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A51569	Tyranny and hypocrisy detected or, a further discovery of the tyrannical government, popish-principles, and vile practices of the now-leading Quakers. Being a defence of the letter, intituled, The spirit of the hat, against the deceitful, defective and railing Answer, called The spirit of Alexander, &c. With a challenge, to refer the judgment of matters of fact to the verdict of twelve impartial judges, equally chosen. Also, many of their letters, papers, and transactions among themselves are made publick; wherein they contradict one another, and attribute titles to George Fox, that are proper only to Christ.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Mucklow, William, 1631-1713. Bemoaning letter.	1673 (1673)	Wing M3036; ESTC R201177	45,022	73

Ministry c. and of prejudice and hardness of heart and wickedness that now in the Ancient of dayes a Hat makes such work with you W. Pen. No Cross no Crown P. 7 8. Sixteen Reasons why Cap-honour and titular respects are neither honour nor respects Reas 1. Because if true honour consists in Hats Bows or Titles then are the most prophane and deboist the most civil since most expert in those vain Ceremomies which is impossible Psal 50.23 Isa 33.15 Reas 2. Because real Honour is a substantial thing manifested by obedience which therefore cannot stand in invented gestures which it must necessarily do in case the ceremony of the Hat be an honour or respect Reas 4. Because honour properly ascends not descends yet the Hat is near as frequently off to equals and inferiors as to superiors Reas 5. If pulling off a Hat or Title were to pay honour who so vile that could not honour but this is to make Honour as superstitious men do Religion to consist in some external appearances c. Read more in his Book which for brevity sake I may not transcribe J. Naylor concerning Worship Printed about 1656. God is a Spirit and in Spirit is he worshiped not with Mens hands not with bodily exercise farther then by the eternal Spirit the body is exercised so the imaginations thinkings and conceivings are shut out all mans ways mans times and forms mans decency and orders are all shut out and condemned with the Spirit in which God alone is worshiped Now I shall produce the Judgment of eminent men among the Quakers concerning the very controversy about the Hat after it was commenc't among them Isaac Pennington Some Queries in the power and drawings of the Spirit of the Lord c. Quer. 1. Whether this present ministration of life doth not point men to an inward principle there to wait for the Teachings of Gods Spirit within and not to go forth into reasonings about things either from Scriptures or otherwise after the manner of men Quer. 2. Whether those whom the Lord made use of to direct to this principle did then tell us that when we were turned thereto we must observe what comely orders were prescribed by the Apostles in the Churches and that they prescribed them by the Spirit of God and that if we were not found in the same comely orders we were not led by the Spirit of God or did they not rather tell us that the Epistles of the Apostles were writ to the then present state of the Churches and that we were not to take up the same practices unless we were led thereunto by the same Spirit Quer. 3. To this 3d Query G. Whitehead answers the 5th of the 4th month 1663. This is an unreasonable and impertinent Query especially as it is to in who are in the Ministry for we never went about to limit the Spirit of the Lord in putting off or keeping on the Hat in Prayer c. Will he now dare to disown and punish men for that practice which he acknowledges they may be moved to by the Spirit of the Lord O strange Is the putting off or keeping on the Hat in Prayer a thing of such a nature for the Spirit of the Lord so to be limitted about as that he shall not c. may not the Spirit of the Lord in some of his chosen vessels testify against it Oh let God alone reign in Israel Quer. 4. If this be brought in as a comly order is there not equal ground for bringing in all other things which the Apostles prescribed in those days to the Churches as comly orders also and so setting up the outward Court again which the Spirit of the Lord left out in the measuring of his Temple and withdrew from Qu. 5. Is not this the direct way to draw the mind into reasonings about Scriptures and from a simple waiting on the principle of Life where the true peace and unity alone is preserved and so necessarily a begetting into separation and division for it is not at this day different practices that divide but a departing from the principle and a propagating of unity by reasonings and considerations about things where it is easy to err and run into uncertainties and miss of the principle of life and its leadings which if the Lord suffer it to prevail will bring that desolation and reproach upon Israel which the enemy otherwise never could Thus far Isaac P. who surely is a man as able to give an account of the Quakers principle as W. Pen