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A65609	Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves, with a spiritual sword of their own forgery, whose names are here under-written their spreading spiritual murder cries up to heaven for justice, which appears clearly in this treatise ... / written in love as a fore-warning, given to all tender-hearted seeking, unsetled Christians, by Christopher Wade.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing W159; ESTC R33758	58,366	66

the drift of it I shall for brevity sake onely discover some few of them to give a taste to all the rest and to this end I finde recorded by him in his 31 pag. he therein affirming That John to wit the holy Apostle S● John though his peramount height would not stoop so low as to call him so but as being his equal if not his superiour he affirmed John said He that hath hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure but St. John did not say so for he saith Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself c. But James Parnel hereby not onely falsifieth the very words of Scripture by his taking the most significant word this out of that Text but he also therewith telleth a notorious lye against all denial by his affirming John said so and so he also fathereth his loud lye upon St. John by his affirming John said so He that hath hope in him whereas St. John said not so but said Every man that hath this hope in him But beloved it is worth our search to futer out the cause why James Parnel was so frighted as to take out of that Text that significant word this and we shall finde that if James Parnel had not taken out the word this it would have led his Reader to search further to know what is meant by this hope as distinct from all other hopes and his Reader would finde out in the very next verse going before that verse what St. John meant by his saying Every man that hath this hope for St. John in his very next precedent verse saith Behold now are we the Sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 but then in the next verse St. John saith And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself c. vers 3. to wit that hope which St. John declareth in his 3 verse But James Parnel was so amazed at those words this hope that he craftily took that word this out of that Text before he could make any quakish Doctrine of it But why so why so say you Why if he had taken in those words this hope they would have discovered First That whereas the quakers say That Christ's appearing the second time without sin unto salvation is manifested and accomplished in them both as Christ is God and Man But even the Sons of God in that Text do cry down that the quakers affirmation as being a delusion of the Devil for they even the Sons of God do affirm the flat contrary and say in full effect That Christ had not appeared by his second personal coming not so much as to them therefore much less in them though the quakers say That Christ is in them God and Man Secondly Those words this hope doth discover that whereas the quakers do affirm That they are so like Christ even in these their dayes of mortality that they do venture audaciously to say As he is so are we in this world even totally without sin in them as Christ is for they affirm That if a man be not totally free from sin in him he cannot be saved But even the sons of God do even in that Text affirm against the quakers That they were not like him in the dayes of their mortality and so were not then free from all sin in them as Christ is nor that they though they were even the Sons of God yet were not then so like Christ nor should be untill his second personal appearing for they there say We know that when we shall appear we shall be like him and it doth not yet appear what we shall be Thus punctually the Sons of God do by those words this hope confound that the quakers luciferian comparing themselves in equality to Christ Thirdly Those words this hope do discover that whereas the quakers tenents do maintain that no man can be a Son of God until Christ's second appearing God and man be manifested and accomplished in him But St. John and other Sons of God do in that Text maintain in plain and full effect that the Saints are the Sons of God even before Christs second personal appearing to them much less in them And whereas the quakers in full effect affirm that they have Christ God and Man in them in possession the Sons of God do affirm by that Text that it is their hope that Christ will appear at his second personal coming to them and not personally in them in possession And thus the holy Gospel-truths comprehended under those words this hope in that Text mentioned do utterly destroy all the three grounds upon which the whole Doctrine of quakery is founded even root and branch Now was it not high time think you my beloved for James Parnel to flie swiftly away from those words this hope This hope quotha it is enough not onely to affright James Parnel out of his light quakish wits but it doth also confound all the quakers not onely these in all England but also all quakers in all the whole world although no other Scriptures which do maintain the same Gospel infallible truths be produced against them for those two verses 1 John 3.2 3 are a key as is shewed to open a door of truth which doth utterly destroy all quakery root stem and twig this hope quotha I wonder James Parnal durst venture to come so ●eer it but you may see beloved That Satan in him and with him did go as wa●ily to work as they could for they first dragged that directing word this out of that Text and then so falsified they vapouringly howl'd i● forth as it were saying See here ●●e purity of the quakers Behold John saith That the quakers have s●me kinde of hope in them And now note James Parnel's direct falsifying the very words of the Scripture again for i● his 30 and 31 pag. he saith He that hath sin and saith he hath no sin deceives himself and is a lyer Thus be insers That there are some me● that have no sin in them which ●el●●th affirmed of himself in my ●earing of which here●f●ere but th●se his added words He that hath sin did not in that Text 1 John 1.8 and 〈◊〉 by his taking the word this out of the Scriptures as b●●●●e 〈…〉 his adding words unto the Scripture to delude people with 〈◊〉 ●●volved himself not onely to have his part taken out of the book 〈◊〉 but also to have all those plagues inflicted on him that are written in the book as is in full effect shewed Rev. 22.18 19. and for his lying brother quaker James Nayler's condemning law also adjudgeth him to be of the devil and not of Christ And now to discover James Parnel's notorious lyes and fearful blasphemies mixt together in his quakish Shield of the Truth note That in his 29 pag. he saith

