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A30035	The pilgrim's progress, from Quakerism to Christianity containing, a farther discovery of the dangerous growth of Quakerism, not only in points of doctrine, but also in their politicks, respecting their government, and opposite to it, together with their fund or common bank to support the same : with a remedy proposed for this malady, and the cure of Quakerism : to which is added an appendix, discovering a most damnable plot, contriv'd and carrying on by New-Rome, by an united confederacy, against the reformed religion and professors thereof, as will appear from the designs of their silent meetings, their monthly, quarterly, second-day, six-week, and yearly meeting, all which are particularly herein treated on / by ... Fr. Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1700 (1700)	Wing B5383; ESTC R20744	232,865	530

Israel 1 Sam. 17. as the Quakers do the Church of England her Bishops and Clergy And as a fresh Motive to this my Chace I saw Two Letters from Two worthy Clergymen to their Acquaintance in the City which complain'd of the Quakers Insolency An Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. I supply the Cure of I have with the Blessing of God upon my Pains preserved the People in our Communion except some few till now But at this time thro' the extraordinary Devices Craft and Subtilty of the Quakers that Parish and two or three more thereabouts are in great Danger of falling from the Church to Quakerism several of their New Converts go about to Houses importuning Men and Women to go to hear their Speakers They are so troublesome in this Nature as that I am perswaded some have turned and others must turn for a quiet Life I have observed them to be much more hot and eager in making Proselytes since the Peace than ever they were in the time of the War They challenge us to meet them and Dispute with them but if we should accept their Challenge without our Bishop's Leave I do not know how he would resent it besides I am not hasty lest the best Cause in the World should suffer thro' my Weakness And the Advantage they would bring to their Cause hereby is to have it universally believ'd that their Religion is so good and so much favour'd by the Government as that it neither can nor dare be oppos'd by us I believe the Intent of the King and Parliament in granting them an Indulgence was not that they should disturb the Professors of the Establish'd Religion by Law but rather that these Legal Professors should not be capable of disturbing or molesting them I pray God open the Eyes of our Governours and cause them to take into Consideration this too much and too deplorable unlimited and unbounded Toleration especially as the Quakers both claim and use it which notwithstanding all the Care and indefatigable Labour and Pains of the Watchmen of Israel will certainly if not timely prevented be the Overthrow of our Church and Christianity it self c. And to my own Knowledge they boast of having the Royal Ear and such Friends at Court as give them great Boldness especially in Country Towns and Villages where they ride Lord and Master and begin to think themselves interested in the Comprehension discoursed of But if so without first a general Retractation of the Errours by them broached and of their scandalous Defamations of our Kings our Parliaments Bishops Clergy and Protestants in general it will be no other than breeding a Viper in the Bowels of the Christian Churches which God of his Mercy divert Thus begging my Reader 's Pardon for this long Digression I shall now take Leave to renew my Chace in Hunting the Fox not so much to single out a single Person for that God knows of every Society there has been some Particulars under mistaken Notions pursuing wrong Designs as to shew that the Governing Party of the Quakers who sit at their Helm have been utterly against this present Government For as I told them Publickly in my Printed Letter to the Quakers Printed 1690. p. 2. i. e. This Government and the Protestant Interest are so linked together that those which are not true to the one cannot be true to the other whatever they may pretend c. I say not so much to single out of their Herd one particular Person as to shew that the Quakers in general who think themselves thus highly honoured as the Merit of their Innocency have all along been averse to the Government that so when they like the Peacock behold their dark Parts they may let fall their Plumes and be humbled and brought to a Confession both of their Sins of Omission and Commission against God and Man For I having observed the Discourse of the Quakers touching the late Happy Revolution found how their Pulse beat and in the general perceived a great Lukewarmness in them to the present Government I also went sometimes to their Meetings as I did to other Dissenters to observe whether they all pray'd for Their Majesties and to do the Dissenters Right both Presbyterians Independants and Baptists pray'd heartily for Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary but not a Word of such a Prayer amongst the Quakers By which I soon perceived that their Peoples Averseness to the Government proceeded from the Doctrine and Example of their Teachers upon which I Printed against this their Omission in a Letter to the Quakers 1690. p. 2. saying Why do you not Pray for and Address your selves to King William and Queen Mary as publickly and as heartily as you did to and for the late King James II. viz. as a brave King God and Cesar said Penn are both of a Mind pray God bless the King and his Royal Family These and many more were published thro' the Nations and from your Yearly Meetings too but no Salutation no Message no Prayer for nor Address to King William and