the Novice in that way If it be said that Isaac P. is of another mind now that makes for us and not against us for if he was for many years before a true Quaker and a great and approv'd Writer for that way of infallibility and then for some years after profess'd that as their principle and doctrine which he afterward recants doth he not evidently give the lye to himself and doctrine Can the Spirit of God reach a man for seven years together that he ought to keep off his Hat at Prayer and then for the next seven years teach him that he may keep it on sometimes and testify against the constant keeping it off and after that testify against that Testimony what blasphemy would it be to assert this And yet this is Isaac P's case Would to God he and they that are concerned with him would seriously consider what firmer grounds he has in such matters to believe himself infallible at one time more than at another If it must be resolved by the judgment of the Body then for ever give over the Doctrine of Infallible Teachings in particular persons and betake your selves to the Church of Rome whose Characteristick Doctrin that is But if every particular person is fallible whereon shall the Infallibility of the Body be grounded but to proceed to some other of these infallible Teachers John Crook the 22d of the 12th Mon. 1662. About Meats and Drinks Gestures and Postures Habits Times and Places DEarly Beloved Friends Meats are for the belly and the belly for Meats the head is for the hat and the hat for the head but God will destroy and lay all these in the dust Know your liberty therefore as to these things in the Lord as thing● below the life into which you are called onely use it not for a Cloak for envy or discord for as we read of Cain and Abel two men performing the same action attended with the same circumstances of occurrences and formalities and yet the one accepted and the other rejected In like manner may two persons be found in contrary actions postures or gestures and yet both accepted of God For if I should lay a bond upon my self therein I transgress the liberty of the Spirit either as to time constanoy or place or if another should lay a bond upon me or put a yoak about the neck of the disciples this is no more justifiable than the former

wanted not Will but Power to punish Yea it 's so manifest to those that have used their Meetings that W. P. in appealing to God's holy Witness in all Consciences for their vindication discovers himself a man greatly to be lamented as either blind or impudent Let Francis Chadwel tell of the usage he has found amongst them Have they not added pushing pinching kicking and hard-treading upon feet and toes to those other violences But W. P. answers that they never refused Conscientious Inquirers and would be informed if ever they so used any conscientious Inquirer or opposer Let us name who we will I dare warrant he 'll never allow any of them to have been conscientious I have seen some Papers of one William King a Quaker and who upon that account has exposed himself to imprisonment for speaking in the Quakers Meetings But he complains of the same usage from the Quakers as from their persecutors that he has been hal'd down out of their Gallery in Grace-church-street with such violence that he has scarce felt the stairs that he has often felt their cruel hands that G. Whitehead being in a great rage and fury at Jer. Clerk's house gave him a sore pinch in the arm that they would not suffer him to be a prisoner tho for the same cause among them but procur'd that he should be keept in the common-prison with a great deal to the same purpose Now because he doth in some things disagree with their judgment they deal with him in this manner Nay moreover he saith G. Whitehead and others came to Henry Pawson and his wife with whom he lodged and charg'd them not to entertain him thereby indeavouring what they could to force him out of the Land Now perhaps they will say W. King is a mad man if he be they ought to show more compassion towards him and not to deal with him in that cruel manner they do but for my part I see nothing in his Papers which doth not become a Quaker and is not sutable to their Principles There are several other Instances of their using Violence in their Meetings which may be urg'd as occasion shal serve And their Paper against John Pennyman when he was in Prison may show what spirit they are of Nay they would not spare that grave ancient Gentlewoman Anne Mudd who being moved to speak a few words among them before their Speakers began Thomas Matthews who guarded the stairs pulled her away by violence These are the People that in former dayes have vex'd and disquieted all sorts of Religious Assemblies with their Messages as they said from the Lord and have clamour'd against those as Persecuters that could not otherwise obtain their peace than by thrusting or carrying them out and yet themselves do the same and worse not only to those of a contrary mind and Judgment but also to those of the same Mind and Principle even when they profess