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A57584	A scourge for George Whitehead. An apostate Quaker: an espouser of doctrines and practices tending to Romish-like bondage: a persecuting defamer of the real Christian-Quaker: a publick informer against William Pen, to his defamation: the author of a scandalous book, (written against my seventh part of the Christian-Quaker, &c.) stiled, judgment fixed, &c.	Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1860; ESTC R214742	12,611	14

hereby reprove and judge that Jealous Rending and seperate spirit and them meaning J. W. and J. S. and their seperate Company and that by the spirit and power of God and we warn all unto whom this comes to beware of the said J. S. and J. W. whose way at present is not the way of peace Whosoever peruseth the said paper may percieve it in some respect much like the Bull given forth by Pope LEO the tenth Anno 1520. against M. Luther but yet in one m●in poin● greatly differs For in the Bull against M. L. there are 42 Articles of Doctrine condemned and ●…e Bull ordered to be read in every place to the intent that the ma●ter for which he was prosecuted as an Heretick might be known but in the aforesaid Paper subscribed by C. M. c. there is no mention of any particular Doctrine or Vitiousness in life for which they are persecuted by their brethren but instead thereof these general Recriminations viz. That they have evil designes and persevere in them by word writing and Practice c. See also more on this Subject in the second part of my Christian Quaker pag. 80. Had G. W's brethren whose practice against J. W. and J. S. he hath vindicated been but as plain as Leo was the spiritual Cheat would have long since been more obvious and though G. W. in his Judgment Fixed pag. 16.17 takes notice of the above comparison yet amidst all his pretences to Divinity and Law the greatest arguments brought by him to invalidate the force of the said comparison are these ensuing Questions viz. And is not this matter of fact to set up a Standard of seperation Where then is his comparison between Pope LEO the tenth and VS and how was the Pope's Proceedings more just For these impertinent questions I may reckon with him a little more anon Next take an instance of one amongst many more of his Notorious Lyes pag. 59. he thus saith Seeing W. R. esteemes the Popes yea even the worst of them good enough to bring us in comparison with and to cite and make them as instance against us as Leo the tenth pag. 6.22 Pope Paul the third pag. 19. and 28. Julius the third pag. 31. it may not be amiss to give some description of these Popes according to a late History or Abstract of the lives of the Popes printed Anno 1679. and then G. W. proceeds to signify that Leo was rankt amongst Athiests That Paul the Third was rankt amongst Magicians Conjurers Warryers Blood-suckers Paracides Jmpoysoners and Favourites of Whores That Julius the Third was rankt amongst Sodomites adding instances to prove them such and having so done doth pag. 55. thus query What worse Persons upon Earth could our Adversary have compared G. F. and our Friends unto or brought in comparison against them in Church Proccedings or Spiritual Censures Behold his horrid Injustice and Envy Instead of a large Comment on this notorious Falshood I shall transcribe what I wrote in my seventh Part of the Christian Quaker wherein the Names of Pope Paul and Pope Julius are inserted and leave G. W. to be further corrected by his Brethren according to his merit Pag. 19. What difficulty there may be for one of the Laity to have a just Hearing and Redress in Rome upon a complaint to be made against the Pope I will not pretend to be fully acquainted with yet this I know that a Cry for Justice when relating to G. F. hath not been hearkened to in London by one Part of the people called Quakers unto whom I have addressed See Preface and Postcript to the Christian Quaker in 5. Parts 'T is well if the Endeavours of the Penman meaning the unnamed Author of the Accuser c. who peradventure may expect Advance in the Goverment contended for be not as great to keep off the stroke of Justice when relating to G. F. as Card. Scombergs were to keep off the Reformation from the Court of Rome in the dayes of Pope Paul the Third not knowing how soon it might be his own turn to ascend the Papal Chair In the 27th page I cited an Agreement or Order made at a Quarterly-Meeting at Ralph Fretwell's in Barbadoes the 23d day of the 10th Month 1680 in these words I desire to give up my whole Concern if required both Temporal and Spiritual unto the Judgment of the Spirit of God in the Men and Women's-Meetings as believing it to be more according to the Universal Wisdom of God than any particular Measure in my self or any Particular's with which the Men's and Women's Meetings have not Unity On this occasion I signified that G. F. c. wrote to the Persons concerned and did not only call them Dear Friends but concluded That the Spirit of God hath given them Life and will bring them to the City of the Living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and Church of the First Born which are written in Heaven And so subscribes in these words Your dear Friends and Brethren in our Lord Jesus in whom you have Life Peace and Salvation On these words unto which G. F. and G. W. subscribed their Names I thus observed This shows no Dislike to the said Paper nor yet Dis-unity with