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A35009	The first part of Babel's-builders unmasking themselves as appears by the following judgment from Barbadoes (promoted by George Fox his party, and subscribed by eighty two of them) : with a letter of G.F.'s, G.W's, &c. in answer thereunto, and observations thereupon : also a false prophesie of that lying prophet, Sol. Eccles : whereas the following discourse was formerly printed and privately disposed ... amongst those called Quakers, but finding some of G.F.'s party have since publickly exposed it with slanderous and false charges on the author, this second impression with some small addition, is now made publick ... / Thomas Crisp.; Babel's-builders unmask't. Part 1	Crisp, Thomas, 17th cent.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Eccles, Solomon, 1618-1683.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6951; ESTC R10390	16,901	16

of any Apostates or Opposers they would make ill Work with it and say that we set up an Arbitrary Power over Mens Consciences and Properties and an Implicit Faith and Submission without Inward Conviction What more true And that we divided the Measure of God in a particular from the Universal Spirit of God in other Particulars in Mens and Womens-Meetings And as for Subscribing unto such an Order or Judgment they would say it was like the Scotch-Covenant and as tho the Measure of the Faith and Spirit of God in themselves was not agreeable to the Universal Spirit Faith in the Mens and Womens-Meetings and that if they should go from the Measure of Faith and Spirit of God in their own Particulars and to give up both their Spiritual and Temporal Concerns to the Universal Spirit in Mens and Womens-Meetings This would be the way to bring them all from the Measure of the Spirit in their own Particulars For how can the Men and Women in the Universal Spirit receive that which is not given up from the Universal Spirit therefore all must be left to the Universal Spirit in their own Measures thereof and as for the Stubborn and Wilful that are against Men and Womens-Meetings the Universal Spirit cannot receive that And all are to give up to the Universal Spirit in their own Particulars in which Spirit they have Unity and Fellowship without outward Subscription and to be led by the same Spirit to see their Names written in Heaven in this Gospel-day of Light and Life and this is and was the Saints Testimony in the New-Covenant of Light and Life and their Heavenly Subscription which is above all outward Subscriptions both among the Jews and Professors for the one ties them below and the other ties them above And for any to say They desire to give up their whole Concerns both Spiritual and Temporal unto the Judgment of the Spirit of God in Mens and Womens-Meetings as believing it to be more according to the Vniversal Wisdom of God than any particular Measure in my self or any Particulars Now this would make the Belief which is in the Light and the Spirit in their own Particulars not one with the Universal Spirit in the said Meettings And as for those that the Mens and Womens-Meetings in the Universal Spirit of God have not Unity with they are erred from their own Measures of the Spirit of God but the Universal Spirit of God has Unity with the the least Measure now as it was in the Apostles days who kept every one to their own Measures which was both the great Rule and Line of the new Creature in the Believers and Saints then and so with that the Universal Spirit in the Apostles and Elders then had and now have Unity And therefore dear Friends we know your Care and Tenderness of Truth and that you aim at the best Things Contrary to S. Crisp who said the Paper was not only ill worded but he believed 't was ill meant ' and have had much to do with some loose Spirits there and therfore our Desires are that you would stop this Paper from going any further lest some should get Copies of it and spread amongst bad Spirits and keep in the general tender Spirit of God that in Love you may answer the Measure of the Spirit of God in them that are Convinced by it and in them that err from it And the Man of God must not strive but be gentle towards all And so concluding with the Apostles tender Advice 1 Cor. 1.10 Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing and that there be no Divisions among you but that you be perfectly joyned together in the same Mind and in the same Judgment And Phil. 2.2 3. Fulfil you my Joy that you be like minded having the same Love being of one Accord of one Mind let nothing be done through Strife or vain Glory but in lowliliness of Mind let each esteem other better than themselves And 1 Pet. 5.8 Finally be all of one Mind having Compassion one of another love as Brethren Be pittiful be