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A30036	Quakerism anatomiz'd, by a charge against the Quakers, with a challenge to Richard Ashby, one of their teachers, to come forth in their vindication	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1694 (1694)	Wing B5384; ESTC R9143	9,544	12

ashamed to own the Words and Expressions of the other yet as G. W. and that too truly they mean all the same thing they mean what the Perfect Quaker says viz. The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker Smith's Primer in Octavo P. 8. How may I know when Christ is truly Preached Smith's Works in Folio Leaf 4th Why they that are false preach Christ without Only and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above in opposition to his being within But they th●● are true Ministers they preach Christ within and direct People to wait to seel him in themselves and so to believe in him as he makes himself manifest in them Answ They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above But they that are Christ's Ministers preach Christ within   OBSERVATION Behold you the Inhabitants of Wymondham here is one Book Printed and Re-printed the first for W. Smith when living in Oclavo to teach their Children and instruct them in the Principles ●f perfect Quakerism And by this Doctrine all such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above at the Right Hand of God according to the Christian Creed are False Ministers and as such they have censured them to be Witches Devils Conjurers Thieves Antichrists Gormandizing Priests the very Bane of Soul and Body of the Universe The other Impression when W. Smith was dead in Folio to go abroad in the Nations to deceive And here W. Smith's surviving Brethren the Counterfeit Quakers as G. W. says saw cause otherwise to word the matter and yet their Intentions the same See his Count. Conv. p. 72. And moreover lest my present Antagonist Rich. Ashby says that I write false and that there is no such two-fac'd doings nor such Jesuitical Juggles amongst them I will point him to G. W.'s Sheet styl'd The Quakers Vindication p. 1. Col. 2. where he confesses in these words viz. We confess there is one Edition in Octavo reads it as Fr. Bugg quotes it but the other Edition in Folio the Paragraph runs thus viz. as above recited under the Counterfeit Quaker And so much for that Juggle The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker A Quest to Proff p. 33. Now the Scriptures do as 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 Veil which veiled it there was 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 The Quak. Vind. p. 4. We sincerely believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth who was born of the Virgin Mary is the true Messiah the very Christ the Son of the Living God OBSERVATION Reader here you see plainly that Penington writing in the Name of the Quakers calls the blessed Jesus a Veil a Garment a Vessel which they can never call Christ yet you see he was not infallible for Whitehead doth now see cause otherwise to word the matter as under the Counterfeit Quaker where he and divers others confess plain enough that they sincerely believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth who was born of the Virgin is the very Christ of God yea this Body this Garment this Vessel which was born of the Virgin This they confess too But how Because G. W. sees cause to word the matter so judging it high time or down goes Quakerism Not but that he means as Penington and the Perfect Quaker means For if he did not at the same time they make this new Confession they would condemn and censure the Perfect Quakers Heretical Doctrine which says they can never call him Christ but a Garment c. as if the Prophets foretold that a Virgin should conceive and bring forth a Garment c. And for more of this see my Book New Rome ununmask'd c. New Rome Arraing'd c. Quakerism Withering c. where I have at large unriddled their unc●●ch'd Doctrine and Erroneous Principles The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker News coming up c. p. 4. Their Original is carnal and their Communion is carnal a little Bread and Wine so Dust is the Serpents meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death so the Serpent feeds upon Dust and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Qua Vind. p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God David's Enemies c. by G. W. and his Brother Atkinson p. 7. The Ministry meaning the Minister is in the Letter which killeth The Count. Conv. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World OBSERVATION For more of this see my Sheet to the Parliament and my former Books yet you see that George Whitehead sees cause so to word the matter as that now the Counterfeit Quaker confesses that the Scripture is of Divine Authority and given by Divine Inspiration and value it beyond all the Books extant in the World Not but that he and the Perfect Quaker mean and intend all one thing viz. That the Scriptures are Death Dust Serpent's Meat and that such as preach out of them are Conjurers that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the Author of the first Five Books of Moses or whether either or neither as in my former Books I have at large shewed And until the C●unterfeit Quaker do condemn the contemptuous Sayings of the Perfect Quaker there is no ground to believe him sincere in these new-moulded Confesions which G. Whitehead and his Abetters make to serve a turn who now see cause thus to word their matter whilst he tells you they intend the same viz. They still mean that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust Death and Serpent's Meat that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them and dangerous to read them Read their Books Truth 's Defence c. Saul's Errand c. David's Enemies disc●v c. Several Petitions Answered c. A Three-fold Estate of Antichrist c. I say read these their Books and their Count. Conv. p. 72. where G Whitehead says He may see cause otherwise to word the matter and yet intend the same thing And then judge Oh ye the Inhabitants of Wymondham and all Christendom whether we have any ground to believe there is any Sincerity in these new-moulded Confessions until they censure and condemn their old Heretical Books and Pamphlets which they say are given forth from the Eternal Spirit of GOD and boldly affirm we may as well burn the Bible as their Writings Papers and Queries See Truth 's Defence p. 2. 102. The Perfect Quaker The Counterfeit Quaker News coming up c p. 18.20 Dreadful and powerful is

