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A54223	The spirit of Alexander the copper-smith lately revived, now justly rebuk'd, or, An answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, The spirit of the hat, or the government of the Quakers in which the confederacy is broken, and the devil's champions defeated / by a true witness of the one way of God, W.P. ; to which are added the testimonies of those persons whose names are chiefly quoted by the author of that pamphlet.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1374; ESTC R21606	19,027	28

think our selves nor Principles much put to it to vindicate these Assertions 1. That we are a Religious Body 2. That we have as such a Power within our selves 3. That by the Power and Spirit of the Eternal God we have condemned as well as justified many Practices 4. That being in Holy Peace and Unity and that Singular Spirit of the Hat getting place with some and secret Rents Divisions and Animosities being like to ensue among us as among the first Christians we did with such other Carriages as were reputed unbecoming the Blessed Gospel condemn that of keeping the Hat on in time of publick Prayer to Almighty God to whom alone from a sensible Mind we perform that Holy and Due Reverence as introduced by a singular Conceited and Deceitful Spirit 5. That the Author of the Spirit of the Hat c. hath resisted many Loving Treaties Serious Invitations and abundance of Good and Wholesom Advice for his own Good and the Church's Peace and because he is not owned in that Practice which should we God's Spirit would disown us in so doing therefore as a Man enraged beyond all Bounds of not only Christianity but Manhood with Folly Madness and desperate Revenge has he endeavour'd our Ruin among Men. Now that here in he has not shown himself the Primitive Quaker and great Lamenter of our Apostacy as he pretendeth may be clearly seen in that he doth endeavour to render the Good as well as Bad among us suspected by those whom he confesseth cannot have that Discerning he hath and consequently their Lives and Ministry ineffectual Next to do it at this time of the Day What greater Demonstration of Implacableness can there be when so many are against us and that as Quakers in any sense yea for owning those Principles he himself asserts their hands are strengthned thereby Lamentation Murder Mercy Revenge our Recovery our utter Destruction and nothing below it must have been sought by that Discourse but it all retorts from our Impenetrable Armour upon himself and he will prove at last only to have discovered his own Nakedness by this Impious Attempt Whence if any thing appears it is this that because he is indeed gone back from what he was and we remain what we were the World that once persecuted him and still doth us count him now a very White Boy and I am perswaded let him but continue to write against us though a pretended Quaker I dare warrant they will reckon him a very Good Christian It is this Sort of Unruly Beast that the Professors who themselves would have cast him out an Hundred times maintain for an Ingenious Quaker though their bare Entertainment of him against us were Ground enough to suppose him either an Imposture or Renegade as indeed he is little better since first he pretends to be that in Religion which he is not And secondly that he is slipt from what he once was or at least pretended to be I will briefly observe the most weighty things of his Libel and which indeed comprehend the Whole and so close this Animad version First That G. Fox should say No Liberty out of the Power which he compares with the Papists thus No Liberty out of the Church What! Liberty to the Sectary No. What! Liberty to the Heretick No. And G. Fox says he thus What! Liberty to the Presbyter No. What! Liberty to the Independents and Baptists No Liberty is in the Truth Upon which he Comments at large But had this Man but one Grain of that great Stock of Righteousness he unjustly pretends to and seems to lament the Absence of among us he would never have dared to suffer this to be so Printed to the World The Truth of the Matter is this G. Fox having an Occasion to speak of Liberty of Conscience said He never liked the Word as commonly us'd for Conscience being an Inward and Spiritual Thing no mortal Man could bind or inthrale it He meddled not at all with the Outward Exercise of Conscience as to the Performance of Worship commonly called Liberty of Conscience wherefore he proceeded No Liberty out of the Power that is The Power of God Nor in reallity is there For all Consciences that are defiled or enslaved by Wicked Works they are not truly free the Power of God has not delivered such into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God And since those Perswasions Deny Liberty from Sin on this side the Grave at least the immediate Light Power and Spirit of God to work it in the Soul he therefore said What! Liberty to the Presbyterians Independents Baptists c. No. That is What Spiritual Liberty and Freedom of Conscience No for then in vain are we become Quakers as the world calls us And why should they deny a State of Freedom In short He spoke and meant it of an Inward Liberty of Conscience from Sin which is call'd in Scripture Purging the Conscience from Dead Works and If the Truth make you Free c. and this Alexander the Copper-Smith that Vile and Peevish Apostate turns to an outward Exercise of Religious Worship as if G. F. would have had those Professors persecuted by the Civil Magistrate O Base and Wicked Perversion of an Innocent Man's true Words But for all this shall the Eternal Just God bring him to Judgment His next great Cavil is about his pulling off the HAT at Publick Prayer either upon Conviction or the Judgment of the Body wherein he tells us That not only some of us counsell'd or requir'd him to yield because the Body would have it saying That was yielding to the Power But his not so yielding but persisting is no Dissention but our Disowning any Person for that Cause is a Breach of the Great Gospel-Charter of Liberty Let him deny this to be the Strength of his Book if he can or dare and which is as soon blown away as the Chaff before the Wind. There is either such a Thing as a Christian Society sometimes call'd a Visible Body or Church or there is not If there be not all is at an end and why Contend we at all If there be then this Church either has Power or not If no Power then no Church If a Body Church or Society for the Word Church signifies no more borrowed from the Assemblies of the A●●enians then there must be a Power within it self to determine an Anointing to lead into all Truth Deny this and all falls of it self Well but this I suppose will be confessed to The Question then is this But how far may this Church in joyn the Consciences of Individuals any Performance supposing their Dis-like I answer It would be first enquired into Whether those things have been once generally own'd by such a Church or not secondly Or if it be about some super added Ceremony something over and above what each Member at first sate down contented with Now it is manifest that this very Perverse and Quarrelsom Man when he at

