THE Quakers rejected Which was also Foretold by a Person once Eminent amongst them taken out of his Writings which were Published some Years ago How are the Mighty fallen How is the Faithful City become an Harlot In it was once the Seat of Judgment and Righteousness but now Oppressours and Murderers bear Sway and Rule Therefore shall they be dashed to Pieces like a Potters Vessel And whether they will Hear or whether they Forbear this is Truths Testimony which certainly unerringly and infallibly shall and will come to pass J. P. I Have long seen the Abomination that makes desolate standing amongst the Quakers Wherefore hear the Word of the Lord ye Rulers of Sodom and People of Gomorrah 't is this Spirit that hath encompassed your Jerusalem about as with Armies by which we know that the Destruction thereof draweth nigh Finally 't is that Spirit of Wickedness in the form of Righteousness that hath already torn your Crown from off your Head and discovered your secret Parts so that the Scab of Contention and Strife is seen which will never leave nor cease to divide you till the name of Quaker become an Hiss and a Scorn amongst the Nations And you shall leave your Name for a Curse to my Chosen whom you have cursed saith the Lord God Everlasting who will slay Thee and call his Servants by another Name it may be Hallelujah which you have so much defam'd And You that for the vast numbers of your Tribes have seemed to magnify your selves in your increase of Children Wo be to You that now give Suck and take so much pains to add to your Sect for behold in one day loss of Children and Widowhood shall come upon You yea a Voice as that in Ramah shall be heard among you Lamenting your Children because they are not Of this I am most certain that a Bitter Lying and Persecuting Proud Spirit inhabits your Tents which Babylonish Garment hath long been seen to lie hid amongst that Tribe called the Ministry the Teachers and Leaders of the Quakers even such Spiritual Wickedness which if practis'd amongst the Presbyterians Independents or others whom ye disown and can see in them nothing that is good they would abhor themselves therein which You as with a Whores Forehead boldy maintain and defend You are in truth those that justify your selves before Men but God knoweth your Hearts and the day is at hand even at your very Door which will Discover Reveal and Preach as upon the House tops many and great Abominations which yet lie hid amongst You that so You may be judged according to your deeds In which day all your smooth and gilded words of Light and Love will not hide You neither yet your flourishing Profession and high esteem You have of your selves and the low esteem You have of others will not cover you from being seen The Golden Head of that Image whereof others are the Iron Lead and Clay yea the very Name in which You have Prayed and Prophesyed when innocent and in which You have cast out Devils and wrought Wonders shall now reject You saying Depart from me c. I know and have long seen that Offences must and will be and that the wo is to them who are offended with what is just and innocent For surely this is the Day of Jacob's Troubles wherein for the division of Reuben the first Birth which stands in uniformity to Man in the things of God there will be great thoughts of Heart Insomuch that if any Offence arise in this Particular the Lord knowing my Innocency therein makes me to say Blessed are ye that are not offended in me or rather in what the Spirit of Love worketh in Man for I see the Spirit 's leading is that Stone and Rock of Offence at which many in Israel have stumbled and falling Headlong as Judas did Acts 1.18 are burst asunder and all their Bowels of Love are gushed out and nought left them save Wrath and Enmity against the Innocent Brethren This spurning and stumbling at the Corner-stone viz. Gods Spirit in Man is the only ground of all these Breakin gs and Divisions which are at this Day c. Yea the Son and Heir of Heaven the Light and Truth in the inward Parts is become the Gin and Snare to Israel after the Flesh who think they do God good service when they smite backbite and devour the Innocent and Upright in Heart As if to follow other Mens Light would save the Soul rather then to follow the Light and Measure of God in themselves But when Man leaves and forsakes Gods Grace in himself which is sufficient to lead into all Truth and by his own industry partakes of the stollen Waters of the Harlot viz. Mans Inventions and Teachings he will then with all the bitterness and violence of Man endeavour to defend this Idol read Ezek. 8.12 as more affecting the Work of his own Hands then respecting the Rule which God hath given him to walk by And because I see the Son of Man is coming forth to bruise as with a Rod of Iron the Unrighteous Nations not to bring Peace but a Sword I also in obedience to the Father's Commands have sold my Coat made of Good-will to all both Persons and Things that I might purchase a Sword with which contrary to my Nature I am constrained to plead like a Man of Contention against this proud Pharisaical and perverse Generation this Leviathan and crooked Serpent in whose Nostrils unless a Hook be put would swallow not only the Rivers but also the very Sea into himself viz. receive all tho never so unclean in Heart and Spirit if outwardly they will but own him receive his Mark and Number of his Name and walk in outward Observation and Shew conformable to them who whilst they profess themselves free from sin and being the only Children of God are notwithstanding found bitter Persecutors of the Truth and Enemies to the Vnction the Anointed one in whomsoever He doth appear thereby rendring themselves guilty of all the innocent Blood which hath been spilt from the Blood of Righteous Abel even unto this day all which Blood cryeth aloud for Vengeance upon the well-favour'd Harlot Mystery Babylon who in the Golden Cups and goodly shew of an outward Profession hath inwardly with a bitter ravening and devouring Spirit made her self drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus I have observed that those that forsake Father and Mother the Sect that nourished and brought them forth to follow the LORD fully and wholly as did Caleb Joshua and Jesus c. not minding their own Reputation or Fame nor loving their Lives unto the Death such I say have been accounted as in all Ages so by this Hypocritical Proud Self-righteous Generation as the worst of Men calling them Ranters Atheists Blasphemers Devils any thing even all manner of evil so they may wound the Truth and slay the innocent Desenders thereof whose harmless Souls I
