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

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

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

family was afflicted by the Hand of God upon him as is said in the Narrative Here the Quakers make a very strange out-cry against me for evidence as if Richard Anderson and his wives testimony were nothing in this case Surely since the World was there could never be a more cogent evidence against any Man ordinarily then himself and it s a Maxim Where there is open confession there needs no evidence And one would think the Father and Mother of a Family knows best the state of their Children and let the serious Reader consider how unreasonable it would have been for me to doubt of the truth of what Richard Anderson and his wife both testified of their own pains and of the sores of their child c. and that with great sorrow of heart especially seeing him come the second time and bring his wife with him three or four miles a person not wont to come to our Assemblies to attest and request the same things which he himself did and sith I had no ground to doubt I had no necessity to go being not requested nor any way related to any one of them in point of Religion yet had I foreseen this peevishness in the incredulous Quakers I might perhaps have deprived them of this their foolish advantage But what shall I say did our Blessed Saviour go to visit all Matth. 8. 13. for whose health he prayed I trow not Neither did Paul that chosen vessel Acts 19. 12. visit all whom he was instrumental to heal for this they sent to him and so had from his body again their Aprons and Kercheifs and by Faith received healing yet we read not of his going to the places of their abode But what am I O Lord I confess unto thee I am not worthy to be mentioned here nor was I an instrument of good to the afflicted any more then the rest of thy servants met together to make their Prayers unto thee But now let us hear what Richard Anderson himself hath testified before many witnesses in this case since the publishing of the Narrative and the Quakers Lying Wonder Iune 10. 1672. The witnesses hereafter named write thus We asked him meaning Richard Anderson when he had told us that he did pronounce the judgment of Leprosie against Ralph Iames Whether he himself had not a child presently after that was Leprous and he said he had a child then that did break out into sores and he did also acknowledge that he went to Ralph Iames to desire his Prayers for the reparation of himself and his family Witness Robert Wright William Leesing William Skin George Hall Robert Hollingworth And for the Eye and Ear-witnesses which the Quakers call for upon the occasion of that passage in the Title Page of the Narrative and the wonderment they make that no Neighbor or Kinsman can be brought to testifie their knowledge of this judgment To this I answer first That there are of the Neighborhood that say They do remember about the time to which the Narrative hath Relation which is about nine years since the said Richard Andersons family was afflicted but being unwilling to have their names brought in question and there being no necessity for it because we have that which is above the evidence of a Neighbor even the testimony of the Parents concerning themselves and their own children I shall therefore forbear to mention their names Secondly For the Title Page of the Narrative I say it was not of my composing and yet even that passage or any like to it is not without truth being candidly interpreted for there was as much evidenced both to the Eye and Ear of the Witnesses in respect of the affliction of the Parents of the family as was subject to such observation viz. A sorrowful countenance their complaint and humble confession 4. That Richard Anderson and his family were delivered from their afflictions as it is declared in the Narrative Although the Quakers are pleased in their Lying Wonder to deny this and do bear their unmindful Readers in hand as if none of the Witnesses to the Narrative do evidence any thing in this case yet several of them do clearly attest the whole Relation in the Narrative to be true one Branch whereof is this The Lord was mercifully pleased to hear our poor prayers for them and to restore them all to their former health again which he himself that is Richard Anderson confessed when he came to our Meeting afterwards True it is they did not see the child nor perhaps the Woman after their recovery yet they saw the Father of the family whose testimony for himself and for his family in this case is considerable notwithstanding all the cavillations in the Quakers Lying Wonder Hear also what he the said Richard Anderson hath testified since the publication of the Narrative c. Iune 10. 1672. Richard Anderson being asked in the presence of divers persons whether he did not go to Ralph Iames and desire his Prayers to God for him and his Family He answered Yes he did so and that Ralph Iames did appoint him and his wife to meet him at Donnington where prayer was put up to God for them by the Congregation there met together And being asked if he thought any person could be sadder for the loss of any relation or dear friend then he was at that time when the hand of the Lord was upon him he answered no for he was sad enough In answer to this question whether he did not come the next Lords day after the Congregation at Donnington had prayed for them and there confess that he and his family was all recovered and in health again He answered Yes he did so and said moreover That what he said then he would own it at any time for he could not deny it Witness to the first Part. Robert Wright William Leesing Robert Hollingworth William Skin George Hall Witness to the second Part. Christopher Foster William Skin 5. That the evidences brought by the Quakers to invalidate the Narrative are either abused or by them most unworthily forged For although they pretend a testimony from Richard Anderson that he was no Quaker yet doth he not say so in all that which they say he subscribed onely this is said That he was but at one Meeting read but one of their Books and yet it is proved before That he had discourse with the Quakers forty times about their Principles both before and after he was at the Meeting at Lincoln What therefore no Quaker Surely some have become their Proselytes by as little acquaintance with them as this amounts to I could tell them of one and that a Man of no small eminency who onely went down a yard with one of their Teachers and came up again a Quaker without hearing any other Preaching or Reading any Book at all and so remained to the day of his death Again they pretend that he the said Richard Anderson hath subscribed That he and