by the Devil but sure it was a worse Spirit instigated you to print and recommend that wicked Defamation of the Protestant Bible and Ministers then that G. W. could say his brought a great reproach on Friends but this wicked action of yours are far greater reproach to the English Protestants and more justly to be condemn'd but you knew who you pleased and that you had them great in Power to stand by and gratifie and incourage you in defaming the Protestant Ministers so that it was not then your Interest and therefore might and did say you were not concerned no not to vindicate but to defame the Protestants and although in your last years Foxonian Conclave in White-hart-court in your Laws then made you use not the same Terms because you have been detected as Tythes and Church Rates c. but do in more squinting quibbling terms that your Design and Presumption may not be so easily seen impose the same things saying we recommend unto you the holding up the Holy Testimony of Truth and that in all the parts of it for Truth is one and changes not and say they what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning it reproves still and so what it justified in the beginning i. e. the Actions in 1648. c. it justifies still for say they Truth i. e. the Foxonian Spirit is one and changes not hereby have they confirmed all their former Seditious Doctrines in Print as well against the King as against the Protestant Ministers nay all their contempts of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth's Person Blood and Sufferings therefore whatever seeming fair Confessions they may for to deceive the Government now make of owning the present Government as consisting of King House of Lords and Bishops and Church of England as now Established and the Scriptures and Christ yet they have hereby i. e. their Meetings Injunction not only owned but also in as plain Terms as they durst commanded their Subjects to hold them up and in order thereto it is that they do so defend their old Blasphemies and Seditious Printed Ancient Testimonies of their Idol of Jealousie Fox c. whilst they pretend to believe and own the contrary And although this Tryal hath been long wrot yet had not been now published but that they instead of disowning these erronious Ancient Testimonies as they ought if they were True Protestants they cover and excuse them and pretend they are such quiet innocent ones in the Land and therefore that People may not be deceived by their good words but may see them as they are envious Slanderers and Persecutors of the Protestant Ministers is this now published also because these Foxonian Rabshakes are so shameless as to challenge it as out-doing the Devil their own Foxonian Spirit because after it was proved is said in discovery inlarged c. I find their Books stuft with such base Insinuations and Defamations of almost all People that the chief drift of them seems to be to render the New Testament and the true Faith in our Lord Jesus and the Ministers and Professors thereof Infamous and worse than the Papists and are so bold as to advise and direct to the taking away and destroying Property Now I say he the Devil hath out-done it in and by themselves as in pages 10.11.31.32.34 to 38. of that Discovery and also more fully proved in the Sn. in the Grass c. and Satan disrobed c. and by George Keith in several Books printed by him Also in one Sheet titled an Essay to allay G. Foxes Spirit which may be Printed at large containing about Twelve Sheets but in this Citation they are Guilty of that they so defame T.C. for for they leave out these Words and Defamations whereby they not only wrong the Citation but the Sense also and your own Consciences cannot but know unless they be seared that its true although you are so proud you will not hear I have forborn naming some Persons and Books in respect to some concerned and although the Citations be short yet they are true and in your own Printed expressions I say if you think these things too hard with the Light of Christ search your selves and see if it be not the reward of your own hands and if you say wherefore am I made publick it s your own answer thou Foxonian Spirit hast committed thy lewdness before the Sun therefore openly art thou reproved who hast sinned openly also again you say in Print must not Jealousie be stirr'd up in the Powers of the Earth against them i. e. Professors as they have again others And although I am sensible your influence and interest is so considerable that I know not how soon I may feel the tender love of your Spirit as W. Bradford did yet I am not afraid nor discouraged from discovering you for all your Policy that who or what ever Interest govern you are sure to be of the rising side for you have some great among you of all sides and also I know and have proved that the Foxonian Rabshakes are not Children in Malice but Men yea strong and old Men in Malice and Contempt of the Scriptures and Protestant Ministers and do more justly deserve to be taken notice of by the Magistrate than the poor Country Justice did for using an cetera in his Warrant for Commitment of Fox or then G. Keith and W. Bradford did and seeing you term others Rabshakes let the Reader judge whether that name belongs not to you Foxonians Whitehead c. who gave these and many more names to Mr. Pennyman to defame him viz. you called him grinning Dog barking Cur the Devils Agent the Devils Porter the Devils Drudge-Vassel of Hell setting open Hell Gates Bond-slave of Hell cursed for ever cursed Serpent c. Unclean nasty Spirit c. although one of the cleanliest neatest Men in London but to prove the Foxonian Spirit is a nasty one observe as follows their nasty words as I find them in Print by one J. Wiggam who had some controversie with them they writ this to him this hath caused thee to spew out on a Paper for the Dogs to lick up they take so much of thy filthy spewing it causes them to vomit thou purges upward and downward thou needs one to wipe thee thou mak'st a pitiful stink through thy vomiting and purging thou besmears every one that comes nigh thee one may follow thee by the smell wilt not give over vomiting thou stinks all the Country over like a Man with a scall'd Head and Horse with a gall'd Back making People Vomit and Spew that they make such a stink thou may'st be asham'd with thy filthy spewing if thou wert not Impudent also Margaret Foxes Wife wrot thus to him thou hast committed Sacrilege which will never be forgiven thee thou art accursed and no other Portion canst thou have thou Infidel Child of Darkness the Curse Christ hath pronounced on thee thou art the Man thou Impudent
out in reprinting E. Bs. Works but by these and many more of such stuff of theirs as I have collected the impartial Reader may judge whether or no these now Foxonian Quakers Whitehead c. are not very shameless and wicked to accuse the Protestant Ministers many of whom were not consenting but against these Proceedings especially them this Man pleaded for when as themselves was guilty of the same or worse in abetting and encouraging them Governments against the King and incensing them against the Ministers because they favoured the King and his Interest had not these Quakers more need with shame put their Mouthes in the Dust but they found out a way to make the Papists amends by helping them to defame the Protestant Ministers and because these Foxonian Chief Priests be so shameless as to seemingly deny these things being charged against them saying I defie the Father of Lyes himself to out-do this and therefore I will give you some more of their Treasonable Ancient Testimonies and boasting of their Vindicating in the Field with their Blood although in Foxes Journal they have left it out in their Book the West answering to the North 79. pag. say they why was Strafford's Head cut off and Canterbury's and Charles Stewarts as Traytors for endeavouring to subvert the Fundamental Laws of England and what justice was there in all these if a Sessions may make Laws c. Now that they may not pretend this is rather a blaming then justifying it s indeed a blaming them for making Orders for Imprisoning Fox c. but not for them actions and farther say they Charles Stuart and his Lords committed Men as Canterbury c. and early he heard of it and was constrained to submit unto the Petition of right to keep that his wrong doing from being further questioned and for his other Arbitrary Actions c. and what befell his particular need not be mentioned being recorded in the Blood of the late Wars and the destruction of him and his Family the sad examples of his i. e. Gods righteous Judgments c. and pag. 89. doth not here appear the Spirit of C. Love Priest and his Fellow Traytors who being within the Jurisdiction of this Common-wealth took on them to commissionate Men to treat with Charles Stewart i. e. Charles II. the Proclaimed Traytor of the Government at Breda for the putting him into that they call his Fathers Throne for which and his other Treasons he lost his Head 1651. See the Plea for the Commonwealth and therein the Priests Treasons doth not the Sprouts of the Bishops appear in the etcetera is Chr. Love dead the Scots and Ch. Stewart overcome are the Bishops plucked up Root and Branch c. again pag. 95. call to mind to whom this Generation i.e. Ministers joyned in 1648. and 1650. even with the common Enemy Charles Stewart c. by War and Treason to effect it see Chr. Love and his Treasons in a Plea for the Commonwealth c. forget not the wonderful deliverance from them and they Quakers being Imprisoned they take it so heinously that of it they say pag. 96. There is not found one such example in Queen Mary's cruelty only some such thing was set up at Whitehall Gate to hinder People from passing to complain of their Sufferings by the Bishops which Charles Stewart called Tumults and by that Guard one was slain at the