are not in me I 'll break you in pieces I the Light in you will consume it all I 'll Burn Heaven and Earth I 'll burn within and without I the Light will overturn Kingdoms and Nations and Rulers of all sorts and Armies and gathered Churches which will not own me the Light in them to Guide and Lead them And I will be your Dread and ye shall be the Dread of Nations And ye shall Reign over all the World I will give you Dominion over all your Enemies within and without and I will make them all bow before you and even as I am i. e. God so shall ye be also Reader from hence we may gather what Harangues they have in their Yearly Meeting when their Doors are close and secure where they revive and re-assert their Ancient Testimonies but their Trumpet gives such an uncertain sound as none know but themselves how to prepare to the Battel you hear now that their Light within is God the Eternal God by whom all things were made and created and besides their Light within there is no God that can save and yet sometimes they Speak to their Light and Teach their Light even their Eternal God For this see their Book The Vials of the Wrath of God c. by G. Fox Printed 1655 p. 6. Therefore to the Light in your Consciences do I speak c. Sometimes their Light is Honest that is they have an Honest God For this see their Book The Trumpet of the Lord Blown c. by James Parnel p. 2. To the Light in all your Consciences I speak which is Honest of God Sometimes their God is Blind or Dim-sighted for this see G. Fox's News coming up out of the North c. The God of the World blind your Eye which is the Light Thus have the Quakers like the Gibeonites deceived many Thousands But hark George I have not yet done with your Guilty Excuse In your Innocency and Truth Vindicated c. p. 69. viz. We says George are only Defensive c. How George What only Defensive That I do deny and shall now make it appear That from first to last you have been the Aggressors altho' at present you are so close Attackt that you begin to call for a Cessation of Arms. But George we are now for Reparation or else no Quarter It is not your Excuse That the Clergy in Oliver's time were no Ministers of Christ nor your Flattering the Episcopal Clergy will now do unless you condemn your Erroneous Books See J. Feild's Defence c. If Francis Bugg accounts those Ministers of Christ that turned and kept the Bishops out of their Bishopricks how can he have the Face says Feild to own himself a Member of the Church of England In this J. Field thinks he hits the Mark but with a Reverse for John I do believe that in Oliver's time there was a Christian Ministry of Learned Clergy-men And one Reason among others which make me so believe is because they wrote many sound Orthodox Books against Quakerism and the Quakers as they began so they kept on against them And that you are still as great Enemies to the present Clergy as you were against them I shall shew anon But I have not yet done with your Brother Whitehead who with a mealy Modesty simpers it out That you Quakers are now only Defensive you are for an Amicable and Friendly Conversation and no Lovers of Contention Oh meek Saints But hark George did not the Quakers first Challenge the Norffolk Clergy I say yea and shall prove it from the Words of your Letter viz. If you think you have Matter to charge us Quakers withal let us have your Charge under your own Hands and appoint Time and Place convenient and we or some others of us will meet you as publickly as you please Any of you all Of your Cloth And stand a Publick Tryal c. By which 't is self-evident that the Quakers Challenged the Clergy and if I mistake not very boldly too considering the many gross Errors and horrid Blasphemies you stand charged with and convicted of out of your most Authentick Writers And for you yea I say for such a Tribe of Self-Condemned Schismaticks to prick up your Ears and to Challenge the most Learned Clergy the World have and who are Ministers of the most Reformed Religion and of an Established Church by Law I think this was bold with a witness But come George let us go back to your Beginning and take our Measures from thence for you would not have us take you for Changlings You know Quakerism is the same and the Principles of it even what it always was and will be to the End of the Chapter For one single Instance of which I could give many See your Prophet Burroughs's Epistle prefixed to George Fox's Great Mystery c. viz. Then being prepared of the Lord and having received Power from on high we went forth as commanded of the Lord And the dread of the Lord went before us and behind us and first of all our Mouths were opened and our Spirits filled wih Indignation against the Priests and Teachers and with them and against them First we began to War as being the Causers of the People to err and the Blind Leaders that carried the Blind into the Ditch And against them as the Fountain of all Wickedness abounding in the Nations and as being the Issue of Prophaneness Shewing unto all them and to all their People that they were not Lawful Ministers of Christ sent of him but were Deceivers and Antichrists and such whom the Lord never sent And we spared not publickly and at all Seasons to utter forth the Judgments of the Lord against them and their Ways and their Churches and Worships And this was our first Work which we entred upon to Thresh down the Deceivers and lay them open that all People might come to see their Shame and turn from them c. Thus then it plainly appears that the Quakers began this Contest and have carried it on in the same domineering and insulting manner until of late And nothing makes you pull in your Horns but the Discovery of your Bloody Treasonable Seditious and Blasphemous Principles and Practices And as a Third Instance that you are as Implacable Enemies to the present Establisht Church Ministry Scriptures and Ordinances as you were in your dear Friend Oliver Cromwell's Time as your Apostle Fox Saluted him I shall cite some few of the Reasons you give why you deny the National Ministry even in 1671 as more at large you may see in your Book wrote by George Fox intituled Some Principles of the Elect People of God called Quakers Printed 1671 p. 5. viz. Grounds and Reasons why we deny the Worlds Teachers I. THEY i. e. the Publick Ministry are such Teachers as have told us the Letter was the Word when the Letter says God was the Word therefore we deny them John 1.1 Query Where do
Holy Spirit to amend our Lives according to thy Holy Word Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without End Amen ERRATA PArt 1. Page 1. line 13. for of God read for God p. 8. l. 1. f. derided r. divided p. 21. l. 14. r. doth blind p. 32. l. 12. f. 45. r. 35. p. II. p. 12. l. 16. f. third r. second part p. III. p. 13. l. 32. f. unwilling r. willing p. 26. l. 12. on this del p. 15. l. 7. f. K. C. II. r. K. C. I. in Cutting off his Head for that say they was a remarkable Record of the Righteous Judgment of God * See their Book West Answering to North p. 97. George Whitehead TURN'D TOPSIE-TURVY PART I. I Find in a Book wrote by W. Penn intituled A Key c. and presented to the Parliament 1699. to obviate the Objections against the Quakers in several Books then presented to both Houses of Parliament by the Norfolk Clergy this Passage to the Reader in his Epistle i. e. It is very Unfair as well as Indiscreet in any to Oppose and Calumniate what they do not Understand It has been says he our Unhappiness far more than all our Adversaries have been able to say against us that hitherto we remain Unknown by those who yet stick not to condemn us c. This indeed if true might Apologize for them but it is so far from that that were their Principles and the Danger of them fully known it would operate more against them that all their Adversaries as they account them have yet said against them for want of knowing them so fully as by their Fruits in time possibly may be manifest But whose Fault is it that they are no better known Is it not their own By their two-fac'd Practice and double Meanings in all they say or write their Books being of two sorts contrary each to other suitable to their Titles and Directions one sort to the World's People whether to the Parliament Bishops Judges Justices Priests and Professors in many of which they 'll pretend to own the Scriptures yea and a Scripture-Trinity too tolerably well but their other sort of Books to their Disciples directed with these and the like Titles viz. This is only to go amongst Friends Again This is only to go among Friends and not otherwise Again Written only for Friends that can read it In which they tell you the Scriptures are Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware a Rotten Foundation a Dead Letter the Husk c. and that such as tell People that the Scriptures are the written Word of God are no Ministers of Christ that the Scriptures are not a Means to bring People to the Knowledge of God and to work Faith in them and that the Trinity of Persons is for the Lake and the Pit But notwithstanding all this and ten times more that I could recite First Of their acknowledging to the World's People as above the Excellency of the Holy Scripture and that it 's of Divine Authority and the best Book extant in the World in direct Opposition to their Doctrine they teach to their poor deluded and willingly ignorant Disciples yet they frequently call their own Books The Word of God as in many Instances I could shew Nay I have one Book of theirs by me wrote by Christopher Tayler one of their ancient and approved Teachers bearing this Title Certain Papers which is the Word of the Lord and in p. 2 3 16. of that Book it 's said To you all this is the Eternal Word of God Nay further Geo. Whitehead preferrs them to be of greater Authority than the Bible Thus do they to their Disciples contemn villifie and set at nought the Sacred Word of God whilst they extol their own Pamphlets as The Word of the Lord yea The Eternal Word of God and as such of greater Authority than the Holy Scriptures How then is it possible for such as are not Conversant with their Books to know them Indeed to understand Quakerism rightly is the Business of an Age I have had more than Forty Years Experience of them and yet I do not know the Depth of their Deceit and Hypocrisie I mean of their Leaders for amongst their Hearers I do believe there are many honest tho' miserably deluded amongst them I my self in my young Years was carry'd away with their Dissimulation and a great Zeal I had tho' I must confess it was without true Scripture Knowledge But some Years before I left them I saw them both to walk and act contrary to their Pretensions a large Account thereof I have given in my Pilgrim's Progress insomuch that I wrote four Books against their Hypocrisies whilst with them in hopes of a Reformation amongst them but still the more I came to examine into their Principles and to observe their Practices the more cause I found to leave them and to this Day I have kept on Ripping and Stripping this well-favoured Harlot who calls her self the only true Church of Christ and that out of her there is no Salvation as in Josiah Coole's Book The Whore unvailed c. p. 12 16 18 28 31 41 50. where also she asserts their Infallibility and that there 's no Tares in their Church that their Light is Judge of all Controversies all Power in Heaven and Earth being committed to it and Miracles thereby wrought And that she agree with the Papists that our Bible is a brazen-fac'd Book an unjust corrupt and perverse Bible else she would not have printed it after them without a Word of Reproof and the more I came to study this Point the more cause I found to discover and lay bare her Nakedness to the view of the Nations and my Labour has not been in vain but have prospered notwithstanding G. W.'s Inchanting Demureness and hardy Boldness to defend himself and Brethren from my several and repeated Charges of divers Kinds tho' like the Magicians of old Exod. 8.7 he has done much Hurt But this Book of his I am now Reprinting will be like ver 18. I know and am perswaded there is a Finger of God's Divine Providence that has attended those who have denied themselves and have faithfully managed this Controversie of God's Glory and the Good of Souls and are content to become as the Off-scouring of all things for his Name sake But why do they still complain they are not known I do think if they look into my Books they may see themselves as in a Glass and so may others especially in New Rome Unmask'd c. New Rome Arraign'd c. The Picture of Quakerism drawn to the Life c. my Pilgrim's Progress c. and Quakerism Exposed I say these especially tho' I think there 's none that I have writ but give some Discovery mote or less but if all these be wanting read The Snake in the Grass and the Defence
to be as indeed they are the written Word of God and a good Foundation for our Faith and a great Means to work Faith in our Hearts all which George Whitehead and his Partners opposed with great Vigor he Mr. Townsend having first proved these things he then goes on to prove a Trinity of Three distinct Persons in the Godhead according to the Faith of all sound Christians and for Proof thereof he does not only bring Scripture but many strong Reasons as well from Antiquity as of later Date To all which George Whitehead c. from the Spirit of their Lord in them as in p. 22. And here thy Antiquity and thy Reasons and the Three Persons thou dreams of which thou would divide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual Darkness for the Lake and the Pit c. adding by way of Corroberation respecting Mr. Townsend p. 26. thus Thou Townsend art Reserved in Everlasting Chains under Darkness for Everlasting Fire shut out from God among the Dogs and Sorcerers Having by this time not only discovered the Snake but given her a deadly Blow I shall next shew that the Quakers respecting their Principles are the same that ever they were only I am in Hopes they shall never do so much Hurt in a Hundred Years as they have done in Fifty the time of their date The Sting of Quakerism being taken out and the Bowels thereof ript up and their Inside turn'd Outward by many Infallible Proofs out of their Impious Books especially by Reprinting one of them but let us not be too secure lest the deadly Wound which she hath received should be healed and my Counsel is that as Persecution never did Good so may it not be used amongst Christians but yet a good Expedient is very proper which is to have them examined whether these things be so or no and if what has been objected against them be proved upon them let them be obliged to Retract and Condemn these their Ancient Blasphemous and Heretical Books and Pamphlets which have poysoned many Thousands of otherwise well-meaning People and as this will be easie so will it be one effectual Means to stop the Gangrene of this Pestilential Disease and this will be no Persecution POSTSCRIPT AND to shew that the Quakers are the same still notwithstanding their contrary Testimonies I shall recite some few Passages out of their Writings viz. I. In their Yearly Epistle 1696. We cannot say they but recommend unto you our dear Brethren the holding up the Holy Testimony of Truth which hath made us to be a People and that in all Parts of it * Then in Damning the Blessed Trinity for Truth is one II. The Quakers cleared c. p. 7. God is the same Truth is the same his People the same and their Principles the same III. Their Primitive Christianity c. Printed 1698. p. 6. Our Principles are now no other than what they were when we were first a People IV. They have inserted a long Paragraph in the Post-Man Numb 568. saying The Quakers not questioning but to acquit their Ancient Friends and their Writings not being Conscious of deviating in any one Point of Doctrine from what they first held †And what they held in 1655. G. W.'s Book Ishmael gives a Sample for they are all of a Piece V. But Jesuit-like G. W. thus saith in his Count. Conv. p. 72. I may says he see Cause otherwise to word the Matter and yet our Intentions be the same c. FINIS A Reply to a Book Entituled A Defence of an Apology for the Quakers in Answer to a Book Entituled Quakerism Expos'd c. wrote by Fran. Bugg Or some Papers delivered to the King and Parliament PART III. I Have read and consider'd this Book of John Field's A Defence c. in Answer to the Books and Papers aforesaid but how far his Book answers his Titlte will best be understood by comparing both For in J. Feild's Book of 32 Pages in Quarto I find but 35 Lines of mine cited which is not one Page of 64 of mine in Octavo and that not pag'd and thereby difficult for his Readers to find in order to compare the Books a right Trick of a Quaker Now how this can rightly be call'd an Answer is a Paradox to me but however an Answer they must have tho' nothing almost to the purpose and then tell their poor Hearers Fr. Bugg's Book is answered Ay that it is nay and repeatedly too tho' I do not know of one single Book of mine so answered by the Quakers but that they have left untouched the greatest Part of the Charges objected against them and Six or Seven Books of mine never so much as pretended to be answer'd Oh the Polacy and Deceit of the Ringleaders of this Sect And this has occasioned me to give and take this Advice from a wise and prudent Caution in a Book Entituled The Missionaries Arts c. wrote against the Jesuits Printed 1668. p. 32. viz. To distrust every thing they say For as the Learned Dr. Stillingfleet late Bishop of Worcester in his Discourse of the Idolatry of the Church of Rome c. p. 282. very well observes that they are as like as if the Quakers and the Jesuits were Children of one Father and brought forth by one Mother even Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Cage of every Unclean and Hateful Bird His Words are these viz. Any who compares them i. e. Jesuits and Quakers would imagine the Life of Ignatius Loyola had been their great Exemplar I know not said the Bishop whether any of that Innocent and Religious Order or Jesuits had any Hand in forming this new Society of Quakers among 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. And as I do believe the recited Caution To distrust every thing they i. e. Jesuits say 't is as applicable to the Quakers and to demonstrate this let us but observe how frequent it is with them to blame their Opponents with splitting Sentences mincing mangling and curtailing whilst themselves are ten times more guilty for instance I find a Passage in my Book Quakerism Expos'd c. p. 27 28. 4thly That you Quakers value the Scriptures above any Books in the World This is false with a Witness when you in Print tell us we may as well burn the Bible as your Writings Truths Defence p. 2 104. calling the Scriptures Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware and that Preaching out of them is Conjuration And G. Whitehead tells us in his Book Truth defending the Quakers c. p. 7. That what is spoken by the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater And many of your Books nay even that are said to be given
Dead and Buried that he Rose again the third Day and Ascended into Heaven and there sits at the Right Hand of God making Intercession for us Sinners who lay hold on him by Faith and live in Obedience to him his Laws Institutions and Precepts in the Gospel left upon Record by the Four Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John and others of his Apostles in their Epistles And that we ought to Worship and Adore him together with God the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God in the Unity of his Essence This is the Trinity in Unity of the Father Son and Holy Ghost which is One God blessed for evermore And this is that Common Christianity which I mean that the Quakers Principles are so destructive to Now the next thing I am to tell at the Prayer and Request of John Feild is Wherein and whereby their Principles are Destructive c. I. The Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth who was Born of the Virgin and Suffered at Jerusalem to be the Son of God II. That they account him only a Vail a Garment an outward Vessel and can as their Books teach never call him Christ and that his Blood was no better than the Blood of another Saint III. They teach that their Sufferings are greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs in all Ages since For that as they teach the Sufferings of Christ and his Army of Martyrs were inflicted by a Law and in great part by the due Execution of a Law IV. That such are False Ministers who bid People believe in Jesus Christ as he is in Heaven above at God's Right Hand and that by Preaching Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his Work done on Earth V. They teach That G. Fox was their great Apostle which said thus of himself I am the Light of the World him by whom the World was made and doth inlighten every Man that cometh into the World VI. They teach That the Name Jesus and Christ belongs to every Believer as well as to the Head Christ that Suffered Died Rose again c. VII And thereupon they teach That he that hath the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the Dead is equal with God VIII And in coherence with this Doctrine their Prophet Sol. Eccles taught That Geo. Fox was a Prophet indeed And that as it was said of Christ He was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not So it might be said of G. Fox as in the 5th Instance XI They teach That G. Fox was the Father of many Nations that his Being and Habitation was in the Power of the highest that he Ruled and Governed in Righteousness that his Kingdom is established in Peace and that of the Increase thereof there was never to be an End X. They teach That the Holy Scriptures are not the written Word of God but contrarywise that they are Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware but that their own Writings are the Word of God given forth by Divine Iuspiration and that they as such are of greater Authority than the Bible and thereupon read them in their Meetings for Divine Worship whilst they never read in any such Meeting this Fifty Year one Chapter of the Bible either in the Old or New Testament For they teach They are not the means to work Faith in the Heart but are a Rotten Foundation XI They teach That Circumcision is as much in force as Water-Baptism and the Paschal Lamb as Bread and Wine and their disuse of these two Ordinances for this Fifty Years shew that they reject them and allows not of them XII And touching the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity they are so far from owning it as that they Damn them to the Pit of Hell as in G. Whitehead's Book Ishmael c. herein Reprinted may he seen Now John I having Replied to your Book A Defence of an Apology c. i. e. to the principal parts of it and shewed your Falacies and shallow Subterfuges as well as in some places answered your Request I rest desiring that your self and your People may Consider of it Repent of your Errors Retract and Condemn the same and Pray to God and the Nation to forgive you in which I shall join with you And in this you will have no cause to cry out of Persecution who am your Friend Fran. Bugg An Humble Address to His Majesty King WILLIAM III. over England c. by one of the Meanest yet most Dutiful Subject FRANCIS BUGG May it please your Most Excellent Majesty I Cannot but with great Joy and Comfort Remember your Majesties Repeated Assurances given to your Loving Subjects of your Majesties Care and Christian Zeal for the Protestant Religion as by Law established in this Kingdom by your many and repeated Speeches to your Parliaments and particularly by your late Gracious Proclamation consisting of two Parts In which your Majesties Pious Zeal has been abundantly manifest First Against Vice and Prophaneness and Secondly Against such Books as contain in them Impious Doctrine against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith and therein have given Encouragement to all your Loving Subjects to discover the Authors of such Books Wherefore in Obedience to your Majesties Royal Command as well as my Duty therein to God I have herein Reprinted one of the Quakers Books of which Geo. Whitehead is one of the Authors to the intent that your Sacred Majesty and the whole Kingdom may be presented with a Specimen of the Quakers Doctrine And do most Humbly Pray in the Name of the Church of England and other your Majesties Dissenting Protestants that such Care may be taken to suppress the same with others of their Books of the same Narure as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet And as it pleased God Almighty to give King Solomon Wisdom to Execute Justice so will he endue the King with an Understanding Heart to Judge who is in the wrong and to Punish accordingly And in this case let not the King Respect Persons in Judgment but if I be not able to maintain my Charge then let me bear his Majesties Displeasure and suffer what Punishment shall be due for the same But if I do make good my Charge then do as seems good in your Eye Thus with all Dutiful Submission do I Sign this my Humble Address this 13th Day of December 1699. Francis Bugg FINIS A Catalogue of Books wrote by Fran. Bugg 1. DE Christiana Libertate c. in 8 vo bound 2. The Painted Harlot stript and whipt c. 4 to 3. Reason against Railing c. 4 to 4. Innocency Vindicated c. 4 to never Answered 5. The Quakers Detected and their Errors Confuted c. 4 to 6. A Letter to the Quakers shewing their frequent Addresses to and Prayers for the late King Jam. II. and not to King Will. III. 7. Battering Rams against New Rome c. 4
to 8. One blow more at New Rome c. 4 to 9. New Rome Unmask'd and her Foundation Shaken c. 4 to 10. New Rome Arraigned and out of her own Mouth Condemned c. 4 to 11. A Sheet Presented to the Parliament 1693. in Answer to the Quakers Allegations c. 12. Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. 8 vo 13. Quakerism Anatomized c. 4 to never Answered 14. The Quakers Yearly Meeting impeached on the behalf of the Commons of England c. 15. The Quakers set in their true Light c. Presented to the House of Lords 1696. never answered 16. A Brief Reply to the Quakers Ancient Testimony presented to the Lord's House 1696. never Answered 17. A Brief History of the Rise Growth and Progress of Quakerism 8 vo never Answered 18. The Picture of Quakerism drawn to the Life 8 vo never Answered 19. A Sober Expostulation with their Hearers touching the Mercenary Teachers never Answered 20. The Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity c. Printed in 4 to and Reprinted in 8 vo 21. Seventy Queries to several Quakers c. never Answered 22. A Broad Sheet with a Scheme of the Quakers Synod presented to the Parliament 1699. 23. Jezebel withstood and her Daughter Anne Dowcra publickly Reproved never Answered 24. Quakerism Exposed to Publick Censure c. 8 vo 25. The Christian Ministry of the Church of England vindicated c. 8 vo never Answered 26. A Defence of my Book Quakerism Exposed c. Besides three Books I wrote part of 27. Will. Rogers his Seventh Part of the Christian Quaker distinguished c. about 1682. 28. A Looking Glass for the Quakers in 2 Columns 29. A Postscript to the Norfolk Clergies Book i. e. A Brief Discovery some of of the Quakers Blasmous and Seditious Principles c. ADVERTISEMENT IF any Person be desirous to have this Book and my former Books bound either them in Quarto or them in Ostavo or Single sticht they may be furnished with all except them of those Impressions wholly Sold off at Mr. Janeway's a Bookbinder in St. Paul's Church-yard next Door to Child's Coffee-House London And Likewise if any Abler Men for of such there is very great need be disposed farther to unmask the Leaders of this Heresie this is to give notice that in the Library of christ-Christ-Church Colledge in Oxford there is by a Worthy Gentleman a Divine of the Church of England bought of me and given by him for the Service of the Church of Quakers Books wrote by the most approved Authors of that Sect which I think are thus Chained up from doing any more hurt First G. Fox's Journal next to it Muggleton's Journal or Works containing more than 1000 pages 4 to and I think the best Quaker of the two next to that G. Fox's Great Mystery c. Fol. with near 20 more of his Books next the Works of Edw. Burroughs Francis Howgil Will. Smith Sam. Fisher all in great Folio's next the Works of Jos Coal Step. Smith R. Hubberthorn Will. Bayly Is Pennington G. Fox Junior in 4 to next divers Books wrote by James Naylor Will Penn Christ Atkinson G. Whitehead Sol. Eccles Tho. Lawson Christ Taylor R. Farnsworth Geo. Bishop and divers others in all near the Number of Four Hundred bearing distinct Titles which may furnish any Person sufficiently with Matter of Fact The CONTENTS A Parable of an Island Page 14 In which arose a Sea Monster ibid Who stung many of the Inhabitants ibid The Physicians several Applications Page 15 The Quakers Ingratitude Page 16 The Wounded Peoples Ingratitude Page 17 St. Paul's Example a good President ibid. Anne Docwra's witness touching the Quakers Page 17 R. Sandylan's Letter of Retraction Page 20 Will. Mucklow's witness is true Page 21 Their Singuler way of Answering Books Page 23 Their Sufferings greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ or his Apostles Page 24 They deny Jesus to be the Son of God Page 26 The Author's Apology for his proceedings Page 27 Prayers for their Recovery Page 28 Part the First Their Contradictory Books hinted at Page 2 How the Quakers and Papists agree Page 4 About chusing of Parliaments Page 9 Their Sentence of all Kings Page 14 Of their denying the Blessed Trinity Page 17 30 Of their Light within being God Page 20 The Quakers began this Contest Page 23 Of G. Whitehead's owning his Ishmael his shuffle about it since Page 30 His Blasphemy therein hinted at Page 31 Counsel given him Acts 8.21 22 23. Page 32 The Second Part G. Whitehead's Book Ishmael Reprinted Page 1 The cause of the Quakers Rage discovered Page 2 They deny the Scriptures to be the Word Page 4 They also deny the Scriptures to be the Rule Page 10 Saying they are a Rotten Foundation Page 14 That they are Death and killeth Page 20 That they do not work Faith Page 24 And to them not necessary Page 29 As a consequence thereof they Damn the B. Trinity to the Pit and Mr. Townsend the Minister also Page 22 26 The Snake deciphered Page 27 Jos Wyeth wounded and unarmed Page 28 The Snakes Hiss like Serpents Page 29 Another stroke at the Rattle-Snake Page 30 G. Whitehead's Blasphemy explained Page 31 She not changed in Principles proved Page 32 Part the Third A Caution to beware of Quakerism Page 2 The Quakers the Off-spring of the Jesuites Page 3 Their Answer to Books horribly falacious Page 5 Of their diminitive Sufferings Page 7 Their Sufferings and Miracles jointly considered Page 8 Twelve Reasons to confront J. Feild's magnifying their Sufferings Page 9 J. Field does not say F. B. is like Judas Page 13 His Hypocrisie therein discovered Page 17 Their not Praying for K. W. III. Page 15 The Quakers greatest Persecutors Page 16 Their Dissimulation thereabout discovered Page 18 Quakers fling at Dissenting Protestants Page 19 The Quakers against Liberty of Conscience Page 20 At first lay in Barns like Gypsies Page 22 Their rendring the Government odious for Persecution further Illustrated Page 24 An Address from the Honourable House of Commons to His Majesty and his Answer Page 30 Their Printed Paper to the Parliament Page 31 Their Paper to his Majesty Page 32 They debar'dd of Places of Profit Page 35 FINIS
A Modest Defence Of my Book Entituled Quakerism Expos'd AS ALSO Of my Broad Sheet with a Scheme of the Quakers Yearly Synod and other Books presented Anno 1699. to the PARLIAMENT AND G. Whitehead's Inside Turn'd Outward by Reprinting his Ancient Book Ishmael c. intirely shewing thereby the Quakers Ancient Testimony of Contempt of the Holy Scriptures and Blasphemy against the Blessed Trinity and they tell us they are not chang'd By FRANCIS BVGG There shall be false Teachers amongst you who shall bring in Damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. ii 1. LONDON Printed by R. Janeway Jun. for the Author and sold by J. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard H. Rhodes at the Star at the Corner of Bride-Lane Fleetstreet Ch. Broome at the Gun in Ludgate-street and J. Marshall at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street 1700. To the Right Honourable the High Court of Parliament Humbly Dedicated c. Right Honourable WHereas the Quakers for many Years have presented their Books and Papers to the Parliament under many fair Shews whilst the Tendency of their Doctrine is to Subvert Christianity and I being sensible thereof think it my Duty to God and my Country both as a Christian and Free-born Englishman to discover the same and therefore to obviate some Objections I do most humbly beg Leave to Apologize for my self in this Affair since by many Books of the Quakers I have been represented as an indigent Person a Mercenary Agent one that is prompt on by other a Judas c. and thereupon I am greatly desirous to acquaint your Honours that I am no such manner of Person And as a Demonstration thereof I have somewhat to offer in my own Defence which is briefly this I came of a good Yeoman Family and have lived in good Repute all my Days having had a competent Estate of near a Hundred Pound a Year besides Stock and that whilst I was a Quaker I was of good Repute and Esteem amongst them I entertained their Teachers with no little Charge I put Cloaths on the Backs of some and Money in the Purses of others I was Register to their Monthly and Quarterly Meeting about Sixteen or Eighteen Years together to which I rode Fifteen or Sixteen Miles every Month and all this freely as themselves know if they would speak I was Prisoner for the Cause of Quakerism Three Years and Four Months and for Meetings I suffered by Fines and Distresses more than One Hundred Pound and when we built a Meeting-House for before Meeting were at my House I gave 20 l. towards it and to that Day all freely without any Retribution all which considered might abate the edge of their Defamations and lead them to keep to the Matter in Controversie And since upon a sight of their Errors I left them I have been Useful but never Mercenary I have born all Town-Offices as Overseer Constable and Church-warden I have been often an Assessor and sometimes Collector of His Majesty's Taxes serv'd on Juries of Life and Death as well as Nisi Prius in all which places I have discharged my Trust free from any Accusation And since I have more narrowly looked into their Principles and found them to be Pernicious to both Church and State I have first used all private Means to Reclaim them But when they persisted therein and would justifie excuse and defend all things whether agreeable to the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles or in Contradiction to them I have thought it my Duty to discover their Pernicious Ways and therein I have proceeded upon a Principle of Justice and can with good Conscience say that from first to last no Clergyman in the Kingdom ever asked or desired me to write one Book Page or Line against the Quakers nor have any one Man Clergy or Laity seen this Book till printed tho' I do grant that by my Constancy of Writing for more than Twenty Years together and by the Charge of Printing together with other Losses incident to Tradesmen I have been reduced and I am not ashamed to acknowledge that the Gentry the Justices of Peace the Clergy and some Protestant Dissenters have extended their Bounty towards my Support and which the Quakers themselves do to their own People And if this be Cause sufficient to render me a Judas or Mercenary they have many Mercenary Judas's among themselves I have read in the Book of Esther That when Haman designed the Destruction of the Jewish Church then in Captivity how Queen Esther appeared in the Defence thereof saying Esther 3.6 14 16. I will go in to the King which is not according to Law and if I Perish I Perish And it is in the remaining Story of Esther in the Greek and Latin Copies Cap. 13. Mordecai appeals to God thus Thou knowest O Lord that it was neither of Malice nor Presumption nor of any Desire of Glory that I did this c. And when I came to understand the Pride and Cruelty of George Fox and his Accomplices which was equal to that of Haman who in Oliver Cromwell's time as by their Books appear were for Slaying and Banishing all the Clergy in the Kingdom and how averse they ever were against Liberty of Conscience as elsewhere I have shewed as also what Enemies they were to the Holy Scriptures and Ordinances of our Saviour namely Baptism and the Lord's Supper damning the Ever-blessed Trinity to the Pit of Hell and divers other Blasphemies too many here to relate I was stirred in my Spirit to appear in Defence of our Holy Religion which their Doctrine tends to overthrow saying with Queen Esther If I Perish I Perish and can appeal to God as Mordecai did saying Thou knowest O Lord that it was neither of Malice nor of Presumption nor any Desire of Glory that I did this c. And who knows but for such a time as this I was deliver'd from them by the good Hand of Providence And Right Honourable that which is chiefly defir'd by me is and that in Concurrence with many Thousands of good Christians that the Quakers may be examined whether what I object against them be so or no and if found true upon them that they may then be obliged to Retract and Condemn what is Erroneous as well as Dangerous and this is no Persecution Nor do I know of any who desire any Alteration of the Act of Toleration I have likewise read the Story of Bell and the Dragon wherein the Fraud of the Priests of Bell is set forth who pretended as our Quakers do that they served in the Temple freely and that their God Eat up all the Provision set before him But upon Examination it was found far otherwise Even so I make this offer and that on the Terms of Daniel's Proposition to make it appear notwithstanding the Quakers Loud Clamours against the Clergy for their Tythes and other Dues set apart by Law for their Maintainance whilst they Serve at the
against Geo. Whitehead's Book Judgment fixed c. we have continues she Knights of the Post amongst us c. This Witness is true II. That the honest Quakers for some such there are amongst them have suspected G. Whitehead by his Craft and Subtilty in defending or excusing what he must know to be erroneous amongst them to be a Jesuit at least like them This Witness is true III. That their Second-Day Meeting put Names to their Certificates and Passages into their Books without either Consent or Knowledge of the Parties or Authors This Witness is true IV. That the Quakers separate Meetings for Government with Doors shut are dangerous to the Peace of the Nation This Witness is true V. That the Magistrates look upon Common Bankers i. e. the Quakers Fund to be as bad as Arms and Ammunition and not said she without Reason for Money answers all things If Friends said she would put away this Dagon and take Money only for their present Necessity things would soon be better This Witness is true VI. That the Quakers Distinct Men's Meetings touching their Government within the Government and opposite to it serve to little Purpose but to shelter great Bellies and to protect the Proud and Vicious This Witness is true VII That their Teachers G. Whitehead Sam. Cater c. are the most confident Liars and wicked Forgers that ever she met with This Witness is true VIII That their Second-Day Meeting both added to and altered the Sence of her Letters to make Lies seem true of which Forgery she suspected G. Whitehead to be Guilty for continue she Sam. Cater is not Sophister great enough This Witness is true IX I had said she a sharp Conference with Sam. Cater for his Clamouring against Francis Bugg and John Ainsloe in his abuseful Narrative herein said she he Sam. Cater have used my Name in Print to justifie him in his Conscious Pamphlet with Francis Bugg I said she laid it before him smartly he is very bold continues she and the most confident Liar that ever I met with This Witness is true X. That G. W. forged a Certificate in 's Judgment Fixed This witness is true Thus much from a Prophetess of their own one in their Unity and that have wrote many Books in Defence of Quakerism one in 1699. by which Evidence we may know that the Quakers like the Cretians were always Liars evil Beasts slow Bellies but not only so but Liars Forgers and to speak Comparatively Knights of the Post Jesuits and dangerous to the Government Slanderers to their honest Friends whilst they protected the proud Blasphemers and Vicious Hypocrites and as St. Paul said the Evidence which a Prophet of the Cretians said was true who said and said truly that the Cretians were always Liars c. why Because he knew the Truth thereof and as to the Evidence which this Propheress Anne Docwra has given of the Quakers I say it is true why Because I know it to be so in the Cases now recited But further to confirm it I shall recite an Abstract of a Letter sent me dated January the 19th 1699. from Robert Sandiland who formerly was one of their Teachers But upon Conviction of his Errors and the gross Hypocrisies of the Quakers he has left them as many others have done and Retracted not only his Errors which he with my self G. Keith Tho. Crisp and divers others held but also his uncharitable Language to me and others tho' much of what his Books contained was as Anne Docwra says foisted in as his yet none of his and I am apt to think the same Person G. W. was the Forger in his Book for which horrible Practice he I fear has a large Account to give Now follows R. S.'s Letter somewhat abstracted Loving Friend Francis Bugg AS concerning my Book printed 1683. Entituled Righteous Judgment c. whatsoever it herein inconsistent or any other of my Books with the sound Christian Faith and Doctrine I do now wholly Disown and Retract together with all Harsh and Uncharitable Expressions on thee or any others named in my Book and particularly these Verses p. 97. viz. Team Rogers Pennyman Bullock and Bugg Dark Devil driven dungy God's desperately Lugg That are ty'd to the Tail of their separate Schism Papists Libertinism Heathenism Judaism Atheism I do say and affirm that tho' these Verses were put into my Book as mine yet I assure thee that they were none of my making I did not compose oneword of them but they were made by another Hand and put into my Book together with the whole Ninth Chapter which was likewise done by another Hand and put also into my said Book as mine whilst I was in the Country and after I had left it with the Second-Day-Meeting for the Press and they did with it what they pleas'd as thou knowest they use to Read and Correct all Books brought before them and G. W. I suppose may remember who it was that writ that whole Ninth Chapter * * Yea and I guess that it was G. W. himself from p. 91 to 100. Blessed be God that their gross Errors in the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion are now sufficiently Detected and there is nothing remains now for them to do but either openly and freely to Retract and Condemn them or else to be exposed and liable to all the ill Effects and Consequences which must unavoidably attend their obstinate persisting in their Errors Robert Sandilands But to shew the horrid Cheats wicked Forgeries and deep Hypocrisies of this their Second-Day Meeting will exceed the bounds of a Preface and therefore for a compleat System of this their black Art in their dark Divinity I refer my Reader to my Pilg. Prog. c. 2d Edit p. 149 to p. 170. And that I may not leave a Stone unturned that may discover the pious Frauds of this Painted Harlot I shall recite a brief Abstract of W. Mucklow's Book Entituled The Spirit of the Hat c. he being a Man of Note amongst them and may be called in St. Paul's Sence a Prophet of their own and whose Evidence in this Case is true yea I know it to be so For the Quakers were always Liars evil Beasts Slow-Bellies whilst yet they pretend to Infallibility and also that their Books are given forth from the Immediate Eternal Spirit of God 1. That the Foxonian Unity is to yeild Obedience to the Body tho' no Conviction inwardly of the Truth of the thing commanded saying who is able to make War with us These are the high swelling Words of proud Babel This Witness is true 2. That G. Fox c. was of an Antichristian Spirit This Witness is true 3. That their Ministers in their Meetings for Government conjoin'd together to subvert our Laws and Liberty This Witness is true 4. That G. Fox was lifted up with Luciferian Pride saying he had Power to bind and loose whom he please This Witness is true 5. That Sol. Eccles
aforesaid i. e. A Brief Discovery c. p. 6. the Quakers Painter G. Whitehead says in his Truth and Innocency c. p. 9. We says George deny the Words as there printed tho' not until near 40 Years after printed therefore the Words He that hath should be left out Now George may not the London Jews by the same Art and with as much Truth and Innocency defend their deceased Brethren the Jews in their Blasphemy against Jesus Christ in the Days of his Flesh who said John 8.48 Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil But then by G. W.'s Rule of Arguing the London Jews may now say The Words and hast a Devil should be left out they only meant that he was the compassionate Samaritan mentioned Luke 10.33 Would this do George No sure theirs was plain Blasphemy and Fox's is as plain Blasphemy who said he was equal to God as aforesaid Thus Reader have I shewed thee the Quakers way of answering Books viz. First by Transposing Words by which if allowed I have proved that James slew Herod Secondly That by their Adding Words they likewise may excuse any Blasphemy as Whitehead here doth his Brother Burroughs who said first that the Quakers Sufferings are greater than Christ's and all his Apostles and Martyrs under the Heathen Emperors and Bloody Massacres to this Day Secondly That the Sufferings of the Quakers are more unjust than all the forementioned Thirdly That what was done to Christ his Apostles and Martyrs was chiefly done by a Law Fourthly and in great part by the Due Execution of a Law But says Whitehead It should rather have been said by a Regular or Judicial Procedure and truly this is so far from clearing Edw. Burroughs and his Brethren for they are all of one Mind being lead into these Blasphemies by their Darkness within which they call Light that it rather confirms what he Blasphemously said than otherwise And no great Marvel for the Quakers in Print deny that Person which suffered upon the Cross to be properly the Son of God * See W. Penn's Serious Apol. p. 146. For a Confutation of Penn's Doctrine read John 14.28 yea the whole Chapter and the Jews being of the same Faith they said as in John 19.7 We have a Law and by our Law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God Thus do both Jews and Quakers agree in their Fundamentals the Quakers deny him properly to be the Son of God and the Jews put him to Death because he said he was the Son of God and both Jews and Quakers herein resist the Testimony of God himself the Glorious Angels the Holy Apostles and Army of Martyrs yea all Christian Churches to this Day and because my self and others urge that they may be examined touching these their Blasphemous Books therefore they cry out Persecution Persecution Fr. Bugg would raise the Monster of Persecution with this they make a Noise and raise a Dust but fear no such thing they only fear being examined about their Blasphemous Books and obliged by Authority to Retract them and then down goes their beloved Darling Infallibility And what remains now but to follow the Pious Example of good King †Against the Blasphemy of Senacherib King of Syria Hezekiah 2 Kin. 19.14 And Hezekiah received the Letter of the Hand of the Messengers and read it and Hezekiah went into the House of the Lord and spread it before the Lord and prayed c. And therefore that God may give a Blessing to our Labour and for his Name Sake Rebuke this Spirit of Blasphemy which have entered this our Island and if it be his Holy Will to convince the Gainsayers of his Sacred Word and Ordinances For as St. Paul Teacheth 1 Cor. 9.10 He that ploweth plows in Hope and he that thresheth in Hope shall be partaker of his Hope especially if he faint not and though to Plow and Thresh and Beat Clods be hard Work yet 't is a necessary Work to Prepare the Field For the Seedsmen who are ordained thereunto not that the Plowmen or the Sowers have wherewith to Glory for Paul may plant and Apolo water but it is God alone that giveth the increase And to him not unto us belong the Glory And tho' it has been my work to Plow and Break the Clods which is hard Labour and to thresh the Mountains that the Fields may be prepared and fitted for the Master's use yet I can say according to the discretion God has given me I have not desired to break the Bruised Reed nor to quench the Smoaking Flax by being harsh to the weak or severe to the tender but have cut down the Lofty Weeds and hewed down the Tall Ceders who stood in opposition to the way and work of God which he is bringing to pass in the Earth And therefore I shall conclude in the Prayers of our Church beseeching God of his Great Mercy to give his Blessing to my weak Endeavours And say We Sinners do beseech to thee to hear us O Lord and that it may please thee to Rule and Govern thy Holy Church Universal in the Right Way That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true Worshiping of thee in Righteousness and Holiness of Life thy Servant William our most Gracious King and Go vernuor That it may please thee to Rule his Heart in thy Faith Fear and Love and that he may evermore have Affiance in thee and ever seek thy Honour and Glory That it may please thee to be his Defender and Keeper giving him the Victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to Illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of thy Church with true Knowledge and Understanding of thy Word and that by their Preaching and Living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with Grace Wisdom and Understanding That it may please thee to Bless and Keep the Magistrates giving them Grace to execute Justice and to maintain Truth That it may please thee to give to all thy People Increase of Grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure Affection and to bring forth the Fruits of the Spirit That it may please thee to bring into the way of Truth all such as have Erred and are Deceived That it may please thee to Strengthen such as do stand and to Comfort and Help the weak Hearted and Raise up them that Fall and finally to beat down Satan under our Feet That it may please thee to Defend and Provide for the Fatherless Children and Widows and all that be Desolate and oppressed That it may please thee to forgive our Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers and to turn their Hearts That it may please thee to give us and all Men true Repentance to forgive us all our Sins Negligences and Ignorances and to endue us with the Grace of thy
