on as an irregular Proceedure and Innovation and no safe President or Example For which cause together with his refusal to give the Monethly Meeting satisfaction for the Irregularity as desired on complaint thereof to the Quarterly Meeting a Record was made according to their Consciences and Care That they had not Vnity with him in this his SO doing as 't is cited by Fr. Bugg himself Sixthly Let it be noted That Francis Bugg is guilty of notorious Falshood and malicious Slander where he pretends to discover That hypocritical and two-faced Practice of pleading to the Magistrates for Liberty of Conscience and at the same time using and exercising all Force Rule and Dominion they are capable to inflict upon their dissenting Brethren who cannot fall down and cry Hosanna to every Likeness c. And the Reason he suggests is Lest the Ruling Party should be encouraged to introduce a numberless Number of needless Ceremonies till at length Rome may if possible be outdone pag. 115 116. 2d part Thus like a false informing Judas he has belched out his Lying Insinuations tending to incense the Magistrate against us For 1 st In the first part I take his Charge Hypocritical to intend our Applications to the Magistrates for Liberty from Persecution and then 't is malicious false and scandalous and therein he has acted the part of a base Informer against us for which God who knows our sincerity and consistency in our pleading to the Magistrate on this account will certainly rebuke his lying malicious Spirit In the second part I take his Charge Of using all Force Rule and Dominion c. upon dissenting Brethren for not falling down to every Likeness to intend that Church-Government Discipline and Order and those Ministers concerned therein which he opposeth among the People called Quakers And then he hath herein most wickedly and falsly informed the Magistrates 1 st To render our Applications for Liberty of Conscience of no credit with them but Hypocritical 2 dly To render us guilty of that which we are pleading against i. e. Exercising Force upon our Brethrens Consciences and that for not falling down to every Likeness Oh horrid Abuse and Slander And what lamentable Blindness and gross Absurdity is this Adversary fallen into like as if he should thus argue viz. You plead to the Magistrate for Liberty of Conscience in the free exercise of Religion from Persecution Corporal and Pecuniary Punishments on that score Therefore you are Hypocritical Two-faced and Inconsistent in your Practice whilst you exercise a Church Authority by giving true Spiritual Judgment Admonition or Censures upon any that dissent or divide from you or cause Divisions or Offences Such are the Consequences of his before-cited Charge considering that he has not proved our Judgment VNJVST or Advice and Admonition ERRONEOVS or VNCHRISTIAN in any of those things opposed by him or our Paper which he makes his great Proof against us and Scornfully calls A Grant and Confirmation by a general Council held at London Anno 1675. pag. 41. For which he falsly accuseth us of INNOVATIONS IMPOSITIONS APOSTACIES NEW-STAMPED GOVERNMENT ARBITRARY RVLE c. comparing us to the POPES COVNCIL pag. 42 46 c. And then he might as well say 'T is a great infringement of Liberty of Conscience for a Christian Society to Reprove Judge or Censure disorderly Walkers under the same Profession And by the same absurd way of Arguing and shallow Opposition he may as well assume a Power to stop the Mouthes of all Gospel Ministers for exercising their Consciences in that divine Authority that Christ hath given them To renounce the hidden things of Dishonesty and to Exhort Rebuke Reprove Admonish Command c. according to their Commission both in the primitive Times and our Day Thus we may justly conclude that a corrupt defiled immoral Conscience would have its unchristian Liberty Seventhly Some Errors have escaped the Press in this Treatise both in Points Letters and Words the most material whereof are here noted which I desire the ingenuous Reader accordingly to Correct the sense will shew the rest wherein I do as I would be done to for I examine the Errata's even of my Adversaries Books as they are noted before I answer the Matter ERRATA PAge 19. Line 4 6. for bear read bare p 26 l 10 r questioned p 33 l 24 f mian r main p 34 l 17 f twining r turning p 43 l 13 dele there p 47 l 1 f the r thy p 59 read by laws made in the reign of p 62 l 3 f tives r tive p 84 l 20 f bear r bare p 88 l 16 f justifying r insisting p 144 l 10 r blind zealot is p 158 l 1 r in the case p 167 l 9 f it r in p 209 l 2 f Statutis r Statuti p 210 l 14 r their names p 228 l 21 r upon W P's p 233 l 20 21 r abusest scandalizest p 237 l 3 r the matter p 252 l 16 f disingenious r disingenuous p 254 l 10 r horribly p 262 l 1 r Apostates p 272 l 14 r rights p 279 Margent r Like the Postscript of N. C 's Epistle p 284 l 3 r are under p 295 l 16 r their Conscientiousness p 300 l 7 f by r thy p 310 l 16 r because thereof p 311 l 12 r and of p 315 l 14 r his pretence being because p 326 l 17 f herein r therein The sense will evince the rest of literal fauls less material THE END BOOKS Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch 1682. DVe Order of Law and Justice pleaded against Irregular and Arbitrary Proceedings By George Whitehead The Real Quaker a Real Protestant By G.W. A legal Examination of Abuses of Law The Religious Assemblies of the People called Quakers vindicated The Christian-Quaker and his divine Testimony vindicated in two parts By W. Penn and G. Whitehead An Answer to a foolish Libel called The Quakers Opinions By William Penn. England's present Interest discovered with honour to the Prince and safety to the People By W. P. An Epistle to the Churches of Jesus throughout the whole World By W. P. An Epistle to the Children of Light W. P. An Address to Protestants in two Parts By W. P. A brief state and examination of Liberty Spiritual By W. P. An Epistle containing a solemn Farewell c. By W. P. A Mite into the Treasury or A Treatise concerning the seven Liberal Arts. By Thomas Lawson A Testimony against Tything among Christians By R. Richardson The Foundation of Tythes shaken By Thomas Elwood Tythes ended by Christ. By W. Gibson The great Case of Tythes once more revived By Francis Howgill A Treatise of Oaths c. Universal Love By W. Smith The Principles of Truth or a declaration of our Faith who are called Quakers An Epistle of Love and good Will to the called and choson of God By J. Songhurst An Invitation of Love to all that hunger and
expression a Proper Looking-Glass The Bishop's saying The Popes Light is come into the World and men love Darkness better than Light Is this thy proper Looking-Glass to see our Faces in 'T is but a dull one Where did we ever in all our Councils Expressions or outward Directories as thou callest them so much as resemble such false Doctrine and Blasphemy No we abhor it What a false Looking-Glass hast thou presented here It serves only to shew how Evil and False thy Eye is and how bad thy Sight is how Impertinently and Sordidly hast thou cast upon many Servants of Christ those accounts against Popes c. which thou hast gathered out of the History of the Council of Trent And how easie is it to make Books at that rate Thou hast known better things of the Ministers of Christ's Light among us than thus to represent them with thy false Similitudes and mayest remember that our frequent Testimony has been as still it is to excite People to Christ's Light within as being that true Light which is come into the World and to his Counsel that proceeds from his Light and not to the Pope nor any of his Councils And thy pretended Godly Jealousie That G. F. hath been endeavouring to exhalt his own Imaginations instead of Christ's Light appears Ungodly and False as many more of thy Jealousies which are no Proofs do § 7. And now thy Similitudes of Disunion or difference between the Pope and G. F. and his Friends p. 21 22. to render him and them worse than the Pope are as scornful and wicked as thy former as for instance to thy saying The Pope publisheth his Bull or Decree in his Name and doth not usually say 't is not for want of freeness in Spirit that I desire my Name should be hid But it appears to me that the Pen-man was ASHAMED that his Name should be publisht with the great Bull entituled The Accuser of the Brethren cast down Thus thou wherein thou hast told a gross Perversion and Untruth for the Pen-man neither said I desire my Name should be hid nor yet was he ASHAMED that his Name should be publisht with that Book thou falsly and scornfully callest The Great Bull nor doth he or any others concern'd therein find any Cause to be ashamed thereof but to stand by it against thy Malice and Abuses in thy Great Bull as it may be rather term'd for thy attempting therein to Unchristian and Unchurch a great number of faithful Servants of Christ. Again the Reason thou givest why thy Adversaries as thou callest us have not punisht thy Body nor taken away any of thy Estate is But blessed be the Lord they have no Power so to do Herein thou accountest is some little difference between them thou smites at and the Lords Inquisitors of the Popish Inquisition p. 21. I must tell thee I think this a very Uncharitable censure and smiting implying that they would both punish thy Body and take away thy Estate and so be as bad as the Lords of the Spanish Inquisition if they had but Power so to do Which bespeaks great Prejudice and Darkness to have entred thee And then to aggravate the matter thou turnest it about again That they i. e. thy Adversaries have not suffered thee to see the Faces or know the Names of thy Judges In that respect sayst thou the Lords of the Spanish Inquisition have been ore just p. 21. How odiously and grosly hast thou here represented thy Opposers who have not divulg'd their Names against thee of whom I take the Pen-man and thee to mean my self to be one And if so I must tell thee thou hast insinuated a gross Slander to render the Lords of the Spanish Inquisition more just and by a Lye justifiest the Papists who clap men up in Prison all their dayes never letting them know their Accusers see the History of the Inquisition for though the name of the Writer was not divulged with that Treatise entituled The Accuser c. Many others have given their Names in the same judgment concerning thee and thy work of Discord and Enmity and many more also do own and stand by that Judgment and Treatise And I must farther tell thee in the sight of God I see no cause to retract but to stand by that Treatise and own my share in it notwithstanding thy opposition to the contrary picking and nibbling and quarrelling here and there but giving the GO-BY to the most material parts thereof wherein the Controversie is most fully opened and distinguished Of those Popes with whom W. R. compares our Friends § 8. Seeing W.R. esteems the Popes yea even the worst of them good enough to bring us in comparison with and to cite and make them as Instances against us As Pope Leo the Tenth p. 6 22. Pope Paul the Third p. 19 28. Pope Julius the Third p. 31. It may not be amiss to give some description of these Popes according to a late History or Abstract of the Lives of the Popes printed Anno 1679. Among the Atheists Leo the Tenth is ranked who hearing Cardinal Bembo speaking to a point concerning the joyful Message of our Lord answered most dissolutely It is well known to the World through all Ages in how great stead that Fable of Christ hath profitted us and our Associates This man neither believed Heaven nor Hell after our departure out of this Life And such were Alexander the 10th Sylvester the 2d PAVL the 3d Benedict the 19th John the 13th Clement the 7th and Gregory the 7th Among the Magicians Conjurers Paul the Third is ranked as having obtained the Garland in Astrology and in that kind of Speculation which is assisted by the Ministry of Devils He altogether kept familiar Acquaintance with Negromancers and such like Imposters c. Among Warriours Blood-succors Paul the Third was also accounted viz. A great Persecutor of the Saints of God raised and fomented the German War which proved the Destruction of many thousand Families Among Paricides Impoysoners Paul the Third also impoisoned his Mother and Niece that the whole Inheritance of the Farniesian Family might accrew to himself His other Sister also whom be carnally knew upon fancying her freeness to others he slew by Poyson And so he is recorded among Incestuous Persons also Among the Favourites of Whores It s said That Paul the Third kept a Roll of forty five Thousand Whores who paid him a Monethly Tribute Among Sodomites Julius the Third used one Innocent as his Minion and created him Cardinal Of whom this account is also given in Dr. Gilb. Burnet's History of Reformation Book 2. Abridgment pag. 121. viz. That Pope Julius the Third when Cardinal Pool was rejected for his being too good was chosen for his Badness who gave his place of Cardinal to his man that kept his Munkey saying He saw as much in his Man to make him Cardinal as the Cardinals saw in him to make him Pope Query
