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The Holy Truth and its Professors Defended, &c.
Lawrence Potts,
WE having met with a Paper of thine, and find∣ing our selves, and others of the People called Quakers concerned therein, with our Chri∣stian Religion and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, which we are called to bear witness unto, and contend for, were not willing to let it pass without taking notice of thy false Charges upon Us and our Religion; together with thy weak Vindication of thy self, with the rest of the Clergy of your Church, in those things which thou hast yet to prove. And we find our selves the more concerned, because of thy Chal∣lenge in thy Paper, where thou say'st; It dos become your Teachers, to make this plainly appear to you and me, from whom they have drawn you; and therefore if they can make it out, I again challenge it of them and you.
By the way we would have thee take notice of this, that Robert Lacky in his Letter to thee doth acquaint thee, that it was the Light or Grace of God, that let him see the Evil or Defects in himself and others, and so meerly the Love of God, that prevailed in his Heart; so that it was not Man, that drew him from thee and thy Teachings, but the Lord Iesus Christ, the true Shepherd, whom the Father promised, that by his Spirit of Light and Grace did draw him, and so fulfilled the Promise of the Father in Ezek. 34. 10. where he saith, He would deliver his Flock from the mouth of such as fed themselves, that they might not be Meat for them, &c.