in that War who disserted the CAUSE before the King's Head was cut off then what are the Quakers who not only approved of what was then done but incited the Army not to leave Root nor Branch of Idolatry Oppression and Tyranny till they had set up their Standard at the Gates of Rome and to avenge the Blood of the Guiltless throughout all the Dominions of the Pope which had the Army obeyed would there not have been many more Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and People than ever was in England Let the Impartial Judge A Paragraph is omitted here for want of room Vnderstanding this Book was Printing and the two Letters of my Name transposed which are now placedright I writ the following Paper and ordered it to be inserted here J. P. OH Earth Earth Earth hearken and consider Was there ever such a People as G. F. G. W. and their Party that had such Foreheads and Faces of Brass who for about 20 Years have been reviling and recriminating others for those very things they have most highly been guilty of themselves yea and were greatly offended with those that would not go on further with the Work and Cause they were then ingaged in and did not only instigate and press Dliver Richard and the Army to Crumble Nations to dust and to Trample Deceit and Tyrants under c. but also exhorted them not to leave off till they set their Standard on Top of Rome Gates as is before mentioned and yet upon the King 's coming in how did they seek to clear themselves by accusing others as in the little Colum and in another Book of theirs lately come to my hands entitled Truth 's Character of Professors they laid open the Addresses and Applications which others had made to D. C. and R. C. making long Animadversions thereupon not only to defame but also to stir up the Powers against them as in p. 15. viz. Must the Weapons that they have been forming against others be turned into their own Bowels even by such as will have no more pitty in their Hearts towards them than they have had towards the Innocent And what must not Jealousie be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them as they have stirred up Jealousie in the Powers of the Earth against others c. And as they have sought to make others ridiculous even so shall they become contemptible in the Eyes of those which they by their Flatteries fawned upon who may for a season suffer them for their own Ends c. But this was not all that was designed by G. F. and his Ministers so early defaming crying out and stirring up the Powers against other Professors but also to blind those then in Power as if themselves had been altogether Innocent and clear touching those Matters And is it not strange that they should call the Presbyterians in the late times Rebels and Traytors for but endeavouring the King's Restauration and yet after he was come in most bitterly and invectively writ against them for being once Opposers of him Are not these the Persons that say Their giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God and that if ever we own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles we must own their Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power And that they have thousands at their Meetings that none of them dare speak a Word but by eternal Motion * A True Account p. 18. And their so speaking i.e. Speaking by the Spirit G. W. saith is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and Greater Ser. Apol. p. 49. What shall we say to these Men I am even struck with Amazement Astonishment and Silence that a People pretending so high should bring forth such wicked and ungodly Fruits and though some may be troubled that these are now come to light yet others will not a little wonder that they have been hid and kept secret so long And doubtless had they not still gone on insinuating by Flatteries with the Government and writing so reflectingly upon Dissenters with their Reproaching and Scandalizing other Sober Persons more Chast and Innocent than themselves These things had never come thus publick and so they reap the Fruit of their own Doings and that very way they thought to secure and strengthen themselves hath helped forward their own Destruction And seeing there is no hopes of their Repentance or Forbearance as to these things all other ways and means which have not been a few that have been used to prevent them proving ineffectual it is now thought meet thus to expose them this year 91. as they for many Years have exposed others that so if possible their Mouths and Pens may be stopt from any such Procedure hereafter and it may be when too late they 'll remember 'T was the Foolish and Clamorous Woman that pulled down her House which is falling a pace with her own Hands Here followeth one of the Forms of their Oaths which Stephen Crisy one of their great Preachers imposed upon one called a Quaker who had Mortgag'd his Land to him and others for a Sum of Money but before he would let him have the said Money notwithstanding he had Signed and Sealed and Delivered according to their Agreement he forced him though with much dissatisfaction to Sign and Seal this following which by their own Definition of an Oath is an absolute Oath Their Definition of an Oath is set down hereafter THE day month I do testifie in the truth of my Heart by these presents that whereas I have Mortgag'd an Estate of mine lying in in the County unto Stephen Crisp Iunior c. as by Deeds and Writings this day bearing date doth appear I say I do hereby testifie in the truth of my Heart and in the Presence of HIM that knoweth all things and in the presence of these faithful Witnesses that I have not before this Contract aforesaid contracted bargain'd sold or engag'd the said Estate to or with any Person or Persons whatsoever either directly or indirectly c. but that it was freely and absolutely both before and at the Sealing and Delivery of the said Mortgage above-mentioned in my power to sell c. Witness at Signing and Sealing Samuel Newton John Bolton two of their Preachers Now see their Definition of an Oath in their Answer to one J. S. who asserted that to say God is my Witness I say the Truth in Christ I lye not my Conscience bearing me Witness in the Holy Ghost I call God to Record on my Soul The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows that I lye not And that Jacob and Laban are said to Swear in these Form of Words So God is Witness between me and thee were Oaths Obs Any of which without laying the Hand on the Book or other Ceremony or more saying is not only an Oath but if Authorized by Act of Parliament is as
not rather that he was glad of it as no doubt he is In p. 6. to the Reader Our Adversary again p 14. says he deals very unfairly and unjustly by G. W. about some of our Friends saying They give forth Writings from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God and by the same Spirit and Power that was in the Prophets Christ and his Apostles unto which he falsly addeth And their so speaking G. W. saith is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater his words and their so speaking are J. P's own Abuse and Perversion Now I beseech you Sir read the Passage in p. 14. and see wherein J. P's Abuse and Perversion lies It lies in this that he added these words and their so speaking and did not put them in a different Character to distinguish them from G. W's words though they did not alter the sense at all if you leave them out the Passage is as much to the same purpose as if they were in Did ever any Writer charge his Adversary with Abuse and Perversion upon so slender an account What an affront is it to the simple-hearted Reader to write at this rate This is the Man that in his Letter to J. O. threatens Mr. P. farther to detect and unmask him if he will not be reduced to Christianity Does he mean by Christianity Quakerism which it seems teaches him to use the basest Equivocations and Slights that can be found in any Writer Of his Book p. 3. He utterly denies it as a Slander that the Quakers formerly exhorted Men to fight and would fight themselves I must refer you to The Quakers Vnmask'd c. to judge whether that is a Slander or not It will abundantly satisfie you whilst you understand their Writings in the plain honest sense of the Words without their after Equivocations J. P cites one of the Quakers Ministers saying We directed all People to the Spirit of God in them and if that led them to fight I had nothing against it for this saith G. W. he quotes fol. 4. but tells us not what Book But why did he not tell J. P so 13 years ago when he desired to know what Errors they sound in the Quotations if there were any however to satisfie him that it was a true citation he took it out of the Quakers Book where Foreign Letters were recorded which was first in J. O's custody and afterwards in J. P's P. 4. The Quakers tell Rich. Protector ' That he would walk with the Lord and preserve his People then thy Name shall be greater than was the Fathers and the numberless number of this Now distressed People will be unto thee a strength and stand by thee and Defend thee and thy just Government Sir If you had been Protector I persuade my self you would have thought these People would have fought to defend you and your Government But whatever they or you thought then the meaning now is according to G. W. c. they would defend him and his Government By Righteousness Prayers and Faith and by Contributions Taxes c. or the fear of the Lord as in the days of Jehosaphat Would you not judge that Man perjured that should swear Allegiance in such terms with such a meaning And must we not take the Quakers words for as binding as an Oath Next p. 5. you will please to note what G.W. Answers to the Charge of upbraiding others with that which themselves for many years were as deeply concerned and ingaged in c. To all which saith G. W. I do conscientiously Answer He hath most grosly and palpably belyed the People called Quakers in these Passages divers ways First in rendring them without exception of Persons not only Justifiers of the late Wars and what had been done therein without exception of things done but also equally concerned with the Presbyterians Independents and others therein But do the Quakers when they charge these things upon the Presbyterians c. make any exception of Persons or Things And yet it is well known and it is proved out of their own writings in The Quakers Vnmask'd c. that their Chief Leaders approved of the greatest things done in the late Wars against the King and to his Person whereas the Presbyterians generally dis-approved of them Besides they say their giving forth Papers or Printed Books is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God and that their Preachers are guided by an Infallible Spirit and that they are of one Mind and Judgment and the like and therefore an indefinite and general charge will affect them more generally than other Parties G. W. says p. 6. The War began in 41. and in 48 the King was Beheaded and all this while no Quakers heard of till about 50.51 52. when there was no Wars in England for them to be concerned in how false then is J P. to say The Quakers were as much or more concerned in the War against the King as any others But G. W. confesses that divers who have been since and now of us Quakers have formerly been concerned in the late Wars And J. P. has made evident their approbation of what was then done and that many that turned Quakers in the Armies continued there till they were turned out that the Protector is blamed for putting them out by G. Fox and others that they are called Sober Men and true Hearts that feared God and trembled at His Word valiant Captains Soldiers and Officers it may be for saying thou to a single Person or for wearing their Hats c. the distinguishing Characters of Quakers from others Whereas he says there was no Wars in England in 50.51.52 it is a piece of his cunning and is false for Worcester Fight was in the year 51. and Sir George Booth's Insurrection in 1659. when the Quakers gave intelligence calling them Rebels for but endeavouring to bring in the King and for some years there were Wars both in Scotland and Ireland and upon the Sea and in Flanders See E. Burrough's Alarm Sounded c. 1659. The Quakers Vnmask'd c. p. 6. 9. You see then how G. W's Answer is both false and deceitful P. 7. 8. G. VV. charges J. P. with an apparent lye in saying the Quakers had been engaged in the same Cause so as to Preach up Battels c. But I pray Sir what difference is there between Preaching up Battles c. and exhorting Generals Officers and Soldiers to go forth against mighty Enemies till they had subdued them and set up their Standard a top of Rome and done many other things which were to be done by Fighting And that in the Quakers Spirit See E. B's Alarm Sounded c. p 28. P 9 10. G.W. Commends the Quakers for their forbearance towards J. P. and is confident that had J. P. look'd upon them as Fighters c he durst not have adventured to have given them such frequent and publick occasions of provocations and frequent disturbances and interruptions
to leave off until they had set up their STANDARD at the Gates of Rome as may be seen in their own Writings here following And yet for them to upbraid others with that which themselves for many years were so deeply concerned and engaged in is such a piece of Wickedness as can hardly be parallel'd by any sort of People professing Christianity This this their Baseness I have in secret acquainted them withal but no Ear or Heed would they give to what I said but still went on in their accustomed manner to Defame such as had not been more engaged if so much as themselves in the late Wars yea and that in the most revengeful and highest aggravating Terms that 't was possible for their Penn to express witness those Words to the Nonconforming Ministers in Answer to Mr. Faldo viz. But why poor Nonconformists after all their Preach'd up Battels Spoils Plunders Sacrileges Decimations c. Again They are true Gospel-ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and Good Will towards Men and not Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and Princes Rulers and People No Worldly Armies Battles Victories Trophies Spoils Sequestrations Decimations and the like Blood-thirsty and Tyrannical Projects in which John Faldo and his poor Non-conforming Ministers have had their Hands almost over Head and Ears till they had well nigh lost their Ears and their Heads too Much more of this Nature may be seen towards to the latter end of the lesser Column of this Book What People setting these aside could have had the Face and Confidence to have writ such Language as this Certainly not any especially when they themselves had been engaged in the same Cause and Quarrel with those whom they now so much Reproach and Vilifie The Consideration of these things with their pretending themselves to be the Only People of the LORD and of their being the Only Embassadors and Ministers of Christ with the Discharge of my own Conscience put me upon gathering these their Writings together and having them so placed that those of the meanest Capacity may easily discern and see them to be as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders of the People as have appear'd in this our Age. Reader THE first Column is what they writ before the King came in the other is what they writ since his Return and as for the Quotations I have endeavoured faithfulness therein and have cited both Book and Page where their Words may be found but they have left out many Passages and altered several Words that suited not with their Interests and Designs both of E. B's and F. H's in the Re-print of their Works which thou wilt have notice of as thou readest And where I have abbreviated any of their Writings or lest out any of their Words which were not so material to be put in or too large to insert thou wilt find a little stroke thus but have not in the least either wronged the Matter or Sense thereby as thou mayest see if thou peruse the Books I have quoted But before thou proceedest to read farther I am willing thou shouldst hear the Testimony they give of their own Writings viz. If