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A85712	The Quaker's Jesus: or, The unswadling of that child James Nailor, which a wicked toleration hath midwiv'd into the world. Discovering the principles of the Quakers in general. In a narrative of the substance of his examination, and his disciples, as it was taken from their own mouthes, in their answer before the magistrates of the city of Bristol; also, of his examination in the painted chamber Westminster, and the management of it in Parliament, now published for the satisfaction of himself and some Christian friends. By William Grigge, (citizen of Bristol) who believes in that Jesus (and him alone for salvation) that was crucified at Jerusalem, above sixteen hundred years agoe.	Grigge, William.	1658 (1658)	Wing G2023; Thomason E942_2; ESTC R207579	61,372	85

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Nay teaching them also that the Ministers of the Nation are of Babylon Antichrist false Prophets and Seducers thus endeavouring to train them up so that their practice may be like to those wicked prophane Children that mocked the Prophet Elisha insomuch that the Lord sent two Beares out of the Wood and destroyed two and forty of them Let Children as an Antidote against this take that into their Catechism And let me say to this Authour Fox and his Companions whose subtilty and craft is used by the help of Satan to convey poyson into our little ones that although the Almighty God do not send Beares out of the Wood to destroy them as those prophane Children yet with reverence let me say he may one day so play the Bear with those that forget the Lord in opposing and contemning his Servants and teach others so as once he threatned to do with those that forgat him saying their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me I will meet them saith the Lord as a Bear that is robbed of her Whelps I will rent the caul of their heart Truly Friends unlesse these wretches meet God timely by repentance his meeting them thus will make them quake indeed But Sir I have heard of one James Nailor to be accused for horrid Blasphemy and personating the Lord Jesus Christ and that some did own him as their Saviour and that one of his Disciples said That she did look to be saved by no other but him I suppose you have no such thing as to justifie him for I am told the Parliament passed a severe sentence upon him and that it s executed Oh Sir I 'le tell you it s nothing but the Priests malice and Sir here is a Book of little price for so the good people may have them I 'le not get by them where you shall see his innocency cleared by two eminent men wicked Seducers who told Nailors Judges many Parliament men to their faces of his innocency nay * Robert Rich chalenged them at the Parliament door That whatever Nailor did or spake he was at their door ready to make it good out of Scripture and that nothing he did or spake was worthy of death or bonds And that those Books may spread in the Nation there are store at Bristol sold by Nicholas Jorden a perfect Quaker if common drunkenness and perfection may stand together and that at 3. farthings a peece Now among other things that are reckoned in the Merchandize of Babylon are the souls of men and to the end poor souls may be the better fitted for Babylon yea for Hell it self you see some part and but a part of what this tolerating Market doth hold forth and that very cheap O my Friends Take heed and beware who you hear how you read and what you buy And why will you lay out your money for that which is not bread but Blasphemy when you may have wine and milk without money and without price Friends there is a Disease we are all infected with its hereditary from our first Parents pride you know who said to Eve You shall be as Gods knowing good and evil mark And when she saw saith the Text it was a Tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat And so now we must hear all try all read all we shall thereby be wise and get knowledge Ah white Devil Knowledge saith the Apostle puffeth up and hath it not done so speak Christian Is not that Text sadly fulfilled Isa. 3.5 The Child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient c. godly Mr. Baxter Ah my Friends keep to your known Teachers and labour for humility for saith one None are more like to Christ then the humble that are low in their own eyes and compassionate of others so none are more like to the Devil then the proud that think highly of themselves and contemptuously of others These men by their teachings by their printings by their travels from one end of the Land to the other yea from one Nation to another from Sea to Sea yea and beyond the Seas they act as Satans factors to make Proselytes and when made They make them twofold more the Children of the Devil than themselves Abhorre therefore and detest the Pharisees and Quakers singularity God I thank thee I am not as other men c. but if they be not as other men I suppose they the Quakers are as other Heathens who walk by the light within them as well as yea far better then they for they to wit the Heathen cannot so blaspheme our Lord Jesus Christ as these do whose relation to us and suffering for us should move us to bewail it and oh that we could bewail his oft bleeding if it were possible with teares of blood And that we may shun the condition of these seduced souls lets us consider this Text For its impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the Heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the World to come if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh Mark it s to themselves and put him to an open shame Was ever this Text so fulfilled as now it is in these wretches who speak so shamefully of our Lord Jesus that we tremble and are ashamed to name it in our own Language These things are a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation And oh that we could mourn therefore as those Doves in the valley every one for his iniquity The Prophet speaking of several plagues as Famine drought dearth Pestilence the Sword nay he overthrew some of them as Sodom that were brought upon Israel he by way of complaint tells them no lesse then five times Yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord At last the Lord comes in with this sad threatning a hidden judgement Therefore thus will I do unto thee oh Israel Thus what thus who knowes and because I will do thus unto thee prepare to meet thy God oh Israel oh that England would prepare to meet the Lord Why Because he will do thus what thus He will bring shall I say Nay he hath brought not bodily that 's too little it hath done no good upon England as it did not upon Israel but spiritual Judgements and certainly such spiritual plagues that neither we nor our Fathers ever beheld the like and are as Mr. Baxter observes as evident notes of Gods heavy displeasure as men can expect to see on earth And is not that text now fulfilled viz. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they shall believe a lye mark send Seducers That they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness Ah poor

