practical Ranterism it self yea sordid Ranterism * See p 259. of G W's Judgment fix'd c against the 222 223 Pages of my Book De Chr. Lib. c. Which are the Words of Dr. Barns See the 298 Page in his Book entiluled Mens Constitutions not grounded on Scripture bind not the Conscience c. verbatim c. be not a sign that he is Popishly affected c. And whether G. W. do not herein appear like his Brother Deceased viz Bloody Bonner Who frequently charged the Martyrs with such Doctrine as I could shew were it pertinent I say in this do they not resemble each other as if they were Twins Query 6. Whether it be not as commendable to Address King William and Queen Mary who are by all Men acknowledged true Protestants as it was to Address the late King who acknowledged himself a Roman Catholick Query 7. Whether it be not as lawful for Book-sellers to sell Protestant-Books even such as discover the Hypocrisie of the Teachers and Leaders of Geo. Fox and his Party as for Benj. Clark their Book-seller to sell Play-Books Ballads Papist-Books Gypsy-Books yea and Ba Books Answer Query 8. Whether it be not great Hypocrisie to pretend to Preach Teach Suffer Write and Record Marriages and other things freely and under colour thereof condemn all other Churches and Societies as Hirelings Lovers of filthy Lucre Followers of Balaam for Reward c. and yet at the same time take Money Gifts and Rewards themselves for doing the same things c Answer Query 9. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox c. to write Queries to all Doctors and Scholars in Europe and yet when Queries are propounded to them they will not answer If they tell you they are as ready to Answer Queries as to ask then let them Answer my 15 Queries proposed in De Christ Lib. p. 72 to p. 78. p. 154 to p. 163. and in Paint Harlot p. 40 41. if they can Query 10. Whether it be not great Deceit for Men to write a Book and pretend a Concern of Conscience that they do it for GOD's Glory and as moved thereunto by the Eternal Spirit and yet to write such abominable Lies Slanders and scandalous Defamations as that they dare not or are ashamed to own their said Books Query 11. Whether it was not great Presumption in Geo. Fox and a Badge of intolerable Pride to put forth a Book with 2434 Queries in it when he himself cannot answer the odd 34 of them Query 12. Whether it was not great Impudene in Geo. Fox in his Battledoor to set his Hand and affix his Name to six or more Foreign Languages as Latine Greek Hebrew Italian Chaldee Syriack c. and yet understand not one of them Query 13. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie for Geo. Whitehead Stephen Crisp William Penn c. to make a Law or Edict at their General Meeting at London May 75. That their Hearers should constantly meet and not Decline Forsake nor Remove their Meetings like Worldly Fearful and Politick Professors and yet themselves refused to stand in a like suffering capacity relating to Sufferings with them Answer Query 14. Whether it be not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox and his Party to say That GOD respects neither Time Place nor Persons and thereupon pretend That for Conscience-sake they cannot give respect to their Superiours by putting off their Hats when at the same time they themselves compel their Apprentices to stand bare-headed before them * This Piece of Hypocrisie I testified against more than Fifteen Years since by a Letter to the then Yearly Meeting which was before S. Cater and I had any Controversie See my Book Entituled Innocency Vindicated and Envy rebuked c. p. 8. nay in their very Shops as if it were the Presence-Chamber Query 15. Did not Christ when he Taught his Disciples to pray Mat. 6.9 say After this manner therefore Pray ye Our Father c. And forgive us our Sins as we also forgive them that trespass against us Now such as do not pray after this manner are they not manifest Transgressors of this Precept of our LORD Jesus Christ and found in the steps of the proud Pharisee who thinks himself so righteous as that he need neither make confession of his Sins nor ask forgiveness for Christ Jesus sake in whose Name alone is Remission of Sins Query 16. If you grant that a neglect or Refusal of performing this part of Christian Duty be a sign of a Pharisaical Pride * See my Book Entituled The Quakers detected c. p. 12 13 14. Where I have enlarged upon this their grand Errour To what I have writ in that Book let the Reader observe W. Tindal who says in his Works entituled The Exposition of the 6th Chapter of Matthew pag. 222 223. Because he knoweth that our Nature is so weak and inclinable to Sin therefore he teacheth us daily to repent and daily to ask GOD Forgiveness Seeing He commandeth us to ask we may be bold so to do and to believe He will FORGIVE us No Man therefore needeth to despair I hope they will not rail on this