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A30031	New Rome arraigned And out of her own mouth condemned. Containing a farther discovery of the dangerous errors, and pernicious principles of the leaders and teachers of the Foxonian Quakers: which tend to overthrow the Christian faith, to obstruct the Jews conversion, to encourage Mahumetism, and to pervert the right way of the Lord; which whether so or no, deserves the examination and consideration of the Christian ministry of all Protestant Churches, as they tender God's glory, and the good of souls. To which is added, Ten articles of the Christian faith, wrote by Geo. Keith, who was persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian testimony. The second edition, with some alteration and additions, by Francis Bugg. Licensed, June 18th. 1694.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. aut	1693 (1693)	Wing B5377; ESTC R202485	69,734	77

Their pretence that such as have the same Spirit which raised up Jesus are equal with GOD I must say 't is horrible Blasphemy yet it ought to be charged upon them until they publickly condemn the Book which hath little else in it but Blasphemy and false Doctrine and railing on the Publick Ministry However it never was corrected by Errata as is usual and hath gone for a Gospel Truth above forty years and as their Principle if they believe as they write and therefore I charge it upon them until they condemn the said Book And secondly their Impudence in saying that if we will own the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles we must necessarily own their Books this is of kin to the rest i. e. Blasphemy And thirdly for them to say If Christ the Light in them say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE why may He not speak I answer If they can work the same Miracles He did and produce as many Prophets that foretold of G. Fox's coming out of the North as I shall that foretold of Christ's coming then I shall believe them Fourthly What horrible Blasphemy is it to say 'T is dangerous to read the Scriptures and to call them Dust Death Carnal Serpents-meat as likewise the Ordinances of Christ and the Communion of Saints which Christians ought to hold and believe as an Article of their Faith And then fifthly to call the Publick Ministers Witches Devils Conjurers c. is very pernicious Such Books ought to be burnt as Jacob Baker a Quaker once confest he would burn it And sixthly for them to hold that they and they ONLY are in the Truth 't is the perfect Pharisee But for them to write that G. Fox was before Confusion or the many Languages were is monstrous Such Blasphemies ought to be posted As likewise Ja. Parnell to say that he was before Arguments was and was come to the end of all Arguments is notorious And seventhly so is it in G. Fox to say that he stands covered and neither he nor his name known in the world O what shall I say was there ever such wickedness And yet here is nothing so bad nothing so wicked nothing so false so Idolatrous so Blasphemous But G. W. can salve it he can vindicate or excuse it nay more then so he can procure twelve Witnesses to say We 〈…〉 declare on the behalf of the Quakers that what Fr. Bugg says is 〈…〉 and wicked for they never so believed so said nor so affirm'd c. 〈…〉 being solemnly avouched as in The holy fear of Almighty God 〈…〉 an Oath and if what these twelve affirm be false then they are perjured Persons in the eye of the Law and deserve to be Pillored And thereupon I charge them with Perjury with false-witnes bearing until they by publick retraction repent and give Satisfaction For as you will spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor Young no more will I I will not spare nor my eye shall not pity Friend or Foe which comes up with false Evidence yea so false as if they should say black is white and white is black I must say that as T. G. hath no need to depend on G. W. and that he must know that G. W. hath as little love for him as for some he hath wrote against yet I am sorry to see his Name there As for the others many of them have their dependency on the Chair and G. W being therein I marvel not at them provided their Testimony had been true but I am sure it is notorious false nay and that they themselves know it to be false I will give the World a SIGN which is this If they know and be conscious to themselves that their Evidence is false they will not come forth according to my Proposition in this Book made to meet me but if they be not conscious to themselves of false Evidence how false soever it is they will come forth to clear themselves and be glad I give them the opportunity