seduced souls they cry up Heathen principles a light within them casting off the light the word of God without them and see how the Lord in judgement doth give them up to their Brethren the Heathens practices They changed the truth of God into a lye for this cause saith the Text God gave them up to vile affections and to a reprobate mind and to an abominable conversation being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceipt malignity whisperers back-biters haters of God despiteful proud boasters inventers of evil things disobedient to Parents without understanding Covenant-breakers without natural affection implacable unmerciful Here is a blessed pack of Quakers I so say because amongst them in this Synagogue of Satan so near me without wrong for I would not wrong the Devil there might be drawn out such persons in whom these black Ethiopian spots are Ah poor England ah hypocritical Nation may not God plead with us as once with his people passe over the Isses go beyond the Seas amongst the very Heathen and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing Hath a Nation changed their Gods which yet are no Gods But my People have changed their glory for that which doth not profit Have we not since this wretched Toleration changed nay lost the glory of our Gospel-profession and is not that of the Prophet Isaiah a right character upon us Ah sinful Nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evil doers Children that are corrupters mark they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the holy one of Israel to anger they are gone away backward And may not this provocation of the Lord cause him to say Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this that did with their hands lifted up to the most high God Covenant for Reformation who by a Toleration are become an hypocritical and false Nation Oh my Brethren my councel is still the same Take heed how you hear for we shall one day give account for what we hear And that we may take the more heed consider what falseness the Book of God discovers unto us for our caution viz. A false Nation as before False Christs the occasion of my Narrative you have also false spirits seducing spirits then false Prophets and false Apostles 2 Cor. 11.13 False Teachers in the forecited place of Peter then false Brethren then you have false faith And last of all which is worst of all a false heart 1 Tim. 4.2 Speaking lies in hypocrisie having their Conscience seared with a hot Iron Now Brethren there being so much falseness in all these particulars how much doth it concern us what whom and how we hear It s said the Lord was with Jehosaphat because he walked in the first wayes of his Father David Ah Brethren the first wayes of professors when they kept close to their known Ministers then they kept close to God and Christ Sabbaths Ordinances Duties these good old wayes were the first and best wayes Let us walk couragiously in this way the Lord shall be with the good And however the Prophets of God are opposed contemned let us keep to rule we shal never else be established either Nation or Kingdom what rule mark Believe in the Lord your God so shall ye be established believe his Prophets so shall ye prosper Ah sad Toleration the Lord give repentance to England for all those abominations it hath usher'd in and protected among us The good Lord after they in power over us have repented of whom we may say as Ezra 9.2 yea the hand of the Princes and Rulers hath bin chief in this trespass give them further grace to make a Law of restraint lest the judgement of God which is justly to be feared break in upon them and us without remedy But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy Well however let us honour them for that is an everlasting truth He is a Prophet and shall pray for thee And had we not their prayers it would be sad with England nay God forbid they should so sin as not to pray for us well then let us make conscience of praying for them and there is this reason for it for if all estates and ranks amongst as should desert profession and despise the Gospel yet they are set for the defence of it and therefore hear them pray for them to which I shall add this prayer The good Lord be attentive to the prayer of thy Servant and the prayer of thy Servants both Prophets and People that desire to fear thy name And Brethren is not this to be bewailed that there should be such calling for Toleration the mischiefs and sad effects of it being so many and so great that they cannot be aforehand imagined besides the further disturbance of the peace by different factions and making the divisions in Families to be almost as many as persons suppose the Husband a good Protestant it may be the Wife an Independent the Children Anabaptists the Servants Quakers Oh Brethren how sad is this And moreover that there should be a conniving at those ranting opinions that tend to all manner of ungodliness which have so spread that it hath infected the Nation from head to foot Witness the great friends Blasphemy and this unparalleld Blasphemer had that put the Parliament to so much expence of time before that honourable sentence was given against him death it self being his desert This considered O that those in power over us would at last prove such happy Reformers to the Nation and shew such pitty to the souls of their poor Brethren as to put a restraint upon all soul-infecting persons and set on fire all those soul-poysoning and blaspheming Pamphlets that are abroad which would be an acceptable sacrifice For it s to be feared that Christians may have just cause to rue the liberty given to Presse and Pulpit in these dayes Now that people might have some stop when tumbling headlong into Hell being so principled that they think it their duty to do Hell service Oh! that the Parliament who had such an Impostor and Blasphemer brought before them that their Predecessors never heard of the like had made the Nation so happy as to compel people as one saith well to Ordinances though unwillingly that so if possible they might be brought to God and goodness willingly And for their incouragement they had in holy writ a very imitable pattern Josiah by name And Josiah took away all the abominations many Pamphlets abroad are abominable things out of all the Countries that pertained to the Children of Israel and made all that were present in Israel to serve made them to serve even to serve the Lord their God and all his dayes they departed