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A27230	A brief discovery of some of the blasphemous and seditious principles and practices of the people called Quakers taken out of their most noted and approved authors, humbly offered to the consideration of the King and both houses of Parliament / by Edward Beckham ... Hen. Meriton ... Lancaster Topcliffe ..., Norfolk.	Beckham, Edward, 1637 or 8-1714.; Meriton, Henry, d. 1707.; Topcliffe, Lancaster, 1646 or 7-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1652; ESTC R18109	27,538	34

given to the Priests be given to the Poor And let all the great Houses Abbies Steeple-Houses and Whitehall be for Alms-Houses for all the Blind and Lame to be there ' c. And they are of the same Principles still they tell you so as in the Conclusion you will see it proved from their late Writings Again in their Book stiled These several Papers sent to the Parliament the Twentieth of the Fifth Month 1659. Inscrib'd by above Seven Thousand Quakers there is these Passages p. 63. ' Sell all the Gleab-Lands and the Bells except One in a Town or Two in a City to give Notice of Fire And all the late King's Parks and his Rents and the Abbies and deny your selves of his i. e. King 's Parks Houses and Rents So let them be sold and the Colledges sold For we Declare with our Hands and with our Lives and Estates against the Ministry that take Tythes and the Setters of them up and the first Authors of them and the Laws that Upholds them ' c. And they are the same still they have not Deviated from their Old Principles as they themselves say only they think it Prudent otherwise to word the Matter as afterwards you 'l hear And House of Commons Geo. Fox Junior in his Works Reprinted 1665. p. 87 88. Intitles his Epistle ' A few Plain Words to be Considered by those of the Army or others that would have a Parliament Chosen by the Voices of the People c. Wheren is shewed unto them according to the Scriptures of Truth That a Parliament so Chosen are not like to govern for God or the good of his People Consider these things says he which I Declare unto you which in waiting upon the Lord he by his Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding Opened in me concerning the Chusing of Parliaments by the Voices of the People ' And p. 89. he says ' You are not like to see your desires fulfilled by a Parliament Chosen by the Voices of the People Now if you believe these Scriptures Joh. 15.19 Math. 7.13 Rom. 9.27 then may you see That a Parliament that is Chosen by most Voices are not like to act for God and the good of his People ' And p. 91. ' And likewise the Chusing of Parliament Men according to the Custom of England which is called its Birth-right stands in respect of Persons and not in Equality for the Rich Covetous Oppressing Men who Oppress the Poor they have the only Power to Chuse Law-makers and they will Chuse to be sure such as will uphold them in their Oppression ' And p. 92 93. ' And we see the People have been in great Blindness in contending for Parliaments so Chosen ' Pag. 149. ' Again it is God's proper right to give Laws unto Man Now in this particular also Man have set himself in the Seat of God and so have Dishonoured the one Law-giver by setting up many Law-givers ' Pag. 150. ' Now Mark and Consider these things seeing that the Righteous are fewer in Number than the Unrighteous and that the Law-makers are Chosen by the most Voices and that of the Richest People outwardly how are the Righteous like to be preserved in outward Freedom by the Laws that are so made ' Pag. 159. ' And I must deal plainly with you saith he in the sight of God who hath made me a PROPHET TO THIS NATION ' Again Edw. Burroughs in his Works p. 522. 'A Running to the Powers of the Earth What have you Ministers lost the Lord to be your Strength that you must flee for help to Men Must they make Laws to Establish you and Set you Up Is not this the Whore that Rode upon the Beast and that the Beast Carried ' Again p. 524. to the Parliament thus viz. ' You do but cause people to drink of the Whores Cup and you are but them i. e. Beast which Carry the Whore viz. the False Church And this is plain dealing to tell you the Truth for we are Gathered up into the Life which the Holy Men of God Lived in and are fallen from the World and its Ways and Nature ' p. 50. ' For even the FATHER bears Witness of us and therefore our Witness is True ' Against Judges Justices and Constables News coming up c. Geo. Fox p. 18. ' Dreadful is the Lord and Powerful who is coming in his Power to Execute true Judgment upon all you Judges and to Change all your Laws ye Kings and all you Rulers must down and cease And all you Underling-Officers which have been as the Arms of this great Tree which the Fowls have lodged under All your Branches must be CUT down for you have been all the Fruitless Branches grown on the Fruitless Tree ' Pag. 20. ' Sing all ye Saints and Rejoice Clap your Hands and be Glad for the