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B09695	Railings and slanders detected: or The folly and heresies of the Quakers further exposed. Being an answer to an invective libel written by G. Whitehead, impertinently called, Antichrist in flesh unmasked, &c. which some of the Quakers call an answer to a book truly stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. In this brief discourse you have the slanderous out-cries of G. Whitehead, against Edward Paye, Henry Loader, and William Alcot, examined, detected, and confuted.	Paye, Edw. (Edward)	1692 (1692)	Wing P884; ESTC R181559	21,006	57

with that Body that God raised him from the dead again Thou Heathen because W. J. said the Will of Christ was made known by the Scriptures Thou Lyer Bundle of Lyes thou Esau selling thy Birthright a Mute for the Night-birds Cormorants Bitterns Owls Ravens Dragons wild Beasts Satyrs Vultures Screich-Owls and that because W. G. said that the Saints have not the glorious Kingdom in possession but by promise This for Tho. Lawson the Quaker in his Book against W. Jefrey c. I shall again mention Famous Edward Boroughs in his Answer to Mr. Bennet's 20. Sober Questions as appears in Boroughs Works in Folio from p. 29. to 34. a Breviate thereof take as followeth Thou Reprobate and Child of Darkness the Light condemns thee and thy Generation eternally We Witness thee to be in the Sorcery and Witchcraft Thou art darkness it self thou Dragon thy Queries are conjured in the Black-Art out of the bottomless Pit thou Diviner we Witness thee to be the Beast that Wars with the Lamb thou Antichrist that lookest at Christ's death at Jerusalem alone thou art seen with the Light and with it condemned thou blind Pharisee and Blasphemer thou Jesuit art thou pleading for a Christ afar off thee thou art under the Woe and from that Woe thou shalt never fly Let all People see whether thou be not a blind ignorant Sot Here thou replyest thy sottish Questions concerning the Body of Jesus as the Devil did about the Body of Moses Thou disobedient one upon whom God will render Vengeance in flaming fire thou art Accursed thou Beast to whom the Plagues of God are due upon whom the Wrath of God must be accomplished thou art shut out from God for ever thou blind Hypocrite thou dark sottish Beast thou polluted Beast And much more to this purpose you will find in the Book and Pages of Edward Boroughs the Quaker aforesaid Now is it not hard to believe the Testimony the Quakers give of this Man namely that he was a Faithful Servant and Prophet of the Lord And yet he thus Sentences a Man to Woe and Condemnation for ever and that for asking some sober and serious Questions Take also a Breviate of Mr. Penn's sweet Language to Mr. Faldo in Answer to his Book Quakerism no Christianity See Mr. Faldo's Reply to Mr. Penn's Answer p. 93. Saith Mr. Faldo I shall rake but into one of your Books for the following good Language and leave large gleanings of all these lovely Titles and Eipithets you afford me and my Work ' Behold you Priest failable errable Priest scoffing independent Priest ungodly Priest busie Priest cavilling Priest over-doing Priest Antichristian Priest Mountebank Priest this taunting Priest stingy Priest mercenary John Faldo a Quack a Religious Bone-setter the Priests break-neck the Priest and his Poppit-play Doctrine vaunting strutting John Faldo insolent Vilifier ignorance or malice it self our malignant Adversary John Faldo ignorance malice and revenge black as Hell it self in malice impious scoffs impudence strange impudence the impudence of his wickedness sordid pedantry he vomits his Scriptures he brings no more to purpose than Toby and his Dog a Doctrine of Devils a lye a lye to be sure a very lye devilish falsities a downright lye an errant lye a wicked lye the last great lye of his second part of lyes a wicked lye minted out of Hell Mr. Penn ' s Answer to Mr. Faldo p. 43. 65. 79. 64. 109. 117. 140. 208 210. 74. 107. 116. 40. 46. 110. 157. 204. 213. 214. 203. 215. And much more that follows being more general Railings and Reflections 4. Take a Breviate also out of this small bundle of Railery written by G. Whitehead against Edward Paye Henry Loader and William Alcot thus sweetly worded The Envy and Bitterness they are maliciously envious against our present Liberty as Men of a turbulent persecuting Spirit they have grosly belyed us in their bitter lying invectives their envy and bitterness is carnal blind and dark these envious turbulent Teachers in their rage and railery Lord deliver every well-meaning person from you and your Envy 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 their work of malice and falshood in their puff'd-up envious Flesh they have grosly belyed us and do charge us with this horrid lye your shameful lyes you have grosly belyed us you have diabolically and foully foamed out your own shame and envy as will appear that the foaming unclean Spirit and lying Devil is not cast out of you the unclean lying Spirit that possesses you such gross forgeries horrid and abusive forgeries a gross lye O blind Guides self-contradicting and self-condemning Hypocrites you are blind Guides they are gross notorious old lyes Woe unto you lying Hypocrites Antichrist in Flesh c p. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. 11. 15. 16. 17. 18. 20. 21. c. And more such stuff as this Now doth not this make it manifest that the Quakers are no Changlings But is it not strange that these people that call themselves God's Lambs should act so like raging Bears and when endeavours have been used to still their ragings many times their Answer hath been as Tho. Lawson to Will. Jefery Dost not thou know the Saints shall Judge the World they being the Saints and all they condemn the World Take a Breviate of some of the Quakers Profession of Faith The Quakers Profession of Faith Q. What 's your Belief concerning the Blessed Trinity as our Term is Answer Our Belief is that in the Unity of the God-head there is Father Son and Holy Ghost being those 3 Divine Witnesses that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit and that these three are one according to Holy Scrip. Testimon The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith 1. Respecting the place where these Divine Witnesses are or what Heaven they intend 2. How it appears that they own the Humanity of Christ 3. How it can be that they own Justification by Christ briefly examined Smiths Primer p. 9. They that are false Ministers Preach Christ without and bid people Believe in him as he is in Heaven above Swor'd of the Lord p. 24 your carnal Christ is utterly denied by the Light your imagined God beyond the Stars J. Pernel's Satans design discovered p. 19 25. saith That by Preaching Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his work done on Earth as Tho. Lucock being asked by W. J. where that Heaven was into which Christ Ascended He answered claping his hand on his Breast saying within me within me so that the Heaven the Quakers intend is within them in their corruptible bodies The Quakers Profession of Faith Q. Do you believe the Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God or that Jesus Christ is truly God and Man Answer Yes we verily believe that Jesus is truly God and Man according as the Holy Scriptures testifies of him God over

Railings and Slanders detected Or the Folly and Heresies of the QUAKERS Further Exposed Being an Answer to an Invective Libel Written by G. Whitehead impertinently called Antichrist in Flesh unmasked c. Which some of the QUAKERS call An Answer to a Book truly Stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked OR Quakerism a great Delusion In this Brief Discourse you have the Slanderous Out-cries of G. Whitehead against Edward Paye Henry Loader and William Alcot Examined Detected and Confuted He Seedeth of Ash●s 〈◊〉 deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his Soul nor say Is there not a Lye in my right hand Esai 44. 20. Wh●●st that Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemies they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poyson of their foul Opinions Irenaeus in his Third Book against Heresies London Printed in the Year 1692. Railings and Slanders Detected or the Folly and Heresies of the Quakers further Exposed c. IT is well known to all that are but a little acquainted with the Faculties and Writings of the Quakers that their usual methods are to cry out against all that oppose or detect their corrupt notions as such that abuse and defame an Innocent and Religious People But amongst the many causeless out-cries they have proclaimed in the World I have not seen one for its magnitude that hath out-done a small parcel of slanderous confused Railleries that lately was Midwiv'd into the World and Fathered by George Whitehead which if there be a Wise Man amongst them it appears strange that it had not been stifled in the Birth rather than such an ill shapen Cub should have gone forth into the World to declare it self Legitimate and publish it self the true Off-spring of a Quaker But we must take it as it is and in the Title Page G. W. saith our Book is a desaming confused Book Answer I suppose a great part of it must needs be confused being taken out of your own confused Writings the reconciling of which to themselves is as easie as bringing together the South and North Poles 2. He calls it a defaming Book Answer It defames no Mans Person nor indeed your Principles any further than your Tongues and Pens did it first of all for it Treats of your professed notions which if false are deservedly exposed nothing being a more destructive evil in our day than for falshood to be carried on in the World with Fame and Applause But to come to your Book it self Could you suppose that any thing was contained in it to the purpose I cannot imagine what you could think of it If you had said any thing towards reconciling your former Writings with your late professed Faith you had done something to the purpose do you think that any whose Eyes are in their Heads will not easily see that your defects in Truth aud Reason are supplied with Slanders and Railings You tell us p. 5 6 7 8. We have shewed our envy and bitterness yea we