Excerpt from The Works of George Fox, Vol. 3

To all the world to whom this may come to be read, that they read with a good understanding, and hereby they may come to the perfect knowledge of the ground of diderence between the priests, and pro fessors, and all sects in these nations, and us who are in scorn called Quakers; showing that the controversy on our part is just and equal against them all, and that we have suflicient cause to cry against them, and to deny their ministry, their church, their worship, and their whole religiou, ss being not in the power, and by the spirit of the living God, as commanded of him, or ever practised by his saints: but this declareth the ground, and foundation thereof to be another thing, than that on which the true church, and ministry, and practice, and wor ship, and true religion were built in the days of the apostles. And also, this is an invitation to all sects and professions of people, to come forth and try if what they hold and profess be according to the scrip tures of truth; and to do this by evident and sound arguments, and by the best spiritual weapons they have, and to lay aside all this persecu tion and unrighteous dealing, and stocking, and whipping, and im prisoning of us for speaking against their religion; and that they come forth in fair dispute, to contend in the spirit of mecltness, for what they profess and practice, and to prove, according to the scriptures, their ministry, church, and whole religion, that it is in, and by the spirit and power of God, or otherwise to renounce and deny all their reli gion, and the profession and practices thereof, that every man may be satisfied who they are that are in the true and right way, and of the true worship, and true religion, and who are not; and this is desired by us who are called Quakers. And here also is a true account of our first beginning and coming forth in the world; and of the great snderings we have sustained, and how we have been carried on and preserved to this day.

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