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<P>A DECLARATION FROM The Children of Light (who are by the world &s;cornfully called <HI>Quakers</HI>) again&s;t &s;everal fal&s;e re|ports, &s;candals and lyes, in &s;everal news Books and Pamphlets, put forth by <HI>Hen. Walker, R. Wood,</HI> and <HI>George Horton,</HI> who&s;e lyes, and &s;landers &s;hall not pa&s;s for truth; but &s;hall be judged, and ca&s;t out by <HI>Michael</HI> and his Angels into the world, which is their habitation among&s;t the Chil|dren of darkne&s;s.</P>
<P>ALSO A Warning from the Lord to all Ballad-makers, and Image-makers, with them that print and &s;ell them, who are found without the fear of God, contrary to the command of God, who &s;aith, <HI>You &s;hall not make an Image of Male nor Female:</HI> and to the Doctrine of the Apo&s;tles, who were to avoid prophane and vain Fables.</P>
<P>WITH A Lamentation over all them that live in pride and gluttony, &s;wearing, and all manner of uncleanne&s;s; and pro|fe&s;s God, and profe&s;s Chri&s;t, and them&s;elves Chri|&s;tians; but are &s;een to be tho&s;e, <HI>who&s;e God is their belly, who&s;e end will be de&s;truction.</HI></P>
<P>Thus being turned a&s;ide from that which was made manife&s;t from God, God al&s;o hath given you to believe a lye, <HI>who are filled with all unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, envy, murder, hatred, and all maner of uncleane&s;s,</HI> as you may read your conditions at large in <HI>Romans</HI> 1. and 24. <HI>ver.</HI> to the latter end, 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2.10, 11, 12. ver. <HI>who&s;e dam|nation is ju&s;t upon all them that take plea&s;ure in unrighteou&s;ne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Giles Calvert</HI> at the <HI>Black-Spread-Eagle</HI> at the We&s;t end of <HI>Pauls,</HI> 1655.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration from the Children of the light (who are by the world &s;cornfully called Quakers) again&s;t &s;e|veral fal&s;e reports, &s;candals and lyes, in &s;everal News-Books and Pamphlets, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>IN that which is called the <HI>Perfect Proceedings,</HI> a book of news, which is printed for <HI>Robert Ibbii&s;on</HI> dwelling in <HI>Smith|field,</HI> which &s;ays in his book, which comes from <HI>Wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ker,</HI> one who profe&s;&s;eth him&s;elf to be a Teacher, but it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> of lyes: <HI>That there is much horrible wickedne&s;s committed by &s;ome of the</HI> Qua|kers <HI>about</HI> London: <HI>as cur&s;ing, ranting, and filthy uncleanne&s;s;</HI> where|upon &s;ome went to the &s;aid <HI>Walk<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r,</HI> to know why he publ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hed &s;uch lyes to the Nation, for all &s;uch things we do deny. And then the &s;aid <HI>Walker</HI> to cover his filthyne&s;s, in&s;tanced a Ranter or two, which are contrary to the <HI>Quakers,</HI> and all their filthy p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">actices denyed by tho&s;e called <HI>Quakers.</HI> And this is it <HI>Walker</HI> would cover his &s;lander w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th, which he puts forth again&s;t them called <HI>Quakers</HI> to the Nati|on; but them that are not given over to believe lyes &s;ees his folly: And Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>They &s;hall &s;peak all manner of evil upon you fal&s;ly for my nam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;ake,</HI> which we find fulfilled, the filthy actions which are done among&s;t the unclean ones, doth he fetch up, and put in his Book again&s;t them called <HI>Quakers,</HI> to make them odious; and no unclean filthy thing is ju&s;tified among&s;t them cal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed <HI>Quakers,</HI> which thou <HI>Walker</HI> &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th, is according to thy work and your works &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l ye have your reward; and the Scr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pture is acknowledged to be a Declaration of the Word, as you may read <HI>Luke</HI> the fir&s;t: And whereas it was &s;aid to thee <HI>Walker</HI> who doth &s;o &s;lander: <HI>That the Plagues written in the Book thou might own to be