be happy under you It is high time to lay aside say they that Interest of this oppressing Clergy You know the Spirit of the Romish Clergy was in the late Bishops whom you cast out for their Wickedness and the very Spirit of those Bishops is entered into these Priests And there is the remainder of her Murders in these Mens i. e. the Ministers Breasts and at every opportunity it breaks forth as of late in this Rebellion you have full Testimony it was Sir Geo. Booth 's appearing for King Charles the Second in the North 1659. And these Quakers they go on and say to the long Parliament If you do not curb it i. e. the Spirit of the Bishops speedily it will grow over you to your undoing And in page 524. Says to the Parliament Cast them the Ministers off and let them not lurk under your Wings but leave them to be worried by the Quakers for one day they will rebel against you and another day flatter you and shew love in hypocrisie even while they are hatching Mischief against you even to bring the Nation into Blood It appears to many of you a thing hard to forsake your Godly Ministers Was it not the same concerning the King and Bishops Was it not as terrible to him and his Lords to think of the Overthrow of the then called Godly Fathers and Bishops But better had he cast them off and saved himself than to have perished with them And better were it for you to lay them aside and save your selves than to perish with them and one of these will come to pass It 's decreed of the Lord if you uphold them Ministers and oppress Peoples Persons and Estates and Consciences on their behalf and in their evil Cause for Tythes and Wages ye shall fall with them and none shall be able to deliver you nor them For the Spirit of the old Idolatrous Bishops is entered into the hearts of these Men and there is a great measure of Tyranny Injustice and Abomination on these as was on the Bishops and these are as nigh ripe for Vengeance as the other i. e. Bishops were c. By these and what follows the Church of England may see that these Quakers Ancient Testimony of their Truth was as much against them as against the Dissenters and more however they may to deceive forbear to treat them now with such hell-fetch'd Names in express words as formerly But the Quakers go on saying in page 477. The Lord is risen to confound this Church and this Ministry which is Idolatry And P. 477. For you who worship God in Steeple-houses God will confound this Church and Ministry c. P. 499. We are punished for bearing witness against the false Prophets and Hirelings of these days And we see and know that they c. shall perish Their downfall hastens greatly and all the Powers of the Earth shall not be able to support them and with them shall fall their Tythes Now this their Rage and Envy is from the Mouth of the Lord or else these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. were Conjurers by their own Sentence And altho' I have afore proved they do expect Obedience to their Laws as the Laws of Christ altho' they to deceive pretend they be but Advice or Counsel yet for further proof thereof observe that for disobeying their Advice against carrying Guns in Ships they say It 's injurious to their own Souls and therefore it must be a Law of high Concernment that the not obeying or breaking of it is of such ill consequence to their Souls And these Foxonians will not suffer nor permit their Papers to be called Mens Edicts nor Sinful no not the very Papers how sacred then do they think their Ancient Testimonies therein written be Surely as aforesaid they deem them Laws of Christs making especially that wherein they Unchristian all who pay Tythes altho' freely and record and mark rhem for Antichrists and Deniers of Christ come in the Flesh Now hear also their own Doctrine Say they Any Party of Men under a Government to make Laws not lawfully Authorized for binding others and thereto requiring obedience be the setting up themselves above the Law and treading it under their feet and rendring them whom they so bind their Slaves and so is TREASON This is worthy of Notice by all Rulers and People And to O. Cromwel page 557. say they This is the Word of the Lord to thee The Ministry of England for which thou seem'st to stand generally it 's not of God but of Antichrist and the Lord is against it and it 's the ground of the greatest Oppression of the Poor in its Maintenance as any one particular Abomination this day in the Nation and if thou settest thy self to uphold them thou shalt fall into Perdition with them And to R. Cromwel p. 578. Say they of the Publick Ministry As it is now we testifie from the Lord it is wholly degenerated in all things from what the Ministry of Christ was c. And much more against the Ministers which they have Re-Printed at large But in this same Letter page 574. where they put the words Grievous Cruelty it was by him Grievous Tyrannies Also in the same Letter p. 580. just before the four last Lines they leave out this following Sentence As concerning the Armies abroad let faithful Men i. e. Quakers be put in trust for the Army is of great Concernment to thee to stand or fall through them as to Mans Account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it the Lord may accomplish something by it to his honour and thine There is something in it known to the Lord a cunning Gypsie Prophet And altho' they say this was from the Lord yet they thus alter and leave out to hide their hypocritical Pretence after the Restoration that they were