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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46221	Work for a cooper being an answer to a libel, written by Thomas Wynne the cooper, the ale-man, the quack, and the speaking-Quaker : with a brief account how that dissembling people differ at this day from what at first they were / by one who abundantly pities their ignorance and folly.	Jones, William, fl. 1679-1710.	1679 (1679)	Wing J1002; ESTC R12360	16,124	36

to be but men And he hath given us a true distinction between the godly and the wicked by his own practice who after his blessed recovery from his unhappy fall said I will rejoyce in thy salvation and triumph in the Name of the Lord my God The worst of men have commonly the greatest share of fear The just execution of God or Man's Laws may do this upon the most vile Transgressor that suffers as an evil doer or as a busie body in other mens matters but can never be the better for 't And therefore it cannot be so much as a probable signe and much less a certain of their being in the ways of God or moved to such a fear by him Fear and trembling at the best are signes of grief and sorrow not perhaps so much for having sinned as in dread of a most just punishment but the Ways the Service and the Laws of God are not so His yoak is easie and his burthen light The Psalmist saies indeed that sorrow may continue for a night but immediately addes that joy cometh in the morning If God delights not in a sinners death it is not likely that he does in the misery of his life Sorrow is but what we bring commonly upon our selves not any thing or but very seldom of God's sending Yet if always to hang down the head and make a sowre face to grieve or be perplexed continually were certain signes of any peoples being in God's favour as I am very sure they are not wherein could this benefit the Quakers it being most demonstrably true that they trouble not themselves in that kind now as they did in Oliver's time when Hell did seem to have broke loose in which a sort of shameless Animals scarce in humane shapes went naked through Fairs and Markets by way of Masquerade or a spiritual kinde of Morrice-dancing boasting to have received Commissions in the third Heaven with full power to denounce everlasting ruine against all that had not impudence enough to do as they did or that would not believe they should for so doing most sufficiently be covered with the righteousness of the Lamb. And thus the Blasphemous James Nailor one of the first Founders of that wicked Sect rid upon an Ass with naked Women to attend him crying Hosanna to the Son of David blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord at once abusing both those holy places Isa. 32.11 Tremble ye women strip and make ye bare and that other of our Saviour's riding to Jerusalem And many such pranks they play'd in those days as falling into Trances and most gastly Distortions like Conjurers and Bell-founders not to be spoken to till the mysterie was over or like those among the Tombes that were possessed with dumb Devils from whom perhaps the Quakers take their president but when they had drawn a Croud together as great as ever Bear-baiting could do 't was then made plain as could be what kinde of Spirit had been at work by their Howling and Whining Groaning and Foaming and by their woful Quaking and Trembling the onely reason why they were at first called Quakers who with a special respect to the qualification of the Spectators would endeavour to obtrude that they had been just then in a most intimate and cabinet Communion with the great and mighty God and had received the spirit of Prophecy in abundance with the gift of Miracles and all other that God had or could bestow That they could to a minute foretel the last and dreadful day of Judgement and heal more Diseases than all the World could possibly need help for That they and they onely were those of whom 't was said they should lay their hands upon the sick and they should recover and that God meant them onely when he said I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh as if of all humane Race none had flesh but Quakers Though nothing is plainer than that this Prophesie was fulfilled at Pentecost when the Holy Ghost in a most extraordinary manner endu'd the Disciples of our Lord with the gift of Tongues as never were the Quakers nor ever will be so that Parthians and Medes Elamites and the Dwellers of Mesopotamia Judea Cappadocia Pontus Asia Cyrenians Romans Jews Proselytes Cretes and Arabians might be taught in those very Languages in which they were all born And Quakers never being able to do the like ought in honesty to confess that this Prophecie is not at all verified in them it being to be done too in those days which the best Interpreters assure us was that very Age the holy Apostles liv'd in The days of immediate Inspiration are now long since over and our second Oliver's Porter is described by the Wise man after a much other kinde of way Ecclus 19.26 27 28. There is saies he a man that hangeth down the head sadly but inwardly he is full of deceit casting down his countenance and making as if he heard not but where he is not known he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware and if for want of power he be hinder'd from sinning yet when he findes opportunity he will do thee evil 'T is true their Hocus Pocus tricks are now much laid aside and they observe that Leger de main will not go off as formerly it has done Nor do the most sober of them deny but that they are as lame and decrepit as other sinners in every thing but the explanation of holy Scripture the Original of which our Thomas and the Elephant are very much alike acquainted with But if he thinks he