Rare Books

The vvisdom of the earthly wise confounded, or, a manifestation of the spirits of some envious professors, : who are ready to prefer the hireling priests works of darkness, whose works are against the revelation and coming of Christ in spirit, as their fore-fathers ... were against him in the dayes of his flesh, as may be seen at large in the scriptures of truth. This was chiefly occasioned by some nonconformists promoting the works of darkness of a conformist (or chief priest of Warwick-shire, called, Thomas Willson, in his book, who slanderously charges the people called Quakers to be false interpreters of the Holy Scriptures) wherein is something of answer to such as have any true tenderness left in them, and would receive the truth if they knew it: but its like to the hard-hearted, stubborn and rebellious (like those, Matth. 27.25. who said, his blood be upon us and upon our children) it will be foolishness, as is the preaching of the cross to them that perish