What a horrid Infamous piece of Flattery was it to tell that King That they nothing doubted the Security of their Religion and Property knowing alâ— prâ—ceeded from Mature Judgment and P … ed Principles c. Yet 1. They kept Fast Days for fear of Popery and Slavery 2. Then could K. James be no Papist if he believed it Unlâ—wful to Persecute Men for Conscience in the common Acceptation of the Words then had the Pope Erred and a Council and that in no small matter but alas K. James knew Proseâ—ution of men for Heresie was no Persecution for Conscience besides an Erroneous Conscience was no Conscience Quiâ— non est scientia c. 3 The Addressers would say privately All was but a Trick of K. James No wonder he Laughed at them when they were gon and PVAW'd c. I have been every where of late years Plagued about those Scandalous Addresses Some would call a Second Judas a Second Cyrus and the Destroyer of their Countrey the Repairer of their Breaches Well done B. C. to call them that did it to Repentance I have called on them all little enough Now Friend C. let me ask thee a few Questions Was it not shameful to censure me and another man for not putting our names to our Books and thou never put thy name to thine I gave it out to all I was the Author May I not debate the matter with Jews Mahometans and others and yet be conclusive in the Doctrine of Christianity Why Child what ails thy Noddle Is it proper to censure me for being Comical after I gave my reasons and they not considered p. 6. Is it true W. Penn Expounded on Mat. 18.17 Tell the Church a sense denyed in one place confirmed in another to serve a Turn I see there was a little Mistake in putting the names of the Book could not so great a Lyar as thou that talks of my being once in a mad-house that deniest Quakers Bow Couldst not thou have said Sonâ— Enemy or the Printer or others put in those Words or that some Letters accidentally jumpt together and make these unhappy Sentences Where is Inspiration now when he was lately told some Quakers deny any Body of Christ in heaven c. He said they were Ignorant tho Sincere What friend William is the Light and Infallible Spirit come to this Did I say in my Book The Quakers were more humble than others c. Away thou shameless Man What wilt thou say next Or that The Quakers were more Just than others No I did not so wrong them Did I not give a true account of Barclay about thâ— Light p. 79. Look once again May not Perfectionists long continuing so at last reform and so God 〈◊〉 merciful to them in their Conversion 〈◊〉 a proper Petition I am not used to deal with such silly Arguers Suppose I should plead the cause of him that wrote the story of Henry Windor let it not displease seeing he was joyn'd with me who he is I know not He is said to be worse then Mad worse then the Hammerer why the two Quakers that came to Henry Windor and his Wife from the Lord that they had Murthered a Child and must dye the Spirit would appear in the Court They were Melancholly or Mad says B.C. 1. They were owned by the Quakers before in and after to their Death 2. This Madness was not discern'd by the Justice or Judge or Quakers or others but the Quakers clos'd in with them 3. If any thing falls out as they say They be the Lords Prophets if not they were then mad Was Sollomon Eccles Mad when he Prophesied falsly to John Story not when he prophesied of the burning of London of which Friends took no more notice then the Men of the World and so never mov'd their Goods saying It was a Delusion Was W. Penn Mad when he prophesied against Thomas Hicks For the story in Bristol of a Quaker that said Thus saith the Lord give the man his Rope again it is denied so is every thing else but I pray Why not as well as when G. Fâ—x was about to Eat The word of the Lord came unto him saying Eat nâ—t as before Now B. C. to humble thee if it may be for thy Folly and Falshood I will suppose I should apply my self to thee in the same Language thou hast done to me and with the like Falshood What wouldst thou say of me what many now do and many more will of thee Suppose I should besprinkle thee with some of thy Oratory to me and anâ—ther Thâ—u Impostor in thy Colours fit for Box or Bedlam in thy Youth thou wert burnt in the hand at Bristol for a Highway-man yea thou were Pillored â—nd thy Ears were cropt off for Sedition Thou refusest to Preach to the Quakers â—nâ—er Five Hundred a Year None of my Friends in Bristol ever deserted St. James's Back c. in the last Persecution and I will prove it for it is well known John Weeks was committed to Prison therefore neither he George Founs