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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65888	A sober expostulation with some of the clergy against their pretended convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross abuse of the people called Quakers, in his books and pamphlets, viz., his New Rome arrainged, History of Quakerism, Second summons, Picture of Quakerism, and other pamphlets which may serve to invalidate the authority of the snake in the grass, as it refers to his books.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1959; ESTC R20305	65,396	156

further proceeds in Justification of his most gross Forgery and Defamation against us viz. But they say I put up a Mock-Pillory I Grant I did and that to shew what they Actually deserved from their own Proposals to Authority Preface p. 2. Which Mock-Pillory was the form of a Pillory with Twelve Pictures standing with the first Letters of the Names of Certain Citizens of London and other Persons of good Fame and Repute with a Forged Mock-Trial grosly to Defame and Scandalize them as Perjured Persons for denying F. Bugg's False Charge in the first Edition of his New Rome Arraigned And now both his Mock-Trial and Mock-Pillory left out in his Second Edition Yet thus Unjustly Justified therein as what the Quakers Actually Deserved Oh! Abominable Falshood Insolence and Slander But what has he Actually Deserved Nevertheless in Contradiction to this his False Plea for his Mock-Pillory his Friend and Advocate Thomas Crisp in his Counterfeit Discovered p. 2. saith as he is informed That F. Bugg has acknowledged 10 G. Whitehead c. that he was sorry he had done it and that if it were to do again he would not do it that is set up his Feigned or Mock-Pillory But how does his Sorrow for it appear when now he tells us 'T was to shew what they i. e. the Quakers Actually Deserved Where 's then his Sorrow What say you his Watchers Was it a just Course to Convince us of Error that he took against us by his Mock-Trial and Scandalous Mock-Pillory Pray Answer plainly otherwise if you do not yet stop bis Current of Scandalizing and Defaming us your Encouragement and Approbations already given him will the more Affect you and Render you the more Culpable of his gross Abuses as partakers of his great Iniquity which will be no good Expedient to dignifie your Church or promote your Interest or good Fame I hope you 'll yet Consider it And further observe some of F. Bugg's Additional Forgery against us the said People in his own Words Preface p. 3. viz. Methinks I hear them say Come let us say he i. e. F. Bugg is a Pestilent Fellow a Mover of Sedition we must use all the Arts we have to stop him for he seems to follow the Steps of M. Luther that Apostate Adversary of our dear Elder Sister and if he goes on he will so unvail us that all People will know us and our Intreigues come let us Bespa●ter him and Cover him with some Frightful Beast's Skin and th●n set our little Currs to bait and Worry him to Abuse and Bespatter him in City and Country c. This I have found true Thus far F. Bugg Observe here this Piece of Forgery and Romance to Bespatter us and Suggest False Matters against us which he never heard the Quakers say but thinks he hears them so say which we cannot think he does unless he Dreams it But to shew his own Conceited Ambition and Pride how Puft up Swell'd and Bigg he is in his own Conceit as if he were such a Potent Invincible Antagonist when we very well know the Contrary how Feeble Impertinent and False he is And his Comparing himself to M. Luther as one in his Steps and Implying the Church of Rome to be our Dear Elder-Sister In the one appears his Proud Conceit and Vain Fmpty Boasting in the other his Notorious Falshood and Calumny As to his Charge of Blasphemous Pretences of Miracles against G. Fox whom he most Maliciously and Slanderously calls That Imposter Pref. p. 6. And why so But because G. Fox mentioned certain Miracles Wrought by the Power of God Not at all Ascribing them to himself or his own Power but to the Power of God in Answer to the fervent Prayers of his Servants and People among us in certain places But says F. Bugg not one of them i. e. Miracles said to be done in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth as in Acts 3. 6. Which Quoth he is a strong Argument of their Disowning Jesus of Nazareth c. Answ. 1. That Miracles both outward and inward have been wrought among us by the Power of God Consequently by Jesus Christ who is that Power F. Bugg cannot Confute If wrought by the Power of God then they must be in the Name of Jesus Christ for they are Indivisible and Inseparable 3. What Sincere and Faithful Regard and Breathings of Soul those our Friends Concerned had in their servent Prayers to the Name of the same Jesus of Nazareth F. Bugg is now as wholly Ignorant and now Insensible as his Argument and Consequence of their Disowning Jesus of Nazareth c. is utterly False it being by and through him that the Power and Spirit of God hath been made known among us in its Effectual Operations As to his Reciting the Quakers Books which he Falsly says carry two Contrary Faces Contrary Doctrines Contrary Principles c. In two Columns Opposite And then Aspersing their Leaders with the Depth of Hypocrsy Couch'd in them 'T is to none but to such as his own Evil Envious Eye his Dim and False sight that they appear so Contrary for to a Single Eye and Charitable Mind such Pretended or seeming Contrariety is easily Reconcileable As under the Title of The Perfect Quaker he Cites David 's Enemies Discovered p. 7. Thus viz. And these the Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel c. And in Opposition under the Title of The Counterfeit Quaker he Cites The Harmony of the Old and New Testament and the fulfilling of the Prophecies But he has falsly Cited the first to make them seem the more Contradictory for the Words truly Cited are these viz. And these i. e. Who witness the Life which spoke forth Scripture do not call the Letter the Rule and the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel c. Here Bugg leaves out and the four Books which he has not Proved to be both the new-New-Testament and the Gospel being not the Books Abstractly but the New Covenant and the Power of God therein Testified unto which Gospel was before the Books were and before Abraham was Rom. 1. Heb. 8. Jer. 31. Besides we owning the said four Books to be Books of the New Testament or Covenant yet they are not all the Books thereof there are more Books of the New Testament as that of the Blessed Acts of the Apostles and their Evangelical Epistles and the Excellent Apocalips which also belong to the New Testament so that the Harmony of the Old and New Testament relates to the Divine Testimonies or Doctrine of Christ contained in the Books Paul and other Apostles were Ministers of the Gospel not of the Letter but of the Spirit and of the New Testament or New Covenant which are one and the same yet did not thereby Contemn or Slight the Scriptures which Testifie thereof And seeing that I have Confessed that the Spirit or Life