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A65888	A sober expostulation with some of the clergy against their pretended convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross abuse of the people called Quakers, in his books and pamphlets, viz., his New Rome arrainged, History of Quakerism, Second summons, Picture of Quakerism, and other pamphlets which may serve to invalidate the authority of the snake in the grass, as it refers to his books.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1959; ESTC R20305	65,396	156

Samuel David Elijah Job and others as no true but false Prophets because sometime mistaken See 1 Sam. 16. 6. 1 Kings 19. 14 15 18. Rom. 11. 4 See also Acts 23. 5. And in the Antient Approved Bibles see what Remark is in the Argument on Job it 's there said That Job maintaineth a Good Cause but handleth it Evil. Again his Adversaries have an ill Matter but they defend it Craftily Moreover he i. e. Job was assured that God had not rejected him yet thro' his great Torments and Affliction he bursteth forth into many inconveniences both of Words and Sentences c. yet Job was a holy and just Man and true Prophet in many things Our Bitter Persecutor would fain fasten Contempt of Holy Scripture upon the Quakers with these odious Assertions viz. That the Scripture is BEASTLY Ware that WHAT the true Prophets spake was false and WHAT the false Prophets spake was true c. Intro p. 13. These are three notorious Falshoods as well as gross Errors maliciously contrived to contradict our sincere Confession viz. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration c. and that we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all other Books extant in the World How sincere we are in such Confession we can refer to him that knows our Hearts to whom we Appeal against our Adversaries contrary unjust Judgment and gross Calumnies falsly representing us insincere even in these weighty Matters wherein the greatest Tenderness and Conscienciousness towards God ought to be exercised by us all Another gross Abuse our Bitter Adversary has committed against many of us who Signed an Epistle from our Yearly Meeting in 1675. which I must give some Account of here 1. He Cites these words out of our said Epistle viz. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that Faithful Friends Papers which we Testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed saith he by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Introd p. 11. And what of all this This Advice related to such Papers and Epistles of Faithful Friends as concerned good Order and Discipline in the Church and for promoting pure Religion in Life and Practice and why should they be slighted or contemned as but meer Human Edicts and Canons What use does our Scornful Adversary make of this Observe what he saith p. 13. viz. But as for what G. F. c. wrote their Yearly Meeting Testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea THE SAME MEN that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents Meat And what same Men He has told us before W. Penn G. Whitehead and others who Signed the said Yearly Meetings Epistle that they so called the Scriptures whereby he has greatly abused and shamefully belied the same Men i. e. W. P. G. W. c. for they disown the Expression and own the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures as first given by Inspiration from God and truly prefer them before all other Books extant in the World But how can that be in our Adversary's Account when he objects against it and us That G. W. avouches that what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth IN ANY is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and Greater c. He shews himself but very dull and impertinent in this Objection For we may prefer the Scriptures even the Bible before all other Books extant and yet not before the Spirit of Truth or the Immediate Powerful Teachings thereof in Man for that Spirit was before the Scriptures Writings or Bible were and only can give the true understanding thereof and therefore the Spirit of Truth may be preferred to the Scriptures and all other Books without any contempt or slight to them This Objection is more fully Answered elsewhere To our Adversary's saying viz. G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of one and that too much too p. 13. Thus he would fain winde off from the Reputation he had of a Quaker for 25 Years together he now miserably shifts and minces the Matter but manifestly contrary to his own Confession in his Quakers Detection p. 3 as before quoted to my Question Whether F. Bugg when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient cause of Man's Salvation He Answers I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism c. Yet I do freely Acknowledge that I was in great Errors Particularly touching the Point of Justfication For I then Expected Salvation through my Obedience to the LIGHT which the Quakers taught was Sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation is attained through the Mercy of God is Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts p. 14 15. Observe here 1. He now counts it a great Error to Expect Salvation through Obedience to the Light without Distinction of What Light 2. He Opposeth the the Sufficiency of the Light for Salvation And 3. Attaining Salvation through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus Faith in his Merits and Passion and Obedience to his Precepts These he Opposeth TO Obedience to his Light and Expecting Salvation through the same These he sets in Opposition as one that expects Salvation through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus and by Faith in his Merits and Obedience to his Passion without Obedience to his Light For that End Expresly Contrary to Christ's Doctrine and his Apostles Testimonies 1. Christ Commanded Believe in the Light that ye may be the Children of the Light And this Believing in the Light was a necessary Act of Obedience in order to Salvation 2. Christ saith I am the Light of the World he that followeth Me shall not abide in Darkness And the Apostle James Exhorts to a Receiving the Ingrafted Word which is able to save the Soul And this Word is both Light and Life In him was Life and that Life was the Light of Men Therefore the Light is Sufficient to Salvation 3. Salvation through the Mercy of God in Jesus Christ true Faith in his Merits and Suffering for us and Sincere Obedience to his Precepts cannot be attained nor performed without Faith in and Obedience to his Light it was the Mercy of God to us to afford us Light to lead us out of Darkness For Men in Darkness are Blind and as such cannot see the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus nor true Faith in his Merits or Suffering For 't is in Walking in the Light

