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EDward Burrough, who wrote the Preface to George Fox's Great Mystery, Printed 1659. tells us that the Quakers first appear'd in England Anno 1650. and came first into London Anno 1654.
Then it was that Rome was reap∣ing a plentiful Harverst which they had long been sowing, by setting up, in that Universal Toleration,
Multitudes of various Sects, on purpose to Divide, and so Confound their only substantial Adversary, the Church of England.
They dress'd Enthusiasm in seve∣ral Shapes and Forms, of Presby∣ter, Anabaptist, Independent, Quaker, Muggleton, and a long &c. which differ only in degrees.
Of this many In∣stances may be gi∣ven, and Proofs undeniable. Enthusiasm, when it is a Delusion, or falsly pretended, is the surest means to overthrow all Church-Government and Order, and all Sobriety of Religion; for it is no less than Blasphemy fasly to pretend to Extraordinary Inspira∣tions from God.
And this Doctrine of Enthusiasm came chiefly from the Church of Rome; Labbade a Jesuit set it up in Holland; and Rob. Barclay the Quaker was tinctur'd in his younger years in the Scotch Convent at Paris; and John Vaughan was a Roman Catholick, who was a great Preacher among the Quakers in London, and a Preacher now a∣mong them in Pensylvania. But God has punish'd them, by send∣ing the same Spirit among them∣selves: And has made a great Fra∣ction in the Church of Rome by the growing Sect of the Molinists, or Quietists in Italy. There is a Sect like unto these rose up in Germany, call'd Pietists; some of whom I am told have been in London, and own'd as Brethren by the Quakers,
and gone many of them to Pensyl∣vania.
The Quaker Infallibility was con∣triv'd on purpose to bring Men back to the Infallibility of the Church of Rome, by these steps. First, the Infallibility was plac'd by George Fox, and all the Primitive Quakers in every single Quaker; which I will shew. This most Ridicu∣lous Pretence, the Jesuits well knew, cou'd not long be Tenable: and that it would roll naturally into the Infallibility of their Church or Meetings; which it is already come to, as shall be abundantly made appear.
And now there is but one step behind, and that is, to Dispute the Infallibility betwixt the Two Churches, that of Rome, and that
of the Quakers: And the Issue of this who does not see, when their Succession and other Marks of the True Church, come to be compar'd together.
See Foxes and Fire∣brands, Printed 1680. p. 15, &c.