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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40738	The worlds honour detected, and, for the unprofitableness thereof, rejected, and the honour which comes from God alone, asserted, and reduced to practice, or, Some reasons why the people of God called Quakers, do deny the accustomary honour and salutations of the world ... by a friend to truth, who is no respector or regarder of persons, called a Quaker, B.F.	Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2541; ESTC R8091	54,243	70

The Worlds Honour DETECTED And for the unprofitableness thereof REJECTED And the HONOUR which comes from GOD alone ASSERTED and reduced to practice OR Some REASONS why the People of God called Quakers do deny the accustomary Honour and Salutations of the World consisting in putting off the Hat Bowing Titling bidding Good-morrow Good-night c. upheld by them in a Respect of Persons contrary to the Royal Law of Liberty Iam. 2. Their several Pleas for the same impleaded and divers Objections answered By a Friend to Truth who is no respecter or regarder of persons called a Quaker B. F. Rom. 13.7 Give honour to whom honour is due Yea Honour all men 1 Pet. 2.17 Yet Honour is not seemly for a fool Prov. 26.1 How can ye believe that receive honour one of another and seek not the Honour which cometh FROM GOD ALONE Joh. 5.44 salute him not or say not to him God speed for he that saluteth him or saith so to him is partaker of his evil deeds 2. Joh. 11. London Printed for Robert Wilson 1663. To the READER FRIEND IN this Paper thou hast a faithful account why we do not use but testifie against the Customs of the World in their Salutations which yet we impose upon no mans understanding but singly bear the Testimony of the Lord as we have received it from him leaving the thing to be witnessed by the Light and Spirit of God alone in every man's Conscience to which every one must stand or fall and in which a man ought narrowly to weigh all his deeds and as he shall finde peace or reproof from the Lord after due inquest so let him do not out of fear to shun the Cross in any thing nor for affection or out of imitation to any without the sence and feeling of the Iudgment of the Lord and his leadings in both which there is danger and an absolute mistake of the way of Truth in which the Servants of the Lord are led and such are as far from the true Unity with the People of God as they that are conformable to the Worlds Customs in blindness of which I thought good to warn all men every where that they might come to the true ground or ground of Truth in themselves there to find and feel the Iudgements of the Lord against all evil by the Light made manifest in themselves and to receive of the Power of the Lord which leads out of the evil seen which Power is received in the giving up to and answering of the Convictions of the Light And that the whole World may know that our Unity stands not in an external conformity of the Hat Cap or any other outward thing or action but in that Light Life Power Spirit which the World knoweth not neither can receive in and by which we are all united unto one Spirit Soul Mind and Body of which Christ is the head even by the living virtue which proceedeth and descendeth from him to the enlivening of each member according to the measure which it is capable of where it is so that our Unity is not without but within nor with any outward practice though never so apparent to have been the practice of the Saints and holy men of old whether Patriarchs Prophets or Apostles and Disciples in the times of greatest purity further than it is now in this day and in that person that doth it found felt and known to proceed from that One only Antient and eternal Spirit and Life in which alone God hath alwayes been worshipped and honoured and not at all out of it at any time for he that is not in the Spirit is in the flesh and he that is in the flesh cannot please God and he that is not in the Life is in death and the dead cannot praise our God who is a living God and liveth for evermore He that reads let him try himself B. F. The Worlds Honour detected and for the unprofitableness thereof rejected and the Honour that comes from God alone asserted and reduced to practice c. THat there is an Honour from men to each other which also is to be shewed upon all occasions to all men in common yea and a special Honour from Inferior to Superior Relations according to the flesh as from Children to their Parents from Servants to their own Masters from Wives to their own Husbands from Subjects to their own Emperors Kings Princes Magistrates or Rulers and from the People of God to those whom the Lord hath placed as Watchmen over them yea and a double Honour to all those that rule well and are found doing the Work of the Lord faithfully is of it self so clear that it needs no proof being so clearly asserted in the holy Scriptures and denyed by no People that I have ever met with or heard of which sheweth it to be amongst the number of those things placed by God immediately from himself in his creature Man which of all demonstrations is the most firm and valid that any man can have because he hath a firm testimony thereof immediately in himself which being free from all possibility of being corrupted unless by himself and with his own consent I call the most firm and stable assurance that man can have far exceeding any writing or written testimony which being never so pure true and infallibly so in it self at its first giving forth may in process of time through malice of men or the weakness and negligence of Transcribers be falsifyed vitiated and corrupted or defective before it reacheth my hands and so consequently without my consent or guilt but so cannot this immediate inward living Testimony of the Spirit or Light of God in man be but here every man must have a hand in corrupting it for himself and turning this Grace of God which hath appeared to all men bringing Salvation into wantonness whereby they justly bring condemnation and darkness upon themselves Now what this true Honour is this is the Question among many and how it is given or shewn to men in general and how to each particular Relation This true Honour then it self I affirm and I hope with the consent of all intelligent men to be LOVE or a Principle of Love Universal Love placed by God near man in his heart and mouth and it is shewn or given to any man in particular and so in general by extending it self forth in the Actions of Love towards him as his condition and necessity requireth This with me is the only true foundation of all true and lasting Honour which cometh from God undeniably as that without which all honour so called is no honour but only in shew and not in deed for how can I honour him whom I love not or indeed love a man and not honour Him its impossible These two then are inseparable yea they are convertibles they are one this Love is Honour and this Honour is Love where the one is wanting the other cannot truly be where and

