Of Sam. Fisher's Prophecy and F. B.'s Malice and injurious Construction p. 14 15 16. PART II. Of the Light of Christ the Spirit 's Authority the Holy Scriptures Ten Commandments Silent Meetings p. 17 18 19 20. Of F. B's offence against Light and Conviction and his Self-Contradiction about the Light Lawgiver and Head of the Body the Church c. p. 20 21 22. Of his notorious Abuse about the Ten Commandments p. 22 23 24. How to charge F. B. if he will not behave himself quietly p. 24. Of his Falshood Envy Contradiction and Insolency against the Light and the Ministers thereof p. 24 25. Of his Calumnies and accumulated Lyes and Perversions against the Quakers compaering them to Jesuits to be distrusted in all they say p. 26 27. A Certificate on G. Whitehead's behalf against F. B's idle Detractions p. 27 28. Of his Trumpeting out his Hospitality and upbraiding our Ministers p. 28 29. Of his blasphemously comparing the Pope of Rome and the Quakers Light and of our Meetings c. p. 30 31. Of his Fallacy and Abuse in a Quotation out of G. Keith's Way cast up p. 31 32. Of Praying for the King and our plain Testimony against Plots and Conspiracies c. p. 32 33. Of F. B's exposing in Print a Passage of Two Clergy-Men's against the Liberty granted and Legally confirmed p. 33 34. Of his Pillory and Cage idle Mockery Contempt and Folly p. 34. Of his horrid Calumnies about a most Damnable Plot charg'd against our Meetings c. p. 35. Of his Hypocritical Asseveration and presuming to dictate to Authority unjust Restrictions and Limitations to prevent the Growth of Quakerism as he calls it p. 35. 36 37. Of his silly and insolent Boasting and Challenging and of our Discourse in the presence of the Bishop of Norwich and some Members of Parliament p. 37 38. His Spirit of Envy Falshood and Persecution still appearing in other things p. 38 39. A Catalogue of my Answers to F. Bugg's Books extant in Print p. 39 40. A Brief Answer to Francis Bugg's Book falsly stiled A Modest Defence c. p. 41. THE Rambling PILGRIM EXPOSED PART I. THE principal Notice I am concerned to take of Francis Bugg's Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity as he falsly terms it is of his Chap. XIII Entituled The Quakers Conversion G. Whitehead 's Sermon explaining their ancient Testimonies of above two printed Sheets which G. Whitehead utterly denies and in good Conscience solemnly testifies against as a Sermon never preached nor owned by him and which Fr. Bugg also knows in his own Conscience is a Fictitious Romance presumptuously contriv'd and invented by himself to ridicule defame and scandalize both G. W. and the People called Quakers and their Yearly Meeting which he calls their Convocation and The Quakers Synod also calling it a Sermon for G. W. to hold forth at their Convocation He is positive in his first Title that it is G. W's Sermon and as idle self-contradicting and false in the other that it is For him to hold forth consequently not G. Whitehead's Sermon but F. Bugg's Forgery And as the said fictitious Sermon is compos'd of base Forgery ridiculous Romance foul Perversions gross Lies idle and sordid Stuff with many curtail'd and abused Citations out of our Books besides his presumptuously Profaning the sacred Name of God and Christ and the Light within in his said Forgery And that it may evidently appear such I may recite some Passages out of it under the Title of Forgery and shew 1. His invented Cut of Pictures about a Table to represent the Quakers Synod as he calls it some having their Names over their Heads and others Deputies And on the Table two Books Pictur'd the one stiled The Journal of G. Fox and the other Church-Canons on the outsides Which is a meer Fiction of his own And in the same Cut or Figure which he entitles The Quakers Synod he feigns G. Whitehead to say Are the Doors shut And W. Bingley to answer Yea the Doors are lock'd And he feigns W. Penn to say Call over the List Are none of Truth 's Enemies here Then over one he has set B. Bealing the Scribe Which are fictitious Inventions of his own And yet I heard this Cut has been of a considerable Charge to ridicule us with such a piece of lying Vanity 2. He feigns me G. W. to Preach a Sermon in the said Synod some Passages whereof do follow with brief Observations thereupon viz. Forgery Beloved You see what great Mistakes are happened to this People of England who by following the Doctrine of their blind Guides have taken Matthew Mark Luke and John for the Gospel that is Glad-Tidings No no 't is Beastly Ware yea Dust and Serpents Meat And this I can prove by two Books wrot by our Apostle George Fox c. p. 108 109. Observe This is a horrid piece of Forgery I never preached this Doctrine in my days nor do I own it but abhor calling either Matthew Mark Luke and John or their Gospel-Testimony or holy Scripture Beastly Ware c. nor did I ever read those Expressions in any of G. F's or other Friends Books And for this gross Lye and Calumny Fra. Bugg has been several times reprehended in Print and yet still persists in the Repetition thereof see my Sober Expostulation p. 104 105. and p. 67 98 137. and other Answers to him c. Forgery Moreover the Scriptures are so uncertain that it is questionable who was the first Pen-man thereof whether Moses or Hermes yea either or neither p. 109. Observe I deny this to be Part of any Sermon of mine or ever so asserted by me There is not only Forgery against me in this but also a Perversion and Abuse against some other Friends The Questions were not their own but arose from some others as evidently appears in their Book entituled The Quakers Refuge c. p. 17. and 't is Answer'd in my Antidote against the Venom of the Snake in the Grass pag. 83 84. Forgery I still affirm the same and do tell you That it is according to our ancient Testimony and you know we cannot change nor alter being as Unchangeable as our Light within p. 109. Obs. I utterly deny that I did so tell them in any Sermon of mine That we are as Unchangeable as our Light within This is not only a Forgery but also a scurrilous Abuse of the Light within Forgery We our selves use many words not Scriptural as these of calling the Scriptures Death Dust Beastly Ware c. The Reason why we call them so and translate the Words of Christ John 5. 22. from the Son of Man to the Light within c. is because we believe there is no other Son of Man than the Light in us p. Ibid. Obs. Thus he falsly feigns me to Preach and to repeat his own gross Lye over and over of calling the Scriptures Beastly Ware and as if we used so to call them
the Bible not to be first given forth from one and the same Spirit of Truth from which we have given forth Writings and Religious Books which contain many Doctrines in the Bible and by referring thereto they prefer the Bible and the Divine Authority of the holy Scriptures contain'd therein And we still prefer the Bible before all other Books extant in the World For even the Statute-Book is of greater Authority than all the Abstracts made of it how true so ever And whereas he takes Occasion against me about an Answer given to a Priest's Question viz. Is the Moral Law or Ten Commandments a Rule to the Christians Life The Answer is Thou mightest as well ask If the Moral Law be a Rule to Christ For the Christians Life and Rule is Christ to which F. B. adds Meaning their Light within And suppose I meant so as I did mean That Christ was and is the Christians Light and Life Col. 3. 3 4. 't is not Christians Lives and Conversations in the Question but Christian's Life in the Singular to which the Answer was adapted that the Christian's Life is Christ when Christ who is our Life shall appear Col. 3. 4. Can we suppose this Life or Light to be under the Law which was added because of Transgression till the Seed came or under those Prohibitions in the Ten Words or Commandments Or is it meet or proper to apply them thereunto and say to Christ or his Light in Christians Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain Thou shalt not bear false Witness c. Or is it good Doctrine to suppose True Christians in Christ to be literally under the Law of those Prohibitions and thereby only restrained from Idolatry from taking the Name of God in vain from Killing from committing Adultery from Stealing and bearing false Witness against their Neighbours Or are they not rather redeem'd by Christ from that Depravity and corrupt Inclination from whence those Evils proceed and consequently under a higher Restraint from those gross Inormities prohibited even by his Light and Grace dwelling in their Hearts than only the Letter of the Law as outwardly written The Substance whereof God first writ in Man's Heart and after writ it in the Two Tables Exod. 31. 18. Deut. 9. 10. Exod. 34. 1. before Moses writ the Law And Christ the true Light and Lawgiver writes his Laws of the New Covenant in Men's Hearts and he it is who came not to destroy the Law but fulfils the Righteousness of the Law in them that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. Christ being also the End of the Law for Righteousness not for Transgression to them that believe This Point is spoken to before though here farther Explain'd And further F. B. bitterly inveighs against our Silent Meetings which in Derision he calls Silent Universities tending only to empty the Mind of all true and solid Notions of the Christian Religion and only to prepare them to the wild Notions of Quakerism and this he affirms from an Experimental Knowledge he saith p. 7. and calls them Schools of Ignorance and that they had strange Effects upon us and how we thereby became not only levened into a Temper to throw off all Instituted Religion but to a degree higher even to throw Contempt both upon the Scriptures Ordinances and Ministers and all things Sacred p. 8. And by their Silent Meetings weaned and drawn off from the Principles and Practices of the Christian Churches in all Ages p. 10. Answer Whither art thou now run F. B Thy own Confessions condemns thee and shall rise up in Judgment against these Envious Evil Reports of thine against those Meetings of our's for which thou hast confessed even since thou left them That God blessed our Meetings with the comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence Which could not tend to any such ill Effects as before rehearsed as either To Empty our Minds of the Knowledge of the Christians Religion or To make our said Meetings Schools of Ignorance or To Throw Contempt upon the Scriptures or To draw us off from the Principles and Practices of true Christian Churches How hast thou herein blasphemed against the true Light against the comfortable Presence of God wherewith he blessed our Meetings And how hast thou Given thy self the Lye and bely'd thy own Conscience in thus contradicting thy own solid Confessions made to our Doctrine of the true Light Ministry Dispensation of God's Love our Sufferings Love unfeigned blessed Meetings c. As also that We told People That the Scriptures were Good and a true Declaration of those things which were most surely believed by the Apostles and by us ought to be believed yet not the only Rule but still the Spirit of God which was the first Principle c. As more largely thou hast confessed in thy Book De Christianâ Libertate Or Liberty of Conscience upon its true and proper Grounds asserted and vindicated printed 1682. Part 2. Chap. 1. And thy Offence against Light Conviction and Conscience and thy Self-contradiction and Condemnation may farther also appear 1st From thy own Account and Consideration How thou camest to be a Member of our Society The Reasons thereof thou hast given in thy Quakers Detected printed 1686. two Years after thou left us and Conformed wherein thou hast given solemn Confession to the Truth of our Principle the Light and the Sufficiency thereof our Ministry Conversation Love Society blessed Meetings c. 2. And then placing the Cause of thy being Weary of our Society and turning to the Church of England upon the Quakers Apostacy as thou judgedst i. e. from our first Principles of Union see thy Quakers Detected p. 3 4. 3. Now to go round again Thy Great Work is to Expose our ancient first Principles and Testimony to as much Derision and Contempt as thy loose Invention can Produce Witness thy idle Romance and false Fiction which thou falsly termest George Whitehead's Sermon detected but especially thy profane Contempt against our Testimony of the Light within or in Man which now instead of owning it to be that True Light testified of in John 1. 9. wherewith Christ hath Enlightened Men the Treatment and Characters this Light meets withal from thee is That 't was a Parodox not Orthodox but absolutely Heterodox to exhort to the Light within to obey the Light within and to follow the Teachings thereof as a Guide sufficient to lead us to Salvation c. Pilgrim's Progress p. 5. opposing their i. e. the Quakers Light within to the Christians Life which is Christ p. 6. to the Man Christ as if Christ being Man without us hindered him from being our Light as he is the Word in us which were Ignorantly to suppose him divided And F. Bugg perverting Josiah Cole's words on John 5. 22. All Judgment is committed unto the Son i. e. the Light J. C's Works p. 93. This say'st thou Is a bold Attempt this is most Horrible
O Abominable Abuse And I positively deny that we so translate the Words of Christ John 5. 22. as F. B. saith as if we believed no Son of Man without us but only the Light within us which is as falsly Charg'd as the rest though the Son of Man which is Christ the Son of the Living God be the true Light yea the Light of the World the Sower of the good Seed of Life and Light in the World Forgery Notwithstanding we call the Scriptures Death Dust Beastly Ware c. Obs. Note Upon this often-repeated Falshood is grounded much of his idle and wicked Romance which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon Oh F. B. repeat this Lye no more Forgery Now my Friends though this Confession be as contrary to our ancient Testimony as Light is contrary to Darkness as by our Books quoted you may see And what Confession that is he relates just before viz. I believe with my Heart and confess with my Mouth the sacred Scriptures to be Divine left us by Men inspired of God c. And I profess to believe in one only God who is the Father and in Jesus Christ his Eternal Son very God and very Man and in the Holy Spirit one and the same God with the Father and Son blessed for evermore Observe How he most falsly and ridiculously feigns me to Preach this Connfession to be as contrary to our ancient Testimony as Light is contrary to Darkness and consequently to make me Preach us all guilty of gross Dissimulation and Blasphemy What horrid absurd Folly is this Agent guilty of Forgery And therefore I exhort you this day to stand Faithful to your ancient Testimony which is to throw down the Scriptures and exalt our own Books and so will the Work of your Light prosper in your hands p. 113. Observe Thus he represents me to Preach expresly contrary to my known Principle and Testimony for the preferring and exalting the holy Scriptures above all other Books extant in the World So far am I from Preaching to throw down the Scriptures and from Fathering any such Doctrine upon our Light as I am wickedly misrepresented in contempt against the Light also contrary to this Man 's former serious Testimonies for the Light And the Preference I have ascribed to the Spirit of Truth and its Immediate Teaching either in or through its Ministers to the Scriptures or Chapters was not any Preferring of our own Books thereto as I am often misrepresented But allowing the Spirit its due Preference to the Scripture Letter or Chapters For the Spirit was before Scripture and I never heard any assert the Division of Chapters and Verses to be of Divine Authority though the holy Doctrine contain'd in Scripture be This Point is more fully explain'd in my late Just Examination of the three Norfolk Priests entituled Truth and Innocency vindicated c. p. 16 17 19 to 23. p. 57 58. Forgery My tender Lambs You see first that we are the true Church of Christ next that you are to believe as the Church believes and there lies G. Fox ' s Journal on the Table c. For as our Brother Mead has express'd himself It is the best Book in the World for our keeping up our ancient Testimony yea better than the Bible said he And now to conclude this Head look into the Book of Canons which lies before you on the Table p. 114. Observe Thus to ridicule me he forges such Stuff in my Name which I never owned preached or asserted neither did I ever hear W. Mead so express himself as That G. Fox ' s Journal is the best Book in the World yea better than the Bible but expresly the contrary and denies that ever he said so but gives the Bible the Preference to all other Books Forgery Friends I am now come to the last thing propos'd to speak to on this solemn Occasion and it shall be by way of Use and Application for your Comfort and Consolation c. First respecting Confession of Sin shewing your Exaltation above the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Primitive Christians Saints and Martyrs and all the Christian Churches to this day p. 114. And p. 115. You being the True Ancient Apostolick Church of Christ and as Quakers elected thereto c. have no need to make any Confession of Sin in our Prayers to God as our Practice for near Fifty Years does confirm c. Our Adversaries cannot prove from any one of our Books wrote by my Self G. Fox E. B F. H Father Penn S. Fisher c. that ever we made Confession of Sins and asked pardon for Christ's sake nor that ever we recommended such a Practice to our Disciples c. Now Friends what Cause have we to rejoyce and to magnifie our Light within which hath led us to such a State of sinless Perfection Obs. Thus F. Bugg represents me preaching such Stuff as I never preached in my Life nor ever own'd any such Flattery or Deceit as to exalt any Auditory above the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles c. or to disswade any from making Confession of Sin or asking Pardon for Christ's sake who have need of both or who have not received forgiveness of Sins And my known publick Practice both in Ministry and Prayer often times testifie the contrary To the True Witness in all who know me and my publick Exercise and Travel for the good of Souls I do Appeal to clear me in this Matter against this Man's absurd and abominable Forgeries which he terms George Whitehead's Sermon And he goes on still with his Forgery as my Sermon viz. Forgery Now Friends what a happy thing is this that you need not trouble your selves with any Confession of Sins since you are not like other Men nor like these Publicans And therefore I exhort you to keep to your ancient Testimony in all the parts of it make no Confession of Sins nor be sure you do not recommend the Practice of it by Word or Writing but keep to our ancient Practice Nor is there any need for our Hearers to follow those Christian Precepts viz. And whatsoever you do in Word or Deed do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus giving Thanks to God the Father by him Col. 3. 17. Whether ye Eat or Drink or whatever ye do do all to the Glory of God 1 Cor 10. 31. Matth 15. 36. Observe Where did ever F. Bugg or any other hear me or any of us Preach such a Sermon as this to exhort the Hearers to make no Confession of Sin or ever tell them there is no need for them to follow those Christian Precepts cited as before out of Col. 3. 17. 1 Cor. 10. 31 Oh poor Francis What will become of thee What will be the End of this thy Liberty and Profaness How wilt thou Answer the great God in the Day of Judgment for such presumptuous Forgery and Profanation of the Sacred Name of God and Abuse of me his Servant who have been many times
c. X. I charge you all in the Presence of the Lord God That you Judge not one another i. e. Those that be in the Unity of the Ministry and Elders in the Church lest you fall into the Condemnation of the Monthly Quarterly Six-Week Second-Day or Yearly Meeting Amen Thus F. B's invented Method of forming Commands how Idle and Impertinent does the Man appear herein And how does he Profane and take the sacred Name of the Lord God in vain For which God will not hold him guiltless And when F. B. will not demean himself quietly towards any of our Friends but be Challenging of them in the Countries or else-where and will be Charging them out of Books they may Charge him First To prove his Trial and Condemnation of our Friends to Perjury and Pillory as in his New Rome Arraigned to be a Real and True Trial and Condemnation Judicial and Warrantable by the Law of God and of the Nation Secondly To prove his Sermon which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon in his Pilgrim's Progress from p. 107 to p. 126. to be a Real Sermon preached by G. W. Thirdly To prove where G. Fox or the Quakers did ever endeavour to make the Commands of God Exod. 20. of none Effect by those or such positive Commands as he has impudently form'd in opposition thereto in his Pilgrim's Progress p. 16 17 18 Now if F. B. will not learn to be quiet towards our Friends c. that he might the more quietly go to his Grave now he grows Old they may very well Charge him on these Three Forgeries last propos'd as many more I could charge him withal and have proved against him upon his own Calumnies and Occasions so manifestly given by himself and let him be held to the point in Charge or any other who dare undertake to Advocate for him therein which I could never yet find if he and they are not minded otherwise to study to be quiet And now that F. B's Falshood Envy and Contradiction may yet farther appear to his own Condemnation seeing he hath given plain Testimony and Confession to the Truth of our Doctrine and Ministry First With respect to the Universality and Sufficiency of the Light of Christ in all Men. Secondly To our Ministry that it was a Dispensation of the Love of God sent as a Visitation to Mankind Thirdly To our bearing the Cross and suffering for the Testimony thereof Fourthly To our Love unfeigned one to another Fifthly To our Religious Meetings as being blessed with the Comfortable Enjoyment of the Presence of God According as the said F. Bugg is more fully before recited out of his Book stiled The Quakers Detected printed 1686. being Two Years after he had left our Communion and joyned himself to the Church of England in 1684. So that his Conviction and Testimony for the Truth among the Quakers even when he had deserted them pursued him into the Church of England But now being grown more hardy and so far hardned against Conviction and Conscience he can out-face both and give himself the Lye in his fore-cited Solemn Testimony and Confession as appears in his envious Contradiction following in his own words viz. Having by this time shewed first how our Teachers in order to bring us over to them and to decoy us told us The Light within was a sufficient Guide Teacher and Leader even sufficient to lead to Salvation yea above Scriptures above Fathers above Councils and above Churches I have in the last Instance shewed the Fallacy of their so early and smooth Pretences and that from the beginning they have been a false perfidious and treacherous Tribe of Deceivers as ever the World produced Pilgrim's Progress p. 15. To such a degree of Hardness and Insolency is this poor Creature now arriv'd that he can now thus scribble in Opposition to the Sufficiency of the Light within and Contempt of the Ministers thereof expresly contradictory to his own Testimony for the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned Men and to the Sufficiency thereof if obey'd to lead to Salvation without the help of Decrees of Men And to his own Testimony also for the Simplicity and Plainness which attended our Ministry which did not import any Design to decoy or deceive Men nor any Falshood Perfidiousness