but Trent-Popery infused into them by subtil Popish Priests and propagated by the deluded Quakers at this day This old Popish Doctrine is that which their Praters put off in their Speakings and Writings to their followers as if it were new doctrine from heaven something belonging to Christianity which was not known till the brain-sick Quakers made it known Q. p. 32 33. Q. Numb 23 To oppose the righteousness of the elect seed and the works of the Spirit within as unto Justification this R. G. scornfully tells us that in plainer words they of Rome thus express That the Apostle excludes from Justification works which we our selves do by our strength without the help of the grace of God not those works we do by the aid of the Spirit To these lines this Quaker answers thus They of Rome have given a better definition of Justification than R.G. hath and at least shown a better esteem of works of grace and of the Spirit of God than he hath done Now if I be exclaimed against herein for Popery I must say that wherein Papists hold any truth though in unrighteousness I must not therefore deny it if the Papists and the Devil also confess there is a God and a Christ must I therefore deny it or be counted a Papist Pr. Pr. Here the Quakers Light within is stifly at work to justifie himself for holding as the Papists do the same doctrine of Justification by works of righteousness In plain terms Quakerism in the point of Justification is Popery new-born into the world it 's no false charge to say That the Quakers have a Pope in their bellies their Books have the same Papal doctrine that truth which the Papists hold though in unrighteousness as this Quaker saith as to Justification even the self-same doth this Quaker hold as fast to the shame of the received doctrine of the Church of England I might tell the Reader how Rom. 8.3 4. 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Isa 45.8 James 2.20 21 23. Gal. 3.6 are discoursed from by this Quaker no otherwise than the Papists have done to assert Justification by the works of the Spirit but it is no new thing with the Devil or his Agents to quote Scripture to prove that which God never intended them for That man is a stranger to the point of Justification that knows not that many Scriptures have been wrested by the Papists for this purpose which have been soundly vindicated from Popish glosses put upon them This Quaker doth but actum agere act the Popish old part over again to amuse unwary Christians with the rehearsal of them If this Quakers spirit were of God he had ere this been silent in this matter To use this Quakers own words I shall tell him That it is an old Popish trick to assert Justification by works of the Spirit from mistaken Scriptures and there is certainly no little spice of the old Law-working spirit in it Q. p. 33. Q. Numb 24 Our asserting the righteousness of the elect seed raised in us and obedience of faith therein for justification and acceptance with God this doth neither deny nor oppose the Sacrifice of the crucified body of the Man Christ Jesus nor yet blot out of our hearts either the name or remembrance of him who is the great Propitiation for sin as unjustly the elect seed and its righteousness within is accused for the appearance of Christ within and his manifestation in spirit doth neither deny nor oppose his manifestation or suffering in the flesh but rather answereth and fulfilleth the intent and end thereof for the outward manifestation of the Son of God in the flesh as it did condemn sin in the likeness of sinful flesh so his inward manifestation in spirit doth destroy sin worketh justification and redemption in them who obey his light within for he is the author of eternal salvation to as many as obey him So here is righteousness redemption and salvation received in Christ the Light through obedience to his Light within Pr. Pr. This Quaker hath had fair play he is transcribed usque ad nauseam by this tedious discourse this Quaker gives us to understand that there is no such truth as Justification by faith alone the subject matter of his lines is hammered out upon his Popish anvil there is nothing for the main said which any Papist will disown Justification and Sanctification are by him ignorantly confounded but rightly enough according to the Popish mode he that shall affirm this Quaker to be one of Abbot Joachim's Disciples or one belonging to Seculum Spiritus Sancti or a Franciscan Papist in a new dress is not altogether mistaken his whole discourse is a medley of some truth of more falshood to glance at the title of his Pamphlet you see it plain unless we are of the same mind with the Papists in the doctrine of Justification we are all far from the nature of true Christianity in this matter in this Quakers account the Church of England together with other Reformed Churches is altogether Antichristian Q. p. 40 41. Q. Numb 25 As to R.G. his saying His Apostles and all his Ministers in all ages all in one joint voice pointing to Jesus the Son of Mary this son of man with an Hosanna to the Son of David Ans That the holy Prophets Apostles and Ministers testified unto Jesus Christ both as man born of the Virgin and unto his Divinity this is owned But it appears further that R. G.'s Hosanna and pretended adoration and claim of Salvation is only to him as the Son of Mary as now existing outwardly bodily without us * whereupon I ask him if he hath so considered him to be God the Saviour or the Son from the substance of the Father as some of his Brethren have confessed the Son is and that he existeth outwardly bodily without us at Gods right hand what Scripture-proof hath he for these words and then what and where is Gods right hand is it visible or invisible within us or without us only and is Christ the Saviour as an outward bodily existent or person without us distinct from God and on that consideration to be worshipped as God yea or nay And where doth the Scripture say he is outwardly and bodily glorified at Gods right hand according to the foregoing Asterisk * you may take this Authors Marginal note Why did he not call Mary the Mother of God as the Papists do which to be sure is not Scripture-language Pr. Pr. In this Quaking ramble we find too much false abominable doctrine delivered to serious Christians it 's certainly sad to read so much base doctrine vented under the pretended nature of true Christianity I shall endeavour to sum it up in these following particulars First here is no Hosanna due to Christ as the Son of Mary as now existing bodily without us 2ly Jesus the Son of Mary is not God our Saviour 3ly That Jesus Christ is not the Son of the substance of the
except a Quaker none can how are the youth of this Kingdom instructed by this Catechizing-Primer to slight all Gods Ambassadors Pudet haec opprobria dici it is a shame of no mean size that such base things should be printed and not signally taken notice of Q. p. 10. Q. Numb 38 Child But are not the Scriptures given forth for a rule to walk by Fath. The Scriptures are a true testimony of what the Saints were made witnesses of but the spirit is the rule the rule unto them that gave forth the Scriptures Pr. Pr. Here the youth of this Nation are taught by this Quaking-father that the Scriptures are not the rule of faith and obedience according to this Quakers vain mind no children shall do well to take heed to the sure word of Prophesie Unto the Law and the Testimony is no rule for any children to walk by the spirit that doth infatuate the Quakers is the foolish guide whom this Quaking-father would have his child to follow is it not lamentable that the youth of this Kingdom together with those who are children in understanding are thus decoyed into the Devils net Q. p. 12. Q. Numb 39 Ch. Then I perceive it is the spirit alone that I am to mind in all things Fath. Yes child for by minding the spirit alone in all things thou wilt come to a good understanding in all things and be able to put a difference betwixt that which is true and that which is false Pr. Pr. Here we have this Quaking-father Catechizing his child so as to undermine the Scriptures to render them good for nothing for he saith the spirit alone is to be minded in all things therefore the Scriptures to speak like this Quaker are to be minded by children or others in nothing observe it well it 's not the Scripture but minding the spirit alone in all things that helps to a good understanding in all things it 's not the Scripture but minding the spirit alone in all things that enables to discern and put a difference betwixt true and false it 's now obvious that the Scripture is basely bespattered by this Quaking-father for there is no coming to a good understanding by minding the Scripture in any thing the Scripture to speak this Quakers mind hath no true light to help any to discern and put a difference betwixt that which is true and that which is false the Quakers ill spirit is to be minded in all things this alone is the true discerner betwixt truth and falshood but pity those poor children that have no better guide to follow Q. p. 33. Q. Numb 40 Ch. Why is not their time and place and person right seeing their time is upon that day called Sunday and their place that which is called a Church and the persons such as are counted the Ministers of Christ Fath. Nay the Lord God of Power is not limited by any of them and as for their Sunday the Heathen named it and the Pope named their Church and their Schools and Colledges made their Ministers Pr. Pr. In these lines this Quaker doth Catechistically teach his child to look upon time place persons necessary circumstances belonging to publick Worship as those that are Heathenish Popish and of mans making the whole Quaking-discourse is a base charge drawn up against the Church of England as if the Lord of Power were limited by the same as for the Lords-day this Quaker calls it our Sunday which the Heathen named as for the publick place where the members of this visible Church do meet to worship God in a material Church this he saith was made by the Pope as for the persons the Ministers of Gods Word he gives us to understand that they are none of them sent of God for our Schools and Colledges made them all do not these Quaking-lines eat like a canker is not the Church of England debased after a strange manner