courteous Now as for your Subscription to an outward tie be above such things forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ written not with Ink but with the Spirit of the Living God which Spirit hath given you Life and will bring you to the City of the Living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to the General Assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven c. Your dear Friends and Brethren in our Lord Jesus Christ in whom you have Peace Life and Salvation GEORGE FOX c. As for the aforesaid Paper from Barbadoes wherein is exprest the Judgment of the Quarterly-Meeting I take it to be neither according to Scripture nor the Principles of Truth And first for Scripture By it you make void the New-Covenant or Law written in the Heart Of which it is said Heb. 8.11 They shall not need to teach every Man his Brother saying Know the Lord but all shall know me from the least to the greatest And John 2. The Anointing which you have received of Him abideth in you you need not any Man to teach you but as that teacheth c. But your Judgment contradicts these Viz. Give up your whole Concern Spiritual and Temporal if required unto the Spirit of God as you say in Men and Womens-Meetings believing it to be more according to the Vniversal Wisdom of God than any particular in your selves c. But the Scripture saith None know the Things of God but the Spirit of God And how shall any one know what the Meeting requires is according to the Spirit of God if not by a measure of it in themselves It is also said If our Heart Condemn us God is greater but if that Coodemn us not then have we Confidence towards God For if it please God to reveal any thing to any Particular and the general deny or disown it then that particular must deny Revelation and give up to the general According to this Doctrine I cannot see how the Church should ever be restored out of the Apostacy unless God first reveal Himself to the general which seems to be contrary to His way of Manifestation to this very day For what must John have done with his Revelations and Message to the Asian Churches Sardis and Laodicia who had a Name to Live and were Dead And said they were rich and encreased in Goods and wanted nothing They thought well of themselves as you do had but few Names left not the generality yet were mistaken and Apostatized and reproved by a Particular Now according to your Judgment John and the few Names ought to have given up to the general and not to his particular Revelation Also all the Reformations since the Apostacy have been begun by Particulars and opposed and persecuted by the general

therefore it is not as you say most agreeing to the Wisdom of God to cleave to the Judgment of the general but to the particular Manifestation altho the Judgment general hath not Unity therewith For if a Particular may reprove the general surely he ought to cleave to his particular Measure for his own Belief and Practice altho the general have not Unity therewith for what is not of Faith is Sin much more what is contrary thereto For if any Meeting requires one to do or believe contrary to their own Measure whoever obeys them therein becomes a Servant to those Persons Meetings for his Servants ye are whom you obey Hereby you call such Men or Meetings your Master or Father contrary to Christs Command Oh Friends strain not at Gnats and swallow such Camels which the 82 seemed to have done That it is against the Principles of Truth is plain enough and needs no proof for by that we are taught to be guided by the Manifestation of Gods Spirit in our own Hearts to speak and act as thereby instructed and that the Judgment of Truth through a part of Christ's Members cannot become a Bond on others further than their Understandings are illuminated thereby These two Positions the Judgment aforesaid seems to contradict Also read E. B. and Is P's Works or any antient Friends they all direct to the Light in our own Hearts or Consciences as the only and sufficient Guide and Leader But your Judgment not only contradicts Scripture and Friends Testimonies but you have given such an unlimited Power to Meetings and not contented to give that to Men which never before was given since Protestantism but to Women also in which the Scripture is silent or what it says is rather against their having any Power or Rule but to be subject Nay this unlimited Power was one of the heavy weights in the Pope's Yoke that made it so uneasy to England in times of Popery neither can I find that ever in England the Pope or any Church gained this point by all their Stratagems Wars c. as you have granted Viz. the giving up all Spirituals and Temporals The Christian-State is said to be a glorious Liberty but your Judgment makes them Slaves and Vassals and will cause any Understanding Men to avoid submitting to such a Church that hath so unlimited a Power 't is much safer submitting to a Church which makes the Scripture their Rule for thereby one may know what they may or can require of one but yours after one hath given up all Spirituals c. may still require more without measure if you pretend or stamp such Requirings with the Name of the Universal Spirit of God as Experience teacheth hath been too frequent What is become of all our Protesting Fore-fathers according to your Judgment For you seem to have acquitted Rome of all their Blood for they had not only the Judgment of the generality of the Church but of the Magistracy and Law of the Nation against them which was of greater Authority than your Womens Meetings for which there is no Precept Precedent nor Law but against viz. their Form and Power I am ashamed that after all this Light and Knowledge pretended any should make such a long stride towards Rome which now is very unseasonable for if but one more such I know not but you may both too soon meet and embrace each other If any say we mistake you you do not give up to the Meeting but to the Spirit of God c. W. Pen's Address c. and other Testimonies I think answer that Viz. A Man may falsly believe as the True Church believes and if I believe only because She believes and not because I am convinced in my own Vnderstanding and Conscience my Faith is false tho Hens be true p. 146. Also E. Burrough saith Every one is to mind the Teachings of the Spirit of Christ in himself for to that he is to stand or fall p. 152. Also if a bare saying it is the Spirit without evidence will serve then the Pope may say so to Now that which further aggravates and makes this Judgmen the worse is that it should come from such Persons as G. F. c. writes the 82 Subscribers to be Viz. Manifestly declared the Epistle of Christ written with the Spirit of the Living God which Spirit hath given you Life and will bring you to the City of the Living GOD c. Aim at the best Things Viz. Give up all c. HIGH GROWN CRISTIANS OR G. F. c. HIGHLY MISTAKEN Thus what you have done seems to be to the dishonour of Truth and contrary to what you once professed for the sufficiency of Light in your own hearts was that Gospel you received and they Preached at first for all to cleave to and abide by and give up to But now to give up to the Requirings of others altho con rary to that what more like another Gospel Therefore I beseech you mind the Exhortation If We or an Angel from Heaven bring any other Gospel than that you have received let Him be accursed And avoid all such Questions as these are and the Propounders thereof for they are but foolish Questions yea worse and will gender to S●rife and BONDAGE therefore let no Men nor WOMEN especially rule over you nei her receive their Traditions for Doctrines further than manifested by the Truth in your own hearts and in the Scriptu es Are you so foolish as to believe that the R quirings of Men and Women-Mee●ings without Scripture-Evidence or manifestation by the Light in your own Hearts can give you acceptance with God wh n as Christ said to them that said they had Prophesied and cast out Devi s and done many mighty Works in his Name Depart I know you not c. And think you such unwarrantable Requirings and Implicit giving up can stand you in stead Nay this Perswasion cometh not of God but it is fulfilled as was prophesied in Scripture Some shall arise from among your selves speaking perve●se things Remember from whence ye are fallen and return to the measure of Truth in your own selves and arise and depart from such Judgmen s for fear it be fulfilled on you as was said against some of old When they knew God they glorifi'd Him not as God they became vain in their Imaginations and their foolish hearts were darkened Therefore I pray be not so soon moved and tossed up and down by these windy Arbitrary and Implicit Judgm●nts of men who have mens Persons and Orders in Admiration because of Advantage for such serve not Christ but themselves but mind you the Truth in your own hearts and according as the Apostle said Let every one be fully perswaded in his own Mind You must answer for your selves to God when it shall be said Who required these things at your hands Will any Men or Women or outward written Orders have greater Force than Moses and the Prophets

