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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40262	The spirit of envy, lying, and persecution made manifest for the sake of the simple hearted, that they may not be deceived by it : being an answer to a scandalous paper of John Harwoods, who in words professeth God, but in his works doth deny Him, as may appear by what is herein written / G.F.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing F1916A; ESTC R28399	15,012	20

dost thou talk of Israel and Saints and meekness and love when thou art in thy lyes and slanders and false reports and uncleannesses but thou and such as thou art hast cast off meekness and trampled upon love and cast away pitty whose fruits declare thy prophaneness for G. F's spirit hath shewed the restoring the lost sheep of Israel but such spirits as thine and yours have driven many back to the world with your fierceness in the devouring nature and as for thy denying G. F's authority and others thou sayest which is like thy self they should have set down their hands to a paper that they might have come to light thy denying is nothing worth for when thou wentest in to the adulterous spirit and into the uncleannesse who never was redeemed out of it but gets it in the hypocrisie what thou professes of God but denyed by the power and life and so thy testimony is dead and thy works for the fire and the power which I have received is from the Lord and not usurped by which I deny all unclean spirits and actions and the power that I am in is owned with the Spirit of God in every man and this is to satisfie all people of your testimony because I judge thy uncleannesse and unclean spirit and unclean actions and then they will cry they have no great honour of thee neither the Lord nor his People nor sober men and G.F. never struck at the life of God but always struck at the unclean spirits and thy unclean actions nay there are other things that I judge besides the Hat thy nasty dirty paper which is a shame to modesty to mention And I. P's hath sufficiently manifested it self and the end of it where it is run and his paper which is not for modesty to mention forth in writing and we know what life he had the fruits of it hath manifested it self discovered and these thou calls vertuous but is one of the seven sins which Solomon speaks of for that which is excellent and vertuous and glorious G.F. always loved and self honour he alwayes denyed there are thousands in the life can witnesse it but thy self honour which thou and others seeks and speaks of so much and the spirit of Saul is entred into many of you and a worse and G.F. is in the Spirit of God the Seed that never fell nor changeth and all your Briars and Thorns and slanders and scandals and lying reports the Seed that he is in and of was before they were and will stand when they are gone and he is in his strength and the glory of the Lord by which the Lord hath cloathed him withall and his eye is opened and his ear is opened and all who hear God and fear God their ears and eyes are over your lying tales and wonders And when thou hast raked up all thy lyes together thou saist this is a true and faithful Testimony which is as false as can be and G.F. sought to preserve the life in I. P. but that thou and he kicked against it and surely I.P. may be ashamed of thee he is sad and grosse indeed if he set up thee to be his Factor For did not he pretend to go to preach the Gospel at Barbadoes and did not he go into the earth And the son and the heir G.F. ever owned but immodesty and undiscreetnesse his soul and heart and mind and spirit was ever against and denyed self-interest and the glory that fades who exalteth the Lord and the Lord of Life and Glory is risen which comprehendeth all such dirty spirits as thine is and the zeal of the Lord shines over them and will stain all your glory of your fleshly spirits and utterly overturn them for the Lords Government is set up and the Heavenly Authority over you all in the hearts and consciences of his people and such spirits as thine are cannot bring them into traditions nor into the beggarly and outward rudiments And is not you that exalts both Hat and Man and his outward traditions that is thy exalting and so justifie thy own unclean actions in Essex which are not fit to be mentioned Who neither thee nor thy practises which are so bad nor hardly fit to be mentioned who by the Truth and the Spirit of the Lord God are judged for ever out of the Assembly of the Righteous but this is written that no simple ones might take thy lyes and slanders for truth and for tru●hs sake who art unfit to be taken notice of for Truth clears it selfe and the Seed is over all what any can speak against it And it seems there are some others thou hast with thee that watches for evil and goes from the spiritual food and are watching for evil to feed upon but they have got none here but hast invented much thou hast for them to seed upon and thou hast no true guide in thee no● these that holds thee up nor testimony of God nor power to call thy self to account for thy actions who hath sold thy self to work wickednesse which all will fall upon thy own head and there are no friends in the truth of God