〈◊〉 offer in order to a full Determination is this That either the whole Church or that part of it which never was concerned in these Debates particularly the North of England remot from us yet consisting of a very great Part of the Body of our Friends both in Number and Solidity and who have never varyed from their first Station upon any general Proposal the present Hat-Men shall make for the Demand of their Judgment provided it may be conclusive with them at least so far as to clear Particulars from that high Charge of Tyranny and Hypocrisie will we do believe freely declare themselves according to that Sense and Vnderstanding they shall receive of the Mind of Christ therein from him alone who is the Leader and Shepherd of his People IF none of all this will do let them take their course and furnish these Ishmaelites and Uncircumcised Philistians with all they can to our Trouble God will bring us through it all And for that Dishonour they have hereby brought on the Way and People of the Lord in general by putting their pretended Exceptions against some few Particulars into the hands of those Men who do not so much study the Disgrace of a few publick Labourers as the Overthrow of the whole People and Way improving all they can scrape how much soever interlined with Falshood to that very end will God the Righteous and Terrible Judge of Heaven and Earth require an Account and Wo Sorrow and Eternal Perplexity will be the swift Recompence of your Treacherous Doings unless you find a place for Repentance and can yet wipe away all these Scores by true Contrition Some further Ground of our Satisfaction in Proceeding against keeping on the Hat in time of publick Prayer especially as we are now concern'd with these sort of Apostate Adversaries which is not to dispute but further to declare our Belief and the Reason of our Practice in the Matter and so leave all with the Lord. I. AS Man consists of Soul and Body and as the Body is a kind of Form to the Soul so whilst Body and Soul remain unseparated there will and must be some Form suited to the Body whereby to express the publick Spiritual Worship performed by the Soul such are Places Words and Gestures and in the Performance of such Worship the Body can no more be exempted from some Form or Expression then can the Soul in its inward and spiritual Station To deny this is to denote a Man void of Sense and Reason so that though we grant the outward inward Coming of Christ to have abrogated such Types and Figures as foreshewed a further Glory yet Tokens and Demonstrations of present inward Reverence a Divine Honour to God in publick Performance of Worship not only we never denyed but do affirm them to be as adequate or proper to the Body as are the Reverence and Honour to the Soul II. It hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us in the solemn and publick performance of Prayer unto the Lord to pull off our Hats to express the Unvailing of our Spirits and that reverent Submission and Supplication which becomes poor Petitioners to come in and offer up their Desires with to the great King of Glory and God of the Spirits of all Flesh and God has made it a Token of inward Homage by the Requirings of his own Truth And it is fit it should be observed that these present Opposers not only acknowledg'd the People call'd Quakers to be a true Church whilst in this Practice which I deny any Church to be that continues in the World's Rudiments and that they have frequently suggested us on this Occasion to be Retainers of But that they have received heavenly Refreshment by those Prayers that have been offered up by uncovered Heads And that God should send forth such a Spiritual Ministry so richly furnished and rarely qualified by the Divine Power and Wisdom of God a few years before as the Author of the Hat confesseth and that in their Performance of Worship to God they should be worldly and vainly Ceremonious can be no wayes consistent And I do here appeal to all sober Persons if after so large a Terstimony given to the People called Quakers as a true Church and her Ministry and Worship as powerful and pure before ever this Imagination came forth it could be any thing solid seasonable or edifying to introduce or trouble the Church with that Practice which they acknowledge She was Blest and Prosperous without III. But again it denotes and signifies the Difference that is between Worship to God and Ministry to Man there is not equal Homage indeed none at all in declaring God's Will to Man but the other is all matter of pure Homage and to discover this Difference by some due and suitable Posture is so far from being unlawful that the contrary is very condemnable IV. It is never to be thought reasonable by People not out of their Senses at least upon our Adversaries Principles that a Man should be moved to Pray and yet in that Motion not moved to shew it What! would they have a Man when he is moved to pray wait for another Motion to be led to discover it But above all the rest how do they that stand with their Hats on testifie their Unity with him that prayes as they confess a Man may by the Spirit of the Lord with his Hat off I say what greater Token do they give of their Joyning with such Prayers then the Publican or Pharisee who by that very Posture testifie their Dislike But yet further suppose a Hat-Man be moved to Pray with his Hat off as they confess he may what becomes of the rest of that Opinion in the Meeting If they pull it off meerly as having Unity with his Prayer then they are gone for that is our Ground who say that Soul and Body Prayer and Gesture must go together If they say it is upon them not to pull it off Two things will follow First The Spirit of the Lord moveth People in the same Meeting at the same instant of time and in one and the same Duty unto two Contrary things 2 dly That they may have Unity with the Prayer and not with the Gesture with one Motion and not the other That they have Unity with the Prayer and give and wrap up their Spirits in the present sense that 's stirring in the Assembly with his that is the Mouth without an extra-ordinary Impulse to pray with him in their own Spirits yet require such a Motion to Joyn with the Gesture so that they can pray with the Man moved but not pull off their Hat with the Man so moved The Confusion Contradiction and Absurdity of this Imagination ought forever to Justifie the Quakers Seasonable Solid and Christian Proceedings against the Introducers and Abettors of it for a Contradiction in Gesture when Gesture stands upon Motion is proportionably as real a Resistance against the
