Imposition

Imposition

In Order to the proof of which Charge, 'tis necessary to remind my Reader, that as all their aforementioned Innovations about Marriage, &c. {Page 91} are set forth as the immediate Dictates of God's Power and Spirit, as Rules and Laws for us to observe under the Terms. Ought not to be, cannot be dispen'd with, nor permit or suffer, with others of the same Import, in evidence of their imposing Tendency; like those of the Romanists we read of against Marriage of lawful Kindred and Priests; whereby Kings have been separated from their Queens, Parents from their Children, Subjects from their Allegiance, and good Men from their Lives; Governments confounded, Persecution occasioned, Rebellions fomented, Families dissolved, true Loved parted, Bastards begotten, and many sincere Christians ruin'd in Body and Soul; so as the Words, Adivce and Counsel, as used by our Quaker Yearly Meeting, carry the Force of Commands, according to their Friend Elwood's Explanation in p. 40,44. of his Truth defended; 'tis the less wonder, the same Effects in some measure amongst us; as the Case of Edwood of Eakrin, Thomas Crispen of Liverton in Nottinghamshire, Thomas Franklin and Jane Peele of Ballard Monthly Meeting in Yorkshire, and Widow Herd in this our County of Lincoln, amongst others I could mention, who have had Bastards through those our Antichristian Orders, and obstruction of their lawful Marriage, if I be not misinformed.¹

So I have a certain Letter wrote by G. Whitehead (as I have ground to believe) in the Name of G. Fox to John Whitehead, dated the 22d of the *th Month 1683, concerning one Shipton of Yorkshire, who having married his former Wife's Sister, contrary to another of their Orders, he tells the said John Whitehead, That if the said Shipton would not Condemn himself for this his Transgression, as he had been admonished, by the Lows of Scotland {Page 92} such ought to be burned. Through the Terror which sort of Menaces, as Giles Bernadiston Clare in Suffolk, and Elijah Loveill of Huntington, &c. were most vilely imposed on to Condemn themselves, (as they were finally forced to do for Peace-sake) for marrying their first Cousens. Our Friend John Ansloe (who had taken his Wife in Marriage without proposing his Intentions twice before their Womens distinct Meetings from the Mens, contrary to their Order in that Case made and provided) was by their Quarter Meeting in Haddenham, excluded out of their pretended Holy Unity, because he could not fall under their imposing Power, in condemning himself for doing what he believed was his Duty, as the above-mentioned Persons had done; the Effects if which, Antichristian Dealings, had not God preserv'd him, might have prov'd his Ruin; as they did his Defender Francis Bugg in some measure, who not being able to bear their imposing Usurpations with the same Patience Ansloe did, finally undid himself by his furious pursuit of them, through his just Indignation against the Imposition of their unscriptural Innovations.²

In favour whereof, they are grown so audacious, as that, besides there Critical Impertinencies about what Cloaths we shall wear at our Marriages, before they'll allow us to consumate our Intentions; some of their Meetings of Disciple have not only enjoyn'd the Parents of such Children as marry out of their Sect, to Disinherit them, under the Penalty of their Exclusion from {Page 93} Church-Communion, (as Henry Mollinex one of their Preachers, with no small Applause of this Devilish Discipline, not long since informed me) but also the Six Weeks Meeting of their Friends at Devonshire House in London, on the 15th of the 5th Month 1690, set forth an Injunction against the Burial of such amongst us as marry by a Priest, &c. who have not condemn'd their pretended Transgression; whereby as they do their utmost towards their Ruin in their Life, they expose them to rot above Ground at their Death, if others take not more Christian care of them than their imposing Spirit will permit them.³

Nor is their Brotherhood in other Parts any whit short of their English Friends Zeal, in the prosecution of the Fox's Orders against such as transgress them, by marrying with Infidels; (as they account all other Protestant Professors besides their own Sect) in pursuance whereof, one of their Irish Friends, whose Name is Richard Clark, a Goldsmith by Trade, lately told me, That if any of their Children marry with one of another Profession, contrary to their Fox's Injunction above-mentioned, their Parents Parents shall neither give them any Portion, relieve them with Provision, or suffer them so much as to come within their Houses in order to it: One of their Daughters, who having so married, venturing to sit on the Threshold of her Father's Shop in Dublin, whilst he served her with something out of it for her Money; their Sanhadrin brought him under their Church Ferular, in order to his Exclusion out of their Communion, for this his Act of Humanity {Page 94} towards his poor distressed Daughter; the Effect whereof he had felt to his Temporal and Eternal Ruin, in all probability, as many others have done, had not he (with no small difficulty) avoided it, by assuring his tender hearted Brotherhood, (of the Order of St. Lucifer) That as he had let her have but what she honestly paid for (of which the said R. Clark was Witness) he would not for the future grieve their Holy Spirit by relieving her to their Orders Contradiction.