thy due:</HI> in that generation thou art found to which they were &s;poken to: And whereas thou accu&s;e&s;t a woman for following of the Ranter that came often to <HI>White-hall,</HI> that is another of thy &s;landers; for &s;he te|&s;tifies aga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;t it and thee: And many other lys and &s;landers in thy book which is not worth the mentioning, and all un&s;avory expre&s;&s;i|ons we do deny. And thou bringe&s;t one <HI>Rober<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> &amp; one a <HI>Gla&s;ier,</HI> which thy con&s;cience tells thee, are contrary to them, thou calls <HI>Quakers:</HI> and there <HI>Walker</HI> thy &s;eed is known, and what &s;eeds-man thou art, comprehended with the children of light, who &s;eeth that they which are given over to believe lyes, may give care to thy
<PB N="2" REF="3">&s;launders; but the hone&s;t-hearted and godly-minded, will judg the appearance of thy &s;eed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>From them who declares peace and love, to all them that thir&s;t after righteou&s;ne&s;s, <HI>Iohn Bollon, Simon Dring, Will. Rayman, Rich. Davis.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>And again, we find many &s;landers and lys in that which is called <HI>The Weekly Po&s;t,</HI> printed by <HI>R. Wood,</HI> and he &s;aith, <HI>witne&s;s the burning of the Bible by &s;undry Quakers;</HI> Now <HI>Wood</HI> we command thee to mention tho&s;e &s;undry <HI>Quakers</HI> that burned the Bible, and bring thy works to the light; and them that deny the true te&s;timo|ny of it, mention them in particular: and the Ordinances of Chri&s;t and the Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t we own, and free-will is denyed; and mention what Mini&s;ters tho&s;e are in particular that they do de|ny, el&s;e let thy mouth be &s;topped for ever; for upon record, thou art &s;een with the light which comprehends the world, and thy end and race, and thy folly is manife&s;ted; who art one of them that Prints fal&s;e reports <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></P>
<P>And another &s;landerous paper Printed for <HI>G. Horton,</HI> called, <HI>The Quakers Dream,</HI> and on the out&s;ide of it he hath &s;et many Images of Males and Females, which the Scripture forbids: &s;o under the Judgment of the Scripture thou art brought. And thou brings one <HI>Gilpin</HI> for thy cloak for thy &s;landers, a fit object in whom the De|vils trembled, who turned from being a <HI>Quaker</HI> to be a drunkard, again&s;t whom a Warrant was given out for his drunkenne&s;s. And then thou &s;peaks of &s;everal converted <HI>Quakers</HI> in <HI>Leice&s;ter&s;hire,</HI> that the Devil appeared to; We demand of thee their names, and do not with thy lyes make the truth odious; for we know no lye is of the truth: and them that are not of the truth, may be &s;ubject to be|lieve thy lys, and filthy Dreams that are in thy &s;landerous Paper. Was <HI>Iohn Gilpin</HI> convinced of his drunkenne&s;s? and is he now tur|ned to it again? That which did convince him, will convince thee, and you all, and be our witne&s;s at the la&s;t; and thy dancings and fea&s;tings which thou &s;peake&s;t of, is denyed with them who are &s;corn|fully called <HI>Quakers</HI> among&s;t you, who are become your &s;ong, your by-word and reproach; but our &s;trength is the Lord God, and our Redeemer the Holy One of <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> So take warning all ye lyars, and &s;landerers, lea&s;t the Lord &s;weep you away with all the re|fuge of lyes; for the Lord is clean&s;ing the Land of evil doers.</P>
<P>And <HI>R. Wood</HI> &s;hewed <HI>Simon Dring</HI> and <HI>Will. Wil&s;on,</HI> a book called <HI>A Mirror, or a Looking-Gla&s;s both for Saints and Sinners,</HI> &s;et forth by <HI>S. Clarke</HI> Pa&s;tor in <HI>Bennet-Finch London;</HI> the Saints have looked in|to it, in which book is lys, out of which book, <HI>R. Wood</HI> &s;aid <HI>G. Horton</HI> had his ground, to publi&s;h forth that which we know to be lys, and print them, which he calls <HI>His Quakers dream.</HI> And the &s;aid <HI>R. Wood</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Simon Dring</HI> and <HI>William Wil&s;on, that the &s;aid</HI> George Horton <HI>was a fudling abroad,</HI> and how the drunkards makes their Songs.</P>
