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<P> <HI>A LATE <HI>Libellers Folly</HI> MANIFESTED: AND THE Chri&s;tian</HI> Q&V;AKERS <HI>VINDICATED, From the Ba&s;e In&s;inuations, in a late PAMPHLET, Sub&s;cribed</HI> G. W.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> H. G.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Proverbs</HI> 11. 21.</BIBL>
<P>Though Hand joyn in Hand, the Wicked &s;hall not be &V;npuni&s;h|ed, but the Seed of the Righteous &s;hall be delivered.</P></Q>
<P>London, <HI>Printed and Sold by</HI> T. Sowle, <HI>near the</HI> Meeting, Hou&s;e <HI>in</HI> White-Hart-Court <HI>in</HI> Gracecious-Street-<HI> and at the</HI> Croocked-Billet <HI>in</HI> Holywell-Lane <HI>near</HI> Shoreditch, 1694.</P>
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<HEAD>A LATE <HI>Libellers Folly</HI> MANIFESTED, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MANY have been the Adver&s;a|ries, both of us and our Holy Profe&s;&s;ion; &s;ome of whom not being Contented to Oppo&s;e us, only in Point of Doctrine, wherein we differ from them; but rather than not Re|proach us enough, have taken Liberty to Mi&s;repre&s;ent us, with holding Errors which we deny, and have not yet been proved upon us.</P>
<P>But in all this Oppo&s;ition, God that has called us into his Living Way, and Wor&s;hip, hath at all times Effectually
<PB N="4" REF="3"> Qualified &s;ome in our days, as he did in Primitive times; <HI>for the defence of the Go&s;pel;</HI> by which means our Adver|&s;aries of that kind, are better Informed or Defeated.</P>
<P>But our Grand Enemy, Envying our Peace, not being Contented to &s;ee <HI>Sion</HI> Pro&s;per, hath by his Subtil devices, be|gotten in Some (from among our &s;elves), Fir&s;t, a Coldne&s;s to Truth it &s;elf, and from thence, a letting go Charity to their Brethren, which have Led them in|to <HI>Envy,</HI> and <HI>Bitterne&s;s;</HI> Fruits that of late more e&s;pecially have been brought forth; and &s;o much Re&s;embles <HI>Cain</HI>'s Nature, that as much as in them lyes, would &s;lay the Reputation (at lea&s;t) of their Brethren; even as he did the Na|tural Life of his Brother; and which is wor&s;e, I fear for the &s;ame Rea&s;on too.</P>
<P>Now, that which Leads me to the fore|going, was upon Peru&s;al of a late Pam|phlet, Sub&s;cribed <HI>G. W.</HI> Called, <HI>Some|thing by way of Reply, unto a Paper lately Publi&s;hed in the Citty Mercury, Signed by Twenty Four Men,</HI> being al&s;o a &s;ort of a Vindication of a former of the &s;ame
<PB N="5" REF="3"> kind, Sub&s;cribed <HI>D. S.</HI> The tenour of which Paper, Signed by tho&s;e Twenty-Four was to detect <HI>D. S</HI>'s. abu&s;ive Work, who in the Name of the <HI>Chri|&s;tian Quakers,</HI> would In&s;inuate Guilt (up|on many Honourable Brethren, mo&s;t of whom long &s;ince are decea&s;ed) as Charg|ed by <HI>F. B.</HI> and other malicious A|po&s;tates, mo&s;t, if not all, of which Ca|lumnies, have been heretofore an&s;wered, and our Friends Vindicated.</P>
<P>But &s;uch is the Humour of our Pre&s;ent Adver&s;aries, that rather than not be doing, they will not only Dig up the Graves of &s;uch, but Rake in their A&s;hes, who&s;e Me|mory, even to &s;ome of them&s;elves, &s;ince Bu|ried, have, I make no Que&s;tion, been Pre|cious to them.</P>
<P>I &s;hall now leave Generals, and pro|ceed to a Particular Ob&s;ervation on this Pamphlet, Signed <HI>G. W.</HI> who in his fir&s;t <HI>page</HI> &s;aies, <HI>Viz. I know not who was the Au|thor,</HI> i. e. D. S. <HI>Neither do I Pretend to Ju&s;tifie all that he has &s;aid therein.</HI> At this rate another of the &s;ame kind may come out Sub&s;cribed <HI>T C.</HI> di&s;owning
<PB N="6" REF="4"> that he knows Either, nor will he Ju&s;tifie them in all they &s;ay; &s;o that we are, &amp; like to be traduced by a &s;ort of Lurking Ad|ver&s;aries, who by &s;miting in the dark, are accountable to no Vi&s;ibles; but how|ever, he that is Invi&s;ible beholds them, who will not let them e&s;cape the reward of that Evil work, without they Re|pent.</P>
<P>In his Third <HI>page</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Viz.&mdash;But that You &s;hould be &s;o Impertinent fir&s;t to put on your &s;elves the Name of Chri&s;tian Quakers,</HI> &amp;c. In an&s;wer whereto I appeal to the Im|partial; whether it is not more pertinent for Twenty-Four Men, that are known to have been of that Per&s;wa&s;ion for ma|ny Years, to Sign on behalf of that People, rather than a Namele&s;s Author to do it, and yet he Complains, <HI>would any thing but Gro&s;s Folly and Ignorance, be guilty of &s;uch Weakne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>Again, in his <HI>4th. page</HI> &s;ays, <HI>And In|deed if you Could make the World believe, that the Chri&s;tian Quakers could give forth no Chri&s;tian Te&s;timonies, without your leave as you would In&s;inuate,</HI> &amp;c. Here again, I do appeal as before, de&s;iring the Can|did
<PB N="7" REF="4"> Reader to peru&s;e that &s;mall Paper Signed by the Twenty-Four, who doubt|le&s;s would find the Genuine Sen&s;e there|of, to intend no other, than whereas <HI>D. S.</HI> had Impo&s;ed upon the World a fal&s;e Libel, in the Name of the <HI>Chri&s;tian Quakers;</HI> they holding them&s;elves to be of that Society, were willing to undeceive &s;uch as might be mi&s;led by it; a&s;&s;uring them, that that Book was not Printed by Direction, or Approbation, of that People; therefore 'twas Requi&s;ite that &s;ome, known among them, &s;hould Clear them&s;elves, and Brethren, from that Impo&s;ture.</P>
<P>Then again in the &s;ame <HI>page</HI> he revi|lingly Sugge&s;ts, that the Twenty-Four are no Chri&s;tians, where he &s;ays; <HI>It is Po&s;&s;ible &s;ome might have thought you to have been of that Chri&s;tian Society, but now your works have ab&s;olutely denied it;</HI> with much more of the &s;ame kind in that <HI>page;</HI> and all for di&s;owning that Book Signed by <HI>D. S.</HI> and no other rea&s;on known to us: Doth this Malicious Author endea|vour to Un-Chri&s;tian us? And for our Satisfaction, in the <HI>5th. page</HI> gives a Chal|lenge
<PB N="8" REF="5"> on behalf of him&s;elf, <HI>&amp;c. Viz. But if any Chri&s;tian People &s;hould Que&s;tion the truth of the&s;e Charges hinted at, and el&s;ewhere more at large; we do offer publickly to prove the greate&s;t part of them, in any publick place convenient, to the faces of the&s;e Twenty-Four Men,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>In this he is &s;omewhat Mode&s;t, by &s;aying, the greate&s;t part, which Na|turally Implies the le&s;&s;er he cannot prove, yet not &s;o mode&s;t neither, but that he is more Liberal to Charge us in the dark, than he &s;o much as pretends to prove to our faces. Then again, who is this <HI>we</HI> that makes this offer, &s;urely it mu&s;t be <HI>D. S.</HI> and him&s;elf; in the mo&s;t Natural Sen&s;e of that place Cited, although un|known, as he before &s;aid; and how the&s;e unknown Brethren &s;hould know how to meet with each other, and we that known Neither to meet with them both, I cannot tell; and which is wor&s;e, when they do meet, tis more then Pro|bable they will not agree; for G. W. &s;ays he doth not Pretend to Ju&s;tifie all <HI>D. S.</HI> has &s;aid, for, but however, as of
<PB N="9" REF="5"> Old, with <HI>Herod</HI> and <HI>Pilate,</HI> they a|greed in Condemning the Innocent.</P>
<P>My task in this (&s;ober Reader) has been to di&s;cover the In&s;incerity, and Di&s;ingenu|ity of this <HI>G.</HI> W. but that of D. S, as well as in General, he is di&s;owned in the Name of that Chri&s;tian People by the Twenty-Four; he is al&s;o more particularly an|&s;wered by our Friend <HI>Robert Bridgman,</HI> to which I refer for Satisfaction, in Re|ference to D. S. and to the particular Calumnies, in both our Occult Adver|&s;aries; I do recommend thee to the Books following, <HI>Viz.</HI> The <HI>Quakers Vindi|cation,</HI> in on Sheeet, given to the Parlia|ment again&s;t <HI>F. Bugg</HI>'s Calumnies. And <HI>Innocency Triumphant</HI> over <HI>In|tolency</HI> al&s;o; <HI>The Counterfeit Convert, a Scandal to Chri&s;tianity,</HI> and the Certificate therein annext to the Preface; likewi&s;e the <HI>Iu&s;t Inquiry into the Li|bellers Abu&s;e,</HI> all by <HI>George Whitehead.</HI> And for an&s;wer to his Six <HI>page</HI> about <HI>Jeptha</HI>'s Daughter and <HI>Micah</HI>'s Mother, I refer unto <HI>Tho. Ellwood, Antidote, Chap.</HI> 8. <HI>Sect.</HI> 1. from <HI>p.</HI> 205. to 210, and <HI>Sect.</HI> 5.
