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As every one ought carefully to beware what he admits for a Principle, before he has certainly found it on a strict Examination true of itself by its own Evidence, lest he only believe it so upon the Authority of others, (as a late worthy Author hath well observed); so though none in the World, I am perswaded, have more vehemently cried out against Mens wading in the holy Scriptures without a divine Principle's Directions than the People call'd Quakers;1 through which Activity, they tell us, Men (mixing their own Fancies with the Spirit's Dictates, which prompts them with Desires after Religion) spoil all their Undertakings; and then with a Fury as great as their Ignorance, endeavour the Overthrow of whatever stands in their way, and refuse to receive their Mark in their Foreheads, &c. Yet have none in the World more err'd in this respect, than the most noted Leaders of the same People, to the Ruin of their own Reformation, as any may find that pleases to peruse those several Books and Pages I refer to, in proof of the several Crimes I most justly charge them with in the Title-Page of those Papers, (as I have also heretofore in a certain printed Half-Sheet, published at the Royal-Exchange, &c. In London) as a necessary Caution against their Corruptions: All which are occasion'd through such pervertions of Holy Writ, as they blame in others, as will appear under the Head of ERROR, the ground o all the rest, as follows.

{Page 6} Since First, Because they read in John the first Chapter, &c. That the Life of the Word was that true Light, which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World, &c. They with a Fury as great as their Ignorance, from thence, with other Texts, boldly conclude, That the common Light, meer Light, particular measure of Light in all Men coming into the World, called the Light in every Man's Conscience, is not only sufficient to their eternal Salvation as obeyed, but is God and Christ substantially and essentially within them. The consequence of which Error hath led them into the next, amongst many others; for,2

2dly, Reading in John vi. 51, &c. Of Christ giving his Flesh to eat and Blood to drink, in order to our having eternal Life in and by him; they, through the same ignorant Fury, from thence with other Texts (contrary to our Savior;s own Explanantion, v. 63. in Spiritual Sense) confidently deny him to be a distinct Existence in his glorified Body, at the right Hand of God in Heaven, without us, under the pretence of their eating his Flesh and drinking his Blood substantially within them. The Consequence of which Error has also led them into the following one, as gross as the former; for3

3dly. Because they read in Luke xvii. 21. compared with Colos i. 26,27. That the Kingdom of God is with us, (spoken with relation to the Seed of the Kingdom, sown in the Garden of Men's Hearts, according to our Lord's Explanation, Luke xiii. 8. With Matt. xiii. 20, 31.) they through the same ignorant Fury, from thence, with other Texts, in like manner conclude, There is no other God or Christ, Heaven or Hell, or Kingdom of Christ to come, but what is within Men; the Consequence of which Error, has also led them into another as gross as the other: For,4

4thly. Because they read in Heb. ix. 28. That unto them that look for Christ, shall he appear the second time, without Sin unto Salvation: They from thence, with other Texts, boldly deny his second visible Coming, with his Saint with him, in like manner as he ascended, in order to the Restitution of all things, so often foretold of in the Holy Scriptures, and so earnestly hoped for by the ancient Christians, (as appears by those Scripture Instances underwritten) under pretence, That as Salvation from Sin by the Light within every Man, is the Day of Restitution and Time of Refreshments from the Presence of the Lord, spoken of: so they, with the rest of God's Saints and Servants have witnessed his second coming by his Spirit within them, wherefore those that looked for his appearance in a bodily Existence without them to save them, might look till their Eyes dropt out before they saw him come for that end; since all {page 8} that took heed to the Light, which hath lain hid in Darkness, will cease from all outward expectations of his Coming; with much more to this purpose. Through which corrupt Notion, together with Men's numerous Disappointments in their carnal Calculations of the Time on't; which none know, or is to know, but God alone, as our Saviour informs us) they, as well as others, have in a manner lost all belief in his said Appearance, (as Christ said they would) now that we have ground to believe the Time is near, by those Signs upon us our Lord foretold should immediately precede it, in order to our better Preparation to meet him in the Dispensation of his Judgments, which are to make way for it; yet is there no Christian Society under the Copes of Heaven, that the Loss of the faith in his said Coming, has had the Effect it has on the Quakers, in their bold Renunciation of the Sign he was pleased to institute to preserve it; For,5 (Scriptural References6)

