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A85134	A confession and profession of faith in God: by his people who are inscorn [sic] called Quakers. Also shewing that the people of God are no vagabonds, nor idle, dissolute persons, nor Jesuites, though they wander up and down, and pass from one country to another, and from one nation to another, as they are moved of the Lord in his service. And this is to clear the truth from all false aspersions. By R. Farnsvvorth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1659 (1659)	Wing F478; Thomason E935_1; ESTC R202127	17,443	18

A CONFESSION AND Profession of Faith IN GOD By his People who are in scorn called QVAKERS ALSO SHEWING That the People of God are no Vagabonds nor Idle Dissolute Persons nor Jesuites though they wander up and down and pass from one Country to another and from one Nation to another as they are moved of the Lord in his service And this is to clear the Truth from all false Aspersions By R. FARNSVVORTH London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the VVest-end of Pauls 1958. A CONFESSION AND PROFESSION OF Faith in God c. TO all true (a) Act. 11.26 Christians Gods (b) 1 Pet. 1.1 2 3 4 5. Elect and (c) Phil. 1.1 2. Saint of the most High God who are begotten by the (d) 1 Pet. 1.22 23. Joh. 3.5 6 Immortal Word and born again of Water and the Spirit The Church (e) Col. 1.18 Eph. 1.22 23. Eph 5.26 27. of which Christ Jesus is in the Holy Scriptures declared to be the Head And to all faithful moderate People whomsoever wheresoever and by what Names and Title soever known by or distinguished to or amongst the sons of men know ye hereby assuredly That we who of the world are slanderously reported as the people of God were in former ages Rom. 3.8 and who are reproachfully called Quakers do profess and confess testifie own believe and declare as followeth THat we Profess and Confess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son the true God and in the Holy Spirit And we do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the Words of God This we testifie and we are not ashamed to Confess and Profess Faith in God the Father and in Christ Jesus his eternal Son and in the Holy Spirit as the Scriptures saith but we do believe in them and acknowledge subjection and dutiful obedience unto them viz. The Father Son and Holy Spirit And moreover we do hereby declare and testifie to all true Christians Gods Elect what God we do own and profess Faith in even in that God that appeared unto Abraham the Father of the Faithful when Abraham was ninty nine years old and said unto him I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect Gen. 17.1 The everlasting God Gen. 21.33 The God of Heaven and Earth Gen. 24.3 The God of Truth who is just and right and without iniquity Deut. 32.3 4. The faithful God that keepeth Covenant and Mercy with them that love him and keepeth his Commandments to a thousand Generations Deut. 7.9 The faithful and merciful God who will not suffer his to be tempted above that which they are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that they may be able to bear it 1 Cor 10.13 1 Sam. 2.3 1 Sam. 2.2 He is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2.3 Neither is there any Rock like our God 1 Sam. 2.2 As for God his way is perfect the Word of the Lord is tryed he is a buckler to all them that put their trust in him 2 Sam. 22.31 and therefore he is worthy to be believed and have Faith in him professed for who is God save the Lord and who is a rock save our God 2 Sam. 22.32 33. He is the great the mighty and the terrible God Neh. 9.32 That God who is the King of all the earth Isa 45.21 22. Isa 45.5 who reigneth over the Heathen and sitteth upon the throne of his Holiness Psal 47.7 8. A just God and a Saviour Isa 45.21 22. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his Redeemer The Lord of Hosts I am the first and I am the last and besides me there is no God as you may read Isa 44.6 Isa 43.11 12. Who is a God near at hand as well as a far off Jer. 23.23 That God who dwelleth in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit Isa 57.15 Yea the God of patience and consolation Rom. 15.5 the God of hope Rom. 15.13 Iude 25. and that God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of all Mercies and the God of all Comfort 2 Cor. 1.3 The God of Love and Peace 2 Cor. 13.11 The King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God 1 Tim. 1.17 God who is Light and in him is no darkness at all 1 Joh. 1.5 The only true God Joh. 17.3 and the Lord our God is one Lord Mark 12.29 For there is one God Mark 12.29 30 31 32 33 34. 