Judas and the Jews combined against Christ and his followers being a re-joynder to the late nameless reply, called, Tyranny and hypocrisie detected, made against a book, entituled The spirit of Alexander the Coppersmith rebuked, &c. which was an answer to a pamphlet, called, The spirit of the hat, in which truth is cleared from scandals, and the Church of Christ, in her faith, doctrine, and just power and authority in discipline is clearly and fully vindicated against the malicious endeavours of a confederacy of some envious professors and vagabond, apostate Quakers / by ... William Penn ; to which are added several testimonies of persons concern'd.

THus Reader, hast thou the Testimonies of several Persons named in that Libel; some of whom are more obscure, others more known: their Truth and Honesty shall speak for them, I will not; But most of them are too Noted for Worth and Integrity to be doubted upon a Libel, stuffed with that Rage, Treachery, Slander and Scoff. We might also produce the Con∣demnations of three Persons against themselves, the first Letters of whose Names are unworthily mentioned by the Libeller; but the Truth is sufficiently cleared, and their Addition would give the Book too great a Bulk; we rather wish It had been many Sheets less, knowing that great Books are seldom read in this Careless and Impatient Age: only Reader be pleased to Consider the Deceit of this Adversary, and how ready he is to stretch any thing to slander and defame both Particulars and a Society. The Spirit of the Hat charg'd our Ministry with Whoredoms and Strumpets in the present tense: This Apologizer tells the World, our Answer was Evasion, because we took it so; for sayes he, the Book meant it of time past: that the Book meant no such thing, unless a thing means quite otherwise then it sayes, read the Passage. Next, what is that to us if a Judas or Demas that received part of the Ministry, fall into the Evil of this World again; can we do any more then Condemn it, and we did nothing less? Is that to prove our Ministry Vitious to tell a Story, perhaps seven or ten Years since, of any one or two that have at times opened their Mouth in our Assemblies? Oh! God, the Righteous and Terrible Judge, will reckon with this Ungodly Libeller, and those Base, Murdering Judasses that have furnisht him with this dirty Trash: God will clear our Inno∣cency, and detect their Envy and Hypocrisie more convincingly to all the World: and that dreadful, black and Stormy Day that hastens to try and win now the Nations, will scatter them and their Mischievous Designs, when God will preserve us in his Fear and Counsel, by his Power, to his Eternal Praise, and our Consolation, World without End.

W. P.