shew how they exalt their own Sufferings and Blood also above our Lord's in this fierce despiser E. B.'s Works page 273. say they The Sufferings of the People of God in this Age is greater Suffering and more Unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles What was done to Christ and the Apostles was chiefly done by a Law and in great part by due execution of a Law c. Oh horrible Blasphemous undervaluing of our Lord's Sufferings and exalting theirs as above His and justifying or excusing them who Crucified him Also altho' they so contemn our Lord's yet of theirs i. e. the Quakers Blood in print say they to some Magistrates Do not rashly draw out your Swords against those harmless Ones whom your bloody Teachers represent to you as Deceivers be not prevailed on to release Barabbas and give over Jesus to be Crucified to gratifie the murderous Appetites of your Priests Consider altho' you may with Pilot wash your Hands and appear clear from his Blood yet before the pure Eyes of the Lord will the condemning stain thereof be found on you so fresh that you will by no means be from thence cleansed but by the same Blood i. e. the Quakers which you so cruelly shed Here they Answer that Pagan question of Is Pennington's i. e. can outward Blood cleanse c. Yes you see theirs can altho' our Lord's cannot as they imply Theirs is the Blood of cleansing no other means not by the Blood of our Lord outwardly shed but by the same i. e. the Quakers Blood Also I shall further prove these Foxonian Quakers lead by an evil Spirit by their contempt of and undervaluing the Scriptures and exalting their own above them Fox on the Titles of his Pamphlets says To all Friend every where this is the Word of the Lord unto you all And in another Entituled A Message from the Lord c. says three times this is the Word of God and yet says Great Mystery 247. The Scriptures they are not the Word of God as thou blasphemously affirm And in the Scorned Quaker c. page 19. The Scripture is not his Voice but so far as truly Translated A Declaration of what he spake to and by those Holy Men that were moved to write c. Here you see they not only undervalue our Translation but render the Scripture as an old Almanack or Gazette as to its being binding to us the Ten Commandments or Christ's Sermon on the Mount not God's Voice to us Yet I have afore prov'd Fox said his is the Word of God and G. Whitehead Entituled a little Pamphlet of his The Voice of Wisdom c. Now if G. W.'s be the Voice of Wisdom then it 's Christ's Voice Thus you see how they exalt their own Writings above Scripture and yet have the Arrogance to pretend they prefer Scripture before all other Books and Fox says in his Message from the Lord c. Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel c. with the Light all this Doctrine is seen to be false And in News out of the North c. So Dust is the Serpents Meat their original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter And you say says Fox That Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel which is Carnal c. Again says Fox that the Letter is the Word and that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are the Gospel and all your abominations are discover'd Now none means them four Words or Names be the Gospel but the Doctrine in and by them four Books by them four Evangelists is the Doctrine of the Gospel and it 's this Fox opposes for when Fox put on his this is the Word of God it 's not supposed he meant the Paper and Ink but the Doctrine therein or thereby signified as when the Quakers will not suffer their Papers to be called Mens Edicts it 's not thought they mean the Paper abstractly considered but their Laws therein made for their Subjects to obey And therefore it 's the Doctrines of Scripture and not the Paper and Ink Fox undervalues and condemns and his and Whitehead's Blasphemous Imaginations they Blasphemously term the Word of God and the Voice of Wisdom and make their Preachings and Writings to be God's by them but all others to be Man's and outside Teachings carnal Letter even the very Scriptures unless when they as their Fathers did against our Lord use them to contemn the Christian Faith for altho' they so often use some Scriptures as Christ in you except you be Reprobates c. The Word is nigh in the Heart c. thousands of times yet I challenge them to shew me how often if ever they press that 15 Chapter of the 1 of Corinth the first seven verses or the 9 and 10