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<HEAD>Anti-Quakeri&s;m, or, A Character of the Quakers Spirit, from its Original and fir&s;t cau&s;e.</HEAD>
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<P>Written by a pious Gentleman that hath been thirteen years among&s;t the Separati&s;ts to make Ob&s;ervations, and is now returned home with a full intent to lay open the whole My&s;tery of iniquity, in unvailing the Whore, that men may no longer drink of the wine of her Fornications; he hath vowed a &s;ingle life, and given him&s;elf up wholly to the exerci&s;es of the mind. And here he hath de&s;cribed the &s;pirit of Quakeri&s;m. 1. Being a preci&s;e <HI>Puritan.</HI> 2. An <HI>Anabapti&s;t.</HI> 3. A <HI>Seeker.</HI> 4. A <HI>Ranter.</HI> 5. A <HI>Quaker,</HI> and indeed what not, all things, and nothing. By which Character every Man may in &s;ome mea|&s;ure &s;ee the deceitfulne&s;s of his own imagination and be careful, and watch him&s;elf accordinly.</P>
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<L><HI>I</HI> Have been in the valley of <HI>Siddim</HI></L>
<L>There I met with a Ranter, a See|ker, a Quaker, a Puritan,</L>
<L>And he told me from the light within</L>
<L>All things that ever I did was &s;inne.</L>
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<L>He &s;aid al&s;o by the &s;ame light,</L>
<L>God dwelled with him by his &s;pirit,</L>
<L>From the&s;e two premi&s;es I re&s;ume</L>
<L>The&s;e are the Spirits that do pre&s;ume.</L>
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<L>And now &s;ince they pre&s;umptious be,</L>
<L>I'l take the &s;ame Authority;</L>
<L>For Rea&s;on wills that I defend</L>
<L>My Life and Soul, being my own friend.</L>
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<L>And this without all fear I &s;ay,</L>
<L>They lyers are, that every way,</L>
<L>There is nothing that they &s;ay is true,</L>
<L>As I will demon&s;trate to you.</L>
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<L>And fir&s;t I'le them Anatomize,</L>
<L>In divers &s;hapes of their own guize;</L>
<L>Then to their Con&s;cience I will go,</L>
<L>To &s;ee if this be true or no.</L>
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<L>And fir&s;t he was a Puritan,</L>
<L>Wareing &s;hort hair and little band;</L>
<L>Then I thy Con&s;cience did extol,</L>
<L>Till thou would&s;t ware no Band at all.</L>
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<L>Then thou found&s;t fault with &s;inging P&s;alms,</L>
<L>And &s;aid they were as black as charms;</L>
<L>But now in &s;inging you delight;</L>
<L>Songs of your own made by the &s;pirit</L>
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<L>Thy cu&s;tome was to fa&s;t and pray,</L>
<L>Honour thou didst the Sabbath Day;</L>
<L>But now thou ha&s;t got a better light</L>
<L>Opening thy &s;hop that day for &s;pite.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Sermons at length thou wouldst not hear,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the Mini&s;ter would &s;ware;</L>
<L>But now you &s;ware and cur&s;e down-right</L>
<L>Is this the effects of your &s;pirit.</L>
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<L>At length you had a Call come out,</L>
<L>I will be your Father without doubt;</L>
<L>Then could not you no longer &s;tay,</L>
<L>But left the Church without delay.</L>
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<P><HI>Then he turned Anabapti&s;t.</HI></P>
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<L>Then you together took in hand,</L>
<L>To build Chri&s;t hou&s;e upon the Sand,</L>
<L>And &s;till you want the Corner &s;tone,</L>
<L>I mean Je&s;us that is Chri&s;t alone.</L>
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<L>His word you know you did promi&s;e,</L>
<L>And there you found the word baptize,</L>
<L>You &s;aid the meaning of't mu&s;t be</L>
<L>Needs meant of water, Bapti&s;me.</L>
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<L>Then did you mu&s;e and ca&s;t your care</L>
<L>All for an Admini&s;traetor,</L>
<L>But here in <HI>England</HI> none was &s;een,</L>
<L>That u&s;ed ought but &s;prinkling.</L>
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<L>At length you heard men &s;ay,</L>
<L>That there was Saints in <HI>Sile&s;ia,</HI></L>
<L>Who ever &s;ince the Apo&s;tles time</L>
<L>Had kept this Ordinance pure, divine.</L>
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<L>Thither ala&s;s you &s;ent in ha&s;te,</L>
<L>And thus you did &s;ome trea&s;ure w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;te,</L>
<L>But wh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n your me&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ngers came there,</L>
<L>They were deceiv'd as we are here.</L>
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<L>But this they told you in good deed,</L>
<L>That they of bapti&s;m &s;tood in need,</L>
<L>And for a pre&s;ent remedy,</L>
<L>With prayers they to Heaven did cry.</L>
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<L>Then did they with a joynt con&s;ent</L>
<L>Do that o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> which you now repent,</L>
<L>Authorize one them to bap<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">iz<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Thus this fine cheat they did devi&s;e.</L>
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<P><HI>The Original of the Anabapti&s;ts.</HI></P>
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<L>They &s;aid that you &s;hould thus do,</L>
<L>And God would own it they did know,</L>
<L>And you their councel &s;imply took,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e Baptize was writ in Book.</L>
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<P><HI>He turned Seeker and Ranter.</HI></P>
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<L>And thus at length you your &s;elves baptiz'd,</L>
<L>Tell you ano<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">her &s;ect devis'd;</L>
<L>You will &s;ay now Ord na<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ces are low,</L>
<L>God doth not own them you do know.</L>
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<L>Then you A&s;&s;emblies quite for&s;ook,</L>
<L>Having learn'd your le&s;&s;ons without book,</L>
