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A Juſt and Lawful TRYAL OF THE Foxonian Chief Prieſts: BY A Perfect Proceeding againſt Them. AND They Condemn'd out of their own Ancient Teſtimonies. And being brought to the Bar of Juſtice, their own Ancient Teſtimonies have judged them Guilty, and to be no Chriſtians of Chriſt's making.

Thou ſhalt rebuke thy Neighbour, and not ſuffer Sin upon him, Levit. 19.17. Happy ſhall he be that rewardeth thee as thou haſt ſerved us, Pſalm 137.8.

But theſe Quakers ſay, Scripture is not his [Gods] Voice, but Declaration of what he ſpake to, and by thoſe holy Men, &c. Scorn'd Quaker, page 19. Therefore I will give them their own Scripture, Muſt not Jealouſie be ſtirred up in the Powers of the Earth againſt them, as they have ſtirred up the Powers of the Earth againſt others, Truth's Character, p. 15. Having loſt that which gave you a true Title to the Name of Chriſtians, you deſerve not that Name. E. B.'s Works, p. 419.

LONDON, Printed for the Author; and to be Sold by B. Aylmer againſt the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1697.

ERRATA.

PAg. 11. Lin. 33. for ſee r. with p. 23. l. 7. the Comma that's at in, ſhould be at it p. 27. l. 17, 18. them words in the Parentheſis be not theirs p. 87. laſt line but one, after the word juſtly, r. deſerve to be p. 89. l. 25. after the &c. r. of, and the Comma's that be at the ſhould be at they, for, the Proteſtant Miniſters are not their words p. 90. l. 37. after people r. they ſay p. 96. l. 31. after party r. ſays p. 111. l. 11. for word r. world. Pages 200. and 201. ſhould be 110. and 111. and there be ſome words incloſed in Parentheſes inſerted into ſome of their ſentences, which be not theirs, only added for particular notice or explanation, which although not ſo well diſtinguiſhed as ought, yet by the ſenſe of the matter diſcernable.

The PREFACE. Chriſtian Reader,

THe Deſign of this following Tryal is, To ſhew the wickedneſs of the Foxonian Spirit, and the Chief Prieſts and Rulers among them: That it's an Antichriſtian Porphyrian Spirit, appears by their bantering all who confeſs themſelves Sinners: For T. C. having ſaid, I deſire my Imperfections, nor theſe Quakers Revilings, may not prejudice againſt reading this, &c. for they cannot repreſent me a greater Sinner than (I thank God) I think my ſelf to be; but by their villifying me they ſhew the weakneſs of their Cauſe, and the wickedneſs of their Spirits: For the Controverſie between us is not what T. C. is, but whether or no G. Fox, &c. has ſo printed as I charge, them, and whether thoſe Expreſſions be not Unchriſtian, &c. For this, theſe Quakers thus banter me, A large Confeſſion, I promiſe you! ſay they: Why in good earneſt he hath cut off all opportunities of being told of his Faults for the future, by confeſſing the Indictment, and pleading Guilty to this and all others that may be brought againſt him now henceforth for ever: Then we may take it for granted, that whatever I have charged him with, &c.—he is conſcious—he is guilty of, conſequently I have not wronged him in ſo repreſenting him—nay, nor is it poſſible for me to wrong him, &c.—Little need be ſaid to ſhew the Injuſtice of the Foxonians, beſides their Scoff and Banter: But for that they ſay, How can he (i. e. T. C.) expect any other but to be banter'd? &c. And not only T. C. but all who confeſs themſelves Sinners, are ſo dealt with by them. But to take a little notice of theſe Quakers Injuſtice (for as to their Bantring, T. C. muſt expect no other from them) They ſay of T. C. He hath pleaded Guilty to this and all others that may be brought againſt him, which is falſe; for T. C. does not confeſs (nor have they proved) he is guilty of what they charge him with, but they have wronged him: For altho' the Prophets confeſſed, as David, &c. that their iniquities were great; and St. Paul ſaid of himſelf, I am the chiefeſt of Sinners, yet they were falſly charged and wronged by your Fore-fathers, and they laid to David's Charge things that he knew not; and Paul was not guilty of them Sins your Forefathers accuſed him of, Acts 24. But they wronged him, as you have T. C. Nor do I find that any of the cruel Jews (ſince Paul's confeſſing himſelf the chiefeſt of Sinners) ever made ſo wicked and Porphyrian a Bantering uſe of his words as you have done, as to ſay, They cannot wrong him, nor is it poſſible to wrong him, (Paul) for let me repreſent him how I will, I cannot repreſent him a chiefer Sinner than he ſays, he is: Nay, ſay theſe Quakers his (i. e. T. C.'s) Conceſſion includes not only all this, i. e. Whoremonger, Swearer, Drunkard, &c. but all other Sins whatſoever: But if they pretend they ſay, Theſe Sins we hope he is not guilty of; what then? Altho' they hope ſo, yet by their own Doctrine they may charge him with them, and puniſh him accordingly, its not poſſible [for them] to wrong him.

But now in caſe that Paſſage were not ſo properly worded as it ought, I ſee not ſo much difference between a greater Sinner, and the chief of Sinners, as to be ſo Unchriſtianly dealt by: But humble Chriſtian Acknowledgments are ſo contrary to their proud Phariſaical bragging Prayers (as G. W.'s, at the end of his Judgment fixt, &c.) that cauſes them to gnaſh their Teeth ſo againſt them; but their own Doctrine in their Book Rabſhekah, &c. p. 70. is a proper Anſwer to them herein, and to moſt of their Books; ſay they, I defie the Father of Lies himſelf to out-do this; and I having proved ſome part of their Book Rabſhekah, &c. was writ or given forth by a wicked Spirit, I ſuppoſe you will confeſs it was all given forth by one Spirit; therefore let the Reader judge what the reſt of it can be, E. B.'s Work's, p. 148.

There's ſome Faults in this Tryal, &c. which I deſire the Readers Charity in paſſing them by, as the ſmallneſs of the Letter, becauſe I was deſirous to bring it into as few Sheets as poſſible; and indeed, I did not expect it would have taken up ſo many; but while it was in Printing, I Inſerted ſeveral more Proofs (of my Charges) into ſeveral places, as I thought moſt ſuitable; which I find, cauſes it in ſome places not to Read ſo ſmooth as it ought. Alſo I have ſhortened it in ſome partiat the latter end, becauſe I find the ſame Matters, are fuller and better Treated on in the Second Edition of the Snake in the Graſs, &c. And I underſtand that Worthy Author intends a full Reply to the Quakers pretended Antidote, &c. Whereby, I queſtion not, but he will diſcover the Poiſon of Aſps from under the Tongue of G. Whitehead, in that pretended Antidote, &c. as well as he has Diſcovered the Flames of the Pit of Damnation (their own Terms) which came forth out of the Mouth of W. Penn, in p. 171. and 172. in the Snake in the Graſs, &c. Whereas, is their ſaid he, W. Penn, is ſo Blaſphemous, and Envious, as to confirm all theſe Quakers Blaſphemous Fury againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, as being from the Holy Spirit; and alſo encourages them to pour forth ten Thouſand times more ſuch helliſh Fury; for he Implies that (in his Judgment all I have here, following in this Tryal produced, and twenty times as much more (I think) I could produce out of their Ancient Teſtimonies, is too little; for he is ſo Blaſphemous, as to make the Holy Spirit the Author thereof; which is a full Proof, that their Foxonian Spirit (which they term God's, Chriſt's, and the Holy Spirit) is a wicked Spirit; for ſays he, we (i. e. Foxonian Quakers) have nothing for them (i. e. Miniſters) but Woes, and Plagues, but the Holy Spirit commanded to Pray for all Men, although the Foxonian Spirit, contrariwiſe hath no Prayers, but Woes and Plagues for the Proteſtant Miniſters. This is a plain Demonſtration of the Pride and Envy of the Foxonian High Prieſts, or Pope W. Penn &c. And altho' he formerly by ſuch Endeavours (to Defame, in order to deſtroy the Proteſtant Miniſters) got great Favour and Reward too formerly, ſo I know not but that by his Hypocriſie, &c. he may get as much Intereſt and Power now, and effect the ſame againſt me, as his Predeceſſor, Haman intended againſt Mordicai; yet I bleſs God, I fear him no more than David did Goliah; but ſhall, I hope, have Opportunity further to diſcover them: For ſurely all true Engliſh Proteſtants, when they have ſeen all here following, of their Envy againſt the Miniſters, and what is alſo in the Snake in the Graſs, &c. will conclude that he, W. Penn, hath ſhewed ſo little of an Engliſh Proteſtant or Gentleman, that he ſcarcely deſerves ſuch a Character. Yet as he and G. Whitehead have done for their Idol of Jealouſie, Fox, exalt and commend him & his wicked works, ſo there is J. Field, and W. Bingley, &c. to do the ſame for them; and ſo Canonize each other as Saints of the higheſt Form.

But to C. Wade in Great Myſt. p. 250. The Devil was in thee, ſays Fox; Thou ſay'ſt thou waſt ſaved by Chriſt without thee: This ſo diſturbed the envious Fox, that he ſaid to him, And ſo haſt recorded thy ſelf a Reprobate; nay, to be by Fox recorded a Reprobate, was not puniſhment bad enough for him, but he adjoyns to it, And ſo ignorant of Chriſt within; as if to confeſs Salvation by our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth without us, were an infallible mark of ignorance of Chriſt within; yet they ſay Chriſt is not divided: But notwithſtanding they print this C. W. as ſuch an ignorant Reprobate, yet he has made ſound Confeſſions to Chriſt within: But thereby they not only reprobate C. W. but all Chriſtians beſide themſelves; only the Gentiles, becauſe they do not pretend to Salvation by him, they have a great deal of Charity for them, and allow them to have faith. Alſo in a Book, intituled, The Doctrine of Perfection, &c. p. 19. ſay they, When you come to this [their Light within, &c.] you will ceaſe remembring his death at Jeruſalem, and will come to ſee how he has been crucified in you, &c. But this their Light or Star, which leads to forget his [i. e. Chriſt's] death at Jeruſalem, cannot be his. Alſo G. Fox oppoſes J.J. ſaying, Chriſt is to be conſidered two ways—he is not at a diſtance from ſuch as truly believe, but—dwells in their hearts by faith; but ſays he, Reſpecting his Perſon, or bodily preſence, his glorious or glorified Body, ſo he is conſidered as being without, not within the Soul. Notwithſtanding theſe Acknowledgments and Chriſtian Diſtinctions, yet Fox oppoſes this; and altho' they do not in plain expreſs words, yet they do implicitly deny the Aſcenſion and now being of our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, as he was a viſible or ſeen Man or Perſon, by their not allowing him to be Aſcended into any Heaven above and without Men; for the Miniſters ſaying, Chriſt is True God, and True Man; they blaſphemouſly ſay, Here ſottiſh Minds, your imagined God beyond the Stars, and your carnal Chriſt—is utterly teſtified againſt, by the Light which comes from Chriſt. And further ſay, That this Chriſt—is God and Man in one Perſon, is a Lye. And the Miniſters further ſay, Chriſt the only God and Man in one Perſon, remains for ever a diſtinct Perſon from all Saints—notwithſtanding their union with him. The Quakers Anſwer is, Your words are utterly deny'd, and your diſtinctions are abominable. But theſe Quakers Contempts are much more abominable to all Chriſtians, altho' not to G. Whitehead, &c. But rather by them their Subjects the Foxonian Quakers injoyn'd to maintain and hold up, as their Antient Teſtimony, theſe and their other Scandals they have caſt on the Proteſtant Miniſters Government and Nation, for ſays Fox to thoſe who uphold the Miniſters, except you repent you ſhall all be conſumed as the King was, and periſh with the ſame power,—and the Government ſhall be taken from you pretended Rulers, &c.—All this Tree muſt be cut down. They threaten hard therefore awake all Engliſh Proteſtants.

The CONTENTS. 1. THe Quakers Implacable Rage and Malice againſt all the Proteſtant Miniſters. Page 1, 2, 7, 9, 12, &c. 2. Their Adding to, and Taking from the Works of their Deceaſed Prophets in their Reprinting them, p. 3, 8, 15, &c. 3. Their Policy and Induſtry to advance their Cauſe, p. 4, 5, 7. 4. Their outrage againſt D. S. a Diſſenting Quaker, &c. p. 8. 5. Their wicked Ancient Teſtimonies not diſown'd, p. 10, 51. 6. Their not Preaching of Chriſt without, p. 12, 13, 68. to 77. 7. Their Perſecuting Spirit, p. 5, 14. to 18. 8. They are againſt Toleration to any but themſelves, p. 52, &c. 9. Againſt allowing it to the Church of England, p. 67, 94. 10. Their Treaſons and Rebellion p. 18, 27, to 33, 37, 40. 11. Their Abetting Popiſh Books againſt Proteſtants, with which their whole Body is chargeable, p. 9, 20, 21, 22, 34. 12. Their Rage, and naſty Spirit againſt others, p. 24, 77, to 83. 13. The Deceit of their Pretence againſt Fighting, p. 3 , to 39 14. Their accuſing other for that Rebellion of which they were guilty themſelves, p. 42, 61, 62, 100. 15. The danger of owning Quakers as Proteſtants, p. 46. 16. Quakers not ſincere unleſs retract their Errors, p. 47, &c. 17. Their Shuffling and Evaſive Anſwers, p. 68, to 77, 115. 18. Their Contempt of the holy Scriptures, p. 89, 106. 19. Their Magnifying of Themſelve, p. 100, to 105. 20. Their Pretence to Perfection, p. 73. 21. Their Denial if Chriſt, p. 51, 68, to 77. 116, to 120. 22. Their making themſelves to be Chriſt, p. 75. 23. That an Evil Spirit poſſeſſes them, p. 108, 109. 24. Their Pretence to Unity falſe, ſhewn by their Diviſions amongſt themſelves, &c. p. 95, 96, 111, to 115. 25. George Fox's Great Ignorance, p. 48, &c. 26. His Falſifications and Forgery, p. 116, to 122. 27. The Quakers Invaders of Property, &c. p. 109. 28. That it is eſpecially incumbent on the Church of England to oppoſe the Quakers, p. 5, 88. 29. That Encouragement ſhould be given to that end, p. 123. 30. An Expoſition of 2 Pet. I.19. p. 128.
A Juſt and Lawful Tryal of the Foxonian Quaker's Chief Prieſts, by a perfect proceeding againſt them, and they condemned out of their own Ancient Teſtimonies; and being brought to the Bar of Juſtice, their own Ancient Teſtimonies and Practices have judged them Guilty, and to be no Chriſtians of Chriſt's making, and therefore to be teſtified againſt by all true Chriſtians; by a Friend to England's Government, Governors, and Laws (which have been contemn'd and deſpiſed by them) is this ſent abroad.

PRoteſtant Readers, more eſpecially you who take on you the care and cure of Souls, I deſire you would not refuſe to read this ſmall Tract, becauſe of its relation to Quakeriſm, although the Chief Prieſts and Maſters of them have attained to that degree of Perfection, in that art of writing ſo ſeditiouſly ſcandalous, falſe, and arrogantly againſt the Proteſtant Religion, (eſpecially the Miniſters thereof in general) the Government and Governours (eſpecially Monarchy and Epiſcopacy) and our two late Kings, Charles I. and II. in theſe and other ſuch envious and deſtructive Works they have printed ſo much, and ſo many Volumes that it beſpeaks them, who ſuppoſe them (i. e. theſe Quakers) to be Men of any good Conſciences, or ſound Judgment, to have little ſenſe themſelves: Theſe Quakers in the numerouſneſs and ſeditious Printed Pamphlets, having ſo out-run the bounds of Morality in theſe things, whereby their ſeditious Libels are ſpread over this and other Nations, without due oppoſition, as being by Men of Learning and Senſe, thought to carry in themſelves their own Confutation.

For their Ancient Teſtimony (now revived and injoyned their Subjects by their White-hart-court Conclave in their Act made 1696.) was as Haman's Pride and Envy lead him to endeavour the deſtruction of the Jews, and to effect it, he maliciouſly and falſly informed againſt them to inſence the King, as in Eſther 3. So theſe Foxonian Quakers being influenced by the ſame Spirit of Pride and Envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters in general, their Thirſt after their Deſtruction being ſo inſatiable, that they were ſo wicked, as to endeavour to incenſe all the ſeveral Governments, from 1642. to 1660. againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters as being for the King, i. e. both the Charles's I. and II. eſpecially for endeavouring the Reſtoration, as in the Caſe of Mr. Love, &c. how did theſe Quakers, improve that opportunity to incenſe the then Government and People againſt them, and aſſoon as King Charles II. was reſtored in 1660. they renewed their Proſecution againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters for their Deſtruction, and then, whereas they had formerly informed againſt them as being for him the ſame King Charles II. they now 1660. change their Charge, and inform againſt them to him, as being againſt him, and dangerous to his Perſon and Government: I ſay, ſuch was their Bloody Envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, that they the Foxonian Quakers did accuſe them for being for the King, &c. but when times turned, they turn alſo, and accuſe them for being againſt him, this their unuſual Envy and Wickedneſs is ſo ſcandalous to the Engliſh Proteſtants in general, as they go for ſuch, that it deſerves to be teſtified againſt by all true Proteſtants; but inſtead thereof, the now Chief Foxonians W. Penn and G. Whitehead, &c. do reprint their Seditious and Blaſphemous Pamphlets in great Volumes in Folio, with high commendations of the wicked Authors Fox their Idol of Jealouſie, many have done well, but thou dear George (ſays W. Penn.) hath excelled them all, excuſe, and vindicate their blaſphemous Titles, as the Son of God, &c. and theſe Men and their wicked Works are, by long Epiſtles of high commendations, from W. Penn and G. Whitehead recommended to the younger Generation, as Prophets of God, and more than a Prophet, and ſo by their own Doctrine to have equal or greater Authority than the Scripture, their Idol of Jealouſie Foxes wicked Works preſented to the Univerſity of Oxford, alſo is as a Monument ſet up in their Quakers publick Meeting at the Savoy in London, and although they pretend they were given forth by ſpecial command from the Lord, yet theſe wicked now Foxonians have altered ſuch, and left out and put in and changed words as they pleaſe, as may be proved in a diſtinct Tract; but its their treaſonable and ſeditious ancient Teſtimony that they have thus new forged, but for their Contempts and Defamations, Lyes and Scandals they have caſt on the Proteſtant Miniſters, them they have to the full reprinted and added, more eſpecially W. Penn, who being acquainted at Court more than others, and an intelligible Perſon, he quickly found the Papiſt Intereſt great there; and there were not wanting in Court Men of judgment, who as quickly eſpied him as a fit Engine to deſtroy the Proteſtant Religion, by defaming their Miniſters, and in order thereto, he had favour and encouragement in that wicked Work, as his many Printed Teſtimonies ſince the Reſtoration, where he vents his malice and rage againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, as by F. B. and G. K. in print proved, for as I before ſaid, he, rather exceeds thans abate (in defaming the Miniſters) his Fathers Fox and Burrows, but not in their Treaſons and Seditions; he knew he had great Friends in Court, who could defend and reward him, but I ſay as to their Reprints or new Editions, they are not to be believed nor truſted, they ſo fallaciouſly alter, or where they do not tell down-right untruth, yet they expreſs things in ſuch general and doubtful terms, as make them to appear otherways then they are, as in E. Bs. Works, they ſay he died a Priſoner and Martyr, now in common acceptation, its as if he dyed in Priſon, and by ſome ill uſage there; nay a Dutch Hiſtorian Prints it he dyed in Priſon; hereby the Government of England is reflected on all over Chriſtendom as cruel, whereas it appears as in Satan diſrob'd, &c. that although he was a Priſoner, yet he was not in Priſon when he dyed, but in caſe he had dyed in Priſon, it had not been becauſe of ill uſage or ill accommodation, for he had a convenient apartment to himſelf, and was better provided for and fed, than ever he was in his life before he became a Quaker, by the judgment of them that knew him formerly; but thus they abuſe Authority and exalt themſelves, by ſuch fallacious ways untaken notice of, and while ſome ſleep, or mind not, the Enemies takes advantage, for the Foxonian Quakers are now a very great number, or body of rich politick People, and ſo purſe proud and ſtrong, no one People (i. e. diſſenting Society) is able to deal with them.

They are by their Jeſuitical Politick way of Government united as one intire Body, unto one Head or Conclave of Cardinals, of Chief Prieſts in London, Whitehead, &c. from, and by whoſe Authority a vaſt number of their ſeditious Libels are ſpread all over England's Dominions and elſewhere; and they are ſo formidable, that ſcarce any eminent Magiſtrate but they can (by ſome intereſt or other they have or can make) influence, for if any juſt complaint be againſt any of their Prieſts, they can by their Meetings know who of them have moſt influence on ſuch in Power moſt concerned, and ſo can by their quibbles, ſmooth and fawning pretences perſwade thar they are Innocent, and their Adverſaries Malicious, as in the caſe of F. Bugg's dedicating his Book Quak. Withering, &c. to the Biſhop of Gloceſter, on which G. W. made ſuch intereſt, or ſo influenced him, that as Whitehead Prints it, the Biſhop rather favoured him G. W. than F. B. but had any of his, i. e. that Biſhops Flock left him, and joyned with the Quakers, and wrot but half ſo much in defence of the Quakers, and diſcovery of the Church of England, I think the Quakers would not ſo ſlightly eſteemed it, but this ſhews what advantage they have, and make by their fawning and confidence, to the damage and ſcandal of the Proteſtant Miniſters, for their ſeditious Ancient Teſtimonies, not only grow by not being pulled up, but they ſeed and increaſe; which were there as much care taken to defend the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, by duly anſwering and ſuppreſſing their ſeditious Books, as they do to deſtroy and ſuppreſs them wrot in diſcovery of their Errors: they indite and excommunicate, and take away Goods, and Impriſon, and Fine, for diſcovery of their Wickedneſs, and proſecute and complained to the Secretary of State, as in the caſe of F. B. G. K. and W. B. and is it not as fitting to ſuppreſs Error and Sedition, as for them to ſuppreſs Truth, alſo as much care ought to be taken for ſpreading ſuch Books that are printed in defence of the Proteſtants againſt them, as they do to ſpread theirs; for although there have been ſome ſuch wrot, yet ſo few will buy them, that the Bookſellers are not willing to undertake to Print them, which if they were encouraged by a common vend for ſuch Books, it might be ſome check to their Inſolency, and help to open the Underſtandings of People; for how can it be expected, but that the vulgar People and Strangers abroad ſhould believe all their Contempts of the Proteſtant Miniſters be true, becauſe ſo publick all over the Nation and other Parts without oppoſition, not only in their ſmall Pamphlets, but alſo in great Volumes (when them fierce Deſpiſers Fox, &c. be dead,) with ſuch long Epiſtles or high Commendations of them and their wicked Works, by W. Penn and George Whitehead, &c. and more eſpecially the Quakers being ſo formidable and great, that as other Foreign Nations have an Agent or Miniſter reſiding about the Kings Court, to negotiate and improve their Intereſt in the favour of the Government, ſo have theſe Quakers their Agent a Perſon who is not the leaſt in favour, (although he hath manifeſted himſelf an Enemy to the Proteſtant Miniſters; nay, they Foxonian Quakers, rather than they will want Dirt and Infamy to throw on the Proteſtant Bible, Religion and Miniſters, they will take in aid from the Papiſts, and forge or fetch News from the Pit of Damnation, as is proved in this following Tryal; and ſeeing they are ſo Great, Powerful, and Strong, that no one Society is able to ballance them, if were well all differing Proteſtants were more united againſt the common Enemy; for their greateſt danger of hurt is from Rome at home, and ſeeing theſe Quakers will not endure the leaſt affront (as they think) to their Perſons or Papers, but will with the utmoſt Power and Malice Proſecute and Puniſh, as in their Indicting and Proſecuting F. Bugg as Seditious, becauſe he Printed the Figure of a Pillory for Twelve of their Chief Prieſts; how was the Government and Nation alarm'd with it? and in Penſilvania they preſented George Keith, as guilty or worthy of Death by their Law, and its to be feared would have dealt accordingly by him, but that Providence took the Power out of their Bloody Prieſt Jennings's hands, and Impriſoned the Man, and took away his Goods that Printed G. Keith's Plea, Will. Bradford, and ſay it's Blaſphemy to term their Paper Sinful.

Now ſeeing they will not bear the reproach they juſtly deſerve, then why muſt the Proteſtant Bible and Miniſters be by them ſo defamed in Print to Poſterity by them; are not theſe things of higher concernment, and more juſtly deſerving puniſhment than them Perſons they ſo puniſhed; conſider this all you Proteſtants whom it moſt eſpecially concerns; if they be ſo preſumptuous now, what may they not attempt, when they can effect their wicked deſign of deſtroying the Proteſtant Miniſtry? They having already obtained in ſome meaſure to confront, or be equal with the Peers of the Realm, who formerly they reproached as well as the Miniſters; and this that they have gained may prove a bait to other ambitious Perſons to pretend to be Quakers, if but to exempt them from the reach of that Law, its hoped, this will no more reflect on our Governours, if they have been deceived by their falſe pretences, than it did on Joſhua and the Elders of Iſrael that the Gibeonites deceived; I fear the caſe is much the ſame; it may be feared their Penſilvania Pope W. Penn can already, with the help of Twelve more of their London Cardinals, Whitehead, &c. procure more Men or Money to their Intereſt than any one Subject in England; if theſe give it as their Teſtimony or Judgment, that it's for the ſervice of Truth, and by the Spirit of God, (i. e. Fox's Spirit) there's enough Quakers to give up their whole Concerns, Spiritual and Temporal to that Spirit, as their Barbadoes Church did, whereby they ſold Themſelves, Bodies, Souls and Eſtates to that Spirit, as in Babel's Builders, &c. may be ſeen at large.

Now conſider you 25, W. Myers, Tho. Cox, G. Laytey, Tho. Lower, J. Vaughton, N. Mark, W. Bingly, C. Marſhall W. Sanders, J Feild, M. Ruſſel, J. Knight, H. Gouldny, D. Whorly, &c. you Foxonian Chief Prieſts and chief Men of War; this Title and manner of Proceedings, and the Hell-fetch'd Names and Terms are according to your own in print, againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters in general, and not only formerly in Pamphlets, but now reprinted, and the Author highly applauded and recommended to poſterity by your Chief Men of War, in E. Burrows Works, although you were not ſo extreme ſhameleſs as to reprint all his Wickedneſs, but alter, leave out, and add in, to forge them to your mind, yet this and other Seditious Defamings of the Proteſtant Miniſters you have eſpouſed, and are your Ancient Teſtimony, and however Wicked and Impudent you may term me, yet know, I here appear in your own Chief Prieſts Shape or Colours, and whatever herein comes from the Pit of Damnation is not of my fetching thence, but your own; for I have theſe and many more in your printed Libels. Conſider you 24 how outragious you were againſt that Chriſtian Quaker D. S. for his Anſwer to F. B. you ſay of D. S. it was a ſcandalous malicious Libel, a mere trick put on you by ſome malicious Adverſary to abuſe you; but you prove not your black Charge, but you ſay ſo, and it muſt go ſo, but yours is a more malicious Libel, and where as you ſay, it was not by any directions or leave from you; where did he ſay it was? or what occaſion had D. S. for your leave; but herein your arrogancy is ſeen in not allowing D. S. or any to ſubſcribe himſelf a Chriſtian Quaker without your leave; where got you this Power over others? if you come no honeſter by your Money its but ill gotten Goods? your Conſciences knew, he D. S. did not intend nor mean you as the Perſons concern'd in that Name Chriſtian Quakers; for you know that by that Title the diſſenting Quakers diſtinguiſh themſelves from you Foxonians, as W. R. in his Book; therefore the mere trick was yours to deceive People into the Belief that you are the Chriſtian Quakers, when as you are not, and had you your Penſilvanian Power here, as your Dear Brother that Bloody Foxonian Prieſt Jennings had in Penſilvania: It may be feared D. S. might have faired as W. Bradford did, his Goods taken away and impriſoned, and his life alſo, if you could had your wicked wills; but that Chriſtian Anſwer of D. S. had been of more ſervice to you than any thing you ever Printed; could your Pride have let it paſs, People might have thought you had been of that number of Chriſtian Quakers, who would not hide Iniquity, nor acquit your guilty Idols of Jealouſie, Fox and Whitehead; but now you have ſhewn your ſelves to be otherwiſe, and intitled your ſelves and all the Foxonian Quakers to all their Errors, wicked Contempts of the Proteſtant Bible, Religion, and Miniſters, which is more than you are able to anſwer, ot make ſatisfaction for, for all you be ſo rich, how can you expect to be thought Men of ſincerity, when there are ſo many ſcandalous Ancient Teſtimonies of theirs in Print? yet you dare not diſown them, for fear of reflecting on the wicked Authors Fox, &c. here following I prove you guilty of Malice againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, in informing againſt them all along before the Reſtoration, for being for both the Kings, Charles I. and Charles II. for reſtoring him; and your thirſt after their deſtruction was ſo great, that becauſe you were prevented of your deſign againſt them, then by the Reſtoration in 1660. aſſoon as ever the King was come in, you wickedly alter your charge, and then accuſe them for being againſt him. See J. Coal's Works, The Whore Unvail'd, p. 112. highly commended and eſpouſed by G. Fox and his Margaret the Lamb's Wife, W. Penn and George Whitehead; there you eſpous'd the Papiſts defaming the Proteſtant Bible, Religion and Miniſters, as a Brazen-fac'd, Unjuſt, Corrupt Book. Pope or Devil, if they will but defame the Proteſtants, you Foxonians will be their Factors to vend and ſpread ſuch Wares; you cannot but know there are many of your Ancient Teſtimonies in Print, that much more deſerve to be diſown'd than that of D. S. and if you would be thought Chriſtian Quakers, prove your ſelves ſuch by condemning theſe Blaſphemous Treaſonable and Seditious Ancient Teſtimonies; be not ſo ſhameleſs as to think its enough for you to ſay you believe according to Scriptures, no more than it did your Forefathers in ſaying they had Abraham to their Father; you could give it as a reaſon to excommunicate G. K. becauſe he did not call in his Books againſt your wicked erronious Brethren S. Jennings, &c. you pretend they were of diſſervice to Truth; but are not theſe your wicked Actions and Seditious Ancient Teſtimonies, greater injury to the Proteſtant Religion than they: for ſhame you Foxonians, who be not Prieſts, be not ſo Prieſt-ridden by them, will you be ſo proud and fond of a little Reputation, that rather than you will acknowledge you have been miſtaken, or miſlead by them wicked Men Fox, &c. that you will rack your Conſciences, and ſacrifice your Souls; ah, unwiſe Men! you purchaſe it at too dear a rate: And if you give not forth ſome publick Teſtimony againſt the Evils of your Chief Prieſts, you are reſpecters of Perſons, and ſo Sinners, and then by Foxes Doctrine, of the Devil; and indeed, if the Devil be known by his Teeth, as the old Proverbs ſay, he is by his Feet, then you have ſhewn what Teeth you have, when you can come to bite as you did W. Bradford, and would have done by G. K. and ſeeing you indicted F. Bugg, for not performing that unuſual Punctilio of Law to enter his Book in the Stationers Books; are your Meetings and Schools according to Law in all circumſtances, if not, if any diſadvantage come to any of you, thank your ſelves, you have ſhewn the way and given example, how think you to eſcape the Judgment of God, who condemn others and do worſe your ſelves; how can you have the face as to print ſuch Malicious, Seditious, and Scandalous Ancient, Teſtimonies, as be in G. F. E. B. and J. Coal's, &c. Works, beſides what you have by Forgery alter'd, by leaving out and putting in; ſays Fox, Let all Fines belonging to Lords of Mannors be taken away and given to the Poor, for they have enough; this Judge of the World Fox can give or take away the Lords Properties; Oh ſhameleſs! yet ſay you many have done well, but thou dear George excelleſt them all; but pray how liked you it (when a long Periwig and Sword were in faſhion with you) when it was like to be your own caſe; conſider this and what follows, and if your can ſhew any ſuch wicked Teſtimonies in G. Keith's Books; now if you do not as publickly diſown theſe your Chief Prieſt's wicked Ancient Teſtimonies, as you have done D. S. then you are juſtly chargeable with them; for in caſe you did not own them you would publiſh againſt them, as you have done againſt D. S. and G. K. and order them to be called in, as you did G. Keith's; ſome of you W. Sanders the Wine-cooper, in Company with H. Gouldny, on the open Change, in full Change, called Mr. Pennyman an Ancient Upright credible Citizen Impudent Fellow, but are not you worſe then Impudent, thus arrogantly to take upon you in Print, to try and condemn the Proteſtant Miniſters, and not content therewith, but to ſatiate your Spirits of Pride and Malice, and to effect your Bloody Deſigns againſt them; you inform the King in Print againſt them; and if by your own Ancient Teſtimonies you may be tryed, then are you guilty of Damnable Doctrines of Devils, and Seditious Doctrines, Blaſphemy, Perſecution, and are Conjurers and Witches, for all theſe and many more helliſh Names I can prove you have given the Proteſtant Miniſters, and not only in your ſmall Libels which you have ſpread Thouſands of, but in reprinting them in great Volumes, with high commendations on the wicked Authors, as more than a Prophet, excelling all, ſee many Blaſphemous Titles, and what can be the intent thereof, but that all theſe your Blaſphemous, Seditious, Scandalous Ancient Teſtimonies againſt the Proteſtant Religion, Miniſters, and Bible, which you have the Confidence as to Print as a brazen Fac'd Book. If you now Foxonian Quakers did not approve of that wicked Work of J. Coals, why did not you Print againſt it, as you did againſt D. S. Chriſtian Anſwer to F. Bugg, and as your White-hart-court Parliament did to G. Keith, order it to be called in, but your High Prieſt W. Penn knew well enough, that whatever Scandal or Falſhood he could invent to defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, it would be acceptable to ſome then in great Power at Court, who were able to defend and reward him (as G. F. and E. B. had in the Army formerly,) he had not Penſilvania for nothing, and although to beguile the Church of England, he tells them, far be it from me to deprive them of their juſt Rights, but what their juſt Rights are he tells us elſewhere, that they (the Proteſtant Miniſters) are that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's moſt dreadful Vengeance is reſerved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon, and that they are the beſt of Mankind to be ſpared; theſe are the juſt Rights he is not willing to diminiſh them of, but give them full Cups of his Fury and Envy, and ſuch is his eager Thirſt after their deſtruction, that he cannot be content to leave them until that day, but if J. C. or any other can fetch from the Pope, any thing to help to defame them, W. P. and G. W. will be their Factors to encourage the vend of ſuch Wares, and ſuch wicked Works is a ſure way to Preferment among them, they having many Rich Wives and great Trades among them, which E. Pennington and ſuch Runnagadoes as he wanted; and for further proof, that you Foxonians are not Chriſtian Quakers, ſee Iſaac Pennington that Paganiſh Preacher's contempt of the Perſon and Blood of our Lord Jeſus as a Garment Veſſel, &c. as cited by F. B. &c. and this Iſaac Pennington takes on him to write to the Jews for their Converſion and Redemption, and in the Diſcourſe do not mention Faith in the Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, his Blood and Sufferings as on the Croſs, as the Four Evangeliſts do, as St. Paul 1 Corinthians Chap. 1. and 2. but directs the Jews to a Seed, a Principle within them, as the Redeemer, &c. Now theſe Foxonian Quakers frame an excuſe, why they have not ſo frequently Preached Faith in that Man or Perſon our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth; becauſe as they pretend all Chriſtendom have that Belief already, and therefore no need for them to Preach it to them, but here to the Unbelieving Jews, who they cannot pretend do believe the outward Hiſtory of our new Teſtament concerning him; yet here this Paganiſh Preacher Iſaac Pennington do not Preach him whom their Fathers nailed to the Croſs, &c. our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth as the Apoſtle Peter did (therefore he could not be guided by the ſame Spirit they were,) but a Principle common to all Mankind, and in every Man, but he who brings not the ſame Goſpel but another, he is to be accurſed; alſo their fallaciouſneſs appears, that now of late they have more frequently Preached him as the Apoſtles did, although there is not ſo much need of their doing it now, ſince G. Keith has been raiſed up to do it, but as their Forefathers did in St. Paul's time, they Preach Chriſt in Envy; and I believe ſome of you 24 aforementioned are convinced in your own Conſciences, that your Chief Prieſts Fox and Whitehead, &c. are guilty of Errors in ſome things of Doctrine and Practice, which according to Foxes own Doctrine is ſin, and then by their own judgment they were of the Devil, if they abide not in the Doctrine of Chriſt they are of the Devil they ſay.

Now ſeeing its not only our privilege, but our duty to try Spirits, and in the Tryal of your Foxonian Spirit, I here uſe your own Printed Method againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, alſo your own Printed Doctrines rather than the Scriptures, becauſe you have contemn'd them, and ſay its Blaſphemy to ſay they are the word of God, but of yours you ſay, this is the word of God, &c. and in diſcharge of my duty not to let ſin be upon you unreproved, but to diſcover the deceivers is the only way to recover the deceived; this is your own Doctrine, and you declare you are contrary to the Miniſters in Principle and Practice, and we cannot own both you and them too, but muſt diſown one in your Epiſtle before E. Burrow's Works, &c. Now, I ſay, where or when did Chriſt or his Apoſtles accuſe their Opponents to the Magiſtrates, and indict them for thoſe things they were worſe and more guilty of themſelves; or when did they Impriſon, Fine, and take away Men's Goods, all which have been done by or for you Foxonian Chief Prieſts and S. Jennings, &c. they preſented G. K. as a ſubverter of the Government, which was Death by your Law; theſe and other your wicked doings prove your Foxonian Spirit a Wicked, Bloody, Proud, Envious Spirit, and contrary to the Spirit of Chriſt and his Apoſtles; for where do you read they did ſo, indeed I read in Rev. 2. Chap. 10. v.. its ſaid, that the Devil ſhall caſt ſome of you into Priſon Now let People judge, whether theſe wicked Actions of your Chief Prieſts be not more like the Devils, then Chriſt or the Apoſtles and theſe Bloody Actions of your dear Brother Foxonian Chief Prieſt S. Jenning, was ſo acceptable to your Pope Penn, that I here he endeavoured to make him his Deputy Governour there, doubtleſs as a reward for his Good Service in perſecuting G. Keith, and impriſoning and taking away W. Bradford's Goods for printing G. Keith's Defence; alſo to encourage him and others in ſuch Bloody Works, and to deter others from daring to adventure to oppoſe any of your wicked Foxonian Preachers Errors, as G. Keith had done; now judge, its your own Doctrine, that none ſhould be Miniſters that would have Creatures to be Impriſoned; again ſay you, did Chriſtians ever caſt into Priſon any, but Foxonian Prieſts have ſo done, therefore are by your own Doctrine no Chriſtians of Chriſt's making.

I could fill a Book with Quotations of your exclaming againſt going to Law, and impriſoning Creatures, which proves you ſelf-condemned Apoſtates, as in the ſecond Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apoſtate Quaker, by W. R. a Chriſtian Quaker is well obſerv'd, and is not only true on him, but the others alſo of the Foxonian Prieſts; but I have ſtaid too long in the entrance of my Work, it's time now to proceed further to prove, that your Foxonian Chief Prieſts Spirit, which guide and influence you, that you Blaſphemouſly term the Infallible Spirit of Chriſt, is a Wicked, Proud, Malicious perſecuting one, and that you abide not in Chriſt's Doctrine, therefore by your own Doctrine are of the Devil; In E. Burrows's Works (I find it reprinted to my aſtoniſhment) and is your Ancient Teſtimony, pag. 702. but I quote the Pamphlet it ſelf, for you are ſuch Forgers in reprinting, that you are not to be truſted nor believed, you have ſo baſely alter'd and left out, and added in many places, although in this againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, you never abate but increaſe in defamations of them; the Title of your Seditious Pamphlet is, a Preſentation of wholſome Information to the King (who are malicious Informers now, even G. Whitehead who ſo raved againſt F. B. for but dedicating a Book to a Country Juſtice) One G. Witherington having (as you ſay) complained to the King 1660. that the Proteſtant Religion was in danger of being rooted out by the Quakers (which is too true) and he I ſuppoſe by chance puts Quakers in the midſt, between Atheiſts and Baptiſts, in your Anſwer pag. 6. you complain that he hath numbred you with Tranſgreſſors and Sinners, (implying you are not Sinners) Oh vile Man! that dare be ſo impudent, as to reckon the Foxonian Quakers Sinners, if you had him in Penſilvania, I fear your Brother Jennings would deal by him as by the Poor Man and his Boy, Impriſon and Whip him ſoundly, for he more deſerved it than they; but to go on with the Quakers Charge againſt G. Witherington, they ſay of him, that his Complaint to the King againſt them was, that they might be deſtroyed, cut off and crucified (mark that) and ſay they, he hath proceeded in the ſame manner, as the Jews did againſt Chriſt, they crucified him between two Thieves, implying the Baptiſt one of the Thieves, and they Chriſt; Oh abominable Pride and Blaſphemy! in arrogating to your ſelves, for being complained of to the King, to dare compare it to our Lords Crucifying, hereby you undervalue the Dignity of his Sufferings, and exalt your ſelves Lucifer like; its much worſe then F. B. Mock-Pillory was to you) but did the ſame effects follow on your fictious Crucifying, as on our Lords Matthew 27.51. Behold your Impudence and Blaſphemy! and notwithſtanding you accuſe this Man for endeavouring to have you cut off, yet in the ſame Pamphlet you juſtifie his accuſing the Baptiſts pag. 7. you wiſh they may confeſs to the Juſtice, of the Judgments of God in what hath befallen them in this day, &c. ſee how contrary you are to Chriſt's Doctrine in Practice, as well as in your Ancient Teſtimonies, but your Pride and Malice is more fully manifeſt, in that, notwithſtanding you ſo rail againſt the Man, and liken his complaining to the King againſt you, to the Crucifying our Lord; yet in the ſame Pamphlet, you accuſe the Proteſtant Miniſters in general to the King and Nation, and render them more obnoxious than he had done you, which ſhews your Malice and Thirſt after their deſtruction was very great, that becauſe one Man (I know not whether a Miniſter or no) had complained againſt you, therefore you muſt, Haman like, endeavour to incenſe the King and Nation againſt Thouſands of Innocent Men, that had no hand in it, nor knew not of it; Oh whether this Spirit of the Foxonian Quakers be Hamans or Chriſt judge; for in the ſame Pamphlet pag. 22. ſay you, the King may ſay, Alaſs! ſhall he find any at all of that fraternity (i. e. Proteſtant Miniſters,) that have not been diſloyal, and the ſame Men been for one Man and his Government, and in a little time contrary, and proved themſelves abſolute time-ſerving Politicians, to ſerve their own ſordid Intereſts; may not the King eaſily know it, when he conſiders who it was that firſt preached and prayed up the War againſt his Father, and made flattering Addreſſes to Oliver, and then to Richard, and then changed from that way of Government and cryed up Common-wealth way again, and now is turned to cry up him: No ſort of Men in England are ſo diſloyal, as that Generation(but the Quakers, although they go on and ſay) who can now put truſt in ſuch that have thus ſerved times; (now comes their Malice) ſay they, and how ſhall the King ever without great danger, to himſelf repoſe confidence in ſuch, &c. mark its ever, that is, he muſt never, &c. and in concluſion, ſays the general part of Men petitioned for, be changeable Hypocrites, and the oppreſſion of the Kingdom; now the Men this Man pleads for ſeems to be the Epiſcopal Clergy, for pag. 19. he ſays, a Learned and Pious Miniſtry, Loyal and Conſtant, not time-ſerving, &c. I hope true Engliſh Proteſtants will not think ill of me for the harſh terms herein, becauſe they are moſtly the Quakers that they have defamed the Proteſtant Miniſters withal, which I am troubled at, and have been at the pains to rake this filth together, and lay at the Quakers own door, it moſt properly belonging to them; for I love (as G. Whitehead ſays to W. R.) to give the Devil his due; and this is Printed Principly for the Miniſters to induce them to a ſenſe of the power and prevalency of theſe their Enemies, and of the danger is like to be to the Proteſtant Religion and themſelves thereby, and I deſire them to read it twice over. Now its the drift of this Haman Spirit in theſe Foxonian Prieſts Whitehead, &c. who are the Eſpouſers and Promoters of this envious deſign againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, to inſence the King againſt them in general, the Church of England as well as Diſſenters; if this be your love as you pretend to them in Print, they may bleſs God they are not (and it greatly concerns all Proteſtants to pray earneſtly, and endeavour by all lawful means that they never come) under your power, for if they ſhould, I fear they will hardly come off as well as F. B. G. K. and W. Bradford did: Now here its proved they accuſe the Proteſtant Miniſters, as being for the other Governments, O. and R. C. &c. and againſt the King: Now I ſhall prove, that theſe Foxonian Quakers have alſo accuſed them for being for the King, the Book Guilty covered Clergy man, &c. pag. 48. ſays of the Miniſters, mind reader what theſe Men hunt after, even blood, blood; this is becauſe the Miniſters ſay, their Doctrine againſt Swearing was a fragment of the Germain Anabaptiſts; but judge Reader, whether this afore of their incenſing the King againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters is not a fuller proof of their hunting after Proteſtant Miniſters Blood, then that ſaying of the Miniſters they ſo term for in their Book aforementioned pag. 48. Say they, but ſtay Sirs, was it a Quaker, or was it a Prieſt that loſt his Head on Tower-Hill by the Sword of Juſtice (mind that) were both your Hands (i. e. two Miniſters) clear of the wickedneſs of that bloody Deſign (that Deſign was as they word it elſewhere, in bringing him i. e. Charles II. into his Father's Throne) but the Quakers go on ſaying, if they were its well, but there were ſo many of your Generation concern'd in that piece of Treaſon (i. e. to reſtore Charles II.) had the State diſputed it, according to the Provocation they might have found ſufficient cauſe to cut many Prieſts ſhorter by the Head; again ſay they, doth not this ſhow that the Prieſts have as little mind to the Protector as they have to the Quakers; doth not here appear the Spirit of Chr. Love and his Fellow Traytors, who took on them to treat with C. Stewart the proclaimed Traytor to the Government at Breda, for the putting him into that they call his Fathers Throne, for which and his other Treaſons, he (Chr. Love) loſt his Head, ſee (ſay they) A ſhort Plea for the Commonwealth, &c. and therein the Prieſts Treaſons, doth not the Spirits of the Biſhops appear, &c. in their Book the Weſt anſwering to the North, &c. pag. 89.Finding the Quakers here and elſewhere eſpouſe that Book, I got it, and find the drift of it was to incenſe Ol. Cr. and them then in Power againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters; again ſay theſe Quakers, is Chr. Love, Charles Stewart and the Scots overcome, and the Biſhops plucked up Root and Branch, &c. But ſince the Reſtoration ſaid they of the Miniſters in R. H. works, when R. C. was made Protector, whom the Prieſts flocked to, and did cleave unto him as they did unto all them before for their own ends; and again in 1674. W. Penn to incenſe the King againſt the Miniſters, cites one of them ſaying to former Powers do not I beſeech you conſent to a toleration of Baal's Worſhip, and for fear it would not inrage them, he adds his aggravating explanation, ſays he, as much as to ſay away with the Biſhop's, whole Miniſtry and Worſhip of the Church of England; again this ſame W. Penn quotes a Miniſter ſaying, thus, ſo many Delinquents, that is to ſay, Royaliſts (ſays the Quaker, fearing it would not effect his Bloody Deſign without his aggravatings) are in Priſon and few brought to Tryal, did he mean to releaſe them? (ſays Penn) again they quote a Miniſter ſaying, what the Word cannot do the Sword ſhall; and again, theſe Quakers upbraid the Miniſters in 1660. and ſay to them, you are forced to creep under the ſhadow of thoſe whom you called the common Enemy; thus Malicious were they when the King came in, although as is afore ſhewn they uſed the ſame Terms; much more I have collected of their Seditious and Malicious Printed Doctrines, again the Proteſtant Miniſters as being for the King to Oliver, and to the King in 1660. for being againſt him; I am ſure, if theſe Quakers be not the beſt to be ſpared, this wicked envious Foxonian Spirit is; and Reader judge, whether theſe Foxonian Quakers be not more Malicious Informers, than. F. Bugg whom they ſo perſecuted as ſuch for diſcovering them; for this Book out of which much of this their Envy is taken is falſly titled, A wholſome Information to the King, &c. wherein they do what they can to induce the King to deſtroy the Proteſtant Miniſters, and were ſo drunk with Envy and Thirſt after their ruin, that you could not ſee your own Confuſion, but made to Copy out your own Condemnation; for in Ol. Crom. time, you eſpouſe and recommend a Book againſt Monarchy and the Proteſtant Miniſters, becauſe then ſuch Books were in Faſhion at Whitehall, but when times turned, and Papiſts and their Works more in Faſhion and Eſteem at Court, then you promote and eſpouſe a Papiſts Book in Defamation of the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, and ſay you are not concern'd to anſwer it; if Pope or Devil will but defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, G. Whitehead and W. Penn, &c. will be their Factors to help to vend ſuch Wares they ſhall have their recommendations; nay, theſe Foxonians can forge or fetch News from the Pit of Damnation to help on that Work as is here ſhewn, and this Wicked Spirit is that they Blaſphemouſly term Chriſt; the Spirit and Power of God; but in caſe they pretend that Book is not theirs, but Printed in theirs as the Papiſts, yet by their own Rule they are chargeable with it, having Printed Epiſtles of high recommendations of the Author J. C. and his Works, who Printed it, and theſe their high Praiſes are fixed before the Book to encourage the ſelling and reading of it, of Fox and his Wife both; Penn, Whitehead, and this Wicked Defamation of the Proteſtant Religion, Bible and Miniſters, of the Papiſts is particularly mentioned in the Title, and printed in a larger Letter than the reſt, and the whole Chapter intire together (and not taken in parts) and yet they ſay they are not concern'd, but could be concern'd to print that more large and full than the reſt, to defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, and gratifie their Elder Siſter Rome, and is highly commended by the Foxonian Quakers, and the commending of an Author or Publiſher of a Book, implies their approbation of it, as you charge 21 Divines with J. Faldees Errors in his Book.

And ſome Perſons having ſet their names after J. Gilpin's Book, &c. in confirmation of the Truth of the Relation, and ſay only thus, we believe this Relation to be true, yet in your Anſwer in your great Myſtery, &c. you charge all them Perſons (who only atteſt as to the Truth of the matter of Fact) with the Doctrine in the Book; notwithſtanding he J. G. ſays in his concluſion, he procured ſeveral Perſons to teſtifie the probability (if not the certainty) by what they have ſeen and heard; notwithſtanding they give not every Man ſuch Epiſtles in recommendation of him, as you do of J. C. the Author of that Book, in which that Wicked and Seditious contempt of the Proteſtant Reformation, Bible and Miniſters; alſo conſider how you teſtifie againſt what you like not, as the Chriſtian Quaker D. S. and give it as a reaſon or cauſe of excommunicating G. K. for his not calling in or not clearing the Guilty, i. e. Pen and Whitehead, &c. of their Errors; therefore if you had not approved of that Book of J. C. you would diſown it, and publiſhed againſt it, as you have done againſt others leſs deſerving, if you were True Proteſtants alſo, you could injoyn Mr. Pennyman publickly to condemn his throwing your Seditious Pamphlets on the ground in the Exchange and burning ſome waſt Paper, and ſay he was inſtigated by the Devil, but ſure it was a worſe Spirit inſtigated you to print and recommend that wicked Defamation of the Proteſtant Bible and Miniſters; then that G. W. could ſay his brought a great reproach on Friends; but this wicked action of yours are far greater reproach to the Engliſh Proteſtants, and more juſtly to be condemn'd; but you knew who you pleaſed, and that you had them great in Power to ſtand by and gratifie, and incourage you in defaming the Proteſtant Miniſters; ſo that it was not then your Intereſt, and therefore might and did ſay you were not concerned, no not to vindicate but to defame the Proteſtants, and although in your laſt years Foxonian Conclave in White-hart-court, in your Laws then made, you uſe not the ſame Terms (becauſe you have been detected) as Tythes and Church Rates, &c. but do in more ſquinting quibbling terms, that your Deſign and Preſumption may not be ſo eaſily ſeen, impoſe the ſame things, ſaying, we recommend unto you the holding up the Holy Teſtimony of Truth, and that in all the parts of it, for Truth is one and changes not (and ſay they) what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning it reproves ſtill, and ſo what it juſtified in the beginning (i. e. the Actions in 1648. &c.) it juſtifies ſtill, for ſay they Truth (i. e. the Foxonian Spirit,) is one and changes not; hereby have they confirmed all their former Seditious Doctrines in Print, as well againſt the King as againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters; nay, all their contempts of our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth's Perſon, Blood and Sufferings; therefore whatever ſeeming fair Confeſſions they may (for to deceive the Government) now make, of owning the preſent Government, as conſiſting of King, Houſe of Lords, and Biſhops, and Church of England as now Eſtabliſhed, and the Scriptures, and Chriſt, yet they have hereby (i. e. their Meetings Injunction) not only owned, but alſo in as plain Terms, as they durſt, commanded their Subjects to hold them up, and in order thereto it is, that they do ſo defend their old Blaſphemies and Seditious Printed Ancient Teſtimonies of their Idol of Jealouſie Fox, &c. whilſt they pretend to believe and own the contrary: And although this Tryal hath been long wrot, yet had not been now publiſhed, but that they inſtead of diſowning theſe erronious Ancient Teſtimonies as they ought, if they were True Proteſtants, they cover and excuſe them, and pretend they are ſuch quiet innocent ones in the Land, and therefore that People may not be deceived by their good words, but may ſee them as they are envious Slanderers and Perſecutors of the Proteſtant Miniſters, is this now publiſhed, alſo, becauſe theſe Foxonian Rabſhakes are ſo ſhameleſs, as to challenge it as out-doing the Devil (their own Foxonian Spirit) becauſe after it was proved is ſaid in diſcovery inlarged, &c. I find their Books ſtuft with ſuch baſe Inſinuations and Defamations of almoſt all People, that the chief drift of them ſeems to be to render the New Teſtament, and the true Faith in our Lord Jeſus, and the Miniſters and Profeſſors thereof Infamous and worſe than the Papiſts, and are ſo bold as to adviſe and direct to the taking away and deſtroying Property: Now, I ſay, he the Devil hath out-done it in, and by themſelves, as in pages 10.11.31.32.34. to 38. of that Diſcovery, and alſo more fully proved in the Sn. in the Graſs, &c. and Satan diſrobed, &c. and by George Keith, in ſeveral Books printed by him. Alſo in one Sheet, titled, an Eſſay to allay G. Foxes Spirit, which may be Printed at large, containing about Twelve Sheets, but in this Citation they are Guilty of that they ſo defame T.C. for, for they leave out theſe Words and Defamations, whereby they not only wrong the Citation, but the Senſe alſo; and your own Conſciences cannot but know (unleſs they be ſeared) that its true, although you are ſo proud you will not hear; I have forborn naming ſome Perſons and Books, in reſpect to ſome concerned, and although the Citations be ſhort, yet they are true, and in your own Printed expreſſions; I ſay, if you think theſe things too hard, with the Light of Chriſt ſearch your ſelves, and ſee if it be not the reward of your own hands, and if you ſay wherefore am I made publick, (its your own anſwer) thou (Foxonian Spirit) haſt committed thy lewdneſs before the Sun, therefore openly art thou reproved, who haſt ſinned openly; alſo again you ſay in Print, muſt not Jealouſie be ſtirr'd up in the Powers of the Earth againſt them (i. e. Profeſſors) as they have again others: And although I am ſenſible your influence and intereſt is ſo conſiderable, that I know not how ſoon I may feel the tender love of your Spirit as W. Bradford did; yet I am not afraid nor diſcouraged from diſcovering you for all your Policy, that who, or what ever Intereſt govern, you are ſure to be of the riſing ſide, for you have ſome great among you of all ſides, and alſo I know and have proved, that the Foxonian Rabſhakes are not Children in Malice, but Men, yea ſtrong and old Men in Malice, and Contempt of the Scriptures and Proteſtant Miniſters, and do more juſtly deſerve to be taken notice of by the Magiſtrate, than the poor Country Juſtice did for uſing an & cetera in his Warrant for Commitment of Fox, or then G. Keith and W. Bradford did; and ſeeing you term others Rabſhakes, let the Reader judge whether that name belongs, not to you Foxonians, Whitehead, &c. who gave theſe and many more names to Mr. Pennyman to defame him, viz. you called him grinning Dog, barking Cur, the Devils Agent, the Devils Porter, the Devils Drudge-Vaſſel of Hell, ſetting open Hell Gates, Bond-ſlave of Hell, curſed for ever, curſed Serpent, &c. Unclean naſty Spirit, &c. although one of the cleanlieſt neateſt Men in London; but to prove the Foxonian Spirit is a naſty one, obſerve as follows their naſty words, as I find them in Print by one J. Wiggam, who had ſome controverſie with them, they writ this to him, this hath cauſed thee to ſpew out on a Paper— for the Dogs to lick up— they take ſo much of thy filthy ſpewing it cauſes them to vomit— thou purges upward and downward— thou needs one to wipe thee— thou mak'ſt a pitiful ſtink— through thy vomiting and purging thou beſmears every one that comes nigh thee— one may follow thee by the ſmell, wilt not give over vomiting— thou ſtinks all the Country over— like a Man with a ſcall'd Head, and Horſe with a gall'd Back— making People Vomit and Spew— that they make ſuch a ſtink— thou may'ſt be aſham'd with thy filthy ſpewing, if thou wert not Impudent; alſo Margaret (Foxes Wife) wrot thus to him, thou haſt committed Sacrilege which will never be forgiven thee— thou art accurſed and no other Portion canſt thou have— thou Infidel— Child of Darkneſs— the Curſe Chriſt hath pronounced on thee, thou art the Man thou Impudent Lyar— night Owl, wicked Lyar; and as I can find the cauſe of all this naſty and rabſhake Language from them, was, becauſe he diſputed againſt them about the Light in every Man, and publiſhed ſomething about it; now if you can ſhew me ſuch naſty Words from J. P. and he to have been the Devils Porter, to ſpread, fetch, or forge falſe Intelligence from the Pit of Damnation and the Papiſts, in Defamation of the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, as I have produced of yours, then I grant his Spirit as naſty and as much rabſhake as yours; but in caſe it be ſo, that will not clear your Spirit from being a naſty and rabſhake one, but if you cannot ſmell this your Foxonian Spirit to be a naſty one, you have loſt your ſenſes, elſe you may follow this naſty Foxonian Spirit by the ſmell, and herein your Chief Prieſts be proved to be the Devils Porters, and which they wrongfully charge on others without proof, and this your matchleſs Pride and Inſolency, in accuſing the Proteſtant Miniſters to the King for being for Ol. Crom. when you were more guilty, cauſed J. P. to write out the Quakers Unmask'd, &c. and ſend to you privately, to make you ſenſible of your Error, but your Pride cannot bear reproof, but threatned him F. B. and T. C. for mentioning it, but its now in Print; but I think that which encouraged you ſo to defame the Proteſtant Miniſters was, becauſe you was as ſure of encouragement and countenance (if not reward) in that Work from ſome then great in power, as your Fathers Fox, &c. formerly, they having many of the chief in the then Army, who countenanced them then, as W. Penn, &c. lately. And, I ſay, in caſe you do not as publickly teſtifie againſt theſe Wickedneſſes of your Chief Prieſts, as you did againſt the Chriſtian Quaker D. S. then all you Foxonian Quakers are chargeable, as guilty of them and your pretended counterfeit new Confeſſions ought no more to be believed, or clear you, than a Thief when he is convict of Theft, his ſaying he really believes the Ten Commandments may clear him; but the Foxonians falſly accuſing the Proteſtant Miniſters and endeavouring to render them odious, prove its true as they themſelves ſay, that Runnagadoes are the violenteſt Enemies againſt them they have deſerted, for none are more implacable Enemies to the Proteſtants than Fox, Whitehead, &c. who once profeſſed the ſame, this their own Doctrine is proved true in them Foxonian Chief Prieſts, G. W. &c.

For, I think, if all Algier were ſearched, that of all the Runnagadoes that have been there this Hundred Years, there cannot be found ſo many Defamations and Contemptious Expreſſions in Print, of the Perſon of our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, and his Blood ſhed on the Croſs, as there is of theſe Foxonian Quakers, in their Printed Books in London; its pity that this Proteſtant City ſhould be the only Garden of the World to breed and nouriſh ſuch Plants, and ſend or ſell the Seed of ſuch degenerated Plants of a ſtrange Vine; what muſt London out-do Algier in defaming the Chriſtian Religion, eſpecially the Engliſh Proteſtant Miniſters, to encourage looſe Atheiſtical Perſons in the ſame Work, for reprinting theſe their wicked Works, with ſuch high commendations on the Authors affixed before them, tends to the Deſtruction of the Proteſtant Religion, as the Gun-Powder-Treaſon did, and the chief Actors therein no more deſerve commendations than them; and theſe Quakers have approved of thoſe wicked Actions in their Ancient Printed Teſtimonies, now under-hand injoyn'd their Subjects to hold them up, for theſe of theirs were from the Spirit of Truth, or the Spirit of Error, if from the Spirit of Error, its needful they teſtifie againſt them as publickly, as they did againſt the Chriſtian Quaker D. S. for owning Fox and Whitehead Guilty; therefore, in caſe they do not diſown them its Evidence, they do own them as the Teſtimony of Truth, and ſo are confirmed and injoyn'd (by their 1696. White-hart-court Conclave) to be maintained and held up, as ſome part of the Teſtimony of Truth.

Now conſider you Quakers who be honeſt minded, although deceived by your Prieſts, G. W. &c. who are ſo wicked as to accuſe this Man, as endeavouring to have them deſtroyed (nay crucified too) becauſe he juſtly and truly complaining, the Proteſtant Religion was in danger by them to be rooted out; and yet they in the ſame Pamphlet are ſo wicked, ſo early as in 1660. to accuſe the Miniſters in general as dangerous to the King, and for being againſt him, and for the former Governments, although they themſelves were guilty of the ſame in a higher degree; for ſays they to the King, Friends then called Cavaleers you are become curſed in all your endeavours— the purpoſe of your hearts have been known to be always againſt Truth it ſelf— and though your Kings, &c. have been cut off in wrath (and ſays) except you repent (of endeavouring to re-eſtabliſh the King and that Government) you and your Kings, &c. and lordlly Power (by which you have thought to exerciſe Lordſhip over my Heritage) ſhall be inſlaved by the Devil in the Pit of Darkneſs, where he (i. e. the Devil) ſhall Reign your King and Lord for evermore, this they ſay was from the Lord, and ſealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God: Yet theſe Forgers the Foxonians could leave the whole Meſſage out, and great part of theſe Citations; again ſays E. B. to O. C. of the King's Friends, I know the Lord hath curſed them— and what thou haſt done unto them and their King, ſhould not be reckoned againſt thee by the Lord, if now thou wert faithful, &c. i. e. take away the Miniſters and their Maintenance, for that was one of the ſins they counted O. C. &c. then guilty of; for ſay they to O. C's. Council, the ſame falſe Prophets (Proteſtant Miniſters) you eſtabliſh by a Law which deceive the Nations; again ſays the ſame E. B. to the Parliament, and that in 1659. but about 6 Months before the Reſtoration; while thus it hath been in our Nation, that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government Hereditary, and by the Succeſſion of Birth— as hath been the cuſtom in our Forefathers days, that knew no better— whereby the Inhabitants have been always ſuffering, and liable to great Oppreſſions, being under ſuch a Government, falling from Parents to Children after the manner of the Heathen Nations; again p. 3. the Lord hath begun to appear, and ſhewed us the bondage our Forefathers lived in, and we our ſelves been ſubject too, by reaſon of the Government ſtanding in a ſingle Perſon ſucceſſively— now our Eyes are opened to behold better things, and pag. 6. ſay to the Long Parliament, its on me to lay it before you (even as the Contenders for England's Liberty) whom the Lord honoured in the Beginning to remove Tyranny, &c. But this whole Libel and other Treaſonable Ancient Teſtimonies of theirs is left out in reprinting E. Bs. Works; but by theſe and many more of ſuch ſtuff of theirs as I have collected, the impartial Reader may judge, whether or no theſe now Foxonian Quakers, Whitehead, &c. are not very ſhameleſs and wicked, to accuſe the Proteſtant Miniſters (many of whom were not conſenting, but againſt theſe Proceedings, eſpecially them this Man pleaded for) when as themſelves was guilty of the ſame or worſe, in abetting and encouraging them Governments againſt the King, and incenſing them againſt the Miniſters, becauſe they favoured the King and his Intereſt, had not theſe Quakers more need with ſhame, put their Mouthes in the Duſt, but they found out a way to make the Papiſts amends, by helping them to defame the Proteſtant Miniſters; and becauſe theſe Foxonian Chief Prieſts be ſo ſhameleſs, as to ſeemingly deny theſe things being charged againſt them, ſaying, I defie the Father of Lyes himſelf to out-do this, and therefore I will give you ſome more of their Treaſonable Ancient Teſtimonies, and boaſting of their Vindicating in the Field with their Blood, although in Foxes Journal they have left it out, in their Book the Weſt anſwering to the North, 79. pag. ſay they, why was Strafford's Head cut off, and Canterbury's, and Charles Stewarts as Traytors, for endeavouring to ſubvert the Fundamental Laws of England, and what juſtice was there in all theſe, if a Seſſions may make Laws, &c. Now that they may not pretend this is rather a blaming then juſtifying, its indeed a blaming them for making Orders for Impriſoning Fox, &c. but not for them actions, and farther ſay they, Charles Stuart and his Lords committed Men, as Canterbury, &c. and early he heard of it, and was conſtrained to ſubmit unto the Petition of right, to keep that his wrong doing from being further queſtioned, and for his other Arbitrary Actions, &c.— and what befell his particular, need not be mentioned,— being recorded in the Blood of the late Wars, and the deſtruction of him and his Family; the ſad examples of his (i. e. Gods) righteous Judgments, &c. and pag. 89. doth not here appear the Spirit of C. Love Prieſt, and his Fellow Traytors, who being within the Juriſdiction of this Common-wealth, took on them to commiſſionate Men to treat with Charles Stewart, i. e. Charles II. the Proclaimed Traytor of the Government at Breda, for the putting him into that they call his Fathers Throne; for which and his other Treaſons he loſt his Head 1651. See the Plea for the Commonwealth, and therein the Prieſts Treaſons; doth not the Sprouts of the Biſhops appear in the etcetera is Chr. Love dead the Scots and Ch. Stewart overcome, — are the Biſhops plucked up Root and Branch, &c. again pag. 95. call to mind to whom this Generation (i.e. Miniſters) joyned in 1648. and 1650. even with the common Enemy Charles Stewart, &c. by War and Treaſon to effect it, ſee Chr. Love and his Treaſons in a Plea for the Commonwealth, &c. forget not the wonderful deliverance from them, and they Quakers being Impriſoned, they take it ſo heinouſly, that of it they ſay pag. 96. There is not found one ſuch example in Queen Mary's cruelty, only ſome ſuch thing was ſet up at Whitehall Gate, to hinder People from paſſing— to complain of their Sufferings by the Biſhops, which Charles Stewart called Tumults— and by that Guard one was ſlain, at the place of the ſhedding of whoſe Blood was Charles Stewart's Head ſtruck off, and his Blood powered on the ground, a remarkable record of the righteous judgment of God; again pag. 102. they ſay whom Juſtice hath cut off for arbitrarineſs, as in Strafford, Canterbury, Charles Stewart, &c. theſe are the Foxonian Quakers Ancient Teſtimonies, and implicitly (although not in plain words) now by their laſt Conclave their Subjects (i. e. the Foxonian Quakers) are injoyned to hold up, for ſay they, Truth is one and changes not, and what it convinced us of to be evil in the beginning, it reproves ſtill, therefore Friends be zealous and ſtrict for the Lord's bleſſed Teſtimony in your ſelves, in your Families; here you may ſee what their Spirit, which they term Truth, counted evil and reproved in the beginning 1657. and what it owned and juſtified; alſo even the worſt of their Actions 1648. and ſo as their Spirit changes not in what it condemns as evil, nor doth it change in what it owned, vindicated, and juſtified then, but what it then juſtified it doth the ſame ſtill, for it changes not, if they the Foxonians ſay true, but finding theſe Foxonian Quakers ſo commend and eſpouſe the Plea for the Commonwealth, &c. I bought that becauſe I would be fully inform'd what their Ancient Teſtimony in the beginning was, and find it much agreeable to the others of Fox and E. Burrows, for pag. 2. its ſaid I am ſure the late King was not owned in ſuch unwarrantable practiſes, &c— but for ſo doing had Juſtice executed on himſelf as a Traytor, and pag. 10. Chr. Love would have denyed the Juriſdiction of the Court, if he had not remembred what it coſt his Maſter Charles, againſt whoſe Authority Chr. Love was as well as that Traitor was, again pag. 13. ſay they, when God put by all their (Miniſters) miſchievous intents, and brought Juſtice on the King, &c. again pag. 16. its ſaid, when the Providence of God— in the Juſtice of the Nation had brought the King to Execution, and chang'd the Government for the beſt advantage of Religion and Juſtice; how did the Men of this Generation (i.e. Miniſters) endeavour the deſtruction of this Commonwealth; what mourning was there among them for Tames (i. e. the King) fetching deeper ſighs for the King's Execution than the purer Cavaleers, and pag. 3. ſay, for the Treaſons Chr. Love was guilty of, they are no leſs than Combination with the Scots, and Charles Stewart Son to the late Tyrant, to bring him in as King of England, and pag. 20. ſay, whether any Men within the Juriſdiction of this Commonwealth, taken on them to treat with a Foreign State, and the proclaimed Enemy of this Commonwealth Charles Stewart be not an act of Treaſon: If theſe Quakers object this Book was not theirs, yet I ſay its by them eſpouſed and recommended, and the ſame Principles aſſerted in theirs, as againſt the Kings both Charles I. and II. and in owning Oliver, &c. in what they did againſt them, but its very likely G. Biſhop, D. Holliſter, and Captain Piot, who were Quakers, and of Foxes chief Men in thoſe days, and actually concern'd with Fox in the Book Weſt anſwering to the North, &c. were all or one of them chiefly concern'd in this Book, and were great Men with Ol. Crom. then, as in the Snake in the Graſs is obſerv'd of Biſhop, and its Foxes method to charge the Perſons who recommend a Book, or ſomething in it as well as the Authors, as in his Anſwer to J. Gilpin and others I find, although not more recommendations thereof, than theſe Quakers have given of this, but the ſame Principles is in their other Ancient Teſtimony, in the beginning which they now injoyn their Subjects to hold up: But judge Reader, if theſe Foxonian Cardinals Whitehead, &c. were not very Shameleſs, in that they durſt thus maliciouſly accuſe the Proteſtant Miniſters to the King (ſo ſoon as 1660.) for being againſt his Father, and for Oliver and them Governments, when as themſelves (that is Foxonian Quakers) were ſo highly guilty in the ſame Caſe; and here I have proved their being out of Chriſt's Doctrine, and ſo by their own Doctrine to be of the Devil, for here afore you ſee how heinous a ſin they make it, even as Crucifying our Lord, for ſaying, the Proteſtant Religion was in danger to be rooted out by the Quakers; here its plain they did not do as they would be done by, for in the ſame Libel they inform againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters as dangerous to the King; theſe Foxonians G. Whitehead, &c. reflect on, and endeavour to incenſe the King againſt the Men, the Creatures, they ſtrike at them, therefore their Spirit or Light, which they blaſphemouſly term Truth, and the Spirit of God, &c. cannot be the ſame Spirit as Chriſt and the Apoſtles had by their own judgment; now ſeeing its not Chriſt's Spirit, and they ſay there are but Two Spirits Gods and the Devils, and themſelves have judged it; I have now proved them (the Foxonian Chief Prieſts) ſo Wicked and Malicious againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, that they have informed againſt them to Oliver, &c. for being for the King, and aſſoon as ever the King was reſtored, they were ſo abominable ſhameleſs as to inform againſt them, for being againſt him, when themſelves were guilty of the ſame in a higher degree, and were not content, although they had Chr. Love's (a Miniſters) Life; but they accuſe the Miniſters in General, as in pag. 12. its ſaid, for the Parties this Caſe reſpects, it runs through generally the whole Miniſtry of the Nation, and in their Book Information to the Army, &c. pag. 7. ſay they, when a company of greedy Prieſts came to tell you they had not engaged with G. Booth in the Rebellion, but your real Friends Quakers, who gave you and the Army intelligence about the Inſurrection in Cheſhire (i. e. Sir G. Booths for the King) were ſpoiled by the Rebels, &c. and in their Book the Weſt to North pag. 102. ſay they, theſe Innocent Servants of the Lord (G. Fox Ed. Piot. Many of them have drawn the Sword and fought in the Field from firſt to laſt; alſo p. 16. ſay they, the Laws, &c. The defence of them we have in the late Wars vindicated in the Field with our Blood. But this and many others they have left out, in reprinting the Letter in G. Fox's Journal, as may hereafter be more fully ſhown. But, in the mean time take this caution, not to truſt nor believe theſe now Foxonian Chief Prieſts, W. Penn and G. Whitehead, &c. in what they print or recommend to you, as the works of their Fellows, Fox, &c. or as other mens words; they have ſo altered them in many places, by leaving out and adding, to forge them to their purpoſe: Therefore you may judge what abominable falſhoods they will impoſe on the World hereafter; when thoſe few now living, who are able to detect them, be dead; but there is a Collection (of as many as are found) to be publiſhed, that by that you may judge of the reſt of their Works, what groſe Forgers they are, and will be. And ſeeing they ſay they are contrary in Principle and Doctrine (to the Proteſtant Miniſters,) and we cannot (as they ſay) own both, but muſt deny one: Therefore, either all the Generations of Proteſtants in all Ages, to the end of Time, not only Miniſters, but Princes, and all Eſtates and Degrees muſt be condemned as Antichriſts and Apoſtates (as theſe Foxonian Quakers have, and do record them to poſterity,) except one Thorpe, &c. or elſe theſe Foxonian Quakers Blaſphemous, Seditious Ancient Teſtimonies, which their Truth at firſt taught them, muſt be condemned and diſowned. Now whether is moſt reaſonable, that theſe few Foxonian Quakers (moſt of them being dead, except W. Penn and G. Whitehead) come under the deſerved blame of falſe Accuſers, and men influenc'd by a wrong Spirit; and their Blaſphemous and Seditious Teſtimonies publickly condemned; or their infamous Contempts and Slanders be recommended to after Ages for Divine Revelations; and the wicked Authors, as the only Prophets of God in this Age. What can be their intent, but that their Blaſphemous, Seditious Ancient Teſtimonies may be of as great or greater Authority than the Holy Scripture.

But as a further proof, that they, theſe Foxonian Quaker's Spirit is not Chriſt's, the Apoſtles and all Proteſtants, but an avowed Enemy to the Proteſtant Religion, and Miniſters in general. They are not content with their own volumnious defamatious Slanders, they have filled the World with by their printed Libels; but to gratifie the Papiſt's intereſt (which then was great, and able to defend and reward them,) therefore they joyn with their elder Siſter Rome, and print in 1671 with their own in J. C.'s Works (highly extolled by W. Penn and G. Whitehead, Fox and his Wife) A Papiſt ſcandalous Libel; wherein they term the Proteſtant Bible Brazen-fac'd Book, and villifie the beginning of the Reformation; and give the Proteſtant Miniſters the ſame Helliſh Names as their own Books do; and ſay, to ſee ſuch ſtand in a Pulpit with ſuch a Brazen-fac'd Book, as is their unjuſt Bible; and term it corrupt, and a perverſe Book. Such Brazen Faces had theſe Foxonians, when the Papiſts intereſt was great. Haman like, improving their intereſt, to deſtroy the Proteſtant Miniſters becauſe they would not bow to their blaſphemous Spirit. This ſhews what kind of Proteſtants they would have proved, if what they then expected had taken effect; even ſerving the Proteſtants as they had done all the former Governments from 1648. to 1660. own; and encourage them while they proſper; but when like to fall or gone, then exclaim againſt them; and would do by the Proteſtants as they have by the Diſſenters, Inform againſt them, when it's for their intereſt; and tell the Papiſt their elder Siſter, how ſhall ſhe ever, without great danger to her ſelf, put confidence in ſuch Hereticks as the Engliſh Proteſtants be. And it's not unlikely, but that they printed at large this ſeditious Libel of the Papiſts againſt the Proteſtants; and put it into their Works, in ſuch a remarkable Character, as an earneſt-penny, that they may come in with their elder Siſter Rome for a ſhare, when they ſee it for their intereſt to pull off their Masks.

Another proof I ſhall give, that their Light or Spirit is not from Heaven above, but more likely from the Pit of Damnation below; for to Defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, in a Book Entituled, A Serious Warning, &c. they ſay, could people hear the cry of Thouſands out of the Pit of Damnation, they would here others thus lament; Presbyterians and Independants, under the Notion of Goſpel-miniſters, were the Men that ſeduced us hither: This is (ſay they) the cry of Thouſands of our dear Countrymen. This was in 1675. for the Epiſcopal Clergy; they had Damned them years before. But this ſhews you are well acquainted in Hell: but, altho' I dare not pretend to be ſo converſant with Hell as you; yet, have cauſe to ſuſpect that you forge falſe intelligence from thence; for you who are ſo accuſtomed to abuſe both living and dead, may be thought to do the ſame here alſo; and I rather think, there is, and will be more there ſo crying againſt your Idols of Jealouſie, Fox and Whitehead, &c. and that it's Fox's blaſphemous lying Spirit as was in your brother Foxonian Prieſt, Solomon Eccles (that lying Prophet of yours) that hath influenc'd you to invent and print this envious Slander againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, to gratify your elder Siſter Rome; and this ſhews that you are hers (if not, the Devils as you charge Mr. Pennyman) Factors, Porters, and Agents to promote ſpread and vend her Wares; and that you agree and like well her contempt of the Proteſtant Bible, and the Miniſters; and if all Rome and your own helliſh Names be not enough, you will to help out, forge news from the Pit of Damnation alſo to help; and altho' you ſeem to envy againſt your elder Siſter Rome, it's for Preheminence, becauſe you muſt be exalted above all. But you like well, and take her part in defaming the Proteſtant Religion; Bible and Miniſter; nay, you are ſo Brazen-fac'd as to inform againſt a Proteſtant Miniſter G. G. for as you ſay, praying for Oliver's Army (ſent to high Spaniola) thus, Lord bleſs the Army of the Lamb againſt the Beaſt, and give them ſucceſs; and you term him notorious lying Prophet, poſſeſs'd with a Legion of lying Spirits; and in the concluſion, warn People againſt the Presbyterian and Independant Miniſters in general, as the Plague. But why are you ſo angry? I find it's becauſe they had ſubſcribed to an Epiſtle wrote in recommendation of a Book of J. aldoes, in diſcovery of your Errors: But have not you here recommended this wicked Work J. C.'s Book wherein is this contempt on the Proteſtant Religion and Bible, &c. as a Brazen-fac'd, falſe and perverſe, corrupt and unjuſt Book, and the whole Generation of Engliſh Proteſtants. For, after many of your helliſh characters of Witches, &c. given them there; then ſay you, if the Teachers be ſuch, what muſt the Proteſtants themſelves be, &c. Your eſpouſing and recommending this and your own Defamations are of much worſe conſequence to the Proteſtant Religion, than theirs was to Quakeriſm; or than W. Bradford's printing for G. K. whom you impriſoned, and took away his Goods; but in theſe afore inſtances you have proved your ſelves no Friends, but Enemies to the Proteſtant Bible and Miniſters: And ſurely it's high time for all Proteſtants to have a care of Rome at home (i. e. the Foxonian Quakers); for, an Enemy within is much more dangerous than at a diſtance: But let's examine whether you Foxonian Quakers are not guilty of owning Oliver's Army as well as G. G. (whom you ſo maliciouſly inform'd againſt) or at leaſt what may amount to as much. There is enough afore quoted of yours againſt Hereditary Government, &c. and to O. C. ſay you in your Book good counſel, &c. ſeveral Soldiers have been turned out, what ſhould they do there, if, as you ſay, you deny all outward Fightings, with outward weapons for any end or pretence whatſoever; compare this and others of yours before 1660. and your fallacious pretence to the King; but you have a reſerve in your laſt yearly White-hart-court Conclave; you may by the Authority of that reaſſume theſe, or the contrary, which you pleaſe of your Ancient Teſtimonies again: For indeed, moſt of your flattering Addreſſes and pretended ownings of the King, &c. are as fallacious and ſquinting as your confeſſions of Faith; for any one may make ſuch a ſubmiſſion to a company of Houſe-breakers, when they have bound him and his Family; or to any Pirates, when by them at Sea overcome and taken, there is ſomething of God in it, and in ſuch fallacious general terms as they would have put of the Parliament with, when their act about Swearing was in hand; but the weakneſs of it was ſhewed them, and they adviſed how to amend it, which was done when they ſee their ſquinting one would not do. And I find little in all their ownings of King Charles II. but if ever the 1648 cauſe ſhould come in faſhion, but that they might reaſſume all their Ancient holy Teſtimonies againſt King, Lords and Biſhops, in the beginning; their terms are ſo looſe and general, they will ſerve for the Turk or Pope, &c. as appears by their uſing their ſquinting term (Ceſar in Queen Marys Life:) but to ſhew the Quakers owning Ol.C's power (for which they, inform againſt the Miniſters) ſay they to him, He (God) gave thee the Necks of Princes to tread on, and their Dominions to inherit, and thou an Inſtrument in his hand was ordained (mark that) to lead forth a People whom he bleſſed with thee (was not this the Army) againſt a cruel People, and Oppreſſors, — who exerciſed Tyranny until they were taken away (the King and his Party) and caſt out, and is a reproach unto the Lord and his People (themſelves) unto this day. — Much more I could recite, but this proves their owning Ol. Crom. Army as well as G. G. whom they term a lying Prophet poſſeſs'd with a Legion of lying Spirits; but he was a Proteſtant Miniſter; and they be all ſuch with them: But they may pretend it's not for going againſt the Spaniards as G. G.'s was, that we owned him Ol. Crom. but it was in his being againſt the King, Lords and Biſhops, which you owned and encourag'd him in, which was as bad; but for your owning of Ol. Crom. againſt the Spaniards, you ſay to him concerning the Armies and War in Spain, there is ſomething in it known to the Lord— make no Covenant with Idolators. And again ſay you, concerning the Armies abroad— is of great concernment to thee to ſtand or fall thro' them as to man's Account; and the War againſt Spain, be faithful to God in it; a true gipſy Prophet, (and whether he deſerved a Prophet or a Gipſy's reward judge.)

But, how this agrees with their novel fallacious pretence 1660. aforementioned, which Fox's Name is to, and 11 more; and yet this Fox encourag'd Oliver, ſaying to him, Friend, thou ſhould'ſt have invited all Chriſtians — that are againſt Popery to thee.— Again, invite all that profeſs againſt the Pope in all Nations to joyn with thee againſt him, &c.

But theſe and much more they have left out in the reprint: But it's evident they have Ancient Teſtimonies againſt and for War, and ſo may uphold and maintain either as is moſt for their ſordid Intereſt, as they have about Swearing; but for their owning and encouraging Oliver, and all them Governments from 1642. to 1660. againſt the King and Monarchy, eſpecially the Family of Stuarts. I could give a long Book of Citations; altho' ſoon after the Reſtoration they were ſo ſhameleſs as to inform againſt the Miniſters therefore; and they were by Mr. Pennyman privately adviſed of that Error; but their pride and malice was ſuch they would not bear reproof. Now, what great deceit is it in them, after all their complaints, becauſe they were turn'd out of the Army; and boaſting how they had fought from firſt to laſt, and encouraging Oliver to go on; yet when that intereſt againſt the King, which they had ſo encourag'd and eſpous'd was defeated, then to be ſo ſhameleſs as to pretend they were againſt all Fighting, &c. Surely if a Pirate that has taken and robbed a Merchant Man at Sea, and afterwards the Merchant and Seamen again overcome the Pirates, and recover their Ship and Goods, would it excuſe the Pirates then to ſay, they are againſt, and utterly deny all outward Wars and Fightings with outward Weapons, for any end, or under any pretence whatſoever: Surely ſuch a ſham would not excuſe them, no more ſhould theſe Quakers he excuſed. But yet, again for a ſloop in Penſilvania, where the Government was in their own hands, they could Fight; nay becauſe G. K. reminded them of their pretended Ancient Teſtimony againſt Fighting, they preſented him as in p. 6. But it's worthy of conſideration whether or no, that if G. K.'s reminding them of their Ancient Teſtimony were ſuch a high crime, whether or no the Aſſertors, Promotors, and Holders up of that principle and Ancient Teſtimony in England, be not as dangerous and puniſhable as well as by them in Penſilvania, and that to be looked on as a ſham, for here afore it's proved they could Fight and can Fight, and have a reſerve for it, when their Spirit command them, for in their Declaration, &c. 10th. Month 1659. a little before the Reſtoration ſay they, He (i. e. God) might command thouſands of his Saints at this day to Fight in his cauſe,— and give them Victory over all their Enemies; but again ſay they, neither can we yet believe (mark that yet) he will make uſe of us in that way, tho it be his right to Rule in Nations, and our heirſhip (mark that) to poſſeſs the utmoſt parts of the Earth; but for the preſent (mind the preſent) we are given up to ſuffer; but, how long that preſent will continue, it were worth knowing. Again ſay they, as Righteouſneſs appears in any we are ready to joyn with it in our Prayers, —yea and otherwiſe (mark this otherwiſe, if it may not be made to mean what they pleaſe,) and further ſay they, when ever it (Righteouſneſs) ſhall appear, we ſhall rejoyce—and add our help thereunto that it may proſper, (mark help) for the Eſtabliſhing of Righteouſneſs in the Earth; our all is not dear unto us, tho hitherto we have been ſilent, &c..

But moſt of this and much more I find they have left out in the reprint of E. B.'s Works, altho' they ſay the ſubſtance of it was given forth by E. B. being moved of the Lord, and ſigned by 15 of them, in reſpect to ſome, I forbear their Names. But it's worth minding, in what ſquinting 2 Fac'd words they expreſs themſelves here; juſt as they do in their confeſſions of Faith, and their intended ſham owning the Government: (This is a digreſſion,) but to return.

I have here afore prov'd their owning O. C.'s Army againſt Spain; but it may be objected that I have not proved they term Oliver's Army the Lamb's; but Fox terms Oliver his Dear Friend, (yet in 1660. theſe Quakers inform againſt the Miniſters for ſaying they were his real Friends) and bid him ſtand up in the Lambs Authority; and for their owning of Rich. Crom. to him, they ſay of themſelves, they wiſh well to thee,and be eſtabliſhed in Righteouſneſs and Peace in thy Government. Again, if thou walk with the Lord, &c. and preſerve his People (Quakers) then ſhalt thou proſper, and thy Name be greater than thy Fathers; and the numberleſs number of this People (Quakers) will ſtand by thee, and defend thee and thy juſt Government, (obſerve how ſtrong and numerous they thought themſelves then in Rich. C.'s time,) and (ſay they) their Hearts ſhall cleave unto thee, and thou ſhalt proſper for their ſakes; and none of thy Enemies ſhall have power over thee to deſtroy thee, tho' many may ſeek thy Life. — Live (ſay they) in God's Wiſdom, then none ſhall touch thee, and all that fear God (Quakers) will be on thy ſide and take thy part. Here the Father of lyes in G. F. could promiſe altho' not perform. Again ſay they to him R. C. thou art now ſet up in his (i. e. Olivers) ſtead;—the hand of the Lord is in the matter, if but to try thee (O profound Prophet or elſe a Gipſy,) and (ſay they) it's he (the Lord) hath brought it to paſs: This ſhews they owned R. C. in their ſquinting way, as they did the King.

Next, to prove their owning the Army in turning out R. C. and the Parliament, ſay they to the Soldiers, in their Information, &c. to the Army; if they (i. e. the Parliament) cry up their priviledge to do what they liſt, then it's no Rebellion — to call them away. —Again, if they will not harken to the cry of their Maſters (the People) but it may be call them Rebels if they ſhould be turn'd out (mark them words Maſters the People) when they are gone from that in which their power ſtood.

Again, to encourage the Army they ſay, the long Parliament counted it no Treaſon to oppoſe him (the King) ſeeing the end was not anſwered, he ſhould have ſatisfied; and God decided the controverſy, by overthrowing one, and eſtabliſhing the other for a ſeaſon. Again ſay they, the Army in putting a ſtop to that which did retard from the end aforeſaid (the good old Cauſe) in God's ſight is no Rebellion: Much of this is left out in their reprint, but theſe prove the Quakers owning the former Powers againſt the King; and ſay they to the Soldiers, put no Cavaleers in place, in 1659. and of them Cavaleers ſay they, thus ſaith the Lord, you are become curſed in all your hatchings; — the purpoſe of your Hearts hath been known to be always againſt my powerful Truth: But in 1660. to the ſame People ſay they, You are now juſtly raiſed up to correct them (i. e. the former Uſurpers) as I afore ſay, flatter all Powers in being; but, like Rats, fly from a faling Houſe; and exclaim and inform againſt them, when gone. Their Hypocriſie is great, and to be abhorred, as well as is their Envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters.

And notwithſtanding they had ſo highly owned and encouraged O. C. and R. C. &c. yet they inform againſt the Miniſters for ſo doing, not only in E. B.'s Works, but in other Pamphlets, as Peaceable Advice, &c. Truth's Character, &c. There they inform againſt them, for (as they, i. e. the Quakers, ſay) comparing him to Elijah, and for owning him as their Supream Governour, and becauſe they ſaid they were his real Friends, &c. And ſay theſe envious Quakers, If you mean O. C. he was rather like Ahab, who killed and took poſſeſſion: And (ſay they) Did not O. C. the like? And you (i. e. Miniſters) (who flattered him) have been like Ahab's four hundred Prophets, that with one accord declared good to that wicked Man (i. e. O. C.) Yet you ſee here before, how the Quakers alſo owned and encouraged him, even in his 1648 Action; and were far from blaming him then for killing and taking poſſeſſion: And although I have ſhewn Fox termed him his Dear Friend, yet they inform againſt the Miniſters for ſaying they were his Real Friends: From whence it's evident the Foxonian Quakers were more like the four hundred Baal's Prophets than Elijah, for they did not then blame O. C. for killing and taking poſſeſſion, but like Ahab's Prophets, with a lying Spirit in their Mouths declared good to him with one Mouth. G Fox and E. B. &c. as is before, and more fully in the Snake in the Graſs, &c. ſhewn.

And their own Printed Defamation of the Proteſtant Miniſters to the King, may juſtly be returned to themſelves: Alas for the King! Shall he find any among them (if they be all of one Mind and Judgment, as they pretend) or any at all of that Fraternity (Foxonian Prieſts) that have not been diſloyal, changeable, and unconſtant in their way—And the very ſelf-ſame Men (Fox and E.B. &c.) ſometimes have been for one Man, and in a little time for another; and ſo proved themſelves abſolute time-ſerving Polititians—to ſerve their own ſordid Intereſts—May not the King eaſily know it, when he conſiders who it was that encouraged and approved, and actually fought from firſt to laſt, and juſtified them in their cruelty to Charles the Firſt, 1648, (even the Foxonians) and who it was (i. e. Fox and E. B. &c.) that writ ſo many flattering Letters to Oliver, and then to Richard, and then changed from that, and cry'd up a Commonwealth again, and then the Army and Committee of Safety; and preſently after the Reſtoration pretend to own Him (i. e. Charles the Second) by all which it appears that no one ſort of Men in England are ſo diſloyal and inconſtant as that Generation of Foxonian Prieſts: And who can put Truſt in Such, that have thus ſerved Time, and Diſſembled, for their own Ends? And how ſhall the King ever, without great danger to himſelf, put Truſt in ſuch as the Foxonian Chief Prieſts? And how can they beg the Kings, Lords, and Biſhops eſpecially (whom they have ſo defamed and reviled) to exempt them from the Laws which other Subjects are liable to, without ſhame to themſelves? And its but reaſonable, that the King and Parliament ſhould be truly informed what they (i. e. theſe Foxonian Chief Prieſts) are, and what their Practices have been, &c. For peradventure they may think them by their fair Words to be that they are not, and its pity but that ſuch ſhould be better informed; and this innocent Paper is writ, to tell them that know you not ſo well as your Neighbours do.

This is your own Printed Doctrine, and is thus turned, home to your ſelves, you ſhameleſs and envious Quakers, againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters in general. And in their Book, Truth's Character, p. 19. ſay they, Many joyned with them (i. e. the Miniſters) in their Plots, Deſigns, and Conſpiracies, &c. Theſe few Inſtances I have here given, are but Samples of the Quakers Envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters (as the Grapes the Spies brought) in compariſon of what there is in their Printed Books.

And what I have here done is not out of prejudice to the Quakers Perſons, but as in Jeremiah 38. the Blackmore; in conſideration of the great Evil theſe Men (the Foxonian Quakers) have done to the Proteſtant Miniſters (and Religion) by condemning (not only one Man) but the whole Generations and Ages paſt, preſent and to come, into, not only a Dungeon and Mire, but into the Dungeon of Hell it ſelf, there to ſtick faſt, as is here ſhewn, I do hereby endeavour to my poor Ability, to draw or help them out.

Here your Spirit is proved more like Haman's than Chriſt's; and in your own words in the ſame Libel, I ſay, Your intent of thus accuſing them, muſt needs be out of Malice, for to incenſe the King againſt them to deſtroy them. Alſo in the ſame Pamphlet, ſay you, I muſt deſire the King and Nation, that ſuch Men be taken notice of; attempting ſo high to be the Kings Informer againſt as good Subjects of the Nation (and better too) as themſelves: O how abominable is this both to God, the King, and Kingdom—that theſe things (i.e. the Foxonians accuſing the Proteſtant Miniſters) ſhould paſs unreproved? No, by no means, ſeeing its your own (i. e. Quakers,) Doctrine; and you will not endure to be termed Quakers, but ſay in Print, Such an one is an Evil Doer in a high degree, on whom the Sword of the Magiſtrate is to paſs. And this Foxonian Spirit in this afore Trial, is proved to be like that 23d. of the Acts, and 21th. who have bound themſelves (as they had to deſtroy Paul) to deſtroy the Proteſtant Miniſters: So altho' them Quakers immediately concerned, may not be above forty Men; yet conſider how many of them there be, that have or will, like their Barbadoes Church, give up their whole Concern, Spiritual and Temporal, to (this wicked Spirit of Fox's, which they term) the Spirit of God in their Womens Meetings.

It's themſelves, (or their own Ancient Teſtimonies in the Beginning) that condemn them; and I only mete to them their own meaſure.

And that the Deſign of the Foxonian Spirit is, to defame the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, appears in their Printing this Popiſh ſcandalous Libel ſo large and eminent, contrary to their uſual manner; for in this Anſwer to the Papiſts, they cite but a few Lines together, and take it into pieces; but this that particularly defamed the Proteſtant Miniſters, in which (as they ſay,) they are not concerned, they Print whole at large, in four Pages: And had they not thought and intended it to ſcandalize the Proteſtant Miniſters, they might have anſwered to that Chapter, as in E. B.'s Works, p. 148. As to the reſt of thy Book, I ſuppoſe you will confeſs it was all by one Spirit; and it's proved ſome of it's given forth by a Lying Spirit, then judge what the reſt is. I ſay they might have waved it by ſome ſuch Anſwer; and not have ſo remarkably, and at large; printed that, if they had not thought it advantagious to them, to defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, and to get in favour with the Popiſh Intereſt. And to this, and other their wicked envious Works and Books, their own Words are a fitting and ſufficient enough Anſwer, I dare defie the Father of Lyes himſelf, to out-do this, (Rabſhekah, pag. 70.)

It concerns all Proteſtants, Miniſters and People, to pray to God, and uſe all lawful means, that they, theſe fierce Deſpiſers (Foxonian Quakers,) get not into Power here, as they have done in Penſilvania; and as they in Print ſay, Curſed be every one that riſeth not up to help the Lord againſt the mighty Foxonians: But as they ſay, Give the Whore double; as ſhe hath done, ſo let it be done unto her. And whereas, they ſay, they differ in the Root from all People; nay, you agree with your Siſter Rome, to defame and deſtroy the Proteſtant Miniſters.

And if (as you ſay in Print) The Parliament have Recognized you for Proteſtants; they have not, as it were, Unproteſtanted the Proteſtant Miniſters: But I believe the Parliament knew not (but were deceived by your falſe Pretences, as Joſhua and the Elders of Iſrael were by the Gibeonites) of your Printed Contempts of our Lord Jeſus, and the Scriptures, Laws, Kings, Lords, and Proteſtant Miniſters eſpecially.

And it's worthy Conſideration, whether or no, if that they have ſo Recognized theſe Foxonians as Proteſtants, whether then all their Errors and Wickedneſſes may not be charged on the Engliſh Proteſtants in general, and they anſwerable to any Foreign Adverſary, Papiſt, Jew, or Pagan, for them; and alſo induce Strangers to believe all their Defamations of the Proteſtant Miniſters to be true, and they the Miniſters to be ſuch falſe Prophets, and Antichriſts, and Sorcerers, &c. as theſe Quakers have in Print publiſhed them to the World; more eſpecially when Acts of ſingular Kindneſs are paſſed in their Favour (without their diſowning theſe their Ancient Seditious Teſtimonies) as to exempt them from the Law, that all other the Commons of England are bound to, and a kind of Peerage granted them above all others; and either theſe Quakers contemptuous and defaming Doctrines muſt be condemned, or all the Proteſtant Miniſters and People ſtand on Record, as ſuch Devils, Sorcerers, and Antichriſts, as they have Printed them, not only in Thouſands of Seditious ſmall Libels, but in great Volumes, with high Commendations on them and the Authors, affixed to them by G. Whitehead, &c. who is the Common Voucher for them: More than a Prophet, endued with the Almighty Power of God, which reigned in him; Worthy Prophet of God. See more of theſe blaſphemous Expreſſions of, and to Fox, in the Snake in the Graſs, &c. and a blaſphemous Letter written to Fox, by a Foxonian Preacher, as in T. C.'s Diſcovery, &c. Now what tends all this to, but to gain their Contempts, Credit or Preference with or before the Scripture? Terming the Doctrine of the Church of England, Doctrine of Devils, Damnable Hereſies, a meer Cheat, &c. And the Miniſter a Teacher of Laſciviouſneſs. Now judge, you Proteſtants, whether it were not better, that W. Penn and G. Whitehead, and ſome few more of the Chief of the Foxonian Chief Prieſts, come under the blame or ſhame of being miſlead by Fox, and they condemn or diſown thoſe Printed Errors of theirs; or elſe to gratifie the Pride and Malice of Ten of them, (for I think there is not more of them fierce Deſpiſers now living) to have all this Infamy and Contempt of theirs in Print, of the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, ſo convey'd to Poſterity as Divine Oracles; for there can no dammage come to the People Quakers in general, or to theſe Perſons; nor no more deſired of them, than that they publiſh ſomething to clear the Proteſtants in general (as they required of G. K. and Excommunicated him becauſe he did it not) from their Calumnies; and as them Twenty-four afore-mentioned, did againſt the Chriſtian Quakers Anſwer to F. Bugg; and elſe theſe Foxonians more juſtly deſerve to be Excommunicated from the Proteſtants, than G. K. did from them. What! Shall they have ſuch Power and Zeal for Errors, and is there none in Power that have as much Zeal for the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters?

And theſe Foxonians, of all People, ought not to refuſe to condemn their Errors, becauſe they exact the ſame from others for faults much leſs criminal. But let them but obſerve their own Doctrine to 21 Divines, it's I fear true on themſelves; ſay they, Your credit is a temptation to you; ſacrifice it for the ſake of your own and others Souls upon the Altar of ſelf-denial;—think not repentance a Work too mean for you, becauſe you have been ſo long Preachers to others, a juſt rebuke p. 32. Mind this I pray you Foxonians, eſpecially W. P. the Author; and it will be an aggravation of your guilt, in caſe you practice not what you Preach to others, and a farther proof of the truth of my charge againſt you.

Therefore be not high minded, but take your own adviſe G. W. be ingenious and confeſs thy Error.— I adviſe thee not to out-face thy own Conſcience. And this Spirit of Fox's which now influences G. Whitehead, &c. is the ſame as was in Corah, &c. For, as then they oppos'd and reſiſted Moſes, ſo doth this Foxonian Spirit in theſe Quakers condemn our Spiritual Moſes, the Lord Jeſus of Nazareth: But this proud Foxonian Spirit, thro' his Inſtrument Fox, ſays he, is Chriſt the Eternal Judge of the World; the Son of God; and as a Father in Chriſt (ſay they of Fox) he took care of the whole Houſhold of Faith, over which the Lord made him Overſeer, and endued him with an excellent Spirit of Wiſdom and Underſtanding; one of the Lords Worthies: And many more ſuch Blaſphemous Titles have theſe Foxonian Quakers given to their Idol of Jealouſie, Fox, in their Journal, Printed in Folio, and preſerved in the Library at Oxford, to ſpread his Fame, to the Defamation and great Scandal of the many Generations of Proteſtants, Martyrs and Miniſters.

And notwiſtanding they ſo Blaſphemouſly exalt him, he was either very wicked, or elſe ſuch a Blockhead that he underſtood not common Senſe; for five Miniſters wrot a Book detecting theſe Quakers Errors Intituled, The Perfect Phariſee; charging them with 17 Errors; this was anſwer'd by Fox in his great Myſtery, p. 74. but he, as was uſual with him, ſlips the material things, and quarrels with ſome expreſſions more inſignificant.

They publiſhed another Book Titled, A farther Diſcovery of the Quakers, &c. in vindication of the truth of their Charge on the Quakers. Now of the 17 Errors they charge theſe Quakers with, the third is in both their Books, that the Quakers hold that the Soul is a part of the Divine Eſſence; this is rehearſed in their 5th. p. where they begin to recite all the 17 Errors of the Quakers; afterwards they ſtate theſe 17 Errors and prove (and then confute) them. Now this 3d. altho it be recited in their 5th. pag. yet it's again mentioned in p. 31. Now Fox pretends to anſwer this Book of the 5 Miniſters in his 227. page; and in his beginning ſays of them and their Book thus: In it are their Principles as follows; and next begins, and for Principle puts generally Pr. and ſays thus Pr. Firſt that the Soul is a part of the Divine Eſſence, giving it as the 5 Miniſters Words and Principle, and ſo make a long ſquinting Anſwer; and out of all the 30 pages pickt out about ſix lines of the whole, and quarrels with; but when he comes to p. 31. where the five Miniſters again recite the ſame former Error of the Quakers, then in his page 229. he gives it as their Principle, It is Blaſphemy to ſay the Soul is a part of the Divine Eſſence Here he truly ſtates their Principle, altho' not their Words; but in his long ſide-long ſquinting Anſwer, ſays to them, You five have judged your ſelves to be Blaſphemers, who ſaid the Soul was part of the Divine Eſſence, and yet 'tis Blaſphemy to ſay ſo. Thus you ſee this ſilly Gooſe of a Fox, here confirms his afore Chargeing the five Miniſters, that they ſaid, The Soul was a part of the Divine Eſſence; whenas they never ſo ſaid, only recited the Quakers Words and Error: Juſt as if one hearing a Perſon ſpeak Treaſon, and being called to witneſs it, and rehearſing the Words, the Witneſs, who only rehearſes what he heard, ſhould therefore be charged with the Treaſon; for this Gooſe Fox, doth not only in p. 227. give it as their Principle, but in his 229 page, where he owns they term it Blaſphemy, he alſo confirms it, that they ſaid, The Soul was a part of the Divine Eſſence, whenas they only recite it. But it's to be feared, Fox was not ſo much ignorant as wicked in this, becauſe he makes his Advantage to render the five Miniſters as contradicting themſelves: But take it in the beſt ſence, that Fox was ſo ſilly a Gooſe, as to underſtand no better, but to take what they recite as to be their own Principle, as he here did at beſt.

Another Inſtance of Fox's Weakneſs or Wickedneſs is in their Books Great Myſtery, page 247. Fox falſly ſays of C. W. He ſaith God limits the Supream holy One by the inſpired Writings of the Apoſtles, &c. And in Anſwer, Fox ſays, And the holy One is not limited by the Words of the Apoſtles, who fulfils them, &c. Now by Fox's Anſwer, and his ſaying, He ſaith, &c. it's evident he gives this his Forgery as his Opponents Words, and any one who reads it would ſo think, but they are not, but are one of Fox's many Forgeries: For C. W.'s Words be thus, pag. 13. Your Quakers Diabolical Spirit in you—he over-powers you Quakers—to deny the Scriptures to be any help in ſaving Teachings; and as he (i. e. the Diabolical Spirit) thereby (i. e. by perſwading them to ſlight Scripture) limits the Supream holy One, ſo he over-rules you to acknowledge but one Diſpenſation of Gods Mind to Men —Here it is evident that C. W.'s Word is HE, (and relates to the Diabolical Spirit) which this wicked Fox forges into GOD; and what W. C. ſays the Diabolical Spirit does, Fox ſays he (C. W.) ſays God does; beſides the Forgery, hereby it's proved that it's the Diabolical Spirit, which Fox takes for God or Chriſts Spirit, as alſo his Forgery proves: This is mention'd in my Eſſay to allay G. Fox's Spirit, p. 7, 8. with about Twenty more Inſtances of Fox's wicked Forgeries and Perverſions. But they have a Cover for Fox's Wickedneſs and Ignorance (in W. Penn's Epiſtle in recommendation of him and his Journal) that it proceeds from one ſide of his Underſtanding, which was towards the World, &c. which they there acknowledge was ſomewhat dark or weak; but ſuch Quibbles ſhew that the Inventers were not ſo weak as wicked; and that his (i.e. Fox's) Judgment was not quite round Infallible, but had a Fallible Side.

But I ſay, This proves theſe now Foxonian Chief Prieſts, W. Penn, &c. very falſe Witneſſes, ſo blaſphemouſly to exalt ſuch a wicked Man or Spirit as Fox and his were; and they, W. Penn and G. Whitehead, &c. are Maſters of ſo much Sence, that it may juſtly be feared they have (in this exalting and vindicating this wicked Fox) ſinned againſt their own knowledge; and they may be reminded of their own Counſel, Do not go about to out-face thy own Conſcience, but confeſs thy Fault; for you have too highly exalted him; and he hath exalted himſelf, and muſt be abaſed.

All this proves their now Foxonian Cardinals, Penn, Whitehead, &c. to be as bad as he; I do not mean as ſilly, but as wicked and falſe, to ſay, as they have in Print, God hath endued him with ſuch an Excellent Spirit of Wiſdom and Underſtanding: (But be it known, W. Penn underſtands his own Worldly Intereſt better than Fox did Divinity.)

But ſay the Foxonians, of this miſerable blaſphemous vagrant cobling Wretch, Fox, This holy Man was raiſed up by God in an extraordinary manner, for an extraordinary Work: So was Pharaoh, and other wicked Inſtruments. But I have here proved them falſe Witneſſes, therefore ſhall not go unpuniſhed; but who ſay unto the Wicked (Fox) thou art Righteous, are to be Curſed.

But altho' theſe Foxonian Quakers ſo deifie and exalt this wicked Spirit of Haman, in their Idol of Jealouſie, Fox, yet they can contemn and undervalue the Perſon of our Lord JESUS,.(and his Blood) as mean and contemptible; and ſay, Doth not the Name (Chriſt) belong to every Member, as well as to the Head? Your imagined God beyond the Stars, and your carnal Chriſt, is utterly denied by the Light: To ſay this Chriſt is God and Man in one Perſon, is a Lye; and the Blood let out of his Side by the Spear on the Croſs, after he was dead, was no more than the Blood of another Saint; They are falſe (Ministers) that preach Chriſt without, &c. Hereby they make St. Peter a falſe Miniſter. And of our Lords Perſon, ſay they, It was Mean and Contemptible. And hundreds more ſuch horrid Contempts have they Printed, which are excuſed and juſtified by the now Foxonian Quakers, and the wicked Authors not only vindicated, but their wicked Works highly magnified by W. P. and G. W.

And altho' theſe now Foxonians, to gratifie ſome then in great Power at Court, left out and altered their Treaſonable Ancient Teſtimonies, yet their Contempts of the Proteſtants, eſpecially the Miniſters, they have not abated, but rather aggravated, eſpecially W. Penn.

And for further proof that this Foxonian Spirit is not Chriſt's, I ſhall give you one inſtance of the arrogancy thereof in G. Whitehead, in a brief Treatiſe, &c. ſays he Magiſtrates that uphold ſuch blind Guides as this (R. Baxter a Proteſtant Miniſter) who is in ſuch Errors and Confuſion; they groſly abuſe their Power, and ſhall give an account for it one day. But, theſe may quibble it off, that this was againſt them in Oliver's times, and it's againſt ſuch as be in Errors, &c. I Anſwer, that they accounted the Church of England Miniſters worſe than them, and for Errors, &c. They count them all ſuch, as at large may be ſeen in the Epiſtle before E. B.'s Works.

Another proof of the Arrogancy of this Foxonian Spirit, is in their Book Counterfeit Convert, &c. p. 72. They ſay, That their Teſtimony againſt Tythes ſhould be maintained, is not a Law of their own making, but of Chriſts. This is in Anſwer to ſomething ſaid to them in T. C.'s Animadverſions, p. 39. where T. C. objects againſt their Arrogant and Unchriſtian Judgment they have paſſed on all Chriſtendom, (Kings, Lords, Martyrs, and all People who pay Tythes, altho' freely) as is Chriſtianly held in W. R.'s Chriſtian Quaker, and oppoſed in theirs, intituled, An Antidote, in Anſwer to W. R. But it's this, the Quakers Impoſition and Tyranny over others Conſciences, that they will not allow them to be Chriſtians, but Antichriſts, and mark them as ſuch, and Deniers of Chriſt: It was this their Unchriſtianing all who can freely pay Tythes without conſtraint, that T. C. objects againſt; and this they make a Law of Chriſt's making, thereby poſitively Judging the Laws of England for Tythes to be oppoſite to Chriſt's Laws; and ſo the Upholders of ſuch Laws, of all Degrees, Deniers of Chriſt, and Antichriſts; and not only the Law-Makers and Maintainers, but thoſe who pay them freely: For, THAT Unchriſtian Teſtimony of theirs it was, T. C. termed a Law of their making, &c. In Anſwer hereto, they do not deny its a Law; but deny it's of Their making, but of Chriſt's, ſay they. This Book was by them delivered to the Parliament Here Sentence is paſt (on all Degrees, paſt, preſent, and to the Worlds End) when the Court of our Judges, the Foxonian Cardinals of their Second Days Meeting, will pleaſe to order Execution, I know not.

But further, To prove theſe their Teſtimonies, as they term them, be Laws, obſerve alſo in their Book intituled Rabſhekah, &c. page 90. they ſay, Formerly he (i. e. T. C.) having tranſgreſſed in ſome matters—Again ſay they, And by his ſaid Tranſgreſſions, &c. Now where there is no Law, there is no Tranſgreſſion; but here they charge and puniſh for Tranſgreſſion, for not obeying their Laws, contrary to the Law of the Nation, and ſay, It's not of their making but of Chriſt's: This is of very high rnd general Concernment, for it affects, as well as reflects on Laws and Law-Makers, as well as Law-Obeyers; and which is of moſt force, or which muſt have preference, either the Law of the Nation, or of the Quakers? Why, if as they ſay, that theirs againſt them who can freely pay Tythes, is of Chriſts making, then the Quakers Law or Teſtimony is of greateſt force, becauſe it's of Chriſt's (i. e. Fox's) making. This is larger and better treated on, in The Snake in the Graſs, &c. the Second Edition, with Additions.

I only ſay, Either the Quakers are very Arrogant, or elſe (by their Doctrine) the Law-Makers and Laws of England, are contrary to Chriſt's: And I think theſe Quakers Reflections and Scandal they have laid on the Laws, and Religion, and Miniſters of England much more deſerve to be taken notice of by them in Power, than Francis Bugg's Book with the Picture of a Pillory did, which on the Quakers Complaint againſt him, as Seditious, was ſeized by a Meſſenger, by Order of a Secretary of State; and he (F. B.) Indicted for three Crimes, Defaming or Scandalizing G. W. &c: Quakers. But the Quakers ſcandalizes the Laws and Law-Makers, and Obſervers, in all Ages ſince the Apoſtles, until the End of Time, who pay (or uphold) Tythes, altho' freely; and therefore is very Arrogant, as well as Unchriſtian.

And this proves it is not Liberty of Conſcience, but Power over others Conſciences, they aim at; and alſo proves their Deceit, in pretending theirs are but Counſel and Tender Advice; for altho' to deceive, they uſe ſuch gentle Words as Recommend, or Tender Advice, yet you ſee they expect exact Obedience, and puniſh as Tranſgreſſors, for not obeying their Orders as the Laws of Chriſt, or of his making.

Now are not theſe Quakers very Wicked and Arrogant, in doing as they have? Not only to the Miniſters, but defamed the Memories of Kings and Martyrs, ever ſince Chriſt, that paid or ſhall pay Tythes. And they have been ſo drunk with furious Malice as to violate Sepulchers, and trample on the Graves of the Dead; nay, they have been ſo ignoble, baſe, and meanly ſcurrilous, as to beſtow their Billingſgate Rhetorick, not only on other Men, (but Kings, more eſpecially Charles the Firſt) that cannot anſwer for themſelves, becauſe in their Graves.

It is not fit they (i. e. theſe Arrogant Quakers) ſhould paſs without Rebuke; therefore to expoſe the poorneſs (and wickedneſs) of their Spirit, (which they blaſphemouſly term Chriſt's) to the view of thoſe of a more Generous (and Chriſtian) Temper, and to manifeſt what a kind of Antagoniſts (the Miniſters) have, I have here collected a part of their Abuſes of thoſe good Men, (ſome of them) now at reſt, who never deſerved at theſe (Quakers) hands, I am perſwaded, theſe Demonſtrations of Rancor againſt them—Theſe (Quakers) Malice is ſo great (againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters) that I have not offered a third part of the Abuſive Expreſſions they have uſed againſt them, both here afore and following.

All this and more is their own, in their Book Rabſhekah, &c. page 68. becauſe G. Fox's and their Wickedneſs was diſcover'd; which theſe now Quakers are ſo far from diſowning, as they ought, that they contrariwiſe vindicate them, and exalt the Authors, Fox, &c. with high Commendations: A mighty Prophet, and more than a Prophet, endued with the Almighty power of God which lived and reigned in him; and this Epiſtle aforementioned wrot by him, is ſuch a choice Revelation with them, that it's twice printed and put before 2 Books, one of Fox's in 1659. and another ſince printed by them Foxonian Quakers, 1672. of above 900 pages in Folio, ſtuft with bitter Revilings and Defamations of the Proteſtant Miniſters, to the great ſcandal of the Engliſh Nation, as following is ſhown: And it's the Proteſtant Miniſters in general, that fot upholding them he G. W. threatens the Magiſtrates.

And for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is not Chriſt's, but that which influenced Haman to ſeek the Deſtruction of the Jews, appears by the Fruits of Malice and Defamation following, that they have v •• ted againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, and it's chiefly the Miniſters Support that is their Grievance, and only take that of Tythes for their pretence, as being likely to take with covetous and poor People, &c. For formerly, when ſome conſiderations were in hand (on the hideous Noiſe they made againſt Tythes) for ſome other ſettled Maintenance of Godly Miniſters, they oppoſed that alſo: In the year 1659, ſay they to the Committee of Safety, If you ſhould take them (Tythes) away, and ſettle anything by way of Compulſion on the People for any Miniſtry, you leave us in Bondage, and we muſt declare againſt that, as againſt Tythes, and we cannot pay that nor the other, &c.

And after the Nonconformiſts that were turned out of Places, had Meetings, and their Hearers gathered by Collection what the People freely gave; G. Whitehead enviouſly informs againſt them, ſaying of them, Who being diſmounted from their Parochial Biſhopricks, &c. are now for the Ratling of their Platters, which have been very beneficial to many.—Have their Platters rattle more ſecretly, &c. The Nature of Chriſtianity, pag. 5. That the Proteſtant Miniſters live, torments theſe Quakers, being they have blaſphemouſly propheſied their begging and Starving: And ſay they, If the King, &c. Repeal the Law inforcing Tythes, and convert them into ſome neceſſary Civil Uſe, it would appear whether we ſhould not pay our parts, and whether the Royal Exchequer would not be conveniently ſupplied without the Tenth from the Prieſts, page 50. of The Quakers Caſe, &c. In this caſe G. Whitehead's Spirit looks more like Haman's than Chriſt's, as in Eſther 3. it's ſaid, If it pleaſe the King, let it be written, that they may be deſtroyed, and I will pay Ten Thouſand Talents of Silver into the hands of thoſe that have the Charge of the Buſineſs, to be brought into the Kings Treaſuries.

And in the Epiſtle before E. B.'s Works, To all the World (they ſay) their difference was not only with ſome Sects or Perſons, but (ſay they) with all Sects in theſe Nations, Prieſts and Profeſſors, and have juſt cauſe to deny their whole Religion: And ſay to the Miniſters, In the Name of the Lord, you are contrary to them (i e. the Apoſtles) in all your Doctrines—in all your Ways and Practices; and ſay they, Our Spirits were fill'd with Indignation againſt the Prieſts; and with and againſt them we began War, and againſt them, as the Fountain of all Wickedneſs—and as being the Iſſue of Profaneneſs, from them hath Profaneneſs gone forth, in all Nations, Deceivers, Antichriſts; this was our firſt Work to thraſh down Deceivers (the Proteſtant Miniſters) falſe Idle Shepherds; Wo, wo unto theſe Shepherds, ſaith the Lord God (Fox) they ſhall be confounded, they ſhall be broken down, and never builded any more; the Lord will pluck them up by the Roots, and they ſhall never again be planted—Their whole Miniſtry hath a dependance on Popery—All ſavours of Popery,— Their whole Religion in all parts thereof degenerated, &c.

You ſee it's the whole and every Part that they are againſt of the Proteſtant Miniſters and Reliligion in theſe three Nations; and in page 1. they ſay, It's from the Lord; and they term the Miniſters, A curſed deceitful Miniſtry: And in page 88. to prove the Proteſtant Miniſters falſe Prophets, charge them that they ſpeak what they have ſtudied for (then ſurely they would have condemned Timothy for obeying Paul, who bid him ſtudy, &c.) Even (ſay they) a Divination of their own Brain—Take other Mens Words—(See the Snake in the Graſs, firſt Part, p. 316. where the Quakers are proved to have done the ſame) Nor have heard the Voice of God, but—take Chapter and Verſe. But ſurely then Fox was a very falſe Prophet, for he took others words, altho' durſt not, or could not tell Chapter and Verſe, becauſe he uſually corrupted it by adding or diminiſhing, as he pleaſed.

And in obedience to their Law or Act made by their Conclave of Cardinals, to hold up their (Holy and Ancient) Teſtimony of Truth—in the beginning, —and that in all the parts of it, &c. Now this afore againſt taking (or reading) Chapter or Verſe, being a part of what their Truth taught them in the Beginning, being ſince by Re-printing alſo further confirmed, may be ſome cauſe that they are ſo offended with G. Keith, for, or becauſe he has a Bible before him, and ſometimes reads ſome Scripture-Text therein: And I hear W. Penn did in their Publick Meeting in his Preachment reflect on it, ſaying, Chriſt did not preach out of a Book, (or to that effect.) But he might more truly have ſaid, Chriſt nor his Apoſtles did not preach in or with Periwigs, as he, &c. does: And altho' he, &c. be ſo offended at G. Keith's reading in the Bible, and term it Preaching, yet he may read in the 4th of Luke, and 16th, That as his Cuſtom was, he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and ſtood up to read; and there was delivered unto him the Book of Eſaias; and when he had opened the Book, he found the Place where it was written, &c. Surely he had leſs need of the Book, or opening it, than W. P. (or his Maſter Fox either) yet he did it, altho' theſe Quakers not only do not follow his Example therein, but are offended, and revile others for ſo doing, as here ſhewn; but perhaps this Infallible Fallible Spirit of Fox's in W. Penn, was as ignorant of this Scripture, as he was of the place where our Lord was born: But their preferring Fox's Journal or Work before the Bible, appears by their fixing it (i. e. Fox's Journal) in their Publick Meeting; and not only W. Penn, but ſeveral others of them, have ſhewed diſlike to G. K.'s uſing the Bible at Turners-Hall.

Again, Pag. 10. Say they, All thy Teachers, O England, are denied by them who are taught of God. O People, your Teachers have beguiled you: Your Reward will be Vengeance, and your Charge will be Murthering Souls—The moſt innocent among you will be found guilty of Innocent Blood. G. W. can you be ſo ingenuous as to exempt Dr. Stillingfleet from theſe your Scandals. And page 101. which they ſay was ſealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God to the Prieſts and Teachers, Thus ſaith the Lord, (Fox) My Controverſie is againſt you of all others, and my Judgments ſhall be on you to the uttermoſt, for you in Hypocriſie, &c. have exceeded all others—Abominably loathſome is your filthineſs, in preaching for hire, &c. They go on againſt the Miniſters, ſaying, They had made Merchandiſe of their (Peoples) Souls. —Prophaneneſs is gone forth from you into all Corners of the Earth, &c. Again, You have ſhut the Kingdom of Heaven againſt Men, to the deſtruction of Thouſands and Ten Thouſands—And your Prayers have been to your Idol God for all ſorts from whom you could receive a Reward—Original the Womb of Witchcraft. —You pray to your dead Gods—Deceiving Thouſands—Whoſe Blood you are abſolutely guilty of.—Your Rebellion is the Crime of Witchcraft —which cannot ceaſe to do Evil, for you have bound your ſelves in the Covenant with Hell.—My Cup of Indignation is the aſſured Portion of your Lot, and Blood ſhall you have to drink, as your Reward from me: My Plagues (i. e. theſe Quakers) ſhall remain with you on Earth, and ſhall follow you to the Lake. My Fire of Indignation is kindled on you, which ſhall burn for ever more. All theſe Six Lines of their Fury is in the compaſs of one page of their 900; and of this their Reviling the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, his Vouchers, Whitehead, &c. could not afford to abate any thing, but, as they ſay, pour out full Cups of their Malice againſt the Miniſters.

But out of the ſame Book, which they ſay was writ by Command of the Lord, the 31 day of the 10th Month, 1655. unto all ſorts of People; yet theſe forging Foxonians have left out one whole Meſſage to one ſort of People, called Cavaliers, the Kings Friends, p. 9. And in ſeveral places left out and altered, and added Words and Sentences.

They proceed and ſay of the Miniſters, p. 190. Their Doctrines (it's not Doctrine) are of the Devil—They have filled the World with Damnable Hereſies— That Sprinkling Infants with Water is Baptiſm into the Faith of Chriſt, and that the Steeple-houſe is the Church, &c.—Theſe are Damnable Hereſies, even to denying the Lord that bought them. —And (ſay they) this is the Doctrine of Devils—And Lyes they ſpeak in great numbers. Page 195. Theſe Teachers of this Generation are of them, (i. e. the Beaſt, Whore, and falſe Prophet) of their Root and Off-ſpring, &c. Conſider what God did to the Biſhops, and their Crew of Perſecutors—How the Lord overthew them. P 261. You have been the Fountain of all this wickedneſs (i. e. the Quakers Sufferings) acted againſt the Juſt, &c. P. 162. Have been curſed Precedents to the Rulers and People who have followed your cruel ſteps of Envy—And they have drunk in your Poyſonous Doctrines (not Doctrine) —Mens hearts have been filled with your Damnable Doctrine of Devils. P. 269. The Time of your Overthrow draws near upon you all, and deſpiſable ſhall you be to all that fear the Lord. The Quakers Throats are open Sepulchres, and not covered ones. For ſay they,

Page 348. Their Worſhip and Miniſtry which ſtands not in exerciſe of pure Conſcience, but in Superſtitious Idolatry. His (the Miniſters) Labour is abomination and deceiving of Souls. And page 626. The Controverſie hath been held forth between the Miniſters of the Church of England on Antichriſts part, and the People called Quakers, of the other part. Here you ſee their Envy and Charge is againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters in general.

Page 674. They ſay, It's not lawful for the Saints to joyn to your Ordinances, nor own your Miniſtry. No wonder they ſay their Teſtimony againſt Tythes is a Law of Chriſt's making, for here they ſay, It's not lawful, &c.

And page 672. To clear the Quakers from the guilt of the King's Sufferings, and to incenſe the King and Nation againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, ſay they, If it be conſidered who they are that firſt raiſed the War againſt the King and Nation, and who it was that firſt preached and prayed up the War, and proſecuted it againſt his Father, and who it was that caſt out the Biſhops, and took their Revenues. And yet none owned and encouraged Oliver, and juſtified their Cruelty to King Charles the Firſt, 1648, more than the Quakers; nay, Fox, and this very ſhameleſs E. B. condemned the King and his Friends, and hath caſt Infamy on his Name and Family, as is before ſhewn; and yet here have the face to ſay, Their (i. e. the Quakers) Sufferings, have been more cruel and unjuſt, than towards them (the King.) But they that can ſo contemn our Lords Sufferings and Blood, and exalt their own as more Cruel and Unjuſt than His, it's no wonder that they alſo advance their own Sufferings above the Kings, &c.

But they go on againſt the Miniſters, p. 687, Such as have been your (i. e. the King's) Enemies, and and preach'd, and pray'd, and fought againſt you— and now pray for you—Can you truſt that theſe will be faithful to you?—And whether thus to deny their former Oaths and Engagements, is commendable? Here theſe Quakers blame them for not keeping the Scotch Covenant or Solemn League, which was againſt the King and Houſe of Lords, and to utterly extirpate Epiſcopacy, that dead loathſome Form, as the Quakers elſewhere upbraid the Presbyterians for, as is mentioned in T. C's Animadverſions on G.W.'s Book. But all theſe ſufficiently prove the Maliciouſneſs of theſe Quakers Spirits againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, they accuſe for not performing their Engagements againſt the King, Lords, and Biſhops; and yet alſo accuſe them for what they did in performance. Now were theſe Quakers, as they falſely pretend they ſtand to their Principles, and are the Kings Friends, then they ſhould not blame others for not performing, but for engaging; but its plainly ſhewed they did not blame but encourage Oliver, &c. in what they did againſt both the Kings, and boaſted and bragged that they fought from firſt to laſt; and accuſed Oliver, &c. for putting them out of the Army, and it was becauſe they maintained the Proteſtant Miniſters, and ſuffered Fox and Ed. Piot, &c. to be impriſoned, that they accuſed and threatened Oliver for, and not for any thing done againſt the King, &c. But have in this very Book, in their ſquinting way, juſtified it; for here you ſee they ſay they ſtand to their Principles of Faith, &c. Oh two-fac'd envious Hypocrites!

Again, p. 766. ſay they, Antichriſts falſe Miniſtry and Worſhip, and Doctrines, God will confound. Now if any ſay this is true, it is ſo; but it's all the Worſhip and Miniſtry of the Engliſh Proteſtants they ſo term and defame.

And page 730. Ye all have deceived the World, and the Blood of Souls reſts on you—ye have been as Canker-Worms, and that have corrupted the whole World; whom have you not deceived by your Lyes, &c.— God is weary of you, and the time is at hand he will pluck you up by the Roots, and viſit you with great deſtruction, and your Names ſhall be a reproach among Men—the Lord will bring unreſiſtable Deſtruction upon you.—The Earth is weary of you, which you have corrupted with your falſe ways; and the Kingdom groans under your Oppreſſions, and the Earth will ſpue you out.

Again, In p. 521. theſe Quakers are charged to joyn with the Cavalieriſh Party (i. e. the Kings) In denial of it, ſay they, That Generation of Prieſts are joyned with the Prelatical Cavalieriſh Party; this is known in the Nation, in the North eſpecially. Here you ſee they were then againſt the Kings Intereſt, as well as the Miniſters, whom they maliciouſly inform againſt therefore for.

And p. 523. ſay the Quakers, They (i. e. Honeſt People) ſee that wicked Intereſt of the Clergy proſper more than the Freedom of the People; and this I ſay from the Lord, That while that Intereſt (of this falſe Prieſthood) is ſo much favoured, you can never proſper, nor the Nations be happy under you.—It is high time to lay aſide (ſay they) that Intereſt of this oppreſſing Clergy.—You know the Spirit of the Romiſh Clergy was in the late Biſhops, whom you caſt out for their Wickedneſs, and the very Spirit of thoſe Biſhops is entered into theſe Prieſts—And there is the remainder of her Murders in theſe Mens (i. e. the Miniſters) Breaſts, and at every opportunity it breaks forth, as of late in this Rebellion you have full Teſtimony (it was Sir Geo. Booth's appearing for King Charles the Second in the North, 1659.) And theſe Quakers, they go on, and ſay to the long Parliament, If you do not curb it (i. e. the Spirit of the Biſhops) ſpeedily, it will grow over you to your undoing.

And in page 524. Says to the Parliament, Caſt them (the Miniſters) off, and let them not lurk under your Wings (but leave them to be worried by the Quakers) for one day they will rebel againſt you, and another day flatter you, and ſhew love in hypocriſie, even while they are hatching Miſchief againſt you, even to bring the Nation into Blood.—It appears to many of you a thing hard to forſake your Godly Miniſters,—Was it not the ſame concerning the King and Biſhops?—Was it not as terrible to him and his Lords, to think of the Overthrow of the then called Godly Fathers and Biſhops? But better had he caſt them off, and ſaved himſelf, than to have periſhed with them: And better were it for you to lay them aſide, and ſave your ſelves, than to periſh with them; and one of theſe will come to paſs.—It's decreed of the Lord, if you uphold them (Miniſters) and oppreſs Peoples Perſons, and Eſtates, and Conſciences, on their behalf, and in their evil Cauſe, for Tythes and Wages, ye ſhall fall with them; and none ſhall be able to deliver you nor them.—For the Spirit of the old Idolatrous Biſhops, is entered into the hearts of theſe Men; and there is a great meaſure of Tyranny, Injuſtice, and Abomination on theſe, as was on the Biſhops; and theſe are as nigh ripe for Vengeance, as the other (i. e. Biſhops) were, &c.

By theſe, and what follows, the Church of England may ſee that theſe Quakers Ancient Teſtimony of their Truth, was as much againſt them, as againſt the Diſſenters, and more: however they may, to deceive, forbear to treat them now with ſuch hell-fetch'd Names, in expreſs words, as formerly.

But the Quakers go on, ſaying, in page 477. The Lord is riſen to confound this Church and this Miniſtry, which is Idolatry. And P. 477. For you who worſhip God in Steeple-houſes,—God will confound this Church and Miniſtry, &c. P. 499. We are puniſhed for bearing witneſs againſt the falſe Prophets and Hirelings of theſe days—And we ſee and know that they, &c.—ſhall periſh—Their downfall haſtens greatly—and all the Powers of the Earth ſhall not be able to ſupport them; and with them ſhall fall their Tythes.

Now this their Rage and Envy is from the Mouth of the Lord, or elſe theſe Foxonians, G. Whitehead, &c. were Conjurers by their own Sentence. And altho' I have afore proved they do expect Obedience to their Laws, (as the Laws of Chriſt) altho' they (to deceive) pretend they be but Advice or Counſel; yet for further proof thereof, obſerve that for diſobeying their Advice againſt carrying Guns in Ships, they ſay, It's injurious to their own Souls; and therefore it muſt be a Law of high Concernment, that the not obeying, or breaking of it, is of ſuch ill conſequence to their Souls: And theſe Foxonians will not ſuffer nor permit their Papers to be called Mens Edicts, nor Sinful, no, not the very Papers; how ſacred then do they think their Ancient Teſtimonies, therein written be? Surely, as aforeſaid, they deem them Laws of Chriſts making; eſpecially that wherein they Unchriſtian all who pay Tythes (altho' freely) and record and mark rhem for Antichriſts, and Deniers of Chriſt come in the Fleſh.

Now hear alſo their own Doctrine: Say they, Any Party of Men under a Government, to make Laws, not lawfully Authorized, for binding others, and thereto requiring obedience, be the ſetting up themſelves above the Law, and treading it under their feet, and rendring them whom they ſo bind their Slaves— and ſo is TREASON. This is worthy of Notice by all, Rulers and People.

And to O. Cromwel, page 557. ſay they, This is the Word of the Lord to thee—The Miniſtry of England for which thou ſeem'ſt to ſtand, generally it's not of God, but of Antichriſt, and the Lord is againſt it; and it's the ground of the greateſt Oppreſſion of the Poor, in its Maintenance, as any one particular Abomination this day in the Nation; and if thou ſetteſt thy ſelf to uphold them—thou ſhalt fall into Perdition with them.

And to R. Cromwel, p. 578. Say they of the Publick Miniſtry As it is now, we teſtifie from the Lord,—it is wholly degenerated in all things from what the Miniſtry of Chriſt was, &c. And much more againſt the Miniſters, which they have Re-Printed at large: But in this ſame Letter, page 574. where they put the words Grievous Cruelty, it was by him Grievous Tyrannies. Alſo in the ſame Letter, p. 580. juſt before the four laſt Lines, they leave out this following Sentence, As concerning the Armies abroad, let faithful Men (i. e. Quakers) be put in truſt—for the Army is of great Concernment to thee, to ſtand or fall through them, as to Mans Account, and the War againſt Spain, be faithful to God in it,—the Lord may accompliſh ſomething by it, to his honour and thine. — There is ſomething in it known to the Lord, (a cunning Gypſie Prophet!) And altho' they ſay this was from the Lord, yet they thus alter, and leave out, to hide their hypocritical Pretence after the Reſtoration, that they were againſt fighting with outward Weapons for any end whatſoever: But this ſhews their Hypocriſie as well as their Malice, which they continue foaming out againſt the Proteſtants, in their Meſſage, as they ſay, by eſpecial Authority from the Lord, by his Embaſſador E. B.

In his Works, p. 591, Say they, Tho' he (i. e. the Lord) did in ſome meaſure free this Nation from much Tyranny, in caſting out Popiſh Authority, yet the Nation in a few years was near as much violated by Injuſtice, Tyranny and Cruelty, under the Prelatical Power, as ever it was once under the Papal Power. But altho theſe forging Wretches, the Foxonians, give this as a Meſſage from God, by his Embaſſador E. B. yet they leave out this word Tyranny, and change Prelatical into Succeeding: Either they are ſelf-condemned Blaſphemers, or elſe deſerve the Plagues of adding and diminiſhing from and to the Word of the Lord. But altho' they leave out their Treaſonable Teſtimonies, yet their Sedition againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters they have to the full put in; well knowing there was them great in Court they thereby pleaſed, and would and could defend and reward them. Therefore theſe Foxonian Humans, G. W. &c. revived all that: For page 595. ſay they, Them called Miniſters, the way of their ſetting up, ſending forth, Maintenance, Standing and Defence, and in every particular of their being ſuch, they are the greateſt and woful Oppreſſion in the Nation; the moſt abominable and unjuſt Cruelties and Tyrannies are acted through them, as any other thing in the Nation; and they are (as ſuch aforeſaid) the woful Cauſe of the Nations groaning under mercileſs Dealing; and there is on their account the guilt of Blood, Injuſtice, and Oppreſſion, on this Nation; their Iniquities cries for Vengeance on their own heads, for they are full, and —near finiſhed; God's Eternal Vengeance is their next Reward from the Eternal God.—The Earth is oppreſſed by them, the Inhabitants groan under them, and the Righteous God is vexed through them, and they are the Men of high Indignation and fierce Wrath, and all their Practices (as ſuch) are the Eewel of his Anger.—The Nation is weary— and the Lord is weary becauſe of theſe Men.—If this be the Miniſtry muſt be encourag'd by you, you ſhall never proſper, but bring a Curſe on all your doings becauſe hereof.—The hand of my Lord is againſt them. (I believe you G. W. &c. for its him mentioned 2 Theſſ. 2.4. and from E. B. your Father in Envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, hadſt thou thy ſuch malicious Doctrine: For you go on in your bloody Fury and Malice, ſaying) And whomſoever ſhall ſeek to defend them, ſhall not proſper, &c.

And in p. 618. their rage is ſo inveterate againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, that they fall out with the Baptiſts, becauſe they, Chriſtian-like ſay, It's their Duty to preſerve them (i. e. the Miniſters) from all violence, &c. In Anſwer, ſay theſe Foxonians, What are you about to make a League with Antichriſt? —Will you now bind your ſelves to preſerve them from all Injury— as they are Miniſters too?

And in R. Huberthorn's Works, theſe Foxonians have reaked out the ſame Fury againſt the Baptiſts, and ſay, Can you ſtand by them, and preſerve them (while Baptizing Infants) and not tell them its Antichriſtian? —And ſay, Do you not ſay, You will not tolerate Miſcarriages in things Religious? — Is not this a Miſcarriage in thing Religious, to baptize Infants? And do you not tolerate this Miſcarriage, while you ſtand by to preſerve them in it? &c.

Here you may ſee the Quakers Envy to the Miniſters, and that their Deſign is not Liberty of Conſcience, as they falſly pretend; for here they do not only incenſe the Nation againſt them, but revile the Baptiſts, becauſe they do not run with them into the ſame Exceſs of Blood-thirſtineſs: For theſe Quakers, G. W. &c. drive on their ſame wicked defaming the Proteſtant Miniſters in this R. H.'s Works, as in E. B.'s: For ſay they alſo to the Baptiſts— They are not againſt tolerating Epiſcopaoy and Presbytery, &c. yet againſt Popery; why will you not tolerate Popery, as well as Epiſcopacy? (ſay they:) Have not the Profeſſors of Epiſcopacy murthered and ſlain, and do labour to murther and ſlay, as well as the Papiſts? And why will you tolerate the Common-Prayer among the Epiſcopalians, and not the Maſs-Book among the Papiſts?See their reſpect to the Church of England!

This was in 1659. when they did not believe the Reſtoration was ſo near, for all their pretended Gypſie Prophecies; as is apparent by their encouraging the Army as long as there was any hopes, and informing and exclaiming againſt Sir George Booth, and quarrelling with Monk's Party.

But to return, and give Audience to this Ambaſſador E. B. and his Attendants, G. W. &c. They ſay, p. 621. There is the Guilt of Blood—lying on this Nation in the Caſe of Tythes, and the hand of the Lord [Fox] is gone out againſt it, and againſt all Contenders for it, &c.

But all this their Rage is general: Now hear their Loving Anſwer (as they term it) to one Miniſter who ſent them ſome Queries to Anſwer; and behold their Wrath and Bitterneſs, altho' p. 565. they pretend that what any can object againſt their Doctrine, let it be ſtated in plain words, in Queries, &c. a ſufficient Anſwer ſhall they receive. Again, They make the ſame Offer in their Epiſtle, Let the Prieſts,—or any of them, object what they can againſt us, &c.—they ſhall have Liberty for what they alledge—. And by the ſtrength of Chriſt—we ſhall confute their Proofs. And now hear how they confute this Man, whether by the ſtrength of Chriſt, or Antichriſt, the Foxonian Spirit.

The Miniſter, P. Bennet's Queries, ſent to the Quakers to Anſwer, and to clear themſelves from the guilt of denying Chriſt that dyed at Jeruſalem, I abridge. But know that they can confeſs and own the ſame Chriſt that dyed, ſuffered, and was crucified on the Croſs at Jeruſalem, and yet not mean Him, that Man or Perſon, the Son of Mary, our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, whom Herod ſaw, who was Nailed to the Croſs, &c. But the Spirit in him, and ſo the ſame; or the Light in all Men; for they ſay, He is crucified and ſuffers now, and ſo did ever ſince the Fall, and ſo he did in Jeruſalem: And that they do not mean the Perſon or Man JESUS, but the Light in them and all Men, when they confeſs to Chriſt, is evident; for they are charged to deny the Aſcending of his Body; and in Anſwer, ſay they, p. 42. We witneſs the ſame Chriſt made manifeſt in us, and his Reſurrection; not becauſe Paul ſaid ſo, but we have ſeen it, and are Witneſſes of it: Alſo in W. Baily's Works, pag. 173. they ſay the ſame. Now for a ſeeing by Faith, it is own'd by all Chriſtians, and that is not the difference between the Quakers and others, but whether that material ſeen and handled Perſon by Herod, and them who Nail'd him to the Croſs, be the Son of God, and Saviour? This they do in effect, altho' not in plain terms, deny; for they maintain the Jews never ſee the Saviour: Now Herod ſee our Lord Jeſus; then he was not the Saviour, muſt be the conſequence of their Doctrine, or Herod ſaw him not. But as to their Anſwer to the afore Charge in E.B.'s Works, p. 42. If ſuch a ſeeing as they can pretend to, would ſerve, then Peter was by their Doctrine, and as they in Print render him, a falſe Miniſter; for he told the Saints they had not ſeen, nor did not ſee him; but they ſaw him as theſe Quakers do Alſo in Acts 1.21. It's ſaid, Of theſe Men which have accompanied with us, all the time the Lord Jeſus went in and out among us, from John's Baptiſm unto the ſame Day he was taken from us, muſt one be ordained to be a Witneſs of his Reſurrection. Now if ſuch Witneſſes as theſe Quakers pretend to be, would have ſerved, then there was no need of ſuch a one as theſe mentioned, for all the true Believers were Witneſſes, as well as the Apoſtles: Therefore it is plain it was a material perſonal ſeeing and handling that the Scripture intends, and not imaginary, as the Quakers. For they in their Rabſhekah ſay, T. C. hath crucified him, (i. e. their Chriſt.) It's this blaſphemous falſe-accuſing Spirit of Fox's, which T. C. oppoſed, and terms their Chriſt; therefore their fallacious ſquinting Confeſſions; are but deceit, while they will not diſown but juſtifie their Ancient Blaſphemous Teſtimonies, and enjoyn their Subjects to maintain them: But if they meant truly, as the words import, then there needs nothing but Yea or Nay, to moſt of theſe Queries, where they make reviling long ſquinting Anſwers.

The firſt Query is, Was the Son of God, or Word, made Fleſh, or made of a Woman, more than once? I ſay, Nay. But they ſay, The Word made Fleſh we witneſs, which dwells among us, and we behold his glory, &c. (But the Saints ſaid dwelt, and beheld, as paſt. Further ſay they, VVhen thou canſt witneſs the VVord made Fleſh once, then thou wilt know whether the Son of God was made of a Woman any more than once.

The Second Query, Did the Man Chriſt Jeſus— really ſuffer Death—as on the Croſs at Jeruſalem, oftener then once? I ſay, Nay. They ſay, The Man Chriſt Jeſus we own, and witneſs the Lamb's Book of Life, which was ſlain from the Foundation of the World, the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World, &c.

The third Query, Did the Man Chriſt ſuffer in his own Perſon, for that end, and after that manner, which he did once upon the Croſs, before or ſince the time? (i. e. his Crucifixion on the Croſs.) I ſay, Nay. They ſay, Chriſt Jeſus in his own Perſon doth ſuffer by thee,—and by thy Generation he ſuffered at Jeruſalem, and doth ſuffer where he is manifeſt by you after the ſame manner.—(And ſay they) Wouldſt thou have Chriſt have more ends in ſuffering than one? This Anſwer plainly proves what I before ſaid, that by owning Chriſts Suffering and Crucifying at Jeruſalem, they mean not his Perſonal Bodily Sufferings, but inward, as in Abel and Peter, and ſo in them now; for they ſay, he doth ſuffer after the ſame manner (i. e. as he did at Jeruſalem.) Now this cannot reſpect his Bodily Sufferings on the Croſs outward, for ſo he doth not now ſuffer; but they ſay, he doth ſuffer after the ſame manner. Now mind the terms of the Query, and their Anſwer, and it's plain they do not mean as all other Chriſtians do, but in another ſenſe. This Query and their Anſwer ſufficiently prove their contempt.

Fourth Query, Was not that Death the Man Chriſt ſuffered once, and but once, on the Croſs, ſo ſatisfactory,—that God doth not require any Suffering on that account? I ſay, Yea, it was; and God requires no other. They ſay, The Death of the Man Chriſt Jeſus, which ſuffered at Jeruſalem, we own and witneſs (mind that, Witneſs) the ſame Chriſt (ſay they) that ſuffered at Jeruſalem, we witneſs made manifeſt. Now this they give as ſo full and plain a Confeſſion, that they ſay of it to P. B. the Queriſt, Here thou Lyar art made manifeſt, who ſaid that we denied that Chriſt that dyed at Jeruſalem. But this is no Anſwer to the Query, for the Query is not, Whether or no it was Chriſt that ſuffered at Jeruſalem, but about the Value or Vertue of his Death, to ſatisfie Gods Juſtice; to which they reply nothing, but quibble and rail, but dare not Anſwer plainly Yea or Nay. But it's plain hereby they own not Satisfaction by that one and once offering of himſelf, as in the Hebrews: But they go on, and cavil, ſaying, Whereas thou querieſt whether the Juſtice of God be not ſatisfied for the Sins of the Elect? (ſay they) Where do'ſt thou find that God requires ſatisfaction for the Sins of the Elect, &c? Implying the Elect ſin not; now they term themſelves and Chriſt alſo the Elect.

The fifth Query, Be you reconciled to God by any other Obedience than that particular Obedience Chriſt performed in his own Perſon—once on the Croſs? I ſay, Nay. But they banter, and make no poſitive Anſwer.

The ſixth Query, Did not the Man Chriſt ſuffer as a Publick Perſon in the Elects ſtead, &c? I ſay, Yea. They ſay, For the Redeeming of the Elect from under ſuch Mouths as thine, did and doth Chriſt ſuffer. 'Here ſquintingly making his now ſuffering in them, or any Saint, equal or of the ſame effect and value, and to the ſame end as his Perſonal Suffering without us: For ſay they, For the Redeeming, &c. did and doth, &c. So that the Work of Redemption was not finiſhed nor perfected, as on Chriſt's part, by that one and once offering himſelf, but by his now Sufferings in them.

The ſeventh Query, Is the Sufferings of Chriſt now in the Saints all the Satisfaction is made to God for Sins paſt, preſent, and to come? I ſay, No. They anſwer, Is not Chriſt the ſame now as ever? And is not the Sufferings of Chriſt ſatisfactory where-ever? What wilt thou have to ſatisfie, if Chriſts Sufferings do not ſatisfie? Hereby plainly implying Yea, in the Affirmative, that their now Sufferings, which they blaſphemouſly term his, is all the Satisfaction is made to God for Sins, ſo plainly denied the Lord that bought them, and trampled his Blood under foot; for altho, the Words now and all be not in their Anſwer, yet they be in the Query, &c. and you muſt not mind ſo much their ſquinting Anſwer, but alſo the Terms of the Query.

The eighth Query, Was not that Body of Jeſus, conſiſting of Fleſh, Blood, &c. offered on the Croſs, the one and only Sacrifice for Sin, and to which alone excluſively, the Saints did before, and ſince do, look to be Juſtified by, without any other Works? I ſay, Yea; but they anſwer neither yea nor nay, but revile.

The ninth Query, Is there not another Righteouſneſs by which Saints are Juſtified, than that Chriſt works in and by them? I ſay, Yea. They anſwer, Thou preaches another Goſpel, and would have another Righteouſneſs than that of Chriſt, which he works in and by Saints—We witneſs Juſtification by Faith, &c. plainly implying Nay to the Query, and ſo excluding the Obedience and Sufferings of our Lord, as without us, from being the Righteouſneſs, for the Juſtification of Believers.

The eleventh Query, Is the Juſtice of God fully ſatisfied, for all the Sins of the Elect, ere he appear to their Souls? I ſay, Yea. But they anſwer neither, but ſay, Doth the Elect ſin? Shall the Elect dye? And they, as I ſaid before, term themſelves the Elect, and ſo imply they ſin not, therefore have no need of any to make Satisfaction for them, or of asking forgiveneſs.

The twelfth Query, Is the holy Lives or Works of Saints excluded from the Act of Juſtification? &c. I ſay, Yea. But they anſwer ſquinting, quoting 1 Pet. 1.18. but imply Nay, that the holy Lives and Works of Saints are not excluded.

The thirteenth Query, Is the Righteouſneſs wrought by the Saints every way anſwerable to the Juſtice of God? I ſay, Nay. They anſwer, Is there any Righteouſneſs but that of Jeſus Chriſt? And is not that every way anſwerable to the Juſtice of God?—The Righteouſneſs of Chriſt we own and witneſs; hereby ſquintingly making the Saints obedience to be the Satisfaction to Gods Juſtice, and ſo Chriſt dyed in vain, unleſs as they ſay, he was a Figure or Example, or as ſomtimes they imply, to take away the guilt of Adam's Act.

The fourteenth Query, Is none accounted Righteous in God's ſight, in whom there is any failing, or doth not fulfil the Law, and anſwer every Demand of Juſtice? I anſwer, Yea, in and for Chriſt's ſake. But they ſay, God doth not accept any where there is any failing, or that doth not fulfil the Law, and anſwer every Demand of Juſtice. But this is the directeſt and plaineſt Anſwer I find, of all the twenty: By this Anſwer, as by ſome of the former, they ſeem to me to exclude God's Mercy in forgiving or Pardoning Sin, and alſo make void or uſeleſs the Suffering, Blood and Death of our Lord Jeſus on the Croſs without us; for if they can and do (as their Anſwer implies) fulfil the Law, and anſwer every Demand of Juſtice, and have not any failing in them, what need have they of Forgiveneſs, or of Chriſt's Death and Blood, as a Sacrifice for them, or to ſanctifie them? For if I am able to pay my own Debts, I have no need of another to do it for me; nay, if I am not, if another is able and willing, if my Creditor will not, or doth not accept his Payment for me, (then I am not benefitted) as their Anſwer implies: But the firſt part of their Anſwer ſeems to make uſeleſs (or that there is no need of) the latter; for if, as they ſay, God doth not accept any where there is any failing, then what hath Juſtice to do with ſuch? For the Law is not for the Righteous, but for Sinners: Alſo hereby they maintain as rigid a Satisfaction as any whom they pretend to oppoſe; and the difference between them and the Proteſtant Miniſters, is chiefly about the Perſon who makes the Satisfaction, or anſwers the Demands of Juſtice—The Quakers imply the Sinner, Man, (for it is ſuch is intended in the Query by the word any, any Man or Perſon) and the Proteſtants make our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, as he was both God and Man in one Perſon without us, to be He who fulfils the Law, and Anſwers the Demands of Juſtice for us and in our ſtead. But if, as they imply by their Anſwer, they have no failing, they may appear boldly without an Advocate or Mediator, for that within them is the only Principle and Foundation, and admits not of any other, as they ſay; no, not the Blood nor Offering of the Body of Jeſus of Nazareth, ſhed outwardly on the Croſs, but that within, even their not having any failing in them, but anſwering every Demand of Juſtice, and their fulfilling the Law themſelves, (and not our Chriſt or our Lord Jeſus for them) is their Interceſſor, Mediator and Reconciler, and Chriſt within them; and they (as aforeſaid) have no need of him, or any thing of his on that account.

The fifteenth Query, Is a Soul Juſtified by the Non-Imputation of Sin, and the Imputation of the Righteouſneſs of the Perſon of Chriſt? Or by a Righteouſneſs wrought by Chriſt in the Perſon? &c. I ſay, Not by that wrought in the Perſon, but by the Non-Imputation, or not charging the Sin, but by the Imputation of the Perſonal Righteouſneſs of Chriſt, received or laid hold on by a living Faith. They Anſwer, I own no Righteouſneſs but what is of Chriſt, and wrought by him; plainly implying, it's that wrought in the Saints is the procuring Cauſe of Juſtification, and not Chriſt's Perſonal Obedience and Sufferings; for they ſay, I own no Righteouſneſs but that of Chriſt wrought by him; it's very ſquinting, but if you conſider the terms in the Query, Wrought by him in the Perſon Juſtified, now you ſee their Anſwer hath that term, Wrought by him, altho' they leave out them words, In the Perſon Juſtified; yet their Anſwer implies that is their meaning, elſe why do they rail ſo, and ſay, It's a heap of Confuſion from the bottomleſs Pit, &c?

The ſixteenth Query is, Is Chriſt in the Saints, in reſpect of that Nature he ſuffered in at Jeruſalem? I ſay, Nay; underſtanding it the Manhood: But they revile, and anſwer nothing to purpoſe.

The ſeventeenth Query, How may Chriſt be ſaid to be in a Saint, and not in a Reprobate? I anſwer, By a lively Faith, Governing the whole Man, and rendring the Faculties and Senſes ſubject to him, Body and Soul and Spirit being his; and ſo he is not in the Reprobate: But they rail, and not anſwer.

The eighteenth Query, Doth Chriſt now take on him—our Fleſh?—Doth not this Aſſumption cauſe ſuch a perfection of the Godhead and Manhood, that both are United into one Perſon? I ſay, No. But they anſwer, Do'ſt thou limit Chriſt to Days, in taking on him the form of a Servant? —Is not he now the ſame as ever he was?—The perfect Union with Chriſt we witneſs, who is the ſame to day, yeſterday, and for ever: They ſquintingly imply, That Chriſt and they be but one Perſon, as in Jeſus of Nazareth, and they God and Man as he was; for, ſay they, The Perfect Union we witneſs, as farther appears: For the Miniſters ſay, Far be it from us to think, Chriſt is equally God incarnate in that Son of Mary, and in all Saints: This Fox falſly cites, Great Myſtery, p. 22. but oppoſes, and in anſwer, ſays Fox, The Scripture ſays, He is the Everlaſting Father, and his Name is called The Emanuel, God with us: And their oppoſing this Doctrine, and quoting it as an Error, implies that they do believe that they have the ſame Union of, or in their Natures, as was in, with, or between the Divine Nature and Manhood of our Lord Jeſus; and therefore ſays that Pagan-like Foxonian Preacher, Iſaac Penington, Doth not the Name belong to every Member as well as to the Head? And Fox's oppoſing the Miniſters, and their now above Anſwer to this eighteenth Query, implies the ſame, That Jeſus of Nazareth was no other ways Chriſt, but as they be; only more, becauſe he had more of the Spirit in him. And thus it is that they own Chriſt, as he was Man, (as they ſay) that is, as he was in all Ages, and is now in them (the Light) and they one Spirit with him, and he one with them, as he was with all Saints in all Ages; and ſo by that Oneneſs he was and is Man, and they by the ſame Figure be Chriſt; as appears by Fox's oppoſing and ſquintingly Anſwering to the Miniſters, and this their afore Anſwer to the Query: And on charging them to hold Chriſt Jeſus is in them as Man, and the Man Chriſt dwells in them: Now in Great Myſtery, p. 68. they do not deny the Charge, but in confirmation of it ſay, Is not Chriſt in Man? And how can you call him Chriſt in Man, without the Man be there?

The nineteenth Query, Is Chriſt now converſant on Earth, as he was in the Apoſtles times? I ſay, No. But they ſay, Did he not appear to his Apoſtles ſince his Aſcenſion?—And is he not the ſame now, as he was then? Hereby they imply that Chriſt was no other ways with his Diſciples, but as he is with them now; that is, that our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, that Perſon or Man whom Herod ſaw, was not the Chriſt; for they ſay, the Jews never ſaw the Saviour.

The twentieth Query, Did not Chriſt dwell among his Saints in a more viſible manner than now in his Saints? I ſay, Yea. They Anſwer, He is not, nor never was viſible to thy Generation—Them as thou and thy Generation—doth crucifie him— and thou do'ſt now (i. e. Crucifie him now.) So that there now acknowledging the ſame Chriſt that was crucified at Jeruſalem, is but fallacious; For it's evident they mean not him, the Man or Perſon, for they ſay he never was viſible to ſuch as this Proteſtant Miniſter, and that he is now crucified, as then; ſo that it's the Light in every Man, and not our Lord Jeſus, they aſcribe all the Works of Salvation to, and exclude his Perſon, Blood, and Sufferings outwardly.

The tenth Query I omitted, being about the precedency of Juſtification and Sanctification, which is firſt in order; and I thinking it's not ſo important, have wav'd it, and my Anſwers are with ſubmiſſion to abler Judgments.

But take notice of what they ſay of theſe Sober Queries, in the Anſwer to the firſt: Say they, In this firſt Query thou haſt manifeſted what thou art; thou mighteſt have ſpared the other Nineteen—thou haſt Conjured them up in thy Black Art out of the bottomleſs Pit, which is to be turned into Perdition. Conſonant to this, ſays G. Whitehead, and his Brother C. Atkinſon, to a Miniſter, Here is (ſay they) the three Perſons thou dream'ſt of, which thou would'ſt divide out of one, like a Conjurer, i. e. the Three Perſons in the Trinity.

But whereas theſe Quakers ſay they have Anſwered theſe twenty Queries Plainly and Lovingly, their Plainneſs you have ſeen already, now you ſhall hear their Loving Anſwers alſo.

In their Title Page, they ſay, the Miniſter is found a DeceiverThy Queries make thee manifeſt what thou art: Many of thy own Tribe, if they ſee thy Queries, would be aſhamed of thee and thy Queries. —Not worth Anſwering—leſt thou ſhouldſt boaſt in thy filthy Ignorance & Darkneſs ſomething in Anſwer, &c. This is, in the Preamble before the Anſwers. Yet I think them moſtly ſober and modeſt Queries, and think this Spirit which deſpiſes them cannot be of God: Yet they blaſphemouſly ſay, We have Anſwered thy Queries in the Eternal Light and Life of God. Truly was it ſaid, If the Light in you be Darkneſs, how great is that Darkneſs?

But now comes their Loving Words. In Anſwer to the firſt, they term the Miniſter A Reprobate, a Child of Darkneſs, one of the Antichriſts and Deceivers John ſpeaks of—which Query comes from thy dark polluted Mind—without God in the World— among the falſe Prophets Deceivers, Antichriſts— The Light condemns thee and all thy Generation (Miniſters) eternally.—We witneſs thee and thy Generation to be in the Sorcery and Witchcraft—deceiving and betraying the ſimple—Thou art Darkneſs it ſelf—Thou art the Dragon that wouldſt devour the Man-child—Thou the Dragon and thy Angels is caſt out into the Earth, and therefore doſt thou perſecute the Woman—Thou art blind. All this is in Anſwer to the firſt Query.

And unto the ſecond, they ſay, Thou Diviner art found adding to Scripture (its falſe) thy Divinations of thy own Brain—The Plagues of God is to be added unto thee, and poured on thee, O thou Lyar—and art for Condemnation—thee to be the Beaſt that makes War with the Lamb we witneſs, thou Antichriſt, which looks at Chriſt's Death at Jeruſalem alone, and cannot witneſs him no other ways but without thee. (I believe this is a Slander, altho' I knew not the Man.)

To the third, ſay they, Thou full of all ſubtilty hath made manifeſt thy poyſon and enmity with the Light of Chriſt—thou art condemned for ever; Chriſt Jeſus in his own PERSON doth ſuffer by thee, thou blind Phariſee and Blaſphemer.

And to the fourth, ſay they, Thou Jeſuit art pleading for Chriſt afar off,—as thy Father at Rome.— That Chriſt that dyed at Jeruſalem did not ſatisfie for thee, who art an Enemy to him—art under the wo, —and from that wo thou ſhalt never fly—Thou Lyar, art made manifeſt to all thy Congregation— Thou Lyar who art of the Lake—blind ignorant Sot.

And to the fifth, ſay they, Thou who art an Enemy to God, and a Child of Diſobedience, in whom the Prince of the Air rules—the Light in thy Conſcience condemns thee—thou art an Enemy to the Croſs of Chriſt, and in the Myſtery of Iniquity—in the dark Power and Man of Sin—who art reconciled to thy luſt, and Sin reigns in thee.— Thou art blind,—who lives in ſtrife and envy: Had not the Quakers need firſt to pull the Beam out of their own Eyes?

To the ſixth, ſay they, Thou blind Guide—thou manifeſts thou doſt not know the MAN Chriſt at all. (See what Man they mean, when they confeſs he, Chriſt, became Man) nor his Sufferings; for Death reigns in thee yet, that asks this Query for a Publick Perſon; Chriſt is not to thee but a Myſtery, which thou knoweſt nothing of: For the Redeeming the Elect from under ſuch Mouths as thine,—did and doth Chriſt ſuffer: Thoſe that are brought to believe, deny ſuch dumb Idol Shepherds as thee, who as yet doth not believe, therefore ſhalt dye eternally.

And to the ſeventh, they ſay, Thou blaſphemouſly asks thou know'ſt not what—Let all People take notice what a Blaſphemer thou art, or what can they learn of ſuch an one as thee, who knows not the Juſtice of God, nor the Sufferings of Chriſt in his Saints. But Queries are not a Proof that the Queriſt knows not the thing he queries; for if it were ſo, then theſe Quakers were very Ignorant Sots, (in their own Dialect) for they have propounded hundreds of Queries to others.

And to the eighth, they ſay, Thou art again replying thy former ſottiſh Query, which riſes out of thy dark Mind, concerning the Body of Jeſus, as the Devil did about the Body of Moſes: Let thy Mouth be ſtopt here; for the Body of Jeſus, and the offering of it up, and the Sacrifice for Sin, thou knows not, and thou art none of the Saints—Blind leading the Blind into the Ditch, and for thee the Body of Jeſus is no Satisfaction; thou Reprobate, what haſt thou to do to talk of Believing—thou diſobedient one, on whom God will render Vengeance in flaming Fire.

To the ninth, ſay they,— Thou accurſed art made manifeſt, who preaches another Goſpel, and would have another Righteouſneſs than that of Chriſt, (a great Slander and Untruth) — Thou Beaſt, to whom the Plagues of God are due, and upon whom his Wrath muſt be accompliſhed.—Thou would'ſt be Juſtified, and live in thy Sin, but thou art ſhut out from God for ever.

To the tenth, they ſay, Thou dark blind Hypocrite, haſt ſhut thy ſelf out from the knowledge of God in any meaſure: O that ever People ſhould be ſo blind, as to look to learn any thing at ſuch a one as thee (a Proteſtant Miniſter) but Sin and Filthineſs! —Let all People judge if thou be not a Teacher of Laſciviouſneſs and Uncleanneſs: How durſt thou mention a holy Life—who know'ſt neither Juſtification nor Sanctification? And the Man which art Cain (Mark, it's the Man and Creature he here reflects on, and by their own Doctrine ſuch are not of God) God doth not love nor accept thee nor thy Sacrifice; and thou who art in Envy do'ſt not love God.

But I will adventure to query, G W. Did thy Brothers C. Atkinſon, J. S. W. and M. B. his Wife, T.B. and H. his Wife, your Travelling Female Agent, I. S. H. F. W. W. J. Moon, (that Croned Brother, and Man of War, with W. Penn, in the Dragon Fox's Army, againſt J.S.) C. T. R. T. and Archer, mention'd in Satan Diſrob'd, and other of your unclean, beaſtly, Foxonian Brother Preachers, I ſay did they learn their Uncleanneſs and Laſciviouſneſs of this Proteſtant Miniſter? Or hath he taught ſuch Laſciviouſneſs and Uncleanneſs, as theſe thy Brethren and Siſters, Foxonian Preachers, were guilty of? I had not thus digreſſed, but that they brand the Proteſtant Miniſter to teach Laſciviouſneſs and Uncleanneſs.

To the eleventh Query, they ſay, Thou full of all ſubtilty—and with the Life judged and condemned, —Thou Sorcerer, doth the Elect of God ſin? Shall the Elect dye? Yea, theſe afore-mentioned ſinned and dyed, and were great Preaching Foxonian Quakers, and you term your ſelves the Elect.

To the twelfth, ſay they, Thou dead Beaſt—a ſtranger from the Life of God, and is excluded from the holy Life of Saints—thee knows nothing of Jeſus Chriſt, but as thou haſt heard of him crucified at Jeruſalem, and ſo art unredeemed—and ſo art not juſtified before God, nor never ſhalt be. (A poſitive irrevocable Sentence! Or theſe Quakers Conjurers?) —Thou art condemned in the Lake for ever.

To the thirteenth, ſay they, Thy Blindneſs is made manifeſt—Such polluted filthy Beaſts as thou— The Righteouſneſs of Chriſt we own, which ſhall be revealed on thee in flames of Fire.

To the fourteenth, ſay they, Thou polluted Beaſt haſt made it manifeſt what thou haſt been driving at all this while—that thou wilt have Corruption and Filthineſs to be accounted Righteous in God's ſight (But I rather think this is a filthy Lye and Slander) that, ſo (ſay they) thou mighteſt lie and wallow in thy filthineſs.—The Son of God was made manifeſt to deſtroy the works of the Devil, and thou Man of Sin wouldſt have it to ſtand—them that walk in the Luſt of Uncleanneſs, and there thou art.

To the fifteenth, ſay they, Here ſtop thy Mouth, thou Sorcerer, which is gathering up a heap of Confuſion, which is fit for nothing but to be turned with thee into the bottomleſs Pit, from whence it comes, (i. e. the Queries) —Thy Language is of Egypt, and in the Myſtery of Iniquity thou ſpeak'ſt it, which is condemned into the Lake of Perdition—which Righteouſneſs (i. e. Chriſts) ſhall confound thee, and all thy Unrighteouſneſs and Conjuration; and the ſame that Juſtifies us, ſhall Condemn thee Eternally.

To the ſixteenth, ſay they, Thou Enemy of Chriſt, —thou art in that Nature which Judas was in, that betrayed him, and that they were in that crucified him.

And to the ſeventeenth, ſay they, What haſt thou to do to inquire after the Divine Nature—who art THE (i. e. not a) Natural Man, and knows nothing of God, but what thou knows naturally, as a brute Beaſt—who art a Reprobate, and thou ſhalt find him thy Eternal Condemnation.

And to the eighteenth, ſay they, O thou dark Beaſt and Conjurer, who art querying with thy Conjured words, that which thou knows nothing of, (an Untruth to be ſure) —Thou Blaſphemer, do'ſt thou limit Chriſt to Days?—With thee God, nor none of his Children have any Union; for God hath put an utter Enmity between thy Seed (thou Serpent) and the Seed of the Woman.

And to the nineteenth, ſay they, Thy Language is the Language of Egypt; thou makes it manifeſt thou knows not Chriſt—in the leaſt meaſure—thou dark ſottiſh Beaſt, who wouldſt be pleading for darkneſs and ignorance of God.

To the twentieth, ſay they, Thou haſt ſhewed thy ignorance of the Scripture—He (i. e. Chriſt) is not nor never was viſible to thee nor thy Generation (Miniſters) for thoſe that profeſſed the Scriptures, as thee and thy Generation do, crucified him—and ſuch as thou art doth now, thou Blaſphemer, (and here they quote ten Lines of Scripture) — but (ſay they) theſe Scriptures are hid from thee, thou art one of them propheſied of, and the Scripture is fulfilled on thee, —He hath blinded their Eyes—and (ſay they) now bleſſed be the Lord, he hath diſcovered thee, and ſuch blind Guides as thou art: We have anſwered thy Queries in the Eternal Light and Life of God, and we have given Judgment upon thee and them (i. e. the twenty Queries) which thou ſhalt eternally witneſs. (And ſay they) Theſe ſtumbling Queries which we have anſwered Lovingly and Plainly in Scripture-Language, and with the Eternal Light and Life of God, ſet thee in thy own place, which thou ſhalt eternally witneſs.And again term them black, dark, ſtumbling Queries, and thy conjuring words, which thou haſt no Scripture for, as Ambiguity, Efficacy, &c. And in their Concluſive Preamble, ſay they, Let People read and conſider what they do, who hold up ſuch as thee, who is ſhut out from God, Scriptures, and Saints Life and Language—thou art to be condemned with the Light.

And theſe grievous Wolves, and fierce Deſpiſers, G. W. &c. thus defame, and are in all this deadly fury and malice againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, becauſe this one Man P. B. asks theſe ſober Chriſtian Queries of them, according to their own Propoſal in the Epiſtle, and in page 565. But this is like moſt of their fair pretences, to delude and blind People: for judge how contrary their Practice (in theſe Anſwers) is to this pretence, and yet they have the face to ſay in Print, Theſe Queries are Anſwered Lovingly and Plainly, and in Scripture-Language, p. 34.

And that you may ſee all this their helliſh Railing is intended againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters in general, as well as P. B. ſay they in concluſion, A horrible thing is committed in the Land, Drunkards, Swearers, Lyars, Strikers, preach: O wonderful! Where are your Eyes? Try your Prieſts by Scriptures: See if they be not found in the ſame Generation that all the falſe Prophets and Deceivers were in.—See if they be not the Antichriſts which cannot confeſs Chriſt come in the Fleſh, preach for Sin againſt Perfection, and never any that follow them ſhall come to the knowledge of God.—Theſe blind Guides deny the Prophets which Moſes writ of— (It's a Slander and Untruth) and are found in the Sorcery and Witchcraft, &c.

Thus they begun and end, reviling the Proteſtant Miniſters; and they not only condemn this Miniſter to the Lake and Bottomleſs Pit, but the Queries alſo: We have given Judgment on thee and them, (ſay they:) So that it's not only the Proteſtant Miniſters, but the Doctrines of the Proteſtant Faith, as theſe twenty Queries contain, have theſe Quakers alſo judged to the like condemnation with the Miniſters: All this Envy and Fury in ſeven Pages in Folio, have they Reprinted, whereas two or three Lines might have contained ſufficient Anſwers, had they believed and owned theſe things, according to the Scriptures, as they pretend. And the Doctrines and Practices of the Proteſtants, as ſprinkling Infants, &c. they ſay is Damnable, Doctrine of Devils, a meer Cheat, and your ſinging David's Experiences in Rhime and Meeter, is a very Lye unto you; and ſay they, The Law which commands to pay Tythes, we cannot be obedient to it; and the Reaſon they give, is, Becauſe it is contrary to the Law of God, p. 313. And ſay they, If the Houſe (i. e. Publick Churches) were for any good purpoſe, or honeſt Practice, as for Poor, &c. the People of God would not deny to uphold it—but becauſe it's ONLY a place to commit Idolatry in, (mark h is Only) P. 347. And ſay they, All you Churches, by what Name ſoever you are known, you are the Seed of the great Whore, and ſhe hath brought you forth. Here the Church of England may ſee it's not only the Diſſenting Miniſters, altho' their Envy is chiefly againſt them, but all. P. 4416. Have altogether forgotten God — Chriſtians all their Prayings, Preachings, Singings, Baptiſms, breaking Bread, and all that you perform as unto God,—is an Abomination unto him. The very practice of thoſe things now by the Chriſtians being degenerated, is become Idolatry, &c. p. 432.

Again, ſay they, The Lord ſhall deſtroy your Worſhip and confound it, and no more is the Lord worſhipped in Steeple-houſes, they are left deſolate, &c. —Your worſhip in Steeple-houſes is an Abomination to him. P. 481. Again, ſay they, In the Name and Authority of the Lord, we declare againſt—your whole Worſhip, p. 479. Again, ſay they, Sprinkling Infants, and calling it the Baptiſm into the Faith of Chriſt, and the Seal of the Covenant, —it's an Inſtitution of the great Whore, p. 489.

And particularly, of the Miniſters of the Church of England, ſay they, This we ſay, Their Office nor Call is not from the Lord, nor by the Authority of his Spirit,—nor according to Scriptures—and is not from Heaven, but rather from the Whore of Rome, p. 638.

All this and much more of their helliſh Rage and Envy againſt the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, in one Book, Reprinted in Folio, and in 1672. promoted and eſpouſed by G. W. &c. to bring the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters into contempt, ſcorn, and hatred, in future Ages: For to confirm, and ſeal, and fix it laſtingly, ſay they, You called Chriſtians—you— having loſt that which gave you a true Title to the Name Chriſtian, you deſerve not that Name: (and declare it) in the Name of the Lord. Here it's plain the Engliſh Proteſtants, and theſe Quakers, cannot both be Chriſtians, one muſt quit the Title, p. 419. and ſay, The Heathen ſhall ſee your Nakedneſs, and your Shame, and ſhall hiſs at you, p. 421.

But how doth this agree with what W. Penn now pretends to, (as I hear?) He ſaid that they own all except three, of the 39 Articles of the Church of England, and the three they differ'd in were about Diſcipline, and not Doctrine. And yet here you ſee they ſay All the Proteſtants Doctrine and Practices Falſe, the whole Religion of the Engliſh Proteſtants they Deny: Theſe be their Ancient Teſtimonies, their Truth in the beginning taught them before 1660, which is now in 1696. under hand enjoyned their Subjects to maintain; and this Noval owning of the Thirty Six Articles, is the Counterfeit Quakers New Teſtimony. But they ſay their Truth changes not; but they may now change their Words and Actions, and yet mean the ſame as they did 1656; for their deſign was to defame, in order to root out the Proteſtant Miniſters; and if they do not effect it, they prove themſelves Lyars and falſe Prophets, and impudent Blaſphemers; therefore in order to drive on their deſign, they print theſe Defamations, and ſay, It's for you and your Children. To plant this Root of Bitterneſs in after Ages, as well as in other Nations, is the deſign of this Foxonian Spirit in G. W. &c. And they have great Advantage for this Work in their great Schools or Houſes, where they teach their youth, and read to them, or cauſe them to read, their great Volumes of Fox's, &c. Works, and where theſe Foxonians are the Maſters, Governours, or Teachers, and whither their chief Foxonian Prieſts reſort; and as they ſay in Print, This is worthy of taking notice of—How abominable is this (ſay they) that theſe things ſhould be—much more that they paſs unreproved; i. e. their Envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſter, &c. For altho' they thus Unchriſtian all Engliſh Proteſtants. Yet the Heathen (who make no Profeſſion, nor have not the knowledge of Salvation by our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, as in the New Teſtament) theſe, under the Name of Pious Gentiles, they allow to have Faith, that they may degrade and under-value the Authority of the New Teſtament, and the Neceſſity of believing the Relation thereof, concerning the Dignity and Value of the Perſonal Sufferings and Blood of our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth outwardly. And ſeeing they have ſo much hatred to the Engliſh Proteſtant Miniſters, and ſo much Charity for the Gentiles, let them, (i. e. the Foxonians) go for Gentile Preachers. And by theſe afore, and what follows, it's proved that theſe Foxonian chief Prieſts, G. W. &c. are influenc'd by an evil Spirit, if no other matter were proved againſt them, but their wrathful terms and envious proſecuting the Proteſtant Miniſters, theſe ſhew them Uncharitable, and therefore Unchriſtian.

That theirs is not Chriſtian Charity, is evident by their Partiality; for notwithſtanding they Unchriſtian, for ſaying they be ſaved by Chriſt without them, and recorded ſuch for Reprobates and Ignorant ones too of Chriſt within; and give it as a ſure Mark of the Devil's being in ſuch; and all who pay Tythes, altho' freely, as Deniers of Chriſt, and mark'd them for Antichriſts, yet you ſee how kind they are to the Gentiles, and to their blaſphemous lying Brethren Foxonian Preachers, S. Eccles, notwithſtanding he S. E. was proved ſuch a blaſphemous Lyar, yet they are ſo charitable to him, that in Antidote, &c. p. 225. they believe he died in Peace: And to G. Whitehead's Brother, C. Atkinſon, that laſcivious Blaſphemer, his Blaſphemy againſt God and Chriſt; ſay they, As to thoſe offenſive Words, we do not affect the terms, neither are they proper to the true Chriſt. But by their Charity to him, it may be feared they think them proper enough to our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, his Perſon, which you term Mean and Contemptible, a Veſſel, a Garment: This your Charity to your blaſphemous Brethren, and your Uncharitableneſs to the Proteſtant Miniſter, ſhews your Zeal nor Charity are not Chriſtian: For you ſay, G. G. the Miniſter was poſſeſſed with a Legion of Lying Spirits. And of J. Faldoe, you ſay that He and thouſands of our dear Countrey-Men were in the Pit of Damnation, crying out on the Miniſters: Such a damnable Sin do theſe Foxonian Prieſts make it for any to diſcover and oppoſe their Errors. But they may blaſpheme and deny the Lord, if they w ll but Idolize Fox, as Solomon Eccles did, and they ſhall dye in Peace, with theſe charitable Foxonians.

And their Unchriſtian Spirit further appears in their Excommunicating G. Keith altho' twelve Months after they had acknowledged they had nothing againſt his Doctrine nor Converſation; but they pretended he was Apoſtatized from the Spirit of Meekneſs and Charity: But he was rather departed from their wrathful uncharitable Spirit againſt the Proteſtants, and more come into the Spirit of Charity: And that which they charge on him as Uncharitable, &c. was, becauſe he teſtified againſt their Errors, and maintained the Truth; altho' they make other Pretences, as that he on ſome great Provocations (in Diſcourſe) gave ſome harſh Names to ſome of their Erroneous Preachers. Now conſider all theſe afore and after, of their hell-fetch'd terms (and wicked Actions) of theirs to the Proteſtant Miniſters, Kings, &c. and all People; I ſay, Conſider whether all theſe do not prove them either to be gone from, or rather that they never had the Spirit of Meekneſs and Charity; and therefore more juſtly Excommunicated from the Proteſtant Society, than G. Keith did, according to their own Judgment and Practice: For let Algier be ſearch'd, if all the Runnagadoes there, for this hundred years paſt, have ſo villified and defamed the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters, as theſe Foxonian Prieſts have done.

How can you, (eſpecially you Governours of the Church of England) expect to convert any to your Religion and Church, while that and you lye under ſuch foul Scandals ſo publickly in this and other Nations, without contradiction, and the chief Actors and Promoters in favour and incouraged in Reprinting theſe Blaſphemies, in great Volumes, as in E. B. and Fox's wicked Works, which may have coſt near a thouſand pounds; and I hear they are Reprinting more of that Blaſphemer Fox's, to the value of 2000 l. charge; and this alſo doubtleſs intended to be preſerved in the Library at Oxford, for a Monument of Infamy to the Engliſh Proteſtant Miniſters.

And in the Title Page they put high Titles of the Authors, and term them worthy Prophet, true Prophet, and Servant, and Sufferer for the Teſtimony of Jeſus, dyed a Priſoner for the Word of God; an Ambaſſador by ſpecial Authority, and ſpecial Commiſſion from Chriſt, and ſay they of the wicked Author, Generations which have not yet a Being, ſhall count thee bleſſed; becauſe of the want the Inheritance of the Lord hath of thee; my Subſtance is almoſt diſſolved,(but you have taken care his wicked Works ſhall not be wanted.)

Again ſay they of him, The firſt Fruits unto God, ſince the Apoſtacy; endowed with the Almighty Power of God, which Lived and Reigned in him. (By his Fruits herein produc'd, you may judge what Power and Spirit they, Foxonians, be ruled by, which they term Chriſt.) It ought to ſtrike Terror and Amazement in all Proteſtants, to conſider how they exalt themſelves and defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, and ſay, At the deſire of many Friends, that the Labor and Works of this valiant Soldier of Chriſt to continue on Record, as Monuments of his Service for the Lords.

Conſider the time of their venting their Fury againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, and the time of the French King's dealings with the Proteſtant Miniſters and their Churches there; and this is not only the effect of one Man's paſſion, but the premeditated Work of theſe Foxonian Chief Prieſts, G. Whitehead, and W. Penn eſpecially, who, in his Serious Apology, ſays, If the Quakers Expreſſions (againſt the Miniſters) had been Ten Thouſand times more ſignificant-and ſharp againſt that curſed bitter ſtock of Hirelings, they had been but enough; — and (ſays he) we have nothing for them but Wo's and Plagues, who have made drunk the Nations, &c. — and laid them aſleep, — whil'ſt they have cut their Purſes, and pickt their Pockets. W. Penn is not in jeſt here, but ſerious and in earneſt, to confirm, maintain, and hold up the Ancient Teſtimony their Truth taught them in the beginning, which they now enjoyn their Foxonian Subjects to hold up, and maintain in all the parts of it; for their Truth changes not ſay they, and therefore W. Penn confirms his Fathers, Fox and E. B.'s curſed Envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters; for further, ſay they, in their Book, A Brief Diſcovery, &c. The Proteſtant Miniſters, they are Conjurers, Thieves, Witches, Devils, Lyars, Stewards of the Devil's Magazines,—who go about to Murther the Child Jeſus where he is manifeſt; —even theſe bloody Herodians they would devour the Child Jeſus, &c. —Hold up a Worm-eaten Beaſtly Form, — yea of the Devil; — fearful Blaſphemers, ſcarlet-colour'd Beaſts—ſelling Beaſtly-ware; they ſell the report of others Riches, the Letter which is Duſt and Death, &c.

Now this cannot be the Paper and Ink as the Quakers now pretend, for the Miniſters do not (as they ſay) ſell that, but it's the Doctrines of Scripture they thus condemn; for as afore they ſay, the report of other Mens Riches: Now the Paper and Ink is not the report, but the Doctrine or Matter ſignifi'd by the Letters wrot in the Paper with the Ink. This ſhews the now Quakers fallaciouſneſs, in their now forged excuſes for their Ancient Teſtimonies of their Truth in the beginning: But in this Book they go on, and ſay of the Miniſters, Poſſeſſing nothing but Heatheniſh ſtuff, &c. —Really they are Blood-hounds, (but if they be not, to be ſure your Foxonian Spirit is) hunting and gaſping after their Prey, like the mouth of Hell —ſtill barking and raging like Sodomites, &c. Wo, wo! is their Portion, and of the upholders of that Treacherous Crew, the Proteſtant Miniſters.Here is the Judgment paſſed on all, Kings and People, by theſe Quakers; and all this and much more ſuch Helliſh Envy and Scandal in two leaves, beſides what's in the reſt of the Book; ſigned by four chief Quakers, one of them T. Lawſon, and his Work eſpouſed and recommended by the now Foxonians, and juſt above this Chapter, in the concluſion of the foregoing, it's ſaid, written from the Spirit of the Lord; and this, where this Helliſh ſtuff is, I think is of Fox's own indicting, the Language and Method being ſo like his; and was printed 1653.

A Hundred times as much ſuch Hell-fetcht Fury of theſe Quakers, I can, out of their Ancient Teſtimonies, produce; but theſe, and what is afore, and following ſhews, that if the Proteſtant Miniſters be ſuch as they print them, then, as W. Penn ſays, What remains, but that the Rabble or the Government Sacrifice them &c. This was becauſe a Miniſter ſaid, that the Womb of Iniquity was in the Quakers Writings. See it in the Quakers ſet in the true Light, by F. B. p. 2. But then, how much more guilty are theſe Quakers, W. Penn, and G. Whitehead, &c. not only thus to Defame the Proteſtant Miniſters of this Age, but all paſt and to come, that pay Tythes or uphold the Miniſters; Kings, Martyrs, and all People. Equivocating, deluding Hypocrites: He (i. e. G. W.) hath proved himſelf and all others (mark it's all others) to be ſo except Quakers; and page 228. ſay they, The Prieſt's work hath been to teach People to keep in, and not to come out of their Luſts to Chriſt:—And page 267. ſay they, You, all Prieſts and Teachers (mark, it's not ſome but all) who are inwardly ravened from the Spirit of God, —have turned all People from the Light to the Darkneſs, and ſo have kept Thouſands, and Millions of Souls in Damnation; —and keeping them in the way to Hell, who are Satan's Miniſters; —and this hath been the Work of your Miniſtry ever ſince the days of the Apoſtles, as this Day and the People of the whole Nations witneſſed.

Now, if they think to quibble it off, that it's not all, but them who have ravened from the Spirit (they mean) it's afore ſhew'd they include all; this by Fox, and ſo well approved by Penn; and to make it Canonical Scripture, He, Penn, hath printed of him, this wicked Fox; Many have done well, but thou, Dear George hath excelled them all, (mark it, not the Light in him, but George) altho' himſelf has pretty near match'd him; for ſays he, W. Penn, Theſe idle gormandizing Prieſts of England run away with 1500000 l. a Year, under pretence of being God's Miniſters;— no ſort of People have been ſo univerſally, through Ages, the bane of Soul and Body of the Univerſe as that abominable Tribe, for whom the Theatre of God's moſt dreadful Vengeance is reſerved to Act their Eternal Targedy on.

Again, ſays W. Penn, There is not any thing ſo Proud, Railing, and ſometimes Ignorant, as a ſort of Prieſts, —who think their Coat will bear out their worſt Expreſſions for Religion: —An Ill-bred and Pedantick Crew, the bane of Reaſon and peſt of the World; the old Incendiaries to miſchief, and the beſt to be ſpared of Mankind, &c.

Surely William, altho' He, Fox, excells all as went before him, yet thou haſt, if poſſible, exceeded him, and gone further into the Pit of Darkneſs than he whil'ſt alive: But thou had'ſt not Penſilvania for nothing, but as much as thee could'ſt do, ſomething for the Devil and the Papiſts, as I have ſaid, he knew who he pleaſed, and that there were thoſe in power able to Defend and Reward him for any injury he could do the Proteſtant Miniſters.

Again, ſay they, in their Book, A Serious Warning, &c. could people hear the cry of Thouſands out of the Pit of Damnation, they would intelligibly hear their Idol of Jealouſy and Others thus lament, Presbyterians and Independants, under the Notion of Goſpel-Miniſters and Reverend Divines, were the Men that ſeduced us hither by their Preaching Peace to us: Had it not been for them, we had—turned from the evil of our ways and never came here: Thus crys (ſay they) J. Indicot, and this is the dolorous complaints of Thouſands of our, but yeſterday, Dear Countrymen;—if People were not in a Lethargy, they would beware of you all, as the Plague of the preſent time, &c. (and in concluſion ſay) I ſhall prove theſe very Men (i. e. Presbyterians and Independant Miniſters) to be the very Men—to be in Doctrine and Practice the very Floodgate of Atheiſm and Prophaneneſs, is breaking in as a mighty Torrent upon this miſerable Age.

Is it not evident, by all this Wrath and Reproach, the Quakers vent againſt the Miniſters, that they (i. e. theſe Quakers) are more likely poſſeſſed with a Legion of lying Spirits than G. G. the Miniſter, whom they ſay was ſo poſſeſs'd. For, notwithſtanding all this, and a hundred times more ſuch defamatious Ancient Teſtimonies of theirs in print, yet they now have the confidence to ſay in print (becauſe their wickedneſs is diſcovered, &c.) they are Perſecuted with ſhameful Reproaches and Blaſphemies, to murder their Reputations as Men not ſparing living nor dead ſay they; but, who of Kings and Martyrs have they ſpared ever ſince the Apoſtles, and to the end of Time: Surely theſe Foxonians W. P. and G. W. &c. as little read the Second Chapter to the Romans, and are as Ignorant of that as they were of the Second Chapter of Matthew: But they may ſay of them, and any Scripture, as they do in their Ancient Teſtimony, Which their Truth taught them in the beginning, in 1654. That is no command from God to me, which he commands to another. But this, with the many others, proves that they abide not in the Doctrine of Chriſt, and ſo are by their own Doctrine of the Devil; for they are more likely to be them grievous Wolves the Apoſtle foretold ſhould come, rather than Chriſt's Lambs, as G. Whitehead, &c. has the Face to Stile themſelves.

Now if you, Miniſters and Governours of the Church of England, think that all this their Defamations do not affect you, but the Diſſenters, yet know, that they have repreſented you worſe than them (if it may be;) Therefore think not your ſelves unconcern'd, but they were and are for driving that Nail they could eaſieſt make go; and the Diſſenting Miniſters (in 1672.) were more out of faſhion at Court here than you, as the Proteſtant Miniſters were in France.

Now, if it be true as W. Penn ſays, that they who call Names for Religion, &c. be ſure be no Chriſtians of Chriſt's making, then who made theſe Foxonian Chief Prieſts Chriſtians? i. e. W. Penn. and G. Whitehead, to be ſure not Chriſt. And whereas W. Penn, among his many other Defamations, upbraids the Miniſters with Ignorance: Sure they are not Ignoranter than Himſelf and Fox, &c. was, who, as one infallible proof of his Ignorance (as well as the fallibleneſs of their infallible Foxonian Spirit) print our Lord Jeſus as Born at Nazareth, when Scripture ſays at Bethlehem: But this ſhews how little they converſe with the New Teſtament.

And they have ſo intollerably ſcandalized the Engliſh Proteſtants, that it's (as they ſay) not fit it ſhould paſs without being taken notice of, and that by them it more concerns; but eſpecially the Miniſters they vent their Fury againſt, and ſet themſelves ſo violently againſt Tythes, becauſe they thought them a great Support to the Proteſtant Miniſters, and a likely Argument to prevail with the vulgar, covetous, lukewarm and poor People, which are a great Party in the Nation, conſidered as incouraged by theſe Quakers, who have printed ſo many of their envious and wrathful Doctrines againſt the Miniſters, as Prophecies, or by the Eternal Spirit, &c. And they are obliged to drive on the ſame deſign, for fear they appear (as they are) proud, envious, blaſphemous Lyars.

And for further Proof, that they have no more, (if ſo much) kindneſs for the Epiſcopal Clergy, than for the Diſſenters, obſerve what they ſay: Did you not once make a Solemn Covenant with God, that you would utterly extirpate Epiſcopacy, that dead loathſome Form? Did you not ſpue it up? And will you turn again, and lick up your own Vomit? O do not ſo; do not run wilfully into deſtruction: (and before I have ſhewed you how theſe Quakers blame them for not keeping the Covenant.) By the foulneſs of the Expreſſions, you may judge from whence the Spirit came.

Alſo one having commended Biſhop Hall's Works, the Quaker in contempt replies, Thou at laſt flieſt to the muckieſt hole of all—Was not Biſhops voted down, and ſome of them put to Death, for the unjuſt Cauſes they maintained?

Therefore be not deceived by their preſent Flatteries: For the Proteſtant Religion and Miniſters are no better now, but as bad Sorcerers, and falſe Prophets, and Teachers of Laſciviouſneſs, with them now, as then; and the Magiſtrates as much in fault now (with G. Whitehead, &c.) for upholding them, as then.

Now G. W. thou ſaid'ſt to J. P. becauſe he ſhewed (juſtly deſerved) contempt to ſome of your ſeditious Pamphlets, that he was inſtigated by the Devil; but who but he inſtigated Thee and W. Penn, &c. thus to vilifie the Proteſtant Miniſters as you have, and to be ſo arrogant as to threaten the Magiſtrates, and accuſe them for abuſing their Power; for, as you ſay, either the Spirit of Christ, or that of the Devil leads Men. Therefore all theſe your Blaſphemies, and Treaſons, and ſeditious Practices and Doctrines herein mention'd, be ſome part of your Ancient Truth's Teſtimony, which it taught you in the beginning, or of Error. Now if it be not the Teſtimony of the Spirit of Truth, then they ought to be by you diſowned, and you were not lead by the Spirit of Chriſt in reprinting them, and ſo blaſphemouſly exalt the wicked Authors, but by that of the Devil, by your own Doctrine; and in caſe you do not diſown them, it's a plain proof you do hold them as your Ancient Teſtimonies, which your Truth taught you in the Beginning, and ſo are by your laſt years White-hart-court Conclave of Foxonian Cardinals, G. W. &c. enjoyned your Subjects to maintain and hold up; for ſay you Truth changes not, but that you do own them, appears by your ſquinting general Anſwers and Acknowledgments you now make to deceive the Government with; for, ſhould you anſwer'd plainly yea, or nay, to the two Queries in the Snake in the Graſs, then you had either diſcovered your Errors, or elſe contradicted your Ancient Teſtimonies.

But now, if you have any honeſty and plainneſs, to which you ſo highly pretend, make known which of theſe many printed Ancient Teſtimonies of yours you do diſown; for ſo many of them as you do not diſown, as you did D. S.'s Anſwer to F. B. your are juſtly chargeable with, as them you enjoyn your Subjects to maintain and hold up as your Ancient Teſtimonies; for your ſilence herein will be taken as conſent. Now as I have ſhewn you ſome of theſe Quakers rage and of their envy againſt the Proteſtant Miniſters, I will alſo give you ſome Reaſons they give to prove the Proteſtants Apoſtates, &c. which I think includes themſelves, as well as others; in E. B.'s Works, page 835. ſay they, All you who are divided in your Knowledge and Judgment—about the matters pertaining to God's Kingdom, you are Apoſtate Chriſtians, and you never yet received the Spirit of Chriſt, (mark that) and that is the Reaſon of all your Diviſions in Religious matters, &c. —Page 838. As Chriſtians are brought again to receive the Spirit of Chriſt, and walk therein all Strife and Diviſion about Religion will ceaſe, &c. And other Marks of falſe Miniſters be, They have a place they call Church, and obſerve one day in a week to worſhip, and a few hours in that day, and an Hour-glaſs. Now if the Quakers be found to have Strife and Diviſions about Religion, then by their own Judgment they are condemned, as not to have yet received the Spirit of Chriſt. (But then by what Spirit they have been moved, and whoſe Miniſters and Embaſſadors they have been, judge.)

That they have had Diviſions among them early, is proved by the Difference between G. Fox, and his Party, and J. Nailor and his Party; alſo that of G. Fox and his Party, with J. Perrot and his Party; and that Difference between Fox and his Party, and J. Story and J. Wilkinſon and their Party in the North and Weſt; as alſo that between the now Foxonians, and G. Keith and his Party in Penſilvania; beſides many more I could mention, as Reading, &c. as abundance of printed Books on both ſides proves, eſpecially W. R's Eight Parts of the Chriſtian Quakers, &c. And his ſecond Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apoſtate Quaker, &c. And whereas G. W. &c. terms G. K. Apoſtate, G. W. is there made to be one himſelf and Judgments Signed by many on both ſides, one againſt another. I will give you ſome paſſages out of two Letters for proof of their Religious Difference, beſides what is in print in hundreds of Books; one Quaker of Fox's Party. Several Papers have come from J. N. ſince his being in Priſon—I hearing and ſeeing to be juſtified by ſeveral, that what is there writ came from the Spirit of God; and that they are witneſſes of the ſame with him: I knowing the contrary writes as follows. — A Parable about a Tree is made, and ſix Perſons named: The fruitleſs Tree (ſays he) that cumbers the ground —in J. N. is the Root. Let his Papers ceaſe to go abroad, for more may be deceived by him than the others; his being ſecretly covered with words of truth to cover lyes, &c.

Another Quaker of J. N.'s Party, contrary to this afore, ſays, One morning being awake in my Bed, the word of the Lord ſpake to me thus; —go to G.R.'s and ſpeak for James; — and finding that which is Eternal moving me, I went, —after ſome time one laid a Paper before me preſſing me to read it; but finding my Heart pricked as with ſome ſharp thing, I felt it was that Spirit gave it forth (i. e. the aforementioned Paper;) I denied the reading of it; for in the Life of God that Spirit was judged,— therefore, with the Spirit that is true, is that Spirit judged which called, that the Spirit of the Prince of the Air, which miniſtred forth that which was titled, How Sin is ſtrengthened, &c. and in concluſion ſays, Therefore with the witneſs of God in all who live in the ſence of it, judged it is according to the Eternal Judgment; i. e. the Spirit wrot the firſt againſt J. N. I forbear their Names in reſpect to the Perſons, tho' I think they be both dead. Here is both as from God peremptory againſt one another, and one muſt be high Blaſphemy, if not both.

