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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45353	An account of familism as it is revived and propagated by the Quakers shewing the dangerousness of their tenets, and their inconsistency with the principles of common reason and the declarations of Holy Scripture / by Henry Hallywell.	Hallywell, Henry, d. 1703?	1673 (1673)	Wing H458; ESTC R25413	52,525	144

Had God commanded every day of our Lives to be wholly devoted to him it had been but Reason and Equity and since that out of regard to our Weakness and that condition of Mortality wherein he has placed us he requires but one day in a week to be more especially set apart for his Service it were most irrational not to give him that Besides our merciful Lord has a regard in this Commandment even to the Beasts themselves as a part of his Creation which surely are not to be worse used now under the Gospel than under the Law but have as much reason to be rested on the Sabbath day now as they had then 3. Since that this is reasonable what fitter day can we pitch upon than the first day of the week on which our blessed Saviour Jesus arose from the dead For if the Jews together with the Commemoration of the Creation of the World wherein God having perfected all his works rested on the seventh day did likewise keep holy that day with respect to their deliverance from the Tyranny of Pharaoh How much greater reason have we to solemnize the Christian Sabbath with them indeed to celebrate the Goodness Wisedom and Power of God in making of all things in remembring the glorious Resurrection of the Son of God wherein he rose as a triumphant Conquerour from his bed of Darkness after he had dis-mantled the Prisons of Hell and the Grave and wrought a mighty Salvation for Mankind 4. That as God did then so Christ having transmitted his Power to them the Apostles and succeeding Church of God now may very reasonably dispose of us in matters of this nature and direct all its Members into some uniform way at such set times of the Worship of God And that they have done so appears both by some mentions of the Lords day in the Holy Scriptures and by the constant suffrage of the Fathers of the Church since that time which is a sufficient Obligation on all Christians to a due constant and diligent Observation of the Christian Sabbath Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day And lest any man shall say that this Command was given by Moses and so at an end and therefore that Christians are not bound by it Let him take this for an Answer and consider it well and then he will see there is no weight in the Objection and so will not be moved when by impertinent cavilling Fellows 't is urged upon him I say therefore first That every one of the ten Commandments is moral and for that very reason binds all Christians still and therefore the Church of England though these rebellious Quakers disown their Mother hath made them a part of her Liturgy and all good people teach them to their Children in their Catechisms as knowing that all Christians are to give obedience to them under the Gospel Secondly our blessed Saviour says Matth. 5. 17. that he came not to dissolve the Law and the Prophets but to fulfil Think not says he that I am come to dissolve the Law and the Prophets that is to take away the Obligation of that Rule of the Duty of Man to God and his Neighbour given first by Moses and afterwards repeated and inculcated by the Prophets but to fulfil them that is to supply accomplish and perfect those Rules and Doctrins of just and unjust conteined in them by a more ample Interpretation and other Improvement befitting the state of the Gospel And if as these Familists persuade their unwary Proselytes to fulfil were to put an end to a thing the sense must be thus that Christ came not to destroy that is to put an end to the Law but to put an end to it But who can imagine without Blasphemy our blessed Saviour would be guilty of such an absurd speech Now if it shall be asked why then Christ did not improve the fourth Commandment touching the keeping holy of the Sabbath it is answered That this was already strictly observed among the Jews even unto Superstition and therefore there needed rather a Relaxation than an Addition to this Commandment For whereas the Jews on that day would not so much as kindle a Fire or dress the Meat they should eat or carry any Burden or take a Journey and hence accuse our Saviour for healing on the Sabbath and his Disciples for plucking the ears of Corn Jesus tells them that The Sabbath was made for Man and not Man for the Sabbath intimating that Works of Necessity and Mercy may lawfully be done on the Sabbath though not the Works of a mans ordinary Trade and Employment SECT II. Almighty God having given the whole Earth to Man for his Habitation common Reason and Justice require that Man should sanctisie and separate some peculiar place for the Service and Worship of his great Creator And accordingly we find in all Ages of the world and by all Persons professing any Religion at all some particular and set places appointed to invocate and worship the supreme Deity Among the Jews God had his Temple whither all the Tribes went up to worship And in Prophane Histories we read of Temples dedicated to the Use and Service of some Supreme Deity From whence it appears that the very Law of Nature commands to fix and set apart a place for the Service of God And God will have this of us too that as he hath reserved a portion of the Time of our Life for the celebration of his Honour so hath he also reserved a Portion out of the Place of our Residence Therefore in Ezek. 45. God commands the children of Israel and in them all the Nations of the World that when they come to inhabit the Land he gives them they must divide it into three Parts one for the People another for the King but the first for God himself But and if it shall be said that this was a Command under the Levitical Law and so not obligatory to us Christians who live not under that Law It must be remembred that though God commanded a House and Place for his Service to be built and set apart yet all Mankind were tied to the same Duty by a Law more Antient than that of Moses even by the very Law of Nature which lays a perpetual and indispensable Injunction upon all men that God have his Place of Worship and as it were Residence among them that they might live in a continual Dependence upon him and remember that that they receive the very Places of their Abode and Habitation from his Gift and Benevolence And it was some hundreds of years before the Law of Moses was given that Jacob when he was poor and had not wherewithal to build God an House yet consecrated a Portion of Ground by erecting a Stone and pouring oil on the head thereof calling the Place Bethel that is The House of God and vowed to build it when God should bless and make him able to do it Gen. 28. 22. So that