against fighting with outward Weapons for any end whatsoever But this shews their Hypocrisie as well as their Malice which they continue foaming out against the Protestants in their Message as they say by especial Authority from the Lord by his Embassador E. B. In his Works p. 591 Say they Tho' he i. e. the Lord did in some measure free this Nation from much Tyranny in casting out Popish Authority yet the Nation in a few years was near as much violated by Injustice Tyranny and Cruelty under the Prelatical Power as ever it was once under the Papal Power But altho these forging Wretches the Foxonians give this as a Message from God by his Embassador E. B. yet they leave out this word Tyranny and change Prelatical into Succeeding Either they are self-condemned Blasphemers or else deserve the Plagues of adding and diminishing from and to the Word of the Lord. But altho' they leave out their Treasonable Testimonies yet their Sedition against the Protestant Ministers they have to the full put in well knowing there was them great in Court they thereby pleased and would and could
or body of rich politick People and so purse proud and strong no one People i. e. dissenting Society is able to deal with them They are by their Jesuitical Politick way of Government united as one intire Body unto one Head or Conclave of Cardinals of Chief Priests in London Whitehead c. from and by whose Authority a vast number of their seditious Libels are spread all over England's Dominions and elsewhere and they are so formidable that scarce any eminent Magistrate but they can by some interest or other they have or can make influence for if any just complaint be against any of their Priests they can by their Meetings know who of them have most influence on such in Power most concerned and so can by their quibbles smooth and fawning pretences perswade thar they are Innocent and their Adversaries Malicious as in the case of F. Bugg's dedicating his Book Quak. Withering c. to the Bishop of Glocester on which G. W. made such interest or so influenced him that as Whitehead Prints it the Bishop rather favoured him G. W. than F. B. but had any of his i. e. that Bishops Flock left him and joyned with the Quakers and wrot but half so much in defence of the Quakers and discovery of the Church of England I think the Quakers would not so slightly esteemed it but this shews what advantage they have and make by their fawning and confidence to the damage and scandal of the Protestant Ministers for their seditious Ancient Testimonies not only grow by not being pulled up but they seed and increase which were there as much care taken to defend the Protestant Religion and Ministers by duly answering and suppressing their seditious Books as they do to destroy and suppress them wrot in discovery of their Errors they indite and excommunicate and take away Goods and Imprison and Fine for discovery of their Wickedness and prosecute and complained to the Secretary of State as in the case of F. B. G. K. and W. B. and is it not as fitting to suppress Error and Sedition as for them to suppress Truth also as much care ought to be taken for spreading such Books that are printed in defence of the Protestants against them as they do to spread theirs for although there have been some such wrot yet so few will buy them that the Booksellers are not willing to undertake to Print them which if they were encouraged by a common vend for such Books it might be some check to their Insolency and help to open the Understandings of People for how can it be expected but that the vulgar People and Strangers abroad should believe all their Contempts of the Protestant Ministers be true because so publick all over the Nation and other Parts without opposition not only in their small Pamphlets but also in great Volumes when them fierce Despisers Fox c. be dead with such long Epistles or high Commendations of them and their wicked Works by W. Penn and George Whitehead c. and more especially the Quakers being so formidable and great that as other Foreign Nations have an Agent or Minister residing about the Kings Court to negotiate and improve their Interest in the favour of the Government so have these Quakers their Agent a Person who is not the least in favour although he hath manifested himself an Enemy to the Protestant Ministers nay they Foxonian Quakers rather than they will want Dirt and Infamy to throw on the Protestant Bible Religion and Ministers they will take in aid from the Papists and forge or fetch News from the Pit of Damnation as is proved in this following Tryal and seeing they are so Great Powerful and Strong that no one Society is able to ballance them if were well all differing Protestants were more united against the common Enemy for their greatest danger of hurt is from Rome at home and seeing these Quakers will not endure the least affront as they think to their Persons or Papers but will with the utmost Power and Malice Prosecute and Punish as in their Indicting and Prosecuting F. Bugg as Seditious because he Printed the Figure of a Pillory for Twelve of their Chief Priests how was the Government and Nation alarm'd with it and in Pensilvania they presented George Keith as guilty or worthy of Death by their Law and it s to be feared would have dealt accordingly by him but that Providence took the Power out of their Bloody Priest Jennings's hands and Imprisoned the Man and took away his Goods that Printed G. Keith's Plea Will. Bradford and say it's Blasphemy