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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

of Ignorance I shall now proceed farther to prove my Reasons and that from plain Matter of Fact that so it may appear as well from our printed Books as from our known Practice what a strange Effect these Silent Meetings had upon us and how we thereby became not only levened into a Temper to throw off all Instituted Religion but to a degree higher even to throw Contempt both upon the Scriptures Ordinances and Ministers and all things Sacred crying down all Forms and Constitutions how ancient and profitable soever they were and all under a Pretence of a higher Dispensation even the Light within c. For saith W. Penn We Quakers being withdrawn from every Form and Constitution to wait in Silence for Life from God and not from beggarly Elements and therefore made a Prey to all Parties against whom every Hand have been lifted up and forsaken by all Civil Power c. The Guide Mistaken p. 32. To this let me add the Testimony of one of our greatest Prophets his VVords are these i. e. I dare not daub saith Solomon with untempered Mortar for where they i. e. Professors of Christianity are I was viz. in Performances in Ordinances in Family-Duties in Hearing in Reading in Prayers and Fastings in my own Will and all this is Will-worship But when that one thing the Light came which was needful I then began waiting in Silence to learn to be a Fool insomuch that I durst not give God thanks for the Victuals that were set before me A Musick Lecture p. 25. Thus it is plain that our Teachers led us into this Silent way of pretended Worship which never was known before since the World began Indeed Consideration and Meditation are good and ought often to be the Exercise of Christians but then they have an Object to Meditate upon either the Works of Creation and Providence which affords much Comfort and Cause to praise God our great Creator or else on our Lord Jesus Christ his Death and Sufferings and perfect Obedience and the like But I say to go on purpose to a Meeting and there sit starving in the Cold three or four Hours together speaking never a Word nor as near as we can think a Thought of our own this is such a new and non such way of Worship as neither Prophets Christ's Apostles nor any Christian Church to this Day ever gave Countenance to or President for I grant That John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton who came forth with George Fox and their Books bear the like Face viz. Tho' all visible Worship is now become of no value in the Eyes of the Lord yet it may be truly said that Christ is with his Apostles always to the end of the World in all those that Worship him in Spirit and Truth I mean those Sober Silent Saints whose Language and Practice speaketh forth the Spirit and Power of the Scriptures in them these Silent Saints I speak of from an unerring Spirit from an infallible Light which I have received from the Divine Majesty c. Joyful News from Heaven p. 61 72. Reader I have by me Lodowick Muggleton's Journal or Works bound up in one Volume containing eleven distinct Books in Quarto and above One Thousand Pages and so like to George Fox's that I intend they shall stand together in the Library of Christ's Church College in Oxford with the Works of Burroughs Bayly Smith and others that so any who are concerned with the Quakers Errors may be furnished c. Thus Reader you see that Muggleton and Fox stand on the same Bottom Fox was unerring so was Muggleton Fox was for an Infallible Light so was Muggleton Fox was for Silent Saints so was Muggleton only Muggleton keeps close to his Principles for as he denies all Ordinances so he does not Preach Pray nor Baptize nor Administer the Sacrament But the Quakers as in the Instance of Solomon Eccles above-quoted pretend to be against all Ordinances and yet own Preaching and Praying and deny Baptism and the Supper c. However since I have no Author nor never read of any but Lodowick Muggleton that justifie the Quakers Silent Meetings I will produce one Passage more i. e. That the Worship required by him from his Saints was an Inward Stilness by which their Souls were made willing to hearken to the Voice or Motion of bis most Holy Spirit speaking in them Thus from an unerring Light I have remonstrated to the Elect what is the very true God and his Spiritual Worship accepted of him 't is not Outward Praying Preaching Fasting or Thanksgiving to be seen of Men but it is an Inward Spiritual Silent Praying and Praising Fasting and Feasting upon the Glorious Things of Eternity which is only seen by Divine Eyes c. p. 41 43. Ibid. Thus I have shewed that Lodowick Muggleton was a better Quaker of the two than Solomon Eccles But that it may appear that as the Quakers have testified against the Christians for owning the Authority of the Bible so let them see they have a Partner namely Muggleton who says p. 