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A55805	The unequal unyoked, and the equal yoked, and light separated from darkness, & darkness and blindness joyn'd together in answer to a paper that would joyn together truth and untruth, the true worship and the false : and here it is discovered, and the author thereof in part rewarded, by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to / by a lover of justice and equity and hater of the contrary, Peter Price.	Price, Peter, 1600?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3397; ESTC R9270	17,524	21

THE Unequal Unyoked AND The Equal Yoked AND Light separated from Darkness Darkness and Blindness joyn'd together In Answer to a Paper that would joyn together Truth and Vntruth the true Worship and the false And here it is discovered and the Author thereof in part rewarded by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to By a Lover of Justice and Equity and Hater of the Contrary PETER PRICE Her Priests have violated my Law and have prophaned my holy things and have put no difference between the Holy and the Prophane neither have they shewed difference between the Vnclean and the Clean and have hid their Eyes from my Sabbaths and I am prophaned among them Ezek. 22.26 And as Troops of Robbers wait for a Man so the Company of Priests Murder in the way by consent for they commit Lewdness Hosea 6.9 London Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch 1683. The Unequal unyoked and the Equal yoked c. THere came a Paper to my hands from a Bishop as I am credibly informed and I have strong Reasons to believe that it came from his hand or some of his Priestly Generation 1st Because the Comparisons came not from the Spirit of God but from a Darknist who is ignorant of the Truth of God that did not see the difference between us and his Father the Pope 2dly It is plainly seen that it came from a malicious Heart that would have a suffering peaceable People still to suffer and so doth joyn with the Oppressors to oppress the Oppressed and thus he saith That any man may see and discover how near Quakers and Papists are in Opinion let them read these following Comparisons of the one to the other 1. Quakers claim the Spirit to Infallibility so doth Pope and Papists Answ The Spirit of God is Infallible which we do own and possess and wouldst thou have us to deny the Spirit of God to be what we know it to be because Papists as thou sayst do own it so to be It is clearly seen that thou art a stranger to the Spirit of God who wouldst have it to be fallible and not only so but also any Enemy to it that would undervalue the unchangeable and infallible Spirit of God Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 4.9 and vers 11. He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal Bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you and vers 15. But ye have received the Spirit of Adoption The People of God in all Ages had and now have the Spirit of God to be their Teacher Counsellor and Instructor in all things and it is given to every man to profit withal and if we cannot claim title to the Spirit of Infallibility what benefit may we expect from that which is given to fail to change or to alter But the fallible deceiveable Spirit doth enquire after large Livings great Wages and most Hire Benefit and worldly Riches to enjoy and this is an earthly worldly selfish greedy covetous Spirit which ever was and now is against the Spirit of God and all those that were and are led by it This is the Wolfs devouring Spirit that casteth to Prison and devoureth the goods of them that cannot feed it Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison Rev. 2.10 2 Quakers make themselves the sole Church so Papists Answ Here we are falsly accused for we do not make our selves the sole Church for what we are is of the Lord and not of our selves and he hath made us Members of his Church and the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved Acts 2.47 The Church is the Body of Christ Col. 1.24 And we could not make our selves the Body of Christ the Body must be like the Head for by him they are redeemed out of the Sins which the World doth live in for they by Christ their Head are washed cleansed purified fitted and prepared for himself to dwell therein These and such as these are the Church of God 3. Quakers hold no Salvation but in their Meetings so do Papists but in their Communion Answ Here we are again falsly accused for we hold Salvation no where else but only in and through Jesus Christ the Son of the living everlasting God 4. Quakers are Recusants so Papists Answ How now Bishop and Priest I speak to them only that are guilty would you now make us Recusants because we cannot seed your greedy Bellies nor maintain you in your Pride and Covetousness we dare not feed that which Christ came to destroy the which would destroy Christ in his Members 5. Quakers deny Bishops to be jure divino so Papists witness the Council of Trent Answ We do deny you to be what you are not and we do own you to be what you are for we wrestle not against Flesh and Blood but