Moderate and basely Treacherous to their Ancient Friends If being Base to God and Men can render Men Christian then they deserve to be so accounted of But till Religion cometh to be read Backwards let them go for Enemies to Christianity and Murderers of Natural Affection To conclude OUr Ministry is of God it stands in the Power of the Living Spiritual Gift of God to testifie against all Ungodliness And if any Particular has ever slipt and brought Dishonour to the Truth such hath been Reproved in Righteousness and only Received upon Unfeigned Repentance which is God's Way But to Publish Proclaim and Aggravate Miscarriages of Any to the World who profess Religion committed many years ago Examin'd Judg'd and they Forgiven upon Repentance by the Lord and therefore Received again by us and all this done with Design to Blast our Credit Disgrace the Way we profess though they were no way concerned to meddle or interpose To do all this I say is not to be acted by the Spirit of God but That of an Accursed Ham and Treacherous Judas and the Lord will avenge our Cause we doubt not in due time But an Hainous Blasphemy is laid to the Memory of Josiah Coale by this Angry Agent in behalf of these Apostates and that is a Passage in a Letter writ anciently by him in his Life-time to G. Fox viz. That G. F. was the Father of many Nations But what Blasphemy is in this Is it any more then to say That by him as an Instrument in the Hand of God People of many Nations have been by him begotten to God Was not Paul a Father of many Nations who begot the Corinthians that were Greeks and the Romans that were Latins But further Whose Life hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar off to the begetting of many again unto a lively Hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed Very well And what Blasphemy lodges in these Words Is not that which is the Life of one Good Man the Life of another Were not the Christians of old by One Spirit baptized into One Body What Life G. F. had was from Christ Jesus and it was no other Life J. Coale writ of And I hope The Life of Christ is one in All and who can limit it And Josiah Coals with others were Children in the Sense afore-mentioned and that Life through those Children by him instrumentally begotten did reach to those Isles afar off unto which he and others went to preach the Everlasting Gospel Paul reached to the Churches though afar off 2 Cor. 13 10. He was Present in Spirit though Absent in Body for I verily as Absent in Body BUT PRESENT IN SPIRIT have judged already as though I were present In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ when ye are gathered and MY SPIRIT in the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ cast forth and taken in too upon Repentance without going to the Lord Major and Aldermen 1 Cor. 5.3 4. His Life and Hope was through Timothy Titus and others extended unto many And why shall not Generations to come call an Apostle Blessed and bless the Name of the Lord for him respecting the Benefit any such one might be in God's Power to a People Is not the Memory of the Just Blessed Prov. 10.7 And did not the Lord by his Prophet say of Israel his People I will make thee an Eternal Excellency and the Joy of many Generations Isa 60.57 What if J. Coale had so spoak of G. F. and God's Israel now Would it have been Blasphemy But these Err not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God like the Jews of old But yet again whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest And so is the Being and Habitation of every Child of God or else he is in the Power of the Lowest the God of the World whose Habitation is in Darkness Are we not to turn away from such as stand not in the Power of Godliness And did not the Apostle go to turn People from the Power of Satan unto the Power of God which is the Power of the Highest And is it notwithstanding Blasphemy to stand in it or testifie of one that doth stand in it that he doth so stand Oh the Idle Opposition but great Envy of our Enemies They seek nothing less then the Blood of this Upright Man as the next Words and their Aggravation of them prove In which Thou Rulest Governest in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is establisht in Peace and the Increase thereof is without End Upon this our Adversary takes frequent Occasion scoffingly to call him King George suggesting him to be so vile an Impostor as to assume unto himself the Compleat and Peculiar Dignity Dominion and Authority due to Christ See Pag. 53 54 55. Which Blasphemy I am of the Mind our Adversary thinks deservedly Punishable after the Severest Sort of Death But he unworthily traduceth that Good Man and layes the Harmless Scripture-Expressions of a departed Servant of the Lord upon the Tenters or Rack that he may stretch them to his own Vile and Bloody Purposes Hath this Man forgot that there were ever such Passages writ as these The Good Seed are the Children of the KINGDOM Mat. 13.28 The KINGDOM of God is within Luke 17.20 The Saints shall JUDGE the World 1 Cor. 6.2 3. But ye are a ROYAL Priesthood 1 Pet. 9.2 And thou the Lamb hast made us unto our God KINGS and PRIESTS and we shall RAIGN on the Earth Rev. 5.10 And I appoint unto you a KINGDOM as my Father hath appointed unto me that ye may Eat and Drink at my Table in the Kingdom and JUDGE on Thrones the Twelve Tribes of Israel Luke 22.29 30. It is the Father's good Pleasure to give you a KINGDOM Luke 12.23 who hath translated us into the KINGDOM of his dear Son 1 Col. 13. the Untranslated therefore Rage Wherefore we have received a KINGDOM that cannot be shaken Hebr. 12.28 they then had it I beheld and the same Horn made War with the Saints and prevailed against them untill the Ancient of Dayes came and JUDGMENT was given to the SAINTS of the Most High and Time came that the SAINTS POSSESSED THE KINGDOM WHOSE KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM Dan. 7.21 22 27. By all which it is manifest that it is the Priviledge of every Saint and Child of God to be a King a Royal Priest to bave a Kingdom and to Rule Govern and Raign in Righteousness and Peace without End So that Josiah Coale and every Heir and Co heir with Christ Rom. 8.17 doth as well Raign in an Everlasting Kingdom of Righteousness as G. F. doth or shall do for we have One Faith One Baptism One Power One Lord One Kingdom Where let it be noted that by all these Titles and Priviledges we only mean and understand Dominion over Not Bodies nor Souls Not Flesh nor Blood but in the Sense of the Apostle Ephes 6.12
Principalities and Powers the Rulers of the Darkness of this World and Spiritual Wickednesses in High Places which center in the Invisible Dark Power of the God of the World that since the Beginning hath drawn and acted Man out of God's Counsel and Power in which the Kingdom stands For though we walk in the Flesh or Body we do not War after the Flesh for the Weapons of our Warfare are not Carnal but Mighty through God to the pulling down Strong Holds casting down Imaginations and every high Thing that exalts it self against the Knowledge of God 1 Cor. 10.4 5. And as our War and Weapons so our Kingdom is not Carnal but Spiritual not of this World but that which is without End and of this we are not ashamed It may not be unseasonable to take Notice of that Passage in his Book so often mentioned eagerly insisted upon and aggravated to the height of Ananias's Belying the Holy Ghost viz That G. Fox this Great Prophet as he in Abuse calls him should break open and alter the Contents of John Whitehead 's Letter which as he said was writ in the Name of the Lord and that to a quite contrary Sense making the Letter to judge those that kept the Hat on whereas J W. therein justified both those that kept it off or on Thus saith our Adversary doth G. Fox belye both John Whitehead and the Holy Spirit of God and that knowingly He proceeds Oh Prodigious Impudence He that counterfeits any Man's Name in a Matter of any Concernment deserves to be exposed on the PILLARY AND TO LOSE HIS EARS HOW MUCH GREATER PUNISHMENT DOTH HE DESERVE that Counterfeits both the Name of God and Man in a Matter of Religious Concern This sayes he is the Course that G. F. took to make his Injunctions to be observed But this is the Course more truly to make the Impiety of this Adversary more Notorious For first G. Fox never opened his Letter nor made any Alteration in it at all that I dare affirm in so many Words much less that he belyed the Holy Spirit and least of all that he did it willingly I perceive by his Conclusion he acknowledges that the Holy Ghost as really moved in J. Whitehead as in Peter contrary to his own Principle Any thing will they All grant that they may