Little flocks guarded against grievous wolves. an address unto those parts of New-England which are most exposed unto assaults, from the modern teachers of the misled Quakers. In a letter, which impartially discovers the manifold haeresies and blasphemies, and the strong delusions of even the most refined Quakerism: and thereupon demonstrates the truth of those principles and assertions, which are most opposite thereunto. Withjust reflections upon the extream ignorance and wickedness; of George Keith; who is the seducer that now most ravines upon the churches in this wilderness / written by Cotton Mather.

The Second Argument.

A Person that has (if not certain, yet) fear∣ful

marks of the Ʋnpardonable Sin upon him, is one from whom all that would be concerned for their Souls are to turn away.

But such a person is George Keith.

The Apostle tells us, That we are not to pray for those that have committed the Ʋnpardonable Sin; I am sure then we should not suffer any such doleful sinners to prey on us. I know 'tis no easy thing to conclude who are Guilty of that Sin, and we should not be hasty, and sudden in such conclusions. Nevertheless there are such Persons who have upon them, the Direful marks, of their being Not far from the Great Transgression; and for some of them, Keith has been observable. He has been enlightned, and had formerly much of his education and conversation among the people of God; never∣theless he is a most Infamous Apostate from the Truths and Ways of God, professed among them; and of an Apostate he is become, as far as his Chain will reach, a Persecutor; for besides all his malicious Railing, at the Mini∣sters of God, which the Scripture calls Perse∣cution, he levels his Writings at no Design more plainly, than to get them starved of all their poor Subsistence in the world; which was Julians way of Persecution. Were the Trans∣migration of Souls a Truth, you might, when you see Keith, imagine that you see Alexander the Coppersmith, alive among us, doing much harm to the Religion of which he once made, like Alexander, a no mean profession; and

with a no less vrazen Impudence, than knock∣ing Diligence, hammering of mischief against the true Ministers of God. But he stops not here; for he has arisen to the Malice of Blas∣phemy against a special work of Gods Holy Spirit. There were four young people sensibly and horribly possessed with Devils, in Boston, where of the whole Town which is the most populous of the whole English America, had full satis∣faction The Ministers of the Town by no∣thing but solemn and zealous prayers over those possessed persons, obtained from our good God, such a deliverance for them all [ and they are now all alive upon the spot!] as has been heard and read with wonder in more than both Englands.

Well, This Keith in a pamphlet emmitted by him, to Reproach the person that now writes, Reprochfully more than once calls these Prayers,

A Co••ju••ing of the Divel.

And aftewards again puts the style of Charms and Spels upon them. And yet he knows, That it is our profession

To pray by the Holy Spirit of God;

yea, that we suffer for that profession: and he has cause to think that those prayers were made by, The Spirit helping our I••firm••t••es. Now for him to call these prayers, but so many works of the Devil! I'le assure you 'tis very like that sin, for which our Lord Jesus told the pharisees, They should never be forgiven. It is bad enough in the Quakers to say of the best Ministers, as Parnel does They

are meer Witches: but for a man to put the name of Witchcrafts upon the most serious and successful of our prayers I say tis a most horrible Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit of God. And which is further admirable; Keith does in a page or two before, charge mee with

Falsifying the Holy Scripture and Alledging a Down∣right Falsehood, upon Christ himself,

because I say'd in a Sermon, We are told in Math. 12, 26. Satan is no divided against himself. Now, I confess, I took that for the sense and scope of the Text; and I am deceived, if I have not the generality of Interpreters of my side. Yea, 'tis plain, that our Lord Jesus is there vindicating himself from the cursed aspersion (which Keith has cast upon the poor Servants of the Lord Jesus here) of

casting out Divels by charms and spells;

and His Argument is from the subtilty and policy of the Devil. For if Devils do so side with our Lord as to confirm His word, by the casting out of Divels, the Devils Kingdome would be so Divided as to be quickly Ruined; but the Devil is too cunning to admit of such a Division in his Monar∣chy.

Whereas, Keith affirms, That Christ doth not so much as imply, That Satan is not divided against Satan. Yea, says he,

'Tis utterly False, for Satan is divided oftimes against Satan; and his Kingdom is divided also.

Behold, how concerned Keith is to wrest from our Blessed Jesus, the chief Argument, by

which he prov'd, that he was not (as the impar∣donable Blasphemers then counted him,) A Sor∣cerer. Thus he that was committing so much of That sin himself, has been left so to take part with the Pharisees, in doing that unpardon∣able Injury to the eternal spirit of God! Now, if Keith be not gone so far in, The sin unto death, as that we are to despair of doing any good on him, certainly, we have at least, a sad cause to despair of getting any good from him. How can you imagine, that the Spirit of God should speak, by a man that will put the title of witch∣crafts, upon the special operations of that Spirit? Or will you hear the Sermons of a Wretch, that when you are going to Prayers, will tell you, that they are charms and spells, which you are about?