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A30022	A brief history of the rise, growth, and progress of Quakerism setting forth that the principles and practices of the Quakers are antichristian, antiscriptural, antimagistratical, blasphemous, and idolatrous from plain matter of fact, out of their most approved authors, &c. ... / by Francis Bugg, Senior.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1697 (1697)	Wing B5367; ESTC R23818	99,372	212

this heigth it is now arrived at But when I came to view it and seriously to consider the Contents of it as I find it in many things very well done with respect to the former particulars and thereby will spare me some pains and cost so with respect to the latter viz. to set forth their pernicious Doctrines their horrible Blasphemies their dissembling Cheats and religious Frauds by which they have not only deceived Thousands but almost perswaded many well meaning and worthy Gentlemen to have a better esteem of them and their Tenets than they deserve I found it very deficient viz. In shewing the methods by which they have risen and their Hypocrisie and wretched ways by which they have spread their blasphemous Errors and pernicious Principles and how they have unchurched all but themselves and thereupon it seemed to me that the said History rather tends to strengthen them in their Errors then to help them out of them for it bends too much to the left hand and reflects on our English Magistrates as Persecutors and on our Church as not well disciplired which I charitably presume was occationed by that Learned Authors giving too much credit to the Books and Manuscripts and his conversation with some of them for saith he p. 5. Since therefore I have had the fortune of a long time to be familiarly acquainted and much conversant with these men call'd Quakers and that in many places and besides many of their Writings and Manuscripts of which some are in print some not having fallen into my hands I thought it would be an acceptable Enterprise to write upon this Subject leaving it for every Man to judge as he thinks fit of their Actions Tenets c. And since I find the said History as above observ'd to be deficient in the main Part at least in many main Points I shall write something by way of Correction which I hope neither he nor any other indifferent Person will take amiss since I pretend to have as much experience and knowledge of the Quakers as he can pretend too having the misfortune to be many Years conversant with them and their Teachers as also the good fortune to know their Methods to have of their Writings and Manuscripts by me some in print some not whereby I have been able to derect them and to confute their Errors and so I shall leave it to every Man as he saith to judge as he pleaseth of their Actions Tenets Customs way of Church-Government and principles of Religion and Doctrine which I shall produce from Book and Page of their most Authentick Authors First then that it may appear I have reason to know the Quakers as well as this Learned Author and thereupon as warrantable a Motive to write on this Subject In the Year 1657. I went first amongst the Quakers and in 1659. became one of their Society and continued amongst them about 25 years and since that time I have been a narrow observer of them and much acquainted with many of them I have near 300 of their Books by me besides Manuscripts and old Records and besides all this I was Clark to their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings for the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge at Haddenham Sutton and Chatterise for about 16 years and more in all which Service I served gratis without Sallery as others had My House was a place of Entertainment for their Teachers for many years together I suffered Imprisonment at Ely and Nislech for their cause in which I was then Embark'd 3 Years and about 4 Months I suffered the loss of more than a hundred Pounds for Meeting contrary to an Act of Parliament made the 22 King Charles II. besides many other affairs in which I was concern'd whil'st with them Sometimes chosen to go to London-Meetings sometimes chosen to end some differences which happen'd amongst us sometimes to assist in Marriages about settlements of Estates in that case as in the Instance of William Read Widower and the Widow Brewster of Brund and divers others as Stephen Clackson and the Widow Young I say put all together and I think I may venture upon my own experience to say as much as the Author of the said Hist and yet notwithstanding I shall not impose upon my Reader but in the main of what I shall write I shall prove from matter of Fact and then as he says shall leave every one to judge as he thinks fit being at all times ready to appear and maintain what I write according to G. W.'s own proposition in his printed Sheet stiled The Quakers Vindication c. And when I meet Mr. Croese I shall go along with him in this History as far as he goes my way and when he turns aside to the right Hand or to the left I shall part friendly with him and deal kindly by him as we us'd to do to strangers But since his Book came over the Water and reflects upon the Government Implicitly charging the Magistrates with the crime of Persecution a thing they are much averse to I shall therefore endeavor to Rectifie it and shew him 't is not persecution but prosecution and to shew that I am not alone in this matter I received a Letter wrot by a dignifyed Clergy-man of the Church of England