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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65871	A just enquiry into the libeller's abuse of the people called Quakers in his scandalous pamphlet, falsly stiled, Some of the Quakers principles, doctrines, laws and orders, &c.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1938; ESTC R38636	12,114	34

A Iust Enquiry INTO THE Libeller's Abuse OF THE People called QVAKERS In His Scandalous Pamphlet falsly Stiled Some of the Quakers Principles Doctrines Laws and Orders c. They Shoot in Secret at the Perfect c. But God shall Shoot at them Psal. 64. London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle at the Crooked Billet in Holywell-Lane Shoreditch 1693. A Just Enquiry into the Libeller's abuse of the People called Quakers c. THere 's two or three Falacies in the very Title of the said Pamphlet 1 st In charging what 's contain'd therein upon the Quakers in general as being their Principles Doctrines Laws and Orders c. Whereas in truth divers of them are neither the Quakers Principles Laws nor Orders but disown'd by the said People though this Nameless Author has unjustly represented them as if they were some Principles all intirely Transcribed and that from the Quakers in general without exception which is a notorious abuse For 't is also very Obvious That many of them are very Partially unfairly and injuriously cited minced curtalized Picktpach't and scrap'd up thereby wronging some former Antient Writings of perticular Persons deceased and not here to answer for themselves as George Fox Edward Burroughs Francis Howgill John Burnyet William Smith John Audland Josiah Cole and others and some yet alive abused Others very falsly represented being taken on Trust on an Implicit Faith out of our Long-since Refuted Adversaries Books and Pamphlets 2 dly That those pretended Principles and Doctrines c. of the Quakers at least many of them are Rendered to be of dangerous Consequence When we can easily make it appear that Many of them even as cited by this Obscure Accuser are agreeable to the holy Scriptures and Testimonies of Holy Men consequently not of any dangerous Consequence though in many things the Libeller appears very Injurious as well as Envious Whereupon I enquire 1. What dangerous Consequence can be in our Knowing or Believing our Election i. e. in Christ before the World began pag. 1. Ephes. 1.4 2. Or what dangerous Consequence in our believing or Testifying that Christ hath given us Discerning and Judgment Or that we are of God and they that own God will own us or any who are his Children 3. Or in our Believing the Tabernacle of God to be with us that is with all his People whom we include as of us or with us who are not against us nor Envious nor exalted in Pride or Self-conceit but looking towards the Lord as in every Nation and People they that truly fear God and work Righteousness they are accepted and so far of us 4. What dangerous Consequence can be in asserting That Christ's Ministry or Teaching is to Bring up the Hearers to Perfection to the measure of stature and fulness of Christ pag. 2. 5. Can none Quakers or others in these Dayes truly declare that they are or may be moved by the Immediate Spirit and Power of God to Write or Preach without dangerous Consequence pag. 2 3. 6. What dangerous Consequence can be in asserting That they that have the Form and not the Power and that are not Infallible in their Counsel and Judgment in their Ministry are none of Christ's Ministers pag. 3. 7. Is not the Spirit of Christ Infallible and the Ministry thereof Infallible And are any Christ's Ministers who have not his Spirit to Instruct them pag. 3. 8. The distinction between the Letter and the Word or Spirit and between the Ministry of the Letter and that of the Spirit pag. 3 4. as between the Shadow and Substance the meer Writing in outward Characters and the holy divine Doctrines and Truths therein contained or holy Scriptures as intending the same Is so Scriptural that I know no true Christian will deny such distinction muchless deem it of dangerous Consequence We never esteemed or called the Holy Scriptures that is the Holy Doctrines or Precepts thereof but a Dead Letter c. This Matter is fully answered and explained in a late Treatise entituled Antichrist in Flesh Vnmask'd and in many others But yet further Section 8. Touching the Scriptures implying that we call them the Husk the Letter which Killeth Earthly and Carnal Letter c. This is not Justly nor truly stated and may Cause mistake and Misapprehension as if the Divine and Christian Doctrine and Testimonies contained in