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A65893	Truth and innocency vindicated and the people called Quakers defended in principle and practice, against invidious attempts and calumnies, being a just examination of two books against the said people, entituled, I. examined by G. Whitehead ...	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1969; ESTC R20356	65,800	86

saith If these Priests have not yet planted Vineyards that will yield them Fruit and if their Flock will not yield them Milk freely why should you unjustly impose upon Peoples Consciences and compel Tythes and Mony from them for the Maintenance of these Men Ye ought not to do it For while ye Compel and Force People by Violence contrary to good Consciences to maintain and uphold this Ministry and Church and Worship then follows you do but cause People to Drink the Whore's Cup c. And after the words Plain Dealing to tell you the Truth there follows in E. B's Ibid. viz. whether ye will reject it or receive it Wherefore cast them off and let them not lurk under your Wings for one day they will Rebel against you and another day Flatter with you and for a season they will shew forth much Love and Kindness in Hypocrisie even while they are hatching Mischief against you c. And they will cry out Heresie and Error of others that themselves may seem Clear while as the same lodgeth in their own Hearts Thus E. B. in 1659. By all which 't is evident he struck at Persecution and Persecutors and Hypocrites and those who then upheld the Priests in those days by Persecution and forced Maintenance it was those who turn'd out the Episcopal Priests and what need any of these now Priests be offended thereat if they were Clear 'T is strange these Men should now quote Prophesies as matters against us the said People which have been manifestly fulfilled and openly brought to pass in a great measure in the Eyes of this and other Nations As again they quote News coming out of the North which was Printed in the Year 1655. p. 18. The passage which they quote is under that Head which is directed To the Heads of this Nation and all the Dominions of the Earth and to all who are under the Dominion of the Earthly Powers Nations and Kingdoms every where in all the World To all you Kings Princes Dukes Rulers Judges Justices c. Now observe the general extent of this Direction and what these Men partially quote and pick out and patch together to render us Seditious and Obnoxious The Words quoted against us are these viz. 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 and all you Rulers must down and cease And all you Vnderling-Officers which have been as the Arms of this great Tree which the Fowls have lodged under all your Branches must be cut down for you have been all the Fruitless Branches grown on the Fruitless Tree Page 20. Sing all ye Saints and Rejoice clap your Hands and be glad for the Lord Jehovah will Reign and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be cut down and Jesus Christ in us added will rule alone with more words quoted backward and forward p. 19. Now observe these though many illustrating Passages be left out being writ in the Year 1655. we may appeal to the whole Nation whether that TREE of the then Government in England with the Branches thereof hath not been cut down and removed and whether God's over-ruling Power and Providence was not concerned therein and in the various Revolutions since And the rest that concerns other Dominions Earthly Powers Nations and Kingdoms with the Kings and Princes thereof who dare determine that such Prophesies as concern them may not come to pass and be further fulfilled And also what these Men have left out in their said Quotation after the Words To change all your Laws ye Kings The Lord alone he will place the Law in People's Hearts who is the Everlasting Law-giver and Justice the Lord will set in People's Hearts And after the words Jesus Christ will rule alone follow these Glory and Honour for ever be unto him Be warned all betimes and awake and repent and turn to the Lord betimes that ye may find Mercy by putting off the evil Deeds and Works of Darkness that you may be received into the Kingdom of Glory and lay aside all Filthiness Pride and Covetousness and spedily repent Uncleanness and cursed Speaking Lying Slandering and Swearing c. Which is according to Psal 2.10 11 12. and also 2 Cor. 7.1 Eph. 5.4 5. and ch 4.31 and James 1.21 They further Charge Edw. Burroughs p. 501. for saying We stand Witnesses against Parliaments Councils Judges Justices who make or execute Laws in their own Will over the Consciences of Men or punish for Conscience sake and to such we cannot yield our Obedience And here they corruptly add an c. printed in 1659. Obs here Where is the Offence in these words Would these Men have the Consciences of Christians subject to obey all Laws made in the Wills of Superiors and that over Conscience too We though they had allowed this approved Exception i. e. Vnless Laws are made contrary to the Law of God They