• hold them now? Were thefe Marks of falfe • Teachers then, to make merchandise of the People, and to go in the Way of Balaam, for • Gifts and Rewards, and for filthy Lucre, and to be proud, covetous, heady, highminded, felfwilled, and fierce Men? And are not they falfe Teachers now which bear these Marks? Did the Apostle give warning to beware of 'fuch, and to turn away from fuch? And must not the fame Spirit, where it is made manifest, give warning to beware of fuch, and to turn away from fuch now? We witnefs to have re'ceived, according to Measure, the Spirit of the Prophets from which they spoke, and the Spirit of the Apoftles by which they spoke, which is Chrift made manifeft in us, and happy are all they that receive our Teftimony. For by the fame Spirit of Chrift we do declare against thefe Abominations now, as the holy Men of God did then, for God and his Spirit is the 'fame as ever was, and what he once hated, he hates for ever.'

To have answered all these Queries proposed by E. Burroughs had been becoming a fair Adverfary; but to pass them all by, and fubftitute one of his own from Words in the fame Page ill put together, as our Opponent does, may be of ufe to fhew, that he thinks himself the best Judge of what he can answer.

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Page 84. HAVING propofed this Query, Is not the Miniftry that Chrift has appointed always to continue in his Church, the Ministry of fuch are immediately called, and fent forth by Chrift and his Spirit, unto the Work of the Ministry, as were the Holy Apostles and Pro•phets?'

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He anfwers, No, the Miniftry that Chrift has appointed alway to continue in his Church is not the Ministry of fuch as are immediately ⚫ and extraordinarily called.' Adding in his Anfwer the Term extraordinarily, which was not in the Question, and from that unjust Addition of his own, afferts, p. 85. Thar the Quakers pretend to the fame invifible and indifcernible Gifts of • prophetical and immediate Infpiration which the Prophets and Apostles had.' Which we have already fhewn is not true; his Inference therefore of the Neceffity of their working Miracles has no Foundation.

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He fays, p. 87. Though fpiritual Cures that reach to the Soul, are greater Works, as they are more beneficial, than bodily Cures; yet they are not properly greater Miracles, as not being wrought by an Act of Ommnipotent irrefiftible Power, equivalent to that of Creation, as the bodily Cures were, that were wrought by our Saviour and his Apoftles, that were incurable by any natural Power or Art.' this we fhall oppofe Dr. Hamonds Paraphrafe on Eph. i. 19, 20.

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• THE Infinitenefs of his Power hath been engaged in this Work toward us Believers, in fubduing our Enemies, Sin, and Death the Punishment of Sin, and raifing us Sinners, firft to a new, and then to an eternal Life, which was a Work of the fame Omnipotence with that, which he firft evidenced in that miraculous Raifing of Chrift from the Grave, and exalting of him to the highest Degree of Glory, 6 next to himself in Heaven.'

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OUR Opponent's harsh and uncharitable Cenfures he fo liberally beftows upon us in p. 8.8. and his Encomiums on the good People of the Church of England, we pass by: Though would we imitate him, in faying the harfheft Things we could of the worst of his Communion, and applauding the best of our own, we could make the former appear far more vile than the worst of Quakers, and the latter as found in Chriftian Knowledge, and as fubftantially good, bumble and charitable, as the good People of the Church of England. But wife Men would not take fuch Difcourfe from us for Argument; neither can we fuppofe judicious Readers will from him.

As to his Instance p. 89. of hard Words us'd by E. Burrough's to his Adverfary, our Opponent talks unguardedly in afferting, that 'twas without any Provocation but his propofing fome Queries to him, which we conceive impoffible for him to know, at the Distance of 77 Years past, fince thofe Words were written. 'Tis poffible that Adversary, with whofe Character and Converfation E. B. was, for ought we know, perfectly acquainted, might deferve them. If fo, they were true, and E. B. for ufing them is not to be blamed, as our prefent Oppofer justly is, for faying p. 90. that the Quakers ufe fuch Exprefions indifferently to all who are Adverfaries to their Religion, and oppofe their erroneous Tenets, though never fo good Men, which is untrue.

BUT that the Vicar may fee what Expreffions fome of his own Fraternity have used towards the Quakers in general, we fhall transcribe some of

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1. Benjamin Loveling, in his Book call'd the Spirit of Quakerifm rebuked, has thefe Expreffions,

• Poisonous Tenets, p. 7. Heretical Leaven, p. 10. The Magick of a Conjurer, p. 11. Symbolizing with the Luperci among the Romans, p. 12. Of a bafe Breed, p. 13. Abominably unjuft, p. 14. Their Doctrines a perfect Complication of all the Herefies in the feveral Centuries of Christianity, p. 17. They are the worst Subjects in the World, being bound by their very Principle to be bad Subjects-The Jefuits are fuppos'd to have hatched them-Fatal it may be to give them too much Liberty to propagate their Kind. For every Profelyte they make, a Subject is loft.-And as they do ⚫ not deferve the Name of Subjects, so neither ought they to be numbred among Proteftants. P. 20. Blafphemers and Hereticks, p. 25. They allow of no Chrift without, p. 28. Blafphemers and fcandalous Hereticks. p. 36.' With abundance more of the fame Kind,

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2. Edward Cockfon, in a Book call'd the Quakers Pedigree, fays, That a Quaker, as fuch, is neither true Proteftant, nor the true Friend of a Proteftant, p. 7. That they serve not the Lord Jefus Chrift, but are contrary to him, his Divinity, Mediatorship, and plenary Satisfaction to Divine Justice, p. 33. That the Poi• fon of Afps is under their Lips, p. 34. That they < are a Sect of Seducers, who are the laft born of Hereticks: poftremus Diaboli conatus, ← Seculi excrementum; the last Vomit of the • great Red Dragon with feven Heads and ten Horns, The very Excrement of the prefent Age, p. 27. The very Fly-blows of the Papifts, p. 51. • Their Doctrines a Pill of deadly Poison, p. 17.

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Their Religion anHodge-podge of all Herefies, p. 7. And that if all the old Herefies of former Ages had been loft, in this one Sect they may be found again. Epift. Dedicat." With

this Sort of Language that Book is ftor'd, and if either the Vicar, or our Reader, incline to taste more of these bitter Waters, we refer them to Lefly, Keith, Beckham, Meriton, Topcliff, and others of the Clergy, whofe Books against the Quakers have publish'd to the World what Spirit they were of, viz. that which lufteth to Envy, and calleth for Fire, not from above, to purify and refine their Adverfaries, but from below, to confume and devour them.

WE delight not in fuch Retortions, but they are, as it were, forc'd from us by our Opponent's Harangue against the Quakers, upon a Topick fo very applicable to thofe of his own Fraternity; nor is himself wholly clear, witness his Title-page. He would probably have forborn his Objections on this Head, had he confider'd the Advice of our Saviour, Mat. vii. 5. First caft out the Beam out of thine own Eye, and then fhall thou fee clearly to caft the Mote out of thy Brother's Eye.

OUR Adverfary's Difcourfe from p. 91. to 96. concerning the Call and Qualifications of a Gospel-Minifter, and his denying the Neceffity of Grace, or Inward Holiness, to the being of a Gofpel-Minifter, we think, is fully anfwered, in the following Tranfcript.

(1) THE not speaking from the Mouth of the Lord was of Old a certain Mark of a falfe

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(1) R. Claridge's Life and Pofthumous Works, p. 509.