not a thing that will become me to use good manners and people do not take the word Thou to be good manners when I speak to my betters Fath. It is evil words child that corrupts good manners but true words is mannerly and is spoken in the manner of truth which is good manners and thou must not mind what others say but mind thou the Lord and his teachings and he will teach thee to speak good words and true words which is good manners and people that know not the teachings of God nor the truth of God they know not the manner of it and so are seeking how to honour one another and to speak to one another and after what manner to do it which is not in the manner of truth but in the false spirit which corrupts their words and actions and so corrupts good manners Pr. Pr. As this Quaking-father did just now endeavour to teach children to speak properly so he is here instructing them to be mannerly after the Quakers rude fashion it is certainly a dull spirit that moves in this Quakers wheels for he hath not helpt him to write true English evil words that corrupts good manners is that false English which cannot be made into true Latin by any Quaker amongst them all but this was not a stumble by chance we have his Quaking-spirit tripping again true words is mannerly and is spoken in the manner of truth which is good manners give me leave to say perhaps this mans spirit was in some great heat or haste and so was not at leisure to help him to write better English Now let us see if this Quakers manners are any better than his non-sense the old Proverb may not amiss be applied to him As the fool thinks so the bell clinks to speak in the manner of truth is with this Quaker good manners except the tongue and then it 's plain that this Quaker knows not what belongs to good manners to speak this Quakers mind fully Thou to the King to the Peers to the Gentry of this Realm spoken in the manner of truth that is spoken as the Quakers do is all the good manners this Quaker owns you may see that what is more than Thou and Thee is a parcel of evil words which do corrupt good manners according to this Quaking instructor St. Paul was ill manner'd he did not speak in the manner of truth when he said most noble Festus according to this Quakers estimate to bow the body to any superiors to honour them by word or gesture is that which is not of the Lord nor proceeds from his teachings except Quakers you see that no people do know the teachings of God nor the truth of God nor do speak in the manner of truth that do give civil honour to their superiors this rude Quakers discourse serves to be-clown all Courtiers that do honour the King in their words and gestures for in effect this Quaker tells them that they do not speak in the manner of truth those good and true words which are mannerly words they neither know the teachings of God nor the truth of God which is far worse Thus you see that here is the Quakers School their rude Court to learn those manners which are in the manner of truth as for our civil way of speaking to our superiors betters and equals by being thus mannerly we do but seek to honour others in the false spirit who is the Devil if this Doctrine do not tend to make men Clowns to re-baptize them into the Quakers false spirit to make their Proselytes as errant Clowns as themselves are known to be then let any wise men judg Q. p. 46 47 48 49 50. Q. Numb 51 Ch. And how must I do concerning Oaths seeing that swearing in many things is required Fath. Whatever men requires of thee child thou must mind what the Lord requires of thee Christ Jesus hath forbidden all Oaths it 's not lawful to swear upon any account because Christ hath commanded not to swear at all if thou lovest him thou wilt keep his Commandments and not transgress against him because men require thee do thou mind the spirit of truth and it will teach thee to speak truth in what thou art called unto Let thy yea be yea for what is more cometh of evil Ch. But there is much said concerning the lawfulness of an Oath as to end strife or engage to a Ruler and there are many Scriptures brought for it Fath. They that bring Scriptures to plead for swearing in this day do not understand the Scriptures for he who is Lord of all saith swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay nay for what is more comes of evil thou art to obey Jesus Christ whose Doctrine is true who ends the dispensation of Oaths where strife was now Jesus Christ who endeth all changeable things saith swear not at all it is without putting any difference betwixt vain Oaths and solemn Oaths he saith not at all nor by any thing therefore child obey thou Christs Doctrine if thy yea will not be taken let nothing else be done by thee lest thou fallest into condemnation Pr. Pr. In this rambling discourse this Quakers drift is to inform his Scholar about Oaths but his Light within is so grosly dark as that lawful and unlawful swearing are altogether confused and condemned alike by him all swearing indifferently is condemned by this Quaker as that sin which reacheth to damnation in hell according to the tenor of his quaking-lines all the Kings subjects who have taken the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance have done that which the Lord forbids them that which is contrary to what Christ hath commanded them by thus swearing they have not minded the spirit of truth nor so loved the Lord Jesus as to keep his Commandments by shewing their obedience to the King in taking the foresaid Oaths they have transgressed against the Lord Jesus Christ the King of Kings by taking these Oaths they have done that which comes of evil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Devil the evil one by this Quakers decrying all swearing without exception and his perverting Christs own words it 's easie to observe what manner of persons the Kings subjects are let us view them in this Quakers glass are they loyal to the King below this Quaker makes them for their sworn Allegiance to be disobedient to the Lord above have they religiously taken the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance they have likewise irreligiously sworn that which the Lord requires not of them hath the Law enjoined them to swear the said Oaths they have done that which is unlawful Christ Jesus hath forbidden all Oaths it was not lawful for them to swear upon any account though the law of man did require it by taking the said Oaths what love have they shewed to Jesus Christ for in so doing they have broken his Commandments by thus swearing they have presumptuously transgressed against him
Justification by Christs Righteousness without us to be a counterfeit doctrine Justification by inherent righteousness only is the chief mark at which this distinction is levelled Thus you see the Papists and Quakers are in a great measure hail fellows well met only the Quaker hath the honour to be the more perfect Dotard of the two Q. p. 108. Q. Numb 13 I grant that such as repent and believe receive remission or a justifying from former sins through the righteousness of God declared in and by Jesus Christ But is this compleat Justification It is a making inwardly just through a purging out of iniquity and mortifying of corruption and bringing in Christs everlasting Righteousness Pr. Pr. Here we have the Real Quaker a downright Papist he is professedly gone into the Tents of Rome He is become a stout Champion under the Pope's banner behold this Real Quaker dabling in gross Popery According to the tenour of his own words compleat Justification is a making inwardly just through a purging out of iniquity and mortifying of corruption and bringing in Christs everlasting righteousness Thus the nail is driven to the head by this doughty man of war Thus the doctrin of the Church of England is trampled under foot the Doctrine of Christs Righteousness imputed by faith once counted wholesome is by the Quakers Pen declared to be a Counterfeit but no Quakers have yet obtained by their Spirit to write any true Oracles But the worst is yet behind Q. p. eadem Q. Numb 14 If not then to exclude this and yet conclude men completely justified by what Christ hath done wholly without is a Doctrine of Devils for it leaves men in an impure state and allows the Devils Kingdom to continue in being