Lyar night Owl wicked Lyar and as I can find the cause of all this nasty and rabshake Language from them was because he disputed against them about the Light in every Man and published something about it now if you can shew me such nasty Words from J. P. and he to have been the Devils Porter to spread fetch or forge false Intelligence from the Pit of Damnation and the Papists in Defamation of the Protestant Religion and Ministers as I have produced of yours then I grant his Spirit as nasty and as much rabshake as yours but in case it be so that will not clear your Spirit from being a nasty and rabshake one but if you cannot smell this your Foxonian Spirit to be a nasty one you have lost your senses else you may follow this nasty Foxonian Spirit by the smell and herein your Chief Priests be proved to be the Devils Porters and which they wrongfully charge on others without proof and this your matchless Pride and Insolency in accusing the Protestant Ministers to the King for being for Ol. Crom. when you were more guilty caused J. P. to write out the Quakers Unmask'd c. and send to you privately to make you sensible of your Error but your Pride cannot bear reproof but threatned him F. B. and T. C. for mentioning it but it s now in Print but I think that which encouraged you so to defame the Protestant Ministers was because you was as sure of encouragement and countenance if not reward in that Work from some then great in power as your Fathers Fox c. formerly they having many of the chief in the then Army who countenanced them then as W. Penn c. lately And I say in case you do not as publickly testifie against these Wickednesses of your Chief Priests as you did against the Christian Quaker D. S. then all you Foxonian Quakers are chargeable as guilty of them and your pretended counterfeit new Confessions ought no more to be believed or clear you than a Thief when he is convict of Theft his saying he really believes the Ten Commandments may clear him but the Foxonians falsly accusing the Protestant Ministers and endeavouring to render them odious prove its true as they themselves say that Runnagadoes are the violentest Enemies against them they have deserted for none are more implacable Enemies to the Protestants than Fox Whitehead c. who once professed the same this their own Doctrine is proved true in them Foxonian Chief Priests G. W. c. For I think if all Algier were searched that of all the Runnagadoes that have been there this Hundred Years there cannot be found so many Defamations and Contemptious Expressions in Print of the Person of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Blood shed on the Cross as there is of these Foxonian Quakers in their Printed Books in London its pity that this Protestant City should be the only Garden of the World to breed and nourish such Plants and send or sell the Seed of such degenerated Plants of a strange Vine what must London out-do Algier in defaming the Christian Religion especially the English Protestant Ministers to encourage loose Atheistical Persons in the same Work for reprinting these their wicked Works with such high commendations on the Authors affixed before them tends to the Destruction of the Protestant Religion as the Gun-Powder-Treason did and the chief Actors therein no more deserve commendations than them and these Quakers have approved of those wicked Actions in their Ancient Printed Testimonies now under-hand injoyn'd their Subjects to hold them up for these of theirs were from the Spirit of Truth or the Spirit of Error if from the Spirit of Error its needful they testifie against them as publickly as they did against the Christian Quaker D. S. for owning Fox and Whitehead Guilty therefore in case they do not disown them its Evidence they do own them as the Testimony of Truth and so are confirmed and injoyn'd by their 1696. White-hart-court Conclave to be maintained and held up as some part of the Testimony of Truth Now consider you Quakers who be honest minded although deceived by your Priests G. W. c. who are so wicked as to accuse this Man as endeavouring to have them destroyed nay crucified too because he justly and truly complaining the Protestant Religion was in danger by them to be rooted out and yet they in the same Pamphlet are so wicked so early as in 1660. to accuse the Ministers in general as dangerous to the King and for being against him and for the former Governments although they themselves were guilty of the same in a higher degree for says they to the King Friends then called Cavaleers you are become cursed in all your endeavours the purpose of your hearts have been known to be always against Truth it self and though your Kings c. have been cut off in wrath and says except you repent of endeavouring to re-establish the King and that Government you and your Kings c. and lordlly Power by which you have thought to exercise Lordship over my Heritage shall be inslaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkness where he i. e. the Devil shall Reign your King and Lord for evermore this they say was from the Lord and sealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God Yet these Forgers the Foxonians could leave the whole Message out and great part of these Citations again says E. B. to O. C. of the King's Friends I know the Lord hath cursed them and what thou hast done unto them and their King should not be reckoned against thee by the Lord if now thou wert faithful c. i. e. take away the Ministers and their Maintenance for that was one of the sins they counted O. C. c. then guilty of for say they to O. C's Council the same false Prophets Protestant Ministers you establish by a Law which deceive the Nations again says the same E. B. to the Parliament and that in 1659. but about 6 Months before the Restoration while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditary and by the Succession of Birth as hath been the custom in our Forefathers days that knew no better whereby the Inhabitants have been always suffering and liable to great Oppressions being under such a Government falling from Parents to Children after the manner of the Heathen Nations again p. 3. the Lord hath begun to appear and shewed us the bondage our Forefathers lived in and we our selves been subject too by reason of the Government standing in a single Person successively now our Eyes are opened to behold better things and pag. 6. say to the Long Parliament it s on me to lay it before you even as the Contenders for England's Liberty whom the Lord honoured in the Beginning to remove Tyranny c. But this whole Libel and other Treasonable Ancient Testimonies of theirs is left
