THis is briefly to shew (and that chiefly from what is before cited) that those Quakers hold the same Doctrines which they have condemned in their Opposers, as Errors, blasphemous & dam­nable Doctrines; To do which, I shall only give an Example from two of their eminent Opposers, viz. John Bunion and Muggleton; the first quoted by Ed. Burroughs, the last by G. Whitehead.

E. B. cites J. Bunions Principles, p. 304, 306. Now I come (saith he) to reckon up John Bunions damnable Doctrines and Errors, viz.

1st, John Bunyon said, That Christs second coming was not his coming in the Spirit, for his coming in the Spirit is no Coming.

For this, see at Numb. 33. where G. W. owns the two comings of Christ, one that is already past, & another to come at the end of the world or last Day. And at Numb. 54. he there declares against three Comings, and will own but two; so that here G W. holds his coming in the Spirit to be no Coming.

2dly, J. B. said, That Christ had two Bodies, & [...]ne of the Bodies was out of the sight of the Saints.

For this see at Numb. 11. where Jo. Coal holds the Church to be the Body of Christ, & this Body G. I. (in Gr. Mystry, p. 93.) calls The Mystical [...]ody; that's one Body. Again, at Numb. 34, 35. G. W. holds, That Christs Body that dyed, is in [...]ing, a circumscribed spiritual Body. Note, here's [...]he two Bodies, as J B. holds.

3dly, J. B. said, That Christ ascended into Hea­ [...]n in our Nature.

For this, see at Numb 31, 35. where G. W. [...]olds, Christ to be a Man in Heaven, the same Body [...]hat was put to death, &c.

4thly, J. B said, That the Soul of man is the [...]ight, wherewith every man is enlightned by Christ, [...] God.

For this, see at Numb. 26, 27, 24. where G. F. [...]olds, the Soul to be a part of God, and to be the Seed [...] which Salvation is promised, which, he says, is the Hope, Christ.

Thus far they agree with Bunyions Principles, [...]hich they call damnable Doctrines.

Next, see Qrs. plainness, by G. W. p. 37, 38. [...]uggelton holds these false & blasphemous Doctrines (saith he) that the Quakers utterly deny, viz.

1st, That Death took Christs Soul into it, and that Christs Soul dyed when the Body dyed.

For this, see at Numb. 37, 38, 39. where the deny the Body to be Christ, & that it was Chris [...] that dyed, yea, they declare, That Christ in tha [...] Body dyed, or was crucified. And that both So [...] and Body was sacrificed, see Numb. 42.

2dly, That Muggelton holds, That the Godhea [...] Life dyed; That when Christ dyed, God dyed.

Now, see above whether they do not hold th [...] same; for at Numb 39, 11, G. N. says, It w [...] Christ that dyed; and [...]. P. says, Christ is of an E [...] ternal Nature, and his flesh and bones are of his N [...] ture; or nothing is Eternal but God [Mark that] an [...] compare it with their holding, That Christ in t [...] Body dyed.

3dly, That Muggleton holds, That Christ bei [...] God, imbodied with flesh and bone, one Person witho [...] us, cannot be in the Quakers.

For this, see at Numb. 35, 36, 12▪ where the hold, Christ remaias a Man, consisting of Spiri [...] Soul and Body, the same Body that dyed; and th [...] the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one.

4thly, That Muggleton holds, That God was bo [...] of Mary.

For this, see at Nuwb. 33, 51. where they declare, Christ to be true God born of Mary; also That God the Father took humane or Ma [...] Nature.

5thly, That Muggleton holds, That the De [...] became Flesh, Blood and Bone.

For this, see the Preface to G. W 's Judgmen [...] [Page 49]fixt, where he says of some seperate Quakers That they are Devils incarnate, viz. made flesh or become Man, which is flesh, blood and bone. Let G. W. otherwise demonstrate this, if he can, see­ [...]ng he says, The Lord laid a necessity on him to write [...]

Thus it appears how far their Doctrine agrees [...]ith what G. W. calls Muggletons false and blas­ [...]mous Opinions. Therefore as G. W. in p. 20. [...]f the same Book, says to the Baptists, Pray you [...]aptists (says he) before you conclude a final Sentence [...]on us, agree upon a consistent Creed that you intend [...] stand by, if you intend to impose upon us to believe [...] you believe, upon pain of Damnation. So now [...]e Baptists and other Professors may face about, [...]d say to the [...]uakers, Pray you Quakers tell us [...]hy did you not agree upon a consistent Creed [...]at you intend to stand by (if you intend to im­ [...]ose upon us to believe as you believe) before you [...]tenced us to Damnation, as many of you have [...]ne, & as G. W. has done, in his Book called Ish­ [...]el, &c. p. 11, 12. in these words, viz. Sensless [...]tural brute Beasts, MADE to be DESTROYED, [...]served in EVERLASTING Chains, under Dark­ [...], for everlasting Fire, Dogs, Sorcerers, shut out [...]n God; with many more such dreadful Sen­ [...]ces, or Quakers, Complements which agree [...]ll with Muggleton's Curses, at which George [...] been an Artist in his day, and his Brother Penn [...]ows him close, for he avouches the most cruel [Page 50]of these sort of Complements, in Reas, agt. Railing p. 165. as if these Quakers had a Patent to revile, and pronounce People Damned.

But pray look upon G. W 's other confident face, in his Apost Incendary, p. 4. where he says, As for our consessing that WE are the Church of the first born, let OUR DOCTRINE, TESTIMO­NY, LIVES and SUFFERINGS bear witness.

To which I say, SO BE IT, let their Doctrine and Testimony (before cited) bear witness, and let their Lives bear witness; for let their preach­ing against the Delights & Fashions of the world, and against REVILINGS, Envy, Pride, Cove­tousness, and other Debauche [...]ies, bear witness, while the world sees them guilty of all these things, as well as others.

Now, let them come forth and give a better Demonstration than their bear Say-so, that they are the Church of the first born, more than other Professors of Christianity, or else who do they think will believe them?

And lastly, As to their Sufferings bearing wit­ness that they are the Church of the first born; I say, if they will have Sufferings to be a Demonstration, then is the Church of England, (whom they have so much condemned) the Church of the first born; for they have really out-done the Quakers in Suf­ferings, as all the impartial will judge; for how many of them have expired in the Flames! how many strange cruel Torturers and bloody Massa­crees [Page [51]]in divers places, have many of them seffered for Religion! and doubtless, God would enable them to endure the like Sufferings again, rather then they would renounce their Religion. The like may be said of the Reformed Churches be­yond Sea, what cruel Sufferings have they under­gone!

Thus (my Old Friends) you may perceive how willing I am, that you should see that you are (at highest) but upon even ground with other Chri­stian Professors, whom you condemn; yea, cer­tainly you have exceeded all that I yet ever knew, in Equivocation, hiding of Sin, Reviling, &c. 'Tis my Prayer to God that I may be Instrumental to bring you down from despising your Fellow Creatures, Professors of Christ as well as you

But G. W. to prove the Quakers to be indeed the true Church, and not the Baptists▪ says, in Qrs. plainness, p. 33. We have a Record in Heaven, and also in many Consciences, &c. Now, Mark, does not the Baptists say the same, in their Book, called, A way to Zion? So that here one brings as good Proof as t'other; one says, and t'other says; yet G. F. unchristians all Professors, but themselves, for in his Professors Catechism, his very first words are▪ Come you Ʋnchristians, let us talk with you. But to face about again, W. Penn in his Perswasive to Moderation, pag. 46 calls them all Christians, and says, They only differ in the Com­ment, all allowing one Deity, Saviour and Judge, [Page 34]good Works, Rewards and Punishments. But the same W. P. turns again, and in his Rejoynder, p. 339. says, Oh! the Dreadful Darkness that over­spreads the hearts of the called Christians. There­fore says S. Fisher, p. 773.

SEe at Numb. 36, 20. where they hold those to be false Ministers, who preach Christ without, & bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above; And that the Light within is Christ, and is ONLY and principal, and admits not of another. Also, at Numb. 15, 51. where they deny a God imagined to be beyond the Stars. And deny God and Christ to be a Man in one Person.

Now, he who is the Christ of all true Christians is Jesus of Nazareth, who is God and Man in one Person; and this Person is without all men in Heaven above, yea, and beyond the Stars too, and cannot be in any man. But he who is the Christ of these Quakers, they here shew, is not without man, not in Heaven above, not beyond the Stars, [Page 53] [...]ot God and Man in one Person; but that the Light within is Only their [...]h [...]i [...]t and admi [...] of [...] Other. And W. P. largely declare, That this Christ, or Light within, is the same, and no other than was in the Jews and Gentiles, before Christ became Jesus of Nazareth, see R [...]ason agt. [...]ailing, p. 16. Behold how plain [...]heir Books are [...] denying Jesus of Nazareth to be the Christ!

Again, see at Numb. 43. where J. W. denys Christ to have any Body of flesh and bones, but [...]ly the Bodies of men on earth. Also, denys [...]at Christ dyed. And also, I. P. Quest. p. 27. [...]ys, Is not the Substance the Light, the Life, called [...]rist, where-ever it is found? Doth not the Name [...] Christ] belong to the whole Body, and every Mem­ [...] of the Body, as well as to the Head?

Thus, by their Doctrine, every believing Qua­ [...] [...] may be called Christ, as well as he that suffered [...] the Cross. But I dare say, no true Christians [...]ieve thus, they believe Jesus of Nazareth to [...] Christ, and that the Name belongs to no man [...]e, no, not to the best man on Earth. Also, [...]ey believe the true Christ hath a Body of flesh [...]d bones, without all men, and that he did dye [...]trary to what those Quakers say of their [...]rist.

You may also see many other Passages cited [...] this Book, that confirm this their denyal of [...]us to be Christ. As, one at Numb. 38 where [...] P. denys the outward Person that suffered to [Page 54]be the Christ of God. And another at Numb. 24. where G. F. says, The Seed of Abraham is the Sa­viour of the World; and at Numb 12. W. P. says, This Seed is the Light within, and not what pro­ceeded from the Virgin, Chr. Quaker, p 97.

But to be brief, take one Passage from Christian Quaker, p. 10 W. P. says, Though this general Vi­ctory was obtained, and holy Priviledges there-with, and that the holy Body was not Instrumentally without a share thereof, yet the Efficient and Chief cause was the Light and Life—Pag. 111. So that thus far w [...] can approach the honester sort of Professors of Religion &c.

Observe how far they approach other Christi [...] ­stians; He calls the Body H [...]LY, but can this b [...] other than Hypocrisie? for as is noted at Numb [...] 49, 59. he holds the Body to be earthly & perishing and yet here calls it Holy; nay, the whole Ma [...] Christ he calls, The Finite Impotent Creature; an [...] yet here, (four years after to hide the matter calls the Body holy. Behold the Fruits of pr [...] ­tending to be Infallible! for whatever they po­lish, though never so blasphemous, they cann [...] retract nor condemn it, but use what deceit th [...] can to cover and justifie all.

Note, Tho' some of their late Doctrine see [...] to contradict some here cited, by being otherw [...] worded, G. W. shews, that all that may well [...] and yet they intend the same thing, Connt. Conve [...] p 72 and we must be content so to take it, they repent and condemn their old Doctrine.

THough these Quakers do blame all others for calling hard Names, yet they seem not to [...]ome short of others in this matter, by what follows.

Rejoynded, p. 427 W. Penn with one Tongue accuses J. Faldo of Railing, and ill bred Names, and yet with his t'other Tongue he calls J. Faldo these ill [...]red Names, viz. Revengeful, Canniball, Cur yelping at the Moon, &c. see his Introduction, and p. 405.

