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A96383	Antichrist in flesh unmask'd, the Quakers Christianity vindicated, from the malicious and injurious attempts of [brace] Edward Paye, William Alcott, & Henry Loader, in their late defaming confused book falsly styled, Antichrist in spirit unmask'd, or Quakerism a great delusion, wherein their causeless outrage, folly and falshood are deservedly exposed.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1888; ESTC R186514	11,564	37

Antichrist in Flesh Vnmask'd AND THE Quakers Christianity Vindicated FROM THE Malicious and Injurious Attempts Of Edward Paye William Alcott Henry Loader In their late Defaming Confused BOOK Falsly Styled Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd or Quakerism a great Delusion Wherein their Causeless Outrage Folly and Falshood are deservedly Exposed But ye are forgers of lies Job 13.4 London Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-yard in Lombardstreet 1692. CHaritably hoping that many among the People commonly called Anabaptists are more Tender and Honest minded than some of their Ministers or Leaders who have shewen their Envy and Bitterness against us I would tenderly propose a few things to the more Honest Moderate and Charitable among them in and about Deptford and elswhere that may be concerned in reading that Scandalous and Malicious Book against us Falsly stiled Antichrist in Spirit Vnmasked or Quakerism a Great Delusion lately Owned and Published by their Brethren Edward Paye Henry Loader William Alcott I. That they have Causelessly and Unjustly begun a Quarrel against us to Defame us as a People who have had nothing but Love and Good-will to them and that People and maliciously tending to Reproach and Blast our Credit in what we have solemnly professed as to our Christian Belief and Religion both to the Civil Government and Nation II. They appear Envious against our Present Liberty as Men of a Turbulent Persecuting Spirit by seeking to invalidate and make void one Condition of our present Liberty which through God's Providence is granted us and them and that is our Profession of Faith in the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven the Father Son and Holy Spirit being one God blessed for evermore And acknowledging the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration Which Profession though sincerely owned and consented unto by us before the Parliament and accordingly accepted and inserted in the Act For exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and therein confessed to be a Profession of their Christian Belief Yet contrary thereunto these Persons have grossly Belied and Misrepresented Vs the People called Quakers accusing us with Vilifying and Contemning the Holy Scriptures and that we own not the Scripture but seemingly allow it Epist and Pag. 14. And that The Quakers are great Enemies to and Contemners of Holy Scriptures p. 20. both contrary to our Sincere and Christian Profession before-cited and to the Civil Government 's Belief and Acceptance thereof wherein these Anabaptists have neither done honestly towards us nor prudently towards their Superiors thus to contradict and consequently to affront the Government in its Belief and Charity towards us and to set Subjects at Variance and to raise Persecution against us again instead of being humbly thankful for their and our present Liberty III. They have not only abused particular Persons but a People a Religious Society fearing God and truly esteeming the Holy Scriptures when we have solemnly and sincerely declared to the Government That we believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are given by Divine Inspiration Wherein we are Believed Accepted and Tolerated by the Government Two or three Anabaptist Preachers divulge the contrary to the World in Print That the Quakers are great Enemies to and Contemners of Holy Scriptures and no Christians but deluded Impostors and their Profession a Compound of Heresies p. 8 20. And what 's the Consequence but therefore the Quakers are not fit to be tolerated nor to have their Liberty of Conscience or Exercise of Religion And no Doubt had these angry Anabaptists Power we should not enjoy our Liberties the very Nature and Tendence of these their Bitter Lying Invectives being to bring Persecution upon us as a People not to be given any Credit unto in our solemn Profession before Authority IV. Pray observe That much of the said Pamphlet or Book against us styled Antichrist in Spirit is collected out of other Books and Pamphlets of our Adversaries long since Answered and Refuted and their Authorities are utterly denied by us As the Westmorland Petitioners who were Envious Persecutors Thomas Hicks his Fictitious Abusive Dialogues who was proved a notorious Forger of Lies And a most Malicious Libel styled Tyranny and Hypocrisy c. without Author's Name yet cited and insisted upon against us Thus Credulous and Malicious are these Persons Edward Paye Henry Loader William Alcott as to take Scandalous Pamphlets on Trust whose Authorities we utterly Deny and Challenge them to prove them Authentick they having been long since sufficiently Answered Disproved and Refuted in our Friends Books one entituled The Christian Quaker in Folio another Reason against Railing another The Counterfeit Christian in 8o. another Judas