the Persons and yet they in other parts seem to dislike the wording thereof for in their Letter to them they also thus say Now Dear Friends if this Order or Judgment should come into the hands of any Apostates or Opposers they will make ill work with it and say we set up an Arbitrary Power over Men's Consciences and Properties in an Implicit Faith and Submission without inward Conviction c. and that it was like the Scotch-Covenant Then I made this further Observation This shews their sense what Apostates may say but doth not declare that such their Saying might be rational And why so That 's a Secret I will not pretend to be revealed to me but yet I might have inserted the Case amongst the aforesaid Instances wherein they were at Vnion or Disunion with the Papistical Party doubtless in one of them I might have hit the Mark. For I well remember that Petro Soave Polano in his History of the Council of Trent informs these latter Ages that in the days of Pope Paul the Third great Zeal was raised in some that a Reformation might begin in his own House meaning the Court of Rome and the Ministers most immediately relating to him And though he did not positively contradict a Reformation when a true Representation of matters worthy thereof were presented before him yet the Policy of that day admitted of no real Reformation but instead thereof only a meer noise of what was represented as worthy of Amendment was permitted to go abroad in Germany c amongst the discontented Pa●ty expecting a Reformation but no Prosecution unto a real and thorow Amendment And why so This amongst others was one express reason That it would give occasion to the Lutherans to brag that

rank't by him among Atheists Magicians Conjurers Warriers Blood-Suckers Paracides though not directly or indirectly so accused by me This Just and Righteous Account of G. W. renders him a Notorious False Accuser a Scandal to the Profession of Christian Religion and sufficiently inclin'd as well as gifted to write Books wrongfully to stain the Reputation of the men of his Indignation I hope his brethren for the future will be ashamed to sit under his Pharisaical Ministry whil'st no Satisfaction is given by his real Repentance for the Errors and evil Facts whereof he is guilty especially if the sense of his Guilt be so great as to decline the publick Meeting herein after proposed for the clearing of himself if he can I now come to prove G. W. a publick Informer against W. P. which I term to his Defamation because the Matter of Fact whereof he stands accused is in some respect more condemnable than a Popish Practice deservedly testified against by Reformed Protestants Now to the Matter in hand Pag. 61. G. W. infers from my words that they who subscribed the Paper against J. S. and J. W. being 66 in number were Persecutors of their Brethren and then affirms without Evidence that I know W. P. to be one The said Paper against J. S. and J. W. is already proved to be worse in some respect than the Bull given forth by Pope Leo the 10th against M. Luther And G. W. hath not written one word that really evidences my said Comparison untrue what I take to be the Force of his Argument will hereafter follow besides 't is worthy Observation that the said Paper was directed to Mens-Meetings who are therein exhorted to warn J. S. and J. W. where-ever they come to go home c. and therein say they you will acquit your selves in Gods Sight From which Exhortations 't is evident that the Subscribers of the said Paper which G. W. vindicates endeavoured to impose on the Persons to whom they wrote exhorting them to wa●n J. S. and J. W. as aforesaid and that without leaving the Persons so exhorted to a Convincement in themselves that their so doing might be Christian-like but instead thereof gives them this assurance namely That therein you will acquit yourselves in Gods Sight From all which 't is evident that if W. P. did subscribe the said Paper he then merited the afore-mentioned Reflections limited to that Matter for so doing and in particular these two things might then be laid to his charge First That he was concerned in a Paper importing Excomunication though not so termed and that against two antient Ministers without mentioning therein any particular matter of false Doctrine or evil Fact vindicated by J. S. J. W. Secondly That his endeavouring that such to whom 't was directed should warn them to go home c. as aforesaid implies a design of Imposition without Conviction a Justification of Implicit Faith Obedience both which took their Rise from the See of Rome and was and yet is hateful to the true Reformed Protestants That now the Reader may know the force of G. W's Argument against my Comparison take it in his own words pag. 61. viz. As for their not mentioning any particular Doctrine or vitious Life that others might know the Matters alledged against them what wouldst infer That therefore the Popes Bull against M. Luther was more reasonable or just That 's a mistake for thou confessedst a Judgment given against that Jealous Rending and Seperate Spirit from which thou hast not cleared them and was that no reason then to give others Notice and Warning against such a Spirit Is Schism no sin or not reproveable This occasions me thus to say G. W. is not so plain as Bonner for he usually told the Protestants for what he Judged them and was not ashamed of the Pope's Cause if he designed to judge or reprove men for not