ther you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own oue Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and power See G. F's Answ to the Westmoreland Petition p. 30. You might as well condemn the Scriptures to the Fire as our Queries Our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God You are now Answered from the Mouth of the Lord. See G. F. and R. H. Truth 's Defence c. p. 2 104 107. Now if this their Testimony be true then their Writings are to be had in as great and as venerable esteem as the Scriptures or any holy Man's Words are but if it be otherwise then are they Lyars and false Prophets and to be avoided and witnessed against Let these following Collections manifest the Truth thereof And now the time is come that as they have laid open the Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie of other Professors that went before them even so must their Deceit Wickedness and Hypocrisie be also laid open For the LORD whom I no Respecter of Persons But who shall live when GOD doth this J. P. Geo Fox's Judgment CONCERNING KINGLY GOVERNMENT Taken out of a Paper of his written to the Presbyterians and Others before the KING was Restored TO all you that desire an Earthly King in England Who profess your selves to be Christians whether Presbyterians or Others Do not the Priests Presbyterians and many of the Rulers cry for an Earthly King And is not this the same Nature the Jews were in And do not they in This Crucifie Jesus Are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Now Elders if you say Peter said Honour the King This doth not hold forth that Peter bid them set up an Earthly King over them neither do you read that there were any Earthly Kings since the days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians c. And all these Antichrists and Presbyterians imitated Elders over them all Will Christ Reign and these Kings that have been made For Christ is King alone and makes his Disciples Kings to Reign upon the Earth These are true Christians and will these have any more Kings among them but Christ who are Redeemed from the Earth and earthly Kings I say That is the false Church that doth not live upon the Heads of these Kings Such as have the Prophets Christ and the Apostles Words the Sheeps Cloathing but out of the Life and Power that makes such work for an Earthly King Herod the King was Mad at the Child Jesus and sought to slay all the Children in Bethlehem of Judea There is ehe fruits of Earthly Kings and such a King would our false Christians and Elders have The Children of Israel when they grew would have Kings like other Nations that when People were gon from the Lord God then they set up Kings and when the Children of Israel served not the Lord God but went after other gods they desired a King which the Lord gave them in his Wrath Sam. 8. And in this manner Should a King Reign over them the King shall take your Sons and appoint them for his Chariots c. this is the fruit of your Kings The King will take your Fields your Vineyards your best Olive Trees and give them to his Servants this is the Fruit of your Kings c. Ignorant and foolish People that would have a King and Kings since the days of the Apostles The People will not hear when all these Fruits of these Kings are laid down to them But says Christians and false Elders there shall be a King over us and we also will be like other Nations So the Christians go out from Christ and set up Kings like Heathens Hos 13.11 You ignorant and foolish that is
put such out of the Army This following Letter shews that G. F. approved of Olivers Authority about which he gives him and his Souldiers Charge p. 36 37. Friend THou shouldst have invited all the Christians upon Earth in all Nations that are against Popery to thee to comein and joyn with thee against Popery for thou hast had Authority stand to it loose it not nor abuse it nor let any other take thy Crown and do not stand cumbring thy self about Dirty Priests and thou hast had Power over Nations for Nations begin to be on heaps and invite all them that profess against the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee against him and do not loose thy Dominion nor Authority nor the Wisdom of God but with that thou may'st order all ☞ That will keep thee single in Heart and Mind to the Lord and let thy Souldiers go forth with a free willing Heart that thou may'st Rock Natious as a Cradle and keep thou in the Fear of the Lord and all the Soldiers and them that are under thee This is a Charge to thee in the Presence of the Lord God that thou nor them may loose the Dread of the Lord ☞ for that strikes a terror in the Hearts of all People c. I am a Lover of thy Soul and eternal Good an Establisher of Righteousness G. F. Obs Is not this a Just Authority which so great a Prophet exhorts him to stand to and not to loose nor suffer any to take his Crown And yet this Authority is to be defended and enlarged by Soldiers who are charged to go forth with a free willing heart and to keep in the fear of the Lord which argues they were in the fear of the Lord and so either Quakers or as good as Quakers In another Letter the same G. F. salutes Oliver thus p. 27. Dear Friend BE still and in the Councel of God stand and that will give thee Wisdom that thou may'st frustrate Men's Ends and calm Men's Spirits and Crumble Men under and arise and stand up in the Power of the Lord God ☞ The Lambs Authority and fear not the Face of Man but fear and dread the Lord God then his Presence and Wisdom and Councel thou shalt have to throw down the Rubbish and quell all the bad Spirits under thy Dominion therefore live in the Power of the Lord God and feel his Hand that is stretched out over the Nations for a Mighty Work hath the Lord to do in other Nations and their Quakings and Shakings are but entring So this is the Word of the Lord God to thee as a Charge to thee from the Lord God c. The same G. F. in the Name of the Church of Christ and Elect Assembly Known in the Nations by the Name of Quakers To Rich. Cromwel Protector p. 47 51. Friend LIve in God's Wisdom if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength then none shall touch thee and all them that fear God will be on thy side and take thy Part and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings yea till death And G. For after six pages of Instructions to him concludes with these Words viz. The Lord God Almighty preserve thee in his Wisdom and Counsel and Strength over the Heads of his Enemies in thy self and in the World both And Friend take heed of putting of honest godly Men out of the Army ☞ or putting them out of their places being Iustices of the Peace In so doing thou wilt lame thy self and weaken thy Authority and remove thy self out of the Hearts of them that fear God G. F. Obs He approves of his Power and prays for his Victory over his Enemies in himself and in the World both And pray was not the King and his Party some of those Enemies and he warns him of putting honest godly Men out of the Army as he had done his Father before But when Richard was gone off the Stage and the Officers of the Army in Power then G. F. applies himself to them in these words OH Friends The Power of God ye have abused the Iust have been trodden under Foot who have been put out of the Army and Publick Services Now had you been Faithful in the Power of the Lord which once stirred this Nation needed not have been affraid of any Nation upon the Earth but your Dread would have sounded over the World But when you lost the Power of God with which you had brushed at the Out-side of Things then you turned against and put them in Prison meaning the Quakers that struck at the Root And had you been Faithful to the Power of the Lord God which first carried you on you had gone into the midst of Spain into their Land to require the Blood of the Innocent that there had been shed and have commanded them to have offered up their Inquisition to you and gone over them as the Wind and knock'd at Rome Gates before now and trampled Deceit and Tyrants under and demanded the Pope himself and