blessed Martyr W. Tindal who suffered in the Flames as Geo. Whitehead did of the Doctrine of Dr. Rob. Barns who called it corrupt Doctrine tending to Ranterism yea sordid Ranterism then I do farther Query What is the Reason that Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead and the rest of their Preachers in their publick Prayers in your Assembly do not pray after the manner that Christ hath prescribed though not in the very Form of Words yet after His Precept so as to confess their Sins to GOD and ask Forgiveness for Christ's sake which they do not Query 17. Seeing Edward Burroughs in his Epistle writ at Dublin To the Camp of the LORD in England p. 2. This is to go amongst Friends printed 1656. says You who are called Quakers above all the Families of the Earth The Tabernacle of GOD is with you and his Dwelling Place is among you And only among you is God known c. Now if so that GOD be known Only by you then the Query is Whether all that be called Quakers know the LORD And whether none but the Quakers know the Lord Answer to this c. The Answer to this Question will resolve Whether Geo. Fox who said in his Book The Great Mystery c. and Solomon Eccles his Affirmation in The Quaker's Challenge pag. 6. that you and you Only are GOD's People I say whether you all be as John Field one of your Preachers says you are of One Mind and Judgment in this and all other Matters Query 18. Whether there did not a strong Delusion enter many about the Year 1659. As that Geo. Fox was inspired with the Gift of Tongues and whether the recited Battledoor and Primer was not the Reason of that Opinion and if it come to be made appear as that it will if he will meet at
your selves But let me a little examine this Charity of yours and see upon what Bottom it stands You say you have declared against Fighting and that the Kingdom of Christ doth not allow His Servants to fight and that you do not look upon it lawful for Christians in this Gospel-Dispensation to fight with a Carnal Weapon in any Case whatsoever But as for the Encouragement you have given others to fight you do that Ad Hominem Upon their own Pretensions viz. Oliver Cromwell his Army and Officers pretending it lawful to fight therefore and thereupon you encourage them to fight saying O. C. Thou shouldst have invited all Nations upon Earth that are against Popery to come in and join with thee against Popery for thou hast had Authority Stand to it lose it not nor abuse it nor let any other take thy Crown Let thy Soldiers go forth with a free willing Heart that thou mayest rock Nations as a Cradle c. Counsel and Advice rejected p. 36 37. Geo. Fox Also see Geo. Roff's Book entituled The Righteousness of GOD c. p. 11. a few Words to O. C. To thee Oliver Cromwel thus saith the LORD I have chosen thee amongst the Thousands of the Nations to execute My Wrath upon My Enemies and gave them to thy Sword with which I fought for the Zeal of My own Name and gave thee the Enemies of My own Seed to be a Curse and a Reproach for ever and made thee an Instrument against them And many have I cut down by My Sword in thy Hand that My Wrath might be executed upon them to the utmost Geo. Roff. What! Could you thus write and thus encourage O. C. his Army and Officers to fight and that from the Word of the LORD and at the same time believe it to be unlawful for Christians to fight with a Carnal Weapon in any Case whatsoever O gross Hypocrisie What! Does the Word of the LORD contradict the Kingdom of Christ Are they divided You say the Kingdom of Christ doth not allow His Servants to fight and you believe it utterly unlawful for Christians to fight yet you say to O. C. Let thy Soldiers go forth with a free willing Heart that thou mayest rock Nations as a Cradle Again you say Thus saith the Lord I have chosen thee O. C. amongst the Thousands of the Nations to execute My Wrath upon My Enemies and gave them to thy Sword with which I fought for the Zeal of My own Name c. Also in another Letter of Geo. Fox's to O. C. it is thus said O Oliver hadst thou been faithful and thunder'd down Deceit the Hollanders had been thy Subjects and Tributaries and Germany had given up to do thy Will and the Spaniard had quiver'd like a dry Leaf the King of France should have bowed under thee his Neck the Pope should have withered as in Winter the Turk in all his Fatness should have smoak'd Thou shouldst not have stood trifling about small things but minded the Work of the LORD As He began with thee at first sober Men and true Hearts took part with thee Oh! take heed and do not slight such lest thou weaken thy self and not disown such as the LORD hath owned Thy Dread is not yet all gone nor thy Amazement Arise and come forth for hadst thou been faithful thou shouldst have crumbled Nations to Dust c. Geo. Fox With much more to the same purpose I say What! Do you thus write