or Treachery as F. B. has falsly and treacherously Scandalized Us and our Ministry and thereby notoriously given himself the Lye and shamefully Belyed his own Conscience and solemn Confession and Testimony in his Quakers Detected aforesaid And the Light now so much slighted by him will pursue him as it did Judas and other Apostates to his great Vexation and perpetual Torment if he persists in his Enmity Perfidiousness and Treachery against the Light and the Children of it Oh F. B If I may yet perswade thee Repeat thy Lyes and Scandals no more His Accusation against W. Mead That he said to one W. Harris I will give thee one of George Fox 's Journals it is a very good Book yea better than the Bible Which Accusation he has many times over p. 22 23 24 25 29. but various in it viz. That 't is better than the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles p. 23. This Accusation W. Mead positively denies as contrary to his Principle which is to prefer the holy Scriptures before all other Books in the World For I asked him seriously about this matter And I am sure it is a base and shameful Abuse of F. Bugg that It is the Heart of Quakerism in saying G. Fox 's Journal is better than the Bible p. 23. This I must tell him is a foul notorious Lye and Calumny against the Quakers so called 'T is neither the Quakers Mind Heart nor Mouth so to speak but the contrary i. e. To prefer the Bible to all other Books extant in the World as hath been often testified Wherefore F. B. repeat this Lye no more against us Again as 't is F. Bugg's common Course to add one Calumny after another and to accumulate Lyes and Perversions upon us he falsly saith The Quakers stand upon the same bottom i. e with the Jesuites and therefore they ought to distrust them in all they say as the Protestants did the Jesuites We do not expect he will trust us who has belyed his own Conscience Conviction and Testimony as before evinced And to add to his Iniquity and aggravate his Calumnies against me he saith Many of their Hearers of the honest sort begin to think G. Whitehead little better than a Jesuite already he hath been so False in Fact such a Glosser and Defender of every Error the Quakers hold I have quoth he a Letter by me which my Cousin Ann Docwra sent me dated 26. 12th Month 1682. viz. G. Whitehead has sent me one of his Books c. I was asked by an honest Friend If he was not a Jesuite I answered Nay it is not solid enough for them to own especially when they write to a solid People
incense the Civil Government against them and he being therein often Refuted I am concern'd herein to take notice only of a few of his notorious Abuses Misrepresentations and Perversions viz. 1st In his Dedication to the High Court of Parliament p. 10. he tells them The Quakers tell you They own the Scriptures to be given by Divine Inspiration but mean not a word of it like other Christians 2dly They tell you they own a Scripture-Trinity but mean not a word of it and that Your Honours will find it as difficult a thing to gain the true Meaning of the Quakers touching the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures and their Belief of a Scripture-Trinity as Constantinus the Emperor found it in the Examination of Arius the Heretick to get his true meaning touching the Faith of one Substance And he would have them believe The Quakers are such Enemies to the holy Scripture as that they say It is a rotten Foundation Ibid. p. 11. And that with them it is Beastly Ware c. part 2. p. 29. And that they render the holy Scriptures to be of no more Authority than Aesop 's Fables part 3. p. 40. Such abominable Falshoods this Incendiary presumes to Dedicate and Present to the Parliament expresly contrary to our sincere and publick Confession to the Divine Authority of the holy Scriptures as Eminently given by Divine Inspiration and our Estimation and Preference of the Bible to all other Books extant in the World though many of them may be given by a Degree of the same Divine Inspiration yet the holy Scripture contain'd in the Bible have not only the Priority but more Eminently and Signally Confirm'd by Divine Authority more Comprehensive and more Generally accepted than other Books or Commentaries thereupon the holy Pen-Men of the Scriptures of Truth having also a higher Degree of Illumination and Inspiration in many things than other Writers in after-Ages And Christ himself whose blessed Testimonies are from him Recorded received the Holy Ghost or Spirit not by Measure but in Fulness and to be sure we are bound in Conscience highly to prefer the Authors of Holy Scripture i. e. Christ his Apostles and Prophets above our selves or any other Writers whatsoever therefore we have cause to allow the Bible the Preference as well as Priority before other Books But our embittered Adversary to render us the said People Incredible or not to be Believ'd and such a difficult thing to gain the true Meaning of the Quakers he thus treats us with his wonted Course of Defamation and Calumny giving this pretended Relation viz. That the honest Quakers for some such there are amongst them have suspected G. Whitehead to be a Jesuite at least like them This Witness is true quoth F. B. Pref. p. 18. And farther he proceeds with this Out-cry viz. By which Evidence we may know that the Quakers like the Cretians were always Lyars evil Beasts slow Bellies but not only so but Lyars Forgers and to speak comparatively Knights of the Post Jesuits and dangerous to the Government c. Pref. p. 19 20. Thus furiously he runs on and clamours like one without Eear or Wit he is Accountable for such odious Defamation and the Righteous Judge of all I doubt not will rebuke him for such his Folly and Outrage He strives in his Persecution against us as if it were for Life even for our Lives in not only defaming G. Whitehead for a Jesuit but the Quakers in General and yet some of them Honest Quakers too Such Confusion Envy produces But who these Honest Quakers are that suspect G. W. to be a Jesuit at least like them we are to seek he tells us not who is his true Witness in this Case G. W. utterly denies the Defamation against himself and the rest of his Friends called Quakers being known to be as wholly and absolutely Averse to Popery as any People in Christendom and more than all Persecutors whatsoever Persecution being a principal Prop and Pillar of Popery commonly raised by such Clamour and Outrage as Away with them Hereticks and Schismaticks they are Seditions and Dangerous to the Government and then Imprisonment Havock Exile or Death must follow c. To his other odious Calumny viz. That the Quakers Church agrees with the Papists That our Bible is a Brazen-fac'd Book an unjust corrupt and perverse Bible part 1. p. 4. Oh Horrible The righteous Lord rebuke this Lying Spirit which possesses this Poor Creature How like a furious Incendiary in his boundless Outrage does he Defame and most unjustly Asperse the Innocent Are not the Bibles we frequently use in our Houses and Families the same used by other Protestants and allow'd by Authority Pray let this be observ'd and further inquired into that the notorious Lyes of this Adversary may more manifestly appear to the World to his own and his Abettors shame and disgrace And as I have often urg'd plain Proof from him that the Quakers call the Scriptures Beastly Ware but never yet could obtain it So I now demand Proof that they say The Scripture is a rotten Foundation as before Ded. p. 11. For Proof of this Lye he has quoted a little Pamphlet or Book which he has rak'd up and Reprinted Entitled Ishmael and his Mother cast out first printed in 1655. Upon the Margent on the 14th page he repeats the same gross Lye again thus viz. The Holy Scriptures they say are a rotten Foundation This is their ancient Testimony from which they have not varied This is F. B's Annotation against the People called Quakers but where is his Proof still 'T is upon these words viz. With the Light thou art seen to be a Wrester