Ministers is not a fuller proof of their hunting after Protestant Ministers Blood then that saying of the Ministers they so term for in their Book aforementioned pag. 48. Say they but stay Sirs was it a Quaker or was it a Priest that lost his Head on Tower-Hill by the Sword of Justice mind that were both your Hands i. e. two Ministers clear of the wickedness of that bloody Design that Design was as they word it elsewhere in bringing him i. e. Charles II. into his Father's Throne but the Quakers go on saying if they were its well but there were so many of your Generation concern'd in that piece of Treason i. e. to restore Charles II. had the State disputed it according to the Provocation they might have found sufficient cause to cut many Priests shorter by the Head again say they doth not this show that the Priests have as little mind to the Protector as they have to the Quakers doth not here appear the Spirit of Chr. Love and his Fellow Traytors who took on them to treat with C. Stewart the proclaimed Traytor to the Government at Breda for the putting him into that they call his Fathers Throne for which and his other Treasons he Chr. Love lost his Head see say they A short Plea for the Commonwealth c. and therein the Priests Treasons doth not the Spirits of the Bishops appear c. in their Book the West answering to the North c. pag. 89. Finding the Quakers here and elsewhere espouse that Book I got it and find the drift of it was to incense Ol. Cr. and them then in Power against the Protestant Ministers again say these Quakers is Chr. Love Charles Stewart and the Scots overcome and the Bishops plucked up Root and Branch c. But since the Restoration said they of the Ministers in R. H. works when R. C. was made Protector whom the Priests flocked to and did cleave unto him as they did unto all them before for their own ends and again in 1674. W. Penn to incense the King against the Ministers cites one of them saying to former Powers do not I beseech you consent to a toleration of Baal's Worship and for fear it would not inrage them he adds his aggravating explanation says he as much as to say away with the Bishop's whole Ministry and Worship of the Church of England again this same W. Penn quotes a Minister saying thus so many Delinquents that is to say Royalists says the Quaker fearing it would not effect his Bloody Design without his aggravatings are in Prison and few brought to Tryal did he mean to release them says Penn again they quote a Minister saying what the Word cannot do the Sword shall and again these Quakers upbraid the Ministers in 1660. and say to them you are forced to creep under the shadow of those whom you called the common Enemy thus Malicious were they when the King came in although as is afore shewn they used the same Terms much more I have collected of their Seditious and Malicious Printed Doctrines again the Protestant Ministers as being for the King to Oliver and to the King in 1660. for being against him I am sure if these Quakers be not the best to be spared this wicked envious Foxonian Spirit is and Reader judge whether these Foxonian Quakers be not more Malicious Informers than F. Bugg whom they so persecuted as such for discovering them for this Book out of which much of this their Envy is taken is falsly titled A wholsome Information to the King c. wherein they do what they can to induce the King to destroy the Protestant Ministers and were so drunk with Envy and Thirst after their ruin that you could not see your own Confusion but made to Copy out your own Condemnation for in Ol. Crom. time you espouse and recommend a Book against Monarchy and the Protestant Ministers because then such Books were in Fashion at Whitehall but when times turned and Papists and their Works more in Fashion and Esteem at Court then you promote and espouse a Papists Book in Defamation of the Protestant Religion and Ministers and say you are not concern'd to answer it if Pope or Devil will but defame the Protestant Ministers G. Whitehead and W. Penn c. will be their Factors to help to vend such Wares they shall have their recommendations nay these Foxonians can forge or fetch News from the Pit of Damnation to help on that Work as is here shewn and this Wicked Spirit is that they Blasphemously term Christ the Spirit and Power of God but in case they pretend that Book is not theirs but Printed in theirs as the Papists yet by their own Rule they are chargeable with it having Printed Epistles of high recommendations of the Author J. C. and his Works who Printed it and these their high Praises are fixed before the Book to encourage the selling and reading of it of Fox and his Wife both Penn Whitehead and this Wicked Defamation of the Protestant Religion Bible and Ministers of the Papists is particularly mentioned in the Title and printed in a larger Letter than the rest and the whole Chapter intire together and not taken in parts and yet they say they are not concern'd but could be concern'd to print that more large and full than the rest to defame the Protestant Ministers and gratifie their Elder Sister Rome and is highly commended by the Foxonian Quakers and the commending of an Author or Publisher of a Book implies their approbation of it as you charge 21 Divines with J. Faldees Errors in his Book And some Persons having set their names after J. Gilpin's Book c. in confirmation of the Truth of the Relation and say only thus we believe this Relation to be true yet in your Answer in your great Mystery c. you charge all them Persons who only attest as to the Truth of the matter of Fact with the Doctrine in the Book notwithstanding he J. G. says in his conclusion he procured several Persons to testifie the probability if not the certainty by what they have seen and heard notwithstanding they give not every Man such Epistles in recommendation of him as you do of J. C. the Author of that Book in which that Wicked and Seditious contempt of the Protestant Reformation Bible and Ministers also consider how you testifie against what you like not as the Christian Quaker D. S. and give it as a reason or cause of excommunicating G. K. for his not calling in or not clearing the Guilty i. e. Pen and Whitehead c. of their Errors therefore if you had not approved of that Book of J. C. you would disown it and published against it as you have done against others less deserving if you were True Protestants also you could injoyn Mr. Pennyman publickly to condemn his throwing your Seditious Pamphlets on the ground in the Exchange and burning some wast Paper and say he was instigated
they have to excuse Fox's Blasphemy That it was not Fox but Christ said I am Christ c. in or by Fox as they say in one Book Must we deny him the Mouth to speak by But surely by this Figure John Baptist need not when he was asked to have said I am not he for he had the Light iâ— him But what Blasphemy can be spoken but may be excused by such Quibbles as they use to excuse the blasphemous Ancient Testimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning But by the same Rule every one of them may say as Fox did and take the same blasphemous Titles and they may be given to any Quaker as well as to Fox Also in page 242. Great Myst they cite one saying The Apostles were Eye-Witnesses c. In the Answer says Fox All may see what you have received not received the Gospel by the same means the Apostles did who are not Eye-Witnesses as the Apostles were hereby implying the Quakers had or did see Christ in the same manner as the Apostles did For the seeing by Faith no Protestants oppose as I know therefore that could not be the seeing the Man intended whom Fox opposes but the Man meant a seeing with bodily Eyes and it 's in this sence G. Fox opposes and banters the Man and does thereby imply he was not Christ but someching in him and so in Fox was the Christ and he i. e. Jesus but the Vessel Garment or Shell that the Kernel Christ dwelt in And hereby the Foxonian Spirit is proved to be a proud self-exalting Spirit as well as an envious and contemptuous one which according to Scripture must be brought down For altho' they give themselves and one another such high Titles yet because a Minister termed another Minister Reverend Man they say Are you not ashamed to court one another with false and flattering Titles Ye shameless and presumptuous ones who durst assume that Title to your selves which is appropriated to the Lord alone c. Now having given some proofs of the Quakers highly exalting themselves and one another I will shew how they exalt their own Sufferings and Blood also above our Lord's in this fierce despiser E. B.'s Works page 273. say they The Sufferings of the People of God in this Age is greater Suffering and more Unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles What was done to Christ and the Apostles was chiefly done by a Law and in great part by due execution of a Law c. Oh horrible Blasphemous undervaluing of our Lord's Sufferings and exalting theirs as above His and justifying or excusing them who Crucified him Also altho' they so contemn our Lord's yet of theirs i. e. the Quakers Blood in print say they to some Magistrates Do not rashly draw out your Swords against those harmless Ones whom your bloody Teachers represent to you as Deceivers be not prevailed on to release Barabbas and give over Jesus to be Crucified to gratifie the murderous Appetites of your Priests Consider altho' you may with Pilot wash your Hands and appear clear from his Blood yet before the pure Eyes of the Lord will the condemning stain thereof be found on you so fresh that you will by no means be from thence cleansed but by the same Blood i. e. the Quakers which you so cruelly shed Here they Answer that Pagan question of Is Pennington's i. e. can outward Blood cleanse c. Yes you see theirs can altho' our Lord's cannot as they imply Theirs is the Blood of cleansing no other means not by the Blood of our Lord outwardly shed but by the same i. e. the Quakers Blood Also I shall further prove these Foxonian Quakers lead by an evil Spirit by their contempt of and undervaluing the Scriptures and exalting their own above them Fox on the Titles of his Pamphlets says To all Friend every where this is the Word of the Lord unto you all And in another Entituled A Message from the Lord c. says three times this is the Word of God and yet says Great Mystery 247. The Scriptures they are not the Word of God as thou blasphemously affirm And in the Scorned Quaker c. page 19. The Scripture is not his Voice but so far as truly Translated A Declaration of what he spake to and by those Holy Men that were moved to write c. Here you see they not only undervalue our Translation but render the Scripture as an old Almanack or Gazette as to its being binding to us the Ten Commandments or Christ's Sermon on the Mount not God's Voice to us Yet I have afore prov'd Fox said his is the Word of God and G. Whitehead Entituled a little Pamphlet of his The Voice of Wisdom c. Now if G. W.'s be the Voice of Wisdom then it 's Christ's Voice Thus you see how they exalt their own Writings above Scripture and yet have the Arrogance to pretend they prefer Scripture before all other Books and Fox says in his Message from the Lord c. Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel c. with the Light all this Doctrine is seen to be false And in News out of the North c. So Dust is the Serpents Meat their original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter And you say says Fox That Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel which is Carnal c. Again says Fox that the Letter is the Word and that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are the Gospel and all your abominations are discover'd Now none means them four Words or Names be the Gospel but the Doctrine in and by them four Books by them four Evangelists is the Doctrine of the Gospel and it 's this Fox opposes for when Fox put on his this is the Word of God it 's not supposed he meant the Paper and Ink but the Doctrine therein or thereby signified as when the Quakers will not suffer their Papers to be called Mens Edicts it 's not thought they mean the Paper abstractly considered but their Laws therein made for their Subjects to obey And therefore it 's the Doctrines of Scripture and not the Paper and Ink Fox undervalues and condemns and his and Whitehead's Blasphemous Imaginations they Blasphemously term the Word of God and the Voice of Wisdom and make their Preachings and Writings to be God's by them but all others to be Man's and outside Teachings carnal Letter even the very Scriptures unless when they as their Fathers did against our Lord use them to contemn the Christian Faith for altho' they so often use some Scriptures as Christ in you except you be Reprobates c. The Word is nigh in the Heart c. thousands of times yet I challenge them to shew me how often if ever they press that 15 Chapter of the 1 of Corinth the first seven verses or the 9 and 10
