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A54155	Judas and the Jews combined against Christ and his followers being a re-joynder to the late nameless reply, called, Tyranny and hypocrisie detected, made against a book, entituled The spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith rebuked, &c. which was an answer to a pamphlet, called, The spirit of the hat, in which truth is cleared from scandals, and the Church of Christ, in her faith, doctrine, and just power and authority in discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious endeavours of a confederacy of some envious professors and vagabond, apostate Quakers / by ... William Penn ; to which are added several testimonies of persons concern'd.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1307; ESTC R23117	100,153	131

Judas and the Jews Combined against Christ and his Followers BEING A Re-joynder to the late Nameless Reply called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected made against a Book entituled The Spirit of Alexander the Copper-Smith Rebuked c. which was an Answer to a Pamphlet called The Spirit of the Hat In which Truth is cleared from Scandals and the Church of Christ in her Faith Doctrine and just Power and Authority in Discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious Endeavours of a Confederacy of some Envious Professors and Vagabond Apostate Quakers By a Member and Servant of the Church of Christ William Penn. To which are added several Testimonies of Persons concern'd He that Dippeth his Hand with me in the Dish the same shall betray me Mat. 26.23 They went out from us but were not of us 1 Joh. 2.19 In Perils among false Brethren 2 Cor. 11.26 Nevertheless the Foundation of God stands sure 2 Tim. 2.19 Printed in the Year 1673. Judas and the Jews Combined against Christ and his Followers The Introduction THe Just Defence of our so much Reviled Principles and Persons is so ill resented by our Enemies that instead of publickly Recanting their Injustice They repute us more Criminal for so doing then themselves in first Traducing us It is become a sort of Petty Treason to Reprove them they are grown almost incorrigible and to Controle them though in a Lye is hateful so much more do they prefer our Destruction then the Truth it self or their own Reputation Strange That it should be reputed Innocency to Accuse the Guiltless and Guilt to Defend them Are we of God then shall we stand maugre your Assaults if not we shall fall without them What need this Clubbing for Mischief and Caballing to our Ruin The Jews I believe never studied the Crucifying of Christ more vehemently then you vigorously combine and plot the Massacring of our Names Credit and Principles out of the World yea and we have Cause to suspect our Persons too or else this Socinian-Defender of the Hat-Spirit would never have told the World in almost so many words that Blasphemers were to dye by the Law of God and the Quakers are Blasphemers every Man can make the Conclusion that understands what a Conclusion is see pag. 23. It s a Work becomes Darkness for such I call your Nameless Pamphlet in which you have abused Vertuous and Good People by Name not daring to stand the Test of putting your Names to your Abuses against which can be no Fence but Innocency and that remains Unshaken by all your Blustering Epithetes That rests with God who will quell your swelling Rage and speedily Rebuke that great Herricane your Envy has raised to over-set us in our Voyage to Eternal Rest But he that said to Moses in an Hour of Straight Stand still and thou shalt see my Salvation has once and again Comforted us under all these Discouragements Neither are your Combinations Terrible No though Evil Spyes have been your Informers Our greatest Trouble is your own Hardening and we are sorry to see you make so much haste to old Jerusalem's Portion For us we know in whom we have believed And as he that feedeth the Fowls of the Air and clotheth the Lillies of the Field preserves us so that your Buffettings may prove our Tryals but in the End your own Judgments For however you buoy your selves up by the Acceptance you find with some Airy or Prejudiced Spirits God will certainly enter into Judgment with you for your Envious Proceeding who not being able to carry on your own Controversies now list your selves Combatants for a few stragling Apostates not out of Love to true Quakers but Hatred to such as are so What Sense is there in believing you only intend a False Quaker who have writ and abetted those Writings that are against us as Quakers at all But what shall I say It is an Age grown to that Degree of Impiety that there is no Friendship so Strait no Relation so Near no Truth so Evident nor Life so Innocent that some Men are not hardy and wicked enough to Break Violate and Slander to Avenge some supposed Wrong or gratifie an Emulous Spirit Controversie End upon Socinian Principles c. is risen now in one about the Hat on in Prayer What Variety of Shapes do our Adversaries put on to compass their Ends It has been their Practice first to Abuse our Principles and then Rail at our Defences and for