the Scriptures were included in the Term Letter Husk c. which could not be the Intention of any of our Friends in that case but of the meer outward Writings as in Paper and Ink the Shadows and Types the Legal and outward Ministration as Distinguished and Separated from that of the Spirit Life and Substance Cor. 3.6 7. Rom. 2.29 Please also to take G. F's Explanation and Sence that by Letter he means Paper and Ink but saith the Scripture the thing it speaks of is Spiritual the Word is Spirit Great Mystery fol. 78. And further he Explains viz. the Scripture it self without the Spirit that gave it forth is a dead Letter in it self the Spirit is it that gave forth the Scriptures Gr. Mist. fol. 127. Wherein he distinguisheth between the meer Letter and the holy Scripture between the Letter and the Doctrine between the Writings and the Gospel or Word declared of because the one will decay the other is permanent the Books and Writings in Ink and Paper will wear out so will not the Word Iehoiakim King of Judah could Burn Jeremiah's Roll or Book writ with Ink by Barach but not the Word of the Lord nor the Words thereof for the same Word caused all the former Words to be Written again after the Roll was burnt Jer. 36. This is no contempt of the Scripture no more then it is of the Earth and the Heavens to say they shall Wax Old and Perish But the Word that made them Endureth Psal. 102.25 26. Heb 1.11 12. Dust cannot properly be said of the holy Scriptures or Doctrine but that the Letter or Writing will decay and some pervert it and in setting the Shadow above the Substance and the Letter above the Spirit and thinking to have eternal Life therein will not come to Christ that they might have Life The Devil and Serpents have perverted and abused the Scriptures and turned the Truth thereof into a Lye But the Truth remaineth the Truth is Truth still and the holy Scripture it self or Doctrine of Truth therein cannot be broken The Husk that intends no contempt upon the holy Scripture but thereby intending the meer Letter or Writing it is not the Kernel the seed the Living Word Spirit or Life which the Scriptures testifie of Those Repeated Stories and Reflections insinuated concerning Governments Monarchy Rulers Laws c. pag. 4.5 6 7. Enviously and perversly Raked up by Patches Mincings and piece-meal out of old Books the most part writ in the Common-Wealth's Days are plainly answered and our Innocency cleared in several late Books one Intituled Christ's Lambs defended from Satan's Rage Another

that are not of them This by the way is a notorious falsehood importing without exception that the Quakers in general give the Subsequent Characters to all other Ministers that are not of them here 's no exception this appears an Envious Forgery to sow Discord and stir up ill will and prejudice in all other Ministers and their Hearers against us which appears no better than a devilish Design and a great Abomination to sow Discord among Conscientious Dissenters and others And what Characters do they give to other Ministers as he pretends but such as these viz. The Priests of the world are Thieves and Robbers Antichrists Conjurers Devils Lyars a Viporous and Serpentine Generation Babilons Merchants Whited Walls and Painted Sepulchres Ravening Wolves Greedy Dogs Ambitious Pharisees Hunting after their Prey never satisfied raging like Sodomites Quoting a Brief Discovery Printed 1653. with five Names to it But stay soft a little 1. Were these Characters given in general or to all other Ministers that are not of us or not in Society with the Quakers so called No sure they seem to be directed to such Priests of the World then mark as were both very Covetous Proud and Envious Persecutors and there were too many such we know right well and have many of us deeply suffered by them many both severe Imprisonment some till Death and spoil of Goods 't is true to compare such to Vipers Serpents Wolves greedy Dogs c. may seem hard Characters and Comparisons yet they are not unscriptural but their Cruel Usage of many of us has been far heavier and harder than such Scriptaral Characters which never were intended to all other Ministers that are not of us nor to any of them who are men of Moderation Gentleness and Sobriety therefore the Libeller has shamefully misrepresented us in this matter Which is fully Answered in our Treatise Entituled The Contemned Quaker and his Christian Religion defended against Envy and Forgery c. pag. 55. to pag. 66. In Sect. 30. under the Title Hear a few of the Execrations THEY Give c. Is inserted a mistaken prediction against John Story viz. This Year shalt thou dye dat 1. 