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After thou hast, in Misty Phrases, told
What those call'd Quakers us'd to preach of old,
Which yet thou dost in Language so unclear,
That common sense doth not therein appear:)
Thou slily dost suggest, That Friends are gon
From that great Truth they first insisted on.
But thy Suggestion's false: We firmly hold
The sure Foundation that was laid of old.
Quakers (thou sayst) in Christ's Name thus did preach,
Christ's Light's our Guide, it fallen Man doth teach.
And Quakers still (say I) do preach the same,
[Christ's Light's our Guide] and preach it in Christ's Name;
And that it fallen man Would teach, if he
Would be perswaded by it taught to be.
But fallen man rebels, and often kicks
Against this inward Teacher, when it pricks.
And that's the soundest Reason can be brought,
Why thou, being fall'n from Truth, remain'st untaught.
What those call'd Quakers us'd to preach of old,
Which yet thou dost in Language so unclear,
That common sense doth not therein appear:)
Thou slily dost suggest, That Friends are gon
From that great Truth they first insisted on.
But thy Suggestion's false: We firmly hold
The sure Foundation that was laid of old.
Quakers (thou sayst) in Christ's Name thus did preach,
Christ's Light's our Guide, it fallen Man doth teach.
And Quakers still (say I) do preach the same,
[Christ's Light's our Guide] and preach it in Christ's Name;
And that it fallen man Would teach, if he
Would be perswaded by it taught to be.
But fallen man rebels, and often kicks
Against this inward Teacher, when it pricks.
And that's the soundest Reason can be brought,
Why thou, being fall'n from Truth, remain'st untaught.
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