Q. p. eâd. Ch. Q. Numb 41 But do they not preach sound Doctrine Fath. Nay their Doctrine is after the tradition of men and not after Christ and they get their Doctrine by their arts and languages that they have learned at Schools and Colledges and then they read it or speak it forth in their own wills that are corrupted and there is no soundness in it Pr. Pr. According to the instruction of this Quaking-father all the Preachers of the Gospel within the Church and Kingdom of England are a sort of pitiful fellows for their Doctrine is not from Heaven like the old Pharisees they teach for Doctrine the tradition of men none of them do teach that Doctrine which is after Christ arts and languages learnt here below at Schools and Colledges is the whole skill which they have in the doctrine of Salvation they are all a sort of pitiful readers or speakers out of their own corrupt wills as for their Doctrine it is corrupt like themselves there is no soundness in it to speak after this Quaking-rate they are like so many corrupt trees they bring forth corrupt fruit they are all bad stewards of the Mysteries of the Gospel If this be not base railing let the world judg Q. p. 34 35. Q. Numb 42 Ch. But is not their praying a service which is accepted of God Fath. Nay for they pray not with the spirit nor with the understanding and some of them cannot pray at all but as they have prayers made by others and have them set in a book to read as in the common-prayer-Common-prayer-book so that neither their preaching nor praying is accepted of God Pr. Pr. From this Quaking Catechizer we may truly gather that the preaching and praying of all the Ministers of the Church of England is altogether naught as their Preaching so their Praying is a service which is not accepted of God their prayers are carnal for they pray not with the spirit tremulo judice in their praying they do but offer the sacrifice of fools for they pray not with the understanding as for those ministring Priests that do warrantably use the Common-prayer-book either in the Kings-Chappel or elsewhere to speak this Quakers mind or sense they are a company of dull Ignoramusses they cannot pray at all behold a sad case except it be in the Quakers dumb meeting or amongst those that are acted by the spirit of the Hat there is no calling on the name of God in faith any where besides according to this Quaking rant is not the Kings Majesty basely reflected on hath he not a dull Clergy to minister in his Presence is not this Church whereof he is a nursing-father in a bad case for neither the Preaching nor praying of her Priests this Quaker saith is accepted of God surely the true Christian Religion is at a low ebb in this Kingdom that Quakerism must thus carry the bell according to this vain-minded Quaker we are in a great strait we must now either all turn Quakers or else in Preaching and Praying we do but perform the
thee execute his vengeance on those generations Pr. Pr. In these lines you may behold this Quaker crying up Oliver Cromwel as being not unlike the man Christ Jesus for he saith that Oliver Cromwel was the man who did bear as upon a common shoulder the sufferings of the oppressed but what tender consciences many of them had it hath been better understood since that time their tender consciences had no feeling of Rebellion Treason and other mens estates To go on with this Quakers comparing tacitely Oliver Cromwel and Christ together he saith that their sufferings went to his heart that he felt their sufferings on his shoulder that he could have laid down his life for one of them that his heart was tender that his bowels did sound that the hearts of his sufferers flowed in to him that in them and him there was but one spirit and one heart but in all the time of his Rebellion and High-treason whose servant whose instrument was whose work did Oliver Cromwel Behold what this Quaker saith of him the Lord did call and raise him up to head his Armies he made him his Sword and the Lord did execute by this Oliver Cromwell his vengeance on those generations Doth not this Quaker plainly tell us that the Rebel-Army under Cromwells command was Gods Army that called and raised this Traytor to be the head of his Army that God made Cromwell his Sword that God by Cromwell did execute vengeance onthose generations who these generations were the Reader must judg Q. p. 9 10. Q. Num. 115 Charles Stuart could have put off from himself the sufferings of the Puritans upon the Bishops and have alledged that they were a nonconformable factious generation and did contrary to the Law but that could not excuse him nor his standing still whilst he had power to remedy it but did not nor that those Laws were of long standing nor the disaffection of great men and nobles and rulers and bishops and priests and the generality of the Nation to that way from the judgment of God which hath taken hold on him and his children and his party whom he hath made a dreadful example of his vengeance and that by thy Sword as an instrument Pr. Pr. These lines of this quaking Bishop are abominable not to point at every base passage in them this is plainly the mind of this wild inspirado that the judgment of God to use his own words hath taken hold on Charles Stuart and his Children and his party that the Lord hath made the King his Children his party a dreadful example of his vengeance and that Oliver Cromwell's sword was the Lords instrument of this judgment and of the vengeance executed on the late King and his Children and his party that I may not be looked upon as a bloody Priest I shall squeeze these lines no further only let me say without offence that no man of any common sense dare justifie what this Quaker hath written to be the moving of Gods spirit without question these are such traytorous lines as were never seen in print from the eternal God before Q. p. 14. Q. Num. 116 Who wa st the Lords battel-axe and weapon of war to the cutting dovvn of him Pr. Pr. This traytorly Quaker goes on still to tell Oliver Cromwell that he was once the Lords battel-axe his weapon of war to the cutting down of the King behold how this Quaker in print doth justifie the basest of murthers as if it had been the Lords doing by Cromwell as his battel-axe as the Lords weapon of war for this bloody work Thus I have done with this Quakers Letter to Oliver Cromwell which was dated from Bristol the 16 of the fifth Month 1656. Subscribed thus George Bishop Surely this lamentable Quaker was strongly huffed up by his rebellious and traytorous spirit when he took himself to be moved of the Lord to publish them again in the year 1660 he that desires to know more of this Quakers pretended warnings of the Lord or to see how a Quakers light within him can act the part of disloyalty rebellion and high Treason against the Kings Sacred Majesty may peruse this quaking-Pamphlet more at large THE next book which might be transcribed is called A comparison between the true and false Ministers by Nicholas Knight printed 1675. Pr. By the late Impression of this Quakers scribble it 's evident against which Ministers this quaking-author writes that they are the Ministers of the Church of England that are the false Ministers here meant to ease my Readers patience and consult my own ease I shall contract his whole book thus Q. p. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Q. Num. 117 Pr. Pr. In this quaking-quaking-book the false Ministers of England are thus described They are false Teachers who go and are not sent they go forth in their own names without any commission from God only in the will of man they call themselves the Ministers of Christ but are not their doctrine is false and traditional it 's not from heaven but men below they do teach for doctrine the traditions of men they are the false Teachers they preach a divination of their own brains they come not in at the door they climb up another way they speak in the wisdom of mens words they are men-pleasers by inticing and feigned words they are deceivers seekers of their own praise they seek more the fleece than the flock they preach for hire and divine for money they expect gain from their quarters like the Scribes and Pharisees they make long prayers and under that pretence devour widows houses such as say and do not they limit the Church of Christ to a Nation they are blind leaders of the blind and both fall into the ditch they hold the truth in hypocrisie and unrighteousness they take the words of God into their mouths when they hate to be reformed they have a form of godliness and deny the power they are deceivers and being deceived cause the Name of God to be blasphemed and evil spoken of they observe months and days and consecrated places their preaching is limited to days hours and hour-glasses and to the wills of men to outward observations traditions and ceremonies by their fruits these trees may be known out of the evil treasure of their hearts they bring forth evil things they are an ill savour clouds that hold no water they are sounding-brass and tinkling cymbals they do not profit the people at all being weighed they are still found too light they do neither believe nor understand what they preach they have no experience of the word of life like those silly women they are always learning but never able to come to the knowledg of the truth they flee the cross they are not willing to forsake all for Christ they chuse rather to be subject to the corrupt laws and wills of men than to obey Christ in denying themselves they lay heavy burthens on mens