against Princi●●lities against Powers against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World against spiritual Wickedness in high places as they did Ephes 6.12 Your jure divino is your spiritual Wickness in high places Come down exalted boasted Selfishness the everlasting Bishop we own and those that are called and chosen by him are also by him made divine and it is his right to oversee the Soul but you that covet after filthy Lucre we deny 6 Quakers are of rebellious Tenets so Papists Answ Let all People that are not defiled with Tythes judge who are most quarrelsom troublesom burdensom and whose Tenets are most Rebellious against all appearance of Godliness and who are bad Examples you or us As the high Priests did stir the Magistrates and People against Christ Jesus and his followers perswading the People that he did those mighty Works which he did through Belzebub that his Followers were movers of Sedition and turners of the World up-side down So likewise this man who is one in Enmity and Malice with his Predecessors the high-Priests hath falsly belyed us expecting thereby to stir Persecution against us so his envious Spirit is seen and judged 7. Quakers as they piece up the Word of God by wild Fancies pretended Revelations so Papists by Traditions Answ The Word of God thou knowest not which cannot be pieced broken changed or altered thou dost botter know how to compel the People to maintain thee whilst thou hast the Magistraies on thy side than to speak of things that are too high for the Nature thou art in but the Natural man parceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 8. Quakers are against Common-Prayer so Papists Answ Thou who art sensual it is that needest the Common-Prayer who hast not the Spirit of God to pray by which the holy men of God had to teach them to pray and to declare the things revealed to them by the

Priest having not the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God cannot subsist without Law in their own Courts carnal Weapons or help of Magistrates so Pope and Papists 12. Bishop and Priest cannot live by the Gospel which they have not but by the Tythes which they will have while they can so Pope ane Papists 13. Bishop and Priest count all Faction Sedition Heresie and Separation that separate from them and cannot feed their Lusts and Pride so Pope and Papists that will not joyn with them in their Mass Bishop and Priest in what do you differ from the Pope and his Deputies Had it not been a shorter work to shew in what you do differ than in what you are one with them Wherein doth your Worship and Discipline differ from the Pope and Papists 14. Bishop and Priest you may be joyned with Pope and Papists in your Bowings Bendings Stoopings and vain Gestures and Postures Forms Traditions Customs Fashions and Ceremonies which do not at all concern the Worship of God which is to be in the Spirit and in Truth and not in the aforesaid vain things or the like 15. Bishops we are not against the Name for such a Bishop as is allowed by the Scriptures of Truth we allow of read 1 Tim. 3. but such you are not but Persecutors of the Life and Godly Condition that they did live in and you and your Families are more like proud Morriee-dancers than modest civil orderly Christians And seeing you and your Followers in a sad desperate Condition I cannot chuse but in love acquaint you with it and declare against it that you may be left without excuse and keep my Conscience clear towards God and you And what I say in this case to you I say to all that are in your Condition Repent Repent Repent in time before it be too late and the Door of Mercy shut and you kept out with the wicked World which go the broad Way and wide Gate that leads to destruction where many do go for the narrow Way and strait Gate that leadeth to Salvation where the little Flock hath and doth strive to enter in you do not love but speak evil of for Covetousness Pride Malice and Selfishness cannot enter in there These and the like are the burdens which hinder and must be cast away or else no entring in for such so Pope and Papists 16. Oh! how my Heart doth pity the People which by you Bishops and Priests are deceived of such there was a Complaint and of you there is a Complaint 2 Cor. 4.3 4. But if our Gospel be hid it is hid in them that are lost in whom the god of this World hath blinded the Minds of them which believe not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them The Gospel which is hid is the Power of God and the God of the World that doth hide it is the Devil and the means that the Devil hath to hide the Gospel and to blind the Mind is Sin Your Sins have separated you from God and your Sins do ●cause him to hide his face from you and your Sins hinder good things to come unto you and he that committeth sin is of the Devil and we know that we are of God and the whole World lieth in Wickedness John 5.19 And the holy men of God in all Ages did declare and cry against the Sins which you now live in and they that can truly witness a godly Life now do deny you and cry against you And as the Godly by the