will give any credit to thee in what thou writes or speaks that are modest o● are in the wisdome of God And as for Gilbert Laity and Gerrard Roberts and John Bolton they are men of more moderation and gravity and vertue and fidelity as seeing thy practice knowing thy spirit and conversation and if they see any of thy papers they are able to judge of them without any further examination or tryal as knowing what an evil person thou hast been of an evill life and conversation And Gerrard Roberts sayes he knows nothing of it though this paper was answered long agoe to that what I had of it most of thy lyes and slanders before thou published it in print who by this thinks to vilisie with thy slanders and lyes but this is but to manifest thy self and to sink thee more into the pit of darkness for truth is over thy head and all these things and clears it self and the Seed reigns Christ ever was of which I am in the one Light before the world began and doth not matter what any slanderous spirit can say or do of me And all Friends Keep your habitation in the Seed of God before these things was for lying slanderous unclean spirits I do and ever did judge and can do no otherwise I have unity with none of them take them who will for that I ever denyed them and do and shall have a witness in every mans conscience that is pure and in the day of their downfall and condemnation of the lyar and the slanderer and false accuser And a great deal of lyes and slanders are in thy paper which are not worth the mentioning nor writing over which the Seed runs over them all for though there be Judases and false Brethren and such as causes the truth to be evil spoken of and

seeks to sow discord amongst Brethren and to cast slanders and false reports and lyes to vilifie the righteous the innocent and the pure and the spotless whose garments are pure and clear and lives an undefiled life This is no new thing to see such appear now for they were of old for condemnation and so it stands upon them though they rise up against the righteous and mount up to Heaven among the Stars and so fall down to the earth into Hell this condemnation of them was ordained of old The Light is gone over them in which is our fellowship G. F. Dear Friends THE Life and Power of God in which ye are raised and by which ye are nourished and refreshed is the 〈◊〉 Foundation which shall never be rased our for it is laid of God and no man can lay another and ye that feel the Life and Power of God in your selves ye feel Christ the Salvation Righteousnesse and Wisdome of God and so ye by the power of God are kept and preserved in sincerity and integrity to God and thereby comes to be established upon the Rock which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against nor all the fiery darts of the wicked touch and in the Power of God ye being gathered and established ye stand and live in that which scatters the clouds and keeps your eye clear to the Lord God by which Power ye see in a good understanding through all the spirits and powers which worketh in the darknesse and by the Power are preserved out of the● and set above them where ye reign as Kings in the immortal Seed of God by which the Serpents head is broken and his Seed destroyed and this is the true freedome in the Son who dyed and suffered and is risen again in life and brought Life and Immortality to light in which Life and Light ye are the children of the most High God and heirs of the everlasting Kingdome of God where ye have a sure portion in the Joy and Peace and Blessing of God in which sit ye down and keep your habitation and the God of life and peace and endless love be with you all and cloath you with the Garment of everlasting praise that in all things ye may give him the Glory who lives for evermore And Dear Friends Be ye all watchful in the Light by which ye were and are convinced for the Times are perilous Times yea and that amongst such as professe to one Truth and by declaration speak the same words and such there are crept in amongst Friends in the truth who by fair words and seeming appearances seeks to subvert the simple minded and to beguile the unstable souls and so would beget a dislike in the hearts of Friends against such as Godhath raised and exalted in his heavenly Power Life and Wisdome and such Papers there are in Print which are published by John Harwood against G.F. wherein he hath slanderously reported of him and falsly accused him and if any such papers come amongst you or that ye may hear a report of them let not your minds be hasty to believe that what is so reported is truth but weigh the matter in the savoury life and you will feel that it came from a very bad spirit and not worthy of any acceptation amongst Friends that live in the savour of truth but is to be judged condemn●d and cast out And all that live in the truth and the savour of it will find a sufficient answer in themselves by which they may receive their satisfaction And this is signified unto Friends that no lyes nor slanderous reports may rest upon the truth nor remain upon the innocency of Gods anoynted but with the true spirit of Judgment they may all be cleansed out from amongst the heritage of God And Friends All that abides in the truth