thus encourage and thus stir up and rouse your then dear Friend O. C. his Army and Officers to that which you believe to be utterly unlawful Here is Deceit with a witness What! Did sober Men and true Hearts take part with O. C. and you advised him not to slight such nor discourage them from fighting and yet you say the Kingdom of Christ doth not allow of Fighting and you believe it unlawful to fight as aforesaid Here is Hocos Pocos indeed and such Legerdemain as I am sure your serious Geo. Whitehead as he would be esteemed never found in W. Rogers's Writings yea such Legerdemain as few Conjurers have the face to venture upon Here you have exceeded the whole Four Hundred of Ahab's False Prophets 1 King 22. for they prophesied falsly in saying to the King Go up to Ramoth Gilead and prosper for the LORD will deliver it into thy Hands c. yet all this while they did not believe it utterly unlawful for the Jews to fight In short You either believe it lawful to fight or you do Not If you do Not then did you greatly dissemble with your then dear Friend and noble Champion as you elsewhere call him If you Did then have you played the Hypocrites with your People and that greatly too for many Years in telling them 't is not lawful to fight and yet at the same time believe it lawful and encourage sober Men and true Hearts to fight and that from the Word of the LORD Surely I need go no farther to prove you guilty of as manifest Hypocrisie as the World can produce But for a Salvo you now tell us you gave this Advice Ad Hominem Upon their own Pretensions not that you either believed or thought it lawful to fight But then you should have been plain and sincere with O. C. c. and said We indeed stir you up to fight advise and counsel you to fight If after this their Hearers will go to Gaol before they will pay two Pence towards Drums and Colours or pay the Trained Soldiers their Wages I pity their wilful Blindness and Ignorance and that from the Word of the LORD c. But withal mark well what we have to say we do all this upon your own Pretensions You pretend it lawful to fight and thereupon we thus encourage you for to be plain with you we believe it utterly unlawful for you to fight at all with a Carnal Weapon for the Kingdom of Christ doth not allow of it but utterly forbids Fighting in any Case whatever Oh! Blush and be ashamed ye Hypocrites Yea be confounded for ever ye gross Dissemblers What! Did you give this Advice and this Counsel and that from the Word of the LORD to such a Practice and such a Work as you knew was not lawful So take it which way you will and it carries two Faces For if Fighting in any Case be unlawful as you seem sometimes to believe and to be sure you have made your Disciples so to believe it as that they are not only for the Doctrine of Non-Resistance but also for your Doctrine of Non-Assistance then you ought not to have advised others to Fighting Again If you believe it is lawful to fight then if you would be Constant as you would be thought to be why do not you advise King William to invite all Nations upon Earth that are against Popery to come and join with him against Popery that he may rock Ireland and France as a Cradle But you
of J. Bernard Merchant for disposing of William Rogers his Book entituled The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovator in five Parts c. And for a tuller Discovery of the Teachers and Leaders of the Quakers resembling their elder Brethren the Papists I have also therein shewed that Benjamin Clark their Bookseller might sell Ballads Play-Books Papist-Books Gipsie-Books yea Ba Books and yet not be excommunicated c. And many other things I have therein recited to shew how their Carriage to William Rogers my self and others bear the same Complexion with the Popish Bishops to the then Protestants which is too large here to insert c. And Geo. Whitehead c. Do you think to affright the London Booksellers No no they do not fear your Excommunication they are not terrified at your Censures for they know or may do at least that there are none like you for exposing the Reputation of your honest Neighbours to Shame and Infamy as your Books Judgment fixed c. and S. Cater's Narrative c. do sufficiently demonstrate as well as divers others of your malicious Books and lying Pamphlets insomuch as that some of you have been ashamed to own your own Writings And for full Discovery thereof I refer the Reader to my Book before mentioned c. The VII Instance of their Hypocrtsie IN your Book Judas and the Jews c. you say None need to give us Discerning or Judgment Christ hath furnished us already and doth on All Occasions c. And in Geo. Fox his Book The great Mystery c. pag. 89. you say that The Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all the Fore-fathers and they can discern who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a