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A30041	The Quakers set in their true light in order to give the nations a clear sight of what they hold concerning Jesus of Nazareth, the Scripture, water baptism, the Lords Supper, magistracy, ministry laws and government / historically collected out of their most approved authors, which are their best continuing books from the year of their rise, 1650 to the year of their progress 1696 by Francis Bugg, senior.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1696 (1696)	Wing B5389; ESTC R29140	57,509	61

and are most eminently serviceable to our common Adversary for their principles are such as could not come out of any other Mint but the Jesuits And truly no opinions can more resemble theirs than those that are held by that crafty and perverse Sect do they the Quakers not think themselves as infallible as the Romanists think the Pope himself to be and do they not say that one reason why they divide from us is because we confess our selves to be men subject unto error do they not lower the Magistrates Authority as the Jesuits do and by all imaginable methods endeavour to render him contemptible do they not villify the holy Scriptures as the Jesuits do and call the Bible a dead Letter do they not cry up the light the light just as the Jesuits cry up tradition tradition do they not think themselves to be the only people of God as the Jesuits think their Faction to be and count all others who are not of their Communion Reprobates and damned persons do they not take it for granted that they are perfect and cannot sin Why do but turn the Tables and behold it is Jesuitism upon which they build the Doctrine of Meritorious good Works for where there is not perfection there can be no Merit But the most lucky and advantageous principle that ever was infus'd into them is this that they must not by any means swear tho call d unto it by due Authority The Jesuit was no Fool when he taught them this for hereby he keeps out of harms way and shelters h●mself from a necessity of taking any Oaths of Supremacy or Allegiance this Principle therefore they do arrantly guard and make many proposals that they may be allowed this and as long as 't is allowed it will be impossible to hunt our Enemies out of the Heard or to distinguish indeed between a Quaker and a Jesuit By this any unprejudiced Man may see that this sullen and dogged Sect is the Jesuits natural and undoubted Issue tho like other bastards they are ashamed to own their father c. A Discourse concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome p. 282. Yet any one who compares them i. e. Jesuits and Quakers would imagin the Life of Ignatius had been their great Exampler I know not whether any of that innocent and religious Order of Jesuits had any hand in forming this new Society i. e. Quakers among us as has been frequently suggested but if one may guess the Father by the Childs likeness Ignatius Loyola the Founder of the Jesuits was at least the Grandfather of the Quakers c. And now it remains that Ignatius Loyola and G. Fox compare notes that we may rightly understand whether indeed the Quakers be the natural Issue of the Jesuits as both these learned Divines agree they are and if they be let us lay this spurious off-spring at Ignatius Loyola s door but let us judge the tree by the fruit 1. Did Ignatius Loyola cry down the Scriptures so do the Quakers witness the contemptible names they bestow upon them as beastly ware carnal letter dust death and serpents meat 2. Did Ignatius whose Life was exemplary delight in and read the Papists Legend of the Lives Miracles and Enthusiasms of their Saints as Don Quixot rather than the Scriptures so do the Quakers who read their own Epistles in their meetings for worship and suffer none to call the same Edicts and Canons 3. Did Ignatius preach in the Streets Market-places on Bulks and Haystacks in opposition to Authority so did the Quakers for many years 4. Did Ignatius exalt his own sufferings so do the Quakers saying their sufferings are greater and more unjust than the sufferings of Christ and his Apostles and Martyrs read Burroughs works p. 273. 5. Did Ignatius refuse to put off his Hat to men in authority the Quakers do the same 6. Did Ignatius allegorise the Scripture the death and sufferings of Christ his passion attonement resurrection and ascention to be within so do the Quakers 7. Was Ignatius a Tradesman G. Fox was a poor Journeyman Shoemaker and wrought Journey-work for George Gee of Manchester and so are many of his Followers the Preachers amongst the Quakers and G. Fox was no Scholar but ambitious of being thought so for instance his Book stiled A Battledoor for Teachers and Professors Anno 1660. to learn singular and plural viz. tu and vos with the form and figure of a Battledoo● to imitate a Childs penny Horn-book containing divers learned Languages as Greek Hebrew Latin Syriack Italian Caldee and divers others and all this noise to bring into contempt both the Gentry of this famous christian and learned Country and the learned Clergy 8. Did Ignatius and his Disciples pretend to a gift of discerning to know the thoughts of their Neighbours so did G. Fox who said the Quakers have a spirit given them beyond their fore-fathers and know who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostles without speaking ever a word c. saying as Christ is so are we Quakers in this world Gr. myst p. 89. 