1 Cor. 8.5 6. and there is none other but he Mark 12.32.34 And there is none other God but one 1 Cor. 8.4 Isa 44.8 And this is God the Father which we own and profess Faith in and in Christ Jesus his eternal Son who said I and my Father are one Joh. 10.30 upon which saying the Jews took up stones to stone him Joh. 10.30 31. yet notwithstanding the same Christ that the Jews hated we love believe in and own who was delivered up to be crucified for our offences and was raised again for our justification Rom. 4.25 Who is the true God and him we own and profess Faith in and in the Holy Spirit God together equal with the Father and the Son one God over all God blessed for ever Isa 45.6 Joh. 10.30 Rom. 8 9 10 11. Eph. 4.4 5. Eph. 4.30 Rom. 9.5 1 Cor. 2.10 12. Joh. 4.24 Rom. 9.5 And unto us and al true Christians the Saints in Christ Jesus Phil. 1.1 It is given in the behalf of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but also to suffer for his names sake As you may read Phil. 1.29 As concerning the Scriptures c. That which in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament is declared and testifyed of to be the Word of God that we beleeve in own and confess to be the word of God according to the Scriptures And that the holy Scriptures of the old and new Testament as they are the Words of God so to be we own Knowing this first that no prophecie of the Scripture came in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1.21 Who prophesied of the grace that should come unto the Saints and us in after ages searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when it testified before-hand the Sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did Minister the things which are now declared unto you by them that have preached the Gospel unto you with the holy Ghost sent down from heaven 1 Pet. 1.10 11 12. And God spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God c. Exod. 20. ch So the words and sayings of God we do not deny

God and want discerning he may turn his sword against that which it is to defend and preserve where it is not born in vain and for want of discerning and being gone astray as aforesaid may nourish vice and profanenes so be a discourager of them that do well and an encourager of them that do evil if he know not the power of God or be erred from the same and have not his soul in subjection to it That he may know them that in the power of God have their souls subjected thereunto and are doing good by vertue of the same and abstaining also from evil in all its appearances Therefore whosoever resisteth the power of God by which his ministers of justice are ordained to rule for him they resist the ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves damnation Rom 13.1 2 3 4. And to that power and ordinance of God are we subject for conscience sake Rom 13.5 And the Law is good if a man use it lawfully Knowing this that the Law is not made for the punishment of a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and profane for murderers for manslayers for whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankind for men-stealers for lyars for perjured persons and such like being the fruits of the flesh and as you may read 1 Tim 1.8 9 10. Galat 5.18 19 20 21. But the fruit of the spirit is love peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness and temperance against which there is no Law as you may read Gal 5.22 Gal 5.24 25 26. 23. And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and are neither desirous of vain glory nor of provoking and envying one another ver 24 26. Written the 3. day of the 10. month commonly called Decemb 1657. Who are no Idle Wandering Dissolute Persons nor Jesuites and who are no Vagabonds c. SVch as are moved and directed and commanded by the Lord God and his Spirit to go and declare his mind and will by the Assistance and according to the appointment thereof though they goe from one Nation and Country to another accordingly as aforesaid yet notwithstanding they are neither Idle Wandering Dissolute persons nor Iesuites nor Vagabonds Abraham was called out of his Fathers house Gen 12.4 Read Ge. 12. ch Gen 13. c. and native place to go abroad according to the directions of the Lord and did so and were as a stranger and sojourner in a strange Land yet he were neither an Idle wandering dissolute person nor Jesuite nor Vagabond no more are his seed now though falsely they are accused to be so Moses went down into Egypt from Midian Exod 3.1 Exo 38.9 c. where he had been a keeper of Jethro 's sheep to do the will of the Lord yet he were neither an idle wandering person nor a Jesuite or Vagabond though Pharaoh the king then of Egypt falsly accused the servants of the Lord to be idle fellows or to take the people off from their work And Pharaoh the king regarded not the words of the Lords messengers but accounted them vain and as the false accusing spirit did then so doth it now though the persons guided thereby profess more then Pharaoh did and accuseth them to be idle wandring dissolute persons or Jesuites and Vagabonds that are not no more then Moses the servant of the Lord was then Elijah the servant of the Lord was not an idle