and are most eminently serviceable to our common Adversary for their principles are such as could not come out of any other Mint but the Jesuits And truly no opinions can more resemble theirs than those that are held by that crafty and perverse Sect do they the Quakers not think themselves as infallible as the Romanists think the Pope himself to be and do they not say that one reason why they divide from us is because we confess our selves to be men subject unto error do they not lower the Magistrates Authority as the Jesuits do and by all imaginable methods endeavour to render him contemptible do they not villify the holy Scriptures as the Jesuits do and call the Bible a dead Letter do they not cry up the light the light just as the Jesuits cry up tradition tradition do they not think themselves to be the only people of God as the Jesuits think their Faction to be and count all others who are not of their Communion Reprobates and damned persons do they not take it for granted that they are perfect and cannot sin Why do but turn the Tables and behold it is Jesuitism upon which they build the Doctrine of Meritorious good Works for where there is not perfection there can be no Merit But the most lucky and advantageous principle that ever was infus'd into them is this that they must not by any means swear tho call d unto it by due Authority The Jesuit was no Fool when he taught them this for hereby he keeps out of harms way and shelters hâ—mself from a necessity of taking any Oaths of Supremacy or Allegiance this Principle therefore they do arrantly guard and make many proposals that they may be allowed this and as long as 't is allowed it will be impossible to hunt our Enemies out of the Heard or to distinguish indeed between a Quaker and a Jesuit By this any unprejudiced Man may see that this sullen and dogged Sect is the Jesuits natural and undoubted Issue tho like other bastards they are ashamed to own their father c. A Discourse concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome p. 282. Yet any one who compares them i. e. Jesuits and Quakers would imagin the Life of Ignatius had been their great Exampler I know not whether any of that innocent and religious Order of Jesuits had any hand in forming this new Society i. e. Quakers among us as has been frequently suggested but if one may guess the Father by the Childs likeness Ignatius Loyola the Founder of the Jesuits was at least the Grandfather of the Quakers c. And now it remains that Ignatius Loyola and G. Fox compare notes that we may rightly understand whether indeed the Quakers be the natural Issue of the Jesuits as both these learned Divines agree they are and if they be let us lay this spurious off-spring at Ignatius Loyola s door but let us judge the tree by the fruit 1. Did Ignatius Loyola cry down the Scriptures so do the Quakers witness the contemptible names they bestow upon them as beastly ware carnal letter dust death and serpents meat 2. Did Ignatius whose Life was exemplary delight in and read the Papists Legend of the Lives Miracles and Enthusiasms of their Saints as Don Quixot rather than the Scriptures so do the Quakers who read their own Epistles in their meetings for worship and suffer none to call the same Edicts and Canons 3. Did Ignatius preach in the Streets Market-places on Bulks and Haystacks in opposition to Authority so did the Quakers for many years 4. Did Ignatius exalt his own sufferings so do the Quakers saying their sufferings are greater and more unjust than the sufferings of Christ and his Apostles and Martyrs read Burroughs works p. 273. 5. Did Ignatius refuse to put off his Hat to men in authority the Quakers do the same 6. Did Ignatius allegorise the Scripture the death and sufferings of Christ his passion attonement resurrection and ascention to be within so do the Quakers 7. Was Ignatius a Tradesman G. Fox was a poor Journeyman Shoemaker and wrought Journey-work for George Gee of Manchester and so are many of his Followers the Preachers amongst the Quakers and G. Fox was no Scholar but ambitious of being thought so for instance his Book stiled A Battledoor for Teachers and Professors Anno 1660. to learn singular and plural viz. tu and vos with the form and figure of a Battledooâ— to imitate a Childs penny Horn-book containing divers learned Languages as Greek Hebrew Latin Syriack Italian Caldee and divers others and all this noise to bring into contempt both the Gentry of this famous christian and learned Country and the learned Clergy 8. Did Ignatius and his Disciples pretend to a gift of discerning to know the thoughts of their Neighbours so did G. Fox who said the Quakers have a spirit given them beyond their fore-fathers and know who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostles without speaking ever a word c. saying as Christ is so are we Quakers in this world Gr. myst p. 89. 