ONE BLOW MORE AT New Rome Being an APPENDIX to BATTERING RAMS c. CONTAINING A farther discovery of the grand Errours deep Hypocrisies and Romish Practices of the Leaders and Teachers of the People called Quakers but more parricularly G. Whitehead Being an Answer to some part of his Book stiled Innocency against Envy c. By Francis Bugg Her foundations are faln her walls are thrown down for it is the vengeance of the Lord take vengeance upon her As she hath done do unto her Jer. 50.15 LONDON Printed for Joh. Guillim Book-seller in Bishops-gate-street over against the Great James 1691. 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 Falshoed being a Conclusive Postscript to be annexed to the Book entituled The painful Harlot c. By Fra. Bugg 3. Innocency Vindicated and Envy Rebuked being a brief Answer to G. Whitehead and John Tysoe c. By Fra. Bugg 4. The Quakers detected their Errors confuted and their Hypocrisie discoved c. By Fra. Bugg 5. Battering Rams against New Rom c. By. Fra. Bugg 6. One blow more at New Rome c. By Fra. Bugg All six 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. A Looking-Glass for the Quakers in two Columns wherein they may in part see themselves and may be seen by others ONE BLOW MORE AT New Rome SInce I first saw the Book viz. Innocency against Envy c. Signed by G. W. and S. C. in Answer to two of mine viz. The Quakers Detected c. and Battering Rams against New Rome c. I met with Geo. Whitehead and I was glad of the opportunity the rather because in their Answer to my Challenge in Battering Rams c. p. 19. 29. they tell the World that the time limited to meet them at Bishops-Storfford was expired before my Book came out which I confess came not out till February tho I sent it to be printed in November however it came out time enough for them to have given me a months notice because any time in March was the time prefix'd But that my said Challenge might not appear to be only A vapour a boast c. as they represented it after I heard that G.W. was to have a meeting at our Town I resolved God willing to meet him and that they might not thrust me out of the Meeting as their practice at London has often been I got a Justice's Warrant resolving that if they would not let me stay I would silence G. W. for that day which after he perceived he sate down quietly Object But some may say What will they pull down and thrust sober People out of their Meetings They cannot but remember their own practice how they used to disturb other Assemblies and when they were pull'd down or thrust out they used to cry out Persecution Persecution Answ Yea all that is true they used that practice and sometimes with great violence Concerning which one of their own Friends made this complaint saying It hath been their lot to be haled with violence out of the Assemblies of others and thrust into Prison Did I think to see the same violence offered in our Assemblies Nay but with sorrow mine Eyes have seen pulling down haling out and thrusting forth of our Meetings and they went to the utmost so far as their power and doubtless they wanted not will but power to punish Spirit of the Hat p. 29. Also I remember another of their Friends being much troubled for the same things told me particularly of one sober Woman that speaks sometimes before their Ministers begin to Preach whom they commonly thrust out thô one in their own form and sometimes puts her in John Osgood's Celler and there keeps her Prisoner I could said he be glad there was a way found out to make them leave that practice c. I told him I would endeavour it and accordingly I writ to J. O. about it where amongst other things I writ this viz. It is the constant common Law of England That no Man shall be taken imprisoned dis-seized of his Free-hold of his Liberties or free Customs but by the judgment of his Peers which are vulgarly called a Jury from Jurare because they are sworn to do right c. This with much more I wrote to J. O. but it seems notwithstanding what I writ they continue the same practice of thrusting her out of the Meeting still These things considered I was resolved to go to the Meeting well prepared and as I said the rather because they had declared that my offer to meet them to prove matters of fact was but a boast as if I had never intended it which challenge I do here again renew as in Battering Rams p. 19. 