searcheth all things even the deep things of God by which spirit they judge him and that wicked spirit that acts him and the works of both J. C. in pag. 18. concludes There is no Prayer made but there is Contradiction between the Heart and the Tongue he queries Dost thou perceive none If not thou art a graceless proud unhumbled Soul and altogether a Stranger to God and to right Prayer if yea then there is something of Hypocrisie in thy Prayer Reply No manvel if J. C. be distracted in Prayer for he is distracted about it and indeed about the most of the things of God he meddles with which are too high for him Doth he not conclude him to be a Stranger to God and to right Prayer a graceless proud unhumbled Soul who prays without Hypocrisie and that not to be right Prayer which hath not something of Hypocrisie in it or that there is no Prayer made wherein the Heart and Tongue perfectly go together This is in order to justifie his hypocritical Praying Dissembling with God and uttering Untruths to him that searcheth the Heart for he saith Far be it from me to say There is nothing of corrupt Nature within me defiling my Prayers What J. C. both before and here hath said of himself I believe that his Prayers are defiled and that there is Hypocrisie in them in this J. C. and R. H both agree But that Right Prayer is not without Hypocrisie and that he is a Stranger to God and right Prayer who Prays without Hypocrisie or that he is a graceless proud Soul who feels no Contradiction between his Heart and his Tongue but his Heart perfectly goes along with his Tongue in Prayer I deny and assert that right Prayer is without Hypocrisie and that he that Prays right his Heart and Tongue perfectly go together and he is not a proud unhumbled Soul neither a Stranger to God and right Prayer who perceives no contradiction between his Heart and his Tongue This is so evident a Truth that none who pray with the Spirit and with Understanding can deny John Cheyney tho' in contradiction to himself hath largely confessed hereunto in his Book of Prayer pag. 76. he saith The Spirit of God commands and moves to Prayer Pag. 7. All right Prayer must be in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ which is not so to be understood as if the bare naming of Christ were enough Mark the bare naming of Christ is not enough for all right Prayer must be in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ Now if so that God commands and moves to Prayer by his Spirit and that all right Prayer is in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ as certain it is then all right Prayer is without Hypocrisie For God moveth not by his Spirit to Hypocrisie neither is there Hypocrisie in the Name of Christ Pag. 17. he saith Who knows how to pray to God farther than God shall teach and enable him Pag. 20. We could do nothing in Prayer without the special Help of God's Spirit Here again J. C. grants that none knows how to pray to God further than God teaches them and that nothing can be done in Prayer I suppose he means right Prayer without the special Help of God's Spirit Now it is plain that God doth not teach any to Pray Hypocritically and nothing being done in right Prayer without the special Help of God's Spirit there can be nothing of Hypocrisie in right Prayer for right Prayer is performed by the special Help of God's Spirit and the Spirit of of God is not the Author of Hypocrisie And since the Spirit of God cammands and moves to Prayer engaging both Man's Heart and Tongue therein it therefore follows that through the special Help of God's Spirit the Heart and Tongue of Man do perfectly go together â—n right Prayer otherwise the Prayer cannot be said to be right neither acceptable unto God But such as would pray without God's Spirit and would have others not to wait for the Motion of it like J. C. who tho' in his Book of Prayer he hath largely confessed to the Spirit of God in Prayer and affirmed That nothing can be done without the special help of God's Spirit in Prayer for the Spirit of God commands and moves to Prayer Yet in his Sermons of Hypocrisie pag. 218. he saith Do not tarry till the Spirit moves you to Prayer but when you have Time and Place convenient provoke your selves unto Prayer no doubt but such have Hypocrisie in their Prayers and are such as draw near to God with their Tongues but their Hearts are far from him Isa 29.13 Mat. 15.8 J. C. stiles himself a Gospel Minister and would by others be accounted a Minister of Christ yet he counsels People not to tarry till the Spirit moves them to Prayer c. But sure the like Counsel was never given by any faithful Minister of Christ for they knew they could not Pray as they ought but by the Spirit of God Rom. 8.26.27 And J. C. himself says pag. 20. of his Prayer Book Without the special help of God's Spirit we can do no Spiritual Work and right Prayer is sure a spiritual Work or Exercise and therefore not to be performed or done but with the Spirit of God Again p. 21. he saith When the Spirit of the Lord is from Man he can do nothing Prayer sticks in his Mouth like Choak-Cheese And yet this pretended Gospel-Minister would put People upon to Pray without the Spirit instead of tarrying as he saith till the Spirit moves them they must provoke themselves to Prayer This indeed is the Way to make them Hypocrites like himself and if I mistake him not he would not have People be sincere and throughout Christians Is it not then some Medium that he would bring them to Read him thy self and give judgment in his Sermons of Hypocrisie p. 225. he saith I had almost said Either be Sincere and Throughout Christians or keep where you are but by no means Do Neither Doth J. C. think it would hurt People to be sincere throughout Christians If not Why must they by no means do so Would he always keep them Learning and never have them come to the Knowledge of the Truth and be saved They who have Eyes to see with may see the end of this Ministry is to keep People in Sin though he may in words speak against it For tho' he hath not altogether said Either be sincere and throughout Christians or keep where you are yet he hath positively said By no means Do Neither And since to be sincere and throughout Christians is the one state hath he not said By no means be sincere and throughout Christians since he hath absolutely said By no means Do neither This I apprehend to be the drift of J. C's Advice that he would have Christians to have some corrupt Nature in them whilst they are here defiling their Prayers and not to be holy as God
am compelled to pray Hypocritically and Dissemble with God and utter Untruths unto him I shall not be able to cover or conceal my Wickedness from the World if I get to Heaven it must be by this Trade of Begging Here observe Dissembling with God and uttering Untruths unto him praying Hypocritically Luke-warm Prayers Distraction in Prayer Compelling himself to Pray that he might conceal his Wickedness from the World hath been J. C's Practice whereby it is apparent J. C. was not partaker of the Spirit of Holiness nor acted by it in such services but is of another spirit than the Spirit of God That the Quakers mortally hate J. C. is a false slander for the Light in which the Quakers have believed and walk hath taught them to have true Love to God and good Will to all Men but to oppose wicked spirits and deny all Wickedness Now that spirit whereby J. C. hath been acted in Dissembling with God and uttering Untruths unto him in Dissembling with God and uttering Untruths unto him in belying the Light and the Children of it together with their pure and undefiled Religion in Blaspheming the Light of Christ the Spirit of God calling it Diana Dagon a Dumb Idol comparing it to a Drunken Coash-man c. is a wicked spirit which together with J. C's Wickedness viz. his Lyes Slanders Hpocrisie Confusion Blasphemy c. The Fruits thereof the Light which shineth in Man hath shined in and through the Quakers the Children of Light plentifully to discover and â—lay them open to the Readers view which wicked Spirit together with its Fruits the Quakers are Enemies to and perfected ly hate And that many of J. C's own Way who agree with him in Opinion Hate him is no new thing for formerly the Lord set the Enemies of his People one against another and one helped to destroy another 2 Chron. 20.22 23. And the Lord is the same who for his Israel's sake is dashing the Potsherds of the Earth one against another and hath appeared and is appearing against this J. C. who hath hardened his Heart as Pharaoh and the Egyptians hardened their Hearts and set himself against the Light and Children of Light to close again the Flood which hath been divided by the mighty Power of God for the Children of Light to pass through and overwhelm J. C. that as he doth appear to many to be a Minister of Death he may likewise so appear to all People For the Truth 's sake that no Lye may rest upon it and for the sakes of the simple-hearted where this may come is this written that such who can see may see that John Cheyney's Tongue hath risen up in Judgment against Israel and God hath confounded him And what I have written I do do commend to every Man's Conscience in the sight of God And concerning this J. C. do thus conclude That in him these Scriptures are fulfilled Psal 7.15.16 He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the Ditch which he made his Mischief shall return upon his own Head And to God who is on our side who hath taken the Wicked in his own Craftiness and fettered him in his own Net my Soul ascribes all the Praise to whom be Glory for ever and ever A Salutation to Friends of the Men and Womens Meetings DEarly beloved Friends Brethren and Sisters with whom my Soul hath precious Unity in the Seed of God and pure Fellowship in the Life of Righteousness unto you all beloved of God and right well beloved of my Soul In the abiding Love of God am I your dear Brother in the Tribulation and Patience of the Lamb in Life drawn forth to write unto you and express something of that Life and Love that is upon my Heart in a living as well as fresh remembrance of you to whom I give the endeared and truly cordial Salutation of right brotherly Love My very Heart is knit to you and in Spirit I am present with you beholding your comely Order I am verily refreshed in your Life and abundantly comforted in abiding Love my Soul honours you in the Lord you Elders of Israel and for your Humility my spirit saith That you are worthy of Praise Your Condescention one unto another in the Truth and to the Truth in whomsoever it appeared your giving way hath been and is clear demonstration to me you have sought Truth 's Honour and not your own and therefore my Soul praises God let it be so for ever the greatest amongst you serving the least the younger submitting to the elder submitting also one unto another Indeed your remembrance hath lived much upon me since I parted with you and Breathings to the God of my Life have run thorough me for your preservation and increase in Unity with the Lord God and one another And my dearly beloved a consideration of your preferring one another in the Truth whereby the Truth hath gained the Preheminence hath even melted my Heart into tenderness of Spirit I have said Let it be so for ever Of a truth I can say to the Praise of God who hath honoured you The good Order of the Gospel is amongst you and where ever yet I have Travelled and what Methods soever I have veiwed in the midst of all I on your behalf have blessed God for his Wisdom wherewith he hath endowed you I hope finding you praise worthy without offence I may speak thus much of you I can bear my Reccord you having Wisdom have done justly and having Mercy obtained have Mercy shewed and that which is a Pearl indeed you have walked humbly with your God If I may live again to see you and in a measure of the fulness of the Gospel come unto you in the full performance of the same Duty let my Soul find you In the mean while dearly beloved in humility dwell and the Grace and Peace of God be daily multiplied upon you and let your fervent breathings and earning desires be for one another and in a tender healing Spirit be you always found and evermore live together in Love and for me your younger Brother who am outwardly separated from you and bound in Spirit for Travel in the labour of the Gospel Let your breathings in Life to the God of Life be That God will be pleased to give me a door of Utterance and prosper the work in his hand He hath called and yet is calling into to the Praise of his own Glory Dear Friends a long Epistle I intend not you are Elders ruling well to whom double honour for the Works sake I can freely give Having eased my Heart a little not questioning but to be rightly understood by you and in Life's Record more fully so be read by you My Life greets you all together and my Soul salutes you one by one with a Kiss of Love the God of Israel overshadow you with his Glory for ever My dear Companion salutes you all And by this you may know that in a few
Journey was of great Service to me in my young Days and indeed a Time of Service to many in that County many were Convinced that Journey and many young ones strengthned and refreshed many drawings about that time had he had into that County of Chester and of great Service it was the Lord wonderfully blessed his Labours and there remains many Seals of his Ministry amongst which was my dear Brother John Low who was Convinced of the Truth and lived and dyed in It a faithful Man also his dear Wife Children and Servants besides many that way at which the Priests began to Rage and prepare War because many refused to put into their Mouths and could Buy their Merchandize no more receiving the Invitation that was free Come buy Wine and Milk without Money and without Price It was a glorious Time indeed and by the plenteous Preaching of the Gospel the Lord opened many Hearts to receive it as he did the Heart of Lydia of old and the Word of God grew in our Hearts that had received it in Love and the Lord opened my Mouth and touched my Tongue as with a Live Coal from his Altar that I might testifie to that Word of Life that Converts the Heart and gives Understanding to the Simple In this Time was he very Helpful and of great Service to me being always ready to lend an Hand of Help to weak ones to promote every good Word and Work About that time I with my Cousin Elizabeth Hodson went to visit Friends in some parts of Yorkshire and he brought us on our way as far as Bradley where we had a good Meeting where William Ellis and some others were Convinced there he left us and we travelled some Weeks in that County and had good Service for Truth and returned Truth prospering and Zeal and Fervency for it in our Hearts encreased About this time the Lord raised a Concern of Love in our Hearts each to other relating to Marriage In which Concern we felt the Lord's special Hand to order us It continued betwixt us for the space of five Years we never Created Opportunities to discourse it nor any Journey on purpose was made about it during that Time yet in the Way of Providence we met together sometimes in which we had some Discourse the Lord still evidencing to us his good Pleasure therein in which time we laboured in our respective Gifts in the Work of the Ministry being truly united in Spirit and daily sensible of one another's Exercises though much absent one from another outwardly he being concerned in Travels in the Labour of the Gospel