10. Did Ignatius travel up and down preaching working Miracles seeing Visions to Montsorret Manresa Barcelona Padua and after he was soundly beaten for not putting off his Hat to the Governor of Barcelona back again to Salamanca where he was put into the Dungeon and there chain'd to a Post at which he gloried as much as ever his Grand Children did after that to Antwerp Paris Roven where he stood up to the neck in dirt to represent to his Companions the filthiness of sin and to get commiseration in the people and thereby some followers as G. Fox and his followers used to go into Churches till some or other brake their Shins or made their Nose bleed and then some silly tender people would follow them into some poor womans house where they would hold forth and tell them do you see the fruits of the Priests and so gat here and there a few unwary Disciples c. at last Ignatius got to Rome to Pope Paul 3d and got his Bull to confirm the Society of Jesus October 3. 1540. and for more of Ignatius Loyola's Acts and Monuments I refer the Reader to the Works of Maffejus Orlandinus and Ribadeneira who wrote his Life So did G. Fox to settle Quakerism travel up and down disturbing Ministers in Churches preaching in Barns Market-places on Haystacks on Bulks working Miracles yea as true ones as Ignatius Loyola and as like them as if they were Twins quite through England Wales Ireland Holland Barbadoes Virginia Maryland and many places more as his Journals set forth so that 't is needless further to blot paper to manifest the parity between Ignatius and George his Grandson if Ignatius pretended to a sinless perfection George and his followers are full as good at it read his Gr. myst p. 33 107 267. where he tells you he can give an infallible character of another mans state and condition and
Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose being and habitation is in the power of the highest in which thou Rules and Governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is Established in Peace and the Encrease thereof is without end Next a Letter to G. Fox from John Audland out of the West of England somewhat abstracted c. Dear and pretious one in whom my life is bound up my strength in the stand by thy breathings I am nourished by thee my strength is renewed life and strength come from thee holy one daily do I find thy presence with me which doth exceedingly preserve me for I cannot raign but in thy presence and power pray for me that I may stand in thy dread for evermore I am thine begotten and nourished by thee and in thy power am I preserved glory unto thee holy one for ever c. See this Letter at large in The Discovery of the accursed thing enlarged c. p. See their book stiled This is to go only amongst Friends And thou oh North of England who art counted as desolate and barren and reckon'd the least of the Nation * Mich. 5.2 Matt. 2.6 Joh. 7 42. yet out of thee did the branch spring †Zech. 3.8 and star * Numb 24.17 19. arise which gives light to all the Regions round about In thee the Son of Righteousness appeared †Mal. 4.2 with healing c. and out of thee the terrors of the Lord proceeded which makes the earth to tremble and be removed out of thee Kings Priests and Prophets did come forth Lift up your voices blow the Trumpet sound an Alarum out of the holy mountain proclaim tbe acceptable year and the day of vengeance of our God gird on your sword on your loyns put on the tried Armor Note this is one of their books the worlds people is not to see it 's to go only amongst Friends ride on ride on my brethren and fellow soldiers make all plain before you make the heathen tremble and the uncircumcised fall by the sword spare none neither Ox nor Ass neither old nor young kill cut off destroy bath your sword in the blood of Amalek and all the Philistins and Egyptians hew Agag to pieces break down the Rocks cut down the Ceders make the Devils i. e. the Priests subject cast out the unclean spirit i. e. that pay or receive Tyths raise the dead shut up in Prison bring out of Prison cast in your Nets launch into the deep bind the tares in bundles cast them into the fire the good Angel i. e. G. Fox is come thrust in your Cicles reap the earth silence all Disputers and Diviners for ever triumph upon all the chaff the mire and dung for ever prepare your selves to battle for the Nation doth defie our God saying Who is the God of the Quakers A rebellious people that will not come under our Law c. and so on see New Rome unm c. p. 85. more at large And thus you see that as 't is written Acts 10.34 To him gave all the Prophets witness c. so you see that all the Quakers Prophets being 400 in number give witness to Geo. Fox and adore him as the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness whose being and habitation is in the power of the highest ruling in his Kingdom the increase of which is without end as say the Quakers his Idolatrous Adorers by which 't is clear he outstrips Simon Magus SECT VI. 4. THat G. Fox was a slighter of the Scriptures a denyer of the Law of Moses and ordinances of Iesus Christ and a Blasphemer of the Blessed Trinity News coming up c. p. 14. Your original is carnal Hebrew Greek and Latin and the light is carnal the Letter and your Baptism is carnal and their Sacrament is carnal and their Communion is carnal so dust is the Serpents meat their original is but dust which is the letter which is death so the Serpent feeds upon dust and their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the letter p. 34. A voice and a word to all you Deceivers who deceive the people and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemy and Hypocrisy that tell people of a Sacrament and tell them it is the Ordinance of God blush blush and tremble before the Almighty for dreadful is he that will pour out his