49. Ibid. Again in the next place I shall demonstrate the Vanity of the Ministry of the Baptists I need not tell you the Foundation upon which they build their Worship because it is founded on the Letter (d) The Quakers Language to a Tee of the Scripture and their own lying Reason which is the Devil in them All true Christians are now under the Ministry of the Holy Spirit and therefore are no more bound in Conscience to Apostolick Worship I say again that above this 1000 Years there hath not been a Man sent to Preach or Prophesy p. 50. How then canst thou possibly become a Minister of Divine Ordinances by Authority from another Man's Words or Writings unless without their Letter thou wert immediately moved to speak by the Holy Spirit as they were Moreover tho' the Scriptures in themselves are true yet there is nothing but Death in them to a Carnal Spirit The Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth Life and can a dead and killing Letter give the Power to become a Spiritual Minister of Christ's Ordinances to his Elect People I trow not c. Thus doth Lodowick profess the same Infallibility of Judgment the same way of Silent Meetings the same Perfection and unerring Light to Guide moved thereby immediately Again they join like Samson's Foxes against the Scripture a dead Letter a killing Letter a carnal Letter I think I have said enough at this time of the Harmony betwixt Lodowick Muggleton and the Quaker Teachers tho' I could bring many of the like Instances Some Inferences from the Third Chapter IS it so that whereas it is written John 5.23,27 For the Father judgeth no Man but hath committed all Judgment to the Son and hath given him Authority to execute Judgment also because he is the Son of Man Confirmed by the Apostle Acts 17.31 Because he hath appointed a Day in which he will judge the

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

Controversie on foot if you be Impartial in your search and will do your selves the justice to read both sides as you ought to do before you can be capable to pass a Judgment and this to do is highly requisite since not only your Eternal Happiness depends upon a true and lively Faith in God and his Son Jesus Christ but even your Temporal Blessings also I remember well St. Paul's Doctrine 1 Tim. 3.13 who said Evil Men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived and thereupon like a Careful Watchman over the Church of God over which the Holy Ghost had made him an Overseer he then and by his Doctrine now cautions all Believers in the True God and his Son Jesus Christ That we be henceforth no more Children tossed to and fro with every wind of Doctrine whereby they lye in wait to deceive And writing to his Son Titus Chap. 1. Ver. 12 13. he there does most Excellently describe the Cretians from a Testimony of one of their own Prophets or Teachers who like your Teachers were always Liars and Dissemblers and therefore he exhorted Titus to reprove them sharply and indeed it is the only way to work a Cure And this is according to the Doctrine of Tho. Ellwood one of your own Prophets or Teachers saying The only way to recover the deceived is to discover the Deceivers This Witness is true as St. Paul said of the Cretian Poet and thereupon I have for many Years laboured to discover your Teachers and if you will but search diligently read and judge impartially you may see for your selves whether these things be so or no. It 's true I have exposed some of the Immoralities of a few of your Teachers but it is for a good End namely that by your seeing them and considering their high Pretences to Infallibility and a Sinless Perfection you may be admonished to a Confession of your Sins to God and beging Pardon for Jesus Christ's Sake that God may keep and bless and preserve you to his Heavenly Kingdom to Reign with Christ for Ever and Ever You may further observe that G. W. in his Rambling Pilgrim c. has not denied one Quotation yet by a Cunning of his would represent me a Forger but that will soon vanish when you consider that in all Dialogues the like liberty is taken * See S. Eccles Dialogue Fox's and Smith's And I can Appeal to God the Searcher of all Hearts that my Chief End why I so expos'd them was after long forbearing to let them see themselves and learn not to insult over others And as it has had a good Effect upon some so I hope it will upon others And so I conclude with my hearty Prayer to God that of his Infinite Goodness he would vouchsafe a Blessing upon my Labours to the Benefit of you and your Posterity whose Information I have taken great Pains in that you might not continue in Ignorance and be led by your Blind Guides into the Ditch of Error and Heresie I rest your Faithful Friend and Humble Monitor Fra. Bugg March 25. 