Samuel Winney nor I did ever refuse to walk up and down the City on week days or to Preach in our Publick Places to a thousand at a time Lords Days O thou Impudent Man Mad-man c. Thou didst prove the Vnlawfulness of Bowls and Nine-pins from Mat. 1.2 And Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat Judas and his Brethren He must set up for the trade of Lying that doth it more than thou every leafe is full of Nonsense None have so much the command of the Peoples Purses as the She Speakers yet to avoid Reflections as much as may be I have thus spoken to thee c. But there is no end of this should I thus do might I not fear as Cain you had as good cut off a man's arm or leg as thus defame him VVell one consideration is comfortable a Quakers word is no Slander You have been known to be Notorious Lyars in your highest Pretences your greatest Speakers I had almost forgotten to tell the Reader that B. C. in the name of Friends says As Scripture contain the Word and Command of God to us so they are the word of God c. No more need to be said your cause is gone I therefore declare my work lies with Mr. Penn to him were my Questions sent and seeing he cannot answer and therefore wisely attempts it not I intend no more to answer such scriblers as B. C. I leave you with St. Paul's words Gal. 1.6 8 9. I marvel you are so soon removed to another Gospel but though we or an Angel from Heaven Preach any other Gospel unto you then which we have Preached unto you let him be Accursed as we said before so say I now again if any man Preach any other Gospel unto you then that ye have received let him be Accursed Which words have been wisely and seriously used by some Ministers when Quakers have come from far to
THE FOXONIAN Quakers DUNCES LYARS and SLANDERERS Proved out of GEORGE FOX's Journal And other Scriblers Particularly B. C. his Quakers no Apostates or the Hammerer Defeated Amanuensis as is said to G. C. as he sometime wrote himself Gulielmus Calamus alias William Penn. Also a Reply to W. C. a Church-man the Quakers Advocate his Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidanter Malleatus c. TITUS I. XII 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By Trepidantium Malleus LONDON Printed for W. Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street and J. Marshall at the Bible in Grace-church-street near Cornhil 1697 TO HIS Vnholiness WILLIAM PENN THE ENGLISH POPE IT is notoriously known when the Old Papists the Fathers of the Quakers could neither by Scripture or Reason confute the Doctrine of Luther and Calvin they invented and publisht Libels instead of answers against the Men and their Morals Luther was a Drunkard and had his Familiar Calvin was an Intemperate Man and would often call for Wine and they had sound the mystery in his name he was also a second Lucian and by an Anagram they had found this in his name also That their Children the Quakers have taken the like method with the best Ministers and People in the World is so notorious that it needs no proof that they have done the like also with some that for their Blasphemies and other wicked procedures have deserted them is too well known Mr. Bugg Mr. Pennyman Mr. Keith Mr. Crisp are Madmen c. I therefore can expect no better Treatment I am charged by B. C. the Quaker and by W. C. the Churchman their Advocate 1. With Love-Melancholly and what Confessions I made on that Subject 2. With being clapt up in a Mad-house BOX 3. With high demands for Preaching and what befell me for it nigh Bristol To all which I Answer 1. That they are stories all False and I declare I never beard any such things charged on me by my greatest Enemies till I read them in their Libels 2. That I will give to any man Five Pound that shall prove that ever I was in Box or any such place One Hour 3. That I never got much by Preaching but at Brislington named I offer'd to give all their dues to a Minister 10 year Fellow of Lincoln-Colledge but then Poor if they would employ him aâ—d I freely gave him his Table also Who shall regard a Quaker who tells a story That I or my Brother for he cannot tell which were found in bed with I know who by an Officer Not I fâ—r I never heard the story till now and to be plain I believe he neither That al o aff rms That Bristol Friends Steel c. never left the Place of their Publick Worship unless when sick c. When I appeal to the whole City particularly the disappointed Informers whether for several years before King James's Indulgence came out they could find Men or Women there That also denies That the Quakers Bow to any Man except a few Corrupted by