are to the Gentiles and to their blasphemous lying Brethren Foxonian Preachers S. Eccles notwithstanding he S. E. was proved such a blasphemous Lyar yet they are so charitable to him that in Antidote c. p. 225. they believe he died in Peace And to G. Whitehead's Brother C. Atkinson that lascivious Blasphemer his Blasphemy against God and Christ say they As to those offensive Words we do not affect the terms neither are they proper to the true Christ But by their Charity to him it may be feared they think them proper enough to our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Person which you term Mean and Contemptible a Vessel a Garment This your Charity to your blasphemous Brethren and your Uncharitableness to the Protestant Minister shews your Zeal nor Charity are not Christian For you say G. G. the Minister was possessed with a Legion of Lying Spirits And of J. Faldoe you say that He and thousands of our dear Countrey-Men were in the Pit of Damnation crying out on the Ministers Such a damnable Sin do these Foxonian Priests make it for any to discover and oppose their Errors But they may blaspheme and deny the Lord if they wâ—ll but Idolize Fox as Solomon Eccles did and they shall dye in Peace with these charitable Foxonians And their Unchristian Spirit further appears in their Excommunicating G. Keith altho' twelve Months after they had acknowledged they had nothing against his Doctrine nor Conversation but they pretended he was Apostatized from the Spirit of Meekness and Charity But he was rather departed from their wrathful uncharitable Spirit against the Protestants and more come into the Spirit of Charity And that which they charge on him as Uncharitable c. was because he testified against their Errors and maintained the Truth altho ' they make other Pretences as that he on some great Provocations in Discourse gave some harsh Names to some of their Erroneous Preachers Now consider all these afore and after of their hell-fetch'd terms and wicked Actions of theirs to the Protestant Ministers Kings c. and all People I say Consider whether all these do not prove them either to be gone from or rather that they never had the Spirit of Meekness and Charity and therefore more justly Excommunicated from the Protestant Society than G. Keith did according to their own Judgment and Practice For let Algier be search'd if all the Runnagadoes there for this hundred years past have so villified and defamed the Protestant Religion and Ministers as these Foxonian Priests have done How can you especially you Governours of the Church of England expect to convert any to your Religion and Church while that and you lye under such foul Scandals so publickly in this and other Nations without contradiction and the chief Actors and Promoters in favour and incouraged in Reprinting these Blasphemies in great Volumes as in E. B. and Fox's wicked Works which may have cost near a thousand pounds and I hear they are Reprinting more of that Blasphemer Fox's to the value of 2000 l. charge and this also doubtless intended to be preserved in the Library at Oxford for a Monument of Infamy to the English Protestant Ministers And in the Title Page they put high Titles of the Authors and term them worthy Prophet true Prophet and Servant and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God an Ambassador by special Authority and special Commission from Christ and say they of the wicked Author Generations which have not yet a Being shall count thee blessed because of the want the Inheritance of the Lord hath of thee my Substance is almost dissolved but you have taken care his wicked Works shall not be wanted Again say they of him The first Fruits unto God since the Apostacy endowed with the Almighty Power of God which Lived and Reigned in him By his Fruits herein produc'd you may judge what Power and Spirit they Foxonians be ruled by which they term Christ It ought to strike Terror and Amazement in all Protestants to consider how they exalt themselves and defame the Protestant Ministers and say At the desire of many Friends that the Labor and Works of this valiant Soldier of Christ to continue on Record as Monuments of his Service for the Lords Consider the time of their venting their Fury against the Protestant Ministers and the time of the French King 's dealings with the Protestant Ministers and their Churches there and this is not only the effect of one Man's passion but the premeditated Work of these Foxonian Chief Priests G. Whitehead and W. Penn especially who in his Serious Apology says If the Quakers Expressions against the Ministers had been Ten Thousand times more significant-and sharp against that cursed bitter stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and says he we have nothing for them but Wo's and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations c. and laid them asleep whil'st they have cut their Purses and pickt their Pockets W. Penn is not in jest here but serious and in earnest to confirm maintain and hold up the Ancient Testimony their Truth taught them in the beginning which they now enjoyn their Foxonian Subjects to hold up and maintain in all the parts of it for their Truth changes not say they and therefore W. Penn confirms his Fathers Fox and E. B.'s cursed Envy against the Protestant Ministers for further say they in their Book A Brief Discovery c. The Protestant Ministers they are Conjurers Thieves Witches Devils Lyars Stewards of the Devil's Magazines who go about to Murther the Child Jesus where he is manifest even these bloody Herodians they would devour the Child Jesus c. Hold up a Worm-eaten Beastly Form yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers scarlet-colour'd Beasts selling Beastly-ware they sell the report of others Riches the Letter which is Dust and Death c. Now this cannot be the Paper and Ink as the Quakers now pretend for the Ministers do not as they say sell that but it 's the Doctrines of Scripture they thus condemn for as afore they say the report of other Mens Riches Now the Paper and Ink is not the report but the Doctrine or Matter signifi'd by the Letters wrot in the Paper with the Ink. This shews the now Quakers fallaciousness in their now forged excuses for their Ancient Testimonies of their Truth in the beginning But in this Book they go on and say of the Ministers Possessing nothing but Heathenish stuff c. Really they are Blood-hounds but if they be not to be sure your Foxonian Spirit is hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell still barking and raging like Sodomites c. Wo wo is their Portion and of the upholders of that Treacherous Crew the Protestant Ministers Here is the Judgment passed on all Kings and People by these Quakers and all this and much more such Hellish Envy and Scandal in two leaves besides what 's
A Just and Lawful TRYAL OF THE Foxonian Chief Priests BY A Perfect Proceeding against Them AND They Condemn'd out of their own Ancient Testimonies And being brought to the Bar of Justice their own Ancient Testimonies have judged them Guilty and to be no Christians of Christ's making Thou shalt rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer Sin upon him Levit. 19.17 Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Psalm 137.8 But these Quakers say Scripture is not his God 's Voice but Declaration of what he spake to and by those holy Men c. Scorn'd Quaker page 19. Therefore I will give them their own Scripture Must not Jealousie be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them as they have stirred up the Powers of the Earth against others Truth 's Character p. 15. Having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name of Christians you deserve not that Name E. B.'s Works p. 419. LONDON Printed for the Author and to be Sold by B. Aylmer against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1697. ERRATA PAg. 11. Lin. 33. for see r. with p. 23. l. 7. the Comma that 's at in should be at it p. 27. l. 17 18. them words in the Parenthesis be not theirs p. 87. last line but one after the word justly r. deserve to be p. 89. l. 25. after the c. r. of and the Comma's that be at the should be at they for the Protestant Ministers are not their words p. 90. l. 37. after people r. they say p. 96. l. 31. after party r. says p. 111. l. 11. for word r. world Pages 200. and 201. should be 110. and 111. and there be some words inclosed in Parentheses inserted into some of their sentences which be not theirs only added for particular notice or explanation which although not so well distinguished as ought yet by the sense of the matter discernable The PREFACE Christian Reader THe Design of this following Tryal is To shew the wickedness of the Foxonian Spirit and the Chief Priests and Rulers among them That it 's an Antichristian Porphyrian Spirit appears by their bantering all who confess themselves Sinners For T. C. having said I desire my Imperfections nor these Quakers Revilings may not prejudice against reading this c. for they cannot represent me a greater Sinner than I thank God I think my self to be but by their villifying me they shew the weakness of their Cause and the wickedness of their Spirits For the Controversie between us is not what T. C. is but whether or no G. Fox c. has so printed as I charge them and whether those Expressions be not Unchristian c. For this these Quakers thus banter me A large Confession I promise you say they Why in good earnest he hath cut off all opportunities of being told of his Faults for the future by confessing the Indictment and pleading Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him now henceforth for ever Then we may take it for granted that whatever I have charged him with c. he is conscious he is guilty of consequently I have not wronged him in so representing him nay nor is it possible for me to wrong him c. Little need be said to shew the Injustice of the Foxonians besides their Scoff and Banter But for that they say How can he i. e. T. C. expect any other but to be banter'd c. And not only T. C. but all who confess themselves Sinners are so dealt with by them But to take a little notice of these Quakers Injustice for as to their Bantring T. C. must expect no other from them They say of T. C. He hath pleaded Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him which is false for T. C. does not confess nor have they proved he is guilty of what they charge him with but they have wronged him For altho' the Prophets confessed as David c. that their iniquities were great and St. Paul said of himself I am the chiefest of Sinners yet they were falsly charged and wronged by your Fore-fathers and they laid to David's Charge things that he knew not and Paul was not guilty of them Sins your Forefathers accused him of Acts 24. But they wronged him as you have T. C. Nor do I find that any of the cruel Jews since Paul's confessing himself the chiefest of Sinners ever made so wicked and Porphyrian a Bantering use of his words as you have done as to say They cannot wrong him nor is it possible to wrong him Paul for let me represent him how I will I cannot represent him a chiefer Sinner than he says he is Nay say these Quakers his i. e. T. C.'s Concession includes not only all this i. e. Whoremonger Swearer Drunkard c. but all other Sins whatsoever But if they pretend they say These Sins we hope he is not guilty of what then Altho' they hope so yet by their own Doctrine they may charge him with them and punish him accordingly its not possible for them to wrong him But now in case that Passage were not so properly worded as it ought I see not so much difference between a greater Sinner and the chief of Sinners as to be so Unchristianly dealt by But humble Christian Acknowledgments are so contrary to their proud Pharisaical bragging Prayers as G. W. ' s at the end of his Judgment fixt c. that causes them to gnash their Teeth so against them but their own Doctrine in their Book Rabshekah c. p. 70. is a proper Answer to them herein and to most of their Books say they I defie the Father of Lies himself to out-do this and I having proved some part of their Book Rabshekah c. was writ or given forth by a wicked Spirit I suppose you will confess it was all given forth by one Spirit therefore let the Reader judge what the rest of it can be E. B. 's Work 's p. 148. There 's some Faults in this Tryal c. which I desire the Readers Charity in passing them by as the smallness of the Letter because I was desirous to bring it into as few Sheets as possible and indeed I did not expect it would have taken up so many but while it was in Printing I Inserted several more Proofs of my Charges into several places as I thought most suitable which I find causes it in some places not to Read so smooth as it ought Also I have shortened it in some partiat the latter end because I find the same Matters are fuller and better Treated on in the Second Edition of the Snake in the Grass c. And I understand that Worthy Author intends a full Reply to the Quakers pretended Antidote c. Whereby I question not but he will discover the Poison of Asps from under the Tongue of G. Whitehead in that pretended Antidote c. as well as he has Discovered the Flames
