Railery

As Mr. Baxter in his one Sheet printed in Anno 1659. againſt them, tells us, That, in thoſe their early Days, he had more railing Language from one of them in one Letter, than ever he heard from all the Scolds in the Country in Twenty Years before, to his Remembrance. So as we are ſo far from hearing any of their Brotherhood cenſured by them for their Raileries towards him and others, (in calling them Dogs, Devils, &c.) as that they plainly tell the World, That if their Friends Treatment of that curſed Stock of Hirelings, (as they call the National Priests) had been Ten Thousand Times more significant, earneſt and ſharp, it had been but enough -, and they would then ſay, not enough; but that they had learned to acquieſce with ſuch Denunciations as the Holy Spirit (as they call their Light within) was pleaſed to give through them. We may well think they are finely come on in ſuch BillingſgateRhetorick by this Time we live in. In proof whereof,1

If to call a Man, a decietful Tongue-Lying Priest; mamocious Incendiary; ſcornful, malicious Perſon; unconſcionable, mercenary, woolliſh Priest, whom God will deſtroy for ever, for ſpeaking the Truth of them, maybe accounted Railery.2

Then George Whitehead having (in his Real Quaker a Real Proteſtant, in the Quakers Name) ſo called Leonard Waſtal, Prieſt of Harworth, for aſſerting, {Page 139} That they (i.e. Quakers) are not in Truth the King's loyal Subećts; which every one that knows 'tis their Principle not to defend him by force of Arms, when he calls them to it in his Neceſſity, muſt own to be a Truth; they in approving this his pretended Real Quaker a Real Proteſtant, are with him equally guilty of Railery. Again,3

If to call their own Monitors amongſt our ſelves not only Apoſtate Informers, Treacherous Hypocrites, Falſe Brethren, Deceitful Workers, BetrayingJudahs, Dogs, Wolves, Devil-driven dungy Gods,&c. But alſo the Spirit they are influenc'd by, Helliſh Spirit; dark jealous Spirit; a croſs canker'd Spirit; diſorderly, looſe, libertine Spirit; earthly, dark Spirit; feign'd dark, subtil, ſophiſtical Spirit;Belial's Spirit; eathly, canker'd, ruſty, murthering Spirit, &c. for diſcovering their groſs Depravity, in order to their Repentance, &c. may be accounted Railery.

Then our depraved Quakers having ſo called their Monitors amongſt us, in those ſeveral Books in the Margin, with abundance more that might be mentioned, thoſe our depraved Quakers are guilty of Railery. Again,4

To paſs by their naſty Terms of Scal'd Heads, gaul'd Horſe back, ſpuing, purging, ſtinking and wiping, &c. they too often ſtuff their defenſive Books and Letters with.5

If not only to call their Opponents, amongſt other Chriſtian Profeſſors, Conjurers, Thieves, Robbers, Antichriſts, Witches, Devils, Scarlet coloured Beasts, dead Beast, painted Beast, brazen fac'd greedy Dogs, whiffing Curs, barking Dogs, Rattle Snakes, {Page 140} blind Sots, dark Sots, Blood)hounds, Raging like Sodomites, Lizards, Moles, Tinkers, green-headed Trumpeters, Wheelbarrows, Gimcracks, Whirpools, Whitligigs, Moon-Calves, Tatterdemallions, Serpents, Fipers, Ministers of the Devil, ravening Wolves, Evening Wolves, Bears, naſty Spirits, Bondſlaves of the Devil, &c.6

But alſo thoſe amongſt their own Friends, Old canker'd Apostate, Phigellus, Hermogenes, Hymenius, Philetes, Dark, Envious, Inveterate, Adamantine, Alexander the Apostate, Grinning Dog, Devil's Agent, Devil's Emissary, Devil's Drudge, Devil's Porter, Vaſſal of Hell, Cursed Serpent, Devil's Bondſlave, Devil's Incarnate, Chief of Devils, &c. be to be guilty of Railery.

Then thoſe our depraved Quakers having ſo called their Oppoſers, amingſt themſelves and others, in their ſeveral Writings without good Cauſe for it, thiſe our depraved Quakers are guilty of Railery.

Wherefore, if Railers ſhall never inherit the Kingdom of God, becauſehe that Rails,Reviles and Calls Names, is not true Christian, if the Quakers themselves may be credited.7

