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A46631	The Quakers subterfuge or evasion over-turned In the vindication of the late narrative, concerning the memorable hand of God against a Quaker, and his family, in the county of Lincoln. Wherein the unchristianlike dealings of the Quakers in their late book, entituled The anabaptists lying wonder detected, with an admonition to all Christians to beware of their delusions: with some antiqueries to John Whitehead, about his pretence to the ministery, and the state of the Quakers congregations.	James, Ralph, 17th cent.; Whitehead, John, 1630-1696.	1672 (1672)	Wing J433; ESTC R218748	17,609	26

a Quaker in Principles and did own the Quakers above all People and was acted by the same spirit and had frequent conversation with them touching their Principles 3. That he and his family was afflicted as is said in the Narrative 4. That he and his were delivered from affliction as reported in the Narrative 5. That the Evidences brought by the Quakers to invalidate the Narrative are either forged or unworthily abused 6. That the Baptists and Independants used no juggling touching any thing relating to the Narrative 7. A recital of sundry abusive Expressions and Passages scattered throughout the Quakers Pamphlet 8. An Exhortation or Admonition to all Christians to beware of the Delusions of the People called Quakers 9. Some Antiqueries to John Whitehead the Author of the Postscript And first 1. That the Matter reported in the Narrative is no Lying Wonder c. is thus shewed Because it is neither false in it self nor brought to maintain any Falshood nor to oppose any Truth and consequently cannot be a Lying Wonder sith these are the particulars of which in part or in whole all Lying Wonders do consist Now what this Matter was in it self shall appear in the probation of the Third and fourth particulars and that it was not brought to maintain falshood or oppose any truth is thus evinced viz. Because it was brought to vindicate the just Authority of Gods holy Scriptures and Ordinances and onely to oppose the spirit of falshood which led Richard Anderson into the sin of a false prophet as appeareth by reading the Narrative it self The Narrative RIchard Anderson of Panton about Ten miles from Lincoln came to our Meeting at Northwillingham to hear the Gospel Preached who when he had been a hearer for some time was convinced and said He did believe the Baptism in Water was an Ordinance of God and that both Men and Women ought to be baptised in Water as taking Jesus Christ for our Leader and Example so he went away for that time But before he came again he met with the People called Quakers who told him as himself confessed That he must not look upon these outward Ordinances for they were low But the Way of Life above to the Wise Prov. 15. 24. Note also That the Ordinances of Christ as well as the Authority of the Scripture is opposed by the false prophet and consequently defended by the fulfilling his prophesie upon himself and family but that now he must mind the Light within and be guided by it and not by the Scriptures for they were a dead Letter To which Light he gave such heed that when he came to our Meeting again he much contended against the Baptism of Water and said That now they were to be baptised with the Baptism of the Spirit and not with Water for the Spirit was to try the Scriptures and not the Scriptures to try the Spirit In answer to which I said That I believed that the Scriptures were to try the Spirits and not the Spirits to try the Scriptures Meaning as before is said That the holy Spirit as he speaketh in the Scripture is to try and judge the spirits of Men and particularly the Quakers spirit which they call the Light within he seemingly made Light of it and said That now we must mind the Light within In answer to which I said I was afraid that the Quakers were deceived and guided by a spirit of delusion and that it was my judgment That all the Sons and Daughters of Men ought to be guided by the Scriptures as being the Oracles of God and the rule for us to walk by and he for the Light within to be the rule for the Sons and Daughters of Men to be guided by But as for every particular of our discourse it is out of my remembrance so he went away for that time And the Light which the Quakers did tell him as he said he must be guided by commanded him within a short time after so that he came very early one Morning to my House and inquired for me so I went to him and he told me That he was commanded of God to come and reprove me for speaking against the People of God as he said called Quakers and to exhort me to turn to the Light within Here he speaks the very language and spirit of the Quakers or else he was as he said to pronounce a judgment against me I told him That I thought him to be a false prophet and possessed with a spirit of delusion then he said He was commanded of God to pronounce me a Leper from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot In answer to these words I said to him Through the goodness of God I am not discouraged at what thou sayest but do believe thou art a false prophet and possessed with a spirit of delusion and that I am not to take any notice of what thou sayest But I do desire withal my heart that the Lord would be pleased to let thee see thy evil and the error of thy way that thou mayest report and confess thy error that the Name of God may be honored his ways and appointments exalted and so his people may be better established and confirmed in his ways and appointments So we parted and he went a little way from me but returned again and said unto me Thou sayest that I am a false prophet deceived and possessed with a spirit of delusion but it will be known by me or mine or thee Whether I be a true prophet or false one and so he went home But within a short time after he came home the Lord was pleased to smite one of his children as he said spotted all over himself and wife and his other children were taken with a restless pain in their bodies also so that he was forced as he said to come again and confess he was deceived and that he was a false prophet and the same judgment Lo here is the true interpretation of the judgment intended by the false prophet and not that which the Quakers fictitiously give out in their Lying Wonder p. 7. he had pronounced against me was faln upon one of his children and that himself and wife and other children were taken with a restless pain in their bodies And he said That he and his wife did believe that if I would pray to God for them they might all be restored again to their former healths In answer to his words I told him I could not at present give an him answer but if he and his wife would please to meet me at Donnington where I am to be by promise the next Lords day it may please God that your desire may be answered He being very sad at that time I fell a speaking to him and asking him some questions about the Light within which the Quakers bad him mind and be guided by And he told me That that Light many times would when he had sat down to eat his

