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-Books 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
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
BATTERING RAMS AGAINST NEW ROME CONTAINING A FARTHER DISCOVERY OF The Grand Hypocrisie OF THE LEADERS and TEACHERS Of the PEOPLE Called QUAKERS TOGETHER WITH A Publick Challenge to meet G. Fox G. Whitehead W. Penn and S. Cater to prove Matters of Fact To which are Added Some QUERIES propounded to their PROTESTANT HEARERS Who are not of G. F's PARTY By FRANCIS BUGG I have laid a Snare for thee and thou art taken O BABYLON and thou wast not aware Thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the LORD Put your selves in Array against BABYLON round about All ye that bend the Bow shoot at her spare no Arrows The LORD hath open'd his Armory and hath brought forth the Weapons of his Indignation for this is the Work of the LORD GOD of Hosts Jer. 50.14 24 25. LICENSED Decemb. 3. 1690. LONDON Printed for Joh. Gwillim Book-seller in Bishops-gate-street over against the Great James Jan. 12. 1690 1. BATTERING RAMS AGAINST NEW ROME c. The INTRODUCTION Friendly Reader I Thought long since that my self and others had writ sufficiently against the Errours of the Teachers and Leaders of this People and that I should be no farther concerned with them but having seen their Answer to a Letter lately sent to them wherein they pretend sincerely to deny the Guilt of Hypocrisie wherewith they in the said Letter are charged and I being sensible that many unacquainted with their Wiles and subtile way of Writing may be ready to believe them what they say themselves to be I thought it my Duty to make good the said Charge and farther to unmask them that so they may appear what they really are and to shew them in their true and proper Colours to the intent they may no longer deceive the Simple And in the Discharge thereof I shall say as Geo. Whitehead says in his Epistle to his Book styled Judgment fixed c. I neither consult Events nor fear Effects but leave all to GOD. It is not my present purpose to meddle much with the Frame and Method of their Church Government their General Councils their Zeal for their Vnwritten Traditions above the Scriptures or the Mischief of their Impositions amongst their own People that not being at this time so immediately under my Consideration and also having by my Book De Christiana Libertate c. printed 1682. treated largely thereof wherein their said Errours are fully detected c. Neither shall I much concern my self with their Laws or Edicts they made at their Yearly Meeting or General Council held at London May 1675. subscribed by W. Penn Geo. Whitehead Steph. Crisp and others whereby they strictly require their Hearers neither to Forsake Decline nor Remove their Meetings like Worlely Fearful and Politick Professors and yet they themselves refused to stand in a like suffering Capacity with them Insomuch as that in the Loss of Thirteen Thousand five Hundred Fifty and odd Pounds by Fines and Distresses their Ministers where Strangers never lost Fifty Pounds as at large is set forth in my Book entituled The Painted Harlot both stripp'd and whipp'd c. and that entituled Reason against Railing c. both printed 1683. whereby their Vsurpation Dominion and Lordship over the Consciences of their Hearers was sufficiently manifested together with their illegal and arbitrary Proceedings in their Courts of Judicature or Quarterly Meetings about Meum and Tuum All which are largely handled in the said two Books to which I refer the Reader for farther Satisfaction Neither shall I here give a distinct and particular Account of their several Orders for Marriage set forth by Geo. Fox and his Party viz. Sometimes they might marry at the Market Cross sometimes at a General Meeting sometimes in private where Twelve or more were assembled as their Freedom was and lastly they came to this That none were either permitted or suffered to marry unless the Parties published their Intensions before two Meetings of Men and two Meetings of Women they being distinct and apart each from other and all this by the Order of Geo. Fox c. who pretended his Commission from Divine Revelation as set forth in De Chr. Lib. p. 33. I say as to their several Orders and their Censures thereupon they are particularly examined and set forth in my Book Innocency vindicated and Envy rebuked c. printed 1684. Neither shall I here give a particular Account how I came to be of their Society how I came to see and perceive their Errours and leave them and how I came to be satisifed in the Lawfulness of my going to the publick Worship all which are treated on in my Book entituled The Quakers detected and their Errours confuted