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A BREIFE Relation of the Irreligion of the Northern QUAKERS:
Wherein their horrid Principles and Practises, Doctrines and Manners, as farr as their Mystery of Iniquity hath yet discovered it selfe, are plainly exposed to the view of every Intelligent Reader.
THE last Summer there came, or rather crept unawares into the County of Westmerland, and some parts of Yorkeshire and Lancashire adjacent to it, George Fox, Iames Nailer, one Spoden, and one Thornton, all of them Satans seeds-men, and such as have prospe∣rously sowed the Tares of that Enemy in the forementioned fields, as shall be, with Gods assistance, in this ensuing Relation manifestly declared.
These men, together with some others (who being affectors of novelties in Religion more then Verity, were quickly made their Proselytes) have powerfully seduced multitudes of people in these parts from the Truth, and true worship of God, to imbrace their Doctrines of Devills, and follow their pernicious wayes.
This sort of people are vulgarly, and not unaptly, distinguished from others by the name of Quakers, the reason of which Appel∣lation I shall shew you hereafter.
Now to the end it may be as apparent as the day, that the Guides of this Sect, notwithstanding their faire pretensions of an imme∣diate call, and extraordinary Mission, and the great Opinion their