Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy

As an Introduction to my proof of this Charge, I think good to remind the World, that a certain Quaker, taking occasion some time since to declare his Sense of New-England's Hypocritical bloody Church of persecuting Presbyters, thus expresses himself; I have sometimes, says he, said within my self, a Man that hath a covetous deceitful rotten Heart, lying Lips, a smooth fawning flattering Tongue, short Hair, and deadly Enmity against those called Quakers, that oppose their Ways; such a Hypocrite is a fit Man to be a Member of any New England Church.1

In like manner may we now justly say, as I have also often said within my self, That one that has those corrupt Qualities, with a Thousand more as bad or worse, if he wear but plain Cloaths, say Thee and Thou, keep on his Hat before Magistrates, refuse a religious Oath, deny the use of Defensive Arms, own George Fox as the Lord's Anointed One, and have but Malice enough against all that oppose his unchristian Impositions, &c. such a Hypocrite is a fit Member of our depraved Quaker Church. Hypocritical to purpose! As I shall show as follows.

Since 1st. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to plead for it as their Principle, To leave every one to their own freedom, and the Grace of God in themselves, for Direction in their Religious Concernments; under pretence, if its being most comfortable to see Brethren walk harmoniously together, in the midst of various and differing Practices, &c.2

Whereas they are so far from any such Christian Principle notwithstanding, as they get into Power to persecute, as that they cry out agqinst the Claim of it in their own Dissenters from their Corruptions, as a loose Plea tending to Ranterizm.3

2dly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to affirm, That they do not condemn all the Christian World but themselves, as their Opponents have charged them; under pretence, That they own the Waldenses of old, with all the sincere hearted of all Perswasions now, as their Christian Brethren.4

Whilst they are so far from any such true Christian Charity, as that besides their repeated Condemnation of all other profess'd Protestants, as The seed of the great Whore of Rome, &c. if any of their Members happen to Marry in any other Protestant Society besides their own Sect, they not {Page 110} only disown him as a Person joyn'd with infidels in the time of his Life, but also refuse them Burial amongst them after they are Dead; under pretence, That none others are in the Truth but Quakers.5

3dly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to cry out against others as Apostates, in keeping their Meeting-House Doors with armed Force, lest any should be moved by the Spirit of the Lord to declare against their Corruptions. In way of Excuse whereof,6

Whilſt they themſelves are guilty of the ſame Crime in effećt towards their own Friends, in keeping ſuch of them out by force, as are moved by the ſame Spirit to decleare againſt their Corruptions. In way of Excuſe whereof,7

4thly. What greater Hypocrisy then for them to pretend, That their Yearly Meeting Door is not lock'd, barr'd, bolted, as prohibited, because they have a private one (under Sufferance they keep guarded) that is not.8

Whereas they well know (what I amongst other have found by Experience) That their Yearly Meeting House proper and publick Doors are lock'd, barr'd or bolted, contrary to the Laws Direction, to their own Contradiction. In Defence if which unlawful Practice.

5thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them one while to pretend, That their Yearly Meetings are not for Worship but Discipline, in order to escape. legal Punishment for keeping their publick Doors lock'd, barr'd or bolted, to prevent their Christian Monitors from Entrance to detect their Corruptions.9

Whilst they at another time confess, (what is well known by Experience) That those Meetings are as well for Worship as Discipline, to their own Confutation.

{Page 111} 6thly. What greater Hypocrisy, than for their Pensilvanian Collegues, not only to cry out of (but also most abusively prosecute) such of their own profess'd Friends as confronted their Errors, in the Time of their Meetings for Worship, as a Fact unsufferable amongst them.

Whilst they were so far from censuring any of their ancient Friends that confronted the National Ministry in the Time of their Worship, as that they quietly permitted (if not encouraged) their Preacher Delavall to interrupt George Keith in his publick Testimony in their own Meetings, before his Exclusion out of their Communion, contrary to their own Provincial Law, that enacts, That no Man be disturbed in the practice of his Religion, tho of a different Perswasion, to their own Contradiction.10

7thly. What greater Hypocrisy than fir them to affirm, That they durst not for Conscience sake dishonour their Holy Profession, by giving Bond for their Appearqnce in Courts of Juricature, when required bu Authority; under pretence, of their being sufficiently bound by the Truth they profess, to appear according to their Promise without them.11

Whilst yet they stick not to enjoyn one another to bind themselves in such Bonds, to stand to the Award of such Persons as they depute to end their Differences in Matters of Meumand Tuum,under the Penallty of their Church Censure for their Refusal; through their well grounded Experience of the insufficiency of their magnified Truth, to obliged them to do their Duty to each other without them. Agqin,12

8thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to affirm in like manner, That they durst not dishonour their said Profession, by giving Bonds for their good Behaviour, till the Time of their promised Appearance, at the Demand of Authority; under pretence of their being bound by their Truth, to behave themselves well without them.13

Whilst at the same time they set forth Orders to bind one another from lawful Marriage a full {Page 112} Year after their first Wife's Decease, as a Duty the Spirit obliges to; under pretence, they should otherwise be liable to seek new Wives in a Month or less after their first was dead, were they not by such Orders confin'd from 'em.14

As there can be no greater Hypocrisy than for them to deny uncovering their Heads, or bowing their Bodies to any Christian Magistrate or Minister, as an unchristian Practice they can by no means subject to.15

Whilst they at the same time not only make their Servants and Apprentices stand bare-head before them, under pretence of Conveniency, &c. but also plead for such bodily Homage towards their own approved Teachers, as Duty towards them, in Reverence to the Light within; though their reowned Barcley renders such Pretences as an Inlet to Idolatry. So,16

10thly. As it is the highest Hypocrisy fir them to plead King Charles's Act of Indemnity (amongst other Impertenencies of their own Invention) as Sufficient Answer to their Opponent's Objection, of their Fox's virulent Reflections on Kingly Govrnment inthe Time of the Commonwealth, as if they were now of a different Sentiment.17

