A defence of Quakerism; or, an answer to a book intituled A preservative against Quakerism; written by Patrick Smith, M. A. and Vicar, as he stiles himself, of Great Paxton in Huntingtonshire. In which Answer, His Charges against the Quakers of Deism, Enthusiasm, Heresy, and Schism, are considered and refuted: His Misinterpretations of the Holy Scriptures manifested: His frequent Perversions of the Quakers Writings detected; and their truly Christian Principles stated, and vindicated, in Opposition to his Attempts, which are shewn to be Weak and Self-Contradictory. With an appendix, containing I. An examination of the first class of Quaker-Testimonies, produced in a late vindication of the Bishop of Lichfield an Coventry. II. A detection of the falshood of Pickworth's Narrative. By Joseph Besse.

Date:

1732