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PREPARE thy Ears, Reader, to hear Legions instead of Hi∣story, and Fables, as prodigi∣ous as those in Father Cressy's Church-History, both fit to be lookt into these Winter Evenings, when Stories are most acceptable for Merriments sake: Mabomet was but little skill'd in this
trick when on the back of his Elborae he rode up to Heaven, receiv'd the Law, and came back again: By the way, I have it from good hands, that Dr. Pocock averr'd, That the story of the Dove in his Bar, was a Fables, that be found the Turks knew nothing of it; and that Grotius' confest to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 he look up the story only oncommon some.
Cressey makes no bones of Miracles by a Parenthesis (Who was raised from the Dead) Jacob Beoman and Muggle∣ton, had their Lying Wonders, and all to prove their contrary Messages from God, foretold 2 Thess. 2.9. But the greatest wonder was, That these Im∣postors were regarded; a Distempe∣red Body and Mind, may make Men imagine strange things A late Au∣thor of more wit than Honesty, in his Interest of Reason in matters of Religion; seems much to doubt, When or M••ho∣met knew himself to le••an Imposter, but having the Falling-Sickness, did think the Angel Gabriel did appear to him, &c. What shall we then think of the story of Sergius the Monk, and his Indoctri∣nating his Young Pupil, who never
knew Letters? For Popish Miracles, I believe the Rosary, scattered up and down at Hounslow-Heath (where only King James appear'd as a Man of Va∣lour) did more good against Popery, than all the Learned Tracts of Bishop Tillotson, and Bishop Saillingfleet, tho' all were as gravely ••old as Fox's Jour∣nal, full of Heresies, Lying Wonders done in a Corner, Revilings; what passa∣ges were for Oliver and against the Stuarts, are left out; so those words, G. F. the Son of God: Did not the Pro∣phets words continue the same in all Changes? yet this was the man who was call'd, as Simon Magus, The Migh∣ty Power of God; but his Wickedness was so great in pretending to bring contrary Messages from the Lord, that Thousands of Quakers abhorr'd and disown'd him as a Deceiver, &c.
Mr. Penn, in his large Preface, says, The Quakers declar'd, a Perfection from Sin, but held not a Perfection in Wisdome and Glory in this Life: Well, Friends had once no Sin, whatever they have of late; the Ranters, from whom they came and derived some pure Principles,
thought Drunkenness no sin, nor Un∣cleanness, for there could be no Adul∣tery among those old Friends, for Adulterium quasi ad alterum; and that was impracticable among them, for they were Corpus Ʋnum.
But Oh! the Wonderful Humility and Modesty of Mr. Penn, that Con∣fesseth, They be not so Wise and Glorious as they in Heaven: No truly, not many of them so wise as those accounted here on Earth; not Wise, but Other∣wise.
Mr. Penn tells us, G. Fox on a high Mountain in York-shire, had a Vision, He saw People as thick as motes in the Sun, that should in time be brought home to the Lord: Many, saith he, had Con∣vincements, who are now at Rest, Tho∣mas Salthouse, James Naylor, &c. Well, whoever had Convincements, it is doubted, by Thousands of Qua∣kers and others, whether William Penn had ever any Convincements, except of the Folly of this People, and how soon he might take the Chair, when George was gone, and play King or Pope with this Ignorant Tribe: What
is James Naylor honoured by him; that unheard of piece of Blasphemy, whom many Quakers cannot endure to hear of? I knew a Man born in the same Town with him, who told me, How all began with Spiritual Pride; after be was a great Repeater of Sermons, be would hear no more, he knew enough, &c. What if Friends should come to Mr. Penn, or Benjamin Coole, or others, in the name of the Lord, to lay aside their Perriwigs; would they obey? No, no, but laugh at it: How can they then expect that others should on these pre∣tences, throw away the Ordinances of Christ? Richard Richardson, a great Quaker, hath written a Book against Perriwigs, how Condemned they are by Sober Heathens, Antient Christians, &c. at last he tells us, How John Mulliner, (a Friend) about Northampton, was made to leave that Trade, and to burn one of his Porriwigs before his Servants; that John Hall, a great Man sitting in a Meeting, was shaken by the Lords Power, and so pull'd off his Perriwig, and threw it away: Now were not these Inspired? What means the New Colledge to teach In∣spired
Persons to Preach, &c. Did not our Preface-Maker threaten Frends, If such orders of his were not observed, to break their Meetings, though he seems to write so zealously for the sufficiency of the Light in Man, &c.
