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A35007 The discovery of the accursed thing in the Foxonian Quakers camp, englarged [sic] Crisp, Thomas, 17th cent. 1695 (1695) Wing C6949; ESTC R24789 53,543 42

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says T. M. a receiving the apprehension of the same Jesus that was in that particular Body to be in a like manner in our particular Personal Bodies bearing sin in us rising for our Justification ascending and appearing in the Presence of God for us and all this in us as in that Person and this fancy of the same Jesus in their particular Persons as once in that one Body working the same works of Salvation over again in us Now of T. M's 70 words G. F. takes but 24 and changes the word Jesus into Christ and adds the words dyed and suffered and leaves out the most material words as in like manner in our Bodies bearing sin in us rising for our appearing in the Presence of God for us and all this in us as in that Person and this of the same Jesus as once in that one Body All this he leaves out and steals out of these where the strokes are these words Person Justifications Fancy and then G. F. Answers as before And so all be in the fancy that be out of the state of Witnessing Christ that suffered within them and rose again Now my opposers say because I left out the Parenthesis I represent G. F. as undervaluing the Sufferings of Christ c. and that his Sufferings were within Man only In Answer I say G. F. is guilty enough of undervaluing of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Sufferings but that in this place he did mean his Sufferings were within Man only I do not think he did so mean and I believe no body else did so think of G. F. as from these words therefore that is but their own wilful Forgery on purpose to defame me And whereas they further falsely insinuate as if G. F. only meant That Christ who suffered without to be revealed within Were it only so I see no harm in it but it 's apparent his design was deeper because as I have afore shewed T. M. did not oppose but allow that but it was the being of the same Jesus in their particular Persons or Bodies as in his own Person to be in like manner as once in that one Body working the same works over again in them c. It was Jesus his being and working thus in them which T. M. opposed and G. F. by his opposing him herein does imply is as also his saying he was equal with God and as he is so are we and his Devilling and Reprobating C. W. for confessing Salvation by our Lord Jesus without him And much more of his opposing this sound Doctrine does shew he did contemn and undervalue our Lord and his Sufferings although he does not make them to be in these words within Man only And 〈◊〉 further Proof of the wickedness of these Foxonians I find G. F. again at his old Trade of abusing and mangling words and not only so but opposing the Dignity and Worth of our Lord Jesus his Sufferings in his own Person For pag. 136. he says T. M. says That Christ is distinct from every one of us and without us in our particular Persons Now pag. 61. T. M. says to J. N. thus Dost not thou herein signifie that the end of thy Message was to Preach down that Person and those Works wrought and finished in that Person in his own Body as distinct from every one of us and without us in our particular Persons which the Apostle said shall remain in the Essence of the Person with the Father for ever Now of T. M's 40 words G. F. takes but 16 and changes his word Person into the word Christ and leaves out all the most material words wickedly misrepresenting T. M. as opposing Christ's being in his People and as if that were the chief matter of their difference as by his Answer the Apostle said Christ was in them c. Which as I have shewed this T. M. did own and not deny therefore G. F. herein is not only a perverse Disputer but very fallacious for by the word Person which T. M. uses so often and G. F. leaves out he means our Lord Jesus of Nazareth c. For it was the denyal of him and the works wrought and finished in that one Person in his own Body without us c. All these G. F. leaves out and it was not as I afore shewed Christ's being in them but the contemning the Sufferings of our Lord Jesus in his own Person and Body that this T. M. opposes J. N. for and does assert the Dignity and abiding Worth and Merit of them for Salvation in Opposition to any thing wrought in any Man as G. F. himself quotes him saying They need not be wrought over again in us I find by farther reading T. M's Books that it was as I said not Christ being in the Saints as Scripture holds for that this T. M. opposed J. N. in but J. N's preferring the Works of the Light or Spirit within his Flesh or Person to the Works wrought and finished in and by the Person our Lord Jesus in his own Person or Body distinct from and without us This was the chief matter in debate between J. N. and T. M. and in Vindication of the Value and Dignity of our Lord's Sufferings as without us in his own Person distinct from us did he T. M. make those Ass 〈…〉 on s which G. F. does oppose him in and therein does undervalue our Lords Sufferings as without although he does not make them to be within only yet his drift is to undervalue and contemn them And now I find their wickedness in pretending that G. F. meant That Christ who suffered without should be revealed within us as they say pag. 21. Discoverer c. No I find that was no part