those times there was divers Books in Print of all the Priests that were sequestred and the Reasons why also there was a Pamphlet in Print much admired by some of the Priests of those times and their Followers entituled Lambeth Fair proclaim'd c. It was a meer Fiction much like F. Bugg's New Rome Arraigned This Fair was pretended to be kept at the Bishop's Palace at Lambeth where the Bishop's Pontifical Robes were to be Sold naming every particular of them with great Derision In the Front of this Scurrilous Pamphlet was the Picture of the Pope setting all on a heap in a Chair with these following Verses under it Here I sit grubling in St. Peter's Chair Opprest with Grief to think on Lambeth-Fair In those days the Common-Prayer-Book was tied to the Troopers Horses Tails in some places and the Boys run after it this made Sport for those Priests that clamoured against it in the Pulpit and their Followers this was F. Bugg's established Church and Ministry that he Clamours so much against the Quakers for their going into their Steeple-Houses in many of his Books I never heard that the Quakers so called disturbed the Episcopal Clergy in their Worship by going in amongst them they only disturbed F. Bugg's established Ministers of the late professing times I remember when King Charles II. came in and the other Government was turned out the Chancellor made a Speech in the Parliament-House which was printed wherein he declared the sad Condition the Church of England was in for many Years and used this Expression that She had been buried in her own Rubbish for a long time This shews She was Subject to Accidents it must be her Moderation and the Divine Wisdom that can uphold her If She be good in her Office She will stay the longer in it Lye 18. If Friends were so charitable as to send S. Cater 10 l. to help to pay his Debts or carry on his Trade they did well better than F. Bugg in upbraiding him Reply This hath been answered already see my Book p. 40 41. He hath worried S. Cater about this 10 l. in divers of his Books and not one Penny of it out of his Purse if he had any Money sent him But F. Bugg says When did they or I account S. Cater a Beggar an Indigent Fellow a Judas a Man of a Desperate Fortune Because you supplied His Needs and help'd to pay his Debts Reply S. Cater never went about a begging either with Certificate or Petition nor any other ways there was no Beggars in Israel of Old neither is there any Beggars in the True Church now the weighty things of the old Law are not Abolished but fulfilled in our making Provision for our Poor without Begging S. Cater hath been a great Sufferer divers ways and times not only by Fines but Imprisonment seven or eight times and a Prisoner six Years together at one of these times not suffered to stir out of the Prison doors for three Years or more and at this time he had a Wife and two or three small small Children to provide for and in this condition his Friends could not with good Conscience see him want F. Bugg says in p. 8. How came you so bold as to meddle with the Bishop's Certificate Reply It was to undeceive the Bishop and others that had been deceived by him and some other Concerns also that may be found in my Book p. 63 to 66. After he had clamoured against the Quakers many lines and repeated some things as have been answered already about his Losses by the Quakers and his defrauding a near Relation of 15 l. see my Book p. 51 to 54. then he says Come Cousin Docwra for so I 'll call you since we had the misfortune to have a Lyar drop into our Family Reply This F. Bugg is not related to me nor my Husband my Husband was descended from the Hartford Docwra's known by the name of the Docwra's of Puttridge there are three Brothers Ancient Men now living together these were my Husband 's nearest Relations of the Docwras one of them hath been at my House several times this Year I asked him if they knew F. Bugg His answer was That he knew him not neither did he ever hear of the name Bugg It is likely his Grandfather was something related to the ancient Cambridge-shire Docwra's I have heard so but they were not of my Husband's Relations as I understand He goes on with his old repetitions of his Sufferings upon the account of his Religion his Imprisonments and Fines I can say little of his Imprisonments that being before I was acquainted with him but for his Fines he hath printed them all being but 25 l. by his own Relation excepting 5 s. and 10 s. Fines which poor Friends were strained for as well as he He suffered the least of any I know that had Estates to lose the Fines were two one was 15 l. for an unknown Preacher the other was 10 l. for the Poverty of the Man that kept the Meeting at his House of this 25 l. he got the 15 l. of it of a near Relation by Fraud and the Justice that prosecuted him gave him 5 l. of the Money again so that his whole loss was but 5 l. He had several ways to escape Sufferings for when he dwelt at Ely and the Persecution grew hot there then he