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Show ( 128 , . ftript and fearch'd two Innocent Women for Witches, at their firft coming amongfi: t~em, it being their ufual Slander. And he nu~ht :Sook of well fay, 'It may b~, that the Wr~th, which Wirche~ ' we have had agamft one another, has ~ad P· 4S· ' more than a little Influence upon the. commg 1 ' down of the Devil, in that Wrath whtch no.w ' amazes us. Have not many of us been Devtls ' one unto another, for Slande;ings, for Back- ' bitings, for .Animoftties ? for th~s, among oth~r ' Cauies, perhaps God has pe~mttted the DeVIls ' to be worrying., as they now are among us. ' 15ut ft fsl JJigU titne t~ I tab~ otf. all imt· ' llili{tU, when the Devil h1mfelf ts falhng upon ' us· and tt tfl no tintt fot Ufl to be ~en., ' futfng anb UtelliUng one anotJ)et, tutti) 'a m>elltliftJ nm.tatth when the w.rath of the '. ' Devil is anoying us: An~. yet wtll he perfift in his Slanderings and. Backbzt!ngs, and not. leave off his Devilifm? Wtll he g1ve fuch ~d~tce to olhers to leave it off, and not .take 1t ln!llfelf, but perfift in it frill~ . Is it a ume. for htm. ~o be c enfuring and Revzlmg ot.her~, w~th a Dev_~bfh Wrath, as he hath d~:me in thts H.tl'tory, wh~n It ts fo with them for 1t? \'V_ ell, If. they will not ~ake W~rning, but perfifl: m thetr old Sl4nders, I doubt nou but the Hand ~f the Lord will }mrfue them for it frill, unul they are Con-fumed. fc • And for his Crew of 0!_aktrs,. (as ~e calls them) e_a e s called Cafe's Crew, · which Stones lus Father !n· ~~etu. aeafe told before him, in his !-ffdJ for Recordmg of 1/lu.ftrious Pro7iidences, and whtch ~as Anfwered by G. Keith in his Prtsb. ana lndep. vifi~le Churfhes, &c. and fo Confuted, as to t,heir b.emg Q:f:akers, that Inc. llt/~tther rtever Reply d to It, as l heard of; only his Son,: thi~ c. M. would. pretend to vindicate him from hts Abu[lvenefs m a former - · · · {3ook, ,, .. ! . ( 129 ) Book, ~ s if he ditl:~nguilhed th~m from Q!tak~r!i,j by calhng them, 'I_'he late Singmg and Dancing ~akers, and who mdeed were Ranters and no Q..uakers; and yet the faid C. M. hath' the Impudence to Revive and Recite the faid abufive Stories again 'in his Hiff:ory: Albeit he confeifes, They have btrn fo troublefome and vex4tioJ.ts to the ~tttftb Quakers themfetves, that they have denied them ; l:Jp tJ}e as. no doubt they h:ad caufe, and as they do all .muaWtcked \\:'orkers, and WorksofDarknefs; which Jut~. renders htm the more lnexcufable in reprefent- ~g them frill as Q3akers, whofe :nad Franks no ~ore conc~rn th~ Q!1akers, who deny and dif-own all fuch wild Actions and Actors than ~hey d? the Presbyterians, as G. K. in th~ Book aforefatd, and alfo in his Refutation of Thrt~ pppo[ers of Truth, hath fufficiently manifeft:ed : Whtch 1hews the lnjufi:ice of our Adverfarie~ ~nd that they want matter againft us to go to r~ke up fu~h dirty Stories to throw ;t us, that po more concern.s us, than the Stories he tells Book 1~ of the Puritans d1d them : But it is the lefs to p.I. c.2·.. ~e wonder'd at, that C. M. a profefs'd Adver- · fary, 1hould ufe ~s at this rate, and revive fi1ch abu~ve Stories, tho' he had before difi:inguilhe<i 'hem fr~m !2!f.akers; wh~n G. Keith himfelf, a M~Il that once knew better things, and had ac.;. qmtted the Quakers of them, and cleared the Truth of the Reproach caft on it by them has . fince his Revolt, lhewn himfelf fo unconftant' and· void of 'Shame or Honefl:y as to go to up~ 1 h' br a1' d t h ~ xn..u a k er~ W·l th them, again, in t he :nNa 1 1rS~ 3dl faUh?od and Enm~ty of his Heart, tho' he had clear d them of the faid Crew before : Such ¥nconftant, Uncertain, Turn-Tongue, Turn- Coa~, YJ eather:Coclc Men, that are fo Unfiab1e in all their Ways? lle~ve. to be C. A1's Companions ~nd Brethren In ~~~~u1ty, Lyes and Reproaches., · -~ · ·', · :. agaiuft |