Parnell for Fox said he was before Abraham in that he said he was before Languages were Parnell was before Abraham in that he was before Arguments were for between Abram and Lots Heardsmen there were Arguments And for the Humanity of Christ the Quakers deny it as clearly as the Socinians deny his Godhead read Sect. the xviii thus I hope I have proved the first part of the Paragraph And now to the second which is that G. Fox works counterfeit maricles and not in the Name of Jesus Christ for proof of this see his Journal p. 170 171 30 370 373 503. and there you will find G. F. spake to a woman and the Lord he says raise her up in 171 I find there is two miracles and which to take I cannot tell but one of these two it must be viz. A Woman married a Man in Debt and she went distracted sent for G. Fox he spake to her she mended The other was two men fighting whom G. F. being a stout man parted but neither in the Name of Jesus In p. 167. he tells us of many Miracles the Quakers wrought but mentions not where nor upon whom Likewise Cley Pool had a fit of the Stone and G. F. laid his hand on him and afterwards he mended One in Maryland said to be a Parliament Man tho I am informed there is no Parliament there and that spoils this Miracle healed In short they are all feigned counterfeit Miracles and none done as Erasmus well observes of Simon Magus in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth But to read the story of Jo. Isays broken Neck 't would make a melancholy man laugh oh G. F. stand by him and pity him and his Family Well to work went G. F. and throws away his Gloves and Stick saying I got to him assoon as I could I took hold of his hair I took his head in both my hands and set my knees against the tree I raised his head mark Reader here was all I I I and my my not a word of Prayer not a word like the Apostle in the Name of Jesus be thou healed no what can Whitehead say to this is he not ashamed of their horrible delusions I have said enough to wise men and bray a Fool in the Mortar and they will not be wiser SECT IV. 2. AND the Foxonian Quakers gave héed unto G. Fox from the least to the greatest believing all he taught saying he is the power of God 1. That they gave heed to him in all he taught 't is demonstrable from divers reasons but for brevity sake I shall mention this viz. of all the Blasphemy that ever G. Fox spake or wrote never a Quaker of his Party ever condemned one passage but either justified it or if that could not be done then excuse it see W. Pen in his Book Judas and the Jews p. 44. Tho to do the dissenting Quakers justice who meet in Harp-lane they did by their Book An Answer to several passages c. p. 10. condemn G. F.'s words in the Battledoor as High Blasphemy and p. 6. said Geo. Whitehead as guilty of the aforesaid charge i. e. of being a contentious Scribbler of giving base names c. and in part of cloaking gross errors Indeed when I saw this come forth I was in hopes of a Reformation but alas this was no sooner come to my hand but I had another sent me which justifies G. Fox and G. Whitehead in all their abomination signed by Edw. Brush Waller Miers Tho. Cox Gilbert Laity Charles Bathurst Tho. Lower William Phillips Tho. Mincks John Vaughton Nath. Marks John Cooper Tim. Emmerton John Feild Michael Russel John Knight Hen. Goldney Will. Bingly Charles Marshall Will. Sanders Geo. Bowles John Tomkins Tho. Hutson John Evered Dan. Wharly So that when all these came out in the name of the rest I concluded the Foxonian Tribe from the highest to the lowest believed all G. F. taught how Blasphemous soever it was And now to the second part of the paragraph that they say he is the Power of God for proof of this see the third Table or Index to G. Fox's Journal under the Letter M for Miracles where 't is thus said Miracles wrought by the Power of God And when I turned to p. 370 371 where one of the profoundest Miracles he did is recorded and as a Miracle too there is nothing but I George Fox threw away my Stick and Gloves I I I c. If G. Whitehead say 't was the life of Christ in him I tell him No it must be G. Fox for the life of Christ in him need no Stick and Gloves from whence 't is plain they hold parallel with the poor deluded Samaritans calling G. Fox the power of God SECT V. 3. THat G. Fox got a name of great estimation to be an excellent Prophet until his Followers adored him as God The fifth part Christ Qua. disting p. 77. That G. Fox is blessed with honor ahove many Brethren and that thousands will stand by him in a heavenly record That his Life Reigns and is Spotless Innocent and still retains his Integrity whose Eternal honour and Blessed renown remain still yea his presence and the dropping of his tender words in the Lords love was my souls Nourishment c. for more of this see New Rome unm from p. 42 to 48. Yea so dreadful was G. F. 's name to the people beyond Sea that they published it to the world viz. That mentioning the name Geo. Fox did prick them to the heart c. See their book A true Account c. p. 42. The Quakers Challenge c. p. 6. Stand up Muggleton who calls thy book a Looking-glass for Geo. Fox whose name thou art not worthy to take into thy mouth who is a Prophet indeed and hath been faithful in the Lords business from the beginning This Sel. Eccles who wrote the Quakers Challenge is the Prophet who prophesied that John Story should die within one year being then very ill who lived 4 years after and as G. Fox said that neither himself nor his name was known see Sect. 3d. Yea a Prophet equallized with Christ a right Samaritan c. it was said of Christ he was in the world and the world knew him not so it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not but thou shalt feel this Prophet i. e. G. F. one day as heavy as a Milstone upon thee and altho the world knows him not yet he is known Next see an Abstract of a Letter sent to Gâ—o Foâ—â— in his Life time from Barbadoes by Josiah Coâ—l one of their eminent Preachers dated the 21st 12th month 1658. and every word of it vindicated by William Pen in their book stiled Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. viz. Dear Geo. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose life has reached thro us thy childen even to the Isles afar off to the begetting many again to a lively hope for which
THE QUAKERS Set in their true Light In order to give the Nations A Clear SIGHT Of what they hold concerning Jesus of Nazareth the Scriptures Water Baptism the Lords Supper Magistracy Ministry Laws and Government HISTORICALLY COLLECTED Out of their most approved Authors which are their best Construing books from the year of their Rise 1650 to the year of their Progress 1696. By Francis Bugg Senior But evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived For as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole housholds but they shall proceed no farther for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men 2 Tim. 3.8 9 13. Titus 3.11 LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by C. Brome at the Gun at the West End of St. Pauls and J. Guillim Bookseller in Bishopsgate-street 1696. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND HENRY L. Bishop of London My Lord I Humbly conceive it my duty to discover to your Lordship what I apprehend may be of dangerous consequence either to Church or State And this emboldens me to offer the ensuing discourse to your Lordships pious consideration I must humbly confess 't is a great presumption upon your Honours Patience and Patronage But that which amongst other things gives me encouragement hereunto and which I hape may plead my excuse at least extenuate my offence is the Quakers frequent Dedications and Presentations of their Books to the King Lords and Commons and other Magistrates from year to year one Sessions of Parliament after another for thirty or forty years together beseeching begging and craving their aid support and authority whilst in their Books to their Disciples they utterly disclaim any such seeking to outward authority But instead thereof when not suiting their Interest they 'll Impeach and Condemn their proceeding as Antichristian and Arraign Try and Condemn the Learned Protestant Clergy as inconsistent to Christianity Thus like the Camelion they can turn themselves into all colours their Books being of two sorts carrying two different faces And it was by this method that the Arians of old deceived the Emperor Constantius who at last made Laws in their behalf against the Orthodox And that this is no new Artifice your Lordship may observe from the book of Exodus that notwithstanding Moses was divinely inspired and gifted witb Miracles to confirm his Commission yet the Magicians by their Magick Act and cunning Intreagues came very near him in shew likewise Simon Magus Acts 8. by his Sorcery and Juggling Tricks so bewitched the Samaritans that they gave great heed to all he said And History sufficiently informs us what hard work the Protestants had to confute the Papists whose Books were like the Quakers of two sorts professing in one sort what they utterly rejected in the other sort And this made Bishop Jewel in his Defence to the Apology c. propose to his Reader viz. Good Reader if thou wilt examine our doings I beseech thee search and prove what hath been wrote on both sides and do not suffer thy self by shews and shifts to be beguiled for what man will seem to deal so uprightly as a Juggler he will strike up his sleeves make bare his arms and open his hands and fingers and bid thee behold And thou wilt think him to be a good plain man and marvel thou shouldst possibly be deceived and yet indeed his whole design is nothing but to