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<P>A DIALOGUE BETWEEN <HI>George Fox</HI> a Quaker, <HI>Geo. Keith</HI> a Quodlibitarian, Mr. <HI>M.</HI> an Anabapti&s;t, Mr. <HI>L.</HI> an Epi&s;coparian.</P>
<P>WITH A Friendly ADDRESS to them all, By <HI>Sam. Reconcilable.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>Trepidantium Malleus.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>John Mar&s;hal</HI> at the Bible in <HI>Grace-Church Street.</HI> 1700.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A</HI> DIALOGUE <HI>between</HI> George Fox, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah dear, dear <HI>George Keith,</HI> the o|verflowings of my Bowels are towards thee. I remember the time when thou de|clared&s;t me to be in&s;pir'd, and did&s;t fall flat on the ground when I prayed; and did&s;t own and declare what I &s;aid, <HI>That by the &s;ame Eternal Spirit by which Chri&s;t and the Apo&s;tles appoint|ed Bapti&s;m, and the Supper, was I commanded to take them away</HI>&mdash;One year, on the <HI>5th</HI> day of the <HI>2d</HI> month, tho it dropped from on high, thou followed&s;t me every where all day long; How is it now?</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>I own I had many a good Token put into my hand by thee and thy means, as well as <HI>Robert Barclay</HI>'s. This was the Gilt about the bitter Pill, which made it go down the better. I know now thou art an Impo&s;tor, and Deceiver, in a word an old <HI>Fox.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>O thou <HI>Conjurer, Devil,</HI> and <HI>Beelze|bub;</HI> thou <HI>Wizard, Lion</HI> and <HI>Serpent;</HI> thou art for the <HI>Lake,</HI> and the Lake for thee.&mdash;</P>
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<P>Mr. <HI>L.</HI> He is none of the&s;e, but he is a Tar|rier.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>A Tarrier, what is that, I pray, one that tarrieth for the <HI>Light within,</HI> or the ap|pearance of the <HI>Son of Man,</HI> as the Scripture calls it? for what the Sun in the Firmament is to the World, that is the Light to Man, as Friends have infallibly expounded that place.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>L.</HI> Poor <HI>George,</HI> thou that calle&s;t him a Conjurer, I perceive thou art none: Thou art &s;o far from under&s;tanding things, thou under|&s;tand&s;t not words&mdash;A Tarrier is but a half Fox (begotten of one on a Bitch) yet no Creature hates a Fox &s;o much as this amphibious Ani|mal. <HI>G. Keith</HI> now, O <HI>Fox,</HI> hates thy Di&s;|cipline, Doctrine and all. I have taken pains with his &s;cabby lou&s;y Head the&s;e &s;ix years pa&s;t, which &s;warmed with thy Notions, it is bad enough &s;till.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Truly, really, verily,</HI> and <HI>indeed,</HI> I do believe Bapti&s;m, and the Supper, are all Ordinances; but there is not a lawful Admi|ni&s;trator upon Earth.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou art a mad Reformer to tell Peo|ple they mu&s;t be baptiz'd: By whom? by Sir <HI>Nicholas Nemo?</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M. George Keith,</HI> were that Philo&s;o|pher alive who never laught but once, and that was when he &s;aw an A&s;s feed on Thi&s;tles, he would laugh to &s;ee what thou feede&s;t on: Come among us, admini&s;ter Bapti&s;m by plung|ing, the right way, the only way&mdash;</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, I know you are right in this matter; and I have gotten an <HI>aged, grave, &s;ound</HI> Bapti&s;t to be my A&s;&s;i&s;tant at Turners-Hall, and hear him with great devotion every fir&s;t Day.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> O what do I hear! Ble&s;&s;ed be the Day when the Bapti&s;ts will have &s;o Learned an Advocate for their Cau&s;e. Methinks I &s;ee you already baptizing Men and Women; and that all <HI>London,</HI> and all the Regions round about will come to the <HI>Thames</HI> to be baptized of thee: That there will be &s;uch joy as if the Heavens were again opened, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>L.</HI> How now, <HI>George Keith,</HI> I thought you had been better informed by my Book a|bout Bapti&s;m, and by what Friend <HI>Y.</HI> wrote on that Subject a year &s;ince.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, I think you are in the right; and I went to Friend <HI>Y</HI>'s hou&s;e to give him thanks for his Arguments.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> It is &s;aid by &s;ome, That on a cer|tain (or perhaps uncertain) I&s;land in <HI>Ara|bia</HI> dwell Men that have <HI>two Tongues;</HI> were you born there, Mr. <HI>Keith?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>I believe in <HI>America</HI> there are Men that have not two Tongues only, but twice too. <HI>George</HI> came from thence. Ever &s;ince he hath lo&s;t the pure Language, he hath gotten all the Languages &s;ince the confu&s;ion of his <HI>Babel.