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An Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled "The Conduct of the Paxton Men" - 17

at all becoming the followers of CHRIST. And he extorted his Friend not to join with those that took up Arms, but to fight only with Spiritual weapons with took away the occasion of the Carnal; this was in the 35th Year of his Life, the next is Robert Rich, another Author (here he shews his cunning) for he neither tells Book nor Page, neither is he so kind as to inform us that the Quakers had disown’d him when he wrote; he also tells us that the said Rich name Five Commissioners, to nominate Officers, &c. But the Assertion might be proved as it deserves to be a positive Untruth, the Truth is that Robert Rich was a Member of the Quaker’s Society, but run into immoral or at least indecent practices; being a Man naturally of a haughty and asspiring Temper. However the Quakers disown’d him, and then to be up with them he became just such another fellow as our Letter Writer. He might as well have mentioned another Author, (for he don’t say Rich was a Quaker), Bur---on, and he recommended us to the perusal of his Works (where I’ll be a Voucher for him,) that nearly every Page is examined with wrong Quotations, Misrepresentations, false Insinuations and horrid Exclamations, against almost every Thing that’s good, well, but if he was ordain’d to do it, all this he can’t help it: I allow that, but I will affirm that if he was ordain’d to do so, he was never ordain’d to be a Minister of CHRIST. The next he quotes is Robert Barclay, and all the Mischief he seems to Design at him, is to call him St. Robert: But I shall not thank him for that, for he has no Apostate Quota-

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