of the Scriptures and thy rotten Foundation being ready to fall thee c. Here is no such word as the Quakers saying The Holy Scriptures are a rotten Foundation but the contrary viz. Against that Adversary for Wresting the Scripture and that he was judged thereby And that the Scriptures of Truth proceeded from the Life and Power of God were spoken by holy Men as mov'd thereby as also a true Declaration of God the Words of God who with his dear Son Christ Jesus and Holy Spirit and the Baptism thereof are also confess'd in the said Book quoted but falsly noted on the Margent as before quite contrary to these Confessions unto the Truth and Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures They that writ the said Book Ishmael c. did judge that pretended Pastor S. Townsend their then Adversary neither to be built upon Christ nor upon the holy Scriptures and that therefore neither of them was his Foundation but a Spirit of Enmity when he enviously writ and aspers'd those of us that were then Prisoners for Conscience sake in Norwich Goal which was in the year 1654. being 45 Years ago He then more like a busie Incendiary than a Minister of Christ with his envious defaming Pamphlet did Persecute us by Reproaches to add Affliction to our Bonds which
solemn Testimony how expresly contrary it is to his present Treatment of us the said People as it is in his Book stiled The Quakers Detected c. printed 1686. about Two Years after his leaving our Communion and Conforming to the Church of England as 't is in his own words following viz. The first Point under Consideration is how I came to be a Member of their Society c. i.e. of the Quakers In the beginning they taught That all Men were enlightned according to John 1. 9. and that this Light wherewith Christ had enlightned them was sufficient if obeyed to lead to Salvation and that it was the Work of the Ministers of Christ to turn the Peoples Minds from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan to God Affirming That this Light was a sufficient Teacher Leader and Guide to every Believer without the help of outward Prescriptions Forms Orders and Decrees of Men Upon these and the like Notions I became perswaded to make Trial of their Doctrine and when I came to see and observe their Practice Conversations and Deportments in the Beginning and what Simplicity and Plainness attended their Ministry I was still more Confirmed that it was a Dispensation of the Love of God sent as a Visitation to Mankind And being thus perswaded I was resolved to bear the Cross and did utterly despise the Shame that attended them and their Message and was not behind any of my Equals both in doing and suffering for the Testimony thereof as some amongst them can still bear me Witness And in this manner we went on for many Years and loved one another with Love unfeigned and doubtless God blessed our Meetings with the Comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence p. 3. From which solemn Confession thus made by Fra. Bugg after he forsook our Communion and went to the Publick as he saith it follows naturally that he did not forsake us because of our Christian Principle or Profession of the Light or because of our Doctrine Conversation Communion or Meetings or any Dislike had thereof but because he deem'd us guilty of Apostacy from our first Principle and Profession and that by his own Confession he did not thereby make his Progress from Egypt into Canaan appears by his applying to himself the words of Joseph when in Egypt viz. But I can say as Joseph did to his Brethren Gen. 50. 20. But as for you ye thought Evil against me but God meant it unto Good And Chap. 45. 5. Now therefore be not griev'd nor angry with your selves that you sold me hither Quakers detected p. 8. How came F. B. to apply these words to his State when turn'd from us to the Publick if he did not think himself then in Egypt or turn'd from the true Light into Darkness But we sold him not thither he fled in Winter when he had let in Unbelief and Fearfulness because of Suffering and Persecution which he had felt something of but fell into Impatiency and Quarreling under it and having lost Sincerity and Truth turn'd Envious Temporizer And because he has so frequently and falsly charg'd the said People with denying Jesus of Nazareth and Contempt of holy Scripture I may acquaint you with One or Two Passages more which concern himself as recited in my Answer to his New Rome Arraigned entitled Innocency Triumphant over Insolency and Outrage printed 1693. p. 25 26. as followeth viz. And to his saying The Names Jesus and Christ are given to the Mediator c. True but what follow Therefore quoth F. B. 't is no Absurdity to say It was not Jesus Christ for whom the Body was prepared it was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh but the Word John 1. 1. Apol. Introd p. 3. And yet he has confessed it was the Son of God that took the Body p. 4. What Confusion and Self-contradiction does the Man blindly run into And how contrary to the Apostle John's Testimony is his Doctrine herein See 1 John 4. 2 3. Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is of God and every Spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is not of God but this is the Spirit of Anti-Christ What Spirit is this in our Adversary which saith It was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh Who was it then It was the Word the Son of God As if Jesus Christ were neither the Word nor the Son of God O horrible Anti-Christianism And contrary also to that Martyr Dr. Barnes his Confession as cited by F. Bugg himself p. 4. 5. viz. I believe that without Man's Will or Power Christ Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost and took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary Acts and Mon. p. 610. Now If Jesus Christ took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary then it was Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh But it was Jesus Christ that took Flesh Therefore 't was Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh. Consequently F. Bugg's Doctrine That it was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh is Anti-Christian Anti-Apostolical and Contradictory to the said Martyr's Doctrine In his Book stiled De Christianâ Libertate Part 2. Chap. 1. he confesseth in the Name and Person of the People called Quakers That we told them i. e. the said People that the Scriptures were good and a true Declaration of those things which were most surely believ'd by the Apostles and by us ought to be believ'd yet not the only Rule but still the Spirit of God which was the first Principle c. And many more Confessions he has given to the Truth of our Principles both with respect to Jesus Christ his Light and the holy Scriptures Now I recommend you to the faithful Witness of Truth in all your Hearts which will Judge Righteously and desire you seriously to peruse the following Treatise and hear us in our Answers and Defence as well as our Adversary in his Accusations remembering that common Maxim To Condemn no Man before he be heard By a Servant of Jesus Christ and real Friend to your Immortal Souls G. Whitehead London the 30th of the 4th Month 1699. The CONTENTS of this Treatise PART I. OF Francis Bugg's Fictitious Profane Sermon in G. Whitehead's Name From Page 1 to p. 16. Of our Yearly Meeting p. 1 2. Of the Scriptures p. 2 3. Of one only God the Father Son and Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures p. 3 4. Of Confession of Sin and Prayer to God p. 5 6. Of the Ten Commandments and Moral Law p. 7 8. Of his gross Fiction against the Holy Scripture and the Light within p. 9. Of his resembling the Mockers Psalm 35. 21. and 40. 15. p. 9. His Forgery against William Bingley and Ben. Bealing's Certificate p. 10 11. His repeated Forgery about G. Fox touching the Branch the Star c. p. 12 13. Of his Counterfeit Court and Condemnation p. 13. His Forgery and Frofaneness about our Light and Exaltation p. 14.