Word c. Now this is either True or False You are either thus qualified with this infallible Judgment or you are not If True How comes it to pass that you have printed Geo. Smith is a well meaning Man That he hath lived a blameless Conversation from his Youth That ever since he has been convinced which is thirteen or fourteen Years he hath lived uprightly according to his Measure And why have you vindicated Tho. Rudyard and reserred the Readers to your Brother Robert Sandiland's Book I say If you be thus qualified with such Discerning as to know who are Saints and who are Devils and who Apostates without speaking a Word and that at all Times too and on all Occasions I say if it be thus what grand Hypocrites are you to canonise such as these for Saints saying they are well-meaning Men walk uprightly thirteen or fourteen Years together and yet at the same time know upon this your infallible Principle that there is not a Word true in all you write of them But if False and that you are not thus qualified but as fallible and as subject to be mistaken as other Men * Which is manifest or else you would not make Saints of Geo. Smith Rob. Sandiland Tho. Rudyard John Tysoe and say they are well meaning Men have walked uprightly thirteen or fourteen Years together c. unless you be arrant Cheats indeed then what Hypocrites are you thus to pretend to be endued with such an infallible Judgment at all Times and on All Occasions as to know who are Saints and who are Devils c. and not a Word of Truth in all your Pretences O gross Dissemblers yea Impostors and such a Generation of self-conceited Pharisees as no Age before this ever produced However thus much may be learned from hence that you exactly resemble your infallible Sister who will saint any let them be never so notoriously wicked if they do but some notable meritorious Work for Holy Church some notable Project though it be as grand a Cheat as ever was when at the same time such as oppose her and write against her and discover her Errours she will slander abuse yea call them Devils and at last persecute them them to death And 't is only in the last that she exceeds you and of that there can be no Trial since you never yet had Power And GOD grant you never may have Power put into your Hands for you that are thus deceitful thus treacherous thus infamously slanderous as your said two Books Judgment fixed c. and S. Cater's Narrative c. declare you to be Sainting Geo. Smith Tho. Rudyard Rob. Sandiland John Tysoe and the rest of your Tools that act for you and do your Drudgery how wicked soever they be And such as oppose you and cannot submit themselves to your Tyranny them you call Beasts Dogs Wolves Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil yea Devils Incarnate And that your Distiples may believe it and take all you say for Truth you tell them * If their Hearers believe their Pretensions then they are leavened with the Leaven of the Pharisees indeed that you are endued with infallible Judgment and can tell who are Saints and who are Devils without speaking ever a Word O dreadful Hypocrisie The VIII Instance of their Hypocrisie THE next Thing that I shall observe wherein you deceive your People is your Pretence to preach and suffer record Marriages and other publick Offices freely without Money Gifts or Rewards And by reason of this fair Pretence how have you not only deceived the Simple but also taken Occasion thereby to vilifie and so speak Contemptuously of all other publick Preachers First The National for taking Tythes and other Dues as a setled Maintenance by Law established which is not so burthensome as you are to many of your Hearers And Fext The Presbyterians and Independents * See G. F's Epistle to your Book entituled The Divinity of Christ c. whom you bespatter about their Bason and Platter wherein perhaps their Hearers put their free Contribution for their Ministers as a necessary Subsistence for them according to their Ability and their Ministers Necessity And all this while value your selves upon your free Preaching free Suffering free Writing and free Recording when at the same time you know 't is common for all these Church-Officers amongst you to take Money * Which I have long since offered to prove to your Faces Some Ten Pounds at a time some Three Pounds at a time some Fifty Pounds per Annum †As set forth in the Painted Harlot p. 47. printed 1682. and reprinted in the Quakers detected c. p. 23. printed 1686. some Thirty Pounds for writing five or six Sheets to teach Children in the Ways of GOD as you pretend and Twelve Pence for writing of Marriage-Certificates being ten or twelve Lines c. And Geo. Fox himself who before he was a Preacher was but a poor Journey-man Shoe-maker with George Gee of Manchester had no less than Twelve or Thirteen Hundred Pounds as William Rogers relates in his Christian Quaker distinguished c. Part V. pag. 48 49. and by Geo. Fox never