deceive thee and the more simply and plainly he would seem to deal so much the more he will deceive thee otherwise he were no Juggler c. And to this agrees that notable saying of Ireneaeus in his third Book against Hereticks viz. Whilst Heretick speak like the faithful they not only mean otherwise than what they say â—â—â— clean contrary And by their Tenents full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the poyson of their foul opinions And no marvel saith St. Paul for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light therefore it is no great thâ—ng if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their works 2 Cor. 13.14 And my Lord being sensible of the Quakers method not only of their unwâ—â—y'd sollicitation of the Members of Parliament both Lords and Commons for many years but also in sending their Books into all Counties Shires Cities Towns and Villages in England and Wales as well as parts beyond the Seas I thought it my duty to let the World know their principles from their Printed Books For as simple as they look and as innocent as they seem to appear for deep subtilty they outstrip both Jew and Jesuit and notwithstanding their many and great pretences to meeknesâ— charity and long-suffering there is not a more uncharitable and censâ—◠〈◊〉 people under heaven I am My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble and obedient Servant Fr. Bugg An Apologetical Introduction to the History of the Rise Growth and Progress of QUAKERISM Friendly Reader IF Athanasius made an Apology for his writing against the Arians and other of late for their exposing the errors of the Socinians nay if the Church of England thought herself oblig'd to Apologize in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth for writing against the errors of the Papists 't is but reasonable for me to think myself under the same Obligation for writing against the dangerous errors of the Quakers for surely there has not appeared a more compleat Monster upon the Stage since the days of Simon Magus than George Fox was in his day nor did Simon Magus more applaud himself nor more of his Followers adore him nor take greater care to continue the Memory of him than the Quakers have done of G. Fox witness the reprint of his Labours his Travels his Miracles and Wonders Insomuch that what many Ages have perplexed the Church withal singly we are assaulted with at once as if the scattered Limbs of Heresy had rallied and reinforced themselves for a fresh Battle I have seen Muggleton's Transcendent Spiritual Treatise c. and I cannot find that he holds pace with George Fox in his Books Truths Defence c. Sauls Errand c. A Threefold Estate of Antichrist c. and divers other Books wrote formerly and which they â—â—ill own commend and recommend to their Disciples as Books wrote by divine Authority yea from the Eternal Spirit and Power of God see Sect. the XVI Nay in many things Muggleton and the Quakers seem to be Twins For Muggleton says 't is not lawful to fight with a Sword of Steel so say the Quakers at least until they get power into their hands as in Pensilvania where they can both fight with a Carnal Sword fine imprison and persecute their Brethren as the Trial of G. Keith and others sets forth at large Muggleton denies the Blessed Trinity
are not say they obliging unless a man be convinced c. SECT IX HAving by the foregoing shewed W. Pen to be for and against himself for conformity to the laws orders and decrees of G. Fox conviction or no conviction against conformity to the commands of God in Scripture unless convinced shewing himself thereby to be tot quot omnis every thing and nothing I am now coming to the latter part of the paragraph wherein you sorely complain of Mr. Faldo But if upon an impartial consideration he shall be found to clip or pervert our matter and to shuffle with us in his own Once do a poor people right c. Mr. Pen I am loath to provoke you but if I should I do not fear you you complain of Mr. Faldo's clipping and perverting your matter and shuffling with you in his word a crime no people upon the face of the whole earth more guilty than your selves and at which none better than your self G. Whitebread and G. Fox in his time and I must tell you G. W. hath stood in great need of you and does still one that can make a black thing appear white but I fear the Quakers will not yet depute you and my reason is Mr. Meads aversness to your Preface to Fox his Journal being bound up therewith but like some Lackey it is forced to run shrugging afoot in a poor thin blue coat waiting at the Readers Elbow like A Noun Adjective wanting a word to shew its signification as well as why it 's left to shift for it self c. Well William I have not forgot your complaint I am now coming to do right between you As to Mr. Faldo I have not read all he writ but so far as I have I find him fair and ingenuous leaving out your glosses wiping off your paintings and discovering your fallacies but William cast an eye upon G. Fox s Gr. myst and compare it with the Books which he pretends to answer and you will find it the greatest Mystery of Iniquity that ever appeared in the world under pretence of a religious contest of which Mr. Crisp has made a clear discovery in his Book entitled The Discovery of the accursed thing in the Foxonian Quakers Camp enlarged c. and An Essay c. to allay G. F. s Spirit Oh the horrible clipping mincing and shameful pervertions cutting sentences in two taking the middle of a line and leaving both ends altering the sense laming the argument and defacing the whole matter and if you please to do me right for once against his Son and your Companion that stood up stoutly for you when time was i. e. G. W.'s answer stiled The content Apost recharged c. to mine entitled Battering Rams against New Rome c. where he took one line here another there and sometimes five words out of the middle of a line sometimes but one word in a line and leaves the next and take the next and leap two or three lines off and take two or three words more see New Rome unmaskt p. 75. where this is fully discovered it may be some may think this is not worth the mentioning but if they do but consider first how they have prevailed with these people to believe that what their Teachers say is by an infallible spirit they will not err a jot but do right to all impartially next that they hinder their Hearers from reading the Answers or selling Books that are against them together with their way of spreading their own Books which suggest this and I do say it is one of the cunningest stratagems that Satan has assisted them in and a deep design to misrepresent their Adversaries I could write a Folio on this head but Fox his Book stiled The Great myst being examined and compared is a sufficient demonstration and if they will not examine but the blind will follow their blind Leaders be it upon themselves for what can a man say to such as are willingly ignorant and resolve to oppose conviction I remember one little pretty story in Fox's Journal see the 3d Table or Index Treachery against Geo. Fox his Horse Alas treason for W. Pen knows G. F was a King if he that has a Kingdom be a King see Judas and the Jews p. 44 45 46. of his own justifying too Well however it was either Treachery or Treason that 's certain as you may find it printed in the 255 page And I looked back and the Hostler was filing his Pocket with the Provender that was giving to my Horse c. I confess it was a naughty trick and the worse considering whose Horse it was but whether it deserves to be chronicled I leave the Reader to judge But Friend William if you please to look into the 77 page of G. F. his Great mystery there you will find him justifying Felony upon pretence of a motion which shew that the 8th Commandment Exod. 20.15 was not binding to the Quakers at least to G. Fox their great Apostle and Prophet and Jacob of the age well pray hear him And as for any being moved of the Lord to take away your the Ministers hour-glass from you by the eternal power it is owned c. Here you see he owns Theft in the Quakers with this proviso That if they be moved to it And what Thief will not to save his Bacon as the Proverb is say he is moved But the poor Thievish Hostler did but steal 2 or 3 handfuls of Oats and he must be upon Record to posterity for a Thief only G. F. was so kind as not to write his name down no more than he did the names of several upon whom he wrought his Miracles nor indeed where they dwelt only some in Maryland some in Barbadoes and some in Ireland But as to G. F. owning the Felony 't is not strange for if he was not convinced at that time of his duty to Gods command in the 8th Commandment he is by W. Pen justified and that this position is of a dangerous tendency and doth indeed carry in it all iniquity I shall yet further observe SECT X. HAving already treated of the Quakers Doctrine particularly that position which says That no command in Scripture is any further obliging upon any man than as he finds a conviction upon his own conscience c. which is such a pernicious principle as Mr. Faldo said that it carries all iniquity in the womb of it and indeed is the very floodgate by which Quakerism was first let in among us which came in as a mighty stream flowing over all our Banks of Laws Order and Government both divine and humane overturning the very Ordinances instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ the authority of the Scriptures to the great scandal of our Christian Religion and in the mean while valuing their own Papers Laws and Orders as superior to them And therefore as I have begun with the first planting of Quakerism which was in the year 1650.
