The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so…

The next week after this meeting I went into the Country for a fortnight, and in my absence, two of my friends (Mother and Daughter) went off to the Quakers; the Daughter was the first whose inclinations and humour carried her that way for some time before; for the preserving of whom from the Quakers delusions upon the request of the Mother, I had several discourses with her; I gave several reasons against their tenets and ways, unto which she could give no answer, nor any ground of her liking their ways, which was not answered; only a perverse will (which I am informed her Mother hath so much indulged in other things, unbefitting a parent, that in this, it is like to prove the distinction both of mother and child) did lead her this way, against all reasons and persuasions; I acknowledge I did say, It was worse to go to the Quakers meetings than to a Bawdy house; because the defilement of the soul with their damnable errors, which there she was likely to contract, was more deep and more hardly to be washed off, than the defilement of whoredom or adultery; and what our Saviour said of the Pharisees, I may say of the Quakers, that harlots go into the Kingdom of Heaven sooner than they: moreover I told her that, If there stood a cup of poison in the window, I would rather drink it than suck in their damnable Doctrines, because poisoning of the body was not so bad as the poisoning and damning of the soul. I said further (not that I would give her up) but that, ⟨p. 10⟩if she went again, God might give her up to believe a lye that she might be damned: the former is come to pass, and the last is most likely to follow; and now let W. P. call my zealous endeavours to keep a poor soul out of the dark path, which leadeth to utter darkness, peevish zeal, and railing accusations, and what he pleaseth, I am sure I neither did, nor spake any thing unbecoming a Minister of the Gospel. W. P. chargeth me with cautioning the Pater-familias to exercise his authority, &c. This is false, and the Master of the Family I am confident will not a verr it, and why he should charge it I know not, except that he might usher in those expressions, Forgetting that they hold their liberty by connivance and the many appeals made by their non-conforming Brethren for indulgence; unto which I say that we do not forget it, neither would we be unthankful either unto God or man for it;

The next week after this meeting I went into the Country for a fortnight, and in my absence, two of my friends (Mother and Daughter) went off to the Quakers; the Daughter was the first whose inclinations and humour carried her that way for some time before; for the preserving of whom from the Quakers delusions upon the request of the Mother, I had several discourses with her; I gave several reasons against their tenents and ways, unto which she could give no answer, nor any ground of her liking their ways, which was not answered; onely a perverse will (which I am inform'd her Mother hath so much indulg'd in other things, unbefitting a parent, that in this, it is like to prove the destinction both of mother and child) did lead her this way, against all reasons and perswasions; I acknowledge I did say, It was worse to go to the Quakers meetings than to a Bawdyhouse; because the defilement of the soul with their damnable erors, which there she was likely to contract, was more deep and more hardly to be washt off, than the defilement of whoredom or adultery; and what our Saviour said of the Pharisees, I may say of the Quakers, that harlots go into the Kingdom of Heaven sooner than they: moreover I told her that, If there stood a cup of poyson in the window, I would rather drink it than suck in their damnable Doctrines, because poysoning of the body was not so bad as the poysoning and damning of the soul. I said further (not that I would give her up) but that,