with that Body that God raised him from the dead again Thou Heathen because W. J. said the Will of Christ was made known by the Scriptures Thou Lyer Bundle of Lyes thou Esau selling thy Birthright a Mute for the Night-birds Cormorants Bitterns Owls Ravens Dragons wild Beasts Satyrs Vultures Screich-Owls and that because W. G. said that the Saints have not the glorious Kingdom in possession but by promise This for Tho. Lawson the Quaker in his Book against W. Jefrey c. I shall again mention Famous Edward Boroughs in his Answer to Mr. Bennet's 20. Sober Questions as appears in Boroughs Works in Folio from p. 29. to 34. a Breviate thereof take as followeth Thou Reprobate and Child of Darkness the Light condemns thee and thy Generation eternally We Witness thee to be in the Sorcery and Witchcraft Thou art darkness it self thou Dragon thy Queries are conjured in the Black-Art out of the bottomless Pit thou Diviner we Witness thee to be the Beast that Wars with the Lamb thou Antichrist that lookest at Christ's death at Jerusalem alone thou art seen with the Light and with it condemned thou blind Pharisee and Blasphemer thou Jesuit art thou pleading for a Christ afar off thee thou art under the Woe and from that Woe thou shalt never fly Let all People see whether thou be not a blind ignorant Sot Here thou replyest thy sottish Questions concerning the Body of Jesus as the Devil did about the Body of Moses Thou disobedient one upon whom God will render Vengeance in flaming fire thou art Accursed thou Beast to whom the Plagues of God are due upon whom the Wrath of God must be accomplished thou art shut out from God for ever thou blind Hypocrite thou dark sottish Beast thou polluted Beast And much more to this purpose you will find in the Book and Pages of Edward Boroughs the Quaker aforesaid Now is it not hard to believe the Testimony the Quakers give of this Man namely that he was a Faithful Servant and Prophet of the Lord And yet he thus Sentences a Man to Woe and Condemnation for ever and that for asking some sober and serious Questions Take also a Breviate of Mr. Penn's sweet Language to Mr. Faldo in Answer to his Book Quakerism no Christianity See Mr. Faldo's Reply to Mr. Penn's Answer p. 93. Saith Mr. Faldo I shall rake but into one of your Books for the following good Language and leave large gleanings of all these lovely Titles and Eipithets you afford me and my Work ' Behold you Priest failable errable Priest scoffing independent Priest ungodly Priest busie Priest cavilling Priest over-doing Priest Antichristian Priest Mountebank Priest this taunting Priest stingy Priest mercenary John Faldo a Quack a Religious Bone-setter the Priests break-neck the Priest and his Poppit-play Doctrine vaunting strutting John Faldo insolent Vilifier ignorance or malice it self our malignant Adversary John Faldo ignorance malice and revenge black as Hell it self in malice impious scoffs impudence strange impudence the impudence of his wickedness sordid pedantry he vomits his Scriptures he brings no more to purpose than Toby and his Dog a Doctrine of Devils a lye a lye to be sure a very lye devilish falsities a downright lye an errant lye a wicked lye the last great lye of his second part of lyes a wicked lye minted out of Hell Mr. Penn ' s Answer to Mr. Faldo p. 43. 65. 79. 64. 109. 117. 140. 208 210. 74. 107. 116. 40. 46. 110. 157. 204. 213. 214. 203. 215. And much more that follows being more general Railings and Reflections 4. Take a Breviate also out of this small bundle of Railery written by G. Whitehead against Edward Paye Henry Loader and William Alcot thus sweetly worded The Envy and Bitterness they are maliciously envious against our present Liberty as Men of a turbulent persecuting Spirit they have grosly belyed us in their bitter lying invectives their envy and bitterness is carnal blind and dark these envious turbulent Teachers in their rage and railery Lord deliver every well-meaning person from you and your Envy such malicious Preachers as these Anabaptists who as persons possessed with a lying unclean Spirit are now still foaming out their own shame and malice their work of malice and falshood in their puff'd-up envious Flesh they have grosly belyed us and do charge us with this horrid lye your shameful lyes you have grosly belyed us you have diabolically and foully foamed out your own shame and envy as will appear that the foaming unclean Spirit and lying Devil is not cast out of you the unclean lying Spirit that possesses you such gross forgeries horrid and abusive forgeries a gross lye O blind Guides self-contradicting and self-condemning Hypocrites you are blind Guides they are gross notorious old lyes Woe unto you lying Hypocrites Antichrist in Flesh c p. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. 11. 15. 16. 17. 18. 20. 21. c. And more such stuff as this Now doth not this make it manifest that the Quakers are no Changlings But is it not strange that these people that call themselves God's Lambs should act so like raging Bears and when endeavours have been used to still their ragings many times their Answer hath been as Tho. Lawson to Will. Jefery Dost not thou know the Saints shall Judge the World they being the Saints and all they condemn the World Take a Breviate of some of the Quakers Profession of Faith The Quakers Profession of Faith Q. What 's your Belief concerning the Blessed Trinity as our Term is Answer Our Belief is that in the Unity of the God-head there is Father Son and Holy Ghost being those 3 Divine Witnesses that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit and that these three are one according to Holy Scrip. Testimon The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith 1. Respecting the place where these Divine Witnesses are or what Heaven they intend 2. How it appears that they own the Humanity of Christ 3. How it can be that they own Justification by Christ briefly examined Smiths Primer p. 9. They that are false Ministers Preach Christ without and bid people Believe in him as he is in Heaven above Swor'd of the Lord p. 24 your carnal Christ is utterly denied by the Light your imagined God beyond the Stars J. Pernel's Satans design discovered p. 19 25. saith That by Preaching Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his work done on Earth as Tho. Lucock being asked by W. J. where that Heaven was into which Christ Ascended He answered claping his hand on his Breast saying within me within me so that the Heaven the Quakers intend is within them in their corruptible bodies The Quakers Profession of Faith Q. Do you believe the Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God or that Jesus Christ is truly God and Man Answer Yes we verily believe that Jesus is truly God and Man according as the Holy Scriptures testifies of him God over
Railings and Slanders detected Or the Folly and Heresies of the QUAKERS Further Exposed Being an Answer to an Invective Libel Written by G. Whitehead impertinently called Antichrist in Flesh unmasked c. Which some of the QUAKERS call An Answer to a Book truly Stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked OR Quakerism a great Delusion In this Brief Discourse you have the Slanderous Out-cries of G. Whitehead against Edward Paye Henry Loader and William Alcot Examined Detected and Confuted He Seedeth of Ashâ—s 〈◊〉 deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his Soul nor say Is there not a Lye in my right hand Esai 44. 20. Whâ—â—st that Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemies they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poyson of their foul Opinions Irenaeus in his Third Book against Heresies London Printed in the Year 1692. Railings and Slanders Detected or the Folly and Heresies of the Quakers further Exposed c. IT is well known to all that are but a little acquainted with the Faculties and Writings of the Quakers that their usual methods are to cry out against all that oppose or detect their corrupt notions as such that abuse and defame an Innocent and Religious People But amongst the many causeless out-cries they have proclaimed in the World I have not seen one for its magnitude that hath out-done a small parcel of slanderous confused Railleries that lately was Midwiv'd into the World and Fathered by George Whitehead which if there be a Wise Man amongst them it appears strange that it had not been stifled in the Birth rather than such an ill shapen Cub should have gone forth into the World to declare it self Legitimate and publish it self the true Off-spring of a Quaker But we must take it as it is and in the Title Page G. W. saith our Book is a desaming confused Book Answer I suppose a great part of it must needs be confused being taken out of your own confused Writings the reconciling of which to themselves is as easie as bringing together the South and North Poles 2. He calls it a defaming Book Answer It defames no Mans Person nor indeed your Principles any further than your Tongues and Pens did it first of all for it Treats of your professed notions which if false are deservedly exposed nothing being a more destructive evil in our day than for falshood to be carried on in the World with Fame and Applause But to come to your Book it self Could you suppose that any thing was contained in it to the purpose I cannot imagine what you could think of it If you had said any thing towards reconciling your former Writings with your late professed