though much a Prisoner yet the Lord made way for the Work 's sake that he travelled in many Parts of this Nation both North and South as also through the Nation of Ireland where he took Sickness which was then some Exercise to me being at such a distance but the Lord shewed me that at that time he should not Dye and blessed be the Lord he returned well with the Reward of his Labours Peace and Satisfaction After that he stayed a while and visited the Churches up and down in England where the Lord wonderfully blessed his Labours many were convinced and turned to Christ Jesus their Teacher and the Convinced were strengthned and built up together in that most holy Faith which gives Victory over the World and when clear of these Services here he went up to London to the Yearly-Meeting and found drawings for Holland and Germany which after the Yearly-Meeting was over he faithfully answered together with Roger Longworth his Companion at that time the Lord greatly blessed his Labours and made them effectual to many the same time I was at London with him at the Yearly-Meeting where we were refreshed together being devoted to the Work and Service of God which the Lord blessed and us in it I with dear Mary Warrel travelled from London west-ward through several Counties as Hampshire Dorsetshire Devonshire as far as Plymouth so back to Bristol and homeward The Lord was with us and blessed our Labours and we return'd in Peace After our return Home my dear Friend returned back from Holland that Winter and about this time the Lord gave us to understand our Concern of Marriage was near to be accomplished betwixt us in which we had regard to the Lord's Hand and Counsel It was compleated the Spring following the 6th Day of the 3d Month 1682. before many faithful Friends and others the Lord 's glorious Presence and Power was with us as a Crown upon his Ordinance And as we had evidence in our selves of the Lord's hand with us guiding us in that Affair so the Lord raised up his Testimony in the Word of Life in others And I may further say The Lord who joyned us together blessed Us when together so that we lived in great Love and Peace 14 Years and five Days in which time we were never straitned one towards another always of one Heart and of one Mind purely knit together in the Covenant of Life so that the Grave hath not broken our Fellowship it goes beyond the Grave where we can enjoy the Spirits of the Just the Separation that is made is only of Bodies not of Spirits Praises to God therefore My dear Husband as he was a faithful Man so was he a growing Man doubled his Talents and encreased his Gifts both as a Minister and as a Help in Government in the Church who being very Skilful and Wise therein settled many Affairs comfortably in the Church not only in our own County but Neighbouring Counties I may say of him He was wholly redeemed from the World altogether the Lord's in all Respects given up to him I saw his Growth daily and sometime rejoyced in it yet in my Joy there was some Heaviness looking he was nigh the Perfection of his Gifts and in a little time must go to his Rewards The sence of this came upon me with Sorrow when he was last in Holland which occasioned me to turn over all Affairs to see whether I had given the Lord occasion to withdraw so great a Blessing from me but blessed be the Lord I found all Accounts straight and no Rebuke upon my Spirit any way having always given him to the Lord according to that Promise I made before I took him by the Hand before so many Witnesses which was To give him to the Lord as long as he lived which the great Lord before whom only I promised helped me to the performance of so that my Heart was never strait there through our time and I may further say as freely as I gave so freely was I given to the Lord my dear Husband often expressing his great Love to me above all Visibles as the best of enjoyment he had in this World yet would say I was not too dear to give up to serve the Truth because in it I was made a Blessing to him more comfortable every Day than other he would
which is kindled against you because of these things and you perish not in his hot Displeasure And Friends You who are Called and Chosen and Faithful for a Remnant of such I know there is amongst you who keep your Garments unspotted of the World answering the Pure in all Dwell you in the Feeling of the weighty Life which hath seasoned you that in it you may Read me Feel me and Embrace me in the Arm of my Father's Love even as you are Read Felt and Embraced that tho' outwardly separated yet in that Inseparable Bond of Unity in which we are One and our place One even with the Son to behold his Glory we may lie down together and Solace our selves together in the Overcoming of our Father's Love whose Care is over us and whose Love flows towards us To whom be Glory for Ever and Ever Your Brother in true Love R. Haydock Lancaster-Castle the 2d of the 8th Month 1674. THE SKIRMISHER CONFOUNDED Being a Collection of several Passages taken out of some Books of John Cheyney's who stiles himself The Author of the Skirmish upon Quakerism In which is the Baseness Wickedness Contradictions Lyes Hypocrisie Unbelief Confusion and Blasphemy of that Skirmishing Priest Discovered and He Laid Open to the View of every one who shall read with a Single Eye Collected by a Friend to the Truth and a Well-wisher to the Souls of all People ROGER HAYDOCK Isa 54.17 No Weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every Tongue that shall rise up in judgment against thee thou shalt condemn This is the Heritage of the Servants of the Lord and their Righteousness is of me saith the Lord. Psalm 7.15 He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the Ditch which he made London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle 1699. THE SKIRMISHER Confounded c. JOhn Cheyney in his Book entituled A Call to Prayer c. in the Preface to the Reader saith thus I would be loth to fasten any Error upon any Person which I can perceive him not to hold and I would Candidly Interpret all Words so far as I can with Conscience and Justice to the Truth The next Page of the same Preface to the Reader thus I do not know 〈◊〉 by their Opinion of the Light within Devils and Damned Souls may be saved In his Book entituled The Skirmish c. p. 4. Penn 's Position doth justifie the Irish Rebellion the French Massacre the Marian Persecution the Ten Persecutions of the Primitive Churches the Gun-Powder Treason P. 13. of the same Book I would be glad to make the best I can of your Position Auimadversion Can there be greater Baseness than under pretence of Candor to be thus Absurd Is it not great wickedness in this Skirmisher to make such Ungodly Consequences of so Harmless a Position and yet afterwards say He would be glad to make the best he can of it Here followeth the PRIEST's Contradictions John Cheyney The Skirmisher against OR fighting John Cheyney Himself Assertion 1. CAll to Prayer p. 117. I dar◠say let the Light within alone and say nothing to it and it shall never move any Quaker or ungodly Soul to pray till Death or the Flames of Hell shall awake them 2. P. 119. A Quaker or any other may live a secure Flesh-pleasing Life all his Days and never have one effectual Motion to Prayer if he be ruled by the Light within 3. P. 119. The Quakers could hardly devise a more sin-pleasing Doctrine than never to pray without a Motion from the Light within 4. P. 109. Their grand Principle of the Light within is not consistent with Right Prayer 5. P. 76. The Spirit of God is a Spirit of Supplication he commands and moves to Prayer p. 20. The Spirit doth intercede in us we could do nothing without the special Help of God's Spirit without the special Help of God's Spirit we can do no Spiritual Work 6. Quakerism Subverted p. 18. The Light within tells me there is a God 7. Skirmish p. 13. The Light within which should be Man's Guide takes part with the Flesh and Satan against God 8. Call to Pray p. 111. They are no People of Prayer and make no use of Prayer P. 101. A Prayerless People of a Prayerless Religion Prayerless Pretenders to Holiness 9. Skirmish p. 13. If the Scriptures go farewell God and Christ and Heaven and all Law and Rule 10. O Lord thou know'st that I am what I profess my self to be Thy Servant sincere and upright John Cheyney Contradiction 1. CAll to Prayer p. 119. For though the Light may move yet it will be but a weak Motion and the Motion of the Darkness or Fleshly Part will overcome 2. P. 119. That which should Move them to Prayer the Light within is over-powered by the Darkness 3. P. 118. I 'll tell thee what keeps me from Prayer when my Conscience and the Light within moves me to Prayer my Sloth and Laziness my Deadness want of Life and Hunger and Spirit in my Soul 4. P. 3 4. Right Prayer is not meer Words nor a meer Work of Nature nor bare Humane Industry and Striving without the special Grace and Concurrence of God 5. P. 115. Their great Assertion that Prayer is not to be done without the Motion of the Light within some have confessed they never Prayed without the Motion from the Spirit of God P. 98. You need no Motion of the Spirit to tell you when to feed and cloath your Bodies but you need a Motion from the Spirit to put you upon to dress and feed your Souls 6. P. 101. Trust not that blind deceitful Guide within you the Light within you left it lead you into Everlasting Darkness 7. P. 61. When God and Conscience have called to this Duty a lazy carcarnal self 〈…〉 Mind has kept us away 8. P. 114. If Report be true when they do Pray for I have heard and believe that sometimes they Pray 9. P. 62. Must a hungry Man need a Scripture to tell him how often he must Eat No more doth a hungry Soul need a Scripture to tell him how often he must Pray Besides these Contradictions out of his Books I shall add one more out of two Manuscripts written with his own Hand which I think he will not deny and I am certain in this he hath no cause to blame the Printer as sometime he did but if he denies it I can both produce and prove it 10. Given forth by a weak Believing Christian and Disobedient Servant of Christ John Cheyney I shall here set down some of his Confessions to the Light Grace and Spirit of God and then discover his Lyes c. Pag. 120. THE Light then prevails Habitually and there is a kind of continual Exercise of the Soul by Internal Prayer Pag. 122. The Soul and Heart of Prayer is within seen to God Pag. 4. There is a great deal of Praying outwardly which is not right and sincere Praying outwardly Balling
Christian Husbands and Wives are to walk c In the same page That they quite Subvert all the Rules of Duty between Ministers and People c. In the same page That they pluck down Prayer Root and Branch In the same page That by the Quakers Doctrine we may all pray none or pray Curses and Blasphemies In page 22. again That the Quakers Religion doth pluck up by the Roots all the Doctrines and Rules of Knowledge Worship and Obedience touching God c. In page 13. That the Quakers say Every Man may make as good if not a better Bible than this we have In page 17. That the Quakers are guilty of affirming The Light in every Man to be a part of God as a drop of Water fetch'd from the Ocean is part of it In page 23. That there are no People do more Oppose and Subvert the Spirit than the Quakers In the same page That if the Quakers should practise their own Doctrine they would pass all that ever have been before them in Wickedness All these are gross Lyes and wicked Slanders whereof the Quakers and their Religion are clear And that no Lye may remain upon the Truth the Light and Children thereof I add That the Light of Christ within Man wherewith Christ the true Light lighteth every Man is the Life of the Word the Light of Men John 1.4 The Spirit of God given to instruct them Neh. 9.20 Ezek. 36.27 The Manifestation of which Spirit is given to every Man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12.7 The Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the Father John 15.26 Reproves the World of Sin John 15.8 And maketh manifest all things that are reproved Ephes 5.13 For that is the Spirit of Truth which reproveth and convinceth of Sin and the Spirit of Truth is the Spirit of Christ for Christ is the Truth John 14.6 And the Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of God for the Son and the Father are One John 10.30 5.18 to 27. One Lord one God and Father of all Ephes 4.5 6. Christ and God is Light John 1.4 9. 8.12 9.5 1 John 1.5 The Lord our God is one Lord Deut. 6.4 God is a Spirit John 4.24 The Lord is that Spirit which giveth Life 2 Cor. 3.6 17. The changing of Man from Death to Life is by the Spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3.18 I the Lord search the Heart and try the Reins even to give every Man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doing Jer. 17.10 The Spirit saith I am he which searcheth the Reins and Hearts and I will give unto every one of you according to your Works Rev. 2.23 The Spirit searcheth all things 1 Cor. 2.10 Hereby it is evident the Spirit of God is one with God and Christ and so God Infinite Omnipresent who is One Lord and his Name One Zach 14.9 who sees all things there is nothing hid or can be hid from God's Spirit all things being known and seen by the Spirit of God Man's Thoughts are shewed and told by it and whatsoever thing is reproved it sheweth and maketh manifest And that which makes manifest is Light Eph. 5.13 Well then the Spirit of Truth is the Light of Christ within Man which makes manifest and sheweth whatsoever thing is reproved by it which declareth to Man the Thoughts of his Heart and giveth to every Man according to his Works which reproveth and convinceth Man of Sin and leads into all Truth in which we called Quakers have believed and walk in even in the Light and Spirit of God and Christ and so witness the Blood of Jesus Christ cleansing us from all Sin and the Light and Spirit of Christ leading us on together into all Truth in which blessed Light we have Fellowship with God who is Light and one with another 1 John 1.5.7 And so are of that pure Religion which is undefiled before God and unspotted of the World James 1.27 This blessed Light or Spirit of Christ within leads us to do unto all Men that which is right in the sight of God and all of us that walk in in it walk according to the Precepts Doctrines and Commands of God contained in the Scriptures and witness in measure the fulfilling of what is therein written for our Learning that the Man of God may be Perfect c. And the keeping of the great Commandment which is Love So then this blessed Light or Spirit of Christ within born witness to and walked in by us called Quakers which indeed is both our Rule and Way doth lead and guide us not to oppose God's Spirit for then we should oppose our Rule and Way which is the Spirit of God nor to pluck up by the Roots all the Doctrines Precepts and Commands of Knowledge Worship and Obedience touching God contained in the Scriptures of Truth as J. C. hath slandered us but to live and walk therein and up thereunto and manifest both our Love and Honour to the Spirit of God and Esteem for the Scriptures of Truth in living that Holy Life the Scriptures declare of and the Spirit of God commands which Holy Life lived by us through the Spirit fulfils and justifies the Scriptures of Truth and exalts and glorifies the Spirit of God over all for God alone is worthy for ever and ever Neither doth the Light and Spirit of Christ wherein the Quakers walk and by which they are led and taught lead them to teach Treason and Rebellion which J. C. most wickedly hath charged the Quakers withal but the Light teacheth and leadeth them to live peaceably and quietly under the Government where they are placed and to seek the good of all Men to Pray for Kings and them which are in Authority that under their Government they might live in all Godliness and Honesty a Quiet and Peaceable Life to Exhort one another to Love and good Works and to teach Fidelity and Obedience to the Governments and Governours appointed by God that both Magistrates and their Governments may be submitted unto and obeyed by all People that there-under live by doing or suffering what cannot for Conscience sake God-ward be done and that whoever may answer the King and his Government in suffering for Conscience God-wards not to seek Revenge nor the Hurt of the King or his Government but to leave Judgment to God alone who disposeth of Kingdoms and Thrones Government and Kings at his pleasure and to Pray to God to perswade the Hearts of Kings to fear him to be Encouragers of Piety and Godliness but to Discourage all Wickedness and to Honour Christ the Lord the true Light over all who purgeth the Conscience from dead Works and fills it with the Mystery of the living Faith that over Conscience Christ may only Rule and Govern whose Right it is that in so doing their Government may be blessed to their Comfort and the Benefit of the People and the Honour and Glory of God who is King of Kings and
