The invalidity of John Faldo's vindication of his book, called Quakerism no Christianity being a rejoynder in defence of the answer, intituled, Quakerism a new nick-name for old Christianity : wherein many weighty Gospel-truths are handled, and the disingenuous carriage of by W.P.

VIII. Of Railing and Ill Names.

No Man pretends to dislike, yet no Man practises these ill-bred, as well as un-christian Courses more then J. Faldo, where he wants Reason he imposes an hard Name; and if he be rebukt, he calls it Railing, reflecting that upon us for reprehending it in him. If I call his Comparison base, that is so, and that he manages it ma∣litiously against us, he replies, that more gentile Rai∣ling may be learned under a Hedge, and that those Words are slovenly imposed UPON HIM; as if he were too great to be reproved, or licensed to rail without Con∣trole, at least against the Quakers; for if I tell him, he is unmannerly, he counts our own Practice a Dispen∣sation; inferring from our Dislike of vain and fruitless Complements, a Liberty to treat us with what unseemly Language pleased him best; This my Reader may see at large, if it please him to look into these Pages of our Adversary's Reply, p. 5, 8, 16, 20, 27, 29, 33, 35, 45, 49, 50, 52, 54, 58, 62, 63, 64, 69, 72, 73, 77, 82, 87, 91, 95.

But to omit whole Sentences, and yet to give some Instance more at large then by bare Figures, my Adver∣sary

hath liberally bestowed out of his great Store of ill Language these following Epithetes, as well upon our Religion and Friends, as my self for defending them.

That our Light is the second Anti∣christ,* 1.1 the Quakers Idol, Pernicious Guide and Saviour, Fancyful Teach∣er; in fine, a sordid, sinful, corrupt and ridiculous Thing; and our Religion and Practice Blasphemy and Idolatry, p. 47, 85, 87. Our Friends (Quakers, so called) benighted with palpable Knavery and Impudence;* 1.2 Absurd and Blasphemous Idiots; Out of the Knowledge and Wits also; Pro∣digiously wicked; Speak the amazing Delusions of Satan. And that I am a presumptuous and blind Accuser, a Sophi∣ster, an Hamam, an accursed Ham, a treacherous and wilful Deluder, a Mad-man, an Hangman, an infalli∣ble Stager, a Fool, an Ape, a Dunce, an impudent For∣ger, and what not, that his Rage and Folly can foam out, pag. 4, 53, 54, 59, 61, 63, 65, 90, 91, 95.

I desire my Reader would also take notice, that be∣sides his excessive ill-using of us, and ruputing our Re∣bukes for doing so, Railing (which shows the Beam to be in his own Eye, and that his Nature is as proud to re∣ject Reproof, as it is foul and rough to occasion it) he gave us the On-set; Had he not begun with us, we know not that ever we should have meddled with him; but having begun, and withal so miserably abused us by foul Charges, false Citations and vilifying Language, that it should be more unreasonable in us to censure him, then in him to deserve it, no impartial Man can ever think▪ What is John Faldo for a Man, of what Rank, what Quality, what eminent Office or Dignity in the World,

that we must be kickt by him up and down four or five Hundred Pages, for whatever he pleaseth to count us, & not be told, he wrongs us? Is the Quality of this diminu∣tive Priest so much, and the whole Body of the People, called Quakers, and that to stop him in his Career of Scoff, Jeer, Taunt, foul Names and Reflection is to deserve them? But over and above, that this shows his Disposition to be Imperious and Impatient, as well as Rude and Frothy, and therefore very inconsistent with his Pretences to Meekness and Good Manners, but most of all with his Reprehension of others in Cases less of∣fensive; it will neither confute my Arguments nor dam∣nifie my Person, which makes me the less solicitous of making any other Rejoynder. I should here bring in my Conclusion to this whole Discourse, but lest any may yet doubt of the Truth of these things, as belie∣ving me to have made an ill Use and partial Relation of them, I shall yet offer for further Confirmation of my Sense of the Man, and his Undertaking against us, this undeniable Evidence, to wit, that he hath dealt im∣perfectly and falsly with the World in his Account of our Writings, which he makes the Foundation on which every Charge is built, that he exhibits and ag∣gravates against us. I have here and there in my Book toucht already upon this great Failure; But I shall more particularly inform my Reader of it in this place.

Notes

• * 1.1

  B. 1. P. 1. p. 107. p. 39, 80, 107. p. 109. P. 2. p. 20.
• * 1.2

  B. 1. P. 1. p. 8. P. 2. p. 21. p. 22. p. 126. P. 3. p. 37.