The Querers and Quakers cause at the second hearing. Or, The Quakers antiquering advocate examined: his pleadings found light and weake, his language lewd and railing, his prinicples loose and large. The quaking and entransed faction discovered to be a new branch of an old root, revivied by Satan; some of their strange ungospel-like tenents, unchristian practises, and opinions fathered upon the spirit, to be abhorred, and avoided by all holy soules, are also discovered, and truly laid open.

QƲAERIE VIII.

Whether they walk according to the rule, Whatsoever ye would that men should doe to you, &c. when they leave houses, sell up their goods, and make their Creditors lose many and great debts, &c.

The Antiquery.

Whether dost not thou rather break that rule when thou wouldest enrage and stir up people and Magistrates, and all to swallow them up and make an end of them?

The Reply to the Antiquaery.

I shall quickly make an end of this, people and M••gistrates by the rule of Verity and Charity, may be stirred up to take heede of these, and hinder their spreading; and though not to make an end of the persons, or to swallow them up, yet to helpe to the making an end, and swallowing up of their errours, then to let them alone, and let them be swallowed downe.—There is something else but of quaering and questioning, whether the Quaerer doe not break the rule himselfe? I tell you in this he doth not, but I passe it, for it is a begger very worthie of a passe. Then you come, But whether dost thou know any of them to make no conscience of defrauding their Creditors? I know but some of them saith our Antiquaerer, and I know they make Conscience to discharge their debts to their powers. You bring to my minde how Advocates agree at a breakfast, though they fall out in the Court. You say, dost thou know any? yes if you will, the Quaerer will helpe me, and you too with their Names, that leave their Houses and Callings for a long time, and the Creditors thinke of nothing but a whistle. But neither he, nor I intend against persons, but errors. Yet what needs this

twixt you and me, when in next words you say, I know but some of them? I never found a piece of Schollarship with you but this, and it is a corrupt piece of humane Rhetorique, though you minde it not, a figure with a darke word like Circumcellion, called Epanorthosis, when a man having said something, present∣ly corrects himselfe in what he said, and makes some kinde of minced confession of that he had renounced. I see all humane learning is not cast off by you, you love a little Rhetorique, Su∣senbrotus is no Ephesian conjuring booke with you, and to be burnt.

I pray you take notice how this cloth shrinkes in the pressing. Dost thou know any? and then it followes, I know but some. Put some and any together, Doe those some well? No, they doe not yet. But you say, I know they doe make Conscience to discharge their debts to their power. It were well their Cre∣ditors knew it. What power can they have so to doe it, when they neglect their Callings? If ever idlenesse and neglect of Callings, cloathed a man with beggery and ragges, these sad and ragged dayes much more will doe it. If ever dayes called for honest providence and diligence, these doe. It were well you could perswade the Creditors to be of your faith, for some of these say all is theirs, and they shall judge the world, and then let the Creditors looke to themselves, they will judge them wor∣thy to goe without their debts.

Remember Sir, I leave you well in the end of this Antiquaery, in plaine confession. I see there is some ingenuity in you, you know something as well as the Quaerer, but you must needs speak something for your Client.

Notes

• Correctio tollit id quod dictum est, & pro eo, quod magis ido∣neum videtur reponit. Voss. in Institut. Orator. l. 5.
• Correctio est quae posteriori comitate prius positum emen∣dat. Susenbrot. Schem. Rhet.