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A65609	Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves, with a spiritual sword of their own forgery, whose names are here under-written their spreading spiritual murder cries up to heaven for justice, which appears clearly in this treatise ... / written in love as a fore-warning, given to all tender-hearted seeking, unsetled Christians, by Christopher Wade.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing W159; ESTC R33758	58,366	66

1 Tim. 2.9 And now my beloved ones consider seriously that the Devils instruments can by the Devils power and permission work deceitful miraculous signs and wonders even as is deceitfully wrought at the quakers meetings and preachings even so powerful beloved as shall deceive if it were possible the very elect And now my Reader I pray thee to note seriously that in James Naylers before recited severe sentence of condemning all Christians that have any sin to be found in them in these words of his But who says they know Christ and are redeemed and commit sin not keeping his commandments is a lyer and so abides not in the truth and anoynting and so is of the devil and not of Christ These be his words And now I pray thee observe that he is led not onely according to his use falsly to add words to that Text 1 John 2.4 but also although our Saviour Christ hath made a cleer distinction betwixt his Gospel-commands and his Fathers moral Law-commands where he saith If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love John 15.10 and although this distinction sets forth a true abiding in the Doctrine of Christ as but for brevity sake I could by Scripture shew much more largely yet James Nayler as aforesaid is satanically overpowered to confound into one law the Fathers killing moral law written on Mount Sinai and Christs mount Sinai's healing Gospel-law of life which runs in this and the like gracious tenure He that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness Rom. 4 5 But as James hath done so whilst he remains a quaker he must confound the Gospel-law and the moral law into one and the same law or else as quakery cannot stand so James Nayler and the quakers could not so easily make choice of moral law works to be wrought in mens bodies for their saluation and so also the devil would fall short by his quakers to declare that they themselves are notorious sinners and yet do deny the Gospel-imputation and that so they themselves are of the Devil and not of Christ FOURTEENTHLY My fourteenth Discourse is directed to all the quakers for you quakers considering the plain evidences that your quakish conducters have published by their as it were throwing filthy stinking mire and dirt in the very face of all quakery Now you quakers haue a just cause not onely to howl but to howl out loud for it appears that you quakers are very expert in howling for John Gilpin in the 3 pag. of his book ●●e calls the quakers shaken printed London 1655. affirmeth that whilst he was a quaker he was constrained to fall down on his bed where he howl'd in a terrible and hiddeous manner to the great astonishment of his family which he also there saith is usual with them to wit the quakers and also Mr. Samuel Clark in his 461 pag. of his book he intituled A Mirror or Looking-glass doth declare That in anno Christi 1653. there came some quakers out of the North into Wales to win some Professors to their party boasting themselves were perfect and without sin which some of the principallest quakers here have affirmed of themselves in my hearing and he declareth That at those quakers meeting there after long silence had such risings and swellings in their bowels sending forth such shreekings yellings and howlings as not onely affrighted the Spectators but caused the dogs to bark the swine to cry ond the cattel to run about to the astonishment of all that heard them but it can no ways be proved that people have shreeked as Night-Owls yelled as infernal Syirits and have howl'd as devoured dogs and wolves at peoples meetings at the preachings of the true Gospel of our blessed Christ and far much more less that dogs and swine and other cattel are then are thereby forc'd into such a violent distempered rage nor that little children who are utterly uncapable to understand either what is done or said at the preaching of the true Gospel do fall down and roar and their bellies swell and foam at the mouth then and thereby as appears that besides men and women so tormented that even little children also are in that manner fearfully tormented at the quakers meetings or preachings of quakery which the quakers do not deny though it be charged upon them which appears in Saul's Errand And I now acknowledging my self to be really a very unworthy Servant of my blessed Lord Jesus Christ yet I remain unto all true Gospel-believers and considers in my blessed Lord Jesus his death and precious blood shed without men and also to all them that do desire so to believe Their affectionate and officious Servant in Christ Christopher Wade POSTSCRIPT NOte That all James Nayler's proud Luciferian behaviours all his disciples blasphemous exaltations of James Nayler at Bristol even with no less then divine titles as appears in print are all of them strong confirmations of the justness of all the accusations that are charged upon the quakers in this precedent Treatise And it is to be marvelled at That