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A57809	The Quakers refuge fixed upon the rock of ages, though the swelling waters dash never so violently to overturn it wherein is prov'd, that the narrative of Ralph James is an absolute lying-wonder, according to his own definition : and also, the great controversie between the people of God called Quakers, and others, about the holy spirit of God and the Scriptures, truly stated, and very briefly discoursed, as it is owned by the Quakers, and the truth cleared from the false suggestions and deceitful insinuatins of the anabaptists about the said controversie : in answer to a subtil pamphlet, lately published, intituled, The Quakers subterfuge or evasion overturned : also a few queries propounded unto Ralph James, and the author of the subterfuge &c. / by Robert Ruckhill ; to which is added another postscript in answer to some queries propounded in the said pamphlet, wherein many untruths are suggested ; but herein the truth is cleared, and the evasion and deceit of the Baptists made more fully manifest by John Whitehead.	Ruckhill, Robert.; Whitehead, John, 1630-1696.	1673 (1673)	Wing R2169; ESTC R21457	28,153	51

try both the Scripture and all other spirits and doctrines by And that this is substantiall Truth by the assistance of the same holy Spirit I shall prove when I come to state the great Controversie In the mean time both my self and all unbyas'd persons may safely and modestly conclude that the Narrative of R. James is a Lying wonder and that the Title of T. R. his Book is True And here it well worth our serious Observation what a near Resemblance there is between the Anabaptists in their precited Impostures and pretended Cures of R. A. and his Family Mary Brown c. and the old Popish Priests and Friars in times past with their Consederate Impostors and Cheats as the Boy of Bilson and other Female Impostors who seemed to be possessed with strange Devils See the Book called A Guide to Grand-Jury-Men published by a Person of Reputation Barnerd of Batcomb they acted Mad Prancks even beyond Wonder and Strange Frisks above Admiration but then in the height of all their Counterfeit Extasies and seeming deplorable Passions in comes the Exorcising Priest with his Et verbum caro factum est and with that as with an effectual Charm sets all at rights again to the great Honour and Reputation of his declining Religion How near a kin the Practices of these Parties are however different in their Principles I will not take upon me to determine but leave it to their own Consideration that they may unfeignedly Repent and do so no more only shewing this Difference between them That the Anabaptists by preaching the Flesh of Christ put their Mary Brown into her Stiff-necked Extasie and Delphick Fit But the other cured their Confederates by the same Means See the Narrative of that Edition where the Story of M. B. is pag. 15. and the Title Page In the next place is considerable what a great Noise to no purpose this Author makes about the Evidences brought by the Quakers to invalidate the Narrative and affirms that they are either abused or forged but instead of proving this Charge he meerly trifles and spends two whole Pages to no purpose at all but sure he either hath not seen or else will not see T. R. his 2d Book wherein there are so full and pregnant Testimonies and Certificates and so candidly obtain'd that Envy it self cannot detect them And here ●sith it 's no more then Justice and Duty to render unto all men their Due I cannot without the merited Reproach of Odious Ingratitude and Injustice any longer deser the Payment of the just Debt of a Sober Acknowledgment of that Generosity and Nobleness of Mind which at that time Appeared in an old Acquaintance Doctor Lincoln Parson of Panton where R. A. dwells who calling the said Richard Anderson in the presence of above twenty of his Neighbours into the open Street there publickly examined R. A. in the presence of his Neighbours and before five other Witnesses concerning all things in the said Certificate expressed and after a full hearing of the whole matter dismissed the five Witnesses with words to this Effect Gentlemen say●● he you have heard the Examination and Testimons o● R. A. concerning the Business ●e are come to enquire about I know you will improve it to the best Advanture of your cause I perceive some of you are come very ●ar therefore being unwilling you should return without good Satisfaction I have taken this pains with him Anderson cannot deny what he hath here testified before us all but if he should recede from any thing he hath said we shall all bear witness against him Thus Dr. Lincoln and I hope it will be no offence to him or any of his Friends that I have thus far presumed in discharge of my duty to render him his due Hereupon the five Witnesses above said set down twelve of the Neighbours Names who were there present not as Witnesses but as Indifferent Spectators of the whole Transaction to the end that if any Person seeing the Certificate should Question or Scruple the truth of any thing there specified