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A30026	De Christiana libertate, or, Liberty of conscience upon it's [sic] true and proper grounds asserted & vindicated and the mischief of impositions amongst the people called Quakers made manifest : in two parts : the first proving that no prince nor state ought by force to compel men to any part of the doctrine, worship, or discipline of the Gospel, by a nameless, yet an approved author [i.e. Sir Charles Wolseley], &c. : the second shewing the inconsistency betwixt the church-government erected by G. Fox, &c., and that in the primitive times ... : to which is added, A word of advice to the Pencilvanians / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Wolseley, Charles, Sir, 1630?-1714. Liberty of conscience upon its true and proper grounds asserted and vindicated.; Wolseley, Charles, Sir, 1630?-1714. Liberty of conscience the magistrates interest.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5370; ESTC R14734	148,791	384

the other Heb. 10.28 29. He that despised the Law of Moses died without mercy under two or three Witnesses Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under Foot the Son of God and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and done despite unto the spirit of Grace Here is the highest offence imaginable against the Gospel and the punishment as 't is clear in the next Verses is not Corporal but Spiritual and Eternal and to fall into the hands of the living God himself to execute it He that broke Moses's Law fell but into the hand of man and suffered corporal death but this offence under the Gospel brings a man to fall into the Hand of God for eternal death The sorer punishment he speaks of cannot be outward or corporal for there can be no sorer punishment of that kind than what was inflicted under Moses's Law to put a man to death and therefore he speaks of another punishment in the nature of it So Piscator upon the place Graviori supplicio scilicet Eterno the Supream Punishment under the Law was inflicted by Moses upon the Body suitable to that outward state of things that sorer Punishment for Offences under the Gospel according to the nature of it is inflicted by God himself upon the Soul eternally And so the kinds of the Punishments under the Law and the Gospel suitable to the offences relating to each are here clearly distinguished Those Scriptures that are usually urged out of the New Testament to justifie compulsion in the Magistrate and corporal punishment for spiritual offences are of so little cogency and so apparently wrested from their native sense that every eye may if unprejudiced perceive it I will instance in two or three of those chiefly insisted on by Mr Prinne and those who earnestly contend that way Ananias and Saphira were struck to death by Peter therefore corporal Punishment is to be inflicted under the Gospel Who is there that does not see that whole business to be miraculous and extraordinary as the healing the Lame the Blind was First the punishment is wholly extraordinary and secondly the ground of it so For it was upon a Judgment passed on Hypocrisie and Evil latent in the heart However if we will continue that Power to any now we must I hope derive it to the Church and not to the Magistrate Another Scripture earnestly urged is that of our Saviour Luke 19.27 But those mine Enemies which would not that I should reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me This speech relates to the Parable before which is of a noble man going into a far Country to receive a Kingdom and to return and then to take an account of all his Servants what they had done in his absence What can be more clear than that this Parable is spoken to set forth Christs ascension into Heaven and his return to Judgment in the end of the World And this place is a clear Prophetick expression of that Judgment Christ will then execute upon his Enemies both Jews and Gentiles The words of Calvin upon this place are very express this way and indeed 't is not possible to interpret yet any other His words are these In this second part he seemeth specially to reprove the Jews yet he toucheth all which in the abscence of the Master do bend themselves to fall away And Christ purposed not only to terrifie such with denouncing of horrible Vengeance but also to keep his in faithful obedience for it is no light temptation to see the Kingdom of God shaken by the faithlesness of many Therefore that we might remain quiet amongst so many tumultuous stirs Christ saith That he will come again and will be revenged at his coming of that ungodly falling away Another Scripture pressed to serve for the proof of this is that wish not command of Paul's in Gal. 5.12 I would they were even cut off that trouble you This makes as little for the purpose as the other Some amongst the Galatians highly pressed the observation of the Jewish worship upon them in Circumcision and other things the Apostle bespeaks them to a Gospel-punishment in the Jewish Language Casting-out under the Gospel comes in the room of Cutting-off under the Law the Apostle means a Gospel-rejection under the Jewish terms of cutting-off which was oppositely expressed to those that pressed the observance of the Law So Beza upon the place Paulus ad pelliculae sectionem alludit quam ipsi urgebant And a little after Possumus istud de Excommunicatione simpliciter intellegere qualis fuit illa incestuosi Corinthij Nothing is more usual than to express Gospel-matters in the Typical Language of the Jewish Church So