the quakers malicious iniquity for in that their speech aforesaid they have in a high manner blasphemously seized upon the Holy Ghost himself also for they in that their speech have in full effect charged upon the Holy Ghost that he is the chiefest supreme Teacher not onely of a delusion but also of a great delusion of the Devil to maintain the Devils Kingdom by his the Holy Ghosts inspiring and thereby teaching all the Holy Saints aforesaid and all other such so humbly and faithfully to acknowledge that they had sin in them even when they were born of God and by his inspiredly teaching them to affirm that there is no man that sinneth not 1 King 8.46 2 Cor. 6.36 and also that there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 And now this their fearful blasphemy against the Holy Ghost himself being considered on and how fearfully the quakers I say the quakers because it is evident that they do highly esteem of that blasphemous book of James Parnel's now considering that therein they have also fearfully blasphemed against the Holy Ghosts teachings in the Scriptures they in full effect counting those Gospel-Scriptures not to be fitted by the Holy Ghost for any mans benefit but for the devil to take up un●●ered to maintain his the Devils kingdom and also noting that they have therein so horribly blasphemed against the Gospel precious vertues of Christ's death and blood shed and observing that they have audaciously affronted if not blasphemed against the whole Trinity which appears in full effect in my fourth Discourse and considering how they are proved to be of those false Christs and false Prophets shewing false signs and wonders in my tenth Discourse and also considering that they have made it manifest in their Doctrines which are in the Treatise detected That they have trodden under foot the Son of God and do count the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and that they do despite the Spirit of Grace these being the three marks appropriated to discover the sin against the Holy Ghost which is in full effect shewed in Heb. 10.29 and noting therewith how the quakers have from their own presumptuous wicked personal facts in full effect adjudged themselves to be of the Devil and not of Christ which appears evidently in my second Discourse and considering also that it is very well known that very many of them if not all of them have not onely received the knowledge of the Truth but have also been professors of the same before they were quakers but now they be fallen away from the Truth see how apparently all those destructive marks are found upon them that are mentioned in Heb. 10. from the 26 to the 31 vers It appears by and in all these respects and many other in this Treatise appearing that they the quakers are not onely of the false Christs and false Prophets aforesaid but also they the quakers are acting in the great and unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost and that they so persisting will run themselves unpardonably into the everlasting fearful curses thereto belonging notwithstanding whatsoever they are over-powered to conceit of themselves to the contrary And now thou James Nayler hast stopped thine own mouth from ever again uttering forth such a proud Goliah-like challenge as thou hast done where thou in the 23 pag. of thy Satan's Design discovered sayest And though we be counted the greatest offenders that ever was in the whole world by the heads of Sects yet is there not one of you that is able nor willing to judge us and our practice and judgement with the practice of the Saints in which they walked and plain Scriptures without meanings This is thy haughty challenge Iames. But now do you note That you quakers your own selves have even totally spared your Opposers that labour to judge you by the practice of the Saints which they have walked in for by your undeniable numerous presumptuous sins of your personal facts and false Doctrines you quakers have made it so manifest even against your own selves that you do walk in such notorious presumptuous sins which the Saints practised not which appears fully and truly in this Treatise that there is no need at all no not in the least measure for your Opposers to bring Scriptures neither with meanings nor without meanings to prove that over again which you have already so cleerly and firmly proved against your own selves that you quakers do walk in many notorious wicked practices even in a full affronting direct opposition against and quite contrary to the Saints practice and yet to make more sure work totally to spare your Opposers that labour Satan thy Master James hath exalted thee to be the Judge James in this cause and by thine own and the other quakers notorious presumptious sins though lurking under your outward glistering varnish yet judiciously to condemn thy self James and all them also to be lyers and so not abiders in the truth and so that thou and they also are of the devil and not of Christ which appears by thine own just law James by me related in thine own words in my second Discourse And thus thou thy self James hast made that thy aforesaid vaunting challenge not onely frivilous but ridiculous also And now considering that you sinful quakers do refuse the gracious help of the Gospel imputation I am constrained to leave you all under the justness of your brother quaker James Naylers fiery condemnation aforesaid And as for your thundring out severe charges and threatning fearful curses in print in full effect against all men that do oppose your quakery know all you quakers that I do set them all as light as levity it self even to be as ayry as your quakish legal couzen ing German the Popes roaring bulls and cursings with Bell Book and Candle for in the presence of my God who knoweth the truth hereof I do affirm as is before somewhat touched That he my heavenly Father for my humiliation and instruction hath formerly permitted the Devil to exercise his enthusiasms and seeming heavenly joys and speaking-voyces in me and to work his powerful quakish temptations in me distinctly as it were step by step even in the same manner that he the Devil doth now act and speak in you quakers and doth thereby teach you and over-rule you and deceive you quakers and doth also by permission thereby enable you to deceive others also And but for brevity sake I would relate at large the particular quakish gradations of the Devils former works in me how he would have perswaded me that I was Christ and he falling in that how he would have over-power me to believe that I should be a great admired Prophet and many other quakish luciferian exaltations he would have powerfully-fastned on me and in me sutably to the same order without Scripture-warrant even as he doth now work in all deceiveableness in you quakers and how that

