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A30043	A second summons to the city of Abel, 2 Sam. 20 to deliver up Sheba, the son of Bichri, that man of Belial : by way of metaphor, alluding to the Quakers and Geo. Whitehead and may serve for a reply to their answer to my printed sheet, stiled The Quakers Yearly Meeting impeached, &c.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1695 (1695)	Wing B5392; ESTC R21466	14,478	16

A Second Summons to the City Abel 2 Sam. 20. To deliver up Sheba the Son of Bichri that Man of Belial by way of Metaphor Alluding to the Quakers and Geo. Whitehead And may serve for a Reply to their Answer to my Printed Sheet stiled The Quakers Yearly Meeting Impeached c. Geo. Whitehead I Have perused your Printed Sheet as I have Reason to Judge although 't is Signed by five of your Undergraduates being either ashamed to appear your self as well you may or else fearing that if your Name were to it People would slight it as not worth Reading being the Fruit of an Old Contentious Make-bate c. You say pag. 2. That Wickliff Suinderly c. Testified against the Popish Clergy and Tithes c. By which you seem to make no difference between a Popish and Protestant Clergy for which the Church of England will not thank you But George why do you thus fight with your own shadow and thus trifle besides the business I did not Impeach the Quakers for not paying Tithes though that be Criminal enough but your Yearly Meeting for Imposing the non-payment of Tithes upon your People and that too as a grand Oppression and Antichristian Yoke And I say again for you to Meet Annually by way of Convocation to make and promulgate such Antimagistratical Laws not only against but contrary to the Laws of the Land Is both against the King's Prerogative the Rights of Parliaments and Property of the Subject yea and of dangerous Consequence And I say again that by these your Cannon Laws you do actually Absolve the King's Subjects if the Quakers may be so called from their Active Obedience to the Laws of the Land which requires them to pay Tithes Church-Wardens Rates take Lawful Oaths carry Guns c. But say you these are but Epistles and consequently no contrived Constitutions But G. W. this will not do it 's true you call them Epistles but you send them down to your Monthly and Quarterly Meetings as Laws And as Magna-Charta was formerly wont to be read in the Churches once or oftner every year so do you Order your Epistles to be Recorded and Read in your Quarterly Meetings which is more than ever you did the Scripture See your Epistle stiled Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. in England and Wales c. And at the Conclusion you end thus Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for Remembrance and Notice Thus 't is plain that your Epistles are Laws to your People and as plain that as the Power and Influence of your Yearly Meeting prevails so must that of Westminster vail since what is made Lawful at Westminster at your Yearly Meeting is made unlawful yea a Grand Oppression an Antichristian Yoke And as such you charge and Command your People not to pay Tithes c. as in my former Sheet more at large And this Consideration together with your Indicting me for Printing without License * As your Indictment sets forth for I took a Copy of it which possibly you may see hereafter with some Observations upon it although it be your own frequent Practice put me upon delivering a Printed Sheet to the Parliament stiled Something in Answer to the Allegations of the Quakers c. Dec. 1693. To which Sheet G. W. replyed and proposed saying viz. I G. W. freely offer and am willing to make it appear before any six ten or twelve competent Witnesses who are moderate Men of Sense and common Reason That Fr. Bugg has grosly abused and perverted Truth and wronged the People called Quakers both in Charge Citation and Observation c. Now in Answer to this seeming fair offer I came up to London the February following and then proffered to meet G. W. and to leave Matter of Fact to the decision of four Men chosen by each of us out of Episcopalians Presbyterians Independants or Baptists or out of any one of those four Christian Societies But this G. W. refused but I held him to his word any and renewed my Acceptation of his Proposal May 1695. but he still refused to stand to his word Then I Impeached their Yearly Meeting And now in this their Answer G. W. complains saying p. 7. But now see how knowingly unfair Fr. Bugg is after his railing against G. W. and the Quakers Books as none so bad none so gross none so blasphemous but G. W. the Quakers Bellarmine will undertake to Vindicate them who for these Forty Years and upwards hath been like Ishmael his