29. upon a Months notice and there I gave or offered G. Whitehead a Paper containing this charge following offering publickly before the multitude to prove it against him c. viz. First That G. Whitehead is a deceiver of the People Secondly That he is a false accuser of the Blessed Martyrs charging their Doctrine to be corrupt tending to practical Ranterism and thereby siding with the Papists against the Protestants Thirdly That he is a favourer or an excuser of such principles and practices as border upon Blasphemy and Idolatry But he refusing to take the Paper or to accept the Challenge I then shew'd him the Book Innocency against Envy c. And asked him if he own'd it which for a great while he evaded but at length said he wrote part of it but would not say what part that was not how much of it was his so that his confession signified little only shew'd that he was ashamed of his Partner which is said to be Steph. Crisp yet he hath owned G. Smith who is esteemed as bad a Man or of his work or both or else why did not he own the book wholly as well as a part of it then I shew'd him his Book Judgment fixed c. to which his Name is set at length George Whitehead and I asked him if he was the Author of that Book which he refused to own either in part or the whole which was to me and and others a sufficient discovery of his guilt for as it is written fearfulness surprized the Hippocrite Object Bat possibly some may say we cannot believe that G. Whitehead should refuse to own himself Author of
his Book nor that he should refuse to accept a Challenge and answer a Charge thus publickly given him Answ Indeed had he writ nothing but what was true I believe he would have been forward enough And as to the Charge if he had not been conscious to himself of guilt no doubt but he would have accepted it and made his defence for it had been for the interest of his Cause to have publickly cleared himself in that he was publickly charged But then again on the contrary if he could not have proved what he had wrote to be true but upon Tryal I had proved him guilty of what for many years I have charged him in several of my Books already extant and guilty of the then charge exhibited it would have made such a discovery of the grand Errours deep Hypocrisie gross Lying and manifest Forgeries that it would have given their Cause such a wound as our new sort of Popery never had before which doubtless was the cause why he declined it And that he did both refuse to own his Book Judgment fixed c. and answer the Charge of which there were many Witnesses some of whom have given me a Certificate thereof under their hands which I think fit here to insert that so it may appear that my offer to meet G. W. c. was not a boast or vapour but rather that G. W. was timorous and cowardly and the cause thereof I take to be a guilty Conscience A Coppy of the said Certificate is as followeth viz. WE whose Names are under written do testifie that on the 30th of April 1691. George Whitehead did refuse to own his Book Judgment fixed c. and to answer the recited Charge which was by Francis Bugg exhibited against him Isaac Archer Samuel Knowles William Coe James Webb Thomas Bradbury Robert Bugg Robert Crannise William Mainprise John Papworth Edward Marsh John Prigg Philip Crannise Now this matter being past doubt that they write what they are ashamed to own I wonder with what face these deluders can pretend they are moved of God to write such abominable Lyes such gross Perversions and manifest Forgeries as they do which makes them ashamed to own their said Books One instance of their perversions I may recite out of their Book Innocency against Envy c. p. 1. in answer to The Quakers Detected c. p. 3. where they have grosely abused my Intention and by leaving out 5 words viz. In the beginning they Taught have made me speak what is for their turn saying I confess to their Doctrine viz. That all Men are inlightned by Christ according to John 1.9 and to the sufficiency of this light of Christ to lead to Salvation if obeyed without the help of Mens outward Prescriptions Forms c. A plain confession saith G. Whitehead to the Truth of the Quakers Doctrine Practice Conversation and Deportment and that simplicity and plainness which attended their Ministry c. But let the Reader peruse that Book of mine stiled The Quakers Detected c. p. 5. and there he shall find me far enough from confessing to their then present Doctrine Practice Deportment and Conversation for my words are these Thus have they by their late Doctrine and Example rendred their ancient Doctrine and Example a meer decoy to catch simple Souls by and being once caught it is altogether in vain to plead the sufficiency of the Light of Christ to lead teach and Guide No no the Church now have given forth Rules and Laws and outward Directories and by virtue of her Apostolical Authority she imposes the observation of them upon her Members whether they believe that what she imposes be a duty incumbent upon them yea or nay c. Which shews clearly that thô I did set forth what they held in the beginning yet in that Book I made it appear that they taught the contrary now And what thô Rome was once a Glorious Church endued with sound Doctrine and many other excellent Ornaments yet by her Innovations and mischievous Impositions she is justly deserted and detected and left to bewail her Widow-hood and loss of Children so that there is a great difference betwixt my saying In the beginning they taught sound Doctrine c. and saying the same now when 't is apparent they teach the contrary O how fallacious are they Thus have they dealt by me in great part of their Answer which since they are ashamed to own I shall take the less notice of it Sure their Cause begins to flag and their high boasting is come to a low ebb who are forced to use such