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A46631	The Quakers subterfuge or evasion over-turned In the vindication of the late narrative, concerning the memorable hand of God against a Quaker, and his family, in the county of Lincoln. Wherein the unchristianlike dealings of the Quakers in their late book, entituled The anabaptists lying wonder detected, with an admonition to all Christians to beware of their delusions: with some antiqueries to John Whitehead, about his pretence to the ministery, and the state of the Quakers congregations.	James, Ralph, 17th cent.; Whitehead, John, 1630-1696.	1672 (1672)	Wing J433; ESTC R218748	17,609	26

Preacher a Lying Herald to proclaim his own vain glory They charge him with horrid Hipocrisie Deceit and a Romance 4. They represent the Baptists and Independants as Makers and Worshippers of Images 5. They term the Narrative a Brat crying in our Streets a Fragment of Deceit Cruelty Malice and Hipocrisie and the methods of its Writing they term Irksom 6. They scornfully term the Narrative a new vampt story hereby deriding J. Green by his Calling for that he is a Shoomaker 7. They tauntingly call J. Greene a zealous London Brother and charge him with envious desires 8. They charge Ralph James to be uncharitable beyond measure because he visited not Richard Andersons family though he was not desired This shews what measure the Quakers give to those whom they love not in their representment of them to the World and whiles they tax Ralph James for want of Charity they bewray their own barrenness of that grace 9. They deride the Baptists and Independants saying They buoy one another up and term them an Hipocritical Generation 10. They term the Relater and Evidencs of the Narrative Imposters whose evidence they say centers in the same pitch of folly and falsity 11. They scornfully call F. Baldock one of the Sacrificers for the Leper because he is a witness that the Church at Donnington prayed for Richard Anderson and his family 12. They represent J. Greene as a Fool and a Knave by his own handy-work thereby deriding him for calling the judgment which befel Richard Anderson the Lords handy-work 13. They charge their opposites to be guilty of horrid deceit and term them an Hipocritical Fraternity because the time when that judgment which befel Richard Anderson for his presumptuous undertaking was not set down But sure this is the way to make the very Apostles c. Hipocrites too for though many of those things which God did by them be set down and that long after they were done too yet the time is seldom mentioned And what would it have signified if the time had been precisely set down for that the business was more ancient then of yesterday was sufficiently intimated in the Letters Printed seeing the Men concerned are both living the places of their abode known and easie to be found by any that would know further concerning that matter 14. But it s not sufficient that they deride men but they deride the way of the Lord and therein God himself Mal. 3. 13 14. also As every discerning Reader may perceive by reading Page 4. of their Lying Wonder where having occasion to mention Baptism the Ordinance of God they add this Parenthesis that is Dipping in Water and before that another thus that is Dipt thereby to mislead their inconsiderate Readers as if the Ordinance of Baptism were onely a Dipping in Water whereas every Dipping in Water may not be called The Ordinance of God having nothing of that divine signification of Christs dying for sin and rising again for our justification and our dying to sin and rising to a new life as the Sacred Ordinance of God hath I mean the Baptism of Repentance for Remission of Sins wherein the Washing or Dipping in the Element Water in the Sacred Name of the Father Son and holy Spirit is to be observed according to Christs Commission Matth. 28. 19. And the Apostles Injunction Acts 2.38 10. 47 48. And Christs own practice Matth. 3. 16. John 3. 22. 4. 1 2. 8. An Exhortation to all Christians to beware of the delusions of the people called Quakers Nor can I do less having this occasion put into my hand then to admonish and exhort all Christians to look well to their goings for let us know assuredly that the days are perillous because the time is come wherein that doctrine which is according to Godliness even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and that form of sound words delivered to the Churches by the holy Apostles that form of Doctrine once obeyed from the Heart that Faith once delivered to the Saints is now in every place turned from or lightly regarded by many pretending to the high Calling of Christianity and they are therefore and shall be more and more turned into Fables according as is foreshewn in the Word of Truth Wherefore seeing we know these things before Let us beware least at any time we be led away with the Errors of these days and fall from that stedfastness in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship to which through the grace of God we have attained And above all Let us beware of those who either directly or indirectly deny the onely Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ whiles they believe not his Death Resurrection and Ascension and second coming according to the Scriptures But in stead of those necessary points of the Christian Faith labor to refer by obscure ways and a fair shew of words all these things to the work of mortification and what they pretend to experience in themselves Labor therefore to distinguish between the work of Christ in redeeming Man and the Work of his Spirit and Word in sanctifying his people Hold fast the first by Faith and labor to live in the latter by blessed experience Waiting for the Redemption of your Bodies in the glorious Resurrection of the Just according to the working whereby our Lord Jesus is able to subdue all things to himself And be not deceived by any means by the empty boasts of some in those days as if they had already obtained to the Resurrection of the Dead saying That they even now do witness mortality to be swallowed up of life with divers other such great swelling words of vanity But ever remember that Paul in his greatest attainments wherein he heard things too high to be uttered to the Churches yet had he not then no nor to this day attained to the Resurrection of the Dead but labored if by any means he might attain it And follow not those who indirectly or by consequence deny Jesus Christ I mean those that deny his Commandments for as one hath well said Such as deny those things which Christ hath ordained to declare and keep in memory his coming in the flesh his dying rising ascension and second coming do at the best unawares by consequence deny him to be come in the Flesh. By these things which are ordained to declare Christ come in the flesh c. I mean all Gospel Institutions for whether it be Preaching and Praying according to the Word Sacred Baptism or the Table of the Lord c. they serve to this end specially to hold forth Christ and him crucified to come again and receive his servants into his Everlasting Kingdom And thus the holy Gospel being duly observed in all its parts with a constant waiting for the Son of God from Heaven even Jesus who was raised from the dead you shall be found unto praise and honor for keeping the Ordinances here as they were delivered to the Churches and to the glory

THE QUAKERS SUBTERFUGE or EVASION Over-turned In the Vindication of the late NARRATIVE Concerning the memorable Hand of God against a Quaker and his Family in the County of LINCOLN WHEREIN The Unchristianlike Dealings of the Quakers in their late Book Entituled The Anabaptists Lying Wonder detected With an Admonition to all Christians to beware of their Delusions With some Antiqueries to Iohn Whitehead about his pretence to the Ministery and the state of the Quakers Congregations Eccles. 4. 4. Again I considered all travel and every right work that for this a Man is envied of his Neighbor London Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle without Temple Bar. 1672. To the Judicious READER WHen I consented to the Publication of the Narrative of that remarkable Reproof from the Lord against the Spirit of Error which moved Richardson against the way of Righteousness and to attempt the propagation of the Principles of the Quakers by denouncing a Curse upon me in the name of the Lord onely because of that testimony which upon just occasion I was ready to bear against their Errors I could hardly imagine that any man should doubt of the truth of it being so fully evidenced in the presence of so many witnesses by the party himself that was most eminently concerned in it And what Man of Reason will believe that any Man should voluntarily accuse himself to be a false Prophet without some powerful conviction And why should any Man complain of the Hand of the Lord being upon him and his in judgment when there is no such thing And what could Richard Anderson propose to himself in bringing his wife three or four miles purposely that God might be intreated to remove his stroke from her and her children if indeed there had be no cause Or why should they both declare they were disquieted with restless pain and their child with sores c. and that upon his so prophaning the Name of the Lord if all was well with them Surely in vain do Men go about to out-face a thing so manifest It is remarkable that in all the Quakers say they take no notice of Richard Andersons iniquity in taking on him that office of a false Prophet but rather seem to favor his doings in that behalf by suggesting as if the judgment by him pronounced was upon me to this day see their Lying Wonder p. 7 though it is neither witnessed by any nor confessed by me as Blessed be God there is no cause and yet they will in no wise believe any judgment fell on Richard Anderson or his family though so much verified Surely should half so much have been testified of the accomplishment of Richard Andersons prophesie on me or mine as hath been on the contrary the truth thereof had been out of dispute with them ere this day Seeing then that it cannot be denied but Richard Anderson was led by the Spirit of Falshood and prophesied falsly in the Name of the Lord it is far more reasonable to believe that the Lord did rebuke his folly upon the evidence offered then to believe he did escape unpunished under such iniquity without and against evidence notwithstanding all the shifts of the Quakers to help him Wherefore Reader perufe if thou pleasest what I have here offered to observation With much further confirmation of the Narrative And believe me in this for it is truth that I have not in all that I have said wronged my Conscience nor designed any evil against the persons of the Quakers but onely to make discovery so far as this providence might tend to it of the false ways they have chosen that so they might escape from thence and be saved Nor do I hereby proclaim my own glory as they suggest and we know for all their noise that it is lawful for the servants of the Lord to report what God doth by them Acts 15. 