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A30038	Quakerism withering and Christianity reviving, or, A brief reply to the Quakers pretended vindication in answer to a printed sheet deliver'd to the Parliament wherein their errors, both in fundamentals and circumstantials are further detected, and G. Whitehead further unmask'd / by an earnest contender for the Christian faith, Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1694 (1694)	Wing B5386; ESTC R23819	36,756	82

some part of those holy Truths therein contained and yet this preaching is by their Doctrine Conjuration and Witchcraft c. 3dly You may perceive that G. W. and the Quakers do not call the four Books of Matthew Mark Luke and John either the New Testament of Jesus Christ or the Gospel and why His Brother Fox says 't is Dust Death and Serpents-Meat Yet to serve another turn Ellwood writing against W. R. in his Antidote p. 81 82. calls the Writings of the Evangelists The New Testament Scriptures of Truth c. Oh the Deceit and Self-contradiction of these Babel-Builders 4thly You may see they bring their own Nonsence in competition with the holy Scripture and New Testament Nay I shall prove by their Practice that they prefer their own Pamphlets before the Scripture and that beyond all their Glosses to the contrary 5thly That such as obey the Scriptures are bewitched from the Truth And therefore say they That is no Command from God to me what he commanded the Saints of old recorded in Scripture for alas what is the Scripture but a little Dust Death carnal Letter Husk Beastly Ware and they that preach out of it Conjurers notable Conjurers Babylon's Merchants yea Witches Devils Gormandizing Priests c 6thly They insinuate by way of Query That 't is doubtful whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Holy Writ or whether either or neither and so confound the Scriptures as to overthrow its Divine Authority suggesting that what is true the False-Prophets wrote and what is false the True-Prophets wrote and what is ill expressed and ill applied Wise and Good Men wrote and by a Natural Invertion all the rest by Wicked Men and the Grand Impostor And I think they by this time have made room for the Atheists and Papists This I must confess is such a cunning Stratagem of Satan and his Instruments as the boldest Jesuit that ever I read of never attempted the like And for more of it I refer to New Rome unmask'd c. p. 23. And by this time I hope G. W's Witnesses are convicted sufficiently and for time to come will not say the Quakers never said affirmed or believed that the holy Scriptures are Death Dust and Serpents-Meat c. But notwithstanding all this and much more that might be quoted of this nature yet G. W. boldly imposes upon the World that though they call the Scripture Dust Death and Serpents-meat yet they do not call the holy Scripture so see their pretended Vindication c. p. 2. Essay c. p. 5 8. but say The holy Precepts and Doctrines they own And from thence they 'r called says G.W. holy Scriptures I grant it is for that very reason that the Christians call them Holy Scriptures But on the other hand I do positively affirm That it is for that very Reason that the Quakers call them Dust Death Serpents-meat Beastly Ware c. And this I will prove by the Practice of each sort viz. by both the Practice of the Christians and the Practice of the Quakers And first the Christians they read them in their Churches practice them in their Families particularly the Lord's Prayer the Ten Commandments the Apostles Creed think themselves as Disciples of Christ obliged to follow the Examples of the Primitive Christians and Holy Martyrs in frequenting the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper and divers other Commands c. They believe the Scripture is given by divine Inspiration and infallibly true being by Wise and Good Men well expressed and rightly applied and that the true Prophets speak truly so that there is a sweet harmony in the Scriptures They believe also that Moses was the first Pen-man and divinely inspir'd and his Writings quoted by Christ and his Apostles see Mark 12.16 Luke 24.27 Luke 16.19 24.27 26 27 44. Acts. 2. And for these and the like Reasons they call it Holy Scripture But then Secondly if we must judge the Tree by the Fruit as Christ directed then the Quakers do not believe the Doctrin and Precepts recorded in Scripture to be either blessed or holy and therefore call them Dust Death Husk Serpents-meat Beastly Ware c. which I thus prove First By the very reproachful Language and contemptuous Expression you cast upon them as Dust Death Serpents-meat c. Secondly In that you do not read them in your Meetings for Worship nor recommend them to be read in your Monthly and Quarterly Meetings as you frequently do your own Epistles Thirdly Because you say That to preach out of them is Conjuration which you would not if you believed the Doctrines therein to be holy and blessed Fourthly By reason you lay aside as