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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

hate which is Sin You not believing in the Infallible and Discerning Spirit of God cannot judge the things of God 〈◊〉 right but do as it is written Wo unto them that call evil good and go●● evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitte● for sweet and sweet for bitter Isa 5.20 You may here read you● selves and see your condition you do as in vers 23. take away th● Righteousness of the Righteous from him and it is our desire to take aw●● the Vnrighteousness of the Vnrighteous from you and that all may co●● to know the Righteousness of Jesus Christ and in him to witne● their Souls Health and Salvation and with us to partake of the heavenly Enjoyments that in the Treasure-House of our God is to be enjoy'd and thus we wish that all men may come to the acknowledgment of the Tr●●● that they may receive Forgiveness of their Sins and be saved from the Wrath of God that cometh on the Children of Disobedrence Col. 3.6 Rom. 1.18 ch 2.5 6 7 8 9. Here you may see that the portion of the Disobedient is the Wrath of God and you must all be either obedient or disobedient to Christ Oh! that you would mind it consider it truly weigh it and lay it to heart whether of these you are that ye may not deceive your selves in thinking to be what you are not and so come short of your expectation for you must reap of what you sow and how can ye expect to sow one kind of Seed and reap of another as it s written Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that he shall also reap for he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap Corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap Life everlasting Gal. 6.7 8. People come to Christ the Light that ye may see what Seed ye sow and be no longer deceived by the windy Doctrine of ungodly men who draw nigh unto God with their Mouthes and with their Lips but their Hearts are far from him teaching for Doctrine the Traditions of men this is Scripture and these are the Deceivers which the People are to draw from and to come to the Grace of God to be taught which was and is the Teacher of the Godly For the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying Vngodliness and worldly Lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.11 12. This is the true Teacher the Grace of God and the true Messengers of Christ did and do direct the People to the Grace of God which will not deceive them And these that in truth do direct them to that which will not deceive cannot be Deceivers but those that do direct the People to any other thing or things from the living Teacher that will not be removed into a corner are Deceivers and deceived Isa 30.20 21. Bishop and Priest the living God saith of Christ This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased hear ye him And you have that which ye have received of men who have set you at work and it doth well please you and if we will not hear and pay you you persecute and brand us with Names of Reproach and will stir up the Magistrates against us thus you have done and this you are yet like to do But this is the Work of Christ who did and doth work love peace and good will towards me● and forgive Enemies or is it not the Devil's work to make strife and ill will destroy Goods cast to Prison and stir up the Magistrates against a peaceable People If this be not the Devil's work whose work is it for I am sure it is not of God for the righteous God by his Word in his People in all Ages did declare against those things and the like of your Practice And as for those People formerly which did the same work as now you do who may be call'd your Fathers John said to them O generation of Vipers altho they did come to his Baptism not having fruits meet for Repentance● were not accepted but call'd Generation of Vipers Mat. 3.7.8 And wo unto you Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heave● against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer ye them that are entring to go in Mat 23.13 Is not this now your work you will neither enter in your selves nor suffer them that are entring to go in Can you say● that you have entred into the Kingdom or can you deny that you do no● seek to hinder others to enter in and keep them in the Kingdom of th● World where you are or can you give a true account of the Way to th● Kingdom or of the Government therein or how and when you did enter into the Kingdom and what you did meet with by the way or who o● your followers did follow you then or can witness that ever you did direct them then and how could you direct others where you your selves are strangers And so as it written The People do perish for want of knowledge and the Leaders of the People do cause them to err and they that are led by them shall be destroyed And as Elymas did turn away the Deputy from the Faith so do not you now turn the People from the living Faith which is the gift of God to a dead form of Worship and why may no● we say thus to the Guilty now sith it was said to one of old more sharply if ye do the same work as he did and pervert the right way of the Lord 〈◊〉 Acts 13.7 8 9 10. I can plainly make it appear that you I speak to the guilty do the same works as your Fore-Fathers the ungodly Generation did and is not their reward due to you and did not Christ and Paul hi● true Messenger say that the ungodly in the Ages before were fathers of th● ungodly in their age even so may we say now And it was not their saying that they were Abraham's Children made them so to be while they were 〈◊〉 their Father the Devil as Christ said and doing his works neither will 〈◊〉 serve your turn to say that you are Children of God while you do hate and hurt his People which is the work of the Devil as hath been proved Speaking when God requires Doing is not regarded when the works are co●trary to the words the heart is deceitful and from the old heart that is n●● by God renewed cannot proceed any thing to please God for when th● old corrupt Nature speaketh true words they are not accepted with God and although they say The Lord liveth surely they swear falsly Jer. 5.2 F●● what soever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14.23 But without Faith it is impossib●● to please God Heb. 11.6 Faith is the gift of God and is within to be found and the meek mild lowly and single 〈◊〉 hearted ones do sind the precio●● Peace and are enriched with th●● 〈◊〉 Riches that shall never be tak●● from them But greedy Worms 〈…〉 and feed themselves with th●● which will not serve in time of ●eed and necessity THE END

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