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id: A96404
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1699
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title:
  The three Norfolk clergymens brief discovery, &c. presented by them to the king and Parliament, against the people call'd Quakers, modestly observed to our superiours.

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id: A56826
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1689
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title:
  The Quakers address to the House of Commons declaring their suffering case, relating to oathes and swearing, as it was pesented by George Whitehead, Capt. William Mead, and other eminent Quakers on Friday last, the 12th instant.

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id: A65880
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1698
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title:
  George Whitehead's protestation against Francis Buss's persecution and abuse of the people call'd Quakers, his (quondum) beloved friends occasioned by his late scandalous paper, stiled, Some reasons &c.

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id: A65852
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1689
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sentence: 108
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title:
  The Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers asserted against the unjust charge of their being no Christians, upon several questions relating to those matters wherein their Christian belief is questioned.

summary:
  This is the saving Baptism into Christ and His Church , which produceth the Answer of a Good Conscience towards God , of which the outward was a Figure , 1 Pet 3. 21. And saith Christ , The Bread of God is he that cometh down from Heaven , and giveth Life unto the World.


id: A65865
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1664
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title:
  An epistle of consolation from the fresh springs of life, and flowings forth of the Fathers love (through his servant) as a tender salutation extended to the whole flock and family of God; even to the lowest of his babes and servants, whose hearts are sincere and tender towards him: for their encouragement now in these suffering and trying times. By G.W.

summary:
  By G. W. O My dear and tenderly beloved Friends , Brethren , and Sisters , from the greatest to the least in my Fathers family , who are raised up by the power of an endless life , and begotten by the word of truth and life into a living faith and confidence in him who is our Rock and Refuge in all tryals , afflictions , and sufferings which we are exposed to , and undergo for the testimony of Righteousness and a good Conscience ; unto you , even unto you who are partakers of this heavenly Calling , and whose hearts accordingly are set with a holy Resolution for the glory and honour of our God therein , is my heart filled with love unutterable , which ariseth from the fresh Springs of Life and Consolation made manifest from a living experience of the effectual power and work of God which hath given access into a heavenly habitation and Sanctuary wherein his presence is enjoyed , in which the fulness of Consolation and Joy resideth for the Righteous , and all such as wait upon the Lord our God in his own e●ernal spirit of life and holiness , whose delight is to dwell with him in his Mansion-house , which we have access into through the new and living way , which in the everlasting and unspeakable love of God in his own Son is now made manifest , and the many veils seen thorow , by which this way and habitation was hid from us , whilst our minds were alienated from the lo●e and everlasting light of the Lord God and his Christ ; but now therein is life and Salvation brought forth and come near to many , whose hearts are enclined towards him , and set to seek the fountain of life : And it is not the power of darkness , nor the enmity of the Serpent or old Dragon , nor the dark wrath of man that shall be able to hinder , obstruct , or frustrate the Lord God in his proceeding in this his great work of Righteousness , which by his mighty arm and power he will carry on and prosper , to the perfecting his own praise in his people , and as he hath glorified his everlasting name , and Crowned his own seed with glory , victory , and tryumph thorow sufferings and tribulations , ( which glory and victory many in their own particulars are partakers of ) so he will glorifie and renown his name and seed thorow those tryals and sufferings , which yet remain to be fulfilled amongst his faithful witnessess , servants , and people who are called , and chosen , and faithful , being endued with the spirit , nature , and properties of his Elect seed in which his soul delighteth , and with whom the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper , and which shall out live the enmity , and Reign over its Adversaries and Oppressors , though they ( for a time ) be permitted to appear with a high hand , and the wicked so highly to lift their horns up against the seed of the Righteous ; and to attempt the rooting out of the faithful from amongst men ; yet we have no cause ( in any of these things ) to distrust the Lord , or to be weakened in our confidence which he hath raised up in us ; for he is with us who is mighty to save , and his care , mercy , and tenderness is felt towards all that truly fear him , and obey his voice ; and of this I am a living witness , who from time to time upon the weighty consideration , and feeling of the goodness of our God , and largeness of his love to his people , have been and am filled with the sense of his presence and unspeakable glory over all that which would oppress or hurt , which cannot enter into the holy Mountain , and in that glory and life received , is my heart and bowels of tender love enlarged towards all the upright in heart , who are come of a holy right seed , a●d sprung forth from a noble Vine , and not only so , but in ho●y confidence , and stedfast Resolution , are given up in the spirit of life , wisdom , and power , and of the fear of the Lord , to follow him in the faith , patience , and suffering of his own faithful and Elect seed , which you that abide in , shall never degenerate from the nature and innocency thereof , but know your victory and dominion therein over death and hell , where the gates threeof shall never be suffered to prevail against you ; for as in the faith and obedience you are given up in his will who hath called you , your habitation and security stands in his name and power , to which the Righteous flie and retire in all their troubles and tribulatio●s , which though they be many , yet so many deliverances do they meet withall at his hand , who is our Rock and Refuge , whose Salvation becomes as Walls and Bulwarks for the faithful . And that all you sincere hearted and tender Friends , whose eyes are turned towards your maker , and whose faces are set Sion-ward may be so retire in your minds to the principle of truth , and so watchful in the light of the Lord , and to enjoy a peaceable habitation and sanctuary in him in all your sufferings , for this hath my soul travelled , waited , and breathed unto the God of my life and Salvation , and that you all may feel your establishment and security in the life and Covenant of the everlasting God , and in the enjoyment of the true Communion and fellowship of the everlasting Gospel , wherein every member of the body in that Communion doth partake of the living bread in the Fathers Mansion-house , and therein become one bread to the strengthning , refreshing , consolating , and building up of one another in the most holy faith , which worketh by love , and which edifies the whole body throughout , which all that come truly to partake of and enjoy , 't is neither persecutions , nor tribulations , nor principalities , nor powers , nor thrones , nor dominions , that shall be able to separate them from the love of God in Christ ; neither shall any Rent or Schism come within that bond of love or bundle of life , wherewith such are bound up together ; for they are such as have overcome by faith and patience , and have offered up all to the will of him that hath called them , and their name shall not be blotted out of the Book of Life , but be confessed before the heavenly father and his Angels , in as much as they have confessed him and his Son , and held forth his testimony , and not been ashamed thereof before men : And these are they that are so nearly related unto God in his own likeness and heavenly Image , that they are his chosen ▪ refined , and precious Jewels , never to be forgotten by him , nor separate from him , for they are as the Apple of his eye , and engraven in the Palms of his hands ; and such a Remnant our God certainly hath in this Nation , in whom I have seen that which my soul hath travelled for , and which hath been to my souls satisfaction , and as one having largely felt the Lords presence , and still feeling the enjoyment of the same , and his glory to be the Reward , as it is to those that minister relief to the oppressed , and bread to the hungry , for which many can bless the Lord on our behalf I find the same living faith and confidence remaining in me , in behalf of the work of the Lord , and the prosperity thereof as ever ; and this is the work that he hath made me and others of his faithful servants instruments in , which is so far brought to pass and effected by his mighty power , as all the powers of darkness hell , and death , shall never be able to undoe it , nor all the storms , tryals , or oppositions that ever we meet withall shall ever be able to disanull it , or put a stop to it ; for it shall prosper over the heads of all the adversaries and oppressers of the righteous seed ; and that testimony which we have stood up for in this Nation shall never be extinguished , but be had in everlasting remembrance ; and this hath the Lord sealed and confirmed unto my soul , so as it s neither imprisonment , nor exilement , nor


id: A65848
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1664
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title:
  The case of the suffering people of God truly stated and their innocencie vindicated from the false aspersions and pretences (under which the persecution spirit seeks to cover it self, to make the nation believe its proceedings against them are just) that it may be unvailed, and appear as it is in its self, and the cause for which Gods people suffer made appear, according to the nature of it : wherein also the persecutors in England are warned, before the day of the Lord overtake them, as a destruction from him.

summary:
  Now , O England , and thy Rulers , consider these things , and what you are a doing ; and consider your sad estate and condition , whiles endeavours are used amongst you to root out the Righteous out of the Nation , and to make them Transgressors , when nothing of the breach of any just and civil Law , either of God or man can be proven against them ; for these things God will assuredly visit , who hath a people among those you persecute that are dear unto him , who can neither comply with mens wills or wayes , contrary to his Light or Law in them , nor be leavened with that Spirit of envy and prophaness which is broken forth , to the dishonour of God and his Name ; and if God had not destroyed Sodom , had there been ten righteous persons in it , what will become of you , if you go on to root out and banish or destroy such as fear God , and live righteously and soberly amongst men , against whom you have no occasion , but concerning the Law of God , and his Worship ? Therefore repent , repent , and fear and dread the Living God! for a heavy day will come upon all Sion's Oppressors , and all Workers of Iniquity , who , because that judgement is not speedily executed upon them , their hearts are hardened , and set in them to do wickedly . what hardness of Heart , searedness of Conscience , and benumedness is come upon them that have set themselves in a Spirit of Enmity , against such as fear God , and keep their Consciences void of offence towards God and man ? and how is the Righteous sought to be made a prey upon , and to be destroyed by such as have set themselves in a Persecuting Spirit , to Persecute , oppress and injure the Righteous ?


id: A29395
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1700
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title:
  Some reasons why Robert Bridgman, and his wife, and some others in Hvntington-shire, have left the society of the people called Quakers, and have join'd in communion with the Church of England and some passages contained in a letter of George Whitehead to R.J., and R. Bridgman's reply to the same / by Robert Bridgman.

summary:
  And by a shew of Spirituality , Simplicity , Humility and Patience , have deceived themselves , and many of the most ignorant and inadvertent Professors , who inconsiderately and rashly conclude , they are the most holy and reformed People and Church of God , because they appear in a more sedate , retired , and self denying manner , as a Society and Body of People , than generally is observed of other Societies . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.


id: A65857
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1664
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title:
  The conscientious cause of the sufferers, called Quakers pleaded and expostulated with their oppressors in this nation of England, and particularly in and about the city of London : and those in power that go about to transport, banish, or suppress them for their meetings, innocently informed, and impartially cautioned, from the innocent and oppressed seed of God, which herein calls for justice and equity, and utterly exclaims against severity and persecution for matters of conscience or religion : wherein first and principally is shewed, the use and end of the publick assemblies of the said sufferers, in answer to several objections against them, 1. with respect to their conscientiousness, as it being their duty to meet, 2. with respect to their innocency and peaceable deportment both to the nation and government therein / by G.W.

summary:
  And this our practice of Assembling together in the Worship and Service of the living God , must needs be a matter of Conscience to us , because we know it to be our duty as he requires , and according to the practice of the former Saints and Christians , who did not confine or limit themselves to meet onely four or five together ; because the Truth of God among them , and his Gifts were free , and not to be limited to mans will , either in respect of time or place ; and the Gospel was not to be bound , but as it was manifest in the Universal Love of God , which is of a general extent to all , so it was not to be stopt or tyed by man , but all ought to be left free to have the benefit of it ; and this we know is manifest in and amongst us , and in our Meetings have been those opportunities which the Lord God hath made use of many times , to publish and make known his Name and Power in ; which hath been evidently known and experienced by the blessed effects thereof . In like manner it might as well be objected against the Prophet Daniel , that he might have prayed more privately , and not with window open , and three times a day as before , after that King Darius had sealed a Decree , that none should ask a Petition of any God or man for thirty dayes , save of the King , upon the penalty of being cast into the Lions Den ; when yet for all this , Daniel in obedience to God , prayed and praised God as before , Dan. 6. And so our Meetings being in obedience to the Lord God , and according to that Liberty which he hath given us , we must not lose our Testimony which is for God therein , but be faithful in holding it forth as he requires , and gives us Liberty , whatever we suffer for it ; it being neither mens threatning us , nor inflicting their Severity or Cruelty upon us ( how far soever it extends ) that must make us deny the Lord herein , or be ashamed of Christ before men , lest he be ashamed of us before his heavenly Father .


id: A65892
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1660
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title:
  The true ministers living of the Gospel, distinguished from the false ministers living upon tithes and forced maintenance. With a word of reproof (preceding the distinction) to the ministers of the nation, whose kingdom is already shaken and divided against itself. And the iniquity and antichristianism of that ministry which is upheld by forced maintenance, briefly discovered according to the scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In a brief reply to a book stiled, An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries, by John Bewick, who calls himself a minister of the Gospel, and rector of the parish church of Stanhop in Weredale in the county of Durham.

