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A30031	New Rome arraigned And out of her own mouth condemned. Containing a farther discovery of the dangerous errors, and pernicious principles of the leaders and teachers of the Foxonian Quakers: which tend to overthrow the Christian faith, to obstruct the Jews conversion, to encourage Mahumetism, and to pervert the right way of the Lord; which whether so or no, deserves the examination and consideration of the Christian ministry of all Protestant Churches, as they tender God's glory, and the good of souls. To which is added, Ten articles of the Christian faith, wrote by Geo. Keith, who was persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian testimony. The second edition, with some alteration and additions, by Francis Bugg. Licensed, June 18th. 1694.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. aut	1693 (1693)	Wing B5377; ESTC R202485	69,734	77

them besides several Gentlemen and others Inhabitants of Wymondham to renew my Challengs to R. Ashby one of your Teachers which was to prove That the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth the Scriptures Christ's Ordinances undervalue his Sufferings exalt your own c. as at large in Quakerism Anatomized p. 2. Which may fully Answer your captious Demands in your Essay p. 7. Viz. June 4 th 1694. Whereas R. Ashby lately wrote to the Inhabitants of Wymondham to beware of Fr. Bugg's Book Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. As containing Lies and false Representations c. Upon which some of us desired Francis Bugg to appear in his own Vindication which he readily consented to and renewed his Charge against the Doctrine and Principles of the Quakers as in the recited Book Quakerism Withering c. And gave the said R. Ashby a Challenge to meet him and a Months time to prepare himself But the Day being come and the said R. Ashby not appearing as it 's said on his behalf by Reason of Business at London Nevertheless to prevent all Excuses on the part of the said R. Ashby we have again requested Francis Bugg to renew his Challenge and to give him longer time to prepare himself assuring him That as we shall stand by Fr. Bugg in what he maintains according to Scripture so shall we be against him where he asserts the contrary or mis-cite and falsly charge the Quakers Tho. Wright William Haws Rich. Clark Robert Purt Roger Gay William Le Neve Lewis Hinton Jacob Henery John Henery Peter Atdam Richard Smith And many others And accordingly I renewed my Challenge pursuant to my former Proposition offering to meet him at Wymondham the 18 th of July 1694. And sent him per Post c. And let none think it strange that the Quakers and their Principles are thus Anatomised and set forth to Posterity For those Histories that have derived to us the Knowledge of those Errors and Heresies which sprang up amongst the Ancient Christians as Tares amongst the Wheat have not been accounted superfluous nor their Respect worn out in several Ages How much the more concerned should all true Christians be to have the knowledge of those born in our own Age brought forth in our own Bowels According to Christ's Prophecy Mat. 24. 24. For tho' G. Fox in his Journal p. 27 28. 30. 103. 170 171. 173. 307. 350. 407. 503 504. pretend to Miracles as in the Third Table under the word Miracle thus viz. Miracles wrought by the Power of God i. e. She that was ready to dye raised up again The Lame made whole The Diseased restored John Jay's Neck brake restored c. And many other pretended Miracles yet not one of them said to be done in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth as in Acts 3. 6. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk Which is a strong Argument of their disowning Jesus of Nazareth and of their confirming their New Religion in Opposition to that of Christs But I have not room to shew the Tendency of those Blasphemous Pretences of that Impostor G. Fox which probably hereafter I may In the mean while I am June 25. 1694. Thy Sincere Friend FRANCIS BUGG The CONTENTS of this Book THE Quakers and Papists pretended Miracles Page 2 G. Fox when living in a Glorified State 4 G. Fox the Quakers Star-branch c. confirmed 5 6. 16 A Treble Observation on a Triple Quaker 9 Geo Keith's Ten Articles of Faith 14 They value and prefer their Books before the Scriptures 11 12 The Quakers Sufferings greater than the Suferings of Christ 9 The Quakers fly from their Word 21. 23 They say the Name Jesus belongs to every Member of the Body i. e. every Believer as well as to Christ the Head 8. 28 Dangerous Consequences of the Quakers Doctrine 31 A Sign to prove the Quakers Sincerity p. 36 A Conference between F. B. and S. Cater 39 A Cage of Unclean and Hateful Birds 50 The Prophesies of the Prophets fulfilled 55 A Discovery of the World's Teachers 47 G. Fox his Epistle or Liturgy sent to be read in Churches 43 Tho. Bilney the Martyr his Christian Doctrine 59 The Quakers read not Scripture but their own Epistles 41 Geo. Keith charges them to hold Dangerous Errors 38 Queries propounded to the Quakers 65 The Conclusion 68 To which is added the Challenge to R. Ashby Books Written by Francis Bugg I. DE Christianae Libertate or Christian Liberty c. II. The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt III. Reason against Railing or Truth against Falshood IV. Innocency Vindicated and Envy Rebuked V. The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted c. VI. Battering Rams against New Rome c. VII One Blow more at New Rome c. VIII New Rome Unmask'd and her Foundation shaken IX New Rome Arraigned and out of her own Mouth Condemned X. Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving XI Quakerism Anatomized or a Challenge to Richard Ashby XII New Rome Arraigned c. The Second Edition Besides a Printed Letter to the Quakers and a Sheet to the Parliament An APOLOGITICAL INTRODUCTION Courteous Reader THERE is scarce any Sect of People how erronious soever they be but they have some Advocates and such too as oftentimes may give just occasion for an Apology for writing against their Errors and more especially when they make such fair Pretences to the Christian Religion as the Quakers of late have done in divers of their Books particularly that entituled The Harmony of the Old and New Testament wherein the Author prefixeth a twofold Preface the one to the Christians the other to the Jews premising two things 1st To wipe off such Aspersions as have been cast upon them as denying Jesus of Nazareth and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Now how far their Book will answer this End unless they make an Ingenuous Retractation of their Errors this Treatise may shew 2dly I have not says this Author transcribed the whole of all those Verses which sometimes is cited but only so much as I conceive doth more immediately relate to c. Very well If then he contract the Scripture and take what he conceives necessary to the Point in hand I hope I shall have the same Liberty and not liable to Censure for the same thing a Fault the Quakers are too much guilty of And because I would be as concise as may be I shall recite their Books which are generally of two sorts of two Stamps and carry two contrary Faces contrary Doctrines contrary Principles c. in two Columns that as in a Glass their Hearers if they will but read may behold the depth of Hypocrisie which lye couch'd in their Leaders Doctrines not only liable to deceive them but the whole World who take them to mean as they say which makes me believe them to be the very Deceivers Christ foretold of Matt. 24 24. for though they come forth pretending to convert the Jews by

as the Quakers do account it sufficient But with that worthy Martyr Dr. Robert Barns say Acts and Mon. p. 610. I believe in the holy and blessed Trinity that created and made all the World 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 that HE suffered thirst hunger and cold which as he was God he could not do mark that old Friends and other Passions of our Bodies sin excepted according to the saying of St. Peter And I believe that this his Death and Passion was the sufficient Ransom for my sins and the sins of the whole World and I believe that through his death he overcame sin death and hell and that there is no other Satisfaction unto the Father but his Death and Passion only and that no Works of Man did deserve any thing of GOD but only Christ's Passion touching our Justification For I know said this humble Martyr that the best Works that ever I did is impure and imperfect And according to the Faith of this worthy Martyr the Publick Ministers teach and I believe not but that Dr. Barns was a good Man walked circumspectly had great regard to the Dictates of his Conscience and the Guidance of the Light abstained from that which was evil and followed that which was good and every way as became a good Man as compleatly as the most perfect Quaker in England notwithstanding their high boasting yet you see he did not lean upon his own Deservings but upon the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ even the Merits of HIS Death who suffered thirst hunger and cold who was born of the Virgin and made like unto us sin excepted c. nor did he pretend to a sinless Perfection as the Quakers vainly boast of but humbly acknowledged that the best Works that ever he did was impure and unperfect and this made him rely and lean wholly upon the Merits of another even the Sacrifice of that Immaculate Lamb Christ Jesus his Death and bitter Passion which the Quakers never preach up as necessary to believe Search all their Epistles read in their Meetings hear all their Sermons if ever you hear such a Passage as came from this humble Martyr I will be your Bond slave And thus have I given an additional Proof that the Quakers are of a different Faith from the Martyrs and all true Christian Churches and when I came to understand these their Fundamental Errours which was after I had wrote three or four Books against them in reproof of their Hypocrisie about outward Ceremonies Church Government their pretending to preach write suffer and do all things freely when alas it was all but a cheat they took Money Gifts and Reward for all nay sometimes as in the Instance of Sam. Cater 10 l. where they suffered not 10 d. See New Rome p. 54. to 68. I say after I had thus been brushing at the outside or skirts of Religion for some years it pleased GOD in mercy to open my understanding and to shew me by the Rule of Holy Writ and through the Assistance of His Holy Spirit the Quakers great and Fundamental Errours and then I could not be silent but that too for the sake of many amongst them who have a Zeal I bear them record though not according to knowledge but was constrained to unmask their blind Guides who have caused them to err And if in my Zeal against their pernicious ways I seem to exceed they of all People may bear with me And now to the Trial now to the Examination Who are the true Ministers and the false who are the Worlds Teachers Alluding to the Quakers distinction whose Maxim is to call all but themselves of the World or the Worlds People or the Worlds Teachers c. and who are the Ministers of Christ And though I dare not pretend to know Gods People so as to give an infallible Character of another Mans state as the Quakers do yet I hope to make a truer Description than they have done But for this I must have a Rule and that Rule must be the Holy Scriptures and by the evident Testimony of that let my Work stand or fall A DISCOVERY OF THE WORLDS TEACHERS 1. The Quakers who teach that the Names JESUS and CHRIST do not properly belong to the Body that suffered