Lord Jehovah will Reign and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be Cut down and Jesus Christ in us will Rule alone So you must be Cut down with the same Power ' p. 19. ' that Cut down the King that Reigned over the Nation ' And in Edw. Bur. Works Printed 1659. and Reprinted in 1672. and Recommended by the same Geo. Fox Fran. Howgil Geo. Whitehead Jos Coale c. p. 501. he saith ' We stand Witnesses against Parliaments Councils Judges Justices who Make or Execute Laws in their Will over the Consciences of Men or Punish for Conscience sake And to such Laws Customs Courts or Arbitrary Usurped Dominion WE cannot yield OUR Obedience ' c. Against Lawyers Again Geo. Fox to the Parliament of the Common-Wealth of England c. saith p. 5. ' Away with Capmen and Coifmen as they are called away with all those Counsellers that will not tell Men the Law without Ten Shillings Twenty Shillings or Thirty Shillings And away with those Lawyers Twenty Shillings Counsellers Thirty Shillings Serjeants Ten-Groats Attorneys ' Against Lords of Manours Again p. 8. ibid. ' Let all those Fines that belong to Lords of Manours be given to Poor People for Lords have enough ' 10. Which Government that they might not Support they Declare against the Use of the Carnal Weapon in 1660. A Declaration from the People of God called Quakers against all Plotters and Fighters c. presented to King Charles II. 1660. ' All Bloody Principles and Practices We as to our own Particulars do utterly Deny with all outward WARS and Strife and Fightings with outward WEAPONS for any end or under any pretence whatsoever And this is our Testimony to the whole World And we do certainly Know and so Testisie to the World that the Spirit of Christ which leads us into all Truth will never move us to Fight and WAR against any Man with outward Weapons either for the Kingdom of Christ nor for the Kingdom of this World ' c. Subscribed by Geo. Fox Sam.

A Brief DISCOVERY Of SOME of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices Of the People Called QUAKERS Taken out of their Most Noted and Approved Authors Humbly Offered to the Consideration of the KING and both Houses of PARLIAMENT BY Edward Beekham D.D. and Rector of Gayten-Thorpe Hen. Meriton Rector of Oxborow Lancaster Topcliffe L.B. sometimes Sen. Fell. of Gon. Caius Coll. Cambr. NORFOLK LONDON Printed for John Harris at the Harrow in Little-Britain MDCXCIX A Brief DISCOVERY of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers 1. The Quakers teach That the Light within by which they are guided is not Conscience GEO. FOX the first Founder and great Apostle of this Sect Gr. Myst p. 209. saith against his Opponent thus ' This Light that doth Enlighten every one that cometh into the World which he calls Conscience is not Conscience ' And in p. 331. he further saith ' The Light which every one that cometh into the World is Enlightened withal is not Conscience for the Light was before any thing was made or Conscience named ' But the True Eternal God and Christ And G. F. Jun. in his Works Reprinted 1665. p. 50. ' I the Light will fall upon you and Grinde you to Powder All who will not own me the Light in you And I will make you know That I the Light am the True Eternal God which Created all things and that by me the Light all things are upheld and that there is not another besides me that can Save ' In Geo. Fox's Book styled The Pearl found in England for the Scattered ones in Foreign Nations the Royal Seed of God and Heirs of Salvation called Quakers who are the Church of the Living God per G. F. Printed 1658. where speaking in the Person of the Quakers Light he hath these Passages p. 15 16. ' I 'll break in Pieces I 'll make Nations like Dirt I 'll tread them into Mire I 'll make Religions Professions and Teachings Gatherings on Heaps Gatherings of Multitudes Gatherings which they call Churches I 'll make Mire of them I 'll make Mortar I 'll make Dirt of them The wrath of the Lamb is Risen upon all Apostates who are gathered in the Apostacy Apostatized from the Prophets Life the Apostles Life the Life of the Lamb The Lamb is Risen The Scepter is gone out The Throne is Set You shall be Shaken ye Diviners ye Dreamers ye Notionists I 'll Whirl you under Hailstones Viols Plagues Thunders Woes Judgments are come amongst you upon your Heads all Nations The pure Life of God is Risen From the Life of my Apostles of my Prophets have ye been all Scattered and Apostatized But the Rod i. e. our Light is over you which must Rule all Nations Trumpets sounding and Sounded the Just will Rule The Lamb will have the Victory Woes Woes and Miseries are out-going upon all the Heads of the Wicked What our Hands have handled and what our Eyes have seen what was from the Beginning the Word of Life this Declare we unto you ' Again G. Fox in his Book stiled The Teachers of the World unvailed c. who in p. 27. thus saith ' I am the Light of the World HIM by whom the World was made If you love the