Railings
and
Slanders
Detected
,
or
the
Folly
and
Heresies
of
the
Quakers
further
Exposed
,
&c.
IT
is
well
known
to
all
that
are
but
a
little
acquainted
with
the
Faculties
and
Writings
of
the
Quakers
,
that
their
usual
methods
,
are
to
cry
out
against
all
that
oppose
or
detect
their
corrupt
notions
;
as
such
that
abuse
and
defame
an
Innocent
and
Religious
People
:
But
amongst
the
many
causeless
out-cries
they
have
proclaimed
in
the
World
,
I
have
not
seen
one
for
its
magnitude
that
hath
out-done
a
small
parcel
of
slanderous
confused
Railleries
,
that
lately
was
Midwiv'd
into
the
World
,
and
Fathered
by
George
Whitehead
:
which
if
there
be
a
Wise
Man
amongst
them
,
it
appears
strange
that
it
had
not
been
stifled
in
the
Birth
,
rather
than
such
an
ill
shapen
Cub
should
have
gone
forth
into
the
World
to
declare
it self
Legitimate
,
and
publish
it self
the
true
Off-spring
of
a
Quaker
.
But
we
must
take
it
as
it
is
,
and
in
the
Title
Page
G.
W.
saith
,
our
Book
is
a
desaming
confused
Book
.
Answer
.
I
suppose
a
great
part
of
it
must
needs
be
confused
,
being
taken
out
of
your
own
confused
Writings
;
the
reconciling
of
which
to
themselves
,
is
as
easie
as
bringing
together
the
South
and
North
Poles
.
2.
He
calls
it
a
defaming
Book
.
Answer
:
It
defames
no
Mans
Person
,
nor
indeed
your
Principles
,
any
further
than
your
Tongues
and
Pens
did
it
first
of
all
;
for
it
Treats
of
your
professed
notions
,
which
if
false
,
are
deservedly
exposed
,
nothing
being
a
more
destructive
evil
in
our
day
,
than
for
falshood
to
be
carried
on
in
the
World
with
Fame
and
Applause
.
But
to
come
to
your
Book
it self
:
Could
you
suppose
that
any
thing
was
contained
in
it
to
the
purpose
?
I
cannot
imagine
what
you
could
think
of
it
.
If
you
had
said
any
thing
towards
reconciling
your
former
Writings
with
your
late
professed
Faith
,
you
had
done
something
to
the
purpose
;
do
you
think
that
any
whose
Eyes
are
in
their
Heads
,
will
not
easily
see
that
your
defects
in
Truth
aud
Reason
are
supplied
with
Slanders
and
Railings
?
You
tell
us
,
p.
5
,
6
,
7
,
8.
We
have
shewed
our
envy
and
bitterness
;
yea
,
we
appear
Envious
against
your
present
Liberty
,
as
Men
of
Envious
,
Turbulent
,
Persecuting
Spirits
,
&c.
Why
,
what
's
the
matter
?
why
our
Book
defames
the
Quakers
as
a
People
of
a
Religious
Society
,
&c.
who
have
solemly
and
sincerely
declared
to
the
Government
,
That
they
own
and
believe
the
Holy
Scriptures
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
and
desire
to
live
in
the
Faith
,
Knowledge
,
and
Practice
of
them
,
and
that
they
believe
in
the
Three
Divine
Witnesses
bearing
Record
in
Heaven
,
the
Father
,
Word
,
and
Holy
Spirit
,
and
the
Divinity
and
Humanity
of
Christ
,
and
Justification
by
Christ's
Works
,
Righteousness
and
Merits
,
and
not
by
their
own
:
This
and
much
more
in
their
professed
Faith
,
whereunto
I
referr
the
Reader
:
Now
we
have
gone
and
published
to
the
World
,
wherein
the
Writings
of
their
chief
Guides
do
directly
oppose
and
contradict
this
Confession
of
Faith
,
from
which
G.
Whitehead
concludes
,
That
by
this
we
would
make
void
one
Condition
of
their
present
Liberty
,
p.
6.
As
People
not
fit
to
be
tolerated
,
now
have
their
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
p.
7.
And
saith
G.
W.
No
doubt
had
these
angry
Anabaptists
power
,
we
should
not
enjoy
our
Liberties
,
the
very
Nature
and
Tendency
of
these
their
bitter
lying
Invectives
,
being
to
bring
Persecution
upon
us
,
as
a
People
not
to
be
given
any
credit
unto
in
our
Solemn
Profession
before
Authority
.
To
all
which
I
Answer
,
First
,
We
did
not
know
till
our
Book
was
Published
,
that
you
had
professed
this
as
your
Faith
before
the
Parliament
.
And
secondly
,
we
must
the
more
admire
your
Presumptuous
confidence
herein
,
that
you
should
so
affront
the
Government
;
except
you
had
at
the
same
time
renounced
your
former
Writings
,
that
so
evidently
contradict
it
.
And
whereas
you
falsly
charge
us
with
persecuting
Spirits
and
Envy
,
it
is
well
known
that
our
principles
,
are
and
ever
were
that
none
ought
to
be
persecuted
for
their
Religious
Principles
or
Notions
;
no
not
the
Papists
themselves
,
so
long
as
they
live
peaceably
in
subjection
to
Authority
and
the
Civil
Government
:
yet
had
they
come
and
set
up
a
Mass-House
at
Deptford
;
and
that
they
might
the
more
effectually
prevail
upon
the
Ignorant
,
and
easilier
proselyte
them
to
their
Idolatry
and
Superstitions
,
should
have
published
a
Profession
of
Faith
directly
contrary
to
their
known
Principles
,
and
the
Writings
of
their
Chief
Guides
.
We
should
in
like
manner
have
looked
upon
our selves
obliged
both
in
Honour
to
God
,
and
Love
to
our
Neighbours
,
to
have
detected
their
Deceits
.
And
we
freely
allow
any
to
examine
our
published
Faith
;
and
if
they
can
find
such
plain
contradictions
as
aforesaid
,
we
will
be
content
to
bear
the
discredit
,
and
not
retaliate
them
with
Railings
and
Slanders
,
nor
account
them
envious
Persecutors
for
it
:
And
now
I
would
appeal
to
the
Light
in
G.
Whitehead
,
whether
he
believes
that
we
envy
their
Liberty
,
and
would
Persecute
them
had
we
Power
?
if
he
so
believes
,
he
is
miserably
deluded
in
that
matter
;
and
if
he
doth
not
so
believe
,
how
willfully
doth
he
sin
against
the
Light
in
casting
these
Slanderous
Aspersions
upon
us
?
What
,
are
we
envious
Persecutors
,
Hypocrites
,
and
possessed
with
an
unclean
Spirit
and
lying
Devil
,
p.
5
,
8
,
17.
Fie
George
,
are
these
Thunderbolts
fit
to
be
shot
at
your
Antagonists
on
all
occasions
?
I
own
that
you
have
some
cause
to
be
displeased
at
our
putting
you
upon
a
work
you
cannot
possibly
do
;
namely
,
to
reconcile
your
late
Faith
with
your
former
Writings
:
But
then
you
might
have
called
▪
us
unreasonable
Men
,
or
compared
us
to
Pharaoh's
Task-masters
;
for
its
a
work
we
put
you
upon
that
is
harder
than
to
make
Brick
without
Straw
.
And
indeed
G.
Whitehead
appears
to
have
no
mind
to
touch
it
with
one
of
his
fingers
,
it
is
so
knotty
and
difficult
a
piece
of
work
:
No
,
it
passeth
the
skill
of
the
ablest
Orator
with
all
his
Rhetorick
,
or
George
Whitehead
with
all
his
pretended
skill
in
Logick
,
to
do
it
;
and
should
they
go
about
to
do
it
with
their
Equivocal
Stuff
:
they
know
they
shall
appear
in
an
evil
Case
.
Well
,
but
it
may
be
some
Advocate
for
the
Quakers
may
be
ready
to
say
,
That
although
the
Quakers
first
Original
and
Ancient
Authors
of
that
Antiquity
as
1648.
and
since
;
for
I
think
they
do
not
pretend
to
any
greater
Antiquity
:
See
John
Whitehead's
small
Treatise
p.
4.
He
saith
,
That
in
the
year
1648.
God
,
who
had
Compassion
on
his
People
,
did
cause
a
Branch
to
spring
forth
of
the
Root
of
David
,
which
was
filled
with
Virtue
for
the
Covenant
of
Life
,
and
Peace
was
with
him
,
&c.
and
much
more
matter
of
this
Blasphemous
nature
you
have
in
the
Book
and
Page
aforesaid
.
But
who
the
degenerate
Plant
of
this
strange
Vine
was
,
I
know
not
,
except
James
Naylor
.
And
saith
John
Whitehead
,
In
the
year
1655.
I
being
a
Branch
of
this
Tree
,
(
viz.
)
the
Branch
aforesaid
,
the
Life
of
this
Root
,
caused
me
to
Blossom
and
bring
forth
Fruit
,
for
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
came
upon
me
.
Ibid.
But
to
return
:
suppose
that
these
Antient
Authors
did
at
first
and
since
,
till
very
lately
,
run
into
gross
and
abominable
Errors
about
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
denying
them
to
be
the
Word
of
God
,
and
Rule
of
Faith
and
Practices
:
and
did
deny
Christ's
being
at
God's
right
hand
in
the
Glorious
Heavens
beyond
the
Stars
;
and
did
deny
the
Humanity
of
Christ
,
and
Justification
by
his
Works
,
Righteousness
and
Merits
,
&c.
yet
they
may
now
have
seen
their
former
Errors
;
and
it
may
be
by
some
means
they
have
been
convinced
thereof
,
so
that
now
they
are
become
good
,
Orthodox
Christians
;
and
therefore
they
have
published
a
Christian-like
Profession
of
Faith
,
&c.
Answer
:
But
then
ought
they
not
to
have
renounced
their
former
Writings
that
directly
contradict
it
,
and
then
we
should
have
been
heartily
glad
to
hear
of
so
great
and
so
happy
a
Reformation
in
and
amongst
them
?
But
now
I
think
upon
it
,
to
put
them
upon
renouncing
any
of
their
former
Writings
or
Authors
Works
,
will
be
a
greater
affront
than
the
other
;
and
I
shall
incurr
G.
Whitehead's
displeasure
worse
than
before
;
for
how
can
they
do
that
,
since
all
their
Authors
Books
,
be
they
ever
so
full
of
Railings
,
Falsities
and
Blasphemies
,
yet
they
intitle
them
to
the
Divine
Majesty
,
and
his
Eternal
Life
and
Light
,
given
forth
from
his
Mouth
,
and
Sealed
by
his
Spirit
,
&c.
So
that
I
see
not
how
they
can
renounce
what
they
have
written
,
but
must
look
upon
all
as
infallibly
true
on
their
account
,
as
the
Pope
and
his
Conclave
looks
upon
their
Councils
,
Edicts
,
and
Decrees
;
so
that
as
the
Laws
of
the
Medes
and
Persians
,
they
are
never
to
be
altered
or
renounced
.
Then
lastly
,
which
way
could
the
Quakers
expect
to
escape
,
being
defamed
or
discredited
?
why
it
is
like
they
did
suppose
that
the
Honourable
Assembly
in
Parliament
had
matters
of
greater
moment
in
hand
,
than
to
compare
their
former
Writings
with
their
new
Faith
.
So
that
if
we
had
not
concerned
our selves
to
peep
into
their
Writings
,
and
compare
them
with
their
newly
professed
Faith
,
and
publish'd
this
to
the
World
;
namely
,
That
the
Quakers
former
Writings
and
their
late
Profession
of
Faith
,
are
as
really
alike
as
an
Apple
is
to
an
Oyster
,
and
agree
as
directly
as
Light
and
Darkness
,
it
had
not
been
known
.
But
G.
Whitehead
saith
in
p.
6.
That
this
Confession
of
Faith
was
sincerely
own'd
and
consented
to
as
one
condition
of
their
present
Liberty
.
Well
then
we
hope
you
in
plainness
speak
your
Faith
therein
;
for
if
you
did
dissemble
your
Principles
to
obtain
your
Liberty
,
it
was
but
a
bad
way
to
get
at
it
:
But
we
hope
better
things
.
Now
would
the
Quakers
but
clear
themselves
in
these
their
First
and
Primitive
Errors
and
corrupt
principles
in
point
of
Faith
,
we
should
be
heartily
glad
to
hear
thereof
.
First
,
That
they
would
never
more
deny
the
Scriptures
to
be
the
Word
of
God
,
and
Rule
●f
Faith
and
Life
;
which
they
have
done
.
●●●●●…ly
,
That
they
would
never
more
am●●…
the
Scriptures
to
be
of
no
use
in
order
to
the
true
Knowledge
of
God
.
This
they
have
formerly
done
.
Thirdly
,
That
they
would
no
longer
hold
it
to
be
a
sin
,
Ay
,
the
sin
of
Idolatry
and
Breach
of
the
Second
Commandment
,
to
take
the
Practices
of
the
Saints
Recorded
,
Commanded
,
or
Approved
,
&c.
in
the
Scriptures
for
our
Examples
and
Rules
:
This
you
have
done
.
Fourthly
,
That
they
would
never
more
affirm
,
That
whatever
is
commanded
in
Scripture
is
no
Duty
to
us
,
except
we
receive
the
Command
by
immediate
Inspiration
as
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
did
.
Fifthly
,
That
they
would
never
more
deny
the
Resurrection
of
the
Bodies
of
Men
from
the
Graves
of
the
Earth
,
as
they
have
done
.
Sixthly
,
That
they
would
never
more
deny
the
Body
of
Christ
of
Flesh
and
Bones
to
be
raised
from
the
Grave
,
and
to
be
now
in
the
Glorious
Heavens
above
,
beyond
the
Stars
.
This
they
have
also
done
.
Seventhly
,
That
they
would
never
more
deny
Gospel
Ordinances
,
as
Baptism
in
Water
and
the
Lord's
Supper
,
Administred
in
Bread
and
Wine
;
which
the
Quakers
do
both
despise
and
contemn
?
Eighthly
,
That
they
would
forever
renounce
this
pernicious
Tenet
,
of
believing
that
no
Blessedness
is
to
be
enjoyed
by
the
Saints
after
Death
,
the
Body
never
being
to
be
raised
to
any
further
Blessedness
,
no
more
than
〈◊〉
enjoyed
a
thousand
years
before
they
〈◊〉
;
and
that
the
Soul
is
part
of
God
,
came
〈◊〉
●rom
God
,
and
shall
return
into
God
again
,
being
part
of
his
Essence
.
Ninthly
,
That
they
would
never
more
deny
Justification
by
Christ's
Works
,
Righteousness
and
Merits
;
and
for
time
to
come
,
never
call
it
a
Doctrine
of
Devils
,
as
they
have
formerly
done
.
Tenthly
,
that
they
would
never
say
and
affirm
that
the
Light
within
is
Christ
and
God
,
as
they
have
too
commonly
done
.
And
finally
,
that
they
would
leave
off
their
Billings-gate
Complements
,
and
learn
to
treat
their
Antagonists
more
moderately
and
mildly
;
for
evil
Communications
will
corrupt
all
their
good
Manners
,
if
they
have
any
:
And
waiting
for
this
Reformation
in
them
,
I
shall
now
proceed
to
examine
G.
W's
long
Story
,
and
loud
Out-cries
about
the
Westmorland
Petitioners
;
which
is
my
next
Work
.
About
the
Story
of
the
Westmorland
Petitioners
,
G.
W.
spends
several
pages
in
cavelling
with
what
I
say
,
Antichrist
in
Spirit
,
&c.
pag.
78.
namely
,
That
Quake●●●●
is
not
derived
from
a
Person
,
but
from
●
Gesture
used
much
amongst
the
Quakers
,
formerly
in
'
their
Meetings
,
as
was
manifest
by
what
was
alledged
against
them
by
the
Westmorland
Petitioners
;
who
alledged
that
their
practice
did
exceedingly
savour
of
Sorcery
,
because
of
the
Swellings
,
Quakings
,
Roarings
and
Foamings
that
were
amongst
them
in
their
Meetings
.
I
also
cite
the
Quakers
Answer
to
this
Petition
,
p.
35.
where
they
deny
not
Swelling
,
Foaming
,
and
Quaking
:
But
they
deny
Sorcery
and
Blasphemy
;
they
justifie
their
Quaking
and
Trembling
,
as
being
used
by
the
Saints
of
old
,
&c.
James
Naylor
,
p.
16
,
and
17.
of
his
Book
,
The
Power
and
Glory
of
the
Lord
,
&c.
urgeth
many
Scriptures
to
prove
their
Name
,
by
justifying
this
practice
,
saying
,
That
holy
Men
of
God
do
witness
Quaking
and
Trembling
,
&c.
Now
what
is
this
but
a
plain
granting
all
that
I
bring
the
Instance
for
?
I
say
the
same
may
be
said
of
wicked
Men
and
Devils
:
But
this
is
therefore
no
discriminating
Character
of
Christianity
or
Saintship
:
For
Acts
24.
25.
wicked
Felix
did
tremble
:
And
James
2.
19.
It
is
said
,
the
Devil
believes
and
trembles
:
And
Luk.
9.
39.
we
read
of
him
that
was
possess'd
that
he
foamed
,
&c.
But
G.
W.
asks
whether
we
were
Eye
or
Ear-witnesses
of
these
Gestures
.
He
answers
in
the
Negative
,
No.
But
how
can
G.
W.
tell
but
we
have
seen
such
Gestures
amongst
them
?
for
my
own
part
I
have
seen
them
quake
and
foam
at
the
Mouth
:
Besides
several
that
have
been
Eye
and
Ear-witnesses
of
〈◊〉
.
But
,
saith
G.
W.
You
had
this
from
the
Westmorland
Petitioners
:
And
what
were
they
but
a
Company
of
envious
,
persecuting
Priests
and
Magistrates
.
Answer
,
no
doubt
but
this
is
the
best
Language
you
can
afford
any
that
give
the
clearest
Demonstrations
of
your
corrupt
Notions
and
deceivable
Gestures
.
Then
observe
what
a
long
run
G.
W.
takes
after
his
own
shadow
,
and
then
falls
a
fighting
with
Men
of
Straw
of
his
own
setting
up
:
Saith
he
,
We
deny
your
Story
of
Swellings
and
Foamings
,
as
charged
upon
us
,
or
our
Meetings
in
Westmorland
,
&c.
Answer
,
then
you
do
not
deny
Quaking
,
Trembling
and
Roaring
;
so
that
there
remains
as
much
and
more
undenied
,
as
the
Instance
is
brought
for
,
as
any
may
see
in
Antichrist
in
Spirit
,
p.
78.
Again
you
say
your
Meetings
in
Westmorland
are
clear
of
it
.
I
ask
George
Whitehead
,
do
I
say
that
you
and
your
Meetings
in
Westmorland
did
use
to
swell
and
foam
?
Is
there
any
such
thing
said
or
asserted
,
that
you
swelled
and
fo●med
there
?
Suppose
you
formerly
used
to
q●●●●
,
tremble
,
roar
,
swell
and
foam
at
the
〈◊〉
-
Mouth
in
London
,
or
elsewhere
,
the
Westmorland
Petitioners
may
say
true
,
for
ought
we
say
in
our
Book
,
or
for
any
thing
you
have
said
yet
.
But
I
challenge
you
to
deny
if
you
dare
that
such
Gestures
were
used
amongst
you
formerly
.
Again
I
shall
follow
G.
Whitehead
a
little
further
in
this
his
impertinent
,
long
run
,
which
he
makes
a
material
part
of
the
Bundle
of
Stuff
in
his
slanderous
Libel
:
Saith
he
,
p.
