A SERIOUS & SEASONABLE WARNING UNTO All People: Occasioned by two most Dangerous Epistles to a late BOOK of JOHN FALLDOE'S, Subscribed by RICHARD BAXTER,  

Tho. Manton,  
Tho. Jacomb,  
John Yates,  
John Sheffield,  
Ben. Needler,  
Rob. Bragg,  
A. Palmer,  
Tho. Cole,  
Tho. Dolittel,  
Will. Cooper.  
Will. Carslake,  
Th. Wadsworth,  
Geor Griffith,  
Matth. Barker,  
John Singleton,  
Andr. Parsons,  
Steeph. Ford,  
Fran. Warham,  
Rich. Mayo,  
Tho. Gouge,  
Will. Jenkins,  
Tho. Watson,  
Sam. Smith:  
Will. Tutty.   
Brethren all— in Iniquity.  
Whose Bow is always ready bend  
With Quivers of Malice against the Innocent.  
For lo the wicked bend their Bow, they make ready their Arrows upon the String, that they may privily Shoot at the Upright in heart,  Psalm. 11. 2. 
Whose Slanders and Lies against the Holy People called Quakers are hereby Reproved.  
By C. P.  
These things have I written to you concerning those that seduce you,  1 John 2. 26. 
They are impudent Children and stiff hearted; but surely they will not hear, neither indeed will they cease; for they are a rebellious house; yet shall they know that there hath been a Prophet amongst them.  Ezek. 2. 4, 5. 
London, Printed in the Year 1675.   

To the People called, Anthony Palmer's CHURCH.  
Mr Friends, my knowledge of you hath been long, about this time 20 years, my Love to you can never expire, being unfeigned: I heard of you first, at a place called London-house, and am constrained to remind you of that day: You than were a Reproached Suffering People; and it was then a Reproach to go to your Meetings, several of you, in that day, being Imprisoned, for bearing a Testimony against the Sins of those times, and in that day, you being humble and meek, the presence of God was amongst you, in so much as a Rumer of it went through the Nation, and you were visited by many choice Spirited men, & your heart, were melted by the powerful strive of God's Spirit; Oh ye degenerated People, remember that Day: But you resisting the Holy Spirit, Pride and Lust, and Selfseeking got up amongst you; and than you defiled yourselves, by touching with the Iniquities you had testified against; and then a Spirit of Strife and Division entered you, and broke you to pieces, and ye went into Sects and Parties, one Party publicly declared against another, as Old Leaven purged out, and thus ended your Glory: and by this means were many honest hearted, that uprightly sought the Lord amongst you, scattered. Now it is not possible to utter the grief that was in my heart in that day, for I dearly loved you: And when the Lord brought that great Desolation upon all professing Interests, 1659. whereat even the whole world was amazed; then great was my expectation that by affliction, you would be turned to the Lord: and that accordingly, again his Presence would be found amongst you: and you know what a noise you then made in your many days of Fasting & Prayer, then in sincerity seeking to be established in Religious matters, expecting to be strengthened by a nearer fellowship with you, so as to abide in the trials of that day, I sought to be nearly related to you, and was admitted as one of your Members, and the Lord knoweth I closed with you, in uprightness towards him; and true love to you; which pure unfeigned Love still resteth upon my heart unto you▪ And here I cannot forget, and it may be good for you to be minded of it, that at that time one of your Chiefest; to my great disappointment, told me, in the hearing of several of you, that you were sensible, that the Presence of God was suspended from you, endeavouring to satisfy me, that God doth often suspend his presence from his Church: I then answered, that if I found a want of the Lords Presence, I always charged it upon myself as the cause of it. Now after some considerable time of trial, I found you spoke truth, to my very great distress finding that the presence of the Lord was not amongst you; and dismal and dark was that day, when I came to see, that I sought the Living amongst the Dead. Now, Oh People, God Almighty, that searcheth the heart, and tryeth the reins, knoweth that I am deeply sensible of your state, who have only a name to live, but are dead, and in true love to you have mourned for you, and fervently desired your Salvation, and indeed hoped well concerning you, until lately finding the name of your Teacher, A. Palmer, amongst many more, to a Book published by John Faldoe, as Approvers, deep sorrow even seized upon me, that the Teacher of you, a People that for many years have loudly proclaimed to the world, That Love to all Saints is a Foundation Principle of your Fellowship: should set his hand in a way of Recommendation to the world, of the said book; to an Epistle, stuffed with most detestable lies and slanders, of, and against a People, that by many years' experience, I have found to be a holy People, walking in the fear of God blameless, and sound in the faith of the Gospel, whom by your aforesaid Principle you ought to Love, and knowing them to be clear of those foul things laid to their Charge by your said Teacher, both as to Doctrine and Conversation, I forthwith sent your Teacher one of William Pens Answers to him and his Brethren Moniters, And thus wrote to him.  

