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The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…
The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But Christ will deal justly with you though you deal unjustly with him and his.
When your Praters were here, I desired to know the further ground of all these heavy accusations; that must prove me a child of the devil, a greedy dumb dog, a Son of perdition, with all the rest. And I could have no proof of all but this; That I was called Master, That I stood in a high place to preach, and that I studied, and that I preached by an hourglass, and so would limit the Spirit if I had it; and that I took money, for Tithes: False doctrine and worship I was charged with in general, but not one word of instance in any particular that I can remember: To these charges I shall give you some account anon.
When your Praters were here, I desired to know the further ground of all these heavy accusations; that must prove me a childe of the devil, a greedy dumb dog, a Son of perdition, with all the rest. And I could have no proof of all but this; That I was called Master, That I stood in a high place to preach, and that I studied, and that I preached by an hourglasse, and so would limit the Spirit if I had it; and that I took money, for Tythes: False doctrine and worship I was charged with in general, but not one word of instance in any particular that I can remember: To these charges I shall give you some account anon.
When I had received your 24 Queries, I sent you my Answer, that if you would but subscribe your consent that I should come to your meeting, and answer them all by word of mouth without disturbance, and you would receive what was made plain to your selves to be the Truth; I was willing to come ⟨p. 3⟩over to that end: This motion you detest and reject with a Sheet of further Revilings in the same-language as the first were: I hope you will not take it ill if I reply not in that grinning or barking Rhetoric; For if I be a dumb dog, you cannot expect that I should equal you in snarling, or barking, or howling.