Constable as deriving his Authority from him doth not require inferiours to be subject to the will of man in any of these relations but to have their eye in all things to the Will of God to do what they do as unto him submitting themselves in the fear of God which keepeth the heart clear upright and pure and so out of obeying in any evil thing And As these Inferior relations in their places are exhorted to Obedience so also are the Superiors charged even to do the same thing that is just good fitting and well-pleasing to the Lord as in his fear 1. Rulers Let him that ruleth over men see that he be just ruling in the fear of God hating covetousness and not greedy after gifts and rewards which blind the eye punishing and being a terror only to the evil not to the good but to them a praise even of all that do well For there is a King of Kings and Lord of Lords who rewardeth every man without respect of persons according to his works in whose hands your life and breath is 2. Parents Ye Fathers provoke not your Children lest they be discouraged for with God there is no respect of persons 3. Masters And ye Masters do the same things unto them viz. to your Servants giving unto them that which is just and equal forbearing threatning knowing that your Master also is in Heaven neither is there respect of persons with him Eph. 6.9 c. 4. Husbands Husbands love your Wives as your own bodies and be not bitter against them Yet though these should so be in their several stations this Obedience and Subjection in all good things is that which the Lord requires as well to him to be rendred not only to the good and moderate but also to the hard for the obedience is unto the Lord for his sake for conscience sake and not for their sakes and he is the reward of those that obey him in the Faith But if they go beyond these bounds in their Commands commanding things unfitting evil and not well-pleasing to the Lord but contrary to his Will it is then neither honour to God nor them to obey them actually but a dishonour to the Name of God that any should fear Men more than Him and not rather suffer for the Name of Christ and the Testimony of a good Conscience But good wise and prudent Rulers who know their Authority and fear the Lord will not require such things and such will also be satisfied with that honour which comes from God alone and be content and count it honour enough if the Power which is the Ordinance of God be but honoured with Subjection through a good and blameless Conversation well knowing that as to their persons there is no such peculiar honour due to them more than to other men Though possibly some self-willed ambitious persons may not be satisfied therewith as being too mean and plain too much like the upright world-despising and self-denying Iesus and his mean single-hearted Followers and Disciples who of old could not and yet cannot honour or reverence or prefer the Rich-man with a Gold-Ring gay Apparrel before a Poor-man in vile rayment at which such I say may be disturbed it being the chief thing which they perhaps aimed at in getting into Authority Why how saith he wherefore am I in Authority wherefore am I call'd a Duke Earl Marquess Lord Knight or Esquire c. why have I bought these Places and Titles so dear why do I put on all these gay cloaths why have I so many waiting upon me so many running by my horse or coach side as dogs why such feathers in my hat and such a fine sword by my side why do I build or purchase such stately palaces If notwithstanding all this I shall be honoured before the People no more than one of the people out of Authority no more than a common simple plain fellow in a leathern jacket or dublet what is it all worth without this unless I be honoured the more for it tush 't is not all worth twopence without it 't was for that I sought and bought all this and now to lose my cost and pains and to get nor cap nor knee nor bow nor congie nor your Grace Honour nor Worship nay not so much as good-morrow nor good-night nay to have no better language nor reverend Addresses made to me in speech than to my Foot-boy or than I my self give my Foot-boy nothing but Thou and Thee it 's intolerable it torments me I cannot I will not bear it from them I will not leave till I have rooted them out but I 'le have my will of them and prove it by the Scripture too that they must honour me am I not a good Christian then Well! if there be such a Haman yet living I say unto thee Friend stop a little run not head long to thy own destruction call thy fury a little in question examine the cause consider whence is it from Heaven or Hell who blows the fire who captivates thee thus who rageth thus in thee against a harmless people yea who tyrannizeth thus over thee Whose voice is this Surely not the Voice of God thy Creator whom thou oughtest to fear nor yet the natural genuine voice of his innocent creature but of him that possesseth thy heart and reigneth over thee Consider then who is it and whither he is leading thee And if thou wilt not be advised and nothing can satisfie thee but to have thy own will Go on but know the Lord hath determined to deliver Mordecai and all his generation out of the hands of Haman and thou shalt not prosper that seekest their destruction though thou mayest be backed with the King's Command for even also the heart of the King is in the hand of our God whom alone we fear and not man and in him alone is our confidence And now all ye that profess the Name of Christ behold what a Serpent ye nourish in the bosom of the ambitious man and how by your slavish conformity ye increase and strengthen the bands of the Innocent consider also whether ye therein please God or man the flesh or the Spirit and with whom ye partake in it And thou Ambitious HaMan consider also who is thy greatest friend he that piles up fuel upon fuel upon the flame of thy ambitious spirit by satisfying it or he that refusing to feed and satiate thy amb●●ious appitite becomes as a stumbling-stone in thy way and as thorns under thy feet that thou mayest be pricked stumble and fall and return to rise and consider what thou art doing whither thou art posting and in whose service whether thou dost obey God Christ or the Spirit of God to the Salvation of thy Soul or the Devil the World and thy flesh to thy destruction Consider it I say and know that thou art warned and he not deceived for God is not mocked what thou sowest that shalt thou assuredly reap whether unto the flesh destruction or unto the Spirit life eternal B. F. Now unto THE KING Eternal Immortal Invisible only wise God alone BE all Honour and Glory Majesty Dominion and Power Praises and Thanksgiving for ever and ever And let no man from henceforth worship the Beast but fear God and give glory to him and worship him alone for the hour of his Iudgment is come THE END