useless the Use of the Lord's Prayer Ten Commandments and the Apostle's Creed which are some of those holy Precepts contained in the Scriptures Fifthly In that you deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ and do not practise them according to the Command of Christ Go teach all Nations baptising c. This do in remembrance of me c. For if they were sincere and did believe the Doctrin and Precepts were holy and blessed as they pretend you would at some time or other see a Bible in their Hands in a Meeting and make Confession of Sin and beg Pardon of God for Christ's sake which they never did Sixthly That from your Practice Words and Writings you do prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures as in New Rome unmask d c. New Rome arraign'd c. For proof see your Yearly Epistle follows The 27th of the 3d Month 1675. IT is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie hath been given out by the Spirit and Power of God are Mens Edicts or Canons c. with such scornful Sayings be permitted by W. Penn Alex. Packe Stephen Crisp George Whitehead and others Now I am apt to think as superstitious as you are that you did not ascribe Holiness to the Paper and Ink of your own Papers and Pamphlets But yet what Care what Caution what Advice and Admonition was sent out from the general Council not of Trent but London that no such scornful Expressions should be put upon your Friend's Papers as Edicts and Canons which indeed are not such contemptible Names And yet how do you charge them by the Authority of the Power and Spirit of God that no such contemptible scornful and unsavory Expressions be permitted to be cast upon your Papers which you say are given forth by the Power and Spirit of God So tender and careful you are of your own nonsensical Papers Epistles c. Here is no calling them Death Dust Serpents-meat Beastly Ware Carnal Letter Husk and the like no no yours were given forth you say by the Power and Spirit of God and consequently

Principles two years after he left us and joyned himself to the Church of England c. For which he quotes my Book The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted To which I answer The very Title shews the contrary And in the Book I charge them with False Doctrin Erroneous Principles their Teachers Cruel Taskmasters Persecutors and Tyrants and that part of their Doctrin which was true as I still believe some little of what they teach is true served only as a Decoy to catch simple Souls by charging their Ministers with Lyes gross Forgery and scandalous Defamations Babel's Builders Pharasaical Hypocrites See p. 4 5 18 21. And now let the Wise in Heart judge whether I did not account the Quakers criminal in 1686. With what face then can this gross Perverter G. W. say I did not account them criminal in 1686. unless to be guilty of the forementioned be not criminal As by the Quakers persisting therein they should not account it However I did then and do now account them great Criminals both in Doctrin and Practice and for leaving them am not condemned but bless the Day that ever I forsook such an Heresie as I deem them to hold defend and I fear wilfully maintain The Matters in that Book treated on I methodiz'd under these three general Heads viz. The first point under Consideration was How I came to be a Member of their Society The second How I came to see their Errors and leave them The third How I came perswaded and satisfied in going to the Publick In the first I did set forth what I thought of them in 58 and 60. and what they preached and how innocent they appeared G. W. in Norwich-Castle seemed as demure as the best yet in that Book I set forth as I then believed that all was but a Decoy or Cheat to draw Disciples after them and if I was cheated and mistaken in them so was Hugh Latimore that learned Prelate in the smooth Carriage of the Papists and their Infallible Delusions who said I am ignorant of things which I trust hereafter to know c. Read Fox's Acts and Monuments c. p. 410 467 468 1325 1488. where Bishop Latimer Bishop Cranmer M. Luther Dr. Barns and other pious sincere Christians have not been too good nor too holy to acknowledge themselves mistaken upon conviction though by your Doctrin render d Apostates in that they once thought the Popish Doctrine true c. Nay your Incharity renders many of your own People Apostates who before they were deluded by your black Art of calling the Scripture Death Dust and Serpents-meat the Ordinances an Institution of the Whore of Rome the publick Ministers Witches Devils Gormandizing Priests c. thought the Doctrine of the Church of England sound and orthodox But since they are turn'd to the Heresie of Quakerism G. W. accounts them Saints Lambs Prophets and what not But as these Weights are counterfeit so I purpose to try them by the Touchstone of the Scripture which cannot lye And I refer to my Book New-Rome unmask'd c. containing more than 100 Pages in Quarto divided into twelve Chapters which shew at