considering the Scriptures do fight so fiercely against all your quakery that you quakers do not quite forsake all and any use of the Scriptures to support you and why you do not act from your enthusiasms only and alone and in your wandring courses to knock your hand upon your brest and say Here here 't is and then continue to tell the people a long story that you are sent from heaven and are taught from heaven but then it will be also to be wondred at how exceeding ignorant those people must be that will believe you And concerning your Mystery you so much boast of know all you quakers That the Mystery of God's will concerning men is not lock'd up in quakery but is made manifest by the Scriptures of the Prophets Rom. 16.25 26. and is also made manifest by the Apostles see Ephes 3.7 9. Ephes 1.9 Col. 1.26 but you quakers know it not And now my Reader thou mayest take notice conveniently That since my finishing of this my foregoing Treatise there is by providence come to my hands two short books printed both of them appearing to be composed by the joynt consent of two men whose names are as they therein say John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton who say That they are taught by immediate revelations from Christ himself as appears without God's mediate help by his Scriptures even as the quakers do in full effect say they pretend also that they onely are the two Witnesses of God mentioned in the Re elations they do say That their commission is to this effect they saying God hath chosen us two onely and hath put the two-edged sword of his Spirit into mouths that whom we are made to pronounce blessed are blessed to eternity and whom we are made to pronounce cursed are cursed to eternity and

moral Law onely are the Letter which God did write with his own finger in stone on Mount Sinai Thus strongly your confounding of ●e whole Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers with the Letter of the Law written and engraven in stone which is called the ministration of death and the ministration of condemnation verse 9. of which killing condemning Letter the Apostles were not not made Ministers promiscuously and confusedly as if the Letter of them both are the Letter that is carnal death and killeth is by the force of your own Scripture-words by you used and abused totally confounded for ever and thereby sent back to the infernal den in which it was hatched for the New Testament is there said to be the ministration of the Spirit vers 8. and the holding forth the word of life Phil. 2.16 because the very Letter of the New Testament or Gospel containeth in it the mediate inspired teaching written Word of Christ the Word that was and is God and the Letter of the Law is in comparison to the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel affirmed to be the oldness of the letter Rom. 7.6 Do you quakers ransack thorow the whole Scripture see if you can find any Scripture that is called the letter that is carnal death killeth and it is not declared therewith That it is the letter of the Law onely And how having shewed how powerfully my Lord Jesus hath torn down this your refuge and with his written Word and Sword of his Spirit hath hewed in pieces your murthering Agag that would have murthered the holy mediate teaching use of the whole Scripture-letter I shall proceed FIFTHLY I do direct my pen to discourse with Thomas Biddal quaker who also with the four former audacious quakers doth deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God for he being with me I cited to him this place And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Ephes 6.17 I then telling him That the written word of God is the sword of the Spirit but is not the Spirit it self and that the Scriptures are the Spirits word and spiritual sword also But he answered me saying That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are both one and the self-same thing As if he should have said A man is his sword and his sword is the man And these ridiculous shifts they are inforced to make for fear the holy Scriptures should be proved to be the Word of God but to their perpetual shame our Saviour Christ though he was furnished in himself with superabundant ability to have confuted and confounded the devil If he had but said I Jesus say unto thee Satan yet for our examples he would not conflict against the devil with his own all-sufficient spiritual power onely without his Scripture-sword but to confound the devil withal he takes up his Spirits never-failing sword his written Scriptures and therewith he enters the lists against his powerful spiritual inverate enemy the devil and overthrows him with that his Word and written sword by his saying to the devil in his perverting of Scriptuers against him Thus it is written Thus it is written Thus it is written Satan and by his confounding the devil therewith he gratiously teacheth us even by his own example by the spirit of Faith to take up his Spirits never-failing word and sword the holy Scriptures and to fight valiantly and undantedly therewith against the devil himself in his temptations and also against the deluding assaults of Thomas Biddal and all other brain-sick quakers Satans officious servants And accordingly the Apostles did lay aside all their glorious heavenly raptures and visions in case of teaching men and confirmed their sayings with our Saviours infallible word and sword the Scriptures frequently