WE have here the account that Margaret Fell, the wise of G. Fox (once of Judge Foll) gives of her Hus∣band, it is laden with Impertinencies, and little circumstances of his Life.— At last she tells us, How when he came into the Steeple-House, she hearing him, cryed out, We are all Theeves, we are all Theeves, we have taken the Scrip∣tures in words, and have known nothing of them in our selves: That Thomas Salthouse followed him: I knew him, he was an Idle Vagrant; never did work, that they were at last weary of him, and would have him work; once I met him, and he urged that of Paul against us, these hand have ministred to my Necessities: so would Fox say, yet neither of them would work: Who would regard such shameless Beasts?
G. Fox's Journal.I had a Gravity and Studiousness of mind, when young, above others.—I took care not to eat or drink much.—I kept to Yea and Nay; my Relations were about to make a Priest of me, but they made a Shoomaker of me; when I was with my Master, he was Blessed, when I left him he broke.—People generally loved me for my Innocency and Honesty.—I saw ma∣ny possessed not what they professed.—I was a long time almost in despair; and I walked many Nights by my self: Priest Stephen wondred at my Answer, why Christ said, My God, My God, why hast thou Forsaken me: I said, He dyed for the Sins of Men, and dyed not as God: The Priest said, it was a good full answer, such ••s be had not heard; afterwards be would highly applaud me, and what I said to him on the weck days, he would Preach in First Days, for which I did not like him.—I was so dryed with Sorrow, that they could not get one drop of Blood from my Arm or Head.— I would not go to Marriages, but Visit after, and if they were poor, I would give them some Mo∣ney, &c.
They that set up for Great Persons, often tell us of the Convictions of their Childhood, though nothing to what others have known that keep silence: I suppose his Dulness made his Parents make a Shoomaker of him, when they saw he was not fit to be a Priest; like him that said to the maker of an Image of Christ, of a knotty piece of Wood that would not do, If you cannot make a God of him, make a Devil of him. Well, But why followed he not his Trade? I believe, if the Truth were known, he was such a Blockhead he could never make one pair of Shoos well, and if his Shoos were no better than his Teachments, he could not live by that Trade, and so tryed another; I believe not a word of the story of Mr. Ste∣phens, a Child of 10 year old might answer as well.
Well, George was a Mad-man too, was in Despair; he was then tempted to commit sin; he tells not what; was here not Love Melancholy? No doubt this poor Shoomaker was Ambitious of the honour and wealth he got by Mar∣ryage and Speaking. I doubt, Reader,
whether thou art able to believe, a Minister should Preach on the Lords Day, what he got from a Quaker week days, especially such a Notorious Dunce as this, who was not able to express himself, but others must word his thoughts for him, and so is this Book no doubt changed to purpose.
Now for his Revelations.
Nigh a Gate, a Consideration arose in me, all Christians are Believers, both Protestants and Papists; and the Lord opened to me, that if all were Believers, then all were born of God. Make Sense of this, or Truth, Reader, if thou canst.
At another time in the field, the Lord opened to me, That being bred at Oxford and Cambridge, was not enough to fit a Man to be a Minister of Christ; and I stranged at it: I would take my Bible and go into the Fields and Woods, and told my Friends, It is said you need not that any Man teach you, but as the Anointing teacheth them, and the Lord would teach them himself.
Then I met with a sort of People that said, Women bad no Souls; but I told them, Mary said, My Soul doth magnify
the Lord. Choice Observations, Reader, and no doubt we have here the choicest flowers of what he laid up, gathered by Friends.
When I had these openings, many trou∣bles and temptations came upon me; in the Morning I wished for Evening, and in the Evening for Morning; the Openings answered one another; many Openings I had of Scripture and the Revelations: Wonderful Ones no doubt: I sat in hollow Trees by day, and walked mourn∣fully by night; Yet none of us reported, he was in a Mad-house at Box, &c. Then, even then, I heard a voice, saying, There is one Jesus Christ, who can answer to thy condition. If this were examin'd, perhaps we should be told, this was not vocally but mentally, an inward voice (that is motion) might serve the turn. One Brown had Prophesies and Sights of me on his death b••d; and he spoke openly of me, and what the Lord would bring forth by me: I prayed, when the house seemed to sh••ke, and they said. It is now as was in the Apostles days. Pe•••••••• two or three giddy Women 〈◊〉〈◊〉
thus prate; and that is enough for a Quakers Miracle.