and the Jews another The Divinity of Christ c. in 4o. another The Christianity of the People called Quakers vindicated in Answer to Dr. Forde and many others of our Friends Books which contain sufficient Answer to all the chief Objections and Reproaches scraped up in this Inveterate Lying Pamphlet aforesaid V. They have Unjustly and Falsly Curtalized and Perverted divers of our Friends Words and Passages in their Books leaving out the Explanatory Words and Sentences VI. They have argued fallaciously in divers things deducing Inferences and Charges from a particular to a general as from a particular Person chargeable as supposed they charge the General that is a Body of People which is very unjust as if where we find false Logick Absurdities and Errors committed by these particular Persons Edward Paye Henry Loader William Alcott we should charge them upon their whole Society or Body surely they would not be so serv'd VII It would be well for their Hearers who are more Peaceable and Prudent not to be subject to such Envious and Turbulent Teachers whose Work tends to Sedition Strife and Discord among their Neighbours but rather to reprehend their Rage and Railery and caution them to live peaceably among their peaceable Neighbours that mean them no harm VIII It is a manifest Sign the Lord has forsaken their Shadows and Forms of Profession who are turned into so much Envy and Bitterness as these Men are against other Dissenters more Christian like than themselves That they are turned from the Spirit into the Flesh which Envy is a fruit of The Primitive Tenderness Simplicity and Spiritual Discoveries and Preaching that were formerly among some of their Ancient and Eminent Brethren being now lost and slighted by these Gain-saying Adversaries which is their sad Apostacy who instead of owning the Sufficiency of the Spirit 's Teaching as they did formerly now oppose Immediate Inspiration p. 16. and possessing the Kingdom of Christ p. 52. and say that The Disciples did not expect this Christ to come into them p. 53. who is the same only and very Christ of God of whom the Holy Scriptures testifie they Quoting Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 Mat. 17.5 Luk. 24.39 Joh. 20.19 p. 52 53. 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above all Heavens that he might fill all Things And that by his Suffering and Sacrifice he hath obtained Eternal Redemption for us which through Faith in his Name and Power true Repentance and Conversion we livingly receive and effectually partake of That we are not Pardoned Justified Redeemed or Saved by our own Righteteousness Works Merits or Deservings but by the Righteousness Merits and Works of this our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being both imparted and imputed to us as he is of God made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Our Reconciliation Redemption Pardon Sanctification and Justification having respect both to his suffering Death and Blood upon the Cross As the one Peace Offering and Sacrifice and as our High Priest thereby making Attonement and Reconciliation for us and giving himself a Ransom for all Mankind And also to the effectual saving Work of his Grace and good Spirit within us bringing us to experience true Repentance Regeneration and the new Birth wherein we partake of the Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings and Power of his Resurrection In which Grace we ought to persevere in newness of Life and faithful Obedience unto him unto the end that we may be Heirs of the Eternal Salvation which Christ is the Author of We sincerely Believe also That the Man Christ Jesus is the only Mediator between God and Men our Intercessor and Advocate with the Father and that he exerciseth his Kingly Office and his Priestly and Prophetical Office in his Kingdom and Church here on Earth wherein he Governs and plentifully affords both Immediate Inspiration and Instruction to his Faithful Followers who walk in his Light to guide them into all Truth and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his And that this same Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for all Men enlightens every Man coming into the World and was and is the Light of the World the Way the Truth and the Life and that the same Christ that was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh and quickned by the Spirit and Power of the Father he is Inwardly Revealed and Spiritually in the Hearts of True and Spiritual Believers by his Holy Spirit Life Light and Grace And that therefore his coming and appearing Outwardly in the Flesh and Inwardly in the Spirit cannot render him two Christs but one and the same very Christ of God blessed for evermore Also the saving Baptism which is that of the Spirit and the Lord's Supper in his Church and Kingdom we believe and receive in him the Substance Spiritually not apprehending our selves bound to remain under any outward Shadow or Type thereof in the clear Gospel-day of Christ The Immortality of the Soul of Man being Created in God's own Image and Inspired by him that formed Man And the Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment And that every Man shall be reserved in his own distinct Being for his due and future Reward the Wicked unto the Day of Judgment Destruction and Wrath but the Righteous unto Eternal Life and Glory in