Queen Mary as if you were struck mute at the Loss of your brave Popish King I do not charge this as an Evil in it self whilst our King but to shew the Quakers Zeal to that and Coldness to his present Majesty whom God preserve What can you say for your selves Are you like those 1 Sam. 10.27 viz. The Children of Beliel who said How shall this Man save us And they despis'd him and brought him no Presents no Prayers no Addresses but the King held his Peace O ye unworthy and ungrateful Persons Hath not King William granted you the Liberty of your Consciences What! Have you nothing to say for King William Nay you are so far from that that you have acted quite contrary for when King William appointed a Fast for the Prosperity of his Arms then you not only Preached against the Fast but also to weaken the Hearts and Hands of his Friends you vehemently cry'd down all Wars and Fighting * Mark this with the Juncture of Time and Occasion and the like Is you Zeal for the Protestant Cause quite gone or is it gone to Rome c. This Letter I grant put them into a Fume and Fret but they soon found a Salvo viz. Where said G. Whitehead are all required by Christ or his Apostles to pray for them i. e. Kings and all that are in Authority by Name c. The Content Apostate c. p. 17. as before observed But I soon Printed a Reply to G. Whitehead's Evasive Answer intituled New Rome Unmask'd p. 26 to 30. where I gave Instances of their Prayers and Addresses to the late King James II. as in the following Addresses is manifest but not one Anniversary Address to King William III. to August 1699. viz. The Humble Address of the People called Quakers to K. James II. June 1687. We cannot but with grateful Hearts both admire and acknowledge the Providence of

lately risen about the Money thou once told me was gathered amongst Friends for the Relief of J. C. Friends here * * At Cambridge are much concerned about it knowing right well that all honest Friends in that Day gave it freely expecting nothing again some are dead I suppose they did not make the Common Bankers their Executors the Donor's Will must be fulfilled in all things and not the Common Purse-Mongers † † But Fox Whitehead c. never liked those Friends at this Day that being contrary to true Religion to take Thought for to Morrow I have been examined by the Law Professors Whether we had a Common Purse or Bank I answered we had None † † A great Lie and with a Design to Deceive next to Perjury This gave so much Satisfaction that Friends in this Town * * Cambridge have been quiet Ever since † † Thus have the well-meaning Magistrates been all along deceived by the Quakers Lies for all may see she knew as well of their Common Bank their Common Purse their Dagon as I did only to blind the Magistrates and get Liberty she thus deceiv'd ' em The Magistrates look upon Common Bankers to be as bad as those that board up Arms and Ammunition and not said She without Reason for Money answers all things If Friends would put away this Dagon and take Money only for their present Necessities things would soon be better with them God will not bless those that break his Commands with Hoarding up Common Banks and Quarrelling with those that will not bring in Money fast enough to them I have observed it hath been frequent with some to reckon those that brought in most Money into their Common Bank to be the best Christians * * A sign she cannot plead Ignorance of their Fund if she had so long made that Observation and therefore her Lie looks the more designed Quaker-like who stick at nothing that may advance the New Catholick Cause c. Anne Docwra Thus Reader I have shewed by a Recital of Mrs. Docwra's Letter what Sence she had of their Common Fund i. e. that it was as bad as Hoarding up Arms and Ammunition and she is so far in the right on 't You see also what Testimonies hath been given out both Publick and Private against these private Purse-mongers and their raising Common Banks as that which is so pernicious to the Civil Government that it is as bad as Arms and Ammunition for Money asnwers all things For having this private Fund they can pay their Ministers and enable them to range the World over pretending to Teach freely to forsake their Father's Country Riches and Honours as you have heard and all to come and spend themselves their Strength and Years for the Good of Souls and all this freely without Money and without Price And you see your Teachers they must have their Tythes their Gleabe-Lands their Easter-Reckonings and their Midsummer-Dues by which you may see they are Followers of Balaam the Son of Bozer who loved the Wages of Unrighteousness Now by our Fruit and the Fruit of the World's Teachers you may try us and prove us Thus poor Hearts the very same People that give to these Collections † I mean innocent middle sort who are not admitted into the Knowledge of these things know nothing of their Teachers taking Money nay many of them will dispute strenuously against you on their Teachers Behalf That they take no Money that they Teach freely as above told And thus are these silly Sheep carried away with the Wiles of their Teachers and follow them as the Israelites did Rebellious Absalom in the Simplicity of their Hearts 2 Sam. 15.11 But Reader this Scourge did so torment this well-favour'd Harlot it did so sting and nettle her that poor Whitehead's dull Pen was not able to bear up Then came in Tho. Ellwood and tho' he wrote as much to the Point as his Craft could invent yet W. Rogers's Stroaks entered so deep and made such a Wound as that he i. e. Ellwood was forc'd poor Man full ill against his Will to confess their Ministers did take Money and their Clerks were paid out of their Fund which they had not only for Forty Years pretended to the contrary but by Ten Thousand Sermons solemnly declared that they neither take Silver Gold nor Apparel but freely they had received and freely delivered to the People O the horrible Deceit of this People However let it suffice that W. Rogers have whipt them into a better Temper who now confess the Fact and plead the Apostles But I deny that ever the Apostles Practice pretended to take neither Silver Gold nor Apparel and yet contrary to his Pretension took all he could lay his Hands on No this is the Practice only of the Quakers no Man questioning the lawfulness of the Ministers Maintainance save the Quakers only who yet take with both Hands their Fruit hath made them manifest Well let 's hear T. Ellwood viz. Regero Mastix p. 18. But that Christ's Ministers should be supply'd With Necessaries by the Church his Bride Is such a known and certain Truth as none Perhaps hath e'er oppos'd but thou alone That 't is the Church's Duty to supply The needful Wants of all her Ministry And Truth it is too plain to be deny'd Christ's Church should for Christ's Ministers provide What carps thou at then William Would thy Muse Plead that St. Paul did not this Priviledge use † No Thomas 't is Quakers Plea tho' for self-ends they now plead it That what was lacking to him privately The Macedonian Brethren did supply Thus it appears the Apostle did partake Of that Provision which the Church did make Pretend thou canst not that the Stock is given To such as have no need thereof but even Thy Flirt at Richardson * Their Clerk who had 50 l. per An. as much contrary to their Pretences as for their Teachers to take Money but now both confest for taking Pay For what As Clerk he writes does much bewray Thy Folly and Injustice Is' t not fit Who works for others should be paid for it And that by them who him to Work desire The Labourer is worthy of his Hire † 'T is confest you have Hirelings in your Herd Observe Reader the Charge is confest First That they have a Stock by which they supply the Wants of their Teachers i. e. pay them yea and well too Witness their Increase of Wealth 2 dly That their Clerks take Money for writing and that they are Hirelings this I and others knew well enough but Whitehead had so denied the same that there was Thousands of Quakers would not believe a word of it But now W. Rogers's Scourge hath so lash'd this painted Harlot that she by her dear Son Ellwood hath confess'd it and spake more Truth in this matter than Whitehead and Twenty more of their Apostate Scribes have

But to conclude or rather confirm this Head and to shew what Temporizers these Quakers have been as well as knowingly Wicked these Second-Day Meeters ever from first to last were let me add one Citation more as it lies dispersed in a Book of Ed. Burrough's Printed in Quarto 1659. containing several Letters written and said to be delivered to O. Cromwell Anno 1657. and some Letters said to be delivered to R. Cromwell Anno 1658. then Protector But I distrust all they say † So cannot believe they did deliver them as Printed since after Printed can thus alter them for having compared this Quarto Book I find many places which mentions the King or the Kingly Government left out in his Works in Folio which Words so left out you will find them in Capital Letters which as it shews their Temporizing so it discovers their Wickedness to stifle Prophesies if they believ'd them such to be if not still as wicked to let this Burrough in his Works still go for a Prophet and by Whitehead Coale Howgill and Fox c. recommended as such I do say it is such a Depth of Hypocrisie that I want Words to set it forth sufficiently P. 15. And these things are not right in the Sight of the Lord that such who have been for many Years faithful in the Service and in their Trust and hazarded Life and Liberty for Conscience-sake which they cannot now possess because of thee Dear Oliver but are cast out for the Exercise of their pure Conscience consider of it for this makes the Nation more unhappy and less blessed when such who delight in true Justice and Judgment are cast out of their Places * Oh! how the Quakers did flatter O. Cromwell to get into Offices yea Justices forsooth and so deprived of giving their Judgment amongst Men and absolutely this will make thy Army less prosperous when such who fear the Lord against whom thou canst not justly charge no Evil are cast out and despis'd and this in time thou may'st see to thy Sorrow and as thy Friend I lay this before thee and do in Plainness tell thee If thou thus utterly deny the People of God in the Day of thy Prosperity and thou thus wholly cast them out of thy Service they cannot stand by thee nor own thee in the Day of thy Trouble † Oliver did not much value his new Saints i. e. Quakers P. 16. When as such who feareth the Lord are cast out of Judicatories in thy Government and out of Defence in thy Armies What! Is this the end of that long Travel in Wars and of so many Promises of Liberty of Conscience that just Men should thus be dealt withal as one without Bowels of Compassion unto such who have truly served with thee in a faithful Service for the Common-wealth who many of them now are grievous Sufferers under thee P. 17. Many Enemies thou hast which watch over thee O. C. for Evil and not for Good First There is a People scattered thro' all these Nations who is full of Wrath towards thee EVEN OF THOSE KNOWN BY NAME MALIGNANTS * Oh! how careful the Quakers were of their dear Friend O. C. in whose Hearts to this Day there is continual Hatred against thee and all thy Off-spring Daily Advantage they seek against thee by secret Plottings of Maliciousness in their EVIL Hearts seeking by all Means if it be possible how to be avenged and to revenge themselves and THE CAUSE OF THEIR KING with no better Purpose than to destroy