should have been so just as to have taken notice of what E. B. saith in his next following Paragraph p. 501. with respect to Christ and to Magistracy viz. That as we Preach Christ Jesus alone in the things of God to be our Law-giver so we do own him to be our King and own Magistracy in Civil Things not resisting any but following his Example who was made perfect through Suffering c. As to what they Charge G. F. To the Parliament of the Common Wealth of England p. 5. reflecting on their Coif-men and several sorts of Lawyers about their Fees c. If any Lawyers now be offended thereat we leave them to plead their own Cause if they can and Lords of Mannors to be kind to their Tenants and Charitable and Generous to the Poor as all Rich Men especially ought to be And let none of the Lawyers when warned against Covetousness reflect as one of the Lawyers did against Christ Master thus saying thou Reproachest us also Luke 11.45 but read Christ's answer vers 46. It may be observed by all serious Readers how apt these our Adversaries are to pervert and make an ill use of matters well intended and innocently designed according to our Christian Principle as Upon a Declaration from the People of God called Quakers against all Plotters and Fighters c. presented to K. Charles II. 1660. they have made this perverse note against us in their Margent p. 20. viz. Which Government that they might not support they declare against the use of the Carnal Weapon in 1660. Which is a false Construction and Perversion of the said Declaration for it was not written with any such intent witness our Contributing our Proportions and full Shares towards the support of the Civil Government both in Taxes and Customs So much of the Declaration as they have quoted follows viz. All Bloody Principles and Practices we as to our own Particulars do utterly

And what Prophecies are for Christ's Kingdom or the Government of the Lamb This we must own and that He shall Rule the Nations and He shall Rule in the midst of his Enemies and that the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of God and of His Christ These and such like the Holy Scriptures do expresly warrant and testifie And to G. F's saying That the Quakers are in the Power of God and in the Authority of the Lamb above all Houses and into Houses creep not but are upon the Throne Gr. Myst p. 31. He meant Spiritually no doubt and not Literally for they are not upon an outward Throne They that suffer with Christ shall Reign with Him as Kings and Priests upon Earth though their Kingdom be not of this World And it is testified That HE God with-draweth not his Eyes from the Righteous but with Kings are they on the Throne yea He doth establish them for ever and they are exalted Job 36.7 Again these Adversaries charge G. W. and G. F. Junior out of Truth Defending the Quakers Printed 1659. p. 9 10. with Answering That the Magistrate that is sent of God he receives the Law from the Mouth of God and he is the Prophet whom Moses spoke of Deut. 18.18 We are very wrongfully quoted in this place for our Words are The Magistrate that is sent of God and is his Minister he receives the Law at the Mouth of God and hears the Prophet whom Moses said the People should hear in all things Deut. 18.18 Acts 3.22 And what Sedition are in these Words Pray or Blasphemy either seeing He that Rules over Men must be just ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23.3 And Divine Wisdom which is confest to be the Eternal Son of God saith By me Kings reign and Princes decree Justice Prov. 8. Must they not then receive Wisdom and Counsel from Him who is the Wisdom and Power of God And if his People must hear him in All things how shall Matters of Just Government be excepted As to what these Men quote against us in their sixteenth Page to prove us the aforesaid People Anti-Monarchical they are very broken in their Quotations with their many senseless Dashes like the Snake in the Grass Second Edition p. 220. but varying in the Citation of the same Passage These Men have the Words Are not all these Elders that will dote so much of an Earthly King But the Snake has it Are not all these Christians that will dote so much c. And both leaving out what may more plainly import the Intent of the Author And yet by what 's so abruptly quoted his meaning may be understood As some then doting so much on an Earthly King to rule over them as Christians he meant no other but such Earthly Kings as were persecuting Kings as he mentions Herod the King who was mad at the Child Jesus such Earthly Kings as would rule over Men's Consciences such as the Gentiles set up and such corrupt and wicked Kings as the Holy Prophets prophesied against as David Isaiah Ezekiel and others did see Psal 2.2 Psal 107.40 Job 12.21 Isa 63.3 6. Jer. 44.9 It 's said in Isaiah 24.21 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall punish the Host of the high Ones and the Kings of the Earth upon the Earth see also vers 22. and Isai 30.33 Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is