of receiving them and their Testimony you have caused them * Here Sam. thinks to blind the poor Quakers and make them believe he was a 20 l. sufferer when he lost not a groat to suffer And them also that did receive them and their Testimony The Lord forgive you is the desire of him that chuses rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God than to live in the pleasures of this world Sam. Cater I have laid a snare for thee and thou art taken O Babylon and thou wast not aware thou art found and also caught put your selves in array against Babylon round about all you that bend the Bow shoot at her spare no Arrows for the Lord hath opened his Armoury and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord God of Hosts Jer. 50.14 24 25. SECT XVI Fr. King WE do forbid you to print any Books in any place whatsoever concerning Religion which are not Attested i. e. Licensed by two Manual Certificates at least under pain of losing the whole Impression Prot. Nor as his Majesty hath demanded of us will we suffer thâ—se Canons of our National Synod concerning the Approbation i. e. Licensing of Books that shall be pâ—inâ—â—d on matters of Religion to be violated it being our sincere and most fixed Resolution to obâ—erve in the precisest and strictest manner their Majesties Edicts and under the benefit of them to lâ—ad a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty Quak. Epist ibid. p. 3. It 's desired that the monthly and quarterly meetings respectively takes notice of all Friends Books that are or may be sent to them according to former agreement and take care for the dispersing the same for the service of Truth c. and take care to advise the Correspondents for the Counties to write only to your Correspondents in London about their sufferings lest their suffering case be delayed Renewed advice to the respective Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in England and Wales and for the preserving and spreading Friends Books for Truths service Dear Friends THese are to let you understand that our Friends have at several yearly Meetings had under their serious consideration hw all those Books that are printed for the service of Truth and the unity of Friends might most effectually be spread for a general service to Truth and Information unto Friends and others And at the last yearly Meeting it was left unto this meeting who have settled as followeth viz. That those that print friends books shall the first opportunity after printed within one month at most send to one of the Correspondents in the several Counties viz. For each Monthly Meeting two Books of a sort if under Sixpence and one of a sort if above Sixpence for these reasons 1. For Friends to have general notice of what Books are printed 2. That they may send for what other quantities they may see a service for 3. That the Printer may be encouraged in printing for friends 4. That one Book at least of a sort that shall be printed except Collections may be kept in each Monthly and Quarterly Meeting for the service of Friends and Truth as there shall be â—ccasion for the future 5. It 's agreed that the Printer will allow two pence in the shilling for all such Books 6. It 's Agreed That some here shall be appointed to examine the Printer to see that they send no Books but such as are appointed by Friends 7. It 's Agreed and Advised that the Printers account be fully cleared once a year at least by those Friends the Country shall send up to the yearly Meeting 8. It 's Agreed That the name of the Printer imployed by Friends should be sent with directions how to write to him Dear Friends and Brethren it 's tenderly advised and recommended to you that you be careful and diligent in the spreading of all such Books that are printed for the service of Truth and are written either in defence of it or Christian Doctrine or Holy profession or by way of Epistle Warning Caution Exhortation or Prophecy that so we may not be remiss or negligent in promoting the holy truth that nothing may be wanting on our parts to promote it and the spreading of it that the Nations may be informed and brought into the knowledge of it that in the end we may give an account with joy An ancient friend the Printers name is as follows to whom direct thus For Andrew Soale at the Crooked Billet in Holy-well-lane in Shoreditch London Or to Thomas Northcoat at his Shop in George-yard in Lombard-street London And this we think needful you should record in your Quarterly Books and sometimes read it for remâ—mbrance and notice Signed in the behalf of the Meeting the 18th of the â—â—th mâ—nth 1693. by Benjamin Bealing The yearly Meeting Epistle the 27th of the 3d month 1675. It is our Sense Advice Admonition and Judgment in the fear of God and the authority of his Power and Sprit to Friends and Brethren in their several Meetings that no such slight and contemptible names and expressions as calling men and womens Meetings Courts Sessions or Synods that they are Popish Impositions useless and burthensome And that faithful Friends Papers which we Testifie have been given forth by the Power and Spirit of God are mens Edicts or Canons or embracing them bowing to men Elders in the service of Truth Popes and Bishops with such scornful sayings be permitted among them But let Gods power be set upon the top of that unsavoury Spirit and them that use it Signed by George Whitehead William Pen and others I am the larger in this Citation to convince the world that the Quakers prefer their own Books before and above the Scripture contrary to their pretence in their sheet they delivered to the Parliament as also to shew the impudence of some amongst them that tell people they have no Epistles read amongst them as Francis Bugg sets forth which I know they can no more be ignorant of than of the Suns shining at noon-day And in order to a further discovery thereof I shall recite the Titles of some of their Epistles as I did in New Rome Arraigned p. 41. which to this day they have not denyed c. 1. Two General Epistles to the Flock of God where-ever they are dispersed by M. Fell and J. Park printed 1664. 2. To Friends in England Ireland Scotland Holland New England Barbadoes or any where else where the Lord shall order this to come c. 3. A General Epistle to be read in the fear of God in the Assembly of his people by W. D. 4. The word of the Lord to Syon the New Jerusalem the Bride the Lambs Wife the excellency of all the Glory that is amongst the people by W. D. printed 1664. 5. An Epistle to Friends every where to be read distinctly in their Meetings by K. W. printed 1681. 6. All Friends every
any Prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court or elsewhere for the same And I knowing these things and considering their calling part of the Parliaments proceedings in the very same Act of Parliament grand oppression yea an Antichristian Yoak of Bondage and as such warn their Disciples not to pay them thereby acquitting and absolving the Kings Subjects if the Quakers be such from their active obedience to the Laws of the Land and which is still worse to cause them to bring up to London a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the distresses taken for their non-payment of Tythes Church-Wardens Rates c. and all this disobedience is in a great part owing to the usurpation of this Anti-magistratical Synod or Convocation Nor is this all but if their yearly Epistles which they keep as close as possibly they can were all seen you would see a hundred Instances of the like kind one more I may shew viz. In the 22d Year of King Charles the 2d there was an Act of Parliament made to prevent seditious Conventicles and that no Meetings above the number of four besides the Family were to beheld under pretence of Religious Worship in other manner than according to the Liturgy of the Church of England But in direct opposition to this the Quakers made a Law at their Yearly Meeting or Convocation held at Devonshire House the 27th of May 1675 viz. So it is our Advice and Judgment that all Friends Gathered in the Name of Jesus keep up those publick Testimonies meaning their Meetings in their respective places and not decline forsake or remove their Publick Assemblies because of times of sufferings as worldly fearful and politick Professors have done meaning the Presbyterians Independants and Baptists because of Informers and the like Persecutors Signed per G. Whitehead William Pen c. Whereby it may be seen that their Principles and Doctrine are Anti-magistratical and Unscriptural too for said Christ If they persecute thee in one City flee to the next And his Desciples met privately for fear of the Jews as more largely handled in my Book The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt c. Thus much by way of Apology for my Impeaching the Quakers presumptuous Proceedings in their Synodical Assembly 4. That what I have wrote hithetto or great part of it is not of my own doing but by the Assistance of Learned Persons Answer I know it has been the way and manner of the Quakers from the first day I wrote against their Errors to use all the ways and means they can to blast my endeavours and by lies and false insinuations to weaken my Testimony sometimes I write say they like a Fool a Boy of 11 Years of Age will laugh at it when that will not do then I write so much otherwise that it cannot be my own but some of the wicked Priests as they account the Clergy help me c. And this being bruted abroad several Gentlemen have desired me to give some account thereof which is as follows When G. W. in his charitable Essay p. 2. charged me with Socinianism saying Why did not thy Minister stop thee from running into such Socinianism c. I went to Mr. Archer our Minister and shewed him the passage and desired his assistance all answering that particular He read Whitehead s Essay and my Book to which his was pretended to be an Answer and he told me that what I had wrote was found and he immediately took his Pen and wrote part of the 3d and 4th pages in the