large that forsaking the Quakers is no Apostacy from the Articles of the Christian Faith c. sold by Mr. Dunton at the Raven in the Poultry and Mr. Guillam Bookseller in Bishopsgate-street Concluding my Introduction with St. Augustine Errare possum haereticus esse non possum The FIRST CHARGE Against the Quakers That they Deny Jesus of Nazareth who was born of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be Christ and the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation The ARGUMENT THE Method proposed to prove the recited Charge is 1st A brief Citation of Scriptures proving that Jesus is the Christ of God and Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation from the Testimony of GOD Angels and Men. 2dly A Recital out of the Quakers Books wrote by their most approved Authors alledging the contrary shewing them thereby to be of a different Faith from the Prophets Apostles Saints and Blessed Martyrs and all true Christians to this day 3dly That Geo. Fox the first Founder of Quakerism Anno 1650. have since assumed to himself those divine Attributes due only to Christ and thereby hath overthrown the Faith of some 4thly That his Disciples and Followers and such of greatest note amongst them hath said Amen to his Blasphemies by their frequent Adorations of him as the Star the Branch the Son of Righteousness c. 1st Scripture Texts proving Jesus to be Christ. John 1.14 And the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth Luke 1.26 And in the sixth month the Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Gallilee named Nazareth and the Angel said unto her Fear not Mary for thou hast found favour with God and behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shalt call his name Jesus 2.10 11. And the Angel said unto them Fear not for behold I bring unto you good tydings of great joy which shall be unto all people for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour Christ the Lord. Mark 9.7 Matt. 17.5 While he yet spake behold a bright cloud overshadowed them and behold a voice out of the cloud which said This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased hear him Matt. 26.67 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him and others smote him with the palms of their hands 27.38 Then there were two thieves crucified with him one on the right hand another on the left Ver. 50. Jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost 28.6 He is not here for he is risen as he said Come see the place where the Lord lay Acts 1.9 10 11. While they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight And while they looked stedfastly towards Heaven as he went up behold two men standing by them in white apparel which also said Ye men of Gallilee why stand ye gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven then not in them in the Quakers sence for as he said with reference to his Person Matt. 26.11 Me ye have not always shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Acts 5.30 31. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a Tree him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Acts 2.36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Heb. 5.9 And being made perfect he became the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him 12.2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our

This is fallacious in that you practice neither F. B 's Fifth and Sixth Charge against the Quakers That they undervalue the Death and Sufferings of Christ and exalt their own Sufferings above the Sufferings of Christ above the Sufferings of the Apostles above the Sufferings of the Martyrs or any Christians since the days of Christ c. E. Burrow's Works c. ANd this is to go abroad into the Nation and into the World That the Sufferings of the People of God called Quakers in this Age is greater Suffering and more unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles or in any time since Queen Mary's days brought not forth a Suffering more cruel What was done to Christ or the Apostles was chiefly done by a Law and in great part by the due Execution of a Law c. In my Sheet to the Parliament I put a Query grounded upon this Doctrine viz. Whether was greatest the Sufferings of the Quakers or the Sufferings of Christ to which G. W. gave no direct Answer but glossed it over as his usual way is For if he had answered that the Sufferings of the Quakers had been greatest as their Doctors Teach the People would have been ready to stone him for Blasphemy Again if he had said the Sufferings of Christ had been greatest he had then given the Lie to E. B. their great Prophet So that he was in a great Strait like the Pharisees of old their Predecessors For all the Saints Sufferings are not to be compared with the Sufferings of the ever-blessed Jesus But in the next place that they should thus exalt their own Sufferings above the Sufferings of the Apostles Martyrs c. is such a boast as hath no parallel amongst Protestants But that is