by having recourse to any or all the persons there nominated they might with more Facility inform themselves of the Verity of all things there certified this was their real End in setting down the Names without the least Purpose of Injury or Offence unto any as it s said some do indiscretly surmize and because one Book may come where another does not I conceive it not amis to insert the said Certificate in this place The Certificate THese are to certifie all Persons that desire to know the Truth That upon the Six and Twentieth Day of the Moneth called June 1672. Richard Anderson of the Town of Panton in Lincoln shire in the Presence of above Twenty of his Neighbours Dr. Lincolne Parson of the Parish being also present did declare That he never was at a Quakers Meeting but Once in his Life time and that at an Assize-time at the Castle of Lincoln he did hear them declare about a Quarter of an Hour and saith that Ralph James was then with him and further saith That he never was a Quaker nor owned by any of that People for he saith they never knew him and further did affirm That he had no Child Leprous and that Child the Baptists did say was Leprous and since Dead he shewed us alive and in Health and the said R. Anderson and his Neighhours did unanimously affirm That the Child had not any Deprosie nor other Distemper save only some Running Sore which was cured by Directions from one called Ms. Bouer so far as they understand the said R. Anderson further affirming that neither himself nor any of his Family were troubled with any such Painful Distemper as the Baptists say they had These things were not only affirmed by the Man himself but confirmed also by divers Inhahitants of the Town in the open Street in Panton in Lincolnshire The Five Witnesses then and there present William Garland Joseph Pope Augustine Smith William Baldwin Nathaniel Ball. These Persons whose Names are under-written were Inhabitants in Panton and present at the Examination and Answers of Richard Anderson before Doctor Lincoln their Parson and they with divers others then present said If Anderson altered from what he had there said they should be Witnesses against him and assert what is above certified William Dorrin Robert Minto Henry Walch John Emming Robert Drink Richard Walesby Richard Horton Katherine Hall Samuel Mathers George Anderson James Hall John Chapman Now it being so eminently cleare that R. Anderson never was a Quaker neither in Principle nor Practice I demand what though R. A. pronounced R. James a leper What though his Child had been Leprous What though himself his Wise and his Family were afflicted with grevious Pains what though Ralph James and his Brethren had cured them Yet what were all this to the Quakers How is this reflective upon them who are wholy unconcerned in R. Anderson For if R. A.

Spirits to try the Scriptures It s possible some Readers may judge me too Nice and Critical in this Observe but I must beg their Excuse if it be worth begging for I see his Design in it is to steal a Conceit unperceived into the Reader 's Mind that the Quakers hold That the Multifarious Spirits of Men were to try the Scriptures and not the Scriptures to try that Many-headed Monster Let all sober People take notice of his spirit in this But its worth our Consideration what should be the bottom of this Man 's Meaning where he so often makes use of this unusual manner of speaking viz. The Authority of the spirit as he speaks in the Scripture to try and judge c. Does he mean that the Authority and Mind of the holy Spirit respecting the Truths recorded in the Scriptures is the same at this day as it was in old time when it indicted the Scriptures in the Hearts of the holy Men of God If so I must confess I cannot assign him an Opposite for saving the change of Dispensations and Rudiments the blessed Truths revealed or declared of in the Scriptures are the same now as ever and with the holy Spirit there is no Variableness neither any shaddow of Turning Or if he intend thus for I would not mistake him Judging all labour lost that is spent upon mistakes That seeing it is true that the holy Spirit gave forth the Scriptures at the first there is unto this day such an inseparable and intrinsecal Conjunction between the Authority and Mind of the Holy Spirit and the Scriptures that he that hath the Scriptures hath the Authority and Mind of the Holy Spirit also This I confess of the two seems to be nearest his meaning by how much it is furthest from the Truth yet forasmuch as I have it not as his sence under his own hand and also have cause to fear that if it be his sence yet when he perceives a Quaker owns it he will recede from it he shall find me a fair Opposite That there is an inseparable Conjunction or Union between the Authority and Mind of the holy Spirit and the essential or substantial Truth declared in the Scriptures I grant and confess unto it but do not start back now because a Quaker confesses the Truth as the manner of most of you is but that therefore he that has the Scriptures hath also the Authority and Mind of the holy Spirit I deny If I