Anthony Palmer,  
IT is so plain hereby proved, that thou art guilty of Lies and Slanders against God's People, called Quakers, that he that Runs may Read it; and that thou art so guilty, I hereby charge upon thee, if thou art the A. Palmer there meant, as I believe thou art; and I send this, that thou mayst see thy Error, which if thou wilt acknowledge, and send it me under thy hand, that thou dost see and acknowledge thy Sin herein, I shall be right glad: otherwise, if in some short time, I do not receive such an account from thee, thou mayst expect that I shall (in that Congregation, whom I knew, I judge, many years before thou didst; and whose Souls Salvation I desire) bear my Testimony against thee as a Slanderer, and Liar, not fit for the Communion of such, much less to be a Teacher of any People pretending to Christianity.  
The 19th Day of the 10th Month. 74.   
After waiting many days, having a great desire to have heard of his eyes being open, to see his great Sin herein, as saith the Prophet, Amos 5. 12. I know your manifold Transgressions, and your mighty Sins, they afflict the Just: It was in my heart to clear my Conscience publicly amongst you; but my expected Opportunity being disappointed by one of your Meeting, denying to inform me where you intended to be Assembled; it entered into my heart, to commit my Message unto you, into writing: Oh People, In bowels of tender Love to you, I beseech you to consider the evil and danger of that Spirit, that slandereth and belieth the Innocent, as your Teacher hath herein done, and have a care I warn you, lest he begetteth the same Spirit in you. And in a Conscientious discharge of my Duty to God and you, I hereby bear my Testimony against what your Teacher hath written, to be most detestable Slander, proceeding from the old cursed Enmity of the Serpent's Seed against the Seed of the Woman: and I do in seriousness of Spirit, hereby call upon you, to consider of the state of your Souls, and the sad danger you are in, to be seduced by this sort of men into that detestable Spirit, that hereby they have manifested to be in them: having long known you, and been of your number, I am the more concerned for you, and do beseech you to examine your Condition, after so many years talk of Christ, and Salvation by him: I must tell you, your Building is but on the Sand, and the Rock you know not; for you know that when the Winds blew, and Waves beat upon you of Persecution, you fled in that Winter, there was no courage for God amongst you, but you fled from your Testimony, manifesting by your fainting in the day of Adversity, that your strength was but small: And I must clear my Conscience towards you, that for many years in many places of this City, made such a noise concerning Religion, and when the hour of trial came, fled, and turned your backs on your Testimony: the cause is this, your Building is on the Sand, and so like the wicked, you oft fled, when none pursued, so captivated were you by the fear of man: I know, and your Consciences know, how you consulted your fleshly Ease, and Interests, and fled the Cross! Consider I earnestly entreat you, how it came to be thus with you. Men have seduced you into a false Faith, and false Hope: and the God and Christ you talk of, I testify unto you, you know not: and so in the hour of trial, how should you stand, that know not the Rock? Oh ye backslidden People! thus it is with you, whether you will hear or forbear, this is the word of the Lord unto you, even a Lie is in your Right hand, while you are talking of Christ, his Death and Sufferings, and Resurrection, and Justification by him; yet being rebellious against his Light in you, you are ignorant of, and strangers to him: and so truly I see and am sensible of your sad danger, even to be seduced by your Teacher, to stumble at the Foundation & fall and perish for ever! Oh that ever the Teacher of All hollows witness-bearing People, should enter into a Confederacy with the worst of men, against the Innocent Holy People of God: for such are they, who by him and his Colleagues are so Reviled: I say, a People sanctified by Faith in Christ Jesus. Oh People, the Lord hath a sore and terrible dreadful Controversy with you; for you are as the Cauldron the Prophet speaks of, with its great scum in it: so it is with you: the fire hath not purified you, but you retain your scum of Pride, Fleshly-ease and Sensuality, Formality in Religion, and Conformity to the world. Oh that it should be thus with you after such a day as God hath brought amongst you! Now I am to tell you of one great depth of Satan, whereby you have been seduced, for which the wrath of God Almighty is against you; and that is, your offering Sacrifice, when God calleth you to Service: In that your Practice of keeping those Days in a way of Fasting and Prayer, when God calleth you to testify against their Superstitious Observation: your Teacher aforehand tells you, that such a day, you will have a diversion from your Callings, and therefore apoints it to be spent in Fasting and Prayer: thus if any Testimony exposeth you to Sufferings, you to shun the Cross, to offer Sacrifice you agree. O depth of Deceit: Oh ye Ancients of that Congregation: there was a day when your beloved John Symson exhorted you to open your shops on such days, as a Testimony God required y●u to bear against Superstition: and I have heard him reprove the neglect of it, in these words, I passed along the Streets such a day, and scarce fee one shop open! being the 25th day of the 10th Month, and lamented it, and reproved you for it: Oh you Backsliders! compare this with the Spirit of your present Teacher! Oh what a filthy pickle you are in, that have thus long wallowed in your mire! the Lord abhors you, and all your Fast and Prayers: even as the Prophet said to degenerated Israel of old: this is the word of the Lord unto you, Oh People, Zech. 7. 5. Speak unto all the People of the Land, and to the Priests, and say, when ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh Month, even the seventy Years, did ye fast unto me? did appoint it? I this day testify unto you, these 14, or 15 years, ye have not fasted unto the Lord, but to yourselves, to your own Bellies, to preserve your fleshly ease and interests: and it is no better than the cutting off the dog's neck, or offering Swine's blood: Consider this, Oh ye Houlers, and hear as in the sight of God that justifieth me in it, and requireth it of me, I charge it upon you that call yourselves Churches, to be guilty of thickening the Veil of Darkness upon the minds of the People of this age, by your deserting your Testimony against Superstition, and running away in the day of suffering. Oh ye Hypocrites, when God calls you to a public Testimony against Popish Observations, you run into corners, and keep a howling of your fears of the dark night of Popery coming upon the Nation I know your do in the dark— the Righteous God hereby chargeth it upon you, to be guilty of making gross and thick the Veil of Darkness upon the minds of People in this day; and in his Fear I charge it upon you. Woe, woe unto you from the jealous God of Israel, that out of Zion this day roareth and uttereth his voice from Jerusalem against you, Oh ye evil doers, that have run into Corners, Cole holes, Closets, or on tops of houses, through Valleys, from one house to another; enquired after, and consulted to have back doors, and all to escape the Cros●: Oh blush, that ever men should be so impudent, as to appear in this day to admonish the People, that have so acted their part! Now no wonder your Teacher joins his hand with that notorious Enemy to God and Reformation, R. Baxter, who hath strained his wits on that Teynters, to reduce this age into Egyptian Darkness, witness his Cure for Church Divisions: wherein he hath condemned the Saints and Martyrs of all ages: and no doubt but Ed. Bagshaw, that so honestly opposed him, was counted with these 25 Moniters a Reverend Divine; but to pass them, Oh how can I but lament that the people of Allhollows should be entered into this most detestable confederacy against the work of God in this day! Oh you whom God hath emptied from Vessel to Vessel, and hewed some of you to piece, and all to humble you and purify you: but alas you are turned into the degenerate plant of a strange Vine to him, Jer. 2. 21. yea you are the people that having been smitten have not received correction, v. 3. Oh people, this is your state! and as he saith v. 9 he will yet plead with you. Now clearly seeing the sad danger you are in, even suddenly to rush yourselves ●nto an irrecoverable state, by being begotten by your Teacher into a Spirit of enmity against the Lord's heritage, which is the work of the Devil in this day, in and by various Instruments; and the Devil set a-work these 25 Moniters, to slander and reproach the holy people of God, to prejudice you and others against them, and their holy Testimony: I hereby warn you of the danger you are in, and in obedience to the requirement of the God, in whose hand is my breath, and to whom I must give account of all done in the body, in opposition to them, and all such as they are. I hereby testify that the people they slander, are the Israel of God, a holy unblameable people, whose design in the world is the glory of God, and the salvation of men's souls, for which they have hazarded their all, when none of these Moniters durst show themselves: and amongst them, I am a witness, is preached sound Doctrine, and not to be reproved, the same salvation and way of obtaining it, that as the Apostle said, began first to be spoken by the Lord, and after by them that heard him: and I here testify unto you, that you are their enemies because you know them not: but did you see them in themselves, stripped of the false dresses of Faldoe and these Moniters, and all such as they; there is so much honesty in many of you, that a love would arise in you to them; yea you would lay hold on their skirt, and their God should be your God: A zeal is in my heart towards God, and in pity to poor deluded people by these wicked men, and therefore beseech you and all people to consider your state, and take heed to your Spirit, as was the ancient exhortation of Esay the Prophet: so to you all, I say, Oh harden not your heart by continuing in your provocation: And to you in particular, once more I say consider your state, and be honest and true to yourselves: you know not how short your time may be: oh be not bewitched by corrupt men, but consider what was the cause you could not stand in the hour of trial, but for fear of a Constable or Soldiers ran away from your Prayers and Preachments; yea from your Bread and Wine too, that you call a Sealing Ordinance of your eternal Inheritance; but you have manifested what a sense you have, of the value of an eternal Inheritance in your taking your evidences unsealed, rather than expose your bodies to a Prison, or shame amongst men; there is that in you that showeth you that if you would do yourselves justice, you would confess you love your bellyes more than God: seek the welfare of your bodies, not your souls: Oh repent and be converted, that you may know a blotting out of your sins: Oh ye Summer-fruit, if you reform not your lives, the next winter of snow and frost of Persecution, ye will all drop again as rotten fruit, fit for nothing but the dunghill, as Christ saith of the unsavoury salt: therefore even as was said to them of old, Rev. 3, 18. I council thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire: or I assure you if you know not a purging of the dross from the silver, you will never be vessels for the Finer. Prov. 25. 41. But depart from me ye cursed I know you not, will be the dreadful portion of all of you; so now I proceed to examine somewhat of the Moniters Epistle, which I testify against to be a Compound of Lies and Slanders, sufficient to send all those to hell that shall swallow the least dose of it. Not that I intent a general answer to it, that would swell to a large Volume so to rip it up and respond to it: but as to that part of it, that once myself being infected with, and thereby prejudiced against the holy people of God and their Testimony, the Lies I once believed, I am now to testify against: & truly I believed them not simply of myself, but as they were influenced into me by such persons as these, as no doubt is into you; and in Conscience towards God, and his dear People, that I say these Moniters have falsely represented, and detestably slandered. I thus proceed:   

21. MONITERS. Excepting some juggling Socinianized Persons, or Papists that assume their Name.  
HEre they plainly endeavour to incinuate into people's minds, that we are in Affinity with the Papists; and have Papists amongst us.  
This horrid Slander and Lie I once believed, through the like Incinuations of such, and some of these men: Now indeed the deadly Venom of their Monition Lies here, being the old Weapon whereby they have for many years endeavoured to destroy our Reputation, and thereby our Being, in the Land of our Nativity: and truly these men consider not in their heart, that God remembreth all their Iniquity, Hos. 2. 7. and so they go on to drink up iniquity as the Ox drinks water: and in this matter they have been so manifestly proved Liars, that were they not the impudent Sons of Jezebel the Seducer, Rev. 2. 20. they would never have raged thus more, exccepting that God will have them discovered, to be of the same Spirit, with their Brethren in New England: for these 25 Moniters are a Complication of Presbyterians and Independants; and it is to be perpetuated as most requisite for the Information of succeeding Ages, That it was Preaching Praying, Fasting Presbyterians and Independants that Murdered the Saints in New England: Now in this horrid Impious Incinuation of us to be Popish, they yet manifest the depth of Villainy, Hos. 6. 10. that lodgeth in their Hearts, to incinuate this afresh into People's minds: but Lies are their Refuge, as Needham used to say of their Enemies, This Lie was their Weapon, 1659.▪ when they put forth their Monition in this City. Now that through so much Trial and Tribulation since, even to the general satisfaction of Magistrate and Subject, the contrary hath been manifested: These Men herein I Charge, 1. With most horrid impudence and malice. 2. To be manifestly hereby convicted, to have a design, to debauch the People's minds, in persuading them to believe the contrary to their experience, and what is repugnant to the conviction of their Conscience: contrary to experience: that sometimes these Moniters will say is the best Teacher; herein they are chargeable with Debauchery: and better for their work sake, merit the term● Debauchers, than Divines. This looks Pope like, that people must not see with their own eyes: It is sufficiently known, how oft Baxter hath flown up and down the Nation in white and black sheets, to render us Jesuitical and Romish: so cannot be much wondered at in that proved enemy to all saints, who rather than will want enemies to shoot his arrows of malice and envy at, can make Sectaries, and then thunder out his Bulls against, calling upon the Powers to persecute them: as they know that are acquainted with the wards of his Catholic Key, dedicated to R. C. where I cannot but note, he scribles against a sort of Sectaries, I could never meet with in any other Author, and yet am no stranger to the History of the Times, nor a heedless Spectator, of public Actions, that is the vainest Sect: but no doubt but this man would have all he envies such a Sect as he pleaesth to term them, and then away with them all at one stroke, that the Presbyter may have all, and that scarce enough to satisfy their greedy desires: But adored be the hand of God, wherein is the heart of Princes, who hath secretly disappointed all such haman's: and here I cannot but remember people of this man's being in 1659. publicly cried up and down in London, for a Liar and a Slanderer: so R. B thou art no changeling; wherein thou hast no doubt been lately strengthened, by a Son of the same Mother: though differing a little in Feather, Tho. Hicks the Baptist: who might well have Subscribed, as of your Fraternity, being so dexterous in forgery, whose Dialogues, and thy Catholic Key differ in date, but not in Nature. Now to conclude, This I hereby declare to all of you, and to all men, that this Incinuation is most false, and the Lie and Liars are for the lake of God's Vengeance for ever: and that we have either Papist or juggling Socinian amongst us, is a soul lie, and make your Charge good if you can. And I hereby warn all, as they tender their Souls welface, and would escape the Pit of Perdition, these Malicious men are leading them into, to have a care they let not into their minds this mo●t detestable Incinuation. A lie I once believed, and was prejudiced against the Saints of God by it, on the contrary I declare, that in Conscience I believe there never was a Jesuit or Papist amongst the Quakers, as owning them, or their Principles: and for Socinianism, I refer you to a Book written by those Servants of Christ, his Church, and their Generation, George Whitehead and William Penn, entitled The Divinity of Christ: wherein is enough said to satisfy any, but such as are drunk with the Wine of the Whore's Cup, i. e. the Priests, i. e. the Presb. and Independants Cup of Malice against the Innocent: thus the Lord having opened my eyes, and delivered me out of these snares of the Enemy, i. e. to believe the false incinuations of men against the holy People of God, I give my Testimony against this their incinuation, as tending to debauch People, being assured, that as the standers by said, when the Temple was rend, and darkness covered the earth, when Christ suffered : Of a truth this was the Son of God: so that by the Doctrine and Conversation of the people whom these men thus traduce, even most people have been reached so as to believe, they are not, nor never were, Jesuitical or Popish: Now at this time a day, thus to incinuate, I say is to endeavour to debauch the minds of the People, to persuade them to believe a people to be that, which they have born, and do bear such a Testimony against, in root and branch, as never was born by any People, since Popery had a name in the world. And oh that the present Magistrates of England could bow their ear and receive a word of Counsel in this matter, even to be ware of these men, and of being influenced by them into an evil opinion of the innocent people of God: their old practice was by Petitions and Addresses to endeavour to stir up their own Creatures to acts of Cruelty against us, under the same pretence of Jesuitism and Popery; but of late years, what they incinuated into people's minds to affright and amuse them on that acoount is sufficiently known: and now again, because malice hath no place for rest, they are buzzing again into people's minds, incinuations against us, as the introdncers of Popery. Well, God Almighty will render their Iniquity into their own bosom; and as to you, this I declare, the Quakers merit no evil from you, being a people of as sound Principles, as to Government, as ever were upon the Earth, whoever they were and have been that have hurt people with whimsical Opinions concerning Government, under specious pretences, I shall here be silent as to such: but as for the Holy Israel of God, called Quakers, Righteousness is in their hearts towards all men, to the King, and all that are in Authority: desiring their Eternal and Temporal Tranquillity: And therefore I do even beseech all such, whom God in his wise Providence hath set as Rulers over the People of this Nation, to have a care they be not seduced by these men, into false apprehensions of this holy People: and must to that end here mind you, and all m●n, That it was Preaching, Praying, Fasting Presbyterians and Independants that murdered the Saints in New-England. Oh have a care of them, for they drive at no less here: but God that hath, will yet more and more unveil them to all men.   

MONITERS. From whom they hid the poison of their Antifundamental Doctrines.  
COme Rabbis, though never at your Universities, nor can well tell what trash by Tradition you profess, for Fundamentals, forged in, and fomented by General Counsels, and Synods of carnal men, like yourselves, that in several Ages, have drawn Pictures of Religion, which you fall down to and worship, out of whose Treasuries you have stocked yourselves: and strip you of which, alas how much wiser are you than those whom you mock at, as ignorant? this I affirm on behalf of the Quakers, that whatsoever, according to the holy Scriptures can be called Fundamental Principles of the Christian Religion, they fully affert, own, and contend for, even for the Faith once delivered to the Saints, which you carnal men are out of, Now, you Rabbis, and all men know, that we believe in one Almighty Omnipotent God, and that he is to be loved, worshipped, feared and obeyed: that he created and upholdeth all things by the word of his power: that he is holy, merciful, just and true: that man by sin became deprived of the knowledge, and enjoyment of God, his Creator: that the restoration of this lost man to happiness again, in the enjoyment of the favour of his Creator, is only through the Lord Jesus Christ, who 1600 years ago, was of the Line of David, born of the Virgin at Bethlem in Judea, who preached a Heavenly Doctrine, was Crucified by the Jews, and laid in a Sepulchre, and was raised by the power of God, and was seen of Mary, and other Brethren, who ascended far above all Heavens, and shall come the second time without sin to Salvation, even to all that look for him: that he came to do the Father's will, and in the prepared body did it, in which ho abolished death, offering up himself through the eternal Spirit, without fault to God, to purge the Conscience from dead works to serve the living God, Heb. 9 14. That Man must believe in this Lord Jesus Christ for remission of sins, and acceptance with the Father: and that by Faith Christ is applied to the Soul, for Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption: and that by the imputed and imparted Righteousness of Christ, man comes to be justified, and accepted with God, acceptance being only in him the beloved: We believe the Resurrection of the dead, Christ the first fruits, and afterward they that are his at his coming: We believe the Life everlasting, Amen. And for Christ's sake are willing to be killed all the day long, in hope of a better Resurrection, seeking a Country whose Builder and Maker is God: We own the Holy Scriptures to be of inestimable value, and excellent use to all men: but we say itself gives the pre-eminence to the Holy Spirit, as that alone which leads into all truth, John 16. 8.  
Now in opposition to the four Moniters that incinuate that we do not own, and preach Christ, the Eternal Son of God, and after the flesh of the Virgin: And the 21 that incinuate, we hold antifundamental Doctrines, I give forth this Testimony: wherein I affirm that of the 4 to be a most detestable Lie: that we preach a mere Created Light of the natural Conscience and Reason, affirming that the same Jesus that the Apostles Preached, to be Preached amongst us; faith in him is preached as the only name given by whom poor Souls can be saved: and in opposition to the 21, do say, if to believe in the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent be essential to Salvation; if to fear God, and love our Neighbours, and do to all men as we would be done by: even to believe in Christ as the Author of eternal Salvation, to all that obey him, and as is more largely . be with you Fundamental, than your incinuation of our holding Anti-fundamentals is slanderous.  
It is very true, Baby-baptism, prated▪ prayers, Sinners to sing Saints Psalms, Man made-Ministers, entitling every unclean harlot to Church-membership, that the Merciful God decreed some men from all eternity to damnation, that God offers mercy and Salvation to those he never intends it: these Lies and Blasphemies, wherewith you have poisoned this age; all this we deny, but all wholesome found Doctrine we own, and are ready to make it appear to the Faces of the Stoutest of you, and prove you are Slanderers of us.  
These Lies once believing, that the Quakers denied Christ and the Scriptures; and knowing the danger people are in, through the subtle wiles of these men, to be seduced into a Spirit of envy against the Innocent, even to their everlasting Damnation, I am the larger in this matter: the great objection in this matter is, that we preach the Light, and exhort people to turn to the Light of Christ in them, this is true, but that this is to preach, a created Light of Reason, and natural Conscience: oh that ever men that would be accounted the only Learned men, should be thus blind, and base, and thus to incinuate, when the Scripture so amply gives us an account of Christ's preaching himself, in the same Dialect, that he was come a Light into the world; and exhorted people to believe in the Light, that they might be Children of the Light, John 8. 12. and here I shall refer these Rabbis, and all people, to the Testimony of Paul, Acts 26. giving account of his Doctrine, I continue witnessing, to small and great, the same things spoken by Moses and the Prophets; how that Christ should suffer; and be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and the gentiles: Well ye Rabbis, is it to preach a created Light of the Reason and natural Conscience, to testify that Christ doth show light to all men, and exhort them to turn to it; you might as well have said the same of Paul, had you lived in his days: Oh the midnight darkness that you are in, thus basely to persuade people to believe Lies concerning us, of your own forging. Whatever have been, and may be, your false accusations, I am assured, all these people called Quakers, can unanimously and cheerfully, concerning Jesus Christ of Nazareth, subscribe to that savoury saying of Doctor Crisp, as I remember.  
If Christ thou knowest, it will suffice,  
Though else thou knowest not:  
If Christ be hid, thou art not wise,  
Though all else thou art taught.   

21. MONITERS. And yet some of them being grown Rich, can, and do live in in as much flesh-pleasing, fullness, splendour, and indulging to a sensual life, as others whom they have condemned.  
I Will readily allow these men to be competent judges of such a life, according to their own Tenent, that Experience is the best Teacher: yet in this also their tongue is set on fire in hell, according to their wont trade, to call good evil, and evil good, Jer. 48. 27. Was not Israel a derision to you? even so is it with these men: they deride the Israel of God, and endeavour thus to draw in others to deride us: and I doubt not but the cursed fire, that burns in their unclean hearts against us, they design to blow up in the whole Nation against us: but it is like them, who doctrinally apply peace where God speaks war, and war where God speaks peace; but they are lame in this also, by their own Tenent: who in their Pulpits will tell you, Generals prove nothing: This is a general Accusation; but except they can of their own knowledge, produce some particular instance, it proves nothing: and though I never was of their University Pupils, yet do believe, that by their University Rules, they merit a lash, for suppository Calumniation: It's true, Illwill never speaks well: so to expect better from these men, were to seek grapes on thorns: but we know all are not dead drunk with the wine of Malice, so as to believe all these men say, though termed Reverend Divines. Old stile, though nothing more repugnant to propriety of Speech: But as to that matter let all men know, that if any pretending to be of us, be such as indulge the flesh, they are none of us, but are returned to you: for it is not possible they should be of our fellowship, but may be fit members for your Church, who doctrinally declare, that Dominion over sin is not to be expected here: as a great one of you in a Book called Helps to Piety, thus faith, The body of sin and death were born, and must die together. Oh rare Divines! is this Doctrine a help to Piety? Now to conclude this, Oh ye Moniters, would ye recover your long lost Reputation, by slandering us? your old cause taught you better▪ all this will not serve your turn, for God is stripping the veil off people's minds, and they will ere long see with their own eyes, not yours; and the unprejudiced know you are false accusers herein; and that all sensualists are judged of us and not of us: for we follow peace and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.   

21. MONITERS. Few among them are men of so much understanding, and competent Principles, as to be able and willing to give a methodical account, intelligibly, of what they or their party hold.  