13.
Set
Case
any
have
been
disordered
through
some
natural
Infirmity
,
Distemper
,
Swouning
or
Falling
Sickness
:
What
doth
this
affect
us
or
our
Meetings
on
a
religious
Account
;
it
may
be
some
of
your
own
People's
Case
?
Answer
,
It
is
strange
to
me
,
that
G.
W.
an
old
Stickler
for
Quakerism
,
should
think
to
put
off
the
Matter
of
Fact
with
such
an
Equivocal
Gloss
.
Do
you
think
that
such
natural
or
transient
Infirmities
,
that
are
insident
to
Men
,
were
the
occasion
of
the
Westmorland
Petition
,
and
other
Charges
of
the
same
Nature
,
or
of
what
I
and
many
others
have
seen
?
Surely
if
you
think
so
,
no
body
else
will
.
And
how
impertinent
is
your
next
Supposition
?
Say
you
,
suppose
it
should
be
made
appear
that
divers
Anabaptists
,
after
they
have
been
dipp'd
and
received
into
Church-Fellowship
,
have
run
mad
or
distracted
,
and
others
guilty
of
great
Enormities
,
how
would
this
affect
either
your
Church-profession
or
Societies
?
p.
14.
Answer
,
you
speak
here
to
none
of
us
,
the
Name
Anabaptists
we
never
owned
,
procured
,
or
defended
,
as
you
have
done
your
Quaking
.
And
although
James
Nailor
justified
your
Quaking
and
Trembling
;
yet
here
in
p.
11.
say
you
,
Quakerism
is
a
Nick-name
in
Derision
;
and
James
Nailor
in
the
Title
Page
of
his
Book
,
stiles
himself
one
whom
Ishmael's
Brood
calls
a
Quaker
.
Pray
then
what
is
G.
W.
who
so
frequently
calls
us
Anabaptists
?
Is
not
he
one
of
Ishmael's
Brood
,
according
to
his
own
Doctor
's
Opinion
?
And
since
the
Name
Anabaptists
belongs
not
to
us
:
First
,
I
answer
thus
,
that
if
any
have
submitted
to
Christ's
sacred
Ordinance
of
Baptism
,
and
are
received
into
Church-Fellowship
,
&c.
and
after
this
shall
turn
Anabaptists
,
and
provoke
God
thereby
,
he
may
in
Justice
deprive
them
of
their
Senses
,
and
give
them
up
to
enormous
Acts.
Now
since
you
are
not
ignorant
that
the
Name
Anabaptists
belongs
not
to
us
,
this
might
serve
for
an
Answer
to
your
impertinent
Supposition
.
But
suppose
some
Members
of
the
baptized
Churches
,
or
any
other
Christian
Societies
have
so
done
,
we
believe
God
can
at
his
pleasure
deprive
of
Senses
and
Understanding
:
And
we
also
believe
that
the
truest
Professors
,
if
they
have
not
a
constant
care
and
watch
,
may
Apostatize
,
and
run
into
great
Inormities
.
But
what
is
this
to
your
frequent
Gestures
of
Quaking
,
Trembling
,
and
foaming
in
your
Meetings
formerly
?
I
confess
there
may
be
something
in
it
,
if
you
will
say
that
all
that
used
those
Gestures
amongst
you
were
mad
and
distracted
Men
and
Women
:
But
't
is
like
you
will
be
cautious
of
saying
so
;
it
having
been
so
frequent
amongst
you
,
lest
any
should
be
so
maliciously
untoward
;
though
it
may
be
very
natural
,
as
to
conclude
,
that
Quakerism
was
first
founded
,
and
carried
on
by
mad
and
distracted
Men
and
Women
;
for
they
quaked
,
trembled
,
and
foamed
at
the
Mouth
,
&c.
Again
,
I
shall
take
notice
of
one
more
of
your
impertinent
Suppositions
,
after
mentioning
Mark
9.
20
,
25
,
26.
and
Luke
9.
39
,
42
,
43.
About
the
Man
that
was
brought
to
Christ
who
was
possessed
,
and
the
Spirit
tore
him
and
he
fell
on
the
ground
,
and
wallowed
foaming
,
&c.
now
suppose
,
saith
G.
W.
That
in
any
Meeting
of
the
People
called
Quakers
,
such
Apparitions
or
gestures
has
been
,
he
will
not
own
it
to
have
been
frequent
,
no
but
in
any
particular
person
,
that
some
unclean
Spirit
hath
so
torn
or
disordered
her
or
him
;
(
now
observe
the
Inference
)
we
may
charitably
believe
it
has
been
because
Jesus
Christ
has
come
in
Spirit
and
Power
amongst
them
,
to
rebuke
and
cast
out
such
unclean
Spirits
and
to
deliver
them
that
were
infested
thereby
;
when
our
Friends
have
been
solemnly
met
together
in
Fasting
and
Prayer
in
his
Name
and
fear
,
to
wait
upon
him
,
and
worship
him
,
&c.
Answer
,
I
would
first
ask
G.
W.
what
Rule
or
Reason
the
Quakers
can
assign
for
Fasting
?
my
Question
is
grounded
upon
Matth.
9.
14.
Then
came
to
him
the
Disciples
of
John
saying
,
why
do
we
and
the
Pharisees
fast
often
,
but
thy
Disciples
fast
not
?
v.
15.
Jesus
said
unto
them
,
can
the
Children
of
the
Bride-Chamber
mourn
as
long
as
the
Bride-groom
is
with
them
?
but
the
days
shall
come
when
the
Bridegroom
shall
be
taken
from
them
,
then
shall
they
fast
:
Now
I
ask
you
by
what
Rule
you
observe
days
of
Fasting
,
since
you
really
believe
that
Christ
the
Bride-groom
is
really
with
you
,
among
,
and
personally
in
you
?
Methinks
it's
strange
that
you
should
talk
of
Fasting
;
that
is
a
Duty
in
cumbent
upon
such
as
believe
Christ's
Personal
Ascension
into
the
glorious
Heavens
above
,
beyond
the
Stars
;
so
that
he
being
personally
taken
from
them
,
though
present
in
Spirit
,
they
are
obliged
to
Prayer
and
Fasting
,
and
all
other
Gospel
Ordinances
,
till
his
second
personal
and
glorious
coming
.
But
what
the
Quakers
have
to
do
with
Ordinances
,
Prayer
,
or
Fasting
,
I
see
not
.
2.
Neither
is
there
Reason
to
believe
you
dare
in
your
Assemblies
,
in
Christ's
Name
,
rebuke
any
unclean
Spirits
,
lest
you
meet
with
the
same
Answer
and
Repulse
as
the
seven
Sons
of
Sceva
did
,
Acts
19.
14
,
15
,
16.
And
the
evil
Spirit
answered
and
said
,
Jesus
I
know
,
and
Paul
I
know
;
but
who
are
you
?
And
the
Man
in
whom
the
evil
Spirit
was
,
leaped
on
them
,
and
overcame
them
,
&c.
And
to
conclude
my
Answer
to
his
long
Story
,
I
ask
George
Whitehead
why
he
had
not
denied
this
Gesture
of
Quaking
and
Foaming
to
Mr.
John
Faldo
,
who
gives
him
Provocation
enough
to
do
it
.
See
his
Book
,
Quakerism
no
Christianity
,
pag.
12.
Saith
he
,
How
generally
were
their
Meetings
(
viz.
the
Quakers
,
)
either
silent
,
or
taken
up
with
sudden
and
violent
Eruptions
of
dismal
Howlings
and
horrid
Ravings
,
Persons
suddenly
taken
,
as
with
the
Falling
Sickness
,
shaking
and
foaming
at
the
Mouth
,
and
some
lying
flat
on
the
ground
as
if
stark
dead
?
And
saith
Mr.
Faldo
,
some
such
things
as
these
I
have
seen
and
heard
;
and
that
there
are
undeniable
Testimonies
of
it
,
that
are
so
numerous
and
notorious
,
that
though
now
they
have
almost
,
if
not
altogether
,
left
the
latter
sort
of
them
,
they
dare
not
deny
that
it
was
so
:
And
if
they
dare
to
challenge
this
with
an
Untruth
,
I
may
requite
them
to
keep
alive
their
Remembrance
with
a
good
part
of
a
volume
of
them
.
Thus
far
Mr.
Faldo
,
whose
Book
is
signed
and
approved
by
21
Ministers
of
the
Independent
and
Presbyterian
Way
.
I
needed
not
to
have
taken
this
Pains
,
since
these
Gestures
are
fresh
in
the
Memories
of
many
in
this
Nation
:
And
George
Whitehead
hath
said
nothing
that
denies
the
Matter
of
Fact
charged
in
my
Books
,
p.
6
,
7.
upon
the
Quakers
:
he
denies
not
Quaking
and
Trembling
,
which
was
all
the
Instance
was
brought
for
;
and
then
I
think
for
any
Service
G.
W.
hath
done
the
Cause
,
he
had
better
have
said
nothing
.
3.
George
Whitehead
saith
in
p.
16.
that
I
have
falsely
cited
,
and
grosly
perverted
the
Quakers
Words
and
Authors
,
and
taken
many
false
things
on
Credit
,
not
only
the
Story
from
the
Westmorland
Petitioners
;
but
also
out
of
his
Brother
Tho.
Hicks
,
his
abominable
Forgeries
and
Lyes
,
in
his
factious
Dialogues
:
And
in
p.
8.
He
prays
his
Reader
to
observe
,
that
much
of
our
Book
against
them
is
taken
out
of
other
Books
,
and
Pamphlets
of
their
Adversaries
,
long
since
answered
and
refuted
;
and
their
Authority
is
utterly
denied
by
us
,
as
the
Westmorland
Petitioners
,
who
were
envious
Persecutors
.
Tho.
Hicks
his
abusive
Dialogues
,
who
was
proved
a
notorious
Forger
of
Lyes
.
And
a
malicious
Libel
stiled
,
Tyranny
and
Hypocrisie
detected
.
Answer
.
I
am
inclinable
to
think
G.
W.
hath
said
some
Truth
in
what
hath
been
repeated
;
nay
,
I
do
in
Charity
believe
it
:
then
I
will
shew
you
what
I
believe
he
saith
Truth
in
.
4.
Namely
,
That
the
Authority
of
the
Quakers
Adversaries
Books
is
utterly
denied
by
them
.
I
am
strongly
persuaded
G.
W.
saith
Truth
in
this
;
for
they
that
can
deny
the
Authority
of
the
Scriptures
,
being
the
only
Rule
of
Faith
and
Practice
,
when
alledged
against
them
,
may
well
deny
the
Authority
of
all
Books
wrote
against
them
whatsoever
,
tho'
the
Matter
be
ever
so
true
.
2.
As
to
the
rest
asserted
by
G.
W.
I
will
not
tell
him
he
lyes
:
But
I
am
well
satisfied
he
is
departed
very
far
from
the
Truth
.
And
as
to
that
Book
,
Tyranny
and
Hypocrisie
detected
,
It
treats
chiefly
of
the
Usurping
and
Lording
Authority
that
some
of
the
Quakers
assumed
over
others
,
and
of
others
opposing
and
contradicting
them
,
as
might
be
made
manifest
.
And
as
to
what
instances
I
bring
from
that
Book
,
as
Josias
Coal's
Letter
from
Berbaldus
to
George
Fox
,
giving
him
those
blasphemous
Titles
;
mention'd
,
Antichrist
in
Spirit
unmask'd
,
p.
43.
or
any
other
passage
from
thence
,
cited
by
me
,
let
G.
W.
deny
them
,
as
to
Matter
of
Fact
,
if
he
dare
.
3.
As
for
Mr.
Hicks
his
Dialogues
,
that
George
Whitehead
calls
Lyes
and
Forgeries
,
and
the
Author
a
notorious
Lyer
and
Forger
,
&c.
It
had
been
much
more
to
purpose
had
G.
W.
shewed
us
what
some
of
those
Lyes
and
Forgeries
were
.
I
have
,
it
's
true
,
examined
the
Quakers
Appeal
by
way
of
Charge
against
Tho.
Hicks
,
wherein
they
charge
him
with
Lyes
,
and
Slanders
,
and
Forgeries
,
and
what
not
;
and
I
have
perused
Mr.
Hicks's
Answer
to
their
Appeal
,
where
Mr.
Hicks
clears
himself
both
of
Lyes
and
Forgery
.
I
find
his
Answer
to
their
Appeal
,
subscribed
and
approved
by
no
less
than
22
Persons
of
Credit
,
who
testifie
that
they
have
compared
Tho.
Hicks
his
Citations
with
the
Quakers
Books
,
out
of
which
they
were
taken
,
and
find
them
truly
cited
;
then
let
the
Reader
judge
who
is
the
Lyer
,
Tho.
Hicks
,
or
G.
W.
Again
G.
W.
seems
to
be
angry
with
my
Citation
out
of
Mr.
Hicks's
Dialogue
,
p.
24
,
25.
In
Antichrist
in
Spirit
,
p.
14
,
15.
As
for
us
,
had
the
Scriptures
never
been
,
we
could
have
known
what
is
therein
contained
:
I
have
also
heard
this
from
a
Quaker
my self
.
But
G.
W.
was
not
so
fair
as
to
mention
this
,
though
it
was
the
ground
of
my
Demand
.
And
let
the
Reader
observe
what
an
apparent
Perversion
George
Whitehead
makes
of
my
Words
,
and
the
occasion
of
them
,
p.
18
,
19.
of
his
Pamphlet
,
after
he
hath
charged
us
with
Forgery
.
Now
pray
observe
,
saith
he
,
what
strange
Test
or
Proof
your
Agent
Edw.
Paye
puts
upon
us
to
evince
an
immediate
Inspiration
.
G.
W.
knows
this
Question
was
demanded
,
to
prove
what
is
before
mentioned
:
Namely
,
that
had
the
Scriptures
never
been
,
they
could
have
known
what
was
therein
contained
.
Now
if
this
be
so
,
then
let
the
Quakers
resolve
me
what
those
things
were
that
Jesus
did
,
that
are
not
written
,
Joh.
21.
25.
or
what
were
the
Contents
of
that
writing
on
the
ground
,
Joh.
8.
68.
Or
else
let
their
proud
boasting
of
immediate
Inspirations
be
condemned
to
perpetual
silence
,
&c.
Saith
G.
W.
Hereupon
you
have
passed
unjust
Judgment
,
and
falsely
charged
us
with
proud
boasting
;
and
argued
absurdly
against
immediate
Inspiration
,
as
if
none
have
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
unless
they
know
and
can
declare
all
things
that
it
knows
.
I
answer
,
It
is
a
strange
thing
to
me
,
that
G.
Whitehead
doth
not
see
that
he
condemns
himself
whilst
he
is
judging
another
;
and
it
is
a
lamentable
thing
that
the
Quakers
will
admit
of
no
distinctions
:
But
it
verifies
that
true
Proverb
,
that
the
want
of
distinctions
are
the
cause
of
mistakes
.
Here
G.
W.
will
not
admit
of
a
distinction
,
betwixt
immediate
Inspirations
,
and
the
mediate
or
more
common
Gifts
of
the
Spirit
.
Now
all
Christians
that
I
know
of
,
will
admit
of
this
distinction
,
That
it
is
one
thing
to
be
immediately
and
extraordinarily
endowed
and
inspired
with
the
Holy
Ghost
,
as
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
in
their
Prophecies
and
Writings
were
;
and
another
thing
to
have
such
common
and
more
immediate
Gifts
and
Graces
of
the
Spirit
,
that
are
promised
by
Christ
to
them
that
obey
him
,
as
a
Seal
of
their
present
Acceptance
,
and
future
Inheritance
.
The
use
of
these
more
immediate
or
common
Gifts
,
are
to
help
our
Infirmities
,
and
to
bring
to
remembrance
our
Lord
's
revealed
Will
in
his
Word
:
Things
that
are
secret
,
and
not
written
;
not
at
all
belonging
to
us
,
but
to
the
Lord
.
But
observe
G.
W's
plain
perversion
of
my
Words
.
First
,
saith
he
,
as
if
none
have
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
unless
they
know
and
can
declare
all
Things
it
knows
.
Do
I
demand
of
you
to
tell
me
all
things
that
Jesus
did
,
or
that
the
Holy
Spirit
knows
?
You
know
I
do
not
;
and
then
what
an
idle
Evasion
is
this
?
And
because
we
pretend
not
to
immediate
or
extraordinary
Inspirations
;
therefore
we
come
short
of
being
Christ's
Ministers
or
Ambassadors
,
and
have
shut
our selves
out
from
any
share
in
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
or
Divine
Inspiration
;
and
how
then
will
you
prove
your
Call
to
baptize
People
in
Water
.
Answer
,
Then
by
G.
W's
Logick
,
because
we
do
not
pretend
to
such
immediate
and
extraordinary
Inspirations
,
as
to
know
what
had
been
contained
in
the
Scriptures
,
had
they
never
been
written
:
We
fall
short
of
being
Christ's
Ministers
or
Ambassadors
,
and
have
shut
our selves
out
from
having
any
share
in
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
&c.
One
that
hath
but
his
Senses
,
would
be
inclined
to
think
that
this
Consequence
is
much
beside
the
Truth
;
and
yet
if
this
be
not
true
,
G.
W.
cannot
imagine
how
we
can
prove
our
Call
to
baptize
People
in
Water
.
But
to
inform
him
in
this
Matter
,
we
have
a
sufficient
Call
for
it
,
from
the
Commission
of
Christ
our
great
Prophet
,
who
is
to
be
heard
in
all
things
,
Matth.
28.
Mark
16.
And
the
frequent
Examples
of
the
Apostles
,
who
admonish
and
exhort
us
to
be
Followers
of
them
as
they
are
of
Christ
,
and
to
keep
the
Ordinances
as
they
were
delivered
;
so
that
we
need
not
immediate
Inspirations
for
our
Call
or
Authority
herein
.
But
I
am
persuaded
G.
W.
hath
made
use
of
these
many
nonsensical
Quibles
to
evade
resolving
the
Question
.
Now
let
him
resolve
me
in
some
of
those
things
that
Jesus
did
,
that
was
not
written
,
and
what
was
wrote
on
the
ground
:
And
let
him
or
any
other
Quaker
do
it
,
either
by
a
mediate
or
immediate
Inspiration
or
Revelation
:
And
if
they
cannot
do
it
,
then
let
their
proud
boastings
of
immediate
Inspirations
,
Revelations
,
and
Knowledge
in
things
above
what
is
written
,
cease
for
ever
,
&c.
And
I
shall
still
wait
for
an
Answer
.
Again
,
p.
21.
Saith
G.
W.
To
deem
them
Impostors
that
say
Christ
is
within
thee
or
them
,
is
to
render
the
holy
Apostles
Impostors
,
who
preached
Christ
within
,
the
Word
nigh
in
thy
heart
,
Rom.
10.
6
,
7
,
8.
which
therefore
was
not
separate
from
them
,
and
only
at
a
distance
;
yea
,
and
to
render
themselves
also
Impostors
,
who
have
confess'd
the
same
Truth
of
Christ
within
;
referring
to
our
Book
,
p.
22
,
23
,
69.
Antichrist
in
Spirit
,
&c.
Which
I
refer
the
Reader
to
.
Answer
.
Besides
the
gross
Slanders
that
G.
W.
casts
upon
us
,
it
is
a
lamentable
thing
to
see
how
miserably
he
abuseth
the
Text
,
Rom.
10.
6
,
7
,
8.