to a Neighbouring Minister An Abstract thereof is as followeth viz Worthy Sir Since I had the happiness of your good Company here I read over the general History of the Quakers which came from Holland I find it wrote so much to the advantage of that pestilent Sect and so much to the disadvantage both of the Government and Church of England that I think it necessary to be again done by some other hand whom we may confide in for a better performance of it and I know none better sitted for it respecting matter of fact than your Neighbour Mr. Bugg and I doubt not but with your Assistance he may be able to give the World satisfaction in this matter I earnestly desire you would perswade him to it and in Truth the daily growth of that Sect makes it necessary to have it thorowly laid open that Men may thereby be warned the more to beware of it This will be a Service to God and the Church Your humble Servant And so I enter upon my Work SECTION I. The Reason of their Name GEorge Fox was born Anno 1624. in a Village call'd Draton in Leicestershire his Father's Name was Christopher Fox his Mothers Name Mary who gained their Living by Weaving This George afterwards learned the Trade of a Shoomaker and wrought Journy work with George Gee of Manchester who having gained so much Learning as that he could read print pretty well but writing he could read but little of neither could write except very rudely And this was the only piece of Learning he attained too all his Life long For neither then nor any time after did he apply himself to any Liberal Study So that he not

far out proportionably as in his high Commendation of William Penn Sect. 2. For alass As streams run from a full Fountain so do and did the Quakers run to the late K. J. II. for out of the abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaketh But of this I will not be mine own Judge but as a Demonstration thereof I will recite a few of their words out of some of their Addresses to the late K. J. II. And 1st London April 1687. We pray God to bless the King His Royal Family and People with Grace and Peace and that after a long and prosperous Reign here he may receive a better Crown amongst the Blessed Which is the Prayer of c. The second Scotland June 1687. We cannot but with grateful Hearts both admire and acknowledge the Providence of God that made the Kings retiring into our Country i. e. Scotland 1679 give a happy turn to his Affairs to the defeating and disappointing the designs of his Enemies We do justly conceive our selves obliged by a special tye to praise God for his Goodness in carrying the King thorow and over all his troubles since by the same Providence and at the same time by which the Lord began in that more observable manner to evidence his care of him he made him the happy Instrument to deliver us from our troubles So that the prosperity of his Affairs and our peaceable fruition of the exercise of our Consciences beareth the same date the 3d. London August 1678. We pray God save the King and deliver him out of all his Enemies Hands both Spiritual and Temporal Enemies Amen Mark Reader here is Address upon Address and Prayer after Prayer for the late King James II. which sound his Fame from England to Scotland and from thence Eccoed back from Stotland to England in the highest strain and most elegant Stile the Quakers could invent sutable to their singular Dialect I do not mention this practice whil'st he was King of England and seated on the Throne as an Evil in it self or inconsistent with their Duty and the Duty of all his Subjects for 't is my Judgment that we ought to pray for all Kings which God in his Providence sets over us without disputing their Titles and to obey every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake knowing that there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God and who so resist the Powers they resist the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation according to these Scriptures Rom. 13. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2 cap. Mat. 22. 21. I say I do not recite these Addresses and Prayers made by the Quakers to and for the late King as an Evil in it self for I do believe we ought to pray for all Kings whether they be Pagan or Christian Papist or Protestant good or bad Orthodox or Hetrodox Protectors or Persecutors for such was the practice of all Gods faithful Saints and Servants from Abraham downwards to this day as these Scriptures shew in the Margin Ger. 20. and 47. 7. 10. Exod. 1. 6. to the end cap. 2. 23 24 25. cap. 3. 7 10. 10 Acts 7. 18. to 35. Psal 90. 1. Josephus Anti. l. 6. cap. 5. 67 1. Sam. 8. 22. cap. 9. 16. 17. cap. 15. 1 9. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 1 Chron. 28. 4. 1 Kings 18. 25. Jer. 33. 20. Ps 132. 11. to 14. 2 Sam. 7. 25. cap. 16. 16. Ezr. 6. 3. to 14. Joseph An. 11. cap. 4. Ezek. 19. 10. Exod. 22. 26. 