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<P>A Brief CHARACTER OF THE <HI>ANTIENT CHRISTIAN</HI> QUAKERS. <HI>Written by</HI> W. M. <HI>A Witne&s;s for the</HI> Truth, <HI>as it was in the Begining.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>S. Clarke</HI> in <HI>George-Yard</HI> in <HI>Lombard-Street,</HI> 1695.</P>
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<HEAD>A Brief CHARACTOR Of the Antient <HI>CHRISTIAN-Q&V;AKERS.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>FIr&s;t,</HI> In the <HI>North</HI> of <HI>England</HI> there was a few <HI>Religious People,</HI> that could find no Satisfaction to their <HI>Immortal Souls,</HI> among&s;t the &s;everal <HI>Will-Wor&s;hipers</HI> [having been among&s;t them] Met often together, to wait upon God, with frequent Prayers unto him, That they might attain to that Holyne&s;s of Life the
<PB N="2" REF="3"><HI>Saints</HI> Injoyed, Recorded in the <HI>Holy Scriptures;</HI> Crying unto God as did Holy <HI>David, P&s;alm.</HI> 42.1. <HI>As the</HI> Hart <HI>panteth after the Water-Brooks, &s;o panteth my Soul after thee, O God.</HI></P>
<P>And it plea&s;ed God to &s;atisfie their Thir&s;ting and Breathing Souls, by giving them more <HI>Grace,</HI> which was Purcha&s;ed for us all, by the Suffer|ings and Death of his dear Son, our Saviour, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, which de&s;covered the way of <HI>Truth</HI> unto them, whereby they were enabled to walk in the delightful Path of Righteou&s;ne&s;s to pleas God, and &s;o received power (through the alone help of this Inward and Spiritual Grace) to overcome all the Tempta|tions of the World, the Fle&s;h, and the Devil. Yea, the Lord di&s;covered unto them &s;o much of his Divine Power, and Love, in their A&s;&s;emblies, that their Bodies was made to Trem|ble,
<PB N="3" REF="3">as <HI>Mo&s;es, Habakkuk,</HI> &amp;c. at the power of Gods Pre&s;ence, which &s;ome <HI>Rude People</HI> Seeing, called them, in Scorn, <HI>Quakers, I&s;a.</HI> 66.5. <HI>Jer.</HI> 33.9.</P>
<P N="2">2. About the Year 1653. God &s;ent &s;ome of them, to Declare to People, what God had done for their Souls, Declaring &s;ometimes in <HI>Market-places,</HI> &s;ometimes in <HI>Steeple-Hou&s;es,</HI> and <HI>Meet|tings;</HI> and many Thou&s;ands were Converted to the <HI>Truth,</HI> as it is in <HI>Je&s;us:</HI> That a worhy Man in the <HI>South,</HI> who was Converted to the Truth, through the power of their Mini&s;try, Write a little Book, which he called <HI>The Principles of Truth,</HI> &s;aith in <HI>p.</HI> 14.15. <HI>&amp;c. By this Gift of God in our Hearts, we further Believe, That Chri&s;t Je&s;us</HI> Ro&s;e again from the Dead, <HI>according to the Scriptures, and</HI> Sits at Gods Right Hand <HI>in a</HI> Glorious Body; <HI>and we Believe, That our low E&s;tate and humble Bodies &s;hall be made
<PB N="4" REF="4">like unto his Glorious Body, through the working of his Mighty Power, whereby he is able to &s;ubdue all things unto him&s;elf, and that this Mortality &s;hall put on Im|mortality. For though we Believe that</HI> Chri&s;t Je&s;us <HI>hath</HI> Lighted <HI>every Man with his</HI> Light, <HI>whereby Man may come to know him&s;elf Lo&s;t and &V;ndone, as be|fore is &s;aid, yet therefore is not every Man Saved, though the Grace that ap|pears to all Men is Sufficient in it &s;elf; but &s;ome have the Grace of God be&s;towed upon them in vain, not liking to retain God in their Knowledge, though &s;ome|thing within them &s;hews them what is Good, but they reject the Councel of God within, or again&s;t them&s;elves, to their own De&s;truction,</HI> Luke 7.30. (&s;ee the Margin) <HI>and yet it doth not follow, that the Grace is In&s;ufficient of it &s;elf, no more than it follows, that Chri&s;ts Death is In|&s;ufficient, becau&s;e he ta&s;ted Death for e|very Man, and yet every Man is not Saved. Neither doth Regeneration, or
<PB N="5" REF="4">the Believing in the</HI> Light <HI>of</HI> Chri&s;t within, <HI>make void the</HI> Death <HI>and</HI> Suf|ferings <HI>of Chri&s;t without at</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>no more than Believing the Scripture Te&s;timony without, concerning Chri&s;t</HI>'s <HI>Death, make void the Work of Regenera|tion and Mortification within; But as the</HI> Apo&s;tle <HI>&s;aith in another Ca&s;e, &s;o I &s;ay in this, For as the Man is not with|out the Woman, neither is the Woman without the Man in the Lord: Even &s;o is not the Death and Sufferings of Chri&s;t without at</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>to be made void and of none effect by any thing within, neither doth the</HI> Light <HI>within make that of none effect without, but both in the Lord an&s;wer his Will: For though there is, and may be, a Knowledge, and Belief, of what Chri&s;t Did and Suffered without the Gates, in his own Body, upon the Tree, and yet Sin alive in the Heart, and the Work of Regeneration not known, yet it can't be &s;o where the</HI> Light <HI>within is be|lieved on and obeyed, &s;o as to have its per|fect
<PB N="6" REF="5">Work in the Heart, to Regenerate, and make all things New, and to be of God, this Man can never make void what Chri&s;t hath done and &s;uffered without, and yet this</HI> New-Birth, <HI>or Chri&s;t formed within, and dwelling in the Heart by Faith, doth not limit or confine Chri&s;t to be only within, and not without al&s;o; but both within and without, according to the</HI> Good Plea&s;ure of the Father <HI>to Re|veal and make him Known. For he</HI> Fills all things, <HI>and the</HI> Heaven of Heavens cannot Contain him; <HI>and yet he is at</HI> Gods Right Hand, <HI>far above all Heavens, in a Glorious Body.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>By</HI> JOHN CROOK, an Antient Labourer in Chri&s;ts Vineyard, yet on this fide the Grave, to the Joy of many Souls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To which I add, the Poets Ver&s;es.</HEAD>
<L><HI>ETernal Love ought to be our Chief ame,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Life, in our Saviors Death, we duly clame,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In his dear Merits, all our hopes mu&s;t be</HI></L>
<L>Zone, <HI>of our Everla&s;ting Life, is he,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Bright</HI> Meridian <HI>of Eternity.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But how came this great Mi&s;tery to pa&s;s?</HI></L>
<L><HI>Eternal Wi&s;dom the prime Author was.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The thing is deep, and Mortal Minds are lo&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Heaven knows alone, what this dear Ble&s;&s;ing co&s;t.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Con&s;ider then, and let us &s;till Adore</HI></L>
<L><HI>Omnipotence, which our weak Nature bore.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Compa&s;&s;ioning us, he lay'd a &s;ide</HI></L>
<L><HI>Known Glory, and di&s;pi&s;ing &s;hame, he Dy'd</HI></L>
<L><HI>Sov'raign o're Death, with Death he yet Comply'd.</HI></L>
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<P>But to return, They, for their faith|ful witne&s;&s;ing to the <HI>Truth,</HI> Suffered many Stonings, Finings, and Im|pri&s;onments
<PB N="8" REF="6">(from Cruel Men) yet God never for&s;ook them, &s;o that they Sung Prai&s;es unto his Holy Name, when in Dungeons.</P>
<P N="3">3. Their Me&s;&s;age, and Labour, was to turn Peoples Minds to the <HI>Gift,</HI> or <HI>Talent,</HI> of <HI>Light</HI> or <HI>Grace</HI> in their own Souls (the way to Life) that it might be every ones <HI>Chief Teacher,</HI> and <HI>Leader,</HI> into all <HI>Truth, Neh.</HI> 9.20. <HI>John</HI> 1.9. <HI>Tit.</HI> 2.11. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.7. <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.19. Which cau&s;ed the &s;aid <HI>J. C.</HI> to Write, <HI>What unwearied Pains</HI> Truth <HI>made many to take; to run too and fro, to Inform and Fore-warn their Relations and Acquain|tance, lea&s;t they &s;hould neglect the Day of their Vi&s;itation; and they knowing the</HI> Truth <HI>&s;hould be Guilty of their Blood, becau&s;e they had not fore-warned them, is known to many Witne&s;&s;es.</HI> See <HI>Truths Progre&s;s.</HI></P>
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<P N="4">4. They waited upon God in <HI>Silence,</HI> (in all their Meetings) their Minds fixed on Gods Grace; and out of Earthly Thoughts. And none Spake until Gods Spirit Moved any one to Speak. Dur&s;t not Pray or Preach mearly from <HI>Head Knowledge.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For,</HI> &s;ayeth the &s;aid <HI>J. C. How careful were tho&s;e that came to Witne&s;s the</HI> [Truth] <HI>at the begining, to keep</HI> Low <HI>and</HI> Humble, <HI>that they might not be drawn from their</HI> Own Mea&s;urs, <HI>lea&s;t their</HI> [Own] <HI>Words &s;hould become their Burthen, and they be Condemned in them&s;elves, for uttering that [as in the Name of God] which came not from the Spirit of the Living God.</HI> And &s;aieth <HI>R. Barckley,</HI> in <HI>Page</HI> 453 in his Works, <HI>To Pray and Preach without the Spirit, is an offence to God; not profitable.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. They Met from Hou&s;e to Hou&s;e, and &s;ometimes in Orchards, and did
<PB N="10" REF="7">not limit them&s;elves to Licen&s;ed Meeting-Hou&s;es; and were for Meet|ing in a great Town, rather than in a private Village.</P>
<P N="6">6. They did not like to Lye a Night in &s;uch a place, where the People provided more variety of Food for them, than the Family u&s;ed to do for them&s;elves being very Temperate. <HI>For Temperance</HI> (&s;aith the Wi&s;e) <HI>Aug|ments things that are Plea&s;ant; and ordinary Fare is made equal in Sweetne&s;s to the greate&s;t Dainties.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. They did not concern them|&s;elves in giving in their Names, or Voices, for the Electing of <HI>Parliament Men:</HI> Their Kingdom not being of this World.</P>
<P N="8">8. They were come to the Full|filling of that Scripture Prophe&s;ie, <HI>of Learning War no more,</HI> &s;o could neither
<PB N="11" REF="7">Fight with <HI>Carnal Weapons,</HI> nor hire Men to Fight: Tru&s;ting only upon God to Deliver them out of the Hands of all Enemies; Yea, Loved their Enemies.</P>
<P N="9">9. They were always true to their Words and Promi&s;es unto all; Yea, when in Pri&s;on, for <HI>Truths &s;ake,</HI> the Jaylors would &s;ometimes Tru&s;t us with the Keys of the Pri&s;on (though many Fellons there) having the &s;ame Confidence in us, as <HI>Pharoah</HI>'s Jaylor had in <HI>Jo&s;eph. For,</HI> &s;aith the Wi&s;e, <HI>He that breaks his Promi&s;e, forfeits his Faith, (which was the Security) and &s;o is become as an Infidel, unto him to whom be Promi&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. They, when ca&s;t into Pri&s;on for good Con&s;cience &s;ake, or their Goods taken from them for their Te&s;timony, greatly Rejoyced that God had counted them worthy to
<PB N="12" REF="8">Suffer for his Name, without repining again&s;t their Per&s;ecutors, nor dur&s;t they ask their Goods again, <HI>Luke</HI> 6.30. nor go to Law to gain them, or u&s;e Law Tricks to avoid their Suffer|ing, tru&s;ting in God alone for their Deliverance, 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.9.</P>
<P N="11">11. They bore a Con&s;cientious Te&s;timony again&s;t the oppre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Tyths;</HI> and being ca&s;t into Pri&s;on for the &s;ame, could not give Money to Lawyers, Jaylors, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for Liberty, waiting Gods time for Deliverance. Nor could they con&s;ult with Lawyers to &s;ave their Goods from the Claym|ers of <HI>Tyths. For in &s;o doing,</HI> &s;aith <HI>R.B.</HI> page 209, 529. <HI>they lo&s;e the Glory of their Sufferings, by not appearing as the Innocent followers of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P N="12">12. They dur&s;t not u&s;e Vain, and Idle Words, Fooli&s;h Je&s;ting, nor Wagers, either for Money, or Goods.
<PB N="13" REF="8">Their Words being few and Savory, <HI>Mini&s;tering Grace to the Hearers,</HI> Mat. 12.36. Having a Bridle for their Tongue, for <HI>God &s;ees all our Actions,</HI> Prov. 15.3.</P>
<P N="13">13. They gave a good Example, as to plainne&s;s in Apparel, account|ing &s;uch Profe&s;&s;ors in Religion <HI>Proud,</HI> that wore Party-Coloured Stuff, or &s;uch as was Striped, or Shining, or Flowered; and that wore Long-Scarfs, Silk-Gowns, Curled Periwigs, High Heads, Rich Hats, <HI>or other co&s;tly Array,</HI> 1 Tim. 9.10. Knowing that &s;uch Examples &s;trengthened the Proud Spirit in others, which the Lord is about to bring down. <HI>For Truth,</HI> &s;aith <HI>J. C. made many Burn their Pic|tures, Laces, and other needle&s;s Attire and Superfluities.</HI></P>
<P N="14">14. They bore a Te&s;timony al&s;o again&s;t &s;uch Profe&s;&s;ors of the <HI>Truth,</HI>
<PB N="14" REF="9">as Delighted in Fea&s;ting at Mar|riages, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And that were for Rich Furniture in their Hou&s;es, Cloathing the Walls in them with Stuff, Bra&s;s, Pewter, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> while many poor, hone&s;t People wanted convenient Cloathing for their Backs. For, if God has given thee abundance, do not ca&s;t how to enlarge thy Barn, Shop, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but repaire immediately to the Bellies of &s;uch as are needy, and oppre&s;&s;ed with want (to &s;uch people I mean, as are Hone&s;t and in want, and have not Heares to &s;eek Relief of the <HI>Pari&s;h</HI>) and make them the <HI>Store-Hou&s;es</HI> of thine Encrea&s;e. What&s;oever is given in this kind, is not <HI>Lo&s;t,</HI> but <HI>Lent;</HI> the Lord him&s;elf will Repay thee an Hundred &s;old; &s;o as thou gives it not in <HI>Vain Glory,</HI> to be &s;een of Men.</P>
<P N="15">15. They dur&s;t not give Flatter|ing <HI>Titles</HI> unto Men or Women, to their Faces; as <HI>my Lord, your Wor&s;hip,
<PB N="15" REF="9">Sir, Ma&s;ter, or Mi&s;tre&s;s,</HI> except to &s;uch as was really their <HI>Ma&s;ters</HI> or <HI>Mi&s;tre&s;|&s;es,</HI> nor much Bowing to them, antiently called Wor&s;hip, knowing that it exalted the Proud Spirit in them the more.</P>
<P N="16">16. Tho&s;e of them that were Trade&s;men, having got &s;ufficient to maintain them&s;elves, &s;trived not for much Riches, (knowing it to be a Snare) left their Trades, or the mo&s;t part thereof, to the Younger, or their Apprentices. <HI>Not at all</HI> (&s;aith <HI>I. C.</HI>) <HI>affecting great things for them&s;elves, nor to get a Name in the Earth, but to &s;tand approved in Gods Sight, which they valu|ed beyond the judgment of the Wi&s;e, and the Honourable in the Earth, or of any of the Sons of Men, is al&s;o fully known to them that were Converted in the beginning.</HI> See al&s;o Chap. 13. Sect. 7 and 8 in <HI>No Cro&s;s no Crown.</HI></P>
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<P N="17">17. They could, in much Love, be|gin and fini&s;h all concerns relating to their Society, as to Marriages, Relief of the Poor, Admoni&s;hing Evil Per|&s;ons, end Differences, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to prevent Suits at Law. At the end of their Religious Meetings (a Religious Meeting being a Church, <HI>Rom.</HI> 16.3, 5. <HI>Col.</HI> 45.) where the lea&s;t e&s;teemed of in the Church, had Liberty to Judge, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.4. <HI>Leaving every Meet|ing to their own Power.</HI> See <HI>W. P</HI>'s. Rejoynder to <HI>John Faldo.</HI></P>