12. And yet I do not pretend to work Miracles for the truth is it was not expected by me that God should after that manner rebuke the vanity of the false Prophet who came to pronounce me a Leper But seeing it hath pleased him to do it thus beyond my expectation I know I sin not in declaring it I have more cause to think I should have sinned in concealing it And for the removal of the affliction it was an answer of the Prayer of the Congregation and not of mine onely Indeed for Printing I had no resolution till moved by such as heard of the business knowing my own incapacity for a work of that nature and as I said I was not without fears of the consequence But this I willingly put upon the account of my infirmities not being conscious of any Hypocrisie in the business though boldly charged by the Quakers in that kind but they have a faculty to accuse beyond their ability to prove I commit all that which concerns the matter to his wise disposing that knows our hearts and will render to every one as his work shall be Thine in the Love of the Truth Ralph Iames. THE QUAKERS Subterfuge overturned c. ALthough the Truth of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ was long ago confirmed by divers Signs and Wonders and Gifts of the Holy Ghost and therefore stands not in any need of further confirmation Yet the Hand of God is not tied but that he may yet even this way still his Adversaries by stretching forth his Hand against them as in former days if so it pleaseth him and especially against such presumptuous ones as take upon them to denounce Curses in his Sacred Name against his own Servants a practise too frequent with the Quakers and thereby to rebuke the vanity of such false Prophets is but the accomplishment of his own Word Gen. 27. 29. Psal. 119. 21. Now how far forth the Lord hath this way shewed himself in the Controversie depending between the Baptised Churches and the People called Quakers touching the Authority of the holy Scriptures to try the spirits of Men or to express it more fully the Authority of the Holy Ghost as he speaks in the Scriptures to try and judge the spirits of Men which they term the Spirit of God under what pretence soever they come forth into the World to promote any design of Religion and particularly the Spirit of the Quakers is the Matter which now falls under consideration according to a certain Narrative lately given forth of some remarkable Passages of Gods Providence against the dictates of the Quakers spirit Which Narrative I will here insert because this Book may come where the first did not and vindicate the same against the vain Cavils and Reproach cast upon it by the Quakers in their Book Entituled The Anabaptists Lying Wonder to which I now address my self by making good these ensuing particulars 1. That the Matter reported in the Narrative is no Lying Wonder as it is untruly and immodestly represented in their Title Page 2. That Richard Anderson was

meat and had drawn his knife to cut it have commanded him to put it up again and so he said he had done several times and gone without his meat And that Light also as he said perswaded him to fast and told him That he should cure the sick In obedience to which perswasion he did fast and came to our Town of Northwillingham to the house of one Iohn Lamin whose child was then sick and weak and he told me he went to cure that child but that Light and perswasion did deceive him for he now saw he could not cure the sick So according to my promise I went to Donnington and he and his wife met me there amongst our Friends and did both confess what is here before mentioned who also desired our Prayers to God for them and so I with the Congregation there met together did seek unto God for the removing that distemper and affliction which he there with his wife confessed that they and their children were under And the Lord was mercifully pleased to hear our poor Prayers for them and to restore them all to their former health again which he himself confessed when he came to our Meeting afterwards to the praise of God alone for ever be it spoken This Relation is true witness my hand Ralph Iames of Northwillingham in the County of Lincoln As it is hence evident this act of Gods Providence was not brought to maintain any falshood so neither to oppose any Truth of God but onely to oppose the falshood of that spirit which moved the deluded Quaker Richard Anderson to prophesie