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A27230	A brief discovery of some of the blasphemous and seditious principles and practices of the people called Quakers taken out of their most noted and approved authors, humbly offered to the consideration of the King and both houses of Parliament / by Edward Beckham ... Hen. Meriton ... Lancaster Topcliffe ..., Norfolk.	Beckham, Edward, 1637 or 8-1714.; Meriton, Henry, d. 1707.; Topcliffe, Lancaster, 1646 or 7-1720.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1652; ESTC R18109	27,538	34

just that any should Charge them Condemn and Consure them 2 dly They exhort To do to others as they would that others should do to them 3 dly p. 5. We say they pray for all Men for Kings and all that are in Authority 4 thly p. 7. We say the Quakers have and always had a high Value for the Scriptures above all other Book● 5 thly p. 1. They i. e. Clergy Incense those in Authority against this Innocent People i. e. Quakers that the Monster of Persecution might be again raised to Suppress them c. Ans As to the First Would the Clergy account it just to Charge and Condemn them c. Just or unjust they are both Charged and Condemned at the Quakers Bar as above quoted yea and in Smith's Works p. 157 161. the Quakers Dialogu'd the Bishops and summon'd all Ecclesiastical Courts and Officers and not only by their Authority Condemn them but call the Bishops Monsters and into the Bargain say The Book of Common-Prayer is conceived by an Adulterous Womb and that it receives its Strength from the Pope's Loins And 2 dly That therein you Quakers do not do as you would be done by and therein gross Hypocrites and Dissemblers with God and Man But 3 dly your Pretence to pray for all Men for Kings c. This is so False and Falacious that I challenge the whole World to produce one Instance of your praying for King William or any King save once at a Meeting at Milden-Hall where Sam. Cater prayed for the late K. J. II. and how should you be found in that Practice since all Kings with you are but Spiritual Egyptians by your Ancient Testimony from which you have not deviated in one Point But your Principles the same they ever were tho' as Whitehead says You can now word the Matter otherwise 4thly That you value the Scriptures above any Books in the World This is false with a witness when you in Print tell us We may as well burn the Bible as your Writings see p. 9. herein calling the Scriptures Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware and that Preaching out of them is Conjuration And G. Whitehead tells us in his Book Truth defending the Quakers c. p. 7. That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of greater Authority than the Bible And many of your Books nay even that are said to be given forth from the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost and spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. How then do you value the Bible above all Books in the World But as Solomon said Prov. 26.3 A Whip for the Horse a Bridle for the Ass and a Rod for the Fools Back and so you must give me leave to whip this John Feild for his deep Hypocrisie and Deceit and I wish it may do him Good What! to pretend that the Quak●rs value the Bible above all Books then consequently above their own This is such a Lie that it stabs it self when you exalt and value your own as of greater Authority and are commanded by your Teachers to read them in your Meetings and never read a Chapter of the Old and New Testament in your Religious Meetings if such I may call them since you were a People neither is it agreeable to your Ancient Testimony Nay I am perswaded that should the Government think fit for a Proof of your Sincerity herein to injoin you to read a Chapter of the Bible at the beginning of your Meeting I mean by such of your Teachers as can read a Chapter you would be so far from submitting to Authority that they 'd first go to Jayl and then call it Persecution and record it to Posterity But would it therefore ever the more be Persecution I trow not since it was the Practice of Jewish as well as the Christian Church in all Ages of the World But 5 thly and lastly That the Petitioners would Incense these in Authority to raise that Monster Persecution upon you Now tho' I do profess my self a Member of the Church of England I have often and do now again tell you that I am against Persecution and will add that Persecution for the Name of Jesus or for Righteousness sake is a Badge of a false Church of which your Schism in Pensilvania has given a Demonstration And had you Power in your Hand which God grant you may not I doubt not but we should soon feel your little Finger as heavy as ever you felt a Parliaments Loins Witness your Indicting me for Printing unlicenced your own frequent Practice at that time and your Persecuting of G. Keith c. in Pensilvania but I hope all Suffering is not Persecution Shall Men fire House and poyson Rivers and not be Controuled Limited nay Punished if they will follow their own Light blind Zeal and Imaginations In like manner such as poyson the Streams of the Christian Religion subvert the Faith undermine Christianity broach and maintain Heretical Opinions and Damnable Errors even denying the Lord that bought them as you have in Print which I take to be a Fundamental Error and by me proved upon you I hope then it will not be raising Persecution to have you examined about these things which is the main thing you fear whilst you make the World believe you fear Persecution Thus referring J●… F●ild to my former Books I subscribe my self the Quakers Friend tho' I tell them the Truth Francis Bugg Feb. 18. 1698. FINIS

Fisher and many more Altho' none before so much for it as they The aforesaid Sam. Fisher in his Works Printed 1656. and Reprinted 1679. and recommended to the World amongst others by William Penn who tells us That these things came not to him by Flesh and Blood but by the Revelation of the Father of Lights And thus the said Sam. Fisher speaks in a Message from the Lord to O. Cromwell and the Parliament of England p. 19 20. ' I will hold my Peace NOW no longer saith the Lord as concerning this Evil which they so profanely Commit and Do Daily against my Chosen but will utterly SVBVERT and OVERTVRN them and bring the Kingdoms and Dominions and the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven into the Hands of the HOLY ONES of the most High and give unto my Son and his Saints to Reign over all the Earth and take all the Rule and Authority and Power that shall stand up against my Son in his Saints And I will put my High Praises into their Mouth and a Two Edged SWORD into their Hands and they shall Execute Vengeance upon the Heathen and Punishments upon the People and shall bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in Fetters of Iron and Execute upon them the Judgment that is written in my Eternal Decree and unchangeable Council saith the Lord. Given forth under my Hand as the Lord himself gave it into my Heart to see and into my Mouth to speak in part and unto my Hand thus at large to write it this Twenty fifth Day of the snme Month viz. the Seventh 1656. Samuel Fisher ' Witness also the Quakers Declaration to Oliver viz. Oh! Oliver arise and come out for thou hast had Authority stand to it Nor let any other take thy Crown And let thy Soldiers go forth with a free and willing Heart that thou mayest Rock Nations as a Cradle This is a Charge to thee in the presence of the Lord God Also Geo. Roffe in his Book Intituled The Righteousness of God c. Printed p. 11. hath these words 'To thee Oliv. Cromwell thus saith the Lord I have Chosen thee amongst the Thousands of the Nations to Execute my Wrath upon mine Enemies and gave them to thy Sword with which I fought for the Zeal of my own Name and gave thee the Enemies of my own Seed to be a Curse and a Reproach for ever and made thee an Instrument against them and many have I Cut down by my Sword in thy Hand that my wrath might be Executed upon them to the Uttermost ' Subscribed Geo. Roffe And Geo. Fox in his Letter directed to the Council of Officers of the Army 1659 c. Complains of many Quakers Disbanded out of the Army as well as Justices of the Peace in these words p. 5. ' And many Valiant Captains Soldiers and Officers have been put out of the Army by Sea and Land of whom it hath been said among you that they had rather have had one of them than Seven Men and could have turned one of them to Seven Men who because of their Faithfulness to the Lord God being Faithful towards him it may be for saying Thou to a particular and for Wearing their Hats have been turned out from amongst them ' And may Reassume it again when they shall judge it meet As appears to us by a Declaration wrote by Edw. Bur. in the Name of all the Quakers and Subscribed by several of the Principal Leaders of them Printed 1659. p. 8. They speak thus ' We are Dreadful to the Wicked and must be their Fear for we have Chosen the Son of God to be our King and he hath Chosen us to be his People and he might Command Thousands and Ten Thousands of his Saints at this Day to FIGHT in his Cause he might lead them forth and bring them in and give them Victory over all their Enemies and turn his Hand upon all their Persecutors ' But say they p. 9. ' We cannot YET believe that he will make use of us IN THAT WAY tho' it be his only Right to Rule in Nations and OUR HEIRSHIP to possess the uttermost parts of the Earth but for the PRESENT we are given up to Bear and Suffer ' 11. They have a Goverment within the Government Independent from it and Opposite to it First their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings which are after the mannerof the Justices Monthly Meetings and Quarterly Sessi●…s in the Country which are Subordinate to the Yearly Meeting which Yearly Meeting consists of Deputies from all the Counties in England and Wales as well as Agents from beyo●d the Sea and it their Supreme Assembly which gives Laws to the whole Body of the Quakers wheresoever they are And there they make their Orders for the Government of their People For Suppressing of any Books wrote against them and pass Censure upon Offenders And there also they take an account of their Fund which is raised by an Order of this Yearly Meeting in all the Counties of England and Wales by way of Collection And the Money when Collected is Transmitted to London and lodged in the hands of Six Feoffees who as to the Disposal thereof are to be Governed by the Second Day Meeting held on every Monday throughout the Year which Money is for divers uses viz. Stipends for their Teachers Wages for their Clerks Attendants upon the Houses of Parliament For Printing and Dispersing of their Books For the Maintenance of the Poor For the Relief of such as have suffered for Non-payment of Tythes and the Breach of other Laws and for several other things tending to the Propagating of their Doctrines and Supporting of their Government Mr. Bugg's Pilgrims Progress Chapters 7 8 9 10 11 give an Account of their several Meetings and of their Fund Exchequer or Common Bank Mr. Keith who has been a Quaker above Thirty Years in his Second Narrative p. 5. says I am not able to Print Books as they Quakers can they are many and have a Common Stock I am but one And in his Book called The Pretended Yearly Meeting of the Quakers their Nameless Bull of Excommunication given forth against him c. Printed 1695. p. 5. speaks thus 'To my certain Knowledge and Observation I saw the Door of the Meeting where that called the Yearly Meeting Sat kept by Three or Four Persons that Refused to let in some that desired to come in and yet were owned by them And it is sufficiently known they who keep the Door let in or keep out such as they think fit But again such as they let in if they be not of the Ministry nor any of the Two Chosen out of every County they are allowed only to be there as Standers By and Spectators but have no allowance to give any Judgment in the Case which hath been a discouragement to some honest Friends owned by the Yearly Meeting as Friends from coming to the Meeting being only permitted to