received and drunk of that this Cup is the Cup of devils that that Table called the Lords-Table by Priests is the Table of Devils that it is an Idol and imitation that the Priests receiving in remembrance of Christ sacrificed is sacrificing to devils not to God that that fellowship which Priests and people have at the Lords-Table is very wicked that such Priests and people do present themselves at the Table of Devils and do drink the cup of devils See Numb 103. ARTICLE LXXXIV We Q. do believe That Priests and suppers and bread and wine is an image which is the likeness of a thing that Priests and suppers and bread and wine is that image or likeness of a thing which is forbidden by God in the second Commandment in these words Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven image nor the likeness of any thing See Numb 104. ARTICLE LXXXV We Q. do believe That we are moved by the immediate Spirit of Christ to write to teach or to exhort or to put in print that our giving forth Papers or printed Books is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God See Numb 105. ARTICLE LXXXVI We Q. do believe as our old friend James Naylor hath written That all Material Churches are Idol-Temples that the worship is an Idol-worship that in England their customs are heathenish See Numb 106. ARTICLE LXXXVII We Q. do believe That the Spirit is the original that by this original the mystery is revealed to the Spirit within man See Numb 107. ARTICLE LXXXVIII We Q. do believe as our friend Edward Burrough hath written That Ordinances used in England are carnal traditional and an abomination to the Lord that they are odious in his sight that the worship used is an imagination of mans dark mind See Numb 108. ARTICLE LXXXIX We Q. do believe That the worship used is carnal that it is but a mocking of God and dissembling with him that the Ordinances are such like that baptizing with water is denied by us that it is not of God that it is an abomination in the sight of God that the communion celebrated is heathenish that it hath proceeded out of the imagination of the proud that breaking of bread and drinking of the cup is an abomination that God did never command it that singing of Davids Psalms is carnal traditional and heathenish that it is done with the spirit of the world with the spirit of Cain with the spirit of Scribes Pharisees and chief Priests that unquakerized Christians do worship an unknown God that such Christians ought to be ashamed of their profession and carnal Ordinances See Numb 109. ARTICLE XC We Q. do believe That the Teachers of England are all drunk with the wine of the Whore which sits upon the scarlet-coloured Beast whose name is Mystery Babylon the great the mother of Harlots and abomination of the earth That they are in the generation of the false Prophets of Israel that they do seek their gain from their quarter that they do steal the word from their neighbour that they do sell the divination of their own brain upon the Scripture to blind people that they do teach for the fleece that the Teachers of England are no Ministers of Jesus Christ that they are seducers and blind guides and antichrists that they do lead poor blind people in the ways of death and destruction that they run but are not sent of God that by means of these teachers the peoples souls are in the dark heathenish nature leaning in the imaginations and in lying swearing drunkenness covetousness and oppression and according to the course of this world that the foresaid iniquities are ruling among people Priests and Rulers of England that from the least of them to the greatest every one is given to covetousness that from the Prophet even to the Priest every one deals falsly that the Teachers of England are hirelings and greedy dumb dogs who are denied by us that they are in the way of Pharisees that England is blindly led by them in the ways of ignorance and darkness that reading singing and preaching is Englands worship which is carnal and no worship of God that it is an imagined worship whereby the living God is mocked that it is carnal and heathenish no worship of the true God that it is deceitful and an abomination to the Lord which is but Cains sacrifice that our friend Edward Burrough did declare against the Teachers of England and the worship thereof as from the mouth of the Lord that the Teachers of England have beguiled the people that they have hungred the peoples souls that they have loved the wages of unrighteousness that they have followed the errour of Balaam for reward that they have devoured souls for dishonest gain that they are Idols shepherds that they are Idol dumb shepherds who have scattered the sheep and fed themselves with them that they have worn garments to deceive that they have deceived the people by their lyes that they have had the mystery of witchcraft that they are treacherous persons that the Judges of England are Judges for reward that her Priests preach for hire that Englands Rulers are evening-wolves that her Judges Officers Rulers are corrupt whom the Lord will cut off that the Priests are oppressors of the people in their Tythes that the Lawyers do oppress them in their fees that the Officers do oppress them in their unrighteous dealings that the Lords sword is drawn in England and is put into our hands who are scornfully called Quakers that England should depart from all her teachers lest she be partaker of their plagues See Numb 110. ARTICLE XCI We Q do believe as our friend George Bishop of Bristol hath written to Oliver Cromwell That the said Oliver Cromwell was one of our friends whom we wished well to See Numb 111. ARTICLE XCII We Q. do believe That Oliver Cromwell was no Rebel nor Usurper nor Traytor that he was one whose sword took the spoil of the mighty that there was a spirit risen up against the Lord in these three Nations which could not stand before Oliver Cromwell that there was never any thing which was too hard for him that his counsels were made to prosper that wisdom and counsel were with him as the Oracles of God That at his feet the proudest enemy did fall down and bow that this O. Cromwell became as the army of God that he came upon Princes as upon mortar and as the Potter treadeth the clay that the hearts of honest men were knit to him as one man that they did not at any time sigh at the remembrance of him that the remembrance of this Oliver Cromwell was sweet and pleasant to them as life from the dead that God was with Oliver Cromwell that it was never so with any man in these latter generations as it was with this Oliver Cromwell whilst God was with him and his rock had not forsaken him See Numb 112. ARTICLE XCIII We Q. do
takes for his Text now follows his gloss That is to say take away our idol then take away our maintenance then down with our Ministry Is not this rarely quaked What will not a real Quaker say to asperse the Ministring-Priests of the Lord This Quaker hath clearly for his own purpose hit this nail on the head well may none but Quakers cry Euge Jacobe Observe it once more here is the Scripture standing again for an idol and all Ministers of the Gospel because not quakerized for the Priests of this Idol the Scripture is there not here a sound like that of old Great is Diana of the Ephesians Do not the Priests like those Craftsmen make a great stir about their Idol the Scripture Do they not say in this Quakers hearing Take away our Idol then take away our Maintenance then down with our Ministry Surely it is new very clear that the Quakers have very mean thoughts either of the Scripture or of Gods true Ministers the latter are in scorn called Priests the former is more basely termed their Idol by this Quaker we are come to a strange pass seeing that no Ministers may stick close to the divine authority of the Scripture but their gain is their only end in so doing and the Scripture the word of God is their Idol which they worship for advantage sake that their maintenance may not be taken away and that their Ministry which some Quakers prophanely enough call their trade may not go down I need add no more but this Nigro carbone notetur without question this quaking-doctrine deserves a black mark Q. p. 22. Q. Numb 60 They have nothing but the Scripture without and are still without in darkness and confusion as all those appear to be who call the Scripture their rule and guide and yet know not the truth Pr. Pr. Here th's Quaker is still baiting the Priests of the most high God as if they were a sort of Letter-mongers that have only the Scripture without out-side teachers who are still without such as are in darkness without Christ the light of life such as are in confusion without divine guidance and all this dirt is cast on them by this Quaker because they call rather make the Scripture their rule and guide but in the mean time know not the truth by the way observe how fond the Quakers are of their Light within to exalt this Idol they count the holy Scripture to be what it is not an Idol it 's no less than darkness and confusion as this Quaker saith to call the Scripture the rule of faith and life surely the holy Spirit of God is in vain pretended to by the Quakers who do so basely abuse in print those who call the Scripture the Word of God who do so much decry the Scripture from being the Word of God a rule or guide Oh that the Quakers could lay this great sin to their hearts Q. p. 25. Q. Numb 61 You bring another Gospel calling the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel Pr. Pr. Here this Quaker is offended with us unjustly for calling the Books written by St. Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel this is as he saith no less matter than to bring another Gospel into the world suppose this to be what it is not a true charge then according to St. Paul's Doctrine this Quaker would make us accursed and all that have gone before us for this new Gospel surely this Quaker did not well consider what he wrote for no Quaker doubtless dare say that the matter of those Books is not true Gospel how then came this Quaker to talk of our bringing another Gospel by affirming these Books to be the Gospel of St. Matthew Mark Luke and John as the Church of England doth as the Reformed Churches do abroad this Quaker would make us to be faulty in an high degree for by bringing in another Gospel we have another Christ to be our Saviour than he that is God and Man in one person the word made flesh it is certainly very sad that we may not call the matter of those four Books the Gospel which was written for our instruction by those four Evangelists St. Matthew Mark Luke and John but we must be basely charged to bring another Gospel which St. Paul terms accursed Q p. 26. Q. Numb 62 That is a false light in you which leads you to profess the Scripture to be your rule but in life and practice deny it Pr. Pr. Without borrowing any of this Quakers Light within him to tell us it is a confessed truth amongst us That all those do hold the truth in unrighteousness that do not live according to it but it is no false light in any of us to profess the Scripture to be our rule and though men are never so wicked the Scripture is still the rule of a better life to them which they ought to follow certainly this Quakers spirit was very much in the dark to asperse the Scripture so as he hath done by Gods own appointment the Scripture is the rule of faith and life it 's folly to think that the sinfulness of any mans life can make the Scripture to cease to be the rule of life as God hath declared it to be without doubt it is a false light in any Quaker which guides him to say that the Scripture is not the rule of his life without the Light within to guide him The next Pamphlet of James Parnel is called Q. The Trumpet of the Lord blown or a blast against pride and oppression Pr. Pr. To be sure this Trumpet sounds nothing like those silver Trumpets of old there is no small danger in this Quakers blast I shall endeavour to cast some Church-mould upon it the first sound is a terrible long blast Q. p. 28 29 30. Q. Numb 63 Wo unto you that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen in respect to your persons who are exalted in the earth who are proud high and lofty who are called of men Master Mistris and Madam you are exalted above your fellow-creatures and grind the faces of the poor you live at ease spending your time in chambering and wantonness in hawking bowling carding dicing in eating drinking and sleeping you feed the lust eating drinking and rising up to play which is Idolatry your high and lofty horses are like your selves according to your lofty minds you sit at ease Dives-like devouring the Creation spending it upon your lusts your hearts being adultred from God your fellow-creatures labour like slaves under you you sit at ease and poor Lazarus lyes starving without you think scorn that a poor man should stand with his hat on before you you will be called Masters upholding that which Christs Doctrine forbids who saith Be not ye called Master you think scorn to be Thoued of your fellow-creatures but you will Thou God and Christ but though you be exalted as high as the Heavens and set your nests
Christians and that there is no resurrection of the body from the grave unto life everlasting See Numb 20. ARTICLE VIII We Q. do believe That after this bodily life is ended there is no life everlasting for faithful Christians that there is no resurrection of the body from the grave that there is no coming of Christ as a Judg at the last day that they may look till their eyes drop out who look for the Son of Mary to be their Saviour at his last coming to Judgment See Numb 21. ARTICLE IX We Q. do believe as the Papists do and do approve their faith herein That true Justification is only by inherent righteousness that the righteousness by faith is when the law is performed in us by the works of the Spirit See Numb 22 23 24. ARTICLE X. We Q. do believe That Jesus our Saviour is not the Son of Mary nor the Son of the substance of his Father that he doth not exist bodily without us at Gods right hand that he doth not sit at Gods right hand in heaven that he is not a distinct person from God the Father that Christ the Son of Mary is not to be worshipped as being God that Christ is not God and Man in one Person that the Son of Mary is not glorified at Gods right hand that Mary is not the Mother of God it is Popery to call Mary the Mother of God and Christ the Son of Mary See Num. 25 26. ARTICLE XI We Q. do believe with our friends S. C. and George Fox the younger That the fear of God is learnt not from the Scripture Num. 27 28. ARTICLE XII We Q. do believe That deliverance from condemnation is not by believing in Christ who died to save sinners by his blood but by obeying the Light within See Num. 29. ARTICLE XIII We Q. do believe That all the Priests of Englands Church are deceivers and no Ministers of Christ See Numb 30. ARTICLE XIV We Q. do delieve That there is no knowledg of any truth to be gotten by the Scripture and that they are deceivers that do teach otherwise See Numb 31. ARTICLE XV. We Q. believe That the Priests do preach for filthy lucre and are deceivers and in transgression and that they are contrary to Christ and Paul See Numb 32. ARTICLE XVI We Q. do believe That they are no Ministers of Gods Word nor Ministers of Christ who teach that the Scripture is the Word of God See Numb 33. ARTICLE XVII We Q. do believe That there are not three distinct Persons in the Godhead that the doctrine of the Trinity is an imagination contrary to the Scripture a doctrine only taught by those who know not what they say Numb 34. ARTICLE XVIII We Q. do believe That the Scripture cannot bring any to know God and Jesus Christ and the Spirit of Truth See Numb 35. ARTICLE XIX We Q. do believe That there is no knowledg of God to be gotten by the Scripture as our friend W. Smith doth in his new Primer write See Num. 36. ARTICLE XX. We Q. do believe That all the Priests of England have their power and authority from man that they are no Ministers of Christ that they are wolves and time-servers See Numb 37. ARTICLE XXI We Q. do believe That the Scripture is no Rule to walk by and that we Quakers are to mind the Spirit alone in all things which Spirit is the Rule See Numb 38 39. ARTICLE XXII We Q. do believe That the time called Sunday or the Lords-day that the place called a Church that the persons belonging to the publick worship used in England are Heathenish Popish and of mans making See Numb 40. ARTICLE XXIII We Q. do believe That the Priests of England do preach no sound doctrine that their doctrine is after the tradition of men and not after Christ See Numb 41. ARTICLE XXIV We Q. do believe That their praying in England is not an acceptable service to God that they do neither pray with the Spirit nor with understanding that neither their Preaching nor their prayers are accepted of God See Numb 42. ARTICLE XXV We Q. do believe That singing of Davids Psalms in Court City Country is but a prophane thing it is a singing lyes in hypocrisie See Numb 43. ARTICLE XXVI We Q. do believe that Baptism and the Lords-supper rose from the Popes invention that the whole practice of them as they are used had their institution by the Pope and not by Christ that the wine is another of the Popes inventions that they are devices of the Popes setting up false things not to be regarded by any true Christians See Numb 44. ARTICLE XXVII We Q. do believe That a material Church is of the Popes invention who is the head thereof See Numb 45. ARTICLE XXVIII We Q. do believe That the People and Priests of England are no true Christians that they are not in the Christians life and way that they do practise that which God requires not at their hands nor doth accept See Num. 46. ARTICLE XXIX We Q. do believe That there is no outward civil honour due to the King or any others that they are not in the power of God that do give civil honour to the King or any man else that they are Apostates who do give civil honour to any others be they King or subjects See Numb 47. ARTICLE XXX We Q. do believe That there is no civil honour belonging to Magistrates and men in Authority that this is that respecting of persons which is sinful that there is the Lords curse which attends hat-honour that this civil honouring of Magistrates and men in authority is not required by God that the beggar-Quaker is as honourable as he that rules that there is no honour due to the Kings Person for the honour is due to the power which in is us Quakers See Numb 48. ARTICLE XXXI We Q. do believe That Thou to the King or any other man is the true language that they are not guided by the Spirit of God who do not use this language Thou that this is the language of truth that the Spirit of God teacheth to speak this language that they do not mind the teachings of the Spirit of God who do use any other language than Thou to the King or any others that You to any one man is an apostate-language See Numb 49. ARTICLE XXXII We Q. do believe though it be not true Gramar That good manners is to speak true words which is mannerly and is spoken in the manner of truth that those people do not know what good manners is who do in their words give civil honour to the King or his Subjects that they do not speak in the manner of truth but in the false spirit which corrupts good manners See Numb 50. ARTICLE XXXIII We Q. do believe That all manner of swearing is altogether unlawful that Christ Jesus hath forbidden all oaths that it is not lawful to swear upon any
the dust the Serpents meat which they feed upon they do strangely feed death with death the Scripture is no more in this Quakers esteem but the carnal letter with which they feed their carnal minds they are no Ministers by the will of God they do only come by the will of man and are upheld by the will of man their call and ministry are both bad alike all real Quakers do deny them as for their call and ministry this Quaker tells us it is as bad as Baptism for it is nothing but a formal imitation and invention of man a meer delusion their ministry is very bad also it is dark without the true light dead without the true life cold without any holy warmth surely these quaking-lines do eat like a canker the true David's messengers are shamefully abused by this Quaker surely these are hard speeches which no truly good man dare own Q. p. 80 81. Q. Numb 73 Some of us are esteemed not worthy to live in the Nation both by Priest and People and Rulers who are out of the commands of God vagabonds and fugitives from God who go in the way of Cain to envy and murther the innocent now heads of England and such Ministers and their Ministry we deny here is the difference of the Ministers of the world and the Ministers of Christ the one comes by the will of man the other by the will of God the one is upheld by the will of man the other by the will of God the one is of the letter the other is of the spirit the one hath the form and shadow the other the life and substance but from such turn away for they are meer deceivers and witches bewitch the people from the truth Pr. Pr. This Quaker is become like a raging-wave of the sea foaming out that which is his own shame I might truly say in this Quakers dunghill we have filth enough cast together you sind priest people and rulers as bad as bad can be not only priest and people but the rulers of