A Sad Caveat to all QUAKERS.  
Not to boast any more that they have God Almighty by the hand, when they have the Devil by the toe.  
Containing a true Narration of one William Pool an Apprentice, & a known Quaker near Worcester, who on Friday, in last Febr. the 20. boasting that he had that day Christ by the hand, and must according to appointment go to him again, did on that evening by the temptation and impulsion of the Devil drown himself in the River. Together with the Judgement of the Coroner and Jury, who found him guilty of self-Murder.  
As also the most barbarous usage of some Quakers who digged him out of his Grave. And the most unparaleled presumption of one Mrs Susan Peirson, who undertook to raise him again to life, with the whole manner of it, and the words that at that time she uttered; The like whereof never heard in Christendom.  
London, Printed for W. Gilbertson in Giltspur street without Newgate. 1657.   

A sad Caveat to all Quakers.  
THe Church of God hath oftentimes found many opposers but never more than in this Age. The word of God was never more powerfully preached, and the Devil never more busy to sow his tares then at this present. And in this the policy of the Devil is very remarkable which is to overthrow the Gospel by the Gospel, that is by perverting the sense of the Gospel, by making many false glosses, and Comments, and Interpretations on it, nay by making the Gospel to appear but as a dead letter, compared to the light which they pretend to have within them. Although the Devil I say in all ages, hath raised up many Enemies, against the Gospel, yet his malice did never work more prevalently than now, it worketh the more prevalently because it worketh with so much subtlety and deceit, and because it is disguised with so much sanctity, surely the Devil did never so often transform himself into an Angel of light, by holding forth false lights then in these days. Had they been jews who had blasphemed the Gospel, we could have discovered, and aveyded them? Had they been Mahometans or Turks we could with more confidence have confuted them? Had they been Athists we could either have convinced, or have punished them, but they are a Generation of men sprang up amongst us, who do carry an infection with them, an infection which is the more dangerous because it overruns every part preservatives into the rankest poison? The zeal of these men is but dissimulation, their prayers are an abhominatione their Doctrine but profanes and the whole Conversation of their lives a Labyrinth wherein they lose themselves in the many errors and turn of spiritual pride.  
I shall not need to make any large discovery of them every day produceth one remarkable example or another, I shall only represent unto you a Narration of one of them who boasting that he had Christ by the hand, it proved sadly afterwards by the sequel, that he had the Devil by the toe.  
His Name was William Pool he was an Apprentice to one Georg Knight of the Parish of Clains in the City of Worcester, his Master heretofore lived in a good Fame, by a good trade had he not driven at the last a bad trade by keeping convenation with the Quakers, with whose Principles he was so strongly possessed that from being a Brother in Christ he would now become Christ in a Brother. The Quakers are not ashamed to affirm that Christ is parsonally in them by which wild assertion if we should umpe with them in that belief it would come to pass that there would be as many Christ's as there are Christians, and alluding to the opinion of the Papists in their point of predestination, the Body of Christ would at one and at the same time being several bodies, and in several places which is absolutely repugnant unto sense and reason,  
This man had heretofore been accounted a sincere Professor, but now he began to conceive himself to be above all Ordinances, and to be a despiser of that truth which he before professed: He was sometimes esteemed to be a very honest neighbour, but now he looked upon them with a scornful and censorious eye, as if they were not worthy of his countenance, yet he would be familiar with his Apprentice William Pool they was of the same mind, which made them outwardly to agree so well together, and yet this compliance was not so extraordinary but it sometimes carried with it some tokens of distaste.  
On a time the father of William Pool coming to see him, he found his Master and him very earnest in disputation together; the Apprentice did thou his Master at every word, the Father of the Apprentice did much admire at the incivility of his son, and that the older he grew he was every day more unmannerly than other.  
He therefore did reprove him for it, but both Master and man did satisfy him concerning that particular, and did assure him that his Son in those words did express himself punctually, and that it was not his rudeness, but his Religion; the old man departed, and the Apprentice and his Master did live together with a mutual concurrence and harmony of affection; It did so fall out (as commonly it is seen) that the rankest weeds grow thickest and highest, that the City of Worcster and places thereabouts did begin to be overspread with Quakers, many persons who before pretended much unto Religion being seduced and carried away by this violent torrent; and those who were esteemed to be most zealous for the truth did suffer themselves to fall into this error, such a face of sanctimony and humility did these seducers put on them.  
Amongst these William Pool began to be very well known, and as some (who suffered not long since) did pretend they were Christ; so this young man did affirm that he did shake hands with Christ: to be thus familiar with Christ did swell him up into a great presumption, when alas he was altogether ignorant what a desperate Familiar he had gotten; he now belieus himself to be lifted up into the Heavens, and to be above the condition of other men when he is in the lowest and most lamentable condition in the world, the pride of heart and the temptations of the devil do increase together: It seems that the Prince of darkness had appeared to him in the shape of some goodly personage, and this credulous young man was apt to believe that it was Christ; poor man he was not much above two and twenty years of age, an age apt to be seduced and carried away, especially when it is attended with a spirit that entertaineth an extraordinary conceit of itself, and would appear higher and holier than o●hers.  
On Friday the twentieth of February about three of the clock in the afternoon he did walk forth from his master's house into the Garden, where having made some stay longer than ordinary he was demanded where he had been, he made answer that he had been with Christ, and that Christ had taken him by the hand, and that he had appointed him to come to him again, and that he must go unto him.  
This was a strong temptation of the Devil that was upon this poor man, and it is most apparent that it was a temptation of the Devil, for all other temptations that do proceed from a man's self do side with nature, but for a man to be tempted to destroy himself is absolutely against nature, and must be a mere temptation of the Devil You Sir know by what spirit this Quaker did act, you shall now see what he doth act. This poor young man goes forth again, but to return no more, what were the apparitions which he saw may we concern were the temptations that were upon him; When the night began to grow old, he is miss, and no man can jmmagine what is become of him, for he was never known to stay out late before? the night is drawn out betwixt fear and hope, and the morning appearing, Messengers are sent to inquire him out, but they return with a Nonestinventus, and which make it the more strange, none of his acquaintance or kindred can posibly direct them where to find him.  
In these perplexities they continue all Saturday, and Saturday night, and no tidings could be heard of him. On Sunday morning there were many more at leisure to seek after him, and some walking one way and some another, one of them at last had discovered some  which lay by the River's side, they were the  of the young man whom so long they looked for; and casting his eye up and down, and observing at last the dead body floating on the water, he had not the leisure to take it up, but making haste to some acquaintance they came all in together being all amazed at so sad a spectacle, they took the dead body out of the River, and covering it with a Cloth they brought it to his Master's house? Immediately the Town was full of sorrow and Complaint especially against the Quakers and some women of Note thereabouts who being seduced themselves did contribute their utmost Endeavours to seduce others. This was much seconded by the Minister's sermon that afternoon, who taking an occasion to discourse upon this subject did represent what advantage the Devil did take to improve his temptations, and how near of kin is spiritual pride to Hell.  
Sermon being ended, the Coroner was sent for and a jury impanneled, and it was easily found that the Quaker who had drowned himself was guilty of self-murder; nevertheless they were so full of pity as to exempt the dead body from that sentence to which those who do destroy themselves are liable, for he was not buried in the Highway, he had no stake plated with Iron thrust through his body to terrify all passengers from committing such a black and desperate act, but on the Monday following about four of the clock in the morning he was civilly buried in the Parish of Clains: The mercy of the parish where he lived did quietly commit him to the Grave, but the barbarous boldness and presumption of the Quakers with whom he conversed would not suffer him to rest quiet in his Grave, but on the same morning about eleven of the clock they digged him up again to show a wonder upon him, which being one of the most daring and presumptuous deeds that was ever known in Christendom. To show you of what spirit these Quakers are I will be careful in these following lines to give you a true account thereof.  

The most presumptuous attemt of Mrs. Susan Peirson and other Quakers, who who commanded the dead body of this their deceased friend to be taken out of the Grave, madly and vainly promising his Mother that they would restore it unto life again.  
I Made mention a little before that there were some women of note who suffering themselves to be seduced by these great Deceivers, did use their utmost endeavours to seduce others. In this number was one Mistress Susan Peirson, who by reason of her quality, and great abilities adding some Authority to her Illusions, did wonderfully serve to increase the number of the Deceived: she was heretofore very much beloved for the many good parts that were eminent in her, she appeared to be a great lover of the Gospel, a strict and constant observer of the Sabbath, a diligent hearer of the Word, but being overcome by hip crisies and the pretended sanctity of this sect of the Quakers, she turned from being a lo●er of Ordinances to be a despiser of Ordinances, and briefly to act & utter any thing that a profane and an unruly rage could prompt her to. She entertained a belief, that to derogate from the Authority of the Ministers was to increase her own, she therefore did moke it her practice to come into the Churches where the Ministers were preaching, and interrupting them as well praying as preaching; she would demand of them what Authority they could show to prove themselves Ministers, and whethei they could justify themselves to be Ministers by the working of miracles, quite forgetting or disdaining the Doctrine of Saint Paul, That a woman ought to be silent, and not to speak in the Congregation.  
The Mother of this young Quaker that thus desperately drowned himself, being extraordinarily perplexed for the loss of her son in so strange a manner, and almost refusing to be comforted, Mistress Susan Peirson doth make her hasty addresses to her, she reproves her superfluous tears, and assureth her that she would restore unto her her son again by a quickening Miracle that she would work upon him; The Miracle indeed was, that the Devil should so much blind her as to undertake so great an impossibility to the utter disgrace of a creature that had been so useful to him, and may serve to represent unto us what a difference there is in the disposition of their ways detwixt the eye of providence and the spirit of darkness; but the sad Mother at the first was obstinate, and could not be endured to give any ear unto her; It was almost as great a wonder to work in her the belief of the wonder, as to work the wonder i● self, she was too sure that her son was drowned, and she did weep so bitterly for him as if she would drown him again in her tears; nevertheless at the last she condescended to the importunity of her friends, and she came unto the Grave rather to observe then to enjoy the Miracle; The busy Spades of the Quakers had now opened the Grave, and the body of the young man being digged up and laid upon she ground, the  was taken off, when Mistress Peirson drawing nigh unto it, did rub his face and his breast with her hand, and laying her face upon his face, and her hands upon his hands, she did command him to arise: The eyes of the multitude at those words were all fised upon the dad body, being intent to observe what the event would be; it came also into their minds that the Prophet Elisha had in the same manner raised a young man to life who had been dead, and that our Saviour Christ had raised Lazarus four days buried, which made them the more earnest to press near unto her, and with a curious diligence to observe what passed: But the Body not moving at all, and neither voice nor sneezing being observed to proceed from it, she kneeled down and prayed over it, and did command him in the Name of the Living God, to rise up and walk: At these words a little pausa was made, and theople were full of silence and expectation, but the body not stirring at all, and neither life, nor any hope of life appearing, Mistress Peirson commanded them to put it into the Grave again, excusing herself, that it had not been duried four days, and speaking those words she departed being ashamed at the heart at the ill success of the frantic enterprise she undertook, since which time, to their perpetual disgrace, the Arrogancy of the generation of the Quakers in general and the shame and sorrow, and retiredness of Mistress Peirson in particular, is become the daily discourse and laughter of the City of Worcester, and of all the Country round about it.   
The End.