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A62209	The sauciness of a seducer rebuked, or, The pride and folly of an ignorant scribbler made manifest in some remarks upon a scurrilous libel written by Joseph Nott ... against a book of the Reverend Mr. George Tross in vindication of the Lord's Day : together with a confutation of some errors of the Quakers, in a book call'd ... Gospel-truths scripturally asserted, written by John Gannacliff and Joseph Nott.	Trosse, George, 1631-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing S729; ESTC R7884	41,236	31

tell thee that William Pen is the only Man of Name among the Quakers it seems this Phrase would be above thy shallow Capacity J. N. The next was the Idol Wooden whom the Saxons honoured for their God of Battel from whence they called the Fourth day Wednesday Where didst thou find an Idol called Wooden I don't think there is any such Name in Cambden or Verstegan If thou hadst not been a Wooden Fellow thou wouldest have distinguish'd Woden from Wooden But every Log will not make a Mercury J. N. Now it is good for all People to leave these old Pagan Saxon Heathen Names and call the days as they are called in Scripture Never doubt Joseph but that all People will be ready to gratifie thee in this when they know thy mind And oh what a happy Reformation would it be if all People would call the days by the Names of the First day the second day c. What a brave time if the Religion and Manners of Pensylvania should obtain all the World over Here 's precious Counsel if 't were receiv'd The Quaker is for a new Language acommodated to his new Light He is a Man that sets a high value upon proper words tho' he makes no great scruple of Conscience about joining them together 'T is pity but he had liberty to coin a Language to his mind provided the new words and those that affect them were sent after the Copper Farthings Custom hath made the Names Monday Tuesday c. cur●ant among us We use them as notes of distinction for the days of the Week And few of those who use these Names intend thereby any honour to the Man in the Moon to Tuisco the Idol of the Planets or Wooden the God of Battel And tho' I best approve of the name of the Lords-day for the first day of the Week yet I don't intend to bring an Action of Scandal against Justin Martyr or Tertullian for calling it Sunday And let but Joseph Nott give me liberty to call the other days Monday Tuesday Wednesday c. and to be quits with him he shall call them Second Third Fourth c. or Alpha Beta Gamma Delta or what else he pleases for me I don't find that the Penmen of the Holy Scriptures were so nice and scrupulous in things of this nature The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tho' an old Pagan Greek Heathen name used as Estius ad Rom. 3.2 apud Graecos Authores ad significandum responsa Deorum quae Latini Oracula vocant To signifie the Answers of the Heathen Gods yet the Proto-Martyr Stephen Acts 7.38 And the Apostle of the Gentiles Rom. 3.2 without scruple use it applying it to the Sacred Writings and Revelations of the will of the only living and true God Hear what the Learned and Reverend Doctor Wallis says to this frivolous Cavil in his Defence of the Christian Sabbath in answer to Mr. Bampfield p. 67. After he hath shewn how little regard is to be given to the Tale of Verstegan he adds But whaeever were the occasion on of the first imposing these are now the known Names of those Days And we need no more scruple the use of these Names than to talk of Pope Pius Clemens Boniface and Innocent tho' possibly the persons so call'd had none of those good Qualities In like manner as we have a Spring near Oxford which we call Aristotle's Well not that we think Aristotle was ever there or was Lord of the place and much less that he was wont to be there worshipped but we so call it as being now the proper name of the place imposed at pleasure by which it is known And so for the days of the VVeek whatever were the occasion of the first imposing they now signifie no more than the proper distinctive names by which the days are known And why we may not continue so to call them I know not We are told Acts 17.19 20. of Paul's being at Areopagus or Mars-Hill because that was the known name of the Place without scrupling the reason why it was so called whether because Mars had been there worshipped or for what other reason And Acts 28.11 of a Ship design'd by Castor and Pollux or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without scrupling the reason of that Name or what Relation these Stars had to Jupiter so as to be called his Lads c. 