5thly. Not to insist on the Doctrine of Baptism with Water7, which though I own was commanded by Christ to be practiced by his Twelve Apostles, till the end of that Age, as in the Original, till which he promised to be with them for their Incouragement, (as we find his was by the miraculous Gifts of his Spirit accordingly) yet as is was originally the Baptism of John, which was to decrease, as it did by degrees in the primitive Church, which made Paul (who had not that Commission) thank God he baptized none of them, but Crispus and Gaius, with the Houshold of Stephanus, he being not sent for that purpose, I conclude, it ceased in point of Obligation upon the Death of the Twelve Apostles, as the Supper of our Lord did not, as our deprav'd Quakers without proof takes for granted,

{Page 9} For reading in Acts ii, &c. That when the Day of Pentecost8 was fully come, the Holy Ghost miraculously descended upon the Apostles, according to Christ's promise in John xvi. 17. They from thence with other misconstrued Texts, conclude, That the Lord's Supper with Bread and Wine was not Gospel Ordinance, or the miraculous Effusion of the Spirit was the second Coming of Christ, which terminated the Use on't in point of Obligation. Thro' which Antichristian Notion, as the due Value of his Death and Sufferings thereby commemorated, is seldom preach'd up amongst them; so they have not only finally come to lose all true Fatih in his second Coming in his glorified Manhood, in order to the Restitution of all Things, so often foretold of, to their own Danger of a Midnight Surprizal; but by pretending, that the Paschal Lamb is of as much force as Bread and Wine, (the continuance whereof is as much as in us lies, to pluck up the Gospel by the Roots, for which Cause the Appelation Ordinance of Christ they renounce as Unscriptural) expose others to be overtaken unawares in an unprepared State, through the suddenness of his Coming, as a Thief in the Night; against which, as he commanded all to watch, so he instituted this holy Sign, and made known the same also by revelation to St. Paul, the better to forewarn us of it.

Now as all these their Errors proceed from their Idolatrous Preference of the common Light, meer Light, and particular measure of Light, given to every Man coming into the World, by the Father of Lights, as God and Christ's only true saving Light, Grace and good Spirit, the Holy {page 10} Scripture speaks of9, as appearing to all Men in a Day of Visitation in order to their Salvation: By their most confusedly applying such Scripture Instances to the one as relates to the other, as may be found by their Books instanc'd in the Margent amongst many others; so though these be bad enough, yet they are not all the Errors wherewith they have infected us, by their Exaltation of its Directions as a Rule above Scripture, which, notwithstanding the fine gingling Titles of Infallible, Unerrable, Omniscience, Omnipotent, Glorious Beam or Ray immediately proceeding from Christ, the Fountain and eternal Light of Life, they bestow on it; as it is only a created Faculty, which Condemns or Excuses what we are by Education or Conception made to believe to be Evil or Righteous, is as various in its Dictates through the means of Adam's Fall, as Men's Education Sentiments; as Paul and Martin Luther witnessed10 in their concerted State, and our Countryman Esq. Blune sorrowfully experienced, through the Disturbances he met with from the tedious Cries of some misled Turks to their Mahomet, for pardon of the sad Sin, their Light within told them they had committed, in drinking a Glass of Wine with him, contrary to his Holy Aloeran. And we now {Page 11} further find by its Conduct of the depraved amongst us, which gives me sorrowful cause to fear, that those our deluded Leaders (we have so reverenced) will prove those false Prophets, ( that cries, Lo here is Christ, and lo there, &c. this, that and the other noted Quaker's Light) of which our blessed Saviour hath forewarn'd us; since instead of the true and infallible Light of Life manifested in all Men at certain Seasons, whilst the Day of their Visitation lasts, in order to their eternal Salvation, by him from whom it comes, this their magnified Principle of the Light in all Men coming into the World, is really no other then the Light of natural Conscience11, of which the Apostle speaks, that may become Darkness through their persistence in their Corruptions, as it hath in them, as I have already made appear in some measure, and shall more fully evince by divers other Perversions of Holy Writ it hath exposed them to, through their dependance on the Infallibility of its Conduct; whereby they may come to see, that instead of leading them in all Things right, as they would perswade the World, it hath in every thing almost led them most grossly wrong, since besides the foregoing Perversions with respect to Doctrine it hath led them in the following ones with relation to Majesty and Ministry: For,

