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Show ( 114 ) 'fdan, and had thirty Languages (almofi as mpny as are in that Book) as C. M's Champion, Roger Wtliiams, confetfed. C. M. Ibid. §. l· The more fet~fible fort of Men that go under the Name of Q_utJr.e~s, finding the grofs HerejieJ of the otd Foxian 0_4akeri[m to be fo Indefenci~ lc-( c. 2. ) have of later time Jet the'!Jfelves to refine it, with {uch Concejftons and Confejjions o( Truth, ~Js that in their Syflern, it~ quite another tbmg th~~ . what once it was. An[w. ~akerifm (as he (cofmua.. fingly calis our Holy ~eligion) is no other thing kttffm for Subfiance than what it was, viz,. True Chrinot a[- ftianiry ' tho' it may be 010re explained of ~are tetttl. times, and the Principles of i£, as held by the faid People, more fully ftated and explicated, than it was in its firft Publicarion in our Day, which begaR with Warnings, Exhortations and Invitations to turn to the Light of Chrifi iQ themfelves, to which, coming into Obedience, John 7·17· and Joing hies Will, they came to kno7v of h-kf DoEirine ; for the Church hath ics Growth, as well as particular Men, and doth not anain to ~Jet tbt irs full Growth and PerfeCtion ali at once, as co €J)Uttb Wifdom, Power and Glory, hue by Degrees, a~ abndt$1. is maQifeft fince the beginning of lhe Reform~of a cion ; and he himfelf fays, IntroJ. p. l.. c. 1. gto1tltb That ~tis very ~ertain, th.at the firft Re{orm1rs never a~i) en- intenJeJ t~at what they did Jhould be the ab{olute ~ttafe. ~oqndary of J{eformation, fo that it fhould be a Si1J tp proceed any (t~~rther, as by their own g~ing ~e)'on~ Wicklife, &c. i4 ~bu~dantly Jemonflrated ( rho' they have endeavoured to hinder any from going further, and · y~t often confelfes, That they are fhort in Reformation, as I have before related ) but I douot not but the Church will encreafe in Pul'icy ( of DoCtrine, Life and Difcipline) Power and Glory, even to its full Complear- 1 ' • ' ' • ~~~h ( if~ ) merrt, as the Light fhines brighter and brighter; llnto the perfect Day, even till it arrive at the Perfection of Beauty. But that the New-England Quakerifm-( as he calls it) u-fti/J that old Fo.).·ian J2.!!akeri(m. If they are of the Good Old Way, I doubt not but they are of the New and Living Way; and that all real Q!1.akers, in all parts of the World, are one with us in Life and Principle. And that they (as he fays) utterly Renounce the Letter of. every thing, I do not believe on his fay-fo, Without Proof. No: do t?efe new. !2.!!:_akers (as he ,®t ·• calls them) cover thetr Senttments Wtth fuch falaciom k ua ¥Zn~ ambiguous Exp~effions, that all Fox's Grofs f2!-a- e~~a..: kerifm (or any thing elfe) can be at once either no . ajferted or denied. But fpeak as plain as they can ladou' a~d if there is any thing hard to be underflood; 2Pet.3.16 'us to they that a.re u~learned, (in Spiritual things) as were fame thmgs m Pauls Epiftles, which fi1ch wreft, as they do aifo the other Scriptures, Hnto their own deftruilion; and as it was then, fo it is now. C. M. There was one Keith particularly, who diP· fered almoft as much from the Generality of the NewEnglifh Quakers, As 1ve that perfecuted them ; and yet did f~ch an unaccountable thing, as to appear like a Champton for them, in oppofition M the Churches of New-England. Anf. It's well he confefres they Perfecuted our Friends. However, as to waht he fays of G. K. I do not believe, but know the the .contrary ; as ?Y .his own Books appears, and as .m the B?ok muculed, 'Judas and the Chiif Pnefts, &c. Is fbewn, by many Q!1otations out of his own Books, which he fince oppofes, to las ~wn. Confuii?n· . Tho' 'tis true:, he then ap· pear d In V 1~dicat1on of our. Fnends, againft C. M. and hts Father, 1n which he convicted them of many Abufes and Fallhoods, which they never ~l~ar'd themfelves of: Tho' C. M. fays, The ~niflers of Bofton were put upon pubtijhing ,of dJvers Bo9ks., to maimnin tbe Religion of thejr Church~s, |