thee Such is the Cruelty and Desperateness of some of them their own Lives are not dear unto them to take away thine I have felt the Strength of their Rage against thee which carries them above Sense or Fear to undergo any Danger that they may see their desired End of thee their Malice towards thee is so seated in their wrathful Hearts that it cannot easily be quenched I know the Lord hath CURSED them and their Endeavours to this Day and thou hast had Dominion and Power given thee of God to break them in Pieces AND WHAT THOU HAST DONE TO THEIR KING SHOULD NOT BE RECKONED AGAINST THEE BY THE LORD † Murder acquitted if O. C. would but stand by the Quakers IF NOW THOU ART FAITHFUL TO WHAT HE REQUIRES OF THEE P. 20. Tho' we the People of God doth not envy thy Person nor Government yet Friend the Want of our Prayers to God for thee is worse to thee than the secret Plotting of all wicked Men And how can we mention thee in our Prayers to God for thee except it be to be deliver'd from thee Good Counsel and Advice rejected Printed in Quarto 1656. Reprinted in Folio 1672. To this agrees that Saying of G. Fox to Mr. Camelfeild a Minister in his Book i. e. Truth 's Defence c. p. 15. No Prayers can we send to thee but for thy Destruction thou Man of Sin and Enemy of Christ c. No neither to Oliver their Governour nor to the Priests no they cannot pray for their Enemies unless they do Kindness for them i. e. make them Justices or Commanders no no Penny or what 's Equivolent no Pater Noster from the Quakers See the Margin † Is that the Reason they 'll not pray for King William III P. 21. And this I have written to thee out of perfect Love in the Fear of God And if thou could'st own them i. e. Quakers they would own thee in the Face of all thy Enemies P. 35. To Richard AS CONCERNING THY WAR AND ARMIES ABROAD IN SPAIN SOMETHING THERE IS IN * Something yea who knows not that this is like a Gypsie-Prophesie IT KNOWN TO THE LORD MAKE NO COVENANT WITH IDOLATERS BUT TREAD DOWN THEIR IDOL GODS WHICH THEY HAVE SET UP AND HEW DOWN THEIR MOUNTAINS IN WHICH THEIR CONFIDENCE STAND AND PLOW UP THEIR GROUND THAT THE SEED MAY BE SOWN AFTER THEE IT 'S HONOUR ENOUGH TO BE THE LORD'S PLOWMAN P. 44. And if thou walk with the Lord and preserve his People i. e. Quakers that fear him then shalt thou prosper and thy Name shall be greater than was thy Father's and the numberless Number of this now distressed People will be unto thee a Strength and stand by thee in thy Day of Trouble and defend thee and thy Just Government † Then R. Cromwell's Government was Just in the Quakers Account and their Hearts shall cleave unto thee and thou shalt prosper for their sakes and none of thy Enemies shall have Power over thee P. 53. And as for thy Father the late Protector great things did the Lord do for him in raising him up and casting out his Enemies before him and giving him Victory Renown and Power * O brave Oliver the Quakers Champion thro' Nations and we know the Lord shewed Favour to him and gave him Strength Wisdom and Valour and a right Spirit and he was called of God into that great

God that made the King's retiring into our Native Country i. e. Scotland in 1679. give a Happy Turn to his Affairs to the defeating and disappointing the Designs of his Enemies We do justly conceive Oar selves obliged by a special Tie to praise God for his Goodness in carrying the King through 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 bears the same Date c. The Humble Address of the People call'd Quakers to K. James II. from our Yearly Meeting 1688. We the King's loving and peaceable Subjects from divers Parts of his Dominions being met together in this City to inspect the Affairs of our Christian Society † † Which by Interpretation is Infect Throughout the World think it our Duty humbly to represent c. Now since it hath pleased thee O King to renew to all thy Subjects by thy last Declaration thy Gracious Assurance to pursue the Establishment of this Christian Liberty c. We think our selves deeply engaged to renew Our Assurances of Fidelity and Affection And as we firmly believe that God will never desert this just and righteous Cause of Liberty Nor the King in maintaining of it so we hope c. Thus Reader you see here is nothing wanting but bended Knees here is in All Humility in All Fidelity with All Affection yea All All All all Prayers for him for a long Life for a prosperous Reign Laud and Praise in the highest for His Deliverance for the defeating his Enemies i. e. Protestants besides by a modest Computation Ten Thousand Books spread up and down the Nation in favour of his Government See my Sober Expostulation with the Hearers of the Quakers c. p. 13. But since King William came to the Crown No Salutation No Message No Prayers for No Address to him from their Yearly Meeting † Unless this in 1698. now the War is ended and no Hopes left them No in all Humility No in all Fidelity No with all Affection No Publick Prayers for his long Life for his prosperous Reign No Laud and Praise that his Enemies are defeated Here is all No No No nor one Book wrote in Favour of the Government during this Reign But that my Reader may rightly understand which side of the Hedge the Quakers have to this Day hid themselves I will recite one Query to them anew as in that Book of mine I did New Rome Unmask'd c. p. 31. as I took it out of a Jacobite Catechism p 5. For as I would not write one Sheet which hath not a Tendency to shew either their Errours Hypocrisie Covetousness or Treachery to the Nation so shall I take in all that concur thereto tho' it be Twenty Sheets The Query is Query What made the Quakers no more concern'd for the Loss of those brave Patriots of our Country Essex Russel Sidney Cornish Bateman c. I could never get an Answer to this Query This was such an untoward knotty Question that all the Quakers were not able to answer it that ever I understood No no instead of being sorry G. Whitehead Fran. Camfeild Gilbert Layty and Alex. Parker deliver'd an Address to King Charles II. at Windsor about the time of the Execution of my Lord Russel This was the first Address they ever made to Authority crying out extreamly against all Hellish Plots and all Trayterous Conspiracies and that they had nothing but Love and Good-will to him and his Brother the Duke of York But to return to the Observation I have made on the Quakers Publick Prayers for and their Yearly Meetings Address to the late King James II. and their contrary Practice to King William III * No for what they do at their Yearly Meeting is is done by the Body I have something more to offer as an Aggravation of their Ingratitude for they made an Order for the calling in the Widow Whitrow's Books she being formerly of their Society and by her plain Dress some take her to be so still which was in Favour of this Government Now G. Whitehead what Scripture had you for that Or by what Authority did you presume to give out this Order Now I shall transcribe the Widow Whitrow's Paper concerning the Quakers Order for calling in her Books which is as followeth viz. December 1689. The Widow Whitrow ordered Andrew Sowle to Print a Book for her intituled The Widow Whitrow's Humble Address to King William III. And in December 1690. ordered him to Print another Book intituled For Queen Mary the Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrow † The very Titles of these Books were sufficient for the Ruling Quakers to Censure the Books c. Both which were well accepted and which Andr. Sowle * Sowle was the Quakers Printer and Bookseller sent into the Country to his Friends the Quakers and many of the said People did buy them and liked them well † This perplexed the Foxonian Quakers and sent for more But the chief Quakers in London at their Monthly Meeting at Devonshire-House the 7 th of January following made an Order to have all those Books called in and appointed John Ethridge and William Ingram to go to the Printer and acquaint him with the said Order which accordingly they did Too true Sons of the Foxonian Quaker-Church At which the Printers seem'd troubled saying They thought Friends would not have been against them i. e. such Books seeing they were mostly writ against the Pride and Wickedness of the Times And asked What it was they had against the Books They answered They * Meaning their Monthly Meeting had little against them Only that they were writ in Favour of This Government and reflected upon the former † i. e. Their brave King James II. and that Friends had Resolved not to Meddle with the Government c. It is to be observed That the first Book called The Address c. was Printed above a Year before and sold by their Booksellers and not any Stop put to them till some † Viz. The Lord Preston W. P. c. were endeavouring the Overthrow of this Government so that it is easily to be understood what the Meaning was of such an Order at such a Time and Season c. This Account is still ready to be attested if deny'd and which I signify'd something of formerly but now I thought fit to recite it at large See New Rome Arraign'd c. p. 30. Well this Order was made where G. Fox and the Chief Governing Quakers in London were present in January but in February following came out a Proclamation against one of their chief Men who upon the News of it and as a

Invasion from France to Subvert our Religion Laws and Liberty We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed do heartily sincerely and solemnly profess testifie and declare That His present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful † † This was a bitter Pill to the Quakers Second-Day Meeting King of these Realms And we do mutually promise and engage to stand by and assist each other to the utmost of our Power in the Support and Defence of His Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents * * Oh! this grated on our new Saints And in case His Majesty come to any violent or untimely Death which God forbid We do further freely and unanimously oblige our selves to Vnite Associate and Stand by each other in revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in Supporting and Defending the Succession of the Crown c. This Act of Parliament put the Quakers to a great Consternation and what to do they could not tell they having at the same time spent much Money Time and Pains in procuring an Act of Parliament that their Affirmation should be taken instead of an Oath and it had gone thro' the House of Commons and was under Consideration of the House of Lords For think they if we do nothing our Act will not pass Well at their Second-Day Meeting Mar. 23d 1695 6. their Teachers Assembled together and no doubt great Consultings there were and particularly about those Words Lawful and Rightful King * For the French King had not yet owned him King Of Great Britain also whether they should join ●ith the Protestants in their Uniting and Associating to stand by each other in revenging his Blood in case he had come to a violent or untimely Death c. Well these two Points were largely debated and possibly might hold many Hours However it pass'd in the Negative but yet lest their Bill for their Affirmation to be taken in Lieu of an Oath should not pass they agreed thus far namely to get a Paper printed not mentioning what Meeting it was framed at not Signed with any of their Names to it nor the Name of King William once mentioned and if this Paper think they will but pass it will not do us much Hurt in case our Old Friend come again for none of our Names are to the Paper nor at what Meeting it was contrived nay nor so much as the Name of what King we mean and in regard we have obtained the Repute of an innocent well-meaning People it may do well enough So away they went trudging to the House of Lords and presented divers of them A Copy thereof is as followeth viz. The Ancient Testimony and Principle of the People call'd Quakers renewed with Respect to the King and Government and touching the present Association We the said People do solemnly and sincerely declare That it hath been our Judgment and Principle from the first Day We were called to profess the Light of Christ Jesus manifested in our Consciences unto this Day That the setting Up and putting Down Kings and Governments is God's peculiar Prerogative for Causes best known to himself and that it is not our Work or Business to have any Hand or Contrivance therein nor to be Busie bodies in Matters above our Station much less to Plot and Contrive the Ruin or Overturn of any of them but to Pray for the King and for the Safety of our Nation and Good of all Men that we may live a Peaceable and Quiet Life in all Godliness and Honesty under the Government which God is pleased to set over us And according to this Our Ancient and Innocent Principle we often have given forth our Testimony and now do against all Plotting Conspiracies and Contriving Insurrections against the King or the Government and against all Treacherous Barbarous and Murtherous Designs whatsoever as Works of the Devil and Darkness And we sincerely bless God and are heartily thankful to the King and Government for the Liberty and Priviledges we enjoy under them by Law esteeming it our Duty to be True and Faithful to them And whereas we the said People are required to Sign the said Association We sincerely declare That our refusing so to do is not out of any Disaffection to the King or Government nor in Opposition to his being declared Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms but purely because we cannot for Conscience-sake Fight Kill or Revenge either for our selves or any Man else And We believe that the timely Discovery and Prevention of the late Barbarous Design and Mischievous Plot against the King and Government and the sad Effects it might have had is an Eminent Mercy from Almighty God for which we and the whole Nation have great Cause to be humbly thankful to him and to pray for the Continuance of his Mercies to Them and Us. From a Meeting of the said People in London the 23d of the First Month called March 1695 6. Thus endeth their March Ancient Testimony 1696. Thus Reader I have given you a Copy verbatim of the Quakers Paper presented to the House of Peers and I being then in London wrote a Reply thereunto March 27. 1696. and presented it to the Lord's House who immediately rejected the Quakers Paper notwithstanding all its fine and innocent Words telling the Quakers they must be plain and tell them what King they mean Secondly Whether they believed he was both Rightful and Lawful King Thirdly That they must Sign their Paper Now these three things grated sorely on their tender Consciences for they went home sadly angry with Francis Bugg for being instrumental in the Discovery of their deep Hypocrisie for had that Paper pass'd that no Body Signed no King's Name to it if the late King had returned they had been Fish whole still and as Loyal Subjects as ever they were before Thus Reader to prevent their Cavil that I take but a Piece of their Sentences and wrong the Sense I have recited their whole Testimony Verbatim But before I proceed to give you their April Ancient Testimony let me give the Reason at least one probable Reason why it was rejected and would not pass the House of Lords so as to effect their Design as also what Communication I guess they had about it c. For I being at London the 24th of the same Month I went to the House of Lords where I had one of the recited Testimonies given me I went to my Lodging and perceiving their Prevailing thro' their Pretences of seeming Sincerity and Innocency c. I wrote a Paper by way of Reply and the 27th of March I gave away about an Hundred to the Lords who accepted of them and presently one of the Peers came out and call'd Geo. Whitehead and told him That their Paper would not do for they had not so much as mention'd what King they mean'd nor yet declar'd him Rightful and Lawful King of these

Realms nor yet Sign'd their Paper And therefore they must go home and get another more Authentick or their Bill for their Affirmation to pass in lieu of an Oath would be rejected Well away they went very sorrowful and I conceive might have amongst themselves a Discourse of this Nature viz. G. Whitehead Friends our Paper is rejected for yonder was our old Antagonist Francis Bugg and he has deliver'd to the Peers a Paper suggesting that we Prevaricate he has also delivered about an Hundred of his Books to the Lords intituled The Quakers set in their True Light c. and therefore we must get another Ancient Testimony more full to the Matter lest we lose the Advantage of our Bill but let us stay awhile for if we go presently who knows but that Apostate may reply to our next Paper for he is so Eagle-ey'd that if he espy any thing that 's defective he may be instrumental in throwing out our Bill You cannot but remember that we were fair for the same Bill to pass in Anno 1693. but he then Printed a Sheet and deliver'd it to the House of Commons and in Three Hours time our Bill was thrown out of the House Indeed we Printed a Sheet stiled The Quakers Vindication c. but he having printed a Thousand of those Sheets and gave to the House about 500 and sent to all the Coffee-Houses from Westminster to Bishopsgate about 400 more he prevail'd against us Nay this is not all but presently wrote a Book