this Kingdom are by this Quaker declared to be very bad how bad so bad as that to speak this Quakers mind they are lawless the commands of God do not bind them like cursed Cain that was of the Devil they are Vagabonds and Fugitives from the Lord as wicked Cain slew his righteous brother Abel so priest people and rulers saith this Quaker do go in the way of this bloody Cain to envy and murther the innocent But hear this Quaker speaks more fully now there are neither heads of England nor Ministers nor Ministry whom the Quakers own it 's hence very clear that both the Magistrates and the known Ministry of Fngland are absolutely denied by all thorough-paced Quakers As for the ordained Ministers of the Gospel this Quaker hath given this differencing-account of them They are the Ministers of the world such as come by the will of man such as are upheld by the will of man they are Ministers of the Letter they have only the form and the shadow they are meer deceivers and witches they do bewitch the people from the truth the preaching of the Gospel by any Priests of the Church of England in this Quakers account is only the Ministry of the world that which is set up only and maintained by the will of man there is nothing of good in it nor of the Ministration of the Spirit it doth only consist of form and shadow nay the preaching of the Gospel by any such Priests is but deceit and witchcraft for they by this Quaker are termed deceivers and witches such as do bewitch the people from the truth If this be not a foul slander then let all unquakerized Readers judg Q. p. 81 82 83 84. Q. Numb 74 We own Magistracy in its place but the righteous are from under the outward Law for they are a Law unto themselves they neither know how to rule or govern who are guided by their own wills such rule with partiality and respect of persons and give forth Laws in their own wills persecute the righteous encourage the heathen who know not God so Cain slays Abel within them and they suffer Cain to slay Abel without them the wicked have more liberty in the Nation than the righteous the Land abounds with iniquity oppression and treachery because such corrupt Magistrates wink at deceits for carnal ends and uphold iniquity and oppression and tread truth under foot corrupt Magistrates put corrupt Magistrates in office such as these uphold corrupt Ministers and false prophets which the Nation swarms of the Beast upholds the False-prophet and they combine together against the simple and the Law is made a stalking-horse to deceive the simple such Magistrates and such Government we honour not by such Magistrates and Government did the righteous ever suffer and Haman who stood in the corrupt will would have destroyed Mordecai because he could not bow to him and also Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar and Herod who beheaded John who stood in their own wills but the hands of the Lord they did not escape but Christ comes to end all outward Laws and Government of man and he himself will reign as truth and righteousness grows the Law is fulfilled and passes away this is the cause why corrupt Magistrates beat down the truth as much as they can but Pharaoh God will plague and confound but such Magistrates as are guided by the light of God in the Conscience and rule by it we own and honour in our hearts such are a terror to evil-doers such bear not the sword in vain this Government is of God Pr. 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From these lines this Quaker gives us plainly to understand that the Real Quakers are none of the Kings loyal subjects for they do own no Magistrates but such as are Quakers like themselves this is a sun-beam-truth That no Magistrates no Government no Laws without Quakerism stampt on them are either owned or honoured by any Quakers as for any other Magistrates Laws Government no right Quakers do own them but let this Quaker speak his own mind it 's but Magistracy in its place which is owned by any Quakers here is nothing as it is Gods Ordinance as for the righteous that is Quakers they are from under the outward Law because they are a Law unto themselves then I pray in what sense do the Quakers own any of the Laws or Law-makers of this Kingdom Is it not hence plain what kind of subjects the lawless Quakers are Is it not hence as evident that King and Parliament Magistrates Laws Government of this Kingdom are very little either owned or honoured by any Quakers But let us confer a little more with this Quaker what thoughts he hath of Magistrates let us now observe The Magistrates he saith are very bad they are such as know not how to rule Here behold their great ignorance they are guided by their own wills behold their wills are their law they rule with partiality
noble-born Quakers can bow to them for if they should what then it follows thus we should set the devil in the room of God behold it is hence very clear that according to this base quaking-doctrine to honour the King or any Nobles or Superiours or Gentlemen with that honour which is due to them is to set the devil in the room of God from this fore-going evidence it is fully manifest that the Quakers who are noble in their own eyes are basely destructive by their rude doctrine to the Kings Majesty to all superiority nobility and honour to all gentility breeding and manners of this Kingdom and that the Quakers do not give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars nor that fear to whom fear or that honour to whom honour is due Q. p. 93 94. Q. Numb 76 Concerning the word Thou or Thee Thou is the proper word to one particular person yea to God himself You is the proper word to more than one at all times when the Apostles spake to Christ they used the word Thou or Thee and when he spake to more than one of them he used the word You or Ye also Paul Thoued King Agrippa and King Agrippa Thoued him it is plain that it is an invention of proud Lucifer in man to exalt himself the great and rich ones of the earth Thou or You one another if they be equal in degree if a man of low degree come to speak to any of them then he must You the rich man but the rich man will Thou him you shall find it so betwixt Priest and people a poor labouring man must You the Priest and the Priest Thou him here the heathen lord over one another by their corrupt wills but this is contrary to the Apostles and Ministers of Christ and yet those will call themselves the Ministers of Christ and the word minister signifies a servant and they are masters and so they have gotten the name but not the nature and so are bastards who are not sprung from the gentile seed and yet they are hired as the servants of men and yet bear rule by their means as Masters over them that maintain them Jer. 5.30 31 he that hath an eye to see let him see the deceits of the professed Ministers of England Pr. 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These Quaking-lines serve to let us see abundance of pitiful stuff concerning Thou and Thee and the gross deceits which this Quaker charges on the Ministers of England the whole transcript is ridiculous this ill-inspired man saith Thou is the proper word to one particular person behold was not this a notable quaking-discovery Not his Light within but his Accidence might have told him thus much Thou seen in the Quakers false light is vainly doted on by them for this Thou's sake they proclaim no civil respect and honour to be due to any Superiors Noblemen and Gentlemen this Quakers ignorance makes him bold to say that all do speak improperly that do not Quaker-like use this word Thou to all without respect of person to speak this Quakers mind more fully Thou is so appropriate to God himself as that the King must be Thoued by his Quaking-subjects as for your Majesty your Excellency your Grace your Honour your Worship this Quaker gives us to understand that they are improper expressions of honour which have no pattern for God and Christ were both Thoued nor are they that give them like to the Apostles of Christ who Thoued Christ when they spake to him behold Paul Thouing Agrippa the King is instanced by this Quaker as a president for all Courtiers to follow thus vainly is Thou idolized by this Quaker but behold far worse Thou and Thee are so much set by as that this Quaker saith it is plain that it is an invention of proud Lucifer the Devil in man who exalts himself to speak this Quakers mind in more plain English To use any other words but Thou or Thee to the King to any Peers Superiors or Gentlemen is an invention saith this Quaker of proud Lucifer in man to exalt himself Behold then according to this Quakers mind that Your Majesty Your Excellency Your Grace Your Honour Your Lordship your Worship Your Servant c. are all of them found out by the proud Devil to exalt himself in that man to whom they are given or in that man that gives them but a great eye-sore to this Quaker is this That it is so betwixt Priest and People this he cannot away with that a poor labouring-man must you the Priest who Thou's him for thus doing both the rich and great ones and Priests are by this Quaker termed Heathens who lord it over others by their corrupt wills Behold now how this Quaker over-values Thou and Thee how he counts them but Heathens worse than Turks and Jews that do not Thou one another or are Youed by others he looks upon them as so many Tyrants who lord it over others in their corrupt wills That the Priests for Thouing others and being Youed themselves are in this particular contrary to the Apostles and Ministers of Christ as for the Priests he saith further they do unreasonably call themselves the Ministers of Christ they are so proud as that they are Masters whereas this Quaker tells them they are only servants but according to this Quakers mind they are grosly mistaken for they are neither Ministers nor Masters what then are they This Quaker saith they are Bastards who have the name of Ministers but want the nature as this Quaker adds they are not sprung from the gentile seed like the servants of men they are hired they bear rule by their means Jer. 5.30 31 this place of Scripture is wrested by this Quaker to abuse the Priests of the Most High God by the foregoing quaking-prattle it is now evident how highly Thou and Thee are advanced by this Quaker to the Kings high dishonour to the debasing of all Nobility Gentility and Superiority in this Kingdom and likewise how basely the professed Ministers of England are slanderously disgraced to the shame of true Christianity Q. p. 95 96. Q. Numb 77 The putting off the hat is another invention of proud Lucifer whereby he is honoured and worshipped and exalted in man but the Scripture doth not speak of any such fashion used in any age but man hath found out many inventions now it is a fashion throughout the Land whereby one man is exalted above another if a poor man comes before a rich man it may be the rich man will move his hat that is called courtesie and humility but the poor man must stand with his hat off before him and that is called honour and manners and due respect to him but if the rich man do bid him put it on it 's counted a great courtesie and he gets honour to himself there to be accounted a courteous man but this respect of persons was never ordained of God but by the Devil whereby he exalts himself in man