their Spiritual Bodies like unto Christ's Glorious Body where they shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven These Things we sincerely Believe and Profess according to Holy Scripture-Testimony and as set forth therein as the Lord is pleased to give us Understanding thereof Being ready and willing to give more large Account and Demonstration of our Holy and Christian Profession as the Lord shall lay a necessity upon us And our Belief and Profession of these Matters is not new to us but according to that Light and Understanding we have received of the Lord and believed from the Beginning since we were a Suffering People gathered by him as also divers of our Ancient Friend's Ministry Books and Writings do more fully signifie and demonstrate POSTSCRIPT To evince with what Consciences these Anabaptists E. Paye W. Alcott and H. L. have writ against the Quakers pray observe these two or three Instances more 1. E. P. c. p. 46. read p. 6 7. Saul's Errand to Damascus And G. Fox takes the Name to himself saying He is the Eternal Judge of Quick and Dead Answ This is notoriously false in Fact being in the very same Book Saul's Errand recorded among those Matters Falsly charged on G. F. by his Adversaries the Priests and others in the County of Lancaster in their Petition p. 1 2 3 4 5 6. of Saul's Errand where G. F. opposeth and answereth their Objections 2. E. P. c. p. 29. That they meaning the Quakers say That Christ hath no Body but his Church Quoting Saul's Errand p. 9. Answ Which is notoriously false again For it was the said Priest's Objection against L. F. that he professed That Christ had never any Body but his Church Saul 's Errand p. 2. Which was also false and there recorded among their other false Charges objected tho' in the Answer it is confessed That Christ's Church is his Body 'T is also confessed That we are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones Which grants his particular Body and his Churches Union therewith Therefore far from such Profession as That Christ had never any Body but his Church E. P. c. p. 59. See Parnell 's Shield of Truth p. 12. Where he calls Water-Baptism a formal Invention and Imitation of Men and so a meer Delusion Answ This James Parnell speaks not of Water-Baptism without Distinction as they state it against him for he saith it was a Figure meaning as John and the Disciples used it but of Sprinkling Infants as he saith He received Water upon his Face as his Parents told him This he calls an Invention of Men and so do Baptists I think p. 67 68. Collection of J. P. 's VVritings Thus Immorral and Unjust are these Anabaptists in writing against us FINIS

also deriding at the Quakers exhorting People to Turn to the Light within p. 54 55 56. Thus Carnal Blind and Dark have these Baptist Preachers shewn themselves and how grosly Ignorant of the Spiritual Appearance and Kingdom of Christ and his Light within and his own and Apostles Testimony thereof The Lord deliver well-meaning People from such blind Guides Of the Word Quakerism which is a Nick-name in Derision put upon our Christian Profession you tell us It 's derived from a Gesture used Much among them formerly in their Meetings meaning the Meetings of the People called Quakers as was manifest say you by the Westmorland Petitioners viz. That their Practice did exceedingly savour of Sorcery because of the Swellings Quakings Roatings and Foamings that were among them at their Meetings p. 7 8. Were you Eye or Ear-Witnesses of these Gestures No you had this Story from the Westmorland Petitioners and what were they but a Company of envious persecuting Priests and Magistrates whom they had Instigated to Persecution Are you not so Credulous as to take upon Trust any old Story to render the People called Quakers Odious and Ridiculous Is this your Christianity and Religion Lord deliver every well-meaning Person from you and your Envy We deny your Story of Swellings and Foamings as charged on Vs or our Meetings in Westmorland c. But that there has been Weeping Trembling and Lamentation sometimes in our Solemn and Religious Assemblies in Westmorland and other Places I and many more were and are Witnesses when the glorious Power and Day of the Lord arose and broke forth in our Meetings to the Breaking Humbling and Tendering many Hearts from a living Sense of his Divine and Dreadful Presence which was truly felt among us and that the Holy Men of God did Witness Quaking and Trembling as Holy Scripture testifies This you grant is true And the same say you may be said of Wicked Men and Devils And what then God's dreadful Power and Presence can make all Dread and Tremble and Bow before it even both good Men and bad Men yea and Devils also yet the Power is the same that 's over all Wicked Men and Devils have been sometimes terrified by it and made to tremble for fear of his Wrath because of their guilt of Iniquity and good Men and Women have in an humble and a contrite Heart and Spirit Trembled in a Holy Reverence and Sense of the Presence and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ among them in their Inward Attention upon him and his Word and in their fervent Prayers and Supplications to God And how can it be better than Blasphemy to account this Sorcery Such wicked Construction and Insinuation we utterly deny and testifie against and put you to prove it who have