Faith you had done something to the purpose do you think that any whose Eyes are in their Heads will not easily see that your defects in Truth aud Reason are supplied with Slanders and Railings You tell us p. 5 6 7 8. We have shewed our envy and bitterness yea we appear Envious against your present Liberty as Men of Envious Turbulent Persecuting Spirits c. Why what 's the matter why our Book defames the Quakers as a People of a Religious Society c. who have solemly and sincerely declared to the Government That they own and believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and desire to live in the Faith Knowledge and Practice of them and that they believe in the Three Divine Witnesses bearing Record in Heaven the Father Word and Holy Spirit and the Divinity and Humanity of Christ and Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits and not by their own This and much more in their professed Faith whereunto I referr the Reader Now we have gone and published to the World wherein the Writings of their chief Guides do directly oppose and contradict this Confession of Faith from which G. Whitehead concludes That by this we would make void one Condition of their present Liberty p. 6. As People not fit to be tolerated now have their Liberty of Conscience p. 7. And saith G. W. No doubt had these angry Anabaptists power we should not enjoy our Liberties the very Nature and Tendency of these their bitter lying Invectives being to bring Persecution upon us as a People not to be given any credit unto in our Solemn Profession before Authority To all which I Answer First We did not know till our Book was Published that you had professed this as your Faith before the Parliament And secondly we must the more admire your Presumptuous confidence herein that you should so affront the Government except you had at the same time renounced your former Writings that so evidently contradict it And whereas you falsly charge us with persecuting Spirits and Envy it is well known that our principles are and ever were that none ought to be persecuted for their Religious Principles or Notions no not the Papists themselves so long as they live peaceably in subjection to Authority and the Civil Government yet had they come and set up a Mass-House at Deptford and that they might the more effectually prevail upon the Ignorant and easilier proselyte them to their Idolatry and Superstitions should have published a Profession of Faith directly contrary to their known Principles and the Writings of their Chief Guides We should in like manner have looked upon our selves obliged both in Honour to God and Love to our Neighbours to have detected their Deceits And we freely allow any to examine our published Faith and if they can find such plain contradictions as aforesaid we will be content to bear the discredit and not retaliate them with Railings and Slanders nor account them envious Persecutors for it And now I would appeal to the Light in G. Whitehead whether he believes that we envy their Liberty and would Persecute them had we Power if he so believes he is miserably deluded in that matter and if he doth not so believe how willfully doth he sin against the Light in casting these Slanderous Aspersions upon us What are we envious Persecutors Hypocrites and possessed with an unclean Spirit and lying Devil p. 5 8 17. Fie George are these Thunderbolts fit to be shot at your Antagonists on all occasions I own that you have some cause to be displeased at our putting you upon a work you cannot possibly do namely to reconcile your late Faith with your former Writings But then you might have called us unreasonable Men or compared us to Pharaoh's Task-masters for its a work we put you upon that is harder than to make Brick without Straw And indeed G. Whitehead appears to have no mind to touch it with one of his fingers it is so knotty and difficult a piece of work No it passeth the skill of the ablest Orator with all his Rhetorick or George Whitehead with all his pretended skill in Logick to do it
