THIS Sheet of Paper doth set before you some of the many vile and mon­strous Doctrines, Principles, and uncharitable Sayings of the Chiefest and most Noted of your Teachers: Faithfully Collected out of their own Books, the Titles and Pages whereof are set down in the Margin: You are earnestly requested, as you regard your Eternal Salvation to consider them, and with Prayer to Almighty GOD to enable you by His Good Spirit to compare them with the Holy Scrip­tures, by which you may clearly see that your Teachers have led you quite off from the Prin­ciples of Christianity, without the Faith of which ye have no ground to expect Salvation. It is hoped that if you will duly and well consider these things, you will not only renounce your Teachers Errors; but gladly embrace the Doctrine and Religion of Christianity, to which you are hereby sincerely Exhorted.

Concerning their pretended Infallibi­lity and discerning of Spirit, and Equality with God. C. Fox & R. Hubberthorn Truth's De­fence, p 2.

OUR giving forth Papers, or Printed Books is from the immediate eternal [Page 4] Spirit of God to the shewing forth the filthy Practices of the Worlds Teach­ers, &c.

G. F. Great Mystery. p. 98.And thou and you, all that speak and write, and not from God immediately and in­fallibly as the Apostles did, and Prophets, and Christ, but only have gotten the words, you are all under the Curse in another Spirit ravened from the Spirit that was in the Apostles:

G. W. Truth Defended. p. 24.Do not you George Whitehead Blasphe­mously take to your self an Attribute of God, while you pretend ordinarily to know the Hearts of Men. And tell Mr. Townsend (Minister of Norwich, in the second Page of your Ishmael,) that the Light of God is de­parted from his Conscience.

George Whitehead Answers, I take no At­tribute of God to my self, but what God hath given me, by whose Gift I witness that promise fulfilled in me; Ye shall discern be­tween the Righteous and the Wicked; be­tween him that serveth God, and him that serveth Him not, Mal. 3. 28. Obsery. This in Mal. 3. 28. or any other place of Scrip­ture, proves not that any man shall have one of Gods Attributes given them to know mens Hearts.G. F. Great Mystery. p. 89.

The Quakers can discern who are Saints and who are Devils, and who are Apostates, without speaking ever a word.G. F. Saul's Errand p. 8

They that have the Spirit of God, (which all the Quakers say they have,) are equal with God. Francis How­gils Works, p. 232. He that is joyned to the Lord, is [Page 5] one Spirit; there is Unity, and the Unity stands in Equality it self.

Concerning the Scriptures. Great My­stery, p. 302.

GEorge Fox says, The Scriptures are not Infallible nor Divine, but Humane.W. Penn in his Quak. a new Nick­name for old Christianity. p. 71.

No Command in Scripture is any farther obliging upon any man, than as he finds a Conviction upon his Conscience, otherwise men should be engaged without, if not a­gainst Conviction, a thing unreasonable in a man: (Note, According to this, there can be no Sins of Ignorance.)J. Parnel, shield of Truth, p. 11.

He that saith the Letter is the Rule & Guide of the People of God is without, feeding upon the Husk, and is ignorant of the true Light.G. W. and W. P. Seri­ous Apology, p. 49.

The Question being put, Whether the Quakers did esteem their Speaking to be of as great Authority as any Chapter in the Bible?G. Bishop, Mene Tekel, p. 22.

George Whitehead Answer, That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any, is of as great Authority as the Scripture and Chapters are, and greater. G. F. Answ. to the West­merland Pe­tition. p. 30.

How can, or dare any say, without the highest Blasphemy, that the Scriptures is the Word of God?E.B's works p. 105.

If ever you own the Prophets, Christs, or the Apostles, you will own our Writings, which are given forth by the same Spirit & Power.G. F. News out of the North, p. 14.

You are in the Witchcraft, who observe Commands from without from the Letter.And in seve­ral Papers, given forth by the Qua­kers, p. 45. & 40.

