THE INTRODUCTION.

HAVING of late sometime gone to the Publick Worship; and considering the various Reports raised thereupon, I thought meet to Write something in my Vindication: Though with Respect to many of the Quakers, I may say as W. Penn once said to the Papists,* viz. To argue against a Tribe of Men that esteem all Reason Carnal, and Scriptures Imperfect; might rightly be judged a meer beating of the Air.—Yet to prevent those that may be deceived; and if possible to reclaim such as are: And lastly, to clear mine own Conscience, I shall consider the unsound Doctrines and Practices of the Quakers in their late method of Church Government: And also shew,

[ 1] First, How I came to be of their Society; And,

[ 2] Secondly, How I came to see and perceive their Apostacy, whereby I became weary of being a Member of their Soci∣ety; And,

[ 3] Thirdly, How, and by what means I came to have satis∣faction in going to the Publick Worship, &c.

Which being perused and considered, together with what I have formerly wrote, may shew, That as I was not hasty in leaving them, but privately and publickly laboured eight or nine years to redress those things I found amiss amongst them; so I was not hasty in going to the Publick, until I was well satisfied that I might do it, and not therein sin a∣gainst God; thus much by way of Introduction.