'T was not for nothing that St. Paul caution'd Timothy to avoid profane and vain bablings and oppositions of Science falsly so call'd 1 Tim. 6.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de rebus inanibus clamor inanis garrulitas quae ad aedificationem non facit Aret. Many such empty noisy bablers there have been in all Ages and still are of whom Vincentius Lirinensis tells us cap. 26. Audias quosdam ips rum dicere venite O insipientes miseri qui vulgo Catholici vocitamini discito fidem veram quam praeter nos nullus intelligit quae multis ante seculis latuit nuper vero revelata ostensa est How agreeable is this to the Quakers stile Come you ignorant and blind Priests come you foolish Protestants and learn the truth of us that Truth which none but we understand which hath been hid f●om you but is of late reveal'd unto us who have the Spirit and the Light within Learn of us to keep an invisible day Learn of us to call the days as they are called in Scripture c. But let us hear the Epilogue of this Learned and Elegant Piece J. N. The Lord prosper his great work and cause his Truth to spread more and more is the Prayer and desire of my soul Even so Amen Written by a Lover of the Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph Nott. As he began with Non-sense so he concludes with it too To make sense of it it must be That the Lord would prosper c. But 't is fit the end should be like the rest of the Pamphlet that all might be of a piece As he entituled his Book Holy Scripture work c. whereas it is a prophane wresting of Scripture so he calls himself a Lover of the Lord Jesus Christ tho' he casts off his Ordinances vilisies his VVord and reproaches his Messengers I think I have made it evident that Joseph Nott is not a Lover of the Lord Jesus Christ but one who giveth head to Seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils speaking Lyes in Hypocrisy 1 Tim. 4.1 2. And I doubt not but that I may on this occasion pray with David Psal 31.18 Let th●●ing Lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the Righteous Thus I have done with this Pamphlet I have discovered the great pride and ignornce of the Writer I have shewn his gross Mistakes pitiful Cavils and notorious Errors Ex pede Herculem By this you may see what a fine System of Divinity our new Professors who are Men of all Trades are like in time to patch together What monstrous

Superstition not a few of these I say at length fall to down right Quakerism And of those who fall into this Sink of Errors few return again to the Truth or take hold of the paths of Life If what I have written in this Treatise be an Antidote to any against the Infection of this spreading Evil my labour will not be lost That He who neither slumbereth nor sleepeth would rouz his Wa chmen when the Church is so bes●t on every side That the great Sheph●rd and Bishop of Souls would excite his faithful Pastors to a more narrow oversight of the Flock when the old roaring Lion and so many ravenous Wolves lie in wait to deceive and destroy That the weak and ignorant may be better inform'd about and confirmed in the present Truths That true Protestants may cease to bite and devour one another and having unfeign●d Love to the Truth and one another may contend earnestly for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints is the Desire of One Studious to know and practice ●h● Doctrine according to Godliness An Ignorant QUAKER Rebuk'd Or REMARKS upon JOSEPH NOTT's Silly Pamphlet Against the Reverend Mr. GEORGE TROSS THat I may the better deal with this huffing Champion of the Quakers who Goliah-like bids defiance to the Protestant Hosts offers Violence to the Word of God and cast Fire-brands Arrows and Death at those who come near him I shall First Examine his swelling Title and shew how impertinently he hath cited Scripture Secondly I shall consider his Preface and Thirdly bestow some Notes and Reflections upon his T●eatise that he and his Admirers may see his Vanity in meddling with that which is far above his Capacity SECT 1. Joseph Nott's Title Page consider'd The Title of his Pamphlet examined His impertinence in Citing Scripture repriv'd The Texts by him quoted explained With a Rebuke to such Ignorant Teachers and their giddy Hearers THE Title which this Trifle● prefixes to his Pamphlet is this Holy Scripture-work is better than the work of the corrupt Reasoning of Fallen Man A great Name for such a little