to term their Paper Sinful Now seeing they will not bear the reproach they justly deserve then why must the Protestant Bible and Ministers be by them so defamed in Print to Posterity by them are not these things of higher concernment and more justly deserving punishment than them Persons they so punished consider this all you Protestants whom it most especially concerns if they be so presumptuous now what may they not attempt when they can effect their wicked design of destroying the Protestant Ministry They having already obtained in some measure to confront or be equal with the Peers of the Realm who formerly they reproached as well as the Ministers and this that they have gained may prove a bait to other ambitious Persons to pretend to be Quakers if but to exempt them from the reach of that Law it s hoped this will no more reflect on our Governours if they have been deceived by their false pretences than it did on Joshua and the Elders of Israel that the Gibeonites deceived I fear the case is much the same it may be feared their Pensilvania Pope W. Penn can already with the help of Twelve more of their London Cardinals Whitehead c. procure more Men or Money to their Interest than any one Subject in England if these give it as their Testimony or Judgment that it 's for the service of Truth and by the Spirit of God i. e. Fox 's Spirit there 's enough Quakers to give up their whole Concerns Spiritual and Temporal to that Spirit as their Barbadoes Church did whereby they sold Themselves Bodies Souls and Estates to that Spirit as in Babel's Builders c. may be seen at large Now consider you 25 W. Myers Tho. Cox G. Laytey Tho. Lower J. Vaughton N. Mark W. Bingly C. Marshall W. Sanders J Feild M. Russel J. Knight H. Gouldny D. Whorly c. you Foxonian Chief Priests and chief Men of War this Title and manner of Proceedings and the Hell-fetch'd Names and Terms are according to your own in print against the Protestant Ministers in general and not only formerly in Pamphlets but now reprinted and the Author highly applauded and recommended to posterity by your Chief Men of War in E. Burrows Works although you were not so extreme shameless as to reprint all his Wickedness but alter leave out and add in to forge them to your mind
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
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
Lyar night Owl wicked Lyar and as I can find the cause of all this nasty and rabshake Language from them was because he disputed against them about the Light in every Man and published something about it now if you can shew me such nasty Words from J. P. and he to have been the Devils Porter to spread fetch or forge false Intelligence from the Pit of Damnation and the Papists in Defamation of the Protestant Religion and Ministers as I have produced of yours then I grant his Spirit as nasty and as much rabshake as yours but in case it be so that will not clear your Spirit from being a nasty and rabshake one but if you cannot smell this your Foxonian Spirit to be a nasty one you have lost your senses else you may follow this nasty Foxonian Spirit by the smell and herein your Chief Priests be proved to be the Devils Porters and which they wrongfully charge on others without proof and this your matchless Pride and Insolency in accusing the Protestant Ministers to the King for being for Ol. Crom. when you were more guilty caused J. P. to write out the Quakers Unmask'd c. and send to you privately to make you sensible of your Error but your Pride cannot bear reproof but threatned him F. B. and T. C. for mentioning it but it s now in Print but I think that which encouraged you so to defame the Protestant Ministers was because you was as sure of encouragement and countenance if not reward in that Work from some then great in power as your Fathers Fox c. formerly they having many of the chief in the then Army who countenanced them then as W. Penn c. lately And I say in case you do not as publickly testifie against these Wickednesses of your Chief Priests as you did against the Christian Quaker D. S. then all you Foxonian Quakers are chargeable as guilty of them and your pretended counterfeit new Confessions ought no more to be believed or clear you than a Thief when he is convict of Theft his saying he really believes the Ten Commandments may clear him but the Foxonians falsly accusing the Protestant Ministers and endeavouring to render them odious prove its true as they themselves say that Runnagadoes are the violentest Enemies against them they have deserted for none are more implacable Enemies to the Protestants than Fox Whitehead c. who once professed the same this their own Doctrine is proved true in them Foxonian Chief Priests G. W. c. For I think if all Algier were searched that of all the Runnagadoes that have been there this Hundred Years there cannot be found so many Defamations and Contemptious Expressions in Print of the Person of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Blood shed on the Cross as there is of these Foxonian Quakers in their Printed Books in London its pity that this Protestant City should be the only Garden of the World to breed and nourish such Plants and send or sell the Seed of such degenerated Plants of a strange Vine what must London out-do Algier in defaming the Christian Religion especially the English Protestant Ministers to encourage loose Atheistical Persons in the same Work for reprinting these their wicked Works with such high commendations