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A62156	Righteous judgment placed upon the heads of malicious opposers and persecuting apostates in some brief animadversions upon Francis Buggs book, entitled, De Christiana libertate, in which his great weakness and gross wickedness is detected, his foul defamations and uncivil reflections are reprehended : with a seasonable warning to him and the rest of his abettors in their mischievous work of opposition to and separation from, the Lord and his people / by a lover of peace, Robert Sandilands : together with an Ingredient by another hand.	Sandilands, Robert.; Richardson, Richard, 1623?-1689. Another ingredient against the venom in F.B.'s book.	1683 (1683)	Wing S661; ESTC R32326	57,765	142

of the evil of thy doings repent thereof and so obtain Mercy from the God of all Mercy whom thou hast grievously provoked to wrath against thee by the many abusive slanders and unchristian Calumnies reproaching his holy Innocent Heritage But in Case I should not be answered therein and thou rather prove more obstinate perverse and peevish against me and the Lords people and so should take occasion by this to bring forth and Publish to the World more gross lyes impertinent and ridiculous stories or such-like to thy forme I do not intend to take much notice thereof or spend my time so as to enter into a list of Controversie with thee For as I said already it was farr beyond my expectation ever to have been Concerned with thee or any of thy party on this score in these things where there is little or no satisfaction found especially when we have to do with Cross heady and unreasonable brutish Persons And so farr now as I have cleared my Conscience and discharged my Duty I shall enjoy Peace with my God and rest satisfied being singly given up to follow him and honestly to perform that Service he hath allotted for me in my generation and which as most proper for me to attend in that station he shall place me though I should never set Pen to peaper or thus Publicly appear again in these comfortless Contentions and endless debates for I do well understand in my small measure wherein the true Victory is obtained and which I know cannot be by all the blusterings Noises and Clamours of wrong rambling and bragging Spirits detained from such who are kept in a meek quiet harmless and Innocent mind whose Souls are possessed in Patience and whose habitations are preserved in that vertuous Blessed truth in which alone is the true overcoming experienced Everlasting Glory to God on High Amen saith my Soul R. S. ANOTHER INGREDIENT Against The Venom in E. B's Book F. BUGG abetting W. R. c. Like a Conceited man Entitles his Book to the Primitive Discipline but Handles it not but names Evagrius and New Sirnames him Scholasticus as if it were to get himself thereby the opinion of a Schollar And Dedicates his Book to his Honoured Friend H. N. Kt. as writ many years since as if he Honoured Antiquity arguing from it p. 7. If so let him hear the many Authors following many Ages Ancienter disclam the later Author's Error which is also his Author 's which bears its own Evidence of its utmost Age with it The Dutch Wars which it mentions Into whose Errors he leads his Honoured Friend as for his part and his Readers to whom he commends his Book to be read after the Scriptures and Ri. Hub. and F. H s. works p. 215 without any exception caution praemunition or anuotation in his Episile Preface or Margin but owns his judgment as his own in this subject Praef to the 2d part Now Conscience is the Subject of the position that Conscience is free and is not that the Subject of the Book In the beginning whereof he makes the light therein in some at ●ast onely Natural and not Divine Universally in all men Contrary to the Scriptures John 1 9. And makes Conscience at least in some a reflect Act of the Soul Whereas the Scripture saith the Conscience also witnesseth with them Rom. 2 15. and thoughts between themselves accuse or excuse one another Dialogue wise then there must needs be two Diologismos And the word Conscience seemes to be used as it were in the Concrete as they term it that which exercises 2 Pet. 1 4. Jam. 3 4. of God that which is exercised of man as Nature Naturizing the Creator Naturized the creature And Calvin himself though a main man for the Presbyterian Doctrin inclines to the Divinity of the light in men Universally though a little shy of speaking more positively for fear of abuse by Phanaticks as he calls them But to go higher to those Fathers as Clemens Alex. Justin M. and other cited already by our Friends ss by Wm. Pen G. Keith and others of our Friends I hope I may have leave without reflection n = * And let not F. B. swel as raising all the dust because on thewheel For t is to the Reader I bring them whom he seeks to pervert proselyte as Simon did the Deputy make worse than himself Mat. 13. Acts 13. on this occasion to add some other writers I not known or remember have yet observed by others to shew ourjudgment agrees with the ancients though many of late years call it a new light some no mean men as W Prin though it may seem strange that perjudice should so blind such a great Antiquary John Selden the greater if not the greatest of late times is not so blinded but that he both sees and approves the general acknowledgment of the Learned before the year 1400. that the light in the Soul of man Universally is Divine De jure Naturali Gent. lib. 1 cap. 9. As first The Gentiles in whom Paul says that which may be known of God is manifest Epicharmus says mans reason sprung from God which is agreeable to what Paul alledges out of Aratus which reason must be understood of the Divine Reason Acts 17.28 as Justine Martyr Irenaeus and others understand it Logos theos Antoninus Emp says the understanding agent is that which God hath given to every one for a Guide of the Divine Nature So Plato Priscianus Lydus Alexander Aphrodusaeus Marinus Neopolitanus Aristotle Themistius n = * Thought to be about Moses time The Author of Pimander Hermes speaking of Divine Preaching without which men are Ignorant for what they are made and whereby The Antient Hebrews say that the understanding that acts is God and in their later Discipline an intermediate Minister as appears by Maimonides citing their Doctors Shechinah ruahh and that not onely for general principles of good and evil but also for particulars what they are the Conclusions and propositions to be shewen perpetually So the Arabians Avicenno Avorroes Argazel c. say That the understanding that acts is a thing separate by Divine Ordination though they agree not of its degree And that it is not humane form nor a part of it but something more Divine More of the Heathen Arabians John Philoponus hath l. 3. c. 5. de an l. 2 de Intel ag and Albertus Magnus Bonaventure Zabarella and others The contrary opinion That F. Bugg's First part owns his Second disowns not that I find was coming in or growing on about 400 years since Anno 1250. And therefore opposed by the Universities of Oxford and Paris and the Chief in them in those t●mes as Robt. of Lincoln W Avern of Paris Adam de Marisco c. R. Bacon M. S. to P. Clem. 4. c. 28. Cited at large by J. Selden opposes the Modern that said A. 1290. The Agent Intelect was part of the Soul All the Ancients saith he till

a Judas amongst Christs Disciples from the beginning of the Creation since the Lord gather'd a People to himself to this our Day or Age thus to be attended with various deep Exercises by Oppositions Violence and Persocutions from the World on the one hand and by Distraction Discord and Separation on the other hand of those who have appeared as amongst us but were not of us and therefore that they might be made manifest what Bottom and Evil Spirit they were of notwithstanding they lurked under and were cover'd for a time with a Profession of the Way and Holy Truth of God they have gone away from us as the Apostle writ concerning the Antichrists They went out from us but they were not of us and the Reason he gives is clear For says he if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us But they went out to what end That they might be made manifest that they were not all of us 1 John 2.19 We may observe the Church of Christ in his time was then sadly troubled with these Antichrists such as rose up in Appearance for Christ against Christ in opposing the Blessed Divine Manifestations of his Spirit through the Members of his Church And I remember he makes particular mention of one Diotrephes who it seems as many like unto him in our day following his very foot-steps Ioved to have the preheminence and who prated against them with malicious Words and good Paul was he not very sensible in fore-seeing that this would attend the Churches and therefore forewarned them thereof in his farewel to the Elders of Ephesus Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the Flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers for I know this that after my departing shall grievous Wolves under the form or appearance its like of Lambs not sparing the Flock also of your own selves shall Men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them Acts 20.25 26 c. And in his Salutation to the Romans Chap. 16. v. 17. saith Now I beseech you Brethren mark them which cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrine which you have learned and avoid them So that we may clearly perceive it is no new or strange thing that hath happened to be our sad Exercise as indeed I do look upon it to be the most grievous of all the Exercises that could have befallen us I mean as with respect of the Body of Friends And now amongst many of the chief Agents of Cruelty Slander and Envy whom the Devil that great Enemy to the Peace of Christs Church hath made use of and this pernicious work of opposition to and seperation from the good Order and wholesome Discipline thereof I find lately one called Francis Bugg in Aragon a proud self-conceited person and yet as confused and malicious as any which I hope anon to Evince by some brief Animadversions on the Second Part of his Book called De Christiana Libertate the first part only relating to Liberty of Conscience none of his Work but by a nameless Author So far now as I feel my self concern'd for the Truths sake and the vindication thereof to give forth my Testimony as well against the great weakness as the gross wickedness of this Hellish dark piece of deceitful work of Envy and Folly and to detect his groundless Suggestings unchristian Reflections and uncivil Informations not at all designing thereby to undertake the Answering of every particular passage that hath relatition to particular persons ingaged in the differences betwixt our Friends and the separate party for that would be a work both more tedious and also would require more pains then at present I can take to undertake the same which I leave to them as they find themselves concerned in Truth to take notice of my present work then only is to make some shor Observations of that which in General I am concerned with and lies most obvious in my view Righteous Judgment placed upon the Heads of our Malicious Opposers CHAP. I. HAving perused the Second Part of Francis Bugg's Book he miscalls De Christiana Libertate I do not so much as find any one page or passage to have the least resemblance of I doubt very much whether he knows what the true Chrsstian liberty means or Relation to Christian Liberty in a true and proper sense I mean what he has wrote himself and not what is Transcribed from other Authors abstracting which there will be but a small parcel of his remaining Besides thou may take notice of the Pride and Self-conceitedness of this vain Man who gives his Book a Latin Title which signifies no more in Latin then in English and has no more Emphasis nor Authority in it therefore only useful for Vain Ostentation especially considering that the Book it self is no ways correspondent to the Title In his Epistle page 4. He alledges two principal Reasons why we look upon him and his Adherents to be no Quakers or consequently as he says no Christians First He says Our Non-submission and Non-conformity to the New Order of the Women He begins thus in his flouting Airy mind And Secondly That their way of compelling and Antichristian way of proceeding to bring to and force Vniformity is by us slighted and contemn'd Answer But we know right well there is a Third and a more weighty Reason than either of these and that is We have a certain inward sense and sure discerning from the Infallible Spirit of Truth which I know they will not regard or admit of that the wrong wicked perverse Spirit hath entered into them and thereby are Adulterated in these minds from the blessed pure Spirit of Christ Iesus and departed from the Truth in the inward parts whereby they are degenerated and were so in their Spirits before ever they durst publickly appear in this treacherous work of Separation and before it wa● so notorious as it is now And so they having Apostatized from the Truth and the living Vertue and sensible Operation and Experience of the Life thereof firs● in their own particulars thus They and not We have rendred themselves n●● Quakers or no Christians For we never concluded any person to be truly a Christian simply because of his outward Conformity to the Profession of Truth and because of his Submission to the Holy and Decent Order of Christs Church in respect there is nothing visible can rightly constitute and properly denominate any Man or Woman True Christians in the sight of God who regards more the inward bent frame and disposition of the Minds of People than their outward appearance however glorious it may be and therefore it is of absolute necessity that their hearts and spirits be uprightly stated in his sight if ever they attain to the Nature of true Christianity Now though it be confest that many outwardly may appear in the view of others for a time seemingly strict and serious in their Conversations

the Heavenly Government of Christ established in and amongst his People and what Spirit it is that drives and hurries them on joyned thereunto no doubt but that it is a murdering one even that of Cain and that of Rabshakeh notwithstanding its fair pretences as if it were for Liberty of Conscience against Impositions Prescriptions and Innovations of Men and so seem to be for the Lord as he pretended Am I now come saith he without the Lord against this place to destroy it The Lord said to me here was a great boast Go up against this Land and destroy it c. Yet good Hezekias said This is a day of Trouble of Rebuke of Blasphemy when the King of Assyria had sent this Rabshakeh to reproach the living God c. 2 Kings 18.25.19.3 which would not only be contented to stain our Reputations amongst sober people but also labours by these indirect means that we might be in hazard of being deprived both of our Lives and Estates in falsly and most maliciously rendring of us as Papists Apostates Innovators and Imposers Well Francis we leave the God of Heaven to reckon with thee for all thy Hellish Lies Slanders and Insinuations and we desire thou may'st find a place of Repentance In thy 7th Chap p. 128. I find little of weight in it to be noticed by me in respect that the substance of the matter therein contained for the most part relates to particular persons by Epistles c. Onely amongst some of thy Queries I shall observe thy 6th in p. 158. wherein thou asks Whether it be not a Popish Tenet to cry down Wisdom and to say that Wisdom will destroy us as it is usual with you to say And then comparing us with the Papists goes on for the Papists can not how foolish the common people are not how much in Ignorance it being as they say the Mother of Devotion they educate them provided their Ministers an● Jesuits be very expert and able to defen● their way of Worship and heap of Ceremonies And when do any that Write or Dispute to defend our way of Worship Obs It s well known how great Fools and Ideots the blind World hath accounted and reckoned us to be in our Speaking or Writing to defend the true VVay and VVorship c. Write on Speak like Fools except they can neithe● Write nor Speak other ways And why do yo● cry out against Wisdom upon every occasion as if Ignorance were become our only Darling Thus far F. B. in his Query And his Answer is with the words of W. P's Address to Protestants p. 187. end as he abuses this passage with many others in his Book perverting them by misapplications to a wrong use never I know intended by the Author to gratifie this evil malicious Spirit and its a pity that such a good Book that has been of so great a Service should be thus abused and I cannot pass by but desire VV. P. may take notice of this twofold Practice of this deceitful hypocritical Person who sometimes seems to admire and fawn upon him when he expresses himself thus in p. 133. Now let us a little Animadvert upon this Noblemans words viz. VV. P 's and yet at other times seems basely to abuse and indirectly Reflects upon him as in p. 145. saying to VV. P. That they may not look one way and row another a thing some suspect may be thy self as ready as any for all thou seems to be clear of such a suspicion by thy disputing on G. F's part c. But as to what the Queries say VVhy do we cry out against VVisdom on every occasion c. he either is a very Ignoramus of that Wisdom against which we do thus cry otherwise he would not impose such an impertinent Query or else it s from a malicious premeditated Design contrived from his carnal fleshly Wisdom as I rather judge to amuse simple people and beget a wrong Apprehension in their Minds of our oneness with the Papists in this point For it s well known that we never denied that Wisdom and Understanding which cometh down from above that 's heavenly pure peaceable and gentle easie to be intreated wherewith God endows his people to discern and see over all bad dark and opposite Spirits in all their twinings and twistings from the earthly carnal Wisdom that 's from below devilish and sensual which hath begot in the hearts of those who are led by it bitter envy and strife and as the Apostle said Where this is as we may observe by daily experience on every hand Confusion and every evil work is amongst them Our Testimony stands against this sort of Natural Wisdom unsubjected to the holy divine power and therefore hear what the Wise Man saith unto thee who cries up so much the same Cease from thy own Wisdom Pro. 23.4 and see how much the Apostle speaks against this Wisdom Citing the Prophets words Isa 29.14 For it is written I will destroy the Wisdom of the Wise c. and where is the Wise the Scribe the Disputer of this World Hath not God made foolish the Wisdom thereof and the World by Wisdom knew not God 1 Cor. 1. nor to this day doth the World by its Wisdom know him and Brethren ye see your Calling how that not many Wise men after the Flesh are called But we know that there is a Divine Understanding and heavenly Wisdom better than strength and better than Weapons and it is the lowly that feels this Wisdom to abide in and remain with them and blessed be the Lord there are a remnant who have supplicated before him not for Riches Honour Wealth nor Long life but with the Wise King Give us Wisdom and Knowledg and he hath granted this our Request O magnified be his most Holy Reverend Name for ever and for evermore In p. 211. he brings in another business concerning the Order of Barbadoes which VV. R. makes a great noise about in his bustling bulksome Book that 's a heap of Lies and Consusion but they have no such reason considering in the first place that if they did that which was not agreeable to Truth should be a just occasion to impeach a Body of people as guilty thereof I desire they may learn better the right Rule of Reasoning of Matters for any person of small judgment may conceive it were unreasonable to conclude because that F. B. may be of such a heady wilful cross perverse Nature or that W. R. may be of such a high self-conceited violent opposite Spirit therefore that all who are inclinable to follow or favour him a little in his Cursed Work of Division are so malicious and envious c. as he or F. B. are And Secondly I believe Friends at London have disproved in that particular aforesaid But Lastly If those belonging to that Meeting were all contented with and gave their consents to that Order from divers Considerations inducing them thereto here I think then was