saying Thus saith the Scriptures But what saith the Scriptures It is written and such-like expressions And it is well known That the Apostles were better taught then any quaker whatsoever Again Thomas Biddal what infernal spirit taught thee to boast That thy large railing seducing letters directed to me and others were written from thee to us from the Spirit of the Lord as if thou hadst been a Messenger sent to us immediately from the Lord whereas to thy shame the same queries that thou therein makest appear in the same words and form in a printed book written by another man to thy hand before thou wrotest thy lying letters to us Thus thy Luciferian aspiring pride appeareth further even to publick view Again Thomas Biddal whither were thy giddy brains ranged when thou saidst in my hearing That Faith and Christ are one and the same thing as thou didst say That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are one and the same thing What now Thomas canst thou not creep out of the road-way to hell wouldst thou make people believe thy false spirit that when St. Paul said We preach Christ crucified 1 Cor. 1.23 that Paul and other Saints meant to have said if they had not forgot it We preach Faith and it crucified What Thomas was Faith crucified for thee If thou saist That Faith is crucified to death in thee I shall readily believe thee Thomas though those thy sayings are to be abhorred And now to sum up together thine own begotten titles without addition to them thou hast proved thy self to be a very ignorant person a notorious lyer a proud luciferian and an audacious perverter of holy Scriptures and thereby art an enemy to God and his Truths and thereby also art a Traytor to mens souls And because you quakers do refuse the Gospel-imputation thou art not onely fallen under the eternal condemnation of God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid fastens upon thee Thomas proving thou art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ Doubtless Thomas God had formerly given thee and others by thee a fair forewarning to avoid these delusions of the devil for thou Thomas Biddal some yeers now past was as appears inforced by the devil openly to declare That thou wert one of the two witnesses of God mentioned in the Revelations and thou didst thereupon make use of another man's new sackin-cloth which lay by him so far as to carry it to a Taylor a neighbour of thine thou knowest to whom and thou Tho. Biddal didst then lay a heavy severe charge upon that Taylor to make thee a suit of aparrel of that sack-cloth by such a day being within a little while after that it might be ready at that day for thee to put on and to prophesie in as being one of the two witnesses aforesaid then sent from God But that neighbour of thine the Taylor prudently discerning that thou wert deluded though he took the sack-cloth of thee to satisfie thy present resolute humour yet he totally neglected to make thy sackcloth-suit and

then the height of that luciferian pride fell and thy hot prophecying zeal as being one of those two witnesses sent from God was squashed and thy heavy charges laid upon thy neighbour the Taylor vanished away as if thy suit of sackcloth not being made did as Samsons hair being cut cut off the strength of thy prophetical witness-bearing for God from whom thou saidst thou wert then sent But yet the fickle unsettleness of thy brain for ought I do discern doth still remain with thee unto this day and this should be also a forewarning to the two lofty and false pretended witnesses of God now marching abroad in print named in the latter end of this Treatise And Thomas thou being drowned in such a fantastical fancy hast acrording to James Nayler's quakish humour belyed and slandered Thomas Moor that he would preach Christ out of his Saints whereas in that very page out of which thou chargest him pag. 32. Thomas Moor there speaking of Christ saith That person that is personally absent from the believer is dwelling note that in the believers heart by faith of and in him And thus thy lyes swarm about visibly and James Nayler's sentence of condemnation pronounced by him a-against such lying slanderers layeth also fast hold on thee Thomas for things also that thou art of the devil and not of Christ SIXTHLY John Barber quaker being as ignorant as the most foolish of them but as brisk as the most perkest of them his faith hanging on his neighbour Thomas Biddal's lips But John why dost thou run after to disperce quakish lyes for thou having gotten some of James Nayler's lying Libels by him framed against Thomas Moor his Opposer thou didst say unto one man unto whom thou didst deliver one of those lying books There thou maist read saidst thou that Thomas Moor hath told forty eight lyes but now James Nayler being firmly proved to be the lyer aad a foul-mouthed slanderer and a deluding person by and in Thomas Moor his Reply to James his lying Libels thou John Barber hast made thy giddy-headed rashness appear by casting in thy testimony maliciously to countenance lyes to deface the truth and thereby hast proved thy self to be an ignorant rash person and a close enemy to truth thou having said also to some of thy Opposers disdainfully Ho you look for Heaven out of the chimney-top as if there were no other Heaven but such as is in your quakers self-proved wicked bodies But behold how James Nayler's condemning Law doth lash thee also SEVENTHLY