HEre they plainly endeavour to incinuate into peoples minds, that we are in Affinity with the Papists; and have Papists amongst us.

This horrid Slander and Lye I once believed, through the like Incinuations of such, and some of these men: Now indeed the deadly Venome of their Monition Lyes here, being the old Weapon whereby they have for many years endeavoured to de­stroy our Reputation, and thereby our Being, in the Land of our Nativity: and truly these men consider not in their heart, that God remembreth all their Iniquity, Hos. 2. 7. and so they go on to drink up iniquity as the Ox drinks water: and in this matter they have been so manifestly proved Lyars, that were they not the impudent Sons of Jezebel the Seducer, Rev. 2. 20. they would never have raged thus more, exccepting that God will have them discovered, to be of the same Spirit, with their Brethren in New England: for these 25 Moniters are a Com­plication of Presbyterians and Independants; and it is to be perpetuated as most requisite for the Information of succeeding Ages, That it was Preaching Praying, Fasting Presbyterians and Independants that Murthered the Saints in New England: Now in this horrid Impious Incinuation of us to be Popish, they yet manifest the depth of Villany, Hos. 6. 10. that lodgeth in their Hearts, to incinuate this afresh into Peoples minds: but Lyes are their Refuge, as Needham used to say of their Enemies, This Lye was their Weapon, 1659▪ when they put forth their Monition in this City. Now that through so much Tryal and Tribulation since, even to the general satisfact­ion of Magistrate and Subject, the contrary hath been mani­fested: These Men herein I Charge, 1. With most horrid [Page 10] impudency and malice. 2. To be manifestly hereby convicted, to have a design, to debauch the Peoples minds, in perswading them to believe the contrary to their experience, and what is repugnant to the conviction of their Conscience: contrary to experience: that sometimes these Moniters will say is the best Teacher; herein they are chargeable with Debauchery: and better for their work sake, merit the term [...] Debauchers, than Divines. This looks Pope like, that people must not see with their own eyes: It is sufficiently known, how oft Baxter hath flown up and down the Nation in white and black sheets, to render us Jesuitical and Romish: so cannot be much wonder­ed at in that proved enemy to all saints, who rather than will want enemies to shoot his arrows of malice and envy at, can make Sectaries, and then thunder out his Bulls against, calling upon the Powers to persecute them: as they know that are ac­quainted with the wards of his Catholick Key, dedicated to R. C. where I cannot but note, he scribles against a sort of Sectaries, I could never meet with in any other Author, and yet am no stranger to the History of the Times, nor a heedless Spectator, of publick Actions, that is the vainest Sect: but no doubt but this man would have all he envies such a Sect as he pleaesth to tearm them, and then away with them all at one stroak, that the Presbyter may have all, and that scarse enough to satisfie their greedy desires: But adored be the hand of God, wherein is the heart of Princes, who hath secretly disappointed all such Hamans: and here I cannot but remember people of this mans being in 1659. publickly cryed up and down in London, for a Lyar and a Slanderer: so R. B thou art no changling; wherein thou hast no doubt been lately strengthned, by a Son of the same Mother: though differing a little in Feather, Tho. Hicks the Baptist: who might well have Subscribed, as of your Fraternity, being so dexterous in forgery, whose Dialogues, and thy Catholick Key differ in date, but not in Nature. Now to conclude, This I hereby declare to all of you, and to all men, that this Incinuation is most false, and the Lye and Lyars are for [Page 11] the lake of Gods Vengeance for ever: and that we have either Papist or juggling Socinian amongst us, is a soul lye, and make your Charge good if you can. And I hereby warn all, as they tender their Souls welface, and would escape the Pit of Perditi­on, these Malicious men are leading them into, to have a care they let not into their minds this mo [...]t detestable Incinuation. A lye I once believed, and was prejudiced against the Saints of God by it, on the contrary I declare, that in Conscience I be­live there never was a Jesuite or Papist amongst the Quakers, as owning them, or their Principles: and for Socinianism, I refer you to a Book written by those Servants of Christ, his Church, and their Generation, George Whitehead and William Penn, intitled The Divinity of Christ: wherein is enough said to satisfie any, but such as are drunk with the Wine of the Whores Cup, i. e. the Priests, i. e. the Presb. and Indepen­dants Cup of Malice against the Innocent: thus the Lord ha­ving opened my eyes, and deliverd me out of these snares of the Enemy, i. e. to believe the false incinuations of men against the holy People of God, I give my Testimony against this their incinuation, as tending to debauch People, being assured, that as the standers