Hypocrites not to be believed If Changed either your Truth hath changed or they gone from it and so that and you i. e. the Quakers not the same and so may change again as is for your sordid Interest as in the case of the Sloop in Pensilvania Also you are as uncertain and falacious in your main Principle of the Light within as in the case of Fighting In Great Mystery p. 58. you cite one saying To say the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer is Error Again They that say the Light in every Man that condemns of Sin to be Christ the Redeemer have set up an Idol c. To both these Fox answers To the first he says Contrary to John who saith This is the true Light which enlightens every Man Here he corrupts the Scripture And to the Second says he Doth not Christ say I am the Light of thâ—â—â—rd c. Here he doth not disprove what the Mâ—â—â—â—firm'd but squintingly justifies that as Truth which the Man opposes as Error i. e. That the Light in every Man is Christ the Redeemer and that it 's no Error so to affirm but Truth and that it 's contrary to Scripture to oppose so saying But in another Book intituled A Vindication of Truth c. by J. N. in Answer to the same Man and the same Passage as is Answer'd to in Great Mystery p. 58. In this Vindication c. p. 51. there is many Particulars which the Man as J. N. says charges on the Quakers as their Affirmations of which there you say to the Man Be ashamed of thy Lyes which thou hast cast on us which never entered into our hearts to do nor speak which thou falsly accusest us withal There is twenty one Particulars The Ninth is this say you That we say the Light in every one is Christ the Redeemer Then after the mentioning all the twenty Particulars which the Man charges the Quakers as holding or saying in p. 5â— of your Vindication c. you say Divers more Deceits hast thou made up into Lyes and laid on us as if we said them when it 's thy own wickedness c. Here you may see that to the same Man and Sentance in one Book i. e. The Great Mystery c. what the Man opposes as Error is owned as true and his opposing it made contrary to Scripture And in the other Book i. e. A Vindication c. the same Words or Sentence disown'd Again page 4. There J. N. charges the Man for saying that he said The Light shining in every Man is Christ a thing not wrot nor intended by me Says J. N. again page 8. The Man is charged with a Lye for saying that the Quakers say the Light within every Man is the Word Again page 11. There says J. N. Thou tells thy former lye over again saying I say the Light within every Man is the Spirit of Truth Again says J. N. It 's a lye that I say the Light in every Man is God's Righteousness Perfection c. Again page 12. that a measure of the Eternal Divinity is in every Man by turning to it out of all Sayings Operations Scriptâ—â—â— or Christ without the same doth purge away Siâ—â—â—d redeem unto God All which is thy own wickedness heaped up from thine own lye Again p. 16. says J. N. I do not say the Light in every Man is God's Son c. And in unity with this says G. W. As to Christ's being in every Man that is not our words c. Also in page 27. says J. N. thou tells four horrible lyes on me the second is that J. N. calls the Light within the Eternal Spirit Also in your Book Deceit brought to Day light c. You charge the Man with many lyes one is his saying that you hold the Light in every Man is Christ page 5. Also in E. B.'s Works page 298. There E. B. being charged as saying that every Man has the Spirit of Christ in Answer you by way of denyal say I never said nor thought so Now if the Light within every Man be not Christ nor the Spirit of Christ nor of Truth nor the Word nor God's Righteousness nor God's Son nor the Eternal Spirit as afore is shew'd you have in your Ancient Testimonies in print held formerly How then is it Or why did you excommunicate G. Keith as an Heretick for saying The Light within was not sufficient without something else i. e. Christ Jesus Either these aforemention'd denyals in your Ancient Testimonies be the Testimonies of Truth or Error if of Error then you ought to publish against them and the Authors but your not so doing you are chargeable with owning them and so either you and your Truth hath changed or contradict your selves For afore I have shewn that in your Great Mystery you contradict what you say in your Books A Vindication c. and Deceit brought to Day Light c. In one passage your Books do contradict each other one owning the same the other denies as also in your excommunicating G. Keith as an Heretick for asserting the same as some of your own Ancient Testimonies do Also whereas here afore I shewed you deny every Man to have the Spirit of Christ yet in Great Mystery c. p. 9. to the same Person who denies that every Man has the Spirit of Christ and charges you with an Error for so saying yet you charge him with it as an Error to deny every Man has the Spirit of Christ and in contradiction thereto you Answer John said Every Man is enlightened c. And the Spirit of Truth he shall reprove the World of Sin c. Mark say you All People here is Saints here is Disciples here is the World get from under this how thou canst for under Reproof thou art come c. And here are all Men says Fox to the same Person and words or Sentence In Great Mystery you oppose him for saying every Man has not the Spirit of Christ and yet in E. B.'s Works you term him lying Tongue for charging you as saying Every Man has the Spirit of Christ and say You never said nor thought so Why sure if as in Great Mystery you imply they have it then you ought to think and believe so And J. Bunyan says Every Man as he comes into the World receives a Light from Christ as he is God which is Conscience which some call Christ tho' falsly This will shew a Man there is a God c. This you answer by way of Denial in E. B.'s Works p. 143. I do deny them i. e. who call the Light Christ and thee if thou hast not made a Lye of some body Now in Great Mystery p. 208. to the same Sentence in your Answer there you say Christ saith I am the Light of the World c. and doth not say its Conscience you have given Christ a New Name that calls him Conscience Will Conscience blot out Sin Christ
yet this and other Seditious Defamings of the Protestant Ministers you have espoused and are your Ancient Testimony and however Wicked and Impudent you may term me yet know I here appear in your own Chief Priests Shape or Colours and whatever herein comes from the Pit of Damnation is not of my fetching thence but your own for I have these and many more in your printed Libels Consider you 24 how outragious you were against that Christian Quaker D. S. for his Answer to F. B. you say of D. S. it was a scandalous malicious Libel a mere trick put on you by some malicious Adversary to abuse you but you prove not your black Charge but you say so and it must go so but yours is a more malicious Libel and where as you say it was not by any directions or leave from you where did he say it was or what occasion had D. S. for your leave but herein your arrogancy is seen in not allowing D. S. or any to subscribe himself a Christian Quaker without your leave where got you this Power over others if you come no honester by your Money its but ill gotten Goods your Consciences knew he D. S. did not intend nor mean you as the Persons concern'd in that Name Christian Quakers for you know that by that Title the dissenting Quakers distinguish themselves from you Foxonians as W. R. in his Book therefore the mere trick was yours to deceive People into the Belief that you are the Christian Quakers when as you are not and had you your Pensilvanian Power here as your Dear Brother that Bloody Foxonian Priest Jennings had in Pensilvania It may be feared D. S. might have faired as W. Bradford did his Goods taken away and imprisoned and his life also if you could had your wicked wills but that Christian Answer of D. S. had been of more service to you than any thing you ever Printed could your Pride have let it pass People might have thought you had been of that number of Christian Quakers who would not hide Iniquity nor acquit your guilty Idols of Jealousie Fox and Whitehead but now you have shewn your selves to be otherwise and intitled your selves and all the Foxonian Quakers to all their Errors wicked Contempts of the Protestant Bible Religion and Ministers which is more than you are able to answer ot make satisfaction for for all you be so rich how can you expect to be thought Men of sincerity when there are so many scandalous Ancient Testimonies of theirs in Print yet you dare not disown them for fear of reflecting on the wicked Authors Fox c. here following I prove you guilty of Malice against the Protestant Ministers in informing against them all along before the Restoration for being for both the Kings Charles I. and Charles II. for restoring him and your thirst after their destruction was so great that because you were prevented of your design against them then by the Restoration in 1660. assoon as ever the King was come in you wickedly alter your charge and then accuse them for being against him See J. Coal's Works The Whore Unvail'd p. 112. highly commended and espoused by G. Fox and his Margaret the Lamb's Wife W. Penn and George Whitehead there you espous'd the Papists defaming the Protestant Bible Religion and Ministers as a Brazen-fac'd Unjust Corrupt Book Pope or Devil if they will but defame the Protestants you Foxonians will be their Factors to vend and spread such Wares you cannot but know there are many of your Ancient Testimonies in Print that much more deserve to be disown'd than that of D. S. and if you would be thought Christian Quakers prove your selves such by condemning these Blasphemous Treasonable and Seditious Ancient Testimonies be not so shameless as to think its enough for you to say you believe according to Scriptures no more than it did your Forefathers in saying they had Abraham to their Father