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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09695	Railings and slanders detected: or The folly and heresies of the Quakers further exposed. Being an answer to an invective libel written by G. Whitehead, impertinently called, Antichrist in flesh unmasked, &c. which some of the Quakers call an answer to a book truly stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. In this brief discourse you have the slanderous out-cries of G. Whitehead, against Edward Paye, Henry Loader, and William Alcot, examined, detected, and confuted.	Paye, Edw. (Edward)	1692 (1692)	Wing P884; ESTC R181559	21,006	57

Railings and Slanders detected Or the Folly and Heresies of the QUAKERS Further Exposed Being an Answer to an Invective Libel Written by G. Whitehead impertinently called Antichrist in Flesh unmasked c. Which some of the QUAKERS call An Answer to a Book truly Stiled Antichrist in Spirit unmasked OR Quakerism a great Delusion In this Brief Discourse you have the Slanderous Out-cries of G. Whitehead against Edward Paye Henry Loader and William Alcot Examined Detected and Confuted He Seedeth of Ash●s 〈◊〉 deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his Soul nor say Is there not a Lye in my right hand Esai 44. 20. Wh●●st that Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemies they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poyson of their foul Opinions Irenaeus in his Third Book against Heresies London Printed in the Year 1692. Railings and Slanders Detected or the Folly and Heresies of the Quakers further Exposed c. IT is well known to all that are but a little acquainted with the Faculties and Writings of the Quakers that their usual methods are to cry out against all that oppose or detect their corrupt notions as such that abuse and defame an Innocent and Religious People But amongst the many causeless out-cries they have proclaimed in the World I have not seen one for its magnitude that hath out-done a small parcel of slanderous confused Railleries that lately was Midwiv'd into the World and Fathered by George Whitehead which if there be a Wise Man amongst them it appears strange that it had not been stifled in the Birth rather than such an ill shapen Cub should have gone forth into the World to declare it self Legitimate and publish it self the true Off-spring of a Quaker But we must take it as it is and in the Title Page G. W. saith our Book is a desaming confused Book Answer I suppose a great part of it must needs be confused being taken out of your own confused Writings the reconciling of which to themselves is as easie as bringing together the South and North Poles 2. He calls it a defaming Book Answer It defames no Mans Person nor indeed your Principles any further than your Tongues and Pens did it first of all for it Treats of your professed notions which if false are deservedly exposed nothing being a more destructive evil in our day than for falshood to be carried on in the World with Fame and Applause But to come to your Book it self Could you suppose that any thing was contained in it to the purpose I cannot imagine what you could think of it If you had said any thing towards reconciling your former Writings with your late professed Faith you had done something to the purpose do you think that any whose Eyes are in their Heads will not easily see that your defects in Truth aud Reason are supplied with Slanders and Railings You tell us p. 5 6 7 8. We have shewed our envy and bitterness yea we appear Envious against your present Liberty as Men of Envious Turbulent Persecuting Spirits c. Why what 's the matter why our Book defames the Quakers as a People of a Religious Society c. who have solemly and sincerely declared to the Government That they own and believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and desire to live in the Faith Knowledge and Practice of them and that they believe in the Three Divine Witnesses bearing Record in Heaven the Father Word and Holy Spirit and the Divinity and Humanity of Christ and Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits and not by their own This and much more in their professed Faith whereunto I referr the Reader Now we have gone and published to the World wherein the Writings of their chief Guides do directly oppose and contradict this Confession of Faith from which G. Whitehead concludes That by this we would make void one Condition of their present Liberty p. 6. As People not fit to be tolerated now have their Liberty of Conscience p. 7. And saith G. W. No doubt had these angry Anabaptists power we should not enjoy our Liberties the very Nature and Tendency of these their bitter lying Invectives being to bring Persecution upon us as a People not to be given any credit unto in our Solemn Profession before Authority To all which I Answer First We did not know till our Book was Published that you had professed this as your Faith before the Parliament And secondly we must the more admire your Presumptuous confidence herein that you should so affront the Government except you had at the same time renounced your former Writings that so evidently contradict it And whereas you falsly charge us with persecuting Spirits and Envy it is well known that our principles are and ever were that none ought to be persecuted for their Religious Principles or Notions no not the Papists themselves so long as they live peaceably in subjection to Authority and the Civil Government yet had they come and set up a Mass-House at Deptford and that they might the more effectually prevail upon the Ignorant and easilier proselyte them to their Idolatry and Superstitions should have published a Profession of Faith directly contrary to their known Principles and the Writings of their Chief Guides We should in like manner have looked upon our selves obliged both in Honour to God and Love to our Neighbours to have detected their Deceits And we freely allow any to examine our published Faith and if they can find such plain contradictions as aforesaid we will be content to bear the discredit and not retaliate them with Railings and Slanders nor account them envious Persecutors for it And now I would appeal to the Light in G. Whitehead whether he believes that we envy their Liberty and would Persecute them had we Power if he so believes he is miserably deluded in that matter and if he doth not so believe how willfully doth he sin against the Light in casting these Slanderous Aspersions upon us What are we envious Persecutors Hypocrites and possessed with an unclean Spirit and lying Devil p. 5 8 17. Fie George are these Thunderbolts fit to be shot at your Antagonists on all occasions I own that you have some cause to be displeased at our putting you upon a work you cannot possibly do namely to reconcile your late Faith with your former Writings But then you might have called us unreasonable Men or compared us to Pharaoh's Task-masters for its a work we put you upon that is harder than to make Brick without Straw And indeed G. Whitehead appears to have no mind to touch it with one of his fingers it is so knotty and difficult a piece of work No it passeth the skill of the ablest Orator with all his Rhetorick or George Whitehead with all his pretended skill in Logick to do it

