In the Title Page, he compares the peaceable Petitioning of some Ministers in Lancashire to the Councel of State, to Sauls errand of Damascus, and a little after saith their Petition breaths out threat∣nings and slaughters against a peaceable and godly people, by him nicknamed Quakers.

In the second and third Epistles also, the Author hath divers insi∣nuations of charges against some Gentlemen and Ministers in Lan∣cashire, as that they make none but the Lords Disciples the object of their indignation. That they never did proclaim war against drunk∣ards, swearers, common blasphemers, enemies to the Lord and his people. That their high-flown contending spirits are gone beyond slender wrestlings, and they scorn to encounter with any below the degree of a Saint. Other wickednesses he point blanck layes to your charge, as that those sons of Levi, as he saith they call themselves, pretend a jus Divinum to persecution. That they troubled the Coun∣cel of State with abominable misrepresentations of honest, pious peaceable men. That the Quakers have been more faithful to the interest of the godly people in this Nation, then any of the contri∣vers of the Petition, That they exalt themselves above all that are called Gods People in these parts.