Slander or Injure us in the Minds of the People How knows he it was a True Motion Doth he not deny it may be known If so then how dare he be so positive in the Censure of G. Fox Will he make the Motion Uncertain and yet certainly judge G. F. for a Forger who was yet Innocent I leave it to the Reader what to call this part of his Tale. Secondly J. Whitehead gave Power by Letter at that time to the Brethren of London to supervise and alter it as they should see convenient and no otherwise was G. F. concerned in it then as one assenting with other of our Friends that according to Power given and their best Understanding did alter it for the better and herein did J. W. testifie his Unity and Fellowship for the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets So that what was done was no more then what J. Whitehead left Power to do and which the Scripture justifies Wherefore Prodigious Impudence belongs not to G. F. but this hardy Adversary and Prodigious Cruelty Persecution if not Murder too is he guilty of that would have him not only Pillary'd and lose his Ears but his Life too or something very near a kin to it This is confirmed page 33. where he charges us to be Blasphemers and that such ought to Dye by the Law of God in former times The Consequence is plainer then his Power to execute it Oh the Mercies Oh the Forgiveness of these exceeding Meek Suffering Bruised Little Ones as they would have as think But Oh Deceitful and Blood thirsty Generation who have endeavoured what in you lies to betray with your Treacherous Kiss of pretended Love to our Souls our Faith Reputations and Lives too into the Hands of some Bloody-minded Jews who are not of the Circumcision in Spirit but lust against those that are that they may be stirred up against us But God will reckon with you and them too for these things This Adversary takes an Occasion to fasten a Lye upon a Paper set forth in the Name of the Quakers but he sayes writ chiefly by G. F. and G. W. in saying That we have paid our Taxes and other Dues more then any People according to our Abilities When sayes our Adversary their Neighbours know all over England there are at least some Taxes or Assessments which they have peremptorily refused But why must we be branded for Lyars because of that Saying or our Adversaries base Aggravation I do affirm That we have been oversest more then any and Paying those Extream Assessments gives good Ground for Saying what we did But indeed some Hat-Spirits perhaps could not say so but why Because some of them are so leavened into another Spirit that they almost question the Payment of any as M. Boreman now called M. Pennyman did I must not be plainer least the Cabal further represent me one that exposes Person to the Lash of Government Wherein we can pay we do what ever they come for and in some Cases wherein we cannot answer their Demands for Christ's Peaceable GOSPEL sake They commonly Take three times the Value seldom if ever Returning any again But this our Adversary calls no Paying Sure I am it is Loosing more then our Adversary dare adventure for if I mistake not he can send out all those things rather then suffer though perhaps against his Conscience also Well but if we will believe him there is such an Arrogant Imperious and Audacious Paper given forth by R. Farnsworth A. Parker G. Whitehead J. Coale J. Whitehead T. Loe S. Crisp T. Green T. Moon T. Brigs and J. Parks as he thinks was ever given forth by Mortals A Charge too great and a Reflection so sharp that it had need be one of the worst Papers that was ever writ Now let us hear what it is 1. They allow not such to have Dominion in the Church who exalt themselves above the Body of Good and Ancient Friends Now what hateful thing did they deliver in this wholesome Christian Saying It seems this Enemy of God and true Righteousness would have liked us better if Bad Friends had been suffered to exercise the Dominion over the Body of Good and Ancient Friends But he starts out thus That by the Body of Good and Ancient Friends is meant G. Fox and his Adherents which sort of Interpretation well becomes such a Caballistick Writer for after those Allowances I will misrender the best Cause Pretences or Actions in the World It is an arrant Falshood He was then far from them Neither had they him in their Eye in doing it but God's Honour and the
our Clamorours Adversaries and some Vagabond Treacherous Quakers The Church is neither accountable to her Publick Enemies nor her Apostate and disowned Friends J. Pennyman and W. Mucklow with the rest of the Corish Company first cry out of Evils committed and next against the Order establisht to prevent or judge them The one must be called The Camp defiled and the next Tyranny or Arbitrary Government This hath been judged Years since and they now feed upon In short The Libel is hereby answered What is Right is Defended and what is Wrong was long since and in the Order of the Gospel Condemned And if this will not satisfie We recommend our Cause and Persons to God who is hastening to bring forth that Fatal and Unanswerable Argument of Astonishing Judgment upon the Inhabitants of the Earth which will prove us to be the People which God hath gathered by the Power of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Dead who is become out Light and Life the Head of our Body in whom we stand and for whom we now suffer upon the Earth to whom be Glory and Dominion for ever § 6 But to render me yet further Odious and as a great Testimony for G. Fox's being accounted King of the Quakers and that Lordliness we exercise he tells the World That William Penn did not speak unadvisedly when he writes of his Membership in the Quakers Body That it is an Honour more desirable then to be a Companion of Kings Reader his Wrestling lies here Whereas I in the Humility of my Soul preferred that Living and Spiritual Membership Almighty God in his Rich Mercy hath given me among this People whose Portion outwardly hath been Suffering of all sorts abundantly before the visible Pomp Grandeur and Pleasure of being the Companion of Earthly Kings he turns it to the being a Companion to King G. Fox as he mockingly calls him besides the Absurdity which follows such a Construction For what is it but to say That I prefer my being a Companion of a King before being the Companion of Kings and that of such an one too if he must be one as hath not One to a Thousand if to Ten Thousand with other Kings This is to render me Foolish and not Ambitious But I never understood that Membership in any Body was to have a Principality before especially as I placed the Comparison I am perswaded if he thought one so easily obtainable he would not long decline being of some one Party or other though now upon his present Principles a very Stragler Every thing and Nothing Well Though what I am is far enough from being either Prince or Prince's Fellow in our Adversary's Sense yet I have found such a Station in which is that Peace which I justly prefer before all Worldly Dominion § 7 But this Libeller angryly proceeds For ought I see W. P. calls all of us that are Married Rogues our Wives Whores and our Children Bastards But the Drift of this Scurrilous Consequence is to bring me and my Relations under these hateful Epithetes This is like a Man that would tell a Lye of himself to fasten an ill thing upon another But he will not be thought to be without a Reason for this Unreasonable Consequence For he will not call her sayes he by his but her Widdow's Name consequently she is a Whore and her Child a Bastard Such dirty Names become so dirty a Pamphlet I administred no just Occasion for such Reflection I called her not by that Name to fasten Dishonesty upon her for I never intended any thing so gross but to denote who she was being better known in her Singularities by her old then by her new Name But if this Man had travelled no further then Holland it self he might have learned that Women are seldom if ever called by their Husbands Name Are their Husbands therefore Rogues their Wives Whores and their Children Bastards But that he may stoutly vindicate him and wrake his Displeasure upon me he proceeds Is it because they were not married by the Law of the Land that is as strong against himself therefore the true Reason of his Abusing them must be their not being married in the Way of the Quakers Answ Suppose us neither to have been married by the Law of the Land this Officious Apologist might have saved the Comparison till I and my Wife had proved our selves as great Bedlams as they shewed themselves at Merchant-Taylers Hall to the great Scandal of Relâ—gion the Trouble of Wise and Sober Men and the Derision of the Multitude Is that which was once by you improv'd to the Disgrace of the Quakers now vindicated against them It seems it had been ill done in the Quakers but is very defensible in John Pennyman We are contented with the Distinction and the Apology for it No Wonder their Books are printed for Francis Smith the Anabaptist to vend who as I am informed was one of the Orderers of the Disorderly Feast being seen with several others of that Sect that day as busie among the many Pasties as he hath been since in selling their Libels who by the way promised in my hearing Never to get Printed or Sell any Books that contained Personal Reflections but Gain with such iâ— Godliness All I can say is We are not deceived in him There is a certain Harmony amongst them that very well suits the Cause they promote But he sayes I am not singular in Judging so hardly concerning Persons not married after our Way For sayes he other Foxonians a Scoffer have done the like in their Writings This Author will by no means pass for either Lyar or Reviler who as in other Passages so in this hath proved himself both We deny not those to be Marriages which are not according to our Way but we should unjustifiably differ from the Common Way if we did not believe our own to be most according to the Example of the Holy Men and Women of old We countenance no Clandestine Marriages as we have Reason to believe John Pennyman's was for he came not to Merchant-Taylers Hall to be Married but to declare he had taken Mary Boreman to be his Wife whose Consent was only guessed at by her Silence but when how and before whom he did it is known to few if any We could ask Questions that would put them very hard to it but we delight not in medling with such stuff To conclude We therefore call her his Wife because he confesseth her to be such but not upon those plain publick and orderly Proceedings towards God Relations and Friends as which are owned and practised by us the People of God called Quakers But he hath not done with me yet for he counts it special Malice that I so described Mary Pennyman in her Apparel as if saith he W. P. were as intimate with her as he said to be with Gulielma Mar. But M. Pennyman is better known for an Honest Woman then W. P. is for a
in a former Book and it might have been sufficient to Reasonable Men For as I then said I did not Deny what I had spoke at the former Meeting but being Mis-understood I Explained it which gave Satisfaction We pretend not to be above Mis-hearings and Mis-apprehensions though above Wilful Evils It s well they have no greater Crime to accuse me of who are so Envious as to make use of such Trifling Inconsiderable Matters as this to Discredit us Well this I have further to say concerning the siad book That Hell hath opened her Mouth and the Dragon hath cast out Floods against the Church that is coming out of the Wilderness which the Lord our God is building upon the Rock Christ Jesus and the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against it And many hath the Lord established upon this Rock who are Inhabitants thereof and can sing for Joy in the midst of all Tryals and Excersises Storms and Tempests knowing that our Foundation stands sure and as there we abide we can never be moved having Salvation for Walls and Bulworks and being kept as in the Munition of Rocks where our Bread is sure and our Waters never fall Praises to the Lord forever James Claypoole John Osgood's Testimony I Having seen a Pamphlet called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected in which my Name is inferred in pag. 17. saying That whilst I in general terms deny all I do in particular deny nothing at all I say My Answer stated the Matter truly as it was and many are the yet Witnesses that know it to be so and to J. P. at his House it was so proved to be since the said Answer was printed And as to his Query in pag. 28. What is become of the Integrity of J. O. that he should put his Name among such Men as these I answer As for these Men I believe they would not affirm a thing with Pen or Toungue that they knew to be Untrue as this Pamphlet basely insinuates nor did I so much as in the least know of their Answer till I saw it printed And as for my Integrity it is known unto the Lord and to him have I approv'd my self in faithfulness even in Reproving the Extravagancies of him that I believe was the Grand Informer to him or them that made this Pamphlet and Sorrows many the Lord knows I have and had for him and oh that he had not been above Counsel then had he not been found Running the Race of Core nor Furnishing with Spears the Goliahs of Gath that this day Defie the Host of the Living God How have they made the Haerts of the Uncircumcised Glad How doth Askalon Rejoyce and Atheism say Ah! ha thus would we have it How is this Pamphlet furnished with Scoffs as Foxonians King Fox and Ironically Oh Innocent Holy Harmless People Well the Righteous Terrible Dreadful God will Avenge for these things What thought the Apostle said There where those things amongst the Corinthians that were not so much as to be named among the Heathens what must be their Portion that unto the Heathens made known this and thereby the God of the Christians Blaspheamed and the Way of Truth Reproached as it is at this day But with this sad Difference some of them that now are Agents in this Work have Tasted of and Witnessed unto theat Immortal and heavenly Power that was and is manifest amongst us and have gone from it and given heed to Fables Being Heady and High-minded they have stumbled and caused others to stumble they have Offended and treasured up the Offences of others unto their own Hurt John Osgood William Gosnell 's Testimony This is my Faithful Testimony for God his Truth and People and the Clearing of mine own Conscience As also given forth for Information of the Sober Enquirer and for'Condemnation of J. P. and his Confederates against whose Works I am and hope shall terminate my dayes in Judgment against that Spirit they serve Warning all to take heed of them who tender the Good of their Souls knowing their Ways and Works lead unto Death by Means whereof the Way of Truth is Evil-spoken to the Dishonour of God and Strengthening of the Wicked in their Doings FOr that my Soul loves the Truth and such who are the Faithful Servants thereof I do therefore reckon my self concerned with my Brethren as also for their sakes who have any Desires in their Hearts after the Way of Truth as it is by a Remnant Despised of Men in this our Day made known and testified unto to write something in Answer to what is charged against me in a Libel called TYRANNY AND HYPOCRISIE DETECTED which to the truly Sober and Unprejudiced Reader can be accounted nothing less then impious Railing and from an Ishmaelitish Spirit and from the Enemy of all Good in his Instruments manifested against such who are Resisters of Tyrrany and in the Uprightness of their Hearts Denyers of Hypocrise and in that give my Testimony against the said Pamphlet believing that whosoever is the Author thereof or Contributory thereto shall receive of the Lord our God the Just Judge of all who hath pleaded and will plead the Cause of his Truth and People the just Recompence of Reward according as their Work hath been which unto them who walk in the Light are seen to be Evil and They the Workers thereof bound in Chains of Darkness reserved to the Judgment of the Great Day nevertheless my Soul's Desire is if possible the may find a place for Repentance In Pag. 45. called Tyranny and Hypocrisie Detected are these words When I first saw Gosnell ' s Name in the Spirit of Alexander I expected nothing less then a Denyal of what is related to have been said by G. F. viz. Friends Although I have not told it you I do now declare That I have Power to Bind and to Loose whom I please In that thou didst nothing less then expect a Denyal c. doth manifest what Spirit thou art of viz. That which watcheth and waiteth for Evil and expecteth nothing less Why didst thou not set thy Name to that which thou hast heaped up that so we might have known ther and made some Enquiry after thee It s written That Fear surprizeth the Hypocrite Were thy Works such as would bring Honour to thee it may be we might have had thy Name at large but thy Works are manifest to be Evil and of the Flesh as are Railings Envious and Scoffing Speeches Slanders and Evil Suggestions So though thou concealest thy Name yet by thy Fruits thou art manifested to be an Evil Tree For an Evil Tree bringeth forth Evil Fruit. And why thou shouldst Expect a Denyal whilst sayest thou it seems is true let the Sober judge And so thou goest on as one of Ishmael's Brood with a Scoff saying How can it be otherwise that so Great a King and Prophet as G. F. should not have Power to Bind and Loose That there is a Power to Bind and
to Loose now as was in dayes past is evident from that Saying of Christ Him whose Sins ye Bind on Earth are Bound also in Heaven And did not the Disciples of Christ pray for Forgiveness from their Father which was in Heaven as they FORGAVE them who trespassed against them And were not they exhorted To FORGIVE one another as God for Christ's sake forgave them So that hadst thou not been with J. P. filled with the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity thou wouldest not surely have writ as on that wise nor made such loud Cavilings at that which the wise in Heart know to have a Consistency with Truth and is agreeable to the Testimony of Holy Men who spoak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost out of whose Practice thou art and thy Contributories whose Tongues are your own and therewith speak to the Vilifying of such whose Habitation is in Heaven But they who served the Lord in their Generation said Our Bodies are not our own so not our Tongues And said one Lord open thou my Mouth and my Tongue shall speak of thy Praise Hast thou or thy Confederates who have joyned hand in hand together spoak or writ or printed ought in either of your Libels that hath redounded to the Praise of God Hath not their Tendency been otherwise even to speak Evil of Dignities and to write of things which for no Good but Hurt to Mankind are produced In Vain in vain are you found Fighters against the Lord his Truth and Pepple for it Prospers it Encreases it Grows in the Hearts of many Glory to God for evermore And that John Pennyman should as he hath done creep into the Bosoms of some who have been more open to him then he hath made good use of and that in a time when he himself both in Word and Deed shewed himself a Friend to Truth and us also attending our Meetings both Publick and Private not as a Disturber but Member of us and now thus basely to Betray and Bespatter is Unworthy with a Witness His Works of late have manifested the Contrary else how durst he do as he hath done seek all Occasion against them who have and still do tender his Good and the Redemption of his Soul which some have as I may say laid down and yet could their Lives for his Restauration Oh that he truly saw how he hath caused the Heathen to Blaspheam and some to say in their Hearts Sure there is no God no True Religion nor Worship and how unto others who it may be had some Inclinations in their Hearts towards God and Godliness hath he given Occasion of Stumbling and unto Professors who have and do Watch for our Haulting that so they may Impare the Honour of Truth not only to their own but to others Hurt also whose Blood he stands guilty of before the Lord. I write not these things but to the End that he may be Wise for Offences have come through him and Wo from the Lord is unto him unless he Repent John Pennyman being at a Meeting appointed for Service to our Suffering Friends which we were then to inspect and some particular Matters were then in Debate how such of our Friends might be Relieved who were â—â—concerned in the Case of Tythes and somewhat was proposed and an Instance given of one Country Friend who had observed some Directions from R. C. in which afterward there was not in the Friend through Satisfaction pretty much time was spent about it and words spoak by S. N. which G. F. and some others did reckon of Disservice to the Meeting as also of Hurtful Consequence to our Friends Suffering in some Cases upon which G. F. was very much Grieved and fervently stirred up to lay the Charge of that Service upon S. N. also to blame his Reflections upon R. C. which he doing with Fervency of Spirit a Fear or Apprehension entred me lest as J. P. hath carried it to the World G. F. should have struck him and going home I spake to S. N. of some Passages which past at that Meeting J. P. being with us and uttered my Thoughts or Fears in that Respect adding at the same time that the Weight of Friends Sufferings was much upon G. F. some whereof pretty Eminent being then before us and therefore did impute it to his Zeal for their Relief and so much the more by how much any thing was offered by S. N. to the Hurt of the Meeting and Prejudice as was thought to the Sufferers some time after G. F. hearing of it told me between himself and me that I should not have said so and hath often declared he never had any such Thought I then told him I was sorry I had said so or feared so and indeed so I was others also being there present I mean at the Meeting about Sufferings signifying they had no such Apprehension neither did they believe had I any Cause to apprehend or fear any such thing But to proceed to the other Charge of Binding Loosing whom he pleased More then once or twice as I remember J. P. had been with me to know if the Words were whom I pleased I told him at all times I could not say nor remember those words whom I pleased yet to bring Reproach to G. F. as also to sow Discord among Brethren as much as in him lieth hath suggested it to the World and that after 't was buried and at a Meeting with some Friends together with G. F. before he went beyond Sea for it was all our Desires that what was amiss might be cast out declaring then as before I was sorry I should apprehend or fear any such thing of G. F. Now that J. Pennyman should so unworthily and in Enmity and Prejudice to G. F. whom he hath ill requited in that he hath rendered Evil for Good and to emit carryed into the World not only by Word but also by Print things privately and amicably mentioned upon Occasion when he was not as now he is an open Opposers of Truth and Friends so Disingennous nay Treacherous that Heathens would blush at it he should have let this have dyed with his Sincerity to us and not have made use of that against us in his Apostasy which nothing but my Regard to his Sincerity could have drawn from me Is this one of thy higher Attainments O John these Doings will seize upon thee in God's Time How is John Pennyman changed from what he was With what great Readiness of Mind and Ardency of Spirit did he himself judge with Sowers of Division and that Spirit by which he was captivated which led him to the keeping on his Head his Hat in the times of Friends Prayer to God and with what Show of Satisfaction and Joy of Soul in the Hearing of many Fiends in which they also were refreshed did he once and again express for that he blessed the Lord he was broke off from that Spirit which