c. printed 1686. to which for farther Satisfaction I refer the Reader Thus have I traced them step by step and followed them in all their Turnings and Windings Year after Year shewing the Vanity of their Pretences to Infallibility and that Vnchangeableness which they pretend to above all other People And what I have thus writ I have offered to prove and that on the penalty of an Hundred Pounds but could never get them out of their Holes and Dens and Lurking Places as G. F. formerly said to others But now at last in their Answer to the Letter before mentioned they pretend a Willingness to meet the Author of the said Letter and Looking-Glass and that they are ready to come forth as if indeed they would shew themselves Men of some Conscience viz. own what they write and prove what they say to be true as every honest Man ought to do and more especially they who pretend that they are Conscientiously concern'd and that a Necessity from the LORD is upon them and that they write for the Glory of GOD and moved thereto by His Eternal Spirit and the like high Pretences But alas 't is quite otherwise for they are so guilty of the Things charged against them and of writing so many Lyes and scandalous Defamations under a pretence of the Spirit 's Motion and so conscious to themselves thereof that I am persuaded all that we can say or do in order to bring them out of their Holes and Dens and Lurking Places is in vain otherwise than that thereby they will more and more discover their own Guilt and deep Hypocrisie which to manifest and make appear I shall produce Ten Instances to the Consideration of the judicious Readers And thus much by way of Introduction Novemb. 5. 1690. Franc. Bugg The I. Instance of their Hypocrisie Letter to the Quakers One While for Another While against Fighting c. The Quakers Answer This Charge is false and unjustly stated And if any have written what the old Army might or should have done this we may charitably suppose was Ad Hominem upon Their own Pretensions c. Reply MAY you charitably suppose so I confess How little Charity soever you have for others yet I have always observed you to have a great Stock for
say you gave that Advice to O. C. upon his own Pretensions not that you believed it lawful I answer King William also pretends it lawful And since you then play'd the Hypocrite why not now And so ad infinitum The II. Instance of their Hypocrisie Letter to the Quakers One While against Another While for Kingly Government The Quakers Answer The First Part of this Charge is false Reply FOR a full Reply to this their Answer I refer the Reader to the Quakers unmask'd c. But so much thereof as may shew that the Charge is not false unless they be lately amended which if they be they ought to retract and condemn their former Writings * But if so then they would appear fallible Men and as such be mistaken and do some things whereof they ought to repent But this they cannot admit of for it would spoil the fashion of their Infallibility and marr the Beauty of their Perfection I shall recite out of a Paper writ to the Presbyterians by Geo. Fox a little before the Restoration so much as shall justifie the Charge against them c. See pag. 1. To all you that desire an Earthly King in England who profess your selves Christians whether Presbyterians or others Do not the Priests Presbyterians and others cry for an Earthly King And is not this the same Nature the Jews were in And do not they in this crucifie Jesus In another Paper of his pag. 15. The Word of the LORD GOD to you who are called Presbyterians You are wholly in Darkness given up to it and such would have a King to reign for there is that Nature that would have an Earthly King to reign in which Nature lodgeth the Murtherer said your chief Prophet Geo. Fox Thus have I given a short hint that you were once against Kingly Government being loth to mention over much in hopes as to that you are somewhat amended for you soon turn'd with the Times which shews your Inconstancy and that you are no more infallible than others which is the main Reason why I mention it And for Example see your Declaration you gave forth soon after the Restoration of King Charles II. saying We do declare that we do love own and honour the King and the present Government Again in another Book you say to the King If thou take some speedy Course for the repealing and making void those cruel Laws haply thou mayest be as Moses to stand in the Gap betwixt GOD and thy People c. Visitation to the King pag. 7. Again in the Trial of Geo. Fox 1664. pag. 8 10. he saith the Oath of Allegiance being tender'd him viz. If I could take any Oath at all upon any Occasion I should take this Oath for I honour all Men much more the