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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55805	The unequal unyoked, and the equal yoked, and light separated from darkness, & darkness and blindness joyn'd together in answer to a paper that would joyn together truth and untruth, the true worship and the false : and here it is discovered, and the author thereof in part rewarded, by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to / by a lover of justice and equity and hater of the contrary, Peter Price.	Price, Peter, 1600?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3397; ESTC R9270	17,524	21

Spirit of God 9. Quakers for nothing in the Bible but what serves their turns so Papists for Latine which the Vulgar cannot understand Answ We are for what the Scriptures are for and it doth all serve our turn and against vvhat the Scriptures are against they are against Hirelings that run for their Wages and against all manner of Ungodliness and so are We yet all doth make for us vvhich came from the Spirit of Truth and against you from the beginning of Genesis to the end of the Revelations therefore we cannot mislike any part of the Scriptures of Truth for they were declared by the Spirit which is our Teacher 10. Quakers they alone Godly so Papists Holiness of Life being one of the Marks of their Church Answ It seems by these thy Comparisons that thou dost disallow of Godliness and that the Marks of thy Church is Wickedness and it is true for what manner of Wickedness that can be thought of but is committed among you who call your selves the Church of England the miserable Sinners without Health in you witness your general Confession 11. Quakers will be judged by no man so Papists Answ The Worldly Earthly Natural Selfish-minded man is not to judge any but he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he himself is judged of no man 1 Cor. 2.15 12. Quakers have been of our Liturgy so Papists Answ It is true we have been too long in the ungodly Life where still you are and then you did love us but since we came out of that Life to lead a godly Life and to testifie against that Life which we did and which you do to this day live in then did you hate us persecute us and speak Evil of us read Ephes 2. v. 1 2 3 4 5. and there it may be seen what we were and what we are according to the operation of the same Grace 13. Quakers would have no Secular Power for Clergy so Papists Answ Poor man thou having not the Wisdom and Power which is of God art in the Wisdom which is foolishness with God read 1 Cor. 1. from vers 17. to the end and thou shalt or mayst see what your Wisdom Power and Glory is and what it will be made of In the 5th Comparison thou wouldst be jure divino and here secular Power it seems the Honour that hath an end and the corrupt Riches your hearts are fixed upon and the more you have the more you desire to have so that nothing can satisfie your greedy Hearts like your greedy unholy Father the Pope who would have all Power to himself 14. Quakers will propagate Religion by the Sword when able so Antichrist and Mahumet Answ Here thou hast not yoked us with Pope and Papists but with Antichrist and Mahumet it seems thou hast better thoughts of Papists than that they will fight for their Religion or else thou wouldst have put them in with us in this as well as ●n all the rest of thy false Accusations In this thy cruel Envy and bitter Malice towards us more than any other People is made manifest and in thee this Scripture fulfilled but as then he that was born after the Flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now Gal. 4.29 The Enmity is against the Seed begotten of God and in time he will clear the Innocency of his suffering peaceable People If we had relied or had any thoughts of purting our Trust in outward Weapons or in the strength of man we had been by men destroyed before now but the living Lord God the King of all Kings the Judge of all Judges the Bishop of our Souls he is on our side he is our only Strength Keeper Preserver and Redeemer our Teacher Counsellor and Instructor he doth lead us and we are the Lamb's Followers and he doth own us to be his People and the Sheep of his Pasture so that we fear not what the uncircumcised in heart and ears can do to us for before our Father who hath begotten us from amongst you must you all stand and appear and he will judge you according to what you do against his Children except in time you will Repent 15. Quakers pretend Miracles else why do they decry human means of Learning so Papists Answ Miracles done by Christ were not believed by an envious persecuting Generation even so it is now and we are for Learning and do keep our Children at Schools but we are against all that make bad use of their Learning and by it come to be burdensom to others and make themselves more like Lucifer than if they had been without it We are not against any good thing but against making a bad use of any thing that