wandring dissolute person nor a Jesuit nor Vagabond Exod 5 4.5 6 7 8 9 vers c. though he passed much up and down the country in obedience to the Lord and went to beg or ask som relief of the widow of Sarepta And if any of the Lords messengers should do so now would not this generation of men accuse them for running wandring abroad a begging so accuse them to be idle wandring dissolute persons and vagabonds and troublers of the Nation Did not king Ahab then king of Israel accuse the said Elijah the servant of the Lord falsly and say he was his enemy a troubler of Israel but it was not so viz. That he was a troubler of Israel but of the wicked Therefore the servant of the Lord 1 King 19. ch 1 King 17.10 11. to cast off the false accusation charged upon him by the king and to clear his own innocency said to the king that it was he viz. the king and his Fathers house that was so even the troublers of Israel the people of the Lord And so the false accusing spirit in this generation is apt to charge the Servants of the Lord falsly to seek to lay upon them that which the accusers themselves are guilty of as Ahab and his fathers house was when the innocency of the innocent though falsly accused is clear and stands justified in the sight and account of the Lord. The Disciples of Christ sent forth by his own power when he were personally amongst them was commanded to go abroad in the Countreys to the lost sheep of the house of Israel Mat. 10.5 6. Mat. 10.9 10. and forbidden taking thought what to eat drink or put on and commanded to take neither silver nor gold nor brass in their purses yet they was no idle wandring dissolute persons nor Iesuites nor Vagabonds But if any be sent of the Lord now and forbidden to take any silver or gold in their purses This generation would be ready to accuse them to be idle wandering dissolute persons mad men Vagabonds might not the Disciples that Christ so sent have objected and said Lord how shall we do to be provided for when we come amongst Strangers and in other Countries if we must not take any Silver nor Gold nor Brasse in our Purses had we not better take Silver and Gold Brasse in our Purses that we may make provision thereby for ourselves when we come amongst Strangers so stop their mouthes rather then to rely upon them will not they be ready to say These are idle loose fellowes mad men and Vagabonds that wanders about to live upon other mens labours and cannot otherwise tell how to get a living They neither have Silver nor Gold nor Brasse in their Purses do any that have meanes to live on go out thus when they are to go into farr Contries and amongst Strangers except they be idle wandering dissolute persons and Vagabonds such as have no Silver nor Gold to take in their Purses yet notwithstanding the Disciples of Christ that were so sent as aforesaid were neiher idle wandering dissolute persons nor Jesuits nor Vagabonds No more are the Servants of Chrst though they may so go now in obedience to the command and councell of Christ yet this generation of men are ready to accuse them to be idle wandering dissolute persons or Jesuits or Vagabonds as that generation of men accused the said servants of

Christ aforementioned and others that succeeded them Acts 4.13 Acts. 24.5 6. to be ignorant unlearned men and deceivers and turbulent pestilent fellowes mad men and ringleaders of Sects and the like though they was not but that the false accuseing spirit of the world was then and of ancient standing is now yet accustomed with that work Before Christ ascended he called his servants together gave them command to waite at Jerusalem till they was indued with power from on high Saying then shall ye be my witnesses not only in Judea Jerusalem but also to the uttermost parts of the earth Act. 1.4 8. vers Might they not then have objected and said Lord would it not be better if thy excellency would be pleased to chuse out Messengers for thy own work in every Countrey that are native and Inhabitants then to send us as strangers amongst them where we are generally to them unknown shall we not by that be hardlyer thought of because we are not to any of them known and will not that be a meanes to bring us into great sufferings persecutions amongst them Mat. 4.18.19 20.21.12 Mat. 9.9 Tit. 1 16. and when we come abroad in far Countries beyond Seas where we are not at all amongst them known will it not give them cause to say we are Jesuits or idle wandering dissolute persons and vagabonds yet not withstanding what they might have objected against such a sending as leaving estates relations behind them and coming under false censures and great persecution they gave up freeely and went leaving behind them their estates and relations But such as are moved of the Lord to do so now in the crosse to their wills and through the tryall of their faith and exercise of their patience they are hardly judged of by those that are at ease in