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A Brief 
 
 DISCOVERY 
 
 Of SOME of the 
 
 Blajpbemous and Seditious 
 Principles and Practices 
 
 Of the People, Called 
 
 QUAKERS: 
 
 Taken out of their 
 Moft Noted and Approved Authors. 
 
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 and both Honfes ^/PARLIAMENT. 
 
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 Hen. Men ton, Reftor of Oxborow. ^NORFOLK. 
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 A Brief DISCOVERY (f feme of the 
 Blafphemous and Seditious Principles 
 and Practices of the People called Quakers. 
 
 r. 
 
 GEO. FOX, thefirft Founder and great Apo-^^J^ 
 ftle of this Seel:, Gr. Myft. p. 209. faith againft/J/i' witbaty 
 bis Opponent thus 5 ' This Light that doth b wM $?? 
 'Enlighten every one that cometh into die World, Sc£J&L£ 
 
 1 which he calls Conscience, is not Confcience. And 
 in p. 331. he further faith, ' The Light, which every 
 1 one that cometh into the World, is Enlightened 
 ' withal, is not Confcience, for the Light was before 
 ' any thing was made, or Confcience named. 
 
 And G. F. Jun. in his Works, Reprinted 1665. /?. 5c. But tbeTne 
 
 * I the Light will fall upon you, and Grinde you to ^^ f od 
 
 * Powder. All— who will not own me the Light in you. *"' 
 - And — I will make you know, That I the Light am the 
 
 4 True Eternal God, which Created all things 5 and 
 1 that by me, the Light, all things are upheld, and that 
 c there is not another befides me, that can Save. 
 
 In Geo. Fox's Book, ftyled, The Pearl found in Eng- 
 land for the Scattered ones in Foreign Nations, the Royal 
 Seed of God, and Heirs of Salvation, called Quakers, who 
 are the Church of the Living God, per G. F. Printed 
 1658. where fpeaking in the Perfon of the Quakers 
 Light, he hath thefe Paflages, p. 15, 16. Til break in 
 ' Pieces : I'll make Nations like Dirt : I'll tread them 
 ' into Mire : I'll make Religions, Profeffions and Teach- 
 ' ings— Gatherings on Heaps : Gatherings of Multi- 
 ' tudes 3 Gatherings which they call Churches : —I'll 
 A 2 'make 
 
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 1 make Mire of them : I'll make Mortar : I'll make Dire 
 1 of them. The wrath of the Lamb is Rifen upon all 
 "Apoftatcrs^ who are gather-din the Apoftacy. Apo- 
 4 ftatized from the Prophets Life 5 the Apoftles Lift 5 
 4 the Life of the Lamb : The Lamb is Rifen : The Scep- 
 
 c ter is gone out : The Throne is St t : You (hall be 
 
 1 Shaken ye Diviners, ye Dreamers, ye Notioniits, 
 
 4 I'll Whirl you under Hailftones, Viols, Plagues, 
 
 4 Thunders, Woes, Judgments are come amongfl: you ^ 
 
 4 upon your Heads all Nations: The pure Life of 
 
 4 God is Rifen : From the Life of my Apoftles 5 of 
 
 4 my Prophets, have ye been all Scattered, and Apofta- 
 
 4 tized : But the Rod ( i.e. our Light ) is over you ^ 
 
 4 which muft Rule all Nations : Trumpets founding 5 
 4 and Sounded, the Juft will Rule : The Lamb will have 
 4 the Victory : Woes, Woes, and Miferies, are out-go- 
 
 c ing upon all the Heads of the Wicked. What our 
 
 4 Hands have handled 5 and what our Eyes have feen 5 
 4 what was from the Beginning, the Word of Life 5 this 
 4 Declare we unto you. 
 
 Again, G. Fox in his Book (hied, The Teachers of the 
 World unvaried, 8cc. who in p. 27. thus faith: c lam 
 4 the Light of the World, HIM by whom the World 
 4 was made : If you love the Light with which you 
 4 are Enlightened withal, you love Chrift, who faith, 
 * Learn of me : But if you hate that Light, there is 
 4 your Condemnation : From H I M who is one with 
 4 the Truth in every Man 5 Who of the Lord WA S 
 
 4 moved THIS to WRITE: Whofe Name of 
 
 4 the World is called Geo. Fox. 
 
 And to this another of their Eminent Teachers, 
 one of their Prophets, fay An/en, in his Book, Hie Qua- 
 kers Challenge, &c. Printed 1668. inthefe Words, p. 6. 
 4 Stand up Muggleton the Sorcerer, whofe Mouth is 
 4 full of Curfing, Lies, and Blafphemy 5 who calls thy 
 
 4 lad 
 
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 " laft Book, A Looking-Glafs for GEO. FO J, whofe 
 ' Name ihou art not worthy to take into thy Mouth, 
 ' who is a P R O P H E T indeed, and hath been Faith- 
 * ful in the Lord's Bufinefs from the beginning. It was 
 1 laid of Chrift, That he was in the World, and the 
 ' World was made by him, and the World knew him 
 c not : SO it may be laid of T H I S true Prophet 
 ' [ Go. Fox ~] whom John faid be was not : But thou 
 'wilt feel this Prophet [G.Fox'] one Day as heavy 
 ' as a Milftone upon thee : And although the World 
 1 knows" him not, yet he is known. And pag. 2, 3. 
 ' Come Proteftants, Presbyters, Independents and Bap- 
 
 ' tifts 5 the Quakers denies you all. The Quakers 
 
 1 are in the Truth, and none but they, &c Now from 
 fuch Proteftams as thefe, Good Lord deliver us 5 not- 
 withftanding their now Wording the Matter otherwiie, 
 whilft they mean the fame thino^ and their Principles 
 the fame that ever they were, lis they themfelves fay, 
 and that in every part 5 of which here is but a Spe- 
 cimen. 
 
 Edward Burroughs ( (tiled a Son of Thunder, and 
 Confolation 3 a true Prophet, and faithful Servant of 
 God, in his Works Reprinted 1672. ) p. 149. has an 
 Anfwer to this Queftion 5 ' Is that very Man, with that 
 ' very Body within you, Yea or Nay ? He faith, 'The 
 ' very Chrift of God is within us, we dare not deny 
 1 him. 
 
 G. F. Great Mjft. />. 91. ' They (hall fee the Biftiop jfa* tbey are 
 ' of their Souls, Chrift the Power of God, which is Im- ™ ■ Sml with 
 1 mortal, brings the Immortal Soul into the Immortal 
 ' God. Chrift their Sandification, who fanctifies their 
 ' Spirits and Bodies, and brings the Soul up into God, 
 'from whence it came,whereby they came to be one Soul. 
 '/>. 100. And is not that which came out from God, 
 ' which God hath in his Hand ( fpeaking of the Soul ) 
 
 ' taken 
 
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 c taken up into God again, which Chrift the power of 
 
 1 God is Bifhop of, is not this of God's Being ? 
 
 pat Oar Sad Idem, p. 273. The Priefc fays, 'That it is Horrid 
 
 15 pJrc ° f God ' ' Blafphemy, to fay the Soul is part of God. G. F An- 
 
 fwers, ' It is not Horrid Blafphemy to fay the Soul is 
 
 ' a part of God, for it came out of him, and that which 
 
 1 came out of him, is of him, and rejoiceth in him. 
 
 And p. 1 00. ' God who hath all Souls in his Hand 5 
 
 ■ and is not this that cometh out from God, which is 
 
 4 in God's Hand, part of God > 
 
 That it is in- Pag, 90. ' Is not the Soul, without beginning, co- 
 
 Sm££' ming from God And Chrift the power of God, 
 
 ning or End-} ' the Bithop of the Soul, which brings it up into God, 
 
 ing. < which came out from him, Hath this a Beginning or 
 
 4 Ending > And is not this infinite in it felf, and more 
 
 4 than all the World } 
 
 rt'Lhefz- °' F - SaitVs travel to Damafcus, Printed 1 6 5 4. p. 8. 
 
 qual with God. 4 He that hath the fame Spirit, that raifed up Jefus Chrift, 
 
 ' is Equal with God. 
 
 Fr. Hoivgil's Works, Printed 1676. p. 232. faith to 
 his Opponent 5 ' The firft thing that thy dark mind 
 
 * ftumbleth at, is, that fom* have faid, That they that 
 ' have the Spirit of God, are Equal with God : Where- 
 unto he Replies, ' He that is joined to the Lord is one 
 4 Spirit, there is Unity, and the Unity ftands in Equa- 
 
 * lity it felf. When the Son is revealed and fpeaks, 
 
 * the Father fpeaks in him, and dwells in him, and he 
 4 in the Fath.r,in that which is Equal, in Equality it 
 4 felf, there is Equality in Nature, tho' not in Stature. 
 
 that the, Af- G. F. Gr. Myfl. p. 107. He faith (fteakjng of the 
 
 fert themfeives Pr'ieji ) * The Holieft Man that is, is not able to give 
 
 to be infallible. , aR Infallible character of another Man. To which he 
 
 Anftvers : 4 Haft not thou in this difcovered thy felf 
 
 4 to be no Minifter of Chrift, or of the Spirit, who 
 
 e canaotgive an Infallible Character of another Man > 
 
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 c How canft thou Minifter to his Condition > Pag. 96* 
 ' And thou not being Infallible, thou art not in the 
 ' Spirit, and fo art not a Minifter of Chrift, and art not 
 ' able to judge of Powers that is not Infallible , nor Ma- 
 
 * giftrates, nor Kingdoms, nor Churches. Pag. 33. * And 
 ' are they Minifters of Chrift, that are Fallible ? 
 
 Edrp. Burr. p. 862. * Such ( i. e. Hereticks ) are Infal- 
 ' libly known, and difcerned, by the Spirit of God, in 
 ' the True Church of Chrift, and by every Member of 
 'the fame. 
 
 Geo. F. Gr. Myfl. p. 282. Whereas Mr. Cawdry faid, That they are 
 4 Surely they cannot be Perfect here, or hereafter, in l,erfeit ^ God - 
 4 Equality, but only in Quality. Fox Anfwers, 4 Chrift 
 4 makes no diftinction in his Words, but faith, Be ye 
 4 Perfeff, even <*s your Heavenly Father is : And as he is, 
 
 * fo are we : And that which is Perfect, as he is Perfect, 
 4 is in Equality with the fame thing 5 which is of God, 
 
 * and from God. 
 
 G. F. Myft.p. 1 01. faith, ' It is the Doctrine of Devils, That they are 
 ■ that Preacheth, That Men (hall have Sin, and be in a wlchouc SlIU 
 1 WARFARE, fo long as they be on Earth. Pag. 231. 
 
 * All who come to Chrift the Second Adam, they come 
 
 * to Perfection 5 and all who attain to him, they at- 
 ' tain to Perfection in the Life of God, out of the Firft 
 
 * Adam. Pag. 271.' For who are Sanctified, have per- 
 ' feet Unity, perfect Knowledge, perfect Holinefs. 
 
 And William Penn, in his Truth Exalted, Reprinted 
 1 6 j 1 ( p. 9. laughs at the Church of England-Men, for 
 Confeffing themfelves Sinners, or Praying to God for 
 
 Mercy : ' Alas, poor Souls ! (faith he J are not 
 
 4 you at, Have Mercy upon us, miferable Sinners x, there is 
 1 no Health in m, from Seven to Seventy. 
 
 And Edw. Burr. p. 33. faith, ' That God doth not 
 
 * accept any, where there is any Failing : All who do 
 
 * not fulfil the Law, and Anfwer every Demand of Ju- 
 
 * (Vice. In 
 
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 That tty have *" Truth defending the gjtakers, written from the 
 
 immediate Spirit of Truth, in Gccrge Whitehead and George Fox 
 
 Revelation, Junior, Printed 1659. p. 7. The Queftion being put, 
 
 Pnpbets and '.Whtihar the Quakers did efteem their Speakings, to 
 
 AtffHes. ' be of as great Authority, as any Chapter in the Bible > 
 
 Tis Anfwer'd, ' That which is fpoken from the Spi- 
 
 1 rit of Truth in any, is of as great Authority as the 
 
 4 Scriptures and Chapters are, and GREATER. 
 
 G. F. Gr. Myft. p. 242. tells us, that the Prieft faith, 
 'That the Apoftles were Eye-WitneiTes, and under- 
 4 ftood by Immediate Revelation from God, Infpired 
 4 with the Gift of the Spirit, more than any Man could 
 4 hope for lince : And faith, 'They do not pretend 
 4 any fuch Gift, nor depend upon fucb any Immediate, 
 ' Miraculous Pvevelation from Heaven. To which G.F. 
 anlwers, ' Then all may fee now in this, what ye have 
 4 received, that hath been from Man, which is not 
 4 from Heaven immediate, nor the Gifts of the Spirit, 
 4 nor received the Gofpel, by the fame means the Apo- 
 ' ftles did, who were not the Eye-WiinefTes, as the 
 ' Apoftles were : Neither have ye attained to the fame 
 4 Knowledge and Underftanding, as the Apoftles did, 
 4 nor received it from Heaven. Now let all People 
 1 queftion, Whether it is the fame Gofpel, which is not 
 * received from Heaven, nor Immediately, nor by Re- 
 ' velation, for the Gofpel is Immediate, which is the 
 c Power of God, Row. 1 . They ( i. e. S&iakers ) are 
 ' in the fame Power, Underftanding, Knowledge, and 
 ■ f Immediate Revelation from Heaven, that the Apoftles 
 ■ were in. 
 
 Geo. Fox further tells us, p. 213. that the Prieft fays, 
 4 Thou doft not fpeak in that Degree of the Holy 
 4 Ghoft, as the Prophets and Apoftles did, that fpoke 
 4 forth Scriptures : To which he Anfacn 1 4 Then thou 
 4 muft take heed of Exalting thy felf above thy mea- 
 
 4 fure. 
 
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 4 fare, for thou canft not know Scripture, but by the fame 
 
 4 Degree of the Spirit, the Prophets and Apojiles had. 5. 
 
 News cowing up out of the North, written from the Mouth ^S//f; *"*' 
 of the Lord, from one who k Naked, and ftands Na-cd tuoufi/rftix 
 before the Lord, Cloathed with Right enufnefs, whofe Name is Scr T tur <^ 
 not l{nown in the J I or Id, rifen up out of the North, which 
 was Prophefed of but new it is fulfilled, CALLED G. F. 
 Printed 1655. p. 14. c Your Original is Carnal, Hebrew, 
 4 Greek and Latin, and your Word is Cirnal the Let er, 
 
 'and the Light is Carnal the Letter: Their Original 
 
 4 is but Du(r, which is but the Letter, which is Death : 
 
 c And their GOSPEL IS BUT DUST, MAJ- 
 
 4 THEW, MARK, LVKE, and JOHN, which is 
 4 the Letter. 
 
 Tho. Lawfonm his Brief Difcoverj/ of a Threefold Eita-c 
 of Antichrijl, Printed 1653. written from the Spirit of the 
 1 ord, p. 9. Calls the Minifters, 4 Babylon 's Merchants, fel- 
 
 4 ling Beaftly Wares, for a large Price, the LETTER, 
 
 ' which is DUST and DEATH. 
 
 Saul's Errand to Damafcus, Printed 1 6 54. p. 7. It was 
 Objected to the Quakers, that they had {aid, Whoever 
 took a place of Scripture, and made a Sermon of it, or 
 from it, was a Conjurer, and his Preaching was Conju- 
 ration. To which G. Fox Anfwered, c All that do Study 
 4 to Raife a Living Thing out of a Dead, to Raiie the 
 4 Spirit out of the Letter, are Conjurers, and draw Points 
 4 and Reafons, and fo do fpeak a Divination of their 
 1 own Brain, they are Conjurers and Diviners, and their 
 4 Teaching is from Conjuration, which is not Spoken 
 4 from the Mouth of the Lord. 
 
 Truths Defence, given firth by the Li^ht and Power of 
 God, appearing in G. Fox and Rich. Hubberthorn, Print- 
 ed 1653./). 1 ci. It is DANGEROUS 1o read (viz. the 
 the Scriptures ) which the Prophets, Chrift, and the Apoftlcs 
 fpoke firth freely. AnJ p. 2. fpeaking of fome of their 
 Queries, which were lbokt upon as frivolous, and mould 
 have been Burnt: They laid, Ton might as well have Con- 
 B demned 
 
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 dcr; SCRIPTURES to the FIRE. And p. 104. 
 
 they give thdr rtafon wh\\ faying, Our gfeMg fin h Pa- 
 pers or Wintcd Boofe, is from the lame Irate Eternal Spirit 
 
 . Burr. p. 47. of his Works, having this Charged 
 
 n him, as the Principle of the Quakers, that Saints 
 
 re n .t to do Dudes, by, or from a Command without, 
 
 n a Command within 5 and that the word Cmr- 
 mand in Scrip.ure, was nor a Command to them, till they 
 had a Word within them : He Aniwers, 'That is no 
 ' Command from God to me, what he Commands to ano- 
 ' ther 5 neither did any of the Saints which we 'read of 
 1 in Scripture, aft by the Command, which was to ano- 
 
 ' iher, not having the Command to themfelves. And 
 
 c thou, or any oilier, who goeft to Duty, as you call it, 
 c by imitation from the Letter without, which was a Com- 
 c mand to others, in your own Wills and Time, your 
 c Sacrifice is not Accepted, but is Abomination to the 
 ' Lord 5 for you go without the moving of the Spirit , 
 4 in your own Wills and Strength, which God Haas, and 
 4 which his Wrath is upon. 
 
 Agreeable to which, William Pern? in his Qnah^rifm 
 a new Nick Name, Sec. Printed 1673. p. 71, 72. Aflerts, 
 4 No Command in the Scripture, is any further Obliging 
 c upon any Man, than as he finds a Conviftion upon his 
 c Confcience 5 otherwife, Men mould be ingaged with- 
 4 out, if not againft, Conviftion 5 a thing unreaibnable 
 
 'in a Man: So that Conviftion can only Oblige 
 
 1 to Obedience : And when any Man is Convinced, That 
 1 what was Commanded another, is Required of him, then, 
 c and not till then, he is rightly Authorized to perform 
 'it. 
 ajfert, A Shield of the Truth, written from the Spirit of the Lord, 
 that /teScrip- u J am . Parnell, Printed 1655. p. 11. ' He that faith, the 
 
 rares are No ( ^^ . g ^ Ru] ^ an< j q^ of ±c p eopk of q q ^ fe 
 
 ' Without, reeding upon the Husk, and is Ignorant of 
 1 the True Light. 
 
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 Edir. Bar. p. 515. tells us, ' That the Scriptures, are 
 4 not the Rule and Guide of Faith and Life, unto the 
 
 * Saints, but the Spirit of God, that gave forth the Scrip 
 4 tures. 
 
 And further, in a Teftimony from the Brethren, met 
 together at London, in the Third Month, 1666. to be 
 Communicated to the faithful Friends and Elders, in 
 the Countries, by them to be read in their kveral Meet- 
 ings, and kept as a Teftimony among them, Signed by 
 Rich. Frcmfevorth, Alex. Parker, George Whitehead*, and 
 Eight more 5 who, by the Operation of the Spirit of 
 Truth, being brought into a Serious Confideration of 
 this prefent State of the Church of God, dv. Declare in 
 the Third Section, ' If any Difference arife in the Church, 
 4 or amongft them, that Profefs themtelves Members 
 4 thereof, we do Declare and Teftirie, That the Church, 
 ' with the Spirit of the Lord Jefus Chrift, have Power 
 4 ( without the Aflent of fuch as DifTent from their Do- 
 c cVmes and Practices ) to Hear and Determine the 
 'fame: If any pretend to be of us, and, in Cafe of Con- 
 c troverfie, will not admit to be Tried by the Church of 
 4 Chrift Jeius, nor fubmit to the Judgment given by the 
 4 Spirit of Truth, in the Elders and Members of the fame, 
 4 but kick againft their Judgment, as only the Judgment 
 
 * of Man, it being Manifefted according to Truth, and 
 c Confident with the Doctrine of fuch Good Antient 
 4 Friends, as have been, and are Sound in the Faith, 
 
 * agreeable to the Witnefs of God in his People, then we 
 4 do Teftirie in the Name of the Lord ( if that Judgment 
 ■ fo given be Rifen againft, and Denied by the Party 
 1 Condemned, ) then he or (he ought to be Rejected, as 
 ' having Erred from the Truth 5 and perfifting therein 
 c Prefumptuoully, are joined in one with Heathens and 
 
 * Infidels. 
 
 And purfuant to which, Mr. Keith was Proceeded 
 againft, in Penfylv'ania, as guilty of Herefie ;, not from 
 the Scriptures, as he dented, but from Friends Books 5 
 
 and 
 
and was told by Sam. Jennmgf, ( a great Teacher, and 
 Juftice of Peace there ) in the Publick Meeting: 'We 
 c are not to prove it from Scripture, but from Friends 
 ' Books 5 for the Que ft ion between us and G. K. is not, who 
 ' is the left Chriftian, but the heft gjtakcr .<? And accor- 
 dingly ihey produced, inftead of Scripture, a Citation 
 opt o\ William Penns Chriftian Quaker, to prove him a 
 Herctick. See G. R's Herefie and Hatred, Printed at Phi- 
 ladelphia, 1693. 
 jbejafferi th.it Said's Errand to Damafcus, p. 1 4. The Queftion was put 
 cbrift's Fiefli to Q COt p ox ^ Whether Chrift in the Flefh be a Figure or 
 is -Figure. nof . and if a F - |gure? How, and in What ? To which 
 he Anlwers, thrift is the Subftance of all Figures, and his 
 Fief) is a Figure. And in Truth defending the gitakers, by 
 G. Whitehead, Sec. p. 20. It is faid exprefly, That Chrift s 
 coming in the Fief), is but a Figure. 
 And that cbrifi G."F. Gr. Myft. p. 206. ' The Apoftles Preached Chrift 
 was crucified 1 fo^ W2 j S Crucified witbip, and not another 5 him that 
 ZfSfJSr* was Raifcd up from the Dead, was Pvi It n that Lord Je- 
 