have commanded him to have offered up all his Torture-Houses and his Wracks and Inquisition which you should have found as black as Hell and broke up the Bars and Gates where all the Just Blood hath been shed which should have been required and this you should have required and this you should have seen done in the Power when you had been the Dread of all Nations and you had been a Dread to them and should have set up a Standard at Rome and then you should have sent for the Turks Idol the Mahomet and plucked up Idolatry and cryed up Christ the only King and Lord and then People would have said you had gone on in the Cause of God and his Truth c. And so if you had gone to have made Inquisition for Blood and to demand all the Inquisitions abroad in the whole Christendom whereby the Innocent Blood hath been shed then all the People in the whole Christendont that feared the Lord God would have said with one consent These are the Men that are gone out for God's Cause Many valiant Captains Souldiers and Officers have been put out of the Army because of their Faithfulness to the Lord it may be for saying Thou to a single Person or for wearing their Hats c. Oh how are Men fallen from that which they were in at first when Thousands of us went in the Front of you and were with you in the greatest Heat c. Oh what a Sincerity was once in the Nation What a dirty nasty thing it would have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords among them Oh! how is the Sincerity choaked smothered and quenched by the Fatness of the Earth whereby they have forgot ten the Lord and his Arm and Power that once carried them on And if ever you Souldiers and true Officers come again into the Rower i. e. the Spirit of God which hath been lost never set up your Standard till you come to
abroad in Spain something there is in it known to the Lord seek not thine own Honour in it but be Faithful and leave the issue of all things to the Lord make no Covenant with Idolaters but tread down their Idol-Gods that they have set up and hew down their Mountains in which their Confidence stands and Plow up their ground that the Seed may be sown after thee It 's Honour enough to be the Lord's Plowman p. 35. These foregoing Lines in Black Letter are left out in the reprinting of his Works p. 568. Obs How he exhorts the Protector to push down and tread under the High Places of Idolatry and where In all the Apostatiz'd Churches both Papists and others And this he intimates is to be done by his Armies and he would not have him to make any Covenant with Idolaters c. These are the Men that in their Declaration since the King came in deny both the Spirit Principle and Practice of them that use any Weapon to fight for Christ or his Government And yet hear in the following Passage how this E. Burrough declares to Governour Lockart and the Officers in the Name of the Lord that if they went forth as an Army in that Spirit that was among the Quakers they should then overcome their Enemies Take his own words as reprinted and not expunged and so owned afresh by G. F. G. Whitehead and their Party 1672. An Alarm sounded in the Pope's Borders 1659 E. B's Works p. 536. AND this lay upon me to declare in the Name of the Lord to Governour Lockart and his Officers That if they did enterprise any business as they were an Army in a Spirit in Opposition to us and in that Spirit that did reject us and deny us and gainsay us then should they never prosper in any Enterprise whatsoever But if they went on in any degree in the Fear of the Lord and in that Spirit that was among us then should they overcome their Enemies and none should have Power over them to overcome them Obs What was it they were to do as an Army in the Quakers Spirit See that in his Instructions to the English Army c. in and about Dunkirk viz. AND that there be no more a looking back till you have visited Rome and enquired after and sought out the Innocent Blood that is buried therein and avenge the Blood of the Guiltless through all the Dominions of the Pope the Blood of the Just crys through Italy and Spain and the time is come that the Lord will search it and seek it out and repay it and it would be your Honour to be made use of by the Lord in any Degree in order to this Matter And this also believe that the Lord will do it or make way hereunto even by you the Men of our English Nation if you be faithful c. p. 537. What are these few poor Islands that you have run through and laid many Mountains low they are but little in comparison of the great part of Christendom in which Idolatry and great Oppressions do abound which the Hand of the Lord is against and which he will take Vengeance upon p. 538. But there are many Mountains in the way wherefore hew down the Tops strike at the Branthes make way that the Ax may be laid to the Root of the Tree that your Sword and the Sword of the Lord may neither leave Root nor Branch of Idolatry Oppressions and Tyranny your Sword is to be lifted up against them It is the Lord's Work I know to make Men truly Religious but yet the Lord may work by you to break down the Bryars and Thorns and Hills that have set themselves against the Lord. P. 538. God will make their Riches and their falsly consecrated Vessels and Treasures even a Spoil and a Prey unto you if you be faithful c. p. 539. Your work hath been and may be honourable in its day and your Victory hath been of the Lord So be low in your own Eyes and seek the Glory of God and the Freedom of the Oppressed and in that you will be Blessed and prosper till you have set up your Standard at the Gates of Rome p. 540. I am a Lover of your Souls E. B. Obs That both the Army-Sword and the Sword of the Lord were not to leave Root or Branch of Idolatry In so doing he promises them Blessing and Prosperity The same E. Burrough to Rich. Cromwel chosen to be Protector See Council and Advice p. 53. AND as for thy Father the late Protector great things and honourable did the Lord do for him in raising him up and casting out his Enemies before him and giving him Victory and Power and Renown through Nations and we know the Lord shewed favour to him and gave him Strength Wisdom and Valour and a Right Spirit and he was called of God into that great Work to subdue the grievous Tyrannies once ruling over Tender Consciences and to break down the great Oppressions which for Ages had caused the Just to groan and the Lord was with him in Victory and went before him and was his Defence and preserved him from great dangers and from the Wills of all his Enemies and made him prosperous against them all And as for thee who art now set up in his stead we certainly believe that the Hand of the Lord is in this Matter c. Note Tyrannies is left out and the word Cruelty put in in his Works p. 574. As concerning the Armies abroad let faithful and just Men that will not seek themselves be put in trust for the Army is of great Concernment to thee to stand or fall through them as to Man's account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it and let trusty Men have Authority the Lord may accomplish something by it to his Honour and to thine if thou be meek and humble and walk with the Lord and to say no more about it there is something in it known to the Lord and he may bring it to pass in its Season p. 64. London 18th 8th Month 1658. These Lines in Black Letter are all left out in his Works p. 580. Obs He saith that the Lord in casting out his Fathers Enemies and giving him Victory did not only do great things but honourable that he shewed him favour and gave him a Right Spirit Is it not plain the Quakers held that God commanded a Right Spirit to Fight and that Oliver was called of God thereto E. Burrough to the Protector 's Kind ed his Wife and Children p 37 38. Friends REmember that by the Lord you were raised from a low Estate he gave you the Palaces of Princes and threw out the High and Mighty before you because of their Wickedness which was great in the Sight of the Lord. Oh! remember this every one of you and be of a tender Spirit and exalt not your selves lest the Lord cast you down and make your Name and
