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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63474	An epistle of caution to Friends to take heed of that treacherous spirit that is entred into W.R. and his abettors (as appears in his malicious book, falsly called The Christian-Quaker, &c.) ... : with wholsome advice and counsel, by way of information, that the simple-minded may not be ensnared by the crafts and wiles of Satan through faith fallen antichristian instruments is W.R. and such as are encred into the same malicious spirit with him / C.T.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing T262; ESTC R20258	17,842	24

God that none may fall into this Snare who are yet preserved out of it but that they may be preserved simple before the Lord as in the beginning when the Lords Power broke forth in them and melted their Hearts into Tenderness so will God bless them and still keep them in the Simplicity of his Truth and honour them that they may witness the Election to obtain and never to be deceived by false Glosses and fair Pretences c. I remember formerly God preparatively was at Work in order to reveal that Mystery which had been hid from Ages and Generations since the Apostles dayes and some were convinced of Sin and had sights of good things to come and in some measure came to be separated from the Sins of the Times and they did see a necessity of separating from the gross Multitude in their Worships and so did desire to seek after God and to wait upon him and the Lord touched them sometimes and made them sensible of the necessity of still pressing forwards after the enquiry of better things than they then were made Partakers of and some of these who after this continued simple and had their Eye to the Lord and were so pursued with Judgment for Iniquity that they could not fully give up the Reigns to it and so were under the Spirit of Judgment and Bondage or at Times as I may say great Fears these thus travelling on in their Spirits and being kept in this Exercise when the Power of the Lord broke forth in our Nation it met with many such and they received the Truth with us in the Love of it and came to witness the Operation of it and are preserved in it will be sorever as still they press forwards in their true Enquiry to discern know the Way of God's Spirit and the Products of his holy Power Now there were some who as aforesaid were touched and convicted with the Light of Christ Jesus in their own Consciences and for a time continued seeking after a farther Condition than that of living in Sin under the Notion Profession of Christianity but after a time going from the Simplicity of Innotent Enquiry after the Lord and his Power and Gospel they became Wise in Notions and aspired to Christianity with the Fragments of Old Broken and Weak Experiences together with the Addition of their own Comprehensions Wit and Invention and so became Wise in their own Conceits and so fell back into the low Worldly Things in a Worldly Spirit a Self-Righteous and a Pharisaical State Now these when the Truth and Doctrine of the Light of Jesus in the Evidence of God's mighty Power came to be published as the Pharisees did so they did even rebel against it and as bad as the common Priests became our bitter Enemies under specious and fair guilded Pretences c. Now this I relate as a Caution to those now who have received the Truth in the Love and Simplicity of it that they may take heed and keep to it in Simplicity that their Understandings may be kept open and their Hearts chaste and pure to Christ and God then will they in the Faith still follow on to know that at last they may come to be so established that the Devil can have Power no more to deceive them with all his Glosses and fair Pretences but they who are Careless and keep not to the Simplicity of Truth as it is in Jesus but let out their Minds into a false Liberty and in their Hearts are disobedient to God though they have known the Power of God in some measure and once were desirous to know his Salvation yet notwithstanding going from the Power and Cross of Jesus into a false Liberty of ushering their own Self-Wills and Wits in Truth 's Matters endeavouring to comprehend the Simplicity of the Way of God's Spirit and the Products of his heavenly Power by leaning and trusting to their own Understandings though otherwise they may appear in a Self-Righteousness with fair Pretences and Glosses to deceive the Hearts of the Simple yet for all this God will find them out and this is too much the Condition of W. R. and his Adherents who had they kept to the Simplicity of the Government of the pure and chaste Power of God in their own Particulars they would not have grown so Fool-hardy as to be seen Publishing and Patronizing such a Treacherous Wicked Book as that falsly called The Christian-Quaker c. Now one thing more I have to say at this time in relation to such tender simple-hearted Friends as may be ready to stumble at the appointing of Mens and Womens Meetings fearing lest it should bring in Formality