That your Religion is Irreligion. Your Chrift is Antichrift, a Titular,Chimerical, an Allegorical Christ only. Your Faith is Infidelity: Your Zeal Pharifaical: Your Holiness Hypocrific: Your Light within you, worfe than Egyptian Darkness: Your Spirit within you, no better than Satanical Enthufiafm: Your Principles, and Doctrines Atheistical, and Heretical, Blafphemous and Damnable.

You fee then, how much you are concerned, to have higher thoughts of Mr. Buggs performances, and not to flight him,or them,as you have done; for all men fee he has touched you to the quick: Even in your most tender part; and has thereby mortally Wounded your Caufe, and Baffled you.

But this is not all. Confider I pray you; if you cannot avoid, nor abide h Impeachment, O! how then think you)can you Answer the great God of Heaven? Upon whofe Honour you have encroached? and his only begotten Son, upon whofe Divinity you have fo fcornfully trampled? And his Holy and Bleffed Spirit, upon whom you have father'd all your Blafphemous incongruities? O! Confider the great Day of Account; which you cannot escape, nor frame Letters of Excufe to avoid. Be not deceived: God is not to be mocked. Such as a man Soweth, fuch fhall he alfo Reap.

Confider alfo a little further with me,I beseech you, Blessed be God, you are not fo far gone yet, but you may return. Your Difeafe is not quite incurable, thô defperate and dangerous. Be not fond of your own ruin,and destruction: Like Horace's madman who was mad at all thofe who cured him of his Madness. You may if you will but open your Eyes be yet turned from Darkness to Light, and from the power of Satan unto God. Be ye then not high minded, but fear,

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But if for all this, you will be Obstinate against all Convictions, against all the moft Powerfull, and Pathetical Perfwafions; if you will be Incorrigible, and Irreclaimable, then know you for a certain You must, you fhall receive the greater Condemnation. I tremble to think of your doom. And heartily befeech the Father of Mercies, in Mercy to reclaim you; that fo you may happily prevent and escape it. Which I unfeignedly affure you, is the longing defire of,

May 20th. 1703.

Sirs,

Your faithful Friend defirous to reduce you to the true Fold of the Great and only true Shepherd of our Souls, the true Jefus Chrift,now at the right hand of his Father in Heaven and Glory.

Edward Cockfon.

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Impartial READER.

Courteous Reader,

HEN. I only fuperficially Viewed the outfide of a Quaker, the errours he maintain'd, and the herefies he was guilty of; And therewithall confidered the many. Learned oppofitions of fo many Learned Men as had already written against them, I thought it would prove but a needlefs labour, to add any more in order to a farther confutation of them. But when I confiderately penetrated into the true Original, and Seminal Sourfe of that difguifed Sect. which fo boldly had Affaulted us in all the quarters of our Camp: I thought it might prove [to the meanly Learned especially of our People, who lie most naked, and expofed to their Guiles] a fervice not altogether unacceptable, to take off their Vizards, and to expofe their bare Faces to your open View and Cognition: that upon a better obfervation, and clearer profpect of them, you may the more effectually be Convinced of their hidden Extraction and true Pedigree: and thereby, arrive at a more certain Knowledge, who they were, who have fo cunningly complotted, and dexterously attempted the ruin of our Church, and of the truly Reformed Religion therein profeffed. That all men may learn Caution in the entertainment of their Doctrines, and keep out of the reach of their Diabolical Wheedles and Enfnarements.

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It was St. Bernard's obfervation of Arnoldus, that his Converfation was Honey, but his Doctrine was Poifon, the like I may fay of thefe Impoftors. They carry honey in their Mouths; talk much of holiness, Righteoufnefs, Godliness, and of the Spirit of God, and Chrift himself dwelling in them, &c. But their Doctrines relating to all thefe,are all mixed with Venom, and Poison: Which yet are all Gilded over with the most specious Pretences, and feeming Affurances to the contrary. By means whereof, they have Glided into the good Opinions of the Well-meaning (but unwary) Vulgar; who have mistaken their Paint for Piety; and not feldom, trufted their Tea, and Nay to their certain Damage, and Detriment. And that both in their Spiritual and Civil Concernments. Nor have these Crafts-men been Idle, in their Obfervations of this their Credulity, and the advantages they have reaped thereby; but have made what improvements could be reasonably expected from men of their Sagacity; and thereby advanced both their Numbers and their Worldly Interests.

I know all I have here written, as to the Quakers is little better than loft Labour; for their Speakers (for the greateft part of them) have too hard a front to blufk at any thing (thô never fo true) which is faid, or written againft them. And as for their bigotted Disciples, we know they dare not read the fame: And in this (as well as other Politicks) they betray their true extraction 2 and plainly fhew their Off-fpring, that they are true Children of the Church of Rome, whom herein they imitate.

But if any of our Books, proves as a thorn in their eyes, or as a ftone in their mouths, too hard for their teeth, fo that it is dangerous for any

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[that are not refolyed in their way to read the fame. They have then another charm, to keep all their Profelytes from too near approaches to it. For their fpeakers then tell them, There is indeed, fuch, and fuch a Book, of fuch a mans against them: but it is a dark, fottish, malicious, fenflefs, Pamphlet. And now, there needs no more to preferve the Friends from its pretended infection. For being once thus blasted with their breath] if by chance fuch a book, fhould at any time thence forward be put into their hands to read, how will they prefently startle at it, as if they had feen a spectrum, or frightful Hobgoblin?* Then may you expect to fee them incontinently throw it from them, with contempt, and anger. And 'tis odds but they will tell you [with great indignation] it is Anfwer'd. Or elfe will rail at it, as not worth their time to read it: and then, at laft, pafs a Sentence of Condemnation against it, as a Sottish, Dark, and Foolish Pamphlet: and against the Author, as an Ignorant, Blind, Worthlefs Scribler. And yet, both the Book, and the Author are all this while perhaps both alike Stangers to them. The Book being never once Read, nor the Author ever once feen by them.

I might here take occafion to speak of their other Popish Policy, of Caftigating, and amending their own Books: as by another Index Expurgatorius, but I will in this refer you to the fnake in the Grass, Mr. Bugg, and others; who have herein painted them out in their true Colours. Only, herein I Thought good to inform you, that how defpicable foever thefe Men feemed, at their first appearance, Their Popish Tutors have now wonderfully pollished, and refin'd them and like apt Scholars, they now ftand upon an even level with their Mafters, and have commenced Graduates,

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