A
Copy
of
a
Letter
sent
by
E.
B.
an
eminent
Quaker
in
London
,
to
the
Pope
at
Rome
,
transmitted
thence
by
Cardinal
Bromio
to
a
Person
of
Quality
in
England
.
With
a
Copy
of
the
Faculties
granted
to
John
Locet
,
Englishman
and
Priest
at
Rome
,
1678.
for
England
,
Scotland
,
and
all
the
Kings
Dominions
,
Ireland
excepted
.
Friend
,
I
Am
moved
at
this
time
by
the
Spirit
,
to
speak
to
thee
a
few
words
,
which
plainly
proceed
from
the
Light
within
,
and
may
prove
for
thy
Edification
and
Conversion
,
I
will
not
revile
thee
,
nor
call
thee
Antichrist
,
the
Whore
of
Babylon
,
the
Scarlet
Whore
,
nor
the
Beast
,
the
Dragon
or
the
Serpent
,
Titles
frequently
bestowed
on
thee
,
and
which
if
thou
deservest
thou
best
knowest
:
But
I
come
to
thee
in
the
Meakness
,
and
the
werds
of
Truth
and
Light
,
to
speak
to
thy
Soul
,
as
thou
art
a
Man
and
pretendest
to
have
Lordship
and
Dominion
over
both
the
Souls
and
Bodies
of
Men.
But
by
what
Authority
dost
thou
usurpe
the
Title
of
Papa
,
Father
of
the
whole
Church
of
Christ
?
Who
first
conferred
that
Title
on
thee
?
Was
it
from
above
or
from
Men
?
Jesus
when
he
was
on
Earth
commanded
Peter
to
feed
his
Sheep
,
and
as
a
Servant
to
administer
to
them
,
he
gave
him
no
Authority
to
Slaughter
them
,
or
to
Flcece
them
,
or
to
use
any
Tyranny
towards
them
.
Thou
pretendest
to
sit
in
Peters
Seat
,
have
a
care
,
I
warn
thee
,
that
it
be
not
Satan's
Chair
,
for
it
is
very
doubtful
if
the
Man
Peter
was
ever
at
Rome
,
and
it
is
for
certain
never
had
any
Authority
there
,
and
was
neither
Lord
,
Master
or
Pope
,
but
a
Servant
to
the
Servants
of
Jesus
Christ
,
which
Title
thou
also
ownest
in
Words
,
when
in
Deeds
thou
art
proud
as
Lucifer
,
and
wouldest
set
thy
Feet
on
the
Necks
of
Kings
and
Princes
,
and
proudly
trample
on
the
People
of
God
.
Thou
pretendest
to
the
Spirit
,
show
it
by
thy
Works
;
to
Infallibility
,
but
thou
hast
failed
in
thy
Doctrine
and
in
thy
Practices
.
I
hold
with
thee
that
the
Spirit
is
to
be
the
guide
of
the
Saints
,
and
that
the
Spirit
is
infallible
and
can
never
be
mistaken
,
but
it
is
not
to
be
confined
to
thee
,
and
to
thy
Cardinals
,
for
I
tell
thee
,
our
Pope
George
Fox
,
hath
as
much
of
the
Spirit
as
thou
hast
,
and
it
is
as
infallible
,
and
therefore
thou
oughtest
not
to
ingross
it
to
thy self
,
since
it
is
communicated
to
all
the
Children
of
God
,
and
to
all
the
Saints
that
observe
and
hearken
to
the
Light
within
.
But
thou
hast
done
wickedly
;
thou
and
all
thy
Predecessors
,
for
several
hundreds
of
years
,
have
been
building
a
very
Babel
of
Confusion
,
thou
hast
made
Religion
the
Devils
stalking
Horse
,
to
drive
Souls
into
his
Snares
,
thou
hast
set
up
the
Calves
at
Dan
,
and
in
the
Mount
,
thou
hast
polluted
Religion
with
Idolatry
,
and
made
of
it
a
meer
piece
of
Art
,
Pollicy
,
and
Legerdemain
,
I
tell
thee
plainly
thou
hast
set
up
a
Pompous
outward
Religion
,
only
full
of
Gaudy
out-sides
,
without
any
Truth
or
Sincerity
,
and
without
the
Spirit
,
the
Light
,
or
the
Life
of
God
.
