Concerning
the
Teachers
.
Now
he
is
become
one
,
and
pretends
to
Disown
what
he
formerly
writ
:
Read
that
the
contrary
way
thus
,
The
Teachers
have
not
been
generally
,
and
for
the
most
part
,
Self-seeking
,
Worldly-minded
Covetous
Men
,
who
loved
Pleasures
and
Riches
more
than
God
.
And
this
the
Magistrate
did
not
well
know
,
and
saw
not
that
the
best
way
to
prevent
them
,
was
to
Bribe
them
with
Augmentations
and
Benefices
.
—
The
Preachers
of
the
Waldenses
were
not
most
of
them
Lay-men
,
and
wrought
not
with
their
Hands
;
as
the
Teachers
of
the
Primitive
Church
did
not
,
but
had
Stipends
or
Sallaries
,
and
Preached
not
Freely
again
.
If
People
once
were
Perswaded
and
Convinced
,
That
God
did
not
Teach
,
nor
would
not
Teach
them
;
and
then
up
should
all
the
Proud
,
Lording
,
Lofty
Clergy
,
with
their
many
Degrees
of
Doctorships
,
Lordships
and
Masterships
go
.
Animad.
And
now
he
is
willing
to
go
with
them
,
altho'
he
declared
,
It
lay
upon
him
from
the
Lord
to
depart
from
them
,
being
generally
Men
void
of
all
Sense
and
Feeling
of
God
,
that
had
Framed
and
Invented
perverse
Doctrine
,
for
their
own
Gains
and
Ends
,
as
he
now
doth
.
But
not
to
proceed
to
farther
Examples
of
this
kind
,
let
us
consider
,
whether
G.
K.
did
ever
,
or
doth
,
judge
Baptism
with
Water
,
as
used
in
the
Church
,
of
which
he
is
now
ordained
a
Preacher
,
and
the
Sacrament
,
Articles
of
Faith
,
or
are
any
of
the
Fundamental
and
Essential
Doctrines
of
Christianity
;
because
he
hath
declared
in
his
Preface
to
his
Retractations
thus
,
viz.
I
have
not
here
,
or
elsewhere
,
Retracted
nor
Renounced
any
one
Assertion
contained
in
any
of
my
former
Books
,
that
ever
was
by
me
Judged
an
Article
of
Faith
.
And
in
p.
4
,
5.
of
his
Retractations
,
he
saith
,
I
have
an
Infallible
Faith
and
Perswasion
,
touching
the
Fundamental
and
Essential
Doctrines
of
Christianity
.
Therefore
he
having
said
,
Truth
's
Defence
,
&c.
p.
135.
That
Baptism
with
Water
is
not
meant
,
because
not
expressed
,
nor
by
any
true
and
just
Consequence
is
proved
to
be
meant
,
in
Mat.
28.19
.
Neither
this
Assertion
,
nor
any
other
in
any
of
his
former
Books
,
is
(
that
ever
was
by
him
Judged
an
Article
of
Faith
)
Retracted
.
Again
,
I
still
adhere
to
my
former
Advice
,
That
nothing
be
required
by
one
sort
from
another
,
as
an
Article
of
Faith
or
Doctrine
,
in
common
to
be
believed
,
but
what
is
expresly
declared
in
the
Scriptures
,
in
plain
and
express
Scripture-Terms
.
Animad.
To
try
his
Sincerity
,
or
shew
his
Deceit
,
let
him
that
would
Say
and
Unsay
,
prove
from
what
is
expresly
delivered
in
the
Scripture
,
and
in
plain
and
express
Scripture-Terms
,
-
1.
That
Baptism
with
Water
is
meant
in
Mat.
28.19
.
-
2.
That
Infants
are
the
Subjects
intended
.
And
let
him
bring
plain
and
express
Scripture
for
the
use
of
the
Sign
of
the
Cross
in
Baptism
,
and
requiring
Godfathers
and
Godmothers
,
if
he
can
,
and
obliging
them
to
promise
and
vow
Three
things
in
the
Childrens
Name
,
That
they
shall
forsake
the
Devil
and
all
his
Works
,
&c.
And
let
him
,
by
Scripture
,
and
from
what
is
expresly
delivered
therein
,
in
plain
and
express
Scripture-Terms
,
answer
the
Queries
he
put
,
and
printed
,
concerning
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lord's
Supper
,
so
called
,
or
for
shame
forbear
his
Prating
and
Printing
against
those
that
,
by
the
Rule
he
lays
down
,
he
is
no
more
able
to
prove
them
guilty
of
any
Fundamental
Error
in
the
Christian
Religion
,
or
of
any
of
the
Errors
he
hath
falsly
and
loudly
Charged
them
with
,
than
to
move
the
Monument
;
although
he
may
use
his
Meanings
,
Interpretations
and
Glosses
;
in
which
he
hath
been
too
Guilty
to
be
creditted
by
them
that
well
know
him
.
And
for
all
his
Preferment
and
Ordination
,
his
Black
Coat
,
and
White
Surplice
,
and
Empty
Noise
about
Outward
Things
,
in
his
late
Sermon
,
and
pleading
for
Set
Forms
of
Prayers
,
he
doth
but
shew
his
Contradictions
and
Confusion
.
For
he
saith
,
I
would
not
have
any
to
think
,
I
Relinquish
my
Testimony
to
Christ's
inward
Appearance
in
the
Souls
of
Men
,
and
God's
Inward
Revelation
and
Teaching
by
his
Spirit
in
Men
;
for
I
remain
in
the
same
Testimony
,
as
to
the
Main
,
and
I
hope
so
to
do
.
