them besides several Gentlemen and others Inhabitants of Wymondham to renew my Challengs to R. Ashby one of your Teachers which was to prove That the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth the Scriptures Christ's Ordinances undervalue his Sufferings exalt your own c. as at large in Quakerism Anatomized p. 2. Which may fully Answer your captious Demands in your Essay p. 7. Viz. June 4 th 1694. Whereas R. Ashby lately wrote to the Inhabitants of Wymondham to beware of Fr. Bugg's Book Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. As containing Lies and false Representations c. Upon which some of us desired Francis Bugg to appear in his own Vindication which he readily consented to and renewed his Charge against the Doctrine and Principles of the Quakers as in the recited Book Quakerism Withering c. And gave the said R. Ashby a Challenge to meet him and a Months time to prepare himself But the Day being come and the said R. Ashby not appearing as it 's said on his behalf by Reason of Business at London Nevertheless to prevent all Excuses on the part of the said R. Ashby we have again requested Francis Bugg to renew his Challenge and to give him longer time to prepare himself assuring him That as we shall stand by Fr. Bugg in what he maintains according to Scripture so shall we be against him where he asserts the contrary or mis-cite and falsly charge the Quakers Tho. Wright William Haws Rich. Clark Robert Purt Roger Gay William Le Neve Lewis Hinton Jacob Henery John Henery Peter Atdam Richard Smith And many others And accordingly I renewed my Challenge pursuant to my former Proposition offering to meet him at Wymondham the 18 th of July 1694. And sent him per Post c. And let none think it strange that the Quakers and their Principles are thus Anatomised and set forth to Posterity For those Histories that have derived to us the Knowledge of those Errors and Heresies which sprang up amongst the Ancient Christians as Tares amongst the Wheat have not been accounted superfluous nor their Respect worn out in several Ages How much the more concerned should all true Christians be to have the knowledge of those born in our own Age brought forth in our own Bowels According to Christ's Prophecy Mat. 24. 24. For tho' G. Fox in his Journal p. 27 28. 30. 103. 170 171. 173. 307. 350. 407. 503 504. pretend to Miracles as in the Third Table under the word Miracle thus viz. Miracles wrought by the Power of God i. e. She that was ready to dye raised up again The Lame made whole The Diseased restored John Jay's Neck brake restored c. And many other pretended Miracles yet not one of them said to be done in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth as in Acts 3. 6. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk Which is a strong Argument of their disowning Jesus of Nazareth and of their confirming their New Religion in Opposition to that of Christs But I have not room to shew the Tendency of those Blasphemous Pretences of that Impostor G. Fox which probably hereafter I may In the mean while I am June 25. 1694. Thy Sincere Friend FRANCIS BUGG The CONTENTS of this Book THE Quakers and Papists pretended Miracles Page 2 G. Fox when living in a Glorified State 4 G. Fox the Quakers Star-branch c. confirmed 5 6. 16 A Treble Observation on a Triple Quaker 9 Geo Keith's Ten Articles of Faith 14 They value and prefer their Books before the Scriptures 11 12 The Quakers Sufferings greater than the Suferings of Christ 9 The Quakers fly from their Word 21. 23 They say the Name Jesus belongs to every Member of the Body i. e. every Believer as well as to Christ the Head 8. 28 Dangerous Consequences of the Quakers Doctrine 31 A Sign to prove the Quakers Sincerity p. 36 A Conference between F. B. and S. Cater 39 A Cage of Unclean and Hateful Birds 50 The Prophesies of the Prophets fulfilled 55 A Discovery of the World's Teachers 47 G. Fox his Epistle or Liturgy sent to be read in Churches 43 Tho. Bilney the Martyr his Christian Doctrine 59 The Quakers read not Scripture but their own Epistles 41 Geo. Keith charges them to hold Dangerous Errors 38 Queries propounded to the Quakers 65 The Conclusion 68 To which is added the Challenge to R. Ashby Books Written by Francis Bugg I. DE Christianae Libertate or Christian Liberty c. II. The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt III. Reason against Railing or Truth against Falshood IV. Innocency Vindicated and Envy Rebuked V. The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted c. VI. Battering Rams against New Rome c. VII One Blow more at New Rome c. VIII New Rome Unmask'd and her Foundation shaken IX New Rome Arraigned and out of her own Mouth Condemned X. Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving XI Quakerism Anatomized or a Challenge to Richard Ashby XII New Rome Arraigned c. The Second Edition Besides a Printed Letter to the Quakers and a Sheet to the Parliament An APOLOGITICAL INTRODUCTION Courteous Reader THERE is scarce any Sect of People how erronious soever they be but they have some Advocates and such too as oftentimes may give just occasion for an Apology for writing against their Errors and more especially when they make such fair Pretences to the Christian Religion as the Quakers of late have done in divers of their Books particularly that entituled The Harmony of the Old and New Testament wherein the Author prefixeth a twofold Preface the one to the Christians the other to the Jews premising two things 1st To wipe off such Aspersions as have been cast upon them as denying Jesus of Nazareth and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Now how far their Book will answer this End unless they make an Ingenuous Retractation of their Errors this Treatise may shew 2dly I have not says this Author transcribed the whole of all those Verses which sometimes is cited but only so much as I conceive doth more immediately relate to c. Very well If then he contract the Scripture and take what he conceives necessary to the Point in hand I hope I shall have the same Liberty and not liable to Censure for the same thing a Fault the Quakers are too much guilty of And because I would be as concise as may be I shall recite their Books which are generally of two sorts of two Stamps and carry two contrary Faces contrary Doctrines contrary Principles c. in two Columns that as in a Glass their Hearers if they will but read may behold the depth of Hypocrisie which lye couch'd in their Leaders Doctrines not only liable to deceive them but the whole World who take them to mean as they say which makes me believe them to be the very Deceivers Christ foretold of Matt. 24 24. for though they come forth pretending to convert the Jews by
Observation So then I read out of G. Fox his Book what followeth the Astonishing Confutation abovesaid News coming up out of the North c. p. 14. So Dust is the Serpents meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death their Church is Dust and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter S. Cater I deny that we call the Scriptures Dust or Serpents-meat F. B. But S. Cater wilt thou deny it if you see it in one of your Friends Books S. Cater Yea wherever I see it I will deny it F. B. Richard Tilson go and fetch my Box which he did I read it as in the recited Charge and Sam. Cater took the Book and read it S. Cater Thou saidst we call'd the Scriptures Dust and Death but there is not the word Scripture in the whole Passage F. B. People I appeal to you whether Matthew Mark Luke and John be not Scripture With that perceiving S. Cater's Evasion the People gave a great shout and said Yes Yes S. Cater Matthew Muck F. B. Hold Sam. what Matthew muck what Muck is that what shall we have a new Gospel John Cade a Norwich Preacher said Friends take notice that as the Bible grows old it will moulder and crumble away and become Dust F. B. People observe They would not have you think that new Bibles are Dust but when they grow old they moulder away c. and therefore my Advice to you is to get new Bibles W. Read Francis we deny thy words we have given it in to the King and Parliament that we believe the Scriptures was given forth by Divine Inspiration and they have accepted of it F. Bugg The more shame for you to be so deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your Belief For if so why do you not Retract and Condemn your Books which are as opposite to what you now say as Light is to Darkness And some few Passages more we had But if they believe as they write that the Gospel Matthew Mark Luke and John be Dust I wonder with what face they could appear before the Parliament until they had first retracted and by some publick Act have condemned their Books which throw such Contempt upon the Holy Scripture For a further proof of