evident they have Ancient Testimonies against and for War and so may uphold and maintain either as is most for their sordid Interest as they have about Swearing but for their owning and encouraging Oliver and all them Governments from 1642. to 1660. against the King and Monarchy especially the Family of Stuarts I could give a long Book of Citations altho' soon after the Restoration they were so shameless as to inform against the Ministers therefore and they were by Mr. Pennyman privately advised of that Error but their pride and malice was such they would not bear reproof Now what great deceit is it in them after all their complaints because they were turn'd out of the Army and boasting how they had fought from first to last and encouraging Oliver to go on yet when that interest against the King which they had so encourag'd and espous'd was defeated then to be so shameless as to pretend they were against all Fighting c. Surely if a Pirate that has taken and robbed a Merchant Man at Sea and afterwards the Merchant and Seamen again overcome the Pirates and recover their Ship and Goods would it excuse the Pirates then to say they are against and utterly deny all outward Wars and Fightings with outward Weapons for any end or under any pretence whatsoever Surely such a sham would not excuse them no more should these Quakers he excused But yet again for a sloop in Pensilvania where the Government was in their own hands they could Fight nay because G. K. reminded them of their pretended Ancient Testimony against Fighting they presented him as in p. 6. But it 's worthy of consideration whether or no that if G. K.'s reminding them of their Ancient Testimony were such a high crime whether or no the Assertors Promotors and Holders up of that principle and Ancient Testimony in England be not as dangerous and punishable as well as by them in Pensilvania and that to be looked on as a sham for here afore it 's proved they could Fight and can Fight and have a reserve for it when their Spirit command them for in their Declaration c. 10 th Month 1659. a little before the Restoration say they He i. e. God might command thousands of his Saints at this day to Fight in his cause and give them Victory over all their Enemies but again say they neither can we yet believe mark that yet he will make use of us in that way tho it be his right to Rule in Nations and our heirship mark that to possess the utmost parts of the Earth but for the present mind the present we are given up to suffer but how long that present will continue it were worth knowing Again say they as Righteousness appears in any we are ready to joyn with it in our Prayers yea and otherwise mark this otherwise if it may not be made to mean what they please and further say they when ever it Righteousness shall appear we shall rejoyce and add our help thereunto that it may prosper mark help for the Establishing of Righteousness in the Earth our all is not dear unto us tho hitherto we have been silent c.. But most of this and much more I find they have left out in the reprint of E. B.'s Works altho' they say the substance of it was given forth by E. B. being moved of the Lord and signed by 15 of them in respect to some I forbear their Names But it 's worth minding in what squinting 2 Fac'd words they express themselves here just as they do in their confessions of Faith and their intended sham owning the Government This is a digression but to return I have here afore prov'd their owning O. C.'s Army against Spain but it may be objected that I have not proved they term Oliver's Army the Lamb's but Fox terms Oliver his Dear Friend yet in 1660. these Quakers inform against the Ministers for saying they were his real Friends and bid him stand up in the Lambs Authority and for their owning of Rich. Crom. to him they say of themselves they wish well to thee and be established in Righteousness and Peace in thy Government Again if thou walk with the Lord c. and preserve his People Quakers then shalt thou prosper and thy Name be greater than thy Fathers and the numberless number of this People Quakers will stand by thee and defend thee and thy just Government observe how strong and numerous they thought themselves then in Rich. C.'s time and say they their Hearts shall cleave unto thee and thou shalt prosper for their sakes and none of thy Enemies shall have power over thee to destroy thee tho' many may seek thy Life Live say they in God's Wisdom then none shall touch thee and all that fear God Quakers will be on thy side and take thy part Here the Father of lyes in G. F. could promise altho' not perform Again say they to him R. C. thou art now set up in his i. e. Olivers stead the hand of the Lord is in the matter if but to try thee O profound Prophet or else a Gipsy and say they it 's he the Lord hath brought it to pass This shews they owned R. C. in their squinting way as they did the King Next to prove their owning the Army in turning out R. C. and the Parliament say they to the Soldiers in their Information c. to the Army if they i. e. the Parliament cry up their priviledge to do what they list then it 's no Rebellion to call them away Again if they will not harken to the cry of their Masters the People but it may be call them Rebels if they should be turn'd out mark them words Masters the People when they are gone from that in which their power stood Again to encourage the Army they say the long Parliament counted it no Treason to oppose him the King seeing the end was not answered he should have satisfied and God decided the controversy by overthrowing one and establishing the other for a season Again say they the Army in putting a stop to that which did retard from the end aforesaid the good old Cause in God's sight is no Rebellion Much of this is left out in their reprint but these prove the Quakers owning the former Powers against the King and say they to the Soldiers put no Cavaleers in place in 1659. and of them Cavaleers say they thus saith the Lord you are become cursed in all your hatchings the purpose of your Hearts hath been known to be always against my powerful Truth But in 1660. to the same People say they You are now justly raised up to correct them i. e. the former Usurpers as I afore say flatter all Powers in being but like Rats fly from a faling House and exclaim and inform against them when gone Their Hypocrisie is great and to be abhorred as well as is their Envy against the Protestant Ministers And notwithstanding
they have to excuse Fox's Blasphemy That it was not Fox but Christ said I am Christ c. in or by Fox as they say in one Book Must we deny him the Mouth to speak by But surely by this Figure John Baptist need not when he was asked to have said I am not he for he had the Light iâ— him But what Blasphemy can be spoken but may be excused by such Quibbles as they use to excuse the blasphemous Ancient Testimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning But by the same Rule every one of them may say as Fox did and take the same blasphemous Titles and they may be given to any Quaker as well as to Fox Also in page 242. Great Myst they cite one saying The Apostles were Eye-Witnesses c. In the Answer says Fox All may see what you have received not received the Gospel by the same means the Apostles did who are not Eye-Witnesses as the Apostles were hereby implying the Quakers had or did see Christ in the same manner as the Apostles did For the seeing by Faith no Protestants oppose as I know therefore that could not be the seeing the Man intended whom Fox opposes but the Man meant a seeing with bodily Eyes and it 's in this sence G. Fox opposes and banters the Man and does thereby imply he was not Christ but someching in him and so in Fox was the Christ and he i. e. Jesus but the Vessel Garment or Shell that the Kernel Christ dwelt in And hereby the Foxonian Spirit is proved to be a proud self-exalting Spirit as well as an envious and contemptuous one which according to Scripture must be brought down For altho' they give themselves and one another such high Titles yet because a Minister termed another Minister Reverend Man they say Are you not ashamed to court one another with false and flattering Titles Ye shameless and presumptuous ones who durst assume that Title to your selves which is appropriated to the Lord alone c. Now having given some proofs of the Quakers highly exalting themselves and one another I will shew how they exalt their own Sufferings and Blood also above our Lord's in this fierce despiser E. B.'s Works page 273. say they The Sufferings of the People of God in this Age is greater Suffering and more Unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles What was done to Christ and the Apostles was chiefly done by a Law and in great part by due execution of a Law c. Oh horrible Blasphemous undervaluing of our Lord's Sufferings and exalting theirs as above His and justifying or excusing them who Crucified him Also altho' they so contemn our Lord's yet of theirs i. e. the Quakers Blood in print say they to some Magistrates Do not rashly draw out your Swords against those harmless Ones whom your bloody Teachers represent to you as Deceivers be not prevailed on to release Barabbas and give over Jesus to be Crucified to gratifie the murderous Appetites of your Priests Consider altho' you may with Pilot wash your Hands and appear clear from his Blood yet before the pure Eyes of the Lord will the condemning stain thereof be found on you so fresh that you will by no means be from thence cleansed but by the same Blood i. e. the Quakers which you so cruelly shed Here they Answer that Pagan question of Is Pennington's i. e. can outward Blood cleanse c. Yes you see theirs can altho' our Lord's cannot as they imply Theirs is the Blood of cleansing no other means not by the Blood of our Lord outwardly shed but by the same i. e. the Quakers Blood Also I shall further prove these Foxonian Quakers lead by an evil Spirit by their contempt of and undervaluing the Scriptures and exalting their own above them Fox on the Titles of his Pamphlets says To all Friend every where this is the Word of the Lord unto you all And in another Entituled A Message from the Lord c. says three times this is the Word of God and yet says Great Mystery 247. The Scriptures they are not the Word of God as thou blasphemously affirm And in the Scorned Quaker c. page 19. The Scripture is not his Voice but so far as truly Translated A Declaration of what he spake to and by those Holy Men that were moved to write c. Here you see they not only undervalue our Translation but render the Scripture as an old Almanack or Gazette as to its being binding to us the Ten Commandments or Christ's Sermon on the Mount not God's Voice to us Yet I have afore prov'd Fox said his is the Word of God and G. Whitehead Entituled a little Pamphlet of his The Voice of Wisdom c. Now if G. W.'s be the Voice of Wisdom then it 's Christ's Voice Thus you see how they exalt their own Writings above Scripture and yet have the Arrogance to pretend they prefer Scripture before all other Books and Fox says in his Message from the Lord c. Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel c. with the Light all this Doctrine is seen to be false And in News out of the North c. So Dust is the Serpents Meat their original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter And you say says Fox That Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel which is Carnal c. Again says Fox that the Letter is the Word and that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are the Gospel and all your abominations are discover'd Now none means them four Words or Names be the Gospel but the Doctrine in and by them four Books by them four Evangelists is the Doctrine of the Gospel and it 's this Fox opposes for when Fox put on his this is the Word of God it 's not supposed he meant the Paper and Ink but the Doctrine therein or thereby signified as when the Quakers will not suffer their Papers to be called Mens Edicts it 's not thought they mean the Paper abstractly considered but their Laws therein made for their Subjects to obey And therefore it 's the Doctrines of Scripture and not the Paper and Ink Fox undervalues and condemns and his and Whitehead's Blasphemous Imaginations they Blasphemously term the Word of God and the Voice of Wisdom and make their Preachings and Writings to be God's by them but all others to be Man's and outside Teachings carnal Letter even the very Scriptures unless when they as their Fathers did against our Lord use them to contemn the Christian Faith for altho' they so often use some Scriptures as Christ in you except you be Reprobates c. The Word is nigh in the Heart c. thousands of times yet I challenge them to shew me how often if ever they press that 15 Chapter of the 1 of Corinth the first seven verses or the 9 and 10
Scriptures for proof as Acts 1. says he These Scriptures must needs be fulfilled which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake Again Verse 20. saith Peter This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel Again St. Peter in proving that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and that he was risen says of David Seeing he i. e. David was a prophet c. Again Chap. 3.18 says he The things which God had before shewed by the mouth of his prophets that Christ should suffer he hath fulfilled c. and in verse 24. says he All the prophets from Samuel and thenceforth as many as have spoken have foretold of this day even of the Sufferings Rising and Ascending of our Lord Jesus whom says he the heavens must contain until the time that all things be restored which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began Also Acts 10.43 Peter Preaching that Jesus whom they had hanged on a tree was ordained of God to be judge both of quick and dead saith to him i. e. Jesus of Nazareth gave all the prophets witness that thro' this man all that believe in him should receive remission of sins Thus it 's evident from Scripture that 't was St. Peter's Method to prove his Doctrine by or from the words of the Prophets and not by directing them to a Light within them and as it was his former use in his Sermons so also he continued the same method in his Epistles and the reason or cause seems plain forasmuch as the Priests and Rulers of the Jews could perswade the People to believe that Jesus was not risen but that his Disciples had stolen him away notwithstanding so many witnesses of his Resurrection as is mentioned 1 Cor. 15. And was seen forty days as in Acts 1. I say notwithstanding such evident demonstration if the Jews could perswade the People it was false much more might the Apostles expect they would contradict and not believe them three Persons Peter James and John's Testimony also considering it was not known to any others until after his Resurrection as by our Lord's command Matth. 17.9 Tell the vision to no man until the Son of man be risen from the dead Also Paul preaching at Antioch he prov'd out of the Scripture that Jesus was the Christ and said Because they knew him not nor the voice of the Prophets read every sabbath day c. And Acts 15. saith James To this agree the words of the Prophets And Acts 17. Paul reasoning with them of Thessalonica out of the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ and Apollo he mightily convinced the Jews shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ Acts 18. and Acts 26. Paul says he said None other things then Moses and the Prophets did say should come King Agrippa believ'st thou the Prophets I know thou believ'st Here also it was not a Light within but the words of the Prophets Paul appealed to And in the Parable of Dives and Lazarus Christ himself prefers the Scriptures saying They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them if they will not hear them neither will they be perswaded altho' one rose from the dead Here our Lord does not direct to a Light within but the Prophets and Moses's words in conformity to which I suppose Peter did the same and did not in this place mean a Light within them but the words of all the Prophets in Scripture was more sure or less questionable than their three Testimony of that Voice that they heard I mean not as to themselves but as to other as to proving the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to convince and stop the mouths of gainsayers and false Prophets which Peter said should come and therefore it was needful for the Apostle to endeavour to strengthen his Testimony and their Faith by the Words of the Prophets as also further appears in that he says Whereunto you do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day Star arise in your hearts Hereby making the sure word to be something else besides or more than a Light within them or then the dawning of the day or the day Star in their hearts and the Apostles giving the preference to the words of the Prophets before his own is a sign of his great Humility and Obedience to our Lord's Doctrine Luke 18.14 Therefore as the Apostle said seeing we are so compassed about with so great a Cloud of Witnesses for the Authority of the Scriptures also for this expounding this Text as intending the words of the Prophets and not a Light within them Then how much are they to blame who oppose this Exposition and make a contrary one and undervalue the Scripture and prefer their own Writings before the Scripture as the Foxonian Quakers do who say it's Blasphemy to call the Scripture the Word of God and yet term their own or G. Fox's the Word of God and give many contemptible Names to the Scripture as Carnal Letter Dust Serpents-Meat c. and say the Scripture is not his i. e. God's Voice c. But Title their own idle seditious Pamphlets The Voice of Wisdom c. as G.W. does What is not the Scripture as much God's Word or Voice as these Blasphemers Fox and Whitehead's seditious Pamphlets be which they command and charge their Subjects to read in their Meetings But let them shew me where-ever they enjoyned the reading any one Chapter in the Bible to confirm their undervaluing of the Scripture Say they the Jews had the Scripture and Crucified Christ and by their own Doctrine the Jews had the Light within them also therefore their Argument they bring to undervalue the Scriptures is as much in force against the Light within as against the Scriptures But in opposition to this afore Expounding of this Scripture may be objected the words in James 1.21 Receive with meekness the ingrafted word which is able to save your Souls that this may refer to the Eternal Word in the beginning I will not oppose but it may more particularly relate to him as he became Incarnate or made Flesh born of the Virgin and was the Son of Mary even that Person Jesus of Nazareth for so he was united or ingrafted into our Nature like unto us except Sin and as the Children partook of Flesh and Blood so likewise he himself took part of the same as the Children make it So that I think it is the receiving him in meekness i. e. the Seed of the Woman made under the Law made of a Woman Jesus of Nazareth by Faith as the Christ of God and Saviour and as such relying on him alone for Justification as well as for Salvation is the receiving with meekness the ingrafted Word as the Apostles says We are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus Again Let Christ dwell in your hearts by faith So that by this ingrafted Word is not meant here the common Illumination in all Mankind but the peculiar Gift of Christ to those who thro' Faith in his Blood receive him into them and so altho' the Word or Belief be within yet Him the Person or Object of that Faith is in Heaven a place without Men and which must receive him until the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets since the world began Acts 3.21 which time I think is not yet for as says the Apostle Hebr. 2.8 We see not yet all the things put under him But altho' I have here testified against these Quaker's Revilings and Envy to the Ministers yet I do not justifie them in all thing many of them being blameable and I wish they were generally more mindfull of the good Advice of the Apostle Paul and did not give encouragement to others to be conformable to this World for example generally hath more influence on People than Doctrine and we are more apt to fault the mote in another's Eye than the beam in our own But People being generally too quick-sighted to spy their faults I would not aggravate them But these Quakers Defamations being so general affect all even the Bishops also who are eminently concern'd in the Civil Government being Members of the House of Peers some of them the King 's Privy Council Therefore these Quakers are very arrogant and I have Warrant from Scripture and their own Doctrine and Practice for my thus shewing them their wickedness which is great that they may repent THOMAS CRISPE
Now this 3 d. altho it be recited in their 5 th pag. yet it 's again mentioned in p. 31. Now Fox pretends to answer this Book of the 5 Ministers in his 227. page and in his beginning says of them and their Book thus In it are their Principles as follows and next begins and for Principle puts generally Pr. and says thus Pr. First that the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence giving it as the 5 Ministers Words and Principle and so make a long squinting Answer and out of all the 30 pages pickt out about six lines of the whole and quarrels with but when he comes to p. 31. where the five Ministers again recite the same former Error of the Quakers then in his page 229. he gives it as their Principle It is Blasphemy to say the Soul is a part of the Divine Essence Here he truly states their Principle altho' not their Words but in his long side-long squinting Answer says to them You five have judged your selves to be Blasphemers who said the Soul was part of the Divine Essence and yet 't is Blasphemy to say so Thus you see this silly Goose of a Fox here confirms his afore Chargeing the five Ministers that they said The Soul was a part of the Divine Essence whenas they never so said only recited the Quakers Words and Error Just as if one hearing a Person speak Treason and being called to witness it and rehearsing the Words the Witness who only rehearses what he heard should therefore be charged with the Treason for this Goose Fox doth not only in p. 227. give it as their Principle but in his 229 page where he owns they term it Blasphemy he also confirms it that they said The Soul was a part of the Divine Essence whenas they only recite it But it 's to be feared Fox was not so much ignorant as wicked in this because he makes his Advantage to render the five Ministers as contradicting themselves But take it in the best sence that Fox was so silly a Goose as to understand no better but to take what they recite as to be their own Principle as he here did at best Another Instance of Fox's Weakness or Wickedness is in their Books Great Mystery page 247. Fox falsly says of C. W. He saith God limits the Supream holy One by the inspired Writings of the Apostles c. And in Answer Fox says And the holy One is not limited by the Words of the Apostles who fulfils them c. Now by Fox's Answer and his saying He saith c. it 's evident he gives this his Forgery as his Opponents Words and any one who reads it would so think but they are not but are one of Fox's many Forgeries For C. W.'s Words be thus pag. 13. Your Quakers Diabolical Spirit in you he over-powers you Quakers to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving Teachings and as he i. e. the Diabolical Spirit thereby i. e. by perswading them to slight Scripture limits the Supream holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one Dispensation of Gods Mind to Men Here it is evident that C. W.'s Word is HE and relates to the Diabolical Spirit which this wicked Fox forges into GOD and what W. C. says the Diabolical Spirit does Fox says he C. W. says God does besides the Forgery hereby it 's proved that it 's the Diabolical Spirit which Fox takes for God or Christs Spirit as also his Forgery proves This is mention'd in my Essay to allay G. Fox's Spirit p. 7 8. with about Twenty more Instances of Fox's wicked Forgeries and Perversions But they have a Cover for Fox's Wickedness and Ignorance in W. Penn's Epistle in recommendation of him and his Journal that it proceeds from one side of his Understanding which was towards the World c. which they there acknowledge was somewhat dark or weak but such Quibbles shew that the Inventers were not so weak as wicked and that his i.e. Fox's Judgment was not quite round Infallible but had a Fallible Side But I say This proves these now Foxonian Chief Priests W. Penn c. very false Witnesses so blasphemously to exalt such a wicked Man or Spirit as Fox and his were and they W. Penn and G. Whitehead c. are Masters of so much Sence that it may justly be feared they have in this exalting and vindicating this wicked Fox sinned against their own knowledge and they may be reminded of their own Counsel Do not go about to out-face thy own Conscience but confess thy Fault for you have too highly exalted him and he hath exalted himself and must be abased All this proves their now Foxonian Cardinals Penn Whitehead c. to be as bad as he I do not mean as silly but as wicked and false to say as they have in Print God hath endued him with such an Excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding But be it known W. Penn understands his own Worldly Interest better than Fox did Divinity But say the Foxonians of this miserable blasphemous vagrant cobling Wretch Fox This holy Man was raised up by God in an extraordinary manner for an extraordinary Work So was Pharaoh and other wicked Instruments But I have here proved them false Witnesses therefore shall not go unpunished but who say unto the Wicked Fox thou art Righteous are to be Cursed But altho' these Foxonian Quakers so deifie and exalt this wicked Spirit of Haman in their Idol of Jealousie Fox yet they can contemn and undervalue the Person of our Lord JESUS and his Blood as mean and contemptible and say Doth not the Name Christ belong to every Member as well as to the Head Your imagined God beyond the Stars and your carnal Christ is utterly denied by the Light To say this Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye and the Blood let out of his Side by the Spear on the Cross after he was dead was no more than the Blood of another Saint They are false Ministers that preach Christ without c. Hereby they make St. Peter a false Minister And of our Lords Person say they It was Mean and Contemptible And hundreds more such horrid Contempts have they Printed which are excused and justified by the now Foxonian Quakers and the wicked Authors not only vindicated but their wicked Works highly magnified by W. P. and G. W. And altho' these now Foxonians to gratifie some then in great Power at Court left out and altered their Treasonable Ancient Testimonies yet their Contempts of the Protestants especially the Ministers they have not abated but rather aggravated especially W. Penn. And for further proof that this Foxonian Spirit is not Christ's I shall give you one instance of the arrogancy thereof in G. Whitehead in a brief Treatise c. says he Magistrates that uphold such blind Guides as this R. Baxter a Protestant Minister who is in such Errors and Confusion they grosly abuse their Power
be happy under you It is high time to lay aside say they that Interest of this oppressing Clergy You know the Spirit of the Romish Clergy was in the late Bishops whom you cast out for their Wickedness and the very Spirit of those Bishops is entered into these Priests And there is the remainder of her Murders in these Mens i. e. the Ministers Breasts and at every opportunity it breaks forth as of late in this Rebellion you have full Testimony it was Sir Geo. Booth 's appearing for King Charles the Second in the North 1659. And these Quakers they go on and say to the long Parliament If you do not curb it i. e. the Spirit of the Bishops speedily it will grow over you to your undoing And in page 524. Says to the Parliament Cast them the Ministers off and let them not lurk under your Wings but leave them to be worried by the Quakers for one day they will rebel against you and another day flatter you and shew love in hypocrisie even while they are hatching Mischief against you even to bring the Nation into Blood It appears to many of you a thing hard to forsake your Godly Ministers Was it not the same concerning the King and Bishops Was it not as terrible to him and his Lords to think of the Overthrow of the then called Godly Fathers and Bishops But better had he cast them off and saved himself than to have perished with them And better were it for you to lay them aside and save your selves than to perish with them and one of these will come to pass It 's decreed of the Lord if you uphold them Ministers and oppress Peoples Persons and Estates and Consciences on their behalf and in their evil Cause for Tythes and Wages ye shall fall with them and none shall be able to deliver you nor them For the Spirit of the old Idolatrous Bishops is entered into the hearts of these Men and there is a great measure of Tyranny Injustice and Abomination on these as was on the Bishops and these are as nigh ripe for Vengeance as the other i. e. Bishops were c. By these and what follows the Church of England may see that these Quakers Ancient Testimony of their Truth was as much against them as against the Dissenters and more however they may to deceive forbear to treat them now with such hell-fetch'd Names in express words as formerly But the Quakers go on saying in page 477. The Lord is risen to confound this Church and this Ministry which is Idolatry And P. 477. For you who worship God in Steeple-houses God will confound this Church and Ministry c. P. 499. We are punished for bearing witness against the false Prophets and Hirelings of these days And we see and know that they c. shall perish Their downfall hastens greatly and all the Powers of the Earth shall not be able to support them and with them shall fall their Tythes Now this their Rage and Envy is from the Mouth of the Lord or else these Foxonians G. Whitehead c. were Conjurers by their own Sentence And altho' I have afore proved they do expect Obedience to their Laws as the Laws of Christ altho' they to deceive pretend they be but Advice or Counsel yet for further proof thereof observe that for disobeying their Advice against carrying Guns in Ships they say It 's injurious to their own Souls and therefore it must be a Law of high Concernment that the not obeying or breaking of it is of such ill consequence to their Souls And these Foxonians will not suffer nor permit their Papers to be called Mens Edicts nor Sinful no not the very Papers how sacred