appear Envious against your present Liberty as Men of Envious Turbulent Persecuting Spirits c. Why what 's the matter why our Book defames the Quakers as a People of a Religious Society c. who have solemly and sincerely declared to the Government That they own and believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and desire to live in the Faith Knowledge and Practice of them and that they believe in the Three Divine Witnesses bearing Record in Heaven the Father Word and Holy Spirit and the Divinity and Humanity of Christ and Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits and not by their own This and much more in their professed Faith whereunto I referr the Reader Now we have gone and published to the World wherein the Writings of their chief Guides do directly oppose and contradict this Confession of Faith from which G. Whitehead concludes That by this we would make void one Condition of their present Liberty p. 6. As People not fit to be tolerated now have their Liberty of Conscience p. 7. And saith G. W. No doubt had these angry Anabaptists power we should not enjoy our Liberties the very Nature and Tendency 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 To all which I Answer First We did not know till our Book was Published that you had professed this as your Faith before the Parliament And secondly we must the more admire your Presumptuous confidence herein that you should so affront the Government except you had at the same time renounced your former Writings that so evidently contradict it And whereas you falsly charge us with persecuting Spirits and Envy it is well known that our principles are and ever were that none ought to be persecuted for their Religious Principles or Notions no not the Papists themselves so long as they live peaceably in subjection to Authority and the Civil Government yet had they come and set up a Mass-House at Deptford and that they might the more effectually prevail upon the Ignorant and easilier proselyte them to their Idolatry and Superstitions should have published a Profession of Faith directly contrary to their known Principles and the Writings of their Chief Guides We should in like manner have looked upon our selves obliged both in Honour to God and Love to our Neighbours to have detected their Deceits And we freely allow any to examine our published Faith and if they can find such plain contradictions as aforesaid we will be content to bear the discredit and not retaliate them with Railings and Slanders nor account them envious Persecutors for it And now I would appeal to the Light in G. Whitehead whether he believes that we envy their Liberty and would Persecute them had we Power if he so believes he is miserably deluded in that matter and if he doth not so believe how willfully doth he sin against the Light in casting these Slanderous Aspersions upon us What are we envious Persecutors Hypocrites and possessed with an unclean Spirit and lying Devil p. 5 8 17. Fie George are these Thunderbolts fit to be shot at your Antagonists on all occasions I own that you have some cause to be displeased at our putting you upon a work you cannot possibly do namely to reconcile your late Faith with your former Writings But then you might have called us unreasonable Men or compared us to Pharaoh's Task-masters for its a work we put you upon that is harder than to make Brick without Straw And indeed G. Whitehead appears to have no mind to touch it with one of his fingers it is so knotty and difficult a piece of work No it passeth the skill of the ablest Orator with all his Rhetorick or George Whitehead with all his pretended skill in Logick to do it

present in Spirit they are obliged to Prayer and Fasting and all other Gospel Ordinances till his second personal and glorious coming But what the Quakers have to do with Ordinances Prayer or Fasting I see not 2. Neither is there Reason to believe you dare in your Assemblies in Christ's Name rebuke any unclean Spirits lest you meet with the same Answer and Repulse as the seven Sons of Sceva did Acts 19. 14 15 16. And the evil Spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you And the Man in whom the evil Spirit was leaped on them and overcame them c. And to conclude my Answer to his long Story I ask George Whitehead why he had not denied this Gesture of Quaking and Foaming to Mr. John Faldo who gives him Provocation enough to do it See his Book Quakerism no Christianity pag. 12. Saith he How generally were their Meetings viz. the Quakers either silent or taken up with sudden and violent Eruptions of dismal Howlings and horrid Ravings Persons suddenly taken as with the Falling Sickness shaking and foaming at the Mouth and some lying flat on the ground as if stark dead And saith Mr. Faldo some such things as these I have seen and heard and that there are undeniable Testimonies of it that are so numerous and notorious that though now they have almost if not altogether left the latter sort of them they dare not deny that it was so And if they dare to challenge this with an Untruth I may requite them to keep alive their