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
Altar that Ten of the Quakers Teachers have received more Gifts than Fifty of our Episcopal Divines Rectors of Parishes in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk only by strewing a few Ashes on the Floor or something Equivolent But as the Priests of Bell were too powerful for Daniel without Assistance from the Government even so are the Quakers for me I can only discover the Riddle and propose a Method to try them by but cannot bring the Matter about to bring proof thereof without Assistance from the Government But as Daniel by his threefold Medicine Pitch Fat Hair boil'd together by God's Blessing burst in sunder the Babylonians Dragon their other Idol-God even so have I been Instrument l with the help of Pen and Ink Paper well prest together and applied Warm with God's Blessing Burst in sunder the Quakers great Idol their Darkness within which they call Light So that their Infallibility is flown one way and their Sinless Perfection another their Spiritual Discerning they pretend to so as to know who are Saints and who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking a Word this way and their Miracles that way And if to bring this to pass I have sometimes taken the freedom of the Prophet Elijah 1 King 18. who speaking to the Prophets of Baal in a Holy Derision of them and their Idol Gods said Ver. 27. And it came to pass at Noon that Elijah mocked them and said Cry aloud for he is a God either he is Talking or he is Pursuing or he is in a Journey or peradventure he Sleepeth and must be Awaked c. if then I have taken such freedom with the false Quaker Prophets and their Dumb Idols which can neither See Hear nor Understand much less discern who are Saints who are Devils or who are Apostates without speak-ever a Word or if I have with the Woman of Tekoah 2 Sam. 14. by way of Metaphor brought about a Form of Speech with design to get the Quakers examined whether what have been Objected against them be true or not I hope it is Pardonable since in all Ages in the World the same Cause leads to the same thing For I do Believe and not without Ground That as there never was a People since Simon the Sorcerer pretended to such High Prophetical Attainments so likewise there never was a Sect of Falser Prophets since the time of Elijah nor that ever held such Blasphemous Principles as their Books set forth And they say they are the same still their Principles the same and not changed Be not deceived I beseech you by the Quakers who appear like the Pharisees Fair and Beautiful even like Painted Sepulchers Remember the Subtilty of the Gibionites Josh 9. how they by their Dissimulation deceived good Joshua and all the Princes of the Congregation of Israel The Quakers tell you they own the Scriptures to be given by Divine Inspiration but mean not one word of it like other Christians for so they own their own Books They tell you they own a Scripture Trinity but mean not a word of it This is a Matter Right Honourable of great weight and your Honours will find it as difficult a thing to gain the true meaning of the Quakers touching the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures and their Belief of a Scripture Trinity as Constantius the Emperour found it in the Examination of Arius the Heretick to get his true meaning touching the Faith of one Substance For the Quakers as did Arius mean as they have written but how Namely in their own Books I mean of that sort they read in their Meetings and keep close among themselves one of which I have herein Reprinted In these sorts of Books they deny the Scriptures to be the Written Word of God For it is say they a Rotten Foundation Dust Death and Serpents Meat In like manner they dissemble the Doctrine of the Trinity when they pretend to own it whilst in their Books they Damn it to the Pit and Lake All this and much more I offer to make appear who am with all Submission Right Honourable Your Honours most Humble and most Obedient Servant Fran. Bugg A PREFACE By Way of PARABLE THere was an Island very Populous and well Scituated the Air good and the People generally of a sound Constitution and governed by wholesom Laws and professed the most Reformed Religion of any Nation round about them But so it fell out that in the North Part of this Island Anno 1650. there arose a great Sea-Monster †Viz. Geo. â—â—x alias 〈◊〉 Magus of a Luciferian Pride who pretended that he and all that received embraced and had the same Spirit that moved him were equal to God That he was the Eternal Judge of the World and knew who were Saints who were Devils and who were Apostates without speaking ever a Word and he having betrothed himself to a young Harlot * i. e. The â—â—nters she conceived and brought forth her Young to whom she drew out her Breasts and gave them Suck and they multiplied exceedingly and many of them became fiery flying Serpents †Such of 〈◊〉 Proâ—â—â—ts as â—â—â—re him â—â—â—h Diâ—â—â—e Attriâ—â—â—es and spread themselves like Locusts all over the Island some entering the Churches where they stung both Men Women and Children others entered into the Market-places Barns Orchards and private Chambers like the Frogs in Egypt poysoning the Air and infecting much People Upon this the Physicians both Conformists and Nonconformists were extreamly allarmed not well knowing what to do or what Course to take to stop the Gangrene of this Pestilential Disease and to heal the People who were bitten by these Serpents but as wise Physicians they took their Christian Dispensatory * i. e. The Holy Scriptures and turn'd over to this Chapter and that Verse and made excellent Receipts which were sold at reasonable Rates at every Booksellers Shop and prepared many Antidotes against the Venom of this dangerous Infection But these wounded People being intoxicated by the Venom of these Scorpions they refused all these Christian Offers but the Physicians as in Duty bound resolved to apply their Medicines to the grieved part of this wounded and bewitched People who like the Samaritans of old said That this Monster was the Power of God †G. Fox's Journal 3d Index under the Letter M. that he wrought Miracles that he had Power to bind and loose whom he pleased and cried out who is able to make War with the Beast But notwithstanding the Power and Prevalency of this Dragon they applied as aforesaid their Medicines very warm and withal giving them some Physick to purge away the Dregs of their Distemper which as soon as they had done and before they could finish their Prayers for a Blessing upon their Endeavours these diseased People grew into a raging Fit and raved at the Physicians like mad Men saying We are perfect and free from Sin sound and have no need of any
one of their Prophets and Teachers ador'd G. Fox with Divine Attributes This Witness is true 6. That their People bowed down on their Knees to G. Fox for Absolution in particular John Fretwell Christopher Gilborn James Naylor which was Idolatry This Witness is true 7. That G. Fox's Luciferian Pride was manifest when he gave out a Paper That his Marriage with Margaret Fell Widow was a Figure of the Marriage between Christ and his Church and that his said Marriage was above the State of Adam in his Innocency in the State of the second Adam that never fell This Witness is true 8. That great Pains had been taken by Sam. Newton and John Bolton to bring to light the unheard-of Practices and Beastly Wantonness and filthy Uncleanness of their Teachers This Witness is true 9. That John Bolton had a Confession in writing of one or two of the Females concerned in their Debauched Actions shewing also that many eminent ones in their Ministry resorted to them daily giving them these Appellations Innocent Lasses and Daughters of Sion This Witness is true 10. That the Quakers represent such as discover these their Abominations Envious Malicious Distracted Bad Dirty and Factious Spirits who are gone from Truth c. This Witness is true Therefore saith St. Paul rebuke them Sharply Severely or Cuttingly who notwithstanding their high Pretences to Meekness Charity Self-Denial Temperance and other Graces of the Spirit yet are found to be Liars evil Beasts Slow Bellies great Forgers gross Hypocrites and proud Blasphemers Read over the 20 Instances and R. Saudiland's Letter of Retractation together with what else you find in this and my other Books for to them I refer for further Demonstrations of the Deceitfulness of these vain Pretenders and high Boasters If they tell you this Book of W. Mucklow's is answer'd and again complain that I take no Notice thereof as Jos Wyeth does of the Author of The Snake in the Grass c. in his Anguis Flagillatus c. to them I thus reply that their pretended Answers are in Reality no Answers otherwise than mock Answers to abuse the World and to blind their Proselytes and to paint over the Poyson of their foul Opinions and this is easie to discern by any that will be at the Pains to read what is wrote on both sides and by considering their way and manner of answering Books See G. W.'s Truth and Innocency vindicated c. in these three Instances viz. I. Their Way of Transposing II. Their Way of Adding Words III. Their leaving Out Words Of their Transposing Words First As to Transposing G. Fox having taught in his Great Mystery c. saying p. 213. You cannot know Scripture but by the same Degree of the Spirit that the Prophets and Apostles had c. this was objected against the Quakers as Pride in them that so thought and false Doctrine in them that so teach see A Brief Discovery c. p. 8. to which G. Whitehead reply'd in his Truth and Innocency c. p. 19. These Words says he should be Transposed it should run thus Thou canst not know Scripture but by a Degree of the same Spirit the Prophets and Apostles had Now by thus Transposing