chuse Law-makers and they will chuse to be sure such as will uphold them in their Oppression And p. 92 93. And we see the People have been in great Blindness in contending for Parliaments so chosen P. 149. Again It is God's proper Right to give Laws unto Man Now in this Particular also Man have set himself in the Seat of God and so have dishonoured the one Lawgiver by setting up many Lawgivers P. 150. Now mark and consider these things seeing that the Righteous are fewer in number than the Unrighteous and that the Lawmakers are chosen by the most Voices and that of the Richest People outwardly how are the Righteous like to be preserved in outward Freedom by the Laws that are so made P. 159. And I must deal plainly with you saith he in the Sight of God who hath made Me a Prophet to This Nation Well George I have recited it and do averr it was fairly quoted out of your Prophet Fox's Works Reprinted by your Approbation 1665. and it is not length of Time or change of Governments that can abate the Force of a Prophecy of a divinely inspired Prophet No George if God Almighty did inspire this your Prophet and reveal to him from Heaven his Holy Habitation That a Parliament chosen by most Voices could not or were never like to Act or Govern for God or his People then 't is of Force and you ought to stand by it in the Face of all Unbelievers but on the contrary if you do now see that Fox was an Impostor as I conceive that to be your Case and that he was never so moved of God but instigated by a deluding Spirit then no marvel you dare not recite it but as in p. 69. make this guilty Excuse viz. We are only defensive and not under a necessity of reciting the Clergies whole Quotations But whether only defensive we shall consider by and by But George if this Excuse of yours was your Prudence lest such as you present your Books to should see your old Seditious Principles and which is still worse that you should have the Face to Reprint and Defend them then George I would willingly know where your Honesty and Sincerity is you so often boast of But enough of this I shall proceed to another of your Juggles as bad as this in p. 29. viz. As to what these Men i. e. the Norfolk Clergy quote against us p. 16. to prove us Antimonarchial they are very broken in their Quotations with their many sensless Dashes like the Snake in the Grass Second Edition p. 220. But varying in the Citation of the same Passage these Men i. e. the Clergy have the Words Are not all these Elders that doat so much of an Earthly King But the Snake has it Are not all these Christians that will doat so much c. An excellent Critick Here George is at his old Work even splitting a Hair if possible and all to amuse his Reader and to put a Vail if possible over the Quakers most manifest Antimonarchial and Treasonable Principles especially since of late in their Yearly Meeting and other their late Prints they have reasserted all these their Ancient Seditious Prinples and tell us they are the same still and not changed as in the Postscript to their Ishmael herewith Reprinted I shall shew which if so they do indeed as to themselves make void the Act of Indemnity which otherwise would have blotted out these their old Sins But since they say their Principles are now no otherwise than they were in the beginning I think it is highly reasonable that they should be examined thereabout And this I think ought to be the Desire of every true English Freeholder But come George as to the varying of these Men one said Are not all these Elders c. the other Are not all these Christians c. What harm is in all this especially since the Words of your Fox in his Book stiled Several Papers given forth c. to the Presbyterians 1659. are And are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Now what if the Clergy took only the Word Elders and the Author of the Snake in the Grass took the Word Christians since one is enough to shew your Meaning tho' Fox as his manner usually was put in more than enough what harm is in all this pray But if you had looked in p. 80. of my Pilgrim's Progress c. there you would have found that I have put it even as Fox did viz. And are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Oh George if I would go thorough this Book of thine I could shew abundance of these thy Shuffles and Legerdemain used on purpose to deceive thy Readers But now to the Clergy-men's Quotation which I say is fairly taken and carries the Force and Meaning of your great Apostle Fox neither do the Norfolk Clergy nor the Author of the Book excellently intituled The Snake in the Grass vary one tittle in the Relation of Fox's Doctrine but if you think it do I will now add Christian to Elder and then let the Reader see how it helps your Cause and whether one of those Words had not been enough to express your Sense but a Man near drowning will lay hold of any Twig and your Infallible Cause being Infallibly sinking you are forced to make use of such Trifles instead of reciting their Quotation and then refuting it as all fair Controvertists would do And if not able so to do then you ought to confess fairly and acknowledge your Errors and condemn your Apostle's Seditious Doctrine Now to the Quotation A brief Discovery of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the Quakers p. 16. G. Fox in his Book Several Papers given forth c. to Presbyterians c. just before the Restoration writ Anno 1659. and printed the beginning of 1660. he hath these Passages Friends To all you that desire an Earthly King in England c. whether Presbyterians or others Did the Elders of old in the Days of Christ or the Apostles cry up any King but Christ to have any King to rule over them but Christ And doth not the Priests and Presbyterians cry for an Earthly King and will have Cesar And do they not in this crucifie Jesus Are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Do you read that there were any Kings since the Days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians for Christ is King alone I say that is the false Church that doth not live upon the Head of the Kings They that be true Elders never go about to set up an Earthly King over them to Rule Herod the King was mad at the Child Jesus there is the Fruit of Earthly Kings and hath not this been witnessed in England c. 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the Scriptures say that God the Father the First Person in the Trinity is the Word No Christ the Second Person is the Word proved by that Scripture above quoted and perverted by them Whitehead in Ishmael p. 9. II. They are such Teachers as tell People of a Sacrament for which there is not one Scripture and so feed the People with their own Inventions and therefore we deny them III. They are such Teachers as have told us the Letter was the Light whenas the Letter saith Christ is the Light therefore we deny them John 1 c. Query Where is the Man What is his Name What Book is it in That the Publick Ministers ever said that the Letter as they contemptuously call the Holy Scriptures was the Light mentioned John 1. or the Essential Word of God only the Written Word of God spoke forth by Men Divinely Inspired and as such are a Light or give us Light and are a Means to understand the Mind and Will of God through the Influences of his Holy Spirit assisting therein No this I take to be a false Accusation like that of Joseph Wyeth's Anguis Flagellatus p. 158. i. e. Upon Examination of Christopher Wade's Words they seem to imply as if he had affirmed of the Scriptures that they were the Eternal and Indwelling Word of God c. This is a Lie told in Hypocrisie for I have read the Page through and there is no such Saying or any thing like it And thus do they belie their Adversaries both by false Citations and Charges Wherefore as the Protestants says touching the Jesuits so may the Protestants conclude by the Quakers both in reciting their Opponents their reciting their Friends and their Sham-Creeds and Protestations in their late Books presented to the Parliament the Judges Justices c. viz. Distrust them in all they say A Specimen of all which you have in this small Treatise But to go on IV. They are such Teachers as tell People that Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel therefore we deny them V. They are Babylon's Merchants that make a Trade of the Scriptures there-we deny them VI. They are such Teachers as take a Text out of the Saints Conditions i. e. out of the Scriptures therefore we deny them These are some of the chief Reasons why the Quakers deny the Publick Ministers and not only so and there leave it no but in Magisterial Insulting Domineering manner counsel and command the People contrary to all the Laws made and established to go no more to Church The like of which I do believe never was done by a dissenting People who enjoy their Liberty by Indulgence since the World began which after I have recited Fox's Motion from God as he audaciously pretends I shall recite this Counsel against the Estabished Church and next his Authority from The Word of God as he audaciously pretends as in p. 15 54. viz. Moved of the Lord written from the Spirit of the Lord for the Cleansing of the Land of all False Teachers Seducers and Deceivers and Witches who beguile the People and Inchanters and Diviners and Sorcerers and Hirelings c. All People that read these things never come ye more at the Steeple-House nor Pay your Priests more Tythes till they have Answered them for if ye do ye uphold them in their Sins and must partake of their Plagues This is the Word of the Lord God to you all G. F. Reader their First and Great Commandment is Pay your Priest no more Tythes and their Second is like unto it Never go more to the Steeple-House and upon these Two Commandments hangs their Law and their Prophets and by this you may know that his Disciples love him in that they keep his Commandments And the Reasons he gives to enforce Obedience to their Commandments are because the Priests tell them that the Holy Scriptures are the written Word of God because they tell us of a Sacrament because they tell People that Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel because they take a Text out of the Scripture and Expound it to the People And for these and the like Reasons they call them False Teachers Seducers Deceivers Witches Inchanters Diviners Sorcerers and Hirelings And for their Warrant This is the Word of the Lord God to you all Thus do they sit in the Judgment-Seat even as in O. Cromwell's Time and for the same Cause now as then they have Condemned not only the Church of England but Protestant Dissenters too But George as I have turned thee topsy-turvy so am I now turning thy Inside outward shewing by thy Ishmael c. thy Ancient Testimony and Principle and thou sayest thou art not changed See thy Ishmael to which I have neither added nor diminished only the backside of the Title-Page Running Title Marginal Notes and Observations from Pag. 11. thy Name being on the Title-Page the middle and at the end Signed and also Sealed with your Common Seal i. e. Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord in us G. Whitehead c. But let me clear up one Passage in your Truth and Innocency Vindicated c. p. 31. As for this Quotation in Ishmael c. p. 10 11. G. Whitehead hath positively disowned the Words and affirms they are none of his and that he writ not that Part of the Answer to Townsend which was in the Year * It was 1655. 1654. and that he shall neither stand by nor own these Words viz. And here thy Antiquity and the Three Persons which thou would devide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual Darkness for the Lake and the Pit Now George tho' thy Signing and Sealing this Book with thy Hand and Common Seal as aforesaid were sufficient to Entitle thee to this Hellish Blasphemy as if thou hadst Signed and Sealed a Bond of an Hundred Pound made by a Scribe would oblige thee to Pay the Debt tho' thou didst not write the Bond yet George I have a further Demonstration to prove the Book thine and never heard that until 1690 an Act being made which enjoined all that expected Toleration to own the B. Trinity that you did disown any part of this Book But George Disowning will not now do you must Retract and Condemn it and this to do will be as bitter a Pill as it was to thee and thy Brethren to own K. W. III. Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms For I have Mr. Smith's Book The Quakers Disarmed c. and your Book Truth Defending the Quakers c. both Printed 1659. wherein he charges you with this Ishmael and you both own and defend it And first The Qua. Disarm c. Mr. Smith He that writ this Book Ishmael opens a Door to Damnable Heresies you writ this Book G. W. therefore you open a Door to Damnable Heresies G. W. I deny it I did not write all there is something scribled on it Mr. Smith True here