Pr. Pr. These Quaking-lines make the Tenent as clear as day That complete justification by what Christ hath done wholly without is a Doctrine of Devils according to this Quakers base words in print the Church of England doth hold fast that which is a Doctrine of Devils a Doctrine which doth allow the Devils Kingdom to continue in being Without doubt this is a base aspersion cast on that Church which is beautiful in the eyes of all sober Christistians Christs Righteousness wholly without made ours by faith a Doctrine of Devils Whose eyes are not offended to see it in print Whose ears do not tingle to hear it read How base is the Light within W.P. to assert it Is this the genuine fruit of this Quakers Infallible Spirit Is this the true discerning which it gives Is it not matter of godly mourning that that which the Church of England accounts to be a most wholesom and very comfortable Doctrine this ill-principl'd Quaker should term a Doctrine of Devils May it not be said without offence Surely it is high time for the Kings Majesty the Defender of the Faith to gird on His Sword these that make so bold with this and other truths of God are but like stinging-Snakes in the bosome of Indulgence THE next Quaking-Book which I shall acquaint the Reader with is thus named in print Q. The nature of Christianity in the true Light asserted Written by a Servant of Christ G. Whitehead Printed in the year 1671. Pr. Pr. This vain-glorious Title stands like a Man of War in the Title-page thus In opposition to Antichristianism Darkness Confusion and Sin-pleasing Doctrines There this Man of War is not without a Looking-glass for sin-pleasing professors of all sorts Now let us use this Looking-glass that we may the better see the Quakers own face therein Q. pag. 3. This man hath grosly wronged divers of us by accusing of us as if we did oppose and seek to overthrow the plain testimonies and voices of all the Prophets and Apostles concerning the true Saviour or the Man Christ Jesus whom we have frequently confessed both as to his Divinity and as to his taking upon him a body prepared for him to do the will of God in according to the Scriptures of truth Pr. Q. Here is a parcel of good words to gull unwary Readers with as if the Quakers were more Orthodox in the Doctrine of Faith concerning our Saviours Manhood and Divinity than their own Pen hath already declared them to be That man knows nothing who knows not how the Devil to promote errors and false doctrines hath always used to dress himself his Agents in the garb of truth to get his bad Wares the better put off The Devil was in the right when he did profess to know Christ to be the Holy One of God but he had a devillish end in it After all the fair paint in these lines the Quaker will anon shew us his horns we shall ere long know him to be no tame beast before we have done with him his ill-inspiring spirit will appear you may certainly expect from this Quaking-Pamphlet most base pitiful stuff Q. p. 6. Q. Numb 15 Which word Purchase he thus explains in an unscriptural and nonsensical stile viz. That God-man purchased and compleated Reconciliation Justification c. with God at once without us which is as good sense as to say God purchased them of God Pr. Pr. You see how this Quaker takes his Adversary to task By the way we may observe that it is plain from the title of this Pamphlet that this Quaker makes the nature of Christianity to be downright Socinianism Here his inspiring spirit appears in print to Socinianize in a gross manner Reconciliation purchased by Christ God-man this Quaker saith is explained by his Adversary in an unscriptural and nonsensical stile As the Socinians do so this Quaker charges his Adversary to write no better sense concerning Redemption purchased than to say that God purchased of God an old Socinian cavil Thus the Light within is at unawares singing the old Cuckoes song Thus the Quakers Ignis fatuus his pretended spirit hath led him into a Socinian pit Thus the true Christian Religion by this Quaker is brought to a lamentable pass According to this Quaking-scribble the nature of Christianity is now asserted in the Light to establish a base Socinian Error as if it were the truth from heaven What a blind pitiful Elf is the Quakers Light within that it cannot discern Redemption by Christ God-man as a purchase made without us but as unscriptural and nonsensical God the Son made man purchasing our redemption of God the Father by the price of his own blood as God incarnate This is that blessed Truth explained which this Socinian-Quaker calls unscriptural and nonsensical However this point searched to the bottom toucheth the Quakers to the quick They cannot endure to hear of Christ God-man the Son of God purchasing of God the Father leans towards the Doctrine of the Trinity which the Quaker E.T. termed in mine and others hearing a blasphemous doctrine Q. p. 7. Q. Numb 16 The words Purchased and Redemption are used by R. G. in an unscriptural sense while he doth so nonsensically render it as God-man
under the hands of a persecuting generation in Colchester-Castle in the year 1656. Published 1675. Pr. Pr. This Quakers scribbles are in no small request with his quaking-friends here you see they are said to be given forth from the Spirit of the Lord which is a profane equalling of them with the holy Scriptures this quaking holy man of God was in the Quakers account no less inspired by the Holy Ghost than the holy Pen-men of Scripture were it 's no slander to say that the Quakers are not a little fly-blown with spiritual pride not a little of it is here published in print behold this James Parnel was the Quakers martyr that bore a faithful testimony for God even unto death in Colchester-Jayl with respect to this Quakers great worth they were a persecuting generation who did persecute this Quaker according to his true demerit This Collection was published in the year 1675 to tell this generation that this Quaker was like Abel who being dead yet speaketh but I shall truly say not like righteous Abel Let us look into some of his Pamphlets for with them all I shall not trouble your patience The first of the Pamphlets is called A trial of Faith which is thus put to the test Q. p. 4. Q. Numb 53 You believe you shall never overcome your sins so long as you are here or be made free from sins here you shew your faith is not built upon Christ who came to destroy the works of the Devil and to cleanse from all sin Pr. Pr. This is the corrupt testimony of this quaking-martyr that they are no sound believers whose faith doth not cleanse them from all their sins that the faith of Christians is not built upon Christ if it doth not make them free from their sins peccatum ne sit a sinless estate reserved for the Kingdom of Heaven is no true Divinity in the Quakers School according to this high-flown Quaker we must either be wholly free from sin like the angels or we can be no true believers in Christ St. Paul burthened with his body of death was a wretched man in the worse sense one that was not built by faith on Christ no truly faithful Christian suppose this Quaker to be in the right what then then St. John was grosly mistaken in saying thus If we say that we have no sin which the Quakers usually do we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us this Quaker is certainly for a more holy faith than God himself did ever require it 's not the ruling power but the being of sin which this Quakers faith makes free from without doubt this is to be righteous overmuch in this world I leave it to others to judg if the ill spirit of the old Catheri was not gotten into this young Quaker however it 's most clear that unless the Quakers idolized perfection be owned as the true only touchstone of faith the best grounded the most stedfast and saving faith of any Christian is not worth a rush it is an unholy faith to speak this Quakers mind that doth not cleanse from all sin in being thus this Quaker being dead hath unrighteously spoken a lye in the name of the Lord by his false Doctrine he hath concluded the Church of England at home all reformed Churches abroad under unbelief for being of this right sound mind that they shall never be made free from all their sins as long as they are here Q. Q. The next Pamphlet of Parnel's is called Christ exalted into his Throne Pr. Pr. Here is seemingly great honour done to our Saviour Christ but it is only in shew not in truth as of old he was arrayed like a King to his own greater disgrace so he is now cried up by this Quaker to the high dishonour of the holy Scriptures which is no honour to our Lord Jesus Christ Q. p. 15. Q. Numb 54 The Scripture was spoken from the Light but is not the Light nor the word nor the life nor the judg nor the rule nor the guide nor the trier of spirits for all this belongs to Christ Pr. Pr. I may truly say without offence this is none of Abel the righteous his language nor a faithful testimony born for God except another Quaker Atheist or Antiscripturist none would have laid such base things to the charge of the holy Scripture except a Quaker no man did ever call Christ the rule this Quaker is guilty of weak reasoning because Christ is the word the light the life therefore Scripture is not the word of God a light the word of life a judg a guide a trier of spirits behold is not this rare quaking Logick is it not a great shame that such dull reasoning as this is should be fathered on the holy Spirit who is God without question it 's for want of good Catechizing that the Quakers vent such irrational things in print these quaking-lines are fitter for pity than a more serious answer however let it be duly considered that at this door hath been brought in all the filth that hath been cast upon the holy Scripture the Scripture is not the light what is it then darkness saith one Quaker not to be minded in any thing saith another not the word what then the letter a dead letter say several Quakers not the life what then putrefaction and corruption not the judg what then it's the spirit alone which gives true discerning saith another Quaker not the rule what then the Scripture is not the rule of my faith and practise saith another Quaker not the guide what then the Light within is the true guide say all Quakers not the trier of spirits what then the Scripture cannot help to discern betwixt true and false saith another Quaker Thus you see clearly how the Scripture the word of God is become like a dung-cart to receive what filth the Quakers and the Papists have to throw into it is it not very sad that the Quakers way of exalting Christ is by debasing the good word of God what manner of spirit it is that leads the Quakers let all wise men hence judg Q. p. 16. Q. Numb 55 Of this Light you people and teachers of the world are ignorant and so are doting upon the Scripture without with your dark minds there with the blind Pharisees seeking life where it is not to be found Pr. Pr. The voice of righteous Abel is not yet in these quaking lines with this Quaker both people and Priest are alike they are both alike ignorant of Christ the Light because neither people nor their teachers are fond of this Quakers false Christ the Light within therefore this Quaker saith they do fondly dote upon the Scripture without and this is done with dark minds behold as this Quaker thought this is our great fault because we make the Scripture not the Quakers Light within the rule of our faith and life therefore as this Quaker saith we are ignorant of Christ the Light doting on
from sin if not upon earth seeing that no unholy nor unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God it is a great delusion of the devil to keep people in sin to tell them they shall never be made free from sin so long as they are upon the earth but he tells them Christ died for all and if they can but lay hold on him by faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin daily for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and so he takes Scripture to maintain his Kingdom this he delivers by the mouth of his Ministers here he carries them on an easie delightsome way to the flesh and so heals them up in their sins with a feigned formed faith here they settle upon their lees set up a rest in the devils Kingdom here all tenderness of conscience is done away whosoever witnesseth Christ their Redeemer shall witness that he is come to destroy the works of the devil to redeem out of the fall out of sin out of the devils Kingdom which is sin this we witness who through the Lamb our Saviour do reign above the world death hell and the devil none can witness this whose eye is outward looking at a Redeemer afar off and still live in sin try your faith and hope who plead for sin all your faith is vain and your hope which doth not purifie the heart it is feigned hypocrites faith not faith in God this the Apostle witnessed and that he was made free from sin and more than conquerour through faith in Christ Jesus they who dwell in the righteousness in Christ sin not this is the devil which pleads for sin your teachers which tell you you can never get out of sin nor be cleansed from sin here err not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God but deny the end of Christs coming bring another doctrine which they have from their father the devil and so are the deceivers which Paul speaks of who creep into steeple-houses and lead silly people captive full of sin and corruption they daub you up with untempered mortar divining lyes they have healed the hurt of the people slightly sowed pillows under their arm-holes these are your teachers that make your habitation in your sin while you are upon the earth so your leaders cause you to err the utter enemies of your souls who perswade your hearts in sin here all your feigned formed faith is unbottomed all your Priests found lyars deceivers antichrists in whom the false Prophet ruleth Pr. You see that the Quakers are accused justly Pr. for asserting a perfect freedom from all sin on earth of this false doctrine this Quaker is a sorry champion many Scriptures in his Pamphlet hath he heaped together to uphold this errour but very ignorantly many foul charges hath he drawn up against those that are not of the same weak mind with him man perfect without sin before the fall is the white which this Quaker hath in his eye he tells us pag. 98. that this was Christs work to redeem to man that which man had lost behold according to this Quakers mind nothing less than a perfect freedom from all sin on earth was the end and aim of Redemption by Jesus Christ to deny a perfect freedom from all sin in this life is according to this Quaker to make Christ only a part of a Redeemer and to establish a middle place betwixt earth and heaven in which to be made-free from sin to assert this great truth that there is no perfect freedom from all sin to be attained to in this life is as this Quaker doth basely speak a great delusion of the devil to keep people in sin pag. 98. He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himself and is a lyar behold what this bold Quaker saith to this what saith he he saith this is no other but a Scripture brought by the devil but observe him a little further he saith that the devil tells men that Christ died for all that if they lay hold on him by faith their sins shall not be imputed to them though they sin daily that the righteous man sins seven times a day that all the holy men of God sinned that the devil doth thus take Scripture to maintain his Kingdom and that this is that doctrine which the devil delivers by the mouth of his Ministers behold how Gospel-truths are by this Quaker said to be told men by the devil and how Gods Ministers are said by him to be the devils mouth in delivering the foresaid truths except Quakers who dare affirm it that all those Ministers of the Gospel are the devils mouth in saying that Christ died for all that their sins shall not be imputed to them that believe in Christ though they sin daily that the righteous man doth sin often in one day that the holy men of God have sinned that do deny a perfect freedom from all sin attainable in this life But now let us observe what this Quaker saith further to teach that there is most certainly no quaking freedom from sin in this world this is according to this Quaker that doctrine whereby the devil carries on people in an easie delightsome way to the flesh a doctrine which heals them up in their sins with a feigned faith a doctrine which settles them on the lees a doctrine which sets up a rest in the devils Kingdom a doctrine which destroys