When in evidence of the contrar, they have so audaciously commemorated those Reflectious Books of his (with the rest of their Heretical ones) in their late printed Collection of Titles, as wrote on Truths Account, and printed for its Service; so I hope they won't blame me for reminding them of his and their Hypocritical Ups and Down's, as Charges they have yet to clear themselves of also on this Subject. In order whereto,

{Page 113} 11thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for their Patron Fox to cry out in our Names, against all Earthly Kings, &c. as Antichristian; under pretence, That as Christ was King alone, the Cave Joshua put those of the Canannites in, was a fit place for them; with much more to this purpose, in order to prepossess the World against King Charles's Restoration.18

Whilst yet in the very same Year that those his Railleries were printed, when the said King came in, he sticks not to tell the World, That the supposition of his being an Enemy to the King, was utterly false; hebeing so far from being an Enemy to the King, his Love was so to him, as that he could say, it was of the Lord he was come; of which he had a foresight three Years before; wherefore, he an Enemy to the King? No; for he had no Reason so to be, who was one that would have him saved, he and his Brethren so loved and honoured him; with abundance more to this purpose.19

12thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to pretend, Their said Fox in his Reflections on such as doted on an Earthly King to Rule over them, only meant persectuing Kings, who were Mad at the Child Jesus.20

Whereas, besides his Vacuation of their Office, (in his pretensions that Christ saith, Love your Enemies, contrary to the practice of those Kings, who defend their outward Cities against such as assault them) he not only affirms, All Kings and Emperors since the Days of the Apostles, have been set up among the Apostates, (for which Cause the true Christians ought to live upon the Heads of 'em'); but also tells the World, That they that mind them are Enemies {Page 114} to the Cross of Christ, and Traitors to the Author of it; since as there shall be no King but Jesus. all Kings and Rulers must down and cease; as a plain evidence, that he meant not only persecuting Kings, as they would perswade the World, but all outward Kings in general, to his Defenders Contradiction.21

13thly. What more abominable Hypocrisy than for them (after they had almost deafened their Persecutors in Oliver's Time, &c. with their impetuous Outcries, How valiantly they had fought against the King and his Cavaliers, in behalf of Liberty and Property; as a Matter that merited their Favour towards them)22

14thly. To run to his Son Charles the Second upon his first Arrival, in order to deafen him with their Pretensions, To be the only Harmless and Innocent Ones, that were so far from fighting against him or his Father, as that they never used the outward Sword, or ever could use it against Man, whatever they suffered for want of it.23

14thly. What more horrid Hypocrisy than for them to affirm, That they did not approve of putting K. Charles the First to Death, nor ever gloried in it; under pretence, That they were not a gathered People when that was done.24

Whilst yet they not only let their West answering to the North stand uncondemned, wherein they call him a proclaimed Traitor, and render his Death as the Effect of God's righteous Judgments upon him, {Page 115} for the Evil Deeds he had committed; but also stick to recommend their Reverend Fox's Select Epistles, as a Book worthy of our serious perusal; wherein they have confess'd, to their own Contradiction, That they were a gathered People in several Parts of the Nation, several Years before his Execution.25

15thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to cry out against their Opponent Clapham, as a temporizing Hypocrite, in turning to King Charles the Second, after he had set forth Oliver Cromwel and his Army (in his Stone smiting) as the Lord's Honoured Worthies, whom he had raised up to effect those great Changes, in pursuance whereof he advised them, To carry on the Lord's Work.26

Whilst yet they themselves are much more guilty of the same Crime (if it be one) in so turning, after they had infinitely more exalted the said Oliver and his Army, in their Good Counsel (as they call it) amongst others of their Books for the same Purpose.

16thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to pretend, That they are fully satisified with the Limitation and Succession of the Crown, as the same is and stands settled, by an Act, declaring, The Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and settling the Succession to her Majesty Queen Ann, and the Heirs of her Body being Protestants, and those of the Princess Sophia, Electoress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover after her, &c. as if they were mighty Friends to the National Protestant Church, and our Kingly Government in an Hereditary Succession.27

Whilst they not only let their Friend Josiah Cole's Book stand uncondemned, wherein he declares in our Names, That we Quakers are separated from that which is called the Church of England, because they {Page 116} are so far separated, degenerated and apostatiz'd from the Doctrine, Principle, Spirit and Practice of the true Protestants, as that though they call themselves Christians and Protestants, they are no more true Christians and Protestants than the Papists (from whom the Protestants separated) were the true Church, because they said so: But also that part of their Fox's and Burrow's Epistles remain uncensured, wherein they exclaim against a Succession of our English Kingly Government in an Hereditary Line, as a great Grievance this Nation hath been enslaved with.

17thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for their Justice Jennings, with the rest if his Pensilvanian Collegues, to Swear in effect to defend the Queen, in saying,We whose Names are here-underwritten, do sincerely promise and solemnly declare, in the presence of Almighty God, That we will bear true Faith and Allegiance to her Majesty Queen Ann, and will her defend to the utmost of our Power, as well as support and maintain, &c. the Limitation and Succession of the Crown, against the pretended King James, &c.28

And as soon as they have done, in effect, Swear back again, by their annex'd Declaration, That by this their Promise (as they call it) to maintain and defend the said Limitation and Succession &c. their true Intent and Meaning is, to do all and every thing according to their Duty in order to it; PROVIDED it be not understood,[Note] That they thereby oblige themselves to use Force and Arms, which for Conscience sake they cannot do: Whereby they undo all again, in leaving our Queen exposed, and the Succession in as much Danger as they found it, to their own Contradiction; in pursuance whereof,29

18thly. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to pretend, That the Reason why they could not sign {Page 117} the Association, according to the Act of Parliament in that Case provided, was not out of any Dissatisfaction to King William, but only, because they could not for Conscience sake fight for themselves, or any Man else.30

When as their Friend William Mead, not only made no scruple to fight with the Padder that assaulted him, in order to the Defence of himself and Money; under pretence of the Spirit's assisting him; but also (besides their Warring under Oliver Cromwel against the King and his Cavaliers) 'tis well known, their Pensilvanian Collegues not long since hired Men to fight against Babit and his Crew of French Pyrates, to retake their Sloop they had got out of their Harbour; as an evidence, that they would have sought themselves for any real Conscientious Scruple they had, had there not been others to have been got to save their Bones for their Money.31