Hand against Episco Pres Indep and Baptists and theirs against him Such then are Fr. Bugg's disinterested Persons whose hand is against G. W. as he confesseth And yet would have him leave Matters of Fact in Controversie to their Judgment and Decision c. I grant that Episcopalians c. are great Enemies to the Errors of the Quakers and that some of all those Societies have wrote against them and that G. W's hand like Ishmael's hath been against them all But this G. W. knew as well as I before he made the proffer his proffer was voluntary and uncompelled to meet me before any eight ten or twelve moderate Men c. And what to do Why to make it appear that Fr. Bugg had wronged the Quakers in Charge Citation and Observation Now this is Matter of Fact what cannot he find four moderate Men in those four Christian Societies that will do him that Justice to Judge aright whether Fr. Bugg cited the right Book quoted the same Page observing from thence the true sense of the matter Truly his pretence to a Charitable Distinction in the Qua. Vind. p. 2. Col. 2. between the more moderate and the rigid c. amounts to very little if he dare not trust their Judgment to decide whether Fr. Bugg rightly cited their Books truly quoted their Pages and from thence fairly observed the Sense thereof or no But still suppose they be such Partial Wretches as that eight or ten cannot be found amongst them all who is to be charged with unfairness 'T is not Fr. Bugg he only takes G. W. at his word and holds him to it See Quaker Withering c. p. 2. to 12. where this 〈…〉 Object But possibly some may say You deal too severely with the Quakers not only by exposing their Principles but you render them Perjured and deserve Pilloring c. Answ I grant some may blame me yea and good Men too who do not see so clearly into their deceitful Practices as I do and through much Experience have done Erasmus was a good Man who was accounted the Light of that Age yet he blamed Luther Hist of the Reformation c. p. 42. Luther said he hath excellently admonished the World in many things I wish he had done it more civilly he would have had more favourers and defenders and have reaped for Christ a more plenful Harvest c. Thus you see that Zealous Luther was

for then down goes your Infallibility and great will be the fall thereof Justifie them you cannot for if you tell them these sayings came from Heaven they 'll tell you they came from Hell so that here is a Gulf between you and them You may fret and fume rage and rail invert pervert gloss and paint but all to no purpose I have hem'd you up and cast a Trench about you and taken you as in a Net and resolve to hold you fast for I will not leave the decision of our Controversie to Quakers Ranters Muggletonians nor to your Grandsire the Pope Come G. W. I have not done with you yet you say The Quak. Vind. p. 2. As for Baptism and the Lord's Supper Scripturally considered we confess and own c. But may some say how is this possible who have not baptized any with Water nor received the Sacrament under the Elements of Bread and Wine these 40 years Answ Let me Interpret their meaning which I take to be thus They own them Scripturally that is as they own the Scriptures they own the Sacraments also upon the same Hypothesis they may say they own the Scriptures Sacramentally viz. as they own the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper when alas they own neither no otherwise than Arius owned the Faith of one Substance who when at the demand of the Emperour he signed the Nicene Creed who before-hand wrote his own Opinion in a piece of Paper and put it in his Bosom under his Coat and coming to the Book he takes his Oath that he verily believed as he had written meaning as he had written in the Paper under his Coat In like manner the Quakers confess and own the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Scripturally that is as they have written in their own Books And I pray may some say how is that For Answer you may see the same Juggle read News coming up c. p. 14. So dust is the Serpent's meat their Original is but dust which is but the Letter which is Death and their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Thus then they own the Scriptures Sacramentally viz. to be Dust Death and Serpents meat And I will shew you how they own and confess the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Scripturally viz. as they own the Scriptures for Proof thereof see a Book of their own writing only they are not so cunning as Arius for he never Printed his Paper I say see News coming up c. p. 34. A Voice to all you deceivers who deceive the People and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemies and Hypocrisies that tell