fled to Milden-hall and when the Persecution grew hot there then he fled to the Church of England see my Book concerning his Fines where it is related more at large p. 51 52. concerning the 15 l. where he got 20 l. for it But F. Bugg says He clothed some of our poor Preachers and put Money in their Pockets He hath sounded his Trumpet of this in several of his Books but I could never hear any body besides himself say so yet it is possible he might give a poor Man some Cloth out of his Shop to make him a Coat such as is called Old Shop-keepers and will sell for little but for Money I do not believe he gave any but what he gave in a Meeting as other Friends usually do to relieve our Poor as well Preachers as others His Charity is but a proud Pharisaical Boast But F. Bugg says He was at great Charges entertaining our Preachers I do not believe him I have answered this in my Book p. 33 34. for he writes but the same thing over and over again But he says That my Brother Giles Barnardistone would have scorned to have dipp'd his Pen in such muddy Ink as I have done Reply If my Brother had lived to see his Contentious Apostacy he would not have spared him no more than I have done the Forgery and Deceit that he hath practiced against me would have obliged him to vindicate me his so near Relation although he was very tender of F. Bugg whilst he was amongst us and had any show of Honesty he was very careful to keep his Wits
together knowing him to be a Shatter-headed Man But F. Bugg says That my Brother Barnardistone and my Sister have been often at his House sometimes near a Week together and my Brother Waldegrave as their Serving-man c. He goes on Clamouring and Lying about fourteen lines after this which I pass by and Reply to this aforesaid matter I never knew my Brother Barnardistone and my Sister stay above two Nights at any Friends House in their Travels nor at my House at any time although I was their near Relation therefore I do not believe him My Brother was a travelling Preacher and observed the Rules that other of our Preachers do not to stay above one Night or two at most at any Friends House and for my Brother Waldegrave he does affirm That he never was at F. Bugg's House with my Brother and Sister but only when my Brother Barnardistone travelled alone he sometimes went with him as a Companion and might lodge a Night or two at F. Bugg's House Although my Brother Waldegrave was defrauded by his God-fathers and God-mother so called of a great Estate as some others may remember besides my self yet he always had an Estate to maintain him and his Family without going to Service or using any Trade or Calling to get a livelihood After much Clamouring and Lying he goes on against G. Whitehead and others and says What I now offer to your consideration is from certain Letters and a printed Paper of your Friend Ann Docwra's that she writ to Mr. Crisp c. First out of a Broadside intituled The New Projecting Formalist Characterized c. This Paper was not writ against G. Whitehead nor any of those F. Bugg suggests it was writ against as may be seen in the second Paragraph of it but it was writ against some Presbyterians and Anabaptists pretended Quakers which were Contentious at that time and sought Preheminence over us and would have broken our Rules and Method concerning Marriages that were friendly recommended to us from a General Yearly Meeting at London also against a Certificate that was said to be forged concerning a Marriage which Certificate came out of the furthest part of the Isle of Ely into Cumbridge to us and not from G. Whitehead as F. Bugg suggests neither did that Certificate concern F. Bugg nor was his name in it Altho' he pretends that I writ in his behalf against G. Whitehead and others which was not in my thoughts when I writ that Paper nor so intended This aforesaid Paper F. Bugg suggests in his Book intituled The Christian Ministry of the Church of England Vindicated c. and he says This Paper was printed about the Year 1683. See his Book p. 3. But this and all that he hath writ against me are feigned Stories for this Paper was writ several Years after 1683. I had no accasion offered me to write against several things mentioned in that Paper until the Year 1685. which was occasioned by reason of a Book that came out in Print written against me printed 1685. which I answered in that Paper and some other things that were occasioned about that time the Title of that Book was The good Order of Truth Justified This Man that writ the Book was wholly a Stranger to me and a Country-man he did not so much as send to me before he printed it to Admonish me if he thought I was in an Error which was not according to The good Order of Truth but I afterwards suspected by what he writ it might be occasioned by F. Bugg and his Cabal's former Forgery mentioned in my Book p. 11 12. which he might think to be mine because they had set my name to it although I had disowned it in Print near two Years before this Book was printed yet that printed Advertisement might not come to his hand for he mentions nothing of it in his Book if he had seen that I suppose it would have stopped his Printing against me The Paper that I writ against that Book had no Date to it this I omitted to see what manner of Forgery F. Bugg and his Cabal would make out of it which I shall shew before I end I have the aforesaid Book by me and all the Papers I printed to shew the former Forgery of F. Bugg and his Cabal and this latter also F. Bugg speaks of Letters He says I writ to Thomas Crisp but before I will enter upon that Subject I will say something of three Letters I received lately one with Francis Bugg's name to it and two with Thomas Crisp's name to them F. Bugg's Letter dated London August 26. 1699. he begins thus Cousin Docwra I have acquainted Mr. Crisp with your charging him and me viz. with Forging your Letters c. Reply I never charged T. Crisp with Forging any of them in my Book or otherwise neither shall I until I see it printed with his name to it I only charged F. Bugg of Forging my Letters that he printed pretending I writ them to him I have answered them in my Book and proved his Forgery p. 19 20. and 31 32. The rest of his Letter is Clamour and Threats if I will not Retract my Book which I do not intend The first Letter with Tho. Crisp's name to it dated The 26th of the 7the Month 1699. this is a long Letter the other writ since is a short one there is little in it but desiring an answer of the former long Letter I suppose they were forged by F. Bugg there is so much of F. Bugg's Projects against me in it although it is writ in a different Hand from his yet I am not free to answer F. Bugg or any of his Cabal but in Print least they should put false Constructions of them or add some Forgery to them I must not expect any thing else from them I saw two Letters writ in a hand much like mine with my name to them which had things in them which I never writ said or thought these were brought from F. Bugg to me by a Clergy-man that seemed to be F. Bugg's Friend I utterly disowned them before him these Letters F. Bugg hath printed and I have answered to them already Now I come to the four Letters F. Bugg hath printed in his late Book against me and set my name to them they are all forged the aforesaid long Letter as from Tho. Crisp hath this passage in it That the four Letters are not forged because they have divers things in them that is in my Paper intituled The New Projecting Formalist Characterized c. This is plain that the four Letters are forged for some of them are dated 1683. and the last of them August 6. 1684. But my Paper was not printed until 1685. as I said before and what I writ was not thought on before the Year 1685. this proves plainly that they were forged F. Bugg hath taken many things out of that Paper and made exceeding false Applications and Paraphrases
and my Friends and Relations also and can see without Spectacles still to read F. Bugg's Lyes and Deceit he hath used to cheat the Clergy of their Money Lye 12. Sam. Cater doth affirm He never had his Timber again this is a Lye in Ann or Sam. or both says F. Bugg c. Reply I have taken upon me to discover his Hypocrisie and Deceit Sam. Cater was fined in three days time for Preaching at two Meetings one at Faukenham the other at Thurling in Norfolk 20 l. the first fine and 40 l. the second fine Warrants were sent and served by the Kings Officers upon his Goods both within doors and without and carried away all excepting one Bed his Children were forced to lie upon Straw for a long time the Houshould Goods lay in the Officers hands for a long time laid up carelesly so the Goods were much spoiled the Bed Blankets much Moth-eaten then a Neighbour bought them of the Officers and sent them home to S. Cater but for his Timber he never had it the Kings Officers Sold it and did not give S. Cater an account whom they Sold it to his Children were old enough to remember this and how they lay in Straw for a long time When Warrants are once served and the Goods carried away they are not to be had again without Money except there were more than would raise the Sum which they were strained for but S. Cater was not so Rich as to have such plenty as all his Neighbours may witness Lye 13. F. Bugg conformed to the Church of England for fear of the Statute of 20 l. a Month. Reply Although he says It is a Lye yet it is really true see my Book to prove his Confession of it before Witnesses p. 13. But F. Bugg says He did not go to Church or Home until 1685. and then the Statute was not put in Execution but he says He went to other Churches above a Year before Reply That will not serve his turn to bring him off if it were so that Statute says That every Person above the Age of 16 Years which shall not repair to some Church or Chappel or usual place of Common-Prayer shall pay 20 l. a Month c. See the Statute of the 23d of Eliz. Chap. I. there is no confinement to their Parish-Church in the Statute of 20 l. a Month. Lye 14. F. Bugg was a Presbyterian when he came amongst the Quakers Reply He told me so above twenty Years ago when he was accounted an honest Man Lye 15. F. Bugg's Grand-father was a poor Boy bound out to the Wool-Trade by the Docwra's Reply I do not believe it is a Lye see my Book p. 26. But F. Bugg says This is another Lye he was not of my Trade Reply I did not say he was he was a Clothier which is a Wooll-Trade F. Bugg was but a Wooll-Comber which is a Wooll-Trade also He goes on Boasting of his Grandfathers Wealth and Vertues I dwelt at Icklingham-Sands in Winter-time within three computed Miles of Milden-hall many Years my Husband was well acquainted with his Grand-father and I with many others in the Town of Milden-hall also and can give a truer account of him then F. Bugg hath done his account is but meer Boasts and he but a young Lad when his Grand-father died and not in his Favour by reason he refused to be bound to such a Trade as his Grand-fater had chose for him Lye 16. My Aunt said That George Whitehead was a Gentleman Born or brought up so Reply This is no Lye my Aunt did say That she did believe that G. Whitehead was a Gentleman Born or brought up under the same Education see my Book p. 41 42. F. Bugg replies This must needs be another Lye no Gentleman ever lived in a poor Cottage standing on Mud-walls not worth 50 s. as G. Whitehead did as I am credibly informed by a Person of Note that saw it He goes on Clamouring and Lying and says No Gentleman's Son walked about the Country on foot and lived upon Alms as he did Reply Although G. Whitehead travelled on foot as all or most of our Preachers did at first yet he took no Alms although F. Bugg does and he had very good Clothes on his back by the account I had of him from more credible Persons than F. Bugg is But he hath published this false Report of G. Whitehead to get Money of the Clergy that he might have his own Alms continued F. Bugg says in his Pilgrims Progress c. p. 32. That when G. Whitehead came out of the North He came from Penury to Plenty from Labour and Toyle to Ease and Plenty from his Father's poor Cottage not worth 50 s. And so goes on with much more Romantick Stuff in that page Reply G. Whitehead's Father's House and Freehold Estate was the best in the Town where he dwelt by the relation I have had upon strict Inquiry neither was he brought up to Labour and Toyle as F. Bugg says but was brought up with the better sort of Education intended for Oxford from that Eminent Free-School in Cumberland called Blencoe-School where he had his last Education The Whitehead's were some of them Gentlemen of good Repute and some of them accounted the best Yeomen and these were G. Whitehead's Relations This I had from more credible Persons than F. Bugg And for his Father's House or any Houses standing on Mud-Walls in Westmerland that is not true they build all with Stone there altho ' the Cottages are never so mean they may have plenty of Stone for nothing it being a Mountainous Country I have heard my Brother Barnardistone and my Sister that travelled through that Country into Scotland say That the Buildings were all of Stone although they were never so poor Cottages F. Bugg's Story of G. Whitehead's Father's House is a meer Fiction Lye 17. Now Liberty is granted we stand upon equal terms with our Opposers in matters of Religion Reply These are not my words my words are Now Liberty is granted we stand upon equal terms with our Opposers and in matters that concerns Religion we are accountable to God and have as much Right to common and civil Priviledges as other Perswasions have c. see my Book p. 17. But F. Bugg Replies and says He denies it the Law tells you that this is a Lye but shews me no Law that tells me so but goes on Clamouring some lines and then he says Remember you stand but upon your good Behaviour Reply This may be true and so do all other Perswasions so hath the Church of England her self done I can remember since she was turned out of door and was fain to go travel for a livelihood many of the Episcopal Clergy kept Conventicles in private Houses in many places in this Nation and in their Travels they read the Common-Prayer and sometimes Preached I was a Follower of those Priests in those days and was acquainted with divers of them In
Inspiration of his Holy Spirit c. I really believe that the Hearts of all Mankind cannot be cleansed by any other means but by the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God And further in the Collect for the first Sunday after Easter they Pray for the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit that they may think those things that be good and by God's mercyful Guidance may perform the same c. This I am sure cannot be done but by the Inspiration of the Almighty And in divers of the other Collects they Pray for the Light and Grace of God also Certainly these Men that writ the Liturgy of the Church of England did believe that the Light Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty was Sufficient to Illuminate Inspire and Teach all Mankind or they would not have inserted it so plainly as they have done It were a work very unprofitable to Pray for that which is not attainable And further in the aforesaid Articles of the Church of England ye shall find in the 13th Article that they say That Works done before the Grace of Christ and the Inspiration of his Holy Spirit are not pleasing to God for as much as they spring not of Faith in Jesus Christ neither do they make Men meet to receive Grace c. This is a Truth that will stand for ever with all true Christians Let Men consider with themselves how they should come to the true knowledge of God and turn their Mind inward with a serious desire after Eternal Happiness and empty themselves of their imaginary Wisdom and wait upon God in Silence to obtain Wisdom of him from whom every good and perfect Gift comes which is not to be obtained but by God's Gracious Help and Assistance which will not be wanting on his part to bring them into Covenant with him under the most Glorious Dispensation of the Everlasting Gospel which is initiated under the New Covenant to be taught of God as the Scriptures of Truth do plentifully witness both in the Old and New Testament The Prophet Isaiah begins with these words Cease ye from Man whose Breath is in his Nostrils Wherein is he to be accounted of c. Isa 2. 22. And further the same Prophet says in chap. 45. 13. All thy Children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the Peace of thy Children Also the Prophet Jeremiah expresses himself fully concerning the New Covenant Jer. 31. 32 33 34. for shortness I shall repeat but part of it This is the Covenant that I will make with the House of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their Hearts and will be their God and they shall be my People c. The same New Covenant is testified of at large in Heb. 8. 8. so to the end of that Chap. Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ confirmed it himself John 6. 45. saying As it is written in the Prophets They shall all be taught of God every Man that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh to me c. As many as are taught of God can set their Seals to this Truth as it is in Jesus But some have said That if the Quakers be under the New Covenant Taught of God What need have they of Men to Preach amongst them They who are in that Covenant need not be taught of Men saying Know the Lord whose Ministers teach as they are taught of him whose Spirit must not be limited from its own Ministry either in the Church or in the World as there are divers States so there are divers Ministrations suitable All Hearers are not come into that Covenant neither are all Israel which are of Israel and some are in Bondage to Sin still seeking after Deliverance and such have need to be instructed in order to turn them to the Light and to gather them to God and not to Men into outward Forms and Observations of Carnal Ordinances as many do at this day seeing all such Ordinances are put an End to under the New and Everlasting Covenant of Life and Peace with God Let none despise the Teachings of God under such vain Pretences as some have done to debase it or hide the weighty things of the Gospel from People for Wordly Interest and Profit keeping People always in Teaching that they may be always Paying them and bring them not to be Taught of God I have no enmity in my Heart against any but desire the good of all Mankind and that they may know the things belonging to their Peace before the day of God's Visitation be over with them If we look into the History of former Ages we shall find that the chief Obstructers of the Blessed Truth have been some of the Learned and are so still F. Malebranch that famous French-man in his Book intituled A Search after Truth says That Learned Men are most subject to Error and shews divers Reasons for it p. 75. Also in the Preface of his Book and several other places wherein are many excellent things worth the regarding In p. 121. he treats of the Divine Light and says It was God himself that inlightned the Wise Men in their Science which ungrateful Man calls Natural altho' it is derived to them from Heaven and brings divers places of Scripture to prove that the Light that all Men is enlightened withal is Divine and in many other places of his Book he writes to the same purpose This Man is said to be in Community with the Church of Rome but how his Book will rellish with them I know not because he writes much against the Errors of the Learned and Superstition also Altho' I do not approve of all that he hath written yet his Testimony of the Divine Light which he confesseth is the Light of the Mind and not of the Body Also his Testimony of God's Teaching in Man is worth the regarding and ought not to be slighted The Man that Translated this Book into English I suppose was a Protestant he was one of the Fellows of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford as appears by the Title of that Book I have heard it much commended by some sober Clergy-men of the Church of England This Divine Light Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty hath been the Rule and Guide of the People of God called Quakers they are come under the New Covenant to be taught of God by that inward Principle of the Divine Life whereby all good People governs their Actions and such are come to the Everlasting Gospel so as they use no empty professing words without Life in their Praying and Preaching as some high Professors have done which are but as a decoy to catch the World making a Money-Trade of Religion such superficial words have no Substance in them altho' they be the most glorious Expressions that Man can invent yet they are but Pictures for the Ears as Images are for the Eyes and there may be as much Idolatry in the one as the other altho' they make their Phylacteries never so large yet it is but Will-Worship at best if it proceeds not from the Inspiration of the Almighty The Love of God constrains all true Christians to seek the good of others and I have no other ends in writing this Treatise but to put People in mind of their Eternal Welfare that they may seek after it and not to spend their precious time in the Vanities and Deceits of this present evil World but to come to seek after God in his Light with an humble and contrite Heart that they may be prepared to receive an Eternal Reward and to come to have a true Understanding of the holy Scriptures for they are a Sealed Book so that the Learned and Unlearned cannot understand them truly to make right use of them without the Inspiration of the Spirit of God this is witnessed by the People called Quakers in the Principles of their Religion called Truths Principles printed divers times within these 38 Years the last Impression printed 1699. and Sold by T. Sowle in White-hart-court in Gracious-Street These Principles treats of the Substance of true Religion in general Let none deceive themselves God will not be mocked For whatsoever a Man soweth that shall he reap also For he that soweth to his Flesh shall of the Flesh reap Corruption But he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Everlasting Life Gal. 6. 7 8. This is a real Truth for as the Tree falleth so it lyeth and as Death leaves them so Judgment will find them therefore it concerns all Men to make their Calling and Election sure and spend their time in exercising their Consciences void of Offence towards God and towards Man that they may lay down their Heads in Peace with God and injoy heavenly Peace and Prosperity both in this Life and the Life to come which is the Desire of my Heart for all Mankind that they may be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption and received into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God The 30th of the Month called October 1699. Ann Docwra ☞ Note Reader the Reason of the so long Delay of the Publication of this Answer was 1st Not the Author 's Omission but other Matters of greater Importance employing the Press that required more speedy Publication 2dly It being not so much known before as of late what Improvement the Adversaries make of the said Clamorous Book Stiled An Old Penitent 〈…〉 isciple c. and their Boasting for want of an Answer to it
THE Second Part OF AN APOSTATE-CONSCIENCE EXPOSED Being an ANSWER to a Scurrilous Pamphlet Dated the 11th of April 1699. Written and Published by F. Bugg INTITULED Jezabel withstood and her Daughter Ann Docwra reproved for her Lies and Lightness in her Book stiled An Apostate Conscience Exposed c. By ANN DOCWRA London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-hart-court in Gracious-street 1700. THE PREFACE I will pass by his Whimsical and Ridiculous Title not troubling my Reader with any Comment upon it but refer him to what I have writ already in my Book intituled An Apostate Conscience Exposed and the miserable Consequences thereof disclosed Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-Street 1699. And also to what I do here offer in Defence of the Truth I stand here to maintain against this Apostate Quaker a Mercenary Agent belonging to such of the Clergy as are uneasie under the Liberty granted to Protestant Dissenters they attempting to break the Unity and Interest of the Kingdom which hath been so long endeavoured by Wise and Honest Men as also does appear in a printed Declaration of King Charles II. bearing date the 8th of April 1681. and there is a Vote of the 10th of January 1680. made by the Parliament then sitting in these words Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House that the prosecuting of Protestant Dissenters upon Penal Laws is at this time grievous to the Subject a weakning of the Protestant Interest an incouragement of Popery and dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom And further to Illustrate this most rational and just Vote I shall refer my Reader to the Act of Parliament