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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30027	Innocency vindicated and envy rebuked being a brief answer to George Whitehead and John Tysoe, touching John Anslo's proceedings in marriage, whereby their lyes, hypocrisy, and evil suggestion are discovered, and their evidences rejected, who being examined apart agree not in their tale, like their predecessours of old.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1684 (1684)	Wing B5371; ESTC R36066	11,254	13

write so much for 20 s. What will become of S. Cater for taking 10 l. for 40 s. Damage sustained by a Fine for preaching at Phakenham in Norfolk And of S. Cater his Fellow-Preachers for taking several Sums of Money for preaching I say what will become of these disobedient Sons for Breach of this Infallible Order made by G. Fox unless G. F. absolve them Answer this you Money-Mongers in these Things but freely a free People and in Love serve one another OBSERVATIONS THEREUPON Although J. A. took not this Prescription for his Rule yet thus far he did according to the Advice given Viz. He first made known his Intention of Marriage to several able Friends of his first Wive's Relations and others then to the Monthly or General Meeting then about 3 Months after being a convenient time there was an Assembly of Friends many more than 12 met together who were Witnesses to his Marriage and gave him a Certificate witnessing the Day Month and Year which is Recorded in Cambridgeshire Monthly Book without Money So that J. A. cannot be Recorded out of Vnity for not taking his Wife according to this Order THE SECOND ORDER OF MARRIAGE BY G. F. About the Year 1662 G. F. wrote a Second Order for Marriage which came to me when I was Prisoner at Wisbech which amongst thirteen Particulars more at the request of some Friends I Recorded in our Monthly Register Book A short Abstract whereof followeth Viz. And when they take one another in Marriage let not less than a Dozen of Friends and Relations be present according to your former Order having first acquainted the Men's Meeting and that it may be Recorded in a Book OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Although J. A. took not this Second Prescription for his Rule yet he published the Intentions of his Marriage to the Men's Meeting and this is G. F's Order Infallibly and it doth not advise to go Twise to the Men's Meeting c. And not less than a Dozen Friends and Relations though many more were present And his Certificate is Recorded without Money as before observed So that he cannot be Recorded out of Unity for taking his Wife contrary to this Order THE THIRD ORDER FOR MARRIAGE About the Year 1667 there came another Paper of Orders to my hand with this Superscription Viz. The Elders and Brethren sendeth unto the Brethren in the North c. Touching twenty Particulars the seventh whereof was about Marriage which I have quoted at large in my Book De Christianâ Libertate pag. 141. A short Abstract thereof followeth Viz. That as any are moved of the Lord and in his Light called to take a Brother or Sister in Marriage let it be made known to the Children of Light and being by the Light made manifest to be of God let them be joyned together in the Lord and in his Fear in the Presence of many Witnesses according to the Example of the Holy Men of God Recorded in the Scripture of Truth which was wrote for our Example and Learning That there may be a Record in Writing witnessing the Day Place and Year under which the Witnesses present may subscribe their Names c. OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Although J. A. took none of the foregoing Prescriptions for his Rule which by the Conclusion of this Epistle in these words Dearly beloved these Things we do not lay upon you as a Rule or Form to walk by c. is not desired Yet he fulfilled the same in making known his Intention of Marriage to the Children of Light unless their Monthly Men's Meeting be not Children of the Light and about 3 Months after was joyned together in the Fear of the Lord in the Presence of many Witnesses and a Record thereof was made of the Place Day Month and Year and many subscribed the same as I shall yet more plainly make appear So that J. A. could not be Recorded out of Vnity for not taking his Wife according to this Order THE FOURTH ORDER FOR MARRIAGE At a Quarterly Meeting in Hadenham in the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge within four Miles of J. A's Dwelling Yet G. W. hath the Face to tell the World there were no Women's Meetings in those Parts Oh Impudence it self and to which Meeting J. A. belonged as a Member there was yet another Order made which I shall transcribe at large and though Ed. Pechy St. Blew and divers other Cambridgshire Friends as well as the Isle of Ely Friends had published their Intentions of Marriage there Viz. before the Mens and Women's distinct Meetings yet J. A. as a Disobedient Son to the Church of G. F. and his Party took no notice of this Unscriptural Law and vain Tradition following Viz. It is ordered and agreed upon at this Quarterly Meeting that no Friends for TIME to COME may PERMIT or SUFFER MARRIAGES without the consent of two Men's and Women's Meetings and the Man and Woman to come both to the said Meeting to receive the Answer of Friends that so no disorderly or indirect Proceedings may be carryed on any more contrary to the VNITY of Friends Anno 1675. OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Indeed this Order J. A. did thus far take his Wife contrary to Viz. 1st He did not go to the Men's and Women's distinct Meetings 2dly He did not carry his Wife twice to the Men's and Women's distinct Meetings 3dly He did neither ask nor receive Lycense from them And therefore if by their words both of this fourth Order and of the Record of his Condemnation as in Title Page recited their meaning may be known they have Recorded him out of Vnity for Non-Conformity to the Order of Men's and Women's Meetings And that it may yet more plainly appear that J. A. was therefore Recorded out of the Vnity if plainer can be I shall recite part of that Universal Decree made by a General Counsel held not at Trent but at London in Devonshire House the 27th of the 3d. Month 1675 and Signed by G. Whitehead St. Crisp and other Preachers of G. F's Party by Vertue of which Decree not only J. A. but as many in all Countrys and Nations that profess Christianity as shall either directly or indirectly discountenance these Women's Meetings are Recorded to all Intents and Purposes out of the Vnity of the Church of Christ and Order of the Gospel See De Christianâ Libertate pag. 42 43 44. more at large Viz. That Marriages be twice propounded to the Men's and Women's Meetings It is our Judgment and Testimony in the Word of God's Wisdom that the Rise and Practice Setting up and Establishing of Men's and Women's Meetings is according to the Mind and Counsel of God and done in the Ordering and Leading of his Eternal Spirit And if any professing Truth shall either directly or indirectly discountenance or weaken the hands of either Men or Women we cannot but look upon them as therein not in Vnity with the Church of Christ and Order of the Gospel