 Anci-chrift. i{ vs Chrift within: It was he that was manifeft in 
 
 ' die Saints, that was, and is not another. FORTHE 
 
 'OTHER IS THE ANTI-CHRIST. Now 
 
 ' 1 fay if there be any other Chrift, but H E THAT 
 ■ WAS CRUCIFIED WITHIN, HE IS THE FALSE 
 
 ' CHRIST. And he that hath not this Chrift, that 
 
 ' was Rifen and Crucified, within, is a Reprobate 5 the 
 'Devils and Reprobates may make a talk of him widi- 
 4 out. 
 7. G. F. News, coming up; &G p. 14- ' Your Baptifm is 
 
 TkfVMfc**4t Carnal And their Sacrament, as they call it, isCar- 
 
 £KT5Ti ' nal And thcir Communion is Carnal 3 a little Bread 
 
 Baptifm by wk- c anc j wine. And p. 34. 4 A Voice and a Word, to all 
 
 £^a£t ' you Deceivers, who deceive the People 5 and Blafphe- 
 
 by Bread and <■ me rs, who utter forth your Blafphemy, and Hypocrifie 5 
 
 Wine ' 'that tell People of a Sacramenr, and tell them ir is the 
 
 f Ordinance of God 5 Blufh, Blum and Tremble before 
 
 'the Almighty, for Dreadful is he that will pour forth his 
 
 ' Vengeance upon you. Smith* 
 
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 Smith's Primer, Printed 1668. p. 6. C I would know 
 c Father (faith the Child) how it is concerning thofe 
 ' things called Ordinances, as Baptifm, and Bread, and 
 ' Wine, which are much ufed in their Wormip ? The 
 c Father Anfoers : Why Child, as to thofe things, they 
 ' arofe fro 11 the Pope's Invention, who hath had Power 
 c in the Night of Apoftacy : And hath let up his Devices, 
 ' which are yet continued in England, tho' he teeming y 
 ' is denied : And the whole practice of thofe things, as 
 c they ufe them, had their INSTITUTION BY THE 
 ■ POPE, and were never lb Ordain'd of Chrift. 
 
 William Pemz's Reafin againft Railing, Printed 1673. 
 p. 108, 109. 'I affirm, by that one Scripture (Hebr. 9. 
 * 10. ) that Qrcumdfion is as much in force asWa- 
 ' ter-Baptifm 5 and the Pafchal-Lamb, as Bread and 
 'Wine 5 they were both Shadows, and both Elementary, 
 
 ' and Perifhable : For a Continuance of them had 
 
 1 been a Judaizing of the Spiritual Evangelical Worlhip, 
 c theGofpel would have been a State of Figures, Types, 
 
 ' and Shadows. And we can Teftifie, from the fame 
 
 1 Spirit, by which Paid renounced Circumciiion, that they 
 ' are to be rejected, as not now required : Neither have 
 ' they, fince the Falfe Church Efpoufedand Exalted them, 
 'ever been taken up afrefti by God's Command, or in 
 1 the Leadings of his Eternal Spirit 5 and the Lord will 
 ' appear, to Gather a People out of them, but never to 
 ' Eftablifti or Keep People in them : No, they Served 
 ' their time, and now the Falfe Church has got them 5 
 ' yea, and the Whore has made Merchandize with them, 
 ' and under fuch Hiftorical, Shadowy, and Figurative 
 ' Chriftianity, has (he managed her Myftery of Iniquity, 
 ' unto the beguiling of Thou lands. 
 
 G. F. News eoming up, Sec. p. 4. ' Your Baptifrn and 
 ' Sacraments, as you c ill it, and all your Ordinances, and 
 ' Churches, and Teachings, it is CaiiPs Sacrifice, p. 14. 8> 
 
 One Quaker writes to another in a bemoaning Letter, rtey allow No 
 called, The Spirit of the Hat, Printed 1672. p. 12. Com- Liberty ^ 
 C plaining t bm. 
 
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 plaii Geo. Fox's not allowing any Liberty ^ He 
 
 fpeal - : ' My Friend, Obfen difference is 
 
 re inthei between G. F. and the Papifts? 
 
 out of the Church 5 the other, 
 4 N< 1 out of the Power : Saith the Papift, What ! 
 
 1 Liberty to the Sectary } No. What ! Liber y 10 the He- 
 
 4 retick? No. And G. jF. faith : Wh.at ! Liberty to the 
 4 Presbyter ? No. What ! Liberty to ihe Independent > 
 4 No. What ! Liberty to the Baptift ? No. Liberty 
 '(faith he ) is in the Truth : The difference lies only 
 ' here, the one has greater Power to Compel than the 
 4 other. 
 
 William Pcnn in His Brief Examination, and State of 
 Liberty Spiritual, Printed 1681. p. 3. where the Queftion 
 is: Mm/I I Confirm to things, whether I can receive them 
 or no? Ought I not to be left to the Gr are and Spirit of 
 God in my own Heart <? To the firft he fays, Nay 5 to tile 
 laft, Tea. But he bids them Confider, Whether it is from 
 their Weakgefs or Carelefnefs 5 telling them, It is a dange- 
 rous Principle, and pernicious to True Religion : Nay, it is 
 the Root of Ranteriftn, to Ajfert, That nothing is a Duty 
 Incumbent up.n thee, but what thou art perfiraded is thy 
 Duty. And in p. II. I affirm from the Understanding I 
 have received of God, not only that the Enemy is at Worl^, 
 to fatter the blinds of Friends, by that loofe Plea 3 J J hat 
 hafl thou to do with me, leave me to ?ny Freedom, and to the 
 Grace of God in my felf But this Prcpofition, as now 
 Underflood and AUeqged, is a Deviation from, and a 
 Pcrvertion of, the Ancient Principle of Truth, dv. 
 
 And in p. 12. 'Some under pretence of Crying down 
 'MAN, FORM?, AND PRESCRIPTIONS, 
 4 are Crying down the Heavenly Man Chrift Jefus, his 
 4 blefied Order and Government, which he hath brought 
 1 forth by his own Revelation and Power, through his 
 v Faithful WitneffeS. Which Revelation, p. 13. was con- 
 cerning Men and W omens Meetings : 4 Wherefore I warn 
 c all, ( faith Penn ) that they have a Care, how they give 
 
 4 way, 
 
(-5) 
 
 4 way, to the Outcry of fome, falfly intituled Liberty of 
 ' Confcience, againft Impofitions, &c. Nor is it the leaft 
 ' Evil this Spirit of Strife is Guilty of, that uleth the words 
 • Liberty of Confcience, and Impofitions againft the Bre- 
 ' thren, in the fame manner, as our Suffering Friends have 
 ' been accuftomed, to intend them againft the Perfecu- 
 c ting PRIESTS AND POWERS of the Earth. 9 . 
 
 FAw. Bur. his Works, p. 24.4. 'The Lord is rifen to ty D f are 
 'Overturn, to Overturn, Kings and Princes, Govern- gainft Kingly 
 
 ' merits and Laws : And he will Change Times, and. Government 
 
 ' Laws, and Governments 5 and there (hall be no King 
 ' Ruling, but Jefus 5 nor no Government of Force, but 
 ' the Government of the Lamb 5 nor no Law of Effeft, 
 c but the Law of God : All that which is otherwife, fhali 
 'be ground to Powder. And p. 507. he faith further : 
 ' But as for this People ( i. e. Quakers ) they are Railed 
 'of the Lord,ar.dEftab!iftiedby him, EVEN CON- 
 'TRARY TO ALL MEN, and they have given 
 ' their Power onlv to God 5 and they cannot give their 
 'Power to ANY MORTAL MEN, to'ftand or 
 'fall by any OUTWARD AUTHORITY, and 
 ' to that they cannot feek, but to the Lord alone. 
 
 And G.F. in his Gr.Mjft. p. 31. faith, 'That the 
 ' Quakers are in the Power of God, and in the Autho- 
 ' rity of the Lamb, above all Houfes, and into Houfes 
 'Creep not, BUT ARE UPON THE THRONE. 
 
 And in Truth defending the Quakers, Printed 1659. 
 p. 9, 10. Geo. Whitehead and G. F. Junior, being asked, 
 Whether they did not fay , That the Magistrate who made 
 Ads cf Parliament, and doth not receive them from God, 
 as Mofes 5 doth a& contrary to the Law of God. They An- 
 fwered, The Magi fr ate that is fent of God, he receives the 
 haw from the Mouth of God 5 and he is the Prophet whom 
 Mofes fpake of Deut. 18. 18. And rebukes them for 
 thinking, Men mould make Afrs, and not receive them 
 from God. They fay again, The Man-Child appears, whe 
 muft Rule tfx Nations with a Rod of Iron. 
 
 G-Fqx 
 
(.6) 
 
 G.Fox'm his Bcok, Several Papers give* forth, SvC. to 
 Presbyterians, &c, juft before the Rtftoration, \Xuz An- 
 no 1659. and Printed the beginning of 1660. he hath 
 thefe PafTages : c Friends 5 to all you that defire an Earth- 
 4 ly King in EitgUnd, Sec. whether Presbyterians, or o- 
 
 4 thers : Did the Elders of Old, in the Days of Chrift, 
 
 4 or the Apoftles, Cry up any Ring but Chrift 5 to have 
 4 any King to Rule over them but Chrift: And doth not 
 4 the Priefts and Presbyterians Cry for an Earthly King, 
 
 4 and will have Cxfar > And do they not in this 
 
 'CRUCIFY Jelus ? Are not all thefe Elders, that 
 
 4 will Doat fo much of an Earthly King, TRAYTORS 
 
 4 againft Chrift ? Do you read that there were any 
 
 4 Kings fince the Days of the Apoftles, but among the 
 
 'APOSTATE CHRISTIANS? For Chrift is 
 
 4 King alone: 1 fay, That is the Falfe Church, that 
 
 4 doth not live upon the Head of the Kings : — They 
 
 4 that be True Elders, never go about to Set Up an 
 
 4 Earthly King over them to Rule : Herod the King 
 
 ' was Mad at the Child Jefus 5 there is the Fruit of 
 
 4 Earthly Kings: And hath not this been Witnefled 
 
 'in England} &£. Ignorant and Foolifh People, that 
 4 would have a King : And what work Jojhna made 
 4 with the Kings 5 how he brought them out of the Cave, 
 
 A FIT PLACE FOR THEM: And all thefe 
 
 ' "Novices Chriftians 5 that are Crying up Earthly Kings : 
 
 4 And we know that thefe Kings are the S P I R I- 
 
 'TUAL EGYPTIANS got up fince the Days of 
 4 the Apoftles, &c. Thus much briefly touching their 
 Ancient Anti-Monarchical Principles 5 and they are the 
 lame frill, and have not Deviated in any one Point, only 
 G. Whitehead tells us, they may fee Caufe otherwife to 
 Word the Matter, &c 
 Ai.iinf} th c Oh ! What fincerity was once in the Nation, fays 
 Houico/Lordsi G F i0 tht QmcH of Officers, 1 65 9. p. 7. What a Dirty 
 ' Nafty thing it would have been, to have heard talk 
 4 of a Houfe of Lords amongft them. 
 