Not to insist on their vile Abuse towards their Friend Johnson of Thorn in Yorkshire, in causing his Cousen's Parent to send her many Miles from him, in order to break off their intended Marriage, to their own and their Parents great Dissatisfaction, as he told me some time before he obtained her.

I cannot pass by their Cruelty to their Friend Fox's Daughter, of Winnefall in Leicestershire, in causing her said Father to break off her designed Marriage with one in the same degree; under pretence of obliging her to take up the Cross, as they called it, in marrying another of their Unity, who infallibly ruin'd her, as a natural Consequence of their Apostle Fox's infallible Orders against such Proceedings, as well as Marriage by Priests; in favour whereof they have been known to Excommunicate a Member for marrying a second Wife by a Priest, as they call them, whom they had let go scot-free for getting a Bastard, in the Life time of his first, of which their Friend J. J-------- of Nottingham is Witness amongst others; so valuable is their departed Elders Traditions in their Esteem above our Lord's Injunctions, whatever they in Words pretend to the contrary.

I had some Thoughts of giving a Catalogue in the next place, of their Impositions on such of their Ministers as Travel to preach (without their Allowance by Certificate) to return home again {Page 95} before they delivered their Messages among them, to their great dissatisfaction; but that the Consideration of them more properly belonging to the Head of their *Persecution, * caused me to postpone them till I came to the Subject; wherefore shall conclude this with a relation of their most unchristian Imposition upon me to Condemn my self, for any proceeding in order to Marriage with a Cousen of mine, contrary to their Order in that Case made and provided.⁴

Which Design was no sooner made known to them, but that all Hands were upon me, upon account of this their pretendedly Holy Order against me; for want of a Copy whereof in our Quarter Meeting-Book, Letter upon Letter was forthwith posted ti G. Whitehead in London, fir his Advice and Assistance; in answer whereto, after a presentation of a Copy of the Order, with a long Letter of his in its behalf, in way of Reply to one I had wrote to a Friend in our Parts, in favour of my Proceedings c ontrary to the Contents of it; he, along with his pretended Rejoynder (I immediately refuted beyond his Attempts of Defence) presents another Lettre of Instructions to three of his Vassals in our Parts, to oppose my Intentions by all means imaginable, and then deal with me in their Church-way for my Opposition, before he knew whether ai could defend my self from his Reflections: In Reverence whereto, one runs to her Mother, another to her Brother, and the other to her and to me, with a full resolution to divide us one from another, or both from their Church; much like those Popish Zealots we read of, That ran first to the Pretor, and then to the Consel, and so to the Legate, and all to separate poor Spyra's Soul from hhis Body, or both from the Lord; thus did they foil themselves about they knew not what.

Their next Work being to deal with me, according to this vile Imposer's Instructions; I was forthwith cited to appear at. our next Monthly Meeting at Brautbriughton ti answer such Things {Page 96} as were to be then and there laid back to my Charge, as I did accordingly; where the Matter being esteemed more than ordinarily Weighty, by the wise Members that composed it, they thought it requisite to alter the usual Course of the same, by calling in all the Women, to observe their Confusion and Folly; who were no sooner sat down, but they fell on to expound the several sorts of Whoredoms, Adulteries and incestuous Defilements mentioned in Leviticus xviii. after their fashion, to the shaming them almost out of their Senses; which, though I showed my dislike if, they in a firm Confidence of the Regularity if those their Proceedings notwithstanding against me, not only presumed to demand my Assent and Consent to G. Whitehead and their Errors, in the Order's behalf, but also boldly told me, That if I refused, I should be by them immediately excluded their Holy Communion; which I was so far from being discourag'd at, as I plainly told them, That as I found nothing either in G. Whitehead's or their Allegation, to convince me of Error in the Matter they accused me; so since I was, through God's Assistance, resolved to rejoyn to his pretended Confutation of my Arguments against it, I hoped they would not act so dishonourably, as to Condemn me before I was fully examined.