the Saints are called Priests their Alms Sacrifices and we are bid to eat the Passover And so in that famous place of our Saviour where he bids us If an Offender refuse to hear the Church to count him as an Heathen man and a Publican 'T is nothing but a Gospel-Precept expressed in the Jewish dialect Of as little moment or less if it may be to the purpose in hand are the other Scriptures insisted on Let the New Testament be but fairly dealt with and suffered to enjoy its own native sense and we shall not find a word to countenance the execution of the Laws of the Gospel by Temporal force nor to inflict upon any man corporal punishment for a Spiritual offence committed in the Church Our Saviour directly tells Pilate and Paul to Timothy calls it a good confession That his Kingdom is not of this World he means no doubt the Kingdom of the Gospel and therefore his Empire would no way invade Caesar's though the Jews told Pilate If he let Christ go he was none of Caesar's Friend His meaning was That his Kingdom as Head of his Church was a Spiritual Kingdom distinct from the World and that as God governed the World by the Temporal power in the hand of the Magistrate so Christ governs his Kingdom by the Power of his Spirit and by Officers and Institutions wholly different and distinct from the World and suitable to such a Dominion Nothing since Christ's Ascension hath more disturbed the Christian World or brought more disorder into Religion than mixing those two Dominions in their distinct powers that of the World and this of the Church together 'T is absolutely necessary to keep these Powers distinct and several The Magistrate will be most useful to the Church by keeping the civil Power in its due bounds and the Church will be most safe and secure in the use of its Spiritual weapons Let the Sword of Justice govern in one and the Sword of the Spirit in the other and men will be most happy in both That the Laws made to punish Offenders corporally under the Jewish Church are not now to be executed without making our selves debtors to the whole Law sufficiently appears Take an

c. got the Keys only in that little Cabinet of Council Ellis Hooks his Chamber Viz. The Second-days Meeting in London What Have they got a Pattent for all Gospel Priviledges Is all Power lookt up Viz. In the Church I mean a Yearly Meeting a Second-days Meeting a Quarterly-Meeting I mean a Meeting of Men and a Meeting of Women apart from the Men. Must we give up all our Concerns both Spiritual and Temporal to the Judgment of the Mens and Womens-Meetings as they say in Barbadoes What Shall we not manifest the Mischief of Impositions Shall they Preach False Doctrine and teach for Doctrine the Traditions of Men and shall we be afraid to reprove them Vnmask and discover them for fear of a few Invecttives No but we will slight them as honest Bennet did the Papists Curse and still hold maintain and assert Christian-Liberty which we in the Beginning pleaded for and admitted the same to each other in Things which God by his Servants the Prophets and Apostles had not set a Limit believing that as the Kingdom of Heaven stood not in Meats or in Drinks nor Carnal Ordinances so did it not come by Outward Observation but that as many as fear God and keep his Holy Commandments are fenced and secured from hurt by Threats and Censures of Men. For in a steady Belief of Christs Word and in confidence of his Power and Protection let all truly Conscientious Christians trust who said Mat. 5.6.7 Chapters which contain his excellent Sermon on the Mount That as many as hear these Sayings of Mine and do them he it is that built on a Rock And yet no Womens Meetings set up by Him or so much as counselled to in the manner G. F. and the New Zealots have devised And he that hears my Sayings and doth them not it is he that will find himself uppn a Sandy Foundation Although he conforms never so exastly to G. Fox his new Model of Government Here is the distinction made by Christ who is Head of the true Spiritual Church His Mystical Body made up of Living Members universally scattered in all Countries Languages Professions and People who fearing God and being faithful to that Discovery they have of him are and I believe shall be accepted of him And the largest Commission that ever Christ gave his Desciples and Apostles was Mat. 28.18 19 20. Where he said Go teach all Nations Baptizing c. bidding them observe whatever I have commanded you Mark have commanded He did not commit the Peoples Observation to what the Apostles should command no no neither did Paul desire to assume it but said Follow us as we follow Christ c. But what I have commanded you that bid them observe for all Power is committed to me and I will have the Government of my Chozen People and since they have such an Esteem of this my visible Appearance by reason of the Miracles and Wonders I do I have told them that it is expedient for me to go away and then he that 's with them shall be in them in a more large manner as they wait for my Appearance in their Hearts And as many as have regard to the Commands of Christ and live in Subjection to Christ their Head they are in Unity tho they may disobey what George Fox hath prescribed for he is not the Prophet that we are to hear in all things no no Christ Jesus is he Blessed and Magnified be his most Holy and Powerful Name for ever Saith my Soul Amen Now forasmuch as there is a Possibility through the Assistance of Christs Holy Spirit which is given by Measure to us to enable us to observe and do those his most excellent Sayings which is as Athanasius saith in his Apology the Perfection of a Christian I would ask Whether he may be capable to be in Vnity with the Church Body and Spouse of Christ although he may not observe George Fox his Orders VIZ. Not submit to the new Order of the Women But if George Fox and his Party shall stiffly stand to it That the Women-Meeting is of Divine Institution and therefore no Conformity no Unity I then would ask them Whether Christ was deficient either in his delivering himself to that Honoured Auditory or in his Memory And if in either then in which did his Deficiency consist And who did he constitute in his room to supply that Defect Which no Christian can admit that there was any Defect c. Whether a visible Head namely George Fox or some other to whom we should have an Eye at whose Mouth we should receive the Law in these Gospel Times If you say No as you dare not say otherwise then I make this reply not at all granting a Deficiency in Christ Jesus That then his Spirit or a Manifestation of it is given to every man to profit withal By which Rule I have my proper Gift and to my own Master I shall stand or fall Who art thou then that Judgest another Mans Servant Is not thy Name and Appearance Antichrist what Pretence so ever thou may'st have I know thou cryest up Holy Orders Good Orders Church Government with abundance of fair Pretences and Specious Shews as if thou wert the very Spouse of Christ and intendedst some special Reformation But alas thou art Jezabel that painted Harlot who art gone a Whoring from thy Husband decking and priding thy self with his Jewels Ornamenns fitting like a QVEEN and saying I AM AND THERE IS NONE BESIDES ME. But Blessed be the Lord the Light hath discovered thee and made thee manifest wherefore return and repent that thy Backslidings may be healed And this is my Desire for you all who begun in the Spirit decrying all Lifeless Forms and Traditions of Men Outward Rules and Directories Imposition and Compulsion Formality and Idolatry But Alas the Scale is turned the Scheme is changed for these Things which you formerly testified against you are now found in the Practise of Building again the Things you once destroyed thereby making your selves Transgressors c. I shall conclude this Preface in the Words of William Penn elsewhere c. Having thus Historically Introduced my Discourse not out of ill will to any God knows but in perfect Love to all that the very truth of Things may be brought to Light in order to a more clear Understanding of that Controversy which is now on foot c. This with much Sincerity I do dedesire that Truth may Triumph over Formality and Conviction be the ground of our Conformity Francis Bugg Milden-hall the 11th of the 1st Month. 1681. CHAP. I. Treats of Principles of Truth Received and Believed in the Beginning with an Epistle about Marriage and other Things not as a Form to walk by but as Advice suitable to the Nature and Tendency of the Testimony of Truth Received and Believed c. THat in the Beginning the Inshining Light of Christ Jesus by his Heavenly Spiritual Appearance in the Hearts and Souls of

who is both Head and Lawgiver to his Church which are frequently laid down in Scripture by the four Evangelists and other his Prophets and Apostles Rather than the Practice Precepts Commands Prescriptions and Exhortations of G. F. or any other Mortal Man QUERY IV. If you say That the Commands Precepts Prescriptions and Exhortations of Christ Jesus ought Rather and in the first place to be obeyed as I hope you will not dare to say otherwise Then I further Query Whether Christ or any of his Apostles commanded that a Womens-Meeting should be set up Monthly distinct and apart from the Men and a Power committed to them to hear examine and determine Matters relating to the Government of the Church as now practised by many of us and that if any did not subject themselves to the Skill Prudence and Approbation of such Women-Governours and Government of the Church that they should be Judged and Condemned and Recorded out of the Vnity OR hath Christ or any of his Apostles left a Precise or particular Command that when any are intended to joyn in Marriage that first and before the Accomplishment thereof they the said Couple should always twice go to a Mans-Meeting and Womens-Meeting they being distinct and apart from each other for so they must be or else not according to G. F. his Orders and then all is in vain to publish their Intention of Marriage and when so done to stay a compleat Month and then go again to the said Meeting Viz. first to the Womens-Meeting for they have the Preheminence in our New Church Procedure and then to the Mens-Meeting they being distinct as I observed before which is a MAIN PRINCIPLE in this New Frame of Church-Government to ask and receive their Approbation and Licence to Marry and this to be done under pain of the Church's Censure which peradventure may be to Record them out of the Vnity If there be such a particular or general Command pray shew it us Or Whether did not Christ leave his People to their Liberty and Freedom How and in what manner they perform and compleat the Outward Ceremony provided they come together Chast and Clean as becomes the Gospel and the Professors of it QUERY V. If you say That Christ nor his Apostles left neither Command Example nor President for Womens-Meetings a part from the Men to be set up Monthly any way to intermeddle with the Government of the Church as that you must confess how angry soever you may be at the Discovery of