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A65893	Truth and innocency vindicated and the people called Quakers defended in principle and practice, against invidious attempts and calumnies, being a just examination of two books against the said people, entituled, I. examined by G. Whitehead ...	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1969; ESTC R20356	65,800	86

Bugg of late for Instruction to a right understanding of our Principles as they think what Dignity is he then promoted unto of late How is he advanced to be a Doctor of Doctors But the Truth of it is we have Cause to have the less esteem of their Learning whilst instructed by such a Tutor who has spent much time in scribling one Scurrilous Romancing Book and Pamphlet after another against us heaping and repeating Forgeries and Defamations so hardned in Mischief and so Fool-hardy as to Counterfeit a Court of Judicature of Oyer and Terminer therein to forge a Trial to ridicule defame scandalize and arraign for Perjury divers Citizens of London of our Friends by Name men of good Repute forging Answers acting both Accuser Judge and Executioner also condemning them to the Pillory as Perjur'd Persons with a Figure or Form of a Pillory and twelve Pictures in it with the first Letters of their Names and the Title of PERJURY over their Heads And under all this Defamation and Scandal to represent the Persons so highly Defamed by him as this gross and abominable Defamation and Forgery may be seen at large in F. Bugg's New Rome Arraign'd Printed 1693. As also his Figure of a Cage with many Names set cross-wise in it to represent a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird p. 50. This busie Agent has also presum'd to Print an-Impeachment against us in Behalf of the Commons of England without being Legally Authorized thereby or shewing any Legal Authority for the same And moreover in his late great Book his supposed Master-Piece Printed 1698. Stiled the Pilgrims Progress he takes upon him to contrive frame and forge a Ridiculous Romance calling it a Sermon for G. Whitehead to hold forth at their Convocation or Yearly Meeting which also he expresly calls George Whitehead's Sermon and in it he has a Figure containing many Pictures some with Names of our Friends over them and others with Deputies over their Heads And this Figure he makes to represent the Quakers Synod and in it has Inserted divers notorious Lies as G. Whitehead asking Are the Doors shut And W. Bingley Answers Yea the Doors are lock'd with divers more abominable Lies And this same Sermon which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon from page 108 to page 127. contains two Sheets of Paper to which pretended Sermon he also adds a Lying Romance and Invented Speech in W. Bingley's Name in Testimony thereto which Romance I do in good Conscience Testifie against as a horrid Piece of Forgery containing in it many gross Lies Absurdities and perverted Quotations also representing me as calling the Scriptures Beastly Ware c. and as Exhorting to throw down the Scriptures and to make no Confession of Sins c. with many more gross Lies and Absurdities And also his representing W. Bingley as Preaching That our design is the supplanting Christianity c. with divers more Falshoods and Absurdities in W. Bingley's Name and many more in my Name in his said Insolent Romance wherein he presumptuously uses and repeats the Sacred Name of God Christ the Lord c. What horrid Presumption abominable Prophaneness and Immorality is this Agent arriv'd to who dare thus audaciously take the Name of the Holy God in vain thus Prophanely to make use of the Sacred Name of God and of his Dear Son Christ the Lord in such his idle Forgery and scurrilous Stuff Oh horrid Prophanation Oh abominable Presumption Is this your Convert O ye Clergy-men who abet countenance and gratifie such an Impious Presumptuous Person who dare make so bold with the Sacred Name of God and Christ as thus Atheist-like to Prophane the same The Righteous Lord and Judge of all beholds such great Impiety and Wickedness and a Day of Reckoning and Account will come Ingenuous Reader these are but short Hints of the gross Abuses we have suffered from this prophane wicked apostate Spirit we patiently commit our Innocent Cause to Him that judgeth Righteously and thee to his Divine Grace and Light for a clear Understanding of and Conduct in the Way of Truth and Peace to thy Everlasting Felicity which is the Sincere Desire of Thy Friend in Christ G. W. A Table of the Heads of this Examination about which the People called Quakers are unjustly charged PART I. OF our Adversaries Title Page 1. Of the Light Christ c. p. 2. to p. 7. Of the Soul p. 7. to p. 9. Of Perfection and Infallibility p. 9. to p. 16. Of the Bible Holy Scriptures c. p. 16 17. Of Immediate Revelation p. 18 19. Of the Letter and Holy Scriptures p. 19. to p. 23. Of the Churches Power to determine differences p. 23 24. Of Christ in the Flesh and extent of the Word Type Figure and of Christ crucified p. 24 25. Of Baptism Carnal Ordinances Liberty Spiritual p. 26 27. Of Government Earthly Kings Princes Parliaments