place of the shedding of whose Blood was Charles Stewart's Head struck off and his Blood powered on the ground a remarkable record of the righteous judgment of God again pag. 102. they say whom Justice hath cut off for arbitrariness as in Strafford Canterbury Charles Stewart c. these are the Foxonian Quakers Ancient Testimonies and implicitly although not in plain words now by their last Conclave their Subjects i. e. the Foxonian Quakers are injoyned to hold up for say they Truth is one and changes not and what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning it reproves still therefore Friends be zealous and strict for the Lord 's blessed Testimony in your selves in your Families here you may see what their Spirit which they term Truth counted evil and reproved in the beginning 1657. and what it owned and justified also even the worst of their Actions 1648. and so as their Spirit changes not in what it condemns as evil nor doth it change in what it owned vindicated and justified then but what it then justified it doth the same still for it changes not if they the Foxonians say true but finding these Foxonian Quakers so commend and espouse the Plea for the Commonwealth c. I bought that because I would be fully inform'd what their Ancient Testimony in the beginning was and find it much agreeable to the others of Fox and E. Burrows for pag. 2. it s said I am sure the late King was not owned in such unwarrantable practises c but for so doing had Justice executed on himself as a Traytor and pag. 10. Chr. Love would have denyed the Jurisdiction of the Court if he had not remembred what it cost his Master Charles against whose Authority Chr. Love was as well as that Traitor was again pag. 13. say they when God put by all their Ministers mischievous intents and brought Justice on the King c. again pag. 16. it s said when the Providence of God in the Justice of the Nation had brought the King to Execution and chang'd the Government for the best advantage of Religion and Justice how did the Men of this Generation i.e. Ministers endeavour the destruction of this Commonwealth what mourning was there among them for Tames i. e. the King fetching deeper sighs for the King's Execution than the purer Cavaleers and pag. 3. say for the Treasons Chr. Love was guilty of they are no less than Combination with the Scots and Charles Stewart Son to the late Tyrant to bring him in as King of England and pag. 20. say whether any Men within the Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth taken on them to treat with a Foreign State and the proclaimed Enemy of this Commonwealth Charles Stewart be not an act of Treason If these Quakers object this Book was not theirs yet I say it s by them espoused and recommended and the same Principles asserted in theirs as against the Kings both Charles I. and II. and in owning Oliver c. in what they did against them but it s very likely G. Bishop D. Hollister and Captain Piot who were Quakers and of Foxes chief Men in those days and actually concern'd with Fox in the Book West answering to the North c. were all or one of them chiefly concern'd in this Book and were great Men with Ol. Crom. then as in the Snake in the Grass is observ'd of Bishop and its Foxes method to charge the Persons who recommend a Book or something in it as well as the Authors as in his Answer to J. Gilpin and others I find although
A Just and Lawful TRYAL OF THE Foxonian Chief Priests BY A Perfect Proceeding against Them AND They Condemn'd out of their own Ancient Testimonies And being brought to the Bar of Justice their own Ancient Testimonies have judged them Guilty and to be no Christians of Christ's making Thou shalt rebuke thy Neighbour and not suffer Sin upon him Levit. 19.17 Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Psalm 137.8 But these Quakers say Scripture is not his God 's Voice but Declaration of what he spake to and by those holy Men c. Scorn'd Quaker page 19. Therefore I will give them their own Scripture Must not Jealousie be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them as they have stirred up the Powers of the Earth against others Truth 's Character p. 15. Having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name of Christians you deserve not that Name E. B.'s Works p. 419. LONDON Printed for the Author and to be Sold by B. Aylmer against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1697. ERRATA PAg. 11. Lin. 33. for see r. with p. 23. l. 7. the Comma that 's at in should be at it p. 27. l. 17 18. them words in the Parenthesis be not theirs p. 87. last line but one after the word justly r. deserve to be p. 89. l. 25. after the c. r. of and the Comma's that be at the should be at they for the Protestant Ministers are not their words p. 90. l. 37. after people r. they say p. 96. l. 31. after party r. says p. 111. l. 11. for word r. world Pages 200. and 201. should be 110. and 111. and there be some words inclosed in Parentheses inserted into some of their sentences which be not theirs only added for particular notice or explanation which although not so well distinguished as ought yet by the sense of the matter discernable The PREFACE Christian Reader THe Design of this following Tryal is To shew the wickedness of the Foxonian Spirit and the Chief Priests and Rulers among them That it 's an Antichristian Porphyrian Spirit appears by their bantering all who confess themselves Sinners For T. C. having said I desire my Imperfections nor these Quakers Revilings may not prejudice against reading this c. for they cannot represent me a greater Sinner than I thank God I think my self to be but by their villifying me they shew the weakness of their Cause and the wickedness of their Spirits For the Controversie between us is not what T. C. is but whether or no G. Fox c. has so printed as I charge them and whether those Expressions be not Unchristian c. For this these Quakers thus banter me A large Confession I promise you say they Why in good earnest he hath cut off all opportunities of being told of his Faults for the future by confessing the Indictment and pleading Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him now henceforth for ever Then we may take it for granted that whatever I have charged him with c. he is conscious he is guilty of consequently I have not wronged him in so representing him nay nor is it possible for me to wrong him c. Little need be said to shew the Injustice of the Foxonians besides their Scoff and Banter But for that they say How can he i. e. T. C. expect any other but to be banter'd c. And not only T. C. but all who confess themselves Sinners are so dealt with by them But to take a little notice of these Quakers Injustice for as to their Bantring T. C. must expect no other from them They say of T. C. He hath pleaded Guilty to this and all others that may be brought against him which is false for T. C. does not confess nor have they proved he is guilty of what they charge him with but they have wronged him For altho' the Prophets confessed as David c. that their iniquities were great and St. Paul said of himself I am the chiefest of Sinners yet they were falsly charged and wronged by your Fore-fathers and they laid to David's Charge things that he knew not and Paul was not guilty of them Sins your Forefathers accused him of Acts 24. But they wronged him as you have T. C. Nor do I find that any of the cruel Jews since Paul's confessing himself the chiefest of Sinners ever made so wicked and Porphyrian a Bantering use of his words as you have done as to say They cannot wrong him nor is it possible to wrong him Paul for let me represent him how I will I cannot represent him a chiefer Sinner than he says he is Nay say these Quakers his i. e. T. C.'s Concession includes not only all this i. e. Whoremonger Swearer Drunkard c. but all other Sins whatsoever But if they pretend they say These Sins we hope he is not guilty of what then Altho' they hope so yet by their own Doctrine they may charge him with them and punish him accordingly its not possible for them to wrong him But now in case that Passage were not so properly worded as it ought I see not so much difference between a greater Sinner and the chief of Sinners as to be so Unchristianly dealt by But humble Christian Acknowledgments are so contrary to their proud Pharisaical bragging Prayers as G. W. ' s at the end of his Judgment fixt c. that causes them to gnash their Teeth so against them but their own Doctrine in their Book Rabshekah c. p. 70. is a proper Answer to them herein and to most of their Books say they I defie the Father of Lies himself to out-do this and I having proved some part of their Book Rabshekah c. was writ or given forth by a wicked Spirit I suppose you will confess it was all given forth by one Spirit therefore let the Reader judge what the rest of it can be E. B. 's Work 's p. 148. There 's some Faults in this Tryal c. which I desire the Readers Charity in passing them by as the smallness of the Letter because I was desirous to bring it into as few Sheets as possible and indeed I did not expect it would have taken up so many but while it was in Printing I Inserted several more Proofs of my Charges into several places as I thought most suitable which I find causes it in some places not to Read so smooth as it ought Also I have shortened it in some partiat the latter end because I find the same Matters are fuller and better Treated on in the Second Edition of the Snake in the Grass c. And I understand that Worthy Author intends a full Reply to the Quakers pretended Antidote c. Whereby I question not but he will discover the Poison of Asps from under the Tongue of G. Whitehead in that pretended Antidote c. as well as he has Discovered the Flames
or body of rich politick People and so purse proud and strong no one People i. e. dissenting Society is able to deal with them They are by their Jesuitical Politick way of Government united as one intire Body unto one Head or Conclave of Cardinals of Chief Priests in London Whitehead c. from and by whose Authority a vast number of their seditious Libels are spread all over England's Dominions and elsewhere and they are so formidable that scarce any eminent Magistrate but they can by some interest or other they have or can make influence for if any just complaint be against any of their Priests they can by their Meetings know who of them have most influence on such in Power most concerned and so can by their quibbles smooth and fawning pretences perswade thar they are Innocent and their Adversaries Malicious as in the case of F. Bugg's dedicating his Book Quak. Withering c. to the Bishop of Glocester on which G. W. made such interest or so influenced him that as Whitehead Prints it the Bishop rather favoured him G. W. than F. B. but had any of his i. e. that Bishops Flock left him and joyned with the Quakers and wrot but half so much in defence of the Quakers and discovery of the Church of England I think the Quakers would not so slightly esteemed it but this shews what advantage they have and make by their fawning and confidence to the damage and scandal of the Protestant Ministers for their seditious Ancient Testimonies not only grow by not being pulled up but they seed and increase which were there as much care taken to defend the Protestant Religion and Ministers by duly answering and suppressing their seditious Books as they do to destroy and suppress them wrot in discovery of their Errors they indite and excommunicate and take away Goods and Imprison and Fine for discovery of their Wickedness and prosecute and complained to the Secretary of State as in the case of F. B. G. K. and W. B. and is it not as fitting to suppress Error and Sedition as for them to suppress Truth also as much care ought to be taken for spreading such Books that are printed in defence of the Protestants against them as they do to spread theirs for although there have been some such wrot yet so few will buy them that the Booksellers are not willing to undertake to Print them which if they were encouraged by a common vend for such Books it might be some check to their Insolency and help to open the Understandings of People for how can it be expected but that the vulgar People and Strangers abroad should believe all their Contempts of the Protestant Ministers be true because so publick all over the Nation and other Parts without opposition not only in their small Pamphlets but also in great Volumes when them fierce Despisers Fox c. be dead with such long Epistles or high Commendations of them and their wicked Works by W. Penn and George Whitehead c. and more especially the Quakers being so formidable and great that as other Foreign Nations have an Agent or Minister residing about the Kings Court to negotiate and improve their Interest in the favour of the Government so have these Quakers their Agent a Person who is not the least in favour although he hath manifested himself an Enemy to the Protestant Ministers nay they Foxonian Quakers rather than they will want Dirt and Infamy to throw on the Protestant Bible Religion and Ministers they will take in aid from the Papists and forge or fetch News from the Pit of Damnation as is proved in this following Tryal and seeing they are so Great Powerful and Strong that no one Society is able to ballance them if were well all differing Protestants were more united against the common Enemy for their greatest danger of hurt is from Rome at home and seeing these Quakers will not endure the least affront as they think to their Persons or Papers but will with the utmost Power and Malice Prosecute and Punish as in their Indicting and Prosecuting F. Bugg as Seditious because he Printed the Figure of a Pillory for Twelve of their Chief Priests how was the Government and Nation alarm'd with it and in Pensilvania they presented George Keith as guilty or worthy of Death by their Law and it s to be feared would have dealt accordingly by him but that Providence took the Power out of their Bloody Priest Jennings's hands and Imprisoned the Man and took away his Goods that Printed G. Keith's Plea Will. Bradford and say it's Blasphemy to term their Paper Sinful Now seeing they will not bear the reproach they justly deserve then why must the Protestant Bible and Ministers be by them so defamed in Print to Posterity by them are not these things of higher concernment and more justly deserving punishment than them Persons they so punished consider this all you Protestants whom it most especially concerns if they be so presumptuous now what may they not attempt when they can effect their wicked design of destroying the Protestant Ministry They having already obtained in some measure to confront or be equal with the Peers of the Realm who formerly they reproached as well as the Ministers and this that they have gained may prove a bait to other ambitious Persons to pretend to be Quakers if but to exempt them from the reach of that Law it s hoped this will no more reflect on our Governours if they have been deceived by their false pretences than it did on Joshua and the Elders of Israel that the Gibeonites deceived I fear the case is much the same it may be feared their Pensilvania Pope W. Penn can already with the help of Twelve more of their London Cardinals Whitehead c. procure more Men or Money to their Interest than any one Subject in England if these give it as their Testimony or Judgment that it 's for the service of Truth and by the Spirit of God i. e. Fox 's Spirit there 's enough Quakers to give up their whole Concerns Spiritual and Temporal to that Spirit as their Barbadoes Church did whereby they sold Themselves Bodies Souls and Estates to that Spirit as in Babel's Builders c. may be seen at large Now consider you 25 W. Myers Tho. Cox G. Laytey Tho. Lower J. Vaughton N. Mark W. Bingly C. Marshall W. Sanders J Feild M. Russel J. Knight H. Gouldny D. Whorly c. you Foxonian Chief Priests and chief Men of War this Title and manner of Proceedings and the Hell-fetch'd Names and Terms are according to your own in print against the Protestant Ministers in general and not only formerly in Pamphlets but now reprinted and the Author highly applauded and recommended to posterity by your Chief Men of War in E. Burrows Works although you were not so extreme shameless as to reprint all his Wickedness but alter leave out and add in to forge them to your mind
Lyar night Owl wicked Lyar and as I can find the cause of all this nasty and rabshake Language from them was because he disputed against them about the Light in every Man and published something about it now if you can shew me such nasty Words from J. P. and he to have been the Devils Porter to spread fetch or forge false Intelligence from the Pit of Damnation and the Papists in Defamation of the Protestant Religion and Ministers as I have produced of yours then I grant his Spirit as nasty and as much rabshake as yours but in case it be so that will not clear your Spirit from being a nasty and rabshake one but if you cannot smell this your Foxonian Spirit to be a nasty one you have lost your senses else you may follow this nasty Foxonian Spirit by the smell and herein your Chief Priests be proved to be the Devils Porters and which they wrongfully charge on others without proof and this your matchless Pride and Insolency in accusing the Protestant Ministers to the King for being for Ol. Crom. when you were more guilty caused J. P. to write out the Quakers Unmask'd c. and send to you privately to make you sensible of your Error but your Pride cannot bear reproof but threatned him F. B. and T. C. for mentioning it but it s now in Print but I think that which encouraged you so to defame the Protestant Ministers was because you was as sure of encouragement and countenance if not reward in that Work from some then great in power as your Fathers Fox c. formerly they having many of the chief in the then Army who countenanced them then as W. Penn c. lately And I say in case you do not as publickly testifie against these Wickednesses of your Chief Priests as you did against the Christian Quaker D. S. then all you Foxonian Quakers are chargeable as guilty of them and your pretended counterfeit new Confessions ought no more to be believed or clear you than a Thief when he is convict of Theft his saying he really believes the Ten Commandments may clear him but the Foxonians falsly accusing the Protestant Ministers and endeavouring to render them odious prove its true as they themselves say that Runnagadoes are the violentest Enemies against them they have deserted for none are more implacable Enemies to the Protestants than Fox Whitehead c. who once professed the same this their own Doctrine is proved true in them Foxonian Chief Priests G. W. c. For I think if all Algier were searched that of all the Runnagadoes that have been there this Hundred Years there cannot be found so many Defamations and Contemptious Expressions in Print of the Person of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Blood shed on the Cross as there is of these Foxonian Quakers in their Printed Books in London its pity that this Protestant City should be the only Garden of the World to breed and nourish such Plants and send or sell the Seed of such degenerated Plants of a strange Vine what must London out-do Algier in defaming the Christian Religion especially the English Protestant Ministers to encourage loose Atheistical Persons in the same Work for reprinting these their wicked Works with such high commendations on the Authors affixed before them tends to the Destruction of the Protestant Religion as the Gun-Powder-Treason did and the chief Actors therein no more deserve commendations than them and these Quakers have approved