us and Reproved by them When it is so notorious to all the World You their Infallible head are a great Bower and so a common Idolater that B. C. imitates you his Master and continueth the Custome since his denial of this to his and the Quakers perpetual shame as some of them confess Who shall regard what this Church man says after him that talks of the Fable of the Mad-house c. and in such a stile as if he were hastning thither or lately came from thence Cur Yeâ—â—ing Cur Mr. Woodcock Goodman Goose c. this is no banter but amongst Children Young and Old Whether You Sir were the Aâ—thor â—f the Quakers no Apostates or helper to the materials or rather immaterials of that Booâ— or only the Licenser or Approver mâ—n think as they see cause no Book must now go without consent thus the Lords Mâ—ssage is stopt curtail'd or changed since it pleased you to set up Ecclesiastical Courts and make Canons to try the Light by What if I should have affirmed stories perhaps too true of friend Green of Colchester that Cleveland speaks â—f that bugger'd a Mare I had been guilty of too great rashness Help Woodcock Fox and Naylor For our Friend Green 's a Stallion Alas what hope of converting the Pope When the Quaker turns Italian And that in good time of Christmas Which tho' our Friends have damn'd all Yet when did we hear of a curs'd Cavileer E'er play'd such a Christmas gambal But thus our matters teach us The intent being well directed Tho' the Devil trapan the Adamical Man The Saint stands uninfected c. Had your Friends and Advocates these stories of me by Revelation as the two friends that came to Henry Windor had of the murther of his Child and that the Spirit should appear in the Court before the Judge which proving false were imprisoned c. Is it true that in Pensilvania some have been put to death on friends Spirit of Discerning When Christ was Crucified had you been there had you not told five false stories to their one B. C. talks of my Learning and that I am now the Champion of the Cause that my Book was handed up and down the City as an unanswerable Book I doubt not but you thought it unanswerable from the time you saw it and I thank your scribe as is said for contributing his best help to prove it to be so though you were pleased unaskt lately to send me word You had no hand in the Book yet your sophistry is so great and abominable I cannot understand you Such a man was Drunk said a friend when found to be false yea with passion hath been the answer c. such Tricks are often among the â—erfect ones Y u have lately to serve a turn declared That you believed Imputed Righteousness in the sense we plead for the Body of Christ that was crucifi'd Rose again and is circumscrib'd in Heaven That there shall be a Resurrection of the same Body laid in the Grave that you believe 1 Cor. 15.20 21. in a literal sense without an Allegory when it was proved upon you you had Printed the contrary You made answer That was against Mens Relying on this c. as I had it from that good Ministerâ— to whom with others you said all this Oh! How deceitful are Sinless Men Goldney that Creature in the shape of a man lately deny'd he said this and that of such a place when proved on him at my Lodgings said I did not name the place though I pointed to it and spoke of it like him that said George Fox never said He was the Son of God which when proved said No his words were I am the Son of God But there is no end of this Villany No Papist shall Lye or Equivocate more for the Church than the greâ—test Quakers for the Light You having refused the proposals for a meeting to consider my Questions and not owning the late Reply I purpose
them to deliver a Message forsooth from the Lord against the Outward Word and Outward Christ and Outward Baptism and Outward Supper Now for the Man of Wit Civility and Learning the Author of Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidanter Malleatus Or the West-Countrey Wise-A-ker Crackbrain'd Reprimand to a late Book call'd Mr. Keith no Presbyterian nor Quaker but George the Apostate Hammered about his own Numscul being a Joco Satyrrical Return to a late Tale of a Tub emitted by a Reverend Non-Con at present residing not far from Bedlam By W.C. NOw Monsieur I hope I have pleas'd you to the heart and no more will you send a Hue and Cry after me for taring away a Rag of the Title of your Book What a Blustering Title is here I must not examine its Grammar or Oratory because the Writer is a great stranger to both as will be soon enough discovered In the mean while I remember I have heard that when K. James I. was about to Knight