<PB N="10" REF="6"> <HI>p.</HI> 214, 215. For it would be unrea&s;ona|ble to &s;uppo&s;e, we &s;hould as often make re|peated Replies, as our Adver&s;aries plea&s;ure is to repeat Charges upon us, long &s;ince an|&s;wered, and refuted; &s;o that we &s;hall re&s;t Satisfied, in that Care already has been taken, to Vindicate our Innocent Brethren, knowing that no Candid Reader will Judge them Guilty, without exami|ning whether true or fal&s;e, e&s;pecially &s;ince they are now reminded and recom|mended to the above&s;aid Books.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Henry Gouldney.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>WE cannot accept <HI>D. S.</HI> his Pamphlet, either as a true Te&s;timony again&s;t <HI>F. Bugg</HI>'s Callumnies ca&s;t upon the Chri&s;tian <HI>Quakers</HI> in General, or as any Sincere Vindication of the Chri&s;tian <HI>Quakers</HI> from his Calumnies and Reproaches</P>
<P N="1"><HI>I.</HI> Becau&s;e though he &s;eems to Except again&s;t F. <HI>Bugg</HI>'s Charges, as too general or Indefinite upon the People called <HI>Quakers,</HI> yet he joyns
<PB N="12" REF="7"> I&s;&s;ue with him in his Charges again&s;t divers particular Per&s;ons, both Dead and Living, known to be Chri&s;tian <HI>Quakers;</HI> as <HI>George Fox, John Audland, Jo&s;iah Coale, James Parnel, George Whitehead</HI> and others.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>II.</HI> Becau&s;e the &s;aid <HI>D. S.</HI> whil&s;t he pretends to Vindicate the Chri&s;tian <HI>Quakers</HI> from F. <HI>Bugg</HI> A&s;|&s;pertions and Callumnious Charges; yet takes his Charges of Bla&s;phemy, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for Granted again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>G. Fox, James Parnel,</HI> &amp;c. Con&s;equently thereby condemning them as no Chri|&s;tians.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="13" REF="7"> <HI>III.</HI> The &s;aid <HI>G. W.</HI> in his Vindicating <HI>D. S.</HI> his Pamphlet, hath therefore joyned I&s;&s;ue with him, and F. <HI>Bugg</HI> in his &V;nju&s;t Charges and Condemnation again&s;t tho&s;e our faith|ful Decea&s;ed Friends, <HI>G.</HI> F. <HI>J. P. &amp;c.</HI> as no Chri&s;tians; which is di|rectly Contrary to the living Sen&s;e and Te&s;timony, of all Chri&s;tian <HI>Qua|kers</HI> that knew them.</P>
<P>Thus 'tis Manife&s;t that <HI>F. Bugg, D. S.</HI> and <HI>G. W.</HI> have joyn'd I&s;&s;ue in their Charges, Condemnations, or a kind of Excomunications a|gain&s;t Innocent faithful Men, after their Death; which, as he &s;aith p. 6. <HI>he has no Scripture, nor pre&s;ident for that we know of, unle&s;s he goeth to the</HI> Pope <HI>for it;</HI> but the&s;e Apo&s;tates have now &s;hewn their Envy and Ran|cour
<PB N="14" REF="8"> of Spirit; As many In&s;tances might he given of &s;uch like Popi&s;h, Anti-Chri&s;tian Practices.</P>
<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
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