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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Copy of a LETTER Which was &s;ent to one call'd a QUAKER, Occa&s;ion'd by a Book lately Publi&s;h'd, Intituled, Moderation exciting to Reconciliation among&s;t that People.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>22th <HI>(Month call'd)</HI> June, 1698.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Friend,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have Read over the Book of <HI>W. R</HI>'s. you &s;ent me la&s;t Night, and thank you for it; I perceive it is of the &s;ame tendancy for a Reconcilement, with that of <HI>Benjamin Cole</HI>'s, <HI>Charles Harris,</HI> and others, formerly Printed, which was, by the other Party, greatly Rejected: and in|deed they had great rea&s;on for their &s;o doing, if what they had Printed concerning them were True, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
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<P> That <HI>John Story, John Wilkin&s;on,</HI> and that Party, were <HI>Mini&s;ters of the Devil, and Mini&s;ters of Antichri&s;t,</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">An&s;wer to <HI>W. Rogers,</HI> in Po&s;t&s;cript</NOTE> and that <HI>a Cur&s;ed Spirit was entered into their Hearts and Souls.</HI> <NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="marg">See their <HI>Epi&s;tle of Caution,</HI> p. 4. 1681.</NOTE> And charged <HI>W. Rogers,</HI> in particular, <HI>To be Sealed down under Eternal Judg|ment and Condemnation, from GOD, for ever, except he Repented.</HI> And al&s;o &s;aid, <HI>In this State (exceptthou</HI> (W. Rogers) <HI>can&s;t find a place of Re|pentance) thou art re&s;erved in Chains of Darkne&s;s, unto the Judgment of the Great Day.</HI> <NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">An&s;wer to <HI>W. Rogers, &amp;c.</HI> p. 4. &amp; 16. Printed 1682.</NOTE> And that the &s;aid <HI>W. Rogers,</HI> and others of his Friends, were <HI>Betraying</HI> Judas<HI>'s, Wolves, Doggs, Devils Incarnat,</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>G. White|head</HI>'s Judg|ment Fixt, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Preface, Printed 82.</NOTE> and that He, and They, were <HI>Hea|thens, Athie&s;ts,</HI> and the like. I &s;ay, the&s;e things Con&s;idered, they could not accept of any offers for a Re|conciliation without Repentance; e&s;pecially con&s;idering how their great <HI>Apo&s;tle</HI> and <HI>Prophet,</HI> viz. <HI>George Fox,</HI> (who &s;aid, when Living, <HI>He had Power to Bind and to Loo&s;e whom he pleas'd,)</HI> had Sealed up their Doom, (and which he ordered not to be Opened till after his Death) in the&s;e words, <HI>viz. And as for this Spirit of Rebellion, and Oppo&s;ition, that hath ri&s;en Formerly, and Lately, it is out of the Kingdom of GOD, and Heavenly Jeru&s;alem; and is for J&V;DGMENT and CONDEMNATION, with all its BOOKS, WORDS, and WORKS.</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This was Printed in their Yearly Paper, 91. And Reprin|ted in <HI>George Fox</HI>'s Jour|nal. 1694. p. 616.</NOTE></P>
<P>Thus you may plainly &s;ee, how 'tis Impo&s;|&s;ible there can be any true Reconciliation whil&s;t the&s;e their Te&s;timonies are upon Record, (and, as they pretended, given forth by the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>GOD)</HI> until they come to Repentance them&s;elves, and Acknowledge that they have been greatly Mi&s;taken, and that they have been Acted, and Guided by a Wrong,
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Lying, and Deceitful <HI>Spirit;</HI> I &s;ay, till this be fir&s;t done, there can be no true Peace, Unity, or Reconciliation a|mong&s;t you; for the great Divi&s;ions of your People were not chiefly, nor indeed at all, as in the Apo&s;tles Days, &s;ome were for <HI>Paul,</HI> and &s;ome for <HI>Apollos, &amp;c.</HI> (as <HI>W. R</HI>'s. Book &s;eems to intimate) for they were owned to be Good Men, on all &s;ides, and Mini&s;ters of CHRIST; but your Preachers have Sentenced one another to be <HI>Mini&s;ters of the Devil, and Mini&s;ters of Antichri&s;t,</HI> and that a <HI>Cur&s;ed Spirit was enter'd into their Hearts and Souls,</HI> and that they were <HI>Devils Incarnate,</HI> and the like: Now, if your Mini|&s;ters and People be &s;uch, What Man that truly fears GOD, can have any Fellow&s;hip, or, in the lea&s;t, de&s;ire Union with them? I believe not any. And therefore my Advice is, That before any Propo&s;als for an Accomodation, or Reconcilement be made among&s;t you, that a Solemn FAST be Proclaimed throughout all your Tribes, and begg of the ALMIGHTY (as <HI>Ezra,</HI> of old, did) <HI>That HE would &s;hew them the RIGHT WAY;</HI> and no doubt, if they did Truly, and Sincerely Humble them&s;elves, and Implore HIS Divine A&s;&s;i&s;tance, but it might be Granted to them, as it was to tho&s;e that <HI>Fa&s;ted and Afflicted them&s;elves,</HI> in days pa&s;t. <HI>Ezra</HI> 8. 21, 23. But till this Humility, and Sencible State be come to, [by both Parties] all their Unities, and Felow&s;hips, will be but as &s;o many Combinations, and Poli|tical De&s;igns, to keep up their Reputation and E&s;teem a|mong&s;t the People, and to advance their Trades and Worldly Intere&s;ts; Which are, and ought, to be Rejected, and Te&s;ti|fied again&s;t by all that truly Fear GOD, and that hate Hypocri&s;y, and every Evil and Deceitful Way, as doth</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your True Hearted Friend <HI>J. P.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><HI>What Peace; &s;o long as the Whoredoms of</HI> Jezebel, <HI>and her Witchcrafts are &s;o many.</HI> <BIBL>2 Kings 9. 22.</BIBL></Q>
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