all places where they live near one unto another, and that above what is commonly fhewn to any of our Communion, that ali this notwithstanding, the Quakers fhould neglect fo many Souls, and fuch as are fo Dear unto them too, and fhould take no care to bring fuch over unto them, and to convert them, and to bestow all their pains upon us poor Proteftants who are so little Loved by them. Without all doubt this cannot be without a Mystery, the unfolding whereof will now no longer I hope prove fo great a difficulty. Thus I hope I have in fome measure made good my promis'd purpose and design, which was to fhew you, that in all humane Probability we have just reafons to conclude that the Quakers are in no fence Proteftants. But rather fuch as either Originally proceed from the Church of Rome, or fuch as are daily Encouraged and Affisted by them: And that their Doc ines and Practices do plainly Evidence the fame. And now my next work fhall be to fhew that they are of the worst kind of Papists, the most Apoftate from the Truth, of any, of the worst and Fileft of that Apoftacy. The End of the Second Part. ΡΑΚΤ PART THE THIRD. I T is very well known unto all who have fearched the records of Antiquity, how highly the Church of Rome (ever fince its Apoftacy from the Primitive Purity) have valued themselves upon the Account of Revelations and Miracles, unto which they have in all Ages pretended. And much good may fuch Bravado's do them. For we for our parts defire not any part or lot in any fuch pretences; but leave the whole claim to them whofe right it is. Let the Church of Rome quietly enjoy it. For the Apostle has long fince Discovered their Apoftacy by that very mark 2 Theff. 2. from verse the 3. to the 13. Which I defire the reader will turn unto and take fome time to confider. The first Founders of the several Orders of Regulars in that Church, all of them built upon that wretched Foundation: All of them pleaded Revelations, Visions and Miracles as the beft Arguments for their Erecting those their feveral Societies; amongft which many Revelations were pretended, and falfe Miracles fained and bandied one against another, thereby to gain the preheminence of one before another; as the frequent ftruggles of Dominicans, and Francifcans, and Jefuites do a bundantly demonftrate and confirm. And now under this fhameless pretext and co lour many abominable Herefies and Blafphemous tenets began to take wing and fly about the World World. As Prateolus and others have abundantly Noted and Discovered. And fo bo it they did not oppose the Pope's Supremacy they were for fome time egregiously winked at, and (till meer fhame forced their fuppreffion) were tolerated: and by many of them infamously defended. And from thefe finks of Popery, did George Fox and his followers, rake out many of their Blafphemies; which yet are not owned by the beft learned of the Roman Church; but are known to be the peculiar tenets of the vilest Enthusiasts of that infatuated Apoftacy; the very dregs and refufe, the very fcum and filth of all the Popish Orders, and Societies. Nay in fome things I will be juft to the Papists, the Quakers have out-stripped and out-done the worst and vilest of them. And yet all this may be framed by their Popish Leaders partly to try their cafinefs to be impofed on, by the plaineft Heterodoxies, but principally and chiefly thereby to hide and darken their true de feent and parentage. In which I will trace them a little farther as follows. CHAP. I. The Quakers Agreement with the worst of Papists in their Female Speakers. S the Church of Rome hath her Male, fo her Female Saints, as her Abbots and Priors, fo her Abbeßes, and Prioreßes, and as the one fo the other exact obedience from their votaries. Each have made wonderful pretences to Revelations and to Miracles? for which fome of them have been reverenced with highest honour and adored. Thofe who lived in the |