of those wicked Actions in their Ancient Printed Testimonies now under-hand injoyn'd their Subjects to hold them up for these of theirs were from the Spirit of Truth or the Spirit of Error if from the Spirit of Error its needful they testifie against them as publickly as they did against the Christian Quaker D. S. for owning Fox and Whitehead Guilty therefore in case they do not disown them its Evidence they do own them as the Testimony of Truth and so are confirmed and injoyn'd by their 1696. White-hart-court Conclave to be maintained and held up as some part of the Testimony of Truth Now consider you Quakers who be honest minded although deceived by your Priests G. W. c. who are so wicked as to accuse this Man as endeavouring to have them destroyed nay crucified too because he justly and truly complaining the Protestant Religion was in danger by them to be rooted out and yet they in the same Pamphlet are so wicked so early as in 1660. to accuse the Ministers in general as dangerous to the King and for being against him and for the former Governments although they themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree for says they to the King Friends then called Cavaleers you are become cursed in all your endeavours the purpose of your hearts have been known to be always against Truth it self and though your Kings c. have been cut off in wrath and says except you repent of endeavouring to re-establish the King and that Government you and your Kings c. and lordlly Power by which you have thought to exercise Lordship over my Heritage shall be inslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness where he i. e. the Devil shall Reign your King and Lord for evermore this they say was from the Lord and sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God Yet these Forgers the Foxonians could leave the whole Message out and great part of these Citations again says E. B. to O. C. of the King's Friends I know the Lord hath cursed them and what thou hast done unto them and their King should not be reckoned against thee by the Lord if now thou wert faithful c. i. e. take away the Ministers and their Maintenance for that was one of the sins they counted O. C. c. then guilty of for say they to O. C's Council the same false Prophets Protestant Ministers you establish by a Law which deceive the Nations again says the same E. B. to the Parliament and that in 1659. but about 6 Months before the Restoration while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditary and by the Succession of Birth as hath been the custom in our Forefathers days that knew no better whereby the Inhabitants have been always suffering and liable to great Oppressions being under such a Government falling from Parents to Children after the manner of the Heathen Nations again p. 3. the Lord hath begun to appear and shewed us the bondage our Forefathers lived in and we our selves been subject too by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively now our Eyes are opened to behold better things and pag. 6. say to the Long Parliament it s on me to lay it before you even as the Contenders for England's Liberty whom the Lord honoured in the Beginning to remove Tyranny c. But this whole Libel and other Treasonable Ancient Testimonies of theirs is left
not more recommendations thereof than these Quakers have given of this but the same Principles is in their other Ancient Testimony in the beginning which they now injoyn their Subjects to hold up But judge Reader if these Foxonian Cardinals Whitehead c. were not very Shameless in that they durst thus maliciously accuse the Protestant Ministers to the King so soon as 1660. for being against his Father and for Oliver and them Governments when as themselves that is Foxonian Quakers were so highly guilty in the same Case and here I have proved their being out of Christ's Doctrine and so by their own Doctrine to be of the Devil for here afore you see how heinous a sin they make it even as Crucifying our Lord for saying the Protestant Religion was in danger to be rooted out by the Quakers here its plain they did not do as they would be done by for in the same Libel they inform against the Protestant Ministers as dangerous to the King these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. reflect on and endeavour to incense the King against the Men the Creatures they strike at them therefore their Spirit or Light which they blasphemously term Truth and the Spirit of God c. cannot be the same Spirit as Christ and the Apostles had by their own judgment now seeing it s not Christ's Spirit and they say there are but Two Spirits Gods and the Devils and themselves have judged it I have now proved them the Foxonian Chief Priests so Wicked and Malicious against the Protestant Ministers that they have informed against them to Oliver c. for being for the King and assoon as ever the King was restored they were so abominable shameless as to inform against them for being against him when themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree and were not content although they had Chr. Love's a Ministers Life but they accuse the Ministers in General as in pag. 12. it s said for the Parties this Case respects it runs through generally the whole Ministry of the Nation and in their Book Information to the Army c. pag. 7. say they when a company of greedy Priests came to tell you they had not engaged with G. Booth in the Rebellion but your real Friends Quakers who gave you and the Army intelligence about the Insurrection in Cheshire i. e. Sir G. Booths for the King were spoiled by the Rebels c. and in their Book the West to North pag. 102. say they these Innocent Servants of the Lord G. Fox Ed. Piot Many of them have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from first to last also p. 16. say they the Laws c. The defence of them we have in the late Wars vindicated in the Field with our Blood But this and many others they have left out in reprinting the Letter in G. Fox's Journal as may hereafter be more fully shown But in the mean time take this caution not to trust nor believe these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. in what they print or recommend to you as the works of their Fellows Fox c. or as other mens words they have so altered them in many places by leaving out and adding to forge them to their purpose Therefore you may judge what abominable falshoods they will impose on the World hereafter when those few now living who are able to detect them be dead but there is a Collection of as many as are found to be published that by that you may judge of the rest of their Works what grose Forgers they are and will be And seeing they say they are contrary in Principle and Doctrine to the Protestant Ministers and we cannot as they say own both but must deny one Therefore either all the Generations of Protestants in all Ages to the end of Time not only Ministers but Princes and all Estates and Degrees must be condemned as Antichrists and Apostates as these Foxonian Quakers have and do record them to posterity except one Thorpe c. or else these Foxonian Quakers Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies which their Truth at first taught them must be condemned and disowned Now whether is most reasonable that these few Foxonian Quakers most of them being dead except W. Penn and G. Whitehead come under the deserved blame of false Accusers and men influenc'd by a wrong Spirit and their Blasphemous and Seditious Testimonies publickly condemned or their infamous Contempts and Slanders be recommended to after Ages for Divine Revelations and the wicked Authors as the only Prophets of God in this Age. What can be their intent but that their Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies may be of as great or greater Authority than the Holy Scripture But as a further proof that they these Foxonian Quaker's Spirit is not Christ's the Apostles and all Protestants but an avowed Enemy to the Protestant Religion and Ministers in general They are not content with their own volumnious defamatious Slanders they have filled the World with by their printed Libels but to gratifie the Papist's interest which then was great and able to defend and reward them therefore they joyn with their elder Sister Rome and print in 1671 with their own in J. C.'s Works highly extolled by W. Penn and G. Whitehead Fox and his Wife A Papist scandalous Libel wherein they term the Protestant Bible Brazen-fac'd Book and villifie the beginning of the Reformation and give the Protestant Ministers the same Hellish Names as their own Books do and say to see such stand in a Pulpit with such a Brazen-fac'd Book as is their unjust Bible and term it corrupt and a perverse Book Such Brazen Faces had these Foxonians when the Papists interest was great Haman like improving their interest to destroy the Protestant Ministers because they would not bow to their blasphemous Spirit This shews what kind of Protestants they would have proved if what they then expected had taken effect even serving the Protestants as they had done all the former Governments from 1648. to 1660. own and encourage them while they prosper but when like to fall or gone then exclaim against them and would do by the Protestants as they have by the Dissenters Inform against them when it 's for their interest and tell the Papist their elder Sister how shall she ever without great danger to her self put confidence in such Hereticks as the English Protestants be And it 's not unlikely but that they printed at large this seditious Libel of the Papists against the Protestants and put it into their Works in such a remarkable Character as an earnest-penny that they may come in with their elder Sister Rome for a share when they see it for their interest to pull off their Masks Another proof I shall give that their Light or Spirit is not from Heaven above but more likely from the Pit of Damnation below for to Defame the Protestant Ministers in a Book Entituled A Serious
they had not thought it advantagious to them to defame the Protestant Ministers and to get in favour with the Popish Interest And to this and other their wicked envious Works and Books their own Words are a fitting and sufficient enough Answer I dare defie the Father of Lyes himself to out-do this Rabshekah pag. 70. It concerns all Protestants Ministers and People to pray to God and use all lawful means that they these fierce Despisers Foxonian Quakers get not into Power here as they have done in Pensilvania and as they in Print say Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord against the mighty Foxonians But as they say Give the Whore double as she hath done so let it be done unto her And whereas they say they differ in the Root from all People nay you agree with your Sister Rome to defame and destroy the Protestant Ministers And if as you say in Print The Parliament have Recognized you for Protestants they have not as it were Unprotestanted the Protestant Ministers But I believe the Parliament knew not but were deceived by your false Pretences as Joshua and the Elders of Israel were by the Gibeonites of your Printed Contempts of our Lord Jesus and the Scriptures Laws Kings Lords and Protestant Ministers especially And it 's worthy Consideration whether or no if that they have so Recognized these Foxonians as Protestants whether then all their Errors and Wickednesses may not be charged on the English Protestants in general and they answerable to any Foreign Adversary Papist Jew or Pagan for them and also induce Strangers to believe all their Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to be true and they the Ministers to be such false Prophets and Antichrists and Sorcerers c. as these Quakers have in Print published them to the World more especially when Acts of singular Kindness are passed in their Favour without their disowning these their Ancient Seditious Testimonies as to exempt them from the Law that all other the Commons of England are bound to and a kind of Peerage granted them above all others and either these Quakers contemptuous and defaming Doctrines must be condemned or all the Protestant Ministers and People stand on Record as such Devils Sorcerers and Antichrists as they have Printed them not only in Thousands of Seditious small Libels but in great Volumes with high Commendations on them and the Authors affixed to them by G. Whitehead c. who is the Common Voucher for them More than a Prophet endued with the Almighty Power of God which reigned in him Worthy Prophet of God See more of these blasphemous Expressions of and to Fox in the Snake in the Grass c. and a blasphemous Letter written to Fox by a Foxonian Preacher as in T. C.'s Discovery c. Now what tends all this to but to gain their Contempts Credit or Preference with or before the Scripture Terming the Doctrine of the Church of England Doctrine of Devils Damnable Heresies a meer Cheat c. And the Minister a Teacher of Lasciviousness Now judge you Protestants whether it were not better that W. Penn and G. Whitehead and some few more of the Chief of the Foxonian Chief Priests come under the blame or shame of being mislead by Fox and they condemn or disown those Printed Errors of theirs or else to gratifie the Pride and Malice of Ten of them for I think there is not more of them fierce Despisers now living to have all this Infamy and Contempt of theirs in Print of the Protestant Religion and Ministers so convey'd to Posterity as Divine Oracles for there can no dammage come to the People Quakers in general or to these Persons nor no more desired of them than that they publish something to clear the Protestants in general as they required of G. K. and Excommunicated him because he did it not from their Calumnies and as them Twenty-four afore-mentioned did against the Christian Quakers Answer to F. Bugg and else these Foxonians more justly deserve to be Excommunicated from the Protestants than G. K. did from them What! Shall they have such Power and Zeal for Errors and is there none in Power that have as much Zeal for the Protestant Religion and Ministers And these Foxonians of all People ought not to refuse to condemn their Errors because they exact the same from others for faults much less criminal But let them but observe their own Doctrine to 21 Divines it 's I fear true on themselves say they Your credit is a temptation to you sacrifice it for the sake of your own and others Souls upon the Altar of self-denial think not repentance a Work too mean for you because you have been so long Preachers to others a just rebuke p. 32. Mind this I pray you Foxonians especially W. P. the Author and it will be an aggravation of your guilt in case you practice not what you Preach to others and a farther proof of the truth of my charge against you Therefore be not high minded but take your own advise G. W. be ingenious and confess thy Error I advise thee not to out-face thy own Conscience And this Spirit of Fox's which now influences G. Whitehead c. is the same as was in Corah c. For as then they oppos'd and resisted Moses so doth this Foxonian Spirit in these Quakers condemn our Spiritual Moses the Lord Jesus of Nazareth But this proud Foxonian Spirit thro' his Instrument Fox says he is Christ the Eternal Judge of the World the Son of God and as a Father in Christ say they of Fox he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him Overseer and endued him with an excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding one of the Lords Worthies And many more such Blasphemous Titles have these Foxonian Quakers given to their Idol of Jealousie Fox in their Journal Printed in Folio and preserved in the Library at Oxford to spread his Fame to the Defamation and great Scandal of the many Generations of Protestants Martyrs and Ministers And notwistanding they so Blasphemously exalt him he was either very wicked or else such a Blockhead that he understood not common Sense for five Ministers wrot a Book detecting these Quakers Errors Intituled The Perfect Pharisee charging them with 17 Errors this was answer'd by Fox in his great Mystery p. 74. but he as was usual with him slips the material things and quarrels with some expressions more insignificant They published another Book Titled A farther Discovery of the Quakers c. in vindication of the truth of their Charge on the Quakers Now of the 17 Errors they charge these Quakers with the third is in both their Books that the Quakers hold that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence this is rehearsed in their 5 th p. where they begin to recite all the 17 Errors of the Quakers afterwards they state these 17 Errors and prove and then confute them
other settled Maintenance of Godly Ministers they opposed that also In the year 1659 say they to the Committee of Safety If you should take them Tythes away and settle anything by way of Compulsion on the People for any Ministry you leave us in Bondage and we must declare against that as against Tythes and we cannot pay that nor the other c. And after the Nonconformists that were turned out of Places had Meetings and their Hearers gathered by Collection what the People freely gave G. Whitehead enviously informs against them saying of them Who being dismounted from their Parochial Bishopricks c. are now for the Ratling of their Platters which have been very beneficial to many Have their Platters rattle more secretly c. The Nature of Christianity pag. 5. That the Protestant Ministers live torments these Quakers being they have blasphemously prophesied their begging and Starving And say they If the King c. Repeal the Law inforcing Tythes and convert them into some necessary Civil Use it would appear whether we should not pay our parts and whether the Royal Exchequer would not be conveniently supplied without the Tenth from the Priests page 50. of The Quakers Case c. In this case G. Whitehead's Spirit looks more like Haman's than Christ's as in Esther 3. it 's said If it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay Ten Thousand Talents of Silver into the hands of those that have the Charge of the Business to be brought into the Kings Treasuries And in the Epistle before E. B.'s Works To all the World they say their difference was not only with some Sects or Persons but say they with all Sects in these Nations Priests and Professors and have just cause to deny their whole Religion And say to the Ministers In the Name of the Lord you are contrary to them i e. the Apostles in all your Doctrines in all your Ways and Practices and say they Our Spirits were fill'd with Indignation against the Priests and with and against them we began War and against them as the Fountain of all Wickedness and as being the Issue of Profaneness from them hath Profaneness gone forth in all Nations Deceivers Antichrists this was our first Work to thrash down Deceivers the Protestant Ministers false Idle Shepherds Wo wo unto these Shepherds saith the Lord God Fox they shall be confounded they shall be broken down and never builded any more the Lord will pluck them up by the Roots and they shall never again be planted Their whole Ministry hath a dependance on Popery All savours of Popery Their whole Religion in all parts thereof degenerated c. You see it 's the whole and every Part that they are against of the Protestant Ministers and Reliligion in these three Nations and in page 1. they say It 's from the Lord and they term the Ministers A cursed deceitful Ministry And in page 88. to prove the Protestant Ministers false Prophets charge them that they speak what they have studied for then surely they would have condemned Timothy for obeying Paul who bid him study c. Even say they a Divination of their own Brain Take other Mens