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

Your work is blasted, You labour in vain, nay, worse then in vain; You do but prepare men for flat Heresy and Apostasy; I have heard yet from the several parts of the Land, but of very few that have drunk in this venom of the Ranters or Quakers, but such as have first been of your opinions, and gone out at that door; The rest are but here and there a young person that was not noted for any great ⟨image 5⟩matter of Religiousness, or only liked it and inclined to your ways; And if any others be seduced, the evil ariseth from among you, and from your Graduates do they receive their taint, as yours do from the Papists and the great Deceiver. Is it your Ministry or ours that they bend their force against? Is it not part of their present business to do your work, and cry down Infant-Baptism? One of the Queries which they here put to me is [What express Scripture I have for Infant Baptism? which I must show without consequences or else confess my self a false Prophet:] And another tendeth to prove us no true Churches: The Quakers then are Separatists and Antipaedobaptists, though more: I speak not this to reproach you, but to mind you of the tendency of all your endeavours, that you may seriously as before the Lord consider, whether he do not witness from Heaven against you and your ways, by giving up your followers to such abominations as since the days of the Nicolaitans and the rest of the Gnostics, the Sun hath not seen, at least so openly and commonly owned. Have you well considered into what your Societies were resolved in Germany and other parts? And do you well consider what fruits they here bring forth, and now likely they are to be shortly quite corrupted, if a speedy stop be not made? and what it is that you have done to the Church of God, and how much it is beholden to you for the prosperity of truth and piety. Is it like to be Gods way which so ordinarily leadeth to end endeth in such desperate evils? I make not this my first or chief argument against you, but it's a considerable second, and should make wise men at least suspicious of such a course: Nor would I thus argue from the Apostasy of a few, or upon some unusual accident; ⟨image 5⟩but when such hath been the Fate of the stream of your party, from the very first rising of them in the world to this day, I think it not inconsiderable.

Your work is blasted, You labour in vain, nay, worse then in vain; You do but prepare men for flat Heresie and Apostacy; I have heard yet from the severall parts of the Land, but of very few that have drunk in this venome of the Ranters or Quakers, but such as have first been of your opinions, and gone out at that door; The rest are but here and there a young person that was not noted for any great