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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54235	Truth exalted, in a short, but sure testimony against all those religions, faiths, and vvorships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy ... by William Penn the Younger ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1389; ESTC R23056	10,092	20

Truth Exalted IN A short but sure Testimony against all those Religions Faiths and VVorships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of Apostacy And for that Glorious Light which is now risen and shines forth in the Life and Doctrine of the despised Quakers as the alone good old way of Life and Salvation Presented to Princes Priests and People that they may repent believe and obey BY WILLIAM PENN the Younger whom Divine Love constrains in a holy contempt to trample on Egypts glory not fearing the Kings wrath having beheld the Magisty of him who is Invisible London Printed in the Year 1668. TO Princes Priests and People JEHOVAH the everlasting Power that spans out the Heavens with his span and measures the Waters in the hollow of his hand before whom all Nations Tongues and People are less than the drop to the Ocean or the Sand to the Sea shoar who said Let all things be and they were and by the same Word of his Might preserves them to this very day is Holy Merciful and Just and as the most excellent part of the whole Creation made he Man the Image of himself by investing him with that Righteous Principle and innocent Life which gave him Dominion and Authority over all his works allowing him to eat of every Tree saving that of Good and Evil of which if he did eat he should certainly die Happy had it been for Adam and his Posterity had he obeyed Gods Commands but transgression by disobedience getting entrance he soon died to his Innocent State in which God created him and became alive in the Dominion sin had over him being now as one without Law in whose fallen State all Nations have been and are let their Professions seem never so great and their Sacrifices never so many that live in the disobedient Nature and so strangers to that Immortality and life Eternal the first Adam became dead and darkened to by his transgression and which the second Adam raises to the knowledge and possession of by the power of his quickning Spirit yet where the Devil that subtile Serpent hath not totally extinguished the notion of a God and the necessity of his being worshipped it has been rather his interest than dis-service to put the selfish part of the Creature upon sacrificing wickedly insinuating that none can be freed from sin and that the performing of Rites Duties and Ceremonies is all God requires and what is necessary to procure acceptance with him Thus 't was that murthering Cain became a Sacrificer whose Sacrifice God rejected because offered in the fallen unrighteous and accursed Nature Such also were those Generations who drew near to God with their Lips and to whom he said of old What signifies the multitudes of your Sacrifices I am full of burnt Offerings bring no more vain Oblations Incense is an abomination unto me the new Moons and Sabbath the calling of the Assemblies I cannot away with it is iniquity even the solemn Meetings I am weary to bear them and when you spread forth your hands I will bide mine eyes yea when you make many prayers I will not he●● them yo●r hands are full of blood wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings c. Therefore O ye Princes Priests and People the sollid necessary and weighty Question I have to ask you all in the dread fear of the everlasting Holy Lord God Almighty by whose eternal Spirit the sence of your present State and Condition I perfectly have received is this What Nature what Heart what Spirit and what ground is it in which your Religions Faiths Works Words and Worships stand and grow Is it the Divine not the fallen Nature It is the broken not the stony Heart Is it the Contrite not the formal Spirit Is it the Gospel increasing good not old Adams corrupt thorney Ground For this know that no performances but by clean hands and a pure heart from whence evil doings are put away can give acceptance with the pure God Come answer me first you Papists whose Popes for many hundred years have sat exalted in the hearts of Nations God's Temple above all that is called God What Scripture ever made a Pope or gave authority to any one to lord it over the Consciences of others since Christ enjoyns that Christians should be Brethren And by what warrantable Tradition can be make dispose and depose Civil Empires Whence came your Creeds but from factious and corrupted Councils dyed in the blood of those who refus'd conformity What Scriptures of the Holy Prophets and Apostles or any Tradition for the first three hundred years mention a Mass-Book speak of Peter's Chair and a successive Infallibility or that say a Wafer is corporially the flesh blood and bones which suffer'd without Jerusalem And where did they adore Images consume many thousands and millions in building carving and painting outward Temples after Jerusalems the Type was destroyed whilst thousands of poor Families languished through extream poverty When did they enjoyn Baby-Baptism Churching of Women Marrying by Priests Holy Water to frighten the Devil hollowing of Bells to scare evil spirits making and worshipping of Crosses erecting of Altars And where did they command Bowings institute Musicks appoint Holy Dayes Canonize Saints chaffer and merchandize about Indulgences pray for the Dead preach or write for a Purgatory And what Book or Chapter in the Old or New Testament mentions the degrees of Popes Cardinals Arch-Bishops Deans Prebeuds Jesuites Franciscans Dominicans Urselines Capuchines Benedictines with other such like lazy Nuns and Fryars for the edification of Christs Church But above all when and where did they authorize or indulge your Cruel Persecuting Whipping Racking Inquisition Murdering Spirit Whose Popes Faith Church-Government and whole Religion were founded and are maintained by inhumane bloodshed as your own Histories plainly manifest Who gave life to these things but the Devil who was a murderer from the beginning Thus have you Papists through many Generations received for Doctrine the Precepts of Men who for much speaking and sacrificing of your own Inventions expect to be heard whilst in the lustful wanton ignorant and killing Nature which has been alwayes shedding the precious blood of those whom God in every Age raised to testifie against your Superstitions will-Worships Therefore WOES from God Almighty to that Romish Whore who has corrupted the Nations and sits upon a Scarlet coloured Beast full of names of Blasphemy drunk with the blood of Saints and Martyrs of Jesus the hour of her desolation is nigh and in the Cup which she hath filled shall it be fil'd unto her double for strong is the Lord God of Hosts who judgeth her Come now you that are called Protestants however denominated or distinguished who profess the Scriptures for the Rule of Life and Doctrine stand your Tryal by them and first those who are called Episcopalians who date your Religion from the Martyrs that those who first protested against