Innocency Triumphant OVER Insolency and Outrage OF A Self-Condemn'd APOSTATE IN ANSWER To Francis Bugg's most Abusive and Scandalous Book falsly Stiled New Rome Arraigned c. AND In Defence of the Christian Testimony of G. Whitehead and Eleven Witnesses against the great Defamation of Perjury and Pillory unjustly cast upon them by the said F. B. His Mischief shall return upon his own Head London Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1693. INTRODUCTION Our Christian Testimony reassum'd in the Affirmative TO all Christian Sober Impartial and Judicious People to whom these Presents shall come Salutation in the Love and Good Will of the only true God and his dear Son Jesus Christ whom he hath sent To prevent Mistake and remove Misrepresentation in the Matters following these are sincerely to Testifie and Declare That I. We sincerely own profess and confess Jesus to be the Christ even the same Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary at Bethlehem in Judaea Matth. 2. suffered Death upon the Cross without the Gates of Jerusalem was quickned and raised again by the Power of God and ascended into Heaven and Glory according to the Scriptures II. We give Witness only to this Christ as being the very Christ the only Begotten Son of God and confess both his Coming in the Flesh and in the Spirit according to holy Scripture-Testimony III. Though this Christ the only begotten Son of God took Flesh and came of the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh and suffered death in the Flesh yet his Flesh or Body prepared for him did not see Corruption it did not corrupt but was raised again from the dead consequently did not perish nor is his Body of a perishing Nature but a glorified Body like unto which we believe our's shall be changed and fashioned Phil. 3. IV. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament namely the holy Doctrine and divine Precepts therein were first given by divine Inspiration as we have confessed unto Authority and in no wise to be contemn'd but seriously read believed and fulfilled as the Spirit of the Lord giveth Vnderstanding and Ability being the Life of the Scripture and without which the meer Letter and all Preaching therefrom in Man's Will is dead and ineffectual V. The Protestant Religion considered in the primitive Purity of it in opposition to Popery and all sincere Protestants who desire a clear and thorow Reformation from all Idolatry and Superstition we have a tender Respect to them and sincerely desire that the holy Scripture and the Gospel Ministry true Worship Prayer Obedience of Faith and Christianity in its purity may be promoted grow and increase in Spirit Life and Power among Christians VI. The divine Precepts and Doctrine contain'd in the holy Scriptures we must needs believe to be Holy and Blessed not only because they proceed from the holy Spirit but also because they require Holiness and Righteousness in Life and Practice under the several Dispensations of God to Mankind VII We own no such Saying as that the holy Doctrine or divine Precepts of Scripture is either Dust Death or the Serpents Meat but truly profitable to us by the Assistance of God's Holy Spirit given to us although the false Prophets Preaching was but compared to the Chaff or Husk when they stole even the words of the true Jer. 23. And Men of corrupt minds by perverting the holy Scriptures and Preaching in their earthly Wisdom from the Letter and not from the Spirit of Christ do bring Darkness and Death over many and also strengthen the hands of evil Doers that they may not forsake their Sins whereby the Serpent the Enemy of the Soul is gratified and many led captivate at his will when indulg'd and sooth'd up in their sins by such literal and lifeless Preachers as pervert the holy Scriptures to ther own and others Destruction VIII The promised Messiah of whom the holy Prophets give witness is the very Christ of God even that Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin who in the fulness of time came in the Flesh and was made like unto us in all things sin only excepted as the Scripture testifies Yet IX The glorious Body of Christ is not now like ours nor of an Earthy perishing Nature but Heavenly Spiritual and most Glorious far excelling all Terrestrial Bodies X. Our Ministers do not Teach that the Name of Jesus and Christ belong to every Member in the Body or Church as amply as to Christ the Head but that the Divine Anointing to which the Name Christ hath relation virtually is in some Measure or Degree afforded to every Member of his Body but not so amply as to Him the Head nor for any Member to be called Christ but a Christian because Christ received the Anointing the Holy Spirit not by Measure but in Fulness and because he is the Head of the Body the Church XI 'T is really contrary to our Faith and Principle to make Christ Jesus himself only a Figure a Vail or Garment He being the Substance and end of all Figures Types and Shadows yet his Flesh was call'd the Vail Heb. 10. and he took upon him the Form of a Servant and was made like unto Men and was found in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shape or Figure of a Man Phil. 2.6 7. XII F. Bugg's pretended Examination Tryal and Conviction of Perjury against G. Whitehead and Eleven Witnesses and saying that for the same they are put in the Pillory We sincerely and solemnly Testifie against it all as a great Lye Scandal and Defamation and as a piece of Mockery Romantick Forgery and Fools Tragedy contrived by the said F. B. to render them Odious and Ridiculous and that no such Examination Tryal Conviction