</HI> Then he is for the Bapti&s;ts, then for the Inde|pendents, then for the Presbyterians, and&mdash;</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hold <HI>George,</HI> &s;top there, I ever de|clar'd again&s;t Presbytery; for that &s;ort of Men never gave me one poor five pounds, nor ever vi&s;ited me, nor much cared for a vi&s;it from me, except one (who is now again&s;t me too) and I have made an <HI>A&s;s</HI> of him, and have rid him to purpo&s;e, and made him <HI>fall under his Burden.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Yes, and in &s;o doing he hath <HI>cru&s;h'd thy foot again&s;t the Wall;</HI> and at la&s;t hath, to the wonder of all, <HI>opened his Mouth to reprove the madne&s;s of the Prophet.</HI> O, Sir, you are a great Canter, and a Recanter too; blow hot and cold: That were thy mad Notions of Tran&s;migration of Souls true, I &s;hould think the Soul of &s;ome changeable <HI>Ec|cebolius</HI> had entered into thee. You can clip Notions, and then new coin them to make them pa&s;s for yours.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>I do every thing with unparallel'd pertne&s;s and confidence, and wiredraw my Mouth, and peep through my Fingers to &s;ee who comes into my Meeting, when a company of credulous Fools think I am in a great fit of Devotion all the while; and I &s;eek to bring eve|ry Man to the wrack to make him of the &s;ame dimen&s;ions with me. I &s;pare none, but like the Jackal in <HI>Arabia,</HI> rather than want matter to feed on will take Mens Bodys out of the Grave; All our Reformers, I &s;pare none.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>I wonder, &s;eeing there is a Law in <HI>England</HI> again&s;t Wolves, thou ha&s;t not been
<PB N="7" REF="5">taken long ago; Thou ha&s;t &s;aid and un&s;aid; revil'd Jack Presbyter for conforming &s;o much, and then for conforming no more.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> It hath been a Que&s;tion a long time, which did the mo&s;t mi&s;chief, <HI>Guttembergus</HI> by inventing of Printing, or <HI>Bartholdus Swarts</HI> by inventing of Gun-powder.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>I tell you, all know I am a great Di&s;putant; I have a high, very high opinion of my &s;elf, and a mean, very mean opinion of o|thers. In Di&s;putes, like <HI>Samp&s;on,</HI> heap upon heap, heap upon heap I &s;lay thou&s;ands.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Yes Sir, and &s;ome &s;ay with the like in&s;trument too, the Jaw-bone of an <HI>A</HI>&mdash;I am no Philo&s;opher; yet when you in your la&s;t Summons of us all at Turners-Hall laid down your Notions very magi&s;terially and dogmatically, you &s;aid, My <HI>Philo&s;ophy teacheth me this,</HI> and <HI>my Philo&s;ophy teacheth me that,</HI> when you talked &s;o madly of <HI>Creation</HI> and <HI>Production</HI> of <HI>Sub&s;tances</HI> and <HI>Accidents,</HI> &amp;c. that one Philo&s;opher pull'd his Hat over his Eyes, being hardly able to forbear laughing, and Friend <HI>Y.</HI> look'd like a Turky-cock with indignation. Many think the production of thy Brain to be like that of thy Mother, un|&s;hap'd and deform'd. If a blinded Papi&s;t can|not &s;ee who the Bea&s;t in the <HI>Revelations</HI> is, when it is &s;aid, <HI>The Kings of the Earth gave their Kingdom to him,</HI> which none did but to the Pope; no wonder if you &s;ee not your Mi&s;|takes.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>G. Fox,</HI> I have verified the old Pro|verb, the <HI>Old Fox is caught at la&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Yes, and another Proverb too, <HI>Set a Thief to catch a Thief.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>L.</HI> Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> let you and I with|draw a while, that I may fully &s;atisfy you a|bout Epi&s;copacy, Liturgies and Ceremonies.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> What &s;ay you to us now, Mr. <HI>Keith?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am perfectly reconcil'd to the Church of <HI>England:</HI> O the Church of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> the Church of <HI>England!</HI> and I will &s;hort|ly be ordain'd, and then it will be the Re|verend Mr. <HI>Keith.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Sir, <HI>Reverence</HI> is your due then. When you came into <HI>England,</HI> you told your Followers, you <HI>would make a Reformation ac|cording to the Line of Scripture</HI>&mdash;And when you were ask'd your Opinion about <HI>Singing,</HI> that Antichri&s;tian thing, you an&s;wered with me, That <HI>it was as unlawful to take a Prai&s;e|book, as a Prayer-Book,</HI> &amp;c. You are every Body's, and no Body's; a Bird that leaps from one Garden to another. What &s;tuff do you di&s;gorge at one time again&s;t them, whom you magnify at another time. But what was your Vi&s;ion of a Rope you &s;o much talk'd of when you fir&s;t came into <HI>England,</HI> and &s;et up for a Reformer.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is too large to tell; but, That it was a Rope, that ended all.</P>