prepared c. Yet these Prophets were for Good Kings and Righteous Government and such Kings were foretold of who should be nursing-Fathers and Queens nursing-Mothers Isai 49.23 therefore these were not Anti-monarchical without exception And I am persuaded G. F. never intended to reflect upon any good Kings or such as were against Persecution and Oppression but against such as he compares to Herod who was mad at the Child Jesus And we have known him speak well and give good commendation of our present King with respect to his Moderation and Tenderness and the Liberty of Conscience in Religious Worship owned and granted by him When Christ told his Disciples The Princes of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them but it shall not be so among you Matt. 20.25 26. was he therefore an Enemy to Caesar as he was accused No sure he did not thereby preach Sedition against Caesar or the Kings of the Gentiles nor dissuade the Christians from their due subjection unto them We may further observe that those Kings of the Earth and those Great and Mighty Men and Chief Captains c. who have incurred the wrath of God and of the Lamb so as to hide themselves in Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and to call to the Mountains and Rocks to fall on them and hide them from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. Rev. 6.15 These no doubt were wicked Kings who were concern'd in this Prophesie But there 's another Prophesie which bespeaks a Great Reformation among the Nations And the Kings of the Earth when the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the Light of the Holy City of God and the Kings of the Earth bring their Glory and Honour into it Rev. 21.24 26. Therefore all Kings are not condemnable as the wicked are We have been accused to be one while against another while for Kingly Government particularly in a Scandalous Libel stiled A Letter to the Quakers and also in the Snake in the Grass to which the following Answer was given which may now serve for a General Answer to these Adversaries viz. The first part of the Charge is false as 't is charged on us For tho' it 's true that some were rather in their judgments for a Common-wealth duly qualified for the Ease and Liberty of the People than such a Monarchy that might as they supposed be oppressive and persecuting for Conscience yet not against such a Monarchy as is justly qualified for the Good of the People under which they might enjoy their Liberties and Properties as Men and Christians such Monarchy and Common-wealth being not inconsistent as to the good Ends of Government i. e. Salus Populi in true Liberty and Property And it 's evident the Common-wealth or Weal of England is consistent with and allowed by Monarchy But many honest Men were in their judgments rather for such a Common-wealth-Government than an Oppressive Persecuting Monarchy And what then Did they sin against God therein No Did they offend against Man or any Humane Laws thereby They are pardoned by divers Acts of Indemnity which those Libellizing Informers manifestly violate by upbraiding them now in such Matters of State and Government Pray let this be observed And to obviate further Objections of Prejudice in this Case set Case some of our Friends in former days expressed their Respect to a Republick rather than a Monarchy then when they feared it would prove more burthensome and yet as Christians quietly

Christ's Kingdom is not of this World neither is his Warfare with Carnal Weapons c. neither hath he chosen us for that end neither can we yet believe that he will make use of us in that way c. but as for Christ's Right to Rule the Nations he being the Prince of the Kings of the Earth and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Holy Scriptures are very clear and full And we could heartily wish the Nations and the Princes of the Earth more Subject to Christ's Government than generally they are then there would be more universal Love Charity Tranquility and Amable Correspondence in the Nations and Kingdoms of this World than as yet there is As to S. Fisher's Message in 1656. again recited in part For the Reign of Christ and his Saints 't is cleared in the First Part. As to what they recite out of E. B's Epistle To the Camp of the Lord in England p. 67. containing many Warlike Expressions he was never understood to mean Litterally amongst us or by any of us that ever I could perceive but of a Spiritual Warfare with Spiritual Weapons as when the Lord said I have hewen them by my Prophets and slain them by the words of my Mouth Hosea 6.5 and Psal 149.6 7 8 9. Let the High Praises of God be in their Mouth a Two-edged Sword in their hand to execute Vengeance upon the Heathen and Punishments upon the People To bind their Kings with Chains and their Nobles with Fetters of Iron To Execute upon them the Judgment written this Honour have all his Saints Though these Doctors are pleased to take these Litterally against us in S. Fisher's Message Thus they shew their Learning and