People of a Sacrament and tell them it is the Ordinance 〈◊〉 God Blush Blush and Tremble you who live in the Witchery and bewitch the People 〈◊〉 Thus Reader I have shewed how they own the Lord's Supper Scripturally and the Scripture Sacramentally which though they have Printed the same yet they are as loath to shew their Books of this kind to Authority as Arius was his Paper yet Arius could never pretend fairer to the Emperour than G. Whitehead in the Quak. Vind. c. did to the Parliament The like might be said about their owning the Fast commanded by Authority p. 3. of their Vind. For the Intent Substance and End of a true Fast this we are frequently mindful of c. Oh deceit when 't is generally known through the Nation that on the days set apart by Authority for a Fast they follow their outward Callings open their Shops and not so much as appoint a Meeting for that end as others have done I have not room to shew the depth of Hypocrisie in this Whitehead 't is like his Pretence of late Years of owning the Scriptures and preferring them before all the Books in the World but he means Sacramentally If he deny my Interpretation of their Reserves then let him shew me that any one Quaker in England of the Foxonian Tribe in Print hath recommended the Reading of the Scripture in their Religious Meetings if such I may call them As they frequently do their own Epistles for instance see Geo. Whitehead's Epistle for the Remnant of Friends c. where he concludes thus Let this Epistle be Read distinctly * Here must not be a Syllable mistaken for it came from Heaven in the Quakers And yet I question it for in pag. 12. he compares the Sufferings of the Quakers to the Sufferings of Christ like his Brother Burroughs E. B's Works in the Life and Authority of God from whence it came amongst Friends in and about London and elsewhere as Friends are moved in the same Life c. To this Instance let me add Whitehead's Doctrine in his Book A Serious Apology c. p. 49. That what is spoken by the Spirit of Truth in any meaning the Quakers is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater And for further Proof that they value their own Pamphlets above the Scripture see New Rome Arraigned c. Introd 10 Instances c. p. 40. to 47. And Quakerism withering c. p. 32. to 44. By which I have proved both from Matter of Fact and Practice what I charge them with beyond all their glossing And now I am leaving G. W. I apply my self to the Hearers amongst the Quakers and do Solemnly profess that I never wrote one Book out of Malice as he suggests and as may appear in every Book by the Proposals and Offers I therein make But if you do not call out G. W. and cause him to stand to his Proposal or else condemn and censure his Errors and the Errors in your Friends Books by him vindicated under 12 or more of your hands I do purpose if the Lord permit to proceed to a Brief History of the Rise Growth and Progress of Quakerism from the Year 1650. to 1695. And the Projects of G. Fox the Founder of Quakerism And wherein their Principles are Antichristian Antimagistratical Irrational Unreasonable Tending to subvert the Christian Faith to introduce Mahumetism Atheism c. And to shew that their Faith and Doctrine is contrary to that of the Primitive Christians Saints and Martyrs in all Ages First in denying Jesus of Nazareth contemning the Scriptures reviling the Magistrates reproaching the Ministers of the Gospel undervaluing the Death and Sufferings of Christ and exalting their own of which many are meer Cheats particularly Sam. Cater's * See New Rome un●●●●… 57. who is recorded to have suffered 20 l. where he never lost a groat but had 10 l. sent him from London so that instead of losing 20 l. for Preaching he got 10 l. clear and many other things which may occur which may be prevented by a sincere Retractation And let not G. W's Cunning and smooth and demure Carriage prevent you from Condemning what is Erroneous for though he study no Events nor fear no Effects as he says yet I would have you be wiser For