King c. Now Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead c. Where is the Constancy you boast of What is become of your Unchangeableness who one Year say and the next Year unsay for this to day and for that to morrow facing about like the Weather-cock as in the Case fore-mentioned And yet it is a common Maxim with you that if any write against you they write against Truth and if any see your Hypocrisie and leave and forsake you that they are gone from Truth and that if any come to you and join with you they then presently are reputed to own Truth c. I will conclude this Second Instance with the Words of W. Penn the Parenthesis excepted to Mr. Doelittle Mr. Manton Mr. Baxter and Eighteen more both Presbyterians and Independants in his Book entituled A just Rebuke to Twenty one Divines pag. 25. I could set out this part of your Story to the Life but at this time shall forbear nâ—â— do I delight in this But since I must needs mention your Hypocrisie and your base Temporizing can I do it more candidly than in your own Words I wish there had been no need for it The III. Instance of their Hypocrisie Letter to the Quakers One While against Another while for Popery c. The Quakers Answer This is false c. Reply FAlse How can you say it is false and not blush Were you not against Popery when you wrote and said as followeth viz. To all you called Papists to your whole Body and Head at Rome the Word of the LORD reacheth Thus assuredly saith the LORD My Controversie is against you and My Vengeance and Wrath and Fury shall for ever World without End be upon you And though you pardon one another yet will not I pardon any One of you And says W. Penn in his Caveat against Popery Let the Papist first recant his voluminous Errours but above all let us have good Testimony of his hearty Sorrow for that Sea of Blood shed in England France Holland Ireland Spain Italy Savoy Switzerland and Germany of many Thousands of poor Protestants that for pure Conscience could not conform c. and to this purpose in many other Books But these Two Passages are enough to shew that you were once against Popery and that since you have been as much for the Papists See your Book Entituled A Defence of the D. of Buck. c. 1685. in Reply to a Church of Eng. Man who answered the said Book And your Book called A Reply to the Answer of the Man of no Name to the D. of Buck c. p. 22 23. Also another call'd A Persuasive to Moderation submitted to the late King 1686. And another of your Books called Good Advice to the Church of England c. Another Advice to the Protestant Dissenters shewing it their Interest to repeal the Tests By all which said Books and divers others spread up and down the Nation in the late King James's Reign were the Papists vindicated and contrary to your former Writings said to be loyal in England and Holland charging the Protestants with being the Cause of Burning poor Joan of Kent a famous Woman and that Merely as you said for Religion and by that Example Taught the Romanists c. A few more Instances I may recite and so refer the Reader to the Looking-Glass for the Quakers c. viz. The Church of England Man Where the said Books are more largely recited viz. I cannot admire his Wisdom Manners or Justice in his Reflexions upon the Roman Catholicks after the Assurance of so great an One of that Communion has given him and his Friends of their Security and Protection for the late occasion he takes let him be just and he will find the Excluders almost every Sunday at their Parish-Churches And if three quarters of them were to pray for their Lives it may be they could better read their Clergy * viz. Their Neck-Verse than say their Prayers without the publick Liturgy One thing I must say the Roman Catholicks have been Loyal in England and Holland It happens now that GOD and Caesar are both of a Mind which perhaps does not always fall out at least
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
of J. Bernard Merchant for disposing of William Rogers his Book entituled The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator in five Parts c. And for a tuller Discovery of the Teachers and Leaders of the Quakers resembling their elder Brethren the Papists I have also therein shewed that Benjamin Clark their Bookseller might sell Ballads Play-Books Papist-Books Gipsie-Books yea Ba Books and yet not be excommunicated c. And many other things I have therein recited to shew how their Carriage to William Rogers my self and others bear the same Complexion with the Popish Bishops to the then Protestants which is too large here to insert c. And Geo. Whitehead c. Do you think to affright the London Booksellers No no they do not fear your Excommunication they are not terrified at your Censures for they know or may do at least that there are none like you for exposing the Reputation of your honest Neighbours to Shame and Infamy as your Books Judgment fixed c. and S. Cater's Narrative c. do sufficiently demonstrate as well as divers others of your malicious Books and lying Pamphlets insomuch as that some of you have been ashamed to own your own Writings And for full Discovery thereof I refer the Reader to my Book before mentioned c. The VII Instance of their Hypocrtsie IN your Book Judas and the Jews c. you say None need to give us Discerning or Judgment Christ hath furnished us already and doth on All Occasions c. And in Geo. Fox his Book The great Mystery c. pag. 89. you say that The Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all the Fore-fathers and they can discern who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a Word c. Now this is either True or False You are either thus qualified with this infallible Judgment or you are not If True How comes it to pass that you have printed Geo. Smith is a well meaning Man That he hath lived a blameless Conversation from his Youth That ever since he has been convinced which is thirteen or fourteen Years he hath lived uprightly according to his Measure And why have you vindicated Tho. Rudyard and reserred the Readers to your Brother Robert Sandiland's Book I say If you be thus qualified with such Discerning as to know who are Saints and who are Devils and who Apostates without speaking a Word and that at all Times too and on all Occasions I say if it be thus what grand Hypocrites are you to canonise such as these for Saints saying they are well-meaning Men walk uprightly thirteen or fourteen Years together and yet at the same time know upon this your infallible Principle that there is not a Word true in all you write of them But if False and that you are not thus qualified but as fallible and as subject to be mistaken as other Men * Which is manifest or else you would not make Saints of Geo. Smith Rob. Sandiland Tho. Rudyard John Tysoe and say they are well meaning Men have walked uprightly thirteen or fourteen Years together c. unless you be arrant Cheats indeed then what Hypocrites are you thus to pretend to be endued with such an infallible Judgment at all Times and on All Occasions as to know who are Saints and who are Devils c. and not a Word of Truth in all your Pretences O gross Dissemblers yea Impostors and such a Generation of self-conceited Pharisees as no Age before this ever produced However thus much may be learned from hence that you exactly resemble your infallible Sister who will saint any let them be never so notoriously wicked if they do but some notable meritorious Work for Holy Church some notable Project though it be as grand a Cheat as ever was when at the same time such as oppose her and write against her and discover her Errours she will slander abuse yea call them Devils and at last persecute them them to death And 't is only in the last that she exceeds you and of that there can be no Trial since you never yet had Power And GOD grant you never may have Power put into your Hands for you that are thus deceitful thus treacherous thus infamously slanderous as your said two Books Judgment fixed c. and S. Cater's Narrative c. declare you to be Sainting Geo. Smith Tho. Rudyard Rob. Sandiland John Tysoe and the rest of your Tools that act for you and do your Drudgery how wicked soever they be And such as oppose you and cannot submit themselves to your Tyranny them you call Beasts Dogs Wolves Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil yea Devils Incarnate And that your Distiples may believe it and take all you say for Truth you tell them * If their Hearers believe their Pretensions then they are leavened with the Leaven of the Pharisees indeed that you are endued with infallible Judgment and can tell who are Saints and who are Devils without speaking ever a Word O dreadful Hypocrisie The VIII Instance of their Hypocrisie THE next Thing that I shall observe wherein you deceive your People is your Pretence to preach and suffer record Marriages and other publick Offices freely without Money Gifts or Rewards And by reason of this fair Pretence how have you not only deceived the Simple but also taken Occasion thereby to vilifie and so speak Contemptuously of all other publick Preachers First The National for taking Tythes and other Dues as a setled Maintenance by Law established which is not so burthensome as you are to many of your Hearers And Fext The Presbyterians and Independents * See G. F's Epistle to your Book entituled The Divinity of Christ c. whom you bespatter about their Bason and Platter wherein perhaps their Hearers put their free Contribution for their Ministers as a necessary Subsistence for them according to their Ability and their Ministers Necessity And all this while value your selves upon your free Preaching free Suffering free Writing and free Recording when at the same time you know 't is common for all these Church-Officers amongst you to take Money * Which I have long since offered to prove to your Faces Some Ten Pounds at a time some Three Pounds at a time some Fifty Pounds per Annum †As set forth in the Painted Harlot p. 47. printed 1682. and reprinted in the Quakers detected c. p. 23. printed 1686. some Thirty Pounds for writing five or six Sheets to teach Children in the Ways of GOD as you pretend and Twelve Pence for writing of Marriage-Certificates being ten or twelve Lines c. And Geo. Fox himself who before he was a Preacher was but a poor Journey-man Shoe-maker with George Gee of Manchester had no less than Twelve or Thirteen Hundred Pounds as William Rogers relates in his Christian Quaker distinguished c. Part V. pag. 48 49. and by Geo. Fox never
you to speak a little Truth which is scarce enough with you c. That what was lacking to him privately (d) No the Apostle did not pretend to be against necessary Supplies so he needed not be ashamed and so take the Believers Benevolence privately For 't is you who pretend to take no Money for Preaching that take it privately yea even so privately that the very Donors do not know that you take Money for Preaching Thus Jesuite-like have you blinded your People c. The Macedonian Brethren did supply Thus it appears th' Apostle did partake Of that Provision which the Church did make p. 19. Christ's Ministers to furnish and their Need Supply when they want Moneys to proceed (e) Then it seems you confess you supply them with Money to proceed but it is to whom and when G. F. G. W. c. think it fit and expedient Pretend thou canst not that the Stock is given To such as have no need (f) No! What need was there to send S. Cater Ten Pounds when he was fined Twenty Pounds for preaching at Phakenham in Norfolk since he neither paid the Fine nor his Goods sold nor did not lose Ten Shillings by the said Meeting Nay if he had suffered the loss of that Fine which he did not yet he being a Man worth some Hundreds of Pounds he would not have had any need of that Ten Pounds you sent him part of it perhaps given by Men not worth Twenty Shillings But he was a currant Man for your purpose and one that would preach up G. F's Orders and exclaim against the publick Ministry c. And hereupon you thought he deserved a piece of Money and so sent him Ten Pounds which Gift was designed to be given him privately as you would seem to suggest the Apostles received the Supply they had from the Churches privately which is false for Paul was so far from that that he said plainly that he robbed viz. took of other Churches c. But as private as this Ten Pound was given it came to be known and that is the thing which disturbed the poor Man the discovery of it hath vexed him and his Brethren more than ever it did him good for he always pretended to be against Taking Money for Preaching when alas I have offered to prove that and several other Summs thereof but even Thy Flurt at Richardson for taking Pay For what as Clerk he writes doth much bewray Thy Folly and Injustice Is' t not fit Who works for others should be pay'd for it And that by them who him to work desire The Labourer is worthy of his Hire (g) So now you begin to say the Labourer is worthy of his Hire Sure you will forbear to call others Hirelings now you have Hirelings amongst your selves for as you have pretended to preach teach and suffer freely so you have pretended to write as Clerk freely See my Book Innocency vindicated and Envy rebuked c. pag. 3. where I have quoted Geo. Fox's Order for Marriage and other things where he thus speaks AND THAT NOTHING BE RECORDED FOR MONEY IN THESE THINGS BUT FREELY A FREE PEOPLE AND IN LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER c. And for my part I was Clerk to the Isle of Ely Monthly and Quarterly Meetings about sixteen or eighten Years and to the nearest of them I rid fourteen Miles and to the farthest eighteen Miles Monthly and I never took a Penny of Money and indeed thought you had meant as you spake but now all is come out and 't is time for your Hearers to look about them since their Money is given to such as Sam Cater who is a rich Man and a great Trader All which manifests your deep Hypocrisie p. 21. The IX Instance of their hypocrisie THE next Proof of your Hypocrisie that I shall mention is First Your decrying all Learning and next Your assuming to your selves such Learning as you never had nor do at all understand