And I wish him no more harm for all his Faults and falacious Doings than an humble Submission and Acknowledgment for the same Now let us hear E. Burrough bemoaning Oliver after his Death A Testimony against a great Idolatry This also is owned by G. F. G. W. and their Party and is to be read in his Works 1672. IN the midst of my Considerations a Pity struck through me for once Noble Oliver that is now dead and I was grieved he should be thus abused being dead by such a stir about an Image made of him and I began to recal my former acquaintance with him and the former dealings of God towards him and what a gallant Instrument for the Lord he once was and how many Glorious and Noble Victories God once gave him and what good Parts and what a Gallant Spirit there was once in him and my Spirit run through many such things with a great deal of seriousness and pity and then said I Alas Alas is it ended all in this All his sormer good Service for God and the Nations all his Victories and good Actions and his beating down Superstition Is this the end of it all the making of an Image Is it all ended here And is this the End and final Farewel of once Noble Oliver p. 460. Alas for him who was once a great Instrument in the Hand of the Lord to break down many Idolatrous Images and did not once his Children Officers and his Brave Soldiers and Army pull down all the Images and Crosses and all such Popish Stuff where ever they met with it And shall we have no other Representation of once Noble Cromwel Is his Life and former Glory and Nobleness shadowed with the sight of a dead Image c. p. 461. Obs This might serve for a piece of a Funeral Oration for once Noble Oliver what a gallant Instrument for the Lord he once was And how many Glorious and Noble Victories God once gave him what good Parts and what a gallant Spirit there was once in him He had brave Soldiers and Army And I pray was not this Noble Oliver and his brave Soldiers of that one sort of People that profecuted War against the King Vpon such E. B. saith There is Guilt to be charged See his Visitation to the King c. p. 12. And notwithstanding the High Praises the Quakers gave of D. C. after his Death yet when K. C. came in then they compared him to Ahab Haman and Pharaoh * Truth 's Charactor of Professors c. 1660. p. 28 31 41. was not this done to flatter with the then Government and that too by speaking evil of the Dead Oh most disingenuous and unworthy Men This E. B. was not a greater Friend to Oliver and an Applauder of him and his Armies brave Exploits but he was as great a Decryer and Condemner of the Cavaliers and that Party See A Trumpet of the Lord Sounded c. 1656. p. 9. To all you who are and have been always Enemies to the very appearance of Righteousness who are called Delinquents and Cavaliers THus saith the Lord my Controversie is against you even my Hand in Judgment is upon you already and you are become cursed in all your Hatchings and Endeavours and from time to time my Hand hath been against you in Battel c. and though my Hand hath been evidently against you yet to this day you remain in Rebellion in your Minds in hatching Murder and Cruelty in your wicked Hearts and though your Kings and Princes and Nobles have been cut off in Wrath and your cruel desperate Inventions and Plots of Wickedness conceived in your cursed Womb have been broken and you cut short in your Desires yet you repent net nor will you see how you are given to be a Curse and a Desolation and a Prey in Houses and Lands and Persons to them whom I raised against you and gave power over you yet you are hardned and your Cruelty in the persecution of my Servants cannot be measured where you have any power you smite with the Fist of Wickedness and count it your Glory to despise my Name in the Vallies of Vain-Hopes you feed and on the Mountains of Foolish Expectation and conceive in your cruel Womb of Tyranny the overthrow of the Nations but in the bringing forth your selves are overthrown and it is not for well-doing that you suffer but my Hand is against you and my Iudgments are upon you and except you repent shall continue on Earth with you and follow you and pursue you to the Lake of Destruction where there is no Repentance and you and your Kings and Lordly Power by which you have thought to excrcise Lordship over my Heritage shall be enslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness in everlasting Bondage where he shall reign your Lord and King for evermore Obs That the whole Paper out of which the foregoing is extracted is left out in the Reprint of E. B's Works p. 100. Notwithstanding he writ in the Epistle thus Given under my Hand and Seal'd by the Spirit of the Eternal God And in p. 90. the word King is left out And also in his Answer to the Apprentices Petition 1659. These followinging Lines are all left out p. 609. Would you bring in a strange Nation even Tyrants and their Adherents to devour the Land and even to destroy your selves and your City would you set up an oppressing Monarchy which the Land hath once spued forth these things are to be doubted that if your Designs did prevail the Fruit of your Work would tend thereunto And notwithstanding they in their Declaration given to the King Jannuary 1660. Testifie that the Spirit of Christ which leads them into all Truth will never move them to Fight and War against any Man with Outward Weapons Yet E. B. being moved of the Lord as he saith by his Spirit thereunto gives forth thus To the present distracted Nation of England c. 1659. VVE have chosen the Son of God to be our King and he hath chosen us to be his People and He might command thousands and ten thousands of his Servants at this Day to fight in his Cause He might lead them forth and bring them in and give them Victory over all their Enemies and turn his Hand upon their Persecutors but yet his Kingdom is not of this World neither is his Warfare with Carnal Weapons neither hath He chosen us for that end neither can we YET believe that He will make use of us in that way though it be his only Right to Rule in Nations and our Heirship to Possess the uttermost Parts of the Earth but for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names-sake c. p. 8. We are Friends to any appearance of Good that may come forth in Truth and Sincerity and as Righteousness doth appear in any we are ready to joyn with it in our Prayers and Desires yea and
the Inquisition of Spain and Rome and that the Quakers were some of those True learts appears by those other words of G. F's expostulating Why such as feared God and trembled at his Word should be put out of the Army which might have been a Blessing to the Lord in their Generation And in page 3. of the same Declaration they say thus So those that use any Weapon to fight for Christ or for the Establishing of his Kingdom or Government both the Spirit Principle and Practice in that we deny Yet these same Men viz. G. F. and E. B. would that the Officers and Souldiers should have set up their Standard a Top of Rome and have sent for the Turks Idol plucked up Idolatry and cryed up Christ the only King Oh wonderful Again see the Quakers Plea 1661. How peaceable the Quakers are and have always been p 7. NO better Testimony can be given of us and of our peaceableness and that we shall not Plot nor Rebel against the King than Experience it self Experience is the best Witness that we are peaceable and free from Plotting and Rebellion for we have always been so since we were a People both before and since the King came in Obs These peaceable Men not only approve of what the Army did against the King and his Party but would have them to continue Quakers in the Army and to enterprise the Subduing of Spain and the Pope and the Turk in their Spirit and to invite all that are against the Pope to take part with them and they promise the Protector that if he would own them they would own him in the Face of all his Enemies Counsel and Advice p. 7. And Francis Howgil says It was a good thing that the Parliament overthrew the late King and that it is no Rebellion to call