and usher in an Apostacy and some are too ready to strengthen such a jealousie in them by telling them Now you see the Apostacy is coming in for so it came in in the Primitive Times by setting up Councils and Meetings c. Unto which I Answer Though some have in this day been found too much promoting such false Doctrine amongst simple People to make them evil affected with our blessed Meetings in the Power of Christ yet I say the Apostacy first came in by departing from the Power of God and then their Meetings were empty Forms without the Power and they fell into Confusion and Disorder and many Sects and divers false Opinions and so all along to our day the Apostacy hath continued amongst all who have not come to the true Faith that stands in the Power and this we clearly came to see when we were convinced of Gods holy Truth and to declare as we still do and I hope ever shall against all such formal Worships as are set up by the Will and Wit of man but had they stood in Gods Counsel they would have known the Heavenly Worship in Spirit and Truth and been one with us in this day but their Meetings being out of the Power is the Ground we cannot own them and therefore the Primitive Meetings before the Apostacy came in now come to be restored amongst us and the heavenly Power of Jesus to be the Author of them and not a worldly Pope or Bishop c. And so let none be jealous at our appointing Meetings for Gods Work and Service in his holy Truth because they may be very sensible of the Antichristian Meetings all abroad where the Meeters and Assemblers together band together against Gods holy Truth and the Possessors of it And let none be jealous That we have not the same Care of God's Honour and Glory that we had when the Truth broke first out amongst as but rather believe that our Godly Care is encreased and doth still encrease and that we are still of God neither dare nor can appoint or set up any thing against the Truth but for the Service of it as the Lord moves us and that the Power of the Lord may still be the Authority and Ground of all our Meetings and all Friends may encourage one another in that which is Virtuous Holy Clean and Comely to the Praise of the Everlasting and only Wise God who lives and reigns forever And this in pure Love was upon my Spirit to write as a Caution to Honest-hearted Friends to take heed of that Spirit of W. R. and his Abettors and of J. S. and J. W. who shelter under it who will not be seen to Print themselves but have afforded W. R. matter to fill up his Book with who is so Imperious and Malicious that it seems he tak●● little heed what he saith or doth Thus have they and their Adherents endeavoured to betray us to the World Judas-like and like all others who have been found in the same Evil and Ungodly Work with them And I truly desire they may come to see what Master they serve and whose Work they are doing and Repent and call in and judge all their Evil Work which they have Printed and spread abroad to defile Simple and Ignorant Minds with for the Wise in Heart see both it and them and are taught how to avoid it all C. Taylor London the 12th of the 3d Moneth 1681. Page 3. line 15. dele who P. 6. l. 36. dele give in THE END Books Printed for John Bringhurst viz. The Life of Christ magnified in his Minister Or certain Testimonies thereof relating to his Faithful Servant GILES BARNARDISTON c. Price 3 d. An Epistle of PAUL to the LAODICEANS Price One half Penny An EPISTLE of Caution to FRIENDS to take heed of that Treacherous Spirit that is entred into W. R. and his Abettors as appears in his Malicious Book falsly called The Christian Quaker c. Price Three half Pence

Pray that if it be possible he and they all who unit with him in this work of Wickedness may find a place of Repentance for their case is miserable and Wo and Misery will be their portion forever except they Repent for the God of Heaven is angry with them and it will break forth upon them and they shall know that he is the Living God with his People that they may stand and be established by him forever and that neither W. R. nor his Adherents will be able to pull them down even such whom he hath so vilified and abused in his Book and especially that dear Servant of God G. F. whom he hath so basely bespattered in his Book and Printed and Published this to the World as I may say to put such a monstrous shape upon him as that the very worst of men may fall upon him Is this Love nay it is Wickedness and monstrous Iniquity and the burthen of W. R. and his Adherents which they must bear for these things will be too heavy for them and Truth will prevail over all and God will put his Beauty and Comliness still more and more upon such as dear G. F. and others who are faithful to the living God and a thorow Decission will come that in the end the Simple-hearted that fear the Lord in their Hearts may be undeceived of the false Coverings of W. R. and his Abettors and then they will be easily seen and discerned as they are in their Nature to the view of every Upright-hearted Friend that loves the Truth and so their rank will be found to be the same with R. S. J. Penniman R. R. and the rest afore-mentioned who went the same way and at last grew wicked in Printing and Publishing as W. R. hath now done And whereas some professing Truth have been offended with Mens and Womens Meetings as now established amongst us by the Power of God and the Practices of such Meetings calling them Innovations viz. That it is a bringing in of new things into the Church or altering the state of it c. Unto this I Answer That Government and Good Order is needful to be established in every Family much more in the Church of God that every Member of the true Church may know its Place and Service in the Body fitted thereunto by the Power of God then will it fall in naturally and in course that every Member will know its Office and whereunto it is called with the heavenly Call of Christ Jesus and these are they that take their Possessions in the Life Power and Wisdom of God and are fit to do service in the Church and of such Members is and ought to be the composition of Mens and Womens Meetings who reverence and fear the Living God and have a care of his Service and that all that profess Truth and that are turned to it may be preserved in it then such faithful Members and savoury sanctified Ones whether men or women when they meet together in their Meetings meet with the Lord in the midst of them and his pure Wisdom and Power to guide them in that they are called unto as they faithfully and truly wait upon him in such Meetings so the Work is the Lord 's they are about and those that are faithful unto God and Eye his Power and seek his Glory in the course of their Lives will not fail to do the same in these Meetings and as so then let the Wise in Heart judge Whether this be not the Way of God for the establishment of Gospel-Government in his Church that all may be kept sweet and savoury in his House to his Praise forever And how this can be called Innovation and Apostatizing into Forms is certainly Monstrous and great Ignorance where the Power of God is kept unto for no other Meetings we do affirm in Gods Presence we account right but as they are Constituted in the Power God and kept in it and this we affirm to have been the Primitive Christians Practice so long as they kept to the Power but when there is a going from the Power and that comes to be lost as to them then all Meetings are alike to such and so came in the Apostacy and Innovations after the Primitive pure Times and then the Key of knowledge came to be lost and Antichristian Formality to be set up and gradually many strange Ceremonies and superstitious Things to be observed and that was all wrong and the Order of God's Power and Truth was awanting in those times as to the true Church and the true Government of it because their Churches so called were said to be visible Churches consisting of Nations or Parishes c. But the true Church was invisible to the Carnal-minded Ones and such as did not fear the Lord nor worship him in Spirit and Truth though God had his Witnesses in the darkest times of Ignorance Popery and Superstition which had spread over all and Nations had drunk the Whores Cup of filthy Abominations yet some Witnesses were raised up by the Lord to bear witness against the Wickedness and Abomination of those times Now the true Church of God which is coming to appear out of her Wilderness state begins to flourish and to become as a Garden watered and pruned by the pure Power of God and for this end God in our D●y has raised up many Witnesses blessed be his Name forever and they are at work in his Garden the Heavenly Plantation of his own Hand and seek his Glory in all things And now the Heavenly Wisdom sees meet to give sorth again true Gospel-Order and Discipline as in the Church of Christ before the Apostacy entred and makes choice of such as are capable in this Work and Spiritual-minded and when they come together they can rejoyce in the enjoyment of God's presence with them and the Holy Order of the Gospel is committed to such whether Men or Women And whether in these Meetings or in other Meeting any thing be said or done thorow Infirmity or want of a good Understanding in some who may come to such Meetings that does not overthrow the constitution of any Meeting the Power of God hath set up and is the Authority of but the Endeavour is and ought to be that there may be a growth in the Truth in all these things by such as are faithful untill the House of God be established in its Glory and God's heavenly Wisdom and Power shine through all So the Foundation of good Meetings and good Order in the Church of God is truly laid amongst us by the Lord and it is he that lays those good things upon us which we do in our Men and Womens Meetings in relation to good Order in Marriages and many other necessary things which are done in such Meetings bring honour to God for the state of the Churches is enquired into that every true Necessity may be answered and if possible every disorderly thing may be separated