The Quakers Unmasked 2, Part 2
A brief Reply to John Audlands Rayling Paper.
Chriſtian Reader,
MEeting (ſince the premiſes ſent to the Preſſe) with a printed Pamphlet lately publiſhed, Intituled: The Innocent delivered out of the Snare, &c. full of unchriſtian Raylings againſt our Miniſters, Magiſtrates in general, and my ſelf, with others in particular; written by John Audland, an Arch Quaker (who cannot write ſix lines of true Engliſh together;) and finding in the Title page and p. 36. &c. thereof, this inſcription. An Anſwer to a ſcandalous Paper put forth by William Prynne; Intituled: The Quakers unmasked and clearly detected: wherein his ſlanders are made to appear; and he is clearly unmasked and plainly detected, being taken with A LYE in his mouth: I thought meet, by way of Reply, to ſo much only as concerns my Paper, to give thee this brief accompt thereof, in the cloſe of this Enlarged Edition.
1. That his chief Exception is againſt Cowliſhaw his Oath, as untrue; only upon this ſlender ground. p. 37. Two of us whom the world reproachfully calls Quakers, came from the North (being moved of the Lord) in the MonethMonth of June; we came into the City of Briſtol the 12. day of the Month called July; and on the morrow being the 13. day, we were at two meetings; the one with the people called Anabaptists; the other with the people called Independents; and we were moved by the Lord to ſpeak at both their meetings, which we did: as ſeveral of thoſe people can bear witneſſe. Thou ſaith; in September George Cowliſhaw being asked by Coppinger; if there had been none of thoſe people called Quakers in Briſtol? He anſwered, NO. Now this is falſe. For ſome of us who *Two verbs ſingular are coupled with us, a plural; and ſo thorowout the Book.is ſo called (marke his Engliſh) was then at Briſtol: For we had meetings at the Fort and Redde-Lodge in Briſtol, the 10. and 13. of September: at which was ſeveral hundreds of people; which will all witneſses. That THY Oath IS FALSE. But doth this convince the Oath to be falſe? No verily: but rather confirms it for truth: For though two of you went to two private meetings of Anabaptiſts and Independents in Briſtol, and ſpake there to them on July 13. yet that was unknown to Cowliſhaw and moſt others: and you ſpake to thoſe people then, not under the name or notion of Quakers, but only of *Whoſe Opinions they juſtifie againſt Infant Baptiſm in this new Pamphlet p. 20. 31, 32.Anabaptiſts & Independents: And your ſpeaking to ſundry after in and about Bristol on the 10. 13. 15. 17. 19. of September (at which time you began to take upon you the name of Quakers, and to be known in Bristol by that Title) was after Cowliſhaws conference with Coppinger: who adds; that about 18. dayes after, there came to this City two that were named Quakers: Now ſeveral of you coming thither (like the Franciſcan Fryers two by two after each other) juſt about that time he depoſeth, by your own relation; convinceth Audland of an apparant ſlander, and double Lye. Firſt, in accuſing Cowliſhaw (known to be a perſon of truth and honeſty,) for making a falſe Oath, which his own Anſwer to it juſtifieth to be true. 2. In averring, * That he and his Companions were moved by the Lord & his See p 6. 7, 26, 37, 44, 45, at the end.eternal Spirit, to leave their own habitation and callings in the North, to come to ſeduoe the people of Briſtol (to believe their new Revelations). That they are the Meſſengers, & Miniſters of the everlaſting Goſpel of God, ſent and moved by the Lord to ſpeak to the City of Briſtol, &c. When as in truth, they are thoſe that trouble that City, and would pervert the Goſpel of Chriſt therein, Gal: 1. 7. yea the very falſe lying Pophers prophecied of and deſcribed Zech. 13. 3, 4, 5.
2. He excepts againſt Cowliſhaw: That he accuſed not Coppinger to the Magiſtrate, confeſſing himſelf to be a p. 38.Franciſcan Fryer; but concealed, and let him go. Whereupon he taxeth the Magiſtrates of Bristol for injuſtice, in not puniſhing Cowliſhaw, and yet making out warrants againſt the Quakers. But this is very frivolous. 1. Becauſe his printed oath, is no concealment, but a clear diſcovery of him, and all his conference with him, to the Magiſtrates, deſerving praiſe, not puniſhment. 2. Coppingers haſty departure the very next day into Ireland, diſabled him and the Magiſtrate… to ſeiſe him. 3. The ſuſpenſion of the Laws by ſome in Superiour power againſt ſuch Romiſh Vermin at that ſeaſon, will excuſe both him and the Magiſtrates from any puniſhment or blame, in not ſeiſing on him; could they have conveniently done it. 4. Their granting out warrants againſt the Quakers, for diſturbing both the Peace Miniſters, and Government of the City, was juſt, legal. And their publick abuſe both of the Mayor and Governors of the City in print, in the two laſt pages of this Pamphlet, ſtiling them Brethren and Companions, but it is in iniquity, who have confederated themſelves againſt Chriſt & his anointed, &c. deſerves a ſharper Cenſure, then a ſmall fine, temporary impriſonment and an obligation to the good behaviour though not yet inflicted on them.
