IT gives me no little Exercise , MY NEIGHBOURS , when I see Quakerism , that great Choakweed of the Christian and Protestant Religion , taking Root in the Borders of a Country famous for that Holy Religion ; and unto you , doubtless it is not without prodigy , that altho this Country was planted more than Twenty Years before the first Quaker that ever we could hear of , appeared in the World , yet there should be some scores of Quakers in divers Corners of the Country . But we know , That where God has his Church , there will be something else ! Let me give you the Reverend B●x●ers opinion of it , expressed in his own words , which are , Why is George Keith and his other Quakers from Bensylvania now assaulting the Churches in New-England ? The Hunter knows , where is the best Game ? And allow me that fault of Love , to do something that may help to spoil the Game of the Nimrod , who has Quakers among the Setters , by which Men are catched with him Upon a very exact and sincere Self-Examination , I cannot charge my self with any Malice or Hatred against the poor people that are Seduced into the strong Delusions of that Sect ; I am utterly against vexing and creepling of them with punishments on their Estates or Bodies for their Consciences ; I would not entertain An Admirer of the Light with worse usage , than an Ancient Jewish History tells us , the Patriarch Abraham was ( tho hardly ) convinced , That a worshipper of the Fire , coming into his House , was to meet withal ; I look upon many of them as fair condition'd men , and persons of a Temper which we are to treat with Civility and Obligation ; I think , we should labour to Overcome them with good , with Prayer for them , with pity to them ; and for my own part , I must briefly say , Let that Quaker of them all , that has most Abus'd me and Revil'd me , make me to understand wherein I may do him any real kindness , and if I do it not , let this Letter be a witness against me . This I utter not as a vain brag of my victory over them that have spawned one Pamphlet after another , fill'd with impertinent Reproaches and Calumnies against The Colledge-Boy of New-England , as their Hawkers , they say , please to call me ; but it is that I may discover the Equality of Spirit , with which I now address you .

Nevertheless I cannot account my self hereby Released , from any proper Endeavours to Antidote my Neighbours against the venemous and contagious Heresies of Quakerism . I remember that George Keith somewhere bids us Turn our minds to the Light within us , wherewith Christ has enlightned all men , and points at this as a way to be saved from mistakes . I do then solemnly declare , that I have seriously Turned unto that Light , and with the best of my light as yet , I can see many damnable Heresies in Quakerism ; if I have ( as the Quakers own all have ) one spark of Light in me , Quakerism is but a profound and a deadly Pit of darkness . I look upon Quakerism , as a snare of the Devil , wherein many are taken alive by him at his will ; and I were very uncharitable , if I should not labour to rescue my Friends out of such an undoing Snare ; a meaner Creature than the meanest Owner of Reason , must have our Help against a Pit less Dangerous than that of Quakerism . Quakerism , it attempts nothing but the leaving our whole sacred glorious Religion in such a confusion , as that it shall no longer give any plain and clear conduct unto us , in our drawing near to God ; and though it pretends unto Light yet it leaves the bewildred Souls of men , in Chains under darkness , unto the Judgment of the Great Day .