by the Devil but sure it was a worse Spirit instigated you to print and recommend that wicked Defamation of the Protestant Bible and Ministers then that G. W. could say his brought a great reproach on Friends but this wicked action of yours are far greater reproach to the English Protestants and more justly to be condemn'd but you knew who you pleased and that you had them great in Power to stand by and gratifie and incourage you in defaming the Protestant Ministers so that it was not then your Interest and therefore might and did say you were not concerned no not to vindicate but to defame the Protestants and although in your last years Foxonian Conclave in White-hart-court in your Laws then made you use not the same Terms because you have been detected as Tythes and Church Rates c. but do in more squinting quibbling terms that your Design and Presumption may not be so easily seen impose the same things saying we recommend unto you the holding up the Holy Testimony of Truth and that in all the parts of it for Truth is one and changes not and say they what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning it reproves still and so what it justified in the beginning i. e. the Actions in 1648. c. it justifies still for say they Truth i. e. the Foxonian Spirit is one and changes not hereby have they confirmed all their former Seditious Doctrines in Print as well against the King as against the Protestant Ministers nay all their contempts of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth's Person Blood and Sufferings therefore whatever seeming fair Confessions they may for to deceive the Government now make of owning the present Government as consisting of King House of Lords and Bishops and Church of England as now Established and the Scriptures and Christ yet they have hereby i. e. their Meetings Injunction not only owned but also in as plain Terms as they durst commanded their Subjects to hold them up and in order thereto it is that they do so defend their old Blasphemies and Seditious Printed Ancient Testimonies of their Idol of Jealousie Fox c. whilst they pretend to believe and own the contrary And although this Tryal hath been long wrot yet had not been now published but that they instead of disowning these erronious Ancient Testimonies as they ought if they were True Protestants they cover and excuse them and pretend they are such quiet innocent ones in the Land and therefore that People may not be deceived by their good words but may see them as they are envious Slanderers and Persecutors of the Protestant Ministers is this now published also because these Foxonian Rabshakes are so shameless as to challenge it as out-doing the Devil their own Foxonian Spirit because after it was proved is said in discovery inlarged c. I find their Books stuft with such base Insinuations and Defamations of almost all People that the chief drift of them seems to be to render the New Testament and the true Faith in our Lord Jesus and the Ministers and Professors thereof Infamous and worse than the Papists and are so bold as to advise and direct to the taking away and destroying Property Now I say he the Devil hath out-done it in and by themselves as in pages 10.11.31.32.34 to 38. of that Discovery and also more fully proved in the Sn. in the Grass c. and Satan disrobed c. and by George Keith in several Books printed by him Also in one Sheet titled an Essay to allay G. Foxes Spirit which may be Printed at large containing about Twelve Sheets but in this Citation they are Guilty of that they so defame T.C. for for they leave out these Words and Defamations whereby they not only wrong the Citation but the Sense also and your own Consciences cannot but know unless they be seared that its true although you are so proud you will not hear I have forborn naming some Persons and Books in respect to some concerned and although the Citations be short yet they are true and in your own Printed expressions I say if you think these things too hard with the Light of Christ search your selves and see if it be not the reward of your own hands and if you say wherefore am I made publick it s your own answer thou Foxonian Spirit hast committed thy lewdness before the Sun therefore openly art thou reproved who hast sinned openly also again you say in Print must not Jealousie be stirr'd up in the Powers of the Earth against them i. e. Professors as they have again others And although I am sensible your influence and interest is so considerable that I know not how soon I may feel the tender love of your Spirit as W. Bradford did yet I am not afraid nor discouraged from discovering you for all your Policy that who or what ever Interest govern you are sure to be of the rising side for you have some great among you of all sides and also I know and have proved that the Foxonian Rabshakes are not Children in Malice but Men yea strong and old Men in Malice and Contempt of the Scriptures and Protestant Ministers and do more justly deserve to be taken notice of by the Magistrate than the poor Country Justice did for using an cetera in his Warrant for Commitment of Fox or then G. Keith and W. Bradford did and seeing you term others Rabshakes let the Reader judge whether that name belongs not to you Foxonians Whitehead c. who gave these and many more names to Mr. Pennyman to defame him viz. you called him grinning Dog barking Cur the Devils Agent the Devils Porter the Devils Drudge-Vassel of Hell setting open Hell Gates Bond-slave of Hell cursed for ever cursed Serpent c. Unclean nasty Spirit c. although one of the cleanliest neatest Men in London but to prove the Foxonian Spirit is a nasty one observe as follows their nasty words as I find them in Print by one J. Wiggam who had some controversie with them they writ this to him this hath caused thee to spew out on a Paper for the Dogs to lick up they take so much of thy filthy spewing it causes them to vomit thou purges upward and downward thou needs one to wipe thee thou mak'st a pitiful stink through thy vomiting and purging thou besmears every one that comes nigh thee one may follow thee by the smell wilt not give over vomiting thou stinks all the Country over like a Man with a scall'd Head and Horse with a gall'd Back making People Vomit and Spew that they make such a stink thou may'st be asham'd with thy filthy spewing if thou wert not Impudent also Margaret Foxes Wife wrot thus to him thou hast committed Sacrilege which will never be forgiven thee thou art accursed and no other Portion canst thou have thou Infidel Child of Darkness the Curse Christ hath pronounced on thee thou art the Man thou Impudent
Lyar night Owl wicked Lyar and as I can find the cause of all this nasty and rabshake Language from them was because he disputed against them about the Light in every Man and published something about it now if you can shew me such nasty Words from J. P. and he to have been the Devils Porter to spread fetch or forge false Intelligence from the Pit of Damnation and the Papists in Defamation of the Protestant Religion and Ministers as I have produced of yours then I grant his Spirit as nasty and as much rabshake as yours but in case it be so that will not clear your Spirit from being a nasty and rabshake one but if you cannot smell this your Foxonian Spirit to be a nasty one you have lost your senses else you may follow this nasty Foxonian Spirit by the smell and herein your Chief Priests be proved to be the Devils Porters and which they wrongfully charge on others without proof and this your matchless Pride and Insolency in accusing the Protestant Ministers to the King for being for Ol. Crom. when you were more guilty caused J. P. to write out the Quakers Unmask'd c. and send to you privately to make you sensible of your Error but your Pride cannot bear reproof but threatned him F. B. and T. C. for mentioning it but it s now in Print but I think that which encouraged you so to defame the Protestant Ministers was because you was as sure of encouragement and countenance if not reward in that Work from some then great in power as your Fathers Fox c. formerly they having many of the chief in the then Army who countenanced them then as W. Penn c. lately And I say in case you do not as publickly testifie against these Wickednesses of your Chief Priests as you did against the Christian Quaker D. S. then all you Foxonian Quakers are chargeable as guilty of them and your pretended counterfeit new Confessions ought no more to be believed or clear you than a Thief when he is convict of Theft his saying he really believes the Ten Commandments may clear him but the Foxonians falsly accusing the Protestant Ministers and endeavouring to render them odious prove its true as they themselves say that Runnagadoes are the violentest Enemies against them they have deserted for none are more implacable Enemies to the Protestants than Fox Whitehead c. who once professed the same this their own Doctrine is proved true in them Foxonian Chief Priests G. W. c. For I think if all Algier were searched that of all the Runnagadoes that have been there this Hundred Years there cannot be found so many Defamations and Contemptious Expressions in Print of the Person of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Blood shed on the Cross as there is of these Foxonian Quakers in their Printed Books in London its pity that this Protestant City should be the only Garden of the World to breed and nourish such Plants and send or sell the Seed of such degenerated Plants of a strange Vine what must London out-do Algier in defaming the Christian Religion especially the English Protestant Ministers to encourage loose Atheistical Persons in the same Work for reprinting these their wicked Works with such high commendations on the Authors affixed before them tends to the Destruction of the Protestant Religion as