summary:
  VVHither are you now run for a refuge and defence for your Tithes and set maintenance ? doth all your old grounds fail you that formerly you have pleaded ? are you driven out of Scriptures of Christ and his Apostles , out of all the Law of God there , and out of Law of Nations and Countreys , and would you now fly to Melchisedek for help ? what is there no scripture command that will own you in your yearly stipends , and are you afraid of mens Laws failing you , and are you now fled from all your former pleas , and think you to find help from Melchisedek ? did you not formerly plead Divine Right , and told us by Scriptures you would prove it , and then being driven out of all commands or examples in Scriptures , then you pleaded the custome of the Countrey , and National Law , and by that in Olivers time you took mens goods , and cast them into prison , and made havock and spoil abundantly , and then many of you would not plead scripture at all , but by custome and humane Law you would have it ? and dare you no longer depend upon that , and dare you now think Melchisedek will stand you in stead , or own you in your work and trading , any more then the Prophets and Apostles ? what are ye of the Order of Melchisedek now , who but a while ago must needs plead the order of Levi ; and then when that order and your manners will not stand together , then you pleaded the order of the Nations ; and now thou S. B. in thy book would make people believe that you are after the order of Melchisedek , and that Tithes was yours before they were given to Levi , and that he had them but for a time by a special command , till you came , and then you were to come up after the order of Melchisedek , and so you must now enjoy them for ever , &c. But now you must be tried in the light whether you be of that order or no , as well as you have been tryed with the order of Levi ; And if you be found of his order , then we will grant you to have right to his maintenance , ( if you will be but content with it ) for we must needs think it meet , that Children should inherit the right of their Father ; so if you be Melchisedeks children , you will do his works , which was to relieve the weary Souldier with his own bread and wine ; so you may expect his reward , if they be free to give it you , as Abram was of his spoiles ; For we never read that it was the order of Melchisedeck to ravine about after outward things , nor sued people for hire , nor spoiled their estates , nor cast them into prison , nor any way sought after gifts or rewards , nor do we read that he ever required or received any yearly tythes of any people or Parish , either ●●eaves , beasts , swine , fowls or the like , which was to relieve their families , from any creature , but as he was the Priest of the most high God , not called nor made of men , so he was maintained by him , and not by men , and he was like to him that called him , a bountiful man , ready to give , ready to blesse , and to relieve others in their way , as appears in what he did to Abram and his Army in the way , he met them with bread and wine , and gave them freely , and asked them nothing again , and so he received freely tythes of Abrams spoiles , but never can any of you prove that he had the tythes of Abrams Estate , stock , or tillage , nor ever demanded or sued , or took by force any part of any mans goods upon any pretence whatsoever . But on the contrary , when we see a sort of men who never heard Gods voice , running and enquiring who can get the greatest yearly stipend , Tythes , or augmentation , and tearing peoples bodies and estates if they get it not , according to the havock that hath been made by the Priests of this Nation in these late yeares , this was never the order of Melchisedeck , Christ , or his Apostles , nor the order of Aaron neither , who had a law for Tythes , but the order of Eli's sons , who was sons of Belial , who knew not the Lord , And therefore sent their servants to take it by force , as now hath been done , to the spoiling of many families .


id: A65838
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1660
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title:
  The authority of the true ministry in baptizing with the spirit, and the idolatry of such men, as are doting about shadows and carnal ordinances, and their ignorance of the spirits baptism (of which, water baptism was but a figure) discovered : and herein is shewed, that water baptism is neither of necessity to salvation, nor yet is it now practiced either by authority from heaven, or by any New-Testament-law that is in force upon believers, seeing the substance, and the end of things abolished is come and enjoyed, wherein the types, shadows and fingers, are ended : being a short return to a book entituled, A reply to a scandalous paper, subscribed by one Samuel Bradley, a Baptist teacher, as concerning a dispute that was between some of the people called Quakers, and some Baptists in South-warke.

summary:
  If there be so many Baptismes , and yet but one propely called baptism , which is the Baptism of water ; then from this it follows that the baptism of the Spirit , or the baptism by which the Saints were saved , was not properly called Baptism ; and this would charge the Apostles with speaking improperly , or falsly , when they spoke of the Baptism by which they were saved , or of their being all baptised by one Spirit into one Body And thus this said Baptist's falshood and folly appears , who here also counteth the one Baptism spoken of in Eph. 4. the Baptism of water ; and so hath shut out the baptism of the Spirit , as not properly called Baptism , and Idollatrously hath set water baptism above it ; when as the baptism of the Spirit was that which water baptism did but shadow or figure forth ; for by one Spirit were the Saints baptised into the body of Christ , which the baptism of outward water doth not baptise any into ; for such as uphold water baptism now are in the strife , and much in devision , when as they who are baptised into the body of Christ are in unity . The Major proposition of this Argument is false , as the baptism of water is intended in it to be in force , as long as teaching ; for teaching was of force , where that baptism was not , as Paul was a witness ; who was sent to the one , not to the other ; also Teaching is of force to many who are not plunged in outward water , and by true teaching are converted to Christ , when there is no stresse for Salvation upon water baptism , neither is it of necessity to Salvation , as S. B : hath confessed : And where he concludes that baptism , and all the rest of the Appointments of Christ , are in force , and to continue to the end of the World , and for proof saith , that the Scripture saith expressly they are to continue to the end of the world , and quotes Matth. 28. and 20. I say this conclusion is as false as the major , and herein hath he perverted the Scripture , Math.


id: A65841
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1701
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title:
  A brief answer to F. Bugg's Brief reply to the considerations humbly offered by the people call'd Quakers relating to the bill for restraining the licentiousness of the press.

summary:
  A brief answer to F. Bugg's Brief reply to the considerations humbly offered by the people call'd Quakers relating to the bill for restraining the licentiousness of the press. A brief answer to F. Bugg's Brief reply to the considerations humbly offered by the people call'd Quakers relating to the bill for restraining the licentiousness of the press.


id: A65843
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1658
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title:
  A brief treatise on the truths behalf in discovery of falshoods which are dispersed abroad in two papers of Richard Baxters ... the one intituled One sheet for the ministry, the other A second sheet for the ministry, and he hath pretended the one against malignants among whom he hath numbred them called Quakers and uttered forth his envy in several lies and revilings against that people called Quakers, whose known integrity shall stand a witness against all such deceivers and revilers as he is proved to be perpetually ... / by George Whitehead.

summary:
  Here he hath neither cleared himself from covetousnesse , oppression , nor from lying , and here he challenges as great an interest in the Tithes as a man hath in his heritage , or possession which he hath by inheritance , and they that profess themselves Ministers of Christ , pleads now for Tithes by a Law of the Nation , when their Gospel will not manage them in taking Tithes ; truly the Masse Priests or Papists might have brought as strong a proof for their receiving Tithes as this man brings , and the manner of both their receiving of them is contrary to the Law of God , and what a man hath a just right to by inheritance is according to the Law of God , but so is not the Tithes due to priests , now seeing that the second priesthood is come which abolished tithes among the rest of the figures . And this said priest in his second page would accuse them he calls Quakers for being the Papists Agents but this we deny and return it back again upon him , for both the Papists , their wayes , worships , superstition and deceits and adherents we clearly witness against in life , conversation and doctrine , as in many things is evident to the World in many of our books and manner of our life ; and for them he calls Seekers among whom he numbers us , All that are seeking , worshipping or waiting in their own wills and imaginations we deny , but they that seek in sincerity so as to find the right way we own them according to the true light wherein the drawings of God is manifest unto them that believe in the Light which doth inlighten every man that cometh into the world .


id: A65871
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1693
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mime: application/xml
words: 7057
sentence: 217
flesch: 61
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title:
  A just enquiry into the libeller's abuse of the people called Quakers in his scandalous pamphlet, falsly stiled, Some of the Quakers principles, doctrines, laws and orders, &c.

summary:
  Christ the only begotten Son of God in all things must have the preheminence ; though as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God , and now are we the Sons of God , &c. when as good Kings and Governments we had no reason to dissafect or oppose ; and tho' we like not bad ones , who are for Persecution and Oppression , &c. we have always been true and Constant to the Doctrine of Non Resistance , and Passive Obedience , ever since we were a People ; and learned quietly to submit as Christians to the Over-ruling Hand and Providence of God in the Revolutions and Change of Governments , ( which have Eminently happen'd even in our days ) as Samuel did , though he was as much a Republican and averse to Monarchy as some called Quakers were at first , as when Israel's Requiring a King , like other Nations displeased Samuel , 1 Sam. chap.


id: A65850
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1689
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sentence: 119
flesch: 43
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title:
  A Christian epistle to Friends in general of weighty concern, for their present and future peace and safety from the soul's adversary's subtill devices and snares of death. To be carefully communicated to the children of light, and professors thereof every where. Being faithfully given forth, and recommended from the spirit of Christ; by his servant George Whitehead.

summary:
  You therefore ( my dear Friends ) who have livingly felt , and tasted of the Lord's Power and Goodness , and known his Work in your Hearts , in order to your Deliverance and Redemption out of the Evil World , and the Corruptions thereof , prize his tender Mercies and Goodness , and forget them not : Let the holy fear of the Lord God be your Treasure and true Wisdom , and Understanding , the Stability of your times in Righteousness : Let your sincere Love to the pure Name and Truth of the Lord , and one unto another be continued in that unchangeable Truth and Power of an Endless Life , whereunto the Lord hath called us ; and I pray God increase your Love and Zeal for his Glorious Name and Christian Tenderness , and Brotherly Affection one towards another , that Life for evermore may be your Blessing and Portion , as it will be to all them who dwell in Amity , true Love , and Unity of Spirit in our Lord Jesus Christ , which is a most joyful , comfortable and blessed state , which too many Professors of Truth are short of , for want of keeping near to the Lord , in his holy fear & Love of his blessed Name and Truth , whose negligence and unfaithfulness to Truth in themselves hath caused a decay of Love , & want of Charity towards others ; and then instead of humbly waiting and depending upon the Lord , some have exalted themselves in a Self-will , Self-conceit , & Affection to preheminence in judgment over others , until thereby Divisions and Self-separations have been caused and stirred up by them , to the great grief of the Spirits of the upright , who have kept their Integrity to the Lord , his Truth and People . What Gifts , Openings , Discoveries , Visions , Revelations , Wisdom , Knowledge or Understanding soever any have , yet still 't is the heavenly Root must bear them , they must keep low their Minds and Spirits to that from whence Life and Love springs , or else they fall , wither , dye and become empty , uncharitable and hard-hearted ; and there the Enemy has his Evil Ends upon them , in betraying them , and corrupting their minds from the Truth , from Life , from Love , from the Innocency and Simplicity which is in Christ , the Way , the Truth and the Life ; and there 's a danger in being too early and forward to censure and judge others , and in judging , censuring and undervaluing others Gifts , Ministry and Labour● whom God hath called into his Work and Service ; for some whereby may either lose their own Gifts , Life and Strength , or fall short of those heavenly Gifts , which otherwise they might attain to , if they kept low and tender in Humility , Love & Society with their Brethren , whereby they might also be serviceable with them : For I have seen in my time some who never passed through Judgment in themselves , yet very censorious , judging , detracting and whispering against their Brethren , slighting them , their Ministry and Labours , who themselves have greatly lost by it ; and God in displeasure hath suffered them to discover their own weakness and nakedness , for their own abasement under the righteous Judgment of Truth .


id: A65895
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1664
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title:
  Truth tryumphing in a suffering time over deceit and falsehood, or, William Prynn's book of Quakers unmasked clearly detected and the innocency of the people vindicated from the grosse abuses and injuries done them by him ... / by G.W.

summary:
  For his not knowing that they were there manifests that he spake both unadvisedly and without knowledge , ●nd gave that in upon his Oath which was false , which seems to be done more out of prejudice against the pe●ple called Q●●kers , then either honesty or truth : So as ● . And in his repro●ching them for coming together as he saith like the Franciscan Fryers , And as the Quee●s Franc●s●a●s did here of late .


id: A64451
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11115
sentence: 196
flesch: 44
cache: cache/A64451.xml
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title:
  A testimony concerning the life, death, trials, travels and labours of Edward Burroughs that worthy prophet of the Lord who dyed a prisoner for the testimony of Jesus, and the word of God, in the city of London, the 14th of the 12th month, 1662 / [by] F.H.

summary:
  And now thou art freed from the ●empt●tions of him who had the power of death , and art freed from thy outward Enemies , who hated thee because of the Life that dwelt in thee , and remaineth at the right hand of God , where there is joy and pleasure for evermore in the everlasting Light , which thou hast often testified unto , according to the Word of Prop●esie in thy heart , which was given unto ●hee by the Holy Ghost , and art at rest in the perfection thereof , in the beauty of Holiness ; yet thy Life and thy Spirit I feel as present , and have unity with it , and in it , beyond all created and visible thing● , which are subje●t to ●utation and change ; and thy Life shall enter into other● , to testifie unto the same truth , which is from everlasting to everl●sting ; for God hath raised , and will raise up children unto Abraham , of them that have been as dead stones , whose Po●er is Almighty , great in his people in the midst of their Enemies . He was inclinable from his youth upwards , to Religion , and the best way , always minding the best things , and the best and nearest way of Worship to the Scriptures of Truth , and always did accompany the best men , who walked in godliness and honesty , insomuch I have often admired his discreet carriage , and his great understanding of the things of God : He was never known to be addicte● to any vic● or malignity , or bad behaviour , neither followed any evil course of life from his childhood , but feared the Lord , and walked uprightly according to the light and knowledge received in all things .


id: A60564
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11947
sentence: 580
flesch: 81
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title:
  The Quaker disarm'd, or, A true relation of a late publick dispute held at Cambridge by three eminent Quakers against one scholar of Cambridge ; with a letter in defence of the ministry and against lay-preachers ; also several quæries proposed to the Quakers to be answered if they can.

summary:
  S. If Christ was man , and the H. Ghost was in the form of a Dove , then they were both seen . between 12 , and 1. a clock came this following Summons to T. S. from W. Friend , T. S.


id: A65889
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5431
sentence: 72
flesch: 21
cache: cache/A65889.xml
txt: txt/A65889.txt
title:
  This is an epistle for the remnant of Friends, and chosen of God whom he hath yet preserved to bear their testimony in and about the city of London, to whom, this is a testimony of the dear love, and tender care which flowes forth, and is extended towards them, and all tender hearts who are concerned in the like sufferings, temptaons [sic], and tryals / from their faithful friend and servant in the Lord, G. Whithead.

