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A65856	Christ's lamb defended against Satan's rage in a just vindication of the people called Quakers ... from the unjust attempts of John Pennyman and abettors, in his malicious book, styled, The Quakers unmasked, clearly evincing his by a lover of truth and peace, G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1917; ESTC R20009	52,095	70

Pardon which he pretends so greatly to respect It appears that these Passages tending to clear us our Adversary designedly left out the more to recriminate and abuse us In p. 12. he cites a Passage out of E. B's Works p. 442. That all Governours and Rulers ought to be accountable to the People and to the next succeeding Rulers upon occasion and that the chiefest of the Rulers be subject under the Law and punishable by it if they be Transgressors c. No doubt when our Adversary writ this he thought he had a great advantage against the People called Quakers but he argues nothing nor infers any thing from the words If his Intention thereby was pursuant to his general charge against us to render us guilty of double Dealing false Heartedness and Temporizing this Passage cited by him against us proves no such thing but is a plain Indication to the contrary or if it was to render us obnoxious he hath missed his End It plainly concerns such Rulers and Governments as were Elective as E. B. his precedent words for choosing them by the Consent of the People do plainly intimate and it was first writ in the Days of the Commonwealth-Government And for Rulers or Representatives that are chosen being accountable to the next succeeding Rulers if there be Cause what has he against the matter it self What could be J. P's Design in this Citation before without Observation or Remark upon it If he tells us plainly and make his Objection I think it will be no difficult matter then to answer him both on a Religious Account and secundum Hominem which at present I find no necessity for Moreover Reader we find much of the same Stuff and envious Quarrels raked up against us in divers other Pamphlets as are in John Pennyman's Book particularly in Fr. Bugg another Apostate his Pamphlets though not so largely as in J. P's but as malicious which are elswhere answered In p. 13. he again charges us with baseness and temporizing and having out-done and even surpassed the Deeds of the Wicked that he says he is stopt for Words are too short to manifest us he saith Whereby it seems he wants Words bad enough for us in so much that he is stopt he saith But how is he stopt Does his Envy and Malice rise up to his Throat and like to choak him He has given us Language and Words hard and bad enough to render us as Infamous as he can as charging us with such Wickedness as can hardly be paralleld and as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders as have appeared in our Age Lyers false Prophets Hypocrites c. But now he wants Words to manifest us The Railery he has belched out has not manifested us can he not study and invent some worse and harder Language against us However he is far louder in his Clamour and Revilings than in his Proofs In p. 13. he reflects upon a Book entituled Truth 's Character of Professors for laying open the Addresses and Applications which others had made to O. C. and R. C. with long Animadversions thereupon which he falsly saith was to stir up the Powers against them charging G. F. and his Friends as having been most highly guilty themselves of those very things Wherein he hath also dealt very unfairly and unjustly we do not believe there was any such Design in W. C's setting out that Character as either to defame others or to stir up the Powers against other Professors but that it was to shew their Priests c. their manifold Flatteries and Temporizing in their superlative Characters Applauses and Addresses which he cannot parallel from our Friends Applications either then or since In p. 14. our Adversary again deals very unfairly and unjustly by G. W. about some of our Friends saying They give forth Writings from the Immediate Eternal Spirit of God and by the same Spirit and Power that was in the Prophets Christ and Apostles unto which he falsly addeth viz. And their so speaking G. W. saith is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater His Words and their so speaking are J. P. his own Abuse and Perversion where did ever G. W. say That the Quakers so speaking of their own Books and Writings is of such Authority He denies the Comparison and Charge as stated and I the person concerned do solemnly declare It was never in my Heart Judgment or Intention to undervalue the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament but to esteem them not only as given by Divine Inspiration and to prefer them before all other Books and Writings extant in the whole World J. P. injuriously mistates the Case and leaves out the explanatory part of G. W's Answer in that Case and J. P. has been better informed therein than now he represents it Therefore Impartial Reader please to take our Answer in this Case as it is laid down in our Book Entituled the Christianity of the People called Quakers Vindicated p. 13. We always confess the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration and prefer them before and above all other Writings or Books and in no wise question the Truth of them yet we must needs allow the Holy Spirit from whence they came the Preference and its immediate Teaching and Speaking in the Soul as of greater Efficacy Power and Authority to that Soul than the bare Writing or Scripture without or only Reading thereof though it contain the same Words immediately taught And so Christ and his Apostles living and powerful Preaching in and from the powerful motion of the Holy Spirit as being of greater Efficacy Power and Authority than the outward Writing or Scripture it self simply or abstractly considered as distinct from that Spirit though the words preached and the words written may be the same For the Gospel as livingly preached came not in Words only but also in Power and in the Holy Ghost 1 Thess. 1. 5. For the real Authority Efficacy and Service the Holy Scripture has upon a Soul is from the Holy Spirit or word of Life giving the true belief and right understanding thereof Again our Adversary proceeds to give Judgment and Sentence against us as helping forward our own Destruction and presumptuously addeth these words and seeing there is no hopes of their Repentance or Forbearance all other ways or means that have been used proving ineffectual It 's now thought meet thus to expose them c. p. 14. Thus he has proceeded to give Sentence upon us and to justifie his manner of exposing of us and Printing his Invective against the People called Quakers His Self-contradiction is notorious where in p. 15. he saith I abhor that Practice that is to render us obnoxious to the Government when but in the Page before he concludes that there being no hopes of our Repentance it 's now thought meet thus to expose us as he has done though he seems to extenuate his own Fact and

