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A30029	A modest defence of my book entituled, Quakerism expos'd as also of my broad sheet : with a scheme of the Quakers yearly synod, and other books presented anno 1699 to the Parliament : and G. Whitehead's inside turn'd outward, by reprinting his ancient book Ishmael, &c. intirely, shewing thereby the Quakers ancient testimony of contempt of the Holy Scriptures and blasphemy against the blessed Trinity ... / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Atkinson, Christopher. Ishmael and his mother cast out into the wilderness.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5375; ESTC R19514	73,450	146

and now calls it reason which from reason was never spoken but holy men of God spoke them forth as they were moved by the holy Ghost now the Apostle which was as Minister of Christ never took wages of of the world neither did he compel them though to them he preached the Gospel and though he robbed other Churches yet he robbed not the world neither took he wages of the world nor hired with them for a certain time as thou and thy generation do and this was his boasting to cut off offences 2 Cor. 13.9 10 12. but with the light of God in the offences we find you who take wages of the world contrary to the Apostles whose practises judges you to be without their life whose entrance unto the Thessalonians he plainly doth declare that it was neither for pleasing men neither of deceit nor guile nor a cloak of covetousness neither was their Gospel burthensom as thou may read 1 Thess 2 3 4 5 6. contrary to which thou and thy generation art found in the steps of them Mark the Perversion Offences for occasion these are the Infallible Reformers the Prophets Christ and his Apostles cryed against as thou may read Isa 56. and Ier. 5. and Mic. 3. and Mat. 23. and 2 Pet. 2. and Iude 11. And this is the Gospel the Apostles preached which is witnessed by the same Spirit which to thee is hid and all thy generations who out of their steps are found walking in the steps of the false Priest Again thou sayest the Apostle intimates that God is mocked when his Ministers are not maintained and thou sayest that God will not be robbed Answ Here is another of thy lyes who perverts the Apostles words and art found adding thy lyes to Scripture when there is not such a word in all the Apostles words as intimate but thou and thy generation are seen to be both thieves and robbers who enters not in at the door but climbs up another way in your inventions consequences and imaginations which are here plainly seen and discovered to them that enter in at the door and for dishonest gain you destroy Souls Ezek. 22.25 26 27. P. 6. 4 to and as a Troop of Robbers wait for a man so do the company of Priests murther by consent Hosea 6.9 and are found Robbers of God as the false Prophets were who in the time of the Law took tythes and did not bring them to the store-house as thy generation now do as thou may read Mal. 3.8 9 10. Priest And thou says thy design according to promise is to prove the Scriptures to be the word of God the only ground of faith and rule for our obedience which thou sayest thou presented us with and bids us read it examine it if it be not truth witness against it by truth if it be so as undoubtedly you will find it truth as thou sayest and so bids us submit to it be ruled by it and undoubtedly our bodies shall be freed from our deserved Imprisonment Answ We have read it and examined it and thee both and have found thee to be a lyar and a denyer of the Word and of the rule and of the foundation which is Christ and with that which thou calls a rule and word and foundation art thou judged and with the light thou art seen to be a wrester of the Scriptures and thy Rotten foundation being already to fail thee The Holy Scriptures they say are a rotten foundation this is their Ancient Testimony from which they have not varied for it is among the blind Watchmen and greedy dumb Doggs and hirelings and among the thieves and robbers and among the Doggs and swine and filthy dreamers which the Scriptures speaks of and as for our deserved imprisonment here thou lyar do we challenge thee and them that imprisoned us to prove the breach of any law by us for they that did imprison us as many can witness could not charge us with the breach of any Law but by their wills to maintain such dumb shepherds as thou art for for the truths sake which witnesses against thee and all thy generation do we suffer for which thou and thy generation did never suffer imprisonment nor persecution of the world for ye are the world and the world speaks well of you and hears you as it did of your Fathers the false Prophets 1 John 4 5 and Luke 6.26 drunkards swearers lyars and thieves speaks well of you and fights for you and loves you and pleads for you and there is your fruits and freedom from our imprisonment will we never speak for in yielding to thy lyes and false accusations as is plainly here laid open Priest And thou sayest from thy study Ianuary 29. Answ Here thy filthy rotten stuff which thou hast been such a long time of gathering together in thy study it s tryed and seen to be fewel for the fire and thou art seen to study divinations of thy own brain and to be an inventer of lyes contrary to Scripture and where did ever any of the Saints go into a study and rake up such filthy stuff and invent such lyes as thou art disapproved in and with that which thou calls thy word thy foundation and only rule of obedience Here let the life of all the holy men of God judge thee to be both shut out of their life and out of the Scriptures Having returned answer to the former part of thy rotten stuff P. 7. 