6thly, To pass by their Fox's corrupt Sentiments against Kings and Kingly Government hereafter notified amongst others of the Corruptions, as Doctrines that are accountable for, by their approbation of his Books in their late printed Collections of Titles of those wrote for their Truths sake, thought they in Words sometimes to serve a turn will seem to deny them.

Because they read in Matt. v. 44, &c. Christ's Command to love our Enemies12, &c. They from thence with other Texts, most ridiculously tell the World that if the Magistrates be a Christian, or desires to be so, he ought in the first Place to obey this Command of his Master, and then he could not kill his Enemies, resist their violence by force, or {Page 12} strike again13 when they strike him, with more to this purpose; whereby as they make void in effect. God's Ordinance of Magistracy, which they in Words pretend to own, tis the less wonder that this this gross Error14 should also involve them in others tending to their Diishonour, in order to weaken them in the Execution of their Office, by representing their Subjects as no ways inferiour to them; in proof whereof,

7thly. Because they read in Esther iii, &c. That holy Modecai15 (as a Type of Christ, and righteous Precedent to all true Christians, with relation to such Persecuting Magistrates or Ministers as forfeit their Office by incroaching on God's Prerogative through their Antichristian Impositions) deny'd to bow his Body, or give any other personal Reverence to a persecuting proud Hammon; They from thence, with other misconstrued Texts, most weakly conclude, that we may not bow our Bodies, or uncover our Heads in way of Reverence to such Christian Magistrates or Ministers as God sets over us, in order to our Defense from Foreign Invaders and Heretical Intruders contrary to the holy Ancients Practice, and Mordecai's Christian Precedent, in his acceptance of the Reverential Homage on his deserved Exaltation he had justly refused to give his unworthy Predecessor; which Extream has led them into another of the same Nature: For,

8thly. Because they read our Lord's Advice in Matt. xxiii. 10. against our being called Masters, (i.e. of our Faith in a Spiritual Sense, one being our Master, even Christ) They from thence, with other perverted Texts, not only conclude it Unchristian to call any Man whatsoever so on any pretence or occasion, who are not our Masters in the common gross Sense, (contrary to the Ancient Precepts and Precedents): but also from Elihu's refusal to give flattering Titles, some of them {Page 13} have denied the giving any Titles to any Man as Unchristian16, in what Station soever, how necessary soever for Distinction between Magistrates and Subject; whereby as they weaken their Authority, by levelling the Prince with the People, so by their Error of the Nature of the foregoing, they make way for their Destruction; in order whereto,

9thly. Because they read in Micah iv. &c. That in the last Days17, when the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be established in the Top of the Mountains, they shall beat their Swords into Plow-Shares, and their Spears in Pruning-Hooks, &c. They (forgetting what's foretold in Joel iii. 9, 10. compared with their own ancient Testimonies of their righteous Use in the first place, to make way for that blessed Day they speak of) from thence with other perverted Texts, conclude, 'Tis unrighteous for true Christians to use such like Weapons in their own or Magistrates Defence, against Domestick Insulters or Foreign Invaders in the interim; under pretence, that as they are brought into the peaceable Disposure the Prophet Micah, &c. speaks of, through their Obedience to the Light within, which is beyond the necessity of them, so their Faith is sufficient to preserve them from Danger (with others of the same Principle) without the use of those Weapons the Prophet Joel foretels in Service on; wherein, as the several Seizures of their Persons and Effects by Turkish and French Pirates are enough, one would think, to convince them of their Error in the last respect, notwithstanding their particular Deliverances they boast of; so the Doctrine of our Saviour in Luke, xii. 39. compared with his Declaration in John viii. 7. That such as are without Sin (as our pretended perfect Quakers account themselves) are the only fit Persons to cast the first Stone at Sinners, one would think should do it in the first, were they not wilfully resolved to continue in the Ignorance; which yet we find them so far from repenting of, as that they further {Page 14} strengthen themselves therein, by their following pervertion of the Apostle Paul's Expressions: For,

