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False fictions and romances rebuked in answer to pretended matter charged against the Quaker, in a book, intituled, The progress of sin, &c. written by B. K. His lies and slanders therein returned back upon him, and the speakers of yea and nay in truth vindicated. By James Park.
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Parke, James, 1636-1696.
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belied and abused The Scriptures of Truth which thou pretends to be thy Judge will never justifie thee in this thy Unscriptural work of making the Quaker speak in page 245. as Denying the Authority of the Scriptures c. without any mention of who it was when it was or where any such Expressions were really uttered by the Quaker And the God of Heaven and Earth to whose Righteous Judgment the Quaker can boldly appeal for Judgment against thee in this matter knoweth how innocent the Quaker is of this thy Hellish Charge and I doubt not but will quit the Quaker shortly from thee and it by wiping away that reproach thou and such like have from time to time endeavoured to cast upon the Quaker by your Fictions and Lies which in your Malicious Minds you have Forged and Printed against him thy fictious Conviction by thy pretended Jury which thou falsly calls Worthy Gentlemen will prove Rotten Judgment Corrupt Reason Darkened Vnderstanding Slavish Fear Wicked Revenge Carnal Indignation Wicked Desire Hellish Zeal in the Town of Ignorance Dead Faith Feigned Love Hypocrysie and Partiallity which thou appears full of and acted by in thy late undertakings which will be thy Burden too hard for thee long to bear So thy Charge Indictment with thy Jury so many Masters made up in the dark Chamber of Imaginations of thy Vain and Deceitful Heart reacheth not the Quaker but more reacheth such as thy self whose Wickedness will be searched out by him that seeth it altogether and will bring it upon thy own Head sly whether thou wilt with thy Vain Dark Shifts the Righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth will find thee out and reward thee according to thy Works of Darkness Where doth the Sacred Scripture thy pretended Judge of thine Imagined Court bid any there to take off the Quakers Hatt answer me plainly surely if thou were not ignorant of the Scripture that Equal Judge and the profitableness thereof to make the Man of God perfect through Faith in Christ Jesus thou wouldest not have given Sacred Scripture thy pretended Judge and Rule as thou hast done the Lie It s no marvell that thou hast the Art to forge so many false things against the Quaker when thou canst do so by thy Judge as thou pretends Sacred Scripture as if that should say in thy falsly framed Court to some there Take off the Quakers Hatt and say further Friend what is the Reason that you go about to hinder the Orderly Proceedings of this Court against this Criminal page 244 of thy Progress of Sin this is so unlike Sacred Scripture and so far contrary to the Language thereof as if this Baptist Teacher had forged new Scripture as well as framed a new Form of Judicature now in England that himself should have the sway of and thereby to Save and Condemn whom he pleased by his newly Erected Court of Justice the Form and Manner of it much Vnheard of and Vnknown in England What would this vain Man be at Who seems so Ambitious after Superiority that by his Trumpet he seems to have so many Sirs Attorney General Solicitor General with so many Masters at his command as a formed Court his Mr. Christianity and Primitive Purity are so far from being really that that they are by me scarce worth mentioning with which he makes such a confused noise now in City and Country that Real Christianity and Primitive Purity indeed he will more make People deaf to then any ways be Instrumental to open their Ears to it What Quaker hath said to thy Imagined Mr. Christian My Name Friend thou its like cannot understand if I should tell thee Where and when was this shew if thou canst or else cease thy thus smiting the Quaker whom so unrighteously thou opposeth to thy Mr. Christian manifesting the Gall of Bitterness that is in thy hard Heart who seemest as if thou well knew not how to vent it enough against the Dispised Suffering Christian-Quaker surely God nor any that are really of him neither the Holy Scriptures doth Judge or Condemn the Quaker for going about to Obstruct or hinder the Disorderly proceedings of thy Corrupt Court hatched through the vain Imaginations of thy Evil Heart against the Innocent