Our Blessed Religion is wonderfully suited unto our constitution , by laying before us both sensible and spiritual objects to converse withal ; but Quakerism , under the pretence of advancing the Spiritual Objects of Religion , goes to annihilate all the Sensible ; so that we must have no Bible , no Jesus , no Baptism , no Eucharist , no Ordinances , but what shall be so Evaporated into Mystical Notions , as to become unto the Children of Men , altogether unintelligible , or at least unprofitable . Indeed , there is hardly any one Fundamental Article of that Reformed Religion , whereby we look to be saved , that is not undermined by Quakerism , whatever professions it makes unto the contrary , when , An Angel of Light , is to be personated . What Religion shall we have , if the Scriptures , once come to be vile in our opinion of them ? Now to withdraw men from the esteem and study of the Scriptures , ha's hitherto been the main Design of Quakerism . Are they not the express words , of the Quakers in their Systems of Divinity , T is Blasphemy for any to say , the letter [ by which they meant the Bible ] is the word of God ; it is the Devil that contends for the Scriptures to be the word of God . Do they not expresly tell us , It is the greatest error in the world , and the ground of all errors , to say , The Scriptures are a Rule to Christians ? The Quakers in their Books expresly challenge us , Tell me one Scripture that hath light in it , And at the same time entitle their own books , Light risen out of Darkness . They expresly reproach men for , Doting on the Scriptures ; and at the same time their own silly Scribles they call The Shields of the truth , and Things written from the spirit of the Lord , Hence as Mr. Cheiny tells us , in their Disputes , the Quakers openly have said , God has no where commanded us to walk according to the Scriptures . Thus when Mr. Cotton of Plymouth , with some others , had attested , that they heard George Keith affirm , The Scriptures are the word of God , this Keith Prints a letter to revile the witnesses , for , Not Dealing Fairly , nor as becomes true witnesses . Now let any reasonable man , find any reason of their thus treating the Holy Scriptures ; what can this caution signify ? if they would not have us think , that we pay too much Respect unto those Oracles of God . A Crime which I assure you , few among us are guilty of ! Though we are not so far gone in Blasphemous Wickedness , as to speak of the Scriptures in James Nailors Terms God is at liberty ( sais he ) to speak to his people by them if he please ; & where they are given by inspiration he doth so , & so he is at liberty to speak by any other created thing : as to Balaam by his ass . Thus dos that Father of Quakers bray out his contempt of our precious Bible . I say we cannot vomit out such Blasphemies , and yet we think that wonderful Book , our Bible ; has not a due estimation with us .

It would be more tedious indeed , than useful for me to Transcribe the many other horrible passages , which continually fall from the Pens of the greatest Rabbi's among the Quakers , and such as have most pretended unto Inspiration among them ; but you shall find the Books of their most admired Apostles fill'd ( if I may speak the Truth ) with most admirable Blasphemies . They begin to speak somewhat warily in their later Catechisms ; but what censure have they hitherto passed upon one of their Authors , who twits us in the Teeth , with , Our imagined God beyond the Stars ; or , one of their Authors , who tells us , Your carnal Christ is utterly denied by the Light ?

When did they deal with Whitehead for calling it a LYE , To say , the Scripture is the means by which Faith is wrought ? or for saying in a Book signed by him and three other Quakets , pretending to answer , a worthy Minister , Thou blind Beast , thou that sayest that the Scriptures reveal God , Thou art a Lyar ? What Animad version have they used upon the most witty & Learned Gentleman that ever had the unhappiness of being among them , for saying , ( as Mr. Thompson cites him ) Unless Father , Son , and Spirit , are three distinct Nothings , they must be three distinct Substances , and consequently three distinct Gods ? Have they testify'd against the same Ingenious , tho Heretical Writer , for saying , Justification by that Righteonsness , which Christ fulfilled in his own Person without us , is a Doctrine of Devils ? or have they chastised their Farnworth , for saying , What Righteonsness Christ performed without me , was not my Justification , neither was I saved by it ? What Retractation have they advised unto their Fox , when he had written , He is deceived , who saith God is Distinct from the Saints ? Have they thought Mr. Pen worthy to be mended , for saying , Either the Resurrection of the Body , must be without the matter , or it must not ; if it must , then it is not that same Numerical Body , and so their proper and strict taking of the word , Resurrection , they must let go ; if it must not ; then I affirm it cannot be Incorruptible ; for in such a manner does he oppose the Doctrine of the Resurrection ? Has Mr. Hieks falsify'd , when he quotes Whitehead uttering such a Black Speech as this , They are like to be deceived , who are expecting that Christ's Second Coming will be personal ? In fine , hath their Primer yet been corrected , wherein we read , False Teachers preach Christ without , and bid people believe in him , as He is in Heaven above ; we are told , Those things called Ordinances , as Baptism , and Bread and Wine , rose from the Popes Invention . We are told . As for that called , The Lords-day , people do not understand what they say , every day is the Lords Day . Does not their Catechism ( which came out of William Smith's Forge , in the year 1665 ) also deride men , for saying in their Prayers , They are miserable Sinners , and they do those things they ought not to do ? Is not this the Reflection there made upon it . And if so , then not Believers ; for they that believe in Christ , are not miserable sinners , neither do those things they ought not to do . In that which they call , The Lords Prayer , they generally say , Our Father ; Now the Children of God are not miserable Sinners ; nor do not those things they ought not to do ? And as to Prayer , is not this the Conclusion there made of all , All must ceafe from their own words , and from their own time , and learn to be silent , until the Spirit gives them utterance ? The sense of which , if you would know , you must fetch it from the horribly prayerless Lives of the Quakers . How many prayerless Houses , and prayerless Tables , are to be found among the best of them ▪ Some of them have confess'd , That they never pray without an inward motion from the Spirit ; and that in many years , they have not had a motion to prayer . See J. C's Call to prayer , page 97. Thus do these Blasphemers , charge their own pride , and sl●●● , and wickedness , upon the Eternal Spirit of God!

I say , until the Quakers do disown and reprove such Expressions as these , they must pardon us , if we look upon these Expressions to be but the Explications of what they mean , when they speak with more subtilty in their Confessions which they make , when they are charged with being No Christians ; and indeed their Confessions are mostly so worded as to admit of these Explications . If the Quakers do sincerely intend as my Charity obliges me to think and hope , that many of the Seduced may honestly intend , no more than they declare in some of their later Catechisms , it is a prognostic whereat I would rejoyce exceedingly ; it is a marvellous Alteration ; yea , it threatens no less than an Approaching Extirpation of the Heresies , whereby that Sect formerly Denied the Lord that bought us . I find the Sect very wonderfully changed , in several of their Circumstances ; and particularly , in that grand one from whence the Name of Quakers was first put upon them . Heretofore , at almost every Meeting , you might have seen some of them , taken with a strange Quaking , which look'd so like a Diabolical Possession , as that it well nigh produced another sort of Quaking , by the horror it gave to the Beholders of it ; and Fisher in his Rusticus ad Academicos which is in English , The Clown speaking to the Scholar , calls Dr. Owen , a Blind Guide and a Bruit Beast , [ a Language , befitting a Clown ] for some words of his against ( as the man styles it ) The Holy Duty of Quaking . But this is now grown , I suppose , a rarer thing among them ; and the words of their Patric Livingston upon it are , Because the mighty motions of the Bodies of Friends are ceased and Friends are still , cool , and quiet , they think that the same power is not in Meetings ; but oh ye Foolish Ones , — Were not all the shakings and quakings of Friends Bodies , to purge out sin ? they were but for a little time , and so were quickly gone again ; and the voice of the Lord was not distinctly discerned there . The stilness being come , that 's a durable thing ; and here the mind is brought into a capacity to discern the voice of the Lord . One would inferr from this ; either that those who are of late years Converted unto Quakerism , have no Sin to purge out ; or else that after their Quakerism they continue with their sins unpurged all their Days . But however , 't is here granted , That about thirty years ago , The Quakers did not distinctly discern the voice of the Lord ; so that I am not altogether in Despair , that they may now better discern it , and by degrees return to him that is the Shepherd and Bishop of Souls , by leaving all their Errors , as well as the Tremblings which first accompany'd them . Nevertheless , no Spectacles I have yet met withal , can dispose my Charity to do any other than suspect the Integrity of the more busy Teachers among the Quakers , when they seem to acknowledge the principal Articles of our Christian Religion ; there is cause to think , that they Kiss that Religion of ours only to Betray it ; it is doubtless in this thing that they practise what they sometimes prosess , To become all things unto all men , that they might win the more ; nor do I make my self a Judge of Hearts , if I give you that warning about them , When they speak sair , believe them not , for there are seven Abominations in their Hearts . The cause of my suspicion is plainly this ; If they believe just as they speak in some of their Confessions , about Religion , pray why do they oppose and reproach us , for speaking of those very things ? For instance , The Quakers will verbally say , that they own the man Christ Jesus , who suffered for our sins , and in the entire and perfect Nature of man is gone into Heaven , and shall in like manner come again . But if they really think so , why do they fling out whole Pamphlets against godly men meerly for speaking that very thing ? I pray tell me , Does not George Fox in a Folio Book vehemently Revile and pretend to Refel , one Antagonist for saying , The Lord Jesus Christ is afar off in his Bodily presence ? and another , for saying , Christ is with out the Saints , in respect of his Bodily presence ? and a third , for saying Christ is distinct from every one of us ? And a fourth , for saying , There is not any Heaven , within , into which the man Christ is Ascended , or can any man contain a man four foot long . What occasion can the Quakers have to Write , Rail , and Shoot Porcupine's Quills , in voluminous Harangues , against them that have so expressed themselves , if they deny not the Things contain'd in the Expressions that are thus unexceptionable ? or , what should ail their Humphry Norton to say in Print , You look for a Christ without you ; what Country man is He ? You stand gazing up in the Clouds after a man ; but we stand by in white , Chiding of you ? The other principles of the Protestant Religion , are in like manner treated by these Gaynsayers ; when they seem to own those principles , 't is protestatio contra Factum , they give themselves the Ly : If they own those principles , why won't they give us leave to own them ? Why must we for Holding and Preaching of those principles , be worried by these people under the most christian , loving , handsome Names , of Idol Shepherds , Priests , Dogs , Vipers , Dragons , Serpents , Reprobates , Children of Darkness , Lyars , Blasphemers , Devils , Impostors , Sorcerers , polluted and accursed Beasts ? And yet these are the best Names for that very cause put upon us , in the Writings of those whom the Quakers do celebrate as , Men of God .

Suppose that Mather the Younger , should say He witnessed the Light which is in every man to be Christ the Saviour of the world , and yet suppose he should publish whole Books , to Reproach every man as a Blasphemous Beast , for using such terms ; would not the Quakers call him worse then ever they have called him hitherto , tho they have call'd him bad enough ? would they not count him a lying Hypocrite in his protestation for the Light ? Either the Leaders of the Quakers design by fair Speeches in their Catechisms to decoy their Proselytes into such horrible opinions as I have laid before you ; or else they are Stark Mad , when they spit such foul speeches at us , for maintaining the Things that are seemingly allow'd in those Catechisms ; and if so , it was then most fitly propounded by a wise and good Magistrate in Plymouth Colony , That a Law might be made for the Quakers to have their Heads shaved ; The punishment , I confess is Capital . But as it is the worst Punishment that ever that Colony will inflict on them , so 't is the best Remedy , for ought I know , that we can provide for them ; unless , The Oyl for Lunatscks , lately invented might be more efficacious .

Among the modern Leaders of the missed Quakers , you must give me leave to set a special remark , upon one George Keith , who rather then leave the Churches of God unmolested , has ●● express terms contradicted the Tremblers tha● have writt before him ; and yet on the other side lest he should be a pure Keithian , alone by himself , he puts in , My Doctrine is one with theirs . By the Respect which Keith finds among his friends , One may see what an unsetled and uncertain Thing it is to be among them . Heretofore , they made Lamentable outcries , against that which they call , Outward Learning ; and the way to be applauded with them , was to have the qualifications of the Liquatri Illiterati , at No●ci● , a Town scarce ten Leagues from Rome ; where they do at this Day choose their own Magistrates , but use an exact care , That no man who is able to write , or to Read , shall be capable of any share in the Government . Whereas , That which now renders Keith to be A great one , among his Friends , is , That he ha's a little Outward learning , that is the outside , or Bark and shell of a Scholar with him : tho he be most horribly venemous , yet he has a pearl in his head , and they make him their head upon that account . It is a passage which Mr. Tompson cites , from their paper sent forth into the world , pag . 3. The word , which is the Original , was before Tongues were and your Original , which will break all your Tongues and Original to pieces . Pilate had your Original , of Hebrew , Greek and Latin , [ where , by the way , their light fail'd 'em ; for , when did we make the Latin our Original ? ] who crucified Christ . He that drawes back into many languages , as into Hebrew and Greek , drawes back into the Naturals and so drawes into confusion . But the Ministers of God , who preach the Everlasting Gospel , draw up into one Language ; and so the Priests , and all that Trade into Natural Languages we utterly deny .