I was come up in Spirit through the Haming Sword, into the Paradise of God. I knew nothing but Pureness, Innocency and Righteousness; so that I was come up to the State of Adam before be fell, the Creation was opened to me; I was at a stand, whether I should practice Phisick for the good of Mankind, seeing the natures and vertues of the Creatures were so opened to me. Wonderful Depths were opened to me, beyond what words can declare p. 10. All I meet with cannot bear mans coning to Adam's state before be fell: Reader, Tremble at the next Blasphemy How then can they bear to hear of man's coming to the measure of the fulness of Christ? which he before said be did.
Observe, Reader, what Nonsense and Impertinencies are in these Openings; I doubt not, Drunkenness and Swea∣ring are no sins, in comparison of such belying of God. Whoever said, It was enough to go Oxford to be made a Minister. No, many there, and that come from thence, are too Ignorant to be such; I knew one there, a good
Schollar that Preacht, that could not tell me whose Wife Sarah was, how many Tribes there were.—I knew another, who when he preacht on 1 Eccles. 2 be∣gan thus, Vanity at the first was but a lit∣tle imp, but now it is grown to such an ex∣uberant Whale, that it can swallow three Jonas's at a morsal, &c. I have heard of one in Exon Colledge, coming down late to dine in the Hall, was asked the reason, Oh, said he, I was reading the pleasantest story that ever I read in my Life, if it be true; What story, said they, then he began to tell the story of Joseph and his Brethren.
Now Friend George, it is opened to me, that it is not enough for a man to be brought up in a Shoomakers-shop to be made a Minister. The Lord would teach them, &c. Some kept to this, and cared not for any mans teaching; but after all, George sets up for a Teacher himself, contrary to his first sayings, when You need not that any man teach you.— Is none of the Hereticks he had, Detected; for John at that time, taught them by his Epistle. George was Adam's equal for Perfection and
what Christs too? yet the aforenamed Goldney (a famous or rather infamous Quaker) among other notorious un∣truths by him and Wyat, denyed, That any Qua••ers beld Perfection; no not George Fox himself; for I knew him, said he; then run on, Thou art a Lyar, Report, and we will Report; Report, and we will Report. Had George been a Phy∣sician, none had Cur'd half so many as he had kill'd; why had he not acquain∣ted Physicians of those Vertues and Operations of the Creatures Opened to him for the good of Mankind? No, no, the Cheat had then soon been dis∣covered: How did Mr. Penn, and other Friends, like the Pudding that George put Herbs into, &c. when they were almost choakt with eating it? Truly I believe they had rather have been at a Friends Spiritual Supper at Bri∣stol, who invited several, all sat an hour, or more, at the Table, none were helpt, nor did Eat, the meat car∣ried away, Friends, I invited you to a Spiritual Supper; which made some Qua∣kers-joqne, when one said, Truly he sound great refreshment there: I could
prove all, if they dared to face me.
On goes George.
The Lord said to me, go to such a Steeple-house, and testify against that Ido'l and the Worshippers there. — I cured a distracted Woman. — Many were cured of Infirmities; and Devils were cast out. One hearing a Priest in a Steeple-house, the word of the Lord came to him, dost thou not know my Servant is in Prison; so he came to me. — One said of me, there was never such a Plant bred in England. O Pharisaical Vain-glorying! I was moved of the Lord to put of my Shoos, and to go through the City of Litchfield, and cry, Wo to the bloody City of Litchfield; I saw in the street, a pool of blood, and my feet were warm; I knew not what it was; but I was told, in Dioclesian's time, Thousands of Christians were there Mar∣tyr'd; so I was to go without any shoos in their blood. — Who can believe this Fable? One said to a Justice of Peace, an Angel came in at Beverly Church. — It was, said George. Observe the trick, he soon got in and went out.