1 Pet. 2. Mat. 22. c. But that which disappoints both the Author of this Gen. Hist my self and thousands more is that they should thus heartily pray for and address themselves unto the late King and write so many Books in favour of the then Government calling him brave King c. God and Cesar are both of a mind c. A sensible Prince c. An Instrument in God's hand c. and notwithstanding all this and much more that might be said on the same Subject yet when King William his present Majesty whom God preserve came to the Crown and the very first Year of His Reign did by Law indulge them in the exercise of their perswasion and give them all the ease they reasonably could desire yet they made not one Address to him nor one Prayer for him as they did for the late King no nor yet wrot one Book in favour of the Government which made me and others admire at their ingratitude for I was so far of the same mind with the Author of the Gen. Hist That I thought the Quakers could not but love K. W. III. and embrace him as their most effectual Defender but when I came to prove them and try them and measure them by their Fruits and to consider that in two years space they made 4 Addresses to the late K. J. II. and that in 4 years time they had not made one Address to K. W. III. I then altered my mind and by reading of their said Addresses and their Books wrot by W. Penn I found that the stream of their Affections did run like a mighty torrent to the late K. J. II. when there was not the least issuing drop of Affection run to His present Majesty and this put me upon writing a Letter to the Quakers August 1690. p. 2. Now if you would be constant then why do you not pray for and address your selves to K. William and Q. Mary as heartily and as publickly as you did to and for K. J. whom you call'd and said a Brave King God and Cesar are both of a mind pray Godbless the King and His Royal Family These and many more magnifying Expressions were published thro the Nations But no Salutation no Message no Prayer for nor no Address to K. W. and Q. M. as if you were struck mute at the loss of your brave King whom you said was of the same mind with God What can you say for your selves Are you like those 1 Sam. 10. 27. viz. The Children of Belial who said how shall this Man save us And they despised him and they brought him no presents no Addresses nor Prayers but the King held his peace Oh you unworthy and ungrateful Persons Hath not King William granted you the Liberty of your Consciences and confirmed it by a Law What have you nothing to say for King William Nay you are so far from that that when His Majesty appointed a Fast for the prosperity of his Armies you not only Preached against the Fast but also to weaken the Hearts and Hands of his Friends you did vehemently cry down all Wars and Fighting Is your zeal for the Protestant cause and the Protestant interest quite lost and gone or is it gone to Rome You have had several yearly Meetings since this King's Reign but not the least publick acknowledgment of the special Favour shewed you by the King and Parliament I will not say but some of your

I deny and this Light to whom they say all Judgment is committed and which they have in them must be Judge of all controversies and consequently their President which deserves the casting Voice No marvel then that the Quakers are not concern'd to vindicate our Bible against the contempt cast upon it by the Papists as saith the same Josiah Coal ibid. p. 104. I find the rest of his Book i. e. A. S. the Roman Catholick consists of divers Arguments in which he controverts with Sectaries and their Bibles and Ministers whose cause I am not engag'd in therefore it doth not concern me to Answer his Charges against them c. No what neither Sectaries their Bibles nor Ministers Surely tho' he thought himself not engag'd to vindicate the Sectaries nor their Ministers yet if as they pretend to the Parliament they do believe the Scriptures to be Divine and left us by Men Divinely Inspired and that they are a rule of Faith and Behaviour they ought to have vindicated the Bible at least Well but some may say what did this A. S. the Papists call the Bible that they the Quakers think themselves thus unconcern'd to vindicate I Answer 't is his 14th Chapter and which the same Josiah Coal hath printed as an Abettor and Co-workers with him in p. 113. to 116 of his Works The contempt the Papists cast on the Bible and which the Quakers are not at all concern'd to vindicate is viz. Protestant Sectarian Ministers and Preachers who stand in a Pulpit or Tub with such a brazen Fac'd Book as is their unjust corrupt and perverse Bible in their hand c. Oh the deceit of this People What do they pretend to own the Bible only for their own ends to obtain their Liberty and when the Papists vilifie and contemn it and call it a brazen Fac'd Book a corrupt and perverse Book and they not concern'd hereat Well I do still hope that some will be concern'd to vindicate the Holy Bible from the contempt of the Papists calling it a brazen Fac'd Book perverse Book and from the contempt of the Quakers who call it Death Dust Beastly ware Carnal Serpents-meat c. 2. That the Quakers at their Synods make Catalogues of Sufferers for their Religion and what they Suffer and by whom c. I have spoken to this Head largely in the 4th Chapter of the first Part and therein shewed how they boast of their Sufferings how they Augment and make them more than they are yea put them in their Monuments Sufferers 20 l. when they are so far from that that they have gotten 10 l. clear into pocket as in the case of Samuel Cater I have made it appear likewise as my Author says Gen. Hist p. 137. that they amplify their Sufferings viz. A scratch a pinch or a blue spot for a grievous Torment and bloody Wound which may be well observed in most of the Monuments which these Men have left of their Sufferings c. 3. That the Quakers inspect their Books to be printed after approved by their Censors c. From whence let it be noted that if their Books be thus inspected and approved by their approved Censors then are the whole answerable for the Errors