1. Mon. 1677. Though he lived several Years after This the Libeller has very unjustly charged under his general Title and Words THEY Give on the Quakers for They is falsely made relative to the Quakers without exception according to his Title when as the said mistake was but one man's i. e. S. E's and as such condemned by the Quakers and in himself also who committed the Error as to the time Thus immorally and unjustly has the Libeller dealt by the Quakers such Injustice the Common justice Laws and Custom of England allows not of even in Criminal Cases a Fellon after he has answered the Law by undergoing the Condign Punishment thereof may not afterward be upbraided as being a Thief still much less may others that are Innocent be branded or Reproached for his Fact but this kind of Injustice we meet withal from Lying Spirits and malicious Apostates who regard neither Truth nor Common Justjce in such injurious dealing And the like measure we have in Sect. 39 about a few inconsistent and indeed unsound Expressions or Agreement alleadged against the Quakers dated December 23. 1680. about Giving up ones whole Concern if required unto the Judgment of the Spirit of God in Mens and Womens Meetings rather then any perticular Measure in my self c. Our obscure Accuser was not so ingenious nor just here as to tell the World that the said Agreement was only of a few in Barbades nor to tell the Reader the Quakers in England long since disowned it and that those Persons themselves or most of them concern'd in it have seene and retracted their own Mistake and Error therein As in our Paper entituled Some Reflections on some Remarks pag. 6. This account is given viz. How immoral and unjust is it to upbraid us with a pretended Order from Barbadoes seeing when it first came over it was disown'd by us and our Friends in General especially wherein it imports a Contra-distinction or Division between the Spirit in a particular Member and the same Spirit in the Church or opposing the perticular measure thereof in my self to the Spirit of God in Meetings which we cannot make Good Sence of for the same Spirit Cannot be divided And the Judgment that rises in the Church of God from the Spirit of Truth in any matter comes from the same Spirit in perticular Members before it be received in the general And we have understood that the aforesaid pretended Order was then disowned by some perticular Friends even in Barbadoes and afterwards revoked by them in general and therefore not Justly to be made a Charge against them or us Pray do but observe how implacably Envious Unjust and Injurious these our secret Smiters and Adversaries are what Reiterate and Charge perticular and personal Revoaked and Exploded Mistakes and Errors upon a People wholly Unconcerned therein Oh! Horrid Injustice and gross Injury If men should deal thus by them after they have paid their Debts as to recharge them over and over with the same Debts and never be satisfied they would conclude at this rate there would be no living one by another Or if God should deal so by you our secret Adversaries and Smiters in the dark as never to forgive nor blot out your Offences but should always remember them against you after Repentance Pray what would become of you What would be your End But God is both Just and Merciful tho' you are neither you bear no resemblance of Him in this your Injustice and Implacableness However we doubt not but our just and good God will plead our Innocent Cause with you implacably envious Persons and our injurious Enemies and Apostates In the 31. Sect. Some nonsence Long-since writ by S. E. about G. F. and denied by the Quakers is again not only reitterrated but G. Whitehead i. e. my self unjustly accused with Excusing the same for which my hidden Accuser Quotes Serious Search pag. 58. c. And also Innocency against Envy pag. 18. Wherein he has dealt very unfairly and falsly by me for in neither do I excuse S E's words in that case but deny them in the first as unsafe In the second as being both Nonsence and not to be stood by How did I herein stand by S. E's words or challenge What in deeming them unsafe and Nonsence and not to be stood by See Serious Search pag. 58.59 And Innocency against Envy pag. 18. Which plainly clear me from the accusation before All impartial Readers may take it for granted that these secret Smiters will make little Conscience of wronging the dead many whereof being Reproachfully accused in the said Pamphlet when they can thus wrong the living as the Libeller has done by me in a case so notorious as this is by charging me to excuse that which I plainly declare to be Nonsence