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<HEAD>A DECLARATION Again&s;t all Poperie, and popi&s;h points: and is renoun|ced from them and by them whom the Scorners in &s;corn call <HI>Quakers:</HI> And likewi&s;e &s;ome <HI>Queries</HI> to the Pope and his Prie&s;ts that are guarded with his law: to be an&s;wered in writing or print; and to be &s;ent them called <HI>Quakers</HI> at <HI>London</HI> in <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as a <HI>Proclamation</HI> is &s;et forth by <HI>O.P.</HI> and his Coun|cil, in which is an oath to be profered, to be taken, of <HI>Ab|juration,</HI> again&s;t all <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> &s;upremacie and authority over the Catholique Church in generall: and we who are, by the World &s;cornfully called <HI>Quakers,</HI> who own the Doctrine of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who &s;aith, <HI>Swear not at all, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath; but let your yea be yea and your nay nay, le&s;t ye fall into condemnation:</HI> Jam. 5.12. In Chri&s;ts Doctrine and the Apo&s;tles Doctrine we do abide, and oaths is denied, and forbidden: and &s;o tho&s;e who were called Chri|&s;tians which was in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, who abode in his Doctrine and the Apo|&s;tles Doctrine, &s;uffered as they do now that doth the &s;ame: as in particu|lar <HI>John Morland</HI> who had been a Captain, was fined and impri&s;oned, be|cau&s;e he could not &s;wear, but kept to yea and nay in his communica|tions, and many others fined that cannot &s;wear: but with the light which comes from Chri&s;t Je&s;us, from him by whom the World was made, we do deny and condemn, with the light, all <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> wayes, and their <HI>Supremacy</HI> and authority over the Catholique Church in General, root and branch&punc; and therefore many of us which are called <HI>Quakers</HI> have &s;uffered and &s;uffereth, and layen long impri&s;oned by the Popi&s;h law which guarded the Je&s;uits, and Crucifixes and Imagess: which now guards many of the Prie&s;ts in <HI>England</HI> and their Church, which law did guard the Je&s;uits and their Church: therefore the authority of the Catholique Church in Ge|nerall, and the &s;upremacy of the Popes power we do utterly deny and renounce, as knowing their works of darkne&s;s: and condemn them all with the light; and the branch which comes from the root: by which branch many &s;uffers now in <HI>England</HI> for declaring again&s;t all Popi&s;h wayes and the authority derived from him, by which the Church was guarded, freely without an oath; for God doth us command, for we &s;ee the &s;word of the Lord is drawn again&s;t it: And &s;o over our &s;elves in particular we cannot &s;uffer any of his preheminency to bear rule, for it is an u&s;urped authority. So with the light of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t we are brought to declare again&s;t it; for with the light it is condemned, and here the power of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t is reteined: And we do know with the light which comes from the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, That bread and wine is carnall; which our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;ts body and blood is not: but is
<PB REF="2">pretious, <HI>He &s;aw no corruption,</HI> and is <HI>a my&s;tery:</HI> which is not bread and wine, let them con&s;ecrate it never &s;o: And &s;o to declare to you plainly, we do denie the Sacrament, for we know there is no Scripture for it: And the Lords Supper is not carnall, where it is &s;aid <HI>he will make his abode with you, and &s;up with you:</HI> the Lord is not carnall: but is the my&s;terie and his bo|dy is glorious, and not <HI>beggerly Elements,</HI> as outward bread or wine: for this is <HI>the blood of Je&s;us which wa&s;heth away our &s;in;</HI> and this is the body of Je|&s;us which makes us free from the law: which &s;tands not in meats and in drinks and carnall Ordinances, for the body is Chri&s;t: and &s;o we do denie and condemn all that wor&s;hip that &s;acrament of Elements of bread and wine, and that &s;upper which &s;tands in tho&s;e things: and we wit|nes Chri&s;t is come, who is the &s;umme and the &s;ub&s;tance, and &s;o need not have a remembrance of any Element: but we which be dead with Chri&s;t and live in his life, from the beggarly Elements, them that lives in them goes about to &s;lay us; &s;o as it is written they that are born after the fle&s;h per&s;ecutes them that are born after the &s;pirit: And again we do deny that there is any purgatory, and declare again&s;t it as knowing <HI>the blood of Je&s;us which clean&s;eth us from &s;in,</HI> which is an holy thing; and know him who takes away our &s;in and <HI>de&s;troyes the works of the Devil:</HI> which many hath the bread and wine which know nothing of the body and blood of Chri&s;t, no more then the Jews which turned from Chri&s;t, when he told them, that, <HI>except they did eat his Fle&s;h and drink his Blood</HI> they had no life in them, and they looked upon him carnally as the Papi&s;ts do now, which are deluded &amp; deceived. And again with the light which comes from the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, him who was not born by the will of man, him by whom the world was made, with his light do we deny and condemn all their con&s;ecrated Hoa&s;t, Crucifixes, and Images, and they are not to be wor&s;hip|ped but to be condemned with the light, which will let them &s;ee they are