A few queries to the teachers of the Episcopal Society (so called) Fox, George, d. 1661. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A40339 of text R26729 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F2002A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A40339 Wing F2002A ESTC R26729 09527543 ocm 09527543 43503 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A40339) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 43503) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1331:23) A few queries to the teachers of the Episcopal Society (so called) Fox, George, d. 1661. 1 broadside. Printed for Robert Wilson, London : 1660. Signed: George Fox, the younger. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library. eng Society of Friends -- Apologetic works. A40339 R26729 (Wing F2002A). civilwar no A few queries to the teachers of the Episcopal Society, (so called.) Fox, George 1660 983 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A few Queries to the Teachers of the Episcopal Society , ( so called . ) VVHo was the first Institutor , ( of a man to be Supream Head of the Church next and Immediate under Christ , and ) of Arch-Bishops , and Lord-Bishops , and from whence had they their Original ? Did not these things arise since the Apostacy ; and have they not been Practised by the Apostatised Christians , since the Antichrists went out from the true Apostles ? Or were these things practised by the true Apostles ? Or did they confesse any more than one Head of the Church ? Or that to them there was any more than one Lord ? And was not that Head and Lord , Christ Jesus ? And whether they that make , or confesse other Lords , or another Head of the Church than Christ , do not walk according to the course of the Gentiles , which knows not God , and contrary to the command of Christ , and the practise of the true Apostles ? seeing Christ said to his Disciples , the Gentiles exercise Lordship one over another , but it shall not be so with you ( mark that ) for he that will be greatest amongst you , let him be servant unto all : And where was any of the true Apostles or Ministers of Christ , called Lord-Bishops , or Arch-Bishops ? Or where was there any King in their time , called the Supream Head of the Church next unto Christ ? Or where did they prophesie that it should afterwards be so among the Saints ? Or is not this rather a part of the Cup of Fornication , which the Whore of Babylon , hath caused the Kings of the Earth to drink in the night of Apostacy , yea or nay ? And who was the first Inventor of Surplices and Tippits ( as they are called ) did the true Apostles and Ministers of Christ use any of them in their Worship ? Or had they Organs and Singing Boys dressed in White , going , and Singing in their Worship ? From whom had all these things their Original ? And are any of these things required of the true Worshippers , which the Father seeks , who Worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth ( if they be , prove it by Scripture ) Or are they not come up since the Apostacy ? and are they not practised amongst the Will Worshippers , yea or nay ? And who first invented this for a Baptisme ( viz. ) that a Teacher should Sprinkle a little water on a Childs face , and make a Crosse on its forehead , with his finger ; and that there should be God-Fathers and God-Mothers ( as they are called ) to name the Child ; from whom had all these things their Original ? Did the true Apostles Practise these things ? Or are they not come up , in the night of Apostacy ? And why do you call those that name the Children , God-Fathers , and God-Mothers ? Hath God any Fathers or Mothers ? Answer to every particular in plain English according to the Scriptures , that poor people may see your Ground , and Foundation , and Rule for all these things ; And do you believe that any can be free from sin in this life , & keep Gods holy Will and Commandments ? If not , then how dare you enjoyn those that you call God-Fathers , and God-Mothers , to promise and vow these things in the Childs name , ( mark ) that it shall forsake the Devil and all his works , ( mark that ) the pompes and vanities of this World ; and all the sinfull lusts of the flesh ; and that it should keep Gods Holy Will and Commandments ? now if you say , they may forsake all these things , and keep Gods holy Will , and Commandments ; then will it not overthrow what you Teach your selves at other times ? and if people do not or cannot forsake the Devil and all his works , the pomps , and vanities of this wicked World , and the sinful lusts of the flesh , and keep Gods holy Will and Commandments ; then do you not cause them , you call God-Fathers , and God-Mothers , to Promise and Vow lies and impossibilities in Childrens Names ? Now Answer these things in Plainness , and Moderation , without fleeing to your carnal weapons ; and be not like those , that instead of answering , have raged , and persecuted those that have Queried them . There are many things more appertaining to your Worship which I cannot own to be Right ; but I would see , how you will get through these things , and what satisfaction you are able to give concerning these few , and then as the Lord moves , you may hear of many things more which are to be Queried . The 22 d. of the 4th . Month , 1660. From a Faithfull Souldier of the Army of the Lamb ( which must get the Victory , ) for whose Testimony I suffer in Lambeth-House . George Fox , the Younger . LONDON , Printed for Robert Wilson , and are to be sold at his Shop , at the Sign of the Black-spread Eagle and Wind-Mill , in Martins Le Grand , 1660. Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A40339e-30 Query . 1. Coll. 1.18 . 2 Cor. 8 , 5 , 6. Mat. 20.25 , 26.27 . Query . 2. Iohn 4.23.24 . Query . 3.