you could give it as a reason to excommunicate G. K. because he did not call in his Books against your wicked erronious Brethren S. Jennings c. you pretend they were of disservice to Truth but are not these your wicked Actions and Seditious Ancient Testimonies greater injury to the Protestant Religion than they for shame you Foxonians who be not Priests be not so Priest-ridden by them will you be so proud and fond of a little Reputation that rather than you will acknowledge you have been mistaken or mislead by them wicked Men Fox c. that you will rack your Consciences and sacrifice your Souls ah unwise Men you purchase it at too dear a rate And if you give not forth some publick Testimony against the Evils of your Chief Priests you are respecters of Persons and so Sinners and then by Foxes Doctrine of the Devil and indeed if the Devil be known by his Teeth as the old Proverbs say he is by his Feet then you have shewn what Teeth you have when you can come to bite as you did W. Bradford and would have done by G. K. and seeing you indicted F. Bugg for not performing that unusual Punctilio of Law to enter his Book in the Stationers Books are your Meetings and Schools according to Law in all circumstances if not if any disadvantage come to any of you thank your selves you have shewn the way and given example how think you to escape the Judgment of God who condemn others and do worse your selves how can you have the face as to print such Malicious Seditious and Scandalous Ancient Testimonies as be in G. F. E. B. and J. Coal's c. Works besides what you have by Forgery alter'd by leaving out and putting in says Fox Let all Fines belonging to Lords of Mannors be taken away and given to the Poor for they have enough this Judge of the World Fox can give or take away the Lords Properties Oh shameless yet say you many have done well but thou dear George excellest them all but pray how liked you it when a long Periwig and Sword were in fashion with you when it was like to be your own case consider this and what follows and if your can shew any such wicked Testimonies in G. Keith's Books now if you do not as publickly disown these your Chief Priest's wicked Ancient Testimonies as you have done D. S. then you are justly chargeable with them for in case you did not own them you would publish against them as you have done against D. S. and G. K. and order them to be called in as you did G. Keith's some of you W. Sanders the Wine-cooper in Company with H. Gouldny on the open Change in full Change called Mr. Pennyman an Ancient Upright credible Citizen Impudent Fellow but are not you worse then Impudent thus arrogantly to take upon you in Print to try and condemn the Protestant Ministers and not content therewith but to satiate your Spirits of Pride and Malice and to effect your Bloody Designs against
them you inform the King in Print against them and if by your own Ancient Testimonies you may be tryed then are you guilty of Damnable Doctrines of Devils and Seditious Doctrines Blasphemy Persecution and are Conjurers and Witches for all these and many more hellish Names I can prove you have given the Protestant Ministers and not only in your small Libels which you have spread Thousands of but in reprinting them in great Volumes with high commendations on the wicked Authors as more than a Prophet excelling all see many Blasphemous Titles and what can be the intent thereof but that all these your Blasphemous Seditious Scandalous Ancient Testimonies against the Protestant Religion Ministers and Bible which you have the Confidence as to Print as a brazen Fac'd Book If you now Foxonian Quakers did not approve of that wicked Work of J. Coals why did not you Print against it as you did against D. S. Christian Answer to F. Bugg and as your White-hart-court Parliament did to G. Keith order it to be called in but your High Priest W. Penn knew well enough that whatever Scandal or Falshood he could invent to defame the Protestant Ministers it would be acceptable to some then in great Power at Court who were able to defend and reward him as G. F. and E. B. had in the Army formerly he had not Pensilvania for nothing and although to beguile the Church of England he tells them far be it from me to deprive them of their just Rights but what their just Rights are he tells us elsewhere that they the Protestant Ministers are that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon and that they are the best of Mankind to be spared these are the just Rights he is not willing to diminish them of but give them full Cups of his Fury and Envy and such is his eager Thirst after their destruction that he cannot be content to leave them until that day but if J. C. or any other can fetch from the Pope any thing to help to defame them W. P. and G. W. will be their Factors to encourage the vend of such Wares and such wicked Works is a sure way to Preferment among them they having many Rich Wives and great Trades among them which E. Pennington and such Runnagadoes as he wanted and for further proof that you Foxonians are not Christian Quakers see Isaac Pennington that Paganish Preacher's contempt of the Person and Blood of our Lord Jesus as a Garment Vessel c. as cited by F. B. c. and this Isaac Pennington takes on him to write to the Jews for their Conversion and Redemption and in the Discourse do not mention Faith in the Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Blood and Sufferings as on the Cross as the Four Evangelists do as St. Paul 1 Corinthians Chap. 1. and 2. but directs the Jews to a Seed a Principle within them as the Redeemer c. Now these Foxonian Quakers frame an excuse why they have not so frequently Preached Faith in that Man or Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth because as they pretend all Christendom have that Belief already and therefore no need for them to Preach it to them but here to the Unbelieving Jews who they cannot pretend do believe the outward History of our new Testament concerning him yet here this Paganish Preacher Isaac Pennington do not Preach him whom their Fathers nailed to the Cross c. our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as the Apostle Peter did therefore he could not be guided by the same Spirit they were but a Principle common to all Mankind and in every Man but he who brings not the same Gospel but another he is to be accursed also their fallaciousness appears that now of late they have more frequently Preached him as the Apostles did although there is not so much need of their doing it now since G. Keith has been raised up to do it but as their Forefathers did in St. Paul's time they Preach Christ in Envy and I believe some of you 24 aforementioned are convinced in your own Consciences that your Chief Priests Fox and Whitehead c. are guilty of Errors in some things of Doctrine and Practice which according to Foxes own Doctrine is sin and then by their own judgment they were of the Devil if they abide not in the Doctrine of Christ they are of the Devil they say Now seeing it s not only our privilege but our duty to try Spirits and in the Tryal of your Foxonian Spirit I here use your own Printed Method against the Protestant Ministers also your own Printed Doctrines rather than the Scriptures because you have contemn'd them and say its Blasphemy to say they are the word of God but of yours you say this is the word of God c. and in discharge of my duty not to let sin be upon you unreproved but to discover the deceivers is the only way to recover the deceived this is your own Doctrine and you declare you are contrary to the Ministers in Principle and Practice and we cannot own both you and them too but must disown one in your Epistle before E. Burrow's Works c. Now I say where or when did Christ or his Apostles accuse their Opponents to the Magistrates and indict them for those things they were worse and more guilty of themselves or when did they Imprison Fine and take away Men's Goods all which have been done by or for you Foxonian Chief Priests and S. Jennings c. they presented G. K. as a subverter of the Government which was Death by your Law these and other your wicked doings prove your Foxonian Spirit a Wicked Bloody Proud Envious Spirit and contrary to the Spirit of Christ and his Apostles for where do you read they did so indeed I read in Rev. 2. Chap. 10. v. it s said that the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison Now let People judge whether these wicked Actions of your Chief Priests be not more like the Devils then Christ or the Apostles and these Bloody Actions of your dear Brother Foxonian Chief Priest S. Jenning was so acceptable to your Pope Penn that I here he endeavoured to make him his Deputy Governour there doubtless as a reward for his Good Service in persecuting G. Keith and imprisoning and taking away W. Bradford's Goods for printing G. Keith's Defence also to encourage him and others in such Bloody Works and to deter others from daring to adventure to oppose any of your wicked Foxonian Preachers Errors as G. Keith had done now judge it s your own Doctrine that none should be Ministers that would have Creatures to be Imprisoned again say you did Christians ever cast into Prison any but Foxonian Priests have so done therefore are by your own Doctrine no Christians of Christ's making I could fill a Book with Quotations of your exclaming against going to Law and imprisoning
by the Devil but sure it was a worse Spirit instigated you to print and recommend that wicked Defamation of the Protestant Bible and Ministers then that G. W. could say his brought a great reproach on Friends but this wicked action of yours are far greater reproach to the English Protestants and more justly to be condemn'd but you knew who you pleased and that you had them great in Power to stand by and gratifie and incourage you in defaming the Protestant Ministers so that it was not then your Interest and therefore might and did say you were not concerned no not to vindicate but to defame the Protestants and although in your last years Foxonian Conclave in White-hart-court in your Laws then made you use not the same Terms because you have been detected as Tythes and Church Rates c. but do in more squinting quibbling terms that your Design and Presumption may not be so easily seen impose the same things saying we recommend unto you the holding up the Holy Testimony of Truth and that in all the parts of it for Truth is one and changes not and say they what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning it reproves still and so what it justified in the beginning i. e. the Actions in 1648. c. it justifies still for say they Truth i. e. the Foxonian Spirit is one and changes not hereby have they confirmed all their former Seditious Doctrines in Print as well against the King as against the Protestant Ministers nay all their contempts of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth's Person Blood and Sufferings therefore whatever seeming fair Confessions they may for to deceive the Government now make of owning the present Government as consisting of King House of Lords and Bishops and Church of England as now Established and the Scriptures and Christ yet they have hereby i. e. their Meetings Injunction not only owned but also in as plain Terms as they durst commanded their Subjects to hold them up and in order thereto it is that they do so defend their old Blasphemies and Seditious Printed Ancient Testimonies of