have hit right of his meaning as till I know the contrary under his Hand I believe I have he ought to prove that part of his Position which is denyed but seeing Truth is precious as well as Time and the green-Grass to day may be withered to morrow I shall invert my Capacity take the sword by the Point and endeavour to prove That a Man may have the Scriptures in his Mother-Tongue and yet be utterly without or ignorant of the Authority and Mind of the holy Spirit For Proof of this Position I shall not stir one Foot from my Opposite who in p. 7. of his Subterfuge now under search tells us That after R. Anderson had made his Confession of the Anabaptists Faith in that Cardinal Point of Water-Baptism he met with the Quakers who told him as he said that these things i. e. Water-Baptism was low Now here my Opposite interposes his own Faith and Judgment in the Case and is not afraid to tell the Quakers and the whole Nation That the Water-Baptism is the Way of Life above to the Wise so to procure their more reverend esteem of it and because he perceived such a bold Averment stood need of Scripture-Authority to back it he cites Prov. 15.24 the words run thus The Way of Life is above to the Wise to avoid from Hell beneath Now let the Spiritual Man judge in this case Is Water-Baptism to take it at the best the Way of Life Did the holy Spirit in the Wise Man mean so Can Water-Baptism deliver or save from Hell Is that the Authority or Mind of the holy Spirit in that Scripture Let the Spiritual Man judge I am the Way saith Christ Water-Baptism is the Way saith this Author I was manifest to destroy the Works of the Devil and to save from Death and Hell saith Christ Water Baptism is the Way on high to avoid from Hell beneath saith my Opposite Now whose Testimony will ye receive Let the sober Christian judge whither these Anabaptists are going The parallel Scriptures with this are Phil. 3.20 and Col. 3.1 both which direct us to set our Assections on things above where Christ is at the Right-Hand of God our Saviour Hence of necessity will follow these Conclusions First Though this Author hath the Scriptures yet he is ignorant of the Authority and Mind of the Holy Spirit Secondly Through Ignorance of the Authority and Mind of the Holy Spirit he hath erred from the Truth and fairly convict himself 1. Of a most gross Idolatry as hath been fully manifest 2. Of a Ridiculous Solecism in terming Submersion or Plunging under Water a Way on high From his Idolatry nothing but a Re-baptization in the Tears of Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ can redeem him But for his Solecism that Offence being rather against Grammar then Scripture if the intelligent Reader will please but to indulge him with a favourable Aspect the Quakers will pass it by The Third and Last Conclusion is clearly this as before asserted That without a Measure of the holy Spirit of God received and turned unto whereby the Vail is ●ent from the Heart no Man living can understand or discern the Authority and Mind of the holy Spirit as he spake in old time by his Prophets of the great Mystery now revealed to wit Christ in you the Hope of Glory And this gives a full and undeniable Probation unto that grand Position the Ground and Original of the Anabaptists great Controversie with the Quakers That the holy Spirit of God is the only Supream Judge Discerner and Revealer of the Mind and Mystery of God and of the Duty of Man required in the Scriptures Now if any Man object against this and say I have been too rash and hasty to conclude thus only upon one Mans Error and Mistake and that many others may notwithstanding be more clear I answer Be it far from me to conclude all under this Man's Error and Idolatry nay I know there are many of the People of the Lord who by the Illumination of his good Spirit are inabled to discern in measure what his Mind and Will is but if you do but impartially consider the Ground and Cause of this Man's Error and Idolatry you may perceive the Argument will hold from Particulars to Generals as thus If one Man be blind for want of his Eyes then ten thousand Men wanting their Eyes must be blind also If this Author hath committed a gross Idolatry for want of the

THE QUAKERS REFUGE Fixed upon the Rock of Ages Though the Swelling Waters Dash never so Violently to Overturn it Wherein is prov'd that the Narrative of Ralph James is an absolute Lying-Wonder according to his own Definition And also The great Controversie between the People of God called Quakers and others about the holy Spirit of God and the Scriptures truly stated and very briefly discoursed as it is owned by the Quakers And the Truth Cleared from the False Suggestions and Deceitful Insinuations of the Anabaptists about the said Controversie ●n Answer to a subtil Pamphlet lately published Intituled The Quakers Subterfuge or Evasion Overturned Also A few Queries propounded unto Ralph James and the Author of the Subterfuge c. By ROBERT RUCKHILL To which is added another Postscript in Answer to some Queries propounded in the said Pamphlet wherein many Untruths are suggested but herein the