Quakerism Anatomiz'd by a Charge against the Quakers with a Challenge to Richard Ashby one of their Teachers to come forth in their VINDICATION The wicked flee when no man pursueth but the Righteous are as bold as a Lion AS I was going to Norwich April 1694. staying a little at Wymondham I met with a Paper writ by R. Ashby wherein he reflects on my Book Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. saying what I write is false And seems greatly concerned That People should like my Book and glad to see the Quakers Errours discovered And thereupon I wrote him a Letter Dated April the 30th 1694. to meet me the Wednesday following to agree upon Terms to have a Meeting to Dispute the Points in Controversie But he not Answering the same I sent him another Letter Dated May the 3d 1694. a Copy whereof is as followeth viz. To R. Ashby of Thuxton These FRiend I have met with your late cautionary Epistle and Warning wherein you thus write viz. To the Inhabitants of Wymondham that have met with Francis Bugg's Book Entituled Quakerism Withering c. And I am informed that some of you the Inhabitants of Wymondham are much pleased and elevated c. Now this may certifie you that all this stir that F. B. makes is but a meer Boast For I was at London at the same time when F. B. should according to his word have met G. W. at Ben. Antrobus his House but did not And let this be a Warning and Caution to you for time to come that you lay not hands suddenly c. I say having seen this your Epistle and Warning suggesting that I should have met G. W. at B. A.'s House according to my Word and did not though he and others waited long for me c. which is false for I never gave G. W. my Word or Promise to meet him there or any where else to Dispute the Points in Controversie unless that he would first engage under his Hand to retract what I proved him guilty of and the Quakers Erroneous in See Quakerism Withering c. P. 2 5 6 7 8. and according to the Terms proposed therein I still ingage to meet him or any Quaker in England And were he not conscious to himself that both himself in particular and the Quakers in general of Fox's Party were guilty of what I charge them with no doubt but he would subscribe such an Instrument since 't is consonant to their own printed Proposition in the Epistle to Edw. Burrough's Works that Son of Thunder true Prophet and faithful Servant of God as G. W. and others have styled him in Print But since you have undertaken to Defend the Quakers and seem troubled that their Errours are laid open and that the People are pleased with my Books which have been instrumental therein And not only so but slily insinuate That what I write is false I do thereupon renew my Charge against the Principles and Doctrine of the Quakers and do Challenge you R. Ashby to meet me at the Publick School-house in Wymondham on Monday the 4th of June 1694 at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon where I promise if God permit to meet you and before the People offer to prove the following Charge out of your Approved Books against all your Allegations to the contrary And if after the said Dispute you shall exhibit a Charge against me in Writing under your Hand giving me the like time to prepare for my Defence I do promise if God permit to meet you at the same place that so the Inhabitants of Wymondham may be more and more convinced of the grand Errors of the Quakers whose Doctrine and Principles tend to undermine and overthrow the Christian Religion The said Charge which I offer to prove is as followeth viz. I. That the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth who was born of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be Christ and the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation II. That their Books are Blasphemous and their Practices Idolatrous III. That they deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptuously of them calling them Dust Death and Serpent's meat c. IV. That they despise the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper V. That they undervalue the Death and Sufferings of Christ VI. That they exalt their own Sufferings above the Sufferings of Christ and their own Pamphlets above the Prophets and Apostles as in Quakerism Withering c. P. 3 4. Writ and Subscribed per me Francis Bugg Now least R. Ashby should decline to meet me but like his Brother Whitehead evade and shuffle as I do hereby give publick notice of my Challenge so I think it necessary to acquaint the World with their fallacious way of Writing insomuch that 't is hard to know a Quaker by what he writes For their Books are of two sorts of two Stamps and carry two Faces and both contrary to each other and yet the Quakers mean all one thing viz. One sort of Books and Epistles to their own Disciples to confirm them in Quakerism wrote by the Perfect Quaker The other sort of Books to the World's People as they cant it with some seeming Truths in them nay were they but sincere might pass wrote by the Counterfeit Quaker whose chief Art is to decoy and proselyte the World but still he means the same asserted by the Perfect Quaker As for instance When Is Penington denies Christ and calls him that was born of the Virgin A Veil a Garment a Vessel affirming they can never call him Christ yet G. Whitehead the Counterfeit Quaker in his Book styl'd The Counterfeit Convert c. P. 72. vindicates him saying And though I have evinced Is Penington's meaning on his Words reflected on about the Body or Flesh of Christ it follows not that I make his Expressions mine seeing I note them as his for says G. Whitehead I may see cause otherwise to word the matter and yet our Intentions be the same c. Thus you see he is ashamed to own Is P.'s Words as his yet hath shewed you his meaning if you will believe him And he justifies his not owning his Words for that he had noted them to be his nay tells you he may see cause otherwise to word the matter and yet their Intentions the same Who then I marvel can know a Quaker if they can thus equivocate Is not this Jesuitism with a witness Or Arius risen again under a new Form and Figure to deceive the World with a two-fold meaning And yet behold G. W.'s Partiality who in their Vindication charge me with John Ansloe's Query to Sam. Cater as mine though sufficiently noted by me to be his and not mine which I have refuted beyond his glossing in Quakerism Withering P. 65. Well but let us have a few Examples of these two fac'd Quakers the Perfect Quaker and the Counterfeit Quaker who however they differ in wording their matter and expressing themselves yea insomuch as that the one is