Not to insist on their Hypocrisy in offering to subscribe the Substance of the Oath of Allegiance, whilst yet they refuse Submission to all the Forms of it as Unchristian; as if their Testimony against Oaths consisted in their Disallowance to Swear substantially, whilst others only Swear formally, which I wish was the worst Fault they are guilty of.32

19thly. What more horrid Hypocrisy than for them to pretend, That the Lord hath so formed them, as that they can't but be Obedient to the King, as an Argument against the Imposition of Oaths on them for their better Obligation to it; when as they (thro' the Experience of their Unfaithfulness toward {Page 118} each other on their verbal Promises) have refused to lend on another Money upon their written Securities by Mortgage, &c. till their wanting Brotherhood has given them satisfaction their Land was not pre-ingaged; by his subjection to their Imposition of such Terms of Affeveration to the contrary, as they have owned to be a substantial Oath.33

20thly. What more notorious Hypocrisy than for them to affirm one while, They own a Christian Magestry, as God's Ordinance for the Punishment of Evil Doers, by the Sword Civil and Military; under pretence of there having need of it, to keep down the unruly Part, whilst Men are composed of Flesh and Blood; with more to this purpose.34

Whilst they another while invalidate the End of it, by renouncing the use of the outward Sword in their Hands against such, as Unchristian; under pretence, That if the Magistrate be a Christian, or desire to be so, he will love his Enemies, according to his Lord's Rule, and not strike again when they strike him.35

21st. What greater Hypocrisy than for them to pretend to active Obedience to all Laws of the Government's enacting in Civil Cases, for which Cause they pay Subsidy Money, with all other Dues of that Nature, as Duties they are oblig'd to by their own Principles.36

Whereas they are so far from the performance {Page 119} of that Duty in its true Extent, as that besides of the Aversion to set forth the Militia at the Magistrates Commandment, they not only generally refuse to pay the Tythes of their Increase to the Impropriators (on whom they are legally settled for Civil Uses) as a Denial of Christ's being come in the Flesh, and the Root of Ranterizm; but one of their most noted Preachers and Directors made no scruple to hide his Alamodes under his Window Seat, (if I be not misinformed) in order to their illegal Concealment; in pursuance of which Hypocritical Inconsistency.

22dly. As it is no less than Hypocrisy for them to deny giving Money towards buying Arms, Drums, Colours, &c. to set forth the Militia at the Magistrates Commandment, in order to their own and the Nations Defence; under pretence of all outward Wars being in this Gospel-Day utterly unlawful.37

Whilst they at the same Time make not the least scruple to pay Taxes towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France; so

23dly. What more manifest Hypocrisy than for them to pretend, They cannot for Conscience sake lift up a Carnal Weapon against any Man in their own or others Defence, though they lose their Lives for their omission of them.38

Whilst yet they, like those bloody Popish Locusts the Bohemians complain'd of, (for setting the Civil Powers upon them, when they would not Fight themselves) make not the least scruple to defend their ancient Friends Instigations of Oliver Cromwel, and his Oliverian Successors, To fight their Antagonists all the World over, 'till they had destroyed them in way of Offence; under pretence, of its being the Means to make way for the Kingdom of Christ upon Earth; wherein they as Persons best {Page 120} fitted for that work, declared their Desire and Hope of being concerned in it; in consideration whereof

Not to insist on their Hypocritical Pretence in way of Excuse for this their Hypocritical Inconsistency, That the Prophets Isiah and Jeremiah summoned others to War, whilst themselves were not concerned in it; which is so far from being a Parallel Case to their Trumpeting others to Fight themselves as Unchristian; unless they can prove that those Prophets like them, denied those Wars they summoned to, as Unrighteous in themselves, and Unlawful for them to practice.39

24thly. What more abominable Hypocrisy than for their Friend Whiting to charge George Keith with Abuse and Forgery, in making their Patron George Whitehead say in p.13 of his Truth and Innocency, That they, i.e. *the * Quakers, are the Ten Thousands of his Saints, in whom the Lord is come to execute Judgemnt upon all, &c. under pretence of there being no such Thing in the Page he mentions.40

Whereas the said Whiting knew well enough, there are not only the words George Keith quotes in p. 13. as applicable to the Quakers, but that the Word Quaker is in the very first Line of the very next Page to that George Keith quoted also, in evidence that George Whitehead intended them; in pursuance whereof

25thly. As the Quakers have expressly represented themselves, the Saints who shall rule the World, for which Cause they sollicite for the Government of it; under pretence, of their not being ignorant of what belongs to it.41

What more audacious Hypocrisy than for George Whitehead to go about to evade their Opponents Construction of their Friends Prophesies (of God's putting a two-edged Sword into the Hands of his Saints, {Page 121} to execute Vengeance on the Heathen, and Punishments on the People) in a literal Sense; under pretence, of its being as unlikely they should mean so, as 'twas impossible for them to Thrash the Mountains of the Earth (some of which in the North of England are a Mile or two high) to Dust, with an Instrument that hath Teeth. When as besides the literal Import of the Terms of their said Prophesies (compared with their own Explanations in that Sense) they mean the Kings of the Earth; to the plain Confutation of this their horrid Deluder's Pervertion; through which my self, amongst others, have heretofore been most grossly mislead and abused.42

26thly. What greater Hypocrisy that for the said George Whitehead, after a Thousand of his Essays if this Nature, to conceal their Corruptions that lead to those Effects by his evasive Writings, in way of Answer to their Opponents,

To assume the Confidence notwithstanding to tell the World, That through the Lord's Goodness, he has long resolved not to decline or conceal Truth, to vindicate or excuse Error or Mistake in any, if you will believe him; though none in the World, I am perswaded, was ever so grossly guilty of Hypocritical Equivocation as he is; in pursuance whereof43