Truth is cleared and the Evasion and Deceit of the Baptists made more fully manifest By JOHN WHITEHEAD The Lip of Truth shall be Established forever but a Lying Tongue is but for a Moment Prov. 12.19 Righteous Man hateth Lying Words but the Wicked causeth Slander and Shame Prov. 13.5 Printed in the Year 1673. Honest Impartial Reader WHen first the * There being about Nine Years between the Generation and the Birth Monstrous Production of the Anabaptists Lying-Wonder extant in their Narrative and prefixed Letters had so Vigorously alarum'd the Nation I was under some exercise of Mind as having the Ground and Design of the Anabaptists opened in me in that their Undertaking which I feared could not be so obvious to that Southern Friend who was first engag'd in the Detection of their Slanders by reason of his remote Residence from those Parts where those things were pretended to be acted But when I had seen the first and second Books of T. R. where their Deceits were so evidently discovered and so signally detected although their Ground was not so much perceived I did acquiesce in a patient Hope and Expectation of a Succesful Issue on the Truth 's behalf Afterwards came forth another Book put forth as I conceive by a Clandestine Author intituled The Quakers Subterfuge or Evasion Overturned c. whereat I was much stirred in mind to observe somewhat concerning the said Book but was still stay'd by a certain Expectation shortly to see the Answer by that Friend who was already engaged in that Service But being at Lincoln the 25th of December last where I expected to have sound the said Answer I not onely understood that the Book was unanswered but much contrary to my Expectation the Work it self brought to my Hands which I accepted not without Fear and Trembling wherefore my Soul humbly implores the Assistance of the Eternal Wisdom without which I am both unable and unfit to do Him any Service And now Reader sith the all-disposing Providence has thus order'd things I shall candidly address my self to communicate unto thee and to the whole Nation if they please what I have observ'd to be the original true Ground and Cause why the Anabaptists at this Season should produce their Lying-Wonder which the Author in hand affirms was brought ONLY to oppose the spirit of Falshood in Richard Anderson when as about Nine Years by this Authors Confession have expir'd since the Matter contain'd in their Narrative was acted see their Subterfuge p. 9 13. Surely if the Anabaptists had been as slow in the cure of Leprosies Pains Exstasies c. as they have been in opposing R. A's false spirit what had become of him his Leprous Child Wife and Family or of Mary Brown long ere this day But I proceed About the 26th day of the 6th Moneth 1669. was the Dispute at Wrawby mention'd by the Anabaptists and upon the last day of the same Moneth William Smith of Eltham late a Brother of the Baptists but now a faithful Follower of the Light of Christ that Light of the World gave forth a Writing thus dedicated To all such as deny that the holy Spirit ought to be Supream Judge in Man and in Matters of Faith above the holy Scriptures This was directed in particular to Ralph James and John Kirk by of Brigg but they have not answer'd it to this day though J. K. did promise to answer it At last after some Provocation used J. K. writes a reviling Letter about 17 Months after while R. James is imply'd to bring forth into the World this Monstrous Birth the Narrative which had lain in the dark womb of Oblivion about 9. Years thus after the mode of Antichrist to establish their false Doctrines by Signs and Lying Wonders at one fatal Blow to assassinate the Innocent Name Cause of the Quakers forever In this seeming Distress the Quakers flee to the Name of the Lord their strong Tower there to repose in Safety until a just Defence might advance in their Vindication which no sooner appears under the hand of T. R. but presently advances another Opposer of God's Everlasting Truth charges the Quakers in their chiefest Strength intending by fine Force to overturn their Subterfuge and render them obnoxious to the Pursuit and Chase at least of every insulting Enemy that none might forever hereafter dare to assert the Dignity and Power of the Spirit of God above the Writings of Men lest their Children should be smitten with Leprosie and themselves with intolerable Pains This R●ader is the Ground and Design as I perceive of the Anabaptists Envy and Wrath against an Innocent People and in all probability had it not been for the Writing aforesaid which they have not been able to answer and are therefore vex'd and gaul'd the Matter of their Narrative and Lying-Wonder might have rotted in the Grave forever without all Hope of a Resurrection whereas now after the Second Death thereof it must unburied stink above Ground to the Shame and Reproach of the Anabaptists in all succeeding Generations For the Truth on the Quakers behalf and the Anabaptists Deceits are so Perspicuous in two Books written by T. R. intituled The Anabaptists Lying-Wonder and The Anabaptists Preacher Unmask'd unto the