Nay but as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God this Spirit Christ said he would send should be in them Forasmuch as the foregoing Letter of G. F. c. to Barbadoes was produced as a proof of their denial of the said Paper I observe therein That they are more afraid of its Publication than ashamed of the Matter and do more object the subscribing the Paper than owning that Principle Viz giving up all to them as appears by their Words If it should come into the Hands of Opposers c. they would say we set up Arbitrary Power Implicit Faith c. but they say not so which are the plain tendency thereof But it is needful to know what they mean by the Universal Spirit being that is so often mentioned I take it to be the Opinion or Judgment of the Ruling Party or Foxonions among the Quakers because they exclude those who oppose their Orders as being Apostates and gone out from the Universal Spirit Also I take this Spirit of theirs not to be the Universal Spirit of God but a private selfish Spirit of their own because they say As for the Stubborn and Wilful that are against Men and Womens-Meetings the Vniversal Spirit cannot receive that Now those they term Stubborn c. are not against Mens and Womens-Meetings but differ about the Form and Power thereof they are only against Women having Meetings apart from the Men when they have no business requires it not against them in Cities great Towns and Places where they live near together and Occasions require but where they live remote from each other and have no business Also the Form of Marriages c. This is great part of the difference and the Case of those Persons G. F. c. term Apostates Bad Spirits c. And G. F. c. says The Vniversal Spirit cannot receive that I shall shew by Testimonies of Scripture and Friends that notwithstanding Differences yet Christians ought to receive each other and walk in Love as Brethren E. Burrough says Notwithstanding their difference in Judgment whether in Cases Substantial or Ceremonial yet they were still to be in Love and Vnity pag. 809. And every one to mind the Teachings of the Spirit in himself Hereby you may see that E. B. could receive in Love and walk in Unity with such as differed in Cases Substantial which is as high a difference as any about Womens Meetings can be Also W. Pen saith Address to Protestants p. 70. I cannot see how such Men can excuse themselves from great presumption c. who deny those Persons to be Members of Christ's Church that in Conscience refuse to subscribe any other Draught than their Lord hath given them Then how can G. F. c. excuse themselves who say Those that be against Womens-Meetings the Vniversal Spirit cannot receive Unless G. F. c. prove that such Dissenters have had their Form of Womens-Meetings from the Lord. And G. F. c. must admit them Members of Christs Church or prove they refuse that which the Lord hath given them or else G. F. c. are inexcusable and condemnable by their own Testimonies Also 2 Pet. 1.5 Give all diligence thereunto add to Faith Vertue Knowledge Temperance Patience Godliness Brotherly-Kindness Love for if these things be in you and abound ye shall not be unfruitful nor barren c. Wherefore give all diligence to make your Calling and Election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fail for an Entrance shall be ministred unto you into the Everlasting Kingdom Now I appeal to any sober Christian Whether all these Qualifications may not be in one and yet conscientiously dissent from a Form of Marriage or Womens-Meetings as order'd by G. F. If it can be as I am sure it may that one may be so qualified and assisted by Gods Spirit as to attain these Vertues expressed by the Apostle Peter and not comply with G. F's Womens-Meetings then a sure entrance is made into the Everlasting Kingdom and they are received by the Universal Spirit of God therefore G. F's c. Universal Spirit so often mentioned is not that of God nor of E. B. or Is P. nor the Spirit of Christ nor his Apostles for they said Judge not and that the Tree was known by its Fruit. But G. F. c. will judge and condemn for evil and gone from the Spirit altho no evil Fruit appears only Nonconformity to them Also where evil Fruit does appear as in this their Judgment yet he can say to them because they own his Form and Womens Meetings We know your Care and that you aim at the best things So that to give up to his Orders tho contrary to their own measures seems by him termed the best Things and they are manifestly declared the Epistle of Christ wrote with the Spirit of the Living God c. Whereby he seems to place more Vertue and Power in conforming to his Orders of Womens Meetings c. than in all Faith and Fruits of the Spirit expressed in the Scripture And where-ever G. F. mentions the Universal Spirit I take him he meanes the Spirit that set up and adores those Meetings and persecutes all such who cannot for Conscience sake conform thereto Now Christ said Whatever you would another should do unto you that do unto them Love thy Neighbour as thy self c. This is the true Universal Spirit to desire no more Liberty nor Charity from another than one would be content to allow them and Impose no more on another than