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A96383	Antichrist in flesh unmask'd, the Quakers Christianity vindicated, from the malicious and injurious attempts of [brace] Edward Paye, William Alcott, & Henry Loader, in their late defaming confused book falsly styled, Antichrist in spirit unmask'd, or Quakerism a great delusion, wherein their causeless outrage, folly and falshood are deservedly exposed.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1888; ESTC R186514	11,564	37

also deriding at the Quakers exhorting People to Turn to the Light within p. 54 55 56. Thus Carnal Blind and Dark have these Baptist Preachers shewn themselves and how grosly Ignorant of the Spiritual Appearance and Kingdom of Christ and his Light within and his own and Apostles Testimony thereof The Lord deliver well-meaning People from such blind Guides Of the Word Quakerism which is a Nick-name in Derision put upon our Christian Profession you tell us It 's derived from a Gesture used Much among them formerly in their Meetings meaning the Meetings of the People called Quakers as was manifest say you by the Westmorland Petitioners viz. That their Practice did exceedingly savour of Sorcery because of the Swellings Quakings Roatings and Foamings that were among them at their Meetings p. 7 8. Were you Eye or Ear-Witnesses of these Gestures No you had this Story from the Westmorland Petitioners and what were they but a Company of envious persecuting Priests and Magistrates whom they had Instigated to Persecution Are you not so Credulous as to take upon Trust any old Story to render the People called Quakers Odious and Ridiculous Is this your Christianity and Religion Lord deliver every well-meaning Person from you and your Envy We deny your Story of Swellings and Foamings as charged on Vs or our Meetings in Westmorland c. But that there has been Weeping Trembling and Lamentation sometimes in our Solemn and Religious Assemblies in Westmorland and other Places I and many more were and are Witnesses when the glorious Power and Day of the Lord arose and broke forth in our Meetings to the Breaking Humbling and Tendering many Hearts from a living Sense of his Divine and Dreadful Presence which was truly felt among us and that the Holy Men of God did Witness Quaking and Trembling as Holy Scripture testifies This you grant is true And the same say you may be said of Wicked Men and Devils And what then God's dreadful Power and Presence can make all Dread and Tremble and Bow before it even both good Men and bad Men yea and Devils also yet the Power is the same that 's over all Wicked Men and Devils have been sometimes terrified by it and made to tremble for fear of his Wrath because of their guilt of Iniquity and good Men and Women have in an humble and a contrite Heart and Spirit Trembled in a Holy Reverence and Sense of the Presence and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ among them in their Inward Attention upon him and his Word and in their fervent Prayers and Supplications to God And how can it be better than Blasphemy to account this Sorcery Such wicked Construction and Insinuation we utterly deny and testifie against and put you to prove it who have received this false Story against us of Swellings and Foamings and Sorcery c. at our Meetings with such wicked defaming Constructions I my self was frequent at our Meetings in Westmorland very early near the very beginning of them in that Country and solemnly Declare it I never saw such Gestures as Swellings and Foamings And I have lately enquired of several of our Ancient Friends who were conversant at those early Meetings in the North and they Declare the same That they never saw such Postures in our Friend's Meetings But set case any have been disordered through some Natural Infirmity Distemper Swooning or Falling Sickness What does this affect us or our Meetings on a Religious Account It may be some of your own People's Case And suppose it should be made appear that divers Anabaptists after they have been Dipt and receiv'd into Church-Fellowship have run Mad or Distracted and others guilty of great Enormities how would this affect either their Church-Profession or Society Pray consider it have you done well or as you would be done by in raking up and aggravating old Stories against the People called Quakers to render them as black and deformed as you can Upon this Story you make this farther Aggravation from Luk. 9.39 We reed of him that was Possessed that he Foamed when the Diabolical Spirit did tear him True and what then Is this any Proof against the Quakers that they are so Possessed or guilty of Sorcery No sure We read further also concerning that Man that was possessed That when he was brought unto Jesus as soon as the Spirit saw him he tore him and fell down on the ground wallowing and foaming and that when Jesus rebuked the Vnclean Spirit and charged him to come out of him and enter no more into him then the Spirit cryed and rent him sore and came out Mark 9.20 25 26. Luke 9.39 42 43. Now suppose that in any meeting of the People called Quakers any such Operations or Gesture has been in any particular Person formerly that some Unclean Spirit has so torn and disordered him or her we may charitably believe it has been because Jesus Christ has come in Spirit and Power among them to rebuke and cast out such Unclean Spirits and to deliver them that were infested thereby When our Friends have been solemnly met together in his Name and Fear in Fasting and Prayer to wait upon and worship him And that such Unclean Spirit did not enter them in such Assemblies as ours but when they were Followers of the Envious Persecuting Priests who used to Revile and Rail against the Quakers in their Pulpits and of such Malicious Preachers as these Anabaptists who as persons possessed with a Lying Unclean Spirit are now still foaming out their own Shame and Malice against an Innocent People as these Men have done in their Lying Abusive Pamphlet falsly pretending to Unmask Antichrist in Spirit whilst their Work of Malice and Falshood bespeaks Antichrist in their proud puft up envious Flesh and Fleshly Minds scurrilously perverting our Words detracting and defaming others more Harmless than themselves and no whit inferior to them as Men in Education Parts or Morals And I hope we are and shall be of more Credit and Reputation in what we solemnly declare and write than they in falsly telling the World That 't is nothing so believed by us as pretended in our Pamphlet meaning that Paper concerning our Christianity which they not being able to refute now falsly tell People That 't is nothing so believed by us as Henry Loader and William Alcott have unjustly done in their Epistle to the Reader though they are so credulous of their Brother Edward Paye's Work or Pamphlet as to Believe neither Ambition Self-Interest or Prejudice moved him to it but purely the Honour of God Defence of Truth and Good of Souls And they also Hope and Believe that he hath been careful truly to cite the Quakers own Authors But we know the contrary and that he hath both falsly cited grosly belyed and perverted the Quaker's Words and Authors and taken many false Things on Credit and in their Implicit Faith not only the said Story from the Westmorland Petitioners but also out of his