27thly. What more notorious Hypocrisy than for him to pretend, That their Idol Fox was not so ignorant of all those several Languages of Italian, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Caldean, &c. as their Adversaries represented him; (in order no doubt to perswade the Word, the Battledoor of above thirty Languages he set his G.F. to, was mostly of his own composing.)44

{Page 122} Whilst in direct Contradiction to those his Hypocritical Pretensions, he hath since made no Bones to assert upon his new devised Quaker Oath, That those scandalonus Shred of Nonsense, called his Last Will and Testament, were of his own Handwriting; in proof that he understood not his own Mother-Tongue: Again,

Not to insist on their Meeting for Sufferings Hypocrisy, (this george Whitehead was the occasion of) in setting forth our ancient Friend's Offers to express themselves on good Occasions in those solemn Terms they mention in their Epistle of the 17th of the 2d Month 1696, in order to perswade us to subject to them in Courts of Judicature, as tendered to us by way of stinted Form, when-ever called to it, according to their Precedent.45

When as it appears from some of their Authors Explanations , as their Epistle recites them, compared with the rest, as they lie in their Books, that they never designed them for that End and Purpose.

28thly. What more abominable Hypocrisy than for him and his depraved Collegues, to cry our against their Opponents as Abusers of their Words and Sense in their Books; under pretence, of their not having taken all their Words, or not exactly as they wrote o3r spoke them.46

When as, besides their Perversions of their own Friends Words and Sense in the above-mentioned Epistle, they are not only grossly guilty of the same Crime (if it be one) towards those they exclaim on; but also so audacious therein as to presume to defend their Fox's Pervertions of Holy Scripture, as a Practice warrantable from our Saviour and his Apostles Precedent; under pretence, that a Quotation may be said to be truly made, if it contains the whole Meaning of the awriter, though it r3cites not all his Expressions; in pursuance whereof47

{Page 123} 29thly. As they Hypocritically tell the World, That as they are not under a necessity of reciting whole Quotations, they never reproved any, who through Defect of Memory, or for Brevity, left out, put in, or changed a Word, &c. so they did not alter the Sense of their Writings.48

When as their Whitehead's, Wyeth's and Whiting's several Answers to their Opponents, chiefly consist of such Reproofs for the Faults themselves are as guilty of as those they reprove for 'em.49

Not to insist on their Fox's Hypocritical Pretensions, That we not only may, but also ought to go to Exhort and Instruct, &c. as the sending one of another, without waiting for a Motion (meaning from the Lord) to do it.50

Whilst his Foxlings most wickedly refuse to return what they steal from us, or do us Justice for the publick Lies they have told on us; under pretence, of their being not obliged to it, without the Lord require it

As it was no less than Hypocrisy for this Apostle Fox, to advise one Friend to purchase Tythes, whilst he recriminated the Payment of them as Unchristian in another,

30th. What more notorious Hypocrisy than for their said Apostle to send forth a Paper of Reflectious Queries, against our securing any part of our Estates from the Spoylers, on a Religious Account, in one respect.51

Whilst he at the same time made no Bones to allow and incourage his Friend Mary Penington, to secure a part of hers from them on the same Account. in another.

{Page 124} 31ſt. What more horrid Hypocrisy than for this their Fox to declare it to be, The only Work of their Ministry to draw People from the outward Teaching of Man. to the immediate Teachings of Christ's Spirit within, as their only Guide in all Things; under pretence, That the World was ruled by outward Rules, but the Saints Rule was within them; the Worlds Record was without them, but the Saints within them; the Worlds Guide without them, but the Saints within them; with more to this purpose.52

Whilst yet this very same Fox himself was so far from confining himself and Followers to any such inward Rule. as that he on the contrary took upon him to Teach our Teachers, by an outward one of his own Invention, when to preach, what to preach, to whom to preach, how long to preach, how to preach, and what's worse then that, most grossly false Doctrine too; to his own Contradiction.

32dly And ait was no leſs than Hypocriſy in their renowned Fiſher, to represent his Opponent Dauſon's Declaration, That he truſted his Reader (by what he wrote) would be confirmed in his bad opinion of the Quakers, as a confeſſing to all the World, The end of his Endeavours was a Converting of his Readers to bad, &c. So,53

Not to inſist on William Pen's Hypocriſy, in rendering Persecution as inseparable from Popery, in one ſort of his Books; which in another, he will have to be no natural Consequent of it.54

33dly. What greater Hypocrisy than for George Whitehead, after he hath ſo tenaciouſly condemned Marriage of firſt Couſens, as Abomination, Wickedneſs, Fulthineſs, villainy, Confuſion, &c. to declare William Parr of Nottingham (when he came up to ſollicite their Second Days Meeting's {Page 125} Permiſſion of his Daughter's Proceedings with her Second, for the ſatisfaćtion of their Nottingham Monthly one) That he was ſo far from oppoſing ſuch Proceedings with Second Couſens, as that he had nought againſt Marriage with the Firſt, if any amongſt us found themſelves diſpoſed to it; upon notice whereof, Nottingham Months Meeting acquieſc'd, whoſe ſqueamiſh Conſciences otherways would not have been brought to ad,it Marriage with the Second, what Danger ſoever the Perſons had been expoſed to for want of it; in purſuance whereof,55

34thly. As there can be no greater Hypocriſy than for this Whitehead and his Followers, to cry out againſt the Pope's Prohibition to Marriage of Prieſts, as a Doćtrine of Devils, the Apoſtle condemned.56

Whilſt they ſtand guilty of a Crime of the ſame Nature, in their ſeveral unretraćted Orders againſt Marriage if others, altogether as Righteous, Lawful and Expedient, if their Friend William Pen may be credited.57

35thly.What more notorious Hypocriſy than for them to repreſent the ancient Chriſtian Fathers and Martyers, as Oppoſers of all Oaths as Unchristian, (from ſome few Inſtances of ſuch as ſcrupled them, through their Mistake of our Lord and his Apoſtles Prohibitions.)58

When as (ſetting aſide irreligious Ones of Heatheniſh Invention, with others to begin Strife) they cannot be ignorant, That the Generality of thoſe Fahters commended and praćtis'd them as Chriſtian Duties on good Occasions to end it; according to Fox's Aćts and Monuments, and Dr. Cave's Relations. The like in the Caſe of Defenſive Arms, which the Chriſtians never denied or refuſed, when not clogg'd with ſome ſinful Impoſition in the Execution by their Prince; as thoſe our depraved Quakers have alſonHypocritically pretended, in favour of their unlawful Laws and Orders againſt them.