one would have them Impose on ones self G. F. c. once cryed for Liberty of Conscience none must perform any Worship but as taught and led thereinto by the Light in their own Hearts but having gathered a People to themselves now say they Submit to your Elders and if not Conform to his Orders for Conscience sake then Wilful Stubborn out of the Vniversal Spirit and Truth Enemies Rebels accursed from all Eternity c. And it appears that the Subscribers and G. F. c. do differ for he says This would make the Belief which is in the Light and the measure of the Spirit in their own particulars not one with the Vniversal i. e. G. F's Spirit c. Indeed so it doth for there be many that believe in the Light and measure of the Spirit and its Sufficiency that are not one with G. F's c. Imposing Spirit which he calls Vniversal but against it altho the true Universal Spirit of Christ and in all His hath now as formerly Unity with the least measure in any Member tho for Conscience sake they may be of a differing apprehension in some things and therefore the Apostle He became all to all weak or strong and said bear one anothers Burdens and bear one with another and therefore he condescended to Baptise and Circumcise to win over and endeavoured the encrease of their Faith and Understandings

OF ONE MIND AND JVDGMENT For if you gain but that Point to have Power in any Case of Conscience to give positive Sentence WHO but YOV who say you are the CHVRCH must determine in what Cases so that it is in what Cases you please which is as good as if you had said YOV HAVE POWER IF YOV PLEASE IN ANY CASE OF CONSCIENCE TO GIVE POSITIVE SENTENCE AND JVDGMENT And I see not but if that you have such absolute Power in Cases of Conscience but that you may also claim it in Meum and Tuum and have Power to determine as R. B. saith To remove such Differences by your positive Sentence And let the wise in Heart Judge how little this is less than all Spirituals and Temporals according to the Barbadoes Judgment for if any difference be between the Lording Ruling Universal Party and some other Particular the Universal Party will not fail to say They be the true Church have Power if we must be all of one Mind and Judgment Whose Judgment ought we to be of but the Church's Viz. YOURS being in the true Faith c BEHOLD WHETHER THIS DRIVES And according to C. Taylors Doctrine it may be said as in his Book Something c. p. 35. FOR OVGHT I KNOW you will centre in ROME and say It is the positive just and righteous Sentence of the Church It is truly said in Addr. to Prot. p. 144. An Imposing Church will be both Judge and Party So that according to this Doctrine you have a Charter to give positive Sentence in any Cases of Conscience c. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD if you can until you please to give Setence against your selves And when the Second-days Meeting have resolved when that shall be and in what Cases and in what not you have Power to give positive Sentence then their needless Question before mentioned gendring to Strife and Bondage may be answered but until then them and their Question to be avoided according to the Advice of the Apostle Beware of the Concision beware of Evil Workers Pray consider what sentence had poor Micajah among the 400 Prophets the 1 Kings 22.24 When Zedekiah went near and smote him and said Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee Also Jeremiah other of the Prophets from the Church in their days who could speak high words saying The Lord lived that brought them out of the Land of AEgypt and out of the House of Bondage Also consider what positive Sentences Christ and his Apostles had from the Pharisees and Ruling Party of the Church who garnished the Sepulchres of the Prophets saying If they had lived in their days they would not have killed them And thought highly of themselves saying They were Abrahams Seed and never were in Bondage and reputed themselves Elders and Overseers and those to whom God hath given Counsel Authority and Power to and as the true Church gave positive Sentences and as they thought Just and Righteous against the Servants of Christ and demanded by whose Authority they did those things as some of you have done when one Speak or Pray in your Meeting and because not in exact Conformity to G. F's Laws therefore have asked Doth or did G. F. allow or approve of it Also consider when all Asia was turned aside and all men forsook Paul and none stood by him only some few Particulars What was their positive Sentences Doubtless they thought them just and righteous and obligatory as they were the Church being the Universal and Ruling Party Therefore without Evidence from Scripture or by the Spirit in our own Hearts of the Justice and Righteousness of your positive Sentences