thus they sought their gain from their quarter and ruled like tyrants with rigor according to this Quakers mind you see that since the Apostles days all Priests in the Christian Church have been basely covetous vile cheats bloody wolves sordidly self-seeking minding the fleece more than the sheep like the false Prophets greedily seeking their gain from their quarter ruling like tyrants with rigor thus according to this Quaker our Priests old fathers planted their Church and so set every thing in form and tradition according to their own imaginations behold since the Apostles days to speak this Quakers mind fully there hath been no Christian Church but such as was planted by the old fathers of our Priests and this Church was planted by them after the worst fashion according to their own imaginations that we may not mistake this Quaker he tells us plainly his particular thoughts of our own Church saying here is the ground and foundation of the Faith and Church of England here are the old Fathers and old Authors that their Priests have so much talked of even the Popes and Bishops behold according to this Quaker both the Faith and Church of England are Antichristian Popes and Bishops in this Quakers account Antichrists creatures are those old Fathers who planted this Church and Faith according to their imaginations who are so much talked of by our Priests but he saith Thus Antichrist hath long deceived the Nations under the profession of the faith of Christ behold according to this Quaker not only the Church of England but all other Christian Nations since the Apostles days have thus long been deceived by Antichrist under the profession of the faith of Christ according to this Quaker there hath not been one jot of true Christianity in this Church or in any part of the world for many hundreds of years by-past he saith one generation hath gone and another come but they have not known the Lord that bought them behold ever since the Apostles dayes all Christians in the world have not known the Lord Jesus Christ their Redeemer according to this Quaker they have all been Antichristian I may truly say That this Quaker is so taken with this Antichristian glass as that he saith many may now see strange sights what lyars the people are how they came up and were ordained that they are the Ministers of Antichrist that they do shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men the people may also see saith this Quaker how ignorantly they have been led estranged from the Father of Light carried after vain traditions customs forms ordinances imaginations of man deceived with a vain profession and feigned faith kept strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Saviour and Redeemer behold according to this Quaker what base persons all the Priests of the Church of England are for in his account they are all lyars Ministers of Antichrist as bad as the Scribes and Pharisees were in Christs time for they shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men blind Teachers of the people estrangers of the people from God the Father of Light such as have carried them after vain traditions and imaginations of man deceivers with a vain profession and feigned faith such as have kept the people strangers from the God of life and from Christ the Redeemer but this is not all for this Quaker saith That both Priests and people do lye under the power of darkness and delusion of Antichrist behold in the Church of England according to this Quaker it is like Priests like people the power of darkness belongs to both they are both so far from true Christianity as that they are both under the delusion of Antichrist but according to this Quaker the Priests are the greater offenders of them two for they are he saith the peoples Leaders who cause them to err by their lyes they destroy the people for want of true knowledg they lead them captive in their sins they do only differ from the Heathen in name and profession Behold once more that according to this Quaker the Priests of the Church of England are teachers of lyes by which they cause the people to err soul-murtherers destroying the people for want of true knowledg like the Devil they lead the people captive in their sins they are nothing else but Heathens in truth Thus you see that this quaking-Watcher hath seen nothing belonging to true Christianity for a long time even ever since the Apostles days in the world or in the Church of England as for this Church and Kingdom according to this Quaker there is nothing but Antichrist and what is Antichristian to be found in them Q. p. 145 to 149 Q. Numb 80 You are fighting killing and devouring one another as they do whom you account Heathen you are drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers back-biters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors as they are both Priest and People you are envious and malicious both Priest and people you are dissembling cozening and cheating and defrauding one another of the earth What sin is there among those you account Heathen that is not amongst you and doth abound Be ashamed you Priests of England to see the fruits of your Ministry so laid open before you you are those who come near the Lord with your mouths but your hearts are far from him you are hypocrites and your hearts are full of deceit envy wrath bitterness covetousness pride earthly-mindedness self-love self-wisdom you are out of the life and practice of the Apostles and the children of light your Teachers are such as bring another doctrine and climb up another way who are shut out for Thieves and Robbers Pr. 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In these quaking-lines we have railing without reason and Scripture abused to this end behold all the people and Priests of the Church of England are by this censorious Quaker declared to be guilty of most notorious crimes they are all according to this Quaker either as bad or far worse than any Heathens are behold how bad this Quaker hath made all Priests and people of this Church and Kingdom to be without exception quarrellers murderers drunkards swearers lyars scoffers revilers backbiters whoremongers adulterers proud covetous idolaters high-minded oppressors by these black names doth this Quaker point them out behold is this the Christian Charity that thinks no evil Is this the Christianity that speaks evil of no man But in p. 146 this Quaker doth a little seem to eat his own words but they are soon disgorged As for those people and Priests that are not drunkards swearers c. this Quaker makes them as bad as the rest as if he were in Gods stead he ransacks their hearts to make them no better than those heart-wicked Pharisees were of old according to this Quaker in the Church and Kingdom of England the peoples Priests are no Christians but idolaters their conversations are worse than heathens for they abound in gross wickedness more than they as
Priests of England have only the letter and form to trade with that to get humane learning they do for several years as it were serve an apprentiship that they pretend to study divinity that among blind people they get a certain wage that they do sell that which they get into the brain that they live upon dust the Serpents meat that they do feed death with death that they do feed the carnal mind with the carnal letter that their Ministry only hath the form and denies the power that they come by the will of man and not by the will of God that their call and ministry is a formal imitation and invention of man and a meer delusion that their ministry is dark dead and cold See Numb 72. ARTICLE LIII We Q. believe That the Priests people and rulers of England are vagabonds and fugitives from God that they go in the way of Cain who was a murtherer that the Priests are the Ministers of the world who come by the will of man who are only Ministers of the Letter who have only the form and shadow that they are not the Ministers of Christ but meer deceivers and witches who do bewitch the people from the truth See Numb 73. ARTICLE LIV. We Q. do believe That we are righteous not under the outward Law of the King for we are a law unto our selves that the Magistrates of England do neither know how to rule nor govern that they are guided by their own wills that they rule with partiality that they give forth laws in their own wills that they do persecute us righteous Quakers that they do encourage the heathen who know not God that Cain slays Abel within them that they suffer Cain to slay Abel without them that they are wicked as well as bloody Magistrates who fill the land with sin and wickedness that they are corrupt Magistrates that they do put corrupt Magistrates in office that they do uphold corrupt Ministers and false Prophets that they are the Beast who upholds the false Prophet that they make the Law a stalking-horse to deceive the simple that there is no honour due from us Quakers to such Magistrates and Government that the Magistrates of England are like Haman Pharoah Nebuchadnezzar and Herod we believe also that Christs coming is to end all outward laws and government of man that he himself will reign that by truth and righteousness growing in us Quakers the law is fulfilled and passeth away that the Pharoah-like Magistrate God will plague and confound that there are no right Magistrates but Quakers and such quaking-Magistrates we own and honour in our hearts that the government by Quakers is only of God See Numb 74. ARTICLE LV. We Q. do still believe That Thou was the plain language betwixt God and Adam and betwixt God and Moses that not Thouing one another is a damning sin that the devil is the head of man who would be honoured that manners and breeding are of the devil that the best-bred Noblemen and Gentlemen are of the devils naming that breeding at Court or any where else is the devils breeding who sits in the Courts and high Palaces that to get preferment is to get into favour with the devil who sits in Courts and high Palaces that the Kings Court the Inns of Court and Palaces are the devils seats that both he that is exalted and the devil must be cast down into hell together that the devil is the ground of superiority nobility gentility honour breeding manners that they do all arise from the devil and lust in man who would be honoured that all superiority nobility gentility honour breeding manners are under the curse of God that the pure law of us Quakers respects no mans person that amongst us Quakers there are no superiors after the flesh that honour breeding manners fashions are the devils image his honour his breeding his manners his fashions that nobility gentility honour breeding manners and civility are the devils marks that the devil and all superiors noblemen gentlemen who bear the devils mark shall be tormented in hell quick together that there is no true nobility but in us Quakers who have the noble seed that there is no true gentility but in us Quakers who have the seed of God born up to rule that honour is only due to us Quakers who have the noble seed which is to be honoured that we Quakers are all noble by birth that there is no honour due to King Peers who are only noble after the flesh that any of us despised Quakers is more noble than either King or any nobles after the flesh because of the noble seed which is in us that they who give and receive honour are in the unbelief that is infidels that they by so giving and receiving honour do honour the devil and worship the Beast and his image that the nobles and great ones of the earth and both Priest and people are unmannerly and ill-bred that before the noble seed in us Quakers Kings and nobles shall be bound in chains and fetters of iron that the gentility nobility superiority honour breeding manners of the world is after the flesh and sprung from the devil that all noblemen gentlemen superiors men of honour of breeding and of manners are bastards and no sons that to these no honour is due that we Quakers can give no honour to them that to honour such is for us Quakers to set the devil in Gods room See Numb 75. ARTICLE LVI We Q. do believe That Thou is the proper word to one particular person and You to more than one that You to a single person is an invention of the devil in man to exalt himself that in Youing the great and rich ones and in Thouing the poor labouring-man which is done by the Priest the great man the rich man and Priest are heathens lording it over others that the Priests that are called Masters are contrary to the Apostles and Ministers of Christ that they have the name but not the nature that they are bastards that they bear rule by their means over them that maintain them that the professed Ministers of England have their deceits to be seen See Numb 76. ARTICLE LVII We Q. do believe That putting off the hat is another invention of the devil whereby the devil is honoured and worshipped and exalted in man that to put off the hat or stand bare before superiors noblemen gentlemen or others is that respect of persons which was never ordained of God but by the devil whereby he exalts himself in man that this respect of persons was witnessed against by James who said therefore howl ye rich men that by putting off the hat or teaching others so to honour their superiors the Ministers of England do not abide in the Doctrine of Christ and so have not God but the devil that all that which is called honour due respect manners courtesie and humility Court-like breeding Country-breeding neighbourhood and civil respect
lost for want of true knowledg that they do only differ from the heathen in name and profession See Numb 79. ARTICLE LX. We Q. do believe That both the Priests and people of England are very wicked like the Heathen that both Priests and people are envious and malicious that they are dissemblers cheaters defrauders of one another that there is no sin amongst Heathen which sin doth not abound amongst them that the Priests of England are very wicked that they do draw near the Lord with their mouths but their hearts are far from him that they are hyporrites whose hearts are full of deceit envy wrath bitterness covetousness pride earthly-mindedness self-love self-wisdom that they are out of the life and practice of the Apostles that they are such teachers as do bring another doctrine that they do climb up another way that they are shut out for thieves and robbers See Numb 80. ARTICLE LXI We Q. do believe That Englands Church was planted by Englands Priests that it differs not from the heathen that Englands Church consists chiefly of drunkards swearers lyars proud ones covetous ones railers murderers whoremongers wild ones prophane ones wanton ones quarrelers and sighters hypocrites dissemblers persecutors backbiters extortioners lustful ones that if these were set aside then Englands Church would be no where to be found See Numb 81. ARTICLE LXII We Q. do believe as our friend James Parnel hath written That we are partakers of the Divine nature of Christ by which we are made Christians and that God is with us manifested in the flesh See Numb 82. ARTICLE LXIII We Q. do believe That the true Church is no where but amongst our selves where there is but one teacher and one Lord one light and one life that is the light of life within us one faith which overcomes all manner of sin and makes us free in this life from all sin one way which is the despised way of Quakerism one shepherd who is the light within us and one sheepfold which is made up of us Quakers wheresoever dispersed one Priest over the houshold of God who is the light within belonging to this houshold which we Quakers are one hope which none but we Quakers have one baptism which is not with water one language which is Thou one family which by H. N. was called the Family of Love one God and Father of all who is the Light within all Quakers that they that cannot witness all this to be true are strangers to Christ and strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel See Numb 83. ARTICLE LXIV We Q. do believe as George Fox writes That the Priests of England are going mad in preaching for rewards and gifts in cursing excommunicating and imprisoning so that Balaams Ass may reprove them all See Numb 84. ARTICLE LXV We Q. do believe That to build a Material Church is to build an old Mass-house that to warrant the building of such a Material Church by any Scriptures or the Kings law is to deny Christs coming in the flesh See Numb 85. ARTICLE LXVI We Q. do believe That to know God according to the Scripture is no true knowledg of him that the Priests of England though they have the Scriptures and declare him according to those Scriptures do neither know God nor Christ See Numb 86. ARTICLE LXVII We Q. do believe That the Religion and Worship used in England are of the Priests own setting up in their steeple-houses that neither God nor the Lord Jesus did set them up See Numb 87. ARTICLE LXVIII We Q. do believe as George Fox and Richard Hubberthorn our friends have written that the Scriptures may as well be condemned to the fire as our friends papers of Queries may See Numb 88. ARTICLE LXIX We Q. do believe That the Scripture is the earthly Letter See Numb 89. ARTICLE LXX We Q. do believe That the Letters written by Quakers are given forth by the same Spirit that the Prophets and holy Apostles had See Numb 90. ARTICLE LXXI We Q. do believe what is not true That the Apostle said Take heed to the Light of God within you See Num. 91. ARTICLE LXXII We Q. do believe That all true Quakers have the same gift of the Holy Ghost or gift of Miracles that the Apostles had See Numb 92. ARTICLE LXXIII We Q. do believe That we are one in the Eternal Unity and that George Fox the Elder is one with us in this Eternal Unity See Numb 93. ARTICLE LXXIV We Q. do believe That the dark time and power of Babylon hath long reigned and the works of the Beast that by these they are descended that profess Scripture to be their rule See Numb 94. ARTICLE LXXV We Q. do believe That there is a way to go through Moses and through the Prophets and through John to come to Christ that when a man hath gone this strange way then he may see that the Light is but one See Numb 95. ARTICLE LXXVI We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are Ministers of the Letter that they are persecutors of the Spirit See Numb 96. ARTICLE LXXVII We Q. do believe That Jesus Christ remains in the Heavens that the same that did descend did ascond that it is disputing as the devil did about the body of Moses with Michael the Archangel to enquire what manner of body Christ hath that such enquirers are to be rebuked as the devil was by the Archangel that the body of Christ is but one which is the Church See Numb 97. ARTICLE LXXVIII We Q. do believe That to redeem and make free from sin is done with the body of Christ which we have told you is the Church See Numb 98. ARTICLE LXXIX We Q. do believe That Christ lives in that body which is the Church that in this body which is the Church the Saints shall arise See Numb 99. ARTICLE LXXX We Q. do believe That both Philosophy and Logick are of the devil See Numb 100. ARTICLE LXXXI We Q. do believe That except the Church which is his body Christ hath no true humane body no more than God the Father hath that that man looks upon Christ with a carnal eye that looks upon him to have a true body as he hath that that man knows the fathers body that knows Christ to have a true humane body which is without sin that that man is full of subtilty that doth query how the Son may be distinguished from God the Father that they make both many Gods and three Gods who do distinguish the Son from the Father See Numb 101. ARTICLE LXXXII We Q. do believe That there is no Baptism with water that they are filthy dreamers and lyars of Christ who tell people that this Baptism is an Ordinance of Christ that it is but sprinkling a little dirty water on Childrens faces that Christ did never send his Disciples on this dirty errand See Num. 102. ARTICLE LXXXIII We Q. do believe That there is no Sacramental Cup to be