all tenderness of Conscience to speak this Quakers mind without being perfectly cleansed from all sin no man can witness Christ to be his Redeemer nor witness that he is come to destroy the works of the devil nor can he witness that Christ is come to redeem him which are his own words out of the fall and out of the devils Kingdom it 's no marvel that the Quakers do ignorantly plead for a perfect freedom from all sin in this life for this is their top-gallant errour which makes them as this Quaker saith to reign like Kings above the world death hell and the devil which makes them I may more truly say miserably proud in their own eyes no less holy and happy than Christ himself is without this haughty over-holy dotage of this Quaker all other Christians are of no account they are saith this Quaker such whose eyes are outward they do look at a Redeemer afar off still living in sin by this quaking doctrine of Perfection this Quaker saith pag. 101 That the children of God and the children of the devil are made manifest behold in this Quakers account they are manifestly the children of the devil who do not hold a perfect freedom from all sin on earth thus this idolized Perfection of the Quakers serves to unchristian all but themselves according to this Quaker the faith of all Christians is vain and their hope is no better their faith is the faith of all hypocrites no true faith in God if they do not
having purchased all of God without Pr. Pr. Here we have this Quaking Proteus turned into a Socinian shape sore troubled it 's still no less than unscriptural and nonsensical to affirm That God-man hath purchased all of God without If we should fondly pin our faith on this Quakers sleeve then upon easie terms we might bid farwel to the received Doctrine of the Church of England Art 2 for there is no such thing discoverable by the Light within any Quaker as that the Godhead and Manhood were joined in one person who suffered was dead and buried to reconcile his Father to us and to be a Sacrifice not only for original guilt but also for all actual sins of men such true doctrine as this is belongs not to the nature of this Quakers Christianity this is that doctrine which in this Quakers Glass is represented unjustly to be unscriptural and nonsensical This blessed Truth That Christ God-man hath purchased all of God without is to this Quaker a rock of offence unjustly taken by him Without doubt that man is not mistaken who shall say That the Quakers do deny Christ to be God-man in one person this certainly is no point of any Quakers faith That Christ God-man hath purchased our Redemption of God the Father by his precious blood without us If this be true then where is or what is become of this Quakers true Christianity If this with his fellow-Quakers were enjoined by the Kings Majesty the Defender of the true Faith to subscribe to the 39 Articles of Religion then by their thus declaring their unfeigned assent and consent but to the two first Articles thereof their false Christian paint would soon fall off then the Kings Majesty would soon see what manner of Christians these Saints Seed People as they call themselves of the Most High God are Q. p. 8. Q. Numb 17 Because those terms in Scripture relating to Christ and his works are misunderstood and perverted by many professors and Priests I shall state them with the natural and simple sense thereof viz. Jesus A Saviour who saveth from sin Christ is anointed with power from on high Propitiation A Sacrifice well pleasing which is to purge away sin and make nigh to God and which imports forgiveness reconciliation favour mercy kindness c. Sacrifice An oblation or offering to consecrate or make holy Reconciliation An agreement a setting at one Covenant An accord agreement a contract a treaty a condition c. Atonement Peace quietness betwixt them that are reconciled or in mutual friendship Redemption A ransoming buying again rescuing such as were under bondage or sold under slavery Salvation A saving or a making safe from the hand of an enemy destroyer or oppressor c. Imputation An ascribing laying to the charge of or an accounting reckoning or thinking Justification A making righteous just upright vertuous good perfect c. and also an adjudging pronouncing and sentencing one that is made righteous to be so Pr. Pr. Thus far we have had this Quakers unlearned Dictionary or ill-digested Vocabulary Now let us first observe what doth immediately follow Q. p. 9. Q. Numb 18 Now if professors come not to feel and experience these things or works of Christ fulfilled in them they are but empty professors and talkers of them without the true life and power of Christianity and true Religion Pr. Pr. This Quakers Dictionary or Vocabulary is so trivial as that it is lost time an abuse of patience to note much concerning it They are Quakers in heart ill-principl'd in Christianity who do not see plainly how this Quakers spirit hath put him upon playing the Sophister as well as an Ignoramus in it There is not one syllable of Redemption by purchase to be found in it Jesus Christ Propitiation Sacrifice Reconciliation Covenant Atonement Redemption Salvation Imputation Justification are not only ignorantly but basely explained to use Dr. G's words whom I heard preaching upon that plain literally-meant Text Mat. 5.10 say Haec intus transiguntur omnia they must be all felt and experimentally fulfilled within professors otherwise they are but empty professors and talkers of them nay further unless professors come to this which they are never likely to do to have them fulfilled in them they are in a sad case without the true life and power of Christianity and true Religion To give one parting-blow more Let it be duly observed that this Quakers explanation is full of tautologies and of plain words darkned by those of more difficult understanding as also of several vain repetitions of all which his Teacher the Light within his pretended Lord God his Spirit that inspired him is highly guilty As for Justification it is altogether Popishly explained a plain instance that the Quakers Light within is from Rome below not from Heaven above besides that man is not imposed upon that shall hence aver this Quakers Vocabulary to be full of Socinianism for here is nothing of Redemption by Christs blood without us The life and power of this Quakers Religion hath nothing to do with redemption purchased by Christ God-man Once more consider this Quaking-Dictionary well and then it will casily appear that this Socinianizing Quaker doth truly deny the Lord that bought him as well as unchristian all those that are not of the same corrupt mind with him That all these abovesaid words in their Quaking-sense must be fulfilled in them Q. p. 18. Q. Numb 19 But thou contradictest thy Tutors the Presbyterians and Independents in saying That mans redemption is purchased by his crucified body for they say he did not satisfie as man simply but as God and man or as God-man which is all one as to say That God satisfied and paid God or that God purchased redemption of himself Pr. Pr. Observe how this Quaker takes his adversary to task as an untoward Pupil contradicting his tutors According to this Quakers ill-sighted light within him the received Doctrine of Christs satisfaction derives its pedigree no higher than the Presbyterians and Independents According to this Upstart Quaker Christs satisfaction is no gospel-Gospel-truth from God in heaven it 's only from below according to this Quaker the Presbyterians and Independents are the known Fathers of this infant-Infant-truth the old scum is still before this Quakers eyes all his light within doth not remove it God satisfying and paying God God purchasing redemption of himself doth still so blind him as that he cannot as yet see redemption by price or satisfaction made by Christ God-man to God the Fathers Justice to be a precious Gospel-truth It 's no slander to say That this Quaker hath an ill-catechised head an ignorant spirit to be his guide otherwise he had never appeared so ignorant in print I may truly write without any just offence That an ungrounded confident pretence to divine teaching hath put this deluded Quaker upon devising a Looking-glass for all sorts of professors in which nothing of true Christianity is yet to be seen Q. p.