not all they come in as Advocates for all the Tyrants and bloody Persecutors who without any Law and contrary to Law martyr'd and murther'd many Thousands for Christ's sake saying about six lines off And herein it appears the Sufferings to be more unjust because what the Persecutors of old did to the People of God they did by a Law and by the due execution of a Law c. So that to confute this grand Error wicked Lye and false Plea of the Quakers first on behalf of the Persecutors who they say executed their Cruelties upon the Apostles and Martyrs not only by a Law but by the due execution of a Law Next on the behalf of themselves both which I shall consider distinctly viz. The Sufferings of the Quakers of the one part and the Sufferings of the Holy Apostles Blessed Martyrs and Pious Protestants since the days of Christ of the other part I say in order to confute this vain-glorious Error I shall first produce a few Instances of the Sufferings of the Apostles and Martyrs c. and next a Sample or two of the Quaker's Sufferings and let G. W. in his next shew his Art and deny my Argument if he can First then to begin with the Primitive Sufferers Apostles and Blessed Martyrs viz. John Baptist Stephen James Bartholomew Mark Peter Andrew Matthew Philip Paul and divers others some flead alive some their Brains knock'd out some crucified some burned alive what Law did these Worthies suffer by Was the Law duly or justly executed upon them Answer in your next Secondly What say you to the Ten Persecutions under those bloody Tyrants who as History saith suffered as many as amounted to 5000 to a day for 12 months together some rack'd some burned some drawn to pieces by wild Horses some fryed some roasted some broiled upon Gridirons some melted Lead poured down their Throats some put into boiling Coppers of Oyl some rouled in Barrels of Nails and a hundred other exquisite Tortures and barbarous Cruelties was this done by a Law and the due Executions of that Law And are your Sufferings greater Answer these three Queries in your next or else as E. B. said acknowledge under your Hands That you have been deceiv'd and becomes false Witnesses and publish your retractation for thus deceiving the World 3. What think you of the horrid Massacres in France Piedmont Ireland and the Martyrdom of Salter Badly Thorp Hus Jerom of Prague Zuinglius Calvin Beza Bilny Bradford Frith Barns Tindal Ridley Hooper Father Latimer Dr. Tayler Bishop Farrar and Archbishop Cranmer * Which W. P. says taught the Papists how to deal with the Protestants by his Practice of Burning Joan of Kent which in the whole as from History I can make appear was more than 50000000 who suffered the like Tortures which the Heathen Tyrants executed nay used more or different Stratagems Come G. W. in your next answer the last three Queries directly without your glossing or painting for your Enchanting Art will not now do For 1st Either these suffered by a Law or they did not 2dly And by the due execution of that Law or they did not 3dly That the Quakers Sufferings have been greater or they have not If the first bring forth your Arguments to prove it for I deny them jointly and severally If the last are you not gross Lyers and grand Impostors who have the Impudence thus to impose upon the World Nay 4thly Are your Sufferings more cruel than the recited If not you are found False-witnesses and your Verdict for and on the behalf of the due Proceedings and legal Executions of the bloody Tyrants persecuting Papists and cruel Irish will not pass You must go out again for we say and deny that they suffered either by Law or the due execution of a Law or that your Sufferings were either greater or more cruel all which your Doctrine holds forth and nothing will salve it but an ingenuous Retractation published in condemnation of Burrough's Doctrine which is both taught received and believed by the poor misled Quakers And now I shall proceed to shew a Sample of the Quakers Suffering which being compared with the recited the disproportion will the better appear viz. For Meeting for Not Swearing for wearing the Hat for Tithes and Church-Dues c. from 1650. the day of the Quakers date to 1658. which was after E. Burrough had wrote the Book above recited which was in 1657. though I grant it was reprinted in 1672. viz. A Declaration of the present Sufferings c. J. Evans imprison'd for speaking to a Priest J. Norris of Swasy for the same El. Fowler speaking in Steeple-house prison'd J. Green of Bulbrook for the like John Rogers imprison'd for the like Ann Blackling at Bury for the like George Harrison for meeting was abused till he did spit Blood Bar. Logg fin'd 3 s. 4. d. for his Hat Tho. Bagg for not putting off his Hat and for not swearing was fined 13 s. 4. d. Reader here is one Sample of the Quakers Sufferings which they bring in competition nay say they exceed all before them since the days of Christ But what was it for namely for disturbing the exercise of the establish'd Religion But