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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40262	The spirit of envy, lying, and persecution made manifest for the sake of the simple hearted, that they may not be deceived by it : being an answer to a scandalous paper of John Harwoods, who in words professeth God, but in his works doth deny Him, as may appear by what is herein written / G.F.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing F1916A; ESTC R28399	15,012	20

THE SPIRIT OF Envy Lying and Persecution MADE MANIFEST FOR The sake of the simple hearted that they may not be deceived by it BEING An Answer to a scandalous paper of John Harwoods who in words professeth God but in his works doth deny him as may appear by what is herein written G. F. And there shall in no wise enter into the holy City any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye but they that are written in the Lambs Book of Life Rev. 21. 27. LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A Paper of lyes and slanders I have lately seen of John Harwoods with his name at it which he calls A true and real Demonstration why he denyed the Authority of George Fox which truly the lyes and the slanders are so manifest false reports that he hath gathered up to all men that he hath directed his Book to considering the unclean actions of the person which are out of and below civil men may convince all what a kind of person he hath been for several years which is not like that such an unclean spirit that runs into such unclean actions that came into the open view of the world when he would have taken away a womans life and the woman his about uncleanness in the face of a Country and in the sight of the world and they that believe such untrue Narrations are the same unclean spirits of his whose actions practice carriage have been such which are a shame for modesty to mention and he so loathsome and unclean not fit to come among sober people and is not worth the heeding what he saith But somthing is written to his paper that none of the simple might be deceived that knows him not nor his carriage nor his practice who hath dishonoured God and his people and gone into those things which are out of the bounds of civil men such an unclean spirit the unclean spirits may cry up such an unclean spirit to be their teacher JOHN HARWOOD first thou sayest The truth of God among friends thou never didst d●sown Oh impudencie that thou shouldst be so impudent didst thou own the truth of God amongst Friends when thou acted thy uncleanness Thy word is never I never disowned sayst thou but in the fear of the pure God I declare it wast thou in the fear of God when thou runs into uncleanness did not thy fruits manifest quite contrary at the Sessions that thy practice denyed both God his people Was it not time to turn thee out from the Assembly of the righteous when thou hadst turned thy self from the life and truth the life turned thee out now thou makes a noyse amongst some like unto thy self And did not thou dishonour God and his testimony and Christ and his righteousness when thou went into such unrighteous actions and then when thou hadst done thou runs reviling and slandering and scandaling and scribling against friends when they could not own thee in thy unclean actions who never went to the Justice nor to the Sessions to clear truth confess to them thy abominable actions how thou hadst dishonoured God and his truth and owned thy condemnation amongst them and how thou had abused his truth And whereas thou charges G. F. of Capital offences which are offences unto death by thy unclean spirits judgment and there thou pourests out thy envy and malice which no other fruit can be looked from thee but it will fall upon thine own head whoever joyns with thee in this work they will fall with thee in the same pit And thou goest about to clear thy self from prejudice and enmity and fathers thy lies and slanders upon God Oh blasphemy wickedness and impudency And thou sayst G. F. hath been searching after the failings and offences of others to publish them This is one of thy lyes But where the offences and failings are and a changing from them and the people forsake their offences and failings that is owned and that no uncleanness might be amongst us nor enter into the Camp if there be any we search that we may find it out But in this thou hast made thy self manifest that would not have offences and failings judged for he that sins openly is to be reproved openly And thou sayest The publication of these things of thy lyes slanders and false reports is at the just hand of God and mine Thus thou impudently and blasphemously joyns thy self with God in publishing thy lyes and slanders And first thou sayest G. F. calls himself the Son of God c. And this thou calls a crime thy actions and fruits hath manifested whose son thou art and thy self to be ignorant of the Scriptures and the Spirit that gave them forth And as for the esteem of thee it was never much valued though G. F. many other friends did exhort thee that thou might have been preserved as a civil man been kept out of these things which were below many of the World Another of thy lyes That G. F. should set up himself in the high place and throw down others This is another of thy lyes for it is the Lord that set him up and not man and such wicked unclean spirits as thine is he doth not own and such unclean spirits as thou art are not Gods inheritance for I do Judge and am above all such and ever was and ever shall be And so thou art one fallen into the divers temptations and hurtful lusts but thy heart is given up to the same which is come up to open view And what ado hast thou to talk of God and his divine glory and his truth and his people whose fruit hath manifested the uncleannesse of thy spirit What ado hast thou to take Gods name in thy mouth that hates to be reformed For Korah when he gainsayed Moses he gainsayed the Law when he went from truth and such instruments as thou art hast dishonoured the Lord more then ever thou hast honoured him and his people and his truth and therefore thou ragest against them that have lived in it and have kept their garments clean And such as thou art said Christ was a Devil though they could find no seam in his Garment And what dost thou talk of Israel who hast gone from that which did convince thee and now become a railer and false accuser and impudent and thou hast been led into open prophaness which God brought to light that the very earth could not bear thee but judge thee and therefore dost thou think that his people would receive thee Thou art far off from the fellowship of them if thou hadst intended to have got in amongst the fellowship of the Saints in light and the heirs of the Gospel whose Conversation is in Heaven thy way had been to have gone to the Magistrates and the Sessions and the Countrey and have preached thy Condemnation for such things in which thou hadst run out beyond modesty to speak of and I know