and by this SIGN they shall be proved Come on you twelve Master-Builders can you read these sixteen Instances and not blush when you behold your Certificate and particularly the first third fifth and eleventh as also the first second and third Errours I say can you read the Passages taken out of your own Books wrote by your most eminent Preachers and yet affirm you never said so wrote so believed so nor taught so and not blush and be horribly ashamed But I have given a Sign to prove you and by it you shall be tried Again Can you read p. 77. of G. F's Great Mystery where he justifies Felony under a pretence of being moved by the Spirit of GOD and not blush What is all your Zeal gone or are you fearful of displeasing G. W. now he is got into the Chair Can you look on the fifth Instance and see how G. W. teaches that the Scripture is not the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament but the Letter which killeth c. And can you behold his contrary Pretences in his late Writings and not reprove him can you hear him pretend that he was moved of GOD to write Judgment Fixed c. and that GOD laid a necessity upon him to write that Book and that therein the neither consults the Events nor fears the Effects and yet proved to write notorious Lies And can you thus let him pass only with saying he was mistaken when he fathered all his Lies upon the moving of the Spirit of GOD even six Lies in number and great part of his Matter bottomed thereupon Can you hear and read his Excuses and Vindications of the Idolatious Letters wrote to G. Fox by Jos Coal John Audland John Blaikling and Sol. Eccles and can you be silent at these things Read my Parallel between the Papists and Quakers in New Rome c. p. 40. to 49. Can you take notice of the Names he and others have given my self and such as have opposed your Church Government and the imposing the observation of your Womens Meetings which some of you are no more in love with then some of us which wrote against the mischief of your Impositions I say can you behold the Names he c. gave us viz. Old canker'd Apostates vile Apostates unruly Beasts Runagades Treacherous Apostates Apostate Informers betraying Iudas's Devils Incarnate Wolves Doggs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil dark Devil-driven dungy Gods Heathens Atheists c. See some of the Quakers Principles and Doctrines c. p. 10 11. for more of this stuff nay such personal defamations and detractions which hath had such an Effect not only of our Profession in Religious Matters but upon our Persons and Imployments which in time may be further taken notice of Can you behold all this and a hundred things more which I might name which hath occasioned a great part of your Troubles And can you submit your Necks your

Interests and all to such a Make-bate such a continual contentious Scribler who in nine Months wrote three Books against me and since I wrote my last hath wrote three more against me and others Are you not sensible what pretences he makes in his Books to Charity to Seriousness to Sincerity and yet void of all Have you not taken notice of his late little Book about the great Divisions amongst the Quakers in Pensilvania intituled The Christian Doctrine and Society of the Quakers c. wherein he carries two faces in one Hood hold with the Hare and run with the Hound as the Proverb is writes against writing that 's his main design And if writing be a fault who more guilty than G. W. for in that Book he peeps and creeps he turns and winds this way and that way hither and thither but centers no where but JANUS like looks two ways for he seems to own Geo. Keith's Doctrine but dare not own his Testimony nor him in it he seems to blame the Doctrine of Fitzwater Young and Lloyd but dare not blame their Persons nor give Testimony against their Doctrine as theirs they being of the Foxonian Party and one with him in the ground and in those Fundamental Errours For said Fitzwater The Plea c. p. 4. God that died in us and laid down thy life in us and took it up again And Rob. Young affirmed that when Christ ascended he was separated from his Body And Tho. Lloyd who said p. 5. That Faith in Christ without us as he died for our sins and rose again was not necessary to our salvation c. Now had G. W. been plain and against these Errours he ought to have reprov'd these Persons sharply and joined with G. Keith against them in his charging them with such Damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils as was no where tollerated in any Christian Society but only amongst the Quakers The Plea c. p. 11. I say had he been sincere he would have been plain as G. Keith