these hidden Mysteries then I do further query of you the said Imposers Where had you your Power And from whence had you your Authority to Institute and ordain such a Way of Government in the Church by Women or otherwise containing such Rites and Ceremonies as have no President in Scripture And in whose Name do you compel to a Vniformity and Conformity thereunto And whether is not Christs Doctrine and Commands laid down in Scripture of more Authority than the Commands Institutions and Prescriptions of G. F Which if you grant they be as I know in words you dare not deny whatever you think Then I still further Query of you Directory-Makers What is the Reason and what doth it mean That neither Mathew Mark Luke nor John nor any one Chapter of any of those Books are Recorded in our Great Book of Records first and before the Epistle of G. F. as that which is more Powerful more Binding and of much more Authority Answer these Things QUERY VI. Whether were not the Bereans commended in that they searched the Scriptures to see whether Pauls Testimony accorded therewith yea and accounted more Noble than they of Thessalonica who were not so Inquisitive And is it not more commendable to search the Scriptures to see whether the Institutions Orders Cannons Degrees Traditions and Ceremonies of G. F. and other Innovators of Party with him Together with the Compelling a Vniformity and Conformity thereunto which hath occasioned so much Division Discord Strife and Contention since their Arrival be according to Scripture yea or Nay Seeing it is written Try all Things And if upon a diligent Search they be found directly contrary to Scripture and the Practice Doctrine and Example of Christ Jesus and his Holy Apostles Saints and Martyrs in all Ages Then I further Query Whether they ought not to be opposed withstood and testified against by all those that have a certain Sight thereof Alledging constantly according to Scripture That every one should be fully perswaded in his own Mind and if any be otherwise or contrary Minded they ought to be let alone until it pleases God to reveal and make manifest his Will unto them For what is not of Faith is Sin as saith the Apostle So answer these Things touching the Point of Church-Government for your Practice brings you into Suspition and you must come to Tryal as others have done before you F. B. The Twelfth Month 1678. To these Queries there were some Testimonies of Friends added which for Brevity sake I here omit likewise the Letter wherein I inclosed them to S. Cater I also at present omit for some Reasons And to this day I never had any Answer to the said Queries whereby I perceive what Effect the Advice given by a Publick Preacher of Party with G. F. hath taken Viz. Let not this Spirit be reasoned with enter not into Proposals and Articles with it but feed it with Judgment that is Gods DECREE Which Advice when compared with this kind of Doctrine frequently published as W. R. avers in his Preface to the Christian-Quaker Distinguished c. Viz. Let us exclude the Reasoning the VVisdom and the Jealousie and let us have an Eye to the Brethren I say when I compare them and many other like Exhortations it is the less marvel that they should refuse any Answer especially considering that if they should answer there is no way to evade being discovered and Errour loves Obscurity for its Habitation is Darkness and Ignorance is the Mother of its Devotion and Conformity the Monstrous Womb that produc't it and when attended with the Secular Power supports all its deformed Parts with great Admiration crying Who is able to make War with the Beast c. I shall add one Query which J. A. put forth to which I never heard that he had any Answer and by that the Reader may understand his Sense about the Proceedings of our Quarterly-Meeting against him and then I purpose to conclude this Chapter c. A Question propounded to S. Cater and others of the Isle of Ely and elsewhere who force a Conformity to Church-Discipline and say Without Conformity no Unity The Question is What is Conformity A very short Question and easily answered it may be S. C. and others may say It is to the Spirit but not mean so but intend the Wills and Edicts of Men as in Example the late Proceedings against J. A. concerning taking his Wife who in every particular

by them I am willing to inform thee that I do not pretend constantly to write true English but thy Pride and Contempt is manifest which becomes not a Man of thy Pretences and whether mine and other Friends Desire to have that Cannon Rule or Order Recorded in our Quarterly Meeting Book which prohibits all Marriage to the manner of the Parties publishing their Intentions and the Record of Condemnation against J. A. for his Non-submission to the said Orders Reversed and Raced out be such a piece of Imperiousness and Menacing as thou seems to apprehend I shall leave to the Consciences of others Especially since it is the declared Judgment of Friends and hath past the Second-days Meetings Approbation That all Rulers are accountable to the People See pag. 442. of Edw. Burroughs Works where it is written And we believe that all Governours and Rulers OUGHT to be accountable to the People and to the next Proceeding Rulers for all their Actions which may be enquired into upon occasion c. What Is it our Opinion that Constables and all other Governours and Rulers are accountable to the People and is it such a piece of Imperiousness and Menacing in me and others to write a few Lines to the Second-days Meeting desiring not requiring them