Introduction of New Rome Arraigned c. And which I also in the same page acknowledge in these words And this my Minister tells me is not Ignorance nor Socinianism but your Books teach it c. And except this I do not know that ever I had any Clergyman or other Scholar by me an hour in all I have wrote nor six lines added or diminished by any such a one nor has any Man so much as seen this before I sent it to London for the Press I do say that my Book New Rome Unm. c. and New Rome Arraigned c. I did show to Mr. Archer and to another neighbouring Minister a very worthy and learned person in Manuscript and both of them might alter here and there a word which in the whole in both Books might contain 3 or 4 lines but they altered no matter neither by adding or diminishing but very well approved of what I had done considering my capacity as to Learning and my business as a Tradesman But what if I had assistance I am not the first better men than I am and fitter for such work have had assistance I could if it were for my present purpose shew that the very Quakers who pretend they write by the Eternal Spirit immediately from Heaven they not only have assistance but when their Books come at their second days Meeting in London for Approbation they then will take out and put to what is said to be thus wrote in the Name of the Lord which is a most horrible cheat for their message so wrote is either so or not so if so how unfaithful are these Seers to alter what was given forth in the Name of the Lord if not see what Impostors are these Elders to approve of what they believe is false And yet how frequent is it with their Quaker Teachers to question the truth of all mens sincerity but their own charging the Clergy to be False Prophets c. And now I do challenge G. W. and W. P. to produce one Clergy-man in the Nation that ever prophesied in the Name of the Lord and the thing came ot to pass But G. W. and W. Pen know that 't is frequent with their Preachers so to prophesy and are found false Prophets in that the thing comes not to pass witness Sol. Eccles who prophesied that John Story should dye within a year he being at that time ill yet it pleased God he lived about 4 years after But why should they render me such an Ignoramus as that I should not be able to deal with the Quakers who are not such Conjurers themselves I know they did not always account me so when they chose me to be their Representative to go to the London meeting about Sufferings about the year 1670. Nor when I was Clerk to their monthly and quarterly meetings 16 or 18 years together Nor when they had their Register-book to new model and to add Ely sufferings to it which old Records being by me serve to shew me many of their Intrigues particularly Sam. Cater's sham-suffering for preaching at Plakenham in Norfolk where pretending he lost 20 l. yet got 10 l. clear by it See Sect. 17. c. as this Licence shews viz. Fra. Bugg we desire thee to draw out the sufferings out of the monthly Book and record them in the Publick Register-books and add Ely and Littleport sufferings to the rest Let them be done carefully and
speedily it being by our Assent Robert Smith Rob. Letchworth Jeremy Rose Joseph Nun Edw. Wingfeild Robert Barber And thus much by way of Introduction Mildenhall Jan. 15. 1695. FRANCIS BUGG Sen. A Brief HISTORY of the Rise Growth and Progress of QUAKERISM SECTION I. THe first rise of Quakerism was in the year 1650. For George Fox coming to Derby and going into the Church to disturb the Minister was by the Justices committed to Prison for that and his other blasphemous principles and to this agree Edw. Burrough's Epistle on the front of Geo. Fox's Great Mist c. And this Justice Bennet was the first that ever call'd them Quakers This I can prove by other Books but you may read it in Geo. Fox's Journal p. 32. to 40. And that it may plainly appear with what principles the Quakers came into the world withal at their first entrance you may read a Copy of the Warrant by which they were justly imprisoned viz. To the Master of the House of Correction in Derby We have here sent you the Bodies of Geo. Fox and John Fretwell brought before us this day and charged with the avowing uttering and broaching divers blasphemous opinions which upon their examination before as they have confessed These are therefore to require you forthwith upon sight hereof to receive them the said G. Fox and J. Fretwell into your Custody and them therein safely to keep during the space of six months without Bail or Mainprize or until they shall find sufficient security to be of the good behaviour or be thence delivered by order from our selves Hereof you are not to fail Given under our Hands and Seals this thirtieth day of October 1650. Ger. Bennet Nath. Barton I was once minded to have set forth more particularly what principles they came into the world withal as I find them even by the Quakers themselves put forth in a Book stiled Saul's Errand to Damascus p 1 2. which tho they have in the same Book pretended to answer the said Petition yet I do positively affirm that their said Answer looks more like a Confession than a sincere Denyal As also the said Petition and their pretended Answer being with other their Time-serving Treacherous principles fully spoken to in that excellent Book lately put forth by a Divine of the Church of England entituled The Snake in the Grass or Satan transformed into an Angel of Light Discovering the deep and unsuspected subtilty couched under the pretended simplicity of the principal Leaders of the Quakers Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West End of St Pauls 1696. containing about 600 pages insomuch that should I write after him to shew their facing about to every power even as the Weather-cock sometimes for the Parliament sometimes for the Rump sometimes for the Committee of Safety sometimes for the Council of State and then for Monarchy and to shew their encouraging Oliver against the Royal party it would be like lighting a candle at noon-day Their temporizing being so excellently set forth in the said Book yet that the World may see with what principles they prest into the world against all Rule Law and Government I may transcribe the said principles because by what follows it may be seen what foundation they went upon which was under pretence of magnifying the Light in themselves to deny Jesus of Nazareth to undervalue his death and sufferings contemn his Laws contained in the holy Scriptures despise his Ordinances revile Magistrates reproach Ministers In a word they not only by these principles hereto annexed but by their whole proceedings have not only verified what I have already said but manifested their principles to be Antiscriptural Antimagistratical Antichristian unreasonable and irreligious An Abstract of the said Petition is as followeth Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 1 2. To the Right Honorable the Council of State the Humble Petition of several Gentlemen Justices of the Peace Ministers of the Gospel and People within the County of Lancaster Humbly sheweth THat Geo. Fox and James Nailer are persons disaffected to Religion and the wholsom Laws of this Nation who have broached opinions tending to the destruction of the Relation of Subjects to their Magistrates Wives to their Husbands Children to their Parents Servants to their Masters Congregations to their Ministers particularly 1. Geo. Fox professed that he was equal with God 2. He professed himself to be the eternal Judge of the World meaning the Light in him 3. He said he was the Judge of the World still with the same Inuendo I suppose 4. He said he was the Christ the Way the Truth and the Life still meaning the Light This I can prove from his Writings extant amongst the Quakers 5. He said that whoever took a place of Scripture and preached from it was a Conjurer and his preaching Conjuration this is frequent in the Quakers Books yea an approved piece of Doctrine 6. He said the Scripture was Carnal yea Death Dust Serpents meat Beastly ware the Husk this G. Whitehead hath vindicated Thus much respecting Geo. Fox what is relating to Ja. Nailer is spoken to in the recited Book The Snake c. But G. Fox being their great Apostle and the founder of Quakerism I was willing to set down the principles upon which he set up and for which he was imprisoned as you see And the rather because Geo. Whitehead and his followers have published a Journal of his Noble and Ignoble acts of his disturbing Ministers of magnifying himself of his pretended Miracles and other deluding Charms on purpose to bewitch the people like Simon Magus his Predecessor Wherefore in this contest there can be no Neuters if God be God serve him if Baal serve him who can have patience to see the Name of God thus openly Blasphemed he that can is no Christian he has not zeal for God nor love to the souls of men The Papists will not have the Pope called Antichrist nor spoken disrespectfully of the Turk will not hear Mahomet blasphemed as we are Christians let us stand for Christ and the Christian Religion I have read how dangerous it is to foster Hereticks and shall England now become a nursery of Quakerism which spread itself like a Leprosie far and near even to Nations beyond the Seas And therefore since G. Whitehead c. have printed the Acts and Monuments of Geo. Fox which the poor silly ignorant Quakers run a whoring after as the Idolatrous Israelites did after the Golden Calf I am zealously concerned to unmask the head of this Foxonian Tribe of Quakers i. e. G. Fox and in a remembrance of what I was once my self and that for many years I can do no less And in this short Treatise I shall shew how Geo. Fox resembleth Simon Magus and Ignatius Loyola for the tree is known of the fruit SECTION II. SImon Magus lived in the Apostles time as saith S. Luke Acts 8.9 10. There was a certain man called Simon which in fore