Ungodly formerly did suffer even so it is now so one with Pope and Papists in Persecution 17. Bishop and Priest have Organs and Singing-Boys in their Worship so Pope and Papists 18. Bishop and Priest do take to themselves what belongs to God to judge of Conscience in matter of Religion so Pope and Papists 19. Bishop and Priest are for Churching of Women so Pope and Papists 20. Bishop and Priest do idolize the Parish-house where they meet to Worship and call it a Church and hold it to be a more holy Ground and virtuous Place than other Ground and Places witness what a vain Meeting Preaching Blowing and Praying there was the Service cannot be acceptable where the end is not right to consecrate and sanctifie the new builded Church as they call it at Glaisbury in Radnorshire by William Lucy Bishop of St Davids so called and his Hireling Priests as it is generally reported there was so much Idolatrous Practice Ceremonies and unprofitable Worship there then as if it had been by the Pope in Rome for their old Church being on the Sandy Foundation was undermined by the River Wey which hath made a separation between the Priest and his Church so that he nor his Parishioners cannot go to their Church nor their dead Church to them but the Gates of Hell the Devil and all his Power cannot prevail against the true Living Church in God but the River Wey is too strong for the old House falsly called a Church The true Church from the false you may know if you read and believe the Scriptures Mat. 16.18 18.17 Acts 2.47 and 20.28 Ephes 5.24 25. Col. 1.24 1 Tim. 3.15 compare what Christ and his Apostles did declare the Church to be and what the Priests do call a Church and you shall or may see great disserence and the cause of my Writing is that you may come to be Members of the true Church where Christ is the Head 21. Bishop and Priest do pretend to keep Holy dayes in remembrance of some holy men that are dead these many hundred years ago so Pope and Papists for by the Pope they were set up 22. Bishop and Priest many of your Forms Customs and Traditions are contrary to the Scriptures of Truth so Pope and Papists 23. Bishop and Priest do compel the Country in their Parishes to buy and keep them sine Linnen Cloth as much as will make them a Garment to cover their black Clothes but it will not cover their black ugly Sins and they call it by the Name of a Surplice that they wear during their common Service and burying their dead and Churching their Women as they call it Oh the blindness of Popery 24. Priests in our Country do go from house to house to Church Women with their Sexton to carry their Book and Surplice and to say Amen and they will have Money for so doing so by report do the Papists their pretended holy Water 25. Bishop and Priest do keep Courts to punish Offenders and when they do appear they must contract for a Sum of Money and it must be such a sum that every Member according to what he paid for his place must have such a Sum that he may live by it and then the Offender shall have forgiveness of his Sins and pardon under Hand and Seal Lest I should mistake and the Papists not be so bad as you

obey whether of sin unto death or of Obedience unto Righteousness Rom. 6.16 For the wages of sin is death v. 23. They that serve sin or live in it are Servants to the Devil and cannot serve two Masters And is not the Lord God that made the Heavens and Earth and all things therein stronger than the Devil to lead out of sin for as God will not lead to sin so the Devil will not lead to any thing that is really good and many People are led by the Devil and not by God who made them And if they live and you dwell in sin what good do you to the People for your hire and wages They could live in sin and keep that to maintain themselves that doth maintain you and are not you the unprofitable Servants while you and your followers do live in Sin And are not you to receive your wages with the unprofitable Servants that did live in sin as you do Was it not sin that did separate from God and lead into the fall and doth separate from God And is it unpossible to remove that which did separate from God And must People still remain in the fall and from God And while you live in that which keepeth from God in the fall how can you come out of the fall to God again And can you obtain forgiveness of sin while you live in sin And must not sin be forsaken They that forsake their sin shall have mercy saith the Scripture bet do not you say to the People They have mercy though they live in sin A false Doctrine which proceeds from a dark unclean Spirit and not from the Spirit of God Bishop and Priest how can you but deny Perfection in this life while you deny the effects of Christs coming which doth perfect his work in his People and are not his works to be done within where the Serpents head is to be bruised And can his head be bruised without Christ the only means ordained of God to do it and so his work in you is not yet done but his Enemies work in you doth yet stand which is sin and uncleanness this makes you to oppose the work of Christ which is 〈◊〉 bind the strong