as themselves to be moved thereto of the Lord. The Jews at Venice permitted the Quakers to speak in their Synagogues but that the Quakers will not allow others They have professedly denied to permitt any of their Religion to marry a Christian or one of the world how honest and pious soever if not in their way Witness Oliver Holmes W. Mucklow and many others And W. Pen owns it as a peice of not only just but necessary punishment to be inflicted upon him that is not a Quaker or him that is so in all things but the Ceremony of the Hat in Prayer that if he could not get a wife save among the Quakers he should never have one See his p. 10. where he calls such an one's dissent Imaginations and Whimseys As for their denying such an one a burial though they would deny it him alwayes as one of them but especially their now usurping his property in a burial-place is he sayth a down-right forgery Kindness They would not suffer such an one to stinck above ground but he should be buryed not among the Catholicks but as Hereticks in Spain or Italy But it is so notorious and common with them as they that have been among them report to deprive such disowned persons of their property in the burying-place that I wonder with what face they can deny it or what evasion they can have for it Did they not Tho. Fisher and did not J. Bolton deny it to W. Musklow c. Did they not make void from the Hat-men as they called them the Notes they had for the use of the Burying-place presently after the Papers of Orders by the 11 Elders and did not these men's money pay for it 11. As for John Osgood's Cabbalistick Harangue which is pretended to be for the clearing of God's Truth and People in the matter of his concern it 's so far from that that it confirms what is said by our Author against the Quakers but shews that John Osgood is now by joyning with them and becoming a Preacher among them become another man so that instead of complaining against as formerly he seeks to cover the iniquities of his Brethren For whilst he doth in general terms deny all he doth in particular deny nothing at all Read p. 30 31 32. of the Spirit of the Hat and he either sayes nothing to those things that are there related or confesseth to that which he would seem to deny He says p. 21. the opposition he had related not to his Marriage as a Marriage or to hinder his proceed therein but that the Meeting could not pass it as their approvement he being not in unity with the Meeting as to that matter aforesaid viz. of giving testimony against the Spirit of the Hat which he did already in his practice disapprove And what doth our Author say more and how could this acute man say the Meeting would not hinder his Proceed in his Marriage when they would not approve of his Marrying without which Approvement he could not legally proceed But the Mother of his Bride Rebekah Trevers being a great Mother and Governess among them cryes out then in her own and Daughters concern that their cruelty was worse than that of the Bishops and so by her Authority and J. Osgoods Interest they proceed to Marriage without Licence which was so offensive to John Bolton that he publickly disowned Tho. Salthouse one of their Ministers for being a Witness to it and for his Moderation 12. Let us now proceed to other Instances mentioned in the Spirit of the Hat whereby it will evidently appear that the great zeal labours and sufferrings of the leading Quakers tend chiefly to their owne ambition and to the obtaining of a Lordly power domination over the Persons and Conscience● of their Proselytes and that they use most wicked wayes and means for accomplishing these ends And that which first offers it self in this service is that instance of G. Fox menioned p. 28. which the Quakers in their Spirit of Alexander c. say nothing to and

c. We find John Crook and Edward Burrough also a man great without controul joyning in a Letter with John Perrot the Head of the Hat-men and professing their unity with him long after he had declared himself in the matter of the Hat Thus they write We are here Newgate prison kept close prisoners but the blessed presence of the Lord is with us and we are all in dear love and perfect unity and our souls do rejoice in the fellowship with God and one with another in his love and life and the Lord hath knit our hearts together in the happy unity and the contrary is judged and life and power reigns over all Blessed for ever About the year 1662. Edward Burrough John Crook John Perrot XXIV In the last place I shall alledge the Testimony of Benj. Furly a man of parts concerning this controversy of the Hat as I find it given in a shorter abstract of a large Paper wrote by him in behalf of himself and the Quakers in Holland Dated from Rotterdam about the year 1663 and addrest to George Whitehead which tho' it is larger than might fit this Discourse yet I hope will recompence the Reader by a clearer state of the controversy among them It runs thus George Whitehead THy Paper c. I receiv'd and indeed cannot but admire at thy proceeding therein and dealing