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A84776	A declaration against all poperie, and popish points and is renounced from them and by them whom the scorners in scorn call Quakers : and likewise some queries to the Pope and his priests that are guarded with his law : to be answered in writing or print; and to be sent them called Quakers at London in England.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1783; Thomason E844_10; ESTC R202129	13,879	13

all but let your communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evil v. 37. And the Apostle James saith But above all things my brethren swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay least ye fall into condemnation were made to deny to swear at all But did in the presence of the Lord renounce al things in the form of the said oath named before the said called Justices who notwithstanding did thereupon require them to find suerties to be of the good behaviour and to appear at the next Sessions then the said John and Marmaduke did desire them to read a law that they had transgressed or to shew them wherein they had broken the peace or good behaviour but the said called Justice did refuse and said they was Judges and did judge it to be so then the said John and Marmaduke told them they ought to Judge them according to the law and if they would not read them a law that they might be convinced by it to be of evil behaviour they would not find sureties wherupon thy sent them to prison at Northampton where they yet remain prisoners though the breach of no known law can be justly laid to their charge thus they and many others who in faithfulness served the late Parliament and hazarded their lives and suffered the plundering of their Goods in expectation to have had righteousness set up and all oppressers and oppressions removed and taken forth of the way as was then largely promised But behold nothing is brought forth but winde there is not any deliverance wrought in the earth neither have the inhabitants of the World faln for they that depart from evil are made a prey to this generation of Priests and Magistrates who persecute the innocent and imprison them that in obedience to the commands of Christ Jesus dare not swear at all do ye thus requite the Lord ch foolish people and unwise who seek after the life of the righteous and daily lay snares for the innocent and say in your hearts who who shall see you understand ye brutish among the people and ye fools when will ye be wise he that planted the ear shall he not hear he that formed the eye shal he not see he that chastiseth the Heathen shall he not correct he that teacheth man knowledge shall he not know yea the Lord knoweth the thoughts of men that they are vanity Psal 94.8 9 10 11. Therefore cease from your persecution of the children of God and from your wicked inventions and snares which you make to ensnare the simple by whom you in scorn and derision call Quakers and Jesuits and Fryers and Popish priests and many other such like names of reproach you cast upon them But they who you call Quakers in the presence of the living God of Heaven and Earth do you who are reproachers with all your reproachfull names deny and the Pope and his supremacy and authority over the Catholique Church in general and over every one of themselves in particuler And do beleeve and know that there is not any Transubstantiation in the called Sacrament of the Lords Supper or in the Elements of bread and wine after consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever And they and every of them the people of God called Quakers do believe and know that there is not any Purgatory And that the consecrated Hoast Crucifixes or Images ought not to be worshipped neither that any worships is due to any of them And they and every of them also beleeve and know that salvation cannot be merited by works and all Doctrines in affirmation of the said points they and every of them we do renounce and bear witnes against And do deny all equivocation mentall reservation and secret evasion whatsoever speaking the words of Truth in plainess by the help of God And for so doing they are persecuted stoned stocked mocked reproached and imprisoned by those who cannot endure plainess of speech who are equivocaters mentall reservers and secret evaders who cannot receive the words of Truth the yea and the nay in their communications but contrary to the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ to whom every knee must bow labour to bring people out of his doctrine and so into the condemnation of the Devill but the Righteousnesse of the perfect shall direct his way when the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness Prov. 11.5 A word and a warning to all people whether Priests Magistrates or others who are plotting in secret against the innocent with the children of light you are seen and comprehended and with the light of Christ Jesus in every one of you I speak which is my witnes and your condemnation that acts contrary to it Take warning in time least you say you had time when it is past And remember you are once more warned in your life time From them whom you in scorn call Quakers Signed by George Fox Francis Howgill Edward Burroughs Alexander Parker Thomas Adam Anthony Pearson Gervase Benson Thomas Rawlinson Robert Rich Robert Dring Gerard Roberts Simon Dring Amos Stodart John Bolton West William Rayman Henry Clark In the name of themselves and the rest Some Queries to the Pope and to all his Adherents and Followers 1 VVHether is not the ground of your works from that which would murder yea or nay and whether is not the Ground of your works from that which knowes not the Life of God yea or nay 2 Whether doth not that Ground from which your works proceed prison the just Whether doth not the Life of God remove the ground of your works and so overthrow the life of your Kingdom yea or nay 3 Whether doth not he which Imitates a Cross follow the fancie of his own minde and so set up Images and whether God doth require this yea or nay 4 whether doth not God forbid and say thou shall not make to thy self any Graven Image of male or female or any creeping thing upon the earth or any fowl in the air or fish in the sea whether God doth not forbid the making of those Images and you that make those Images whether you be not out of Gods command and judged with the Life that gave forth the Scriptures yea or nay 5 Whether any Image should be bowed down unto of male female yea or nay 6 Whether you that say bread and wine is the body and blood of Christ be not they that minds earthly things and are carnall and naturall whose God is your belly whose end will be destruction who are enemies to the cross of Christ which Crosse denies self 7 Whether selfe will feeds not upon bread and wine and whether may not man feed upon that in his will and know not Christ nor his body who is not born by the will of man which will is condemned with the light 8 If that wine be the blood of Christ

