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A30029	A modest defence of my book entituled, Quakerism expos'd as also of my broad sheet : with a scheme of the Quakers yearly synod, and other books presented anno 1699 to the Parliament : and G. Whitehead's inside turn'd outward, by reprinting his ancient book Ishmael, &c. intirely, shewing thereby the Quakers ancient testimony of contempt of the Holy Scriptures and blasphemy against the blessed Trinity ... / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Atkinson, Christopher. Ishmael and his mother cast out into the wilderness.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5375; ESTC R19514	73,450	146

chuse Law-makers and they will chuse to be sure such as will uphold them in their Oppression And p. 92 93. And we see the People have been in great Blindness in contending for Parliaments so chosen P. 149. Again It is God's proper Right to give Laws unto Man Now in this Particular also Man have set himself in the Seat of God and so have dishonoured the one Lawgiver by setting up many Lawgivers P. 150. Now mark and consider these things seeing that the Righteous are fewer in number than the Unrighteous and that the Lawmakers are chosen by the most Voices and that of the Richest People outwardly how are the Righteous like to be preserved in outward Freedom by the Laws that are so made P. 159. And I must deal plainly with you saith he in the Sight of God who hath made Me a Prophet to This Nation Well George I have recited it and do averr it was fairly quoted out of your Prophet Fox's Works Reprinted by your Approbation 1665. and it is not length of Time or change of Governments that can abate the Force of a Prophecy of a divinely inspired Prophet No George if God Almighty did inspire this your Prophet and reveal to him from Heaven his Holy Habitation That a Parliament chosen by most Voices could not or were never like to Act or Govern for God or his People then 't is of Force and you ought to stand by it in the Face of all Unbelievers but on the contrary if you do now see that Fox was an Impostor as I conceive that to be your Case and that he was never so moved of God but instigated by a deluding Spirit then no marvel you dare not recite it but as in p. 69. make this guilty Excuse viz. We are only defensive and not under a necessity of reciting the Clergies whole Quotations But whether only defensive we shall consider by and by But George if this Excuse of yours was your Prudence lest such as you present your Books to should see your old Seditious Principles and which is still worse that you should have the Face to Reprint and Defend them then George I would willingly know where your Honesty and Sincerity is you so often boast of But enough of this I shall proceed to another of your Juggles as bad as this in p. 29. viz. As to what these Men i. e. the Norfolk Clergy quote against us p. 16. to prove us Antimonarchial they are very broken in their Quotations with their many sensless Dashes like the Snake in the Grass Second Edition p. 220. But varying in the Citation of the same Passage these Men i. e. the Clergy have the Words Are not all these Elders that doat so much of an Earthly King But the Snake has it Are not all these Christians that will doat so much c. An excellent Critick Here George is at his old Work even splitting a Hair if possible and all to amuse his Reader and to put a Vail if possible over the Quakers most manifest Antimonarchial and Treasonable Principles especially since of late in their Yearly Meeting and other their late Prints they have reasserted all these their Ancient Seditious Prinples and tell us they are the same still and not changed as in the Postscript to their Ishmael herewith Reprinted I shall shew which if so they do indeed as to themselves make void the Act of Indemnity which otherwise would have blotted out these their old Sins But since they say their Principles are now no otherwise than they were in the beginning I think it is highly reasonable that they should be examined thereabout And this I think ought to be the Desire of every true English Freeholder But come George as to the varying of these Men one said Are not all these Elders c. the other Are not all these Christians c. What harm is in all this especially since the Words of your Fox in his Book stiled Several Papers given forth c. to the Presbyterians 1659. are And are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Now what if the Clergy took only the Word Elders and the Author of the Snake in the Grass took the Word Christians since one is enough to shew your Meaning tho' Fox as his manner usually was put in more than enough what harm is in all this pray But if you had looked in p. 80. of my Pilgrim's Progress c. there you would have found that I have put it even as Fox did viz. And are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Oh George if I would go thorough this Book of thine I could shew abundance of these thy Shuffles and Legerdemain used on purpose to deceive thy Readers But now to the Clergy-men's Quotation which I say is fairly taken and carries the