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spirit_n	body_n	dead_a	quicken_v	7,579	5	10.7938	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55805	The unequal unyoked, and the equal yoked, and light separated from darkness, & darkness and blindness joyn'd together in answer to a paper that would joyn together truth and untruth, the true worship and the false : and here it is discovered, and the author thereof in part rewarded, by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to / by a lover of justice and equity and hater of the contrary, Peter Price.	Price, Peter, 1600?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3397; ESTC R9270	17,524	21

THE Unequal Unyoked AND The Equal Yoked AND Light separated from Darkness Darkness and Blindness joyn'd together In Answer to a Paper that would joyn together Truth and Vntruth the true Worship and the false And here it is discovered and the Author thereof in part rewarded by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to By a Lover of Justice and Equity and Hater of the Contrary PETER PRICE Her Priests have violated my Law and have prophaned my holy things and have put no difference between the Holy and the Prophane neither have they shewed difference between the Vnclean and the Clean and have hid their Eyes from my Sabbaths and I am prophaned among them Ezek. 22.26 And as Troops of Robbers wait for a Man so the Company of Priests Murder in the way by consent for they commit Lewdness Hosea 6.9 London Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch 1683. The Unequal unyoked and the Equal yoked c. THere came a Paper to my hands from a Bishop as I am credibly informed and I have strong Reasons to believe that it came from his hand or some of his Priestly Generation 1st Because the Comparisons came not from the Spirit of God but from a Darknist who is ignorant of the Truth of God that did not see the difference between us and his Father the Pope 2dly It is plainly seen that it came from a malicious Heart that would have a suffering peaceable People still to suffer and so doth joyn with the Oppressors to oppress the Oppressed and thus he saith That any man may see and discover how near Quakers and Papists are in Opinion let them read these following Comparisons of the one to the other 1. Quakers claim the Spirit to Infallibility so doth Pope and Papists Answ The Spirit of God is Infallible which we do own and possess and wouldst thou have us to deny the Spirit of God to be what we know it to be because Papists as thou sayst do own it so to be It is clearly seen that thou art a stranger to the Spirit of God who wouldst have it to be fallible and not only so but also any Enemy to it that would undervalue the unchangeable and infallible Spirit of God Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 4.9 and vers 11. He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal Bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you and vers 15. But ye have received the Spirit of Adoption The People of God in all Ages had and now have the Spirit of God to be their Teacher Counsellor and Instructor in all things and it is given to every man to profit withal and if we cannot claim title to the Spirit of Infallibility what benefit may we expect from that which is given to fail to change or to alter But the fallible deceiveable Spirit doth enquire after large Livings great Wages and most Hire Benefit and worldly Riches to enjoy and this is an earthly worldly selfish greedy covetous Spirit which ever was and now is against the Spirit of God and all those that were and are led by it This is the Wolfs devouring Spirit that casteth to Prison and devoureth the goods of them that cannot feed it Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison Rev. 2.10 2 Quakers make themselves the sole Church so Papists Answ Here we are falsly accused for we do not make our selves the sole Church for what we are is of the Lord and not of our selves and he hath made us Members of his Church and the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved Acts 2.47 The Church is the Body of Christ Col. 1.24 And we could not make our selves the Body of Christ the Body must be like the Head for by him they are redeemed out of the Sins which the World doth live in for they by Christ their Head are washed cleansed purified fitted and prepared for himself to dwell therein These and such as these are the Church of God 3. Quakers hold no Salvation but in their Meetings so do Papists but in their Communion Answ Here we are again falsly accused for we hold Salvation no where else but only in and through Jesus Christ the Son of the living everlasting God 4. Quakers are Recusants so Papists Answ How now Bishop and Priest I speak to them only that are guilty would you now make us Recusants because we cannot seed your greedy Bellies nor maintain you in your Pride and Covetousness we dare not feed that which Christ came to destroy the which would destroy Christ in his Members 5. Quakers deny Bishops to be jure divino so Papists witness the Council of Trent Answ We do deny you to be what you are not and we do own you to be what you are for we wrestle not against Flesh and Blood but against Princi●●lities against Powers against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World against spiritual Wickedness in high places as they did Ephes 6.12 Your jure divino is your spiritual Wickness in high places Come down exalted boasted Selfishness the everlasting Bishop we own and those that are called and chosen by him are also by him made divine and it is his right to oversee the Soul but you that covet after filthy Lucre we deny 6 Quakers are of rebellious Tenets so Papists Answ Let all People that are not defiled with Tythes judge who are most quarrelsom troublesom burdensom and whose Tenets are most Rebellious against all appearance of Godliness and who are bad Examples you or us As the high Priests did stir the Magistrates and People against Christ Jesus and his followers perswading the People that he did those mighty Works which he did through Belzebub that his Followers were movers of Sedition and turners of the World up-side down So likewise this man who is one in Enmity and Malice with his Predecessors the high-Priests hath falsly belyed us expecting thereby to stir Persecution against us so his envious Spirit is seen and judged 7. Quakers as they piece up the Word of God by wild Fancies pretended Revelations so Papists by Traditions Answ The Word of God thou knowest not which cannot be pieced broken changed or altered thou dost botter know how to compel the People to maintain thee whilst thou hast the Magistraies on thy side than to speak of things that are too high for the Nature thou art in but the Natural man parceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 8. Quakers are against Common-Prayer so Papists Answ Thou who art sensual it is that needest the Common-Prayer who hast not the Spirit of God to pray by which the holy men of God had to teach them to pray and to declare the things revealed to them by the