Words See the Snake in the Grass first Part p. 316. where the Quakers are proved to have done the same Nor have heard the Voice of God but take Chapter and Verse But surely then Fox was a very false Prophet for he took others words altho' durst not or could not tell Chapter and Verse because he usually corrupted it by adding or diminishing as he pleased And in obedience to their Law or Act made by their Conclave of Cardinals to hold up their Holy and Ancient Testimony of Truth in the beginning and that in all the parts of it c. Now this afore against taking or reading Chapter or Verse being a part of what their Truth taught them in the Beginning being since by Re-printing also further confirmed may be some cause that they are so offended with G. Keith for or because he has a Bible before him and sometimes reads some Scripture-Text therein And I hear W. Penn did in their Publick Meeting in his Preachment reflect on it saying Christ did not preach out of a Book or to that effect But he might more truly have said Christ nor his Apostles did not preach in or with Periwigs as he c. does And altho' he c. be so offended at G. Keith's reading in the Bible and term it Preaching yet he may read in the 4th of Luke and 16th That as his Custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath Day and stood up to read and there was delivered unto him the Book of Esaias and when he had opened the Book he found the Place where it was written c. Surely he had less need of the Book or opening it than W. P. or his Master Fox either yet he did it altho' these Quakers not only do not follow his Example therein but are offended and revile others for so doing as here shewn but perhaps this Infallible Fallible Spirit of Fox's in W. Penn was as ignorant of this Scripture as he was of the place where our Lord was born But their preferring Fox's Journal or Work before the Bible appears by their fixing it i. e. Fox's Journal in their Publick Meeting and not only W. Penn but several others of them have shewed dislike to G. K.'s using the Bible at Turners-Hall Again Pag. 10. Say they All thy Teachers O England are denied by them who are taught of God O People your Teachers have beguiled you Your Reward will be Vengeance and your Charge will be Murthering Souls The most innocent among you will be found guilty of Innocent Blood G. W. can you be so ingenuous as to exempt Dr. Stillingfleet from these your Scandals And page 101. which they say was sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God to the Priests and Teachers Thus saith the Lord Fox My Controversie is against you of all others and my Judgments shall be on you to the uttermost for you in Hypocrisie c. have exceeded all others Abominably loathsome is your filthiness in preaching for hire c. They go on against the Ministers saying They had made Merchandise of their Peoples Souls Prophaneness is gone forth from you into all Corners of the Earth c. Again You have shut the Kingdom of Heaven against Men to the destruction of Thousands and Ten Thousands And your Prayers have been to your Idol God for all sorts from whom you could receive a Reward Original the Womb of Witchcraft You pray to your dead Gods Deceiving Thousands Whose Blood you are absolutely guilty of Your Rebellion is the Crime of Witchcraft which cannot cease to do Evil for you have bound your selves in the Covenant with Hell My Cup of Indignation is the assured Portion of your Lot and Blood shall you have to drink as your Reward from me My Plagues
are to the Gentiles and to their blasphemous lying Brethren Foxonian Preachers S. Eccles notwithstanding he S. E. was proved such a blasphemous Lyar yet they are so charitable to him that in Antidote c. p. 225. they believe he died in Peace And to G. Whitehead's Brother C. Atkinson that lascivious Blasphemer his Blasphemy against God and Christ say they As to those offensive Words we do not affect the terms neither are they proper to the true Christ But by their Charity to him it may be feared they think them proper enough to our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Person which you term Mean and Contemptible a Vessel a Garment This your Charity to your blasphemous Brethren and your Uncharitableness to the Protestant Minister shews your Zeal nor Charity are not Christian For you say G. G. the Minister was possessed with a Legion of Lying Spirits And of J. Faldoe you say that He and thousands of our dear Countrey-Men were in the Pit of Damnation crying out on the Ministers Such a damnable Sin do these Foxonian Priests make it for any to discover and oppose their Errors But they may blaspheme and deny the Lord if they wâ—ll but Idolize Fox as Solomon Eccles did and they shall dye in Peace with these charitable Foxonians And their Unchristian Spirit further appears in their Excommunicating G. Keith altho' twelve Months after they had acknowledged they had nothing against his Doctrine nor Conversation but they pretended he was Apostatized from the Spirit of Meekness and Charity But he was rather departed from their wrathful uncharitable Spirit against the Protestants and more come into the Spirit of Charity And that which they charge on him as Uncharitable c. was because he testified against their Errors and maintained the Truth altho ' they make other Pretences as that he on some great Provocations in Discourse gave some harsh Names to some of their Erroneous Preachers Now consider all these afore and after of their hell-fetch'd terms and wicked Actions of theirs to the Protestant Ministers Kings c. and all People I say Consider whether all these do not prove them either to be gone from or rather that they never had the Spirit of Meekness and Charity and therefore more justly Excommunicated from the Protestant Society than G. Keith did according to their own Judgment and Practice For let Algier be search'd if all the Runnagadoes there for this hundred years past have so villified and defamed the Protestant Religion and Ministers as these Foxonian Priests have done How can you especially you Governours of the Church of England expect to convert any to your Religion and Church while that and you lye under such foul Scandals so publickly in this and other Nations without contradiction and the chief Actors and Promoters in favour and incouraged in Reprinting these Blasphemies in great Volumes as in E. B. and Fox's wicked Works which may have cost near a thousand pounds and I hear they are Reprinting more of that Blasphemer Fox's to the value of 2000 l. charge and this also doubtless intended to be preserved in the Library at Oxford for a Monument of Infamy to the English Protestant Ministers And in the Title Page they put high Titles of the Authors and term them worthy Prophet true Prophet and Servant and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God an Ambassador by special Authority and special Commission from Christ and say they of the wicked Author Generations which have not yet a Being shall count thee blessed because of the want the Inheritance of the Lord hath of thee my Substance is almost dissolved but you have taken care his wicked Works shall not be wanted Again say they of him The first Fruits unto God since the Apostacy endowed with the Almighty Power of God which Lived and Reigned in him By his Fruits herein produc'd you may judge what Power and Spirit they Foxonians be ruled by which they term Christ It ought to strike Terror and Amazement in all Protestants to consider how they exalt themselves and defame the Protestant Ministers and say At the desire of many Friends that the Labor and Works of this valiant Soldier of Christ to continue on Record as Monuments of his Service for the Lords Consider the time of their venting their Fury against the Protestant Ministers and the time of the French King 's dealings with the Protestant Ministers and their Churches there and this is not only the effect of one Man's passion but the premeditated Work of these Foxonian Chief Priests G. Whitehead and W. Penn especially who in his Serious Apology says If the Quakers Expressions against the Ministers had been Ten Thousand times more significant-and sharp against that cursed bitter stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and says he we have nothing for them but Wo's and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations c. and laid them asleep whil'st they have cut their Purses and pickt their Pockets W. Penn is not in jest here but serious and in earnest to confirm maintain and hold up the Ancient Testimony their Truth taught them in the beginning which they now enjoyn their Foxonian Subjects to hold up and maintain in all the parts of it for their Truth changes not say they and therefore W. Penn confirms his Fathers Fox and E. B.'s cursed Envy against the Protestant Ministers for further say they in their Book A Brief Discovery c. The Protestant Ministers they are Conjurers Thieves Witches Devils Lyars Stewards of the Devil's Magazines who go about to Murther the Child Jesus where he is manifest even these bloody Herodians they would devour the Child Jesus c. Hold up a Worm-eaten Beastly Form yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers scarlet-colour'd Beasts selling Beastly-ware they sell the report of others Riches the Letter which is Dust and Death c. Now this cannot be the Paper and Ink as the Quakers now pretend for the Ministers do not as they say sell that but it 's the Doctrines of Scripture they thus condemn for as afore they say the report of other Mens Riches Now the Paper and Ink is not the report but the Doctrine or Matter signifi'd by the Letters wrot in the Paper with the Ink. This shews the now Quakers fallaciousness in their now forged excuses for their Ancient Testimonies of their Truth in the beginning But in this Book they go on and say of the Ministers Possessing nothing but Heathenish stuff c. Really they are Blood-hounds but if they be not to be sure your Foxonian Spirit is hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell still barking and raging like Sodomites c. Wo wo is their Portion and of the upholders of that Treacherous Crew the Protestant Ministers Here is the Judgment passed on all Kings and People by these Quakers and all this and much more such Hellish Envy and Scandal in two leaves besides what 's
