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A32344	Envy and folly detected by way of a reply to a scandalous pamphlet, lately published by Robert Bridgeman (a grocer in London) intituled, Folly and envy detected, &c. : being a vindication of the true Christian Quakers : also something to a paper signed by J. Vaughton, J. Field, Ch. Marshall, W. Bingly, and others, being in number 24, and pretended Quakers, lately published in the City mercury, &c. : to which is added, nineteen queries to R.B. and his 24 brethren, &c. / by G.C. and E.N., lovers of all men.	G. C., Lover of all men.; E. N., Lover of all men.	1695 (1695)	Wing C32; ESTC R1507	12,072	24

much more favour than now it has as if nothing but what is tolerated by a certain Faction of some few pretended Quakers whether that be not more like the Pope and his Councel That except we will believe as the Church believes that is receive such gross Errors and damnable Doctrines as no Protestant Society would tolerate we must be called Apostates and unruly Spirits the next thing that makes us admire is how those pretended Quakers as R. B. and his Twenty four Brethren come to assume that Power to themselves as the Title of a Church above the Christian Quaker and nothing must pass currant except it come from some of their Meetings or tolerated by them but we have observed some men will over-value themselves and to have no Charity towards them that deserve it also R. B. seems greatly concerned for D. S. mentioning Josiah Coal J. Audland for their adoring G. Fox it seems R. B. do espouse all the gross Errors and his Twenty four Brethren But the Christian Quaker utterly disowns all Error and cannot ascribe that Honour to a mortal man which is due to our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world R. B. would have done well to have told his Reader in what Book or Books those blasphemous Titles given to G. Fox had been vindicated I preceive R. B. and his Twenty four Brethren are Vindicators of those Adorations given to G. Fox and herein is the true Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate the one denieth all Error and the Apostate cloak and cover them Then R. B. goes on and says I need say the less to them meaning Books but what Books he tells not his Reader what those Books are and R. B. confesseth there may be some unsound Expressions in G. F. Writings therefore he must grant it wants Emendations and grants they were not well guarded he have made a sort of a blind Confession and by this R. B. have a little Arraigned G. Fox as well as D. S. and F. Bugg and now we will let the Reader understand what Authority the Holy Scriptures have with these men see G. F's Book Eutituled An Encouragement to all the Womens Meetings in the World in pag 42. see Concerning Jeptha's Daughter see p. 43. and was not Micah's Mother a Vertuous Woman read Judg. the 17th and see what she said to her Son the Text tells us the Woman gave Two hundred Shekles of silver to the Founder to make a graven Image and a molten Image pray what Encouragement is this for a Womans Meeting and what use of Scripture these men do make see in pag. 23. pag. 24. now Old Ely was not against the Assemblies of the Women who Assembled by Troops as you may see 1 Sam. 2. 21 22. read the Text and there ye will find Ely's Sons committed whoredom with the Women what may we think after-Ages will say of such Interpreters of Scripture doubtless this Book i. e. G. F's come out by the Authority of the 2d days Meeting or else G. Fox must be as R. B. say Pope-like to impose in pag. the 10th R. B. goes on but I would fain know why it must be deemed by D. S. such weakness in G. Fox to set his Name to the Book called the Battel Door c. Here R. B. covers and cloakes all the Errors that the Christian Quakers deny for there can be no Union between Truth and Error we for our own parts went to the Jews and spoke with the Jew that received Eighty pounds in mill'd Mony paid by G. R. besides the Dozen bottles of Wine given by M. F. as he did affirm for their doing the chief part of it and what a Cheat was this to the Ignorant to make them believe as if it had been revealed to G. Fox away with such deceit in the next place R. B. Envies D. S. as he thinks for favouring Is P. But it was well known that Is P. was ready to retract in his Life-time what he see was an Error in his 13. pag. he thinks D. S. have made a great slip of his Pen if he be a true Believer he was not come to bear the Image of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ but R. B. have shewed but little Skill in Divinity and therefore had need to learn and not to teach in pag. 14. R. B. would make the World believe D. S. was but little acquainted with the Christian Quakers Faith which is attended with Christian Charity and teacheth to exercise a Conscience void of offence both toward God and toward Man pray observe what a flourish R. B. have made it plainly appears that he cannot be of the Faith of the true Christian Quakers because he cloaks and covers all those that have