on the Authors affixed before them tends to the Destruction of the Protestant Religion as the Gun-Powder-Treason did and the chief Actors therein no more deserve commendations than them and these Quakers have approved of those wicked Actions in their Ancient Printed Testimonies now under-hand injoyn'd their Subjects to hold them up for these of theirs were from the Spirit of Truth or the Spirit of Error if from the Spirit of Error its needful they testifie against them as publickly as they did against the Christian Quaker D. S. for owning Fox and Whitehead Guilty therefore in case they do not disown them its Evidence they do own them as the Testimony of Truth and so are confirmed and injoyn'd by their 1696. White-hart-court Conclave to be maintained and held up as some part of the Testimony of Truth Now consider you Quakers who be honest minded although deceived by your Priests G. W. c. who are so wicked as to accuse this Man as endeavouring to have them destroyed nay crucified too because he justly and truly complaining the Protestant Religion was in danger by them to be rooted out and yet they in the same Pamphlet are so wicked so early as in 1660. to accuse the Ministers in general as dangerous to the King and for being against him and for the former Governments although they themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree for says they to the King Friends then called Cavaleers you are become cursed in all your endeavours the purpose of your hearts have been known to be always against Truth it self and though your Kings c. have been cut off in wrath and says except you repent of endeavouring to re-establish the King and that Government you and your Kings c. and lordlly Power by which you have thought to exercise Lordship over my Heritage shall be inslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness where he i. e. the Devil shall Reign your King and Lord for evermore this they say was from the Lord and sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God Yet these Forgers the Foxonians could leave the whole Message out and great part of these Citations again says E. B. to O. C. of the King's Friends I know the Lord hath cursed them and what thou hast done unto them and their King should not be reckoned against thee by the Lord if now thou wert faithful c. i. e. take away the Ministers and their Maintenance for that was one of the sins they counted O. C. c. then guilty of for say they to O. C's Council the same false Prophets Protestant Ministers you establish by a Law which deceive the Nations again says the same E. B. to the Parliament and that in 1659. but about 6 Months before the Restoration while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditary and by the Succession of Birth as hath been the custom in our Forefathers days that knew no better whereby the Inhabitants have been always suffering and liable to great Oppressions being under such a Government falling from Parents to Children after the manner of the Heathen Nations again p. 3. the Lord hath begun to appear and shewed us the bondage our Forefathers lived in and we our selves been subject too by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively now our Eyes are opened to behold better things and pag. 6. say to the Long Parliament it s on me to lay it before you even as the Contenders for England's Liberty whom the Lord honoured in the Beginning to remove Tyranny c. But this whole Libel and other Treasonable Ancient Testimonies of theirs is left
wonderful Where are your Eyes Try your Priests by Scriptures See if they be not found in the same Generation that all the false Prophets and Deceivers were in See if they be not the Antichrists which cannot confess Christ come in the Flesh preach for Sin against Perfection and never any that follow them shall come to the knowledge of God These blind Guides deny the Prophets which Moses writ of It 's a Slander and Untruth and are found in the Sorcery and Witchcraft c. Thus they begun and end reviling the Protestant Ministers and they not only condemn this Minister to the Lake and Bottomless Pit but the Queries also We have given Judgment on thee and them say they So that it 's not only the Protestant Ministers but the Doctrines of the Protestant Faith as these twenty Queries contain have these Quakers also judged to the like condemnation with the Ministers All this Envy and Fury in seven Pages in Folio have they Reprinted whereas two or three Lines might have contained sufficient Answers had they believed and owned these things according to the Scriptures as they pretend And the Doctrines and Practices of the Protestants as sprinkling Infants c. they say is Damnable Doctrine of Devils a meer Cheat and your singing David's Experiences in Rhime and Meeter is a very Lye unto you and say they The Law which commands to pay Tythes we cannot be obedient to it and the Reason they give is Because it is contrary to the Law of God p. 313. And say they If the House i. e. Publick Churches were for any good purpose or honest Practice as for Poor c. the People of God would not deny to uphold it but because it 's ONLY a place to commit Idolatry in mark hâ— is Only P. 347. And say they All you Churches by what Name soever you are known you are the Seed of the great Whore and she hath brought you forth Here the Church of England may see it 's not only the Dissenting Ministers altho' their Envy is chiefly against them but all P. 4416. Have altogether forgotten God Christians