converse with the New Testament And they have so intollerably scandalized the English Protestants that it's as they say not fit it should pass without being taken notice of and that by them it more concerns but especially the Ministers they vent their Fury against and set themselves so violently against Tythes because they thought them a great Support to the Protestant Ministers and a likely Argument to prevail with the vulgar covetous luke-warm and poor People which are a great Party in the Nation considered as incouraged by these Quakers who have printed so many of their envious and wrathful Doctrines against the Ministers as Prophecies or by the Eternal Spirit c. And they are obliged to drive on the same design for fear they appear as they are proud envious blasphemous Lyars And for further Proof that they have no more if so much kindness for the Episcopal Clergy than for the Dissenters observe what they say Did you not once make a Solemn Covenant with God that you would utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form Did you not spue it up And will you turn again and lick up your own Vomit O do not so do not run wilfully into destruction and before I have shewed you how these Quakers blame them for not keeping the Covenant By the foulness of the Expressions you may judge from whence the Spirit came Also one having commended Bishop Hall's Works the Quaker in contempt replies Thou at last fliest to the muckiest hole of all Was not Bishops voted down and some of them put to Death for the unjust Causes they maintained Therefore be not deceived by their present Flatteries For the Protestant Religion and Ministers are no better now but as bad Sorcerers and false Prophets and Teachers of Lasciviousness with them now as then and the Magistrates as much in fault now with G. Whitehead c. for upholding them as then Now G. W. thou said'st to J. P. because he shewed justly deserved contempt to some of your seditious Pamphlets that he was instigated by the Devil but who but he instigated Thee and W. Penn c. thus to vilifie the Protestant Ministers as you have and to be so arrogant as to threaten the Magistrates and accuse them for abusing their Power for as you say either the Spirit of Christ or that of the Devil leads Men. Therefore all these your Blasphemies and Treasons and seditious Practices and Doctrines herein mention'd be some part of your Ancient Truth 's Testimony which it taught you in the beginning or of Error Now if it be not the Testimony of the Spirit of Truth then they ought to be by you disowned and you were not lead by the Spirit of Christ in reprinting them and so blasphemously exalt the wicked Authors but by that of the Devil by your own Doctrine and in case you do not disown them it 's a plain proof you do hold them as your Ancient Testimonies which your Truth taught you in the Beginning and so are by your last years White-hart-court Conclave of Foxonian Cardinals G. W. c. enjoyned your Subjects to maintain and hold up for say you Truth changes not but that you do own them appears by your squinting general Answers and Acknowledgments you now make to deceive the Government with for should you answer'd plainly yea or nay to the two Queries in the Snake in the Grass then you had either discovered your Errors or else contradicted your Ancient Testimonies But now if you have any honesty and plainness to which you so highly pretend make known which of these many printed Ancient Testimonies of yours you do disown for so many of them as you do not disown as you did D. S.'s Answer to F. B. your are justly chargeable with as them you enjoyn your Subjects to maintain and hold up as your Ancient Testimonies for your silence herein will be taken as consent Now as I have shewn you some of these Quakers rage and of their envy against the Protestant Ministers I will also give you some Reasons they give to prove the Protestants Apostates c. which I think includes themselves as well as others in E. B.'s Works page 835. say they All you who are divided in your Knowledge and Judgment about the matters pertaining to God's Kingdom you are Apostate Christians and you never yet received the Spirit of Christ mark that and that is the Reason of all your Divisions in Religious matters c. Page 838. As Christians are brought again to receive the Spirit of Christ and walk therein all Strife and Division about Religion will cease c. And other Marks of false Ministers be They have a place they call Church and observe one day in a week to worship and a few hours in that day and an Hour-glass Now if the Quakers be found to have Strife and Divisions about Religion then by their own Judgment they are condemned as not to have yet received the Spirit of Christ But then by what Spirit they have been moved and whose Ministers and Embassadors they have been judge That they have had Divisions among them early is proved by the Difference between G. Fox and his Party and J. Nailor and his Party also that of G. Fox and his Party with J. Perrot and his Party and that Difference between Fox and his Party and J. Story and J. Wilkinson and their Party in the North and West as also that between the now Foxonians and G. Keith and his Party in Pensilvania besides many more I could mention as Reading c. as abundance of printed Books on both sides proves especially W. R's Eight Parts of the Christian Quakers c. And his second Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apostate Quaker c. And whereas G. W. c. terms G. K. Apostate G. W. is there made to be one himself and Judgments Signed by many on both sides one against another I will give you some passages out of two Letters for proof of their Religious Difference besides what is in print in hundreds of Books one Quaker of Fox's Party Several Papers have come from J. N. since his being in Prison I hearing and seeing to be justified by several that what is there writ came from the Spirit of God and that they are witnesses of the same with him I knowing the contrary writes as follows A Parable about a Tree is made and six Persons named The fruitless Tree says he that cumbers the ground in J. N. is the Root Let his Papers cease to go abroad for more may be deceived by him than the others his being secretly covered with words of truth to cover lyes c. Another Quaker of J. N.'s Party contrary to this afore says One morning being awake in my Bed the word of the Lord spake to me thus go to G. R.'s and speak for James and finding that which is Eternal moving me I went after some time one laid a Paper before me pressing me to read it but finding
verses of the 10 th Chapter of the Romans altho' they thousands of times use the foregoing words yet I remember not that ever I heard them mentioned in any Quakers Meeting before G. Keith did since his last coming into England nor in any of their Books nor remembred I that there was such Expressions in Scripture so Ear-boar'd as other be was I to them Let them produce these aforementioned Scriptures used by S. C. or any of their printed Sermons or Books as to the intended service of them in Scripture I will undertake to produce a hundred if not a thousand times for one of their using them other Let this be the touch-stone and for their undervaluing Scripture I can give hundreds of more contempts of theirs These their contempts of our Lord's Person Blood and Sufferings and exalting their own These Foxonian Quakers will not disown but underhand have approved and confirmed them and enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and hold them up for these be their Ancient Testimonies that their Truth taught them in the beginning and they say it changes not so it seems by their so justifying and excusing those Blasphemous fierce Despisers the Authors and their wicked Works But for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is an evil one appears in the case of J. Gilpin who relates how he was deluded to Blaspheme c. And after it pleased God he was sensible and acknowledg'd his Delusion by neglect of Hearing Reading and Prayer c. and harken only to a Voice within me says J. Gilpin because what was spoken by it was seconded by lying Wonders c. This Voice he says led him to a Fidlers Door where he knocked and sald Behold Christ stands at the door and knocks J. Audland a Foxonian Preacher who wrot the blasphemous Letter to G. Fex followed him and he says as he went he was moved to proclaim I am the Way the Truth and the Life Again he says my Hand was carried to take up a Knife and carried with it towards my Throat and the Voice said unto me open a hole there and I will give unto thee the Words of Eternal Life Many more prodigious Actions he did by the power of the Voice or Spirit within him and he says many Quakers came to him and bid him harken to the Voice within Now Fox Answers this Book in Great Mystery and in citing them words of Gilpins aforementioned that he confesses his Error by harkening only to a Voice within me says he Now G. Fox in page 298. terms this wicked deluding Spirit or Voice The Voice of God within he saith says Fox he began to consider how he had offended God by his neglect of external means Prayer c. and harken to the Voice of God only within Hereby it 's apparent what Spirit or Voice influenced him Fox even the same wicked one that led Gilpin for he Fox terms that the Voice of God and so proves himself to be one of them who was given over to Delusion to believe a lye and as he Fox so his