by said, when the Temple was rent, and darkness covered the earth, when Christ suffered: Of a truth this was the Son of God: so that by the Doctrine and Conver­sation of the people whom these men thus traduce, even most people have been reached so as to believe, they are not, nor never were, Jesuitical or Popish: Now at this time a day, thus to incinuate, I say is to endeavour to debauch the minds of the People, to perswade them to believe a people to be that, which they have born, and do bear such a Testimony against, in root and branch, as never was born by any People, since Popery had a name in the world. And oh that the present Magistrates of England could bow their ear and receive a word of Counsel in this matter, even to be aware of these men, and of being in­fluenc'd by them into an evil opinion of the innocent people of God: their old practice was by Petitions and Addresses to en­deavour [Page 12] to stir up their own Creatures to acts of Cruelty against us, under the same pretence of Jesuitism and Popery; but of late years, what they incinuated into peoples minds to affright and amuze them on that acoount is sufficiently known: and now again, because malice hath no place for rest, they are buzzing again into peoples minds, incinuations against us, as the introdncers of Popery. Well, God Almighty will render their Iniquity into their own bosome; and as to you, this I declare, the Quakers merit no evil from you, being a people of as sound Principles, as to Government, as ever were upon the Earth, whoever they were and have been that have hurt people with whimsical Opinions concerning Government, un­der specious pretences, I shall here be silent as to such: but as for the Holy Israel of God, called Quakers, Righteousness is in their hearts towards all men, to the King, and all that are in Authority: desiring their Eternal and Temporal Tranquility: And therefore I do even beseech all such, whom God in his wise Providence hath set as Rulers over the People of this Na­tion, to have a care they be not seduced by these men, into false apprehensions of this holy People: and must to that end here mind you, and all m [...]n, That it was Preaching, Praying, Fast­ing Presbyterians and Independants that murthered the Saints in New-England. Oh have a care of them, for they drive at no less here: but God that hath, will yet more and more unveil them to all men.

COme Rabbies, though never at your Universities, nor can well tell what trash by Tradition you profess, for Fundamentals, forged in, and somented by General Councels, and Synods of carnal men, like your selves, that in several A­ges, [Page 13] have drawn Pictures of Religion, which you fall down to and worship, out of whose Treasuries you have stockt your selves: and strip you of which, alas how much wiser are you than those whom you mock at, as ignorant? this I affirm on behalf of the Quakers, that whatsoever, according to the holy Scriptures can be called Fundamental Principles of the Chri­stian Religion, they fully affert, own, and contend for, even for the Faith once delivered to the Saints, which you carnal men are out of, Now, you Rabbies, and all men know, that we believe in one Almighty Omnipotent God, and that he is to be loved, worshipped, feared and obeyed: that he created and upholdeth all things by the word of his power: that he is holy, merciful, just and true: that man by sin became deprived of the knowledge, and enjoyment of God, his Creator: that the restoration of this lost man to happiness again, in the en­joyment of the favour of his Creator, is only through the Lord Jesus Christ, who 1600 years agoe, was of the Line of David, born of the Virgin at Bethlem in Judea, who preached a Hea­venly Doctrine, was Crucified by the Jews, and laid in a Se­pulchre, and was raised by the power of God, and was seen of Mary, and other Brethren, who ascended far above all Hea­vens, and shall come the second time without sin to Salvation, even to all that look for him: that he came to do the Fathers will, and in the prepared body did it, in which ho abolisht death, offering up himself through the eternal Spirit, without fault to God, to purge the Conscience from dead works to serve the living God, Heb. 9. 14. That Man must believe in this Lord Jesus Christ for remission of sins, and acceptance with the Fa­ther: and that by Faith Christ is applyed to the Soul, for Wis­dome, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption: and that by the imputed and imparted Righteousness of Christ, man comes to be justified, and accepted with God, acceptance being only in him the beloved: We believe the Resurrection of the dead, Christ the first fruits, and afterward they that are his at his coming: We believe the Life everlasting, Amen. And for [Page 14] Christs sake are willing to be killed all the day long, in hope of a better Resurrection, seeking a Country whose Builder and Maker is God: VVe own the Holy Scriptures to be of inesti­mable value, and excellent use to all men: but we say it self gives the preheminence to the Holy Spirit, as that alone which leads into all truth, John 16. 8.