John Sparrow quaker how durst thou venture to say That Thomas Moor had told forty eight lyes whenas thou being then by one that heard thee say so required to prove but one lye of the forty eight thou durst not attempt to do that and then the same man requiring thee but to name one lye of the forty eight which thou said T. M. had told but thou couldst not do that neither what evil doomse-spirit in thee was that that did render thee up to an envious backbiter And John why didst thou with a lofty voice vapour and say You high-flown professors the time is coming and now is that you will wish that there never had been any Scriptures written or to that effect in full VVhat now John wouldst thou perswade people that God hath secretly hidden deadly spiritual poyson under his gracious Gospel published in writing Or wouldest thou declare by that thy speech That God hath mentally made a secret-snaring trap of his Scriptures to destroy mens souls and bodies for ever as men do set traps in secret places to destroy noysome vermine what desperate blasphemous poyson is wrapped up in that thy lofty speech but it appears that you maunder thus because the Scriptures will not own that mis-begotten brat of yours a third Covenant for the Scriptures will own but two Covenants one of VVorks and another of Free-grace but you quakers have carried God's first Covenant of VVorks given to Adam into the dark behinde the cloth and have there trickt and deckt it up with the titles of Christ and then you bring out that your disguised puppet a third Covenant and would have the Scriptures father it but because the Scriptures do gravely and sharply disclaim that your mis-begotten brat then as appears by your teneats and words aforesaid you would if you could murder the Scriptures and bury them in perpetual oblivion And thus John Sparrow being an envious backbiter and thereby a foul-mouthed slanderer and thereby a notorious lyer and thereby an enemy to God's scripture-Scripture-truths and thereby a traytor to mens souls and refusing the Gospel-imputation thou hast desperately thrown thy self down under not onely God's eternal condemning Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid doth lay fast hold on thee John testifying that thou also art a lyer and so art of the devil and not of Christ EIGHTHLY Anne Blaake a principal aspiring quaker wherefore didst thou when thou wert with me and others of my Christian Frieds propound nothing nor answer nothing by Scriptures but onely with railing and hellish condemning censures why didst thou although thou saidst that the Scriptures are true yet affirm withal that the Scriptures are not thy Rule what didst thou thereby affirm less then this that thy Rule is a false Rule And when I cited this place of Scripture to thee He that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness what evil spirit provoked thee to answer wrathfully that that is a rotten foundation But Anne though that be not Christ the bottom foundation yet it is a strong doctrinal foundation that leads to build by faith on Christ's free-Grace But are the Scriptures true sayest thou and yet are some of them false or rotten in thy judgement True it is That thou hadst acknowledged that place of holy Scripture to be true and sound Doctrine then thou hadst thereby granted that you quakers must acknowledge that you have ungodliness in you or else your faith cannot be counted for righteousness but the devil taught thee to evade that to preserve your falsly supposed inherent perfection which by that Scripture is a delusion And Anne thou didst then and there say That thou art the Judge of the world not a judge or one judge of the world amongst other judges but thy luciferian spirit elevates thee to affirm That thou art the judge of the world so thou excluding not onely all other Saints but also Christ himself out of that thy Throne of judgement And George Fox doth also say That he is the judge of the world so if you were not both lyers yet one of you must needs be a great lyer and thy raging boasting behaviour was such amongst us that some did affirm That if ever they did see the devil acting in any person that he was acting in thee Anne And that thy saying not that thou shalt be but that thou art the judge of the world is

another loud lye for no Saint can be a judge of the world much less the judge of the world at any time during this their life of their mortality Thus by thy palpable luciferain pride and notorious lyes and by thy denying of a fundamental Doctrine of mens salvation denying the Gospel-imputation thou Anne Blaake hast not onely pulled the everlasting judgements of God's Law upon thee but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid catches fast hold on thee manifesting that thou also Anne Blaake art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ NINTHLY George Fox an ancient teaching quaker I finde that thou George dost not onely pervert the Scripture to destructive ends but also dost falsifie the very letter of the holy Scripture to support thy deluding quakery for I finde in a quakish book called A brief Discovery of a threefold estate of Antichrist in pag. 14. that George Fox doth agreeable to the other quakers luciferian-like affirm That he that sanctifieth and he that is sanctified is one he saith not they are both of one but is one but the Scripture saith not so but to the contrary that saith For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are