seeks to sow discord amongst Brethren and to cast slanders and false reports and lyes to vilifie the righteous the innocent and the pure and the spotless whose garments are pure and clear and lives an undefiled life This is no new thing to see such appear now for they were of old for condemnation and so it stands upon them though they rise up against the righteous and mount up to Heaven among the Stars and so fall down to the earth into Hell this condemnation of them was ordained of old The Light is gone over them in which is our fellowship G. F. Dear Friends THE Life and Power of God in which ye are raised and by which ye are nourished and refreshed is the 〈◊〉 Foundation which shall never be rased our for it is laid of God and no man can lay another and ye that feel the Life and Power of God in your selves ye feel Christ the Salvation Righteousnesse and Wisdome of God and so ye by the power of God are kept and preserved in sincerity and integrity to God and thereby comes to be established upon the Rock which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against nor all the fiery darts of the wicked touch and in the Power of God ye being gathered and established ye stand and live in that which scatters the clouds and keeps your eye clear to the Lord God by which Power ye see in a good understanding through all the spirits and powers which worketh in the darknesse and by the Power are preserved out of the● and set above them where ye reign as Kings in the immortal Seed of God by which the Serpents head is broken and his Seed destroyed and this is the true freedome in the Son who dyed and suffered and is risen again in life and brought Life and Immortality to light in which Life and Light ye are the children of the most High God and heirs of the everlasting Kingdome of God where ye have a sure portion in the Joy and Peace and Blessing of God in which sit ye down and keep your habitation and the God of life and peace and endless love be with you all and cloath you with the Garment of everlasting praise that in all things ye may give him the Glory who lives for evermore And Dear Friends Be ye all watchful in the Light by which ye were and are convinced for the Times are perilous Times yea and that amongst such as professe to one Truth and by declaration speak the same words and such there are crept in amongst Friends in the truth who by fair words and seeming appearances seeks to subvert the simple minded and to beguile the unstable souls and so would beget a dislike in the hearts of Friends against such as Godhath raised and exalted in his heavenly Power Life and Wisdome and such Papers there are in Print which are published by John Harwood against G.F. wherein he hath slanderously reported of him and falsly accused him and if any such papers come amongst you or that ye may hear a report of them let not your minds be hasty to believe that what is so reported is truth but weigh the matter in the savoury life and you will feel that it came from a very bad spirit and not worthy of any acceptation amongst Friends that live in the savour of truth but is to be judged condemn●d and cast out And all that live in the truth and the savour of it will find a sufficient answer in themselves by which they may receive their satisfaction And this is signified unto Friends that no lyes nor slanderous reports may rest upon the truth nor remain upon the innocency of Gods anoynted but with the true spirit of Judgment they may all be cleansed out from amongst the heritage of God And Friends All that abides in the truth doth certainly know that G.F. was raised by the mighty power of God and hath not preached himself but Christ Jesus the Lord and himself a Servant for Jesus sake he is a living witness of the Resurrection of the Just not handling the Word of God deceitfully nor using flattering speech at any time but in simplicity and godly sincerity he hath spoken in Christ the everlasting Seed and his word hath not been yea and nay but from the beginning his word and his preaching hath been unchangeable and he the same in the truth without any variablenesse and he is grown up in Israel in the mighty power of God and is cloathed with the heavenly wisdome of God where his life is hid from the eyes of his accusers and they that love the truth and abide in it do know that he hath ever been dear and tender over the good in all and hath judged the evil with righteous judgment and though there be many risen which would weaken his testimony as if it was not what it had been yet all that have received his testimony and continue in his doctrine have a more sure evidence concerning his life then to be shaken or moved at the report of false accusers which in the Light is seen to be that spirit which strikes at the Life it self and so would kill and take possession which spirit is to be judged by all Friends in the truth and the souls of such pitied who with it are ensnared for the day of the Lord is to pass upon it and it shall suddenly with●r and perish and come to nought and all that give up their belief unto it and therein doth abide they shall fall as leaves from the Tree when the vertue retires into its Root But as for G.F. the Lord God hath exalted him and the Glory of the Lord rests upon him and all that have received his Testimony in the love of it and the Testimony of such as preaches the same Word and therein doth abide even the same glory in their measures doth rest upon them and a sure defence is stretched over it and the Storms of restless Clouds shall never blast it nor the waves of the troubled Sea slow over it the Lord hath spoken it And this is manifested unto Friends in love to the everlasting truth of God not setting up a man or throwing down a man but in all things giving the power preheminence and in dearness to the Vessel that is filled with the excellency of that treasure and also beating down the Prince of the Power of the Air the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience knowing in the Counsel of the Lord God that whatsoever such spirits pretend to or in what likenesse soever they do appear yet the deceivablenesse of unrighteousness is lodged in the Root And therefore my dear Friends of all such beware and love the word of truth and live in it that in love meekness and peaceableness ye may feel your rest in the bosome of the Lamb and the blessing of the Lord God be upon you for ever William Smith THE END Let this go only among Friends