Many more Inſtances I could give to prove their being at difference among themſelves, or one with another; and therefore, by their own Doctrine, are ſo far from being guided by the Spirit of Chriſt, that they have it not, nor never received it; or elſe G. W. &c. were Conjurers in printing this, if it was not from the Mouth of the Lord. But, if they object they do not differ, but it's ſome that go or fall off from them and the Truth, that differ and oppoſe them; no more do any others who agree, for wherein they agree they do not differ; nor do them of the Proteſtants differ among themſelves who be of the ſame mind, no more than the Quakers, altho' they differ one from another in ſome leſſer matters, yet they all agree and hold one Head and Foundation, and are not ſo uhcharitable as you (Foxonian Quakers are.) Now here is one great reaſon why theſe modern Quakers ſo endeavour to excuſe, and cover, and vindicate the Errors of their firſt Founders, Fox, &c. becauſe they will not acknowledge any difference or change in their Judgments; for if they do, they are Self-condemn'd Apoſtates. Therefore it is that they reprint their old Books in great Volumns and alter, by leaving out and putting in as they ſee cauſe; eſpecially their treaſonable, ſeditious Doctrines, becauſe they were afraid to own them.

But it's apparent, that the ſame Arguments as they uſe againſt the Proteſtants, to prove them not to have the Spirit of Chriſt, are concluſive againſt themſelves alſo, and they, the Foxonian Quakers, inexcuſable in condemning others, for that they are guilty off themſelves; and their ſaying they are not of them that oppoſe them, is not more than others may ſay for themſelves; for, if G. W. ſays W. R. &c. were Apoſtates; W: R. ſays G. W. and G. F. were ſo, and better proves than they G. W. &c. do, and better to believed. But, if there were no other proof of their wickedneſs but their helliſh Fury, &c. againſt the Proteſtant Religion, that's enough. And theſe wicked envious Hypocrites, the Foxonian Quakers, &c. to get in favour with the Papal Intereſt then in Court, have raked into the Graves and Sepulchers of the Ancient Martyrs and Fathers of the Proteſtants; nay, have been ſo preſumptious and arrogant, as not to ſpare the Sepulchers of Kings, but torn them out, and caſt as in the open Street, with infamous terms on their Perſons and Families, as well as their Power and Government; and yet will not endure to have their Errors diſcovered and teſtified againſt; but will Puniſh, Fine, Whip, and Impriſon, and take away Goods and Life too, if they could have reach'd it.

Now you Engliſh Proteſtants; Surely if the People of Iſrael were ſo concern'd for the Levites Concubine, as in the 19 and 20 Chapters of Judges, ſurely here is ſome cauſe of inquiry.

Conſider and Remember of good old Tobit; He would not ſuffer his Brethren to be thrown out in diſgrace unburied, but hazarded his Life. But here theſe Foxonian Quakers do not only condemn them that be unburyed, but barbarouſly violate the Sepulchers of the Proteſtant Kings, Lords, &c. Biſhops, Martyrs, and Miniſters; and caſt Infamy on them, to make them hateful and odious to the Young of this Age, as well as future. For, they ſay it's for their Children and that the Heathen may ſee your ſhame, and hiſs at you, Proteſtant Miniſters; that is the very intent and drift of theſe now Foxonian White-hart-court Conclave of Chief Cardinals, Whitehead and Penn, &c. to bring reproach and infamy on the Proteſtant Miniſters.

Now, as theſe Quakers ſay, there is but two Spirits, that of God, or the wicked one. Therefore if the Quaker's be Gods, then the Proteſtant Miniſters in general, eſpecially all who pay or uphold Tythes and the Laws for them; you are all guided by the Spirit of Antichriſt, and are denyers of Chriſt, and under all theſe Hell-rak'd afore Names and Terms of the Quaker; unleſs theſe now Modern Quakers do as G. Whitehead enjoyned Mr. Pennyman, that is, publickly condemn theſe their mad and wicked printed Defamations of the Proteſtant, and it's no harm to their Perſons nor Eſtates for the now Quakers ſo to do, ſeeing the Perſons chiefly concern'd be dead, only Whitehead and Penn. And in caſe they do not print againſt theſe wicked printed Doctrines of their Chief Prieſts, they are to be looked on as owners thereof, and juſtly chargeable therewith: For, if they did not own them, they would print againſt them, as they did againſt Mr. Pennyman, and D. S.

Think not the reminding you of theſe your Ancient wicked Teſtimonies and Actions hard dealing; for, as you ſay, We do not deſire to uncover your Nakedneſs;—you had not had thus much, if you had not been the occaſion of it your ſelves, E. B.'s p. 617. By your ſo maliciouſly informing againſt (and defaming the Miniſters when you Quakers were guilty o the ſame; and beſides what is aforementioned, I find in E. B.'s 672. page you there alſo, to incenſe tne King againſt ſome, you mention ſome Paſſages out of a Letter to one, viz. There is more danger in theſe Quakers to trouble and over-come England, than in the King of Scots, &c. And there you to aggravate, comment on theſe words, thus, It's manifeſt what the bent of their Spirits was againſt the King then, tho' now they change their Tale, &c. But, I ſay, let but their (i. e. theſe Quakers) own words (here mentioned) be conſidered, and their Hypocriſie, and the temper of their Spirits, he ſhall ſee this is but part of the meaſure you have meted to others.

Much more I can produce, in further proof of the wickedneſs of this Foxonian Spirit, if they proceed in their old way of denying the Truth, and ſlandering them that diſcover their wickedneſs, which is very great, even Pride, Envy, and Hypocriſie, who in 1661. ſay, The Government of King Charles, was ſet up by the purpoſe of God. Compare this with what is afore, and in the Snake in the Graſs againſt it.

Notwithſtanding theſe Quakers ſo defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, and accuſe them to render them odious, like as Haman did the Jews; yet hear how they deifie and exalt themſelves and one another: You have heard how they exalt this fierce Deſpiſer, E. B. Of the Father of their wickedneſs, George Fox, in their Journal, ſay they, He was the Inſtrument in God's hand, to preach the Everlaſting Goſpel, hid, &c.—The Lord revealed it to him, and made him open the New and Living Way—A Meſſenger to my Houſe in Swartſmore (ſay Margaret Fox) whither he brought the bleſſed Tidings of the Everlaſting Goſpel. As a Father in Chriſt, he took care of the whole Houſhold of Faith, over which the Lord made him an Overſeer, and endued him with ſuch an Excellent Spirit of Wiſdom and Underſtanding (and yet knew not the difference between the ſame degree, and a degree of the ſame, but puts one, and they now pretend he meant the other.) Nay, W. Penn is ſo falſe to his own Conſcience and Knowledge, as to exalt him above all, as is before ſhewed. Alſo ſee three blaſphemous Letters writ of him by J. Coal, S. Eccles, and J. Audland, (being already in Print) all three Foxonian chief Prieſts and Preachers.

Alſo another of their Idolatrous Preachers ſays of Fox, The Droppings of his tender Words in the Lords Love, was his Soul's Nouriſhment. Where ſhall you find ſuch a high Character of any of the Words of our Lord JESUS?

And to Oliver Cromwel he titles himſelf, An Eſtabliſher of Righteouſneſs; and ſays, From him whom the World calls George Fox, who am the Son of God: Now it's not the Light that the World calls G. F. but that Blaſphemer or Man and Perſon G. Fox, the World called ſo; but this Blaſphemy the White-Hart-Court Conclave of Foxonian Quakers, Whitehead, W. Penn, &c. they have forged for this Blaſphemy theſe Words, And I ſet my Name to it: This is in their Printed Letter of his to Oliver by Captain Drury.

And in Saul's Errand, &c. they do not deny, but vindicate Fox, ſaying, He was Equal with God; and, he was the Eternal Judge of the World.

And in their Book, News out of the North, on the Title, ſay they, Written from the Mouth of the Lord (i. e. that Blaſphemous Fox) from one who is naked— cloathed with Righteouſneſs, whoſe Name is not known in the World (Yes it was that vagrant blaſpheming Cobler, Fox) riſen out of the North, which was propheſied off, but now is fulfilled, &c. And in p. 41. ſay, To your Conſciences I ſpeak,—who am not of the World, therefore the World knows me not—I am not known to the World, but well known to God—To every one of you I have cleared my Conſcience. Now hereby it's plain it's not the Light, but Fox, that thus blaſphemed.

And in E. B.'s Works, page 64. They ſay of themſelves, Quakers, Whom God, hath—choſen to place his Name in, and to take up his Habitation among, above all the Families of the Earth, the Tabernacle of God is with you—and only among you is God known, &c.—You are God's only Witneſſes, &c. —Ye are the Royal Seed and Off-ſpring of the Lord—All Nations ſhall call you bleſſed.

And in page 66. they ſay of the North from whence they came, O thou North of England!—Out of thee did the Branch (Fox) ſpring, and the Star ariſe, which gives Light unto all the Regions round about. —Out of thee the Terrors of the Lord proceeded, which makes the Earth to tremble—Out of thee Kings, Princes and Prophets (Fox and Burroughs) came forth in the Power of the moſt High—Gird on your Swords—Prepare your ſelves to Battel, for the Nations defie our God (Fox) —Our Enemies are whole Nations,—Rebellious People that will not come under our Law—and will not have our King (Fox) to reign, but deſpiſe his Law.—Let the Nations know your power, and the ſtroke of your hand. Give unto the great Whore (the Proteſtants) double, (ſay they) — As ſhe hath loved Blood, give her Blood—Let none of the Heathen Nations, nor their Gods, eſcape your hands—Your Captains, (i. e. this E B. Fox, &c.) are mighty Men: Curſed be every one that riſeth not up to help the Lord (Fox) againſt the Mighty.—The Beaſt (i. e. Magiſtrates) is mighty, and the falſe Prophet (i. e. Miniſters) is great, and they keep the Nations under their Power; but, O thou Beaſt, and thou falſe Prophet, you ſhall both be tormented together.

And in J. Coal's Works, they ſay, God hath raiſed us up—according to his purpoſe, and determination, and fore-knowledge, to be faithful Witneſſes. And again, to the Quakers, Conſider what the Lord hath done for you: Hath he done ſo for any People on the Earth? (Why? Did Chriſt dye only for you?) Again, Therefore it may be ſaid that us (Quakers) hath he known above all the Families of the Earth, page 82, 83.

And in W.B.'s Works, page 173. The Eternal God hath ſworn—this People [i. e. Quakers] only ſhall proſper, of all the Families of the Earth (who fear his Name, and tremble at his Word)—they that bleſs them ſhall be bleſſed, and they that curſe them ſhall be curſed, &c.

And in p. 111. they make themſelves to be the Aſſembly propheſied of (Jer. 50.9.) to come out of the North, as alſo is afore ſhewn; and term themſelves, the Seed, the Elect; and they ſay, There is but two Seeds, Chriſt that never ſinned, and the Seed of the Serpent. Now they will not own themſelves to be the Serpent's Seed, but to be the Elect Seed of Chriſt, as in Huberthorn's Works, the Seed, the Elect, his own Seed, the Arm of the Lord, &c. And to the World he is manifeſt through us, as being his natural Branches: All the Dominions of the World, are not equal in Treaſure and Wiſdom unto thee—You hath he choſen of all the Families of the Earth, to place his Name among, &c. — And your Laws ſhall all the Nations of the Earth become ſubject unto—All that riſeth up in Judgment againſt you (Quakers) ſhall be confounded—thou chiefeſt Son of his Love. By E. B.

And ſays G. Fox, The Quakers are in the Power of God upon the Throne, p. 318. And in W. B.'s Works, ſay they, We are them of whom Enoch propheſied, the Saints; and they are charged to ſay, They are as pure as God: In Anſwer, Fox does not deny it, but in juſtification of it, ſays, As he is, ſo are we in this preſent World, page 232.

And being charged to ſay, He was the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and the Eternal Judge of the World; he doth not deny it, but quibble it off, It was not ſo ſpoken, he doth not ſay G. Fox is Chriſt as if when any one Anſwers to a queſtion, and ſays, I am, &c. yet becauſe they do not pronounce their own Names, but ſay, I am, &c. therefore they may deny they ſo ſaid, becauſe of the changing the terms I am, into G. F. (or he) ſaid he was, therefore they deny. Alſo another quibble they have to excuſe Fox's Blaſphemy, That it was not Fox, but Chriſt ſaid, I am Chriſt, &c. in or by Fox; as they ſay in one Book, Muſt we deny him the Mouth to ſpeak by. But ſurely by this Figure John Baptiſt need not, when he was asked, to have ſaid, I am not he; for he had the Light i him: But what Blaſphemy can be ſpoken, but may be excuſed by ſuch Quibbles as they uſe to excuſe the blaſphemous Ancient Teſtimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning? But by the ſame Rule every one of them may ſay as Fox did, and take the ſame blaſphemous Titles; and they may be given to any Quaker as well as to Fox.

Alſo in page 242. Great Myſt. they cite one, ſaying, The Apoſtles were Eye-Witneſſes, &c. In the Anſwer, ſays Fox, All may ſee what you have received—not received the Goſpel by the ſame means the Apoſtles did, who are not Eye-Witneſſes, as the Apoſtles were; hereby implying the Quakers had or did ſee Chriſt, in the ſame manner as the Apoſtles did: For the ſeeing by Faith, no Proteſtants oppoſe (as I know) therefore that could not be the ſeeing the Man intended whom Fox oppoſes; but the Man meant a ſeeing with bodily Eyes, and it's in this ſence G. Fox oppoſes and banters the Man; and does thereby imply he was not Chriſt, but ſomeching in him (and ſo in Fox) was the Chriſt; and he (i. e. Jeſus) but the Veſſel, Garment, or Shell that the Kernel, Chriſt, dwelt in: And hereby the Foxonian Spirit is proved to be a proud ſelf-exalting Spirit (as well as an envious and contemptuous one) which according to Scripture muſt be brought down: For altho' they give themſelves and one another ſuch high Titles, yet becauſe a Miniſter termed another Miniſter Reverend Man, they ſay, Are you not aſhamed to court one another with falſe and flattering Titles?—Ye ſhameleſs and preſumptuous ones, who durſt aſſume that Title to your ſelves, which is appropriated to the Lord alone, &c.

Now having given ſome proofs of the Quakers highly exalting themſelves and one another, I will ſhew how they exalt their own Sufferings and Blood alſo above our Lord's, in this fierce deſpiſer E. B.'s Works, page 273. ſay they, The Sufferings of the People of God in this Age, is greater Suffering and more Unjuſt, than in the days of Chriſt, or of the Apoſtles;—What was done to Chriſt and the Apoſtles, was chiefly done by a Law, and in great part by due execution of a Law, &c. Oh horrible Blaſphemous undervaluing, of our Lord's Sufferings, and exalting theirs as above His, and juſtifying or excuſing them who Crucified him: Alſo altho' they ſo contemn our Lord's, yet of theirs, i. e. the Quakers Blood in print, ſay they to ſome Magiſtrates, Do not raſhly draw out your Swords againſt thoſe harmleſs Ones, whom your bloody Teachers—repreſent to you as Deceivers:—be not prevailed on to releaſe Barabbas, and give over Jeſus to be Crucified, to gratifie the murderous Appetites of your Prieſts. Conſider, altho' you may with Pilot waſh your Hands, and — appear clear from his Blood, yet before the pure Eyes of the Lord will the condemning ſtain thereof be found on you ſo freſh, that you will by no means be from thence cleanſed, but by the ſame Blood (i. e. the Quakers,) which you ſo cruelly ſhed. Here they Anſwer that Pagan queſtion of Iſ. Pennington's, i. e. can outward Blood cleanſe? &c. Yes, you ſee theirs can, altho' our Lord's cannot, as they imply: Theirs is the Blood of cleanſing, no other means; not by the Blood of our Lord outwardly ſhed, but by the ſame (i. e. the Quakers) Blood.

Alſo I ſhall further prove theſe Foxonian Quakers lead by an evil Spirit, by their contempt of and undervaluing the Scriptures, and exalting their own above them: Fox on the Titles of his Pamphlets ſays, To all Friend every where; this is the Word of the Lord unto you all. And in another, Entituled, A Meſſage from the Lord, &c. ſays three times, this is the Word of God; and yet ſays Great Myſtery, 247. The Scriptures they are not the Word of God as thou blaſphemouſly affirm: And in the Scorned Quaker, &c. page 19. The Scripture is not his Voice, but (ſo far as truly Tranſlated) A Declaration of what he ſpake to, and by thoſe Holy Men that were moved to write, &c.

Here you ſee, they not only undervalue our Tranſlation, but render the Scripture as an old Almanack, or Gazette, as to its being binding to us; the Ten Commandments, or Chriſt's Sermon on the Mount, not God's Voice to us: Yet I have afore prov'd Fox ſaid, his is the Word of God; and G. Whitehead Entituled a little Pamphlet of his, The Voice of Wiſdom, &c. Now if G. W.'s be the Voice of Wiſdom, then it's Chriſt's Voice.

Thus you ſee how they exalt their own Writings above Scripture; and yet have the Arrogance to pretend they prefer Scripture before all other Books; and Fox ſays in his Meſſage from the Lord, &c. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is the Goſpel, — &c. with the Light; all this Doctrine is ſeen to be falſe. And in News out of the North &c. So Duſt is the Serpents Meat; their original is but Duſt, which is but the Letter, which is Death. Their Goſpel is Duſt; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John which is the Letter: And you ſay (ſays Fox) That Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is the Goſpel, which is Carnal, &c.

Again ſays Fox, that the Letter is the Word; and that the four Books, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the Goſpel, and—all your abominations are diſcover'd. Now none means them four Words or Names be the Goſpel, but the Doctrine in and by them four Books, by them four Evangeliſts, is the Doctrine of the Goſpel; and it's this Fox oppoſes; for, when Fox put on his, this is the Word of God, it's not ſuppoſed he meant the Paper and Ink, but the Doctrine therein, or thereby ſignified; as when the Quakers will not ſuffer their Papers to be called Mens Edicts, it's not thought they mean the Paper (abſtractly conſidered) but their Laws therein made for their Subjects to obey: And therefore it's the Doctrines of Scripture, and not the Paper and Ink Fox undervalues and condemns, and his, and Whitehead's Blaſphemous Imaginations, they Blaſphemouſly term the Word of God, and the Voice of Wiſdom, and make their Preachings and Writings to be God's by them, but all others to be Man's, and outſide Teachings, carnal Letter; even the very Scriptures, unleſs when they as their Fathers did (againſt our Lord) uſe them to contemn the Chriſtian Faith; for, altho' they ſo often uſe ſome Scriptures, as Chriſt in you except you be Reprobates, &c. The Word is nigh in the Heart, &c. thouſands of times; yet I challenge them to ſhew me how often, if ever, they preſs that 15 Chapter of the 1 of Corinth. the firſt ſeven verſes; or the 9 and 10 verſes of the 10th. Chapter of the Romans, altho' they thouſands of times uſe the foregoing words, yet I remember not that ever I heard them mentioned in any Quakers Meeting before G. Keith did, ſince his laſt coming into England, nor in any of their Books; nor remembred I that there was ſuch Expreſſions in Scripture ſo Ear-boar'd (as other be) was I to them. Let them produce theſe aforementioned Scriptures, uſed by S. C. or any of their printed Sermons or Books, as to the intended ſervice of them in Scripture; I will undertake to produce a hundred, if not a thouſand times for one of their uſing them other. Let this be the touch-ſtone; and for their undervaluing Scripture I can give hundreds of more contempts of theirs.

Theſe their contempts of our Lord's Perſon, Blood and Sufferings, and exalting their own. Theſe Foxonian Quakers will not diſown, but underhand have approved and confirmed them, and enjoyned their Subjects to maintain and hold them up; for theſe be their Ancient Teſtimonies, that their Truth taught them in the beginning, and they ſay it changes not; ſo it ſeems by their ſo juſtifying and excuſing thoſe Blaſphemous fierce Deſpiſers, the Authors and their wicked Works. But for further proof that the Foxonian Spirit is an evil one, appears in the caſe of J. Gilpin, who relates how he was deluded to Blaſpheme, &c. And after it pleaſed God he was ſenſible, and acknowledg'd his Deluſion by neglect of Hearing, Reading, and Prayer, &c. and harken only to a Voice within me (ſays J. Gilpin) becauſe what was ſpoken by it, was ſeconded by lying Wonders, &c. This Voice, he ſays, led him to a Fidlers Door, where he knocked and ſald, Behold Chriſt ſtands at the door and knocks! J. Audland a Foxonian Preacher (who wrot the blaſphemous Letter to G. Fex) followed him, and he ſays, as he went he was moved to proclaim, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.—Again he ſays, my Hand was carried to take up a Knife, and carried with it towards my Throat; and the Voice ſaid unto me, open a hole there and I will give unto thee the Words of Eternal Life.

Many more prodigious Actions he did by the power of the Voice, or Spirit within him; and he ſays, many Quakers came to him, and bid him harken to the Voice within. Now Fox Anſwers this Book in Great Myſtery, and in citing them words of Gilpins aforementioned, that he confeſſes his Error by harkening only to a Voice within me (ſays he.) Now G. Fox in page 298. terms this wicked deluding Spirit or Voice The Voice of God within; he ſaith (ſays Fox) he began to conſider how he had offended God, by his neglect of external means,—Prayer, &c.—and harken to the Voice of God only within.

Hereby it's apparent what Spirit, or Voice influenced him, Fox, even the ſame wicked one that led Gilpin; for he, Fox, terms that, the Voice of God, and ſo proves himſelf to be one of them who was given over to Deluſion to believe a lye; and as he, Fox, ſo his Followers, Whitehead, &c. are by the ſame Spirit guided to vindicate and excuſe him. Alſo in Cumberland, two Women Quakers, and Preachers, charged their own Siſter and her Husband to have murdered and buried their own Child, and cauſed the Man and his Wife to be tryed at an Aſſizes for it; many wicked blaſphemous paſſages there was in the whole Tragedy (too long to relate here,) in the printed Narrative by the Man himſelf, Henry Winder, Entituled, The Spirit of Quakeriſm, &c. worth reading.

This moſt murderous and blaſphemous Spirit thro' theſe two Women's Preaching, Quakers affirmed this was A meſſage from the Lord—by the Revelation of Jeſus Chriſt. The whole Tragedy is moſt Blaſphemous, and when made publick, not diſown'd, but rather incourag'd by the Quakers in general, ſo fat as I can ſee by the Narrative; and it's this ſame wicked Spirit which ſo defame the Proteſtant Miniſters, and which Penn balſphemouſly calls the Holy Spirit: But, from theſe few ſad Inſtances it's apparent, that the Quakers when they mention Jeſus Chriſt do not mean that Man or Perſon, our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, but a Spirit or Light in them and all Men, as their terms of diſtinction ſhew. They make Jeſus Chriſt to be a Denomination or Title, which they give to any Spirit they pleaſe, as the King doth Titles of Honour. Whereas in your Book Rabſhekah, &c. you boaſt of your Principles, as for you as Hearers, in charity we may believe you; but if you like not theſe ſeditious and erronious Ancient Teſtimonies in Print, of your chief Prieſt, why do not you publiſh againſt them, as againſt D. S.? Until you do ſo, you are chargeable therewith.

But if you mean by your Principles, Fox, &c. their Ancient Teſtimonies, you are very ſhameleſs: For that of Fox's in ordering Lords of Mannors Property to be taken away, &c. But whenever that is put in Execution, I adviſe to begin with his Succeſſor, W. Penn's, &c. and ſee how they like it; for what Right have you to Fines or Quit-Rents more than Lords have here, or the ſeveral under Propriators of Tythes? If you have the Kings Patents or Grants, ſo have they, or what's as equivalent, being confirmed by ſundry Acts of Parliament, more than yours, and by them who had as much Original Right, as them from whom yours was granted.

But the Proteſtant Miniſters are as great an Eyeſore to your chief Prieſts, as the Jews were to Haman. But why may not they enjoy what is granted and given to them, as well as any of you? For W. Penn works no more for his Fines or Quit-Rents, than many of them do, nor ſo much neither, I think.

But if you ſay, It's the Compelling you oppoſe; that's falſe: For, as in the Snake in the Graſs appears, you oppoſe any freely paying, as is manifeſt by your oppoſing W. R. As alſo Unchriſtian all who pay Tythes, as Deniers of Chriſt, and Antichriſts; ſo that you are not for Liberty of Conſcience, but for inforcing of Fox's Laws, above the Laws of the Nation, (as is evident in your ſo charging and reviling T. C. as a Tranſgreſſor.) But whoever takes Houſe or Lands Tytheable, does or may know before-hand, it's under ſuch Duties. And whereas your laſt yearly Paper ſays, Truth is the ſame, and changes not; in 1660. you told King Charles you deny'd all outward Fighting for any End or Pretence whatſoever. Now either your chief Prieſts, Fox and E. B. &c. were of this mind in O. C.'s &c. times, or elſe changed; Now if not changed, but always of the ſame mind, then they G. F. &c. failed, to complain of ſome being put out of the Army: What ſhould they do there? they ought to have voluntarily quitted it: Alſo G. F, &c. did fail, ſo to encourage Oliver, as is before ſhewn.

Therefore either they were and be Changed, ſince O.C's time, or were Hypocrites; if Hypocrites, not to be believed: If Changed, either your Truth hath changed, or they gone from it; and ſo that and you (i. e. the Quakers) not the ſame, and ſo may change again, as is for your ſordid Intereſt, as in the caſe of the Sloop in Penſilvania.

Alſo you are as uncertain and falacious in your main Principle of the Light within, as in the caſe of Fighting: In Great Myſtery. p. 58. you cite one ſaying, To ſay the Light in every Man is Chriſt the Redeemer, is Error. Again, They that ſay the Light in every Man that condemns of Sin, to be Chriſt the Redeemer, have ſet up an Idol, &c. To both theſe Fox anſwers: To the firſt, he ſays, Contrary to John, who ſaith, This is the true Light which enlightens every Man. (Here he corrupts the Scripture;) And to the Second, ſays he, Doth not Chriſt ſay, I am the Light of th •• rd? &c. Here he doth not diſprove what the M •• •• firm'd, but ſquintingly juſtifies that as Truth, which the Man oppoſes as Error, i. e. That the Light in every Man is Chriſt the Redeemer, and that it's no Error ſo to affirm, but Truth; and that it's contrary to Scripture to oppoſe ſo ſaying: But in another Book intituled, A Vindication of Truth, &c. by J. N. (in Anſwer to the ſame Man, and the ſame Paſſage, as is Anſwer'd to in Great Myſtery, p. 58.) In this Vindication, &c. p. 51. there is many Particulars which the Man, as J. N. ſays, charges on the Quakers, as their Affirmations, of which there you ſay to the Man, Be aſhamed of thy Lyes which thou haſt caſt on us—which never entered into our hearts to do nor ſpeak, which thou falſly accuſeſt us withal. There is twenty one Particulars: The Ninth is this, ſay you, That we ſay the Light in every one is Chriſt the Redeemer: Then after the mentioning all the twenty Particulars which the Man charges the Quakers as holding, or ſaying in p. 5 . of your Vindication, &c. you ſay, Divers more Deceits haſt thou made up into Lyes, and laid on us, as if we ſaid them, when it's thy own wickedneſs &c.

Here you may ſee that to the ſame Man and Sentance in one Book, i. e. The Great Myſtery, &c. what the Man oppoſes as Error is owned as true; and his oppoſing it made contrary to Scripture. And in the other Book, i. e. A Vindication, &c. the ſame Words or Sentence diſown'd Again, page 4. There J. N. charges the Man for ſaying that he ſaid, The Light ſhining in every Man is Chriſt, a thing not wrot nor intended by me. Says J. N. again, page 8. The Man is charged with a Lye, for ſaying that the Quakers ſay, the Light within every Man is the Word. Again, page 11. There ſays J. N. Thou tells thy former lye over again; ſaying I ſay the Light within every Man is the Spirit of Truth. Again, ſays J. N. It's a lye that I ſay the Light in every Man is God's Righteouſneſs, Perfection, &c. Again, page 12. that a meaſure of the Eternal Divinity is in every Man, by turning to it out of all Sayings, Operations, Script ••• or Chriſt, without the ſame doth purge away Si •• d redeem unto God. All which is thy own wickedneſs heaped up from thine own lye. Again, p. 16. ſays J. N. I do not ſay the Light in every Man is God's Son, &c. And in unity with this ſays G. W. As to Chriſt's being in every Man, that is not our words, &c. Alſo in page 27. ſays J. N. thou tells four horrible lyes on me; the ſecond is, that J. N. calls the Light within, the Eternal Spirit. Alſo in your Book, Deceit brought to Day light, &c. You charge the Man with many lyes, one is his ſaying that you hold—the Light in every Man is Chriſt, page 5. Alſo in E. B.'s Works page 298. There E. B. being charged, as ſaying, that every Man has the Spirit of Chriſt; in Anſwer you, by way of denyal, ſay, I never ſaid, nor thought ſo. Now if the Light within every Man be not Chriſt, nor the Spirit of Chriſt, nor of Truth, nor the Word, nor God's Righteouſneſs, nor God's Son, nor the Eternal Spirit, as afore is ſhew'd you have in your Ancient Teſtimonies in print, held formerly: How then is it? Or why did you excommunicate G. Keith as an Heretick? for ſaying. The Light within was not ſufficient without ſomething elſe, i. e. Chriſt Jeſus.

Either theſe aforemention'd denyals in your Ancient Teſtimonies be the Teſtimonies of Truth or Error; if of Error, then you ought to publiſh againſt them, and the Authors; but your not ſo doing, you are chargeable with owning them; and ſo either you and your Truth hath changed, or contradict your ſelves: For, afore I have ſhewn, that in your Great Myſtery you contradict what you ſay in your Books, A Vindication, &c. and Deceit brought to Day Light, &c. In one paſſage your Books do contradict each other; one owning the ſame, the other denies; as alſo in your excommunicating G. Keith as an Heretick, for aſſerting the ſame as ſome of your own Ancient Teſtimonies do.

Alſo, whereas here afore I ſhewed you deny every Man to have the Spirit of Chriſt, yet in Great Myſtery, &c. p. 9. to the ſame Perſon who denies that every Man has the Spirit of Chriſt, and charges you with an Error for ſo ſaying, yet you charge him with it as an Error, to deny every Man has the Spirit of Chriſt; and in contradiction thereto, you Anſwer, John ſaid, Every Man is enlightened, &c.—And the Spirit of Truth he ſhall reprove the World of Sin, &c. (Mark) (ſay you) All People, here is Saints, here is Diſciples, here is the World; get from under this how thou canſt; for under Reproof thou art come, &c.—And here are all Men, ſays Fox, to the ſame Perſon, and words or Sentence. In Great Myſtery you oppoſe him for ſaying every Man has not the Spirit of Chriſt; and yet in E. B.'s Works, you term him lying Tongue, for charging you as ſaying, Every Man has the Spirit of Chriſt; and ſay, You never ſaid nor thought ſo. Why ſure, if as in Great Myſtery, you imply they have it, then you ought to think and believe ſo.

And J. Bunyan ſays, Every Man as he comes into the World, receives a Light from Chriſt, as he is God, which is Conſcience, which ſome call Chriſt, tho' falſly—This will ſhew a Man there is a God, &c. This you anſwer by way of Denial, in E. B.'s Works, p. 143. I do deny them, (i. e. who call the Light Christ) and thee, if thou haſt not made a Lye of ſome body. Now in Great Myſtery, p. 208. to the ſame Sentence, in your Anſwer there, you ſay, Chriſt ſaith, I am the Light of the World, &c. and doth not ſay its Conſcience—you have given Chriſt a New Name —that calls him Conſcience—Will Conſcience blot out Sin? — (Chriſt will.) Here by oppoſing J. B. and in Fox's ſquinting way, he owns the Light Bunyan calls Conſcience, to be Chriſt; and yet again, in E. B.'s Works, you deny the Doctrine, and them who call that Light Chriſt; thereby denying G. Fox, nay, and your ſelves too: For if it be ſufficient to Salvation without any thing elſe, then it muſt be Chriſt.

