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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96399	The real Quaker a real Protestant, and the spirit of popery directly struck at in answer to a most malicious and scandalous book, entituled, The papists younger brother, by a disguised author under the titles Misoplanes and Philalethes, but on the contrary proved Philoplanes, Misalethes / by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1679 (1679)	Wing W1952; ESTC R42838	97,690	135

think to be saved hereafter No no. And after the words We is coming upon you all he leaves out who are Proud you must all give an Account before the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who is Terrible to the Wicked Behold the Day of the Lord cometh which will burn as an Oven and all that are Proud and all that do Wickedly shall be as Stubble Thus far J.P. And next after these words The Lord abhors all your Profession and your Hypocrisie the Priest leaves out these viz. It is not Profession that he seeks for it is Practice it is not the Sayer but the Doer that shall inherit it is not all that say Lord Lord that shall inherit but he that doth the Will of my Father The Lord looks for Fruits c. And next after these words You serve the Devil with your Hearts and Actions the Priest leaves out who is King of Pride and here you are in the broad and casie Way in the first Nature which is in the Fall separated from God whose Kingdom is not of this World Thus far J. P. See now how plain it is that J. Parnel does not threaten them with Destruction or Hell without Exception or meerly for being called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen Gemlewomen Madam c. but plainly shews them the Destruction and Misery that those Evil Courses Ways and Practices which too many live in lead to and that they that live or continue in Pride and Covetousness cannot escape Destruction is Evident For without Conversion there is no Salvation Again how plain that J.P. proposeth the Conditions that God requireth in order to a Reformation and consequently the Salvation of the same persons whom he Warns in these words viz. The Lord abhors your Hypocrisie 't is not Profession that he seeks for 't is Practice it is not the Sayer but the Doer that shall inherit The Lord looks for Fruits as before cited Again the Priest p. 73. in his Citation out of James Parnel's Book p. 34 35 36. he leaves out Let your Mouthes be stopt all you who act in Vnrighteousness And next after the words Away with all your Profession he leaves out and now Repent and then follows Tremble before the Lord and then he also leaves out Come down all you High and Lofty Ones and then follows Howl in Sack-cloth and Ashes And after the words p. 34. Who are for the Fire the Priest leaves out these viz. For Fruit he is come to seek for Therefore profess him no longer in words but now Repent and Return from all your Vnrighteousness for know you not that no Vnrighteous Person shall inherit the Kingdom of God No Vain Person nor Drunkards Swearers no Lyar no Proud no Covetous ones none who delight in Pleasures Sporting Rioting Chambering and Wantonness no Vnholy Vnclean Thing must enter Thus far James Parnel Now let all serious Readers judge how basely and fallaciously the Priest hath dealt with J. Parnel and the Qrs. on his Account to render him as Pronouncing Absolute Sentence of Damnation for evermore upon all that are called Pag. 74. Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen c. Pag. 75. as dooming them all without Exception to the Fire of Hell pag. 75. And not only so but the Priest has forged this as an Article of the Qrs. Faith viz. Article 45. We Qrs. do believe That all that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all accursed of God and shall be cast into Hell and that they are no better nor shall fare better then Lucifer Dives Haman Pharaoh Herod and the rest of their Fore-Fathers pag. 154. And to this very purpose he has forged Three Lying Articles in the Qrs. Name viz. his 45th 46th 47th Article Wherefore I testifie against this Priest as an Arrant Forger and one that has dealt most Basely and Knavishly with our deceased Friend's Testimony herein For in the reading of his Books he could not be Ignorant First That it was the state of Dives Haman c. and those that continued therein that were liable to their End to wit Destruction and that they that live in these Evils Pride Covetousness Oppression Excess c. do incur Destruction Secondly That our Friend warned them all to wit the Great Ones with the Priests and People to Repent