Also, G▪ Whitehead, with his smooth Tongue, (in Counterfeit Convert) says, Why do you thus write, why do you trouble the World with such BITTER Treatment? But then with his Rough Tongue he calls some seperate Quakers, for their denying Womens Meetings, &c. Vile Apostates, Ʋnruly Beasts, Dogs, Wolves, Devils incarnate, &c. So now it may be said to him, Why dost thou thus write? Why dost thou trouble the world with such bitter Treatment?

Again, W. P. in Reas. agt. Railing, p. 165. he justifies, and declares that he abides by these ill Names given by E. Burroughs, p. 30, &c. to wit. [Page 38] Thou Jesuit, thou Sot, t [...]ou Sorcerer, thou art a Serpent, and the Curse of God is eternally upon thee; Thou art shut out from God forever, thou sottish filthy polluted Beast, thou dark Beast & Conjurer, &c.

And yet in Addres [...] to Protestants, p. 242. he at once unchristians himself and all his Brethren, for so doing, for saith he, Men that call Names [...]or Religion, may tell us they are Christians, if they will, but no body would know them to be such by their fruits, to be sure they are no Christians of Christs making— Good Reader take Notice of it; Alas! how has the man forgot himself!

Again, in brief Discovery, p. 7, 8, 9. by G. F. and others, The Priests are a Viperous and Ser­pentine Generation, Thieves, Lyars, Anti-christs, Conjurers, Witches, Devils, greedy Dogs, really they are Blood-Hounds, still hunting and gaping for their Prey like the Mouth of Hell—Being universally the Bane of Soul and Body, for whom the Theatre of Gods most Dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon; Thus W. Ponn in his Guide Mistaken. &c.

But hold, let us hear what G. F. says, That him­self and W. P. are for distinguishing a Generation of men by hateful and reproachful Names, Why, [...]; pag. 8 of West ans. North, 'tis said, He, who­ever he be, who distinguishes a Generation of Men, under one and the same Government, from the rest, and puts upon them a hateful Name of Distinction & Reproach, whereby th [...]y & others are set in Opposition, [Page 57]breaks the Peace, overthrows the end of the Law, and [...]ads into War, and every evil Work, and s [...]ow a one [...] an evil doer in a high degree.

Thus here is a Continuation of their SO▪ NO, NO, SO: Here they call themselves no Christians of Christs making, and not only so, but also Evil [...]ers in a high degree; for I here affirm, by all the skill they have, they cannot invent or use more [...]ateful and reproachful Names than these; let [...]em confute me, if they can.

Thus I thought fit to give a hint only of their [...]musing the World with such Bitter Treatment (as G. W 's word is) I could insert forty times as many such Complements out of their Books, if [...] were worth reading, yea, e [...]ough to fright sober People, if this will not. But I shall con­clude, with only inserting a few Rhymes out of their Book, called Righteous Judgment, in answer to Fr. Bugg, p. 97. to s [...]ew what prodigious and profound Railery proceeds out of their second Days Meeting at London, as if the Quakers were [...]he only People excellent in the more serious part of that Infernal Practice of inventing or using Hellish Epithites They begin thus,

Thinkest tho [...] to scare us out of our good Order (of Men and Womens Meetings) with thy Goggle-eyed Image of Jealousie, which if thou didst see through thy Spectacls, might afright thee out of thy shallow [...]nceits.

An Ʋgly Spectael [...] for

Now, is it not impossible for men, by words, to utter more base and wicked railing Reflections than these Rhymes contain? But herein are they still self-condemned also, for says G. F Gr. Mystry, p. 237. The Work of the Ministers of the Gospel was not to reflect on Persons, or strike at Creatures; thou that reflects on Persons, thou art a false Prophet, &c. Thus not only our Neighbour Preachers, but also those who have of late come over Sea to visit us, are false Prophets (by this their Doctrine) for their Reflections. And yet, how frequently do these false Prophets tell their Hearers, Tis for your good that we spend and are spent, and leave our Countries, our dear Wives and tender Children, and altogether deny our selves of this World, &c? I confess, this is so plausible, that I think it might affect all Christian hearers, but especially such who neither considers the manifest effects of their late Ministry, nor the worthy Observation that our Saviour made of some, who compassed Sea and Land to make one Proselite [and why not these to make many] but when he is made, says our Lord, they make him two fold more the Child of Hell, &c.

Note, These five men i [...]esrted in the aforesaid [Page 59]Rhymes, they call a Team of Devils, and here I expect they will put me in for a sixth Devil. But seeing 'tis contrary to Law to out six Horses in a Team, I query whether a Team of six Devils be not unlawful also?

OF the many Prophecies and Predictions that I could mention out of my old Friends Writings, I shall at present only set down two.

The first is the Prophecy of Solomon Eccles against John Story who (as S Eccles charged him) contemned Womens Meetings, viz. This is the Word of the LORD to thee, This year thou shalt Dye, because thou hast taught Rebellion against the Living God.

The second, is the Prophecy of G. Whitehead against George Keith, viz. And thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast poured out Contempt, Scorn and Reproach upon my Servants and People, I will assurealy pour out and bring great Contempt and Scorn upon thee

Note, If others think Curses to be fitter Names for these, I'll not contend. But however, Sol. Ecclis not wording that of J. S cunningly enough, he happened to he a false Prophet. Therefore [Page 60]Age and Experience has taught George Whitehead Other wise to word the matter, (as he tells us in his Counter. Convert, p. 72.) for if G. W had pre­dicted some signal or eminent Judgment or Mis­chief to have befallen G K according to the gr [...]eds of the Wick [...]dness, that they charge [...] to be guilty of, he might have mist it too, and to have [...]az [...]eded his honour of being account­ed a Prophet, by his Brethren and Friends. But now, 'tis but to conceit that G K. is scorned and contemned [the fate of all men, less or more] and G W 's Prophecy is fulfi [...]ed, and he keeps his Honour by thus draftily wording the matter.

And truly, we can hear no better account of th [...]se Preachers late Prophecys of Judgments to fall [...]o sever [...]l Towns and Places in England with­in ce [...]tain Months, not one of them is fullfilled, that we hear of; And though the Prophecy and [...]ust Plymouth was so particular, that at the Time prefixt most or many of the People left the Town, but the Judgment not happening, they returned home, saying, This Quaker was a false Prophet. Well, my Friends, I was willing only to give you a small hint of some of your Prophets Infallible Prophecys, advising you and them to observe G. W 's Rule, viz. Otherwise to word the matter for the future, or cease blaspheming and taking the Name of the Lord in vain, as is too frequent for you to do.

HAaving met with but poor proof of their being Infallible Prophets, among the Pro­ [...]hecys, let us in the next place come to their [...]pirit of Infallible Discerning, and see how they [...]n discern more than others. The first instance shall here bring is out of G. F's Great Mystry, 107. where he says,

The Quakers are of Abraham 's stock, before Anti­ [...]rist was, or you (Priests) were; and the Quakers [...] witness, they are made free from the wrath to come. [...]nd thou (Priest) sayst, that the holiest man cannot [...]ve an Infallible Character of another man; hast [...] thou in this discovered thy self to be no Minister Christ, or of the Spirit, who cannot give an infal­ [...]ble Character of another man, how canst thou mini­ [...]r to his Condition? how canst thou see where he is? [...]ow canst thou see them that be turned from the Dark­ [...]ss, and that be in Darkness, and distinguish the [...] from the other, an holy man from an unholy man, [...]at canst not give an infallible Character of any mans [...]ate? Pag. 89. Thou art an ignorant man, no [...] [...]nst minister to the People, not knowing the Condi­ [...] they be in, unless they tell thee. And p. 9. You [Page 62]that have not that which is Infallible to judge in you, know not the Spirit of Christ, neither can you judge of Persons or Things, and have not the Infallible Judg­ment, neither have you the Word of God in your hearts, nor Christ which is Eternal and Infallible.

Y [...]u must Note, that this is spoke of and to the World, the Priests of the World; but then he turns [...]out, and tells what Friends have, viz. All which (i. e. the Word of God, infallible judg­ment, &c.) the Quakers have to judge of Persons & Things. And p. 8, 249, 267. The Quakers are the Preservers & Savers of Souls. [A [...]rare People] — Them called Quakers the ONLY Ministers o [...] Christ — And how can they but delude the People, tha [...] are not infallible? Thus far G F.

Now by this Doctrine the Quakers are not Mi­nisters of Christ, but Deluders of the People; fo [...] they have not this infalliabe Discerning, as thos [...] manifold Examples testifie, for have not many o [...] their Preachers and Elders been guilty of diver gr [...]ss [...]ils especially Whoredoms and Adulterie and yet have still kept their outward Minister and Station, and their state not discerned b [...] their B [...] been till by accident it has been out wardly discovered? And therefore, should the not look upon the many Discoveries that has be [...] made of their falling into those snares, to be bo [...] from the Justice and Mercy of God to them? fir [...] as a Judgment upon them, for presu [...]ning to pre­tend to such high Attainments, beyond all othe [...] [Page 63] Christian Professors now living; Next, as a Mercy [...]nto them, to shew them their Weakness and Presumption, if happily they could see it.

For why cannot my old Friends about Delaware [...]e that they want this Spirit of Discerning, as [...]uch as other People, by those late ill Examples of divers of their Preachers, especially of their [...]eing unlawfully concerned with Women, yet [...]heir state undiscerned, till discovered, as afore­ [...]id; and especially that of Rob. Ewer at Phila­ [...]phia, whom the Meeting of Ministers that was kept at his House, did not discern? But which is to be lamented, some are so blinded by [...]heir Preachers crying out, All is Lyes, that they'll [...]carce believe these things, No, not this of Rob­ [...]wer, tho' Publickly proved.

Take one Passage more for Infallible Discerning, from Richard Hubberthorns Wo [...]ks, patron [...]z'd by G. W. and others, p. 212. he there tells a Priest, That they are Lyars that say the Ministers of the Go­ [...]pel do not know who are Elect; for they could dis­ [...]urn the Elect from the World. So these Teachers that know not the Elect (says he) and yet exhort all [...]heir Hearers to believe, and lay hold on Christ, their [...]reaching is vain. And these Priests (says he) tho' they take Sums of Money of their Hearers, yet they [...]ow not who are elect among them.

Come on, my old Friends, come prove your [...]elves, try your selves, and let us know next time [Page 64]you print, whether by this your Rule, there be one Gospel Minister now left amongst you?

But [...]o wheo [...] round about, and knock all down again, W [...]oms says, in his Rebuke p, 22. We ascribe not Infall [...]bil [...]ty to Men, but to the Grace of God, and to men SO [...] AR as they are led by it. Behold Rea­de [...], and [...] this Rhetorick well! For are no [...] other Professors, yea, ALL men in the world SO FAR infal [...]able, as well as Quakers? here W. P has given away the Quakers cause, and set them on even ground with others. But says G. W I cannot give away our cause, for we have sufficient evidence of discerning of Spirits, Timerous Reviler p. 3. Thus George thinks fit to keep up his Con­fidence with bace Say so's, though he cannot but know that the world knews his Say so's, to be false. And I have known a silly Women cheat their pre­tended Spirit of discerning, who travelled from Meeting to Meeting, through several Counties (being bravely received & entertained by Friends) und scerned, till discovered to be no Quaker by others: And such things as these has made them find out a way to help their Spirit of Discerning by admitting none now to travel [on Truths account, as they call it] without Certificates▪ so that tho' G. W. in Qua. plainness, &c tells us They have a Record in Peoples Consciences; yet now they must have a Record in their Pockets, or else I'll assure them, their Friends will not receive them, by their Conscience Record; Let them [Page 65]deny this if they dare; and tell me how many Friends comes over Sea hi [...]her, or goes hence to other Countries to preach by their Consciences Record, without their Pocker Record. And thus is G. W 's Deceit seen, with their [...]uffici [...]nt Evi­dence of Spiritu [...]d Discerning, aforesaid.