He
only
mentioning
that
part
that
he
thinks
is
for
his
Turn
:
The
Word
is
nigh
in
thy
heart
,
leaving
out
,
In
thy
Mouth
,
even
the
Word
of
Faith
which
we
preach
;
which
the
Apostle
there
explains
thus
,
If
thou
shalt
confess
with
thy
mouth
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
believe
in
thine
heart
that
God
hath
raised
him
from
the
dead
,
thou
shalt
be
saved
,
&c.
Can
any
thing
be
more
clearly
expressed
,
ver.
9.
Yet
G.
W.
will
not
distinguish
betwixt
the
Word
of
Faith
that
the
Apostles
preached
,
and
the
Object
of
Faith
to
whom
this
Word
directs
;
and
because
we
cannot
,
neither
did
the
Holy
Apostle
understand
the
Word
here
to
be
Christ
:
Therefore
G.
W.
is
so
daringly
confident
,
that
he
charges
us
with
rendering
the
holy
Apostles
Impostors
,
and
our selves
also
.
I
shall
spend
no
more
time
on
this
Particular
,
but
leave
the
impartial
Reader
to
judge
of
G.
W's
gross
perversion
of
this
Text.
And
in
p.
22.
George
Whitehead
charges
me
with
wronging
and
abusing
them
about
the
Titles
of
their
Books
,
as
if
higher
than
they
give
the
Holy
Scriptures
;
perverting
them
,
by
leaving
out
the
explanatory
part
of
the
Titles
:
And
he
Instances
in
H.
Smith's
Book
,
A
True
and
Everlasting
Rule
,
&c.
Being
the
first
Part
of
the
Title
:
But
I
leave
out
the
next
following
;
viz.
from
God
discovered
;
and
for
this
,
here
is
a
loud
Out-cry
of
Wrong
,
Abuse
,
and
Perversion
,
&c.
I
ask
G.
W.
does
those
Words
from
God
discovered
,
added
to
The
True
and
Everlasting
Rule
,
diminish
the
heighth
of
the
Title
?
You
would
persuade
your
Reader
to
believe
so
,
or
else
why
do
you
quarrel
at
it
.
The
Title
was
higher
than
you
afford
the
Scriptures
before
;
and
one
would
be
under
a
strong
Temptation
to
believe
,
that
Addition
makes
it
higher
and
not
lower
.
Now
I
would
seriously
ask
G.
W.
when
and
how
God
made
this
discovery
to
H.
Smith
,
that
the
Scriptures
are
thus
useless
to
guide
in
the
ways
of
God
;
and
how
can
you
profess
in
your
Faith
,
that
the
Scriptures
are
profitable
for
Doctrine
,
Instruction
,
&c.
since
there
is
a
sufficient
Rule
to
guide
in
all
the
ways
of
God
without
them
.
Again
,
saith
he
,
we
know
none
among
us
,
that
call
the
Holy
Scripture
a
dead
or
carnal
Letter
:
And
p.
24.
he
puts
us
to
prove
,
that
the
People
called
Quakers
,
or
any
Persons
continuing
in
Society
with
them
,
do
say
;
Mark
that
,
that
the
Holy
Scripture
is
but
a
dead
,
carnal
Letter
;
or
that
we
so
call
the
Doctrines
or
Testimonies
contained
in
them
.
Answer
,
what
may
not
the
Quakers
prove
or
deny
at
this
rate
?
There
are
these
Difficulties
proposed
:
First
,
we
must
be
sure
the
Persons
do
at
this
moment
continue
in
Society
with
the
Quakers
.
Secondly
,
that
they
do
now
in
the
present
Tense
,
say
,
The
Scriptures
are
but
a
dead
or
carnal
Letter
;
and
this
is
not
enough
if
this
be
done
:
For
by
Scriptures
they
do
not
mean
the
Writings
or
written
Words
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
but
Faith
,
Repentance
,
Holiness
,
&c.
p.
22.
Though
the
outward
Letter
or
Writing
in
it self
alone
be
dead
.
And
,
saith
G.
W.
now
I
leave
the
Reader
to
judge
whether
he
doth
not
own
the
Charge
.
And
if
he
will
deny
that
any
approved
Quaker
did
ever
,
whilst
so
,
call
the
Scriptures
a
dead
and
carnal
Letter
,
let
him
do
it
if
he
dare
.
Having
followed
,
G.
W.
in
answering
his
impertinent
and
absurd
Evasions
.
I
shall
give
the
Reader
a
Breviate
of
the
sweet
,
convincing
Language
the
Quakers
use
to
treat
their
Antagonists
withal
:
And
first
I
shall
begin
with
Tho.
Lawson
in
his
Book
against
William
Jefrey
:
Thou
Image-maker
,
thou
Cockatrice
hatching
Eggs
,
Vultures
Eye
;
and
this
,
because
William
Jefrey
said
,
Christ
was
ascended
with
that
Body
that
God
raised
him
from
the
dead
again
.
Thou
Heathen
,
because
W.
J.
said
the
Will
of
Christ
was
made
known
by
the
Scriptures
,
Thou
Lyer
,
Bundle
of
Lyes
,
thou
Esau
,
selling
thy
Birthright
,
a
Mute
for
the
Night-birds
,
Cormorants
,
Bitterns
,
Owls
,
Ravens
,
Dragons
,
wild
Beasts
,
Satyrs
,
Vultures
,
Screich-Owls
;
and
that
because
W.
G.
said
that
the
Saints
have
not
the
glorious
Kingdom
in
possession
,
but
by
promise
:
This
for
Tho.
Lawson
,
the
Quaker
,
in
his
Book
against
W.
Jefrey
,
&c.
I
shall
again
mention
Famous
Edward
Boroughs
in
his
Answer
to
Mr.
Bennet's
20.
Sober
Questions
,
as
appears
in
Boroughs
Works
in
Folio
,
from
p.
29.
to
34.
a
Breviate
thereof
take
as
followeth
,
Thou
Reprobate
and
Child
of
Darkness
,
the
Light
condemns
thee
,
and
thy
Generation
eternally
.
We
Witness
thee
to
be
in
the
Sorcery
and
Witchcraft
.
Thou
art
darkness
it self
,
thou
Dragon
,
thy
Queries
are
conjured
in
the
Black-Art
,
out
of
the
bottomless
Pit
;
thou
Diviner
,
we
Witness
thee
to
be
the
Beast
that
Wars
with
the
Lamb
,
thou
Antichrist
that
lookest
at
Christ's
death
at
Jerusalem
alone
:
thou
art
seen
with
the
Light
and
with
it
condemned
,
thou
blind
Pharisee
and
Blasphemer
,
thou
Jesuit
,
art
thou
pleading
for
a
Christ
afar
off
thee
,
thou
art
under
the
Woe
,
and
from
that
Woe
thou
shalt
never
fly
:
Let
all
People
see
whether
thou
be
not
a
blind
ignorant
Sot
.
Here
thou
replyest
thy
sottish
Questions
concerning
the
Body
of
Jesus
,
as
the
Devil
did
about
the
Body
of
Moses
:
Thou
disobedient
one
upon
whom
God
will
render
Vengeance
in
flaming
fire
,
thou
art
Accursed
,
thou
Beast
to
whom
the
Plagues
of
God
are
due
,
upon
whom
the
Wrath
of
God
must
be
accomplished
;
thou
art
shut
out
from
God
for
ever
,
thou
blind
Hypocrite
,
thou
dark
sottish
Beast
,
thou
polluted
Beast
.
And
much
more
to
this
purpose
you
will
find
in
the
Book
and
Pages
of
Edward
Boroughs
the
Quaker
aforesaid
.
Now
is
it
not
hard
to
believe
the
Testimony
the
Quakers
give
of
this
Man
,
namely
,
that
he
was
a
Faithful
Servant
and
Prophet
of
the
Lord
?
And
yet
he
thus
Sentences
a
Man
to
Woe
and
Condemnation
for
ever
;
and
that
for
asking
some
sober
and
serious
Questions
.
Take
also
a
Breviate
of
Mr.
Penn's
sweet
Language
to
Mr.
Faldo
,
in
Answer
to
his
Book
,
Quakerism
no
Christianity
.
See
Mr.
Faldo's
Reply
to
Mr.
Penn's
Answer
,
p.
93.
Saith
Mr.
Faldo
,
I
shall
rake
but
into
one
of
your
Books
for
the
following
good
Language
,
and
leave
large
gleanings
of
all
these
lovely
Titles
and
Eipithets
you
afford
me
and
my
Work
.
'
Behold
you
Priest
,
failable
,
errable
Priest
,
scoffing
independent
Priest
,
ungodly
Priest
,
busie
Priest
,
cavilling
Priest
,
over-doing
Priest
,
Antichristian
Priest
,
Mountebank
Priest
,
this
taunting
Priest
,
stingy
Priest
,
mercenary
John
Faldo
,
a
Quack
,
a
Religious
Bone-setter
,
the
Priests
break-neck
;
the
Priest
and
his
Poppit-play
Doctrine
,
vaunting
,
strutting
John
Faldo
,
insolent
Vilifier
,
ignorance
or
malice
it self
,
our
malignant
Adversary
John
Faldo
,
ignorance
,
malice
,
and
revenge
;
black
as
Hell
it self
in
malice
,
impious
scoffs
,
impudence
,
strange
impudence
,
the
impudence
of
his
wickedness
,
sordid
pedantry
,
he
vomits
his
Scriptures
,
he
brings
no
more
to
purpose
than
Toby
and
his
Dog
,
a
Doctrine
of
Devils
,
a
lye
,
a
lye
to
be
sure
,
a
very
lye
,
devilish
falsities
,
a
downright
lye
,
an
errant
lye
,
a
wicked
lye
,
the
last
great
lye
of
his
second
part
of
lyes
,
a
wicked
lye
minted
out
of
Hell
.
Mr.
Penn'
s
Answer
to
Mr.
Faldo
,
p.
43.
65.
79.
64.
109.
117.
140.
