The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…

The Papists place this Righteousness of their own Pharisaically in externals, and things that have a show of wisdom, and humility, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh, as Touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using, Col. 2. 18, 20, 23. so do the Quakers in stead of preaching the Righteousness of Christ, call out for a formal Righteousness and perfection of our own, consisting in such things as these following, to wit that we wear no Points, nor Cuffs, nor Lace nor any such like, that we preach on the lower places and not (as Ezra did) in a Pulpit; that we use not an hourglass to discern how the time passeth (whether a Clock or Watch be as dangerous I know not:) That we say [Thou] and not [You] to him we speak to (when the word that Christ used signifieth You as well as Thou: That we call not men Masters or women Mistresses, when the Scripture frequently useth and alloweth it, and much more: (though Christ forbid us to have any Sect-Masters or Masters of our Faiths;) In such like as these doth the Quakers Righteousness lie, while they are ignorant of Christs Righteousness; And just is it with God that they who set up their own righteousness against Christs should be given up to that hellish delusion, as to take the most Satanical slanders, lies, heresies, and railings, to be their Righteousness: ⟨p. 81⟩Were it not tedious and not much necessary, I could show in many more particulars how the Papists and Quakers do so conspire that we may well know whence their doctrines and delusions came.

The Papists place this Righteousnesse of their own Pharisaically in externals, and things that have a shew of wisedom, and humility, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh, as Touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using, Col. 2. 18, 20, 23. so do the Quakers in stead of preaching the Righteousnesse of Christ, call out for a formal Righteousnesse and perfection of our own, consisting in such things as these following, to wit that we wear no Points, nor Cuffs, nor Lace nor any such like, that we preach on the lower places and not (as Ezra did) in a Pulpit; that we use not an hourglasse to discern how the time passeth (whether a Clock or Watch be as dangerous I know not:) That we say [Thou] and not [You] to him we speak to (when the word that Christ used signifieth You as well as Thou: That we call not men Masters or women Mistresses, when the Scripture frequently useth and alloweth it, and much more: (though Christ forbid us to have any Sect-Masters or Masters of our Faiths;) In such like as these doth the Quakers Righteousnesse lie, while they are ignorant of Christs Righteousnesse; And just is it with God that they who set up their own righteousnesse against Christs should be given up to that hellish delusion, as to take the most Satanical slanders, lies, heresies, and railings, to be their Righteousnesse: