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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54244	Truth rescued from imposture, or, A brief reply to a meer rapsodie of lies, folly, and slander but a pretended answer to the tryal of W. Penn and W. Meade &c. writ and subscribed S.S. / by a profest enemy to oppression, W.P.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Rudyard, Thomas, d. 1692. An appendix, wherein the fourth section of S.S. his pamphlet ... examined.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1392; ESTC R36662	46,879	75

the old Saying true viz. That one Renegado is worse then three Turks To which I answer not as W.P. but as one they call a Quaker His application of the first Scripture will be this If Michael did not bring a railing Accusation against the Devil then the Author of the Tryal should not have brought one against him It is so plain what he has said of him that we need not further blacken him But this latter part he grosly mis-understands and mis-applies for t is deny'd that any part of this Scripture affords one just Reproof of that so much abused Author We know how frequently the Devil himself has taken to the Scriptures for a Refuge and after this mans strange construction it will be railing to tell a man his Faults And truly when I seriously consider how gross and numerous his are as by his very Book appears methinks he was hard put to it for a Covert A railing Accusation is a false as well as wrathful one which he proves pag. 5. therefore a true though sharp reproof is none I know it is the humor of such who would live unrebukt to render it more criminal to reprehend then to commit a Fault that they may save their heads from the knock of just censure But who the Railer was we shall take leave to mention in its place However what has this to do with W.P. The second Verse we are equally unconcerned in Could he have found a Text that says But these speak well of those things they know not he might have more approacht the matter by excluding our science in the Law in owning our great Good-will unto it Of the latter our Tryal as by him represented is a demonstration but I could wish he were no worse then those concerned in that Scripture which was to speak evil of things they know not For I am perswaded he spoke malignantly evil of things he knew did not deserve it We do not only tell the World the tendency of our Doctrine is to incline mankind to Meekness and Patience c. but we bless the God of Heaven and Earth many ten thousands do believe the same and that on better Evidence then hear-say or bare report But whether S.S. or his Juncto can with any tollerable shew of modesty condemn the Quakers as destitute of Meekness and Patience who have so much wanted both as they Instrumentally have given the clearest evidence of the contrary by their inhumane Persecutions as well as we have done it by Suffering the same I am sure will be the Question He begins his Appology thus An high Charge against Sr. Samuel Starling then Lord Mayor if true Cujus contrarium verum and therefore a railing Accusation and that Light which is as they say within them by which they are acted and speak as they pretend is the spirit of the Devil the Father of Lyes These words both deny and give a Charge but with how much Truth and Reason I shall examine and begin with the latter I take this Expression to be the most venomous of all his Libel and seems to come hot from a Blaspheming Gnashing Spirit through a vexed Consciousness of Guilt The Light we profess to be guided by is so far from being the spirit of the Devil the Father of Lyes that its of God the Father of Truth Here may be read the Text inserted in the Period of his Title Page For he speaks evil of Divine Dignities who speaks against the Light for God is Light And he that says he hath Fellowship with God and walks not in the Light he lyes and deceives himself And if this scurrilous Libeller had ever known what it was to obey this holy Light he would have forborn so impudent an Assertion But 't is an evident sign of a feared Conscience as well as great ignorance to publish to the World that Light is the spirit of the Devil and not of God How many times do the Scriptures commemorate God and Christ by this Epethite Christ was promised by that very Name I will give him for a Light to lighten the Gentiles And John said of him That he was the true Light that enlightneth every man And Christ gives this Testimony of himself I am the Light of the World Also the Apostle Paul What ever is reproved is made manifest by the Light And John thus God is Light c. If you walk in the Light as Christ is Light c. And in the Revelations The Lamb shall be thy Light c. And of God it s said He dwells in Light God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all c. But in this man there is the very blackness of Darkness who calls Light Darkness and Darkness Light Evil Good and Good Evil. Next I cannot chose but observe how abruptly he falls from the matter of his Chapter to blaspheme our holy Light A high Charge the contrary whereof is true And that Light which is in them is the spirit of the Devil Behold the Confusion and Incharity of the man nay a rude pulling upon his own head the Vengeance of the God of Light Did he or any else ever hear us pretend to own another Light then in the Phrases and from the Scriptures before mentioned I am assured they did not And though I deny his Imputation yet what if I or any Quaker on Earth or all of them had acted injuriously to him or any man must that blessed Light we say is given of God and more then pretend we are guided by be villified for our Failings Nor is it less then wretched Blasphemy for any to say That because S.S. is a most horrible Imposter therefore the Grace or Light which God has given him is the Spirit of the Devil But this proves to me his Impiety beyond all other Demonstrations for nothing's more common then where men with wilful obstienacy have lived a rebellious and wicked life against Gods Light and Spirit in their Consciences there to spurn with gnashing Teeth and scalded Tongues in blasphemous Expressions against God and his Tabernable and those that dwell in Heaven But besides his very words carry such Weakness and Confusion with them that I will easily from thence inferr a Vindication of our Light and Friends And that Light which is as they say then he does not say it which implies that he thinks we lye at least are mistaken within them by which they are acted and speak as they pretend which supposes that he believes we are not really so acted nor do we speak by it only that we make it our pretence is the spirit of the Devil the Father of Lyes If I understand him or his words this is the genuine and true construction of them That Light that is in them is the spirit of the Devil the Father of Lyes yet I wont say it and I believe it s but their pretence to say they act or speak by it If this been't the very sense of the