you to speak a little Truth which is scarce enough with you c. That what was lacking to him privately (d) No the Apostle did not pretend to be against necessary Supplies so he needed not be ashamed and so take the Believers Benevolence privately For 't is you who pretend to take no Money for Preaching that take it privately yea even so privately that the very Donors do not know that you take Money for Preaching Thus Jesuite-like have you blinded your People c. The Macedonian Brethren did supply Thus it appears th' Apostle did partake Of that Provision which the Church did make p. 19. Christ's Ministers to furnish and their Need Supply when they want Moneys to proceed (e) Then it seems you confess you supply them with Money to proceed but it is to whom and when G. F. G. W. c. think it fit and expedient Pretend thou canst not that the Stock is given To such as have no need (f) No! What need was there to send S. Cater Ten Pounds when he was fined Twenty Pounds for preaching at Phakenham in Norfolk since he neither paid the Fine nor his Goods sold nor did not lose Ten Shillings by the said Meeting Nay if he had suffered the loss of that Fine which he did not yet he being a Man worth some Hundreds of Pounds he would not have had any need of that Ten Pounds you sent him part of it perhaps given by Men not worth Twenty Shillings But he was a currant Man for your purpose and one that would preach up G. F's Orders and exclaim against the publick Ministry c. And hereupon you thought he deserved a piece of Money and so sent him Ten Pounds which Gift was designed to be given him privately as you would seem to suggest the Apostles received the Supply they had from the Churches privately which is false for Paul was so far from that that he said plainly that he robbed viz. took of other Churches c. But as private as this Ten Pound was given it came to be known and that is the thing which disturbed the poor Man the discovery of it hath vexed him and his Brethren more than ever it did him good for he always pretended to be against Taking Money for Preaching when alas I have offered to prove that and several other Summs thereof but even Thy Flurt 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 pay'd for it And that by them who him to work desire The Labourer is worthy of his Hire (g) So now you begin to say the Labourer is worthy of his Hire Sure you will forbear to call others Hirelings now you have Hirelings amongst your selves for as you have pretended to preach teach and suffer freely so you have pretended to write as Clerk freely See my Book Innocency vindicated and Envy rebuked c. pag. 3. where I have quoted Geo. Fox's Order for Marriage and other things where he thus speaks AND THAT NOTHING BE RECORDED FOR MONEY IN THESE THINGS BUT FREELY A FREE PEOPLE AND IN LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER c. And for my part I was Clerk to the Isle of Ely Monthly and Quarterly Meetings about sixteen or eighten Years and to the nearest of them I rid fourteen Miles and to the farthest eighteen Miles Monthly and I never took a Penny of Money and indeed thought you had meant as you spake but now all is come out and 't is time for your Hearers to look about them since their Money is given to such as Sam Cater who is a rich Man and a great Trader All which manifests your deep Hypocrisie p. 21. The IX Instance of their hypocrisie THE next Proof of your Hypocrisie that I shall mention is First Your decrying all Learning and next Your assuming to your selves such Learning as you never had nor do at all understand The first Instance of these is that remarkable Book viz. George Fox's Printed 1659. Entituled A Primer for the Doctors and Scholars of Europe c. Behold how contemptuously there he speaks both of Learning and the Learned wherein is contained 2434 Queries proposed to the Doctors and Scholars of Europe but more particularly to the two English Universities which are such idle impertinent and unnecessary Queries that his Design could be nothing else but to bring both Learning and the Learned into Contempt and to magnifie his own Parts and Abilities as that Geo. Fox who but a little before sate upon is Shoemakers Seat working Journey-work at Manchester for his Master Geo. Gee who could hardly write his Name or read a Chapter without spelling and that he of a sudden should be such a profound Scholar as to propose 2434 Queries to all the Doctors and Scholars of Europe and chalenge them out into the Field bids them come out of their Holes and Dens bids them draw their Weapons for the little Davids were risen who had the Baâ—s the Slings and the Stones c. I say for him thus to chalenge all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe at this rate must needs design to render himself a Man of wonderful Parts