10thly. Reading in 2 Cor. x. 4, &c. compared with Eph. vi. 12, &c. That the Weapons of the Apostles Warfare were not Carnal, but Mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong Hold of Sin and Satan, and Spiritual Wickedness in High Places, &c.18 They from thence with other misconstured Texts, in like manner conclude, That no true Christian Magistrate or Subject may use Carnal Weapons (as they call Swords, Staves, Guns, or Goals) in way of defensive War against Thieves and Murtherers, &c. under pretence, that all Wrestling with Flesh and Blood, and killing Creatures,m have been learned of the Devil; directly contrary to our Lord and his Apostles Christian Doctrine, in Mark xiv. 48. Acts xxv. ii. Rom. 1. 32. and their own ancient Precepts and Precedents; which yet is not all the Errors they are guilty of, as will appear by what follows, with relations to their Legal Injunctions: For,

11thly. Because they read in Matt. v. 34m &c. our Saviour's Command to his Disciples, Not to Swear at all, &c. in evidence that he would have us press after such a State of Holiness as is beyond Oaths, since what is more the Yea, yea, and Nay, nay, cometh of Evil19, (as all Exhortations, Laws, Orders, and Magistracy, as well as Oaths, do) by their own Confession) They, according to their usual Method of Perversions, also positively conclude from thence, (with that of James v. 12.) That all true Christians are thereby absolutely prohibited to Swear at all, or abjure others in Truth and Righteousness to satisifie the Incredulous in Matters of Religion, or end Strife betwixt Man and Man, in Matters of Meum and Tuum, where it can't be doe without Oaths; to the Holy Prophets, or blessed Saviour, his Apostle Paul, with the holy Angel, the primitive Christians, and their own Contradiction, in these several Instances not in the Margent amongst many others that might be mentioned: whereby (as they as well may so indeed) they in effect do renounce all Exhortations, Laws, and Magistry, as well as Oaths, as Matter that come of Evil, and consequently Unchristian; in pursuance of which corrupt Notion, as they boldly tell the World, they have an Unction from the Holy One, and know all Things, so as that none need to teach them, who are from under the Law, which was added because of Transgression, for which Cause, as Christ came to fulfil and end all outward Laws and Government of Man, all Kings, Rulers, Judges, Justices, Constables, Lawyers, and Laws must be cut down, with more to this purpose; which, how true soever, when Christ comes personally to Reign and Rule with his Saints with him, in the Times of Restitution spoken of by all the holy Prophets and Apostles, &c. are as well as Oaths, notwithstanding, till then to be continued as Useful, Necessary and Christian, to recitfie the World, and right the Oppressed so far as they are able; let our depraved Quakers insinuate what they will to the contrary, in favour of their Perversions of our Saviour's Words and Intentions, wherein they further persist in what follows: For,