 Again, 
 
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 Again, G. F. to the Parliament of the Commonwealth 
 of Poland, &c. ft 8. faithy.ofe. 'Let all Abby-Lands, 
 ' Gleab-Lands, that's given to the Priefts, be.given to the 
 ' Poor : And let all the great Houfes, Abbies, Steeple^ 
 ' Houfes, and Whitehall^ be for Alms-Houfes, -for all the 
 c Blind and Lame to be there, &c. And they are of the 
 fame Principles (till ;, they tell yon fo, as in the Conelu- 
 lion you will fee it proved from their late Writings. 
 
 Again, in their Book (tiled, Thefe fiveral Papers [cut to 
 the Parliament, the Twentieth of the Fifth Month, 1659. 
 Infcrib'd by above Seven Thoufand Quakers, there is 
 thefe Paflages, p. 63. ' Sell all the Gleab-Lands ^ and the 
 ' Bells, except One in a Town, or Two in a City, to give 
 ' Notice of Fire : And all the late King's Parks, and' his 
 c Rents, and the Abbies 3 and deny your felves of his 
 8 [ J. e. King's ] Parks, Houfes, and Bents : So let them 
 
 c be fold 5 and the Colledges fold : For we Declare 
 
 fc with our Hands, and with our Lives and Eflates, againft 
 ' the Miniftry that take Tythcs ^ and the Setters of them 
 4 up ^ and the frrft Authors of them 5 and the Laws that 
 'Upholds them,dv. And they are the fame (till, they 
 have not Deviated from their Old Principles, ( as they 
 themfelves fay ) only they think it Prudent otherwife to 
 word the Matter 5 as afterwards you'l hear. 
 
 Geo. Fox Junior, in his Works, Reprinted 1 66 5. p. 87, And Houfe of 
 88. Intitles his Epiftle, ' A few Plain Words, to be Corfder- Common£ - 
 1 cd by thofie of the Army, or others, that would have a Par- 
 ' liament, Chofen by the Voices of the People, Sec. Wheren is 
 1 (hewed unto them, according to the Scriptures of Truth, 
 ' That a Parliament fo Chofen, are not like to govern, 
 1 for God, or the good of his People : Confider thefe 
 1 things (fiiys he ) which I Declare unto vou, which in 
 ' waiting upon the Lord, he by his Spirit of Wifdotn 
 'and Underftanding, Opened in me, concerning the 
 ' Chuling of Parliaments, by the Voices of the .People. 
 And p. 89. he fays, ' You are not like to fee your defires 
 * fulfilled, by a Parliament Chofen by the Voices of the 
 
 D ' People : 
 
(.8) 
 
 People : —Now if you believe thefe Scriptures, Job. 15. 
 1 19. Math. 7. 13. Pom. 9. 27. then may you fee, 7/v/ 4 
 i arliamcnt that is Cbofem by mo ft J oices , nfe //<?£ //^e //; <; L 7 
 ^r G<?^ and the good of his People. And />. 91. c And 
 likewife, the Chu/ing of Parliament Men, according to the 
 Cujlom ^/England, which is called its Birth-right, funds 
 in refpect rf Perf-ns, and not in Equality 5 ior the Rich c 
 Covetous, Oppreffin f j; Men, who Opprtfs the Poor, 
 they have the only Power to Chule Law-makers 5 and 
 they will Chufe, to be lure, fuch as will uphold them 
 in their Opprdlion. And p. 92,93. And we fee, the 
 People have been in gr.at B'indneis, in contending for 
 Parliaments fi Chofen. Pag. 149. Again, it is God's pro- 
 per right to give Laws unto Man. —Now in this par- 
 ticular alfo, Man have fet himfelf in the Seat of Cod 5 
 and fo have Dimonoured the one Law-giver, by fetting 
 up many Law-givers. Pag. 15c. Now Mark and 
 Confider thefe things, feeing that the Righteous are 
 fewer in Number, than the Unrighteous, and that the 
 Law-m.-kers are Chofen by the mod Voices, and that 
 of the Richeft People outwardly, how are the Righte- 
 ous like tobepreferved, in outward Freedom, by the 
 Laws that are fo made ? Pag. 159. And I mult deal 
 plainly with vou (faith he ) in the fight of God, who 
 hath made me a PROPHET TO THIS NA- 
 TION. 
 
 Again, Edtv. Burroughs in his Works,/?. 522. — ' A 
 Running to the Powers of the Earth : What have you 
 Miniftcrs loft the Lord to be your Strength, that you 
 muft flee for help to Men > Mult they make Laws to 
 Eftablifh you, and Set you Up ? Is not this the Whore 
 that Rode upon the Beaft, and that the Beaft Carried: 
 Again, p. 524. to the Parliament thus, viz. ' You do but 
 cauie people to drink of the Whores Cup 5 and you 
 are but them ( i. e. Beaft ) which Carry the Whore, 
 viz. the Falfe Church : And this is plain dealing to tell 
 you the Truth 5 for we are Gathered up into the Life 
 
 4 which 
 
c which the Holy Men of God Lived in, and are fatten 
 4 from the World, and its Ways, and Nature : p. 50. For 
 ' even the FA THE R bears Wieners of us 5 and therefore 
 ' our Witnefs is True. 
 
 Neirs coming up, &c. Geo. Fox, p. 1 8. 'Dreadful is the ^n/? judges, 
 4 Lord and Powerful, who is coming in his Power, to coni^bi t"^ 
 1 Execute true Judgment, upon all you Judges 5 and to 
 ' Change all your Laws, ye Kings 5 and all you Rulers 
 'muft. down and ceafe: —And all you Underling-Of- 
 c fleers, which have been as the Arms of this great Tree, 
 ' which the Fowls have lodged under : — All your Bran- 
 ches muft be CUT down, for you have been all the 
 4 Fruitlefs Branches, grown on the Fruitkfs Tree. Pag. 
 c 20. Sing all ye Saints, and Rejoice, Clap your Hands, 
 ' and be Glad, for the Lord Jehovah will Reign, and 
 ' the Government (ball be taken from you pretended 
 ' Rulers, Judges and Jujlices, Lawyers and tonfiables, all 
 ' this Tree muft be Cut down $ and Jefus Chriffc ( in us ) 
 ' will Rule alone : So you muft be Cut down with the 
 4 fame Power, p. 1 9. that Cut down the King that Reign- 
 ' ed over the Nation. 
 
 And in Edir. Bur. Works, Printed 1659. and Reprint- 
 ed in 1672. and Recommended by the fame Geo. Fox y 
 Fran. Howgil, Geo. Whitehead, Jof. Coale, Sec. p. 501. he 
 faith, ' We ftand Witnefles againft Parliaments, Councils, 
 ' Judges, Juflices, who Makp or Execute Laws in their 
 ' Will, over the Confcicnces of Men, or Punilh for Con- 
 science fake : And to fuch Laws, Cuftoms, Courts, or 
 ' Arbitrary Ufurped Dominion, W E cannot yield O il R 
 1 Obedience, &c. 
 
 Again, Geo. Fox to the Parliament of the Common- ^¥ **** 
 1 Wealth of England, Sec. faith, p. 5. ' Away with Capwen, ycrs ' 
 ' and Qoifmen, as they are called 3 away with all thofe 
 t Counfei/ers, that will not tell Men the Law without Ten 
 1 Shillings, Twenty Shillings, or Thirty Shillings : —And 
 ' away with thofe Lawyers, Twenty Shillings Counfellers, 
 ' Ti.irty Shillings Serjeants, Ten-Groats Attorneys. 
 
 Again, 
 
(xo) 
 
 fmlLw^ A & am ' P' 8 * ^¥f ' Let aU tn °fe Fincs ^ lat belong to 
 ' Lords of Manours,be given to Poor People, for Lords 
 ' have enough. 
 Which Gown- A Declaration from the People of God ( called Quakers ) 
 nwuthcit they a ^ a - J}1 <i a u Plotters and Fighters, &c, preiented 10 King 
 "rml"hey S \)c- Charles II. 166c. ' All Bloody Principles and Pra&ices, 
 dare againj} < We, as to our own Particulars, do utterly Deny, with 
 cwfrS ' a11 outward WARS, ani Strife, and Fightings, with 
 pon>i65o. 'outward WEAPONS? for any end, or under any 
 'pretence whatfoever. And this is our Teftimony, to 
 ' the whole World : And we do certainly Know, and 
 ' lb Teftifie to the World, that the Spirit of Chrift, which 
 ' leads us into all Truth, will never move us to Fight 
 'and WAR againft any Man with outward Weapons, 
 ' either for the Kingdom of Chrift, nor for the Kingdom 
 ' of this World, &c. Subfcribed by Geo. Fox, Sam.FiJIjcr, 
 ' and many more. 
 Aitho none be- The afortfaid Sam. Fijher, in his Works, Printed 1656. 
 fc^S and Reprinted 1679. and recommended to the World, 
 amongft others, by William Penn, who tells us, That thefc 
 things, came not to him by FleJI) and Blood, but by the Re- 
 velation of the Father of Lights. And thus the laid Sam. 
 Fifier fpeaks, in a Mefiage from the Lord, to 0. Cromwell, 
 and the Parliament of England, p. 19,20. ' I will hold 
 ' my Peace NOW no longer, faith the Lord, as con- 
 ' cerning this Evil, which they fo profanely Commit and 
 'Do Daily againft my Chofen, but will utterly SZ)B- 
 'VERT and OVERTVRN them, and bring the 
 ' Kingdoms and Dominions, and the greatnefs of the 
 ' Kingdom, under the whole Heaven, into the Hands 
 'of the HOLT ONES of the mod High, and give 
 ' unto my Son and his Saints, to Reign over all the Earth, 
 * and take all the Rule and Authority, and Power, that 
 
 '{hall ftand up againft my. Son in his Saints. And I 
 
 ' will put my High Praifes into their Mouth, and a Two 
 ' Edged SWORD into their Hands, and they (hall Exe- 
 'cute Vengeance upon the Heathen, and Punilhments 
 
 1 upon 
 
 tor it as they. 
 
f»i) 
 
 upon the People, and fhall bind their Rings in Chains, 
 and their Nobles in Fetters of Iron, and Execute upon 
 them the Judgment, that is written, in my Eternal De- 
 cree, and unchangeable Council, faith the Lord. Given 
 forth under my Hand, as the Lord himfclf gave it into nty 
 Heart to fee, and into my Mouth to fpcal^ in part, and un- 
 to my Hand, thus at large to write it, this Twenty fifth Day 
 ofthefmnc Month (Viz. the Seventh ) 1656. 
 
 Samuel Fifher. 
 
 Witnefs alfo the Quakers Declaration to Oliver, viz. 
 Oh ! Oliver, arifc and come cut, for thou haji had Au- 
 thority -^ftand to it : Nor let any other take thy Crown : 
 
 — And let thy Soldiers go forth with a free and willing Heart, 
 that thou mayefl Rock Nations as a Cradle. This is a Charge 
 to thee in the pre fence of the Lord God. 
 