Quotidian Ague which continu'd nine Weeks in which time he was assessed 20 s. for a Preacher and had Corn taken by Thomas Taylor and Thomas Clare worth 28 s. and the second time assessed the like Sum and had Wheat taken for it A Dispute agreed upon by him in the latter end of the 12th Month 1692. and had with John Hide a Priest in Cheshire the 16th of the first Month 1693. which alarmed the People of that County and was of Service to Truth Afterwards he took his Journey through many of the Southern Counties through Wales by Bristol Weymouth and so to London at the Yearly Meeting After returned to Lancashire and Lancaster Quarterly Meeting and to Penketh and so again into the South visiting several Meetings in several Counties and in the 8th Month following returned to Lancashire where he travelled to and again that Winter in the North in visiting the Meetings and about the Affairs of the Church At the Spring 1694. he was at London at the Yearly Meeting giving a full Visit through that City to the several Meetings there and then returned to Lancashire and to York Yearly Meeting and after visited some Meetings in Yorkshire then to Penketh and visited the Meetings in the South part of Lancashire then to Lancaster Quarterly Meeting and after that returned to his own House but staid but a while for he travelled to and again in Lancashire and Cheshire till the 11th Month and then went to Lancaster Quarterly Meeting so to Kendal at Quarterly Meeting then visited some of the Meetings in those parts and then came back for Penketh The 20th of the first Month 1695. took his Journey to the Yearly Meeting in Wales and then visited the Churches in several places therein so to Bristol visited the Meetings there and staid the Yearly Meeting then visiting the Meetings in several Counties Southward came to London at the Yearly Meeting from whence to Colchester and Harwich took â—hipping the 26th of the 3d Month â—anded in Holland the 29th lying Windâ—ound 36 Hours came to Amsterdam at Yearly Meeting then visited the Churches in Holland Westfrizeland Groningen Embden to Frederickstadt Hambrough and so along those Countries visiting Friends to Amsterdam and Roterdam afterwards took Shipping and landed at Harwich the 28th of the 5th Month 1695. and so by Colchester to London still visiting Meetings along as he travelled and then for the North where he travelled to and again at times until the 25th of the 12th Month 1695. and then took his Journey for Bristol and was at the Marriage of William Penn with Hannah Callowhill and back After his return he visited Meetings to and again in the North till the 29th of the 2d Month 1696. he with his Brother's John and Robert Haydock accompanied the two Wifes of Roger and Robert on their Journey to Talk-hill in Staffordshire John Haydock and two Women being on their Journey to visit the Meetings of Friends in the South of England and there they parted from John and the two Eleanor's and returned back to Penketh Fifty Three Years Old he was the first of the 3d Month 1696. and having been at Hartshaw Monthly Meeting for Worship the 8th Day day of the said Month returned back and the day following being the 7th day of the Week and 9th day of the said Month was taken with Sickness which was supposed to be a Malignant Fever and upon the 2d day next departed whose Body was buried at the Burying-place belonging to Friends at Grayston in Penketh in the South part of Lancashire many Friends and other People being present And thus have I abreviated the Journal of my Fellow-labourer in the Gospel and dear Brother according to the Spirit and Brother also according to the Flesh whose Unity and Fellowship in the Light was precious being of one Mind in things relating to Truth and the Discipline in the Church of Christ as also of the Doctrine and Precept of Christ being joyned in the Truth which is but one and bound up together in the Bond of Life and Love in our Souls to be one and in the one Eternal Spirit and Light of Life together sealed And although he be removed from the House of Clay or Dust which moved to and fro in the Counties Islands Countries and Kingdoms here below wherein he bore a faithful Testimony to the Light the Truth the Life manifest within in which he was supported and carried along in that weighty Work and Service in his Day yet the Fruits of his Labours and Travels shew forth the Praise of God and his Faithfulness Uprightness and Zeal to God and his Truth is sealed in many Hearts by the Spirit of Christ From the time of his Convincement to the time he was first moved by the Spirit of God to visit the Churches of Christ and Children of Light was four Years in which time Sufferings by Imprisonment he passed through being young Our Father's departure the 10th of the 7th Month 1670. and burial the 12th of the same and other hard Exercises which he past through I at that time being in Ireland in the labour of the Gospel had but small past thereof From the first of his going abroad in the Work of the Ministry to the time of his departure from hence was twenty four Years and a half in which time not with standing his Imprisonment Sickness and Weakness of Body and Family he travelled by Sea and by Land by Computation Thirty Two Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty Seven Miles and ministred in Two Thousand Six Hundred and Nine Meetings or Churches as his Journal plainly makes appear which he writ down with his own hand from Day to Day Weekly Monthly and Yearly to that very Day he was visited which was the 9th day of the 3d Month 1696. as aforesaid And now having finished the Account I give taken out of the Manuscript of his Sufferings Travels Services and Zeal as aforesaid add this furthur Account This my Friend departed was my younger Brother begot by one Father and brought forth by one Mother and Born in Coppul in the South part of Lancashire brought up whilst a Child at School and had some Learning who whilst a Schollar had an Exercise of Mind by the in-workings of the Light but at that time attained not to the Knowledge of that good Spirit of God in his Heart which was then at work in him so that after it pleased God the Father in the 7th Month 1667. to visit me by his Light in the inwards of my Heart by which he powerfully work'd in me until my Will was brought down and subjected to the Will of God and my Heart so fitted that in it I saw Christ the Light and Word of Eternal Life and believed After this my said Brother coming to my Father's House was by our Mother put on to Discourse with me she being a Professor and inclined to the Presbyterian Way but quickly he was put to Silence and confounded so that being gone from
often express it and truly so was he to me every Day every Way and in every Respect no Tongue nor Pen can relate the full of that Comfort and Joy we had in God and one in another Yet we find such hath been the Pleasure of God concerning them he hath loved to try them in the most near and dear Enjoyments that it might be manifest he was loved above all that no Gift or Gifts may be preferred above the Giver but that he may be all in all and over all who is and is to come God blessed for ever and ever And truly there hath been great Care and Watchfulness one over another and over our own Spirits to see that our Love though great was bounded and kept within its Compass the Truth being its Original the Alpha and Omega also Although it hath been the Pleasure of God to try me in the removal of so great a Blessing from me sure it is that I may be the more inward to him and have his Love always in my Remembrance who gives and takes away and in all Bless his Name My Soul travels that I may always follow his footsteps of Self-denial in all things that I may finish my Course in this World to the Glory of God as he did and have my part in that Mansion of Glory with him eternal in the Heavens though it be my Lot to stay for a time in this World of Troubles yet I have hope in Immortality and Eternal Blessedness when time in this World shall be no more My dear Husband was a Man very Laborious in his time though he had several long weak Fits of Feavers and Agues yet when a little well regarded the Lord's Business above all Besides his Travels about home and here in England he travelled through Scotland and twice in Holland and Germany since we were Married and had great Services for the Lord in many Places as I doubt not but Accounts may be given and through Mercy for two Years last had his Health well and is gathered to his place like a Shock of Corn in its due Season and rests with the Lord for ever I have sometimes considered the suddenness and manner of his Removal although it was ordered by Providence that I was far remote at that Time in in the Service of Truth which was with his free Consent and Approbation being brought on my Way by him so far as Talk-Hill in Staffordshire where we parted in great Love and Sweetness the Glory of the Lord resting upon our Spirits in which Breathings ascended up to the Lord for each other And though I saw not his going away yet have seen in what he went that it was full of Zeal and Fervency in the Love of God and Life of Righteousness So in pure Submission to the Will of God I conclude this short but true Relation of my Worthy Dear Husband whose Name and Memorial is blessed and will live and be of a sweet Savour in the Hearts of the Righteous through Ages I am Truths Friend and a well-wisher to the Souls of all People Eleanor Haydock Penketh the 15th of the 3d Month 1697. Ashort Testimony to the Lord's Kindness and to the Life Ministry Sufferings Services and Death of our Worthy Friend Roger Haydock who departed this Life the 11th Day of the 3d Month 1696. WE are deeply affected and bowed in Soul in a sense of the Lord 's free Love and Goodness unto us in looking upon and visiting us in the time of our Uncleanness when we were unworthy of the least of his Mercies Oh! then was his Arm revealed for our Help Redemption and Salvation a Work of so great Kindness as ought ever to be had in Remembrance in that neither we noâ— any of the Children of Men can sufficiently set forth so great a Favour the Concern is of great Moment the only begotten Son of God laid down his Life to effect it We Travel in our several Measures that we and all the Lord 's gathered People may ever dwell in a Worthiness that we may be in the Lords hand Instruments to work the appointed work of our Day And under this tender sense we found our Hearts open to give the Salutation of unseigned Love to all our dear Friends where these may come with this brotherly Exhortation That you may all stir up one another to the Duty you owe unto the Lord that as a Church and People of our God's peculiar gathering you and we may be presented to him without Spot or Wrinkle And dear Brethren the dealings of the Lord with his Instruments and faithful Servants and the removing of them from us hath considerable Weight upon our Spirits and raiseth a holy Desire in us that we and you may not abate but encrease our Zeal Diligence and Labour that the Lords good Work begun may not stop but go on and prosper and that the great Lord of the Harvest may never want faithful Workmen Next hereunto O Reader We recommend to thy perusal this following Account of our said Friend Roger Haydock First As touching the manner of his Life we having several of us known and conversed with him from the time of his Convincement can say of it His Conversation was without Covetousness of Self-denial he was a good Pattern in Habit Plain in Meats and Drinks very Temperate and in his Actions and Concerns Careful that what he did might answer the better Part in all and justly offend none Walking he would often say he preferred before Talking and laboured that others might walk as they had Christ for an Example Secondly As to his Ministry though we need say little because it was known in most places where these may come We have from good Experience this Account to give That he preached the Gospel freely both in this and other Nations always possessed with a Care that Life and Vertue might put him forth and manifest him to his Auditors very weighty and deep things did often drop from his Mouth and although he had sometimes sharp Arrows to shoot at Babylon and against all Hypocrites and Double-Minded yet many times a Living Sweet Consolating Stream was conveyed through him to water the tender Plants and very often a Morsel to the Poor and Needy Very tender and kind to his Fellow-Labourers yea to the least Child that from a right Concern opened a Mouth for the Lord and for the sakes of such did many times sit whole Meetings through in Silence very kind in that Respect to Strangers yea such was the Care of this good Man that Friends might truly reap benefit in their Meetings that in many of our Week-day Meetings he used to wait amongst us in Silence that none might too much depend upon Words or be surfeited through the multitude thereof And when at any time he had upon him a Concern to visit Churches in remote Parts his manner was to lay before and wait for the Concurrence of this our Meeting which many times occasioned
