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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42713	A false witness examin'd and rebuk'd, and the stedfast, sincere obedience of the people called Quakers, unto Christ Jesus, their souls captain bishop and high-priest, asserted and vindicated : being an answer to a book, entituled, A declaration concerning the people called Quakers, &c., given forth by I know not who, there is subscribed to the said book, Christidulus Ecclestion, but whether this be the name of the author, or only a feigned name, is a question but I do not know the author by that name, nor do I hear of any that doth, neither did I ever know any man or woman by that name / by ... Wilson Gibson.	Gibson, William, 1629-1684.	1674 (1674)	Wing G683; ESTC R9682	18,480	20

A FALSE WITNESS EXAMIN'D and REBUK'D AND THE Stedfast Sincere Obedience Of the People called Quakers unto CHRIST JESUS Their Souls Captain Bishop and High-Priest ASSERTED and VINDICATED Being an Answer to a Book entituled A Declaration concerning the People called QUAKERS c. Given forth by I know not Who There is subscribed to the said Book ●HRISTODVLVS ECCLESTONE but whether this be the Name of the Author or only a Feigned Name is a Question But I do not know the Author by that Name nor do I hear of any that doth neither did I ever know any Man or Woman by that Name By a Servant of Christ William Gibson For he said Surely they are my People Children that will not Lye so he was their Saviour Isa 63.8 A faithful Witne●● will not Lye but a false Witness will utter Lyes Prov. 14 5. Ye are of your Father the Devil and the Lust of your Father you will do he was a Murderer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth when he speaketh a Lye he spe●keth of his own ●●r he is a Lya● and the Father of it Joh. 8.44 A false Witness shall not be unpunished and he that speaketh Lyes shall not escape Prov. 19 5. They bend their Tongues like their Bows for Lyes but they are not valiant for the Truth c. Jer. 9.3 His Lyes shall not so effect it Jer. 48.30 Printed in the Year 16●● The EPISTLE to the READER Reader CHrist Jesus in whose Mouth never Guile was found hath said that God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in the Spirit in Truth And he hath said that No Lye is of the Truth And the beloved Apostle John said God is Love they that dwell in God dwell in Love and he that loveth God lovet his Brother also 1 Cor. 13. read it throughout And another beloved Apostle saith Love thinketh no Evil it Envieth not it doth not behave it self Unseemly Love is the fulfilling of the Law as it is written Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and thy Neighbour as thy self God is that holy immutable infinite Spirit whose Presence fills Heaven Earth who hath given Life and Being to all Mankind and whom all ought to fear and serve with their Souls and Bodies which are his He is that immutable holy Fountain from whom all Good doth originally come as Love Meekness Patience Justice Equity and Mercy and all other Blessings and Mercies whether spiritual or temporal which the Sons of Men do enjoy And this God who is an infinite Spirit he is near unto all Mankind to shew them what is Good and what he requireth of them that is To do justly one to another to Love Mercy that is to be Merciful as he is Merciful And this is he of whom the Prophet testified saying He that formed the Mountains and created the Winds and shews unto man his Thoughts the Lord of Hosts is his Name Amos 4.13 And this is he of whom the Apostle testified saying 2 Cor. 4.6 God hath shined in our Hearts to give us the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ and this Treasure says the Apostle have we in Earthen Vessels that the Excellency of the Power may be of God and not of us Oh! happy are all they who are given up to follow and obey this holy Fountain of Love Life Joy Peace Justice and Mercy c. for them will he fill with these heavenly Vertues and bring them into his heavenly Likeness in which man was made in the beginning But alas there is another spirit which hath gotten by Vsurpation the Rule and Government over many of the Sons and Daughters of Men Ephes 2.2 which the holy Apostle calls the Prince of the Power of the Air who worketh in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience 2 Cor. 4.4 and he is also called the God of the World who hath blinded the Minds of them that believe not in the true God This is he that lead man first from the true God This is he that lead Cain to kill Abel because his own Works were Evil and his Brother s Righteous This is he that led the Old World into those many provoaking Sins which caused God to overthrow it who preserved Noah that Preacher of Righteousness and did not destroy him with that Vngodly Generation This is he that led the People of Sodom and Gomorrah into those many Grievous Abominations for which God destroyed them with Fire from Heaven but delivered just Lot who was vexed with their Vngodly Conversation This is he who led Pharaoh King of Egypt and his Task-Masters to oppress the Israel of God whom God delivered out of their Hands and overthrew them in the Red Sea This is he who Raigned in the Apostate Jews who went from the Law of God and made them mad against the Lord's Prophets so that they put them to Death This is he who led Judas to betray his Master for Thirty Pieces of Silver and led Demas to forsake Paul in his Suffering and to turn to the Evil World This is he who set the Hypocritical Professing Jews into a Rage against Christ Jesus the Right Heir when he came amongst them and did the Mighty Works that never man did they would not believe him but said By Beelzebub the Prince of Devils he cast out Devils They spit upon him he was crowned with Thorns afterwards crucified whom God rais'd the third day according to the Scriptures and who is ascended and exalted at the Right Hand of the Majesty on high c. These Professing Jews were the chief Instruments against him though they were assisted in this work of Wick●dness by the Gentiles This is he who was those Persecutors Father as Christ told them You are of your Father the Devil saith he f●r the Works of your Father you do for he was a Lyar a Murderer from the beginning when he speaks a Lye he speaketh of himself for he is a Lyar and the Father of it And this is he who led the Heathens to Belye the Primitive Christians and their Principles and to put them to Death And this is he who hath led an hypocritical Generation of Professors of Christianity who are in the Apostacy from the Life of Christ to belye us and our Principles and to persecute us for our Obedience to Christ Jesus yea even some of us to Death Oh! that they might find a Place of Repentance and obtain Forgiveness at the Hand of the Lord God This is he who hath led this Author to Belye us and our Principles and Practices as may be seen in the following Book So as it is written He that is born after the Flesh persecutes him that is born after the Spirit and they that will live God-like in Christ Jesus must suffer Persecution and Evil Men and Seducers wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived Oh!