But I had almost forgot, how that of late years their infallibility seems to be run our of parti­cular Persons into the Body of Friends or Church, as G. W. demonstr [...]tes in his Apost. [...]ncend. p. 4, 16. there he declares them (the Quakers To be THE People and Church of God, and so to be In [...]alli [...]le, and CANNOT ERR, nor be deceived. But where is this Body or Church? sure not that Meeting of Ministers at Robert Ewer's House in Philadelphia. No, Sam. Jenings lets us know, 'tis at London; for in his Speech at that Yearly Meeting, 1694. he declared. That the Meeti [...]g i [...] America depended on that at London. So then it seems, the Mee­ings else where are but Members of that Body at London and 'tis clear, that the Members so depend on the Body, that if the Body dyes, the Members cannot live) This indeed is the Foun­dation Principle of Old Rome. And here Samuell Je [...]ings has shewed us where New-Rome is. In­ [...]eed I lately read how that the Quakers in Eng­land presented six Publick Addresses to the late King James in four years time; but in five years that King WILLIAM had reigned, the [...] had not presented one to him: And does not this then [Page 66]shew, that those Quakers who thus addressed King James, are as near a kin to the Papists as Sam. Jenings? I also read one thing more, viz. That the Pope once set up Womens Meetings for the increase of Faith among the Waldenses; and I can­not find that ever any else has done the like, beside Geo. Fox, &c. and yet I have searched the Scrip­tures, and some Church Histories too; and 'tis pitty that they have no other President but the Pope, for those Meetings are certainly of service in Deeds of Charity and Hospitality.

In divers other things there seems a very great Harmony between Old Rome and Sam. Jening'ss New Rome, which I am not desirous to repeat now. This know for certain Friends, that the way to recover the deceived, is to discover, lay open and witness against the Deceivers, see T. Elwood's Epist [...] p. 72. Therefore sinee this Truth has chanced to drop from T. E.'s Pen, I shall add, that though my old Friends oft bless themselves thus, viz. WE are redeemed from a vain Life & Conversation more than any Society in Christendom; WE are the ONLY Professors of Truth; and WE are in the Truth, and ALL OTHER Professors are OUT of the Truth [and so says the Pharisees, We are no as other men, We give Alms, We Fast twice a week &c.] Yet I must now say for them, We Quaker do not, nor never did out-do the Papists in general as to Life & Conversation; but herein the Righ [...] teousness of Papists & Quakers doth so harmonize [Page 67]that it made the late Ring James say (as I have an account) in his discourse one with R. Barclay, That if he were disposed to change his Religion, he would turn Quaker. No marvel then why.

But I cannot well omit giving one instance more about the Foundation Principle of Old Rome or top stone of Popery; See Plain Dealing, &c. by P. Livingstone, page 12, 20, 22. where treating about that he calls the form of Truth, viz. gi­ving the Hand, the Hat, and going to Meeti [...]gs, he says, Friends that stand in the Life, and are in the Body, k [...]ow that there is not, NOR CANNOT be preservation out of the Body; for they that are out of the Body [of Friends] are out of the Faith; And the Lord hath chosen the Quakers a peculiar People, above ALL People upon the Earth; and we are to turn to no other People, &c. Mark just so the Pa­pists say, There is no Salvation or Preservation out of the Body or Church. And that they must believe as the Church believes, or they cannot be saved; as he fur­ther says, p. 23. They that believe not as the true Church believes, CANNOT be saved; but this we know of an infallible Certainty, that WE being faith­ful in the Truth, those that are gone from us are of another Spirit, and Not of the Faith of the TRƲE Church.

The very same the Papists say, WE are the true Church, and All that are gone from us, are not of the saith of the true Church. Pray consider, where these Quakers are, And also whether Old Rome can lay a [Page 68]greater Necessity on such low exteenal Ceremo­ [...] as the Hand the Hat, and going to Meetings? for, [...]he assim [...]s p. 5. That Spirit that leads from the pra [...]r [...] thereof, to b [...] dark Spirit, clearness and fr [...]eo [...]o [...] is not [...], but it doth lead it to bondage.

But how quite contrary this is to that in Truths P [...]iol [...], p 24, 51. Every Man ought to be left FRE [...], as the Lord shall perswade his OWN Mind, in doing, or leaving undone, this or the other Practice in Religion. This indeed looks quite with another face, clean contrary to Rome's Impositions afore­said; and yet these Quakers would have us believe they are led by the ONE Spirit. But I perceive J. Crook that wrote that Book, is not a fit Man for their Society.

CHristian Quaker, pag. 104. W. P. cites and transposes the Apostles words, thus, Lo, in the Volumn of the Book it is written, I come to do thy Will, O God, A Body hast thou prepared me. But grant W. P hath not altered the Sense of that Text, yet by W. P 's own Doctrine, 'tis very que­stionable whether that be true Scripture, especi­ally because what is written in the [...]olumn of the [Page 69]Book of the old Testament, is only this, Sacrifices and Offerings thou aidst not desire, mine Ears [...]ast thou opened, Psal. 40.6. Mark, here [...]s not a word of a Body hast thou prepared me, which [...]e and his Brethren make such a Noise about in their Books.

Now says W. P. ( Rejoynder, p. 38) I cannot but observe at what a suspected rate the Scriptures have been both first collected, and then conveyed through the several succeeding Ages—I may well object, Are we sure the Judgment of them who first collected them was sufficient to determine what was right, a [...]d what not?—(Also How shall we be assured that in above 300 years, so many hundred Copies as were doubtless taken, should be pure and uncorrupted, con­sidering the private Dissentions, the readiness of each party to bend things to their own belief, and the grow­ing and succeeding Faults of leaving out, a [...]ding, transposing, &c. Nor was the Collectors Judgment In [...]allible—Learned men tell us of little less than 3000 several Readings of the Scriptures of the New-Test­ament in Greek Hence we may observe the Ʋn­certainty of J. Faldo 's Word of God, &c.

Now therefore since W. P. thus declares the Uncertainty of the Scriptures of the New-Testa­ment, and the Psalmist (to which the Apostle seems to refer) shews that Text to be altered, why then should he and his Brethren build such monstrous Principles upon so uncertain a Founda­tion as they render it? That upon these words, [Page 70](which it seems are properly) Mine Ears hast thou opened; as that therefore he who dyed a [...] Je­rusalem was not Christ, but a prepared Body; and that the Jews did not see Christ, but a pre­pared Body; and that the outward Person born of the Virgin was no part of Christ, but only a Garment (see Numb. 38, 48.) And to strengthen this Anti-scriptural Doctrine, T. Elwood has one knack in his Truth Desended, p. 138. where he ventures to belye the common Creed; The common Creed (says he) called the Apostles Creed, says, Christ was conceived by the holy Ghost, Though born of the Virgin. Now pray search the common Creed, and see if the word [Though] be there to be found. Behold this great Quakers Cham­pion! O what an Imposture would he have rendered George Keith to the World, had he wrote this Lye of the Creed.

Note further, W Penn cites and defends this Passage, Rejoynder, p. 61. Quest. Of what service are the Scriptures, as they are given forth and recorded without? Ans. Much every way (saith he) and there is an Agreement and Ʋnion between the Spirit within and the words without.

Observe here how this wise Man confounds himself: The Scriptures, by his account, are al­together Uncertain, and suspicious (at least) of being corrupted; and yet there is an agreement and u [...]ion between the Scriptures, as recorded without, & the Spirit within. How does he here [Page 71]render the Spirit Uncertain! One may see by this, that a man who writes much had need have a good [...]emory, or a stable Faith.

Again, something like this is that late Confes­sion of G. W. in his Counter. Convert, p. 26. We [...]refer the holy Scriptu [...]es (saith he) before all the books extant in the World.

Now, observe here how G. W. carries a double [...]ice to deceive his Reader; for he does not say, [...]hat he prefers the Book called the Bible, before [...]ll Books extant; no, for then he would contra­ [...]ict their Old Books; for the Scriptures in the [...]ible they esteem Uncertain (as above) And their [...]ormer Doctrine shews plainly what those holy Scriptures be, which they prefer; for in Truths Defence, p. 2▪104. they say, You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the fire, as our Papers and Querys—for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the immediate and eternal Spirit of God. Hence it appears, that those holy Scrip­tures which they prefer, are their own Books, and so much or such parts of the Bible as they will allow to remain uncorrupted, &c. And thus this insincere G. Whitehead hides himself, by a deceivible meaning, as is more plain by what he says in his [...]ntient Book, called, Truth defending, p. 7. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any (says G. W.) is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are, and GREATER, &c.

Now, let the Reader judge what those holy [Page 72]Scriptues are, that they prefer before all Books extant in the World▪ And as to what parts of the Bible they will allow to be holy Scriptures, hea [...] what Joh. Wh [...]ch ad says in Refuge fixed, p. 17. viz. Whether Moses o [...] H [...]rmis were the first Pen-man of the Scriptures? or whether both these, and not one? And whether some words were not spoken by the grand Imposter, some by Wicked Men; some by Wise Men ill applyed; some by good Men [...] expr [...]ssed; some by false Prophets, a [...]d wet true; some by true Prophets, and yet false, &c. Now Reader, do but compare this with what W. Penn says before; and then if my old Friends, for time to come, should object and say, There are seeming Contradictions in the Scriptures, (or Bible) and therefore well may our Friends Books seem to contradict eac [...] other. Pray let them know, that there are not only seeming, but real Contradictions in their Books, but not in the Bible. And as to any see [...]ing Contradictions that may be in the Bible, they themselves (as above) have given the reasons why 'tis so, viz. having been corrupted; but their Books cannot be corrupted, because we have the first Impression of them, which they say, are given forth from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God, and so must needs be better and mo [...]e certain Scripture than the Bible, a [...]c [...]ng to their ow [...] Doctrine

Now as to the Titles they give to the Scriptures, take a little more of their Clink Clank as W. P. says of the Priests) for in a Book of G W 's call'd, [Page 73] Davids Enemies discovered, p. 7. he says, These Quakers, do NOT call the [...]our Book [...] of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the New Testament and [...]ospel, as thee and thy Generation (of Priests) do.

But T Elwood, in his Antidote, p. 81. calls the Writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John The New-Testament Scriptures of Truth, and so is no Quaker, if G. W. say true; for so he sees cause [...] word the matter.

Again, J. Tomkins and W. Penn put out a Book, [...]nd call it, The Harmony of the Old and New Te­ [...]ament, and so are no Quakers, if G. W. say true. [...]ut pray Note, Though they tell of the Harmony [...]f the Old and New Testament, yet there's but [...]ttle Harmony in their Books, which they esteem [...]qual with, if not prefer to the Scriptures.

Again, W. Caton, in his Books to his Friends, [...]ag. 35.42. calls the VVritings of Matthew, Mark, [...]uke and John, The GOSPEL, and so is no Quaker, [...] G. W. says true. Well, what think ye, my [...]ld Friends, can we suppose these men are any [...]ore led by the ONE Spirit, than others are? [...]ely Nay.

But to face about again, G. Fox, in his Book, News from the North, p. 14 saith, Your Church is Steeple House, which is Carnal, and your Teacher Carnal, your O [...]iginal is Carnal, Hebrew, Greek [...]nd Latine; and your Word is Carnal, the Letter; [...]nd the Light is Carnal, the Letter. [...]o Dust is the [...]erpents Meat; their Original is but Dust, which is [Page 74]but the Letter, which is Death; Their Church i [...] Dust, a [...]e ap [...]o Lime and Stone gathered together. So the Se [...]pent feeds upon Dust—And their Gospel is DUST, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which is the Letter.

