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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75414	An Answer to a scandalous paper, wherein were some queries given to be answered. And likewise, therein is found many lies and slanders, and false accusations against those people whom he (and the world) calls Quakers. Dated from Dorchester in New-England, August 17. 1655. subscribed, Edward Breck, which was directed to a people at Rainforth in Lancashire, which he calls, A church of Christ. The truth is cleared of his scandalls, lies, and slanders, and he found to bee a reproacher of the Church of Christ. His paper and quæries answered by those people called, Quakers.		1656 (1656)	Wing A3345A; Thomason E875_4; ESTC R206566	30,171	38

c. let me ask you Did that spirit ever proceed from the Father and the Son that breathed out Blasphemies in his face Judge in your selves You think it is no blasphemy but I pray consider it Christ held forth in his Ordinances he breatheth in them and walketh in the middest of the Golden Candlesticks conveying his heavenly Grace through them as through so many golden pipes Now to have Magistracy and Ministery Sacraments c. spoken against trodden underfoot and held in contempt and esteemed as very sleight and slender things and those that cleave to the Scriptures and Ordinances to be accounted as Antichristian Carnall c. I pray you whom doth this strike on whom doth it light if not on Christ the Author and is it not then Blasphemy what do you call it You may try a little what spirit it is that sets you into your trances by the effects if your spirit make you more sensible of Originall sin more sensible of your own vileness more humble you and cast you down in the sight of God and say you low so that you can cry out with Job Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee and with Isaiah cry out Woe is mee I am undone Isa 6.5 then it were considerable but if on the contrary it make the heart swell and to cry Stand apart I am more holy then thou and all that come not up to your attainments are of small value little worth just as the Pharisees who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others If I say it be thus then judge you what spirit it is I dare be bold to affirm it is the Spirit of Satan and not of God you may think this hastily and suddenly conclude and I confess I have not waded very deep into this matter yet what is not from God I can easily conclude it is from the Devil or man corruption which is no better I know no medium unless it be the Jesuits who no doubt have had a large hand this way by their sorceries to deceive the people and have been known in London to quake and speak in the Congregations these men it is little doubt might make a covenant with the Devil in the finest way of witchcraft sorceries convene it over unto others by an implicite covenant seduce men thinking no such thing but rather as though God had more abundantly declared his love to them more then to any people in the world whenas indeed the matter is nothing els but Satan transformed into an Angel of light for this purpose let me make bold to report unto you this story which is credibly reported to have been in or about Bristol There was a mans wife desired to go to one of the Quakers meetings her husband was unwilling but after importunity he gave her leave but she was so wrought upon in that meeting that when she came home againe shee was filled with REVELATIONS and spoke as though shee had spoke with the Tongue of ANGELS to admiration farre above her selfe her HVSBAND told her she was bewitched she was far enough from believing that but he could not satisfie himself but would search her body to see what tokens he could find about her arm he found a silk thred he inquired how that came there she seriously confessed she knew nothing of it well saith he this shall not remain here then they took it away and then she returned to be the same woman that shee was before she went to the Quakers Meeting If this be a true Story as I credibly believe tell me if there were witchcraft used in this Quakers meeting yea or nay Oh Beloved you may well think the Devil hath a finer way of witchcraft now then ever he had since the world began no doubt yee can very well paint men to come to the Lords Table and to preach Christ for he hath sometime been a Preacher of Christ himself you know for no good will to Christ you may be sure but who are they that are most apart to be taken Are they men who of old hath been most neer to God and walked before God as our father Abraham did and lived the life of faith and holiness and injoyed many sweet and pleasant Soliloquies peace and joy in believing and many unspeakable consolations I am apt to think few of these men are taken if any at all but rather fickle minded men unconstant and unstable in their ways such as perhaps do change their God and Religion divers times or proud persons such as affect singularity to be alone think it a brave thing to be taken up with Rapters above other men who but they in the world in the mean time who more proud more fickle and unconstant more wrathful passionate more railing blaspheming can you think the Spirit of God doth close better with those men then anyother Truly no And what can you imagine wil be the issue after a curse driven this way a certain time truly it is probable their works wil be made manifest the tree wil be known by its fruit if it be not already a little I have learned what befel Grinton a people come up to Trances and Revelations fel at last to Popery and prophaneness as I have been informed and Popery I think is the main thing the Devil drives at now rather I think because the Jesuits hath been the chief fomenters of this Quaking Religion and how do you finde it for the present in these people do you often see them upon their knees bewailing their sin fill'd with godly sorrow repenting-hearts a thing God much delights in with hearts weary and heavy laden such as Christ calls to come unto him do you finde them frequent in familie-Familie-Duties Catechizing praying c. if you do I shall be glad to hear it and how it is I will not censure but if you find it otherwise then confider what fruit it is Oh beloved what shall I say my hearts desire is that you may be establish't in the faith of Gods elect and that those that are already deluded may be reclaimed and that all men may prevent the danger if what I have said be but slender as well it may be that which I shall say can be but of like nature Yet if I may not weary you too much I would propose some Quaeries to these men and present the matter to consideration in another view 1 Qu. By whom do you hope to be saved My charity bids me make your answer By Jesus Christ the Son of God who also in time became man and made satisfaction to divine justice for the sin of his people c. I hope you will accept my Answer 2 Qu. How came you to know there was ever such a man in the world Here also I will presume to answer for you By the Prophets which went before him and by the witness of his holy Apostles and Evangelists who have left