HEre is a Lie Couchant: he that rides conquering and to conquer, notwithstanding all your weapons of opposition hath in our day ridden prosperously, that in our Nation at this day is many thousands of true Israelites; of which great number it may be supposed, you 25 are not acquainted with 100 And yet you are so confident, as to affirm us all fools but a few. Oh ye Artists, and men of Methods, that are wise to deceive! We are not ashamed to grant, that we are come to that Wisdom that the world calls folly, being willing to become fools, that we may be truly wife, as the Apostle testified in his day; and it's not novelty, for such as preach in the wisdom of God, to be called babblers, by such as you: We are come to that which giveth subtlety to the simple, and in that mystery how should we be intelligible to you, carnal men, whose wisdom is from beneath, sensual, devilish: But before you upbraid us for our ignorance, oh Rabbis, you should answer Rusticuss by S. F. What, will you boast, and put off your harness, as victorious, and sing and ring a victory, and never have engaged your enemy? If Rusticuss hath put you all to silence, why do you so mock at the Rustic? You prate against the Rustic, and yet run away from him. Well ye Rabbis, we grant you cannot understand; but I tell you the reason is, because you were never with us at the School of Christ's Cross. We know you come from Cambridge & Oxford, but you are not yet entered in the School of Christ's Cross, and that's the reason, we who speak the wisdom of God in a Mystery, are to you unintelligible. We know you have read worldly Authors, and have hundreds or thousands a year, to pick here and there, and then enclose it in your Bible, and tell the people, thus say the Fathers of the Church: thus the Ancient and Modern Divines: the Text is thus divided into parts: these the points of Doctrine: thus illustrated: these the Inserences: these the grounds and reasons of the point: these the Uses, and thus applied: Lo your Trade! and by this craft you fill your bellies, and maintain your Families in worldly pomp, and thus the spirit that is in you lusteth to envy against the poor and meek of the earth, and call them fools and mad men, babblers, unintelligible of inconsistent Principles: Well, if ignorance be the Mother of our Devotion, we know we have heard and learned of the Fathers, who calleth not many wise nor mighty, and confoundeth things that are, by that which is not. But oh that you Doctors could see, that God is in this day turning the wisdom of wise men backward, and perfecting his praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings: which glorious work, though you join hand in hand against, you shall not go unpunished: for Zions' brightness is arising, and her God is her glory, and in vain do you form weapon after weapon, for none of them shall prosper, the Lord hath spoken, and who is he that saith and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? the Virgin Daughter of Zion laughs at all your plots and conspiracies, trusting in the arm of the Lord, that hath brought your counsels to nothing, and yet, yet again will make you Diviners mad. Oh ye Doctors, Remember that hand that subverted all your counsels, and brought down your lofty nest in 1659. you that deceived the simple ones of that day, by your long Prayers, and days of Fasts in several places in this City, charming them with Lies, until the hand of the Lords Vengeance broke forth, without remedy: could ever this age expect again to hear of you, whose light of your eyes, and breath of your nostrils, is so long ago dead, and twice buried. Now oh people, can you choose but stand amazed to see these men so impudent, as ever again to appear, as your Moniters? how many of your dear Fathers, Husbands, Brothers and Kindred have in this age, by these very men, been seduced into destructive ways to soul and body, to the ruin of many ancient and honest Families? I say to all people, reflect but your own Experience, of these men, the best Teacher, as themselves say, and more need not to be said, than to remind you of your own experience of these men. These men are better known to me, than to every one and my feet were well nigh slidden into the everlasting pit of destruction, by their seducing Doctrine; and it's my concernment to warn others: and I do say, could people hear the cry of thousands out of the pit of damnation, they would intelligibly hear their Idol of Jealousy, and others thus lament, Presbyterian and Independants, under the notion of Gospel Ministers, and Reverend Divines, were the men that seduced us hither, by their preaching peace to us, and crying, the Lord is with you: had it not been for them, we had obeyed the Light in our Consciences, and returned from our evil ways, and had never come here: thus cries John Indicot and others of New England, and this is the dolorous complaint of thousands of our, but yesterday, dear Country men. Oh people, consider what I say unto you, that you would but reflect your own expeperience of these men. Oh G. G. how darest thou ever appear again? sure thou hast forgotten thy Westminster Flatteries, thou most notorious lying Prophet, whom I heard thus to pray, at Paul's, Lord, Bless the Army of the Lamb, against the Beast, give them success. The Army that by thy Master was sent to Hyspaniola, to rob the Spaniard, so then there: the Army of the Lamb was hewed to pieces in the woods in Hyspaniola by a few Moors. Oh sad Moniter, possessed with a legion of lying Spirits ! Solomon saith, He that saith to the wicked, thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, Prov. 11. 26. That is thy portion, O G. G. by way of eminence. Oh if people were not in a Lethargy of security, they would be ware of you all, and shun you as the Plague of the present time.  

Oh People!  
These Priests you see no Changelings are,  
Such as they were, such like to be ever:  
They change their Coats and vary their Notes,  
But always you may observe their lure  
Is strained to grasp after filthy lucre:  
Though often routed, yet they rally,  
And face any way to fill their belly.  