the Gun-Powder-Treason did and the chief Actors therein no more deserve commendations than them and these Quakers have approved of those wicked Actions in their Ancient Printed Testimonies now under-hand injoyn'd their Subjects to hold them up for these of theirs were from the Spirit of Truth or the Spirit of Error if from the Spirit of Error its needful they testifie against them as publickly as they did against the Christian Quaker D. S. for owning Fox and Whitehead Guilty therefore in case they do not disown them its Evidence they do own them as the Testimony of Truth and so are confirmed and injoyn'd by their 1696. White-hart-court Conclave to be maintained and held up as some part of the Testimony of Truth Now consider you Quakers who be honest minded although deceived by your Priests G. W. c. who are so wicked as to accuse this Man as endeavouring to have them destroyed nay crucified too because he justly and truly complaining the Protestant Religion was in danger by them to be rooted out and yet they in the same Pamphlet are so wicked so early as in 1660. to accuse the Ministers in general as dangerous to the King and for being against him and for the former Governments although they themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree for says they to the King Friends then called Cavaleers you are become cursed in all your endeavours the purpose of your hearts have been known to be always against Truth it self and though your Kings c. have been cut off in wrath and says except you repent of endeavouring to re-establish the King and that Government you and your Kings c. and lordlly Power by which you have thought to exercise Lordship over my Heritage shall be inslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness where he i. e. the Devil shall Reign your King and Lord for evermore this they say was from the Lord and sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God Yet these Forgers the Foxonians could leave the whole Message out and great part of these Citations again says E. B. to O. C. of the King's Friends I know the Lord hath cursed them and what thou hast done unto them and their King should not be reckoned against thee by the Lord if now thou wert faithful c. i. e. take away the Ministers and their Maintenance for that was one of the sins they counted O. C. c. then guilty of for say they to O. C's Council the same false Prophets Protestant Ministers you establish by a Law which deceive the Nations again says the same E. B. to the Parliament and that in 1659. but about 6 Months before the Restoration while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditary and by the Succession of Birth as hath been the custom in our Forefathers days that knew no better whereby the Inhabitants have been always suffering and liable to great Oppressions being under such a Government falling from Parents to Children after the manner of the Heathen Nations again p. 3. the Lord hath begun to appear and shewed us the bondage our Forefathers lived in and we our selves been subject too by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively now our Eyes are opened to behold better things and pag. 6. say to the Long Parliament it s on me to lay it before you even as the Contenders for England's Liberty whom the Lord honoured in the Beginning to remove Tyranny c. But this whole Libel and other Treasonable Ancient Testimonies of theirs is left
not more recommendations thereof than these Quakers have given of this but the same Principles is in their other Ancient Testimony in the beginning which they now injoyn their Subjects to hold up But judge Reader if these Foxonian Cardinals Whitehead c. were not very Shameless in that they durst thus maliciously accuse the Protestant Ministers to the King so soon as 1660. for being against his Father and for Oliver and them Governments when as themselves that is Foxonian Quakers were so highly guilty in the same Case and here I have proved their being out of Christ's Doctrine and so by their own Doctrine to be of the Devil for here afore you see how heinous a sin they make it even as Crucifying our Lord for saying the Protestant Religion was in danger to be rooted out by the Quakers here its plain they did not do as they would be done by for in the same Libel they inform against the Protestant Ministers as dangerous to the King these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. reflect on and endeavour to incense the King against the Men the Creatures they strike at them therefore their Spirit or Light which they blasphemously term Truth and the Spirit of God c. cannot be the same Spirit as Christ and the Apostles had by their own judgment now seeing it s not Christ's Spirit and they say there are but Two Spirits Gods and the Devils and themselves have judged it I have now proved them the Foxonian Chief Priests so Wicked and Malicious against the Protestant Ministers that they have informed against them to Oliver c. for being for the King and assoon as ever the King was restored they were so abominable shameless as to inform against them for being against him when themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree and were not content although they had Chr. Love's a Ministers Life but they accuse the Ministers in General as in pag. 12. it s said for the Parties this Case respects it runs through generally the whole Ministry of the Nation and in their Book Information to the Army c. pag. 7. say they when a company of greedy Priests came to tell you they had not engaged with G. Booth in the Rebellion but your real Friends Quakers who gave you and the Army intelligence about the Insurrection in Cheshire i. e. Sir G. Booths for the King were spoiled by the Rebels c. and in their Book the West to North pag. 102. say they these Innocent Servants of the Lord G. Fox Ed. Piot Many of them have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from first to last also p. 16. say they the Laws c. The defence of them we have in the late Wars vindicated in the Field with our Blood But this and many others they have left out in reprinting the Letter in G. Fox's Journal as may hereafter be more fully shown But in the mean time take this caution not to trust nor believe these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. in what they print or recommend to you as the works of their Fellows Fox c. or as other mens words they have so altered them in many places by leaving out and adding to forge them to their purpose Therefore you may judge what abominable falshoods they will impose on the World hereafter when those few now living who are able to detect them be dead but there is a Collection of as many as are found to be published that by that you may judge of the rest of their Works what grose Forgers they are and will be And seeing they say they are contrary in Principle and Doctrine to the Protestant Ministers and we cannot as they say own both but must deny one Therefore either all the Generations of Protestants in all Ages to the end of Time not only Ministers but Princes and all Estates and Degrees must be condemned as Antichrists and Apostates as these Foxonian Quakers have and do record them to posterity except one Thorpe c. or else these Foxonian Quakers Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies which their Truth at first taught them must be condemned and disowned Now whether is most reasonable that these few Foxonian Quakers most of them being dead except W. Penn and G. Whitehead come under the deserved blame of false Accusers and men influenc'd by a wrong Spirit and their Blasphemous and Seditious Testimonies publickly condemned or their infamous Contempts and Slanders be recommended to after Ages for Divine Revelations and the wicked Authors as the only Prophets of God in this Age. What can be their intent but that their Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies may be of as great or greater Authority than the Holy Scripture But as a further proof that they these Foxonian Quaker's Spirit is not Christ's the Apostles and all Protestants but an avowed Enemy to the Protestant Religion and Ministers in general They are not content with their own volumnious defamatious Slanders they have filled the World with by their printed Libels but to gratifie the Papist's interest which then was great and able to defend and reward them therefore they joyn with their elder Sister Rome and print in 1671 with their own in J. C.'s Works highly extolled by W. Penn and G. Whitehead Fox and his Wife A Papist scandalous Libel wherein they term the Protestant Bible Brazen-fac'd Book and villifie the beginning of the Reformation and give the Protestant Ministers the same Hellish Names as their own Books do and say to see such stand in a Pulpit with such a Brazen-fac'd Book as is their unjust Bible and term it corrupt and a perverse Book Such Brazen Faces had these Foxonians when the Papists interest was great Haman like improving their interest to destroy the Protestant Ministers because they would not bow to their blasphemous Spirit This shews what kind of Protestants they would have proved if what they then expected had taken effect even serving the Protestants as they had done all the former Governments from 1648. to 1660. own and encourage them while they prosper but when like to fall or gone then exclaim against them and would do by the Protestants as they have by the Dissenters Inform against them when it 's for their interest and tell the Papist their elder Sister how shall she ever without great danger to her self put confidence in such Hereticks as the English Protestants be And it 's not unlikely but that they printed at large this seditious Libel of the Papists against the Protestants and put it into their Works in such a remarkable Character as an earnest-penny that they may come in with their elder Sister Rome for a share when they see it for their interest to pull off their Masks Another proof I shall give that their Light or Spirit is not from Heaven above but more likely from the Pit of Damnation below for to Defame the Protestant Ministers in a Book Entituled A Serious