summary:
  And others by faith were simply and singly given up in the will of God to die , if he should so dispose of them , not in themselves expecting life or recovery , and yet in so being given up have come to be restored again to continue longer , bearing their Testimony amongst us , having known and felt that in the patience to resign to the w●ll of God in self-denial , abasement and humility in their affliction and trial ; was most consistant with their peace . And again , some others of us by faith according to the will of God , have been kept over the distemper and hitherto preserved alive ; not for any respect that we may assume to our selves in the matter , nor for any reason ( as I know ) that can be shewn for us more then for some innocent persons that were taken away , but that the Lord had a respect to his own glory and further service for himself which he had for us to do and be imployed in , and that he will preserve a Remnant as he hath determined to bear his Name and hold forth his Testimony amongst men in their innocent lives and holy Conversations ; so as the glory and praise we give to the Lord , desiring all of us may faithfully serve him in Godly fear and true humility the days we have to sojourn here , that we all may ever be to his praise , in whose hand we are whether we live or die , for he makes all things to work together for good to them that love him , who are not offended in him in any of their tribulations , or temptations , when the hour of temptation is upon all flesh to try them that dwell upon the face of the earth ; he that has committed unto us the word of his patience who is Israel's Keeper is our preserver , support and refuge thorough all these things , and he has made us co-workers together in one and the same spirit of faith and life , wherein he is obeyed and submitted to by his faithful people and servants in their several states , trials and exercises , and among whom the various effects and fruits of the same faith are seen and brought forth according to his will , who gives life and preservation .


id: A65854
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1690
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13628
sentence: 548
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A65854.xml
txt: txt/A65854.txt
title:
  The Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers vindicated from antichristian opposition sincerely tendered in behalf of the aforesaid people and their ancient friends by some of them.

summary:
  That the Soul should be subject to the Power of God ; that Christ is the Bishop of the Soul , who brings it up into God , the Soul being in Death , in Transgression , Man's Spirit not sanctified , &c. This could not intend the Being of God , for that never sinned , though there be something thereof in the Soul , even in that reasonable Soul or Spirit of Man , which God ( by his divine Word , Breath , or Spirit ) formed in Man , Zech. 12.1 . How can the Charge before stand with these Passages . i. e. That the Soul of Man should be the Being of God , and yet to be watched over by his Ministers ; redeemed by Christ , and raised up by his Power ? That divine Sense which he hath given us , would never admit us so to confound the Being of the Creature , with the Being of the Creator , as to render them both one and the same Being .


id: A65861
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6830
sentence: 255
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A65861.xml
txt: txt/A65861.txt
title:
  The dipper plung'd, or, Thomas Hicks his feigned dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker, proved, an unchristian forgery consisting of self-contradictions, and abuses against the truth, and people called Quakers : wherein Tho. Hicks hath seconded (though in envy exceeded) his brother Henry Grigg, in his babylonish pamphlet, stiled, Light from the sun of righteousness : howbeit, they have both notoriously contradicted themselves, and each other, as is hereby evinced / by G.W.

summary:
  Grigg , and the rest of their Fraternity ; That when any of them are minded to write against the Quakers , about the Light of Christ Within , &c. that they would seriously peruse and exam●ne their Work , and endeavour better to compose their Matter , without Contradictions ; that if they come ingeniously to signifie the good Use and End of it , and what shall be the End of all that improve it , whether they have the Scriptures or not ; it may prevent much further Controversie : But if they are still minded to invalidate and deprave the Light that 's in all men : let 's have their Work consistent to deal withal ; otherwayes , by their Contraditions they shew themselves uncertain and dubious , as T Hicks and H.G. do ; one while affirming , that the Light within every man is a Creature , and Mis-guiding ; another while , Christ is the Life and Light of men : One while , the Light within is so uncertain , that there can be no certainty of Truth or Error , Sin or Duty by it ; another while , It Checks for Evils , and Excites to Good : One while , It Opposeth the End of the Covenant of Grace , and is to be Rejected ; another while , It ought to be improved and attended upon , every Degree of the Light being serviceable to its End , and we being accountable to God for every Dispensation thereof : One while they count it , A Cheat of Antichrist , and Wile of Satan ; another while , It is the Light of Jesus Christ , as the Eternal Word , Enlightening every man that cometh into the World. Christ is the Life and Light of Men , p. 22.


id: A65877
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15061
sentence: 369
flesch: 59
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title:
  The pernicious way of the rigid presbyter and antichristian ministers detected and several weighty matters (in controversie, betwixt Sion and her adversaires, or between the true church and the false) discussed : to inform both magistrates, ministers, and people,

summary:
  And though we have often in our Pulpits Prayed for Oliver Cromwel , and his Parliaments , and called him the Light of our Eyes , and the breath of our Nostrils ; and kept many Fasts , and dayes both of Humiliation , and Thanksgiving for him ; and have often given thanks in Publick for the Victories that have been given him over his Enemies , who were for a Kingly Government ; as also we much Rejoyced when his Son Richard Cromwel was Proclaimed Protector , and kept Prayer-dayes for him , and prophesied that he should be a second Solomon , and of his Establishment and tranquility in the Nation ; and what a blessing he should be to it ( as many that have heard us in our Pulpits can bear us witness ) and all this was that these men in Authority should gratifie us , in setting great Livings and Tythes upon us ; and for that end , many of us have often humbly Petitioned these Protectors ; but now after all this to gloss and colour over all these former proceedings of ours , ( now these former Powers being overturned , and King Charles the Second , being in Authority in the Nation ) wee 'l Preach and Pray for him , and shew our selves zealous for him , and bid People , fear God , Honour the King , and meddle not with those that are given to change ; as also wee 'l Preach against the Independants , Anabaptists , and Quakers , and call them Fannaticks , ( but especially against the Quakers , for they gaul us most of all ) and thereby seek to gratifie these Magistrates as we have done the former ( as well as we can ) that they may maintain us , ( and if any of us be like to lose our Livings , let us Petition , and get a License under the broad Seal ) and when we have obtained the Magistrates favour , by Preaching and Praying for them , and flattering them , then will we plead for Tythes and setlted Maintenance , and seek to cause the Magistrates to persecute all that will not hear nor maintain us ; and when we cannot ( by Argument from Scripture ) maintain Tythes to be of Divine right to us , neither from Melchizedochs receiving the Tyth of the spoil ( which Abraham gave him freely when he returned from the slaughter of the Kings ) not yet from the Priests of Levy's example , who had a command to take Tyth of their Brethren , which were both for their service at the Tabernacle ( which now is ended by Christ ) as also for the relieving the Fatherless , Widowes and Strangers , a Tenth of which Tyth was offered for an Heave-offering unto the Lord ; now when we cannot maintain Tythes to be Jure Divino from these examples , then will we flie to the Law ( that had its rise from the Pope ) for Tythes , and wee 'l tell our hearers , that the Magistrate gives us them , and wee 'l threaten to trouble and Sue them , if they will not pay us , and thereby seek to terrifie and affright People , that they may be forced to pay us ; and so we will drive on our Trade by all the Policy and force we can : and seek by all means to have the Quakers suppressed , either by Persecution , Imprisonings , or taking away their Goods for Tythes , in many places , to the value of five or ten times more then the Tythes come to : and now if these things will not do to overcome these Quakers , ( as we see , notwithstanding all their sufferings , they grow and encrease upon us ) then will we make more complaints against them , and tell the Magistrates they are a dangerous People , they will overthrow both Ministers and Magistrates , and will not spare the Supream Magistrate himself , if they be suffered to go on ; therefore now let them be Banished , for we cannot live in quiet , nor quietly drive on our Trade for them , but they will need be Checking and Reproving us for our taking Tythes , and Preaching for gain , and our seeking to compell men to our way and Worship , and to Impose Religion upon men contrary to their Faith and Conscience . 4. It is the Light of Christ within , that convinceth of ( and testifieth against ) sin and unrighteousness ; and where it 's not rejected , but obeyed , it leads man out of sin , and so out of the natural , wretched and blind state , to God , who is the Fountain of Grace and Life , and the Father of Lights ; none of whose Lights do we ever read of in Scripture , to be either false , deceitful , or in themselves darkness .


id: A65886
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1661
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mime: application/xml
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sentence: 443
flesch: 66
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title:
  A serious account in XXXV evident reasons (to all who desire satisfaction) why the people of the lord, called Quakers, cannot go to worship at those places called churches and chappels, and to inform the magistrates and ministers that such consciencious people (as are separated from these places) ought not to be compelled (from their peaceable meetings) to their worship and churches, so called, being a short discovery of the way, worship, and principles of the true ministers and persecuted people of God, in several exceptions against the practices, worship, and principles of the priests, both of the Presbyterians, and Episcopal-men, and others of the same affinity, in some of which principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned, but in others of them, both are concerned in the general / by Geo. Whitehead.

summary:
  ALso it is against our Consciences to go to worship with the World at these places called Churches and Chappels , because the Lord hath brought us to see the Education and fitting of the hireling Priests to their Ministry at Oxford and Cambridge , to be set up in the Apostacy , when there was a degenerating from the state of the true Church of the Saints : And the way they are made Ministers , is contrary to the way the true Ministers of Christ were made ; for they were not made Ministers by natural learning of natural Languages , Arts , Sciences , Traditions , Inventions of men , and studying the several kinds of Philosophy , and learning out of old Authors ; nor ordained according to man's will , as the Priests are , who by their natural industry and study attain to their Learning and Knowledge , as the natural man may do , who knows not the things of the Spirit of God ; and as Pilate and other Learned men , who knew not God nor Christ , had the learning of Tongues , Joh. 19.19 , 20. THe LORD GOD of Truth and Righteousness hath gathered us by his mighty Power out of the worlds Ways , Worships and Traditions , which were never set up by the Power of God , and from the Priests and Teachers of the world , which are made and set up by the Traditions and Wills of men , who preach for filthy lucre and gain ; which thing was ever abhorred and denyed by all the true Ministers and holy People of the Lord , who feared God and hated Covetousness in all Ages ; as also we are brought by the Power of the Lord God out of the Worlds Temples , or Houses , ( which are falsly called Churches ) and brought into the Worship of God , which is in the Spirit and in the Truth , Joh. 4. VVhich Worship Christ taught , when he foretold the end of that Worship which was at Jerusalem , in the Temple which once God commanded to the Jews under the Law ; which , with the outward things that pertained to it , and to the Priests and Worshippers in that Temple ( as outward Musick , Instruments , Singing , Tythes , Offerings ) were all to cease , as Figures , or Types , when a more inward and mysterious Way and Worship in the Spirit was brought in and revealed by Christ , to the Saints and Christians of the New Testament ; who ( as they grew in the power of God to enjoy the enduring Substance and end of Figures and Shadows ) they grew out of these outward things ( that were but as Figures ) into the knowledge of the glorious Gospel , and the Mystery of its Fellowship , which outshined and transcended all these shadows under the Law.


id: A65887
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16108
sentence: 370
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A65887.xml
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title:
  A serious search into Jeremy Ives's questions to the Quakers who are herein cleared from his scornful abuses : and Jer. Ives himself manifest to be no Christian from his own observations, reviling, ostentation, &c. / by a witness for Christianity in faith and life, George Whitehead.

summary:
  ●rgues to me , that they did rather confide in ●●e Power and Aid of God to assist them in ●●eir Testimony against their Adversaries ; ●●d not in their own Strength or Wisdom of ●●e Flesh , as Jeremy's does , which makes ●●m be so careful that both the Time and single Person be stinted and pitcht upon : for otherwise he has Cause to be doubtful , that his God would fail him . But Jeremy thinks he payes us off in several Passages we are now coming to , as in asking , Whether it be not very Uncharitable for W. P. to Violate the Laws of God and the Laws of the King , in remembring any thing against those whom the King had graciously pardoned ; else , that he would not have told Mr. Faldo in his Rejoynder , pag. 406. of the Nonconformists preaching up Blood and Treason , and Garments rol'd in the Blood of Kings , & c ? I must tell Jeremy , That he hath herein dealt unfairly by W. P. and aggravated his Words by adding BLOOD and TREASON ] Whenas his Words are , They are true Gospel-Ministers , and their Feet truly Beautiful , whose Gospel is , Peace on Earth , and Good-will towards Men ; and not Garments rol'd in the Blood of Kings and Princes , Rulers and People :


id: A65869
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1693
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16580
sentence: 598
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A65869.xml
txt: txt/A65869.txt
title:
  Innocency triumphant over insolency and outrage of a self-condemned apostate in answer to Francis Bugg's most abusive and scandalous book, falsely stiled, New Rome arraigned &c., and in defence of the Christian testimony of G. Whitehead and eleven witnesses against the great defamation of perjury and pillory, unjustly cast upon them by the said F.B.

summary:
  ] And farther , F. Bugg , in his Book De Christiana Libertate , printed 1682 , hath also made these Confessions to the Principles of Truth , Professed among the People commonly called Quakers ; and to them as a True Church , a Church of Christ , Built on the True Foundation . PRay , impartial Readers , observe what excellent Testimonies and Characters he has here before given of the Principles , Foundation , Faith , Religion , Profession , Church ( and Christ as Head thereof ) Ministry , Christian Love , Society , Enjoyment and Conversation of the People called Quakers , both as in the Beginning and for many Years together , wherein he walked among them .