serious Perusal whereof I refer the Reader for ample Satisfaction that its verily hoped their Envy against us in this Particular will not survive another Paroxism Le ts therefore leave it on its Death-Bed a while and examine what considerable Supplies the Author under Consideration hath brought to their Dying Cause in his last Expedition From Adlingfleet in Merceland the 8th day of the 11th Moneth 1672. Robert Ruckhill THE Quakers Refuge Fixed upon the Rock of Ages c. FOrasmuch as the Matter of Fact with its Circumstances contain'd in the two first Books of the Anabaptists with the Additions and also so much as concerns their Cross Examination of their own Member Richard Anderson extant in this Book now under search called The Quakers Subterfuge c. hath been sufficienly answer'd by my Friend T. R. I shall not need

were any thing at all he was most certainly an Anabaptist whereof T. R. in both his Books hath given evident Demonstration Upon the whole matter it 's worth remarking First That the Glory of the Anabaptist Churches is in its swift Declination toward the Western Horizon forasmuch as they are sai to fly to Signs and Lying Wonders to oppose the ●●th and to countenance their false Wayes and ●o●trines Secondly That the Anabaptists Cause in this hot Conflict between them and the ●●akers is now at the very utmost Crisis 〈…〉 this Champion who is mostly ingaged when the ●●se grows desperate is constrain'd in so eminent a Danger to make use of such poor Matter such pittifull shifts as are the Contents of this whole book now under tryal to the great Regret doubtless of their whole Party or such of them as have not yet sacrificed their Intellects to their Envy For it was foolishly boasted by divers Professors and others That the Book now under examination would be like Hercules 's Club or Goliah 's Spear in a word Unanswerable And this brings me to the very Heart of the great Controversie Whether the Holy Spirit or the Scriptures ought to have Priority The Controversie between the Anabaptists Independents together with other Professors the People of God called in Scorn Quakers concerning the Authority of the Holy Spirit in Judging or Discerning the Mind of God in the Holy Scriptures truly stated as owned by the Quakers WHether the first Pen-man of the Scriptures was Moses or Hermes or whether both these are not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false is not the Subject of my Argument at this time But such Scriptures and Prophecyes as have been written and prophesied by the Holy Men of God as they were moved by the Spirit of God treating of the Mystery of God in the Redemption and Salvation of Mankind by Jesus Christ and the Duty of Man in his Obedience to and Worship of the same God as his reasonable Service for the Gift of so great Salvation are the great Concerns now under our most serious Consideration The People of God scornfully called Quakers have unseignedly believed and often declared to the World That the Scriptures as above distinguished are a true Record and Declaration of the Love of God in the Redemption and Salvation of Mankind by Jesus Christ and also of the Duty of Man as before recited But they also believe and have declared to all the World That the Carnal Mind of Man being at Enmity with God and darkened by reason of Wicked Works cannot perceive nor discern the Mystery of God in the Scriptures declared and testified of For there is a Vail spread over the Hearts of all Men even in their Reading of the Scriptures so as they cannot see through the Letter unto the Mystery either in abolishing the old Covenant with its carnal Ordinances and Beggarly Elements or in introducing the new Covenant with its Spiritual Worship and Services and so being intricated and bewildered in the Letter cannot possibly attain unto the Knowledge of the Spiritual Mystery Now this most excellent Truth having by the Spirit of the Lord been opened and revealed to the Quakers they must of necessity be of this Faith viz. That without a Measure of the holy Spirit of God received and turned unto whereby the Vail is removed from the Heart no Man living can possibly discern or understand the great Mystery of Man's Salvation by Jesus Christ which was exhibited in Shaddow under the old but in lively Substance under the new Covenant although he had a Thousand Bibles in his House and every word of them at his Fingers ends So that upon this Consideration the People of God scornfully called Quakers do unanimously conclude and declare and testifie unto the whole World That the Holy Spirit of God is the only supream Judge Opener and Revealer of the Mind and Mystery of God and Duty of Man treated of in the Scriptures This oh ye Anabaptists and Independents and all other Opposers of this eternal Truth in the whole World this is the true State of the great Controversie betwixt the Quakers and you and if you will joyn issue with the Quakers in this Controversie you must do it as it is here stated at least in Substance for I am willing to give place to better words and order from whomsoever and you must lay aside all your prodigious