they had not thought it advantagious to them to defame the Protestant Ministers and to get in favour with the Popish Interest And to this and other their wicked envious Works and Books their own Words are a fitting and sufficient enough Answer I dare defie the Father of Lyes himself to out-do this Rabshekah pag. 70. It concerns all Protestants Ministers and People to pray to God and use all lawful means that they these fierce Despisers Foxonian Quakers get not into Power here as they have done in Pensilvania and as they in Print say Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord against the mighty Foxonians But as they say Give the Whore double as she hath done so let it be done unto her And whereas they say they differ in the Root from all People nay you agree with your Sister Rome to defame and destroy the Protestant Ministers And if as you say in Print The Parliament have Recognized you for Protestants they have not as it were Unprotestanted the Protestant Ministers But I believe the Parliament knew not but were deceived by your false Pretences as Joshua and the Elders of Israel were by the Gibeonites of your Printed Contempts of our Lord Jesus and the Scriptures Laws Kings Lords and Protestant Ministers especially And it 's worthy Consideration whether or no if that they have so Recognized these Foxonians as Protestants whether then all their Errors and Wickednesses may not be charged on the English Protestants in general and they answerable to any Foreign Adversary Papist Jew or Pagan for them and also induce Strangers to believe all their Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to be true and they the Ministers to be such false Prophets and Antichrists and Sorcerers c. as these Quakers have in Print published them to the World more especially when Acts of singular Kindness are passed in their Favour without their disowning these their Ancient Seditious Testimonies as to exempt them from the Law that all other the Commons of England are bound to and a kind of Peerage granted them above all others and either these Quakers contemptuous and defaming Doctrines must be condemned or all the Protestant Ministers and People stand on Record as such Devils Sorcerers and Antichrists as they have Printed them not only in Thousands of Seditious small Libels but in great Volumes with high Commendations on them and the Authors affixed to them by G. Whitehead c. who is the Common Voucher for them More than a Prophet endued with the Almighty Power of God which reigned in him Worthy Prophet of God See more of these blasphemous Expressions of and to Fox in the Snake in the Grass c. and a blasphemous Letter written to Fox by a Foxonian Preacher as in T. C.'s Discovery c. Now what tends all this to but to gain their Contempts Credit or Preference with or before the Scripture Terming the Doctrine of the Church of England Doctrine of Devils Damnable Heresies a meer Cheat c. And the Minister a Teacher of Lasciviousness Now judge you Protestants whether it were not better that W. Penn and G. Whitehead and some few more of the Chief of the Foxonian Chief Priests come under the blame or shame of being mislead by Fox and they condemn or disown those Printed Errors of theirs or else to gratifie the Pride and Malice of Ten of them for I think there is not more of them fierce Despisers now living to have all this Infamy and Contempt of theirs in Print of the Protestant Religion and Ministers so convey'd to Posterity as Divine Oracles for there can no dammage come to the People Quakers in general or to these Persons nor no more desired of them than that they publish something to clear the Protestants in general as they required of G. K. and Excommunicated him because he did it not from their Calumnies and as them Twenty-four afore-mentioned did against the Christian Quakers Answer to F. Bugg and else these Foxonians more justly deserve to be Excommunicated from the Protestants than G. K. did from them What! Shall they have such Power and Zeal for Errors and is there none in Power that have as much Zeal for the Protestant Religion and Ministers And these Foxonians of all People ought not to refuse to condemn their Errors because they exact the same from others for faults much less criminal But let them but observe their own Doctrine to 21 Divines it 's I fear true on themselves say they Your credit is a temptation to you sacrifice it for the sake of your own and others Souls upon the Altar of self-denial think not repentance a Work too mean for you because you have been so long Preachers to others a just rebuke p. 32. Mind this I pray you Foxonians especially W. P. the Author and it will be an aggravation of your guilt in case you practice not what you Preach to others and a farther proof of the truth of my charge against you Therefore be not high minded but take your own advise G. W. be ingenious and confess thy Error I advise thee not to out-face thy own Conscience And this Spirit of Fox's which now influences G. Whitehead c. is the same as was in Corah c. For as then they oppos'd and resisted Moses so doth this Foxonian Spirit in these Quakers condemn our Spiritual Moses the Lord Jesus of Nazareth But this proud Foxonian Spirit thro' his Instrument Fox says he is Christ the Eternal Judge of the World the Son of God and as a Father in Christ say they of Fox he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him Overseer and endued him with an excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding one of the Lords Worthies And many more such Blasphemous Titles have these Foxonian Quakers given to their Idol of Jealousie Fox in their Journal Printed in Folio and preserved in the Library at Oxford to spread his Fame to the Defamation and great Scandal of the many Generations of Protestants Martyrs and Ministers And notwistanding they so Blasphemously exalt him he was either very wicked or else such a Blockhead that he understood not common Sense for five Ministers wrot a Book detecting these Quakers Errors Intituled The Perfect Pharisee charging them with 17 Errors this was answer'd by Fox in his great Mystery p. 74. but he as was usual with him slips the material things and quarrels with some expressions more insignificant They published another Book Titled A farther Discovery of the Quakers c. in vindication of the truth of their Charge on the Quakers Now of the 17 Errors they charge these Quakers with the third is in both their Books that the Quakers hold that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence this is rehearsed in their 5 th p. where they begin to recite all the 17 Errors of the Quakers afterwards they state these 17 Errors and prove and then confute them
be happy under you It is high time to lay aside say they that Interest of this oppressing Clergy You know the Spirit of the Romish Clergy was in the late Bishops whom you cast out for their Wickedness and the very Spirit of those Bishops is entered into these Priests And there is the remainder of her Murders in these Mens i. e. the Ministers Breasts and at every opportunity it breaks forth as of late in this Rebellion you have full Testimony it was Sir Geo. Booth 's appearing for King Charles the Second in the North 1659. And these Quakers they go on and say to the long Parliament If you do not curb it i. e. the Spirit of the Bishops speedily it will grow over you to your undoing And in page 524. Says to the Parliament Cast them the Ministers off and let them not lurk under your Wings but leave them to be worried by the Quakers for one day they will rebel against you and another day flatter you and shew love in hypocrisie even while they are hatching Mischief against you even to bring the Nation into Blood It appears to many of you a thing hard to forsake your Godly Ministers Was it not the same concerning the King and Bishops Was it not as terrible to him and his Lords to think of the Overthrow of the then called Godly Fathers and Bishops But better had he cast them off and saved himself than to have perished with them And better were it for you to lay them aside and save your selves than to perish with them and one of these will come to pass It 's decreed of the Lord if you uphold them Ministers and oppress Peoples Persons and Estates and Consciences on their behalf and in their evil Cause for Tythes and Wages ye shall fall with them and none shall be able to deliver you nor them For the Spirit of the old Idolatrous Bishops is entered into the hearts of these Men and there is a great measure of Tyranny Injustice and Abomination on these as was on the Bishops and these are as nigh ripe for Vengeance as the other i. e. Bishops were c. By these and what follows the Church of England may see that these Quakers Ancient Testimony of their Truth was as much against them as against the Dissenters and more however they may to deceive forbear to treat them now with such hell-fetch'd Names in express words as formerly But the Quakers go on saying in page 477. The Lord is risen to confound this Church and this Ministry which is Idolatry And P. 477. For you who worship God in Steeple-houses God will confound this Church and Ministry c. P. 499. We are punished for bearing witness against the false Prophets and Hirelings of these days And we see and know that they c. shall perish Their downfall hastens greatly and all the Powers of the Earth shall not be able to support them and with them shall fall their Tythes Now this their Rage and Envy is from the Mouth of the Lord or else these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. were Conjurers by their own Sentence And altho' I have afore proved they do expect Obedience to their Laws as the Laws of Christ altho' they to deceive pretend they be but Advice or Counsel yet for further proof thereof observe that for disobeying their Advice against carrying Guns in Ships they say It 's injurious to their own Souls and therefore it must be a Law of high Concernment that the not obeying or breaking of it is of such ill consequence to their Souls And these Foxonians will not suffer nor permit their Papers to be called Mens Edicts nor Sinful no not the very Papers how sacred then do they think their Ancient Testimonies therein written be Surely as aforesaid they deem them Laws of Christs making especially that wherein they Unchristian all who pay Tythes altho' freely and record and mark rhem for Antichrists and Deniers of Christ come in the Flesh Now hear also their own Doctrine Say they Any Party of Men under a Government to make Laws not lawfully Authorized for binding others and thereto requiring obedience be the setting up themselves above the Law and treading it under their feet and rendring them whom they so bind their Slaves and so is TREASON This is worthy of Notice by all Rulers and People And to O. Cromwel page 557. say they This is the Word of the Lord to thee The Ministry of England for which thou seem'st to stand generally it 's not of God but of Antichrist and the Lord is against it and it 's the ground of the greatest Oppression of the Poor in its Maintenance as any one particular Abomination this day in the Nation and if thou settest thy self to uphold them thou shalt fall into Perdition with them And to R. Cromwel p. 578. Say they of the Publick Ministry As it is now we testifie from the Lord it is wholly degenerated in all things from what the Ministry of Christ was c. And much more against the Ministers which they have Re-Printed at large But in this same Letter page 574. where they put the words Grievous Cruelty it was by him Grievous Tyrannies Also in the same Letter p. 580. just before the four last Lines they leave out this following Sentence As concerning the Armies abroad let faithful Men i. e. Quakers be put in trust for the Army is of great Concernment to thee to stand or fall through them as to Mans Account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it the Lord may accomplish something by it to his honour and thine There is something in it known to the Lord a cunning Gypsie Prophet And altho' they say this was from the Lord yet they thus alter and leave out to hide their hypocritical Pretence after the Restoration that they were against fighting with outward Weapons for any end whatsoever But this shews their Hypocrisie as well as their Malice which they continue foaming out against the Protestants in their Message as they say by especial Authority from the Lord by his Embassador E. B. In his Works p. 591 Say they Tho' he i. e. the Lord did in some measure free this Nation from much Tyranny in casting out Popish Authority yet the Nation in a few years was near as much violated by Injustice Tyranny and Cruelty under the Prelatical Power as ever it was once under the Papal Power But altho these forging Wretches the Foxonians give this as a Message from God by his Embassador E. B. yet they leave out this word Tyranny and change Prelatical into Succeeding Either they are self-condemned Blasphemers or else deserve the Plagues of adding and diminishing from and to the Word of the Lord. But altho' they leave out their Treasonable Testimonies yet their Sedition against the Protestant Ministers they have to the full put in well knowing there was them great in Court they thereby pleased and would and could