falsly in the Name of the Lord and though the evil he pronounced against me fell on himself and that so sensibly as to convince him of his folly yet notwithstanding this the Quakers in their Lying Wonder will needs insinuate the fulfilling of that vain prophesie upon me as if their prophet meant it not of outward diseases And that for ought appears they say in effect That I am as Leperous as Miriam was to this day After this manner they may shift off the most manifest eviction of their falshood and so delude their unweary Readers But surely he that uttered the vain prophesie against me must in reason know his own meaning better then another And sith he was convict by the Hand of Heaven in smiting him with bodily diseases and by sparing me in that kind I shall take this Authors interpretation to be impertinent and as false as the prophesie it self A false prophesie as he designed it against me a true prophesie against himself and the Quakers Thus it appears what befel Richard Anderson the Quaker was no Lying Wonder and therefore the Title of the Quakers Book is not true 2. That Richard Anderson was a Quaker in Principles and own'd that People above all others and was acted by their spirit Is palpable enough from what is said in the Narrative First In that he contributes his testimony to that which they call the Light within at as high a rate as the most of that way which if they have any principles at all is the cheis of their Principles for he advanceth it above the holy Scriptures and prefers its dictates in opposition to the Ordinances of Christ. Secondly In that he took upon him to appear as a Prophet for the Quakers condemning such as opposed them and proclaiming them to be the People of God Thirdly By his acting after the manner of divers Quakers in these days going on unsent errands onely moved by the conceits of their own hearts which they call the Light in them But since the Quakers in their Lying Wonder do so boldly deny that he was a Quaker here therefore what is attested in that case Iune 17. 1672 since the publication of the Quakers Lying Wonder in the presence of credible Witnesses hereafter named who as they write Having a desire to be fully satisfied concerning that which passed between Ralph Iames and Richard Anderson and having seen the Narrative and the Lying Wonder it was demanded of Richard Anderson Whether he ever heard the Quakers He answered Yes he heard them at Lincoln within the Prison about the space of an hour And it is known by sad experience that many in as little time as that is have been so levened with their Principles as they have not been cleansed from the corruption thereof to the day of their death And being further shewed that the Quakers in their Lying Wonder do say That he had no further acquaintance or knowledge of their Principles then by the hearing them a quarter of an hour Richard Anderson affirmed That before he was at the Meeting at Lincoln and after also He had discourse with the People called Quakers forty times touching their Principles Saying moreover That after he had been with the Quakers he went to the Meeting at Northwillingham many times to contend against the Baptists more then for any thing else Moreover he declared without any inquiry That the reason why he went to pronounce Richard Iames a Leper arose from the consideration of a passage Numb 12. And that he looked upon the People called Quakers to be as eminently owned of God as Moses so he was perswaded God would send the same judgment on Ralph Iames for contending against the Quakers as he sent on Mirriam for contending with Moses All this Relation is attested by Christopher Foster William Skin Iohn Walesby Robert Trigg and Richard Horton Iuly 21. 1672. This last passage the said Richard Anderson did again relate almost word for word in the presence of Christopher Foster aforesaid and three strangers which came out of Oxfordshire to have satisfaction concerning the Narrative at which time also being asked by these strangers concerning the truth of the Narrative he said As to the substance of it it was all truth and that he would own it before any Man This is subscribed by William Greenwood Iohn Stutchbury Iohn Grammar The Oxfordshire strangers and by Christopher Foster as ear Witnesses The same general testimony of the truth of all the Narrative for the substance of it he the said Richard Anderson did deliver at another time a few days before the last mentioned in the presence of Christopher Foster Iohn Walesby William Skin Robert Trigg Richard Horton Thus it appears That Richard Anderson was a Quaker c. Nor can we have a better testimony then a Man 's own confession in this case for he must needs know his own opinions better then another Man Nor is it possible for us to prove what conversation in all respects he had with them because remote from him and not concerned in the Quakers Congregations And whether a Man 's own confession for matter of opinion being attended with those demonstrations of the Matters of Fact hereby observed be not a cogent proof to satisfie indifferent Men I must leave the sober Reader to judge for his own satisfaction 3. That he the said Richard Anderson and his