Signs and lying Wonders and pretended Cures for these will not decide this great Controversie as ye vainly imagine And you must bring forth your strong Reasons and sound Arguments grounded upon plain Demonstrations of Truth and clear Evidence of Scripture and if the Truth be on your part you will be able to make it appear before wise understanding Men whoever your Opposers are and you will overcome us if you have the Truth for great is the Truth and will prevail and we must and will submit unto the Truth and to you But if the Truth appear on our part we in the Wisdom of God shall make it manifest the Truth will stand over your Heads and we will thresh you and winnow as the Chaff on the Threshing-Floor and the Wind of the Lord will blow you away with your Refuge of Lyes and your Nakedness will be discovered in the sight of all Men. Again This Author Subter pag. 5. falsly suggests to his too credulous Readers as if the Controversie depending between the Baptists Churches and the People called Quakers was touching the holy Scriptures or to express it more fully saith he The Authority of the Holy Ghost as he speaks in the Scriptures to try and judge the Spirits of Men which they term the Spirit of God Thus he But whether there be not a Lying Spirit however a Lying Tongue in the Mouth of this False Prophet let the Sober-minded judge And I here challenge him upon his Credit and Reputation with his own People either to produce in open view one clear Proof at least of any Declaration either by word or writing where any of the Quakers have termed the spirits of Men the Spirit of God or else let his stand opon record among his own People as a Lyar and a Slanderer to all Generations Again The Deceit of this Author further appears in his recital of the Narrative for the first Copy renders R. James and R. A. contending Whether the Spirit should try the Scripture or the Scripture the Spirit mark here is Spirit Spirit in the singular number as the Spirit of God is but one but in his recital Subter p. 7. he renders them contending Whether the Scriptures were to try the Spirits or the

also the Authority of the Holy Spirit as he speaketh in them And shew us also how it cometh to pass that Men mistake them notwithstanding And you must also prove That the Scriptures are indeed a Competent Judge of the Holy Spirit as he appeareth in his Servants And you must invalidate all whatsoever is here written and proved to the contrary And if you shall fail to do all this by clear Proofs and evident Demonstrations of Truth for Trifling and Impertinency will not serve your turn nor Lyes shall no longer be your Refuge then will your Vizards be taken off your Faces and your Refuge of Lyes will be swept away and in the sight of the Quakers whom you Despise and of the whole Nation you will appear to your great Shame and Contempt to be what indeed you are For they that dwell at Jerusalem and their Rulers because they knew him not nor yet the Voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath Day they have fulfilled them in condemning of him Acts 13.27 A few Queries to Ralph James and the Author of the Subterfuge Overturned c. by them to be Answered in Truth and Plainness I. WHether is our Lord Jesus Christ whom the Scriptures testifie to be the Light and Salvation of God to the Ends of the Earth the only true Way of Life on high to avoid from Hell beneath yea or nay If yea then whether to affirm Water-Baptism to be the Way of Life on high to avoid from Hell beneath be not abominable Idolatry at least if not Blasphemy II. Supposing Water-Baptism were the Appointment of God as other things of like signification in former Dispensations have been yet if the Ministers thereof should Idolatrously intrude it into the Place and Office of Christ our Saviour that is affirm it to be the Way of Life to avoid from Hell beneath whether such Idolatrous intrusion be not as signal a Pollution of the said Ordinance of Water-baptism as the like Abuse of the Ordinances of God Isa 1. did pollute and render them abominable unto the Lord If yea then whether it be not high time for all and every Man concerned therein to arise and depart thence as not being their Rest it being so filthily polluted III. Seeing the Latin Verb baptizo is synonimous with the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to dip or plunge whether T. R. his calling your Water Baptism dipping in Water or your calling it the Way of Life on high to avoid from Hell beneath be the greater Abuse of the Way of the Lord and therein of God himself Answer plainly IV. Seeing it appears by the Scriptures that the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ wrought their Miracles Acts. 3.6 and cured Diseases by the Name of Jesus of Nazareth then Whether the Sons of Sceva their pretending to do the like Miracles by the same Name doth prove them to speak the very Language and Spirit of the Apostles yea or nay If nay as most certainly nay then with what Reason or Conscience canst thou affirm that R. Anderson in exhorting R. James to turn to the Light within spake the very Language and Spirit of