and shewed by what arts they have come on and advanced their Errors I am now coming to shew the way of Lucius the first Christian King as History saith that the world ever knew to propagate the Christian Faith he did not stay at this place and that to write Papers and Books to spread truth nor did the Bishop of Rome at that time order him so to do as was the practice of Geo. Fox no to the Law and to the Testimony this was the way that every planter of the true Christian Faith took of which I will give you a noble instance * Eng. Chron. by John Heath p. 19 20. This Royal King Lucius being mindful of Religion that dearest part of Government more than any other consideration the better to prosper the work so prosperously begun sent two learned men to Elutherus then Bishop of Rome to be farther instructed in the Christian Faith who thereupon sent him Fagarius and Damianus with his Letter in the following words as saith the Historian viz. You have received in the Kingdom of Briton by Gods mercy both the Law and Faith of Christ you have both the Old and New Testament out of the same thro Gods Grace by the Advice of your Realm take a Law and by the same through Gods Sufference rule your Kingdom of Brittain c. Having such a good example from this Learned Bishop and Religious King I shall first set down some Scriptures which have been both by Kings and Subjects thought special commands and binding and obliging all men whether all have been so perswaded yea or nay yet I say the faithful Christians in all ages and generations have taken them as their Rule of Obedience and to be of that authority to quell and subdue all those diabolical delusions which will suggest the contrary viz. Mat. 22.21 Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods St. Paul to Tit. 3.1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey magistrates to be ready to every good work 1 Pet. 2.13 14 17. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supream or unto governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well Honour all men love the brotherhood fear God honour the King Rom. 13.1 2 3. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation for rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil Wilt thou * G. F. heed not a Cart Load of Warrants then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same †W. Tyndals works i. e. of the obedience of a Christian man p. 111. For God hath made the King in every Realm judge over all and over him there is no Judge he that resisteth the King resisteth God If the Subjects sin they must be brought to the Kings judgment if the King sin he must be reserved unto the judgment of God and as it is to resist the King so is it to resist his Officers which are set or sent to execute the Kings commandment for it is written let every soul submit himself unto the authority of the higher powers * G. W. what think you of this Doctrine here is no man exempt but all souls must obey Thus I have given a brief account of the Christian Faith First what Christ who is the Head of the Christian Church and Author of the Christian Faith he said Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and his Apostle Paul bid Titus put the believing Christians in mind to obey Magistrates and to confirm this point St. Peter is very express Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake not so much that he favours us or is kind and governs gently by wholsome Laws these things indeed are good and great mercies to a people but our submission ought to be for the Lords sake who hath ordained Magistracy and Government for so saith St. Paul the powers that be are ordained of God and whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Likewise you may read the Doctrine of W. Tyndal in his Book entitled The Obedience of a Christian man and see how the blessed Martyrs espoused and maintained the same delivered by the Apostles SECT XI NOW in order to give a right understanding and that from plain matter of fact of the difference between the faith and practice of the Quakers of the one part and the faith and practice of the Christians in all ages since the days of Christ I have a purpose to set forth as a particular instance the practice of the Reformed Churches of France in regard they live under a Popish King rather than the Church of England and chiefly for this reason beeause the Quakers are so prejudiced against our Clergy Tho I believe there is not sounder men nor a better disciplined Church in the world yet I say they having always been so prejudiced against them as to call them Beasts Dogs Baals Priests Witches Devils Antichrists Blasphemers and a thousand such unchristian and horrible names on purpose to beget an ill opinion in the people of them as Burrough in his Epistle to Fox his Mystery confesseth that so they might leave and forsake them also considering how frequently they have in their Books arraigned impeached and condemned the Magistracy of England under the odious names of the Beast which carry the Whore the Persecuters of Gods People the Antichrists c. That I think it more proper to take a foreign parallel that if possible they may at last be brought to a confession of their Errors burn their Books renounce their Religion and bethink themselves where they have been what they have been doing and how scandalous their antimagistratical principles have been to the Christian Religion not that I have leisure or parts to set forth this matter as it ought to be done but am content to be as a Carpenters Man to hew off the knots and make the work fit for better Workmen to compleat what I leave imperfect and in order to this I shall abstract some few passages of the 28th Synod held at Charenton in France viz. The Acts of the 28 Synod of the Reformed Churches of France assembled by his Majestys Permission at Charenton near Paris on Monday the 26th day of December 1644 and ended Thursday the 26th of January 1645. See the Acts Decisions and Decrees of the Reformed Churches of France per John Quick vol. 2. p. 425. First Monsieur Drelincourt opened the Sessions with Prayer and then the Lord Marquis of Clermont General Deputy presented
and State of Lib. Spir. p. 3 11. pr. 1681. 't is the Root of Ranterism to asser that nothing is a duty incumbent upon thee but what thou art perswaded or convinced is thy duty for the seared Conscience pleads this liberty against all duty The dark Conscience is here unconcerned the dead Conscience is here uncondemned I see no evil says one in paying Tythes to the hireling Priests I see no evil says another in marrying by a Priest I see no evil says a third in hiding in times of suffering for I have Christ 's and Paul 's example I see no evil says a fourth The Quakers themselves force their Apprentices to stand bare-headed before them in their Shops and Houses where they are Superiours Oh Deceit and Hypocrisie c. in putting off my Hat to my Superiors I see no evil says a fifth in shutting up my Windows in obedience to authority on Christmas-day or on Fast-days or other days set apart by the Magistrate c. Thus Reader you may see the first capital sins against the Quakers Commandments and secondly that they leave no room for their Disciples to stay until they be convinced whether indeed these be sins either in their own nature or against the written word of God or contained in the first or second Table of the ten Commandments oh no they are transgressions against the Orders Laws and Commands of Geo. Fox And as such they are obliging upon all whether conviction or no conviction c. behold the Doctrine of W. Pen yea the same William Pen that tells Mr. Faldo That there is no Command in the Scripture farther obliging upon any mans Conscience than as he meets with a Conviction SECT XV. BUt possibly some may say Indeed this yearly Epistle seems very ungrateful in divers respects and which deserves consideration but what is the reason that the Chronicle and compendious History do not come forth that the Quakers have boasted of near this thirty years in their Book Judas and the Jews c. p. 58. And their Rejoinder p. 410. saying Our faithful Chronicle of the bloody Tragedies of that professing generation will tell future ages other things c. I say why future ages This looks very odd to tell us 20 or 30 years together of a compendious History to come forth of their faithful Chronicles to come out and yet none is come forth to publick view No they are sadly dull they begin to draw back what do not the Quarterly and Monthly meetings carry up enough every year or are they minded to reserve it till all persons concerned therein are dead and gone and see none left to detect it At that rate indeed they may tell future ages a lamentable story of cruel sufferings and little of it true if any Answer 1. As to the quarterly and monthly Meetings tho they may be somewhat dull and want quickening yet no doubt but they have gathered up enough to print several volumes for you see thay call for the whole number viz. Take more care for the future that all friends suâ—â—erings may be brought up as full and compleat in all respects as possible may be c. Thus we see what care they take first to magnifie themselves by their great sufferings which in all the History that I have read of the French Protestants I have not taken notice of any thing of the like nature 2. You may see by their threatned Chronicle how they intend to represent this Nation as a persecuting bloody-minded people And knowing that great part of their sufferings are shams and nothing but noise they are asham'd as well they may to bring it forth And to convince the World that it is so see my Book New Rome unmaskt c. p. 54. where Samuel Cater of Littleport in the Isle of Ely one of their preachers is detected for being recorded in their quarterly book for suffering a fine of 20 l. for preaching at Plakenham in Norfolk when indeed he was so far from losing 20 l. that he got 10 l. into pocket tho a rich man in clear money It 's true he was fined and his goods destrained but never carried away and in a little time every pennyworth returned as 40 neighbours will witness but this made such a noise and Sam being a right man for Fox and as true to him as he was to Ja. Naylâ—r when he led his Horse into Bristol he had 10 l. sent him out of the publick Stock Fund Exchequer or Treasury or what you will call the Common Bank by John Peacock deceased late of St. Ives as a Reward for his Valour and Courage but you must note he was a Preacher for June 9. 