whatever you think as some of his Friends have told him in Barkshire to his Face 't is he that hath been the chief disturber 't is he that hath poysoned the minds of many well-meaning People 't is his false glossing and base perverting that hath drawn the edge of my Pen against you and if you will stand by him and not like the Wise Woman of Abel bring him forth nor condemn his Errors c. my Hand will be still heavier upon you if God permit me length of days and the assistance of his Holy Spirit For I do tell you his Impudence hath exceeded all that ever I read of none exceed him in perverting and false glossing And if this Answer had not come out I was minded by a quarter of a Sheet to give you a second Summons whether you hear or forbear For I find G. W. will not come forth himself he feareth the Fate of Hungate the Jesuit against Hall See New Rome unmask'd c. p. 33. to 49. Oh Friends for so I can call many of you I am grieved to see you willingly ignorant and as I have already so I could still take great pains to inform you of the subtil working of some of your Juggling Teachers whose Books are of two sorts and carry two faces as I have often said saying one while that the Scriptures are Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware c. yea so uncertain that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Penman is doubtful But your Bellarmine G.W. to serve a turn told the Parliament in your Vind. c. that the Quakers believed it to be given by Divine Inspiration Now Friends one of these Books which teach thus contrary to each other must be wrong then let it be condemned Again G. W. says you prefer the Scriptures before all Books extant and yet he himself teach by his Serious Apology p. 49. That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. And now you shall see how by Practice he prefers his own Writings before the Scripture for he never recommended a Chapter of the Bible to be read in their Meetings of Worship But you shall see how he imposeth the Reading his own and you poor hearts are obliged to hear it read viz. An Epistle for the Remnant of Friends by G. Whitehead which concludes thus Let this Epistle be read distinctly in the Life and Authority of God from whence it came amongst Friends in and about London c. Now I appeal to your Consciences which does G. W. prefer think-ye Again G. Fox in Answer to C. W. Great Myst p. 246. said The Scriptures are not the Word of God as thou Blasphemously affirmed when upon his own Epistle he set this Encomium This is the Word of the Lord God to you all Again Several Papers given forth by G. Fox he there tells his Friends This is the Word of the Lord I charge you in the Presence of the Living God to send this Epistle amongst all Friends and Brethren every where to be read in all Metetings To them all this is the Word of God c. Oh Friends when did ever G. Fox say so of the Scriptures No he is so far from that that he says 'T is Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God Pray mark the irreconcileable Difference and yet your Bellarmine G. W. had the Face to tell the Parliament they prefer the Scriptures before all Books in the World Oh horrible Impudence Again see your Book Truth 's Defence c. p. 2. 104. where they Teach you may as well burn the Scriptures as their Writings and their Convocation or London Yearly Meet●ng 1675. confirm them by Decree saying It is our Judgment in the Fear of God and Authority of his Power that no such slight Names ●dicts or Cannons be put upon Friends Papers which we Testifie have been given forth by the Spirit of God c. Now when did they ever send out a Decree that no such slight Names and Expressions as Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware Carnal Letter Husk c. should be cast upon the Scriptures No no they were so far from that that the very Men that gave the Scriptures these contemptuous Names sent out this Preservative for their own Books Papers and Queries Oh Friends what do you think of G. W. Is he not made up of Impudence The Difference is so great between the value they put upon their own Books and that upon the Scriptures that it can never be reconciled nor Satisfaction made to them that tender the Glory of God and the good of Souls with grateful Hearts for his Goodness in continuing the Bible to us through all Ages but by Condemning the one sort of the Quakers Books to the Fire as Oxford lately did a Book of the same Nature Why then will you not bring forth Sheba the Son of Bichri that Man of Belial G.W. Is there not a Wise Man amongst you He tells you that I wrong the Quakers in Charge Citation and Observation Bring him forth according to his Proposal and you will see it proved that I have not I have given you a few Instances I might produce a hundred more but time would fail G. W. hath wrote to divers Clergy-Men to prevail with me to desist they give me his Letters and wish me good Success Two of your Teachers have been with me within these two Months past and used many Arguments with me I tell them all is in vain unless they bring forth Sheba And so I say still or else come forth your selves and condemn what is Erroneous and defend what is Sound and Orthodox And so I conclude and subscribe my self your Friend in what I am able to do Milden-Hall Aug. 20. 1695. Francis Bugg Senior LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by John Gwillam Bookseller in Bishopsgate-street 1695.

Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. Dear and Precious One in whom my Life is bound up my Strength in thee stand by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my Strength is renewed Life and Strength came from thee Holy ONE Daily do I find thy Presence with me which doth exceedingly preserve me for I cannot Reign but in thy Presence and Power Pray for me that I may stand in thy dread for evermore I am thine begotten and nourished by thee and in thy Power am I preserved Glory unto thee Holy One for ever See this Blasphemous Letter more at large in The Discovery of the Accursed Thing by T. C. I remember when I charged the Quakers in my Sheet to the Parliament Dec. 1693. p. 4. with their Contempt of the Publick Ministry out of their Book A Brief Discovery c. calling them as false Ministers Witches Devils c. First Geo. Whitehead in The Quak. Vind. p. 2. Col. 2. denies that he knew the Book and yet I find in his Just Enquiry c. p. 13. Printed ten Months before that he could Answer it tell the Title Date and number of Subscribers namely five saying But stay soft a little were these Characters given in general or to all other Ministers that are not of us No sure In their Vindication c. delivered to the Parliament pag. 2. Col. 2. though he denyed to know the Book yet he then could say Yet his charging us with Contempt of the Publick Ministry is too general and harsh we Charitably distinguish between the more moderate sort and the rigged Persecutors c. Well let us see whether G. Whitehead be sincere He cries soft a little in one Book and pretends Charitably to distinguish in the other Book So that a stranger would think him very fair at least tolerable But to prove him deceitful and that they give those Contemptuous Language to all Ministers nor Quakers I shall make appear for the Title over the Names is Of the False Ministers And therefore the way to find out G. W. is to Examine First who they account False Ministers and Secondly what Names they are pleased to bestow upon them First Who the Quakers Account False Ministers 1. G. Fox his Primmer p. 84. Scholar Who have been the Ministers and Instructors of the People that they are erred so from Scripture-Example Let me have some Marks and Signs by which I may know the Deceivers and False Prophets c. Geo. Fox gives his Scholar Ten Instances against the Clergy one is this namely They are such as sprinkle Infants and tell People it is an Ordinance of Christ 2. Smith's Primmer c. p. 8. Schol. How may I know when Christ is truly Preached 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 3. Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 7. All that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers And the Lord is against all such and who are of God are against all such 4. The Quakers Challenge c. p. 2. Come Protestants Presbyterians Independants and Baptists c. the Quakers deny you all p. 3. The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they 5. The Guide Mistaken c. by W. Penn p. 18. And whilest the Idle Gormandizing Priests of England run away with above 1500000 l. a Year under pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so Universally through Ages the 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 c. 6. An Antidote by Thomas Ellwood p. 78. Truth allows of no Payment of Tithes at all under the New Covenant They who Pay Tithes uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ and thereby deny Christ to be come in the Flesh which is a mark of Antichrist I think I need not enlarge on this Point for all that sprinkle Children with Water all that Preach Christ without as he is in Heaven above at the Right Hand of God all that Preach out of the Scripture all that are Ministers and not Quakers all that Pay Tithes or receive Tithes are of that abominable Tribe for whom God's Dreadful Vengeance is reserved c. In fine all not Quakers are False Ministers by the Doctrine of the Quakers And now it remains to shew what the Quakers call them in their Book A Brief Discovery of a Threefold Estate of Antichrist c. under the Tithes as in p. 7 8 9 10. Viz. Of the False Ministry The Priests of the World are I. Conjurers raising dead Doctrine dead Uses dead Motives dead Reasons out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death notable Conjurers II. Thieves and Robbers III. Antichrists the Priests of Baal cannot shew any Scripture for their Heathenish ways and Bestial Worships IV. Witches blind Guides V. Devils the Serpent is Head in them VI. Lyars the Commission and Call of Baal's Priests Come from Oxford and Cambridge which they call the Well-head of Divinity corrupt Streams issue from thence I can witness fetching the same Commodities drinking a Cup of the same Poysonous Fountain the Fountain is bitter the Streams are no better Even the Sir Symons of the Age run to Oxford and Cambridge These are not Ministers of Christ but Stewards of the Devil's Magazine Dissemblers and Lyars VII A Viperous and Serpentine Generation going about to Murder and Strangle the Child Jesus holding a Worm-eaten Beastly Form VIII Blasphemers yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers IX Scarlet-coloured Beasts A Harlot full of Abominations and Filthiness X Babylon's Merchants Selling Beastly Wares for a large Price the Letter which is Dust and Death The day is coming when these Idol Merchants these costly Sermon-makers shall cry c. XI Whited Walls professing nothing but Poysonous stuff XII Ravenous Wolves XIII Greedy Dogs really they are Blood-Hounds still hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell barking and raging like Sodomites XIV Eminent and Ambitious Pharisees of the Devil woe woe woe was the Portion of these Pharisees then and woe woe woe is their Portion now And woe and misery is the Portion of the upholders whether King or Parliament of that Treacherous and Deceitful Generation c. Come G. W. you say Soft a little we Charitably distinguish c. But now your Spirit your Principles and Practice by your Books are found out and the Reason why you refuse to meet me according to your Proposal is now found out for you know you must either Justifie these your Antichristian and abominable Books or Condemn them Condemn them you will not for that they are given forth by your great Apostle G. F. and his Disciples and as you say by the Eternal Infallible Spirit of God