enemies of the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t which be in things before mentioned, and all them that wor&s;hip them. And to you this is the word of the Lord God: the light of your con&s;ciences &s;hall witnes it: <HI>God is a Spirit and is to be wor&s;hipped in &s;pirit and in truth:</HI> and all that make Crucifixes, or Images, or wor&s;hip them, they are the South &s;ayers and familiar &s;pirits: the Founder of the Images and the wor&s;hipper of the Image, from the living God is confounded, accur&s;ed, and with the light condemned, and God wor&s;hipped in the &s;pirit: which &s;pirit judges all Images, and Image-makers, &amp; &s;ees there is no due wor&s;hip to them, or them that makes them, but condemnation and judgment: the light in the con&s;cience &s;hall it witnes: And again we declare again&s;t the Papi&s;ts, and them which &s;ay Sal|vation is to be merited by works: for then it is not of faith, in him who was not born by the will of man, which light condemns mans runnings and willings, and that which he call merits, there is no &s;uch Scripture: and therefore we denie the word <HI>merit</HI> &amp; know that man doth not attain any thing by his wil, of him who was not born by the wil of man; for he knows him not, for he is a my&s;terie, which light condemns all works of darknes and all evill, &s;inne, and unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, and all them which acts it: and <HI>who are in Chri&s;t are new Creatures:</HI> and <HI>to them there is no condemna|tion, who walk not after the fle&s;h but after the &s;pirit:</HI> &s;o every one &s;hall have a reward <HI>according to his works whether they be good or evill.</HI> And with
<PB REF="2">the light, which comes from Chri&s;t Je&s;us, which never changes, all points and Doctrines of Papi&s;ts and the World, is condemned, and them who do affirm them: And the &s;ame light is the condemnation of them that takes oaths, out of Chri&s;ts Doctrine and from Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and &s;o knows not his will, who abides not in his Doctrine: So as Gods children have found his power and &s;trength which hath carried them on, when he hath commanded them to declare again&s;t all fal&s;e wayes, fal&s;e Teachers, and Popi&s;h wayes, and Popi&s;h lawes, and often have been almo&s;t murthered, but the Lord hath been their pre&s;ent help in time of need, and trouble. And &s;o Popi&s;h wayes are renounced <HI>without any equi|vocation, mentall re&s;ervation, or &s;ecret eva&s;ion what&s;oever:</HI> So we cannot go out of Chri&s;ts Doctrine and &s;wear by any oath: for if we do, we break the command of Chri&s;t and go out of his Doctrine, and the Apo&s;tles which &s;aid, <HI>Swear not at all:</HI> They that &s;ay, <HI>&s;o help me God,</HI> and act contrary to the light which comes from the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, are with the light condemned from God, and are in another Doctrine: but who be in the light of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, have Gods help. And &s;o all &s;uch as u&s;e their tongues and make a trade of the Scriptures, which were &s;poken forth from the Spirit of the Lord, they are judged and denyed, and turned away from, though they have the form of Godlines and not the power, but denies it. And &s;uch by &s;uch are the dear children of God ca&s;t in pri&s;on, who are the cau&s;e of it. And again in the pre&s;ence of the Lord God, we declare again&s;t all Popi&s;h wayes, and the Prie&s;ts, and their church: and their autority, and all that belong to it, the root, and ground, and branches: and with the light do &s;ee them, and all who have any of their power, to be condemned with the light: And to you this is the word of the Lord God, and all who wait in the light which comes from the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, receives power from him which is the Head and go|verns his Church which is the Head of it; which Light is the con|demnation of the changeable Prie&s;thood. And with the light we &s;ee all Papi&s;ts, and who be in the Popery, to be enemies of the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, and &s;o imitate a cro&s;s, &s;ome this way, &s;ome that way, who are all with the light to be condemned. And to you this is the word of the Lord God. <HI>I am the light of the World and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World, &s;aith Chri&s;t.</HI> And if you do love the light which comes from Chri&s;t and receive Chri&s;t ye &s;hall receive the light of life: and <HI>as many as receives him to them he gives power to become the &s;ons of God,</HI> which are <HI>the children of light and do beleeve in the light.</HI> But ye that do hate the light, and will not bring your deeds to the light, becau&s;e your deeds be evill, and the light will reprove you; <HI>this is your condemnation, the light,</HI> &s;aith Chri&s;t: &s;o here is your Teacher, if you love the light, and here is your condemnation that hate the light, the Light. And remember that you are warned in your life time. And if you do love the light which comes from Chri&s;t it will lead you to the Church, which is in God, 1 <HI>Theff.</HI> 1.1. And bring you to te&s;tifie again&s;t the World, that the works thereof are evill: and will let you &s;ee that the whole world lyes in wickednes: And it will let you &s;ee that the Scriptures which were declared from the light, and life; they that was in it, was in unity: and all the &s;ects are mong them that have the good words, and lives in their