upon the Cross at Jerusalem nor preach'd it up as a necessary Article of Faith to believe that Salvation is obtained through the Merits of his Death and Passion They are of the World they are the Deceivers and Antichrists 2. The Quakers who teach that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to the whole Body and to every Member in the Body as well and as amply as to Christ the HEAD are of the World and Deceivers 3. The Quakers who teach that the Body of Christ was of an earthly perishing Nature like ours are of the World and Deceivers 4. The Quakers who adore Mortal Men and give those Divine Attributes to Geo-Fox due only to CHRIST are of the World and Deceivers 5. The Quakers who teach that he that hath the same Spirit which raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD and which Spirit they pretend to have and by it give forth their Epistles c. and therefore of the World great Deceivers and horrible Blasphemers 6. The Quakers who teach that Josiah Coal being dead is ASCENDED and that IN Edw. Burroughs whilst living was THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD and that the FULNESS dwelt in him of Grace and Vertue are of the World and gross Idolaters 7. The Quakers who teach that Geo. Fox's coming out of the North naked not known prophesied of writ from the Mouth of the LORD c. are Deceivers Impostors and of the World 8. The Quakers who teach that the Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter say they and that such are Ministers of the Letter are Ministers of Death which is Serpents-meat that say the Sacraments are dust c. are of the World and great Deceivers 9. The Quakers who teach that it is as justifiable to burn the Bible as the Books wrote by Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead and others of their way are Decivers and impudent Impostors 10. The Quakers that teach that the Scriptures are uncertain and that what the true Prophets say is false and what the false Prophets said is true what good men spake therein is ill applied and what wise men spake therein is ill expressed and that whether Moses or Hermes was the first Penman of the Scripture is uncertain they are false Apostles deceitful Workers and their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith 11. The Quakers who teach in one Book that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are not the New Testament not the Rule for Christians to walk by and teach in another Book lately that the Scriptures are the New Testament Holy Scriptures c. are

without end and to this W. Penn says well done or very well in his Vindication of this Idolatrous Letter of J. C. to G. Fox So that you may conclude with Irenaeus who in his third Book against Hereticks thus 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 Poyson of their foul Opinions Now therefore the best method that I know of to try whether there be any sincerity in these cunning Sophisters G. W. c. IS to take William Penn's method with the Papists who after he had shewed their pretence to one thing when they were really for another first said W. P. Let them renounce their Errours and then let us hear what they will say A short instance of his method I may recite in answer to the Objection A Seasonable Caveat against Popery c. p. 3. They i. e. Papists are grown so complaisant as none seem more exasperated at Persecution than themselves WHILST THE VERY FATHERS OF IT decrying the fierceness of some Countries WHOSE INCENDIARIES THEY WERE AND STILL ARE and imputing the Blood of poor Protestants to some unwarrantable Civil soore THEREBY ABUSING THE MAGISTRATE WITH THE EXECUTION OF THEIR OWN CONSPIRACIES Nay for all their venerable esteem of the Popes Infallibility they have not stuck to censure his roaring Bulls THOUGH PROCURED BY THEIR OWN MEANS and all that might express their new tenderness that many unacquainted with their practices are ready to believe them what they say themselves to be whose Moral is to have two strings to their Bow to be ambo dexter and furnisht with meanings to sute the compass of all occasions Thus far W. P. And whoever observes these Quakers turnings and windings in all their Juglings and Ledjerdemain will find they tread the same Path tho' in another manner for who will or can pretend more plainly to own the Precepts and Doctrine of the Bible to be holy and blessed and yet in other Books say 't is dust and death the Serpents Meat and that to preach out of them is Conjuration and that the Minister of the Letter is the Minister of Death and that 't is dangerous to read the Scriptures and so in most things they look two ways JANUS like insomuch that for W. Penn's four Instances of the Papists Hypocrisie I could easily give you forty of these Quakers two-fac'd Practices looking one way and rowing another in short see W. P.'s Method and if you would understand these Quakers aright use it viz. p. 35. To conclude says W. Penn if we would not receive a Thief until he has repented let the Papists first Recant his volumous Errours c. And so say I let the Quakers first condemn their Errours and these their Books which contain them and manifest their sincerity touching the Precepts and Doctrines of the Scriptures SO as to recommend the reading some Portion thereof in lieu of their own Epistles I say let them first Recant what is really erronious secondly condemn the Books thirdly make a a solemn profession of some certain and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith and then and not whilst then they ought to be reputed as Christians As to what G. W. offers in his Charitable Essay c. p. 2 3. in your Vindication about you Creed cited by me in New Rome c. rather confirms what I say then otherwise as will more fully appear by comparing the same with what followeth in this Discourse as well as shew G. W's twelve