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A30023 A brief reply to George Whitehead's book stiled, A rambling pilgrim in answer to a book intituled The pilgrim's progress from Quakerism to Christianity : shewing the danger of the Quakers government within the government and opposite to it ... contrary to the laws of the land and particularly to the Act of Toleration / by Francis Bugg. Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724? 1700 (1700) Wing B5368; ESTC R24749 6,839 17

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A BRIEF REPLY TO George Whitehead's Book Stiled A Rambling Pilgrim In Answer to a Book Intitled The Pilgrim's Progress FROM Quakerism to Christianity SHEWING The Danger of the Quakers Government within the Government and opposite to it as contriv'd and carried on in their Monthly Quarterly Six-week Second-day and Yearly Meeting or Convocation contrary to the Laws of the Land and particularly to the Act of Toleration By FRANCIS BUGG Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might for there is no Work nor Device nor Knowledge nor Wisdom in the Grave whither thou goest London Printed by R. Janeway Jun. and Sold by J. Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Churchyard and C. Brome at the Gun in Ludgate-street 1700. TO THE Right Honourable AND HONOURABLE THE Lords Spiritual and Temporal AND Commons in Parliament ASSEMBLED May it please Your Honours I Humbly make Bold to lay before Your Honours the Occasion of Presenting these Papers It is not unknown how Sollicitous the Quakers have been from time to time under every Revolution and Change of Government from 1652. to this present Day but of late they have advanced to a degree higher not only to Present their Books and Papers in Session-time but in the Intervals of Parliament they have been so Bold as to send them to the very Houses of Members of Parliament upon which I thought it highly necessary to make some Observations on their Way and Method of writing as in my Modest Defence c. Presented this Session to Your Honours and with all dutiful Submission leaving the Matter to Your Mature Deliberation and Consideration But having understood since that that the Quakers have privately Presented divers Books under the Sham Titles of Answers not only to that but to other Books I still thought it my Duty to write some farther Observations thereupon which being read and compared with theirs together with my Book The Pilgrim's Progress c. Second Edition now Published and to which the several and often repeated Pages herein mentioned do relate these Papers being part of the Preface thereto belonging it will make some farther Discovery of their Mock Answers both to the said Pilgrim's Progress c. and Modest Defence c. and being loth to have the Porch exceed the House I Humbly beg leave to submit what I have said herein to the Consideration of Your Great Wisdom and conclude with all dutiful Submission Right Honourable and Honourable Your Honours Most Obedient Servant FRANCIS BUGG George Whitehead's Fallacy Reproved In his ANSWER to My Pilgrim's Progress c. GEORGE I Have seen thy Book A Rambling Pilgrim c. said to be an Answer to two Books of mine i. e. The Pilgrim's Progress c. A Modest Defence c. which is so far from being an Answer that it doth not touch at the Tenth part of the Books and that little you spoke to have to them who will compare the Books rather confirms what I charge you withal than otherwise But that I may shew for your Peoples sake how you wilfully mistake me and the state of the Charge and then mislead your People c. I find the first part of your Book is chiefly to insinuate that I said the Sermon was Geo. Whitehead's of his Forming of his Preaching and that in so many Words and thereupon you call it Forgery Now George this is all Fallacy For thou knowest George in thy Conscience that I never intended to have it believed that you at your Yearly Meeting Preached that very Sermon in so many Words but that I did it to expose your Errors contain'd in your Books out of which that Sermon was by me form'd and in p. 108. and p. 222. of the Second Edition it is expresly said A Sermon for George Whitehead to hold Forth c And the Chapter before gives several Reasons why I proceeded in that unusual method So that your way to have done your Cause good and your People good had been to have confuted me first Touching your Doctrine which I alledged out of your Books Secondly That your Practice is otherwise than by me represented This had been your way to have confuted my Arguments and to have established your People But for you thus to act against Light and Knowledge is such a self-condemn'd Practice that as for your own sake as well as your People whom you mislead I could he glad to see you leave it now in your Old Age. Take one instance A Rambling Pilgrim c. p. 5. Francis Bugg makes Geor. Whitehead thus speak Friends I am now come to the last thing propos'd to speak to on this Solemn Occasion first Respecting Confession of Sin shewing your Exaltation above the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles c. as at large in p. 221. of this Book so that I need not repeat it Now what Answer George dost thou make to this Dost thou say 't is your Friends Practice to make Confession of Sin to God in your Prayers Not a word of it Dost thou prove in any one page of those 5555555 I there mention that you ever recommended the practice of making Confession of Sin to God and begging his Pardon for Christ's sake Not a word of it Dost thou prove but of any of those Books wrote by thy self Fox Burroughs c. that ever you recommended the Practice of the Ten Commandments the Lord's Prayer the Apostles Creed either to be read in your Families or in your Religious Meettings practiced or the reading the Scripture in your Meetings Not a word of It. No here is no denial or Matter of Fact but of your Books nor the natural Consequences deduceable therefrom or your practice agreeable to the same And that it may appear so take your Answer in your own words viz. Thus Fran. Bugg represents me Preaching such stuff as I never preaeched in my Life nor ever own'd any such flattery or deceit as to exalt any Auditory above the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles c. or to disswade any from making Confession of Sin or asking Pardon for Christ's sake who have need of both or who have not received forgiveness of their Sin First It 's not what you did not disswade from that we are examining but what you perswade to We want not Negatives but Affirmatives here you leave your Reader in the Dark Can you prove that in all those Books and Pages recited that you ever made Confession of Sin that you ever asked Pardon for Christ's sake that you in your Religious Meetings or in your Families practiced the Lord's Prayer the Ten Commandments the Apostles Creed that you ever read the Holy Scriptures in your Meetings or further that you ever in all or any one of your Books recommended the practice thereof If not the Charge lyes still against you and your Negative Answers rather confirm what is said than otherwise As to your Certificate p. 28. about your Cottage you that can forge Certificates and set Mens Names to it without