Force and Meaning of your great Apostle Fox neither do the Norfolk Clergy nor the Author of the Book excellently intituled The Snake in the Grass vary one tittle in the Relation of Fox's Doctrine but if you think it do I will now add Christian to Elder and then let the Reader see how it helps your Cause and whether one of those Words had not been enough to express your Sense but a Man near drowning will lay hold of any Twig and your Infallible Cause being Infallibly sinking you are forced to make use of such Trifles instead of reciting their Quotation and then refuting it as all fair Controvertists would do And if not able so to do then you ought to confess fairly and acknowledge your Errors and condemn your Apostle's Seditious Doctrine Now to the Quotation A brief Discovery of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the Quakers p. 16. G. Fox in his Book Several Papers given forth c. to Presbyterians c. just before the Restoration writ Anno 1659. and printed the beginning of 1660. he hath these Passages Friends To all you that desire an Earthly King in England c. whether Presbyterians or others Did the Elders of old in the Days of Christ or the Apostles cry up any King but Christ to have any King to rule over them but Christ And doth not the Priests and Presbyterians cry for an Earthly King and will have Cesar And do they not in this crucifie Jesus Are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Do you read that there were any Kings since the Days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians for Christ is King alone I say that is the false Church that doth not live upon the Head of the Kings They that be true Elders never go about to set up an Earthly King over them to Rule Herod the King was mad at the Child Jesus there is the Fruit of Earthly Kings and hath not this been witnessed in England c. 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punished if they will follow their own Light blind Zeal and Imaginations In like manner such as poyson the Streams of the Christian Religion subvert the Faith undermine Christianity broach and maintain damnable Errours denying the Lord that bought them as you have done I hope then it is not raising Persecution to have you Examined and your Errours censured which is the main thing you fear whilst you would make the World believe you fear Persecution In answer to this John Feild in his Defence c. p. 3. recites thus much viz. I do profess my self a Member of the Church of England I have often and do again tell you that I am against Persecution and will add That Persecution for Righteousness sake is a Badge of a False Church c. But these Words with many others as by comparing you may see for the Name of Jesus he has dropt as not for his turn And in this tho' John Feild was a Tool yet he was no Fool for he knew very well that no Quakers ever suffered in England for the Name of Jesus Neither was there in their time ever known that an Act Parliament was made or a Justice's Warrant ever signed to persecute any Man for the Name of Jesus And I now anew do declare That I am against Persecution and do refer the Reader to my Book The Picture of Quakerism drawn to the Life c. pag. 73 to 125. for my Judgment in that Case But there is one Passage I may not let slip in Geo. Whitehead's Truth and Innocency Vindicated c. p. 44. Such Records are not intended to make the Governors nor Government odious for Persecution to Posterity Neither do I know of any among us that have so threatned to publish to After-ages c. Reply But Ah George what is become of thy Sincerity that canst thus Lie in the Face of the Government What dost not thou know W. Penn Is he not still among you And tho' others be dead yet their Books are still among you I am now turning thee upside down even thy Inside outward therefore hold up thy Chin and draw near me that I may take off thy Mask of Sincerity and shew thy foul Inside Read the Picture of Quakerism p. 102 103. where divers of your Books are quoted that do so threaten particularly W. Penn's Judas and the Jews c. p. 41. Our faithful Chronicles says he of the Bloody Tragedies of that Professing Generation will tell future Ages other things Now George is not this a Threat Yes sure Only Sam. Cater's and other Sham-Sufferings are discovered which will despoil your Chronicle Again in his Rejoinder p. 410. New Provocations says Penn may give fresh occasion for their History to come abroad to the Nation more compendiously than ever See also R. Barkley's Anarchy c. p. 42. That as thro' our Faithful Testimony in the Hand of the Lord that Antichristian and Apostatized Generation the National Ministry hath received a deadly Blow by our discovering and witnessing against their forced Maintenance and Tythes against which we have testified by many cruel Sufferings of all kinds as our Chronicles shall make known to Generations to come c. What George is here no Threatning Dost thou indeed say thou knowest of none among you that have an intent to publish your Sufferings to render the Government odious for Persecution This is such a Lie that it will wound the Author And