Vindicating our Religion to fall foul upon our Persons and those chiefly who are most active in that Service There needs no other Demonstration of this then the Scurrilous Libel now to be considered which with me carries so Mischievous an Aspect that the Parties concerned in these Undertakings do by it proclaim they only want as much Power as Will to send us and our Principles to New-England for a Venture God deliver us from those Magistrates that are as Angry in Government as these Men are in Religion But this is our Joy That these Enemies speak all manner of Evil against us falsly for our Lord and Saviour's sake We maintain our Principles that angers them Miscarriages joy them whatever they pretend And if they can bring some Writers and Preachers out of Request they think they do their Business But we cannot believe that Sober and Judicious Persons will think the worse of us or our Cause for these Malicious Endeavours against it We have only to do with some old Adversaries new Vampt with the Slanderous Stories of some modern Apostates Had not Judas helpt the Jews had been to seek A few Vagabond Quakers are their Intelligencers it s all but a piece of Treachery and Envy And truly 't is fit we should be tryed as well by False Friends as Professed Enemies that in all things we may approve our selves compleat Conquerors through the Invincibe Power and to the alone Honour of that Eternal Truth professed by us And so we enter upon the Libel it self VVE are told in the Title Page of the Libel That it was writ in Defence of a Letter entituled The Spirit of the Hat and against the Deceitful Defective and Railing Answer called The Spirit of Alexander c. Indeed it is wonderful strange that to Reprove an Apostate should be reputed Railing and that this Secretary to this New-founded Cabal should Practi●e it in censuring it He cannot forbear it in his Title Page He begins with ●YRANNY AND HYPOCRISIE DETEC●ED which Four Words he explains to us thus Or a furthe● Discovery of the Tyrannical Government Popish Principles and Vile Practices of the now Leading Quakers In all which if there be no Reviling there is no such thing in the World for these Words reach to the End of all Villany Meek Man that he would be thought who seems to engross Railing into a Company and seems not so Angry at it in us as that we use it Unlicenced of his Cabal for he exerciseth it at such a rate in

Man There is little Reason that I should believe that this Man hath Courage enough to question my Honesty to my Face who was afraid to put his Name to his Slander I Envy not M. Pennyman her Honesty and am very well contented with mine own however it may be represented by mine Enemies who are too Partial to be Judges and instead of Confuting can only Revile me which shows no great store of Honesty in this Slanderer My Reflection upon M. Pennyman's Apparel was Just and Righteous I knockt her own Spirit with her own Weapon Were our Ministers Degenerated because they wore better Cloathes and was M. Pennyman more Regenerated in leaving off her mean ones Yes for she sayes that having come through her Sorrow the Out-side is little to her Would not the same Excuse serve us It seems it is no hard Matter for her to endure Richer Apparel that is of her own Back but not upon another's Ranterism is lodged under this Liberty which leads to what she once judged as unbecoming Truth But me thinks her higher Attainments might allow her Equals and Betters to wear Camelit whilst she wears Silk they are all I know good in their Places but Hypocritical Self-Righteous Pretences are not to pass without Rebuke But I cannot imagine what should induce this Libeller to reflect upon my Intimacy with Gulielma Mar. and that in such suspected Terms as if she were another then the Party he represented me to be married to a little before for he presently reflects Dishonesty upon that said Intimacy telling us at the Tale of it That M. P. is better known for Honesty then I am as if that Intimacy rendered me as culpable as if it had happened between M. Pennyman and my self It were well if he had been so cautious else-where in telling of Lyes as he is here in speaking the Truth But do what we can the Folks of this Man's Strain will make that a Ground of Reflection upon a Quaker which is very allowable in themselves He tells you above I was married and had a Child and a little below that I WAS SAID to be INTIMATE with G. M. that is with the Person that is my Wife as if it were to render a Man suspect to be intimate with one's own Wife Whether there be most of Folly exprest or Slander intended in this way of Writing let the Moderate Reader judge But because the Reflection as well extends it self to her as to me I will only say thus much in her Defence She needs none and to be questioned from so foul a Mouth is a great Addition to her Credit but his own Guilt His Comparison of her with M. Pennyman that formal Piece of Hypocrisie giveth but such as know both the better Mean to judge of either The well known Innocence Meekness and Faithfulness of the one more lively setting out the Deceitfulness Pride and Treacherous Apostasy of the other In short