Light with which you are Enlightened withal you love Christ who saith Learn of me But if you hate that Light there is your Condemnation From HIM who is one with the Truth in every Man Who of the Lord WAS moved THIS to WRITE Whos 's Name of the World is called Geo. Fox ' And to this another of their Eminent Teachers one of their Prophets say Amen in his Book The Quakers Challenge c. Printed 1668. in these Words p. 6. ' Stand up Muggleton the Sorcerer whose Mouth is full of Cursing Lies and Blasphemy who calls thy last Book A Looking-Glass for GEO. FOX whose Name thou art not worthy to take into thy Mouth who is a PROPHET indeed and hath been Faithful in the Lord's Business from the beginning It was said of Christ That he was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not SO it may be said of THIS true Prophet Geo. Fox whom John said he was not But thou wilt feel this Prophet G. Fox one Day as heavy as a Milstone upon thee And although the World knows him not yet he is known ' And pag. 2 3. ' Come Protestants Presbyters Independents and Baptists the Quakers denies you all The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they ' c. Now from such Protestants as these Good Lord deliver us notwithstanding their now Wording the Matter otherwise whilst they mean the same thing and their Principles the same that ever they were as they themselves say and that in every part of which here is but a Specimen Edward Burroughs stiled a Son of Thunder and Consolation a true Prophet and faithful Servant of God in his Works Reprinted 1672. p. 149. has an Answer to this Question ' Is that very Man with that very Body within you Yea or Nay ' He saith ' The very Christ of God is within us we dare not deny him ' 2. That they are one Soul with God G. F. Great Myst p. 91. ' They shall see the Bishop of their Souls Christ the Power of God which is Immortal brings the Immortal Soul into the Immortal God Christ their Sanctification who sanctifies their Spirits and Bodies and brings the Soul up into God from whence it came whereby they came to be one Soul ' p. 100. ' And is not that which came out from God which God hath in his Hand speaking of the Soul taken up into God again which Christ the power of God is Bishop of is not this of God's Being ' That their Soul is part of God Idem p. 273. The Priest says ' That it is Horrid Blasphemy to say the Soul is part of God ' G. F. Answers ' It is not Horrid Blasphemy to say the Soul is a part of God for it came out of him and that which came out of him is of him and rejoiceth in him ' And p. 100. ' God who hath all Souls in his Hand and is not this that cometh out from God which is in God's Hand part of God ' That it is Infinite in it self without Beginning or Ending Pag. 90. ' Is not the Soul without beginning coming from God And Christ the power of God the Bishop of the Soul which brings it up into God which came out from him Hath this a Beginning or Ending And is not this infinite in it self and more than all the World ' They make themselves Equal with God G. F. Saul's Errand to Damascus Printed 1654. p. 8. ' He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is Equal with God ' Fr. Howgil's Works Printed 1676. p. 232. saith to his Opponent ' The first thing

be there as Cyphers And yet further it is sufficiently known the way that they take either by Perswasions or Terrifications to gain the Universal and Unanimous Consent of them called Commissioners or Chosen Members from every County as doth plainly appear by the late most Absurd and Insolent Method more like the Spanish Inquisition than a Free Assembly of sincere Christians they did take a Preacher one of their Commissioners or Chosen Members who having said in Private out of the Meeting He could sooner Die or lose his Right Hand than Sign to a Paper Disowning G. K. which coming to their Intelligence that there was such a Person but not knowing who he was they were so earnest to find him out that they caused to call over the Roll or List of the Names of the Persons sent from the respective Counties to find out this Person asking them one by one to find him out And the poor Man not daring to Lye owned he was the Person and being Terrified lest he should be severely Proceeded against by them he came with some others to be Witnesses of his Recantation and disowned to me what he had formerly said tho' a few Hours before he profess'd so great a Concern and Tenderness of Conscience towards me This Passage is so Considerable an Advance towards the Erecting the Spanish Inquisition among the Quakers that I hope some will be awakened to take notice of it and withstand it ' And tho' the King and Parliament were so Gracious as to include the Quakers in the Act made primo Gulielmi Mariae For Exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects Dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalty of certain Laws c. wherein it is Expressed That nothing herein contained shall be Construed to Exempt