Words we may read Acts 12.2 That James slew Herod with the Sword and so overthrow the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures whether Doctrinal or Historical Now whether G. W.'s Method of Transposing the Words of their Prophets was not to cover and palliate their Errors let the wise in Heart judge Their Way of Adding Words Secondly Again their Way of Adding Words A Brief Discovery c. p. 26. the Clergy having objected to the Quakers a Blasphemous Position out of Burrough's Works p. 273. viz. The Sufferings says Burroughs of the People of God i. e. Quakers in this Age is a Greater Suffering and more Unjust than in the Days of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs or any time since What was done to Christ or his Apostles was Chiefly done by a Law and in Great Part by the Due Execution of a Law c. To this G. Whitehead the Quakers Soderer replies see his Truth and Innocency c. p. 44. not once mentioning the Page in the said Brief Discovery on purpose no doubt to lead his Reader from the Sight and Scent of their Blasphemy and that which confirms me therein is that he dropt the latter part of the Quotation viz. What was done to Christ or his Apostles was Chiefly done by a Law and in Great part by the Due Execution of a Law No this was so apparently Blasphemous that as hardy as he G. W. is he was ashamed to recite it but whilst he blames others for splitting Sentences Mangling and Curtailing he is a profound Practitioner of it but in p. 46. ibid. being loth to let it pass wholly unspoken to he there says Instead of Due Execution it should rather have been said by a Regular and Judicial Procedure But how far this mends the Matter let all true Christians judge viz. whether the Proceedings of the Jews against our Saviour when they Scourg'd him Spit upon him Platted a Crown of Thorns upon his Head Smote him with the Palms of their Hands when Herod and his Men of War set him at nought and mocked him and the like Indignities which were not then nor now done to the greatest Malefactors I say was this A Regular and Judicial Procedure against our Blessed Saviour as G. Whitehead he being expert in Law Terms grants it to be in favour of his Brother Burroughs Again George one Question more were the Jews Nailing his Innocent Hands and Feet in whose Mouth never was Guile nor sinful Thought in his Breast to the Cross and the Soldiers piercing his Side with a Spear so that his Precious Blood †Which the Quakers say is no better than the Blood of another Saint streamed out at five Places I say was this A Regular or Judicial Procedure Answer in your next Again A Regular and Judicial Procedure supposeth a Transgression of some Law And Burrough says expresly that he not only suffered by a Law but in a great part by the Due Execution of a Law as above Again and George since you grant that all the Indignities and cruel Sufferings our Saviour underwent for the Salvation of Mankind was by A Regular or Judicial Procedure which presupposeth a Law and that Law transgressed therefore be plain for once and tell us what Law it was by which he was for the Transgression thereof Regularly and Judicially proceeded against and consequently therefore Condemned Crucified and Slain by the Jews if you cannot do this then condemn both your Truth and Innocency as Blasphemy Of their Leaving out Words Thirdly G. Fox having taught in his Book Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 8. saying HE that Hath the same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ is Equal with God this being urged against the Quakers as Blasphemy by the Norfolk Clergy in their Book
chuse Law-makers and they will chuse to be sure such as will uphold them in their Oppression And p. 92 93. And we see the People have been in great Blindness in contending for Parliaments so chosen P. 149. Again It is God's proper Right to give Laws unto Man Now in this Particular also Man have set himself in the Seat of God and so have dishonoured the one Lawgiver by setting up many Lawgivers P. 150. Now mark and consider these things seeing that the Righteous are fewer in number than the Unrighteous and that the Lawmakers are chosen by the most Voices and that of the Richest People outwardly how are the Righteous like to be preserved in outward Freedom by the Laws that are so made P. 159. And I must deal plainly with you saith he in the Sight of God who hath made Me a Prophet to This Nation Well George I have recited it and do averr it was fairly quoted out of your Prophet Fox's Works Reprinted by your Approbation 1665. and it is not length of Time or change of Governments that can abate the Force of a Prophecy of a divinely inspired Prophet No George if God Almighty did inspire this your Prophet and reveal to him from Heaven his Holy Habitation That a Parliament chosen by most Voices could not or were never like to Act or Govern for God or his People then 't is of Force and you ought to stand by it in the Face of all Unbelievers but on the contrary if you do now see that Fox was an Impostor as I conceive that to be your Case and that he was never so moved of God but instigated by a deluding Spirit then no marvel you dare not recite it but as in p. 69. make this guilty Excuse viz. We are only defensive and not under a necessity of reciting the Clergies whole Quotations But whether only defensive we shall consider by and by But George if this Excuse of yours was your Prudence lest such as you present your Books to should see your old Seditious Principles and which is still worse that you should have the Face to Reprint and Defend them then George I would willingly know where your Honesty and Sincerity is you so often boast of But enough of this I shall proceed to another of your Juggles as bad as this in p. 29. viz. As to what these Men i. e. the Norfolk Clergy quote against us p. 16. to prove us Antimonarchial they are very broken in their Quotations with their many sensless Dashes like the Snake in the Grass Second Edition p. 220. But varying in the Citation of the same Passage these Men i. e. the Clergy have the Words Are not all these Elders that doat so much of an Earthly King But the Snake has it Are not all these Christians that will doat so much c. An excellent Critick Here George is at his old Work even splitting a Hair if possible and all to amuse his Reader and to put a Vail if possible over the Quakers most manifest Antimonarchial and Treasonable Principles especially since of late in their Yearly Meeting and other their late Prints they have reasserted all these their Ancient Seditious Prinples and tell us they are the same still and not changed as in the Postscript to their Ishmael herewith Reprinted I shall shew which if so they do indeed as to themselves make void the Act of Indemnity which otherwise would have blotted out these their old Sins But since they say their Principles are now no otherwise than they were in the beginning I think it is highly reasonable that they should be examined thereabout And this I think ought to be the Desire of every true English Freeholder But come George as to the varying of these Men one said Are not all these Elders c. the other Are not all these Christians c. What harm is in all this especially since the Words of your Fox in his Book stiled Several Papers given forth c. to the Presbyterians 1659. are And are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Now what if the Clergy took only the Word Elders and the Author of the Snake in the Grass took the Word Christians since one is enough to shew your Meaning tho' Fox as his manner usually was put in more than enough what harm is in all this pray But if you had looked in p. 80. of my Pilgrim's Progress c. there you would have found that I have put it even as Fox did viz. And are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Oh George if I would go thorough this Book of thine I could shew abundance of these thy Shuffles and Legerdemain used on purpose to deceive thy Readers But now to the Clergy-men's Quotation which I say is fairly taken and carries the Force and Meaning of your great Apostle Fox neither do the Norfolk Clergy nor the Author of the Book excellently intituled The Snake in the Grass vary one tittle in the Relation of Fox's Doctrine but if you think it do I will now add Christian to Elder and then let the Reader see how it helps your Cause and whether one of those Words had not been enough to express your Sense but a Man near drowning will lay hold of any Twig and your Infallible Cause being Infallibly sinking you are forced to make use of such Trifles instead of reciting their Quotation and then refuting it as all fair Controvertists would do And if not able so to do then you ought to confess fairly and acknowledge your Errors and condemn your Apostle's Seditious Doctrine Now to the Quotation A brief Discovery of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the Quakers p. 16. G. Fox in his Book Several Papers given forth c. to Presbyterians c. just before the Restoration writ Anno 1659. and printed the beginning of 1660. he hath these Passages Friends To all you that desire an Earthly King in England c. whether Presbyterians or others Did the Elders of old in the Days of Christ or the Apostles cry up any King but Christ to have any King to rule over them but Christ And doth not the Priests and Presbyterians cry for an Earthly King and will have Cesar And do they not in this crucifie Jesus Are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Do you read that there were any Kings since the Days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians for Christ is King alone I say that is the false Church that doth not live upon the Head of the Kings They that be true Elders never go about to set up an Earthly King over them to Rule Herod the King was mad at the Child Jesus there is the Fruit of Earthly Kings and hath not this been witnessed in England c. 