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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89824	An answer to a book called The Quakers catechism, put out by Richard Baxter. Wherein the slanderer is searched, his questions answered, and his deceit discovered, whereby the simple have been deceived: and the popery proved in his own bosom, which he would cast upon the Quakers. Published for the sake of all who desire to come out of Babylon, to the foundation of the true prophets and apostles, where Christ Iesus is the light and corner stone; where God is building a habitation of righteousness and everlasting peace; where the children of light do rest. Also some quæries for the discovering the false grounds of the literal preist-hood of these days, in the last times of antichrist. If you know the truth, the truth shall make you free. / Iames Nailor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N258; Thomason E851_1; ESTC R207416	51,999	51

be found clear of it though now you be stirring up these Powers against the peaceable people as you did the o●her as a Generation never well but when you are in mischief but our defence is the same against you who will accomplish his own work and set his King upon his hill notwithstanding your Hellish rage Thou goes on telling if any further ask thee why the Papists are so diligent in those works and thou sets down many hopes we have to accomplish great things which words are not worth taking up after thee But to them all I shall say this Whosoever hath but heard of the Blood that hath been shed and the violence done to the Innocent by your Fore-fathers the Popish Clergy before they was denyed in the Nation also what Blood hath been shed and misery undergone to bring down your power set up in the Presbytery in Scotland and England the two last of these which we can witness by sad experience I say here 's small hopes for any that either loves God or their souls or bodies either or the Peace of the Nation to labour in bringing forth such a birth of Vipers nay we rather rejoyce to see the work begun thus far in the Nation whereby he will rid us of the rest of that brood and their burthens which is the greatest oppression that remains in the Nation though this must be done with suffering as the other was done with acting the Lord having drawn forth many to that purpose against whom you are gathered as the sand for multitude yet are we not dismayed though beset on every side yet not destroyed for we know him in whom we have believed And thou saist Consider well of that Scripture Eph. 4. 12 13 14. c. where Christ gave Ministers for edification unity and the perfecting of the Body amongst which thou hast thrust in thy cursed addition saying at last the perfecting of the body I say When must that last be seeing thou hast denyed any perfection whilest any lives in this world it seems thou dreams your Ministery must last in another world else how must you perfect them by your Ministery or shall death do that which cannot be done while they are living So we have considered of that Scripture and finde you to be none of those Ministers whom Christ gave nor Ministring for that end but against it and so Ministers of Antichrist blaspheming the work of God who call his power at which all flesh shall tremble the power of the Devil And saist thou If you turn to the Quakers we shall know that you were before an unsetled Novice and thou brings that of 1 John 2. 19. they went out from us but they were not of us I say What hast thou to do with these words John was no hireling nor Persecuter as thou art thou art one of those which John forewarns of who abides not in the Doctrine of Christ and all that owns John or his Epistle must keep thee out of their Houses and have nought to do with thee if thou read his second Epistle 9 10 11 verses there thou may read thy self cast out by Johns Ministery and there ●s few that comes from thee need to look for ought but reproaches for then the hope of thy gain is lost further then thou takes by force And thou falls a praying the Lord to open his eyes and acquaint him with his great darkness and imperfection I say what eye is that which thou would have opened since thou denies the Light within Is the man blinde of his bodily eyes and to what end should he see his imperfection seeing that thou denys that ever perfection can be attained to Thy Prayers are an abomination and they are blinde indeed that stands in need of such a Teacher and knows no better spirit to pray with Then thou makes an Oration before thou Answers the Quaeries wherein thou tells of several Papers which thou received from seve●al persons as one Jane Hicks Tho Chandler and Edward Newway Richard Farnworth and Tho Goodair but not being acquainted in the business and seeing nothing herein of moment but what is answered in other places I shall leave it till more knowledge of the thing Then thou goes making a show as that thou would Answer our Quaeries and these thou folds up by six together which thou canst not answer and sends us to a Book we know not where to seek an Answer which thou calls a Defence of a Petition yet though thou Answer not one of the six in what thou falls short in Answering thou makes up in asking asking ten where thou answerest not one so that instead of answering 24. thou hast asked above threescore but few of those thou wast asked hast thou gone about to Answer but thou begins as followeth with our first Quaery and thy false slanders and lies thou casts upon us are double to thy Quaeries as I shall make it appear if I be called to number them but I am weary with raking in that filthy puddle yet thy Queries are answered and some of thy lies disproved In page 43. line 12. for the Letter read Christ OUr 1. Query is What 's the first Principle of pure Religion Thy answer is That God is and ne●t that he is a rewarder of them that dil●gently seek him and thou queries the ground of our asking I say the ground of our asking is that the folly of such Teachers as know net God and his way may be made manifest as it is by thy Answer for the knowledge of what God is is the substance ground and end of all pure Religion which admits of no second for it is life eternal But if thou say thou means believing there is a God then there is something God hath appo●nted as a way to God which must be learned before God can be known wherein the creature must be principled which must turn the mind towards God before the creature know God seeing God is not known to the world till the creature be turned out of the world So saith Christ No●e knows the Father but to whom the Son reveals him such a● thou have got the name of God to talk on but when you should come to principle people in the way to him you say God is it which if bare saying God is it be all thou can do in way of teaching then you may stop your mouths if it be not for losing your gain for all can say that there is a God as Jam. 2. 1● well as thou yea the Devil can preach that doctrine but thou knows if thou had answered this Query to the satisfaction of any honest desires then thou must have confessed to the light that God hath given Joh. 8. 12. in Christ Jesus to lead out of darkness but that destroys the Devils Kingdom and therefore all his Ministers are deaf of that ear and so children of darkness and keep others so 2. Query Whether they are a Church of