received this false Story against us of Swellings and Foamings and Sorcery c. at our Meetings with such wicked defaming Constructions I my self was frequent at our Meetings in Westmorland very early near the very beginning of them in that Country and solemnly Declare it I never saw such Gestures as Swellings and Foamings And I have lately enquired of several of our Ancient Friends who were conversant at those early Meetings in the North and they Declare the same That they never saw such Postures in our Friend's Meetings But set case any have been disordered through some Natural Infirmity Distemper Swooning or Falling Sickness What does this affect us or our Meetings on a Religious Account It may be some of your own People's Case And suppose it should be made appear that divers Anabaptists after they have been Dipt and receiv'd into Church-Fellowship have run Mad or Distracted and others guilty of great Enormities how would this affect either their Church-Profession or Society Pray consider it have you done well or as you would be done by in raking up and aggravating old Stories against the People called Quakers to render them as black and deformed as you can Upon this Story you make this farther Aggravation from Luk. 9.39 We reed of him that was Possessed that he Foamed when the Diabolical Spirit did tear him True and what then Is this any Proof against the Quakers that they are so Possessed or guilty of Sorcery No sure We read further also concerning that Man that was possessed That when he was brought unto Jesus as soon as the Spirit saw him he tore him and fell down on the ground wallowing and foaming and that when Jesus rebuked the Vnclean Spirit and charged him to come out of him and enter no more into him then the Spirit cryed and rent him sore and came out Mark 9.20 25 26. Luke 9.39 42 43. Now suppose that in any meeting of the People called Quakers any such Operations or Gesture has been in any particular Person formerly that some Unclean Spirit has so torn and disordered him or her we may charitably believe it has been because Jesus Christ has come in Spirit and Power among them to rebuke and cast out such Unclean Spirits and to deliver them that were infested thereby When our Friends have been solemnly met together in his Name and Fear in Fasting and Prayer to wait upon and worship him And that such Unclean Spirit did not enter them in such Assemblies as ours but when they were Followers of the Envious Persecuting Priests who used to Revile and Rail against the Quakers in their Pulpits and of such Malicious Preachers as these Anabaptists who as persons possessed with a Lying Unclean Spirit are now still foaming out their own Shame and Malice against an Innocent People as these Men have done in their Lying Abusive Pamphlet falsly pretending to Unmask Antichrist in Spirit whilst their Work of Malice and Falshood bespeaks Antichrist in their proud puft up envious Flesh and Fleshly Minds scurrilously perverting our Words detracting and defaming others more Harmless than themselves and no whit inferior to them as Men in Education Parts or Morals And I hope we are and shall be of more Credit and Reputation in what we solemnly declare and write than they in falsly telling the World That 't is nothing so believed by us as pretended in our Pamphlet meaning that Paper concerning our Christianity which they not being able to refute now falsly tell People That 't is nothing so believed by us as Henry Loader and William Alcott have unjustly done in their Epistle to the Reader though they are so credulous of their Brother Edward Paye's Work or Pamphlet as to Believe neither Ambition Self-Interest or Prejudice moved him to it but purely the Honour of God Defence of Truth and Good of Souls And they also Hope and Believe that he hath been careful truly to cite the Quakers own Authors But we know the contrary and that he hath both falsly cited grosly belyed and perverted the Quaker's Words and Authors and taken many false Things on Credit and in their Implicit Faith not only the said Story from the Westmorland Petitioners but also out of his

Brother Thomas Hicks his abominable Forgeries and Lies in his fictions Dialogues and others long since refuted to his own and his Compurgators and Abetters utter Shame and Disgrace And you who are such credulous Approvers and Espousers of this Edward Paye's malicious Work against us do charge us with this horrid Lye viz. That the Holy Scriptures this Generation of Men contemn and vilifie God knows the contrary and he will judge righteously between us You have herein Grossly Belyed and Defamed us our real Intention and our Solemn Profession for the Holy Scriptures and sincere Esteem of them as therein we have been Credited by the Government and many others we doubt not but we shall still have Credit against your shameful Lyes and Defamations to the contrary whereby you have most Diabolically and Foully Foamed out your own Shame and Envy as will farther appear That the Foaming Unclean Spirit and Lying Devil is not cast out of you Oh! how well it would be for you if you would humbly wait for and own Christ's Appearance in Spirit and Power to cast out that Unclean Lying Spirit that Possesses you and has moved you to approve and divulge so many gross Lyes as are in your said Book Out of your Brother Thomas Hick's Dialogue you represent the