contained in those Books and for all the horrible Blasphemies in them But their case is still worse for suppose any one or more of them be moved as he pretends to write a Message Warning or Exhortation to a Nation People or Society as the Word of the Lord God their frequent pretence This Book is first sent up to London for inspection and approbation to one of these Meetings or Synods where their Light is President and made infallible Judge having all Judgment committed to it in Heaven and in Earth this Synod thus Assembled shall afterwards vary the Title and change the Matter to make it harmonize with their design and when this Writer Dyes and leaves 20 or 30 Books thus approved and thus sent abroad the surviving Synod shall take these Books and again alter them put in and take out a second time what they please then re-print them again And what is become of their Infallibility now They had their President at their first inspection what could he not then see and discern clearly but that here must be a new inspection was not their President their Light the same For either the Quakers write as they are moved by the Eternal Spirit of God or they do not if they do then they are equal with the Apostles Writings and then the Judgment denounced Rev. 22. 18 19. If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto them the plagues that are written in this Book And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophesy God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book c. This reward they must expect Again if they do not then are they most horrible Deluders and great Deceivers when they write thus this is the word of the Lord God to you the Inhabitants of Bristol or the like and they believe it not they do not believe the Author to be so moved and commissioned and forasmuch as they served the Works of Edward Burrow W. Smith George Fox Is Pennington so viz. altered added and diminished to my certain knowledge I do thereupon affirm that they are not the Works of Fox Burrow Pennington and Smith but the Quakers in general and they are answerable for their Errors notwithstanding each title assert the same Thus hath Quakerism been carried on thus hath it grown and taken its progress by Cheats Frauds and Hypocrisies 4. About their Womens Meetings and their manner and way of their Female Government Having by my Book de Christiana Libertate c. not only treated at large on this head but also been instrumental thereby in giving that Image a deadly blow insomuch as that in some part of the County of Suffolk as well as in divers other Counties in England there is not a distinct Womans Meeting to be seen nor heard of But yet since 't is mentioned in the Gen. Hist p. 50. They have likewise Meetings like those we call Classes and Provincial and National Synods or Councils These Conventions are celebrated oftner or seldomer as the number of their Churches is but so as to allot each Sex Men and Women their distinct and particular Meetings c. I say since the Relation of their Womens Meetings are here brought to light which many think are so dead and dying as that it 's hard to find one in many places and that by way of commendation as I take it I shall therefore briefly touch upon the principal Heads and Orders both of its novel rise and arbitrary Government and chiefly for this reason because in all the Orders there is not so much as one Scripture proof mentioned to confirm and to

that it shews 1. That the Quakers believe that Womens Meetings are the Ordinances of Jesus Christ 2. That they pretend to have power to bind and loose 3. That the only way to find Mercy was to submit to George Fox and consequently to obey and observe his Laws 4. That this false Prophesy delivered in the Name of the Lord might be from Age to Age continued upon the Quakers as a brand upon their pretence to Prophesy for when the said Solomon delivered this Message by Letter to John Story the said John was very ill and not like to live yet it pleased God for the honour of his Name and that these false pretenders might be manifest to give him length of days about 4 years after 5. That they accounted George Fox the great Apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ from the First Instance 't is no marvel then that the Quakers have thrown off and rejected the Ordinances of Baptisme and the Lord's Supper Instituted by Christ himself since Fox their Apostle have ordained Womens Meetings From the 2d That they are one with the Pope touching the power of the Church From the 3d. That the Merits and Satisfaction of Christ as our Mediator and Intercessor of his Death and bitter Passion are by the Quakers laid aside if the only way to find Mercy with God be to be reconcil'd to the Quaker Church From the 4th That the Quakers are not zealous for God by their cloaking and excusing this false Prophesy of Solomon Eccles as well as divers others of his Idolatrous Practices and by their owning him and his Books to the last and never passing a publick censure upon him and his Books From the 5th That 't is no marvel that they are so much concern'd to vindicate every little Pamphlet of their own with great charge and industry but when the Papists call our Bible a brazen Fac'd corrupt and false Bible this they say in so many words they are not concern'd to vindicate this they leave to the Sectarian and Episcopalians to do for alas they have work enough besides and as to the Bible though the Papists call it a brazen Fac'd Book false and corrupt yet the