vengeance upon you who live in the Witchery and bewitch the people and these things i. e. Baptism and the Lords Supper that God never commanded are given forth by you who are brazened with deceit and no Witch must live in Israel i. e. no Priest The Quakers Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scriptures was Moses or Hermes or whether both these are not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by wicked men some by wise men ill applied some by good men ill expressed some by false Prophets and yet true some by true Prophets and yet false c. Now this being proposed as doubtful overthrows the certainty and authority of the Scriptures for if what the true Prophets spake was false and what wise and good men spoke was either ill applied or ill expressed and what the false Prophets spoke be true what certainty is here this put to the Quakers practice in laying aside in their Families as well as in their Worship the use of the Ten Commandments Lords Prayer and the Apostles Creed together with what is above recited is plain that Geo. Fox and his Followers are Slighters of the Scriptures Now to the 3d part of the Paragraph viz. A Blasphemer of the Blessed Trinity one of his Sons books The Sandy Foundation shaken c. p. 10. No one substance can have three distinct subsistencies and preserve its own unity for granting them i. e. Trinitarians the most favourable definition every subsistence will have its own substance so that three distinct subsistences will require three distinct substances or beings consequently three Gods p. 16. The vulgar doctrine of satisfaction being dependent on the second person of the imagined Trinity refuted from Scripture c. says W. Pen but I say neither he nor all the Sons of Simon Magus are able to refute that Article of the true Christian Faith SECT VII I Am now coming to Ignatius Loyola the first Founder of the Jesuits and to shew that as G. Fox was one with Simon Magus in Doctrine yet in Discipline he very much resembles Ignatius Loyola and before I proceed I shall shew that I am not alone in this opinion and that from the judgment of two Learned Divines of the Church of England out of two books the one intituled The Good Old Way c. p. 121 122. But of all the Sects which are among us undoubtedly the Quakers have been
are not say they obliging unless a man be convinced c. SECT IX HAving by the foregoing shewed W. Pen to be for and against himself for conformity to the laws orders and decrees of G. Fox conviction or no conviction against conformity to the commands of God in Scripture unless convinced shewing himself thereby to be tot quot omnis every thing and nothing I am now coming to the latter part of the paragraph wherein you sorely complain of Mr. Faldo But if upon an impartial consideration he shall be found to clip or pervert our matter and to shuffle with us in his own Once do a poor people right c. Mr. Pen I am loath to provoke you but if I should I do not fear you you complain of Mr. Faldo's clipping and perverting your matter and shuffling with you in his word a crime no people upon the face of the whole earth more guilty than your selves and at which none better than your self G. Whitebread and G. Fox in his time and I must tell you G. W. hath stood in great need of you and does still one that can make a black thing appear white but I fear the Quakers will not yet depute you and my reason is Mr. Meads aversness to your Preface to Fox his Journal being bound up therewith but like some Lackey it is forced to run shrugging afoot in a poor thin blue coat waiting at the Readers Elbow like A Noun Adjective wanting a word to shew its signification as well as why it 's left to shift for it self c. Well William I have not forgot your complaint I am now coming to do right between you As to Mr. Faldo I have not read all he writ but so far as I have I find him fair and ingenuous leaving out your glosses wiping off your paintings and discovering your fallacies but William cast an eye upon G. Fox s Gr. myst and compare it with the Books which he pretends to answer and you will find it the greatest Mystery of Iniquity that ever appeared in the world under pretence of a religious contest of which Mr. Crisp has made a clear discovery in his Book entitled The Discovery of the accursed thing in the Foxonian Quakers Camp enlarged c. and An Essay c. to allay G. F. s Spirit Oh the horrible clipping mincing and shameful pervertions cutting sentences in two taking the middle of a line and leaving both ends altering the sense laming the argument and defacing the whole matter and if you please to do me right for once against his Son and your Companion that stood up stoutly for you when time was i. e. G. W.'s answer stiled The content Apost recharged c. to mine entitled Battering Rams against New Rome c. where he took one line here another there and sometimes five words out of the middle of a line sometimes but one word in a line and leaves the next and take the next and leap two or three lines off and take two or three words more see New Rome unmaskt p. 75. where this is fully discovered it may be some may think this is not worth the mentioning but if they do but consider first how they have prevailed with these people to believe that what their Teachers say is by an infallible spirit they will not err a jot but do right to all