Carnal Weapons neither shall we ever provoke the Nation against us otherwise than by our Righteous and Holy Walking c. That I wonder J. Pennyman should have or allow of such a Construction upon the said Declaration as That the Quakers were not then of that Mind That the Spirit would never move them to fight Unless John himself had such a Reserve when he signed that Paper which if he had it was most gross Dissimulation to tell the World That he with the rest had chosen the Son of God to be their King and that his War-fare is not with Carnal Weapons nor his Victory by killing Men's Persons nor hath he chosen us for that end Now if J. P. when he signed this believed that the Spirit of Christ might for all this move him or any of them to fight What abominable Hypocrisy was he guilty of therein 1. To proclaim to the World That he and the rest are become subjects to such a King as will never allow them to fight 2. And yet have this private Reserve That he may move him to fight But I am perswaded the rest of the Signers of the said Paper had no such deceitful Reserve If J. P. had he was very deceitful and has now bewrayed the foulness of his own Nest. As for the Words he carps at in the said Paper to which his own Name is viz. That the Son of God might command thousands and ten thousands c. That 's no Proof that they then believed he would do it unless it must be taken for granted That because he had Power to command thousands to fight therefore he would do it and so argue from his Power to his Will which but mean Logicians would be ashamed of when it is as plainly told That Christ's Kingdom is not of this World and his Warfare is not with Carnal Weapons and that he has not chosen us for that End as to kill Men's Persons c. As that Christ by Prayer could have obtained more than twelve Legions of Angels to have rescued him But how then should the Scripture be fulfilled That he must suffer As for the other Words Neither can we yet believe that he viz. the Son of God will make use of us in that way viz. of fighting For our Adversary to infer from the Particle yet where 't is intimated That yet they could not believe that Christ would move them to fight that therefore the Quakers were not then of that Mind That he would never move them to fight He might as well have inferred from their saying That yet his Kingdom is not of this World Therefore they were not then of the Mind That Christ's Kingdom would never be of this World but that it might become a worldly Kingdom and his Servants turn Fighters Thus absurd is our Adversary's Consequence against us upon a mere small Circumstance or Ambiguity of a Word yet nevertheless is construed by him for yet as yet as putting the signification of adhuc for tamen And for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names sake As for the Word present I grant if it had been left out it had appeared more absolute in concurrence with the Substance of the Declaration which as 't is said was given forth by E. B. But that diminutive Phrase for the present is not essential to the Substance of it but rather to the manner of speaking John it may be can give account of those Particles which he has construed so much to the Disadvantage of the whole seeing his Name is to the Paper and he can give or own such an Interpretation of it as that they the Quakers were not then of that Mind That the Spirit would never move them to fight though there be enough in the Paper to evince the contrary as is before hinted And if John had any such Reserve in espousing and signing the said Paper or did cause the putting in those Words as that the Spirit of Christ might move him to fight it is high Time for him to write a Recantation for that and many other Passages wherein while he endeavours to render us suspicious and obnoxious to the Government he has greatly bewrayed his own dark envious and perfideous Spirit whose Practice and Method in his Book generally is to snarle snatch and catch at such Passages in our Friends Books as he thinks most to make Advantage of to render us Temporizers odious and obnoxious to the present Government and commonly to pass by and leave out such Passages Threats and Prophecies as were directly against the former Men in Power and their Oppressions and Cruelties that were inflicted in the Protector 's Days But as for the aforesaid Declaration to the distracted Nation of England subscribed as aforesaid 't is so Impartial and Plain and against the Oppressions c. under the several Governments in this Nation lamenting the Judgments and Calamities thereof that I wish he had published it all to the Nation for it would very much have tended to clear our Innocency from his unjust Imputations and Insinuations against us as a People And to manifest our clearness from Temporizing and Parties and our Testimony against Fighting Warring and Killing c. as inconsistent with Christ's Government and Kingdom And now pray further consider did not our Lord Jesus Christ in his Parable concerning them that Intreated the King's Servants spightfully and slew them acknowledge the Justice of his Father in sending forth his Armies and destroying those Murderers and burning of their City Mat. 22. 7. and also against those Husbandmen who slew the Heir whom the Lord miserably destroyed Mat. 21. 7. and Luke 20. 14. were not these Parables against Jerusalem and the Jews who persecuted and slew the Prophets of God and his Son Christ the Heir Did not he therein Prophesie against Jerusalem and of the destruction thereof and so far recognize that War and miserable Destruction that came upon them as a just judgment from God and yet his Kingdom being not of this World his Servants might not fight being under an Injunction to the contrary was Christ therein contradictory to himself or to his Testimony for his Servants not fighting no sure And the Apostle Paul acknowledged the Magistrate or Rulers place as owning his Office in not bearing the Sword in vain but as being the Minister of God a Revenger to execute Wrath upon him that doth evil Rom. 13. and yet exhorted his Brethren the Saints not to avenge themselves but rather give place unto Wrath Rom. 12. 19. did the Apostle herein contradict himself or his Christian Testimony pray consider it Now suppose a Government according to their own principles in one Nation should require their Subjects or Friends innocent Blood unjustly shed in another Nation by Murders Massacres c. would not this be just and may not God in vindictive Justice and Judgment stir up a Power or Government whose Principle is accordingly to