in the beginning we were Convinced by G. Fox that Matthew Mark Luke and John were Death Dust and Serpents Meat that the Scriptures were heastly-ware c. This Passage by the way is a gross Forgery and notorious Lie still I never thus preached nor ever were we convinced by G. Fox or any other that either the Doctrine of the holy Evangelists were Serpents Meat Dust or Death or the Scriptures Beastly-ware as 't is frequently repeated by F. B. Unto which foul Abuse he farther adds as my Sermon viz. And therefore I warn you all to take heed of Apostatising from our ancient Testimony as you have it in my Text for what we were Convinced of by our Light in the beginning to be Evil to be Death Dust Serpents meat 't is so still to be Beastly-ware and Conjuration 't is so still p. 120. Obs. This is a blasphemous Fiction not only against the Holy Scripture but against the Light which he calls Your Light For neither did the Light ever so Convince us to call the Scriptures Beastly-ware nor did I ever Preach such blasphemous Doctrine of the Light as here I am grosly misrepresented but the Contrary As no Man speaking by the Spirit can Blaspheme or call Jesus Accursed so no Man speaking by his Light can Blaspheme or Reproach his holy Scriptures which Testifie of him The Book Bugg quotes for his so often-repeated Lie of calling the Scriptures Beastly-ware is stiled A Brief Discovery of a three-fold Estate of Anti-christ printed 1653. Page 9. I have that Book by me and I have searched both Book and Page and I find no such words as calling the Scriptures Beastly-ware But Babylon's Merchants selling Beastly-wares for a large Price all the Week time heaping up a Rabble of Notions into the Brain So that the Beastly-wares intended was their Rabble of Notions and not the Scriptures Obs. Again How scurrilously F. Bugg makes me to come to a Stop in this Insolent and Presumptuous Romance which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon after this manner viz. And therefore keep up your ancient Testimony my Dear Lambs in all the part of it Ha ha ha hme hme hme silent p. 120. Thus this Scorner forges a ridiculous Tone as my Conclusion or Stop in that place somewhat resembling the Mockers of Old whom the Psalmist complains of Psalm 35. 21. Yea they opened their Mouth wide against me and said Aha aha And Psalm 40. 15. Let them be desolate for a Reward of their Shame that say unto me Aha aha And Psalm 70. 3. Let them be turned back for a Reward of their Shame that say Aha aha And then after a little Silence he most absurdly represents William Bingley as preaching in Confirmation of his Confused and Absurd Romance aforesaid which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon In W. Bingley's Name thus viz. Friends Friends I am filled I am filled as with new Wine I am ready to burst at the Joyful News I have heard to day respecting our Ancient Testimony And O magnified be our Light within which hath thus exalted us above the Prophets above the Apostles above the Martyrs and above all Christians as our dear Brother G. W. hath most excellently made it out first in opening his Text and also in the two Branches proceeding from it but more especially in the Use and Application where he hath confirmed me in not making Confession of Sin nor regarding the Ten Commandments nor those two Ordinances of Baptism and Supper p. 120 121. Obs. How shamefully he personates W. B. to asperse and abuse him as if he were highly Elevated and magnified our Light within because of what F. Bugg has most falsly feigned G. W. to Preach in Contempt of Scripture and for Exalting our selves above the Prophets Apostles c. Thus he presumptuously adds Sin to Sin Lye to Lye Forgery upon Forgery such sordid Stuff as we never heard W. B. preach but he utterly disowns and testifies against the same with Abhorrency to such Abuse of him and others And not only so but Bugg wickedly represents W. B. as making our Light within the Author of his foregoing Absurd Forgery and Romance in G. W's Name against the holy Scriptures Ten Commandments c. Consequently to blaspheme our Light within which is the Light of God and his Dear Son as if that oppos'd its own Testimony in holy Scripture and as if that led to Self-Exaltation above the Prophets and Apostles c. O wretched Man F. B How wilt thou appear before the Tribunal-Seat of Christ What a sad Account wilt thou have for such Profanation design'd Deceit and Wickedness Who further proceedest in W. Bingley's Name viz. Forgery But yet I have a short Testimony to bring in touching the Priests which I think our Friend G. W. left out unawares for I take it to be as necessary an ancient Testimony to be kept up as any other only a little more privately and prudently for they are as great Enemies to our design of Supplanting Christianity as any the World affords p. 121. Observe again Oh shameful Folly and Falshood Where and when did ever W. B. thus Preach That our Design is the supplanting Christianity Whenas our Design is well known to the contrary to such as truly fear God and to be for the Promoting of Christianity both in Spirit in Faith Life and Conversation Forgery Benjamin Bealing Clerk Let us sing an Hymn of Praise and Self-Exaltation and to the Confusion of our Adversaries as you will find it written in the Epistle of that Son of Thunder Edward Burrough prefixed to our Apostle G. Fox ' s Great Mystery printed 1658. The Waters have I seen dry'd up the Seat of that great Whore Who hath made all Nations drunk with her enticing Power Observe Now F. B. dost not thou Glory in thy Shame in such Invention as this Where did ever any in the World hear Benjamin Bealing set or sing such a Hymn as this in the end of a Meeting or any time else Observe his own Testimony viz. These are to Certifie all sober Readers That Francis Bugg's Representing me as calling to the Yearly Meeting To sing an Hymn of Praise and Self-Exaltation c. and making some Verses out of Edward Burrough's Preface to G. F's Great Mystery to be that Hymn 'T is all an idle false Invention and Forgery of his own for I never was concerned in any such thing in my Life-time and I am heartily sorry that this poor Man should be so given up in his old Age to serve the Father of Lyes with whom in the Lake he may expect to have his Portion without he unfeignedly Repents Witness my Hand Benjamin Bealing London the 4th of the 5th Month called July 1699. Oh F. B. thou appearest one of that sort who are arrived to that ill Habit of Iniquity and Hardness that they know no Shame And thy presumptuously Prophaning the sacred Name of God and of his dear Son and of his Light within using the same