their Idol of Jealousie Fox c. whilst they pretend to believe and own the contrary And although this Tryal hath been long wrot yet had not been now published but that they instead of disowning these erronious Ancient Testimonies as they ought if they were True Protestants they cover and excuse them and pretend they are such quiet innocent ones in the Land and therefore that People may not be deceived by their good words but may see them as they are envious Slanderers and Persecutors of the Protestant Ministers is this now published also because these Foxonian Rabshakes are so shameless as to challenge it as out-doing the Devil their own Foxonian Spirit because after it was proved is said in discovery inlarged c. I find their Books stuft with such base Insinuations and Defamations of almost all People that the chief drift of them seems to be to render the New Testament and the true Faith in our Lord Jesus and the Ministers and Professors thereof Infamous and worse than the Papists and are so bold as to advise and direct to the taking away and destroying Property Now I say he the Devil hath out-done it in and by themselves as in pages 10.11.31.32.34 to 38. of that Discovery and also more fully proved in the Sn. in the Grass c. and Satan disrobed c. and by George Keith in several Books printed by him Also in one Sheet titled an Essay to allay G. Foxes Spirit which may be Printed at large containing about Twelve Sheets but in this Citation they are Guilty of that they so defame T.C. for for they leave out these Words and Defamations whereby they not only wrong the Citation but the Sense also and your own Consciences cannot but know unless they be seared that its true although you are so proud you will not hear I have forborn naming some Persons and Books in respect to some concerned and although the Citations be short yet they are true and in your own Printed expressions I say if you think these things too hard with the Light of Christ search your selves and see if it be not the reward of your own hands and if you say wherefore am I made publick it s your own answer thou Foxonian Spirit hast committed thy lewdness before the Sun therefore openly art thou reproved who hast sinned openly also again you say in Print must not Jealousie be stirr'd up in the Powers of the Earth against them i. e. Professors as they have again others And although I am sensible your influence and interest is so considerable that I know not how soon I may feel the tender love of your Spirit as W. Bradford did yet I am not afraid nor discouraged from discovering you for all your Policy that who or what ever Interest govern you are sure to be of the rising side for you have some great among you of all sides and also I know and have proved that the Foxonian Rabshakes are not Children in Malice but Men yea strong and old Men in Malice and Contempt of the Scriptures and Protestant Ministers and do more justly deserve to be taken notice of by the Magistrate than the poor Country Justice did for using an cetera in his Warrant for Commitment of Fox or then G. Keith and W. Bradford did and seeing you term others Rabshakes let the Reader judge whether that name belongs not to you Foxonians Whitehead c. who gave these and many more names to Mr. Pennyman to defame him viz. you called him grinning Dog barking Cur the Devils Agent the Devils Porter the Devils Drudge-Vassel of Hell setting open Hell Gates Bond-slave of Hell cursed for ever cursed Serpent c. Unclean nasty Spirit c. although one of the cleanliest neatest Men in London but to prove the Foxonian Spirit is a nasty one observe as follows their nasty words as I find them in Print by one J. Wiggam who had some controversie with them they writ this to him this hath caused thee to spew out on a Paper for the Dogs to lick up they take so much of thy filthy spewing it causes them to vomit thou purges upward and downward thou needs one to wipe thee thou mak'st a pitiful stink through thy vomiting and purging thou besmears every one that comes nigh thee one may follow thee by the smell wilt not give over vomiting thou stinks all the Country over like a Man with a scall'd Head and Horse with a gall'd Back making People Vomit and Spew that they make such a stink thou may'st be asham'd with thy filthy spewing if thou wert not Impudent also Margaret Foxes Wife wrot thus to him thou hast committed Sacrilege which will never be forgiven thee thou art accursed and no other Portion canst thou have thou Infidel Child of Darkness the Curse Christ hath pronounced on thee thou art the Man thou Impudent
not more recommendations thereof than these Quakers have given of this but the same Principles is in their other Ancient Testimony in the beginning which they now injoyn their Subjects to hold up But judge Reader if these Foxonian Cardinals Whitehead c. were not very Shameless in that they durst thus maliciously accuse the Protestant Ministers to the King so soon as 1660. for being against his Father and for Oliver and them Governments when as themselves that is Foxonian Quakers were so highly guilty in the same Case and here I have proved their being out of Christ's Doctrine and so by their own Doctrine to be of the Devil for here afore you see how heinous a sin they make it even as Crucifying our Lord for saying the Protestant Religion was in danger to be rooted out by the Quakers here its plain they did not do as they would be done by for in the same Libel they inform against the Protestant Ministers as dangerous to the King these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. reflect on and endeavour to incense the King against the Men the Creatures they strike at them therefore their Spirit or Light which they blasphemously term Truth and the Spirit of God c. cannot be the same Spirit as Christ and the Apostles had by their own judgment now seeing it s not Christ's Spirit and they say there are but Two Spirits Gods and the Devils and themselves have judged it I have now proved them the Foxonian Chief Priests so Wicked and Malicious against the Protestant Ministers that they have informed against them to Oliver c. for being for the King and assoon as ever the King was restored they were so abominable shameless as to inform against them for being against him when themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree and were not content although they had Chr. Love's a Ministers Life but they accuse the Ministers in General as in pag. 12. it s said for the Parties this Case respects it runs through generally the whole Ministry of the Nation and in their Book Information to the Army c. pag. 7. say they when a company of greedy Priests came to tell you they had not engaged with G. Booth in the Rebellion but your real Friends Quakers who gave you and the Army intelligence about the Insurrection in Cheshire i. e. Sir G. Booths for the King were spoiled by the Rebels c. and in their Book the West to North pag. 102. say they these Innocent Servants of the Lord G. Fox Ed. Piot Many of them have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from first to last also p. 16. say they the Laws c. The defence of them we have in the late Wars vindicated in the Field with our Blood But this and many others they have left out in reprinting the Letter in G. Fox's Journal as may hereafter be more fully shown But in the mean time take this caution not to trust nor believe these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. in what they print or recommend to you as the works of their Fellows Fox c. or as other mens words they have so altered them in many places by leaving out and adding to forge them to their purpose Therefore you may judge what abominable falshoods they will impose on the World hereafter when those few now living who are able to detect them be dead but there is a Collection of as many as are found to be published that by that you may judge of the rest of their Works what grose Forgers they are and will be And seeing they say they are contrary in Principle and Doctrine to the Protestant Ministers and we cannot as they say own both but must deny one Therefore either all the Generations of Protestants in all Ages to the end of Time not only Ministers but Princes and all Estates and Degrees must be condemned as Antichrists and Apostates as these Foxonian Quakers have and do record them to posterity except one Thorpe c. or else these Foxonian Quakers Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies which their Truth at first taught them must be condemned and disowned Now whether is most reasonable that these few Foxonian Quakers most of them being dead except W. Penn and G. Whitehead come under the deserved blame of false Accusers and men influenc'd by a wrong Spirit and their Blasphemous and Seditious Testimonies publickly condemned or their infamous Contempts and Slanders be recommended to after Ages for Divine Revelations and the wicked Authors as the only Prophets of God in this Age. What can be their intent but that their Blasphemous Seditious Ancient Testimonies may be of as great or greater Authority than the Holy Scripture But as a further proof that they these Foxonian Quaker's Spirit is not Christ's the Apostles and all Protestants but an avowed Enemy to the Protestant Religion and Ministers in general They are not content with their own volumnious defamatious Slanders they have filled the World with by their printed Libels but to gratifie the Papist's interest which then was great and able to defend and reward them therefore they joyn with their elder Sister Rome and print in 1671 with their own in J. C.'s Works highly extolled by W. Penn and G. Whitehead Fox and his Wife A Papist scandalous Libel wherein they term the Protestant Bible Brazen-fac'd Book and villifie the beginning of the Reformation and give the Protestant Ministers the same Hellish Names as their own Books do and say to see such stand in a Pulpit with such a Brazen-fac'd Book as is their unjust Bible and term it corrupt and a perverse Book Such Brazen Faces had these Foxonians when the Papists interest was great Haman like improving their interest to destroy the Protestant Ministers because they would not bow to their blasphemous Spirit This shews what kind of Protestants they would have proved if what they then expected had taken effect even serving the Protestants as they had done all the former Governments from 1648. to 1660. own and encourage them while they prosper but when like to fall or gone then exclaim against them and would do by the Protestants as they have by the Dissenters Inform against them when it 's for their interest and tell the Papist their elder Sister how shall she ever without great danger to her self put confidence in such Hereticks as the English Protestants be And it 's not unlikely but that they printed at large this seditious Libel of the Papists against the Protestants and put it into their Works in such a remarkable Character as an earnest-penny that they may come in with their elder Sister Rome for a share when they see it for their interest to pull off their Masks Another proof I shall give that their Light or Spirit is not from Heaven above but more likely from the Pit of Damnation below for to Defame the Protestant Ministers in a Book Entituled A Serious