<L>And fo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> a time you <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">orment were,</L>
<L>Till you di&s;cern'd the morning &s;tar.</L>
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<P><HI>He turned Quaker, and nothing.</HI></P>
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<L>Which as a light in you did &s;hine,</L>
<L>Which light you &s;aid w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s Chri&s;t divine,</L>
<L>And now you &s;ay he dwells in you,</L>
<L>What&s;oever you &s;ay I know is true.</L>
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<L>Thus have you trac'd and run divi&s;ion,</L>
<L>In your confu&s;ed mad religion;</L>
<L>A great deal more I could you &s;hew,</L>
<L>But this is en<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ugh for once to know.</L>
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<L>And now you &s;ee our trade is gone,</L>
<L>Is it long of God, or long of Man,</L>
<L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 13.9.</NOTE> If caus'd by m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n'tis thee and I,</L>
<L>Let us repent then &s;peedily.</L>
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<L>And do thou do what I have done,</L>
<L>If future evils, thou wilt &s;hun,</L>
<L>Return to Church again, I &s;ay,</L>
<L>There thou mai&s;t learn to &s;ing and pray.</L>
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<L>Return to Church again with &s;peed,</L>
<L>Le&s;t ob&s;tinacy doth thy torment breed,</L>
<L>For if-that Faction have his head,</L>
<L>Blood in our &s;treets must needs be &s;hed.</L>
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<P>It is good Rea&s;oning, <HI>Inter argumenta hominum,</HI> among&s;t the Arguments of Men, to draw Conclu&s;ions from &s;uch premi&s;es which the Re&s;pondant or Adver&s;aries that are to an&s;wer do own.</P>
<P>THe Puritan Spirit was the Spirit of Quakeri&s;m, in the fir&s;t degree, which thing wi&s;e men knew full well, which made them &s;o much i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">de<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">vour the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of them, though howbeit they took not the right way, or el&s;e the Spirit was too &s;trong, and had gotten too much hold both in the Magi&s;trates and vulgar, by rea|&s;on whereof it brake into the&s;e extreames, the men of tho&s;e times were too preci&s;e, critical, and exact, which is an infallible &s;ign of relig<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ous dotage, or melancholly: See <HI>Burton</HI> on <HI>Religious Me|lancholly,</HI> They took offence without cau&s;e; and I think now the Devil, is in them, for they will not be plea&s;ed with amends, though they have got all, for their de&s;ires are as deep and as large as Hell.</P>
<P>They &s;ing &s;piritual Songs and Hymns of their own devi&s;ing, and force their brethren to &s;ing with them, under penalty of their cen&s;ure, which in their opinion is little le&s;s then damnation.</P>
<P>They bitterly cur&s;e and banne all that any way differ from their opinion, and &s;ay, they have Authority from God to open their Shops on the Lords day, even that day of which they had once &s;o high an e&s;teem. They applie that Text worthy of all Con&s;ide|ration, which is by Saint <HI>Paul</HI> meant of univer&s;al &s;inne unto them&s;elves, with oppo&s;ition to others, <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.17. and make as if they onely were the alone people of God.</P>
<P>The word <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> &s;ignifies a Saviour, <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> a King, &s;o that Chri&s;t Je&s;us is &s;uch a King that doth &s;ave; but their Chri&s;t within leads all into de&s;truction, and hurries them upon impo&s;&s;ibilities contrary to Law and Rea&s;on, witne&s;s their new Catalogue of Mar|tyrs, printed in red Letters like blood, becau&s;e by the &s;imple they would for&s;ooth be under&s;tood as Martyrs.</P>
<P>The word <HI>Bapti&s;m</HI> is an Ambiguous term, take heed how you under&s;tand it, or make any particular application thereof.</P>
<P>They &s;ent up and down the world for a Man to baptize them, but they found none, but &s;uch as had baptized them&s;elves.</P>
<P>In <HI>England</HI> there was &s;ome in the practi&s;e of &s;princkling, but tho&s;e the D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ppers, to my knowledge, did reject from Communion with them on this very ground. They for&s;ook A&s;&s;emblies, and lay dormant, and &s;o imagined a new Go&s;pel, and a new Chri&s;t within them, the Devil take him for me, for I am too much under his power; then they went to work afre&s;h to get Di&s;ciples, and I think they have hit it; for I know, Country-men, what I &s;ay, that three parts of you that are religiou&s;ly affected at this day, are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with that humour which will make you Quakers, if you take not great heed.</P>
<P>The Quakers did preach, that it was a &s;inne to wear Bands or Band-&s;trings.</P>
<P>And now my Chri&s;tian friends, and Country-men, for the Lords &s;ake take heed to your &s;elves, be wi&s;e and warned by my harms; for Faction, I thank God, hath undone me, as to my outward E&s;tate, in my outward Man; But I have &s;een the bottom of their bottomle&s;s pit; and be&s;eech you take unto you the whole Armour of God, put on Fortitude and Faith, Clothe your &s;elves with zeal, as with a Cloak, but for the Lord &s;ake let your feet be &s;hod with the Preparations of the Go&s;pel of peace. Follow my directions, and under heaven I will fell the&s;e Spirits, and then will War and Tumults cea&s;e, and keep alwayes in memory the words of our Lord, <HI>Matthew</HI> 26.41. <HI>Mark</HI> 13.37.</P>
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<P>The Author hath written a Book, which is as a Tract of his thirteen years Experience: Entituled, <HI>A Leaf from the Tree of Life.</HI> And are to be Sold by <HI>Daniel White,</HI> at the Seven Stars in <HI>Pauls Church-Yard,</HI> and by &s;ome that &s;ell this paper.</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for the Author, <HI>Anno Dom</HI> 1659.</P>
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