hath not onely got the start of all other people but even of the Quakers too why then should not the powerful and the unfathomable parts he pretends to serve to benefit honest Prester John the Great Turk or Cham of Tartary Why does he not make a serious visit into those parts where neither the Antiquity nor so much as the Name of Quakers was ever yet thought of But it must be confessed their Zeal is most extreamly fallen and abated within these twelve or fourteen years and that they have exceedingly refin'd and improv'd their manners another way being sensible by experience that Preaching and their other Trades go off best together as the readier way to what they mainly aim at worldly profit and advantages Thinking it now too unfashionable to run madding about the streets and sometimes into Churches as formerly they did being so far from believing it any longer necessary wholly to attend the business of the Spirit that they as freely bestow their observances of the World and the Flesh I know not how they deal with the Devil as any the most extravagant of sinners ever did and differ so abundantly from their first Founders that they are now come much to the same pitch with what the Presbyterians were in 47 and 48 stand up most stifly for the priviledge of Saints and at the same time act like Devils incarnate cursing

dolefully all that had either Honesty or Courage to stem or thwart the current of their Pride and Avarice They use the good things of this World with as much fondness and delight as ever other sinners did Nor does Righteousness alone serve to cloath them they wear and will do as good Cloth Silks and Camlets as the proudest of mankinde can do offering freely to stand proof that the sin lies onely in the Colour or the broadness of the Ribbon Their way of Good-fellowship is also become very fashionable and for their lasting commendation are now so conformable a people in that point that they very seldom or never shrink in the wetting not much mattering what the unsanctifi'd say of their petty deviations of their Drunkenness Fornication Adultery Anger Envy Hatred Malice Pride Covetousness Vain glory and Hypocrisie and that notwithstanding all these rare qualifications they are as pure and sufficient Saints as any the whole World affords This needs not be much wonder'd at Experience has given all people of sense sufficient knowledge of their baseness who by striving to fly far enough from all Decency and Order are yet at last become the most formal Coxcombs produceable in this age crying out wofully against all external Ornaments whilst themselves at the same time doat most wickedly upon a Quirp-Cravat copi'd from a chitterling Original The very best of them are so far from submitting to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake that they will no so much as do it to those of God's own appointment of which their slighting and refusal of the holy Sacraments may serve as a most sufficient proof Nor do they stop here neither but go on to a perfect hatred of all that have better moral or intellectual endowments or any more of this Worlds good than what is unfortunately fallen to their own share And yet our Thomas in very many places of his Canting Enterlude would fain be thought hugely courteous for his inviting of as many Religions as his poor Memory could hold to see some rare sight no doubt but quite forgot the Jews and the Mahometans the Greek and the Muscovian Churches 't is a wonder that these also had not been bid to his intolerable Farce wherein at once he discovers both his Malice and his Folly too knowing in his own Conscience if indeed he has any that those people which he so promiscuously heaps together are neither alike in Principles nor Life and therefore ought not to have been alike treated by him For what reason had he to herd Protestants among Beasts of prey or worry us as much as in him lay between the Lions and the Bears Are these the thanks he returns our first and best Reformers for putting the holy Scriptures into the vulgar tongue without which he undoubtedly would have been still as ignorant that the Word of God was ever given man as now he is in the meaning of it 'T was hardly possible for any but a beastly Quaker to make Ingratitude his Goddess or fall down to worship the Devil 's eldest Daughter The holy Scriptures might still have lain dormant in their sheets of Greek and Hebrew for any remedy he could help us to But if he thinks it any kindness that they are faithfully translated why should he abuse and vilifie those that did it and that laid down their lives also to justifie the truth thereof They upon whose very credit he for his part at least takes those sacred Writings if he thinks they are so at all to be the revealed Will of God They were indeed holy and learned men and therefore most certain it is they have not deceived us but sure I am 't is more than he knows nor had he ever any the least spark of divine Revelation to ascertain their integrity Yet still but for those men or some such Pious and Learned Protestants 't is more than probable he would at this day have taken as some others do the Apocryphal to have been of equal Authority with the Canonical Scriptures He therefore has done extreamly ill in putting Protestants amongst his delinquent Pupils For if he thinks us not honest why will he believe us if he does why should he think us damn'd as the inavoidable consequence of his wicked opinion does suppose If all that were not are not nor ever will be Quakers were are and will be still in darkness and in the way to Hell as fain he would have all believe then certainly he must conclude that not onely those learned and pious Protestants that translated the holy Scriptures into the vulgar Tongues