they had not thought it advantagious to them to defame the Protestant Ministers and to get in favour with the Popish Interest And to this and other their wicked envious Works and Books their own Words are a fitting and sufficient enough Answer I dare defie the Father of Lyes himself to out-do this Rabshekah pag. 70. It concerns all Protestants Ministers and People to pray to God and use all lawful means that they these fierce Despisers Foxonian Quakers get not into Power here as they have done in Pensilvania and as they in Print say Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord against the mighty Foxonians But as they say Give the Whore double as she hath done so let it be done unto her And whereas they say they differ in the Root from all People nay you agree with your Sister Rome to defame and destroy the Protestant Ministers And if as you say in Print The Parliament have Recognized you for Protestants they have not as it were Unprotestanted the Protestant Ministers But I believe the Parliament knew not but were deceived by your false Pretences as Joshua and the Elders of Israel were by the Gibeonites of your Printed Contempts of our Lord Jesus and the Scriptures Laws Kings Lords and Protestant Ministers especially And it 's worthy Consideration whether or no if that they have so Recognized these Foxonians as Protestants whether then all their Errors and Wickednesses may not be charged on the English Protestants in general and they answerable to any Foreign Adversary Papist Jew or Pagan for them and also induce Strangers to believe all their Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to be true and they the Ministers to be such false Prophets and Antichrists and Sorcerers c. as these Quakers have in Print published them to the World more especially when Acts of singular Kindness are passed in their Favour without their disowning these their Ancient Seditious Testimonies as to exempt them from the Law that all other the Commons of England are bound to and a kind of Peerage granted them above all others and either these Quakers contemptuous and defaming Doctrines must be condemned or all the Protestant Ministers and People stand on Record as such Devils Sorcerers and Antichrists as they have Printed them not only in Thousands of Seditious small Libels but in great Volumes with high Commendations on them and the Authors affixed to them by G. Whitehead c. who is the Common Voucher for them More than a Prophet endued with the Almighty Power of God which reigned in him Worthy Prophet of God See more of these blasphemous Expressions of and to Fox in the Snake in the Grass c. and a blasphemous Letter written to Fox by a Foxonian Preacher as in T. C.'s Discovery c. Now what tends all this to but to gain their Contempts Credit or Preference with or before the Scripture Terming the Doctrine of the Church of England Doctrine of Devils Damnable Heresies a meer Cheat c. And the Minister a Teacher of Lasciviousness Now judge you Protestants whether it were not better that W. Penn and G. Whitehead and some few more of the Chief of the Foxonian Chief Priests come under the blame or shame of being mislead by Fox and they condemn or disown those Printed Errors of theirs or else to gratifie the Pride and Malice of Ten of them for I think there is not more of them fierce Despisers now living to have all this Infamy and Contempt of theirs in Print of the Protestant Religion and Ministers so convey'd to Posterity as Divine Oracles for there can no dammage come to the People Quakers in general or to these Persons nor no more desired of them than that they publish something to clear the Protestants in general as they required of G. K. and Excommunicated him because he did it not from their Calumnies and as them Twenty-four afore-mentioned did against the Christian Quakers Answer to F. Bugg and else these Foxonians more justly deserve to be Excommunicated from the Protestants than G. K. did from them What! Shall they have such Power and Zeal for Errors and is there none in Power that have as much Zeal for the Protestant Religion and Ministers And these Foxonians of all People ought not to refuse to condemn their Errors because they exact the same from others for faults much less criminal But let them but observe their own Doctrine to 21 Divines it 's I fear true on themselves say they Your credit is a temptation to you sacrifice it for the sake of your own and others Souls upon the Altar of self-denial think not repentance a Work too mean for you because you have been so long Preachers to others a just rebuke p. 32. Mind this I pray you Foxonians especially W. P. the Author and it will be an aggravation of your guilt in case you practice not what you Preach to others and a farther proof of the truth of my charge against you Therefore be not high minded but take your own advise G. W. be ingenious and confess thy Error I advise thee not to out-face thy own Conscience And this Spirit of Fox's which now influences G. Whitehead c. is the same as was in Corah c. For as then they oppos'd and resisted Moses so doth this Foxonian Spirit in these Quakers condemn our Spiritual Moses the Lord Jesus of Nazareth But this proud Foxonian Spirit thro' his Instrument Fox says he is Christ the Eternal Judge of the World the Son of God and as a Father in Christ say they of Fox he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him Overseer and endued him with an excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding one of the Lords Worthies And many more such Blasphemous Titles have these Foxonian Quakers given to their Idol of Jealousie Fox in their Journal Printed in Folio and preserved in the Library at Oxford to spread his Fame to the Defamation and great Scandal of the many Generations of Protestants Martyrs and Ministers And notwistanding they so Blasphemously exalt him he was either very wicked or else such a Blockhead that he understood not common Sense for five Ministers wrot a Book detecting these Quakers Errors Intituled The Perfect Pharisee charging them with 17 Errors this was answer'd by Fox in his great Mystery p. 74. but he as was usual with him slips the material things and quarrels with some expressions more insignificant They published another Book Titled A farther Discovery of the Quakers c. in vindication of the truth of their Charge on the Quakers Now of the 17 Errors they charge these Quakers with the third is in both their Books that the Quakers hold that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence this is rehearsed in their 5 th p. where they begin to recite all the 17 Errors of the Quakers afterwards they state these 17 Errors and prove and then confute them
Now this 3 d. altho it be recited in their 5 th pag. yet it 's again mentioned in p. 31. Now Fox pretends to answer this Book of the 5 Ministers in his 227. page and in his beginning says of them and their Book thus In it are their Principles as follows and next begins and for Principle puts generally Pr. and says thus Pr. First that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence giving it as the 5 Ministers Words and Principle and so make a long squinting Answer and out of all the 30 pages pickt out about six lines of the whole and quarrels with but when he comes to p. 31. where the five Ministers again recite the same former Error of the Quakers then in his page 229. he gives it as their Principle It is Blasphemy to say the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence Here he truly states their Principle altho' not their Words but in his long side-long squinting Answer says to them You five have judged your selves to be Blasphemers who said the Soul was part of the Divine Essence and yet 't is Blasphemy to say so Thus you see this silly Goose of a Fox here confirms his afore Chargeing the five Ministers that they said The Soul was a part of the Divine Essence whenas they never so said only recited the Quakers Words and Error Just as if one hearing a Person speak Treason and being called to witness it and rehearsing the Words the Witness who only rehearses what he heard should therefore be charged with the Treason for this Goose Fox doth not only in p. 227. give it as their Principle but in his 229 page where he owns they term it Blasphemy he also confirms it that they said The Soul was a part of the Divine Essence whenas they only recite it But it 's to be feared Fox was not so much ignorant as wicked in this because he makes his Advantage to render the five Ministers as contradicting themselves But take it in the best sence that Fox was so silly a Goose as to understand no better but to take what they recite as to be their own Principle as he here did at best Another Instance of Fox's Weakness or Wickedness is in their Books Great Mystery page 247. Fox falsly says of C. W. He saith God limits the Supream holy One by the inspired Writings of the Apostles c. And in Answer Fox says And the holy One is not limited by the Words of the Apostles who fulfils them c. Now by Fox's Answer and his saying He saith c. it 's evident he gives this his Forgery as his Opponents Words and any one who reads it would so think but they are not but are one of Fox's many Forgeries For C. W.'s Words be thus pag. 13. Your Quakers Diabolical Spirit in you he over-powers you Quakers to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving Teachings and as he i. e. the Diabolical Spirit thereby i. e. by perswading them to slight Scripture limits the Supream holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one Dispensation of Gods Mind to Men Here it is evident that C. W.'s Word is HE and relates to the Diabolical Spirit which this wicked Fox forges into GOD and what W. C. says the Diabolical Spirit does Fox says he C. W. says God does besides the Forgery hereby it 's proved that it 's the Diabolical Spirit which Fox takes for God or Christs Spirit as also his Forgery proves This is mention'd in my Essay to allay G. Fox's Spirit p. 7 8. with about Twenty more Instances of Fox's wicked Forgeries and Perversions But they have a Cover for Fox's Wickedness and Ignorance in W. Penn's Epistle in recommendation of him and his Journal that it proceeds from one side of his Understanding which was towards the World c. which they there acknowledge was somewhat dark or weak but such Quibbles shew that the Inventers were not so weak as wicked and that his i.e. Fox's Judgment was not quite round Infallible but had a Fallible Side But I say This proves these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn c. very false Witnesses so blasphemously to exalt such a wicked Man or Spirit as Fox and his were and they W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. are Masters of so much Sence that it may justly be feared they have in this exalting and vindicating this wicked Fox sinned against their own knowledge and they may be reminded of their own Counsel Do not go about to out-face thy own Conscience but confess thy Fault for you have too highly exalted him and he hath exalted himself and must be abased All this proves their now Foxonian Cardinals Penn Whitehead c. to be as bad as he I do not mean as silly but as wicked and false to say as they have in Print God hath endued him with such an Excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding But be it known W. Penn understands his own Worldly Interest better than Fox did Divinity But say the Foxonians of this miserable blasphemous vagrant cobling Wretch Fox This holy Man was raised up by God in an extraordinary manner for an extraordinary Work So was Pharaoh and other wicked Instruments But I have here proved them false Witnesses therefore shall not go unpunished but who say unto the Wicked Fox thou art Righteous are to be Cursed But altho' these Foxonian Quakers so deifie and exalt this wicked Spirit of Haman in their Idol of Jealousie Fox yet they can contemn and undervalue the Person of our Lord JESUS and his Blood as mean and contemptible and say Doth not the Name Christ belong to every Member as well as to the Head Your imagined God beyond the Stars and your carnal Christ is utterly denied by the Light To say this Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye and the Blood let out of his Side by the Spear on the Cross after he was dead was no more than the Blood of another Saint They are false Ministers that preach Christ without c. Hereby they make St. Peter a false Minister And of our Lords Person say they It was Mean and Contemptible And hundreds more such horrid Contempts have they Printed which are excused and justified by the now Foxonian Quakers and the wicked Authors not only vindicated but their wicked Works highly magnified by W. P. and G. W. And altho' these now Foxonians to gratifie some then in great Power at Court left out and altered their Treasonable Ancient Testimonies yet their Contempts of the Protestants especially the Ministers they have not abated but rather aggravated especially W. Penn. And for further proof that this Foxonian Spirit is not Christ's I shall give you one instance of the arrogancy thereof in G. Whitehead in a brief Treatise c. says he Magistrates that uphold such blind Guides as this R. Baxter a Protestant Minister who is in such Errors and Confusion they grosly abuse their Power