given ill Names for merely dissenting about Circumstantial things that was imposed on us calling us Dogs Devils Incarnate Apostates unruly Spirits with much more Robert Bridgman in his Postscript mentions D. S. Postscript here he desires all those that are living whose former or latter Writings are defective to write Emendations upon them as well as on those that are dead But R. B. is much concerned with D. S. saying he should be glad if God would put it into the hearts of the Governors of the Nation to condemn them to be burnt that is to say all such Books that did contain gross Errors we do not find R. B. nor his Twenty four Brethren are willing to write Explanations and Emendations and have deceitfully Titled themselves Christian Quakers because the Government should take no notice of them and we can testifie these few pretended Quakers have been very forward to appeal to every Government when they thought it would make for their Interest So we have with brevity taken notice of what is material the main end of R. B. is to condemn the Christian Quakers Confession and to cover the Guilty and in his Advertisement he would have People believe his Pamphlet may serve as an Answer to G. W's reply but it must be to such as believe as the Church believes and must take nothing for truth but what such as he and his Twenty four Brethren have stamped but Robert Bridgman and his Twenty four Brethren was not willing to tell their Reader those that had a hand in the yearly Meeting Paper left out part of G. Keith's words in pag. 7th viz. not excluding the Man Christ Jesus his Death Sufferings c. and Intercession c. from being joyntly concerned in our Salvation as also telling you that the Faith of him as he died for us c. is necessary to our Christianity and Salvation Now all this was left out in the 7th page so by this you may see they would Exclude the Man Christ Jesus being joyntly concerned in our Salvation and yet R. B. has the Confidence in his 9th page after the citing about Eight lines out of the yearly Meeting Paper does this look like indeavouring to cover any such gross

Envy and Folly DETECTED By Way of a REPLY TO A Scandalous Pamphlet lately Published by ROBERT BRIDGEMAN a Grocer in London intituled Folly and Envy Detected c. Being a Vindication of the True Christian Quakers Also something to a Paper Signed by J. Vaughton J. Field Ch. Marshall W. Bingly And Others being in Number 24. And pretended Quakers lately published in the City Mercury c. To which is added Nineteen Queries to R. B. and his 24 Brethren c. By G. C. and E. N. Lovers of all Men. 2 Pet. 2. 1. But there were False Prophets among the People even as there shall be False Teachers among you who privily shall bring in Damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction Prov. 12. 22. Lying Lips are an Abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are his delight Prov. 17. 15. He that justifieth the Wicked and he that condemneth the Just even they both are an Abomination to the Lord. LONDON Printed for Sarah Howkins 1695. Advertisement Since the aforegoing was at the Press we have seen a silly Pamphlet published by H. Gouldney an Apostate Quaker who endeavours to cover and cloak Error and Blasphemy with other Antichristian Practises that no Protestant Society will tolerate c. To which Pamphlet for the present let him take the following words for an Answer c. Proverbs 27th Verse 22d Though thou shouldest bray a Fool in a Mortar among wheat with a Pestil yet will not his Foolishness depart from him Christian Reader I Desire thee to lay aside prejudice and observe R. Bridgman is offended at the Christian Confession of D. S. in the Body of his Pamphlet calling it Malapart Pragmatical style Pope like without the Consent of the Church Who this D. S. is may not be easie to judge however I do not find D. S. do joyn with any inraged Enemy or Adversary nor is he malicious against any that have laid down their Lives in defence of the Blessed Truth but for the clearing of all such and that none should be led aside by such who cover and cloak gross Errors And yet R. B. in his fifth Page is offended with D. S. and here he says he villifies some or a part of the same Society and that with denying Him that was born of the Virgin Mary to be the Christ the Saviour of the World it is evident that this R. B. is of the same stamp with his Brethren in Pensilvania or at least-wise a Cloaker of those gross Errors as Samuel Jennings Coock and Loyd and the rest of that Faction and yet this R. B. hath the Confidence in Page the ninth where he cites the Yearly-meeting Paper Mark if there be any gross Errors c. held by any Professing the Truth in America such Parsons ought to be admonished c. And yet I have not heard of any Paper of Condemnation that S. Jennings and the rest of those of that Faction has given forth since their Admonition nor R. B. nor his Twenty four Brethren against them but makes a great out-cry they are wronged and scandalized but they will not let us know in what but it 's the