in their Prophecies and Writings were and another thing to have such common and more immediate Gifts and Graces of the Spirit that are promised by Christ to them that obey him as a Seal of their present Acceptance and future Inheritance The use of these more immediate or common Gifts are to help our Infirmities and to bring to remembrance our Lord 's revealed Will in his Word Things that are secret and not written not at all belonging to us but to the Lord. But observe G. W's plain perversion of my Words First saith he as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all Things it knows Do I demand of you to tell me all things that Jesus did or that the Holy Spirit knows You know I do not and then what an idle Evasion is this And because we pretend not to immediate or extraordinary Inspirations therefore we come short of being Christ's Ministers or Ambassadors and have shut our selves out from any share in the Spirit of Christ or Divine Inspiration and how then will you prove your Call to baptize People in Water Answer Then by G. W's Logick because we do not pretend to such immediate and extraordinary Inspirations as to know what had been contained in the Scriptures had they never been written We fall short of being Christ's Ministers or Ambassadors and have shut our selves out from having any share in the Spirit of Christ c. One that hath but his Senses would be inclined to think that this Consequence is much beside the Truth and yet if this be not true G. W. cannot imagine how we can prove our Call to baptize People in Water But to inform him in this Matter we have a sufficient Call for it from the Commission of Christ our great Prophet who is to be heard in all things Matth. 28. Mark 16. And the frequent Examples of the Apostles who admonish and exhort us to be Followers of them as they are of Christ and to keep the Ordinances as they were delivered so that we need not immediate Inspirations for our Call or Authority herein But I am persuaded G. W. hath made use of these many nonsensical Quibles to evade resolving the Question Now let him resolve me in some of those things that Jesus did that was not written and what was wrote on the ground And let him or any other Quaker do it either by a mediate or immediate Inspiration or Revelation And if they cannot do it then let their proud boastings of immediate Inspirations Revelations and Knowledge in things above what is written cease for ever c. And I shall still wait for an Answer Again p. 21. Saith G. W. To deem them Impostors that say Christ is within thee or them is to render the holy Apostles Impostors who preached Christ within the Word nigh in thy heart Rom. 10. 6 7 8. which therefore was not separate from them and only at a distance yea and to render themselves also Impostors who have confess'd the same Truth of Christ within referring to our Book p. 22 23 69. Antichrist in Spirit c. Which I refer the Reader to Answer Besides the gross Slanders that G. W. casts upon us it is a lamentable thing to see how miserably he abuseth the Text Rom. 10. 6 7 8. He only mentioning that part that he thinks is for his Turn The Word is nigh in thy heart leaving out In thy Mouth even the Word of Faith which we preach which the Apostle there explains thus If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved c. Can any thing be more clearly expressed ver 9. Yet G. W. will not distinguish betwixt the Word of Faith that the Apostles preached and the Object of Faith to whom this Word directs and because we cannot neither did the Holy Apostle understand the Word here to be Christ Therefore G. W. is so daringly confident that he charges us with rendering the holy Apostles Impostors and our selves also I shall spend no more time on this Particular but leave the impartial Reader to judge of G. W's gross perversion of this Text. And in p. 22. George Whitehead charges me with wronging and abusing them about the Titles of their Books as if higher than they give the Holy Scriptures perverting them by leaving out the explanatory part of the Titles And he Instances in H. Smith's Book A True and Everlasting Rule c. Being the first Part of the Title But I leave out the next following viz. from God discovered and for this here is a loud Out-cry of Wrong Abuse and Perversion c. I ask G. W. does those Words from God discovered added to The True and Everlasting Rule diminish the heighth of the Title You would persuade your Reader to believe so or else why do you quarrel at it The Title was higher than you afford the Scriptures before and one would be under a strong Temptation to believe that Addition makes it higher and not lower Now I would seriously ask G. W. when and how God made this discovery to H. Smith that the Scriptures are thus useless to guide in the ways of God and how can you profess in your Faith that the Scriptures are profitable for Doctrine Instruction c. since there is a sufficient Rule to guide in all the ways of God without them Again saith he we know none among us that call the Holy Scripture a dead or carnal Letter And p. 24. he puts us to prove that the People called Quakers or any Persons continuing in Society with them do say Mark that that the Holy Scripture is but a dead carnal Letter or that we so call the Doctrines or Testimonies contained in them Answer what may not the Quakers prove or deny at this rate There are these Difficulties proposed First we must be sure