one Williams of Essex he asked him what his Christen Name was He answered penny ruden huden hudibras penny knip knap clip clap clun clap I think said the King the Old Nick was thy Gadfer that gave thee such a name Sir Ruden I cannot tell what Williams arise said he whoever gave him his name let the world judge who made your Title for you who is the Father of Lye the Slanderer of the Brethren Well Mr. Trepidantium Malleus Intrepidantur Malleatus I can't tell what let me parly with you Empty Casks make great Sounds Your Title that Blazing Comet doth it presage any mischief certainly it s own disappearing You tell the World strange news of me that I assure you I never heard till now Had you it from the Infallible Spirit and Writings of Friend B. C. of my Love Melancholy and being at Box mentioned and hinted 10 times in your little Pamphlet Always on the same Tune you know what Creature is so When was this when was I at Box or any such place Oh I have hit it it was when the Presbyterian said If ever Jesus Christ was D it was when be made the Lords Prayer which W. C. makes no bones of to write plainly though a Turk would hardly write so of his Mahomet What will not Church and Quakerish Jacobites say W. C. a Church-man he says and perhaps the first letter may stand for Wicked Well Mr. W. C. you Wicked Church-man I promise any of your Brethren Five Pound if they can before me prove your Charge You say You are afraid lest by answering me you should be forced to go to Bedlam too c. Sure here are bad simptomes of hastning there but alone for me and in the close of all you anticipate an objection to your Readers What think you Sirs am not I almost as mad as my Antagonist to answer his rambling stuff How doth W. C. answer by granting the thing but pâ—â—mising Reformation Excuse it this 〈◊〉 I will trouble you no more Well tâ—â— You have been once mad if this be grâ—â—ted your Readers are mad too if tâ—â— regard such a mans promise out of 〈◊〉 fit much more if in it I never heard what the fate was thâ— befel me for my High Demands 〈◊〉 Preaching Had you it from B. C. you are grown a great Church-Frieâ— to Friends you write of Mr. Penâ— Mr. Whitehead and other Quakers wiâ— great veneration and devoir and hâ— many a good word for them Tâ— Allegorize not away the Literal Sensâ— Scripture though it is so notoriâ— they have done it often though 〈◊〉 serve a turn they shall call for tâ— Literal Sense Take it up look on 〈◊〉 lâ—y it aside again but Mr. Keith and are both fit for Bedlam it is pitty 〈◊〉 Hospital in Moor-fields should part 〈◊〉 c. Nay which is more strangâ— Mr. Bugg a Reformed Quaker aâ— now a Zealous Pious Church-man caâ— not escape the Lash He Mr. Pennâ— man and Mr. Crisp left the Quakers 〈◊〉 disgusts and particular Pecques why had you not told what they were for fear of a Confutation All know they left them only for their Blasphemies Heresies and Abominable Practices But that which is almost unpardonable is your Vilifying the Man whom all the World Admires an high Episcopal Man too the Author of the Snake in the Grass All that wrote against the Quakers before play'd with them till he wrote that unanswerable piece p. 17. That his writings are collections of those Gentleman 's before â—amed which is say you as if we should take an account of the Presbyterians from Bishop Laud or Heylen or of our Church from Bellarmine and Harding Well macht Mr. Churchman say I but the mischief is his Collections are not in their Books in good truth Sir you might well ask your Reader Whether he did not think you mad Mr. Snaâ—e consulted the Authors he cites and it would have been a most Injurious Charge to so great a Man to be so unworthily Reflected on had it not been by such a D as all must see that are Schollars and read your Book He Mr. Keith and I in our Three New Ways of Dealing with the Quakers help not one another to Materials after you censure us all as if Fools or Madmen you tell us Suâ—â— Fools as you think to maâ—e Fools of them Quakers You ask us How doth it appear Mr. Keith is Reformed He desires you to appear so do I there is no end of Printing in your way Cite at lâ—rge and then dispute what is the sense 〈◊〉 this word and that word but neithâ—â— you nor William Penn will meet Mr. Keith or me Come forth you Coâ—ardly Defamers shew your Faces 〈◊〉 you dare Because Mr. Keith changed not 〈◊〉 any one Article of Faith may he 〈◊〉 therefore be changed in other thingâ— You say You see as a looker on That 〈◊〉 Joy of all Ministers about G. K. 