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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
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Your second Query is [Whether they are a Church of Christ that beat and persecute them that witness forth the Truth in his Name? &c.] Answ. Doubtless it's possible for a true Church to be guilty of injuries. But you have as little cause to put this Question, as the Turk hath. What would you answer if a Jew or a Turk, or a Witch, should put this Question? [Is it a true Church that persecuteth them that witness the truth] Surely it's nothing to you, who witness abominable falsehoods and dreams. 2. But I'll tell you what do. When you come home, go to some of your Gossips, the Friars or other Papists, and ask them this Question: Whether it be a true Church ⟨p. 5⟩which set up the Spanish Inquisition? and Caused the French Massacre? and hath by flames and sword drawn out the blood of so many hundred thousand true Christians? Ask them, Whether the Butcheries of the Waldenses, and the Irish murders were done by a true Church? It may be they will give you a most satisfactory Answer then I can, because you will sooner hear them.
Your second Query is [Whether they are a Church of Christ that beat and persecute them that witnesse forth the Truth in his Name? &c.] Answ. Doubtlesse it's possible for a true Church to be guilty of injuries. But you have as little cause to put this Question, as the Turk hath. What would you answer if a Iew or a Turk, or a Witch, should put this Question? [Is it a true Church that persecuteth them that witnesse the truth] Surely it's nothing to you, who witnesse abominable falshoods and dreames. 2. But I'll tell you what do. When you come home, go to some of your Gossips, the Friers or other Papists, and ask them this Question: Whether it be a true Church ⟨p. 5⟩which set up the Spanish Irquisition? and Caused the French Massacre? and hath by flames and sword drawn out the bloud of so many hundred thousand true Christians? Ask them, Whether the Butcheries of the Waldenses, and the Irish murders were done by a true Church? It may be they will give you a most satisfactory Answer then I can, because you will sooner hear them.