then do they think their Ancient Testimonies therein written be Surely as aforesaid they deem them Laws of Christs making especially that wherein they Unchristian all who pay Tythes altho' freely and record and mark rhem for Antichrists and Deniers of Christ come in the Flesh Now hear also their own Doctrine Say they Any Party of Men under a Government to make Laws not lawfully Authorized for binding others and thereto requiring obedience be the setting up themselves above the Law and treading it under their feet and rendring them whom they so bind their Slaves and so is TREASON This is worthy of Notice by all Rulers and People And to O. Cromwel page 557. say they This is the Word of the Lord to thee The Ministry of England for which thou seem'st to stand generally it 's not of God but of Antichrist and the Lord is against it and it 's the ground of the greatest Oppression of the Poor in its Maintenance as any one particular Abomination this day in the Nation and if thou settest thy self to uphold them thou shalt fall into Perdition with them And to R. Cromwel p. 578. Say they of the Publick Ministry As it is now we testifie from the Lord it is wholly degenerated in all things from what the Ministry of Christ was c. And much more against the Ministers which they have Re-Printed at large But in this same Letter page 574. where they put the words Grievous Cruelty it was by him Grievous Tyrannies Also in the same Letter p. 580. just before the four last Lines they leave out this following Sentence As concerning the Armies abroad let faithful Men i. e. Quakers be put in trust for the Army is of great Concernment to thee to stand or fall through them as to Mans Account and the War against Spain be faithful to God in it the Lord may accomplish something by it to his honour and thine There is something in it known to the Lord a cunning Gypsie Prophet And altho' they say this was from the Lord yet they thus alter and leave out to hide their hypocritical Pretence after the Restoration that they were against fighting with outward Weapons for any end whatsoever But this shews their Hypocrisie as well as their Malice which they continue foaming out against the Protestants in their Message as they say by especial Authority from the Lord by his Embassador E. B. In his Works p. 591 Say they Tho' he i. e. the Lord did in some measure free this Nation from much Tyranny in casting out Popish Authority yet the Nation in a few years was near as much violated by Injustice Tyranny and Cruelty under the Prelatical Power as ever it was once under the Papal Power But altho these forging Wretches the Foxonians give this as a Message from God by his Embassador E. B. yet they leave out this word Tyranny and change Prelatical into Succeeding Either they are self-condemned Blasphemers or else deserve the Plagues of adding and diminishing from and to the Word of the Lord. But altho' they leave out their Treasonable Testimonies yet their Sedition against the Protestant Ministers they have to the full put in well knowing there was them great in Court they thereby pleased and would and could
the holy Lives and Works of Saints are not excluded The thirteenth Query Is the Righteousness wrought by the Saints every way answerable to the Justice of God I say Nay They answer Is there any Righteousness but that of Jesus Christ And is not that every way answerable to the Justice of God The Righteousness of Christ we own and witness hereby squintingly making the Saints obedience to be the Satisfaction to Gods Justice and so Christ dyed in vain unless as they say he was a Figure or Example or as somtimes they imply to take away the guilt of Adam's Act. The fourteenth Query Is none accounted Righteous in God's sight in whom there is any failing or doth not fulfil the Law and answer every Demand of Justice I answer Yea in and for Christ's sake But they say God doth not accept any where there is any failing or that doth not fulfil the Law and answer every Demand of Justice But this is the directest and plainest Answer I find of all the twenty By this Answer as by some of the former they seem to me to exclude God's Mercy in forgiving or Pardoning Sin and also make void or useless the Suffering Blood and Death of our Lord Jesus on the Cross without us for if they can and do as their Answer implies fulfil the Law and answer every Demand of Justice and have not any failing in them what need have they of Forgiveness or of Christ's Death and Blood as a Sacrifice for them or to sanctifie them For if I am able to pay my own Debts I have no need of another to do it for me nay if I am not if another is able and willing if my Creditor will not or doth not accept his Payment for me then I am not benefitted as their Answer implies But the first part of their Answer seems to make useless or that there is no need of the latter for if as they say God doth not accept any where there is any failing then what hath Justice to do with such For the Law is not for the Righteous but for Sinners Also hereby they maintain as rigid a Satisfaction as any whom they pretend to oppose and the difference between them and the Protestant Ministers is chiefly about the Person who makes the Satisfaction or answers the Demands of Justice The Quakers imply the Sinner Man for it is such is intended in the Query by the word any any Man or Person and the Protestants make our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as he was both God and Man in one Person without us to be He who fulfils the Law and Answers the Demands of Justice for us and in our stead But if as they imply by their Answer they have no failing they may appear boldly without an Advocate or Mediator for that within them is the only Principle and Foundation and admits not of any other as they say no not the Blood nor Offering of the Body of Jesus of Nazareth shed outwardly on the Cross but that within even their not having any failing in them but answering every Demand of Justice and their fulfilling the Law themselves and not our Christ or our Lord Jesus for them is their Intercessor Mediator and Reconciler and Christ within them and they as aforesaid have no need of him or any thing of his on that account The fifteenth Query Is a Soul Justified by the Non-Imputation of Sin and the Imputation of the Righteousness of the Person of Christ Or by a Righteousness wrought by Christ in the Person c. I say Not by that wrought in the Person but by the Non-Imputation or not charging the Sin but by the Imputation of the Personal Righteousness of Christ received or laid hold on by a living Faith They Answer I own no Righteousness but what is of Christ and wrought by him plainly implying it 's that wrought in the Saints is the procuring Cause of Justification and not Christ's Personal Obedience and Sufferings for they say I own no Righteousness but that of Christ wrought by him it 's very squinting but if you consider the terms in the Query Wrought by him in the Person Justified now you see their Answer hath that term Wrought by him altho' they leave out them words In the Person Justified yet their Answer implies that is their meaning else why do they rail so and say It 's a heap of Confusion from the bottomless Pit c The sixteenth Query is Is Christ in the Saints in respect of that Nature he suffered in at Jerusalem I say Nay understanding it the Manhood But they revile and answer nothing to purpose The seventeenth Query How may Christ be said to be in a Saint and not in a Reprobate I answer By a lively