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<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Some think that was the Bell-rope of a Steeple; others &s;ay, <HI>Give him Rope enough and he will</HI>&mdash;Play, Sir, all the Hocus tricks for Preferment you will; he was not the be&s;t Di&s;ciple who bore the Bag: No Man can muzzle you now; but remember, that is com|monly a bad bu&s;ine&s;s that ends in the Rope.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>You are a company of Schi&s;ma|ticks all of you, Presbyterians, Independents, Anabapti&s;ts, and Quakers. It is well known, when <HI>Dungal</HI> was to be burnt for a Wizard, he confe&s;t, The Devil told him, when he was forward to renounce his Bapti&s;m, but not the <HI>Solemn League</HI> and <HI>Covenant,</HI> that he would excu&s;e him here, for <HI>Old, Nick</HI> prote&s;ted, he was at the making of the Covenant, and had a great band in the drawing of it up: for my part I believe him, do not you?</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> No not I, any more than I believe you; it is your cu&s;tom to believe him, not mine; he was a Liar (pray, Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> re|member I do not &s;ay you) from the begin|ning, and will be to the end. When &s;hall the World be emancipated from your Impo&s;itions, who&s;e Notions, who&s;e Words, who&s;e Actions fall out and quarrel continually? You never liv'd in a temperate Zone, but in a torrid one, always, continually, and evermore.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>I confe&s;s I have &s;poken like <HI>William Penn,</HI> who under the Title of his <HI>Sandy Foun|dation,</HI> &s;ays, <HI>By</HI> W. P. <HI>a Builder on the Foun|dation that cannot be &s;haken.</HI> Yet this Foundation
<PB N="10" REF="7">hath been &s;haken to purpo&s;e, not only by o|thers but him&s;elf too &s;ince that time, about the <HI>Trinity, imputed Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> the <HI>Re&s;urrecti|on,</HI> &amp;c. &s;o have I pratled once, and done more than he.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>I can hold no longer; O <HI>George,</HI> I am moved to tell thee, <HI>Tophet is prepared for thee, O thou Adamantine</HI> Alexander <HI>the Apo|&s;tate; thou Gimcrack, thou Bloodhound, thou Moon-calf, thou Mini&s;ter of the Devil, thou Night-bird, one as black as Hell;</HI> for &s;uch words have I, and other Friends often u&s;ed to others, &s;uch as thou now art, and all in the <HI>Name of the Lord,</HI> and from the <HI>Eternal Spi|rit</HI> of <HI>Truth, Love,</HI> and <HI>Meekne&s;s. I am upon the Throne,</HI> and have <HI>power</HI> to <HI>bind and loo&s;e.</HI> The Lake's for <HI>G. Keith,</HI> and <HI>G. K.</HI> for the Lake, Fire and Brim&s;tone and all&mdash;</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Stop <HI>G.</HI> &s;o &s;aid <HI>Muggleton</HI> to thee, thou to him, and you both to whom you plea&s;e; God re&s;tore thee to thy &s;en&s;es. Thou ha&s;t &s;aid, <HI>Thou wert equal with God&mdash;as Holy as God, not only in Quality, but Equality&mdash;And thou could&s;t know Mens hearts, whether Saints or no, without &s;peaking a word: That every Quaker was infallible.</HI> Remember <HI>Audly</HI>'s Let|ter to thee. Thou wert not only call'd by others, as <HI>Ann Gargel, The Son of God,</HI> but did&s;t write thy &s;elf &s;o. Thou told&s;t <HI>Oliver Cromwel,</HI> and King <HI>Charles</HI> (as well as others with thee) contradictory things in the Name of the Lord, as Mr. <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> hath undeniably prov'd
<PB N="11" REF="7">to all the World, in his <HI>Snake in the Gra&s;s,</HI> Second Edition, <HI>Chap.</HI> 18. p. 200, to 240. If ever you an&s;wer that Chapter, I will recal all my Narratives, and return to the Quakers once more. If what is there &s;aid be true (as God and Man know it is) you are the mo&s;t horrid Villains, the mo&s;t mon&s;trous Liers, the greate&s;t Bla&s;phemers on the face of the Earth, and the mo&s;t bloody ones too, that would have <HI>Oliver</HI> with the Sword &s;et on <HI>France, Spain, Holland,</HI> &amp;c. And <HI>Burroughs</HI> pro|phe&s;yed then the Fall of <HI>Rome,</HI> and urged <HI>Oli|ver</HI> to carry his Arms there, and &s;aid, <HI>As &s;ure as the Lord liveth it &s;hould come to pa&s;s.</HI> Read p. 540, 535, 536, 537. of <HI>Burroughs</HI> his Works, who denied all when the King returned.