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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

Christian Testimony Again he cites these words to the King and Parliament 1661. viz. our Allegiance to the King our Lives have and shall manifest to him and you and all Men subscribed he saith by George Fox Edward Burroughs Francis Howgill John Crook Samuel Fisher Richard Huberthorn John Whitehead Samuel Thornton Leonard Fell John Boulton and twenty more and these he has ranked up for Temporizers Dissemblers c. having rendred all our Applications to the King of this kind but Hypocrisie and Temporizing Deceits as not to be trusted and this still to render us obnoxious more especially if his Book be Printed for see what he saith not only to cloud but to murder our Christian Testimony viz. and yet under all these Dissimulations and Temporizings do like the Whore in the Proverbs wipe their Mouths and proclaim themselves an innocent and harmless People and near his Conclusion charges G. F. and his Adherents with a late fawning flattering Address to the King and Parliament How now John is this thy abhorring to render us obnoxious to the Government God will smite thee thou malicious Hypocrite our Innocency shall out-live thy Envy and causeless Revenge and rise up in Judgment against thee What wilt thou be still be mad against us because our Friends gave Testimony against the Man that attempted to burn the Bible among other Books at the Exchange And wilt thou be still revengful because some were moved to testifie against thy extravagancy and riotous work with thy twenty seven Venison Pasties or so esteemed exposed to the Multitude And was not this thy wedding Dinner for Jews and Gentiles whom thou hadst invited to Merchant-Taylors-Hall And what was thy intended Mystery in all this Answer plainly for it was a very publick Frolick and whether or no had not the Bible been burned if the Officer at the Exchange had not prevented be plain and do not always smite at others and hide thy self nor put us off with telling us Thou wouldest not do it at the Will of any Mortal What immortal one would move any to attempt it An immortal God or an immortal Devil Couldst thou imagin that the immortal God would ever move to it And what moved thee now thus to vent thy Malice and Clamour not only against the People called Quakers in general but also against many particular Persons by Name the meanest of them more Righteous than thy self Dost thou not know that Edw. Burrough Fr. Howgill Sam. Fisher R. Hubberthorn Joh. Stubbs Edw. Piott George Bishop George Rose and Miles Hallhead are all deceased Yea some of them many Years in their Graves who dyed Prisoners sufferers for their Consciences towards God and yet thou wilt rank them among Temporizers Oh unrighteous Man is thy Conscience wholly seared since thy Essay towards the burning of the Bible for thou hast as little Recourse or Regard to the Scriptures or Truth 's Principle in thy Writing though once professed by thee as thou hast to Conscience which is none at all in sincerity Malice and the Gall of Bitterness has swallowed thee up and Darkness is become thy Habitation Dost thou not remember that Fr. Howgill dyed in Prison and that both E. B. R. H. and others were Prisoners when taken sick and dyed And dost thou not know that not only Sam. Fisher but John Crook John Boulton and many others have been great Sufferers since the King's Restauration and must all these be now infamously ranked among Temporizers Dissemblers c. Is this thy Conscience and Charity John Pennyman And is thy Malice so great against William Deusbury so that thou must needs endeavour to expose him to the Displeasure of the present Government to add Afflictions to his Bonds who is known to be a sincere upright peaceable Man and great Sufferer both in the Time of the late and present Powers yea and in present Suffering and Confinement for his Conscience and Testimony And what Hurt has honest Tho. Salthouse done thee that thou must needs go about to expose him too And also Isaac Pennington who is known to be an Innocent Harmless Man and hath been a great Sufferer even under the present Power What would not thy Malice suffer thee to let him alone but thou must needs render him obnoxious for writing something to the Parliament and Army printed 1659. about their backsliding and turning aside from the Good Old Cause c. And to aggravate the Business against him thou puttest the Question Was not then the Armies Cause just in his Opinion and their Fighting Lawful c. p. 17. How now John Pennyman hast thou neither a regard to Men nor Truth Hast thou done as thou wouldest be done by thus to expose Men and question them for that which thou thy self darest not adventure openly to oppose Therefore I would ask thee What is thy Opinion concerning that Cause called the Good Old Cause to wit Liberty to tender Consciences removing Oppression and preserving Men's Properties formerly pretended to in the Old Army though not well mannaged and pursued was this Cause pretended to just yea or nay in it self Why dost thou cover thy Deceit desert Truth in any Case and peevishly expose Conscientious Men for formerly confessing it One Passage to the Parliament and Common-wealth 1657. Let the Reader a little take notice of it for perhaps he may smile at John Pennyman's Design in citing it The Passage as he cites it runs thus p. 28. viz. Let all these Abbey-Lands Gleab-Lands that is given to the Priests be given to the Poor of the Nation and let all the Great Houses Abbies Steeple-houses and Whitehall be for Alms-Houses or some other use for all the Blind and Lame to be there What could be J. P's Design in citing this Passage If it was to make the King and Court angry with our Friends for advising to make White-Hall an Alms-house for the Blind and Lame as that seems most likely to be his Design I dare say he will miss of it for I am perswaded the King would have been better pleased and thought it more Charitable that his House should have been an Alms-house for the Poor Blind and Lame than that Oliver and his Crew should there set up their Nests pamper feed and gluttonize themselves for the Humility serious Praying and Tears were lost when they had killed and taken possession were got to White-hall and there settled at Ease in fulness pride and idleness even while many innocent Men were deep Sufferers for their tender Consciences in cold noisom Goals Holes and Dungeons with Bread and Water their Victuals being snatched from them their Bed-cloaths taken from them by Force and they forced to lye upon Straw in cold low dark Goals for above a Year together In these and such like Sufferings I my self with many others of our Friends had a deep share in Oliver's Days and that under Presbyterians and Independents I affirm and yet they have not manifested Repentance nor made Satisfaction J. P. has