Faith Governing the whole Man and rendring the Faculties and Senses subject to him Body and Soul and Spirit being his and so he is not in the Reprobate But they rail and not answer The eighteenth Query Doth Christ now take on him our Flesh Doth not this Assumption cause such a perfection of the Godhead and Manhood that both are United into one Person I say No. But they answer Do'st thou limit Christ to Days in taking on him the form of a Servant Is not he now the same as ever he was The perfect Union with Christ we witness who is the same to day yesterday and for ever They squintingly imply That Christ and they be but one Person as in Jesus of Nazareth and they God and Man as he was for say they The Perfect Union we witness as farther appears For the Ministers say Far be it from us to think Christ is equally God incarnate in that Son of Mary and in all Saints This Fox falsly cites Great Mystery p. 22. but opposes and in answer says Fox The Scripture says He is the Everlasting Father and his Name is called The Emanuel God with us And their opposing this Doctrine and quoting it as an Error implies that they do believe that they have the same Union of or in their Natures as was in with or between the Divine Nature and Manhood of our Lord Jesus and therefore says that Pagan-like Foxonian Preacher Isaac Penington Doth not the Name belong to every Member as well as to the Head And Fox's opposing the Ministers and their now above Answer to this eighteenth Query implies the same That Jesus of Nazareth was no other ways Christ but as they be only more because he had more of the Spirit in him And thus it is that they own Christ as he was Man as they say that is as he was in all Ages and is now in them the Light and they one Spirit with him and he one with them as he was with all Saints in all Ages and so by that Oneness he was and is Man and they by the same Figure be Christ as appears by Fox's opposing and squintingly Answering to the Ministers and this their afore Answer to the Query And on charging them to
wonderful Where are your Eyes Try your Priests by Scriptures See if they be not found in the same Generation that all the false Prophets and Deceivers were in See if they be not the Antichrists which cannot confess Christ come in the Flesh preach for Sin against Perfection and never any that follow them shall come to the knowledge of God These blind Guides deny the Prophets which Moses writ of It 's a Slander and Untruth and are found in the Sorcery and Witchcraft c. Thus they begun and end reviling the Protestant Ministers and they not only condemn this Minister to the Lake and Bottomless Pit but the Queries also We have given Judgment on thee and them say they So that it 's not only the Protestant Ministers but the Doctrines of the Protestant Faith as these twenty Queries contain have these Quakers also judged to the like condemnation with the Ministers All this Envy and Fury in seven Pages in Folio have they Reprinted whereas two or three Lines might have contained sufficient Answers had they believed and owned these things according to the Scriptures as they pretend And the Doctrines and Practices of the Protestants as sprinkling Infants c. they say is Damnable Doctrine of Devils a meer Cheat and your singing David's Experiences in Rhime and Meeter is a very Lye unto you and say they The Law which commands to pay Tythes we cannot be obedient to it and the Reason they give is Because it is contrary to the Law of God p. 313. And say they If the House i. e. Publick Churches were for any good purpose or honest Practice as for Poor c. the People of God would not deny to uphold it but because it 's ONLY a place to commit Idolatry in mark hâ— is Only P. 347. And say they All you Churches by what Name soever you are known you are the Seed of the great Whore and she hath brought you forth Here the Church of England may see it 's not only the Dissenting Ministers altho' their Envy is chiefly against them but all P. 4416. Have altogether forgotten God Christians all their Prayings Preachings Singings Baptisms breaking Bread and all that you perform as unto God is an Abomination unto him The very practice of those things now by the Christians being degenerated is become Idolatry c. p. 432. Again say they The Lord shall destroy your Worship and confound it and no more is the Lord worshipped in Steeple-houses they are left desolate c. Your worship in Steeple-houses is an Abomination to him P. 481. Again say they In the Name and Authority of the Lord we declare against your whole Worship p. 479. Again say they Sprinkling Infants and calling it the Baptism into the Faith of Christ and the Seal of the Covenant it 's an Institution of the great Whore p. 489. And particularly of the Ministers of the Church of England say they This we say Their Office nor Call is not from the Lord nor by the Authority of his Spirit nor according to Scriptures and is not from Heaven but rather from the Whore of Rome p. 638. All this and much more of their hellish Rage and Envy against the Protestant Religion and Ministers in one Book Reprinted in Folio and in 1672. promoted and espoused by G. W. c. to bring the Protestant Religion and Ministers into contempt scorn and hatred in future Ages For to confirm and seal and fix it lastingly say they You called Christians you having lost that which gave you a true Title to the Name Christian you deserve not that Name and declare it in the Name of the Lord. Here it 's plain the English Protestants and these Quakers cannot both be Christians one must quit the Title p. 419. and say The Heathen shall see your Nakedness and your Shame and shall hiss at you p. 421. But how doth this agree with what W. Penn now pretends to as I hear He said that they own all except three of the 39 Articles of the Church of England and the three they differ'd in were about Discipline and not Doctrine And yet here you see they say All the Protestants Doctrine and Practices False the whole Religion of the English Protestants they Deny These be their Ancient Testimonies their Truth in the beginning taught them before 1660 which is now in 1696. under hand enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and this Noval owning of the Thirty Six Articles is the Counterfeit Quakers New Testimony But they say their Truth changes not but they may now change their Words and Actions and yet mean the same as they did 1656 for their design was to defame in order to root out the Protestant Ministers and if they do not effect it they prove themselves Lyars and false Prophets and impudent Blasphemers therefore in order to drive on their design they print these Defamations and say It 's for you and your Children To plant this Root of Bitterness in after Ages as well as in other Nations is the design of this Foxonian Spirit in G. W. c. And they have great Advantage for this Work in their great Schools or Houses where they teach their youth and read to them or cause them to read their great Volumes of Fox's c. Works and where these Foxonians are the Masters Governours or Teachers and whither their chief Foxonian Priests resort and as they say in Print This is worthy of taking notice of How abominable is this say they that these things should be much more that they pass unreproved i. e. their Envy against the Protestant Minister c. For altho' they thus Unchristian all English Protestants Yet the Heathen who make no Profession nor have not the knowledge of Salvation by our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as