Upon which they immediately proceeded to draw up their threatned Instrument of my Exclusion, according to their Patron George Whitehead's Direction, which they had certainly effected, had not John Whitehead opposed, in a Sense of my Innocency and the Order's Corruption: However, as the Seeds of their Erros surviv'd his Assistance, some of those Members, against the Advice of others, at a select Monthly Meetings held by Adjournment in Lincoln in some measure executed their former Design, by giving forth their Testimony against my Rejoynder afore spoke of, as an Introduction to their further Stroke at me, as appears by the Copy sent me; which being in Words and Sense suitable to their Cause {Page 97} I shall present the World with an exact Transcript of the same, as follows verbatim.

->At our Monthly Meeting held at Lincoln by Adjournment, the 14th of the 3d Month 1697.<-

Whereas Henry Pickworth hath offered to this Meeting his Book of Contest for Marriage of first Cousens, being a Rejoynder to George Whitehead's⁵ Allegation; this Meeting hath considered the Matter, and desires, for Truths sake, he may not trouble the next Yearly Meeting with his Book, which is out of the Unity of this Monthly Meeting, but to cease in this Affair; nevertheless we refer it to the Judgment if the next Quarterly Meeting.

Signed by

William Sampson,	Thomas Robinson,
John Jalling,	Stephen Hall,
John Scrimshaw,	Thomas Toynby,
George Good,	John Harvy.

Not to insist on the Impertinence of those enslaved Bigots (the above-mentioned Subscribers) G. Whitehead makes use of, as the only fit Insteuments carry on his imposinf Purposes, who, as they falsely pretended to have considered the Matter of my Book before they read a Line of it, have almost all since been under each others Church Ferula, for their scandalous Actions.

Though this their fine Nick-a-Nack appeared so justly odious to William Pen, at a private Meeting in London soon after, where I obtained a Hearing on't, as that he enjoyn'd it Authors, to race it out of their Monthly Records at their return home; as they did accordingly, to the eternal Ignominy if such pretendedly infallible Noncons: Yet was its Expulsion far from quashing my Antagonists in their Imposition upon me, to Condemn my self for doing what I believed was my Duty, as will appear by what follows.

{Page 98} For being greatly grieved at their Monthly Meetings Disappointment, their Quarterly one thought themselves concerned to take the Matter under their Cognizance, to see if they could make better work of it; in pursuance whereof, they sent Messenger after Messenger, to impose on me to Condemn my self for opposing their Holy Order, and G. Whitehead's Allegations in its behalf, in order to avoid my threatned Exclusion from amongst them; wherein, not being able to effect their end, through the Sense God had given me of their Innovations, Corruptions, &c. they cited me to appear before their next Quarter-Meeting, as I did accordingly: where falling on to expound the Levitical Prohibitions, according to their Monthly Precedent, which I refuting by Holy Scripture and Primitive Christians Constructions, they, though their flaming Fury against me and the Truth I maintained, finally proceeded to draw up their threatned Paper against me, for want of Ability to confute me. The Contents whereof I also discovering the Falshood and Folly of, in another private Meeting in London the Year after, they were, through the Means of William Pen, again also obliged to raze the same out at next their Quarter-Meeting, as may be found by their Record, to their Shame and Confusion.

However, as the corrupt Order, the Cause of those confused Effects, still remain'd uncancell'd as true Christian Discipline, how unable soever its Instituters were defend it; so our Quarter-Meeting being told by G. Whitehead's chief Emissaries, That what William Pen had done in my favour, was only to palliate my Spirit, to make me more compliant to their Innovation; instead of solliciting to have the said Order obliterated, according to my Christian Entreaties, they persisted still more vigorously than ever in their impetuous Imposition upon me, to Condemn my self for my opposition on't; in pursuance whereof, after they had broke off my Proceedings with my Cousen, in Reverence to the Contents of its chief Promoter and Adocate {Page 99} G. Whitehead's Instructions, they thought themselves concerned to oppose my Marriage amongst them, with any other Person whatever, till I, against my Conscience, condemn'd my self for opposing his Arguments in behalf of their said Order against Cousens, as I, to my no small surprizal, soon after found by Experience.

For making Suit to one Winfred Whitchurch of London, in order to that righteous Purpose, I was met with a Letter of his officious Agent⁶ Ab. Morrice of Lincoln, to John Whitehead then at London, to admonish her Father, By no means to consent to my Proceedings, since I neither believed in their Order against first Cousens Marriage, nor would be prevailed on to Condemn my disbelief therein; which being such a barefac'd piece of Popery, as that good old Man's Soul abhorr'd, as he told me, upon a sight of their Letter, he could not conform to them in answering the Contents of it, to their no small Mortification; which redoubling, instead of quashing their Fury, they studied another Device to obtain their Ends on me, which in some measure (though not so fully as they hoped) succeeded to the Wish.