10. Did Ignatius travel up and down preaching working Miracles seeing Visions to Montsorret Manresa Barcelona Padua and after he was soundly beaten for not putting off his Hat to the Governor of Barcelona back again to Salamanca where he was put into the Dungeon and there chain'd to a Post at which he gloried as much as ever his Grand Children did after that to Antwerp Paris Roven where he stood up to the neck in dirt to represent to his Companions the filthiness of sin and to get commiseration in the people and thereby some followers as G. Fox and his followers used to go into Churches till some or other brake their Shins or made their Nose bleed and then some silly tender people would follow them into some poor womans house where they would hold forth and tell them do you see the fruits of the Priests and so gat here and there a few unwary Disciples c. at last Ignatius got to Rome to Pope Paul 3d and got his Bull to confirm the Society of Jesus October 3. 1540. and for more of Ignatius Loyola's Acts and Monuments I refer the Reader to the Works of Maffejus Orlandinus and Ribadeneira who wrote his Life So did G. Fox to settle Quakerism travel up and down disturbing Ministers in Churches preaching in Barns Market-places on Haystacks on Bulks working Miracles yea as true ones as Ignatius Loyola and as like them as if they were Twins quite through England Wales Ireland Holland Barbadoes Virginia Maryland and many places more as his Journals set forth so that 't is needless further to blot paper to manifest the parity between Ignatius and George his Grandson if Ignatius pretended to a sinless perfection George and his followers are full as good at it read his Gr. myst p. 33 107 267. where he tells you he can give an infallible character of another mans state and condition and

time They were all Traytors against Christ that desired an earthly King The true Christians will not have any more Kings among them but Christ c. News coming up out of the North c. p. 18. Dreadful is the Lord and powerful who is coming to execute true judgment upon all you Judges and to change all your Laws Ye Kings all you Rulers must down and cease and all you underling Officers which have been as the Arms of this great Tree all your branches must be cut down for you have been the fruitless branches grown on the fruitless tree p. 19. so you must be cut down with the same power that cut down the King who reigned over the Nation whose Family was a Nursery for Papists and for Bishops which held up Railes c. VVo wo is coming upon you all the same Teachers are standing that were in the time of the King and th● same that were in the time of the Bishops such as take Tythes you must both be tormented together Beast and false Prophet P. 20. Sing all ye Saints and rejoyce clap your hands and be glad for the Lord Jehovah will reign and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be cut down and Jesus Christ in us will rule alone p. 27. Sound the trumpet sound an alarm call up to the battel gather together for the destruction draw the sword hew down all fruitless trees which cumber the ground hew down all the powers of the earth slay Baal all the hirelings must be turned out of the kingdom p. 35. All you who receive Tythes deny that Christ is come to us in the flesh p. 38. And thou beast and false Prophet must into the fire the false Prophet is the Councellor to the Beast and the Beast maintains the false Prophet c. E. Burroughs Declar. p. 33. Upon a Rumour that the Quakers Meetings were to be broken up they writ viz. These Tydings do not trouble us neither are we thereby moved no not to beg of any man or men the contrary p. 40. and to any outward Authority we cannot seek Mildenhall 25th of Feb. 1695. Fr. Bugg Senior We acknowledge and believe the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament to be the most certain Rule of our Faith and that not so much for the common consent of the Church but because of the Testimony and perswasion of the Holy Ghost And we believe that the doctrine contained in the holy Scriptures proceeds from God from whom only and not from men it derives its authority And forasmuch as it is the Rule of all Truth containing all matters necessarily required for the worship of God and our Salvation it is in no wise lawful for Men nor Angels to add unto or take from this doctrine or to change it And hereupon it followeth that it is not lawful to oppose either Antiquity or Custom or Multitude or humane Wisdom Judgments Edicts or Decrees or Councils or Visions or Miracles unto this holy Scripture but rather that all things ought to be examined and tried by the Rules and Square thereof wherefore we do for this cause