against the True Israel and are publishing the condemned Stuff in their Garth that the Gartbites might boast for mark the words in page 70. of those that Consent with the Hat-Men It seems that they have got a Feast of that Condemned Stuff of which some had done Wrong and were heartily Sorry and Condemned and these Vagabond Quakers the Hat-Men have presented them a Dish of it which they make Musick of but the sober Reader may see there is no Concord in it but Mischief and Envy And as for Benj. Furley's Paper which you Hat-Men and others feed upon who formerly were in that Practice amongst you Has not he Condemned it So that which he hath Condemned is Meat for you Vagabond Quakers And That which Isaac Penington when he was with you Hat-Men favouring you gave forth concerning it Hath not he Condemned it and his Motion therein And That which G. F. gave forth in his Book to the Jews which you Elimas-like bring to pervert the Way of Truth was it not given forth concerning the Hat to Magistrates and not concerning the Wearing the Hat in Prayer to God for which he was fined Forty Pound in Oliver's dayes Nay are not some of those Men Offended at it now that pervert G. F's words which were only putting off the Hat to Magistrates and not concerning putting off it to God at Prayer as before said as the Apostle câ—mmands who was in the True Light and the Holy Ghost who said That Men should Pray Vncovered therefore sayes this Hat-Spirit and those that Consent with them That the Quakers are fallen from their Principles No they are the Hat-Men that are fallen And perhaps some of them are offended at our Hats for not giving them the Hat-Honour for we know their Ambition in other Pâ—wers dayes And we have suffered more in other Powers dayes about not putting off our Hats to Magistrates then we have in these Powers dayes and it may be some of them are ashamed of their Names and dare not bring them forth to Light that have been of that old Persecuting Party But William Penn has answered sufficiently to the Rational concerning this But it may be the Workers in the Dark will murmur and therefore they put their Work upon a Baptist a Stationer to Name it and to get it Licensed and in the mean time they lurk in the Dark But if we should gather up all the Failings of particular Persons among the Baptists and Fifth Monarchy-Men and others in this City and Country and beyond the Seas we might make a Book big enough and we might make a Book of the Hat-Mens Failings which they know well enough but all those things we leave to God and all Good Men to judge as knowing among us the Members of Christ who is the Head of our Body that we do not admit of any Uncleanness amongst our selves nor that which cometh publick to the World but in the Power of Christ Jesus and in his Light and Spirit we do judge such things amongst our selves let them be private or publick to clear the Truth and that no Scandals may lye upon it and the Name of God and Christ may not be Blasphemed God and all good Men know this and according to Gospel-Order they are and have been dealt withal which admits of no Impurity And it is much these Hat-Men and their Companions and those that consented with them did not Clamour against Moses and the Law of God because that so many amongst the Israelites ran into Fornication but these are of Core's Spirit and Dathan and Abiram's Spirit that offered a Strange Fire who will be consumed with it that gainsayes And it was much they did not Rail against Peter and Paul and tell that to the World when Paul withstood Peter concerning Circumcision and yet he circumcised Timothy And it is much that these Clamourers did not clamour against Christ concerning Peter his Cursing and Swearing But these Confederates with the Hat-Men that are those that plead for Wearing the Hat in Prayer Ranter-like seem very much to Commend J. Pennyman and his Wife as though we did not know them but they and their Spirit is known witness his Action at the Exchange and their Voluptuous Doings at Merchant-Tailers Hall which we leave to the Law of God and all good Men to judge And this Spirit of the Hat saith how did the Lord raise many to go forth to preach the Everlasting Gospel in his Power c. pag. 10 70 71. and then these Hat-Men with their Confederates are angry because G. F. speaks of no Liberty but in the Power and pervert his Words as though Conscience should not have Liberty in the Power and now it s clearly manifâ—st to all People what Spirit these Hat-Men are of with their Confederates that they would have a Liberty out of the Power for were not G. F's Words that People's Liberty should be in the Gospel Liberty in the Power of God because G. F stands for the Power of God which was first received and their Liberty therein and the â—iberty in Christ that made them free whâ—ch were his Words and these Hat-Men and their Confederates who are out of the Power of God would have Liberty of their Consciences out of Christ the Power of God therefore you may see from what these Peoples Motions are and in what their Consciences have Liberty for them that plead for Liberty of Conscience and plead for Sin as long as they live and a Purgatory when they are dead and such and these Hat-Men and them that consent to them would have a Liberty out of the Power of God and yet go under the Name of Christians And is not this a plain Contradiction in these Hat-Men and them that consent with them who confess that we the People of God called Quakers went forth in the Power of God in pag. 10. and in pag. the 12. he terms G. F. a Papist because he saith There is no Liberty out of the Power of God But you should have put it in your Book true Liberty in the Gospel and the Liberty in Christ Jesus according to G. F's Words But I must tell you All your Liberty of Conscience out of Christ Jesus the Power of God is Bondage both to the Soul Body Spirit and Conscience Where note that by Liberty of Conscience G. F. did not speak of Outward Exercise in Worship for with such Libertines we have no Unity and all your Liberty out of Truth out of the Power of God the Gospel and out of Christ Jesus with all your Motions is in the Power of Darkness And your Hat-Liberty keeping on your Hats in time of Prayer which you much speak of which was imposed upon us as being Heathenish Romish and in the Curse and â—ursed by J. P. as his printed Paper manifests printed by one of your Company who would have thrust it among us as a higher Glory as some Vagabond Quakers stand for it to this Day and
