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A51569	Tyranny and hypocrisy detected or, a further discovery of the tyrannical government, popish-principles, and vile practices of the now-leading Quakers. Being a defence of the letter, intituled, The spirit of the hat, against the deceitful, defective and railing Answer, called The spirit of Alexander, &c. With a challenge, to refer the judgment of matters of fact to the verdict of twelve impartial judges, equally chosen. Also, many of their letters, papers, and transactions among themselves are made publick; wherein they contradict one another, and attribute titles to George Fox, that are proper only to Christ.	Mucklow, William, 1631-1713.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Mucklow, William, 1631-1713. Bemoaning letter.	1673 (1673)	Wing M3036; ESTC R201177	45,022	73

be thought to have done this slightly I will consider his Testimony more fully 1. The Letter comes from Josiah Coal a mighty man in their esteem both in his Life and at his Death for the Narrative of his Life and Death was Printed for his greater Glory 2. This Letter was approved of not only by G. Fox himself but also by his Peers the Elders among whom no doubt but it was read and by their concurrence ordered to be Registred among things worthy to be Recorded and there put in the very first place tho' it hath not the oldest date or else why should it be put there at all It cannot be imagined that such a thing could be done without the Elders their either explicit or implicit concurrence So then what is attributed to G. Fox by J. C. is approved by George himself and the select Elders at least As for the Contents of this Testimony 1. He doth expresly ascribe to him a Kingdom They are the same that are given to King Jesus our Saviour and agree to him onely See Isa 9.7 Of the encrease of his Government and Peace there shall be no end upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdom to order and to establish it with judgment and with justice from hence forth even for ever Luk. 1.33 and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Isa 9.6 Everlasting Father or the Father of the age to come as the Septuagint and the old Latin have it Heb. 2.13 Behold I and the children which God hath given me Micah 5.4 And he shall stand and seed or rule in the strength of the Lord c. he shall be great to the ends of the earth saying to him THY KINGDOM c. and Thou rules and governs now he that rules and governs in his own Kingdom must of necessity be an actual King 2. He describes to us the subjects of this Kingdom who are nextly Jos Coal and the Elders or Peers whom he calls us thy children remotely those to whom the Life of G. F. hath reached through the Elders to the begetting of them again to a lively hope and they are said to be MANY by reason whereof he calls him the Father of many Nations 3. He tells us what kind of power and authority it is in which this King rules and governs and that is the Power of the Highest a Spiritual and Divine power not like that of the Kingdoms of men 4. We have here the stability of this Kingdom Thy Kingdom is establish'd in peace 5. The extent of it The encrease thereof is WITHOUT END It 's a boundless Kingdom And 6. The glory of this King is such that not onely the present Age but Generations to come shall call him Blessed XXI Henceforth I see not with what face they can blame any man for calling G. Fox King of the Quakers and that in the same sense as Jesus that was dead is the King of Christians and the Elders among them By this we see that W. Pen did not speak unadvisedly when he writes of his Membership in the Quakers-body that it is an honour more desirable than to be a companion of Kings his Children or Princes in the like spiritual sense and so Peers of the Kingdom and all the other Quakers that adhere to them Subjects of his Kingdom for these denominations are most firmly built upon that Doctrine which themselves approve And so it 's no marvel that they proceed against those among themselves that will not subject themselves to his constitutions as against Rebels and Apostates As for others that have not at all submitted to his Government which they preach up under the terms of the Light Christ in man Christ the Light The Seed A measure of Christ The Spirit The Infallible Guide c. They account them disobedient persons haters of the Light Such as love darkness rather than Light Of the World that lies in wickedness Infidels c. As Muggleton accounts them unbelievers and reprobate persons that do not believe him to be the great Prophet so do the Quakers those that submit not to G. Fox but under the specious names aforesaid but they give as much special evidence of their being sent of God one as another They appeal to the Light in us and when we condemn them upon most mature consideration they rail against us as partial Judges W. Pen doth professedly number all that oppose them among Infidels or worse and denyes them the Priviledges of Believers Nay for ought I see he counts all of us that are married Rogues our Wives Whores and our Children Bastards for he will not call John Pennymans Wife by his name but by her Widow's name consequently she is a Whore and her Child a Bastard for all honest Women among us are called by their Husbands names If he say John Pennyman was not married according to the Law of the Land that exception will be as strong against himself who has had a Child by one to whom he was never so married Therefore the true reason of his abusing John Pennyman and his Wife must be because they were not married in the way of the Quakers and the same reason is full as strong against all that are not subjects of G. Fox's Kingdom Consequently he would call all our Wives by their former names if he durst And W. P. is not singular in this matter for other Foxonians have done the like in their Writings so that it is matter of Judgment not only of special malice though perhaps it may be imputed to that cause that he so describes John Pennyman's Wife her inner apparel as if he were as intimate with her as he is said to be with Gulielma Mar But M. Pennyman is better known and reputed for an honest Woman than W. P. is for a Man But what occasion did our Author give why W. Pen should fall so foul upon John Pennyman and especially upon his Wife A Woman who hath deeply suffered for their sakes and faithfully served them for many years in whatsoever her hand found to do as she saith of her self in her Printed Postscript a sad rebuke to W. Pen the Author doth not mention her nor is there any one passage that I know of that relates to her and that which he doth say of her comes in by head and shoulders The Quaker-Ministers have changed that mean and plain habit in which they came forth at first into rich and fine clothing saith the Author He cries out against our Ministers decent and clean apparel as if rich and fine decent and clean were all one saith Pen which is but a better sort of cover for his own rusty Garb. Who ever thought to hear a Quaker blaming a Quaker for his mean Apparel Then he suggests that against him which I 'm confident is the case of many among them viz. That the Quakers mean Cloaths made up much of his