this Charge see the sixteen Instances Object But possibly some may object and say It 's true you have more then sufficiently proved your first Charge and in the proof thereof there is enough said of their speaking contemptuously of the Holy Scriptures by calling them Dust Death Serpents-meat Carnal Letter killing Letter Dangerous to read c. yea and their contemptuous Speeches of the Sacraments Church Ministery c. yet the second Branch of your second Charge seems unproved where you bring it as an Argument against them of their not owning the Scriptures and that they over-value their own Writings Now if you have any thing material to offer pray do Answ I am very willing as I always was to leave things as clear as I can and place my Argument upon Matter of Fact out of their own printed Books And having already signified that ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES are out of their Books and their rejecting the Scriptures and reading the Scriptures in their Religious Meetings if I may so call them being a Consequent of the second Errour I shall so call them viz. both the Titles of their Epistles and the Conclusion enough to signalize their way and manner and THE DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE Quakers ERROURS First THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS c. Directed To the Camp of the Lord in England meaning the Quakers Subscribed Edw. Burrough and Fra. Howgill Second To the Flock of Christ every where to be read in their Assemblies by G. Fox Printed for Ben. Clark 1681. Third To the Children of Light c. Directed thus I desire this Epistle may be read in the fear of the Lord in your several Meetings By William Penn. Fourth A Salutation of Love from the Spirit of Life unto all Friends of Truth c. Let this be read amongst Friends who are Exiled or sentenced for Exilement when they are met together in the fear of the Lord. Josiah Coale Printed 1665. Fifth An Epistle to Friends in Holland Let this be sent amongst the Friends in Holland Jos Coal Printed 1667. Sixth To the Flock of GOD gathered out of the World in the Province of Mariland Let the Copies of this Epistle be sent amongst Friends every where in the Province of Mariland to be read amongst them in all their Assemblies in the fear of the Lord. Jos Coal Seventh Several Papers given forth for the spreading of Truth c. I charge you in the presence of the Lord God to send this amongst all Friends and Brethren EVERY WHERE to be read in all Meetings To you all this is THE WORD OF GOD G. Fox REMARK Thus Reader I have given a few Instances of their way and manner of sending their Epistles to be read in their Meetings both in England Holland and Mariland and were it needful I could give you a hundred more which shews that they give their own Writings the preferrence as well as that they lay aside the use of the Scriptures in their Meetings and no marvel if the Scriptures be Death Dust Carnal Serpents meat and if it be Conjuration to preach out of them and if the Ministers of the Scriptures be Ministers of Death and if it be dangerous to read them as were they as by the Quakers esteemed Dust Death Serpents-meat it were surely dangerous to read them for who would feed upon Dust and Death and Serpents-meat this could no way nourish nor strengthen but corrupt poison and putrifie the Minds of such as are most exercised in reading them and that so it is in their Judgment For if it were wholesome to read them and that they believed them to be given forth by Divine Inspiration as they to the Parliament have pretended to serve a Turn why do they not read the Scriptures or sometimes a Chapter or sometimes one of the Apostles Epistles in their Meetings as that they do not nor never did nay I challenge all the Quakers in England whether ever their Ministers recommended so much as one Chapter to be read in any of their Meetings for Worship these forty years much less charged them in the presence of the LORD GOD to read such a Chapter or such an Epistle as wrote either by the Prophets or Apostles And if they cannot let it be a Sign for ever that they deny the Scriptures first by contempt thrown on them and next by their practice of laying them aside and reading their own Epistles and let it rest upon Record as a witness against their deep Hypocrisies and let it be a Testimony against the false Pretences and Perjury of the twelve false Witnesses Nay and not only in their own Meetings but let me give you one
as the Quakers do account it sufficient But with that worthy Martyr Dr. Robert Barns say Acts and Mon. p. 610. I believe in the holy and blessed Trinity that created and made all the World I believe that without Man's Will or Power Christ Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost and took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary that HE suffered thirst hunger and cold which as he was God he could not do mark that old Friends and other Passions of our Bodies sin excepted according to the saying of St. Peter And I believe that this his Death and Passion was the sufficient Ransom for my sins and the sins of the whole World and I believe that through his death he overcame sin death and hell and that there is no other Satisfaction unto the Father but his Death and Passion only and that no Works of Man did deserve any thing of GOD but only Christ's Passion touching our Justification For I know said this humble Martyr that the best Works that ever I did is impure and imperfect And according to the Faith of this worthy Martyr the Publick Ministers teach and I believe not but that Dr. Barns was a good Man walked circumspectly had great regard to the Dictates of his Conscience and the Guidance of the Light abstained from that which was evil and followed that which was good and every way as became a good Man as compleatly as the most perfect Quaker in England notwithstanding their high boasting yet you see he did not lean upon his own Deservings but upon the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ even the Merits of HIS Death who suffered thirst hunger and cold who was born of the Virgin and made like unto us sin excepted c. nor did he pretend to a sinless Perfection as the Quakers vainly boast of but humbly acknowledged that the best Works that ever he did was impure and unperfect and this made him rely and lean wholly upon the Merits of another even the Sacrifice of that Immaculate Lamb Christ Jesus his Death and bitter Passion which the Quakers never preach up as necessary to believe Search all their Epistles read in their Meetings hear all their Sermons if ever you hear such a Passage as came from this humble Martyr I will be your Bond slave And thus have I given an additional Proof that the Quakers are of a different Faith from the Martyrs and all true Christian Churches and when I came to understand these their Fundamental Errours which was after I had wrote three or four Books against them in reproof of their Hypocrisie about outward Ceremonies Church Government their pretending to preach write suffer and do all things freely when alas it was all but a cheat they took Money Gifts and Reward for all nay sometimes as in the Instance of Sam. Cater 10 l. where they suffered not 10 d. See New Rome p. 54. to 68. I say after I had thus been brushing at the outside or skirts of Religion for some years it pleased GOD in mercy to open my understanding and to shew me by the Rule of Holy Writ and through the Assistance of His Holy Spirit the Quakers great and Fundamental Errours and then I could not be silent but that too for the sake of many amongst them who have a Zeal I bear them record though not according to knowledge but was constrained to unmask their blind Guides who have caused them to err And if in my Zeal against their pernicious ways I seem to exceed they of all People may bear with me And now to the Trial now to the Examination Who are the true Ministers and the false who are the Worlds Teachers Alluding to the Quakers distinction whose Maxim is to call all but themselves of the World or the Worlds People or the Worlds Teachers c. and who are the Ministers of Christ And though I dare not pretend to know Gods People so as to give an infallible Character of another Mans state as the Quakers do yet I hope to make a truer Description than they have done But for this I must have a Rule and that Rule must be the Holy Scriptures and by the evident Testimony of that let my Work stand or fall A DISCOVERY OF THE WORLDS TEACHERS 1. The Quakers who teach that the Names JESUS and CHRIST do not properly belong to the Body that suffered upon the Cross at Jerusalem nor preach'd it up as a necessary Article of Faith to believe that Salvation is obtained through the Merits of his Death and Passion They are of the World they are the