how they are Principled for Fighting against Kings and Nobles if they esteem themselves Saints as we may presume they do which still shews how Ignorant they are of the Voices of God's Prophets To their Marginal Note upon E. B's said Epistle To the Camp of the Lord viz. N. B. It was a Secret of their Government not fit to be divulged What a manifest untruth is that when they see it divulged in his Works quoted by them p. 64. to 67. IX Concerning Kings and Kingly Government What is recited under this Head is answered in the First Part except this Prophetical Passage viz. The Lord will cleanse the Land of you Rulers Priests c. This was prophesied against the Persecutors and Oppressors of God's People in 1655. which in a great Measure is come to pass and may yet further be fulfilled if any should rise up to renew the like work of Persecution against the Lord's Heritage X. Concerning Parliaments Many are so doting on the Name of a Parliament c. against Fra. Howgill's Works p. 5. with more words abruptly cited so that the sense and intent of the Author cannot be understood and I find them not in the place cited XI Of the Lords What a dirty nasty thing it would have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords amongst them To the Council of Officers p. 7. that was among them in O. Cromwell's days which was about 1656. 'T was spoken ad Hominem as their Principle who were against O. C's making Lords or having a House of Lords among them there was once more Sincerity and Humility among them than so to exalt themselves contrary to what they had professed XII Of the Commons The Recitations under this Head are answered in the First Part in which I would not be understood in any wise to oppose the Peoples Legal and Just Rights to Elections or chusing Members of Parliament according to the Just Intent of Parliaments chosen to make Laws for the Safety and good of the People knowing that Salus Populi Suprema Lex est XIII Of the Quakers rejecting all Humane Laws and Authority but their own This is a notorious Calumny and the Contrary publickly testified by us as a People for our owning and obeying Magistracy as God's Ordinance and by our peaceable Conversation and Submission to Authority ever since we were a People And I cannot see what Offence can be in these words It is God's proper Right to give Laws unto Man seeing 't is by his Divine Wisdom that Kings Reign and Princes Decree Justice Prov. 8.15 The other Passages recited under this 13th Head are also answered in the First Part. XIV Of the Quakers taking upon them Authority to abrogate the Laws of the Land and Associating for the same with their Hands Lives and Estates What they brokenly recite under this Head in several Passages is chiefly against the payment of Tithes under the New Covenant and against such Preachers as Preach for Tithes and Mony to be testified against in the Lord's Power and Spirit which has been according to our Christian Testimony as we really believe and are persuaded in Conscience ever since we were a People Which is not to take upon our selves Authority to abrogate the Laws of the Land as is wrongfully charged upon us under this Head For we neither take upon us such Authority nor do we pretend to any such Power nor do we Associate our selves for that end 't is an unjust Calumny cast upon us But only as the Lord has persuaded us in our own Consciences by his Light and Grace we are obliged to be Faithful in our Testimony though many have been and are Sufferers for the same We do not resist Authority but rather possitively Submit wherein we cannot actually obey with Safety and Peace of Conscience And further we are persuaded our Adversaries cannot make it appear by plain Scripture that Christ's Ministers who are Ministers of the New Covenant are allowed by him to Preach for Tithes Hire or forced Maintenance or that he requires their Hearers to pay Tithes for this is contrary to his own precept freely ye have received freely give And to his Changing the Priesthood of Levi that took Tithes and disanulling the Law that enjoyned the payment of them Heb. 7. and Mat. 10. Divers of the Martyrs and eminent Reformers as in the first Part noted bore the like Testimony with us against the Payment and Imposing of Tithes under the Gospel But this grates hard against such avaricious Priests whose Interest and Trade is therein concerned And seeing T. Ellwood is quoted against the Payment of Tithes under the New Covenant I refer the Reader to his Treatise in that case entituled The Foundation of Tithes shaken XV. Of the High and Divine Authority which the Quakers arrogate to themselves and that they do intend when able to root up and destroy all other Governments This is still as bitter as false and calumnious as the other to render us Obnoxious and to incense to Persecution against us We arrogate no such Authority to our selves but desire Humbly to Meet in the Power and Spirit of Christ Jesus whose Presence is in our Assemblies in the midst of us as we humbly Meet in his Name And our giving