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An Antichristian Conspiracy Detect∣ed, and Satans Champion Defeated.
CHAP. I. The Introduction of Quaking and Trembling.
THE blessed Truth of God, together with the true Love I bore to my Native Country North-Wales, in∣duced me to Salute them with the Book, Intituled, The Antiquity of the Quakers. And after its Publication, for a whole Year, I was often told sometimes of one Priest Answering it, and sometimes of another; but at last comes out one, not subscribed by any, called, Work for a Cooper, which by Gods assistance I now take in hand, and w ll discover to the moderate Reader of what quality soever he be, that this Man hath not done like a Man of God at all, which certainly had becom'd him to do, e∣specially, being he seems to make himself to personate so great a Society of People, and to be the Mouth of their Priests. But instead of so doing, he hath not come much short of the worst of men that ever writ against us, as will appear by his scurrillity, Per∣version of my Words, and of Scripture also, his many Lyes and Slanders, Detractions and unjust Reflections, both upon me and the whole Body of Gods People, called Quakers, in general.
First, after he hath bestowed on me and my Friends, about three or four pages of abusive Reflection, and casting of Dirt at us, he cul'd out two Testimonies out of about thirty, which I brought to prove Quaking and Trembling, not to be Novel a∣mong Gods People; and how he undertakes to confute me in those two, you shall hear anon: But before I make my Reply, I think it convenient to acquaint my Reader how I came to joyn