Alas , what will then become of our poor Friend George ? He has in his Writings , tho less Truth , yet more Hebrew and Greek , than ever Pilate had upon the Cross ; he is upon all occasions drawing back into many Languages ; and indeed he draws into confusion too . 'T is his drawing back thus into the Naturals that procures him the Admiration of a Drove that are little more than meer Naturals ; they Deny him no● , but rather Adore him , because tho he be a compound of as great Inconsistences as Iron and Clay , yet he has ( I will not say , a Golden , but ) a Guilded Head . This Keith it is , who has given the greatest advantages to Quakerism , & that with no little Alterations . Of his , we are newly Entertained with a wily Catcehism , wherein Quakerism is so disguised , as that one would almost suspect him a Real Protestant ; nevertheless , the juice of Toads , were as wholsome a potion as that Catechism . You cannot swallow it , unless , you also come to Believe , That the inward excusing or condemning principle , which all men are born withal , is the man Christ Jesus . Upon whieh , the Ingenious Mr. Lodowick , a Gentleman of Rhode-Island lately Recovered out of Quakerism , in a Challenge to the Quakers , tells them , If this your foundation stand sure , it would follow , That all honest Pagans , Jews , and Mahometans , are in Christ as well as you ; and true Christians , Believers , Disciples , and Followers of Christ ( at least , as to the Mystery ) and so your Brethren in Christ . There are moreover , some other Errors , plainly enough expressed in that Catechism , to make us all avoid them . E. G.

