So, when Fox claimed that the growth of the Quaker community demonstrated its credibility, Williams retorted that Islam and Roman Catholicism had grown equally as quickly. Elsewhere, Williams wrote of his anticipation that the destruction of Islam and Catholicism would coincide, along with the mass conversion of the Jews, with the apocalypse.

XREF: Connects to the seventeenth-century discourse on religious credibility and millenarian expectations, relevant to understanding Protestant-Catholic-Jewish apocalyptic thought.

Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon F…, loc. 99