all blessed for ever the true God and eternalLife the one Mediator between God and Man the Man Christ Jesus The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith 2. How doth it appear that the Quakers do believe the Humanity of Christ Since John Whitehead Dip. plu p. 13. Jesus Christ a person without us is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Mugletonians Again G. W.'s Appendix to Reason against Railing p. 21. The Socinian tells us of a personal Christ and that the Man Christ Jesus our Lord hath in Heaven a place remote from Earth a humane Body But doth he believe him to be the eternal God whilst he imagines him to be a personal Christ a humane Body so limited and confined to Remoteness c. The Quakers Profession of Faith Quest Do you believe and expect Salvation and Justification by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ or by your own Righteousness or Works Answer By Jesus Christ his righteous Merits and Works and not by our own God is not indebted to us for our deservings but we to him for his Free Grace in Christ Jesus whereby we are saved through Faith in him not of our selves c. The Quakers Contradictions of this Faith G. Fox Great Mystery of the great Whore p. 71. He saith Christ's Nature is not humane which is earthly for that is the first Adam's c. And yet they profess to believe the Humanity of Christ See G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 16. Saith he John Bunyan saith God is distinct from the Saints and Bunyan is deceived who saith he is distinct from the Saints and so you are a Company of pitiful Teachers See Mr. Haworth's Animadversions upon the quibling Libel from the Hartford Quakers stiled A Testimony for the Man Christ Jesus p. 11. One William Bates a Quaker said more than once That what Christ took of the Virgin had now no Being c. Sept. 19. 1676. in the hearing of Daniel Doughty John Albury and Stephen Tothil Mr. Pen's Justification is not by the Imputation of anothers Righteousness but from the actual performing and keeping God's righteous Laws Pen's Sandy Foundation p. 25. E. Burrough's Works p. 33. God doth not except any where there is any failing or who do not fulfil the Law and answer to every demand of Justice See Mr. Pen ' s Serious Apology p. 148. Justification by the Righteousness of another or which Christ fulfilled for us in his own Person wholly without us we boldly affirm to be a Doctrine of Devils and an Arm of the See of Corruption that doth now deluge the World See again Mr. Pen ' s sandy Foundation p. 25. 30. It is a great Abomination to say God should condemn and punish his innocent Son that he having satisfied for our Sins we may be justified by the Imputation of his perfect Righteousness O why should this horrible thing be contended for by Christians I shall pass this when I have only given you one instance more See Edw. Burrough's Works p. 32 33. in Answer to the 12 Question it being this Whether the holy Lives and Works of the Saints be not excluded from the Act of Justification from the Guilt of Sin Edw. Burrough's Answer Thou dead Beast Thou art a Stranger from the Life of God and excluded from the holy Life of the Saints and their Works Thou art un-redeemed from thy vain Conversation and so art not justified nor never shalt be and by the same that the ●…nts are justified thou art condemned into the Lake for ever I shall now leave the Reader to judge Whether the Quakers own Writings and their late pretended Faith profess'd do not directly contradict each other About the Three Divine Witnesses in Heaven the Humanity of Christ and that they expect Justification by his Works Righteousness and Merits c. and not by their own The Quakers Profession of Faith in the holy Scriptures They say they believe in the Three Divine Witnesses that bare Record in Heaven according to Holy Scripture-Testimony And in their last Article they propose the Question thus Quest Do you believe and own the Holy Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration and to contain all Matters of Doctrine and Testimony necessary to be believed and practised in order to Salvation and Peace with God They answer and say yes we do and by the assistance of Grace and good Spirit of God which giveth the Understanding of the Mind of God and meaning of holy Scriptures we always desire to live in the Faith Knowledge and Practice of them in all things appertaining to Life and Godliness holy Scriptures being given by divine Inspiration is profitable for Doctrine Correction and Instruction that the Man of God may be perfect throughly furnished to every good Work able to make the Man of God wise to Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus The Quakers professed Faith directly contradicted by their own Writings and Authors Fox and Hubberthorn Truth 's Defence p. 101. They say the Scriptures are no standing Rule and that it is dangerous for the ignorant People to read them I and yet profitable for Doctrine and Holy Scriptures too G. Whitehead's serious Apology p. 49. That which was spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater Pernel's Sheild of the Truth p. 19. He also that saith the Letter that is the Scriptures as written is the Rule and Guide of the people of God is without feeding upon husks and is ignorant of the true Light James Nailor's Light of Christ p. 19. God is at liberty to speak to his People by the Scriptures if he please and where they are given by Inspiration doth so And he is also at liberty to speak by any other created thing as to Balaam by his Ass Tho. Lawson in his untaught Teacher Read p. 6 7 8. The Scriptures are not a Rule whereby to know the Will of Christ See also H. Smith's True and Everlasting Rule from God discovered for I must remember that part of the Title or else G. W. will be offended and say I wrong him H. S. affirms that there is no other Rule Way or Means by which Men shall ever come to walk with God but by that which is manifest of God in him and that it is sufficient to guide in all the ways of God without Scripture or any other outward Rule How then are the Scriptures profitable and necessary as pretended in your Profession of Faith See also J. Nailor's Answer to the Jews Read p. 4 22 25. It is Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God It is the Devil that contends for the Scriptures to be the Word of God See Burrough's Works p. 62. He that persuades People to let the Scriptures be the Rule of Faith and Practice would keep People in Darkness for who ever walks by the Rule without them and teaches