owning the Pope and his Clergy to be the Church of Christ and that they ought to believe as the Church believed he would have plainly said so and not instead thereof tell them I judge you for being of a Jealous Rending and Seperate Spirit This in Bonner without Explanation would have been called Canting Language and until G. W. doth explain his meaning by those words he subjects himself to Derision and Scorn and though he hath insinuated that I compared him c. to a Pope rank't amongst Conjurers yet he wrongs me therein and I must confess that his aforesaid Argument is no grea● Sign of a Conjurer But notwithstanding G. W. hath informed as aforesaid against W. P. yet W. P's Address to Protestants afterward Printed Anno 1679 cleared him from all such Pernicious Principles that G. W. as before is manifest vindicates and such Rome-like Practices tending to Bondage as G. W. is become an Espouser of by owning himself one with if not one of those that subscribed the Paper against J. S. and J. W. though he pretended to this Purpose that he was moved or warned of God not to subscribe the same I shall quote a few words out of W. P's Address to Protestants to shew W. P's S●nse in his own words pag. 149. 150. For all Societies are to govern themselves according to their Institution and first Principles of Vnion where there is a Violence on this part Tyranny and not Order is introduced Now since Perswasion and Conviction began all true Christian Societies all Christian Societies must uphold themselves upon the same free Bottom or they turn Antichristian Pag. 186. The Apostle requires not men to receive him without Evidence and refers them to that in their own Consciences in the Sight of God Many more Instances might be cited to shew W. P's Detestation of Popish-like enslaving Principles and Practices though George Whitehead now sinking in his Reputation as a Christian seems to shelter himself under the Umbrage of W. P. Such mean tricks may get G. W. a Name with such an one as he scornfully terms F. B. namely a Fool but not with men of Understanding Honesty and good Conscience But if W. P. hath been the Author of any thing Printed since his Address c. whereby his aforesaid Assertions are deny'd or weaken'd far be it from me to term any man manifesting the same an Informer to his Defamation whil'st persisting therein for I have had my share in Detecting by the 8th Part of my Christian-Quaker some Principles or Assertions reputed his that are not now to my purpose to treat on and not having any Reply from him in dislike of what I wrote Charity obliges me to suppose that if his Name was not wrongfully made use of it hath been instrumental to convince his Conscience of the Truths vindicated by me Now take an Instance of G. W's scurrilous Language against my self c. namely Their insolent Abuses cruel Envy Outrage Madness and Confusions of certain Persons turned Apostate Informers treacherous Hypocrites false Brethren deceitful Workers betraying Iudases

Devils incarnate who have lost their first Love to truth become degenerate without natural Affection Dogs that are without Wolves Raging Waves of the Sea See his Introductory Epistle G. W. is not only contented so to fame himself as a Church Governour but he hath also so confidently discours't of Skill in Law as that he is taken to aim at the Repute of being a very Learned Lawyer How so The unnamed Penman of the Accuser turned my word Concerned into Represented and as such treats thereon On that Occasion I replyed thus It may be said of many Thousands of our Visible Native Country-men that they are at some times and seasons exercised in an outward Order under the Goverment of the King but if thence they should declare that they are the Representatives of the King's Government 't would be deemed a mode of Speech tending to the Annihilating of the King's Prerogative For this G. W. thus treats me Herein the man is under a mistake in this Allusion his Skil in the Law and the King's Prerogative and Government has failed him The truth is I gave no Instance to illustrate my Assertion I shall now supply that defect by instancing one thing amongst many that might be mentioned Many thousands of our Native Country-men are on the 1st day of the Week exercised in an orderly manner in hearing and uttering Religious Service establish'd by Law under the King's Government Of all these it may be said That they are exercised in an Outward Order under the Government of the King but it cannot be said of all such that they are Representatives of the King's Government which chiefly is represented in his Courts Methinks G. W. should be ashamed of his ridiculous Opposition on the foot of his Skill in Law for that by a contrary Assertion to what I laid down every common Porter if a Native exercised as aforesaid might then be declared a Representative of the King's Government though no legal Officer This puts me in mind to note that G. W. hath lately publish't in his Name a Book stiled Due Order of Law and Justice against irregular and arbitrary Proceedings I shall a little examine how well such a Title becomes his Book He opposed giving J. B. Copy of the Meeting 's Objections against my Book for the spreading whereof he was declared against as aforesaid this was sign of great Disorder and Injustice in G. W. If G. W. handles the Matter of Law well I know he must then thereby condemn his own and his Brethren's Practices if ill then it may