any of the Persons aforesaid from paying of Tythes or other Parochial Duties or any other Duties to the Church or Minister Yet notwithstanding the Quakers in their Yearly Epistle sent forth from their Yearly Meeting held in London the Fifth Sixth Seventh and Eighth Days of the Fourth Month 1693. to the Monthly and Quarterly Meeting of Friends in England Wales and elsewhere thought fit to Order ' That all Due and Godly Care be taken as they word it against the Grand Oppression and Anti-Christian Yoke of Tythes that our Christian Testimony ' say they born and greatly Suffered for be faithfully Maintained against them in all respects and against Steeple-Houses Rates or Lays And in the fore Cited Testimony from the Brethren met together in the Third Month 1666. they take Care to Stifle and Suppress what they can all Books wrote against them Ordering thus ' That if any Man or Woman which are out of the Unity with the Body of the Friends Print or cause to be Printed or Published in Writing any thing which is not of Service for the Truth but tends to the Scandalizing and Reproaching of faithful Friends or to beget or uphold Division and Faction then we do Warn and Charge all Friends that do love Truth as they desire it may Prosper and be kept clear to beware and take heed of having any Hand in Printing Republishing or Spreading such Books or Writings And if at any time such Books be sent to any of you that Sell Books in the Countrey after that you with the Advice of Good and Serious Friends have Tried them and find them Faulty to send them back again whence they came And we further desire from time to time Faithful and Sound Friends may have the View of such things as are Printed upon Truth 's Account as formerly it hath used to be before they go to the Press that nothing but what is Sound and Savory and that may answer the Witness of God even in our Adversaries may be exposed to Publick View ' They have also a Six Weeks Meeting Which Meeting is one of the most Ancient Meetings for Government made up of Chosen Men amongst them expert in the Laws and Customs of the Nation well skilled in the Courts of London and Westminster and other His Majesties Courts of Record and such as understand the way and manner of Soliciting the Parliament And to support them in all these things they have the Common Bank to assist them F. B. Pilg. Prog. p. 65. ch 10. 12. They have also a Register of their Sufferings which have been inflicted for their Breach of the Laws thereby to render the Governors Government odious for Persecution to Posterity And do threaten in After-ages to publish the same when the reasons of the things and matters of Fact may be forgotten In their fore-cited Yearly Epistle from their Yearly Meeting held 1693. they Ordered ' That Friends at all their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings should be reminded to call for the Records of the Sufferings of Friends to see that they be duly Gathered truly Entred and Kept and accordingly sent up to London as hath been often advised both of what Tythes c. are pretended to be due and for how long a time and the time when taken and by and for whom And what Goods are taken and the Value thereof as well of those not exceeding as those exceeding the Sums or Quantities demanded it being a Suffering in both for Truth 's sake they being in these particulars found Defective and Imperfect in divers Countries which is an Obstruction to the General Record of Friends Sufferings And therefore the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings are advised to take more Care for the future that all Friends Sufferings for the Truth 's sake may be brought up as Full and Compleat in all respects as possible may be ' The Author of Sathan Disrobed Printed 1698. p. 82. Informs us that in this Register there are many Groundless and many downright Falshoods which it is very fit the World should know because they take great Care to swell this Register and have threatened to publish it to After-ages when the Facts cannot be Disproved whereby they hope to make their Suff rings for the Truth as they call it to exceed all the Ten Persecutions and to be more Undeserved than the Sufferings of Christ himself or of the Apostles as Edw. Burr their Second Piller next to Geo. Fox express'd in his Works p. 273. ' The Sufferings of the People of God that is Quakers in this Age is greater Suffering and more Vnjust than in the Days of Christ or of the Apostles or in any time since What was done to Christ or the Apostles was chiefly done by a Law and in great part by the DUE Execution of a Law ' c. And p. 85. saith he It is here worth Notice That the first Difference betwixt Mr. Pennyman who was a Quaker about Twenty Years and the Quakers was the False Returns of their Collections from the several Counties in England of the Sufferings of the Friends and Entring them tho' proved to be False in their General Register of Sufferings at London For this they to quiet Mr.

