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A84812 Something by way of query to the bishops courts, which we the people of God, called Quakers, never yet received an answer to. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1671 (1671) Wing F1909; ESTC R229271 2,131 1

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Something by way of QUERY to the BISHOPS COURTS Which we the People of God called Quakers never yet received an Answer to CHANSELLOR WHY do you not come to Church Give a Reason why you will not come I demand of thee the Kings Patten with his Seal and his Hand and his Armes for keeping thy Court before I speak to thee any more For many keep Courts and shew not their Authority and by that I may be brought into Bondage So I will see thy Patten with the Kings Seal and Hand and Armes And Secondly I would know the Reason of thee Why thou and you forsook us near about twenty years ago and left your Church that by this time I might have been turned Heathen a Turk or a Jew and my Soul might have been lost for thee and you For who hath watched over me and been my Keeper about these twenty years But you have left me I have neither Sermon nor Exhortation nor Epistle nor Colect nor Gospel nor Even-song nor Homily nor Mattin from you though the Lord God hath been my Watcher over me and my Overseer who is now my Teacher And do you think that the Lord will not require his Fock at your hands which you left almost twenty years to the Wolves and Dogs to tear our Fleece and Flesh and to destroy the Sheep and then will he require the Fleece if he require the Sheep and his Flock which you have left to Wolves and Dogs to tear the Fleece off the back of them For how have Anabaptists and Independants and Presbyterians torn the Flesh off the backs of the Sheep and Prisoned the Sheep to Death And you in the time of Persecution neither sent Epistle nor Colect nor Exhortation nor Gospel nor Even-song nor Homily nor Mattin to the Sheep nor mattered not them nor cared for them For if a man hire a man to keep a flock of Sheep and have so many delivered into his hand and the hireling Shepherd have so much a year will not the Master or the Lord require both Sheep and Fleece of the hireling Shepherd if he see a Dog or a Wolf which may be calling the Usurping Power come to worry the Sheep and he fly away in the time of Persecution is not this an hireling that flies because he is an hireling and doth not care for the Sheep and worse than David who defended his Sheep from the Bear and the Lyon And so if the Shepherd suffer any of the Sheep to be worried or Feece to be torn off Will not the Master or Lord require both his Fleece and Sheep of the Shepherd So read Jacob to Laban For doth not the Lord say He will require both the Fleece and Flock So consider and judge your selves in this case and do not ask me a reason Why I do not come to the Church but answer me this Why you left me as a Sheep to all the Wolves For we have the Kings Speech and Declarations and Promises and Words of a King for Liberty of Conscience that none should call us in question if we live peaceably under his Government Therefore what have you to do to call us in question contrary to the Kings Speech and Declaration and Word of a King we being peaceable As you may read his late Declaration and there is an Act that Four may meet So I may meet with my own Family by the Act of Parliament And so if you will give me a Reason Why you for sook us and prove all your Practice Worship and Religion by Scripture and whether or no Paul and the Apostles Timothy and Titus the Bishops had Tippets Hoods Rayles Altars Surplices in their Worships And whether Timothy and Titus which were called Bishops were called Gracious Lords as your Bishops are And whether to be called so is not a breach of Christs Command who said The Gentiles were called Gracious Lords but it should not be so among his Disciples And whether or no John Baptized Christ in a Font and signed him with the Sign of the Cross And whether he had a God-Father or God-Mother yea or nay And whether or no those several thousands that Peter Baptized whether he Baptized them in a Font and signed them with the Sign of the Cross And whether had all these God-Fathers and God-Mothers And whether or no the Eunuch when Philip Baptized him did he it in a Font with the Sign of the Cross And if so Who were their God-Fathers and God-Mothers and where stood the Font and who Commanded the Cross Answer me these things by Scripture and convince me by Scripture of these things for we are to search the Scriptures whether these things be so as you speak and try all things and hold fast that which is good And we are to lay hands on no man suddenly nor presume above what is written thou knowest this is Scripture Read the Corinthians and the other Epistles And whether or no the Apostles or Christ or Timothy or Titus had Paritors to summon in People to hear them and if they would not hear them and come to their Meetinging Place Excommunicate them before they were of their Religion or know what it was and before they had convinced them by sound Doctrine and good Conversation And whether Excommunication be not to such as be of their Church and know their Principles and which doth some bad thing for which they are Excommunicated and put out of their Assemblies And is this Reason to Excommunicate such as were never of their Church and do not know their Principles or Doctrine nor cannot be charged with a bad Conversation in any particular and before they be convinced by sound Doctrine or good Conversation concerning your Religion and Worship And is this reasonable to Excommunicate those that you ran away from and lest to the Devourer before you seek to bring them in again by sound Doctrine or good Conversation Answer these things Yea or Nay G. Printed in the Year 1671.