impartially next that they hinder their Hearers from reading the Answers or selling Books that are against them together with their way of spreading their own Books which suggest this and I do say it is one of the cunningest stratagems that Satan has assisted them in and a deep design to misrepresent their Adversaries I could write a Folio on this head but Fox his Book stiled The Great myst being examined and compared is a sufficient demonstration and if they will not examine but the blind will follow their blind Leaders be it upon themselves for what can a man say to such as are willingly ignorant and resolve to oppose conviction I remember one little pretty story in Fox's Journal see the 3d Table or Index Treachery against Geo. Fox his Horse Alas treason for W. Pen knows G. F was a King if he that has a Kingdom be a King see Judas and the Jews p. 44 45 46. of his own justifying too Well however it was either Treachery or Treason that 's certain as you may find it printed in the 255 page And I looked back and the Hostler was filing his Pocket with the Provender that was giving to my Horse c. I confess it was a naughty trick and the worse considering whose Horse it was but whether it deserves to be chronicled I leave the Reader to judge But Friend William if you please to look into the 77 page of G. F. his Great mystery there you will find him justifying Felony upon pretence of a motion which shew that the 8th Commandment Exod. 20.15 was not binding to the Quakers at least to G. Fox their great Apostle and Prophet and Jacob of the age well pray hear him And as for any being moved of the Lord to take away your the Ministers hour-glass from you by the eternal power it is owned c. Here you see he owns Theft in the Quakers with this proviso That if they be moved to it And what Thief will not to save his Bacon as the Proverb is say he is moved But the poor Thievish Hostler did but steal 2 or 3 handfuls of Oats and he must be upon Record to posterity for a Thief only G. F. was so kind as not to write his name down no more than he did the names of several upon whom he wrought his Miracles nor indeed where they dwelt only some in Maryland some in Barbadoes and some in Ireland But as to G. F. owning the Felony 't is not strange for if he was not convinced at that time of his duty to Gods command in the 8th Commandment he is by W. Pen justified and that this position is of a dangerous tendency and doth indeed carry in it all iniquity I shall yet further observe SECT X. HAving already treated of the Quakers Doctrine particularly that position which says That no command in Scripture is any further obliging upon any man than as he finds a conviction upon his own conscience c. which is such a pernicious principle as Mr. Faldo said that it carries all iniquity in the womb of it and indeed is the very floodgate by which Quakerism was first let in among us which came in as a mighty stream flowing over all our Banks of Laws Order and Government both divine and humane overturning the very Ordinances instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ the authority of the Scriptures to the great scandal of our Christian Religion and in the mean while valuing their own Papers Laws and Orders as superior to them And therefore as I have begun with the first planting of Quakerism which was in the year 1650.
of receiving them and their Testimony you have caused them * Here Sam. thinks to blind the poor Quakers and make them believe he was a 20 l. sufferer when he lost not a groat to suffer And them also that did receive them and their Testimony The Lord forgive you is the desire of him that chuses rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God than to live in the pleasures of this world Sam. Cater I have laid a snare for thee and thou art taken O Babylon and thou wast not aware thou art found and also caught put your selves in array against Babylon round about all you that bend the Bow shoot at her spare no Arrows for the Lord hath opened his Armoury and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord God of Hosts Jer. 50.14 24 25. SECT XVI Fr. King WE do forbid you to print any Books in any place whatsoever concerning Religion which are not Attested i. e. Licensed by two Manual Certificates at least under pain of losing the whole Impression Prot. Nor as his Majesty hath demanded of us will we suffer thâ—se Canons of our National Synod concerning the Approbation i. e. Licensing of Books that shall be pâ—inâ—â—d on matters of Religion to be violated it being our sincere and most fixed Resolution to obâ—erve in the precisest and strictest manner their Majesties Edicts and under the benefit of them to lâ—ad a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty Quak. Epist ibid. p. 3. It 's desired that the monthly and quarterly meetings respectively takes notice of all Friends Books that are or may be sent to them according to former agreement and take care for the dispersing the same for the service of Truth c. and take care to advise the Correspondents for the Counties to write only to your Correspondents in London about their sufferings lest their suffering case be delayed Renewed advice to the respective Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in England and Wales and for the preserving and spreading Friends Books for Truths service Dear