and to Return from all their Vnrighteousness c. But this the Priest was willing to leave out and take no notice of that he might render the Qrs. more Odious and incense the great Ones against them as guilty of great Vncharitableness Religious Foolery Melancholly c. says because they are not Trembling Qrs they must all to Hell Mind this Melancholly Qr. how he hath packt them up for Hell pag. 73. We may rather say Mind this Deceitful Scornful Priest that has thus forged and play'd the Knave and fordidly abused the plain Testimonies and serious Warnings of a deceased Servant of the Lord and then Scoff at Trembling But the Day will come that the Fearfulness and Horror that will surprize such Hypocrites Atheistical Spirits and Abusers of Truth and Religion will cause him to Tremble and Quake and his Reward will be according to his Works and the Glorying of such in Wickedness will be their shame It s time for this Hypocritical Scornful Priest to Repent J. Parnel's plain Testimonies and Warnings both to High and Low without respect of Persons shall rise up in Judgment against this Temporizing Daubing Flattering Priest that hath so foully and shamefully abused and perverted them to incense the Powers against us like one of Jeroboam's Priests against the Lord's Prophet see Amos 7.10 13. even in as great Envy as Amaziah shewed against Amos to Instigate the King against him Hath this Priest shewn himself against us for warning the great Ones He may see that J. Parnel was not such a Minister as could Daub and Flatter great Persons for a fat Benefice or Augmentation nor such an one as could have their Persons in Admiration for Advantage like those Covetous Temporizing Priests that can renounce and break their Covenan● Turn from the Directory to the Common-Prayer Wheel about with the Times Sail with every Wind to save their Livings or procure fat Places or Benefices Creep Cringe Complement and Flatter great Persons Pag. 95. and give their Flattering Titles of Your Excellency Your Grace Your Honour Your Lordship Your Worship Your Humble Servant Sir c. as this Priest has taught and all for their own Ends and Advantages § XXV Whereas the Priest is offended at J. Parnel distinguishing between the Letter and the Life as between the Shadow and the Substance p. 70 71. The Priest hereupon saith That the Scripture by this Quaker is unjustly term'd the Letter p. 76. Whereupon I ask him if the Apostle doth not distinguish between the Letter and the Spirit in these Scriptures Rom. 7.6 That we should serve in Newness of the Spirit and not in the Oldness of the Letter

thee to thy Shame Why dost thou hunt after the Blood and Lives of a peaceable People Thou hast wickedly compared us to the Jesuited Papists We have approved our selves better Protestants and more peaceable Subjects than such Temporizing Priests and Malicious Incendiaries Let Shame cover thy Face whoever thou art thou Scornful Malicious Person thou Unconscionable Mercenary Wolvish Priest that makest Lyes thy Refuge I have Matter against thee and where-withal to answer thee with a good Conscience and therefore I charge thee home who for thy own Fame and Advantage seek'st the Destruction of others flatterest and daubest with Men in Power for thy own Ends hast mens Persons in Admiration for Advantage a Raging Wave of the Sea that foamest out thy own shame Thy Abusive Persecuting Deceitful Work will redound to thy own perpetual Infamy and Reproach Pr. pag. 51. To mount this Quakers Folly to its full height to say to the King's Majesty May it please your Majesty to any Peer of the Realm Your Grace Your Honour to any great Man Your Excellency Your Worship c. these are according to this Quaker such Expressions of Civil Honour as were never spoken by any holy men of God Answ Thus the flattering Temporizer goes on to ingratiate himself but where any Holy men ●n Scripture did use these Complemental Titles and Terms of Honour as Your Grace your Honour your Excellency your Worship c. he shews us not but only Reviles the Quaker for his plainness and simplicity in standing out of these out-side Complements calling him Rude Quaker p. 54 whose Discourse serves to beclown all Courtiers that do honour the King in their Words and Gestures Thus he would make us believe he were highly Courtified and very expert in Court-Complements but I tell him plainly that the plain honest Quaker is more acceptable at Court among Noble Men who are men of Parts and Moderation then an Hundred such flattering creeping Temporizing Priests such as he who can Flatter Creep Cringe and Daub for their own ends and have