Endeavours how Malicious soever without Regard to our Answers which evidently Detect and Refute his Impiety and Malice in his Frequently and Unjustly Aspersing us as a People Yet if this Doctor would but be so Impartial as seriously to Peruse our Answers he would see cause to be ashamed of his high Congratulation and Commendation of the pretended Pious Endeavours which he so Affectionatly has ascribed to F. Bugg and to Retract the same if he be not wronged in the Citation aforesaid A Letter from another Divine so Stiled by F. Bugg As nothing is more pleasing to the Eyes than Light so nothing is more grateful to the Understanding than the Discovery of Truth in which Respect you have certainly done A MOST ACCEPTABLE Piece of Service to your Country in Unvailing of the Falshoods Errors and Hypocrisies of the Quakers both because the Knowledge of the Truth is Delectable and also because Men being thereby forewarned of the Dangers of their Hypocritical Insinuations and Pretentions might else have drawn them into may be Enabled to avoid the Mischiefs thereof for which I think my self Obliged to return you my Thanks I having received a particular Advantage by your Discoveries But seeing by your Pains it plainly appears that you aim at the Advantage of Mankind which is both the Duty and Honour of all Men I am thereby Encouraged to begg the favour of a little further Information John Milme Observe This pretended Divine seems dipt into F. Bugg's Spirit of Envy thus to Condemn a People i. e. the Quakers upon trust without taking notice of their Defence 1st He Cries up F. Bugg not only as a great Discoverer of Truth but in the Superlative Degree as having therein done A MOST ACCEPTABLE Piece of Service to his Country 2dly Then without Proof i. e Cries down the Quakers Charging them with Falshoots Errors Hyppocrisies Hypocritical Insinuations c. By all which he has as highly Espoused Bugg's Cause and shewn as much Envy as any that have taken his part and deserves as much to be charged with his Abuses and Calumnies against the People called Quakers seeing he so Frankly takes F. Bugg's Bitter and False Invectives against us to be such a real Discovery of Truth and so Obligingly returns him his Thanks for the same whereupon F. Bugg seems greatly Elevated and highly Cracks Boasts and Vapours on this wife viz. Come Imperious George that you may see to your Grief that the Publick Ministry both Conforming and Nonconforming are not afraid of your Threats and Menacings to stand by me in what is Right c. Preface p. 5. Q. 1. But did you the Ministers that have thus Approved and Encouraged F. Bugg in his Work of Envy give him order or leave thus to Expose your Approbation and Names in Print Q. 2. I desire to know of you if you 'll stand by and vindicate his Books and Charges therein against the People called Quakers both as to Matters of Doctrines and Matters of Fact Q. 3. I desire to know of you if you Approve of Bugg's thus Bragging and Boasting of your Approbations in Print Q. 4. And whether you did see and seriously peruse our Answers or any of them to F. Bugg before you gave him your Approbations or returned your Congratulations before Cited In his Postscript he also Scoffs Boasts and Insults telling me How smooth I appear in my Letters to his Mr. Smithies and Mr. Archer Whereupon he says viz. Methinks I hear you say Good Gentlemen be so kind to us the Distressed and Perplexed Quakers as to stop F. Bugg from Writing against our Errors c. But he never heard me thus Flatter or Complain in 's Days tho' I did write to those two Clergymen as before to shew them some of his foul abuses and Calumnies that they might have Corrected or Stopt him if they would have been so just but instead thereof concerning them of the Glergy of England he tells me Postscript viz. As they never put me upon Writing against you so I can assure you they are far enough from stopping me therefore you must get other Advocates than such who have given me thanks for my Labour and Service done to the Christian Religion and Protestant Profession Now come Isaac Archer William Smithies Nath. Burrell Gearing and Jo. Milme What say you You may see how F. Bugg Boasts of your Thanks for his Labour But what Service can you think he has done either to the Christian Religion or to the Protestant Profession by falsly Aspersing a Protestant People and Society as Papists New Rome I hope you 'll see cause to Retract such Thanks Congratulations and Commendations of your pretended Convert's Work of Envy Falshood and Persecution as 't is abundantly proved in our Answers particularly 1st In that Entituled Innocency Triumphant over Insolency and Outrage of a Self-Condemned Appostate 2. In that Entituled The Counterfeit Convert 3. In that Entituled The Quakers Vindication against Bugg 's Calumnies With divers others never answered by him He now tells me That neither did Col. Goldwell ever Reprove him but always Approved of the Substance of what he wrote and approved of his delivering the Sheet to the Parliament c. I am sure with others Col. Goldwell told several of us the Contrary namely That when three of us shewed him the Injury Bugg had done him i. e. by dedicating his Scandalous Books to him in hopes of his Patronage he the said Col. Goldwell signified to us that he was not made privy to his Dedication for he knew not of it before it came forth and had shewed his dislike thereof as is more fully related in my Answer Innocency Triumphant p. 67 68 69 70. Now for F. Bugg Contrarywise to Alledge that Col. Goldwell did never reprove him but always approved of the Substance of what he Wrote c. This is not only to Contradict the said Col. in what he Possitively told William Mead G. Latye and my self but further to add to his Disrepute and Disparagement as an Approver of such Scandalous Pamphlets as those of Bugg's particularly that of his New Rome Arraigned with his Gross and Scandalous Mock-Trial Sentence of Perjury and Pillory against divers Persons of good Repute both Citizens and others but whether Col. Goldwell be to be Credited in his own Vindication of his dislike and severe advertisement as he told us against what F. B. wrote or F. B. in saying he never did reprove him but always approved thereof I say which of them to Credit in such Contradiction the Reader is left free to his own choice as may appear most probable to him the one being a Member of Parliament whose Reputation was the more concerned and the other proved an Envious Self condemned Grievous Revolier and Blackslider and Abusive Scribler against an Innocent People after owned by him and conversant among them for above 25 Years as the People of God and their Principle Doctrine and Ministry as being a Dispensation of the