intituled Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. and deliver'd about Two or Three Hundred of them to the House of Commons We saw our selves so baffled that we thought it not meet to revive our Bill that Sessions of Parliament and therefore let 's be wise let us stay until we think he is out of Town for he has been here Two or Three Weeks already and what with his Charge in Printing the Papers he gave to the Lords and the Charge of giving in so many of The Quakers set c. together with his Charges of staying one way or other it will cost him not so little as 6 or 7 l. and he having no Publick Fund to go to it will make him weary c. I say after this they got another Paper and presented to the House of Lords a Copy thereof is as followeth The Ancient Testimony and Principle of the People called Quakers renewed with Respect to the King and Government presented to King William III. We the said People do solemnly and sincerely declare That it hath been our Judgment and Principle from the first Day we were called to profess the Light of Christ Jesus manifested in our Consciences unto this Day That the setting Up and putting Down Kings and Governments is God's peculiar Prerogative and that it is not our Work or Business to have any Hand or Contrivance therein nor to be Busiebodies above our Station much less to Plot or Contrive the Ruin or Overturn of any of them but to Pray for the King and Safety of the Nation and Good of all Men * * No hold not for the Priests nor Governours unless they please you that we may live a Peaceable and Quiet Life in all Godliness and Honesty under the Government which God is pleased to set over Us And according to Our Ancient and Innocent Principle We often have given forth Our Testimony and now freely and sincerely do the same against all Plotting Conspiracies and Contriving Insurrections and against all Treacherous Barbarous and Murderous Designs whatsoever against the King or the Government as being Works of the Devil and Darkness And We believe that the timely Discovery and Prevention of the late Barbarous Design and Mischievous Plot against King William * * A forc'd put First time and the Government and the sad Effects it might have had is an eminent Mercy from Almighty God for which We and the whole Nation have great Cause to be humbly thankful to Him and to pray for the Continuance of His Mercies to Them and Us And We sincerely bless God and are heartily thankful to King William † † O brave This is the second time and the Government for the Liberty and Priviledges We enjoy under them by Law And further We are really satisfied that God by His Special Providence did bring in and set up King William * * This is News indeed Third time over these Realms and do own Him Rightful and Lawful King † † But George why did you not say so freely without Whip or Spur and are obliged in good Conscience to be True and Faithful to Him and the Government as becomes Obedient Followers of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ At a Meeting of the said People in London the Third of April 1696. Signed by many of Us on Behalf of our selves and the rest of our Friends and presented to the King Apr. 8. 1696. Thus endeth their April Ancient Testimony Reader before I come to make Observations upon these two March and April Ancient Testimonies of the Quakers there is one thing very remarkable and worth your noticing in the whole Conduct of Quakerism and that in two Respects the first is past the second 's still to come and ought to be guarded against and which makes me so long on this Head and so plain with them in this Matter and briefly thus That altho' no one People in England did so flatter Oliver Cromwell Richard his Son the Rump and all the several Changes of Government during the Usurpation as the Quakers did nor more oppose the Restauration of K. Charles II. Nay not only so but justifying Oliver in his Murthering K. Charles I. and in carrying on the War with all Vigour against the Cavaliers and Delinquents But when the Times turned Oh! how they laid all the Blame of both the War and Usurpation upon the Presbyterians Independants and Baptists as if they themselves had all along been as Innocent as New-born Babes This puts me in mind of a pleasant piece of News we had run thro' our whole Camp when I was a Quaker viz. Anno 1674. W. Penn put forth a Book stil'd A Just Rebuke to Twenty-one Divines c. P. 25. Was it not a great Reason of the Wars that divided so many Families shed so much Blood and exhausted so great a Treasure Did it not lay Episcopacy in the Dust and excite the Parliament in these very Terms Elijah opposed Idolatry and Oppression so do ye down with Baal's Altars down with Baal's Priests do not I beseech you consent unto a Toleration of Baal's Worship in this Kingdom which is as much as to say said Penn away with Arch-Bishops Bishops and the whole Ministry and Worship of the Church of England Again The Mouths of your Adversaries are opened against you that so many Delinquents that is to say said W. Penn Royalists are in Prison and yet but few of them brought to Tryal Did