12thly. Because they read in Matt. x.8. &c. That Christ's Ministers ought to preach freely as they have recieved, (i.e. without compulsive Maintenance for their Preaching) They from20 thence with other Texts, weakly conclude, That the free Gift of the Tythes of Men's Increase towards the necessary Support of such Ministers as they believe to be true Ones, is not only a denial of Christ's being come in the Flesh and the Root of Rantrim, &c. but that to pay the same to such Impropriators as they are legally settled on, by the Nation's Representatives for Civil Uses, is also {Page 16} Unchristian, and to be denied by all true Followers of Jesus. All which gross Errors, amongst many others of the same Nature, as they first learned of their magnified Apostle Fox, as may be found upon Examination; so considering how numerous his Mistakes of this kind are, through his preference of the Light within him from his Creation, (under the Denomination of Christ's only true saving Light) one would wonder, we his bigoted Proselytes should so long befool ourselves in following him in his Extreams of the Nature, of which, besides the foregoing, I shall present the World with the following Catalogue, as Matters his Followers of the second Days Meet ing are also accountable for, through their approbation of his Writings, that they and others may be aware for the future how they implicitly take things on Trust, without due Examination in reference to their Promoters; since had they not resolvedly swallow'd at random every thing he wrote, through their Idolatrous Opinion of his peculiar Infallibility, (in conceit whereof they would not subject his Writings to the Scrutiny of others came under, as I am informed, lest it bring his proud Pretences of that Nature into Suspicion) they would never have suffered themselves to be thus bewildred by the ridiculous Pervertions of such a blundering Bl----Kh----d, who, instead of expounding Holy Writ according to its Native Sense, most grossly abused it for want of necessary Distinctions, as (besides the foregoing Instances, wherein we generally fell in with him) will appear by these following ones, wherein, as our truly sensible Friends never did, I hope none else will for the future approve him, except they be as Mad as our Second Days Meeting; since,

1st. Because he read in 1 Samuel v. 8, &c. compared with 1 Tim. vi. 15, &c. That Isreal of Old was not only justly blamed of the Lord for desiring a King to Reign over them, like the rest of the Nations without his Divine Directions, (under whose Government they then immediately {Page 17} was as their King) but that the Apostles owned no other King of their Consciences21 now in this our Day and Age, (with all inferiour Officers under them) but also boldly proclaims all such Apostates and Traitors against Christ, as desired and dote (as he calls it) on an earthly King; under pretence of the Cave Joshua put those of the Canaanites in, being the only fit place for them: Again,

2dly. Because he reads in 1 Cor. vi. 17. That he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit, ( as explained the Verse before, him that is joyned to a Harlot being one Body) He makes no difficulty from thence to conclude, Christ is not distinct, nor distinguished from the Saints; under pretence, that there is a substantial, essential and personal union betwixt the eternal Spirit and Believers.

3dly. Because he reads in 1 John ii. 20, &c.22 That they who keep the Word of God, have an Unction from the holy One, whereby they know all things, (i.e. necessary to be known by them) He not only concludes, That 'tis no Blasphemy to say, the Saints know all things without distinction, but that they can discern who are Saints and who are Devils, &c. without speaking a Word to them.

4thly. Because he reads in Mat. v.48, &c. Christ's Commands23, to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, and merciful as he is merciful; He from thence with other Texts, presumptously concludes, That we may not only be as perfect and merciful, but also as pure as Christ and God is, not only in Quality, but equally also, to the Holy Scriptures express Contradiction.

5thly Because he reads in Phil. iv. 5. That the Lord is at hand24; He from thence with other Texts will have it, That he is not afar off in his bodily Presence; under pretence, that it is no Blasphemy to say, He is in us as God and Man, yea, whole Christ, God and Man, Flesh and Spirit within us.

{Page 18} 6thly. Because he reads Rom. viii. 14. That as many as are led by the Spirit of God, are the Sons of God25; He from thence, with other Texts, concludes, The Spirit does all the Saints do; and says, all the Saints say so, as that they neither say, do, or judge any thing by any Understanding of their own, but what the Spirit does.

7thly. Because he reads Acts xvii. 24, &c.26 That God dwelleth not in Temples made with Hands, (i.e. so as to confine himselfe to them) He concludes, A Temples set up since the Days of the Apostles, in imitation of Solomon's, are Idols, Mass-Houses, Beast-Houses, &c. wherein God can't be worshipped.

8thly. Because he reads Acts xx. 2827. of the Holy Ghost making Overseers in the Church; he from thence concludes, The Officers and Overseers of the Church are invisble.

9thly. Because he reads in Gen ii, &c. God breathed into Man the Breath of Life, whereby he became a living Soul28; he makes no Bones to conclude, Our Souls to be one Being with and part of God, in finite in themselves, and of the divine Essence.

10thly. Because he reads in Revel. xxi, &c. Of all things being become new to them that are Christ's29; he concludes, The New Jerusalem spoken of chap. 21. is Witnesses come down from Heaven among the Saints who know it.

11thly. Because the Apostle *Paul * in 1 Tim. i. 13. bids us, Hold fast the Form of sound Words30; he concludes, That to say you to one is a Sin.

12thly. Because he reads, The the Holy Ghost and Son are equal in Power and Glory with the Father31, (which, as he pretends, they are come to Witness) he concludes, That he and his Friends call'd Quakers are equal with God.

13thly. Because he reads, That Saints sit with Christ in heavenly Places32, &c. He concludes, The Body of Christ is not out of the sight of his Saints, but personally within them, Flesh and Spirit, and not without them, under pretence, that none have a Glory and a Heaven but within them; in pursuance of which Absurdity, {Page 19} Because he reads 1 Cor. xv, &c. Christ is the Lord from Heaven; he will needs have it, That he is not in Heaven in his Humanity.

Becauſe he reads 1 Cor. XV, &c. Chriʃt is the Lord ʄrom Heaven33; he will needs have it, That he is not in Heaven in his Humanity.

14thly. Because he reads, Christ dwells in his Saints34, and that the Apostle said, God will dwell in you, and our Conversation is in Heaven; he not only will have it, That the Saints Bodies are Christ's Body who was in them, but also concludes, God'd Essence, Heaven, and Christ's Person were in the Body of Peter.

15thly, Because he reads, that he that hath two coats ought to give him that hath none35; he concludes, That Men ought to give theirs to the next Beggar that asks them.

All which (with the foregoing Errors, amongst many others of the same Nature) being the natural Fruits of the goodly Tree of Doctrines, (i.e. the Light within every Man coming into the World) this our exalted Patron Fox firet taught us to adhere to, as a Rule above Scripture; William Pen so illustriously magnifies, as the faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, who had an extraordinary Gift in opening the Scriptures, by going to the Marrow of Things: 'Tis the less Wonder, that the said William Pen36 and his depraved Collegues of our Second Days Meeting, should suffer themselves to be led by him into others of a higher Nature,, by blindly following him to their Danger of Damnatiion, without true Repentance and Amendment, as will appear by the ensuing Instances of their Heresie, which is the next Charge I have undertaken (and now defend) to prove them guilty of, as follows: In order whereto

  1. See Pen's Epistle to his Wiſdom justified, with his Preface to his Part of the Christian Quaker, *compar'd with p. 61. of Iſ. Penington's Examination of the Grounds and Causes of New England Perſsecution,* &c.  ↩︎

  2. Great Miſt. p. 47,57,58. 209,258. Anſwer to the Church Faith, p.3. Anſwer to Hidden Things p. 15. Pen's Spirit of Truth throughout. Reaſon Againſt Railing, p 9, 11,13,14,16,41. Voice of him that is eſcaped from Babilon, p. 8, 13. Hubberthorn's Light of Chriſt within, p. 18, 19, 20. Light and Life, p. 25, 26, 32, 33. News out of the North, p. 27, 33, 36. Parnel's Works, p. 277. Chriſtian Quaker; Firſt and Second Part throughout. Pen's Judas, p. 10. Caton's *Innocency clear'd, p. 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19. Dipper plung'd, p.* 13.  ↩︎

  3. Great Miſt. p. 206. Several Papers p. 59. Fuce's Fall of a great viſible Idol, p. 19, &c. Wisdom juſtified, p. 105, 106. Counter Chriſtian. p. 78. Dipper plinged, p. 13. New-England's Enſign, p.* 83.  ↩︎

  4. Great Miſt. p. 38, 100, 101, 206, 207, 214. Anſwer to a falſe and ʄooliʃh Libel, p. 18. Smith's Primer, firſt Impreʃʃion, p. 8,9,29. *Contemn'd Quaker, p. 64,84,94. Refuge, p. 40,41. Dewsberry's Works, p. 118. Parnil's Works p. 118. Account from Colcheſter, p.* 11,12,16,17.  ↩︎

