THE LIBELER Characterised By his own Hand.  
IN ANSWER TO A Scurrilous Pamphlet, Entitled, The Character of a Quaker, etc.  
Nulla fides, Pietasque viris, qui Castra sequuntur  
Venalesque manus: ibi fas, ubi maxima merces.  
Printed in the Year, 1671.   

THE LIBELER Characterised By his own Hand, etc.  
HE Is an entire lover of his Party, for whose sake he Stigmatizes all but his own Cast, prefers Gentile Hector's Damning Oaths before the Plain Christian Yea and Nay of his Neighbour.  
To the first, he dedicates his Pains: To the second, his Hatred. His Malice is so bend against all Sobriety, that he fears its least appearance more than Hell; and to Reform is such a Task, that he hates the very Word. So dismal is a Modest Dress to his Luxurious Eye, that he takes it for a Monster in Nature; and inconsistent, with what he calls Religion, to be Virtuous.  
He knows not whence that Devotion should have its Rise, that teaches how to deny self, since his hath ever been to answer the debauched Ends of a seared Conscience; and to thwart his Interest, terms it, A Composition of Contradiction.  
He knows of no Honour but what is required by a proud Hamond, or a cursed Herod; the first thirsted for the Knee, the second for Titles of Honour, yet neither failed of their due Reward.  
But have they ever made themselves such tall Horns by their own strength, or procured so many triumphant Trophies by their own Arm, that any now should boast or turn Incendiaries?  
To preach Christ the Light, is to his understanding insignificant babble. Not to Swear with him, is to Lie; because he believes Oaths a great ingredient to make a Gentleman; and Plaindealing at a word, is so much an Enemy to him, that he calls it a mere Cheat.  
Jesuit and Pope being amongst some, words of Reproach, he'll Stigmatize with them, but will have the Church's Compass as absolute as the Pope's infallibility. In general, where he hath nothing against Religious Principles, he'll belly them, affirming absolute salcities.  
He's so much a Temporizer, that he counts the demand of Civil Liberty, or a Trial by the Law, absolute Contention; and speaking true English to a single person, an affront of Justice. So much an admirer of the Decrees, or sic voloes of every private Cabal, that its Treason to inquire into the Reason of their illegal Results. He takes a measure of others Chastity by his own Courtship, obscenly prating like one of those, who, to be in the fashion, keep Concubines at home, so charging others with guilt, would palliate their own.  
He envies the Worship of God, therefore Devonshire-House sticks in his Stomach, and to be knocked down in the Streets, and haled to Goal, he terms keeping from breaking the Law. He counts no Lawful Wedlock, but where the Priest has a Fee; although from Genesis to the Revelations he hath neither such Precept nor Example; and glories in the Extravagancy of a distracted Whimsyst, or exalted Diotrephes, whose Actions were owned of none, publicly condemned of many.  
Baby-Sprinkling is one of his chiefest Infallibles, by which he marks out a Christian, although he be as Debauched and Luxurious as the Gomorrhean; and where his Party wants strength of Argument, the Libeler assists with Dirt; concluding peaceable People a formidable Party, and dangerous to the State, with which he would incense the Magistrate to severe Usages, fecthing his Policy from the Spanish Inquisitors, who Cloth the Innocent Protestants with dismal Hellish dresses, before they deliver them unto the Civil Power, in order to receive the Fire and Faggot.  
He scoffs at a Resurrection from sin, like an irreligious Miscreant and sin-lover, who neither owns the true God, not the Souls Immortality. He hates Religious Meetings, counting them a Breach of Law. Whorish Nurseries suiting more the debauched minds of such Atheists, whose incensed madness is kindled against all opposers of their Debaucheries. His work betrays his Whorish effeminacy (by which he falsely measures others) whilst he hints his skill in tokens of Lechery.  
He hates the Prosperity of an industrious People, while such as himself are devouring and wasting upon their Lusts.  
The Unity of Affection amongst Quakers offends such bloody minded Discrepants, who instigate to a National Division and Ruin, while they aim at the violation and spoil of the People's just Interests. He abuses the Quakers for their Charitable Collections, while he, and such Conformable Sons of the Church, can without any pity, suffer their fellow members to lie roaring in the Streets for want. He wisheth an industrious pious People embarked for Terra incognita, that such Extravagants as himself may have all to devour upon their unsatiable Lusts. His Conscience is so broad, and his Throat such an open Sepulchre, that he'll make no bones to devour and swallow down all his Neighbours Proprieties and fruits of their Industry.  
His own work is that of a Canting Gipsy, exposing to Sale his Rhapsody of Lies, Piece of Cant, and beggarly Scurrility, which he pretends for to supply, provided you his Libel buy; whose Name would be as Infamous as his Work Scurrilous, had he the Confidence to discover the one, as he had Impudence to belch out the other. And to Conclude, His own Work is his best Character.  
T. R.  
THE END.