24 25. R. G. We who since we believed received the Atonement shall after our bodily death be raised from the grave and be made partakers of that salvation which through faith and hope we wait for while in the body Q. Numb 20 Answ Thou puttest salvation at a great distance shewing thy self yet in the grave of corruption Is this thy meaning of salvation that thou hopest and waitest for while in the body to be raised from the grave after thy bodily death What strange nonsensical language is this * And was this the salvation that Christs second appearance was looked for to effect Hebr. 9.28 For your better understanding this Quakers mind take his Marginal note * He now hopes and waits for salvation after the bodily death see his sottishness and confusion at other times it was perfectly wrought at once without or else purchased he knows not which at Jerusalem but he hopes for it after his bodily death ah the hypocrites hope shall perish Pr. Pr. Here this Quaker hath given us a tedious chase I shall pursue him as close as I can To believe and wait for the life everlasting after death is no Article of this Quakers Faith this is putting salvation at a great distance according to these Quaking-lines that man shews himself to be in the grave of corruption that believes and waits for salvation after his bodily death To understand salvation so as to hope and wait for it while in the body to be raised from the grave after bodily death this is strange nonsensical language in this Quakers estimate according to Heb. 9.28 truly misunderstood basely wrested by this Quaker salvation after this life ended is not the salvation that Christs second coming is look't for to effect this Quaker in his marginal note scoffs at his Adversary for hoping and waiting for salvation after the bodily death it 's no less fault than sottishness and confusion to hope for salvation after the bodily death everlasting life purchased by Christ upon the Cross at Jerusalem hoped for after bodily death this is sottishness and confusion for any faithful Christians to do yea which is far worse it 's a damnable sin to do so it 's no less than the hypocrites false hope which shall perish Q. p. 29. Q. Numb 21 Also thou grantest that his appearing the second time is without sin to salvation but when thinkest thou that must be Is it in this life or hereafter Thou sayest that after the bodily death you shall be raised out of the grave and made partakers of that salvation 't is strange the salvation of sinners yea of the whole world as thy word is should be compleated at once above 1600 years since as yet to be so long after death lookt for how long is not known to thee Or dost thou look for Christ as the Son of Mary to appear outwardly in a bodily existence to save thee according to thy words If thou dost thou mayest look till thine eyes drop out before thou wilt see such an appearance of him Pr. Pr. Here this Quaker falls foul upon his Adversary in a rude manner Leviathan-like out of his nostrils goeth smoak to darken the truth Christs appearing the second time without sin to salvation is according to this Quaker in this life not hereafter to be raised out of the grave after the bodily death to be partakers after death of that resurrection which is unto life this is that sound Divinity which this Quakers light within him knows nothing of to affirm that the salvation of sinners yea of the whole world should be compleatly finished by Christs death upon the Cross above 1600 years since this is strange Doctrine to this ill-principled Quaker that Christs death upon the Cross so long since past should be effectual to deliver from bodily death hereafter those that believe in him this is that comfortable Doctrine which this Quakers stomack cannot digest you see clearly it 's no part of this Quakers faith to believe that Christ is the Son of the Virgin Mary or to look for Christ as the Son of Mary to appear outwardly in a bodily existence to save those that believe in his name this Quaker is bold to say to this purpose If any man believes that Christ shall come at the last day of judgment to judg the quick and the dead to adjudg the righteous to Heaven to condemn the wicked to Hell then he may look till his eyes drop out before he will see such an appearance of him after this life is ended by a bodily death Christs last coming to judgment is no Article of this Quakers faith without doubt Job that was a perfect man was in the right when he said That he knew that his Redeemer liveth and that he should stand at the latter day upon the earth and that in his flesh when worms had destroyed his body he should see God and his eyes should behold him after his bodily death though his reins were consumed within him Q. p. 30. Q. Numb 22 The works of the Law excluded by the Apostle from justification is when the Law is done without life or spirit so the works not done in Christ the Seed do not justifie The righteousness by faith is when the Law is performed in us by the works of the spirit righteousness in the elect seed c. Pr. Pr. Give me leave to write without offence if this Quaker had not been born out of due time he might in this point have been without exception one of the Tridentine Cabal his spirit agrees well with those Cabal-men about justification by works of righteousness as for Christs righteousness without us made ours by faith this is that Doctrine which is disowned by this Papal-Quaker in this Quaking-account of justification what hath this Quaker said more which the Trent-Council hath not determined to his hand Concil Trid. Cap. 3. Sess 6. Cum ea renascentia per meritum passionis ejus gratia qua justifiunt illis tribuatur Together with the new birth through the Merit of Christs passion grace whereby they are made righteous is imparted to them Cap. 7. Sess 6. Justificatio est sanctificatio renovatio interioris hominis per voluntariam susceptionem gratiae Justification is both the sanctification and renovation of the inward man by grace received as face answers face in the glass so do the Quakers and Papists agree together in the point of Justification by inherent righteousness they do both disclaim the works of the Law before grace received works not done in Christ the Seed do not justifie says the Canting-Quaker Justification is the sanctifying of the inner man by grace received say the Papists The righteousness by faith is when the Law is performed in us by the works of the Spirit saith the Quaker By grace received in the new birth are we made righteous say the Papists Thus the Light within which guides the Quakers to scribble concerning Justification is nothing else
but Trent-Popery infused into them by subtil Popish Priests and propagated by the deluded Quakers at this day This old Popish Doctrine is that which their Praters put off in their Speakings and Writings to their followers as if it were new doctrine from heaven something belonging to Christianity which was not known till the brain-sick Quakers made it known Q. p. 32 33. Q. Numb 23 To oppose the righteousness of the elect seed and the works of the Spirit within as unto Justification this R. G. scornfully tells us that in plainer words they of Rome thus express That the Apostle excludes from Justification works which we our selves do by our strength without the help of the grace of God not those works we do by the aid of the Spirit To these lines this Quaker answers thus They of Rome have given a better definition of Justification than R.G. hath and at least shown a better esteem of works of grace and of the Spirit of God than he hath done Now if I be exclaimed against herein for Popery I must say that wherein Papists hold any truth though in unrighteousness I must not therefore deny it if the Papists and the Devil also confess there is a God and a Christ must I therefore deny it or be counted a Papist Pr. Pr. Here the Quakers Light within is stifly at work to justifie himself for holding as the Papists do the same doctrine of Justification by works of righteousness In plain terms Quakerism in the point of Justification is Popery new-born into the world it 's no false charge to say That the Quakers have a Pope in their bellies their Books have the same Papal doctrine that truth which the Papists hold though in unrighteousness as this Quaker saith as to Justification even the self-same doth this Quaker hold as fast to the shame of the received doctrine of the Church of England I might tell the Reader how Rom. 8.3 4. 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Isa 45.8 James 2.20 21 23. Gal. 3.6 are discoursed from by this Quaker no otherwise than the Papists have done to assert Justification by the works of the Spirit but it is no new thing with the Devil or his Agents to quote Scripture to prove that which God never intended them for That man is a stranger to the point of Justification that knows not that many Scriptures have been wrested by the Papists for this purpose which have been soundly vindicated from Popish glosses put upon them This Quaker doth but actum agere act the Popish old part over again to amuse unwary Christians with the rehearsal of them If this Quakers spirit were of God he had ere this been silent in this matter To use this Quakers own words I shall tell him That it is an old Popish trick to assert Justification by works of the Spirit from mistaken Scriptures and there is certainly no little spice of the old Law-working spirit in it Q. p. 33. Q. Numb 24 Our asserting the righteousness of the elect seed raised in us and obedience of faith therein for justification and acceptance with God this doth neither deny nor oppose the Sacrifice of the crucified body of the Man Christ Jesus nor yet blot out of our hearts either the name or remembrance of him who is the great Propitiation for sin as unjustly the elect seed and its righteousness within is accused for the appearance of Christ within and his manifestation in spirit doth neither deny nor oppose his manifestation or suffering in the flesh but rather answereth and fulfilleth the intent and end thereof for the outward manifestation of the Son of God in the flesh as it did condemn sin in the likeness of sinful flesh so his inward manifestation in spirit doth destroy sin worketh justification and redemption in them who obey his light within for he is the author of eternal salvation to as many as obey him So here is righteousness redemption and salvation received in Christ the Light through obedience to his Light within Pr. Pr. This Quaker hath had fair play he is transcribed usque ad nauseam by this tedious discourse this Quaker gives us to understand that there is no such truth as Justification by faith alone the subject matter of his lines is hammered out upon his Popish anvil there is nothing for the main said which any Papist will disown Justification and Sanctification are by him ignorantly confounded but rightly enough according to the Popish mode he that shall affirm this Quaker to be one of Abbot Joachim's Disciples or one belonging to Seculum Spiritus Sancti or a Franciscan Papist in a new dress is not altogether mistaken his whole discourse is a medley of some truth of more falshood to glance at the title of his Pamphlet you see it plain unless we are of the same mind with the Papists in the doctrine of Justification we are all far from the nature of true Christianity in this matter in this Quakers account the Church of England together with other Reformed Churches is altogether Antichristian Q. p. 40 41. Q. Numb 25 As to R.G. his saying His Apostles and all his Ministers in all ages all in one joint voice pointing to Jesus the Son of Mary this son of man with an Hosanna to the Son of David Ans That the holy Prophets Apostles and Ministers testified unto Jesus Christ both as man born of the Virgin and unto his Divinity this is owned But it appears further that R. G.'s Hosanna and pretended adoration and claim of Salvation is only to him as the Son of Mary as now existing outwardly bodily without us * whereupon I ask him if he hath so considered him to be God the Saviour or the Son from the substance of the Father as some of his Brethren have confessed the Son is and that he existeth outwardly bodily without us at Gods right hand what Scripture-proof hath he for these words and then what and where is Gods right hand is it visible or invisible within us or without us only and is Christ the Saviour as an outward bodily existent or person without us distinct from God and on that consideration to be worshipped as God yea or nay And where doth the Scripture say he is outwardly and bodily glorified at Gods right hand according to the foregoing Asterisk * you may take this Authors Marginal note Why did he not call Mary the Mother of God as the Papists do which to be sure is not Scripture-language Pr. Pr. In this Quaking ramble we find too much false abominable doctrine delivered to serious Christians it 's certainly sad to read so much base doctrine vented under the pretended nature of true Christianity I shall endeavour to sum it up in these following particulars First here is no Hosanna due to Christ as the Son of Mary as now existing bodily without us 2ly Jesus the Son of Mary is not God our Saviour 3ly That Jesus Christ is not the Son of the substance of the
act his part to make little children believe this Doctrine to wit Three Persons and one God is a false doctrine That the Father the Son and the Spirit are no otherwise three Persons but as the world and their Teachers calls them so To say that God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are three Persons but one God this is to speak we know not what a meer fancy as we have imagined a false doctrine contrary to the Scripture Article 1 To say with the Church of England In the Unity of this Godhead there be Three Persons of one substance power and eternity the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost is in this Quakers account the Doctrine of the world and their Teachers a speaking we know not what a vain imagination a corrupt doctrine contrary to the Scripture If this be not pestilent doctrine for little children to learn let all sober Christians judg Q p. 21. Q Numb 35 Now Children the Scriptures of truth do declare of God and Christ and the Spirit of Truth which are one but the Scriptures cannot bring you to know God and Christ and the Spirit of Truth Pr. Pr. In this Quaking-Primmer here is a train laid to blow up the knowledg of the Scriptures to prepare little Children to sleight them as being unable to bring them to know God and Christ and the Spirit of Truth according to these Quaking-lines St. Paul was mistaken when he said that the Scripture was profitable for Doctrine for wherein are the holy Scriptures profitable for Doctrine if they are unable to bring those that read them to know God Christ and the Spirit of Truth certainly it is either a true or a false knowledg that is to be gotten of God Christ and the Spirit by the Scriptures to exalt the Quakrs Idol the Light within little Children are here taught to sleight the holy Scriptures as a dull Book in the reading whereof there is nothing of God Christ and the Spirit of Truth to be known There are many more soul-endangering Doctrines in this Primer but I shall dismiss them at this present that I may come to the Quakers Catechism a Book of no less dangerous consequence as Popery of late hath spread in this Kingdom by Popish Catechisms so the Papal Quakers have set their Catechisms forth to gain Proselytes by this means Pharisee-like they make their followers twofold more the children of Hell Q. THe Book now under consideration is thus Titled Q. Two Treatises the one Entituled A New Primer the other A New Catechism both written by William Smith Printed 1668. Pr. Pr. The New Primer is that Book in which is demonstrated the new and living way a specious title this Book hath to catch unwary Readers to draw them cunningly into the Devils snare it 's written by way of Question and Answer the Child inquiring the Father informing which is a subtle way to dispense Quakerism the other is a new Catechism both are bound up together both Primer and Catechism are the sittest for Smithfield to receive the Hangmans Imprimatur there the Catechising new Primer is betwixt the Father and Child thus Q. p. 2. Q. Numb 36 Child But is there something of God in my own conscience that will give me the knowledg of him Father Yes and there is not any thing else that can do it Pr. Pr. In the first page of this new Primer this Quaking father endeavours to shew his child how he may come to know God his way and truth which he saith is thus done by something of God in his own conscience but so as that there is not any thing else that can do it as for the Scripture this stands