is good 16. Quakers they are Martyrs when punished for Faction Sedition and Separation so Papists punished for Treason Answ Here again we are falsly accused for Faction and Sedition we deny and it could not be proved against us neither were we punished for it neither can any of you truly make it appear that we are Factious or Seditious but as to the word Separation I confess that we are separated from your ungodly Lives unprofitable Ceremonies and unfruitful Meetings and have our Meetings and Worship in the Spirit and living Truth of God and in this we do rejoyce and to this I would have you all to come that with us you may partake of the spiritual Virtue that we enjoy and is not known but to the Birth begotten of God which only hath right to call God Father and is hidden from that Nature that ravens for Hire and Wages and not to gain Souls to Christ Here thy Comparisons are answered and thy foolish Malice made manifest and that which thou wouldst cast upon us undeserved returned to thee and them according to your Deserts as followeth 1. Bishop and Priest having not the Infallible Spirit of God at some of them confess do gather and come together by sound of Bells so Pope and Papists 2. Bishop and Priest do feed the People with what men command them so Papists 3. Bishop and Priest do cast a little Water on Childrens heads and the sign of the Cross to make them Christians so Papists 4. Bishop and Priest are set at work by men and receive their Wages from men so Papists 5. Bishop and Priest have Crosses on the Houses where they worship so Pope and Papists 6. Bishop and Priest do compel the People to maintain them so Pope and Papists 7. Bishop and Priest do exalt humane Learning above its place so Pope and Papists 8. Bishop and Priest do wear their several sorts of Caps and other sorts of vain useless Garments according to what Title they give themselves so Pope and Papists 9. Bishop and Priest would punish all that will not joyn with them in their Worship so Pope and Papists 10. Bishop and Priest are such Persecutors of others that they cannot be equally yoked without Pope and Papists 11. Bishop and

THE Unequal Unyoked AND The Equal Yoked AND Light separated from Darkness Darkness and Blindness joyn'd together In Answer to a Paper that would joyn together Truth and Vntruth the true Worship and the false And here it is discovered and the Author thereof in part rewarded by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to By a Lover of Justice and Equity and Hater of the Contrary PETER PRICE Her Priests have violated my Law and have prophaned my holy things and have put no difference between the Holy and the Prophane neither have they shewed difference between the Vnclean and the Clean and have hid their Eyes from my Sabbaths and I am prophaned among them Ezek. 22.26 And as Troops of Robbers wait for a Man so the Company of Priests Murder in the way by consent for they commit Lewdness Hosea 6.9 London Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch 1683. The Unequal unyoked and the Equal yoked c. THere came a Paper to my hands from a Bishop as I am credibly informed and I have strong Reasons to believe that it came from his hand or some of his Priestly Generation 1st Because the Comparisons came not from the Spirit of God but from a Darknist who is ignorant of the Truth of God that did not see the difference between us and his Father the Pope 2dly It is plainly seen that it came from a malicious Heart that would have a suffering peaceable People still to suffer and so doth joyn with the Oppressors to oppress the Oppressed and thus he saith That any man may see and discover how near Quakers and Papists are in Opinion let them read these following Comparisons of the one to the other 1. Quakers claim the Spirit to Infallibility so doth Pope and Papists Answ The Spirit of God is Infallible which we do own and possess and wouldst thou have us to deny the Spirit of God to be what we know it to be because Papists as thou sayst do own it so to be It is clearly seen that thou art a stranger to the Spirit of God who wouldst have it to be fallible and not only so but also any Enemy to it that would undervalue the unchangeable and infallible Spirit of God Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 4.9 and vers 11. He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal Bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you and vers 15. But ye have received the Spirit of Adoption The People of God in all Ages had and now have the Spirit of God to be their Teacher Counsellor and Instructor in all things and it is given to every man to profit withal and if we cannot claim title to the Spirit of Infallibility what benefit may we expect from that which is given to fail to change or to alter But the fallible deceiveable Spirit doth enquire after large Livings great Wages and most Hire Benefit and worldly Riches to enjoy and this is an earthly worldly selfish greedy covetous Spirit