[...] Now Observe,

• first, how he tells of the Ser­pent feeding on Lime and Stone; pray is not this Carnal too? had not the Devil need to have strong Teeth to know upon Ste [...]ple-Houses? Sure this is both Carnal and Ridiculous, or Ranter-like.
• Secondly, He renders the Scriptures all alike Carnal, Dust and Serpents Meat, with Hebrew, Greek and Latine. Here's no preference, except in their own Books, and some of those they en­title, The Word of God, The Word of the Lord, A living Testimony, &c. Now if they say the Bible will grow Old and molder away, and become Dust, I say, so will their Books too. And if they say, 'Tis the Sence contained in the Words of their Books, which they call the Word of God, the Word of the Lord; I say, the like is understood of the Scriptures in the Bible. And yet (as do the Papists, so) they have opposed others, calling them Lyars that say The Scripture is the Word; If this be not Equivo­cation, I say again, 'tis an exalting their ow [...] Books above the Bible. Above the Bible did I say yes, why not? for the aforesaid Book, called News out of the North, was (as G. Fox says, p. 1.) Written from the MOUTH OF THE LORD, b [...] ­ [...] [Page 75] [...] who is Naked, and stands Naked before the [...]d, cloathed in Righteousness, whose Name is not [...]wn to the World, which was prophecyed of, but [...] in fulfilled. Therefore it must needs be better [...]ipture than the Bible, for they tell (as above) [...]w Uncertain that is.

Therefore, whatever late Confession they have [...]d [...], in pretending to prefer the Scriptures of [...] Prophets and Apostles before all Books, it [...] be no other but Deceit, till they condemn [...]r old Doctrine; for G. VV. confesses, Their [...]entions may be the same, tho' they may see cause [...]ow) otherways to word the matter, Count Conv. [...]g. 72

And Lastly, Sam. Fisher says of the Scriptures. [...] were their Transcriptions and Translations never [...]tain and entire, by answering to the first Original [...]s, yet are not [...]apable to be to all men) any other [...] a Lisbian Rule or Nose of Wax, see his Addi­ [...]nal Appendix, p. 21. Mark how he affirms [...]t if the Scriptures were never so true, yet [...]y are capable of being NO OTHER than a [...]se of Wax. Now I dare affirm, there is no sort [...] People else in Christendom, except Papists, will [...]k thus of the Scriptures. But experience tells [...] That all sensible Christians who protest against [...] Popish Principle, cannot but have an evidence [...] themselves to the worth and purity of the Scriptures, by those sweet Streams of Life that [...] felt by reading and meditating thereon, [Page 76]beyond what can be felt by reading any other Books.

But before we conclude this Head, take on Verdict more from W. P [...]s Spirit of Truth, p. 38 [...] The Scripture (says he) is much like the Shadow of th [...] true Rule. Now all men know, That the shado [...] is a vain empty uncertain thing, sometimes two or three times longer or shorter than the True or Substance.

Again, W Smiths Primer, p. 11.12. Quest Wh [...] is the Service of the Scriptures, if they be not a Rule and for tryal of things that are spoken? Ans. Th [...] are of great Service, Child, and are to be read are believed—(But) if thou lookest upon the Scriptur [...] for A RULE, and for Trying, thou givest that un [...] [...]hem which belongs unto Christ, &c.

Note, Here the Scripture is denyed to be a [...] Rule at all, no, not so much as to try actions [...] words. But he says, They are to be believed; a [...] yet W.P. shews them to be Ʋncertain. So [...] must believe that which is Uncertain, and no Ru [...] in any case. Is not this rare Doctrine!

But to face round about again, E. Burrou [...] in his Hu [...]-and-Cry after false Prophets, says, I sh [...] lay all People to the Line of Judgment by TH [...] RULE of the Scriptures, and the Spirit that g [...] them, see p. 880. where he not only makes [...] Scripture A Rule, but The Rule, yea, so far [...] Rule, that he trys, judges and condemns the Prie [...] by the express words of Scripture; as Ʋncerta [...] and Corrupt as they render them before.

But as Sam. Fisher says of the Priests, so pray [...]serve G W 's Rounds, Wheelings & Whirlings, [...] in his Book, Tit. Ishmael, &c. p. 3.10. he asserts, [...] Scripture of the Bible is Carnal, the Letter is [...]ath, and killeth; yet he calls his own Writings, [...]e Light and Lise of Christ, &c. But to face [...]out again, he tells us, They prefer the holy Scrip­tures before all Books in the World. But then Round [...] goes again, saying, That which is spoken by the [...]rit of Truth is of as great Authority as the Scrip­tures are, & greater, &c. [And that their Writings [...]t given forth by the Eternal Spirit of God] But [...]ound again comes George with a back stroke, [...]d in Qrs. plainness, p. 71. he says, Our Intention [...]d Principle never was to bring our Books in Compa­ [...]son with the Scriptures. O Confused Confidence [...]d Self-Contradictions!

ALthough I have plenty of Instances before me to cite out of my Old Friends [...]s, I shall [...]gin with my Neighbour Sam. Jer [...] [...]k, [...]all'd, The state of the Case, p. 73. where he says, Magistracy and Government we always on [...]d to be [...] Ordinance of God.

Now Observe, here S. Jenings deals deceitfull [...] and dishonestly, in pretending to be what reall [...] they are not; for he does not tell what nor whose Government they have always owned to be God [...] Ordinance; for these words of his imply, that the [...] have owned all Government under which they hav [...] lived, to be Gods Ordinance, when as their Books declare they own no Government to be such but the Government of those who witness Christ to rule an [...] r [...]ign in them, all other Government being but as [...] c [...]ersome Tree that must be cut down; fo [...] in T [...] Light, by W. Smith, p. 16. saith, We ow [...] Government and Magistracy that stands in th [...] Power of God and executes true Judgment within th [...] Gates, calling down Sin and Evil doers, and setting up Reghteousness, and THO [...]E that walk therein So here 'tis not the Government of such as caus [...] them to suffer loss of Goods and Liberty, tha [...] they own to be Gods Ordinance, As is furthe [...] shewed from Great Mistry p. 90. by G [...]F. Suc [...] as are turned to Corruption (saith he) are Hypocrite [...] they are gone from the higher Power, and so for th [...] Lords sake the Saints cannot be subject to that Power [...] And p. 20. of News from the Noath, Sing all y [...] Saints, clap your hands and be glad, for the Lord Jehovah will reign, and the Government shall be take [...] from you pretended Rulers, Judges, Justices, Law [...] yers and Constables; all this Tree must be cut down and Jesus Christ will Rule alone. Again, I the Ligh [...] will Overturn Kingdoms, Nations and gathered [Page 79]Churches, that will not own me the Light in them; [...]e G. W 's Light and Life, p. 11.

Now, is it not evident from hence, that if Sam. Jenings had exprest himself in the antient implicity of a Quaker, he should have worded it thus, viz. Magistracy and Government we own to [...] Gods Ordinance, so far as we (or Christ in us) [...]ave the Command of it, because we know no People [...]se, that so own and witness Christ to Rule. So that [...]hen such men rule, 'tis no more them that Rule, [...]t Jesus Christ alone (as above G. F. intimates) [...]e present Government being but a dead loath­ [...]om Form. As T. Ellwood ( Sam Jenings intimate [...]rother) says, in his Alarm, p. 6. Did you not [...] says he) make a solemn Covenant with God, That [...] would Extirpate Episcopacy, that Dead Loath­ [...]m Form? Did you not spew it up? And will you [...]n again, and lick up your old Vomit? O do not [...]ol do not run willfully into Destruction again. We [...] Misery to the Ʋpholders of the Priests of the World, [ i. e. the Rulers, for 'tis they that uphold [...]he Priests.]

Again, G. Fox, in his Book called, Papers given [...]orth to the Heads, &c. p. 9. saith, Are not all [...]hose that will dote so much on an Earthly King TRAITORS against Christ? Neither do you [...]ad (saith he that there were any Kings since the Apostles days, but among the Apostate Christians and false Church. Christ is King alone, and makes his Disciples Saints, Kings and Priests, to reign upon [Page 80]the Earth: These are true Christians, and will these have any more Kings among them but Christ? They are out o [...] the Life and Power that make such work for an Earthly KING, and EARTHLY POWERS.

Come, Mark that, W P [...]nn, with thy Industry in getting Grant after Grant for Kingly and Earthly Power. And Mark that, S. Jenings, wh [...] sa [...]dst to the Seperates, [not long before the second time thy Horns were cut from pushing with Kingly or Earthly Power] VVe will take car [...] that you shall not be our Judges. And Mark that my old Friends in general, with your diligence t [...] engross and keep what hold you can on Earthly Power. And behold your Apostacy!

Now had not the Wheel been so turned about that S. J. and his Brethren have lost the antient Marks of simple hearted Quakers, what need he us [...] such craft, to pretend to own what they really d [...] not? or are they sensible how they are fallen from their antient Principles, and now see their forme [...] Weaknesses, why then are they too Proud o [...] ashamed to follow the Example of good men in all Ages, to confess and repent, and leave a Memo­rial thereof to Posterit [...], as they have done. O [...] I know the reason; this they cannot yet do! for then down goes their great pretence to Infal­lability.

Lastly, W.P. Address to Protestants, p 234. [...] we will give antient Story credit (saith he) we shall [Page 81]find, that worldly Weapons were never imployed by the Christian Church till she became Worldly, and so [...]ast to be truly Christian: But why should I say the Church? her Leaders have taught her to ERR. I [...]onfess had not antient Story informed me, that [...] Christian Societies have apostatized, when [...]ey grew numerous, I should have admired at [...]is passage, that the same W. P. should in so few [...]ars after he wrote it, nor only fall into that [...]postacy himself, but also draw many more with [...]m. But some think W. P. has wit enough to [...]ke out to all that see with his Eyes, that the [...]ord of the Magistrate, viz. Constables Staves, [...]eriffs Weapons, Stocks, Prisons and Gallows are [...]ot woridly Weapons, but Spiritual Weapons, [...]en used by Quakers. But however, tho' he [...]s shewed the whole Church of the Quakers concerned in Governments about Delaware, are [...]ast to be Christian, yet he confesseth himself (as [...]ne Leader) to be the cause of it; for he saith, [...]er Leaders, have taught her to Err.

VIndication of the Quakers Principles, p. 55. says, VVe bear Indignities and Injuries, and being [Page 82]reviled, they revile not again; and we resist not evil, nor are we in Revenge, but leave it to the Lord, whose Vengeance is, and he will repay it.

But Sam Jenings in his State of the Case, p. [...] alledges, That they could do no less than prosecute and fine G. K. and T. B. without the violation of their Trust to the King. O trusty Trojan since the days of Edw. Billing.

Therefore Sam. Jenings must now make their antient Principles to speak thus, viz. We bear Indignities and Injuries when we have no Power to Revenge them; and we leave Vengeance with the Lord, when we are not trusted with Power by the King to take Vengeance our selves. And thus S. Jenings and his Brethren, Apostate-like, have lost (if ever they had) the pretended innocent Nature of the Quakers, and are in the Fall, and Unredeemed; for so they say in their Catechism, by W. S. 'Tis the disposition of OUR NATURE not to seek Revenge, though we do suffer Wrong; for the Revenging Nature is in the Fall; but it is not so with us whom God hath redeemed, &c. Beside, let S. Jenings compare their late Practice with their old Principle about Contending and Suing at Law; see Possession of the living Faith, p 7. It was NEVER the Faith of Christ to Sue, Contend, &c. thus S. J. and his Brother Preachers about Delaware, yea, and Hearers too [like Preachers, like People] are Apostate [...], and have not the Faith of Christ, by their own plain Rules; for the same Principle [Page 83]is held forth by R. H. G. F. G. W. E. B. and others.