and shall give an account for it one day But these may quibble it off that this was against them in Oliver's times and it 's against such as be in Errors c. I Answer that they accounted the Church of England Ministers worse than them and for Errors c. They count them all such as at large may be seen in the Epistle before E. B.'s Works Another proof of the Arrogancy of this Foxonian Spirit is in their Book Counterfeit Convert c. p. 72. They say That their Testimony against Tythes should be maintained is not a Law of their own making but of Christs This is in Answer to something said to them in T. C.'s Animadversions p. 39. where T. C. objects against their Arrogant and Unchristian Judgment they have passed on all Christendom Kings Lords Martyrs and all People who pay Tythes altho' freely as is Christianly held in W. R.'s Christian Quaker and opposed in theirs intituled An Antidote in Answer to W. R. But it 's this the Quakers Imposition and Tyranny over others Consciences that they will not allow them to be Christians but Antichrists and mark them as such and Deniers of Christ It was this their Unchristianing all who can freely pay Tythes without constraint that T. C. objects against and this they make a Law of Christ's making thereby positively Judging the Laws of England for Tythes to be opposite to Christ's Laws and so the Upholders of such Laws of all Degrees Deniers of Christ and Antichrists and not only the Law-Makers and Maintainers but those who pay them freely For THAT Unchristian Testimony of theirs it was T. C. termed a Law of their making c. In Answer hereto they do not deny its a Law but deny it 's of Their making but of Christ's say they This Book was by them delivered to the Parliament Here Sentence is past on all Degrees past present and to the Worlds End when the Court of our Judges the Foxonian Cardinals of their Second Days Meeting will please to order Execution I know not But further To prove these their Testimonies as they term them be Laws observe also in their Book intituled Rabshekah c. page 90. they say Formerly he i. e. T. C. having transgressed in some matters Again say they And by his said Transgressions c. Now where there is no Law there is no Transgression but here they charge and punish for Transgression for not obeying their Laws contrary to the Law of the Nation and say It 's not of their making but of Christ's This is of very high rnd general Concernment for it affects as well as reflects on Laws and Law-Makers as well as Law-Obeyers and which is of most force or which must have preference either the Law of the Nation or of the Quakers Why if as they say that theirs against them who can freely pay Tythes is of Christs making then the Quakers Law or Testimony is of greatest force because it 's of Christ's i. e. Fox's making This is larger and better treated on in The Snake in the Grass c. the Second Edition with Additions I only say Either the Quakers are very Arrogant or else by their Doctrine the Law-Makers and Laws of England are contrary to Christ's And I think these Quakers Reflections and Scandal they have laid on the Laws and Religion and Ministers of England much more deserve to be taken notice of by them in Power than Francis Bugg's Book with the Picture of a Pillory did which on the Quakers Complaint against him as Seditious was seized by a Messenger by Order of a Secretary of State and he F. B. Indicted for three Crimes Defaming or Scandalizing G. W. c Quakers But the Quakers scandalizes the Laws and Law-Makers and Observers in all Ages since the Apostles until the End of Time who pay or uphold Tythes altho' freely and therefore is very Arrogant as well as Unchristian And this proves it is not Liberty of Conscience but Power over others Consciences they aim at and also proves their Deceit in pretending theirs are but Counsel and Tender Advice for altho' to deceive they use such gentle Words as Recommend or Tender Advice yet you see they expect exact Obedience and punish as Transgressors for not obeying their Orders as the Laws of Christ or of his making Now are not these Quakers very Wicked and Arrogant in doing as they have Not only to the Ministers but defamed the Memories of Kings and Martyrs ever since Christ that paid or shall pay Tythes And they have been so drunk with furious Malice as to violate Sepulchers and trample on the Graves of the Dead nay they have been so ignoble base and meanly scurrilous as to bestow their Billingsgate Rhetorick not only on other Men but Kings more especially Charles the First that cannot answer for themselves because in their Graves It is not fit they i. e. these Arrogant Quakers should pass without Rebuke therefore to expose the poorness and wickedness of their Spirit which they blasphemously term Christ's to the view of those of a more Generous and Christian Temper and to manifest what a kind of Antagonists the Ministers have I have here collected a part of their Abuses of those good Men some of them now at rest who never deserved at these Quakers hands I am perswaded these Demonstrations of Rancor against them These Quakers Malice is so great against the Protestant Ministers that I have not offered a third part of the Abusive Expressions they have used against them both here afore and following All this and more is their own in their Book Rabshekah c. page 68. because G. Fox's and their Wickedness was discover'd which these now Quakers are so far from disowning as they ought that they contrariwise vindicate them and exalt the Authors Fox c. with high Commendations A mighty Prophet and more than a Prophet endued with the Almighty power of God which lived and reigned in him and this Epistle aforementioned wrot by him is such a choice Revelation with them that it 's twice printed and put before 2 Books one of Fox's in 1659. and another since printed by them Foxonian Quakers 1672. of above 900 pages in Folio stuft with bitter Revilings and Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to the great scandal of the English Nation as following is shown And it 's the Protestant Ministers in general that fot upholding them he G. W. threatens the Magistrates And for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is not Christ's but that which influenced Haman to seek the Destruction of the Jews appears by the Fruits of Malice and Defamation following that they have vâ—â—ted against the Protestant Ministers and it 's chiefly the Ministers Support that is their Grievance and only take that of Tythes for their pretence as being likely to take with covetous and poor People c. For formerly when some considerations were in hand on the hideous Noise they made against Tythes for some
verses of the 10 th Chapter of the Romans altho' they thousands of times use the foregoing words yet I remember not that ever I heard them mentioned in any Quakers Meeting before G. Keith did since his last coming into England nor in any of their Books nor remembred I that there was such Expressions in Scripture so Ear-boar'd as other be was I to them Let them produce these aforementioned Scriptures used by S. C. or any of their printed Sermons or Books as to the intended service of them in Scripture I will undertake to produce a hundred if not a thousand times for one of their using them other Let this be the touch-stone and for their undervaluing Scripture I can give hundreds of more contempts of theirs These their contempts of our Lord's Person Blood and Sufferings and exalting their own These Foxonian Quakers will not disown but underhand have approved and confirmed them and enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and hold them up for these be their Ancient Testimonies that their Truth taught them in the beginning and they say it changes not so it seems by their so justifying and excusing those Blasphemous fierce Despisers the Authors and their wicked Works But for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is an evil one appears in the case of J. Gilpin who relates how he was deluded to Blaspheme c. And after it pleased God he was sensible and acknowledg'd his Delusion by neglect of Hearing Reading and Prayer c. and harken only to a Voice within me says J. Gilpin because what was spoken by it was seconded by lying Wonders c. This Voice he says led him to a Fidlers Door where he knocked and sald Behold Christ stands at the door and knocks J. Audland a Foxonian Preacher who wrot the blasphemous Letter to G. Fex followed him and he says as he went he was moved to proclaim I am the Way the Truth and the Life Again he says my Hand was carried to take up a Knife and carried with it towards my Throat and the Voice said unto me open a hole there and I will give unto thee the Words of Eternal Life Many more prodigious Actions he did by the power of the Voice or Spirit within him and he says many Quakers came to him and bid him harken to the Voice within Now Fox Answers this Book in Great Mystery and in citing them words of Gilpins aforementioned that he confesses his Error by harkening only to a Voice within me says he Now G. Fox in page 298. terms this wicked deluding Spirit or Voice The Voice of God within he saith says Fox he began to consider how he had offended God by his neglect of external means Prayer c. and harken to the Voice of God only within Hereby it 's apparent what Spirit or Voice influenced him Fox even the same wicked one that led Gilpin for he Fox terms that the Voice of God and so proves himself to be one of them who was given over to Delusion to believe a lye and as he Fox so his Followers Whitehead c. are by the same Spirit guided to vindicate and excuse him Also in Cumberland two Women Quakers and Preachers charged their own Sister and her Husband to have murdered and buried their own Child and caused the Man and his Wife to be tryed at an Assizes for it many