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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54223	The spirit of Alexander the copper-smith lately revived, now justly rebuk'd, or, An answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, The spirit of the hat, or the government of the Quakers in which the confederacy is broken, and the devil's champions defeated / by a true witness of the one way of God, W.P. ; to which are added the testimonies of those persons whose names are chiefly quoted by the author of that pamphlet.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1374; ESTC R21606	19,027	28

all Excess in which we have some Cause to fear this pretended Lamenter hath too deeply involv'd himself True Liberty is not to Commit Sin Innocently as some fancy but to be freed from Sin which is ever Nocent and will prove destructive of all who are seduc'd by it Nor is he less untrue and unrighteous to us when he sayes That as others Err'd in setting up the Scriptures as the Standard Tryal and Touch-stone of Doctrines and Spirits so we do greatly Err in setting up the Body above the Spirit There is no such Doctrine as the Latter maintained among us It is well known that the Former is by the many Professors yea those who boast in his Treachery and Lyes But this alwayes hath been and still is and we hope ever will be our Belief that no meer Body of People without the Guidance of God's Spirit are capable of Determining in Matters of Religious Concernment For it is not an Hundred Persons singly void of the Holy Spirit coming together that makes them any whit more certain in their Judgment The only and indispensable Qualification to that great Work being Discoveries and Assistance of the Holy Spirit A Body then without the Holy Spirit can be no Touch-stone but a Body attended with the Holy Spirit certainly is The Question then is not If we prefer the Body above the Spirit for that is the False Insinuation of this Apostate who is inraged that we should so severely censure him and such Contentious Persons as he is But Whether we as a Believing Body have the Holy Spirit or no Of which much hath been said by way of Vindication already in other Tracts and we shall leave it to God's Witness in the Consciences of those we are concern'd with in Matters of that Import whether we are acted by that holy Wisdom and Direction which gives true and sound Judgment We know we are of God and the World whether Apostates or others that thus withstand our Testimony are in the Gaul of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity His Objection That the Hat on in Prayer is a Trifle or of no such moment as justly to occasion such a Busle makes for us since he can't be other then a Trifler at best for all his high Pretences who hazards the Church's Peace gives this Disturbance bears this Ill-will and shows that Revenge for a Trifle 'T were well if his Conscience were so nice in Cases of more Weight I fear he is as well a Demas as an Alexander and that his Cries against our Ministers decent and clean Apparel is but a better sort of Coyer for his own Rusty Pharisaical kind of Garb the Effect perhaps of his fordid Avarice It seems by his Letter that the Quakers mean Clothes made up much of his Convincement at first Truly that Faith which came in by the Outside will go out by it too But it is a Wonder to me that the Costly Clothes and Prodigal Feast to Excess and Derision of that Exalted J. Penniman and his Beloved Mary Boreman who in Token of her Self-Denial and Attainment to a more excellent Administration exchanged her Cloth Waste-Coat for a Silk Farendine Gown her Blew Apron for one of Fine Holland and her Ordinary Bodice for Rich Sattin it self to say little of her Riding in Fine Coaches and several other things once accounted by her Self-Righteousness Abominable Things did never offend this Author's Nice and Squeamish Stomach But we are they only who must be condemned and I perceive that must be reputed a Sin in us which is accounted a Vertue in them Away with such Deceit for Shame He says That we desert the Light for the Judgment of the Body A wretched Begging of the Question We do deny that to be Light in him which opposeth it He at other times grants the Body has Light though not some Elders But the Body judgeth him How will he do then For him to say he believes the Body to be in the Right and yet subject them to his own Conceits is what deserves to be disdain'd of all understanding Men. He should have gone to those Elders and cleared himself if he had ought against them and not place their Miscarriages as he thinks to the Account of the whole Body Were he any thing of a True Quaker and that he pretends to he would have abhorred to add thus to their Indeavours that strike at True as well as False And if by True is understood something more refined then we are he may be said to add to our Sufferings so much the more What but a Dark Envious Inveterate Man would have done such a thing at any time but especially at this Juncture and Season Behold the Hat now and what a notable Spirit it affords us one drop of which by Antipathy were enough one would think to cure any one not too far gone in Prejudice and Schism O that all who profess the Truth of the Living God may be kept out of such Temptation that they may never sacrifice the Peace of the Church and Quiet of their own Souls to the Introduction or Promotion of any thing so Unserviceable Senseless and Unprofitable both to Soul and Body but Eyeing the Blessed Truth in their Inward Parts may by it be Exercised in Body Soul and Spirit to all Godly Conversation among Men so will God be glorified and they preserved For his other Stories Some things are true hurt us not but show our Care to preserve Unity Order though they will the JUDAS that both reveal'd augmented them Other Passages are greatly abused and down-right Lyes told as before three of which I cannot forbear to mark out with a Challenge to prove them notwithstanding the following Testimonies First That our Ministry is Vitious and Wanton guilty of Whoredoms and that Strumpets are among them This we do in the Name of the Holy God deny and defie any Man on Earth to prove any part of this Ungodly general Charge against our Ministry to so much as belong to any one Person by us accounted of it If any such thing be let the Accuser his Witnesses and the Accused be brought forth and an Hearing shall never be refused But let me ask this Apostate If ever he knew such a one If he admonish'd him If upon Continuance in such Ungodly Living he told it to the Church before this Publication of his Ungodly Slanders to the World If he says he did he adds to his Lyes be it then True or False in it self he has done but like a Treacherous Renegade I fasten an Action of Defamation upon his Head and that in the High and Holy Court of Heaven before God the Righteous Judge who will avenge the Cause of the Innocent upon their false Accusers Next That we with the Papists prefer a Loose Person before a Non-Conformist or such like is an horrid Lye We own and cannot but cherish Sobriety and a Conscientiousness to God in all which we never could