the flesh and do greatly suffer by reason of the subtilty of the serpent that is clothed over and hid under a pretence and profession of Godliness professing God in words but unto every good work are abominable and reprobate as such like aforetime was When the Church was met at Antioh as they ministred and fasted Acts 13.1 2. the Holy Ghost said Seperate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have appointed them and they being sent forth by the holy Ghost they departed unto Selucia and from thence they passing over Seas sayled to Cyprus Act 13.4 and so to Salamis ver 5. And yet notwithstanding they were neither idle wandring dissolute persons nor Jesuits Act. 18.18 19 20 21 22 23. nor vagabonds no more are such that are sent by the Holy Ghost now though they may pass abroad in several Countreys and over Seas about the work of the Lord now to act by his spirit as they are directed as Paul and Silas afore mentioned did then Likewise Paul and Barnabas they passed much abroad in the countreys after that for after they had been at Salamis they passed through the isle unto Paphos Acts 13.6 And did the work of the Lord for which they was sent by the holy Ghosts order and appointment And when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos Act. 13.13 They passing through the countries came to Perga in Pamphilia and when they departed from Perga aforesaid passing over the countries they came to Antioch in Pisidea and did the work of the Lord appointed them by the holy Ghost there also Acts 13. from ver 14. to ver 45. But then as now the Iews the old envious professors being offended at the truth they out of their envy spoke against those things which was spoken by Paul and so was in an errour therein and also for contradicting and blaspheming him and the truth ver 45. Yet they that was so contradicted and as aforesaid was neither Jesuits nor idle wandring dissolute persons nor Vagabonds but they was the dear servants of the Lord and waxed bold against the deceit to declare and testifie the truth of the Lord Act. 13. from ver 45. to ver 50. But though they was neither Iesuits nor idle wandring disolute persons nor vagabonds no more then such as are the Lords Messengers now yet the envious professours the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women so called and the chief men of the City and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and banished them or at least expelled them out of their Coasts but they shook off the dust off their feet against them and came to Iconium see Acts 13.50 And the servants of the Lord that were so persecuted and banished were at peace Act. 13.50 51. and justified in the sight of the Lord and the Disciples were filled with joy and with the holy Ghost The professors of them times and the chief men of the Citie and even such as were accounted devout and honorable amongst them they were in great error in being so readie to be stirred up by the envious professors and so raise persecution against the servants of the Lord and banish or expel them out of their Coasts insomuch that they shook off the dust of their feet to be a witnesse against them according to the command and counsel of the Lord Jesus and then the chief men of the City and the professors and as aforesaid they did not believe that the Apostles and servants of the Lord was the Lords Ministers and Messengers that so passed abroad in the countries and over Seas into many Nations no more then the chief men in many Cities and such as are old envious professors and also them that are accounted devout and honourable by men do believe that the Servants of the Lord are the Lords Ministers and Messengers now that passe abroad in the Countries and over seas into other Nations but being envious against the truth they raise persecution against the servants of the Lord and are readie to expel or banish them out of their coasts and call them idle wandering dissolute persons or Jesuits or Vagabonds so void of discerning of truth from error are they being prejudiced in their minds against the Lords Messengers as such in the cursed nature aforetime were and now are that they cannot abide that truth should be trulie declared or entertained in the families and cities and countries where they are but as the witnesse of God ariseth and answers to the judgments of God upon them and that which shall be against them for their disobedience to the truth and envie against the truth and servants and messengers thereof they shall then be ashamed of such their ignorant or wilful actions and crie out in the bitternesse of their spirit against themselves for so acting as aforesaid when the Book of conscience is opened and the judgement of Christ against them is pronounced Therefore while you have time prize it and fear the Lord God so will you not oppose nor persecute his servants and messengers but receive them and delight in the truth as to you it is