in G. W's Name I have also closed my Discourse with the Prophecy of Sam. Fisher which you need not doubt of but will come to pass it may be sooner than you are aware of c. only for the present we must be content to stay and patiently bear For as yet we cannot think we shall be made to handle the Sword But when the time does come I have shewed you the Testimony of two of our Prophets and early Champions what we shall do how we shall kill cut off and destroy and bathe our Swords in the Blood of Amaleck and lay waste fenced Cities and tread down the Honourable of the Earth and spare neither Old nor Young p. 126. Observe his evil Design by inventing and framing this in my Name as part of my Sermon as if I prophesied that we should be made to handle the Sword kill cut off and destroy c. and spare neither Old nor Young c. Which he would have understood in a literal Sense to make me and our Friends as Obnoxious and Criminal as he can which bespeaks not only an evil Design but premeditated Malice and Injury And I am apt to think the Man Sinneth knowingly against Light and Conviction in taking up and representing such words in a literal Sense as are in Sam. Fisher's Prophecy to O. Cromwel in 1656. and in Fra. Howgil's and E. B's in the same Year S. F. having these words I will beautifie my Meek Ones with Salvation and I will put my High-Praise into their Mouths and a two-edged Sword into their Hands and they shall execute Vengeance upon the Heathen c. And the other have these words viz. Out of thee i. e. the North of England Kings Priests and Prophets did come forth in the Name and Power of the Most-High which uttered their Voices as Thunders and laid their Swords on the Necks of their Enemies c. Gird on your Sword upon your Loyns put on the tried Armour c. My beloved Brethren and Fellow-Soldiers make all plain before you Thresh on with a Threshing Instrument which hath Teeth beat the Mountains to Dust let the Breath of the Lord scatter it c. p. 124. Now that F. B. renders these and such like Passages in a literal Sense observe his Notes in the Margent i. e. Are not these Fifth-Monarchy-Men Retract these bloody Books and horrid Principles Hereupon I would ask him and those Priests who abet him 1. If the Psalmist meant Literally in Psalm 149. 5 6 7 8 9 Let them read it at large and therein Samuel Fisher's words concerning the Saints High Praises of God in their Mouths and a Two-edged Sword in their Hands c. and the Honour they have And Isaiah 41. 15. Behold I will make thee a new sharp Threshing Instrument having Teeth thou shalt thresh the Mountains and beat them small and shalt make the Hills as Chaff 2. If he really thinks our Friends meant that God's Prophets in this Gospel-Day should go forth with outward Swords of Iron and Steel and with an outward Threshing Instrument having Teeth of Iron or Steel and that they were therewith to beat down and lay level the great Mountains of Stone and Earth some of them a Mile or Two high as they are in the North of England and other parts No I cannot think that Francis Bugg believed thus Literally either of the Prophet David Isaiah or of our Friends in the places recited by him for part of my Sermon p. 122 123 124 125. Therefore the more fallacious and deceiful he to represent them in such a literal and gross Sense to make us Obnoxious to the Government as a People of Bloody Principles Whereby he hath shewn what a Bloody Persecuting Spirit lodges in him against us There are many more Forgeries Lyes and perverted Quotations in the said Romance falsly stiled G. Whitehead's Sermon which for Brevity's sake are here pretermitted and waved And this Point concerning S. Fisher's Message to O. Cromwel and other Passages relative thereto quoted by F. B. is more fully spoken to in the Answer to the Three Norfolk-Priests Entitled Truth and Innocency vindicated p. 36 37 38 39 and p. 62 63 64. THE Rambling PILGRIM EXPOSED PART II. AFter F. B. has made such a large Confession to the Light of Christ within and to the Dispensation of God to Mankind and to the comfortable Presence of the Lord our God attending our Meetings it is very ill-becoming him now to speak so slightly and contemptuously of both as he doth in his Chap. III. p. 5. where he saith All were exhorted to adhere to the Light within to obey the Light within and to follow the Teachings thereof as a Guide sufficient to lead us to Salvation yea above Scriptures above Fathers above Councils and above Churches This I now confess quoth he was a Paradox not Orthodox but absolutely Heterodox This Confession of his is since he disobeyed the Light and turn'd his back of it otherwise he would still confess that Christ the true Light the Head and Lawgiver to his Church is above Scriptures Fathers Councils and Churches and was before them and is the Light of the World which whoever follows shall not abide in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life Consequently this Light of His is a Guide sufficient to lead us to Salvation and to Understand Believe and Practice according to Holy Scripture and not to oppose it It is a wicked Calumny against our Silent Meetings to say That they were designed to wean us off from so much as the Remembrance of all External Religion and also to prepare us to receive the false Notions of Quakerism p. 5. Our Externally Meeting together to wait upon God and our living Experience of his Presence and Power and Spiritual Ministry to our great Comfort and Edification in those our Meetings do testifie the contrary to F. B's Aspersions against them and us He has unjustly quoted me about the Authority of the Spirit and the Scriptures p. 6. as the Three Norfolk-Priests did as I have shewn p. 16 17. of my Just Examination of their two Books Entitled Truth and Innocency vindicated leaving out the very Explanatory Words relating to the Spirits Immediate Teaching being of greater Authority or Efficacy than the Letter of the Scriptures as divided into Chapters my Explanation being viz. As Christ's Words were of greater Authority when he spoke than the Pharisees reading the Letter and they in whom that Spirit speaks not are out of the Authority of the Scriptures c. See the Matter further explained in my said Examination referred unto For here we own the Divine Authority and Efficacy of the Holy Scriptures as spoken by Christ but the Division of Chapters and Verses and the bare Letter thereof not to be of the same Authority and Efficacy I deny his Consequence That any little Pamphlet of Our's is of greater Authority than the Bible or of as great for I never asserted the holy Doctrine in