believe That the Bishops in the late Kings time were persecutors that that generation was pulled up in the Lords anger that the powers that supported them were swept away in the Lords sore displeasure that the Lord was terrible to the men of high stature that the Lord did break in upon them with a furious blow of horrour and amazement that he smote with an incurable wound the Bishops and their King and their Nobles and their mighty men of war their Captains and Councellors their Priests and their Officers and their whole strength that the Lord left the name of Bishops King Nobles mighty men Captains Counsellors Priests Officers to be an astonishment and a wonder and a curse unto posterity See Numb 113. ARTICLE XCIV We Q. do believe That Oliver Cromwell was the man who did bear as on a common shoulder the sufferings of the oppressed for conscience sake who with himself were appointed to the same destruction that their sufferings went to his heart that he had a fellow-feeling of them on his own shoulder that he could have laid down his life for one of those sufferers that his heart was then very tender that his bowels did sound for them that the hearts of all his fellow-sufferers flowed in to him that in them and him there was but one spirit and one heart that for this cause the Lord did call Oliver Cromwell and raise him up to head the Lords armies that this Oliver Cromwell was made the Lords sword that the Lord did by him execute his vengeance on those generations See Numb 114. ARTICLE XCV We Q. do believe That the Puritans were great sufferers under the Bishops that Charles Stuart was inexcusable touching their sufferings for not remedying them according to his power that the disaffection of great men and Nobles and Rulers and Bishops and Priests to that way of the Puritans did not keep them from the judgment of God that the judgment of God hath taken hold of Charles Stuart and his Children and his party and hath made him his Children and party a dreadful example of the Lords vengeance and that this judgment was executed on the late King his Children and party by Oliver Cromwell's sword as an instrument See Numb 115. ARTICLE XCVI We Q. do believe That Oliver Cromwell was the Lords battel-axe and his weapon of war to the cutting down of the late King See Numb 116. ARTICLE XCVII We Q. do believe as our friend Nicholas Knight hath written That all the Teachers of England whether they are Episcopal or Presbyterian or Independent are false Ministers no true teachers who are not sent who have no commission from God who go forth in their own names only in the will of man that they are no Ministers of Christ that their doctrine is false and traditional that it is not from heaven but men below that they do teach for doctrine the traditions of men that they are the false teachers that they preach a divination of their own brains that they come not in at the door that they climb up another way that they speak in the wisdom of mens words that they are men-pleasers by feigned words that they are deceivers that they are seekers of their own praise that they seek more the fleece than the flock that they preach for hire and divine for money that for a pretence they make long prayers like the Scribes and Pharisees and devour widows houses that they say and do not that they limit the Church of Christ to a Nation that they are blind leaders of the blind that they do hold the truth in hypocrisie and unrighteousness that they hate to be reformed that they have a form of godliness and deny the power that they are deceivers and being deceived cause the name of God to be blasphemed and evil spoken of that they do observe months and days and consecrated places that their preaching is limited to days hours hour-glasses to the wills of men to outward observations traditions and ceremonies that these trees may be known by their fruits that out of the evil treasure of their hearts they bring forth evil things that they are an ill savour that they are Clouds which hold no water that they are sounding brass and tinkling cymbals that they do not profit the people that they are too light in the balances of the Sanctuary that they do neither believe nor understand what they preach that they have no experience of the word of life that like those silly women they are ever learning but are not able to come to the knowledg of the truth that they flee the Cross that they are unwilling to forsake all for Christ that they do chuse rather to be subject to the corrupt laws and wills of men than to Christ that they lay heavy burthens on mens shoulders which they touch not with one of their singers that they respect their own interest ease profit and security that they count gain to be godliness that they are hirelings that they do preach up the power and dominion of the devils leading into sin above the power of Christ over sin in this life that they do exalt the devils power who is their master above Christ that they preach up outward worship bodily service outward forms ceremonies and observances of outward ordinances and traditions of men of worship in outward Temples and consecrated places and outward conformity out of the life and power of godliliness in Common-prayer service and singing of Davids Psalms that they please themselves with an outward melody of voice and organs that they labour to bring people to an outward communion under an outward profession and name of Christians that they make them Christians by an outward washing that their fellowship is only in and with the world that they do not what God requires at their hands that they are preachers up of the Kingdom of the Beast and false Prophet that they are bewailers of the great City Babylon that their trade and merchandize do depend on her that they are pretended Ministers of Christ that they are Antichrists Ministers that the Gospel preached by them is of Antichrists setting up that they are led by the spirit of Antichrist that they make merchandize of the words of God that they are not Ministers of the Spirit that they are hypocrites who draw near to Christ with their mouths but deny him in their works that Episcopal Presbyterian and Independent are alike corrupt teachers that they do all preach in their own wisdom of words that they do differ from the true Ministers of Christ his Gospel and life that they do all want a thorough-reformation that they have taken up their stations in formalities that they are rejected of God that they are such from whom the Lord is departed that they are denied of the Lord to be his Ministers that they are such teachers to whom as our friend Knight saith the Lord saith who hath required these things at your hands wherein you have polluted my name that they seek their own more than Gods that they have not the Spirit that they are turned aside to fables that they are quenchers of the Spirit that they are despisers of Prophesie that they do speak evil of that which they understand not that they are none of Christs Ministers in the Spirit that they convert not any unto God that they go forth in the will of man that they are not of God that they are false shepherds that they speak their own words that they compose their own Sermons in their own wills and wisdom that they are no true guides in the way of life that they are deceivers and seducers who wax worse and worse that they run in the way of Balaam that they are false guides who lead to destruction whose ways are the ways of death whose end is everlasting misery that they are ready to blaspheme that holy name whereby we Quakers are called See Numb 116 117. ARTICLE XCVIII In the last place We Q. do stedfastly believe as George Fox and Richard Hubberthorn our friends do That our dear friends W. P. G. Whitehead William Smith G. C. and George Fox the younger James Parnell George Fox the elder and Richard Hubberthorn Edward Burrough George Bishop and Nicholas Knight have written and printed their fore-named Books and given them forth from the immediate eternal Spirit of God and therefore by good consequence they and their writings are no less to be believed than the Penmen of the Scripture the Prophets and Apostles are FINIS The Names of the Books cited in this Treatise with the Page where the Author begins to extract the Quakers corrupt Creed out of them I. THE Counterfeit Christian detected and the real Quaker justified By a lover of Truth and Peace W. P. Printed 1674. Page 4 II. The nature of Christianity in the true Light asserted Written by a Servant of Christ G. Whitehead Printed in the year 1671. Page 13 III. The Quakers Primmer by S.C. and George Fox the younger Page 27 IV. Two Treatises viz. a new Primmer and a new Catechism both written by William Smith Printed 1668. Page 33 V. A Collection of the several Writings given forth from the spirit of the Lord through the servant of God James Parnel who bore a faithful testimony for God and died a Prisoner under the hands of a persecuting generation in Colchester Castle in the year 1656. Published 1675. Page 59 VI. The Heathens Divinity set upon the heads of all called Christians G. F. Printed in the year 1671. Page 118 VII The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the North or the day of the Lord dawning By one whom Ishmaels brood calls a Quaker whose name in the flesh is James Naylor London printed 1653. Page 128 VIII A Warning from the Lord by one named of the world Edward Burrough Page 129 IX The Warnings of the Lord to the men of this generation particularly to those in power who are lately passed away and to them that remain as they were given forth in sundry Letters and sent to Oliver Cromwell Richard his Son late Protectors c. by his servant George Bishop who is moved of the Lord to publish them London printed by M. Inman 1660. Page 135 X. A Comparison between the true and false Ministers by Nicholas Knight Printed 1675. Page 141