of the Controversie but about the Value and Dignity of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Personal Sufferings and Righteousness in his own Person which this T. M. did magnifie in opposition to J. N's Preaching them down and magnifie and exalt something in themselves in room thereof And I now find it apparently that G. F. as well as J. N. did here intend to undervalue the Person Blood and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus altho not publish that Christ's Sufferings were within man only for you may allow he did suffer without but that does not excuse G. F's contempt of his Sufferings as you allow his Blood was shed but allow it to be no more than the Blood of another Saint and so his Person and Sufferings and although you pretend a high value for the Blood of Christ it 's not that Blood of the Body of that Man and Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth that you mean but such a Person and such Blood as J. N. and G. Fox had in them for says G. F. They eat his Flesh and drank his Blood then it was within them c. p. 136. But could the Apostle Paul be present in Spirit although absent in Body and cannot our Lord Jesus his Flesh
was in him and the like in every Man For say they The same Christ therein crucified ascended in a Book entituled Christian Doctrine and Society of the Quakers cleared c. p. 5. Whereby it 's plain they do not mean that Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth but something in him and themselves was and is Christ And say they The Apostle brought the Saints to hear and see and handle the Word of God and they that will have fellowship with the Father must see with their Eyes and handle with their Hands in their Book entituled The Saints and their Communion c. p. 14 15. But St. Peter first Epist 1. 8. v. saith of our Lord Jesus Whom having not seen ye love Although now you see him not yet believing ye rejoyce Here St. Peter preached a Christ whom they had not nor did not see therefore surely they could not handle him as G. F. says And although they falsly say in their Discoverer Discovered p. 8. That T. C. set St. John and St. Peter at variance but T. C. mentions not St. John only shews how G. F's Doctrine opposed St. Peter's and 't is they who sets them at variance and not me by falsly pretending St. John's Doctrine and G. F's to agree But these Quakers Christ they Preach being not the same with St. Peter's but another is Antichrist And they endeavour to overthrow the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles even our Lord Jesus of Nazareth in a Mysterious way for they do not begin with the uppermost or outer parts of the Christian Building because then their Design would be too obvious But this Mystery of Iniquity works more secretly and dangerously for why is it termed Antichrist but because it pretends to be Christ But its work is to undervalue and contemn our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Sufferings and Blood and thereby make the Testimonies of most of the Prophets and Apostles to and of him in great part false Witnesses and his Sufferings Blood and Gospel made void and of no effect And such an open Gap or great Road made for the cruel Jews and Mahumetans to excuse themselves and Impeach or Condemn the Evangelists that I am not only ashamed but astonished to behold how the Watchmen slumber and mind not how these deceitful workers are laying another Foundation than that on which the Holy Men were built upon And although I have been a constant Hearer and Lover of them above Thirty Years and by the love I had for some of them ensnared in some of their Errors and did not so fully see the danger thereof until lately and mostly by their opposing and contradicting G. K. and Persecuting him and his Friends greatly convinced me that they did not Preach the same Gospel and Faith as the Apostles did 1 Cor. 15. Nor am I ashamed to confess my self was not sound in my Faith But it was the Mercy of God to let me see my Error and give me a mind to be more perfectly instructed therein And I desire the Lord for the sake of our dear Lord Jesus of Nazareth to keep me under a due sense of my Unworthiness and Ignorance and humbly thankful for his great Mercy and Love more especially in giving his dear Son who dyed for my Sins And I earnestly intreat all you Quakers who be honest minded not to be obstinate and high-conceited of your selves rather than come under some blame or reproach For I can by Experience tell you that you will in the end find a better Peace in confessing than maintaining your selves in Error Flatter not your selves that you have True Saving Faith because you do believe the Relation in Scripture concerning our Lord Jesus That he was and suffered as is recorded and because you believe he was a good Man and had the Spirit of God in him and in a greater measure than you have and that whereas the Jews said He deceived the People and that he did those Mighty Works by the Power of Satan You on the contrary believe it was the Mighty Power of God in him that wrought The Jews indeed seems to be more Blasphemous against the Holy Ghost But your Contempt of his Person Blood and Sufferings is Blasphemy against the Son of Man at least and therefore a great Sin But I say this of yours in the best sense is but a bare belief of Christ and is not True and Saving Faith in him because it is not fixt in him as the Foundation and fast-hold of your Souls for