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A30034	The painted-harlot both stript and whipt, or, The second part of Naked truth containing a further discovery of the mischief of imposition among the people called Quakers by reason of a certain law or edict made by G. Whitehead, S. Crisp, and others of the leaders and preachers of G.F's party ... strictly requiring us neither to forsake, decline, nor remove our meetings like wordly, fearful, and politick professors : whereby their usurpations are mainfest and how they began to exercise dominion over the consciences of their brethren ... / by F. Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1683 (1683)	Wing B5380; ESTC R27234	84,858	88

W. S. N. H. F. R. T. S. E. W. G. J. P. who were sufficiently known to them to be both scandalous to Christianity and a Reproach to Religion Nay if need be many more may be named which while subject to G. F's new Laws are owned among them but honest men if Nonconformists are traduced and abused c. The second Author is E. Hickeringall another Learned Man which though in all things he may not be of my mind yet in this point I will quote him for my Author for his Reasons sake Hear him what he says The Black Nonconformist Pag. 2. Query 1. Whether Christ or his Apostles ever made such an Ordinance as ' Excommunication and whether like to that in use at this Day I answer First none can imagine that our Blessed Saviour the Prince of Peace the Restorer of Breaches that was Meekness and Lowliness it self should give many eager or frequent Commands to extirpate or dismember any of his Body for he came to seek and to save that which was lost And therfore we meet with but one Place in all the Gospel that gives any colour to Excommunication namely Mat. 18.17.18 But our Saviour after all the Caution imaginable of a mild and private previous Proceeding and Dealing tenderly with a Brother a Jew that trespasseth against thee betwixt thee and him which if it took effect the Cause was stopt and all further Proceedings it went no farther but when the method of Cure proved ineffectual the next Remedy was not to put him into the Court or Present him but to take with thee one or two more to which if the Trespasser would hearken tho he had neglected and refused at the first private Conference yet there also all Proceedings was stopt and the Matter privately husht up to avoid Scandal and the Church or Spiritual Court never heard a word of it except these Prescriptions of our Saviour did not effect the Cure And then and not till then by any Warrant from the Gospel was any man to be put into the Court or Sanhedrim or the Matter told to the Church or made a publick business of But then if the Criminal neglected to hear the Church What then Does he command the Church to deliver him to Satan He only says Let him be unto thee as a Heathen Man and a Publican Which words can have no other Grammatical Construction but that thou shouldst look upon him as a man that regards not the Precepts and Admonitions of the Jewish Sanhedrim more than does a Heathen Man or a Publican that never pretended to be subject to them nor subject in the Kingdom of God and therefore thou mayst take thy Course at the Law with him and bring a Clausum Fregit or Action of Trespass against him before the Roman Magistrates in their Courts of Judicatory as you may against an Heathen man that is a Gentile or a Publican For the Publicans tho many of those Excise-Men Toll-Gatherers or Custome-Gatherers were Jews by Nation and Religion too and some of them Jewish-Christians yet they were Herodians that is true Conformists to the Roman Yoak and Government and therefore odious to the Puritanical Bygots the Hypocritical Pharisees that looked with Scorn upon all Mankind and as Dogs despised and hated all if they were not of their Religion or rather foolish Superstition The best Comment upon Holy Scripture is its self and the best Interpreter of our blessed Saviours Sayings are his own and his Apostles Words and Actions A like Saying to this of Mat. 18.17 we have in Luke 17.3 4. where our Saviour says If thy Brother trespass against thee if he repent for give him that is if he pay the Trespass and make thee Satisfaction and confess his Fault and be sorry for it and promise Amendment for without these there is no true Repentence then forgive him seven times and seventy seven times even as often as he shall sin against thee and neither Court him nor sue him in the Spiritual Court before the Sanhedrim or High Priest Court nor yet in the Temporal Courts of the Gentiles or Heathen-men and Publicans For our blessed Saviour doth not say Let him be to the Church as a Heathen-man or a Publican which the Pope to colour the Authority and Jus Divinum of his Excommunications as he does that of Christ to Peter Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church doth without any Ground or Colour as politickly as sencelesly construe and interpret But our Blessed Saviour only says Let him be