are some things writ on the back-side I 'll charge you with nothing but what is printed Were you the Author of all that is printed in this Book your Name is printed at the beginning middle and end of it G. W. About three Years ago I and Four more writ it betwixt us Mr. Smith Pray tell me plainly whether you will own it or not if you will not own it at all then tell me what you will own and what not otherwise when I have proved it a most wicked Book you may disown it and so all my Discourse fall to the Ground 'T is no pleasure to me to speak or this People to hear vain Words If you will not own it speak but you may as well disown to morrow all that you say to day telling us Words are but Wind if you disown what you have Printed and affixt your Name so often unto G. W. Well I will own it prove what you can Now George lest thou should'st say this is an Adversary's Book tho' that in this Case would not help Dun out of the Mire I shall now come to thy own Book Truth defending the Quakers c. * Of Damning the B. Trinity to the Pit and Lake said in the Title-Page also to be written from the Spirit of Truth in G. W. c. P. 1. Question recited out of the foregoing Book to which this is in Answer Mr. Smith Do not you repent G. W. for your endeavouring vainly to Defend Aug. 29. 1659. in so great a Congregation these Positions printed in your Book of Ishmael c. G. W. The Positions we defended are according to the Scriptures of Truth and them we need not repent of As first in denying the Bible to be the written Word of God Secondly in asserting the Scriptures not to be the Word Thirdly that there is no such Word in the Scripture as Three Persons in the Trinity but it is a Popish Doctrine mentioned in the Popish Mass or Common-Prayer-Book Fourthly And thou that affirm Three distinct Persons in the Godhead art a Dreamer and he that Dreams and tell Lies he with his Imaginations and Dreams is for the Lake Truth Defending c. Where in the 33d Question in The Quaker Disarm'd c. thou hast falsly Charged George Whitehead's Book * Here he owns the Book and defends the Doctrine with proving several Blasphemies in it which is a wicked Lie and Slander for thou never yet proved any Blasphemy in it For that thou countest Blasphemies was our ‖ Mark Our Witnessing Witnessing against such Doctrines as thou couldst not prove by Scripture as that of a Trinity of Three distinct Persons in the Godhead and that of the Letter being the Word Truth defending the Quakers and their Principles c. P. 24. G. Whitehead therein reciting the 45th Question of Mr. Smith's out of his Book The Quaker disarmed p. 6. for I have them both before me G. W. thus Recites and then Answers viz. Do not you G. Whitehead blasphemously take to your self an Attribute of God while you pretend ordinarily to know the Hearts of Men and tell Mr. Townsend of Norwich in the second Page of your Ishmael that the Light of God is departed from his Conscience c. I think 't is the fairest Citation that ever I met with viz. of G. W.'s now comes his Answer I says G. W. take no Attribute of God to my self but what God hath given me c. And as for Townsend I never said that the Light was departed from his Conscience as thou hast belied me But that from the Light of God in his Conscience he is departed * And so are the Words in p. 2. of Ishmael as you may see A plain confession and owning the Book c. c. Truth Defending c. P. 25. In thy 46th Question thou hast says G. Whitehead charged me with Printing Railing Language with calling Priest Townsend Witch Lyar Blind Guide in p. 3. of Our Book * A plain confession and owning the Book c. c. But there is not the Word Witch but that thou would bewitch People with thy Lies c. Reader I cannot inlarge I now refer you to the Book which Geo. Whitehead owned when he and his Partners Wrote it when they Printed it when they Disputed with Mr. Smith Aug. 29. 1659. when G. W. Printed his Truth Defending c. which is at four or five sundry times and till 1690 which was 45 Years never disowned it Yet now he finds Quakerism sinking would insinuate he did not Write it doth not Own the Words is sorry his Name is to it and the like Dissimulation No George you must either Condemn it as rank Blasphemy or Defend it since your Hand Wrote it Signed and Sealed it as your Act and Deed. Now therefore George my Advice is That you go forthwith to your Second-Day-Meeting and together with them Condemn by Publick Censure under your Hands this your Blasphemous Book Ishmael and all other Books of yours and of your Friends of the same Nature and Tendency For as St. Peter once said to Simon Magus I fear it may be said to your Self and Partners Read Acts 8.21 22 23. Thy Heart is not right in the sight of God repent therefore of this thy Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the Thoughts of thy Heart and the Words of thy Mouth may be forgiven thee for I perceive thou art in the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity FINIS ISHMAEL AND HIS MOTHER Cast out into the WILDERNESS Amongst the wild Beasts of the same Nature OR A Reply to a Book entitulled The Scriptures proved to be the word of God put forth by one of Ishmaels Children who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel and a Pastor of S. Austins and Savours Parish in Norwich but is clearly made manifest by the light of God in his Servants to be a scoffer and an enemy to the Gospel which the Saints of God are Ministers of and sufferers for by such as he is who Ishamellike hath laid his folly open and is discovered to the faithful who are of Abraham and of the seed of Promise ALSO A cleer distinction between the Ministers of Christ who are of the seed of Abraham and the Priests of this generation who are of Ishmaels root who with the Truth are plainly made manifest by the light of Christ in us who for the testimony of God do suffer by the sons of Hagar and this Generation of the Priests in Norwich Given forth for no other end but that the truth may be cleared from such as scoff and deny it Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord in us that do suffer in the Goal of Norwich for the truths sake which is persecuted and slandered by the Priests and Rulers of this City Whose names in the flesh is Christopher Atkinson George Whitehead James Lancaster Thomas Simonds London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black
we cannot for Conscience sake Fight Kill or Revenge either for our selves or any Man else Oh! no by no means this they could not be brought to and the Riddle I have unfolded in my Pil. Prog. c. 2d Edition p. 192 to 199. For as they yet never made one Publick Ad dress to His Majesty from thir Yearly Meeting that great and dangerous Body nor one Prayer that I could ever hear of either in their Books or in their Meetings nor ever yet wrote one Book in Favour of the Government But did all these in the late Reign But still there is one Clause in this Paper worth Notice i. e. ' As the King has been tenderly inclined to give Ease and Liberty of Conscience c. And I pray is it inconsistant with His Majesties Tenderness to give Liberty of Conscience to His Protestant Dissenters who hold the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith joined in the Association to preserve his Majesties Royal Person and Government And Pray heartily for him in their Meetings And to Curb and Restrain such as will doneither but hold such horrid Pernicious and Destructive Principles both to Church and State and even to Humane Society No sure God hath given him both Wisdom and Conduct and he knows how to make a difference and distingush between such as Subvert the Faith undermine Christianity and Damn the Ever-Blessed Trinity to the Pit of Hell and such who make it their Business to Instruct their People in the Fundamentals of Christianity as is well expressed in divers Laws particularly in that wherein is this Clause viz. Provided and be it enacted That no Quaker or Reputed Quaker shall by Virtue of this Act be qualified or permitted to give Evidence on any Criminal Causes to Serve on any Juries or bear any Office or Place of Trust or Profit in the Government any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for this Clause all true Protestants have good cause to be Humbly thankful to God the King and the Parliament and that for more Reasons than I think meet here to enumerate But notwithstanding the Quakers Temporizing Paper above recited the King's Majesty as a Nursing-Father to the Church and Spouse of Christ and as a Zealous Defender of the Faith once delivered to the Saints put forth his Royal Proclamation from his Court at Kensington the 24th of Feb. 1697. which we have read both at Church and Courts of Judicature An Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. By the KING A PROCLAMATION WILLIAM REX WHereas we cannot but be deeply sensible of the great Goodness of Almighty God in putting an end to a Long Bloody and Expensive War by the Conclusion of an Honourable Peace so we are not less touched with a Resentment that notwithstanding this and many other great Blessings and Deliverances Impiety Prophaneness and Immorality do still abound in this our Kingdom and whereas nothing can prove a greater Dishonour to a well-ordered Government where the Christian Faith is professed nor is likelier