c. p. 28 to 36 Of Samuel Fisher's Message to Oliver Cromwell in 1656. p. 37 38 Of our Assemblies Contributions and the Innocency thereof p. 39 to 44 Of the Sufferings of the People of God p. 44 45 46 Of the same Intentions differently worded p. 47 Of Bugg's Postscript Old Lies and Calumnies p. 47 48 PART II. OF the Furious Title of the Libel p. 49 Of the Holy Trinity p. 50 51 52 Of Christ our Blessed Lord p. 52 53 54 55 Of the Blood of Christ p. 55 56 Of Christ and his Body p. 57 Of the Holy Scriptures p. 57 58 Of the Sacraments so called p. 58 Of the Resurrection p. 59 Of Equality with God falsly charged p. 59 60 Of Christ's coming to Judge the Quick and the Dead p. 61 62 Of Government and Christ's Kingdom p. 62 63 Of Kingly Government Parliaments Lords and Commons p. 64 Of Human Laws Authority Associating Governments Tythes c. p. 65 Of Divine Authority Governments Meetings Toleration Persecutors c. p. 66 67 68. Of Treatment of Kings Clergy and other Dissenters p. 68 69 William Penn's Answer to several Charges against him p. 70 71 72 Where any Literal or other Faults have escaped the Press 't is hoped the Ingenuous Reader will excuse the Author and rectifie the same by the Sense and Coherence of the Matter Truth and Innocency VINDICATED c. PART I. 1. IT is observable that the Title of the said Brief Discovery is a general and most severe Charge against some of the Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers without exception 2. That the said Brief Discovery consists chiefly of Quotations pretended to be taken out of their most noted and approved Authors unto which these Three Clergy-Men of Norfolk have given the Black and Odious Character Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers on purpose to make the whole People as Offensive and Obnoxious as they could Mischievously Devise 3. That the said Clergy-Men have Humbly as they feign Offered their said pretended Discovery and bitter Charge against the said

saith If these Priests have not yet planted Vineyards that will yield them Fruit and if their Flock will not yield them Milk freely why should you unjustly impose upon Peoples Consciences and compel Tythes and Mony from them for the Maintenance of these Men Ye ought not to do it For while ye Compel and Force People by Violence contrary to good Consciences to maintain and uphold this Ministry and Church and Worship then follows you do but cause People to Drink the Whore's Cup c. And after the words Plain Dealing to tell you the Truth there follows in E. B's Ibid. viz. whether ye will reject it or receive it Wherefore cast them off and let them not lurk under your Wings for one day they will Rebel against you and another day Flatter with you and for a season they will shew forth much Love and Kindness in Hypocrisie even while they are hatching Mischief against you c. And they will cry out Heresie and Error of others that themselves may seem Clear while as the same lodgeth in their own Hearts Thus E. B. in 1659. By all which 't is evident he struck at Persecution and Persecutors and Hypocrites and those who then upheld the Priests in those days by Persecution and forced Maintenance it was those who turn'd out the Episcopal Priests and what need any of these now Priests be offended thereat if they were Clear 'T is strange these Men should now quote Prophesies as matters against us the said People which have been manifestly fulfilled and openly brought to pass in a great measure in the Eyes of this and other Nations As again they quote News coming out of the North which was Printed in the Year 1655. p. 18. The passage which they quote is under that Head which is directed To the Heads of this Nation and all the Dominions of the Earth and to all who are under the Dominion of the Earthly Powers Nations and Kingdoms every where in all the World To all you Kings Princes Dukes Rulers Judges Justices c. Now observe the general extent of this Direction and what these Men partially quote and pick out and patch together to render us Seditious and Obnoxious The Words quoted against us are these viz. Dreadful is the Lord and Powerful who is coming in his Power to execute true Judgment upon all you Judges and to change all your Laws ye Kings and all you Rulers must down and cease And all you Vnderling-Officers which have been as the Arms of this great Tree which the Fowls have lodged under all your Branches must be cut down for you have been all the Fruitless Branches grown on the Fruitless Tree Page 20. Sing all ye Saints and Rejoice clap your Hands and be glad for the Lord Jehovah will Reign and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be cut down and Jesus Christ in us added will rule alone with more words quoted backward and forward p. 19. Now observe these though many illustrating Passages be left out being writ in the Year 1655. we may appeal to the whole Nation whether that TREE of the then Government in England with the Branches thereof hath not been cut down and removed and whether God's over-ruling Power and Providence was not concerned therein and in the various Revolutions since And the rest that concerns other Dominions