discourse and their Auditors are such fools as to believe them in whatever they say 3. A third way which they make use of is to decry all Human Learning and the use of Reason And hence it comes to pass that the Atheist and Enthusiast mutually confirm one another in their Errors the Atheist laughs at the Enthusiast for denying his Reason and the Enthusiast thinks the Atheist a fool for relying wholly upon it But though it be common to all Enthusiasts to despise Human Learning and reject the Improvement of Reason yet the Quaker makes the loudest outery against it and thinks it his interest to exclame against Learning because he himself hath none being the most ignorant and sottish Sect that hath yet appeared in the world Whereas since the extraordinary gifts of Prophesie and Languages have ceased in the Church Secular Learning hath been of the greatest use and benefit to Religion of any thing in the World And although these impudent Heretics be the open enemies of Learning and learned men yet when they hope to make an advantage by it they will be nibling at it witness George Whitehead who would prove the breach of the Sabbath lawful from a moth-eaten Manuscript cited by Beza in his Annotat. on Luk. 6. And the cause of this their Enmity against Learning is apparent enough forasmuch as by it men discover their Cheats and Impostures and their Visions and Inspirations are found but Dreams and Melancholic Fansies and their Folly and Ignorance laid open to the World But if we consider it well we shall find that it is set in Scripture as the Commendation of Moses that he was learned in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians and St. Paul cites Aratus Menander and Epimenides three heathen Poets but I need not stand long on this for if learned men had not translated the Bible I very much question whether Quakers would have had any knowledge of it notwithstanding their pretended Revelations And if God did once open the mouth of an Ass to forbid the madness of the Prophet yet the Quakers cannot prove from that one instance that he now speaks to the World by them And therefore for men to throw aside their Reason and the Knowledge of Arts and Sciences which are now the Supporters of Religion is all one as if they should put out their eyes and call to the blind to lead them 4. Their way is to deceive and associate themselves first with the Women And herein they imitate the Devil who first tamper'd with the weaker Vessel and seduced Eve as well knowing that the Masculine Temper of Adam would contemn and slight the Bait till presented by the fair hands of his Virgin Bride And this is no new thing for many Heretics have diffused and spread their desperate Errors by insinuating them first into the Women yea so far had Mareus the Valentinian proceeded in this Art that he not only vitiated the Souls but abused the Bodies of many of that yielding Sex And such was the Temper of the Quakers great Master H. N. when he came over into England drawing after him a great number of those easie Captives whom he quickly found kind and coming when allured by the specious Title of The Family of Love And this has been a very great help in the Propagation of Quakery by making the Woman first in the Transgression who by her continual Solicitation and Importunity as Delilab did Samson wins the good man to betray himself into the hands of these uncircumcised Philistines CHAP. X. The Advantage of Familism above other Sects and Heresies IT will now be questioned since Quakerism is so monstrous and sottish a Persuasion as tends to the overthrow of all true Religion by rasing the very Foundations of it by denying the Person of Jesus Christ as God and Man now living in Heaven and taking away the future Subsistence and Immortality of Human Souls yet nevertheless it should take so much with the ordinary sort of People and gain ground upon so many of them In answer to this I may suggest that those who are caught and drawn into this abominable Heresie of Quakerism are but the Refuse of the World Persons of the meanest Quality and lowest Parts and Education and for such as these to be enticed by Quakers is no strange thing they being indifferent to any Religion and that they observe any at all is more out of Custom and Fashion than Choice and Understanding Or I may say that it is to be feared 't is a just Judgment of God for their former unfaithfulness not only to the Light of their own Consciences but of the holy Word of God that since they would not receive the love of the Truth that they might be saved God should send them strong Delusion that they should believe a lie And although this may give some Account of the diffusion growth of Quakery yet I shall mention some particular Advantages it hath over other Sects and Heresies and the First is this 1. In that it pretends to a high degree of Holiness above all other and to be raised above the rest of the world lying in sin That all the Earth is in Bondage and Slavery overspred with Lusts and Sins and therefore are in a dark and blind Condition not knowing how or by what means they shall escape out of that lamentable and confused state they are in But the Quaker he is mounted up so high that it is broad day with him when yet 't is perfect night with all men beside he is in the Light and this Light leads and guides him into all Truth so that henceforth he sins no more but is pure and clean in his own eyes Christ is within him and he has atteined to a Perfection and Freedom from Sin and whoever comes not to this state is not of God These are fine things and high Conceits and the giddy Multitude that always affect Novelties are very much pleased with so much holiness as is pretended and it works mightily upon their Fansies that if they be once Quakers they shall be without sin and by the cunning management of this pretence of Holiness the People are quickly catcht in their nets 2. Quakery cracks and boasts much of immediate Inspirations which every one in their measure are capable of And this is a strong and potent temptation to inveigle the multitude withal to tell them that when they are once Quakers they shall be immediately acted and moved by the Spirit of God as the Prophets and Apostles of old were and that what they now speak and write is as good Canonical Scripture as the Bible that they need no external teaching being all taught by the inspiration of God which is so pleasing and easie a Doctrine that it is very strange if the vulgar who would fain go to Heaven by the easiest and least troublesom way should not be seduced by it 3. The luscious and sweet bewitching Language which they use as if