<P>But of latter times &s;ome have &s;werv|ed from the &s;aid good Order in the Churches, which cau&s;ed another worthy Man, an Antient Labourer in Chri&s;ts Vine-yard, to give in his Te&s;timony (among&s;t others) part thereof is as follows, <HI>viz.</HI> <Q REND="inline">We Be|lieve in his Name <HI>[Chri&s;t Je&s;us]</HI> and he only is our Lord, Lawgiver, and the Shepherd of his Sheep; and they
<PB N="17" REF="10">hear his Voice, and the Voice of a Stranger, they will not follow.</Q></P>
<Q><P>The&s;e Sayings are profe&s;&s;ed by us all, but I find but a few in the prac|ti&s;e of them.</P>
<P>I might mention the Doctrine and Practi&s;e of the <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> and a <HI>Cloud of Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> both before and &s;ince, that they neither did Command, nor Compel, Conformity, in matters of Con&s;cience, relating to Church-Di&s;|cipline, but I &s;hall (upon this occa&s;i|on, and at this time) rather mention the <HI>Truth,</HI> which we received in the Begining.</P>
<P>The breaking forth of it, was very Glorious, after &s;o long a <HI>Night of Darkne&s;s.</HI> Oh! How acceptable was it to my Soul, with many more? It can never be forgotten.</P>
<P>How contrary was <HI>Compul&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>Driving</HI> into <HI>Conformity</HI> to it? Even as <HI>Light</HI> is contrary to <HI>Darkne&s;s.</HI> Oh! How did <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>&V;nity</HI> abound a|mong&s;t
<PB N="18" REF="11">us, that received the <HI>Truth</HI> in the Love of it? Every one &s;itting under his own Vine, and Drinking of the <HI>Fountain of Life,</HI> which the Lord hath opened in us; and walk|ing in that Liberty, wherewith Chri&s;t had &s;et us free.</P>
<P>Not a Word of <HI>Conformity,</HI> or <HI>Church-Di&s;cipline,</HI> for many Years, &amp; then we Loved one another, even as <HI>Chri&s;t had Loved us,</HI> freely for his <HI>Name &s;ake;</HI> and went hand in hand together, &s;erving the Lord, and one another, and the lea&s;t breathing that was after God in any.</P>
<P>How glad were we to &s;ee the Faces one of another? And how did our <HI>Harmony</HI> &s;ound in all our <HI>Meet|tings,</HI> before <HI>Conformity</HI> was brought in among&s;t us; and Cryed up as the only <HI>Mark</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;tianity?</HI> Without it neither <HI>Hand,</HI> nor <HI>Eye,</HI> unle&s;s with a Frown; nor Buying, nor Selling, where its Power reacheth.</P>
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<P>This <HI>Conformity</HI> hath been the cau&s;e of <HI>Divi&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> in Ages pa&s;t: Fir&s;t <HI>Enforce,</HI> then <HI>Per&s;e|cute;</HI> and much Innocent Blood hath been &s;hed by it. It had its being in the <HI>Apo&s;tacy;</HI> and is mo&s;t cry'd up in the thicke&s;t Darkne&s;s; begining at the <HI>Pope</HI> to the meane&s;t <HI>Profe&s;&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P>But I did once thing, it could ne|ver have crept in among&s;t us, at lea&s;t &s;o &s;oon, being &s;omany faithful <HI>Te&s;ti|monies</HI> again&s;t it, both in Word and Writing; &s;till fre&s;h in our Remem|brance. But the Enemy of the Souls of Mankind, is bu&s;ie <HI>Now,</HI> as in Ages pa&s;t, with his Subtile Devices, to be|guile the Souls of the <HI>Simple;</HI> tran&s;|forming him&s;elf into an <HI>Angel</HI> of <HI>Light;</HI> and putting upon him the fine&s;t Dre&s;s, in the pure&s;t Profe&s;&s;ion that the Sons of Men can make mention of, to draw away the <HI>Heart</HI> from the Lord, from waiting upon him, for the pure&s;t