Look
therefore
,
I
advise
thee
as
a
Friend
,
and
Brother
,
to
the
Light
within
thee
,
which
shineth
in
thy
darkness
,
that
will
teach
thee
better
things
,
thou
canst
not
but
see
and
know
the
vanity
of
thy
Religion
,
which
thy
Sons
and
thy
Daughters
follow
;
and
thou
thy self
laughest
at
the
Ignorance
and
Folly
of
most
of
thy
Adherents
and
Followers
,
who
zealously
follow
thy
Dictates
without
sight
or
knowledge
.
Thou
actest
against
thy
own
Conscience
,
and
against
Knowledge
,
and
against
Light
,
which
is
the
Sin
against
the
Holy
Spirit
,
and
for
this
thou
shalt
be
condemned
,
unless
thou
timely
repent
thee
of
,
and
reform
thy
Errors
.
It
is
to
maintain
thy
Pride
,
thy
Lust
,
and
thy
Covetousness
,
that
thou
strivest
to
kick
against
the
Pricks
,
and
to
establish
thy
Abominations
in
the
sight
of
the
Israel
of
God
;
but
the
day
will
come
,
and
is
even
at
hand
,
that
thou
and
thy
Ismaelites
,
which
are
become
the
Sons
of
the
Bond-woman
of
Sin
,
that
he
cast
out
into
utter
Perdition
.
Thou
and
thy
gor-bellied
Cardinals
,
that
live
like
Princes
,
and
fatten
themselves
up
in
their
abominable
Lusts
,
against
the
day
of
Slaughter
,
are
very
unlike
the
Apostles
and
Disciples
of
Christ
,
who
taught
and
preach'd
the
Word
with
Pains
Care
and
Travel
,
in
meekness
and
Poverty
from
the
true
Light
and
Spirit
shining
within
their
Souls
;
and
were
the
Primitive
Christians
on
Earth
again
,
to
see
the
Shop
of
confusion
,
thou
and
thy
Hierarchy
have
made
out
of
their
simple
spun
thred
,
they
would
not
be
able
to
know
or
believe
this
to
be
any
part
of
the
Religion
they
taught
or
begun
,
with
so
great
Labour
,
Travel
,
Pains
,
and
Martyrdom
.
Thus
hast
thou
made
all
their
Labours
of
little
or
no
effect
;
and
still
takest
care
to
keep
poor
Souls
in
the
Snares
of
sin
,
and
in
the
bonds
of
Ignorance
.
I
tell
thee
plainly
,
thy
Conscience
does
witness
against
thee
,
and
thou
dost
fee
these
Truths
,
but
it
is
thy
Pride
that
makes
thee
Tyrant
like
to
exercise
Lordship
and
Dominion
over
others
,
and
to
maintain
this
Lordship
and
Tyranny
,
thou
art
fain
to
exercise
cunning
Arts
and
pollicies
of
the
Carnal
man
,
and
even
to
fly
to
the
subtilties
of
the
Serpent
,
and
the
wicked
one
,
leaving
no
stone
unturned
to
maintain
thy
Vanity
and
to
fulfil
thy
Lusts
.
Thou
knowest
well
enough
there
is
no
Purgatory
,
such
as
thou
hast
invented
to
affright
and
delude
poor
ignorant
people
out
of
their
mony
,
but
the
execrable
gain
which
thou
makest
by
Indulgencies
will
not
let
thee
Reform
that
wicked
and
abominable
Error
.
Thou
also
knowest
the
Vanity
of
praying
to
Saints
,
and
to
carved
Idols
,
express
against
the
Word
of
God
.