Earthly Powers Nations and Kingdoms with the Kings and Princes thereof who dare determine that such Prophesies as concern them may not come to pass and be further fulfilled And also what these Men have left out in their said Quotation after the Words To change all your Laws ye Kings The Lord alone he will place the Law in People's Hearts who is the Everlasting Law-giver and Justice the Lord will set in People's Hearts And after the words Jesus Christ will rule alone follow these Glory and Honour for ever be unto him Be warned all betimes and awake and repent and turn to the Lord betimes that ye may find Mercy by putting off the evil Deeds and Works of Darkness that you may be received into the Kingdom of Glory and lay aside all Filthiness Pride and Covetousness and spedily repent Uncleanness and cursed Speaking Lying Slandering and Swearing c. Which is according to Psal 2.10 11 12. and also 2 Cor. 7.1 Eph. 5.4 5. and ch 4.31 and James 1.21 They further Charge Edw. Burroughs p. 501. for saying We stand Witnesses against Parliaments Councils Judges Justices who make or execute Laws in their own Will over the Consciences of Men or punish for Conscience sake and to such we cannot yield our Obedience And here they corruptly add an c. printed in 1659. Obs here Where is the Offence in these words Would these Men have the Consciences of Christians subject to obey all Laws made in the Wills of Superiors and that over Conscience too We though they had allowed this approved Exception i. e. Vnless Laws are made contrary to the Law of God They should have been so just as to have taken notice of what E. B. saith in his next following Paragraph p. 501. with respect to Christ and to Magistracy viz. That as we Preach Christ Jesus alone in the things of God to be our Law-giver so we do own him to be our King and own Magistracy in Civil Things not resisting any but following his Example who was made perfect through Suffering c. As to what they Charge G. F. To the Parliament of the Common Wealth of England p. 5. reflecting on their Coif-men and several sorts of Lawyers about their Fees c. If any Lawyers now be offended thereat we leave them to plead their own Cause if they can and Lords of Mannors to be kind to their Tenants and Charitable and Generous to the Poor as all Rich Men especially ought to be And let none of the Lawyers when warned against Covetousness reflect as one of the Lawyers did against Christ Master thus saying thou Reproachest us also Luke 11.45 but read Christ's answer vers 46. It may be observed by all serious Readers how apt these our Adversaries are to pervert and make an ill use of matters well intended and innocently designed according to our Christian Principle as Upon a Declaration from the People of God called Quakers against all Plotters and Fighters c. presented to K. Charles II. 1660. they have made this perverse note against us in their Margent p. 20. viz. Which Government that they might not support they declare against the use of the Carnal Weapon in 1660. Which is a false Construction and Perversion of the said Declaration for it was not written with any such intent witness our Contributing our Proportions and full Shares towards the support of the Civil Government both in Taxes and Customs So much of the Declaration as they have quoted follows viz. All Bloody Principles and Practices we as to our own Particulars do utterly

Christian Counsel Admonition Instruction and Recommendation of things just and honest in his Name unto our Friends under the same Christian Profession with us this is no Design to root up or destroy any outward Civil Government in Temporal Affairs or for a Terror to Evil-does but tending to the Ease and Praise thereof by due and timely Admonition to prevent Disorders and Scandal as that termed Preventing Justice doth prevent Enormities Mischiefs and the Penalties consequently must needs be an ease to the Civil Government And as for our Admonishing against unruly disorderly Spirits who either lust to be Contentious or to cause Divisions contrary to the Gospel of Peace or reprehending such who slight contemn and scorn wholsome Advice and Christian Counsel This our Christian Care and Practice for good Order Peace and Vnity in the Churches of Christ among us is both necessary and warrantable and according to the Practice and Example of the Primitive Christians and Churches of Christ So that as hath been testified already in the first Part of this Examination all our Meetings both Yearly Monthly Quarterly c. are for Innocent Good and Christian Ends and Religious Exercise and Service And these Adversaries saying These Meetings are not for Worship but only for their Government p. 17. Is a known Falshood we having in them often-times both earnest Prayer and Supplication to God and Edifying one another in true Faith and Love and provoking one another to Love and good Works To their Charging our said Meetings That we keep them with our Doors shut or guarded expresly against the Act of Toleration that extends only they say to Meetings for Religious Worship and excludes all from any Benefit by that Act who keep their Doors