Life who with those many more that were greatly supported and strengthened by his Labours as Living Epistles can set to their Seals to the Truth of his Apostleship Now our County being thus alarmed and stirred up and the beauty of many pleasant Pictures fading and Truth prospering and inlarging it self in many places The Men of the Long Robe begun to be angry for now some Member or Members withdrew from their Assemblies and joyned themselves to the poor despised Quakers This so inraged them that they made their Pulpits ring with the Noise of the Danger of the Growth and Infection of Quakerism and Exhibited their Black Charges against us and our Principles at random to frighten poor People from receiving the Truth of God Some of which being taken notice of occasioned several Publick Disputes in this County And in Vindicating of our Holy Profession against these our Opposers this our Friend of whom we are writing did more particularly appear And truly the Lord's Presence and Power appeared with and so enabled him that he not only clear'd up those Truths clouded through their Envy but so manifestly returned their Charges upon themselves that some were Convinced by those opportunities and several Confirmed In all which he behaved himself as a Man for God The Remembrance whereof is very sweet to many of us to this moment And indeed all along to his end he forgot not his Fatherly Care over us so that above many others we are really indebted to his Memory who hath been greatly Serviceable to us and hath done Valiantly His Travels have been considerable in this and foreign Nations of which we might inlarge but shall leave it to other Pens as also to speak of his Parts and Accomplishments which were very considerable And not to be tedious shall only add He Lived well and so he Died and his Work being finished was taken from us in the strength of his Age of whom the World was not worthy And was attended to his Grave by some Hundreds and many good and publick Testimonies were born to the Praise of that Power that had raised him up to be so serviceable to the Churches of Christ to the great Comfort of those many Mourners present at his Interment and he being Dead yet Speaketh Sign'd at our Quarterly-Meeting at Nulon-juxta Middlewich the 14th of September 1697 on the behalf of the Friends of this County By us Thomas Welch Sen. John Crosbey Thomas Rowland Richard Yarwood William Janney John Kennerly John Bradley John Bancroft Ralph Brock Thomas Buckley John Hobson Henry Murrey Joseph Maddock John Finnerley John Lamb Thomas Hyld Thomas Pott John Walker John Hough Shadrach Welch William Harrison John Merrick William Crames John Jarvis Thomas Butter Samuel Traford Thomas Welch Jun. Joseph Towers Peter Pricksley John Lorrance William Hancock Richard Davis Jacob Lawrance Hugh Buttler Esther Hall Mary Gandy Mary Hall Mary Bangs Eliz. Maddock Elinor Hyde Hannah Ashton Eliz. Williamson Elin Fornelly Ann Welch Mary Merrick Esther Crosbey Rachel Butter Rebekah Traford Ann Davis Katharine Lamb Martha Lamb Samuel Rilence Joseph Endon Hugh Burgis Tho. Williamson Roger Roe John Dutton William Hyde Richard Parkey Henry Maddock Benjamin Bangs Mary Peacock Maible Hancock Rebekah Pritchley Tabitha Ardern Rebekah Backley Ann Eaton Eliz. Ashbrook Eliz. Lawrance Martha Broadhurst Eleanor Cooke Esther Merrick Nehemy Bradley Hann. Littlemore Mary Worthington Margaret Garsell Elizabeth Welch Alice Rowland The Testimony of Thomas Camm concerning our dear Deceased Brother and Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ Roger Haydock IT is such as Die in the Lord who are Blessed being gathered to their Eternal Rest with the Spirits of Just Men made perfect and freed from Tears and Sorrows and manifold Sufferings Travels and Labours and whose Works follow them whose Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life amongst the Living and is a sweet Savour and blessed Memorial to after-Ages And though we that are yet left behind may have loss in that they are outwardly removed from us yet ought therein to be content since it 's the good pleasure of the Almighty and the great Gain of them who are swallowed up in the Joy of the Lord unspeakable of which number it 's my present Sense and Testimony our dear Friend and Brother R. H. is one and has finished his Course here with Joy who in his day was a Man of God a faithful Man for the promoting the Interest of God his Truth and Righteousness given up to spend and be spent in the Service of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in all Faithfulness and Sincerity as well as plentifully Furnished thereto by him that hath the Infinite Treasures of Wisdom and Divine Knowledge and gives freely thereof to the Humble and Sincere in Heart and richly was this dear Man of God furnished for the Work of the Ministry which he was called to and found Faithful in for many Years to the finishing of his Course here and a Blessed Effect his Living and Powerful Ministry had upon the Hearts of many not only in turning them to the Lord's Way and Truth but also in Confirming Building up and Establishing many therein Being one of those Scribes commended by our Lord who are well instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven and bringeth forth out of his Treasure things New and Old for the Instruction and Building up others many in this Nation and many others where he Travelled can Testifie and bear Witness unto Who are the Living Seals of his Ministry having good cause with thankful Hearts to bless the Lord on the behalf thereof It 's not with me to inlarge into the particular Travels and Labours of this Faithful Servant of the Lord in this and several other Nations supposing that may be the Work of others But as I well knew him and had an intimate and inward Acquaintance with him from the time that it pleased the great God of Eternal Glory to call sanctifie fit and furnish him to the Work of the Ministry which is most of Thirty Years by our often and frequent Travels together in that Work and Service in most parts of this Nation So that which I have in short to say and testifie herein with respect to God's Glory Service of his Truth and People and Discharge of Duty to and on the account of so Dear so Faithful and so greatly Beloved a Friend Brother and Companion is from Tried and long Experience and certain Knowledge as I felt it to spring and live upon my Mind in that Love and Life in which my Heart was firmly United to him as was Jonathan's to David Very shortly after I had the Heavy Tidings and Sorrowful Account of his being taken out of the Body and so removed from us as to outward Appearance under which Exercise I could not but mourn and say Ah my Brother I have a Loss of thee the Flock and Family of God has a Loss of thee and other Worthies at this time removed The Lord be intreated to
pour out a double Portion of his Spirit upon us lest behind and raise up many more that so his Work may become Prosperous in the Earth Amen Oh how Comfortable is the Remembrance of that perfect Love Nearness and Unity that we enjoyed together without the least Jarr which made our Service and Labour together very easie and pleasant and our Conversation together very sweet And know that he was Open-hearted Free and Faithful to his Friend a great Lover as well as Promoter of Love Peace and Concord amongst Brethren able in Advice sound in Judgment tender and kind to the Weak every way ready to serve and help the Needful in every respect of a truly Humble and Lowly Spirit giving Preference to others especially Elders although a Man that had a kind of Greatness or Presence in a Manly Carriage or Deportment from which some might mistake him that knew him not in the Root of Life and Truth Fervent in Spirit Zealous for the Promotion of the Interest of Truth in a Godly-Discipline and Gospel-Order amongst all Friends and his Care and Labour that all might be found in the Practice of the pure Religion professed That so Zion might become Glorious the Praise of the whole Earth and the Church and Family of God be kept Pure and Chaste to shine forth in her Splendor the Eclipsing whereof in any respect I know was ever his Exercise and under the Exercise thereof have simpathized with him in Sorrow and Mourning whom I knew esteemed of and preferred the Peace Prosperity Wellfare and Increase of the Glory of Zion God's People far above his own His Natural Parts were great and augmented by a good and liberal Education All which being Sanctified as well as Inlarged by the Power of Truth made him both Honourable and Serviceable in the Church of Christ in many respects And tho' he be Dead yet Lives and Speaks amongst us and is Enjoyed in that Life which never Ends. And as he has turned many to Righteousness he now shines as a bright Star in the Firmament of God's Power and his Name will be of Lasting Remembrance amongst the Living T. Camm H. M's Testimony concerning our dear and faithful Friend Roger Haydock Deceased AMongst many of the Lord's Worthies whom in this our Day Age and Generation he hath endued with Wisdom Courage Valour and Prevalency in Innocency and Righteousness to make War without Carnal Weapons against the Spiritual Enemies of God and of his Son Christ Jesus the Lamb without Blemish that taketh away the Sin of the World this our dear Friend Roger Haydock was not one of the least who before I knew him was at the Challenges of Priests that opposed the Truth to which he bore Testimony several times engaged in Disputations as Defendant for the Truth professed and lived in by him and the People called Quakers against the false Charges of the Priests One Passage whereof being related to me by one of the party adverse to him when I was a Stranger to the Truth and to Roger Haydock tended to my Convincement and in hopes it may likewise be of good effect to others I shall here insert it viz. My Neighbour told me he had been at a Dispute between Mr. Cheyney as he called him and a Quaker whom I have since known to be Roger Haydock and and that Cheyney among other things charged the Quakers for not using Baptism of Infants Then I asked him how the Quaker answered to that He said Indeed the Quaker behaved himself very moderately and civilly in his way and answered That there was no Proof in the Scriptures of Truth for it and that it was only Men's Invention and by Man's Tradition that they held it and considering how they used it who professed the Scriptures to be their Rule which did not warrant them therein it appeared in them to be ridiculous both before God and Man Then I asked him What Proof Cheyney brought for it He answered to this effect That he did not understand that Cheyney brought any Proof for it This Relation induced me to seek for what Proof could be found for it because I had been taught that my Infant-Baptism was the Foundation of my Christianity thereupon diligently searching the Scriptures and after that reasoning with my Teachers I plainly saw there was no Proof from the Scriptures nor Authority from Christ to be found for it and that therefore my Foundation was unsound and the Building upon it dangerous and ruinous Therefore in a deep Sense of my want of a Foundation that could not be moved I left the Builders upon Infant-Baptism and earnestly sought unto the Lord who in his own time Revealed in me that Foundation which standeth sure even the Rock of Ages the Foundation of all the Generations of the Righteous that great Mystery hid from many Professors which is Christ in Believers the Hope of their Glory who Baptizeth them with Spiritual Water and Fire a Manifestation of whose Spirit is given to every Man to profit withal which inwardly Reproveth the Disobedient but Comforteth the Faithful who in it have true Unity and Fellowship one with another And in this I was in the Lord's time acquainted with this my aforesaid dear Friend and faithful Servant of Christ whose Service the Lord made of good effect to me by the aforesaid Relation of one that was as an Adversary to him and that a considerable time before I knew him for about the time that I left the aforesaid Builders my Teachers he was concerned in the Lord's Service in Ireland in the Year 1680. He was Laborious in the Service to which the Lord by his Grace had called him and for which he had fitted him in giving him largely to know and understand the deep Mysteries of his Kingdom and filling his Treasure with the durable Riches and Righteousness thereof And as he plenteously and freely received of the Lord so it was his delight and great Concern in the Counsel of God freely to give and impart Spiritual Gifts to others that many might be enriched with the same And therefore through great Travels Sufferings and Exercises he cheerfully went in the Lord's Service who blessed his Labours so that he was Instrumental in the Lord's Hand for the turning of many from Darkness to Light and from Satan's Power to God He was neither sparing of Himself nor his Substance to serve the Lord the Giver who blessed him as well with Temporal as Spiritual Blessings of both which he was very free in the Love of God to communicate having an especial Care over the Poor that none might want and a tender respect to the least appearance of Good in any that it might be incouraged He was concerned for the general Good of all but especially Serviceable in the Church of Christ being as a Pillar in the House of God firm and stable supporting the Weak and edifying the Houshold in Love His Ministry attended by the Lord's Power hath often hit my Condition
Righteousness The Faithful City William Ellis London the 20th of the 6th Month 1697. A Short Plain and True Testimony for and in the behalf of 〈◊〉 â—ceased Friend Roger Haydock ALthough I heard that some Friends had Intentions to Write something by way of Testimony as a Memorial of this Servant of Christ above named yet upon Consideration I did not find my self clear and easie though delayed for a time except I did cast in my Mite amongst the rest having had knowledge of him since he was convinced and received the Truth which was in the Year 1667 since which time I observed that he was still in a growing Condition in the Truth to his last End as a Tree planted near the River of Life in God's Garden which was always Green whose Branch withered not but spread over the Wall that they without might be induced to come in to be made partakers of the Fruit of the blessed Vine Christ in due season as faithfulness to the Call and Gift of God was lived in He was a Man that had good Will for all and true Love especially to the Household of Faith Poor or Rich was no Respecter of Persons in those Cases but had an Eye to the Inward State and Condition so that as Truth did encrease and prosper in any his Love encreased for it was his great delight to see Truth prosper and Friends in it for he loved Friends for Truth 's sake God endued him with Wisdom from above that he had a sense of Inward States so that he could divide the Word aright Bread and sweet Wine for Obedient Children and Judgment for the Rebellious But with such Wisdom and Moderation that gained upon many of them so as to consider what it was they rebelled against even the Light of Jesus Inwardly discovering that which is Evil. He certainly learn'd of Christ to be Meek and Low in Heart very clear from an exalted Spirit but ready to be a Servant to the least Child I believe it was pleasant to him to be doing Good he was a Man given to Hospitality himself and very Careful of the Poor I heard him once say in a Meeting upon occasion We have enough let not the Poor want He was a Man of good Utterance in his Declaration and the Gospel he preached he lived in and preached it Freely as he had Freely received it from God it was the Power of God that comes over the Power of Satan in Man His Doctrine dropped as the Dew and small Rain to the refreshing of the tender Buds and Branches in the Vine Christ and comforting the stronger that did abide therein he was an Help and Support to the Cast-down of which I have some Experience and although he was younger than I yet I had a great esteem of him for Truth 's sake and did honour him as an Elder yea with double honour for he was worthy who ruled his own House well and took care of the Church of Christ I have been often upon