made by King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects Dissenters from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws This Act in the first Paragraph which is the Preamble and is as a Key to open the Intendment of the Law says That the Liberty granted may be an effectual means to Unite their Maje-Protestant Subjects in Interest and Affection This is a certain way to do it with all honest plain-hearted People and hath in some measure done it with such but F. Bugg and his Abettors of the Clergy have raised a New Persecution with Tongue and Pen it being out of their power to proceed any further although they have used their endeavours to do it this shews what Subjects they are to the King that have no respect to the Act for Uniting the Kings Subjects in Interest and Affection This F. Bugg hath been of a Seared Conscience and Shattered Head many Years as appears by the Rambling Stuff he hath written against the Quakers so called He hath printed Twenty Three Books and Papers that I have seen which have been mostly answered some of these Books are of a pretty large Volume of several Hundred Pages and in them so many Repetitions of Lyes that they are Numerous He writes the same thing over and over again mostly as to Religion and Government and many other things also When he first began his Controversie he joyned himself with some others that were Contentious Apostates like himself then joyned together in a Cabal the Books they writ against us were very many and the Sum of the whole matter was to render us Popishly Affected and very Obnoxious in the time of the Persecution with high Conceits both in their Conferences and Writings hoping they should by that means over-master us and bring us under them Thus F. Bugg went on until he had scribled away a good Estate and run many Hundred Pounds in Debt and then fled to the Clergy for Relief I have said to some of the Clergy That it was matter of Admiration to me that they should entertain F. Bugg's Books and give Credit to them as some of them had done there being so much Rambling Angry Stuff in them without Truth or Method Their Reply was That they did not look at his Books but he was a bold Fellow to oppose the Quakers There may be several things assigned for his Boldness First His Seared Conscience Secondly His Desperate Fortunes Thirdly His Shattered Head First His Seared Conscience imboldens him to write any thing although it be all manner of Forgeries Lyes and Deceit without any scruple Secondly His Desperate Fortunes imboldens him to say or write any thing although never so false to get Money of the Clergy and others also that gives any Credit to what he says or writes Who are more Bold and Resolute than Highway-Men that Robs the King's Subjects at Noon-day to get Money to maintain them in their Idleness and Wickedness Thirdly His Shattered Head makes him Bold and Resolute in any thing his Imagination suggests or his Malice can invent that he may be always at work to do Mischief which hath fallen upon himself at last Who are more Bold and Resolute than some of the People in Bedlam to do Mischief if they were not restrained I believe there is few Shatter-headed People that are so very much given to Mischief as F. Bugg is yet I have observed that such People are Malicious and are not to be pacified It is F. Bugg's Seared Conscience and Desperate Fortunes that set his Shattered Head at work more in Malice and Deceit than others A. D. THE Second Part OF AN Apostate Conscience EXPOSED c. Now I come to Answer his Scurrilous Pamphlet intituled Jezabel withstood c. HE begins with a Preamble against me and others after his usual manner and then says My business was to render F. Bugg a poor indigent Person that went about a Begging a grand Lye says F. Bugg Reply That was not my Business I had not writ upon that account if he had not forged Letters as from me to him and printed them with my name to them and also his cheating some of the Clergy with false Informations to get Money of them and for his Begging about to get Money to pay his Debts I suppose that none that knows him will deny it that are acquainted with his Concerns If any do it it is easie to be proved see the Bishop of Norwich's Certificate bearing date the 22d of October 1698. which he hath Printed in his Book intituled The Pilgrim's Progress c. page 149. That shews his indigency and his travelling about with it through the Bishop's Diocess the Universities and divers other Places for Relief of his Necessities do witness against him also a begging Petition dated the 25th of August 1698. with three Clergy-mens hands to it his Neighbouring Ministers as he says this Petition shews that what Relief he had received formerly was not sufficient to pay his Debts by one Hundred Pounds neither was he able to subsist to get a livelihood for himself and Family without further Relief with this Petition he went about Cambridge and other places also as I suppose I had a Copy sent me of this Petition and I