Indeed the Craft of the old Serpent hath not shown it self in any one thing more marvellous & dangerous, than in his Fitting of Seducers to the several Designs, Peoples, Tempers, which he has had to manage. He knows, that as the first Creation, so the new Creation, begins with Light• ⟨image ?⟩& he has used a thousand Blinds to keep a saving Light from entering into the souls of men, that being a people of a wrong understanding, He that made them might not have mercy on them. Hence the Deceivers of the former days having been baffled & conquered by the Spirit of the Lord lifting up a standard against them, in the Labours of His faithful Servants; the Hydra of Error, has had new sprouts proceeding from it; among which, that of Quakerism seems to be one of the vilest, as well as one of the Latest, and we see therein fulfilled, what was long since fore-told, That Seducers will wax worse and worse. In Quakerism we see the Vomit cast forth in the by-past ages by whole kennels of those creatures, for whom the Apostle to the Philippians has found a name, licked up again for a new-Digestion, and once more exposed for the poisoning of mankind; and it is especially the more ignorant & unwary, & envious part of mankind which it is adapted unto: few swallow it but the more silly & feeble sort of souls, & those in […] the Light (which they so much adore) affords little better Directions, than those of an Ignis fatuns. Indeed Quakerism is the peculiar plague of this Age. One that was a pillar-••• it, wrote in the year 1659. •uch a passage as that It is now about seven years since the Lord raised us up, And as the Novity of the ⟨image ?⟩Sect proves their Falsity, so tis beyond all measure admirable, that in so clear a day-light of the Gospel, so many should espouse it. It is through the wrath of the Lord of hosts, that any part of the English Nation should he so darkened, as to follow this new light […] and it is the particular disgrace of the English, with but one or two Nations more, to have these people in it, who th• they tremble, yet believe not, but oppose and muddy the whole of that Religion, by which we draw near to God.
Indeed the Craft of the old Serpent hath not shown it self in any one thing more marvellous & dangerous, than in his Fitting of Seducers to the several Designs, Peoples, Tempers, which he has had to manage. He knowes, that as the first Creation, so the new Creation, begins with Light• ⟨image ?⟩& he has used a thousand Blinds to keep a saving Light from entring into the souls of men, that being a people of a wrong understanding, He that made them might not have mercy on them. Hence the Deceivers of the former days having been baffled & conquer'd by the Spirit of the Lord lifting up a standard against them, in the Labours of His faithful Servants; the Hydra of Error, has had new sprouts proceeding from it; among which, that of Quakerism seems to be one of the vilest, as well as one of the Latest, and we see therein fulfill'd, what was long since fore-told, That Seducers will wax worse and worse. In Quakerism we see the Vomit cast forth in the by-past ages by whole kennels of those creatures, for whom the Apostle to the Philippians has found a name, licked up again for a new-Digestion, and once more expos'd for the poisoning of mankind; and it is especially the more ignorant & unwary, & envious part of mankind which it is adapted unto: few swallow it but the more silly & feeble sort of souls, & those in 〈…〉 the Light (which they so much adore) affords little better Directions, than those of an Ignis fatuns. Indeed Quakerism is the peculiar plague of this Age. One that was a pillar-••• it, wrote in the year 1659. •uch a passage as that It is now about seven years since the Lord raised us up, And as the Novity of the ⟨image ?⟩Sect proves their Falsity, so tis beyond all measure admirable, that in so clear a day-light of the Gospel, so many should espouse it. It is thro the wrath of the Lord of hosts, that any part of the English Nation should he so darkned, as to follow this new light 〈…〉 and it is the particular disgrace of the English, with but one or two Nations more, to have these people in it, who th• they tremble, yet believe not, but oppose and muddy the whole of that Religion, by which we draw near to God.