4 to Sampson Townsend wherein thy lies and deceit is uncovered to all them that have eyes to see may see thy nakedness and thy shame laid open now for the simple ones sake which thou by thy lyes and divinations makes a prey upon and through thy covetousness makes Merchandise of who pharisee-like would neither enter into the Kingdom thy self nor suffer others to enter in now for their sakes are we moved to unvail thee and thy deceit that they that see not might see thee in thy lyes and wresting the Scripture as thou hast also made it appear in the latter part of thy book wherein thou sayest Priest That thou hast undertaken against the Quakers these two Propositions i. that the Scriptures contained in the Old or new-New-Testament commonly called the Bible is the revealed will and word of God 2. That the Scripture which is the word of God is the only foundation of our Faith and only rule for our obedience which thou sayest thou wilt prove 1. by Scripture 2. by Reason and thou sayest that he that will not hear the voice of the Scriptures is an Infidel and he that will not hear the voice of reason is a beast Ans We who in scorn by thee and thy generations are called Quakers do own Scriptures but thee we utterly deny for an evill Beast whose mouth must be stopped Tit. i. 10 11 12. who in thy filthy reason art going about to maintain those things which thou canst not prove by any plain Scripture

Physician for as they did not think themselves obliged to ask Forgiveness of Sin to God nor acknowledge their Errors to Man so they resolved to use none of their Medicines and therefore bad them be gone calling them by these Names following viz. The Idle Gormondizing Priests of England The Guide mistaken c. by W. Penn p. 18. no sort of People have been so universally through Ages the very Bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that Abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon With this the Gentlemen were amazed and looking one upon another said Good Lord may it please thee to forgive our Enemies Persecuters and Slanderers and to turn their Hearts Grant us O Lord to love our Enemies and by the Example of thy Martyr Stephen to pray for our Persecuters c. And when this Prayer was ended they judging it their Duty to do Good against Evil they again tried another Expedient thinking their Distemper lay in their Brain and being somewhat Lunatick was the Cause of those violent and abusive Words Well they gave them some Pills advis'd them to be still and take some Rest but before this Physick could work they fell into another Convulsion Fit and raved as much as ever yea all of them except some few who were not wilfully ignorant who by the Blessing of God upon their Endeavours came to their Sences and remain so to this Day as Monuments of God's Mercy praising his Great and Glorious Name and returning their Thanks to the Physicians who labour in the Word and Doctrine calling the Physician methinks I hear them still Baal's Priests Conjurers Thieves Robbers Blind Guides Devils Serpents the Sir-Symons of the Age a Viperous and Serpentine Generation Witches Bloodhounds Merchants of Babylon Dogs Sodomites * Is this from a Christian Spirit See their Brief Discovery c. p. 7 8. we said this Intoxicated People in their mad Zeal have nothing for them but Woes and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations and laid them to sleep on downy Beds of Sin-pleasing Principles whilst they have cut their Purses and pickt their Pockets Tophet 's prepared for them to act their Eternal Tragedy upon whose Scenes will be renewed Direful Anguishing Woes of an Eternal Irreconcileable Justice c. And in excuse for these dreadful Thunderbolts W. Penn thus saith That had these Expressions been Ten Thousand times more significant earnest and sharp against that cursed bitter Stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and I would then say not enough but that the Reverence I bear to the Holy Spirit i. e. in the Quakers would oblige me to acquiesce in whatever he should utter through any Servant or Prophet of the Lord * W. Penn 's Ser. Apol. p. 156. c. At this the Gentlemen stood amazed thinking with themselves that all the Furies of Hell could not help them with more dreadful Curses much less Ten Thousand times more sharp and so they left them as fit only for Bedlam Upon this there was some dissenting Physicians * Dr. Owen Mr. Baxter Mr. Faldo and others in this Island who also had good Skill of this Malady with which this People were infected by the Venom of the Scorpions above-noted and in great Pity to them they searched diligently into their Christian Dispensatory and found therein divers Receipts and of the most proper Medicines they apply'd both Corrosive and Lenitive but nothing took place except only upon a few who were not willingly Ignorant and of an obstinate Temper but the Treatment they had for them was much of the same Nature of the