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Show <-34 ) ur;Jtion of the Quako·.r that they have, we need never fe ar th ('ir Confmarions, rambling up and d1)wn ' "nd tl: :HYO"f\ inn ro and fro like a drun- , "' 'O ~J 0 J< n-m,m · or as the !)lind rhat grope at Noon-dJy: Sec' d{e wh;1r he fay of the Light,. p 16. ' The Light whic\~ is in every M~n that 1s bo~n ' 1ntu the World, ts nor Gofpel-l.lght, the Gofpel ' being the Secret of God, a Myfiery unknown 1 .Cc·ntra~ c. 1 co Angel, and Adam himftlf in the time of ry fu Col. ' Innocency. P. •7· This linle Light that there Ir 2.6,27. ' is, is much mifcarried whiHl: it is m~naged by the 2.Contra- ' reigning Inflq.ence of the Poy.rcr of D~rknefs ~ ~ ry to :fohn F. 18, ' This indeed is bur Darkncfs' but tf compa. x. S· ' red with the Light of the Gofpel,ir is worfe than i · Grors ' gro(<; Dar~nefs 3 ; and cites as a proof, Epb. ; .8. Bla.fphe- Ye 71Jtre Dark.nefs · as if, becaufe they were Dark. my, anct nefs in their na~ural State, therefore the Light contrahry that j11ineth in Darknefs (tho! the Darknefs com· to :fo.n I . k r. I'b·d 'Th 4 , & 9 . prcbendcth it not ) was Dar ne&s. t • • ey ,. ' ( Calvin, Bez_a, &c.) are fo far from affirmmg . \ thjs Light to be the Liy,ht ()( Li(e, as th.ey art ' from denying Chri(l to be the Ltgbt ~f L1(e, anq yeF john fays, In him 'JVas Life, anrl the ~~fe wa~ the Light of Men. T htlt 'JVtl: . the true Lzght tb~t Jighttth e·very MtJ.n that cometll mto the Wortd : Thl5 in h1s firfi Chapte r. His 1d pr rends robe, by the Contents, The jignal N arut e of the (!,!'akers, &c. bur never mentions them in <1ll the Chapter befides, but roams up a·nd down to no t>urpo~e ; which, in the reading of, brought ro my.mmd a Story 1 have read o one DJr:a , th · Ad~mral of Genoa, who being tO Fight ar Sea agamfr t ~e Saracens, fetch'd fuch a comp2fs abou r, ro gam rhe Wjnd, that be never Came co (h ike a firoke rill the I3attle was over. In his 3d, p. 40. He fers Chrifr as one of the Objt:Efs th.d t he pretends the Q;nkcrs fin.~ le .cut to fig ht pgainft; bm P· 41. 4rop.s. ( lS ) drops ir, a~ not necdltry to be fpokc:n to; nn doubt, becaufe he could produce notldng like ·proof of ir: And in rhe who! Chapt r (.1s well as moll of the Book befid t !:! ) 11 ; is ur !tke one that beats the Air, and fets up a Mall uf Srraw ; or like Tho. Hicks (a larer J\dverfary ) n:ake a f!.!!alur of his own, that he m ighr ti ll~ c:-tfier bear him down. And I would ask C. ll1. \\7hethtr he thinks the Srories he rells of J ohn of Leyden, Munfcer, &c. do any mor~ concern rhc Qu ~Jk ers rhan the Pres!Jyterians, or half fo much, rho' che faid Norton wickedly fuggdls, p. 61. as if they walked in rhe fame fi t ps, and thnr ji o·rn the /ame Root, Re~Jjon teat beth (if' not maturely prevented t) + And io to er.pe8 the fame Fmits ; anJ jiwn th~ (ame Prim·;- 1-~ang f' ples, the fame Ijfues,&c. wher. now ,for above thefe ~e~L~~~ ~~ Fifty Years that we have been a People, being thc.J n>ozt ld not of the fame Principles, the moll malicious ~o ,Jcconl of our Adverfaries ( wharevc:r they have fuO'- u~g t~ ~r. geulle d of our. N urn be rs ) cannot pr.e tend rhba r cc.ol.lm.J~Jpj aeyr is-we ever wenr to rake up Armes ro dellroy our fun in the Enemies, or aCt fuch Things as is reported ofcare of the others (which we abhor) whatc:ver the W ol ve~,as Pr es b'] terz.a m l1 ave d one: .B u r I . mu fi nor JcO rg,et aPf·o 8rsel.< ubdu 't to teU the Reader, that thiS Book of J. N orttm s, who are caHed, Yhe Heart of New-England rent, was an· moft like fwered by F. Howui!l, in anorher, firly inriruled W oh e~, , 1 _ o ' any mdy Toe Heart of ~ew- England harJmed, to which I judrr''e. refer the Reader for further Satisfaction and !hall b no~ defcend any farther into it at prefenr ; nor ih?uld not rhus far, i~ C . ~· had nor given me thts occafion, by calhng H a Confutation · yea Qnd faying, It h~d been bet ter if that had been all tht Confutat ion ; which is fo Iinle ro rhe purpofe, t!1at I fay,. we need never fear fuch Confura-uons. Whzch l11Jd (fays he) becaufe I ')v iii not,+ What I cannot, make my / tV a Vintlic(Jfor of 11/l ~r- tbejiw lll hhe of I ome .t e ~J ? feveritirs |