is and not to come out so smooth and demure saying Why do you thus write why do you thus amuse the World and trouble the World with such bitter treatment complaining bitterly of Rents Schisms and Divisions Come on what can you say why do you let him alone why do you not unmask and discover this subtil Fox and uncharitable George and insincere Whitehead out of his Hole and Den where he lies lurking writing and scribling and neither studies Events nor fears Effects and make him be plain And if G. Keith c. in your opinion who preaches up and holds forth the Death and Sufferings and meritorious Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ as necessarily to be believed in order to our salvation be right why then does not G. W. stand by him and his Friends in this their sound Testimony But if G. W. be one with Fitzwater and the Foxonian Quakers that there is no other Christ than in them no other Crucifiction than within no other Resurrection than within no other Heaven nor Hell than within us as quoted in New Rome unmasked c. p. 89. Why does he not joyn with Fitzwater Lloyd c. against Geo. Keith c. let him be plain in his next let him not thus halt between two Opinions If Geo. Keith c. be right let Geo. Fox his Books be burnt and your Epistles burnt wherein they do not teach that the Sufferings of Christ and his meritorious Death and Passion and the Imputation of his Righteousness are necessary Articles of the Christian Faith in order to Salvation No a thousand of your Epistles read in your Meetings will afford no such Doctrine nor no Confession of Sins nor no asking Pardon for his sake And why do you suffer him to complain of bitter Treatments Rents Schisms and Divisions whoever treated their Opposers with such bitter Language as the Quakers have done whoever made greater Rents and Divisions in Church and States in Towns and Families than the Quakers have done And why do you let him thus complain of printing and troubling and amusing the World with printing when you know no People print more nor take the like care to disperse their Pamphlets when printed witness your Orders for sending two of each sort to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings in the Country their sending them out by Pack-horses to Markets and Fairs as was the practice of Jos and Ben. Townsend to my knowledge who send their Epistles to be read in all Meetings in England Scotland Ireland Holland Mariland Barbadoes nay I understand by your last yearly Epistle that you have got footing in Germany why then do you suffer him to act thus prepostrously to chide others for his own fault to deal thus deceitfully in almost all things you can mention Are you not ashamed of these things what have you not a spark of that honesty you pretend to if you have blow it up and let it become a flame to burn up this heap of Hypocritical Rubbish that at last we may rightly understand what a Quaker is THE SECOND CHARGE II. THE Quakers DENY THE SCRIPTURES 1. BY SPEAKING CONTEMPTUOUSLY OF THEM AND 2. BY OVER-VALUING THEIR OWN BOOKS REMARK Reader this Branch of the Charge is more than sufficiently proved already but by reason of some little Argument which passed between me and Sam. Cater and John Cade two of their Preachers at the Meeting when I exhibited the said Charge Nov. 20. 1692. touching the Scriptures and that thereby their shuffling equivocating and evading may be the more manifest and particularly G. W's twelve Men which he hath got to testifie on the behalf of the Quakers that they never said never believed nor never affirmed the Scriptures to be Dust Death Serpents-meat I say for this reason for as I said I shall spare none I may recite an astonishing Confutation of these Infallible Doctors c. Fr. Bugg Come Sam. Carter will you accept of this Charge and appoint a time ten twenty days or a month hence you and I singly or if you will take four six or ten of your side I will take the like number Let me know your Answer and I will be gone I do not come to disturb you but to charge you with your Errours c. Sam. Cater There is no end of Disputing with thee neither shall I undertake it F. Bugg Why not If I fail of proof to make good my Charge you will have the Victory and it will tend to the honour of your Cause And you may be glad of the opportunity to manifest F. Bugg since you say he charges you falsly S. Cater Thou maist be gone we have other business to do than to Answer thee F. B. Well if you will not accept of the Charge nor set a time when to argue the Point I shall proceed to read the second part of my Charge which is your denial of the Scripture by calling it Death Dust and Serpents-meat c.