doth certainly know that G.F. was raised by the mighty power of God and hath not preached himself but Christ Jesus the Lord and himself a Servant for Jesus sake he is a living witness of the Resurrection of the Just not handling the Word of God deceitfully nor using flattering speech at any time but in simplicity and godly sincerity he hath spoken in Christ the everlasting Seed and his word hath not been yea and nay but from the beginning his word and his preaching hath been unchangeable and he the same in the truth without any variablenesse and he is grown up in Israel in the mighty power of God and is cloathed with the heavenly wisdome of God where his life is hid from the eyes of his accusers and they that love the truth and abide in it do know that he hath ever been dear and tender over the good in all and hath judged the evil with righteous judgment and though there be many risen which would weaken his testimony as if it was not what it had been yet all that have received his testimony and continue in his doctrine have a more sure evidence concerning his life then to be shaken or moved at the report of false accusers which in the Light is seen to be that spirit which strikes at the Life it self and so would kill and take possession which spirit is to be judged by all Friends in the truth and the souls of such pitied who with it are ensnared for the day of the Lord is to pass upon it and it shall suddenly with●r and perish and come to nought and all that give up their belief unto it and therein doth abide they shall fall as leaves from the Tree when the vertue retires into its Root But as for G.F. the Lord God hath exalted him and the Glory of the Lord rests upon him and all that have received his Testimony in the love of it and the Testimony of such as preaches the same Word and therein doth abide even the same glory in their measures doth rest upon them and a sure defence is stretched over it and the Storms of restless Clouds shall never blast it nor the waves of the troubled Sea slow over it the Lord hath spoken it And this is manifested unto Friends in love to the everlasting truth of God not setting up a man or throwing down a man but in all things giving the power preheminence and in dearness to the Vessel that is filled with the excellency of that treasure and also beating down the Prince of the Power of the Air the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience knowing in the Counsel of the Lord God that whatsoever such spirits pretend to or in what likenesse soever they do appear yet the deceivablenesse of unrighteousness is lodged in the Root And therefore my dear Friends of all such beware and love the word of truth and live in it that in love meekness and peaceableness ye may feel your rest in the bosome of the Lamb and the blessing of the Lord God be upon you for ever William Smith THE END Let this go only among Friends

none but thee and such as thy spirit are to usurp over the Consciences of people and enthrone themselves with thy unclean spirit who hath long burdened the righteous seed But it is risen and will ease it self and shake you off like dust and chaffe and brambles for the fire And whereas thou speakest of Legal Prescriptions and to enjoyn to the performance of external forms and practices This is thy self and I.P. that man thou exalts so which prescriptions and External Forms we judge and therefore ye rage and God hath abased and will abase and your end is seen and manifested and thou goest and pretends to teach others and cannot keep thy self as a man and thou pretends so much peace and love and manifests so much envy as thou utterest in thy paper And thou speaks of G. F. to clear himself if he can amongst friends and he is clear among true friends Thou art denyed amongst all true friends thou hast nothing to do to come amongst them and before thou saidst it was a true and real demonstration And so then if he can clear himself thou saist here thou questions my own work againe Thou saist that G. F. sent a paper with his own hand to it to several Churches into several Countreys for friends to nominate and appoint such as were esteemed that they might sit in the place of Magistracy and to send their names to London to be presented to the present Power to be Comm●ssionated by them Thou saist This may truly signifie that I had an end to my self to exalt my self in the Government of the Nation in getting up them to sit in Justice and I would set my self over them c. There is not a word of this true for I was not in London when the paper was sent neither was it ordered by me neither sent out by me neither was I at London till after it was sent forth neither did I know of the paper till after it was sent forth And thus thou and all people may see thy wickedness and envy and the intent of the paper as friends told me which I beleeve and know it was the time of great sufferings and persecution when sufferings were laid before the Parliament they told they knew not how to remedy it and they told friends that they might nominate some sober men in the Countrey that would not persecute them and to have them sent up to the Parliament and this was the intent of friends sending down that paper which thou malitiously