of our Children from us who are Protestants, and have been Educated and brought up in the truly Reformed Religion, and can perfwade them, or by their fubtile Arts wheedle them over to furnish their Schools, or Monafteries, or any of their Nunneries beyond the Seas, then they teach them difobedience to either, or both their Parents, who Shall attempt or endeavour to reclaim them; and in fuch cafes, and on fuch occafions, will strictly charge and enjoy them to avoid us, and by no means to come near unto us, when we fend for them, or being forced to prefent themselves before us, Stoutly to refist us in all our endeavours to reduce them, and by no means to obey us.

For the proof whereof, we have the Famous Story of Mary Boncher, alias Butcher, about the Year 1620. and others whom I shall readily produce, if thereunto provoked.

But as for keeping back, all that will or can be kept back from our Affemblies, this is an old Policy of Rome, which has been long put in Practice (almoft ever fince the Reformation) in the Days of King Edward VI. and in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, for several Years together, the Papists in England came weekly to our Churches. But the crafty Jefuites forming unto themfelves a defign of great gain and advantage thereby, procured a Bull from the Pope prohibiting all Roman Catholicks to refort to any of our Churches, under pain of Excommunication. Now the delign the Jefuites had herein, was to gain to themselves more Colleges, more Students of their Society, and more Money for their more ample maintenance and endowments. To effect which they offer to the richer fort of them the Education of their Children, for the which they payed them Annually 30. or at least 25 Pounds per Annum; but whileft the Parents frequented

frequented our publick Congregations, they might breed up their Children altogether as well, at far Cheaper rates, in our Schools at home here in England, the Secular Priests willingly undertaking that Imployment, which the Jefuites envying, would ne- * ver be at reft till they had obtained the Bull aforefaid, and thereby frighted all Roman Catholicks from our Churches, and by that means procured the transportation of their Children, and placing them in Jefuite Colleges which by a conftant draining our Schools, filled theirs, and Encreased, and Enriched them. Yea fo great was the gain the Fefuites made thereby, that fome of them fticked" not to fay (if the Secular Priefts of their own Church may be believed) that they would not acceps of an univerfal Toleration, if they might obtain it. No marvel then, if Sanders the Jefuite, was fo induftrious in this fo weighty a concern, for his fo dearly beloved Society. For to him is in great measure afcribed that great management; by his motion, and upon his fuggestion Chiefly it was (as is affirmed by themselves) that the Council of Trent was wrought upon, and prevailed with to felect 12 Fathers out of the faid Council, Favourers of the Society of Jefus, who declared concerning the English Catho licks as followeth.

"That the Proteftants of England were Idola"trous and Blasphemous Hereticks, bating God and his "Church that their commerce (especially at' "Church) would be an occafion of the Subverfion "and Ruine of their Souls; a denying and betray"ing of the True Faith; giving of fcandal to Men "of tender Confcience, as breaking that fign "which was diftinctive between the People of "God and thofe that are not his People. And fi nally that it was unlawful for them to go any longer to the Proteftant Churches. Which de

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❝claration was afterwards confirmed by Paul IV. "Pius V. the two fubfequent Gregorie's, Sixtus, Cle"ment, and Paul V. feven Popes. With whom a

greed the two Cardinals, Bellarmine, and Baro"nius, and Parfons the Jefuite, (with all his bre"thren of that Society;) Azorius himself (tho' "not fo thorow paced as the reft) not excep«ted.

By all which, you may fee plainly, whofe game the Quakers have play'd all this time, in thus tabouring to binder (all they could) all under their Care and Conduct, or under their Influences, from joyning with us in our publick Worship and Affemblies. And to make the beft hereof, which they are able, they not only hinder thofe under them from all Conjunctions with us; but endeavour to Monopolize this Privilege unto themselves, and by no means to allow us any the leaft part or fhare thereof; but would totally debar and deprive us of that liberty which God hath given us, and all good Men have in all Ages Practifed, which is that both we our felves fhould ferve the Lord, and that we should promife and engage to ferve him in, and with our whole Houfe-holds aljo. Thus did fofbuah Jofh. 24.15. And thus did Holy David, who refolved that those who would not ferve the Lord and conform to his Law, they should not dwell within his Houfe nor tarry in his fight, Pfalm Fol. 6, 7. Yet thefe Men will not allow us to' govern our own Families, and (as to our Servants) to turn off thofe that will not, and take in those that will joyn with us, in his True Worship and Service. Whilft yet (as was noted before) they themselves are as careful as they can, to exert their own uttermoft Authority to keep all theirs from us : and to carry them along with them to their own Meet ings continually.

Thus the Papists by their Inquifition and Dra

gooning

gooning Rhetorick, would compel all others, whilst they themselves would not be compelled: but cry oftentimes loudeft when they have the leaft caufe fo to do.

In like manner the Quakers to fhew they have an Equal talent with their Popish brethren, thus cry

out,

This we fay that no Perfecutor upon the "Earth about Church-Worship and Religion, hath "clean hands: neither is his Sacrifice accepted, no แ more than Cain's was; for he is out of the Faith "that Works by Love, &c. Anfw. to the Com. Pr. Book, p. 21. And again p. 29. he adds,

"All in the whole Chriftendom, that do perfe 46 cute about Religion, there is no one that is wife, "that will truft either Body, Soul, or Spirit into "their hands,

c.

And yet thefe very Men not only forcibly keep from our Affemblies all under their Power and Condut; but alfo Oppofe one another, Excommunicate ons another, and alfo Perfecute one another 103 Religion. And thefe Prefecutions are carried on with feizure of their Goods, Imprisonment of their Perfons, and highest Profecutions of them, as they did G. Keith and all his Followers in Penfilvania, even for what (by their own Law) was Death. And did ever any of us, or indeed could we have used more rigour, or been more fevere against them, than they did there fhew themfelves one unto another?

But this is fo excellently done to my hands by the learned and unanswerable Author of the Snake in the Graß (treating of the Quakers Infallibility) that I can not but refer you thereunto, there needing no other conviction of the weakness of their caufe than what is therein written.

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CHAP. V I..

Shewing that the Quakers joyn with the very Worst of .Papifts in their bold and impions Blafphemies against God and his Truths.

He horrible Blafphemies of the prime Leadets of thefe pretendedly infpired Quakers are fuch and fo many that my Pen abhorrs, and I even tremble to repeat them. Yet fince they plainly demonftrate what Spirit it is by which they are infpired: Even the Spirit of Delufions, and of Antichrift,even that Spirit which now worketh in the Children of difabedience, I will therefore adventure to Jay fome of them before your eyes, on purpose to beget in you an holy deteftation of them. And indeed fuch they are, and fo abominable that for the most part.the Quakers among the Papifts, are like King Saul among the Ifraelites, aller than them all, by the bead and shoulders. For tho' feveral of the Romish Key-keepers, and amongst the reft, Pope Leo X. with his Fables of Chit, have gone very far in this road, yet have James Naylor, yea and G. Fox too, their First Founder, and divers others of the fame Litter, out-travell'd these Gentlemen in that their own road to Hell, even to admiration.

In the Lancaster petition to the Council of State, you fhall find (if you please to examine it) Lowd and Melancholy complaints against G. Føx (as well as James Naylor) that they made themselves equal with Almighty God. Yea that G. Fox, faid of himself, that he was the Judge, yea the Eternal Fudge of the World. And here now I muft Challenge all the World, to fhew amongst all the Papifts (St. Francis,

and