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A54263	The Quakers unmasked their double-dealing and false-heartedness discovered by collections taken out of their own writings, which were communicated to G. Fox, G. Whitehead, and others of their preachers and leaders : wherein may be seen some of their contradictions thereupon by another hand : also, one of the forms of their oaths, used amongst themselves, with their definition of an oath : likewise a letter and paper formerly sent to the abovesaid G.F. : whereunto are annexed some remarks, &c. : also what an oath is : in a letter to E.S. ...	Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.; A. C.	1691 (1691)	Wing P1412; ESTC R31105	55,504	67

Ionathan Clapham a most precise Stickler for a Reformation But when the Independents were possessed of the Authority 't was then the Beheaded King was by this Guide both Preached and Printed as a Toe of the Image the little Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands was to smite and therefore says The Fall of the ten Kingdoms was begun the Lord is risen out of his Habitation gainsay not for who seeth not the Alteration is of the Lord. In another place says he There can be no clearer Evidence that God is about this work of breaking own this great Image and smiting the very Feet and Toes thereof than this present Victory over the Scottish Forces at Dunbar which we are now to render Thanksgiving to God for the Cause of this War being whether this Image shall be upheld or the Feet and the Toes broken In short O ye honoured Worthies whom the Lord hath raised up to effect these great Changes carry on the Lord's Work that your People may not have cause to say we have changed our Tyrants not our Tyranny 'T was also then in a Dedicatory Epistle to O. Cromwel allowed by him of England Scotland Ireland c. Protector to whom amongst other extraordinary Complements I cannot let pass these Expressions where he invites him as God's Delegate in Honour to Jesus Christ and out of the love to the Churches of Christ for whose welfare you have this Power committed to you concluding thus The Lord of Heaven and Earth bless your Highness with the continuance of his Gracious presence with you that as you have done valiantly in the High Places of the Field that is fought against the King and Bishops so you Govern as righteously and happily in the Gates of the City Oh gross Dissimulation Now 't is he turns Eugagement Man and is imployed by the several Churches in Norfolk to Richard Cromwel on the Death of Oliver as their Representative about the Petition or Address made by the Priests in general which term the Father Moses and the Son the Joshua that should Conduct them to the Holy-Land After the King came in This Guide changes Oliver Richard or Parliment for Charles once a TOE of the Image that the little Stone was to smite of England Scotland Ireland c. The Beheaded King once the first broken Toe of the Image now he Commemorates with an Anniversary Sermon c. What temporizing is this Oh what unheard of Hypocrisie is here But Reader What is thy Opinion of the Matter Can Oliver be Moses Richard be Joshua and Charles Defender of the Faith all together p 53. Reader Will this Fig-leaf-Garment cover the Shame of this Guide's Nackedness from thy Discerning and Censure I hope not c. Obs If the Episcopal Party had done this would not the Quakers have call'd it a breach of the Act of Indemnity and disingenuous But for themselves to do it who had as much need of an Act of Pardon as others What was it Again in their Answer to John Faldo Quakerism a new Nick-name p. 109. And why poor Nonconformists after all their Preacht up Batels spoils Plunders Sacriledges Derimations c. Again p 119. These are true Gospel Ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and good will towards Men and not Garments rolled in the Blood of Kings and Princes and Rulers and People no worldly Armies Battels Victories Trophies Spoils Sequestrations Decimations and the like Blood-thirsty and Tyrannical Projects in which John Faldo and his poor Nonconforming Ministers have had their Hands almost over Head and Ears till they had well nigh lost their Ears and their Heads too Obs Was not this to expose and render obnoxious to the Government and that in a time when the Nonconformist Ministers were under Persecution Should any have exposed the Quakers at such a season What would they not have said couching the treacherousness and baseness of it And it seems this Mr. Faldo whom they thus villifie was too young to be concerned 〈◊〉 those Projects But what might he now say of some Quakers in relation to the present Government See also their Book entituled A Just Rebuke to xxi Divines p. 25. HOw did the Presbyterians excite the Parliament in these very Terms Eliah opposed Idolatry and Oppression so do ye down with Baal's Priests which is as much as to say Away with your Arch-Bishops and Bishops the whole Ministry and Worship of the Church of England Again The Mouths of your Adversaries are opened against you that so many Delinquents that is to say Royalists are in Prison and yet but very few of them brought to their Tryal did he mean to release them And saith another of your Eminent Brethren before the Commons Aug 28. 1644. Ye cannot Preach nor Pray them down immediately well that which the Word cannot do the Sword shall Obs Again Is not here exposing and rendring of Persons as obnoxious to the then Government as they could This following is a Copy of a Letter I writ to G. W. 22. February 1678. being above a Year after the fore-going was sent them G. Whitehead I have lately seen your Book entitled The Way cast up c. and therein these following Passages viz. ANd how many Garments were rolled in Blood by Instigation of the Presbyterian Teachers the whole Nation was a Witness so that many thousands were made Widows and Fatherless by that War they stirred up the People unto c. p 23. Obs Was not this that War in which the Quakers said the Army were Glorious Instruments in the Hand of God and that God by his Spirit and Power was not only the Beginner but the Carryer on of that work and that it was his presence and power in the Army that gave them perfect Victory And abundance more to the same purpose Observe the other Column P. 52. Some of the Presbyterian Nonconformist Preachers are fled beyond Sea others lurk in Corners here and there and keep private Conventicles where many times they preach Sedition against their Lawful Prince by instigation of whom that Insurrection hapned in 1666. Obs Could any thing more be said by the Common Informers or by the most inveterate Enemies of separate Meetings than these Men here say and publish against the Presbyterians Is not this a high degree of Malice against them and Flattery of their Persecutors P. 53. And some of them have Printen Books in defence of the Lawfulness of making War against the Supreme Magistrate c. Obs And have not the Quakers Printed Books to the same purpose particularly F. H. and E. B. To the Committees of Safety See the other Column p. 12 13 P. 54. And in very Truth the Presbyterian Church will never be able to purge her self of the Iniquity of killing many thousands in the three Nations by the occasion of a most bloody War raised up through the Instigation of the Presbyterian Teachers Obs If the Presbyterians be thus guilty of sheding of the Blood that was shed