Friends THese are to let you understand that our Friends have at several yearly Meetings had under their serious consideration hw all those Books that are printed for the service of Truth and the unity of Friends might most effectually be spread for a general service to Truth and Information unto Friends and others And at the last yearly Meeting it was left unto this meeting who have settled as followeth viz. That those that print friends books shall the first opportunity after printed within one month at most send to one of the Correspondents in the several Counties viz. For each Monthly Meeting two Books of a sort if under Sixpence and one of a sort if above Sixpence for these reasons 1. For Friends to have general notice of what Books are printed 2. That they may send for what other quantities they may see a service for 3. That the Printer may be encouraged in printing for friends 4. That one Book at least of a sort that shall be printed except Collections may be kept in each Monthly and Quarterly Meeting for the service of Friends and Truth as there shall be â—ccasion for the future 5. It 's agreed that the Printer will allow two pence in the shilling for all such Books 6. It 's Agreed That some here shall be appointed to examine the Printer to see that they send no Books but such as are appointed by Friends 7. It 's Agreed and Advised that the Printers account be fully cleared once a year at least by those Friends the Country shall send up to the yearly Meeting 8. It 's Agreed That the name of the Printer imployed by Friends should be sent with directions how to write to him Dear Friends and Brethren it 's tenderly advised and recommended to you that you be careful and diligent in the spreading of all such Books that are printed for the service of Truth and are written either in defence of it or Christian Doctrine or Holy profession or by way of Epistle Warning Caution Exhortation or Prophecy that so we may not be remiss or negligent in promoting the holy truth that nothing may be wanting on our parts to promote it and the spreading of it that the Nations may be informed and brought into the knowledge of it that in the end we may give an account with joy An ancient friend the Printers name is as follows to whom direct thus For Andrew Soale at the Crooked Billet in Holy-well-lane in Shoreditch London Or to Thomas Northcoat at his Shop in George-yard in Lombard-street London And this we think needful you should record in your Quarterly Books and sometimes read it for remâ—mbrance and notice Signed in the behalf of the Meeting the 18th of the â—â—th mâ—nth 1693. by Benjamin Bealing The yearly Meeting Epistle the 27th of the 3d month 1675. It is our Sense Advice Admonition and Judgment in the fear of God and the authority of his Power and Sprit to Friends and Brethren in their several Meetings that no such slight and contemptible names and expressions as calling men and womens Meetings Courts Sessions or Synods that they are Popish Impositions useless and burthensome And that faithful Friends Papers which we Testifie have been given forth by the Power and Spirit of God are mens Edicts or Canons or embracing them bowing to men Elders in the service of Truth Popes and Bishops with such scornful sayings be permitted among them But let Gods power be set upon the top of that unsavoury Spirit and them that use it Signed by George Whitehead William Pen and others I am the larger in this Citation to convince the world that the Quakers prefer their own Books before and above the Scripture contrary to their pretence in their sheet they delivered to the Parliament as also to shew the impudence of some amongst them that tell people they have no Epistles read amongst them as Francis Bugg sets forth which I know they can no more be ignorant of than of the Suns shining at noon-day And in order to a further discovery thereof I shall recite the Titles of some of their Epistles as I did in New Rome Arraigned p. 41. which to this day they have not denyed c. 1. Two General Epistles to the Flock of God where-ever they are dispersed by M. Fell and J. Park printed 1664. 2. To Friends in England Ireland Scotland Holland New England Barbadoes or any where else where the Lord shall order this to come c. 3. A General Epistle to be read in the fear of God in the Assembly of his people by W. D. 4. The word of the Lord to Syon the New Jerusalem the Bride the Lambs Wife the excellency of all the Glory that is amongst the people by W. D. printed 1664. 5. An Epistle to Friends every where to be read distinctly in their Meetings by K. W. printed 1681. 6. All Friends every