208
,
210.
74.
107.
116.
40.
46.
110.
157.
204.
213.
214.
203.
215.
And
much
more
that
follows
,
being
more
general
Railings
and
Reflections
.
4.
Take
a
Breviate
also
out
of
this
small
bundle
of
Railery
,
written
by
G.
Whitehead
against
Edward
Paye
,
Henry
Loader
,
and
William
Alcot
,
thus
sweetly
worded
.
The
Envy
and
Bitterness
,
they
are
maliciously
envious
against
our
present
Liberty
;
as
Men
of
a
turbulent
,
persecuting
Spirit
,
they
have
grosly
belyed
us
in
their
bitter
lying
invectives
,
their
envy
and
bitterness
is
carnal
,
blind
,
and
dark
,
these
envious
turbulent
Teachers
in
their
rage
and
railery
,
Lord
deliver
every
well-meaning
person
from
you
and
your
Envy
,
such
malicious
Preachers
as
these
Anabaptists
,
who
as
persons
possessed
with
a
lying
unclean
Spirit
,
are
now
still
foaming
out
their
own
shame
and
malice
;
their
work
of
malice
and
falshood
in
their
puff'd-up
envious
Flesh
,
they
have
grosly
belyed
us
,
and
do
charge
us
with
this
horrid
lye
,
your
shameful
lyes
,
you
have
grosly
belyed
us
,
you
have
diabolically
and
foully
foamed
out
your
own
shame
and
envy
,
as
will
appear
that
the
foaming
unclean
Spirit
and
lying
Devil
is
not
cast
out
of
you
,
the
unclean
lying
Spirit
that
possesses
you
,
such
gross
forgeries
,
horrid
and
abusive
forgeries
,
a
gross
lye
,
O
blind
Guides
,
self-contradicting
and
self-condemning
Hypocrites
;
you
are
blind
Guides
,
they
are
gross
notorious
old
lyes
;
Woe
unto
you
lying
Hypocrites
.
Antichrist
in
Flesh
,
&c
▪
p.
5.
6.
7.
9.
10.
11.
15.
16.
17.
18.
20.
21.
&c.
And
more
such
stuff
as
this
;
Now
doth
not
this
make
it
manifest
that
the
Quakers
are
no
Changlings
.
But
is
it
not
strange
that
these
people
that
call
themselves
God's
Lambs
,
should
act
so
like
raging
Bears
;
and
when
endeavours
have
been
used
to
still
their
ragings
,
many
times
their
Answer
hath
been
as
Tho.
Lawson
to
Will
.
Jefery
,
Dost
not
thou
know
the
Saints
shall
Judge
the
World
,
they
being
the
Saints
,
and
all
they
condemn
,
the
World
.
Take
a
Breviate
of
some
of
the
Quakers
Profession
of
Faith
.
The
Quakers
Profession
of
Faith
.
Q.
What
's
your
Belief
concerning
the
Blessed
Trinity
as
our
Term
is
.
Answer
,
Our
Belief
is
that
in
the
Unity
of
the
God-head
there
is
Father
,
Son
,
and
Holy
Ghost
,
being
those
3
Divine
Witnesses
that
bear
Record
in
Heaven
;
the
Father
,
the
Word
,
and
the
Holy
Spirit
,
and
that
these
three
are
one
according
to
Holy
Scrip.
Testimon
.
The
Quakers
Contradictions
of
this
Faith
.
1.
Respecting
the
place
where
these
Divine
Witnesses
are
,
or
what
Heaven
they
intend
.
2.
How
it
appears
that
they
own
the
Humanity
of
Christ
.
3.
How
it
can
be
that
they
own
Justification
by
Christ
,
briefly
examined
.
Smiths
Primer
p.
9.
They
that
are
false
Ministers
,
Preach
Christ
without
,
and
bid
people
Believe
in
him
as
he
is
in
Heaven
above
;
Swor'd
of
the
Lord
,
p.
24
your
carnal
Christ
is
utterly
denied
by
the
Light
,
your
imagined
God
beyond
the
Stars
.
J.
Pernel's
Satans
design
discovered
.
p.
19
,
25.
saith
,
That
by
Preaching
Christ
in
Heaven
,
the
Devil
gets
his
work
done
on
Earth
:
as
,
Tho.
Lucock
being
asked
by
W.
J.
where
that
Heaven
was
into
which
Christ
Ascended
?
He
answered
,
claping
his
hand
on
his
Breast
,
saying
,
within
me
,
within
me
,
so
that
the
Heaven
the
Quakers
intend
,
is
within
them
,
in
their
corruptible
bodies
.
The
Quakers
Profession
of
Faith
.
Q.
Do
you
believe
the
Divinity
and
Humanity
of
Jesus
Christ
the
Eternal
Son
of
God
,
or
that
Jesus
Christ
is
truly
God
and
Man
?
Answer
Yes
,
we
verily
believe
that
Jesus
is
truly
God
and
Man
,
according
as
the
Holy
Scriptures
testifies
of
him
,
God
over
all
,
blessed
for
ever
,
the
true
God
and
eternalLife
,
the
one
Mediator
between
God
and
Man
,
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
.
The
Quakers
Contradictions
of
this
Faith
.
2.
How
doth
it
appear
that
the
Quakers
do
believe
the
Humanity
of
Christ
?
Since
John
Whitehead
Dip.
plu.
p.
13.
Jesus
Christ
a
person
without
us
,
is
not
Scripture
Language
,
but
the
Anthropomorphites
and
Mugletonians
.
Again
,
G.
W.'s
Appendix
to
Reason
against
Railing
,
p.
21.
The
Socinian
tells
us
of
a
personal
Christ
;
and
that
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
our
Lord
hath
in
Heaven
a
place
remote
from
Earth
,
a
humane
Body
.
But
doth
he
believe
him
to
be
the
eternal
God
,
whilst
he
imagines
him
to
be
a
personal
Christ
,
a
humane
Body
,
so
limited
and
confined
to
Remoteness
,
&c.
The
Quakers
Profession
of
Faith
.
Quest.
Do
you
believe
and
expect
Salvation
and
Justification
by
the
Righteousness
and
Merits
of
Jesus
Christ
,
or
by
your
own
Righteousness
or
Works
?
Answer
,
By
Jesus
Christ
his
righteous
Merits
and
Works
and
not
by
our
own
.
God
is
not
indebted
to
us
for
our
deservings
;
but
we
to
him
for
his
Free
Grace
in
Christ
Jesus
,
whereby
we
are
saved
through
Faith
in
him
,
not
of
our selves
,
&c.
The
Quakers
Contradictions
of
this
Faith
.
G.
Fox
,
Great
Mystery
of
the
great
Whore
,
p.
71.
He
saith
,
Christ's
Nature
is
not
humane
,
which
is
earthly
;
for
that
is
the
first
Adam's
,
&c.
And
yet
they
profess
to
believe
the
Humanity
of
Christ
.
See
G.
Fox's
Great
Mystery
,
&c.
p.
16.
Saith
he
,
John
Bunyan
saith
,
God
is
distinct
from
the
Saints
;
and
Bunyan
is
deceived
,
who
,
saith
he
,
is
distinct
from
the
Saints
;
and
so
you
are
a
Company
of
pitiful
Teachers
.
See
Mr.
Haworth's
Animadversions
upon
the
quibling
Libel
from
the
Hartford
Quakers
,
stiled
,
A
Testimony
for
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
,
p.
11.
One
William
Bates
,
a
Quaker
,
said
more
than
once
,
That
what
Christ
took
of
the
Virgin
had
now
no
Being
,
&c.
Sept.
19.
1676.
in
the
hearing
of
Daniel
Doughty
,
John
Albury
,
and
Stephen
Tothil
.
Mr.
Pen's
Justification
is
not
by
the
Imputation
of
anothers
Righteousness
,
but
from
the
actual
performing
and
keeping
God's
righteous
Laws
.
Pen's
Sandy
Foundation
,
p.
25.
E.
Burrough's
Works
,
p.
33.
God
doth
not
except
any
,
where
there
is
any
failing
,
or
who
do
not
fulfil
the
Law
,
and
answer
to
every
demand
of
Justice
.
See
Mr.
Pen'
s
Serious
Apology
,
p.
148.
Justification
by
the
Righteousness
of
another
;
or
which
Christ
fulfilled
for
us
in
his
own
Person
,
wholly
without
us
,
we
boldly
affirm
to
be
a
Doctrine
of
Devils
,
and
an
Arm
of
the
See
of
Corruption
,
that
doth
now
deluge
the
World
.
See
again
Mr.
Pen'
s
sandy
Foundation
,
p.
25.
30.
It
is
a
great
Abomination
to
say
,
God
should
condemn
and
punish
his
innocent
Son
,
that
he
having
satisfied
for
our
Sins
,
we
may
be
justified
by
the
Imputation
of
his
perfect
Righteousness
:
O
why
should
this
horrible
thing
be
contended
for
by
Christians
!
I
shall
pass
this
,
when
I
have
only
given
you
one
instance
more
.
See
Edw.
Burrough's
Works
,
p.
32
,
33.
in
Answer
to
the
12
Question
;
it
being
this
,
Whether
the
holy
Lives
and
Works
of
the
Saints
be
not
excluded
from
the
Act
of
Justification
,
from
the
Guilt
of
Sin
.
Edw.
Burrough's
Answer
,
Thou
dead
Beast
!
Thou
art
a
Stranger
from
the
Life
of
God
,
and
excluded
from
the
holy
Life
of
the
Saints
,
and
their
Works
;
Thou
art
un-redeemed
from
thy
vain
Conversation
,
and
so
art
not
justified
nor
never
shalt
be
;
and
by
the
same
that
the
●…nts
are
justified
,
thou
art
condemned
into
the
Lake
for
ever
.
