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A65886	A serious account in XXXV evident reasons (to all who desire satisfaction) why the people of the lord, called Quakers, cannot go to worship at those places called churches and chappels, and to inform the magistrates and ministers that such consciencious people (as are separated from these places) ought not to be compelled (from their peaceable meetings) to their worship and churches, so called, being a short discovery of the way, worship, and principles of the true ministers and persecuted people of God, in several exceptions against the practices, worship, and principles of the priests, both of the Presbyterians, and Episcopal-men, and others of the same affinity, in some of which principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned, but in others of them, both are concerned in the general / by Geo. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1956; ESTC R20306	27,063	42

Name of Jesus when the Rulers among the Jews did so command them which they could not obey but chose rather to obey God than man Act. 4.18 19. As also it was against the Prophet Daniel's Conscience to obey King Darius his Decree which was That whosoever should ask a Petition of any God or man for thirty dayes save of the King should be cast into the Lyons Den But Daniel contrary to this Decree did pray to his God as he was wont to do Dan. 6 7 9 10. and we might as well be commanded not to speak any more in the Name of Jesus or not to call upon the Lord as to have our peaceable Meetings which are in the Name of Christ broken and to be halled violently out of our Meetings when we have been calling upon the Lord in Prayer as many of us have been thus dealt by and not suffered to enjoy our Meetings to call upon the Lord in them as formerly II. Of the Education of the Priests ALso it is against our Consciences to go to worship with the World at these places called Churches and Chappels because the Lord hath brought us to see the Education and fitting of the hireling Priests to their Ministry at Oxford and Cambridge to be set up in the Apostacy when there was a degenerating from the state of the true Church of the Saints And the way they are made Ministers is contrary to the way the true Ministers of Christ were made for they were not made Ministers by natural learning of natural Languages Arts Sciences Traditions Inventions of men and studying the several kinds of Philosophy and learning out of old Authors nor ordained according to man's will as the Priests are who by their natural industry and study attain to their Learning and Knowledge as the natural man may do who knows not the things of the Spirit of God and as Pilate and other Learned men who knew not God nor Christ had the learning of Tongues Joh. 19.19 20. But the true Ministers of the New Testament received not their Gospel of man nor were made Ministers by the will of man but by the Gift and Revelation of CHRIST in them in which they owned and approved one of another Gal. 1. 1 Pet. 4.10 But these Priests have told us that Revelations and Inspirations from Heaven are long since ceased contrary to Christ and his Apostles Doctrine and so shew themselves to be both out of the knowledge of God which is revealed to the Saints Matth. 11.27 and never sent of God or Christ and therefore it is against our Consciences to sit under their Ministry which they never received nor had Commission for from God III. Of their Humane Learning AS also the Apostle who preached not in the words which man's wisdom taught but in the words which the holy Ghost taught said to the Church Beware lest any man spoyl you through Philosophy and vain deceit after the Traditions of men after the Rudiments of the world and not after Christ and bad Timothy avoid opposition of Science falsly so called Col. 2.8 1 Tim. 6.20 1 Cor. 1. chap. 2. And when the Word of the Lord prevailed among the Jews and Greeks where Paul preached many of them which used curious Arts brought their Books together which were counted worth fifty thousand pieces of silver and burned them openly Act. 19.18 19. so that the Priests idolizing natural Learning and crying it up with their Philosophy natural Arts and Sciences as their means to fit them to their Trade of Preaching is in the darkness of Apostacy and Antichristianism contrary to the Life and Word which the Apostles and true Ministers were in and preached which Word was before natural Learning and Languages were and Plough-men Herds-men Fisher-men and the like were made Ministers of the Word among the People of God of old Exod. 3.1 1 King 19.19 Amos 7.14 Matth. 