For their several abortive Exclusions drawn up against me, through their wicked Whitehead's Instigations, proving insufficient to answer his ungodly Ends, whilst my Rejoynder to his Allegations in their Orders behalf stood over his Head unanswerable, he would by no means be prevailed on to admit to me to propose my Intentions of Marriage in their London Meetings of Discipline with the said Winifred, (though no ways of Kin to me) till he had made me promise to make aways my Book in behalf of first Cousens Marriage against him, for want of ability to confure it; the which Imposition, as I was forc'd to submit to, to my no small Trouble and Damage, in coming back near a Hundred Miles to Transcribe it before their next Six Weeks Meeting (as a necessary Trick fir the Tricker); so that he might be sure, as he thought, to get shut of it, he, according to Rome's {Page 100} corrupt Precedent towards John Wickcliff's Bones, and his own Scottish Law upon Shipton, took a great care to order his Agent Robinson to see me commit it to the Flames in his Presence, and give him Notice when done, as he did accordingly; which yet did not give me Liberty to make the Publication I was oblig'd to by their Rules the next time I came up, through another of their Orders⁷ of their Fox's Invention, which requires us to bring a Certificate of our Conversation and Clearness from all other Women, &c. before we give notice the first time of our said Intentions, contrary to the Method used in our County of Lincoln, &c. (which, as it regularly can, it only dies insist on it at our second Publication)l through the want of which Formality, as I was most abusively sent home agin another Month till I obtained it, so when I had still like to have been never the better what I came up again, through the violent Opposition of this abominable Imposer, for want of my Condemnation of the Matter of my Book, lest another Phoenix should arise out of its Ashes, as hath since done to the no small Mortification of such an audacious Imposter, whom nothing can be too bad for; since it is not only me, but many other of our sincere Friends also, whom he (and his depraved Collegues of the Second Days Meeting) hath most basely abused by their unwarrantable Impositions; who, in like manner, struggled hard to prevent their Effects, by removing the Cause in their first Institution, &c. as I am not only ready to prove by the printed Books and Papers of our true Friends Ribert Rich, John Perrot, William Mucklow, John Story, John Swinton, Thomas Crisp, William Rogers and John Penyman, among others; but also by divers private Letters of John Lyeth, John Hogg, John Whitehead, John Cox, John Gratton and Martin Mason, now in my Custody, in answer to George Fox, George Whitehead and John Blakeking, with their Accomplices, in behalf of their Innovations, when called to it: In {Page 101} the Instituion whereof tho' Geo. Fox had a great hand; yet as I, in a Sense of his variable Disposition in the Matter of Kingly Government, Magistracy, buying of Tythes and Marriage Proceedings, &c. have ground to believe, he might have been reclaim'd from his Errors in those respects, through the means some amongst us used for that end, had not George Whitehead stengthned him therein by his officious Defences; under pretence,⁸ That as the heavenly Motion to make Orders came not on George Fox alone , he could defend his Cause better then he himself could; so how blameworthy soever George Fox was in their first Institution, George Whitehead is much more condemnable in supporting what would otherwise have long since come to nought for what Fox could have done towards their continuance, had he with-held his defensive Hand from their Imposition: Wherein he and his Abettors have shown themselves so far remote from our Friend Is. Penington's Opinion, That we may serve God acceptably in different Practices, that they have proved themselves, those unleaarned Woolish Dog Ed. Burrow's had a Vision of, who instead of bringing our Stray-Sheep into Christ's Fold of Rest, by driving them gently, according to our Lord's Method, have drove them quite away from it, by biting them, to the ruin of them and their Fleeces, through their furious pursuit of them in the Imposition of their Foxonian Impertinencies, before convinc'd of the Truth of them; where they are like to remain according to the said Vision, till those Woolish Curs be chain'd up, and their Goatish Collegues cashier'd from amongst us, who have thus disturbed them. {Page 102} In order whereto, as our truly worthy Friend George Bishop, &c. forewarn'd them of the Consequence of their imposed Innovation; Whereby says Benjamin Furly, if any Separation happen amongst us, it would be through George Whitehead and his Partners Lording, Ridged, Driving Spirits, in taking upon them to prescribe Rules, and Orders for themselves and all others of the same Body, whether the Lord lead them into them or no; wherein as they persisted, the Lord himself would break them, in turning them one against another, according to their true Friend John Wilkinson's Prediction, as they have since found he hath done, to their shame and Confusion: The Consideration whereof brings to mind another predictive Vision of another true Friend of ours, of the final End of them, entitled, This is what Mary Mitchell saw, who dwelt at Bright Hemston in Suffex, and laid down the Body at Aberdeen in Scotland, in a good Condition, after she had travelled far in that Land, on Truths Account, she having a publick Testimony.