Salvation but a Principle of Light within you But the True Saving Faith fixes in him our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Sufferings Blood and Obedience in becoming a Sacrifice or Passover for us And the Satisfaction in the sufficiency of the Object or Subject and so relyance thereon is Faith and that which People most value or rely on in that properly is their Faith sixt As the Jews professed they believed in God but would not believe in our Lord Jesus as the Messiah Therefore said our Lord to them Ye believe in God believe also in me That is as he became Flesh or Man so he was our Saviour and so he is our Mediator and Intercessor in Heaven whole Christ even Jesus of Nazareth born of the Virgin Mary And seeing since his Ascension both Stephen and Paul see him so how and when since was our Lord Jesus of Nazareth separated from Christ Were it not better for you to acquiesce with the plain genuine sense of the Scripture than to stretch and strain some Expressions against the general scope thereof to countenance some erroneous Expressions of G. F. and others You are now to me as some other Perswasions were to you formerly you having been among them So I having so many Years owned and heard you can tell you by Experience that the Light within every Man only nor the most exactest and strictest Obedience thereto will not be a good Foundation for your Faith to fasten on or build upon Be not high-minded but take up your Cross and own this contemned Jesus for God hath highly exalted him and I can do no less than bear my Testimony against and disown this self-exalted Spirit of G. Fox and them who joyn with him in these unchristian Doctrines and do think that every individual Quaker is chargeable with them and all other their Errors publickly printed and allowed by your Chief Priests and Rulers until there be some publick Testimony given out by or on your behalf against them and whatever my Lot may be from you I am satisfied greater is he in whom I believe and trust even the same Jesus of Nazareth whom Peter preached whom you term Vessel Garment c. than the Light in every Man in the World Therefore you may as your fore-fathers did cry aloud until Evening against me I cannot fear the whole Host of you although I know you be many Thousands for my trust and hope is in the Mercy of God for the sake
wrathful Sentences came forth of it is not difficult to judge And if they were not from the Mouth of the Lord then G. F. W. P. c. were Conjurers Diviners and false Prophets by their own Printed Doctrine And as Jeroboam took Counsel and made two Calves and said to the People it is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem behold your Gods So they have made their Female Prelates for Licensing Marriages and Laws against paying of Tithes to hinder People from conversing with the Ministers and them from what benefit they can This G. F. as the Carpenter hews them out and G. W. and W. P. c. they have been the Carvers and Painters thereof He says he was moved and they say they be Ordinances of Christ And much more such of their deadly Fury I could produce which plainly proves their Indignation is as they say against the Ministers of all sorts and to bring them into contempt and want and therefore do defame them and all who pay Tithes although willingly and not by constraint But I believe if a true Account were given of what Charges G. F. and some others of them have been to some Persons it would appear he hath run away with or there hath been spent for and about him as much or more than on many a Priest and Teacher in England considering his Circumstances and hath been the Bane of more Souls than any one Priest in England And it 's time for them concerned to consider what Foundation they have or stand on considering the Number Strength Riches Interest and Design of these Foxonian Quakers whose Spirits are filled with Indignation against them and have declared in Print their Kingdom shall fall and they beg their Bread or perish for want And to plead for Liberty of Conscience in the case of Tithes for such as can freely pay them is so great a Crime among them that they made it the Heads of two Articles against J. Story one of their Ministers for saying He knew an honest Friend who had and would pay Tithes And that he believed all Friends had not a Testimony against Tithes And against this J. S. and one J. W. they sent out a more fierce Roating Bull than that now against G. K. All these shew their great Hypocrisie in that they now in Answer to F. B's Impeachment pretend they desire People may keep their Consciences clear and that their Orders are but Counsel and Advice But they are so arrogant as is proved by these afore Instances in thus affronting the Law and Government that it 's the Duty of all good Christians and Subjects concerned to Testifie against them And if you Christian Quakers do not disown all these their Errors you are great respecters of Persons and therein great Sinners and indeed great Slaves to your Chief Priests But notwithstanding they have uttered all this Fury and Uncharitableness against all Christendom but themselves yet they pretend great Charity for the Pious Gentiles saying in their Book The Christian Society and Doctrine c. p. 9. Must all be excluded any true knowledge or Faith of Christ within them unless they have the knowledge of Christ without them No sure for that would imply insufficiency in Christ as within them Here is much