hold Christ Jesus is in them as Man and the Man Christ dwells in them Now in Great Mystery p. 68. they do not deny the Charge but in confirmation of it say Is not Christ in Man And how can you call him Christ in Man without the Man be there The nineteenth Query Is Christ now conversant on Earth as he was in the Apostles times I say No. But they say Did he not appear to his Apostles since his Ascension And is he not the same now as he was then Hereby they imply that Christ was no other ways with his Disciples but as he is with them now that is that our Lord Jesus of Nazareth that Person or Man whom Herod saw was not the Christ for they say the Jews never saw the Saviour The twentieth Query Did not Christ dwell among his Saints in a more visible manner than now in his Saints I say Yea. They Answer He is not nor never was visible to thy Generation Them as thou and thy Generation doth crucifie him and thou do'st now i. e. Crucifie him now So that there now acknowledging the same Christ that was crucified at Jerusalem is but fallacious For it 's evident they mean not him the Man or Person for they say he never was visible to such as this Protestant Minister and that he is now crucified as then so that it 's the Light in every Man and not our Lord Jesus they ascribe all the Works of Salvation to and exclude his Person Blood and Sufferings outwardly The tenth Query I omitted being about the precedency of Justification and Sanctification which is first in order and I thinking it 's not so important have wav'd it and my Answers are with submission to abler Judgments But take notice of what they say of these Sober Queries in the Answer to the first Say they In this first Query thou hast manifested what thou art thou mightest have spared the other Nineteen thou hast Conjured them up in thy Black Art out of the bottomless Pit which is to be turned into Perdition Consonant to this says G. Whitehead and his Brother C. Atkinson to a Minister Here is say they the three Persons thou dream'st of which thou would'st divide out of one like a Conjurer i. e. the Three Persons in the Trinity But whereas these Quakers say they have Answered these twenty Queries Plainly and Lovingly their Plainness you have seen already now you shall hear their Loving Answers also In their Title Page they say the Minister is found a Deceiver Thy Queries make thee manifest what thou art Many of thy own Tribe if they see thy Queries would be ashamed of thee and thy Queries Not worth Answering lest thou shouldst boast in thy filthy Ignorance Darkness something in Answer c. This is in the Preamble before the Answers Yet I think them mostly sober and modest Queries and think this Spirit which despises them cannot be of God Yet they blasphemously say We have Answered thy Queries in the Eternal Light and Life of God Truly was it said If the Light in you be Darkness how great is that Darkness But now comes their Loving Words In Answer to the first they term the Minister A Reprobate a Child of Darkness one of the Antichrists and Deceivers John speaks of which Query comes from thy dark polluted Mind without God in the World among the false Prophets Deceivers Antichrists The Light condemns thee and all thy Generation Ministers eternally We witness thee and thy Generation to be in the Sorcery and Witchcraft deceiving and betraying the simple Thou art Darkness it self Thou art the Dragon that wouldst devour the Man-child Thou the Dragon and thy Angels is cast out into the Earth and therefore dost thou persecute the Woman Thou art blind All this is in Answer to the first Query And unto the second they say Thou Diviner art found adding to Scripture its false thy Divinations of thy own Brain The Plagues of God is to be added unto thee and poured on thee O thou Lyar and art for Condemnation thee to be the Beast that makes War with the Lamb we witness thou Antichrist which looks at Christ's Death at Jerusalem alone and cannot witness him no other ways but without thee I believe this is a Slander altho' I knew not the Man To the third say they Thou full of all subtilty hath made manifest thy poyson and enmity with the Light of Christ thou art condemned for ever Christ Jesus in his own PERSON doth suffer by thee thou blind Pharisee and Blasphemer And to the fourth say they Thou Jesuit art pleading for Christ afar off as thy Father at Rome That Christ that dyed at Jerusalem did not satisfie for thee who art an Enemy to him art under the wo and from that wo thou shalt never fly Thou Lyar art made manifest to all thy Congregation Thou Lyar who art of the Lake blind ignorant Sot And to the fifth say they Thou who art an Enemy to God and a Child of Disobedience in whom the Prince of the Air rules the Light in thy Conscience condemns thee thou art an Enemy to the Cross of Christ and in the Mystery of Iniquity in the dark Power and Man of Sin who art reconciled to thy lust and Sin reigns in thee Thou art blind who lives in strife and envy Had not the Quakers need first to pull the Beam out of their own Eyes To the sixth say they Thou blind Guide thou manifests thou dost not know the MAN Christ at all See what Man they mean when they confess he Christ became Man nor his Sufferings for Death reigns in thee yet that asks this Query for a Publick Person Christ is not to thee but a Mystery which thou knowest nothing of For the Redeeming the Elect from under such Mouths as thine did and doth Christ suffer Those that are brought to believe deny such dumb Idol Shepherds as thee who as yet doth not believe therefore shalt dye eternally And to the seventh they say Thou blasphemously asks thou know'st not what Let all People take notice what a Blasphemer thou art or what can they learn of such an one as thee who knows not the Justice of God nor the Sufferings of Christ in his Saints But Queries are not a Proof that the Querist knows not the thing he queries for if it were so then these Quakers were very Ignorant Sots in their own Dialect for they have propounded hundreds of Queries to others And to the eighth they say Thou art again replying thy former sottish Query which rises out of thy dark Mind concerning the Body of Jesus as the Devil did about the Body of Moses Let thy Mouth be stopt here for the Body of Jesus and the offering of it up and the Sacrifice for Sin thou knows not and thou art none of the Saints Blind leading the Blind into the Ditch and for thee the Body of Jesus is no Satisfaction thou Reprobate what hast thou to do
wonderful Where are your Eyes Try your Priests by Scriptures See if they be not found in the same Generation that all the false Prophets and Deceivers were in See if they be not the Antichrists which cannot confess Christ come in the Flesh preach for Sin against Perfection and never any that follow them shall come to the knowledge of God These blind Guides deny the Prophets which Moses writ of It 's a Slander and Untruth and are found in the Sorcery and Witchcraft c. Thus they begun and end reviling the Protestant Ministers and they not only condemn this Minister to the Lake and Bottomless Pit but the Queries also We have given Judgment on thee and them say they So that it 's not only the Protestant Ministers but the Doctrines of the Protestant Faith as these twenty Queries contain have these Quakers also judged to the like condemnation with the Ministers All this Envy and Fury in seven Pages in Folio have they Reprinted whereas two or three Lines might have contained sufficient Answers had they believed and owned these things according to the Scriptures as they pretend And the Doctrines and Practices of the Protestants as sprinkling Infants c. they say is Damnable Doctrine of Devils a meer Cheat and your singing David's Experiences in Rhime and Meeter is a very Lye unto you and say they The Law which commands to pay Tythes we cannot be obedient to it and the Reason they give is Because it is contrary to the Law of God p. 313. And say they If the House i. e. Publick Churches were for any good purpose or honest Practice as for Poor c. the People of God would not deny to uphold it but because it 's ONLY a place to commit Idolatry in mark hâ— is Only P. 347. And say they All you Churches by what Name soever you are known you are the Seed of the great Whore and she hath brought you forth Here the Church of England may see it 's not only the Dissenting Ministers altho' their Envy is chiefly against them but all P. 4416. Have altogether forgotten God Christians all their Prayings Preachings Singings Baptisms breaking Bread and all that you perform as unto God is an Abomination unto him The very practice of those things now by the Christians being degenerated is become Idolatry c. p. 432. Again say they The Lord shall destroy your Worship and confound it and no more is the Lord worshipped in Steeple-houses they are left desolate c. Your worship in Steeple-houses is an Abomination to him P. 481. Again say they In the Name and Authority of the Lord we declare against your whole Worship p. 479. Again say they Sprinkling Infants and calling it the Baptism into the Faith of Christ and the Seal of the Covenant it 's an Institution of the great Whore p. 489. And particularly of the Ministers of the Church of England say they This we say Their Office nor Call is not from the Lord nor by the Authority of his Spirit nor according to Scriptures and is not from Heaven but rather from the Whore of Rome p. 638. All this and much more of their hellish Rage and Envy against the Protestant Religion and Ministers in one Book Reprinted in Folio and in 1672. promoted and espoused by G. W. c. to bring the Protestant Religion and Ministers into contempt scorn and hatred in future Ages For to confirm and seal and fix it lastingly say they You called Christians you having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name Christian you deserve not that Name and declare it in the Name of the Lord. Here it 's plain the English Protestants and these Quakers cannot both be Christians one must quit the Title p. 419. and say The Heathen shall see your Nakedness and your Shame and shall hiss at you p. 421. But how doth this agree with what W. Penn now pretends to as I hear He said that they own all except three of the 39 Articles of the Church of England and the three they differ'd in were about Discipline and not Doctrine And yet here you see they say All the Protestants Doctrine and Practices False the whole Religion of the English Protestants they Deny These be their Ancient Testimonies their Truth in the beginning taught them before 1660 which is now in 1696. under hand enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and this Noval owning of the Thirty Six Articles is the Counterfeit Quakers New Testimony But they say their Truth changes not but they may now change their Words and Actions and yet mean the same as they did 1656 for their design was to defame in order to root out the Protestant Ministers and if they do not effect it they prove themselves Lyars and false Prophets and impudent Blasphemers therefore in order to drive on their design they print these Defamations and say It 's for you and your Children To plant this Root of Bitterness