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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

fighting with Oliver's Sword against God's Enemies I think here is Justification sufficient of the late Wars enough to make George Whitehead and therest ashamed Hear again E. Burrough and F. Howgil pleading the Quakers Faithfulness to the Common-Wealth's Interest and bringing to Mind the utter Destruction of the Bishop's and King's Power as of a stone sunk into the Sea which riseth not again To Henry Cromwel and his Council The Visuation of Ireland c. p. 21 22. YOU have endeavoured to give sentence of Banishment of us out of your Nation who are free-born English-Men and have always been faithful and true to the Common-Wealths Interest from first to last even until now What became of all the Perseccutors of old What became of the Bishops What became of that Power that held them up are they not all sunk as a Stone into the Sea and become a Reproach Again E. B. to the Heads Judges c. p. 19. If such you uphold by a Law which act those things the Scripture speaks against God will lay your Honour in the dust and cast you out of the Seat of Judgment as he hath done the Power of the King and Bishops before you Note All the Lines in black Leter are left out in his Works p. 84 85 86. Let us now hear News out of the North c. A Book set out by G. F. and written as he saith from the Mouth of the Lord. 1655. DReadful is the Lord and Powerful who is coming in his Power to execute true Judgment upon all you Judges and to change all your Laws ye Kings All you Rulers must down and cease You must be cut down with the same Power that cut down the King who reigned over the Nation in whose Family was a Nurse for Papists and for Bishops Judges and Justices Beast and False Prophet the Lord God will pour out his Plagues upon you the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it and except you repent you shall all likewise perish and be consumed as the King was and perish with the same Power The Lord God hath sent his Prophets oft to tell you so p. 18 19 The World knows me not but I testifie the Truth c. G. Fox Obs What Man could have wrote more against a King and King ly Government than this G. Fox hath done and that in the Name and Authority of the Lord of Lords and King of Kings as he saith and yet no sooner was the King invested in his Fathers Throne but the said G. Fox through Deceit Fear and Flattery writes a quite contrary Language See the other Column p. 1 2 c. Again hear also what G. Fox and other Quakers tell us in the West answering to the North Writ 1656 the next year after News out of the North c. One Ier. Ives taking notice of their frequent Abuses to others about the late War cites a Paessage of theirs out of E. B's Works in Justification of the late Wars and further saith The Book in The West answering to the North p. 79 89 94 95 96 97. hath much to the same purpose which saith he I am unwilling to write out because I am not willing to expose you G. Whitchead replies thus in his Serious Search p. 37. I cannot but observe the Man's Dissimulation and base Insinuation in this implicite kind of accusing us hereby to render us more suspicious and obnoxious than if he had dealt plainly meaning than if he had printed those Passages some of which here follow by which the Reader may see somewhat of G. W's Disingenuity and Serpentine Nature TO what purpose have been the hangings by the Neck and other exemplary punishments executed on Judges Justices and Ministers of State for Arbitrary acting Why was Strafford's Head cut off and Canterbury's and Charles Stewart's as Traytors for endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws c. p. 78. Charles Stewart and his Lords committed Men as Canterbury aforesaid and early he heard of it in Parliament and for his other Arbitrary Actions and what followed thereupon and befel him in particular needs not be mentioned being recorded every where in the Blood and Misery of the late Wars and the Destruction of Him and his Family the dreadful and sad Examples of His Righteous Iudgments who reuders to every one according to his Deeds p. 79. Obs Because some of their Friends were committed and in the Warrant no mention made of the Protector or his Authority they farther write thus Doth not here appear from the Grave the Spirit that was in Christopher Love and his Fellow Traytors who being within the Jurisdiction of this Common-wealth took upon them to Commissionate divers Men to treat with Charles Stewart the proclaimed Traytor of the Government p. 89. Call to mind the former days and let the things that are past come into your Remembrance even what this Generation would have done their Synod and Accomplices to Conscience and to whom this Generation joyned in the years 1648. and 50. and so forwards even with the Common Enemy Charles Stewart c. p. 94. And forget not the wonderful Deliverances from them all which the Right Hand of the Lord effected c. p. 95. Multitudes of People flock'd out of the City to Westminster to complain of their sufferings which Charles Stewart called Tumults and by the Guard one of them was slain at the place of the shedding of whose Blood was Charles Stewart's Head struck off and his Blood poured forth on the ground A remarkable Record of the Righteous Iudgments of God p. 96 97. And this his Law Judge Nicholas standing in his own Will is less to be endured than in any of the Judges and Chief Justices that have gone before him whom Justice hath cut off for Arbitrariness or in Strafford Canterbury Charles Stewart or any of these latter Generations And the Legislative Authority that made him a Judge and the Righteous Ends of the Wars for Liberty and Law in which he appeared and these Innocent Servants of the Lord who have been all of them always faithful to the honest Interest of the Nation and many of them for it have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from first to last p. 102. Obs Here that what they say concerning the King is said not only as the Opinion of others but as what they also approve saying That those things were remarkable Records of the Righteous Judgments of God With what strange kind of Confidence did G. W. write when he said that if I. Ives had printed the foregoing Passages they would not have rendred them so Suspicious and Obnoxious as his barely mentioning the Book and Pages did And though he may delude and blind their Proselites with such deceitful and Fig leaf covers yet certainly he will not dare to do so before Authority but rather down upon his Knees and beg Pardon for his Audaciousness and Insolence in speaking so slightingly of such strange and prodigious Sayings as are before cited

put such out of the Army This following Letter shews that G. F. approved of Olivers Authority about which he gives him and his Souldiers Charge p. 36 37. Friend THou shouldst have invited all the Christians upon Earth in all Nations that are against Popery to thee to comein and joyn with thee against Popery for thou hast had Authority stand to it loose it not nor abuse it nor let any other take thy Crown and do not stand cumbring thy self about Dirty Priests and thou hast had Power over Nations for Nations begin to be on heaps and invite all them that profess against the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee against him and do not loose thy Dominion nor Authority nor the Wisdom of God but with that thou may'st order all ☞ That will keep thee single in Heart and Mind to the Lord and let thy Souldiers go forth with a free willing Heart that thou may'st Rock Natious as a Cradle and keep thou in the Fear of the Lord and all the Soldiers and them that are under thee This is a Charge to thee in the Presence of the Lord God that thou nor them may loose the Dread of the Lord ☞ for that strikes a terror in the Hearts of all People c. I am a Lover of thy Soul and eternal Good an Establisher of Righteousness G. F. Obs Is not this a Just Authority which so great a Prophet exhorts him to stand to and not to loose nor suffer any to take his Crown And yet this Authority is to be defended and enlarged by Soldiers who are charged to go forth with a free willing heart and to keep in the fear of the Lord which argues they were in the fear of the Lord and so either Quakers or as good as Quakers In another Letter the same G. F. salutes Oliver thus p. 27. Dear Friend BE still and in the Councel of God stand and that will give thee Wisdom that thou may'st frustrate Men's Ends and calm Men's Spirits and Crumble Men under and arise and stand up in the Power of the Lord God ☞ The Lambs Authority and fear not the Face of Man but fear and dread the Lord God then his Presence and Wisdom and Councel thou shalt have to throw down the Rubbish and quell all the bad Spirits under thy Dominion therefore live in the Power of the Lord God and feel his Hand that is stretched out over the Nations for a Mighty Work hath the Lord to do in other Nations and their Quakings and Shakings are but entring So this is the Word of the Lord God to thee as a Charge to thee from the Lord God c. The same G. F. in the Name of the Church of Christ and Elect Assembly Known in the Nations by the Name of Quakers To Rich. Cromwel Protector p. 47 51. Friend LIve in God's Wisdom if thou wilt reign in his Power and Strength then none shall touch thee and all them that fear God will be on thy side and take thy Part and be one with thee in all thy Sufferings yea till death And G. For after six pages of Instructions to him concludes with these Words viz. The Lord God Almighty preserve thee in his Wisdom and Counsel and Strength over the Heads of his Enemies in thy self and in the World both And Friend take heed of putting of honest godly Men out of the Army ☞ or putting them out of their places being Iustices of the Peace In so doing thou wilt lame thy self and weaken thy Authority and remove thy self out of the Hearts of them that fear God G. F. Obs He approves of his Power and prays for his Victory over his Enemies in himself and in the World both And pray was not the King and his Party some of those Enemies and he warns him of putting honest godly Men out of the Army as he had done his Father before But when Richard was gone off the Stage and the Officers of the Army in Power then G. F. applies himself to them in these words OH Friends The Power of God ye have abused the Iust have been trodden under Foot who have been put out of the Army and Publick Services Now had you been Faithful in the Power of the Lord which once stirred this Nation needed not have been affraid of any Nation upon the Earth but your Dread would have sounded over the World But when you lost the Power of God with which you had brushed at the Out-side of Things then you turned against and put them in Prison meaning the Quakers that