shut at their Meetings p. 17. Thus far against the Quakers See how hard these Persecutors are put to it and how strenuously they endeavour to exclude us from any Benefit of the Act of Toleration consequently to raise Persecution against us But they are very narrow and partial as well as mistaken in their Construction of it For I hope in the Exercise of Religion Meetings for promoting the Practice of pure Religion may be included and allowed together with those intirely for Religious Worship And it is a false Construction to say The said Act excludes all from the Benefit thereof who keep their Doors shut at their Meetings This is a wrong Construction upon the Statute the words whereof being With the Doors lock'd barr'd or bolted 't is not with the Doors shut for there may be need for that sometime to keep out the cold Wind. It seems the Malice of these Persecutors is so deadly against us that they do not only harp upon their repeated Rendering the Quakers as setting up a Government within the Government to make them Seditious but also Treasonable for which end they cite the following Passage out of West answering the North p. 80. viz. Any Party of Men under a Government to make Laws not being Lawfully Authoriz'd so to do for the binding of others and thereunto to require Obedience is the setting up of themselves above the Law and treading it under their Feet and rendering of them whom they do so bind their Slaves and Vassals and so is Treason 'T is probable these Persecutors think they have given us a deadly Blow with this Passage and therefore have put Treason in great Letters But they greatly misapply and pervert the same For being printed about the Year 1656 it was directly intended as a Stroke upon the Persecuting Justices and Magistrates in those times in the West of England who contrary to Magna Charta Chap. 29. and the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of this Nation did in their own Arbitrary Wills issue out Orders of Sessions or Warrants to apprehend and Imprison our Friends and so to confine them and bar them from travelling on the High-ways and some have been taken up and whip'd as Vagrants in those times by such as were intrusted with the Execution of the Law and due Administration of Justice 'T was against such and those their Arbitrary and Unwarrantable Proceedings that the said Passage perversly recited against us was directly intended and levelled And therefore what these Men have recited out of News out of the North p. 18. printed 1654. containing matter of Prophecy against those and such corrupt Persecuting Rulers Judges Justices Priests c. in those days charged with such Persecution and Vsurpation importing their Downfall I see no cause for these Prophesies now to be alledged against us seeing they are in a great measure fulfilled After the words And thou Beast these Men add the Civil Government See what Picking and Botching work they make to throw dirt upon us XVI Their Treatment of Kings p. 19. You and your Kings and Lordly Power by which you thought to exercise Lordship over my Heritage shall be Enslaved by the Devil c. against E. B's Trumpet printed Anno 1655. Obs This is not of all Kings but all Persecutors of the Saints of God who would Lord it over His Heritage are Enemies to Christ and under the Dragon's Power consequently such are enslaved by the Devil already how Great and High soever they are in the Earth and will go down with the Uncircumcised into the Pit if they repent not see Ezek. 32 chap. And dare any of these Priests affirm the contrary XVII Their Treatment of the Clergy c. p. 19. The Idle Gormandizing Priests of England run away with One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds a Year under pretence of God's Ministers c. against W. P's Guide mistaken p. 18. Anno 1668. I confess many things were Zealously and Sharply writ against the Covetous Mercenary and Persecuting Priests pretended Watchmen and Shepherds in this and other Nations but in Language according as the Holy Prophets did against the Shepherds of Israel and their Covetous Priests and False Prophets see Isa 56.10 11. His Watch-men are blind they are all ignorant they are all dumb Dogs they cannot bark sleeping lying down loving to slumber Yea they are greedy Dogs which can never have enough and they are Shepherds that cannot understand They look to their own Way every one for his gain from his quarter And Jerem. 5.30 31. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the Land the Priests bear rule by their means See also Chap. 23.9 10 11. And Micah 3.11 against the Priests that teach for Hire and the Prophets that divine for Money 'T is very strange these Doctors should expose the aforesaid Complaint against the Priests of England unless they had clear'd themselves thereof for such Recitals against their Corruptions do excite People but the more to inspect their ways and to consider whether they are warrantable according to Holy Scripture I refer the Reader to W. P's own Answer at the end of this Treatise XVIII Their Treatment of the Dissenters An Ill-bred Pedantick Crew the Bane of Religion and Pest of the World the