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A serious & seasonable warning unto all people occasioned by two most dangerous epistles to a late book of John Falldoe's, subscribed by Richard Baxter [and 24 others] brethren all ---- in iniquity ... whose slanders and lyes against the holy people called Quakers are hereby reproved / by C.P.
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Pusey, Caleb, 1650?-1727.
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come the second time without sin to Salvation even to all that look for him that he came to do the Fathers will and in the prepared body did it in which ho abolisht death offering up himself through the eternal Spirit without fault to God to purge the Conscience from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9. 14. That Man must believe in this Lord Jesus Christ for remission of sins and acceptance with the Father and that by Faith Christ is applyed to the Soul for Wisdome Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption and that by the imputed and imparted Righteousness of Christ man comes to be justified and accepted with God acceptance being only in him the beloved We believe the Resurrection of the dead Christ the first fruits and afterward they that are his at his coming We believe the Life everlasting Amen And for Christs sake are willing to be killed all the day long in hope of a better Resurrection seeking a Country whose Builder and Maker is God VVe own the Holy Scriptures to be of inestimable value and excellent use to all men but we say it self gives the preheminence to the Holy Spirit as that alone which leads into all truth John 16. 8. Now in opposition to the four Moniters that incinuate that we do not own and preach Christ the Eternal Son of God and after the flesh of the Virgin And the 21 that incinuate we hold antifundamental Doctrines I give forth this Testimony wherein I affirm that of the 4 to be a most detestable Lye that we preach a meer Created Light of the natural Conscience and Reason affirming that the same Jesus that the Apostles Preacht to be Preacht amongst us faith in him is preacht as the only name given by whom poor Souls can be saved and in opposition to the 21 do say if to believe in the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent be essential to Salvation if to fear God and love our Neighbours and do to all men as we would be done by even to believe in Christ as the Author of eternal Salvation to all that obey him and as is more largly afore-mentioned be with you Fundamental then your incinuation of our holding Anti-fundamentals is slanderous It is very true Baby-baptism prated prayers Sinners to sing Saints Psalms Man made-Ministers entitling every unclean harlot to Church-membership that the Merciful God decreed some men from all eternity to damnation that God offers mercy and Salvation to those he never intends it these Lies and Blasphemies wherewith you have poisoned this age all this we deny but all wholsome found Doctrine we own and are ready to make it appear to the Faces of the Stoutest of you and prove you are Slanderers of us These Lies once believing that the Quakers denyed Christ and the Scriptures and knowing the danger people are in through the subtil wiles of these men to be seduced into a Spirit of envy against the Innocent even to their everlasting Damnation I am the larger in this matter the great objection in this matter is that we preach the Light and exhort people to turn to the Light of Christ in them this is true but that this is to preach a created Light of Reason and natural Conscience oh that ever men that would be accounted the only Learned men should be thus blind and base and thus to incinuate when the Scripture so amply gives us an account of Christs preaching himself in the same Dialect that he was come a Light into the world and exhorted people to believe in the Light that they might be Children of the Light John 8. 12. and here I shall refer these Rabbies and all people to the Testimony of Paul Acts 26. giving account of his Doctrine I continue witnessing to small and great the same things spoken by Moses and the Prophets how that Christ should suffer and be the first that should rise from the dead and should shew light to the people and the gentiles Well ye Rabbies is it to preach a created Light of the Reason and natural Conscience to testifie that Christ doth shew light to all men and exhort them to turn to it you might as well have said the same of Paul had you lived in his days Oh the midnight darkness that you are in thus basely to perswade people to believe Lyes concerning us of your own forging VVhatever have been and may be your false accusations I am assured all these people called Quakers can unanimously and chearfully concerning Jesus Christ of Nazareth subscribe to that savory saying of Doctor Crisp as I remember If Christ thou knowest it will suffice Though else thou knowest not If Christ be hid thou art not wise Though all else thou art taught 21. MONITERS And yet some of them being grown Rich can and do live in in as much flesh-pleasing fulness splendor and indulging to a sensual life as others whom they have condemned I VVill readily allow these men to be competent judges of such a life according to their own Tenent that Experience is the best Teacher yet in this also their tongue is set on fire in hell according to their wonted trade to call good evil and evil good Jer. 48. 27. Was not Israel a dirision to you even so is it with these men they deride the Israel of God and endeavour thus to draw in others to deride us and I doubt not but the cursed fire that burns in their unclean hearts against us they design to blow up in the whole Nation against us but it is like them who doctrinally apply peace where God speaks war and war where God speaks peace but they are lame in this also by their own Tenent who in their Pulpits will tell you Generals prove nothing This is a general Accusation but except they can of their own knowledge produce some particular instance it proves nothing and though I never was of their University Pupils yet do believe that by their University Rules they merit a lash for suppository Calumniation It 's true Ill-will never speaks well so to expect better from these men were to seek grapes on thorns but we know all are not dead drunk with the wine of Malice so as to believe all these men say though termed Reverend Divines Old stile though nothing more repugnant to propriety of Speech But as to that matter let all men know that if any pretending to be of us be such as indulge the flesh they are none of us but are returned to you for it is not possible they should be of our fellowship but may be fit members for your Church who doctrinally declare that Dominion over sin is not to be expected here as a great one of you in a Book called Helps to Piety thus faith The body of sin and death were born and must die together Oh rare Divines is this Doctrine a help to Piety Now to conclude this Oh ye Moniters would ye recover your long lost Reputation