〈◊〉 groundless and they be all mistakâ—â— What is the Bishop Lord Mayor aâ— Clergy mad too as well as G. K. aâ— Trepidantiâ—m Malleus Conformistâ— know not who you are You seem to own your self to be a Jacobite though not a Socinian and that I have hit the mark about your being paid by the Quaâ—ers for the Service yâ—u do them and ask me Why may not I as well as Dr. Stubbe It is an old question Why may not one man play the Knave as well as another Perhaps you are of the opinion of H. P. â—n the time of the War when one call'd him Knave said If thou wert not â— Fool thou wouldst be one too now Yet â—ou tell me I would unsâ—y all I have â—â—itten against the Quakers for Money Well Brother I am then no fool tho' â—o often call'd so You ask me Whether â—â—en I had a Priviledge Place I ever put â—my Surplice No Sir when I was at â—he worst I was never so Mad yet as â—o put my Shirt on all my Cloaths I â—ill not only as soon but sooner take
〈◊〉 Moulins Fools Coat which though 〈◊〉 would wear all would not Would 〈◊〉 a Fools Coat well become a Miâ—ister of the Gospel when I was a â—reacher at Brislington and Châ—â—â—eton â—ad Presbyterian Ordination I baptized â—cording to the Directory I Catechised in the Church in What is the chief end of Man c. Mr. W. Churchman tells me Hâ— could prove G. Keith 's Questions to be Propositions if need were He can sâ—â— more of the Aberdeen business then I 〈◊〉 know or are like to know for him 〈◊〉 a fine way of answering I ask yoâ— one question Whatever place Mr. Keith Allegorized in Scripture Dâ— he once disown the Literal Sense this his Adversaries you plead for have done though sometimes they woulâ— own it Politickly Shew one plâ—â—â— where he is guilty here For your Citations It is no more 〈◊〉 Body of Flesh Blood and Bones wheâ—â— Riseth then say I Not the same Nâ—merical Body He ever own'd it thâ— same for Substance though not Quaâ—â—ties What think you of the stubstanâ—â— of the Egg and Chick coming of 〈◊〉 Of Rain when Ice or Snow So 〈◊〉 other is not that Flesh that shall 〈◊〉 raised the Apostle saith not Thâ— Body c. 1 Cor. 15.27 53. Yet tâ—â— Mortal shall put on Immortallity Hoâ— shall it arise Various opinions arâ— about it among them that are found in the Doctrine of the Resurrection For your great Contradiction p. 13. about Faith in the Man Christ as universally necessary to Salvation and yet True Christianity may subsist without the â—nowledge of Christ in the Letter he says Many know little of the History of Christ â—is Birth manner of Life and Death that must know him to be a Mediator and Saâ—iour and how far God may even to Heathens discover a Mediator before they â—ye who knows You have many in your Church and too many in ours that â—ssert more than this That Heathen Turks c. that never disown their Maâ—omet may Love God and be Saved â—re these Apostates too For that is â—y Question not whether G. Keith â—rote Unsoundly at one time or conâ—adicted himself at another For that â—istaken passage in his Exact Narra … ve He had not changed in one Principle 〈◊〉 Religion for Thirty Year or more He … d not mean by Principle Opinion as 〈◊〉 seem to understand him but Arti … of Faith Sure he confessed before … s Change in Opinion about many things as Matthew 28.19 but he was Baptized himself in Infancy which he owns c. You tell us not what bitter Expressions he once dropt against Presbyterians and others but in the general Hard ones only that he call'd your Prelâ—â—y Limbs of Antichrist your Ministry Ambitious Lordly without Zeal for God and you bid me look in his Books Why Sir I thought you had known that not only G. Keith but the Scots Presbyterians Rutherford Gelaspec and many others call'd them so too and at home the Anabaptists and some Independents and Presbyterians themselves have done the like Doth this prove them Apostates No no more nor so much as the names you give our Ministers and Meetings too gross to foul my Paper with prove you to be so For Election I take him to be more sound than you your Citations of him your joques compare together If you prove him a Corrupt Man a Man that had forgotten himself and dropt an Unadvised word at Turners Hall I had not been his Voucher but an Apostate he was not by any Arguments of yours and therefore you a Libeller what your design was in that abusive Pamphlet he that runs may read I know he hath corrupt notions many and great and yours of the New Church of England Remember there I keep not the Old one not few or small how I have proved that I need not tell you so well you thought it not safe to Reply but only rage You Vngrateful VVretch c. I profess when I look upon my Reprimand I wonder how you could call your Return an Answer Was it Ignorance