Crowned bats. But now, when others came to wear, thefe, then again thefe holy People must lay them by, and not wear them but the contrary. See The Quakers Spiritual Court proclaimed, p. 39. For which very caufe alfo, it was that Ribbands and Lace were to be abandon'd alfo. Now from what Scripture these good Men learned thefe holy Rudiments, I cannot tell. Sure I am, that I do not any where read, that our Saviour, or his Apostles, fet them this Copy. Or that they, or any of them, thus oppofed the "Customs of the Jews, in the Choice and Wearing of their Garments, nor do I find, that they pretend to Scriptore as their Warrantee. But to an immediate command given to George Fox on Pendle Hill. Now here I was induced to make a double Obfervation. First that thefe Men were given up to strong delusions, to believe fuch a Lye. [as was foretold of them] 2 Theff. 2. 11. For what evidences could George Fox give that he ever had fuch a Revelation? What more have we for this, than his bare word only? Again, fuppofing it was no Melancholy fit, no Liegerdemain of his fancy, but a Real Ation, how could be infallibly tell whence this Vision came? Whether it came from God, or from the Devil? Have not multitudes been egregiously, nay damnably abufed by this deceit ? How many Hereticks have pretended as much as all this, to confirm their Herefies? How many Popic Saints have been as bold, and Confident as George Fox, in this Enthufiafm? Read Ribadeniera, Surius, Capgrave, Mafeus, Lippomanes, and in fine all others who have writ the Lives of these Saints. Nay did not the Grand Impoftor Mahomet ufe the very fame tricks and put the very fame Cheat upon his deluded followers? Ye honeft hearted Quakers [for fuch I hope fome of you are] fpeak your minds freely. Again this Authority for the proof of the change E 4

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of Garments from Fashionable to the juft Contrary from G. F. Vifion, &c. induced me to a farther fuf picion of their being fet up and influenced by the

apits from the nature of the Vision it felf; for that many prime Men of the Church of Rome, have been Infamous Necromancers, Sorcerers, Magicians, and Conjurers, is beyond all Question, and Controverfy. See Wierus de Praftigiis Damonum, &c. Lib. 2. cap. 7. And in many other places, Fr Gerfon de Prob. Spirit. As alfo Platina, and Benno, and fuch others as have written the Lives of the Popes, many of which, came to that Dignity, by fuck wicked and damnable means only. And George Fox, being now refolved to fet up a Sect deftructive ta the Protestant Churches and Religion: and highly conducing to the advancement of the Popish Church and interest. What greater fervice to this diabolical defign could thefe Popish Necromancers do, than by fending him to the Top of fuch a Hill, and there to practife their diabolical Conjurations to deceive him? For that fuch Wicked Arts were by them fed for like Wiked Purpofes, is clear as the Sun to any Man who doth confiderately read John Gee's foot out of the fnare. And withall duly confiders how by fuch wicked Arts this Sect did at firft gain its Profelytes. As may be feen at large in John Gilpin a Kendal Profelyte, made fo in May 1653. and in John Tolderry in 1656. who wrote his own Hiftory: and in many others, who comming often to their meetings, thereupon fell into fits of Quaking and Trembling, by this and no other means only. See the perfect Pharifee under Monkish Holiness, printed at London 1654. p. 20. 41, 42, 43. But why fhould I fpend time to prove what moft Men then faw, and believed?

Now then, fhall wife Men, and Chriftians, build their faith upon diabolical Cheats, and Inchantments?

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If Georges Fox, has no better an Authority for his ftrict injunctions about Garments, in which he, and his followers, did at their first appearance place fo much of their Religion, who fo will, may follow their example. But I for my part declare that both the Doctrine is a Cheat, and its foundation a Diabolical Delufion.