which ever was and now is against the Spirit of God and all those that were and are led by it This is the Wolfs devouring Spirit that casteth to Prison and devoureth the goods of them that cannot feed it Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison Rev. 2.10 2 Quakers make themselves the sole Church so Papists Answ Here we are falsly accused for we do not make our selves the sole Church for what we are is of the Lord and not of our selves and he hath made us Members of his Church and the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved Acts 2.47 The Church is the Body of Christ Col. 1.24 And we could not make our selves the Body of Christ the Body must be like the Head for by him they are redeemed out of the Sins which the World doth live in for they by Christ their Head are washed cleansed purified fitted and prepared for himself to dwell therein These and such as these are the Church of God 3. Quakers hold no Salvation but in their Meetings so do Papists but in their Communion Answ Here we are again falsly accused for we hold Salvation no where else but only in and through Jesus Christ the Son of the living everlasting God 4. Quakers are Recusants so Papists Answ How now Bishop and Priest I speak to them only that are guilty would you now make us Recusants because we cannot seed your greedy Bellies nor maintain you in your Pride and Covetousness we dare not feed that which Christ came to destroy the which would destroy Christ in his Members 5. Quakers deny Bishops to be jure divino so Papists witness the Council of Trent Answ We do deny you to be what you are not and we do own you to be what you are for we wrestle not against Flesh and Blood but against Princi●●lities against Powers against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World against spiritual Wickedness in high places as they did Ephes 6.12 Your jure divino is your spiritual Wickness in high places Come down exalted boasted Selfishness the everlasting Bishop we own and those that are called and chosen by him are also by him made divine and it is his right to oversee the Soul but you that covet after filthy Lucre we deny 6 Quakers are of rebellious Tenets so Papists Answ Let all People that are not defiled with Tythes judge who are most quarrelsom troublesom burdensom and whose Tenets are most Rebellious against all appearance of Godliness and who are bad Examples you or us As the high Priests did stir the Magistrates and People against Christ Jesus and his followers perswading the People that he did those mighty Works which he did through Belzebub that his Followers were movers of Sedition and turners of the World up-side down So likewise this man who is one in Enmity and Malice with his Predecessors the high-Priests hath falsly belyed us expecting thereby to stir Persecution against us so his envious Spirit is seen and judged 7. Quakers as they piece up the Word of God by wild Fancies pretended Revelations so Papists by Traditions Answ The Word of God thou knowest not which cannot be pieced broken changed or altered thou dost botter know how to compel the People to maintain thee whilst thou hast the Magistraies on thy side than to speak of things that are too high for the Nature thou art in but the Natural man parceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 8. Quakers are against Common-Prayer so Papists Answ Thou who art sensual it is that needest the Common-Prayer who hast not the Spirit of God to pray by which the holy men of God had to teach them to pray and to declare the things revealed to them by the

Priest having not the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God cannot subsist without Law in their own Courts carnal Weapons or help of Magistrates so Pope and Papists 12. Bishop and Priest cannot live by the Gospel which they have not but by the Tythes which they will have while they can so Pope ane Papists 13. Bishop and Priest count all Faction Sedition Heresie and Separation that separate from them and cannot feed their Lusts and Pride so Pope and Papists that will not joyn with them in their Mass Bishop and Priest in what do you differ from the Pope and his Deputies Had it not been a shorter work to shew in what you do differ than in what you are one with them Wherein doth your Worship and Discipline differ from the Pope and Papists 14. Bishop and Priest you may be joyned with Pope and Papists in your Bowings Bendings Stoopings and vain Gestures and Postures Forms Traditions Customs Fashions and Ceremonies which do not at all concern the Worship of God which is to be in the Spirit and in Truth and not in the aforesaid vain things or the like 15. Bishops we are not against the Name for such a Bishop as is allowed by the Scriptures of Truth we allow of read 1 Tim. 3. but such you are not but Persecutors of the Life and Godly Condition that they did live in and you and your Families are more like proud Morriee-dancers than modest civil orderly Christians And seeing you and your Followers in a sad desperate Condition I cannot chuse but in love acquaint you with it and declare against it that you may be left without excuse and keep my Conscience clear towards God and you And what I say in this case to you I say to all that are in your Condition Repent Repent Repent in time before it be too late and the Door of Mercy shut and you kept out with the wicked World which go the broad Way and wide Gate that leads to destruction where many do go for the narrow Way and strait Gate that leadeth to Salvation where the little Flock hath and doth strive to enter in you do not love but speak evil of for Covetousness Pride Malice and Selfishness cannot enter in there These and the like are the burdens which hinder and must be cast away or else no entring in for such so Pope and Papists 16. Oh! how my Heart doth pity the People which by you Bishops and Priests are deceived of such there was a Complaint and of you there is a Complaint 2 Cor. 4.3 4. But if our Gospel be hid it is hid in them that are lost in whom the god of this World hath blinded the Minds of them which believe not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them The Gospel which is hid is the Power of God and the God of the World that doth hide it is the Devil and the means that the Devil hath to hide the Gospel and to blind the Mind is Sin Your Sins have separated you from God and your Sins do ●cause him to hide his face from you and your Sins hinder good things to come unto you and he that committeth sin is of the Devil and we know that we are of God and the whole World lieth in Wickedness John 5.19 And the holy men of God in all Ages did declare and cry against the Sins which you now live in and they that can truly witness a godly Life now do deny you and cry against you And as the Godly by the Ungodly formerly did suffer even so it is now so one with Pope and Papists in Persecution 17. Bishop and Priest have Organs and Singing-Boys in their Worship so Pope and Papists 18. Bishop and Priest do take to themselves what belongs to God to judge of Conscience in matter of Religion so Pope and Papists 19. Bishop and Priest are for Churching of Women so Pope and Papists 20. Bishop and Priest do idolize the Parish-house where they meet to Worship and call it a Church and hold it to be a more holy Ground and virtuous Place than other Ground and Places witness what a vain Meeting Preaching Blowing and Praying there was the Service cannot be acceptable where the end is not right to consecrate and sanctifie the new builded Church as they call it at Glaisbury in Radnorshire by William Lucy Bishop of St Davids so called and his Hireling Priests as it is generally reported there was so much Idolatrous Practice Ceremonies and unprofitable Worship there then as if it had been by the Pope in Rome for their old Church being on the Sandy Foundation was undermined by the River Wey which hath made a separation between the Priest and his Church so that he nor his Parishioners cannot go to their Church nor their dead Church to them but the Gates of Hell the Devil and all his Power cannot prevail against the true Living Church in God but the River Wey is too strong for the old House falsly called a Church The true Church from the false you may know if you read and believe the Scriptures Mat. 16.18 18.17 Acts 2.47 and 20.28 Ephes 5.24 25. Col. 1.24 1 Tim. 3.15 compare what Christ and his Apostles did declare the Church to be and what the Priests do call a Church and you shall or may see great disserence and the cause of my Writing is that you may come to be Members of the true Church where Christ is the Head 21. Bishop and Priest do pretend to keep Holy dayes in remembrance of some holy men that are dead these many hundred years ago so Pope and Papists for by the Pope they were set up 22. Bishop and Priest many of your Forms Customs and Traditions are contrary to the Scriptures of Truth so Pope and Papists 23. Bishop and Priest do compel the Country in their Parishes to buy and keep them sine Linnen Cloth as much as will make them a Garment to cover their black Clothes but it will not cover their black ugly Sins and they call it by the Name of a Surplice that they wear during their common Service and burying their dead and Churching their Women as they call it Oh the blindness of Popery 24. Priests in our Country do go from house to house to Church Women with their Sexton to carry their Book and Surplice and to say Amen and they will have Money for so doing so by report do the Papists their pretended holy Water 25. Bishop and Priest do keep Courts to punish Offenders and when they do appear they must contract for a Sum of Money and it must be such a sum that every Member according to what he paid for his place must have such a Sum that he may live by it and then the Offender shall have forgiveness of his Sins and pardon under Hand and Seal Lest I should mistake and the Papists not be so bad as you