away by which he means to Depose those in Power that perform not their Trust for the Good of the People See more of this hereafter Hear farther what G. F. c. say to the King and Council after the rising of the Fifth Monarchy Men p. 2. AND now that we should be reckoned amongst a People whose Principle is to Fight and avenge themselves which astonishes all them which know it I believe your own Consciences tell you that we are harmless and would do you no harm but wish your Good c. It 's known that those you have numbred us amongst never denyed the bearing of Sword nor Outward Weapons but whose Principle is to avenge themselves Obs Could any People declare themselves more for fighting than they did How should Oliver keep his Crown but by fighting How did he get it but by fighting How should the Army set up their Standard a top of Rome but by fighting How require the Blood that has been shed in the Inquisition but by fighting In short What should Men do with Swords but to fight and yet they were not only to wear their Swords but to cut down Idolaters with them and their Sword was to be the Sword of the Lord in their Hand And E. Burrough in express for Avenging the Blood of the Guiltless through all the Dominions of the Pope and exhorts the Army to do this going forth in their the Quakers Spirit How dare these Men appeal to the King and Council 's Consciences that they are harmless and would do them no harm when they not only approve of what was done in the late War but offered their Service to Oliver to own him if he would own them against all his Enemies and some of them gave Intelligence to the Army against Sir George Booth whorose to bring in the King See p. 13. of this Book And notwithstanding all that E. B. and others have written in Justification of the Parliament's Cause against the King yet at the King 's coming in that is in the middle of May 1660. then E. B. writes In his Book called A Visitation c. p. 12. IN the beginning there were but one sort of People that were in capacity to raise and prosecute War against the King and upon such there is Guilt to be charged in the Sight of God who have foregone their Principles and been deceitful both to God and Men. And as for us who are called Quakers we are clear from the Guilt of all his Sufferings c. How often do they blame the Protector and others for putting of honest and godly Men out of the Army It may be because they cannot put off their Hats c. and yet tell the King They have suffered all along because they would not take up Carnal Weapons to fight withal against any and are thus made a Prey upon because say they we are the Innocent Lambs of Christ and cannot avenge our selves Declaration p 6. given forth under our Names and in behalf of the whole Body of the Elect People of God who are called Quakers G. For R. Hubberthorn I. Stubs F. Howgil G. Roberts L. Fell S. Fisher H. Fell and others Farther in the Postscript thus And all Wars and Fightings with Carnal Weapons we do deny who have the Sword of the Spirit This the People called Quakers do witness to all the World Again in P. 4. And this is both our Principle and Practice and hath been from the Beginning so that if we suffer as suspected to take up Arms or make War against any it is without any ground from us for it neither is nor ever was in our hearts since we owned the Truth of God neither shall we ever do it because it is contrary to the Spirit of Christ his Doctrine and the Practice of his Apostles These words of theirs may serve for a Reply to an Answer they make to an Objection that many of them have been in the Army against the King and Kingly Authority to which they say Quakers Plea p. 4. Though some that are now called Quakers were once in the Army under the Powers against the King when their Knowledge and Judgments were not otherwise framed but were of that Principle and Practice that Fighting and going to War in it self was lawful c. yet being now altered and turned in their Judgments to the contrary and that it is not lawful in the Administration of the Gospel to fight against or go to War with Carnal Weapons in any wise there is now no danger of Vs and now We are all of that Mind and Heart that it is on all Occasions whatsoever unlawful to go to War and Fight This pretended change of Judgment in G. Fox and his Preachers is not to be taken for a change of their Judgment for they say it neither is nor ever was in our Hearts since we own'd the Truth of God to take up Arms which is a Contradiction to their giving directions and charges to the Protector Officers and Souldiers concerning Fighting exhorting them thereunto and to go forth as an Army in their Spirit and blamed them for putting honest sober Men and those
much a Legal Dath as any now in use amongst us THE Quakers Answer to J.S. These Forms of Speeches used by the Apostle and by Jacob and Laban So God is Wituess between me and thee God is my Witness c. are of themselves without the Addition of somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge neither Oath or Swearing which somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge was that which gave the Denomination of an Oath or Swearing c. Again That the Forms of Speech used by Jacob and Laban and by the Apostles and others of themselves without adding of somewhat more as an outward Sign or Pledge are neither Oaths or Swearing It is worthy Observation that where mention is made of an Oath or Swearing in the Scriptures of Truth there is also mention made of some outward Sign or Pledge which was added to the Forms of Speech by them used which somewhat more being added was that which gave the Denomination of an Oath or Swearing to the Forms of Speech without which addition of somewhat more than Yea or Nay as a Sign or Pledge the Forms of Speech of themselves was neither Legal Oath or Swearing A second Testimony concerning Oaths p. 3 4 5. A Copy of a Letter and Paper mention'd in the Title-page sent to G. F. March 17. 1674 5. I Being ingaged as well as some others to manifest and lay open Deceitful Workers and Hypocrites I am farther to appear and manifest thee to be one of the greatest Hypocrites and Deceivers in this Nation and until thou own thy Condemnation and leave off deceiving the People assuredly the Sword that 's now drawn is not to be nor must not be sheath'd till thou and such Deceivers as thou art be cut down This following I am to send thee concerning which I shall wait some time for thy Answer before it go farther and what thou writest to or concerning me set thy own hand to it and get not others to set their Names to thy words and works of Wickedness as thou hast done Something of G. F's Deceit and Hypocrisie discovered 'T IS not unknown what great Desires and Longings there was in the generality of the People of this Nation in the Year 1659. to have a King by whom they expected to be freed from those Impositions they were under but some others fearing if it were so it would be for the worse caused a zeal in some particular Persons to write against Kingly-Government amongst the rest we find G. Fox who did not only write his own judgment barely as a Man as others did but as a Man of GOD taking upon him to instruct all others put forth a Book the same year 59. entitled Several Papers given forth by G. But is this to render him Obnoxious to the Government no I abhor that Practice but base and self-ended Spirits are to be humbled and not think themselves fit to cry down other Peoples Religion that have by Treachery Persecution and Falseness too much reproached all Religion as saith Judas and the Jews i.e. G. F. c. F. wherein he writes about ten pages against a King and therein tells the Presbyterians c. There was no King owned among the true Christians but only amongst the Apostates since Christ's time That they were Traytors to Christ that desired a King and farther tells them what a King would be to them if they had one repeating those words Samuel spake to the Israelites Then he bids them look what work Joshua made with the Kings that were in the Cave a fit place for them says G. Fox p. 13. But no sooner