to the Ignorant and such as believed him to be led and guided by an infallible Spirit as that he could discern who are Saints and who are Devils and that without speaking ever a * As he said in his Book Entituled The Great Mystery pag 89. word But had he proposed this multitude of Queries to all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe Africa and America I suppose they could not have answered them which put me in mind of an old Proverb That one Fool may ask more Questions than an hundred Wise and Learned Men can answer And if Geo. Fox c. will not now come out and make good his own Queries and shew his Learning and meet me and others at a convenient place to clear himself of these and many other things I have against him it will appear that he is guilty and that he hath not the power he pretends to and that he dares not come into the Field and draw his Weapon if he have any And what a shame is this for such an able Doctor yea such a profound Scholar as once he thought himself able to deal with all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe and that after all this Brag and monstrous Boast dare not now come forth dare not now shew his Head but hip and skip up and down hide himself in Holes Dens and Lurking Places surely this will greatly redound to his Dis-repute and Infamy in the eyes of all sorts of intelligent Persons and will tend to his great Abasement Shame and Confusion of Face For if he will come forth of his Den and meet me I offer to make it appear That of the 2434 Queries he has propos'd in the said Primer to all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe
the place aforesaid that he is ignorant of the principal things contained in the said Books then whether it will not appear as great a Juggle Trick and Sham to raise his Name and Fame as ever was used by Mahomet or amongst the Papists about their feigned Miracles Query 19. Since they have told us by their Book Judas and the Jews pag. 41. viz. Our faithful Chronicles of the bloody Tragedies of that professing Generation will tell future Ages other things c. What is the reason they do not bring out this their holy Chronicle they so much boast of Or do they intend to follow the Steps of the Papists and bring it forth when every Man is dead that remember those Transactions and that then it may pass for an holy Cheat or like one of their feigned Miracles c. Query 20. Whether do you believe the Teachers and Preachers amongst you be so qualified as they pretend in their Book Judas and the Jews pag. 58. viz. We need none to give us Discerning or Judgment Christ hath furnished us already and doth on all Occasions And as Geo. Fox pretends in his Book styled The Mystery of the great Whore c. pag. 89. where he says They can discern who are Saints who are Deuils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a Word c. I say if you think them so qualified then bid them shew in which of them three States are Geo. Smith Tho. Rudyard Rob. Sandiland and John Tysoe since none need to give them Discerning or Judgment for that they at all Times and on all Occasions are so plentifully endued as to know who are Devils who are Saints and who are Apostates c. And if they fail in their Judgment and chance to call an Apostate a Saint I hope you will then begin to see they are got a good Stride to Rome by their feigned Miracles and pretended Infallibility Query 21. Geo. Fox says in his Book The great Mystery c. The Work of the Ministers of the Gospel was not to reflect upon Persons And this Reflecting upon Persons was never the way to beget to GOD is a Mark of a False Prophet c. Now if this be true what do you think of George Whitehead who in his Letter to me printed in his Judgment fixed c. calls me ten or twelve times Informer when the Name was so odious at that time that in some parts of the Kingdom he that was known to be an Informer could hardly pass without danger of his Life and yet this meek serious and sincere Geo. Whitehead as sometimes he pretends to be had the Impudence thus to call me and expose me in print through the Nation besides abundance of other bad Names as Wolf Dog Beast Child of the Devil Enemy of all Righteousness and the like I say besides these and many more yet Informer was the frequent Epithet he gave me in almost every Page on purpose to inculcate and leaven the People and yet at the same time knew that I was no such manner of Person but had suffered more by Informers * For besides more than three Years Imprisonment for Meetings Isuffered the loss or three Ten Pound Fines for the Non-ability of Geo. Thorowgood at Ely in the Isle of Ely for which they took near Fifty Pounds worth of Goods And a Ten Pound Fine for the Nonability of Ja. Webb And a Fine of Twâ—â—ty Pounds for William Benet having a Meeting at my House besides six or eight small Ten Shilling Fines For all which