It was strange to see a man come in without a Band. Bands and Hatbands
were once condemned by the Infallible Spirit, as well as Lace and Ribonds. — I cryed, preach freely. (Did George do so?) People were moved by my Groans. Did he not groan on purpose? I saw a Profession without a possession. See how proud the Fool was of a common Gingle going up and down among Ille∣tirate Countrey People. When they saw the man with leathern Breaches come in, the Priests would be gone; Terror sur∣prized the Hippocrites. Some of them would say, The Hireling fleeth, but for∣got it was when the Wolf cometh, the Quaker. I had a Vision of a Bear and two Mastiffs that should pass by me and do me no barm. — which was the Constable. So may we call every idle dream a Vision from the Lord.
Meat was set before me, as I was about to Eat, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Eat not the bread of him that hath an evil eye. (that is, a thought or mo∣tion arose) Immediately I arose from the Table, and eat nothing, &c.
Every Whim was at first a word from the Lord, till they mistook Places, Persons and Things, and then Folly
to all men. His Miracles were no more real than Popish ones of the Rood of Grace, Christs Blood, the blood of a Duck in a vial, &c. when he tells of Outward Ordinances, know Reader, the de∣sign of this Book, is a Lye in this thing; We affirm, That as Food or Phisick lookt on, handled, tasted, neither kill hunger nor cure pains; so the bare talking or knowing of Scripture, will not do without a deep impression on the heart; yet the work of God lies with the head for knowledge, as well as with the Heart for Grace. Must Men Experience Scripture, and know it after? They were of old commanded to teach their Children the Law: Christ said, How readest thou? None said, Theeves, Theeves.
I thought to have gone on to George's Epistles, full of Blasphemy and Falshood but I grow weary of such stuff; and I suppose so doth the Reader too.
After this Impostor and False Pro∣phet, condemned teaching by Man, but by the Light; he becomes a Teach∣er himself; after he disown'd all Courts himself, The Light was Sufficient, He
pretends a word from the Lord to set up such Assemblies, by them was the Light tryed; thousands of Quakers seeing this ••are-fac'd Iniquity, hated him for his Hipocrisie. The Author of the Spirit of the Hat, cries out, O Pope∣ry O Prelacy! O Presbytery! This was the thing we condemned in them. — Mr. Rogers wrote smartly against them, and tells you what a bag of Iniquity Friend George was: Whereas George call'd Ministers False Prophets; they were, strictly, neither false Prophets nor true ones; they were True Teach∣ers, but pretended not to Prophesie. George Fox, in another book I have seen, calls the Scripture, and names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Dust, &c. Papers sent forth for detecting Error, p. 6.
In Epistles I lately saw, George Bi∣shop wrote to the King and Parliament, That the Quakers were Innocent; in no Rebellion not Dissaffected to him. Yet he, and Fox, and others, cursed the Presbyterians for attempting to bring in the King; and when he came in, they wrote to him of their Love to
him and Faithfulness. George Fox would call his Writings, The word of the Lord, the word of God; though this was too high for Scripture, only for Christ and their words. Mr. Crisp, a Reformed Quaker, in his Babel buil∣ders unmasking themselves, hath made a Collection of their Abominable Errors and Blasphemous Assertions, taken out of B••••roughs's Works.
That the Sufferings of the Quakers were Greater, and more Ʋnjust, than those of Christ and the Apostles; for t••ose, said he, suffered by Law, and in some respect, by a due Execution of Law. p. 279.
In another Book he tells the story of Solomon Eccles, a great Prophet, a Famous Man, who burnt on Tower-hill His musical Instruments worth about two hundred pounds, as Cruiso says. He was a great Foxonian; and after John Story, a Quaker, had condemned the Courts Fox set up, Solloman Eccles came to him (as I have had it also from a Qua∣ker then present desiring to speak with John Story, who craved excuse, being very Sick and in constant expectati∣on of Death: Tell him, said one of Eccles
his Companions, Solloman Eccles hath a message to him from the Lord; when they were admitted he thus said, O John Story thou hast condemned the Ordinances of Jesus Christ, Womens preachings and Womens meetings, the Church and Brethren have bound thee on Earth, and thou art bound in Heaven. — Be reconciled to George Fox, who is Gods Friend, and the great Apostle of Jesus Christ, this is the word of the Lord to thee, This year shalt thou dye, because thou hast taught Rebellion against the Living God: He replyed, as the Quaker present told me, I expell to dye in a few hours; yet I know the Lord sent you not: But see the Goodness of God to detect such Villany; the Man Recovered, and Liv'd four or five year after; now if he had dyed, what a famous Prophet had Sollomen Eccles been? Pray prophe∣cy next, Thus saith the Lord, This winter! O this Winter! there shall be Snow and Ice; yea, I say, Ice and Snow; yet the next Summer, many Flowers shall be seen in your Gardens; yea, much Corn in your fields, and not only so, but much fruit upon your Trees, for so it is reveal'd unto
me, and by this you shall know that I am a True Prophet: But suppose none of this should be, why then all was understood, not Carnally, for that is nothing, but Spiritually: This Refor∣med Quaker profest to me, No men can understand them by their words.