in the New Testament these under the Name of Pious Gentiles they allow to have Faith that they may degrade and under-value the Authority of the New Testament and the Necessity of believing the Relation thereof concerning the Dignity and Value of the Personal Sufferings and Blood of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth outwardly And seeing they have so much hatred to the English Protestant Ministers and so much Charity for the Gentiles let them i. e. the Foxonians go for Gentile Preachers And by these afore and what follows it 's proved that these Foxonian chief Priests G. W. c. are influenc'd by an evil Spirit if no other matter were proved against them but their wrathful terms and envious prosecuting the Protestant Ministers these shew them Uncharitable and therefore Unchristian That theirs is not Christian Charity is evident by their Partiality for notwithstanding they Unchristian for saying they be saved by Christ without them and recorded such for Reprobates and Ignorant ones too of Christ within and give it as a sure Mark of the Devil 's being in such and all who pay Tythes altho' freely as Deniers of Christ and mark'd them for Antichrists yet you see how kind they
them odious like as Haman did the Jews yet hear how they deifie and exalt themselves and one another You have heard how they exalt this fierce Despiser E. B. Of the Father of their wickedness George Fox in their Journal say they He was the Instrument in God's hand to preach the Everlasting Gospel hid c. The Lord revealed it to him and made him open the New and Living Way A Messenger to my House in Swartsmore say Margaret Fox whither he brought the blessed Tidings of the Everlasting Gospel As a Father in Christ he took care of the whole Houshold of Faith over which the Lord made him an Overseer and endued him with such an Excellent Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding and yet knew not the difference between the same degree and a degree of the same but puts one and they now pretend he meant the other Nay W. Penn is so false to his own Conscience and Knowledge as to exalt him above all as is before shewed Also see three blasphemous Letters writ of him by J. Coal S. Eccles and J. Audland being already in Print all three Foxonian chief Priests and Preachers Also another of their Idolatrous Preachers says of Fox The Droppings of his tender Words in the Lords Love was his Soul's Nourishment Where shall you find such a high Character of any of the Words of our Lord JESUS And to Oliver Cromwel he titles himself An Establisher of Righteousness and says From him whom the World calls George Fox who am the Son of God Now it 's not the Light that the World calls G. F. but that Blasphemer or Man and Person G. Fox the World called so but this Blasphemy the White-Hart-Court Conclave of Foxonian Quakers Whitehead W. Penn c. they have forged for this Blasphemy these Words And I set my Name to it This is in their Printed Letter of his to Oliver by Captain Drury And in Saul's Errand c. they do not deny but vindicate Fox saying He was Equal with God and he was the Eternal Judge of the World And in their Book News out of the North on the Title say they Written from the Mouth of the Lord i. e. that Blasphemous Fox from one who is naked cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World Yes it was that vagrant blaspheming Cobler Fox risen out of the North which was prophesied off but now is fulfilled c. And in p. 41. say To your Consciences I speak who am not of the World therefore the World knows me not I am not known to the World but well known to God To every one of you I have cleared my Conscience Now hereby it 's plain it 's not the Light but Fox that thus blasphemed And in E. B.'s Works page 64. They say of themselves Quakers Whom God hath chosen to place his Name in and to take up his Habitation among above all the Families of the Earth the Tabernacle of God is with you and only among you is God known c. You are God's only Witnesses c. Ye are the Royal Seed and Off-spring of the Lord All Nations shall call you blessed And in page 66. they say of the North from whence they came O thou North of England Out of thee did the Branch Fox spring and the Star arise which gives Light unto all the Regions round about Out of thee the Terrors of the Lord proceeded which makes the Earth to tremble Out of thee Kings Princes and Prophets Fox and Burroughs came forth in the Power of the most High Gird on your Swords Prepare your selves to Battel for the Nations defie our God Fox Our Enemies are whole Nations Rebellious People that will not come under our Law and will not have our King Fox to reign but despise his Law Let the Nations know your power and the stroke of your hand Give unto the great Whore the Protestants double say they As she hath loved Blood give her Blood Let none of the Heathen Nations nor their Gods escape your hands Your Captains i. e. this E B. Fox c. are mighty Men Cursed be every one that riseth not up to help the Lord Fox against the Mighty The Beast i. e. Magistrates is mighty and the false Prophet i. e. Ministers is great and they keep the Nations under their Power but O thou Beast and thou false Prophet you shall both be tormented together And in J. Coal's Works they say God hath raised us up according to his purpose and determination and fore-knowledge to be faithful Witnesses And again to the Quakers Consider what the Lord hath done for you Hath he done so for any People on the Earth Why Did Christ dye only for you Again Therefore it may be said that us Quakers hath he known above all the Families of the Earth page 82 83. And in W. B.'s Works page 173. The Eternal God hath sworn this People i. e. Quakers only shall prosper of all the Families of the Earth who fear his Name and tremble at his Word they that bless them shall be blessed and they that curse them shall be cursed c. And in p. 111. they make themselves to be the Assembly prophesied of Jer. 50.9 to come out of the North as also is afore shewn and term themselves the Seed the Elect and they say There is but two Seeds Christ that never sinned and the Seed of the Serpent Now they will not own themselves to be the Serpent's Seed but to be the Elect Seed of Christ as in Huberthorn's Works the Seed the Elect his own Seed the Arm of the Lord c. And to the World he is manifest through us as being his natural Branches All the Dominions of the World are not equal in Treasure and Wisdom unto thee You hath he chosen of all the Families of the Earth to place his Name among c. And your Laws shall all the Nations of the Earth become subject unto All that riseth up in Judgment against you Quakers shall be confounded thou chiefest Son of his Love By E. B. And says G. Fox The Quakers are in the Power of God upon the Throne p. 318. And in W. B.'s Works say they We are them of whom Enoch prophesied the Saints and they are charged to say They are as pure as God In Answer Fox does not deny it but in justification of it says As he is so are we in this present World page 232. And being charged to say He was the Way the Truth and the Life and the Eternal Judge of the World he doth not deny it but quibble it off It was not so spoken he doth not say G. Fox is Christ as if when any one Answers to a question and says I am c. yet because they do not pronounce their own Names but say I am c. therefore they may deny they so said because of the changing the terms I am into G. F. or he said he was therefore they deny Also another quibble