Brat But prithee Jo. if thou wert Godfather to thy own Baby tell me How it came into thy Head to give it this Name Doth it not look like a Compliance with the Men of the World in that Babilonish Ceremony called Baptism Thy Book would better have resembled its Author if it had been sent packing without Title or Preface Thou mightest very honestly have left every Reade to have nam'd it acco ding to his own ●ight Who would have thought that a Man of thy Gravity would have trick'd up thy little Infant with Ribbons and Lace and set a high Top-Knot upon its Front How canst thou reconcile this to the Dictates of Light within and the Practice of the Brethren in other Cases Doth not this smell a little Popish and Anti-Christian Joseph if thou art breeding any more Pamphlets be rul'd by me turn 'em along without any of those Carnal Ornaments in a plain Quaking-Dress that we may know whose they are by their Garb. And why dost thou call thy Book Work Holy Work yea Holy Scripture Work Must writing at random pass for Work Commend me to those that Play or sit still Would'st fain have thy scurilous Libel Sainted He hath an Ounce of Charity for a Grain of Discretion that accounts thy Writings Sacred Unless it were the sacred Hunger of Gold which set thee about this Jobb of work I do not think there is much Holiness in the Case And who knows but the hope of Brass Farthings when Trade was low and Work scarce refin'd thy Wit and a craving Maw raised thy Fancy so that in spight of Nature and Education thou would'st become an Author Thou art Flesh and Blood as well as others And who knows but the Belly that Master of Arts as one * Magister Artis Ingeniique largitor v●niter Pers calls him might teach Joseph Nott to hold forth and write Replies as well as Hireling Daws and Parrots to prate and sing Thou wouldst fain shelter thy Errors under the VVord of Truth and therefore call'st thy bungling and botching Scripture-W●rk We shall see in a little time what fine Work thou makest with Scripture Thou wouldst make us believe that thy Pamphlet is better than the Corrupt Reasoning of Fall'n Man But by the way thou goest to work one would think thy Noddle were Craz'd and thy Brains addle After the Title we have four Texts of Scripture cited which I come now to consider Only Reader one word by the way Let it not surprize thee to find the Quaker quoting Scripture Don't suffer thy self to be fool'd into a Belief that 't is out of Respect to the Oracles of God No have a little patience till we come to the Preface and thou wilt find that he hath a Spleen against all that Profess the Scripture to be the only Rule of Faith And directs his Reader not to the sure word of Prophecy but to the Light in his own Heart He durst not for his Ea s refer himself to the Evidence of Scripture Hold his Nose to that Grindstone and you may do what you will with him for all his prancing and sprawling If his dull Pate imagine that any Text may serve his turn it shall be welcome But if that clear ●●ght Witness against his dark and rotten Errors then away with the Prophets and Apostles and make room for Light within to give in its Evidence 'T is no new thing to find Scripture misapplied In Mat. 4.6 you read of an old Sophister that did so long before the Days of Joseph Nott and John Gannacliff On which St. Ambrose a Man of as much Light and Honesty as either of those worthy Authors no disparagement to 'em hath this Note Non sequitur Haereticos esse doctos quod multas citent Scripturas quas Diabolus citavit non ut doceret sed ut noceret citavit truncatas praeterito sensu Scripturae ut faciunt Haeretici 'T is no Argument that Quakers are sound or learned because they cram their Preachments and stuff their Pamphlets with Quotations Satan had a Text in his Mouth not to Teach but to Tempt our Saviour Thus may Truth be abused to the Patronage of Lies and the Devil set the Stamp of Divine Authority upon his Counterfeit Coin Having given this Caution let us now come to the Texts themselves The First is Deut. 29.29 Secret things belong unto the Lord our God c. Why this Sc ipture is quoted I can't imagin If he thinks it warrants Him and such as he to expound Scripture let him peruse these following Texts which require Qualifications and a Commission neither of which he can shew us Rom. 10.15 1 Tim. 3.2 7. The Second Epistle to Timothy and the Epistle to Titus throughout Whoever reads these Epistles with Understanding will see abundant cause to admire at the presumptuous Sin and Folly of those ignorant Intruders into that