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A91371 A serious & seasonable warning unto all people occasioned by two most dangerous epistles to a late book of John Falldoe's, subscribed by Richard Baxter [and 24 others] brethren all ---- in iniquity ... whose slanders and lyes against the holy people called Quakers are hereby reproved / by C.P. Pusey, Caleb, 1650?-1727. 1675 (1675) Wing P4250; ESTC R42571 16,674 24

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Spirit in you And in a Conscientious discharge of my Duty to God and you I hereby bear my Testimony against what your Teacher hath written to be most detestable Slander proceeding from the old cursed Enmity of the Serpents Seed against the Seed of the Woman and I do in seriousness of Spirit hereby call upon you to consider of the state of your Souls and the sad danger you are in to be seduced by this sort of men into that detestable Spirit that hereby they have manifested to be in them having long known you and been of your number I am the more concerned for you and do beseech you to examine your Condition after so many years talk of Christ and Salvation by him I must tell you your Building is but on the Sand and the Rock you know not for you know that when the Winds blew and Waves beat upon you of Persecution you fled in that Winter there was no courage for God amongst you but you fled from your Testimony manifesting by your fainting in the day of Adversity that your strength was but small And I must clear my Conscience towards you that for many years in many places of this City made such a noise concerning Religion and when the hour of tryal came fled and turned your backs on your Testimony the cause is this your Building is on the Sand and so like the wicked you oft fled when none persued so captivated were you by the fear of man I know and your Consciences know how you consulted your fleshly Ease and Interests and fled the Cross Consider I earnestly intreat you how it came to be thus with you Men have seduced you into a false Faith and false Hope and the God and Christ you talk of I testifie unto you you know not and so in the hour of tryal how should you stand that know not the Rock Oh ye backslidden People thus it is with you whether you will hear or forbear this is the word of the Lord unto you even a Lye is in your Right hand while you are talking of Christ his Death and Sufferings and Resurrection and Justification by him yet being rebellious against his Light in you you are ignorant of and strangers to him and so truly I see and am sensible of your sad danger even to be seduced by your Teacher to stumble at the Foundation fall and perish for ever Oh that ever the Teacher of All hollows witness-bearing People should enter into a Confederacy with the worst of men against the Innocent Holy People of God for such are they who by him and his Colleagues are so Reviled I say a People sanctified by Faith in Christ Jesus Oh People the Lord hath a sore and terrible dreadful Controversie with you for you are as the Cauldron the Prophet speaks of with its great scum in it so it is with you the fire hath not purified you but you retain your scum of Pride Fleshly-ease and Sensuality Formality in Religion and Conformity to the world Oh that it should be thus with you after such a day as God hath brought amongst you Now I am to tell you of one great depth of Sathan whereby you have been seduced for which the wrath of God Almighty is against you and that is your offering Sacrifice when God calleth you to Service In that your Practice of keeping those Days in a way of Fasting and Prayer when God calleth you to testifie against their Superstitious Observation your Teacher aforehand tells you that such a day you will have a diversion from your Callings and therefore apoints it to be spent in Fasting and Prayer thus if any Testimony exposeth you to Sufferings you to shun the Cross to offer Sacrifice you agree O depth of Deceipt Oh ye Antients of that Congregation there was a day when your beloved John Symson exhorted you to open your shops on such days as a Testimony God required y●u to bear against Superstition and I have heard him reprove the neglect of it in these words I passed along the Streets such a day and scarce fee one shop open being the 25th day of the 10th Month and lamented it and reproved you for it Oh you Back-sliders compare this with the Spirit of your present Teacher Oh what a filthy pickle you are in that have thus long wallowed in your mire the Lord abhors you and all your Fastings and Prayers even as the Prophet said to degenerated Israel of old this is the word of the Lord unto you Oh People Zech. 7. 5. Speak unto all the People of the Land and to the Priests and say when ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh Month even the seventy Years did ye fast unto me did appoint it I this day testifie unto you these 14 or 15 years ye have not fasted unto the Lord but to your selves to your own Bellyes to preserve your fleshly ease and interests and it is no better than the cutting off the dogs neck or offering Swines blood Consider this Oh ye Houlers and hear as in the sight of God that justifieth me in it and requireth it of me I charge it upon you that call your selves Churches to be guilty of thickning the Veil of Darkness upon the minds of the People of this age by your deserting your Testimony against Superstition and running away in the day of suffering Oh ye Hypocrites when God calls you to a publick Testimony against Popish Observations you run into corners and keep a houling of your fears of the dark night of Popery coming upon the Nation I know your doings in the dark the Righteous God hereby chargeth it upon you to be guilty of making gross and thick the Veil of Darkness upon the minds of People in this day and in his Fear I charge it upon you Woe woe unto you from the jealous God of Israel that out of Sion this day roareth and uttereth his voice from Jerusalem against you Oh ye evil doers that have run into Corners Cole holes Closets or on tops of houses through Valleys from one house to another enquired after and consulted to have back doors and all to escape the Cros● Oh blush that ever men should be so impudent as to appear in this day to admonish the People that have so acted their part Now no wonder your Teacher joyns his hand with that notorious Enemy to God and Reformation R. Baxter who hath strained his wits on that Teynters to reduce this age into Aegyptian Darkness witness his Cure for Church Divisions wherein he hath condemned the Saints and Martyrs of all ages and no doubt but Ed. Bagshaw that so honestly opposed him was counted with these 25 Moniters a Reverend Divine but to pass them Oh how can I but lament that the people of Allhollows should be entered into this most detestable confederacy against the work of God in this day Oh you whom God hath emptied from Vessel to Vessel and hewed some of you to piece