Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and…

And whereas our Answerer tells us, that when those horrid monsters were whipped at Plymouth, for their wonderful hideous Devilism, Some of the honest people called Quakers, openly declared before the people, that the Quakers did not at all own them to he of their Society, I am to ask him, Who of this honest people then it was, That then declared them to be, The dear Children of God? But Reader, pray observe, Tho he will not leave Urging, that for a Quaker to be Possessed, is no more than for a Presbyterian or an Independent so to be; There is Difference enough, where our notable Disputant would contrive a Parallel. Because a Possession by evil Spirits, may befall one of our Communion, What then? The Possession does not move any to be of that Communion: we see the contrary. But the Stories Recorded by my Father, (plainly enough) demonstrate, That ⟨p. 7⟩Diabolical Possession was the Thing which did dispose and incline men unto Quakerism; Their Quakerism was the proper Effect of their Possession; and not an unconcerned Consequent. 'Tis our Logicians Fault here, that he cavils without making any Distinction; if he would have pleased to distinguish a little, he might have spared the pains of his tedious Excursions, about Charging the innocent with the crimes of the guilty. But from such a G. K. what better Dealing might have been looked for?

And whereas our Answerer tells us, that when those horrid monsters were whipt at Plimouth, for their wonderful hideous Devilism, Some of the honest people called Quakers, openly declared before the people, that the Quakers did not at all own them to he of their Society, I am to ask him, Who of this honest people then it was, That then declared them to be, The dear Children of God? But Reader, pray observe, Tho he will not leave Urging, that for a Quaker to be Possessed, is no more than for a Presbyterian or an Independent so to be; There is Difference enough, where our notable Disputant would contrive a Parallel. Because a Possession by evil Spirits, may besal one of our Communion, What then? The Possession does not move any to be of that Communion: we see the contrary. But the Stories Recorded by my Father, (plainly enough) demonstrate, That ⟨p. 7⟩Diabolical Possession was the Thing which did dispose and encline men unto Quakerism; Their Quakerism was the proper Effect of their Possession; and not an unconcern'd Consequent. 'Tis our Logicians Fault here, that he cavils without making any Distinction; if he would have pleased to distinguish a little, he might have spared the pains of his tedious Excursions, about Charging the innocent with the crimes of the guilty. But from such a G. K. what better Dealing might have been look'd for?