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and foolish People that would have a King and what Work Joshua made with the Kings how he brought them out of the Cave a fit Place for them and all these Novices Christians that are crying up Earthly Kings And we know that these Kings are the Spiritual Egyptians got up since the Days of the Apostles Come smooth George with all thy Puritanical Sincerity why didst thou not recite this whole Quotation But it seems thou art not under a necessity to be plain-hearted What! it seems this is too plain and too manifest What! to be absolutely against all Kings and Kingly Government and thy Paint not able to cover it But George thou also say'st p. 69. Let their Books and ours be compared to clear our Innocency from these Adversaries Calumnies Ah George this is still worse what to add Hypocrisie to Treason Thou knowest George in thy Conscience if thou hast any or if it be not quite seared that at West Dereham Conference your Friends had an Opportunity were pressed to it but could not be prevailed with nay tho' there then were near Twenty of your eminent Teachers and about an Hundred of your Hearers yet not one of them could be prevail'd with either to compare your Books nay nor to own them and vindicate the Doctrine contained in them how then hast thou now the Impudence to say Let their Books and ours be compared as above Wherefore in your next be plain whether you have not deviated in any one Point from what you were in the beginning and whether you resolve to justifie your Friends Ancient Books as you say you can see the Postscript to your Ishmael annexed I will only trouble my Reader in this Place with one Citation more and it is about the Trinity and in this George is as defective and short as in the other and the reason is as plain which is to cover over their Blasphemy against the Blessed Trinity to manifest which there are several Charges out of divers Books of the Quakers in the Book intituled Some few of the Quakers many Horrid Blasphemies Heresies and their Bloody Treasonable Principles Destructive to Government out of which I shall mention but one to shew as well how short Whitehead is in reciting it upon his Excuse of being only defensive and thereby not under a necessity to cite the whole as above noted See Some few of the Quakers many Horrid Blasphemous Heresies c. p. 1. out of G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 246. The Scripture do not tell the People of a Trinity nor Three Persons but the Common-Prayer-Mass-Book speaks of Three Persons brought in by the Father the Pope To this George Whitehead Replies Truth and Innocency vindicated c. p. 50. saying Their first Objection the Scripture do not tell People of a Trinity nor Three Persons c. and so dropt the other part of the Quotation out of Fox viz. But the Common-Prayer-Mass-Book speaks of Three Persons brought in by the Father the Pope These he left out as now not proper to mention since the Act of Toleration enforces the Acknowledgment of the Blessed Trinity as the Condition of their Liberty But as a Salvo p. ibid. George Whitehead urges another Book of George Fox's stiled Some Principles of the Elect People of God called Quakers c. Printed 1671. p. 43. Of the Word Trinitas there is no mention made in Scripture yet the Scripture speaks of Father Son and Holy Ghost and all these are one I have with some Difficulty procuted this Book in order to trace and to find out George Whitehead in all his Subterfuges and lurking Places and I find him as false in citing Fox their Apostle as in the above-noted For of the 57 Words in Fox's Paragraph he G.W. has cited but 26 Words which is not the one half but the reason is there is no more for his Turn and his Business is only to serve a Turn Jesuit-like as his Friend Anne Docwra well observes now to the Quotation of Fox which Whitehead has split viz. Some Principles of the Elect c. p. 43. Of this Word Trinitas there is no mention made in Scripture yet the Scripture speaks of Father Son and Holy Ghost and of Water Blood and Spirit and all these are one among us as in the Primitive time among the Apostles who gave no such outward Names to them as Trinity as the World now doth c. Who then can believe this People who thus split Sentences and mangle the Sence For here is Six Persons in the Quakers Godhead Father Son Holy Ghost Water Blood Spirit all these are one among the Quakers so that here is a twofold Trinity Trinitas Trinitas in the Unity of their Essence where no one is greater or lesser than the other nor yet one before or after the other for the Water is Spirit the Blood is Spirit and both the Light within Father Son and Holy Ghost and all within and every of these Lights is their Eternal God And to this agrees George Fox Jun. in his Works p. 66. viz. By one that witnesseth God Christ the Light the Word the Spirit the Truth the Kingdom of God within me and these are one Reader Here is in the Quakers Essence Septem Personas of which no one was before the other nor none greater or lesser than another and all within Again p. ibid. Stumble not at the Light for if thou dost thou stumblest at God at Christ at the Door the VVay the Truth the Life the Rock the Elect Stone and all these are but one Here again is one added here is Octo Personas in the Unity of their Essence of which no one was before the other nor none greater or lesser than the other for the Stone is Light the Rock is Light the Life is Light the Truth is Light the VVay is Light the Door is Light and God is Light and all within them Only measurably as p. 72. And verily Friends if you keep not to the measure of the pure God in you so that God dwells in them by parts or measure see p. 55 83. ibid. The next thing I am to prove is their Light within to be the Eternal God this done I think I have proved that they like Thieves and Robbers have climbed up another way distinct from the Holy Apostles Primitive Christians Saints and Martyrs and all Christian Churches to this Day in order to which see p. 46 to 50. ibid. I the Light will fall upon you and grinde you to Powder All who will not own me the Light in you and I will make you to know that I the Light am the true Eternal God which created all things and that there is not another beside me can save I matter not by what Name you are called by whether it be King Protector Prince Duke Lord Judge Justice Parliament Priest Lawyer Gathered Churches Army Gentry Mean Men or Beggars I 'll break all Sects and Opinions and Gathered Churches which
the Scriptures say that God the Father the First Person in the Trinity is the Word No Christ the Second Person is the Word proved by that Scripture above quoted and perverted by them Whitehead in Ishmael p. 9. II. They are such Teachers as tell People of a Sacrament for which there is not one Scripture and so feed the People with their own Inventions and therefore we deny them III. They are such Teachers as have told us the Letter was the Light whenas the Letter saith Christ is the Light therefore we deny them John 1 c. Query Where is the Man What is his Name What Book is it in That the Publick Ministers ever said that the Letter as they contemptuously call the Holy Scriptures was the Light mentioned John 1. or the Essential Word of God only the Written Word of God spoke forth by Men Divinely Inspired and as such are a Light or give us Light and are a Means to understand the Mind and Will of God through the Influences of his Holy Spirit assisting therein No this I take to be a false Accusation like that of Joseph Wyeth's Anguis Flagellatus p. 158. i. e. Upon Examination of Christopher Wade's Words they seem to imply as if he had affirmed of the Scriptures that they were the Eternal and Indwelling Word of God c. This is a Lie told in Hypocrisie for I have read the Page through and there is no such Saying or any thing like it And thus do they belie their Adversaries both by false Citations and Charges Wherefore as the Protestants says touching the Jesuits so may the Protestants conclude by the Quakers both in reciting their Opponents their reciting their Friends and their Sham-Creeds and Protestations in their late Books presented to the Parliament the Judges Justices c. viz. Distrust them in all they say A Specimen of all which you have in this small Treatise But to go on IV. They are such Teachers as tell People that Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel therefore we deny them V. They are Babylon's Merchants that make a Trade of the Scriptures there-we deny them VI. They are such Teachers as take a Text out of the Saints Conditions i. e. out of the Scriptures therefore we deny them These are some of the chief Reasons why the Quakers deny the Publick Ministers and not only so and there leave it no but in Magisterial Insulting Domineering manner counsel and command the People contrary to all the Laws made and established to go no more to Church The like of which I do believe never was done by a dissenting People who enjoy their Liberty by Indulgence since the World began which after I have recited Fox's Motion from God as he audaciously pretends I shall recite this Counsel against the Estabished Church and next his Authority from The Word of God as he audaciously pretends as in p. 15 54. viz. Moved of the Lord written from the Spirit of the Lord for the Cleansing of the Land of all False Teachers Seducers and Deceivers and Witches who beguile the People and Inchanters and Diviners and Sorcerers and Hirelings c. All People that read these things never come ye more at the Steeple-House nor Pay your Priests more Tythes till they have Answered them for if ye do ye uphold them in their Sins and must partake of their Plagues This is the Word