struck at the Root And had you been Faithful to the Power of the Lord God which first carried you on you had gone into the midst of Spain into their Land to require the Blood of the Innocent that there had been shed and have commanded them to have offered up their Inquisition to you and gone over them as the Wind and knock'd at Rome Gates before now and trampled Deceit and Tyrants under and demanded the Pope himself and have commanded him to have offered up all his Torture-Houses and his Wracks and Inquisition which you should have found as black as Hell and broke up the Bars and Gates where all the Just Blood hath been shed which should have been required and this you should have required and this you should have seen done in the Power when you had been the Dread of all Nations and you had been a Dread to them and should have set up a Standard at Rome and then you should have sent for the Turks Idol the Mahomet and plucked up Idolatry and cryed up Christ the only King and Lord and then People would have said you had gone on in the Cause of God and his Truth c. And so if you had gone to have made Inquisition for Blood and to demand all the Inquisitions abroad in the whole Christendom whereby the Innocent Blood hath been shed then all the People in the whole Christendont that feared the Lord God would have said with one consent These are the Men that are gone out for God's Cause Many valiant Captains Souldiers and Officers have been put out of the Army because of their Faithfulness to the Lord it may be for saying Thou to a single Person or for wearing their Hats c. Oh how are Men fallen from that which they were in at first when Thousands of us went in the Front of you and were with you in the greatest Heat c. Oh what a Sincerity was once in the Nation What a dirty nasty thing it would have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords among them Oh! how is the Sincerity choaked smothered and quenched by the Fatness of the Earth whereby they have forgot ten the Lord and his Arm and Power that once carried them on And if ever you Souldiers and true Officers come again into the Rower i. e. the Spirit of God which hath been lost never set up your Standard till you come to

singularity in most things that were customary in England how innocent soever And under the notion of not Swearing they only refuse the Ceremony of an Oath as the laying the Hand upon and Kissing the Book Now I pray Sir what of true Religion or real Goodness is there in these things Suppose the whole World did observe them would they be at all the better for it However by these things they have cut off all others how religious and sincere soever And if any Man oppose what they say or do instead of meekly answering they are ready with the most virulent opprobrious and threatning Language and Writings that can be found in any sort whatever They will diligently seek out and take up any thing may reproach one and will insinuate Crimes that Men are most free from Thus have they changed the Meekness and Gentleness of Christianity into Fierceness and Churlishness Humility and Modesty into Arrogance and Self-conceit Peaceableness into Contentiousness Mildness into Clamour and Blessing into evil speaking and reviling Plainness and Simplicity into-Equivocation and Craft and all this under the Profession of the most unspotted Innocency and Sincerity Truth Righteousness and Holiness But I would not be understood to impute these Immoralities to the Quakers in general nor to all their Teachers and Leading Men but to the Foxonian Party that love to Govern and have the Preheminence who have endeavoured to suppress those who have at any time proposed any thing contrary to their Sentiments Thus in a few years instead of being led and guided and being obedient every one to the Light in himself they were obliged to submit to the sense of the greater number of the Governing BODY though never so contrary to their own sense Nay this Imposing Spirit proceeded so far at a Quarterly Meeting in Barbadoes where they did not act with that Caution and Cunning as here at London that they made and subscribed this following Order viz. I desire to give up my whole Concern if required both Spiritual and Temporal unto the Spirit of God in Men and Women's Meetings as believing it to be more according to the Universal Wisdom of God than any particular measure in my self or any particulars with whom the Men and Women's Meetings have not Unity The Actings Writings and Speakings of that kind I have spoken of being observed by some * W. Rogers T. Crisp F. Bugg W. Macklow J. Story J. Wilkinson Charles Harris J. Rance Tho. Curtis J. Ansloe and many more among them who were either too wise or too honest to be persuaded that those corrupt Fruits could proceed either from the Spirit of God or from the Light within that they griev'd and mourn'd to see that excellent Principle of Reformation The Light in every Man so grosly perverted and undermined that they were made to oppose and testifie against them Sir I might go on throughout G. W.'s c. whole Book and shew many more gross Equivocations Palliations and Deceits but I will not proceed farther lest I may seem to question your Judgment in not observing those things that are so evident But I think we that read Books have just cause of indignation against those Quakers who have the face to impose upon the World such abominable Stuff under the Notion of the Teachings of the Light of the unspotted Innocency and Christian sincerity But it may reasonably be thought they write not for vindication of themselves to those that are of the World as they call all that are not in their Form but for their own Party that are so blindly addicted to their Leaders that they swallow every thing they say without consideration Unhappy Men that have given up their Minds to the Glory of a singular Party in contempt of all others and can find no other way of vindicating themselves I may need your excuse for writing so much and therefore will now subscribe Sir Yours A. C. May 23. 