Scott a Linnen-Draper in London * Lying and Forgery meet in this Upright and Well-meaning Quaker as Geo. Whitehead and Sam. Cater wrote of him for 40 l. but I forget something which is remarkable of this 40 l. there wanted 15 s. which Washington promised to send as also to find it Linnen for a Year or more all which is forgot as Goodwife Owers averrs and she is a VVoman of good Repute and the Child lives well and looks well this Child was put to Goodman Owers under the Name of Mary Scott but they have Baptiz'd the Child and call'd it Mary Smith Goodman Owers is dead but his VVidow is alive and lives at Risby within three Miles of Bury and six Miles of Barton-Mills and two small Miles distance from Great-Saxum where the Boy lives and this Boy and Girl often visits each other And if their Father had but that Grace to take Care of them it might mitigate his Crime I am sure it would have abated the Edge of my Pen for he is my Kinsman And were it not to discover the Quakers VVays I should not have been so large and sent him a Letter to that Purpose A Copy of it followeth * For I was advised by a Gentleman in Risby to take some Care about it c. Cousin George I was requested by a Gentleman in our Country to use some Means that your By-Children which are put out to Nurse in our Country may have something settled upon them for their future Maintainance and pursuant thereunto I do desire it of you in regard it is but reasonable and just that you should do it Wherefore I make Application to you in this private Way as most suitable and it may make some Amends for your Crime and extenuate the Heinousness of your Offence for it seems to me a most horrible Crime besides the Sin and as an Aggravation thereof to beget Children and send them into the World as Vagrants they being from under the Verge of the Law and can be Heirs of nothing but the Shame of their Parents which altho' they cannot help it yet must they wear the Badge and Livery thereof as long as they live If you answer my Expectation in this Matter as I have hitherto been sparing of you so I shall make no Complaint to any Justice of the Peace if not you may depend on it if God give me length of Days I shall do what I legally can to have something settled on them And therefore let me have your Answer I am your Friend and Kinsman Fran. Bugg Sen. Aug. 30. 1697. But no Answer have I receiv'd since Come George Whitehead VVhat think you of these Things VVhere is your Seriousness VVhere is your Sincerity You told me that your God laid a Necessity upon you to write against me and others wherein you call'd me Apostate Informer Devil Incarnate Beast Dog Wolf c. Epistle to Judgment fixed But the before-mentioned you sooth up as well-meaning and upright Lambs and never writ a Book against them yet three Books against me in Nine Months time And George then you were Rampant you neither studied Events nor feared Effects you were resolved to go on come what will come you were resolved to Unchristian all that opposed you and separated from you you were resolved to ruin them if possible both in Name Reputation and Estate I have felt the weight of your Hand and the Strength of your Indignation and implacable Malice but blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that amongst his manifold Mercies to me that he hath vouchsafed to give me Time and Ability to return your sharp Arrows back into your own Bosoms and I let them fly freely I am not sparing for as Jeremiah said The Lord hath opened his Armory and hath brought forth the Weapons of his Indignation Jer. 50.24 And George they will light on the Skirts of this Painted Harlot and all thy Jesuitical Craft cannot throw it off for your Cause is drooping I have given you the Key of the Cage look into it and you may see the Abominations of the Earth even the Mystery of Iniquity VVell George after it came into my Heart to write this Book I said Shall I spare them any longer Concluding No But give this Harlot a double Cup and make her drink the very Dregs of it And having laid fast hold of the two main Pillars upon which your Building stands viz. INFALLIBILITY and PERFECTION I did with all my Might shake Judges 26.29 and behold it begins to tumble For George the time is come that one shall chase a Thousand and two shall put Ten Thousand to flight Deut. 32.30 And art thou so blind George that thou canst not see it Dost thou not see thy self and thy Brethren ready to fall upon your own Spears for very Anguish and Vexation of Spirit Art thou so ignorant George that thou canst not perceive thy self calling to the Hills to hide thee and the Mountains to cover and excuse thee Sober Expostulation First and Second Chapter But George thou hast no more Answer than Baal's Priests had 2 Kings 18.26 tho' you call from Morning to Evening and thump your Breasts and leap and jump from one end of your VVooden Pulpits to the other stamping like the Friars yet there is no Answer there is none to Pity you none to Mourn for you no Advocate to Plead for the stopping the Pens that are imployed against Quakerism no Babylon is falling is falling and great will be the Fall thereof even like a Millstone into the Sea so falls Quakerism never more to rise again Amen Amen Alleluja CHAP. XV. Sheweth the Enmity of the Quakers against me for my Testimony against their Errours and the Providence of God supporting me under my Sufferings IT is not unknown to many of the Quakers still alive with what Zeal and Care with what Sufferings by Fines and Imprisonments with what Pains and Charge I was in divers Kinds exercised whilst I was a Quaker and that for the carrying on the Cause of Quakerism nothing seemed dear to me to part withal or to spend for the Advancement thereof But when I came to see them walk contrary to what they pretended and that their seeming Sincerity was real Hypocrisie I then began to look into things that there might be a Reformation and the first thing that gave me occasion was see Innocency vindicated c. p. 8. That of forcing Apprentices to stand bareheaded in their Houses and Shops and yet at the same time pretended they could not put off their Hats in respect to Persons This looked so bad i. e. to receive nay exact Respect from our Inferiors and not to give it to our Superiors that I wrote a Letter to the Yearly Meeting in May 1675. as a Testimony against it which gave great Offence The next which gave Offence to me and others was our Teachers who would exhort us to be bold to give up all