The first Instance of these is that remarkable Book viz. George Fox's Printed 1659. Entituled A Primer for the Doctors and Scholars of Europe c. Behold how contemptuously there he speaks both of Learning and the Learned wherein is contained 2434 Queries proposed to the Doctors and Scholars of Europe but more particularly to the two English Universities which are such idle impertinent and unnecessary Queries that his Design could be nothing else but to bring both Learning and the Learned into Contempt and to magnifie his own Parts and Abilities as that Geo. Fox who but a little before sate upon is Shoemakers Seat working Journey-work at Manchester for his Master Geo. Gee who could hardly write his Name or read a Chapter without spelling and that he of a sudden should be such a profound Scholar as to propose 2434 Queries to all the Doctors and Scholars of Europe and chalenge them out into the Field bids them come out of their Holes and Dens bids them draw their Weapons for the little Davids were risen who had the Baâ—s the Slings and the Stones c. I say for him thus to chalenge all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe at this rate must needs design to render himself a Man of wonderful Parts to the Ignorant and such as believed him to be led and guided by an infallible Spirit as that he could discern who are Saints and who are Devils and that without speaking ever a * As he said in his Book Entituled The Great Mystery pag 89. word But had he proposed this multitude of Queries to all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe Africa and America I suppose they could not have answered them which put me in mind of an old Proverb That one Fool may ask more Questions than an hundred Wise and Learned Men can answer And if Geo. Fox c. will not now come out and make good his own Queries and shew his Learning and meet me and others at a convenient place to clear himself of these and many other things I have against him it will appear that he is guilty and that he hath not the power he pretends to and that he dares not come into the Field and draw his Weapon if he have any And what a shame is this for such an able Doctor yea such a profound Scholar as once he thought himself able to deal with all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe and that after all this Brag and monstrous Boast dare not now come forth dare not now shew his Head but hip and skip up and down hide himself in Holes Dens and Lurking Places surely this will greatly redound to his Dis-repute and Infamy in the eyes of all sorts of intelligent Persons and will tend to his great Abasement Shame and Confusion of Face For if he will come forth of his Den and meet me I offer to make it appear That of the 2434 Queries he has propos'd in the said Primer to all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe
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
Geo. Fox's Queries to the Doctors and Scholars of Europe by which thou maist see how learnedly George Fox Catechizes them I shall now only add a few of them as they lie scattered up and down the said Primer c. and so leave him in his Thicket of Brambles or confused Nonsense What is a Major What is a Minor What is Extraction What is Geometry What is a Point What is an Angle What is a Plain Angle What is an Obtuse Angle What is an Acute Angle What is Wolf-Madness What is Dog Madness What is Badger-Madness c. Having given this additional Hint of these mad distracted or distracting Queries I shall only add a few of his Manly Expressions in his Chalenge to to the Doctors to come out of their Holes and Dens to the end That he and the rest may come forth and draw their Weapons and shew their Cunning when they see how they are chalenged as they chalenged others c. See these Pages in the said Primer pag. 4 19 21 30 36 41 55. Where are these Words viz. These Queries are to call them out into the Field Let them come out now to little Children Little Davids are risen who have the Bags and the Sings and the Srones Ye that profess your selves to be Wise and Learned Men and Scholars and are Novices and Fools answer me Draw out your Weapon if you have any and answer me these things come out of your Holes do not Hip nor Skip from them Answer every word in particular for you have Tongue enough sometimes let us see now if it can wagg These are your Words to the Scholars c. Now if when you are call'd into the Field your selves and to come out of your Dens we shall see whether you can draw your Weapon whether you have the Bags the Sling and Stones you like Goliah boast of and whether he and you can so wagg your Tongue as to clear you from this Ninth Instance of Hypocrisie with which he and you stand charged The X. Instance of their Hypocrisie THis I know for a certain Truth that when they write the most notorious Lies and scandalous Defamations against such as they account their Adversaries and like the false Prophets of old cry Peace to the wicked and justifie the ungodly who put into their Mouths yet this they have the impudence to father upon the Spirit of the holy and just GOD Witness Geo. Whitehead's Book Stil'd Judgment fix'd c. And S. Cater's Narrative c. And therefore that I may not be like you in saying and not prove what I say to be true I do hereby chalenge George Fox Geo. Whitehead William Pen and Sam. Cater to meet me any day next March giving me a Month's Notice at any Publick House in Bishop-Stortford being about the half-way from my Habitation where I offer to prove the Truth of what you deny according to the Terms proposed in the foresaid Letter to the Quakers c. Now therefore if your Cause be good you Notable Champions come forth you that have chalenged all the Doctors Scholars and Professors in Europe come out of your Holes and Dens and Lurking-Places and meet me If you have the Bags and the Slings and the Stones you boast of come forth of your Holes and Dens and Lurking-Places yea come into the Field and draw your Weapons if you have any worth the drawing you know you have Tongue enough sometimes come let us see if it can wagg and whether you be able with all your Stones and Bags and Slings and Weapons you so much boast of to clear your selves from the guilt of Hypocrisie For The Day is come O Babylon that thou must be tried and thy Mask must be taken off thou Painted-Harlot Thou â—hast long deceived the Nations by thy fine out-side Deckings and Pharisaical Attire but thy Fruit makes thee manifest and by that we know thee to be the Harlot and not the Spouse of Christ nor true Bride Men do not gather Figs of Thorns nor Grapes of Thistles Mildenhall Novemb. 5th 1690. Francis Bugg Here follow Twenty four Queries propounded to your Protestant Hearers who have begun to throw off the Yoak which Geo. Fox G. W. c. have for many Years laden you with And first a few Words to you by way of Exhortation FRIENDS IT was Christ's frequent Counsel to his Disciples to beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees which said he is Hypocrisie I know no one thing that He took more care to preserve his Disciples from than that of Hypocrisie with which the Pharisees were very apt to leaven their Proselytes No doubt but much of their Doctrine was sound or else Christ would not have said They sate in Moses 's Seat Therefore whatsoever said he they bid you do that observe and do But mark do not after their Works for they say and do not That is to say they spake some sound Truths they carried it fair to their Proselytes they were very precise in washing the Cup and Platter in an Outside Righteousness to be seen of Men but inwardly they were rotten inwardly they were proud and disdained others who in GOD's Esteem stood justified rather than they And how far your Teachers are guilty of deep Hypocrisie I have in part discovered and doubt not but to make it yet more evident if they will meet me which if they refuse being four such Champions as they doubtless account themselves then I will appeal to you whether it be not a Token of their Guilt I mean such of you as still retain the Protestant Principles and are not of G. Fox his Party Query 1. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox to stir up counsel and encourage Oliver Cromwell his Officers and Army to fight with carnal Weapons when at the same time he did believe it utterly unlawful for a Christian Man so to do Answer Query 2. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox and others to vilifie bespatter and expose the Presbyterians Independents c. as being of fighting Principles and dangerous to the Government in K. C. II's time thereby rendring them obnoxious to Sufferings whenas they themselves by their Advice Counsel and Encouragement to Oliver Cromwel c. and that from the Word of the LORD were equally concerned in the same Cause and Quarrel Query 3. Do you believe that Arch-bishop Cranmer compelled Edward VI. to sign a Warrant to Burn poor Joan of Kent for Were Religion-sake and that by this their Practice they Taught the Roman Catholicks the way of Persecution Answer Query 4. If not Then Whether or no such of your Leaders as have so writ have not given away the Cause of Protestantism what in them lie and abetted vindicated and asserted the Popish Cause charging the Protestants with the original guilt of Persecution Answer Query 5. Whether Geo. Whitehead's calling the Doctrine of Doctor Robert Barns who suffered Martyrdom for the Cause of Christ Corrupt Doctrine tending to