wicked blasphemous passages there was in the whole Tragedy too long to relate here in the printed Narrative by the Man himself Henry Winder Entituled The Spirit of Quakerism c. worth reading This most murderous and blasphemous Spirit thro' these two Women's Preaching Quakers affirmed this was A message from the Lord by the Revelation of Jesus Christ The whole Tragedy is most Blasphemous and when made publick not disown'd but rather incourag'd by the Quakers in general so fat as I can see by the Narrative and it 's this same wicked Spirit which so defame the Protestant Ministers and which Penn balsphemously calls the Holy Spirit But from these few sad Instances it 's apparent that the Quakers when they mention Jesus Christ do not mean that Man or Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth but a Spirit or Light in them and all Men as their terms of distinction shew They make Jesus Christ to be a Denomination or Title which they give to any Spirit they please as the King doth Titles of Honour Whereas in your Book Rabshekah c. you boast of your Principles as for you as Hearers in charity we may believe you but if you like not these seditious and erronious Ancient Testimonies in Print of your chief Priest why do not you publish against them as against D. S. Until you do so you are chargeable therewith But if you mean by your Principles Fox c. their Ancient Testimonies you are very shameless For that of Fox's in ordering Lords of Mannors Property to be taken away c. But whenever that is put in Execution I advise to begin with his Successor W. Penn's c. and see how they like it for what Right have you to Fines or Quit-Rents more than Lords have here or the several under Propriators of Tythes If you have the Kings Patents or Grants so have they or what 's as equivalent being confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliament more than yours and by them who had as much Original Right as them from whom yours was granted But the Protestant Ministers are as great an Eye-sore to your chief Priests as the Jews were to Haman But why may not they enjoy what is granted and given to them as well as any of you For W. Penn works no more for his Fines or Quit-Rents than many of them do nor so much neither I think But if you say It 's the Compelling you oppose that 's false For as in the Snake in the Grass appears you oppose any freely paying as is manifest by your opposing W. R. As also Unchristian all who pay Tythes as Deniers of Christ and Antichrists so that you are not for Liberty of Conscience but for inforcing of Fox's Laws above the Laws of the Nation as is evident in your so charging and reviling T. C. as a Transgressor But whoever takes House or Lands Tytheable does or may know before-hand it 's under such Duties And whereas your last yearly Paper says Truth is the same and changes not in 1660. you told King Charles you deny'd all outward Fighting for any End or Pretence whatsoever Now either your chief Priests Fox and E. B. c. were of this mind in O. C.'s c. times or else changed Now if not changed but always of the same mind then they G. F. c. failed to complain of some being put out of the Army What should they do there they ought to have voluntarily quitted it Also G. F c. did fail so to encourage Oliver as is before shewn Therefore either they were and be Changed since O. C's time or were Hypocrites if
will Here by opposing J. B. and in Fox's squinting way he owns the Light Bunyan calls Conscience to be Christ and yet again in E. B.'s Works you deny the Doctrine and them who call that Light Christ thereby denying G. Fox nay and your selves too For if it be sufficient to Salvation without any thing else then it must be Christ Also about the Seed they seem to write confused saying There 's but two Seeds of God and of the Serpent and they say Christ is the one seed and the seed is Christ and in the Lip of Truth T. L. says now Christ is risen for the Elect i. e. seed sake and it he is redeeming page 55. And in Love to the lost they say In this seed as it 's redeemed hath the Saints fellowship page 47. Here they imply the seed is not the Redeemer but the Redeemed yet it 's either Christ or the seed of the Serpent Yet in seeming contradiction they say in Love to the lost that seed which Man hath sinned against must make the Atonement page 3. Here again it 's the Attoner or Saviour and to this add their Excommunicating G. K. as an Heretick because he said The Light was not sufficient to Salvation without something else i. e. the Man Christ Jesus and what he did and suffered for us without us This by S. Jennings in Pensilvania and yet above three years after this N. Marks publickly acknowledg'd They had nothing against him for Doctrine or Conversation or to this effect Thus confusedly contradicting themselves or one another they prove themselves to be Babel's Builders Now your thus contracting one another or your selves owning and disowning the same things are both your Ancient Testimonies whereby you have or may make this deceitful advantage you can produce either of them as you see is most for your sordid Interest and so affirm or deny what you please as your Ancient Testimony and bring proofs accordingly But your own Judgment you have passed on the Ministers takes hold on your selves who have condemned others and are guilty of the same things How think you Foxonians to escape the Judgment of God Who condemn others for differing yet you differ one from another or contradict your selves in one Book denying that which in another Book you seem to own and not only in small matters but in your main Foundation Principle A further proof of the wickedness of the Foxonians and their Spirit is in that they shuffle and quibble and wave to answer but to two of the seven Queries sent them as in The Snake in the Grass c. And they were there urged to it and reminded of their quibbling yet they durst not Answer plainly yea nor nay but use their old Trade of quibbling long squinting Answers The two Queries were these i. e. Do you believe in a Christ without you now in Heaven And the other is thus Is Christ now and for ever to come really a Man in true and proper humane Nature without all other Men These Queries be short and plain therefore if these Quakers truly believe as they now pretend they might and would have answered yea to both and that had been satisfaction but then that had contradicted some of their Ancient Testimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning which they now enjoyn their Subjects to maintain and hold up in every part for their Ancient Books of Fox and E. B. have opposed and contradicted the Protestant Ministers for affirming these Truths and therefore if they had answered yea they had contradicted them and so changed and they durst not answer nay plainly because then they had discovered their Blasphemy and Hypocrisie both Therefore to hide themselves and deceive they make such long squinting two Fac'd general Answers but it 's their own Doctrine and true on themselves deceit lurks in Generals and whatever they pretend yet their opposing and Contradicting others for affirming these Truths do prove they do not believe in a Christ without them or in Heaven any otherwise but as he is within them only as in W. S.'s Catechism Also in a Book Entituled The Deceived Quakers c. by Mr. Caffin where in page 29. he says G. Fox Affirmed that he knew him i. e. Christ come within him and he looked for him to come no otherwise This Book G. Fox answers to and in page 211. cites some of these words viz. G. Fox said he knew Christ come in him And in his answer page 142. says Christ is in you except you be Reprobates so Reprobates witness it not c. Now M. C. did not deny but own the Spirit of God dwells in the Saints but it 's the latter part of Fox's Sentence that is objected against i. e. that he looked for him to come no otherwise so denying his i. e. Jesus of Nazareth that was nailed to the Cross so coming again And this latter and chiefest part of the Sentence Fox leaves out and cites not but does not deny that he so said Therefore it 's plain it 's their Ancient Testimony of Truth in the beginning and they say Truth is the same and changes not This Book of Caffins was printed 1656. Therefore whatever deceitful general Confessions they may now make unless they disown this of Fox's it's clear they do not believe nor look for Christ Jesus of Nazareth to come any otherwise than as he is come within them so no outward coming of an outward Jesus as was taken away from the Apostles and therefore no outward or other Day of Judgment but what they have already within them And this passage does not only prove Fox's Error in opposing Christ Jesus of Nazareth's coming again without Men or outwardly which now the Quakers pretend to own and thereby plainly implies nay to the six Queries being the second which they in The Snake in the Grass are again desire'd to answer which Queries altho' twice put to them yet they will not answer with plain yea or nay but in deceitful generals they lurk to hide their Errors and to avoid the shame of their pride and folly in their pretence to be guided by the infallible Spirit whenas they expose themselves to more shame and add wickedness to their former Sins hereby But I say not only that their Error herein i. e. this false citing of Fox's words to Caffin aforementioned is discovered but more of their wickedness by their leaving out the latter part of the Sentence which was the most material and objected part they falsly represent this M.C. as opposing Christ's Inward or Spiritual coming in his People which he M. C. did not also by this false citing of M. C.'s words they hid their Error but by this they prove themselves false Accusers and Forgers to false cite Men's words to falsly represent their Principles and that they or at least Fox did not believe in a Christ to come really a Man in true and proper humane Nature without all other Men for so he was