<PB N="20" REF="12">Stream of Life and Love, into the Puddle of <HI>Conformity,</HI> finding it the ea&s;ie&s;t way of entrance; having many &s;pecious pretences, and fine cover|ings.</P>
<P>Oh! my Heart is grieved for it, &amp; I am often bowed down before my God, becau&s;e of the&s;e things; and I am not alone, but there is a little Remnant with me, who&s;e <HI>Names</HI> are Written in the Book of Life; and who&s;e Garments are Wa&s;hed in the Blood of the <HI>Lamb;</HI> and wears the Seamle&s;s Coat, that is Woven from the top to the bottom.</P>
<P>And the&s;e things lay upon me to clear my Con&s;cience, I could not keep &s;ilent any longer, that I might be clear of the Blood of all Men; having not long to be on the &s;tage of this World, I might lay down my <HI>Head</HI> in Peace, as many of my Brethren have done before me; <HI>who fini&s;hed their cour&s;e with the &s;ame Te&s;ti|mony.</HI></P></Q>
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<P N="18">18. They did ca&s;t none out of their Religious Society, but &s;uch as the World &s;aw them to be great Sinners. And if at any time they declared that &s;uch Per&s;ons had cut them&s;elves off from their Society, by often, and wil|ful Sinning again&s;t God, yet, not|with&s;tanding, did not make it their bu&s;ine&s;s to render them Odious to all People; but in <HI>Chri&s;tian Love</HI> labour to win them to the <HI>Truth</HI> again, know|ing there was hopes, while the parties &s;aw them&s;elves to be Sinners.</P>
<P>Remembering what our Lord Teacheth us, by his Example (of Charity to Per&s;ons and Churches) in his Epi&s;tle &s;ent to the Seven Churches of <HI>A&s;ia.</HI> The Good that was found in them he approved of, and Encouraged, and reproved only the Evil. He did not over-look the Good in them, be|cau&s;e of the Evil, neither did he ap|prove of the Evil, becau&s;e of the Good: <HI>But,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>I have &s;omewhat again&s;t thee, Repent,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<P>Let us learn to be like-Minded, lea&s;t any, by fal&s;e and confu&s;ed Judg|ment, heap Judgment and Condem|nation upon their own Heads. Tak|ing the advice of the &s;aid <HI>J. C.</HI> who &s;aith, <HI>I Exhort all to come to the Light and Spirit of Chri&s;t within them, to &s;hew unto them their mi&s;carriages, and whether they hold the Truth, as it was in the be|gining.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, <HI>Let none that are Guilty, think to wipe their Mouths, and &s;ay,</HI> The&s;e things concern not me. <HI>Well, to the Witne&s;s in thee thou art brought, from whence there is no Appeal; for if that con|demns thee, God is greater.</HI> See <HI>Truths Propre&s;s,</HI> pag. 10.</P>
<P>Concluding in the Words of <HI>R. B.</HI> p. 683. <HI>That the Evil either in Opinion, or Practi&s;e, ought neither to be Spared, En|couraged, nor Fomented, under any pre|tence of Love what&s;oever.</HI></P>
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