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A56194 The Quakers unmasked, and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs, Jesuites, and Franciscan fryers, sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation by an information taken upon oath in the city of Bristol, January 22, and some evident demonstrations / by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1664 (1664) Wing P4047; ESTC R8191 28,485 41

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transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their works With these sacred Scriptures to these New quaking male Prophets whom God never sent abroad to seduce the people of England but the very Father of Lies Jer. 14. 14 15 16. ch 23. 21. to 33. ch 27. 15. ch 29. 31. These Prophets prophesie lies in my name I SENT THEM NOT NEITHER HAVE I COMMANDED THEM NEITHER SPAKE UNTO THEM They prophesie unto you a false vision divination and a thing of nought and the deceit of their heart I have not sent these Prophets yet they run I have not spoken to them yet they prophecyed I have heard what the Prophets said that prophesie lyes in my name saying I have dreamed I have dreamed How long shall this be in the hearts of the Prophets that prophesie lyes yea they are Prophets of the deceit of their own heart which think to cause my people to forget my name by THEIR DREAMS which they TEL EVERY MAN TO HIS NEIGHBOR Therefore behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steal my word every one from his neighbor that use their tongues and say be saith Against them that do prophecy false dreams and do tell them cause my people to erre by their lyes yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit this people at all saith the Lord FOR THEY PROPHECIE A LYE unto you for I have not sent them saith the Lord yet prophesie a Lye in my name that I might drive you out and that ye might perish ye and the Prophets that prophecie unto you for I will powr their wickednesse upon them With these Gospel-Texts to our New Quaking Female Prophetesses who now in imitation of the New Order of Jesuitesses who out of a pretended zeal of propagating the Gospel and converting Souls to God presumed to wander abroad and preach publickly in England and elsewhere to women and others above the imbecility and beyond the modesty of their sex for sundry years to the great scandal of Religion till at last they were excommunicated and totally suppressed by Pope Vrban the third his Bull Anno Dom. 1631. printed at Rome 1632. presume to speak publickly to the people in some of their Congregations as well as to deliver certain pretended Messages from the Lord who never sent them to private Ministers and others 1 Cor. 14. 33 34 35 37. Let your Women keep silence in your Churches or Assemblies FOR IT IS NOT PERMITTED UNTO THEM TO SPEAK but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the Law And if they will learn any thing let them aske their Husbands if married at home For it is a shame for women to speak in the Church For God is not the Author of confusion or tumult but of Peace as in all the Churches of the Saints If any man thinks himself to be a Prophet or Spiritual let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you and this against women speaking publickly in the Church are the Commandments of the Lord Therefore their speaking against Gods Commandments in this sort is onely by the instinct mission and command of the very Devil in opposition to these Gospel-precepts thus seconded again by the Holy Ghost 1 Tim. 2. V. 11 12 13 14. Let the Women learn in silence with all subjection For I suffer not a woman to teach to Vsurp authority over the Man but TO BE IN SILENCE for Adam was first framed then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the Woman being deceived was in the transgression And let those who run after and listen to these Feminine Predicants remember that of Isa 27. V. 11. The Women come and set them on fire for it is a people of no understanding therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour And with this complaint and prayer to God himself Psal 60. ● 2. O God thou hast cast us off thou hast broken us thou hast been displeased O turn thy self to us again Thou hast made the land to tremble thou hast broken and divided it O heal the breaches thereof FOR IT SHAKETH FINIS A Post-script THat the Jesuites The Pests and Perturbers of all Republicks who domineer by discords tumults Sects and Schisms as well as Franciscan Fryers have a principal hand in erecting promoting the new sect of Quakers or Shakers lately sprung up and much increased amongst us and that by Diabolical delusions sorceries enchantments practices to divide us as much as possible and extirpate our Ministers and Religion these particulars superadded to the premises may more than probably perswade if not satisfactorily convince all intelligent English Protestants and our Quakers likewise for whose information I have made them publick being unknown to most who are utterly ignorant of the stratagems of these Imps of Satan to seduce them to their eternal ruine 1. That Ignatius Loyola the Father of the Jesuites and first Founder General of their Order at first a Soldier by profession when he began to play the Impostor Seducer and institute his New Sect pretended a divine Call from God and Jesus Christ appearing to him whereupon he left his former Profession House Habitation cast off his costly Apparel which he gave away to the poor cloathed himself in course Sackeloth and ragged beggarly cloathes lying upon the bare ground without a bed wandred up and downe in them from place to place like a pilgrim professing the study of poverty penance Mortification and contempt of the world leading a most austere life for a time mostly eating little else but course bread drinking nothing but cold water fasting the greatest part of the week except on the Lords-day conversing with the poorest and meanest sort teaching and preaching to them often gratis in the open streets and woods and all other places where he came without any Ordination or licence at all from the Bishops or Clergy exhorting them to repentance austerity of life and contempt of all earthly things whereby he got great estimation amongst the rude people especially for his pains in instructing their children and them without any Reward gained many followers and some Scholars likewise to be his Companions Maffaeus Vegius Ribadeniera Joannis Eusebius Niremberger Hasenmullerus all Jesuites record at large in his Life with Hospinian and Ludovicus Lucius in their Historia Jesuitica And is not this the very practise of our Quakers and Shakers now who exactly imitate him herein 2. That Ignatius upon his first resolution to enter into this new strict kinde of Life and erect his New Jesuiticall Order fell into a fit of Quaking and Trembling as Ribadeniera his Disciple and others record in his Life Yea Hasenmullerus who was a Jesuite sundry yeares and lived in divers Jesuites Colledges in the end of his Jesuitical History with Ludovicus Lucius Historiae Jesuiticae l. I. C. I. p. 8. record in expresse terms from