So Dust is the Serpents Meat, their O­riginal is but Dust, which is but the Letter, which is Death; so these Serpents feed upon [Page 6] Dust, which feed upon all these carnal things, and their Gospel is Dust, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, which is the Letter: The Cursed Serpent is in the Letter, R. Huber­thorn's words, Truths Defence, p. 102.

Concerning the Trinity.

G. White­head, &c in Ishmael and his Mother cast out. In Answer to Mr. Town­send, p. 10.THE Three Persons which thou Dreams of, which thou would divide out of one, like a Conjurer, are all de­nied, and thou shut up with them in perpe­tual Darkness for the Lake and Pit, for thou hast no Scripture that mentions any such things.

W. Penn, his Sandy Foun­dation, p. 12, 13, 15.Since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God (which their Opinion necessitates them to confess) then unless the Father, Son, and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Sub­stances, & consequently three distinct Gods.

That frequent, but impertinent distinction, that God is one Substance, but Three in Persons, or Subsistences,—A most absurd Blasphemy.—They the Trinitarians must necessarily conclude their Kind of Trinity a Fiction.

Its requisite I should inform the Reader concerning its Original: Thou mayst assure thy self it's not from the Scripture, nor Reason, since so expresly repugnant.—It was conceived in Ignorance, brought forth & maintained by Cruelty.

G. F. Great Mystery, p. 246.The Scriptures do not tell People of a Trinity, nor Three Persons, but the Com­mon-Prayer Mass-Book speaks of Three [Page 7] Persons; brought in by the Father the Pope.

Concerning christ and his Blood. &c.

W.Penn, Se­rious Apol. P. 146.THat the outward Person that suffer'd was properly the Son and God we ut­terly deny.

C.A. Sword of the Lord Drawn, P. 5.Your imagined God beyond the Stars, and your carnal Christ, is utterly denied:—To say Christ is God and Man in One Person, is a Lye.

G.Fox Great Mystery, P. 250.The Devil was in thee, thou sayest, thou art Saved by Christ without thee, and so hast recorded thy self a Reprobate.

G. F. Great Mystery, P. 47.The Light which every Man hath that cometh into the World is sufficient to Salvation, without the help of any other Means or Discovery.

G. W. An­tidote, P. 28.The Light within (all men) is sufficient for Salvation without any thing else.

Stephen Crisp Collection, P. 160.And this Light in thee, wherewith thou art Enlightened is the Life of Jesus, John 1.4 which He hath given a Ransom for Man, that was not Natural, as some foolishly imagine, For if it were Natural, it could not be a Ransom for Man our of Sin.

Will-Bayleys Works. P. 600.The Apostle Preached Christ the Word nigh in the Heart and in the Mouth, and the ingrafted Word which is able to save the Soul. So he did not Preach a visible Christ with Flesh and Bones, as you do.—And Paul Preached God that made the World that was not far from ever one of us, the invisible God; but you Preach a visible Man with Flesh and Bones, at a great distance from [Page 8] all People, above where the Sun, Moon, and Stars are.

Voice of Wis­dom. P. 36. G. W. says, The Righteousness which God effects in us is not Finite, but Infi­nite.

W.P. Quak. New Nick. P. 6.Faith in the History of Christs outward Manifestation, a deadly Poison these latter Ages has been infected with, to the De­struction of Godly Living.

G.W. Truth defending the Quakers, P. 22. 65.Christs coming in the Flesh was but a Fi­gure.—Faith in Christ without Men is contrary to the Apostles Doctrine.

W. P. Serious Apol. P. 148.This we deny, viz. Justification by the Righteousness which Christ hath fulfilled in His own Person for us (wholly without us) and boldly affirm in the Name of the Lord to be the Doctrine of Devils, and an Arm of the Sea of Corruption, which do now Deluge the whole World. Observ. The words [wholly without us,] relate to the Merito­rious Cause of Men's Justification before God; for which God doth Justify them which is the Righteousness of Christs Per­son, by His most Holy and Perfect Obedi­ence unto Death, and shedding of His most Precious Blood, and that was wholly with­out us; and that was the true State of the Question between W. Penn and his Oppo­nent, and is here deny'd by W. Penn.