see lying under the Altar of Truth sorely oppressed for their Testimony thereunto and crying out How long Lord God holy and true e're thou dost judge and revenge our Blood For whose Elect sake the God of my Salvation will suddenly arise and then behold Enmity Lyes and Falshood c. even all that Spirit of Wickedness will surely fly hide it self and sink again into the bottomless Pit from whence it came I have been by none so shamefully vilified and abused as by the People call'd Quakers Who care not whom they slander or what lyes they tell so they may advance strengthen and increase their Party and Sect. By all which it will evidently appear that the Spirit of Deceit and Falshood is crept in and doth inhabit amongst this People I have thus much to signify to the Quakers that if they would forbear any longer to give the Innocent of their Wormwood and Gall to drink and rather study Peace and Quietness and learn to love their Enemies yea if possible turn that which some account Evil unto Good or at the least reward Evil with that which is Good and not pervert the Words and Actions of others which are honestly and innocently intended to an evil and wrong sense I dare assure them that to follow this Way and Spirit of harmless Love and Kindness will sooner bring them into the Land of Canaan viz. into Peace and Rest with that of God in all His Creation than their high talk of Infallibility and Self-perfection shall do or their saying with the Pharisees of old that God is their Father whilst they are doing the Devils work and found smiting tearing and devouring the Innocent c. Assuredly these their high Notions and lofty Imaginations will no longer serve to hide them from the Wrath of the LAMB who is now arising to take Vengeance of all that have had a hand in slaying Him for a Separation is making between the Precious and the Vile between him that serveth God in newness of Heart in the upright Spirit of Love in well-doing and those that serve and please themselves a Sect a Party or an Opinion only And were not Persecutors Blind in Heart and Hardned they would soon discern how that Love that thinks none ill gives no evil wrathful Names especially to those they know no evil by as Ranters Whoremongers Devils c. And that this is not the Spirit of the Lamb but the Dragon that casts out his Flouds of Enmity after the Manchild the Son of Love who surely must and will take the Kingdom and get the Victory over Enmity the worst and greatest Enemy of Mankind Therefore is He now arising to dash one against another Brother against Brother one against two and two against three till the Earth hath disclosed the Blood she hath drunk and the Seed of God be recovered out of that Reproach and Shame under which it hath layn buried by the inveterate and implacable Spirit of a Carnal Formal Profession yea redeemed to walk in Gods way which He by his Spirit shall direct in every Heart and Conscience For this I know and do declare that my God will not leave overturning overturning overturning till He comes who brings along with Him Truth and Love to Equity and Righteousness whose right it is thus to Rule and Reign in the Hearts and Consciences of His People whose way shall be prosperous upon the Earth You greatly cry out and call upon others to fear and dread the LORD yet your selves are so ignorant of that Lesson that ye blindly run on to judge the Innocent and condemn the Truth yea to smite the Apple of Gods Eye and irreverently reach at the Signet on His right Hand by condemning and speaking evil of the things you know not which sufficiently demonstrate that You are out of the pure Fear that keeps the Heart clean from those Abominations into which You so easily run Alas what are all your smooth words of Light Love and Truth whilst they spring from the Root and Spirit of Falshood Envy and Bitterness and what is it to speak with the Tongue of Men and Angels to have the Gift of Prophecy to open Mysteries or to have Faith that could remove Mountains and have not Love and Charity what will all this avail you Are You herein better than Balaam was I tell you nay for he knew as much as You do and was more Honest and Sincere for he knew not only the difference between the two Seeds when his Eyes were opened which was Blessed and which Accursed but was also well acquainted with the Seed of God its Beginning Progress and End Yea and more he did not curse it but owned it and would speak nothing but Truth and what the Lord put in his Mouth that only would he say but Ye utter Lyes and Falshood with great confidence against the Innocent even what the Devil suggesteth Thus having lost your first Love and forsaken the Faith once deliver'd to the Saints you are now like that Evil Spirit cast out running to and fro walking through the dry places of your Elders Traditions following the Footsteps of Amalek the first of Nations those you call Good old Friends seeking rest but never shall find any so long as Balaak and Balaam that bitter Spirit leads to Curse whom God will surely Bless and bring over you for Ye must fall and with Haman Saul and Herod be insnared and taken even in the same Pit of cruel Deceit which you have digged for your Innocent Brethren and herein for some time will the Faith and Patience of the Saints be exercised Thus am I clear from the Blood of all Men in that I have not ceased both by Words and