or Penalty was ever really Acted or Inflicted on G. W. or the Witnesses aforesaid Writ in the behalf of Truth and it's Friends concerned and hereafter mentioned By G. Whitehead I. The Testimony of the Twelve Witnesses against Fr. Bugg's great Abuse reassum'd and enlarg'd in the Negative or Denial of his false Charge and Perversions WE whose Names are hereunto Subscrib'd in behalf of our selves and of the Christian Society and People commonly called Quakers to whom we belong do sincerely and solemnly and in the Fear of God testifie and declare That Francis Bugg in his late great Book stiled New Rome Vnmask'd hath most injuriously and falsly Accused and Charg'd the said People and their Ministers as followeth I. With denying Christ Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem rose again and ascended into Heaven c. And that they believe and say That they cannot call Him Christ Chap. 3. p. 16. and Epistle to Bereans P. 2. of his New Rome Unmask'd II. That the Quakers Prophets give witness to G. Fox INSTEAD of this Christ that they call Him G. F. the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness and put the North of England for the Town of
for whom the Body was prepared It was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh but the Word Joh. 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 Doctrin herein See 1 Joh. 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. 45. 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 is was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh is Anti-Christian Anti-Apostolical and contradictory to the said Martyr 's Doctrine Note His accusing us That we own no other Christ than He that appeared in the body Introd p. 5. 'T is well he grants we own that Christ what other Christ would he have us own For his Light Spirit Heavenly Treasure that we have in our earthen Vessels is neither any dividing of Christ nor any other Christ but of the same Christ Jesus who came in the Flesh was born of the Virgin Mary c. and spiritually manifested and partaken of in his Saints in Measure by his Grace and good Spirit where the Spirit of Christ is there is Christ. I observe that much of F. B's former Book is reprinted in this at which rate 't is an easie matter to make Books to print and reprint the same things over and over again and when Answered as in my Charitable Essay instead of Replication to impose the same things refuted over and over again And this is F. B's manner of troubling the World with his Impertinent Scribbles and Scandalous Books tending to divide and make discord Sedition and Strife among the People as may be easily made appear that the very Nature and Tendency of them is Seditious to cause Discord most falsly to render the People commonly called Quakers Obnoxious and so much Popish as Rome's Sister New Rome Babylon the Whore a Cage of unclean Birds among whom he has croswise plac'd the names of many honest Men far more Righteous and clean than himself in the Figure or Form of a Cage p. 50. maliciously invented by him as his Pillory is to Reproach and Scandalize Men fearing God and of good Repute and Esteem in their day as G. Fox John Audland Francis Howgil Samuel Fisher Edward Burroughs Jo. Blaykling Isaac Pennington Richard Hubberthorn Stephen Crisp William Gibson John Whitehead and others having in all to the number of Thirty Four Persons names in his Cage Thus he can Pillory Stage and Cage-Men at his pleasure to defame and scandalize them His Accusation that the Quakers insinuate in a Book called The Quakers Refuge That what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true p. 47. We disown these Expressions as laid down and I think they are not duly Inferr'd from the said Book questioning Whether some Words in theirs were not spoken by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by good Men ill Expressed some by false Prophets and yet true some by true Prophets and yet false or rather mistakes yet this questioned but of some words in Scripture not all as what the true or false Prophets spake as he states it in his New Rome Vnmask'd p. 23. Of the false Ministry Introd p. 9. He is offended at some of our Friends formerly calling them The Priests of the World Conjurers raising dead Doctrines out of the Letter Theives Robbers Anti-Christs ravening Woolves greedy Doggs c. Introd p. 9. But who were these names given to Not to all other Ministers in general that are not of us or not in outward Society with us Who to then F. B. Answers They i. e. Quakers give them generally to all the false Ministry Apol. Introd p. 10. And why is he offended then Have our Friends wrong'd the false Ministry therein What need he be so much concern'd for the false Ministry But he Objects They account none true Ministers but themselves which is not true There were sincere and true Ministers under several Dispensations as among the Puritans Protestant Martyrs and others according to what the Lord had made known to them And there are divers true in Words who have a Zeal of God in some measure but too many who Preach true and good words live bad lives But F. B. it seems is rather willing to rake up the Characters given of the false Ministry against us than to answer what he calls our false Glosses Evasions and subtil Turnings Ibid. p. 12. which appears to be his Evasion and Shuffle when he cannot answer my Arguments but is put to a Ne plus ultra then he rambles rakes up picks and reiterates Stories scraps and broken Sentences and pieces out of old Books and so patches up his Dirty and Scurrilous Books against us and then gives us all the ill names he can and cries