A rebuttal to fake news from 1655

A rebuttal to a pamphlet slandering Quakers:

“Oh! was here ever the like in any age seen, who professe Christ, live in so much Impudency, breathing of lyes and slanders. What an unsavoury smell is this that comes from those that calls themselves Christians and Churches. But we see thy fruit in thy paper, and thy smell is gone out into the Nation, and recorded thou art, and answered shall be to that in thy conscience in the day of thy condemnation. 

And this Mist which thou cast forth doeth no hurt among the children of light, nor among them who feare God. Thy lying spirit the Lord will rebuke and all the rest of thy other unsavoury speeches, whom to thy self shall return, and the author of them. But now the time is come that they say report, and we will report, and all manner of evil is cast upon the children of light, so ye are them that fulfill Christ’s words. But this we say, The Lord forgive you.”