Now in opposition to the four Moniters that incinuate that we do not own, and preach Christ, the Eternal Son of God, and after the flesh of the Virgin: And the 21 that incinuate, we hold antifundamental Doctrines, I give forth this Testimo­ny: wherein I affirm that of the 4 to be a most detestable Lye: that we preach a meer Created Light of the natural Conscience and Reason, affirming that the same Jesus that the Apostles Preacht, to be Preacht amongst us; faith in him is preacht as the only name given by whom poor Souls can be saved: and in opposition to the 21, do say, if to believe in the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent be essential to Salvation; if to fear God, and love our Neighbours, and do to all men as we would be done by: even to believe in Christ as the Author of eternal Salvation, to all that obey him, and as is more larg­ly afore-mentioned. be with you Fundamental, then your in­cinuation of our holding Anti-fundamentals is slanderous.

It is very true, Baby-baptism, prated▪prayers, Sinners to sing Saints Psalms, Man made-Ministers, entitling every un­clean harlot to Church-membership, that the Merciful God decreed some men from all eternity to damnation, that God of­fers mercy and Salvation to those he never intends it: these Lies and Blasphemies, wherewith you have poisoned this age; all this we deny, but all wholsome found Doctrine we own, and are ready to make it appear to the Faces of the Stoutest of you, and prove you are Slanderers of us.

These Lies once believing, that the Quakers denyed Christ and the Scriptures; and knowing the danger people are in, through the subtil wiles of these men, to be seduced into a Spi­rit of envy against the Innocent, even to their everlasting Dam­nation, [Page 15] I am the larger in this matter: the great objection in this matter is, that we preach the Light, and exhort people to turn to the Light of Christ in them, this is true, but that this is to preach, a created Light of Reason, and natural Conscience: oh that ever men that would be accounted the only Learned men, should be thus blind, and base, and thus to incinuate, when the Scripture so amply gives us an account of Christs preaching himself, in the same Dialect, that he was come a Light into the world; and exhorted people to believe in the Light, that they might be Children of the Light, John 8. 12. and here I shall refer these Rabbies, and all people, to the Testimony of Paul, Acts 26. giving account of his Doctrine, I continue witnessing, to small and great, the same things spoken by Moses and the Prophets; how that Christ should suffer; and be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light to the people, and the gentiles: Well ye Rabbies, is it to preach a cre­ated Light of the Reason and natural Conscience, to testifie that Christ doth shew light to all men, and exhort them to turn to it; you might as well have said the same of Paul, had you lived in his days: Oh the midnight darkness that you are in, thus basely to perswade people to believe Lyes concerning us, of your own forging. VVhatever have been, and may be, your false accusations, I am assured, all these people called Quakers, can unanimously and chearfully, concerning Jesus Christ of Na­zareth, subscribe to that savory saying of Doctor Crisp, as I re­member.