<PB REF="3">meanings, and thinkings, and &s;trife, contention, and per&s;ecution; and be &s;uch that hate the light, who&s;e deeds be evil which Chri&s;t te&s;tified again&s;t, which be &s;trangers from the life of God and Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the Covenant of promi&s;e: and &s;o all &s;uch are with the light comprehended, &s;een, fatho|med, judged, and condemned. <HI>The light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World,</HI> is my witnes:</P>
<P>Fora&s;much as the enemies of God in all ages, have gone about to &s;lan|der the Truth of God, and to ca&s;t reproaches upon righteous &s;ervants, whom he &s;ent forth to bear witne&s;&s;e for the Truth again&s;t all the unrigh|teou&s;nes of men without re&s;pect of per&s;ons: So now al&s;o the enemies of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and of his righteous &s;eed, (&s;hewing them&s;elves to be of the &s;ame generation of their fore-fathers, which ever per&s;ecuted the righ|teous &s;eed, which &s;hewed before of the coming of the ju&s;t one, <HI>Act.</HI> 7.52) labour by all means to render the truth odious, and to &s;lander, and re|proach the people of God, by them &s;cornfully called <HI>Quakers,</HI> fulfilling the word of Chri&s;t, <HI>Matth.</HI> 5.11. which &s;aith, They &s;hall &s;ay all manner of evil again&s;t you fal&s;ly for my &s;ake; and crying out to the Magi&s;trates, as the multitude of the Jews did again&s;t <HI>Paul,</HI> that they ought not to live any longer: <HI>Act.</HI> 25.25. <HI>Act.</HI> 22.22. And as the chief Prie&s;ts and Elders, and all the Councel &s;ought fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es again&s;t Je&s;us to put him to death, but found none, <HI>Matth.</HI> 26.59, 60. even &s;o do they now. The high Prie&s;ts of this age with the multitude of the ungodly, who go about to accu&s;e the people of God called <HI>Quakers</HI> (to be Je&s;uits, Fryars, Popi&s;h-Prie&s;ts, Ro|mi&s;h Frogs, Morri&s;dancers, and per&s;ons Popi&s;hly affected) to the Magi|&s;trates, as appears by an Information given to the Magi&s;trates at <HI>Bri&s;tol:</HI> and by Books, or Pamphlets put &s;orth in Print by <HI>William Prinn,</HI> and others; and one <HI>Thomas Andrews</HI> Prie&s;t at <HI>Welling burrough</HI> in <HI>Northampton&s;hire,</HI> who accu&s;ed one <HI>John Whitehead,</HI> who by him and the World is called a <HI>Quaker,</HI> to one <HI>Thomas Pentloe</HI> called Ju&s;tice, and cau&s;ed nim to be carried before the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Pentloe,</HI> the 15 day of the fir&s;t moneth called <HI>March</HI> now la&s;t pa&s;t; who after he had examined him &s;aid, if he would go home to his wife; and abide with her, and go towards her the next morning, he &s;hould have his liberty. To whom the &s;aid <HI>John Whitehead</HI> an&s;wered, he &s;tood not in his own will, but in the will of God, and could make no &s;uch promi&s;e, not knowing what the morning would bring forth. Whereupon the &s;aid <HI>Thomus Pentloe</HI> gave the Con&s;tables, charge over him till further Order, who kept him in their cu&s;tody two nights and a day, (which was, and is contrary to the Laws of the Nation) And then when he was carried again before the &s;aid <HI>Pentloe,</HI> and one <HI>John Brown,</HI> called a Ju&s;tice, with whom was the &s;aid <HI>Andrews</HI> and another Prie&s;t, who asked <HI>John White|head</HI> many que&s;tions laboring to en&s;nare him; but they not finding him to have broken, or tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed any known Law of the Nation, then they con&s;ulted together, as the Pre&s;idents and Princes did again&s;t <HI>Daniel,</HI> to finde an occa&s;ion again&s;t him, concerning the Law of God, <HI>Daniel.</HI> 6. and one <HI>Marmaduke Storre</HI> another of the People, by them called <HI>Quakers,</HI> who came to vi&s;ite his brother, who was formerly by the &s;aid <HI>Pentloe</HI> &s;ent to pri&s;on at <HI>Northampton:</HI> And thereupon the &s;aid <HI>Pentloe</HI> and <HI>Brown</HI> ten|dered to them the oath of Abjuration: appointed for &s;uch as are &s;u&s;pected to be Popi&s;hly affected, but their &s;ouls being &s;ubject to the Com|mands
<PB REF="3">of Chri&s;t Je&s;us not only becau&s;e of wrath but al&s;o for con&s;cience &s;ake, who &s;aith: <HI>Matth.</HI> 5.34. <HI>Swear not at all, but let your communication be yea yea, nay nay; for what&s;oever is more then the&s;e cometh of evil,</HI> v. 37. And the Apo&s;tle James &s;aith: <HI>But above all things my brethren &s;wear not, neither by hea|ven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay, lea&s;t ye fall into condemnation,</HI> were made to deny to &s;wear at all: But did in the pre&s;ence of the Lord, renounce al things in the form of the &s;aid oath named before the &s;aid called <HI>Ju&s;tices:</HI> who notwith&s;tanding did thereupon require them to find &s;uerties to be of the good behaviour: and to appear at the next Se&s;&s;ions: then the &s;aid <HI>John,</HI> and <HI>Marmaduke</HI> did de&s;ire them to read a law that they had tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed: or to &s;hew them wherein they had broken the peace or good behaviour: but the &s;aid called <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> did refu&s;e; and &s;aid they was Judges, and did judge it to be &s;o: then the &s;aid <HI>John</HI> and <HI>Marmaduke</HI> told them they ought to Judge them accor|ding to the law: and if they would not read them a law: that they might be convinced by it to be of evil behaviour, they would not find &s;u|reties: wherupon thy &s;ent them to pri&s;on at <HI>Northampton,</HI> where they yet remain pri&s;oners, though the breach of no known law can be ju&s;tly laid to their charge: thus they and many others who in faithfulne&s;s &s;erved the late Parliament and hazarded their lives, and &s;uffered the plunder|ing of their Goods, in expectation to have had righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;et up, and all oppre&s;&s;ers and oppre&s;&s;ions removed and taken forth of the way, as was then largely promi&s;ed: But behold, nothing is brought forth but winde there is not any deliverance wrought in the earth, neither have the inha|bitants of the World faln: for they that depart from evil are made a prey to this generation of Prie&s;ts, and Magi&s;trates who per&s;ecute the innocent and impri&s;on them that in obedience to the commands of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, dare not &s;wear at all: <HI>do ye thus requite the Lord, ch fooli&s;h people and unwi&s;e?</HI> who &s;eek after the life of the righteous, and daily lay &s;nares for the inno|cent: and &s;ay in your hearts who who &s;hall &s;ee you: under&s;tand ye bruti&s;h among the people, and ye fools when will ye be wi&s;e, he that planted the ear &s;hall he not hear, he that formed the eye &s;hal he not &s;ee, he that cha|&s;ti&s;eth the Heathen &s;hall he not correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, &s;hall he not know?, yea, <HI>the Lord knoweth the thoughts of men that they are va|nity,</HI> P&s;al. 94.8, 9, 10, 11. Therefore cea&s;e from your per&s;ecution of the children of God and from your wicked inventions, and &s;nares which you make to en&s;nare the &s;imple by, whom you in &s;corn and deri&s;ion call <HI>Qua|kers,</HI> and Je&s;uits, and Fryers, and Popi&s;h prie&s;ts, and many other &s;uch like names of reproach you ca&s;t upon them: But they who you call <HI>Qua|kers</HI> in the pre&s;ence of the living God of Heaven and Earth do you who are reproachers with all your reproachfull names deny; and the Pope, and his &s;upremacy and authority over the Catholique Church in general, and over every one of them&s;elves in particuler: And do beleeve and know that there is not any Tran&s;ub&s;tantiation in the called Sacrament of the Lords Supper: or in the Elements of bread and wine after con&s;ecration thereof by any Per&s;on what&s;oever: And they, and every of them the peo|ple of God called <HI>Quakers,</HI> do believe and know that there is not any Pur|gatory: And that the con&s;ecrated Hoa&s;t Crucifixes or Images ought not to be wor&s;hipped, neither that any wor&s;hips is due to any of them; And they,
<PB REF="4">and every of them al&s;o beleeve, and know that &s;alvation cannot be me|rited by works: and all Doctrines in affirmation of the &s;aid points they and every of them, we do renounce and bear witnes again&s;t. And do deny all equivocation, mentall re&s;ervation, and &s;ecret eva&s;ion what&s;oever, &s;peaking the words of Truth in plaine&s;s by the help of God: And for &s;o doing they are per&s;ecuted, &s;toned, &s;tocked, mocked, reproached, and impri&s;oned by tho&s;e who cannot endure plaine&s;s of &s;peech: who are equivocaters, mentall re&s;ervers, and &s;ecret evaders: who cannot receive the words of Truth, the yea and the nay in their communications: but contrary to the commands of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to whom every knee mu&s;t bow, labour to bring people out of his doctrine: and &s;o into the condemnation of the Devill: <HI>but the Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the perfect &s;hall direct his way: when the wicked &s;hall fall by his own wickedne&s;s,</HI> Prov. 11.5.</P>
<P>A word and a warning to all people, whether Prie&s;ts, Magi&s;trates, or others who are plotting in &s;ecret again&s;t the innocent, with the children of light you are &s;een, and comprehended, and with the light of Chri&s;t Je&s;us in every one of you I &s;peak, which is my witnes, and your condemnation that acts contrary to it; Take warning in time, lea&s;t you &s;ay you had time when it is pa&s;t. And remember you are once more warned, in your life time.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>From them whom you in &s;corn call <HI>Quakers.</HI> Signed by <HI>George Fox, Francis Howgill, Edward Burroughs, Alexander Parker, Thomas Adam, Anthony Pear&s;on, Gerva&s;e Ben&s;on, Thomas Rawlin&s;on, Robert Rich, Robert Dring, Gerard Roberts, Simon Dring, Amos Stodart, John Bolton, We&s;t, William Rayman, Henry Clark,</HI> In the name of them&s;elves, and the re&s;t.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Some Queries to the Pope, and to all his Adherents and Followers.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>1 <HI>VVHether is not the ground of your works from that which would murder, yea or nay? and whether is not the Ground of your works from that which knowes not the Life of God, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>Whether doth not that Ground from which your works proceed, pri&s;on the ju&s;t? Whether doth not the Life of God remove the ground of your works, and &s;o overthrow the life of your Kingdom, yea, or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>Whether doth not he which Imitates a Cro&s;s, follow the fancie of his own minde, and &s;o &s;et up Images: and whether God doth require this, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4 <HI>whether doth not God forbid, and &s;ay thou &s;hall not make to thy &s;elf any Graven Image of male or female or any creeping thing upon the earth, or any fowl in the air, or fi&s;h in the &s;ea? whether God doth not forbid the making of tho&s;e Images, and you that make tho&s;e Images, whether you be not out of Gods command, and judged with the Life that gave forth the Scriptures, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5 <HI>Whether any Image &s;hould be bowed down unto, of male female, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>6 <HI>Whether you that &s;ay, bread and wine is the body and blood of Chri&s;t be not they that minds earthly things, and are carnall and naturall; who&s;e God is your belly, who&s;e end will be de&s;truction; who are enemies to the cro&s;s of Chri&s;t, which Cro&s;&s;e denies &s;elf?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>7 <HI>Whether &s;elfe will feeds not upon bread and wine, and whether may not
