thy Pride Against thy Hypocrisies Against thy Turning with the Tide And other Enormities 11. No no I say as thou art found Treading the Papists Path True Protestants will thy Pride wound As Luther and others hath 12. Thy Elder SISTER 's Tripple Crown Whose Pride doth not exceed The Pride of thee which doth abound Exceeding her indeed 13. Wherefore ye skilful Archers bold Come forth and bend the Bow Let none escape as hath been told Of Babel High nor Low 14. But do to her as she t'others have As a just Recompence She hath been proud against the LORD And used Violence Jer. 50.2 Fra. Bugg The Author being informed of G. Fox's Death writ this in Answer and desired it might be here inserted Dear Sir YOurs of the 15th instant I received wherein you tell me Geo. Fox is dead and that my Book is not yet finished and that you would know my Mind about it c. In Answer to which I say that Pope Adrian is dead Pope Leo is dead Pope Gregory is dead and abundance more of other Popes are dead What then Did Luther Frith Barns Tyndal and the Protestant Party let fall their Testimonies because the Popes were dead No such Matter Popery is Popery still and Error is Error still and in like manner so it will be with this New Rome for though George Fox be dead yet Geo. Whitehead his Successor is alive and as cunning as crafty and as politick in erecting their New Church-Government and imposing upon those who for Conscience sake could not submit to it as ever Geo. Fox was and therefore as much reason now to manifest his and their Errors Innovations and grand Hypocrisies as ever And that it may farther appear that there is just Cause for that Zeal that hath been raised up in several others as well as in my self against G. F. and the Leaders of this People I shall cite some Passages writ by Three of his Preachers in which he was too much adored and idolized and no doubt will be so now he is dead First That of Josiah Coal in a Letter from Barbadoes Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar off to the begetting many again to a lively Hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou rules and governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is established in Peace and the increase thereof is without end Next That of S. Eccles * Quakers Chalenge p. 6. who writ of G. F. these Words which were not fit to be said of any Mortal viz A Prophet indeed It was said of Christ That He was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not SO it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not but thou shalt feel this Prophet one day as heavy as a Milstone upon thee and though the World knows him not yet he is known And next that of John Audland in a Letter of his to G. F. from the West of England Dear and precious one in whom my Life is bound up and my strength in thee stands by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my strength is renewed Blessed art thou for evermore and blessed are all they that enjoy thee Life and Strength comes from thee Holy One. Daily do I find thy Presence with me which doth exceedingly preserve me for I cannot reign but in thy Presence and Power Pray for me that I may stand in thy Dread for evermore Pray for us all that in thy Power we may abide for evermore I am thine begotten and nourished by thee and in thy Power am I preserved Glory unto thee Holy One for ever These and many other Idolatrous if not Blasphemous Names and Titles have been given and attributed to G. F. * See Tho. Crisp's first Part of Babel's Builders c p. 7. and his 5th Part p. 16. And W. Roger's 5th par Christ Quaker c. p. 77. And Painted Harlot c. Preface p. 6. And The Quakers Vnmask'd p. 15. The Spirit of the Hat c p. 27 28. And Tyranny and Hypocrisie c. p. 19. which I never heard that ever he disown'd or testified against but instead thereof was a great Countenancer and Encourager of such Elatterers and a great Boaster of his own State c. And therefore it lies now upon his Successor and Successors to justifie excuse or condemn these Errors and others in my Book set forth And seeing G. F. is dead I do hereby chalenge Stephen Crisp to meet me with the rest before-mentioned p. 19. since Geo. Whitehead hath a mind he should be his Partner which is more than Rob. and S. Duncon would have desired if they had heen alive for Reasons they knew so let it be hastned What I writ I writ when he was living and now he is gone there are enough to Answer for him and themselves if they be able January 18 1690 1 Sir I am yours in Sincerity Fra. Bugg FINIS ERRATA Pag. 12. l. 28. for such read Truth p. 15. l. last for is read his p. 17. l. last for I le read lie p. 18. l. 1. for come read it came p. 22. l. 9. for Impudene read Impudence Advertisements of Books sold by J. Gwillim in Bishopsgate-street over against the Great James Bookseller 1. THE Painted Harlot both stripp'd and whipp'd c. By Fra. Bugg 2. Reason against Rayling and Truth against Falshood being a Conclusive Postscript to be annexed to the Book entituled The painted Harlot c. By Fra. Bugg 3. Innocency Vindicated and Envy Rebuked being a brief Answer to Geo. Whitehead and John Tysoe c. By Fra. Bugg 4. The Quakers detected their Errours confuted and their Hypocrisie discovered c. By Fra. Bugg 5. Battering Rams against New Rome c. By Fra. Bugg All five in Quarto with other Books wrote by divers Authors on the same Subject bound together as well as sold severally c. De Christiana Libertate or Liberty of Conscience upon its true and proper Grounds Asserted and Vindicated and the Mischiefs of Imposition amongst the People called Quakers made manifest In two Parts The First by a nameless yet an approved Author The Second by Fra. Bugg In Octavo bound The Quakers unmask'd i.e. Geo. Fox and his Party Their Double Dealing and False-heartedness discovered c. Folio A Looking-Glass for the Quakers in two Columns wherein they may in part see themselves and may be seen by others In Folio
about the point in hand Edward VI. by Archbishop Cranmer was Compelled to sign a Warrant to Burn poor Ioan of Kent a famous Woman but counted an Enthusiast thus even Protestants began with Brood for Mere Religion and Taught the Romanists in succeeding times how to deal with them Come on ye infallible Doctors Is not this for and in favour of the Papists and Popery and to the purpose against the Protestants and at such a juncture too whenas the Protestant Cause lay a bleeding And notwithstanding your former writings against Popery when Protestants flourished yet in the Reign of K. J. II. at that season how did your Books and Papers in favour of the Popish Interest fly about Book after Book Letter after Letter Address upon Address with Publick Prayers for K. J. II See the Looking-Glass c. Which discover your profound Politicks And also the Letter to the Quakers c. Which justly and seasonably reproves your then Extravagance and your late Silence The IV. Instance of their Hypocrisie Letter to the Quckers Why do you not pray for and address your selves to King William and Queen Mary as heartily and as publickly as you did to King James II The Quakers Answer This is false though for some Reasons we have not been forward to sound a Trumpet of our Gratitude c. Reply ARE you not ashamed to say 't is false When did you ever pray for and Address your selves to K. W. and Q. M. as publickly as you did to the late K. J. II And is it not as commendable a thing to sound a Trumpet of the Fame and Noble Acts of a Protestant Prince who has ventured his Life and all that is or can be dear to him in this World in defence of our Religion Laws and Liberties as it was to sound a Trumpet from England to Scotland and from Scotland to England and through each Kingdom of his Fame who upon his own Principles could not so much as give Liberty to Protestants though in Policy he did And because you say it is false I may recite part of your Addresses and Prayers for K. J. II. and do you make it appear when you did the like and as publickly for K. W. and Q M. viz. We pray GOD to bless the King viz King J. II. his Royal Femily and People with Grace and Peace and that after a long and prosperous Reign here he may receive a better Crown amongst the Blessed which is the Pre yer of c. London April 1687. Again We cannot but with grateful Hearts both admire and acknowledge the Providence of GOD that made the King's retiring into our Countrey i. e. Scotland 1679. give a happy turn to his Affairs to the defeating and disappointing the Defigns of his Enemies We do justly conceive our selves obliged by a special Tie to praise GOD for His Goodness in carrying the King through and over all his Troubles since by the same Providence and at the same time by which the LORD began in that more observable manner to evidence His Care of him He made him the happy Instrument to deliver us from our Troubles so that the prosperity of his Affairs and our peaceable fruition of the exercise of our Consciences beareth the same Date c. June 1687. But now in your Answer to the Letter you say Good Kings and Governments you never opposed though you liked not bad ones Pray how shall we know which you account good Kings and good Governments but by your Words and Carriage towards them and by your publick Acknowledgments of the Benefits you receive by them But your Hypocrisie is manifest And I may say to you as you once said to the Paesbyterians and others in your Book stiled Truth 's Character of Professors viz. Your-own Character c. And know assuredly that if you come to be dealt withal as you have dealt with others then shall those things which you have done to the Innocent become your Burthen And as you have sought to make others ridiculous even so shall you become contemptible in the eyes of those which you by your Flatteries have fawned upon c. The V. Instance of their Hypoctisie Letter to the Quakers And then you branded the Presbyterians and others with Fighting Principles c. The Quakers Answer His unjust Reflections about the Presbyterians Reply TO reflect on you about the Presbyterians was not unjust neither did the Author of the said Letter do you any Wrong in that matter for I well remember the Sale of that Book and the Juncture of Time in which it was exposed even when the great Talk was of a Protestant Plot. 'T is true your Book had by the Title of it the Face of a Lamb viz. Plain and peaceable Advice to the Presbyterians but in pag. 1. you say that Their Principle was to fight for their Religion and to promote their pretended Religion by the power of the Sword and that their Ministers always laboured to perswade them to it c. Again see your Answer to John Faldo in your Book Quakerism a new Nick-name c. printed 1673. pag. 109. And why poor Nonconformists after all their preach'd up Battels Spoils Plunders Sacrileges Decimations c. Again pag. 119. These are true Gospel-Ministers whose Gospel is Peace on Earth and Good Will towards Men and Not Garments rolled in the Blood of Rings and Princes and Rulers and People No worldly Armies Battels and Victories Trophies Spoils Sequestrations Decimations and the like Blood-thirsty and Tyrannical Projects in which John Faldoe and his poor Nonconforming Ministers have had their Hands almost over Head and Ears till they had well nigh lost their Ears and Heads too c. And for more of this nature see your Book styled The Way cast up pag. 52 53 54 23. All which considered and compared with your Advice to Oliver Cromwell his Army and Officers render you both perfidious and treacherous inasmuch as you with them were engaged in the same Cause and Quarrel and stood in as much need of an Act of Oblivion as they The VI. Instance of their Hypocrisie 'T is a shame for any Bookseller to promote i. e. The Quakers Answer their Books without discovering the Author â— that to get a Farthing or an Halfpeny by any such lying Libels they should thus sell or expose the Reputation of their honest Neighbours to Reproach and Infamy Reply I Cannot but take notice of this Passage and how the Author of it resembles Cuthbert Tonstal once Bishop of London as may be seen in my Book De Christiana Libertate pag. 203 to pag. 206. where I have at large set forth what Enemies the then Papists were to the Printing and to the Spreaders and Promoters of such Books as the Protestants writ against them and their Errours discovering their Hypocrisies and holy Cheats and wherein Geo. Whitehead and his Brethren follow their Steps directly And as one Instance thereof I have at large recited your Excommunication
practical Ranterism it self yea sordid Ranterism * See p 259. of G W's Judgment fix'd c against the 222 223 Pages of my Book De Chr. Lib. c. Which are the Words of Dr. Barns See the 298 Page in his Book entiluled Mens Constitutions not grounded on Scripture bind not the Conscience c. verbatim c. be not a sign that he is Popishly affected c. And whether G. W. do not herein appear like his Brother Deceased viz Bloody Bonner Who frequently charged the Martyrs with such Doctrine as I could shew were it pertinent I say in this do they not resemble each other as if they were Twins Query 6. Whether it be not as commendable to Address King William and Queen Mary who are by all Men acknowledged true Protestants as it was to Address the late King who acknowledged himself a Roman Catholick Query 7. Whether it be not as lawful for Book-sellers to sell Protestant-Books even such as discover the Hypocrisie of the Teachers and Leaders of Geo. Fox and his Party as for Benj. Clark their Book-seller to sell Play-Books Ballads papist-Papist-Books gypsy-Gypsy-Books yea and Ba Books Answer Query 8. Whether it be not great Hypocrisie to pretend to Preach Teach Suffer Write and Record Marriages and other things freely and under colour thereof condemn all other Churches and Societies as Hirelings Lovers of filthy Lucre Followers of Balaam for Reward c. and yet at the same time take Money Gifts and Rewards themselves for doing the same things c Answer Query 9. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox c. to write Queries to all Doctors and Scholars in Europe and yet when Queries are propounded to them they will not answer If they tell you they are as ready to Answer Queries as to ask then let them Answer my 15 Queries proposed in De Christ Lib. p. 72 to p. 78. p. 154 to p. 163. and in Paint Harlot p. 40 41. if they can Query 10. Whether it be not great Deceit for Men to write a Book and pretend a Concern of Conscience that they do it for GOD's Glory and as moved thereunto by the Eternal Spirit and yet to write such abominable Lies Slanders and scandalous Defamations as that they dare not or are ashamed to own their said Books Query 11. Whether it was not great Presumption in Geo. Fox and a Badge of intolerable Pride to put forth a Book with 2434 Queries in it when he himself cannot answer the odd 34 of them Query 12. Whether it was not great Impudene in Geo. Fox in his Battledoor to set his Hand and affix his Name to six or more Foreign Languages as Latine Greek Hebrew Italian Chaldee Syriack c. and yet understand not one of them Query 13. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie for Geo. Whitehead Stephen Crisp William Penn c. to make a Law or Edict at their General Meeting at London May 75. That their Hearers should constantly meet and not Decline Forsake nor Remove their Meetings like Worldly Fearful and Politick Professors and yet themselves refused to stand in a like suffering capacity relating to Sufferings with them Answer Query 14. Whether it be not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox and his Party to say That GOD respects neither Time Place nor Persons and thereupon pretend That for Conscience-sake they cannot give respect to their Superiours by putting off their Hats when at the same time they themselves compel their Apprentices to stand bare-headed before them * This Piece of Hypocrisie I testified against more than Fifteen Years since by a Letter to the then Yearly Meeting which was before S. Cater and I had any Controversie See my Book Entituled Innocency Vindicated and Envy rebuked c. p. 8. nay in their very Shops as if it were the Presence-Chamber Query 15. Did not Christ when he Taught his Disciples to pray Mat. 6.9 say After this manner therefore Pray ye Our Father c. And forgive us our Sins as we also forgive them that trespass against us Now such as do not pray after this manner are they not manifest Transgressors of this Precept of our LORD Jesus Christ and found in the steps of the proud Pharisee who thinks himself so righteous as that he need neither make confession of his Sins nor ask forgiveness for Christ Jesus sake in whose Name alone is Remission of Sins Query 16. If you grant that a neglect or Refusal of performing this part of Christian Duty be a sign of a Pharisaical Pride * See my Book Entituled The Quakers detected c. p. 12 13 14. Where I have enlarged upon this their grand Errour To what I have writ in that Book let the Reader observe W. Tindal who says in his Works entituled The Exposition of the 6th Chapter of Matthew pag. 222 223. Because he knoweth that our Nature is so weak and inclinable to Sin therefore he teacheth us daily to repent and daily to ask GOD Forgiveness Seeing He commandeth us to ask we may be bold so to do and to believe He will FORGIVE us No Man therefore needeth to despair I hope they will not rail on this blessed Martyr W. Tindal who suffered in the Flames as Geo. Whitehead did of the Doctrine of Dr. Rob. Barns who called it corrupt Doctrine tending to Ranterism yea sordid Ranterism then I do farther Query What is the Reason that Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead and the rest of their Preachers in their publick Prayers in your Assembly do not pray after the manner that Christ hath prescribed though not in the very Form of Words yet after His Precept so as to confess their Sins to GOD and ask Forgiveness for Christ's sake which they do not Query 17. Seeing Edward Burroughs in his Epistle writ at Dublin To the Camp of the LORD in England p. 2. This is to go amongst Friends printed 1656. says You who are called Quakers above all the Families of the Earth The Tabernacle of GOD is with you and his Dwelling Place is among you And only among you is God known c. Now if so that GOD be known Only by you then the Query is Whether all that be called Quakers know the LORD And whether none but the Quakers know the Lord Answer to this c. The Answer to this Question will resolve Whether Geo. Fox who said in his Book The Great Mystery c. and Solomon Eccles his Affirmation in The Quaker's Challenge pag. 6. that you and you Only are GOD's People I say whether you all be as John Field one of your Preachers says you are of One Mind and Judgment in this and all other Matters Query 18. Whether there did not a strong Delusion enter many about the Year 1659. As that Geo. Fox was inspired with the Gift of Tongues and whether the recited Battledoor and Primer was not the Reason of that Opinion and if it come to be made appear as that it will if he will meet at
the place aforesaid that he is ignorant of the principal things contained in the said Books then whether it will not appear as great a Juggle Trick and Sham to raise his Name and Fame as ever was used by Mahomet or amongst the Papists about their feigned Miracles Query 19. Since they have told us by their Book Judas and the Jews pag. 41. viz. Our faithful Chronicles of the bloody Tragedies of that professing Generation will tell future Ages other things c. What is the reason they do not bring out this their holy Chronicle they so much boast of Or do they intend to follow the Steps of the Papists and bring it forth when every Man is dead that remember those Transactions and that then it may pass for an holy Cheat or like one of their feigned Miracles c. Query 20. Whether do you believe the Teachers and Preachers amongst you be so qualified as they pretend in their Book Judas and the Jews pag. 58. viz. We need none to give us Discerning or Judgment Christ hath furnished us already and doth on all Occasions And as Geo. Fox pretends in his Book styled The Mystery of the great Whore c. pag. 89. where he says They can discern who are Saints who are Deuils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a Word c. I say if you think them so qualified then bid them shew in which of them three States are Geo. Smith Tho. Rudyard Rob. Sandiland and John Tysoe since none need to give them Discerning or Judgment for that they at all Times and on all Occasions are so plentifully endued as to know who are Devils who are Saints and who are Apostates c. And if they fail in their Judgment and chance to call an Apostate a Saint I hope you will then begin to see they are got a good Stride to Rome by their feigned Miracles and pretended Infallibility Query 21. Geo. Fox says in his Book The great Mystery c. The Work of the Ministers of the Gospel was not to reflect upon Persons And this Reflecting upon Persons was never the way to beget to GOD is a Mark of a False Prophet c. Now if this be true what do you think of George Whitehead who in his Letter to me printed in his Judgment fixed c. calls me ten or twelve times Informer when the Name was so odious at that time that in some parts of the Kingdom he that was known to be an Informer could hardly pass without danger of his Life and yet this meek serious and sincere Geo. Whitehead as sometimes he pretends to be had the Impudence thus to call me and expose me in print through the Nation besides abundance of other bad Names as Wolf Dog Beast Child of the Devil Enemy of all Righteousness and the like I say besides these and many more yet Informer was the frequent Epithet he gave me in almost every Page on purpose to inculcate and leaven the People and yet at the same time knew that I was no such manner of Person but had suffered more by Informers * For besides more than three Years Imprisonment for Meetings Isuffered the loss or three Ten Pound Fines for the Non-ability of Geo. Thorowgood at Ely in the Isle of Ely for which they took near Fifty Pounds worth of Goods And a Ten Pound Fine for the Nonability of Ja. Webb And a Fine of Twâ—â—ty Pounds for William Benet having a Meeting at my House besides six or eight small Ten Shilling Fines For all which I made no Complaint But indeed when a Fifteen Pound Fine came on me for Sam. Cater through his not telling his Name and Habitation I was not willing to pay that and I am glad I was not so tame as to be Priest-ridden by S. Cater And for this matter I refer the Reader to my Book entituled The painted Harlot both stripp'd and whipp'd pag. 39. nay the whole Book c. than any one if not all that had wrote against me had done I say if Geo. Fox his Judgment in the place aforesaid be of Credit then I can prove G. W. as false a Propet as Muggleton ever was and I am satisfied a Man full of Malice and Revenge or else he could never have writ so wrongfully of me and others as he hath done Query 22. Whether in your Opinion a Man may not go to the publick Worship established by Law and yet be a Christian and in the state of Salvation I ask you this Question who I hope do not think Salvation entail'd only to you under the Denomination of Quakers as your Leaders have declared Query 23. Whether the treacherous Practice of Geo. Whitehead Sam. Cater c. did not resemble the Practice of Thomas Becket that Popish Prelate in King Henry the Second's Time upon that Popish Principle of not keeping Faith with Hereticks compared with their Practice in not keeping that Covenant and Agreement they both made and recorded in their Quarterly Book at Hadenham in the Isle of Ely the 1st of December 1680. as at large is recited in my Book Painted Harlot c. pag. 51 to 64. And then tell me Query 24. Whether you do not believe that they in the Breach of that their Covenant did not run parallel with the said T. Becket and thereby declare to all the World that even so early they did espouse that grand treacherous Popish Principle of not keeping Faith with such as they account Hereticks Novemb. 25. 1690. Fra. Bugg Put your selves in Array against BABILON round about All ye that bend the Bow shoot at her spare no Arrows The LORD hath opened His ARMORY and hath brought forth the Weapons of his Indignation for this is the Work of the LORD GOD of Hosts A POSTSCRIPT TO New Rome 1. ROME'S SISTER thou art rightly styl'd And with her may compare The Innocent thou hast beguil'd Under Pretences fair 2. Hypocrisie in thee is found Thy Leaven is not good Thy deep Deceit thy Wit profound In which thy Confidence stood 3. Is now come forth to open View That all may plainly see Thy Art thy Craft and well perceive Thy deep Hypocrisie 4. How proud like to the Pharisee Thy Countenance appear And how like to the Romish See Thou dost thy Fabrick rear 5. Thy Errours which but few did see Are now become thy Crime And loaded therewith thou shalt be And that from Time to Time 6. A Crime from which thou can'st not With all thy Subtilty Clear thy self 't is such a Blot That on thy Face doth lie 7. As ROME thy SISTER never had At thy Age charged on her Nor any Crimes half so bad At twice thy Age upon her 8. Though she at length as Age grew on Through her vile Imposition Abhorr'd became and grew a Scorn To ev'ry Christian Nation 9. And dost thou think for to escape With thy UNWRIT TRADITIONS The Stroaks which Protestants do make Against thy Superstitions 10. Against thy Errours and