Assistants their great Errour and Mistake And in answer to them and their blind false and implicite Certificate I do affirm that what I have quoted as the Quakers I will prove theirs and what I now quote under the Title of ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES and in other places are the Quakers own Books and Writings neither do I wrong them And if the twelve will ingage under their Hands either to prove what they can justifie by Scripture and condemn under their Hands what they by Scripture cannot justifie I will take the like number and meet them on a Months notice at Bishop Stafford which is more than half way and by the Testimony of Scripture let the matter be decided and if you refuse this for shame complain no more of being wronged neither let your Drudge G. W. as in his Just Inquiry c. p. 14. says as he doth viz. THE LIBELLER HAS SHAMEFULLY MISREPRESENTED US as is usual with you and all Hereticks to complain of being wronged and misrepresented c. As for instance 1. Tell the Papists of worshipping Images praying to Saints the Sacrifice of the Mass that they believe their own Traditions or Epistles as firmly as they do the Bible that they believe Transubstantiation Indulgencies c. as drawn up by Pius the Fourth according to the Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent and the CONSEQUENCES of these their erronious Principles and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED 2. Tell the Arians that they are Enemies to the Divinity of Christ they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for say they all that we contend for is only for such a moment of time as may make good the Relation of a Father and a Son 3. Tell the Nestorians that they made two Persons in Christ and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for all they designed was to avoid the Blasphemy in calling the blessed Virgin the Mother of God 3. Tell the Eutychians their Errour in saying there was but one Nature in Christ and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for say they we do not mean thereby to destroy the Properties of the Humane Nature but only to assert that its Substance was swallowed up by the Divine And therefore in all Complaints of this Nature it is necessary to come to particulars and to examin with care and diligence the matter complained of and then to give Judgment in the Case and therefore I cannot be thought to misrepresent you nor wrong you if I charge you with Particulars and those Particulars too taken and fairly quoted not out of such Books as have been wrote against you which yet might be true enough but out of your own approved Books wrote by your most Authentick Writers solemnly professing to all the World I would not wrong you nor misrepresent you nor to my knowledge have I done it if you think I have I have given you a fair opportunity to make it appear if you will meet me on the Condition aforesaid and if you can shew me wherein I have I further ingage to do you Justice by a Publick Reparation And by these Measures I have proceeded from first to last and by the help of GOD I am resolved so to continue as long as I have to do with you But one thing by the way I would have you take notice of and that is

this If it were enough to be Accused then none would be Innocent so on the other hand none would be guilty if it were enough to complain of being misrepresented July the 25 th 1693. Francis Bugg To write no more I long since did intend But none but GOD knows now when I shall end For still I find when I think all is done As much to write as when I first begun NEW ROME ARRAIGNED And out of her own Mouth CONDEMNED The PREFACE READER EDw. Burrough long since put forth a Challenge in the Name of the Quakers that they would gladly be manifest to all the World and in order to it and to clear themselves from some Imputations cast upon them they proposed to meet and Dispute with any whether Priests or People of any Perswasion yea or any one of them at any Place and at any Time and for what Number they pleased as by me recited in my last New Rome unmasked c. p. 2. Upon which I went to their Meeting in Mildenhall Nov. 22. 1691. and there accepted of their Challenge and told them I had a Charge to exhibit against them if they would ingage to vindicate themselves and their Principles Tho. Brewster a Quaker then present bad them Answer me with silence So then I read the Charge to them consisting of ten or twelve Errours as in New Rome c. p. 3 4 5. and left a Copy of the said Charge with them and told them That if they did not answer me according to their Proposition that I should expose them which I was loath to do for the sake of some amongst them But no answer could I get After which I printed c. and when my Book came out I went again to their Publick Meeting and renewed my Charge on the 20th of Nov. 1692. and offered then to prove it against them where was present Sam. Cater and John Cade two of their Preachers But still they refused to debate the matter with me or to argue the Point fully I told them I did not come to disturb them but if they would set a time either S. C. and my self singly or let him take two four six or ten and I would take the like number and we would appoint a convenient time and place This they refused and to this day have declined any such method though proposed by them in print and now at last I have received a single sheet stiled A Charitable Essay c. which neither they nor I can call an Answer only in p. 8. Twelve of the Duakers sums up in gross four Particulars by way of Certificate and at the end thus concludes viz. Whereupon we do in the holy fear of Almighty God and in behalf of the said People declare and testifie That all these and all other his F. Bs. Accusations of the same kind or depending thereupon are utterly false wicked and