the Persons do at this moment continue in Society with the Quakers Secondly that they do now in the present Tense say The Scriptures are but a dead or carnal Letter and this is not enough if this be done For by Scriptures they do not mean the Writings or written Words of the Old and New Testament but Faith Repentance Holiness c. p. 22. Though the outward Letter or Writing in it self alone be dead And saith G. W. now I leave the Reader to judge whether he doth not own the Charge And if he will deny that any approved Quaker did ever whilst so call the Scriptures a dead and carnal Letter let him do it if he dare Having followed G. W. in answering his impertinent and absurd Evasions I shall give the Reader a Breviate of the sweet convincing Language the Quakers use to treat their Antagonists withal And first I shall begin with Tho. Lawson in his Book against William Jefrey Thou Image-maker thou Cockatrice hatching Eggs Vultures Eye and this because William Jefrey said Christ was ascended
all blessed for ever the true God and eternalLife the one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith 2. How doth it appear that the Quakers do believe the Humanity of Christ Since John Whitehead Dip. plu p. 13. Jesus Christ a person without us is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Mugletonians Again G. W.'s Appendix to Reason against Railing p. 21. The Socinian tells us of a personal Christ and that the Man Christ Jesus our Lord hath in Heaven a place remote from Earth a humane Body But doth he believe him to be the eternal God whilst he imagines him to be a personal Christ a humane Body so limited and confined to Remoteness c. The Quakers Profession of Faith Quest Do you believe and expect Salvation and Justification by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ or by your own Righteousness or Works Answer By Jesus Christ his righteous Merits and Works and not by our own God is not indebted to us for our deservings but we to him for his Free Grace in Christ Jesus whereby we are saved through Faith in him not of our selves c. The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith G. Fox Great Mystery of the great Whore p. 71. He saith Christ's Nature is not humane which is earthly for that is the first Adam's c. And yet they profess to believe the Humanity of Christ See G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 16. Saith he John Bunyan saith God is distinct from the Saints and Bunyan is deceived who saith he is distinct from the Saints and so you are a Company of pitiful Teachers See Mr. Haworth's Animadversions upon the quibling Libel from the Hartford Quakers stiled A Testimony for the Man Christ Jesus p. 11. One William Bates a Quaker said more than once That what Christ took of the Virgin had now no Being c. Sept. 19. 1676. in the hearing of Daniel Doughty John Albury and Stephen Tothil Mr. Pen's Justification is not by the Imputation of anothers Righteousness but from the actual performing and keeping God's righteous Laws Pen's Sandy Foundation p. 25. E. Burrough's Works p. 33. God doth not except any where there is any failing or who do not fulfil the Law and answer to every demand of Justice See Mr. Pen ' s Serious Apology p. 148. Justification by the Righteousness of another or which Christ fulfilled for us in his own Person wholly without us we boldly affirm to be a Doctrine of Devils and an Arm of the See of Corruption that doth now deluge the World See again Mr. Pen ' s sandy Foundation p. 25. 30. It is a great Abomination to say God should condemn and punish his innocent Son that he having satisfied for our Sins we may be justified by the Imputation of his perfect Righteousness O why should this horrible thing be contended for by Christians I shall pass this when I have only given you one instance more See Edw. Burrough's Works p. 32 33. in Answer to the 12 Question it being this Whether the holy Lives and Works of the Saints be not excluded from the Act of Justification from the Guilt of Sin Edw. Burrough's Answer Thou dead Beast Thou art a Stranger from the Life of God and excluded from the holy Life of the Saints and their Works Thou art un-redeemed from thy vain Conversation and so art not justified nor never shalt be and by the same that the â—…nts are justified thou art condemned into the Lake for ever I shall now leave the Reader to judge Whether the Quakers own Writings and their late pretended Faith profess'd do not directly contradict each other About the Three Divine Witnesses in Heaven the Humanity of Christ and that they expect Justification by his Works Righteousness and Merits c. and not by their own The Quakers Profession of Faith in the holy Scriptures They say they believe in the