4.18 19 20 21. though humane Learning we own to be of use in its own proper place as a natural thing but not to be made an Idol of as the Priests do IV. Of Tythes and forced Maintenance THe Lord hath brought us to see that the Priests taking Tythes and forced maintenance from people is contrary to the Doctrine Practice and Example of the Ministers of the Gospel neither do they live of the Gospel when they force Tythes and Maintenance from people by an outward Law of man or help of the Magistrate to compel people to pay them for the true Ministers who lived of the Gospel and whose words and works agreed they preached the Gospel freely and laboured to keep it without charge as Christ commanded Matth. 10.8 1 Cor. 9.18 And their Maintenance was freely administred to them in that love which their Gospel had begotten in the hearts of such as received them without compulsion or persecution as where they had sown spiritual things there they might reap of their carnal things for their relief Also the Apostle preached the end of that Law and Priesthood of Levi which upheld Tythes and who received them for their service done at the Tabernacle and out them the Fatherless Widdows and Strangers were relieved Numb 18.21 Deut. 14. but this was under the Law which Christ ended and changed that Priesthood Heb. 7. Neither is Melchizedeck's receiving the tenth of the Spoyls which Abraham once freely gave him when he returned from the slaughter of the Kings Gen. 14. any example for the Priests yearly forcing the Tenths of men's Labours and Estates from them and their taking Easter Reckonings Midsummer Dues so called and making Bargains with people for so much by the Year for preaching and yet saying they are Christ's Ambassadors This is exceeding gross and contrary to the practice and example of the true Ministers of Christ. And therefore we cannot own such covetous men to be our Teachers for the Apostle bad turn away from such 2 Tim. 3.5 for they are guilty of them that went in Balaam's way for reward and of the sins of the false Prophets and Priests in Israel who preached for filthy Lucre and Hire and sought for their Gain from their Quarters Isa. 56.11 Jer. 5.31 Micah 3.11 And these Priests are like Eli's Sons who were sons of Belial in their taking away mens goods by force 1 Sam. 1. and not like Samuel who could challenge all Israel to testifie against him whose Dr or whose Asse he had taken or whom he had oppressed or at whose hands he had received a gift to blind his eye therewith and he would have restored it again but none could accuse him but justified him as free from these things 1 Sam. 12.3 4. As also it was the false Shepherds that fed themselves and not the flock and with force and cruelty ruled over them as the Priests do Ezek. 34. and against such the Lord was as he is against them now V. Of the Priests Unreasonableness in spoyling mens Goods ANd what shameful work have these Priests made in their

reconcile the Scriptures to themselves by their Meanings wherein they intimately accuse the Scriptures to disagree and to be false and imperfect in many things And many of the Priests contradict one another in their meanings upon Scripture when as the Scriptures of Truth were given forth from the Spirit of Truth in the Saints and cannot be broken Joh. 10.35 2 Tim. 3.16 which Spirit is that which must open the Scriptures and give men the true understanding of them Joh. 16.13 and not the Priests confused and invented meanings and senses which proceed from the spirit of Error in them who have denyed that they have the Infallible Spirit or Inspiration in them from Heaven from which the Scripture was given when as it is the Inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding Job 32.8 So that they who have not that have not the understanding of the Scriptures and such we cannot own to be our Teachers who being out of that Spirit which the holy men of God were in it 's evident they know nothing but what they know naturally and in these things they corrupt themselves Jude v. 10. XIII Of the Gospel ALso the Priests have shewed their Error and Ignorance about the Gospel in calling the four Books of Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel when as the Gospel is Everlasting being the Power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth Rom. 1.16 And the Gospel was preached to Abraham before the four Evangelists were Gal. 3.8 And there is not to be another Gospel preached than that which is the Power of God which the Apostles preached for he that preacheth another is to be accursed Gal. 1.8 XIV Of the Foundation and only Rule ANd the Priests in affirming the Scriptures to be the Foundation and only Rule of Faith and Life and the Word c. They affirm contrary to the Scriptures