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The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…
The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1655
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Qu. 5. Are not the Ministers whom these men despise, of the same calling and practice as those were that suffered death in the Flames in Q. Mary's days? Such as Bradford, Hooper, Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer, Saunders, Philpot, and the rest; Were not these called Masters? Did they not preach in Pulpits, and take Tithes or money for preaching as their due maintenance, and the other things that the Quakers accuse us for? And do not these men justify the bloody opposers of them, and condemn Gods Saints afresh?
Qu. 5. Are not the Ministers whom these men despise, of the same calling and practice as those were that suffered death in the Flames in Q. Maries daies? Such as Bradford, Hooper, Latimer, Ridly, Cranmer, Saunders, Philpot, and the rest; Were not these called Masters? Did they not preach in Pulpits, and take Tythes or money for preaching as their due maintenance, and the other things that the Quakers accuse us for? And do not these men justifie the bloudy opposers of them, and condemn Gods Saints afresh?
Qu. 6. Whether ever the earth bore men that did more proudly despise others in comparison of themselves? and whether their language savour of the Spirit of the Lamb of God? Or can he have any taste of that Spirit of Christ in himself that doth not even feel that their proud and railing language is of the devil?
Qu. 7. Was there ever a generation known on the earth, that did more arrogantly step up into the Throne of God, and censure his Servants, whose faces they never saw, and whom they can charge with nothing but being Preachers of ⟨p. 29⟩the Gospel, and that in a Pulpit, having an hourglass, taking Tithes, &c. to be Ministers of the devil, sons of perdition, with much of the like. Though Christ hath said, Judge not that ye be not judged, and who art thou that judgest another mans Servant? To his own Master he stands or falls.