Note 383 — Chapter XIII
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Abstract of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, i. 216, 222, 223. See also Evelyn's Diary, i. 332.
The Quakers were often very violent. There is a very intemperate and foolish pamphlet, entitled, A True Testimony against the Pope's Ways, in a Return to that Agreement of '42 of those who call themselves Ministers of Christ (but are proved to be wrongers of Men and of Christ), in the County of Worcester: by Richard Farnsworth, a Quaker, 1656. Richard Baxter is first on the list of persons attacked.—See also Sussex Arch. Collections, vol. xvi. The Quakers were assailed in their turn most furiously. For example, there is a tract entitled, The Deceived and Deceiving Quakers discovered; their Damnable Heresies, Horrid Blasphemies, &c., laid open, by Matthew Caffin, a Servant of the Lord, related to the Church of Christ, near Worsham, in Sussex, 1656. This was answered by James Nayler, with like scurrility. It is curious that Caffin denies the man of sin to be Popery, and maintains that he is a person yet to appear. Nayler sets Caffin down as Antichrist.