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

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