THE QUAKERS SUBTERFUGE or EVASION Over-turned In the Vindication of the late NARRATIVE Concerning the memorable Hand of God against a Quaker and his Family in the County of LINCOLN WHEREIN The Unchristianlike Dealings of the Quakers in their late Book Entituled The Anabaptists Lying Wonder detected With an Admonition to all Christians to beware of their Delusions With some Antiqueries to Iohn Whitehead about his pretence to the Ministery and the state of the Quakers Congregations Eccles. 4. 4. Again I considered all travel and every right work that for this a Man is envied of his Neighbor London Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle without Temple Bar. 1672. To the Judicious READER WHen I consented to the Publication of the Narrative of that remarkable Reproof from the Lord against the Spirit of Error which moved Richardson against the way of Righteousness and to attempt the propagation of the Principles of the Quakers by denouncing a Curse upon me in the name of the Lord onely because of that testimony which upon just occasion I was ready to bear against their Errors I could hardly imagine that any man should doubt of the truth of it being so fully evidenced in the presence of so many witnesses by the party himself that was most eminently concerned in it And what Man of Reason will believe that any Man should voluntarily accuse himself to be a false Prophet without some powerful conviction And why should any Man complain of the Hand of the Lord being upon him and his in judgment when there is no such thing And what could Richard Anderson propose to himself in bringing his wife three or four miles purposely that God might be intreated to remove his stroke from her and her children if indeed there had be no cause Or why should they both declare they were disquieted with restless pain and their child with sores c. and that upon his so prophaning the Name of the Lord if all was well with them Surely in vain do Men go about to out-face a thing so manifest It is remarkable that in all the Quakers say they take no notice of Richard Andersons iniquity in taking on him that office of a false Prophet but rather seem to favor his doings in that behalf by suggesting as if the judgment by him pronounced was upon me to this day see their Lying Wonder p. 7 though it is neither witnessed by any nor confessed by me as Blessed be God there is no cause and yet they will in no wise believe any judgment fell on Richard Anderson or his family though so much verified Surely should half so much have been testified of the accomplishment of Richard Andersons prophesie on me or mine as hath been on the contrary the truth thereof had been out of dispute with them ere this day Seeing then that it cannot be denied but Richard Anderson was led by the Spirit of Falshood and prophesied falsly in the Name of the Lord it is far more reasonable to believe that the Lord did rebuke his folly upon the evidence offered then to believe he did escape unpunished under such iniquity without and against evidence notwithstanding all the shifts of the Quakers to help him Wherefore Reader perufe if thou pleasest what I have here offered to observation With much further confirmation of the Narrative And believe me in this for it is truth that I have not in all that I have said wronged my Conscience nor designed any evil against the persons of the Quakers but onely to make discovery so far as this providence might tend to it of the false ways they have chosen that so they might escape from thence and be saved Nor do I hereby proclaim my own glory as they suggest and we know for all their noise that it is lawful for the servants of the Lord to report what God doth by them Acts 15. 12. And yet I do not pretend to work Miracles for the truth is it was not expected by me that God should after that manner rebuke the vanity of the false Prophet who came to pronounce me a Leper But seeing it hath pleased him to do it thus beyond my expectation I know I sin not in declaring it I have more cause to think I should have sinned in concealing it And for the removal of the affliction it was an answer of the Prayer of the Congregation and not of mine onely Indeed for Printing I had no resolution till moved by such as heard of the business knowing my own incapacity for a work of that nature and as I said I was not without fears of the consequence But this I willingly put upon the account of my infirmities not being conscious of any Hypocrisie in the business though boldly charged by the Quakers in that kind but they have a faculty to accuse beyond their ability to prove I commit all that which concerns the matter to his wise disposing that knows our hearts and will render to every one as his work shall be Thine in the Love of the Truth Ralph Iames. THE QUAKERS Subterfuge overturned c. ALthough the Truth of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ was long ago confirmed by divers Signs and Wonders and Gifts of the Holy Ghost and therefore stands not in any need of further confirmation Yet the Hand of God is not tied but that he may yet even this way still his Adversaries by stretching forth his Hand against them as in former days if so it pleaseth him and especially against such presumptuous ones as take upon them to denounce Curses in his Sacred Name against his own Servants a practise too frequent with the Quakers and thereby to rebuke the vanity of such false Prophets is but the accomplishment of his own Word Gen. 27. 29. Psal. 119. 21. Now how far forth the Lord hath this way shewed himself in the Controversie depending between the Baptised Churches and the People called Quakers touching the Authority of the holy Scriptures to try the spirits of Men or to express it more fully the Authority of the Holy Ghost as he speaks in the Scriptures to try and judge the spirits of Men which they term the Spirit of God under what pretence soever they come forth into the World to promote any design of Religion and particularly the Spirit of the Quakers is the Matter which now falls under consideration according to a certain Narrative lately given forth of some remarkable Passages of Gods Providence against the dictates of the Quakers spirit Which Narrative I will here insert because this Book may come where the first did not and vindicate the same against the vain Cavils and Reproach cast upon it by the Quakers in their Book Entituled The Anabaptists Lying Wonder to which I now address my self by making good these ensuing particulars 1. That the Matter reported in the Narrative is no Lying Wonder as it is untruly and immodestly represented in their Title Page 2. That Richard Anderson was