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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75872	An answer to a book, titled, Quakers principles quaking: subscribed by the name of one Ralph Hale, with an epistle (so called) to the reader, subscribed with the name of one Zachariah Crofton. A principle of darkness, deceit, and confusion in Ralph Hale, and his fellow labourer in Sathans work Zachariah Crofton, is discovered by the Quakers principle, and the Quakers principle doth stand against the power of darkness, and all the false principles in the world, them to discover and lay open. The book was said to be modestly propounded by Ralph Hale, but in it I found so many lies, slanders, and false accusations, with confused, vain, and frivolous words, as many of them is not worth mentioning; yet, lest the author should boast in his mischief, I shall lay down somthing in answer to some few of them, in respect of the number of them. / A servant to the least in the houshold of faith, and the lest amonst his brethren, whose name in the flesh is William Adamson.	Addamson, William, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing A501; Thomason E897_3; ESTC R206690	24,865	37

taste of Hamans cup and if God had not put a Bit into thy jaws and a hook into thy Nostrils to draw thee back from thy cruelty and so limited and chained the power of the murthe●ing prince of darkness in thee I pray thee what height of mischief would thy cruelty have reached unto where it l ghts if thou had power to act it seeing thy compassion and pity would not afford a harmless and despised people their liberty but thy pity would subject them to a Bedlam Discipline Here thou shews thy self to be of thy old grandfather Cain who was active in mischief and murther a cruel and envi us man like thy self but here thou truly fulfils that Scrip●ure Prov. 12.10 The tender mercies of the Wicked are cruel Priest And thou vents forth a long Oration of foaming smoaky words in reviling the Light with as scornful Titles as possibly the Divel can invent and thou sayest The Light drives the soul from every duty Answ I say for the soul first know what it is before thou talk of its Daties and first know thy own duty to cease from lying for that the light drives the soul from every duty that is one of thy lies it is darkness that drives from good duties and not the light Prie. The subjects of it sanctifies no Sabbaths saith thou Answ I say whether we who are called Quakers or you who accuse us of Sabbath-breaking do more truly sanctifie a Sabbath let all that read these following words consider First Do not your hireling parish-masters on that day that you call your Sabbath sell the stuff that they have stolen and bundled together I mean their Sermons as they call them some say they invent them by study but I say they rather gather them by stealth out of old Authors and other men● labours and so are they that steal the word from their Neig●b●urs and say the Lord saith it and the Lord never spoke to them And do not they take fifty pounds an hundred two or three in the year more or less as they can get for the work that they generally do on that day Do they not make it their Market day to sell their stuff on Is th●s to sanctifie a Sabbath to the Lord And do not the people that follow them and so much cry them up think their own thoughts speak their own words and do their own works on that day Nay Do not many of them use vain drinking vain gaming and sporting on that day Will they not go to a Steeple-house one part of that day and spend the rest of it on their own lusts or labours Is this to sanctifie a Sabbath to the Lord And thus both priest and people are profane And whether do you believe that Christ suffered and rose again by which the worship was taken from the seventh day yea or nay And if Yea then do thou prove where it was tyed to one day above another again by any command in Scripture as a day in seven The Apostles held their meeting on the first day of the week and on other days of the week and so do we what hast thou now against us concerning the sanctifying of a Sabbath We wait on the Lord in filence as his Spirit guides us and we worship him in Spirit and as he reveals his word to us we speak as his Spirit gives us utterance both in praises and in prayers to our God on the day which he hath chosen to himself and so do we celebrate an everlasting Sabbath unto the Lord our God on the m●unt of his Hol●ness where the day is without night Priest Seeks not God at any time in Prayer saith thou Answ I say that is another of thy lies as they can w●tness who have been at our meetings Priest Craves not so much as a blessing on their meat and drink sayest thou Answ That is another of thy lies as many can witness who have eaten with us though we do not utter words outwardly at all times that we eat according to the exp●ctation of some men whose tongues are at their own or other mens command who have not the word immediate from the Lord but their own invented words and so they can utter that when they please or if another man bid them when he please●h then they can either crave a blessing or give thanks as ye call it and such craving as this which stands not in Gods counsel but in m●ns customs fashions and wills we do utterly deny and the example of Christ we own whose example we follow in our measures to the gl ry of his praises Priest In a word it throws off every Act of Religion sayest thou Answ It seems that the Father of lies is so fully seated in thee that he hath brought thee to his will to vent forth thy lies for this is another of them the light keeps all them that are guided by it in the pure Religion to relieve the strangers widdows and fatherless and the light keeps them unspotted of the world who are guided by it and the light denies all hypocrites and lyars like thy self who hath not power over their words all whose Religion is vain Priest And thou accusest us that we reprove the very worship of God Answ Zachariah Crofton if the worship of God had stood in lying thou had been grown very high in it and that God that gives thee to vent forth these lies and his worship we do reprove and d●ny and the God Truth and holiness and his worship which stands in spirit and truth which Christ speak o● we do own but the worship of the god of this world which stands in mens wills in outward forms times and customs observing of days moneths and times of eating and drinking and out-side washings sprinklings dippings plungings and the like outward dead helpless and needless shadows we do reprove and do deny them Priest And thou accuseth us that we reprove Prayer Reading Hearing Receiving of Sacraments and so forth Answ I say that ever we reproved the prayers of the righteous that is another of thy lies for we own it both in heart and voice but the Prayers of such liers as thou art and vain repetition of words we reprove and do deny them and for thy saying that we reprove Reading and Heari●g that is more of thy lies for reading of the Scripture and hearing of them read in the meas●re of the Spirit that gave them forth we do own and for receiving of Sacraments for which there is no Scripture we reprove and do deny it and return them back to the Pope who invented many of them and the true Baptisme and the Lords Supper according to the Scripture we own Priest Even all the practises of Piety they decry sayest thou Answ Zachariah Crofton that is another of thy lies thou labours hard to get thy measure full where did either thou or any man else hear any of us speak against a godly and pious life but

so swinishly minded that Christ spake those words to they coveted no mans gold nor silver and if they had food and rayment they would be therewith content but the dogs will never be content and here take heed thou have not called evil good and good evil remember thou hast denounced a wo in the Title page of thy book to them that do so and all who have an eye may here see that wo meet with thee and everlastingly it is thy portion except with speed thou repent Hale And in the 8 page thou sayest thou would gladly know whether we will acknowledge the whole Scripture to be the Word of God or no I mean the whole Bible sayest thou Answ I say if thou mean that the whole B●ble is the Word of God I say Nay for I do acknowledge no God but one nor no word of God but one and Christ is that Word the Bible is no more then a true declaration of what it declares the Bible ●s a declaration of those words that God spake but not the whole Bible some p●rt of it is a declaration of those words he divel spake Luke 4.3 6. the divel said unto him If thou be the Son of God c. and the divil said ●nto him All this power will I give thee Is this the words of God or the words of the divel And further if I should say that the Bible were the Word of God thou would give no credit to it except thou be a lyar for there is no Scripture saith so and in the 25 page of thy book thou sayest if it be not Law and Testimony proof thou wilt give no credit to it for shame do not m●ke thy self a lyar lest whilst thou goes about to make the Quakers Principles quake thou break thy own in pieces Hile. And in the 7 page thou said the ministers work is for the perfecting of the Saints for the edifying of the Body of Christ which is the Church sayest thou Answ I say if the Ministers work be for the perfecting of the Saints and for the edifying of the Body of Christ then see that thou do not deny perfection in this life lest thou leave the Ministers neither time nor place to do their work in for the work that the Ministers doth they must do it in this life The dead that die in the Lord rest from their labours and their works follow them Rev. 14.13 there is no perfecting of the Saints in the grave and for the Body of Christ which thou sayest is the Church it is risen from the grave for the Church is in God therefore see that thou do not leave the Ministers their work to do after this life Hale And in the tenth page line the 14. thou sayest But you say this Law so much insisted upon together with the Priesthood of it is changed and the Commandment disanulled and this you bottom upon Hebr. 7.12 and 18. sayest thou Answ I say here let all take notice that the very same words that we bear witness to that is the changing of the Law and Priesthood and the disanulling of the Commandments and that on which we have bottomed it as thou thy self art forced to confess they are plain Scripture words without adding or diminishing as they are written in Heb. 7.12 and 18. and here again let all take notice what Spirit thou speaks from that by thy inchantment would make it seem as though the Law and Priesthood were not changed and the Commandments not disanulled except in such sancies and imaginations as thy vain mind can admit of and so would prove the Apostle a Lyar. Hale And whereas thou sayest thou dost affirm that Moses and the Prophets and the Gospel are all one in substance and in effect the very same Answ Ralph Hale thou dost affirm that whereof thou knows nothing but by hear-say thou never yet came to Christ who is the Gospel and there is no other Gospel nor to the Prophets nor to Moses estate but thou art between Adam and Moses and there death reigns over thee and if thou might not have talked of Moses the Prophets nor the Gospel till thou had known Moses to give a Law against sin and the transgressor in thee and the Prophets to denounce Gods judgements against sin in thee and the Gospel of peace that makes free from sin we had not found so many Scriptures wrested in thy Book by adding thy cursed meanings and the plagues of God must be added to him that adds Hale And in page 11. line 15. thou sayest in respect of order of the Priesthood it is not changed with the next words thou confutes that again for saith thou Christ is a Priest for ever after the order of Meschisedec and in page 15 two of the last lines thou sayest Christ is a Priest not after the order of Aaron but after the unchangeable order of Melchisedec Answ Ralph Hale Is this the modesty that thou talks of in the Title page of thy book in which thou propounds this stuff Thou here confesses that Christ is a Priest not after the order of Aaron but after the order of Melchisedec Now let all consider whether the Levitical Priesthood of Aarons order under which the Law was given to the people was not changed when another Priesthood was risen called by the name of another order the one being called by the order of Aaron and the other by the order of Melchisedec as in Heb. 7.11 which thou thy self art forced to confess that Christ is a Priest not after Aarons order but after the order of Melchisedec though before in page 11. line 19. thou said in respect of the order of the Priesthood it is not changed And here all may take notice of thy spirit of consusion and what saying and unsaying of a thing thou makes But when the Leopard is without spots then will that nature that thou lives in be without confusion Hale And thou sayest Tythes of Divine Right do belong to the servants of Melchised●chs order Answ I say if Tythes belongs to the servants then the Masters have nothing to do with them therefore see that you give not them to them that are called masters for by thy own rule they do not belong to masters but servants and the servants of Melchisedechs order who are Ministers of the Gospel they n●ither do nor never did demand them but will be content with Gospel wages If we have food and rayment let us be therewith content 1 Tim. 6.8 Hale And thou sayest I might instance the Sacraments of old under the Law Answ Ralph Hale Where is now thy modesty that thou talks of in the Title page of thy Book in which thou propounds thy stuff It is far from modesty to make lies and here thou d●st both make and instance lies for there is no such thing as a Sac ament ever men ioned in all the time under the Law therefore that is not Law and testimony proof then wilt sure