Quaker to answer thus viz. When we make use of the Scripture it is only to quiet and stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule p. 14. This is one of your Brother Hick's gross Forgeries in the Quaker's Name which you have taken on Trust out of his fictitious Dialogue Oh! blush and be ashamed of adopting and promoting such False Deceitful Stuff and also of your subjoyning in the Person of the Quakers this Forgery viz. We own not the Scripture we seemingly allow it but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule These Words subjoyned to Hick's Forgeries I charge upon you Edward Paye William Alcott and Henry Loader as abominably False and Slanderous Will this Deceitful Method bring any Honour to you or honest Proselytes to your Church think ye Would you be Popular and Famous by such gross Forgery Is this the Fruit of your Religion you Dip and Proselyte People into You are hard put to it It is a Sign your Dispensation is decreasing and your Glory eclips'd when you can espouse and invent such gross Forgeries and make Lyes your Refuge Wo unto you Lying Hypocrites When and where did ever we the People called Quakers say as you say in our Name viz. That we own not the Scripture we seemingly allow it but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours c. These your horrid abusive Forgeries will be a sore Blot and heavy Burthen upon you And now pray observe what strange Test or Proof your Agent Edward Paye puts upon us to evince Immediate Inspiration viz. Now let the Quakers resolve me by their Immediate Inspirations What those Things were that Jesus did that are not written John 21.25 And what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground John 8.6 8. or else let their proud Boastings of Immediate Inspiration be condemned to perpetual Silence and Shame cover their Faces And waiting for their Resolve herein c. p. 15 16. And why so If we do not resolve by Immediate Inspiration what those things were that Jesus did that are not written John 21.25 And what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground John 8.6 8. Hereupon you have past Unjust Judgment and falsly charged us with proud Boasting and argued absurdly against Immediate Inspiration as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all things it knows or could write as many Books of those Things Christ did as was supposed the World it self could not contain John 21.25 And then by this you Baptists will greatly fall short of being Christ's Ministers or Embassadors and have shut your selves out from any Share in the Spirit of Christ or Divine Inspiration And how then will you prove your Call to Baptize People in Water Though herein you have most egregiously contradicted your selves in pretending to Christ in you from 2 Cor. 13.5 and to be the Temples of God 1 Cor. 6.19 To be in Christ new Creatures 2 Cor. 5. p. 22. And to have the Spirit of Christ or else none of his p 23. And that Christ gives his Spirit to them that obey him Acts 5.32 p. 69. But does he give the Knowledg of all those other things that he did which are not written to all them that obey him think ye Or otherwise is it just to condemn them all to perpetual Silence and Shame for owning that Christ has given them his Spirit when they cannot tell all those other things Must we needs be as omniscient as the Spirit of God is or else be condemned as wholly destitute thereof Do you think you have well argued or given just Judgment in this Matter Oh! Blind Guides self-contradicting and self-condemned Hypocrites How hath Antichrist appeared in your Proud and Envious Flesh against Christ in Spirit On Matthew 24.26 you say It is more than probable That Christ pointed at this Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he is in the Secret Chambers which is a gross Lye by the way ay within thee not at a distance from thee c. To deem them Impostors that say Christ is within thee or them is to render the Holy Apostles Impostors who preached Christ within the Word nigh in thy Heart Rom. 10.6 7 8. which therefore was not separate from them and only at a Distance yea and to render your selves also Impostors who have confessed the same Truth of Christ within p. 22 23 69. from 2 Cor. 13.5 1 Cor. 6.19 2 Cor. 5.17 Eph. 2.22 John 16.7 Acts 5.32 Thus you Anabaptist Preachers have contradicted your selves as well as shewn your Antichristian Spirit against Christ within and that you are blind Guides and self-contradictory Opposers of the Mystery of Christ as well as Defamers of us for his sake You most shamefully belie the People called Quakers in your Comparison p. 18. where you say The Names they i. e. the Quakers give the Holy Scriptures viz. no better than an Old Almanack Precepts and Traditions of Men c. Pray where do they that is the People called Quakers give the Holy Scriptures those Names you charge upon them They are such gross notorious old Lyes that it is high Time for you to be horribly ashamed thereof as they are quite out of date with all sober minded People that know us so we doubt not but you who are now the Promoters thereof will be as much out of Credit as the first Fomenters have long been You abuse and wrong us about the Titles of our Books as if higher than we give to the Holy Scriptures perverting them by leaving out the Explanatory part of the Titles as for instance A true and Everlasting