1670. which as my old Records still by me tell me there was a meeting at Littleport where Sam. Fullig Cl. Crabb Tho. Hawks Jo. Love Henry Waddelow Tho. Paine R. Crabb and others were fined who had their Cows Horses Mares Pewter and Brass taken away but never any thing sent them from London nor their goods returned But that which makes Sam. Cater's Case still worse tho indeed I think there can be no greater cheat put upon future ages yet this is more impudent for anno 1679. S. Cater and Jos Harrison put forth a Book entituled A Lamentable Cry of Oppression c. In which Book the said Sam. renews the memory of his sufferings for that meeting for which he did not suffer a groat but got 10 l. clear into pocket as I have said read p. 14. There being a meeting at Jos Harrison's in Plakenham July 2. 1670. And Sam. Cater being there declaring the truth W. Watts's his Wife came and went and informed the Officers who came and had him before Chr. Colthorp who said he would fine Sam. 2O l. which accordingly he did and sent the Records of Conviction to Ely Magistrates who sent out their Warrants and took away his goods c. Thus ends the Relation as to matter of fact but he that writes a History of that nature should tell the whole truth viz. Indeed I was so inform'd against so fined and destrained But I had my goods again this at least he should have said tho he had kept private his Reward of 10 l. which was purposely sent him c. But alas he to make the world believe that he thus lamentably suffered under that lamentable Justice Sir Christopher Colthorp nine years after the transaction was committed and done and also to make the poor Quakers that heard him and lost their Fines without any reparation believe that their Minister was zealous for the cause a great sufferer yea 20 l. thick for coming to visit them as a servant of the Lord and a Messenger from the great God He goes on p. 44. saying And now it is upon me from the Lord to warn you all that have had any hand in oppressing his Children and evil intreating his Servants and Messengers that he hath sent amongst you to exhort you But instead
where this is the word of the Lord unto you all this you may read amongst the children of the light and of the day per G. Fox 7. This is only to go amongst Friends 8. An Epistle to Friends in England to be read in their Assemblys 9. An Epistle to the Remnant of Friends per G. Whitehead concluding thus Let this be read distinctly in the life and authority of God from whence it came among Friends in and about the City of London and elsewhere as any Friends are moved in the same Life 10. To all people who meet in Steeple-houses in England and elsewhere p. 2. A message from the Lord Jesus Christ in England or elsewhere into all the Steeple-houses to be read 11. To the Children of Light c. I desire this Epistle may be read in your several Meetings William Pen. 12. Several papers given forth for the spreading of truth c. I charge you in the presence of the Lord God to send this Epistle among Friends and Brethren every 〈◊〉 to be read in all Meetings to you all this is the word of the Lord God Geo. Fox SECT XVII HAving in the foregoing Section proved from plain matter of fact that the Quakers prefer their nonsensical Pamphlets before the Scriptures being compared with the contemptible expressions they give them as beastly ware death dust and serpents meat c. notwithstanding their Hypocritical Sheet they delivered to the Parliament and as a proof it will stand against them beyond all their glossing I think I need to make no other Remark or Observation having largely shewed their practice from their own works and therefore I come now to answer an Objection viz. Object Possibly some may say that tho they take the liberty of the Press to spread their Heretical Doctrine and defamatory Libels as the Battledoor for the Magistrates Teachers and Professors in the form and figure of a Childs penny horn book to learn the English of tu and vos As likewise their Primmer put out by G. Fox formerly a Journeyman Shoemaker containing 2434 Queries as what is a Noun a Pronoun a Participle an Adverb c. as at large recited by me in my book Battering Rams against New Rome c. p. 16 17. yet they often pretend to moral vertues and they pretend they do not hinder the Sale of your Books as in W. Pens Rejoinder c. part 2. p. 404. I do aver says W. Pen in the name of the Quakers we never endeavour any such thing as to prevent the sale of an Adversaries Books Therefore in so many words they who say we do have certified an absolute Lye c. Answ Now for proof that the Quakers do hinder the Sale of their Adversaries Books I will give you three instances whereby it will appear how false William Pen is in this case as well as in many more that might be mentioned but what will they not say for holy Church Oh the deceit the fraud and religious cheats that are to be found amongst the Teachers of this people but as he himself observes in a little Pamphlet of his stiled A Brief Answer to a false and foolish Libel c. p. 25. But the truth is error can only be maintained by error And what can we expect from W. Pen who has vindicated as gross Idolatry wrote by Jos Coal to G. Fox as ever Muggleton uttered in his Book Judas and the Jews c. p. 44 to 47. I say what can we expect of such men as Pen and Whitehead who will say and unsay this to day and that to morrow and by and by stand to neither well but let me proceed to prove W. Pen a Lyer for once since he avers in the name of the Quakers that they never hinder the Sale of their Adversaries Books c. Instance 1. About the year 168â— William Rogers put forth a Book against the Foxonian Quakers Usurpation of their Womens Meetings c. intituled The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovate in five parts This Book John Barnard a dissenting Quaker sold and for which thing only they excommunicated him as at large set forth in my Book de Chr. Lib. c. part 2. p. 179. An Abstract thereof I shall recite viz. From the monthly meeting at Devonshire-house the 4th of the 11th month 1681. Whereas there have been some unruly Spirits gone out from the truth and the unity of the blessed power of God writing printing and publishing things hurtful to truth by corrupting of peoples minds tending also to draw them into disesteem * Mark the two things this excommunication are bottomed upon viz. first corrupting of peoples minds next tending to weaken the esteem the pâ—or ignorant Quakers have of such Deceivers of many of the Lords Servants we find our selves concerned to take notice of some of this kind befaln Jo. Barnard formerly a member of this Meeting who hath dispersed into several parts of this Nation divers of those perniâ—ioâ—s Baâ—ks in print wrote by W. Rogers called The Christian Quaker distinguished from the Apostate and Innovater So that now we being wholly clear having used an utmost endeavour to reclaim him do not only Tâ—stifie against that Spirit which hath led him into that disorderly practice but also against â—i while joyned thereunto nor can we have Spiritual communion or fellowshiâ— with him until unfeignedly he shall return unto the truth by condemnation of that Work and Spirit c. By which 't is plain that the Quakers do endeavour to hinder the Sale of their Adversaries Books as this excommunication out of their Fellowship and Spiritual Communion for selling the said Book is an evidence and sufficient proof c. Instance II. Whereas G. Keith wrote several Books against the errors of the Quakers in Pensilvania and for which they persecuted him as their Book stiled The Tryals of Peter Boss George Keith Tho. Budd and William Bradford before a Court of Quakers at the Sessions held at Philadelphia in Pensilvania c. at large set forth But the said Geo. Keith coming into England was examined by the yearly meeting June 1694. Where they advised G. Keith in these words And therefore it is the tender Advice and Counsel that Geo. Keith should either call in these Books or at least publish something effectually to clear the body of the people called Quakers and their Ministers from those gross errors charged on some few in America c. This continued until May 1695. And G. Keith not calling in his Books nor clearing the body of the Quakers from those gross errors which G. K. had charged on them they excommunicated the said G. Keith May 17. 1695. As acted by an unchristian Spirit and it is the sense and judgment of this méeting say they that the said Geo. Keith is gone from the Blessed unity of the peaceable spirit of our Lord Iesus Christ and hath thereby separated himself from the holy fellowship of the Church of
