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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84776	A declaration against all poperie, and popish points and is renounced from them and by them whom the scorners in scorn call Quakers : and likewise some queries to the Pope and his priests that are guarded with his law : to be answered in writing or print; and to be sent them called Quakers at London in England.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1783; Thomason E844_10; ESTC R202129	13,879	13

A DECLARATION Against all Poperie and popish points and is renounced from them and by them whom the Scorners in scorn call Quakers And likewise some Queries to the Pope and his Priests that are guarded with his law to be answered in writing or print and to be sent them called Quakers at London in England FOrasmuch as a Proclamation is set forth by O.P. and his Council in which is an oath to be profered to be taken of Abjuration against all Popish supremacie and authority over the Catholique Church in generall and we who are by the World scornfully called Quakers who own the Doctrine of Christ Jesus who saith Swear not at all neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation Jam. 5.12 In Christs Doctrine and the Apostles Doctrine we do abide and oaths is denied and forbidden and so those who were called Christians which was in Christ Jesus who abode in his Doctrine and the Apostles Doctrine suffered as they do now that doth the same as in particular John Morland who had been a Captain was fined and imprisoned because he could not swear but kept to yea and nay in his communications and many others fined that cannot swear but with the light which comes from Christ Jesus from him by whom the World was made we do deny and condemn with the light all Popish wayes and their Supremacy and authority over the Catholique Church in General root and branch and therefore many of us which are called Quakers have suffered and suffereth and layen long imprisoned by the Popish law which guarded the Jesuits and Crucifixes and Imagess which now guards many of the Priests in England and their Church which law did guard the Jesuits and their Church therefore the authority of the Catholique Church in Generall and the supremacy of the Popes power we do utterly deny and renounce as knowing their works of darkness and condemn them all with the light and the branch which comes from the root by which branch many suffers now in England for declaring against all Popish wayes and the authority derived from him by which the Church was guarded freely without an oath for God doth us command for we see the sword of the Lord is drawn against it And so over our selves in particular we cannot suffer any of his preheminency to bear rule for it is an usurped authority So with the light of the Lord Jesus Christ we are brought to declare against it for with the light it is condemned and here the power of the Lord Jesus Christ is reteined And we do know with the light which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ That bread and wine is carnall which our Lord Jesus Christs body and blood is not but is pretious He saw no corruption and is a mystery which is not bread and wine let them consecrate it never so And so to declare to you plainly we do denie the Sacrament for we know there is no Scripture for it And the Lords Supper is not carnall where it is said he will make his abode with you and sup with you the Lord is not carnall but is the mysterie and his body is glorious and not beggerly Elements as outward bread or wine for this is the blood of Jesus which washeth away our sin and this is the body of Jesus which makes us free from the law which stands not in meats and in drinks and carnall Ordinances for the body is Christ and so we do denie and condemn all that worship that sacrament of Elements of bread and wine and that supper which stands in those things and we witnes Christ is come who is the summe and the substance and so need not have a remembrance of any Element but we which be dead with Christ and live in his life from the beggarly Elements them that lives in them goes about to slay us so as it is written they that are born after the flesh persecutes them that are born after the spirit And again we do deny that there is any purgatory and declare against it as knowing the blood of Jesus which cleanseth us from sin which is an holy thing and know him who takes away our sin and destroyes the works of the Devil which many hath the bread and wine which know nothing of the body and blood of Christ no more then the Jews which turned from Christ when he told them that except they did eat his Flesh and drink his Blood they had no life in them and they looked upon him carnally as the Papists do now which are deluded deceived And again with the light which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ him who was not born by the will of man him by whom the world was made with his light do we deny and condemn all their consecrated Hoast Crucifixes and Images and they are not to be worshipped but to be condemned with the light which will let them see they are enemies of the Cross of Christ which be in things before mentioned and all them that worship them And to you this is the word of the Lord God the light of your consciences shall witnes it God is a Spirit and is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth and all that make Crucifixes or Images or worship them they are the South sayers and familiar spirits the Founder of the Images and the worshipper of the Image from the living God is confounded accursed and with the light condemned and God worshipped in the spirit which spirit judges all Images and Image-makers sees there is no due worship to them or them that makes them but condemnation and judgment the light in the conscience shall it witnes And again we declare against the Papists and them which say Salvation is to be merited by works for then it is not of faith in him who was not born by the will of man which light condemns mans runnings and willings and that which he call merits there is no such Scripture and therefore we denie the word merit know that man doth not attain any thing by his wil of him who was not born by the wil of man for he knows him not for he is a mysterie which light condemns all works of darknes and all evill sinne and unrighteousness and all them which acts it and who are in Christ are new Creatures and to them there is no condemnation who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit so every one shall have a reward according to his works whether they be good or evill And with the light which comes from Christ Jesus which never changes all points and Doctrines of Papists and the World is condemned and them who do affirm them And the same light is the condemnation of them that takes oaths out of Christs Doctrine and from Christ Jesus and so knows not his will who abides not in his Doctrine So as Gods