those works in man although he never died for mens outward example onely that then you do evidently maintain that Christ did suffer in his bitter and terrible tormenting death absolutely and in all respects totally in vain and so it appears that you quakers are to eat up you former words and then affirm That there never was any Christ that died at Jerusalem and so that there never was any Christ in the world that ever had or hath any person of flesh saving onely your own personal quaking Christs now come into the world in your flesh And by your affirming That Christ had no Body but his Church which is firmly proved against you in my eleventh Discourse it doth appear that the last sense is your choice mark And now do you quakers lay your heads together and see what you can pick out of this bone Again you quakers whereas you do affirm in your Doctrines in full effect that if any man have the least sin or any sin remaining in his person that that man cannot then be possibly saved because that man whilst he hath any sin in him is of the Devil and not of Christ And in this respect I do also stand to maintain against all you quakers that if you will endeavor to support your quaking reputation you must even upon necessity prove by plain Scripture that your notorious lying foul-mouthed slandering cowardly backbiting dissembling equivocating falsifying in print of the very words of holy Scriptures to deceive people withal falsifying in print your Opposers words they being printed also your perverting of the plain and true sense of the holy Scriptures destructively to delude people withal and your fearful blasphemies I say again That if you quakers do not prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your self-proved manifold high presumptuous transgressions both against God and man also are nor any sins and are no sins in you quakers then I affirm that you your own selves by your own apparent practices in those high presumptuous transgressions aforesaid both against God and man also do render up your own selves by reason of those high presumptious sins in your persons to be utterly and totally uncapable of Salvation and you by your own judgement by you passed upon your selves are of the Devil and not of Christ for you quakers have made it so manifestly apparent that you do stand guilty before God in those notorious high presumptious sins aforesaid which appears by your own evil behaviours so firmly proved in this Treatise that it cannot be any ways stronglier proved then to shew your books and your Opposers and Scripture falsified by you especially because you sinful quakers do totally refuse the gracious help of the Gospel gracious imputation Therefore I advise you quakers to look about you quickly and to lay your heads together again to study it out how to prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your notorious high presumptious self-proved transgressions aforesaid are not any sins and are no sins in you even upon your everlasting peril aforesaid And as for your ●ooking in the word faith for a fashion into your quakers language it is evident by Scripture-doctrine that faith can be no other in your legal profession nor no other ways but a false gloss and a useless superfluous hang by if you do make light use of any kinde of ●●ith at all for by your considing to be saved by moral works wrought in you you do thereby make your pretended faith for a gloss vain frivilous void and of none effect And my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsetled ones you have no cause to be dismaded in the least measure at the quakers suffering for their quakery for as there is a spirit of Truth so there is a spirit of error also according to 1 John 4.6 and that man or woman that is by grace pofessed in them with God's Spirit of Truth is inabled by that holy Spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for God's cause requires it to suffer even death it self for the Truths sake witness the terrible sufferings of all the holy Saints and Martyrs in all ages and on the contrary that man or woman that is by Gods just punishment possessed in them with the devils spirit of error is enabled by that wicked spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for the Devils cause requires it to suffer even death it self for their errors sake witness the sufferrings of all erronious wicked Hereticks in all ages But those people that contentedly remain onely in their natural wilful ignorance and blindness and not being possessed with one of those two powerful spirits in them cannot possibly suffer neither for truth nor error witness those vast multitudes of unstable weak-minded men and women that were professors for Popery in some part of King Henry the 8 his raign and yet easily turned for Protestants and directly against Popery in King Edward's raign and yet did all readily turn again directly against Protestants and for Popery in Queen Mary's raign And doubtless very many of the very same persons did live in Queen Elizabeth's raign who then as readily turned again directly against Popery and for Protestants again Therefore my beloved ones consider well both of the powerfulness of the Spirit of Truth and spirit of error in them that are possessed in them with any of those two powerful spirits and how unable all the rest of the people of the world are to suffer either for God's Truth or the Devils inspired error Neither you my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsettled ones have any cause at all to be discouraged in the least measure at the quakers miraculous signs and wonders first because our blessed Saviour hath foretold us that the false Christs and false Prophets which should come into the world should shew such deceivable signs and wonders and because the quakers do say that they are Christ and because our blessed Saviour hath so lovingly given us such punctual warning to take heed and beware of such deceivers of which sort of deceivers the quakers have made themselves manifestly appear to be which is proved in my tenth D●scourse And secondly because the erronious Theadas and Judas of Galilee did draw much people after them even as the self-proved erronious quakers do now and because Simon Magus by his having bewitched the people with his Sorceries along time the people said This man is the great power of God even as much people now being bewitched with quakish Sorceries do magnifie the quakers even unto a luciferian height and because the Inchanters and satanical Magicians of Egypt did by permission work some of those miraculous signs and wonders by the power of the Devil in Egypt which Moses and Aaron did work in Egypt by the powerful finger of God which appears in Exod. 10 11 chap. and because it is written That there are some whose coming is after the working of the power of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders