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
are to the Gentiles and to their blasphemous lying Brethren Foxonian Preachers S. Eccles notwithstanding he S. E. was proved such a blasphemous Lyar yet they are so charitable to him that in Antidote c. p. 225. they believe he died in Peace And to G. Whitehead's Brother C. Atkinson that lascivious Blasphemer his Blasphemy against God and Christ say they As to those offensive Words we do not affect the terms neither are they proper to the true Christ But by their Charity to him it may be feared they think them proper enough to our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Person which you term Mean and Contemptible a Vessel a Garment This your Charity to your blasphemous Brethren and your Uncharitableness to the Protestant Minister shews your Zeal nor Charity are not Christian For you say G. G. the Minister was possessed with a Legion of Lying Spirits And of J. Faldoe you say that He and thousands of our dear Countrey-Men were in the Pit of Damnation crying out on the Ministers Such a damnable Sin do these Foxonian Priests make it for any to discover and oppose their Errors But they may blaspheme and deny the Lord if they wâ—ll but Idolize Fox as Solomon Eccles did and they shall dye in Peace with these charitable Foxonians And their Unchristian Spirit further appears in their Excommunicating G. Keith altho' twelve Months after they had acknowledged they had nothing against his Doctrine nor Conversation but they pretended he was Apostatized from the Spirit of Meekness and Charity But he was rather departed from their wrathful uncharitable Spirit against the Protestants and more come into the Spirit of Charity And that which they charge on him as Uncharitable c. was because he testified against their Errors and maintained the Truth altho ' they make other Pretences as that he on some great Provocations in Discourse gave some harsh Names to some of their Erroneous Preachers Now consider all these afore and after of their hell-fetch'd terms and wicked Actions of theirs to the Protestant Ministers Kings c. and all People I say Consider whether all these do not prove them either to be gone from or rather that they never had the Spirit of Meekness and Charity and therefore more justly Excommunicated from the Protestant Society than G. Keith did according to their own Judgment and Practice For let Algier be search'd if all the Runnagadoes there for this hundred years past have so villified and defamed the Protestant Religion and Ministers as these Foxonian Priests have done How can you especially you Governours of the Church of England expect to convert any to your Religion and Church while that and you lye under such foul Scandals so publickly in this and other Nations without contradiction and the chief Actors and Promoters in favour and incouraged in Reprinting these Blasphemies in great Volumes as in E. B. and Fox's wicked Works which may have cost near a thousand pounds and I hear they are Reprinting more of that Blasphemer Fox's to the value of 2000 l. charge and this also doubtless intended to be preserved in the Library at Oxford for a Monument of Infamy to the English Protestant Ministers And in the Title Page they put high Titles of the Authors and term them worthy Prophet true Prophet and Servant and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God an Ambassador by special Authority and special Commission from Christ and say they of the wicked Author Generations which have not yet a Being shall count thee blessed because of the want the Inheritance of the Lord hath of thee my Substance is almost dissolved but you have taken care his wicked Works shall not be wanted Again say they of him The first Fruits unto God since the Apostacy endowed with the Almighty Power of God which Lived and Reigned in him By his Fruits herein produc'd you may judge what Power and Spirit they Foxonians be ruled by which they term Christ It ought to strike Terror and Amazement in all Protestants to consider how they exalt themselves and defame the Protestant Ministers and say At the desire of many Friends that the Labor and Works of this valiant Soldier of Christ to continue on Record as Monuments of his Service for the Lords Consider the time of their venting their Fury against the Protestant Ministers and the time of the French King 's dealings with the Protestant Ministers and their Churches there and this is not only the effect of one Man's passion but the premeditated Work of these Foxonian Chief Priests G. Whitehead and W. Penn especially who in his Serious Apology says If the Quakers Expressions against the Ministers had been Ten Thousand times more significant-and sharp against that cursed bitter stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and says he we have nothing for them but Wo's and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations c. and laid them asleep whil'st they have cut their Purses and pickt their Pockets W. Penn is not in jest here but serious and in earnest to confirm maintain and hold up the Ancient Testimony their Truth taught them in the beginning which they now enjoyn their Foxonian Subjects to hold up and maintain in all the parts of it for their Truth changes not say they and therefore W. Penn confirms his Fathers Fox and E. B.'s cursed Envy against the Protestant Ministers for further say they in their Book A Brief Discovery c. The Protestant Ministers they are Conjurers Thieves Witches Devils Lyars Stewards of the Devil's Magazines who go about to Murther the Child Jesus where he is manifest even these bloody Herodians they would devour the Child Jesus c. Hold up a Worm-eaten Beastly Form yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers scarlet-colour'd Beasts selling Beastly-ware they sell the report of others Riches the Letter which is Dust and Death c. Now this cannot be the Paper and Ink as the Quakers now pretend for the Ministers do not as they say sell that but it 's the Doctrines of Scripture they thus condemn for as afore they say the report of other Mens Riches Now the Paper and Ink is not the report but the Doctrine or Matter signifi'd by the Letters wrot in the Paper with the Ink. This shews the now Quakers fallaciousness in their now forged excuses for their Ancient Testimonies of their Truth in the beginning But in this Book they go on and say of the Ministers Possessing nothing but Heathenish stuff c. Really they are Blood-hounds but if they be not to be sure your Foxonian Spirit is hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell still barking and raging like Sodomites c. Wo wo is their Portion and of the upholders of that Treacherous Crew the Protestant Ministers Here is the Judgment passed on all Kings and People by these Quakers and all this and much more such Hellish Envy and Scandal in two leaves besides what 's
and shall give an account for it one day But these may quibble it off that this was against them in Oliver's times and it 's against such as be in Errors c. I Answer that they accounted the Church of England Ministers worse than them and for Errors c. They count them all such as at large may be seen in the Epistle before E. B.'s Works Another proof of the Arrogancy of this Foxonian Spirit is in their Book Counterfeit Convert c. p. 72. They say That their Testimony against Tythes should be maintained is not a Law of their own making but of Christs This is in Answer to something said to them in T. C.'s Animadversions p. 39. where T. C. objects against their Arrogant and Unchristian Judgment they have passed on all Christendom Kings Lords Martyrs and all People who pay Tythes altho' freely as is Christianly held in W. R.'s Christian Quaker and opposed in theirs intituled An Antidote in Answer to W. R. But it 's this the Quakers Imposition and Tyranny over others Consciences that they will not allow them to be Christians but Antichrists and mark them as such and Deniers of Christ It was this their Unchristianing all who can freely pay Tythes without constraint that T. C. objects against and this they make a Law of Christ's making thereby positively Judging the Laws of England for Tythes to be opposite to Christ's Laws and so the Upholders of such Laws of all Degrees Deniers of Christ and Antichrists and not only the Law-Makers and Maintainers but those who pay them freely For THAT Unchristian Testimony of theirs it was T. C. termed a Law of their making c. In Answer hereto they do not deny its a Law but deny it 's of Their making but of Christ's say they This Book was by them delivered to the Parliament Here Sentence is past on all Degrees past present and to the Worlds End when the Court of our Judges the Foxonian Cardinals of their Second Days Meeting will please to order Execution I know not But further To prove these their Testimonies as they term them be Laws observe also in their Book intituled Rabshekah c. page 90. they say Formerly he i. e. T. C. having transgressed in some matters Again say they And by his said Transgressions c. Now where there is no Law there is no Transgression but here they charge and punish for Transgression for not obeying their Laws contrary to the Law of the Nation and say It 's not of their making but of Christ's This is of very high rnd general Concernment for it affects as well as reflects on Laws and Law-Makers as well as Law-Obeyers and which is of most force or which must have preference either the Law of the Nation or of the Quakers Why if as they say that theirs against them who can freely pay Tythes is of Christs making then the Quakers Law or Testimony is of greatest force because it 's of Christ's i. e. Fox's making This is larger and better treated on in The Snake in the Grass c. the Second Edition with Additions I only say Either the Quakers are very Arrogant or else by their Doctrine the Law-Makers and Laws of England are contrary to Christ's And I think these Quakers Reflections and Scandal they have laid on the Laws and Religion and Ministers of England much more deserve to be taken notice of by them in Power than Francis Bugg's Book with the Picture of a Pillory did which on the Quakers Complaint against him as Seditious was seized by a Messenger by Order of a Secretary of State and he F. B. Indicted for three Crimes Defaming or Scandalizing G. W. c Quakers But the Quakers scandalizes the Laws and Law-Makers and Observers in all Ages since the Apostles until the End of Time who pay or uphold Tythes altho' freely and therefore is very Arrogant as well as Unchristian And this proves it is not Liberty of Conscience but Power over others Consciences they aim at and also proves their Deceit in pretending theirs are but Counsel and Tender Advice for altho' to deceive they use such gentle Words as Recommend or Tender Advice yet you see they expect exact Obedience and punish as Transgressors for not obeying their Orders as the Laws of Christ or of his making Now are not these Quakers very Wicked and Arrogant in doing as they have Not only to the Ministers but defamed the Memories of Kings and Martyrs ever since Christ that paid or shall pay Tythes And they have been so drunk with furious Malice as to violate Sepulchers and trample on the Graves of the Dead nay they have been so ignoble base and meanly scurrilous as to bestow their Billingsgate Rhetorick not only on other Men but Kings more especially Charles the First that cannot answer for themselves because in their Graves It is not fit they i. e. these Arrogant Quakers should pass without Rebuke therefore to expose the poorness and wickedness of their Spirit which they blasphemously term Christ's to the view of those of a more Generous and Christian Temper and to manifest what a kind of Antagonists the Ministers have I have here collected a part of their Abuses of those good Men some of them now at rest who never deserved at these Quakers hands I am perswaded these Demonstrations of Rancor against them These Quakers Malice is so great against the Protestant Ministers that I have not offered a third part of the Abusive Expressions they have used against them both here afore and following All this and more is their own in their Book Rabshekah c. page 68. because G. Fox's and their Wickedness was discover'd which these now Quakers are so far from disowning as they ought that they contrariwise vindicate them and exalt the Authors Fox c. with high Commendations A mighty Prophet and more than a Prophet endued with the Almighty power of God which lived and reigned in him and this Epistle aforementioned wrot by him is such a choice Revelation with them that it 's twice printed and put before 2 Books one of Fox's in 1659. and another since printed by them Foxonian Quakers 1672. of above 900 pages in Folio stuft with bitter Revilings and Defamations of the Protestant Ministers to the great scandal of the English Nation as following is shown And it 's the Protestant Ministers in general that fot upholding them he G. W. threatens the Magistrates And for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is not Christ's but that which influenced Haman to seek the Destruction of the Jews appears by the Fruits of Malice and Defamation following that they have vâ—â—ted against the Protestant Ministers and it 's chiefly the Ministers Support that is their Grievance and only take that of Tythes for their pretence as being likely to take with covetous and poor People c. For formerly when some considerations were in hand on the hideous Noise they made against Tythes for some
converse with the New Testament And they have so intollerably scandalized the English Protestants that it's as they say not fit it should pass without being taken notice of and that by them it more concerns but especially the Ministers they vent their Fury against and set themselves so violently against Tythes because they thought them a great Support to the Protestant Ministers and a likely Argument to prevail with the vulgar covetous luke-warm and poor People which are a great Party in the Nation considered as incouraged by these Quakers who have printed so many of their envious and wrathful Doctrines against the Ministers as Prophecies or by the Eternal Spirit c. And they are obliged to drive on the same design for fear they appear as they are proud envious blasphemous Lyars And for further Proof that they have no more if so much kindness for the Episcopal Clergy than for the Dissenters observe what they say Did you not once make a Solemn Covenant with God that you would utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form Did you not spue it up And will you turn again and lick up your own Vomit O do not so do not run wilfully into destruction and before I have shewed you how these Quakers blame them for not keeping the Covenant By the foulness of the Expressions you may judge from whence the Spirit came Also one having commended Bishop Hall's Works the Quaker in contempt replies Thou at last fliest to the muckiest hole of all Was not Bishops voted down and some of them put to Death for the unjust Causes they maintained