of their Secret Mysterious undermining the Faith in our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and the Authority of the Evangelists in this their pretended Charity to the Gentiles And it shews there was but little Love to our Lord or the Evangelists Testimony in the Contrivers of this piece of Antichristian Charity For at the best it doth but advance Morality and degrade the Faith in our Lord Jesus according to the Evangelists Testimony And I pray Judge who be most likely to be denyers of Christ and Antichrist they who freely pay Tithes without constraint or they who uttered and do now excuse these Contempts of our Lord Jesus Scriptures Governours Laws and all Christians besides themselves Again say they The Priests work hath been to teach People to keep in their Lusts and not forsake and come out of them to Christ p. 228. And You all Priests and Teachers since the days of the Apostles who are inwardly ravened from the Spirit have kept Millions of Souls in Damnation keeping them in the way of Hell who are Satan's Ministers p. 267. If it be objected that they do not mean the Ministers in General it is before proved they have condemned all from the Throne to the Dunghil Also they say Them called Quakers the only Ministers of Christ p. 267. Therefore they mean all National and Congregational as is further evident by their saying Equivocating deluding Hypocrites he hath proved himself and all others except the Quakers p. 249. Again say they They must all come to the Quakers if ever they own Christ p. 119. What they boast concerning the Light within not only within themselves but in every Man they say to two Baptists who they say are out of Peace If you look to the Light within it will not let you have Peace The Saints Peace is in the Light within For the Light is Christ the Covenant of God p. 295. And one Objecting against them because they say There is no other way to bring People to God but by the Light in them G. F. Answers which is Christ the way to God p. 38. Another Objecting against the Light within says G. F. which is Christ p. 49. Also they quote these following as Errors One saying They that seek for Righteousness by Obedience to the Light within differ nothing from the Jews And them who Preach Redemption by the Light in every Man are not of God p. 60 61. Again one says To call that Light in every Man Christ is to slight his Glorious Person in Heaven G. F. Answers The Apostle said Christ is all in all p. 94. One says There is not in every Man that Redeeming Light nor is the Light every man hath his Meditation p. 154. Now although G. F. doth not positively deny these yet they are cited as Errors Again one says To say the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer is an Error Also that they who affirm the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer sets up an Idol p. 58. Long side-long Answers G. F. makes to these and in his Conclusion saith to the Person who affirms these Truths For the rest of thy Lyes c. Thereby implying these aforesaid Affirmations false and owning the contrary That the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer For says G. F. He the Devil teacheth them not to have the Light within them the Seed Christ The Root of God Now in their Discoverer Discovered p. 18. they charge me for Quarrelling with G. F. for calling Christ the Root of God But they are false Accusers for it 's his terming the Light in every Man the Root of God that I objected against as the head of that Paragraph shews where I say What
C. W's Christian Confession to Christ without him And G. F. thinking that Deviling and Reprobating him not enough but to aggravate the wretchedness of his state that he was not only a Reprobate but an ignorant one too This is that C. Wade whom G. F. so grossly abused as I have shewed in my Essay c. Also G. F. saith he says but no body knows where for he quotes no Page and I have read the Book all over containing 60 Pages and cannot find some Sentences that G. F. says he says so And although G. F. hath so Devilled and Reprobated him and says he is ignorant of Christ within I shall shew you what he says of Christ within In pag. 36. says C. W. The Saints are said to be the Habitation of God through the Spirit And pag. 4. God whose Throne is in Heaven is in his gracious and spiritual Presence in and through his Son dwelling in the hearts of his People And in p. 7. Christ is by his Spiritual Influences in all his Saints And pag. 19. Christ that is Personally absent from Believers is dwelling in their hearts by Faith All these Confessions to Christ within by C. W. be in that one Book G. F. pretends to Answer Now if C. W. believed this with his heart I do not see but according to the Tenth of the Romans he might be saved and G. F. hath rather recorded his own Reprobate state than C. W's and his own Spirit more like the Devil 's than C. W's But it was C. W's bold and open Confession to Jesus of Nazareth that did torment G. F. as he did the same Spirit Luke 4. 34. And so the same Confession how doth torment the same Spirit in G. F's Successors the Chief Priests and Rulers of the Foxonian Quakers W. P. W. B. G. W. c. And for their Pretence in their Discoverer Discovered p. 20. That they see not how the Apostle can be Orthodox and G. F. Erroneous their Blindness is to be pitied but to them who are not blinded it is plain that G. F. was erroneous and wicked For C. W. as is afore-shewn doth Confess to Christ within according to these Scriptures 3 Eph. 17. 