A DECLARATION Against all Poperie and popish points and is renounced from them and by them whom the Scorners in scorn call Quakers And likewise some Queries to the Pope and his Priests that are guarded with his law to be answered in writing or print and to be sent them called Quakers at London in England FOrasmuch as a Proclamation is set forth by O.P. and his Council in which is an oath to be profered to be taken of Abjuration against all Popish supremacie and authority over the Catholique Church in generall and we who are by the World scornfully called Quakers who own the Doctrine of Christ Jesus who saith Swear not at all neither by heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation Jam. 5.12 In Christs Doctrine and the Apostles Doctrine we do abide and oaths is denied and forbidden and so those who were called Christians which was in Christ Jesus who abode in his Doctrine and the Apostles Doctrine suffered as they do now that doth the same as in particular John Morland who had been a Captain was fined and imprisoned because he could not swear but kept to yea and nay in his communications and many others fined that cannot swear but with the light which comes from Christ Jesus from him by whom the World was made we do deny and condemn with the light all Popish wayes and their Supremacy and authority over the Catholique Church in General root and branch and therefore many of us which are called Quakers have suffered and suffereth and layen long imprisoned by the Popish law which guarded the Jesuits and Crucifixes and Imagess which now guards many of the Priests in England and their Church which law did guard the Jesuits and their Church therefore the authority of the Catholique Church in Generall and the supremacy of the Popes power we do utterly deny and renounce as knowing their works of darkness and condemn them all with the light and the branch which comes from the root by which branch many suffers now in England for declaring against all Popish wayes and the authority derived from him by which the Church was guarded freely without an oath for God doth us command for we see the sword of the Lord is drawn against it And so over our selves in particular we cannot suffer any of his preheminency to bear rule for it is an usurped authority So with the light of the Lord Jesus Christ we are brought to declare against it for with the light it is condemned and here the power of the Lord Jesus Christ is reteined And we do know with the light which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ That bread and wine is carnall which our Lord Jesus Christs body and blood is not but is pretious He saw no corruption and is a mystery which is not bread and wine let them consecrate it never so And so to declare to you plainly we do denie the Sacrament for we know there is no Scripture for it And the Lords Supper is not carnall where it is said he will make his abode with you and sup with you the Lord is not carnall but is the mysterie and his body is glorious and not beggerly Elements as outward bread or wine for this is the blood of Jesus which washeth away our sin and this is the body of Jesus which makes us free from the law which stands not in meats and in drinks and carnall Ordinances for the body is Christ and so we do denie and condemn all that worship that sacrament of Elements of bread and wine and that supper which stands in those things and we witnes Christ is come who is the summe and the substance and so need not have a remembrance of any Element but we which be dead with Christ and live in his life from the beggarly Elements them that lives in them goes about to slay us so as it is written they that are born after the flesh persecutes them that are born after the spirit And again we do deny that there is any purgatory and declare against it as knowing the blood of Jesus which cleanseth us from sin which is an holy thing and know him who takes away our sin and destroyes the works of the Devil which many hath the bread and wine which know nothing of the body and blood of Christ no more then the Jews which turned from Christ when he told them that except they did eat his Flesh and drink his Blood they had no life in them and they looked upon him carnally as the Papists do now which are deluded deceived And again with the light which comes from the Lord Jesus Christ him who was not born by the will of man him by whom the world was made with his light do we deny and condemn all their consecrated Hoast Crucifixes and Images and they are not to be worshipped but to be condemned with the light which will let them see they are enemies of the Cross of Christ which be in things before mentioned and all them that worship them And to you this is the word of the Lord God the light of your consciences shall witnes it God is a Spirit and is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth and all that make Crucifixes or Images or worship them they are the South sayers and familiar spirits the Founder of the Images and the worshipper of the Image from the living God is confounded accursed and with the light condemned and God worshipped in the spirit which spirit judges all Images and Image-makers sees there is no due worship to them or them that makes them but condemnation and judgment the light in the conscience shall it witnes And again we declare against the Papists and them which say Salvation is to be merited by works for then it is not of faith in him who was not born by the will of man which light condemns mans runnings and willings and that which he call merits there is no such Scripture and therefore we denie the word merit know that man doth not attain any thing by his wil of him who was not born by the wil of man for he knows him not for he is a mysterie which light condemns all works of darknes and all evill sinne and unrighteousness and all them which acts it and who are in Christ are new Creatures and to them there is no condemnation who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit so every one shall have a reward according to his works whether they be good or evill And with the light which comes from Christ Jesus which never changes all points and Doctrines of Papists and the World is condemned and them who do affirm them And the same light is the condemnation of them that takes oaths out of Christs Doctrine and from Christ Jesus and so knows not his will who abides not in his Doctrine So as Gods