Again, I observe S. Jenings tells that the reason of T. B. and G. K. being prosecuted, was for saying, Sam Jenings was too high and imperious in worldly Courts, and ca [...]sing him ignorant, presump­tuous and insolent. N [...]w is not Sam. Jenings here blinded by a sordid persecuting Sp [...]rit, that thus has the face to publish this to the wo [...]ld, seeing it is yet to be read in the Books of the [...]ryals of W. P. W. M. M. F. G. W. and others, that they accuse the Magistrates in England most severely with Injustice, Oppression, Wic [...]edness & Corruption, and yet these Magistrates did [...]ot punish them for that; nor was G. F. punished for telling, Justice Bennet, He was a shame to the Government, as in the Book called, West to North, &c Th [...]s [...]h [...]ws the Magistrates in England more No [...]l [...], more Chri­stian, and far more f [...]ee from a Revengeful Perse­cuting Spirit, than these Quakers, wh [...] cannot bear to be ca [...]led, Ignorant, Presumptuous and I [...]o­lent (though by m [...]no [...] their own [...]en [...]mination, nor spoken when exe [...]c [...]ing his Magistratical Of­fice, but in Controve [...]ies about Religious matters) without taking Revenge on their Persons. But hear what G. F. says of such in Gr. M [...]tery, pag. 125. 366. You are inwardly ravened (saith [...]e) that strike at the Creatures — and to cause People to be put in Prison, and to be perse [...]ted, and have their Goods taken away, such are disorderly Teachers, and [Page 84]shall be rooted our And so far they are self-con­demne [...] Apostates, by their antient Testimonies, so their actions in Pennsilvania. Witness their imprisoning John M [...]Combe when his Wife was but two days delivered of a Child, and in danger of Death, by a Flux, and another of his Family sick also, that dyed in a short time after, and yet he could not prevail so much as to go home to take leave of his Wife, or set his House in order, tho' earnestly desired by him, promising to appear at any time when they should require him; No, that favour could not be gran [...]ed, but to Priso [...] he must g [...], altho' Humphry Murrey, the Mayor and chief Magistrate of the place, offered to be bayl for him, at which Sam Jenings raged, and bitterly reflected upon him, for that he knew his place no better. And what was all this for? surely some he [...]uous Crime, one would think; why, 'twas nor more nor less than for letting a person have two of the printed Appeals to the yearly Meeting (put forth by G. K. &c.) for 2 d. piece, as they cost him. But surely some Seditious mat­ter was contained in this single Sheet; why, the matter they were so offended at, was an Article, wherein it was queried, Whether some Magi­strates, called nakers, at Philadelphia, did not act contrary to the Qrs. Principles, in commissionating one hiring men to fight. And for this they not only imprisoned him, but did what they could other ways to ruin him, by taking away his Lisence [Page 85]which he had to keep an Ordinary, that cost him 3 l 12 s. And yet, like Preachers, like People so dark are many of them, to say, This was not any thing like Persecution, tho' no Law had this poor man broken, nor did they so much as pretend he had broken any Law.

Also, the Imprisoning William Bradsord, and taking away his very Tools that he should get maintenance for his Family by, contrary to the Law of England, so justly pleaded by him, he be­ing one of the Kings Subjects Also, their imprisoning Peter Boss, till Provi­dence put the Government into the hands of Coll. Fletcher, Governour of New-York, who released him our of Prison. And pray what was his Crime? Why, 'twas for writing a Letter to Sam Jenings, querying about several Miscarriages reported of him, as inserted in p. 59▪ State of the case, and among the rest, Whether S. J. was not drunk? In the Tryal of which D. Lloyd being Attorney, pleaded for S. J. and read a Case out of an old Law Book, to this effect, That tho' a Bishop was seen to be drunk, yet was not to be reproved. He also produced an Act against W. Brad [...]ord made in the reign of K. James 2d against printing Books with­out puting the Printers Name to them, which they alledged W. B had done, and not put his Name to the printed Appeal (tho' the Authors Names were affixed thereto.) Well, to Tryal W. B. was brought, D. Lloyd pleaded hard against [Page 86]him, the Jury had their Charge given by S. Jenings, out they went to tr [...] this [...]ime, but it happening so, that there was two or three upon the jury that were not Quakers, they stood upon the Nicet [...] as some of their fellow jurors call'd it, of two Evi­dences, to prove that W. B. printed said Appeal, which not appearing, after about 48 hours the Jury came into (ou [...]t, and told the Bench, they were not like to ag [...]ee. To whom A Cook made this learned Speech, viz. Well, seeing, Friends that you are not like to agree, you are Absolved from your [...]est or Oath) and are discharged; and we will have another Jury that shall agree, and find the Bill. But before another Court, the Government was cha [...]ged, W. Bradford discharged from his the V [...]ngence which they intended.

And yet for all this, these degenerate Quakers with not believe these manifest Truths, known to so m [...]ny, but th [...]'ll believe Sam Jenings Book of Law, who in his P [...]eface, would make People be­liev [...], That the Report of these mens Sufferings is [...]t Sham p [...]t upon the VVorld, and so far from an [...]hing like Pe [...]secution, that it was only Sport and Play; and I'il warrant him, can make Drave Ora­tio [...] [...] in hi [...] Preaching too. 'Twas Prosecution, s [...]s [...], and not Persecution, see state of the case, p 45 Just so also the New-England Priests say, what they did to the Quakers was Prosecution, and not P [...]rsecuti [...]n, see the Book, called, New-England judged.

But there was a man punished for taking away an Hour-glass from a Priest, and this G. Fox calls Persecution, in his Instructions, &c. p. 30. Behold! is there greater Blindness and Partiality to be found in the whole World, than is among these Quakers, that call punishment, for breach of just Laws, Persecution, and yet when they punish men, who have broke no Law, they say, that's no such thing as Persecution▪ but Prosecution.

And though the Quakers have all along made such a great Noise and continual Cryes to the Rulers, complaining of their great and grievous Sufferings by Persecution, even in so much, that they have declared to the World, That thei [...] Suf­ferings have been greater Sufferings, and more Ʋnjust [...]han the Sufferings of Christ, or his Apostles, or of my others since the Apostles days, as in p. 273. of Edw. Burroughs Works; which passage was lately [...]astified in the City Mercury or News Book, by 24 Quakers at London▪ And yet themselves scarce [...]ny sooner mounted into the Seat of Government, [...]ut they fell to persecuting one another, till Pro­ [...]idence stopt them, by the Government being [...]aken from them. Therefore they bein [...] a con­ [...]derable People for Number in some places, the [...]ing and Parliament had great Reason to make [...]hat Law which was made last year, That no Quaker or reputed Quaker shall serve on any Juries, [...] bear any Office or place of Profit in the Government. Thus though they may see what their ill Manners in

[...]ennsilvania has brought on them; yet on the other hand they may take it as a blessing unto them, they being a People not qualified for Go­vernment, especially in respect of Principles antiently delivered; for when T. Budd declared the Duty of Magistrates, in his Book, called, Good Order, &c. p. 34. viz. I do believe it to be both lawful and expedient (saith he) to bring Offen­ders to Justice by the Power of the Magistrates Sword, which is not to be used in vain, &c Hear how G. Fox condemns him for this, in a Letter to Pennsilvania, which Letter I have by me, to shew upon occasion; his words are these, Dear Friends, R F [...]well and A. Cook, Remember me to T. Budd, and tell him, he gave forth a Book, which grieves the honest hearted, and some dirty Spirits have got ad­vantage, and how that it Thwarts our antient Prin­cipl [...]s, that part concerning Magistracy, p. 34. i [...] w [...] l [...]ld upon W. Penn; but he is clear of it. And he c [...] not do well to print it, and spread it, for Friend [...]ere will not sell it — but stopt it — let him write over b [...]t [...]r for Friends to call it in again. So with my love,

G. Fox.

Yet s [...]ch miserable Darkness has over-spread those Quakers a [...] Delaware, that they see not thei [...] Apostacy herein. Nor indeed how should they s [...]ing the Yearly Meeting at London did not find i [...] proper or fir to condemn these Practices, no [...] to put the Actors upon condemning it; No, no so much as that of their g [...]ving a Commission, and [Page 89]hiring men for a hundred Pound, and furnishing them with Arms and Ammunition, to recover a Sloop that Babit and his Mon had stole from Phi­ladelphia harbour; tho' it was an Action to the furthest extent that those words in T. Bada Book could reach, as all that reads the same may see.

Hence 'tis plain, that the whole Body in general are now so far Apostatized herein, that they en­courage their Brethren to grieve the honest heart­ed, give dirty Spirits advant [...]ge, and thwart their antient Principles, unless they will say. G. F. is a Lyar, whom they call, The Father of many Na­tions see W. P 's Rejoynder, p 354.

But to shew further of my old Friends Apostacy in this particlar, R. Barclay in his Apology, p. 399. 407. says, As to what relates to the Magistrates of the Christian World, albeit we deny them not the Name of Christians, because of the publick Profession they make of Christs Name, yet we may boldly affirm, that they are far from the perfection of Christian Religion, because of the state in which they are, they have not come to the pure Dispensation of the Gospel. But for such whom Christ hath brought hither, it is not lawful to defend themselves by Arms, but ought over all to trust in the Lord Thus this Doctrine of R. B. runs almost parrallel with that of W. P. before cited, only he unchristians the whole Body of his Friends concerned in Government; but R. B 's sentence is only on the Magistrates; of which, let those that are Preachers look to it, and study the [Page 90]most effectual means to keep their Hearers from reading such things as these, so dangerous for then discovery.

Come on my old Friends yet a little further, I wish you were as willing to see your Apostacy, as I am to shew you Read your Antient Principle of disallowing to go to Law, and being no Con­tenders, Patronized by G. F. G. W. and E. Bur. in p. 23. of R. Huberthorns Works.

Priests says, Many Diffrences may arise which can­not well be decided without going to Law. R H. Replys, Thou dost allow of going to Law, which the Apostle did not, and he was a Minister of Christ; and here thou hast shewed, thou art none—and who are come to the Doctrine of Christ, which is Yea and Nay, there is NO DIFFERENCE, They need NO GOING TO LAW, there is NO CONTEN­TION; and many Differences are in thy Generation, which is without Christ and his Doctrine, which many of you Sue men at the Law. — And here openly I charge you all in the presence of the living God, to be no Ministers of Christ. O when will you blush for calling all but your selves No Ministers of Christ, no Professors of Truth! All that joyn not with you, or believe not as you believe, you say, do not own Truth, or profess Truth. But I appeal to Gods Witness in all your Consciences, whether this Priest was not a betrer Owner of Truth, or Professor of Truth than you? for his Doctrine and Practice agrees, but your Doctrine is one, and [Page 91]your Practice another; contrary to Truth, double [...]ded men. Therefore condemn our antient Doctrine in your Book, caked, The Quakers [...]lenge, p. 3 viz. The Quakers are in the Truth, NONE but they. And O learn to be more [...]ritable!

THis is in some sense to answer your Request; for I have met with some Papers sent from [...]or Meeting at London, wherein you frequently for all Friends Sufferings to be sent in to be orded. Therefore I shall here set down the [...]ferings of some Friends about Delaware, called, [...]erate Quaekers, and request your care, that [...]en you meet with this Account, together with [...]aforesaid Imprisonments, &c. to Record the [...]e, as you do others, if you are impartial men, [...] if not, pray let them alone.

In the Year 1695. A. Smith, W. Budd and W. [...]inson in West Jarsey, for cons [...]ientiously refu­ [...]g to serve on Jurys, were fined by the Court, which a Gun was taken from A.S. and a stitch [Page 92]of Bacon from W. B. But by the Sheriffs pleading for VV. A. being poor, he got his Fine remitted. [ Note, This Sheriff is a Baptist, and he declined the Office of Sheriff, and refused to serve, rather than so to take awa [...] his Neighbours goods for matter of Conscience; but those Seperates have not met with so much Christianity in any of their old Friends, that have been so concerned in Office. Pray let your London Meeting take Notice of that, and order those Ministers that come from you to visit them, to do what they can to recommend the Virtue of Love to your Brethren here; for all that have hither to come, has set them still more in Opposition against the S [...]perates, and have increased Envy instead of Love; and are so far from counting the Soperates to be any of the lost Sheep of the House of Israel, whom Christs Ministers should seek after, that they call them Amaleck, & exhort one another to smite Amaleck, and yet like Cowards, never come at them; or like Cocks crowing on their own Dunghills, they do it only in their own Meeting-houses among their own Friends; and he that's most ingenuous at comparing G. Keith and his Friends to the worst of Men and Devils they can find named in the whole Bible, he's an excellent Prea [...]her, and fol­lowed from Meeting to Meeting many Miles, and of this Truth, my own Eyes and Ears are witness.

In the years 1694, & 95. Ralph Ward, a poor Friend at Philadelphia, was several times fined for [Page 93] [...]nscientiously refusing to serve on Juries, and had [...]oods taken from him to the value of 4 l. 6 d. [...] which he complained to the Governoar and [...]ouncil, but had no Relief. The Members of [...]ouncil present were S. Carpenter, S. Richardson, [...] Morris, C. Pusey, D. Lloyd, all Quakers.

At a Court at Burlington, 3d Mo. 1697. Daniel [...]con was fined 10 s. by Quaker Justices only, for [...]fusing to serve on a Jury, tho' he pleaded both [...]iberty of Conscience and the Law lately made in [...]ngland, which says, No Quaker or repured Quaker [...]ll serve on any Jury, nor bear any Office of Profit in [...] Government.

Now here take Notice, The Quakers in England [...]sed to plead with the Rulers, against the Kings [...]aws, for Liberty of Conscience. But now being [...]ot into the Saddle of Government, and being Rulers themselves, they deny Liberty of Conscience [...]o others, that plead FOR the Kings Laws for [...]iberty of Conscience. Let my old Friends at London consider that, and whether 'tis not. Time [...]ow to cry out, as Sam. Fisher once did, p. 144. [...] Gross, Horrid, Hideous and Sordid!

Also, several Friends in East and West-Jersey had Goods taken from them for not answering sumons to Courts, & also for refusing to pay a Tax raised to pay Souldiers wages. Where Note, the Qua­kers in East-Jersey, who were in Unity with their persecuting Brethren at Philidelphia, paid this Tax either directly or indirectly, which was to [Page 94]pay Souldiers wages. I shall give no perticula [...] account of these di bress [...]s, believing the rest are more than you wi [...]l Record; but I canno [...] wel [...] omit, to in [...]tance one more, and leave it and th [...] rest to your Consideration. And that is,

Jo [...] Wood, one of your Brethren, a Preacher [...] Gl [...]ucester County in V [...]st-Jersey, being Sheriff o [...] that County, came with men armed to tak [...] Goods from John Roberts at Pensoaken, & sent tw [...] men before, who pr [...]tended they had lost their way of w [...]ich the said Joh. Roberts & h [...] Wife took pit and gav [...] [...]nen meat to eat. Soon after they espie [...] Wood coming with his Company, wherefor [...] Roberts made fast the Door, but Wood told him he had those within that would do his business they seeing him so treacherous, opened the Door this Wood when came in offered his hand: Rober [...] said, if he came as a Friend it was well. But sa [...] Wood, I come not as John Wood the Preacher, b [...] as the Sheriff of Gloucester. [Now by the way observe, that in the case between G. R. & the Magistrates at Philadelphia, those Magistrates coul [...] not find how to distinguish between Magistrates [...] Quakers or Preachers, but here you see thei [...] Brother J W. had the art to do it.]

But his J. VVood proceeded, and took severa [...] sorts of Goods in use in the house, among whi [...] was a Warming pan, which the woman earnestl [...] desired him to leave by reason of the great u [...] themselves and the Nighbours had of it, in cas [...] [Page 95]of Sickness or Child-bed (there being none there [...]bout except that) But she could not prevail with this VVood, but away he carried, it and soon after this Roberts sell sick, and beginning to Re­cover again, he sate [...]pone day; but at night going [...]o his Cold Bed (for want of the p [...]n to warm it being Winter) th [...] cold Bed made such impression [...]on him, that his speech was soon taken away, which he did not recover again, but dyed in a [...]w days; and what trouble this was to the Wid­ [...]ow, the Neighbours can tell how much she im­ [...]ted the death of her Husband to the want of the [...]n, which she could not perswade this Wood to [...]ave, tho' she offered him to take any other thing [...]stead of it.

Note, the occasion of this Distress was only, [...]or not answering a Summons to Gloucester Court, when the Court at Burlington required the same, [...]he place having been some years in contest be­ [...]ween the wo Counties about the bounds, not de­ [...]ded which County it belonged to.

Come you London Friends [to say no more of he. Inhumanity of this Action of a Preaching Quaker] can you parrellel this in the whole World, that over a pre [...]ended Gospel Minister [...]ook the Office of sheriff before! W. Penn cites [...]lenty of old Authors in most of his Books, pray [...]t him to search all the Rusty Authors to see if he [...]an find a President, and if he can find none, you [...]ay Record this for one, if you please; for the [Page 96]said Roberts was an honest Friend of your Society, and I being with him in his sickness, that very day that he sat up, as aforesaid, he desired me to publish this Preachers Action to the World, and so far have I now fullfi [...]led the Will of the deceased, a [...] also the Desire of his Widdow and Neighbours since his Death.

Now, perhaps some for want of other Falsity to accuse me of, will say I Taunt or Scoff: But what would such sa [...], if I should use such Airy Expressions as hat eminent Friend Sam. Fisher has done in his Rusticus ad Accademico [...], viz. As the Fool thinketh, so the Clock Clirketh; The Cat wink [...] when both her Eyes were shat; The Wheel-barrow runs Rumble to Ramble; A Tale of a Tub with the bottom out; Tittle Tattle, Twittle Twattle; Whirle-gig [...], Flim-flams, Gim-oracks, Hog-styes; Bumble-bee Propositions, Magpye Premises, Roaring Meggs; Thundering Canons to frighten poor fools, &c. This was Sam. Fishers phrase in writing Religious mat­ters, and re-printer for Posterity by the lisence of the 2d Days Meeting in London. And W-Penni in his Testimony before that Book, makes the Scriptures their Rule for this stuff too, and cites 1 Kings 18.27. of Elijah's words to Baal's Priests. Thus I see how far I should be Justified were of their Society. Though the same W. P. with his t'other Tongue is so far from owning the Scriptures for their Rule, that both he and S. Fisher (as is before shewed) would make them unsit for [Page 97]any Rule at all in any case, by rendering them Ʋncertain, &c. Therefore pray ask W. P by what Rule he knows any such word were spoke. as recorded, 1 Kings 18. seeing he holds the Scrip­tures so Uncertain? Doubtless he is as able to give an answer, as if he had served seven years at Rome, as G. W. tells the Baptists, in his Quakers plainness, p. 31.

IN W. Penn's Book, called, Reason against Railing, p. 41. the Question is thus put, How could you now that Swearing in any case were unlawful, if it had not been written, Swear not at all? Is not then the Scripture your Rule in this case?

W. Penn there answers, This shews the Ignorance [...]f Tho. Hicks in the Writings of the best Gentiles, [...]nd his acknowledgment of the Light's sufficiency, in [...]ase we are able to prove Swearing disallowable before Christ came in the flesh. The seven wise men, (saith [...]) famous among the Greeks 500 years before Christ [...]ome in the flesh esteemed Swearing but a Remedy [...]gainst Corruption.

Now observe, does not this plainly shew, that [...]y held Swearing not only allowable, but also [Page 98]good to be used; for what good men would not use means to remedy Corruption? was not W. P. dot [...]sh when he brought this Instance to prove the Light sufficient (without the knowledge of what is written, to shew men they should not swea [...]? B [...]ndes, was it likely that the Light o [...] Law in the best Gentiles would [...]o [...] bid a [...] Swearing at the same time when the Law (outward) was in force, that allowed and commanded Swearing? or that the Gentiles had a sight beyond the Prophets, who never did forbid such Swearing, but on the con­trary commanded it, Jer. 4 2.

Another Instance W P brings, is, That Socrates said, There is a Life more fi [...]m and unquestionable than an Oath.

I Answ. Does not the Law hold forth the same, viz. that here is no need of an Oath among men that live a life unquestionable, or out of S [...]rite? for an Oath was for reconciling and put­ting an end to st [...]fe; so that this of Socrates was so far from sa [...]ing, Sware not at all, that it says as the [...]aw says; an evidence of what Paul said, That the Gem [...]les did by Nature the things contained in the Law. Now l [...]t wise men judge how far W. P. has proved the Light sufficient to shew men they should not swear, without knowing the written Command of Christ. And does not W. P. also confound himself in accusing T. Hicks of Igno­rance? for if we ask him, who they be that live an unquestionable Life? he shews us that the Saints [Page 99]do not; for in Rejoynder, p 175 he says, The Saints shall judge the World, and much more by [...] Judg­ment determine or reconcile things among themselves. Thus seeing the Saints live not a life unquestion­able, but that they need to have things judged and reconciled, how much less do others?

But more particular of Swearing, W. P. and R. R. in their Treatise of Oathes, put out in the Na [...]e of the Quakers, p 46. cites this Passage, viz. They Swear in God, or to God, or by God, who fromise an inviolable Obedience of Mind to him.

Now, to say, I solemnly Promise or Declare in [...]he Presence of Almighty God, &c. is a ca [...]i [...]g upon God to [...]e a Witness to the Truth of the Testi­mony given, which in p 17. they look upon to [...]e no less than a presumptuous Tempting of God to immo [...]s him to be a Witness not only to our Terrene, it Trivial Business. These are their express [...]ords. And yet are they now so far apostatized [...]ad fallen from their antient Yea and Nay, that [...]is is the Oath that the Quakers have used under [...]e new Name of a Test, especially in W. Pen [...]'s [...]rovince of Pennsilvania till of late, that G K. [...]d his Friends bore Te [...]mony against it. And [...]f now in England they have got it confirmed by [...]w, as l' [...] shew a [...]on.

But to proceed; In pag. 68 they cite, That it [...]evil to compell, not only to Swear by God, but by [...]r things. But how do they here condemn them­ [...]ves? for in their Courts about Delaware have [Page 100]seen Quakers give & command the English formal Oath to be given to those that were not Quakers. And yet for this very thing they condemn J. Perrot as an Apostate, in their Book, called, A loving In­vitation, p 8. because when he was Clerk of a Court, he gave some People the Oath. Yet be­hold! now their Brother Da. Lloyd can do the like, and be accounted no Apostate.

Again, in the Book of the Tryal of O. Whithead and T. Burr at Norwich, p. 28, 29. the Recorder threatning to Praemunire them unless they would take the formal Oath, We are ready and willing (says G. W.) to sign this est or Declaration, viz. I do in the Presence of Almighty God solemnly de­clare, &c. I do hereby faithfully promise, by Gods help, &c. Note, This they declare in p. 82. to be the Substance of the Oath, which they then offer­ed to sigh; and kissing the Book, and saying, I swear, they there call the Ceremony and Circum­stance; so it seems they can now dispence with swallowing the Substance, for they there say, They conscientiously scruple the Ceremony and Circumstance, to say, I Swear, and kiss the Book; as much as to say, We offer to swear, but cannot in Conscience say I Swear [Behold the Hypocrasie!] He sur­ [...]er adds, That he is willing to sign such Declara­tion of his Duty of Allegiance, if he may not otherways be believed. Mark, If they may not be believed b [...] [...]ing Yea of Nay, they'll do that now which [...] more, rather than he praemunired. I confess [Page 101] [...]hat would have been hard, but why then have they bound themselves up to Yea or Nay, by [...]rinting so much in denyal of Swearing, if they cannot defend it by Suffering, out will Apostatize rather than Suffer.

Lastly, in p. 35. their Keepers pulling the [...] from the Bar, to have them to Prison again, I ak [...] t [...]ce says G. W. to the Court) we have not yet refused the Oath, being not duly nor regularly brought upon the point, &c. Behold! could any man know­ [...]g the Quakers. Faith about Swearing, ever have expected to hear such a word to come out of the mouths of Quakers, and a chief Leader espcially I were it not better to be plain, as chose Quakers have been, whose Names are R [...]corded in th [...] Court of Chancery, London, for taking the form [...]d Oath? for this Hypocrifie has but caused some to publish in print, That the Quakers can work Miracles. for they can take an Oath, and yet not Swear at all.

And G W. in said Book, shews, That he and some other Quakers did Petition to the Parliament to have the aforesaid Test established by Law, for the Quakers to take instead of an Oath. So the Parliament did last year grant their Request, and confirmed it by Law in these words, viz. [ I A. B. do declare in the Presence of Almighty God, the Witness of the Truth of what I say] This is the Quakers Oath, that they call a Test, now made into a Law, according to their desire Behold now, what's become of their antient Yea or Nay! Ca [...] they [Page 102]now say this is no more than Yea or Nay? Pray what is become of their tender Consciences, that cannot Swear, and yet can swallow down this T [...]t with [...]ucscruple? Than which no Oath in the World can be greater, or more binding; yea, were I read in History, I doubt not but I could prove this T [...]st to be the very form of Oath used in some other N [...]ion And thus far these Quakers are fallen from what the formerly profest, as before cited, and can now stretch their Consciences, by using G. White [...]ea [...]t's Art of Otherways wording the matter. If this be the effect of W. P 's Light, that (without the knowledge of what is written) shews them they should not swear, sure 'tis now become Darkness, as their Term is to others. And yet I cannot see how they can use that Term without Blasphemy, seeing they say, the Light within is Christ and God; for I am sure God and Christ can never be Darkness.

THe Quakers having denyed Jesus of Nazareth to be the Saviour of the World, and to be in Heaven glorified in the true Nature of Man, both in their antient Books, as is before shewed, [Page 103]and now being charged with the same, and the Persons so accusing o [...] cha [...]ging them having prof­fered to prove the same u [...]on them at any publick Meeting they shall think fit to appoint, yet they refuse to hear with that Ear; and (knowing their guilt in the case) notwithstanding their former Challanges made by them in Print, To disp [...]te with [...] sorts of Professors, yet now they use all their skill to evade and shift from being brought to the point, but cry out they are belyed and wronged. Wh [...]ef [...]e some Preachers, particularly J. Dick­ [...]n and S. Je [...]ings have now found out a new Ar­gument to prove to their Hearers that they are [...]ndeed holy'd and that is, That their refusing to [...]ay lythes, [...]o [...]ight and to Swear, are three Proofs [...]hat they own Jesus to be Christ, and therefore t [...]ey [...]re falsl [...] accused.

Now suppose they had not in the least fallen [...]om their antient Testimony against Swearing, [...]ighting and paying Tythes, yet to what a low [...]ob are these spiritualized Persons now come, who [...]awing all along declared themselves to be The [...]nly Ministers of Christ, should be now driven to [...]eir shifts as to fly to outward Marks to demon­rate their Christianity, especially in that they themselves say, That any Man may keep to outward observations and yet be no Christian. But they have [...]t kept to their antient Testi [...]ony against these either, but are Apostatized, as is before shew [...]d [...]u [...]erning, Swearing, wherein they have only [Page 104]drest up the Oath in a new Garb, and call it a Test, they now see cause so to word the matter.

And then as to Fighting, that little Time they have had the Government in Pennsilvania has given the world sufficient Proof how far they may be trusted to be true to their Principles therein. And they being the commanding parts of the As­semblies [...]oth there and in Jersey, rather than let go the hold they have of the Government, what shifts have they made in raising Money to be im­ployed to secure and defend the Provinces from the French and Indians, by using G. Whiteheads Craft aforesaid, of Otherways wording the Laws & Orders they have made for raising such Money. So that instead of declaring the Duty of Rulers, (in case of Defence) by words of Truth, they have only exchanged their Old Testimony for New Hypocrisie. As for Instance,

When the present Governour presented a Bill to the Assembly of West-Jarsey to raise a Fund or Sum of Money to be imployed to secure and de­fend the Province from the Enemy, not one Quaker in the Assembly would touch with it; but so soon as a new Bill for the same thing was framed, Other­ways worded, then not one Quaker opposed it, but gave his Vote for it, and so it passed into a Law; but it was otherways worded, tho' they intended the same thing.

Next, let us step over into the Government of Pennsilvania, where in the year 1695. we find [Page 105] [...]oll. Benjamin Fletcher, then Governour of that Province, pressing upon the Assembly to raise a fund for his Majesties Service, towards securing the Province from the French and Indians, but this they could not do, No, it was against their tender Consciences, contrary to their antient [...]estimony and Principle; and so no Fund was raised. But the next year W. Penn got the Government into his [...]ands again, and then the Assembly meets again, and now they must do something towards main­taining the Fronteers at Albany, or lose their be­ [...]oved Honour of having the Government: for [...]he Queen had commanded it, and W. P. had [...]ngaged to comply therewith: Well, to work [...]hey went, and soon found a new Name for their [...]ct, and then couragiously raise Three Hundred Pounds for the Indians at Albany, and starcht D [...] ­bloyd is sent to New-York with it, to pay it to Governour Fletcher, for the use afo [...]esaid; for [...]ow it was not against their tender Consciences▪ why so? because they had Otherways worded the Act, yet intended is for the same Ʋse.

I had almost forgot to mention, how one Babie [...]his Company in the Year 1692. stole a Sloop from Philadelphia, upon Notice of which the Qua­tis very speedily got a Company of Men together, [...]archt the Town for Arms, supplyed them with [...]uns, Swords, Powder and Lead, and gave them Commission, and hired them for 100 l. to Re­ [...]over the Sloop from said Privateers, which they [Page 106]did, and Sam. Carpenter paid down the 100 l. to the men, and t [...]e [...]ss [...]bly has since voted it to be a Debt of the Province.

Well, as they were Magistrates they were ob­liged to do all this. But he that reads the several fore-going quotations out of their Books concern­ing Christ, and also considers these matter of fact concerning fighting, acted in the face of the Sun, may [...]afely conclude, That the Quakers own Jesus to be Christ, just so as they testifie against Fighting.

Friends and Neighbours, your LEADERS are so unwilling to be discovered in these things, that ten to one but they will tell you this which I have asserted about W. P 's Grant or Commission, is a Lye, as their usual manner is in other things. And if they tell, [...] so, I know no Remedy, but you must believe them, so long as you see with their Eves; for S. Jennings informed me that it was a Lye, and truly I believed him, till by chance I came to read it my self, &c. and so found him to be the Lyar in the case. And thus by searching out things my self I came to discover now blindly I was (and you are) led on and deluded wi [...]h such Religious Lyes (it I may so call them) For W. P. says in his Address to Protestants, That 'tis the Leaders that teach the People to Err. And S. Fisher says ( Rusticus, p. 191.) of such Leaders,

Lastly, for refusing to pay Tythes, many honest [Page 107] Quakers have suffered much, & I do believe consci­entiously too, while many eminent amongst [...]m have (to my knowledge) used divers c [...]a [...]est [...]e Shifts to satisfy or otherways to cheat the Re­ceivers. And T. Ellwood in his Foundation of Tythes, among ten Reasons that he brings against paying Tythes, there is one to shew Tythes inconsistent with the Gospel State; And I know none in Christendom, no, not the Priests themselves, but they will deny that they take Tythes, as Tythes, but only as Maintainance for Preaching, and not as any other part of the Ceremonial Law. And the most weighty Reasons T. E. brings to shew why they refuse to pay Tythes, is, That 'tis the highest Injustice in the Priests to take Tythes of the Quakers, who neither set the Priests on work, nor like their works, nor receive their Work, calling it the Yoak of Oppression as indeed it really is so) Therefore 'tis the Um [...]asonableness & Unjustness thereof that is the ground of their re­fusing to pay Tythes, together with Coveteousness, and not that the paying Tythes is a Denyal of Christ; for T. E. is so far from charging those with breaking any Command of Christ, [or of the Apostles, who pay Tythes, that he implicity grants, they do not, in p. 5.13. So then, seeing they who day Tythes break no Command of Christ] how much less shall their refusing to pay Tythes consti­tute any to be Christians; so invalid & weak is this their greatest Proof that they own Jesus to be Christ, while their Books are standing Evidences, that they deny him. Again, the Turks and Pagans that [Page 108]are not concerned in paying Tythes, do by this their Rule own Christ to be the Saviour of the World, tho' all Christendom knows the T [...]rks Principle is to deny him so to be.

JEsus Christ wrought Miracles by the Power of God, The Disciples wrought Miracles in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth. G. Fox (is said to have) wrought Miracles by the Power of God, [not a word of Jesus, in whose name the Disciples did it] This is to be seen in the Journal of G. Fox, in the third Table, under the word Miracle, which Miracles they there cite to be, She that was ready to dye, raised up again, The La [...]e made whole, The diseased restored, John Jayes Neck broke, Re­stored, &c.

Now, as to she that was ready to dye raised up. I have known a Woman recover from the poin [...] of Death at the Prayer of a Priest, who took Tyths, & such they call Conjurers, greedy Dogs, &c. Yet this was not lookt upon as a Miracle, tho' believe God might have regard to the Prayers of both G. F. and the Priest in that [...]ase.

Again, as to John Jayes Neck broke, I knew [Page 109]the man, and spoke with him afterwards, who a [...] [...]e was riding with G. F. in East-Jersey, [...]ell off his Horse and disjoynted his Neck, and G. F. seeing [...]ow it was, pulled his neck into Joynt again, and so sav'd his life; And such a thing as that many [...]ave done, yea, a Prophane man has done the like [...] [...]y knowledge.

Also in the Book, call'd A Reply to the Vindica­tion, &c. p. 14. 'tis said, Visible Miracles have [...]n done amongst us in the sight of the World, &c. [...]e also the Journal of G. F. p. 307. And had a large [...]eeting at a Constables House, on whom the Lord had [...]rought a great Miracle, &c. Note, here is neither [...]he Name of the Constable, nor the Town where [...]e dwelt, Nor what kind of Miracle it was, and also 28 years before it was published: Pray what [...]s here to induce any to believe it, but such whose saith is to take all upon trust? Let all discreet Persons consider if such things as these will not [...]arden, instead of converting the Jews; con­sidering Equality wi [...] God, see p. [...], 3. of A Brief Relation, c. confirmed in p. 67 & 127. Great Mystery, where he says, he spoke it out of all Crea­tures. And in News coming out of the North, p. 1. [...]e declares himself to be The Prophet that was pro­phesied of, &c. And S. Eccles calls him, The Pro­phet whom John was not. And G. W. and W. P. in their Books Judas and the Jews, p. 44. Serious Search, p. 58. Judgment Fixt, p. 19, 26. and in [Page 110]several other Books, justifie and excuse as wel [...] these Titles, as also, That he the said G. Fox is THE Father of many Nations, whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Hig [...]est, in which he Rules and Governs in Righteousness, and his King­dom is established in Peace, and the INCREASE thereof is without End, and much more to the same purpose, together with his thus being set up a Worker of Miracles too; I say, if the Jews should give equal Credit to these Things with the History of St. Luke, how will they know who is account­ed the Messiah, G. FOX or JESƲS of Nazareth, especially seeing W. Penn denys that Outward Person to be him, which suffered at Jerusalem, who was called Jesus of Nazareth, see Serious Apology, p. 146.

Good Christian Reader consider the Event and Effects of these things! Be otherwise minded than G. Whitehead is, who says. He neither consults Events, nor [...]ears Effects in what he writes; see his Introduct. to Judgment fixt. It is not high Time for some to be raised up to testifie against these Things!

But that which seemed most like a Miracle to me, and many more, as blind as I was the, was, That G. F. should have the gift of Tongues to interpr [...]t all Languages, as in his Book, called, The Battle door to the Docter [...] and Schollars, &c. when alas! it has been of late discovered, that certain Jews were hired to do it for him, and had [Page 111]80 pounds for their pains paid them by G. Roberts, besides 12 Bo [...]les of Wine over and above. And were not this Treatise swelled bigger then I in­ [...]ended, would here have shewed some Examples, [...]o prove the said Journal to be a History not fairly [...]elated, ou [...] Partial and Painted, some things [...] in, some left out, some mended and pe [...]ced, &c. But which is yet worse, if true, I have seen Sheet, called, An Essay, &c. lately put out by one T. [...]. wherein he shews that G F. in answer­ing Priests and Professors Books, f [...]stly Quoted heir words and preverted them, and took pieces of sentences, transposed the words thereof, so as to make them say another thing, that the Authors never intended, and then called them he [...]utho [...]s sayings, and so answered them; which [...] really true, must needs be judged wicked by all [...]oderate intelligent Persons. Therefore it be­ [...]oves W. P. to appear and clear G. F from this [...]ross Charge, the which if he cannot do, h [...]w [...]ainly and falsly does he say in the Preface to his [...]ournal, Many have done well, but thou, dear George [...]xcellest them ALL.

Note I mention these things, because I alway [...]s believed plainness and honest simple hearted deal­ [...]ng was the way to set up Christian Religion, and [...]ot such Craft.

But a to real and unfeigned Miracles, when we [...]ately heard a Report of two Miracles wrought [...]n London, one upon a girle, being restored sud­dainly [Page 112]from a lameness in her Limbs, which she ha [...] from her Infancy, the other of a Woman suddainly made whole from a Leprosie; I sincerely declare I was striken with a dread on my Spirit at the News, fearing I should hear that they were Peopl [...] belonging to my old Friends, the Quakers, becaus [...] I knew them to be already too much exalted in their minds above all other professors of Christi­anity, and if these Miracles should be done upon any of them, it would cause them to insult still more presumptuously; but by reading the Relation I found the one to be a French Protestant Girle, and the other a Baptist Woman, Persons (no doubt) humble enough to beg of God in their Prayers for Pardon for their Sins, as I never heard any Quakers do in more then 20 years attending their Meer­ings, &c.

Lastly, This Observation I made thereupon, which I intreat all to take Notice of, That these Miracles were wrought by or thorough a living [...]aith in Christ, as he is Jesus of Nazareth, or a Person without men, and therefore I deliver it as my sense to be an everlasting Truth, that till the Quakers close with this Faith, 'tis impossible that any real Miracles can be wrought either on them or by them.

But tho' they say (as before) that visible Mira­cles have been done among them, vet it seems by what G [...] W [...] writ in the year 1674 in Quakers plainness, p. 14. they have now lost this and other [Page 113]Evidences of the Spirit, if ever they had them; for he there says, And what if God will not bestow such Gifts and Signs now, must we therefore be no Christians? Are the Baptists willing to be thus con­ [...]luded on this ground? Now Mark, he here grants themselves to be as low, poor & empty as others, having no evident Signs or Gifts whereby it may be known they are sent of God more then other Professors. Now tho' this be such a known Truth, yet to face about again, the same G. W. (in Apost. Incend. p. 4.) lets as know. That he and his Friend are THE Church of the first born. So that as S. Fisher says, p. 748.

MUCH more than formerly do my old Friends the Quakers cry out, 'Tis Life is the only thing that is our All in All; 'Tis no matter for Do­ctrine or Knowledge in this or that Principle: Away [Page 114]with Creeds and Points of Faith, so that we feel Life in our Bosoms, and flowing from V [...]ssel to Vessel.

To which I say, go then thou that counts thy self a rational Creature, and learn of so mean a t [...]ing as a Vegetable, and see if a Plant can grow (with the Life it has within it self) without Leaves. But how comes it to pass that the Quakers have written such a multitude of Books, great Volumns about Principles and Doctrine, opposing all others both Priests and Professors about points of Faith and Doctrine. And E [...] B [...]rr [...]ghs in the Name & behalf of the Quakers having made great Chal­lenges to dispute with all sorts, and any Number of People, at any Time and Place, about Prin­ciple [...] and Doctrine: Why, I say was all this, if Life had been sufficient without Doctrine? Again, if Life may be felt by those who are igno­rant of Doctrine, and that be enough, why do the advise in their Book, called, An awakening Voice, p. 15. viz. People open your Eyes, and be not so besooled with that dotish and blockish Principle, That Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion, but search the Scriptures, and try all things— Have not the most knowing Men in the World been always the most devout to God?

Note the uncertain Sound of their Trumpets; Here, it seems, Life is not sufficient without Know­ledge, and therefore they advise to search after Knowledge for Life or Devotion. And yet now in opposing others that contend for Knowledge [Page 115]in Faith and Doctrine, they cry out, Life, Life, no matter for Doctrine; C [...]eeds and Confessions of Faith (they say) came in with the Apostacy, &c. This brings to my Memory how once I heard a Priest preach so affecting a Sermon (as he com­monly did) that looking about me, I saw weep­ing Eyes on every hand, and yet this Priest was known to me and those People, to be a debaucht man, that thus caused his Hearers to feel Life, (as they accounted) in their Bosoms: even such is the Devotion of all zealous but ignorant) People, especially at the sound of a smooth and affecting Delivery of words, [...]ho believe it their Duty to keep within the Pal [...] [...]f the Church, and be content with whatsoever drops from their Preachers Mouths, so mean spirited are the Peo­ple (saith W. Penn) to take all upon trust for their Souls, see Adress to Protestants. p. 177. Here-W. P. has truly exprest the present Case; for I am livingly sensible, that there are hundreds, yea, Thousands of honest Souls at this day among the Quakers, who are afraid to hear or receive any thing from these who are out of the Unity of their Church; so far are they willingly held from obeying that good Command of the Apostle, and the Advice of one of their Leaders, (as above) To try ALL Things. And it was observed, when Tho. Musgrove, at many Meeting [...] about Dela­ware, preached, That the flesh of Christ was a constant enduring Patience, and his Blood a lively [Page 116]operating Spirit of Life, or divine operating living Love; This set many into [...] singing frame, raising Life in the Meeting (as they term it) partly in that he applyed it to oppose some Doctrine of G. K. and he preaching it as a new Opening, & they believing it so to be. When alas for them! we who have taken their own Advice before, Not to be so dotish and blockish, but have learnt to be more knowing, we know it to be not an opening of Thomas Musgrove, but a piece of an old Creed made at Constantinople in the year 1585. [Thus while they are crying out against Creeds in others, they patch up Creeds to themselves.] And fol­lowing their Advice before, we have also learned to know, that if another Minister had preached the same things to the same People, tho' a Person of as good a Life, and more sound in the Know­ledge and Faith of Christ, yet wanting either the Unity of the Church, or that faculty of gift of a fluent and affecting delivery of his words, would not raise that Life in the People at all.

But what says W. P. further to these things? Why, says he, I am amazed with what Confidence they expose their Souls. This Principle it is, and not Enquiry, that makes Men careless and unactive abo [...]t their own Salvation—'Tis not to be saved, (says he) to be within the Pale of any visible Church in the World; see Address to Protestants, p. 177. But pray why then do they publish such Doctrine in their book called, A loving Invitation, pag. 9 [Page 117]viz. That those who forsake their the Quakers) Ʋnity, and oppose them, are cut Off from Christ, Why, this has been the Sound their Rams horns, have all along made. But in p. 156. W [...] Penn plainly tells us, That the consequence of Peoples not doubting their Ministers, and not putting them upon the Proof of what they preached, has been the Intro­duction of much false Doctrine, Superstition and Formality. Here's the ground, it seems, of those false and confused Doctrines before cited, by reason of our being too long before we doubted our Ministers. And yet, now some are set to do it, how do them turn their t'other face, and Rage at them, calling them Lyars, Apostates, Wolves, Dogs, Devils Incarnate, &c.

Lastly, Though G. Whitehead in Apost. Incend. p. 4. says, He [God] hath chosen us to be his People and Church—We are the Church of the first Born, &c. Yet W. Penn says again, That to be of the Church of which Christ is Head, is quite another thing than to be of any visible Society whatsoever, see Address, p. 177. So that as I began, so I must end,

Since their Trumpets give so Ʋncertain a Sound, Who shall prepare himself to Battle?

IN Rejoynder, p. 191. W. Penn saith To call any Day of the Week a Christian Sabbath, is not Chri­stian, but Jewish— The Apostle (saith he) makes their Observation or Preference of days, to be no less then a token of their turning from the Gospel; and Christians ought not to be judged for rejecting such Customs, &c. And pursuent to this Doctrine, some Quakers formerly have opened their Shops and followed their usual Imployments on the First Day, both in old England and else-where.

But behold how the Wheel is now turned! for the Quakers at Delaware being the command­ing parts of the Assemblies, have lately made a Law to prefer the First Day before others, calling it The Lords Day; so far are they now turned from their former Gospel, Nay, and this Law has been put in execution too in West-Jersey, and that by none others but Quakers, causing several Persons to suffer, one tryed at Court [but cleared by the Jury] after he had been im­prisoned, for doing no more on the First Day than those who prosecuted him have been fre­quently [Page 119]guilty of, viz. taking up a fettered Horse, or Mare that had strayed from him, that was in danger of being spoyled, he having been seeking the said Horse several days before 'Tis true the man was no Quaker, that thu [...] suffered for taking this pity and honest care on his Beast and himself; But what then? must they needs shew to the world, that partiality, &c. is inherent to their best sort of Apostacy? But if they now see the evil of their old Testimony of forbidding to prefer the First day before another, why do they carry a double face, and not condemn it? O but that's the way to shew themselves fallible, and so confess themselves on even ground with other Christians! here lies the pinch.

And G [...] W. is upon the same double strein too: for when T. S. asked, Whether that Quaker did not sin who sowed a Doublet on the Sabbath day? G. W. in Truth de [...]end. &c. p. 21. Replys, Where dost thou read in the Scriptures, that men must do no Work on the First Day of the week? And yet the same G. W. in his Tryal at Norwich, when the Oath was tendered to him on the First day, he excepted against it, because it was tendered on the Lords Day, as he calls the first day, in p. 26. of the Book of his Tryal; But G. W. might have seen in his Brother S. Fisher's Rusticos, that what is sawce for the Goose is sawce for the Gander also.

Here several other things come before me, of the degeneration of my old Friends, both in Faith and Practice, which for a reason best known to my self, I at present forbear to expose; for I know they think I have already done too much; and I hartily▪ wish I may never do more of this kind, but that I may be imployed hereafter in what is more delightful to me, but be it as God Almighty shall direct me; for methinks I already hear the bitter Treatment I must have from my Neighbours, my old Friends round about, far and near▪ And how the Preachers thunder out Woes and Judgments against me. But this I the less value seeing 'tis an advantage the Preachers have had in all Ages above other men, to preach their pleasure against those who offend them, and that without controul. Hark also how they caution and warn their Hearers, not to read such Books as this, whilest with their other Tongue they bid them, Try all things.

But I have faith to believe, that the Prophesies they utter against me shall be as false as [I am informed] W Pen's was against T. Hiks, viz. So sure as God liveth—The Lord will make the an Example of his [...]URY, and thy head shall not go down to the Grave in Peace, and by this shalt thou know (says he) that not a Lying nor Delusive, but a true and Infallible Spirit hath spoke by me; see Railing against Reason, p. 181. Now whether W.P. did not there bely the Spirit of God? for I [Page 121]do understand that T.H. dyed at Peace in his bed, and with gr [...]at satisfaction.

But as 'tis noted in the Title page, I am not the man that gives out things to lay open wick­edness, but that men may take warning, and fear, and come to know themselves.