the whole World Thus have you made the Apostles false Witnesses who have charged the Jews with slaying the Lord of Life and Glory As to the Sufferings of Christ the Question still remains unanswered I know you now see cause to say his Sufferings were grievous Sufferings sweating drops of Blood yea great Sufferings Thus far G. W. is got but George you know there is degrees of Greatness there is magnus major maximus great greater and greatest of all Now the great Query is Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest Ed. Burroughs says the Sufferings of the Quakers was greatest And G. W. hath not yet said the Sufferings of Christ was greatest no other word will do I still pursue the Terms of my Query and wait to have it answered but I find G. W. pinched and in a great strait and knows not which way to wind him Condemn Ed. Burroughs's Expression as a Lye that he cannot do for a World for he was by G. W. counted a Prophet a Son of Thunder one in whom was the Almighty Power of God Can such a man lye Can he err No they cannot give Evidence against themselves so not fit to be of a Jury not fit for any place of Trust in Government not fit to have yea and nay pass for an Oath If so then if the Jury be most Quakers they 'l never give it against themselves they are not impartial they cannot be impartial they are the greatest respecters of Persons this day on Earth E. B. has said The Sufferings of the Quakers is greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles which is horrid blasphemous yea they thereby undervalue the Sufferings of the Lord of Glory and exalt their own as greater Sufferings This they cannot deny nor this they cannot condemn see the Fruit of Infallibility having once spoken whether true or false a Lye or a true Story both must be infallible they cannot retract they cannot confess their Sins to God how then should they retract and acknowledge their Errors No not for a World then down goes Infallibility the principal Studd of their new kind of Popery The Perfect Quaker in favour of their own Books An Epistle from their Yearly Meeting 1675. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Several Petitions answer'd c. p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Papers and Queries for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God Several Papers given out for the spreading of Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord this is the Word of God G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. Anno 1693. Dear Friends it 's advised that you be careful in spreading all such Books writ in defence and for the Service of Truth Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for remembrance and notice B. B. The Perfect Quaker's Perfect Contempt of Scripture Saul's Errand c. p. 7. The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. A brief Discovery c. p. 7. The Priests of the World are Conjurers raising dead Doctrines dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death Notable Conjurers P. 8. The Commission of Baal's Priests came from Oxford and Cambridge the same poisonous Fountain is filthy the Streams are no better Simon Magus would have purchased the Holy Ghost with Money even the Sir Simons of our Age run to Oxford and Cambridge Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death really they are Bloodhounds still hunting and gaping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Ja. Naylor's Answ to the Jews p. 4 22 25. It 's Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God it is the Devil which contends for the Letter to be the Word of God The Quaker's Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scripture was Moses or Hermes or whether both these two or not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false c. News coming up c. p. 14. Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Counterfeit Quaker facing round about Quaker's Vindication p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God c. Count. Conv. c. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World A treble Observation upon a triple Quaker Courteous Readers whether Christians or Jews what think you Is the Counterfeit Quaker sincere Do you believe that he means what he says namely that the Scripturesare of Divine Authority and that he prefers them before all the Books extant in the World If so you may believe Transubstantiation Can you think I say that he believes the Scripture is of Divine Authority when he tells you that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust and Serpents-mear and that the Scripture is Beastly Ware that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ or whether either or neither and that what was spoke by good and wise Men was ill applied and ill expressed and what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true c Answer me for my part I cannot G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of

Observation So then I read out of G. Fox his Book what followeth the Astonishing Confutation abovesaid News coming up out of the North c. p. 14. So Dust is the Serpents meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death their Church is Dust and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter S. Cater I deny that we call the Scriptures Dust or Serpents-meat F. B. But S. Cater wilt thou deny it if you see it in one of your Friends Books S. Cater Yea wherever I see it I will deny it F. B. Richard Tilson go and fetch my Box which he did I read it as in the recited Charge and Sam. Cater took the Book and read it S. Cater Thou saidst we call'd the Scriptures Dust and Death but there is not the word Scripture in the whole Passage F. B. People I appeal to you whether Matthew Mark Luke and John be not Scripture With that perceiving S. Cater's Evasion the People gave a great shout and said Yes Yes S. Cater Matthew Muck F. B. Hold Sam. what Matthew