for a cypher for a dead letter like a dumb Idol the Scripture can do nothing to make known God his way and truth the Light within this Quakers fondling is the childs only tutour to help him to know God his way and truth as for the Scripture which is given by inspiration of God which as St. Paul saith Is able to make wise to salvation which is profitable for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto every good work this very Scripture in comparison of the Light within is not able to help children in the least to know God his way and truth it doth still further appear that the Quakers spirit is not of God which doth thus debase the Scripture which is Gods word Q. p. 5. Q. Numb 37 Fath. Such as are not Christs Ministers have their power and authority from man and have each man a place of settlement which is called a Parish in that Parish they have Tythes allowed for their maintenance and they have a law made by man to compel it and if any for conscience sake cannot give it them then by their Law they sue them and imprison them and spoil their goods and these are wolves Child that are let loose among the lambs to rend and tear them and they have places builded in their several Parishes which they call Churches and they observe one day in a week for their worship and few hours in that day to perform it and they have an hour-glass and that is their time of Preaching and their eye will be oft towards the glass to see when it is run because it is a long hour to them when the glass is run they tell their people the time is now spent and what hath been spoken must suffice for that time and this is not the practice of Christs Ministers Pr. Pr. By this Quaking father the children of this Church and Kingdom are basely taught in a ridiculous manner to despise all Gods Ministers of what degree soever throughout this whole Kingdom from the Kings Chappel to the meanest Congregation we are all alike none of Christs Ministers like Jeroboams Priests or Baals Prophets this Quaker saith we derive our authority from man the Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops the Ordination of Priests and Deacons is no more but an humane invention for they have their power and authority from man in this Quakers account there is no true Ministry belonging to the Church of England the Priests are but so many Tythmongers setled in every Parish bloody wolves let loose among the lamb-like Quakers to rend and tear them like the Jews they have a law made by man to compel that which is unjust they are time-servers who do observe one day in a week for their worship and a few hours in that day to perform it an hour-glass measures the time of their Preaching which their eyes are oft upon their glass run and their time are both spent together thus in this Quakers eye they are no better than so many hour-glass-Preachers behold what a silly scandalous charge is here drawn up against all the Ministers of Gods Word in this Church and Kingdom who can believe that the foregoing discourse was indited by the infallible spirit who is God
the ground who are for the sire all unrighteous persons must be cast into the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone for ever now read your selves and your portions all you lofty ones for thither you must go there you must lye for evermore the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it with Dives and Haman you are enemies and persecutors of all those that enter in at the strait-gate as Haman and Dives and the high Priests Pharisees and Rulers were all you proud ones remember your father Dives his end for you must go into the everlasting burnings as he did whose belly was his god as yours is young and old rich and poor Lord and Lady and beggars shall all be turned into hell without respect of persons then shall it be with the Mistris so with the maid as with the servant so with the master as with the people so with the Priest then Lord and Lady Master and Mistris and all the earthly honour shall be laid into the sire Pr. Pr. This Quakers terrible blast is still blown against Lords and Ladies Masters and Mistresses old and young rich and poor Masters and servants Mistresses and maids Priests and people that none may escape the number is increased there is no way but one with them all because they are not trembling Quakers they must all to hell mind this melancholy Quaker how he hath packt them up for hell you may take him more fully thus Because they are proud like wicked Haman they must be silent like their father the Devil they must tremble before the Lord instead of their rich attire Lords and Ladies Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Masters and Mistresses must howl like dogs in sackcloth and ashes as for their profession this Quaker saith cast it away as if it were a menstruous filthy cloth as for themselves this Quaker counts them but so many fruitless trees a burden to the earth that bears them sit fuel for hell-fire as for their dwelling-place the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone for ever is the fit place to receive them all thus this Quaker hath helpt them to read themselves and their portions hither to this Lake he saith they must all go here they must lye for evermore but how doth this Quaker know all this he saith the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it behold here is a lying divination of his own brain delivered in the name of the Lord but what company shall they have this divining-Quaker saith they shall lye for evermore in the Lake with Dives and Haman is not this this Quakers plain meaning that all Lords and Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Masters Mistresses and Madams shall like Dives and Haman be surely damned for evermore like proud bloody Haman like unmerciful proud sensual Dives like the high Priests that put Christ to death like the Pharisees and Rulers that had their hands deep in his blood this Quaker saith that Lords and Ladies c. are the enemies and persecutors of God people who have proud merciless cursed Dives for their father whose end they should remember for as he saith they must go into everlasting burnings as he did Quakerism you see sits heavily upon the skirts of the Nobility and Gentry of this Land it proclaims their last end to be no better than that of Dives they must all to hell at the last with Dives they must be tormented in the same hell-flames Dives and they are both alike bad they do both serve the same God both belly-gods alike without respect of persons they shall all be turned into hell with their father Dives hear this Quakers bead-roll he saith old and young rich and poor Lord and Lady Mistris and maid Master and servant people and Priest shall all go thus paired by him to the Devil they shall all be turned into hell without respect of persons thus Lord and Lady Master and Mistris with all their earthly honour shall be laid into the sire of hell behold where was this Quakers Christianity what Old or New-Testament-rule had he for thus dooming uncharitably all Lords and Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Masters and servants Mistresses and maids old and young rich and poor Priest and people all without exception to the fire of hell if this quaking-doctrine be not a bold piece of unchristian censoriousness then what is except a Quaker whose heart was ever so hardened as to say that all Lords and Ladies all Knights all Gentlemen and Gentlewomen that all Masters and servants Priests and people old and young rich and poor are so unrighteous so proud as that they shall be turned into hell they shall go into the everlasting burnings and there they must lye for evermore amongst all the Prophets of the Old Testament amongst all the Apostles of the New Testament there is no president to be found for this cursed doctrine Q. Q. The next Pamphlet of this James Parnel is called A Shield of the Truth Pr. Pr. I may more truly say it is no shield of that faith which was delivered to the primitive Saints which faith is to be contended for Let me spake without just offence to any this Pamphlet may more truly be called Rabshakey revived for it is a gross piece of railery against all lawfully ordained Ministers of the Gospel That I may not be too tedious I shall but touch here and there Q. p. 66. Q. Numb 66 As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do they withstand the