man and to cast him out of possession and to lay the Ax to the Root of the unfruitful Tree which by God was never planted and the Serpent and his seed and all that doth belong to him turned out root and branch and all that belongs to the Enemy of God by Christ the higher Power destroy'd And then the Image of God wrought and the fruit of the Spirit known and witnessed as it is written And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.11 And they said Christ in us the hope of Glory and know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 Thus Jesus Christ hath and doth do his works in his People whilst unbelievers do talk of his coming and sin in them still remaining which is the work of the Devil Bishop and Priest Christ saith Learn of me and you say learn of us and them that do not are prosecuted in your Courts and cast into Goal and goods taken from them And Christ said Feed my Lambs Joh. 21.15 Feed ye the Church of God Acts 20.28 Feed ye the flock of God 1 Pet. 5.2 Mind what Christ saith Feed my Lambs my Church my flock And in effect you say We will make you all feed us or else we will have a suit in Law against you and recover trible damage and drive away your cattel or goods or cast your Bodies to Prison until you pay us This we believe you will do and you have done already The People of God that had the largest measure of the Spirit of God and of the Virtue Wisdom and Knowledge of God were Servants to the rest and good Examples and did exceed others in meekness mildness lowliness and all manner of humility according to the largeness of that of God which they had received And you according to what of men you have received are by them preferred and entituled Lords Bishops Masters Priests So herein one with Pope and Papists and also one with the Heathen exercising Lordship over the People contrary to Christ and his Disciples who were all Brethren and he their only Master Mat 23. and so bear sway and rule over the People and compel them as Servants to you or more like slaves than servants for Servants may change their Masters if they do not like them but the People cannot change you be you never so cruel and bad although they do complain and deny you and your stolen ware out o● other mens works and not from the Spirit of God Is it not a slavis● condition to compel a People to what they know will not serve thei● turn to make them pay for that altho' they do refuse it If it we●● upon the account of worldly things it would be the better boren b●● it doth concern our Souls Health and Salvation and everlasting Happine●● and Well-beeing world without end And the Lord God whom we obe● can deliver us out of our merciless hands but if we should obey yo● you cannot deliver us out of the just hand of God therefore we little matter what you can or will do while we keep our Consciences void of offence towards God and men You are easily to be known your rising up hath brought many down You are black without and dark within your making thick hath made many thin those that do feed you you cry peace to and those that do refuse to follow you are your Adversaries be they never so good so that we do plainly see that you did not come for our good but for our goods not to feed the flock but that the flock may feed you as it is written Wo to the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves should not the Shepherd feed the flock ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the Wool ye kill them that are fed but you feed not the flock Ezek. 34.23 Here you may see that you do the same works as the false Shepherds did before you and we declare against you as the godly did against them ye kill them that are feed mind that do not you seek to destroy that which is led by the Lord and by him begotten which is the New-birth wherein dwelleth Righteousness with it doth all things become new therefore if any man be in Christ he is a New-Creature old things are past away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 Is there any thing in you become new or is the corrupt Birth still alive from which nothing that is good can proceed and so you cannot witness your selves to be new Creatures in Christ but in self and selfishness

and seek your selves more than Christ and the good of the People You run for and after the things of this World and the Kingdom of God you cannot see who do not witness the New-birth as Christ said Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.3 God said of your Fathers who did as you do viz. run and were not sent I have not sent these Prophets yet they run I have not spoken to them yet they prophesie Jer. 23. People let him that wisheth you well desire you to read over this chapter in the fear of God and consider of it and lay it to heart you may plainly see that those were the Fathers of the false Prophets now and it may be now said to these as it was then said to those in this chapter and else-where I say let them be compared in the old and new Testament with the false Prophets and Hirelings then and you may see these where they were doing what they did sowing Chaff instead of Wheat