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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95027	Something in answer to two late malitious libels of William Rogers; intituled, the sixth and eighth part of his (falsly so called) Christian-Quaker, &c. : Being a further caution to Friends, to take heed of that treacherous spirit that is entered into William Rogers and his abettors. : Who under the profession of primitive truth, are betraying it to the world ... / Published for the clearing of truth against William Rogers's lies and slanders ... C.T.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.; Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709. Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator. Part 6.; Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709. Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate & innovator. Part 8.	1682 (1682)	Wing T265; ESTC R184889	30,402	42

we trample in the power of God upon their evil Spirit if they do their worst And as Christ Jesus said to Judas that Traytor That thou dost do quickly so that they do let them do quickly that when they have done their wicked work without repentance they may go to their proper place And as for my adoreing G. F. and his Laws it is an ignorant sottish Idle Childish Story I knew before thou T. C. W. R. I Pennyman were called Quakers how to Adore and Worship the true and living God and stil do know how to love and dearly to esteem such Ancient Elders and Friends as were and are still Instrumental to bring forth blessed things for the service of God and his Truth and this is done by a Divine breath c. and thus to affirm is neither to Adore or Worship Men or Things but to Assert the Truth which thou hast not disproved with thy scandalous lying breath and thy lyes and slanders are detected and I charged thee to make thy charge good wherein I am such an one as Adore G. F. and his laws as thou calls them bring thy proof or eat thy words for thou hast grossly perverted mine as the Reader may see and the least thing that 's done by the weakest Instrument in obedience to God's Will is by a Divine Spirit or Breath which thou scoffs at and falsely callest it Adoring or worshiping G. F and his laws c. and I lay it upon thee when thou Prints again to set down this Idol what it is and such as thou calls G. F his laws set down a Catalogue of them all for people will not else I hope be satisfied to pin their Faith on thy or thy brethrens sleeves to believe your bawlings against them as if they were some mishapen Monstrous things Now T. Crisp I must tell thee thy cause is naught and thy brethrens also and thy and your Battle of Wickedness will come to an end and I pray God preserve his People unto himself from your muttering peeping Counsels who lye in wait to destroy the simple-minded with your Craft and Wickedness and this is my Testimony that your Work is wicked and the God of Heaven is highly displeased with you and if I should never more in my native Country appear in Print or however I may in this outwatd World be disposed on I say I affirm in the presence of God that thou T. C. W. R. J. Pennyman and all the rest who in their hearts and souls have resolutely Espoused your Cause against G. F. and thousands others both Elders and Friends of Truth that though for a while the Lord may suffer you as an exercise and tryal to his People yet your wicked Rebellion and gainsaying will come to an end and except it be possible you can find a place of Repentance your end will be miserable and this Testimony I leave behind me however the merciful good and most gracious God may dispose of me Oh! my native Country how dear is my love to thee Praying that the Lords holy Truth may still prevail in thee and that my Friends and Brethren in the Truth may be kept faithful in it that his Glory may still arise and his Power prevail so that this Nation may be as a Nursery to the Nations about it to send forth Rigbteous and Faithful Plants with success into his Vineyard that thousands and ten thousands may be alarm'd by the sound of Truth to come out of their Graves of sin and unbelief to the Resurrection and Salvation of Jesus Christ Amen The 8th of the 9th Month 1681. Thomas Crisp said That he hath paid Tithes lately and that the Spirit of God did or might allow him to pay Tithes or Marry by a Priest And that by the same Spirit of God another might be required not to pay them or not to do the same things This Thomas Crisp spoke the day and Year abovesaid and consented to have it Writ and Printed and took a Copy of the aforesaid Words Witness John Field Jun. See what an Agent W. R. J. Story and J. Wilkinson have gotten who is a false wicked perverter of the Truth and of Friends Ancient Testimonies in the Truth in the beginning Oh monstruos To set the Spirit of the Living God against it self Did we ever thirty years since and since to this day Preach for Doctrine and tell People The Spirit of God did or might allow them to pay Tithes or Marry by a Priest and that by the same Spirit of God another might be required not to pay them or not to do the same things Here the Reader may see their Confusion and Blasphemy against Gods Spirit and Truth what they would be at under the Pretence of Liberty so that at the last for ought I know they may commit gross Evils which Truth Condemns and say It is their Liberty and God allows them to do it by his Spirit though others may be Judged for it And so by this wicked principle usher in all manner of Ranterism Alas how miserably blind are those that cannot discern these mens wicked and ungodly design how mad and wicked they are to make void the Cross of Christ and wrest the Truth to serve the Turn of their own Licentious Spirits and Carnal Minds And I doubt not but some of these Brawlers against us are got too far with their Liberty into the Ditch already to their own destruction who do not deserve the name of a Quaker And now at this time when we are expos'd to great sufferings by Imprisonments spoiling of Goods c. for these Apostates T. C. W. R. and their Adherents to be so malitious as at such a time as this to render us Odious to the World by spreading and Printing their defaming lying and slanderous Books against us All sober Readers may see how the malitious mask is taken off these Babel-builders and so their Spirit is seen to be the same with those old Apostates that are gone before them And that they do but hypocritically deceive People in pretending themselves to be Quakers who are none nor Children of the Light as may be seen by their Books and Principles And from that meek Spirit of Life and Truth they are gone and under pretence of exalting Christ and his Kingdom they are exalting self and with it are opposing the Order of the Gospel and the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus and their wicked Spirit and Work is to be Judged out of the Camp of God John Story being asked why he did not hinder William Rogers from Printing his great wicked Book against us in my hearing he Answered That William Rogers was such a Strong Willful Man that if he set upon a thing he would do it if all the World set against him So that W. R. may see what Esteem J. S. his great Elder and Brother had of him if he spake not in Hypocricy at that time And W. R. what