id: A65875
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6122
sentence: 99
flesch: 33
cache: cache/A65875.xml
txt: txt/A65875.txt
title:
  No remission without repentance nor will a bare confession withovt a real forsaking of sin avail to the averting God's heavy visitation and judgments from this nation of England, the cause whereof being somewhat more fully declared herein then is confessed in the fast which was appointed for the averting of the same heavy visitation and this concerns both the rulers, clergy, and people of London and Westminster and all parts of this realm to look into and lay to heart who are concerned in the observation of the said fast to consider what fruits they bring forth and whether the end of the true fast be answered by them yea or nea, according to Isa. 58.

summary:
  For our transgressions multiplied against thee as the sand of the Sea shore , might justly bring over us a deluge of thy wrath ; the cry of our sins that hath pierc'd the very heavens , might well return with showers of vengeance upon our heads , while our earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof , what wonder if thou commandest an evil Angel to pour out-his Uial into our Air to fill it with infection , and the noysom Pestilence , and so to turn the very breath of our life into the savour of death unto us all , &c. O let us live , and we will praise thy Name , and these Iudgements shall teach us to look every man into the plague of his own heart , that being cleansed from all our sins , we may serve thee with pure hearts all our dayes , &c. Now as for these Confessions before , they are very true and remarkable ; and these great abominations and crying sins , which greatly abound in this Nation , both among Priests and very many of their followers and upholders , have greatly provoked the most High , and grieved his holy Spirit , and vexed the righteous souls of his people , who cannot joyn nor have unity with such a Church and Priesthood as this , that 's guilty of such gross iniquity and provocations against God , as these mentioned are ; which have even pierc'd the very Heavens , which whilst you ( that are so deeply concerned herein , do pray to be cleansed from all your sins , and to serve God with pure hearts all your dayes ) do neither really endeavour so to be cleansed , by ceasing to do those wicked acts whereof you are guilty , and inclining to the witness of Truth in your consciences , that in secret reprehends and reproves you , nor yet believes that such a state is attainable in this life by any , as the being cleansed from all your sins , and serving God with pure hearts ( for your Priests believe it not , but oppose it , though they pray for it ) how can you but have the Plague in your own hearts , they being given up to rebellion and hardness ? and how can you but fear death and destruction , which many both of the lofty and proud ones , Priests and People are greatly surprised with the fear of , who thereupon have fled from these Cities of London and Westminster , and have left the poor and oppressed in it , where many of the servants of Christ called Quakers do still lye in prisons and nasty holes , meerly for their conscience towards God , for assembling together in his fear , and worship in ●pirit ; for which many are sentenced for Banishment into strange and forreign remote Plantations , from their native places and Relations , and endeavours have been much used for the transporting of them ( some of which being already Shipt away from hence ) Oh! that men would be awakened to see what poverty , miseries and calamities appr●ach this City and Nation which ( if the Lord prevent not , ) will greatly m●ke for its undoing , which are occasioned through their great provocations against God , which though they neither repent nor reform , yet are made to confess them in part , as the cause of Gods anger now appearing against them : As also in that Exhortation fit for the time ( as is said ) annexed to the Prayers in the said Book , in these words , viz.


id: A65891
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6968
sentence: 184
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A65891.xml
txt: txt/A65891.txt
title:
  The true light expelling the foggy mist of the pit and the gross confusion and blasphemy of the beast, which is gone forth against the light of Christ and the scripture within, from an old professor, called Francis Duke of Westminster, in his book stiled, An answer to some of the principal Quakers, who therein boasts as if he had a great skil in divinity so that his pretended divinity in the said book is here discovered, and the true light and scripture within here vindicated from his gross aspertions cast upon the light, and them that walk in it / by George Whitehead.

summary:
  For God is light and the Father of light , 1 John 1.5 . And now whereas thou art telling of four things in which God doth manifest himself to us , thou sayest the first is the fabrick of the Creation , the s●cond is the Scriptures , but thirdly thou sayest that which doth manif●st most of all , and is therefore light is the spirit of God .


id: A35006
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8394
sentence: 242
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A35006.xml
txt: txt/A35006.txt
title:
  Babel's builders unmasking themselves as appears by the following paper from Barbadoes, (promoted by George for his party, and subscribed by eighty two of them.) With a letter of G.F.'s, G.W.'s, &c, in answer thereunto; and observations thereupon. Also, a false prophecy of that lying prophet, Solomon Eccles. Published for undeceiving the simple, and in abhorrence and detestation of the principle and practice contained in the said paper; they being of an evil tendency, and contrary to the doctrine of Christ and his apostles, or of any sincere-hearted Protestants, or true Christians this day. By T.C.

summary:
  But if any say we mistake you , you do not give up to the Meeting , but to the Spirit of God , &c. But W. Pen's Address , &c. and other Testimonies , I think answer that , viz. Indeed so it does : for there be many that believe in the Light , and measure of the Spirit , and its sufficiency , not one with G. F's &c. imposing Spirit , which he calls Universal , but against it ; altho the true Universal Spirit of Christ , and in all His , hath now , as formerly , unity with the least measure in any Member , tho for Conscience sake they may be of a differing apprehension in some things ; and therefore saith the Apostle , he became all to all , weak , or strong ; and said , bear one anothers Burdens , and bear one with another ; and therefore he condescended to baptize , and circumcise , to win over , and endeavoured the encrease of their Faith and Understandings ; not blind Conformity before Convincement , but said , If any be otherwise minded , God shall reveal , &c.


id: A65876
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9256
sentence: 178
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A65876.xml
txt: txt/A65876.txt
title:
  The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open, or, A few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation, (who say we deny the Scriptures, and that we are antichrists and deceivers, and that we deny the Word of God) wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open, which by you is unjustly acted against the servants of the Living God, who by the world which hate the light of Christ, are in derision called Quakers : wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices ... : also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood ... / from the spirit of the Living God in me, whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead ... ; also a paper against the sin of idleness ...

summary:
  But these were not the world , for the world was persecuters and revilers , and haled them out of the Synagogues ; and such as Christ sent we owne , and the Scriptures we own , and Christ come in the flesh we owne and witnesse ; but you Magistrates and you Priests of this nation who are upholden by such as persecute and hale out of the Synagogues , and imprison , and whip , & despitefully now use such as are sent freely to witnes forth the truth , and for that Christ , and against Antichrist , and deceivers , such as Christ cryed wo against : here , you priests of this nation , who are found in their steps which Christ cryed woe against , even the steps of the Scribes & Pharises , & you Magistrates , Justices , Judges , & Rulers , who uphold such , and persecute , imprison & cause to be whipped : and fine such as are sent to bear witness against them that are found in Scribes and Pharises steps ; who lay heavy burthens upon the people , and are called of men masters , stands praying in the synagogues , and have the cheifest places in the assemblies : you are filling up the measure of their iniquities , who persecuted Christ , & upheld them which Christ cryed wo unto , and them who persecuted the true prophets , who was sent to cry out against the false prophets , these cryed against such as sought for their gain from their quarters , & such as were hirlings , & such as bare rule by their means , and taught lyes , who said they were sent of God ; when God never sent them but man , before they were sent : and these were the prophets who cryed against the false , who said ; thus said the Lord , and Heare the Word of the Lord . But Jeremiah was mocked , & they were stoned & some killed , and Jeremy was set in the stocks for witnessing forth the truth against the false prophets ; and put into adungeon and here we are witnessed by the true prophets , Christ , & his Apostles , who ever witnessed against deceivers , and such as lived in pride and coveteousness : and Amos who was a true witness for God , witnessed against the abomination of rulers , and people ; he was not made a Minister by the will of man , nor upheld by a carnal weapon , nor an outward Law ▪ but when he prophesied against the house of Jeraboam , then Amaziah , the priest of Bethel complained to Jeroboam the King against Amos ; and said , the Land was not able to bear his words , and bad him flee away into the Land of Judah , and prophesie no more at Bethel ; for he said It was the Kings Chappel , and the Kings Court , as you may read , Amos 7 , 10 , and ●o you priests of England complain : moreover many of you do swear to the Magistrates against us , who are witnessed by Christ , the true Prophets , and Apostles : both in our sufferings , and testimony w●ich is against all deceit and deceivers ;


id: A65881
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17929
sentence: 519
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A65881.xml
txt: txt/A65881.txt
title:
  The Quakers plainness detecting fallacy in two short treatises : I. The first in answer to an abusive epistle, styl'd, The Quakers quibbles, and the comparison therein between the Muggletonians and the Quakers, proved absurd and unjust, II. The second, being a brief impeachment of the forger's compurgators (in their Quakers appeal answered) whose injustice, partiality and false glosses have given the chief occasion of these late contests / by George Whitehead.

summary:
  By his Argument , That Christ is the Son of God , Ergo , the Son of God is Christ : & as I answer'd , though I could not be heard , that the Name Christ was mutually and reciprocally given in Scripture to the Body and Spi●it of Christ ; as , Christ dyed and was buried , when it was properly the Body of Jesus ; for his Soul or Spirit was immortal & did not dye , but was in Paradyse when his Body was buried ; and that Spiritual Rock which ●ll Israel drank of , was Christ. That God is not an Infinite Spirit filling all Places . 12. That the Godhead - Life dyed , that when Christ dyed , God dyed .


id: A65896
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1676
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22679
sentence: 566
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A65896.xml
txt: txt/A65896.txt
title:
  The way of life and perfection livingly demonstrated in some serious animadversions or remarks and answers upon the book entituled The middle way of perfection, with indifferency between the orthodox and the Quaker, herein considered, and the naked truth as it is in Christ Jesus, opened in real love to the souls of men / by George Whitehead.

summary:
  But then I see no Cause why it should be said , that Pardon or Remission is not any Essential Part , or no Part of Justification , but the Effect , as in Page 4. Seeing that Pardon of Sin , together with our Fa●th and Repentance ( as the Condition ) goes both into Universal Justification , as before , though a Pardon of Sins past upon true Faith and Repentance be not alone the absolute Justification , but also a Perseverance in faithful Obedience to the Gospel is necessary to an absolute justified Estate , both being by the Grace of God , in and through Christ , wherein he looks upon the Creature that is truly humbled , with an Eye of Compassion in remitting of Sins past , and with his Fatherly Love and Goodness in preserving and keeping such in the Sense of his Goodness , which doth obliege to Faithfulness and Continuance in the Truth unto the End , so that in an absolute justified Estate , there is both an Experience of true Humility , living Faith , Sanctification and sincere Obedience , and the continuance of the same Though we do confess that such an Estate of Grace and Salvation , as to live without Sin , is not suddenly , or at the First Dayes Work attained unto , yet by Degrees every one that follows Christ through the Work of Regeneration , and so comes into an Estate of absolute Salvation , such come at length , yea in this World , to be delivered from all Sin , and to know that Christ's Saving Work effecteth a Salvation from Sin ; he throughly purgeth his Floor , as this Man also denyes not , but the END of Christ's Manifestation in the Flesh , was to redeem us from all Sin , to destroy the Works of the Devil , to restore us out of sin and unrighteousness , and present us to God as a Peculiar People Purified by Faith , Zealous of Good Works , Holy and without Blame , Entire , and wanting nothing , Perfect and Compleat in ALL the Will of God.


id: A65860
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21948
sentence: 755
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A65860.xml
txt: txt/A65860.txt
title:
  The counterfeit convert, a scandal to Christianity and his unjustly opposing Quakerism to Christianity justly reprehended : and the true Christ, and Holy Scripures [sic] confessed by the Quakers : in opposition to two scandalous books falsly styled I. Quakerism withering, and Christianity reviving, II. Animadversions on G. Whitehead's book, Innocency triumphant.

summary:
  And where did ever any of us say , that ●●s Body that was nailed to the Cross , was of a ●●rishing Nature , seeing his Flesh saw no Cor●●ption ? This being spoken o● Christ's Flesh and Blood , 't is apparent F. ● run into the same Error he falsly accuses J ● with ; for he cannot deny that Christ took up●● him the Flesh and Blood of our Nature , H●● 2. 14.


id: A65890
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4980
sentence: 156
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A65890.xml
txt: txt/A65890.txt
title:
  The timorous reviler sleighted being a brief reprehension of a scornful pamphlet, styled, The second part of the Quakers Quibbles, subscribed by the name of Thomas Thompson, but (by some) suspected to be the author of the two pamphlets, the one entituled, The spirit of the Quakers tryed; the other, Controversie ended; with divers others against the people called Quakers.

summary:
  Dost thou make no Difference between a Metonymical Phrase , used in a serious Sense , and a palpable Slander or designed Forgery to render men Odious , as T. Hicks hath done , beneath the common use of Phrases Ironical ? See now how thy silly Quibble is evident , and what a Scornful Fellow , as thou termest thy self , thou hast shown thy self to be .


id: A96405
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1412
sentence: 56
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A96405.xml
txt: txt/A96405.txt
title:
  To the monthly and quarterly meetings of Friends in England, Wales, London, the twenty six day of the sixth month, 1692.

summary:
  To the monthly and quarterly meetings of Friends in England, Wales, London, the twenty six day of the sixth month, 1692. Society of Friends.


