The Quakers quibbles in three parts : first set forth in an expostulatory epistle to Will. Pfnn [i.e. Penn] concerning the late meeting held to Barbycan between the Baptists and the Quakers, also the pretended prophet Lod. Muggleton and the Quakers compared : the second part, in reply to a quibbling answer to G. Whiteheads, entituled The Quakers plainness ... : the third part, being a continuation of their quibbles ... / by the same indifferent pen.

SECT. VI. Of the Manifestation of the Spirit.

Sect. 1. G W. p. 2. Whereas a Manifestation of the Spirit was given to every Man to profit withal: Very good, this makes as much for the Gift of Tongues, and healing the Sick, as Prophecy, since they were all Manifestations of the Spirit; and if the Gift of Tongues were not COMMON to all, no more was the Gift of Discerning, nor of Prophe∣cy COMMON to all (See 1 Cor. 12.29.) And therefore that makes as much against the Continuance of BOTH, as ONE: And so Geo. by his own Hand, is but still st••iking at, and Destroying his own Cause.

Sect. 2. Besides, I could wish for no fuller and fit∣ter Text for my purpose and his confutation, than this

he hath Cited; For if the Manifestation of the Spirit be given to every Man to Profit withal, then it is a strong Argument against the Quakers, that they have it not, or at best have it not any more than others, be∣cause there appears NO SUCH MANIFESTA∣TION given to them MORE than others have, whom yet they Condemn, which will be easily further demonstrated, if you do but consider this, viz.

That the Quakers must mean, that these words of the Apostle are to be taken either Ʋniversally, and that the manifestation of the Spirit was, and is given to every one, as well Women, as Men, to ALL Persons in the World. Or Restrictively, to the CHURCHES in the Primitive times (and particularly that at Corinth) to whom the Apostle was writing.

And Secondly, Consider that these Manifestations of the Spirit, so given, must be either VISIBLE or INVI∣SIBLE, (though it is apparent enough by the enu∣meration of those Manifestations in the subsequent Verses, that the Apostle spoke of visible manifestations, such as were visibly APPARENT to others, and for the Profit of others, without as well as within the Church, and the Greek word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which the Apostle uses, signifies, plainly and clearly appearing; open, bare, or easie to be seen, as a Face uncovered.)

Sect. 3. But let the Quakers take it which way they will, it destroys their Usurped Title, and vain Preten∣ces above others, whom they Condemn.

For if they say that the Apostle meant thereby, that the manifestation of the Spirit which he speaks of, is given to every one in the world. Then they at the same time grant, it is given to the Church of England, to the Baptist Churches, and to me also; and if they I say, that the manifestation of the Spirit is VISIBLE to

others, then thereby they grant they have it not more than others, nay, are without it; because the Qua∣kers have Censured and Condemned other Churches as being WITHOUT it, and yet themselves can pro∣duce visibly NO MORE manifestation of the Spirit, than those, whom they say are without it.

And if they say, the manifestation of the Spirit is INVISIBLE to others, then at the same time, they grant, the Church of England, or the Baptist Churches may have it, though they may not know it, or can∣not SEE it, for how should they, if it be INVI∣SIBLE?

Sect. 4. But on the other hand, if they say, These words of the Apostle are to be taken Restrictively, that the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man in the Churches onely, (as most likely in truth it is, as the word IS in the Present Tense, and the whole scope of the Chapter intimates, the Gifts and manifestations of the Spirit he mentions being then pe∣culiarly in the Church, and no where else that we find, such as the Gifts of Healing, Tongues, &c. mentio∣ned in the very next Verses, as some of these manife∣stations spoken of, in v. 7.) Then this of the Church at Corinths having the manifestation of the Spirit, is no more to the Quakers, than to the POPE OF ROME. For it will not follow, That because the Church at Corinth had the manifestation of the Spirit, that the Quakers Church must NOW have it, nor because THEY SAY they have it; for at that rate, the Baptist Churches, and ALL the Churches in England might claim it, and who can hinder them?

And besides G.W. hath barred himself of that, and plainly told us, (in his Glory of Christs Light within p. 33.)

That which was to one State, was not to every

particular State and Condition among the Churches, neither do we read that the Church at Corinth, was to go and make the Epistle to the Church at Rome their Rule; Nor that the Churches at Ephesus, Phi∣lippi, or Thessalonica were to go to the Corinthians for Pauls Epistles to them, to compare theirs with, and to be their Rule; but that of the Spirit or Light within, to which they were all directed, and which was the Rule of the New Creature whereby the things of God were Revealed and made known unto the Saints.

Now then what does the Apostle Paul's writing to the Church at Corinth [that the Manifestation of the Spirit was then given to every Man, to profit withal] signifie to G.W. or the Quakers here? They are not the Church at Corinth, nor can they produce visibly such Manifestations of the Spirit, as they did; Nay, G.W. himself gives you to understand, such visible ma∣nifestations were onely peculiar to the Apostles times. Thus then you may easily see how much this silly Quib∣bler is beside the business, and hath confuted himself