in the Holy Ghost Is not it established in Peace in the Heart and are not the Saints Heirs of the Kingdom and of the Life that hath no End and is not the Power of God Spiritual and Divine And because it is said G. F. has reached through his Children afar off to the begetting of many to a lively Hope And what then doth not the Apostle say many Members yet one Body they were baptized by one Spirit into one Body and though they were absent in the Body yet present in the Spirit and that it did reach one unto another mark reach which was the Spirit and Power of Christ in which was their Fellowship and Union Do you not manifest your dark Hat-Spirit here And the Life of Christ that has begotten G. F. the same it is that doth reach and beget others to God and that Spirit is blest which begets and brings out of the Curse he was blest and is blest in all Generations and who are of Faith are of Abraham who was the Father of many Nations And a great deal of malitious Stuff is in your Book which all that are sober can savour it from what a Blood-thirsty Spirit it is come who would fain stir up the People against us and the Powers but your Envy is seen And if any have gone out into any Uncleanness or Looseness it hath been a Grief to our Souls and a Wounding to our Spirits to see Goâ— his Truth and his People dishonoured and they have not been received amongst us again but by Repentance which is according to the Mind of the Lord and Practice of Christ his Apostles And why are these Apostates so mad that G. F. should inherit the Kingdom of God that is Everlasting Are not Christ's Words Seek the Kingdom of God first and all things shall follow and because he and thousands more have found the Kingdom of God this torments you that are in the Kingdom of Darkness and whosoever will receive the Kingdom must receive it as a little Child but you are too big for it and you that trust your own Riches Inward and Outward cannot enter the Kingdom Luke 18. and was not the Kingdom of God to be preached but you do not love to hear talk of it but you that once set your Hand to the Plough and look back are not fit for the Kingdom of God And is it not said the Kingdom of God is come to you Luke 10. and was it not said to the Backsliding Pharisees like you that the Kingdom was taken from them Is nâ—t this your Condition has not the little Flock a Kingdom but you shall weep and gnash your Teeth when you see Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom and your selves shut out for the Kingdom stands not in Word but in Power and are not the good Seed the Children of the Kingdom and will not God establish his Seed for ever And now John Pennyman and William Mucklow I have a few words to you who like Brethren in Iniquity have joyned together to betray the Innocent It had been better for you that A Milstone had been hanged about your Necks and you cast into the Sea then that you should have done what you have done And as for thee J. Pennyman Thou hast long been full of Envy and though Friends sought to preserve thee if it might be and to keep thee out of the Evil yet I feared this would come upon thee knowing that there was a Murderous Spirit in thee and now thou hast fully manifested it against G. F. and others of the Saints but Wo and Misery will be thy Portion if thou dost not Repent for thou hast set thy self against the Truth and art joyned with the Enemies of Christ to Persecute his Followers And thou hast been a long time a Persecutor of me as thou knowest and now thou vents thy Malice against my Brethren but I can say God forgive thee if it be his Will but I fear thou are wholely shut up in Darkness and so for Destruction And this was upon my Heart to write unto thee who am and alwayes desire to be a Servant to the Truth which thou despisest called Ellis Hooks THus Reader hast thou the Testimonies of several Persons named in that Libel some of whom are more obscure others more known their Truth and Honesty shall speak for them I will not But most of them are too Noted for Worth and Integrity to be doubted upon a Libel stuffed with that Rage Treachery Slander and Scoff We might also produce the Condemnations of three Persons against themselves the first Letters of whose Names are unworthily mentioned by the Libeller but the Truth is sufficiently cleared and their Addition would give the Book too great a Bulk we rather wish It had been many Sheets less knowing that great Books are seldom read in this Careless and Impatient Age only Reader be pleased to Consider the Deceit of this Adversary and how ready he is to stretch any thing to slander and defame both Particulars and a Society The Spirit of the Hat charg'd our Ministry with Whoredoms and Strumpets in the present tense This Apologizer tells the World our Answer was Evasion because we took it so for sayes he the Book meant it of time past that the Book meant no such thing unless a thing means quite otherwise then it sayes read the Passage Next what is that to us if a Judas or Demas that received part of the Ministry fall into the Evil of this World again can we do any more then Condemn it and we did nothing less Is that to prove our Ministry Vitious to tell a Story perhaps seven or ten Years since of any one or two that have at times opened their Mouth in our Assemblies Oh! God the Righteous and Terrible Judge will reckon with this Ungodly Libeller and those Base Murdering Judasses that have furnisht him with this dirty Trash God will clear our Innocency and detect their Envy and Hypocrisie more convincingly to all the World and that dreadful black and Stormy Day that hastens to try and win now the Nations will scatter them and their Mischievous Designs when God will preserve us in his Fear and Counsel by his Power to his Eternal Praise and our Consolation World without End W. P. A Postscript To the READER Concerning the Vnity of our Adversaries against us amidst the great Discord they are at amongst themselves HOw hearty these Men are in their Envy against us and Hatred to the Way we profess is very discernable from their close Confederacy and strict Union who are as remote and differing from and absolutely contradictory to one another in their Faith Worship and Discipline as to the Quakers themselves against whom they have combined They are made up of some Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Socinians and Apostates from us A strange Medley of Adversaries and stranger that there should be such Union to Mischief But let us view some of their Principles
1st The Presb. Indep And Anab. believe that the Father the Son and the Spirit though three Names denoting three Personalities or Subsistences are One Infinite Eternal and Omnipâ—â—â—t God At which the modern Socinian cryes Blasphemy and Idolatry For sayes he Christ is but purely a Man and the Spirit but a Creature Now come in these Apostates against the Presb. Indep Anabapt We deny your Personalities and Subsistences And to the Socinians We own Christ and the Spirit to be of one Nature and Being with God the Father And it is Blasphemy to say that Christ and the Spirit are Creatures Here 's the first Discord or Jumble between our Adversaries Secondly The Presbyter Indep Anab. and these Apostates assert God to be a Spirit At which these Socinianiz'd Followers of John Bidle say There 's no such thing but with J. Reeve and L. Muggleton That he has a Body like to a Man and inhabits a certain Place Thirdly The Presb. Indep and Anab. concerned chiefly against us hold That God from all Eternity elected a certain Number to Salvation and reprobated the residue to eternal Damnation without respect to any Condition of Obedience or Disobedience thereby to illustrate his own Soveraignity and Glory which Principle these Apostates have so much Understanding yet left as to repute pernicious and damnable The like do some