 Alfo Geo. Roffe in his Book, Intituled, The Righteouf- 
 nefs ofGod,&<:. Printed— p. n. hath thefe words: c To 
 ' thee, Oliv. Cromwell, thus faith the Lord ^ I have Cho- 
 ' fen thee amongft the Thoufands of the Nations, to Exe- 
 c cute my Wrath upon mine Enemies, and gave them to 
 ' thy Sword, with-which I fought for the Zeal of my own 
 ' Name, and gave thee the Enemies of my own Seed, 
 ' to be a Cuffe and a Reproach for ever, and made thee 
 ' an Inftrument againft them 5 and many have I Cut 
 ' down by mv Sword in thy Hand, that my wrath might 
 4 be Executed upon them to the Uttermoft. Subfcribed 
 
 Geo. Roffe. 
 
 And Geo. Fox, in his Letter directed to the Council of 
 Officers of the Army, 1659, &c. Complains of many 
 Quakers Dibbanded out of the Army ( as well as Juftices 
 of the Peace) in thefe words, p. 5. 'And many Valiant 
 * Captains, Soldiers and Officers, have been put out of 
 'the Army (by Sea and Land ) of whom it hath been 
 ' faid among you, that they had rather have had one of 
 ' them, than Seven Men, and could have turned one of 
 ' them to Seven Men 5 who, becaufe of their Faithful- 
 
 E ■ nefs 
 
A~d m$ Rc- 
 
 aiiume ic a- 
 gain when they 
 (hall judge it 
 
 meet. 
 
 («) 
 
 c nefs to the Lord God, being Faichfiil towards him, it 
 4 may be for laying Thou to a particular, and for Wear- 
 4 mg their Mats, have been turned out from amongft 
 4 them, 
 
 As appears to us, by a Declaration, wrote by Edw. 
 Bur. in the Name of all the Quakers, and Suhfcribed by 
 feveral of the Principal Leaders of ihem, Printed 1659. 
 p . 8. Thty fpeak thus, c We are Dreadful to the Wicked, 
 *and muft be their Fear, for we have Chofen the Son 
 ' of God to be our King, and he hath Chofen us to be his 
 4 People '1 and he might Command Thouiands and Ten 
 4 Thoufands of his Saints at this Day, to F I G H T in his 
 4 Cauie 1 he might lead them forth, and bring them in, 
 4 and give them Victory over all their Enemies, and turn 
 1 his Hand upon all their Perfecutors. But (fay they ) p. 9. 
 4 We cannot YET believe that he will make uie of us 
 'IN THAT WAY, tho' it be his only Right to Rule 
 4 in Nations, and O U R H E I R S H I P to poffefs the 
 * utter mod parts of the Earth 3 but for the P R E S E N T 
 ' we are given up to Bear and Surfer. 
 
 Mr. Buggs Pilgrims Progrefs, Chapters 
 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, give an Account of their 
 feveral Meetings, and of their Fund, Ex- 
 chequer, ox Common Bunk,. 
 
 Mr. Keith, who has been a Quaker a- 
 bove Thirty Years, in his Second Narra- 
 tive, p. 5. fays, / am ?iot able to Print 
 Books as they ( Quakers ) can, they are 
 many, and have a Common Stock - I am 
 but one. 
 
 And in his Book, called, The Preten- 
 ded Yearly Meeting of the gjtakers, their 
 Namelefs Bull of Excommunication, given 
 forth againft him, Sec. Printed 1 695. p. 5 . 
 fpeaks thus, c To my certain Knowledge 
 * and Obfervation, I faw the Door of 
 4 the Meeting ( where that called the 
 
 ' Yearly 
 
 11. 
 
 They have a Govcrment within the 
 Government, Independent from it, and 
 Oppofitc to it. Firft, their, Monthly and 
 Quarterly Meetings, which are after the 
 mannerofthe)\i{\icesMonthl) Meetings, 
 and Quarterly Seffiws in the Country, 
 which are Subordinate to the Tearly 
 Meeting ; which Tearly Meeting confifts 
 *f Deputies from ail the Counties in 
 England and Wale?, as well as Agents 
 from beyngd the Sea, and is their Su- 
 preme Affembly, whicb gives Laws to 
 the while Body of the Quakers, where- 
 soever they are. And were they make 
 their Orders, far the Government of 
 their People : For Supprelfing of any 
 Books wrote again 1} them, and p-.'fs 
 Cenfure upon Offenders : And there 
 (Ufa they take an account of their Fund, 
 which is raifed by an Order of this 
 Yearly Meeting, in all the Counties of 
 England and Wajes, by way of Coile- 
 likn : And the Money when Collected, 
 
4 Yearly Meeting Sat ) ktpt by Three or »"*>*#«"<? « London, «rf &gp 
 
 c r, r» r -u «. i> r r j ,. i ^ ex in the hands of Six Feoffees, »K 
 
 'Four Perfons, that Refilled to let in MtQ tbe D ; Ma i thereof, are tXS 
 Tome that defired to come in, and yet vautdJftbeSemdDq Metmg y hdd 
 
 ' wprp nwnp^ lw fViem Anrl if ic fllC on every Mondiy throughout the Tear ; 
 
 were owned d> tnem. Ana it is tut- rMebMmn u far avers ufes, viz. 
 
 ' ficiently known, they who keep the Stipends fir their Teachers: Wages 
 
 c Door, let in, or keep out, fuch as they £ 5ft?** £?"^?iS"£ 
 
 ,,..*• ' . r i i I Ho ties of Parliament : fv Printing 
 
 ' think fir. But again, fuch as they let «rf Driperfing of their Books .• For 
 
 4 in, if they be not Of the MilliftrV, nor the Maintenance of the Poor :Fv- the 
 * ■ r t rr> r>L. r r Relief of juch is have fujfered /wNon- ' 
 
 1 any of the Two Ciofen out of every payme ncot ~ Tunes, and the Breach f 
 
 1 County, thev are allowed only to be •*» Laws 5 <wrf /«■ /hw*/ orfer 
 
 'there as Sanders By, and Spectators, ffift^M&SESJJ: 
 
 4 but have no allowance to give anyjudg- Government. 
 
 4 ment in the Cafe, which hath been a dif- 
 
 4 couragement to fome honeft Friends, owned by the 
 
 'Yearly Meeting as Friends, from coming to the Meet- 
 
 ' ing, being only permitted to be there as Cyphers. And 
 
 4 yet farther, it is fufficiently known, the way that they 
 
 * take, either bv Perfwafions or Terrifications, to gain the 
 c Unrverfal and Unanimous Confent, of them called Com- 
 4 miflioners, or Chofen Members from every County 5 as 
 4 doth plainly appear, by the late moft Ablurd and In- 
 ' folent Method, ( more like the Spanifi Inquifition, than 
 
 * a Free Alterably of fincere Chriftians ) they did take 
 4 a Preacher, one of their Commidioners, or Chofen Mem- 
 ' bers, who having faid in Private, out of the Meeting, 
 ' He could fooncr Die, or lofe his Right Hand, than Sign to 
 4 a Paper Difowmng G. K. which coming to their Intel- 
 4 ligence, that there was fuch a Perfon, but not knowing 
 
 * who he was, they were fo earned to find him out, that 
 1 they caufed to call over the Roll or Lift, of the Names 
 ' of the Perfons fent from the respective Counties, to find 
 4 out this Perfon, asking them one by one to find him 
 4 out. And the poor Man, not daring to Lye, owned he 
 4 was the Perfon > and being Terrified, left he mould be 
 4 feverely Proceeded againft by them, he came ( with 
 4 fome others, to be Witnerfesof his Recantation,) and 
 4 difowned to me, what he had formerly faid, iho 5 a few 
 
 4 Hours 
 
(14) 
 
 1 Hoists before, he profefs'd fo great a Concern and Ten- 
 'dtrnefs of Confcience towards me. This Paffage is fo 
 c Confiderable an Advance towards the Erecting the Spa- 
 ' mjh Inquifition among the Quakers, that I hope fome 
 4 will be awakened to "take notice of it, and withftand 
 1 it. 
 
 Andtho' the King and Parliament, were fo Gracious, 
 as to include the Quakers, in the Aft made frtmoGidhl- 
 mi & Marte, For Exempting Their Majcfths Proteftdrtt 
 Subjects, Diffenting from the Church of England, from the 
 Penalty of certain Laws, Sec. wherein it is Expreffed, 1 hat 
 nothing herein contained, flail be Conjlrued to Exempt any 
 of the Perfons aforefaidfrcm paying ofTythes, or other Pa- 
 rochial Duties, or any other Duties to the Church or Mini- 
 fter: Yet notwithstanding, the Quakers in their Yearly 
 Epiftle, fent forth from their Yearly Meeting, held in Lon- 
 don, the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Days of the 
 Fourth Month, 1693. to the Monthly and Quarterly- 
 Meeting of Friends, in England, Wales, and eltewhere, 
 thought fit to Order, ' That all Due and Godly Care be 
 * taken ( as they word it ) againft the Grand Opprelfwn, 
 c and Anti-Chriftian Yoke ofTythes, that our Chrijiian Te- 
 ' ftimony ( fay they ) born and greatly Suffered for, be faith, 
 fully Maintained againjl them in all refpeBs, and again jl 
 Steeple-Houfes, Rates or Lays. 
 
 And in die fore Cired Teftimony from the Brethren, 
 met together in the Third Month, 1666. they take Cire 
 to Stifle an^l Supprefs ( what they can ) all Books wrote 
 againft them : Ordering thus 5 ' That if any Man or Wo- 
 ' man, which are out of the Unity, with the Body of the 
 ' Friends, Print, or caufe to be Printed, or Publifhcd in 
 ' Writing, any thing which is not of Service for the 
 ' Truth, but tends to the Scandalizing, and Reproaching 
 ' of faithful Friends, or to beget or uphold Divificn and 
 c Faction, then we do Warn and Charge all Friends; that 
 1 do love Truth, as they defire it may Profper, and be 
 'kept clear, to beware and take heed, of having any 
 
 'Hand 
 
'Hand in Printing, Republishing, or Spreading fuch 
 ' Books or Writings. And if at any time fuch Books be 
 ' fent, to any of yon that Sell Books in the Countrey, ( a£ 
 ' ter that you, vvi.h the Advice of Good and Serious 
 ' Friends, have Tried them, and find them Faulty ) to 
 ' lend them back again, whence they came. And we fur- 
 ' ther defire, from time to time, Faithful and Sound 
 ' Friends, may have the View of fuch things, as are Printed 
 ' upon Truth's Account (, as formerly it hath ufed to be ) 
 ' before they go to the Prefs, that nothing but what is 
 ' Sound and Savory, and that may anfwer the Witnefs of 
 ' God, even in our Adverfaries, may be expofed to Pub- 
 ' lick View. 
 