<PB REF="4">man feed upon that in his will, and know not Chri&s;t nor his body; who is not born by the will of man, which will is condemned with the light?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>8 <HI>If that wine be the blood of Chri&s;t, whether that be it which wa&s;hes away &s;in, yea or nay: and if that bread be the body of Chri&s;t, whether is it that body that makes free from the Law: for the Apo&s;tle &s;aid,</HI> they were made free from the Law by the body of Chri&s;t?</ITEM>
<ITEM>9 <HI>If it be another body that you eat; and another blood that you drink than that which makes free &amp; wa&s;hes away &s;in, then whether do you not deceive the world yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>10 <HI>Whether every one may not purcha&s;e bread and wine for money; and whether any can purcha&s;e the body and blood of Chri&s;t for money to clean&s;e them from &s;in withall: though Judas may &s;ell him; whether is that which &s;ells him for money, and which buies him for money clean&s;ed with him, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>11 <HI>Whether Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Son of God, be Glorified with the &s;ame Glory, in the &s;ame body, as he had with the Father before the World was, yea or nay? and whether he is not the &s;ame as he is la&s;t, when the World is not; as he was, when he was fir&s;t, before the World was made, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>12 <HI>Whether there be any wor&s;hip of God, but that which where is the Life: out of all Images and Likene&s;s, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>13 <HI>Whether all you that ob&s;erve Maries and the names of the Saints, be not they that wor&s;hip names and words, yea or nay: and &s;o are turned from the Spirit which gave forth names, with which &s;pirit God &s;hould be wor&s;hipped with|all.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>14 <HI>Whether all Charity and Works that do not proceed from the Spirit of the living of God, is not all to be condemned for the fire which are not wrought in God, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>15 <HI>Whether all mens merits be not in his will, and that then free-will; and whether the Cro&s;s be not mans will, and to his Merits, and &s;o then to that out of which his Merit ari&s;eth, but &s;aith the Spirit, It is not him that wills, but God that &s;hewes mercy?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>16 <HI>What is the will of man, and out of what had it its ri&s;e, and what Glory mu&s;t it be that mu&s;t be &s;tained, and what is the &s;eat of envie, and whether any murderer hath eternall Life abiding in him yea or nay; and whether he that en|vies, is not a murderer, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>17 <HI>Whether, where there is works profe&s;&s;ed and merits pretended, and envie lived in, this &s;acrifice God doth accept; where faith is &s;trangled and &s;hipwrack made of it: read</HI> Cain <HI>and</HI> Abell <HI>who can?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>18 <HI>What is your Ground that you eat fi&s;h &s;ome &s;et dayes; and whether the Cro&s;s of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t be not inward: to that mind that runs outward into vi&s;ible things as &s;et fi&s;h, and &s;et fle&s;h, and &s;et dayes?</HI>
<P><HI>Whether &s;uch be not ob&s;ervers of dayes? and whether the Cro&s;s be not to the &s;eat of lu&s;t and envie; and to that minde which makes outward Cro&s;&s;es, Likene&s;&s;es, and Images: which are to peri&s;h and turn to du&s;t yea or nay; whether outward cro&s;&s;es, likene&s;&s;es, and Images and ob&s;erving meats and dayes be not of the World; yea or nay: and whether that nature, which holds them up be not of the world, yea or nay?</HI></P></ITEM>
<ITEM>20 <HI>Whether the Cro&s;s of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t is not that which crucifieth to the World, and from all Wordly things in the ground; yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>21 <HI>Whether ever any of you received the Sub&s;tance &s;ince that which you call the &s;igne was practized by you, and &s;o bears witnes to the &s;ub&s;tance, and denies the &s;igne yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>22 <HI>If that bread and wine be the body and blood of Chri&s;t, then was there a body and blood of Chri&s;t before Chri&s;t was manife&s;t in the fle&s;h, yea or nay; for bread and wine was before</HI> Chri&s;t <HI>was manife&s;t in the fle&s;h, and when he was Manife&s;t in the fle&s;h, then was there another body and blood of Chri&s;t; and all that have the bread and wine, do they know the body and blood of Chri&s;t, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>23 <HI>Whether do you hold a Purgatory for men to be clen&s;ed, after they be dead and laid in their graves: and what is it that clen&s;eth in that purgatory, &s;eeing the Saints witne&s;&s;ed nothing clen&s;ed them but the blood of Chri&s;t which blood is in|corruptible?