to thee to thee not to the Church as a Heathen Man or a Publican that is thou mayst lawfully then sue thy Brother Jew at Law as well as any Gentile Heathen-man or Publican Never did such a silly Cheat reign so long before in the whole World but it was only beeause they kept the People in Ignorance and if any man durst offer to enlighten them and speak the Naked Truth the Pope and his Inquisition and Emissaries were as spightfull cruel and devilishly bloody as any are now amongst us at this day against the Naked Truth They are vily loth to loose their Domineering Insulting Kingdom of Darkness and are as mad as Bedlam if men will not be Asses and Tame Beasts and suffer themselves as of old to be crow'd over and Priest-ridden 'T is said of the Germans that just before God had raised up Luther to awake them they were grown so sottish and bejaded having so long been Priest-Ridden that their Priest might almost have perswaded them not only to lye down and let the Priest whip them or which is as bad or worse make them whip themselves both of them dayly Penances at this day in Popish Countries but also they might have been easily perswaded poor Asses to eat grass Surely Englishmen are not so dull and tame to be Hen-peckt or to be rid and bestrid at such a rate I hope I confess I have not the Patience to indure it Pag. 8. This is only to shew you what the Church was that our Saviour speaks of Mat. 18.17 Tell it to the Church is as much as to say in England Complain in Westminster-Hall Sessions or Assizes For want of the knowledge whereof Excommunication has been counted a sacred Ordinance and every little gathered Church as well as the great took upon them the Government and thought themselves somebody and would have power over their own Members to interdict deprive cut off c. and woful work they made with it Johnson and others that fled to Holland and had a gathered Church and cut off Hereticks and many wrong Believers till he left himself alone or but one that just jumpt with him in all things And indeed as the Mathematicks when a crooked Line deviates from a strait Line the farther it reaches in length still the greater distance and more irreconcileable So here this Text of Mat. 18.17 being mistaken and wrong construed the longer the Errour lasts the greater Mischief

of a Preface c. But as to the 5 l. I do say their Insinuation is false and to make it appear so I offered J. B. S. C's busie Agent to go along with him to E. S. their Author but he refused to go but wrote me word to send him my Defence in 3 days time c. yet did not let me see the Priests Certificate nor gave me a Copy thereof So then I wrote a large Letter to the said J. B. shewing evidently that I took the said 5 l. of the Justice towards my Charges for 3 Appeals for 3 Fines mentioned P. 7 9 10. And perceiving they thirsted as much after my Reputation as bloody Bonner did after the Lives of them he accounted Hereticks I offered J. B. in the said Letter to bring that or any other Accusation that he or any else had to lay to my Charge to the then next Quarterly-Meeting where I intended God willing to be and to make my Defence But nothing was then said to me until I there testifyed against their Proceedings with J. L. and then two or three of the self-chosen Arbitrators p. 21. chid me for not standing to their Award which had they been legally chozen I should have refused and justifyed it too in that they would not give me a Copy thereof as at large treated on p. 25 26. Also I made several Exceptions against the Priest and Informer their Evidence as we sometimes do when before a Magistrate telling him an Informer being Party swears for himself and so no legal Evidence c. My Exceptions were these 1st E. S. is both Priest Informer and Party so no legal Evidence 2dly He that gives Evidence on Payment of Money ought either to tell the Money rendered or hear the Party declare his Satisfaction in the summe received neither of which E. S. ever did 3dly In that he was not upon his Oath and considering that I had sued him and got an Execution against him for Money which was due to me upon Bond which he refused the Payment of because I was Excommunicated c. I say these and other Circumstances that I in my said Letter signified to J. B. doth shew him the said E. S. not like to be a true Witness against me c. considering he was the Informer too See pag. 7. Also in my said Letter to J. B. I told him that these were not all the Pranks that E. S. their beloved Evidence had plaid for he was not only Informer against the said Lakenheath Meeting but when the Warrant came to the Constables he went along with them and with them took away what G. Friend had at whose House the Meeting was to his poor Wives Pattens and not only so but as a fresh Manifestation of his cruel Enmity he not long after laid Felony * So no marvel if he lays a false accusation to me who am the man that sued him as I have hinted to the said G. F. and arraigned him at the Bar in Bury-Sessions