 Which Meeting, is one of the moft Ancient Meetings rt'eybave 
 for Government, made up of Chofen Men amongft them, J*« wafy 
 expert in the Laws and Cuftoms of the Nation, well skil- 
 led in the Courts of London and Wejiminjler, and other 
 His Majefties Courts of Record, and fuch as understand 
 the way and manner of Sol ici ring the Parliament : And 
 to fupport rhem in all thefe things, they have the Common 
 Banl^to affift them. i 7 . B. Pilg. Pro%. p.6$.ch.io. [2 
 
 In their fore-cited Yearly Epiftle from their Yearly 7% have 
 Meeting, held 1693. they Ordered, 'That Friends, at all ^§2£^ 
 ' their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, (hould be re- f which have' 
 'minded, to call for the Records of the Sufferings of becn mjused. f* 
 ' Friends, to fee that they be duly Gathered, truly En- *?££!?? 
 ' tred and Kept, and accordingly fent up ( to London ) as thereby, torn- 
 ' hath been often advifed, both of what Tythes, &c. are J^/5j G G °^ n . 
 ' pretended to be due,and for how long a time,and the time mm odim for 
 1 when taken, and by and for whom: And what Goods pffiW m, J%j 
 ' are taken, and the Value thereof, as well of thofe not J threaten, "m 
 c exceeding, as thofe exceeding the Sums or Quantities tfter-ages, to 
 ' demanded ( it being a Suffering, in both, forTruuYs fake ) JSfSte^ 
 ' they being in thefe particulars, found Defective and Im- of the thing}, 
 ' perfect in divers Countries, which is an Obftru&ion fi matt f s £ 
 
 l 1 ^ it^ 1 Zr* • 1 « ft- . »ii btlljnay be fix- 
 
 to the General Record of Friends Sufferings. And there- gotten. 
 ' fore the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings are advifed 
 
(i6) 
 
 c to take more Care for the future, that all Friends SufFer- 
 4 ings for the Truth's fake, may be brought up as Full and 
 
 * Compleat in all refpcffs as pojfible may be. 
 
 The Author of Sathan Difrobed, Printed 1698. p. 82. 
 Informs us, that in this Regifter, there are many Ground- 
 less and many downright Falfhoods. which it is very fit 
 the World mould know 5 becaufe they take great Care 
 to fweM this Regifter, and have threatened to publiin it 
 to After-ages ( when the Facts cannot be Dilproved) 
 whereby they hope to make their Sufferings for the Truth 
 (as they call it) to exceed all the Ten Perfections, and 
 to be more Undeferved, than the Sufferings of Chrift him- 
 felf, or of the Apoftles, as Ediv. Burr, (their Second Pil- 
 ler next to Geo. Fox ) exprefs'd in his Works, p. 273. ' The 
 'Sufferings of the People of God f that k Quakers ) in 
 
 * this Age, is greater Suffering, and more TJnjuji, than in the 
 
 c Days of Chriji, or of the Appfllcs, or in any time fince. 
 
 1 What was done to Chrift or the Apoftles, was chiefly 
 ' done by a Law, and in great pan by the D U E Exe- 
 ' cution of a Law, &c. And p. 85. faith he, It is here 
 worth Notice, That the firft Difference, betwixt Mr. Pen- 
 t?yman ( who was a Quaker about Twenty Years ) and the 
 Quakers, was the Falfe Returns of their Collections, from 
 the feveral Counties in England, of the Sufferings of the 
 Friends, and Entring them ( tho J proved to be Falfe ) in 
 their General Regifter of Sufferings at London, For this 
 they ( to quiet Mr. Pcnnyman, and others, who Exclaimed 
 again ft this, as a great Deceit ) made a (hew as if they 
 would turn off the Clerk of this Regifter, one Ellis Hooks, 
 
 , 3 . but, as we are informed, they did not turn him off. 
 Wkcrcis they Jofeph Wyeth, in his Primitive Chrijiianity continued, 
 
 PVI!t££ Printcd l6 9%'P- 6 - Merts thus > °° ur Principles are NOW 
 feveral cenff ' no other dun what they were when we were firft a Peo- 
 MthfjSS c P le > f° r T rLim Changes not. And pag. 53. he repeats it 
 feem to be much again, faying, ' That our Principles are NOW no other 
 
 7°tLw ee fof ' n wnat y were wnen ^ a P c °P' e - 
 
 God x andnme And in their Yearly Epiftle, Printed 1696. they fay, 
 
 4 We 
 
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 'We cannot but Recommend unto you, the holding upjjf^jfefjj 
 8 the Holy Teftimony of Truth, which had made us to be cLnbipL^ 
 ' a People ;, and that in all the parts of it, for TRUTH land ,> **>*»&- 
 ' is one, and CHANGES not. SR&dS 
 
 And in The gitdgrs Cleared, Printed p.j. they fpeak " ufl tbcfe their 
 
 thus, God is the fame, Truth is the fame, his People the fame, S^g^ 
 <*>/£/ fAe/V Principles the fame. Serve a Turn, 
 
 And for Conclulion, Geo. Whitehead, in his Brieflle-j^j^** 
 marks on T. C$ Book annext to the Counterfeit Convert, ownipg their 
 Printed 1694. p. 7 2. faith, / may fee Caufe, otherwife to Word An ^ ^h, 
 
 r u / r ^ i A r m which the.e 
 
 the Matter, and yet our Intentions be the lame. Blafohemiesai 
 
 Blafphemies art 
 contained, that 
 
 they tell Hi, they have not deviated fnm any one Point of DpSr'me which they fir]} held. 
 
 A Poftfcript by another Hand to the Quakers. 
 
 Friends, 
 
 HAVING obferved your Timerouf- 
 nefs about the Petition, fince I came 
 to Town, I take leave to tell you, 
 that it feems to me, to arife from a fenfible 
 Knowledge and Convi&ion of your Errors ; 
 tho' vou have the boldnefs to Impofe upon 
 the World in your late Book, An Apology for 
 the Qriakers, and an Appeal to the Inhabitants 
 of Norfolk, &c. to fay, M^o can Convicl us of 
 any Errors in Fundamentals ? Sec. Who can ? I 
 can : I have : And, God willing, fliall con- 
 tinue to do it frill, unlefs you Retraft them : 
 And fo have many others ; and this you are 
 deeply fenfible of, eife you would not be fo 
 frartied and affrighted becaufe of the Petiti- 
 on, which neither Incite to Perfecution, nor 
 any Alteration of the Aft of Toleration of 
 Proteftant Diffenters ; but only, That the 
 Quakers Principles and Practices may be flriclly 
 Examined and Ccnfured, or Supprejt ; as they 
 ( upon Examination ) JhaU appear to deferve ; 
 and as to the Wi\dom of the Government jhaU 
 feem ?ncct,txc. This is the Subftance of what 
 is defucd in the Petition, which doth fo 
 ftartle you, which is a great lign, that you 
 are Convinced of Errors in Fundamentals : 
 You formerly blamed others for flying to 
 the Powers of the fcarth, as a fign that they 
 
 had loft the Lord, p. 18. calling the Parlia- 
 ment the Beaft that carry the Whore, yet 
 now none are fo induftrioufly concerned, 
 nor more tedious in their folicitations to the 
 Parliament, than the Quakers, Sic mutantur. 
 
 As for your Term, Apoflatc, which you 
 ofren throw upon me, and others \ 'tis no 
 more than you caft upon all People, ( read 
 the 16 page herein) that Love, Own, and 
 Honour the King, yea, any King, fince the 
 Apoftlcs time ; and thereby charge all to be 
 Apoftates, and in the Apoftacy ; whether 
 Lords and Commons in Parliament, Judges, 
 Juftices, &c. Yea, both Clergy and Laity of 
 all Ranks and Degrees, who either are or 
 have been Loyal to this, or any other King, 
 in any Age fince the Days of the Apofties j 
 ali are by your Ancient Teftimony Apojlates j 
 and the Kings are with you Spiritual Egyp- 
 tians. Thefe are your Primitive Principles 
 you came into the World withal ; which 
 in your Yearly Meetings, or Convocations, 
 as well as in your late Prints, you Revive 
 and Renew in all its parts, and tell us you 
 are not changed : Only <j- Whiteheadin your 
 Name, fays, IVe may fee caufe otkerwifi to -word 
 the Mattor, and ye: our Intentions the fame, &c. 
 as above quoted : And that your Principles 
 
(*8) 
 
 zti now no other (notwithftanding your 
 new late Creeds to the contrary) than ivhat 
 they were when firft a Peop'e ; and what 
 your Princip'es then were, here is both Au- 
 thors produced, Book. Page and Line. What 
 can you defire more ? They do not go behind 
 your Backs toTry, Judge and Condemn you ; 
 when you challeng'd rhem, they met you, 
 and would have proved thdrCharge upon you 
 r»\)ttomyKnowledge(being prefent)you refu 
 f.-J :n own yourBooks.or theDottrines therein 
 contained, or make any Defence to the 
 Charge upon you: I fay, they did not go 
 behind your Backs, to Try, Judge, and 
 Condemn you, as you have done them. 
 See Burroughs Works, /". 223. <viz. A juji 
 and lawful Trial of tl:c Trackers and Minijlers of 
 , fReprinted 1672.) by a perfetl pro- 
 agatnft th:?n, and they are Right eou/ly 
 ud, juji ' y tvrighed, Truly meafttred, and 
 Condemned to be contrary to aV the Minijlers of 
 Chrijl in former Ages ; and to Agree and Con- 
 ctr,- witjt all the falfe prophets and Deceivers; 
 and being brought to the (Quakers.) Bar of Ju- 
 ' c',e things are truly charged, and legally 
 m, and found Guilty, &C 
 Now Friends confider, and be cool, do 
 vou think this was fair Dealing in you, 
 thus to condemn the Clergy of all Ranks 
 at once ? If nor, how can you have the 
 Face to go to the Bifhops for Favour, un- 
 til you have rerra&ed thefe your abomina- 
 
 ble Antient Tefrimonles, Printed in 16^7, 
 and Reprinted 1672. And you tell us you 
 are the fame f>ill, only you can word the 
 Matter otherwife. I know I anger you, for 
 bringing to Light your hidden Works of 
 Darknefs ; and 'tis for that you account me 
 unreafonable: But if it be unreafonable in 
 me to Recite thefe your Clandeftine Trials, 
 Judgments and Sentences of the Clergy be- 
 hind their Backs, (and a Hundred more of 
 your horrible Tenents ) how much more 
 unreafonable are your old Prophets, an. 1 pre- 
 fent Teachers, who firft writ and publilh'd 
 thefe tilings, and now juftifie and defend 
 them? 
 
 Again, This your Prophet and Son of 
 Thunder, in his Works, P. 273. tells the 
 World, that the Sufferings of the Quakers are 
 greater, yea, and more unjuft too, than the 
 Sufferings in the Days of Chrift his Apo- 
 files and Martyrs ; yea, all the Ten Perfec- 
 tions, by your Dottrin, were nothing to the 
 Quakers Sufferings. See Page 26. herein. 
 But that I may fhew the Vaniry of this your 
 Prefumption, as well as the Quakers Defign, 
 I fliall once more give a Hint of the Na- 
 ture of the Sufferings of the Quaker?, and 
 of the Apoftles and Martyrs, and let the 
 World judge what Principles you came in- 
 to the World withal. In order to which, 
 take this fhorc Parallel. 
 
 OJil.h-Qui ermgs^Jee their 
 
 /:, Julcd. A horrible; thing com 
 mitted in the Land, &c. Page 8. 
 Taken from Robert Mijiter, the 
 tfh. of the Afh. Month, i6>8. by 
 Pr/eft Alexander Bradley, of Ehn- 
 lton, ///Kent. 
 
 Firfi, Two Feather-Beds. 
 Three Bo'fters, and one Pillow. 
 One Flock-bed and Bolfter. 
 One Bedftead and Curtains. 
 Iron Rods and Cords for two Beds. 
 Ten pair of Sheets, and one Rug. 
 Five Table-clorhs, and fix Towels. 
 One Dozen of Trenchers and one Spade. 
 A Mattock and Dung-fork. 
 45 double Clouts for a Child. 
 