{Page 126} 36thly, What greater Hypocriſy than for them to aſſert, That any Party of Men under a Government to make Laws, (not being lawfully authorized ſo to do) for the binding of others, is Treason.

Whilſt yet they themſelves, who have no ſuch Authority, have taken upon them to make Laws (to bind their own People, in the Caſe of Oaths, Tythes, Defenſive Arms and Marriage, &c.) by their own Confeſſion, as apparent Inſtances of their own Treachery.59

Not to inſit on their Hypocriſy, in denying as Unchriſtian calling any Man Maſter in a Civil Senſe, (in reference to Mat. xxiii, 10, &c.) who are not really ſo in the Common Senſe; whilſt yet they ſtick not to call their Patron Fox Father of many Nations, in a Religious Senſe, directly contrary to verſe 9. who feally never was ſo in any Senſe.60

37thly. What more provoking Hypocrisy than for them to pretend; That their Adverſaries are , miſtaken in entertaining ſuch diſadvantagious Thoughs of them, as that they are far from retraćting or condemning any vile Error with which they have been charged, from undeniable Matter of Faćt.61

When as they are ſo far from retraćting any such vile Error, when proved upon them by ſuch Evidence, as that they mosy wickedly avoid it, by pretending, their Accuſer is their profeſſed Adversary, or one of their profeſſed Friends they have declared their Disunity with for his Apotacy in ſo treacherously charging them, &c.62

38thly. And as it it no leſs than Hypocriſy for them to cry out, of its being below the Justice of all Nations to charge, without giving the Perſons charged, Copies of their Charges againſt them.

Whilſt yet at the ſame time they make no Conſcience, to refuſe Copies of their own Charges to {Page 127} their Friends they have charged, leſt their Falſhoods therein ſhould (according to their Demerits) be moſt jutly detećted.

39thly What more provoking Hypocrisy than for them to pretend, That fair and equal Diſputations, is the best way to polish Religious Reformations, according to KingCharles the Firſt's Sentiments; for which Cause they highly boast of their ancient Demands of them; under pretence, That the Day is at Hand, wherein thoſe that guard Baal (as they call the National Prieſts) ſhould have their Trial before the People; they can Challenge the whole World to detećt them; none in the Light being afraid to bring their Deeds to be Try'd by it; with much more to this purpoſe.63

Whilſt yet they are ſo far from ſuffering their Deeds to be brought to any such trial, in any ſsuch Diſpute when called to it, as that I am forced to requeſt our Superiors in Parliment to anſwer their ancient Petitions, in ſummoning them to it; in a Senſe of the impoſſibility to bring them to any ſuch trial, without being forc'd to it.

In conſideration whereof, I have often admired at their moſt audacious Hypocriſy in crying out, Let every Thing have its due Weight, under pretence, That it hath been their great Unhappineſs, that they have not hitherto been known as they are; they being Drunk with the Whores Cup, that will obtrude their Doćtrines without Trial, ſince they know that nothing but what will abide the Fire ſhall ſtand, &c.

{Page 128} Whilst by their most ſcandalous Declenſions, when called to it, they make it appear notwithſtanding; They love an Examination as Lucifer does the Light, which has given me just Cause to think, That they (and not thoſe their Friend Howgill ſpeaks of) are the Men to whom the Eye-Lids of the Morning are as the Shadow of Death; the appearance of the Lord ſo affrights them, as that they run from it as a Thief that digs through a Wall, after he hath broke open a House in the Night; wherefore muſt ſeek out othef Devices to promote their orruptions, rather than suffer their Deeds to be brought to the Light by a fair Examination in a free Conference; in purſuance whereof,64

Not to inſiſt on their Friend Claridge's Hypocriſy, in representing Judge Hales as a Favourer if their Doćtrines, in his Nature of True Religion; who was ſo far from it, as that he forewarned his Children conversing with the Quakers, Whoſe poyſonous Opinions, he affirmed, carried a Contagion in the, worſe than the Plague.65

40thly. What more abominable Hypocriſy than for this their renowned Claridge, to ſet forth a pretended Confeſſion of a nameleſs Author (in a pretended Letter from a Clergyman in the Country to {Page 129} a Clergyman in the City, concerning the Quakers) That for his part, he does believe, they are the People who, God hath raiſed in this dreggy Age of the World, to refine it.

When as I had the ſaid Letter ſent to my Hand in Print, long before this his Commendation of it, as one of his own Writing, after he had left his Prieſtly Office, to turn Quaker; whereby (how much ſoever they Hypocriticaaly cry out againſt Mens going about to advance whar they call Truth, by Pie Fraudes) it is obvious, that rather then want Proſelytes, they won't stick to cheat People into their Faith and Church, by ſuch notoriously impious ones, as this of their Claridge's, for want of ſound Arguments to convince them of the Truth of it.66