Christ c. Which is as large an Excommunication as the Pope himself or his Infallible Council ever pretended to for they have not only by their Bull of Excommunication cut him off as they dream from the fellowship of the Quakers in London Wales c. but off from the whole Church of Christ And as this is a great arrogancy in the Quakers and presumption too so do they thereby differ from the French Protestants And in regard this their Bull of Excommunication was denounced against G. Keith for that he did not effectually call in his Books writ against the errors of the Quakers and thereby clear the body of the Quakers from those errors charged upon the Quakers in Pensilvania which in Conscience he could not do in regard he knew them Guilty thereof This is a plain demonstration that W. Pen's averring that they never endeavour to hinder the sale of their Adversaries Books is a great untruth See the next proof Instance III. In the year 1693. I put forth a Book entituled New Rome Arraigned c. which the Quakers by an Officer seized and carried 60 of them to a Quakers house and Indicted me in the Old Baily London An Abstract of the said Bill of Indictment is as followeth London ss At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for the City of London at the Guild-Hall of the said City on Monday the ninth of October 1693. before Sir J. F. Knight Mayor of the said City Sir P. W. Kt. Sir J. M. Kt. Aldermen Sir S. L. Recorder of the said City the King and Queens Justices to hear and determine the transgressions of Felons and other enormities committed within the said City The same Sessions is adjourned by the foresaid Justices until Thursday the 12th of the same month of October 1693. at 7 of the clock in thâ— forenoon at Justice-hail in the Old Baily London to be holden before the foresaid Justices and their Associates according to Custom c. And now passing by most of the form I come to set forth the Aggravating terms of their said Indictment c. Ut supra A certain Bill of Indictment against one Francis Bugg then and there brought before B. B. G. B c. Jury-men then and there sworn and charged to enquire for the said King and Queen and the body of the said City And was returned by the Jury thus Indorsed Ignoramus Which Bill follows in these words The Jury for our Lord the King and Queen do present upon their Oaths That Francis Bugg late of London Yeoman being a person of an unquiet and turbulent disposition devising practising and intending falsly unlawfully seditiously and maliciously Geo. Whitehead Ja. Park Ben. Antrobus Sam. Waldenfeild c. faithful Subjects of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen now of this their Kingdom of England extremely to scandalize to prâ—curâ— and bring to Infamy and Reproach amongst their Neighbours and other Subjects of our said King and Queen As also to move stir up and cause discords tumults and miserâ—â—â— slaughters between the Subjects of this Kingdom of England on the 18th day of September in the 5th year of our Lord and Lady c. And upon divers other days and times as well before as after at London aforesaid to wit in the Parish Church * * T is not a Steeple-house it seems now however neither I nor the Quakers wear there of St. Christopher in Farringdon-Ward he falsâ—y maliciously seditiously and illegally made composed and printed published and dispersed amongst the Subjects c. a certain scandâ—â—ous mal cious and defaming Libel against the said G. Whitehead c. The same English Book or Pamphlet not being first Entered in the Register-book of the Cmpany of Stationers of * * No more do the Quakers of London and also not being Lycenced by Act of Parliament ††Why does not G. W get his Books Lycenced by Act of Parliament Proclamation or added to the Book this may be Printed by vertue of any Warrant under the Seal c. or one or both the principal Secretaries of State c. nor Lycenced * * I hope the Quakers will Lycence their Meetting-houses now they thus severely persecute me for not Lyceâ—cing my Book Canes timidi vehementius latrant nor Authorised by any person whatsoever against the form of the Statute in that case lately made and provided to the bad example of all that shall offend in that case and against the Peace of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crown and Dignity Ignoramus Goodfellow Reader I have transcribed enough to shew their indicting me and that for no other crime than not Lycencing my Book If they say I put up a mock-Pillory to shew what they in reality deserved who as in the same Book I have set forth offered to suffer as in the case of Perjury if they falsify their word which they did do in the Case of Evidence and that in the Name of the Lord which amount to an Oath But suppose the form of a Pillory was not easy to them must I therefore be tried and judged to move stir up cause discords tumults and miserable slaughters c. Well however as this shews what the Quakers would do had they power so it is a sufficient proof that they did endeavour to hinder the Sale of my Books also this their indicting me shows what an envious and lying spirit they G. Whitehead and his Brethren are of SECT XVIII AS I have shewed how contrary the Principles and Practices of the Quakers are to the Principles and Practices of the French Protestants and indeed to all other Christians I am now about to shew their disparity in the Articles of their Faith setting forth an Abstract of the French Protestants Confession of Faith containing 40 in number which was presented to several French Kings as judging it a most proper way to obtain their Liberty as at large in the 1st Volume of J. Quicks History stiled Synodicon in Galia Reformata p. 6. to 15. And likewise what the Quakers believe if they believe as they write for by reason they have not given forth distinct Articles of their Faith like the Christian Churches in all ages I must collect some select passages out of their Books in one Column and the French Protestants in another viz. The Quakers Faith A Declaration to all the world of our Faith and what we believe who are called Quakers Concerning God and Christ Burrows works p. 439. We believe there is one only true God who is a Spirit and his presence filleth heaven and earth and he is eternal and everlasting the Creator and Preserver of all things Sauls Errand to Damascus c. p. 8. He that hath the same spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead is equal with God The Sandy Foundation p. 12 16. The vulger doctrine of satisfaction being dependent on the Second Person of the imagined Trinity of distinct persons
and your practice of it is Idolatry and no part of the Worship of God p. 51. have you been bewitched from the obâ—dience of the truth within to obey the Letter without Will. Smiths Primmer c. p. 36. Quest How is it concerning these things called Ordinances as Baptism and Bread and Wine Answ As to those things they arose from the Popâ—s Invention who hath had power in the night of Apostacy and hath set up his dâ—viâ—es which are yet continued in England tho he seemingly is denied and the whole practice of those things as they use them had their Institution by the Pope and were never so ordained of Christ Quest How may I know when Christ is truly preached Answ They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid people believe in him as he is in heav n abâ—ve but they that are Christs Ministers preach Christ within See my Sheet to the Parliament p. 5. A Musick Lecture c. p. 25. For where they are I was in Performances in Ordinances in Family Duties in Hearing in Reading in Fasting but when I came to bâ—nd my mind to that of God in me then I began to learn to be a Fool insomuch that I durst not give thanks for the victuals that were set before me Concerning Election and Reprobation Truths Defence c. p. 92. We Quakers are elected to Salvation we have the witness within us praised be God who hath elected and chosen us before the foundation of the world but thou the Priest art ordained of old for Condemnation and for Perdition among the ungodly ones and art a Reprobate one that hates Christ and art blind Reader I have at large proved out of their Books that all Ministers that sprinkle Children with Water all that preach Christ without as he is in Heaven above at the right hand of God all that take a Text and preach out of the Scriptures all that either receive or pay Tythes as at large in my Second Summons c. p. 7 8. And now I am willing to give you the Quakers Faith and Perswasion concerning them as in their Book A brief Discovery of a threefold Estate c. p. 7 8. with the same Title set thus over their heads viz. Of the false Ministry The Priests of the world are 1. Conjurers raising dead Doctrine out of the letter which is death raising death out of death notable Conjurers 2. Thieves and Robbers 3. Antichrists the Priests of Baal cannot shew any Scripture for their heathenish ways and beastial worships 4. Witches blind Guides 5. Devils the Serpent is head in them 6. Liers the Commission and Call of Baals Priests come from Oxford and Cambridge A poysonous-fountain the Sir Symons of the age run to Oxford and Cambridge they run with Simon These are not Ministers of Christ but Stewards of the Devils Magazines Dissemblers and Liers 7. A viperous and serpentine generation going about to murder the Child Jesus hâ—lding a worm-eaten beastly form 8. Blasphemers yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers 9. Scarlet coloured Beasts a Harlot full of abomination and filthiness 10. Babilons Merchants selling beastly ware for a large price the Letter which is dâ—st and death the day is coming when these Idol Merchants these costly Sermon-makers shall cry c. 11. Whited Walls prosessing nothing but poysonous stuff 12. Ravenous Wolves 13. Greedy Dogs really they are Blood Hounds still hunting and gasping after their prey like the mouth of Hell barking and raging like Sodomites 14. Eminent and ambitious Pharisees of the Devil wo wâ— wo was the portion of those Pharisees then and wo wo wâ— is the portion of these Pharisees now and wo and misery is the portion of the Upholders whether King or Parliament of that treacherous and decâ—itful generation The Guide mistaken c. per W. Pen p. 18 And whilst the idle germundizing Priests of England run away with 1500000l a year under presence of being Gods Ministers and that no sort of people have been so uâ—iversally thrâ—ugh ages the banc of soul â—nd body of the Universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of Gods mâ—st dreadful vengeance is reservâ—d to act their eternal Tragedies â—pon c. About Goâ—ernors and Government Burrows Works c. p. 442. We believe that all Governors and Rulers ought to be accountable to the people and to the next succeeding Rulers for all their actions which may be inquired into upon occasion and that the chiefest of the Rulers be subject under the Law and punishable by it if they be Transgressors as well as the poorest of the people p. 507. But as for this people the Quakers they are raised of the Lord and established by him even contrary to all men and they have