Moral is That it is no Sin to destroy a Man's Reputation c See Jesuits Moral P. 347. with many other gross Lyes and Slanders And this at such a time when the Name of an Informer was so odious that it was in danger of a Mans Life to be known to be an Informer in some places c. upon which I went Sept. 83. to S. Cutor and G. Smith who both refused to own what they had VVrite I also offered on the Forefeiture of a 100 l. to prove them Lyars in divers Cases so when they would neither own their Books nor accept of my said Proposition I then went to their Publick Meeting at Mildenhall the 21st of October 1683 and there complained of their Ministers unchristian proceeding and desired a Certificat under their hands who had known me many Years which they gave me very readily as followeth viz. Whereas there is a Book put forth by Samuel Cator and others Wherein our Ancient Friend Fran. Bugg is called and often Termed Informer and we knowing what an Informer is According to common Acceptation and that he is clear of their Practices and not only so but one of the greatest Sufferers by Informers in all these parts and also in Remembrance of his Labour of Love and great Exercises for the Truths sake we can do no less then signify our dislike thereunto and Testify against the said Treatment as not being of Christian Tendency †Then t is of an Antichristian Tendency to be sure With much more to the same purpose too large here to Insert The Quakers Testimony against the practice of their Ministers c Here followeth the Names of the Quakers who gave me the said Certificate and set their hands to it publickly which gave the Design of Jos Bangs and his Confederates such a Stab as that Amb. Friend Tho. Brewster and a few others of G. F. party turned Pale being troubled not only at the Certificat but also at the Verbal Testimony they gave against their Antichristian practice viz. Tho. Bird. Jos Ellington John Thrift Will. Rolf Will. Belsham John Poell Will Tayler John Kittson John Harvy Robert Suckerman Will. Howkins Jos Mason Ja. Mason Fra. Suckerman Sarah Bird Margaret Belsham Fra. Folks Sarah Holton Eliz. Root Eliz. Thrift Eliz. Rolf Rachel Ellington Margaret Hattly Darcus Abbot Katherine Handslip Anne Hibble Sarah Bird jun. And for more of this see my Book Intituled Reason against Railing and Truth against Falshood Being a Conclusive Poscript to my Book The Painted Harlot c. Wrot 1683 which is this day as hardy as they are they have not Answered I say these with divers other Books wrote by my self Thomas Crisp W. Rogers and others by which their Errors are displayed and their Hypocrysies unmasked I refer the Reader too By which together with what followeth they may be seen in their proper Colours and manifested to be as great Dissemblers Deceivers and Deluders of the People as any Age since Noah's Flood ever produced And therefore Good Reader if thou wilt Examine our Doings I beseech thee To search and prove what hath been wrote on both sides and judge uprightly and do not suffer thy self by shews and shifts to be beguiled for what man will seem to deal so plainly as a Juggler he will stroke up his Sleeves and make bare his Arms and open his Hands and Fingers and lay all things before thee and bid thee behold and then thou will think him to be a good plain Man and marvel thou shouldest possibly be Deceived and yet indeed his whole Skill and Design is nothing else but to deceive thee and the more simply and plainly he would seem to deal so much the sooner he will deceive thee otherwise he were no Jugglar Thou shalt think thou seest all and yet seest nothing then thou shalt think thou feelest it sensibly with thy fingers that thou holdest it fast and canst not loose it and yet shalt open thy hands and find notheng so easie a thing it is to enveagle thy sences Tell Geo. Whitehead that 't is a piece of Hypocrysie to pretend that it is not Lawful to fight and to make his Disciples believe so and yet at the same time incourage O. Cromwel his Army and Officers to Fight saying Oh Oliver Cromwel Thou shouldst have Invited all Nations upon Earth that are against Popery to come in and joyn with thee against Popery Let thy Soldiers go forth with a free willing Heart that thou mayst Rock Nations as a Cradle Thus saith the Lord I have chosen thee O Cromwell amongst the Thousands of the Nations to Execute my Wrath upon my Enemies See Bat. Rams p. 3. and give them to thy Sword with which I fought for the Zeal of my Name Oh Oliver hadst thou been faithful and thundred down deceit the Hollanders had been thy Subjects and Tributaries and Germany had given up to have done thy will See Qua. Unmasked p. 6 7 8. the great Column and the Spaniard had Quivered like a dry Leaf thou shouldst not have stood Trifling about small things Sober men and True Hearts took part with thee Oh take heed and do not slight such least thou weaken thy self And do not disown such as the LORD hath owned thy Dread is not yet all gone This is in the present Tence and of the Imparative Mood which Bids and Commands nor thy Amasement Arise and come forth for hadst thou been Faithful thou shouldst have Crombled Nations to dust c. With much more to the same purpose Incouragement enough to Fight I say Is not this Great Hypocrisie to make their People believe that Fighting is unlawful for Christians and yet at the same time to Exhort Excite and Incourage Oliver his Army and Officers to Fight and not to leave off till they had set up their Standard at the Gates af Rome And yet to Salue this and to make his Deciples believe Jugglar like that there is no such Mateer See his Book Imronecy Against Envy p. 9. he says the words have Incited and have Chosen relate former simes he shews his Schollarship in that the Word have is the sign of the Preter Perfect Tence which denotes the time past but this Cuning shift will not do for their words Arise and come forth are in the present Tence and of the Imparative Mood which bids command yet thus much we may Learn from hence that in the same Book p. 7. In his Answer to my charge that they neither make Confession of their Sins to GOD nor ask Pardon for Christs sake he hath this passage for Answer viz. VVe have done it unfeignedly viz. the Word have must have its true Gramatical sense and then he means he did make Confession of Sin and ask Pardon for Christs sake when he was a Boy of Eleven Years of Age when he learned his Christian Catechism for the word have in G. Ws. sense and construction does signifie the time perfectly past
that they would not let them come within their Houses * * They were the wiser for they and their Offspring do more hurt than good commonly If the Maid be a wise Woman and of Age to dispose of herself she will not let any of our Preachers meddle with her Concerns of choosing a Husband for her that is none of their business * * That is very true but they will have a Hand in it for the most part and if they be not pleased or any other self Interest sway them they will as certainly break it and do mischief as ever the Jesuits did this many are witnesses of S. B. for one and Jonathan Lamball another cum multis aliis They should ONLY meddle with their own business and let honest Friends make their choice themselves We have no Law nor Custom among us for such as defame or obstruct lawful Marriages the Church of England is honester upon that account than we they make such as obstruct or defame Marriages either to make good their Charge or to make sufficient Satisfaction to the Parties wronged c. Thus Reader you see that there hath been Testimony after Testimony both publick and private against these PVRSMONGERS and COMMON BANCKERS their DAGON and great Idol against their Reckoning such the best Christians who brought in most MONEY into their BANCK against this private way of their maintaining their Ministers Their Cabinet counsel is disclosed whilst they exclaim against the publick Ministry as Hirelings c. as well as against their Jesuitical practice of medling with Marriages wherewithal they as this Letter very well observes have nothing to do nor seldom do any thing but mischief as also against their Popish Practice of publishing in print the Testimony of Wives against their Husbands whom GOD hath set Head over them and by whose Authority their sayings ought to be concluded Thus do they walk hand in hand with their Elder Sister having received a Spirit contrary to Moses and the Prophets Christ and his Apostles Saints and Martyrs and by it are leed into these errours And that it may more evidently appear that there hath been Publick Testimony against their Common Banks and Private Pursemongers their Dagon as the Letter rightly calls it I may transcribe a few of W. Rogers his Lines in his Poem intituled A second Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apostate Quaker c. viz. Where Pride seems no Disgrace And yet when she ROME's Sister is but call'd She winches like touch'd Horses that are gaul'd Confusion her attends next follows Woe For thus she whirls but God knows where she 'll go Who when they wanted Money to proceed The Church her Cash then did supply her need And therefore when her Cash was empty'd she Crav'd MONEY * This Dagon will fall for to serve the MINISTRY At length her Papers like to Briefs did cry For MONEY MONEY for the MINISTRY And when that Practice was dislik'd by some †Viz. The Author of the recited Letter and some others who hated their Hypocrisy in crying out against others as Hirelings when they had their Banks and Pursemongers privately c. She seem'd like one whose Downfall's near to come This Church will fall her Load will be her Guile If you oh Flock keep Purse strings fast a while When that Spring fails by her you 'l not be priz'd Usurpers then o're you you 'l see despis'd And Woes may long attend such Prating Preachers As for Preferment turn'd deceitful Teachers Fox is term'd Head yet Whitehead steers the Course Till both was scorn'd and they grew worse and worse Thus the Reader may perceive how plainly these hypocritical practices have been made appear and how their Hypocrisy hath from time to time been discovered both privately by some of their own People and still