children have found his power and strength which hath carried them on when he hath commanded them to declare against all false wayes false Teachers and Popish wayes and Popish lawes and often have been almost murthered but the Lord hath been their present help in time of need and trouble And so Popish wayes are renounced without any equivocation mentall reservation or secret evasion whatsoever So we cannot go out of Christs Doctrine and swear by any oath for if we do we break the command of Christ and go out of his Doctrine and the Apostles which said Swear not at all They that say so help me God and act contrary to the light which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ are with the light condemned from God and are in another Doctrine but who be in the light of Christ Jesus have Gods help And so all such as use their tongues and make a trade of the Scriptures which were spoken forth from the Spirit of the Lord they are judged and denyed and turned away from though they have the form of Godlines and not the power but denies it And such by such are the dear children of God cast in prison who are the cause of it And again in the presence of the Lord God we declare against all Popish wayes and the Priests and their church and their autority and all that belong to it the root and ground and branches and with the light do see them and all who have any of their power to be condemned with the light And to you this is the word of the Lord God and all who wait in the light which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ receives power from him which is the Head and governs his Church which is the Head of it which Light is the condemnation of the changeable Priesthood And with the light we see all Papists and who be in the Popery to be enemies of the Crosse of Christ and so imitate a cross some this way some that way who are all with the light to be condemned And to you this is the word of the Lord God I am the light of the World and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World saith Christ And if you do love the light which comes from Christ and receive Christ ye shall receive the light of life and as many as receives him to them he gives power to become the sons of God which are the children of light and do beleeve in the light But ye that do hate the light and will not bring your deeds to the light because your deeds be evill and the light will reprove you this is your condemnation the light saith Christ so here is your Teacher if you love the light and here is your condemnation that hate the light the Light And remember that you are warned in your life time And if you do love the light which comes from Christ it will lead you to the Church which is in God 1 Theff 1.1 And bring you to testifie against the World that the works thereof are evill and will let you see that the whole world lyes in wickednes And it will let you see that the Scriptures which were declared from the light and life they that was in it was in unity and all the sects are mong them that have the good words and lives in their meanings and thinkings and strife contention and persecution and be such that hate the light whose deeds be evil which Christ testified against which be strangers from the life of God and Christ Jesus the Covenant of promise and so all such are with the light comprehended seen fathomed judged and condemned The light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World is my witnes Forasmuch as the enemies of God in all ages have gone about to slander the Truth of God and to cast reproaches upon righteous servants whom he sent forth to bear witnesse for the Truth against all the unrighteousnes of men without respect of persons So now also the enemies of Christ Jesus and of his righteous seed shewing themselves to be of the same generation of their fore-fathers which ever persecuted the righteous seed which shewed before of the coming of the just one Act. 7.52 labour by all means to render the truth odious and to slander and reproach the people of God by them scornfully called Quakers fulfilling the word of Christ Matth. 5.11 which saith They shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake and crying out to the Magistrates as the multitude of the Jews did against Paul that they ought not to live any longer Act. 25.25 Act. 22.22 And as the chief Priests and Elders and all the Councel sought false witnesses against Jesus to put him to death but found none Matth. 26.59 60. even so do they now The high Priests of this age with the multitude of the ungodly who go about to accuse the people of God called Quakers to be Jesuits Fryars Popish-Priests Romish Frogs Morrisdancers and persons Popishly affected to the Magistrates as appears by an Information given to the Magistrates at Bristol and by Books or Pamphlets put sorth in Print by William Prinn and others and one Thomas Andrews Priest at Welling burrough in Northamptonshire who accused one John Whitehead who by him and the World is called a Quaker to one Thomas Pentloe called Justice and caused nim to be carried before the said Thomas Pentloe the 15 day of the first moneth called March now last past who after he had examined him said if he would go home to his wife and abide with her and go towards her the next morning he should have his liberty To whom the said John Whitehead answered he stood not in his own will but in the will of God and could make no such promise not knowing what the morning would bring forth Whereupon the said Thomus Pentloe gave the Constables charge over him till further Order who kept him in their custody two nights and a day which was and is contrary to the Laws of the Nation And then when he was carried again before the said Pentloe and one John Brown called a Justice with whom was the said Andrews and another Priest who asked John Whitehead many questions laboring to ensnare him but they not finding him to have broken or transgressed any known Law of the Nation then they consulted together as the Presidents and Princes did against Daniel to finde an occasion against him concerning the Law of God Daniel 6. and one Marmaduke Storre another of the People by them called Quakers who came to visite his brother who was formerly by the said Pentloe sent to prison at Northampton And thereupon the said Pentloe and Brown tendered to them the oath of Abjuration appointed for such as are suspected to be Popishly affected but their souls being subject to the Commands of Christ Jesus not only because of wrath but also for conscience sake who saith Matth. 5.34 Swear not at