in after Ages as well as in other Nations is the design of this Foxonian Spirit in G. W. c. And they have great Advantage for this Work in their great Schools or Houses where they teach their youth and read to them or cause them to read their great Volumes of Fox's c. Works and where these Foxonians are the Masters Governours or Teachers and whither their chief Foxonian Priests resort and as they say in Print This is worthy of taking notice of How abominable is this say they that these things should be much more that they pass unreproved i. e. their Envy against the Protestant Minister c. For altho' they thus Unchristian all English Protestants Yet the Heathen who make no Profession nor have not the knowledge of Salvation by our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as in the New Testament these under the Name of Pious Gentiles they allow to have Faith that they may degrade and under-value the Authority of the New Testament and the Necessity of believing the Relation thereof concerning the Dignity and Value of the Personal Sufferings and Blood of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth outwardly And seeing they have so much hatred to the English Protestant Ministers and so much Charity for the Gentiles let them i. e. the Foxonians go for Gentile Preachers And by these afore and what follows it 's proved that these Foxonian chief Priests G. W. c. are influenc'd by an evil Spirit if no other matter were proved against them but their wrathful terms and envious prosecuting the Protestant Ministers these shew them Uncharitable and therefore Unchristian That theirs is not Christian Charity is evident by their Partiality for notwithstanding they Unchristian for saying they be saved by Christ without them and recorded such for Reprobates and Ignorant ones too of Christ within and give it as a sure Mark of the Devil 's being in such and all who pay Tythes altho' freely as Deniers of Christ and mark'd them for Antichrists yet you see how kind they
my Heart pricked as with some sharp thing I felt it was that Spirit gave it forth i. e. the aforementioned Paper I denied the reading of it for in the Life of God that Spirit was judged therefore with the Spirit that is true is that Spirit judged which called that the Spirit of the Prince of the Air which ministred forth that which was titled How Sin is strengthened c. and in conclusion says Therefore with the witness of God in all who live in the sence of it judged it is according to the Eternal Judgment i. e. the Spirit wrot the first against J. N. I forbear their Names in respect to the Persons tho' I think they be both dead Here is both as from God peremptory against one another and one must be high Blasphemy if not both Many more Instances I could give to prove their being at difference among themselves or one with another and therefore by their own Doctrine are so far from being guided by the Spirit of Christ that they have it not nor never received it or else G. W. c. were Conjurers in printing this if it was not from the Mouth of the Lord. But if they object they do not differ but it 's some that go or fall off from them and the Truth that differ and oppose them no more do any others who agree for wherein they agree they do not differ nor do them of the Protestants differ among themselves who be of the same mind no more than the Quakers altho' they differ one from another in some lesser matters yet they all agree and hold one Head and Foundation and are not so uhcharitable as you Foxonian Quakers are Now here is one great reason why these modern Quakers so endeavour to excuse and cover and vindicate the Errors of their first Founders Fox c. because they will not acknowledge any difference or change in their Judgments for if they do they are Self-condemn'd Apostates Therefore it is that they reprint their old Books in great Volumns and alter by leaving out and putting in as they see cause especially their treasonable seditious Doctrines because they were afraid to own them But it 's apparent that the same Arguments as they use against the Protestants to prove them not to have the Spirit of Christ are conclusive against themselves also and they the Foxonian Quakers inexcusable in condemning others for that they are guilty off themselves and their saying they are not of them that oppose them is not more than others may say for themselves for if G. W. says W. R. c. were Apostates W R. says G. W. and G. F. were so and better proves than they G. W. c. do and better to believed But if there were no other proof of their wickedness but their hellish Fury c. against the Protestant Religion that 's enough And these wicked envious Hypocrites the Foxonian Quakers c. to get in favour with the Papal Interest then in Court have raked into the Graves and Sepulchers of the Ancient Martyrs and Fathers of the Protestants nay have been so presumptious and arrogant as not to spare the Sepulchers of Kings but torn them out and cast as in the open Street with infamous terms on their Persons and Families as well as their Power and Government and yet will not endure to have their Errors discovered and testified against but will Punish Fine Whip and Imprison and take away Goods and Life too if they could have reach'd it Now you English Protestants Surely if the People of Israel were so concern'd for the Levites Concubine as in the 19 and 20 Chapters of Judges surely here is some cause of inquiry Consider and Remember of good old Tobit He would not suffer his Brethren to be thrown out in disgrace unburied but hazarded his Life But here these Foxonian Quakers do not only condemn them that be unburyed but barbarously violate the Sepulchers of the Protestant Kings Lords c. Bishops Martyrs and Ministers and cast Infamy on them to make them hateful and odious to the Young of this Age as well as future For they say it 's for their Children and that the Heathen may see your shame and hiss at you Protestant Ministers that is the very intent and drift of these now Foxonian White-hart-court Conclave of Chief Cardinals Whitehead and Penn c. to bring reproach and infamy on the Protestant Ministers Now as these Quakers say there is but two Spirits that of God or the wicked one Therefore if the Quaker's be Gods then the Protestant Ministers in general especially all who pay or uphold Tythes and the Laws for them you are all guided by the Spirit of Antichrist and are denyers of Christ and under all these Hell-rak'd afore Names and Terms of the Quaker unless these now Modern Quakers do as G. Whitehead enjoyned Mr. Pennyman that is publickly condemn these their mad and wicked printed Defamations of the Protestant and it 's no harm to their Persons nor Estates for the now Quakers so to do seeing the Persons chiefly concern'd be dead only Whitehead and Penn. And in case they do not print against these wicked printed Doctrines of their Chief Priests they are to be looked on as owners thereof and justly chargeable therewith For if they did not own them they would print against them as they did against Mr. Pennyman and D. S. Think not the reminding you of these your Ancient wicked Testimonies and Actions hard dealing for as you say We do not desire to uncover your Nakedness you had not had thus much if you had not been the occasion of it your selves E. B.'s p. 617. By your so maliciously informing against and defaming the Ministers when you Quakers were guilty oâ— the same and besides what is aforementioned I find in E. B.'s 672. page you there also to incense tne King against some you mention some Passages out of a Letter to one viz. There is more danger in these Quakers to trouble and over-come England than in the King of Scots c. And there you to aggravate comment on these words thus It 's manifest what the bent of their Spirits was against the King then tho' now they change their Tale c. But I say let but their i. e. these Quakers own words here mentioned be considered and their Hypocrisie and the temper of their Spirits he shall see this is but part of the measure you have meted to others Much more I can produce in further proof of the wickedness of this Foxonian Spirit if they proceed in their old way of denying the Truth and slandering them that discover their wickedness which is very great even Pride Envy and Hypocrisie who in 1661. say The Government of King Charles was set up by the purpose of God Compare this with what is afore and in the Snake in the Grass against it Notwithstanding these Quakers so defame the Protestant Ministers and accuse them to render
verses of the 10 th Chapter of the Romans altho' they thousands of times use the foregoing words yet I remember not that ever I heard them mentioned in any Quakers Meeting before G. Keith did since his last coming into England nor in any of their Books nor remembred I that there was such Expressions in Scripture so Ear-boar'd as other be was I to them Let them produce these aforementioned Scriptures used by S. C. or any of their printed Sermons or Books as to the intended service of them in Scripture I will undertake to produce a hundred if not a thousand times for one of their using them other Let this be the touch-stone and for their undervaluing Scripture I can give hundreds of more contempts of theirs These their contempts of our Lord's Person Blood and Sufferings and exalting their own These Foxonian Quakers will not disown but underhand have approved and confirmed them and enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and hold them up for these be their Ancient Testimonies that their Truth taught them in the beginning and they say it changes not so it seems by their so justifying and excusing those Blasphemous fierce Despisers the Authors and their wicked Works But for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is an evil one appears in the case of J. Gilpin who relates how he was deluded to Blaspheme c. And after it pleased God he was sensible and acknowledg'd his Delusion by neglect of Hearing Reading and Prayer c. and harken only to a Voice within me says J. Gilpin because what was spoken by it was seconded by lying Wonders c. This Voice he says led him to a Fidlers Door where he knocked and sald Behold Christ stands at the door and knocks J. Audland a Foxonian Preacher who wrot the blasphemous Letter to G. Fex followed him and he says as he went he was moved to proclaim I am the Way the Truth and the Life Again he says my Hand was carried to take up a Knife and carried with it towards my Throat and the Voice said unto me open a hole there and I will give unto thee the Words of Eternal Life Many more prodigious Actions he did by the power of the Voice or Spirit within him and he says many Quakers came to him and bid him harken to the Voice within Now Fox Answers this Book in Great Mystery and in citing them words of Gilpins aforementioned that he confesses his Error by harkening only to a Voice within me says he Now G. Fox in page 298. terms this wicked deluding Spirit or Voice The Voice of God within he saith says Fox he began to consider how he had offended God by his neglect of external means Prayer c. and harken to the Voice of God only within Hereby it 's apparent what Spirit or Voice influenced him Fox even the same wicked one that led Gilpin for he Fox terms that the Voice of God and so proves himself to be one of them who was given over to Delusion to believe a lye and as he Fox so his Followers Whitehead c. are by the same Spirit guided to vindicate and excuse him Also in Cumberland two Women Quakers and