become a shame to put such a Title by which he may obtain the Repute of a Learned Lawyer from such as know him not O proud Conceited Man Even as G. F. was reputed to be inspired with the Knowledge of Tongues by subscribing to many framed Sentences in divers Languages witness his Battledore though he is not gifted to write or speak sense in his Mother-Tongue in a Through-Discourse or Debate on some Subjects if some of his Books and publick Discourses may be thought a proper Proof in the Case The remembrance of this can never credit G. W's Reflections on F. B. for want of Schollarship I shall now add something touching G. W's Hypocritical Pharisaical Spirit though he is guilty in divers parts of his Treatise of many Errors more than this Paper detects him of yet at length he speaks on this wise Thou knowest O Lord that though thou hast endued me with a Christian Spirit and with Faith Patience and rejoycing under all my Sufferings c. yet thou hast also endued me with the Spirit of Righteous Judgment Understanding and Zeal for the Glory of thy Holy Name and Truth Methinks G. W. should have considered that though he may deceive Fools and have now and then a Smile from a Hypocrite yet that God cannot be deceived by telling him a parcel of Lyes but his great Sin is his as it were calling God to witness by saying Thou knowest when in reality 't was in a Case wherein a notorious Lye dropt from his Pen for his very Book will appear in Judgment against him that at the penning thereof he was far remote from acting the part of a Righteous Judge And many Instances not herein cited might be collected to prove the same 't is so notoriously wicked that 't is no marvel to me that G. W. justifies the unnam'd Penman of the Accuser pag. 52. though by W. P's Rule in his Winding-Sheet for Controversy Ended the said Penman for not putting his Name to his Work may be compared to a very Night-bird a Wanderer one that looks and creeps up and down like a Vagrant And though in the Seventh Part of my Christian-Quaker an Hue and Cry is recorded after the Name of the Penman yet I suppose G. W. was asham'd or afraid to become an Informer in that Case by a positive Discovery of the Man's Name His Confession pag. 52. that he hath a share therein and sees no cause to retract but stand by it is no positive Discovery I hope G. W. will accept these few Lines as a sufficient SCOURGE to correct a part of his Errours and to abate a part of his Wrath Pride and Confidence if not I now make this offer unto him That I shall be ready to meet him in some Publick Place to be agreed upon between us both where Liberty may be allowed that any Persons whatever may freely hear and my end is that I may then have opportunity to treat more largely on the foregoing Subjects and that he on behalf of himself and Brethren may have opportunity to vindicate themselves if he can from the guilt of Error now laid or that further may be laid to his charge by reason of what he hath wrote in his Book Stiled Judgment Fixed though frequently read Judgment Fired which would have been a very proper Title to his Bundle of Wrath and Malice For since 't is so that one Part of the people called Quakers are principled from the Second-day Meeting 's approved Councel not to read my Books and that another Part need no further evidence to convince them that G. W. c. stand by and espouse a wrong cause and that others termed Newters will not concern themselves in the Controversy there is no reason to trace G. W. nor yet any other Book against me in all it's Perversions false Quotations and other Evils and Errors by a thorow Answer especially since a few lines are sufficient to manifest that the Root from whence their Bulky-Rubbish springs is evil The Lord soften G. W's Stony-Heart that he may be Converted and Healed POSTSCRIPT W. D. wrote to G. W to know whether he would stand by this Doctrine namely that there can be no vnity without Conformity and that the People of God or Children of God are or must be in vniformity G. W. writes to W. D. and cites the Doctrine and then adds his answer in th●se words Ans True 1st with respect to a Conformity to the death of Christ to the Image of the Son of God 2dly They must be in vniformity with respect to the vnity of the Spirit the vnity of the Faith being of one Judgment according to their measures of Degrees Growths in Christ as they come to be of one Heart and Soul vnited in Love there is a vniformity in Substance though not genera●●y nor is it required in all Circumstances Hence I observe that G. W. straines the word vnity to import vniformity and to be as a Proof that Gods Children are or must be in vniformity and yet he confesses to Measures of Degrees and Growths in Christ which admits of various Forms though the vnity in Spirit may not be broken Next I observe from the latter Part of his words that there are Requirers of vniformity in Substance though not generally in all Circumstances Hence I query 1st Who hath power so require God's People to be in vniformity 2dly What are the Substantiall Formes that must be and can't be dispens'd with 3dly What are the Circumstantial Forms that may be disp●●…s●d with and not required 4thly Whence the Requirers had their Power to enjoyn vniformity 5thly Since Christ is the Substance whether they are not vsurpers who require his members to subject to outward Forms terming some Substantial and others Circumstantial W. R. LONDON Printed 1683.