Duty of all true Christians to clear themselves from Errors and not to Cloak such damnable Errors that no Protestant Society in Christendom would tolerate as is made manifest in Print already and there testified against by the Christian Quakers and R. B. seems to be offended with D. S. for desiring any to pray to God to turn them from their Errors how Unchristian this R. B. shews himself is well to be noted it is wonderful to me to see R. B's stock of Confidence in cloaking his Brethrens gross Errors and in charging D. S. upon no better Proof than a perhaps c. when he must if he be ingenuous confess S. Jennings and many more are proved Guilty of such gross Errors that no Protestant Society would tolerate but the main drift of R. B. is to blind the Innocent and cover the guilty p. 7th R. B. makes bold to tell his Reader there is no instance produced wherein G. Whitehead has been either weak or wicked which to cover and cloak many gross Errors must be Either he would make the world believe he had not read G. Whiteheads Writings of Contention or else he justifies all what G. Whitehead has writ or else cloakes and covers it See G. Whitehead's Book Judgment fixed and see what Names he gives to those that testifie against gross Errors not becoming any Christian of Christ's making and also R. B. in his seventh Page is offended with D. S. for saying Light and Darkness are Beings and thus says R. B. which as much bespeaks his Skill in Philosophy as the other does his Titled to Christianity finding R. B. having so little Skill in Philosophy makes me save Paper on that head and whereas R. B. seems to be offended at D. S. for his saying if please God to put it into the Hearts of the Governours to burn all the Contentious Books and then says he no need of Emendation c. I understand D. S. means such Books that contain such damnable Doctrine as tend to the destroying the Christian Faith and instead of R. B. and his Twenty four Brethren writing Emendations they endeavour to cloak all those gross Errors then R. B. goes on and why must they be burnt the Matter it seems is distateful but it is evident gross Errors are not distateful to R. B. if they were he would not hugg them as he does then he goes on and calls all that testifie against gross Errors Apostats and unruly Spirits that like not to have their Fruits made manifest and their Rebellion against the Light rebuked and they that would have Books burnt next step would have the Authors burnt but this is R. B. wanting Charity to condemn gross Errors that doth not follow that they would condemn the Authors to be burnt at his way of arguing all the Protestant Societies that have condemned and testified against the Errors of the Church of Rome would burn their Bodies and should the Christian Quakers tell R. B. and his Twenty four Brethren that those persecuting Quakers in Pensilvania that Fined and Imprisoned our Christian Friends in that Province next step would burn their Bodies our thoughts are that R. B. and his Twenty four Brethren would say we were very uncharitable And now I shall return some of R. B's own words upon him in Page the ninth but this D. S. who in a Malapert Pragmatical stile would be deemed the the Representative of the true Christian Quakers is for Censuring and Excommunicating Pope-like without Consent of the Church c. I appeal to all sober People how R. B. do fret himself with the honest Confession of D. S. But I perceive if D. S. his Book had been Licensed by the Second days meeting or by R. B. and his Twenty four Brethren it would have met with

if you are able Q. 4. Why do you not answer his second Charge who say They deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptuously of them c. D. S. have also cleared the Christian Quakers thereof therefore it lyeth at your Door to clear your selves and others of your Brethren if you can Q. 5. Why do you not answer F. B's third Charge who says Their Teachers are Deceivers of the People Favourers of Blasphemy and of differing Faith from the Apostles Primitive Christians and Blessed Martyrs and Excusers of Idolatry and that their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith D. S. have cleared his Christian Friends of this gross Charge therefore you are left to answer for your Selves and Brethren Q. 6. Why do not you answer F. Buggs Charge against you who accuseth the Quakers for teaching That the Name of Jesus Christ do not properly belong to the Body that suffered upon the Cross at Jerusalem c D. S. condemns this Error on behalf of the Christian Quakers but you having taken it upon your selves by blaming D. S. for so doing it lyeth now at your Door Q. 7. Why do not you answer the ten Queries published by R. Hannay your Champion T. Elwood having not done it Q. 8. Whether thou R. Bridgman and thy Twenty four Brethren doth intend to follow the Footsteps of your Apostate Brethren in Pensilvania the Twenty eight false Judges in condemning and denying of G. Keith and his Christian Friends for or because of their Christian Doctrine and Principles