Their net is always spread to fill their table,  
Rendering Religion a mere fable.  
That of them you may not have clear sight,  
They prejudice your minds against the light.  
Those that them observe, cannot but mark  
Their industry to keep people in the dark.  
No wonder then, they thus continue to fight  
Against those that exhort to turn to the light,  
Did you but see these men, as they be,  
From them, as greatest danger, you would flee.  
All Zeal for Religion they endeavour to cool,  
For alas they dread, that threatened howl, (Rev. 18. 11.)  
Oh dreadful day, John the Divine there foretold,  
When their Merchandise will procure no Silver nor Gold.  
These sinews cut, they faint and ever die,  
Therefore dread the light, lest people should see eye to eye.  
Thus see how they conspire, the people to fright  
From coming to heed the Quakers Light.  
Which to accomplish, a legion of Lies  
They join together, for to devise.  
Well, let them alone, God shall show  
This applies to them, but their due.  
No other evidence but their Epistles,  
They yield no grapes nor figs, being thorns and thistles.  
Now such as will not for their own eternal good,  
Of them be warned, I am clear of their▪ blood.   
Thus having somewhat exceeded what I intended, I shall conclude, adding some few worthy Say of some Ancients: and in short, answering to what may be objected, that here is nothing in way of answer, to what John Faldoe hath written: I shall not dissemble, in pleading inability, knowing a measure of that promise fulfilled, that the least of the flock shall draw them out: only this I say, at present as to that, that so much of that nature is already written by William Penn, that more need not be yet said, seeing it is untouched by these Adversaries: to which I refer all that would herein be satisfied: expecting to dispatch a discourse, wherein I shall prove these very men, I have hereby warned people of, to be in Doctrine and practice, the very floodgate, whereby Atheism and Profaneness, is breaking in as a mighty torrent, upon this miserable age: but God hath lift up his Standard, blessed be his holy Name, and that by the Testimony of the holy people called Quakers, as I shall hereafter more largely evidence. Farewell.  

A few pertinent Notations out of Fox's Acts and Monuments.  
288. GVlielmus de Amore, called a Master of Paris, and chief Ruler of that University, it's probable as Lerned as R. B. that wrote the Catholic Key, saith thus, True Prophets preach only for God's Cause, health of Souls, and not temporal gain, and study not Eloquence and curious placing of words: nor do they force any to receive or hear them: nor do they endeavour to procure the indignation of Princes against such as will not receive or hear them. Measure yourselves by this, oh you Presbyterians and Independants.  
369. The Saints in that day complain thus; Lord, Men now make great Ston houses full of glass windows, and call them thy Church. Is not Baalim in your mouths, Oh Professors.  
358. A Learned man thus saith, The corrupt manners of the Christians do spring and grow out of the wickedness of the Spirituality: the enmity of this age against the Innocent, is greatly attributable to such as these Moniters.  
518. Lord Cohham, If the Curate be an Idiot, Idolater, or of vicious life, I ought to flee from him. Compare this with Bax▪ Cure. Alias, Balm for the Wounded Harlot.  
501. Wickliff, So long as a man is in deadly sins, he is neither Bishop nor Prelate in the house of God. Lies and Slanders are deadly sins, what then are these Moniters?  
239. The Saints in that day understood Christ and his Apostles to be against men's being called Masters: I believe would not have called men Reverend Divines; I am sure not sach men as these, that endeavour to expugn Divinity out of the world.  
485. Every good man, though unlearned, is a Priest: that the Bishop, the Simple man, the Priest, the Layman, are of Authority, according as they live; and that no man is bound to give bodily Reverence to a Prelate.  
872. The Saints of that day against Superstitious Burials.  
863. One burned for not owning ungodly Priests Pastors of the Church.  
Cyprian, that lived in the 3d Century after Christ, who is applauded by the Learned; his Writings, they say, are next to the Scriptures: thus saith he, womans that advance themselves by putting on Silks, and Purple, cannot put on Christ; they who colour their Locks with red and yellow, begin betime to prognosticate what colour their hair shall be of in hell: they that love to paint themselves otherwise than God Created them, may fear that at the Resurrection, their Creator will not know them.  
John Knox, the famous Scotch Presbyter, Fol. 361. History of the Reformation of the Church of England, thus saith to the Gallants of those days, How pleasant were this Life of yours, if it were to abide ever, and in the end you might pass to Heaven in this gear: but fie upon that Knave, Death, that will come, whether we will or not; and when he hath laid on his Arrest, then foul worms will be so busy about this flesh, be it never so fair and tender; and the silly Soul I fear will be so feeble, that it can neither carry with it Gold, Garnish, Pearls nor Precious Stones.  
These are short Collections very seasonable to mind these Moniters and their Flocks of, who stink so noysomly of Envy and Pride.   
THE END.