out against us as New Rome Impudence Impudent Impostors Cowards cunning Sophisters Jugglings Legerdemean a pack of false Witnesses and Perjur'd Persons And saith Surely Simon Magus never exceeded these Impostors Act. 8. Introd p. 11.15.18.47 Thus his great Outrage and Implacable Malice appears And like a furious Incendiary to blow up the Fire of Contention and Persecution again and to incense the Government and Magistrates against us he does not only call us New Rome Rome's Sister comparing us with the Papists as coming not one jot behind them but harmonising with them Ep. Ded. p. 3.4 and most unjustly accusing the Quakers with condemning the Protestant Religion in general terms Ibid. and with accounting Magistracy a cumbersome Tree that must be cut down and our Principles he maliciously accuseth as both Anti-Magistratical and Anti-Monarchical Ep. to Bereans p. 12 13. How much resembling an Incendiary and Seditious Writer hath our Apostate Adversary appeared in these Invectives against a peaceable People fearing God and by his Divine Providence recogniz'd by the Government as Protestants also Though this Incendiary will needs have us Papists But pray does he therein befriend the Protestant interest or Government either By thus magnifying or
falsly Greatening the Popish Interest as in and by a People who are wholly averse to Popery Let the wisest in Heart and impartial Judge the Nature and tendency of this Adversaries work of Division and Discord and whether it will excuse him therein to shelter and shroud himself in the Church of England and to assume the Testimonies of Protestant Martyrs and Authors for his cover and Authority Also he might have been so discreet as not to question nor upbraid us about paying Ten Pounds c. towards carrying on a Vigorous War against the French King because scrupling to pay 2 d. or 4 d. towards the Militia-Arms accusing us with deluding the World p. 65. and 49. He might in prudence have considered how far this may affect the Government under which we live and Charitably have excused those who conscientiously scrupling actively to raise or bear Arms yet in a sense quietly pay the penalty by patiently suffering distress Christ and his Servants of old would not Fight yet payed Tribute to Caesar. Because of our Solemnly declaring to the King and Parliament that we believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given forth by Divine Inspiration and that they have accepted this our Declaration F. Bugg thus grosly reflects upon us viz. The more shame for you to be so deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your belief p. 40. further That this we pretended to the Parliament to serve a Turn p. 24. Pray observe the horrid Envy and Insolency of this Incendiary herein and not only the reproach he casts upon us but what reflection upon the Civil Government as if the same were deceived and cheated by us and thereupon granted us our Liberty O horrible Mischievous and deadly Malice What will nothing less satiate his Fury but our Destruction by Persecution again Oh! O thou Backslider and malicious Man the Lord rebuke thy envious Spirit thy deadly Hatred and Outrage And he will signally rebuke thee I doubt not And moreover thou F. B. hast no great cause to boast nor thy Priests to glory in thy Conversion to the Church of England from the People called Quakers with whom thou wast conversant for twenty five Years as thou pretendest if such thy Conversion was a being Sold into Aegypt as thou hast granted in thy Pamphlet Stiled The Quakers detected p. 8. by thy applying to thy self Joseph's words Gen. 50.20 and Chap. 45.5 on which thou sayest thou canst say as Joseph did to his Brethren viz. But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good Now therefore be not grieved nor angry with your selves that you Sold me hither Didst not think this Applicable to thy Condition If thou didst then where art thou now but in Aegypt But we Sold thee not thither thou art gone down into Aegypt for help and therefore art not a Joseph who trusted in and feared the living God And woe is to them that go down into Aegypt for help Art not thou rather like Judas turn'd to the Priests to betray and persecute the Innocent and to gratifie them that hate us with thy refuge of Lies and Calumnies Even against Innocent People unto whose Principle Foundation Doctrine Ministry Faith Love Unity Spiritual Testimony and as being the Church of Christ Jesus Thou hast made large and solemn Confession both sometime before thou quite left us in thy Book De Christina Libertate Printed 1682 Chap. 1. p. 24 25 26 27 c. as also in thy said Quakers Detected Printed in the Year 1686. about two Years after thy Conformity to the Church of England wherein thou hast given large Testimony to the Truth of our Principle and high Commendations of the People called Quakers their Doctrine and Ministry as in the beginning even as being a Dispensation of the Love of God sent as a Visitation to Mankind together with their Christian Society love unfeigned and blessed Estate for many Years and how God blessed their Meetings with the comfortable Enjoyments of his Presence as may be seen more at large in the said Quakers Detected Insomuch that thy Self-condemned Back-sliding Apostacy and Envy against God's People and Heritage is the more apparent in thy now exclaiming against us for dangerous Errors pernicious Principles Blasphemies Heresies Impostures and saying thou wast more than 25 Years a Member of their Society meaning the Quakers being carried away with their Dissimulation see Title Page of thy New Rome Arraigned thus self condemn'd and self-contradictory thou art And I cannot rationally Perceive how F. B. can warrantably excuse himself by pretending the Approbation of his Minister Isaac Archer for the Substance of his Book or the Approbation of another Divine of the Church of England as he calls them and of Letters both from Conforming and Non-Conforming Ministers which he pretends brevity constrains him not to recite Epist. to Bereans p. 12. 