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>24 <HI>Whether that your bread and your wine which you call the body and blood of Chri&s;t will not corrupt yea or nay? and whether he that eats and drinks that, &s;hall not dye and &s;ee corruption; and be never the clearer; nor be made free from his &s;in: but &s;hall dye and &s;ee corruption: and whether Chri&s;t doth not &s;ay; who &s;aw no corruption; He that eats of his Fle&s;h and drinks of his Blood &s;hall never die?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>25 <HI>Whether you do beleeve in the New Covenant; which God promi&s;ed in giving his Son; and whether there be any remi&s;&s;ion of &s;in: but by him; yea or nay: and whether he forgives not &s;in upon the earth; whether you can witnes this, yea, or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>26 <HI>Whether you do beleeve that any &s;hall come to that &s;tate to be taught of God; that they need no man to teach them yea or nay? and whether any are children of God, but who are in this &s;tate: and whether &s;uch have not their &s;ins blotted out and forgiven on earth, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>27 <HI>Whether do you wait for and beleeve in to be made heirs with Chri&s;t yea or nay, and to have the &s;ame minde which was in Chri&s;t, who thought it no Rob|bery to be equall with God, whether you witnes this yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>28 <HI>What is your ground of the knowledge of God, and whether you had known there had been a God or Chri&s;t, or Go&s;pell or Cro&s;s, if the Scripture had not declared of them; and whether the Scripture is the foundation of the true knowledge of the&s;e things; yea or nay? if &s;o whether is not this to lay another foundation then the holy men of God builded upon; which knew the&s;e things be|fore Scripture was written, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>37 <HI>Whether do you beleeve that Chri&s;t hath Lightned every one that comes into the World; and whether you beleeve any &s;hall be made free from &s;in, while upon the earth yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>30 <HI>Whether is not that the Light of Chri&s;t which doth convince all men of &s;in, and whether any be ju&s;tified, or have received the conforter, while they are convinced, and condemned for &s;in, yea or nay; and if that light be not the light of Chri&s;t, &s;hew the difference between the light of Chri&s;t, and that light which convinces all men of &s;in, in their Operation and Motion?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>31 <HI>Whether all that man &s;ees vi&s;ibly with a naturall eye, is not naturall in the naturall knowledg: and whether in this State the Religion which is not pure doth &s;tand the wi&s;dome and knowledge, which differs not from the bea&s;ts of the field, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>32 <HI>What is the eye in the unbeleever, which the God of the World hath
<PB REF="5">blinded that they cannot &s;ee the, light of the glorious Go&s;pel: and what is the light of the glorious Go&s;pel which is hid from them: who&s;e eye is blinded and what is the</HI> God <HI>of this World that doth blind the eye; whether the go&s;pel be a vi&s;ible thing, and whether the</HI> God <HI>of the world doth not keep open the vi&s;ible ey, which leads into temptations: and what is the ey which the true</HI> God <HI>hath blinded; le&s;t they &s;hould &s;ee and be converted?</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>33. <HI>Whether the Act of</HI> Philip <HI>and</HI> Mary <HI>was not made by the authority of the Church of</HI> Rome, <HI>and had not authority to rule over the Church of</HI> Rome, <HI>and to guard the Je&s;uits and Prie&s;ts, which law now guards many of the Prie&s;ts of</HI> England; <HI>and whether that be not a branch which comes from the root which they make u&s;e of: and whether that be not to be renounced, as well as other the points of Popery which was the guard of their Church: And whether the Prie&s;ts of</HI> England <HI>will renounce Popery in words; and have that law to guard their Churches as guarded the Je&s;uites; and if &s;o, whether this be not hypocri&s;ie, yea or nay?</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The&s;e Queries are to all the Prie&s;ts in <HI>England</HI> that are guarded with a Popi&s;h Law, which guarded the Je&s;uites; and to be &s;ent to the Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts, the Je&s;uits, and to the Pope at <HI>Rome,</HI> to be an&s;wered by them in writing, and the an&s;wer to be returned to tho&s;e people who are de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">pi&s;ed with all Sects, who are &s;cornfully called Quakers in <HI>England,</HI> at <HI>London</HI></P>
