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A54155	Judas and the Jews combined against Christ and his followers being a re-joynder to the late nameless reply, called, Tyranny and hypocrisie detected, made against a book, entituled The spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith rebuked, &c. which was an answer to a pamphlet, called, The spirit of the hat, in which truth is cleared from scandals, and the Church of Christ, in her faith, doctrine, and just power and authority in discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious endeavours of a confederacy of some envious professors and vagabond, apostate Quakers / by ... William Penn ; to which are added several testimonies of persons concern'd.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1307; ESTC R23117	100,153	131

Moderate and basely Treacherous to their Ancient Friends If being Base to God and Men can render Men Christian then they deserve to be so accounted of But till Religion cometh to be read Backwards let them go for Enemies to Christianity and Murderers of Natural Affection To conclude OUr Ministry is of God it stands in the Power of the Living Spiritual Gift of God to testifie against all Ungodliness And if any Particular has ever slipt and brought Dishonour to the Truth such hath been Reproved in Righteousness and only Received upon Unfeigned Repentance which is God's Way But to Publish Proclaim and Aggravate Miscarriages of Any to the World who profess Religion committed many years ago Examin'd Judg'd and they Forgiven upon Repentance by the Lord and therefore Received again by us and all this done with Design to Blast our Credit Disgrace the Way we profess though they were no way concerned to meddle or interpose To do all this I say is not to be acted by the Spirit of God but That of an Accursed Ham and Treacherous Judas and the Lord will avenge our Cause we doubt not in due time But an Hainous Blasphemy is laid to the Memory of Josiah Coale by this Angry Agent in behalf of these Apostates and that is a Passage in a Letter writ anciently by him in his Life-time to G. Fox viz. That G. F. was the Father of many Nations But what Blasphemy is in this Is it any more then to say That by him as an Instrument in the Hand of God People of many Nations have been by him begotten to God Was not Paul a Father of many Nations who begot the Corinthians that were Greeks and the Romans that were Latins But further Whose Life hath reached 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 Very well And what Blasphemy lodges in these Words Is not that which is the Life of one Good Man the Life of another Were not the Christians of old by One Spirit baptized into One Body What Life G. F. had was from Christ Jesus and it was no other Life J. Coale writ of And I hope The Life of Christ is one in All and who can limit it And Josiah Coals with others were Children in the Sense afore-mentioned and that Life through those Children by him instrumentally begotten did reach to those Isles afar off unto which he and others went to preach the Everlasting Gospel Paul reached to the Churches though afar off 2 Cor. 13 10. He was Present in Spirit though Absent in Body for I verily as Absent in Body BUT PRESENT IN SPIRIT have judged already as though I were present In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ when ye are gathered and MY SPIRIT in the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ cast forth and taken in too upon Repentance without going to the Lord Major and Aldermen 1 Cor. 5.3 4. His Life and Hope was through Timothy Titus and others extended unto many And why shall not Generations to come call an Apostle Blessed and bless the Name of the Lord for him respecting the Benefit any such one might be in God's Power to a People Is not the Memory of the Just Blessed Prov. 10.7 And did not the Lord by his Prophet say of Israel his People I will make thee an Eternal Excellency and the Joy of many Generations Isa 60.57 What if J. Coale had so spoak of G. F. and God's Israel now Would it have been Blasphemy But these Err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God like the Jews of old But yet again whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest And so is the Being and Habitation of every Child of God or else he is in the Power of the Lowest the God of the World whose Habitation is in Darkness Are we not to turn away from such as stand not in the Power of Godliness And did not the Apostle go to turn People from the Power of Satan unto the Power of God which is the Power of the Highest And is it notwithstanding Blasphemy to stand in it or testifie of one that doth stand in it that he doth so stand Oh the Idle Opposition but great Envy of our Enemies They seek nothing less then the Blood of this Upright Man as the next Words and their Aggravation of them prove In which Thou Rulest Governest in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is establisht in Peace and the Increase thereof is without End Upon this our Adversary takes frequent Occasion scoffingly to call him King George suggesting him to be so vile an Impostor as to assume unto himself the Compleat and Peculiar Dignity Dominion and Authority due to Christ See Pag. 53 54 55. Which Blasphemy I am of the Mind our Adversary thinks deservedly Punishable after the Severest Sort of Death But he unworthily traduceth that Good Man and layes the Harmless Scripture-Expressions of a departed Servant of the Lord upon the Tenters or Rack that he may stretch them to his own Vile and Bloody Purposes Hath this Man forgot that there were ever such Passages writ as these The Good Seed are the Children of the KINGDOM Mat. 13.28 The KINGDOM of God is within Luke 17.20 The Saints shall JUDGE the World 1 Cor. 6.2 3. But ye are a ROYAL Priesthood 1 Pet. 9.2 And thou the Lamb hast made us unto our God KINGS and PRIESTS and we shall RAIGN on the Earth Rev. 5.10 And I appoint unto you a KINGDOM as my Father hath appointed unto me that ye may Eat and Drink at my Table in the Kingdom and JUDGE on Thrones the Twelve Tribes of Israel Luke 22.29 30. It is the Father's good Pleasure to give you a KINGDOM Luke 12.23 who hath translated us into the KINGDOM of his dear Son 1 Col. 13. the Untranslated therefore Rage Wherefore we have received a KINGDOM that cannot be shaken Hebr. 12.28 they then had it I beheld and the same Horn made War with the Saints and prevailed against them untill the Ancient of Dayes came and JUDGMENT was given to the SAINTS of the Most High and Time came that the SAINTS POSSESSED THE KINGDOM WHOSE KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM Dan. 7.21 22 27. By all which it is manifest that it is the Priviledge of every Saint and Child of God to be a King a Royal Priest to bave a Kingdom and to Rule Govern and Raign in Righteousness and Peace without End So that Josiah Coale and every Heir and Co heir with Christ Rom. 8.17 doth as well Raign in an Everlasting Kingdom of Righteousness as G. F. doth or shall do for we have One Faith One Baptism One Power One Lord One Kingdom Where let it be noted that by all these Titles and Priviledges we only mean and understand Dominion over Not Bodies nor Souls Not Flesh nor Blood but in the Sense of the Apostle Ephes 6.12

is able to keep us and preserve us unto his Heavenly Kingdom to whom be Everlasting Glory and Dominion Amen Now The Just shall live by Faith but if any Man draw back my Soul shall have no Pleasure in him Hebr. 10.38 And because Iniquity shall abound the Love of many shall wax cold But he that shall endure unto the End the same shall be saved Matth. 24.12 13. And THIS GOSPEL of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the World for a Witness unto all Nations and then shall the End come Verse 14. Several Testimonies Of Persons Reflected upon in the Pamphlet before answered added in Truth 's and their own Defence Thomas Brigges 's Testimony WHereas in page 22. thou or ye say The poor Man was transported into such an Angry Zeal that I told the Opposers It was of the Lord and they Opposed the Mind of the Lord But the Man was so far say thou or ye from knowing the Mind of the Lord in that Matter that he did not know who the Persons were of whom he spake Ans The Mind of the Lord I do know who am in the Truth and walk in it and the Testimony that I had to bear for the Truth and God's Power which thou art out of in which I did then bear testimony in the Blessed Power and Presence of God that I felt in that Meeting That that Marriage was to be permitted among Friends and it was permitted among Friends and accomplish'd And whereas thou or ye say The poor Man was transported into such an Angry Zeal that he knew not who the Persons were of whom he spake Ans I was not Transported out of Truth but in the Truth but thou art Transported out of Truth into a Lye and into the Enmity and into Cain's Way and into Core's Way and of thy Father the Devil who is the Father of Lyes For I have known Elizabeth Bayly this Nine or Ten Years as she can witness and the Man of lesser years and I have no Shame upon me of this Matter but Shame will come upon thee or ye whatever ye be that are gone from the Truth and turned from the Truth and Power of God and the Truth and Power of God in which I live is over all False-Accusers and Lyars and will be your Condemnation who are found in a Lye and False Accusation who hide your Names in the Dark This Testimony I do bear against all Lyars My Name is Thomas Brigges John Whitehead 's Testimony WHereas the Author of the aforesaid Pamphlet doth charge that Faithful Servant of God G. F. with the Opening and Altering a Letter written by me against my Consent I declare That both he and his Author have Malitiously Slandered G. F. in that Case for I ordered W. Kerby by a Letter wherein that Letter was Inclosed and UNSEALED to shew it to George Fox and the rest of the Brethren in Town that he or they might dispose of it as they saw a Service for Truth And it was written as a Testimony against that Spirit which would have brought in the Wearing of the Hat