and all to humble you and purifie you but alass you are turned into the degenerate plant of a strange Vine to him Jer. 2. 21. yea you are the people that having been smitten have not received correction v. 3. Oh people this is your state and as he saith v. 9. he will yet plead with you Now clearly seeing the sad danger you are in even suddenly to rush your selves â—nto an irrecoverable state by being begotten by your Teacher into a Spirit of enmity against the Lords heritagâ— which is the work of the Devil in this day in and by various Instruments and the Devil set awork these 25 Moniters to slander and reproach the holy people of God to prejudice you and others against them and their holy Testimony I hereby warn you of the danger you are in and in obedience to the requirement of the God in whose hand is my breath and to whom I must give account of all done in the body in opposition to them and all such as they are I hereby testâ—fie that the pâ—ople they slander are the Israel of God a holy unblameable people whose design in the world is the glory of God and the salvation of mens souls for which they have hazarded their all when none of these Moniters durst shew themselves and amongst them I am a witness is preacht sound Doctrine and not to be reproved the same salvation and way of obtaining it that as the Apostle said began first to be spoken by the Lord and after by them that heard him and I here testifie unto you that you are their enemies because you know them not but did you see them in themselves stript of the false dresses of Faldoe and these Moniters and all such as they there is so much honesty in many of you that a love would arise in you to them yea you would lay hold on their skirt and their God should be your God A zeal is in my heart towards God and in pity to poor deluded people by these wicked men and therefore beseech you and all people to consider your state and take heed to your Spirit as was the antient exhortation of Esay the Prophet so to you all I say Oh harden not your heart by continuing in your provocation And to you in particular once more I say consider your state and be honest and true to your selves you know not how short your time may be oh be not bewitched by corrupt men but consider what was the cause you could not stand in the hour of tryal but for fear of a Constable or Soldiers ran away from your Prayers and Preachments yea from your Bread and Wine too that you call a Sealing Ordinance of your eternal Inheritance but you have manifested what a sense you have of the vallew of an eternal Inheritance in your taking your evidences unsealed rather than expose your bodies to a Prison or shame amongst men there is that in you that sheweth you that if you would do your selves justice you would confess you love your bellye 's more than God seek the well-fare of your bodyes not your souls Oh repent and be converted that you may know a blotting out of your sins Oh ye Summer-fruit if you reform not your lives the next winter of snow and frost of Persecution ye will all drop again as rotten fruit fit for nothing but the dunghill as Christ saith of the unsavory salt therefore even as was said to them of old Rev. 3 18. I councel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire or I assure you if you know not a purging of the dross from the silver you will never be vessels for the Finer Prov. 25. 41. But depart from me ye cursed I know you not will be the dreadful portion of all of you so now I proceed to examin somwhat of the Moniters Epistle which I testifie against to be a Compound of Lies and Slanders sufficient to send all those to hell that shall swallow the least dose of it Not that I intend a general answer to it that would swell to a large Volume so to rip it up and respond to it but as to that part of it that once my self being infected with and thereby prejudiced against the holy people of God and their Testimony the Lies I once believed I am now to testifie against truly I believed them not simply of my self but as they were influenc'd into me by such persons as these as no doubt is into you and in Conscience towards God and his dear People that I say these Moniters have falsely represented and detestably slandered I thus proceed 21. MONITERS Excepting some juggling Socinianized Persons or Papists that assume their Name HEre they plainly endeavour to incinuate into peoples minds that we are in Affinity with the Papists and have Papists amongst us This horrid Slander and Lye I once believed through the like Incinuations of such and some of these men Now indeed the deadly Venome of their Monition Lyes here being the old Weapon whereby they have for many years endeavoured to destroy our Reputation and thereby our Being in the Land of our Nativity and truly these men consider not in their heart that God remembreth all their Iniquity Hos 2. 7. and so they go on to drink up iniquity as the Ox drinks water and in this matter they have been so manifestly proved Lyars that were they not the impudent Sons of Jezebel the Seducer Rev. 2. 20. they would never have raged thus more exccepting that God will have them discovered to be of the same Spirit with their Brethren in New England for these 25 Moniters are a Complication of Presbyterians and Independants and it is to be perpetuated as most requisite for the Information of succeeding Ages That it was Preaching Praying Fasting Presbyterians and Independants that Murthered the Saints in New England Now in this horrid Impious Incinuation of us to be Popish they yet manifest the depth of Villany Hos 6. 10. that lodgeth in their Hearts to incinuate this afresh into Peoples minds but Lyes are their Refuge as Needham used to say of their Enemies This Lye was their Weapon 1659 when they put forth their Monition in this City Now that through so much Tryal and Tribulation since even to the general satisfaction of Magistrate and Subject the contrary hath been manifested These Men herein I Charge 1. With most horrid impudency and malice 2. To be manifestly hereby convicted to have a design to debauch the Peoples minds in perswading them to believe the contrary to their experience and what is repugnant to the conviction of their Conscience contrary to experience that sometimes these Moniters will say is the best Teacher herein they are chargeable with Debauchery and better for their work sake merit the termâ— Debauchers than Divines This looks Pope like that people must not see with their own eyes It is sufficiently known how oft Baxter hath flown up and down the Nation in