Alſo about the Seed they ſeem to write confuſed, ſaying, There's but two Seeds, of God, and of the Serpent; and they ſay, Chriſt is the one ſeed, and the ſeed is Chriſt; and in the Lip of Truth T. L. ſays, now Chriſt is riſen for the Elect [i. e. ſeed] ſake, and it, he is redeeming, page 55. And in Love to the loſt they ſay, In this ſeed as it's redeemed, hath the Saints fellowſhip, page 47. Here they imply the ſeed is not the Redeemer, but the Redeemed; yet it's either Chriſt or the ſeed of the Serpent. Yet in ſeeming contradiction they ſay, in Love to the loſt, that ſeed which Man hath ſinned againſt muſt make the Atonement, page 3. Here again it's the Attoner or Saviour; and to this add their Excommunicating G. K. as an Heretick, becauſe he ſaid, The Light was not ſufficient to Salvation without ſomething elſe, (i. e. the Man Chriſt Jeſus, and what he did and ſuffered for us without us,) This by S. Jennings in Penſilvania; and yet above three years after this N. Marks publickly acknowledg'd, They had nothing againſt him for Doctrine or Converſation, or to this effect: Thus confuſedly contradicting themſelves, or one another, they prove themſelves to be Babel's Builders.

Now your thus contracting one another, or your ſelves, owning and diſowning the ſame things, are both your Ancient Teſtimonies, whereby you have, or may make this deceitful advantage, you can produce either of them, as you ſee is moſt for your ſordid Intereſt, and ſo affirm or deny what you pleaſe as your Ancient Teſtimony, and bring proofs accordingly: But your own Judgment you have paſſed on the Miniſters takes hold on your ſelves; who have condemned others, and are guilty of the ſame things. How think you, Foxonians, to eſcape the Judgment of God? Who condemn others for differing, yet you differ one from another, or contradict your ſelves; in one Book denying that which in another Book you ſeem to own; and not only in ſmall matters, but in your main Foundation Principle.

A further proof of the wickedneſs of the Foxonians and their Spirit, is, in that they ſhuffle, and quibble, and wave to anſwer but to two (of the ſeven) Queries ſent them, as in The Snake in the Graſs, &c. And they were there urged to it, and reminded of their quibbling, yet they durſt not Anſwer plainly yea nor nay, but uſe their old Trade of quibbling long ſquinting Anſwers. The two Queries were theſe, i. e. Do you believe in a Christ without you, now in Heaven? And the other is thus; Is Christ now, and for ever to come, really a Man, in true and proper humane Nature, without all other Men?

Theſe Queries be ſhort and plain; therefore if theſe Quakers truly believe as they now pretend, they might and would have anſwered yea to both, and that had been ſatisfaction; but then that had contradicted ſome of their Ancient Teſtimonies their Truth taught them in the beginning, which they now enjoyn their Subjects to maintain, and hold up in every part; for their Ancient Books of Fox, and E. B. have oppoſed and contradicted the Proteſtant Miniſters for affirming theſe Truths; and therefore if they had anſwered yea, they had contradicted them, and ſo changed; and they durſt not anſwer nay plainly, becauſe then they had diſcovered their Blaſphemy and Hypocriſie both: Therefore, to hide themſelves and deceive, they make ſuch long ſquinting two Fac'd general Anſwers; but it's their own Doctrine and true on themſelves, deceit lurks in Generals; and whatever they pretend, yet their oppoſing and Contradicting others for affirming theſe Truths, do prove they do not believe in a Chriſt without them (or in Heaven) any otherwiſe, but as he is within them only, as in W. S.'s Catechiſm.

Alſo in a Book, Entituled, The Deceived Quakers, &c. by Mr. Caffin where in page 29. he ſays, G. Fox Affirmed that he knew him, (i. e. Chriſt) come within him; and he looked for him to come no otherwiſe. This Book G. Fox anſwers to, and in page 211. cites ſome of theſe words, viz. G. Fox ſaid he knew Christ come in him. And in his anſwer page 142. ſays, Christ is in you except you be Reprobates, ſo Reprobates witneſs it not, &c.

Now M. C. did not deny, but own the Spirit of God dwells in the Saints; but it's the latter part of Fox's Sentence that is objected againſt (i. e. that he looked for him to come no otherwiſe) ſo denying his, i. e. Jeſus of Nazareth, that was nailed to the Croſs, ſo coming again: And this latter and chiefeſt part of the Sentence Fox leaves out, and cites not, but does not deny that he ſo ſaid. Therefore it's plain, it's their Ancient Teſtimony of Truth in the beginning; and they ſay Truth is the ſame and changes not. This Book of Caffins was printed 1656. Therefore whatever deceitful general Confeſſions they may now make, unleſs they diſown this of Fox's; it's clear they do not believe nor look for Chriſt Jeſus of Nazareth to come any otherwiſe than as he is come within them; ſo no outward coming of an outward Jeſus, as was taken away from the Apoſtles; and therefore no outward or other Day of Judgment, but what they have already within them. And this paſſage does not only prove Fox's Error in oppoſing Chriſt Jeſus of Nazareth's coming again without Men, or outwardly (which now the Quakers pretend to own) and thereby plainly implies nay to the ſix Queries, being the ſecond which they in The Snake in the Graſs are again deſire'd to anſwer; which Queries altho' twice put to them, yet they will not anſwer with plain yea or nay, but in deceitful generals they lurk to hide their Errors, and to avoid the ſhame of their pride and folly in their pretence to be guided by the infallible Spirit; whenas, they expoſe themſelves to more ſhame and add wickedneſs to their former Sins hereby: But I ſay not only that their Error herein (i. e. this falſe citing of Fox's words to Caffin aforementioned is diſcovered, but more of their wickedneſs, by their leaving out the latter part of the Sentence, which was the moſt material and objected part; they falſly repreſent this M.C. as oppoſing Chriſt's Inward or Spiritual coming in his People, which he, M. C. did not; alſo by this falſe citing of M. C.'s words they hid their Error; but by this they prove themſelves falſe Accuſers and Forgers, to falſe cite Men's words, to falſly repreſent their Principles; and that they, or at leaſt Fox did not believe in a Chriſt, to come really a Man in true and proper humane Nature, without all other Men; for, ſo he was not come in him; and he ſaid, he looked for him to come no otherwiſe.

Some more Inſtances I may give (in Fox's oppoſing J. Bunyan) of their contempt of Jeſus of Nazareth, and his Forgery. Alſo in page 643. J.B. ſpeaks of the Spirit of Deluſion, how it deceives People, ſaying, at laſt it (i. e. the falſe Spirit) begins to, &c.Shewing the Soul a new Chriſt;—the new and falſe Chriſt is a Chriſt crucified within, Dead, Raiſed again, Aſcended within, —in oppoſition to the Son of Mary, who was Crucified, Dead, Riſen again without, &c. Again, ſays J. B. This falſe Chriſt hath a falſe Faith, &c. to apprehend this Chriſt (i. e. the falſe Chriſt) Crucified, Dead, Riſen again, and Aſcended within. And ſays J. B. They have a Scripture to prove their Doctrine, but it's of the Devil's making, &c.

Now, out of this Sentence of J. B.'s (which I abridg) G. F. forges three ſeveral falſe Sentences; and is ſo wicked as to ſay to them all three, they ſay (i. e. J. Bunyan and J. Burton) when it's his own Forgery, in page 206. ſays Fox, They ſay—it's deluding poor Souls to hold forth a crucified Chriſt within, Riſen, Aſcended within.

Again, Fox ſays. They ſay, falſe Chriſts hath a new falſe Faith to apprehend this crucified Chriſt within. (Obſerve, here he forges J. B.'s word Christ ſingular, into Chriſts plural; is not this as bad as you, for thou about which he and they have made ſuch a noiſe.)

Again, ſays Fox, they ſay it's a Scripture of the Devil's making, to apprehend this crucified Chriſt within. Here, beſides his wronging J. B.'s ſenſe and meaning, by taking his words ſo in pieces; he, Fox, changes J. B.'s words a Chriſt crucified within, into a crucified Christ within, by tranſpoſing the words, putting the word Crucified firſt, and the word Christ after, whenas in J. B.'s the word Christ is firſt, and Crucified laſt: But however this Forger, Fox, (or them G. W. &c. for him who mended his Blaſphemy, in his Letter by Capt. Drury to O. C.) falſly cite; yet obſerve the Sentence, as J. B. ſays, and not as they forge it; he J. B. condemns it as Error, to hold out A Chriſt Crucified within, Dead, Riſen again, and Aſcended within, in oppoſition to the Son of Mary, who was Crucified Dead, Riſen again, and Aſcended without. This Fox cites, tho' falſly, and oppoſes as Error, and do thereby imply it's not Error, but Truth; and that it's Error in J. B. to contradict it; for in the Anſwer ſays Fox, Which is contrary to the Faith of the Apoſtles, which preached Chriſt that's Crucified within, and not another, him that was raiſed from the Dead was riſen (obſerve it) him that was raiſed was riſen. Doth this ſhew his extraordinary Wiſdom or Ignorance, or rather doth it not prove their extraordinary Failing, who, contrary to their own knowledge, ſo falſly affirm of him: But to return.

Again, ſay Fox in his Anſwer to J. B. If there be any other Chriſt but he that was Crucified within, he is the falſe Chriſt;—he that hath not this Chriſt that was Riſen and Crucified within, is a Reprobate, &c. Obſerve, altho he falſly put it as J. B.'s Crucified Chriſt three times, too falſly repreſent J.B. as oppoſing Chriſt's being Spiritually in his People (which is falſe, for he owns it as I ſhall ſhew) yet in all his three anſwers he again tranſpoſes the words, and puts the word Christ before Crucified, altho' in his forg'd Sentence as J. B.'s he puts the word Crucified before Christ. Now this could not be an overſight, becauſe it's three times in one page, and anſwers between to every Citation; in every one of which anſwers, the word Christ is put firſt; but in the forged Sentences all three, the word Crucified is put firſt, and cauſe they had for it; for elſe J. B.'s words would not have appear'd to oppoſe Chriſt that was crucified, being manifeſt within, which was their deſign ſo to repreſent him; nor could they had that ſeeming occaſion to oppoſe him, nor could they have rendered him, J. B. ſuch a Reprobate as they do; for, who that reads this or any ſuch Book of the Quakers, can think any others, but when they ſay in print, he or they ſay, &c. that it's the words of the Perſon they cite; only I having come after them and ſearcht them, have diſcovered their wicked forgery, and miſrepreſenting Mens words to defame them.

But, in this oppoſing of J. B. Fox does, in his ſquinting way, contemn the Perſon of Jeſus of Nazareth outwardly (for, as ſuch he is not within) and by imply, makes the Light within every Man to be Christ that's crucified; and ſo do not as John the Baptiſt, and St. Peter did, direct to the Man or Perſon who was Nailed to the Croſs, and whom Herod ſaw; and whom them after Saints had not, nor did not ſee, becauſe he was taken up from them—out of their ſight: I ſay this Fox not preaching the ſame Jeſus of Nazareth as they did, but oppoſing them that did ſo preach him, ſhews Fox's Spirit or Light was not the ſame as the Apoſtles, but a contrary one, ſo Antichriſt.

But further, to prove Fox's contempt: I think as to the terms, Suffered or Crucified they import much the ſame, when ſpoke in reference to our Lord's Death; but that of the two, the word Suffered, moſt properly implies what he in Soul and Spirit, or inwardly, endured, rather than the word Crucified; for that moſtly reſpects the manner, or circumſtances of his being put to Death, and Suffering is more extenſive to all he underwent inwardly, as well as outwardly. Now whereas one T. M. maintains the value, vertue, and dignity of our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth; his Perſonal Sufferings in his own Perſon without us in oppoſition to the Quakers contempt thereof, and ſetting up ſomething done in their Perſons, as is afore ſhewn G. F. oppoſes him as he does J. B. and ſays, page 131. All be in the Fancy, who be out of the ſtate of witneſſing Chriſt (that Suffered) within them, and Roſe again. Obſerve the two words that Suffered be in the parentheſis; but in caſe them two words had not been to put, but been without them Parentheſis, theſe now Foxonian Quakers ſay, Now who would have concluded any otherwiſe, but that G. F. undervaluing the Sufferings of Chriſt without the Gates of Jeruſalem, had publiſhed that his Sufferings were within Man only:—But now take it with the Parentheſis, this alters the caſe.

Well then, if it be ſo, here the words that's Crucified needed as much the Parentheſis about them, as the words that Suffered, becauſe Crucified has more relation to his outward Dying than Suffered; and it's twice in this 206 Page; Chriſt that's Crucified within,—He that was Crucified within; and in neither of theſe two Sentences, not ſo much as a Comma to ſeparate them two words that's Crucified from the afore nor following words within.

Therefore I think, ſeeing there is neither Comma nor Parentheſis to ſeparate them words that's Crucified, from the afore going, and the following word within, as is in page 131. I may conclude that G.Fox undervalues the Crucifying of our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth without, and publiſh that his (i. e. Chriſt) Crucifying was within Man only.

Thus, by their own Judgment, Fox is guilty of undervaluing the Crucifying of our Lord Jeſus, which I think amounts to as much as contemning them: Therefore they have made him guilty of my Charge: And altho' he Fox's Anſwers, here and elſewhere, be ſo ſquinting and two-fac'd that it's difficult to prove any Charge againſt him, in plain and clear expreſs words of his, but by what he oppoſes; but herein not only his contempts of our Lord Jeſus, but his wicked Forgery is manifeſt, and my Charge proved: And by theſe and a few more proofs I have given in my Eſſay, to allay G. Fox's Spirit, and my Diſcovery, &c. inlarged. Theſe Quakers Errors and wicked Forgeries are fully prov'd, (but I hope I ſhall publiſh theſe and many more others. But whereas Fox, by His Forgery, falſly repreſents this good Chriſtian J. Bunyan as being againſt Chriſt's being within his People, to prove that falſe; and that as I aforeſaid, he does not oppoſe it, but own it: He ſays in the ſame Book, The cauſe of Believers Hope is this, Chriſt or the Spirit of Chriſt in them. Again, ſays he, Some looking only on what Chriſt hath done and ſuffered without them; reſting in an Hiſtorical —Faith of it, without looking for the Spirit of Jeſus to come into their Hearts, —without which they cannot rightly—believe in Chriſt without them; This proves theſe Quakers had no cauſe to oppoſe him on that ſcore; but his diſcovering their Errors and bearing witneſs to, and for our Lord Jeſus of Nazareth, as being God's Chriſt, did torment the wicked Spirit in Fox, &c. And through them caſt out Floods of Forgery and falſe Accuſation againſt him, as in E. B.'s Works, page 139. ſay they, Thus much is the mind of the Pen-man's Spirit, ſecretly ſmiting at the Doctrine of the true Faith, Christ within, and directing altogether without and afar off. But what's afore cited of J. B.'s proves theſe Quakers wicked Slanderers: This may ſerve for Anſwer to their Book, Entituled, An Antidote, &c. A pretended Anſwer to The Snake in the Graſs, &c. But that worthy Author, hath in that Book, and his Satan Diſrob'd, &c. drove them out of their lurking holes, only one, i. e. Their Errors are ſo groſs, that it's a ſhame to confute them.

Now H. Goldny, W. Sanders, &c. do not call me Impudent Fellow, as you did J. Pennyman, on full Change, without his ſpeaking ever a word to you; nor be not ſo envious againſt me, as you were againſt the Chriſtian Quaker D. S. for his Anſwer to F. B. on your behalf: For in your Book Rabſhekah, &c. I have leave to Print. But if this envious Foxonian Spirit ſhould be ſo powerful in you, as it was in your Pope Penn and Cardinal Whitehead, againſt G. K. and you ſhould, as they were, be tranſported with Malice, and declare me an Apoſtate in the Name of the Lord, and curſe me, and blaſphemouſly put to it, Thus ſaith the Lord, as they did; yet I truſt Chriſt (without me) will ſave me from your rage, that you will not be ſuffered to ſerve me as Mr. Young the Miniſter lately was ſerv'd; and that not by Thieves, but ſome envious one, like you; and I hear he was threatened by one of your Foxonians, and its doubted was accordingly procured to be done to him. Therefore if any ſuch miſchief befal me, I am ſatisfied it will be by ſome of your procuring, who walk in the ſteps of your Elder Siſter, Rome, in many things, and ſo may in this, to procure them who diſcover your wickedneſs to be ſerved as Juſtice Arnold was formerly: But otherways, let all your Foxonian Prieſts and Men of War in the Dragon Fox's Army, Penn and Whitehead, &c. curſe me, and cry aloud to your God, that wicked envious Foxonian Spirit, from Morning unto Evening, againſt me; as your Fore-Fathers did, I fear you not; for my Truſt is in my Lord Jeſus of Nazareth without me, whom you (Foxonians) have blaſphemouſly contemned and under-valued, yet I know the vile Perſon will ſpeak Villany, and his Heart will work Iniquity to practice Hypocriſie, and to utter Error againſt the Lord; but the great Corruption of Prieſts, [i. e. Foxonians] is cauſe ſufficient to ſeparate from them. This is their own Doctrine, therefore all who be honeſt-minded, Depart, I pray you, from the Tents of theſe wicked Men (W. P. and G. W. &c. your Chief Prieſts) leſt you be conſumed in their Sins.

Poſtſcript. I Think it's not unneceſſary to give you ſome Paſſages out of the Copy of a Letter I have by me, which was wrot about two years ſince. SIR,

I Am glad to find ſome of our Clergy concerned in the Controverſie with the Quakers, conſidering the high Concernment it is of, it being about the Foundation of the Chriſtian Religion; and as it's the peculiar Duty of the Paſtors to earneſtly contend for the Faith: And as I hear, Mr Bugg, who hath ſo eminently expos'd himſelf to their Fury, is become a Member of our Church, and thereby hath put himſelf under her Protection, and ſhe ought to take care of him: And altho' the Quakers defame him with many reproachful Characters, but do not, as I find, prove any matter of evil Fact againſt him, or Heretical Principle, but becauſe he detects their Errors, yet they brand him with the infamous Name of Apoſtate, &c. whereby I think they not only defame him, but ſcandalize our Church; and it affects not him only, but all the Members thereof; and the diſadvantage thereby, is not only the ſcandal, but the hinderance it muſt be to deter others, who may be willing to return to the True Faith and Church alſo. Therefore I think if ſome Eminent and Powerful appeared in his behalf, not eſpouſing any miſcarriage in his Management (if any ſuch be) it would be a Check to their Inſolency, and encourage his Diſcovery: For in their Anſwer to the Queries they do not give Dr. Lancaſter thoſe foul terms as formerly they had done to Men of his Character on ſuch Occaſions; which I cannot aſcribe to any change in their Judgment or Spirit, but their Tongues are ty'd by their Intereſt; they know with whom they have to do.

I take the boldneſs to impart my thoughts of the Reaſonableneſs and advantage it may be for ſome Eminent in our Church to concern themſelves againſt the Hereſies and Scandals of theſe Quakers, beſides what I have above hinted.

1. They (i. e. the Quakers) are, as they ſay in their Book, Intituled, Innocency Triumphant, Printed 1693. page 30. By Divine Providence Recognized by the Government as Proteſtants, ſo that the Proteſtants of England are Anſwerable and Chargeable by the Papiſts, (or other Adverſaries) with their Hereſies and Scandals, and that with a moſt forcible Argument, as ſome of your ſelves have ſaid, m y any Papiſt, &c. quote, and charge any of their damnable Hereſies on us, as too many ſuch be in Print.

2. Theſe Perſons engaged againſt them, viz. Mr. Keith, Bugg, and Criſp, being but private Men, and of little Intereſt in the Nation have not the Opportunity of ſpreading their Diſcoveries ſo Ʋniverſal as is needful; and their Adverſaries the Quakers, being a numerous, able, politick, and rich Body of People, and over all England, and the Dominions thereof: For as I hear, they have Meetings in London every Week, called, The Second Days Meetings, whither all or moſt of their Preachers that be then in London, reſort every Sabbath day morning, and every Monday, which Meeting, or the Chief Members thereof, them Preachers, who live in or near London, or are generally there, as G. Fox, (who as I have heard, altho' his Family and Reſidence was in or at Swartſmore, formerly Judge Fells, whoſe Widow married this G. Fox) was for ſeveral years together in and about London.

Theſe few men, their Chief Preachers, are as the Helme or Rudder of, or to the Ship, to govern it, or by that the Veſſel, altho' great, the Pilot turns it as he ſees good, ſo doth this the Quakers ſecond days Meeting, or a few chief men there Influence and Govern that vaſt Body and Number of Quakers all the World over; they being the leading and ruling men in their yearly Meeting,—and by or from this Meeting they have great advantage to ſpread their Books, or any thing elſe; for thither reſort Perſons from all parts, who communicate to them the Affairs of their ſeveral and reſpective Counties or Circuits they belong to; and there receive information of other matters proper to communicate to their reſpective Circuits; ſo that as the Blood hath its conſtant and fixed Circulation all over, and to the extreameſt parts of the Body, from the Heart or Liver, ſo do their affairs: Their Preachers, as I hear, being moſtly Trading Men, and travelling from one Countrey to another, can manage their Affairs of Trade (as well as their Errors) to their Advantage; and they have Orders that their Meetings (which are many) are to have ſome of all Books they Print. Alſo I am inform'd they bring them to their Meetings, (Mens and Womens) there to be bought by Particulars, and not without encouraging Invitations, Chapman-like, as they do their other Wares, and their People charged, or enjoyned to read them. By ſuch cunning Contrivances they vend many, and thereby make them much cheaper to them; for the more of any Impreſſion is vended, the more is the Bookſellers Encouragement. And indeed there ſeems to be ſome Truth in what is ſaid of them, None have the like Correſpondency but the Jews and Jeſuits.

The Controverſie is of Concernment, and theſe Quakers are more potent, able and numerous than could be imagined; and it's the ſeverity of their Diſcipline that upholds them, more than Truth and Juſtice. And if our Biſhops would pleaſe to take as much, or the ſame Care and Order for ſpreading what is writ in Oppoſition to their Errors, and in Defence of the true Faith, as they do for their Errors; that is, that a Book of each ſort may be ſent to every Pariſh, to the Miniſter, to impart as he ſees needful. But that ſuch Books may not be too numerous nor impertinent, care may be taken, that none be printed or ſent, but what be (by ſome appointed therefore) approved.

Alſo a ſtrict Eye kept over what the Quakers Print, and that not to be left to the management of mean under Officers; for they are ſuch a great and able Body, and have plenty of a ſort of Duſt that will blind a common Eye: For it's for lack of Encouragement to the Bookſellers, that they are unwilling to undertake to Print ſuch Books, unleſs at the Authors Charge; and it's too great a Diſadvantage for any Private Perſon to manage a Controverſie with ſuch a numerous and able Body as they are; for its not one ſingle Perſon, but their whole Body as one Man. And they have ſuch a common road of Defaming Terms and Inſinuations, to reproach any who oppoſe them, that many are afraid to meddle with them. Their Slanders paſs for Truth with many; and altho' Mr. Keith being a Scholar is not under the ſame Diſadvantages as Mr. Bugg and Criſp, yet his Acquaintance being but little beſides among them, and his circumſtances in the World but indifferent, and they ſo rich and numerous, do over-power him with Books, too many for him to anſwer. But were his Labours Encouraged and Eſpouſed by the Heads of our Church, he is the moſt capable of Detecting their Errors, as being a Scholar, and having ſo long been a Preacher among them.

An Expoſition on the 2 Peter, 1 Chap. 19 Verſe.

WE have alſo a more ſure word of the Prophets whereunto you do well; that ye take heed as unto a light that ſhineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day Star ariſe in your Hearts. Some ſay this more ſure word is the Light or Spirit within; but I take it here to be meant of the Scriptures or Writings of the Prophets, altho' it's commonly read a more ſure word of Propheſy: But in an old Tranſlation I find it tranſlated a more ſure word of the Prophets. Therefore I conclude the words will bear to be ſo read, and I believe the Apoſtles meaning by a more ſure word was a more unqueſtioned Teſtimony or Word; as if he had ſaid; if any Doubt or Queſtion what we ſay, concerning that Voice we heard in the Mount, becauſe their was but three that heard it, and ſo are witneſſes to the Truth thereof; yet the words of the Prophets they own as ſure and true, and they all teſtify to the ſame Lord Jeſus as we do: And therefore you do well to take heed unto them, as St. Paul adviſed Timothy, to give himſelf to Reading and Study in the Scriptures; for they, as our Lord ſaid, teſtifie of me. Alſo by the next adjoyning words, it ſeems plain to be the Apoſtles meaning; for ſays he, No propheſy of Scripture is of private Interpretation, but (ſaith he) Holy Men of God ſpeak as they were moved. Alſo in the third Chapter, ſays St. Peter, This ſecond Epiſtle I write unto you,—that you may be mindful of the words which were ſpoken before of the Holy Prophets, &c. And in his firſt Epiſtle, firſt Chapter and tenth Verſe, ſaith he, Of which Salvation the Prophets have enquired—who propheſied of the grace that ſhould come unto you.

Hereby it ſeems to me that the Apoſtle did not here in this Scripture direct them to a Light or Word within them, for a proof of his Doctrine (that Jeſus was the Chriſt,) but to the words of the Prophets, as in the Acts in his Sermons, he refers to the Scriptures for proof, as Acts 1. ſays he, Theſe Scriptures muſt needs be fulfilled which the Holy Ghoſt, by the mouth of David ſpake, Again, Verſe 20. ſaith Peter, This is that which was ſpoken by the prophet Joel. Again, St. Peter in proving that Jeſus of Nazareth was the Chriſt, and that he was riſen, ſays of David, Seeing he (i. e. David) was a prophet, &c. Again, Chap. 3.18. ſays he, The things which God had before ſhewed by the mouth of his prophets that Chriſt ſhould ſuffer, he hath fulfilled, &c. and in verſe 24. ſays he, All the prophets from Samuel and thenceforth, as many as have ſpoken have foretold of this day (even of the Sufferings, Riſing, and Aſcending of our Lord Jeſus) whom (ſays he) the heavens muſt contain until the time that all things be reſtored, which God hath ſpoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets ſince the world began. Alſo Acts 10.43. Peter Preaching that Jeſus whom they had hanged on a tree—was ordained of God to be judge both of quick and dead (ſaith) to him (i. e. Jeſus of Nazareth) gave all the prophets witneſs, that thro' this man, all that believe in him ſhould receive remiſſion of ſins.

Thus it's evident from Scripture, that 'twas St. Peter's Method to prove his Doctrine by, or from the words of the Prophets, and not by directing them to a Light within them; and as it was his former uſe in his Sermons, ſo alſo he continued the ſame method in his Epiſtles; and the reaſon or cauſe ſeems plain; foraſmuch as the Prieſts and Rulers of the Jews could perſwade the People to believe, that Jeſus was not riſen; but that his Diſciples had ſtolen him away notwithſtanding ſo many witneſſes of his Reſurrection, as is mentioned 1 Cor. 15. And was ſeen forty days, as in Acts 1.

I ſay, notwithſtanding ſuch evident demonſtration, if the Jews could perſwade the People it was falſe, much more might the Apoſtles expect they would contradict and not believe them three Perſons (Peter, James, and John's) Teſtimony; alſo conſidering it was not known to any others, until after his Reſurrection, as by our Lord's command, Matth. 17.9. Tell the viſion to no man, until the Son of man be riſen from the dead? Alſo Paul preaching at Antioch he prov'd out of the Scripture, that Jeſus was the Chriſt and ſaid, Becauſe they knew him not, nor the voice of the Prophets read every ſabbath day, &c. And Acts 15. ſaith James, To this agree the words of the Prophets. And Acts 17. Paul reaſoning with them of Theſſalonica, out of the Scriptures, that Jeſus was Chriſt; and Apollo he mightily convinced the Jews, ſhewing by the Scriptures that Jeſus was Chriſt, Acts 18. and Acts 26. Paul ſays he ſaid, None other things then Moſes and the Prophets did ſay ſhould come; King Agrippa believ'ſt thou the Prophets? I know thou believ'ſt. Here alſo, it was not a Light within, but the words of the Prophets Paul appealed to: And in the Parable of Dives and Lazarus, Chriſt himſelf prefers the Scriptures, ſaying, They have Moſes and the Prophets, let them hear them; if they will not hear them, neither will they be perſwaded altho' one roſe from the dead.

Here our Lord does not direct to a Light within, but the Prophets and Moſes's words; in conformity to which I ſuppoſe Peter did the ſame, and did not in this place mean a Light within them, but the words of all the Prophets in Scripture was more ſure or leſs queſtionable than their three Teſtimony of that Voice that they heard (I mean not as to themſelves, but as to other) as to proving the power and coming of our Lord Jeſus Christ; to convince and ſtop the mouths of gainſayers, and falſe Prophets which Peter ſaid ſhould come, and therefore it was needful for the Apoſtle to endeavour to ſtrengthen his Teſtimony and their Faith by the Words of the Prophets, as alſo further appears in that he ſays, Whereunto you do well to take heed, as unto a light that ſhineth in a dark place until the day dawn, and the day Star ariſe in your hearts: Hereby making the ſure word to be ſomething elſe, beſides or more than a Light within them, or then the dawning of the day, or the day Star in their hearts; and the Apoſtles giving the preference to the words of the Prophets before his own, is a ſign of his great Humility and Obedience to our Lord's Doctrine, Luke 18.14. Therefore, as the Apoſtle ſaid, ſeeing we are ſo compaſſed about with ſo great a Cloud of Witneſſes for the Authority of the Scriptures, alſo for this expounding this Text, as intending the words of the Prophets, and not a Light within them.

Then how much are they to blame who oppoſe this Expoſition, and make a contrary one, and undervalue the Scripture, and prefer their own Writings before the Scripture, as the Foxonian Quakers do, who ſay it's Blaſphemy to call the Scripture the Word of God, and yet term their own or G. Fox's the Word of God, and give many contemptible Names to the Scripture, as Carnal Letter, Duſt, Serpents-Meat, &c. and ſay the Scripture is not his (i. e. God's) Voice, &c. But Title their own idle, ſeditious Pamphlets The Voice of Wiſdom, &c. as G.W. does. What, is not the Scripture as much God's Word or Voice as theſe Blaſphemers, Fox and Whitehead's ſeditious Pamphlets be, which they command and charge their Subjects to read in their Meetings? But let them ſhew me where-ever they enjoyned the reading any one Chapter in the Bible to confirm their undervaluing of the Scripture: Say they, the Jews had the Scripture and Crucified Chriſt; and by their own Doctrine the Jews had the Light within them alſo; therefore their Argument they bring to undervalue the Scriptures, is as much in force againſt the Light within as againſt the Scriptures.

But in oppoſition to this afore Expounding of this Scripture may be objected the words in James 1.21. Receive with meekneſs the ingrafted word, which is able to ſave your Souls; that this may refer to the Eternal Word in the beginning I will not oppoſe; but it may more particularly relate to him as he became Incarnate or made Fleſh, born of the Virgin, and was the Son of Mary, even that Perſon, Jeſus of Nazareth; for ſo he was united or ingrafted into our Nature, like unto us, except Sin; and as the Children partook of Fleſh and Blood, ſo likewiſe he himſelf took part of the ſame as the Children (make it.) So that, I think it is the receiving him in meekneſs (i. e. the Seed of the Woman, made under the Law, made of a Woman) Jeſus of Nazareth by Faith, as the Chriſt of God and Saviour; and as ſuch, relying on him alone for Juſtification, as well as for Salvation, is the receiving with meekneſs the ingrafted Word, as the Apoſtles ſays, We are all children of God by faith in Christ Jeſus. Again, Let Christ dwell in your hearts by faith.

So that, by this ingrafted Word is not meant here the common Illumination in all Mankind, but the peculiar Gift of Chriſt to thoſe who, thro' Faith in his Blood, receive him into them; and ſo, altho' the Word or Belief be within, yet Him, the Perſon or Object of that Faith is in Heaven, a place without Men; and which muſt receive him until the reſtitution of all things, which God hath ſpoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets ſince the world began, Acts 3.21. which time I think is not yet; for, as ſays the Apoſtle, Hebr. 2.8. We ſee not yet all the things put under him.

But altho' I have here teſtified againſt theſe Quaker's Revilings and Envy to the Miniſters, yet I do not juſtifie them in all thing, many of them being blameable; and I wiſh they were generally more mindfull of the good Advice of the Apoſtle Paul, and did not give encouragement to others to be conformable to this World; for example generally hath more influence on People than Doctrine; and we are more apt to fault the mote in another's Eye than the beam in our own. But People being generally too quick-ſighted to ſpy their faults, I would not aggravate them; But theſe Quakers Defamations being ſo general, affect all, even the Biſhops alſo, who are eminently concern'd in the Civil Government, being Members of the Houſe of Peers, ſome of them the King's Privy Council. Therefore theſe Quakers are very arrogant; and I have Warrant from Scripture, and their own Doctrine and Practice for my thus ſhewing them their wickedneſs [which is great] that they may repent.

THOMAS CRISPE.