eminent amongst them only they abhor the Deceit and Falshood amongst their Teachers and Preachers and some who are justly separated from them upon a sight of their grand Errors and deep Hypocrisies amongst which was W. Rogers who hath wrote divers books against them intituled The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator c. in 5 parts bound together very eminent and serviceable in the discovery of their Intreagues to which I refer the Reader * And surely I may as wel as G. W. refers to Tho. Elwoods Antidote c. And his Brother Robert Sandilands Pamphlet and with a great deal of more Reason See his Judgment fix d p. 260. as well as to his 6th 7th and 8th parts of the Christ Quaker disting c. published singly and also to his Poem stiled A second Scourge for G. Whitehead an Apostate Quaker c. Out of which I took the foregoing Verses which did so perplex this Well-Favoured Harlot that G. W. being not able to return an Answer to it out came Thomas Elwood to his Relief and to rescue his Brother Whiteheads decaying Reputation puts forth a Book stiled Rogero Mastix c. by which instead of helping them by hiding them he told more Truth tho poor man he could not well help it things are so plain than forty of them would do See my book Bat. Rams p. 13 14 15. saying Amen to great part of what William Rogers charged them with And therfore good Reader mark well what this Tho. Elwood set forth in his book which is licensed and came forth by the Consent and Approbation of their Church and is kept in their Library viz. But that Christs Ministers should be supply'd a Here is a Confession that their Ministers are supplyed then it seems they do not go at warefare at their own Charge as you have pretended With Necessaries by the Church His Bride Is such a known and certain Truth as none Perhaps has e're oppos'd but thou alone b Yes you have frequently denyed that Ministers should have Money to supply their Necessities c. That 't is the Church's duty to supply The needful wants of all her Ministry And Truth it is too plain to be deny'd Christs Church should for Christs Ministers provide What carps thou at then William would thy Muse Plead that St. Paul did not this Priviledge use (c) No St. Paul did use that Priviledge 't is you that pretend not to use it nor that no such reward should be found amongst you for said you FREELY we have receiv'd and FREELY we give That what was lacking to him privately The Macedonian Brethren did supply Thus it appear'd the Apostle did partake Of that Provision which the Church did make Christs Ministers to furnish and their need Supply when they want MONEY to proceed (d) Then it seems you do supply them with Money to proceed then that 's enough there is no body charges you with taking Tythe if you have Money for preaching is it not as good as Tyths What Reason is there then for you to exclaim against others who do the same thing
your selves Pretend thou canst not that the Stock is given To such as have no need thereof (e) No What need was there to send Sam. Cater 10 l. which is a Rich man and a great Trader but even Thy Flirt at Richardson for taking pay For what As Clerk he writes doth much bewray Thy Folly and Injustice Is' t not fit Who works for others should be paid for it And that by them who him to work desire (f) Now you confess to have Hirelings amongst your selves Surely you will forbear to call others Hirelings for as you have pretended to preach teach and suffer freely so you pretended to record and to write freely as anon will appear Thus hath T. E. disclosed your Secrets and laid all open ' The Labourer is worthy of his Hire By all which 't is plain that now they first acknowledg that Christ's Ministers should be supply'd But their Answer for this is none are Ministers of Christ but themselves so none should be supply'd but themselves 2dly That they acknowledg that when their Ministers want MONEY to proceed that they then furnish them with Money This they confess and this they do by their Brother Ellwood's Acknowledgment Object But 't is objected against by G. W. in his Book Innocency against Envy c. p. 14 viz. We deny his Charge of preaching for Money or being so burthensom as the Publick Ministry c. Now I grant it is a hard matter to prove that they preach for money viz. that they tell People if you will give me so much money I will preach unto you this I never affirm'd they did But that they do take money for preaching I do still affirm and at the Conference betwixt G. Whitehead and my self at Jos Bangs's House August 24. 1691. I prov'd it to his Face by a good Witness one of themselves still eminent amongst them namely Edward Firth viz. that S. Cater took 3 l. for preaching and at the Publick Meeting I told S. Cater of that 3 l. and of the 10 l. sent him at another time from London and this he did not deny but said it was All Denying 40 s. I did then charge him withall which he received as I was informed from another hand So here is 13 l. received by one of their rich Preachers who have no need to take but is better able to give than many that do give But says George * Innocency against Envy p. 14. Let us see his proof that we are more burthensom than the National Ministry c. That we take 50 l. per Annum Again †The Contentious Apostate and his one Blow p. 22. 30. l. for writing a Manuscript of five or six sheets of Paper I say their Ministers take money for preaching Thus F. B. To all which I answer First I speak my own Experience Your Ministers have cost me as much in three Months as the Publick Ministry has cost me in three Years You may put me to prove it if you will but this is true And I have Reason to think 't is so with many more first from the recited Letter which reproves your BANKERS COMMON PVRSMONGERS and your Dagon and 2dly from what W. Roger charges you with and as Thomas Ellwood confesses Secondly Ellis Hooks who wrote several Epistles to divers of your Books as also Richard Richardson each of them had 50 l. per Aunum If you say not as publick Preachers but as Clerks I say still that is as contrary to your Pretences as your taking money for Preaching as I shall anon shew only you think to amuse your Reader by suggesting that they have not 50 l. per Annum as a setled Maintenance I do not say they have nor never did no you are too cunning for that for if you should agree with them so then before the Year come out they might possibly preach against your Orders or as your Brother Sandyland might preach one Month and be greatly admir'd both as a Preacher and an Orthodox Writer and his Book refer'd too * See G. W's Judgment Fixed c. p. 260. c. and the next Monrh suspended and then great part of his yearly Stipend lost No I do not say that they have 50 l. per Annum setled Maintenance tho' I believe much more many of you have besides a good Piece of Hair-Camlet now and then and a Silver Watch a Bever Hat and some other things ask Stephen Crisp and he can tell you the same And if you will let me see your church-Church-Books where is set down the Cash your Ministers receive I doubt not but to shew the greatest Cheats that ever were discover'd viz. I mean so much money given to such as pretend they take none and are sent into the World to banter all other Ministers c. Well but I am still to prove the 30 l. for writing five or six sheets of Paper and that your taking money for writing Church-business is contrary to your Pretences First Ellis Hooks and G. F. put forth the Primer and for the Copy Andrew Sowle gave Ellis Hooks 30 l. I heard him say so formerly and I can prove it also Not that Andrew Sowle told it me with a design against you no he is so wedded to you that he refused to print my Books against your Errors when 't is his Trade and he ought to have the benefit of it but yet for your sakes he hath refused of late to earn my money I wish you make him amends and let him print tho' against me if you do not I am sure you are ungrateful to him that to my knowledge hath served you in the most dangerous times and that to his own loss I speak this to the intent you should take no Revenge on the poor Man who thought no hurt to you in his speaking of it For I know you are revengeful enough I have found it so for I can say that tho' I suffer'd more than three Years Imprisonment and the loss of more than a 100 l. by Fines c. and near 40 l. of it for the Poverty of George Thorrowgood and James Webb and others yet I have suffer'd more by and under you and this I leave as a Testimony against your malicious Revenge And taking money as Clerks is against the very Order of your great Prophet G. Fox the giver forth of your Laws See his Order for Marriage c. stiled Concerning Marriage how GOD made them Male and Female in the Beginning c. viz. p. 6. And that NOTHING be recorded for money in these things but freely a free People and in love serve one another * See Innocency vindicated and Envy rebuked p. 2 3. by F. B. more at large c. Now had G. Fox said that AS YET let nothing be recorded for money in these things †See Painted Harlot c. p. 59. A timely Caution but FOR THE PRESENT do things freely c. then you might have had
they set up a Meeting in order to govern the Church Had they power to forbid the Banes of Marriage or to confirm them Were they to meet by their Patent at Ten a Clock to raise a Bank or Common-Purse c Come G. W. pursue the Terms of the Question and produce a Precedent if you be able if not let your Silence be a token that Mr. Archer hath put you to a Non-plus ultra CHAP. XII Shews that forsaking the Quakers is no Apostacy from the Articles of the Christian Faith HAving with as much Brevity as I may answered the principal things contained in G. Whitehead's three Books I am now come to the Contentious Apostate recharged c. page 5 6 7. containing a denial of several things by me at divers times charged on G. W. and his Brethren in several of my Books formerly writ against their Errors and Hypocrisies charging them to be False c. And to evince this Charge he takes one line here and two there and sometimes five words out of the middle of a line as in p. 12. l. 10. in Battering Rams c. not touching the matter either immediately before it or after it viz. some 50 l. per Annum c. A notable way to confute an Adversary and answer his Book Surely as this way of Confutation is singular and by itself without Proof Reason Demonstration or Precedent so if he did not look upon his Disciples strangely infatuated and ready to believe what ever he writes whether True or False Sense or Nonsense I should think setting his infallible Capacity aside he should Yet his parts consider'd as a natural Man he might be ashamed to appear in Print again hear this Criticiser this notable serious G. W. and behold his Answer in his 5th Instance which runs thus Your way is when Cash grows low to issue out And then he gives a Leap out of this Line having took the middle of it into the middle of the next Line and then takes a letter and two words viz. A General Epistle And from thence he skips to the last three words of the next Line i. e. Your own Service And now he hops to the next Line and takes one word viz. for and leaves the next word as and then takes the next word money And then gives a good Leap into another Line and gets a good pretty parcel of words viz. 'T is a great Encouragement to your Preachers and Parasites which being put together as we use to put Syllables when I was four or five years old it runs thus viz. Your way is when your Cash grows low to issue out A General Epistle Your own Service for money 'T is a great Encouragement to your Preachers and Parasites c. And now Reader do you think G. W. was not sorely put to it to answer these Charges And is not his way and manner of charging his Adversary very singular who is forced to take this unheard-of way to take five words there three words here and then the middle of a Sentence and then because he would make it look like something he takes out of another line one word and leaves a word then he 's too 't again and takes another word and then when he has jumbled all this Hoch-poch together and play'd all the Ledgerdemaine his subtle Pen and profound Wit can invent perverting the Sense mincing the Argument into small parcels leaving out what was not for his turn and which was the Argument and then cryes This is one of Francis Bugg 's Lyes F. B. is Vnconscionable F. B. is disingenuous in writing malicious in his divulging Books c. making as great a Noise against me as his Brother Harding did against Mr. Jewell as I have observed already * See the Introduction And thus and after this manner G. W. spent near three Pages of his said Book which in all is but eight Pages And yet this is the Man that is against curtailing against mangling and marring the Sense nay his 11th Charge in this last recited Pamphlet is only because my Printer or Compositer left out in a Quotation I took out of the Works of Dr. R. Barns the Martyr the word SVCH and for this he there charges me to be a false Accuser of the blessed Martyr a Perverter a Forger and what not that may make his poor credulous Disciples believe that Francis Bugg is a very sad Man to leave out a word when yet 't is his own practice For at the same time and in the same Page wherein he charges me with leaving out the word SVCH he hath left out the word OTHER as I have already observed and now he leaves out not only a word but half a line a whole line takes one word and leaves another and then takes the next mangling and mincing into bits and scraps curtailing and perverting and thereby altering the Sense by his unrighteous and nonsensical proceeding on purpose to abuse me his Reader and amuse the World Indeed if I had charged the Doctrine of the Martyrs to be corrupt tending to Practical Ranterism as he hath done If I had charged the Martyrs to be the Authors of Persecution and to burn People merely for Religion and thereby taught the Papists the way how to proceed in their bloody and unheard-of Cruelties as his Brother W. P. hath done that worthy Martyr true Protestant and brave English Man who under GOD and the King was a chief Instrument in throwing off the heavy Yoke of the Pope's Supremacy here in England viz. Archbishop Cranmer and at the same time too and in the same Book * See Good Advice to the Church of England Rom. Cat. and Pro. Disent p. 39. per W. P. wherein he flatteringly seemed to magnify the Principles of the Church of England speaking well of her eminent Doctors and grave Bishops At the same time when with a Dagger in his hand was wounding the Reputation of one of her Noblest Martyrs bloody Joab-like I say If I had done thus or any thing of this Nature tho' not of so deep a Dye you might have had some Colour to have exposed me a false Accuser of the blessed Martyrs and a Sider with the Papists c. And thus as I have said having answer'd the most considerable Matters contained in G. W's three last Pamphlets And by what is said shewed the Nature of his handling and prosecuting his 3d and last Charge which is by mincing cutting and mangling my Arguments into Scraps and Bits in order to spoil the Sense c. I refer the Reader to what I have said in this Treatise wherein the most material Passages which he hath curtail'd and mangled are answer'd and to make that appear view my said Books by G. W. quoted And now G. W. if you will be plain and prove what you have said or retract what you cannot maintain both with respect to your Principles which you hold and which I have fairly collected out of
against thee and thou art bound with two Bonds for the Church and Brethren have bound thee on Earth and thou art surely bound in Heaven And this is the Testimony of Jesus to thee neither shalt thou be able to get from under these Bonds till thou art reconciled to the Brethren O haste to to the Work abovesaid least the wrath of the Lord overtake thee before it be done and be reconciled to Geo. Fox who is Gods Friend and the Servant of the living God and great Apostle of Jesus Christ haste away to the North for thy time is short and go quickly thou and thy Brother if possibly you may bring again to the Body of Jesus Christ those ye have scattered least that their Blood be required at your hands Arise quickly and be going For this is the word of the Lord to thee That this year shalt thou John Story dye because thou hast taught Rebellion against the living God The first Day of the first Month 1677. Soll. Eccles. See the first part of Babels Builders unmasking themselves by Thomas Crisp p 15. Oh the Impudence of this Imposture and false Prophet of G. Fox In that First he avouched Womens Meetings to be the Good Ordinances of Jesus Christ which he had set up in his Church Secondly In saying that to the reconciled to the Body of the Quakers which he deemed to be the Body of Christ was the only way to find Mercy Thirdly In delivering that great Lye in the Name of the Lord. This year shalt thou John Story dye who at that time was very ill and not like to recover but it pleased God that he lived about four years after Fourthly This was he even he that burnt his Fiddles on Tower-hill Fifthly This was he yea even he that went as a great sign and notable wonder stark naked with a Pan of Coals on his Head to Bartholomew-Fair enough to deceive the very Elect as Christ said if it were possible Sixthly This is he who in his Musick Lector c. p. 22. said viz. I do affirm that if John the Apostle had said he had been a Sinner he had lyed Seventhly This is he yea even that false Prophet who writ thus of G. Fox his Master viz. A Prophet indeed 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 may be said of this true Prophet G. Fox whom John said he was not Quakers Chal. p. 6. Now Reader Upon our Christian Creed this is down-right Blasphemy But according to the Quakers Principles it harmonizes with their Creed which is doubtless the very reason why they never to this day condemned it by publick Censure mark the fifth Branch of their Creed which is as followeth The Quakers Creed V. THE Light Christ The Great Mist c. by G. Fox p. 254. by which all things were made and created glorified with the Father before the World began which the Scripture testifies of is above the Scripture before the Scripture was they that be not in this Christ are Reprobates in which the Scripture end and testifie of and so is Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever that the Saints came to witness within them not another Christ nor many Christs c. Remark Now who can blame Soll. Eccles upon the Quakers Creed for saying first That G. Fox was in the World secondly that the World was made by him thirdly that the World knew him not as to the first my self and Thousands more can bear him witness as to the second according to their Creed last recited the same Christ by which all things were made and Created is in them which if true then that proves sufficiently what Eccles says and as to the third see p. 1. of G. Fox his own Book call'd News coming out of the North c. which says viz. Writ from the Mouth of the Lord Cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World risen up out of the North which if true who can blame Sollomon For though he was not a wise Man he was a Prophet I mean one of Geo. Fox's Prophets According to the old Proverb as was the Master so was the Man viz. Both false Prophets false Pretenders and great Impostors Indeed G. Whitehead in his Vindication of Solomon in his Book Serious Search p. 58. does a little complain in a little failer in Syntax but to amend it and to help Sollomon Eccles John Blackling and other Idolaters in the right wording the Matter he says Judgment fixed c. p. 19. For I affirm G. Fox doth deny the same in reference to himself as a perticular Man or Person whose Days and Years are limited only the truth of the Immortal Seed Christ in him he stands to maintain against all Opposers and Persecuting Gain-sayers and Apostates See also his Innocency against Envy c. p. 18. to the same purpose so that had Solomon said the Light in G. Fox was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not he had then acted according to their innate Principle and suitable to their Creed which had been I say equally Idolatrous and Blasphemous The Quakers Creed VI. A brief Discovery of a Three-fold Estate of Antichrist p. 15. ALL teaching which is given forth by Jesus Christ is to bring up the hearers to Perfection even to the Measure Stature and Fulness of Christ this the Scripture witnesseth and I witness the Scripture fulfilled in me G. Fox * See your Book Intituled A New England Firebrand quenched being an Answer to a Book put forth by Mr. Roger Williams intituled Geo. Fox digged out of his Burrow c. in two parts containing 488 pages in Quarto one thing is worthy of observation that where the said Firebrand takes notice of G. Fox's great Mistery Yea and may well also be ashamed of the said Firebrand which is as full of Errors almost as Leafs and yet G. VVhitehead in the second part p 236 assists G. Fox what he can with a Marginal Note c. of which perhaps more hereafter It is no horrible Blasphemy to say the Soul is a part of God c. G. Fox's Answer to the Westm Pet. p. 33. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles Writings you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 21 to 24. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Queries for our giving forth Papers oâ— Printed Books it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God p. 92. we are elected to Salvation we have the Witness within us Praises be to the Glorious Lord God for ever who hath elected and chosen us before the Foundation of the World But thou meaning the Querist art ordained of old for Condemnation and Perdition among the ungodly ones and art a Reprobate one that hates
F. Bugg's property in their Meeting-House maintained p. 51 Sam. Carter's Sufferings a Sham and Trick p. 55 A Challenge propos'd about Wives against Husband p. 57 The Quak. common Bankers or Purs-mongers p. 61 Thom. Ellwood's Confession that their Ministers take Money p. 64 The Quak. preach for Money Hirelings amongst them p. 62 The Christian Quak. Creed differ from the Foxonians p. 69 Mr. Archer's Query which Silensed G. Whitehead p. 74 As the true Prophets bear witness to Christ Acts 10. 39. to 43. so do the false Prophets with one Mouth bear witness to G. F. p. 78 An ERRATA Redar My distance from the Press and other Accidents have occasioned some Errors in this Treatise both in points Letters in spelling and Words the most material whereof are here noted which thou art desired both to Excuse and Correct The Introduction Page 1. line 18. for lote read late p. 1. l. 25. for thus r. the. p. 2. l. 10. for Rolick r. Pollitick p. 2. l. 14. for surely r. sorely p. 2. l. 23. for Cuter r. 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The VIII New Rome unmaskt and her Foundation Shaken c. THE INTRODUCTION Friendly Reader HAving already wrote several Books against the Errors and evil Practices of the People call'd Quakers and finding their Answers so Evasive and Remote from the Point in Question so filled with Railing and Abusing Language Equivocations Pervertions and Forgeries That were it not to make a further Discovery of their dangerous Principles which are very Pernicious to the Christian Religion I should rather chose to be Silent and bear all their Reproaches Slanders and Scandalous Defamations with which their Books are filled Then to trouble my self or my Reader with any Reply to their Contentious Pamphlets For though G.W. charges me to be Contentious yet he hath Wrot Three Books against me to my one against them viz. in nine Months time especially Considering that by several Books already Extant they are very much unmasked And their Vizard in a great measure is taken off particularly by that Excellent Book Intituled The Quakers Unmasked their Double Dealing and Falshartedness Discoverd c. in Quarto Printed Anno 1691 which doth Amply set forth their Temporizing As well as their Writing and Printing against the Presbyterians and Independants for being engaged in the Lote Wars in the most Revengful and Aggravating Terms their Pen could Express Notwithstanding they themselves were equally concern'd with them in the same Cause and Quarell Exhorting and Incouraging Oliver his Army and Officers Not to leave off till they had set up their Standard at the Gates of Rome let your Soldiers go forth said they with a free and willing Heart that you may Rock Nations as a Cradle * Bat. Rams p. 5. and the Qua. Vnmasked p. 5 6 7. Thus next Book I refer to is that Intituled A looking Glass for the Quakers in two Columns which sets forth their two fast Practice in writing against the Papists when under and on their behalf when uppermost viz. in the Reign of the Late King James c. both which Books are Sold by Mr. Gwillim Bookseller in Bishopsgatestreet and stands unshaken by their Answers And remain firm Testimonies against their Temporizing their turning with the Times their Base Insinuations against others more Righteous then themselves c. The next Book I Refer too is that of mine Intituled Battering Rams against New Rome c. And that Intituled The Painted Harlot both Stript and Whipt c. The first reciting Ten Instances of their deep Hypocrisie which they have not been able to confute The Second discovers the Imperiousness of their Ministers and the mischief of their Impositions who in the Year 1675 made an Un-Scriptural Law or Ordinance at their Yearly Meeting that their hearers should constantly meet And Neither forsake nor Remove nor Decline their Meeting like Worldly Fearful and Rollitick Professors And they themselves Refused to stand in a like suffering Capacity with them By telling their Names and Habitation See Paint Harlot p 5. insomuch as that in the loss of 13550 lib. Odd money their Ministers never lost 50 lib. But this Book did surely vex these Mediantes for it touched their tender part as Erasmus once said of the other Monks and to be Revenged on me they Printed and Exposed me to be an Informer though at the same time they knew me to be no such manner of Person But so far from it as that they knew me to be one of the greatest sufferers by Informers in all these Parts yet such was their Implacable malice that they therein followed the Example of the Jesuites whose
many c. I say when thou seest this their erroneous Princiciple and considers that they reckon none Believers but themselves thou wilt begin to see a necessity for a Testimony to be born against them tho' they rail and rave because thereof like their Predecessor Mr. Harding I say when these erroneous Principles and the Consequences of them come to thy view thou mayest then consider whether I have been vainly contentious yea or nay I know if thou wilt observe G. Whitehead and his Brethrens Advice they would like their Elder Sister have thee Read but one side burn and consume such Books as rip up their Errors for Errour loves obscurity they would have you believe as the Church viz. as they believe without any farther Examination and to pin your Faith on their Sleeves But if you obey then know that you are upon the Borders of Rome let their pretences for their direction and yours for your blind Obedience be never so fairly gilded and curiously painted And therefore I beseech thee and that for thy Souls sake search thou the Scriptures as Christ biddeth thee Learn to know the Will of God as St. Paul himself adviseth thee have pleasure in God's holy Word as the Prophet David warneth thee and thou shalt never be deceived But be able to try all things and inclined to hold fast that which is good Which that we may all do is the Desire and Prayer of thy Faithful Monitor MILDEN-HALL January 12. 1691. Fran. Bugg New Rome UNMASK'D AND HER Foundation Shaken c. CHAP. I. Shewing that the forsaking the Quakers is no errour from the Articles of the Christian Faith AS a Preface to what I have set forth from their own Writings to be their Principles I think it needful to incert the Terms upon which I offered to dispute with them in order to prove them erroneous and the rather because I took them out of Edward Burough's Epistle in the Front of his Works which they printed in Folio and in the Works of G. Fox his Great Mist c. which I also left with the Quakers at their publick Meeting in Milden-Hall November 22. 1691. referring them to Book and Page out of which I collected their said Principles giving them a Months time to appear in their defence that so neither for want of time nor yet the knowledge of the Books they might plead a surprize or that they had not fair dealing c. I also then did signifie to them that if they did not appear in their Vindication I should print them All this like a fair Antagonist I have done leaving them without Excuse And so gladly would we be made manifest to all the World (a.) Deceit for if so you would have met and not declined a dispute that we may freely and chearfully 4 10 20 30 more or fewer of us give as many of the wisest and ablest of the Priests and Professors A Meeting for dispute (b.) A very sham your declining the dispute hath discovered you at every place in England (c.) If so why then at Milden-hall at what time and for what continuance as they shall ascribe and consent unto And to dispute and controvert between us and them any such thing and eveâ—y such particular (d.) Are not the following particulars of Moment for you to make out if you can work a Miracle as shall be objected That by such dispute and opening of such causes objected Full and Real and total satisfaction may be given to the whole Nation and every particular Member therein (e.) If you indeed meant as you make shew of in your boasting why did you not appear and answer my challenge defend your selves your Tenents and Principles otherwise let the Priests and Professors or any of them Object what they can against us in our Principle Faith Practice and our whole Religion (f.) That 's a grand lye spoken in deep Hypocrisie for your guilty Conscisciences will not suffer you to meet And they shall have free liberty to give Proof and Reason for what they affirm and alledge and upon this race will ingage with them and with any of our Enemies (h.) Another lye spoken in Hypocrisie or what Sect and Profession soever to the intent only that Truth may be manifest (g.) What a plain Evasion is this I know not what mental Reservation they had or could have and imbraced and Deceipt and Error discorded and denyed And let such whether them or us that cannot prove our selves to be the true Church of Christ nor of the true worship and true Religion but 't is found to be in the errour and out of the Truth let such deny their Religion and Church and Renounce their Faith and confess to all the World under their hands that they are and have been deceived and freely upon these Issues and Conditions we will joyn Tryal with them let them appoint Time and Place What are you not ashamed Did I not appoint time and place according to your own Conditions and Proposals this is as Hypocritical as G. Whitehead's seinged Prayer in his Book Judgment fixed p. 356 357. and profer Terms at their own pleasure c. These Proposals of theirs having a fair countenance I carried them read them and the Principles as I have observ'd which were as follows And because they shall have no occasion to complain of any wrong I shall in this Column set down their own words verbatim out of their own Books quoting Book and Page In this Column I set forth their Principles unmask'd in their Native Complexion that they as in a glass may behold their own Tenets and others beholding them may be caution'd to be aware of them 1. The Quakers Books 1. Geo. Fox his great Myst p. 89. c. being charged that they pretended to a high pitch of discerning of Knowing who are Saints Devils c. made Answer Here thou hast shewed that the Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all the Fore-fathers which we do witness since the days of the Apostles in the Apostacy And they can discern who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a Word 1. The Quakers Principles 1. We have a Spirit given to us beyond all the Fore-fathers since the Apostles days And we know and can discern who are Saints who are Apostates and who are Devils without speaking ever a Word 2. The Quakers Books 2. Judas and the Jews p. 58. We need none to give us discerning or Judgment Christ hath furnish'd us already and doth in all occasions 2. The Quakers Principles 2. We need none to give us discerning or Judgment Christ hath furnish'd us already and doth in all occasions 3. The Quakers Books 3. A Question to the Professors p. 33. viz. Now the Scriptures do expresly distinguish between Christ and the raiment which He wore between Him that came and the Body in which He came between the substance
Goods was Distrained yet not a Penny worth sold and he kept this Ten Pound and never returned it and yet this is not all but in their Quarterly Book it was not long since Recorded as a Suffering Such Cheats there are amongst them and Thirty Pounds at a time for Writing five or six Sheets of Paper Fifty Pound per Annum for Clarks Wages as standing yearly Sallery and Twelve Pence for Writing a Marriage Certificate of Ten or Twelve Lines sometimes your people might publish their Intentions of Marriage at the Market-Cross or before a Magistrate if they were free so that here is Ambo-dexter indeed sometimes Liberty and by and by its taken away again by these Infallible Legislators so that when all comes to all it s no Body knows what but the Leading Quakers are all in all tot quot omnis Thus the Quakers Priests who talk for self Is fangling talk against it self ' Gainst Truth a prate a pitious preachment That can't make good its own Impeachment As Penn 's and VVhitehead 's Doctrine do Who heeds not well which way they go Fox and Sam. Cater dances round And round again in th' self same ground It staggers to and fro and reels Skips up and down and runs on wheels Starts aside like some broken Bow Crosses Christ like Cris-cross in the row Who so can feel in it may feel As 't were a wheel within a wheel A net gin trap a snare's in 't A whirlpool gulf a bottomless pit Wind dusk husk chaff no stable steeple A tale that takes unstable people A toy a cloud mist smoke a fog Right Quakerism yea a quavering bog A quick sand a quagmire that sucks Who 's in 't his feet out-seldom plucks Himself who 's in get seldom out It 's self's more seldom in than out It flutters like some night-blind batt Now here now there this way now that Now it is one thing then another And now and then nor t 'one nor t'other Sometimes it 's this sometimes it 's that Sometimes it 's this and this and that Sometimes it 's either this or that Sometimes 't is neither this nor that Now this not t'other anon it 's either Then by-and-by both both and neither One while it looks like so not no Another while like no not so One way it seems or so or no Another way nor no nor so Some way it shews both so and no So 't is a mere endless no and so Postscript 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 Jan. 1. 1686. Fra. Bugg Reader I have transcribed the more of this former Book of mine Intituled The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted c. by reason George Whitehead in his Book styled The Contentious Apostate c. recites the first Point then under Consideration which was How I came to be a Member of their Society But the second Point under Consideration which was How I came to see and perceive their Apostacy and leave them And the third Point under Consideration which was How and by what means I came to have satisfaction in going to the Publick I say these two last Points G. W. takes no notice of For I having in the first Point acknowledged what I then apprehended he represents it as if I was of the same Judgment when I went to the Publick for if that be not his intent he speaks in the Air and to no purpose Now if I at the time of my going to Church was in the belief that the Quakers were in the true Faith true Worship spiritual Testimony attended with that Simplicity c. which I in 86. thought them to be in as I did in 1660 c. Then I grant I had gone self-condemned because I had acted contrary to my belief But to answer that so long as I had those thoughts I kept to them nay longer But when I went to the publick that part of my Book now recited shews my mind sufficiently and my judgment concerning them to which I refer the Reader Obj. Well but still George seems to object that I did once own them to have been the true Church and therefore to leave them is SELF-CONDEMNED APOSTACY Answ I marvel G. W. should think that to be Apostacy for if that be sound Arguing then I will prove most of the Ancient Quakers self condemned Apostates since they have separated from the Church of England or some other Protestant Churches which they once owned to be a true Church And to confirm this my opinion and judgment I will produce a good Author in my Esteem whatever he be in G. W.'s and that is Archbishop Cranmer that Innocent Martyr whose life is worthy to be had in Imitation by all English Protestants for he was the principal Instrument under GOD and the King that threw off the Popes yoke of Supremacy c. Foxes Acts and Mon. p. 1488. Well let us hear what he says In the beginning the Church of Rome taught a pure and sound Doctrine But after the Church of Rome fell into a new Doctrine of Transubstantiation I marvel that any man would allow it if they knew what it is But whatsoever they bear the people in hand that which they write in their Books have neither truth nor comfort Now George was this Martyr a self-condemned Apostate let me have your opinion in your next He said as much in commendation of the Roman Church as I ever said of yours and by the way I believe upon better grounds For I must tell you I am not of the same mind I was in in 1686. concerning you in the beginning since I have of late examined your ancient Errors and observed the consequences of them but of that more anon I say was this Arch-bishop an Apostate for that he owns she was once a true Church And yet he separated from her and says there is neither truth nor comfort in their Books though perhaps she pretended like her youngest Daughter See your 6 principle that she gave forth her Papers and Printed Books from the eternal and immediate Spirit of GOD and that they were of greater Authority than the Scriptures yet you hear Dr. Cranmers opinion that there is neither truth nor comfort in their Books And I am of the same opinion concerning most of yours and do as much marvel that the people will allow your Books many of them at least which you pretend to be of such Authority so immediately given forth by GOD's holy Spirit when they are filled much with nonsense lyes forgeries false doctrine blasphemies yea I do as much wonder at your People Defence of the Apology of the Church of England p. 460 461. as this good Man did at the Papists your Ancestors since the Papists could not be worse And if you will see the 460 and 461 Pages in the
at the House of Joshua Bangs in Milden-Hall the 24th of August 1691 touching a certain Charge which I formerly exhibited against him at a Publick Meeting * As in my Book One Blow c. p. 2 3. at Milden-Hall which he then declined to accept of and to defend himself from as well as to own himself Author of his Book Judgment Fixed c. My said Threefold Charge was this First That George Whitehead is a Deceiver of the People 2dly That he is a false Accuser of the Martyrs charging their Doctrine to be corrupt tending to practical Ranterism sordid Ranterism c. 3dly That he is a Favourer or an Excuser of such Principles and Practices as border upon Blasphemy and Idolatry This was the Charge The Spectators present who heard what passed were these whose Names hereafter follow viz. PROTESTANTS QUAKERS Mr. ROBERT RVSSELL SIMON BIRGIS Mr. THOMAS BRADBVRY JAMES BIRGIS Mr. SAMVEL ' KNOWLES JOS. BANGS Mr. JOHN WALTER AMBROSE FRIEND JOHN PAPWORTH EDWARD DEEKES PHILIP CRANNISS and others BENJAMIN ANTROBVS and others THE FIRST CHARGE THAT G. WHITEHEAD IS A DECEIVER OF THE PEOPLE G. W. Come Francis I come of the Defensive part thou art the Plaintiff I expect proof of what thou chargest me with F. B. Here is a Book styled Judgment Fixed Dost thou own it George G. W. That is not material thy Charge is general without any such Condition F. B. I grant all that But did not I send you a Letter to meet you in London to prove my Charge upon you on Condition that you would own your Books and since you have now sent for me I expect you should perform the Condition