above-noted for they called them An ill-bred Pedantick Crew † Is this from a Christian Spirit the Bane of Religion and Pest of the World the old Incendiaries to Mischief and best to be spared of Mankind against whom the boiling Vengeance of an irritated God is ready to be poured out * Quakerism a new Nick-name c. p. 165. c. Whoever read this Book and my former Books will find this Parable unfolded Thus Reader you see here is nothing but Plagues and Woes Hell and Damnation both for the Conformists and Nonconformists for all their Love Care and Pains are these mad People then to be dealt with as a Man would deal with any other well-disposed People I think not If then you find me in some Cases to deal roughly with them marvel not it is for their Good since the way as one of themselves say to recover the Deceived is to discover the * Deceivers And this Witness it true as St. Paul said touching the Cretians Tit. 1.12 13. so may I and that for the same Reason say of the Quakers viz. one of themselves even a Prophet of their own said The Cretians were always Liars evil Beasts Slow-Bellies this witness is true said St. Paul wherefore Rebuke them sharply c. that is as in the Dutch Annotations Severely or Cuttingly a Similitude taken from Physicians who cut off the dead Flesh c. Then not softly with smooth Words sewing Pillows under their Armholes as some did in former Ages and for which they were sharply reproved no no they must be launched and the Wound laid open † A Desperate Wound must have a Desperate Cure and searched to the bottom and then we may hope of a Cure and this Doctrine of St. Paul that able Physician has seemed proper to me ever since I have practiced for the Quakers like the Cretians were always Dissemblers with God and Man they were always Liars they were always evil Beasts and Slow-Bellies and for the Truth of this St. Paul touching the Cretians produceth a Prophet or a Poet of their own who gave that Witness and notwithstanding they were always Liars yet St. Paul said of this Evidence of their own Poet this Witness it true therefore rebuke them sharply Severely or Cuttingly in order to cut off the dead Flesh and in like manner I shall produce a Prophetess of their own who also is a Poet and a Writer and Defender of their Way and in their Unity which stands principally in Lying and Dissembling and when she does write in the Defence of the Quakers she is as great a Liar as the rest yet in this Case her Witness is true as St. Paul said of the Cretian Poet. Wherefore I shall briefly recite some Passages out of some Letters writ by her to my self and to Mr. Crisp as also out of a printed broad Sheet all wrote by Anne Docwra of Cambridge one in their Unity as above-noted which Letters we have still by us as well as her printed Paper and which are more at large recited in my Book The Christian Ministry of the Church of England vindicated c. p. 2. and my Pilgrim's Progress c. 2d Ed. p. 54 121 129. and her Witness in this Case is true viz. I. I have said she given witness

Holy Spirit to amend our Lives according to thy Holy Word Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without End Amen ERRATA PArt 1. Page 1. line 13. for of God read for God p. 8. l. 1. f. derided r. divided p. 21. l. 14. r. doth blind p. 32. l. 12. f. 45. r. 35. p. II. p. 12. l. 16. f. third r. second part p. III. p. 13. l. 32. f. unwilling r. willing p. 26. l. 12. on this del p. 15. l. 7. f. K. C. II. r. K. C. I. in Cutting off his Head for that say they was a remarkable Record of the Righteous Judgment of God * See their Book West Answering to North p. 97. George Whitehead TURN'D TOPSIE-TURVY PART I. I Find in a Book wrote by W. Penn intituled A Key c. and presented to the Parliament 1699. to obviate the Objections against the Quakers in several Books then presented to both Houses of Parliament by the Norfolk Clergy this Passage to the Reader in his Epistle i. e. It is very Unfair as well as Indiscreet in any to Oppose and Calumniate what they do not Understand It has been says he our Unhappiness far more than all our Adversaries have been able to say against us that hitherto we remain Unknown by those who yet stick not to condemn us c. This indeed if true might Apologize for them but it is so far from that that were their Principles and the Danger of them fully known it would operate more against them that all their Adversaries as they account them have yet said against them for want of knowing them so fully as by their Fruits in time possibly may be manifest But whose Fault is it that they are no better known Is it not their own By their two-fac'd Practice and double Meanings in all they say or write their Books being of two sorts contrary each to other suitable to their Titles and Directions one sort to the World's People whether to the Parliament Bishops Judges Justices Priests and Professors in many of which they 'll pretend to own the Scriptures yea and a Scripture-Trinity too tolerably well but their other sort of Books to their Disciples directed with these and the like Titles viz. This is only to go amongst Friends Again This is only to go among Friends and not otherwise Again Written only for Friends that can read it In which they tell you the Scriptures are Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware a Rotten Foundation a Dead Letter the Husk c. and that such as tell People that the Scriptures are the written Word of God are no Ministers of Christ that the Scriptures are not a Means to bring People to the Knowledge of God and to work Faith in them and that the Trinity of Persons is for the Lake and the Pit But notwithstanding all this and ten times more that I could recite First Of their acknowledging to the World's People as above the Excellency of the Holy Scripture and that it 's of Divine Authority and the best Book extant in the World in direct Opposition to their Doctrine they teach to their poor deluded and willingly ignorant Disciples yet they frequently call their own Books The Word of God as in many Instances I could shew Nay I have one Book of theirs by me wrote by Christopher Tayler one of their ancient and approved Teachers bearing this Title Certain Papers which is the Word of the Lord and in p. 2 3 16. of that Book it 's said To you all this is the Eternal Word of God Nay further Geo. Whitehead preferrs them to be of greater Authority than the Bible Thus do they to their Disciples contemn villifie and set at nought the Sacred Word of God whilst they extol their own Pamphlets as The Word of the Lord yea The Eternal Word of God and as such of greater Authority than the Holy Scriptures How then is it possible for such as are not Conversant with their Books to know them Indeed to understand Quakerism rightly is the Business of an Age I have had more than Forty Years Experience of them and yet I do not know the Depth of their Deceit and Hypocrisie I mean of their Leaders for amongst their Hearers I do believe there are many honest tho' miserably deluded amongst them I my self in my young Years was carry'd away with their Dissimulation and a great Zeal I had tho' I must confess it was without true Scripture Knowledge But some Years before I left them I saw them both to walk and act contrary to their Pretensions a large Account thereof I have given in my Pilgrim's Progress insomuch that I wrote four Books against their Hypocrisies whilst with them in hopes of a Reformation amongst them but still the more I came to examine into their Principles and to observe their Practices the more cause I found to leave them and to this Day I have kept on Ripping and Stripping this well-favoured Harlot who calls her self the only true Church of Christ and that out of her there is no Salvation as in Josiah Coole's Book The Whore unvailed c. p. 12 16 18 28 31 41 50. where also she asserts their Infallibility and that there 's no Tares in their Church that their Light is Judge of all Controversies all Power in Heaven and Earth being committed to it and Miracles thereby wrought And that she agree with the Papists that our Bible is a brazen-fac'd Book an unjust corrupt and perverse Bible else she would not have printed it after them without a Word of Reproof and the more I came to study this Point the more cause I found to discover and lay bare her Nakedness to the view of the Nations and my Labour has not been in vain but have prospered notwithstanding G. W.'s Inchanting Demureness and hardy Boldness to defend himself and Brethren from my several and repeated Charges of divers Kinds tho' like the Magicians of old Exod. 8.7 he has done much Hurt But this Book of his I am now Reprinting will be like ver 18. I know and am perswaded there is a Finger of God's Divine Providence that has attended those who have denied themselves and have faithfully managed this Controversie of God's Glory and the Good of Souls and are content to become as the Off-scouring of all things for his Name sake But why do they still complain they are not known I do think if they look into my Books they may see themselves as in a Glass and so may others especially in New Rome Unmask'd c. New Rome Arraign'd c. The Picture of Quakerism drawn to the Life c. my Pilgrim's Progress c. and Quakerism Exposed I say these especially tho' I think there 's none that I have writ but give some Discovery mote or less but if all these be wanting read The Snake in the Grass and the Defence

of it and then I cannot think any thing is lacking to make the Quakers Known and Understood But if after all G. W. can with his Juggles and Paint blind the Eyes of some that are dim-sighted let them look well into his own Book i. e. Ishmael and his Mother cast out c. which I herewith Reprint that so he may not say I leave out the foregoing or subsequent Words his old and usual Policy to blind his ignorant Followers and I am perswaded they may see and know Quakerism to be the most horrible Heresie that ever the World knew Indeed when the Norfolk Clergy presented their Books to the Parliament of the vile Heresies Seditions and Blasphemous Principles of the Quakers I thought it almost impossible for the Quakers to withstand the Force of the Quotations taken out of their Books but rather that they would have blushed repented and have begg'd of God and the Nation Forgiveness for the Hurt they have done to Christianity and Scandal they have brought upon the Protestant Reliligion both at home and abroad but behold G. W. like the Inchanters of old Exod. 8. with his cunning Craft whereby he lies in wait to deceive as St. Peter well describes such as if he had eaten Shame and drank after it whose Face is like