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>I wi&s;h (tho Colonel <HI>Fletcher</HI> would not) yet <HI>Samuel Jennings</HI> had hanged thee in <HI>Pen&s;ilvania</HI> when thou did&s;t refu&s;e to try thy Doctrine by Friends Books, particularly <HI>William Penn</HI>'s (as commanded) but would&s;t by Scripture, which was ju&s;tly denied thee. Friends &s;aid, <HI>Thou wert bringing Men again to the Scriptures, and the Profe&s;&s;ors Chri&s;t.</HI> I wi&s;h the Ship that brought thee from thence into <HI>England</HI> had &s;unk into the bottom of the Sea. Since thy change thou ha&s;t cen&s;ured <HI>Le&s;ty</HI> for what he &s;aith of Witchcraft (in that Book) and did&s;t &s;ay, <HI>There was an appearance of God in the thing</HI> (Quakeri&s;m) <HI>tho wofully midwiv'd into the World.</HI> What then becomes of <HI>Giles <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ermin</HI>'s terrible Letter, <HI>pag.</HI> 297. <HI>Snake in the
<PB N="12" REF="8">Gra&s;s,</HI> &s;eeing thou thus bla&s;pheme&s;t? <HI>I &s;ay, O thou filthy Bea&s;t, who do&s;t purge upward and downward&mdash;Thou ha&s;t need of one to wipe thee&mdash;Thou make&s;t a pitiful &s;tink wherever thou go|e&s;t: By thy vomiting and purging, thou make&s;t every one &s;ick that comes nigh thee; thou &s;tinke&s;t all the Country over; thou art like a Hor&s;e with a gall'd back; thou make&s;t People to vomit and &s;pue to hear thee,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>All this Rhetorick have I heard, and read too, over and over. And &s;o you &s;peak one to another, <HI>Now,</HI> and all <HI>in the Name of the Lord; Impo&s;tors, Deceivers, Devil-driven Men;</HI> read <HI>Rogers</HI> of <HI>Bri&s;tol,</HI> and others. <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> &s;ays, <HI>Being men of Honour, he believes you all</HI>&mdash;Thou maye&s;t well be called <HI>George Fox the Elder.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Right, Sir; and may not you be called, not <HI>George Keith,</HI> but <HI>George Fox</HI> the Younger? for if ever any Man plaid the <HI>Fox,</HI> you have with us, with others, e&s;pecially Friend <HI>Y.</HI> and &s;ome believe you will with the Church of <HI>England</HI> in time: if they do not ha&s;ten your Preferments, they &s;hall hear of it in both Ears.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>Had the Money for the Rent, and to pay the Hireling (thy &s;elf) at Turners-hall been ea&s;ily rais'd, and not Friend <HI>C.</HI> and o|thers dropt from thee, thou had&s;t never &s;o &s;oon left the place, and cryed <HI>Schi&s;m, Schi&s;m.</HI> But when thou heard&s;t that <HI>F. B.</HI> got at one clap an hundred pound at <HI>Cambridg,</HI> thou
<PB N="13" REF="8">thoughte&s;t it high time to go to the &s;ame pro|fitable Church he did, and to be&s;patter all Di&s;&s;enters as <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> did, who compar'd the Quakers to young Vipers, who eat out the Bowels of our Mother Presbytery, and &s;ays, <HI>pag.</HI> 57, 58. <HI>They (the Apo&s;tles) frequented the Jewi&s;h Temple and Liturgy: They acknowledged the Authority of God's High Prie&s;t, and &s;ub|mitted them&s;elves to it as one commi&s;&s;ion'd from God&mdash;Tho they were again&s;t the Go&s;pel,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Hear Mr. <HI>Le&s;ly;</HI> Were the <HI>Phari|&s;ees</HI> long Prayers read? Would you own a Church ridiculing the Go&s;pel? In &s;hort, Sir, if a Church mu&s;t not be &s;eparated from, that crucified Chri&s;t, and put Apo&s;tles to death, mu&s;t a Church be left that pluck'd King <HI>James</HI> a Papi&s;t, and a Tyrant too, from his Throne? that prays for a Prote&s;tant King, and chu&s;eth &s;ober Bi&s;hops? Is it a greater Sin to dethrone King, <HI>James,</HI> than to crucify Chri&s;t and mur|der the Apo&s;tles? That you and others go not to Common-Prayer and Sacraments openly, but run into Corners now as well as others once did.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>George Keith,</HI> it is revealed unto me, Thou art a Hypocrite, I know it by the <HI>Spi|rit of Di&s;cerning.</HI> I know al&s;o what Money the Bi&s;hop of <HI>London</HI> gave thee, and what Money <HI>L.</HI> hath procured for thee, and others too.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes as the Glover, and his two Qua|ker Prophets did in <HI>Cheap&s;ide,</HI> one declared it
<PB N="14" REF="9">was the Servant Maid, another the Servant Man that &s;tole&mdash;but at la&s;t it was a common Thief afterwards executed who confe&s;t all. When the <HI>Foxonian</HI> Quakers excommunica|ted <HI>Story, Wilkin&s;on, Rogers,</HI> and others, and they them, and all <HI>in the Name of the Lord,</HI> they would &s;ay, <HI>This is the Word of the Lord from me to thee</HI>&mdash;Yet the Quakers were al|ways <HI>One.</HI> Thou in thy <HI>Journal</HI> telle&s;t of <HI>being led into Paradi&s;e, and knowing the Virtues of all the Creatures, of being as perfect as</HI> A|dam <HI>before he fell, as Chri&s;t him&s;elf; that thou did&s;t wade through the Blood of a thou&s;and Mar|tyrs</HI> (by which tricks thou gote&s;t thou&s;ands of pounds.) I have told the People from the Pul|pit, the <HI>Mi&s;chief of Toleration,</HI> and that all is not <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> Men call &s;o, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> I am rea|dy to &s;pit in the faces of my old Schi&s;matical Friends, <HI>Y.</HI> in particular. I cannot for my heart love a Di&s;&s;enter: I &s;tudy <HI>Hooker</HI>'s <HI>Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical Polity,</HI> the Chief Book for the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and make the World be|lieve his Arguments are mine.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> I believe from thence you will go to <HI>Parker</HI>'s <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Polity</HI> too, and with him call for Axes and Hammers, and &s;ay, <HI>The Cannibals in</HI> America <HI>are Philo&s;ophers (or Gentlemen) if compared to the Di&s;&s;enters&mdash;And that the con&s;cientious Villain is the wor&s;t of Rogues, and not to be born with; and that Chri&s;t &s;ometimes acted like a Jewi&s;h Zealot, which</HI> Jo|&s;ephus <HI>&s;ays were Cut-throats.</HI></P>
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<P>Mr. <HI>L.</HI> Maugre all Oppo&s;itions, I mu&s;t &s;ay (<HI>Snake,</HI> p. 92.) <HI>You have all for&s;aken Epi&s;copa|cy, which you cannot deny was in the days of the Apo&s;tles, and in all ages among Chri&s;tians to this day: Let &s;uch read</HI> Numbers 16. <HI>of them that peri&s;hed in the gain-&s;aying of</HI> Kore, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> It is denied by all Di&s;&s;enters. A Dioce&s;an Bi&s;hop you &s;peak of, or &s;ay nothing to the purpo&s;e. There were many Bi&s;hops in the Churches of <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> Acts 20.17, 18. Colo&s;. 1.1. that is, many Elders or Presby|ters. I lately heard that Mr. <HI>Pool,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Hammond,</HI> once contending on this Subject, Dr. <HI>H.</HI> was examining <HI>Act.</HI> 20.17, 18. Mr. <HI>Pool</HI> &s;aid, <HI>Sir, The Bi&s;hop cannot be found in that Ver&s;e; but if you look for him, he is in ver&s;.</HI> 29. <HI>After my departure &s;hall come in ravenous Wolves not &s;paring the Flock</HI>&mdash;Look you, Sir, into <HI>Ireland,</HI> you know what Book was there printed, by whom, again&s;t whom&mdash;</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>G. Fox,</HI> thou told&s;t the World twen|ty four Languages were in&s;pir'd into thee one Night, who never under&s;tood&s;t thy Mother Tongue. Thy <HI>Battledoor</HI> proves that thou knowe&s;t thy &s;elf to be an Impo&s;tor. The <HI>Hi|&s;tory Books</HI> thou did&s;t put thy Name to, and pride&s;t thy &s;elf as thine, were done by others; thou under&s;tood&s;t none of them, but made&s;t the World believe, all was by <HI>Revelation</HI>&mdash;I have heard &s;ome Quakers &s;ay, Thou <HI>were e|qual to Chri&s;t, wert born of a Virgin.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>Had Friends thought &s;uch a precious
<PB N="16" REF="10">Friend as <HI>George Keith</HI> would have come to this pa&s;s, they had wi&s;h'd that the pieces of Money they gave thee had been all ca&s;ed: That the Spit had &s;tood &s;till, or the Pot boil'd over when they prepared for thee. Many a good Dinner co&s;t thee but a Groan&mdash;<HI>G. White|head</HI>'s Prophecy is now fulfill'd, <HI>Contempt is poured on thee</HI>&mdash;For <HI>W. C.</HI> a Church-man wrote again&s;t thee, and <HI>T. M.</HI> him&s;elf now.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>If this be to prophe&s;y, I will prophe|&s;y of him, That he &s;hall &s;ometimes feel pain, hunger, and thir&s;t&mdash;That be &s;hall die&mdash;As for <HI>T. M.</HI> I have offer'd him a Publick Di&s;putati|on, but refu&s;e a Private one, about the <HI>Litur|gy, Epi&s;copacy,</HI> and <HI>Ceremonies.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> I have heard him &s;ay he will accept it, get you him Protection, without which you are no Man to make &s;uch an Offer: If you &s;o do, you &s;hall never &s;ay of him as of Mr. <HI>Penn, That he ab&s;conded, and would not appear</HI>&mdash;Shall I be plain with you, Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> for once, and &s;peak my mind freely to you; and will you hear me patiently?</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Keep to your Word, let it be but once; but I cannot promi&s;e Patience; for eve|ry one knows I and Patience have been &s;tran|gers the&s;e three&s;core years.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> How came you to preach in Chur|ches, where are <HI>Jacobiti&s;h Prie&s;ts</HI> (are you turning one too?) who dare leave out King <HI>William</HI> in their Prayers, and &s;o are open Trumpeters of Rebellion, praying only for his