id: A65884
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1700
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24390
sentence: 841
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A65884.xml
txt: txt/A65884.txt
title:
  A rambling pilgrim, or, Profane apostate, exposed being an answer to two persecuting books, falsly entitled, I. The pilgrim's progess from Quakerism to Christianity, II. A modest defence, with an epistle dedicatory to his bountiful benefactors / by G.W.

summary:
  Of F. B's offence against Light and Conviction ; and his Self-Contradiction , about the Light , Lawgiver , and Head of the Body , the Church , &c. p. 20 , 21 , 22. Can we suppose , this Life or Light to be under the Law , ( which was added because of Transgression , till the Seed came ) or under those Prohibitions in the Ten Words or Commandments ? Or is it meet or proper , to apply them thereunto , and say to Christ , or his Light in Christians , Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain : Thou shalt not bear false Witness ? &c. Or is it good Doctrine to suppose , True Christians in Christ to be literally under the Law of those Prohibitions , and thereby only restrained from Idolatry , from taking the Name of God in vain , from Killing , from committing Adultery , from Stealing , and bearing false Witness against their Neighbours ? Or are they not rather redeem'd by Christ , from that Depravity and corrupt Inclination , from whence those Evils proceed ; and consequently under a higher Restraint ( from those gross Inormities prohibited ) even by his Light and Grace dwelling in their Hearts , than only the Letter of the Law , as outwardly written ?


id: A65839
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2439
sentence: 102
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A65839.xml
txt: txt/A65839.txt
title:
  The Babylonish baptist, or, H.G. contradicting H.G. in his book stiled Light from the Son of righteousness, which is proved, meer confusion and darkness.

summary:
  I utterly deny , that this Light , which all men have from the Glorious Creator , is a Saving Light , page 8. H. G. in Contradiction saith , I really believe , That the Lord Jesus , as the Eternal Word , hath given Light , or Enlightened all Men and Women that come into the World , p. 8. The great Darkness of these Men , who cry up Light and Power Within , this Wile of Satan , and Cheat of Antichrist , p. 31. H. G. Contra.


id: A65878
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1670
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8645
sentence: 224
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A65878.xml
txt: txt/A65878.txt
title:
  The popish informer reprehended for his false information against the Quakers meeting in reply to ... An answer to a seditious libel, as he most falsly terms the late innocent declaration from the people of God, called, Quakers, against all seditious conventicles, &c. (wherein their innocency is cleared, and herein vindicated) : unto which is annexed, a brief recital of some accusations cast upon the said people, by one H. Thorndike, one of the prebends of Westminster, in his book entituled, A discourse of the forbearance, or the penalties which a due reformation requires.

summary:
  So then it follows , that whatsoever is contrary must not ; for indeed , the Word and Law of God are indispensable ; and God hath placed an equal and just Law of Reason in mans heart , * which neither Statute , Presciption , nor Custom ought to prevail against ; but if any be brought in against it , they are to be holden for void , and against justice , and so no Laws according to Doct. & Stud. Cap. 2. And no man of what estate or degree soever , hath Power to dispence with God's Law , 28 H. 8. And now , what is according to the Law of God , or not ac-according to it , the prejudiced persecuting spirit is no meet nor competent Judge to be sure : but the patient suffering Spirit and Mind , that dwells in the true Light , being qualified with Graces and Ornaments of the Spirit of God , which are , Love , Joy , Peace , Long-suffering , Gentleness , Goodness , Faith , Meekness , Temperance , against which there is no Law , Gal. 5. First , implying a Worship of God in Spirit and Truth , without obedience which cannot be ; for that Worship which stands in Spirit and Truth is Obedience , for Truth admits of no disobedience .


id: A65883
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6422
sentence: 249
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A65883.xml
txt: txt/A65883.txt
title:
  The Quaker vindication against Francis Bugg's calumnies in his scandalous pamphlet stiled, Something in answer to the allegations of the Quakers (in their printed case presented to the House of Commons, December 1693) ... ; together with Francis Bugg's own vindication of the people called Quakers since he left them and turned to the Church of England.

summary:
  And that this Light wherewith Christ had enlightned them , was sufficient , if obeyed , to lead to Salvation , and that it was the work of the Ministers of Christ , to turn the Peoples minds from Darkness to Light , and from the Power of Satan to God , Affirming that this Light was a sufficient Teacher , Leader & Guide to every Believer , without the help of outward Prescriptions , Forms , Orders and Decrees of Men ; upon these and the like Notions I became perswaded to make tryal of their Doctrine . 4. To whom God would make known what is the Riches of the glory of this Mystery amongst the Gentiles , which is Christ IN you the hope of Glory , Col. 1. 27. 5. God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts , crying , Abba , Father , Gal. 4. 6. Another of his Instances to prove we deny Jesus of Nazareth ; Is , out of W. Smith's Primmer , or demonstration of the New and Living Way , viz.


id: A65872
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4588
sentence: 140
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A65872.xml
txt: txt/A65872.txt
title:
  The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead.

summary:
  The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead. The law and light within the most sure rule or light, which sheweth the right use and end of the Scripture, manifested in opposition to several false principles inserted in a book intitled Scripture light the most sure light, by William Bridge, the great pastor and Reverend Father, so accounted, of the Church at Yarmouth in Norfolk / confuted by George Whitehead.


id: A65862
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8024
sentence: 242
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A65862.xml
txt: txt/A65862.txt
title:
  The divine light of Christ in man, and his mediation truly confessed by the people called Quakers. In a brief and gentle examination of John Norris his two treatises concerning the divine light. Intended to wipe off his undue reflection of grossness and confusion on the Quakers notion of the light within. With a postscript to J. N. By G. W. a servant of Christ.

summary:
  That Mr. Barclay saith , By this Seed , Grace and Word of God and Light wherewith we say every Man is enlightened and hath a measure of it , which strives with them in order to save them , and which may by the stubbornness and wickedness of Man's will be quenched , bruised , wounded , pressed down , slain and crucified ; We understand not the proper Essence and Nature of God precisely taken * , but a spiritual , heavenly and invisible Principle , in which God , as Father , Son and Holy Ghost dwells , a measure of which divine and glorious life is in all Men as a Seed , &c. — and this we call Vehiculum Dei , or the Spiritual Body of Christ , the Flesh and Blood of Christ which came down from Heaven , p. 37 , 38. 'T is said that God is Light , and Christ is the Light , and the Law is Light , and the Commandment a Lamp , and the Word both a Light and Lanthorn .


id: A65842
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16173
sentence: 307
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A65842.xml
txt: txt/A65842.txt
title:
  A brief discovery of the dangerous principles of John Horne (a priest in Lin) and Thomas Moore junior both teachers of the people called Mooreians or Manifestarians, (and called by some free-willers or independants.) In answer to their book called A brief discovery of the people called Quakers, and a warning to all people to beware of them and of their dangerous principles, &c. Which book is a false narrative of two disputes, the one which they had with John Whitehead at Gedney in Lincoln-shire, and the other with Geo. Whitehead and Geo. Fox the younger, at Lin in Norfolke, both in the seventh moneth, 1659. Also priest Horns testimony against his brethren the priests. This is to go amonst the professors in England in discovery of the truth; ... By the truth which is in George Whitehead. John Whitehead. George Fox the younger.

summary:
  Here you are found in the great Error your selves , who deny the perfection of sinlesnesse in the believers in this life ; the Apostle said , he that believeth hath the witnesse in himself , 1 John 5. 10. which witnesse is perfect and sinlesse , so not without the perfection of sinlesnesse , and he that believeth , hath obtained witnesse that he is righteous , and having this perfect witnesse in himself , he is not without the perfection and purity of it in himself , for the witnesse of God cannot be divided from the nature of it , and John said ( speaking of Christ ) as he is , so are we in this world , 1 John 4. 17. so you have manifestly wronged both us and the Apostles , and we do not say that there is any perfection in ourselves without Christ who is our righteousnesse , and we the righteousnesse of God in him .


id: A75767
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1655
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8963
sentence: 269
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A75767.xml
txt: txt/A75767.txt
title:
  Davids enemies discovered. VVho of him make songs, but without the Spirit and without understanding, as the drunkard did which he declares of in Psal. 69.12. Or, a true discovery of that custome and forme which the priests of this generation would make an ordinance of, to blind the eyes of the simple, as this priest Clapham: in his 6 arguments, which is here answered, / by us who suffer for the truth, whose names according to the flesh are [brace] Christopher Atkinson. George Whitehead. Also a brief reply unto Frederick Woodall's three principles and resolves; and with replies to his answers, to several queries propounded to him, that to the simple the truth may be cleared, from one who for the captivated seeds sake suffers now in outward bonds in Norwitch Castle, whose name in the flesh is Richard Hubberthorne.

summary:
  Here thou would make God and Christ two images , and so utters forth one lye after another , and denies the Scripture , which saith he , is the express Image of the Father , and thou sayest the first Image is naturall , the second is spirituall , and here let all behold thy blasphemy who would make the Image of God naturall , and the Image of Christ spirituall , and calls them two Images : stop thy mouth , and be ashamed for ever , for being a Teacher , who seeks to resolve people of such things as to deny God and Christ , and make them two Images , the one naturall , and the other spirituall , and saith , something of the image of God is found in man after the fall ▪ but nothing of the Image of Christ ▪ O blinde guide , that ever England should be deceived by such , but the Lord is now making you manifest , and in the light thou art comprehended , and thy subtlety is seen ▪ and thou art now met withall , who hath long blinded the eyes of poor people with thy fained words and subtle pretences , but here thou art discovered to be an enemy to that which in word thou professes , and so thy words will cover thee no longer , for the life hath found thee out ▪ and by it thy spirit is tryed to be the spirit of errour , and voice to be the voice a stranger . Where did thou ever read of a naturall light which did witnesse unto God in that which is holy , and that which did witness unto God , where dost thou prove that ever the same witness which did witness God in holiness did ever witness against the spirit of God , read thy confesion , and let thy mouth be stopped , who speakes of a naturall light , and of a naturall holiness , which neither of them is mentioned in the scripture , nor from any of the ministers of Christ , therefore from them all art thou shut out , who art in a naturall darkness .


id: A65859
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12848
sentence: 376
flesch: 61
cache: cache/A65859.xml
txt: txt/A65859.txt
title:
  The contentious apostate and his blow refelled [sic] in a brief narrative of the unchristian deportment, opposition, and disturbance made by Francis Bugg, backslider, Isaac Archer, priest or vicar, Samuel Knowles, late curate, at a publick meeting of the people called Quakers held at Milden-Hall in Suffolk the 30th day of the 2d month commonly called April 1691, and in a short answer to F.B. his defaming pamphlet falsely stiled One blow more at new Rome / by G.W.

summary:
  yet that the Intent of the Government and Law is , that we should Enjoy our Religious Meetings for the Worship of Almighty God without any such Disturbance or Molestation as F. B. &c. made . But dare F. B. in Conscience now say that he is more Just , more Pure , more Clean in his Life , than when he walked among the People called Quakers , and owned them as the People of God , a Glorious Church , & c. ?


id: A65849
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1669
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27024
sentence: 925
flesch: 69
cache: cache/A65849.xml
txt: txt/A65849.txt
title:
  Christ ascended above the clouds his [brace] divinity--light in man, his being [brace] the Word in saints the only way and rule [brace] vindicated [brace] from the cloudy, erroneous, heretical, and blasphemous conceits of John Newman and his brethren : and the only rule of faith demonstrated for the general information of professours (and people) of all sorts, and the said J.N. his book stiled The light within &c. (with his manifest contradictions) both scripturally, historically, and rationally examined / by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.

summary:
  But while he cannot prove that all those things are particularly prescribed in Scripture , which they are to hear and learn of Christ , and which are to be prophesied : but hath granted the contrary ( to wit ) That there may be immediate Commissions and peculiar Messages from God to particular Places , &c. ( suppose Rome , or London ) which are not particularly specified in Scripture ( however Christ is to be heard in all things , and his Spirit not to be quenched ) — Therefore it follows , that the Scriptures are neither the Rule of those Prophets Faith , either for such their Commission or peculiar Messages , for they have neither from the Scriptures , but immediately from God : ( And therefore if they should go to question their Commission , and try such their Messages by the Scriptures , and not find them there , this would argue unbelief , and cause disobedience ) whereas their particular Commissions and Messages , are evidenced to them by the Spirit and Power of God ( whether it be by Vision or Revelation ) which is the immediate Object , Rule , and Foundation of their Faith therein . [ J. N. his Contradictions . ] THE Scriptures of the two Testaments is properly and principally called the Word of God , and that distinct from Christ [ This is asserted above twenty times over ] Pages 3 , 4 , 5 , 7 , 8 , 9.10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 22 , 42. Jesus Christ in Scripture is stiled the Word of God , a Name that 's given to him , his Name is called The Word of God , Rev. 19.13 .


id: A65874
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1671
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28844
sentence: 758
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A65874.xml
txt: txt/A65874.txt
title:
  The nature of Christianity in the true light asserted in opposition to antichristianism, darkness, confusion, & sin-pleasing doctrines : being a looking glass for sin-pleasing professors of all sorts / written upon particular occasion herein signified, by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.