of the Lord God to you all G. F. Reader their First and Great Commandment is Pay your Priest no more Tythes and their Second is like unto it Never go more to the Steeple-House and upon these Two Commandments hangs their Law and their Prophets and by this you may know that his Disciples love him in that they keep his Commandments And the Reasons he gives to enforce Obedience to their Commandments are because the Priests tell them that the Holy Scriptures are the written Word of God because they tell us of a Sacrament because they tell People that Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel because they take a Text out of the Scripture and Expound it to the People And for these and the like Reasons they call them False Teachers Seducers Deceivers Witches Inchanters Diviners Sorcerers and Hirelings And for their Warrant This is the Word of the Lord God to you all Thus do they sit in the Judgment-Seat even as in O. Cromwell's Time and for the same Cause now as then they have Condemned not only the Church of England but Protestant Dissenters too But George as I have turned thee topsy-turvy so am I now turning thy Inside outward shewing by thy Ishmael c. thy Ancient Testimony and Principle and thou sayest thou art not changed See thy Ishmael to which I have neither added nor diminished only the backside of the Title-Page Running Title Marginal Notes and Observations from Pag. 11. thy Name being on the Title-Page the middle and at the end Signed and also Sealed with your Common Seal i. e. Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord in us G. Whitehead c. But let me clear up one Passage in your Truth and Innocency Vindicated c. p. 31. As for this Quotation in Ishmael c. p. 10 11. G. Whitehead hath positively disowned the Words and affirms they are none of his and that he writ not that Part of the Answer to Townsend which was in the Year * It was 1655. 1654. and that he shall neither stand by nor own these Words viz. And here thy Antiquity and the Three Persons which thou would devide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual Darkness for the Lake and the Pit Now George tho' thy Signing and Sealing this Book with thy Hand and Common Seal as aforesaid were sufficient to Entitle thee to this Hellish Blasphemy as if thou hadst Signed and Sealed a Bond of an Hundred Pound made by a Scribe would oblige thee to Pay the Debt tho' thou didst not write the Bond yet George I have a further Demonstration to prove the Book thine and never heard that until 1690 an Act being made which enjoined all that expected Toleration to own the B. Trinity that you did disown any part of this Book But George Disowning will not now do you must Retract and Condemn it and this to do will be as bitter a Pill as it was to thee and thy Brethren to own K. W. III. Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms For I have Mr. Smith's Book The Quakers Disarmed c. and your Book Truth Defending the Quakers c. both Printed 1659. wherein he charges you with this Ishmael and you both own and defend it And first The Qua. Disarm c. Mr. Smith He that writ this Book Ishmael opens a Door to Damnable Heresies you writ this Book G. W. therefore you open a Door to Damnable Heresies G. W. I deny it I did not write all there is something scribled on it Mr. Smith True here
are some things writ on the back-side I 'll charge you with nothing but what is printed Were you the Author of all that is printed in this Book your Name is printed at the beginning middle and end of it G. W. About three Years ago I and Four more writ it betwixt us Mr. Smith Pray tell me plainly whether you will own it or not if you will not own it at all then tell me what you will own and what not otherwise when I have proved it a most wicked Book you may disown it and so all my Discourse fall to the Ground 'T is no pleasure to me to speak or this People to hear vain Words If you will not own it speak but you may as well disown to morrow all that you say to day telling us Words are but Wind if you disown what you have Printed and affixt your Name so often unto G. W. Well I will own it prove what you can Now George lest thou should'st say this is an Adversary's Book tho' that in this Case would not help Dun out of the Mire I shall now come to thy own Book Truth defending the Quakers c. * Of Damning the B. Trinity to the Pit and Lake said in the Title-Page also to be written from the Spirit of Truth in G. W. c. P. 1. Question recited out of the foregoing Book to which this is in Answer Mr. Smith Do not you repent G. W. for your endeavouring vainly to Defend Aug. 29. 1659. in so great a Congregation these Positions printed in your Book of Ishmael c. G. W. The Positions we defended are according to the Scriptures of Truth and them we need not repent of As first in denying the Bible to be the written Word of God Secondly in asserting the Scriptures not to be the Word Thirdly that there is no such Word in the Scripture as Three Persons in the Trinity but it is a Popish Doctrine mentioned in the Popish Mass or common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book Fourthly And thou that affirm Three distinct Persons in the Godhead art a Dreamer and he that Dreams and tell Lies he with his Imaginations and Dreams is for the Lake Truth Defending c. Where in the 33d Question in The Quaker Disarm'd c. thou hast falsly Charged George Whitehead's Book * Here he owns the Book and defends the Doctrine with proving several Blasphemies in it which is a wicked Lie and Slander for thou never yet proved any Blasphemy in it For that thou countest Blasphemies was our ‖ Mark Our Witnessing Witnessing against such Doctrines as thou couldst not prove by Scripture as that of a Trinity of Three distinct Persons in the Godhead and that of the Letter being the Word Truth defending the Quakers and their Principles c. P. 24. G. Whitehead therein reciting the 45th Question of Mr. Smith's out of his Book The Quaker disarmed p. 6. for I have them both before me G. W. thus Recites and then Answers viz. Do not you G. Whitehead blasphemously take to your self an Attribute of God while you pretend ordinarily to know the Hearts of Men and tell Mr. Townsend of Norwich in the second Page of your Ishmael that the Light of God is departed from his Conscience c. I think 't is the fairest Citation that ever I met with viz. of G. W.'s now comes his Answer I says G. W. take no Attribute of God to my self but what God hath given me c. And as for Townsend I never said that the Light was departed from his Conscience as thou hast belied me But that from the Light of God in his Conscience he is departed * And so are the Words in p. 2. of Ishmael as you may see A plain confession and owning the Book c. c. Truth Defending c. P. 25. In thy 46th Question thou hast says G. Whitehead charged me with Printing Railing Language with calling Priest Townsend Witch Lyar Blind Guide in p. 3. of Our Book * A plain confession and owning the Book c. c. But there is not the Word Witch but that thou would bewitch People with thy Lies c. Reader I cannot inlarge I now refer you to the Book which Geo. Whitehead owned when he and his Partners Wrote it when they Printed it when they Disputed with Mr. Smith Aug. 29. 1659. when G. W. Printed his Truth Defending c. which is at four or five sundry times and till 1690 which was 45 Years never disowned it Yet now he finds Quakerism sinking would insinuate he did not Write it doth not Own the Words is sorry his Name is to it and the like Dissimulation No George you must either Condemn it as rank Blasphemy or Defend it since your Hand Wrote it Signed and Sealed it as your Act and Deed. Now therefore George my Advice is That you go forthwith to your Second-Day-Meeting and together with them Condemn by Publick Censure under your Hands this your Blasphemous Book Ishmael and all other Books of yours and of your Friends of the same Nature and Tendency For as St. Peter once said to Simon Magus I fear it may be said to your Self and Partners Read Acts 8.21 22 23. Thy Heart is not right in the sight of God repent therefore of this thy Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the Thoughts of thy Heart and the Words of thy Mouth may be forgiven thee for I perceive thou art in the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity FINIS ISHMAEL AND HIS MOTHER Cast out into the WILDERNESS Amongst the wild Beasts of the same Nature OR A Reply to a Book entitulled The Scriptures proved to be the word of God put forth by one of Ishmaels Children who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel and a Pastor of S. Austins and Savours Parish in Norwich but is clearly made manifest by the light of God in his Servants to be a scoffer and an enemy to the Gospel which the Saints of God are Ministers of and sufferers for by such as he is who Ishamellike hath laid his folly open and is discovered to the faithful who are of Abraham and of the seed of Promise ALSO A cleer distinction between the Ministers of Christ who are of the seed of Abraham and the Priests of this generation who are of Ishmaels root who with the Truth are plainly made manifest by the light of Christ in us who for the testimony of God do suffer by the sons of Hagar and this Generation of the Priests in Norwich Given forth for no other end but that the truth may be cleared from such as scoff and deny it Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord in us that do suffer in the Goal of Norwich for the truths sake which is persecuted and slandered by the Priests and Rulers of this City Whose names in the flesh is Christopher Atkinson George Whitehead James Lancaster Thomas Simonds London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black
Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. OBserve Reader That tho' the Quakers late Books seem to be more Orthodox than their Ancient Books said to be given forth tho' most Blasphemously from the Spirit of the Lord yet they are still the same in Principle tho' they otherwise word the Matter for Proof of this see their Book Primitive Christianity Revived c. by Jos Wyeth Printed 1698 viz. Our Principles says he are now no other than what they were when we were first a People c. Next see G. Whitehead's Counterfeit Convert c. p. 72. I may says he see Cause otherwise to word the Matter and yet our Intentions be the same c. So that it is morally impossible to understand the Quakers by their Words whilst they say and write one thing and mean another ARIUS like Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine and took his Sword and drew it out of the Sheath thereof and slew him and cut off his Head therewith And when the Philistines saw their Champion was dead they fled And the Men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted and pursued the Philistines c. 1 Sam. 17.51 52. A bundle of papers P. 1. 4 to being brought unto our hands by one of the chief Priests of Norwich which he hath rak't up in his Imaginations against the harmless people called Quakers and being full of lyes and deceit we are moved of the Lord for the truthes sake to cleare the truth from his lyes and deceit and false accusations and to lay him and his two propositions as he calls them open unto the simple minded who have been bewitched and deceived by such deceivers and blind guides as he is and put forth by one Sampson Townsend who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel and a Pastor of Saint Austins and Savours Parish in Norwich Priest THE Title of thy confused papers is †The Title of Mr. Townsend's Book The Scripture proved to be the word of God as also the only foundation of faith and rule of our obedience or a clear conviction of the errors of the quakers who blasphemously affirm that the Scriptures are not the word of God nor the foundation of Faith nor yet the only rule of our obedience to which lyes and falshoods we are moved to answer Answer The Quakers Answer THE Scriptures proved to be the word of God is false and one of the blind deceitful imaginations which thou and thy generation hath deceived people with telling them that that is the word which saith that God is the word who made himself manifest in the days of old before the Letter was which word was Moses rule who wrote forth Scripture and not the Letter but the word which word by which Moses was guided to speak forth Scripture and this is that word the Prophets prophesied of which dwelt amongst us P. 2. 4 to which was before the world was and seen before the Letter was written now with the same life and power by which the Scripture was spoken do we challenge thee to prove such a Scripture as saith that it is the word of God and thou that would make people believe that the Letter is the foundation would make void the foundation upon which the Prophets and Apostles were builded which spoke forth the Letter and thou that would build upon the Letter hateth the Light and the Foundation which is Christ from which the Letter was spoken and thy foundation and thy rule and obedience is tryed with it and by it thou art judged now that which is convicted by thy airy spirit is like unto thy self and is to be scorched up as the bryars but the children of light who are of God and in the truth cannot be convicted by such as thou art who from the light of God in thy Conscience is departed and with it art to be condemned so with the word and the life by which the Letter was declared thou art seen and comprehended to be an enemy unto that from which the Scripture was declared and here again I challenge thee to be a perverter of it notwithstanding all thy profession from it and whereas thou hast directed this confused paper unto us of whom thou hast described the names as followeth to Christopher Atkinson James Lancaster George Whitehead and Thomas Symonds now in Norwich Goale for their Errors and Miscarriages Priest Thou sayest if ever the truth of God were turned into a lye it is by us thou sayest that deny the Scriptures to be the truth of God and pretend immediate Revelations to be our rule for our actions and canst not produce any proof but the words of a dead Man like thy self which thou calls Mr. Burroughs to which we answer Answ By thee Priest Townsend is the truth of God turn'd into a lye and thou art taken with one in thy mouth who saith that we before mentioned are in the Goal of Norwich for errors and miscarriages here thou slanderer we challenge thee to prove what errors or miscarriages can be laid to our charge what is thy lyes and slanders that which you would make the people believe and are we counted deceivers for declaring the Truth and testifying against thee and thy generations as it is counted an error in us to unvail thy deceits and lay thee open to all men here in the presence of the Lord do we declare against thee for errors and miscarriages do we deny and this thy confused stuff wherein first thou sayest that we deny the Scripture to be the truth of God which is a lye as thy own words makes it manifest who in the same page of thy shameless discourse which now is laid open to the understanding of the Simple Priest And again thou sayest that we acknowledge the Scripture to be the truth and yet deny them to be the word of God here let all that sees thy confused paper judge thee who art in Babel where the confusion is and a minister of it Answ The Scripture we own as it was spoken forth by them that lived in the word and receive it as a Declaration of God and of what he spoke unto them of former ages Luke i.i. P. 3. 4 to but thy words and imaginations we do deny who would call that the word which saith God is the word and that the light which is not the light but saith Christ is the light which is thy condemnation that hates it in particular and the worlds condemnation that hates it in general as is made manifest who hates revelations and us who witness it shutting thy self forth from the Scriptures and from them that gave them forth whereas Christ saith no man knows the Father but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him as thou may read Mat. ii 27. here thou hast plainly shewn thy self to be both without the knowledge of the Father and the Son who art in thy mediate natural knowledge which from the light
thy obedience and here is thy fruits and here is thy service who commits Sin and a Servant to Sin and free from righteousness Iohn 8.24 Rom. 16.20 Oh thou blasphemer and slanderer of the just when wilt thou cease from thy Lyes and Blasphemy where dost or canst thou prove such a Scripture as the most emminent believer Sin in any things when the Scripture saith he that believeth is born of God and he that is born of God sinneth not for whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him and he that committeth sin is of the Devil and there 's thy condition and he is thy Father who is the Father of all lyars as thou art i. Iohn 3.3 4 5 6 7 8. Priest And to conclude thy filthy rotten stuff thou sayest they that make not the word of God the rule for their actions are led either by their own fancies or the Devils temptations or both Ans Thee Priest Townsend art here laid open and thou art uncovered and here thou art found to be a denyer of the word and rule and foundation and thou art led by thy dreams and fancies and thy foundation * Viz. The Holy Scritures is in the dust and thou art reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for everlasting fire and here thou in all these thy lyes are shut our from God and all the Children of God among the Doggs and Sorcerers and the Lake is thy portion which is the portion of all lyars Iude 6 7 8. thus have we returned a full answer unto thy senceless stuff and in plainness have we dealth with thee and have not flattered thee at all there call it not railing lest thou violate the Scriptures so with the word of truth thou art tryed and comprehended and us shalt thou witness eternally when the book of Conscience comes to be opened and thou judged out of it so we remain Sufferers for the truth and witnesses against thee and thy generation Named according to the flesh George Whitehead Christopher Arkinson James Lancaster Thomas Symonds A Cutting Switch FOR THE Wounded Snake I have used Similitudes Hos 12.10 READER BY the Word Snake which I use by way of Metaphor alluding to the Quakers obscure way of Reasoning evermore hiding themselves in the dark by their Ambiguous and Doubtful Way of expressing themselves in their Unintelligible Way of Writing is what I call Quakerism and having taken this Snake Quakerism out of the Grass and laid her on the Table and taken out her Sting I am now coming to exercise my Switch which I lately twisted out of Jos-Wyeth's Hand as David did the Sword out of the Hand of that uncircumcised Philistine Goliah of Gath which he design'd to wound the Israelites with for this Joseph like blind Hob playing at Blind-Man's-Buff smiting every Man that passed by without all Fear or Respect being Fool hardy I was resolved to unarm him and take his Weapon from him for like Goliah's Sword there is none like it And whereas this Water-Snake has swam over Sea I am minded to send this Switch thither also that so where-ever her Spawn is gone rattling up and down in other Nations and Plantations this Switch may pursue her and deal severely or cuttingly with her for she has done much Harm And now I shall tell what is the Cause of this Snake's Fury which is as on the Title Page of this Third Part and where you may see she put forth her Sting against Mr. Townsend for that he like other Christian Champions went to prove the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God for this the Rattle-Snake