<PB N="17" REF="10">Confu&s;ion, and the Pro&s;perity of King <HI>James?</HI> Be&s;ides, may not dancing on a Fir&s;t Day be as lawful as playing on Organs, not for Devo|tion, but for Diver&s;ion, as before the <HI>Fir&s;t Le&s;|&s;on,</HI> and after the Sermon? How di&s;mal is it to hear twenty Bills in the Desk for &s;ick <HI>Per&s;ons, &s;ome going to Sea, others drawing nigh the time of Travail</HI>&mdash;And a cold Prayer read for all <HI>af|flicted in Mind, Body, or E&s;tate</HI>&mdash;Do you think you come to a Quakers Meeting, when you now a&s;cend the Pulpit, and under&s;tand not your Text, nor Scriptures you cite? but all know you are a woful Expo&s;itor of Scripture, tho otherwi&s;e ingenious, to &s;ay nothing of <HI>Com|mon-Prayer,</HI> in your Prayer before Sermon, and nothing but Common-Prayer, if any at all, after Sermon. I am afraid, having &s;o many bad Symptoms on you, you will at la&s;t be found among &s;uch conforming Prie&s;ts that tell us in print, That reading Scripture by all is not con|venient, makes them Rebels. <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>Search the Scriptures,</HI> may be read <HI>indice|tively,</HI> not <HI>imperatively. That Magi&s;trates, if they make Laws again&s;t God's Laws, mu&s;t &s;ome|times be obey'd, as</HI> 2 Chron. 32.33. <HI>That King</HI> Hezekiah, <HI>and his Parliament, appointed the Pa&s;|&s;over, &s;hould be kept the &s;econd Month, tho God had &s;aid the fir&s;t. That the fir&s;t Table of the Decalogue was made for no other end than to ob|&s;erve the Duties of the &s;econd; and therefore the End is more noble than the Means inducing to it. So that to do as we would be done unto, is
<PB N="18" REF="11">all; and pawn their Souls for it: and at la&s;t &s;ay,</HI></P>
<Q><L>By the Liturgy learn to pray:</L>
<L>Pray, and prai&s;e God every day.</L>
<L>The Apo&s;tles Creed believe al&s;o;</L>
<L>Do as you would be done unto.</L>
<L>Sacraments take, as well as you can;</L>
<L>This is the whole Duty of Man.</L></Q>
<P>But if all Religion be expre&s;t in tho&s;e words, Mat. 12. <HI>As you would that Men &s;hould do to you, do you even &s;o to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets;</HI> there is no nece&s;&s;ity of <HI>Prayer, Creed, Sacraments:</HI> &s;o that in this &s;hort cut five of the <HI>Articles</HI> or <HI>Points,</HI> or what you call them, may be left out. You will &s;ay in good time (or bad time, I fear) <HI>That it is better to go to a Whore-hou&s;e, than a Meeting,</HI> as others have &s;aid&mdash;And at la&s;t carry your &s;elf as ridiculous as, 'tis &s;aid, &s;ome of your <HI>Family</HI> do in <HI>publick:</HI> that &s;ome &s;ay, <HI>Are the&s;e your Mini&s;ters</HI>&mdash;Wo to King <HI>William</HI> when you turn <HI>Jacobite.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Am I a Dog that I &s;hould do &s;uch things as the&s;e?</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> So &s;aid <HI>Hazael,</HI> and yet you know what he did. Your Church is an Arminian Sy|nagogue: <HI>Imputed Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> is &s;cofft at by thou&s;ands, and hardly heard of from the mouths of any one of her Prie&s;ts: And one of them lately, whom God hath knock'd down, greatly bewails it. But no end is there of your corrupt Doctrines and Di&s;cipline.</P>
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<PB N="19" REF="11">
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well <HI>George,</HI> as &s;oon as ever I heard that thou went'&s;t to receive what the World calleth <HI>Sacrament,</HI> and that in a <HI>Steeple-hou&s;e</HI> too, and that from a <HI>Doctor of Divinity,</HI> as Men prophanely &s;peak; and &s;oon after did&s;t put off thy <HI>upper Covering</HI> to fle&s;hly Men, and &s;o did&s;t idolize them, I was moved to come un|to thee; and my words thou knowe&s;t I call the <HI>Word of the Lord,</HI> tho the Scripture <HI>be Du&s;t, Serpents Meat.</HI> I therefore now open my Mouth, and &s;peak unto thee, &s;aying, I have power to bind and loo&s;e on Earth, tho I did not di&s;cover this a long time; &s;ome Judgment &s;hall as &s;urely betide thee, as <HI>London</HI> was burnt after <HI>Thomas Ebbit</HI> prophe&s;ied of it two days before&mdash;</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>But, <HI>George,</HI> I no more regard thy Pro|phecy than the Quakers did his, who all, as one Man, &s;aid it was a <HI>Delu&s;ion,</HI> and never mov'd <HI>their Goods.</HI> But he after prophe&s;ied the Fire &s;hould end, then here, then there, when it &s;till raged and proceeded; &s;o that he was a fal&s;e Prophet, and thou art another. The Cur&s;e cau&s;ele&s;s &s;hall not come. Neither regard I <HI>G. Whitehead</HI>'s Prophecy, who took an Oath in the Lord Mayor's Court, in the year 95. yet on Record; and many Quakers have taken Oaths in <HI>Chancery</HI> formerly, tho not nigh home.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>What if <HI>G. Whitehead,</HI> or other Friends, have leave from the Lord to do &s;o, mu&s;t thou go and tell the World of it?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, yes, I know you wait for leave