and Vagabonds and disturbs our peace and worships c. but the light is come your mysts wil not hide you the Sun is risen and you are seen in the work against the same Spirit nothing altered but the persons or places or time where had ever ministers of Christ hand in persecuting any upon any account whatsoever prove your practise herein Then thou goes on to tell what that death is that passed upon all men and thou sayes its the separation of the soul from the body thou blind for did not death pass upon Adam til soul and body was separated this is like thy opinion of the soul but how canst thou who art in death know what it is those whom Christ quickned who were dead E●h 2. 1. 5. was they such who had no souls nay thou must own the Light before thou know what death is death reigns in lyars and envious ones 18. qu. What is the Flaming Sword that keeps the Tree of Life the Cherubims and this thou answers with calling it a foolish question and adds a lye to it saying we have not seen it thou sayes it shall suffice thee to know there is such a thing which knowledg is no more in thee but hearsay but the sight thou puts far off into the world to come and the Tree of Life also for thou that never saw the Flaming Sword Cherubims never came near the Tree of Life but as I said before feeds upon death thy own cursed carnall knowledg which God hath forbidden 19. qu. Whether they that stand praying in the Synagogues or Idols Temples and love greetings in Markets and bind heavie burthens on the people are called of men masters be not out of Christs Doctrine and this falling upon the head of the Serpent being thy own practise thou art forced to take thy old crooked winding wayes to get out and thou begins to question instead of answer saying if your Temples be Christ Temples do not we make Christ an Idoll by calling them Idolls Temples I say they are not Christ Temples unless thou mean the Pope be he whose Temples they are who builded and consecrated them into the names of dead men and women and set up in them a dead worship all which Christ never commanded but the Temple of Christ is made without hands and there he dwells and not in Temples made with hands hast thou a face to father those upo● Christ wherein you generation of blood-suckers have worshipped in them ever since they was builded do not they stand witnesses against you that you are the children of them who slew the Martyrs and now are found beating in the same SYNAGOGUES and shedding Blood as far as you can get the same power by which they did it CHRIST had never such TEMPLES stop thy MOUTH for SHAME And thou goes on and where thou cannot deny but thou art in the steps of the PHARISEES yet sayes thou I do not love it they loved it to be called Master c. but I do not wel tho● sayes in words thou loves it not but come to thy practise and it wil appear thou who art but one hast made more ly●s and crooked wayes to uphold it in this thy book then all the generations of thy fathers the Pharis●es ●i● that ever was before thee and dost thou think to cover all this by saying thou loves it not but you have used so long to lead the bl●nd that you would put out the eys of them that see thou saies it was pharises pride that was condemned I say so it is your pride that is your condemantion nor can thou clear thy self of the very same things they was found in but least thou should lose all yet sayes thou Christ bids them hear the hypocriticall pharisees and observe to do as they bid you I confess to plead for hypocriticall teachers is the likest way to get in to have people commanded to hear you had not you run so gross til you have lost all also even the outward form of godliness which they had and upon that account he bad hear them because they sate in Moses seat and read the Letter truly without adding but you are neither set in Moses seat nor Christs but run in your own imaginations till neither Law nor Gospel-letter wil warrant any one thing of your worship matter nor manner means nor maintenance as I shall be ready to prove that not one particular of your worship you act in your Idolls Temples nor wages for so doing can you prove by plain Scripture to be so much as in the form commanded o● practised by Christ and his Saints and yet calls your selves upr●ght and faithful ministers for shame be silent as to boasting til you acquit your selves of this charge by plain Scriptures without wresting it and would you have us bound to hear such under pretence of hypocrites who have lost both power and shew of Godliness and sayes thou it is not being called master that Christ intended thou lying spirit would thou make him a lyar like thee did not he intend as he spoke or thou takes him to be an hypocrite like the Pharisees whom thou would thrust in amongst with thy consequence and thou sayes he forbids the name of fathers I say he forbids not children and fathers but such as you then thou goes on in thy old way lying say●ng we forbid the owning of any relations and all affections and respects to them I say thy father hath fitted thee with boldness to bring forth his work who dare declare thy own shame to all that know our practise what dis-affection canst thou charge uppon any of our relat●ons unless thou accuse us because we cannot affect the Devils pride and bow to it in such as thee And to plead for this mastership further thou sayes thou wil tel us something we know not and that is that the disciples of the sect-masters of the Pharisees so gloryed in their masters that they were ready to go by the ears and kil one another and this thou would send us to see amongst them as a strange business which we see daily amongst you and your disciples how many Sects and Sect-masters is amongst you Priests and your Disciples and have been all by the ears as thou calls it even unto blood til you have vented all your envie against the Lambs of Christ as they did then though thou would put it far off yet we see it here present and sayest thou these called they Rabbies as the Papists do the Pope but why wilt thou not read on one wo●d further as your hearers do you no doubt but this is as true though not so much for thy purpose who art hiding thy selfe by accusing others and so now that I have set thee in thou may read on all the rest of thy charge against the Pope and find thy selfe guilty and stop thy mouth and see the Pharisees the Pope and thee and thy brethren all on a Line