Then thoſe our depraved Ones of George Fox's Order, having Rail'd, Revil'd and Call'd Names to purpose, in thoſe ſeveral Instances above-noted, amongſt many others that may be mentioned, thoſe our depraved Quakers shall never inherit that Kingdom, to be sure, without true Repentance and Amendment, ſince they are ſo far from being true {Page 141} Christians, as that they herein fall ſhort of Moral He&thens, who would ſcorn, I am perswaded, to treat their Opponents with such Bilingſgate Aſperſions; which yet they appear ſo far from repenting of, (though often put upon for that purpoſe) as that they ſtill moſt audaciouſly perſiſt in their Wickedneſs of this Nature towards their uncondemn'd Brotherhood, upon their least offers to confront their Abuses; as appears by a Relation ond Samuel Beard of Windon near Lun in Suffex, larely ſent me in Writing, concerning the Treatment he had met with from thoſe pretendedly innocent, harmleſs, ſuffering Saints, only for his ſaluting a modest Gentlewoman at her Husband's own Motion; which without regard to their own numerous Enormities of a far worſe Nature (ſpecified in the Spirit if the Hat, and Tyranny and Hypocriſy detećted) they have not only repreſented as ſuch a heinous Crime, as he ought to be excluded out of their Communion for; but alſo one Ambroſe Galloway, a most officious Agent of their Quarter Meeting (who after a far more immodest Manner is said to have handled the Goalers Maid, when he went to viſit his impriſon'd Father) has run on to ſuch a heighth in this their furious Pharſaical Quaker Zeal, againſt the ſaid Samuel and his two Brothers, who took his part, as to call them Three Rogues, saying, Don't be Mealy-mounth'd; 'tis no matter if ye were all turn'd out, Korum, (as he phras'd it) Dathan and Abiram; Reprobates, Apoſtates, Raskals, Bloackheads, Puppies Baſtards, Villian, Bully Mumper, Slippery Fellow, Legions, Devils; Three Rank Batchelorw, Caterwauling Sea Crabs, Jackanapes, who Grin like Hounds, Dogs, gnawing upon me as the Dogs gnaw Fleſh; Daniel, wiſh thy ſelf damn'd; Daniel will be a Sacrifice for the Devil, with much more ſuch Quaker Rhetorick; all which he was o far from being duly reproved for in a Church way, by thoſe conceited Reformers of this dreggy Age of the World, when put upon it for that purpoſe, as that he in one of their Quarter-Meetings took liberty to declare, That {Page 142} thoſe whoſe Names were as vindictable as to call a Spade a Spade, without their least Censure for thoſe his ungracious Aſperſiions. So far are they from condemning that Spirit of Railery wherewith they are influenced, as that they eſteem it no ſmall part of their Religion to defend it; as an Evidence of their most deplorable Apoſtacy,from that holy and bleſſed Spirit of Truth which was the first Author of thier Religious Separation from the Worlds Corruptions;which is the next Charge I deſcend to make good againſt them, by such Instances as, I am perswaded, they'll never attempt to refute; In the Interim must tell them, That as they have been long guilty of this Vice of Railery, as appears by thoſeBooks and Pages mentioned in the Margin, they have been alſo most justly reprehended for their Persistance in it, without the leaſt ſhew of Repentance, as they may find if they pleaſe to peruſe p. 79,80, &c. of the Account of the Life of John Penyman, to which I refer them, and proceed to give Instances in proof of their Apoſtacy that occasion'd it, as follows.8

  1. Pen's Serious Apol. p. 165. in Deʄence oʄ J. Naylor, compared with p. 156, oʄ his ʃaid Serious Apol. as in part cited p. 174. oʄ his Reaʃon againʃt Railing.  ↩︎

  2. See p. 58 compared with their March ancient Teʃtimony.  ↩︎

  3. Viver's Vicar of Banbury ʄurther correćted, p. 18, 19. compared with their Teʃtimony.  ↩︎

  4. Roger's Citation in his Preface to Quakers a divided People, out oʄ G.W.'s Preface to his Judgmwnt fix'd, compared with Robert Sandiland's tohis Righteius Judgment placed, and p. 5 oʄ the Book. G. W. Accuser, as cited p. 201. oʄ F.B.'s De Chriʃt. lib. Fox's Poʃtcript to J.B.'s Teʃtimony in that which Separates. Pen's Winding Sheet, p. 1,2,3,4. and Alexander, p. 3,7,12. as cited p. 5. *oʄ the Quakers Contradictions.  ↩︎

  5. Holden's Letter to Mr. Wiggon, as cited p. 23, 26. oʄ the 2d Part oʄ the Deʄence oʄ the Snake afainʃt G.W.'s Antid. Quakers Principles, p. 8,9,10,11, &c. s printed Anno. 1693.  ↩︎

  6. Fisher's Rusticus Academicus, in Anʃwer to Owen, Baxter, Tombs and Dawʃon. Pen's Alexander, p. 1,2,14,16. Whitehead's *Preface to his Judgment fix'd. Fox's Breif Diʃcovery, p. 7,8,9,10. Pen's Guide Miʃtaken p. 18. Fox's Truths Defence p. 81,82. Parnil's Works p. 412. Compareswith ʃeveral other proofs of this Nature in p. 200. oʄ the Snake, p. 3,10. oʄ Penyman's Quakers Contradićtion, Rich's Second Letter in Manuʃcript, and p. 28. oʄ F.B.'s Prologue and Defence of the Snake againʃt G.W.'s Antidote, 2d, Part, p.* 111.  ↩︎

  7. Fox's Great Myʃt. p. 237. Fox's ʃeveral Papers, p. 4q. printed 1671. Compared with Pens Reaſon againʃt Railing, p. 169. an addreʃs to Proteʃtants, p. 242, &c. Defence of the Snake again G.W.'s Antidote, 2d Part, p. 56,62.  ↩︎

  8. Compared with the Relation oʄ their Friend Thurſton's, aćtions in p. 149. &c. oʄ the 2d Part of the Deʄence oʄ the Snake againʃt G.W.'s Antidote. See Contemn'd Quaker, p. 55. to p. 64. Viz. Fox's Great Myʃt. p. 62. Pen's Epiʃtle to their Friend Fisher's Works, in Defencee of tjis their Crime, compared with p. 412. oʄ James Parnil's Collećtion. Bugg's Introdućtory Preface to his News from New-Rome, and p. 38, &c. oʄ his Finiʃhing Stroke.  ↩︎

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