<PB N="20" REF="12"><HI>from the Lord,</HI> as you bla&s;phemou&s;ly expre&s;s it, to kill, not only the Prie&s;ts and the Hirelings, but all &s;uch as &s;ay, <HI>Where is the God of the Quakers?</HI> tho for <HI>the pre&s;ent</HI> it mu&s;t not be &s;o&mdash;That is to &s;ay, you will not attempt it till you hope to effect it; you will take then the fir&s;t opportunity. Several Quakers were in <HI>Mon|mouth</HI>'s Army; <HI>William Penn</HI> keeps Souldiers ready in <HI>Pen&s;ilvania.</HI> I wi&s;h our Parliament and Government would think of it, and cru&s;h you timely, who believe all the Power will run into your hand, and then you will mow down all your Enemys.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Strange, Mr. <HI>Keith</HI> that you had not known all this, when a Quaker 28 years; Or had not left them &s;ooner, if you knew it. I have heard <HI>T. M.</HI> &s;ay, when <HI>I&s;aac Pennington</HI>'s Book again&s;t you came out, he took it out of your hand intending to an&s;wer it; On a peru|&s;al of it finding this pa&s;&s;age, <HI>Can it be &s;uppos'd that &s;o ingenuous a Man, and hard Studient, as</HI> G. Keith, <HI>&s;hould be &s;o long with us, and be an Advocate for us, and not know our Princi|ples?</HI> He &s;ent you the Book again with this Me&s;&s;age; <HI>An&s;wer it who will, I cannot.</HI> Is it true?</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>I cannot deny it, he did; and I have heard, That as great a Lover as he then was of me, when he was put to it by others, Whether he thought I was a Good Man, he would never reply: I pray is that true?</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Yes, and gave this rea&s;on, That you
<PB N="21" REF="12">took little notice, as in your Books, &s;o in your Di&s;cour&s;e, of the Quakers wor&s;t of Doctrins, An <HI>imaginary Perfection or &s;inle&s;s State;</HI> tho when he had &s;aid much to you about it, you &s;eem'd to con&s;ent to what he &s;aid. And when you came to the Presbyterian Mini&s;ters on a Mon|day, at their <HI>then</HI> Meeting at St. <HI>Helens,</HI> to get one of them to baptize &s;ome of your Fol|lowers, and <HI>break Bread</HI> to them; he de&s;ired tho&s;e Mini&s;ters to pre&s;s on you the &s;en&s;e of Sin, and daily Imperfections. And he once un|dertook to prove to you, That the Holy God &s;aw more Sin in the be&s;t Works of the be&s;t of Men, than they &s;aw in their wor&s;t Works. And he &s;o managed it, that you were confound|ed, and an&s;wered not a word. He, you know, hath often appear'd again&s;t another &s;ort of Men who ridicul'd <HI>Repentance,</HI> or having <HI>Sin a bur|den.</HI> And &s;ome great Men &s;ay, he hath done that Work effectually. He hath often &s;aid of you, <HI>You came to Confe&s;&s;ion like a</HI> Bear to the Stake, <HI>unwilling to confe&s;s former corrupt Prin|ciples; and your</HI> Retractations <HI>are too &s;hort; that you were impatient of any oppo&s;ition in di&s;cour&s;e, but talkt in every thing &s;o, that the old Gentleman at</HI> Rome <HI>hardly thought him&s;elf &s;uch a piece of Infallibility.</HI> He valued you more on <HI>Cro&s;e</HI> his Opinion of you in his <HI>Hi&s;tory of Quakeri&s;m,</HI> than on any Ob&s;ervations of his own.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>I care not for him, he cannot cope with me.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Be more mode&s;t Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> than to
<PB N="22" REF="13">talk thus: Many men at <HI>B. Head</HI> think other|wi&s;e; when you were forced to put rampant Pa&s;&s;ions in the place of &s;olid Arguments, and Ravings in the place of Rea&s;on. Try him once again if you plea&s;e, he is ready to prove when, where, and before whom you plea&s;e, that you have &s;in'd &s;candalou&s;ly in your Conformity. And to be plain with you, he is now within hearing. He hath heard every word that hath been &s;aid by every one of us &s;ince we thus came together.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>There &s;tands <HI>Sam. Reconcilable:</HI> It is next to a Miracle his Clapper hath not been going all this while.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>S. R.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed, Gentlemen, your Clappers have all gone &s;o fa&s;t, and have made &s;o much work for my ears, that I could not employ my tongue.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>You are call'd <HI>Old I&s;hmael.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>S. R.</SPEAKER>