Quaker Thou Minister of Sin when and where did the Quaker say to thee or thy Question page 245 of thy Progress of Sin to wit Who is the proper Judge c. What Quaker answered The Light within all Men or divine Revelation And that said He disowned Sr. Sacred Scripture to be the Judge c. Or that People have in an Idolatrous manner so long adored him bring forth the Quaker that uttered these sayings or else confess thy self to be a forger of Lies and so cease thy Scribling And where was it and what Quaker said I do not believe what Sr. Sacred Scripture testifieth or what is it but a lifeless Fellow a pittiful Paper Judge a dead Letter If thou could as readily Prove all that against him as thou art Impudent in Accusing of him it were something to thy Evil purpose and design against him which the Eternal God will certainly confound and blast and till then thou dost but still further manifest thy own Folly and great Ignorance of the Word of God In thy Enmity and Wickedness in page 246. thou goest about more plainly to shew thy mischievous desire against the Quaker by making him Brother in Iniquity with the Jesuit and as if the Jesuit should say to the Quaker Well said Brother c. when thou falsly chargeth him Not to believe what Sacred Scripture testifieth and that he should say What is it but a lifeless Fellow a pittiful Paper Iudge c. which words I dare affirm no Quaker ever spoke Thy War with the Devil thou think'st thou art so good at it will certainly be ineffectual as long as thou art thus led by the Spirit of the Father of Lies using thy Tongue to speak thy Pen to publish thus Lies and Falshood for which with thy other Wickedness the Lord I know will rebuke thee and may be stir up some of thy own Perswasion to manifest a dislike of this thy confused and hideous abusing of the Quaker And if thou Judge it so Criminal for the Iesuit and the Quaker to agree in some things may be thou and others of thy Brethren will be proved more highly guilty thereof then the Quaker who knoweth not yet but the Iesuits may retain something that in it self may be good Shall I utterly renounce what is good because a Iesuit holds the same I know no reason for that whatsoever the unreasonable Baptist Teacher saith of the Quaker one while agreeing with the Papist and another while in the same Page they differ the pure Light of Christ Jesus or Immediate Revelation from God being really experienced to give Light and understanding to the Saints doth no ways lessen or make void the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures but rather thereby the
False Fictions AND ROMANCES REBUKED In Answer to Pretended Matter Charged against the QUAKER in a Book Intituled The Progress of Sin c. Written by B. K. His Lies and Slanders therein returned back upon him and the Speakers of YEA and NAY in Truth Vindicated By JAMES PARK Psal 7. 14. Behold he Travelleth with Iniquity he hath conceived Mischief and brought forth Falshood Ibid. v. 16. His Mischief shall return upon his own Head c. LONDON Printed in the Year 1684. False FICTIONS and ROMANCES Rebuked c. I Have lately met with a Book intituled The Progress of Sin c. it appears to be written by the Author of War with the Devil in the Title Page for his Name is only set B. K. towards the latter end of his Progress of Sin he seems concerned in his Majestical Attempts to Try Condemn and Execute Tyrant Sin as he calls it but could not plainly tell how to demonstrate its Nature in any sort of People especially the Quaker whom he Exposeth and Derideth for his speaking Yea and Nay beginning with him by a Misrepresentation of his Zeal and Sanctity then making him speak what I dare say he never said nor can he prove it But however Tryed and Condemned to reproach must the Quaker be by this Baptist Teacher really for what it remaines for him to make appear in his next Progress of Sin if he knew how for in his last he hath come so far short thereof that I think every sollid Christian Reader may apprehend him so baffled in his War with the Devil and Progress of Sin as now set at variance and fighting with his own shaddow and his War with the Quaker is as if he had no skill to make one fair blow at him although his Wicked Fists are lifted up high enough to knock him on the Head at once were not the Angel of Gods Presence with him to keep him in safety from the power of his Fists of Wickedness Sober Men may judge that he might have forborn his barking and biting also at the Quaker at his ravenous rate at such a day of suffering as this is upon all Dissenters from the publick Worship