the Quakers this Query is to the Author of the Subterfuge c. that he may clear himself from Deceit if he can V. Whether the Testimony which that Pythoness gave unto the Persons and Doctrine of the Apostle Paul and Sylas is not given as fully Acts 16. and at as high a Rate as any Testimony ye can pretend R. Anderson gave to the Persons or Doctrine of the Quakers And whether in such Testimony she appeared as a Proselite of the Christian Faith and as a Prophetess of the Christians yea or nay if nay then shew unto the Quakers and the whole Nation if you can why R. Anderson his testifying for the Persons and Way of the Quakers as ye pretend he did but prove it not should prove him a Quaker or appearing as one of their Prophets he being by your own Confession at that Time possessed with a Spirit of Delusion as she was then with a Spirit of Divination VI. Seeing R. James avers in his Narrative That R. Anderson pronounced him a Leper from the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot and that the same Judgment as he said was fallen upon one of his Children Whether you are not very deceitfull and unworthy Persons thus to abuse the Quakers and the whole Nation with a Counterfeit and ●orged Story of such a horrid Leprosie sith in exchange thereof you are now at last glad to accept of a Simple Sore And if ye think to avoid the Horror of your Guilt and Shame with this Evasion He said so he said so charging the poor Man your own Member with a Lye Then Whither doth not this evidence to the whole Nation your implacable Envy and Malice against an Innocent People that durst with so great Confidence attempt to asperse and slander them only upon the false and single say so of such a Person as even your selves then judged to be a false Prophet and possessed with a Spirit of Delusion And if your inveterate Envy and Malice herein be manifest to the Nation as doubtless it is then let the Nation and the whole World judge whether R. James be not infected with a more dangerous Leprosie then ever Mirjam was and like to continue so without Repentance until his Dying Day VII It being evident to the Nation that R. Anderson was no Quaker his Child not leprous his Wife and Family not so diseased as you pretended nor your Church such Workers of Miracles as you boasted but your whole pretence a meer malicious Juggle and Imposture which yet you pretend to be an Eminent Hand of God! Such a Witness of God little less then a Miracle tending to the Honour of God Exaltation of his Wayes and Appointments Establishments of his People Decision of the great Controversie Strength to the weak Hands and feeble Knees of his poor People c. and then to conclude thus And the Lord was mercifully pleased to hear our poor Prayers for them and to restore them c. with such like seeming devout Words wherewith your Letters and Narrative are repleat All this considered it s queried whether the Quakers and the whole Nation may not without the least Breach of Charity safely conclude that ye Anabaptists and Independents who have been either Actors Contrivers Asserters of or Witnesses to this Mischievous piece of Pageantry are the most notorious Dissemblers with God and the World and the very'st Hypocrites that ever our Lord Jesus Christ pronounced Wo against Quit your selves if you can VIII Whether they that make no Conscience to be Jugglers Lyars Hypocrites proud Boasters and the like or they that discover detect and affirm them to be such are the great Offenders IX Whether they that call and are call'd Rabbi Rabbi do not break that express Command of Christ Mat. 23.8 10. yea or nay If

pedetentim to tract this Author onely shall endeavour to wipe away that immerited Aspertion of Untruth and Immodesty which the Author under hand hath cast upon the Title Page of T. R's Book by proving their Narrative to be worthily stiled The Anabaptists Lying-Wonder and so proceed to such other Particulars as lie in my way That the Narrative of R. James is deservedly called A Lying-Wonder and that by their own Definition of a Lying-Wonder appears thus First Because it is False in it self 2dly It is brought to maintain a Falshood 3dly To Oppose a Truth That the Narrative is False in it self hath abundantly appeared in the two Books of T. R. beforesaid both by Testimonies Certificates sufficiently witnessed beyond all Contradiction But in regard this Author and some Independents in these Parts still urge That Rich. Anderson was a Quaker at least in Principle let 's hear what they say for themselves wherefore they should be believed This Author in the 10th page of his Subterfuge urgeth That R. A. was a Quaker n Principle and that for these Reasons First In that he restifies at a high rate for the Light Within 2. In that he hath proclaimed the Quakers to be the People of God and owned of God as was Moses 3. Because R. A. went in the Conceits of his own Heart on an Unsent Errand But what 's this to the Quakers Here is all the united Strength the Anabaptists and other Professors are able to make to prove R. A. a Quaker But will these poor Remains of their shattered Forces do it Surely nay Will