That some who are left without either the Help of the Holy Scriptures , or Holy Men . do yet so rightly improve the inward Help of Christ's Light and Teaching in their Hearts , as to be Accepted with God ; altogether contrary to Rom. 1. 21 , 22. where we see what became of the Heathon , for want of the Gospel . And , That some who are under the first Covenant , and have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them , yet cannot perish ; directly contrary to Rom. 10. 14. where we find no Salvation is to be had without Believing , and no Believing without Hearing and Preaching . And , That the principle of the New Covenant is in all men ; contrary to Eph. 2. 12. where we see many Strargers to the Covenant of promise . And , That the having of more Wives than One , was not for bidden to Jews or Gentiles under the First Covenant . Contrary to Mat . 19. 45 , 48. which points to a Law from the beginning against that Iniquity . And. That when one feels not a present Help to pray in words , he is to wait in silence . Contrary 10 Acts 8. 22. where a man that was without the Spirit of God was bidden to pray . And , That Faith is not the only Instrument whereby Christ is Received for Justification . Contrary to Rom. 3. 28. A man is justify'd by Faith without the Deeds of the Law ; and Rom. 11. 6. If it be of works , then it is no more Grace . And , That none become Reprobate , until they are finished in wickedness , and have no true Humanity remaining in them . Contrary to Rom. 9. 11 , 12. where 't is affirmed of those not yet born . And , That Christ's Baptism is not with Water . Contrary to Asts 8. 38. And , That the Lords Supper is to be Administred withou outward Eating . Contrary to 1 Cor . 11. 26. But let all unwary Readers know , that the principles of this Catechism , are but the Shooing-horns of more Quakerism ; if you swallow so much of the more specious and guilded Quakerism , you will soon find your selves entangled at such a rate , that you must wax worse and worse , and become as bad as all the other Heresies of a Keith can render you . For notwithstanding the Orthodoxy which in some other points George Keith has blended in his Catechism with such False Doctrines as these now recited ; and although he , like other Quakers , in their Books , has a way of discoursing more ambiguously than ever any Daemon of Delphos did , and usually imitates the Cuttle-fish by so darkning his Context with his Ink , that one can hardly find him without some evasion ; yet I have one sure way to catch him . He directed ( and since published ) a Letter unto the Ministers of Boston , which begins with saying , I being well assured , both by the Spirit of God in my Heart , and the Testimony of the Holy Scripture , that the Doctrine ye preach to the people is false , and concludes with divers Articles of this Doctrine , which he particularly charges as False Doctrine , besides many others ( as he says ) that I could mention . Well then , from what George Keith here counts False , we more easily than from his crafty expressions in other places , may gather what he counts True ; and I now promise you the fairest and finest System , we have yet had of a Quakers Divinity . He tells us , we hold False Doctrine , when we say , That God hath committed his Counsel wholly to Writing ; by which he knows , we mean , That God has not obliged us to believe or practise any thing in order to our Salvation , which the Scriptures do not either directly or by just consequence Reveal unto us . So then , the Quaker holds . That there is part of Gods Counsel , ( that is , that we are to think or do something in order to our own Salvation ) which we cannot learn from the Holy Scriptures . He tells us , we hold False-Doctrine , when we say , That God hath foreordained whatever cometh to pass ; although he knows we affirm , That God has not by his Eternal Decree either taken away the liberty of the Creature , or become the Author of sin in the Creature . So then the Quaker holds , That there are some things come to pass which God has not foreordained ; and so the Blessed God either do 's not Fore-Know every thing , or else He do's Fore-Know something which He do 's not Decree : and it must be said , that He knows things because they will be , and not that things will be because he appoints them ; and His Knowledge must be Fallible and Uncertain ; and the Glorious First-Being is made Subordinate to , & Determined by second causes . He tells us we hold False-Doctrine when we say That God hath not afforded or provided sussiciency of Grace , and means of salvation to all mankind whereby they may be saved ; albeit we also say , That all mankind are Salvable . So then the Quaker holds , that the Indians and Negroes , and the Pagans beyond China , have Sufficiency of Grace and means of Salvation . He therefore holds according to what Keith adds upon it , That the Light that is in every man , is sufficient to enable him to do any work acceptable to God . He must hold that there is not in the darkest corner of the Indies , a man that is Unto every Good work reprobate . He tells us we hold False-Doctrine , when we say , That Christ hath not Dyed for all men ; although we therein speak only concerning The Secret purpose of God and Christ ; and we grant , That the satisfaction of our Lord is both sufficient for all men , and offered to all men ; and that a day of patience for all men is thereby procured . So then the Quaker holds , That , Christ has Dyed for all men ; And that the vertue and success of our Lords Death depends wholly upon something to be done by men themselves , which God is not the doer of : That the Death of Christ never bought that Grace and Faith and Repentance for us by which the Elect are qualified to enjoy the vertue and success of it ; and that Peter was no more beholden to the Merit of the Lord Jesus for his Salvation , than Judas was for his . He tells us , we hold False-Doctrine when we say That Justification is only by Christs Righteousness without us , imputed unto us , and Received by Faith alone , and not by any Righteousness of God or Christ infused into us , or wrought in us . Albeit , he cannot be ignorant , that we think Justification is always attended with Evangelical Obedience . Hence then the Quaker holds , that Justification and Sanctification are the same thing [ which is rank Popery ; and ye Keith charges us with Antichristianism , for holding of the contrary : so by the way , I see Keith is one of those who look not for Antichristianism in Popery ; ] and that ( as K●i●hs own words are , ) The Graces of Sanctification are the Instruments of obtaining Justificationfrom Christ ; and so that men exercise all those Graces , before they can be Justify'd ; and ( as Keith also elsewhere expresses it ) He who is imperfectly Sanctify'd , cannot , while such , be perfectly Justify'd ; and so it seems there is not one Justify'd man alive in the world . He tells us we hold False-doctrine , when we say , That beginnings of true Sanctification cannot be totally fallen from ; although we do also say , That every sin is Mortal ; That Saints falling into grosser scandals , do becloud the Evidences of their Saintship ; That yet Saints cannot fall so far , but God will Recover them before they dy , and make them sincerely penitent . It follows then , the Quaker holds , That a truely sanctify'd man may totally fall away , and a child of God become a child of the Devil . When shall we have done ? He tells us , we hold False Doctrine because we say , No man in this life , by any grace of God given him , or to be given him , can perfectly keep the Commandments of God , but doth daily break Them in Thought , Word , and Deed ; though we do not say , That the good works of Gods Holy Spirit are Defiled , but we say , our Duties as far as they are our own , will in this life alwayes have Imperfection cleaving to them , which God pardons , therewithal accepting what sincerity is in them for the sake of Christ Jesus . The Quaker then must hold , That men in this life can perfectly keep the commandments of God ; and that a man may say , He has no sin , without being a Lyar for saying so .