But be it what it will, it carries a conformity to divers Orders of the Papius. For as for the Francifcans they affect extreamly the very fame fingularity.They forbid all Rich and Costiy Garments,and command all their Difciples to wear Course and Plain apparel,and to fhew the humility of their hearts, by the Homelinefs of their Clothes, and the Plainness of their Fashions, in the wearing of them. See Surius, and Ribadeniera in Vit. & Regul. Fratrum Minorum Sancti Francifci. Nay I must own, that the Fraternity of the Cord, the Mendicant Friars, &c. Have out-done the Quakers in the copy which they fet them. Nay even Ignatius Loyola himself when he was firft called, just as George Fox was) he did just as George Fox did; and I verily believe in one thing did outdo him, for in his Journal we do not find that the Clothes he had on, when he was on Pendle Hill, were given away by him when he came down thence, as Ignatius Loyola had done, efteeming them too good, and gay, and gawdy for him. Iz that I fanfie that Ignatius Loyola proved himself to be both more Humble, and more Charitable than did George Fox his Imitator. But in the main matter, they were both equal. Both were for the moft Humble, and Plaineft Clothing. See Lodovicus Lucius, Hift. Jefuit. and both derive this from Divine Revelation.

Now that there is, and may be Great Pride in Apparel, we neither can nor do deny. For Almighty God himself of old vehemently reproved

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the Daughters of Zion, for their tinkling Ornaments, their Camles and round Tires, Chains, Bracelets, Mufflers, Bonnets, and the Ornaments of the Legs, Head-Bands, Tablets, &c. If. 3. from 16. to the end. And against all fuch Extravagances, all good and humble hearted Chriftians have evermore declaimed. But is there no other way to cure this pride (think you) but by Singularity? And may not a deep mine of hypocrify lie under fuch fpecious pretences? Nay may not as much Pride lie hid under Singularity, as under a modest fashionable conformity? I conclude therefore, that tho' all Pride and Luxury in Apparel is to be condemned; yet a Comely decency is in no wife to be reproved. For in all Places, and Ages, the diftinction of Orders, and Degrees among Men, has been ftill made, and known by their Apparel. Kings, Nobles, Peafants, nay High Priefts, Priefts, and their Servants, and Attendants, were all manifefty known thereby, and thereby diftinguifh'd. And in all Ages of the Church, both Jewish and Christian, every Man according to his rank and quality did and lawfully might wear fuch Garments, as by Men of like quality were commonly worn and in fashion, and that without any the leaft reproof either by our Saviour, or by any of his Apostles, as wicked or finful.

But the Order of Francifcans and others of the Church of Rome did affect this Singularity as has been thewed before. Now therefore let all Men guess

who wifely reflect upon the hints now given ] whence the Quakers came by this part of their Trifling Divinity: And at whofe inftigation, they have bestowed fo much care and pains: and by Preaching and Writing fhewed fo much needlefs Zeal, in fuch poor minute trifles. But this is not all neither for in as light a matter their confor

mity with Popery will yet farther appear if we yet farther confider,

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The Quakers rude and morofe Behaviour both in Words and Actions, which doth farther prove their rife from Papilts.

S it is no good Argument, from the abuse of any thing, thence to conclude the unlaw fulnefs of the ufe thereof: as from the abuse of meat to gluttony, of drink to drunkenness, of Piety to Hypocrifie, thence to conclude the unlawfulness of eating, drinking, and a pious life and converfation: fo from the abuse of wearing Clothes which are Fashionable, to be always out of the Fashion: And from the abufe of civil Marks of Honour and Refpect unto Men placed in an higher Sphere above us, unto grofs flattery and a naufeous Idolizing of them, to conclude the neceffity of a Clownish rude behaviour, is altogether Unchriftian like, and Uncharitable.

Yet herein the Quakers have always, affected I tho' not in the fame degrees now, as formerly] an envious haughty fingularity. For tho' the Holy Scripture commands civil Respects from us to all our Superiors, as their due: Saying, render to all their dues, and among the reft Honour to whom Honour, Rom. 13. 17. Yet thefe Men daily teach and pra &ife the Contrary. And [which is yet moft dreadful and amazing] they afcribe all this to immediate Revelation, and as that which they have received from the mouth of God himself both to teach and practife. "When the Lord (faith "George Fox) fent me forth into the World he

"forbad