Quakers are not concern'd to vindicate the Bible and indeed how can they against the Papists for the Papists would soon reply what do the Quakers blame us for calling your Bible a brazen Fac'd Book whil'st you your selves call it Death Dust Beastly Wares Serpents Food How then can you blame us since we are Cousin Jermains and Dear Brethren in the common cause against the Church of England Good God when I consider their deep Hypocrisy in their confession to the Parliament I am astonish'd at their impudence and so I proceed to the next Head 5. Moreover saith the Historian p. 55. it 's also their custome in their Houses never to express a Religious Duty with an outward Voice as praying to God craving his Blessing e'er they take Meat or go to Bed till they feel the impulsion of the Spirit This also is the fruit of Quakerism read one of their Books stiled A Musick Lecture c. p. 25. For where they i. e. Christians are I was in Performances in Ordinances in Family Duties in Hearing in Reading in Prayers in Fastings well but when I came to bend my Mind to that of God in me which is Christ then I begun to learn to be a Fool insomuch that I durst not give God thanks for the Victuals that were set before me c. Reader this their practice is so well known in England as well as in Holland that I need not to enlarge upon it only take up a Lamentation when I consider how many Thousand Families of Quakers there are in England that never prayed to God in their Houses nor gave thanks for Blessings received with outward Voice since they turned Quakers perhaps 20 or 30 years What account then will they be able to give at the great and terrible Day Who have thus bewitched the People from the practice of the Primitive Christians Saints and Martyrs and all Protestant Churches to this day unto the practice of the Heathen that know no God read Jeremiah 10. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the heathen and upon the families that call not on thy name But possibly they 'll say they think of God when they go to Bed and when they receive the Comforts of this Life to which I answer if that be enough and that words are useless why then do their Teachers speak and pray in their Meetings with an audible Voice and sometimes at your own Houses when People are there Is this their practice only that they may be seen of Men a thing I am jealous of for if they look upon it their Duty why not a Duty incumbent upon the hearers also But they say in Burrow's Works p. 47. That is no command of God to thee which God commanded to others unless they receive it a new as the Inspired Apostles did Thus have they taken away they Key of Knowledge from the People I mean the use of the Holy Scripture which would instruct them better Nay this is not all but where the Spirit of Quakerism is in its full vigor if they happen to be in company with a Man of another Profession whether Episcopalian Presbyterian Independant or Baptist who crave a Blessing upon what they receive ☞ sits the Quaker with his Hat on as a Testimony against that laudible Practice 6. They have Anniversary Synods in every considerable Kingdom to whom belong the Care and Administration of all the Affairs of that Kingdom In England they have a fixed Anniversary Synod on the third day of Penticost Gen. Hist p. 51. This may be true but of how dangerous a consequence both to Church and State I am not able to determine but time will further manifest But the more they encrease and gain upon their People and believe that they are the only true Church and as such cannot err that they have power to bind and loose and that their Precepts and Prescriptions are of equal Authority to that of the Apostles and thereupon ought to be indispensibly obeyed I say as this comes to be received and embraced the danger of these Anniversary Synods will be seen more and more and it may be when 't is too late for they not only already think themselves capable to teach Judges Justices yea and the Parliament too What is their Duty what they may do and what they may not do and the utmost confines of their Jurisdiction particularly in the case of Heresy of which I have recited some Instances and can hundreds more as also by two of their Anniversary Synods they have virtually tho' not verbally repealed great part of two Statute Laws that of the 22 of C. II. and that clause of an Act of Parliament made in the First of K. W. Ill. relating to Tythes by their yearly Epistles enregistred by Authority of their Anniversary Synods I

must have a clause put in to bind us to pay Tythes and this will go down but ruggedly with the Friends What shall I say or how shall I come off If I accept of it on these Terms I shall displease many if I loose the Bill and with it our Money spent to obtain it tho' when all is done 't is no less nor more an Oath then I took my self in the Lord Mayor's Court upon a Bill exhibited against me by Thomas Daniel and Elizabeth his Wife April 9th 1695. I shall displease others what shall I do I am beset round on every side without are fears within are doubts one sort of Friends will blame me for accepting of it thus I A. B. do declare in the presence of Almighty God the witness of the Truth of what I say which the World's people will say 't is equivalent to an Oath and at the end of it there is such Rider as enjoyns us to pay Tythes c. and yet this will not do neither unless we sign our Association and mention King William these things are hard yet we will submit to Parliaments for once c. Reader this is the case their first Paper dated March 3 1695 6 not signed nor King W. named was thrown out and poor G W. and his Associates signed another dated the 3 d day of April 1696. A Copy thereof a Person of Quality sent me which Paper was signed and the King's Name at large in it that part of it which answers to the other part already recited I will set down viz. And we believe that the timely discovery and prevention of the late barbarous Design and mischievous Plot against King William and the Government and the sad Effects it might have had is an eminent Mercy from Almighty God c. At a Meeting of the said People the 3d of April 96. Signed by many of us on behalf of our selves and the rest of our Friends c. Note Reader that this Paper presented to the King April 8. 