with me in that politick manner but simplicity and innocency had better become thee and the profession of the Ministry of Christ and will alwayes be found the best Weapons and Armor but those that have neither Truth nor Right with them in their plea must needs use such weapons as are most suitable to their evil cause and by which Truth hath alwaies been opposed and the professors thereof persecuted for verily to my grief I find thee in this thing walking in the too too plain footsteps of all the false prophets that ever got up into a carnal Authority viz. to cloath the innocent and harmless sheep in the skin of a wolfe or some other ravenous beast and then all will be out of love with them at first sight the sheep will shun and avoid them and the dogs run upon and tear and worry them Thus thou hast done whether simply or subtily the Lord will judge but thou hast put me on the Garments of opposition imposition c. yea of opposition against such as in the freedom or motion of the Spirit of Life do put off their Hats in Paryer which thing is far from mee and that which I shall as the Lord gives me opportunity and freedom bear my testimony against in any person whatsoever And the Paper which I wrote speaks no such thing as thou wouldest impute to it it speaks not in the least against any thing which any man is moved to from the Lord nor against any man for doing as he is moved nay though he should but so think and be mistaken in his thoughts I would not have him leave it till he sees better But I do only caution such as do practise it without any other ground in themselves as to the thing it self as to that groundless one of doing it because others do it and because it hath been our cuistom and order so many years c. And seeng such a Paper come forth from G. F. so harshly and perversly judging all about it as being entred into the Ranters principle though we hate it as much as he can and calling it a comely order c. to be out of which was a token of being out of the Spirit in which the Apostle did worship God And knowing further that G. F. did as much break one part of that order so called in prophesying covered and others with praying with Caps on their heads for the Apostle saith every man that prayeth or prophesyeth and G. F. in his Paper to the Dutchmen addeth or speaketh having any thing upon his head dishonoureth his head I say knowing and seeing this I could not but lay these things before Friends that they might not be deceived by the example or authority of any man But if any list to be contentious about it and tells it is a comely order and I must put off my Hat or by him be judged to be out of the Spirit of God c. I shall rather chuse to undergo his false judgment then defile my conscience by any piece of will-worship which the Lord requires not of me and tell him or them that the Church of God hath no such custom as to contend or impose in such maters but hath in this taught us and that truly that every member is to be guided by the measure of Life in which alone the true unity and good order is And I am fully perswaded of this that if ever any separation be it will be through thy and some others Lording rigid driving Spirits yet I cannot but caution thee and all Friends to keep to the motion of the Spirit of God in all things and to act nothing by custom upon the account of being his People or the true Church c. For who or what made us to differ and if we go without that wherein do we again differ from others and he can soon call them his people and make them a people that are no people For it is not lawful for any man or company of men because he or they are in the Spirit of God and of the true Church to do or agree to do what they please nor to make appoint prescribe rules and orders for themselves and all other the members of the same body how or in what manner they shall worship God and then walk in those rules whether the Lord leads them into them or no But if he or they shall go and do that which the Spirit and Life doth not require of him it shall be said unto him or them who hath required this thing at your hands And therefore very unreasonable contrary to the known grounds and principles of truth is thy Query to us viz. Wherefore we do not go into the world and shew our testimony and sign against them in their Steeple-Houses For we can as little go into any of the Steeple-Houses to be a sign against them as we can be conformable to any practice which some Friends may use unless it be required of us No manner of worship being true or performed aright further then it is performed in the guidings leadings and motions of the Spirit both as to matter manner form and order And for thy saying what do I know but the Lord may require the putting off the Ha● now as he did Moses to put off his shoe I say I limit not the Lord nor diswade any from obeying him nor yet to leave this thing that do but think it is required of them but what is this to them that know the Lord doth not require it of them And tho' thou shouldest this day feel the Lord certainly leading thee