in Prayer and not to Justifie that Unheard of Practice in the Church for I ever Condemned it in my Heart and bore my Testimony against it knowing the Spirit of the Lord did not lead into it though I had a Tenderness to those who intended well and had their Simplicity betrayed by the subtil Workings of that Spirit of Error which I witnessed against and Laboured not in Vain to pluck them as Brands out of the Fire of Contention that with the Light of Christ they might see whither they were going and several did see the Error of their Way and Returned And if any have been so bad as to Mis-apply my Words and Harden their own Hearts through my Tenderness the Hurt will be their own and I shall be Clear in the Day of God though now I am Evilly Requited by those wh● to their own Hurt give and receive Information agaist me as if I Acted or Lived Wantonly like those which said Come let us Smite him with the Tongue Report and we will Report it But my Innocency in that Case without further Defence is my sufficient Refuge from the Slanderous Tongues of these Ungodly Men And through the Grace of God whereby I am taught Sobriety and Godliness in this World I can and do say The Lord forgive them John Whitehead Isaac Penington 's Testimony A brief Account concerning the Queries relating to Keeping on the Hat in time of publick Prayer mention'd in a Book called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected pag. 61. AFter it pleased the Lord to give me a Sense of his pretious Truth in the Inward Parts and to turn my Mind thereto I met with great Opposition both Inward and Outward and how hard and long my Travel was God only fully knoweth Every day the Lord visited me and the Enemy was daily tempting me and I felt the Bitterness of his Temptations and was often sore wounded through my not understanding the Appearances of the Lord and through Unbelief God knoweth I did earnestly desire to know the Motions of God's Spirit from the contrary Movings and Stirrings of the Enemy of my Soul who moved in the Reasoning Wisdom out of the True and pure Simplicity but was many times filled with Doubts and Fears till the Season of the Service was over and the Opportunity of keeping out the Enemy was lost When the Business of the HAT fell out I being acquainted with several of them and looking upon them as tender to the Lord and that they did scruple it only in Conscience to him was perswaded in my heart they were to be born with and thought the positive Testimony against it in others too severe and that a thing of that Nature was not to be contended about but every one left to their Liberty yea and somewhat farther did I go in the Sense of my Heart as if possibly the Lord might require such a thing of them In this Frame of Spirit did I give forth those Queries not at all intending the Lord knows to strength●n that Practice thereby but that no tender thing might be hurt but the Unity of Life kept unviolabe notwithstanding such an Outward Difference But at that time I did not discern that the thing came from the Enemy nor was I sensible that the Ministers of the Truth and such as stood in God's Light and Authority and saw the thing coming from the Enemy with the Evil Hurt and Dangerous Consequences of it to many yea and the Grieving the Church of God I say I did not then see and seriously consider that they were Watchmen appointed by God and had Discerning given them for the Good of the Body and that by those Queries I did weaken the Testimony of God's Spirit through them as to others and give Strength thereby to that Spirit which had prepared and was drawing this Snare over many So soon as ever the Lord shewed me

God's Appearance from the beginning thereof and by such as came to see the Glory of Truth and heard gladly for a Season as they that receive the Seed in the high way where it was either lost or carried away by the Fowls of the Air and these could never fell All for the Kingdom nor take up the daily Cross so mist the Life and came to be carried about with Winds and missing of the Righteousness of God have gone about to establish their own and blindly Zealous have watched others Vineyards and neglected their own so Withering and Fruitlesness hath come upon them until they are twice dead These were and are known by their Murmurings and Complainings yet listed up in their Minds by their own Righteousness which as sure as God's Righteousness layes low and makes to grow in Love so Man's begets Envy and watcheth for Evil and feeds upon it and is filled with it So as they living in Love can think no Evil so they out of it can imagine no good of them from whom by Pride and Envy they are divided and so exercising their Minds in the Evil. Never did hungry Beasts more earnestly seek their Prey to devour it then these Back-sliders have and do watch to catch the Miscarriages of any such as do profess the Faith and if they can find a little they make it a great deal by Whisperings and Back-bitings and large Intimations more by much then the Substance and in all pretending to be in