summary:
  AN Epistle Explanatory To the Unprejudiced READER· COntention , especially with perverse spirits , that desire it , and seek occasion for it , is not a thing desireable to me ; howbeit , for the living and precious Truth 's sake , and that living effectual faith which was once deliver'd to the Saints , I am one necessitated earnestly to contend , being brought forth and rais'd up by the Power of the Living God for that end , against perverse Gainsayers and peevish Opposers : One of whom I find one ROBERT GORDON , in a second piece of Antichristianism , stuft with Confusion , Perversion of Scriptures , Abusing and Belying the People call'd Quakers ; though he hath given it the Title of Christianity Vindicated , but therein hath discover'd a great deal of his own , and of his Tutor's Ignorance of the very Nature of Christianity , as concerning those weighty matters of Salvation ; to wit , Reconciliation , Justification , and Redemption ; which in the true nature and sense thereof are in this Treatise unfolded , according to the holy Scriptures ; although this man hath grosly wronged divers of us , by accusing us , as if we did oppose and seek to overthrow the plain Testimonies and Voices of all the Prophets and Apostles , concerning the True Saviour , or the Man Christ Jesus , whom we have frequently confessed , both as to his Divinity , and as to his taking upon him the Body , prepar'd for him to do the Will of God in , according to the Scriptures of Truth ; yea , both his outward and inward Appearance , his Suffering Nature , and Glorified State , and his Divinity in both we have always truly believ'd and confess'd ; even his Dignity , Spiritual Out-goings from of old , from everlasting ; as also his outward Birth , and coming in the fulness of time in that Body , wherein he shew'd forth Innocency , Preacht Righteousness , wrought Miracles , suffered Contradictions , Crucifying , and Death , by wicked hands ; together with his Glory , Dignity , Resurrection , and glorious Triumph ; as a Captain , as a Conqueror , Leader , and Example through all : These things have a Spiritual and Divine Impression upon us , and a place in our hearts ; through that eternal Spirit , by which Christ offered up himself a Lamb without Spot , and a Sacrifice of a sweet smelling Savour to God ; which things being so openly and frequently own'd by us , according to the Scriptures of Truth : We cannot but look upon it as a wilful Perversion and wicked Abuse in this R. G. or any others , contrariwise to represent us , when ( as to him ) we have only oppos'd his confus'd dark Testimony , which is without Life , and much of it without Sense or Reason ; although pervertedly he hath interwoven some Scriptures , abus'd by him in it : Howbeit , he saith , He hath testified to what he received of the Lord , and witnessed through and under the Ministry of those I ca●l Presbyterians and I●dependants . Here is still thy old Story , with thy additional Excuse of purchasing and payment to lessen the dignity and worth of the Spirit of God , and its Qualification and Work within ●s ; as if God did not value the same Spirit of his , and its work in his People now , as formerly in Christ and his Followers ; whenas it is the same Spirit by which Jesus Christ offered up himself a Lamb without Spot to God , and that rais'd him up from the dead , which also quickeneth true Believers : But thou preferest the Suffering of the Body before the Spirit , and layest all the stress upon it , as the only cause of Redemption , Justification , &c. and the Works of the Spirit but as the Effect thereof : How darkly hast thou herein consulted ( and set the Flesh above that Spirit , which is the cause of Spiritual Effects ) for without the eternal Spirit , his Body could not be offer'd nor rais'd , nor the Saints quickened .


id: A65873
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1668
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29503
sentence: 914
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A65873.xml
txt: txt/A65873.txt
title:
  The light and life of Christ within and the extent and efficacy thereof demonstrated. And the Quakers principles justified by the scriptures of truth, the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles, from the false and blasphemous constructions put upon them by William Burnet, in his book, stiled, The captial principles of the people called Quakers : herein the rest of the Baptists that own him may see, his antichristian spirit and doctrines detected ... / by ... G. Whitehead.

summary:
  [ But in plain contradiction ] P. 10 , 16 , 17. Christ as he was the Word with God , so he was the Light of the World , and lighteth every man that cometh into the world — The Spirit that God hath placed in man is called the Candle of the Lord , the Spirit of Understanding ; — Every man by Nature having the Law placed in his heart , to wit , the Ten Commandments , in the substance or body of them — The very Heathen that never had the Gospel preached unto them , do witness to this Truth . Christ as he was the Word , which was God , was not a Saviour , but as he was to be the Offspring of man.


id: A65844
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20312
sentence: 604
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A65844.xml
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title:
  The case of the Quakers concerning oaths defended as evangelical in answer to a book, entituled, The case of the Quakers relating to oaths stated by J.S.

summary:
  For both before and under the Law there were private Oaths and Swearing in some Contracts and Covenants between man and man , as well as publick before Judges ; And if the Martyrs Testimony against the Pope's Compulsion reacht only private Oaths , we ask , Where did ever the Pope's Law compel Men to Swear in their private Bargains between man and man ? and why are men put upon Swearing in their Account for their Tyths , more then in their private Contracts about them ? J. S. would seem cordially to concur with William Thorpe's Testimony , as being only against Swearing by the Book , by any Creature , &c. This is written on behalf , and in the Person of the People of God called Quakers , and their Evangelical Testimony , by some who are Lovers of the said People , and the Souls of all Men.


id: A65885
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1699
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21737
sentence: 662
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A65885.xml
txt: txt/A65885.txt
title:
  The rector examined about his book scandalously stiled, An antidote against the venom of Quakerism, by John Meriton, who calls himself A.M. rector of Boughton in Norfolk : and his observations remarked, and the Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, re-asserted and vindicated, from his perversions and aspersions / by George Whitehead.

summary:
  Where is the Insincerity or gross Perversion in all these words recited by the Rector ? Or any Opposition to our Profession before mentioned ? Surely , to mind the Light of Christ in the Conscience , to know his Power in it to bring Man to Judgment , according to the Righteous Law in the Heart , and thereby to see the Record that is made in Man , of all the Evils done and committed by him : This cannot be to oppose or contradict our Profession , that God will Judge the World in Righteousness by his Son Jesus Christ in the day appointed , but in order to bring Man to Repentance , that he may escape the Judgment and Wrath to come , upon the Impenitent World of the Ungodly . The Rector insinuating against us , A Denial of the Priestly Office of Christ , and also his Humanity , p. 22. is as false as the rest of his Calumnies : Where did ever we deny Christ as the one Mediator betwixt God and Man , even the Man Christ Jesus ? 1 Tim. 2. 5. How often have we confess'd him as such ? His saying the Quakers tells you that Christ was never seen with Carnal Eyes , &c. quoting H. Woolrich's Declaration to the Baptists , p. 13.


id: A65831
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1686
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17130
sentence: 248
flesch: 30
cache: cache/A65831.xml
txt: txt/A65831.txt
title:
  Piety promoted by faithfulness manifested by several testimonies concerning that true servant of God Ann Whitehead.

summary:
  She truly loved Truth and Righteousness , and hated Wickedness and Deceit , Loosness and Pride : She was plain hearted and true , and of a right Mind & sound Judgment , and near and dear to the Lord ; and therefore I always valued her in Truth , & esteemed her as one whom God had effectually endued and qualified with Wisdom for her Service , which was required of her : She truly and tenderly considered the Poor , the Widows and Fatherless , and spared not her self to serve them that were in distress : She was faithful and kept her integrity to the end , and the Lord has taken her to himself , her Spirit is received into rest with God in Christ : She has obtained that blessed end that Crowns all her Labours , Sufferings and Service . I cannot forget her lively Testimonies and Expressions upon her dying Bed , nor be clear without communicating something of the substance thereof unto you my dear and tender Friends , who knew and truly loved her as she did you ; my Soul hath been , and still is deeply affected in the sense and seeling of that tender Love and Union that is among you , and was between you and her in her Life time , and with your tender heartedness towards her , and in remembrance of her Life , and Testimony , and Service for Truth she had among you ; and therefore recommend unto you some of her living Testimonies , Expressions and Desires to Almighty God for his People , upon her dying Bed , and near her latter end , in testimony of her real and tender love in Christ Jesus unto Friends , as followeth , viz , Upon some discourse which a Friend had with Ann Whitehead of the great service which her Husband was in , and had done for suffering Friends , she answered , The Lord has blessed and prospered my Husband in his Service , which is great satisfaction to me , and this I shall leave behind me , as that which is satisfaction to me ▪ th●● I never did detain him one quarter of an hour out of the Lord's service , &c.


id: A65856
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27051
sentence: 697
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A65856.xml
txt: txt/A65856.txt
title:
  Christ's lamb defended against Satan's rage in a just vindication of the people called Quakers ... from the unjust attempts of John Pennyman and abettors, in his malicious book, styled, The Quakers unmasked, clearly evincing his by a lover of truth and peace, G.W.

summary:
  And as for his citing of G. F. to the Protector and Parliament , warning him to keep Kingship from off his Head , which some would have given , and his bidding the Powers of the Earth , take beed of making earthly Kings , &c. And what can John Pennyman make of this ? He should have allowed this Construction as he has for others , that if O. C. had been made King as some would have had him , he would have been the greater Hypocrite ; and it was his zeal for the good of those People , that had been against a King , to warn them of setting up or making such an earthly King , in their earthly Wills , as his Words are plain , as in the other passages cited before ; and this Zeal and Fear of the consequence , J. P. does not go about to disprove as erronious there , but would have it run most to our disadvantage , wherein he probably may think his way secure , seeing us a People that have been trod upon as to our Persons and Estates , being exposed to so many Sufferings and Spoyls ( as we were ) he can throw dirt upon us , render us obnoxious to the Government , and so help to afflict us and trample upon us , our Testimony and Christian Reputation ; to bring us under Infamy , Reproach and Disesteem , if possible ; yea , and the severe displeasure of the Powers , ( and yet pretend to abhor such a thing ) this is the nature of his Temporizing , Malice and Revenge ; God will stop him and frustrate him in his Carreer , with his private Abetters and Assistants , I doubt not . Moreover we have not been wanting , to warn and admonish those in Power , both Parliaments , Protector and King , against Persecution and Oppression , as the Lord hath laid it upon us ; nor has any of our Addresses to the King , been to stop any Prophet or Servant of the Lord among us , from warning him , &c.


id: A65836
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1673
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11120
sentence: 218
flesch: 43
cache: cache/A65836.xml
txt: txt/A65836.txt
title:
  The apostate incendiary rebuked, and the people called Quakers vindicated from Romish hirarchy and imposition in a serious examination of VVilliam Mucklows Liberty of conscience asserted against imposition, but proved a liberty which is in Christ Jesus, and against unity and order in his church / by one whose rejoycing is the testimony of a good conscience toward God and man, G. Whitehead.

summary:
  Dear Friends , WHo have received and do retain the Love of the precious Truth ; it was for your Sakes and the Truth 's , that I was pressed in Spirit in a godly Zeal , thus to appear against this deceitful Worker and treacherous Spirit , which at length hath shewn it self in open Enmity against the Truth , and us the Church of Christ and elect People of God called Quakers ; otherwise we were unwilling these Controversies should have been brought into the World , being occasioned by some that have walked among us , who should have been reclaimed by the Strivings of God's holy Spirit with them , and the Churches Admonition therein to them , but they had kickt against the Lord , and spurned at his People , hating to be reformed , and therefore open Rebuke is just upon such treacherous Betrayers and deceitful Workers ; one of whom this W. M. hath shewn himself to be , even an Engine of Sathan and Member of Anti-christ , not only in his being an Informer of Truth 's Adversaries against us , but also in publishing and delivering ( near our Meeting Door to the People ) his malitious , lying and confused Papers , striking at Elders and ancient Friends among us in this City of London ; whereby he hath gratified Scorners , and afforded a Theam and Text to that insolent Scoffer , and irreligious Agent of Hypocrites Fra. Chadwel , that old disturber of our Assemblies , who frequently abuseth the Name of Christ , and whom the Truth , hath often confounded and discovered his Wickedness and Lyes : * This is the Fruit of W. M. his Work to animate Scornes and Blaphemers ; the Lord will reward him and all such perfidious Apostates who crucifie to themselves the Lord of Life afresh , and put him to open Shame ; who most unworthily have eaten and drunk among , and been convinced of the Power and Presence of the Lord being with us in our Assemblies , and that thereby he hath chosen us to be his People and Church ; but they went out from us , because they were not of us , and now are become open Enemies in their self-Separation , Conceit and whimsical Motions , opposing the Power of God in his People , rendring his Church fallible , subject to err , and under an Apostacy , and setting up themselves as the infallible Judges over the Church , even over the antient Friends and Elders , who have kept their Integrity to the Lord , and such as therein are grown in that divine Understanding , Wisdom and Power ( as many are among us ) 2dly , Is it so dangerous , that this Church ( or universal Body of Christ ) cannot err ? Whenas the Church signifies the Elect , and Christ implies an Impossibility that the very Elect should be deceived , Mat. 24. 24 Or that the Gates of Hell should prevail against his Church , and promiseth his Presence to the End of the World : Were it either reasonable or just to conclude , the whole Body or Church of Christ is liable to err , because some particular Members may ? Observe the Darkness and perverse Spirit of this Apostate and Accuser of ( not only the Brethren , but ) the whole Church ; for he states not this Charge against a false Application made of the said Positions by the Church of Rome , but against the Positions themselves , as being destructive and dangerous , and as asserted concerning the Church , not this nor that particular Church , Congregation or Assembly , but it s the Church his Quarrel lies against .


id: A65864
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1674
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17379
sentence: 467
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A65864.xml
txt: txt/A65864.txt
title:
  Enthusiasm above atheism, or, Divine inspiration and immediate illumination (by God Himself) asserted and the children of light vindicated : in answer to a book entituled, The danger of enthusiasm discovered / by George Whitehead.

