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
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
be happy under you It is high time to lay aside say they that Interest of this oppressing Clergy You know the Spirit of the Romish Clergy was in the late Bishops whom you cast out for their Wickedness and the very Spirit of those Bishops is entered into these Priests And there is the remainder of her Murders in these Mens i. e. the Ministers Breasts and at every opportunity it breaks forth as of late in this Rebellion you have full Testimony it was Sir Geo. Booth 's appearing for King Charles the Second in the North 1659. And these Quakers they go on and say to the long Parliament If you do not curb it i. e. the Spirit of the Bishops speedily it will grow over you to your undoing And in page 524. Says to the Parliament Cast them the Ministers off and let them not lurk under your Wings but leave them to be worried by the Quakers for one day they will rebel against you and another day flatter you and shew love in hypocrisie even while they are hatching Mischief against you even to bring the Nation into Blood It appears to many of you a thing hard to forsake your Godly Ministers Was it not the same concerning the King and Bishops Was it not as terrible to him and his Lords to think of the Overthrow of the then called Godly Fathers and Bishops But better had he cast them off and saved himself than to have perished with them And better were it for you to lay them aside and save your selves than to perish with them and one of these will come to pass It 's decreed of the Lord if you uphold them Ministers and oppress Peoples Persons and Estates and Consciences on their behalf and in their evil Cause for Tythes and Wages ye shall fall with them and none shall be able to deliver you nor them For the Spirit of the old Idolatrous Bishops is entered into the hearts of these Men and there is a great measure of Tyranny Injustice and Abomination on these as was on the Bishops and these are as nigh ripe for Vengeance as the other i. e. Bishops were c. By these and what follows the Church of England may see that these Quakers Ancient Testimony of their Truth was as much against them as against the Dissenters and more however they may to deceive forbear to treat them now with such hell-fetch'd Names in express words as formerly But the Quakers go on saying in page 477. The Lord is risen to confound this Church and this Ministry which is Idolatry And P. 477. For you who worship God in Steeple-houses God will confound this Church and Ministry c. P. 499. We are punished for bearing witness against the false Prophets and Hirelings of these days And we see and know that they c. shall perish Their downfall hastens greatly and all the Powers of the Earth shall not be able to support them and with them shall fall their Tythes Now this their Rage and Envy is from the Mouth of the Lord or else these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. were Conjurers by their own Sentence And altho' I have afore proved they do expect Obedience to their Laws as the Laws of Christ altho' they to deceive pretend they be but Advice or Counsel yet for further proof thereof observe that for disobeying their Advice against carrying Guns in Ships they say It 's injurious to their own Souls and therefore it must be a Law of high Concernment that the not obeying or breaking of it is of such ill consequence to their Souls And these Foxonians will not suffer nor permit their Papers to be called Mens Edicts nor Sinful no not the very Papers how sacred then do they think their Ancient Testimonies therein written be Surely as aforesaid they deem them Laws of Christs making especially that wherein they Unchristian all who pay Tythes altho' freely and record and mark rhem for Antichrists and Deniers of Christ come in the Flesh Now hear also their own Doctrine Say they Any Party of Men under a Government to make Laws not lawfully Authorized for binding others and thereto requiring obedience be the setting up themselves above the Law and treading it under their feet and rendring them whom they so bind their Slaves and so is TREASON This is worthy of Notice by all Rulers and People And to O. Cromwel page 557. say they This is the Word of the Lord to thee The Ministry of England for which thou seem'st to stand generally it 's not of God but of Antichrist and the Lord is against it and it 's the ground of the greatest Oppression of the Poor in its Maintenance as any one particular Abomination this day in the Nation and if thou settest thy self to uphold them thou shalt fall into Perdition with them And to R. Cromwel p. 578. Say they of the Publick Ministry As it is now we testifie from the Lord it is wholly degenerated in all things from what the Ministry of Christ was c. And much more against the Ministers which they have Re-Printed at large But in this same Letter page 574. where they put the words Grievous Cruelty it was by him Grievous Tyrannies Also in the same Letter p. 580. just before the four last Lines they leave out this following Sentence As concerning the Armies abroad let faithful Men i. e. Quakers be put in trust for the Army is of great Concernment to thee to stand or fall through them as to Mans Account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it the Lord may accomplish something by it to his honour and thine There is something in it known to the Lord a cunning Gypsie Prophet And altho' they say this was from the Lord yet they thus alter and leave out to hide their hypocritical Pretence after the Restoration that they were against fighting with outward Weapons for any end whatsoever But this shews their Hypocrisie as well as their Malice which they continue foaming out against the Protestants in their Message as they say by especial Authority from the Lord by his Embassador E. B. In his Works p. 591 Say they Tho' he i. e. the Lord did in some measure free this Nation from much Tyranny in casting out Popish Authority yet the Nation in a few years was near as much violated by Injustice Tyranny and Cruelty under the Prelatical Power as ever it was once under the Papal Power But altho these forging Wretches the Foxonians give this as a Message from God by his Embassador E. B. yet they leave out this word Tyranny and change Prelatical into Succeeding Either they are self-condemned Blasphemers or else deserve the Plagues of adding and diminishing from and to the Word of the Lord. But altho' they leave out their Treasonable Testimonies yet their Sedition against the Protestant Ministers they have to the full put in well knowing there was them great in Court they thereby pleased and would and could
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