above all Heavens that he might fill all Things And that by his Suffering and Sacrifice he hath obtained Eternal Redemption for us which through Faith in his Name and Power true Repentance and Conversion we livingly receive and effectually partake of That we are not Pardoned Justified Redeemed or Saved by our own Righteteousness Works Merits or Deservings but by the Righteousness Merits and Works of this our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being both imparted and imputed to us as he is of God made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Our Reconciliation Redemption Pardon Sanctification and Justification having respect both to his suffering Death and Blood upon the Cross As the one Peace Offering and Sacrifice and as our High Priest thereby making Attonement and Reconciliation for us and giving himself a Ransom for all Mankind And also to the effectual saving Work of his Grace and good Spirit within us bringing us to experience true Repentance Regeneration and the new Birth wherein we partake of the Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings and Power of his Resurrection In which Grace we ought to persevere in newness of Life and faithful Obedience unto him unto the end that we may be Heirs of the Eternal Salvation which Christ is the Author of We sincerely Believe also That the Man Christ Jesus is the only Mediator between God and Men our Intercessor and Advocate with the Father and that he exerciseth his Kingly Office and his Priestly and Prophetical Office in his Kingdom and Church here on Earth wherein he Governs and plentifully affords both Immediate Inspiration and Instruction to his Faithful Followers who walk in his Light to guide them into all Truth and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his And that this same Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for all Men enlightens every Man coming into the World and was and is the Light of the World the Way the Truth and the Life and that the same Christ that was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh and quickned by the Spirit and Power of the Father he is Inwardly Revealed and Spiritually in the Hearts of True and Spiritual Believers by his Holy Spirit Life Light and Grace And that therefore his coming and appearing Outwardly in the Flesh and Inwardly in the Spirit cannot render him two Christs but one and the same very Christ of God blessed for evermore Also the saving Baptism which is that of the Spirit and the Lord's Supper in his Church and Kingdom we believe and receive in him the Substance Spiritually not apprehending our selves bound to remain under any outward Shadow or Type thereof in the clear Gospel-day of Christ The Immortality of the Soul of Man being Created in God's own Image and Inspired by him that formed Man And the Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment And that every Man shall be reserved in his own distinct Being for his due and future Reward the Wicked unto the Day of Judgment Destruction and Wrath but the Righteous unto Eternal Life and Glory in their Spiritual Bodies like unto Christ's Glorious Body where they shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven These Things we sincerely Believe and Profess according to Holy Scripture-Testimony and as set forth therein as the Lord is pleased to give us Understanding thereof Being ready and willing to give more large Account and Demonstration of our Holy and Christian Profession as the Lord shall lay a necessity upon us And our Belief and Profession of these Matters is not new to us but according to that Light and Understanding we have received of the Lord and believed from the Beginning since we were a Suffering People gathered by him as also divers of our Ancient Friend's Ministry Books and Writings do more fully signifie and demonstrate POSTSCRIPT To evince with what Consciences these Anabaptists E. Paye W. Alcott and H. L. have writ against the Quakers pray observe these two or three Instances more 1. E. P. c. p. 46. read p. 6 7. Saul's Errand to Damascus And G. Fox takes the Name to himself saying He is the Eternal Judge of Quick and Dead Answ This is notoriously false in Fact being in the very same Book Saul's Errand recorded among those Matters Falsly charged on G. F. by his Adversaries the Priests and others in the County of Lancaster in their Petition p. 1 2 3 4 5 6. of Saul's Errand where G. F. opposeth and answereth their Objections 2. E. P. c. p. 29. That they meaning the Quakers say That Christ hath no Body but his Church Quoting Saul's Errand p. 9. Answ Which is notoriously false again For it was the said Priest's Objection against L. F. that he professed That Christ had never any Body but his Church Saul 's Errand p. 2. Which was also false and there recorded among their other false Charges objected tho' in the Answer it is confessed That Christ's Church is his Body 'T is also confessed That we are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones Which grants his particular Body and his Churches Union therewith Therefore far from such Profession as That Christ had never any Body but his Church E. P. c. p. 59. See Parnell 's Shield of Truth p. 12. Where he calls Water-Baptism a formal Invention and Imitation of Men and so a meer Delusion Answ This James Parnell speaks not of Water-Baptism without Distinction as they state it against him for he saith it was a Figure meaning as John and the Disciples used it but of Sprinkling Infants as he saith He received Water upon his Face as his Parents told him This he calls an Invention of Men and so do Baptists I think p. 67 68. Collection of J. P. 's VVritings Thus Immorral and Unjust are these Anabaptists in writing against us FINIS