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A35006	Babel's builders unmasking themselves as appears by the following paper from Barbadoes, (promoted by George for his party, and subscribed by eighty two of them.) With a letter of G.F.'s, G.W.'s, &c, in answer thereunto; and observations thereupon. Also, a false prophecy of that lying prophet, Solomon Eccles. Published for undeceiving the simple, and in abhorrence and detestation of the principle and practice contained in the said paper; they being of an evil tendency, and contrary to the doctrine of Christ and his apostles, or of any sincere-hearted Protestants, or true Christians this day. By T.C.	Crisp, Thomas, 17th cent.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Eccles, Solomon, 1618-1683.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1681 (1681)	Wing C6948; ESTC R214946	14,720	16

that particular measure of knowledg or manifestation in himself but I think hereby is plainly manifested that there be such Innovators as W. Rogers hath mentioned in his Book viz. The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator which Title C. Taylor says is notorious Blasphemy But hereby it not only appears that the Title is proper and no Blasphemy but also that there was just cause for W. R's writing that Book for the cause that those they call Apostates separate from them is not out of any dislike or denial of the Principles of Truth altho they say all that oppose them be gone from Truth but in opposition to their usurping Authority over Peoples Consciences in Religious Matters and requiring Conformity to their Orders before or without conviction This is the chief cause of all their hard Speeches and false Accusations against J. S. J. W. and those they term Apostats and Separates and say In the Name of the Lord they resolve to give Battel where-ever they meet that Spirit But others are resolved in the Spirit of the Lamb not to bow to their Image having seen that they should as they have done manifested themselves to be what they are even empty Clouds The Lord open the Understandings of all the Simple-hearted among them as I believe there be many and preserve all blameless and in love that they may have no just cause to speak evil of you but separate from such who have a Form of Godliness and high swelling Words of Church-Power and Gospel-Order which they have made to themselves and are bowing to even the work of their own hands as appears by the fore-going and following lying Prophecy of Sol. Eccles and have your minds girt up towards the Lord and your Conversation as becomes the Gospel in Meekness and Fear not terrified by their high swelling Words and seeing the evil effects of forsaking the Teaching of the Lord by his Spirit to give up to Men and Womens Meetings and Orders beware lest you be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall from your own stedfastness but endeavour to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom alone be Obedience and Glory for ever which is the desire of my Heart as for my self so for all that desire to follow the Lord and that we may be kept from Idols AMICUS VERITATI Here follows the false Prophecy of S. E. taken out of his Letter which he accompanied with two eminent Friends and Espousers of G. F. and his Party delivered to J. S. who is still alive notwithstanding his predicting the contrary several years ago O JOHN STORY what hast thou done against the Lord thy own Soul Thou hast divided the Heritage of God and the Good Ordinances which Christ Jesus hath set up in his Church hast thou contemned especially Womens Preachings and Womens Meetings therefore will the Lord throw Contempt upon thee and if thou dost not repent speedily miserable will be thy end O how hast thou lost thy Place and Dignity which thou had amongst the Saints in Light and now to be numbred amongst the Rebellious If ever thou find mercy with the Lord go home to the North with speed and break up the Divided Meetings which thou and John Wilkinson have been instrumental to divide from the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Anger of the Lord is chiefly against thee and thou art bound with two Bonds for the Church and Brethren have bound thee on Earth and thou art surely bound in Heaven and this is the Testimony of Jesus to thee neither shalt thou be able to get from under these Bonds till thou art reconcil'd to the Brethren Hast O haste to the Work above said lest the Wrath of the Lord over-take thee before it be done and be reconciled to GEORGE FOX who is God's Friend and the Servant of the living God and Great Apostle of Jesus Christ. haste away to the North for thy time is short and go quickly thou and thy Brother if possible you may bring again to the Body of Jesus Christ those ye have scattered lest their Blood be required at your hands Arise quickly and be going for this is the Word of the Lord to thee viz. That this Year shalt thou John Story die because thou hast Taught Rebellion against the living God 1st day of the 1st month 1677. SOLOMON ECCLES READER OBserve what this S. E. delivers in the Name of the LORD viz. 1. Their Womens Preachings and Womens Meetings are the good Ordinances which Christ hath set up in his Church 2. That being reconcil'd i. e. submitting to G. F. c. is the only way to find Mercy with the Lord. 3. G. F. c. who call themselves the Body of Friends these he terms the Body of Jesus Christ. 4. That great Lye he delivered as the Word of the Lord This Year shalt thou John Story Die 1677 who was then very ill and not like to live but is now alive and well altho above three years since This is here inserted that all who read or hear it may fear and beware of taking the Name of the Lord in vain as these so frequently do and of having Mens Persons in Admiration as this S. E. and others have done by G. F. as appears by the Titles they have given him viz. One greater than Moses A Prophet indeed c. It was said of Christ that he was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not So it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not but thou shalt feel this Prophet one day as heavy as a Milstone upon thee and altho the World knows him not yet he is known Again they stile G. F. The Father of many Nations whose Life hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar off whose being and habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou rules and governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is established in Peace and the encrease thereof is without end These and many more have been given him which he hath received Now these things are covered excused or justified but if any conscientiously dissent from their Ceremonies they shall be persecuted with rigour and false Accusations O was ever greater Partiality and respect of Persons manifested from any pretending to Christianity And if Trees may be known by their Fruits these are evil ones Therefore dear Friends come out from amongst them be ye separate and touch none of these unclean things for such Principles and Practices are the Brats of Babylon and happy shall those be who dash them against the Stones but Wo to them that give suck nourish or countenance them THE END * What more true ‖ But G. F. G. W. c. do not say so * Contrary to S. Crisp who said The Paper was not only ill worded but he believed 't was ill meant What higher Testimony can be given to the Saints and Servants of the most high God than G. F. G. W. A. P. give the Authors and Subscribers of this wicked and ungodly Paper