  5. Great Miſt. p. 17,38,249. G. Fox's General Epiſt. p. 18. *Quaker's Refuge ʃix'd, p. 39,40. Serious Exam. p. 36,37,38,39,40. Anʃwer to the Bp oʄ Cork, p. 84,85. Appendix to Reʃon againʃt Railing, p, 24,26,35,47. Chriʃt aʃcending. p. 17. Contemn'd Quaker, p. 92. Nature of Christianity, p. 29, &c. Elwood's Answer to G.K.'s First Narrative p. 47, 160, 162, 164, 204. John Whitehead's Works, p. 51. S. Eccles Muſic Lecture, p. 19, &c. Light and Life within, p. 18, 40, 41. Chriʃtian Quaker, 1ʃt Part, p. II, 16. 2d Part, p. 112, 113. Fuce's Fall, p. 2,3,4,5,6,7,20,21,34. Cole's Teʃt. of the Father's Love. p* 6,14, 16. Ben Cole's Book.  ↩︎

  6. Matt. 24,3,27,30,37,39. and 26.64.  ↩︎

  7. See the Text as truly translated. P. 48. 49. of the 2d Part of Roger's Christian Quaker, compared with Barclay's Apol. Rights of the Christian Church. And Lacey's *general Deluʃion oʄ Chriʃtians diʃcover'd.*  ↩︎

  8. Great Miʃt p. 52, 161, 249. Answer to Church Faith, p. 16. Pen's Key, p. 25, 26, 27, &c. Viver's Reply to the Vic. oʄ Banbery, p. 15. Counterfeit Convert, p. 30, 31. AntidoteVen. p. 111, 112, 113. Fox's Cited p. 40. oʄ Rich's Report ʄrom the Committee. Counterfeit Christian, p. 99. Christian Quaker, 2d Part p. 48, 92. Rector examined, p. 28. Contenmn'd Quaker p. 39, 92. Quaker clear'd, p 74. Quakerism, a new Nickname p 143, 144. Wisdom Juʃtiʄied, p. 68, 89. Reaʃon againʃt Railing, p. 22. Truth prevailent. Summary Propoʃitions. Chriʃtian Quaker, 1ʃt Part, p. 11, 16, 101. Howgil's Works. p. 436,437. Fuce's Fall, p. 31. Eccle's Muʃick Lecture, p 19. Defence of the Snake, 2d Part, p. 106.  ↩︎

  9. See Pen's brief Anʃwer to a ʄalʃe and ʄooliʃh Libel, p. 13, 14. Barcley's Apol. p. 305. Pen's Reaʃon agaiʃt Railing, p. 13, 14, 16, 41, 119. Counterfeit Chriʃtian, p. 84, 85. Spirit of Truth, throughout. Vicaridge's Truth and Innocency, p. 23. Quakers clear'd p. 77, 81. Howgil's Works, p. 18, 19. Preface to Fox's *Journal, compar'd with Fox's great Miʃtery, ʃelect Epiʃtles, and Doctrinal Works on this Subjećt.*  ↩︎

  10. The one in being thereby led to believe he did God Service in perʃecuting his Servants and the other in thinking he oʄʄended God in his Popiʃh Rules. See his Preface to his Comments on the Galations. In the due Conʃideration whereof, I cannot but adviʃe all our Quakers and others thst read this, to prefer the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Teʃtament, as a Light that ʃhines that ʃhines in a dark Place, till the Day dawn, and Day Star ariʃe in their Hearts that leads to Chriʃt, ʄar beyond this magniʄied Light within ʄrom their Creation, according to our bleʃʃed Saviour and his Apoʃtle Pet4r's Inʃtruction; ʃincenthis Light within them cannotmbe the Day Starnof which our Saviour and his Apoʃtle ʃpeaks, John v. 39. 2 Pet. i. 19, 20, &c. as our depraved Quakers dream, ʃince we are to wait ʄor its which, in their ʃuppoʃition, we need not.  ↩︎