therefore we may well conclude it for truth and that they had nothing to say in excuse of it for it i● a most considerable charge against the Man of thei● adoration whom they can scarce mention without a● Epithet of praise as of innocent good holy uprigh● Man of God Prophet indeed and the like Tha● saying of S. Eccles cited by our Author wherein that which is spoken of Jesus or the True Light Job 1.10 is applyed to G. F. who is also said to b● that true Prophet whom John said he was not wh● is no other but Christ This Blasphemous Testimony was complained of by some of the Quakers themselves but they could not prevaile that it might b● recall'd for G. Fox had approv'd it both before and after it was printed but they got S. Eccles to writ● an explication of it which made the matter so muc● the worse that it was thought good to suppress tha● And notwithstanding these complaints from several hands yet I never could hear that G. Fox reprov'd him for it but he made him one of his select Disciples to accompany him in his travels for the propagation of his Gospel in America Where as is related in the Account of his proceedings read in the Quakers Meetting here at London he sent for at one time an Emperour and two Kings to come and hear him and they gave their attendance to the great Prophet G. Fox at whose name as was writ formerly by one of their Ministers even the Heathen tremble The said S. Eccles at a publick Meeting celebrated him in these words Blessed be the man that came out of the North Blessed be the womb that bare him and the paps that gave him suck And Josiah Coal an eminent Foxonian Minister writes thus to G. Fox from Barbado's 21 day 12 month 1658. Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many nations whose life hath reach'd through us thy children even to the Isles afar off to the begetting of many again unto a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose being and habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rules and governes in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is establish'd in peace and the increase thereof is without end This great Prophet I say is charg'd by our Author with opening Letters and altering the Contents that he took a Letter of John Whiteheads a most emiment Minister among the Quakers which was writ by him as he said in the name of the Lord and blotted out a line or more and wrote or caused to be writ to a quite contrary sense to wit That he did judge those that kept the Hat on and not those that kept it off or words to this effect whereas John Whitehead did therein justify both those that kept it off or on c. This Letter was as I am informed sent into Holland to the Quakers there which comming to the hands of Benj. Furly he discovered the forgery and it was sent back again and being complained of at a private Meeting by John Osgood William Penington and John Pennyman c. and John Bolton putting on 't to John Whitehead whether he did not give G. Fox liberty to alter it said No not any liberty to alter a substance which he said that was and at another time said he was abused therein c. Let the world see by this Instance from what Spirit it is these men speak and write in the name of the Lord when they can so flatly contradict one another more of this afterwards Let the world see also the Quakers way of answering Books when they can slip over such a charge as this against their chief Prophet which containes in it that which for the nature and kind of it is one of the greatest crimes that mortals can be guilty of 'T is the same with that of Ananias and Sapphira his wife Act. 5. which the Apostle Peter animadverted upon them by a miraculous infliction of Death for as he and his wife consented to bely the Holy Ghost as Erasmus allows and other learned men sense it to wit by pretending an inspiration and motion from the Spirit of God for the doing of that which they had no inspiration for and knew they had none So also G. Fox doth in this Letter make John Whitehead with the Holy Spirit to write that in the name of the Lord which G. F. knew that neither he nor the Spirit did write any such thing but the contrary Thus he doth at once belie both John Whitehead and the Holy Spirit of God and that knowingly For I do not doubt but the Quakers do frequently write and speak that in the name of the Lord and as from his infallible Spirit which is false but they perswade themselves it is true but here we have G. F. writing that for the words of the Lord and the judgment of the infallible Spirit in John Whitehead which he himself knew to be false O Prodigious Impudence He that counterfeits any mans name in a matter of any concernment deserves to be exposed on a Pillory and to lose his ears how much greater punishment doth he deserve that counterfeits both the name of God and man in a matter of religious concern Neither may they hereafter pretend in their excuse for this omission that G. Fox the man chiefly concern'd was absent for both John Bolton and Samuel Newton two Zealots against the Hat-men were both present at the said private Meeting and stood in the justification of the alteration and others that are here present know very well the circumstances of this business and it 's like some of them as well as G. Whitehead were privy to the aforesaid forgery as Sapphira was to that of her husband Ananias This is the course that G. F. took to make his injunctions be observed as well in Holland as in England 13. The next instance shal be that of M. Bowman and Eliz. Baily mentioned p. 33. Now you must know that G. F. and his Peers have under pretence of good and comly Order at length injoyned all Quakers that will marry that they first come before the Meeting and refer the matter to them and acquiesce in their determination who will be sure not to pass it if the party desiring Marriage one or t'other differ from them in the least Ceremony as appears in that of J. Osgood that of W. Mucklow and in that of Oliver Holms and * An honest plain Couple came before the Mens Meeting desired to be married Their Integrity was fully attested yet because the Man could not say after Prayer and Fasting for resolution in the Question that he thought it an evil to go and be married with the Priests according to the Law they would not pass it Others they have refused for carrying great Guns in their Ships and yet John Thompson a Quaker Master of a Ship owned by G. R. S. N. and other Quakers not only carried Guns but