fuch as are are bigotted to their Party, as I expect not, so I defire not their favour. From them all, I expect nothing but Anger, and Opprobrious and Difdainful Exclamations; and indeed, Justum ab injuftis petere infipientia est. Is a Truth which Plautus hath long fince de termin'd. And therefore if any of them fhall oppofe me with Scurrility, I will Answer them with Contempt. And good reafon too, for Irrita Vaniloquæ quid curas fpicula Lingua? Latrantem Curatne ALTA DIANA Canem? Let my Pains have but your Acceptance and Umbrage, and I value not the loudest Outcries, and bittereft Invectives of the most enraged of their Party. If any of them will undertake to give a fair Anfwer, he fhall receive (God willing) 4 fair reply. But if like the enraged Sea they cannot reft, but caft up Myre and Dirt, as the wicked are defcribed, If. 57. 20. I will then leave them to their own fcourgings: And when their raging fits are over, perhaps then (tho not till then) they fhall hear from me, in the mean time (Worthy Sir) take this small Tract under the shelter of your Wings; and be plea fed to afford it a juft defence, when at any time it fhall ftand in need thereof, from your Sagacity and Authority. I know your Zeal for our Church, and the Doctrines Doctrines thereof, is above the malice of your greatest Enemies justly to impeach. Since there-fore the Queen's most Excellent ; Majefty (whofe Reign over us, the God of mercy long prolong and profper) hath put into your hands an opportunity of fignalizing the fame. Go on Great Sir, Go on profperously therein and make good the glorious Character you have acquired, by a conftant eminent defence of both, against all opposers whomsoever, and by a like conftant encouraging, and to the very uttermost of your Power) Protecting and Defending of all and every, the very meanest of the meanest, of their true Friends and Votaties; and amongst these, of Ever Honoared Sir, Your moft Humble and moft Obedient Servant EDW. COCKSON. THE Shewing that the pretended humility of the Quakers in The Quakers rude and morose behaviour both in Words Sect. III. The Quakers deny the Holy Scriptures to be the fole Rule of Faith and Manners. Shewing the like Agreement in their afferting their own With an Anfwer to an Objection of theirs, of their ha- ving the fame Spirit which gave forth the Scriptures, and all others wanting it. And another Answer to a Question of theirs, whether any Perfon who hath not the Sanctifying Spirit of God dwelling in him, can have an infallible Judgment, to An Anfwer to the Objection about the Quakers writ- 2. That the Church of Rome can difpenfe with this. 3. That many of the prime Speakers of the Quakers may be under these Difpenfations: and yet the greatest Shewing the Quakers Agreement with the Papists in The like is fhewed from the Fewness of the Books by them The like is fhewed from their Sparing all Popish Coun- |