malicious and never so believed so said nor so affirmed by us as charged against us but contrary to our Perswasion Principle and Profession c. Behold the Answer of these Twelve Elders is contained in less than half a Page and how far their plain Say-so will prevail against plain Matter of Fact unless with their own infatuated Disciples let the wise in heart judge And in answer to this said Certificate I do thus say That to my knowledge I have not set down one Line nor Word as theirs that is not theirs nor yet raised one Argument upon theirs but may naturally be drawn from the Premises and if they think I have I with the like number will upon reasonable notice meet them at any place within twenty Miles or more of my dwelling and produce both Book and Page and if they can shew me wherein I have wronged them I will make them publick Satisfaction on condition that if what I have wrote as their Principles be by me so proved that then they will condemn what is apparently Erronious and as this will be a fair opportunity for them if they think themselves wronged as they pretend to clear themselves from my Accusations as they call them so will they have an opportunity to manifest Francis Bugg to be both wicked and malicious yea and I will also subscribe to this their Sentance if I do not clear my self and fully prove my Charge against them But as a sign that they do not think nor believe themselves so wronged as they pretend although I do not pretend to their Art of Prophesying yet I do and dare pass my word that they will never meet me and subscribe the Condition aforesaid And I have no other reason thus to believe but that I know first 't is their way to make a large Protestation of their avowed Innocency when Guilty and that secondly I know they cannot but be conscious of great guilt in denying and out-facing such manifest Truths as in that half Page they have done As to G. Whitehead in the Introduction I have taken some little notice of him and what he hath said which is but little being not a sheet neither hath he taken notice of the twentieth part of my Book so that it still stands unanswered and unshaken by their peny Rattle which they have put forth to please their Disciples for something they must say or the People will cry Where is the Answer to F. B's Book and so I proceed to the Charge THE CHARGE 1. The Quakers denies him who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered death upon the Cross at Jerusalem who rose again the third day and ascended into Heaven in the sight of the Galileans to be Christ the Saviour of the World 2. They deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptuously of them and over-valuing their own Books 3. That their Teachers are Deceivers of the People Favourers of Blasphemy Excusers of Idolatry and of a different Faith from the Apostles Primitive Christians and blessed Martyrs and that their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith REMARK This is the Charge which I publickly exhibited this is the Charge I offered to prove against them which as it is heavy so it stood them upon to have defended themselves if they had been able so to do since they had two of their Preachers present besides hundreds of People to bear witness what passed Nay though conscious to themselves of being guilty as that I take to be the very reason of evading a Dispute yet notwithstanding it had been for their interest if they had been humble and for Truth and Righteousness as they pretend who upon Conviction of their Errours ought to have made open Confession thereof to GOD's glory as was the practice of the ancient Martyrs upon a sight of the Papists Superstitions in which they had walked However since they would not accept of the said Challenge nor yet meet me according to my frequent Proposals nor answer my Book but come only out with a single sheet and tell their People this is an Answer

Interests and all to such a Make-bate such a continual contentious Scribler who in nine Months wrote three Books against me and since I wrote my last hath wrote three more against me and others Are you not sensible what pretences he makes in his Books to Charity to Seriousness to Sincerity and yet void of all Have you not taken notice of his late little Book about the great Divisions amongst the Quakers in Pensilvania intituled The Christian Doctrine and Society of the Quakers c. wherein he carries two faces in one Hood hold with the Hare and run with the Hound as the Proverb is writes against writing that 's his main design And if writing be a fault who more guilty than G. W. for in that Book he peeps and creeps he turns and winds this way and that way hither and thither but centers no where but JANUS like looks two ways for he seems to own Geo. Keith's Doctrine but dare not own his Testimony nor him in it he seems to blame the Doctrine of Fitzwater Young and Lloyd but dare not blame their Persons nor give Testimony against their Doctrine as theirs they being of the Foxonian Party and one with him in the ground and in those Fundamental Errours For said Fitzwater The Plea c. p. 4. God that died in us and laid down thy life in us and took it up again And Rob. Young affirmed that when Christ ascended he was separated from his Body And Tho. Lloyd who said p. 5. That Faith in Christ without us as he died for our sins and rose again was not necessary to our salvation c. Now had G. W. been plain and against these Errours he ought to have reprov'd these Persons sharply and joined with G. Keith against them in his charging them with such Damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils as was no where tollerated in any Christian Society but only amongst the Quakers The Plea c. p. 11. I say had he been sincere he would have been plain as G. Keith is and not to come out so smooth and demure saying Why do you