past That God would give him the Heathen for an Inheritance and the utmost Parts of the Earth for a Possession James Claypool AS concerning the Letter called The Spirit of the Hat This I testifie It proceeded from a Subtil Dark Insinuating Treacherous and Malicious Spirit in words seeming to magnify the Name of the Lord but its Workings ever brought reproach and dishonour thereunto of which to my great Sorrow I have been a Concerned and Experienced Witness For Reader this know That the Lord God Everlasting having visited this Nation with the Day-Spring of Eternal and Immortal Life how were our Hearts affected and our Spirits revived and our very Souls made exceeding and unexpressibly glad Ah! how did the Solitary rejoyce How were the Mourners comforted How beautiful were the Feet of them that brought us Tidings of this blessed Day We knew throw Judgment and Burnings and no otherwise the Oyle of Joy and River of Gladness for the Antient Path which is Holiness to the Lord that was and is cast up and the Joy of many Generations was and is come and the Angel of his Presence that rewarded Disobedience with Judgment was known and his Mighty Arme that wrought Wonders of old that was and is with us And Oh! that the Nations knew this their Day of Visitation For of a certain Truth the Lord God of the Hebrews hath appeared unto us and his Message is He hath seen He hath seen the Afflictions of his holy Seed by reason of Sin and Iniquity and he is come down to deliver out of spiritual Darkness and Bondage Many have been and are the Witnesses hereof and are raised and raising to testify thereunto and their Testimony shall endure and remain Yet notwithstanding as of old many that have confessed to this Testimony have turned aside and given heed unto Fables and forgotten the right Way of the Lord and many Spirits have risen up to Stop the Passage of this blessed Work and many have turned aside and some are fallen as in the Temptations and Provocations in the Wilderness in Israels journying toward the blessed Land and as record is made in the Scriptures of what befel them in their Travels that Ages to come may hear and fear and not tempt and provoke the Lord as they did The same in some measure being in this Age also manifest in which I my self was concerned and saw the Snare and through the Goodness and Mercy of the Lord am delivered from and have often had it in my Heart to leave it on Record to Ages to come Therefore let him that reads understand When we had seen the great Plunges in Egypts Land and had travelled through the Red-Sea and saw the Wonders of the Lord in the Field of Zoar and Sang the Song of his Prayses upon the Banks of Salvation and were Travelling on in the Wilderness to Canaan's Blessed Land we were Proved Tryed Tempted and Assaulted by many Enemies and as we kept unto the Angel of his Presence we were kept and preserved from all Danger That was a Pillar of Fire by Night and a Cloud to cover us from hurt by Day and Angels Food we knew and the Water out of the Rock we saw and drank of the River of his Good Pleasure and the Desert did rejoyce and the Wilderness did blossom as a Rose But after all this we tasted the Waters of Merra and through want of Watchfulness liked not the Food of Angels but desired other Meat and Quaile sell amongst us upon which Judgment came and many fell for Disobidience and some are yet Monuments of his Mercies and some yet withstand their Visitations And that none may pretend Ignorance and that all may be left without Excuse the thing was this A Spirit arose in John Perrot pretending that the putting off the Hat in prayer was a Romish Tradition and that a higher Dispensation was to be waited for This and much more was asserted under a pretence of a more excellent Way accompanied with pretences of a more strickt and mortified Life which I sought for and was grieved that some that made a profession thereof did not walk answerable unto this in which trouble I with several was amused and muddled and not Watching in that that discovers the Enemy in every Appearance did not understand the working of that Spirit nor that Power that withstood this Spirit though often warned thereof by them that kept their Habitations For in a Mystery it did wotk and still doth and lead many to the Chambers of Death and Death is its Food for into prejudice it brought many that did eat as a Canker and the Good was not discerned but they were and some yet are as the Heath in the Desert that knows not when good comes And the Spirit that introduced that Practice is manifest and him by whom it was first asserted hath merited in the Hearts of several the Appellation and Detestation as of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat that caused many in outward Israel to Sin And now as to the Insinuations by the Author of this Letter concerning the Meeting at Devonshire house in which my name is mentioned and my Case stated as a grand Proof of the Lordlyness and Corruptness of the Second Days Meeting there I have this to say I have as often been refreshed and comforted in the Good Presence of the Lord that there I have found and felt as in any Meeting I ever was in And the Opposition I had there related not to my Marriage as a Marriage or to hinder my proceed therein for that J. B. and all said at that time he had nothing against but that the Meeting could not passe it as their Approvement I being not in Unity with the Meeting as to that matter aforesaid So that the Letter doth not present the Matter truly as it was but in a prejudiced Spirit states things to render the Meeting and its proceeds odious both in that and several other particulars which I expect others may reply unto John Osgood I Having seen a Printed Paper to which the words above relate wherein my Name is made use of by way of Instance I find my self concerned to testifie on this wise That as the Blessed Eternal Truth was received by me in the Love of it through the Testimony of that Blessed People called Quakers I being soon after I was Convinced shut up in a Close Prison and continuing a Prisoner for divers years though the Bent of my Heart was after the Lord in a measure of Singleness yet the Enemy of Truth and my Soul being permitted to bring forth his work in a Mystery and therein to assault and gain Ground upon several of that People some whereof I had an Affectionate Esteem for hoping and believing well concerning them And I being at a Distance and much alone that spirit had an Influence upon me to the betraying of the Simplicity in me to the writing of that Paper therein mentioned and thereby to be an Occasion