but that even the holy Prophets and Apostles also all the Saints and Martyrs all the devout Confessors Virgins and Widows from the beginning of the world till James Nailor's time have their portion onely in that woful place Ah most wicked Wretch how or when hadst thou authority to exclude true Penitents from eternal life or from the benefit of that Redemption purchased for us by the bloud of the most holy Jesus We Protestants are taught and enjoyn'd by the Church of God under pain of everlasting ruine most unfeignedly to repent of all our sins past and carefully to endeavour for the future that we sin no more And that we pray to God to deliver us from all blindness of heart from Pride Vain-glory and Hypocrisie from Envy Hatred and Malice and all Vncharitableness From all Sedition privy Conspiracy and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from Hardness of heart and Contempt of his Word and Commandment That he would please to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived and give us all increase of Grace to hear meekly his Word to receive it with pure affection and bring forth the fruit of the Spirit And with the holy Prophet that God would please to make us clean Hearts and renew right Spirits within us That he would not cast us away from his presence nor take his holy Spirit from us but mercifully give us the continual comfort of his help and establish us with his free Spirit and as a just acknowledgement of his Goodness endeavour all our days in our several stations to teach his ways unto the wicked that sinners may be converted unto him And now will such a sincere course and such humble Prayers as these stand us in no stead unless also we become Quakers God forbid Sure I am there will come a day in which 't will appear who serv'd God and who serv'd him not When our Thomas may perhaps wish to no purpose that he had never spent his time so idly in quest of nothing but incentives to Pride and Immorality nor had abus'd God's Servants and the meaning of the Holy Ghost as Saint Peter said some had done Saint Paul's Epistles In which saies he are some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures to their own

alteration this How dares he venture to call us so whom in another place he proclaims to be the Enemies of Christ Our blessed Redeemer said Ye are my friends if ye do what I command you but our Thomas not being willing to do that pay Tribute to whom Tribute Custom to whom Custom or Honour to whom Honour's due cannot be Christ's friend and therefore not fit to be suppos'd ours Yet in Christian Charity I 'll most heartily recommend Saint Paul's advice Heb. 3.12 not to him or to the Quakers onely but likewise to all those other unhappy wretches who from the bosom of God's Church run greedily upon their own ruine Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God 'T is not making of a great noise or speaking loud and long to no purpose nor repeating the same words a hundred times over in the same Speech an impertinent Harangue of the Light and of the Spirit in a confused uncouth and most incoherent manner which really and truly is the whole business of a Preaching-Quaker this I say is not the way to make our Calling and Election sure But the certain and safe course is truely and most earnestly to repent us of all our sins to be in love and charity with our Neighbours leading a new life following the Commandments of God and walking from henceforth in his holy ways for without holiness no man shall see the Lord This I say is what most certainly will stand us in good stead at the Hour of Death and Day of Judgement This is the Law and the Testimony Isa. 8.20 according to which whosoever speaks not it is because there is no LIGHT in them Atteb i'r COWPER O GAERWYS o'i Lythyr anraslon at y CYMRU YSpys oeddem er ystalm fod y Bendro arnat ond nis gwybuom dy fod o' th gôf nes gweled dy bappyr anhirion Tydi a wyddit fod y Cymru wedi eu dyscu yn Ffydd a Ffyrdd yr Arglwydd lawer cant o flynyddoedd cyn i'r Wiber ddodwy yn dy Siolyn na bod crioed sôn am Gwaceriaeth yn y byd ac a wyddit ma'i nad Cyscu yr oeddem pan beraist ti inni Ddeffro Pa bryd y clowaist nyni'n gwadu fod dydd yr ARGLWYDD wedi gwawrio Ma'i nad CRIST yw goleini'r byd Neu ma'i nad Ei YSPRYD bendigedig Ef sy'n Towys yn Cyfrwyddo ac yn Cynghori Ei holl ufydd wasanaethwyr A phwy o Honom trwy holl Wynedd a wyddost yn disgwil llwyddiant Corphorol nag Ysprydol yn y byd hwn nag yn y byd a ddaw heb wir Edifeirwch ac nes ufudd grefu gan Dduw faddeuant o'n holl bechodau a'n camweddau i'r mwyn grasusol Haeddedigaethau'r JESU Onid ydys eusys yn Ein dyscu yn yr EGLWYSI a chan Lyfrau da Ein BUGEILIAID CYFREITHLON Ein hunain beth a Gredwn a pheth a Wnawn Ma'i nad Ffydd yn unig onid hefyd fod yn anghenrhaid Weithredoedd da tuag at feddianu bywyd tragwyddol A elli di ddyscu ffordd well a nês i'r Nef na hon Os medri Dysc onide Taw. Yn dy holl Rigwm nid oes un gair mewn Trefn na Rhôl na Rheswn A diammeu mae dianghenrhaid a fuasse myned i ddywedyd i'r mwyn llês i'r eneidiau fod dwrf yn HAFREN a DOWRFDWY a'i fod yn ymdowallt o'r rheini i'r môr fod Sêr a Lleuad fod Codiad a Machlud Haul a dymyno ar bobl goelio fod hyn yn wir ac etto roedd dy daith ynfyd ti o efrydd yn oferach Ond ymhellach i egluro dy ffolineb tydi a fynit inni gymeryd dy air ma'i CYFLOGWYR yw'r EGLWYSWYR ac ma'i ffô a wnânt pan ddelo'r BLAIDD i blîth Eu Defeidiau BLAIDD diffaith distrowys wyt ti yn Ein mysc er Stalm yn ceisio gwenwyno'r Meusydd a Sathru'r Corlennydd tan dy draed etto pa sawl un o'r CYFLOGWYR rheini a redasant o'r Wlâd o herwydd dy fod ti ynddi Dos gofyn i Dduw faddeuant am dy holl bechodau a' th anwireddau cyn i'r DDRAIG Gythreilig o'r Carchardy tanllyd dy lysco i' th losci yn dragwyddol FINIS