themselves and contrary to the Apostles Doctrine who said That another Foundation can no man lay than that which is laid which is Christ who is the Foundation of Faith 1 Cor. 3.11 though the Priests have preached another and though one while they profess the Scriptures to be their Rule yet another while they set their meanings above them as to reconcile them and act contrary to them and thus shew their Confusion but it is the Spirit of Truth that leads into all Truth And so the Saints had the Rule of Faith and Life before the Scriptures were written as had Abel Enoch Abraham Moses c. And the Gentiles who had the Law written in their hearts who had not the letter of it without had a true Rule of Life in them as many have who cannot read the Scriptures and whereunto the Saints had attained in the Spirit and Life of Christ they were to walk by the same Rule Rom. 2.15 Phil. 3.16 2 Cor. 10.13 14 15. And the Word was in the beginning and was in the hearts of the holy men of God before they spake forth the Words or writ the Scriptures wherein are the words that God spake which are a true Declaration of those things that were surely believed amongst the Saints but the Word of God liveth for ever and was before the words or writings of Scripture without were Psal. 119.11 Joh. 1.1 Luke 1.1 So that the Priests who have so much shewed their Ignorance about the Gospel the Foundation the Word the only Rule and yet say they are Ministers of the Gospel and of the Word we have sufficient cause never to own them as our Teachers XV. Of Swearing ANd the Priests in pleading for Swearing and teaching men that it is lawful for them to swear chiefly bringing Heb. 6.16 for it and some of them telling people that Swearing is a part of the Worship of God The Priests herein have shewed themselves to transgress Christs Doctrine and teach others so to do and so they have not God 2 Joh. ver 9. for Christ who is the end of the Law for Righteousness and the end of the Shadows under it he said to his Disciples It hath been said by them of old time Thou shalt not forswear thy self but shalt perform unto the Lord thine Oaths which Oaths were under the Law and in their time were commanded of God and were not vain nor needless Oaths nor by the Creatures But in opposition to these Oaths as ending them Christ said But I say unto you Swear not at all neither by Heaven nor by Earth c. Mat. 5.33 34. Now he that sweareth by Heaven sweareth by the Throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon Matth. 23.22 So that from Christ's Command we are now to swear by neither And the Apostle James as confirming to the same Testimony said Above all things my Brethren swear not neither by Heaven nor by Earth nor by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay left you fall into condemnation Jam. 5.12 And as to that of Heb. 6.16 where it 's said For men verily Swear by the Greater and an Oath for confirmation is to them an End of all Strife which the the Priests object for Swearing In this they are very dark for the Apostle doth but mention this as a Practice which had relation to the Jewes who were under the Law and such as were in the Strife but he gives no Command for Swearing neither doth he vindicate it any more than he doth receiving of Tythes in his saying here men that die receive Tythes Heb. 7.8 which was but a mentioning that as a practice which the Jews upheld as was the other of Swearing for he witnessed the Commandment disanulled by which Tythes were received and the Priesthood changed by which they were upheld Heb. 7.12 18. So that the bare relation of a Practice is no command for it nor vindication of it And the Oath which God sware to Abraham wherein he makes known the Immutability of his Counsel to the Heirs of Promise is greater than man's swearing to end strife for where that Oath of God is received and fulfilled the Blessing to the Seed is manifested and the Strife is ended and the ground of it removed and of this Oath and Covenant mens swearing to end strife without was but a figure type or shadow And as to the Priests saying that Swearing is a part of the Worship of God From this then it follows that it 's an easie thing for Drunkards and Prophane Persons to be in the Worship of God if Swearing be a part of it for what case is it such cannot swear in either by the Lord or otherwise and then they might as well say it's part of the Worship of God to transgress Christ's Doctrine as say Swearing is part of his Worship Surely this is a bad Worship which the Priests preach and set up for Christ commanded not to swear at all and he is the End of all Strife about which the Swearing was and the End of the Law and of the Oaths under it for