tricks and shams to uphold their tottering Kingdom c. But I shall now proceed to make it more evidently appear that they do not teach now as they taught in the beginning that their practice deportment and conversation is not now as in the beginning nor attended with that simplicity and plainness as they seemed to be in the beginning The I. Article against their late Doctrine IN the beginning they taught that all Men were enlightened according to John 1.9 and that this light wherewith Christ had enlightened them was sufficient if obeyed to lead to Salvation without the help of outward Rules Laws and Directories of Mens prescribing But now they teach the contrary as appears by their new Directory made at a General Council held at London 1675. wherein they have declared all People out of the unity of Christ's Church and order of the Gospel who shall either directly or indirectly discountenance Women's Meetings as at large set forth in my Book De Chr. Lib. p. 43 44. The II. Article against their Popish and Antichristian practice IN the begining they taught that to impose any thing upon another Man's Conscience either to do or practice is contrary to Christ's Command yea Antichristian and Romish See Josiah Coal's Book stiled The Whore unveiled c. p. 71 62. And R. Hubberthors Works p. 188. But now they impose on each others Consciences both to do and practice and for Nonconformity record and excommunicate out of the Unity as at large set forth in my Book De Chr. Lib. c. p. 61 62 63. where the Orders for the strict observation of the Womens Meetings distinct and apart from the Men and John Ainslo's Sentence of Excommunication are at large set forth as I took them out of their Quarterly Book for the Isle of Ely The III. Article against their Deportment and Carriage IN the beginning G. Whitehead and many others came throw the Country 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 as the rich working often on their Trades that they might not be chargeable But now they are grown Great and High and instead of a plain grey cloth coat and short hair they are now clothed with the finest of the Fleece the best of hair Camlets well set Perriwigs instead of
the simple And seeing G. F. in his life-time did not put forth a Paper to condemn the said Idolatrous Practices and Deifying Adorations but received and owned them yet if G. W. and other of your Ministers would now do it viz. First as not having unity with G. F's owning and embracing such Titles and Secondly utterly condemn and censure the said Idolatrous Titles c. it would give great satisfaction to the World The VI. Article against their contradictory Practice and Deportment THey sometimes taught that reflecting upon Persons was a mark of a false Prophet and that reflecting upon Persons was never the way to beget to God G. F's Great Mystery c. p. 237. And that to call Names for Religion were no Christians of Christ's making See W. Penn's Address to Protestants c. p. 242. Now that it may appear that you teach one thing and practice contrary thereunto I shall be the larger upon this head since calling of Names seems to have been a principal Pillar in your Building and as natural to your Temper as Meat and Drink as I could sufficiently make appear if I would examine your many contests both with the Episcopalians Presbyterians Independents and Baptists And last of all with such as have separated from you upon sight of your manifold Errors but I shall keep to 3 or 4 of the most eminent instances of your Genuine Temper that the World may see you can as well give the most cursed Names and black Characters to such as oppose you as well as to ascribe Divine Attributes to the Chief amongst you For the first see your Book stiled Truth 's Defence wherein you called Mr. Camelford a Minister these Names in your Answers to his Queries viz. Scarlet-coloured Beast filthy Beast Impudent and Brazen-faced Slanderous Beast Painted Beast Thou art damned openly I charge thee to be a Witch to bewitch the People Brazen-faced thou art for thou art a Beast Thou blind Sot Thou dark Sot c. And p. 81 82. in Answer to some Professors you have these words viz. Thou Enemy of God and Man of Sin for Destruction thou art Ordained to go therein thy fear of it doth begin and the Lake that burneth and the Pit thou art to be turned into eternally thou shalt know me that I speak the truth G. F. Second Instance is in Ed. Burrough's Answer to one Mr. Bennet who propounded some Queries as at large in his Works p 29 30 31. whom you call thus viz. A Reprobate A Child of Darkness thou art The Light condemns thee and all thy Generation eternally we witness thee and thy Generation to be in the Witchcraft and Sorcery thou art Darkness it self thou Reprobate A blind ignorant Sot Thou Blasphemer Thou accursed art made manifest Thou Beast to whom the Plagues of God are due and upon whom his wrath must be accomplished Thou dark blind Hippocrite thou dead Beast thou polluted Beast thou Sorcerer O thou dark Beast and Conjurer who art Querying with thy Conjuring words c. Third Instance of your meek Lamb-like