Three Divine Witnesses that bare Record in Heaven according to Holy Scripture-Testimony And in their last Article they propose the Question thus Quest Do you believe and own the Holy Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration and to contain all Matters of Doctrine and Testimony necessary to be believed and practised in order to Salvation and Peace with God They answer and say yes we do and by the assistance of Grace and good Spirit of God which giveth the Understanding of the Mind of God and meaning of holy Scriptures we always desire to live in the Faith Knowledge and Practice of them in all things appertaining to Life and Godliness holy Scriptures being given by divine Inspiration is profitable for Doctrine Correction and Instruction that the Man of God may be perfect throughly furnished to every good Work able to make the Man of God wise to Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus The Quakers professed Faith directly contradicted by their own Writings and Authors Fox and Hubberthorn Truth 's Defence p. 101. They say the Scriptures are no standing Rule and that it is dangerous for the ignorant People to read them I and yet profitable for Doctrine and Holy Scriptures too G. Whitehead's serious Apology p. 49. That which was spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater Pernel's Sheild of the Truth p. 19. He also that saith the Letter that is the Scriptures as written is the Rule and Guide of the people of God is without feeding upon husks and is ignorant of the true Light James Nailor's Light of Christ p. 19. God is at liberty to speak to his People by the Scriptures if he please and where they are given by Inspiration doth so And he is also at liberty to speak by any other created thing as to Balaam by his Ass Tho. Lawson in his untaught Teacher Read p. 6 7 8. The Scriptures are not a Rule whereby to know the Will of Christ See also H. Smith's True and Everlasting Rule from God discovered for I must remember that part of the Title or else G. W. will be offended and say I wrong him H. S. affirms that there is no other Rule Way or Means by which Men shall ever come to walk with God but by that which is manifest of God in him and that it is sufficient to guide in all the ways of God without Scripture or any other outward Rule How then are the Scriptures profitable and necessary as pretended in your Profession of Faith See also J. Nailor's Answer to the Jews Read p. 4 22 25. It is Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God It is the Devil that contends for the Scriptures to be the Word of God See Burrough's Works p. 62. He that persuades People to let the Scriptures be the Rule of Faith and Practice would keep People in Darkness for who ever walks by the Rule without them and teaches
present in Spirit they are obliged to Prayer and Fasting and all other Gospel Ordinances till his second personal and glorious coming But what the Quakers have to do with Ordinances Prayer or Fasting I see not 2. Neither is there Reason to believe you dare in your Assemblies in Christ's Name rebuke any unclean Spirits lest you meet with the same Answer and Repulse as the seven Sons of Sceva did Acts 19. 14 15 16. And the evil Spirit answered and said Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you And the Man in whom the evil Spirit was leaped on them and overcame them c. And to conclude my Answer to his long Story I ask George Whitehead why he had not denied this Gesture of Quaking and Foaming to Mr. John Faldo who gives him Provocation enough to do it See his Book Quakerism no Christianity pag. 12. Saith he How generally were their Meetings viz. the Quakers either silent or taken up with sudden and violent Eruptions of dismal Howlings and horrid Ravings Persons suddenly taken as with the Falling Sickness shaking and foaming at the Mouth and some lying flat on the ground as if stark dead And saith Mr. Faldo some such things as these I have seen and heard and that there are undeniable Testimonies of it that are so numerous and notorious that though now they have almost if not altogether left the latter sort of them they dare not deny that it was so And if they dare to challenge this with an Untruth I may requite them to keep alive their Remembrance with a good part of a volume of them Thus far Mr. Faldo whose Book is signed and approved by 21 Ministers of the Independent and Presbyterian Way I needed not to have taken this Pains since these Gestures are fresh in the Memories of many in this Nation And George Whitehead hath said nothing that denies the Matter of Fact charged in my Books p. 6 7. upon the Quakers he denies not Quaking and Trembling which was all the Instance was brought for and then I think