or Malice perhaps both but no wonder when you tell the Quakers that I have written nothing to purpose against them I suppose you do not cannot think so Why answer you not my Questions to Mr Penn he could not B. C. attempted it but hath ruined their cause and advanced mine by making Lyes his Refuge which I suppose makes Mr. Penn disown any haâ— in it I say it again My work was not fully to justify G. Keith nor whether he hatâ— contradicted himself but to detect W. Church-man 's design which was to strengthen the hands of Penn and the Foxonian Quakers to wound the Separate Ones this is obvious to any Sober Reader to be his Design Did G. K. ever reject the Literal Sense as they often did of Scripture If he said Christ within was the Object of Faith did he say only as within denying Christ without to be so which all know the rest did times without number I am glad we have him so far I wish more I doubt not he is Culpable yet not so vile as W. C. makes him he will shortly answer for himself Further W. C. proves him an Apostate by denying Election c. I replyed Then are the Arminians Apostates which is to be abhorr'd by Sober Men He says I am no Arminian No and yet â—oques after B. C. and sports himself with you of the Election of Grace the Reprobate VVorld you babes of Grace which Pious Sober Arminians do not Well if he be not so are such Arminians as appear in a great Figure and who are numerous in the Church of England Apostates I proved at large the New Church of England is an Apostate Church on his Principles not mine I am answered Yâ—u are an Vngrateful VVretch to reflect on that Church that gives you your Liberty We humbly and heartily Thank His Majesty and the Parliament for continuing the Liberty we had before but will you not thank us for helping you to secure your Liberty by joining with you to effect the late happy Revolution How odious would it have been after all to have made our Circumstanâ—es worse than King James did yet to be plain Had not he given a Toleration we might have been to seek fâ—r it for some of you Suppose a Man on the Highway is full of Rage Boats me takes away my Money and was about to cut my Throat there comes a Highway-man to destroy both he calls for my help we kill him he cuts not my Throat after all I am beholding to him I confess but is this an answer to my Objection Then is this Church an Apostate Church c. which I have abundantly proved consequent to his Opinion to say You are Vngrateful and neveâ— answer one of my Arguments Is this Disputing The Title of my Book shews what I designed not a Vindication of G. Keith against all his Citations no but to convince B. C. of his feeble Arguing about Apostacy In
what sense Baptism with Water is is not a Fundamental I shall take no notice of an old objection when my answers are not considered Let him read once again my Reprimand Mr. W Churchman you tell What care you should take to keep G Keith out of your Church I pray let him attempt first to come in We do not see he is iâ— such hast you say Yâ—u will not so easily take Members I grant according to your good old Constitution you should not We might be agreed about Communicants but according to the practise of some Innovators this body hath for scores of years lost its â—urgative Faculty and therefore is so â—â—healthy and giddy by keeping in those Dâ—egs that should be thrown out you now take and keep Atheists Adulterers Swearers Ignorant Persons notoriously â—isibly such thus is its Discipline corrupted as well as Doctrine for its Doctrine it is one of the best Churches upon Earth You ask Wâ—y â—â—ave we the Church of England I affirm we cannot find it you have left it as I have proved in my Reprimand clearly fully aâ—â—ndantly which you reply nothing too and I love not Landem Cantilenam Well The Presbyterians Perseâ—uted in New England say you Whom Blasphemers of Christ Cursers of Magistrates in the Streets False Prophets c. Obj. In Scotland now What such as were found in Popish Cabals that say Their Interest and Religion is concern'd in the bringiâ—g in of K. James again But your Church early Persecuted B. Hooper for not wearing a Surplice who honestly condemns all Symbolical Humane Câ—remonies in the wâ—rship of God in his Preface to his Savory Exposition on the prophesie of Jonah â—ox that Glorious Martyrologer was a Non Con Famous Mr Cartwright and many more such must be involv'd in trouble for a few Popish Trinklets Were your New Englâ—nd or Scottish Saints such as these Are your now Martyrs taken up and sent to Goal for being in a Corporation or within 5 miles of it Ruin'd for not