Therefore be not deceived by their present Flatteries For the Protestant Religion and Ministers are no better now but as bad Sorcerers and false Prophets and Teachers of Lasciviousness with them now as then and the Magistrates as much in fault now with G. Whitehead c. for upholding them as then Now G. W. thou said'st to J. P. because he shewed justly deserved contempt to some of your seditious Pamphlets that he was instigated by the Devil but who but he instigated Thee and W. Penn c. thus to vilifie the Protestant Ministers as you have and to be so arrogant as to threaten the Magistrates and accuse them for abusing their Power for as you say either the Spirit of Christ or that of the Devil leads Men. Therefore all these your Blasphemies and Treasons and seditious Practices and Doctrines herein mention'd be some part of your Ancient Truth 's Testimony which it taught you in the beginning or of Error Now if it be not the Testimony of the Spirit of Truth then they ought to be by you disowned and you were not lead by the Spirit of Christ in reprinting them and so blasphemously exalt the wicked Authors but by that of the Devil by your own Doctrine and in case you do not disown them it 's a plain proof you do hold them as your Ancient Testimonies which your Truth taught you in the Beginning and so are by your last years White-hart-court Conclave of Foxonian Cardinals G. W. c. enjoyned your Subjects to maintain and hold up for say you Truth changes not but that you do own them appears by your squinting general Answers and Acknowledgments you now make to deceive the Government with for should you answer'd plainly yea or nay to the two Queries in the Snake in the Grass then you had either discovered your Errors or else contradicted your Ancient Testimonies But now if you have any honesty and plainness to which you so highly pretend make known which of these many printed Ancient Testimonies of yours you do disown for so many of them as you do not disown as you did D. S.'s Answer to F. B. your are justly chargeable with as them you enjoyn your Subjects to maintain and hold up as your Ancient Testimonies for your silence herein will be taken as consent Now as I have shewn you some of these Quakers rage and of their envy against the Protestant Ministers I will also give you some Reasons they give to prove the Protestants Apostates c. which I think includes themselves as well as others in E. B.'s Works page 835. say they All you who are divided in your Knowledge and Judgment about the matters pertaining to God's Kingdom you are Apostate Christians and you never yet received the Spirit of Christ mark that and that is the Reason of all your Divisions in Religious matters c. Page 838. As Christians are brought again to receive the Spirit of Christ and walk therein all Strife and Division about Religion will cease c. And other Marks of false Ministers be They have a place they call Church and observe one day in a week to worship and a few hours in that day and an Hour-glass Now if the Quakers be found to have Strife and Divisions about Religion then by their own Judgment they are condemned as not to have yet received the Spirit of Christ But then by what Spirit they have been moved and whose Ministers and Embassadors they have been judge That they have had Divisions among them early is proved by the Difference between G. Fox and his Party and J. Nailor and his Party also that of G. Fox and his Party with J. Perrot and his Party and that Difference between Fox and his Party and J. Story and J. Wilkinson and their Party in the North and West as also that between the now Foxonians and G. Keith and his Party in Pensilvania besides many more I could mention as Reading c. as abundance of printed Books on both sides proves especially W. R's Eight Parts of the Christian Quakers c. And his second Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apostate Quaker c. And whereas G. W. c. terms G. K. Apostate G. W. is there made to be one himself and Judgments Signed by many on both sides one against another I will give you some passages out of two Letters for proof of their Religious Difference besides what is in print in hundreds of Books one Quaker of Fox's Party Several Papers have come from J. N. since his being in Prison I hearing and seeing to be justified by several that what is there writ came from the Spirit of God and that they are witnesses of the same with him I knowing the contrary writes as follows A Parable about a Tree is made and six Persons named The fruitless Tree says he that cumbers the ground in J. N. is the Root Let his Papers cease to go abroad for more may be deceived by him than the others his being secretly covered with words of truth to cover lyes c. Another Quaker of J. N.'s Party contrary to this afore says One morning being awake in my Bed the word of the Lord spake to me thus go to G. R.'s and speak for James and finding that which is Eternal moving me I went after some time one laid a Paper before me pressing me to read it but finding