The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.Sewel, William
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The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.
Sewel, William
Society of Friends -- History -- Early works to 1800
‘The day is come that the Scripture is fulfilled, which the
Lord spoke by his prophet, Isa. xliv. 25. That he will make the
diviners mad; and that the prophets shall be ashamed, every
one of his vision, Zach. xiii. 4. The which doth now evidently
appear, and their folly is made manifest unto all, that will
see and behold it, according to 2 Tim. iii. 9. And is not this
manifest madness and folly in them, called orthodox and divines,
to present unto the king their packet of lies, which have been
seven years told over, and so long since disproved and confuted,
as may be seen in a book called, Saul’s Errand to Damascus, &c.
printed in the year 1653, and in several other books since. It
already hath been, and is now manifest unto all men of sober
understandings, that these men, falsely called orthodox and
divines, have had no defence, either to vindicate themselves,
or disprove the people called Quakers, but this refuge of lies,
which they first presented to the parliament sitting in 1652, and
likewise to other parliaments which have been since that time,
and to the two protectors, and which now to this present king is
directed; and you presumptuously charge him to be the patron of
it, requiring him to defend those lies which you falsely call the
faith. But this we know, according as it is written, Prov. xxix.
12, 19. that “if a ruler hearken to lies, and his servants are
wicked; but a wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the
wheel over them.” Chap. xx. 26.
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