I
shall
now
leave
the
Reader
to
judge
,
Whether
the
Quakers
own
Writings
,
and
their
late
pretended
Faith
profess'd
,
do
not
directly
contradict
each
other
:
About
the
Three
Divine
Witnesses
in
Heaven
,
the
Humanity
of
Christ
;
and
that
they
expect
Justification
by
his
Works
,
Righteousness
and
Merits
,
&c.
and
not
by
their
own
.
The
Quakers
Profession
of
Faith
in
the
holy
Scriptures
.
They
say
they
believe
in
the
Three
Divine
Witnesses
that
bare
Record
in
Heaven
,
according
to
Holy
Scripture-Testimony
.
And
in
their
last
Article
,
they
propose
the
Question
thus
:
Quest.
Do
you
believe
and
own
the
Holy
Scriptures
contained
in
the
Books
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
to
be
given
by
Divine
Inspiration
,
and
to
contain
all
Matters
of
Doctrine
and
Testimony
,
necessary
to
be
believed
and
practised
in
order
to
Salvation
,
and
Peace
with
God
?
They
answer
and
say
;
yes
,
we
do
,
and
by
the
assistance
of
Grace
and
good
Spirit
of
God
.
which
giveth
the
Understanding
of
the
Mind
of
God
and
meaning
of
holy
Scriptures
,
we
always
desire
to
live
in
the
Faith
,
Knowledge
;
and
Practice
of
them
in
all
things
appertaining
to
Life
and
Godliness
:
holy
Scriptures
being
given
by
divine
Inspiration
,
is
profitable
for
Doctrine
,
Correction
,
and
Instruction
,
that
the
Man
of
God
may
be
perfect
,
throughly
furnished
to
every
good
Work
,
able
to
make
the
Man
of
God
wise
to
Salvation
,
through
Faith
in
Christ
Jesus
.
The
Quakers
professed
Faith
,
directly
contradicted
by
their
own
Writings
and
Authors
.
Fox
and
Hubberthorn
Truth
's
Defence
,
p.
101.
They
say
the
Scriptures
are
no
standing
Rule
;
and
that
it
is
dangerous
for
the
ignorant
People
to
read
them
:
I
,
and
yet
profitable
for
Doctrine
and
Holy
Scriptures
too
?
G.
Whitehead's
serious
Apology
,
p.
49.
That
which
was
spoken
from
the
Spirit
of
Truth
in
any
,
is
of
as
great
Authority
as
the
Scriptures
and
Chapters
are
,
and
greater
.
Pernel's
Sheild
of
the
Truth
,
p.
19.
He
also
that
saith
the
Letter
,
that
is
,
the
Scriptures
as
written
,
is
the
Rule
and
Guide
of
the
people
of
God
,
is
without
,
feeding
upon
husks
,
and
is
ignorant
of
the
true
Light
.
James
Nailor's
Light
of
Christ
,
p.
19.
God
is
at
liberty
to
speak
to
his
People
by
the
Scriptures
if
he
please
,
and
where
they
are
given
by
Inspiration
,
doth
so
:
And
he
is
also
at
liberty
to
speak
by
any
other
created
thing
,
as
to
Balaam
by
his
Ass
.
Tho.
Lawson
,
in
his
untaught
Teacher
;
Read
p.
6
,
7
,
8.
The
Scriptures
are
not
a
Rule
whereby
to
know
the
Will
of
Christ
.
See
also
H.
Smith's
True
and
Everlasting
Rule
from
God
discovered
;
for
I
must
remember
that
part
of
the
Title
;
or
else
G.
W.
will
be
offended
▪
and
say
I
wrong
him
.
H.
S.
affirms
,
that
there
is
no
other
Rule
,
Way
,
or
Means
,
by
which
Men
shall
ever
come
to
walk
with
God
,
but
by
that
which
is
manifest
of
God
in
him
;
and
that
it
is
sufficient
to
guide
in
all
the
ways
of
God
without
Scripture
,
or
any
other
outward
Rule
.
How
then
are
the
Scriptures
profitable
and
necessary
,
as
pretended
in
your
Profession
of
Faith
?
See
also
J.
Nailor's
Answer
to
the
Jews
,
Read
p.
4
,
22
,
25.
It
is
Blasphemy
for
any
to
say
the
Letter
is
the
Word
of
God
:
It
is
the
Devil
that
contends
for
the
Scriptures
to
be
the
Word
of
God
.
See
Burrough's
Works
,
p.
62.
He
that
persuades
People
to
let
the
Scriptures
be
the
Rule
of
Faith
and
Practice
,
would
keep
People
in
Darkness
;
for
who
ever
walks
by
the
Rule
without
them
,
and
teaches
Men
so
to
do
,
would
make
void
the
Covenant
of
Life
and
Peace
.
And
see
what
my
Antagonist
saith
,
Dip.
Plu.
p.
13.
and
then
judge
,
if
the
Scriptures
be
no
Rule
;
yea
,
if
it
be
Idolatry
to
call
the
Bible
a
means
,
as
G.
W.
expresly
saith
,
who
also
affirmeth
,
that
Faith
grounded
on
the
Scriptures
,
is
but
an
empty
implicit
Faith
;
and
bespeaks
such
Persons
void
of
the
knowledge
of
God
,
and
Christ
,
and
Salvation
,
and
to
be
yet
in
their
Sins
;
and
that
such
Men
walk
by
their
own
Fancies
and
Imaginations
,
Christ
Ascerded
,
p.
11.
Now
if
the
Scriptures
be
a
dead
,
carnal
Letter
,
Ink
and
Paper
,
saith
Pernel
▪
in
Sheild
of
Truth
:
If
they
are
the
Precepts
and
Traditions
of
Men
,
saith
Nailor
,
in
his
Love
to
the
lost
.
And
as
Helbro●…
the
Quaker
said
to
James
Nobs
and
his
Wife
,
If
they
are
no
better
than
an
old
Aim
▪
Hick's
D.
p.
29.
If
it
be
dangerous
for
the
Ignorant
to
read
them
:
If
to
say
an
Ass
hath
as
much
Authority
essentially
in
himself
to
teach
and
rebuke
,
as
the
Scriptures
:
If
to
account
it
blasphemy
and
diabolical
,
to
call
the
Scriptures
the
Word
of
God
,
be
not
to
contemn
and
vilifie
them
,
I
am
yet
to
seek
what
is
.
I
shall
refer
the
Reader
to
our
Book
,
Antichrist
in
Spirit
unmask'd
,
where
the
rest
of
the
Quakers
Articles
of
Faith
,
published
in
their
late
Pamphlet
,
are
particularly
examined
.
Now
let
the
Quakers
renounce
and
explode
those
Writings
and
Sayings
of
their
Authors
that
stand
upon
Record
,
that
so
directly
contradict
their
new
Faith
professed
by
them
;
and
as
was
said
,
we
shall
be
glad
of
so
great
and
happy
a
Reformation
among
them
,
hoping
some
means
hath
been
bless'd
to
work
this
happy
change
upon
them
.
In
p.
24
,
25.
G.
Whitehead
saith
,
we
have
wronged
his
Words
in
Citation
and
Construction
,
about
the
holy
Scriptures
and
Person
of
Christ
:
and
likewise
grosly
abused
,
wronged
,
and
mischarged
G.
Fo●
J.
Pernel
,
G.
Keith
,
foully
perverting
,
and
misconstruing
their
Words
.
And
he
saith
,
we
have
also
abused
,
vilified
,
defamed
,
and
wronged
W.
Smith
,
H.
Smith
,
J.
Nailor
,
E.
Burroughs
,
J.
Penington
,
S.
Crisp
,
W.
P.
and
others
,
Men
of
better
Fame
and
Repute
than
our selves
,
and
more
righteous
and
innocent
than
their
Defamers
.
Answer
,
That
forasmuch
as
G.
Whitehead
cannot
,
or
at
least
,
hath
not
shewed
us
wherein
we
have
wronged
them
as
to
Matter
of
Fact
,
we
shall
take
these
to
be
some
of
G.
W's
empty
and
swelling
words
of
Vanity
,
and
look
upon
it
as
a
presumptuous
Blast
blown
without
Proof
or
Demonstration
;
and
so
it
needs
no
further
Answer
at
present
.
Again
,
I
shall
take
no
notice
at
all
of
the
confused
Profession
of
Faith
,
that
G.
Whitehead
makes
▪
in
27
,
28
,
29
,
30.
Pages
of
his
Libel
;
but
do
think
it
had
been
much
more
to
the
present
purpose
,
had
he
instead
thereof
,
laboured
to
reconcile
their
Writings
with
their
late
published
Faith
.
The
Conclusion
,
Wherein
I
shall
take
a
little
Notice
of
G.
Whitehead's
Postscript
,
G.
W.
cites
Antichrist
in
Spirit
,
&c.
p.
46.
Where
I
referr
the
Reader
to
Saul's
Errand
to
Damascus
,
p.
6
,
7.
Where
G.
Fox
takes
the
Name
of
the
eternal
Judge
of
quick
and
dead
to
himself
,
&c.
G.
Whitehead
saith
,
this
is
notoriously
false
in
Fact
,
being
,
saith
he
,
in
the
very
same
Book
Saul's
Errand
,
recorded
amongst
those
Matters
,
falsly
charged
on
G.
F.
by
his
Adversaries
the
Priests
and
others
,
in
the
County
of
Lancaster
,
in
their
Petition
,
p.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6.
of
Saul's
Errand
,
where
G.
F.
opposeth
and
answereth
their
Objections
.
To
all
which
I
answer
:
In
the
beginning
of
the
Book
,
Saul's
Errand
,
there
is
that
part
of
the
Lancaster
Petition
inserted
,
p.
4
,
5
,
6
,
7.
In
which
Petition
,
G.
F.
is
charged
with
taking
to
himself
the
Name
of
the
eternal
Judge
of
quick
and
dead
,
&c.
The
Lancaster
Petitioners
were
several
Men
of
Credit
and
Repute
.
Now
though
G.
W.
says
the
charge
was
false
,
and
G.
