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A91904 The great calumny of The Quakers despising the Holy Scriptures, refuted out of their printed books, unjustly perverted, confusedly curtail'd and crowded, by William Mather in his Dagger-sheet. Robinson, William, of Durham. 1700 (1700) Wing R1725; ESTC R182827 4,770 1

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The great Calumny of The Qua●ers despising the Holy Scriptures refuted out of their printed Books unjustly Perverted confusedly Curtail'd and Crowded by William Mather in his Dagger-Sheet The Dagger-man of Bedford keen His dirty Lyes here 's to be seen Against the Quakers he doth Fight That in God's holy Word delight The Bible's Stag'd to Scorn by him A wicked Fool he mocks in Sin Good honest Men he doth Defame Which will at last be his great Shame He 's guilty of notorious Lyes Who saith The Bible we Despise Quakers Books truly Quoted against W. Mather G. F's Great Myst p. 18 75 246. The Scriptures are the Words of God and Christ is the Word And the Scriptures are the Words of God and the Words of Christ for The Word was in the beginning with God and was God John 1. 1. But the Scriptures of Truth are God's Words which Christ the Word fulfils They are not called the Word but Christ is the Word of God Rev. 19. 13. And he was clothed with a Vesture dipt in Blood and his Name is called The Word of God See how basely W. Mather hath perverted G. F's Words at C. Lawson's Unt. Teacher p. 2. That the Word of Truth is called the Scriptures Mather brings no proof Whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man was none of R. R's Question as the following Words in that Book will testifie S. Fisher blames those that run their Rounds Dance up and down in their dark Minds with their Transcriptions and Translations Senses and Meanings upon the Texts of the Scriptures and their making them no other than a Lesbian Rule or Nose of Wax S. F's Works p. 752. This was S. Fisher's Reproof upon those that wrested and twisted them and put their own Meanings or Expositions upon the Scriptures so turned them any ways to please themselves W. Penn's Invalid p. 47. Thus no Man sees one jot or tittle in the Scriptures but he that hath the Spirit of God Note What will this Man have us to see without Light outwardly That cannot be Would he have us to see the Things of God without the Spirit of God That cannot be neither How shall we then see the Scriptures for they are the Things of God any other ways than by his Spirit For what Man knoweth the things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man which is in him Even so the things of God knoweth no Man but the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 11. J. Parnel's Shield c. p. 10. What is the Chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord So he that hath the Letter let him speak the Letter and he that hath the Life let him speak the Life I see not what Mather can make of this more than a Caution to those that run and the Lord sent them not See Jer. 23. 21. I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran I have not spoken to them yet they prophesied And vers 28. He that hath a Dream let him tell his Dream and he that hath my Word let him speak it faithfully What is the Chaff to the What saith the Lord Id. ibid. And he who says the Letter is the Light is in Darkness and Errs not knowing the Scriptures Note He must be very short sighted that sees no difference between the Letter and the Light and he that has the Letter and is out of the Light is in great Darkness not knowing whither he goes These will be apt to stumble and fall into Holes and Pits as Mather has done and all this for wa●… of taking heed to the Light G. F's Saul's Errand p. 7. The Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth Life 2 Cor. 3. 6. Now the Dagger-man is fighting against the Scriptures for it is proved against him that the Letter killeth He had need hasten to Repent of his evil Deeds he has done against the Light in his own Heart that he may find Mercy with the Lord before it be too late W. P. did not say as Mather has said That Faith in Christ's outward Manifestation has been adeadly Poyson at his Letter S But W. P's Quakerism a new Nick-name p. 6. thus viz. ' But the Distinction between Moral and Christian the making holy Life Legal and Faith in the History of Christ's outward Manifestation Christianity Note That W. P. had reason to oppose this Distinction for will a Historical faith without holy Life make a good Christian Is an Immoral Man having only an Historical Faith a good Christian I think I may say on his behalf he never intended any ways to slight Christ's outward Manifestation as will appear by his following Words thus But a firm belief in him that so Appeared Lived and Died Rose and Ascended both as testified of in the Scriptures of Truth and more especially as he breaks in upon the Soul by his divine Discoveries as the true Light inlightens every Man this I call Christian And I add on the Behalf of all the Quakers that walk in the Light and keep in it they cannot slight Christ's outward Manifestation F. Howgil's Works p. 211. All that has sprung up since the Whore has sitten as Queen her Forms Images and Likenesses is all denied and disowned as to be the Dress and Attire of the Whore which have allured People through her inticing Pretences Note What need Mather be so angry with the Quakers for denying her It looks as if he owned this Whore and was minded to sit down with her and drink of her Cup For he may see in Rev. 14. 8. what sad Work she has made in the Nations She made all Nations drink of the Wine of the Wrath of her Fornication And I thought W. M. was drawn away or overcome by Her and not in his right Mind when at his Letter T he says The Scriptures are the Attire of the Whore or False Church which brings none to know God or Christ And a great deal of other Trumpery-Stuff his Paper is fill'd withal from first to last bespeaks him a light and bad Man full of Non-sense and Malice against the Quakers C. A's Sword drawn p. 2. ' And also the Rule whereby the Saints are guided is ' that which was before the Scriptures was Note Mather has either lost his Understanding otherwise never had any Was there no Saints before the Scriptures If there was had they neither Rule nor Guide The Scriptures could not be a Rule before they were in being The Spirit of God was before Man or the World was Holy Men of God which I take to be Saints spoke forth the Scriptures as they were moved by the Holy Ghost R. Hubberthorn and G. F's Truth 's Defence p. 104. ' For our giving forth printed ' Books to shew forth the filthy Practices of some others and thine c. Note Thou art Angry with us and also with what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is little heeded by thee or what is spoken in the Scriptures and Chapters thou makest no