1700. A Just Rebuke to the Quakers Insolent Behaviour in their Two Books i. e. A Just Censure c. the other A Sober Reply c. both presented to some Members of Parliament Also a Dialogue between a Civilian and a Quaker Christian Reader THE first of these Books is Intitled A Just Censure of Francis Bugg 's Address to the Parliament This shews their Impudence or want of good Manners at least had they Confuted my Arguments or Convicted me of one False Quotation thereby to Misrepresent them they in Justice to themselves might have Confuted what was False either in Fact or Argument But not being able so to do for them in a Magisterial way to Censure my Speech to the Parliament and Address to my Superiors for which I have as an Englishman as good Right as they and every way equally Priviledged with them this was in them both Bold and Presumptuous as well as want of Wisdom not to stay their Censure until the Parliament had past theirs whose Right it was if they had seen Cause and to whom I ought to have submitted as in Duty bound but no Symptoms of that did appear but Pride as it is written goeth before Destruction and a Haughty Mind before a Fall And as it is impossible for a Blackamoor to change his Skin or a Leopard his Spots so is it impossible for the Quakers to cease their Insulting and Domineering Method as if they may present their Books and Papers Fifty Years together and none may Confront them They begin with the Man he has angred them by discovering their Errors and Blasphemies they go on with Personal Reflections against him which affects not the Cause and which he has long since repeatedly Answer'd in Print but still the Man the Man he is an Ill Man say they what Worse than the Quaker Teachers No sure for if he were believe me he were an Ill Man indeed for I think there is not worse than some of them are and have been even in Newgate notwithstanding their high pretence to a Sinless Perfection and Infallibility of Judgment many of whom have been highly guilty of Cheating Couzening Lying and Defrauding of Drunkenness Whoredom Felony and Treason Condemn'd both by the Law of God and Man and some of them Hang'd for their Just Merit some Instances you will find in the Preface to the Pilgrim's Progress c. p. 266 to p. 284. p. 329. ibid. And as I find no Name to the Books so I find no denial of Matter of Fact to Mod. Def. Nihil dicit is Confessing of Judgment and I shall wait patiently to see the Execution and thereupon I shall say the less in Answer to it since as it plainly appears that the Quakers does not deny Matter of Fact because in truth they could not so will their Silence be taken for a tacit Confession of the Charge But say they p. 40. For as we cannot quit any Point of our own Books so we abhor every one of them as given by him Fran. Bugg The English of which is They cannot quit any one Error any one Blasphemy c. in their own Books tho' they abhor them in my Books that is of my Reciting of my Transcribing of my Reprinting Oh! this they abhor with great detestation And why Because I seldom do it without using some Arguments to discover their Hypocrisies this yea this enrages them for this they are angry And therefore I would desire the Quakers to Reprint G. Whitehead's Book Ishmael and his Mother cast out c. where in p. 10. is this passage viz. And here thy Antiquity and thy Reasons and the Three Persons which thou Dreams of which thou i. e. Mr. Townsend the Minister would divide out of one like a Conjurer are ALL denied and thou SHUT UP with THEM in PERPETUAL DARKNESS for the LAKE and the PIT c. This indeed is

Eye finds them as Polluted and deeply Engaged in Dishonest and Immoral Practices as those against whom they contend c. See his Book The Guide mistaken c. p. 28 29 53 55. Indeed I do not think the Quaker Teachers great Miscarriages are so visible to every Eye as the Failings and Imperfections of Mr. Clapham's c. were But let the Quakers first pluck out the Beam out of their own Eye and then they shall see the more clearly how to remove the Mote out of another's Eye But to proceed to discover this Beam let me take out another Bird namely Tho. Thurston the Eleventh Bird. Thomas Thurston is the Eleventh Bird was an eminent Preacher up of G. Fox's Orders Laws and Commandments and a great Favourite of Fox's who liv'd in America who in his Travels to spread their Truth pretended to the Deputy-Governor's VVife that he Tho. Thurston had a Motion from the Spirit to get her with Child † Come W. Venn was not this a great Miscarriage Was it not visible to the Eye of the Deputy-Governour she believing him submits to a Tryal of Skill and it proved so infallibly the VVoman's Husband being then in Old-England where he stay'd about a Year or more but at length he came home and finding things bad he examin'd his VVife strictly how it came to pass She confest that such a Friend Tho. Thurston told her that he had a Motion from God to get her with Child and she was overcome by him VVell said her Husband if you will do one thing I will forgive you which is To go to the Quakers-Meeting and declare openly how you were deluded by