W. P. Id. 148.Death came by actual Sin, not imputa­tive; therefore Justification unto Life came by actual Righteousness, not imputative.

Light and Life, P. 44.Christ [in us] offereth up Himself a living Sacrifice to God for us, by which [Page 9] the Wrath of God is appeased to us. Vin­dicated by G. W.

S. Eccle's Letter to R. Porter.The Blood of Christ was no more than the Blood of another Saint.

G.W. Light and Life, P. 56.It is confessed, that God by His own Blood purchased to Himself a Church, Act. 20. 28. Now the Blood of God, or the Blood that relates to God, must needs be Spiritual, He being a Spirit, and the Covenant of God is Inward and Spiritual, and is the Blood of it.

E. B's. Works, P. 273.The Suffering of the People of God (that is Quakers) in this Age, is greater Suffering, and more just, than in the Days of Christ, or of the Apostles, or in any time since. What was done to Christ, or to the Apostles, was chiefly done by a Law; and in great part by the due Execution of a Law, &c.

Concerning Baptism and the Supper.

W.P. Reason against Rail­ing, P. 108, 109I Affirm, by that one Scripture [Heb. 9. 10] Circumcision is as much in force, as Water-Baptism; and the Paschal­Lamb, as Bread and Wine, they were both Shadows, and both Elementary and Perish­able. And we can testify from the same Spirit, by which Paul renounced Circumci­sion, that they are to be Rejected, as not now Required.

E. B. works, P. 190, 191.To say that sprinkling Infants with wa­ter is Baptism into the Faith of Christ, is the Doctrine of Devils.

G. F. News out of the North, P. 14.Your Baptism and Sacraments as you call it, and all your Ordinances, and Churches, [Page 10] and Teaching, it's Cain's Sacrifice.

Their Sacrament as they call it, is Carnal, Their Communion Bread & Wine the Table of Devils, and Cup of Devils. The Book out of which this passage is taken, is intituled, News out of the North, written from the Mouth of the Lord, from one who is Naked, & stands Naked before the Lord cloathed with Righteousness, whose Name is not known in the world, risen up out of the North, which was Prophesied of, but now is Fulfilled. Called, George Fox.

Concerning the Resurrection:

W. Penn in in his Inva­lidity of J. Faldo's Vin­dication, P. 369, 370.I Do utterly deny that this Text, 1 Cor. 15. 44. It is sown a Natural Body, it is raised a Spiritual Body, &c. is concerned in the Re­surrection of Man's carnal Body at all. But the two States of Men under the First and Se­cond Adam, Men are sown into the world Natural, so are they Sons of the First A­dam; but they are raised Spiritual thro' Him who is the Resurrection and the Life, and so are they Sons of the Second Adam, who came to raise up the Sons of the first Adam from their Dead to His Living; their Natural to His Spiritual Estate. But per­haps, it will be objected that the 47th. verse, The first man is of the Earth Earthly; and part of the 49th. verse, We shall all bear the Image of the Heavenly, seem to imply a Bo­dily Resurrection; but let the whole Verse be considered, and we shall find no such thing, &c. T. Ellwood in his Answ. to G. K's 1st Narrative, P. 149.

The Apostle (1 Cor. 15. 14.) does not [Page 11] say, The Natural is made a Spiritual Body, or the Natural Body & the Spiritual Body is one and the same Body; but he sets them in opposition, as two distinct Bodies. The Body that is put in the Grave is a Natural Body; but the Body that's raised is a Spi­ritual Body. And that none might think this Spiritual Body was the same, he adds, There is a Natural Body, and there is a Spiri­tual Body.