3 Gal. 26. 4 Gal. 6. read them And Paul doth no where say The Devil was in thee thou sayest thou art saved by Christ without thee and hast recorded thy self a Reprobate as G. F. wickedly doth But in 10 Rom. 9. St. Paul saith quite contrary and neither doth St. John countenance G. F's Contempts although you would shelter him under them both And further saith G. F. Can you call him Christ in Man without the Man being there p. 68. This is in Answer to one who charges them to say Christ is in them as Man By these you may see what a Man Christ they mean when they say they believe in the Man Christ Jesus And that he became Man they mean even such a Man as is in them For says G. F. If they must eat his flesh is it not in them Again one says That Christ our Justification should be in us that dyed that suffered and ascended to fancy him in a particular Person c. And in p. 130. says the same Man Christ is Personally absent from a Believer So that it 's our Lord Jesus as God and Man Personally being in People that this T. M. opposes and not his enlightning men for that he acknowledgeth as G. F. cites him p. 130. saying Yea when enlightened by that Heavenly Light from Jesus And in p. 131. saith T. M. There is something of God in Man And G. F. doth by his opposing these sound Doctrines imply there is no Man or Person Jesus absent from Believers nor no other Christ suffered and dyed but what is in us Personally or whole Christ as by his Answer And so all be in the fancy that be out of the state of witnessing Christ that suffered within them Now in the Discoverer Discovered p. 20. They blame me for leaving out the word And and the Parenthesis which I did not to wrong his sense nor is there any Emphasis in them nor did I quote this place to prove that G. F. did make Christ's Sufferings within Man only as they falsly insinuate p. 21. nor made any Observations on this place particularly But I do believe that in this place as well as in many others his design was to contemn the Person of our Lord and consequently his Blood and Sufferings as more fully appears by your saying That Blood of his let out of his Side by the Spear after he was dead was no more than the Blood of another Saint This is a wicked Contempt And for your fallacious Pretence p. 21. That G. F. means no other but that Christ who suffered without to be revealed within That is acknowledged by all Protestants and would not be contradicted But if he meant so why did he not express it as you do And at best in this he shews himself a very perverse Disputer and causer of Divisions and therefore to be avoided And although G. F. do not in that place make Christ's Sufferings to be in Man only yet he doth say And all be in the fancy who be out of the state of witnessing Christ that suffered within them Now it was the Man our Lord Jesus of Nazareth that suffered and he as such cannot be Personally in any Man therefore in this he doth contemn our Lord's Person And for your so severe charging me for omitting the word and and the Parenthesis now you have them in they will not excuse his Contempt But you have hereby aggravated his gross wickedness for if that be so great a sin in me how wicked was he to falsifie Mens words and sense as he hath done and is proved in my Essay and this Discovery Let 's see now what just Judges you will approve your selves in condemning his erroneous Spirit but I know you dare not touch that it being your Foundation for if you do down comes your Building of Infallibility and Church-Power Further says G. F. Christ is come now who treads the Wine-press alone without the City so making the Work now a doing which our Lord finished in his own Person as by the Prophet is said Hath trod the Wine-press alone Again one says If there be not a distinction between the Righteousness imputed on account of the Blood of Christ and that wrought in us by his Spirit G. F. Answers Christ's Righteousness his Blood and Spirit are all one p. 183. And says to the Man For the rest of thy confused stuff it is not worth mentioning Thereby making these sound words confused stuff Again one says The work in us is not the ground and Purchase of true Peace To this he makes a perverse Answer and says to the Person For the rest of thy Lyes they turn on thy self p. 171. Thereby implying that before was one One says The Flesh of Christ is not in them G. F. Answers
weare but at that place I mention it is free and suteable for Frends coming to thee it lies much upon me and if thou find movings strike over thither I shall say no more of it the Worke is great here away pray for us all that in thy power we may abide for evermore I am thyne begotten and nurished by thee and in thy Power am I preserved glory unto thee holy one for ever John Audland This Blasphemous Letter above is by me composed out of an old Manuscript Verbatim and spelled and pointed according as it is in the said Copy T. F. These Blasphemous Expressions are to and of G. F. the Author of most of these Errors and Wickednesses and he is extolled and magnified by J. Cole and S. Eagles two of their Chief Priests with unfitting Titles as well as this J. A. which are justified by W. P. in Print and indeed all confirmed by him in his Preface to the Journal saying Many have done well but thou Dear George excellest them all but it has been in Wickedness And he that-saith to the wicked thou are Righteous him shall the People curse 