obey whether of sin unto death or of Obedience unto Righteousness Rom. 6.16 For the wages of sin is death v. 23. They that serve sin or live in it are Servants to the Devil and cannot serve two Masters And is not the Lord God that made the Heavens and Earth and all things therein stronger than the Devil to lead out of sin for as God will not lead to sin so the Devil will not lead to any thing that is really good and many People are led by the Devil and not by God who made them And if they live and you dwell in sin what good do you to the People for your hire and wages They could live in sin and keep that to maintain themselves that doth maintain you and are not you the unprofitable Servants while you and your followers do live in Sin And are not you to receive your wages with the unprofitable Servants that did live in sin as you do Was it not sin that did separate from God and lead into the fall and doth separate from God And is it unpossible to remove that which did separate from God And must People still remain in the fall and from God And while you live in that which keepeth from God in the fall how can you come out of the fall to God again And can you obtain forgiveness of sin while you live in sin And must not sin be forsaken They that forsake their sin shall have mercy saith the Scripture bet do not you say to the People They have mercy though they live in sin A false Doctrine which proceeds from a dark unclean Spirit and not from the Spirit of God Bishop and Priest how can you but deny Perfection in this life while you deny the effects of Christs coming which doth perfect his work in his People and are not his works to be done within where the Serpents head is to be bruised And can his head be bruised without Christ the only means ordained of God to do it and so his work in you is not yet done but his Enemies work in you doth yet stand which is sin and uncleanness this makes you to oppose the work of Christ which is 〈◊〉 bind the strong man and to cast him out of possession and to lay the Ax to the Root of the unfruitful Tree which by God was never planted and the Serpent and his seed and all that doth belong to him turned out root and branch and all that belongs to the Enemy of God by Christ the higher Power destroy'd And then the Image of God wrought and the fruit of the Spirit known and witnessed as it is written And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.11 And they said Christ in us the hope of Glory and know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 Thus Jesus Christ hath and doth do his works in his People whilst unbelievers do talk of his coming and sin in them still remaining which is the work of the Devil Bishop and Priest Christ saith Learn of me and you say learn of us and them that do not are prosecuted in your Courts and cast into Goal and goods taken from them And Christ said Feed my Lambs Joh. 21.15 Feed ye the Church of God Acts 20.28 Feed ye the flock of God 1 Pet. 5.2 Mind what Christ saith Feed my Lambs my Church my flock And in effect you say We will make you all feed us or else we will have a suit in Law against you and recover trible damage and drive away your cattel or goods or cast your Bodies to Prison until you pay us This we believe you will do and you have done already The People of God that had the largest measure of the Spirit of God and of the Virtue Wisdom and Knowledge of God were Servants to the rest and good Examples and did exceed others in meekness mildness lowliness and all manner of humility according to the largeness of that of God which they had received And you according to what of men you have received are by them preferred and entituled Lords Bishops Masters Priests So herein one with Pope and Papists and also one with the Heathen exercising Lordship over the People contrary to Christ and his Disciples who were all Brethren and he their only Master Mat 23. and so bear sway and rule over the People and compel them as Servants to you or more like slaves than servants for Servants may change their Masters if they do not like them but the People cannot change you be you never so cruel and bad although they do complain and deny you and your stolen ware out o● other mens works and not from the Spirit of God Is it not a slavis● condition to compel a People to what they know will not serve thei● turn to make them pay for that altho' they do refuse it If it we●● upon the account of worldly things it would be the better boren b●● it doth concern our Souls Health and Salvation and everlasting Happine●● and Well-beeing world without end And the Lord God whom we obe● can deliver us out of our merciless hands but if we should obey yo● you cannot deliver us out of the just hand of God therefore we little matter what you can or will do while we keep our Consciences void of offence towards God and men You are easily to be known your rising up hath brought many down You are black without and dark within your making thick hath made many thin those that do feed you you cry peace to and those that do refuse to follow you are your Adversaries be they never so good so that we do plainly see that you did not come for our good but for our goods not to feed the flock but that the flock may feed you as it is written Wo to the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves should not the Shepherd feed the flock ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the Wool ye kill them that are fed but you feed not the flock Ezek. 34.23 Here you may see that you do the same works as the false Shepherds did before you and we declare against you as the godly did against them ye kill them that are feed mind that do not you seek to destroy that which is led by the Lord and by him begotten which is the New-birth wherein dwelleth Righteousness with it doth all things become new therefore if any man be in Christ he is a New-Creature old things are past away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 Is there any thing in you become new or is the corrupt Birth still alive from which nothing that is good can proceed and so you cannot witness your selves to be new Creatures in Christ but in self and selfishness