Deceivers and Antichrists 2. The Quakers who teach that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to the whole Body and to every Member in the Body as well and as amply as to Christ the HEAD are of the World and Deceivers 3. The Quakers who teach that the Body of Christ was of an earthly perishing Nature like ours are of the World and Deceivers 4. The Quakers who adore Mortal Men and give those Divine Attributes to Geo-Fox due only to CHRIST are of the World and Deceivers 5. The Quakers who teach that he that hath the same Spirit which raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD and which Spirit they pretend to have and by it give forth their Epistles c. and therefore of the World great Deceivers and horrible Blasphemers 6. The Quakers who teach that Josiah Coal being dead is ASCENDED and that IN Edw. Burroughs whilst living was THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD and that the FULNESS dwelt in him of Grace and Vertue are of the World and gross Idolaters 7. The Quakers who teach that Geo. Fox's coming out of the North naked not known prophesied of writ from the Mouth of the LORD c. are Deceivers Impostors and of the World 8. The Quakers who teach that the Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter say they and that such are Ministers of the Letter are Ministers of Death which is Serpents-meat that say the Sacraments are dust c. are of the World and great Deceivers 9. The Quakers who teach that it is as justifiable to burn the Bible as the Books wrote by Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead and others of their way are Decivers and impudent Impostors 10. The Quakers that teach that the Scriptures are uncertain and that what the true Prophets say is false and what the false Prophets said is true what good men spake therein is ill applied and what wise men spake therein is ill expressed and that whether Moses or Hermes was the first Penman of the Scripture is uncertain they are false Apostles deceitful Workers and their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith 11. The Quakers who teach in one Book that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are not the New Testament not the Rule for Christians to walk by and teach in another Book lately that the Scriptures are the New Testament Holy Scriptures c. are
the whole World Thus have you made the Apostles false Witnesses who have charged the Jews with slaying the Lord of Life and Glory As to the Sufferings of Christ the Question still remains unanswered I know you now see cause to say his Sufferings were grievous Sufferings sweating drops of Blood yea great Sufferings Thus far G. W. is got but George you know there is degrees of Greatness there is magnus major maximus great greater and greatest of all Now the great Query is Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest Ed. Burroughs says the Sufferings of the Quakers was greatest And G. W. hath not yet said the Sufferings of Christ was greatest no other word will do I still pursue the Terms of my Query and wait to have it answered but I find G. W. pinched and in a great strait and knows not which way to wind him Condemn Ed. Burroughs's Expression as a Lye that he cannot do for a World for he was by G. W. counted a Prophet a Son of Thunder one in whom was the Almighty Power of God Can such a man lye Can he err No they cannot give Evidence against themselves so not fit to be of a Jury not fit for any place of Trust in Government not fit to have yea and nay pass for an Oath If so then if the Jury be most Quakers they 'l never give it against themselves they are not impartial they cannot be impartial they are the greatest respecters of Persons this day on Earth E. B. has said The Sufferings of the Quakers is greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles which is horrid blasphemous yea they thereby undervalue the Sufferings of the Lord of Glory and exalt their own as greater Sufferings This they cannot deny nor this they cannot condemn see the Fruit of Infallibility having once spoken whether true or false a Lye or a true Story both must be infallible they cannot retract they cannot confess their Sins to God how then should they retract and acknowledge their Errors No not for a World then down goes Infallibility the principal Studd of their new kind of Popery The Perfect Quaker in favour of their own Books An Epistle from their Yearly Meeting 1675. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Several Petitions answer'd c. p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Papers and Queries for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God Several Papers given out for the spreading of Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord this is the Word of God G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. Anno 1693. Dear Friends it 's advised that you be careful in spreading all such Books writ in defence and for the Service of Truth Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for remembrance and notice B. B. The Perfect Quaker's Perfect Contempt of Scripture Saul's Errand c. p. 7. The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. A brief Discovery c. p. 7. The Priests of the World are Conjurers raising dead Doctrines dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death Notable Conjurers P. 8. The Commission of Baal's Priests came from Oxford and Cambridge the same poisonous Fountain is filthy the Streams are no better Simon Magus would have purchased the Holy Ghost with Money even the Sir Simons of our Age run to Oxford and Cambridge Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death really they are Bloodhounds still hunting and gaping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Ja. Naylor's Answ to the Jews p. 4 22 25. It 's Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God it is the Devil which contends for the Letter to be the Word of God The Quaker's Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scripture was Moses or Hermes or whether both these two or not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false c. News coming up c. p. 14. Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Counterfeit Quaker facing round about Quaker's Vindication p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God c. Count. Conv. c. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World A treble Observation upon a triple Quaker Courteous Readers whether Christians or Jews what think you Is the Counterfeit Quaker sincere Do you believe that he means what he says namely that the Scripturesare of Divine Authority and that he prefers them before all the Books extant in the World If so you may believe Transubstantiation Can you think I say that he believes the Scripture is of Divine Authority when he tells you that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust and Serpents-mear and that the Scripture is Beastly Ware that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ or whether either or neither and that what was spoke by good and wise Men was ill applied and ill expressed and what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true c Answer me for my part I cannot G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of
New Rome Arraigned And out of her own Mouth CONDEMNED CONTAINING A Farther Discovery of the Dangerous Errors and Pernicious Principles of the LEADERS and TEACHERS OF THE Foxonian Quakers Which tend to Overthrow the Christian Faith to Obstruct the Jews Conversion to Encourage Mahumetism and to Pervert the Right Way of the Lord which whether so or no deserves the Examination and Consideration of the Christian Ministry of all Protestant Churches as they tender God's Glory and the Good of Souls To which is added Ten ARTICLES of the Christian Faith wrote by Geo. Keith who was Persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian Testimony The Second Edition with some Alteration and Additions by Francis Bugg Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the Habitation of Devils and the Hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird. Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works In the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye Holy Apostles and Prophets and Christian Ministers for God hath avenged you on her Rev. 18. 2. 6. 20. Licensed June 18th 1694. London Reprinted for the Author and are to be Sold by J. Gwillim Book-seller in Bishops-gate-street 1694. The Preface to the Christian Reader Christian Reader There are two things put me upon this Preface First Geo. Whitehead and his Abettors's Inveterate Malice calling me and others Old canker'd Apostates Vile Apostates Self-condemn'd Apostates Unruly Beasts Betraying Judasses Wolves Dogs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil Devils Incarnate Heathens Atheists c. Indeed their Books are so very Malicious and Defamatory as well as their private Whisperings and Backbitings that some even of themselves have been constrained to give me under their Hands a Testimony in Writing against the unchristian Treatment which I have met withal namely T. Bird J. Ellington J. Mason W. Belsham and above Twenty more Quakers belonging to Mildenhall-Meeting And yet not worse Language than they have given the Publick Ministry as Witches Devils Gormandizing Priests c. as anon will appear And whoever discovers their Errors and displays them in their proper Colours must expect to meet with something of this kind And that being fore-seen have doubtless been taken for a tolerable Excuse by abler Pens from stooping to such an Undertaking as this And thereupon I may the more rationally expect the more favourable Censure for what might have been done better by the Learned 't is enough to me to be thought worthy in this great Work of discovering the greatest Heresie that ever sprang up in our Age to be as the Carpenter's Man whose Work is to hew off the rough and knotty pieces of the Timber to make it more ready for better Workmen To be Contentious I grant is an Offence the Scriptures condemn with no little keenness whilst it exhorts to contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints From whence I conceive that though I contend against Quakerism with some Symptoms of Zeal I am not therefore Contentious nor though I may retract yea write against some Errors I formerly held and upon Conviction have forsaken I am not therefore a Self-condemned Apostate as G. W. dreams If you think me too smart in some passages against Persons 't is against their Leaders if against their Opinions I have from their own Books proved them Erroneous and Blasphemous which ought to be reproved sharply And that their Opinions are so I have never refused to make Proof of to their faces on Condition when proved they would engage a Retractation nay sometimes without any such Engagement See Quakerism Anatomized p. 2. I cannot call Gall and Poyson by sweet and lovely Names I must alter my Style according to the Matter and Occasion or else all will be out of Tune and no more Harmony than Harp and Harrow Bishop Jewel and other Reformers they wrote smartly against the Papists and most exquisitely displayed their Errors and yet they protested they were in Charity and desired nothing more than that they would have hearkened to them and forsaken their Errors And I do say nothing would please me better than to see this People Condemn what is Erroneous amongst them and persevere in the Truth and the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ True God and Perfect Man in One Person Object But if any Object in favour of them That though they do not Preach Christ without unless since G. K. came over as he is in Heaven above nor believe him to be distinct from his Saints nor Pray in the Name of Jesus to God the Father thereby owning him in his Mediator-ship nor make Confession of Sin to God in Prayer nor beg Pardon for the same But look at Christ within the Light within his Crucifixion within his Intercession within nor a Bible to be seen in their Meetings for they are above such Carnal things Yet they have among them many good Exhortations and they own Christ to be the Word of God the Power of God the Wisdom of God will not this do Supposing they mean all to be within yea Heaven and Hell all within c. Answ The Mahumetans hold Abraham to be the Friend of God and Moses the Messenger of God and Christ the Breath of God And they Punish such as speak against Christ whose Religion was not say they taken away but mended by Mahomet Heylin's Cosmog lib. 3. p. 104. And our Saviour is called in their Alchoran The Word the Power the Soul and Strength of God c. The Lives of the Patriarchs Printed 1694. See the Word Alchoran Insomuch that if the Quakers do not come to this Result to own the same Jesus that was born of the Virgin smote with Palms of their Hands Crucified Dead Buried Rose again and in the sight of the Galileans ascended into Heaven and publickly Condemn their Books which Teach the contrary they cannot deserve the Name Christian c. I am not unsensible what little Arts they have used to blast my Reputation that thereby they may obstruct the Service of my Books but their Expectation hath failed them Then they Indicted me in London for Printing without License yet they do the same But they say I put up a Mock-Pillory I grant I did and that to shew what they actually deserved upon their own Proposals to Authority Did not they erect the Form and Figure of a Child's Penny horning Battle-door for the Bishops Clergy and Gentry to Learn the English of Tu and Vos Signed by G. Fox a Shoe-maker c. Was not this as great an Affront to them as mine could be to the Twelve Quakers See Quakerism Withering c. p. 61. But how did they bestir themselves to Persecute me How did they run up and down to great Persons both on Foot and by Coach and all to Suppress me And had they had a Jury of Quakers I had been Cast but
their Proofs that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah yet when the Jews come to know as that they may by reading their Books especially their Alcoran namely George Fox's Journal that they pretend to Miracles to sinless Perfection to Infallibility of Judgment and contempt of the Writings of Moses and the Prophets bringing their own Pamphlets in competition therewith This I say will tend to harden them in their Infidelity for ROME their elder Sister pretends to Miracles Perfection and Infallibility equal with them if not beyond them for they seem to vve with Jesus of Nazareth and his Disciples and G. Fox and his Disciples follow their Steps in a great measure as the said Journal and other of their Books will set forth And though the Papists will confess to the miraculous Conception and Birth of Jesus of Nazareth yet as History saith St. Kentegernes's Mother beg'd of Jesus that she might imitate his Virgin Mother in the Conception and Birth of a Child Accordingly in a little time she finds her self with Child but often protested she never knew Man And soon after St. Kentegerne was feign'd to be born The Papists grant That Jesus fasted Forty days 't is said St. Patrick did the like and St. Ardan is said to have fasted Fifty days They grant that Jesus fed Five thousand Persons with Five Loaves and Two small Fishes St. Patrick is said to have fed Fourteen thousand with one Cow two Stags and two wild Boars and that the next day the Cow was alive again They grant that Jesus turned Water into Wine but they pretend to turn Wine into Blood and Bread into Flesh after a few words of Consecration They grant that Jesus and his Disciples in his Name healed all manner of Diseases 'T is said that St. David invited St. Kined to come to his Synod St. Kined excused himself because he was crooked and lame whereupon St. David prays him streight and sound They grant that Jesus and his Disciples in his Name cast out Devils 'T is said that a Woman was dispossest of seven Devils at Lauretto by calling on the Virgin Mary for Help They grant that Jesus raised the Dead 'T is said St. Francis makes one dye and afterwards raised him up and restored him to Life again I have read the like of St. David St. Patrick St. Dennis St. Benno and others And the Quakers in their Book stiled A Reply to the Vindication c. say p. 14 Visible Miracles have been done amongst Us in the sight of the World c. The like Pretences are in their Epistle stiled This is only to go amongst Friends as anon will appear See also G. Fox's Journal p. 307. And had a large Meeting at a Constable's House on whom the Lord had wrought a great Miracle c. But mark Reader here is not the Name of this Constable nor the Town where he dwelt nor yet what Miracle it was whether dispossessed of a Devil lame and made to walk dead and raised again to life deaf and made to hear blind and made to see no nothing that may induce us to believe it Beside it is pretended to be wrought in 1666. and exposed to publick view in Print 1694. which shews it to be a fabulous Story and can only tend to harden the Jews especially if they read the Quakers Golden Calf or Legend of Stories viz. G. Fox's Journal And now I proceed to shew the Quakers Books to be of two sorts insomuch that 't is hard to know what a Quaker is by his Writing and yet forsooth all their Writings are pretended to be wrote by the special Motion of the Eternal Spirit and are the Products of Infallibility which is one main Reason they cannot retract any Error how gross and notorious soever The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker David's Enemies discover'd p. 7. And these the Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel as thou i. e. Priests and thy Generation do c. G. Whitehead C. Atkinson The Harmony of the Old and New Testimony and the fulfilling of the Prophecies of the Prophets c. OBSERVATION Reader observe that though I grant in the Holy Scriptures there was and is great Harmony as in the first Impression hereof printed the Year before theirs I have more largely made appear yet in the Quakers Doctrine there appears nothing but Discord and Confusion for G. Whitehead and his Brother Atkinson they cannot call the Letter the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel nor New Testament yet J. Tomkins and W. Penn they can as above which shew they can appear with two Faces viz. G. W. c. cannot call it the New Testament yet to wipe off the Aspertions that have come upon them by reason of G. W's c. Doctrine J. Tomkins and W. Penn can Thus as G. W. says they see cause otherwise to word their Matter The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker Dear George Fox whose Being and Habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rules and governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is established in Peace and the Encrease thereof is without end Josiah Coale from Barbadoes and justified by the Quakers in their Book Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. The Harmony c. p. 97. Jesus shall be great and called the Son of the Highest and the Lord shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Read Isa 9. OBSERVATION How is it possible that the Jews should be converted to the Christian Faith by the Quaker's Doctrine who attribute that to Geo. Fox which is only due to Christ but rather harden them in their Infidelity through their Blasphemy The Perfect Quaker The Holy Scriptures The Examination and Tryal of Geo. Fox at Lancaster Assize c. p. 21 And before I came to the Bar I was moved to pray that the Lord would confound their Wickedness and Envy The thundering voice answered I have glorified thee and will glorifie thee again And I was so filled full of Glory that my Head and Ears was so filled full of it that when the Trumpets sounded and the Judges came up again they appeared as dead Men under me Geo. Fox John 12. 28 29. Father glorifie thy Name Then came there a Voice from Heaven saying I have both glorified it and will glorifie it again And the people that stood by heard it and said it thundered others said an Angel spake to him OBSERVATION Reader here is G. Fox's manifest Blasphemy in assuming a glorified state whilst in the mortal body but this the Quakers have left out of his Reprinted Journal p. 290. but in p. 17. G. F. thus says of himself Now I was come up in the Spirit through the flaming Sword into the Paradise of God I knew nothing but Pureness Innocency and Righteousness
without end and to this W. Penn says well done or very well in his Vindication of this Idolatrous Letter of J. C. to G. Fox So that you may conclude with Irenaeus who in his third Book against Hereticks thus Whilst Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poyson of their foul Opinions Now therefore the best method that I know of to try whether there be any sincerity in these cunning Sophisters G. W. c. IS to take William Penn's method with the Papists who after he had shewed their pretence to one thing when they were really for another first said W. P. Let them renounce their Errours and then let us hear what they will say A short instance of his method I may recite in answer to the Objection A Seasonable Caveat against Popery c. p. 3. They i. e. Papists are grown so complaisant as none seem more exasperated at Persecution than themselves WHILST THE VERY FATHERS OF IT decrying the fierceness of some Countries WHOSE INCENDIARIES THEY WERE AND STILL ARE and imputing the Blood of poor Protestants to some unwarrantable Civil soore THEREBY ABUSING THE MAGISTRATE WITH THE EXECUTION OF THEIR OWN CONSPIRACIES Nay for all their venerable esteem of the Popes Infallibility they have not stuck to censure his roaring Bulls THOUGH PROCURED BY THEIR OWN MEANS and all that might express their new tenderness that many unacquainted with their practices are ready to believe them what they say themselves to be whose Moral is to have two strings to their Bow to be ambo dexter and furnisht with meanings to sute the compass of all occasions Thus far W. P. And whoever observes these Quakers turnings and windings in all their Juglings and Ledjerdemain will find they tread the same Path tho' in another manner for who will or can pretend more plainly to own the Precepts and Doctrine of the Bible to be holy and blessed and yet in other Books say 't is dust and death the Serpents Meat and that to preach out of them is Conjuration and that the Minister of the Letter is the Minister of Death and that 't is dangerous to read the Scriptures and so in most things they look two ways JANUS like insomuch that for W. Penn's four Instances of the Papists Hypocrisie I could easily give you forty of these Quakers two-fac'd Practices looking one way and rowing another in short see W. P.'s Method and if you would understand these Quakers aright use it viz. p. 35. To conclude says W. Penn if we would not receive a Thief until he has repented let the Papists first Recant his volumous Errours c. And so say I let the Quakers first condemn their Errours and these their Books which contain them and manifest their sincerity touching the Precepts and Doctrines of the Scriptures SO as to recommend the reading some Portion thereof in lieu of their own Epistles I say let them first Recant what is really erronious secondly condemn the Books thirdly make a a solemn profession of some certain and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith and then and not whilst then they ought to be reputed as Christians As to what G. W. offers in his Charitable Essay c. p. 2 3. in your Vindication about you Creed cited by me in New Rome c. rather confirms what I say then otherwise as will more fully appear by comparing the same with what followeth in this Discourse as well as shew G. W's twelve Assistants their great Errour and Mistake And in answer to them and their blind false and implicite Certificate I do affirm that what I have quoted as the Quakers I will prove theirs and what I now quote under the Title of ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES and in other places are the Quakers own Books and Writings neither do I wrong them And if the twelve will ingage under their Hands either to prove what they can justifie by Scripture and condemn under their Hands what they by Scripture cannot justifie I will take the like number and meet them on a Months notice at Bishop Stafford which is more than half way and by the Testimony of Scripture let the matter be decided and if you refuse this for shame complain no more of being wronged neither let your Drudge G. W. as in his Just Inquiry c. p. 14. says as he doth viz. THE LIBELLER HAS SHAMEFULLY MISREPRESENTED US as is usual with you and all Hereticks to complain of being wronged and misrepresented c. As for instance 1. Tell the Papists of worshipping Images praying to Saints the Sacrifice of the Mass that they believe their own Traditions or Epistles as firmly as they do the Bible that they believe Transubstantiation Indulgencies c. as drawn up by Pius the Fourth according to the Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent and the CONSEQUENCES of these their erronious Principles and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED 2. Tell the Arians that they are Enemies to the Divinity of Christ they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for say they all that we contend for is only for such a moment of time as may make good the Relation of a Father and a Son 3. Tell the Nestorians that they made two Persons in Christ and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for all they designed was to avoid the Blasphemy in calling the blessed Virgin the Mother of God 3. Tell the Eutychians their Errour in saying there was but one Nature in Christ and they will tell you they are MISREPRESENTED for say they we do not mean thereby to destroy the Properties of the Humane Nature but only to assert that its Substance was swallowed up by the Divine And therefore in all Complaints of this Nature it is necessary to come to particulars and to examin with care and diligence the matter complained of and then to give Judgment in the Case and therefore I cannot be thought to misrepresent you nor wrong you if I charge you with Particulars and those Particulars too taken and fairly quoted not out of such Books as have been wrote against you which yet might be true enough but out of your own approved Books wrote by your most Authentick Writers solemnly professing to all the World I would not wrong you nor misrepresent you nor to my knowledge have I done it if you think I have I have given you a fair opportunity to make it appear if you will meet me on the Condition aforesaid and if you can shew me wherein I have I further ingage to do you Justice by a Publick Reparation And by these Measures I have proceeded from first to last and by the help of GOD I am resolved so to continue as long as I have to do with you But one thing by the way I would have you take notice of and that is
this If it were enough to be Accused then none would be Innocent so on the other hand none would be guilty if it were enough to complain of being misrepresented July the 25 th 1693. Francis Bugg To write no more I long since did intend But none but GOD knows now when I shall end For still I find when I think all is done As much to write as when I first begun NEW ROME ARRAIGNED And out of her own Mouth CONDEMNED The PREFACE READER EDw. Burrough long since put forth a Challenge in the Name of the Quakers that they would gladly be manifest to all the World and in order to it and to clear themselves from some Imputations cast upon them they proposed to meet and Dispute with any whether Priests or People of any Perswasion yea or any one of them at any Place and at any Time and for what Number they pleased as by me recited in my last New Rome unmasked c. p. 2. Upon which I went to their Meeting in Mildenhall Nov. 22. 1691. and there accepted of their Challenge and told them I had a Charge to exhibit against them if they would ingage to vindicate themselves and their Principles Tho. Brewster a Quaker then present bad them Answer me with silence So then I read the Charge to them consisting of ten or twelve Errours as in New Rome c. p. 3 4 5. and left a Copy of the said Charge with them and told them That if they did not answer me according to their Proposition that I should expose them which I was loath to do for the sake of some amongst them But no answer could I get After which I printed c. and when my Book came out I went again to their Publick Meeting and renewed my Charge on the 20th of Nov. 1692. and offered then to prove it against them where was present Sam. Cater and John Cade two of their Preachers But still they refused to debate the matter with me or to argue the Point fully I told them I did not come to disturb them but if they would set a time either S. C. and my self singly or let him take two four six or ten and I would take the like number and we would appoint a convenient time and place This they refused and to this day have declined any such method though proposed by them in print and now at last I have received a single sheet stiled A Charitable Essay c. which neither they nor I can call an Answer only in p. 8. Twelve of the Duakers sums up in gross four Particulars by way of Certificate and at the end thus concludes viz. Whereupon we do in the holy fear of Almighty God and in behalf of the said People declare and testifie That all these and all other his F. Bs. Accusations of the same kind or depending thereupon are utterly false wicked and malicious and never so believed so said nor so affirmed by us as charged against us but contrary to our Perswasion Principle and Profession c. Behold the Answer of these Twelve Elders is contained in less than half a Page and how far their plain Say-so will prevail against plain Matter of Fact unless with their own infatuated Disciples let the wise in heart judge And in answer to this said Certificate I do thus say That to my knowledge I have not set down one Line nor Word as theirs that is not theirs nor yet raised one Argument upon theirs but may naturally be drawn from the Premises and if they think I have I with the like number will upon reasonable notice meet them at any place within twenty Miles or more of my dwelling and produce both Book and Page and if they can shew me wherein I have wronged them I will make them publick Satisfaction on condition that if what I have wrote as their Principles be by me so proved that then they will condemn what is apparently Erronious and as this will be a fair opportunity for them if they think themselves wronged as they pretend to clear themselves from my Accusations as they call them so will they have an opportunity to manifest Francis Bugg to be both wicked and malicious yea and I will also subscribe to this their Sentance if I do not clear my self and fully prove my Charge against them But as a sign that they do not think nor believe themselves so wronged as they pretend although I do not pretend to their Art of Prophesying yet I do and dare pass my word that they will never meet me and subscribe the Condition aforesaid And I have no other reason thus to believe but that I know first 't is their way to make a large Protestation of their avowed Innocency when Guilty and that secondly I know they cannot but be conscious of great guilt in denying and out-facing such manifest Truths as in that half Page they have done As to G. Whitehead in the Introduction I have taken some little notice of him and what he hath said which is but little being not a sheet neither hath he taken notice of the twentieth part of my Book so that it still stands unanswered and unshaken by their peny Rattle which they have put forth to please their Disciples for something they must say or the People will cry Where is the Answer to F. B's Book and so I proceed to the Charge THE CHARGE 1. The Quakers denies him who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered death upon the Cross at Jerusalem who rose again the third day and ascended into Heaven in the sight of the Galileans to be Christ the Saviour of the World 2. They deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptuously of them and over-valuing their own Books 3. That their Teachers are Deceivers of the People Favourers of Blasphemy Excusers of Idolatry and of a different Faith from the Apostles Primitive Christians and blessed Martyrs and that their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith REMARK This is the Charge which I publickly exhibited this is the Charge I offered to prove against them which as it is heavy so it stood them upon to have defended themselves if they had been able so to do since they had two of their Preachers present besides hundreds of People to bear witness what passed Nay though conscious to themselves of being guilty as that I take to be the very reason of evading a Dispute yet notwithstanding it had been for their interest if they had been humble and for Truth and Righteousness as they pretend who upon Conviction of their Errours ought to have made open Confession thereof to GOD's glory as was the practice of the ancient Martyrs upon a sight of the Papists Superstitions in which they had walked However since they would not accept of the said Challenge nor yet meet me according to my frequent Proposals nor answer my Book but come only out with a single sheet and tell their People this is an Answer
the Church and the Light in them the Christ this I take to be his meaning And that it may appear so I will produce a Text out of their own Scriptures I mean out of Jos Coals Works p. 332. in answer to John Newman about the Body of Christ he thus expresses himself viz. If by the Body of Flesh that Christ had he means his Church which the Apostle speaks of which was the Body of which Christ was Head and they Members of then I am one with him for his having that Body after his Ascension I never denied nor intend to do And such a Body we own Christ had after his Ascension Thus then it appears plainly that they deny HIM to be Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered death on the Cross in that they say nothing which was Mortal was called Christ and they say the bodily Garment we can never call Christ And when J. W. made his distinction between Christ and his Body it doth appear by J. Coals Testimony that CHRIST after he ascended had no other Body but his Church consequently did not ascend in His Body which was seen apparently Acts 1. 9 10 11. So that the Light in the Quakers is the one only Christ and the Quakers the Body of Christ And no other Christ nor Body of Christ do I by their Doctrine find that they own and thereupon do Charge them to deny CHRIST who was crucified dead and buried but is risen and in the same Body ascended and in the same Body sits at the right Hand of GOD never more to die but ever liveth it make intercession for us THE Quakers FIFTH ERROUR Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 14. Christ is the Substance of all Figures and his Flesh is a Figure G. F. REMARK Reader pray observe First they distinguish between Christ and the Garment he wore meaning his Body which suffered on the Cross which bodily Garment they cannot call Christ. 