so I turn to John Feild again In my Book Quakerism Exposed c. there is this Passage p. 23. But this your Shuffle shewed the Gentry Justices of Peace the Clergy and Protestant Dissenters That your Principles are so destructive to Common Christianity as that you did not dare to stand the Test And this yea on this yea only this so far as I know put them upon a Petition to the Honourable House of Commons to do that for God and the Christian Religion which they could not do namely to Examine your Principles and Censure your Errours as to their Wisdom should seem meet And in this they i. e. both the Church of England Men and Protestant Dissenters are unanimous and this disturbs you this perplexes you and for this your Tool John Feild calls and compares them to Herod and Pilate Haman and Judas Upon this John Feild by way of Prayer replies Defence c. p. 10. Pray let Fra. Bugg who asserts this make it appear to the King and both Houses of Parliament that this yea only this put them upon it and that they are unanimous herein For if so there is not one of these Sorts but what is consenting thereto or hath been actually concerned in the Petition But if it hath not been so then the Parliament may be hereby informed That he hath not truly represented themselves i. e. the Parliament for they are included in his general Words And let him tell if he can what that common Christianity is that the Quakers Principles are so destructive to c. Well John I have hear'd thy Prayer and G. W.'s Ishmael herewith reprinted do tell you if what I have hitherto does not what that common Christianity is which your Principles are destructive to and in a great part shew the Cause of your Shuffle in that you did not dare to own your Books and either defend or retract your Blasphemous and Seditious Principles together with many other Reasons in my said Book Qua. Exposed c. to which I refer the Reader Nor doth it follow from what I therein said that every individual Man of all sorts was concerned in the Petition nor that the Parliament was at all concerned What the Parliament Petition the Parliament No John this is a Quibble which hath no Ground in any Field but such that bring forth nothing but Thorns or Thistles But John here is more in this Suggestion than every body on first sight will be aware of For what is it less than to tell all the Counties Shires Cities and Burroughs in England and Wales that their Representatives are such Friends to your Errours that they are not unanimous in and with their Electors as to have you examined about them And not only so but the Protestant Churches abroad who are Scandalized by your pernicious Errours if you be as your selves boast Recognized Protestants And this John I take to be Scandalous to our English Protestant Parliament who profess Faith in our Lord Jesus which you testifie was not the Son of God which is a Damnable Errour denying the Lord that bought you with the Price of his most Precious Blood if you would accept thereof on Gospel-Terms And from this Scandal there needs be no other Vindication than the Good and Christian Laws already made and their frequent Votes in Parliament and the Humble Address made to the King's Majesty in the Year 1697. which not only gave me Encouragement to Charge and Challenge you and when you threw that off and Challenged the Clergy it likewise incouraged

we cannot for Conscience sake Fight Kill or Revenge either for our selves or any Man else Oh! no by no means this they could not be brought to and the Riddle I have unfolded in my Pil. Prog. c. 2d Edition p. 192 to 199. For as they yet never made one Publick Ad dress to His Majesty from thir Yearly Meeting that great and dangerous Body nor one Prayer that I could ever hear of either in their Books or in their Meetings nor ever yet wrote one Book in Favour of the Government But did all these in the late Reign But still there is one Clause in this Paper worth Notice i. e. ' As the King has been tenderly inclined to give Ease and Liberty of Conscience c. And I pray is it inconsistant with His Majesties Tenderness to give Liberty of Conscience to His Protestant Dissenters who hold the Fundamentals of the Christian Faith joined in the Association to preserve his Majesties Royal Person and Government And Pray heartily for him in their Meetings And to Curb and Restrain such as will doneither but hold such horrid Pernicious and Destructive Principles both to Church and State and even to Humane Society No sure God hath given him both Wisdom and Conduct and he knows how to make a difference and distingush between such as Subvert the Faith undermine Christianity and Damn the Ever-Blessed Trinity to the Pit of Hell and such who make it their Business to Instruct their People in the Fundamentals of Christianity as is well expressed in divers Laws particularly in that wherein is this Clause viz. Provided and be it enacted That no Quaker or Reputed Quaker shall by Virtue of this Act be qualified or permitted to give Evidence on any Criminal Causes to Serve on any Juries or bear any Office or Place of Trust or Profit in the Government