Which Vision is, as related by her self in a certain printed Half-Sheet she published afore her Departure, as follows,

On the 3d of the 12th Month 1694-5.

As I lay on my Bed, I saw spiritually a very rare spacious Building, such a one as I never saw before for Rarity, without-side of it⁹; and then the inside was brought before me, and there was a brave light large pleasant Room, which was very well furnished with pleasant Things; and I saw till it became a very serviceable House for many Things; but at last, I saw one come and enter into the pleasant Room, and began to lay a Foundation, and went away again, and still as he came he kept Building, till at last he had built a Throne, and began to Reign, and they of the Household {Page 103} began to worship him; and under the Throne I saw a Lamb, which would fain arose; but the great PERSON¹⁰, and they of the House together, would not suffer the Lamb to arise, but wounded it, and strove as much as in them lay to slay the Lamb.

And at last there was a PROPHET¹¹ sent to this House to warn it, which said, Oh House, House! Hear the Word of the Lord, This is not the Housholder that Reigns in thee; let the Lamb arise, for this is that which will cast the strong Man out; and much more after this manner: abut this great Man, and they of the House together, were very angry with the Prophet, and with the Lamb, because it stove to arise, and the more it strove to arise, the more it was wounded and oppressed; and the great Man became very great, and was much set by by those if the House.

And when this great Person had reigned long, the pleasant Room became very dark and full of Rubbish, and they of the House began to be afraid; but the GREAT MAN¹² perswaded them, All should be well; But there was a Prophet sent several times, but there was no regard taken of him, nor yet of the Lamb, but the more it strove to rise, the more it was smitten and wounded, till at last it was slain; and after the Lamb was slain, under the Throne there arose a Fire, which did burn up this Building in a Moment of Time, and so it ended.

{Page 104} Thus, as we have seen a fair way, we have from hence good Cause to hope, that we shall shortly see a full End of those our depraved Teachers Babylonish Inventions, and not without reason, since as their Imposition hath been the occasion of divers fatal Consequences amongst us, as afore-proved; the consideration thereof finally brings to Declaration of their Friend Michael Russel concerning them some Years since in my Audience, of which having seen some of those evil Effects I had in part notified on the occasion afore-mentioned, he was pleased to tell me, That the Londoners were often busy in erecting very fair Structures to look upon, but for want of fixing them on a solid Foundation, till at length they came rumbling headlong; as I have no Cause to question but their Erectors will also after them; since, as they have proved themselves of those wicked Husbandmen our Lord foretold us of, who cried, This is the Heir, come let us kill him, that his Inhetance may be ours; so I must tell them, That instead of obtaining the possession of it, by their barbarous Murther of the Life of Jesus in his faithful Messengers, the Lord of the Vineyard is nigh to come, who will miserably destroy them, as he in Mat. xxi, &c. hath foretold them. Which brings me to my next Charge of their Infidelity, as an Introduction to their dreadful Downfal; in a deep Sense whereof I humbly hope the sincere amongst us will speedily come (with me) from amongst them, that they may escape their Plagues, by refraining those many great Sins those pretended Perfectionists are found guilty of, through their unbelief in Christ the true Lord of Life they in Words make Profession of.