Once more , He saies , we hold False-Doctrine , because we say , No men ever since the Apostles Days are assisted , by any Infallible Spirit , to Preach , Pray , and Write ; and that to Speak and Pray by the Holy Ghost , as the Prophets and Holy men witnessed of old , are ceased . In which Assertion , we are far from limiting the Holy O●e of Is●ael , who may still do things extraordin●ry and miraculous : but our intent is That we have no Warrant now to look for such Extatical Inspirations and Insallible Assistences as the Ancient prophets had . And yet we own special Illuminations of the Holy Spirit which the Souls of all true Believers do and must experience ; and we declare that without special Assistances of the Holy Spirit , we can do no Duty as it should be done . We do not think ( as Keith did a a minute or two ago ) that we bring into the world with us a principle that is sufficient to enable us to do any work acceptable unto God . Now the Quaker must then hold , That men in our Days have the same Inspirations and Assistances , that were given to the Apostles of old ; and may preach , pray , write , with as much Infallibility as they .

There are several other things , which Keith charges us with False-Doctrine for holding of ; and what sense can there be in his charges ? what is he but stark out of his wits , if he do not hold the contrary for true Doctrine himself ? Supposing then that Keith has truly represented the Doctrine of the Quakers , as indeed he has laid before us but the most Easy Tenets of it ; You then see Quakerism in a true light ; and I have taken the more pains , because that so to Behold it , is a much more difficult thing , than to Refute it . My Neighbours , you see what Quakerism is , the very best of Quakerism , or else you are never like to see what it is at all . Say , whether we are like to have any Religion , that may be call'd Protestant or Christian , if once this Doctrine be received ! I am confident there need no more to render Quakerism loathsome to all sensible men then the bare dissection of it , yet that I may further prevent your Drinking the death in the pot , about the Ingredients whereof I have thus advis'd you , it is necessary that I first give you the Characters of the Man , who is thus inviting you to swallow it . If I now set before you the Marks of him that is labouring to snatch many poor Lambs out of our Flocks , with such a vigilance and violence , as has awakened me to give you notice of him , it is not out of any particular spite at his person , but meerly because his Person ( under the Disguise of Sheeps-cloathing ) is that by the Fame and Noise whereof , his Doctrine comes to be the more favourably look ▪ d upon . 'T is because he is cry'd up for a Rare Man , that his Word begins to go so far among many unthinking people ; and therefore , if I can Demonstrate , That George Keith is not the Man which he is taken to be , but a most absurd and wicked Seducer , and one from whom all good men should with Detestation Turn away : I shall do more to obviate the spreading of a perilous Cancer among you , than by answering all the Arguments of the Quakers , which are just No●e at all . I find that when the Bl●ssed Apostle Paul would stop the progress of an Error , which the Quakers in our Days are infected with , he offers a pourtraiture of the persons that were the principal Spreaders and Patrons of that Malignant Error . Give me leave then to tell you , What a person 't is , that some have in admiration so as to be in hazard of becoming Quakers for him ; and I shall deal so moderately in it , as to avoid all Reports and Hear says , and confine my self to the Idaeas of him which his own Books , and but two or three of Them neither , have given us . I say then ,

That GEORGE KEITH is a Person , from whom , they that have any Love and Care for their own Souls , are to Turn away .

And I thus prove it .