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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22946	A letter to the clergy of the diocess of Norfolk and Suffolk wherein they are desired to challenge the Quakers once more to meet them in the face of the country in order to prove which of them are Christ's ministers which may be done according to the method herein laid down with very little disputation and to the great satisfaction of the auditory / by a member of the Church of England.	S. J.; Field, John, 1652-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing F864AC; ESTC R37812	8,046	10

it which leave out any one of them and it 's no more the Gospel than the Trinity is the Trinity leaving out One of the Three Persons leave out any One of the Rights which the Apostle preached and you leave out the Power then what good can it do The Apostle tells you what the Gospel is I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ said he for it is the Power of God unto Salvation Rom. 1. 16. so he again tells them Our Gospel came not unto you in Word only But also in Power and in the Holy Ghost and in much Assurance as ye know what manner of Men we were among you for your sake 1 Thess 1. 5. The same Apostle saith Which things also we speak not in the Words which Man's Wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teacheth 1 Cor. 2. 13. So you may see the Gospel which Christ's Ministers preached made some Work where it went as the Preaching of Paul and Timothy in Macedonia where the Heart of Lydia the Lord opened and a Damsel possessed with a Spirit of Divination that brought her Masters much Gain by her Soothsaying cried out saying These Men are the Servants of the most High God which shew unto us the Way of Salvation and this did she many Days Acts 16. But mark the Event when the Spirit was come out of her that her Masters saw that the Hope of their Gain was gone then they began to cry Help Rulers Help Magistrates but they had not a Parliament to Cry to as our Masters have these Men being of a different Religion do exceedingly Trouble our City and Teach Customs which are not Lawful for us to Receive neither to observe why what 's the Matter now They were for a free Ministry I warrant you and they the Masters that had such Gain by this Spirit of Divination had the Magistrates and Multitude so far at their Beck that the Magistrates caused many Stripes to be laid on these Gospel Ministers besides a Prison they had ready We see it was the Loss of their Gain that made that Bitter Cry Help Rulers Help Magistrates Now pray my Masters let me privately ask you one Question in your Ears for you will hardly openly Confess it lest every Body should compare you with the foregoing Masters are not you afraid of your Gain also that you have made the same Cry Are not you afraid of your Fat Benefices your Darling Tithes If you say Nay yet the People do and will Judge that 's the Sore Place you Kick at So Sirs by these things you may see the Ministers of Christ do a great deal of Good where they go and that the pretended Ministers of Christ can do None because they know not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ neither can they except it were Revealed unto them by the Holy Ghost Now Sirs to my first Request Prove your Selves Ministers of Christ and you do your Business all at once for the doing thereof Please to take the Advice of Christ who says The Tree is known by its Fruit and by their Fruits you shall know them In Order to which seeing you were once so eager to Challenge the Quakers to Meet you to Hollow and Hout and Bait Them Let me my Dear Masters beg it of you that you would appoint once more both Time and Place and Order the Quakers to Meet you in the Face of the Country and bring some of your Fruits with you of both sides perhaps some of you have been settled Men in your Parishes some 10. 20. some 30 Years or more which if you be Christ's Ministers there is no doubt but you have much Fruit in all this Time if you bring but Two or Three out of every of your Parishes according to Christ's saying Out of the Mouth of Two or Three Witnesses every Truth shall be Established Bring in such as are able to give in Testimony before God and the Country that your Gospel came to them with such Power that it hath turned them from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan unto God Then these are become your Witnesses that your Gospel is the True Gospel of Christ and your Fruit to be good and so the Tree good also This is the Way the Apostle took We Preach unto you the Gospel of God ye are Witnesses and God also how Holily and Justly and Unblamably we behaved our selves among you 1 Thes 2. And also speaking of the Truth of the Gospel which is come unto ☞ you as in all the World and bringeth forth Fruits c. Gal. 1. Now Sirs bringing these Witnesses they do not only prove you to be Christ's Ministers but it will take off those Scandals which are thrown upon you by the Country Let me go where I will you are all Charg'd with one thing or other amiss some with Covetousness some with Pride some with Drunkenness indeed what not For most Folks will have one Story or other to tell of a Parson perhaps you 'l say that 's no New thing the Great Lord Jesus was called a Wine-bibber a Friend to Publicans and Sinners and Paul was called a Sinner and a Babbler But Sirs remember this those that accused Christ and his Apostles were not of the same Society or Communion with them they were Unbelievers but these that accuse you are Men of our own Church which you must and do own by making them Communicants with you and surely one would think you would not give your Sacrament to any but Believers and only such as are Worthy too Remembring Paul's Words He that Eateth and Drinketh Unworthily Eateth and Drinketh his own Damnation Therefore appear the Quakers and You once more and bring some of the best of your Fruits with you to Testifie what Tree you are of Then you may have something to tell the King and Parliament of but till then you will be look'd upon to be but like Demetrius and the rest of his Crafts-men Acts 19. that were so Ingenuous to confess their Gain was in Danger if the True Ministers of Christ were suffered to Preach up and down What would you have to say if the King and Parliament should return the same Answer back upon you that Christ did to the Jews when they brought the Woman before him taken in Adultery in the very Act You did not take these Men in the very Act Neither can you lay any such thing as you Charge them with to their own particular Charges yet you would willingly Hang them for it Right or Wrong only the good Old Proverb is made good Curst Cows have Short Horns Christ did not so by the Woman but said He that is without Sin amongst you let him cast the first Stone at her and they went out all of them and left the Woman where she was and as she was Would you do so if the King should return the same answer back upon you If you did not you would be worse than those Unbelieving