1. As to Isaac Archer's Approbation F. B. saith he recites only an Abridgment thereof viz. I do own the substance of this Book as a defence of those Eternal Truths by which I hope for Salvation c. But why did not F. Bugg recite the whole Was he so tied up to brevity in this concern that he allowed his Teacher no more room in a Book of ten or eleven Sheets But it was very warily done of Isaac Archer to own the substance of F. B's Book that is so much of it as he esteems to be in defence of those Eternal Truths by which he hopes to be Saved that is so much of it as is Scriptural in behalf of Jesus Christ. But this will not Excuse nor Warrant those circumstantial passages of F. B's in his Book which consists of Perversions Railery and false Accusions and of his Errors justly Inverted upon him in my Charitable Essay 2. That Divine of the Church of England so called who gave his Approbation of F. B's Book as a most acceptable peice of Service to his Country in unvailing the falshoods errors and hippocrisies of the Quakers as he saith pray what is his name Why does not he appear and make proof of F. B's malicious confused Work against the Quakers He may be ashamed of such his Approbation if any such pretended Divine did give such Approbation 3. And if F. B. has Letters by him of the same Import both from Conforming and Non-Conforming Ministers what are their names and why do not they appear I am perswaded many of their Brethren would be greatly ashamed of such their Approbation upon serious perusal of F. Bugg's bitter Invectives and our Answers and see that all such Approbations will be of no Reputation or Honour either to Conforming or Non-conforming Ministers As to Bugg's comparing the People called Quakers with the Papists as he has frequently done he has fairly contradicted himself therein by quoting W. P's Caveat against Popery saying Let them renounce their Errors c. And what follows but Therefore the People called Quakers are no
Detractions What horrid Hipocrisie Insolency and Self-contradiction is this Can he rationally suppose that such his foul Defamations and Detractions may not affect both Religion Persons and Imployments of those Men he has thus most Injuriously treated And can he think himself secure from having his Insolency therein in time further take notice of Though some among us be loath to be Vindicative upon him according to his Demerits especially for the sake of his honest afflicted Wife Yet I would advise him if he be not past it not to be so fool-hardy for the future nor to Act any more Fools Tragedies to Reproach and Scandalize others THE Self-Condemn'd APOSATE OR Francis Bugg AGAINST FRANCIS BUGG In His Apparent Contradictions His Confession in his own Words F. B 's New Rome Arraign'd p. 45. and they i. e. the Quakers often as a Decoy false by the way Exorted us to obey the Light the Spirit of God in our Hearts and to observe the dictates of our Consciences to abstain from Evil and pursue what was Good and to follow the Leadings and Guidance of the Light within which was sufficient to lead unto Salvation c. And this being a general Truth and a Duty upon all Christians and no less than the publick Ministry does yea and ought to exhort to His Opposition with Additional Notes inclosed in Square Parentheses from his Confession F. B's New Rome Arraigned p. 68. For as it is false Doctrine to Teach that the Light being obeyed is sufficient to lead to Salvation for then your Obedience is meritorious and Christ Dyed in vain Observ. If the Light within followed be sufficient to lead to Salvation and this true Doctrine then 't is not false Doctrine too that the Light within being obeyed is sufficient to lead to Salvation neither does it invalidate Christ's Death Merits or Deservings for Man to follow and obey his Light within to lead to Christ who is Gods Salvation to the ends of the Earth For Christ deserves to be Obeyed and 't is our Duty and without believing in his Light there is no Salvation received from him F. B's One blow more p. 5. Artic. 3. In the Beginning G. Whitehead and many others came through the Countrey in plain Habit walking on Foot content with Mean Accommodation Apt to Teach Not given to filthy Lucre often Visiting the Sick the Poor as well the Rich Working often on their Trades that they might not be Chargeable F. B. Battering Rams p. 14. I mean Guilty in that they i. e. the Teachers among the Quakers alwayes pretend to Preach and Teach freely but contrary to all these their Pretensions have all along taken Money for the same Observe The latter is a notorious Falshood as well as contradictory to the former How all along take Money for Preaching and Teaching and yet not given to filthy Lucre and so Industrious and Careful not to be Chargeable when thus we Travel'd and Laboured as before F. B.'s Quakers detected p 3. In the Beginning they i.e. the Quakers Ministers Taught That all Men were Enlightned according to Joh. 1.9 and that this Light wherewith Christ had enlightened 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 persuaded 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 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 Thus far Fra. Bugg F. B. New Rome