I mention not George Fox in his Journal, comparing the best of Men with the worst of Men, the Holy Labo∣•••••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Christ, to Baal's 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Sor••••••••. ••••das, t••e Devil 〈…〉〈…〉 this is so common: Vast is the difference between Pr••aching for hire and taking hire for Preaching: The Priests under the Law, liv'd by the Altar, and a good Livelihood they had; can words be plainer than those of St. P••••l, As they that waited on the Altar liv'd by the Altar, so hath the Lord ordained, that they which Preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel, 1 Cor. 9.6.7. Now, how is a Man said to live on any Employment; but to have a Competency (at least for himself and his, and to lay up for wife and Children, and himself too, against Sickness and old Age: The Disciples
10 Mat. 10. As Labourers were so worthy of their Hire, that they were to be provided for by their Hearers; they were forbid to carry Money of their own; the thing is quite contra∣ry to what our Perfectionists would drive at; Christ worked then Mira∣culously, and they were commanded to Trust Providence.
Paul took Wages of some Churches, and Robbed them, as we say, I shall Rob you, if we take freely; he told the Corinthians, He had power to forbear working, which was enough, as well as Barnabas and other Apostles: If he wrought, he complained of it to them, and ••ays the fault on them: Must we be reviled too, or stoned, because he was? But I pray when did Fox work? If any say, he had much other work; Paul had more, The care of all the Church∣es lay on him: Paul bid. Timothy give himself wholly to those things; Meditation (or Studying) and Reading. 1 Tim. 4.13. How many pair of Shoos, I pray did friend George make, after he got so well by Speaking? He grew Rich, he eat the fat and drank the sweet, and
so the poor Shoomaker preaches up his Mortification. You shall find how much George was concern'd at what o∣thers said of him; I have heard of one much concern'd this way, and ask'd one, What do men say of me? He repli∣ed, Fools say you are a W••se Man, and Wise Men say you are a Fool; and I pray which thin•• you?
This Journal of G. Fox is now taught in their Publick Schools, and read in∣stead of Scripture in their Families from day to day; This, in a word, is become the Quakers Bible: they often have written against our Bible, I now have written against theirs: Jam Su∣mus ergo Pares. Not only do the follow∣ers of George Keith condemn this Fox, as a Notorious Deceiver and Impostor, but the Harp-Lane Quakers disown his Discipline, as the Womens Meeting, &c. though they are corrupt, as to his Doctrine about Christ. — with the Grace-church-street Quakers, who own both Doctrine and Discipline. Well, G. Fox's Wife, once Margaret Fell, tho' past Child-bearing, was to have an Isaac, the Midwife was sent for, but nothing
comes, yet this was the Marryage that was a type of Christ and the Church.
I commend George among all the lyes he tells, he added not this, That they who went to Convert the Pope, according to their expectation, could by Inspiration speak to him in his own Language: I have not so much Chari∣ty to believe that Conscience or Mo∣desty kept him from this, but an open Notorious Confutation; Friends how∣ever made bold to whisper this among themselves, and have been so impudent to tell me so. That his followers differ about their sentiments, concerning the Trinity and Scripture, yet they care not for that, whilst they all keep to the fundamentals of their Religion, that Men put not of their Hats, nor the Women Kirsey, but both say Thee and Thou. There are about One Hundred Thousand that have followed him, as has been computed; these make Hea∣thens Christians, and Christians Hea∣thens. It is expected when Muggleton is dead, his Journal will be Printed also, and his prophesies, as some of his Disci∣ples tell us; though Fox and he
damn'd one another as False Prophets times without number.
He that would know more of George Fox's Ignorance, Lyes, &c. Read his great mystery and battledore a large Folio also. They, the Quakers, can tell who are are Saints; who are Devils, who Apostates, without speaking a word. He denies, p. 99. That Christ has a Humane Body or a Humane Soul. Asserts plainly, That the Soul of man is a part of God, that it came from him and goes to him again. p. 272. and p. 99. That Christ is not distinguisht from the Father, if as Penn pleads, he meant Separate; then George, though Inspired, was ignorant of words, and in the name of the Lord condemned them that rightly used them. You are, says he p. 114. conceiv∣ed in sin; David did not say, You are, but I was, — Profoundly answered: His answer to Dr. Owen's Chatechism, is fit only for Laughter.
He answers John Gilpin's Book, (a book worth reading) of Quakers bewitch That he was Drunk after he left the Qua∣kers, and a Warrant was out for him; the usual Answer. Page 244. The Immor∣tal
Seed are the Saints, and then they are not Dust and Ashes; Abraham was so: In his Battle-door we have a large book about Thou and You; what it is in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriack, Samaritan, Dutch, German, French, all Languages to me, saith he, is dust, who was before all Languages were. O Blasphemy! the whole of this Book is a Cheat: this Fool understood not English, much less what he wrote of, which was anothers words. He could write Hebrew Let∣ters, and many were hung up in Friends Houses to make them believe he did all by Revelation; an Ungodly Cheat.
I shall only propose to the Quakers a few Questions.
1. Seeing the Papists pretend to In∣fallibility, Miracles and Prophesies, and the Muggletonians too, why should you be credited more than they? Had any one man of you the gift of Tongues? George Fox himself, when he was sent abroad, when in America he sent for one Emperor and two Kings to Preach to them, they understood not his English, he was a
barbarian to those barbarians: if you say the Testimony was inward. — I pray be sure keep it there, trouble not us with it.
2. Can any Atheist or Papist speak worse of the Holy Scriptures than you? It is well known, Sam. Fisher said, They were not capable of being but a Lesbian Rule, a nose of wax; and askt this questi∣on, How could any on: be Infallible, that they were not a cunning devised sable? I have not seen his works in Folio these many years; but I remember such playing on this subject (and that in verse too) as is not fit to be named.
3. How abominable is it in Dispu∣tations and Discourse, to use words, Janus like, with two faces or a double sence, one to quiet an Objecter, ano∣ther to satisfie Friends privately? You are good at Hocus Pocus (the old phrase from the Papists, Hoc est Corpus, turning a Wafer into a Body) yet you will call a man Lyar if he repeat your sense, if not exact words; should you say a Shilling, and I repeat it 12 pence, if to se••••e •• turn, you would say you never said so: How often do Friends
answer to what is not asked, and evade what is? You sometime ask us, What Scripture for Absolute and Relative? yet use such words your selves.
4. How much are you unlike the People you were? Muggleton long since cursed you, That your Visions and Revelations should fail: Blessed, said you of old for your Quakings, are they that tremble at my Word; yet some said, The Devil 'trembled in them: What is he blessed then? Now you tell us, That as when a man taketh Physick, he is much disordered in his Body till his distemper be gone; so you, till sin was purged out: What have none that turn Quakers, for almost forty year past, any sin in them to be purged out, as well as the first Quakers? Nothing was more com∣mon at first then this Scripture, They shall not teach every man his Neighbour, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the greatest to the least. yet G. Fox taught them every where; and it hath been often said in Meetings, Friends, you are to take notice, William Penn will be here next First Day. But
how could they tell, on their Princi∣ple, whether he should be moved to speak to them?
I close this part of my Work, with the words of Mr. Rogers, a Bristol Qua∣ker, he wrote a Poem, call'd A Scourge for George Waitehead an Apostate Quaker, in the close of which, he hath these words. Let George Fox, and they that uphold him, Remember 'twas Jereboam that caus'd Israel to sin, and as his name was branded to Posterity so shall thei••s 〈◊〉〈◊〉.— We cannot own them to be Head and Law∣givers; their Church, Government, Or∣ders, Canons Ecclesiastical, are become a Reproach, Taunt, By-word in the Nation, as a just recompence of their Pride Apo∣stacy and deep Hipocrisie.