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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31338	The liberty of an apostate conscience discovered being a plain narrative of the controversie long depending between Francis Bugg, an officious agent in William Rogers's behalf and quarrel, on the one part, and Samuel Cater and George Smith, prisoners for the testimony of Jesus in Ely goal [sic] on the other part : with their answer to his Painted harlot, &c. ... / published for the information of all friends of truth, and others concerned, and for caution to all such agents as have promoted or spread the late books of Fr. Bugg and W. Rogers.	Cater, Samuel, d. 1711.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1486; ESTC R229360	44,222	88

insinuates so much opprest by me and such as I am as he hath declared which I know nothing of that she would give over House-keeping upon any such Account neither was I burdensome to her but if I would have accepted it as she desired of me I might have been there to have Lodged when I refused neither did I ever here that she or any related to her complain of any such oppression Well but F. B. does not leave here for in Page 54. he says If all thy sufferings be attended with such a plentiful reward I do not know but that sufferings may be as beneficial to thee as of Old they were to Bishop Worren And for Instance he saith It hath been said that in Ely Prison by Treat● and otherwise they believe thou fairest as well as some Persons of much Higher Degree But if this be all thou hast to say about thy Foolishly comparing me to Bishop Worren in his sufferings I say it was well the Man in the time of his confinement found Friends in the midst of his Enemies to take care of him and shew kindness to him and I praise the Lord so have I in Measure in the time of my close confinement although it be to my Enemies grief which thou hast appeared to be none of the Ie●st who has been abusing me from time to time in the time of my sufferings by which thou manifests not only thy envy against me but seemest to be troubled that any Loves me but thou must run thy race and make thy folly manifest to all till the Lord put a Hook in thy Nostrills before thou wilt be quiet and thou maiest be ashamed Nay I am sure thou wouldest if Envy did not Blind thee how the Devil befools thee in thy undertakeings to make a Noise about my being grown Rich with Preaching and now wanting proof against me makes thy appeal to my Neighbours and to the Parish Priest whether they have got so much as I have but what if some Neighbours have gotten much more in these 30 years time that I have kept House as some of them have done and some less and others spent what they have what 's that to the proof of thy change against me And I have told thee before I have nothing but what I came honestly and justly by neither hast thou proved the contrary and therefore there 's none have cause to believe thee nor will that are not Learned with that Spirit of Envy that thou art in whose reproaches are little to me knowing it is the Portion of them that fear God to go through good report and evil report as the Servants of God did before me Now whereas F. B. makes a great stirr about a Lawyer medling in my Case and calls me his Client I do say I never spoke or writ neither directly or indirectly imployed T. R. about the said concern whereof he so saieth and if the said T. R. did any thing in it he did it of himself and not by any Order or Advice from me and that I have told F. B. before now only he is minded to fill up his filthy Book with something although it doth and will return to his own shame Many things more might be spoken unto to manifest his numerous lies and falshoods and his wild Airy scoffing Spirit against my self and many others which at present I pass by looking upon it not worth the spending time about nor questioning but impartial and unbiassed Readers will see that it s more Mallice then Matter against us as one lately told me who is not of our Society Neither would I too much Treat him in his Folly lest as the wise Man saith I appear like him neither would I be altogether silent lest he grows Proud in his own conceit And having given Account of Transaction in these things before I saw his and now made some reply in short to what I thought most needful in this I shall commit my Innocent Cause to God and to his just witness in the Consciences of all that Reads both his and mine to Judg in themselves who is in the wrong or what cause he hath thus to abuse me And rest a Friend to all that love Truth and Righteousness Samuel Cater Ely Prison the 17th of the 6th Month 1683. Now the Controversie Rightly considered F. B. may apply the Title of his Book to himself and his own Mallicious Scornful Spirit George Smith's return to F. B.'s Scandalous report of him in his Book Intituled The painted Harlot c. WHereas I have lately seen the said Book put forth by my Cosin F. B. wherein he hath Treated me as uncivilly as he got the Mony before of me unfairly For he hath taken two passages out of a Letter of mine which I formerly sent him in Answer to one he sent me after he had the Mony wherein I much blamed him for his unjust and unfair dealings with me about the 15 Pounds as I have given Account of And now I find he hath taken out of that large Letter which contained