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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65883	The Quaker vindication against Francis Bugg's calumnies in his scandalous pamphlet stiled, Something in answer to the allegations of the Quakers (in their printed case presented to the House of Commons, December 1693) ... ; together with Francis Bugg's own vindication of the people called Quakers since he left them and turned to the Church of England.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing W1950; ESTC R35241	10,738	5

according to the Scriptures And that he humbled himself to the Death of the Cross and from Death did rise again And we believe that he is the Resurrection and the Life and gives Eternal Life to all that believe in him 6. Bugg's chief and most remarked Instance to prove the Quakers deny Jesus Christ is out of Saul's Errand pag. 32. which was James Nalyer's Answer viz. If I cannot witness Christ nearer than Jerusalem I shall have no benefit by him but I own NO OTHER Christ but that i. e. Christ who witnessed a good Confession before Pilate which Christ I witness suffering in me now pag. 6. Who but a Person blinded with Envy Malice and Folly would have rendred this a denyal of Jesus of Nazareth It appears holy Scripture Testimony is not free from his Reproach Bugg pag. 6. A Question to Professors pag. 33. Now the Scriptures do expresly distinguish between Christ and the Body or Flesh which he took saying he can never call the Bodily Garment or Vail Christ. But Bugg is very unfair in this in leaving out the Author 's own explication viz. We cannot call the Body which he took upon him CHIEFLY and in the FIRST place Christ. As also F. Bugg is quarrelsome in bringing this over again It having been answered before and to which he hath given no reply So he may see a little of it again viz. We readily grant the Names Jesus and Christ chiefly belong to him that took the Body or Flesh yet the names Jesus and Christ were given to both joyntly and severally it was Christ that dyed but how as concerning the Flesh 1 Pet. 3. 18. his divine Life never dyed nor did the Soul of the Messiah ever dye On the other hand the Apostle Heb. 10 20. calls his Flesh the VAIL Mat. 27. 28. The body of Jesus the Psalmist A Body hast thou prepared me And Dr. Barnes Jesus Christ took Flesh of the Virgin And thus often in Scripture is each expressed distinct To Bugg's Query 5. Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest 1. In the first place we answer The Sufferings of Christ in the Nature of them both inward and outward in Agony of Soul and pains of Body ●y that most Cruel Death of the Cross following that of Scourging and Crowning with Thorns 2. It was both most unjustly and wickedly inflicted by his Persecutors the Jews and Heathen yet worse in the Jews because they might have known better and because they prosecuted him upon false witness And as Christ's Sufferings were most cruel and unjust both as to the Nature thereof and the dignity of him that suffered So he was a most acceptable Sacrifice and sweet smelling Savour to God and his Suffering and Sacrifice of universal advantage and benefit to mankind in that he died for all men and gave himself a Ransom for all that all might be capable of Redemption and Salvation through him VVe do not accept of what F. B. partially cites for Answer to his said Question which was not put unto Edward Burrough's nor made by him nor justly deducible from E. Burrough's intention in his Explanatory Reasons not cited by F Bugg nor the Year when his Reflection was made upon the Arbitrary and unjust proceedings of those then in Power being in 1657. too tedious here to recite His Reproach of Contempt of Scripture if he means the holy Scripture as he elsewhere saith we utterly deny his Charge herein as contrary to our Principle and to our Christian profession of the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as being given by Divine Inspiration And Bugg has been told That our Friends distinguishing between the Letter and the Spirit between the Ministry of the Letter and that of the Spirit as between the Shadow and the Substance the meer writing in outward Characters which will decay and wear out and the Holy divine Doctrines and Truths therein contained or holy Scriptures is so Scriptural that we know no true Christian will deny such distinction for the holy Apostle distinguished between the Letter and the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 6. Which hath made us able Ministers of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit for the Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth Life This could be no Contempt of holy Scripture Note That in the very Book News out of the North quoted against us in this point there 's frequent reference had to holy Scripture Testimonies both of the Old and New Testament and accordingly abundantly quoted in the Margents which does not bespeak a Contempt thereof but the contrary as we think is undeniable In the said News out of the North the Scripture is plainly own'd that the Lord hath spoken it by his former Prophets c. p. 5. As for Baptism and the Lords Supper Scripturally considered in their several Dispensations both as in the Figure and in the Substance in the Type and Antitype we confess and own but the Substance is more excellent and permanent than the Shadow as the Inward and Spiritual Grace is more excellent than the outward and visible Signs About this point Bugg is very partial and unjust in his citation out of E. Burrough's Works p. 518. both in varying his Words leaving out his explanatory Part and representing him as writing thus at first viz. About Water-Baptism and the Sacrament we do utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God but an Institution of the Whore of Rome and England received it by a Popish Institution and your practice of it is Idolatry and no part of the Worship of God Thus Bugg cites This is very partially and unjustly cited and in the first Words falsly E. Burrough's Answer in the very place is thus viz. As for Baptism and the Supper of the Lord we do own it and it is practised of us in the Life and Power of God But as for your Baptism that is to say Sprinkling of Infants calling it the Baptism into the Faith and that they are made Members of the Church thereby and that it is a Seal of Regeneration as you say these foregoing Words Bugg leaves out that we do utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God neither was it ever commanded by him or practised by his Saints c. Thus F. Bugg Note Here he did not say that Water Baptism is a Popish Institution but Sprinkling Infants calling it the Baptism into the Faith c. For he knew that Water Baptism was practised by John Baptist and in the Apostles time long before the Pope was And now F. Bugg if E. B. was in an Error herein we Query 1. Why didst thou not disprove the same by Scripture 2. Dost thou in thy Conscience believe Sprinkling Infants to be of divine Institution 3. Dost thou believe it was practised by the Saints or Primitive Christians in the Apostles d●ys 4. Dost thou believe that it is the Baptism into the Faith Church and Kingdom