Days Meetings all thy brawlings and Clamours against the Friends Concern'd in that Meeting they in the Lords Power do not regard as knowing thy words to be of no Credit with them that fear the Lord. And W. R. are not all the Books that thou hast Printed against the Faithful in which thou hast shot all thy Wicked Darts with thy foul Language like unto J. Story and J. Wilkinson's Condemnation thou drew up for them which thou calledst a Rattle to please Children And could there have been more Wickedness known in Man and Dissimulation than that way For was not thy Intent thereby to deceive And was not that a mark and a Badge of thy great Apostacy from the Light of Christ and his Truth But the Children of the Light neither thou nor J. Story nor J. Wilkinson were able to deceive And therefore thou Roarest now like a Bull in a Nett and reproachest such Faithful Friends as here desired thy Eternal Good And all thy Printed Books are like unto the Rattle thou speakst of to please Children and they must be Children indeed and simple and Betrayed from Christ and his Light that believe thy Rattles But all that walk in the Light and are grafted into Christ see over thee and them and thou canst not deceive them And therefore thou art in such a Toss and Tempest and in a fretful Restless Spirit And what W. R Wouldest thou have a Meeting to wait upon the Lord to Manifest thy Words Works and Spirit The Lord hath sufficiently discovered both thy Words Works and Spirit by his Eternal Power and Spirit and judged them Thou sayst Thou art for Peace Then call in all thy Dirty Wicked Books and Condemn them And do not oppose the Light of Christ and his Grace the Truth and the Spirit in his people nor the Gospel the power of God in Men and Women which hath led them to Christ and God to meet in his Power and Spirit by which they are gathered to him to take care of Gods Truth which is their Duty that he be not dishonoured and the Camp of God may be kept Clean And to see that all Marriages may be performed desently and in Order that Christ in the Female as well as in the Male may have an Eye in them that both Male and Female being Faithful to God may be Meet-helps together in Truth and in Righteousness and Holiness in Christ Jesus But if thou dost proceed and goest on Gods Eternal Sword of his Spirit is drawn against thee and that Spirit that takes thy part and therefore be warned For its Judgment is begun and his Sword will not be put up untill it hath perfected its Work And when thou feelest it cut and the Terrors of the Lord upon thee for thy Wicked Works sake in which thou hast cryed Peace Peace but instead of Peace Peace nothing but Destruction will come upon thee Then William O the Horror when the Vengeance of God is upon thee for abusing people with thy deceitful Rattles Then remember the tender Bowels of them that sought thy Eternal Good and would have reclaimed thee for hadst thou kept to the Witness of God and Judged J. S. and J. W. thou hadst never followed this Disorderly Spirit of the son of Perdition which is exalted above all that is called God in thee which seeks to betray Gods people and his Truth Judas like to the World But if ever God should be so Merciful to thee as to bring thee down to his Witness in thy self thou wouldest Lament the Day that ever thou espousedst that Spirit that led J. S. and J. W. from the Truth and so turned against the Faithful Friends and Children of the Light W. R. Thou goest over and over in thy Books with slighting Expressions against our Church-Government and that in a lofty scoffing despising way But I must tell thee Christ who is the Governour hath established by his Light Power and Spirit his Government in the hearts of all his Children of Light who are living Members of his Body his Church which he is the living head of and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevaile against it And by Christs Light in themselves every Male and Female in the Church sees their service and their Duty to God And W. R. Thou art busying and mudling thy head about G. F's Trade thou hadst better let G. F. and his Trade alone who never did Dispise the smallest honest calling upon Earth W. R. says Part 8. pag. 8. Let G. F. know whether he can receive it or no that probable the Name of a Quaker might not have been despised so much by many as it now is had he but followed the example of W. D. and other his fellowlabourers keeping at some honest outward calling instead of mudling his head to bring about a Conformity to his outward Orders For I am fully satisfied in my Conscience that that noisom scent that hath risen like smoak from the bottomless Pit hath been occasioned from an Antichristian Promotion of his outward Orders so far W. Rogers Answ Now the Reader may see this Mans Spirit he hath not given a Catalogue of these outward Orders that the Reader may see them And his Clamorous Tongue is but from his Antichristian Spirit and Evil Conscience and the noisom smoak of his bottomless Pit but he cannot darken Gods Air for the Sun of Righteousness is arisen with healing in his Wings which shines over all but God will judge him for his foul Language and hard speeches for many weapons have been formed against G. F. since he was about 19 years old and moved of the Lord to forsake all and to follow the Lamb. But how can W. R. tell and be so confident that G. F. hath not some concerns in the outward Creation having a Family He hath not proved the Contrary which he must do or else stop his Mouth for shame for if he had not how is it that he hath been under sufferings and exercises some Years in several Courts for not paying Tithes and his quoting W. D. in the case is meer flattery But what outward calling was that J. Story followed and J. Wilkinson when they were at Bristol let Friends of Bristol and Wiltshire speak where they were and what it was whom he calls his honourable Brethren and how have they kept the Name of a Quaker from being despised there What a malitious Spirit guides thee to defame if possible G. F. that dear and faithful Servant of God who through his Grace hath been such a Faithful Instrument in his hand that by him thousands have been converted to God through the Gospel committed to him and have been shod with the preparation of it to defend them from the Briars and Thorns the Exercises and Troubles of this evil World to bring them to Peace with the Lord. And the Authority of God is with him still to preserve him to stand over the Devil and thy foul Spirit and all the Agents and