thus write why do you thus amuse the World and trouble the World with such bitter treatment complaining bitterly of Rents Schisms and Divisions Come on what can you say why do you let him alone why do you not unmask and discover this subtil Fox and uncharitable George and insincere Whitehead out of his Hole and Den where he lies lurking writing and scribling and neither studies Events nor fears Effects and make him be plain And if G. Keith c. in your opinion who preaches up and holds forth the Death and Sufferings and meritorious Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ as necessarily to be believed in order to our salvation be right why then does not G. W. stand by him and his Friends in this their sound Testimony But if G. W. be one with Fitzwater and the Foxonian Quakers that there is no other Christ than in them no other Crucifiction than within no other Resurrection than within no other Heaven nor Hell than within us as quoted in New Rome unmasked c. p. 89. Why does he not joyn with Fitzwater Lloyd c. against Geo. Keith c. let him be plain in his next let him not thus halt between two Opinions If Geo. Keith c. be right let Geo. Fox his Books be burnt and your Epistles burnt wherein they do not teach that the Sufferings of Christ and his meritorious Death and Passion and the Imputation of his Righteousness are necessary Articles of the Christian Faith in order to Salvation No a thousand of your Epistles read in your Meetings will afford no such Doctrine nor no Confession of Sins nor no asking Pardon for his sake And why do you suffer him to complain of bitter Treatments Rents Schisms and Divisions whoever treated their Opposers with such bitter Language as the Quakers have done whoever made greater Rents and Divisions in Church and States in Towns and Families than the Quakers have done And why do you let him thus complain of printing and troubling and amusing the World with printing when you know no People print more nor take the like care to disperse their Pamphlets when printed witness your Orders for sending two of each sort to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in the Country their sending them out by Pack-horses to Markets and Fairs as was the practice of Jos and Ben. Townsend to my knowledge who send their Epistles to be read in all Meetings in England Scotland Ireland Holland Mariland Barbadoes nay I understand by your last yearly Epistle that you have got footing in Germany why then do you suffer him to act thus prepostrously to chide others for his own fault to deal thus deceitfully in almost all things you can mention Are you not ashamed of these things what have you not a spark of that honesty you pretend to if you have blow it up and let it become a flame to burn up this heap of Hypocritical Rubbish that at last we may rightly understand what a Quaker is THE SECOND CHARGE II. THE Quakers DENY THE SCRIPTURES 1. BY SPEAKING CONTEMPTUOUSLY OF THEM AND 2. BY OVER-VALUING THEIR OWN BOOKS REMARK Reader this Branch of the Charge is more than sufficiently proved already but by reason of some little Argument which passed between me and Sam. Cater and John Cade two of their Preachers at the Meeting when I exhibited the said Charge Nov. 20. 1692. touching the Scriptures and that thereby their shuffling equivocating and evading may be the more manifest and particularly G. W's twelve Men which he hath got to testifie on the behalf of the Quakers that they never said never believed nor never affirmed the Scriptures to be Dust Death Serpents-meat I say for this reason for as I said I shall spare none I may recite an astonishing Confutation of these Infallible Doctors c. Fr. Bugg Come Sam. Carter will you accept of this Charge and appoint a time ten twenty days or a month hence you and I singly or if you will take four six or ten of your side I will take the like number Let me know your Answer and I will be gone I do not come to disturb you but to charge you with your Errours c. Sam. Cater There is no end of Disputing with thee neither shall I undertake it F. Bugg Why not If I fail of proof to make good my Charge you will have the Victory and it will tend to the honour of your Cause And you may be glad of the opportunity to manifest F. Bugg since you say he charges you falsly S. Cater Thou maist be gone we have other business to do than to Answer thee F. B. Well if you will not accept of the Charge nor set a time when to argue the Point I shall proceed to read the second part of my Charge which is your denial of the Scripture by calling it Death Dust and Serpents-meat c.

who fulfilled all which was written of HIM by the Prophets What can you not call HIM CHRIST O ye Blasphemers And now you cry out and say What do you meddle with the dead i. e. G. Fox why do you print and amuse and trouble the World what are you ashamed to hear of your Blasphemies are you ashamed to hear your pernitious Principles discovered and your damnable Heresies rip 't up and laid open Is not Pilate dead many Idolatrous Popes dead what then must we not continue their Crimes and shew their Villanies Is not Arius dead and many Hereticks dead must we not therefore write against the Arians and shew the tendency of his pernitious Principles which grow as Seeds sown by the wicked one But by Whitehead's Learning we must not remind the World of these Idolators and Persecutors that others may be aware of such as hold the same Tenets What does your Profession begin to stink as Geo. Keith truly says and become nauseous to your own Noses then use just means to bury it by a genuine Retractation or else call for no silence for if you do I will joyn with Bishop Hall in the saying of that Heroical Luther CURSED BE THE SILENCE THAT HERE FOR BEARETH For I am not now as M. Luther once said writing against the Papists picking at the Rind but plucking