occasion in his Family and never law better Government in any Family wheresoever I came than there He hath left a good Example behind him to his dear Wife who observeth it diligently He was faithful in that Work God caled him unto which many are Witnesses of in his own Native Country besides his Services in other Nations as Scotland Ireland Holland and Germany He hath been several times a Sufferer for Truth but never daunted but reign'd in Authority in the Power of God as a King over the Power of Darkness and Persecution which was no more to him than a little Dust under his Feet I was with him in a Meeting where some in Office as was said assisted with a great Company of Rude Fellows with great Staves making a noise like Mad Men finding him at Prayer had like to have pulled him off his Knees but were something restrained of which he tooâ— no notice but when he did rise they laid hold on him and hurried him away out of the Meeting with an howling noise like a Company of Wolves that had made a Prey upon a Lamb for so he behaved himself all which did not so much touch nor hurt him as to alter his Countenance as I perceived But after the Rude People were gone Friends continued their Meeting and there being some from several Meetings we had a good Meeting for the Power of Darkness was driven away and the Enemies blinded And this was at Freckleton in the Fylde where there is now a settled Meeting and hath been for several Years He was also Prisoner for the Truth at Lancaster-Castle several times Now in as much as I am fully satisfied that his Spirit is Crowned with Life Eternal in Heaven where my Spirit in some Measure hath unity with him as he is brought to my Remembrance Why should not his Name which is precious be kept in a living Remembrance from one Generation to another for the stirring up others to follow him as he followed Christ That over all God may have all the Honour the Glory and the Praise who alone is worthy for this my Friend in his Life time never sought it to himself but sought the Honour of God only He was of excellent Service in these parts where he lived upon Truth 's Account but what he did it was by the Assistance of God's Holy Spirit and Grace given unto him so nothing to be attributed to Man tho' he was a good Man for out of the good Treasure of his Heart he brought forth good things He was of a Noble Spirit a Person Prudent in Matters and the Lord was with him his Company was Pleasant and his Discourse Profitable I may hope that none will be offended with me that I give so much Commendations to God's Workmanship both Inward and Outward that God may have the Honour and Praise of his own Work And when he according to the Will of God had finished his Course the Lord was pleased to favour him with but a short Sickness He had his Accounts ready he laid down his Head in Peace and dyed in the Faith the 11th day of the 3d Month 1696. Isaac Ashton Sen. Given forth the 21st of the 7th Month 1697. James Laithwait 's Testimony concerning Roger Haydock deceased OUR Faithful and Well-beloved Friend Roger Haydock was Born of honest Parents who were of good Repute in the World and concerning him I have this Testimony to bear from a certain Knowledge I had of him for I knew him soon after he was Convinced and received the Knowledge of the Truth and I then took great notice of him he appearing in great Humility and under a great Inward Exercise and Travel of Spirit before he appeared in a publick Testimony for the Truth which was about the Year 1669. At which time a great Power and clear Life was shewn forth in him in the beginning of his day it being a day of the Revelation of the great Power of God and of his Powerful
because they speak fully of themselves he ought not to be angry with me for repeating them since he hath caused them to be printed if he be ashamed of them let him call them in and recant and what I have in my custody he shall have freely But to the Matter in order to shew his Hypocrisie Call to Prayer p. 45 46. We all come under Reproof for our Coldness and Deadness in Prayer there is much detestable Hypocrisie and Coldness committed by us in our solemn Prayers to God both in secret in private and in publick Doth not this speak forth it self But hear him further What is this but to mock the Almighty God and to sport with Consuming Fire and dally and play with Everlasting Torment and be in jest and complement with Heaven and Hell and make a light matter of Sin and Eternity What is this but a Profanation of God's Name and going to Hell upon our Knees and a Provoking God to deny us those Mercies which we so faintly beg Why do we pray like canting Beggars like Dreamers and Sleepers Pag. 135. O my God forgive me all my Omission of Prayer all my Coldness Deadness Lukewarmness and Distractions in Prayer Pag. 139. I am distracted in Prayer I am soon weary I come poorly off my Foes are too hard for me Why go I mourning all the Day long when the Comforter which should relieve my Soul is gone from me Pag. 145. It is a great Misery as well as Sin to be Lukewarms in Prayer I Tremble to have my Lukewarm Prayers abhorred by God and spued out of his Mouth and cast in my Face like Dung. If I get to Heaven it must be by this Trade of begging Pag. 143. This Priest Cheyney tells us If he be idle in Prayer he shall have but a ragged tattered Soul Mark he saith I shall not be able to cover or conceal my Wickedness from the World R. H. querieth Whether this be not a Hypocrite indeed who by Distracted Prayers thinks to hide his Wickedness from the World Hear him further Pag. 47. O loitering Souls Vnprofitable and unfruitful Servants all of us to our Heavenly Master Let us be ashamed of our Doings and mend our Prayers lest God spue them out of his Mouth Pag. 131. Hadst thou O my Soul but a right Sense of God thou couldst not but be fervent in Prayer Thou prayest but how Exceeding coldly R. H. The Priest grants he hath not a right Sense of God and that he prays exceeding coldly yet in page 141. he saith But the Lord is with me and shall preserve me unto his heavenly Kingdom But mark Reader what follows in the same page But yet my Soul is much sadded and cast down when I consider what Strivings and Fightings there is in my Prayer against it self one part in me would be more Holy and another part contradicteth it and would be as I am and have leave to be Vnholy one side is for God and Heaven and the other side favoureth Earth and is all for the Flesh and grudgeth every painful Sigh for Heaven O how is my Soul tossed between these two Contenders And I am compelled to pray Hypocritically and Dissemble with God and utter Vntruths unto him that searcheth the Hearts and delighteth not but in upright Lips But this is not all though enough to confound this Skirmisher Yet he shuts up himself in Unbelief Hear him But either it must be so in part or there will be no Praying in this World R. H. querieth Must there either be Hypocritical Praying Dissembling with God and uttering Untruths to him that searcheth the Hearts or no Praying in this World God forbid Let this Lying Dissembling Hypocrite's Mouth be stopp'd the Spirit of God inditeth better Matter it teacheth all the Sons of God who are led by it to pray with it and with Undestanding not rude or distracted like Priest Cheyney but to offer to God what God hath prepared for he prepares the Morning and the Evening Sacrifice which as sweet Incense is accepted of him He hears his own Spirit and another spirit he will not hear Hear what he saith to their Congregations Call to Prayer p. 30. O how little of Prayer is there in our Congregations Indeed there is Praying in many Congregations but it is rather a Mocking of God most Vile Hypocrisie so often as the publick Prayers are read and repeated by the Minister and People so often the Name of God is taken in vain exceedingly by many Hypocritical Ministers and People And yet the Priest saith of himself p. 142. I am the most Rude and Vnskilful of all thy Ministers I shall now touch his Confusion and so discover his Blasphemy Call to Prayer p. 16. Prayer is a Holy and Reverend Communion of sinful Dust and Ashes with the great and glorious God Pag. 108. He tells of a Quaker that had so much of Christ's Spirit and Religion Outwardly in Him as to pray Pag. 52. I think there are but few Hypocrites that keep up a constant Course of Prayer and yet I cannot say but there may be some and Many Pag. 145. Tho' Christ be not present upon Earth Corporally and Carnally he is truly present by his Spirit and he dwells in his Saints This latter is for the Quakers Pag. 66. The Priest saith Behold we are lean exceeding lean like blasted Corn there is Husk but no Corn. Pag. 72. Thence it is that we are like raw Flesh unsodden Christians Milk-sops Quakerism Subverted p. 27 28. The Priest saith In every Man since the Fall there is something of God and something of Satan Flesh and Spirit Light and Darkness P. 34. he saith This Light which is something of God by him placed in Opposition to Satan Spirit in Opposition to Flesh is guilty of all Sins of Omission and Commission which the Soul is charged with and guilty of it hath a Hand in all Thought-Sins Tongue-Sins Life-Sins This is the Language of this Blasphemer Hear him further Pag. 21. The worst of Men hath a Light within him and so we say That Jesus Christ is the true Light which enlighteneth every Maâ— that cometh into the World John 1.9 P. 23. He calls this Light within The Quakers Diana Call to Prayer p. 112. The Quakers Dagon In Blasphemy of the true God and Christ once more hear him Quakerism Subverted p. 33. The Light goes down with the Soul into Hell p. 34. The Light within in Hell is turned into a Self-tormenting Light What is this but to say The Light of Christ tormenteth it self in Hell Confusion and Blasphemy But for all this this Skirmishing Priest would not be called a Deceiver Lyar Hypocrite no more would his Generation the Scribes and Pharisees of old Yet he tells us himself Call to Prayer p. 113. I could bring many that could not endure such Ministers as I. No marvel Skirmisher Many see thee to be a Cloud without Water But if this Priest means his own Generation it is
One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and In You all Bat unto every one of us is given Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ Ephes 4.6 7. Rom. 12.3 2 Cor. 10.13 The Manifestation of the Spirit of God is given to every Man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12.7 God hath given the Earnest of his Spirit unto us In our Hearts 2 Cor. 1.22 5.5 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all Heavens that he might fill all things Ephes 4.10 J. D. said I deny that God hath given of his Spirit by Measure I replied Then thou deniest Scripture To which J. D. answered not Now I further add some Scriptures that the Reader may take notice thereof and see J. D's Folly John 3.34 For God giveth not the Spirit by Measure unto him viz. Christ Jesus Col. 1.19 2.9 In him it pleased the Father all Fulness should dwell But unto every one of us is given Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ Ephes 4.7 2 Cor. 10.13 Hereby know we that we dwell In Him and he In Us because he hath given us of his Spirit 1 John 4.13 And of his Fulness have we all received John 1.16 Mark Of Christ's Fulness have we all received of his Spirit he hath given us and Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ Observe We have received but Measurably of Christ's Fulness of his Spirit according to the good Pleasure of God the Giver some of us more other-some less yet of the same Fulness of the same Spirit And though given to us Measurably it is the same with the Fulness it is of the Spirit and whether a larger or lesser Measure or Manifestation of the Fulness of the Spirit be by one or another of us received yet still it remains undivided from the Fulness from the Spirit which is invisible Neither is the Measure Manifestation or Gift of the Spirit of God the Fulness dissected or parted from the Fulness but is really of the Fulness One in us all proceeding from the Fulness One through all and over all abiding in the Fulness and so of the Godhead which cannot be divided into Particles nor cut into Shreds or Pieces for to assert that were Blasphemy Which Assertion our Adversaries have unjustly laboured to force upon us being blinded through Envy and altogether ignorant of the Glorious Mystery Christian Man the Hope of Glory But they have all come short and we are clear from any such Assertion and farther hold forth That God is an Infinite Spirit Omnipresent an Immense God Immensurate yet Measureably doth he manifest himself unto us and gives us to partake of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 And so we are in Christ and Christ dwells in us and walks in us according to the Measure of his Gift given us of his Spirit and we daily grow up in Grace from Stature to Stature from one Degree of Holiness to another a Habitation for God and Christ through the Spirit And is not this according to the Scriptures And is not J. D's Holly as well as J. B's Ignorance discovered Let the Reader judge Then spoke John Cheyney and said Every Man is so far enlightened with the Light and Spirit of Christ as that he is left without excuse This was J. C's grant Which Light and Spirit the Quakers are led by and direct People to This grant or rather assertion of J. C. overthrew J. B. and cleared the Quakers of his false Charge as was noted to the People It being according to the Doctrine the Quakers preach That Christ the true Light lighteth every Man that cometh into the Woâ—â—â— John 1.9 What said J. C Every Man is so far enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ as that he is left without excuse In this J. C. said what is true But hath not J. C. by asserting every Man to be enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ done more against J. B. I suppose without his leave for this was before he saith He gave him leave to propound an Argument than by the Argument he propounded he was able to do for him I leave the Reader to judge Only adding for his Information That it is the Light and Spirit wherewith Christ lighteth every Man that cometh into the World which the Quakers direct People to This is evident by their Books and Doctrine J. B. asserted this Light and Spirit to be the Spirit of Antichrist J. C. affirmed it to be the Light and Spirit of Christ saying Every Man is so far enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ as that he is left without Excuse But J. B. in the closure of this Assertion of J. C's excepted against Heathens being so enlightned So these three Priests all Episcopal Priests differed in Principle amongst themselves J. D. denied the Spirit to be given by Measure J. C. asserted every Man was enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ And J. B. denied Heathens who are Men to be so enlightned Again J. D. denied the Light of Christ to be Saving but J. C. and J. B. acknowledged the Light of Christ to be Saving These Contradictions of the Priests were noted down and so kept since the Dispute And upon these Points at the Dispute I told them They were like the Scribes Pharisees and Saducees who differed among themselves yet joyned together against Christ and so they joyned together against us yet differed amongst themselves Therefore said I Go and be Reconciled amongst your selves to which J. D. replied Reflect not I answered What I said is true The Reason which induced me to give this short yet true Relation is To inform the Reader what Arguments J. C. saith we were canvassing about the Light within in which he saith Many Quakers spoke beside R. H. and would make his Reader believe on the other side none spoke but J. B. until J. B. gave him leave to speak when as in the canvassing of this Argument there were J. B. J. D. and J. C. Besides what was spoken by the Standers by on their part as well as that there were some others besides R. H. who spoke on our part To give a Relation of much of what was spoken either by one or other or either sides is not my purpose But since John Cheyney over the Heads of John Barber and John Davis seems to assume a Glory of Conquest to himself concerning that Dispute and would be somebody therefore he never mentions John Davis and only makes mention of Mr. B. as he stiles him that he may shortly tell his Reader what he hath done therefore I thought meet to hint a little of what each of the three aforementioned Priests as well J. C. as the other two said that the Reader may not only hear they spoke but see something of what was spoken by every one of them and I thought in most safe to publish what was