  11. Bourignon's Warning againʃt the Quakers, p. 88, 254, &c.  ↩︎

  12. Barcley's Apol. p. 567. compared with p. 560, &c. of the same.  ↩︎

  13. Fox's Doctrinal Works, p. 164, 168, 179, 230.  ↩︎

  14. As Mrs. Bourignon hath well obſserved, p. 160, 180, &c. of her Warning againſt them.  ↩︎

  15. See Pen's No Croʃs no Crown, on this Subjećt. Key p. 31. Fox's Juʃtice and Judgement p. 8. Doctrinal Woeks p. 231. Select Epiʃt. p. 266. B. Cole's *Quaker clear'd p 22. Barcley's Apol. p. 515. And Proteʃt. Martyr's Precedent in Q.* Mary's Reign. Great Miʃt. p. 1,16,71,136,174, 207, 7, 17, 19, 27, 29, 35, 46, 5, 103, 118. Doctrinal Works, p. 26.  ↩︎

  16. Good Council rejećted, p. 49.  ↩︎

  17. Fox's Doćtrinal Works, p. 230. Declaration from the Harmleʃs&c. G. Bishop's Warnings to Oliver Cromwel. Barcley's Apol. Reasons why they could not sign the Abjuration, &c.  ↩︎

  18. Fox's Doctrinal Works, p. 130, 182, 191. Pen's Key, p. 35. Declaration from the Harmleʃs. Barclay's Apol. Quakers Plea. Anguis Flagellatus on this Subjećt.  ↩︎

  19. Fox's News coming up, p. 18. Maſson's Innocency clear'd, p. 1, &c. Parnil's Shield, p. 81, 82, 84. Fox's Great Miʃtery (of Iniquity) p. 179. Parnil's Shield, p. 81, 82, 84. Fisher's One Antidote more againʃt Swearing. Burrow's Works, p. 101, 536, 575, 622. Watkin's Swearing denied. John Whitehead's Works p. 258. Pen and Whitehead's Treatiʃe of Oaths, throughout. Key 36, and Pʃ. 63. 11. Iʃ. 45. 23. and cb. 65. 16. Jer. 4. 1, 2. and 12. 16. Matt. 26. 64, 2 Cor. 1. 18. and 12, 19. Galat. 1.20. 1 Theʃ 5.27. Heb. 16. Revel. 10. 6. Cave's primitive Chriʃtian. p. 77, 134, 374, 375. Fox's Selećt Epiʃtles, p. 153. Howgil's Works, p. 86. Woolrich to the King, p 9.  ↩︎

  20. Cry of the Oppreʃʃed, printed 1656, p. 1, &c. Elwood's Antidote againʃt Roger's Inʄećtion. Yearly Papers in Manuʃscript, as well as printed ones.  ↩︎

  21. See his ʃeveral Papers printed a little before the King came in, Anno 1660. compared with his News coming up out of the North, &c. Great Miʃt. p. 1, 16, 37, 136, 174, 207, 148, 258.  ↩︎

  22. Great Miʃt. p. 1, 6. contrary to his Supporter. W.P. Reaʃon againʃt Railing, p. 11.  ↩︎

  23. Great Miʃt. p. 3, 27, 232, 282.  ↩︎

  24. Great Miſt. p.8, 9, 12, 16, 17, 68, 246, 248, 249, 258, 322.  ↩︎

  25. Great Miʃt. p. 5, &c.  ↩︎

  26. Ibid. p. 68  ↩︎

  27. Ibid. p. 80, 253.  ↩︎

  28. Ibid. p. 29, 90, 100, 229, 273.  ↩︎

  29. Ibid. 138.  ↩︎

  30. Ibid. 253  ↩︎

  31. Ibid. p. 67, 100, 127, 248.  ↩︎

  32. Ibid. p. 3, 12, 210, 211, 214, 222, 246, 249.  ↩︎

  33. Ibid. p. 4.  ↩︎

  34. Ibid. p. 249.  ↩︎

  35. Ibid. p. 25.  ↩︎

  36. In his Preface to his Journal.  ↩︎

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