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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 11 (No. II)

were God’s People, o not that they were even his Creation; nay might we not suppose (did not Reason bar against it) that those very Leaders, whom the Prophet speaks of, had tumbled out of another Rigion, into the World, and had interloped themselves among God’s People, and their usurped Authority; and then Endeavoured to work out all Sense of God, and godliness, that had taken Place in the Hearts of the People, by levening them into their own Principels, inculcating into their Minds Vice, Immorality, Hatred, Envy, evil-speaking bitterness of Heart, and a perpetual hatred to the Seaduces and Essences, which were a better People then themselves: Here is the very model of our Presbyterians; but I had lik’d to have call’d them Pharisees; and indeed I have but one Thing to object against it, and that is perhaps I might be puzzled to prove, to every Man’s satisfaction, how those hateful Principles have been preserved, in such lively Colour, (as they now display) for so many hundred Years; that is, from the Externation of the Pharisees, to the coming forth of the Presbyterians. However, I’ll give you my opinion freely, which is, that they have been kept in a warm Clime, in the lower Regions, until Lucifer, the Sechim of that World, and now Chief Ruler of their Society, by long and unwearied Trials, but at length found an openness of Heart in some of their Proginators, to receive those Principles, as freely as the wide Ocean receiveth the smaller Streams of water; nay there is no one Thing appeareth clearer to me, then that their Leaders, their Advocates, study nothing more then the Distruction of God’s People, by ushering into their Minds, Vice, Immorality, Hatred, Envy, Evil speaking, bitterness of Heart and a perpetual dis-

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