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To the Seduced Followers of George Fox, Iames Nayler, &c. living in Westmerland, and some adjacent parts.
FRIENDS, for so I call you since our blessed Saviour hath commanded us to love you, though you be our Enemies, to bless you, though you curse us, to do good to you, though you hate us, and to pray for you, though you despightfully use us, and persecute us as for as lies in your power. Believe me, I pray you; I have writ∣ten nothing in this ensuing Relation to discover your nakednes. The Lord knows, & the whole Country wher you live knowes, that you have done this for your selves too much already. Nor have I said any thing out of any inward hatred I beare to any of you. Your Persons I love, but your wicked Principles, your Er∣roneous Opinions, your Irregular, Exorbitant, vn∣christian Practises, those I hate; And the Lord make me to hate all Impiety in my selfe, more then in any o∣ther in the world besides. Nor have I inserted any thing to irritate you, to exasperate your Spirits. Alas the Spirits of some of you, seem to be already as rough as the waters of the Sea in a grown Tempest, and stand in need of healing rather then further Exulcera∣tion. But to be plain with you, the main end I pro∣pounded to my selfe in this Narative, was the Glory of