at the Root even at the Foundation of your Errours and that makes you angry and fret and chafe But all is to no purpose no peace so long as the whoredoms of Jezebel remain Repent therefore and amend that is the way to find mercy with GOD. Retract and renounce your Errours by some publick and general Act and that is the way to silence the Pens of HIS Servants or else it will be as Mr. Penyman lately told you in your Meetings in London viz. That a fire is kindled that cannot be quenched for the burning is of the great and mighty GOD. But why do I talk of Repentance since in Scripture I find Confession is the fore-runner of Repentance and Confession you cannot abide as I have already observed For let any man read a thousand of your Epistles and they shall not find one Confession of Sin nor asking Pardon for Christ's sake And let any man go to a thousand of your Meetings and they shall never hear any one of your Ministers make Confession of Sins and beg Pardon for the same which is enough if no more could be said against you to prove you of a different Faith and practice from the Prophets and Apostles Saints and Martyrs and all good Christians to this day as well as to shew that you are in the steps of the Pharisees Read Luke 18. 11 12. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself O. GOD I thank thee that I am not as other men Extortioners Unjust Adulterers or even as this Publican I fast twice in the week I give tythe of all I possess c. Here is the perfect Pharisee and the perfect Quaker in perfect Unity Here is no Confession of Sin here is no asking Pardon for Sin nor no smiting upon the Breast saying God be merciful to me a poor sinner as the Publican did And that I may not leave this without a President for I love to keep to matter of fact pray take a view of one of the Quakers Prayers in print I mean that perfect Pharisee G. Whitehead in his Book Judgment fixed c. Thou knowest O Lord that though thou hast endued me with a Christian Spirit and with Faith Patience and Rejoycing under all my Sufferings and Tribulations for thy Names sake yet Thou hast also endued me with a Spirit of righteous Judgment Understanding and Zeal for thy holy Name c. And though this Prayer contains near five Pages yet not one word of Confession of Sin not a word of begging Pardon for Christ's sake but like the proud Pharisee Thou hast endued me with righteous Judgment with Understanding with Zeal He is not as other men And read all their printed Papers and you will find them of the same tendency and not like the Prayers of GOD's People in any Age or Generation as in my last New Rome c. I have largely made appear from the Example of the Prophets Apostles and worthy Martyrs To whom let me add one Example of worthy Thomas Bilny as in Fox's Acts and Mon. p. 467 468. O mighty power of the most High which I also MISERABLE SINNER have often tasted and felt c. And when this Prayer was ended he in the next Page goes on thus Verily when the New Testament was first set forth by Erasmus I bought it by the Providence of GOD and at the first reading as I remember I chanced upon this sweet Sentence of St. Paul 1 Tim. 1. 15. It is a true saying and worthy of all men to be imbraced that Christ Jesus came into the World to save sinners of whom I am the chief and principal This one Sentence through GOD's Instruction did so exhilerate my heart being before wounded with the Guilt of MY SINS And THEREFORE with ALL MY WHOLE POWER I TEACH that ALL MEN should first acknowledge their sins and condemn them and afterwards hunger and thirst after righteousness c. O the Christian temper and heavenly frame of this worthy Martyr worthy our Imitation First He acknowledged himself a miserable sinner and therefore the fitter Object for Mercy Secondly O how he rejoyced at the Confession of St. Paul who not only acknowledged himself a sinner but the CHIEF of sinners that thereby he might magnifie the rich Mercy of GOD in Christ Jesus He was not like Solomon Eccles who in his Musick Lecture p. 22. said I do affirm that if John the Apostle had said he had been a sinner he had lied No no this Martyr did not account St. Paul a lier though he would have had as much reason for St. Paul came not behind the chiefest of the Apostles Well but this is not all but as St. Paul was thus humbled to make this Confession and thus joyful at this worthy saying that Christ came into the World to save such penitent sinners so this worthy Martyr resolved to make it a Rule in Divinity saying And therefore with all my WHOLE POWER I teach that ALL MEN should ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR SINS c. Thus have I shewed the practice of the Martyrs and if you read the Scriptures in the Margent you may find it sutable to the practice of GOD's People from the beginning the Quakers only excepted who manifest themselves thereby as well as in an hundred things more that I could mention if need were that they have a Spirit not beyond but contrary to the Spirit of the Prophets Apostles and Martyrs yea and all true Christians to this day And although I am not designed to strive much about words in answer to your Glossings but rather choose to rip up and discover your Errours and to load you with