Arraign'd and out of her own mouth Condemned containing A farther Discovery of the Dangerous Errours and Pernicious Principles of the Teachers and Leaders of the People called Quakers which tend to overthrow the Christian Faith In Answer to G. W's Charitable Essay c. Wherewith he has not proved any one Pernicious Principle Who for his false Testimony together with Eleven of his Witnesses that came in to his assistance are Examined Tryed and Convict of Perjury and for the same put into the Pillory by one who was more than twenty five years a Member of their Society being carried away with their Dissimulation Francis Bugg Title Page When they Preached Christ the Light and in the Work of his Ministers and in a Dispensation of the Love of God F. B. Ibid. Epist Dedicat. The Quakers come not one jot behind the Papists in Condemning the Protestant Religion Which is a great Lye by the way 'T is Popery and Humane Prescriptions in Worship that we condemn by our owning the Light and Holy Spirit 's conduct therein These Confessions F. B. made in his said Book Quakers Detected Printed in 1686 about two years after his forsaking the Society of the people called Quakers and conforming to the Church of England And farther F. Bugg in his Book De Christiana Libertate printed 1682 hath also made these Confessions to the Principles of Truth Professed among the People commonly called Quakers and to them as a True Church a Church of Christ Built on the True Foundation Second Part of his said Book Ch. 1. Treats of Principles of Truth received and believed in the Beginning as follows viz. That in the Beginning the Inshining Light of Christ Jesus by his heavenly spiritual Appearance in the Hearts and Souls of his People was our Principle the very Foundation Principle and Corner-stone in our Building there are yet many living Witnesses and our Work and Labour in that day was to turn peoples Minds thereunto as to the more sure Word of Prophecy whereunto as many as took heed did well and that there was sufficiency in it being obeyed to lead to Salvation And as our Minds came to be turned to this Inward Teacher and as we came to experience the Virtue and Excellency of this Holy Vnction so we held a Publick Testimony thereof to others that they might thereby be provoked to make Tryal thereof that so they might have the Witness in themselves and see for themselves and taste for themselves And to this Word nigh in the Heart were we committed and recommended suitable to the Doctrine and Ancient Prophesies of Christ Jesus our Lord and his Blessed
Sanctified People of God So likewise it was the Rule of Life and Practice first and before any other Rule and always had the Preheminence in our Testimony from the Beginning F. B. p. 68. Ibid. To me it seems easie to write a History of the Rise Growth and Progress of their Church-Government and that monster Womens Meetings c. and how the Spirit of Persecution hath been among them from the Beginning Even when we loved one another with love unfeigned and how did our love abound one towards another and when doubtless God blessed our Meetings with the Comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence And if any question the Truth of what I have here affirmed then for Proof thereof I referr them to the Testimonies of Isaac Pennington Edward Burroughs George Bishop c. Published by T. Crispe together with the Writings of Francis Howgill Richard Hubberthorn and many other Antient Friends c. Thus far Francis Bugg's Confession to the Truth of those Testimonies and Authors which he has now declined and not only most basely Revolted from but Opposed and shamefully Reproached divers of the same Authors as with his Mock-Cage Scorn and Envy c. whose Testimonies he has here so manifestly Assented unto Owned and Asserted which shall Rise up in Judgment against Him whose Judgment lingereth not and whose Condemnation slumbereth not SOME REMARKS Upon F. B.'s former CONFESSIONS FARTHER Arguing and Evincing his Self-condemnation and Apostacy his Hypocrisie and Temporising PRay impartial Readers observe what excellent Testimonies and Characters he has here before given of the Principles Foundation Faith Religion Profession Church and Christ as Head thereof Ministry Christian Love Society Enjoyment and Conversation of the People called Quakers both as in the Beginning and for many Years together wherein he walked among them Come F. B. now do thou observe and consider well 1. That in all these foregoing ample and solemn Confessions and Commendations thou hast given of the Christian Doctrin Society and Conversation of the said People and their Ministry both before and after thou forsook them and conformed to the Priests c. Thou wast either Sincere or Insincere therein To be Insincere therein I suppose thou wilt not charge thy self If Sincere then thy Conformity was Insincere and Hypocritical and Self-condemned it being thy own and our professed Principle and Testimony in the beginning and for these many Years when thou wast conversant among us according to thy own Confessions made in the Year 1684 and 1686 before and since thy conformity 2. Thy new Pretence Thou art not now of the same mind thou wast in in 1686 concerning us in the beginning and that thou hadst then a charitable Opinion and better Thoughts of us with respect to our beginning than now thou hast and that thou wast in an Error mistaken c. As in thy New Rome Vnmasked p. 12 13 16. Then thy good and charitable Thoughts of us our Ministry Doctrine and Society respecting our beginning and for many Years continued until Anno 1986 until near two Years after thy conformity