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1. Melius Inquirend. p. 129. C's. Line of Truth exalted, p. 16. Whitehead's Mon. in way oʄ anʃwer to my firʃt Letter. Fox's Journal, p. 229, 286. Doctrinal Works, p. 196. Howgil's Works, p. 415. Wilsford's Lying Spirit, &c. Compared with Tho. Johnſon's Letter. See Acts and Monumen6s, and Fabian's Chronicle, &c. Compared with our Engliʃh various Laws, in the Caʃe of King Henry VIII. as cited in my Reply to G. Whitehead's Allegations.  ↩︎

2. Sure thoʃe our depraved Quakers have ʃtrangely forgot themʃelves, ʃince they told the World, That as the Lord never yet ʃaid to any People, Go make yiur ſelvew Church Diſcipline or Government, &c. ʃo iʄ any King, Prince, or Authirity took upon them to eʃtabliʃh any, they were guilty oʄ Uʃurpation on the Prerogative oʄ Chriʃt, p. 6, 15, &c. oʄ R. Hubberthorn's Good Old Cause, &c. which they have, it ʃeems, not only niw done themʃelves in the Inʃtitution of their aʄorementioned Orders, &c. but alʃo are grown ʃo audacious therein, as ti impoʃe Subjećtion upon us to theʃe their Innovations, under the Penalty of our Excluʃion from Church Communion, as appears by the Inʃtances here recited, compared with that of their Friend Wilkins, ʃtated at large, p. 90 of the Collećtion of Papers, at the End of the Deʄence of the Snake, agqinʃt G. Whitehead's Antidote, &c. well worth Obʃervation.  ↩︎

3. Witneʃs their Friend Chaſely of Jordan's Monthly Meeting in Buckinghamſhire, *who, as he was worth about 1700 Pound, had a mind to buy his intended Wife a Silk Gown to be married in, according to the Precedent of a Kinʃman of his; which being made known to the Friends, they utterly reʄuʃed to let him take her amongʃt them, till the Young Woman engaged herʃelʄ by Promiʃe, not to be married in it; under pretence, of its nit becoming a Farmer's Daughter, as I am inform'd, though they allow their London Taylor's Wives, without the least Scruple of their tender Conʃciences, fir what appears to the contrary.*  ↩︎

4. Oʄ which one Robert Farmer oʄ Saffron-Walden in Eſſex, is a living Witneʃs, amongʃt many others, who in Anno. 1703, gave me a large Relation of their Impoʃitions upon him accordingly.  ↩︎

5. What, had he but one? Yet never read a Line of it, as they conʄeʃt aʄterwards, tho I had ʃent it to their Hands for that purpoʃe.  ↩︎

6. Who not lang aʄter broke, and had rotted in Goal for Debt, for what appeared to the contrary, had nit I been chiefly Inʃtrumental in the Diʃchargd of him.  ↩︎

7. See the ʃame as cited in his Selećt Epiʃtles.  ↩︎

8. See his Accuʃer, p. 41. compared with p. 6 oʄ W. Rogers Quaker a divided People diʃtinguiʃhed. From all which, as it appears, that this George Whitehead has all along been the Wheel within the Wheel, that wrought all our Miʃfortunes, ʃo the ʃame veriʃies the Charge of ʃome of our Barkſhire Friends to his Face, That it is he that hath been our chief Diʃturber; 'tis he that hat poyʃon'd the Minds if many well-meqning People; it being he, that by his ʄalʃe gloʃʃing and baʃe perverting, hath drawn the Edge oʄ our chief Opponent's Pens againʃt us, who, iʄ we ʃtill ʃtand by, and will not bring him ʄorth, nor condemn his Errors, their Hand (as one of them ʃays) will ʃtill be heavier upon us, as we have found true by Experience.  ↩︎

9. Note, This was as our Friends stood in their Primitive State, before G. Fox set himself up in the place of Christ, and we as such ador'd him, in imposing his Innovations as the Spirit's Dictates, and exalting him as the Lord's anointed, to set forth Orders to guide our People by; when such as adher'd to him presently apostatiz'd, and turn'd Persecutors of the Lamb and his true Followers, as the Vision shows us.  ↩︎

10. George Fox in his Life time, and now George Whitehead the Successor in his Popedom, in Conjunction with their Cardinalian Collegues of their Second Days Meeting, London.  ↩︎

11. Yea, divers true ones, as Robert Rich, John Perrot, George Bishop, Benj. Furley, John Swinton, John Wilkinson, John Story, Widow Whitrow, and John Pennyman, amongst others; all which, instead of adhering to, they stigmatiz'd for dark separate Spirits, betraying Judas's, and cursed Apostates.  ↩︎

12. George Fox formerly, and now Geo. Whitehead his Successor, of whose deceitful Perswasions of that Nature, as our last Yearly Meeting was Witness, he and they shall feel the Effects with a Vengeance, thro' the Fire now kindled against them, for giving heed to him, in slighting our Christian Travels for their Restoration, unless prevented by their speedy Repentance.  ↩︎