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A35133 Some reasons why the people called Quakers do absent from the publique way of worship and cannot conform thereunto though they are exposd to great sufferings because thereof and also why they cannot swear at all and whether if be out of obstinacy or conscientiousness resolved / presented in the love and fear of the Lord to the serious consideration of all justices and all others who are moderately enquiring into this matter by J.C. Crook, John, 1617-1699. 1665 (1665) Wing C7214; ESTC R37696 6,376 9

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SOME REASONS WHY The People called QVAKERS do absent from the Publique way of Worship and cannot Conform thereunto though they are exposed to great sufferings because thereof AND ALSO Why they cannot Swear at all and whether it be out of Obstinacy or Conscientiousness resolved PRESENTED In the love and fear of the Lord to the serious Consideration of all Justices and all others who are moderately enquiring into this matter by J. C. WEE are a People that have desired and diligently enquired after the true knowledge of God the way in which he is Worshipped in which way we desire to walk and after much seeking and serious consideration we do find and are perswaded in our hearts and Consciences First That God is a Spirit and that his Worship is Spiritual according as Christ hath said Joh. 4.24 and that none are true Worshippers but such as worship in the spirit and in truth Secondly That Men must first Feel and receive a measure of the Spirit of the Lord before they can come to know the true way of Worship which is only learned in the Spirit Ver. 22 23. Thirdly That no Man upon the Earth can or ought to prescribe how or after what manner God Almighty is to be Worshipped so as to impose any practices upon Men but is to leave that to him to direct them by his good Spirit in things pertaining to his Worship and he is to perswade them thereunto and that they ought not to be compelled or forced to the true Worship much less to that which is so justly suspected by many people not to be the true way of Worship And it doth appear to us that the publique way of Worship or the Worship of the Church of England is very much different from this Spiritual Worship for we do see that they have not received the measure of the Spirit of Christ which leads into all truth but they do daily rebell and transgress against it doing those things that they should not and leaving undone those things which they ought to do so that they are without Spiritual health these cannot be the spiritual Worshippers for they that do worship in the Spirit do feel health and peace in it and therefore we have good reason to absent from the publique way of Worship And because that those that do frequent that Worship are not born again of the Spirit of Christ Joh. 3.3 but are still in an unregenerate state following the pleasures and vanities of sin and do live in all manner of wickedness as swearing lying drunkenness whoredom murder cousening and cheating and what other evils may be mentioned but may be found among those Worshippers and these are the works and fruits of the flesh and not of the spirit of God Gal. 5. and therefore we do absent from that Worship Besides they do not seek to draw and win People by love and tenderness and by the example of a good Conversation but do labour by violent force and compulsion to bring People to their Worship which the true Worshippers and Christians never did and do persecute and cause such to suffer who are otherwise minded that cannot come to their Church and Worship according to their prescriptions which the true Worshippers never did but said if any were otherwise minded God should reveal the same unto them Phil. 3.15 and they did not by force impose their Religion upon others But we do believe that that way of imposing of Religion upon People is of Antichrist and that all that ever do so impose are in the way of Antichrist and we do and must absent from them And also we find their Ministry is much different from the Ministry of the true Church of Christ both in call maintenance Doctrine and Conversation for they were Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter 2 Cor. 3. neither were they called by man nor taught by man the things which they did preach neither did they receive it from man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1. and they had received his Spirit by which the deep things of God are revealed 1 Cor. 2. But these Ministers are made at Oxford or Cambridge by learning Natural Languages and old Books and Authors and serve such a time there before they go forth and when they have attain'd that then they run when the Lord never sent them and they use their congues and say he saith it when the Lord never spoke to them nor called them forth to preach his Word but they are made Ministers by man and sent out by man and two or three hundred pounds a year calls them thither and there they will stay for their bellies and such the true Prophets and servants of the Lord witnessed against as may be seen Isa 56. Jer. 23. Mich. 3. and the Ministers of Christ did give freely as they had freely received according to Christ command Mat. 10. But these Ministers receives and forces Tythes from the People which Christ came to put an end to Rom. 10.4 And the Apostle said the Priesthood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law by which Law Tythes were paid Heb. 7. which the Ministers of Christ never received much less to force people to pay them but did witness against them for they pertained only to the Priests of the first Covenant and so in their maintenance we find them contrary to the Ministers of Christ and also they differ in their Doctrine for the Ministers of Christ did preach that People might wait to receive Christ into their hearts and that they might know Christ in them else they were reprobates and if Christ was in them the body was dead because of sin and they came to be dead unto sin and every particular Member of their Church was to know the Spirit of Christ in them and if any man had not the Spirit of Christ he was none of his c. Romans 8. But these Ministers tells the people that they are Christians and the Church of Christ though they know nothing of this in them but do live wickedly in sin and unrighteousness and are dead to truth and feel nothing of the opperation of the spirit of Christ in them but do still sin against it doing that they should not do and leaveing undone that which they should do and are not saved from sin nor made free by the truth and they tell them they must never expect to be free from sin nor to know the Revelation of Jesus Christ as former Christians did nor to know the power of God to work mightily and effectually in them to destroy the workes of the Devil while they are on this side the grave and so still keeps them in blindness and ignorance ever learning but still laden with fin and divers lusts and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth which makes free as we have seen and therefore we have denyed them and we do believe with the