allow of those three Creeds namely the Apostles the Nicene and Athanasius his Creed because they be agreeable to the Word of God We believe that all the Off-spring of Adam are infected with Original Sin which is a vice hereditary to us by propagation and not only by imitations as the Pelagians assert whose errors are detested by us we believe that this stain of Original Sin is Sin indeed howbeit they that are the Children of God shall never be condemned for it because God of his rich grace and mercy doth not impute it to them but out of his bounty doth deliver them through our Lord Jesus Christ And we believe that Jesus Christ being the Wisdom and Eternal Son of God took upon him our Nature so that he is one person God and man man that he might be able to suffer in soul and body made like unto us in all things sin only excepted so that as to hum●ne nature he was indeed the Seed of Abraham and of David conceived in due time in the Womb of the Virgin Mary by the sec●et and incomprehensible power of the Holy Ghost and that in one and the same person to wit the L●rd Jesus Christ his two natures are inseparably conjoined and united yet nevertheless in such a manner that each nature doth retain its distinct properties so that even as in this divine conjunction the divine Nature retaining its properties doth still abide uncreated infinite and filling all places so also the humane nature remaineth finite having form measure and property And also the Lord Jesus Christ when he rose from the dead gave Immortality to his body yet he never deprived it of the verity of its nature therefore we do so consider Christ in his Deity as that we do not rob him of his Humanity We believe that by that one Sacrifice which Jesus Christ offered upon the Cross we are reconciled unto God that so we may be accounted righteous in his sight And we believe that Jesus Christ is conferred upon us to be our alone Advocate and that he commandeth us in our prayers to present our selves to the Father in his name We do also reject those means which derogate from the satisfaction of the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ And we believe where the word of God is not received and where there is no use of Sacrame●ts we cannot judge that there is any Church for we believe that the Sacraments are absolued unto the word that they may be pledges and tokens of the Grace of God We believe that God will have the world ruled by Laws and Civil Government that there may be som● sort of bridles by which the unruly lusts of the world may be restrained and that therefore he appointeth Kings and Commonwealths and other kinds of Principalities whether hereditary or otherwise and not that alone but also what pertaineth to the Ministration of Justice whereof he avoucheth himself to be the Author therefore hath he de●ivered the Sword into the Magistrates hands that so sins committed against both Tables of Gods Law not only against the second but first also may be suppressed and therefore because God is the Author of this order we must not only suffer Magistrates whom he hath set over us but we must also give them much Honour and Reverence as unto his Officers and Lieutenants which have received their Commission from him to exercise so lawful and sacred a Function therefore we affirm that Obedience must be yielded unto their Laws that Tribute and Taxes must be paid and the Yoak of Subjection born although the Magistrates be Infidels so that the Soveraign Government of God be preserved wherefore we do detest all those who do reject the higher powers BOoks written by Fr. Bugg Sen. as followeth some of which are intended to be bound together and sold as on the Title Page whereby such as desire further satisfaction into the nature of the Controversy may inform themselves I. De Christianae Libertate in Octavo bound II. The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt c. III. Reason against Rai●ing and Truth against Falshood c. IV. Innocency vindicated and Envy rebuked c. V. The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted c. VI. A Letter to the Quakers shewing their frequent addressing to the late K. J. and their never addressing his present Majesty VII Battering Rams against New Rome c. VIII One Blow more at New Rome c. IX New Rome unmasked and her Foundation shaken c. X. New Rome arraigned and out of her own Mouth condemned XI A Sheet delivered to the Parliament Dec. 93. intituled Something in answer to the Quakers Allegations c. XII Quakerism withering and Christianity reviving c. in Octavo XIII Quakerism anatomized c. being a Cha●lenge to R. Ashby XIV A Sheet intituled The Quakers Yearly Meeting impeached c. XV. A Second Summons to the City Abel 2 Sam. 20. by way of metaphor to deliver up Sheba the Son of Bichri i. e. G. Whitehead XVI The Quakers set in their true light ERRATA PAge 2. line 7. for Book read Books l. 28. for Book r. Books p. 5. l. 4. for White r. Whitehead p. 7. l. 26. for ot r. not p. 11. l. 23 and 24. for troop r. trooper p 12. l. 42. for Isays r. Jays p. 21. l. 17. for of him r. of truth FINIS