Followers Whitehead c. are by the same Spirit guided to vindicate and excuse him Also in Cumberland two Women Quakers and Preachers charged their own Sister and her Husband to have murdered and buried their own Child and caused the Man and his Wife to be tryed at an Assizes for it many wicked blasphemous passages there was in the whole Tragedy too long to relate here in the printed Narrative by the Man himself Henry Winder Entituled The Spirit of Quakerism c. worth reading This most murderous and blasphemous Spirit thro' these two Women's Preaching Quakers affirmed this was A message from the Lord by the Revelation of Jesus Christ The whole Tragedy is most Blasphemous and when made publick not disown'd but rather incourag'd by the Quakers in general so fat as I can see by the Narrative and it 's this same wicked Spirit which so defame the Protestant Ministers and which Penn balsphemously calls the Holy Spirit But from these few sad Instances it 's apparent that the Quakers when they mention Jesus Christ do not mean that Man or Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth but a Spirit or Light in them and all Men as their terms of distinction shew They make Jesus Christ to be a Denomination or Title which they give to any Spirit they please as the King doth Titles of Honour Whereas in your Book Rabshekah c. you boast of your Principles as for you as Hearers in charity we may believe you but if you like not these seditious and erronious Ancient Testimonies in Print of your chief Priest why do not you publish against them as against D. S. Until you do so you are chargeable therewith But if you mean by your Principles Fox c. their Ancient Testimonies you are very shameless For that of Fox's in ordering Lords of Mannors Property to be taken away c. But whenever that is put in Execution I advise to begin with his Successor W. Penn's c. and see how they like it for what Right have you to Fines or Quit-Rents more than Lords have here or the several under Propriators of Tythes If you have the Kings Patents or Grants so have they or what 's as equivalent being confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliament more than yours and by them who had as much Original Right as them from whom yours was granted But the Protestant Ministers are as great an Eye-sore to your chief Priests as the Jews were to Haman But why may not they enjoy what is granted and given to them as well as any of you For W. Penn works no more for his Fines or Quit-Rents than many of them do nor so much neither I think But if you say It 's the Compelling you oppose that 's false For as in the Snake in the Grass appears you oppose any freely paying as is manifest by your opposing W. R. As also Unchristian all who pay Tythes as Deniers of Christ and Antichrists so that you are not for Liberty of Conscience but for inforcing of Fox's Laws above the Laws of the Nation as is evident in your so charging and reviling T. C. as a Transgressor But whoever takes House or Lands Tytheable does or may know before-hand it 's under such Duties And whereas your last yearly Paper says Truth is the same and changes not in 1660. you told King Charles you deny'd all outward Fighting for any End or Pretence whatsoever Now either your chief Priests Fox and E. B. c. were of this mind in O. C.'s c. times or else changed Now if not changed but always of the same mind then they G. F. c. failed to complain of some being put out of the Army What should they do there they ought to have voluntarily quitted it Also G. F c. did fail so to encourage Oliver as is before shewn Therefore either they were and be Changed since O. C's time or were Hypocrites if
Hypocrites not to be believed If Changed either your Truth hath changed or they gone from it and so that and you i. e. the Quakers not the same and so may change again as is for your sordid Interest as in the case of the Sloop in Pensilvania Also you are as uncertain and falacious in your main Principle of the Light within as in the case of Fighting In Great Mystery p. 58. you cite one saying To say the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer is Error Again They that say the Light in every Man that condemns of Sin to be Christ the Redeemer have set up an Idol c. To both these Fox answers To the first he says Contrary to John who saith This is the true Light which enlightens every Man Here he corrupts the Scripture And to the Second says he Doth not Christ say I am the Light of thâ—â—â—rd c. Here he doth not disprove what the Mâ—â—â—â—firm'd but squintingly justifies that as Truth which the Man opposes as Error i. e. That the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer and that it 's no Error so to affirm but Truth and that it 's contrary to Scripture to oppose so saying But in another Book intituled A Vindication of Truth c. by J. N. in Answer to the same Man and the same Passage as is Answer'd to in Great Mystery p. 58. In this Vindication c. p. 51. there is many Particulars which the Man as J. N. says charges on the Quakers as their Affirmations of which there you say to the Man Be ashamed of thy Lyes which thou hast cast on us which never entered into our hearts to do nor speak which thou falsly accusest us withal There is twenty one Particulars The Ninth is this say you That we say the Light in every one is Christ the Redeemer Then after the mentioning all the twenty Particulars which the Man charges the Quakers as holding or saying in p. 5â— of your Vindication c. you say Divers more Deceits hast thou made up into Lyes and laid on us as if we said them when it 's thy own wickedness c. Here you may see that to the same Man and Sentance in one Book i. e. The Great Mystery c. what the Man opposes as Error is owned as true and his opposing it made contrary to Scripture And in the other Book i. e. A Vindication c. the same Words or Sentence disown'd Again page 4. There J. N. charges the Man for saying that he said The Light shining in every Man is Christ a thing not wrot nor intended by me Says J. N. again page 8. The Man is charged with a Lye for saying that the Quakers say the Light within every Man is the Word Again page 11. There says J. N. Thou tells thy former lye over again saying I say the Light within every Man is the Spirit of Truth Again says J. N. It 's a lye that I say the Light in every Man is God's Righteousness Perfection c. Again page 12. that a measure of the Eternal Divinity is in every Man by turning to it out of all Sayings Operations Scriptâ—â—â— or Christ without the same doth purge away Siâ—â—â—d redeem unto God All which is thy own wickedness heaped up from thine own lye Again p. 16. says J. N. I do not say the Light in every Man is God's Son c. And in unity with this says G. W. As to Christ's being in every Man that is not our words c. Also in page 27. says J. N. thou tells four horrible lyes on me the second is that J. N. calls the Light within the Eternal Spirit Also in your Book Deceit brought to Day light c. You charge the Man with many lyes one is his saying that you hold the Light in every Man is Christ page 5. Also in E. B.'s Works page 298. There E. B. being charged as saying that every Man has the Spirit of Christ in Answer you by way of denyal say I never said nor thought so Now if the Light within every Man be not Christ nor the Spirit of Christ nor of Truth nor the Word nor God's Righteousness nor God's Son nor the Eternal Spirit as afore is shew'd you have in your Ancient Testimonies in print held formerly How then is it Or why did you excommunicate G. Keith as an Heretick for saying The Light within was not sufficient without something else i. e. Christ Jesus Either these aforemention'd denyals in your Ancient Testimonies be the Testimonies of Truth or Error if of Error then you ought to publish against them and the Authors but your not so doing you are chargeable with owning them and so either you and your Truth hath changed or contradict your selves For afore I have shewn that in your Great Mystery you contradict what you say in your Books A Vindication c. and Deceit brought to Day Light c. In one passage your Books do contradict each other one owning the same the other denies as also in your excommunicating G. Keith as an Heretick for asserting the same as some of your own Ancient Testimonies do Also whereas here afore I shewed you deny every Man to have the Spirit of Christ yet in Great Mystery c. p. 9. to the same Person who denies that every Man has the Spirit of Christ and charges you with an Error for so saying yet you charge him with it as an Error to deny every Man has the Spirit of Christ and in contradiction thereto you Answer John said Every Man is enlightened c. And the Spirit of Truth he shall reprove the World of Sin c. Mark say you All People here is Saints here is Disciples here is the World get from under this how thou canst for under Reproof thou art come c. And here are all Men says Fox to the same Person and words or Sentence In Great Mystery you oppose him for saying every Man has not the Spirit of Christ and yet in E. B.'s Works you term him lying Tongue for charging you as saying Every Man has the Spirit of Christ and say You never said nor thought so Why sure if as in Great Mystery you imply they have it then you ought to think and believe so And J. Bunyan says Every Man as he comes into the World receives a Light from Christ as he is God which is Conscience which some call Christ tho' falsly This will shew a Man there is a God c. This you answer by way of Denial in E. B.'s Works p. 143. I do deny them i. e. who call the Light Christ and thee if thou hast not made a Lye of some body Now in Great Mystery p. 208. to the same Sentence in your Answer there you say Christ saith I am the Light of the World c. and doth not say its Conscience you have given Christ a New Name that calls him Conscience Will Conscience blot out Sin Christ