Language if it be proper to call darkness light I shall take out of your Book entituled A threefold Estate of Antichrist c. p. 7 8 9 10. where your terms of the publick Ministry are monstrous which must be on purpose to affright People into a hatred and an utter detestation of them especially such as believe you are endued with an Infallible Judgment as that you know who are Saints and who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a word According to your vain pretensions I say the Names and black Characters you give to all the Publick Ministry run thus The Priests of the World are 1. Conjurers 2. Thieves and Robbers 3. Antichrists 4. Witches 5. Devils 6. Lyers 7. A viperous and serpentine Generation 8. Blasphemers 9. Scarlet coloured Beasts 10. Babylon's Merchants 11. Whited Walls 12. Ravening Wolves 13. Greedy dumb Dogs 14. Eminent and ambitious Pharisees they love the uppermost seats at Feasts and to be perking in the chiefest places in the Synagogues Tho. Aldam Benj. Nicolson John Harwood And who are more in the practice of perking in the cheifest places in the Synagogues than the Quakers Preachers are now Fourth Instance is from your learned Sam. Fisher's Book Rusticus c. where writing against Mr. Baxter Dr. Owen and others of the Presbyterians and which was dedicated to King Charles the Second and all Magistrates rendring the said People as vile and contemptible as 't was possible for you to do calling and comparing them to Lizards Moles Tinkers Red-coats Green-headed Trumpeters rare and base Wheel-barrows Gimcracks Whirlepools and Whirligigs A Moon Calf their Bell has no Metal but the tone of a Kettle capers about quavers up and down like a blind Night-Bat ragged torn thredbare taterdemalions Serpents Vipers grinning Dogs c. See Quakers Detected p. 20. This with abundance more ridiculous and idle Drollery is dedicated as above to King Charles the Second and all Magistrates And what People have they not treated thus Nay the very Martyrs have not escaped their censure And lastly to compleat this Article I will add a few of the Names and black Characters given my self and some other Quakers who have opposed them viz. Beasts Dogs Wolves Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil yea Devils incarnate This is a little of G W's language in his Preface to Judgment fixed c. and his Friend and Fellow Preacher Rob. Sandiland hath somewhat to the same purpose in his Book Righteous Judgment c. p. 97. where he calls us Dark Devil driven dungy Gods Libertines Judases Heathens Atheists c. One would have thought that seeing they have told us Those that call Names for Religion were no true Christians they would not thus have unchristianed themselves by calling these Names and yet alas these are but few in comparison of what they have vented forth against some that for Conscience sake cannot conform to their Ceremonies See a few more of their Curses and Names they give and call us in my Book De Chr. Lib. p. 17 18. to which I refer the Reader But I thank God they have always been to me as the crackling of Thorns under a pot they being void of Christianity Truth or Charity And as for their Answer to Battering Rams 't is of the same Nature and so slender impertinent and short of an Answer as 't is not worth replying too especially since G. W. will not own it only a part of it and what part that was he did not tell us so the less reason to give a reply yet I think it necessary to make some few observations on it And First when I charge them in p. 3 4. with incouraging O. C. and his Army to fighting with carnal Weapons they tell me it was not spoken in the Present Tense but in the Preterpluperfect Tense of which the word have is the Sign and so related to former times when 't
is manifest that their Advice Council Incouragement to Oliver and his Army respected the Present Tense Preterperfect Tense and Future Tense Did not G. Fox say to O. C. Arâ— and come forth c. is not this the Present Tense and of the Imperative Mood which bids and commands and that in the Name of the LORD And more of this I can make appear if need be but by this all may see what poor shifts and manifest evasions they are forced to make use of for as I then said 't is either Lawful to fight or it is not if not then did G. F. and E. B. do ill to incourage O. C.'s Army and Officers to a practice they believed was not Lawful but if Lawful as formerly they seemed to acknowledge â—e Quak. Unmask'd folio p. 3 4 6 9 12. and Sam. Fisher's works p. 19 20. and I can prove not only that you recorded in your Book of Foreign Letters what one of your Ministers said to the Court at Barbadoes viz. We directed all People to the Spirit of the Lord God in them and if that led them to figuâ—â— I had said he nothing against it but also that S. Fisher said viz. he believed or â—â—pected that the People called Quakers would be instrumental by force with others to taâ—â— out or overturn the then Government This he spake to Mr. Osgood after the rising of the Fifth-Monarchy-men and Mr. Pennyman as I am informed Pray ask them if they do not remember it I am