believe and also that this Breath of Life cannot Transgress or be in Transgression though the Motions of it in the Soul may be quenched and it grieved for so it is when Man hearkens unto and takes Counsel at the Serpent who first drew Man from God's Counsel and thus as it is written God is grieved with the Wicked every day His displeasure or grief is because he would have Man to hearken to his Voice and be saved but Man will not as God complained of old They rejected all my Counsel and would none of my Reproof In this latter sense taking the Soul for that Life or Breath by which Man lived or became a living Soul this as G. F. saith p. 68. is infinite which he must needs intend as his own words do import being taken in their own proper and gennine sense It appears in G. F's Controversie with the Priests about the Soul that he takes up the word Soul and speaks of it under three Considerations 1st The Soul of Man in Transgression in Death 2dly The Soul of Man in the Restoration in Life and 3dly He speaks of the word Soul as being that Breath of Life which came forth from God by which Man Lived or Became a Living Soul which Breath and Life is of God's Being and Infinite as I said before Thus it appears that the Spirit of God the Light of Christ within the Breath of Life and the Quakers Religion and G. F. are all clear from J. C's wicked Charge and J. C. is a Lyar whose Work hath been both by Disputation and Writing to prove that the Quakers assert Man's Soul to be God and so charge God to be guilty of Sin because Man's Soul Sins therefore God Sins This Wicked Blasphemous Assertion and Consequence he would have fastened upon the Quakers which we do utterly deny But J. C. hath failed in his purpose and the Quakers are clear of holding Man's Soul to he God and J. C's false Charge That the Quakers Religion is against God's Spirit remains unproved and like to remain unproved What J. C. hath done is this He hath brought one wicked Charge to prove another by and both alike are utterly false And what J. C. intended Vnjustly to have fastened upon the Quakers is it not in a great measure justly fallen upon his own Head For whereas he says The Quakers do plainly hold Man's Soul to be God therefore when Man 's Soul Sins God Sins is it not clearly evident that J. C. plainly holds the Light within the Light of Christ in Man wherewith Christ lighteth every Man that cometh into the World John 1.9 something of God in Man Light and Spirit to be Man's Soul to have a hand in Sin to be guilty as being himself and in Hell to be a felf-tormenting Light I shall give some Quotations out of his Book entituled Quakerism Subverted and query a little thereupon and so leave it to the Impartial Reader to judge Pag. 21. of the said Book J. C. saith Every Man hath a Light within him and so we say that Jesus Christ is the true Light which enlightneth every Man that cometh into the World John 1.9 P. 28. Hath not every Man a Light within him Mark given him to be his Guide his Monitor P. 27 28. In every Man there is something of God and something of Satan Flesh and Spirit Light and Darkness Upon which I query If something of God in opposition to Satan Spirit and Light in opposition to the Flesh and Darkness is it not the Spirit of God who is a Spirit John 4.24 Is it not Light of God who is Light and in whom is no Darkness at all 1 John 1.5 J. C. says it is something of God Spirit and Light is it not then the Light and Spirit of God according to Scripture 1 Cor. 12.7 Pag. 34 35. he says If the Light within never did err nor can err it is the same to say the Soul of Man never did err nor can err P. 35. When we say The Light smiteth or convinceth excuseth or reproveth it 's but the same to say The Soul doth return upon it self Upon which I query Whether that which Convinceth and Reproveth the Soul for Sin be not the Spirit of Truth which reproves the World of Sin According to John 16.8 10. And if the Spirit of Truth which Convinceth and Reproveth the Soul for Sin then whether he doth not plainly hold the Spirit of Truth to be Man's Soul Pag. 34. he saith The Light hath a Hand in all Thought-sins inward Heart-Sins Tongue-sins and Life-sins Pag. 36. Every Sin I commit the Light within is guilty as being myself Pag. 34. The Light within in Hell is turned to a self tormenting Light Is it not clearly evident from these Quotations out of his Book that J. C. hath asserted the Light within the Light of Christ in Man wherewith according to John 1.7 Christ lighteth every Man that cometh into the World something of God in Man Light and Spirit to be Man's Soul To have a Hand in Sin to be himself guilty of Sin and in Hell to be a self-tormenting Light And is not this Blasphemy And is not J. C. a Blasphemer And if J. C's Religion hold forth and maintain this Doctrine Is not J. C's Religion guilty of Blasphemy And if J. C's Religion be guilty of Blasphemy Is not J. C's Religion against God's Spirit And hath not J. C made a Pit and digged it for the Quakers and their Religion and is not J. C. and his Religion fallen into the Ditch which he made Let the Reader judge The next thing in J. C's Relation that here I shall take notice of is in pag. 6. he saith The Quakers do utterly make void the Scriptures this saith he was prov'd at the Dispute Reply Was ever any pretended Gospel-Minister more void of shame than is this J. C. to publish such Lyes to the World What 's more false than to assert we make the Scriptures void And What 's less true than to say he proved it O wicked Man of slander in the one and shameless impudent Liar in the other I do believe I might have the Testimonies of some hundreds of People who were Auditors at the said Dispute that J. C's Relation is false if I needed thereunto But it may be he thinks the Title of a Minister of Christ will give him Credit where his Lyes are broached with People to believe what he says is true especially against R. H. by him stiled a Sect-Master R. H. expects to fare no better from him than the Disciples of Christ did from his Generation the Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites who called them pestilent Fellows Seducers Enemies to the Law and Scriptures all which J. C. is guilty of against the Quakers as the Generation he is of was against the Disciples so it is evident he is in the foot-steps of that Generation J. C. might have remembred the Truth was by his fore-Fathers in whose steps he
Peter alludes 2 Pet. 1.20 21. No Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation Mark for the Prophesie came not in old time by the will of Man but holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost The Apostle here speaks of the Prophesies of the Scripture what was spoken in the Motion of the Holy Ghost Now that all that was spoken and is written in the Bible was spoken in the Motion of the Holy Ghost there being something spoken by wicked Men in the Bible which was my assertion J. C. doth not affirm But J. C. will have it That every word in the whole Bible was given by the Inspiration of God to the Holy Pen-Men who were inspired to write them Reply This alters the state of the Controversie betwixt us which was about speaking forth what afterwards was Recorded in Scripture viz. what the Serpent and wicked Men spoke who called Christ Beelzebub a Samaritan and said He had a Devil c. It was not the Historical Relation that we were about but of its being spoken before Recorded we were arguing I said The Serpent the Devil and wicked Men spoke words which are recorded in Scriptures and none of them spoke those words in the Motion of God's Spirit But though it be a little beside the matter I query How J. C. will prove yet I deny not that the holy Pen Men of Scriptures had God's Spirit and were assisted by it in the recording the words of wicked Men that every Pen-Man that writ of the Scriptures writ not a word but what was opened in him by the Inspiration of God which he neither heard of Man nor received from Man but in the Immediate Revelation of God received it and by Inspiration writ it Or whether some of the Pen-Men saw not with their outward Eyes several things which they writ of and heard not with their outward Ears several words which are written in the Scripture which they heard of Men According to Luke 1.1 2 3 4. Acts 1.1 23.16 to 23.1 Cor. 1.10 11. Gal. 2.11 c. Gen. 42.29 45.9 to 28. Judges 16.17 18. 2 Sam. 1.5 to 17. 18.10 c. Esther 4. J. C. in page 21. saith R. H. in the Dispute did openly affirm That God did no where command us to walk according to the Scriptures and the Laws and Doctrines of the Scriptures but all are to walk in the Spirit and after the Spirit and according to the Spirit wickedly opposing the Spirit and his Holy Laws He was quickly silenced c. Reply In this I may truly say John Cheyney hath far exceeded not only the bounds of Truth but Honesty in forging Lyes and publishing a false Accusation and Slander against me to render me odious in the sight of good Men But sure I am notwithstanding J. C's wicked Lyes false Accusation and Slander which I hope will find no more acceptance with good Men than his Hypocritical Praying Dissembling and Lying hath with God as in his Prayer-Book p. 141. that I never so said neither ever so intended For first it is against my Principle the Spirit of Truth leads into all Truth such who stand in the counsel of it and are freely given up to be led by it This Spirit is in the inward parts and that is some-where and God by it in our inward parts commands us to walk Holily Righteously and Godlily in this World to observe his Precepts and keep his Commandments love God above all things and our Neighbours as our selves and to do to all Men as we would they should do to us this is the Law and the Prophets and to own the Precepts Doctrines Laws and Commandments contained in the Scriptures and fully to believe That God who by his Spirit gave them forth through his Prophets commanded that People should keep them and walk in his fear and be Witnesses of the fulfilling of them and walk and live in that Holy Life the Scriptures declare of and this walking is according to the Scriptures Secondly It is contrary to my Practice But lest J. C. or any other if I should speak what I might speak in the Truth concerning it should judge me to boast concerning my Practice I shall say thus much It is such as in measure becomes the Gospel fearing God eschewing Evil and this is according to Scripture And for my Conversation in the World to them who know me and know it also I shall leave it for them to speak further thereof as they find cause whether it be not in measure according to the Conversation of those who in times past walked not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8.1 I did and I do assert as before That the Spirit of God is the Rule of Saving Faith and that the Apostles did not direct People to the Scriptures to be the Rule of Saving Faith or say Walk in the Scriptures they are the Rule For although the Apostle commended the Noble Bereans for searching the Scriptures c. so did he for receiving the Word with diligence but he did not direct the Bereans to the Scriptures to be the Rule of Saving Faith But the Apostle and Apostles directed People to the sure Word of Prophesie which was nigh in the Heart 2 Pet. 1.19 Rom. 10.8 And turned them from Darkness to Light from Satan's Power to the Power of God Acts 26.18 To the Vnction of the Holy One the Anointing within which teacheth all things 1 John 2.27 To the Spirit thereby to mortifie the Deeds of the Body that they might live Rom. 8.13 To walk in the Spirit Gal. 4.16 Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the Lusts of the Flesh I say because I thus asserted and also proved the Spirit to be the Rule of Saving Faith and not the Scriptures and the Apostles directed to the Spirit for the Rule and not to the Scriptures to be the Rule and that they did not say Walk in the Scriptures they are the Rule but Walk in the Spirit I say because I did prefer the Spirit to be the Rule of Faith before the Scriptures yet owned the Scriptures in their place Therefore J. C. hath impiously charged me that I said God did no where command us to walk according to the Scriptures yet in Contradiction to himself he grants I affirmed All things are to walk in the Spirit after the Spirit and according to the Spirit all this is very good and if I said it I own it But here is his Contradiction in allowing I said All mast walk in the Spirit and after the Spirit and according to the Spirit which are Scriptural Expressions he grants I affirmed All must walk according to the Laws and Dctrines in the Scriptures for the Spirit which he grants I affirmed all must walk in after and according to viz. the Spirit of Truth commands and leads to keep those Doctrines and observe those Laws and Precepts in Scripture which concern a Holy Life