Wherefore, if there be no Hypocrites in the true Church of Chriſt, as their Friend Furnſworth, in p. 13. of his Rod to whip out the wild Boars, hath affirmed, I doubt it will appear, that theirs is a falſe one; or this their Claridge, with the reſt of his depraved Collegues of the Second Days Meeting, (who approved his ſaid Poſtscript) are of thoſe unclean Animals that must be whipp'd out of it ſince there is hardly any others in the whole Universe guilty of ſuch abominable Hypocriſy as I have proved them; which, inſtead of making them proud of the,ſelves and their pretended Reformations, one would think, the Senſe thereof ſhould of all others make them the moſt humble; yet they are above all others, I am perſwaded, guilty of that damnable Sin of Pride alſo, through which Lucifer fell in the beginning, as I shall in the next place prove by such Instances, as I am apt to think, they'll ne'er attempt to refute before Impartial Auditors in a Verbal Conference, if they can poſſibly avoid it. In the interim muſt tell the World, that it they want more proofs of their Hypocriſy, they may read the Books ſtiled Tyranny and Hypocriſy detećted; Penyman's Traćts; Quakers Contradićtions; Quakers Unmasked; Quakers Quibbles; Rich's Hidden Things brought to Light, and {Page 130} Roger's Christian Quaker; together with p. 11, 12, 13, 17, 21, &c. of Fr. Bugg's Prologue, and p. 563, &c; of the Retrospećtive Glaſs; and there find enough to evince, That the Day of Visitation (of which their true Friend John Penyman foretold them) is near to come upon them, wherein no Hypocrite, or ſuch double-minded Men as they are, can ſtand.67

  1. P. 5. oʄ New-England's Enʃign, &c.  ↩︎

  2. Hubberthorn's Light of Chriʃt within, p. 8, 9, 15, 16, 18, 19. Crook's Teʃtimony, as cited p. 71. oʄ Pen's Judas and the Jews *combin'd. Together with Iſ. Penington's New-England Baniʃhment. Authority and Government which Chriʃt excluded, p. 76, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, &c. Penington's Collećtion, p. 240, and Teʃtimony, as cited p. 3 &c. oʄ Tho. Crisp's Collećtion,* &c.  ↩︎

  3. Pen's Brieʄ Exam. p. 7, 11, &c. Compared with Elwood's Antidote againʃt Rogers's Inʄećt. p. 78. and Pen's Spirit of the Hat, as cited p. 97 oʄ Fr. Bugg's *Pilgrim's Progreʃs.*  ↩︎

  4. See Penington's Works, p. 310, &c. Wyeth's Ang. Flag. Sećt. 14. Whitehead's Sober Expoʃt. p. 94. &c. Power oʄ Chrʃt v indicated, with more prooʄs in my Manuʃcript of their Apoʃtacy.  ↩︎

  5. Burrow's Epiʃt. to Fox's Great Myʃt. Fox's Selećt Epiʃt. p. 277, 279, 280. Parnil's Works, p. 114. Weſt about Marriage, throughout. Fox's *Heathen's Divinity, &c. Burrow's to the Camp of the Lord, p. 2. Eccle's Muʃick Lećture, and Quakers Challenge,* &c.  ↩︎

  6. Fox's Great Myʃt. p. 271. Profeʃʃors Catechiʃm, p. 36. Papiʃts Strength broken, p. 59. Burrow's Epiʃt. p. 22.  ↩︎

  7. Penyman's Traćts, 2d Part, p. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, &.  ↩︎

  8. Whitehead's Truth and Innocency, p. 43.  ↩︎

  9. See Bugg's Preface to the 2d Edit. of hid Pilgrims Progreʃs, p. 56, 60. Compared with p. 11. oʄ Whitehead's Reply to his modeʃt Deʄence Juʃt Cenʃure, p. 36. Truth and Innocency, p. 39, 66. Pen's Preʄace to Fox's Journal. Quakers Plea, p. 11.  ↩︎

  10. Hereʃy and Hatred, p. 4, 5.  ↩︎

  11. Dewsberry's Collećtion, p. 83. An Account oʄ ʃome Grounds and Reaʃons, p. 24.  ↩︎

  12. See their private Minutes of their Yearly Meeting oʄ Anno 1697, &c.  ↩︎

  13. Dewsberry's Collećtion p. 77, 78.  ↩︎

  14. See their York Yearly Order, compared with their Friend Walter Myer's Defence of it.  ↩︎

  15. Fox's Journal, p. 624, 625. Cole's Quakers cleared, p. 22. Barcley's Apol.  ↩︎

  16. Vindicia Verit. Innocency againʃt Envy, p. 18 Naylor's Anʃwer to Hidden Things. Fox's Letter to the Parliament, at the End oʄ Naylor's Trial.  ↩︎

  17. Whitehead's Antidote, p. 24. Truth and Innocency, p. 31. Chriʃts Lambs deʄended.  ↩︎

  18. See his ʃeveral Papers to the Presbyterians, &c. printed the beginning oʄ Anno 1660, with his Sum of ʃuch Particulars, p. 2, &c.  ↩︎

  19. Compared with the Journal of his Liʄe, p. 219. Together with the Declararion oʄ Fidelity, he ʃubʃcribed, amongʃt others oʄ his Friends, the ʃame Year, as recitied p. 224 oʄ the Snake, with p. 72, 73, oʄ the Liʄe oʄ John Penyman. Quakers unmaʃked, and Quakers C0ntradićtions.  ↩︎

  20. Whitehead's Truth and Innocency, p. 30. Innocency againʃt Envy, p. 10, 11.  ↩︎

  21. Fox's ʃeveral Papers, printed 1660. 8, 9, 10, 11. 16. News out if the North, p. 18, 19, 20. Burrow's Collećtion.  ↩︎

  22. G. Bishop's Warnings to O. Cromwel, p. 10, 11, 14, 19, 27. Weʃt anʃwering to the North, p. 96, 102, 103. Epiʃtle to the Generals, Captains, and Officers, &c. p. 1, 3, 6. Quakers Plea, p. 5.  ↩︎

  23. Epiʃtle ʄrom the Harmleʃs &c. with the Sum oʄ ʃuch Particulars as were charged on G. Fox, p. 2, 3. Fox, concerning the overturning King Charles, p. 6, 10, &c. Brief Declaration, p. 4, 5. Controverʃy wiith the Biʃhops, p. 1, &c. Compared with p.m72. oʄ the Liʄe oʄ J. Penyman, and Quakers unmasked.  ↩︎

  24. Ang. Flag. p. 327.  ↩︎

  25. Weʃt anʃwering to the North, p. 79, 89, 94. Fox's Selećt Epiʃtles, Part 1. p. 2. with his Epiʃtles to the Generals, Captains, Officers, and Soldiers.  ↩︎