not come in him and he said he looked for him to come no otherwise Some more Instances I may give in Fox's opposing J. Bunyan of their contempt of Jesus of Nazareth and his Forgery Also in page 643. J.B. speaks of the Spirit of Delusion how it deceives People saying at last it i. e. the false Spirit begins to c. Shewing the Soul a new Christ the new and false Christ is a Christ crucified within Dead Raised again Ascended within in opposition to the Son of Mary who was Crucified Dead Risen again without c. Again says J. B. This false Christ hath a false Faith c. to apprehend this Christ i. e. the false Christ Crucified Dead Risen again and Ascended within And says J. B. They have a Scripture to prove their Doctrine but it 's of the Devil 's making c. Now out of this Sentence of J. B.'s which I abridg G. F. forges three several false Sentences and is so wicked as to say to them all three they say i. e. J. Bunyan and J. Burton when it 's his own Forgery in page 206. says Fox They say it 's deluding poor Souls to hold forth a crucified Christ within Risen Ascended within Again Fox says They say false Christs hath a new false Faith to apprehend this crucified Christ within Observe here he forges J. B.'s word Christ singular into Christs plural is not this as bad as you for thou about which he and they have made such a noise Again says Fox they say it 's a Scripture of the Devil 's making to apprehend this crucified Christ within Here besides his wronging J. B.'s sense and meaning by taking his words so in pieces he Fox changes J. B.'s words a Christ crucified within into a crucified Christ within by transposing the words putting the word Crucified first and the word Christ after whenas in J. B.'s the word Christ is first and Crucified last But however this Forger Fox or them G. W. c. for him who mended his Blasphemy in his Letter by Capt. Drury to O. C. falsly cite yet observe the Sentence as J. B. says and not as they forge it he J. B. condemns it as Error to hold out A Christ Crucified within Dead Risen again and Ascended within in opposition to the Son of Mary who was Crucified Dead Risen again and Ascended without This Fox cites tho' falsly and opposes as Error and do thereby imply it 's not Error but Truth and that it's Error in J. B. to contradict it for in the Answer says Fox Which is contrary to the Faith of the Apostles which preached Christ that 's Crucified within and not another him that was raised from the Dead was risen observe it him that was raised was risen Doth this shew his extraordinary Wisdom or Ignorance or rather doth it not prove their extraordinary Failing who contrary to their own knowledge so falsly affirm of him But to return Again say Fox in his Answer to J. B. If there be any other Christ but he that was Crucified within he is the false Christ he that hath not this Christ that was Risen and Crucified within is a Reprobate c. Observe altho he falsly put it as J. B.'s Crucified Christ three times too falsly represent J.B. as opposing Christ's being Spiritually in his People which is false for he owns it as I shall shew yet in all his three answers he again transposes the words and puts the word Christ before Crucified altho' in his forg'd Sentence as J. B.'s he puts the word Crucified before Christ. Now this could not be an oversight because it 's three times in one page and answers between to every Citation in every one of which answers the word Christ is put first but in the forged Sentences all three the word Crucified is put first and cause they had for it for else J. B.'s words would not have appear'd to oppose Christ that was crucified being manifest within which was their design so to represent him nor could they had that seeming occasion to oppose him nor could they have rendered him J. B. such a Reprobate as they do for who that reads this or any such Book of the Quakers can think any others but when they say in print he or they say c. that it 's the words of the Person they cite only I having come after them and searcht them have discovered their wicked forgery and misrepresenting Mens words to defame them But in this opposing of J. B. Fox does in his squinting way contemn the Person of Jesus of Nazareth outwardly for as such he is not within and by imply makes the Light within every Man to be Christ that 's crucified and so do not as John the Baptist and St. Peter did direct to the Man or Person who was Nailed to the Cross and whom Herod saw and whom them after Saints had not nor did not see because he was taken up from them out of their sight I say this Fox not preaching the same Jesus of Nazareth as they did but opposing them that did so preach him shews Fox's Spirit or Light was not the same as the Apostles but a contrary one so Antichrist But further to prove Fox's contempt I think as to the terms Suffered or Crucified they import much the same when spoke in reference to our Lord's Death but that of the two the word Suffered most properly implies what he in Soul and Spirit or inwardly endured rather than the word Crucified for that mostly respects the manner or circumstances of his being put to Death and Suffering is more extensive to all he underwent inwardly as well as outwardly Now whereas one T. M. maintains the value vertue and dignity of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Personal Sufferings in his own Person without us in opposition to the Quakers contempt thereof and setting up something done in their Persons as is afore shewn G. F. opposes him as he does J. B. and says page 131. All be in the Fancy who be out of the state of witnessing Christ that Suffered within them and Rose again Observe the two words that Suffered be in the parenthesis but in case them two words had not been to put but been without them Parenthesis these now Foxonian Quakers say Now who would have concluded any otherwise but that G. F. undervaluing the Sufferings of Christ without the Gates of Jerusalem had published that his Sufferings were within Man only But now take it with the Parenthesis this alters the case Well then if it be so here the words that 's Crucified needed as much the Parenthesis about them as the words that Suffered because Crucified has more relation to his outward Dying than Suffered and it 's twice in this 206 Page Christ that 's Crucified within He that was Crucified within and in neither of these two Sentences not so much as a Comma to separate them two words that 's Crucified from the afore nor following words within Therefore
Answerable and Chargeable by the Papists or other Adversaries with their Heresies and Scandals and that with a most forcible Argument as some of your selves have said mâ—y any Papist c. quote and charge any of their damnable Heresies on us as too many such be in Print 2. These Persons engaged against them viz. Mr. Keith Bugg and Crisp being but private Men and of little Interest in the Nation have not the Opportunity of spreading their Discoveries so Vniversal as is needful and their Adversaries the Quakers being a numerous able politick and rich Body of People and over all England and the Dominions thereof For as I hear they have Meetings in London every Week called The Second Days Meetings whither all or most of their Preachers that be then in London resort every Sabbath day morning and every Monday which Meeting or the Chief Members thereof them Preachers who live in or near London or are generally there as G. Fox who as I have heard altho' his Family and Residence was in or at Swartsmore formerly Judge Fells whose Widow married this G. Fox was for several years together in and about London These few men their Chief Preachers are as the Helme or Rudder of or to the Ship to govern it or by that the Vessel altho' great the Pilot turns it as he sees good so doth this the Quakers second days Meeting or a few chief men there Influence and Govern that vast Body and Number of Quakers all the World over they being the leading and ruling men in their yearly Meeting and by or from this Meeting they have great advantage to spread their Books or any thing else for thither resort Persons from all parts who communicate to them the Affairs of their several and respective Counties or Circuits they belong to and there receive information of other matters proper to communicate to their respective Circuits so that as the Blood hath its constant and fixed Circulation all over and to the extreamest parts of the Body from the Heart or Liver so do their affairs Their Preachers as I hear being mostly Trading Men and travelling from one Countrey to another can manage their Affairs of Trade as well as their Errors to their Advantage and they have Orders that their Meetings which are many are to have some of all Books they Print Also I am inform'd they bring them to their Meetings Mens and Womens there to be bought by Particulars and not without encouraging Invitations Chapman-like as they do their other Wares and their People charged or enjoyned to read them By such cunning Contrivances they vend many and thereby make them much cheaper to them for the more of any Impression is vended the more is the Booksellers Encouragement And indeed there seems to be some Truth in what is said of them None have the like Correspondency but the Jews and Jesuits The Controversie is of Concernment and these Quakers are more potent able and numerous than could be imagined and it 's the severity of their Discipline that upholds them more than Truth and Justice And if our Bishops would please to take as much or the same Care and Order for spreading what is writ in Opposition to their Errors and in Defence of the true Faith as they do for their Errors that is that a Book of each sort may be sent to every Parish to the Minister to impart as he sees needful But that such Books may not be too numerous nor impertinent care may be taken that none be printed or sent but what be by some appointed therefore approved Also a strict Eye kept over what the Quakers Print and that not to be left to the management of mean under Officers for they are such a great and able Body and have plenty of a sort of Dust that will blind a common Eye For it 's for lack of Encouragement to the Booksellers that they are unwilling to undertake to Print such Books unless at the Authors Charge and it 's too great a Disadvantage for any Private Person to manage a Controversie with such a numerous and able Body as they are for it s not one single Person but their whole Body as one Man And they have such a common road of Defaming Terms and Insinuations to reproach any who oppose them that many are afraid to meddle with them Their Slanders pass for Truth with many and altho' Mr. Keith being a Scholar is not under the same Disadvantages as Mr. Bugg and Crisp yet his Acquaintance being but little besides among them and his circumstances in the World but indifferent and they so rich and numerous do over-power him with Books too many for him to answer But were his Labours Encouraged and Espoused by the Heads of our Church he is the most capable of Detecting their Errors as being a Scholar and having so long been a Preacher among them An Exposition on the 2 Peter 1 Chap. 19 Verse WE have also a more sure word of the Prophets whereunto you do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day Star arise in your Hearts Some say this more sure word is the Light or Spirit within but I take it here to be meant of the Scriptures or Writings of the Prophets altho' it 's commonly read a more sure word of Prophesy But in an old Translation I find it translated a more sure word of the Prophets Therefore I conclude the words will bear to be so read and I believe the Apostles meaning by a more sure word was a more unquestioned Testimony or Word as if he had said if any Doubt or Question what we say concerning that Voice we heard in the Mount because their was but three that heard it and so are witnesses to the Truth thereof yet the words of the Prophets they own as sure and true and they all testify to the same Lord Jesus as we do And therefore you do well to take heed unto them as St. Paul advised Timothy to give himself to Reading and Study in the Scriptures for they as our Lord said testifie of me Also by the next adjoyning words it seems plain to be the Apostles meaning for says he No prophesy of Scripture is of private Interpretation but saith he Holy Men of God speak as they were moved Also in the third Chapter says St. Peter This second Epistle I write unto you that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before of the Holy Prophets c. And in his first Epistle first Chapter and tenth Verse saith he Of which Salvation the Prophets have enquired who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you Hereby it seems to me that the Apostle did not here in this Scripture direct them to a Light or Word within them for a proof of his Doctrine that Jesus was the Christ but to the words of the Prophets as in the Acts in his Sermons he refers to the