W.Pen, Rea­son against Railing, P. 134.If a thing can be the same, and notwith­standing changed, for shame let us never make so much stir against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, for the Absurdity of it is rather out-done than equalled by this car­nal Resurrection.

Rich. Hub­berthorn's Collection, P. 119.His Envy hath reached to Heaven, to prove. That the Saints in Heaven are not Perfect, but wait for the Redemption of their Bodies; which now, if People mind the Scriptures, there is no such Doctrine in it, as the Saints in Heaven have not receiv'd the Redemption of their Bodies.

W.P. Reason against Rai­ling, P. 138.If the Compleat Happiness of the Soul rests in a Re-union to a carnal Body, for such it is Sown, then never Cry out upon the Turks Alcoran; for such a Heaven and the Joys of it, suit admirably well with such a Resurrection.

Concerning Christs Coming to Judg­ment.

G.W. Light and Life, P. 41.WHat is that Glory of the Father in which Christ's coming is? Is it vi­sible to the Carnal Eye? And where is that [Page 12] coming to be? Is it now to be looked for outwardly?.

We acknowledge the several comings of Christ according to the Scriptures, both that in the Flesh, and that in Spirit. But three comings of Christ, not only that in the Flesh at Jerusalem, and that in the Spirit, but also another coming in the Flesh yet to be ex­pected, we do not read of.

Id. Nature of Christianity, P. 29.Dost thou look for Christ as He was the Son of Mary to appear outwardly, in a bodily Existence, to save thee? If thou dost, thou may'st look till thy Eyes drop out, before thou wilt see such an appearance of Him.

Id. Brief dis­covery of the Dangerous Principles of J. Horn, P 9.And as for that, 1 Thes. 4. 15. concern­ing the coming of our Lord from Heaven which men blindly put afar off; the Saints who then were alive remained unto it.—So their Conversation was in Heaven, (viz. a Heaven within them:) they did not say their Conversation was at a distance, above the Clouds, from whence you look for a Christ.

Concerning Heaven and Hell.

George Fox, Great My­stery, P. 214.THere is none have a Glory and a Hea­ven but within them.

W. P. [...], P. 170To deny the Locality of Heaven and Hell not very offensive, and it looks too Carnal and Mahometan (viz. to assert it.)

Concerning doing Serbile Work on the Lords Day, and of the Moral Law.

Truth De­sending Qua­kers, P. 20.DID that Quaker sin therein or not, who lately brought on the Lords day, [Page 13] an old Doublet into Dr. Gells Church in London, and sat upon the Communion Ta­ble mending it while the Dr. was Preach­ing? G. W. Answ. What wilt thou still con­tinue a Papist, that thou countest it such a crime to work upon the Communion Ta­ble, as if it were a more Holy place than another? Where dost thou read in Scrip­ture that men must do no work on the first Day of the Week? Obser. But to save them on all sides the Quakers infallible spirit can go both ways for and against the observa­tion of the Lords Day: and both as di­rected by the same spirit. Thus G. Fox de­termines in an Epistle to all Christian Ma­gistrates and Powers in Christendom, p. 12. So all Friends of the Lord God that be mo­ved to set open your Shops, or do any work on the First Day, which the false Christians call their Sabbath.—Do not ye Judge all that do not [open Shop] as ye do that be not moved to the service as ye are to do that Day. And all that doth not do that service [viz. open Shop] on that day as you do as are not moved by the Power of the Lord God, do not Judge them that doth such a Service on that Day. Obser. Here he makes them the False Christians, who call the First Day of the Week their Day of Sabbath or Rest.

Truth De­fending Qua­kers, P 18.Is the Moral Law, or Ten Commandments a Rule to a Christian's Life, or is it not? G. W. Answ. Thou might as well ask, If the Moral Law as thou callest it be a Rule [Page 14] to Christ? For the Christian's Life and Rule is Christ, who is the end of the Law for Righteousness, who came not to De­stroy but to Fulfil it.