where the Justice did not follow the Example of S. C. and G. W. in printing a book presently that G. Friend was a Felon a very Thief c. to the ruine of his Reputation no no but they heard him to the Full in his defence And when the said E. S. though a Minister of their own Church failed of Evidence to prove his malitius Charge though against a poor Quaker and such an one too as had in other Cases Viz. by suffering Meetings in his House transgressed the Known Laws yet they acquitted him of the said Accusation of Felony to the Honour of that Episcopal Bench be it spoken and to the Shame and Infamy of our Learned and Vnlearned Rabbies Preachers of G. F's Party G. W. and S. C. be it recorded for ever and that it still may appear how averse my Adversaries are to examine the Truth of this their Accusation I may recite a Letter which I sent to G. W. and those concerned offering a Hearing and Referrence Viz. To G. Whitehead and others concerned FRiends I have lately proffered S. C. to referr the Difference betwixt him and me often since he revived the same to Arbitrators indifferently chozen c. which he hath refused and it being reported that I received 5 l. as an Abatement of S. C's 15 l. So that by consequence I as seems to be suggested suffered but 10 l. for him Which I deny for the Justice gave me that 5 l. on consideration of my withdrawing my three Appeals two for my self and one for J. Folks and towards my Charges I received the same as I have at large signified to him And this is to let you know that if S. C. will referr this Matter of the 5 l. also by Arbitrators indifferently chozen by us I will do the like and be equally bound to stand to their Award Thus desiring to shew my willingness to a Complyance to Justice and Equity I rest desiring an Answer in fourteen days time The 8th of the 4th Mo. 1683. F. Bugg And the like I proffered S. C. by Letter dated the 22d of the 4th Mo. 83. but no Answer have I received from either of them by which their Averseness to Justice their Design to defame me and their Envy and Malice because I tell them the Naked Truth is evidently manifest And having thus answered the Objection I am willing to let my Reader know that I do not lay all this blame upon poor S. C. for 't is not as he will he must have an Eye to the Brethren or else 't is to be feared the Brethren will not have an Eye to him and then what will become of him he is loth to carry a Budget of Tools again 't is hard Labour to use the Ax and Long Saw so that he is to be a little excused in not permitting a Referrence as well as suffering the Title of his Book to be Printed nigh a Year before the Book it self I confess 't is a strange preposterous way of Proceeding to print and publish a Controversy for on the 3d. of the 8th Mo. last he sent me a Letter that he had given I suppose to his Brethren for I could never see it a full and true Narrative from the beginning c. And by another Letter on the 26th of the 10th Mo. 1682 that his Narrative was fit for the Press and if so 't is strange why it is not printed by July 83. unless they intend ONLY to print the Title of his Book as an Advertisement to the Nations that such a thing there is in being somewhere and reserve their notable Narrative for an Appendix to their holy Chronicle that they say will tell After-Ages notable Things c. Yea how they will and what the Brethren will that S. C. must submit to and if they be so qualified with Discerning and Judgment as they pretend to be who can blame S. C. who so mistook his Interest in J. N 's time being a Leading

Man he durst no more trust his own Judgment he must have his Eye still to the Brethren and move as their Lordships please to move believe as they believe they by their Practice pretending to be the Eye for the Body thus inconsistant have I found Samuel in divers Transactions in our Difference sometimes he would not give a Penny and soon after proffer me 5 l. Sometimes he resolved to go no farther then the Quarterly-Meeting in Hadenham and yet soon after when W. P. required him to admit of a Referrence he sent me word by J. M. that I might have a Hearing when I pleased and met me at Soham also when the Agreement was made that no more Controversy should be but he should burn his Papers he did consent and concur therewith but when the Brethren saw it necessary and for the Honour of Holy Church that the same should be broke and no Faith kept with F. B. then he soon broke all Bonds and printed the very Title of his Book and yet I hear he hath the Confidence to say that I revived the same but the Date of G. W's Judgment Fixed and R. S's called Righteous Judgment c. spoil his Pretentions The 16th of the 5th Month 1683. F. Bugg A Table of the principal Matters contained in this Treatise IN the loss of 13500 l. the Ministers where Strangers lost not 50 l. p. 5. Records of Conviction for the 3 Fines levyed on F. B. J. F. p. 6 9. G. W's creeping and skulking in Suffering-Times manifested p. 15. Noble T. Jolly and Ignoble W. Bennet and J. Moon their Practices inconsistant p. 16. 