mens Persons in Admiration for Advantage especially if they want an Augmentation or fat Benefice to creep beg flatter and complement for with Your Grace Your Honour Your Excellency Your Worship Your Humble Servant Sir But what he means by Your Worship after his pleading for the Hat and Knee-honour Scraping and Titles he explains not If all this out-side Honour of his result in the Worship of a Creature as it seems to do then we may see whither it tends that it is both to Honour and Worship mens Persons which is to have them in high Admiration for Advantage to set them in the place of God and Christ to whom Worship only belongs As in the case of Mordecai the reason he renders for his not bowing to proud Haman in his solemn Appeal to God as we have it in the 13th of Esther in Apoc. his words are these Thou knowest all things and thou knowest Lord that it was neither of Malice nor Presumption nor for any desire of Glory that I did this and not bow down to proud Haman For I would have been content with good will for the Salvation of Israel to have kissed the Soles of his Feet but I did it because I would not prefer the Honour of a Man above the Glory of God and would not worship any but only thee my Lord And this have I not done of Pride ver 12 13 14. Whereby 't is evident that this Bowing the Knee was as now the putting off the Hat in Prayer to God is a Token of Homage Honour and Worship due and performed among the Jews to the Lord God and so they esteem'd it As Peter said to Cornelius Stand up for even I my self am a Man Acts 10.26 as much as to say This Bowing or Homage belongs not to me but to God It s said in Esther the third All the King's Servants that were at the King's Gate bowed their Knees and Reverenced Haman for the King had so commanded concerning him But Mordecai bowed not the Knee neither did Reverence v. 2. And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not the Knee unto him nor did Reverence unto him then Haman was full of Wrath. Though the Persians manner was to kneel down and Reverence their Kings and such as they appointed in chief Authority yet Mordecai would not do it to this Ambitious and Proud Man see the Margin on the place which if our Adversary had been in that Court 't is probable he would have taken Proud Haman's part and Accused and Vilified Mordecai as he has done the Quakers and have said unto Mordecai as the Kings Servants did Why transgressest thou the King's Commandment But 't is not bowing the Knee only unto a Proud Heady High-minded Man as the Priest supposes of the King that will satisfie this our Adversary but he must have flattering Titles and Complements as Your Grace Your Honour Your Excellency Your Worship Your Humble Servant Sir c. He is forgetful of that Serious saying of Elihu viz. Let me not I pray you accept any mans Person neither let me give flattering Titles unto man For I know not to give flattering Titles in so doing my Maker would soon take me away Job 32.21 22. The Lord shall cut off all flattering Lips and the Tongue that speaketh proud things Psal 12.3 And this I have further to say of Hat-Honour Bowing Kneeling Scraping to persons Titles of Honour flattering Titles c. that no humble-minded Christian can take any delight in them nor desire or expect them And as for the Proud and Lofty who seek or look for such Honour and Complements 't is really matter of Conscience to us as well as 't was in Mordecai not to gratifie them or answer that proud Spirit in these Vain and Heathenish Customs knowing that God will debase and stain the ●ride of all Flesh that has a Life in them § XIX Pr. p. 55. All Swearing is condemned by this Quaker as that Sin which reacheth to the Damnation of Hell Answ 'T is no otherwise Condemned by the Quaker then by Christ Jesus Mat. 5.34 35 36 37. And his Apostle James James 5.12 But above all things my Brethren Swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by ANY OTHER OATH but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into Condemnation Yet we distinguish in the Case 'T is more Condemnable in such as know Christ's Doctrine and Prohibition in the Case to Swear than in such as are Ignorant of it though not excusable in either Pr. Ibid. All the King's Subjects who have taken the Oaths of Suprem and Alleg. by taking these Oaths have done that which comes of Evil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Devil the Evil one P. 56 Which of the King 's sworn Subjects have minded the Spirit of Truth when they took those Oaths have they not done that which comes of the Evil one Is not this ●are Quaking stuff