to give up both their Spiritual and Temporal Concerns to the Universal Spirit in Men and Womens Meetings This would be the way to bring them all from the measure of the Spirit in their own particulars For how can the Men and Women in the Universal Spirit receive that which is not given up from the Universal Spirit therefore all must be left to the Universal Spirit in their own measures thereof and as for the Stubborn and Wilfull that are against Men and Womens Meetings the Universal Spirit cannot receive that And all are to give up to the Universal Spirit of God in their own Particulars in which Spirit they have Unity and Fellowship without outward Subscription and to be led by the same Spirit to see their Names written in Heaven in this Gospel-day of Light and Life and this is and was the Saints Testimony in the New-Covenant of Light and Life and their Heavenly Subcription which is above all outward Subcriptions both among the Jews and Professors for one ties them below and the other ties them above And for any to say they desire to give up their whole concerns both Spiritual and Temporal unto the Judgment of the Spirit of God in Men and Womens Meetings as believing it to be more according to the universal Wisdom of God than any particular measure in my self or any particulars Now this would make the belief which is in the Light and the measure of the Spirit in their own particulars not one with the Universal Spirit in the said Meetings And as for those that the Men and Womens meetings in the universal Spirit of God have not Unity with they are erred from their own measures of the Spirit of God but the Universal Spirit of God has Unity with the least measure now as it was in the Apostles days who kept every one to their own measure which was both the great Rule and Line of the New Creature in the Believers and Saints then and so with that the Universal Spirit in the Apostles and Elders then had and now have Unity And therefore dear Friends we know your care and tenderness of Truth and that you aim at the best things and have had much to do with some loose Spirits there and therefore our desires are that you would stop this Paper from going any further lest some should get Copies of it and spread amongst bad Spirits and keep in the general tender Spirit of God that in love you may answer the measure of the Spirit of God in them that are convinced by it and in them that err from it And the Man of God must not strive but be gentle towards all And so concluding with the Apostle's tender Advice 1 Cor. 1. 10. Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing and that there be no Divisions amongst you but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment And Phil. 2. 2 3. Fulfill you my joy that you be like-minded having the same Love being of one accord of one mind Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves And 1 Pet. 3. 8. Finally be all of one mind having compassion one of another love as Brethren Be pitiful be courteous Now as for your Subscription to an outward tie be above such things forasmuch as You are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ written not with Ink but with the Spirit of the living God which Spirit hath given you Life and will bring you to the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to the General Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven c. London the 20th of the 4th Month 1681. Your dear Friends and Brethren in our Lord Jesus Christ in whom you have Peace Life and Salvation GEORGE FOX ALEX. PARKER GEO. WHITEHEAD Now by this Letter of G. F. c. they either condemn the aforesaid Paper or not if they condemn it then these three particular Persons condemn the Judgment of the Universal Spirit of God as they call it in the Men and Womens Meetings if they do not condemn it then they fall in with them in contradiction to their first Principles But it is observed that they rather dislike the wording it than the matter of it and would have it believed that those Measures in Particular Persons which Men and Womens Meetings have not Unity with They are erred from their own Measures of the Spirit of God and are stubborn wilful and the like Thus do they condemn the conscientious Refusers and greatly magnify the Authors of the said Paper and do fully assert their Authority As for their advising against such Subscriptions it may be observ'd that their Reasons are Lest Apostats or Opposers as they call them should make ill work with it and say such and such things as do clearly follow from it Not that these three Men are against the Substance or Doctrine couched in the subscribed Paper but they are afraid to give the World that which some have long seen such a clear instance of their Apostacy from their former Principles and their Ambition in having all the Quakers subject to them for these Men and Womens Meetings must do nothing which does not agree with the Judgment of G. F. and his Elders Let all sober Men judg of the turnings and twinings that are to be discovered in these two Papers that from Barbadoes and that from London and how inconsistent they are with themselves and their first Principles A● for the aforesaid Paper from Barbadoes wherein is exprest the Judgment of the Quarterly Meeting I take it to be neither according to Scripture nor the Principles of Truth And first for Scripture By it you make void the New Covenant or Law written in the Heart Of which it is said Heb. 8. 11. They shall not need to teach every Man his Brother saying Know the Lord but all shall know me from the least to the greatest And John 2. The Anointing which you have received of Him abideth in you you need not any Man to teach you but as That teacheth c. But your Judgment contradicts these viz. Give up your whole Concern Spiritual and Temporal if required unto the Spirit of God as you say in Men and Womens Meetings believing it to be more according to the Universal Wisdom of God than any particular measure in your selves c. But the Scripture saith None know the things of God but the Spirit of God And how shall any one know what the Meeting requires is according to the Spirit of God if not by a measure of it in themselves It is also said If our Heart condemn us God is greater but if that condemn us not then have we confidence towards God For if it please God to reveal any thing to any Particular and the General