muck what Muck is that what shall we have a new Gospel John Cade a Norwich Preacher said Friends take notice that as the Bible grows old it will moulder and crumble away and become Dust F. B. People observe They would not have you think that new Bibles are Dust but when they grow old they moulder away c. and therefore my Advice to you is to get new Bibles W. Read Francis we deny thy words we have given it in to the King and Parliament that we believe the Scriptures was given forth by Divine Inspiration and they have accepted of it F. Bugg The more shame for you to be so deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your Belief For if so why do you not Retract and Condemn your Books which are as opposite to what you now say as Light is to Darkness And some few Passages more we had But if they believe as they write that the Gospel Matthew Mark Luke and John be Dust I wonder with what face they could appear before the Parliament until they had first retracted and by some publick Act have condemned their Books which throw such Contempt upon the Holy Scripture For a further proof of this Charge see the sixteen Instances Object But possibly some may object and say It 's true you have more then sufficiently proved your first Charge and in the proof thereof there is enough said of their speaking contemptuously of the Holy Scriptures by calling them Dust Death Serpents-meat Carnal Letter killing Letter Dangerous to read c. yea and their contemptuous Speeches of the Sacraments Church Ministery c. yet the second Branch of your second Charge seems unproved where you bring it as an Argument against them of their not owning the Scriptures and that they over-value their own Writings Now if you have any thing material to offer pray do Answ I am very willing as I always was to leave things as clear as I can and place my Argument upon Matter of Fact out of their own printed Books And having already signified that ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES are out of their Books and their rejecting the Scriptures and reading the Scriptures in their Religious Meetings if I may so call them being a Consequent of the second Errour I shall so call them viz. both the Titles of their Epistles and the Conclusion enough to signalize their way and manner and THE DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE Quakers ERROURS First THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS c. Directed To the Camp of the Lord in England meaning the Quakers Subscribed Edw. Burrough and Fra. Howgill Second To the Flock of Christ every where to be read in their Assemblies by G. Fox Printed for Ben. Clark 1681. Third To the Children of Light c. Directed thus I desire this Epistle may be read in the fear of the Lord in your several Meetings By William Penn. Fourth A Salutation of Love from the Spirit of Life unto all Friends of Truth c. Let this be read amongst Friends who are Exiled or sentenced for Exilement when they are met together in the fear of the Lord. Josiah Coale Printed 1665. Fifth An Epistle to Friends in Holland Let this be sent amongst the Friends in Holland Jos Coal Printed 1667. Sixth To the Flock of GOD gathered out of the World in the Province of Mariland Let the Copies of this Epistle be sent amongst Friends every where in the Province of Mariland to be read amongst them in all their Assemblies in the fear of the Lord. Jos Coal Seventh Several Papers given forth for the spreading of Truth c. I charge you in the presence of the Lord God to send this amongst all Friends and Brethren EVERY WHERE to be read in all Meetings To you all this is THE WORD OF GOD G. Fox REMARK Thus Reader I have given a few Instances of their way and manner of sending their Epistles to be read in their Meetings both in England Holland and Mariland and were it needful I could give you a hundred more which shews that they give their own Writings the preferrence as well as that they lay aside the use of the Scriptures in their Meetings and no marvel if the Scriptures be Death Dust Carnal Serpents meat and if it be Conjuration to preach out of them and if the Ministers of the Scriptures be Ministers of Death and if it be dangerous to read them as were they as by the Quakers esteemed Dust Death Serpents-meat it were surely dangerous to read them for who would feed upon Dust and Death and Serpents-meat this could no way nourish nor strengthen but corrupt poison and putrifie the Minds of such as are most exercised in reading them and that so it is in their Judgment For if it were wholesome to read them and that they believed them to be given forth by Divine Inspiration as they to the Parliament have pretended to serve a Turn why do they not read the Scriptures or sometimes a Chapter or sometimes one of the Apostles Epistles in their Meetings as that they do not nor never did nay I challenge all the Quakers in England whether ever their Ministers recommended so much as one Chapter to be read in any of their Meetings for Worship these forty years much less charged them in the presence of the LORD GOD to read such a Chapter or such an Epistle as wrote either by the Prophets or Apostles And if they cannot let it be a Sign for ever that they deny the Scriptures first by contempt thrown on them and next by their practice of laying them aside and reading their own Epistles and let it rest upon Record as a witness against their deep Hypocrisies and let it be a Testimony against the false Pretences and Perjury of the twelve false Witnesses Nay and not only in their own Meetings but let me give you one