Truth all the ways they can for Jannes and Jambres were the Magicians of Egypt that imitated Moses so those University-men by their Magick-arts inventions and imaginations and studying old Authors have gotten the form of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles Words to trade with but deny the power and so are Traytors to Christ men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith Pr. Pr. This Quakers Shield is no Armour of proof for any true Gospel Ministers according to these quaking-lines the Church of England is in a very bad condition her Teachers are deceivers this Quaker gives us plainly to understand thus much That they are like to Jannes and Jambres no better than those Magicians were they withstood Moses these he saith do withstand the truth all the ways they can In this Quakers account her Teachers are but bare University-men beholding to Magick-arts inventions imaginations and old Authors for their skill in Divinity by this Quaker they are lookt upon as a sort of petty-chapmen that have gotten a form of words to trade for Money with like Judas they are Traytors to Christ like those false Teachers of old they are men of corrupt minds men of no right judgment concerning the doctrine of faith Thus you see how this Quaker hath declared all Priests to be a base generation of men worthy to be regarded as men do the dirt under their feet Q. p. 70 71. Q. Numb 67 He that hath the Letter let him speak the Letter he that hath the Life let him speak the Life
thus they sought their gain from their quarter and ruled like tyrants with rigor according to this Quakers mind you see that since the Apostles days all Priests in the Christian Church have been basely covetous vile cheats bloody wolves sordidly self-seeking minding the fleece more than the sheep like the false Prophets greedily seeking their gain from their quarter ruling like tyrants with rigor thus according to this Quaker our Priests old fathers planted their Church and so set every thing in form and tradition according to their own imaginations behold since the Apostles days to speak this Quakers mind fully there hath been no Christian Church but such as was planted by the old fathers of our Priests and this Church was planted by them after the worst fashion according to their own imaginations that we may not mistake this Quaker he tells us plainly his particular thoughts of our own Church saying here is the ground and foundation of the Faith and Church of England here are the old Fathers and old Authors that their Priests have so much talked of even the Popes and Bishops behold according to this Quaker both the Faith and Church of England are Antichristian Popes and Bishops in this Quakers account Antichrists creatures are those old Fathers who planted this Church and Faith according to their imaginations who are so much talked of by our Priests but he saith Thus Antichrist hath long deceived the Nations under the profession of the faith of Christ behold according to this Quaker not only the Church of England but all other Christian Nations since the Apostles days have thus long been deceived by Antichrist under the profession of the faith of Christ according to this Quaker there hath not been one jot of true Christianity in this Church or in any part of the world for many hundreds of years by-past he saith one generation hath gone and another come but they have not known the Lord that bought them behold ever since the Apostles dayes all Christians in the world have not known the Lord Jesus Christ their Redeemer according to this Quaker they have all been Antichristian I may truly say That this Quaker is so taken with this Antichristian glass as that he saith many may now see strange sights what lyars the people are how they came up and were ordained that they are the Ministers of Antichrist that they do shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men the people may also see saith this Quaker how ignorantly they have been led estranged from the Father of Light carried after vain traditions customs forms ordinances imaginations of man deceived with a vain profession and feigned faith kept strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Saviour and Redeemer behold according to this Quaker what base persons all the Priests of the Church of England are for in his account they are all lyars Ministers of Antichrist as bad as the Scribes and Pharisees were in Christs time for they shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men blind Teachers of the people estrangers of the people from God the Father of Light such as have carried them after vain traditions and imaginations of man deceivers with a vain profession and feigned faith such as have kept the people strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Redeemer but this is not all for this Quaker saith That both Priests and people do lye under the power of darkness and delusion of Antichrist behold in the Church of England according to this Quaker it is like Priests like people the power of darkness belongs to both they are both so far from true Christianity as that they are both under the delusion of Antichrist but according to this Quaker the Priests are the greater offenders of them two for they are he saith the peoples Leaders who cause them to err by their lyes they destroy the people for want of true knowledg they lead them captive in their sins they do only differ from the Heathen in name and profession Behold once more that according to this Quaker the Priests of the Church of England are teachers of lyes by which they cause the people to err soul-murtherers destroying the people for want of true knowledg like the Devil they lead the people captive in their sins they are nothing else but Heathens in truth Thus you see that this quaking-Watcher hath seen nothing belonging to true Christianity for a long time even ever since the Apostles days in the world or in the Church of England as for this Church and Kingdom according to this Quaker there is nothing but Antichrist and what is Antichristian to be found in them Q. p. 145 to 149 Q. Numb 80 You are fighting killing and devouring one another as they do whom you account Heathen you are drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers back-biters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors as they are both Priest and People you are envious and malicious both Priest and people you are dissembling cozening and cheating and defrauding one another of the earth What sin is there among those you account Heathen that is not amongst you and doth abound Be ashamed you Priests of England to see the fruits of your Ministry so laid open before you you are those who come near the Lord with your mouths but your hearts are far from him you are hypocrites and your hearts are full of deceit envy wrath bitterness covetousness pride earthly-mindedness self-love self-wisdom you are out of the life and practice of the Apostles and the children of light your Teachers are such as bring another doctrine and climb up another way who are shut out for Thieves and Robbers Pr. Pr. In these quaking-lines we have railing without reason and Scripture abused to this end behold all the people and Priests of the Church of England are by this censorious Quaker declared to be guilty of most notorious crimes they are all according to this Quaker either as bad or far worse than any Heathens are behold how bad this Quaker hath made all Priests and people of this Church and Kingdom to be without exception quarrellers murderers drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers backbiters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors by these black names doth this Quaker point them out behold is this the Christian Charity that thinks no evil Is this the Christianity that speaks evil of no man But in p. 146 this Quaker doth a little seem to eat his own words but they are soon disgorged As for those people and Priests that are not drunkards swearers c. this Quaker makes them as bad as the rest as if he were in Gods stead he ransacks their hearts to make them no better than those heart-wicked Pharisees were of old according to this Quaker in the Church and Kingdom of England the peoples Priests are no Christians but idolaters their conversations are worse than heathens for they abound in gross wickedness more than they as