1696. dated April 3. 96. was never dispersed among the Quakers but kept private But that Paper dated March 3. 1695 6. wherein the King is not named and which therefore the Lords threw out that Paper was dispersed far and near so the poor Quakers still may be to seek what King their Teachers mean c. Reader I have already put down the Form of the Quakers Oath I A. B. c. I shall now add another clause in the said Act which will prevent them from coming into any share of the Government which they have long waited for but thanks be to God Quakerism has by this Act got such a blow as they will not easily rub off viz. Provided and be it Enacted that no Quaker or reputed Quaker shall by vertue of this Act be qualify'd or permitted to give evidence in any Criminal Causes to serve on any Juries or bear any Office or place of Trust or Profit in the Government any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And having thus far shewed Mr. Croese his mistake of the Quakers loving King William as their effectual Defender as well as in some other things in his General History I am about leaving him until the next opportunity hoping when he considers and sees how Quakerism first rose and how it has grown and by what means and methods it has had its progress that he will not blame me for dealing plainly with them especially when he sees and considers the scurrilous Names and ignominious Terms they have cast upon the Learned Clergy of this British Nation as Robbers Thieves Witches Devils Antichrists Bloodhounds the Sir Simons of the Age Monsters Baal's Priests Sodomites and what not which might render them and their function odious to the People as also their Pamphlets to the Parliaments to leave and forsake them and so I take my leave of this learned Historian and bid him farewel By this time some may say you seem to know the distemper of this corrupted Body of Quakerism pray let us know a Remedy to stop the gangreen for many wise and learned Men have endeavoured to apply a Remedy but have hitherto missed yea sometimes by Corrasives which have been too severe to stop the running thereof and sometimes by Lenetives which have taken no place at all Ans I do acknowledge and experience teacheth us that sometimes the ablest Physitian for want of knowing the Disease has missed when one not so noted has with the help of Herbs and what is common wrought a Cure First then the most proper way to Cure this Distemper which lies in the Brain and affects the Heart also is to let George W. and some few of the most eminent Teachers and Writers amongst the Quakers be summoned by Authority and by the same examined whether these Books quoted as theirs be really so or no. Next if proved upon them let them either justifie or retract them Secondly after this is done let them set forth certain Articles of their Faith and if it be agreeable to the Christian Religion then let them condemn all their Books which teach the contrary This was the way of the French Protestants and when so done let each Congregation of Quakers have their Teacher and each Teacher have their Congregation and take care of the same that so the Generation of Youth be not corrupted and poysoned by sucking in false Notions and imbibing false Principles in their young years This is what pleases all Protestant Dissenters both Presbyterians Independants and Baptists and for which they are very thankful to the Government and in their Meetings pray heartily for the preservation thereof as I have heard in all their Societies And if nothing less then Anniversary Synods and General Councels will please these aspiring Quakers before they have them let them ask leave of the Government to hold them and how long to continue the sitting thereof and if the Government think good to bestow that Favour of them it would be very proper that there should be a Commissioner or two Ordered and Commissioned by His Majesty to reside in their Councel the doors being open and free ingress for their Deputies and liberty for them to speak freely and their Acts put into Writing for preventing confusion and when this is done it will be proper to limit and set them bounds who of themselves are boundless and to restrain them from these things following 1. That all their Ministers who are not natural born Subjects but Foreigners whose coming may be to spy out the weaknesses of our Country to alienate the King's Subjects from their obedience to their Sovereign may be excluded out of their Synod and have neither place nor voice in their general Counsel 2. And that during the time granted them by Authority to hold their Synod they may have no communication with Forreigners or other suspected Persons as Jesuits c. 3. And forasmuch as the Quakers are not