I made no Complaint But indeed when a Fifteen Pound Fine came on me for Sam. Cater through his not telling his Name and Habitation I was not willing to pay that and I am glad I was not so tame as to be Priest-ridden by S. Cater And for this matter I refer the Reader to my Book entituled The painted Harlot both stripp'd and whipp'd pag. 39. nay the whole Book c. than any one if not all that had wrote against me had done I say if Geo. Fox his Judgment in the place aforesaid be of Credit then I can prove G. W. as false a Propet as Muggleton ever was and I am satisfied a Man full of Malice and Revenge or else he could never have writ so wrongfully of me and others as he hath done Query 22. Whether in your Opinion a Man may not go to the publick Worship established by Law and yet be a Christian and in the state of Salvation I ask you this Question who I hope do not think Salvation entail'd only to you under the Denomination of Quakers as your Leaders have declared Query 23. Whether the treacherous Practice of Geo. Whitehead Sam. Cater c. did not resemble the Practice of Thomas Becket that Popish Prelate in King Henry the Second's Time upon that Popish Principle of not keeping Faith with Hereticks compared with their Practice in not keeping that Covenant and Agreement they both made and recorded in their Quarterly Book at Hadenham in the Isle of Ely the 1st of December 1680. as at large is recited in my Book Painted Harlot c. pag. 51 to 64. And then tell me Query 24. Whether you do not believe that they in the Breach of that their Covenant did not run parallel with the said T. Becket and thereby declare to all the World that even so early they did espouse that grand treacherous Popish Principle of not keeping Faith with such as they account Hereticks Novemb. 25. 1690. Fra. Bugg Put your selves in Array against BABILON round about All ye that bend the Bow shoot at her spare no Arrows The LORD hath opened His ARMORY and hath brought forth the Weapons of his Indignation for this is the Work of the LORD GOD of Hosts A POSTSCRIPT TO New Rome 1. ROME'S SISTER thou art rightly styl'd And with her may compare The Innocent thou hast beguil'd Under Pretences fair 2. Hypocrisie in thee is found Thy Leaven is not good Thy deep Deceit thy Wit profound In which thy Confidence stood 3. Is now come forth to open View That all may plainly see Thy Art thy Craft and well perceive Thy deep Hypocrisie 4. How proud like to the Pharisee Thy Countenance appear And how like to the Romish See Thou dost thy Fabrick rear 5. Thy Errours which but few did see Are now become thy Crime And loaded therewith thou shalt be And that from Time to Time 6. A Crime from which thou can'st not With all thy Subtilty Clear thy self 't is such a Blot That on thy Face doth lie 7. As ROME thy SISTER never had At thy Age charged on her Nor any Crimes half so bad At twice thy Age upon her 8. Though she at length as Age grew on Through her vile Imposition Abhorr'd became and grew a Scorn To ev'ry Christian Nation 9. And dost thou think for to escape With thy UNWRIT TRADITIONS The Stroaks which Protestants do make Against thy Superstitions 10. Against thy Errours and
Geo. Fox's Queries to the Doctors and Scholars of Europe by which thou maist see how learnedly George Fox Catechizes them I shall now only add a few of them as they lie scattered up and down the said Primer c. and so leave him in his Thicket of Brambles or confused Nonsense What is a Major What is a Minor What is Extraction What is Geometry What is a Point What is an Angle What is a Plain Angle What is an Obtuse Angle What is an Acute Angle What is Wolf-Madness What is Dog Madness What is Badger-Madness c. Having given this additional Hint of these mad distracted or distracting Queries I shall only add a few of his Manly Expressions in his Chalenge to to the Doctors to come out of their Holes and Dens to the end That he and the rest may come forth and draw their Weapons and shew their Cunning when they see how they are chalenged as they chalenged others c. See these Pages in the said Primer pag. 4 19 21 30 36 41 55. Where are these Words viz. These Queries are to call them out into the Field Let them come out now to little Children Little Davids are risen who have the Bags and the Sings and the Srones Ye that profess your selves to be Wise and Learned Men and Scholars and are Novices and Fools answer me Draw out your Weapon if you have any and answer me these things come out of your Holes do not Hip nor Skip from them Answer every word in particular for you have Tongue enough sometimes let us see now if it can wagg These are your Words to the Scholars c. Now if when you are call'd into the Field your selves and to come out of your Dens we shall see whether you can draw your Weapon whether you have the Bags the Sling and Stones you like Goliah boast of and whether