an Hatred of Evil and to cry to others Stand farther off for we are Holyer then these So after a doing some years Threatnings to make the Lord's People Odious in what they would publish and bring forth and having done what they can to the utmost that way and that not accomplishing their End now they lay their Stress on the severe Government of the Quakers which some of these Revolters once knew was set up in the Wisdom of God to hinder such Evils as they were used to speak against and to reform and gather nearer unto the Truth of God but this Order being like to smite some of them they strike hard at those that are exercised therein their End being in all to present the People of the Lord and their Way Worthless and Bad that so they themselves might not be so manifest in the Forsaking and Withstanding the Good Way of the Lord and that they might shut up that Kingdom to others into which they themselves would not enter And tha● to all they may be manifest their Works declare them for every Lye is of the Devil and how many they have publisht in their late Books of Darkness to which they have been ashamed to joyn a Name can I tell nor am I covetous to know for who in the Faith stands wars not with Flesh and Blood but with Spiritual Wickedness in High Places and I have had and have as sensible a Feeling of that Spirit from whence it comes and whither it must go that brought forth that called the Spirit of the Hat and that called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected or an Answer to Alexander the Copper-Smith and it is the same that the Prophet Micha had a Sight of that Lying Spirit which went into the Mouthes of the Seduced Prophets and though I never read the last of these Pamphlets in that my time not being like to be long on Earth I was not willing to Mis-spend so much of it but one reading the Title to me a Renewed Strength I found against that Spirit that brought it forth and that it did with Re-doubled Strength strike at W. P. as one whose Pen had hit them and had he never writ a Word he judgeth them in Denying the Glory of this World the Vain Hope of which hath bewitched some of them to draw back And another read to me that Lye made of me in the last of these two Books which I must speak something to that little part that was read to me of my Son J. O. and I. I need not say much of my Son J. O. for he through Grace is made able to display and resist them only this I would have all the Simple take notice of their Scornful Taunts and Willingness to render him and I as Speakers Falsly or being like unto them and indeed in this they much resemble God's Enemies in former Ages as in other things and to his Judgment are they left I having not a Purpose at this time so much to answer them for whom my Hope is near worn out as to hold out my Hand with many Brethren that the Honest-hearted might be delivered from those Perdicious Wayes they walk in and are alluring to by their Subtility and False Speeches And by Question they ask How could this accute Man say The Meeting would not hinder his Marriage To this as a Witness I answer I heard with many more J. B. whom they most accused to hinder say That they had nothing against his Marriage and this some of their Confederates know And for what they say of me as being a Great Mother and Governess among these People is but to set me on high that the Dîrt they fling may the more come upon me for some of them that are so Miserable as to contribute to this Work of Darkness in Fighting against Truth know that I have Gladly and Long been a Servant to this People of the Lord and no more Government have I coveted or gained but by Love and in Love possess And for the Charge writ against me it is utterly false in Matter and Words as these Accusers have stated it for those words they say I cried out no Man nor Woman that was present in that great Congregation will witness it if they fear to Lye and there are may many Witnesses of what I said and though I was permitted to speak a few words at that time that one or more of their Informers heard me say I had condemned as not expedient to have been spoken there but they being in the Dark have altogether mist it and placed a Lye of their own making in the stead of what I spoak But I unfeignedly desire that they may find a place of Repentance for this and all other their Evils But it is followed with another Falsity for say they By her Authority and J. O 's Interest they proceeded te Marry without's License As to License from any Man or Woman to Marry I have often publickly as called to it born my Witness against and with the rest of the Lord's People declared We make no Marriages nor break no Marriages nor Marry any but every True Man and Wife should known their being joyned of the Lord and so were these Couple yet did not nor durst not go brutishly together as some pretending more Holiness then others have done but this prudent Couple according to the Example of Holy Men and Women had many Witnesses of the People of the Lord and in an Orderly Solemn Assembly took