 Of the Sufferings of the Apojiles and 
 Martyrs^ as I find them in Hi ft 
 John Baptift, St. Stephen,S/. James, 
 Philip,Andrew,Matthew,Mark.t~V 
 
 Some of whom were fiee'd alive. 
 Some their Brains knockt out. 
 Some Crucified. 
 Some burn' d alive. 
 
 Some put in Boiling Oil, and the like. 
 Again, Onehang'd, and her Skin flce'd off- 
 One had his Tongue cut out. 
 One broken in a Mortar. 
 One put in a Cauldron of boiling Oil. 
 One fry'd in a Pan. 
 One whipt, and her Dugs cut off. 
 Some bound to Axle-trees and burnt. 
 Some thrown to Lions and Tygers, &c. 
 Some tofs'd on the Horns of wild Bulls- 
 
 Some 
 
( >?; 
 
 ii Beds and 4 Blankets. 
 Six Caps for a Woman. 
 Two Neckcloths, and four double Crofs- 
 
 cloths for a Woman. 
 One Mantle arid feven Chin-flays. 
 Three Shirts and three Biggins. 
 ASwadling-band and Back-band. 
 Two double Bibs and oneDrefllng. 
 Three Bufhels of Barley. 
 Three Milk-Pails, and half a Cheefe. 
 ThreeForms, and tw.o Tables. 
 Three Pin-cufheons and Pins. 
 Befides a Thoufand Pins more, &c . 
 
 Some their Brains beat out with Clubs. 
 
 Some burn'd at Stakes. 
 
 Someprefs'd to Death with Lead. 
 
 Some hang'd on Gibbets. 
 
 Some hang'd on Trees till dead. 
 
 Some hewn in pieces with Swords. 
 
 Some fawn in pieces. 
 
 Some Womens Bellies ript up. 
 
 Some torn in pieces with wild Horfes. 
 
 Some hung on Tenter- hooks till dead. 
 
 Some hang'd by the Hair til! dead. 
 
 Some had their Nofes and Ears cut off. 
 
 Some their Mouths flit to their Ears, &c 
 
 Thus much by way of Parallel j the Dif 
 proportion I leave to your Confideiation ; 
 not to mention your Sham-Sufferings, as 
 that of Sflwj. Cater, who pretended, and got 
 it recorded, that he fuffer'd 20 / for Preach 
 ing at Phakenham in Norfolk, when he fuf- 
 fer'd not a Penny, but by his Subtilty got 
 10 /. fent him from their Fund at London, as 
 at large elfewhere I have fhewed. I come 
 next to fhewyour way of Canonizing your 
 Saints, and what Perlbns they are you Cano- 
 nize ; and I think Rime do not outdo you ; 
 as alfo your DeUgn to render our Magiftrates 
 Infamous to Pofteriry, in order to exalt 
 your own Horn. F01 in another Book,ftiled, 
 A Wot del' Reproof to v<y FeBov Soldiers, &c 
 Printed 1659. P. 79. you fay, ' Here fol : 
 ' lowerh lbme Signs, Examples and Judg- 
 ' ments for the Accurfed Generation, who 
 1 delire a Sign.but they areMiracles to them 
 'that believe. And (faith E..B.) let fitch 
 reach hither their Hands, and with me feel and 
 Wounds that the Lord of Life hath re- 
 ceived in his Members, &C 
 
 1. In Suffix, Prieft CoJJm caufed Tho. Lea- 
 cici to be Imprifoned for fpeaking a few 
 Words afcer he had done ; a,nd foon after 
 the Pi ieft was cut off by Death. 
 
 2. ' J hn Chutfield, Prieft of Horjham, caufed 
 
 uoek to be Imprifoned ; who foon after 
 
 fell into aDroplie, and in Six Months died. 
 
 3. Piieft Cutty cf . rundel, being Inftru-* 
 mental in Tho. Leacock's Perlecution, fud- 
 dainty after died. 
 
 4 Edward Hunt, Norwich Coaler, who af- 
 ter ■ ■• I was difcharged, brought 
 his Act i >n againft him for \ our Pence a 
 Nighr, f ion after cur off by Death. 
 
 j. Rob. At en of B \ih, who abuftd /'/•>. Mor- 
 ford in the Street, h.,d a Boy fcalfd to, 
 
 Death ; and Parfon fr/jibeat Chrif. Atkinfem. 
 R-ader, Here is a few of the Examples, 
 there being about 80 more in 9 Years in 
 England and Wales, and ftill they are collect- 
 ing, elfe how will they outftrip Rome ? It 
 remains now to fhew what manner of Saints 
 thefe are you now Canonize ; and for whom 
 thefe Judgments and miraculous Wonders 
 were wrought. 
 
 1. Tho. Leacock, your Teacher, was a great 
 Drinker ; who on a time, at a Gentleman's 
 Houfe in Emnj, near Wisbech, drank till he 
 was fo drunk, that going out to make Wa- 
 ter, fell backward into a Rain Ciftern, brake 
 his Bladder, was forced to carry a Difh in 
 his Breeches, to catch his Water, who foon 
 after died miferably. But whether in Judg- 
 ment for your Prelumption, his own Sins s 
 or a Warning to others, I will not deter- 
 mine, left therein I turn Quaker again- 
 
 2. TI10. Murford was a more vile Perfon ; 
 who being one of your Teachers, pretended 
 to be a Surgeon, and applied Remedies to 
 the Female Sex where he ought not ; many 
 in Norwich can give you a larger Account 
 
 than I will do here. £ 
 
 3. G. Whitehead is ftill living; and I could 
 be glad he would Improve his Time, by 
 Peeking Repentance while it may be found, 
 for his great Sin, in making aSchifm in the 
 Church, &c. 
 
 4. Chrif Atkinjon, thus Canonized, and one 
 of your uophets, Companion to G. White- 
 head, in Writing, Piinting, Preaching, 
 Travelling, and Suffering, got a Wench 
 with Child a,t Norwich, tried lince for Felo- 
 ny, and hang'd ; one of your now Teach- 
 ers of Fame amongft you gave me an Ac- 
 count late y of his Execution. 
 
 Bnt 
 
But as this fhew vour Defign not good, 
 thus to record fuch' Trifles, even to a Row 
 of Pins and a Double Clout, To is it wicked 
 with a Witnefs to Record fuch as Persecutors 
 who execute the Laws ; and that luch as 
 die after, it is in judgments and Prefumptu- 
 ous in you, to lit in the Judgment-Seat 
 
 But why fhould your being examin d about 
 thefe and the like Iniblencies, put fuch a 
 Dread upon you, and thus ftartle you 
 
 Bible, for the Writings of Mifo and the Wo- 
 phets, Chrift and the Apoftles, are much 
 older, yet ftill of Force: But this your 
 Shuffle fhew'd the Juftices of Peace, the 
 Gentry and Clergy, as well as the Prote- 
 ftant Diflenters, that your Principles are 
 fo deftru&ivc to common Chriftianity, as 
 that they did not dare to ftand the left ; 
 and this, yea, ONLY this, fo far as I know, 
 put them' upon a Petition to the Honourable 
 Houfe of Commons, to do that for God and 
 
 ■ do; namely, to examine your Principles 
 
 thus wrote? w z. '"And fo gladly would 
 1 we (Quakers) be made manifeft to all the 
 ' World i that if any, efpecially the Heads 
 1 and Rulers have any Doubts concerning 
 ' us. For that End, let any propound that 
 4 we, with the Confent of Authority, io, 
 ' :o, or more of us, give as many ot the 
 
 * ableft Priefts and Profeffors a Meeting for 
 ' Difpute at any Place and Time, and for 
 
 * what Continuance they pleafe Let the 
 
 ' Priefts and I rofeflbrs objeft what they can 
 
 * againft us, our Principles, Practices, and 
 ■ whole Religion; and let luch that cannot 
 
 * prove our felves of the true Church and 
 ' Religion, but is found in Error, let fuch 
 
 * deny their Worfhip and Religion, and 
 
 * renounce it under their Hands, and con- 
 4 fefs they have been deceived, &c 
 
 I find in another Book of yours to the 
 fame Purpofe, intituled, The Copies of fever al 
 Letters -written by .undry Friends, as they were 
 moved by the Holy Ghof:, &c Printed 1660. 
 wlfcre Ceo. Whitehead in his Admonition to 
 King Charles II. P. SI- hath thefe Words: 
 4 And if any of the Priefts do Inform the 
 * King againft the People call'd Quakers, or 
 « againft our Princip'es, it is but a reafon- 
 4 -able thing that thou hear both Parties Face 
 4 to Face, that we may anfwer them ; this 
 1 was upon me to lay before the King, that 
 4 we are free to vindicate any Principle we 
 ' hold, according tu Scripture. 
 
 Now for your Friends at Weft Dereham j 
 to avoid the force of thefe Arguments, when 
 urged, asaReafon for you to defend your 
 felves from the Charge the Clergy exhibited 
 againft you, purfuant to your Challenge, 
 as that they were written as 01 ' 3° Years 
 lince', this could be no Argument, lince 
 you pretend to write firm the Mourh of 
 the Lord, moved thereto by the Holy Ghoft. 
 And as fuch, of greater Authority than the 
 
 and cenlure your Errors, as to their Wiidom 
 fhould fee meet: And in this, they (both 
 Church of England- Men and Proteftant Dif- 
 fentersjareUnanimous ; and this difturbs you, 
 this perplexes you, and for this your Tool, 
 John Field, call and compare them to Herod 
 and Pilate, Ramon and Judas : And fay Field, 
 Vo not blame till you examine. I tell you they 
 have examined, and therefore blame, and 
 they find your Blafphemies fo Great, fo Ap- 
 parent, and Manifeft, that they alio deiire 
 their Superiors to examine ; and when they 
 have fo done, no doubt but they'll blame 
 and cenfure your ErroxJ : And this ftartles 
 you, this makes you look about you, and cry 
 Perfecution, Perlecution, when no Body de- 
 fignsit; nay, no Eody defires it ; for that's 
 the Way to encreafe you, who are for Bold- 
 nefs like a Flint Stone, which lay it on a Ta- 
 ble, and fmite it with a Hammer, and it will 
 abide Obdurate ; but lay it on a foft Cuftie- 
 on, and a little Stroke will make it fly into 
 many divers. 
 
 And though none folicite againft your 
 having the fame Liberty that other Diifenters 
 have, yet I muft fay there is not the fame 
 Keafon for you to expett it : For when the 
 Baptijls in your dear Friend Oliver CnmrveWs 
 time had (aid, They thought it their Duty to 
 preferve them [i. c. Bilhops and Clergy] from 
 all Violence, your Teachers Aflaulrecl them 
 from all Quarters, even for fo much as 
 Tendernefs towards the Bifhops, as to pre- 
 ferve their Perfons from Violence and Inju- 
 ries, much more for thinking of granting 
 them any Toleration. 
 