3. His exceptions againſt me; are, for averring. 1. That the Quakers are but the Spawn of Romiſh Frogs, Jeſuites, and Franciſcan Fryers; To refute which he alleageth only That they *It is but his own teſt mony; and none can tell what abode or profeſſion he or Fox formerly had there, after diligent enquiry made concerning it?all came from the North, that their birth and being was in West moreland near Kendal, where they lived & walked none of them having ever been out of England. To which anſwer. 1. That their coming out of the North; is a ſhrewd argument of their badneſſe. The Scripture informs us Jer. 1. 14. chap. 4. 6. chap. 6. 1, 22. That out of THE NORTH AN EVILL SHALL BREAK FORTH UPON ALL THE INHABIT ANTS OF THE LAND. That EVILL APPEARETH OUT OF THE NORTH, AND GREAT DESTRUCTION ſhall be brought from THE NORTH. Which the Latin Proverb Omne malum ab Aquilone; with the Engliſh Adagy; A… evil comes from the North, ſeconding, we have juſt cauſe to conclude; That theſe Quakers coming from thence, are fit Inſtruments, only to bring evil and deſtruction upon all the Inhabitants of the Land; not Gods Meſsengers, Miniſters, ſent thence to ſave mens Souls. 2. Weſtmoreland is well known, to have abounded with Jeſuites, Popiſh Prieſt… Fryers, Recuſants, and perſons Popiſhly affected, ever ſince the Reformation: Witneſſe the *See Speeds, Hiſtory, Camdens Elizabeth, Stow. How, and others in Ann 1569.Rebellion of the Earl of Weſtmorland and the Northern Papiſts under him, to advance the popiſh Religion and deſtroy Queen Elizabeth and the proteſtant Reformation. Anno 1569. with the late power of the Lord William Howard, Ducket, Leyborn, Fleming, and other Popiſh Families in that County. And therefore we may juſtly fear an emanation of Jeſuitical, Franciſcan Frogs and Emiſſaries from thence now. 3. Mr. Tillam (late, or ſtill a Popiſh Prieſt) Adminiſtrator of the Anabaptiſtical Congregation at Hexam, not far from Kendal, avers in print; *See the perfect Phariſee. p. 13.That theſe Quaking Agonies were derived from the Franciſ can Fryers; and the premiſes ſufficiently prove, that they were derived to us from them, and the Jeſuites, who took their Pattern from the Idolatrous pagan prietts, quaking Tranſcies and Agonies. Therefore his own bare verbal negation thereof, will no way diſprove my Aſſertion. The rather, becauſe the Jeſuites, Franciſcans, Benedictines, and others have their private Colledges, Societies, and Generall of their Orders in England, and may ſecretly admit their Diſciples into their Orders here, without going beyond the Seas; as I have proved at large in my Romes-Maſter-piece; The Popiſh Royal Favourite, Hidden works of Darkneſſe brought to publique Light, and my Epiſtle to a (late) Seaſonable Legal and Hiſtorical Vindication; to which I ſhall referre the Reader, and our Quakers for fuller Satisfaction. 4. Some of them, wearing rough Hair Now in Bath gaol for diſturbing the Miniſter there in the mideſt of his Sermon the. 27 of May laſtcloth and Cords about their bodies, like the Franciſcan Cordiliers; is a very probable Evidence, that they were ſpawned from them, and that they are the perſons prophecied of Zech. 13. 3, 4, 5. Which prophecy Lyes in the name of the Lord, and wear a garment of hair to Ly and deceive the people, which Murford and others of them uſe. 2. For affirming, that they uſe inchanted potions, Bracelets, Ribands, Sorcery, and Witchcraft; to intoxicate their Diſciples. Which being ſufficiently evidenced in the premiſes, and *See John Gilpius printed relation of himſelf.apparent by many inſtances, in moſt places where they ramble, I ſhall no further inſiſt to prove it. But cloſe up all with theſe two Scripture Exhortations to the people of England. 1. Cor. 16. 13. Phil. 1. 27. Watch ye, ſtand faſt in the f… quit you like men, be ſtrong; in one Spirit with one mind, … ving together for the faith of the Goſpel, and 1 Pet. 5. 8, 9. … ſober, be vigilant, becauſe your adverſary the Devil walked …bout (in his Inſtruments as well as perſon) like a roaring. … on, ſeeking whom he may devour, whom reſiſt ſtedfaſt in the f… And with that of Gal. 1. 7. 8. 9. But there are ſome … trouble you, and would pervert the Goſpel of Chriſt: … though they, we, on an angel from Heaven preach any *As two Quakers did lately in VVeſtminſter Hall, May 14. denied the ſcriptures to be the Word of God, &c. Heaven, Hell, and the Reſurrection of the dead, &c. as Diurnals Printoth… Goſpel unto you, LET HIM BE ACCURSED. As we … before, ſo ſay I now again: IF ANY MAN PREACH AN… OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU, THEN THAT YO… HAVE RECEIVED, LET HIM BE ACCURSED. … let all ſincere Lovers, Profeſſors of the Goſpel … our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, throughout our Nation a… the Chriſtian World, add a zealous Amen *Zech. 5 13. cap. 8. 6. Pſal. 41. 13. Pſal. 72. 19. Pſ. 89. 52. Pſ. 106. 48.and Am… thereto.
Math. 15. 1…. They be blind leaders of the blind: and if the blind lead, … blind, both ſhall fall into the ditch.
Rev. 12. 12. Wo to the inhabitants of the earth, a… of the Sea, for THE DEVIL IS COME DOWN UNT… YOU having great wrath, becauſe he knoweth he h… but a ſhort time.
FINIS.
End of the text · William Prynne, The Quakers Unmasked 2 (1664)