the Scene of Affairs changed but he changes his Dialect and the very next Month after the King came in he with some others put forth a Declaration and therein they writ That they owned and honoured the King and the present Government yea they had flatteringly writ therein That they were his Loyal Subjects and that they had suffered much as himself had done c. And being called before a Court in Lancashire where the Oath of Allegiance was tendred him he told them that if he could take any Oath in any case he could take that Oath and farther said he honoured all Men much more the King c. What! Is this the Man that said They were Traytors to Christ that desired a King c. and now himself says he honours all Men much more the King c. Oh Strange Is this he that is so highly esteemed and exalted by his Proselites and even adored by some of his * Josi Cole Sol. Eccles c. Preachers who stile him The Father of many Nations That Generations to come shall call him Blessed Whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest At whose Name the Heathen tremble or were pricked at the Heart †A True Account c. p. 42. The Blessed Man that came out of the North. Who hath been faithful in the Lord's Business from the Beginning That true Prophet whom John said he was not And many more such like Appellations as Innocent Good Holy Vpright Man of God Prophet indeed c. Well but what doth he say of himself viz. That he is beyond the State of the First Adam that fell in the State of the Second Adam that never fell yea that his very Marriage was above the State of the First Adam in his Innocency in the State of the Second Adam that never fell and that he never fell nor changed And yet how hath he turned about with the Wind which he saith they that are in the Fall do and are in the changing changeable ways c. And by his thus turning and changing doth it not manifest him to be in the Fall Fallen and changeable State according to his own Words And yet how far is he from the least acknowledment thereof that he goes on and says He hath power to bind and to loose whom he pleases And takes upon him to make Laws and Orders for People and appoints them Time and Place when and where to Worship yea this is he that presumed to alter or caused to be altered unto which G. Whitehead was Privy the very substance of a Paper that was declared to be writ from the Spirit of GOD and so adulterated sends it beyond Sea which John Osgood William Penington and my self complained of to some of the Chief Preachers but not one of them would or through fear durst say that he had done amiss therein notwithstanding the Forgery was so manifest and the Author said when he came to see it that he was abused in it c. and this coming lately to publick view is still so far from being disown'd or condemn'd that Judas c. endeavours to cover and justifie it with this Saying The Spirit of the Prophets must be subject to the Prophets Oh horrid Impudence and Wickedness not only to commit so great an Iniquity but to bring the Holy Man's words to Patronize and
Posterity a Reproach as he hath done many before you even for that cause was the Generation of the Stewarts cast out Note All these Words in Black Letter are left out in his Works p. 569. Obs That he saith for exalting themselves in Pride c. was the Generation of the Stewarts cast out and their Palaces bestowed on the Protector and his Family And pray G. W. c. was not White-Hall one of those Palaces Now let us hear what Francis Howgil saith in Justification of the late War See his Advice to the Army Committee of Safety c. 1659. p. 3 4 5 6 7. THE Long-Parliament against the late King which in Man's account could be looked upon to be no other than Rebellion yet God gave a signal Testimony to the one while they stood in the Power of God and against the other The antient Courtiers having found so much Ease and Profit by the late King turned all Cavaliers and cryed up the Prerogative of the King above Law and Equity c. Setting that aside wholly which all Good Government was intended for as the Safety of the People and fréedom from Oppression Tyranny and Vsurpation and that none might be embondaged in the Worship of God but when he to wit the late King and his Assistants sought to inthral all and Imbondage all both in Civil and Ecclesiastical things as they were called the Long-Parliament and People that aided them at that time counted it no Treason to oppose him seeing the End was not answered he should have satisfyed and God decided the Controversie in overthrowing the one and establishing the other for a season yet many are so blind to this day that they judge the Nation cannot be established in Freedom without a King as though such a Name were essential only to Freedom and without it could not be obtained but the Iudicious will see this Ignorance c. So now many are so doting on the Name of a Parliament as though it were Essential c. and cry up the Privileges of Parliament as the former did Prerogative and would fight about a Name and lose the Thing intended though they be the Representatives of the People to do good to the People and not hurt they are accounted as good Servants to God but if they would set up a particular Interest to the Imbondaging of the whole and then cry up their Privileges to do what they list Then it is no Rebellion in Gods Account neither in the account of Iust Men to call them away when they do not perform the Thing intended And as for the Long-Parliament by whom God did Good Things and Great Things in the overthrowing that Power which was deviated from the aforesaid End to wit the late King What they did they had the Approbation of God and Good Men yet they went not through with the Work purposed and intended Note All these Lines in Black Letter are left out in F. H's Works When a Company of greedy hireling Priests came from Leicester-shire to sound their Trumpet in the House and to tell you they had not ingaged with the rest of their Brethren in Cheshire and Lancashire with George Bâ—oth they were immediately called in and thanks returned as though they had done some great Service for the Nation that they joyned not in the Rebellion but them who were your real Friends called Quakers who gave you and the Army intelligence about the late Insurrection in Cheshire who were spoiled by the said Rebels of their Goods c could never receive any satisfaction or incouragement from you c. Note All the foregoing Lines in Black Letter are left out in F. H's Works Obs He saith God gave a signal Testimony for the Parliament against the late King That it is no Rebellion to call them who were in Power away when they do not perform the Thing they are intrusted for That God did good and great things by the Long-Parliament in overthrowing the late King wherein they had the Approbation of God and good Men that they who joyned with Sir George Booth joyned in Rebellion that at the same time the Quakers were the Parliaments real Friends and gave them and the Army Intelligence See also E. Burrough to the new Committee of Safety 1659. to the same purpose concerning Deposing Governors E. B's Works p. 593. AND though some of you present Rulers be looked upon as great Traytors and Tyrants in your dealing towards them i. e. the Parliament but alas this is nothing for the Lord doth not account as Men and if you were faithful to what the Lord requires of you in your Proceedings what you have done unto them i. e. in turning them out should not be reckoned on account against you neither by God nor Good Men. Likewise see the Declaration of their Faith touching Governours E. B's Works p. 442. Printed 1672. WE believe that all Governors and Rulers ought to be accountable to the People and to the next succeeding Rulers for all their Actions which may be enquired into upon occasion and that the chiefest of the Rulers be subject under the Law and punishable by it if they be Transgressors as well as the poorest of the People Note This Article of their Faith they also printed in the year 71. in their Book called The Principles of Truth p. 51. But as I was not so I am not willing