  26. Pen's Guide miʃtaken, p. 51.  ↩︎

  27. See their late Paper oʃ Abjuration they printed and ʃent us to take in the Country, when we went to Vote for Members oʄ Parliament, compared with their Friend Cole's Touchʃtone, &c. Fox's ʃeveral Papers, p. 8, 9. News out oʄ the North. Burrow's Epiʃtle at the Front of Fox's Great Myʃtery, and Advice to the Parliament in Anno. 1659. caʃhier'd out oʄ his Collećtions, though citied by John Penyman in p. 6. oʄ his Quakers Contradićtions, and F.B. in p. 6, oʄ his late Pićture of Quakeriʃm.  ↩︎

  28. Which Words their Patron Whitehead in p. 35. oʄ his Rambling Pilgrim, &c. owns to be an Oath, to his and the9r Contradićtion, as elʃwhere notiʄied.  ↩︎

  29. See Daniel Leed's Great Myʃtery of Fox craft diʃcovered, p. 10, 11. [Note] *They ʃhould have added, Unleʃs it be to ʃave our ʃeives or Sloops, and then we ʃhall make no ʃcruple on't, having ʄreedom to uʃe the Sword as Magiʃtrates, or hire others to uʃe it for our Ends, though we Damn it as Unchriʃtian in our Queen's Deʄence.*  ↩︎

  30. See their ancient Teʃtimony, as they call it, oʄ the 23d oʃ the ʄirʃt Month, Anno 1695-6. with F.B.'s Pilgrims Progreʃs, p. 193.  ↩︎

  31. See the later Part oʄ J.P.'s Quaker unmasked, in way oʄ Reply to G.W.'s pretended Anʃwer to it: Compared with Iʃ. Penington's Great Question, p. 14. Declaration to the diʃtraćted Nations, R. H. Good Old Cauʃe. Rich's Hidden Things. F.B.'s Quakeriʃm drooping, p. 137.  ↩︎

  32. Hubberthorn's Diʃcourʃe with K Charles II. John Whitehead's Works, p. 263, 264. 283. Howgil's Trial, 4th and 6th ʃide. Fox's Trial, p. 10 &c. as cited p. 6. oʃ Quakers unmasked.  ↩︎

  33. Compared with their Friend Stephen Criʃp's Impoʃition on his Quaker Creditor, as cited p. 25. oʄ the Deʄence oʄ it, together with the Treatiʃe entitled, The Quaker Wickedneʃs, p. 5, &c. and their Friend Richard Thompſon's Miʃortune in venturing to Truʃt them upon their Word without Bond, which he ʃadly rued in my Audience a little before his Expiration.  ↩︎

  34. Wyeth's Primitive Chriʃtianity, p. 41, &c. Penington's Works. Crook's Collećt. p. 206. Noble Salut. p. 17. &c. Parnil's Collećtion, p. 81, 82, 84, 206.  ↩︎

  35. Barcley's Apol. p. 567. compared with p. 560, &c. Viver's Vicar of Banbury farther correćted, p. 18, 19.  ↩︎

  36. See their ancient Teʃtimony renewed, with their Clark's Rod diʃcovered, p. 54. and Salthouſe *Anʃwer to the Biʃhop's, &c. Queries, p. 23. Comparwd with p. 24. oʄ their Clark's Rox, together with their Etwood's Antidote, p. 78. and G. Whitehead's Accuʃer, p.* 105, &c.,  ↩︎

  37. See Barcley's Apol. p. 565. in the firʃt Caʃe, compared with their common Praćtice in the laʃt.  ↩︎

  38. See their ʃeveral Declarations againʃt all Wars and Fighters heretofoʄore inʃtanced, together with their Quakers Plea and Remonʃtrance, &c. compared with John Fox's Aćts and Monuments, p. 631, 644. Quaker, Fox and Burrow's Good Counʃel. Penington's Examination of Grounds and Cauʃes, p. 36, &c. Biʃhop's Warnings to O. Cromwel. Weʃt anʃwering to the North. E. Burrow's Collećtion, and Wyeth's Ang. Flag.  ↩︎

  39. Ang. Flag. p. 320, &c.  ↩︎

  40. Judas and Chief Prieʃts conʃpiring, p. 30.  ↩︎

  41. See Fisher's Works, p. 99, 102. R.H. Good Old Cauʃe. Burrow's Meʃʃage, p. 3, &c. and Works, p. 588, 613, 751. Fox's Journal, p. 542. Selećt Epiʃtles, &c. Papers to Parliament, Epiʃt.  ↩︎

  42. Sober Expoʃt. p. 57. Ramb. Pilg. Burrow's Works, p. 83, 111, 613, 751. Declaration to the diʃtraćted Nation, p. 14. Howgil's Works, p. 5, 31, 32, 92, 93, 95, 96, 102, 103, 258, 340. Fox's Great Myʃt. p. 34. Truth and Innocency, p. 30. Ambroſe Riggs to the whole Flock, p. 7. Naylor's Collećt. p. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, &c. Bugg's Vox Populi and Quaker drooping, &c.  ↩︎

  43. Juʃt Eniquity, p. 19. compared with his Hypocritical Appeal to God, That he knew he had endowed him with a Chriʃtian Spirit and Righteous Judgment and Underʃtanding, &c. as publiʃhed in his Judgment Fixed.  ↩︎

  44. Innocency againʃt Envy, p. 16. Compared with his ʃolemn Affirmatiom, as they call it, annex'd to Fox's Will.  ↩︎

  45. See their Treatiʃe of Oath, compared with W. Smith's Works, p. 125.  ↩︎

  46. Ang. Flag. throughout, Naylor's Anʃwer to Tho. Moor, p. 9.  ↩︎

  47. Whitehead's Guilt, as expoʃed in F. Bugg's Preʄace his Pilgrims Progreʃs. Retroʃpećtive Glaʃs, and Quakeriʃm further expoʃed, compared with Pen's Spirit of Truth, and Ang. Flag. p. 256.  ↩︎