almost three sides of a Sheet of Paper only two passages barely from what went before and followeth after and which is explanatory to that which he hath recited whereby his unfair and Falacious dealing is manifest for by that way he makes my Letter seemingly speak what he would have it and not what I intended and is thereby apparent and when he had done so then he paraphrases upon it and tells what lies he pleases to abuse me But God that knoweth the Secrets of all Hearts knows how much he hath belied and abused me and S. C. and his Wife thereby in Page 38. He brings me in speaking in my Letter to him in this manner viz I am ingaged to give an Account of this business without I would hear the loss of all the 15 Pounds aforesaid And again that I am necessitated now to give such a report left the Parties concerned should think I was too much biassed in joyning with thee Thus farr he hath Quoted me by which two Passages he pretends as if I told S. C. and his Wife some false story of him to get my Mony again which is altogether false and nothing true in it neither will my words bare such a construction in my Letter as he makes of them if they be Read as I have set them down for his construction is contrary to the intent of my mind for my mind therein is to speak plainly and truly how he got the Mony of me as may be seen in my Letter and for that end that the Truth may be known I have hereunto annexed that part of my Letter out of which he pretends to have taken them words leaving out what made not for his turn as may appear to all that reads it The other large part I leave out for Brevity sake and which I find not medled with in his said Book These are the Words of the Letter Verbatim viz. OH Cosin thy State is to be Lamented I desire the Lord may give thee a true sight of thy sins least that Scripture be fulfilled upon thee where the Apostle says the Love of Mony is the Root of all Evil whilst some have covered after it they have Erred from the Faith and have Pierced themselves with many sorrows and fallen into many dangerous and hurtfull Lusts thou seems to be much offended because I spoke of thy unjust dealings by me in this matter indeed thou mayest very well be ashamed to hear that one so nearly related to thee as I am and have had so much Love for thee as I have had should have so just a cause as thou hast given me to give such a Report of thee as I am necessitated now to do for the clearing of my own Innocency that so the Parties concerned nor no others that hears of it may think that I was too much biassed in joyning with thee in this matter so that I am ingaged to give an Account of the business as it is without I would bare the loss of all this Mony to cover thy Deceit and how unreasonable that is I leave it to the honest to Judge for thou knowest that the business does not end in thee and I and therefore it must be known and besides I do not find Freedome in my self to cover such Deceitful dealings as thou hast used in this matter I perceive that thou hadst been contented that I should have held my Tongue to have covered thee and bore the Mony my self for my good will So no more at present but my hearty desire that thou may truly repent and forsake all such Actions as ●●●●re And so Remain thy Kinsman George Smith Littleport the 22d of the 8th Month 1679. WHereas Francis Bugg hath falsly accused Samuel Cater c. with Growing so Oppressive when going on Truths Errand that the Widdows substance is devoured that some have been Constrained to Break up House For which he Quotes our Deceased Mother thus viz. Sam. Cater knows that the Widow More at the Seven Stars nigh Bishops gate London hath understood what I mean now we her two Sons one of us living with her when she Lived there do affirm this to be an abusive Forgery and foul Defamation and Scandal for we know of no such thing of our Deceased Mother nor never did hear so much as the least complaint thereof from her and we are certain she did no● leave off Shop upon any such Account as Witnes our Hands John and Joseph Moor. London the 30th of the 6th Month 1683. THE END Advertisement THere is now in the PRESS a Book Entituled The Liberty of an Apostate Conscience being a plain Narrative of the Controversie long depending Between Francis Bugg on the one part and Samuel Cater and George Smith on the other part whereby F. Bugg's Liberty of Conscience is proved not only Unchristian but Immoral and Injurious

it who wrote to me and in her Letter said I did well in not opening F. Bs. Letter whereby to enter into farther Controversie with him and yet he is so impudent as to say in this Idle Ridiculous work of his That it was I that Revived the Controversie again which is as absolutely false as Truth is Truth But after he had thus sent his malicious Letter about and it came from London whither he had sent it wherein he had Reviled me and his Cousin G. S. again so that his hard charge against us for breaking Covenant falls upon himself with his Slanderous comparing of us to Berket the Papist which will return upon his own Head for he broke the agreement made between him and the Meeting and not I nor G. S. for altho I was not there neither knew any thing of it until some Friends came from the Meeting and told me what was done yet for Peace sake and out of respect I had to the Meeting I was willing to condescend to it