2. They teach that the Names Jesus and Christ do not so properly belong to HIM that was born of the Virgin suffered c. as to something in the Body the Light c. which they say is in themselves 3. And that the Light in them is the same Christ which suffered at Jerusalem 4. That the Body of Christ is like ours of AN EARTHLY PERISHING NATURE 5. That nothing which was Mortal was called Christ and consequently not HE that was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered on the Cross as an acceptable Sacrifice 6. That Christ hath no other Body but His Church since his Ascension proved out of their own Books which they say are given forth by the Eternal Spirit So that the Light in the Quakers is all the Christ they own and they being in their own esteem Believers and consequently the Church Christ hath no other Body so the Quakers are all and all 7. That the Flesh of Christ is but a Figure Thus have they what in them lye overturned the Fundamentals of Christianity for Christ was so far from being a Figure that all Figures and Types ended in Him and HE the Substance of them all as I shall shew by the Prophesies of the Holy Prophets in two Columns And whereas G. W. in his A Just Enquiry c. p. 2 3. by his cunning Glosses not only vindicates some notorious Errours but also excuses the Consequences of them as not being of a dangerous tendency and therefore rather than to trace him in his crooked Path I shall choose to make it appear that the Fruits Effects and Consequences of these and the like Errours are very dangerous in hopes that as it will tend to strengthen my Charge of their not owning CHRIST c. if any thing be still wanting to prove it so will it be a means to strengthen and confirm others in the Principles of the Christian Faith against the Prevalency of such Seducers as G. W. c. are as by their Fruits do now appear DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THESE ERROURS 1. Saul's Errand c. p. 8. He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD. P. 7. And if Christ be in you must he not say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE The Letter of the Scripture is Carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth All that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the mouth of the LORD 2. Several Petitions answered c. p. 30. But if ever you own the Prophets Christ and his Apostles ye will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Power and Spirit 3. Truths Defence c. p. 101. The Letter which killeth is dangerous and the Ministers of the Letter are the Ministers of Death to you it is dangerous to read or speak of it 4. The Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. Your imagined GOD beyond the Stars and your Carnal Christ to say GOD and Man in one Person is a Lie 5. David's Enemies Discovered c. p. 7. And these i. e. Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule and the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel as thou and thy Generation do For Paul said he was a Minister of the Gospel and of the New Testament and not of the Letter which thou calls the Gospel and New Testament thy Ministry is in the Letter which killeth c. by G. Whitehead and Chr. Atkinson 6. A Brief Discovery c. p. 7 8 9 10. The Priests of the World are Thieves Robbers Conjurers Antichrists Witches Devils Liers a Viperous and Serpentine Generation Blasphemers scarlet coloured Beasts Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Ware for a large price the Letter which is dust and death whited Walls greedy Doggs really they are Blood-hounds still hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell barking and raging like Sodomites G. F. and others 7. Truths Defence c. O thou filthy Beast thy beastly Worship no Prayers can we send to thee but for thy destruction thou Man of Sin and Enemy of thou Hypocrite O thou impudent and brazen fac'd thou art in the Sorcery and in the Witchcraft and in the Adultery O thou slanderous Beast O thou natural brute Beast O generation of Vipers And here thou Serpent thou art damned openly And here I charge thee to be a Witch and to bewitch the People a Reprobate hated of GOD a Child of the Devil an Enemy of Righteousness the Son of Perdition O thou false-hearted dissembling Hypocrite the Plagues of GOD are due to thee and that is thy portion thou child of the Devil thou blind Sot thy Torment is begun and so fare thee well But thou art a Conjurer and livest in Conjuration thou Enemy of GOD and Man of Sin for destruction thou art ordained to go therein thy fear of it doth begin and the
Their pretence that such as have the same Spirit which raised up Jesus are equal with GOD I must say 't is horrible Blasphemy yet it ought to be charged upon them until they publickly condemn the Book which hath little else in it but Blasphemy and false Doctrine and railing on the Publick Ministry However it never was corrected by Errata as is usual and hath gone for a Gospel Truth above forty years and as their Principle if they believe as they write and therefore I charge it upon them until they condemn the said Book And secondly their Impudence in saying that if we will own the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles we must necessarily own their Books this is of kin to the rest i. e. Blasphemy And thirdly for them to say If Christ the Light in them say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE why may He not speak I answer If they can work the same Miracles He did and produce as many Prophets that foretold of G. Fox's coming out of the North as I shall that foretold of Christ's coming then I shall believe them Fourthly What horrible Blasphemy is it to say 'T is dangerous to read the Scriptures and to call them Dust Death Carnal Serpents-meat as likewise the Ordinances of Christ and the Communion of Saints which Christians ought to hold and believe as an Article of their Faith And then fifthly to call the Publick Ministers Witches Devils Conjurers c. is very pernicious Such Books ought to be burnt as Jacob Baker a Quaker once confest he would burn it And sixthly for them to hold that they and they ONLY are in the Truth 't is the perfect Pharisee But for them to write that G. Fox was before Confusion or the many Languages were is monstrous Such Blasphemies ought to be posted As likewise Ja. Parnell to say that he was before Arguments was and was come to the end of all Arguments is notorious And seventhly so is it in G. Fox to say that he stands covered and neither he nor his name known in the world O what shall I say was there ever such wickedness And yet here is nothing so bad nothing so wicked nothing so false so Idolatrous so Blasphemous But G. W. can salve it he can vindicate or excuse it nay more then so he can procure twelve Witnesses to say We 〈…〉 declare on the behalf of the Quakers that what Fr. Bugg says is 〈…〉 and wicked for they never so believed so said nor so affirm'd c. 〈…〉 being solemnly avouched as in The holy fear of Almighty God 〈…〉 an Oath and if what these twelve affirm be false then they are perjured Persons in the eye of the Law and deserve to be Pillored And thereupon I charge them with Perjury with false-witnes bearing until they by publick retraction repent and give Satisfaction For as you will spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor Young no more will I I will not spare nor my eye shall not pity Friend or Foe which comes up with false Evidence yea so false as if they should say black is white and white is black I must say that as T. G. hath no need to depend on G. W. and that he must know that G. W. hath as little love for him as for some he hath wrote against yet I am sorry to see his Name there As for the others many of them have their dependency on the Chair and G. W being therein I marvel not at them provided their Testimony had been true but I am sure it is notorious false nay and that they themselves know it to be false I will give the World a SIGN which is this If they know and be conscious to themselves that their Evidence is false they will not come forth according to my Proposition in this Book made to meet me but if they be not conscious to themselves of false Evidence how false soever it is they will come forth to clear themselves and be glad I give them the opportunity and by this SIGN they shall be proved Come on you twelve Master-Builders can you read these sixteen Instances and not blush when you behold your Certificate and particularly the first third fifth and eleventh as also the first second and third Errours I say can you read the Passages taken out of your own Books wrote by your most eminent Preachers and yet affirm you never said so wrote so believed so nor taught so and not blush and be horribly ashamed But I have given a Sign to prove you