Remembrance with a good part of a volume of them Thus far Mr. Faldo whose Book is signed and approved by 21 Ministers of the Independent and Presbyterian Way I needed not to have taken this Pains since these Gestures are fresh in the Memories of many in this Nation And George Whitehead hath said nothing that denies the Matter of Fact charged in my Books p. 6 7. upon the Quakers he denies not Quaking and Trembling which was all the Instance was brought for and then I think for any Service G. W. hath done the Cause he had better have said nothing 3. George Whitehead saith in p. 16. that I have falsely cited and grosly perverted the Quakers Words and Authors and taken many false things on Credit not only the Story from the Westmorland Petitioners but also out of his Brother Tho. Hicks his abominable Forgeries and Lyes in his factious Dialogues And in p. 8. He prays his Reader to observe that much of our Book against them is taken out of other Books and Pamphlets of their Adversaries long since answered and refuted and their Authority is utterly denied by us as the Westmorland Petitioners who were envious Persecutors Tho. Hicks his abusive Dialogues who was proved a notorious Forger of Lyes And a malicious Libel stiled Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected Answer I am inclinable to think G. W. hath said some Truth in what hath been repeated nay I do in Charity believe it then I will shew you what I believe he saith Truth in 4. Namely That the Authority of the Quakers Adversaries Books is utterly denied by them I am strongly persuaded G. W. saith Truth in this for they that can deny the Authority of the Scriptures being the only Rule of Faith and Practice when alledged against them may well deny the Authority of all Books wrote against them whatsoever tho' the Matter be ever so true 2. As to the rest asserted by G. W. I will not tell him he lyes But I am well satisfied he is departed very far from the Truth And as to that Book Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected It treats chiefly of the Usurping and Lording Authority that some of the Quakers assumed over others and of others opposing and contradicting them as might be made manifest And as to what instances I bring from that Book as Josias Coal's Letter from Berbaldus to George Fox giving him those blasphemous Titles mention'd Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd p. 43. or any other passage from thence cited by me let G. W. deny them as to Matter of Fact if he dare 3. As for Mr. Hicks his Dialogues that George Whitehead calls Lyes and Forgeries and the Author a notorious Lyer and Forger c. It had been much more to purpose had G. W. shewed us what some of those Lyes and Forgeries were I have it 's true examined the Quakers Appeal by way of Charge against Tho. Hicks wherein they charge him with Lyes and Slanders and Forgeries and what not and I have perused Mr. Hicks's Answer to their Appeal where Mr. Hicks clears himself both of Lyes and Forgery I find his Answer to their Appeal subscribed and approved by no less than 22 Persons of Credit who testifie that they have compared Tho. Hicks his Citations with the Quakers Books out of which they were taken and find them truly cited then let the Reader judge who is the Lyer Tho. Hicks or G. W. Again G. W. seems to be angry with my Citation out of Mr. Hicks's Dialogue p. 24 25. In Antichrist in Spirit p. 14 15. As for us had the Scriptures never been we could have known what is therein contained I have also heard this from a Quaker my self But G. W. was not so fair as to mention this though it was the ground of my Demand And let the Reader observe what an apparent Perversion George Whitehead makes of my Words and the occasion of them p. 18 19. of his Pamphlet after he hath charged us with Forgery Now pray observe saith he what strange Test or Proof your Agent Edw. Paye puts upon us to evince an immediate Inspiration G. W. knows this Question was demanded to prove what is before mentioned Namely that had the Scriptures never been they could have known what was therein contained Now if this be so then let the Quakers resolve me what those things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21. 25. or what were the Contents of that writing on the ground Joh. 8. 68. Or else let their proud boasting of immediate Inspirations be condemned to perpetual silence c. Saith G. W. Hereupon you have passed unjust Judgment and falsely 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 that it knows I answer It is a strange thing to me that G. Whitehead doth not see that he condemns himself whilst he is judging another and it is a lamentable thing that the Quakers will admit of no distinctions But it verifies that true Proverb that the want of distinctions are the cause of mistakes Here G. W. will not admit of a distinction betwixt immediate Inspirations and the mediate or more common Gifts of the Spirit Now all Christians that I know of will admit of this distinction That it is one thing to be immediately and extraordinarily endowed and inspired with the Holy Ghost as the Prophets and Apostles