proposed G. W. I did not send for thee I only told thy Wife I was here if thou hadst any thing to say thou mightst come to me I * Jos Bangs or some others of his Friends heard G. Whitehead say so and that thy coming was at thy own choice Jo. Walter But by your leave Gentlemen your so sending to him was an intimation of your desire of his coming or to what purpose did you send to him OBSERVATION Note Reader that I was surprized not knowing that G. W. was in Town till Ten a Clock over Night for I had sent G. W. a Letter to be in London the 22d of August and had sent away my Books in order to prove my Charge against him there But he wrote me an Answer that he could not wait upon me but had a Journey appointed but did not let me know it was to Milden-Hall where I dwelt but came to Town the 23d day when he might expect my being at London But that day at Ten a Clock at Night I was told of his being there so that I do believe 't is as G. W. said he did not send for me My coming was not pleasant to him And I have reason to think that he would not have come there then had he not thought I had been at London according to my Letter And so I had only I remembred his Letter in Answer which told me he had a Journey to go so then I stay'd for some Neighbours G. W. Well I do own that Book Judgment Fixed c. The Errors of Press excepted F. B. Then from thence I thus prove you a Deceiver of the People for whereas in the Introduction to that Book you pretend that GOD laid a necessity upon you to write that Book and that you was moved of GOD to write the same and there you neither consult Events nor fear Effects c. And yet in the same Book you vindicate your Brother Thomas Rudyard Samuel Cater's Lawyer see p. 219. And in the said Book p. 19 20. you justifie Blasphemous and Idolatrous Titles given to G. Fox as anon will appear in a grand Lye who in vindication of his Client Samuel Cater wrote that I paid my Money voluntarily before Distress was made of my Goods when distrained for Samuel Cater's Fine which was a Lye Now this being a Lye and you justifying him in this Lye this GOD never laid a necessity upon you to write this GOD never did move you to write For saith the Scripture he that condemneth the Innocent and acquitteth thee Guilty ar both an abomination to the LORD And you pretending that GOD moved you to this and many other Lyes in the said Book and the People believing you that you are thus moved and that you cannot err and that what you who pretend your selves infallible speak or write is of as great Authority as the SCRIPTURES herein you deceive the People OBSERVATION That I did not pay my Money voluntarily before Distress see a Certificate under the hands of Mr. Maxey and his Wife who then lived at the Sign of the White Hart to which Inn my Goods was carried c. viz. MEmorandum That we who subscribe our Names do testifie that the Goods of Francis Bugg which was Distrain'd for the Fine of 15 l. 10 s. by vertue of a Warrant from Thomas Shelly Esq a Justice of Peace since deceased c. was carried to the White Hart after Distrained where I then dwelt and was Constable And afterwards the said Francis Bugg came and paid down the Money and teok home his Goods again This my Wife and I can testifie witness our hands this 6th of September 1691. Peter and Judith Maxey G. W. I do not affirm that thou paid down thy 15 l. voluntarily See Painted Harlot c. p. 8 9 10 47 48 49. But I shewed Thomas Rudyard what thou said and reckoned a voluntary Payment and thereupon I vindicated him against thee he being at that time in better Repute with us so 't is no Position of mine but a Supposition that I went upon F. B. Well George that will not hold you have justified an arrant Lye in favour of Samuel Cater which was much to my damage And the People believing you and that in regard of your Pretence of being moved by the eternal Spirit of GOD you in that Case as well as in many others that I could mention have deceived them and unless you can clear your self the Charge stands over your head and you are found guilty thereof c. G. W. I do still say that as to the Body of the Controversie God did lay a Necessity upon me to write that Book But as to particular matters of Fact I write as a Man according to my discretion F. B. So then here is George Whitehead as a Man and G. W. more than a Man G. W. infallible and cannot err and G. W. fallible and subject to err and be mistaken This is a twofold George standing in two Capacities OBSERVATION Note that G. W. herein resembles the Pope For saith Dr. Cole I hold herein rather with Gerson that the Councel is above the Pope The Pope in one respect as he is a Man in his own single person may happen to err but in another respect as he is head Pastor and
first Principle c. 2dly That he was elected before the World began * Fourth Part of the Christian Quaker distinguished c. p. 84. 3dly That he had power to bind and to loose †The Quakers unmasked c. p. 27. 4thly That his Marriage was above the state of the first Adam in his Innocency and that he never fell nor changed See the same page 5thly If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles said G. Fox you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power * G. F's Answer to the Westmorland Petition p. 30. 6thly You may as well condemn the Scriptures to the Fire as our Queries Our giving forth Papers and printed Books it is from the immediate eternal Spirit of God You are now answered from the mouth of the Lord †Truth 's Defence G. F. and R. H. p 2. 89 104. 7thly He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead is equal with God G. Fox * Saul's Errand c. p. 8. Thus Friendly Reader I have herein as well as in divers places in this Treatise manifested that G. F. gave out himself to be some GREAT MAN to whom the Quakers for many Years my self for one gave heed almost from the least to the greatest and I think that neither Simon nor Becket could give out more to shew themselves GREAT MEN. Next follows what divers of their Preachers and People attributed to him and tho such Letters were in his Life-time frequently sent to him yet I never heard that he ever rejected them nor yet reproved the Authors of them See Fourth Part of the Christian Quaker distinguished c. p. 83 84. See first Josiah Coal in Letter of his from Barbadoes recorded in their Book of Audland's Letters Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reach'd through us thy Children even to the Isles afar off to the begetting many again to a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose Being and Habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rulest and governs in Righteousness and THY KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED IN PEACE AND THE INCREASE THEREOF IS WITHOVT END Next that of Solomon Eccles. who writ of G. Fox these words which were not fit to be said of any Mortal viz. A Prophet indeed It was said of Christ that he was in the world and the world was made by HIM and the world knew him not SO it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not but thou shalt feel this Prophet one day as heavy as a Milstone upon thee and though the world knows him not yet he is known c. Quakers Challenge p. 6. Next that of John Audlands in a Letter of his to G. Fox from the West of England viz. See the 5th Part of Babel's Builders p. 7. Dear and precious one in whom my life is bound up and my strength in thee stands By thy breathings I am nourished by thee my strength is renewed Blessed art thou for evermore and Blessed are all that enjoy thee life and strength comes from thee Holy One. Daily do I find thy presence with me which doth exceedingly preserve me for I cannot raign but in thy presence and power Pray for me that I may stand in thy Dread for evermore I am thine begotten and nourished by thee and in thy power am I preserved Glory unto thee Holy one for ever See also part of a Certificate that John Blaikling gave forth on the behalf of George Fox Fifth Part of the Christian Quaker distinguished c. p. 77. against William Rogers That G. Fox is blessed with Honour above many Brethren and that thousands will stand by him in a HEAVENLY Record unto the integrity of his Soul to truth that still lives with him That his LIFE REIGNS and is spotless innocent and still retains his Integrity whose ETERNAL HONOUR and BLESSED RENOWN shall remain yea his presence and the dropping of his tender words in the Lord's love was my Soul's nourishment c. Yea so sacred or so dreadful was G. F's Name to the People beyond Seas that they printed and published it to the World viz. That mentioning the Name George Fox did prick them to the heart See their Book A true Account p. 42. This is enough to shew that Josiah Coal Solomon Eccles John Audland and John Blaikling and others too many here to enumerate together with those Preachers who preached at his Funeral where they stiled him the great Apostle a Prophet the Jacob of the Age c. I say 't is enough to shew that they walk hand in hand with the Papists in this matter as well as in almost every thing else G. W. I question whether they be their Letters as cited F. B. But if they be proved theirs will you stand by them or retract them G. W. If they be theirs might there not be a more favourable Construction put upon them than Idolatry and Blasphemy May not a Man write a Letter to his Friend to pray for him is there any hurt in that F. B. What! did they pray to G. Fox to solicit the Virgin Mary to pray c G. W. No I do not say to a Saint departed but to a living Saint Mr. R. Russell Indeed Mr. Whitehead I do not understand those Sayings in those Letters to be any other than Blasphemy G. W. I do not approve of those Letters so that whether theirs or not theirs I do not own them OBSERVATION Note That John Blaikling's Certificate on the behalf of G. Fox I did not read at the Conference For tho' I had seen it before yet being surprized and not knowing of G. W's being in Town till late over Night I could not find it but being one in Nature with the other three I thought it meet to incert it in the recited Parallel in two Columns c. F. B. Well George then be plain if you do not own them deny them in writing under your hand c. G. W. I do not care to write I will not trouble my self to write F. B. Then I will write for you if you please G. W. So thou may'st if thou wilt F. B. As for those three Letters said to be wrote by Sol. Eccles Josiah Coal and John Audland I am apt to believe they are none of theirs as cited but if they be I do disown them George dost thou like this Is this thy Sence If so subscribe it G. W. I do say before all these People that whether they be or be not of their Writing I disown them F. B. Well George then subscribe what your Sense is that we may be at a Certainty F. W. I will not write after thee thou shalt not be a Dictator to me S. B. George I only write your sense and when I missed you gave me apt words to put in and make it your sense thereby making