any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for this Clause all true Protestants have good cause to be Humbly thankful to God the King and the Parliament and that for more Reasons than I think meet here to enumerate But notwithstanding the Quakers Temporizing Paper above recited the King's Majesty as a Nursing-Father to the Church and Spouse of Christ and as a Zealous Defender of the Faith once delivered to the Saints put forth his Royal Proclamation from his Court at Kensington the 24th of Feb. 1697. which we have read both at Church and Courts of Judicature An Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. By the KING A PROCLAMATION WILLIAM REX WHereas we cannot but be deeply sensible of the great Goodness of Almighty God in putting an end to a Long Bloody and Expensive War by the Conclusion of an Honourable Peace so we are not less touched with a Resentment that notwithstanding this and many other great Blessings and Deliverances Impiety Prophaneness and Immorality do still abound in this our Kingdom and whereas nothing can prove a greater Dishonour to a well-ordered Government where the Christian Faith is professed nor is likelier to provoke God to withdraw his Mercy and Blessings from us and instead thereof to inflict Heavy and Severe Judgments upon this Kingdom than the open and avowed Practice of Vice Immorality and Prophaneness which amongst many Men has too much prevailed in this our Kingdom of late Years to the high Displeasure of Almighty God the great Scandal of Christianity and the ill and fatal Example of the rest of our loving Subjects who have been soberly Educated and whose Inclinations would lead them to the Exercise of Piety and Virtue did they not daily find such frequent and repeated Instances of dissolute Living Prophaneness and Impiety c. And whereas several Wicked and Prophane Persons have presumed to Print and Publish several Pernicious Books and Pamphlets which contain in them Impious Doctrines against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of our Faith tending to the Subversion of the Christian Religion Therefore for the Punishing the Authors and Publishers thereof and for the preventing such Impious Books and Pamphlets being Published and Printed for the future we do hereby strictly Charge and Prohibit all Persons that they do not presume to Write Print or Publish any such Pernicious Books or Pamphlets under the Pain of our High Displeasure and of being Punished according to the uttermost Severity of the Law And We do hereby strictly Charge and Require all Our Loving Subjects to Discover and Apprehend such Person or Persons whom they shall Know to be the Authors or Publishers of any such Books or Pamphlets and to bring them before some Justice of Peace or Chief Magistrate in order that they may be proceeded against according to Law God save the KING For these and the like Reasons the Norfolk Clergy did Accept the Quakers Challenge did meet them at the time perfixed and there did endeavour to shew them their Errors and would have convinced them thereof and then had them Retracted their Errors and thereby to have merited the Indulgence of the Government and the Love of their Christian Neighbours But they refusing all this Labour of Love and Good Will boasting they were Protestants and so Recognized and with all boldness rejected all their Endeavours of Conviction upon which the Gentry in Norfolk some of which were there and many Justices of the Peace and others Signed a Petition as they also in the County of Suffolk have done waiting a seasonable Opportunity to present the same A Copy thereof excepting Names is as followeth viz. To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled the Humble Petition of the Justices of the Peace and Grand-Juries of the said County of Norfolk in Session Assembled in behalf of themselves and the Body of this County at large Humbly sheweth THAT We cannot without Resentment take Notice of the Growth and Daily Increase of a Sect of People among Us called Quakers and the Mischiefs and Dangers from thence threatning this Nation It is too observable with what restless Zeal their deluding Teachers and as may well be suspected many Romish Emissaries under their Vizar and Disguise daily ramble into all parts of these Kingdoms and boldly spread their Venemous Doctrine every where attempting to Infect and Shock the Minds of Weak and Unstable Protestants and Assuming to themselves Rules of Discipline Powers in Matters of Religion and Forms of Government repugnant to the Established Laws of the Kingdom contrary to the very Acts of Toleration and not allowed to any other Dissenters vouching in all their Practices Divine Inspiration for their Warrant and their Indulgence of the Government for their Indemnity How apparently their Blasphemous Books and Pernicious Principles tend to subvert the Fundamentals of Christianity and the undermining the Civil Government are sufficiently demonstrable The Publishing whereof by pretended Permission of Authority We humbly conceive to be of most dangerous Consequence We therefore obliged in Duty to God and Our Country do humbly pray That you