Thomas Richardson will never deny and thou that hast lyed and slandered me I do not beleeve thou wilt speak truth of him And here are more of thy lyes in saying I sent papers to Virginia to slander John Parrot and Jane Stoakes in a reviling manner setting his servants at work and this is a Judas-like spirit and work mark his end The like same spirit said I had sent papers to Thomas Thurston against Jane Stoaks and Elizabeth Harris and when Thomas Thurston came he manifested their lying spirits who said he had not received any Letter from me but where deceitful spirits run up and down among friends their tongues preaching one thing and their lives another I deny them and shall write after them as I am moved of the Lord God and deny them if they do not return by repentance And whereas thou saist G. F. caused John Fritwell and Christopher Gilbourn and James Nailor and others to go down upon their knees afore him and to make their Confession and to own Judgement upon that which was charged against them All people can tell in the Bull and Mouth whether I spoke to James Nailer to fall down upon his knees there by that they may judge of Fritwel and Gilbourn for if James Nailer or any else did or do condemn upon their knees before the Lord that which they have done against him in dishonouring of him and his people I shall never deny it not call it idolatry for if John Harwood had done so gone among the Justices and in the Countrey and amongst the Lords People whom he had grieved and condemned what he had done and acted and scandalized the truth it had shewed a penitent heart and tenderness and something like the truth and that would have preserved truth and not have dishonoured But instead of doing so he is grieved at them that did do so far off of acknowledging far off of such an humble mind as kneels down sits upon his breech with his Hat on his head in prayer and so like a numb thing without sence and feeling of the Spirit In this Capital crime thou speaks of which thou must judge and condemn thy actions and practise and all these things thou had wickedly acted thou hadst better have judged and condemned but Esau could not find repentance though he sought it with tears And the Seed of God doth condemn all that is contrary to it such actions practises as thine it s set atop of the head of them An ●as so● thy envy malice raging because I have written against the high places Pulpits says I allow of such like places in our meetings there are no such things like a Pulpit in our meeting let all Friends judge of this if there be any such thing like unto a Pulpit for where Friends stands other Friends stands and sits upon them and this is one of the capital crimes as thou calls it And because when Friends go to marry they were to publish it sometimes before in their meetings and because it was to be laid before the men Friends women Friends to have there approbation before they take one another this shews a changable spirit a fallable Oh the adulterous spirit cannot abide to come to the light what if it be declared at the market place for thou art afraid of the light who art out of tru●h And Friends who are moved of the Lord God to go together whom the Lord joynes in the honourable marriage in the undefiled bed this we do according to the practise of the Saints of the most High publish it to them that be in the Power and Spirit in which Power and Spirit there is order which power of God and Spirit of God is before thy defiled bed was as for the speaking of it in meetings and laying it before mens meetings womens meetings in London who loves wholsomness this is no contradiction but it is one with the former which thou scoffingly calls order but thou would do what thou doest in the dark where thou art canst not abide the light and therefore declare it in mens meetings womens meetings that is to stop unclean spirits like thine who declared it in the meeting at the Peel the woman declaring nothing then runs into the country committing adultery with another woman is thy order and forme thou gets disciples into and therefore to speak it in men and womens meetings amongst Friends in the truth this we own to keep down such evil spirits as thine they being in the truth that the thing be done in the light but thou that hates the light hast loved the darknesse and so thou hast fellowship in it And as for John Moone he is owned thou wast never to be compared to him nor his ministry and that which thou hast spoken of him I believe is like the rest for I have not spoken to him about that thing but I believe its like the rest of thy lyes And as for M. F. thou a●t not worthy to take her name in thy mouth a vertuous woman when thou sayest being shut up in a room neer Newgate several houres this is thy malitiousness wickednesse for there was her Son in law and her Daughter was passing to beyond the Seas where they had something to speak together where several Friends desired to come in and could not because I had some businesse to speak with them before they went beyond the Seas which was the occasion of stopping of some Friends and this is like thy reports at Elizabeth Trotts house thy false reports And as for her being weary of my company or questioning any such thing or questioning me or she this is like thy rest and I believe she will tell it thee to thy face for what is to be looked for from thee what thou hast acted with that same line thou measurest others an innocent people and a righteous people and thou that hast no other stuffe to feed people but such stuffe as this is with thy surmising and evil jealousies to judge others to be like thy self but truth is clear and is over all who art like Cumberland and Purseval in thy words but worse in thy practise but the Seed is atop of all your heads and they that will feed upon such things will sink themselves And as for G.F. going up and down to reproach and revile the innocent to warn Friends not to receive him these are all lyes or any where else have done the same these are all lyes but deceit I judge where-ever I find it and ever did and ever shall but in the will of the Lord I doe it and his honour glory I seek but these have been thy words to envy hate slander raile and accuse these many years but I am in the Spirit and Life and in the Life that ever was that never falls nor never will fall that never changes nor will change and what