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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54199	Quakerism, a new nick-name for old Christianity being an answer to a book entituled Quakerism no Christianity, subscribed by J. Faldo : in which the rise, doctrine and practice of the abused Quakers are truly, briefly and fully declared and vindicated from the false charges ... made by that adversary with a key opening the true meaning of some of their doctrine ... / by one of them and a sufferer with them in all their sufferings, William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1672 (1672)	Wing P1347; ESTC R30094	154,759	271

QUAKERISM A NEW Nick-Name for OLD Christianity BEING An Answer to a Book Entituled Quakerism No Christianity subscribed by J. Faldo In which The Rise Doctrine and Practice of the Abused Quakers are Truly Briefly and Fully Declared and Vindicated from the False Charges Wicked Insinuations and utmost Opposition made by that Adversary With a KEY Opening the True Meaning of some of their Doctrine from that Construction which their Enemies Ignorantly or Enviously Affirm Report and Dispute to be theirs By one of them and a Sufferer with them in all their Sufferings William Penn. Behold I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not but do Lye Behold I will make them to come and Worship before thy Feet and to know that I have loved thee Rev. 3. 9. Printed Anno 1672. The Author TO THE READER HOwever our many sorts of Enemies may please themselves with their brisk Endeavours against us the Expectation they thence have of our Utter Overthrow especially some Independents Anabaptists and Socinians Be it known to the whole World Professor and Prophane our Confidence is in God for whose holy Truths sake we are as Men killed all the Day long and it is our Perswasion that many Thousands in these Nations have that Sense of us in their own Consciences which it is as impossible for the utmost Power or Artisice of our angry Adversaries to exstinguish as the Sun in the Firmament We matter not their Flourish Number Threat or Force though Gog and Magog are combin'd to seek our Ruin God that made the Heavens and the Earth the Sea and Fountains of Water hath them all in Derision and will not be wanting to assist us otherwise fore-lorn upon Earth in this juncture of close Attacque we waiting on him with that Divine Courage Wisdom and Patience which may enable us to surmount the Difficulty of the Work and through the Tribulations of our Day bring us to the Recompence of that Peace which is Eternal And indeed this is our Joy above all worldly things that the Lord is our Light and our Salvation we know it we experience it therefore whom should we fear Though all Sects seem met in one as a mighty Man of War to our Overthrow the despised Stripling by this great Goliah has a Sling and a Stone that however contemptible yet coming in the Name of the Lord will give this Giant 's Head a Victim to his Faith We know in whom we have believed and cannot be Cudgell'd Jeer'd Rail'd or Smooth'd out of our most Holy Faith who has God for its Father and Victory for its Off-spring A Birth unknown to the Bawling Pharisees of the Age nor can any but a Conquerour inherit Reader their Cries for Scripture Christ Fundamentals and the like are meer Pretences that make but up a Cloak to cover the Avaricious and Ambitious Ends of those leading Men in every Party that as deeply and vigorously prosecute our Ruin as a Jew doth Riches but the Reason is known to Almighty God Because the Quakers having been taught that Inward Heavenly Straight and Narrow Way to Life by an Internal Living Teacher they would say they srustrate all Hope of further Advantage the Ignorance of People in the things of God has hitherto benefited us withal by their most vehement Declaration to the World that no Man can be a Child of God who is not begotten of God and that no Man can be so begotten but by the Internal Operation of his Spirit to Wash Cleanse and Inliven the Mind to God-ward that this is the Deepest and most Excellent End for which Man was made the Law was given Prophets raised and Christ Came Lived Died Rose and Ascended That who know him not thus let into the Conscience in order to Purge it from Dead Works by the Destruction of that Power which product them to lead Captivity Captive and Raign as King Lord Judge and Law-giver are Enemies to the Cross of Christ and are at best but Carnal Historical and meerly Out-side Christians And this we standing by and they knowing full well with the fatal Consequence to their Designs that would attend the Universal Reception of this kind of Doctrine they seek to divert the Minds of tender and enquiring People by all the Hideous Devilish Falsities Satan's utmost Interest can furnish them withall deforming us with what Mire they can either borrow or invent hoping by such Besmeerings to make the Dogs fasten us for some Monstrous Beasts and chusing rather to Solemnize our Funeral with the Merriment of the Vulgar then suffer them to know us truly as we are lest their sober Conscience should enquire or be toucht with any the least Pitty for our so hard Dealing at their Cruel Hands Well! but for Your sakes O Impartial People am I this time engaged in Spirit to concern my self otherwise against my Will to take an Angry Scoffing Independent Priest in hand a Man I know not but by his Book and certainly an Ignorant Malicious and Scurrilous one too I perceive how unknown soever he is to me I am not to him and he has taken great Care to tell me so but mine own Concern would have suggested Silence to me for an Answer to his Uncivil Reflections for Arguments I cannot call them had not my earnest Desires been for the Vindication of that Truth Living upon all Occasions offer'd which the Grave will prevent me doing It is my Satisfaction God has made it my Lot and that of suffering from Detractors I esteem not the least part of my Crown for whose Holy Service he is my Witness I have long since chearfully sacrific'd my All of Contentment in this World and yet am not without a share from his peculiar Providence But let us see if the Quakers are those Miserably Deluded Wretches this Taunting Priest would represent us whose Triffling Quirks show the Emptiness of the Head and Airiness of the Mind from whence they came If we are what he asserts we are the worst of Men by how much we pretend to greater things but if it shall appear we are Scripturally Orthodox in some of those very Points for which he represents us Heterodox and mistaken by him in the rest I hope it will not be without Good Reason that I have entituld this short Discourse Quakerism a New Nick-Name for Old Christianity Reader the whole of what I have to desire from thee is an Impartial Mind in the Perusal of this Defence and Iust Explanation of our so much mis-represented Faith and Doctrine with that we dare adventure our Cause and without it there is no Truth so clear that Prejudice may not question it Let not the Multitude of our Adversaries be an Argument against our Cause Their Reviling ought not to pass for Reason nor Noise for Conquest With God Almighty and his holy Witness in thy Conscience do I leave the Issue of this Endeavour Be Serious be Considerate Farewel Thy Friend very ready to