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<P>Thou <HI>George Horton,</HI> who ha&s;t publi&s;hed many lies, &s;candalls and &s;landers in thy papers which thou calls the <HI>Quakers</HI> terrible vi&s;ion. And many un&s;avoury &s;peeches (which be not worth mentioning) is found in it, which is come out of the generation of lyars, and all thy un&s;avoury expre&s;&s;ions, in the paper, and thy lyes, and thy &s;landers are denyed. And they that make lyes their refuge, may be builded upon thee, and may have a refuge under thee, who art one of <HI>the Devils &s;eeds-men (who &s;owes his lies abroad) who is of them,</HI> And <HI>Hor|ton</HI> we demaund of thee what they bee, that hold community of women, and other folks wives, and what women they be, and what mens wives they are, mention the names of them, and where they live, and let the Law take hold upon them, el&s;e upon record thou ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> left <HI>Horton,</HI> thou belies <HI>I&s;aiah,</HI> who &s;aith he did not go naked, when the Scripture &s;aith he did, and here thou art not onely a lyar upon us, but upon the Scripture, as you may read, <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 20. and read thy 5 page; and a great deal of &s;tuff, thou ha&s;t about <HI>Gilpin,</HI> one of thy own generation, which is under the power of Satan. And thou <HI>Horton</HI> &s;ays <HI>Paul was zealous in his way, per&s;ecuting the Saints,</HI> Thy fruits, appears, to be in <HI>Sauls</HI> &s;teps, who art to the truth an enemy. And mention, tho&s;e <HI>Quakers</HI> that hold forth free-will. Mention their names, (who manife&s;ts thy &s;elf to be in works of darkne&s;s, to &s;lander in the dark: for the lye, and the &s;lander, in thy paper, we deny, and thy un&s;avoury expre&s;&s;ions. And again thou art babbling, and hath &s;tuffed in thy paper, of one thou calls Mr. <HI>Fox</HI> taking a man by the &s;inger out of a whirl-pool; And this is like unto the re&s;t of thy filthy &s;tuff, and again, thou art tormented, becau&s;e &s;ome throw off their rib|bons: and here again, thou doe&s;t manife&s;t thy &s;elf, they that are of the world they may own thee, but the children of the light &s;ees, that the lu&s;ts of thy Father thou doe&s;t, and the lu&s;ts of thy Father thou would have, and cannot endure his Kingdom &s;hould be over-grown, &amp; &s;uch <HI>who be in the nature of Swine,</HI> as thou art, <HI>&amp; Dogs do bark at the children of light, and Swine doth cry to the great admiration of the people.</HI> And thou &s;coffes at the light w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">thin, and &s;ets above it the Images of Male and Female. And again <HI>Horton</HI> we command thee to make mention, of tho&s;e <HI>Quakers,</HI> that makes the word of God but as a &s;ha|dow; oh! was here ever the like in any age &s;een, who profe&s;&s;e Chr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t, live <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;o much Impudency, breathing of lyes and &s;landers, what an un&s;avoury &s;mell is this, that comes from tho&s;e, that calls them&s;elves Chri&s;tians, and Churches, but we &s;ee thy fruit, in thy paper, and thy &s;mell is gone out into the Nation, and recorded thou art, and an&s;wered &s;hall be to that in thy con&s;cience, in the day of thy condemnation. And this Mi&s;t, which thou ca&s;t forth, doeth no hurt, among the children of light, nor among them who feare God, thy lying &s;pirit the Lord will rebuke and all the re&s;t, of thy other un&s;a|voury &s;peeches, whom to thy &s;elf &s;hall return, and the author of them, but now the time is come that they &s;ay report, and we will re|port, and all manner of evill is ca&s;t upon the children of light, &s;o ye
<PB N="4" REF="4">are them that fulfill Chri&s;ts words, but this we &s;ay, The Lord forgive you.</P>
<P>Ye Ballet-makers, and ye Ballet-&s;ellers, Stationers, and Printers of them; and buyers of them beware, for the Lord God of glory is ari&s;ing, who &s;aith, <HI>Thou &s;halt not make any Image of Male or Female,</HI> which you do among&s;t you, and are &s;ound upon your ballets, and &s;o out of Gods coun&s;ell, are among&s;t the heathen making Images: and your vain je&s;ting books, which &s;tirs up the heathen, which knowes not God, and &s;uch be out of his command, which makes Image of Male and Female, and other creatures contrary and out of Gods com|mand, and becau&s;e the Images and Ballads are cried again&s;t, it makes the Heathen to rage, and imagine vain things