A LETTER to the QUAKERS, viz. To Geo. Fox, Geo. Whitehead, Fra. Camfield, Stephen Crisp, and the rest of your Preachers.  
I Having lately seen a Printed Paper of yours, entitled, The Constancy of the People called Quakers, &c. Being a pretended Answer to the Looking-Glass for the People called Quakers, &c. Which Book was only a Collection of your own Writings, showing what you writ against the Papists when they were under, and how, on their behalf, when uppermost: Now had you been Men of candour and Honesty, you would have acknowledged you had greatly erred in your writing for and against that People; but instead thereof, fall foul upon the Publisher of the said Book, calling him Fool, Knave, Shatter-headed, and the like Terms, your ancient and usual Method to your Opposers.  
But laying aside your pretended evasive Answer, which indeed is no Answer at all; but is only to blind your Proselytes, and to make them believe as if you had always been a constant People. O you Hypocrites! Consider, have you been so constant as you would be thought to have been? Are you indeed so unchangeable as you pretend? If so; how comes it to pass that you so hearty and so zealously espoused the good Old Cause, and the Cause of your dear Friend O. C. and R. C? Advising them, their Officers and Army, how to proceed till they set up their Standard at the Gates of Rome: But when King Charles the Second came in, then you presently owned his Kingly Government; which was directly contrary to what you had writ before. What Constancy was here? O you hypocritical, Time-serving Generation! Again, consider how frequently you writ to O. C.( your then Noble Champion,) animating and encouraging him and his Soldiers to sight the Lord's Battels? Saying to O. C. Thou shouldst have invited all Christians upon Earth that are against Popery, to come in and join with thee against Popery; for thou hast had Authority; stand to it, lose it not, nor abuse it, nor let any other take thy Crown. Let thy Soldiers go forth with a free willing heart, that thou mayst rock Nations as a Cradle: And abundance more to the same purpose: But when K. Charles the Second came into Power again, you immediately fawned, and flattered him with your expressions of Loyalty, owning his Power and Authority, against which you had more than sufficiently writ; and not only so, but then you began to writ against all fighting, as if you had never been for it; and that it was against your Principle to fight, or make use of any carnal weapon, &c. And then you branded the Presbyterians and others, with fighting Principles, to render them odious to the Government, and obnoxious to Sufferings: One Instance thereof, amongst many that might be given, I shall city out of your Book, Plain and peaceable Advice to the Presbyterians, &c. Which Title bore the Face and Countenance of a Lamb; but in the first page. your Wolvish Nature plainly appeared; and the more, in that you printed it 〈◇〉 the Noise of a Protestant Plot( presently after the Earl of Shafisbury( who had been you Friend,) was committed to the Tower,) and that which was more remarkable, was, your Publishing it at such a Juncture when the Popish Plot( which you had so much cried out of, as well as others,) was endeavoured to be stisted, and to be turned upon the Protestants; and no doubt but you feared that some of your Friends had been but too busy in these Matters, and therefore thought it best to Print it then,( though it had been writ about two years before, as by the Date appears) well knowing it would gratify the Government, to hear you reflect so upon the Presbyterians, as you did in pag. 1. That their Principle was to fight for Religion, and to promote their pretended Religion by the Power of the Sword, and that their Ministers always laboured to persuade them to it, &c. Which Language at such a Season, rendered you most perfidious Temporizers, and treacherous.  
Again, How did you writ against Popery in several Protestant Reigns? Saying, Though you pardon one another, yet will not I pardon any One of you, saith the Lord— And though they should promise Liberty of Conscience when in Power, none ought to believe them, since 'tis their sacred Maxim, Not to keep Faith with Heroticks— That the Papists were the Authors of a Sea of Blood,  shed in England, France, Holland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Savoy, Switzerland, and Germany— Have in all Ages brought a Deluge of Blood upon the European World— Consider the incomparable, bloody Massacres of that sort of Men in several Reigns, &c. I remember also your framing, and making a most severe Test against the Papists, calling to the then Parliament, to make the abuse of this Discrimination( by your new Test) very Penal; which plainly shows, that you were for Tests, for Penal Laws, and sufficiently against the Papists. See the First Column of the afore-mentioned Looking-Glass, &c. But in K. James II. Reign, you printed, that GOD and Caesar( meaning your Popish King) were both of a Mind— That the Papists in England and Holland have been loyal— That the Excluders( such as were against K. James) are almost every Sunday at their Parish-Churches; and if Three Quarters of them were to pray for their Lives, it may be they could better red their Clergy( meaning their Neck-Verse) than say their Prayers without the public Liturgy— And that the Protestants began with Blood for more Religion, and TAUGHT the Romanists in succeeding Times how to deal with them— And that the Test( which the Parliament made against the Papists, and which you had incited them to) in the Nature of it( then you could say) was unreasonable— And in your Reasons for repealing the Test, you say, the King desires it, the Papists crave it, and the Interest of the whole Nation requires it: With abundance more in favour of the Papists. See the Second Column of your Looking-Glass, &c. Thus is your pretended Constancy manifest to be as unconstant as the Wind, unstable as the Waters, and as changeable as the Moon. And now, O you Temporizers! Is this your Constancy? Is this your Unchangeableness you so much boast of? blushy, and be ashamed.  
There is one Passage in your Paper, which you bring to justify your Prayers for, and Addresses( which were no less than Six) to K. James; viz. Pray for all Men, for Kings, and all in Authority, &c. Now if you would be constant to that Scripture you bring for Proof, as you would be thought to be; then why do you not pray for, and address yourselves to K. William and Q. Mary, as hearty, and as publicly as you did to, and for K. James. And though you sufficiently slattered the former Powers; yet you gave none more flourishing Expressions than you did him; as brave King: God and Caesar are both of a Mind: Pray God bless the King, and his Royal Family: These, and many more were published through the Nations. But no Salutation, no Message, no Prayer for, nor Address to K. William and Q. Mary; as if you were struck mute at the loss of your brave Popish King, whom you flatteringly said, was of the same Mind with God. What can you say for yourselves? Are you like those, 1 Sam. 10.27. viz. The Children of Belial, who said, How shall this Man save us? And they despised him, and they brought him no Presents;( no Prayers, no Addresses;) but the King held his Peace. O you unworthy, and ungrateful Persons! Hath not K. William granted you the Liberty of your Consciences, and confirmed it by a Law? What! Have you nothing to say for K. William? Nay you are so far from that, that you have acted quiter contrary: For when this King appointed a Fast for the Prosperity of his Armies; then you not only preached against the Fast; but also to weaken the Hearts, and Hands of his Friends, you vehemently cried down all Wars and Fightings, and the like. Is your Zeal for the Protestant Cause, and Interest quiter gone? Or is it gone to Rome?( Indeed you have, but too much of late, espoused the Romish Principles: viz. We must believe as the Church believes; That the Church cannot err; That she hath Power to bind, and to loose; and that it is abominable Pride not to submit to her judgement, &c.) You have had no less than two annual and general Meetings at London, since this King's Reign; but not the least acknowledgement of the special Favour shewed you by the King and Parliament: And though some of your People are hearty thankful; yet it appears, that you that are the Leaders, and the rest of your Preachers, are of another Mind. Had you been but as hearty, and as zealous for this Government, as in gratitude you should and ought to have been; then your People had not been so divided, and so confused, touching the Protestant Interest, as now they are: The sad and evil Effects of which, must and will be laid at your Doors. Consider what is here said, Repent, and amend your ways, is the Advice and Council of Yours,  
Phil. Anglus.   

POST-SCRIPT.  
IN your Answer to the Looking-Glass, &c. p. 2. You say, If the Author thereof was questioned about the Books quoted, he would be hard put to it for Proof. In strictness of Law it might be so; for so it was in the Trial of John Lilburn at Guild-hall,— 49; and the Trial of the Bishops lately. Yet, thus much in Reply: That if you will own which of them are yours, and which are not; then the Publisher of the Looking-Glass, &c. will come forth, and( before any indifferent Persons equally chosen,) prove those Books you shall deny, to be also yours; and upon their satisfaction, you shall own yourselves, guilty as of Perjury, as you have declared, That if your solemn Yea and Nay might be taken in lieu of an Oath, that your untruth or breach of word should be punishable as Perjury. Treatise of Oaths, pag. 166.  
And as for the Columns you cavil at, as being misplaced; in the Manuscript the lesser Column was put on the right hand of every page.; but the Printer saying, when one of the Columns was so much lesser than the other, as that was, then it was usual to put it on the outside; and so it was Printed: However, seeing the Direction-word at the lower end of every page., was a sufficient Guide to each Column; it was Baseness in Geo. Whitehead,( who is said to be the Pen-man of that Paper,) for such a Mistake, if it had been really so, to call the Author Fool and Knave for so small a Matter.  
THE END,   

London, Printed for S. Norris, and are to be Sold by most booksellers in London, Aug. 30. 1690.