and therefore his Cracking Vapouring Boasting and Challenging looks most silly and insolent and deserves to be slighted and contemned by all Peaceable Serious and Religious Persons His Norfolk-Priests who abetted him have greatly labour'd to acquit themselves from being the Challengers of our Friends and labour'd to cast the blame of first Challenging upon the Quakers in Norfolk as if it were a Crime to Challenge but let them read what an insulting vapouring daring Challenge their Tool and Agent F. Bugg makes in his Appendix p. 171 172. Taunting against the Quaker Teachers as he calls them viz. You may Challenge them long enough but cannot get them out of their holes they see and know they are discovered this makes them timorous Fearfulness surprizes the Hypocrite c. p. 171. And The way to deal with such cunning Sophisters G. W c. is still to pursue them with Challenges to call them into the Field and thereupon I will pitch my Standard here in behalf of the Christian Religion and Protestant Profession against Quakerism head and tail C. and let us Dispute it out fairly and above Board and thereupon I shall renew my Challenge and let it stand here as a Monument of the Quakers Cowardise and Self-condemnation C. p. 172. Now F. B. may'st thou not be ashamed thus to brag and vapour and thus basely to fling Fearfulness and Cowardise upon us What Earnings didst thou make in our late Discourse before the Bishop of Norwich and Four Members of Parliament at the Bishop's House near Jame's Square Westminster Do'st thou not remember how soberly thou wast answered both by me and the other two Friends present And how I discovered thy repeated Falshoods Forgery Deceit and Wickedness in divers matters wherein thy Quarrel much depends against us And how thou wast confounded when Matters were closely urg'd and argu'd upon thee both about the Holy Scriptures and thy charging the Quakers Prophets with giving Witness to G. Fox instead of Christ and calling him G. F. the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness c. Which notorious Falshood often charg'd upon thee thou could'st never produce Proof for though thou hast often repeated it against us after an insolent manner as in p. 121. and as thou hast partly done by way of Question in this thy Pilgrim's Progress p. 135. viz. Do they not all agree in the main That G. Fox was the Quakers Branch and Star yea their All in All the Bottom and Corner and Top-Stone of their Building Answer We deny any such Agreement and thou couldst never yet prove it nor hast thou shewn us any Book of ours wherein G. Fox is so called or esteemed by us no more than thou canst prove that the Quakers speak so contemptuously of the Scriptures as to call them Beastly Ware c. which old refuted Lye thou hast again repeated over and over p. 172 173. as also that they say The holy Scripture is Carnal Dust Death c. as in thy New Rome Unmask'd see Cr. 6. p. 78. And also thy fictitious Sermon which again thou falsly termest George Whitehead's Sermon p. 168. wherein thou hast grosly abused and belyed him and W. B. and profaned the Sacred Name of God with other Abuses and Defamations as it was evinced before the said Bishop of Norwich and Members of Parliament to thy shame and confusion What Ground hast thou then to Boast of our being Timerous to meet thee Or to Accuse us with Cowardise I told thee there before them at the Bishop's House That I would not go over the Door-Threshold to meet thee nor spend so much time then in Discoursing with thee if it were not for their Sakes and Information who were present i. e. the Bishop and said Members of Parliament Thy dictating lastly That they i. e. the Quakers may not be permitted to teach School publickly p. 171. This still shews a Spirit of Envy and Persecution in thee like those Papists that would not suffer Protestants to Educate their own Children or to discharge their Duty as Parents towards them according to their Consciences Thy many bitter Invectives and false Clamours against us as also thy ambitious presumptuous way of Dictating to the Government to Incense them does all bespeak a foul Persecuting Spirit in thee and that thou art fallen and caught in the Cage which thou hast feignedly formed a Figure of unjustly to represent the State of those Persons whom thou hast defamed and branded therewith As I am not bound to trace all thy numerous Lyes Calumnies and Perversions in thy Pilgrim's Progress not herein touched so I therefore refer the Reader to other Answers of mine extant in Print Entitled as followeth 1. Judgment Fixed Printed 1682. Chap. 7. from page 203 to page 259. 2. The Quakers Answer to a Scandalous Libel stiled A Letter to the Quakers in 1690. One half Sheet 3. Innocency against Envy 1681. Two Sheets and a half 4. The Contentious Apostate and his Blow Refelled 1691. Four Sheets 5. The Contentious Apostate Recharged One Sheet 6. A Charitable Essay in order to Allay the Out-Rage of a Contentious Apostate 1693. One Sheet 7. The Quakers Vindication against Francis Bugg ' s Calumnies 1693. One Sheet 8. Innocency Triumphant over Insolency and Out-rage 1693. Five Sheets 9. A Just Enquiry into the Libeller's Abuse 1693. Two Sheets Which Answers much of Bugg's Stuff though that has not his Name 10. The Counterfeit Convert a Scandal to Christianity 1694. Six Sheets and a half 11. An Answer to Francis Bugg ' s Presumptuous Impeachment 1695. One Sheet 12. A Sober Expostulation with some of the Clergy against their pretended Convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross Abuse of the People called Quakers 1697. Twelve Sheets In Answer to several of his Books Now Reader whoever peruses these Books or but Six or Seven of the last of them mentioned and compares F. Bugg's Books therewith may find that they contain full Answers to his principal Objections frequently repeated in his Books against us and what chiefly concerns Doctrine is comprehensively Answered in the 6th and 7th viz. A Charitable Essay and The Quakers Vindicated which though but one Sheet a piece I could never yet find any Reply to either from F. Bugg And the 8th i. e. Innocency Triumphant is so plain a Discovery and Confutation of his Forgeries Perversions Falshoods and notorious Self-Contradictions that the same is made obvious to every Impartial Reader So that our Innocency stands still Triumphant in Christ Jesus over our Adversaries Outrage Boasting Scorn and Contempt Glory to our God and to the Lamb who shall have the Victory and Reign in Glory and Triumph for Ever and Ever A Brief Answer to Francis Bugg 's late Book falsly stiled A Modest Defence c. HAving trac'd and observ'd the numerous bitter and accumulated Calumnies in the said pretended Modest Defence and in many more of the same Author's Books Scurrilous Pamphlets and Fictions against the peaceable People called Quakers to