Preachers charged their own Sister and her Husband to have murdered and buried their own Child and caused the Man and his Wife to be tryed at an Assizes for it many wicked blasphemous passages there was in the whole Tragedy too long to relate here in the printed Narrative by the Man himself Henry Winder Entituled The Spirit of Quakerism c. worth reading This most murderous and blasphemous Spirit thro' these two Women's Preaching Quakers affirmed this was A message from the Lord by the Revelation of Jesus Christ The whole Tragedy is most Blasphemous and when made publick not disown'd but rather incourag'd by the Quakers in general so fat as I can see by the Narrative and it 's this same wicked Spirit which so defame the Protestant Ministers and which Penn balsphemously calls the Holy Spirit But from these few sad Instances it 's apparent that the Quakers when they mention Jesus Christ do not mean that Man or Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth but a Spirit or Light in them and all Men as their terms of distinction shew They make Jesus Christ to be a Denomination or Title which they give to any Spirit they please as the King doth Titles of Honour Whereas in your Book Rabshekah c. you boast of your Principles as for you as Hearers in charity we may believe you but if you like not these seditious and erronious Ancient Testimonies in Print of your chief Priest why do not you publish against them as against D. S. Until you do so you are chargeable therewith But if you mean by your Principles Fox c. their Ancient Testimonies you are very shameless For that of Fox's in ordering Lords of Mannors Property to be taken away c. But whenever that is put in Execution I advise to begin with his Successor W. Penn's c. and see how they like it for what Right have you to Fines or Quit-Rents more than Lords have here or the several under Propriators of Tythes If you have the Kings Patents or Grants so have they or what 's as equivalent being confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliament more than yours and by them who had as much Original Right as them from whom yours was granted But the Protestant Ministers are as great an Eye-sore to your chief Priests as the Jews were to Haman But why may not they enjoy what is granted and given to them as well as any of you For W. Penn works no more for his Fines or Quit-Rents than many of them do nor so much neither I think But if you say It 's the Compelling you oppose that 's false For as in the Snake in the Grass appears you oppose any freely paying as is manifest by your opposing W. R. As also Unchristian all who pay Tythes as Deniers of Christ and Antichrists so that you are not for Liberty of Conscience but for inforcing of Fox's Laws above the Laws of the Nation as is evident in your so charging and reviling T. C. as a Transgressor But whoever takes House or Lands Tytheable does or may know before-hand it 's under such Duties And whereas your last yearly Paper says Truth is the same and changes not in 1660. you told King Charles you deny'd all outward Fighting for any End or Pretence whatsoever Now either your chief Priests Fox and E. B. c. were of this mind in O. C.'s c. times or else changed Now if not changed but always of the same mind then they G. F. c. failed to complain of some being put out of the Army What should they do there they ought to have voluntarily quitted it Also G. F c. did fail so to encourage Oliver as is before shewn Therefore either they were and be Changed since O. C's time or were Hypocrites if
Hypocrites not to be believed If Changed either your Truth hath changed or they gone from it and so that and you i. e. the Quakers not the same and so may change again as is for your sordid Interest as in the case of the Sloop in Pensilvania Also you are as uncertain and falacious in your main Principle of the Light within as in the case of Fighting In Great Mystery p. 58. you cite one saying To say the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer is Error Again They that say the Light in every Man that condemns of Sin to be Christ the Redeemer have set up an Idol c. To both these Fox answers To the first he says Contrary to John who saith This is the true Light which enlightens every Man Here he corrupts the Scripture And to the Second says he Doth not Christ say I am the Light of thâ—â—â—rd c. Here he doth not disprove what the Mâ—â—â—â—firm'd but squintingly justifies that as Truth which the Man opposes as Error i. e. That the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer and that it 's no Error so to affirm but Truth and that it 's contrary to Scripture to oppose so saying But in another Book intituled A Vindication of Truth c. by J. N. in Answer to the same Man and the same Passage as is Answer'd to in Great Mystery p. 58. In this Vindication c. p. 51. there is many Particulars which the Man as J. N. says charges on the Quakers as their Affirmations of which there you say to the Man Be ashamed of thy Lyes which thou hast cast on us which never entered into our hearts to do nor speak which thou falsly accusest us withal There is twenty one Particulars The Ninth is this say you That we say the Light in every one is Christ the Redeemer Then after the mentioning all the twenty Particulars which the Man charges the Quakers as holding or saying in p. 5â— of your Vindication c. you say Divers more Deceits hast thou made up into Lyes and laid on us as if we said them when it 's thy own wickedness c. Here you may see that to the same Man and Sentance in one Book i. e. The Great Mystery c. what the Man opposes as Error is owned as true and his opposing it made contrary to Scripture And in the other Book i. e. A Vindication c. the same Words or Sentence disown'd Again page 4. There J. N. charges the Man for saying that he said The Light shining in every Man is Christ a thing not wrot nor intended by me Says J. N. again page 8. The Man is charged with a Lye for saying that the Quakers say the Light within every Man is the Word Again page 11. There says J. N. Thou tells thy former lye over again saying I say the Light within every Man is the Spirit of Truth Again says J. N. It 's a lye that I say the Light in every Man is God's Righteousness Perfection c. Again page 12. that a measure of the Eternal Divinity is in every Man by turning to it out of all Sayings Operations Scriptâ—â—â— or Christ without the same doth purge away Siâ—â—â—d redeem unto God All which is thy own wickedness heaped up from thine own lye Again p. 16. says J. N. I do not say the Light in every Man is God's Son c. And in unity with this says G. W. As to Christ's being in every Man that is not our words c. Also in page 27. says J. N. thou tells four horrible lyes on me the second is that J. N. calls the Light within the Eternal Spirit Also in your Book Deceit brought to Day light c. You charge the Man with many lyes one is his saying that you hold the Light in every Man is Christ page 5. Also in E. B.'s Works page 298. There E. B. being charged as saying that every Man has the Spirit of Christ in Answer you by way of denyal say I never said nor thought so Now if the Light within every Man be not Christ nor the Spirit of Christ nor of Truth nor the Word nor God's Righteousness nor God's Son nor the Eternal Spirit as afore is shew'd you have in your Ancient Testimonies in print held formerly How then is it Or why did you excommunicate G. Keith as an Heretick for saying The Light within was not sufficient without something else i. e. Christ Jesus Either these aforemention'd denyals in your Ancient Testimonies be the Testimonies of Truth or Error if of Error then you ought to publish against them and the Authors but your not so doing you are chargeable with owning them and so either you and your Truth hath changed or contradict your selves For afore I have shewn that in your Great Mystery you contradict what you say in your Books A Vindication c. and Deceit brought to Day Light c. In one passage your Books do contradict each other one owning the same the other denies as also in your excommunicating G. Keith as an Heretick for asserting the same as some of your own Ancient Testimonies do Also whereas here afore I shewed you deny every Man to have the Spirit of Christ yet in Great Mystery c. p. 9. to the same Person who denies that every Man has the Spirit of Christ and charges you with an Error for so saying yet you charge him with it as an Error to deny every Man has the Spirit of Christ and in contradiction thereto you Answer John said Every Man is enlightened c. And the Spirit of Truth he shall reprove the World of Sin c. Mark say you All People here is Saints here is Disciples here is the World get from under this how thou canst for under Reproof thou art come c. And here are all Men says Fox to the same Person and words or Sentence In Great Mystery you oppose him for saying every Man has not the Spirit of Christ and yet in E. B.'s Works you term him lying Tongue for charging you as saying Every Man has the Spirit of Christ and say You never said nor thought so Why sure if as in Great Mystery you imply they have it then you ought to think and believe so And J. Bunyan says Every Man as he comes into the World receives a Light from Christ as he is God which is Conscience which some call Christ tho' falsly This will shew a Man there is a God c. This you answer by way of Denial in E. B.'s Works p. 143. I do deny them i. e. who call the Light Christ and thee if thou hast not made a Lye of some body Now in Great Mystery p. 208. to the same Sentence in your Answer there you say Christ saith I am the Light of the World c. and doth not say its Conscience you have given Christ a New Name that calls him Conscience Will Conscience blot out Sin Christ
of the Pit of Damnation their own Terms which came forth out of the Mouth of W. Penn in p. 171. and 172. in the Snake in the Grass c. Whereas is their said he W. Penn is so Blasphemous and Envious as to confirm all these Quakers Blasphemous Fury against the Protestant Ministers as being from the Holy Spirit and also encourages them to pour forth ten Thousand times more such hellish Fury for he Implies that in his Judgment all I have here following in this Tryal produced and twenty times as much more I think I could produce out of their Ancient Testimonies is too little for he is so Blasphemous as to make the Holy Spirit the Author thereof which is a full Proof that their Foxonian Spirit which they term God's Christ's and the Holy Spirit is a wicked Spirit for says he we i. e. Foxonian Quakers have nothing for them i. e. Ministers but Woes and Plagues but the Holy Spirit commanded to Pray for all Men although the Foxonian Spirit contrariwise hath no Prayers but Woes and Plagues for the Protestant Ministers This is a plain Demonstration of the Pride and Envy of the Foxonian High Priests or Pope W. Penn c. And altho' he formerly by such Endeavours to Defame in order to destroy the Protestant Ministers got great Favour and Reward too formerly so I know not but that by his Hypocrisie c. he may get as much Interest and Power now and effect the same against me as his Predecessor Haman intended against Mordicai yet I bless God I fear him no more than David did Goliah but shall I hope have Opportunity further to discover them For surely all true English Protestants when they have seen all here following of their Envy against the Ministers and what is also in the Snake in the Grass c. will conclude that he W. Penn hath shewed so little of an English