of proposing the Marriage twice before consumated Is this that Rome at home which Thou and F. B. would have Friends to Fly for I take thee and F. B. to be in great Union now in your work seeing you appear so joyntly together in Print and to charge Friends with Imposition Immorality c. as thou hast done But he deals partially as thou hast done in not manifesting the occasion of Friends dissatisfaction he charging them with Excluding the aforesaid Person what in them lies out of the Vnity Excommunicating c. In which he placeth the Controversie but about manifesting his intention to Marry and then crys Behold the Crime But shews not what it is in the manner of circumstances of it Thus partial and covered you are in stating matters But the said Meeting would not hear his Letter What great Crime was that To this thou sayst viz. Should the Supream Power in this Nation have treated our Friends so as not to hear our Addresses many Goals might at this day have remained full of honest Friends who have been discharged from their sore Imprisonments There 's no parallel in the case between Friends tender Addresses to Authority for Relief of Friends in Distresses Goals c and F. Bugg's â—â—â—lecting abusive Letter to Friends in vindication of an Irregular Practice unwarrantable and tending to a corrupt fleshly Liberty as that of Proposing the Marriage but once to the Meeting c. Howbeit 't is a marvel thou wilt grant us so much Truth as that our Addresses have at any time had so good effect with Authority as to obtain the enlargement of so many honest Friends out of their sore Imprisonments This is more than some of thy Party have owned However considering thy Concession herein 't is the worse requital in thee to villifie and abuse such in Print as have been most industrious with the supream Power in the Sufferers behalf as to my knowledge thou hast very evilly requited and treated some such rather like a revengeful Persecutor than a Helper of the oppressed So thy Charge of Immorality on the Quarterly Meeting in the Isle of Ely for not hearing F. B's Letter and instancing the Parliaments admitting us to represent our Agrievance c. are still both unjust and no ways parallel For if we had given the like occasion against the Parliament that thou and F. B. have against us they might very well have rejected our Applications as Persons insolent to and contemning of Government should we have rendred them no more rightly in Government than you have our Meetings for a Church of Christ how should they have accepted our Addresses As if we should have told them they were a false usurping imposing apostate Parliament they might justly have rejected our Addresses § 6. Moreover 't is a shameful Lye and Abuse for thee again to recite the Paper from Barbadoes As one part of the fruits of the pretended establisht Government p. 27. since that Paper was so far from being own'd as any part of the fruits of that Government establisht which was by Christ we affirm among us that we have both plainly manifested our dislike thereof and the Persons concern'd in it in Barbadoes have themselves retracted it as is since publickly evinced in Print yet thou art so unconscionable as to render both G. Fox my self c. as shewing no dislike to the said Paper p. 28. Oh shameless Prevaricater and Abuser Thou canst not but otherwise understand divers Passages in our Letter about it to Barbadoes which clearly bespeaks our real dislike of it as thou confessest G.F. c. would seem to discourse a little of something amiss c. 'T is evident G. F. c. dislike some part of the said Paper c. p. 29. Seem to dislike the latter part thereof p. 4. But little indeed thou makest of that part of our discourse but art rather willing to expose us unjustly to publick Censure on those words of ours which appear most friendly tender and obliging and falsly to represent us as shewing no dislike to the said Paper Adding also another gross Untruth and self-contradiction in the case viz. That the Pen-man is espousing a cause contrary to antient Testimonies c. p. 30. And further sayst G. W. smoothed up the Barbadoes Meeters with this Expression We know you aim at the best things p. 82. What smoothing was this when we had plainly shewed them their Mistake We are sure then 't was not to smooth them up therein And may not some aim at good yea the best things and yet be mistaken in some cases What Absurdity then have I committed in telling them whom I believed had a good meaning though otherwise mistaken they aim'd at the best things Thou hast put my Name with G. F's at length with an c. instead of A. Parker's to two or three â—ines thou hast cited in the conclusion of our Letter to Barbadoes as an instance wherein we shew no dislike to their Paper because we call our selves Their dear Friends c. Is this thy More anon to shew that I would now be as a Lord over my Brethrens Consciences and Estates p. 25. For I presume 't is me thou intendest and if so 't is false and abusive O righteous Judge of all and Heart-searcher plead thou my Innocency and rebuke this Spirit of Envy Falshood and Slanders that 's risen upon against thy faithful Servants Whereas our charitable tender and friendly Treatment of them in Barbadoes rather shews that we were not willing to reject exclude or unfriend Persons for one or two Mistakes than to seek Lordship over them or theirs who otherwise were so well meaning as that we had cause to believe that God would rectifie their Judgments and set them to rights in all their Undertakings So that 't was enough for us to shew our dislike or disunion with them in that particular thing wherein they were mistaken or erred CHAP. IV. § 1. The great ends of Christian Religion and Society being eyed a more easie condescention and concurrence follow in lesser matters Things necessary for good order not doubtfully recommended Our consistency in the condescention proposed and how explain'd and clear'd from W. R's mistaken Objections § 2. W. R's judging and censuring a Person and that falsly whilst unheard in defence of himself condemned by himself as a grand Mark of Apostacy and he proved guilty thereof in fact § 3. W. R's Charge of false Suggestion Prevarication and Forgery reflecting on himself proved notoriously false by divers Instances recited out of his own Book shewing his general Opposition to outward orders form and discipline c. relating to Church-Government And then unsaying that opposition again by his finally granting both outward Order Methods Forms and Discipline under Christ's Government How far binding on the Conscience of others enquired into And he must grant Liberty of Conscience in preaching and exhorting to things just honest and needful or else
Assemblies are intended must needs be consistent with the same Principles of Love and Union and tend to the Increase thereof and not to the Violation thereof as thou hast falsly charged Upon our Admonition Not to discountenance or weaken their Hands in the Work and Service of the Lord. Thou maketh this observation viz. See what a strict and severe admonition is uttered forth even as if it had come from the Pope's Council of Jesuits and crafty Fryars Scoffing and Smiting still at the Womens Meetings p. 46 47. How now Francis is this thy treatment and comparison of us Hadst thou no better than the Pope's Council of Jesuits and crafty Fryars to compare us unto in our Testimony and Admonition Oh! be ashamed of such foul sordid and scornful and false treatment who instead of proving thy Charge of Inconsistence and Violence as before now abuseth us mocks and scoffs and scandallizeth us like a conceited proud Fool. 6 thly Be ashamed also of thy scornfully upbraiding us with our Womens Meetings as an Idol of our own erecting and asking Why should it not publickly be brought to Light and made as manifest as the Lord Cromwell made the Papists great Idol to wit the Rood of Grace which had goggling Eyes and would smile when a good Gift was offorded to it when he caused it to be brought to Paul's Cross where the People tore it all to pieces in King Henry the 8 ht's time p. 47. Oh thou ungodly Wretch and malicious Informer is this a fit Comparison and Instance to present the Magistrates with against our Christian Religious Charitable and Sober Womens Meetings And dost thou under such an abominable and odious Comparison thus expose them to the Magistrates for their Meetings to be torn to pieces Thou vile Wretch blush and be ashamed of such malicious scornful and defaming Impertinences thus instead of proving thy before-cited Charge to act the malicious reviling and false accusing Informer against God's People then scornfully concludest thy Observation with these words viz. This notable not Scriptural but Anti-scriptural Edict p. 48. Which is a false Conclusion without Premises and a shameful begging the Question wherein thou art an Imposer for not one sentence or word in all that said Paper of our sence and Advice hast thou proved ANTI-SCRIPTVRAL or directly contrary to Scripture as thy terms are p 79. Thou shouldst then have shewn us what Scripture forbids either faithful