<P>And we do deny the making the likene&s;s of any thing that is in Hea|ven or in the earth, or in the waters; for the Lord our God forbids it: and furthermore, he &s;aith, Thou &s;halt not bow down to them. God &s;aith <HI>Deut.</HI> 4. That thou &s;halt not make the likene&s;s of any bea&s;t that is on the earth; nor the likene&s;s of any feathered fowl that flyes in the aire, and God &s;aith, thou &s;hall not make the likene&s;s of any thing that creeps upon the earth, lea&s;t thou lifte&s;t up thy eyes to Heaven and thou &s;ee&s;t the Sun, Moon and Stars, the Hoa&s;t of Heaven thou be driven to wor&s;hip them; and God &s;aith, corrupt not your &s;elves with making any graven Image, or repre&s;entation of any figure, whether it be the likene&s;s of male and female; and the Lord God &s;aith rake heed to your &s;elves, le&s;t you forget the Covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath made with you; &amp; lea&s;t you make any graven Image or the likens of any thing, as the Lord thy God hath charged thee; and if ye corrupt your &s;elves, and make any graven image, I call Heaven and earth to record again&s;t you this day, that ye &s;hall &s;hortly peri&s;h from the land, <HI>v.</HI> 26. And the Lord God &s;aith in <HI>Deut.</HI> 5. Thou &s;halt not make any graven image of any thing in Heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. For thus &s;aith the Lord, ye &s;hall deal with them, ye &s;hall overthrow their altars, and break down their pillars, cut down their groves, and burn their images with fire; for thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; the Lord thy God hath cho&s;en thee to be a &s;pecial people to him&s;elf above all people that be upon the face of the earth. The graven images was to be burnt with fire, for they was the cur&s;ed thing from God, and God drave out the na|tions from before his people which made images, which his people was not; for the Heathen did &s;o make likene&s;&s;es whom the Lord &s;pewed forth of the Land, which defiled it with their likne&s;&s;es and images. <HI>Baal</HI>
<PB REF="6">had images, 2 <HI>Kin.</HI> 3. And the Lord &s;aid put away the images, and break down the images of <HI>Baal;</HI> and in 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> there you may read of the image work, and the graved image the idoll, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 33.7. and <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 73. When thou wake&s;t, O Lord, and rai&s;e&s;t us up, thou &s;halt make their images de&s;pi&s;ed; and the Lord hath awaked, and hath rai&s;ed us up, and their images are de&s;pi&s;ed, and &s;o, confounded be all they that wor&s;hip graven images, and in the <HI>P&s;alms</HI> you may read how they wor&s;hipped molten images, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 106. And <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI> made a great image, and them that would not wor&s;hip his image, was to be thrown into the fiery furnace, and the wor&s;hipers of God would not wor&s;hip his golden image, <HI>Dan.</HI> 3. and in the <HI>Revel,</HI> ye may &s;ee that they that do wor&s;hip the Bea&s;t and his image &s;hall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, and &s;hall be tormented with fire and brim&s;tone before the holy Angels, and before the holy Lamb. And the &s;ervants of God &s;ong which had got the victo|ry over the image and the bea&s;t, <HI>Rev.</HI> 15. and the children of I&s;rael &s;hall remain without an image, and they &s;hall &s;eek <HI>David</HI> their King, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 3. And <HI>Rom.</HI> 1. ye may &s;ee how they turned the glory of the incorruptible God into the &s;imilitude of the image of a corrupt man, and of birds, and of four footed bea&s;ts, and creeping things; &s;uch God gave up to hardne&s;s of heart, and they turned the truth of God into a lye &s;uch their minds was reprobated and fil'd with unrighteou&s;s and deceit, taking all things in the evil, and the&s;e were and are the image-makers: and ye may read in the <HI>Acts,</HI> they of <HI>Ephe&s;us</HI> were wor&s;hipers of images which the Apo&s;tle witne&s;&s;ed again&s;t, <HI>Act.</HI> 18. And though the Lord did com|mand the children of I&s;rael they &s;hould not make an image, yet they made a molten image which <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;tampt to peeces, and burnt with fire, and the Lord was angry with them; they turned from his coun&s;el, <HI>Deut.</HI> 9. And in <HI>Judg.</HI> 17. there ye may read and &s;ee the molten images; and in <HI>Judg.</HI> 18. ye may read of <HI>Michaels</HI> image, and the molten image, and how they &s;et up Idolatry, and the Lord &s;ent <HI>Jeremiah</HI> to tell them the founder of the graven image is confounded, for his melting is but fal&s;|hood, for there is no breath in them, they are vanity, the works of err|ors, in the time of vi&s;itation they &s;hall peri&s;h; and <HI>Jacobs</HI> portion is not like unto them, he is the maker of all things. I&s;rael is the rod of his in|heritance, the Lord of Hoa&s;ts is his name. <HI>Laban</HI> had images who would have wronged <HI>Jacob,</HI> Gen. 31. The Lord &s;aith, <HI>Exod.</HI> 23. thou &s;halt utterly overthrow and break down their images. And in <HI>Exodus,</HI> The Lord &s;aith, they &s;hall break in peeces their images. And the Lord &s;aith, I will de&s;troy your high places, and cut away your images, and ca&s;t your carca&s;&s;es upon the bodies of your idols, and my &s;oul abhors you, <HI>Levit.</HI> 26.30. <HI>Num.</HI> 39. The Lord &s;aith, ye &s;hall de&s;troy all their pictures, and break a&s;under all their images of mettal, and pluck down all their high places: and in 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 6. there ye may read the Phili&s;tines, Prie&s;ts, and South-&s;ayers and their images, and &s;imiitudes of Mice, which de|&s;troyed the land, ver&s;. 11. And ye may read how <HI>David</HI> burnt the Phili|&s;tines Images, 2 <HI>P&s;al.</HI> and <HI>Jeroboam</HI> which was not as the &s;ervant of God, as <HI>David</HI> was, but he did evil in the &s;ight of God, and made molten im|mages to provoke God; and therefore, &s;aith the Lord, I will bring evil