coming to their Communion c. It is not the Suffering but the Cause that makes the Martyr for when Christ was crucified two Theeves were crucified with him Did ever any Presbyterian persecute as your Brethren Who countenanced Sham Plots By whom was Stephen Colledge Murthered Who condemned him and rejoyced at his death I speak the more freely of him because I was with him often after his Sentence and before his Execution Who believes he came to Oxon with a design to seiz the King What he and he alone It is well known what the Earl of Anglesey said Could my Lord Howard after his Pardon and Discovery of another Plot confirm this No he knew nothing of the Shaftsburian Plot Mr Colledge with a shower of Tears solemnly protested to me when I beg'd his silence if in the least guilty I never expect mercy from God if I was guilty or know any man to be so that way Such Sham Plots put some on real ones which indeed were not successful as your Plot was against James the Second I dare say you cannot believe it say what you will That the Presbyterians rail'd as much at the Quakers as the Quakers at them Neither can you think the Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments turn'd into verse by me so bad as you say Pray read how your Church hath done the Lords Prayer at the end of the Psalms approv'd to be Sung if mine be Vncouth Rhime Doggrel Prophaning of Scripture yours much more so I challenge any man to take the substance and words of the Ten Commandments more exact in one stave or eight lines others approve and more than so but you will not any thing that is mine and for that reason because mine I suppose some in Bedlam have talkt better then you or some others yet out of it argued more subtilly I have heard of Mr Widdows famous for a Tract of Natural Philosophy that being heard to make a great noise in such a place some came to him and askt him what it meant The Devil said he hath appeared to me and told me he could prove I could not be saved I told him he was a Lyâ—r from the beginning and would be so to the end The Devil began Syllogistiâ—ally He whose name is not written in the book of Life cannot be saved but thy name is not written in the book of Life Ergo thou canst not be saved I told him said he my name was written in the book of Life and therefore I denyed the miâ—or so the Devil went on The Scriptures is the book of Life but thy name is not written in the Scriptures Ergo thy name is not written in the book of Life I denyed said he the minor again and told him my name was written in the Scripture he asked me where I told him Honour them that are Widdows in â—eâ—d there is my name Widdows so I â—asted the Devil and he is gone Were you in such an Academy or amongst such Collegiates as you phrase it perhaps you might hear things more Ingenious with your Ravings than now we do How is it you have not a word to favour the Quakers Prophesies Is it because you have such in your Church Arise ap Evan that mad blasphemous Prophet Was it before the VVars that a Parson prayed Confound all the Enemies of thy Church and People a violent cough took him when over he thought he was in that part of the Pulpit Prayer for the Prelates and so went on By what Names or Titles soever they be Dignified whether the Most Reverend the Arch-Bishops the Right Reverend the Bishops and all inferiour Priests and Deacons You a Defender of the Church of England and take no notice of the Cassandrian Articles Non Resistance Bowing to the High Altar not indeed Book of Sports now thank our Meetings Desire some one to answer for you seeing you cannot for your self Now Sir you would let the world know you have read more then Cato's Verses perhaps the Sentences under for you bring us Noble Apotheigems In ipso limine titubare ominesum est Nullum reprehenderis vitii cujus ipse qâ—â—â—as reprehendi Faedares invidiâ— est et Authori interdum perniciosa Ex me disces quid ingenui homines ferre non possunt O rare discoveries such as a Parson said Amor res est bona as St. Austin saith Perhaps you would convince â—e that you have yet your Grammar by you but all will not do Iâ—sipieâ—tes est discere non putarem c. Well Eris mihi magnus Apollo is right De mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that follows it was answer'd in my Vindicâ—ae and Reprimand too therefore I shall not answer now Only Are not those you Revile every 30th of January Dead VVas not Dr. Oweâ— Dead who never swore to Richard Cromwel as Oliver his son lately assured me If I must I will produce the testimony of Dr Goodwin Mr Jenkins abâ—â—t Evaâ—gelista Quintus and also of Mr Sydrack