Yet
because
of
the
Gain
and
Reputation
these
bring
to
thee
,
and
the
means
to
delude
the
ignorant
,
by
false
Miracles
,
and
pretended
Reliques
,
thou
still
keepest
it
a
Foot
with
all
thy
ridiculous
Shews
,
Proccssions
,
Jubilies
,
Holy-water
,
Exorcisms
,
Altars
,
Copes
,
Miters
,
Crosiers
,
Surplices
and
other
Trinkets
,
invented
by
the
Devil
and
his
Instrument
,
the
vain
mind
of
subtle
Man
,
to
draw
the
Eyes
and
Ears
,
but
not
the
Hearts
of
the
Calvish
Multitude
,
who
bleat
after
these
things
,
and
understand
them
not
.
Thou
knowest
the
unnaturalness
and
impossibility
of
thy
breaden
Gods
real
Presence
,
and
yet
for
the
great
respect
it
begets
to
thee
and
thy
Priests
,
with
the
Rabble
of
Moncks
,
Friers
,
Nuns
,
Eremits
and
such
like
;
thou
still
most
stifly
against
Religion
,
Sence
and
Reason
,
maintainest
that
idle
Opinion
.
Think
therefore
before
it
be
too
late
,
of
Repentance
and
Reformation
:
do
the
work
thorowly
.
The
Light
hath
formerly
shined
,
with
some
glimmering
in
the
times
of
the
Albingenses
in
France
,
and
of
Wickliff
in
England
,
and
of
Jerom
and
Huff
in
Pragne
,
and
afterwards
of
Luther
in
Germany
;
they
caused
some
Reformaiion
from
the
grosest
of
thy
superstition
and
filthiness
of
Idolatry
:
but
yet
too
much
of
the
Dregs
remains
,
and
the
Carnal
minded
man
yet
retains
much
of
thy
Pride
,
Vanity
,
Pomp
and
Shew
in
their
outward
Worship
;
and
much
of
thy
ambitious
Lordship
and
Dominion
;
but
we
the
simple
and
harmless
Sheep
of
Gods
Fold
,
called
by
the
People
in
scorn
,
Quakers
and
Shakers
,
from
the
strong
actuating
of
the
Spirit
within
,
have
reformed
our selves
to
the
Pattern
of
the
Apostles
and
Primitive
Teachers
and
Preachers
,
and
being
filled
with
the
Spirit
,
speak
from
the
Light
thereof
.
And
from
this
Light
I
now
plainly
write
to
thee
,
being
stirred
up
to
warn
thee
of
the
Wrath
to
come
,
and
to
tell
thee
,
that
unless
thou
makest
a
thorow
Reformation
,
according
to
our
Holy
Pattern
,
and
come
into
the
Community
of
the
Saints
on
Earth
,
thou
shalt
never
have
Communion
with
those
in
Heaven
.
I
am
to
denounce
Judgment
against
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
be
overthrown
,
and
thou
shalt
be
scourged
for
thy
abominable
Practises
against
the
People
of
England
,
in
the
Plotings
,
underminings
,
Murthers
and
wicked
Contrivances
of
thy
Ban-Dogs
that
call
themselves
Jesuites
,
but
are
Judasses
,
that
betray
Kingdoms
and
wurry
the
People
.
Thy
time
is
but
short
,
and
thy
Reign
of
a
few
days
;
for
either
the
King
of
France
if
ever
he
gets
the
Monarchy
of
the
West
,
will
unnest
thee
,
and
remove
thy
Sea
to
Paris
,
and
have
a
Pope
of
his
own
,
or
else
God
will
let
loose
the
Rage
of
the
Turk
against
thee
,
and
suffer
him
to
plant
his
Half-moons
in
Rome
as
well
as
in
Jerusalem
,
for
a
scourge
and
Vengeance
of
all
the
filthiness
and
Abominations
acted
in
that
ploce
.
Look
to
it
,
I
give
thee
this
friendly
warning
,
take
it
to
heart
,
for
I
tell
it
thee
in
plainness
and
sincerity
and
from
the
Light
,
which
shineth
in
Thy
Friend
in
the
Love
and
in
the
Truth
.
E.
B.
From
London
,
the
7th
day
of
the
4th
Month
,
in
the
year
1679.