came out of his Thicket and flung out his Deadly Poyson at Mr. Townsend thus Ishmael and his Mother cast out among the Beasts c. calling him a Dreamer a Deceiver a Witch a Liar a blind Guide without Christ and his Knowledge an Enemy of God an Antichrist a blind Sot a sottish blind Guide shut up in perpetual Darkness Blasphemous Beast as in P. 7 8 10 14 17 25 29. Thus Reader having shewed thee the Cause of the Dragon's Fury and the Ground why he threw out his Floods of Malice against the Gospel Ministers I shall next shew thee in short a few Words to Confirm what I have said and that out of the Snake's own Mouth as in P. 14 17 24. first That the Scriptures are not the written Word of God but a Rotten Foundation not the Means to work Faith in the Heart And because Mr. Townsend in Opposition to the Quakers Heretical Doctrine had proved the Scriptures to be the written Word of God and as such a good Foundation for our Faith in our Crucified Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the Means to work Faith in our Hearts which works by Love Oh how did Geo. Whitehead and his Partners hiss like Snakes sting like Adders and roar like Dragons calling him as before noted Dreamer Deceiver Witch Liar blind Guide Enemy to God Antichrist Sot blind Sot Blasphemous Beast shut up in perpetual Darkness with other the like Virulent Railing and Hellish Malice And this Reader is a Map of the Original Controversie between the Clergy and the Quakers for with them the Scriptures are Death Dust Carnal and Killing Serpents Meat Beastly Ware a Rotten Foundation For alas they have no need of the Scripture with them the Holy Scriptures are needless as I shall just now shew See Isaac Pennington's Book stiled Some things relating to the Royal Society c. p. 7. Now observe the Difference between the Religion which God hath taught us and led us into and the Religious of all Men upon the Earth besides our Religion stands wholly out of that which all their Religions stands in their Religion stands in the Comprehension in a Belief of a Literal Relation or Description our Religion stands in a Principle which changeth the Mind where we hear the Voice and see the express Image of the Heavenly One i. e. God and knows things not from an Outward Relation yea here say they we must profess that we so know things that we are fully satisfied about them and could not doubt concerning them tho' there had Never been Word or Letter written of them c. And to this agrees the Doctrine of Edward Burroughs in his Epistle to Fox's Great Mystery p. 17. and many other Places I could mention but I study Brevity But Reader I have not done with this Snake but must have the other Blow at her and smite off her Head lest she get into the King's High Court of Parliament and do mischief for she is mischievous Beast and full of deadly Poyson and begins to stink all the Nation over and the Cause why I shall give this Mortal Wound to this Rattle Snake which so often changes her Skin while she is the same with respect to her Venomous Nature that she was at her first Rise Anno 1650. I say the Cause is this Whereas Mr. Townsend of Norwich having proved the Scriptures
to be as indeed they are the written Word of God and a good Foundation for our Faith and a great Means to work Faith in our Hearts all which George Whitehead and his Partners opposed with great Vigor he Mr. Townsend having first proved these things he then goes on to prove a Trinity of Three distinct Persons in the Godhead according to the Faith of all sound Christians and for Proof thereof he does not only bring Scripture but many strong Reasons as well from Antiquity as of later Date To all which George Whitehead c. from the Spirit of their Lord in them as in p. 22. And here thy Antiquity and thy Reasons and the Three Persons thou dreams of which thou would divide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual Darkness for the Lake and the Pit c. adding by way of Corroberation respecting Mr. Townsend p. 26. thus Thou Townsend art Reserved in Everlasting Chains under Darkness for Everlasting Fire shut out from God among the Dogs and Sorcerers Having by this time not only discovered the Snake but given her a deadly Blow I shall next shew that the Quakers respecting their Principles are the same that ever they were only I am in Hopes they shall never do so much Hurt in a Hundred Years as they have done in Fifty the time of their date The Sting of Quakerism being taken out and the Bowels thereof ript up and their Inside turn'd Outward by many Infallible Proofs out of their Impious Books especially by Reprinting one of them but let us not be too secure lest the deadly Wound which she hath received should be healed and my Counsel is that as Persecution never did Good so may it not be used amongst Christians but yet a good Expedient is very proper which is to have them examined whether these things be so or no and if what has been objected against them be proved upon them let them be obliged to Retract and Condemn these their Ancient Blasphemous and Heretical Books and Pamphlets which have poysoned many Thousands of otherwise well-meaning People and as this will be easie so will it be one effectual Means to stop the Gangrene of this Pestilential Disease and this will be no Persecution POSTSCRIPT AND to shew that the Quakers are the same still notwithstanding their contrary Testimonies I shall recite some few Passages out of their Writings viz. I. In their Yearly Epistle 1696. We cannot say they but recommend unto you our dear Brethren the holding up the Holy Testimony of Truth which hath made us to be a People and that in all Parts of it * Then in Damning the Blessed Trinity for Truth is one II. The Quakers cleared c. p. 7. God is the same Truth is the same his People the same and their Principles the same III. Their Primitive Christianity c. Printed 1698. p. 6. Our Principles are now no other than what they were when we were first a People IV. They have inserted a long Paragraph in the Post-Man Numb 568. saying The Quakers not questioning but to acquit their Ancient Friends and their Writings not being Conscious of deviating in any one Point of Doctrine from what they first held †And what they held in 1655. G. W.'s Book Ishmael gives a Sample for they are all of a Piece V. But Jesuit-like G. W. thus saith in his Count. Conv. p. 72. I may says he see Cause otherwise to word the Matter and yet our Intentions be the same c. FINIS A Reply to a Book Entituled A Defence of an Apology for the Quakers in Answer to a Book Entituled Quakerism Expos'd c. wrote by Fran. Bugg Or some Papers delivered to the King and Parliament PART III. I Have read and consider'd this Book of John Field's A Defence c. in Answer to the Books and Papers aforesaid but how far his Book answers his Titlte will best be understood by comparing both For in J. Feild's Book of 32 Pages in Quarto I find but 35 Lines of mine cited which is not one Page of 64 of mine in Octavo and that not pag'd and thereby difficult for his Readers to find in order to compare the Books a right Trick of a Quaker Now how this can rightly be call'd an Answer is a Paradox to me but however an Answer they must have tho' nothing almost to the purpose and then tell their poor Hearers Fr. Bugg's Book is answered Ay that it is nay and repeatedly too tho' I do not know of one single Book of mine so answered by the Quakers but that they have left untouched the greatest Part of the Charges objected against them and Six or Seven Books of mine never so much as pretended to be answer'd Oh the Polacy and Deceit of the Ringleaders of this Sect And this has occasioned me to give and take this Advice from a wise and prudent Caution in a Book Entituled The Missionaries Arts c. wrote against the Jesuits Printed 1668. p. 32. viz. To distrust every thing they say For as the Learned Dr. Stillingfleet late Bishop of Worcester in his Discourse of the Idolatry of the Church of Rome c. p. 282. very well observes that they are as like as if the Quakers and the Jesuits were Children of one Father and brought forth by one Mother even Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Cage of every Unclean and Hateful Bird His Words are these viz. Any who compares them i. e. Jesuits and Quakers would imagine the Life of Ignatius Loyola had been their great Exemplar I know not said the Bishop whether any of that Innocent and Religious Order or Jesuits had any Hand in forming this new Society of Quakers among us as hath been frequently suggested but if one may guess the Father by the Child's Likeness Ignatius Loyola the Founder of the Jesuits was at least the Grandfather of the Quakers c. And as I do believe the recited Caution To distrust every thing they i. e. Jesuits say 't is as applicable to the Quakers and to demonstrate this let us but observe how frequent it is with them to blame their Opponents with splitting Sentences mincing mangling and curtailing whilst themselves are ten times more guilty for instance I find a Passage in my Book Quakerism Expos'd c. p. 27 28. 4thly That you Quakers value the Scriptures above any Books in the World This is false with a Witness when you in Print tell us we may as well burn the Bible as your Writings Truths Defence p. 2 104. calling the Scriptures Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware and that Preaching out of them is Conjuration And G. Whitehead tells us in his Book Truth defending the Quakers c. p. 7. That what is spoken by the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater And many of your Books nay even that are said to be given
