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Wing-clipping no crime being an answer to B. Bird's reply to The wandering bird's wings clipp'd.
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Field, John, 1652-1723.
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full discharge of that Duty and Worship that 's due to God which is in the Spirit and in the Truth and can be only and alone acceptably performed to God and Christ in the Spirit according to Christ's Words Or must that spiritual Worship be compleated by Signs and Figures which were made use of in the time of the Law and were the Shadows of the good Things but the Substance was Christ And if the Lord gives us him will he not with him give us all things And what lack then can there be to such that knows him to dwell in their Hearts by Faith in whom the Treasures of Wisdom are hid and in whom all Fulness dwells Surely it s well with these And except Jesus Christ be in us doth not Paul say me are Reprobates Oh read seriously these Things and consider and ponder them and the Lord give all by his Holy Spirit an Understanding that they may be wise to the Salvation of their Souls and yet not above what 's written For those that own the Scriptures to be the only Rule of Faith and Practice and that all Doctrins are to be plainly proved by them should bring express Scriptures for those things which they esteem Christ's Institutions and his Ordinances or otherwise never press them on those that by the Scripture nor the Spirit of God in themselves are enjoined or led thereunto Oh therefore that all might come to have their Minds turned from Darkness to Light and from Satan's Power unto God that thereby they might receive and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ come and see their States as they really are in the sight of of God and be made truly sensible of their own Weakness Blindness and Ignorance and through Obedience thereto and by walking therein and being inspired by God's holy Spirit have a clear Understanding and a right Judgment in all things and Experience a receiving Power to become the Sons of God and by walking in this Light of Jesus Christ so much opposed and hated by those that do Evil might know Fellowship with God and the Blood of Christ to cleanse them from all Unrighteousness that being God's Children he might feed them with that living Bread whereby they may be nourished up unto Eternal Life which is my hearty desire for B. B. and all People notwithstanding it is our as it ever was the Lot of the Followers of Christ to meet with many Tribulations and endure a great fight of Afflictions and to go through cruel Mockings and esteemed false when true movers of Sedition when they sought Peace and ensued it and to be evil spoken of and to have our way every where spoken against and the slanderous Tongues and Pens of Malicious Men exercised and employ'd against us and when they have cast forth their Lies and Slanders like Floods one to quote another as if our Accusers were to be our Judges for this B. B. he quotes F. Bugg T. Crisp George Keith and the Snake in the Grass and they again quote one another so that the Authority is semper ibidem the bare confident Say-so's and false Accusations of our apparent Enemies and enviovs Apostates Now if I should quote for Proofs against the Church of England what the Presbyterians say and write against them or what the Papists write against them would it be taken for good proof If so I should soon render them not only Innovators Ceremony-mongers and Apostates but Hereticks and no true Christians But alas for want of better Proofs B. B. is forc'd to bring what our refuted Adversaries say and then insinuate on his own Authority that we are no Christians Oh the confidence of this Priest For if so tho' a Presbyterian an Independant or an Anabaptist he would own me And yet how hath he and some of his Brethren persecuted both Presbyterians Independants and Anabaptists for their Non conformity to their Church Oh! the Deceit and Hypocrisie of this Man thus to collogue with them What Thanks will the Church of England give him for this Was the breaking up their Meetings Fining and Imprisoning them and thundering out Bulls of Excommunication against them by the Church of England because they were Christians Or is that the Bread that such Protestant Ministers did break to them and People as B. B. brags of p. 7. Or was this the Bread that Christ and his Apostles did break to the latter I say nay And therefore B. B. thou art rhe unnatural Father that gives Stone-walls rather than Bread that cause People to be inclosed between them for Nonconformity to your Church or for not putting into your Mouths whereby many have been prevented to get Bread for themselves and Families Surely I may retort and say No wise Man will part with his Ingenuity for such a Persecutors Christianity but B. B. hath so little of either to part with that he need not fear being deprived For in his last he complains That his worthy Friend or some other clapt a Title to his former without his Previty for what he did was in a private Letter to a Friend upon whose Request it was printed without my privity and the Title is not mine I was meerly drawn in to bring up the Rear said B. B. And now he complains I have not Answered his 1st Sheet which was a Letter to his Ingenious Mr. Clap. Oh! how he commends his Mr. Clap now and before complains he was drawn in to bring up the Rear I wish his worthy Mr. Clap and he did shew more Christianity and Ingenuity than to be so officious and busied besides their Business to encourage one another in such an evil Work of belying and falsly misrepresenting the People called Quakers and their Principles which I hope in this and my former I have shew'd B. B. hath with his Mr. Clap's Assistance as if he was minded to do something to pleasure his old Friends the Presbyterians who in their Day was as busy as bitter in persecuting the Quakers when they had Power as now to revile and falsly accuse them and like Herod and Pilate can agree in this evil Work Yet the worst I wish them is unfeigned Repentance to the acknowledgment of the Truth and that they might by true Love and Christian Conversation coupled with God's holy Fear by sound Doctrin and clear Proofs from the Holy Scriptures without their corrupt Meanings and false Glosses approve themselves true Christians and demonstrate thereby their Doctrins and Practices to be agreeable thereto And for his advising me to read The Snake in the Grass I answer I have and find that Author is one of his Brethren exercised in the same evil Work of misrepresenting the People called Quakers and their Doctrins and quoting for proof such Pooks writ against them that have been already answer'd as he may also in a short time see that Book answer'd which then I would have him read the Answer as I have the Book Lond. Octob. 12. 1696. JOHN FEILD