again&s;t them, who doth them crie again&s;t, &s;hewing that the&s;e have their harts, and are their gods, yea, but &s;aith them that be in the fle&s;h, in the lu&s;t, and in the pride, <HI>We &s;hall loo&s;e our gain, and our calling, if we for&s;ake our je&s;ting-books, our ballads, and our books of rimes,</HI> which upon them is the Image of Males and Females, and that is to &s;et them out: though God doth forbid them, it brings us in gain <HI>Iupiter</HI>-l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke which all his Trade&s;men cries, <HI>The&s;e are pe&s;tilent fellowes with cries again&s;t the&s;e things, which brings us in gain, we can profe&s;&s;e Chri&s;t, and hold up the&s;e things too,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Iupiter</HI> who be in <HI>Iupiters</HI> nature with his Images: but to you all profe&s;&s;ors of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, which be in the evill with your je&s;ting-books, and ballads, and books of ver&s;e and rime and vain &s;ongs, and your ballads with your Images of Male and Female, upon them to the light in your con&s;ciences, I &s;peak: with that mind which you read your je&s;ting-books and &s;ing your ballads, you profe&s;&s;e the Scriptures, and lives out of the obedience of them, &s;o you are them that cry Lord, Lord, which enter not into the Kingdom of God, who doth not the will of God, for who doth his will knoweth his doctrine, and from all that which &s;tirs up wantonne&s;&s;e, and plea&s;ures, and fa|bles-followers are turned away from, which enters into the kingdome of God: &s;o your je&s;ts and &s;ongs &s;hall be turned into howl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng, as you may read <HI>Amos,</HI> &amp; you that make &s;ongs &amp; ballads upon wicked people, &amp; &s;o rejoice in iniquity which is contrary to Scripture, as you may read, oh how are the world in many places, &amp; &s;treets, and walls painted with b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">llads and fables, and yet now profe&s;&s;e your &s;elves to be Chri&s;tians, and of the Church of Chri&s;t, oh &s;top your mouths, and cover your lips, where did any of Chri&s;ts flock &s;o, but this is the froth of the &s;ea, and the foame of it, and here you are proved to be &s;uch who &s;aid; <HI>they were Iews, but were not,</HI> therefore I do warn all young and old people from the Lord God, give over your reading ballads your &s;ong-books, and rime-books, which are all for the fire, with them that made them, and read the Scr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ptures with was from the life of God declared, which declared aga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;t all vain fables and lightne&s;&s;e, and wantonne&s;&s;e, and plea&s;ures, le&s;t that you be given over to believe lies, and &s;o remain under the power of Sa|tan,
<PB N="5" REF="4">and peri&s;h, and not regard that light which &s;hews you the works of Satan, and the works of God, where you might receive power from the Lord Je&s;us, and &s;o be turned from the power of Sa|tan unto God, and &s;o come to witne&s;s the entrance into the King|dom of glory which hath no end; but you who this light do hate, it is your condemnation, &s;o this is your Teacher, and this is your condemnation, that do it hate: and you that this do not regard, your blood be upon your own head from him who &s;aies, <HI>There is no peace to the wicked.</HI></P>
<P>A lamentation and grief, and &s;orrow to &s;ee &s;o much profe&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t and God, and of the holy Prophets of God, and o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the holy Apo&s;tles words among&s;t people that are &s;o proud, that cannot tell how to go, nor what to put on, nor what to eat, wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch &s;hews your &s;elves to be of that Kingdom of the world, profe&s;&s;ing him in words, and with your lips profe&s;s honor to him: but your hearts are far off, and your practi&s;e do manife&s;t it and fruits; for by the fruits the tree is known, and a lamentation and &s;orrow to &s;ee the fruits of the Doctrine of the teaching of the world; for they in their conver&s;ations, and their communications which is heard now abroad among &s;uch as profe&s;s God, and Chri&s;t, and Prophets, and Apo&s;tles words, when they in their filthy communications, one crys <HI>Oh Lord!</HI> another crys <HI>Oh Chri&s;t!