the Father of all Lyes and Lyars and so hath begotten this Lying Spirit in this Author so the Lying Spirit must inherit the Lake with its Father I could be glad that this Lying Spirit might be cast out of this Author by Christ Jesus the true Light and Life of men before his dayes be ended in this World that so his Soul might live in Peace with God in the World to come This Author is outwardly a Stranger to me but who ever he be I exhort him to Repent of his Envy and Lyes and Slanders which he hath cast upon the People of God called Quakers and if he do not suddainly cease from such evil Work as this and Repent unfeignedly that Misery will come upon him which is hard to express in words and not only upon him but also upon all such Workers in Darkness as he is who Repent not And I tell him That God Almighty hath raised that Nobility and Courage in Thousands of the People called Quakers wherein they are bold at this day to speak against the Old Subtil Proud Envious Covetous Lying Serpent God hath given them a spiritual Bow and a spiritual Quiver full of Arrows and hath made their Arms strong and given them a skilful Hand to shoot at him in Mystery Babylon where he is King over all Lyars Slanderers and False Witnesses who rise up against God and his People and Christ and his Followers but who do not agree in their False Witness against Christ and his Followers but like the False Witnesses of old are confounded in their Work The Boldness and Courage which God hath raised in the despised People called Quakers to testifie against the Devil Dragon and Serpent and against all sorts of his Works and Work-Folks this hath made him to Page and Fret as he doth at this day in his divers sorts of Work Folks but notwithstanding his great working and raging in his Work Folks yet the Lamb and the Saints must have the Victory over him and his Army In pag. 17 18. this Slanderer and Envious Busie-B●dy saith That these whom he calls Heads and Leaders have brought themselves into a Church-Order and Fellowship and as other Sects and Heaps of Religions have divided the Countries into Provinces Dioceses and Parishes and every Particular Pla●● his respective Officers as Arch-Bishops Bishops Arch-Deacons and Deacons and every inferiour Officer to give Submission to his Superiors and that Submission and Obedience of the Commonality to them all as their Heads Thus by Degrees saith he they got Lordship and Mastership and Dominion over the People and brought People to a Conformity by Force and Rigour He further adds Lye upon Lye saying That this People have One in every Liberty who hath the Supremacy and Mastership over the inferior Officers to whom they yield their Submission and Obedience and so every one according to his Degree and Office hath his Degree of Rule and Seal of Mastership c. Answ Oh thou Ungodly Person How dost th●u throw forth thy Fardels of Lyes and Slanders against the Heritage of the Lord and thereby manifests thy self to be void of the true Fear of God I do tell thee that I do not remember that I have ever read any Pamphlet of any Apostate Judas or Demas or any other Enemy of God and his People that hath fardell'd up so many Lyes and Slanders in so little room as thou hast done all which are for the Lake with the Father of them Thou pretendest thou hast known this People about Eighteen or Twenty Years and also signifiest thou knewst their Coming forth and hast taken Notice of their Proceedings till this time And if so thou art under the greater Guilt and Condemnation for giving such a false Testimony or Declaration of them as thou hast done for if thou hast known them and beholden their Order as thou pretendest it must needs be thou lyest against thy own Conscience and abusest thy own Understanding in speaking of them through Malice that which thou must needs know to be false I now tell thee I have known this People above the space of Twenty Years and have had my Conversation amongst them and born my Testimony for the Lord amongst them according to the Ability which I have received from him above the space of Eighteen Years and I have good Cause to believe that I have known and do know this People better then thou dost having been conversant with them both in their publick and private Meetings so many years and that from East to West from North to South of this Island and else where also and I do tell thee that the before-cited words of thine are all false wicked and slanderous for there is not many Masters or Lords amongst us as thou wickedly endeavourest to insinuate but one is our Lord and Master even Christ Jesus the Son of the Living God and we are all Brethren some Elder some Younger according as the Lord hath pleased to call and raise us up and our Lord and Master hath cloathed and is daily more and more cloathing of us with the Garments of Humility and true Love in which we serve him with Chearfulness and one another in the same Love And I tell thee we have found Peace in learning Humility of our Lord and Master and in coming to the fulfilling of the Apostle's Doctrine who said Be ye all cloathed with Humility and serve one another in Love and who said Submit your selves one to another in the Fear of God And whereas this Slanderous Author saith Those whom he calls Heads c. have by FORCE and RIGOVR brought this People called Quakers in●o a Conformity unto them This is also notoriously wicked and slanderous as many Thousands of those People can from true Experience testifie and I know would readily do it to the Face of this Author if they knew him and had Time and Place convenient for it and they have this Testimony in their Hearts on the behalf of those whom God hath raised up to labour amongst them in preaching the Gospel That they have not been nor sought to be Lords over the Faith which God hath freely given them but on the contrary have been Fellow-Helpers of their Joy And whereas this Author saith The Heads c. have divided the Country into Provinces Dioceses and Parishes That is false and slanderous The Lord God who is a God of Order in all the Churches and not of Confusion hath raised up a People to worship him in Spirit and Truth in the several Counties of this Island and they have been ordered by him who hath gathered them to provide convenient Places to meet in to wait upon him and at such Places God hath ordered them in his Wisdom to meet together upon several Occasions wherein he hath laid a Concern and Care upon them as particularly to take Care for Relief for their Poor Brethren and Sisters Widdows and Fatherless Children and Prisoners and Strangers and divers other Services of