Wherefore thy turning to the Priests and Church of England in 1684. proceeded not from inward conviction of Conscience nor from the Spirit of Christ but self-condemned Hypocrisie and Temporising For in the beginning the Quakers were in a clear Separation from the National Priests c. And the same is continued by all of them who are sincere and faithful to their Principle And that thou knewest when thou suffered among them for Meeting and Nonconformity then thou hadst a Testimony against all Mercenary Priests against Tythes and their Persecutions Oppressions c. Wast thou mistaken therein all that Time and mistaken in thy Testimony for the Light of Christ and our Ministry and Doctrine as in the beginning both before and since thy conformity If so then why dost thou not retract thy mistaken Books in that Case And then who will credit thy Scribling It seems thou knewest not thy pretended mistake till some Years after thou hadst turned about and conformed which if so it was therefore in a blind Obedience Didst thou go blindfold to Church so called Such slim Shifts and mean Subterfuges will not cover or acquit thee from Self-condemnation nor thy telling us Thou art not of the same mind thou wert in in 1686 concerning us in the beginning p. 12. Thou art very mutable then no doubt thy Thoughts grow worse and worse and thy Charity very cold and why so Why are thy Thoughts grown of late so bad of us Thou sayest thou hast of late examined our ancient Errors and observed the Consequences of them New Rome unmask'd p. 12. that is when we were a true Church and Christ our Head and Law-giver found in Doctrine and Christian in Conversation Love and Society according to thy own Confessions in 1682. before thou went out to the Parish Church so call'd and in 1686. after thou so went out and conformed thereunto It seems then thou knewest no such pretended Errors in 1686. two Years after thy Revolt and Conformity then 't was not Error in Doctrine that was the cause of thy deserting us and turning to the Priests what then was it outward Prescriptions Forms Orders Decrees of Men Laws Canons Ecclesiastical c. as thou pretendest Qua. Detect p. 3.4 Thou cannot be sincere in any such Pretence unless thou hadst conformed to a Church that hath no Order nor Discipline Canons or Rules in it and where 's that Church that will own its self to be without Order or Discipline in it Thy comparing thy Case with Bishop Cranmer's and the Protestant Martyrs p. 13 14. appears more thy Ambition then Pertinent or Sincere If Bishop Cranmer said in the Beginning the Church of Rome thought pure and sound Doctrine but did he say he was mistaken and in Error in so saying No he own'd her as such But after the Church of Rome fell into that new unsound Doctrine of Transubstantiation c. He disowned Her He could be no self-condemn'd Apostate therein whilst he neither diserted the pure sound Doctrine nor conformed contrary to his own Testimony thereunto as thou hast done Thou in Words hast owned and commended of a Church and People i. e. call'd Quakers as once pure and sound in Doctrine and Conversation both before and since thou left them and joyn'd to another in Opposition to that Church and People and now to excuse thy whirling about and base temporizing pretendest thou wast mistaken even in such thy solemn Commendation Thus uncertain Unstable Self-contradictory and self-condemn'd thou art both ways Insincere and Self condemn'd in acting contrary to the Principle Profession and Conversation of a Church and People whilest highly commended by thy Self and thou appearest a Self Condemned Temporizer in retracting that Commendation as an Error and Mistake Self Condemned in now pretending thou hast of Late examin'd and observ'd our ancient Errors as thou callest them Being some Passages in some ancient Books writ by some
than ever it seemed Therefore I challenge thee to prove that we say The holy Scripture namely the holy Doctrine and blessed Precepts are either Carnal Dust Death Killing c. We still deny thy Charge herein as false and slanderous considering the Nature and Import of it and thou dost but clamour and foam out thy own Shame in crying out of Impudence and such a notorious Lye as the very Heathens would abhor and all this for our denying thy notorious Lye in charging us with saying that which we never said nor believed viz. That the holy Scripture namely the holy Doctrine c. is Carnal Dust c. And thy pretended Ten Reasons to prove thy other false Charge That we do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained in the Bible are Holy and Blessed They are so shallow and impertinent Reiterations and begging the Question as also clamorous that they are not worth answering the substance being already answered Only to thy first pretended Reason There is no proof that by the Letter any of our Friends cited meant the Doctrine and divine Precepts contained in the Bible nor that the Ministers of the Letter only were true living Ministers of the Word of the Gospel or of Christ Jesus who is the Word of God Though some Priests in the North in and before the Year 1653 when those Books News out of the North and Saul's Errand c. were Printed were so ignorant as to call the Bible namely the Books made up of Paper and Ink and literal Characters the Word and the Gospel Wherein they were oppos'd Christ being the Word and the Gospel the Power of God which endures for ever which the Books and Letters or Characters cannot Of his charging these Quakers who pretend plainly to own the Precepts and Doctrine of the Bible to be Holy and Blessed yet that in other Books they say 'T is Dust and