The early Quaker "campaign to bring the world under the conquest of the Light was built upon fierce judgment and condemnation."

      Hugh Barbour, The Quakers in Puritan England, Yale publications in religion 7 (New Haven and London:  Yale University Press, 1964), 127.  "A clear difference in tone separates the fiery warnings of preachers, who 'threshed the world' at great public meetings, from the gentle ministry within Quaker Meetings."  For "To Friends the greater responsibility was the taking of the word of the Lord to the men in the world" (131-132).  Thus George Fox (137, underscoring mine):

O Lawson, oh Blood sucker, oh Esau, who would slay the Righteous and slayeth them in thy hart . . . thou cunning ffox who seeks to devoure the lambs of Jesus Christ . . . oh thou serpent who are painted outwardly with the saints words, but a murtherer and killer of the Just, oh thou viper. . . .  Neither count this hard language nor rivile at it, its the love of the lord god to thee.