and Orders they are but the Traditions of Men altho taught for Doctrines And the Light or Spirit of Christ within is a surer Guide and Leader to every particular than the Unity or being of one Mind and Judgment with any of G. F's c. Mens and Womens Meetings For in the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven in which John saw no Temple neither had it need of Sun or Moon but the Glory of the LORD and the LAMB is the Light thereof WHat is here afore-wrote is not as a full Answer or Detection of the depths of Satan and Mystery of Iniquity that is couched under or lies hidden in this Judgment asserted in the Paper from Barbadoes and the seeming Answer of dislike thereto given by G. F. c. but only as a Mite from one and according to present Ability to manifest his detestation of all such Principles and Practices But I doubt not but there will be some of greater Ability who shall contribute much more to the uncovering Her who hath long sat as a Queen and deceived many yet says I shall not see Widdowhood nor Sorrow because her Children are many and mighty through the Power they have received from that Beast on which she rides and will suffer none to buy nor sell in their Market but who receive her Mark in their Forehead or Hand For notwithstanding their Judgment seems such bare-fac'd Popery and so contrary to their pretended Principles yet observe how G.F. c. treat the Authors Viz. We know your Care and tenderness for Truth and that you aim at the best Things and are manifestly declared the Epistle of Christ written with the Spirit of the Living God which will bring you to the City of the Living God c. And not one sharp Reproof in all only Caution for fear of its Publication and dislike that any particular measure should not be one with their Men and Womens-Meetings c. But when we consider the Names and Terms are given to others that profess the same Faith and agree in all Things except as aforesaid Viz. Something about Womens-Meetings and some Forms of Marriages c. they for this conscientious forbearing to practice such Things as they have no Faith in are termed Apostates departed from the Truth such as the Vniversal Spirit cannot receive c. By all which we may see how they would hedge up the way to God and leave no Door to come in by but G. F's Forms nay not only so but tie up or limit God that if he reveals any thing to any particular he must give up all to the general and if they have not Unity with it must cleave to the general against that particular Measure of Knowledge or Manifestation in himself but I think hereby is plainly manifested that there be such Innovators as W. Rogers hath mentioned in his Book Viz. The Chrictian-Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator Which Title C. Taylor saith is notorious Blasphemy But hereby it not only appears that the Title is proper and no Blasphemy but also that there was just Cause for W. R's writing that Book for the Cause why those they call Apostates separate from them is not out of any dislike or denyal of the Principles of Truth altho they

say all that oppose them be gone from Truth but in opposition to their Usurping Authority over Peoples Consciences in Religious Matters and requiring Conformity to their Orders before or without Conviction This is the chief Cause of their hard Speeches and false Accusations against those they term Apostates and Seperates and say In the Name of the Lord they resolve to give Battle where-ever they meet that Spirit But others are resolved in the Spirit of the Lamb not to bow to their Image having seen that they should as they have done manifest themselves to be what they are even empty Clouds The Lord open the Understandings of all the simple-hearted among them as I believe there be many and preserve all blameless and in Love that they may have no just Cause to speak evil of you but separate from such who have a Form of Godliness and high swelling words of Church-Power and Gospel-Order which they have made to themselves and are bowing to even the Work of their own hands as appears by the foregoing and following Lying Prophecy of S. Eccles. and have your Minds girt up towards the Lord and your Conversation as becomes the Gospel in Meekness and Fear not terrified by their high swelling Words and seeing the evil Effects of forsaking the Teaching of the Lord by his Spirit to give up to Mens and Womens-Meetings and Orders beware lest you be carried away with the Errour of the wicked and fall from your own Stedfastness but endeavour to grow in Grace and of the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom alone be Obedience and Glory for ever which is the desire of my Heart as for my self so for all that desire to follow the Lord and that we may be kept from Idols Here follows the False