Who would be well spoken of by such that choose Vertuous Persons to speak Evil of and Apostates to Commend But all this and many more Rude Defaming Speeches must I and mine expect from this Perverse Generation who have rewarded us Evil for Good What Scurrility Railing Nick-Names Mocks and Jeers are vented against us with other Servants of the Lord But in all these things our Eye is to him for whose sake alone he is Record we are become Marks for Furious Men to shoot their Arrows at But the Lord is our Pavilion and his Strength our Fortress He covers our Heads in these and all other Battels at what time these Creeping Judasses and Envious Libellers lurk and hide so that we are not moved We recommend our selves to his peculiar Care and Providence that in his Holy Truth we may live and rather then relaps for it constantly dye that whether we Live or whether we Dye God may be Magnified in the E●●th and that shall be our exceeding great Recompence of Reward And for these Apostates who once dipt with us into the same Dish and fed at the same Table who have tasted of the Word of God and the Power of the World to come but have betrayed the Spirit of Truth to the Spirit of Delusion in themselves and given him his Motions into the Hands of the False Christian of this day to Deride and Scorn and who have had so little Regard to the Profession as to bring it under Reproach and to the Common Law of Friendship as Treacherously to divulge the Secrets of some of their ancient Acqaintants and finally who have endeavoured the Disgrace and Hazard of the Lives and Liberties of some of the Servants of God because of their Faithful Testimony against their Apostasy I must tell tkem and do in the Counsel of God Their Bands shall be made strong and that Eternal Power at which they strike reigns over their Dark Dividing Envious Spirit in the Hearts of that Peopl● they have called by so many Scoffing Names and more then a Mill-stone will it be about their Necks and the Weight of all these Wicked and Treacherous Doings will God bring upon them in a Day and an Hour when they shall not be able to escape the Rod of his Fury Ah! Poor Men What have ye been doing Verily your Damnation slumbers not and the God whose Name you have caused to be blaspheamed amongst the Heathen will one Day require these things at your Hands and Recompense Vengeance in Flames of Fire for all your Hard Speeches and Sinful Contradictions against the Holy Spirit of Truth and those who are led by it I am not in any Rage God knows but I am grieved for you I could wish a Place of Repentance might be found if the Lord saw good though I rather fear your many and grievous Provocations have shut the Door against you For as Core and his Associates were outwardly swallowed up of the Earth so hath the Earthly Sensual and Devilish Spirit of the World received you into the Bowels of it and you are become as really One against our Lord and his Anointed in this Generation as ever Pilat Herod Judas and the Jews were combined against Him and His in the Dayes of his Flesh Who have strengthened the Hands of the Mocker and Scoffer greatened the Envy of Professors and made the Atheist glad But may this Lamentable Course your Disobedient Watching-for-Evil Slippery Backbiting and Exalted Spirit hath brought you into with the sad Consequence of being hardened therein be a perpetual Warning upon the Minds of all who make Profession of God's Eternal Truth that they be not high-minded but fear minding their own Conditions and their Growth and Increase in the Work of the Lord that so Love and Unity may be preserved and all Watchings for Evil Distrusts Surmisings Emulations and whatever makes for Discord or Dis-affection may be judged out and the Sowers of that Spirit that leads thereunto turned from and rebukt in the Power and Authority of God who

is able to keep us and preserve us unto his Heavenly Kingdom to whom be Everlasting Glory and Dominion Amen Now The Just shall live by Faith but if any Man draw back my Soul shall have no Pleasure in him Hebr. 10.38 And because Iniquity shall abound the Love of many shall wax cold But he that shall endure unto the End the same shall be saved Matth. 24.12 13. And THIS GOSPEL of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the World for a Witness unto all Nations and then shall the End come Verse 14. Several Testimonies Of Persons Reflected upon in the Pamphlet before answered added in Truth 's and their own Defence Thomas Brigges 's Testimony WHereas in page 22. thou or ye say The poor Man was transported into such an Angry Zeal that I told the Opposers It was of the Lord and they Opposed the Mind of the Lord But the Man was so far say thou or ye from knowing the Mind of the Lord in that Matter that he did not know who the Persons were of whom he spake Ans The Mind of the Lord I do know who am in the Truth and walk in it and the Testimony that I had to bear for the Truth and God's Power which thou art out of in which I did then bear testimony in the Blessed Power and Presence of God that I felt in that Meeting That that Marriage was to be permitted among Friends and it was permitted among