Fox
denies
it
in
that
their
Book
,
&c.
What
then
?
Have
not
I
more
reason
to
believe
the
Affirmative
of
so
many
,
than
G.
Fox's
Negative
?
I
know
't
is
a
Faculty
incident
to
you
to
deny
Matters
of
Fact
charged
upon
you
,
be
they
ever
so
apparently
true
:
And
who
can
think
that
a
number
of
Men
should
agree
together
in
charging
G.
Fox
with
a
Falshood
?
Though
G.
Fox
denies
their
charge
in
his
Book
,
may
not
we
answer
it
in
your
own
Phrase
,
p.
8
of
your
Pamphlet
,
The
Authority
of
the
Quakers
Books
are
utterly
denied
by
us
;
so
that
we
have
grounds
to
believe
the
Petitioners
say
true
?
Why
may
not
G.
F.
take
the
Name
of
Judge
of
quick
and
dead
to
himself
,
as
well
as
to
approve
of
those
blasphemous
Titles
given
him
by
Jos.
Coal
,
in
his
Letter
from
Berbadoes
,
cited
in
Antichrist
in
Spirit
,
p.
43
,
44
,
45
,
Dear
G.
Fox
,
who
art
the
Father
of
many
Nations
,
whose
Light
hath
reached
through
us
thy
Children
,
even
to
the
Isles
afar
of
,
to
the
begetting
of
many
again
to
a
lively
hope
,
for
which
Generations
to
come
shall
call
thee
(
G.
F
)
blessed
,
whose
Being
and
Habitation
is
in
the
Power
of
the
Highest
,
in
which
thou
(
G.
F.
)
rulest
and
governest
in
Righteousness
,
and
thy
(
G.
Fox's
)
Kingdom
is
established
in
Peace
,
and
the
Increase
thereof
is
without
end
21
day
of
the
12
month
,
1658.
Now
if
G.
Fox
could
digest
and
approve
of
all
these
.
Titles
,
due
only
to
Christ
himself
in
the
Opinion
of
all
Christians
:
Why
may
he
not
use
the
like
Modesty
,
in
taking
the
name
of
Judge
of
quick
and
dead
to
himself
:
The
other
Titles
were
approved
and
ordered
to
be
recorded
.
Why
may
not
G.
Fox
take
this
Name
to
himself
,
as
well
as
to
say
in
one
of
your
Meetings
:
Friends
,
although
I
have
not
told
it
you
,
I
do
now
declare
it
,
I
have
power
to
bind
,
and
loose
whom
I
please
?
Now
if
G.
W.
hath
the
confidence
to
deny
these
things
,
a
further
Test
of
them
and
others
may
be
more
fully
given
.
G.
Whitehead's
next
causeless
Out-cry
,
is
,
that
I
say
the
Quakers
say
,
that
Christ
hath
no
body
but
his
Church
,
quoting
Saul's
Errand
,
p.
9.
Which
saith
,
G.
W.
is
notoriously
false
again
:
for
,
said
he
,
it
was
the
Priest's
Objection
against
L.
F.
that
he
professed
that
Christ
had
never
any
body
but
his
Church
,
Saul's
Errand
,
p.
2.
Which
saith
G.
W.
was
also
false
,
and
there
recorded
amongst
their
other
false
Charges
objected
.
To
which
I
answer
:
First
,
I
do
not
charge
the
Quakers
,
with
saying
that
Christ
never
had
any
Body
but
his
Church
:
They
own
he
had
a
bodily
Garment
.
But
the
Petitioners
aforesaid
charged
the
Quakers
,
with
saying
that
Christ
hath
no
Body
but
his
Church
.
Now
instead
of
G.
Fox's
owning
Christ
to
have
a
Body
besides
his
Church
,
or
distinct
from
his
Church
:
He
replies
,
That
Christ's
Church
is
his
Body
;
which
I
say
is
but
a
shuffle
;
and
not
denying
,
but
implicitly
granting
the
Matter
of
Fact
.
And
why
may
not
G.
F.
deny
Christ
to
have
a
Personal
Body
,
besides
or
distinct
from
his
Church
,
as
well
as
G.
Whitehead
?
Dip.
Pl.
p.
13.
Burrough's
Works
,
p.
150.
It
is
not
our
wonted
course
to
say
,
that
Christ
hath
no
Body
but
his
Church
.
But
we
say
the
Church
is
his
Body
.
Observe
they
do
not
usually
say
so
;
but
it
appears
they
believe
so
;
See
ibid
p.
151.
152.
To
say
Christ
hath
two
Bodies
,
one
out
of
the
sight
of
the
Saints
.
There
is
so
much
Wickedness
and
Ignorance
in
the
Broachers
of
such
a
Particular
,
that
it
needs
no
Answer
,
&c.
See
G.
Whitehead's
Verdict
;
and
I
shall
leave
this
to
the
Reader
's
Judgment
,
his
Apology
,
p.
33.
Them
that
accuse
us
,
for
saying
Christ
hath
but
one
Body
,
should
produce
Scripture
that
saith
he
hath
two
.
And
where
doth
the
Scripture
say
,
that
Christ's
glorified
Body
in
Heaven
is
of
humane
Nature
?
Now
the
Quakers
own
Christ's
Church
to
be
his
Body
;
then
that
is
the
one
Body
G.
W.
intends
.
And
it
is
monstrous
to
say
he
hath
two
:
So
that
then
I
do
not
wrong
the
Quakers
,
in
saying
that
they
own
Christ
to
have
no
Body
but
his
Church
.
Now
all
Christians
own
Christ's
Church
to
be
his
Mystical
Body
;
and
they
also
believe
him
to
have
a
personal
glorious
Body
distinct
from
his
Church
,
saith
he
,
Ep.
&c.
p.
59.
refers
to
Pernel's
Sheild
of
Truth
,
p.
12.
Where
I.
P.
calls
Water-Baptism
a
formal
Imitation
and
Invention
of
Men
,
&c.
G.
Whitehead
saith
James
Pernel
speaks
not
this
of
Water-Baptism
without
distinction
.
Answer
,
However
he
saith
so
;
and
then
the
Charge
is
owned
to
be
true
.
To
this
agrees
Smith's
Primer
,
p.
39.
Thy
Baptism
,
Bread
and
Wine
,
rose
from
the
Pope's
Invention
:
And
James
Nailor's
Salutation
to
the
Seed
of
God
,
p.
33
,
34.
calls
Water-Baptism
a
carnal
thing
.
Now
let
the
judicious
Reader
judge
how
far
I
have
been
concerned
in
wronging
the
Quakers
,
&c.
To
conclude
,
we
will
give
an
Answer
to
G.
Whitehead's
impertinent
Questions
,
though
I
think
they
are
not
worth
taking
notice
of
:
His
Questions
are
4
;
but
his
Reasons
for
asking
them
vanish
in
answering
the
first
;
viz.
Was
E.
P.
deputed
and
approved
by
your
Congregation
,
or
any
select
Assembly
of
Elders
or
Ministers
of
the
Baptized
People
or
Churches
,
to
write
or
publish
his
said
Book
against
the
People
called
Quakers
?
Or
did
he
do
it
on
his
own
Authority
or
Head
with
your
Approbation
only
.
Answer
,
Your
pretended
Faith
being
published
and
dispersed
plentifully
here
,
it
did
more
directly
affect
this
People
of
the
baptized
Way
;
and
therefore
E.
P.
did
write
and
publish
the
said
Book
,
by
the
approbation
of
the
Majority
of
this
Congregation
:
And
so
he
did
not
do
it
on
his
own
Head
.
Neither
did
we
see
it
needful
to
desire
the
approbation
of
others
herein
,
though
several
have
approved
of
it
since
.
And
it
is
most
ridiculously
impertinent
for
you
so
often
to
speak
of
defaming
you
as
a
People
,
except
you
could
shew
a
Dispensation
to
be
universal
Dictators
,
and
a
License
to
disperse
your
confused
and
pernicious
Stuff
without
Controul
.
Moreover
Edw.
Paye
hath
this
to
say
,
that
although
he
doth
not
pretend
to
Perfection
,
as
some
of
the
Quakers
have
done
;
that
is
,
a
living
without
Sin
:
Yet
when
G.
W.
becomes
Master
of
an
Inquisition
,
Edw.
Paye
will
give
sufficient
Testimonies
,
both
of
his
Life
and
Doctrine
,
to
the
confutation
of
his
Defamers
.
And
the
mean
time
,
he
challenges
any
to
charge
and
prove
against
him
any
thing
unbecoming
a
Man
and
a
Christian
,
respecting
either
Life
or
Principles
,
humane
Frailties
excepted
.
And
although
G.
W.
infinuates
most
arrogantly
that
he
had
need
to
be
a
Man
of
singular
Piety
and
eminent
Parts
,
that
is
sit
to
discourse
with
a
Quaker
in
this
Controversie
;
yet
E.
P.
believes
that
a
Man
of
as
mean
Qualifications
as
himself
can
do
it
:
And
let
this
serve
for
an
Answer
to
your
impertinent
Questions
.
And
now
,
G.
W.
I
conclude
with
a
Word
to
thee
;
and
do
hereby
declare
,
that
I
never
had
the
least
prejudice
against
,
or
Controversie
with
any
Quaker
about
civil
things
,
though
I
have
been
intimate
with
several
of
them
,
both
at
Bristol
when
I
lived
there
,
and
elsewhere
;
but
from
your
Principles
,
Liberanos
,
Domine
,
I
hope
shall
ever
be
my
Litany
:
And
I
hope
all
that
are
,
or
would
be
Christians
,
will
join
with
me
,
and
say
,
Amen
.
And
now
I
have
done
,
except
I
am
foolishly
provoked
;
which
if
I
am
,
you
may
,
it
is
like
▪
have
a
Quarterly
Packet
to
keep
your
Fame
in
remembrance
.
This
is
all
from
thy
Friend
,
Edward
Paye
.
FINIS
.