and did abide by it until he broke it but when came to see and hear how he had abused us again both it City and Country we did then resolve to give a true Narrative of the business as it truly was and leave it to People to judge Whether he hath wronged us or we him Seeing his restless Spirit would not let him be at quiet which accordingly we did write to him to give him account thereof as by the Narrative doth more fully appear The next passage I take Notice of is how F. B. hath in effect Confessed himself Guilty of going beyond his Cousin G. S. in getting the Mony aforesaid as by his own Tongue and Pen he hath here Confest for says F. B. in Page 35 Treating about the Mony he got of G. S. He pretended Trouble or else he was really Troubled in that he thought all I aimed at was a bare tender and upon that without any other terms would have returned it These words of F. Bs. gives just cause to believe that he betrayed him by his Subtilty out of his Mony as G. S. hath given account or else why should F. B. himself say who is seldom wanting to make a deceitful cover for this his work of Darkness G. S. might think than all he intended in having the Mony all Tendered was but a bare Tender and that he would have returned it again which saying of F. Bs. gives ground to believe that G. S. had some cause so to think from something that F. B. had spoke or promised to G. S. before he tendered him the Mony as G. S. hath declared for he is not so weak a Man as to think of having all the Mony returned again without some Grounds for it But however they that shall say That F. B. got this Mony Fraudulently or by over-teaching or going beyond his near Kinsman them he seems to be much offended with accounting they Grate much upon his Reputation But let F. B. give his getting the Money what Name he please I know it is a way that is not used by such as are accounted Honest Morral-Men setting Christianity aside which brings Men not only to Act and Speak justly uprightly and truly and to walk inoffensively both towards God and Men but also Patiently to suffer Injuries and to do good against Evil however 't is commendable in its place to do justly between Man and Man which F. B. in this matter hath fallen farr short of as doth yet farther appear from his own words as may be seen in page 36 his words are these Speaking about the said Money he got of his Cousin G. S. I did proffer saith he to Return 7 l. 10 s. which I had more then G. S. Voluntarily proffered me Note that F. Bs offer of returning the said 7 l. 10 s. was about three years after he had Received it of his Cousin G. S. and that not until he was severely Reproved for his unfair dealings by Friends and farther he did not offer the Mony as Repenting him for his so unjustly obtaining it Therefore it may be very well questioned how F. B. came by the said 7 l. 16 s. Seeing he says himself that G. S. Did not Voluntarily proffer it him then does it not follow that without question G. S. tendred him the whole thinking thereby to have pleased him in his wilful humour and thinking as F. B. himself saith He would have been pleased with a bare Formal Tender thereof and so have returned the whole 15 l. again but seeing F. B. did not return it all again according as he says G. S. his thoughts might be that he would yet to keep the other half also which was by him never Voluntarily proffered him let F. B. make what covers and excuses he can for himself People that know what it is to Live uprightly and to deal justly between Man and Man will account this Deed of F. Bs. to Spring from a Covetous and Overreaching-Mind and a Deed that does not become such a Man as would be accounted a Christian Quaker and one that hath taken upon him lately to complain of others more Honest and Just then himself as appears But it had been well for F. B. if he had better spent this time which he now spends in Silly Scornful Scribling and Printing against his Ancient Friends and such whom he used to speak very well off before the Enemy of his Soul thus filled him with Envy It had been better I say for him to have waited upon God in Humility to have seen first the Beam cast out of his own Eye as Christ saith before he had so much concerned himself to pull the Mote out of anothers Eye But now mark after F. B. had thus got this Mony of his Cousin G. S. the the next thing he endeavoured to do was to quiet him that he might keep it and to that end he first gave him a paper as he himself saith for me to sign which he said If I would Sign he would Return all the Mony again But G. S. knowing that he had nothing to do with papers but the Mony which he had made him a tender of seeing he never spake of any such paper before the Money was tendred Slighted the paper but prest-hard upon him for the Money again as more at large appears in the Narrative that he might carry and Repay the 10 l. again to the Person of whom it was borrowed But F. B. would not part with the Money but be thought himself of another way to try Salve the Sore which he had made in his Cousins mind by keeping the said Money from him as himself saith in Page the 35 of his Book to his Cousin G. S. after he had got the said 15 l. his words are these However to comfort him I told him that Samuell had 10 l. lately sent him from London and that he had taken 40 s. at one place when he went into Scotland towards