I VVill readily allow these men to be competent judges of such a life, according to their own Tenent, that Experience [Page 16] is the best Teacher: yet in this also their tongue is set on fire in hell, according to their wonted trade, to call good evil, and evil good, Jer. 48. 27. Was not Israel a dirision to you? even so is it with these men: they deride the Israel of God, and endea­vour thus to draw in others to deride us: and I doubt not but the cursed fire, that burns in their unclean hearts against us, they design to blow up in the whole Nation against us: but it is like them, who doctrinally apply peace where God speaks war, and war where God speaks peace; but they are lame in this al­so, by their own Tenent: who in their Pulpits will tell you, Generals prove nothing: This is a general Accusation; but ex­cept they can of their own knowledge, produce some particular instance, it proves nothing: and though I never was of their University Pupils, yet do believe, that by their University Rules, they merit a lash, for suppository Calumniation: It's true, Ill-will never speaks well: so to expect better from these men, were to seek grapes on thorns: but we know all are not dead drunk with the wine of Malice, so as to believe all these men say, though termed Reverend Divines. Old stile, though nothing more repugnant to propriety of Speech: But as to that matter let all men know, that if any pretending to be of us, be such as indulge the flesh, they are none of us, but are returned to you: for it is not possible they should be of our fellowship, but may be fit members for your Church, who doctrinally de­clare, that Dominion over sin is not to be expected here: as a great one of you in a Book called Helps to Piety, thus faith, The body of sin and death were born, and must die together. Oh rare Divines! is this Doctrine a help to Piety? Now to conclude this, Oh ye Moniters, would ye recover your long lost Reputa­tion, by slandering us? your old cause taught you better▪ all this will not serve your turn, for God is stripping the veil off peoples minds, and they will ere long see with their own eyes, not yours; and the unprejudiced know you are false accusers herein; and that all sensualists are judged of us and not of us: for we follow peace and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

HEre is a Lye Couchant: he that rides conquering and to conquer, notwithstanding all your weapons of opposi­tion hath in our day riden prosperously, that in our Nation at this day is many thousands of true Israelites; of which great number it may be suppos'd, you 25 are not acquainted with 100. And yet you are so confident, as to affirm us all fools but a few. Oh ye Artists, and men of Methods, that are wise to deceive! We are not ashamed to grant, that we are come to that Wis­dome that the world calls folly, being willing to become fools, that we may be truly wife, as the Apostle testified in his day; and it's not novelty, for such as preach in the wisdom of God, to be called babblers, by such as you: We are come to that which giveth subtilty to the simple, and in that mistery how should we be intelligible to you, carnal men, whose wisdome is from beneath, sensual, divelish: But before you upbraid us for our ignorance, oh Rabbies, you should answer Rusticuss by S. F. What, will you boast, and put off your harness, as victorious, and sing and ring a victory, and never have engaged your ene­my? If Rusticuss hath put you all to silence, why do you so mock at the Rustick? You prate against the Rustick, and yet run a­way from him. Well ye Rabbies, we grant you cannot under­stand; but I tell you the reason is, because you were never with us at the School of Christs Cross. We know you come from Cambridge & Oxford, but you are not yet entered in the School of Christs Cross, and that's the reason, we who speak the wis­dome of God in a Mistery, are to you unintelligible. We know you have read worldly Authors, and have hundreds or thou­sands a year, to pick here and there, and then inclose it in your [Page 18] Bible, and tell the people, thus say the Fathers of the Church: thus the Antient and Modern Divines: the Text is thus divi­ded into parts: these the points of Doctrine: thus illustrated: these the Inserences: these the grounds and reasons of the point: these the Uses, and thus applyed: Lo your Trade! and by this craft you fill your bellies, and maintain your Families in world­ly pomp, and thus the spirit that is in you lusteth to envy a­gainst the poor and meek of the earth, and call them fools and mad men, babblers, unintelligible of inconsistent Principles: Well, if ignorance be the Mother of our Devotion, we know we have heard and learnt of the Fathers, who calleth not ma­ny wise nor mighty, and confoundeth things that are, by that which is not. But oh that you Doctors could see, that God is in this day turning the wisdome of wise men backward, and per­fecting his praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings: which glorious work, though you joyn hand in hand against, you shall not go unpunisht: for Sions brightness is arising, and her God is her glory, and in vain do you form weapon after weapon, for none of them shall prosper, the Lord hath spoken, and who is he that saith and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? the Virgin Daughter of Sion laughs at all your plots and conspiracies, trusting in the arm of the Lord, that hath brought your councels to nothing, and yet, yet again will make you Diviners mad. Oh ye Doctors, Remember that hand that subverted all your councels, and brought down your lofty nest in 1659. you that deceived the simple ones of that day, by your long Prayers, and days of Fasts in several pla­ces in this City, charming them with Lyes, until the hand of the Lords Vengance brake forth, without remedy: could ever this age expect again to hear of you, whose light of your eyes, and breath of your nostrils, is so long agone dead, and twice buryed. Now oh people, can you chuse but stand amazed to see these men so impudent, as ever again to appear, as your Moni­ters? how many of your dear Fathers, Husbands, Brothers and Kindred have in this age, by these very men, been seduced into [Page 19] destructive ways to soul and body, to the ruine of many antient and honest Families? I say to all people, reflect but your own Experience, of these men, the best Teacher, as themselves say, and more need not to be said, than to remind you of your own experience of these men. These men are better known to me, than to every one and my feet were well nigh slidden into the everlasting pit of destruction, by their seducing Doctrine; and it's my concernment to warn others: and I do say, could peo­ple hear the cry of thousands out of the pit of damnation, they would intelligibly hear their Idol of Jealousie, and others thus lament, Presbyterian and Independants, under the notion of Gospel Ministers, and Reverend Divines, were the men that se­duced us hither, by their preaching peace to us, and crying, the Lord is with you: had it not been for them, we had obeyed the Light in our Consciences, and returned from our evil ways, and had never come here: thus cries John Indicot and others of New England, and this is the dolorous complaint of thousands of our, but yesterday, dear Country men. Oh people, consider what I say unto you, that you would but reflect your own expe­perience of these men. Oh G. G. how darest thou ever appear again? shure thou hast forgotten thy Westminster Flatteries, thou most notorious lying Prophet, whom I heard thus to pray, at Pauls, Lord, Bless the Army of the Lamb, against the Beast, give them success. The Army that by thy Master was sent to Hyspa­niola, to rob the Spaniard, so then there: the Army of the Lamb was hewed to pieces in the woods in Hyspaniola by a few Moors. Oh sad Moniter, possest with a legion of lying Spirits! Solomon saith, He that saith to the wicked, thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, Prov. 11. 26. That is thy portion, O G. G. by way of eminence. Oh if people were not in a Lethargy of se [...]urity, they would be aware of you all, and shun you as the Plague of the present time.

Thus having somewhat exceeded what I intended, I shall conclude, adding some few worthy Sayings of some Antients: and in short, answering to what may be objected, that here is no­thing [Page 21] in way of answer, to what John Faldoe hath written: I shall not dissemble, in pleading inability, knowing a measure of that promise fulfilled, that the least of the flock shall draw them out: only this I say, at present as to that, that so much of that nature is already written by William Penn, that more need not be yet said, seeing it is untoucht by these Adversaries: to which I refer all that would herein be satisfied: expecting to dispatch a discourse, wherein I shall prove these very men, I have hereby warned people of, to be in Doctrine and practice, the very floodgate, whereby Atheism and Prophaness, is break­ing in as a mighty torrent, upon this miserable age: but God hath lift up his Standard, blessed be his holy Name, and that by the Testimony of the holy people called Quakers, as I shall hereafter more largly evidence. Farewel.