summary:
  He must grant an Immediateness , both of his Presence , Light and Teaching in Man , or else he allows man no Preheminence above a Beast , and endeavours to limit God to Silence in man , unless when he hears outward Teaching or Scripture , which cannot profit him without God's immediate Teaching and inward Speaking . And that they may not be stumbled by those Groundless , Blind and Confused Assaults that some ambitious and scornful Minds do make against God's Immediate Way of Illuminating , Inspiring and Teaching his People , who obey and follow that True Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World , even in an Immediate Way in some degree , which we assert in Opposition to meer man's Teaching , and to that dark and unlearned State , wherein People have been kept ever learning under Humane Traditions and Un-sent Teachers ; for this we are mis-represented to the World , as opposing God's Teaching by Instruments , or true Ministers , which is a gross Perversion ; for though we have often cal'd people to cease from man & mans teaching ( who speaks Divinations of his own Brain , and not from the Mouth of the Lord ) that they might wait upon God to be taught ; yet not to cease from or reject Christ's Ministers , or his speaking by them ; but have owned Christ's Teaching both immediately & instrumentally , as he pleaseth , by his Light and Testimony , in order to bring man to God , who is Light , and the All-sufficient Teacher : it being written in the Prophets , That they shall be ALL TAUGHT OF GOD , which is his very Way and Method of drawing men to his Son.


id: A65867
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1669
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18799
sentence: 383
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A65867.xml
txt: txt/A65867.txt
title:
  The glory of Christ's light within expelling darkness being the sum of the controversie between the people called Quakers, and some of the non-conformist priests, as manifest at two publick disputes in Essex : between George Whitehead (called a Quaker) and Stephen Scandret (Presbyter) being at the latter dispute assisted with five more of his brethren, the priests, to wit, Nathaniel Barnard, Henry Havers, Henry Coleman, Nath. Ball, and Robert Billoes : wherein are several.

summary:
  Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood , to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past , through the forbearance of God : It is not said , for the remission of sins past , present , and to come ; nor yet of all our sins from the beginning of our Lives to the end ; neither is the guilt of sin taken away , while men remain in the act of sin , as falsly was affirmed by S. S. contrary to Job 10. 14. Again , When he stated a Question , or read an Argument ( for he had his Arguments patch'd up aforehand in papers ) which was not capable of a direct answer , by affirming or denying presently , he would not admit of an explanation of it , but would cry , affirm or deny ; and if at any time , in the first place , any thing was affirmed or denied , he would not suffer us further to render a reason , but make a noise to stop the Truth ; and when any of us granted to a question , according to Truth , he would turn up his eyes and thank God , as if he had wrought some great conviction upon us ; whereas , what we either affirmed or granted , we did not learn of him , but spoke the naked truth , as we had it of the Lord before ; as for instance , after this S. S. had affirmed the Scriptures , which are the Writings , to be our only Rule of Life , which being denied by us , that the Writings abstractivly can be the only Rule , because the Spirit of Truth is said to guide into all Truth ; hereupon he confest that it was not the Scriptures abstractively that he meant to be the only Rule , but the Will of God contained , or declared of in the Scriptures ; where , though he manifestly contradicted himself , yet , when we granted , that the Will of God declared of in the Scriptures is the Rule , which Will is , that we should follow the Light within ; hereupon this S. S. would again turn up the white of his eyes , and thank God that we granted to this Truth , though it was so apparently contradictory to his error , who went about to set up the Scriptures as the only Rule , and to cause people to turn their Backs upon the Light within , telling them , You must follow the Scriptures , for they will lead you to Heaven and Happiness , but you must turn your backs upon the Light within as not sufficient ; and yet at another time , again was necessitated to confess , That it is by the spiritual enlightning of the understanding that the Scriptures are understood ; so that here the spiritual Light in the understanding was the Rule to know the Scriptures , so by his own confession they could not be the only Rule , but the Spirit or Light that gave them forth , and gives the understanding of them , hath the preserment and preheminence of them .


id: A65888
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34270
sentence: 1120
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A65888.xml
txt: txt/A65888.txt
title:
  A sober expostulation with some of the clergy against their pretended convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross abuse of the people called Quakers, in his books and pamphlets, viz., his New Rome arrainged, History of Quakerism, Second summons, Picture of Quakerism, and other pamphlets which may serve to invalidate the authority of the snake in the grass, as it refers to his books.

summary:
  But if the Mahometans hold Abrham to be the Friend of God , and Moses his Messenger , and Christ the Breath , the Word , the Power , the Soul and Strength of God , and Quakers hold the same ; this can no more prove that their Principles and Doctrines tend to encourage Mahometism , than that the Holy Apostles Doctrine did so , for they held Christ to be the Word of God , John 1. 1 John 5. 7. Rev. 19. For the People called Quakers do positively disown any such Doctrine as doth attribute that to any other Man which is only proper and due to Jesus Christ , and sincerely Confess that Christ in all things must have the Preheminence in Glory and Dignity , as the only Potentate King of Kings , and Lord of Lords .


id: A47156
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1670
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 19474
sentence: 398
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A47156.xml
txt: txt/A47156.txt
title:
  The light of truth triumphing over darkness and ignorance, error and envy manifested in Robert Gordoun's late pretended testimony to the true Saviour : wherein every one whose eye is open may see his seat, and who have salt in themselves may favour his words, work and spirit and discern his deceitful dealing by smitting the innocent in secret, yet not with that subtilty which is able to cover in this day wherein light is manifesting the works of darkness : so, the Devil was here deficient but envy slays the foolish man : given forth in the 2 moneth 1670 / by George Keith, & G. White-head.

summary:
  Al●h●ugh in the day● of Isaiah ▪ Ch●ist was not 〈◊〉 come in our flesh , y●t the prop●●● spe●ks ●f ●t , as a 〈◊〉 al●eady done it being so i● the purpose of God and so why 〈…〉 said that 〈◊〉 speak● of being reconcil'd after this manner , it being so in the purpose of God , to reconcile them , fully unto him , not as they remain in enmity to him , but turned from it and so become friends and love●s of him , and we do willingly acknowledge , the full and perfect Redemption , was in Christ , while we were enemies , yet we did not receive it , while we continued enemies , but now since we believed , and were turned to him ▪ in our hearts , we have received it , as said the Apostle , by whom we have now received the attonement , or reconciliation , so mark the word [ 〈◊〉 ] we have now received the reconciliation , now since we believed , and were turned to him in our hearts , but not before . R●deemer is still one and not divided , there ●re not two Christs , one without , 〈◊〉 of the Virgi● Mary , and another within , formed within , but it is one and the same Lord Iesus Christ ▪ who in the fulness of time , took upon him , the form of ● servant , and was found in the true form of a Man born of the Virgin Mary , who was also in the beginning with God , and was the Gift of the Fathers love unto man , from the begi●ning , to be in them , and unto them Light and Life to enlighten ●nd quicken them unto God.


id: A71239
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37094
sentence: 507
flesch: 27
cache: cache/A71239.xml
txt: txt/A71239.txt
title:
  The son of perdition revealed by the brightness and light of the Son of God in his saints, and the preachers of his light within and their doctrines & principles (concerning the mysteries of God & the weighty things of salvation) vindicated and cleared ... / by the light of the Son of God in his servants Geo. Whitehead & Edw. Burroughs.

summary:
  2005-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-04 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-05 Melanie Sanders Sampled and proofread 2005-05 Melanie Sanders Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE Son of Perdition REVEALED , By the brightness and light of the Son of God in his Saints : And the Preachers of his Light within , and their Doctrines & Principles ( concerning the mysteries of God & the weighty things of Salvation , Vindicated and Cleared , from the Reproache● Slanders & Calumnies cast upon them by the spirit of Satan and Antichrist , which hath largely appeared in one Joseph Wright , ( who esteems himself one appointed by the Flock of Christ for a Defence of the Truth of the Gospel ) as is apparent in his Book intituled A Testimony for the Son of man and against the Son of perdition ; &c. which he hath given forth against them that preach the Light within . Though they were wicked men , and sought to shut up the Kingdome of God against others , as this J. VV. hath done , in his foaming out his own shame , and uttering his rage and folly against the Light within , so that he might as well have reviled Christ , and said , that he Preached up a delusion , and a most pernitious stratagem of Satan , and a device of Satan , as so charge us for Preaching those things that are agreeable to the Doctrine of Christ ; And yet note that notwithstanding all this mans raging against this Doctrine of the light within all men , and his reviling it as delusion , and a most pernitious stratagem of Satan , and gross darknesse , he hath ( in page 165 ) distinguished the Light which is in us and all men , from the spirit of darkness , as accusing our speaking to be not from the Light within all men , nor from the light within our selves , but from the spirit of Darkness , &c. Which though he hath falsly accused our speaking , yet he hath hereby truly Implyed , that there is a light in us , and all men that is opposite or contra-to the spirit of Darkness ; and thus he bewrayes his own confusion and folly about the Light of Christ in all men , one while to rail so bitterly against it and the Doctrine of it , as the most pernicious delusion , stratagem of Satan , and gross darkness ; another while so intimately to grant to a light within all men ( which leads to speak truth ) as opposite to the spirit of Darkness ; As also in page 16 , 20.28 , 29.41 .


id: A65879
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1672
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 36934
sentence: 1341
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A65879.xml
txt: txt/A65879.txt
title:
  The principal controversies between the litteral presbyters of the Kirk of Scotland, and the illuminated members of the Church of Christ, called Quakers· Truly collected, stated and opened, in a particular reply (herein specified) for general information and undeceiving the deceived. By an earnest contender for the most holy faith, which was once delivered to the saints. G. W.

summary:
  Is this thy proof of thy false accusation against us of denying the Scriptures , that we deny them interpretatively ; so then our denying the Priests Interpretations upon Scripture which are not Scripture , must be deemed a denial of Scriptures , as if they were either the same or of equall authority with Scripture ; or when they tell us of finding Life in the Scriptures , we must take it for gran●ed , that they mean in their Interpretations upon them , whereby in many things they contradict plain Scripture as hath been proved any times ; so however , when they bid People search the Scriptures for Life Eternal ( in them ) they intend they should take their meanings along with them , and believe as they say , and so people must run into an implicite Faith , if they take things on their Authority and Credit ; for by their meanings and Interpretations , they can sit as Judges over Scriptures ( and tell people they must give the sence , and reconcile them ) and over the Lig●t and Spirit within , and tell them its but an Enthusiastick Fancy ; but who are not so Ign●ble as to receive a Belief or Faith from them on such a dark , implicite and slender account as this of Priests ? But wait in the Light of Christ within , for a right understanding of things that are Spiritual , relating to Faith and Salvation : Such find they have cause from the certain demonstration and testimony of the Spirit of Truth within , to believe Christs Light and Spirit rather then the Priests meanings , and private Interpretations , wrestings and perverting of Scriptures . This high and general opinion of the Scriptures , depends upon the former conceit , of finding Eternal Life in them , by searching of them ; but that 's answered and contradicted by this our Antagonist himself , over and over : Supernatural knowledge and Faith of Scriptures , being not had without the knowledg of Christ ; but there are many search and read Scriptures , that are both out of this knowledg and Faith , so that t is evident , that the bare reading Scriptures doth not attract supernatural Faith , Knowledg , Light , Spirit , &c. but it is the supernatural Light and Spirit , that brings to the serious reading and supernatural knowledg of Scriptures : And it s also confessed in contradiction to much more ( however ) that the Light in all men teaches them of the morral Law ; and , Is not that Scripture or things contained in it ?


id: A65855
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7928
sentence: 346
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A65855.xml
txt: txt/A65855.txt
title:
  The Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, asserted. Being a brief account of their faith in relation to divers matters where-in their Christian belief is questioned. Published in behalf of the people of God called Quakers by some of them.

summary:
  And it is a great and precious mystery of Godliness and Christianity also th● Christ should b● spiritually and effectually in mens hearts to save and deliv●● them from sin , Satan and bondage of Corruption , Christ being thus reveall●● in true Believers and dwelling in their hearts by Faith , Christ within the ho●● of Glory , our Light and Life who of God is made unto us , Wisdom , Righteou●●ness , Sanctification and Redemption , 1 Cor. 1. 30. In the New , the One Baptism of Christ ; in the Old , the Feast o● the outward Passover kept with unleavened Bread , and other Feasts observed &c.


id: A65840
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1680
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38586
sentence: 873
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A65840.xml
txt: txt/A65840.txt
title:
  A brief account of some of the late and present sufferings of the people called Quakers for meeting together to worship God in spirit and truth, being prosecuted by the statute of the 22th Car. 2. Cap. I., entituled, An act to prevent & supress seditious conventicles, by the prosecution of which act many families have had their estates wholly wasted and ruined, contrary to the law of God, the antient laws of the kingdom, and to nature itself : together with a particular account of such of the above said people who have dyed prisoners, from the year 1660 to 1880, I. for meeting together to worship God, &c., II. for refusing for conscience sake to swear in any case, III. for not going to the parish church, and not paying to the repair of the same, and not paying offering money, small tythes, &c. : humbly presented to the King, Lords & Commons in Parliament assembled.