the Devil 's frequent and open Confession that Christ is the Holy One of God prove him to be a Christian Or will that Pythoniss Acts 16. her following Paul and Silas many dayes perhaps more then they affirm R. A. conversed with the Quakers crying These Men are the Servants of the Most High God which shew unto you the Way of Salvation prove her a true Proselite and Convert to that Way of Salvation unto which with the Preachers thereof she had born so clear a Testimony Let the Sober-minded judge And if so ample Testimonies as clear and full as any they instance R. A. gave to the Quakers will not prove the said Conclusions then let Shame cover the Faces of the Anabaptists and their envious Confederates until they have Repented and taken as much Pains in the Vindication of God's Eternal Truth owned by the Quakers as they have taken in Opposing it Neither ought R. Anderson his pronouncing R. J. a Leper from the consideration of a Scripture as he confesseth and they own see Subterfuge p. 11. and then not sent by the Light the Quakers witness to to their own Contradiction as they before suggested nor his falfe Pretending to Heal the Sick which they urge he attempted but sail'd I say neither of these ought of Right to reflect upon the Principles or Doctrines of the Quakers or prove him one of their Prophets any more then the Sons of Sceva the Jew their naming over them that had Evil spirits the Name o● Je●us and Paul was reflective upon the Principles and Doctrine of Paul or proved them to be Prophets of the Christians who though they were not smitten with Leprosie or other inward Pains yet got they their Coates rent off their Backs and their Bones Beaten for their Presumption Thus it is manifest their Narrative is false in respect of the Father and no truer in the Child which R. J. affirms in his Narrative was smitten all over with Spots which they call Leprosie and since Dead as his Letter affirms but now after their Cross Examination of R. A. they are glad with Shame enough to exchange their Lepresie for a Simple Sore and the Dead Child is yet Above to the shame of chose Impostors were they not past Shame See Subterfuge p. 13. As Impious also is their Pretence That the Child was smitten with Leprosie for the Father's Offence sith R. A. has affirmed before two credible Witnesses men of honest Repution namely Tho. Markam and Edw. Gilliat both of Brigg That the Sore which they call Leprosie was upon the Child some time before the Father pronounced the Leprosie And the Truth of this is yet further demonstrable from R. Anderson's own word as recited by this Author himself in the 13th page of his Subtersuge where as in a vain flourish pretending to produce some considerable Proof of the Child's Reprosie he hath these words But now saith he let us hear what R. Anderson himself saith who being asked by their own Witnesses there named Whether he had not a Child that was smitten with Leprosie after he had pronounced R. James a Leper R. Anderson answers as this Author records it That he had a Child THEN that did break out into Sores Mark Reader he does not answer directly to the Question as they expected he would for then he should have said His Child was smitten with Leprosie afterwards but on the contrary his Answer clearly implies what is before proved viz. That the Child had the Sore upon it even THEN when the Father pronounced the Leprosie And here R. James and his Adherents have not onely Abused the World with their Lying-Wonder but also falsly Accused the Impartial Justice of the Most Righteous God who never yet would edge the Teeth of any Child when the Father only had eaten Sower Grapes much less would smite an Innocent Child for the Father's Offence with so Sore a Punishment as Spots which they call Leprosie all over whilst yet the Father's Sin was not Committed Let every sober man consider what spirit these men are of As for the Eye and Ear-witnesses of the Asslictions of R. A. his Family which the Quakors with good Reason call'd for this Author proceeds in his old mode of Subtilty and instead of producing them he tells us That there are Neighbours that say They dore member some Afflictions in R. A 's Family about Nine Years since but would not be brought into Question c. Would any man in his Wits bring such pittiful stuff as this in such a Concern Who knows not but most Families where Children are at one time or another are under some Affliction This is just like the Author But doubtless if he had any Witnesses to the Purpose he would not fail to produce them in such a Case as this where the Credit of their whole Party lies at stake therefore since he produceth none Reason must needs conclude he hath none for in such Cases the Maxim hold true De non apparentibus et non ex●●●e●●ibus eadem est Ratio And thus as their Narrative is proved salfe in it self so it was brought to maintain all the Falshood before said to wit concerning R. A 's Leprous Child afflicted Family and the Manner of their Healing all proved Falshoods And it was brought to oppose this Truth that the holy Spirit of God is the only true Standard to Judge and