forth from the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost and from the Mouth of the Lord how then do you value the Scriptures above any Books in the World But as Solomon said Prov. 26.3 A Whip for the Horse a Bridle for the Ass and a Rod for the Fool 's Back And so you must give me Leave to whip this J. Feild for his deep Hypocrisie and Deceit and I wish it may do him Good what to pretend that the Quakers value the Bible above all Books then consequently above their own This is such a Lie that it stabs it self when you exalt and value your own as of greater Authority and as such are commanded by your Teachers to read them in your Meetings whilst you never read nor by your Teachers exhorted to read one Chapter of the Old or New Testament in your Religious Meetings if such I may call them since you were a People neither is it agreeable to your Ancient Testimony Nay farther I am fully perswaded That should the Government think fit for a Proof of your Sincerity herein to enjoin you to read a Chapter of the Bible at the beginning of your Meetings I mean by such of your Teachers as can read a Chapter for many of them cannot you would be so far from submitting to Authority that you 'd first go to Jayl and then call it Persecution and Record it as such to Posterity But would it therefore ever the more be so I trew not since it was the Practice of the Jewish as well as the Christian Churches in all Ages of the World c. Now in Answer to this long Paragraph John Feild in his Defence c. p. 7. This Fran. Bugg saith is false with a witness and so you must give me Leave to whip John Feild for his deep Hypocrisie and Deceit what to pretend that the Quakers value the Bible above all Books then consequently above their own this is such a Lie that it stabs it self c. This Reader is all he recites neither does he go about to Refute my Reasons for what I said nay nor so much as mention them How then can this be an Answer Only he re-asserts in the same Page saying I do affirm that the Quakers always had and still have a high Esteem and true Value for the Holy Scriptures c. But this is his own bare Ipse Dixit without any Refutation of or once reciting my Arguments for what I said and therefore this Tool I am loth to say Fool must yet be more scourged for his deep Deceit and Hypocrisie And therefore Christian Reader I beg of you to dwell a little here and to consider of the Quakers way of answering Books you see my Charge and how I proved it both from Matter of Fact and Demonstration first They teach the Scriptures are Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware c. not a Word of it Deny'd or Refuted Again That Preaching out of them is Conjuration not at all by him deny'd Again And that by G. Whitehead's Doctrine That their Sayings from their Spirit of Truth is of greater Authority than the Bible not a Syllable of it Deny'd or Refuted Again You hear they command their Disciples to Read their Own Epistles in their Meetings for Divine Worship not a Word of it deny'd or justified Again That they never since they were first a People did so much as read any one Chapter in the Bible in their Religious Meetings which if they had such an high Esteem and true Value for the Scriptures even above theit own Books and Epistles they surely would or else they are very Hypocrites indeed if they will not read and recommend to be read in their Meetings to their People that which is best most esteem'd and of highest Value yet you see he cannot say that they do or ever did read a Chapter in such their Meetings Now whether this Tool Feild does not deserve to be severely lash'd as well as his Tutor Geo. Whitehead in this black Art let the Reader judge Thus much then as a Proof First Of their not citing the Substance of their Opponent's Position but by picking Sentences and breaking them in pieces thereby marring the Sense Secondly That the Quakers are guilty of the several things therein charged else J. Field who has a Fund to support him in his Charge of Printing would not so silently pass by all those several Charges without a Vindication of his dear Friends and this being a Figure of all their Answers I shall pass by many things of the like Nature and apply my self next to their Sufferings That being the best Flower in their Garden and in which they most of all glory much Good may it do them since they bring most of it upon themselves by their obstinately adhering to their blind Guides and the Dictates of their Erroneous Consciences which has befaln them thorough their Contempt and Neglect of adhering to the Rule of the Sacred Word of God I mean the Writings of the Holy Prophets and Apostles and the Practice of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs in all Ages Again A Defence c. p. 21. A Brief Abstract of some Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers given to Confront Francis Bugg 's Diminutive Account c. Reply I find of late some Alteration in the Quakers Arrogant Stile touching themselves it formerly was generally thus The People of God called Quakers or Some Principles of the Elect People of God call'd Quakers or from the People of the Lord call'd Quakers but now of late they are come a Step lower viz. The People commonly call'd Quakers or The People call'd Quakers I hope the Sermon I prepared for the Quakers which I took out of their Writings with no little Study and Pains have done them some Good see Pilg. Prog. p. 108 to 127. It was a long Sermon I confess but in regard it turn to a good Account I think not my labour vain But why is my Account of their Sufferings diminutive Were they not Sufferings Yea else they would not have recorded them were they then not recoraed Yea I took them out of their Chronicle and told them both Book and Page Well what then Oh! but they were of the least Size No matter for that if Sufferings then Meritorious else why were they so carefully Collected and put in Order even to a Row of Pins a Child's Biggen a Child's Double Clout a Woman's Cross-cloth a Night-cap a Dung-Fork and the like fit to be put into their Martyrology But to deal plainly I question the truth of them and much more the truth of this Abstract For to me they appear like Fox's Miracles in his Journal Published Thirty or Forty Years after they are said to be wrought And no Body can tell me where not when nor the Persons Names Cured or any Witnesses to attest them Even so are the Sufferings of this Abstract Nor is their one Justices Warrant cited nor any formal Trial of any one of these Sufferers
them to Charge you And when you shuffled and evaded their Charge it gave them Encouragement for the Petition that they might Examine you an Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. The Humble Address of the House of Commons to the KING May it please Your Majesty WE your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament Assembled do with great Joy and Comfort remember the many Testimonies which your Majesty hath given us of your Sincerity and Zeal for the true Reformed Religion as established in this Kingdom and in particular we beg leave to present to your Majesty our most Humble and Thankful Acknowledgments for the late Gracious Declaration your Majesty has made to us from the Throne that you would effectually discourage Prophaneness and Immorality c. We do further in all Humility beseech your Majesty that your Majesty would give such effectual Orders as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem fit for the suppressing all Pernicious Books and Pamphlets which contain in them Impious Doctrine against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of our Faith tending to the Subversion of the Christian Religion and that the Authors and Publishers thereof may be Discountenanced and Punished c. And to the end that the Quakers may see the Zeal of our Government against the Errors contained in their Books and not to presume to Discourse as they do as if they and they only were the White Hen's Chickens and the only Favourites as I can give particular Demonstrations both by what I have heard with my Ears from some of their Young Disciples who as the Old Cocks Crow the Young ones Learn as well as I have observed from Credible Information I shall recite His Majesties most Gracious Answer to the foregoing Address which is as followeth viz. Gentlemen I Cannot but be very well pleased with an Address of this Nature and I will give immediate Directions in the several Particulars you desire But I could wish some more Effectual Provision were made for the suppressing those Pernicious Books and Pamphlets which your Address takes notice of By this time the Quakers thought themselves concerned being Conscious to themselves as well they might that no People in the King's Dominion no not the Muggletonians were so obnoxious to the Censure of the King and Parliament as themselves Upon which they bestirred themselves like the Magicians in Moses's time to bring forth a likeness And therefore when there was a Bill Preparing they Printed a Paper and presented it to the House of Commons by way of Instructions in which there were these Words viz. WHereas the Bill enacts That if any Person or Persons c. shall deny any of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be God and make it punishable by the same Bill were it not more safe and plain to put it in Scripture Terms as instead of Deny any one of the Persons to be God to insert If any one shall deny any of the Three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word or the Holy Ghost to be God 1 John 5.7 Now if the Quakers can but bend the Parliament to their Bow then they 'll agree but as for them they cannot condescend a Hair's Breadth as one of their Teachers Patrick Livingston formerly Taught For say they The Father is Light the Son is Light and the Holy Ghost is Light Nay if they desire three or four Persons more added as that the Door is Light the Elect Stone is Light the Vine is Light the Blood is Light the Water is Light they 'll allow all and all these are One no one of which was before