Friends and accomplish'd And whereas thou or ye say The poor Man was transported into such an Angry Zeal that he knew not who the Persons were of whom he spake Ans I was not Transported out of Truth but in the Truth but thou art Transported out of Truth into a Lye and into the Enmity and into Cain's Way and into Core's Way and of thy Father the Devil who is the Father of Lyes For I have known Elizabeth Bayly this Nine or Ten Years as she can witness and the Man of lesser years and I have no Shame upon me of this Matter but Shame will come upon thee or ye whatever ye be that are gone from the Truth and turned from the Truth and Power of God and the Truth and Power of God in which I live is over all False-Accusers and Lyars and will be your Condemnation who are found in a Lye and False Accusation who hide your Names in the Dark This Testimony I do bear against all Lyars My Name is Thomas Brigges John Whitehead 's Testimony WHereas the Author of the aforesaid Pamphlet doth charge that Faithful Servant of God G. F. with the Opening and Altering a Letter written by me against my Consent I declare That both he and his Author have Malitiously Slandered G. F. in that Case for I ordered W. Kerby by a Letter wherein that Letter was Inclosed and UNSEALED to shew it to George Fox and the rest of the Brethren in Town that he or they might dispose of it as they saw a Service for Truth And it was written as a Testimony against that Spirit which would have brought in the Wearing of the Hat in Prayer and not to Justifie that Unheard of Practice in the Church for I ever Condemned it in my Heart and bore my Testimony against it knowing the Spirit of the Lord did not lead into it though I had a Tenderness to those who intended well and had their Simplicity betrayed by the subtil Workings of that Spirit of Error which I witnessed against and Laboured not in Vain to pluck them as Brands out of the Fire of Contention that with the Light of Christ they might see whither they were going and several did see the Error of their Way and Returned And if any have been so bad as to Mis-apply my Words and Harden their own Hearts through my Tenderness the Hurt will be their own and I shall be Clear in the Day of God though now I am Evilly Requited by those wh● to their own Hurt give and receive Information agaist me as if I Acted or Lived Wantonly like those which said Come let us Smite him with the Tongue Report and we will Report it But my Innocency in that Case without further Defence is my sufficient Refuge from the Slanderous Tongues of these Ungodly Men And through the Grace of God whereby I am taught Sobriety and Godliness in this World I can and do say The Lord forgive them John Whitehead Isaac Penington 's Testimony A brief Account concerning the Queries relating to Keeping on the Hat in time of publick Prayer mention'd in a Book called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected pag. 61. AFter it pleased the Lord to give me a Sense of his pretious Truth in the Inward Parts and to turn my Mind thereto I met with great Opposition both Inward and Outward and how hard and long my Travel was God only fully knoweth Every day the Lord visited me and the Enemy was daily tempting me and I felt the Bitterness of his Temptations and was often sore wounded through my not understanding the Appearances of the Lord and through Unbelief God knoweth I did earnestly desire to know the Motions of God's Spirit from the contrary Movings and Stirrings of the Enemy of my Soul who moved in the Reasoning Wisdom out of the True and pure Simplicity but was many times filled with Doubts and Fears till the Season of the Service was over and the Opportunity of keeping out the Enemy was lost When the Business of the HAT fell out I being acquainted with several of them and looking upon them as tender to the Lord and that they did scruple it only in Conscience to him was perswaded in my heart they were to be born with and thought the positive Testimony against it in others too severe and that a thing of that Nature was not to be contended about but every one left to their Liberty yea and somewhat farther did I go in the Sense of my Heart as if possibly the Lord might require such a thing of them In this Frame of Spirit did I give forth those Queries not at all intending the Lord knows to strength●n that Practice thereby but that no tender thing might be hurt but the Unity of Life kept unviolabe notwithstanding such an Outward Difference But at that time I did not discern that the thing came from the Enemy nor was I sensible that the Ministers of the Truth and such as stood in God's Light and Authority and saw the thing coming from the Enemy with the Evil Hurt and Dangerous Consequences of it to many yea and the Grieving the Church of God I say I did not then see and seriously consider that they were Watchmen appointed by God and had Discerning given them for the Good of the Body and that by those Queries I did weaken the Testimony of God's Spirit through them as to others and give Strength thereby to that Spirit which had prepared and was drawing this Snare over many So soon as ever the Lord shewed me