makes use of in rendring friends odious and me to be the Author of it who knew not that it was forth till it was forth And thou saist A Letter went forth in G. F's name with his hand at it for all that had been Souldiers and Officers in the Army that had been put forth upon the account of truth they might send up their names to London to be presented to the present Power that they might be restored into their respective places and there were many among them that could not take up a carnal sword and so see where this man would have led these people if he had accomplished this thing friends had been found in actual Armes at this Powers coming in it might have caused ruine and destruction of many of the innocent and this is clearly evident of his usurping the external Government This is altogether false and proceeds from an envious malicious lying spirit and a blood-thirsty spirit the same that acted uncleannesse with a woman and then would have hanged her and her thee for which cause thou wast denyed and art denyed But as for a Paper given forth for the souldiers giving in their names which we had many and others we had not which were written to to lay them with others sufferings before the Parliament but not for them to go into their places again and to take Government that was utterly denyed and to bear arms again that was never in my heart neither do I believe it was in their hearts when that that thing was laid upon many of them and was invited to go to take up arms again into their places but never intended by me nor them as I said before and this lye and slander thou hast uttered forth to manifest thy wickednesse and further thy malicious spirit And as for John Hall what was writ unto him in a private paper it was from the womans own mouth and therefore thou shouldest have judged thine own wickednesse for that concerned thee and so it was not report and this is another of thy lyes who art raging in Hell and art there digging deep And as for Jane Stoaks she is sufficiently known and what her actions have been and thou sayest G. F. would not suffer her to be assisted in going to Rome this is another of thy lyes for I was not at London at that time neither did I speak to her when she went but was in Lancaster Prison for thou wouldst not suffer her to be assisted in her journey sayest thou and for this lye and slander of thine thou scoffingly saith G. F. must come downe upon his knees which was in a Goale neer 200 miles off when she went neither did I here of her going till a great while afterwards and thus thy envy is made manifest And thou sayest G. F. sent George Bayliff into France who dyed in Prison who confest no command from God to go in hisservice neither did he know any particular place to go to into France and this is another of thy slanders and lyes for he had spoken to Gerrard Roberts of it before and Gerrard hath told me of it since who afterwards came to me in Kent where we spake of it together And thou sayest that G. F. contrary to the principle of truth vindicated and justified the practise of Water Baptisme in Humphrey Wooldridge who baptized a woman and because I would not utterly deny Humphrey's wrong and deny him and judge him out from amongst Friends as thou didst who made a discord amongst Friends who simply did such a thing once and no more and here thou thinkest thou hast spyed a great fault but doest not look into thine own house who art before finding fault and judging others for seeking into failings and here thou hast condemned thy self out of thine own mouth again to the grief of many Friends who so impudently made a strife amongst them in judging him And thou sayest G. F. when he was at London takes upon him the place of God and orders those he accounts Ministers in his will and sends them to the several meetings about London and thither they must go whether they have a command or motion of God to go or no and in his absence leaves one to order the rest in his place the first dayes who orders either by word of mouth or by a piece of paper Answ And this is wickednesse and lyes again and because thou wast judged out and hath been often judged

and few or none could ever hardly own thy going to any meeting for when thou wast at the best state tender Friends could scarce beare thy spirit many complained to me of thee and because thou wouldest run up and down in thy will I crossed thee and severall were moved so to do as being a man hardly to be trusted which since thy actions have manifested themselves and therefore like Ham thou seekest for nakednesse if thou couldst find any nay worse than Ham for he laid open that which was and thou layest open thy lyes that thou mayest further make manifest thy selfe that all may judge of thee for we do meet together it s known and every one takes their motion and that hath been long that meetings was not set up by me neither do I allow any in my absence neither do I send papers to them for by the power of God in themselves and the Spirit they and I do know what order is but thou disorderly man hath gone out of that and grieved the Spirit by which thou art eternally judged and judged by it out of the fellowship of it And thou sayest G. F. sent Milburey Smith into the ministry and