all their Prayings Preachings Singings Baptisms breaking Bread and all that you perform as unto God is an Abomination unto him The very practice of those things now by the Christians being degenerated is become Idolatry c. p. 432. Again say they The Lord shall destroy your Worship and confound it and no more is the Lord worshipped in Steeple-houses they are left desolate c. Your worship in Steeple-houses is an Abomination to him P. 481. Again say they In the Name and Authority of the Lord we declare against your whole Worship p. 479. Again say they Sprinkling Infants and calling it the Baptism into the Faith of Christ and the Seal of the Covenant it 's an Institution of the great Whore p. 489. And particularly of the Ministers of the Church of England say they This we say Their Office nor Call is not from the Lord nor by the Authority of his Spirit nor according to Scriptures and is not from Heaven but rather from the Whore of Rome p. 638. All this and much more of their hellish Rage and Envy against the Protestant Religion and Ministers in one Book Reprinted in Folio and in 1672. promoted and espoused by G. W. c. to bring the Protestant Religion and Ministers into contempt scorn and hatred in future Ages For to confirm and seal and fix it lastingly say they You called Christians you having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name Christian you deserve not that Name and declare it in the Name of the Lord. Here it 's plain the English Protestants and these Quakers cannot both be Christians one must quit the Title p. 419. and say The Heathen shall see your Nakedness and your Shame and shall hiss at you p. 421. But how doth this agree with what W. Penn now pretends to as I hear He said that they own all except three of the 39 Articles of the Church of England and the three they differ'd in were about Discipline and not Doctrine And yet here you see they say All the Protestants Doctrine and Practices False the whole Religion of the English Protestants they Deny These be their Ancient Testimonies their Truth in the beginning taught them before 1660 which is now in 1696. under hand enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and this Noval owning of the Thirty Six Articles is the Counterfeit Quakers New Testimony But they say their Truth changes not but they may now change their Words and Actions and yet mean the same as they did 1656 for their design was to defame in order to root out the Protestant Ministers and if they do not effect it they prove themselves Lyars and false Prophets and impudent Blasphemers therefore in order to drive on their design they print these Defamations and say It 's for you and your Children To plant this Root of Bitterness in after Ages as well as in other Nations is the design of this Foxonian Spirit in G. W. c. And they have great Advantage for this Work in their great Schools or Houses where they teach their youth and read to them or cause them to read their great Volumes of Fox's c. Works and where these Foxonians are the Masters Governours or Teachers and whither their chief Foxonian Priests resort and as they say in Print This is worthy of taking notice of How abominable is this say they that these things should be much more that they pass unreproved i. e. their Envy against the Protestant Minister c. For altho' they thus Unchristian all English Protestants Yet the Heathen who make no Profession nor have not the knowledge of Salvation by our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as in the New Testament these under the Name of Pious Gentiles they allow to have Faith that they may degrade and under-value the Authority of the New Testament and the Necessity of believing the Relation thereof concerning the Dignity and Value of the Personal Sufferings and Blood of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth outwardly And seeing they have so much hatred to the English Protestant Ministers and so much Charity for the Gentiles let them i. e. the Foxonians go for Gentile Preachers And by these afore and what follows it 's proved that these Foxonian chief Priests G. W. c. are influenc'd by an evil Spirit if no other matter were proved against them but their wrathful terms and envious prosecuting the Protestant Ministers these shew them Uncharitable and therefore Unchristian That theirs is not Christian Charity is evident by their Partiality for notwithstanding they Unchristian for saying they be saved by Christ without them and recorded such for Reprobates and Ignorant ones too of Christ within and give it as a sure Mark of the Devil 's being in such and all who pay Tythes altho' freely as Deniers of Christ and mark'd them for Antichrists yet you see how kind they
them odious like as Haman did the Jews yet hear how they deifie and exalt themselves and one another You have heard how they exalt this fierce Despiser E. B. Of the Father of their wickedness George Fox in their Journal say they He was the Instrument in God's hand to preach the Everlasting Gospel hid c. The Lord revealed it to him and made him open the New and Living Way A Messenger to my House in Swartsmore say Margaret Fox whither he brought the blessed Tidings of the Everlasting Gospel As a Father in Christ he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him an Overseer and endued him with such an Excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding and yet knew not the difference between the same degree and a degree of the same but puts one and they now pretend he meant the other Nay W. Penn is so false to his own Conscience and Knowledge as to exalt him above all as is before shewed Also see three blasphemous Letters writ of him by J. Coal S. Eccles and J. Audland being already in Print all three Foxonian chief Priests and Preachers Also another of their Idolatrous Preachers says of Fox The Droppings of his tender Words in the Lords Love was his Soul's Nourishment Where shall you find such a high Character of any of the Words of our Lord JESUS And to Oliver Cromwel he titles himself An Establisher of Righteousness and says From him whom the World calls George Fox who am the Son of God Now it 's not the Light that the World calls G. F. but that Blasphemer or Man and Person G. Fox the World called so but this Blasphemy the White-Hart-Court Conclave of Foxonian Quakers Whitehead W. Penn c. they have forged for this Blasphemy these Words And I set my Name to it This is in their Printed Letter of his to Oliver by Captain Drury And in Saul's Errand c. they do not deny but vindicate Fox saying He was Equal with God and he was the Eternal Judge of the World And in their Book News out of the North on the Title say they Written from the Mouth of the Lord i. e. that Blasphemous Fox from one who is naked cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World Yes it was that vagrant blaspheming Cobler Fox risen out of the North which was prophesied off but now is fulfilled c. And in p. 41. say To your Consciences I speak who am not of the World therefore the World knows me not I am not known to the World but well known to God To every one of you I have cleared my Conscience Now hereby it 's plain it 's not the Light but Fox that thus blasphemed And in E. B.'s Works page 64. They say of themselves Quakers Whom God hath chosen to place his Name in and to take up his Habitation among above all the Families of the Earth the Tabernacle of God is with you and only among you is God known c. You are God's only Witnesses c. Ye are the Royal Seed and Off-spring of the Lord All Nations shall call you blessed And in page 66. they say of the North from whence they came O thou North of England Out of thee did the Branch Fox spring and the Star arise which gives Light unto all the Regions round about Out of thee the Terrors of the Lord proceeded which makes the Earth to tremble Out of thee Kings Princes and Prophets Fox and Burroughs came forth in the Power of the most High Gird on your Swords Prepare your selves to Battel for the Nations defie our God Fox Our Enemies are whole Nations Rebellious People that will not come under our Law and will not have our King Fox to reign but despise his Law Let the Nations know your power and the stroke of your hand Give unto the great Whore the Protestants double say they As she hath loved Blood give her Blood Let none of the Heathen Nations nor their Gods escape your hands Your Captains i. e. this E B. Fox c. are mighty Men Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord Fox against the Mighty The Beast i. e. Magistrates is mighty and the false Prophet i. e. Ministers is great and they keep the Nations under their Power but O thou Beast and thou false Prophet you shall both be tormented together And in J. Coal's Works they say God hath raised us up according to his purpose and determination and fore-knowledge to be faithful Witnesses And again to the Quakers Consider what the Lord hath done for you Hath he done so for any People on the Earth Why Did Christ dye only for you Again Therefore it may be said that us Quakers hath he known above all the Families of the Earth page 82 83. And in W. B.'s Works page 173. The Eternal God hath sworn this People i. e. Quakers only shall prosper of all the Families of the Earth who fear his Name and tremble at his Word they that bless them shall be blessed and they that curse them shall be cursed c. And in p. 111. they make themselves to be the Assembly prophesied of Jer. 50.9 to come out of the North as also is afore shewn and term themselves the Seed the Elect and they say There is but two Seeds Christ that never sinned and the Seed of the Serpent Now they will not own themselves to be the Serpent's Seed but to be the Elect Seed of Christ as in Huberthorn's Works the Seed the Elect his own Seed the Arm of the Lord c. And to the World he is manifest through us as being his natural Branches All the Dominions of the World are not equal in Treasure and Wisdom unto thee You hath he chosen of all the Families of the Earth to place his Name among c. And your Laws shall all the Nations of the Earth become subject unto All that riseth up in Judgment against you Quakers shall be confounded thou chiefest Son of his Love By E. B. And says G. Fox The Quakers are in the Power of God upon the Throne p. 318. And in W. B.'s Works say they We are them of whom Enoch prophesied the Saints and they are charged to say They are as pure as God In Answer Fox does not deny it but in justification of it says As he is so are we in this present World page 232. And being charged to say He was the Way the Truth and the Life and the Eternal Judge of the World he doth not deny it but quibble it off It was not so spoken he doth not say G. Fox is Christ as if when any one Answers to a question and says I am c. yet because they do not pronounce their own Names but say I am c. therefore they may deny they so said because of the changing the terms I am into G. F. or he said he was therefore they deny Also another quibble