sorry you should give occasion for the reminding you of these things then have they greatly abused their People and carried two Faces under one Hood a long time And Secondly when I tell them of their many Salutations Addresses and Prayers for O. C. the late King J. c. and shew their backwardness in their publick Acknowledgments to their present Majesties K. William and Q. Mary whom God preserve they ask me How I come to concern my self What is the matter says G. W. is the Man so swelled so big with conceit so puff'd up c. I answer I am concerned and have cause for it in that many called Quakers are my near Relations and many of the Hearers honest People but have their Eye too much to such Teachers and Leaders as G. W. and his Brethren whose example in this matter as well as in many others go too much for a Precedent with their Hearers therefore for their sakes I could be glad to see you Address your selves to King William and Q. Mary and pray for them as publickly and as heartily as you did for K. James and the former Powers that so the People following your example might be more united in affection to the present Government than I fear many of them are and that chiefly through your example In the Reign of K. J. 2. you were so affected and transported that you published many Books in favour of his Government one after another and sent out your publick Addresses your publick Prayers your frequent Epistles Counsel and Advice c. See Battering Rams p. 8. But since K. W. and Q. M. came to the Crown not One Book not One Epistle not One publick Prayer not One publick Address Nay you have been so far from doing so that you made an ORDER to call in the Widow Whitrow's Books which were writ in favour of the Government and who can but be concerned at these things yea astonished at your ingratitude You are a bad example to your Hearers who are so captivated to you that though they liked the said Books yet when they heard of your ORDER for the calling of them in then they were sent back again and so hindred their spreading More might be said about these matters but I will not insist too much upon this point lest you say I expose you and would set the King against you which is not my desire as well as below the Dignity of his Person Place and Station But why should you so much talk of being exposed I only tell you of your duty and remind you wherein you are short of it that so you may amend for time to come indeed if I should tell the King c. that you were Fiery Fighters that your principles are to defend your selves by the Power of the Sword if I should charge you with Battles Victories Trophies and Blood-thirsty Tyrannical Projects as you have charged the Presbyterians and others withal then you might say I exposed you and if I should call you Lizards Moles Tinkers Beasts Dogs Wolves Conjurers Sorcerers Sots Witches Devils and tell you you are ordained for destruction See W. P's Just rebuke to 21 Divines c. See Edw. Burrow's Works p. 54 55. See your Book stiled The way cast up c. See your Book stiled Saul's Errand c and your Book stiled Truth 's defence c. Quoted in Battering Rams p. 8 9 10. See also Sam. Fisher's Book Ruâ—â—cus c. See your Book stiled Plain and 〈◊〉 Avâ—â—â— to the Preâ—byterians and some-other of your Controversies to be turned into the Pit eternally Scarlet-coloured Beasts Serpents Vipers grinning Dogs c. I say if I should thus call you and expose you then you might well say it was Malice Envy and Prejudice and that I was greatly to blame but since I do not therein follow your example but contrariwise only tell you your duty and which I take to be my duty that so you may amend and follow the example of the Blessed Apostle who said Pray for all Men for Kings c. Quaere Well but some may say though indeed you do not follow their example of cursing and railing of your Adversaries which was always their practice yet you are very sharp upon them and particularly the Titles of your Books as New Rome c. Painted Harlot c. this they take unkindly Answ I must confess I am so but 't is what their practice draws upon themselves if they will follow the steps of the Papists they must be sometimes compared to them this also is done that they may repent of their Errors and that others may not be too hasty in sucking them in being thus faithfully warned and cautioned concerning their Errors deep Hypocrisies and unchristian cursing and railing c. and to justifie my calling them New Rome I shall give these six reasons following which being compared with my fore-mentioned six Articles against their Doctrine Practice Deportment and Conversation And what I wrote in Battering Rams and other my Books I doubt not but there will appear sufficient ground why I compare them to Papists and call them New Rome c. viz. 1. By their cursing and railing Language and giving such Names and Terms to such as oppose them in their pernicious Current and destructive Race as none but Papists are wont to do 2. By giving such Divine Attributes and Blasphemous Titles to G. Fox in his life-time uncondemned and still justified or excused See the