Womens Assembling or those Religious and Charitable ends and services proposed which their Meetings are intended for I dare challenge thee in this to prove thy charge of Anti-scriptural 7 thly I do affirm thou art so far from making good thy Charge that for all thy Attempts I have still occasion to return the same charge upon thee that we did upon William Rogers which for a pretence thou citest but dost not answer it p. 39. viz. What new and unchristian Doctrines and Practices are we fallen into We find no proof nor discovery thereof in all thy Book I do profess seriously however thou scoffingly callest me a notable serious George I see no cause nor reason thou shewest for the great noise rumble thou makest about outward Laws Prescriptions Orders Edicts or Decrees outward form of Government Apostacy Innovation Impositions Lording over Faith over Conscience c. To which I may add thy terms Womens Charter Grant Confirmation New Order Decretal Order New fashion'd Edict Popes Council Papists great Idol Canonical Rules New spiritual Lords Decrees Canons Edicts of Men Tyrannical proceedings c. whilst thou shewest to us no unjust no unlawful nor uncomely Order or Proceedings amongst us as a People nor yet givest us any Catalogue or Instance of those Impositions Innovations New Doctrines or Practices brought in and received amongst us which are INCONSISTENT with our first Testimony to the Light and Grace of God within and teaching thereof or thereby condemned as Evil or wholly unnecessary in themselves as our words are 8 thly This thou dost not answer but Marvellest that G. Whitehead should have the Confidence thus to call for a Catalogue of New Orders that are introduced among us or rather sayst thou Impudence to deny such things as are every Moneth put in practice among us And therefore sayst thou wilt bring forth Proof and President first the Confirmation of the Foundation of the Womens Meetings namely G. F 's Order by a general Council held at London 1675. To all which I must tell thee thou dost not follow the terms of the Challenge but ramblest impertinently telling us of New Orders such things the Confirmation of the Foundation of the Womens Meetings c. but provest not those things nor one thing practised among us as a People or that first Confirmation as thou falsly callest it to be Inconsistent with or contrary to our first Testimony to the Light and Grace of God within and teachings thereof 'T is not thy making a noise with New Orders Decrees c. shall serve thy turn in this point but I challenge thee to prove that the setting up and encouraging our faithful Womens Meetings are contrary to the Light and Grace of God within and teachings thereof This is matter thou hast undertaken to bring proof and president for This is close to the terms of our Challenge and thou hast but made shuffling slubbering work about it 9 thly Moreover what we propounded in our Paper aforesaid which thou callest The Confirmation by a general Council held at London Anno 1675. and which thou hast instanced for proof of thy Charge of Inconsistency and Violence and consequently as Antichristian was tenderly concluded in these terms viz. All which we recommend to the Evidence of Gods holy Witness in the Hearts of his People Why didst thou not take notice of this Conclusion to have prevented thy false charge of Imposition wherein thou hast contradicted thy Brother William Rogers for he hath divers times assented to and own'd the giving advice and counsel by way of Recommendation distinguishing that from Imposition as his own Books and Words are evidence But thou cryst out Impositions Inconsistency Violence to our first Principles of Vnion on that very same Paper which is concluded by way of Recommendation to the Evidence of Gods holy Witness in the Hearts of his People And to this and other Papers of Advice Judgment c. thou hast opposed Liberty of Conscience and so made void Spiritual Censures contrary to the very Author thou hast printed owned and espoused as being of the same Judgment with thee where he saith pag. 138. part 1. 'T is very fit that wheresoever you will suppose Errors to be sprung up all the means Christ hath appointed for that end should be used to suppress them and reclaim Men from them Let their Mouthes be stopped with sound Doctrine and Spiritual Censures The only Question is about the use of the Temporal Power in such things Principles and Opinions in the Mind were never extinguished by