bid her go and be a Mother in Israel when she was with a bastard-child and after brought it forth Answ This is a lye for I never bid her be a mother in Israel neither did I bid her go into the ministry for the first time I saw her I found her in Kent and when I saw her and I enquired of her and told Edward Burrough I did not like her and spoke of her turning back to her place and I do not believe she was with 〈…〉 And as for I. P. Unity and amity that which was written to it will stand whether thou or whoever opposes and they which judges it knows not the eternal power and the life of God and none doth it but such as are puffed up like thy selfe and sows this in their ranting up and down and like the untimely Figs and like the corn upon the house top and thus against the anointed of the Lord do you bend your tongues and who said the Seed is fallen therefore ye cast up the mire and dirt and if I. P. have no better proselites nor disciples than thou and if thou be the mouth of them and the maintainer of his cause it is sufficient for all the sober and temperate that fear God to manifest his end and thine And G. F's Book to the Jews the Title of which is The honour amongst the Jews doth not speak of the hat in prayer which thou others have perverted my words from that intent to which they were spoken who wilfully and wickedly would make that which is written to them to another intent to be for you to pray with the hat on for them to hold up the rotten Principle of the Ranters for my Book speaks of putting off the hats to Magistrates And so you would bring all men to sit like a company of women so you would bring all into a form under the penalty of a curse for J. P's law was never call'd in which many observes like a company of women sits covered of whom thou learned it of the woman not of the man and so it is your law and your curse that we oppose who stands in our liberty in the power of God before hats was it is not the hat that will cover thy adulterous spirit which thou hast taken up from J. P. which I have no unity withall for my unity stands in the power of God before hats was but what is to be said to such a one that casts all reverence and fear and vertue behind thee and gone into scandals slande●s and lyes and makes them thy refuge and my practise manifests that I am as I was and in that which will never change the Seed it selfe he that can read it may and the fellowship which stands in hats and thy unclean actions and carnal things and your forms you set up and would thrust it in among Friends with the power of God before hats was is denyed and these are more of thy lyes in saying I would impose and set up external practises amongst the Lords free people that is your own conditions that would th●ust in your venemous and idolatrous practises amongst us for as I said before our practice was in the power of God before your outward things were and thy unclean actions and practices and thy unclean things which hath been related in papers And for saying that I said the power of God had remitted thy adulterous practice I bid thee wait in that which did condemn it that the power of God might arise for to remit and instead of waiting thou takes up all the lyes and slanders that thou canst and so publishes thy spirit but I am known to God whom thou hast dishonoured and manifested in the hearts of his people whom thou hast disgraced And what testimony hast thou but lyes and slanders and strengthens thy self in thy wickednesse and so thou covers over thy lyes with God and Christ and Testimony and now thy wickednesse boyls in thy heart And as for thy scornings and scoffs saying He is shifting from place to place from City to City and Countrey to Countrey to shun a Prison and persecution This is more of thy lyes and slanders for I am known to the Lord and am in his power and do as I am moved in it and the shifting and shrinking is thy own state from place to place who hath run into these intolerable wickednesses and prophanenesses and to cowardlynesse when thou wentest from truth into thy immodest carriages and practices And others they went where they were moved But that evil spirits like thy self watches for evil and feeds upon lyes and evil thoughts thy judgemen● which will fall heavy upon thy head and theirs in the end and what thou sowest that thou shalt reap to thy self a heavy burden And thou saying I sent Thomas Richardson to Ely and refused to go my self and friends desired it This is false for Thomas Richardson was not with me he was 100 miles off me for Thomas Richardson would go as he was moved neither did I know that he was there till he was in Prison and he had been there and I sent to him if he were moved he might go but I did not know that he was there till he was in Prison And as for Ely friends there were many of them with me at a Meeting and I had places to go to and this is thy envy and wickednesse and there are no friends that did ever desire me when I came to answer them when they 〈…〉 satisfied And as for saying T. R. burdens the Seed of God thou mayest for shame stop thy mouth for the light of salvation is thy condemnation so it s the savour of death unto death to thee which is the savour of life to another and that I beleeve