or after the other nor one greater or lesser than another and yet all this while they mean not a Word according to the Scriptures and the common belief of all Sound Christians but Reduce all to their Light within But still fearing what might happen and to guard their Errors they soon presented His Majesty with a Paper and this put me upon undergoing the Charge of Reprinting one of their Books intirely that so I may set them in their True Light to be seen and read of all Men And as it is my Duty so by my Reasonable Service to God and my Country though by some my Words may be despised Eccles 9.16 A Copy of the Quakers Paper is as followeth viz. To King William III. over England c. The Grateful Acknowledgment of the People Commonly called Quakers Humbly Presented May it please the King SEeing the most High God who rules in the Kingdoms of Men * * Dan. 5.21 and appointeth over it whomsoever he will hath by his over-ruling Power and Providence placed thee in Dominion and Dignity over these Realms and by his Divine Favour has signally preserved and delivered thee from many Great and Eminent Dangers and Graciously turned the Calamity of War into the desired Mercy of Peace we heartily wish that we and all others concerned may be truly Sensible and humbly Thankful to Almighty God for the same that the Peace may be lasting and a perpetual Blessing And now O King the God of Peace having returned thee in Safety it is Cause of Joy to all them that fear him to hear thy good and seasonable Resolution effectually to discourage Prophaneness and Immorality Righteousness being that which exalteth a Nation And as the King has been Tenderly Inclined to give Ease and Liberty of Conscience to his Subjects of different Perswasions of whose Favour we have largely partaken so we esteem it our Duty Gratefully to Commemorate and Acknowledge the same earnestly beseeching Almighty God to assist the King to prosecute and effect these his just and good Inclinations that his Days may be Happy and Peaceable and hereafter he may partake of a lasting Kingdom that will never fade away London the 7th of the 11th Month 1697. Signed in Behalf of the said People by us George Whitehead Peter Bowen Will. Mead Gilbert Layty John Edge Daniel Quane Tim. Emmerson Thomas Hawes Samuel Jobson Theod. Eccleston Nicholas Gates Will. Ingram Will. Onkingate Thomas Lower John Paine John Butcher Will. Macket Rich. Needham John Vaughton John Hound Michael Russel Jof Wilkinson Joseph Wyeth John Hall Josiah Ellis Now by this fair and smooth Paper who would think but the Quakers would have Signed the Association pursuant to the Act of Parliament Intituled An Act for the better Security of His Majesties Royal Person and Government c. Oh! no by no means For they tell you in their Paper Intituled The Ancient Testimony and Principle of the People called Quakers Renewed with respect to the King and Government and touching the present Association Dated the 23d of March 1695 6 viz. And whereas we the said People are required to sign the said Association we sincerely declare That our refusing so to do is not out of any dissatisfaction to the King and Government nor in Opposition to his being declared Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms but purely because
Dead and Buried that he Rose again the third Day and Ascended into Heaven and there sits at the Right Hand of God making Intercession for us Sinners who lay hold on him by Faith and live in Obedience to him his Laws Institutions and Precepts in the Gospel left upon Record by the Four Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John and others of his Apostles in their Epistles And that we ought to Worship and Adore him together with God the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God in the Unity of his Essence This is the Trinity in Unity of the Father Son and Holy Ghost which is One God blessed for evermore And this is that Common Christianity which I mean that the Quakers Principles are so destructive to Now the next thing I am to tell at the Prayer and Request of John Feild is Wherein and whereby their Principles are Destructive c. I. The Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth who was Born of the Virgin and Suffered at Jerusalem to be the Son of God II. That they account him only a Vail a Garment an outward Vessel and can as their Books teach never call him Christ and that his Blood was no better than the Blood of another Saint III. They teach that their Sufferings are greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs in all Ages since For that as they teach the Sufferings of Christ and his Army of Martyrs were inflicted by a Law and in great part by the due Execution of a Law IV. That such are False Ministers who bid People believe in Jesus Christ as he is in Heaven above at God's Right Hand and that by Preaching Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his Work done on Earth V. They teach That G. Fox was their great Apostle which said thus of himself I am the Light of the World him by whom the World was made and doth inlighten every Man that cometh into the World VI. They teach That the Name Jesus and Christ belongs to every Believer as well as to the Head Christ that Suffered Died Rose again c. VII And thereupon they teach That he that hath the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the Dead is equal with God VIII And in coherence with this Doctrine their Prophet Sol. Eccles taught That Geo. Fox was a Prophet indeed And that as it was said of Christ He was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not So it might be said of G. Fox as in the 5th Instance XI They teach That G. Fox was the Father of many Nations that his Being and Habitation was in the Power of the highest that he Ruled and Governed in Righteousness that his Kingdom is established in Peace and that of the Increase thereof there was never to be an End X. They teach That the Holy Scriptures are not the written Word of God but contrarywise that they are Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware but that their own Writings are the Word of God given forth by Divine Iuspiration and that they as such are of greater Authority than the Bible and thereupon read them in their Meetings for Divine Worship whilst they never read in any such Meeting this Fifty Year one Chapter of the Bible either in the Old or New Testament For they teach They are not the means to work Faith in the Heart but are a Rotten Foundation XI They teach That Circumcision is as much in force as Water-Baptism and the Paschal Lamb as Bread and Wine and their disuse of these two Ordinances for this Fifty Years shew that they reject them and allows not of them XII And touching the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity they are so far from owning it as that they Damn them to the Pit of Hell as in G. Whitehead's Book Ishmael c. herein Reprinted may he seen Now John I having Replied to your Book A Defence of an Apology c. i. e. to the principal parts of it and shewed your Falacies and shallow Subterfuges as well as in some places answered your Request I rest desiring that your self and your People may Consider of it Repent of your Errors Retract and Condemn the same and Pray to God and the Nation to forgive you in which I shall join with you And in this you will have no cause to cry out of Persecution who am your Friend Fran. Bugg An Humble Address to His Majesty King WILLIAM III. over England c. by one of the Meanest yet most Dutiful Subject FRANCIS BUGG May it please your Most Excellent Majesty I Cannot but with great Joy and Comfort Remember your Majesties Repeated Assurances given to your Loving Subjects of your Majesties Care and Christian Zeal for the Protestant Religion as by Law established in this Kingdom by your many and repeated Speeches to your Parliaments and particularly by your late Gracious Proclamation consisting of two Parts In which your Majesties Pious Zeal has been abundantly manifest First Against Vice and Prophaneness and Secondly Against such Books as contain in them Impious Doctrine against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith and therein have given Encouragement to all your Loving Subjects to discover the Authors of such Books Wherefore in Obedience to your Majesties Royal Command as well as my Duty therein to God I have herein Reprinted one of the Quakers Books of which Geo. Whitehead is one of the Authors to the intent that your Sacred Majesty and the whole Kingdom may be presented with a Specimen of the Quakers Doctrine And do most Humbly Pray in the Name of the Church of England and other your Majesties Dissenting Protestants that such Care may be taken to suppress the same with others of their Books of the same Narure as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet And as it pleased God Almighty to give King Solomon Wisdom to Execute Justice so will he endue the King with an Understanding Heart to Judge who is in the wrong and to Punish accordingly And in this case let not the King Respect Persons in Judgment but if I be not able to maintain my Charge then let me bear his Majesties Displeasure and suffer what Punishment shall be due for the same But if I do make good my Charge then do as seems good in your Eye Thus with all Dutiful Submission do I Sign this my Humble Address this 13th Day of December 1699. Francis Bugg FINIS A Catalogue of Books wrote by Fran. Bugg 1. DE Christiana Libertate c. in 8 vo bound 2. The Painted Harlot stript and whipt c. 4 to 3. Reason against Railing c. 4 to 4. Innocency Vindicated c. 4 to never Answered 5. The Quakers Detected and their Errors Confuted c. 4 to 6. A Letter to the Quakers shewing their frequent Addresses to and Prayers for the late King Jam. II. and not to King Will. III. 7. Battering Rams against New Rome c. 4