and by it you shall be tried Again Can you read p. 77. of G. F's Great Mystery where he justifies Felony under a pretence of being moved by the Spirit of GOD and not blush What is all your Zeal gone or are you fearful of displeasing G. W. now he is got into the Chair Can you look on the fifth Instance and see how G. W. teaches that the Scripture is not the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament but the Letter which killeth c. And can you behold his contrary Pretences in his late Writings and not reprove him can you hear him pretend that he was moved of GOD to write Judgment Fixed c. and that GOD laid a necessity upon him to write that Book and that therein the neither consults the Events nor fears the Effects and yet proved to write notorious Lies And can you thus let him pass only with saying he was mistaken when he fathered all his Lies upon the moving of the Spirit of GOD even six Lies in number and great part of his Matter bottomed thereupon Can you hear and read his Excuses and Vindications of the Idolatious Letters wrote to G. Fox by Jos Coal John Audland John Blaikling and Sol. Eccles and can you be silent at these things Read my Parallel between the Papists and Quakers in New Rome c. p. 40. to 49. Can you take notice of the Names he and others have given my self and such as have opposed your Church Government and the imposing the observation of your Womens Meetings which some of you are no more in love with then some of us which wrote against the mischief of your Impositions I say can you behold the Names he c. gave us viz. Old canker'd Apostates vile Apostates unruly Beasts Runagades Treacherous Apostates Apostate Informers betraying Iudas's Devils Incarnate Wolves Doggs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil dark Devil-driven dungy Gods Heathens Atheists c. See some of the Quakers Principles and Doctrines c. p. 10 11. for more of this stuff nay such personal defamations and detractions which hath had such an Effect not only of our Profession in Religious Matters but upon our Persons and Imployments which in time may be further taken notice of Can you behold all this and a hundred things more which I might name which hath occasioned a great part of your Troubles And can you submit your Necks your
Interests and all to such a Make-bate such a continual contentious Scribler who in nine Months wrote three Books against me and since I wrote my last hath wrote three more against me and others Are you not sensible what pretences he makes in his Books to Charity to Seriousness to Sincerity and yet void of all Have you not taken notice of his late little Book about the great Divisions amongst the Quakers in Pensilvania intituled The Christian Doctrine and Society of the Quakers c. wherein he carries two faces in one Hood hold with the Hare and run with the Hound as the Proverb is writes against writing that 's his main design And if writing be a fault who more guilty than G. W. for in that Book he peeps and creeps he turns and winds this way and that way hither and thither but centers no where but JANUS like looks two ways for he seems to own Geo. Keith's Doctrine but dare not own his Testimony nor him in it he seems to blame the Doctrine of Fitzwater Young and Lloyd but dare not blame their Persons nor give Testimony against their Doctrine as theirs they being of the Foxonian Party and one with him in the ground and in those Fundamental Errours For said Fitzwater The Plea c. p. 4. God that died in us and laid down thy life in us and took it up again And Rob. Young affirmed that when Christ ascended he was separated from his Body And Tho. Lloyd who said p. 5. That Faith in Christ without us as he died for our sins and rose again was not necessary to our salvation c. Now had G. W. been plain and against these Errours he ought to have reprov'd these Persons sharply and joined with G. Keith against them in his charging them with such Damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils as was no where tollerated in any Christian Society but only amongst the Quakers The Plea c. p. 11. I say had he been sincere he would have been plain as G. Keith is and not to come out so smooth and demure saying Why do you thus write why do you thus amuse the World and trouble the World with such bitter treatment complaining bitterly of Rents Schisms and Divisions Come on what can you say why do you let him alone why do you not unmask and discover this subtil Fox and uncharitable George and insincere Whitehead out of his Hole and Den where he lies lurking writing and scribling and neither studies Events nor fears Effects and make him be plain And if G. Keith c. in your opinion who preaches up and holds forth the Death and Sufferings and meritorious Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ as necessarily to be believed in order to our salvation be right why then does not G. W. stand by him and his Friends in this their sound Testimony But if G. W. be one with Fitzwater and the Foxonian Quakers that there is no other Christ than in them no other Crucifiction than within no other Resurrection than within no other Heaven nor Hell than within us as quoted in New Rome unmasked c. p. 89. Why does he not joyn with Fitzwater Lloyd c. against Geo. Keith c. let him be plain in his next let him not thus halt between two Opinions If Geo. Keith c. be right let Geo. Fox his Books be burnt and your Epistles burnt wherein they do not teach that the Sufferings of Christ and his meritorious Death and Passion and the Imputation of his Righteousness are necessary Articles of the Christian Faith in order to Salvation No a thousand of your Epistles read in your Meetings will afford no such Doctrine nor no Confession of Sins nor no asking Pardon for his sake And why do you suffer him to complain of bitter Treatments Rents Schisms and Divisions whoever treated their Opposers with such bitter Language as the Quakers have done whoever made greater Rents and Divisions in Church and States in Towns and Families than the Quakers have done And why do you let him thus complain of printing and troubling and amusing the World with printing when you know no People print more nor take the like care to disperse their Pamphlets when printed witness your Orders for sending two of each sort to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in the Country their sending them out by Pack-horses to Markets and Fairs as was the practice of Jos and Ben. Townsend to my knowledge who send their Epistles to be read in all Meetings in England Scotland Ireland Holland Mariland Barbadoes nay I understand by your last yearly Epistle that you have got footing in Germany why then do you suffer him to act thus prepostrously to chide others for his own fault to deal thus deceitfully in almost all things you can mention Are you not ashamed of these things what have you not a spark of that honesty you pretend to if you have blow it up and let it become a flame to burn up this heap of Hypocritical Rubbish that at last we may rightly understand what a Quaker is THE SECOND CHARGE II. THE Quakers DENY THE SCRIPTURES 1. BY SPEAKING CONTEMPTUOUSLY OF THEM AND 2. BY OVER-VALUING THEIR OWN BOOKS REMARK Reader this Branch of the Charge is more than sufficiently proved already but by reason of some little Argument which passed between me and Sam. Cater and John Cade two of their Preachers at the Meeting when I exhibited the said Charge Nov. 20. 1692. touching the Scriptures and that thereby their shuffling equivocating and evading may be the more manifest and particularly G. W's twelve Men which he hath got to testifie on the behalf of the Quakers that they never said never believed nor never affirmed the Scriptures to be Dust Death Serpents-meat I say for this reason for as I said I shall spare none I may recite an astonishing Confutation of these Infallible Doctors c. Fr. Bugg Come Sam. Carter will you accept of this Charge and appoint a time ten twenty days or a month hence you and I singly or if you will take four six or ten of your side I will take the like number Let me know your Answer and I will be gone I do not come to disturb you but to charge you with your Errours c. Sam. Cater There is no end of Disputing with thee neither shall I undertake it F. Bugg Why not If I fail of proof to make good my Charge you will have the Victory and it will tend to the honour of your Cause And you may be glad of the opportunity to manifest F. Bugg since you say he charges you falsly S. Cater Thou maist be gone we have other business to do than to Answer thee F. B. Well if you will not accept of the Charge nor set a time when to argue the Point I shall proceed to read the second part of my Charge which is your denial of the Scripture by calling it Death Dust and Serpents-meat c.