Writing to forewarn of the coming of this Antichrist among the Quakers who for more then ten Years last past have been that poor Ass speaking as with Mans Voice reproving and withstanding the madness of this Lying Wrathful Bitter Persecuting Spirit knowing right well when it enter'd and you thereby came to reject the LORD that He should not reign over you by His Spirit of Light and Love but rather chose to your selves a King like unto other Sects and Nations for to judge and rule you who was not the Vnction nor the Anointed of the LORD nor yet the Olive Fig nor Vine that could heal rejoyce or bind you up but the Bramble and King of the bottomless Pit that shall so rend tear and devour you till not one Stone shall be left upon another which thing tell G. F. that FOX your King By what is written you may see how this High and Luciferian People the Quakers who for their Shew and Numbers have been as the Stars of Heaven and who for their Pride and Enmity are now cast down behold what Clouds they are without Water even wandring Stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever WHOSE FALL IS THE RICHES OF THE WORLD insomuch that Carnal Whoremongers and Adulterers over whom
they have exalted themselves shall sooner Repent find Mercy and enter Gods Kingdom of Grace then this Spiritually Adulterous Proud Generation that account so highly of themselves and to be the only Children of the Kingdom who shall be shut out So that the first in Profession are now become the last in Possession of the Kingdom which standeth not in Words nor yet in outward Appearances but in Humility and Love unfeigned yea in Righteousness Peace and Joy And till I hear of your publick Repentance as you have publickly appear'd against the Truth and the Innocent Defenders thereof I shall esteem you no better then Judas or as Infidels and Heathens that have denyed the Truth and Faith once deliver'd to the Saints which to maintain some have hazarded the loss of all Things yea suffered great Shame and Reproach amongst you But blessed be God that which Ye intended for evil against me that hath the Lord my God turned unto good for which my Soul doth bless and magnify His Name and for ever give thanks even whilest I am and when I am no more The foregoing being printed in less room then was expected the vacancy is fill'd up with this following Letter which was lately sent to one of the said People FRIEND YEsterday we received from thee a foul and dirty Letter both within and without loathsom indeed to a clean Mind wherin thou confirmed what was spoken the same day at your open Meeting which was this That as certainly as ever a Lying Spirit enter'd Ahab 's false Prophets so as certainly and assuredly hath a deceitful Lying Spirit enter'd your Preachers Canst thou have the boldness to charge your own Iniquities upon us in that thou mentions our revelling and ranting at Merchant-Taylors-Hall when at the same time we were kept in a sober serious weighty Spirit was it not wickedness sufficient in You to deny us that Meeting-Place wherein we had a just right but You must come thither where we were in the fury of your Spirits to make a disturbance and when you had done all this adding sin unto sin You have taken liberty to your Tongues greatly to bely and reproach us saying report and we will report defame and we will defame The truth is You had wanted matter exceedingly to have fulfill'd your own corrupt wills against us after we were made to provoke you had it not been for burning the Paper at the Exchange and inviting several Persons to Merchant-Taylors-Hall things of no evil in themselves neither done with an evil Mind but You seeing your Kingdom was struck at and like to lose your outward Glory and Image you had set up herein got occasion against us as Joseph's Mistriss did against him for leaving his Garment in her Hand and so have like the false Prophets of old heaped up slanders and scandals upon us from time to time to make us odious in the eyes of all so far as lay in your power but the time of Joseph's imprisonment is at an end and what You have sowed You must now reap for your selves are become an odious People in the eyes of most sober Persons so that the common Proverb with many is You are as cunning as a Quaker it may indeed be matter of grief to us all that it should be thus but as Righteousness establisheth a People or a Nation so on the contrary Vnrighteousness throws them down Alas is there any matter made amongst You of telling lyes How many have you told writ and printed concerning us I must tell thee my own Mother tho she never came into any of your outward Professions would punish a lye with severity which when I have consider'd and also the little Conscience You make thereof truly I have admir'd the Ground hath not opened and swallowed up some of You for an example and warning to the rest There 's many gross evils breaks forth dayly amongst You but where 's your Testimony Year after Year against them for Evil-doing as hath been against us for Well-doing some of You I do believe keeps clean the outside but inwardly You are as ravening Wolves for if any oppose You and testify against your Form You endeavour to ruine them both Soul and Body so far as lies in your Power so You are far from doing as You would be done unto and so far from rendring Good for Evil that You dayly reward Evil for Good I tell thee revelling and ranting my Soul ever abhor'd therefore put those words upon your own that doth so I have hitherto been very tender towards thee for the love I have had to thee and thy Wife but the day of recompence is come and thou shalt know thou art not right in His sight who beholds the secrets of all Hearts therefore be humbled and sit in silence exalt not thy self lest thou be made an example to others I am thy Friend M. P. 27. of the Month called January 1676. We are very guilty concerning our Brother in that we saw the anguish of his Soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this trouble come upoon us THE END