of Stumbling to others and to Weaken the Hands of them I should have been a Strength to and to Strengthen the Hands of them I should not have been a Strength to And when I came to see it I came forth in absolute Judgment against that Paper and the spirit in which it was writ and what I did in it I did it absolutely to the Lord and to answer his Pure Manifestation and Appearance in my Heart and durst not do otherwise in the Pure Fear of the Lord who in a signal Manner Appeared in me and by a strong Hand and lifted up Arm opened my Heart and raised a pure Zeal and Indignation in it against that Treacherous Lying Spirit and my care was to clear Truth and its Testimony and Faithful Friends whom I found the Enemy had struck at through me and the Judgment I gave forth against that Paper was not given forth in an Hour of Weakness and Temptations but in the Strength and Dominion and Evidence and Clearness of Truth and stands and will stand forever And I do further testifie that the Spirit that hath wrought in a Mystery against Friends and to break their Unity under swelling Pretences of further Discoveries and a Singular Larger Zeal whether of that Spirit which leads unto the Practice of wearing the Hat in Publick Prayer or such like to Catch the Mind of the Young and Simple they not being aware of his Devices is the same though under diversity of Appearance that works in the Children of Deceit Disobedience to incline and intice them to all manner of Cruelty Lust and Vanity and is the Ranting Spirit is Corah's Spirit that resisted murmured against the Servant of the Lord in former days and therefore we find that Apostates from among us and Professors of all sorts and Prophane can and do center here in one Spirit of Enmity and Opposition against the Truth and its Followers and Witnesses and of this the Lord hath made me deeply sensible and through the Mercy and Power of the Lord God a Zeal and Indignation lives in my Heart against that Cursed Twining Spirit and a Care and Travel in measure for all that have been Entangled by it that they may see and be sensible of it and may be raised up to come forth in a clear and full Testimony against it without Reserve John Swinton ANd whereas it is said by the Author of that Scandalous Pamphlet call'd The Spirit of the Hat that he remembers a Paper to have been sent down to Hartford subscrib'd by a Dozen of the Great Ones as this Malecontent scoffingly terms them that it had this Passage in it That if any Person had as he thought a Command from God to do any thing or put forth any thing in print he must come and lay it before the Body and AS THEY JUDGE THEY MUST SUBMIT p. 18. querying If this was not an Arbitrary Government bound by no Law but what G. F. and a few more please and affirming That it was much disliked there This we under-written say and that in God's Fear who are Men well known in that Place that we know of no such Paper so sign'd or sent Consequently there could not be any such passage Neither was it possible that we should dislike it unless we should dislike what was not So that five great and manifest Lyes meet in these few Lines 1. That there was such a Letter 2. That it had that Passage in it 3. That Twelve of the Great-ones as he reproachfully calls them sign'd it 4. That it was disliked And Lastly that he remembers all this He that can remember things that never were may be reasonably supposed to make those things It shows his Malice to invent and great Wickedness to affirm such Invention for very Truth God will plead with this Traducer of the Innocent in a Day when he shall not escape his Indignation This is our true Testimony for the Clearing God's Truth and People Henry Stout Nicholas Lucas Richard Martin I Perceiving the Wicked Design of this obscure Author of the Spirit of the HAT is not only to bring a Reproach upon Christ's Government and good Order among us his People as Tyrannical and Oppressive to tender Consciences which is an abominable Slander but also to sow Discord among us I must signifie this to the World that his Work is neither of Credit nor Effect with me or us For 1 he hath manifested himself to be a Belialite or a Son of Belial without a Yoke and without the Bounds of Truth and Good Order so that for him the Spirit of Ranterism is more proper and significant then the Spirit of the Hat however he makes that his Cover 2 He is deeply a Partaker not of the least of those seven Abominations Prov. 6. 17 18. 19. Being guilty of a Lying Tongue an Heart that deviseth wicked Imaginations and is a false Witness that speaketh Lyes and one that soweth or rather would sow Discord among Brethren And wherein he attempts it between me and that upright Man of God G. F. I tell him and the World That his Bait and Wicked Device shall not take with me since the Lord in Mercy hath opened my Understanding to see beyond Prejudice and Darkness upon which the Adversary of Mankind seeks occasion to Divide and Scatter where God hath Gathered and United And the occasion that this Son of Belial and Spirit of Ranterism takes wickedly to represent me and G. F. to the World as divided was a Mistake that I was under and an unadvised Expression privately spoken which did reflect upon the holy Zeal of that Man of God which when I came to see it was my Burthen and the Lord's Reproof I own'd on that and to his Testimony and Judgment I stand against that Spirit of Prejudice which did in dayes past weaken and vail my Understanding while I stood not in the Unity of his Ministers and People in which State the Life and Refreshments in the Body were not partaken of as now felt thorow the Lord's Love which hath reached my Soul and engaged my Heart to himself and People not in any thing to offend but to watch against the Dis-uniting Spirit and to live in Union with the Church of Christ whose Light is sprung up and arisen out of Obscurity Praises to our God for ever for whom I stand a Witness in my Measure against all loose disobedient Spirits Backsliders Ranters and against that disorderly irreverent Carriage of keeping on the Hat in publick Prayer and the dis-uniting Spirit that sought to set it up impose it among us which when it could not carry one its Design but was opposed by the Power of God ●mong us it cryed out Oh! Imposition upon Conscience Pope Arbitrary Government Rule without to lead us from the Movings of God's Spirit Rule and Government of Christ within as this Apostate who one while pleads Conscience another while the Spirit 's Requirings another while