<P>But whil&s;t you are alive, I can be but the <HI>Young one.</HI> In &s;hort, when I &s;ee you all thus fall out, I hope hone&s;t men may recover their Goods. You have all left the be&s;t Reformed Churches; <HI>Presbyterian</HI> is but a Nick-name for an Old Prote&s;tant. But end the&s;e Jars, and come and dine with me to morrow, being Lord's Day, every one of you.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>L.</HI> I never dine abroad on Sundays.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> Nor I fir&s;t days.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>I will as &s;oon eat minc'd Pies in Pietide: I never dine with &s;uch as thee any where, no not at my own Hou&s;e; for it is &s;aid, <HI>He that re|ceiveth him into his Hou&s;e, or bideth him</HI> God|&s;peed,
<PB N="23" REF="13"><HI>is a partaker with him in his Sin.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>S. R.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly I do not intend to bid &s;ome of you <HI>God|&s;peed,</HI> nor reecive you as <HI>Lodgers</HI> in my Hou&s;e, but af|ter Dinner &s;ee you out as fairly as you came in.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>But would&s;t thou dine with any of us if we invited thee?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>S. R.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, and &s;up with you too if you plea&s;e, and &s;hew good Nature again&s;t ill Nature. Were I a Neighbour to a company of <HI>Jews</HI> or <HI>Mahometans,</HI> I would be a kind one, as <HI>Abraham</HI> was to the <HI>Cana|nites,</HI> and the Children of <HI>Hell</HI> (and I look on &s;ome of you as another &s;uch a Tribe) the <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> the <HI>Qua|kers, Lodowick Muggleton,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Le&s;ly</HI> damn almo&s;t all the World but their own Party. But you, <HI>G. Keith,</HI> begin to unchurch others at the fir&s;t &s;troke, and may &s;oon unchri&s;tian them too.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Away thou City <HI>Scavinger Y.</HI> as &s;ome call'd you, finding fault with &s;o many Partys and Opinions.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>S. R.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am glad I am &s;o well imploy'd, I hope I &s;hall make your doors clean whether you will or no. If I have carried away much Q. dirt, much B. dirt, much C. dirt, much A. dirt, a Scavinger is a nece&s;|&s;ary Officer, all would &s;tink without him.</P>
<P>Mr. M. I &s;ay to thee, <HI>G. Fox,</HI> Thou art like that Bea&s;t in the <HI>Revelations,</HI> that had Horns like a Lamb, but &s;poke like a Dragon; pretende&s;t Mode&s;ty and Per|fection too, but thy Mouth is full of bitterne&s;s and cur&s;ing; thy Chri&s;t is only the <HI>Light within,</HI> &s;o that thou u&s;e&s;t the word <HI>Chri&s;tianity</HI> to de&s;troy the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">hing. And for you, Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> who have now ta|ken up Pomp and mere Pageantry in Religion, and &s;uch fooleries as our fir&s;t Reformers, and old Church of <HI>England</HI> loathed; you have returned, as the Dog to his Vomit, and as the Sow wa&s;h'd to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">he wallowing in the Mire. All of you thus do
<PB N="24" REF="14">who introduce Ceremonies, not only condemned in the Word of God, but your own Homilies.</P>
<P>As for thee once more <HI>George Fox,</HI> thou, <HI>Muggle|ton,</HI> and <HI>Antonia Bourignon,</HI> are three Grand Im|po&s;tors; &s;he could never read, and yet ever read; &s;he pretends to know mens Hearts, and denys you and us to be Chri&s;tians.</P>
<P>One word to you, Mr. <HI>Keith,</HI> at parting: Pray, Mr. Deacon, your Work &s;hould lie with the Poor: What Poor do you take care of?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>G. K.</SPEAKER>
<P>Of my own poor &s;elf, and work enough; for my Life at pre&s;ent is a kind of a mendicant beg|ging Life.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>M.</HI> I believe then in this you are very officious, more than the Scripture Deacons were. <HI>Poor</HI> Man, I doubt this is one Rea&s;on, among others, why your Hearers have &s;uch poor Preaching as they complain of every where; as that the Yoke &s;ome would put on the Necks of the Di&s;ciples, was the Yoke of the Covenant of Works, when it is evident to be the Ceremonial Law, and Circumci&s;ion in particu|lar; and many other Ab&s;urdities they &s;ay your Preachments are &s;tufft with. If you can pray (mo&s;t, of you) no better in the Pulpit, &s;ome might direct to a place where poor Malefactors pray better.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. F.</SPEAKER>
<P>What &s;aye&s;t thou to us all, <HI>Sam. R?</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>S. R.</SPEAKER>
<P>Only thus, contemning your Contempt, I leave you.</P>
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