24 Proverbs 24. And it 's but a silly thread-bare Quibble of yours p. 27. That this Letter is an old thread-bare Story for it 's not the less true for being old But it cannot be very old because your beginning is but of late comparatively But your Story p. 40. is old thread-bare and false in Fact in some things and shews your Envy and let them among you who can see not you who cannot look into F. B's Cage and read Romans 2d and your own Doctrine also and although you cannot yet others can see your Wickedness and may see more of it ere long if you go on for your Slanders and Quibbles cannot blind all People for your Story of Merchant-Taylors-Hall hath no relation to this Controversie with you about your Contempts and great part of the Disorders there were occasioned by the rudeness of two of your Preachers J. B. and S. N. of whom I could tell you something of worse consequence And it is astonishing to behold how they contemn our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and so Blasphemously Deisie this G. F. and make way for themselves to be Christs as appears by Is P's saying Doth not the Name belong to every Member as well as to the Head And yet they can in Print say of our Lord Jesus His Person was mean and contemptible But Tradition gives a better Character of his Person and that the Comliness of his Person was one Argument that Martha used and which prevaild on her Sister Mary first to go to hear him and doubtless he was and is so to all that truly love him although made contemptible by these false Apostles in order to advance G. F's wicked Spirit And for your endeavouring to cover your wickedness pretending that some of these Quotations are from J. P's Book if so they are no less true deny them if you think good for your slandering of him as you do in something in Matter of Fact in your Discoverer Discovered besides what you basely insinuate But his Reputation both as a Christian and a Citizen is above your reach to hurt by all your barking but through Mercy you cannot bite here as you did G. K. and his Friends in Pensilvania and Fine and take away Goods and Imprison as you did by W. Bradford as may be seen in their Tryals Sold by J. Gwillam within Bishopsgate but yet you will venture hard although to the slaying of your selves 5 Job 2. by slanderous Insinuations Pag. 40 say you He employed Porters to carry some Religious Books among which the Bible mark this a Bible would not serve their turn but the Bible is said to be one with design to burn them say you but how do you know that I am sure he never told you so but to the contrary but whatever his Design was it 's evident your Design is wicked to slander him and slay his Reputation if you could see you may read your Portion 101 Psalm 5. But for the Readers better Information I shall set down some of his own words in Print about it and I am sure he is better to be credited than G. Fox G. Whitehead c. of your Masters the Chief Priests or thee Ed. Pennington their Servant for no such Untruths Slanders Blasphemies and other gross Wickedness as are in Print proved against them can be justly laid to his charge Saith he Whereas it 's said I would have burnt all those Books I say I would not have burnt any more than what was already burnt which was about a quarter of a sheet of Paper and a News Book or two at most therefore not the Bible to be sure as you wickedly and falsly say I say says he I should not have done it to gain the World Again says he The Rumour is I would have burnt the Bible rather than I would burn that or the least Leaf thereof that may be serviceable I should rather Sacrifice my Life This and much more of his in Print above 25 Years since about that Slander these Foxonian Priests now spread against him Rather than want a Sacrifice for their Fury they will as far as they can slay a Man's Reputation although it be so false and scandalous a Work that the Chief Priests themselves dare not appear in it but it must be done by this their Servant Edward Pennington Acts 24. 2. Because this Mr. P. hath been serviceable to discover their Wickedness therefore they are tormented and rage as one Sanders a Wine-Cooper did lately on the Exchange come to him and there openly give him worse Language than that that they punished one for giving to S. Jennings one of their Chief Priests and yet this of that foul mouth'd Sanders was without any Provocation or word spoken to him And the Bible is but a fallacious pretence for them to cover their Envy with but their Envy and Rage was because Contempt was justly shewn to their Erroneous Pamphlets for they contemn the Scripture terming it Blasphemy to say it 's the Word of God but entitle G. F's Pamphlets so and they excuse this G. F. but can slander others on Credible Information And it 's said but it 's not only said but proved that G. Fox c. were wicked Men in matter of Fact and so is this the High-Priest's Servant Edward Pennington Also in their Title Page they make C. C. Achan and they can bring Scripture as their fore-Father did that T. C. ought to be stoned But they are in this as in abundance more proved self-condemned Apostates according to their own Printed Doctrine as well as by Scripture for they do that to others they would not have done to themselves and therein shew they love not Christ because they keep not his Commands And indeed the whole Work of this false envious self-exalted contemptuous Spirit of theirs shews it is the Great Mystery