hath commanded and perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect which was the Command of Christ Lev. 19.2 20.7 Mat. 5.48.1 Pet. 1.16 Would not J. C. have the best of People whilst in this World to Pray Hypocritically Dissemble with God and utter Untruths to him that searcheth the Heart This he confesseth to be his own state and further adds in the same page But either it must be so in part or there will be no praying in this Word And must there either be Hypocritical Praying Dissembling with God and uttering Untruths unto the Searcher of Hearts or no Praying in this World God forbid The Spirit of God prepareth the Morning and Evening Sacrifice which as sweet Incense is accepted of God who heareth his own Spirit The Spirit of God inditeth good Matter not Hypocrisie it teacheth all the Sons of God who are led by it to Pray with it and with Understanding also according to Scripture 1 Cor. 14 15. Therefore J. C's Unbelief as well as Hypocrisie is hereby made manifest who saith Either it must be so in part or there will be no Praying in this World I do believe it is so with J. C. viz. He Prays Hypocritically c. and that it will be so with him and his Generation so long as they resist the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit of God and that the best of their Performances is Sin according to his confession That Distraction and vile Hypocrisie are and will be in their Prayers even in those they call their Solemn Prayers to God This we saw to be in that Generation which caused us to separate from them that the Lord might receive us But although it be so with J. C. and his Generation yet it is otherwise with the Children of Light the Sons and Daughters of God who walk in the Light of the Lamb having Fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ who walking in the Light as he is in the Light have Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth them from all Sin Rev. 21.24 1 John 1.3,7 But J. C. who despiseth the Light of Life cannot believe though a Man declare it unto him See Acts 13.41 J. C. in page 19. of Warning to Souls c. boasts of the Testimony of his Conscience That by the Grace of God he hath had his Conversation in the World and that he would not be in the Condition that a Quaker is in any of them all for Ten Thousand Worlds Reply A Pharisaical Boaster indeed J. C. is to the Grace Light and Spirit of God and Christ he is a professed Enemy and that he hath had his Conversation in the World according to it his Practice in wrongfully taking the Quakers Money proves the contrary which as some can testifie when he had got it he said to some of hs Acquaintance Let us Drink it or Spend it for it will never do good It would have done good if J. C. had either not taken it from them or restored it to them again The Grace of God neither led him to take it nor spend it The Light or Grace of God J. C. hath called Diana Dagon a Dumb Idol compared to a Drunken Coach-Man accused it to be guilty of all Heart-sins Tongue-sins Thought-sins and Life-sins charged it with the guilt of All Sins whether in Angels or in Men and in Hell to be its own Tormentor Indeed he hath exceeded all Men that ever I read or heard of in Blasphemy against the Grace Light Life or Spirit of God and Christ And for his saying He would not be in the Condition a Quaker is in any of them all for Ten Thousand Worlds I answer The Time is coming and hasteneth that he would be glad to be in the Condition of the least of them who really are in Unity with the Light viz. the Spirit of Christ which Ten Thousand Worlds cannot purchase for him Now Reader I have gone through his Relation of the Dispute and by way of Examination have given thee an Account That at the Dispute at Arley-Hall in Cheshire I cleared by the Help of God to whose Power I leaned and to whom alone my Soul ascribes the Praise the Quakers and their Religion from J. C's wicked Charges against both and also proved J. C. to be a Lyar a Deceiver and a Hypocrite after which time his spirit was much under for the Power of God was over him and he sought for an opportunity to be gone And it was observed by some that he might think time tedious whilst he stayed and that he might take more thought to get off the Stage than to prove the remaining part of the Charges which were five in number And though he had boastingly said One for one day and another one for another day and I will be for thee also when thou art as liberty yet it plainly appeared that one piece of a day gave him enough for having got the opportunity looked for he forsook the Stage and left me speaking thereupon and since that time would never look me in the Face to make further Proof of his Charges His Preparation to be gone was noted by many of the Auditory before he went and when he turn'd his back on me a Friend said to him Stay and prove thy Charge and one of his Brethren a Priest who had stood with him lifted up his Stick against the Friend and threatned to knock him down if he would not hold his Peace c. By this the Reader may observe in what a spirit they went away I kept speaking after the Priests were gone to the Auditory remaining and some other of my Brethren after me for some time and the Power of God was over all and the Testimony of Truth got room in many Hearts and the Event hath proved That that Day 's service tended to the Honour of Truth which prevailed and was advantagious to many simple-hearted People in those parts who since have turned their Backs on the Priests and enclined their Ears to a better Teacher even the Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth which causeth the Priests to rage and some People to cry out as common Fame is They will all turn Quakers Reader I shall observe to thee some of J. C's Lyes and Slanders against the People of God called Quakers out of his Book in which he hath given his Relation of the Dispute which Lyes and Slanders are so gross and wicked that I think no wise Man will believe them Yet for the sake of the Simple-hearted lest any should stumble thereat I shall not only note them down but like wise speak something concerning them John Cheyney page 21. chargeth the Quakers That they teach plain Treason and Rebellion A gross Lye and wicked Slander In the same page That they make void the Fifth Commandment In the same page That they Abolish the Scriptures In page 22. That they do utterly Subvert the Rule of Duty by which
Lord of Lords the Almighty God blessed over all for ever and for evermore So then the Quakers ever were and are clear from teaching Rebellion or Treason against the King or his Government And is it not plain their Principle and Practice is to do good unto all Men whether Rulers or Ruled as much as in them lieth And is it not plain that J. C. who thus wickedly slanders and belyes the Quakers is a Man of that spirit who would drink up the Quakers Blood and remove them out of the King's Government if it were but in his Power But Limits are set for the proud Waves and the high Thoughts of the Hypocrites shall perish and they that walk in the Light shall be saved and all their Goings established The Light and Spirit of Christ wherein the Quakers walk by which they are taught and led leads and teaches them to fulfil the fifth Commandment by giving Honour to Parents in the Lord and obeying them in all things that is well-pleasing to the Lord in which they feel the Promise of God Eternal Life and so they make not void the fifth Commandment as J. C. wickedly saith Neither doth the Light and Spirit of Christ wherein the Quakers walk by which they are taught and led teach them to abolish the Scriptures nor subvert the Rule of Duty between Masters and Servants between Husbands and Wives between Parents and Children between Ministers and People as J. C. hath slandered the Quakers But the Light leads and teaches the Quakers to live the Life the Scriptures declare of to the fulfilling of them and to inform Masters and Servants Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Ministers and People of the Rule of their Duty to God and one another by turning their Minds from Darkness to Light that God placing his Fear in their Hearts and ordering them all by his Light and Spirit in their inward Parts they might all know the Rule of their Duty and walk in it one towards another and so exalt it by walking in it and living the Life of it before one another and to exhort them that are turned to the Light to walk in it and do their Duty to God and one another fully that the Life of Love and Purity may shine through them all over all to the Glory of God And therein to wit the Light and Spirit of Christ Masters walking will forbear threatning their Servants and do unto them that which is just and equal knowing their Master is Christ with whom there is no Injustice nor Oppression Servants therein walking will be obedient to their Masters in all things not with Eye-service as Men-pleasers but as the Servants of Christ doing the Will of God in singleness of Heart knowing that of the Lord they shall receive the Reward of the Inheritance Peace with God Husbands therein walking will love their Wives as their own Body for he that loveth his Wife loveth himself Wives therein walking will submit themselves unto their Husbands and to them be subject as it is comely in the Lord And both Husbands and Wives will then live together in Love as they are Heixs together of the Grace of Life 1 Pet. 3.7 Parents therein walking will not provoke their Children to Wrath but bring them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord. Children therein walking will obey their Parents in all things that is well-pleasing to the Lord. Ministers therein walking every one as they have received the Gift from God will minister and speak as the Oracle of God that God in all things may be glorified and be blameless and pure holy Ministers of Christ without Rebuke shining as Lights in the World People therein walking will be at Peace among themselves and patient towards all Men and have the Ministers of Christ in Esteem and Love for their Work 's sake who admonish and labour in the Power of God amongst them and declare the Word of Truth to them over whom they have a Care and Oversight in the Lord being of that Faith which gives Victory over the World the end of whose Conversation is Eternal Life So then in the Light and Spirit of Christ all that believe and walk perform their Duty to God to one another and to all People and honour and exalt the Everlasting Rule in living a Life unspotted of the World and so of God are abundantly blessed Neither doth the Light and Spirit of Christ wherein the Quakers walk and by which they are taught and led lead and teach them to pluck down Prayer Root and Branch or pray none at all or to pray Curses and Blasphemies as J. C. wickedly slanders them But it viz. the Light leads and teaches the Quakers to pray to God aright to pray in the Holy Ghost for of themselves they know not how to pray as they ought to pray but the Spirit it self maketh request for them according to the Will of God and they do pray to God in Spirit and with an Understanding and God who is Light who is a Spirit hears them and answers their Prayers and is a Father unto them and daily gives them that thing which is convenient and feeds them with the Bread of Life which is their Meat indeed whereby they are strengthned to perform in all things the Will of God and renews their Love and Obedience to God the earnest of whose Spirit is in their Hearts assuring them of an Inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ for the full enjoyment and possession of which they daily pray to God in his Spirit to preserve them and keep them worthy to the end that they may fully inherit that Crown of Glory which God in his appointed time will put upon all them that sincerely and fully love him And so Prayer by the Quakers Doctrine and also by their Practice is to God to be put up and offered in the Spirit of God by all that truly fear God and the Rule of that Prayer which God hears and answers is God's Spirit and in the Spirit of God the Rule all that pray to God bless God and speak well of his Name and exalt God the Light the true Light Lord of all over all and finds with God Acceptance and are of God blessed with Eternal Life Neither doth the Light and Spirit of Christ wherein the Quakers walk and by which they are led and taught lead and teach the Quakers to say Every Man may make as good if not a better Bible than this we have or affirm The Light in every Man to be a part of God as a Drop of Water fetcht from the Ocean is part of it as J. C. falsly accuseth them but the Light leads and teaches Quakers to say The Light in every Man wherewith Christ hath enlightned all Men is the Life of the Word the Spirit of God and Christ proceeding from God of God's Essence not divided from God as a Drop of Water may be from the Ocean For the Essence and God-head cannot be
divided but remains indivisible over all through all and in you all as saith the Apostle And that every Man is enlightned with the Light of Christ and that the Light of Christ in every Man is perfect not liable to mutation or alteration And although every Man be lighted with the Light of Christ which is perfect yet every Man loves not the Light neither believes in the Light and because every Man hath not Faith in the Light every Man cannot please God for without Faith it is impossible to please God and every unbelieving Man who loveth his evil Deeds hateth the Light because it manifesteth his evil Deeds and he that hateth the Light can neither speak nor write by the Inspiration of God and he that speaketh or writeth and not by the Inspiration of God can neither speak forth nor write better or so well as the Prophets and Apostles of God and Christ who gave forth the Scripture of Truth as they were moved by the Holy Ghost So then every Man cannot make so good much less a better Bible than that which we already have This the Quakers affirm and so J. C's Slanders and Lyes are turned upon his own Head and he noted for a gross Lyar. The Light and Spirit of God and Christ wherein the Quakers walk and by which they are taught and led leads and teaches them to practise that Doctrine maintained by them and to do unto all Men as they would all Men should do unto them and to love God and Christ who is Light with a sincere Heart fully and to love their Neighbours as themselves and one by one and every one of them called Quakers who stedfastly walk in the Light and Spirit of God and Christ do practise that Doctrine maintained by them and shew it forth in Life and Conversation as well as Word and yet are clear and in the Light ever shall be clear of J. C's wicked Slander viz. That if the Quakers should practice their own Doctrine they would pass all that ever have been before them in Wickedness And in the Light which hath manifested and yet will further manifest J. C. and all such lurking Hypocrites the Quakers shall shine forth in Doctrine and Practice to the Praise and Glory of God who is in them and over Heaven and Earth blessed for ever Again J. C. in pag. 14. saith Supernatural Verities and Mysteries are punctually set down in the Scripture and no where else and that there is nothing within us or without us that doth or can make known to us such Supernatural Verities without the Scriptures and what is derived from them Reply To say That supernatural Verities and Mysteries are punctually set down in Scripture and no where else is contrary to the Scriptures for God hath put his Law in his Peoples Inward Parts and writ it in their Hearts according to his Promise Jer 31.33 Supernatural Verities are written upon the Table of Man's Heart 2 Cor. 3.3 And the Mystery of Faith is held in a pure Conscience 1 Tim. 3.9 And whatsoever is to be known of God is manifest in Man Rom. 1.19 So was before the Scriptures were written and after part of the Scriptures were written yet unknown Rom. 2.14 15. For when the Gentiles which have not the Law do by Nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves which shews the Work of the Law written in their Hearts Now the Gentiles who had not the Law doing the things contashed in the Law doth hold forth and prove that they knew something of God manifest in them and plainly shew forth the Works of the Law written in their Hearts And so then it is clear that supernatural Verities are punctually set down else-where than in the Scriptures and that the Mystery of Faith is held in a pure Conscience But J. C. affirms without any limitation That supernatural Verities and Mysteries are punctually set down in the Scriptures and no where else and this is false Doctrine And yet J. C. hath in another place contradicted it and given himself the Lye for in pag. 8. of his Skirmish he speaks of Precepts contained in Nature and else where in his Books of the Law of God being writ in Mens Hearts which is somewhere else besides the Scriptures But