of these Socinians we have to do with others of them having wheel'd off a few years since to the Geneva Predestinarian side Fourthly The Presb. Indep and Anab. believe That by Christ's Life and Sufferings wholely without God's Justice was Satisfied for Sins and Justification compleatly wrought for the Elect not only by Forgiving Sins past but reputing them really Just and Righteous whilst actually Sinful which kind of Doctrine these Apostates deny as also doth the Socinian affirming That God needed no such rigid Satisfaction that this is not to make him Righteous but Revengeful and that Christ cannot so properly be said to be the Cause as the Effect of the Father's Love For God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son c. And though such are forgiven who truly Repent and that Remission was sealed by Christ's Blood as a Sacrifice yet Men are not made really Righteous within by any Imputation from another's Righteousness without while they are really Unrighteous within This is the 4th Contradiction Fiftly Presb. Indep and Anab. believe Christ to have now in Heaven an Human Body or one of Flesh Blood and Bones The Socinian and these Apostates say he hath no such Body but that which he hath is more Spiritual and glorified 6ly The Presb. Indep Anabapt and these Apostates affirm the Immortality of the Soul The Socinians deny it 7thly The Presb. Indep Anab. and Socinian deny the Light that shines within to be Christ in his Spiritual Appearance These Apostates though erred from it yet affirm it to be such 8thly The Presb. Indep Anab. deny that it can lead Men that obey it unto Salvation The Socinian with these Apostates affirm that it is able to lead such as follow it to Eternal Life 9ly The Presb. Indep Anab. and Socinian deny the Spirit to be poured out in these as former Ages or that Men ought to wait for the Motions of it to Preach Pray or Praise God These Apostates in words confess to maintain the contrary 10ly The Presb. Indep Anab. and Socinian affirm That the Scriptures are the only standing Rule to measure and try Doctrines and Spirits by under the Gospel These Apostates believe no such thing 11ly The Presb. Indep Anab. and Socinians disown the Practice of Keeping on the Hat in time of publick Prayer These Apostates call the Pulling of it off a Tradition of Men a Romish Tradition c. Yet Reader for our seasonable and due proceeding against them as Innovators upon the Church of Christ and Disturbers of our Peace by this new unprofitable and irreverent Practice denying them in their persistence and rejecting their Motions as not coming from the Spirit of God are we furiously fallen upon by some of each of those fore-mentioned Parties who as Men forgetting their own Essential Differences and that Persecution they have followed one another with for years like the ancient Scribes Sadducees and Pharisees unanimously endeavour our Disgrace Overthrow in the World as if they were all of one Faith in Doctrine who scarcely in any two most weighty Points hit which shews that Men under divers fundamental Differences may be acted by one and the same Spirit of Envy and Bitterness against the Truth and them that live therein What else can I call that which has given these Apostates that place in their Hearts that while Faithful hated them as they still do us who Judas-like have run away from us to inform our Enemies which way they may take us at an Advantage These Men they hug commend and vindicate at so high a rate as if they were the only great Pilgrims on Earth for Righteousness as much as they differ and we a Crew of Tyrants and Hypocrites Their Innovation must be called Gospel-Liberty but our Religious-Government Tyranny They justifie the Motions of these Apostates and condemn Us for refusing them whom themselves both deny Motions and the Way to know them They put me in mind of the Jews of old who were seldom wanting in the Promotion of the Christians Sufferings by the Heathen nay they were glad and improved the least Occasion to set the Infidels upon their backs alwayes the Jew and Heathen said Amen to the Destruction of the Christians yea that very thing for which the Jew in his time suffered from the Heathen to wit That they worshipped an Ass's Head was after abusively made the Reproach of Christians both by Jew and Heathen What others have we received from the Separatists of this Age who make us to inherit that sort of Suffering which they once thought Ungodly in their Adversaries How welcome was a Renegado Christian to the Heathen or a Backslider to the Jew How cheery were they of such an one's Intelligence and how apt to aggravate it to the Wrong of Christianity But if that was nevertheless True because of the Unfaithfulness and Treachery of its Professors neither is our Way to be concluded False nor our Society Criminal because a few stragling Renegadoes have in their Discontents furnisht some common Enemies with a broken imperfect Account of our Church-Proceedings But as this will turn little to their Credit with Wise and Just Men so have we Confidence in God that having brought us through many Difficulties he will continue to preserve us through the Peril of False Brethren and all other Tribulations which do and will but work a far more exceeding Weight of Glory yea of that Glory which was with the Father before the World began and in the Possession of which the now despised Flock of God shall rest with him in that World which never had Beginning and is without End William Penn. THE END ERRATA READER THou art still desired to continue thy Kindness in Correcting such Faults as have through Speed of Work escaped the Press whether they be Words Letters Points or Parenthesis some of the most Considerable are here collected Page Line Error Corrected 4 17 that blot out 9 15 shewn shown 19 time blot out 28 time blot out 33 head hear 18 24 those these 21 15 entitle entitling 25 20 a and 26 12 the Hat the Spirit of the Hat 33 8 Introductoction Introduction 37 Godliness Godliness undeservedly 34 37 an on 35 1 the these 36 21 of in 38 6 and Indep Independents 9 God given God hath given 37 had hath 49 21 ever never 54 14 were was 29 that both that the Intent of both 57 36 Cowardness Cowardize 59 26 upon upon it 62 17 as blot out 71 3 a Paper part of a Paper pag. 4 5. 1 Joh 2.20.27 Mat. 7.15 and 24.4 Joh. 10. 2 Tim. 4.14 15 16. Math. 18.17 Prov. 30.12 Mat. 6.22 Spir. of the Hat p. 10. Tyran Detect p. 5 23 24 25. Spir. of the Hat pag. 13 14. How came this Letter into this Socinian's hand Doth not this prove a Cabal and that Quondam Quakers now Apostates are their Spies was this my Reward for a loving and curteous Letter which kindly invited him to my House for further Satisfaction Treacherous Person to give it up into proclaimed Enemies Hands such Baseness is like an Apostate and not to grapple with one part of its Strength so disingenuous an Adversary Tyr. Hyp. Detect p. 9 60 61 62. * as Dr. Gell. and a certain Person of worldly Quality said That had not the Quakers come the Ranters had over-run the Nation Ibid. p. 24 p. 14 15. pag. 16.17 pag. 51. pag. 50. pag. 19. p. 19 20 21 29. * Blood Blood thou seekest O Envious Man pag. 29. * But is not this to render us Obnoxious to the Government I abhor that Practice But Base Self-Ended Spirits are to be humbled and not think themselves fit to cry down other Peoples Religion that have by Treachery Persecution and Falseness too much reproacht all Religion Let tehm leave Scribling Snarling with their Writings Repent p. 29 30 31 32. p. 52 53. p. 11. p. 13. pag. 43. See Plain Dealing pag. 7. pag. 48 58 59. pag. 55. pag. 56. Rev. 21.27 2 Thes 2.12 2 Thes 1.8 * Spir. Hat Tyran Hyp. Detect