to provoke God to withdraw his Mercy and Blessings from us and instead thereof to inflict Heavy and Severe Judgments upon this Kingdom than the open and avowed Practice of Vice Immorality and Prophaneness which amongst many Men has too much prevailed in this our Kingdom of late Years to the high Displeasure of Almighty God the great Scandal of Christianity and the ill and fatal Example of the rest of our loving Subjects who have been soberly Educated and whose Inclinations would lead them to the Exercise of Piety and Virtue did they not daily find such frequent and repeated Instances of dissolute Living Prophaneness and Impiety c. And whereas several Wicked and Prophane Persons have presumed to Print and Publish several Pernicious Books and Pamphlets which contain in them Impious Doctrines against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of our Faith tending to the Subversion of the Christian Religion Therefore for the Punishing the Authors and Publishers thereof and for the preventing such Impious Books and Pamphlets being Published and Printed for the future we do hereby strictly Charge and Prohibit all Persons that they do not presume to Write Print or Publish any such Pernicious Books or Pamphlets under the Pain of our High Displeasure and of being Punished according to the uttermost Severity of the Law And We do hereby strictly Charge and Require all Our Loving Subjects to Discover and Apprehend such Person or Persons whom they shall Know to be the Authors or Publishers of any such Books or Pamphlets and to bring them before some Justice of Peace or Chief Magistrate in order that they may be proceeded against according to Law God save the KING For these and the like Reasons the Norfolk Clergy did Accept the Quakers Challenge did meet them at the time perfixed and there did endeavour to shew them their Errors and would have convinced them thereof and then had them Retracted their Errors and thereby to have merited the Indulgence of the Government and the Love of their Christian Neighbours But they refusing all this Labour of Love and Good Will boasting they were Protestants and so Recognized and with all boldness rejected all their Endeavours of Conviction upon which the Gentry in Norfolk some of which were there and many Justices of the Peace and others Signed a Petition as they also in the County of Suffolk have done waiting a seasonable Opportunity to present the same A Copy thereof excepting Names is as followeth viz. To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled the Humble Petition of the Justices of the Peace and Grand-Juries of the said County of Norfolk in Session Assembled in behalf of themselves and the Body of this County at large Humbly sheweth THAT We cannot without Resentment take Notice of the Growth and Daily Increase of a Sect of People among Us called Quakers and the Mischiefs and Dangers from thence threatning this Nation It is too observable with what restless Zeal their deluding Teachers and as may well be suspected many Romish Emissaries under their Vizar and Disguise daily ramble into all parts of these Kingdoms and boldly spread their Venemous Doctrine every where attempting to Infect and Shock the Minds of Weak and Unstable Protestants and Assuming to themselves Rules of Discipline Powers in Matters of Religion and Forms of Government repugnant to the Established Laws of the Kingdom contrary to the very Acts of Toleration and not allowed to any other Dissenters vouching in all their Practices Divine Inspiration for their Warrant and their Indulgence of the Government for their Indemnity How apparently their Blasphemous Books and Pernicious Principles tend to subvert the Fundamentals of Christianity and the undermining the Civil Government are sufficiently demonstrable The Publishing whereof by pretended Permission of Authority We humbly conceive to be of most dangerous Consequence We therefore obliged in Duty to God and Our Country do humbly pray That you
Physician for as they did not think themselves obliged to ask Forgiveness of Sin to God nor acknowledge their Errors to Man so they resolved to use none of their Medicines and therefore bad them be gone calling them by these Names following viz. The Idle Gormondizing Priests of England The Guide mistaken c. by W. Penn p. 18. no sort of People have been so universally through Ages the very Bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that Abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon With this the Gentlemen were amazed and looking one upon another said Good Lord may it please thee to forgive our Enemies Persecuters and Slanderers and to turn their Hearts Grant us O Lord to love our Enemies and by the Example of thy Martyr Stephen to pray for our Persecuters c. And when this Prayer was ended they judging it their Duty to do Good against Evil they again tried another Expedient thinking their Distemper lay in their Brain and being somewhat Lunatick was the Cause of those violent and abusive Words Well they gave them some Pills advis'd them to be still and take some Rest but before this Physick could work they fell into another Convulsion Fit and raved as much as ever yea all of them except some few who were not wilfully ignorant who by the Blessing of God upon their Endeavours came to their Sences and remain so to this Day as Monuments of God's Mercy praising his Great and Glorious Name and returning their Thanks to the Physicians who labour in the Word and Doctrine calling the Physician methinks I hear them still Baal's Priests Conjurers Thieves Robbers Blind Guides Devils Serpents the Sir-Symons of the Age a Viperous and Serpentine Generation Witches Bloodhounds Merchants of Babylon Dogs Sodomites * Is this from a Christian Spirit See their Brief Discovery c. p. 7 8. we said this Intoxicated People in their mad Zeal have nothing for them but Woes and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations and laid them to sleep on downy Beds of Sin-pleasing Principles whilst they have cut their Purses and pickt their Pockets Tophet 's prepared for them to act their Eternal Tragedy upon whose Scenes will be renewed Direful Anguishing Woes of an Eternal Irreconcileable Justice c. And in excuse for these dreadful Thunderbolts W. Penn thus saith That had these Expressions been Ten Thousand times more significant earnest and sharp against that cursed bitter Stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and I would then say not enough but that the Reverence I bear to the Holy Spirit i. e. in the Quakers would oblige me to acquiesce in whatever he should utter through any Servant or Prophet of the Lord * W. Penn 's Ser. Apol. p. 156. c. At this the Gentlemen stood amazed thinking with themselves that all the Furies of Hell could not help them with more dreadful Curses much less Ten Thousand times more sharp and so they left them as fit only for Bedlam Upon this there was some dissenting Physicians * Dr. Owen Mr. Baxter Mr. Faldo and others in this Island who also had good Skill of this Malady with which this People were infected by the Venom of the Scorpions above-noted and in great Pity to them they searched diligently into their Christian Dispensatory and found therein divers Receipts and of the most proper Medicines they apply'd both Corrosive and Lenitive but nothing took place except only upon a few who were not willingly Ignorant and of an obstinate Temper but the Treatment they had for them was much of the same Nature of the above-noted for they called them An ill-bred Pedantick Crew †Is this from a Christian Spirit the Bane of Religion and Pest of the World the old Incendiaries to Mischief and best to be spared of Mankind against whom the boiling Vengeance of an irritated God is ready to be poured out * Quakerism a new Nick-name c. p. 165. c. Whoever read this Book and my former Books will find this Parable unfolded Thus Reader you see here is nothing but Plagues and Woes Hell and Damnation both for the Conformists and Nonconformists for all their Love Care and Pains are these mad People then to be dealt with as a Man would deal with any other well-disposed People I think not If then you find me in some Cases to deal roughly with them marvel not it is for their Good since the way as one of themselves say to recover the Deceived is to discover the * Deceivers And this Witness it true as St. Paul said touching the Cretians Tit. 1.12 13. so may I and that for the same Reason say of the Quakers viz. one of themselves even a Prophet of their own said The Cretians were always Liars evil Beasts Slow-Bellies this witness is true said St. Paul wherefore Rebuke them sharply c. that is as in the Dutch Annotations Severely or Cuttingly a Similitude taken from Physicians who cut off the dead Flesh c. Then not softly with smooth Words sewing Pillows under their Armholes as some did in former Ages and for which they were sharply reproved no no they must be launched and the Wound laid open †A Desperate Wound must have a Desperate Cure and searched to the bottom and then we may hope of a Cure and this Doctrine of St. Paul that able Physician has seemed proper to me ever since I have practiced for the Quakers like the Cretians were always Dissemblers with God and Man they were always Liars they were always evil Beasts and Slow-Bellies and for the Truth of this St. Paul touching the Cretians produceth a Prophet or a Poet of their own who gave that Witness and notwithstanding they were always Liars yet St. Paul said of this Evidence of their own Poet this Witness it true therefore rebuke them sharply Severely or Cuttingly in order to cut off the dead Flesh and in like manner I shall produce a Prophetess of their own who also is a Poet and a Writer and Defender of their Way and in their Unity which stands principally in Lying and Dissembling and when she does write in the Defence of the Quakers she is as great a Liar as the rest yet in this Case her Witness is true as St. Paul said of the Cretian Poet. Wherefore I shall briefly recite some Passages out of some Letters writ by her to my self and to Mr. Crisp as also out of a printed broad Sheet all wrote by Anne Docwra of Cambridge one in their Unity as above-noted which Letters we have still by us as well as her printed Paper and which are more at large recited in my Book The Christian Ministry of the Church of England vindicated c. p. 2. and my Pilgrim's Progress c. 2d Ed. p. 54 121 129. and her Witness in this Case is true viz. I. I have said she given witness