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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49752	An answer to a book published by Richard Smith of Westchester wherein the people of God called Quakers (more particularly in this county of Cheshire) are cleared from the wrong, injustice, and false accusations by him charged upon them / written for the information and satisfaction of the sober-minded by Alexander Lawrence.	Lawrence, Alexander, d. 1682.	1677 (1677)	Wing L649; ESTC R25714	13,255	21

Book endest with these words Though they pretend Scripture for their Rule in what they do in mine to thee there is this further We have an evident Testimony that we can give for Womens Meetings from many faithful Witnesses that God owneth them by accompanying them with his living Presence in their Assemblies yet we go not about to impose them upon Believers but as the Lord perswades them This word Imposition hath often been used upon other occasions as thou well knowest by such as have gone forth of the blessed Unity of Truth when there hath been no occasion for it now if this be fair or right to say as thou dost in the Margin p. 26. it is my Answer and yet leave this forth which answers to the latter part of thy Query pag. 22 23. I leave it to any rational man to judge in answer to thy Reply I shall only say thus We go not about to speak write or act any thing contrary to the Scriptures of Truth nor to dis-esteem of them as thou well knowest therefore it is not friendly so to write as though we did pag. 27. and for thee to go about to make void my assertion in answer to thy Query p. 26. to wit that the power and authority of that unlimited Spirit is the same in the Female as in the Male by saying pag. 27. was ever the same in any Female as in the heavenly Male Christ Jesus shews much wilfulness in thee for thou canst not be so ignorant as so to understand the intent of my words that I should compare either Female or any other Male with him in whom dwell the fulness of the Godhead ●odily and of whose fulness we receive Grace for Grace but though he was anointed with the Oyl of Gladness above his fellows and did not receive the Spirit by measure yet it has pleased the Father in his infinite to Goodness that His should be anointed with the same Anointing and receive a measure of the same Spirit as to nature and quality and therein is one with that in those Males he breathed upon I am not speaking of quantity so my assertion is not contrary to the Apostles Doctrine as thou pag. 27. sayest it is but agreeable thereunto who said There are diversities of Gifts by the same Spirit mark that dividing to every man severally as he will and we say women too for God said who cannot lye He would pour forth his Spirit upon all flesh and your Sons and your Daughters shall prophesie Joel 2.28 So my assertion stands good and will do against all that thou canst say against it That the Power and Authority of that unlimited Spirit is the same in the Female as in the Male and in that they are labourers together for God Consider what thou art about to do and take heed left through thy own wilfulness darkness cover thy understanding Thou needest not tell us That the Church hath no Power but what it hath from him who is the Beginning for I say in my answer pag. 27. of thy Book That the Church of Christ had and hath Power given them not that they take it wrongfully as thou in thy Query p. 22. wouldst charge us with neither are we five that Church but through Gods Grace Members of it Those words of thine in the Margin pag. 27. But may not I justly question whether you five he that Church which hath Power given to add this c. favours more of a cavilling spirit that will be critical then the Spirit of Truth Thou sayest in thy Reply to my second Answer pag. 29. And now of late for you to set up such things as these meaning Womens Meetings as are no way in themselves necessary to the accomplishing of the other aforesaid to wit a holy and upright Life and yet there sayest thou art not against them or any other to meet to pray exhort strengthen build up one another in their most holy Faith This is strange that they may meet together to pray exhort strengthen and build up one another in their most holy Faith and yet be no way in themselves necessary to the accomplishment of an holy and upright Life this indeed is such a Paradox to me that I have not heard of the like by one that pretends so much as thou dost and if they may do this which is the greater why may they not do that which is the lesser to wit take care of some widows fatherless and such as want relief and that the younger women elder also walk orderly c. we do believe they may do both according to the ability that God giveth them and we do not dispise them because they are the weaker Vessels though it may be some of us have been of that mind with thee And for thee to say That we saying if any professing the Truth shall either by word or deed directly discountenance or weaken the hands of either men or women in that work or service let such be admonished according to the Order of the Gospel and if they receive it not but resist counsel and persist in the work of Division we cannot but look upon them as therein not in the unity with the Church of Christ and order of the Gospel is to excommunicate such or call that Excommunication as thou dost I would have thee read thy self as thou sayst to us for I thought Excommunication had been a further thing then to say we cannot but look upon them therein not in the unity with the Church of Christ and order of the Gospel for if this be Excommunication as thou hast often said it is then was Daniel Maddock excommunicated by us for we did not in those things which thou chargedst against him look upon him to be in unity with the Church of Christ and order of the Gospel and therefore we exhorted him to condemn them and so we have done and do thee thy writing and speaking so much against Womens Meeting as thou dost to say they are contrary to the Scripture of Truth and that they are in themselves no way necessary to the accomplishing of an holy and upright life c. yet we say Excommunication is a further thing viz. in the Power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh 1 Cor. 5.4 5. So thou mayst read thy self either ignorant or wilful in thy saying and writing that our so saying as before is Excommunication for doubtless Paul had not unity with Peter in that thou mentionest in thine to the Reader pag. 4. neither did he look upon him therein in unity with the Church of Christ and order of the Gospel yet this was not to excommunicate that good man who did not persist therein and though the Government be upon Christ's Shoulders yet he hath given his Power to govern under him and what they do in his Power he owns and though the Apostle had not dominion over