this Preaching Quaker She did so and he forgave her and as I am credibly informed many of the Quakers thought his Motion was true he was so eminent an Orator and he still kept on some time a Preacher And why might not G. Fox allow of the Breach of this Seventh Commandment given forth by Moses as well as he did of the Breach of the Eighth Commandment viz. And as for any being moved of the Lord to take away your Hour-Glass from you by the Eternal Power it is owned c. G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 77. Such Influence had Fox's Doctrine as you may see in these two Cases and a Hundred more I could mention but enough of this Bird. Come George what thinkest thou of thy Brother Preacher Tho. Thurston He Preached amongst the Infidels and if he had been a Christian Minister I do agree it might have stumbled them but being a Quaker and led thereto by the Spirit it did confirm Quakerism George I could be more particular I could tell you of several pretty Stories and W. Ingram and Walter Myres should evidence it I could tell you of a Cannon-street Story but you know that and many others I could tell you of a She-Preacher who went from her Husband Geo. Knight so long holding forth that her Husband got a By-Child or two and at last marry'd another Wife But since that your She-Preachers kept more at home I could tell you a Story of your Meeting to cleanse the Camp about John Swinton and others and of Rebecca Travers her Testimony which would make you look more like the Synagogue of Satan than the Church of the First-Born as you boast but I delight not in it were it not to humble you So that I shall only mention one Bird more at present he being a Favourite of yours and your Brother Cater who notwithstanding his gross Immoralities yet you both wrote in Favour of him in these Words viz. George Smith a poor well-meaning Man that hath been convinced about 13 or 14 Years and ever since he came amongst us hath walked uprightly according to his Measure and hath been of a blameless Conversation amongst Men from his Youth up c. Judgment fixed c. p. 207. The Lib. of an Apost Consc c. p. 18 19. Come G. Whitehead this is high Commendation but he was a Man for your turn one strict for G. Fox's Commandments and was not ungrateful to you for your high Praise and Commendation For as one good Deed requires another as the Proverb is so he Geo. Smith saith in The Lib. of an Apost c. p. 29. I have Cause to believe better things of them all i. e. the Quakers and for Sam. Cater whom thou Fran. Bugg so much abusest I know his Conversation hath been such amongst us as becomes a Man that fears God that it is not thy Lies that can hurt him for he hath a Witness in our Consciences * Thus they witness one for another excuse and justifie each other for his faithful Service and upright Conversation amongst us Come George here is hiding here is excusing nay justifying each other in your Abominations like the two wicked Elders in the Story of Susanna saying Tush God sees us not nor the World's People do not know it And G. Smith standing Suit with the Minister of Littleport about Tythes As in the Year 1697. he did he is faithful to G. Fox's Commandments and is a true Son of our Church a well-meaning Man one that hath lived uprightly ever since he came amongst us even from his Youth up Oh George your Hypocrisie must come out and therefore and for that Reason only I shall take out of the CAGE this your well-meaning upright Bird namely George Smith But first let me acquaint the Reader that since I came to London this August 1699. I have seen a Letter from a Quaker in Huntingtonshire to his Friend in London giving a Narrative of Sam. Cater's Vicious Behaviour to several Women in Huntingtonshire A. W. for one in Cambridge and in Suffolk about which Richard Jobson called him in Question and at a Meeting at St. Ives at Tobias Hardmeat's House and in the Presence of him his Wife John Everard and some few others where R. Jobson charged poor Sam. very home but he as stoutly denied it at first being as his Sister Anne Docwra said a confident Liar But A. W. the Woman with whom he had to do being present Sam. at last confessed the Fact and was sorry he had dishonoured the Truth i. e. Quakerism But to the Matter which is a Narrative of the Proceedings of this well-meaning Man G. Smith who both G. Whitehead and Sam. Cater commend as an upright Man a well-meaning Man and that from his Youth up As for Sam. Cater I shall let his Narrative alone at present only to shew the Affinity of the Birds and how they 'll commend each other to the Skies whilst they condemn all beside themselves Reader These are their Infallible Doctors these are their Sinless alias Senseless Saints and the Perfectionests of our Age viz. George Smith the Twelfth Bird. George Smith of Littleport having a Wife of his own being a Bailiff for a Gentleman of the same Town whose Wife was a handsome young Woman G. Smith in time