Contradictions Lyes and false Doctrine are so frequent in his Books and the strength and substance of them answered and laid open in several Books lately printed in answer to seven of his confused self-contradictory and Blasphemous Pamphlets this cuts my Work the shorter to the said Answers I refer the Reader for further satisfaction to one entituled The Life of God which is the Light and Salvation of Men Exalted another Skirmisher defeared and shall yet further reply to the remaining part of this Position which is as followeth J. C. saith There is nothing within or without us that doth or can make known to us such Supernatural Verities without the Scriptures and what is derived from them Reply That the Scriptures much less any thing derived from them are God who is Omnipresent and Omnipotent which the Scriptures are not I deny For God is a Spirit an Infinite Substance an independent Being whose Being is of himself who was God Omnipresent before the Scriptures were written and is God Omnipotent who without the Scriptures can do of himself whatsoever he pleases and who shall say unto him What dost thou Now God being a Spirit Omnipresent present every where Omnipotent he can make known supernatural Verities without the Scriptures and what is derived from them But J. C. hath affirmed the contrary in his Position Whereupon I thus argue He that affirms That there is nothing within or without us that doth or can make known to us such Supernatural Verities without the Scriptures and what is derived from them denies God who is Omnipresent to be Omnipotent and is a Blasphemer But J. C. hath affirmed That there is nothing within or without us that doth or can make known to us such Supernatural Verities without the Scriptures and what is derived from them Therefore J. C. denies God who is Omnipresent to be Omnipotent and is a Blasphemer J. C. saith p. 24. Because I have some Portion of the Genuine and Catholick Spirit of Holiness I am mortally Hated by them and yet I am as ill or more if more can be Hated of many of mine own way who agree with me in Opinion Reply Hypocrites formerly had high Conceits of themselves Luke 18. verse 9. to 13. of whose Generation this J. C. both by Disputation and Writing hath been and is manifested to be one and his Fruits plainly shew of what spirit he is For in his Prayer-Book in pag. 139 141 143 145. he saith I Tremble to have my Luke-warm Prayers abhorred by God c. Alas My Hands are feeble in Prayer often do I compel my self unto it I am Distracted in it I am soon weary I come poorly off I
as it was said Neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision availeth but a New Creature Now where this New Creature is known the Old Man with his Deeds is put off the Old Man and Old Creature put off and changed the New Man is put on and the New Creature which bears the Image of the Heavenly comes up Now where any have a foolish pity to the First Birth being bent to save its Life there is in them an averseness to the cutting off of the fore-skin of the Heart for the sake of your Blood these are like him that pitied Agag whose Life God had required they spare that which God would have cut off Therefore let no ones Eye pity not Hand spare but let the fore skin of all Hearts be cut off that all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit may be done away and that not only in the Fathers Elders young Men Brethren but in them of younger Years and less growth And concerning this let the Elders Fathers and Brethren be careful that all the fore-skins of the Hearts of Abraham's House-hold of his Children who are of the House-hold of Faith be cut off that they may all know the Circumcision And in Heart and Ear being circumcised may all keep the Law of God in keeping of which Law there is a great Reward And the more set them be careful that all be Circumcised and that the Circumcision be kept lest it becoming Uncircumcision in any and being winked at it becomes like a spreading Leprosie upon them that have been Circumcised drawing a fore-skin over their Hearts again as a covering to their Filthiness whereby their Circumcision is made Uncircumcision and their latter end worse than the beginning For it had been better saith the Apostle they had never known the way of Truth than after they had known to turn from it And Dear Friends provoke you one another and be provoked one by another to Love and to good Works Be all stedfast in the Faith speak all by one Spirit and you will speak one thing be Encouragers in what is Good a Praise to them that do Well but a Terror to Evil Doers If there be Tatlers Busy-bodies amongst you Mark such and reprove them Let none strengthen Evil Doers but appear in Judgment against their Evil Deeds for that is the way to do them Good If any hath done Evil let such Repent and do so no more but come and do their first Work lest God smite them with a Curse If any Friend be overtaken with Weakness restore such an one in the Spirit of Meekness and Love and let such a one be easie to be entreated for why should any Man despise his own Mercies It 's a Mercy from God to Offenders that Men fearing God come to them in the Love of God to tell them their Sin This Mercy David though a King rejected not when Nathan said Thou hast slain Uriah the Hittite and taken his Wife but acknowledged saying I have Sinned Nathan replied God hath taken away thy Sin thou shalt not Dye But Alas how few are of David's Mind when for their Offences they are spoken to Let all Dear Friends be Watchful and let your Light shine put not your Candle under either Bed or Bushel let not your Sleep be over it nor your Merchandizing be above it but let your Candle stand in the Candlestick and Shine giving Light over all You are Light in that part of the World so Shine that Men seeing your good Works may be occasioned to bless God on your behalf You are a City upon that Continent you cannot be hid you are the Salt of that Earth therefore season you that part of the Creation They have Eyes upon you looking for good from you their Ears are sometimes attentive to you to reap of the Good proceeding from you Good is with you for God is with you and for the Good proceeding from you they shall glorifie God Preach you Righteousness to them in a holy Life and be before them Patterns of Piety in a Godly Conversation Christ your Life your Light shining in you and through you being both your Righteousness and exceeding great Reward so do that you may convince them of their Righteousness which is a Righteousness of their own which they are going about to establish which is but as filthy Rags and as a menstruous Cloth in Comparison of Christ's Righteousness which they have rejected that so they may see and be ashamed Repent and find Mercy with the Lord that they may be healed Finally my Brethren and all Dear Friends live in Love that God who is Love may dwell in you that Grace Peace and all spiritual Blessings in heavenly things may be multiplied upon you from God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen As opportunity offers give the Salutation of my Dear Love to all Dear Friends in Frizeland at Frederickstadt Hambrough and other places upon your Continent where I have travelled and the God of my Life who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve the Gathered every where in Faithfulness and of his Infinite Love build them all up in the most holy Faith which gives Victory over the World that they may be a People to his Praise And I pray God encrease his chosen amongst you and add to your small number every where even daily such as shall be saved My love flows to the Seed in those parts my life tenderly greets God's Off-spring the Blessing of Jacob of Jesus of God the Father of Christ be upon you all and upon God's Heritage every where Amen I am your Brother Roger Haydock Warrington the 25th of the 11th Month 1686. Concerning Roger Haydock's two Imprisonments in Lancaster Goal ROgen Haydock of Coppal three Miles from Wigan in the County of Lancaster Yeoman was sued in the Bishop's Court at Chester by Ralph Briddock Priest of Standish and Bishop of Chichester He was cited as they say in the Steeple-House at Standish to appear at Chester because he appeared not having not certain knowledge of it he was judged a Contemner of the Law was apprehended the 3d day of the 3d Month 1674. committed to the Goal at Lancaster remained Prisoner until the 12th of the 11th Month following then released through an Appeal to York grounded upon the unlawfulness of their Proceedings but for want of appearing in the said Court personally when he had appealed thither was again committed to the common Goal at Lancaster and was apprehended the 2d of the 8th Month 1675. by James Worthington Constable of Coppal where he remains a Prisoner still The name of the Judge for the Bishop's Court was John Wainwright The pretended Cause was for 10 Thrave of Oates not of his own but of his Brother's John Haydock worth about 30 s. by them valued to 3 l. and something for smoak-Penny and Tithe of Hen and Geese which they pretend to be due for his Brother's Estate The said Roger Haydock is an unmarried Man and as a
Dispute in handling this Point and as he words it lost the Day Yet he is not ashamed in his Relation to tell his Reader I had nothing to say against any of his Arguments there He is the same J. C. a Lyar and one that makes Lyes his Refuge and under Falshood would hide himself but the Hail will sweep away the Refuge of Lyes and the Waters will cover the Hiding Place Isa 28.15 17. J. C. saith in page 17. As to my words in my Prayer Book thence he would conclude me a Hypocrite out of my own Mouth Reply It is true I did conclude and also prove J. C. at the Dispute a Hypocrite out of his own Mouth I shall lay down his words as spoken by him and published to the World in his Book of Prayer pag. 141. I am compelled to Pray Hypocritically and Dissemble with God and utter Vntruths to him that searcheth the Hearts and delighteth not but in upright Lips These are J. C's words word by word Upon which I thus argue He that saith he prays Hypocritically Dissembles with God and utters Untruths to the Searcher of Hearts confesses himself a Hypocrite a Deceiver and a Lyar. But J. C. saith He Prays Hypocritically Dissembles with God and utters Untruths to the Searcher of Hearts therefore John Cheyney confesses himself a Hypocrite a Deceiver and a Lyar and was so proved out of his own Mouth My Charge against him That he was a Lyar and a Deceiver was by me at the Dispute proved to the full and stands over his Head to this day And it seems J. C. at the last hath cried Peccavi It is much for so hot a Skirmisher to retract any thing he hath spoken and especially to publish his Recantation to the World he tells his Reader If those words were out of his Book they should not so be in judging it an Incommodious Expression which he should have avoided and wisheth It had not been said Yet he queries What if these Words and the Book had not been writ Reply Taking it for granted that by these words and his Book he is proved a Hypocrite a Deceiver and a Lyar yet I say before this Book was written he was a Hypocrite a Deceiver and a Lyar and so I could have proved him if this Book had never been written But J. C. sure concludes because I took this way I had no other but that is false Yet taking this way for proof of my Charge I may truly say I needed no other sufficient Proof being made What fuller and clearer Proof that a Man is an Hypocrite to the satisfaction of an Auditory can be made than his own Confession Though we may not believe a Man to be every thing that he says he is or every thing that he says of himself to be true yet sure when a Man saith He is what he is and says of himself what is true we have just ground to believe him J. C. saith He Prayeth Hypocritically Dissembles with God and utters Vntruths to the Searcher of Hearts And in page 45. of the same Book There is much detestable Hypocrisie committed by us in our solemn Prayers to God both in secret in private and in publick He saith in page 130. I am distracted in Prayer I am soon weary I come poorly off my Foes are too hard for me Why go I mourning all the day long when the Comforter which should relieve my Soul is gone from me Also in page 145. I Tremble to have my Luke-warm Prayers abhorred by God and spued out of his Mouth and cast in my Face as Dung. And several more such like Confessions to his Hypocrisie which in his Book of Prayer may be seen which for brevity sake I pass by Now I do believe that what J. C. hath confessed and said of himself is true That he Prays Hypocritically Dissembles with God and Lyeth to the Almighty that there is detestable Hypocrisie the Character of an Hypocrite committed by him in his Prayers to God that he is Distracted in Prayer that the Comforter which would relieve his Soul is gone from him and that he may tremble to have his Luke-warm Prayers abhorred by God and cast in his Face like Dung And why any impartial Man should believe to the contrary I see no Reason It is a Maxim in Law grounded upon Reason That a Man's Evidence may be believed against himself though not for himself Neither doth J. C. himself retract any thing he hath said of his detestable Hypocrisie Distraction and Lukewarmness in Prayer which are signs and tokens of an Hypocrite nor of the Comforter being gone from his Soul which is a deplorable State yet this seems not so much to be his Trouble as that he hath not so worded the matter but that every one who believes what he hath said of himself to be true must conclude him a Hypocrite a Deceiver and a Lyar out of his own Mouth And though he be all this and hath both confessed and published it to the World yet he would not be so accounted Further J. C. after his Recantation saith If R. H. and his Friends would but read that Book with the same Spirit that it was writ this had not needed Reply R. H. doth not believe that Book was writ by the Inspiration of God for then there had been no need of a Recantation But J. C. wisheth That some Words had been left out and some Expressions in his Book had not been said Doth he not therefore Repent they were written And R. H. desires not to read either that Book or any other with that confused lying spirit which acted him that writ that Book but with the Spirit of God which tries and judges all false spirits The Lyes Contradictions Slanders Confusions and Blasphemy that is broached in that Book is proof sufficient that it was not written by the Inspiration of God but that a lying blaspheming spirit hath entered and acted him that writ it and the Spirit of God in and through R. H. and his Friends judges the Book and that spirit by which it was writ But would not J. C. if he could perswade R. H. and his Friends to believe That Book was written by Inspiration and that he was Inspired by God to write it if this be the thing he aims at he hath evidently manifested his Folly who hath denied the infinite Spirit of God to be in Man and yet would he have us to read his Book with the same Spirit by which it was writ Doth he not mean the Spirit of God If not then would he not have R. H. and his Friends read his Book with another Spirit than the Spirit of God And so might they be blind and deluded like himself and call Good Evil and Evil Good put Light for Darkness and Darkness for Light But if at this he aimed he is like to come off with Shame For R. H. and his Friends can joyn to no other Spirit but the Spirit of God which