just that any should Charge them Condemn and Consure them 2 dly They exhort To do to others as they would that others should do to them 3 dly p. 5. We say they pray for all Men for Kings and all that are in Authority 4 thly p. 7. We say the Quakers have and always had a high Value for the Scriptures above all other Book● 5 thly p. 1. They i. e. Clergy Incense those in Authority against this Innocent People i. e. Quakers that the Monster of Persecution might be again raised to Suppress them c. Ans As to the First Would the Clergy account it just to Charge and Condemn them c. Just or unjust they are both Charged and Condemned at the Quakers Bar as above quoted yea and in Smith's Works p. 157 161. the Quakers Dialogu'd the Bishops and summon'd all Ecclesiastical Courts and Officers and not only by their Authority Condemn them but call the Bishops Monsters and into the Bargain say The Book of Common-Prayer is conceived by an Adulterous Womb and that it receives its Strength from the Pope's Loins And 2 dly That therein you Quakers do not do as you would be done by and therein gross Hypocrites and Dissemblers with God and Man But 3 dly your Pretence to pray for all Men for Kings c. This is so False and Falacious that I challenge the whole World to produce one Instance of your praying for King William or any King save once at a Meeting at Milden-Hall where Sam. Cater prayed for the late K. J. II. and how should you be found in that Practice since all Kings with you are but Spiritual Egyptians by your Ancient Testimony from which you have not deviated in one Point But your Principles the same they ever were tho' as Whitehead says You can now word the Matter otherwise 4thly That you value the Scriptures above any Books in the World This is false with a witness when you in Print tell us We may as well burn the Bible as your Writings see p. 9. herein calling the Scriptures Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware and that Preaching out of them is Conjuration And G. Whitehead tells us in his Book Truth defending the Quakers c. p. 7. That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of greater Authority than the Bible And many of your Books nay even that are said to be given forth from the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost and spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. How then do you value the Bible above all Books in the World But as Solomon said Prov. 26.3 A Whip for the Horse a Bridle for the Ass and a Rod for the Fools Back and so you must give me leave to whip this John Feild for his deep Hypocrisie and Deceit and I wish it may do him Good What! to pretend that the Quak●rs value the Bible above all Books then consequently above their own This is such a Lie that it stabs it self when you exalt and value your own as of greater Authority and are commanded by your Teachers to read them in your Meetings and never read a Chapter of the Old and New Testament in your Religious Meetings if such I may call them since you were a People neither is it agreeable to your Ancient Testimony Nay I am perswaded that should the Government think fit for a Proof of your Sincerity herein to injoin you to read a Chapter of the Bible at the beginning of your Meeting I mean by such of your Teachers as can read a Chapter you would be so far from submitting to Authority that they 'd first go to Jayl and then call it Persecution and record it to Posterity But would it therefore ever the more be Persecution I trow not since it was the Practice of Jewish as well as the Christian Church in all Ages of the World But 5 thly and lastly That the Petitioners would Incense these in Authority to raise that Monster Persecution upon you Now tho' I do profess my self a Member of the Church of England I have often and do now again tell you that I am against Persecution and will add that Persecution for the Name of Jesus or for Righteousness sake is a Badge of a false Church of which your Schism in Pensilvania has given a Demonstration And had you Power in your Hand which God grant you may not I doubt not but we should soon feel your little Finger as heavy as ever you felt a Parliaments Loins Witness your Indicting me for Printing unlicenced your own frequent Practice at that time and your Persecuting of G. Keith c. in Pensilvania but I hope all Suffering is not Persecution Shall Men fire House and poyson Rivers and not be Controuled Limited nay Punished if they will follow their own Light blind Zeal and Imaginations In like manner such as poyson the Streams of the Christian Religion subvert the Faith undermine Christianity broach and maintain Heretical Opinions and Damnable Errors even denying the Lord that bought them as you have in Print which I take to be a Fundamental Error and by me proved upon you I hope then it will not be raising Persecution to have you examined about these things which is the main thing you fear whilst you make the World believe you fear Persecution Thus referring J●… F●ild to my former Books I subscribe my self the Quakers Friend tho' I tell them the Truth Francis Bugg Feb. 18. 1698. FINIS