in the unity of Essence Refuted The Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. Your imagined God beyond the Stars and your carnal Christ is utterly denied and testified against by the light to say that Christ is God and Man in one person is a Lye A Question to Professors c. p. 20 27 33. To whom do the Names Jesus and Christ chiefly and in the first place belong do they belong to the body which was took by him or to him who took the body Is not the Suâ—stance the Life the Anointing called Christ whereâ—ver it is found doth not the Name Christ belong to the whole body and every member in the body as well as to the dead Now the Scriptures do expresly distinguish between Christ and the Garment which he wore between him that came and the body in which he came between the substance which was vailed and the vail that vailed it Lo I come a body hast thou prepared me there is plainly he and the body in which he came there is the outward vessâ—l and the inward life this we certainly know and can be â—er call the bodiâ—y â—arment Christ but that which appeared and dwelt in the body c. Thus do they deny Christ which the Apostles preached saying Acts 5.30 35. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Acts 2.36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made the same Jesus whom ye crucified both Lord and Christ c. The Christians Faith WE believe and confess there is but one God only whose being only is simple spiritual eternal invisible immutable infinite and incomprehensible And that the Holy Scripture teacheth us that in that one simple divine being there be three persons subsisting the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost the Father to wit the first cause in order and the beginning of all things the Son his everlasting word the Holy Ghost his vertue power and efficacy the Son begotten of the Father from everlasting the Holy Ghost from everlasting proceeding from the Father and the Son these 3 persons are not confounded but distinct and yet not divided but of one and the same essence eternity power and equality and to conclude we allow of that which those four ancient Councils have determined and we detest all other Sects and Heresies condemned by those holy Doctors St. Athanasius St. Hillary St. Cyril and St. Ambrose Now if the Light only be Christ and as they say they can never call the Body Christ then are the Apostles found false Witnesses and the Quakers acquit Judas and the Jews for they never did hang the Light or Spirit upon a Tree they never Crucified the Light see Quakerism withering and Christianity reviving c. p. 15 to 30 for more of this Will. Bayley's Works p. 300 307. He being asked What Body Christ hath and where is it seeing its said to be at the Right hand of God he replies saying A Body hast thou prepared me mark the distinction thou me and a body This me that spake in the body was the Christ Again p. 307. For they his Disciples loved his person for the sake of the frame and quality of the Spir t that dwelt in him or else what was his person to them mâ—re than another person but for the sake of that which dwelt in him they loved him The Christ Qua. and his Dev. Test p. 98. The Se-pent is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the head of the Serpent but something that is Spiritual as the Serpent is but if that body of Christ were the seed then could he not bruise the Serpents head in all because the body of Christ is not so much as in any one And consequently the seed of the promise is an holy principle of Light and Life that being received into the heart bruiseth the Serpents head And because the Seed which cannot be that body is the Câ—â—ist as saith the Scripture the Séed is one and that Séed is Christ Touching the Scriptures Geo. Whitehead's Serious Apology p. 46. That which is spoken from the spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater G. W. s Ishmael p. 10. That which is written is the Letter which is death and killeth Saul's Errand to Dam. c. p. 7. All that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers the Letter of the Scripture is death and killeth Several Petitions answered p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same power and spirit Truths Defence p. 2 102. You might have as well condemned the Scriptures to the fire as our Writings for our giving forth Papers and Printed Books it is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God The Quakers Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scriptures was Moses or Hermes or whether both these are not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by wicked men some by wise men ill applied some by good men ill expressed some by false Prophets and yet true some by true Prophets and yet false c. Davids Enemies discovered c. per G. Whitehead and Christopher Atkinson p. 7. And these the Apostles do not call the Letter the Rule and the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel as thou and thy generation the Priests do and thy Ministry is in the Letter which killeth News coming up c. per G. Fox p. 14. Your Original is carnal Hebrew Greek and Latin and your word is carnal the letter and the light is carnal the letter and your Baptism is carnal and your Sacrament is carnal and their Communion is carnal A little Bread and Wine so dust is the Serpents meat their original is but dust which is but the letter which is death their Church is dust so the Serpent feed upon dust and their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is but the letter Touching Ordinances P. 34. A voice and a word to all you Deceivers who deceive the people and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemy and Hypocrisy that tell people of a Sacrament and tell them it is the Ordinance of God blush blush and tremble before the Lord God Almighty you who live in the Witchery and bewitch the people c. Burroughs Works about Water Baptism p. 518. We do utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God but it is an Institution of the Whore of Rome and England received it by a popish Institution