Death the Serpents meat c. and that to preach out of them is Conjuration Apol. Introd p. 18. I want still plain Proof of Matter of Fact herein that we who are these Quakers so called say The holy and blessed Doctrine c. is Dust Death c. Let him produce plain Proof that we say so or else be ashamed of this his horrid reiterated Slander Whereas Is. Pennington did in his Questions take it for granted that the Names and Titles Jesus and Christ chiefly and in the first place belong not to the Body which he took but to him who took the Body namely to Him the Son of God who said A Body hast thou prepared me Now F. B. grants viz. I own the Son of God was before the Incarnation then I ask if he was not the Anointed of God and a Saviour before his Incarnation If he was then he was Christ before consâ—quently the name Christ in the first place belonged to Him who took Flesh and not chiefly nor in the first place to the Body which he took on him tho his Words chiefly and in the first place imply that the Titles Jesus and Christ did also belong to the Body when he took it upon him and sometime given to it Again F.B. grants That the names Jesus and Christ are given to the Word the Son of God after he took a Body and so neither to the Body which he took nor to him before he took the Body p. 4. Apol. Introd But I ask was Jesus Christ the Word and Son of God before he took the Body If he was did not both the Tiâ—les of Saviour and Anointed belong unto him as being the Son of God What does this Man quarrel at What against I. P. for implying that the names Jesus and Christ do not chiefly and in the first place belong to the Body but to him that took it Is this such a great Error of the Quakers And must they be Prosecuted for Perjury and unto the Pillory for testifying against F. B. for his falsly charging us with denying Christ Jesus who was Born of the Virgin Mary c. O what sad Envy and Confusion is this poor dark Backslider run into Who also grants That there needed not many Arguments to prove what he never denyed whereas the Arguments were to prove both that Jesus Christ was before he took the Body of Flesh and that the names chiefly and in the first place belonged to him that took the Body yet the Body not denied them Charitable Essay p. 3 4. Object But further he inveighs against Isaac Pennington viz. Isaac Pennington's Words are He took the Flesh and Blood of our Nature which is of a perishing Nature Now if he took ours and ours be of a perishing Nature Ergo his was perishing or it was not of our's so that G. W 's Evasion will not do Ibid. p 4. Here F. Bugg by his kind of Logick has run himself into the same Snare and Error as he deems it which he has unduly charged Isaac Pennington withal namely That if Christ took upon him the Flesh and Blood of our Natures and our's be Perishing Ergo his was perishing but he took our's he cannot deny he took part of the same Flesh and Blood the Children had Heb. 2. 14. Then by F. B's own Ergo his must needs be of a perishing Nature unless he will whirl about and unsay what he has said namely that it was not of our Nature which Christ took upon him And then he must deny him to be of the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh. But I deny F. B's Argument in this case as neither very good Logick nor true in its self I deny his Ergo Though the Flesh of our Nature be perishing as in us yet it was not perishing as assumed by him Christ his Flesh his Body which he took upon him saw no corruption it did not Corrupt consequently was not perishing much less is it now his Body being changed into a Heavenly Spiritual and Glorified State and therefore called his Glorious Body like unto which our low body shall be changed and fashioned Phil. 2.21 The Premises considered we do solemnly and in the holy fear of God both testifie against F. Bugg's precedent Argument viz. 1. That because Christ took upon him the flesh and blood of our Nature therefore his was perishing 2. Also against his false Affirmation and Testimony against us p. 25. viz. And thereupon I do affirm and testifie and charge it upon them in the presence of God Angels and Men that they disown and deny Jesus Christ whom God hath ordained to be Salvation to the ends of the Earth and a propitiatory Sacrifice for the Sins of the whole World to be CHRIST Thus far F. B. But this we utterly deny and sincerely testifie against as abominably false and presumptuous as well as Anti-Christian in it self And to his saying the names Jesus and Christ are given to the Mediator c. True but what follows Therefore quoth F. B. 'T is no absurdity to say It was not Jesus Christ
Papists according to F. B's way of arguing concluding all by one But many others of our Friends have sincerely testified against Popery Superstition and Idolatry both in the root and branch and for the Protestant Religion considered in the purity of it and therefore free from excusing Idolatry as falsly charged on their Teachers in his third charge p. 23.44 which hath been refuted both in some other answers to this false Accuser as also in our Answer to the Athenians so called and more particularly in my Just Inquiry into the Libeller's abuse from p. 17. to p. 30. concerning the pretended Letters of John Audland and Jos. Coale Now Bugg acknowledges himself to have a Hand in and to own the Composing the Book he should have said Scandalous Libel or Pamphlet Intituled Some of the Principles and Doctrines Laws and Orders of the Quakers c. Introd p. 10. which is fairly answered in the said Just Inquiry Some of F. B's Abuses in Citation 1. OBject p. 33. News coming out of the North p. 15. He cites G.F. thus I am saith G. Fox The Door that ever was the same Christ yesterday and for ever This is a plain perversion rendring G.F. to speak this of himself whereas these quotations in the Margent John 14.6 and Chap. 10.3 Luk. 11.34 and Joh. 1.9 clearly shews that he speaks it of Jesus Christ and not of himself and so do the foregoing words viz. Jesus Christ is the Way the Truth and Life he is the Door that all must pass through which words are very unfairly left out in Bugg's citation 2. Risen up out of the North which was Prophecied of but now is fulfilled Here he leaves out The Armies coming out of the North against you terrible ones This was Prophesied of see Jer. 23.8 Isa. 43.6 Jer. 16.15 and 51.48 he could not mean that G. Fox's being risen up out of the North was Prophesied of by Isaiah and Jeremiah 3. Your Baptism is Carnal Here he leaves out Sprinkling Infants which God never Commanded 4. Their Sacrament as they call it left out Is Carnal and their Communion is Carnal a little Bread and Wine left out Query if their Bread and Wine be Spiritual If he saith it is Query then is it Transubstantiated Are there not Carnal Ordinances and Washing mentioned in Scripture Their Church is Dust a heap of Lime and Stones gathered together left out 5. That the Quakers Teach that the Gospel is Dust p. 47. This is false also here he puts the Gospel for their Gospel whose Gospel The Covetous false Minister's who put the Letter and their own conceivings thereupon for the Gospel Moreover F. B. pursuant to his old Lye viz. That we deny Him to be Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary c. saith It doth appear by Jo. Coales Testimony that Christ after he Ascended had no other Body but his Christ consequently did not Ascend in his Body which was seen apparently Act. 1.9 10 11. Quoting p. 332. of Josiah Coales's Works Which consequence I must needs look upon as unjustly deduc'd from J. C's words in the very Page Quoted For he does not only own the Church of Christ as his Body under Affliction now on Earth but also that this his Body shall be Fashioned like unto his glorious Body whereof notwithstanding all they are Members who are Members of the true Church So that the Body of Christ in it's Union and fulness is one Body I take notice of what an Abusive fling he has at me about a little Book Intituled The Christian Doctrine and Society of the Quakers c. relating to some differences in America Accusing me with Peeping and Creeping and with Turning and Winding this way and that way hither and thither and centring no where but Janus like looking two ways c. with other false and scurrilous detractions And why so Why am I vilified in this Case also Bugg saith He meaning my self seems to own the Doctrine i. e. of one Party but dare not own his Testimony nor him in it He seems to blame the Doctrine i. e. of the other Party but dare not blame their Persons nor give Testimony against their Doctrine as their's c. pag. 37. To pass by his scornful Abuse of me herein Did not the Holy Apostles testifie against Divisions in the Churches sometimes without naming or reflecting on the Persons by name concerned therein Did Paul name those of Corinth whom he charges with Strife and Devision c. and therefore Carnal Where one saith I am of Paul another of Apollo c. was this to reflect on them by name And what 's more usual among Judicious and Impartial Men who know common Law and Justice than to give Judgment or Counsel only upon the Case in difference where the Parties differing are absent without reflecting on the Persons of either Party Because it is not Judicial nor Just to pass Judgment on Persons unheard Face to Face in their own respective Pleas and Defence But such an Imperious Arbitrary and unjust Judge is this our Implacable Enemy that he can presume not only to be both Accuser Judge and Jury but also to Trie Sentence and Condemn Persons in their absence both to Perjury Pillory and Cage without either hearing their own Just Defence or taking Cognizance of their respective rational Pleas and Answers for themselves But instead thereof Forging and Framing Answers in their Names which never were their's nor in the least resembling them as he hath done against us whom he hath most ignominously and scandalously Traduc'd Condemn'd and Sentenced both to Perjury and Pillory And this is not all But because I cannot be as Unjust and Wicked as himself to Condemn Persons in their absence and they as far remote as America Therefore he Flouts Scoffs Scorns Rages and Rails Foaming out his own Shame And I doubt not but the Just God will rebuke him in his own time for his Injustice and Cruel Envy with all his Secret Abettors therein let him Scoff Boast Insult and Scribble out of old Books as long as he can it will not rescue him from the stroke of that Divine Hand that will seize upon him I wish it may at last humble him unto Repentance If yet there be a place thereof to be found for him He complains of Personal Defamations and Detractions which have had such an Effect not only saith he of our profession in Religious Matters but upon our Persons and Imployments which in time may be farther taken notice of p. 37. 'T is very strange he should thus complain of Personal Defamations and Detractions when he is so deeply and notoriously Guilty thereof who hath used Personal Defamations and Detractions so gross as he himself What presume to set himself up as both Accuser Judge and Jury and Sentence and Condemn honest Men of good repute as a pack of Perjur'd Persons to the Pillory and also to the Cage of unclean Birds and yet complain of Personal Defamation and