Q. 9. Seeing some of you Twenty four Subscribers have confessed that you had not read the Little Book signed by D. S. how dared you to Sign a Paper against it barely on Trust is not this believing as the Church believes Rome like c. Q. 10. Is it not greater Presumption in you to publish a Paper in order to make the Body of the Christian Quakers equally Guilty of those grand Errors with your selves than for D. S. to clear the Body and only blame the Guilty Q. 11. Whether you do approve and intend to follow that Anti-Christian Practice of your Brethrens denying The Christian Quakers their Right of burying their Dead as we hear was lately done in Southwark by some of your Apostate Brethren James Braithwait and others c. Q. 12. Wherefore did you Twenty four Apostate Quakers be so bold as to call the Sheet signed by D. S. a Libel and yet doth not undertake to prove one Paragraph to be such doubtless some of you have Confidence enough to make Truth seem to be a Lye and Darkness Light if your Master the D l had but furnished you his Craft so to do Q. 13. Seeing thou R. B. have confessed in private that thou hast quibled in thy Scandalous Pamphlet had it not been rather more like a Christian for thee and also for thy Twenty four Brethren to have confest your own and Brethrens Errors endeavouring to forsake the same desiring God's Forgiveness for Christ's sake than to continue to cover and cloak such damnable Errors as no Protestant Society will tollerate Q. 14. Is not R. B. guilty of Envy and Out-rage against D. S. For confessing and disowning those gross Errors again R. B. in his Twelve and thirteenth Pages would insinuate that he is very Charitable to D. S. in that he viz. D. S. do give cause to charge him as questioning a future Existance or Being from D. S' s. charitable saying of Is Pennington if that worthy Man were in being c. now its evident D. S. could not mean any other Being but in this Life unless this R. B. S. Divinity allow of Retraction or Recantation in the Life immortal which is erroneous for although there be a future Being yet no Being for Retraction c. R. B. says That he may positively charge D. S. that he denies a future Existance is not this positively Unchristian in R. B. and may not we by the same rule Charge him to hold a Purgatory c. Q. 15. Art not thou R. Bridgman Guilty of Envy for falsly charging in thy Fifeteenth page D. S. as wanting Christianity because he confest G. Whitehead was a contentious Scribler and Guilty of giving base and scurrilous Language on no other Evidence says R. B. but that of F. B. but to prove this Envy and Folly of R. B's let the Reader see for himself the filthy Language of R. B's Elder G. Whitehead given in his Book Judgment fixed also see the Billings-gate Rhethorick in a Book called The Accuser of of the Brethren c. allow R. B. his Concession viz. G. Whitehead to be an Elder ought he not therefore to be reproved warned and admonished for persisting in Evil or covering of Error and false Doctrine was not the Judges of Susannah Elders read the History and see what Elders those was Q. 16. Art not thou R. B. Guilty of Envy and Folly as well as Lying and Prevertion for affirming that Blasphemy against Jesus of Nazareth is a Sin that 's not to be forgiven pray let 's know in thy next the Chapter and Verse in thy Scripture where Sin against the Son of man is not to be forgiven c. we know there is a Text that saith The Sin against the Holy Ghost is not to be forgiven Ergo R. B. mendax est Q. 17. R. B. Art not thou Guilty of Envy and Madness to cover and cloak those Divine Attributes or Blasphemous Titles given to G. F. by J. C. and J. A. to satisfie the unprejudiced Reader we shall cite the Attributes given to G. F. by J. C. and J. A that he may see for himself what the Apostate Quaker is for covering and excusing and what the true Christian Quaker is for denying viz. all Blasphemy and Error be it of what kind soever Dear George Fox whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the highest in which thou rules and governs in Righteousness and thy Kingdom is established in Peace and the increase thereof is without end c. Dear and precious one in whom my Life is bound up my Strength is in thee by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my Strength is renewed Blessed art thou for evermore Blessed are all that injoy Life and Strength come from thee Holy one reach unto me that I may be strengthned to stand in the mighty Power and dread of the Lord daily do I find thy Presence I cannot reign but in thy dread for evermore reach through all in thy mighty Power to him pray for us all that in thy Power we may abide for evermore I am thine begotten and nourished by thee and in thy Power am I preserved Glory unto thee Holy one for ever Now behold what Confidence this R. B. hath to cover and excuse his great Scholar G. F. whom he saith had some knowledge of the Hebrew tongue which is here granted but however he had not understanding of the Latine therefore he could not understand tu nos and vos but