Protestant or Gentleman that he scarcely deserves such a Character Yet as he and G. Whitehead have done for their Idol of Jealousie Fox exalt and commend him his wicked works so there is J. Field and W. Bingley c. to do the same for them and so Canonize each other as Saints of the highest Form But to C. Wade in Great Myst p. 250. The Devil was in thee says Fox Thou say'st thou wast saved by Christ without thee This so disturbed the envious Fox that he said to him And so hast recorded thy self a Reprobate nay to be by Fox recorded a Reprobate was not punishment bad enough for him but he adjoyns to it And so ignorant of Christ within as if to confess Salvation by our Lord Jesus of Nazareth without us were an infallible mark of ignorance of Christ within yet they say Christ is not divided But notwithstanding they print this C. W. as such an ignorant Reprobate yet he has made sound Confessions to Christ within But thereby they not only reprobate C. W. but all Christians beside themselves only the Gentiles because they do not pretend to Salvation by him they have a great deal of Charity for them and allow them to have faith Also in a Book intituled The Doctrine of Perfection c. p. 19. say they When you come to this their Light within c. you will cease remembring his death at Jerusalem and will come to see how he has been crucified in you c. But this their Light or Star which leads to forget his i. e. Christ's death at Jerusalem cannot be his Also G. Fox opposes J.J. saying Christ is to be considered two ways he is not at a distance from such as truly believe but dwells in their hearts by faith but says he Respecting his Person or bodily presence his glorious or glorified Body so he is considered as being without not within the Soul Notwithstanding these Acknowledgments and Christian Distinctions yet Fox opposes this and altho' they do not in plain express words yet they do implicitly deny the Ascension and now being of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as he was a visible or seen Man or Person by their not allowing him to be Ascended into any Heaven above and without Men for the Ministers saying Christ is True God and True Man they blasphemously say Here sottish Minds your imagined God beyond the Stars and your carnal Christ is utterly testified against by the Light which comes from Christ And further say That this Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye And the Ministers further say Christ the only God and Man in one Person remains for ever a distinct Person from all Saints notwithstanding their union with him The Quakers Answer is Your words are utterly deny'd and your distinctions are abominable But these Quakers Contempts are much more abominable to all Christians altho' not to G. Whitehead c. But rather by them their Subjects the Foxonian Quakers injoyn'd to maintain and hold up as their Antient Testimony these and their other Scandals they have cast on the Protestant Ministers Government and Nation for says Fox to those who uphold the Ministers except you repent you shall all be consumed as the King was and perish with the same power and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers c. All this Tree must be cut down They threaten hard therefore awake all English Protestants The CONTENTS 1. THe Quakers Implacable Rage and Malice against all the Protestant Ministers Page 1 2 7 9 12 c. 2. Their Adding to and Taking from the Works of their Deceased Prophets in their Reprinting them p. 3 8 15 c. 3. Their Policy and Industry to advance their Cause p. 4 5 7. 4. Their outrage against D. S. a Dissenting Quaker c. p. 8. 5. Their wicked Ancient Testimonies not disown'd p. 10 51. 6. Their not Preaching of Christ without p. 12 13 68. to 77. 7. Their Persecuting Spirit p. 5 14. to 18. 8. They are against Toleration to any but themselves p. 52 c. 9. Against allowing it to the Church of England p. 67 94. 10. Their Treasons and Rebellion p. 18 27 to 33 37 40. 11. Their Abetting Popish Books against Protestants with which their whole Body is chargeable p. 9 20 21 22 34. 12. Their Rage and nasty Spirit against others p. 24 77 to 83. 13. The Deceit of their Pretence against Fighting p. 3â— to 39 14. Their accusing other for that Rebellion of which they were guilty themselves p. 42 61 62 100. 15. The danger of owning Quakers as Protestants p. 46. 16. Quakers not sincere unless retract their Errors p. 47 c. 17. Their Shuffling and Evasive Answers p. 68 to 77 115. 18. Their Contempt of the holy Scriptures p. 89 106. 19. Their Magnifying of Themselve p. 100 to 105. 20. Their Pretence to Perfection p. 73. 21. Their Denial if Christ p. 51 68 to 77. 116 to 120. 22. Their making themselves to be Christ p. 75. 23. That an Evil Spirit possesses them p. 108
109. 24. Their Pretence to Unity false shewn by their Divisions amongst themselves c. p. 95 96 111 to 115. 25. George Fox's Great Ignorance p. 48 c. 26. His Falsifications and Forgery p. 116 to 122. 27. The Quakers Invaders of Property c. p. 109. 28. That it is especially incumbent on the Church of England to oppose the Quakers p. 5 88. 29. That Encouragement should be given to that end p. 123. 30. An Exposition of 2 Pet. I. 19 p. 128. A Just and Lawful Tryal of the Foxonian Quaker's Chief Priests by a perfect proceeding against them and they condemned out of their own Ancient Testimonies and being brought to the Bar of Justice their own Ancient Testimonies and Practices have judged them Guilty and to be no Christians of Christ's making and therefore to be testified against by all true Christians by a Friend to England's Government Governors and Laws which have been contemn'd and despised by them is this sent abroad PRotestant Readers more especially you who take on you the care and cure of Souls I desire you would not refuse to read this small Tract because of its relation to Quakerism although the Chief Priests and Masters of them have attained to that degree of Perfection in that art of writing so seditiously scandalous false and arrogantly against the Protestant Religion especially the Ministers thereof in general the Government and Governours especially Monarchy and Episcopacy and our two late Kings Charles I. and II. in these and other such envious and destructive Works they have printed so much and so many Volumes that it bespeaks them who suppose them i. e. these Quakers to be Men of any good Consciences or sound Judgment to have little sense themselves These Quakers in the numerousness and seditious Printed Pamphlets having so out-run the bounds of Morality in these things whereby their seditious Libels are spread over this and other Nations without due opposition as being by Men of Learning and Sense thought to carry in themselves their own Confutation For their Ancient Testimony now revived and injoyned their Subjects by their White-hart-court Conclave in their Act made 1696. was as Haman's Pride and Envy lead him to endeavour the destruction of the Jews and to effect it he maliciously and falsly informed against them to insence the King as in Esther 3. So these Foxonian Quakers being influenced by the same Spirit of Pride and Envy against the Protestant Ministers in general their Thirst after their Destruction being so insatiable that they were so wicked as to endeavour to incense all the several Governments from 1642. to 1660. against the Protestant Ministers as being for the King i. e. both the Charles's I. and II. especially for endeavouring the Restoration as in the Case of Mr. Love c. how did these Quakers improve that opportunity to incense the then Government and People against them and assoon as King Charles II. was restored in 1660. they renewed their Prosecution against the Protestant Ministers for their Destruction and then whereas they had formerly informed against them as being for him the same King Charles II. they now 1660. change their Charge and inform against them to him as being against him and dangerous to his Person and Government I say such was their Bloody Envy against the Protestant Ministers that they the Foxonian Quakers did accuse them for being for the King c. but when times turned they turn also and accuse them for being against him this their unusual Envy and Wickedness is so scandalous to the English Protestants in general as they go for such that it deserves to be testified against by all true Protestants but instead thereof the now Chief Foxonians W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. do reprint their Seditious and Blasphemous Pamphlets in great Volumes in Folio with high commendations of the wicked Authors Fox their Idol of Jealousie many have done well but thou dear George says W. Penn. hath excelled them all excuse and vindicate their blasphemous Titles as the Son of God c. and these Men and their wicked Works are by long Epistles of high commendations from W. Penn and G. Whitehead recommended to the younger Generation as Prophets of God and more than a Prophet and so by their own Doctrine to have equal or greater Authority than the Scripture their Idol of Jealousie Foxes wicked Works presented to the University of Oxford also is as a Monument set up in their Quakers publick Meeting at the Savoy in London and although they pretend they were given forth by special command from the Lord yet these wicked now Foxonians have altered such and left out and put in and changed words as they please as may be proved in a distinct Tract but it s their treasonable and seditious ancient Testimony that they have thus new forged but for their Contempts and Defamations Lyes and Scandals they have cast on the Protestant Ministers them they have to the full reprinted and added more especially W. Penn who being acquainted at Court more than others and an intelligible Person he quickly found the Papist Interest great there and there were not wanting in Court Men of judgment who as quickly espied him as a fit Engine to destroy the Protestant Religion by defaming their Ministers and in order thereto he had favour and encouragement in that wicked Work as his many Printed Testimonies since the Restoration where he vents his malice and rage against the Protestant Ministers as by F. B. and G. K. in print proved for as I before said he rather exceeds thans abate in defaming the Ministers his Fathers Fox and Burrows but not in their Treasons and Seditions he knew he had great Friends in Court who could defend and reward him but I say as to their Reprints or new Editions they are not to be believed nor trusted they so fallaciously alter or where they do not tell down-right untruth yet they express things in such general and doubtful terms as make them to appear otherways then they are as in E. Bs. Works they say he died a Prisoner and Martyr now in common acceptation it s as if he dyed in Prison and by some ill usage there nay a Dutch Historian Prints it he dyed in Prison hereby the Government of England is reflected on all over Christendom as cruel whereas it appears as in Satan disrob'd c. that although he was a Prisoner yet he was not in Prison when he dyed but in case he had dyed in Prison it had not been because of ill usage or ill accommodation for he had a convenient apartment to himself and was better provided for and fed than ever he was in his life before he became a Quaker by the judgment of them that knew him formerly but thus they abuse Authority and exalt themselves by such fallacious ways untaken notice of and while some sleep or mind not the Enemies takes advantage for the Foxonian Quakers are now a very great number