given their power only to God and they cannot give their power to any mortal men to stand or fall to any outward Authority and to that they cannot seek p. 501. We stand Witnesses against Parliaments Councels Judges and Justices who make and execute Laws in their wills ever the consciences of men to punish for conscience sake to such Laws Customs Courts or arbitrary usurped Dominion â— cannot yeild obedience p. 621. Nay their the Quakers Kingdom is from above and they reject the countenance of the Beasts authority and they reject any confidence that the Dragon and unjust power can repose in them p. 53. For we say the Quakers are gathered up into the life which the holy men of God lived in and are faln from the world and its ways and nature p. 50. for even the Father bears witness of us and therefore our witness is true p. 52. A running to the powers of the earth what have your Ministers lost the Lord to be your strength that you must flee for help to men must they mâ—ke â—aws to estaâ—lish you and set you up is not this the Where that rode upon the Beast and that the Beast carried And p. 524. to the Parliament thus viz. You do but cause people to drink of the Whores Cup and you are but them which carry the Whore viz. the false Church and this is plain dealing to tell you the truth c. reprinted by the order and approbation of G. Whitehead and others Anno 1672. For more of this see Geo. Fox to the Councel of Officers p. 7. Oh what a sincerity was once in the Nation what a dirty unto thing it would have been to have heard talk of a Hoâ—se of Lords Edw. Burroughs Advice to the Parliament c. It was through Ignorance that the people subjected themselves to hereditary Government or to the Government standing in a single person successively and our Nation hath been under the bonds of slavery in this respest c. See Fox's Papers to the Presbyterians p. 8 9. All Kings and Emperors have sprung up in the night since the days of the Apostles among the Antichrists There was no King owned among the true Christians but only among the Apostates since Christs
time They were all Traytors against Christ that desired an earthly King The true Christians will not have any more Kings among them but Christ c. News coming up out of the North c. p. 18. Dreadful is the Lord and powerful who is coming to execute true judgment upon all you Judges and to change all your Laws Ye Kings all you Rulers must down and cease and all you underling Officers which have been as the Arms of this great Tree all your branches must be cut down for you have been the fruitless branches grown on the fruitless tree p. 19. so you must be cut down with the same power that cut down the King who reigned over the Nation whose Family was a Nursery for Papists and for Bishops which held up Railes c. VVo wo is coming upon you all the same Teachers are standing that were in the time of the King and thâ— same that were in the time of the Bishops such as take Tythes you must both be tormented together Beast and false Prophet P. 20. Sing all ye Saints and rejoyce clap your hands and be glad for the Lord Jehovah will reign and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be cut down and Jesus Christ in us will rule alone p. 27. Sound the trumpet sound an alarm call up to the battel gather together for the destruction draw the sword hew down all fruitless trees which cumber the ground hew down all the powers of the earth slay Baal all the hirelings must be turned out of the kingdom p. 35. All you who receive Tythes deny that Christ is come to us in the flesh p. 38. And thou beast and false Prophet must into the fire the false Prophet is the Councellor to the Beast and the Beast maintains the false Prophet c. E. Burroughs Declar. p. 33. Upon a Rumour that the Quakers Meetings were to be broken up they writ viz. These Tydings do not trouble us neither are we thereby moved no not to beg of any man or men the contrary p. 40. and to any outward Authority we cannot seek Mildenhall 25th of Feb. 1695. Fr. Bugg Senior We acknowledge and believe the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament to be the most certain Rule of our Faith and that not so much for the common consent of the Church but because of the Testimony and perswasion of the Holy Ghost And we believe that the doctrine contained in the holy Scriptures proceeds from God from whom only and not from men it derives its authority And forasmuch as it is the Rule of all Truth containing all matters necessarily required for the worship of God and our Salvation it is in no wise lawful for Men nor Angels to add unto or take from this doctrine or to change it And hereupon it followeth that it is not lawful to oppose either Antiquity or Custom or Multitude or humane Wisdom Judgments Edicts or Decrees or Councils or Visions or Miracles unto this holy Scripture but rather that all things ought to be examined and tried by the Rules and Square thereof wherefore we do for this cause allow of those three Creeds namely the Apostles the Nicene and Athanasius his Creed because they be agreeable to the Word of God We believe that all the Off-spring of Adam are infected with Original Sin which is a vice hereditary to us by propagation and not only by imitations as the Pelagians assert whose errors are detested by us we believe that this stain of Original Sin is Sin indeed howbeit they that are the Children of God shall never be condemned for it because God of his rich grace and mercy doth not impute it to them but out of his bounty doth deliver them through our Lord Jesus Christ And we believe that Jesus Christ being the Wisdom and Eternal Son of God took upon him our Nature so that he is one person God and man man that he might be able to suffer in soul and body made like unto us in all things sin only excepted so that as to humâ—ne nature he was indeed the Seed of Abraham and of David conceived in due time in the Womb of the Virgin Mary by the secâ—et and incomprehensible power of the Holy Ghost and that in one and the same person to wit the Lâ—rd Jesus Christ his two natures are inseparably conjoined and united yet nevertheless in such a manner that each nature doth retain its distinct properties so that even as in this divine conjunction the divine Nature retaining its properties doth still abide uncreated infinite and filling all places so also the humane nature remaineth finite having form measure and property And also the Lord Jesus Christ when he rose from the dead gave Immortality to his body yet he never deprived it of the verity of its nature therefore we do so consider Christ in his Deity as that we do not rob him of his Humanity We believe that by that one Sacrifice which Jesus Christ offered upon the Cross we are reconciled unto God that so we may be accounted righteous in his sight And we believe that Jesus Christ is conferred upon us to be our alone Advocate and that he commandeth us in our prayers to present our selves to the Father in his name We do also reject those means which derogate from the satisfaction of the death and passion of our Lord Iesus Christ And we believe where the word of God is not received and where there is no use of Sacrameâ—ts we cannot judge that there is any Church for we believe that the Sacraments are absolued unto the word that they may be pledges and tokens of the Grace of God We believe that God will have the world ruled by Laws and Civil Government that there may be somâ— sort of bridles by which the unruly lusts of the world may be restrained and that therefore he appointeth Kings and Commonwealths and other kinds of Principalities whether hereditary or otherwise and not that alone but also what pertaineth to the Ministration of Justice whereof he avoucheth himself to be the Author therefore hath he deâ—ivered the Sword into the Magistrates hands that so sins committed against both Tables of Gods Law not only against the second but first also may be suppressed and therefore because God is the Author of this order we must not only suffer Magistrates whom he hath set over us but we must also give them much Honour and Reverence as unto his Officers and Lieutenants which have received their Commission from him to exercise so lawful and sacred a Function therefore we affirm that Obedience must be yielded unto their Laws that Tribute and Taxes must be paid and the Yoak of Subjection born although the Magistrates be Infidels so that the Soveraign Government of God be preserved wherefore we do detest all those who do reject the higher powers BOoks written by Fr. Bugg Sen. as followeth some of which are intended to be bound together and sold as on the Title Page whereby such as desire further satisfaction into the nature of the Controversy may inform themselves I. De Christianae Libertate in Octavo bound II. The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt c. III. Reason against Raiâ—ing and Truth against Falshood c. IV. Innocency vindicated and Envy rebuked c. V. The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted c. VI. A Letter to the Quakers shewing their frequent addressing to the late K. J. and their never addressing his present Majesty VII Battering Rams against New Rome c. VIII One Blow more at New Rome c. IX New Rome unmasked and her Foundation shaken c. X. New Rome arraigned and out of her own Mouth condemned XI A Sheet delivered to the Parliament Dec. 93. intituled Something in answer to the Quakers Allegations c. XII Quakerism withering and Christianity reviving c. in Octavo XIII Quakerism anatomized c. being a Chaâ—lenge to R. Ashby XIV A Sheet intituled The Quakers Yearly Meeting impeached c. XV. A Second Summons to the City Abel 2 Sam. 20. by way of metaphor to deliver up Sheba the Son of Bichri i. e. G. Whitehead XVI The Quakers set in their true light ERRATA PAge 2. line 7. for Book read Books l. 28. for Book r. Books p. 5. l. 4. for White r. Whitehead p. 7. l. 26. for ot r. not p. 11. l. 23 and 24. for troop r. trooper p 12. l. 42. for Isays r. Jays p. 21. l. 17. for of him r. of truth FINIS