for any Service G. W. hath done the Cause he had better have said nothing 3. George Whitehead saith in p. 16. that I have falsely cited and grosly perverted the Quakers Words and Authors and taken many false things on Credit not only the Story from the Westmorland Petitioners but also out of his Brother Tho. Hicks his abominable Forgeries and Lyes in his factious Dialogues And in p. 8. He prays his Reader to observe that much of our Book against them is taken out of other Books and Pamphlets of their Adversaries long since answered and refuted and their Authority is utterly denied by us as the Westmorland Petitioners who were envious Persecutors Tho. Hicks his abusive Dialogues who was proved a notorious Forger of Lyes And a malicious Libel stiled Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected Answer I am inclinable to think G. W. hath said some Truth in what hath been repeated nay I do in Charity believe it then I will shew you what I believe he saith Truth in 4. Namely That the Authority of the Quakers Adversaries Books is utterly denied by them I am strongly persuaded G. W. saith Truth in this for they that can deny the Authority of the Scriptures being the only Rule of Faith and Practice when alledged against them may well deny the Authority of all Books wrote against them whatsoever tho' the Matter be ever so true 2. As to the rest asserted by G. W. I will not tell him he lyes But I am well satisfied he is departed very far from the Truth And as to that Book Tyranny and Hypocrisie detected It treats chiefly of the Usurping and Lording Authority that some of the Quakers assumed over others and of others opposing and contradicting them as might be made manifest And as to what instances I bring from that Book as Josias Coal's Letter from Berbaldus to George Fox giving him those blasphemous Titles mention'd Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd p. 43. or any other passage from thence cited by me let G. W. deny them as to Matter of Fact if he dare 3. As for Mr. Hicks his Dialogues that George Whitehead calls Lyes and Forgeries and the Author a notorious Lyer and Forger c. It had been much more to purpose had G. W. shewed us what some of those Lyes and Forgeries were I have it 's true examined the Quakers Appeal by way of Charge against Tho. Hicks wherein they charge him with Lyes and Slanders and Forgeries and what not and I have perused Mr. Hicks's Answer to their Appeal where Mr. Hicks clears himself both of Lyes and Forgery I find his Answer to their Appeal subscribed and approved by no less than 22 Persons of Credit who testifie that they have compared Tho. Hicks his Citations with the Quakers Books out of which they were taken and find them truly cited then let the Reader judge who is the Lyer Tho. Hicks or G. W. Again G. W. seems to be angry with my Citation out of Mr. Hicks's Dialogue p. 24 25. In Antichrist in Spirit p. 14 15. As for us had the Scriptures never been we could have known what is therein contained I have also heard this from a Quaker my self But G. W. was not so fair as to mention this though it was the ground of my Demand And let the Reader observe what an apparent Perversion George Whitehead makes of my Words and the occasion of them p. 18 19. of his Pamphlet after he hath charged us with Forgery Now pray observe saith he what strange Test or Proof your Agent Edw. Paye puts upon us to evince an immediate Inspiration G. W. knows this Question was demanded to prove what is before mentioned Namely that had the Scriptures never been they could have known what was therein contained Now if this be so then let the Quakers resolve me what those things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21. 25. or what were the Contents of that writing on the ground Joh. 8. 68. Or else let their proud boasting of immediate Inspirations be condemned to perpetual silence c. Saith G. W. Hereupon you have passed unjust Judgment and falsely charged us with proud boasting and argued absurdly against immediate Inspiration as if none have the Spirit of Christ unless they know and can declare all things that it knows I answer It is a strange thing to me that G. Whitehead doth not see that he condemns himself whilst he is judging another and it is a lamentable thing that the Quakers will admit of no distinctions But it verifies that true Proverb that the want of distinctions are the cause of mistakes Here G. W. will not admit of a distinction betwixt immediate Inspirations and the mediate or more common Gifts of the Spirit Now all Christians that I know of will admit of this distinction That it is one thing to be immediately and extraordinarily endowed and inspired with the Holy Ghost as the Prophets and Apostles