Brass and his Forehead like Case-hardned Steel he ventures to defend vindicate or excuse every Error every Blasphemy every Seditious and Treasonable Principle objected against them the like of which was never broached before in England And why not For by the Method he has taken if allowed he may do it Nay this I dare undertake allowing me his Method to vindicate or excuse all the Blasphemous Heresies and Treasons that ever was wrote since the Days of William the Conqueror and thereupon it came into my Heart to Reprint one of his Books herewith viz. Ishmael and his Mother cast out c. Verbatim except the Postscript to which no Hand is set to avoid his future Cavils and possibly hereafter may Reprint his Truth defending the Quakers c. and Truths Defence if I see Cause And tho' I shall not answer every Particular in his Truth and Innocency vindicated yet I shall give some brief Hints of his Method in defending the Quakers and himself from the Quotations taken out of their Books by the Norfolk Clergy which I am sure they did with great Care and Fidelity and that to my Knowledge viz. P. 6. These Words whom John said he was not we disown in that place his Intention ought to be considered P. 9. We deny the Words as there printed He that hath should be lest out P. 11. We know they intended P. 19. The Words should be transposed P. 25. They wanting due Points there wanted this Parenthesis P. 29. He means Spiritually and not Literally P. 30. He meant Earthly Persecuting Kings P. 45. His Words should run thus P. 46. It should rather have been P. 52. Here I take him to mean P. 63. Not warrantable Expressions P. 55. He means I know his Intent was not P. 59. He means not derided P. 61. Was never so intended P. 62. The Words should be transposed P. 67. It was directly intended c. I say give me but this Allowance and I dare engage to defend and excuse all the Treasonable Words Blasphemous Expressions and Heretical Principles that ever was wrote by Pen yet this is the Method that G. W. has taken to excuse all the Blasphemies and Seditious Principles quoted by the Norfolk Clergy out of the Quakers Books instead of condemning them to the Flames as he ought to have done had he had the tenth part of that Sincerity he oft pretends to Nay moreover when some of the Quotations were so apparently Seditious as that they struck at the very Constitution of our English Government viz. That a Parliament chosen by most Voices could not act for God nor the Good of his People and wrote by a Prophet too enough to raise the Mob insomuch as Whitehead did not dare to recite the said Quotation yet had he the Impudence to justifie his Brother Fox p. 33. viz. Certainly he Fox had an honest intent in what he writ on this Subject Yet nevertheless in the same Page and p. 64. his Heart so smote him that he cried out I would not says Whitehead be understood in any wise to oppose the Peoples just Rights of Elections not understood No I believe it that is tho' he owns Fox's Seditious Doctrine tho' he defends and justifies it saying Certainly he had an honest Intent in what he writ on this Subject yet he would not be understood so The English of which is this that tho' both Fox himself and the rest of their leading Gang own this Doctrine as their Ancient Testimony from which as themselves say they have not deviated in any one Point only for some Politick Reasons he would not be So Understood that is he would not be understood to be what he really is else why should he justifie that in his Brother Fox which he disowns in himself Indeed he makes an Apology for Fox that they were wrote occasionally in the Commonwealths Day what then I grant they were first wrote in 1659. but then they were Reprinted by the Quakers as one of their Ancient Testimonies Seven Years after viz. 1665. and has gone among the Friends ever since as the Word of the Lord wrote by a Prophet of the most high namely Geo. Fox Jun. But George if it was so certainly honestly writ why didst thou not recite it that others might have been Judges of it Well but since thou hast not I shall viz. A Brief Discovery of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the Quakers c. p. 17. Geo. Fox Jun. in his Works Reprinted 1665. p. 87 88. intitles his Epistles A few plain Words to be considered by those of the Army or others that would have a Parliament chosen by the Voices of the People c. wherein is shewed unto them according to the Scriptures of Truth that a Parliament so chosen are not like to govern for God or the Good of his People Consider these things saith he which I declare unto you which in waiting upon the Lord he by his Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding opened in me concerning the chusing of Parliaments by the Voices of the People And p. 89. he says You are not like to see your Desires fulfilled by a Parliament chosen by the Voices of the People Now if you believe these Scriptures John 15.19 Matth. 7.13 Rom. 9.27 Then may you see that a Parliament that is chosen by most Voices are not like to act for God and the Good of his People And p. 91. And likewise the chusing of Parliament Men according to the Custom of England which is called its Birthright stands in respect of Person and not in Equality for the Rich Covetous Oppressing Men who oppress the Poor they have the only Power to