both of one Heb. 2.11 which is they are all of one God or have their being from one God acceptably but are not one God as George Fox falsly saith in full effect True it is That the Saints shall be one with God and Christ in a loving acceptation on both sides and everlasting glorious community which is in full effect affirmed in John 17.21 22 23. but not one God in equality but they shall behold his glory vers 24. and they being perfect in the mutual conjunction of love with him vers 26. they shall everlastingly partake of his glory which is the chief scope of that whole chapter John 17. yet not in equality one God for God saith in a sharp reproof against such luciferian aspirers as George Fox and the quakers prove themselves to be saying I am the Lord that is my Name and my glory will I not give to another Isa 42.8 though the Creature-Saints shall be made partakers in the Creators glory in Creature-measure But George Fox affirmed and avowed he was equal with God as I finde recorded in print and to back his luciferianship he is charged That he professeth himself to be the jugde of the world not a judge but the judge But Anne Blaake saith she is the judge of the world And the Scripture proveth them both to be aspiring lyers for that doth not say That the Saints are judges of the world in this their life of mortality but that saith in the future tense The Saints shall judge the world But George Fox more fully to declare his equality with God if not his superiority he is charged in Saul's Errand pag. 7. That he said he was the way the truth the life But George know thou That he that sanctifieth and he that is sanctified is no otherwise one spirit but in that mysterious manner as the man and his wise are one flesh according to Ephes 6.31 32. neither are they any otherways of his flesh and of his bones vers 30 and 31. compared the man and his wife remaining two distinct persons still and the wife is commanded to be in subjection to her own husband 1 Pet. 3.1 but thy pretended equality destroys thy subjection to thy Sanctifier But more fully to prove his luciferianship George Fox in the 8 pag. of Saul's Errand affirmeth That he that hath the same spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with God and the Saints have the same spirit in measure for God's Spirit is but one and George Fox saith in the 11 pag. That he is a Saint Thus he would again prove That he a poor wicked Creature is equal with God the Creator and if so then George Fox is the Creator of George Fox and the whole world and he intimately claimeth Christ's equality with God by his perverted citing of Phil. 2.6 7. But doubtless thou canst not be ignorant George how the devil over-powered John Gilpin to proclaim in the open street he saying I am the way the truth and the life And how he said in full effect That he was Christ And James Milner hath proved himself to be a false Christ So that by these mad frantick passages you quakers appear much like William Hacket who in the yeer 1541. eaused himself to be proclaimed in London-streets to be Jesus Christ came with his Fan in his hand to judge the world and he pretended that no body could kill him but they hanged him to death on a Gibbet in Cheap-side he uttering horrible blasphemies against the Majesty of God See Mr. Samuel Clark's book intituled A Mirror or Looking-glass pag. 225. printed 1654. Thus George Fox because of thy personal facts of notorious lying falsifying and perverting of holy Scripture and by thy luciferian pride in all these thou shewing thy self to be an enemy to God and his Truths and to mens souls and by thy desperately refusing the gracious relief of the Gospel-imputation thou George Fox also art not onely condemned by God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's law aforesaid adjudges thee that thou art a lyer and so abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ And it yet more manifestly appears That thou George Fox art of the devil and not of Christ because though God inspiredly saith in Scriptures For not onely some but all Scriptures are given by inspiration 2 Tim. 3.16 and that saith Thar even the Saints themselves are not God's Sons any other wayes but by adoption onely by Christ note that you quakers not as being Christ as you foolishly fancy but by Christ for it 's written Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ Ephes 1.5 see this confirmed Gal. 4.5 Rom. 8.23 And Creature-adopted Sons cannot be equal with their heavenly uncreated Father who vouchsafeth by free-Grace by and in his Son Christ to adopt them to be his Sons in acceptation onely Neither can any Creature-adopted Sons be equal with God's onely begotten Son the Creator of all adopted Sons and all other things both in Heaven and in Earth also therefore by thy making no reserve or distinction in thy pretended equality with God sheweth against all contradiction that thy brother quaker James Nayler is not mistaken in the least measure in his condemning censure aforesaid to adjudge all such Luciferians as thou George Fox hast proved thy self to be that you are all lyers and not abiders in the Truth but are all of the devil and not of Christ TENTHLY I shall direct my pen to speak with George Fox again and Francis Hougill Edward Burroughs Alexander Parker Thomas Aldam Anthony Peirson Gervice Benson Thomas Rawlinson Robert Rich and Robert Dring These ten principal quakers in a book intituled A