<PB REF="6">upon <HI>Jeroboams</HI> hou&s;e, and cut them off. And ye may read how they went into <HI>Baals</HI> hou&s;e and de&s;troyed it, and his images and their altars; and the children of I&s;rael did not that which was not upright before the Lord their God, and made images, as tho&s;e that profe&s;s them&s;elves Chri|&s;tans do now, and the&s;e angryed the Lord, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 17. and made molten images and calves, and &s;o wor&s;hipped the Hoa&s;t of Heaven, and &s;erved <HI>Baal;</HI> therefore the Lord was exceeding wrath with them; and he &s;aid break down their images, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 18. and he brake their images in peeces, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 23. And <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> took away their familiar &s;pirits, and South-&s;ayers and images, and idols, and <HI>A&s;a</HI> de&s;troyed the idolatry, and commanded <HI>Juda</HI> to &s;eek God; he break down the images and altars of the &s;trange idols, and the images thereof, and the kingdom was quiet before him, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 14. And the people of God went and de&s;troyed the hou&s;e of <HI>Baal,</HI> and his image, 2 <HI>Chr.</HI> 23. And you may &s;ee how <HI>Ahaz</HI> did not upright in the &s;ight of the Lord like <HI>David</HI> his father, but he made molten images, and provoked the Lord to anger, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 28. And you may read how <HI>Juda</HI> brake down the images, and cut down the Groves, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 31. And how <HI>Amon</HI> &s;acrificed to the images which <HI>Mana&s;&s;es</HI> his father had made, which did evil in the &s;ight of God; and <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> did upright in the &s;ight of God, he began to purge <HI>Juda</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> from their groves and high places, and carved images, and molten images, and &s;tamped them to powder, and cut down their images, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 34. and the Lord &s;ent <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> to cry out again&s;t their images; which their fingers had made and &s;aid they had forgotten God, <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 17. and he &s;aith, the graven images may not &s;tand, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 27. and he &s;aid the image of &s;ilver and of gold &s;hould be ca&s;t away as a mon&s;trous City; the ornaments and the covering; <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 9. And behold, &s;aith he, they are all nothing, their images are wind and confu&s;ion, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 41. and the Lord &s;ent <HI>Jeremiah</HI> to cry again&s;t their images of <HI>Bethel</HI> that is in the land of <HI>Egypt,</HI> and &s;aid they &s;hould be burnt and the hou&s;e of their Gods, <HI>Jer.</HI> 43. and the Lord &s;ent <HI>Ezekiel,</HI> to cry again&s;t their images, who &s;aid your images of the Sun &s;hould be broken: I will ca&s;t down your &s;lain men before your idols and your images of the Sun &s;hall be cut in peeces, and your works &s;hall be aboli&s;hed, and ye &s;hall know that I am the Lord, the &s;lain &s;hall fall in the mid&s;t of you: And the Lord turned his face from them that made images, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 7. And the Lord &s;aid thou tooke&s;t gold and &s;ilver and made the images of men; wo, wo, unto thee &s;aith the Lord, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16. And the King of <HI>Baal</HI> con&s;ulted with Images, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 21. and there ye may &s;ee in what generations the Images were, and who turned from God, turned from the Images, and <HI>Jeru&s;a|lem</HI> and <HI>Samaria</HI> painted upon the walls, the Images of the <HI>Chaldeans</HI> painted with <HI>Verinilion,</HI> and &s;o di&s;covered their fornication from the Lord; and the Lord &s;aid, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hate&s;t; and thy &s;hame and thy fornication &s;hall be di&s;co|vered: do not you all people paint upon the wall Images of other people, though not of the <HI>Chaldeans,</HI> and doth not this manife&s;t your whordom: or will you &s;ay you are delivered to do the&s;e abhominations, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 23. and the Lord &s;aith, I will de&s;troy their Images, and cau&s;e their Idols to cea&s;e, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 30. and <HI>Amos</HI> was &s;ent to cry again&s;t their Images,
<PB REF="7">and their Gods, <HI>Amos</HI> 2.5. and the Lord &s;ent <HI>Micab</HI> to cry that he would cut down the Images in the mid&s;t of them, <HI>Mich.</HI> 5. and the Lord &s;ent <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> to cry again&s;t the Images, how they made them fair, and now they &s;in more and more, they have made them molten Images of their &s;ilver, and Idols, according to their under&s;tanding, and they are all the works of craftsmen; he &s;hall break down their images, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 10.3. declare a|mong the Nations, and publi&s;h it; &s;et up a &s;tandard and proclaim it, and conceal it not, <HI>Babel</HI> is taken; <HI>Bell</HI> is confounded, <HI>Meredoch</HI> is broken down, her idols are confounded, and their images are bur&s;t in peeces.</P>
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