and telling a Dream instead of preaching the living Vord of God that was with God in the beginning John 1. And this living Word came to the Prophets of the Lord saying and what the Word ●f God said and made known to them that was written in the Scriptures ●y several of the Prophets and John did witness the same living Word which Word was Christ and he was clothed with a vesture dipt in Blood and his Name is called the Word of God Rev. 19.13 and those whom God did send did direct the People to the same Word of God and said The Word is nigh thee even in thy heart in thy mouth that is the Word of Faith which we preach Rom. 10.8 Not only what Paul did preach for he said what we preach And they did direct where the People might find the Word in the Mouth in the Heart all that do not direct the People to this living Word have but a dream to tell them Jer. 23.28 Mind what a dream is A man may think to be where he is not and to do what he doth not and to see what he doth not see just so are all these Dreamers who do not direct the People to Christ and where to sind them But if ever these Dreamers will awake out of sin and unrighteousness they will come to see that all that which they have done is but as a Dream and not Truth and as there was in former Ages false Prophets as well as true Prophets of the Lord even so it is now And the Lord God formerly made use of the meanest sort in the account of the World to confound the wise so now as it is written For ye see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the World and things that that are despised hath God chosen yea and things that are not to bring to nought things that are 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28. As it was then even so it is now and the worldly Wisdom and its learning and all that it can do is too short to bring man into Rest Peace with God it is not the learning bought for Money but the free learning of Christ that doth give People the saving knowledge therefore in vain is it for you to strive in your own strength wisdom and its learning come to Christ that you may see that you are poor that you may receive the Gospel and that the Eye which the god of the World hath blinded may be opened and you out of the Devils Prison may be set at liberty to serve the living God And this will he better for you than to think you are what you are not and deceive your selves and others and better than to obtain high Places and large Riches in the world which are uncertain if lawfully obtained Bishop Priest this is not a time for you to think to hide your selves for the Lord God doth raise his witness in his People and he doth open their understandings and they come to see what they did not see and to love that which is good and to hate the evil and declare against it as faithful Witnesses for our God And most of the People do now see your ungodly covetous selfish Lives and Practices and how little good service you have done in the Country and how troublesom burdensom you have been and how you have exalted your selves in Pride above measure your Coaches Horses and vain Attendance do witness it The People will come more and more to see you as their Understandings will be opened and they enlarged in the knowledge of God And now there are many out of fear of your High-places Threatnings and Courts that do heat and follow you more than out of love to any good they receive from you And as People do come into the true fear of God the slavish fear will wear off from them and you they will not follow for Pride and Self-exaltedness will have a fall and great will the fall of it be And this is our Joy that the Lord will reign whose right it is who is worthy to be exalted honoured magnified glorified praised and forever obey'd He the Lamb of God will have the Victory and it is in vain for you to strive against him who gave you Breath and can take it from you when he will Stand in awe and sin not and strive not against Christ in his Temple in his People as the Scripture saith Know ye not that ye are the Temples of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3.16 He that defiles the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are v. 27. What! know you not that your Bodies are the Temples of the holy Ghost ch 6.19 Ye are the Temples of the living God as God hath said 2 Cor. 6.16 You know not what you do in hating those People whom God loveth and dwelleth in You strive to draw from God those that strive to draw you to God You seek to destroy those that seek to save you from destruction You would draw us from good to the evil and we would draw you from the evil to the good You would draw us from the Teachings of the Grace of God to be taught by you 〈◊〉 and we would draw you to the teachings of the Spirit that makes ali●● to God You would draw us from a heavenly Condition to the earthly where you are and we would draw you from the earthly to the heavenly where we are through the mercy of our God And thus you reward us evil for good and we desire to do you good for evil You hate in us what God loves and we hate in you what God hates and what ye ought to