17. An Expostulation and a Law of G. F's Ministers making p. 12. 13. A Word of Reproof to several Self-chosen Arbitrators p. 21. How E. Hickeringall and R. R. agree in one p. 30. 31. S. C's Receipt for 15 l. and of F. B's Proposition to S. C. p. 36. F. B's Answer to G. S's Letter p. 38. G. F's Party their vain pretentions to Discerning and their Infallible Confidence reproved p. 42. S. C's Lying Lawyer T. R. rebuked p. 47. T. Becket's Example become W. G's and S. C's Practice p. 51. S. C's reasonless Reasons for their Preachers Liberty examined p. 55. A Second Caution if they can observe it p. 59. S. C's Letter to F. B. and F. B's Answer to it p. 60. G. W's base Insinuation about the King's Clemency observed p. 61. Their Faithful or Defective obscure Chronicle observed p. 62. Athanasius his Apology for his Fleeing in time of Persecution when the Church of Alexandria was be set with armed Souldiers p. 65. A weighty Objection answered and F. B's Letter to the Second-days Meeting p. 68. 69. A few of the most remarkable Errours that escaped the Press through the Authors Absence corrected the rest are left to the Friendly Readers Charity ERRATA Pape 4. Line last read as I can p. 6. l. 6. r. they having l. 37. f. the of r. of the. p. 7. l. 25. f. 20 s. r. 20 l. 26. f. 10 l. r. 10 s. p. 9. l. 3. r. and Fines for l. 26. f. 1676 r. 1675. l. 31. f. 1676 r. 1675. p. 10. l. 36. f. but r. for p. 13. l. last r. pen c. p. 27. l. 24. f. seven r. severe l. 34. f. was afterwards made r. was made p. 28. l. 35. f. Prinn r. Prime p. 51. l. 41. f. those r. these p. 35. l. 15. f. kept r. keep p. 37. l. 28. f. 3 r. 2. p. 26. l. 14. f. 4th r. 1st p. 55. l. 9. f. unspiritual r. unscriptural p. 63. l. 21. f. at the stake r. at stake l. 25. f. how the r. how p. 69. l. 23. f. these r. who p. 70. l. 39. f. wrought r. wrote The Painted Harlot STRIPT and WHIPT The Introduction GEORGE WHITEHEAD I have perused thy abusive Book called Judgment Fixed wherein I find thee so false and perfidious that Humanity and the Law of Charity condemns thy detracting Insinuations and abominable Defamations in which at this time I purpose not to trace thee particularly for that is needless since my Book De Christianâ Libertate c. stands and remains unshaken by all thy Attempts as the ingenious Reader will soon observe when he compares thy Book with mine nei●her shall I altogether pass thee by but as thou comest in my way I shall observe thy scurrillous Treatment which if thou wert such a tender meek and pretious Spirited man as thy Brother Robert Sandiland in his Book falsely called Righteous Judgment c. p. 89. hath Printed and trumpeted thee to be surely thou wouldst have shewed more meekness and tenderness than therein can be found But his Trumpet sounds so much of G. Whiteheads Pretiousness Worthiness Meekness and Tenderness and sounds thy Fame so much abroad that some think 't is a Silver one it sounds so often meek G. W. tender and pretious G. W. yea as if the Scotchman had skill in such an Instrument for some say Silver Trumpets make the best noise and thou being one of the Second-days Meeting and no doubt approved of his said Book Why then should it give offence to thee that the Moderation of H. N. should be spoken of Is it not as lawful to take notice of the Moderation of men in Authority who extend their Kindness and Clemency to those of a contrary Opinion to themselves as for Robert Sandiland to sound such a false-Alarum of thee as to call thee meek pretious and tender G. Whitehead who art well known to be a Proud Envious Self-exalted and a Bitter-Spirited Man they that will not believe me let them look into the Introduction to the Accuser and thy Judgment Fixed where they may find thee calling W. Rog. T. Cr. my self and others of a rending tearing dark jealous Spirit of a loose gainsaying proud contemning Spirit degenerate without natural affection raging Waves of the Sea Apostate Informers treacherous Hippocrites Wolves Dogs betraying Judases Devils Incarnate with much more such Billing sate Raillery I say let the Reader but observe thy Fruit for out of the abundance of the Heart the mouth speaketh and then let him tell me whether he thinks thee to be such a meek pretious and tender man as R. Sandiland hath sounded thee to be c. Robert Sandiland I have also perused thy Book called Righteous Judgment c. but find it such a miserable piece so lame and defective so full of Forgeries Pervertions gross Lyes and Absurdities yea so false and persidious that it is no marvel a Scotchman one of another Nation is the Author of it and what I have said the Impartial Reader upon his compaing my Book Viz. De Christianâ Libertate with thine falsely called Righteous Judgment c. may find it so to be See some of thy Sccurrility p. 97. Team Ro. Cr. Pe. Bu. and Bugg Dark Devil-Driven Dungy-Gods desperately lugg That are tyed to the Tail of their separate Schism Pap Libertin Heathen Iuda A the ism Consider G.

and the harder to be reconciled For this Interpretation hath Leavened not only Diocesan Synodical but Presbyterian Independant and Congregational Churches till they have fought one another with this Spiritual Weapon most bloodily and they know not wherefore they are mistaken in the words of their Commission Father forgive them they know not what they do Thus the Reader may consider what use hath been made of these words Tell the Church and how lawful and justifiable it is in a Scripture Sence that if one called a Brother trespass against me or do me damage either in Goods or Name and Reputation by scandalous Defamations then go to him and tell him his Fault between thee and him if he hear thee and make thee Satisfaction as E. H. very well explains the Text thou hast gained thy Brother c. and if he hear thee not take one or two with thee if he hear not them then tell it to the Church and if he will not hear the Society he belongs too let him be unto thee as an Heathen-man and thou mayst Justifiably take thy Action at Common-Law or Chancery with such a Man thus will thy Proceedings answer the Scripture the National Law and the Opinion of King Charles the First who said There are no Proceedings just against any Man but what are warranted either by Gods Law or the municipal Laws of the Countrey where he lives See Hist Indip p. 106. the Second Part. But to return the day came for our Arbitrators to meet being the 6th of the 7th Month 1679. And after we had each of us opened our Case the Arbitrators examined our Allegations viewed the Records of Conviction and the Warrant by which I suffered which are herein already recited and to be short they could not agree as to point of right then Samuel call'd me aside and proffer'd me 5 l. I told him that if he would meet half way I would condiscend and meet him altho I was satisfied in my Right to the whole and so I proffered him at London divers times for the Case was more in my eye than the Money but to that he would not come and so we parted at that time and nothing was ended And about three Weeks after my Cozen G. S. came to my House which was about ten or twelve Miles and desired to speak privately with me to treat with me about S. C's Business pretending a great deal of Love to me and that he would give 5 l. out of his own Pocket rather than the Controversy should any longer be continued but when I considered that tho he was my own Cozen yet he was a true Conformist and one of S. C's Disciples also that he had never spoke word of it to me in all his Life though the Controversy had been nigh four years standing and he often with me I say when I considered these and some other things I told him No that would not do for S. C. had proffered me so much so then he proffered me 7 l. 10 s. I told him still that would not do but withal told him that if S. C. would proffer so much it should do for then I thought it would have been a lasting Peace No said he S. C. knows not of my coming neither will he concern himself Well Cozen said I If I end the Matter with thee thou shalt tender the whole and when done thou shalt see that my end is not only for Money which he then refused so he asked me when he might see me again I told him that I intended God willing to be at Ely Fayre which was about three Weeks after and when I was there he after this three weeks consideration came to me again and proffered me 7 l. 10 s. No Cozen said I if I would have taken this thou proffered it me at at my House yet as I then said if S. C. will give it me I will accept of it as Satisfaction at his hand but not at thine S. C. being then in the Fair but as he said before so now again that S. C. would not concern himself so then he borrowed part of it and paid it all to me so I put it up and gave him a Discharge for the same then I gave him a Paper which if S. C. would Sign I told him I would return the whole fifteen pounds so he took the Discharge put it up and kept it to this day and went with the Paper of Proposals to find out S. C. in the Fair to Sign it and all this time not a word of Dislike but when he understood that S. C. was gone home he then seemed a little troubled because of the Money he borrowed so I told him that whether Samuel Signed the Paper or not I would lend him ten pounds of it so I staid all night in regard Samuel was to come Past the next morning but yet Doubts began to arise in his mind whether Samuel would Sign it and if not whether he had done well for I do think that he was either commanded to make a full end what ever he did by Samuel's Wife that I understood sent him and so pretended troubled or else he was really troubled in that he thought all I aimed at was a bare tender and upon that without any other Terms would have returned it however to comfort him I told him that Samuel had 10 l. lately sent him from London and he took forty Shillings at one Place when he went into Scotland towards his Charges and three pound at another Place on the account of his Ministry and so Cozen said I there is no fear but Samuel will be made whole if he should not be willing to sign the Paper c. And thus I comforted up G. S. nay I told him further that if he Viz. S. C. was not able to bear his Fine for G. S. made a great Complaint on his behalf that he had had but bad Crops and was about to buy a Purchase could not spare it I say I told him that if he was not able to bear it that if our Meeting would joyn or raise what we could of it for him for my part I will give 20 s. towards it but still the poor Man was not content well Cozen said I go home it may be he will Sign the Paper and then he shall have the whole 15 l. c. A Copy of the Receipt which they keep and the Proposal upon which I proffered 15 l. is as followeth October the 18th 1679. REceived then of Samuel Cater by the hands of George Smith 15 l. in full Satisfaction for the Fine I suffered for him through his not telling his Name and Habitation at a Meeting at Lakenheath about the Month of November 1675 and also for the Charges which I have been at in the Prosecution of the same together with my Journies and all Interest I say it is in full for the said Fine and all Damages sustained thereby and of every part and