in their quarterly book as in Painted Harlot p. 60 62 63. Yet not being under Hand and Seal when I put forth my Book De Chr. Lib. c. They wrote me word that if I did not call in and condemn that book that they would come out with their Narrative c. By which I saw the popish Maxim fulfilled viz. No Faith or Covenant to be kept with Hereticks And when they saw me thus resolved not to trust their Promise nor to take their Words they then chose rather to give me a Deed to secure me under the Feoffees Hands and Seals and Jos Bangs and Philip Cranniss are witnesses to it which being large I shall only recite a few words out of it shewing that I have power to hold a Meeting to appoint a Meeting to speak in a Meeting to write in the Meeting in a word whatever in former days I did my Power is the same So that I fear not G. W's other CONSEQVENCES I am provided against their Arbitrary Wresting my Property out of my Hands as they have done to too many viz. Memorandum That on the 15th day of August 1678. We who are Feoffees for the Meeting-House in Hallowel-Row in Milden-Hall in the County of Suffolk do by this our present Writing acknowledge That Fra. Bugg of the same Town and County gave towards the purchasing the Burial Place and building the said Meeting-House with the out House appertaining to the same the Sum of twenty-Pounds and five Shillings And thereby hath as great an Interest in the Meeting House as any of US or any OTHER PERSON WHATSOEVER * What think you George had not I as good a right as you that never gave penny to it viz if you will keep Covenant And we do by these presents as well in Consideration of the said twenty pounds towards the Purchase aforesaid as also for divers other causes and considerations according to the Power resting and residing in us do Covenant grant and agree to and with the said Fra. Bugg That he the said Francis Bugg shall from time to time and at all times hereafter have possess and enjoy the same Ingress Egress and Regress Vse and Possession which he the said Francis Bugg formerly enjoyed †Mark that without the Let Hinderance or Molestation of the People called Quakers § Be sure you keep Covenant I shall tell you of it else Now George I think I am out of the reach of your other CONSEQVENCES yea out of your power of thrusting me forth of your Meetings as you have done others and then call them distracted and the like I will assure you they had not need be distracted that deal with you but have their wits about them or else they shall soon feel the effect of your other CONSEQVENCES but I now am past the fear of your Councel-Table your Friend Penn's Interest or Geo. Whitehead's other Consequences Obj. Well but some may say what will they go to Law or what other Consequences can G. W. mean We thought them to be great Sufferers and not so subject to go to Law Answ That they will go to Law and upon small Trifles too I can shew it their Judgment For Tho. Crisp in his books had but mentioned 2 of the Letters of the Names of some of their Ministers that lived in some immoralities and Richard Richardson their then Clerk to their second days meeting who wrote for the Church viz. their Society and on their behalf sent him a Letter to consult his interest c. The Abstract of which follows c. Tho. Crisp London the 31 5 Mon. 1682. Thy Book I have not read others have them only thy Letter remains by me wherein I find thee charging Friends with Whoredom Theft Cheating Breaking and other Immoralities thou mayest consult thy own safety this is not matter of Religious Controversy but civil Moralities the Church will require no such satisfaction from thee But they cannot restrain men in their civil concerns from seeking Justice in a legal way ††G. W. If that be your opinion that 't is lawful to seek Justice in a legal way what makes you so angry with me for getting a Justice Warrant for you to the intent that I might get you to own your scandalous book Judgment fixed c. Did not I seek Justice against a publick Defame in a legal way which I have in part obtained viz. Your owning your Book c. which is in order to farther satisfaction You seemed very kind to the Justice in omitting his Name but you have pointed at him saying there ☞ he dwells viz. at DORNHAM IN SUFFOLK which is all one to telling his Name which when he saw it he saw through your Sophistry and gave a right Character of your temper in that Affair c. c. And if so that the very mentioning 2 Letters of a Name put them in such a Fret and Passion I hope they will bear with others if they seek a Remedy against them for their slanderous Tongues and Pens Neither did I think it necessary to trust to their promise whom I have found so false in so many cases for my security if I had I should soon have felt G W's other CONSEQVENCES And as to their being great Sufferers I know that many of their Hearers are but it was ever the way of their Ministers to save themselves as my book the Painted Harlot c. sets forth But yet I remember one thing which will discover how they love to magnify their Sufferings and account such great Sufferings which indeed are no Sufferings at all as the next Chapter will sufficiently make appear so that it is no Apostacy from the Articles of the Christian Faith to separate from the Quakers and their Errors CHAP. IX Sheweth that the forsaking the Quakers is no Apostacy from the Articles of the Christian Faith SAmuel Cater one of their insignificant Preachers had a Meeting at Phakenham in Norfolk which as it stands in their Quarterly book will tell after ages that Sam. Cater was fined 20 l. and distrained * See their Quarterly Book at Hadenham in the Isle of Ely c. and that for Preaching too And this will look great and exalt his Name and crown his Memory tho indeed he did not suffer one Shilling however there it stands as an honourable and valiant Suffering unless it be lately cancelled and blotted out as it ought to be The Passage which I having a providential opportunity took out of their Quarterly book stands thus Samuel Cater for being at a Meeting at Phakenham in Norfolk on the 4th day of the 5th Month called July Anno 1670. preaching and publishing the Gospel of Peace One Ann Wats a Woman Informer told the Officers who came with a Warrant and had him before one Christopher Colthorp a Justice who fined him Twenty Pounds which Warrant and Conviction was sent to the Justices in the Isle of Ely namely John Laney Henry
your printed Books as in the first Chapter quoting Book and Page c. And with respect to what you have wrote which is false and which I charge upon you and recharge you again as in One Blow c. according to the terms in the first Chapter taken out of Edward Burroughs's Works even the words of your own Propositions then let me have Notice of it a Month and GOD willing I shall readily wait upon your motion And if you will be plain and retract what is false and erroneous and vindicate only what is sound I shall be glad of it but if the contrary I may deal with you accordingly Now if you still shall refuse to come out of your Dens and lurking places and think it your most secure way to save your self by keeping your People in Ignorance then my Advice to you is that you answer my Queries propounded in Battering Rams c. p. 20 21 22 23 24 25. and those referred too in the 9th Query p. 21. and Mr. Archer's Query above recited and as yet unanswered and the Jacobites Query in this Treatise and at the end of them this which followeth viz. Query Whether 't is not possible to write against you who are called QUAKERS and not to write against Truth And lastly Whether it be not possible for a Man to leave and forsake you and write against you but that the Consequence of his so doing renders himself a Self-condemned Apostate which is only a softer word for an Heretick Answer these things fairly and you may hear more from me but if not you may rail forge pervert invert lye and slander I shall rest satisfy'd in that I have thus far discharg'd my Duty to GOD and my Country at this time Milden-Hall April 3. 1692. FRA BVGG THE CONCLVSION SInce I writ the foregoing Treatise I have seen George Whitehead's Book Antichrist in Flesh Vnmasked c. in Answer to a Book Antichrist in Spirit Vnmasked Or Quakerism a Great Delusion c. wherein G. W. seems to hold forth the Principles of the Christian Religion And had I a good ground to believe what he therein sets forth in the Quakers Name to be really so indeed I would stop the Publication of what I have at this time writ against their Errors But until they by some Publick and General Act first Renounce and Condemn under the Hands of some of their principal Leaders and Teachers their manifest Errors laid down in Print and hitherto owned by them a few whereof I have herein related I have no reason to believe that they mean as they say but like deceitful Workers they transform themselves into the likeness of what they really are not that is to say into the likeness of the Ministers of Christ and true Professors of the ancient Faith and thereby deceive the simple with their feigned words and jugling tricks who like our Enemies at Sea either to defend themselves from our stroke or to draw us into their snare will put up the English Flag So these now make a shew of their owning the Scriptures to be Holy which formerly they frequently call'd CARNAL LETTER (a) West Pet. Answ p. 13 23. News out of the North p. 14 35 39. and Truth 's Defence p. 28 56 60. EARTHLY LETTER (b) Idem p. 14. the HVSK (c) Idem p. 53. and Way to the Kingdom p. 8. DVST (d) Discovery of Antichrist p. 9. and DEATH (e) Idem p. 9. and G. Whitehead's Ishmael p. 10. but now tell us they are Holy What! Is that which is Carnal and Earthly Holy Is the Husk Dust and Death Holy This is Jugling with a Witness but blessed be GOD these Jugles and these Juglers are discover'd daily even so Amen They own the Humanity of Christ his Death Suffering Resurrection and Ascension and hoping for Salvation through the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness and meritorious Death and Passion * See their Paper stiled The Christianity of the People commonly called Quakers c. But when I look into their former printed Books and especially their Epistles which they frequently sent to their Friends to be read in their Church Assemblies there is not a word of any such Confession so that what G. W. hath now writ is but like the French Men when they put up the English Flag merely a Trick and Sham and ought not to be taken notice of any otherwise than as such And therefore to make this evidently appear I may first recite part of George Whitehead's Book aforesaid and secondly two or three Passages out of one of their Epistles wrote by two of the most eminent amongst them when living namely Edward Burroughs whose Works they Reprinted in Folio of whom Josiah Coal in his Testimony for him hath this passage viz. That he Edward Burroughs was a Man endued with the ALMIGHTY Power of GOD which lived and reigned in him c. Yea and that He was a Man in whom the FVLNESS dwelt of Grace and Vertue * See the Testimony of his Life c. put forth 1662. by G. Fox G. Whitehead and Josiah Coal c. p. 24. c. The other was Francis Howgil whose Works they also Reprinted in Folio of whom great things are also spoken in the Testimonies writ in favor of him which by the Consent and Approbation of their Church are prefixed to his Works These two Sons of Thunder and Consolation as the Titles of their Books do bespeak them wrote from Ireland to the Camp of the Lord in England called Quakers which they thus Intituled viz. THIS IS TO GO ONLY AMONGST FRIENDS By which the Reader will easily perceive that what G. W. hath lately wrote by way of Confession and in the Quakers Name is only to amuse his Reader and delude the World For in the whole Epistle containing 23 pages in Quarto there is not a word which sets forth the Scripture to be profitable for Doctrine not a word by way of Confession of Sins to GOD or asking Pardon for Christ's sake not a word about their owning or valuing the Incarnation of our blessed Saviour his Sufferings Death Resurrection or Ascension not a word of their hopes of being saved through the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness and Merits as G. W. would now insinuate which sufficiently shews that they are of a different Faith to what the Holy Apostles and blessed Martyrs were of And Thirdly I shall make some Observations or Animadversions upon the said Epistles in order to shew the Fallacy of the seeming serious Confession of G. Whitehead and how Janus-like they look two ways viz. when they write to their Friends certain Epistles to be read in their Church Assemblies to inculcate their Principles and wild Notions into their unsteady Heads and unstable Souls and another thing when they write to be seen of Men and to be viewed by the true Professors of Christianity And now to the first viz. A Recital of part of G. W's words in his
its Nature and Properties Now the Query is WHICH was the appointed Saviour of the Father Which was the Anointed of the Father chiefly and in the first place WHETHER the BODY prepared or HE for whom the Body was prepared c By which 't is plain that they deny notwithstanding G. Whitehead's counterfeit Confession HIM that was born of the Virgin HIM that was pierced HIM that was Crucify'd and hang'd on a Tree and by wicked hands slain to be the Son of GOD the Saviour of the World whereby they declare themselves not to be of the Prophets and Apostles Creed read these Scriptures Zach. 9.9 11 12 13. Micah 5.2 Acts 2.22 23 36. 3.13 4.10 10.43 Luke 2.10 11 12 13. Mat. 2.5 6 7. and you will perceive the Faith of the Apostles and Evangelists and the Testimony of the blessed and glorious Angels to differ as much and as clearly from this Faith and Testimony of the Quakers as light from utter darkness c. But because G. W. in his recited Book makes such a serious Pretence to own the Man Christ Jesus his Death and Sufferings c. I may recite another Passage out of their great Doctor Is Penington's aforesaid Book p. 20. Quest 7. What is Christ's Flesh and Blood which we are to partake of Is it the Flesh and Blood of the Body which was prepared for and taken for HIM wherein HE tabernacled and appeared OR is it the Flesh and Blood of HIM who took tabernacled and appeared in the Body For that which HE took upon HIM was our Garment even the Flesh and Blood of our Nature which is of a perishing Nature c. Now what is more plain than that they deny the true Christ his Humanity yea his Merits Death and Sufferings especially if you add what is in pag. 33. said by this their Champion in defence of their Faith which is as followeth viz. Now the Scriptures do expresly distinguish between Christ and the Garment which HE wore between HIM that came and the BODY in which HE came between the Substance which was vailed and the Vail which vailed it there is plainly HE and the BODY in which HE came there was the outward Vessel and the inward Life This we certainly know and can never call the bodily garment Christ * Yes we believe you are all of that mind and shall until these and other of your pernicious Errors be publickly condemned notwithstanding G. W's Pretence to the contrary c. But having before spoken largely to this Point I shall at present pass it by desiring the Reader still to peruse the recited Epistle and to consider of it for that being directed TO GO ONLY AMONGST THE QVAKERS there you may see their inside for to them their Leaders and Captains as they stile themselves unbosom themselves telling the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth of what they believe if there be that sincerity in them which they pretend to And then you shall hear a loud noise of strange Acts great Miracles viz. the Prison doors opened the Dead raised unclean Spirits cast out Yea a wonderful noise of War of Leaders and Captains and Commanders mighty hewing cutting killing going into the Field to Battel as if all the World were now at an end and that they would drive all before them * And yet are themselves got now so close into their Holes Dens and lurking places where they lie skulking to deceive the simple as that 't is impossible to get them out into the Field c. But not a word as I have observed setting forth the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures not a word of the Humanity of Christ not a word in all the 23 Pages of the Incarnation Birth Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension of our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ not a word of their hopes of being saved through the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness No how should they if they would speak their minds truly since they cannot call that BODY which suffered at Jerusalem CHRIST but a Garment a Vail a Figure And therefore what ever they pretend when they write publickly since when they write privately they write the contrary they are not to be believed for saith Ireneus in his third Book against Heresies viz. Whilst that Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenents full of Blasphemies they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the poyson of their foul Opinions c. I have divers others of their Epistles by me as particularly Robert Sandilands * One of George Whitehead's Select Friends by way of Vision and Revelation Richard Huberthorn Josiah Coal both in Print and Manuscript which bears not the least Resemblance to what they now seemingly set forth as their Faith and Belief But the recited Epistle with their dark-lanthorn Title viz. THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS is sufficient to set forth how they applaud and speak smooth things to their own People like the false Prophets of old who healed the Wound deceitfully who daubed with untempered Mortar and surely never was Mortar worse tempered than in this Epistle wherein Darkness is put for Light and Bitter for Sweet viz. the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem George Fox for Christ and almost all the Prophesies and Sayings of the holy Penmen inverted and turned into an affected Rhetorick and mystical Allegories as well as in many of their other Writings which both amuse and puff up their Hearers And as I have elsewhere herein observed make them believe that they are got into the Holy Land even spiritual Canaan when indeed they are but in the Borders of Egypt and posting to OLD ROME think themselves rich full wanting nothing when they are poor blind miserable and want all things through their mistaken Zeal and following the Dictates of their blind Guides who instead of setting forth the solid Principles of Religion have so leavened them into their Pharisaical lump that they have erred concerning the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin who suffered was dead and buried who rose again the third day and ascended up into Heaven above * This G. W. begins to confess too but when he says above according to his and their own Principles he means beneath viz. in their corrupt Bodies let him deny it if he can at the Right Hand of GOD where he sits in Majesty on High as our Advocate and Intercessor as the Second Person of the glorious Trinity And who will come in like manner as He was taken up which G. W. acknowledges was visibly seen to judge the Quick and Dead And then the Graves shall give up their Dead and there shall be a general Resurrection of the Bodies out of the Graves both of the just and unjust But alas All this and much more in this recited Epistle of theirs