will you then if I shall them inlarge The Conolusion by way of Exhortation FRiends Let me exhort you to beware of the Doctrine of the Pharisees I mean of the Quakers which is Hypocrisie I have read of the Heresies of the Gnosticks Nicolaitans Donatists and others but none seem to me to be those Christ foretold of Matth. 24. 24. which should if it were possible deceive the very Elect so evidently as the Quakers for how have they prevailed how have they deceived high and low noble and ignoble and yet to me it seems easie to write a History of their rise growch and progress of their Church Government and that MONSTER Womens Meetings how when and by whom and by what Authority carried on and how the Spirit of Persecution hath been amongst them from the beginning sixty six in number of G. Fox's Party against sixty seven of John Stoy and John Wilkinson's Party Quakers against Quakers Councel against Councel until Geo. Keith one of their most Learned Preachers hath been constrained to testifie against their Errours charging them with Damuable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils yea even such as no Christian Society would tolerate And I knowing these things also cannot but warn all People to beware of their Glossings and deceiveable Paintings For they will direct you to the Light bid you be obedient to it tell you 't is sufficient to lead you to Salvation that its teaching is above Councels above Churches above Fathers and Scriptures but in all this they act but the part of a Juggler 't is only to decoy you over to them they do not so think that thus advise and counsel you for if you refuse Conformity to their Orders and Prescriptions alledging the Light to which they directed you doth not lead you thereunto pleading to be left to the Grace of GOD in thy self they that thus at first directed you to this Light will now tell you your Plea is Sordid Ranterism and pernitious to the Christian Religion See their Book stiled A brief Examination of Liberty Spiritual c. p. 3 11. 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 died in vain so do they not believe it sufficient by their rejecting your Plea wherefore be impartial in your search take the Apostles advice Prove all things search the Scriptures and hold fast that which is good A wise man saith Solomon will search out a matter And what is of more concern than the Christian Religion God of his mercy confound all Errours and manifest all Impostors and Deceivers and give the Victory to his Truth and Glory to his Name Amen Mildenhall Sept. 20. 1693. Fra. Bugg * i. e. The first Impression * A London Minister * A little like M. Fox the Story you may possibly have hereafter more at large * Aluding to Bethlehem read Micah 5. 2. Matt. 2. 5 6. * Which by Interpretation was all that professed Jesus of Nazareth and that called the Scriptures the Word of God c. † Here is not only great Miracles pretended but the Work of the Angels ‖ Here is excellent words for themselves yea compared to the Virgin Mary Luke 1. 28 48. * Quer. Why then should you be pitied or spared † Meaning both Gentry and Clergy and Church of England ‖ Quer. Why may not the little Whore have the Dregs of the like Cup * They understand the Plural Number † These were the Usurpers G. W. mention'd who defended the Ch. of Engl. against the Venom of Quakerism * Come G. W. do you think the False Prophets as you count the Clergy will help you no you may call and cry weep and wall but there is no Advocate among them for you until you condemn these your impudent Prophecies † If so why do you call and cry to them to stop me from discovering your Abominable Errors and shewing your Villanies * Thus Reader you see Christ denied which confirm all their foregoing Doctrine by which they deny Jesus of Nazareth to be the Christ of God for say they the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ † Christ's Sufferings and Satisfaction undervalued and made of no effect if he was Finite as W. P. says * See the Cage p. 50. * No take heed of that Judge all the World first and call them all the Names you can invent F. B's Charge against the Quakers F. B's first Charge The Quakers first Errour * Then not in them in the Quakers sence no no otherwise then by Faith nor no otherwise to this day for Christ said at His last Supper ME ye have not always its expedient that I go away but when I am gone I will send the Comforter The Quakers second Errour * viz. The Light in them or Christ that suffered on the Cross This is the Question observe his Answer Acts 13. 35. The Quakers third Errour Contrary to the express Testimony of holy Writ See Matth. 1. Luke 2. and 1 2 3 4 5 7 and 10th Chapter of the Acts c. * A Quest c. p. 22. * I inlarge the more on this Subject out of this Book by reason of the impudency of the Certificates handled by twelve Persons in G. W's Charitable Essay p. 8 O dreadful to deny what they know to be true is the most abominable thing that can be And this I charge upon them as a pack of false Witnesses and perjured Persons for their Solemn Protestation ought to be as binding as an Oath and the breach of it as punishable * Pray who do you account this Branch if not G. Fox for he came out of the North and as he said himself was prophesied of I say who else did you assign these Titles to i. e. the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness was it to G. Fox or the Light in him Pray distinguish in your next You are excellent at the Art of distinguishing for till then I can assign your Attributes to no other * Here was sad killing cutting and destroying not to spare Ox or Ass 'T is well they meant no other than what was within them as also all their Miracles are Mysteries Fancies Whimseys all within your Heaven Hell and Devils all within their Swords and whole Train of Artillery within * Though 't was not for printing sake but because such printing exposed their Antichristian Principles and great Divisions beyond the Seas * I do except G. Keith and his Friends as in New Rome unmasked p. 69 70 71. * G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 33 82 107. * De Praescr l. 1. c. 13. It is also called the Rule of Faith by Origen * Firebrand c. 2d part p. 87. G. F. J. B. Psal 51. 2 3 90. Job 7. 20. Lam. 3. 41 42. Isa 64 6. Dan. 9. 4. to the end 1 John 1. 8. 1 Tim. 1. 15. Rom. 7 Luke 11. 4. 1 King 8. 46. to 49. Psal 32. 5. Jer. 14. 20. Jam. 5. 16. Eccles 4. 26. Prov. 28. 13. Neh. 1. to the end Ezra 9.