any Observation should be made thereon and that for their sakes Now hear E. B's Advice to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England c. against Heriditary Government 6th October 1659. But after K. C. 2. was restored then they left all this Paper out in the Reprint of his Works AND while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditarily and by the Succession of Birth and thus it hath continued for many Ages and our Nation hath been under the Bonds of Slavery in this respect even because Men Govern'd that ought not and while Men for Earthly Honour in Birth an Breeding have claimed to be Princes over us successively and to be chosen our Rulers according to Custom and because of this the Free-born People have deeply suffered the cruel Oppressions of proud and ambitious self-seeking Men who have long Ruled for themselves and not for the Lord and have come into place of Authority otherwise than by Appointment and right Calling from the Lord And thus the Government of our Nation hath been out of Course while great Darkness hath remained upon the Hearts of the People which hath so blinded them that they have not known their own Bondage nor yet how to be redeemed into perfect Liberty while they have subjected themselves through Ignorance to be ruled by such Men as had no right from God to that Place of Rule and Government But now the Lord God our Deliverer hath begun to appear for the Freedom of the Nations and hath shewed us the Captivity and Bondage that our
that trembled at the Word of God out of the Army and advising them to take such in again For G. F. and his Preachers can no more change their Judgments than the Pope can change his Decrees without forfeiting his Infallibility That they formerly exhorted Men to fight and would fight themselves and now deny all Fighting on any pretence is to be imputed to their Temporizing and Deceit For in the Book entituled Counseland Advice c. p. 44. G. F. and E. B. tell Richard Protector That if he would walk with the Lord and preserve his People meaning the Quakers then say they Thy Name shall be greater than was thy Father's and the numberless number of this now distressed People will be unto thee a Strength and stand by thee in the day of trouble and defend thee and thy Just Government and their Hearts snall cleave to thee and thou shalt prosper for their sakes and none of thy Enemies shall have Power over thee to destroy thee And in p. 4â— they say Friend live in God's Wisdom if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength then none shall touch thee and all them that fear God will be on thy side and take thy part and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings yea till death But see how the ease was altered in 1662. for then they tell the King and Parliament thus And our Allegiance to the King our Lives have and shall manifest to him and you and all Men. Subscribed by G. For E. Burrough F. Howgil S. Fisher R. Hubberthorn G. Whitehead S. Thornton L. Fell and 20 more And notwithstanding that no People declared themselves more fully for the Long Parliament Protectors and Army than they on condition they would own and protect the Quakers yet how shamefully do they reflect on others and proclaim their own Innocency See their Paper to the King and Council 1660. p. 5. OH King we would have thee do nothing against thy Prosperity and Nobility Oh! hath the like ever been done as is done to us who are an Innocent People and thy Friends and not thy Enemies among all the Princes in Christendom to mingle the Innocent among the Transgressors Again p 6. Oh that we should find such things among you that have been Sufferers by the Same as we have suffered before you Obs What Hypocrisie is here when they pretend that themselves suffered for Righteousness and the King and his Party for wickedness and Tyranny With like Deceit they say in their Declaration given the King Jan. 1660. subscribed by twelve of their Grandees p. 6. In the days of the Parliament and Committee of Safety we were looked upon as Plotters to bring in King Charles So G. Fox and I. Stubs in G. Whiteheads Book The Divinity c. tell the Presbyterians and Independents that when the People of God called Quakers were gathered together in divers places to Worship God then say they you said they were Plotting together against Oliver to bring in King Charles Again Touching Fighting they have taken care to record what one of their Ministry saith We directed all People to the Spirit of the Lord God in them and if that led them to fight I had nothing against it fol. 4. Recorded in their Book of Outland Letters and was spoken before a Court at Barbadoes where he was questioned touching their Principle in that case But in their Declaration to the King 1660. They say p. 2. We certainly know and so testifie to the World that the Spirit of Christ which leads us into all Truth will never move us to sight and war against any Man with Outward Weapons neither for the Kingdom of Christ nor for the Kingdoms of this World In the former Passage they suppose the Spirit of the Lord might lead to fight here they are positive that it never will And in their Testimony to the Magistrates c. subscribed by G. For and 11 more They say all Plots Conspiracies Alders Assisters or Conspirers thereunto against the King we always did and do utterly deny to be any of us And presently after the Execution of that worthy Patriot the Lord Russel they present their fawning Address which G. Whitehead Francis Camfield and Gilbert Layty carried to Windsor to K. Charles 2. Insinuating that the Lord R. and his Companions were Guilty and they Innocent and that they did not desire the least hurt either to the King's Person or Government or to the Person of his Brother the Duke of York and that they were clear from all Hellish Plots and Trayterous Conspiracies c. being Works of the Devil and Darkness c. But what 's the reason the Quakers do not now declare against the late Hellish Conspiracy c. seeing one of the chief of them is accused of it by open Proclamation And in their Paper to King and Council p. 7. they say We are against Violence and Plots and Wars and Fightings they are below in the Fall from God And this we say which is more to us than an Oath See now what Credit is to be given to G. F. and his Ministers in their most solemn Professions such as Oaths are amongst consciencious honest Men For it is well known that many Officers and Soldiers turning Quakers whilst in Arms continued so till they were thrust out and they that put them out are much blamed by G. F. and E. Burrough c. for so doing and are advised to take such in again These are the Men that advise the Protector as we have noted to push down and tread under the High Places of Idolatry in all the Apostatized Churches not only Papists but others And in another place To cry up Christ the only King and Lord. Yet in their Remonstrance p. 14. 665. They say We our selves know that Sion must not be builded with Blood nor the Church of God by Weapons of War nor Religion propagated by Violence therefore we cannot strive with these Weapons nor with any Carnal Weapons of War either fight to defend or offend Let the Reader judge now whether G. F. G. W. and their Party their reproaching and railing on the Presbyterians and Independents and other Parties for their joyning and abetting the late War and approving the Execution done upon the late King and his Party crying up Oliver and Richard and the Old Parliament and the Army c. and then when the King came in changing their Language crying up this King c Whether I say G. F G. W. and their Party are not far more guilty and more abominable in these Matters than any other Party whatsoever whilst they so contumeliously upbraid others and have done the same things and yet now under all these Contradictions Dissimulation and Temporizing do like the Whore in the Proverbs wipe their Mouth and proclaim themselves an Innocent and harmless People and others alone guilty See their Book entitled The Guide Mistaken 1668. p. 50 51 52. They write thus AT the beginning of the Wars