summary:
  one John Merideth , called a Justice , fell upon William Bennet and beat him sorely , and also beat William Wade : And the 20th day of the same Moneth , at the same place , in the High Way near the Meeting-House he found John Silcock , and he took him by the Hair of the Head , and pluckt him into the Meeting-House Yard , and then drew his naked Knife , and said , He would m●rk him ; but his own Clark and others stepped in and prevented him , otherwise it was verily thought he would have done the said Silcock some great Mischief . upon the Information of Samuel Turner and William Harris , Bailiffs , Informers to Henry Goreing , senior and Henry Goreing , junior , John Alford and Edward Blaker , Justices , That there was a Meeting at John Jefferyes in Sh●reham ; which was a Mistake , for it was at Joan Apses aforesaid : However , several Persons were fined , and Distress●s taken as followeth .


id: A65858
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1692
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20795
sentence: 727
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A65858.xml
txt: txt/A65858.txt
title:
  The contemned Quaker and his Christian religion defended against envy & forgery in answer to two abusive invective pamphlets, the one stiled Antichrist in spirit unmasked, the other Railings and slanders detected, promoted by some persons commonly called Anabaptists at Deptford in Kent who have unwarily begun the contest.

summary:
  No sure , but that Divine Breath or Spirit which God Breathed into Man , whereby Man became a Living Soul : Wherein is a plain Distinction between that Divine Breath or Spirit of God and the Creature Man , or his created Soul ; as may be seen more at large in G. F's Great Mystery , quoted , where he speaks of the Soul of Man being in Death in Transgression , so Man's Spirit there not Sanctified , ( and declares Christ the Bishop of the Soul ; Great Mystery , p. 91. ) which therefore needs Redemption by Christ , which cannot be said of God or Christ himself , that he Needs or Wants Redemption ; what Gross and Silly Nonsense would that be to affirm ? These Adversaries may be ashamed of such gross Perversion and Abuse , as their thus rendring the Quakers , to confound the Being of the Creator and the Creature , as if they were one and the same Being . Such his Condescension and Humiliation under Suffering , both inwardly and outwardly argues no Deficiency nor Impotency in Christ himself , who is the very entire Christ of God , in whom all Fulness dwells , and who received the Spirit not by Measure ; but 't was his own free Love , and Act of pure Condescension and Humility , to descend into the Heart of Man , to Redeem and Raise up Man , his Soul and Spirit out of his Fallen and Captivated Estate , and from under the Bondage of Corruption , who in that State ONLY wants Redemption , and not Christ ; for how much soever he Suffers , or is Spiritually pierc'd or grieved by Men's Iniquities , he can take unto him his great Power when he pleaseth , and ease himself of his Enemies , and his own Arm can bring Salvation to him .


id: A47140
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1696
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sentence: 1680
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title:
  An exact narrative of the proceedings at Turners-Hall, the 11th of the month called June, 1696 together with the disputes and speeches there, between G. Keith and other Quakers, differing from him in some religious principles / the whole published and revised by Goerge Keith ; with an appendix containing some new passages to prove his opponents guilty of gross errors and self-contradictions.

summary:
  But so it is that I offer to prove , that G. Whitehead , and W. Penn by approving of G. Whiteheads Books , has denyed Christ both to be God and Man. And first I offer to prove that G. Whitehead in a Book of his has denyed Christ to be God , and W. Penn has owned this Book :


id: A70779
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1675
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47257
sentence: 2030
flesch: 75
cache: cache/A70779.xml
txt: txt/A70779.txt
title:
  A treatise of oaths containing several weighty reasons why the people call'd Qvakers refuse to swear : and those confirmed by numerous testimonies out of Gentiles, Jews and Christians, both fathers, doctors and martyrs : presented to the King and great council of England, assembled in Parliament.

summary:
  To this conduces not a little , not to Swear , and not to be Angry ; for , in not being Angry , we shall not have an Enemy ; and cast off a mans Oath , and withal thou shalt cast off those things that concern Wrath , and shalt extinguish all Anger : For Wrath and an Oath are like the Wind. For this End hath the Grace of God appeared unto all Men , as speaks the Apostle Paul to Titus , that they should be taught to deny Vngodliness and Wor●dly Lusts , which entering & over-running the World , made way among other Expedients for that of Oaths ; so that to live that Life which needs No Oath , man is both requir'd and impower'd :


id: A65868
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1660
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mime: application/xml
words: 27593
sentence: 637
flesch: 60
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title:
  The he-goats horn broken, or, Innocency elevated against insolency & impudent falshood in answer to two books against the people of God called Quakers : the one intituled, A fuller discovery, which is stuffed with such a multitude of lyes, slanders, and perverting the truth, as the like hath not been extant : the authors of which are John Horn, Thomas Moore Senior, and Thomas Moore Junior : and the other book is falsely called truth's triumph by John Horn : which are answered for the information of the people, and the clearing of the servants of God, and the way of truth to the simple hearted from the lyes, delusions and fallacies that have proceeded from the spirit of Antichrist and blasphemy, in these men aforesaid, who profess themselves ministers of Christ but are proved ministers of Satan and unrighteousness / by a witness of Christ and his work against all the works of darkness, G.W.

summary:
  And now to some of J. Horns and T. Moors Doctrines in their Epistle , wherein they have belyed and grosly perverted the Truth , with their false constructions and inferences , as to our saying , that the seed of God which is Christ , wherever he is known in such a low measure as a seed that suffers , and is burthened in man by corruption , there he desires to be free from the burthen of sin , and alwayes to do his Fathers will , and this seed the Power reaches to where it is begotten , and in the Power it arises in them that believe in the Light for their Redemption , to which J. H. and T. M. Scornfully say of this seed , Christ which we speak of , that he hath not ceased from sin in them , nor can do in all things his Fathers will , but needs a Power to reach to him where he is begotten : And that we represent him as one not able to do his Fathers will in some men . And our saying that this Seed which is Christ where he suffers , and is burthened in man by corruption , there he desires to be free from the burthen of sin , does not argue as falsely as these men infer , that it cannot be said of the Seed of God that in it is no sin , for Christ hath suffered by mens sins and been pressed with them and born them , Amos 2. 13. Ezek.


id: A65834
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1697
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mime: application/xml
words: 63934
sentence: 2115
flesch: 65
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title:
  An antidote against the venome of The snake in the grass, or, The book so stiled and the Christian people called Quakers vindicated from its most gross abuses and calumnies in certain reflections detecting the nameless author's malice, outrage, and persecution against the said people : unto which is annex'd a brief examination of the author's second book stil'd Satan dis-rob'd : also, some notice taken of his discourse for The divine institution of water-baptism.

summary:
  Concerning which I said , I do not make S. E. his Expressions therein an Article of our Faith , for I own that in one sense the Blood shed was more than that of another Saint , ( tho' not in the visible matter of it ) more , in that it had a peculiar signification for Christ , the one offering was the Man peculiarly ordain'd and appointed of God , both to bear the Sins of many and to end the many offerings under the Law , and in all his Example and Sufferings that were permitted to be laid upon him , he both Answered , Fulfilled and ended the outward part and administration of the Law and Shadows , and performed the Father's Will therein , and was particularly Eyed and Prophesied accordingly by the Holy Prophets ; and through all his sufferings in the Flesh he gave an universal Testimony , and Consecrated a New and Living way , even through the Veil , that is to say his Flesh ; that the way into the most Holy might be manifest , Light and Life , p. 58 , 59. Ref. Observe here the Man 's partial Credulity and Injustice again , in taking for granted what persecuting Adversaries have long since unjustly suggested against a conscientious Sufferer , without hearing his Defence ; where the said G. F. being charged by his Persecutors with professing himself to be equal with God , positively denies the Charge as not so spoken , as that G. F. was equal with God ; but confessed , That the Father and the Son are one ; and that Christ and the Holy Spirit are equal with God ; Saul's Errand , p. 5 , 6.


id: A65833
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 65719
sentence: 1833
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A65833.xml
txt: txt/A65833.txt
title:
  The accuser of our brethren cast down in righteous judgment against that spirit of hellish jealousie vented in a great confused book, falsly entituled, The Christian-Quaker distinguished from the apostate and innovator, in five parts ; the fallacy and force whereof being herein clearly detected & justly repelled.

summary:
  Albeit he has so Characterized many , not named by him , that 't is easily understood whom he smites at , for all his great pretences in the matter , and his Forbearance , which he pretends was upon the Intercession of several of his Brethren , for which Submission to them , he cites the Apostles counsel to the Ephesians , To submit themselves to one another in the fear of God : Whereby it seems then he owns an outward submission to his Brethren , though he has much opposed outward Orders , Directions , Laws , Decrees , outward form of Government in the Church of Christ ; hereupon is a great part of his Contest throughout his Book ; yet he owns a Submission to his Brethren , in a matter , which was such a concern of Conscience to him ; but if any Direction , Advice or Counsel be given by an Assembly , Meeting or Church among us , such as he himself formerly has owned to be the Church of Christ , and joyned with in Counsel , then he can easily evade it on this pretence , It is not his Duty to obey , without inward Conviction ; It is no Bond upon him , when he sees it not ; They are not to submit to outward Orders , Instructions or Prescriptions of any Assembly , whether they see it to be their Duty or not ; it is not binding to them , unless they see it ; with these , and such like Exceptions is much of his Book made up , to shun that Authority and Right of Judgment , which Christ has given his Church and People , that answer his Witness , though these his Exceptions and Allegations , as applyed , contain a very Unjust Insinuation and Reflection upon our Meetings ( which are for the Service of Truth and one another in Love ) as if we imposed Rules and Methods for our Fellow Members , to observe in an Implicit Faith , or Blind Obedience , which has ever been far from us , and contrary to our Principle and Testimony since we knew any thing of Truth 's Inward Conviction and Work ; nor do our said Meetings give any Instructions or Advice ( relating to good Order in the Church , &c. ) to such as are Blind , Faithless or Senseless , and not belonging to us as a People , but to such whose Eyes are opened in some measure , to incite them to Faithfulness and Diligence in those things which the true Light will shew to be their Duty , as they are watchful in it , to receive and practise good Advice and Counsel from the Light , both in themselves and in their Elder Brethren in Christ Jesus . We look upon this Testimony in the first place Unsound , and the Allegation Impertinent ; for , 1st , That as a People of the Lord , or Church of Christ , we have Power to compose Differences as to outward things ; This is neither repugnant to the Light of Christ within , nor to the Testimony of the Scriptures without us ; see 1 Cor.


id: A65870
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1682
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words: 83765
sentence: 2398
flesch: 58
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title:
  Judgment fixed upon the accuser of our brethren and the real Christian-Quaker vindicated from the persecuting outrage of apostate informers chiefly from W. Rogers, F. Bugg, T. Crisp, John Pennyman and Jeffery Bullock ... / by that contemned servant of Christ George Whitehead.

summary:
  3. Thus inconsistent and contradictory to thy self art thou in thy pretended Plea for Liberty of Conscience , whilst thou art Defaming , Condemning and Excommunicating many of the Servants of Christ among us , for the exercise and testimony of their tender Consciences in their Christian Advice and Admonition , which is all one as to seek to stop their Mouthes from preaching , exhorting others , &c. by Edw. Burroughs , and since the same is reprinted over and over by thy busie informing Agent Thomas Crisp , as E. B's Vision ; but I am perswaded thou and he have grosly abused and mis-represented that Servant of the Lord E. B. by rendring him the Author of such Absurdities as are contained in that same Paper about the Shepherd and his Dogs , &c. particularly in that passage of the Shepherd's gathering the Sheep with the many Goats , that did push , trouble and hurt the Sheep with their Horns , and putting them into the Fold ; and that he made fast the door , and would not separate them until he had the other Sheep also , that did not come with the Flock .


id: A65863
author: Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
date: 1669
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 83860
sentence: 2078
flesch: 56
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txt: txt/A65863.txt
title:
  The divinity of Christ and unity of the three that bear record in heaven with the blessed end and effects of Christ's appearance, coming in the flesh, suffering and sacrifice for sinners, confessed and vindicated, by his followers, called Quakers : and the principal matters in controversie, between them, and their present opposers (as Presbyterians, Independants, &c.) considered and resolved, according to the scriptures of truth, and more particularly to remove the aspersions ... cast upon the ... Quakers ... in several books, written by Tho. Vincent, Will. Madox, their railing book, stil'd The foundation, &c, Tho. Danson, his Synopsis, John Owen, his Declaration / which are here examin'd and compared by G.W. ... ; as also, a short review of several passages of Edward Stillingfleet's ... in his discourse of the sufferings of Christ's and sermon preached before the King, wherein he flatly contradicts the said opposers.

summary:
  Was Christ the Image of the Father , as he was of the Generation of Abraham , or David , or Adam ? or according to the Spirit ? — Whether of these was he the express Image of his Father's substance , because thou calls the Father a Person ; — And the Scripture sayeth , He suffered according to the Flesh , — which he did not die as he was God ; and the Scripture calls him Son of Man , and Son of God , and he being the express Image of his Fathers substance ; see the Old Translations . And dost thou not , in thy 16th page of thy Synopsis , bring the Greek Philosophers to prove the Persons ? — And you say , That some of the Nations shall be saved , not all ; and here , do you not deny the very Scripture it self , and God , and Christ , and the Prophets and Apostles words , and denies their Doctrine ? And also , Is it not clear that you deny the true Faith of God's Elect , that the Just lives by ? And is not Faith the Gift of God ? And do you not say , That Faith is not perfect ? Do not you hold Justification without , and that it is without Man and Woman ? And doth not Faith heal ? See Matth.