1691. POSTSCRIPT SIR AND besides what I said about Fighting I am credibly informed that some Quakers have not only fought but that with great Courage and Magnanimity The first I shall mention is Mr. William Mead an eminent Person who being set upon by three High-way-men and having only a Cudgel or Staff in his Hand did not only bravely defend himself therewith but knock'd down one of the Robbers so wounded that the other were forced to carry him away whilst Mr. Mead escaped their Hands The next shall be one Matthew Renshaw Master of a Ship who fought both with great and small Guns till he was overpowered by the Turks Another one John Thompson who fought exceeding stoutly and killed a great many Men before he was taken by the Enemy These two Masters were not only Quakers themselves but their Owners generally if not every one such More might be named but these suffice to shew that the Quakers will fight in a just Cause and that stoutly too which puts me in mind again of G. Fox To the Council of Officers c. p. 5. who says of those that had been put out of the Army for being Quakers Of whom it hath been said among you that they had rather have had one of them than 7 Men and could have turned one of them to seven Men. And since my writing the above I have spoken with Mr. Pennyman touching the Accusation against Stephen Crisp mentioned in The Quakers Unmask'd folio p. 14. and which in their Answer p. 14. they say Steph. Crisp absolutely denies that he either forced him or that the Party did shew any dissatisfaction before he Signed and Sealed the said Paper Oh! what shall we say to these Men who not only use Equivocatious in their Writings but do absolutely deny matter of Fact to which Mr. Pennyman was an Eye and Ear-Witness and is ready to attest it if called thereto but would not then subscribe as a Witness being greatly dissatisfied with the unworthiness of the demand I will add here something concerning the Nature of an Oath whereby it may appear that the Quakers are mistaken about it Of the Nature of an Oath WHen the Author to the Hebrews says Ch. 6.16 Men verily Swear by the greater and an Oath for Confirmation is to them an end of all strife he plainly shews us that an Oath is the greatest and utmost Evidence of Truth and Sincerity that can be given for if a Man openly appeals to GOD who searcheth the Heart and therefore knows not only what is outward in Men's Words and Actions but their most inward thoughts that Man gives the utmost assurance he can possibly give for he that falsifies in the prefence of Men calling them for Witnesses who know the matter and whose office it is to ludge and punish incurs all that reproach infamy and other punishments which so great an offence and abuse deserves So he that falsifies in the presence of God calling Him for Witness incurs the greatest punishments of Divine Vengeance as one that makes God Almighty a Partner and Confederate to a Lie presumptuously and to his very face So that however God perhaps is not expresly invocated to do vengeance upon him yet in appealing to God as a Witness that is implyed because He is such a Witness as is also the Supreme Judge whose Justice and Truth is herein appealed to Therefore calling God to Witness is as much an Oath as any other form of Words as having as much evidence and assurance as any other Form whatever and as great Penalties attending it Now to assert any thing in the presence of Men expresly is all one as to call them for Witnesses So also to assert any thing in the presence of God expresly is all one as to call God for Witness Farther see several Forms of an Oath viz. I Do hereby testifie in the Truth of my Heart and in the Presence of HIM that knoweth all things and in the Presence of these Faithful Witnesses * The Quakers Form p. 25. c. Or GOD is my Witness I call GOD to record on my Soul The GOD and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ knows that I lye not GOD is Witness between me and thee Any of which or the like without laying the Hand on the Book or other Ceremony or more Words is not only an Oath but as saith a knowing judicious and worthy Person if Authorized by Act of Parliament is as much a Legal Oath as any now in use amongst us And as the Quakers have been mistaken about an Oath so they have been about their paying of Taxes in that they allow'd and paid the Royal Aid Tax and that of carrying on the Waragainst the Dutch and the like yet they would not pay towards the Trained Bands notwithstanding they are chiefly intended for a Defence and the other not only to Defend but to offend our Neighbours as the Government sees cause So that 't is plain the Tax they then refused was more justifiable than that they allowed and paid inasmuch as to Defend is more allowable and justifiable than to Offend FINIS