  48. Truth and Innocency, p. 69. Spirit of Truth vindicated, p. 103.  ↩︎

  49. Fr Bugg's Anʃwer to their Juʃt Cenʃure, compared with Whitehead's Antidote, Wyeth's Ang. Flag. and Whiting's Anʃwer to Keith's Narrative.  ↩︎

  50. Selećt Epiʃt. p. 413. Compared with Tyranny and Hypocriʃy detećted, p. 38. Account of the Liʃe oʃ John Penyman, p. 24, &c. and p. 3. oʄ his ʃeveral Traćts.  ↩︎

  51. See Roger's Chriʃtian Quaker, 1ʃt Part, p. 31. with Fox's ʃaid Paper oʄ Queries; compared with W. Rogers's th Part, and p. 23. oʄ his 6th Part of his Chriʃtian Quaker; togethef with the ʃaid Mary Penington *and her Son's Deʄence oʃ him.*  ↩︎

  52. Several Papers given ʄorth ʄor the ʃpreading oʄ Truth, p. 5, &c. printed Anno. 1671. Compared with his Selećt Epiʃtles, p. 368, 426. oʃ whoʃe Hypocriʃy thoʃe that would ʃee more, may peruʃe the 5th Part oʃ Rogers's Chriʃtian Quaker.  ↩︎

  53. Rusticus Accademicos, p. 15. Compared with G.W.'s Abuʃe oʄ T.C.'s Expreʃʃion, as cited p. 156.  ↩︎

  54. See the End oʄ F. Bugg's Pićture of Quakeriʃm, drawn to the Life, Sećt. 5. p. 44 to p. 58. Together with Bugg's Hiʃtory oʄ Quakeriʃm.  ↩︎

  55. G. Whitehead's Manuscript in my Cuʃtody.  ↩︎

  56. Howgil's Works.  ↩︎

  57. In his Paciʄick Propoʃal, and Reflećtion and Maxims, 1ʃt Part.  ↩︎

  58. Crook's Caʃe oʄ Swearing, p. 10, &c. Pen and &c. Pen and Whitehead's Treatiʃe of Oaths, compared with R. Barcley's Apol. on thoʃe Subjećts, and Skidmore's Primitive Simplicity, p. 216, 231. Together with their ʃeveral Teʃtimonies in Fox's Aćts and Monuments, p. 522, 1092, 1227. And G. Keith's Confutation oʄ R. Barcley's Apol. &c with Dr. Cave's Primitive Chriʃtianity on those occaʃions.  ↩︎

  59. Weʃt anʃwering to the North, p. 80. Truty and Innoc. p. 41. Yearly Epiʃtles of Anno. 1666, 1675, 1693, &c. compared with their Claridge's Melius Inquirend.b  ↩︎

  60. Fox's Great Myʃt. p. 1, 16, 71, &c. Compared with his Selećt Epiʃtles, p. 267. Joſiah Cole's Letter, as citied and deʄendex in Pen's Judas and the Jews *combin'd.*  ↩︎

  61. Vindiciae Verit. p. 223.  ↩︎

  62. Antidote Ven. p. 25. as cited p. 87. oʄ 1. Part of the Snake's Deʄence againʃt it. See the Liʄe oʄ John Penyman, p. 92, 93. Compared with W. Gibson's caʃe, and G. K.'s Trial.  ↩︎

  63. Burrow's Return to the Miniʃters of London, &c. as cited p. 4, 5. oʄ the Anʃwer to the Antidote. Burrow's Preʄace to Fox's Great Myʃtery, throughout. Fox's Journal, p. 460. Selećt Epiʃt. p. 62. Caton's Cloud of Witneſſes, ch. 17. Bishop and Partners, Cry oʄ Blood, p. 61. G. Keith's approved Way caʃt up, p. 213. Epiʃtle to Reaʃon againʃt Railing, with p. 284. Fox's ʃeveral Papers, p. 33. A ʃaithful Teʃtimony to God and my Country, p. 12. Content. Apoʃt. p. 15. New England's Enʃign, p. 4, 59, 79. Pen's Preface to his Sandy Foundation, and Epiʃtle to Reaʃon againʃt Railing, p. 2, 4. A true Relation, p. 6. Fox's ʃeveral Papers, printed 1660, p. 33, 34. Quakers Plea, p. 8. Margaret Fell's Letter to King Charles II. p. 3. Burrow's Works, p. 657, 658.  ↩︎

  64. Nay ʃo eager they were ʄormerly to come to Trial in ʃuch publick Conʄerences, as that, as Paul appealed to Ceaſar in behalʄ of his Innocency, (though an improper Judge in Matters oʄ Conʃcience) ʃo were their Adverʃaries but equal Heathen Msgistrates over them, thry tell the World, They durʃt reʄer their Cauʃe to Trial beʄorw them, in p. 67. oʄ their Friend Penington's Examination of Grounds and Cauʃes; ʃo Cowardly are become ʃince Apoʃtacy; which brings to mind the recited Advice oʄ their Friend John Penyman, p. 293. *oʄ the Account of his Liʄe, That iʄ it was intheir Hearts to build a Houʃe for the Lord, it would do well to build it onlynwith try'd Stones, ʃince there are mony who like them would be Builders, that love not to be Try'd.*  ↩︎

  65. See his Invitatory Poʃtʃcript to John Stillingfleet's Honeʃt Neighbours as cited p. 143. oʄ Vindiciae Veritat. with p. 266. oʄ R. Claridge's Melius Inquirend compared with p. 252. oʄ the 3d Part oʄ the ʃaid Judge Hale's Contemplations, and p. 15, &c. oʄ his Nature oʄ Chriʃtianity, as cited in the Introdućtory Preʄace oʄ F.B. Pićture of Quakeriʃm.  ↩︎

  66. Wyeth's Primitive Chriʃtianity, p. 7.  ↩︎

  67. P. 75, 85, 86, 87. oʄ his Liʄe, well worth their univerʃal peruʃal.  ↩︎

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