Deceivers carrying two Faces in one hood looking two ways JANUS like these are Ambodexters and of the World 12. The Quakers who teach that preaching out of the Scriptures is Conjuration are of the World and Blasphemers 13. The Quakers who teach that they have a Spirit beyond all the Fore-fathers and thereby know not only who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates but also that none need to give them discerning or judgment in any Case or on any Occasion but that at ALL TIMES they are furnished both with Discerning and Judgment are of the World Deceivers Deluders and Impostors c. 14. The Quakers who teach that their own Books Epistles or Writings are THE WORD OF GOD are of the World and Deceivers 15. The Quakers who require and charge their own People and that in the Name of the LORD to read their own Writings Epistles or Books in their Meetings for Worship and never so much as request their hearers to read any Portion of Scriptures in the said Meetings are Deceivers Supplanters and Deluders These Doctrines I charge upon the Quakers as deduceable from their printed Books and Epistles and from which Errours they can never purge themselves but by unfeigned Repentance and a publick Retraction and Condemnation of the same And 't is to be feared their Pride is so great and that they are so fixed upon their Principle of Infallibility and Perfection that they cannot but will rather strive to cover and gloss over things However I presume I have given a fair Description of the Worlds Teachers and now let me tell you who are the true Ministers 16. Those are true Ministers of Jesus Christ who preach Repentance and Remission of sins in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and Obedience to the Commands of GOD according to the Rules of the Gospel recorded for our Learning in Holy Writ But E. B. says p. 233. I do believe there was never such a Generation of Teachers as these i. e. Priests are that ever took such wicked courses to their shame says E. B. do I rehearse it Answ This is very uncharitable as well as false in Fact and it looks the worse in that 't is rehearsed by such a Generation of Teachers as are amongst the Quakers who exceed all that ever went before them professing Christianity the Papists ONLY excepted both in Idolatry Blasphemy and Superstition yea and other gross Enormities of which I could give a large List a few for Example sake I shall mention as in the Cage where I have laid Superstition and Immorality together heaps upon heaps plain enough for your view if not I can yet lay these and many more plainer though I delight not in it were it not to humble you and to let you see notwithstanding your proud boasting of Perfection and that you and you ONLY are GOD's People and all besides you of the World Heathens c. that there is cause enough for you to make Confession of your Sins and ask Pardon too I very well know how Retrograde you run and how cross and thwart not only to the practice of the Saints in all Ages but even in this Age with respect to the Christian Doctrine and how you have in little minute matters affected an odd kind of singularity whereby you have separated your selves in Religious Matters as well as in Habit Manners c. As first for any kindness you will not say I thank you but which is tantamount I accept of thy love You will not put the Hat off but nod bow or conjue c. crying out against fine Clothes dainty Dishes lofty Horses Coaches c. until you could get them yea the Woe said you was to such as so did But now who exceed you in fine Clothes except a little Lace or Ribbons which for crosness sake you forbear dainty Dishes lofty Horses goodly Houses brave Coaches fine Perriwigs and what not nay even both Ministers and People witness London Bristol Stoak Erith Northampton and many other places You pretend you cannot for Conscience sake pay to the Trained Solers and yet can pay ten times the value towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France But for the LORDS PRAYER the APOSTLES CREED or TEN COMMANDMENTS not one of them in all your Books no they are too low and mean for your proud Lucefering Minds to teach Nay further as a Fruit of your Doctrine that the Name JESUS and CHRIST do as properly belong to your Believers as to HIM that suffered at Jerusalem you do give the Name of Emmauel and Allalujah to your Children As to Emmanuel it was by the Prophet foretold to belong to CHRIST Isai 7. 14. Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his Name EMMANUEL which being interpreted is GOD with us saith St. Matthew Cap. 1. vers 23. And thus do you manifest your Doctrine by your Fruit as likewise Allalujah an Attribute of Praise due only to GOD as Rev. 19. four or five times mentioned as well as in divers other places yet these Names your chief Leaders have given totheir Children But GOD hath and will stain your Pride more and more and make you at length see cause sufficient to confess your sins to GOD and ask Pardon for the same and that for Jesus Christ his sake who died for our sins and rose again for cur justification as the Evangelist says 1 Joh. 1. 9. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness who was the Propitiatory Sacrifice for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole World who now sits at the right hand of God as an Advocate and Intercessour in the same Body in which he ascended in the sight of the Galileans read 1 John 2. 1 2. Acts 1. 9 10 11. Luke 24. 51. Mark 16. 19. at the right hand of GOD in Majesty on high Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird. For her SINS have reached unto Heaven and GOD hath remembred her Iniquities Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for GOD hath avenged you on her Rev. 18. 2 5 6 20. 1. HERE lye the Men behold and view them well You know their Names and where they use to dwell You know their Parts you know their Fruits also If these be Saints LORD whether shall we go 2. If not why should you not Confession make And Pardon beg for Jesus Christ his sake Are you too proud or do you still disdain Or do you say such things with us are vain 3. Behold I say and mark the Prophets well They did Confess the Scripture doth us tell Their Sins