difference Lay down thy Daggers and call for Quarter the Quakers and the Bible are too hard for thee or any Apostate in your Town c. Most of these things have been answered before and will speak for themselves but if thou in thy Fury hadst killed a Man and no other had known it Who might have been Chief Speaker in this Case See Gen. 4 6 7. And the Lord said unto Cain Why art thou Wroth and why is thy Countenance Fallen If thou dost well Shalt thou not be accepted And if thou dost not well Sin lieth at the Door W. Mather 's Perversions Noted NOW having searched the Quakers Books those Pages and Passages set down by William Mather I do not find in any of the Books cited by him these following Passages viz. In no sense can the Scriptures properly be called the Word of God However I desire W. M. to prove by plain Scripture where they are properly so call'd It is the Devil that contends for the Scriptures to be the Word of God C Here he was digging a Pit for others and himself is fallen therein They are blind Sots and evil Beasts that say ths Scriptures are the written Word of God E Note I have not found it in the Quakers Books Beastly-ware c. I Challenge W. M. to prove this to be spoken either of the Scripture or Bible in any one of our Books 't is F. Bugg's old repeated and refuted gross Lye The Knowledge and Experiences that the Fleshly-wise got in them must be forsaken for it fits People for the Slaughter being not the pure Milk of the Word O Therefore he W. M. is not to obey any Command in Scripture but his own Spirit moved him Note To put up in Mockery a silly Picture of a Book and call it The Holy Bible with four Hands bely'd about it William This was from thy own Spirit very wickedly done to hold up that in Derision and make it a Scorn to Fools Thou talkest of giving God Thanks and Family-Prayers or Catechising Children but remember The Prayers of the Wicked are an Abomination to the Lord. But there is more still to Charge thee with How came it to pass when F. Howgil in his Works p. 211. says and testifies against Inventions Images c. and the Attire of the Whore what ailed thee Was thou bewitched with her so to forget thy Self and say at T The Scriptures are the Attire of the Whore or False Church which brings none to know God and Christ And for W. Mather to put in Faith in Christ's outward Manifestation instead of Faith in the History was both knavish and wicked at his S. h i The Light that inlightens every Man that cometh into the World and the Grace of God which brings Salvation which has appeared to all Men is not only some natural Reason or Understanding as W. M. and our Adversaries would have it he is very ignorant of the Light of Christ and Grace of God neither is he taught by it as the Apostles were to deny Ungodliness T it 2. 12. neither doth he obey it but something else that is the Imaginations of his own evil Heart Neither did Christ approve of them that thought to have eternal Life in the Scriptures but rather reproves them because they will not come to him that they may have Life Joh. 5. 39 40. Now at Letter k it is Mather and our Adversaries that say The Scripture is the Rule and Touch-stone instead of the Spirit the Quakers printed Books do well agree with the Scriptures therefore a Lye in Mather and our Adversaries that say the contrary And we did meet G. K. several times until he was denied and that Mather and our Adversaries as he says are not Sincere while he Cloaks Errors in his own Books which are not to be found in the Quakers Books And their Principles are the same now as they were when first a People tho' backsliding Mather and some others make themselves ignorant thereof Now to his Objection If any say that this Man Mather hath given full and true Quotations out of the Quakers Books they say an Untruth but that he has wilfully wronged the Quakers on this occasion is true And the Quakers say Christ is the Word of God and so say the Scriptures Rev. 19. 13. And he was clothed with a Vesture dipt in Blood and his Name is called the Word of God And it is false in Mather to say we call our Writings the Word of the Lord. Then he Queries how some of old made the Word of God of none Effect Answer That may be as to their own selves by their Rebellion against Christ But Mather says They could not so use Christ Let him see John 18. 2. how Judas the Apostate betrayed his Master and the sad effect that followed for his so doing he went and hanged himself Again he Queries How the Corinthians corrupted the Word of God Answ Why are any said to make Merchandize of the Word of God Then his third Query How the Devil could take the Word of God out of Peoples Hearts This ignorant Man calls Christ's Words in Question Is there not cause to suspect that the Devil has taken the Sense of the Word of God out of W. Mather 's Heart at unawares or while he has Slept and sown Tares instead thereof See Mat. 13. 28. He said unto them An Enemy hath done this Lastly I desire W. Mather may be awakened and his Eyes opened then he may see the Quakers Books do well agree with the holy Scriptures and that he may come out of Darkness least he meet with Condemnation see John 3. 19. And this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and Men loved Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds were Evil. Vers 20. For every one that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved Now let Mather go to work again pull out the Beam in his own Eyes renounce his own Errors put away his Malice for it was Cain that slew his Brother and Judas that betrayed his Master And the Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ have been often persecuted both in this Nation and elsewhere and also in New-England the Priests and their Abettors there persecuted many of the Lord's Servants and they killed some and one among the rest was William Robinson LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-street 1700.