 Edward Burroughs, your great Prophet and 
 Primitive Pillar, wrote a Tratt on purpofe 
 againft this Declaration of the Bap.ifls, and 
 lavs t> them, (P. 618. of his Works, 
 as' Reprinted 1672-) What! Are you about to 
 
 make: 
 
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 make x League and Covenant with A-iti- 
 
 chriftf Do you look, upon them to he 
 
 Mini fieri of Chnft, or of Anthbnft ? And 
 P. 619. What are you now for Tolerating 
 Epifcopacy i And if Epifcopacy, why may not 
 Popery fa tolerated, feeing they are one and the 
 fame in Ground and Mature, &C. He wasfe- 
 conded by another of your Teachers of great 
 Name amongftyou, viz Richard HmUertharut, 
 in his Works, Reprinted 1665. who alfo at- 
 tacked this Declaration of the Bapufts, P. 
 219. of his Works, faying, Why will you not 
 tolerate Popery as well as Epifcopacy ? Have 
 not the Profcfftrs of Epifcopacy murthered a~nd flair., 
 and do labour to mmrther and flay the People of 
 God, as well as the Papifts ? And will you tole- 
 rate the Common Prayer among the Epifcopacy, 
 and not the Mafs-Btok among the Papiftt ; feeing 
 that the Maji was the Sub fiance out of which ' 
 the Common- Prayer was e«t railed ? &C. 
 
 And much more to the fame purpofe in 
 thefe and others of your Early Writers, 
 which fhew fufficiently your Antient Prin- 
 ciples, and you tell us they are now no o- 
 ther than what they were when you were 
 rlrfr. a People, as in my Books I have more 
 Jargely let forth, which may be had at Mr. 
 Kettlebys, at the Bifliops-Head, in St. Fan's 
 Church-yard. And for the Truth of my Quo- 
 tations, I am ready to juftifie under the great- 
 eft Penalties my Superiors fhall think fit 
 to affign ; and for my Arguments, every 
 Man is left to his Judgment of Discretion, as 
 I defire my felf, and this may ferve in An- 
 fwer to all your Clamours; and what I 
 have yet to fay, you'll fee in my next, 
 which is ready for the Prefs, which is a 
 Proof of my own Charge againft you at 
 Weft-Dereham Church in Sorfolk, the 9th of 
 December Jaft : Where not only the Quakers 
 were forced to confefs the Truth >f my 
 Quotations, but four Clergymen of known 
 Reputation have under their Hands ceitified 
 the fame. As to your fcattering your Books 
 both in the Church and the Country round, 
 it is in Obedience to G. Fax's Do&rine and 
 Example, in his Book, The Vials of th Wrath 
 •f GMf,&c.Piinted 1655P.2. TtofBooJc] it to be 
 ft after cd among the Irtttrant, Simple, an Blind 
 People, &c. I am fatisfied your AncientTe- 
 ftimony was defign'd to bring the Clergy to 
 a Morfel of Bread, but hitherto you have 
 been difappointed : For fays G. Fox in his 
 Paper concerning Poets, &c. P. 3. But I fhall 
 
 tell you the Scholars o/Qxford and Cambridge, 
 It would fa more pleafing to God, for jou to get a 
 Spade on your Backs, and a great old Glove, and 
 a Bill in your Hand, and fop Gaps, and make 
 up old Hedges, and thrcfb out Com, and go a- 
 mongfi Say-labouring Men (or 3 d. a Day, Sec. 
 
 And indeed if it be as Burroughs, their 
 great Prophet, faid in the recited Trial 
 and Condemnation of the Clergy, in his 
 Works, P. 223, 227, 234, viz. That they 
 Agree and Concur with all the falfe Pro- 
 phets and Deceivers in former Ages; that 
 they are Minifrers of Antichrift; and for 
 which all honeft People have left th«m. 
 yet have 1500000 /. a Year for their Anti- 
 chriftian Service, as his Antient Teftimony 
 fets forth, Printed 1655. and Reprinted by 
 the Approbation of Geo. Whitehead, &c. 
 1672. then indeed 3 d. a Day is enough; 
 nay, too much. But that this Antient Te- 
 frimony (from which they fay they do not 
 deviate,) might be renewed, and kept frefh 
 in Memory, !!'■ Perm in his Guide miftaken t 
 &c. Printed 1668. P. 18. faith, Whilfi the 
 idle Gormandizing Priejh of England run a- 
 way with above 15 00000 /. a Tear, under Pre- 
 tence of being God's Minifters ; and that vo fort 
 of People have been fo univerfal'y through Ages 
 the very Bane of Soul and Body to the Univerfe, 
 ae that Abominable Tribe, for whom the Theatre 
 of Gal's mo (I Dreadful Vengeance is referved 
 to at! their Eternal Tragedy upon, &C- And if 
 fo, it's time for them to get a Bill, a great 
 Glove, mend Gaps, and Threfh for 3 d. a 
 Day, as their Apoftle Fox prefcrib'd. 
 
 But 7. Fetid in his Book, An Apology for 
 the Quakers, and an Appeal to th; Inha- 
 bitants tf Norfolk and Suffolk, fee. P. 9. \ 
 ift. Would the Clergymen account it juft, that 
 any jlould Charge them, Condemn and Cenfure 
 them, idly, They exhort, To do to others aa^^^ 
 they would that ethers Jhould do to them. 3 dl, ,p. f . ^ 
 We (fay they) pray for all Men, for King-, and 
 all that are in Authority, qthly, p. 7. We (fay 
 the Quakers) have, and always had a high Va- 
 lue for the Scriptures above all other Books. 
 Sthly, p. 1. Zfcjr (i. e. Clergy) hiavfe thoje 
 in Authority againft this Innocent Ptopie (i. e. . • ' 
 Quakers) that the Monfler of Perfection might 
 be again raifedto Supprefsthem, &c. 
 
 Mf. As to the Firfr, Would the Clergy ac 
 count it juft to Charge and Condemn them ? See 
 Juft: or unjuft, they are both Charged and 
 Condemned at the Quakers Bar, as above 
 
 quoted 3 j 
 
CjO 
 
 quoted; yea, and in Smith's Wn-ks, P. rj;, 
 161. the Quakers DUIogifd the Bifhops, and 
 fummon'd all Ecclefiaftical Courts and Offi- 
 cers ; and not only by their Authority Con 
 demn them, but call the Bifhops Monfrers, 
 and into the Bargain fay, T»c Book of Common- 
 ' Jul: erous Womb, and 
 V Loins. 
 And iH'y, T < (Quakers) do no: 
 
 do at >}<< vou'd be Hone by ; and therein grofs 
 Hypocrites and Ditfemb'ers with God and 
 Man. rut 3 7 t, your Pretence to pray 'for 
 &C. This is fo Fa'l'e and 
 Fahcious, that I challenge the wholeWorld 
 to produce one J/iftance of your praying for 
 King. r . , -: ; /.'.i7;;,or anyKing,fave once at aMeet- 
 ing at U :d<H-Ha!.', where prayed 
 
 for the late K. 7 . II. and how fhould you be 
 found in that Practice, fince all Kings (with 
 you. are but Spiritual Egyptians, by your 
 Ancient Teftimony. from which you.have 
 not deviated in one Point"' But your Prin- 
 ciples ths fame they ever were, tho' as 
 -id fays, Til. cm vow vpo^d the Matter 
 '. 4thly, 7 the Scriptures 
 
 above an> Booh in the World. This is falfe 
 with a witnefs, when you in Print tell us, 
 
 --■ aswllbwr the Bible as 
 (fee p 9. herein,) calling the Scriptures Dv.fr, 
 Death, Serpen's Meat, B.ajiiy Ware, and that 
 Preaching out of them is Conjuratim. And G. 
 ad tells us in his Book, Truth d.fend- 
 '.' -takers, Scz. p. 7. That what is fpoken 
 from the Spirit of Truth in any, is of grea'er Au- 
 thority than the Bible. And many of your 
 Books fnay, even that.) are faid to be given 
 forth from the Spirit ef Truth, the Ho'y 
 Ghoft, and fpoken from the Mouth of the 
 Lord. How then do you value the Bible 
 above all Books in the World ? Eut as So- 
 />//;i /laid, Prov.-if). 3 A Whip fir th> Hirf, 
 f»a Bridl' for the A\ , i'-,r the Fools 
 
 B.vk; and fo you mlift give me leave to 
 whip this John Feild for his deep Hypocri' 
 fie and Deceit; and I wifh it may do him 
 -Good What! to pretend that the ' 
 value the Bible above all Pocks then confe- 
 o/Jenrly above their own Tim isfuch a Lie. 
 that it Prabs ir fclf ; when you exalt a id 
 va'u? your own as of greater Authority*, 
 and a'-e commanded by your T achers to 
 read them in your Meetings and never re ad 
 a Chapter of rhe ; d ana N. 
 in jour Religious Meetings (iffaco Inuv 
 
 F I i 
 
 call themj fince you were a People; nei- 
 ther is it agreeable to your Ancient Teflj- 
 mony. Nay, I am perfwaded, that fhould 
 the Government think fit, for a Proof of your 
 Sincerity herein, to injoin you to read a 
 Chapter of the Fible at the beginning of 
 your Meeting, (I mean, by fuch of your 
 Teachers as can read a Chapter) you would 
 be fo far from fubmitting to Authority, 
 that they'd firft go to Jay!, and then call ic 
 Perfecution, and record it to Pofterity : 
 But would it therefore ever the more be 
 Perfecution ? I now not ; fince it was the 
 Prattice of Jewifh, as well as the Chriftian 
 Church in all Ages of the World. 
 
 But $th!y and laffly, That the Petitioners 
 ■would Inctnf: to raife that 
 
 Mmfttr, r.rfcuricn, upon y -.>.. Now, tho' I 
 do profefs my felf a Member of the Church 
 of England?! have often, and do now again 
 fe 1 ! you, that I am againft Perfecution, and 
 will add, $at Perfecution for the Name of 
 Jefus, or fifr-Righteoufnefs fake, is a Badge 
 of a falfe {Jsurch ; of which, your Schifm 
 in Pcnfil'fyQa has given a Demonftration. 
 And had you Power in your Hand (which 
 God grant you may norj I doubt not but 
 we mould loon feel your litt'e Finger as 
 heavy, as ever you felt a Parliaments Loins. 
 Witnefs your IndicYing me for Printing, 
 unlicenced; your own frequent Practice at 
 that time.and yourPerfecuting of J. A" 
 in Ptnfi'vania; but I hope all Suffering is 
 not Perfection. Shall Men fire Houfes, 
 and poyfon Rivers, and not be Controuled, 
 Limited, nay, Punifhed, if they will fol- 
 low their ownLight,b'ind Zealand Imagina- 
 tions. In like manner, fuch as poyfon the 
 Streams of the Chriftian Religion, fubreit 
 the Faith, undermine Chriftianiry, broach 
 and maintain Heretical Opinions, and 
 Damnab'e Errors, even denying the Lord 
 that bought them, as you have in Print, 
 which I rake to be a Fundamenra 1 I nor - , 
 and by me proved upon you ; I hope then 
 it wi'J nor be railing Perfecution, 10 have 
 you examined about thefe things, which is 
 the main thing you feat, whi'tt you make 
 t;ir World be'ieve i'.rfccution. 
 
 Tluis referring j ' 1 to my former 
 Bodks'j I (obfcrjb'e my fclf the Qua&rs Frfend, 
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