</HI> with a vain mind taking Gods name in vain, making mention of Chri&s;ts name and not depart from iniquity: and others crying and &s;wearing, <HI>by God they will do &s;uch a thing,</HI> or &s;wearing, <HI>by God they will not do &s;uch a thing:</HI> and others &s;wearing <HI>by their Faith &s;uch a thing is &s;o,</HI> and <HI>by their Faith &s;uch a thing is not &s;o</HI> and &s;wearing when they are &s;elling their Merchandi&s;e, <HI>by their troth they will haue &s;o much,</HI> and <HI>by their troth they cannot take &s;o much:</HI> So are quite out of Chri&s;ts Doctrine, who &s;aith, <HI>In all your communications let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay: for what&s;oever is more is evil:</HI> and others &s;wearing <HI>by Ma&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> and thus the Land mourns becau&s;e of oaths; and this ill &s;avory &s;mell a&s;cends which &s;tinks in the No&s;trills of God, which is found out of Chri&s;ts Doctrine, and out of the Apo&s;tles doctrine, who &s;aith, <HI>Above all things my brethren &s;wear not at all, lea&s;t you fall into the condemnation of the Devil;</HI> and ye that &s;wear, are out of the Doctrine of Chri&s;t and the Apo&s;tles, and are fallen into the condemnation of the the Devil, as you may read, <HI>Math.</HI> 5. Again others when they are cro&s;&s;ed fall out into cur&s;ed &s;peeches, being the cur&s;ed children, and &s;peak forth often, and bid <HI>a pox on &s;uch a thing that cro&s;&s;es them,</HI> and cry <HI>Gods wounds.</HI> Oh lamentation! mi&s;erable profe&s;&s;ion who take the Prophets Words, and Chri&s;ts und his Apo&s;tles for a cloak! God will not be mocked with your hypocri&s;ie, His plagues you can|not e&s;cape who chu&s;eth the evil, and refu&s;eth the good. The day of the Lord is coming upon His adver&s;aries, and many will appear in that day and &s;ay, <HI>Lord, Lord, but to them he will &s;ay, depart from me
<PB N="6" REF="5">ye workers of iniquity, I know you not;</HI> are you workers of iniquity? depart then; Have ye your old garments on? and are you wicked and &s;lothful? <HI>into utter darkne&s;s</HI> you are to be ca&s;t, <HI>where there &s;hall be weeping and wailing, and gna&s;hing of teeth.</HI> Do you live &s;umptu|ou&s;ly and in plea&s;ures upon the earth? and are you not rich glut|tons which have plea&s;ure in your life time? Did not he go into torment who lived &s;o? is not he an example to you all? and will you not be warned in your life time, but &s;till go on in your gluttonous way of plea&s;ures? Are you not coveting after mony which is the root of all evil, and &s;o pierce your &s;elves through with many noy&s;ome and hurtful lu&s;ts? Are not you joyn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng hou&s;e to hou&s;e, and field to field, until there be no more place left for the poor? Remember the end of &s;uch. Do you not live wantonly upon earth, as in plea&s;ures, and kills the ju&s;t, and &s;o are dead whil&s;t you live, which the Scripture mentions. Are you not drink|ing w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne and beer, and &s;trong-drink until the wine inflame you, and &s;o call for the Pipe and Harp, which the Prophets of the Lord were &s;ent to te&s;tify again&s;t? and do not you who live in the&s;e bea&s;t|ly practi&s;es before mentioned, profe&s;s your &s;elves to be a Church, and profe&s;&s;es your &s;elves to be Chri&s;tians, and &s;o outwardly to men do appear beautiful; but are the generation that &s;lays the righte|ous blood? So your works being evil, your reward will be according. And every one &s;earch with the light which from Chri&s;t the Lord Je&s;us doth come, that with it you may &s;ee your works, whether you be free from tho&s;e practi&s;es before mentioned; who are &s;hall have his reward: and who are not, are with the light to be condemned, and his works are for the fire: and in your life time, remember you are all warned, and this is the day of your vi&s;itation, wherein you are vi&s;ited, now you have time prize it: to the light in all your con&s;ciences I &s;peak, which is my witne&s;s which comes from Chri&s;t, which lightneth every man that comes into the world, that with it you may &s;ee your &s;elves, and your deeds, whether they be wrought in God and he that hates it, his deeds are evil, they are not of God, and this is the condemnation of all that hate it, the Light.</P>
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