To be accounted rebels and bold villains, does not in any measure make us uneasy; for the believing ourselves otherwise, is a compleat satisfaction to ballance their envy that so think us; besides the pleasure we find in accounting them fools, slaves and cowards, is really more to us than a sufficient recompence: so that by our vilifying our opposites, we deny them opportunity ever to be even with us. The author of the dialogue between _Vassal_ and _Freeman_, is our secretary; you guess’d his name very right in your letter, and a notable fellow he is either in verse or prose, for the justification of our principles; and is such a desperate tongue-stabbing hero at _pro_ and _con_, that he clears the house of all people wherever he comes, but those of his own kidney; he vindicates all the proceedings of the _High Court of Justice_, with such admirable obstinacy and impudence, that the best lawyer in _Westminster-hall_ is not able to cope with him, and justifies the bringing of a king to a scaffold, when the people dislike his stewardship, with so much insolence and arrogance, and drags him to a block, as you would a bear to a stake, with so much decency, that had he liv’d in the happy days when you erected a _High Court of Justice_, he would have been the fittest man in the universe for two posts under you; _First_, To have been attorney-general, and then executioner, and would, I am confident, have so strenuously exerted himself in both offices, that he would have gained a double reputation with our godly party. _First_, For the discharge of the one with the utmost malignancy. And, _Secondly_, For the dispatch of the other without disguise; for I dare be confident, he has assurance enough to go through-stitch with any thing that the world calls villainy, if we but think it virtue without the fear of shame, or dread of punishment: indeed, had our growing principles at this day but such another champion to defend ’em, I do not question but in a few years we might bring matters to bear, and by downright dint of our own weapon, _calumny_, make way to play the old game over again, to a far better purpose than has been yet effected. With the great hopes of which we take leave at present, desiring your brother _Lucifer_ upon all occasions to lend us his assistance. So we subscribe ourselves both his and your _Humble Servants_, J.T. S.B. J.S. _&c._ _From_ J. NAYLOR, _to his_ Friends _at the_ Bull _and_ Mouth. _Friends and Brethren in the Spirit_, You who are the true transcript of the people originally call’d _Quakers_, may perhaps expect, that I _James Naylor_ in the dark, should commend my hearty love to you my friends in the light, in such like manner as the spirit us’d to dictate to me upon earth, before I unhappily fell under this wonderful transfiguration, which I now am appointed to maintain thro’ the whole course of eternity.