he and you can so wagg your Tongue as to clear you from this Ninth Instance of Hypocrisie with which he and you stand charged The X. Instance of their Hypocrisie THis I know for a certain Truth that when they write the most notorious Lies and scandalous Defamations against such as they account their Adversaries and like the false Prophets of old cry Peace to the wicked and justifie the ungodly who put into their Mouths yet this they have the impudence to father upon the Spirit of the holy and just GOD Witness Geo. Whitehead's Book Stil'd Judgment fix'd c. And S. Cater's Narrative c. And therefore that I may not be like you in saying and not prove what I say to be true I do hereby chalenge George Fox Geo. Whitehead William Pen and Sam. Cater to meet me any day next March giving me a Month's Notice at any Publick House in Bishop-Stortford being about the half-way from my Habitation where I offer to prove the Truth of what you deny according to the Terms proposed in the foresaid Letter to the Quakers c. Now therefore if your Cause be good you Notable Champions come forth you that have chalenged all the Doctors Scholars and Professors in Europe come out of your Holes and Dens and Lurking-Places and meet me If you have the Bags and the Slings and the Stones you boast of come forth of your Holes and Dens and Lurking-Places yea come into the Field and draw your Weapons if you have any worth the drawing you know you have Tongue enough sometimes come let us see if it can wagg and whether you be able with all your Stones and Bags and Slings and Weapons you so much boast of to clear your selves from the guilt of Hypocrisie For The Day is come O Babylon that thou must be tried and thy Mask must be taken off thou Painted-Harlot Thou â—hast long deceived the Nations by thy fine out-side Deckings and Pharisaical Attire but thy Fruit makes thee manifest and by that we know thee to be the Harlot and not the Spouse of Christ nor true Bride Men do not gather Figs of Thorns nor Grapes of Thistles Mildenhall Novemb. 5th 1690. Francis Bugg Here follow Twenty four Queries propounded to your Protestant Hearers who have begun to throw off the Yoak which Geo. Fox G. W. c. have for many Years laden you with And first a few Words to you by way of Exhortation FRIENDS IT was Christ's frequent Counsel to his Disciples to beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees which said he is Hypocrisie I know no one thing that He took more care to preserve his Disciples from than that of Hypocrisie with which the Pharisees were very apt to leaven their Proselytes No doubt but much of their Doctrine was sound or else Christ would not have said They sate in Moses 's Seat Therefore whatsoever said he they bid you do that observe and do But mark do not after their Works for they say and do not That is to say they spake some sound Truths they carried it fair to their Proselytes they were very precise in washing the Cup and Platter in an Outside Righteousness to be seen of Men but inwardly they were rotten inwardly they were proud and disdained others who in GOD's Esteem stood justified rather than they And how far your Teachers are guilty of deep Hypocrisie I have in part discovered and doubt not but to make it yet more evident if they will meet me which if they refuse being four such Champions as they doubtless account themselves then I will appeal to you whether it be not a Token of their Guilt I mean such of you as still retain the Protestant Principles and are not of G. Fox his Party Query 1. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox to stir up counsel and encourage Oliver Cromwell his Officers and Army to fight with carnal Weapons when at the same time he did believe it utterly unlawful for a Christian Man so to do Answer Query 2. Whether it was not great Hypocrisie in Geo. Fox and others to vilifie bespatter and expose the Presbyterians Independents c. as being of fighting Principles and dangerous to the Government in K. C. II's time thereby rendring them obnoxious to Sufferings whenas they themselves by their Advice Counsel and Encouragement to Oliver Cromwel c. and that from the Word of the LORD were equally concerned in the same Cause and Quarrel Query 3. Do you believe that Arch-bishop Cranmer compelled Edward VI. to sign a Warrant to Burn poor Joan of Kent for Were Religion-sake and that by this their Practice they Taught the Roman Catholicks the way of Persecution Answer Query 4. If not Then Whether or no such of your Leaders as have so writ have not given away the Cause of Protestantism what in them lie and abetted vindicated and asserted the Popish Cause charging the Protestants with the original guilt of Persecution Answer Query 5. Whether Geo. Whitehead's calling the Doctrine of Doctor Robert Barns who suffered Martyrdom for the Cause of Christ Corrupt Doctrine tending to