of the Nation what in his Progress of Sin I found by way of Charge against the Quaker I return him this following Answer being as much as I judged Expedient it might deserve Truth or Reallity not appearing in his Proceedings against the Quaker by his Imaginary Court or what he hath printed in his Progress of Sin against him he imagined 't is like it might be some pleasing Food to such of his Brethren that are most in Enmity Prejudice against the Quaker if none else would bite at it or taste it however certain I am it can do good to none plainly proceeding from an Evil Fountain the Father of Falshood Deceit and Lies B. K. in page 241. of thy Progress of Sin c. Thou hast taken upon thee in thy dark Imaginary Mind and Spirit to search for and find out Mr. Erroneous's House as thou call'st it of the Town of Heresie where thou say'st Sin was found hid under the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay with pretended Zeal and seeming Sanctity What! Could'st thou not find out thy Mr. Erroneous's House of the Town of Heresie no where but under the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay as in 〈◊〉 Unrighteous Smite it appears the Quaker thou aim'st thy blow at with thy Fist of Wickedness Errour and Heresie if thou had'st searched for it with the Light of Christ and the Spirit of the Lord thou needest not to have gone so far as the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay to have found it for thou might'st have found it near thee under thy fashionable painted false Cover with thy Multitude of Words that want not Sin nor shall profit the People at all however thou may flatter thy self in thy vain Imagination the true Zeal and Sanctity of the People that have been directed by the Lord and the Rule of Scriptures to Yea and Nay in all our Communication thou can'st not make void and if thou Swear or thy Communication be not Yea and Nay then it cometh of Evil Mat. 5. 37. Thou art so hasty and furious for the Tryal of thy pretended Sin of Errour and Heresie which thou unwarrantably say'st was found under the plain Cloak of Yea and Nay that with thy Fictions and Lies like thy Brother Hicks thou resolvest to dispatch his Tryal to Try and Sentence him that speaks Yea and Nay contrary to his Knowledge of thy intent he having no summons before thy Narrative of the pretended Tryal of him was Printed and thou wast afraid Thou should'st not have Room the Press calling upon thee to Abreviate c. But if thou hadst had true Christian Charity towards the Despised Speakers of Yea and Nay thou wouldst have been more Cautious and Deliberate in thy Proceedings then to Judge and Sentence him and not really to tell him thy Unchristian Design against him Room to Range in I see not how thou couldst want and if thou hadst kept this thy Evil Work from the Press till any Press in London called for it I question its coming at any of them God be thanked the truly Zealous and Sanctified Quaker is not in thy hold as thou imaginest if he were really so no good or comfort hast thou given him cause to expect from thee but what Chief Constables Hand is he in away with thy Fictions and Imaginations be plain if false Forgery and Deceit have not so blinded thee and hardened thy heart that thou knowest not how and what Officers were they thou darkly mentions Doest thou not know that thy Trumpet hath given an unâ—ertain sound and there is none that are come to that which is certain will hasten to or matter thy unjust and unrighteous Trumpet and Tryal with thy foolish Imagining a Bench. Page 242. thou pretends Sacred Scripture to be Judge of thy Bench attended with so many of thy Imagined Sirs framed up in thy Sensual Mind that seldome if ever hath been known the like to try Tyrant Sin but if all thy Sirs except Anti-Christian Opposition might really have heard the Quakers Just Plea for himself without thy taking upon thee to make up a Judge and Jury of thy own devising most of thy Sirs might have seen just cause to adhere thereunto and not according to thy Evil desire have brought the Quaker in Guilty with Tyrant Sin I know not what or whom thou meanest let them concerned look to that for some other People besides the Quaker thou must also aim at which thou was not so willing plainly to name The Sacred Scripture the Quaker owns the Authority of to discover and condemn Sin and Errour contrary to what thou like thy Brother Hicks in his Dialogues hast forged that upon the Quaker as said by him which he nor thou cannot prove against the Quaker or that it was ever said by him whom thus grosly thou hast