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A30042 The Quakers yearly metting [sic] or convocation impeached on the behalf of the Commons of England by Francis Bugg. Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724? 1695 (1695) Wing B5391; ESTC R23821 7,431 10

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surely it must be either because he hath not Charity to think there is six ten or ●welve moderate men to be chosen out of them all or else that he was conscious to himself that the Quakers Principles are so erroneous their Books so blasphemous as that I had not wronged them either in Charge Citation or Observation See Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving p. 1. to 12. And since I came to London this present May 1695. I presented their Yearly Meeting with certain Accusations against George Whitehead the Substance of which is as follows viz. 1. That G.W. is a continual contentious Scribler guilty of giving base and skurrilous names as Beasts Dogs Wolves Devils Incarnate c. 2. That George Whitehead is guilty of vindicating his own and h●s Brethrens Books which teach to deny Jesus of Nazareth to be Christ and the efficient Cause of Man's Salvation To deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptuously of them calling them Death Dust and Serpents Meat That to Preach out of them is Conjuration That it is doubtful whether Moses or Hermes was the first Penman of the Holy Scriptures or whether either or neither preferring their own Books and Epistles before the Scriptures To slight neglect and despise the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper To under value the Death and Sufferings of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ exalting their own Sufferings as greater and more unjust 3. That G. Whitehead is a publick Defamer a wicked Forger a wilful Lyer a gross Perverter a false Glosser a great Deceiver of the People a Counterfeit Christian a Scandal to Christianity These things I have and now again I offer to make good against him before any six ten or twelve moderate men of Sense and common Reason equally chosen by us both out of the Episcopalians Presbyterians Independants and Baptists or out of any one of those four Societ es always excepting against Quakers and Muggletonians and do desire that you may bring him forth and put him to Answer like the wise Woman of Abel● Not that I would have you throw his Head over the Wal● No but either let him acknowledge his Wickedness Retract the Errours in his own and his Brethrens Books which he hath vindicated or else let 24 of the chief amongst you come forth and Condemn the same under your Hands upon proof thereof made to you if not I shall take it for granted that you stand by him and justifie him in his Abominations and thereupon I shall Impeach your Yearly Meeting and maintain your Proceedings to be against the Fundamental Laws of the Land Object But grant they will not come forth and meet you upon these reasonable terms nor suffer their Brother Whitehead in regard they foresee their Books are erroneous their Principles dangerous tending to subve●t the Christian Faith and that the natural consequence of such a Meeting would necessitate a Retractation which would be the utter ruin of Quakerism yet for Peace sake is it not better to let them alone who in time will fall of themselves for what is not of God cannot stand long Answ I have not room in this sheet fully to answer the Obj●ction But it sufficeth that we have the Example of the Apostles and Martyrs as a Cloud of Witnesses who did not assent nor tamely suffer that Woman Jezabel to teach and seduce the Nations but as Instruments in God's hand witnessed against all kind of Heresies in their day and many of them sealed their Testimony with their Blood And what Hereticks ever held greater Errors than the Quakers and prevail'd more with the People to suck them in even whilst the Wise and the I earned take little notice of their growth and the danger of it I grant the Ari●n Heresie continued long even 300 years before it dwindled and withered away and lamentable were the consequences of it yet they were witnessed against by divers Bishops and Learned Men. The Pope and his Superstitions have not gone on without many Testimonies against the dangerous consequences of his Errours and that with good Success too Our famous John Wickliff an Oxford Scholar as History saith wrote more than 200 Volumes against the Pope and his Religious Orders yet none but Papists accounted him a contentious Apostate No he was an eminent Instrument in the hand of God and I hope we have some such Scholars still in that and the other famous University who as they become sensible of the dangerous Errours of our Quicksilver Tribe I mean NEW ROME and know where to fix upon them and their invisible Tenets which at present they mask under disguise pretending to own in Words being examined what by their Books they deny And indeed their Books are of two sorts and carry two faces the one to the World the other to be read only amongst their Friends as I elsewhere have largely manifested insomuch that 't is hard to know a Quaker who as Irenaeus of old said in his third Book against Hereticks viz. Whilst Hereticks speak like the faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poison of their foul Opinions c. Insomuch that what the Learned Dr. Stillingfleet now Bishop of Worcester said in his Discourse of Idolatry c. p. 282. is more than probable vi● Yet any one who compares them i. e. Quakers and Jesuits would imagin the Life of Ignatius had been their great Exemplar I know not said the Dr. whether any of that Innocent and Religious Order of the Jesuits had any hand in forming this new Society amongst us as hath been frequently suggested but if one may guess the Father by the Child's likeness Ignatius Loyola the Founder of the Jesuits was at least the Grandfather of the Quakers c. Of which more hereafter if need be However our famous Wickliff pav'd the way for great Luther in Germany who was wonderfully carried on even as upon Angels wings who both by word and writing testified against the Pope and his holy Cheats which made the Papists rave and roar fret and fume calling him Apostate Self-condemn'd Apostate insomuch that all mens minds stood as it were upon their Tiptoes to see the Issue of Pope Leo's rage and brave Luther's courage who went on undauntedly writing many Books and by verbal Disputations until he finished both his Days and Testimony of whom Beza said Rome tam'd the World the Pope tam'd Rome so great Rome Rul'd by Power the Pope by deep Deceit But how more large than theirs was Luth●r's Fame Who with one Pen both Pope and Rome doth tame Go fictious Greece go tell Alcides then His Club is nothing to great Luther's Pen. POSTSCRIPT NOte Reader that as their Books are of two sorts so are their Meetings at one sort the Doors stand open that all may go in and hear some general Truths a little mixt with Nonsence and Errour the other sort viz. their Yearly Meetings the Doors shut and a Guard to keep out and let in whom they please for I was willing to appear at New Romes Yearly Meeting to demand Justice against G. Whitehead who pretended to meet me before any six ten or twelve men to make it appear that I had wronged them in Charge Citation and Observation yet refused but they would not let me come into their Meeting which shews tha● New Rome grows timerous and that her Foundation is shaken and that her two Pillars upon which she leans to wit Infallibility and Perfection begin to totter and shake so that she cannot stand long Francis Bugg LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by John Guillam in Bishopsgate-street 1695.