Prophesy of S. E. taken out of his Letter which he accompanied with two eminent Friends and Espousers of G. F. and his Party delivered to J. S. who lived some years after notwithstanding his predicting the contrary O JOHN STORY What hast thou done against the Lord and thy own Soul Thou hast divided the Heritage of God and the good Ordinances which Christ Jesus hath set up in his Church hast thou contemned especially Womens-Preachings and Womens-Meetings therefore will the Lord throw Contempt upon thee and if thou dost not repent speedily miserable will be thy End O how hast thou lost thy Place and Dignity which thou hadst amongst the Saints in Light and now to be numbred amongst the Rebellious If ever thou find Mercy with the Lord go home to the North with speed and break up the Divided Meetings which thou and John Wilkingson have been Instrumental to divide from the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ The Anger of the Lord is chiefly against thee and thou art bound with two Bonds for the Church and Brethren have bound thee on Earth and thou art surely bound in Heaven and this is the Testimony of Jesus to thee neither shalt thou be able to get from under these Bonds till thou art reconcil'd to the Brethren i.e. submit to G. F. c. O hast to the Work abovesaid lest the Wrath of the Lord overtake thee before it be done and be reconciled to G. F. who is God's Friend and the Servant of the Living God and Great Apostle of Jesus Christ Hast away to the North for thy time is short and go quickly thou and thy Brother if possible you may bring again to the Body of Jesus Christ those ye have scattered lest their Blood be required at your Hands Arise quickly and be going for this is the Word of the Lord to thee Viz. That this Year shalt thou John Story die because thou hast Taught Rebellion against the Living God SOLOMON ECCLES 1st day of the 1ct Month 1677. READER OBserve what this S. E. one of G. F's Preachers delivers in the Name of the LORD Viz. 1. That their Womens-Preachings and Womens-Meetings are the Good Ordinances which Christ hath set up in his Church 2. That being reconciled i. e. submitting to G. F. and his Imposing Party is the only way to find Mercy with the Lord. 3. G. F. c. who call themselves the Body of Friends he terms the Body of Jesus Christ 4. That great Lye he delivered in the Name of the Lord Viz. THIS YEAR SHALT THOV JOHN STORY DIE c. Who was then Ill and not like to live long but yet lived about four years after This is here inserted that all who read or hear it may fear and beware of taking the Name of the Lord in vain Also of having G. F. or any Persons or their Orders in Admiration as this S. E. and others his Brethren and Preachers of G. F's Party have so frequently done as appears by the Titles they have given G. F. Viz. One greater than Moses a Prophet indeed It was said of Christ he was in the World the World was made by Him and the World knew Him not so it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not but thou shalt feel this Prophet one day as heavy as a Milstone upon thee and though the World knoweth him not yet he is known Also G. F. hath been stiled The Father of many Nations whose Life hath reached to us thy Children even to the Isles afar off whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou Rules and Governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is Established in Peace and the Encrease thereof is without End These and many more have been given him which I do not understand that he disowned or testified against but rather owned and approved of them as it seems to appear by his causing or at least suffering those Expressions c. to be Communicated to others See also a Blasphemous and Idolatrous Letter in p. 7 of 5th BABELS c. Now these have been covered Justified or excused but others that conscientiously dissent from their Ceremonies they are persecuted with Rigour and false Accusations Oh Was ever greater Partiality and respect of Persons from such high Pretenders to Christianity And if Trees may be known by their Fruits these are evil Ones Therefore dear Friends be separate from these unclean things for such Principles and Practices are Babylons Brats who is to be made naked to the shame of her Lovers and happy shall those be who dash them against the Stones but wo to them that give suck to and nourish them Think me not your Enemy because I deal plainly with you for it is in Love to Truth and abhorrence of Imposition unlimited Power Implicit blind and unacceptable Obedience I desire the Lord to give you to know what is his good and acceptable Will Recommending you to the Spirit of Grace in your own Hearts whereby you may be preserved blameless in this crooked Generation To God only be Glory and Eternal Honour for ever FINIS