So
that
all
may
consider
,
that
before
he
was
Received
into
the
Church
,
and
Ordained
a
Preacher
,
he
had
an
Infallible
Faith
and
Perswasion
,
touching
the
Fundamental
and
Essential
Doctrines
of
Christianity
,
and
he
would
not
be
thought
to
Relinquish
it
.
He
saith
,
I
remain
Constant
to
my
former
Principles
,
with
respect
to
the
great
Doctrines
of
the
Christian
Faith
.
—
With
my
present
Faith
they
agree
.
So
that
he
was
not
Erroneous
when
a
Quaker
,
as
to
the
great
Doctrines
of
the
Christian
Faith
,
nor
in
his
Vindicating
the
Quakers
Doctrines
;
and
yet
he
would
have
the
Quakers
guilty
of
gross
and
vile
Errors
,
Heresies
,
Denying
the
Lord
that
Bought
them
,
&c.
which
makes
me
fear
,
he
hath
sold
himself
to
do
Wickedly
.
For
it
is
evident
to
those
that
knows
them
,
and
are
rightly
acquainted
with
their
Doctrines
,
and
that
have
observed
their
Conversations
,
and
are
not
Prejudiced
and
filled
with
Ill-will
against
them
,
(
which
never
speaks
well
)
that
they
do
truly
and
sincerely
Own
,
and
firmly
Believe
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
and
all
Doctrines
therein
contained
,
both
with
respect
to
God
,
Christ
,
the
Holy
Spirit
,
or
Word
of
God
:
And
by
Believing
in
the
Light
,
Spirit
,
and
Word
within
,
(
as
G.
K.
saith
,
p.
22.
of
his
Retractations
)
we
are
brought
naturally
to
own
the
Scriptures
,
and
the
things
therein
declared
;
to
own
Moses
and
the
Prophets
,
to
own
the
Dispensation
of
God
to
the
Jews
in
that
day
,
and
to
own
Christ
in
the
Flesh
,
his
Miraculous
Birth
,
his
Doctrine
and
Miracles
,
Sufferings
,
Death
,
Resurrection
,
and
Ascension
;
together
with
the
Wonderful
End
and
Design
of
God
therein
,
&c.
And
this
Method
I
very
well
approve
of
still
.
And
so
do
the
Quakers
;
and
therefore
are
many
among
them
so
Laborious
and
Earnest
,
to
turn
People
to
this
Light
,
Spirit
,
and
Word
within
,
and
are
willing
not
only
to
spend
and
be
spent
,
but
do
spend
and
are
spent
,
to
bring
People
to
Believe
therein
,
and
only
for
the
Good
and
Benefit
of
their
Souls
,
and
not
for
filthy
Lucre
sake
.
And
altho'
he
saith
,
He
very
well
approves
this
Method
yet
through
Conceitedness
his
strong
Will
,
great
Passion
,
abominable
Pride
,
impatiency
under
Contradiction
,
and
being
filled
with
Rage
and
Prejudice
,
he
is
attained
to
that
degree
,
that
he
can
now
not
only
confidently
Contradict
what
he
once
call'd
Truth
,
(
and
what
he
also
affirm'd
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
)
but
himself
also
.
And
although
he
pretended
with
a
free
and
willing
Mind
,
to
make
a
general
Retraction
of
all
the
hard
Names
,
and
uncharitable
Censures
,
he
hath
at
any
time
,
either
by
word
or
writ
past
,
on
any
—
humbly
desiring
their
forgiveness
.
He
hath
in
his
Advertisement
on
a
Hearsay
Story
,
cryed
out
of
a
Quaker-Cheat
;
this
is
their
Cheat
and
Abuse
;
and
charges
them
by
whole-sale
,
with
seeking
to
Defame
and
Abuse
him
,
and
cries
out
Abuse
and
Shame
,
and
all
by
Hearsay
,
and
on
Presumption
.
But
it
's
to
be
feared
,
he
's
now
so
used
to
Confessing
,
that
he
don't
mind
to
Forsake
:
But
it
's
He
that
Confesseth
and
forsaketh
,
that
shall
find
Mercy
.
But
his
Building
the
things
which
he
once
Destroyed
,
hath
made
himself
a
Transgressor
.
So
Requiring
him
,
by
plain
and
express
Scripture
,
and
in
express
Scripture-Terms
,
to
answer
what
he
hath
writ
against
Water-Baptism
and
the
Supper
,
and
particularly
the
Ten
Queries
,
that
he
delivered
to
him
and
his
Brethren
,
that
call
that
Eating
of
Bread
,
and
Drinking
of
Wine
,
once
or
twice
in
a
Year
,
in
the
Publick
Assembly
,
the
Sacrament
,
as
G.
K.
and
his
Brethren
now
do
;
For
,
according
to
the
Proverb
,
what
's
Sauce
for
the
Goose
,
is
Sauce
for
the
Gander
.
And
there
are
many
other
things
,
which
he
now
practiseth
,
he
ought
to
bring
plain
and
express
Scripture
for
.
So
I
shall
now
conclude
;
beware
that
thou
be
not
deceived
,
and
brought
down
in
thy
Jollity
,
Eccles.
1●
.
8
.
For
an
envious
Man
hath
a
wicked
Eye
;
he
turneth
away
his
Face
,
and
despiseth
Men.
Let
him
,
and
those
concerned
with
him
,
therefore
Read
and
Apply
Isai.
3.9
.
Jer.
2.19
.
and
Hos.
5.5
,
6
,
7.