Somthing in Answer to Samuel Clarke, who calls himself a Pastor, in his Book called, A Looking-Glass for Saints and Sinners.

VVHerein he mentions the People of God (called Quakers) and numbereth them among the Scismaticks, and Here∣ticks, wickedly; and he instanceth one Gilpine about Kendal in Westmerland, that somtimes came among the said People, which after the Priests had poysoned, and turned him to be a Souldier, who raised up many lies against the said people (called Quakers) which he and his brethren put for truths, which this Gilpine went from the people (called Quakers) and became one of theirs, and run out to bad actions, which if we should go to reckon all the bad actions of all their people, we might make a very great Volumn: But this Clarke (that calls himself a Pastor) might have •ooked in the Qua∣kers A•s•er to the Priests, and the said Gilpin, wherein they mani∣fest their lies and slanders against the said People; but in stead of that, he's scoffing at the Light, and the Cross of Christ, and Pro∣phesie, and of hearing the voyce of God and Christ, and yet he blusheth not to call himself a Pastor, and takes upon him to set forth an Abridgment of the Book of Martyrs, and a Mirrour or Looking-glass for Saints and Sinners; which makes them all que∣stionable and unvaluable to the Faithful, as seeing his envy and rage in his scandal and lies against the people called Quakers, •hrust into his said Book, not having quoted any Author, as Historians use to do: therefore they lie upon his own head. But we perceive the thing that troubles Clarke, was, because the Ministers of Eng∣land Page  36were proved to be false Prophets, and Priests of Baal, which in that day 1663 (nor since) they could never prove themselves other∣wise: For read those Scriptures of the Kings, and see how like they were unto them in visage and practice; For above three thousand of the said People (called Quakers) were persecuted by them in their day, and some even unto death; which is an evident mark of Hereticks and Priests of Baal: for Christ Jesus saith, Love one another, love enemies; and Christ's Ministers keep his Command, because they love him. But Samuel Clarke scoffs at this Doctrine, who neither he nor his company could ever get from under these Scriptures following, As teaching for handfuls of Barley and pie∣ces of bread, Ezekiel 13 & 14th chapters; and of bearing rule by their means, Jer. 5. and greedy and dumb dogs that never have enough, seeking their gain from their quarter, Isa. 56, & Micah 3. the chapters throughout, & Matth. 23, and Ezek. 34. most of the chapter concerning the false Pastors, and 1 Tim. 3. and Rom. 16.18. and the Epistle of Jude, and 2 Peter 2. chap. through∣out, & Malachi the 2d, where the Curse is from God pronounced against you; and your blessings are cursed, and your seed corrupt, and dung spread upon your faces in your solemn feasts: All which Scriptures, with many more, you could never answer; and Gal. 3.10. with 1 Cor. 2, &c.