as thou fallaciously words it the annihilating and repealing of such an Antichristian Yoak of Bondage meaning the Orders as anon will appear If I have wrote Queries so foolishly as thou imaginest let thy Grave and Learned Answer to them instruct my Ignorance If thou thinkest I miss the Matter then shouldst thou shew me wherein by a distinct solid and an Intelligeable Answer As for G. W's sending to our Quarterly-Meeting that cannot fright me for except he lays his Indictment True and Legal I shall Demur to their Jurisdiction as believing that they have not the Kings Broad Seal to Commissionate them to call Delinquents to an account if such an one I were nor yet one Verse in the Holy Scripture the great Visible Charter of our Christian-Liberty that Authorises them to give a Summons thither But if he will admit of a Meeting rightly constituted and Men by him and my self equally chosen I do hereby offer to prove the Verity of whatever I have wrote to him or others on the Foot of this Controversy and this I desire thee to let him know Thy Lines I look upon impertinent and in several places false and unsound But in regard I am not certain that they past the Approbation of the Second days Meeting in London and also considering they are produced through such Obscondency I have wrote enough in answer to such a hidden conceited Projector although perhaps not in such true English as that every word is right spelled which piece of Fallibility I must confess attends my Writing often and better Schollars than my self or thou either So let this Acknowledgment suffice and when thou writest again write more to the purpose and let me know who thou art for many Names begin R. R. and also where thou dwellest that I may the better know how to give thee a suitable Reply And thus I conclude and rest accounting it my Duty to discover Errour publickly when all private Endeavours will not avail and Hypocrisy how hiddenly soever it makes its Progress Known by the Name of Mildenhall in Suffolk the 2d of the 1st Month 1681. F. Bugg Now followeth a Coppy of a Letter which I wrote to the Second-days Meeting out of which I presume he apprehends my Imperiousness as by his Letter to me appears the which also I will leave to the Readers Conscience that therein I may have a Witness against such unrighteous Reflections for I begin to see the Truth of Robert Rich his Words in a Letter from Barbadoes to his Friends Abstracts c. p. 20. And I can assure you that who meddle with the Quakers had need be fenced within and without with the whole Armour of God Truth and Love to Righteousness Davids Sling and Stone and enabled to use both Hands the Left as well as the Right c. So that to the Witness of God in the Readers Conscience I commend the following to see whether I did Imperiously and Menacingly require or Friendly desire their Annihillating of the said Order especially considering what private means by my frequent Letters Queries Protestations Debates I have had with them near four Years together as this Chapter and the 2d and 3d. Chapters sufficiently manifests Viz. To Friends of the Second-days-Meeting in London Friends FOrasmuch as it hath so happened that a Difference amongst us the People called Quakers is risen about Church-Discipline Church-Government and Outward Orders Forms and Prescriptions and that by no meanes a Condiscention can be admitted of whereby a Christian Composure may be obtained in order to the settling a Happy Union and Blessed Fellowship amongst us as in the Beginning but instead thereof begin to Excommunicate and Censure one another for that which is no Sin against God but meer Formality no Breach of Gods Commandments but Mans Traditions I say inasmuch as it hath thus happened and that there yet appears no probability of a Reconciliation and that as you look upon your selves the Heads of the People and chief Governours of the Church and as such assume the place of Approbation of what passes the Press and other Epistles directory to the Churches for their Information how to proceed in Matters Ecclesiastical c. So that it is with me at this time to write a few Lines to you not that I admit you to have any Power or Lawful Authority over the Consciences and Perswasions of your Brethren or any particular Right of Dominion transmitted to you beyond your Brethren yet I say Inasmuch as you assume the Place and Authority aforesaid although Vsurped I hereby signifie to you that whereas there is a Decree or Cannon called Orders Recorded in our Quarterly-Book Dated the 1st of the 10th Month 1675. which say That NO Friends for time to come may PERMIT or SVFFER Marriages without the Consent of Friends at two Mens and Womens-Meetings and the Man and Woman to come twise to the said Meetings c. And that J. A. stands Excommunicate or Recorded out of the Vnity for his Nonconformity to the said Orders Decree or Cannon and I having wrote to several Friends particularly and to Monthly and Quarterly-Meetings touching these Things and being for several Years dissatisfied with these Proceedings have desired to know by what Authority Womens-Meetings are Set up Monthly distinct and apart from Mens-Meetings with a Power committed to them to hear examine and determine Matters relating to the Government of the Church as in particular in the Cases of Marriage and in whose Name a Conformity is required to their Jurisdiction And to this Day no man hath given me one Line in Answer I not then knowing what I now understand by the Preface to the Christian-Quaker Distinguished c. put forth by W.

this Exommunication are more zealous for G. Fox his Laws and written Prescriptions which that Book of W. R. ath manifestly Detected than they are for the Scriptures for a Man may transgress the Scripture days without number but yet never be Excommunicated by G.F. nor his Party but J. B. never sold but one Book namely that of W. R. his Publishing that ever I heard of and lo you see he is Dismembred no Spiritual Fellowship no Spiritual Communion they can have with him until he returns to the Mother Church no by no meanes Stand off for I am more Holy than thou crys the Proud Pharisee for I am not as other men nay they do not only testifie against that BAD SPIRIT as they account it but HIM ALSO Viz the MAN ALSO Oh that we could but say Take him Goaler and that Effectually So that I do not find a Parallel betwixt the Proceedings of the Protestant Bishops with the Sons of their Church to wit the Booksellers to equalize the Proceedings of G. F. and his Party with W. R. for Writing and J. B. for Selling the Book called The Christian-Quaker c. For Edmund Hickeringal wrote the Naked-Truth of Matters and Things transacted amongst the Clergy and the Booksellers Disperse and Sell them but for the same we hear of no Excommunication or such bitter Invectives as attend W. R. J. B. and as many as adhere receive or favour the said Book or Liberty the Authors thereof stand for and vindicates A Coppy of the said Bitter Invectives Censorious Antichristiand Dreadful Judgments uttered against W. R. for Writing J. B. for Selling my self and others for Buying Owning and Reading the said Book of W. R. Entituled The Christian-Quaker Distinguished c. and for refusing subjection to the Jurisdiction of the Women as I took them out of several Books approved on by the Second-days Meeting in London for which very piece of Service Stamp and Probatum est I think that very Meeting deserves to have a TRIPPLE-CROWN Pray hear the Invectives and then Judge VIZ. The Accusers of the Brethren driven out from the Presence of the Lord Vnsavoury Salt Heady Wilful Highminded Vnruly Passionate and Furious this miserable Man W. R. who through Vnwatchfulness Disobedience Rebellion against God which is as the Sin of Witchcraft The unclean Spirit Adversary of Mans Soul the old Accuser of the Brethren having now the Rule in him meaning W. R. and over him makes War through him against the Lamb and his Followers Rude Insolent His prophane speaking concerning the Power of God but from the Spirit of Antichrist the cruel outragious deadly hellish Spirit or Image of Iealousie a murmuring complaining dividing Spirit a rending tearing Spirit a dark jealous Spirit a loose gain-saying opposite Spirit a proud exalted Spirit a contemning scornful Spirit a self-conceited Spirit a turbulent willful froward Spirit This cursed Spirit of Satan is now entered into the Heart Soul of William Rogers and such of his Abetters as own the Printing and Publishing his wicked Book aforesaid And are become twice dead pluckt up by the Roots and through Perverseness Peevishness Cross-spiritedness enter'd into the way of Cain and Spirit of Korah and his Company of which Number and sort is William Rogers and his Adherents who have attempted such manifest Rebellion against Gods pure Power A cross Canker'd Spirit Fal'n Antichristian Instruments and which I say be Co-workers with the Prince of Darkness where the First-Born of Death Rules Reigns without any good Order of that Seed Spirit ye are joyned to and led by against the very Heart of God and his Light and Life which his People live with him in c. These with many such other Terms are to be found in several Books approved on by the Second-days-Meeting as at large appears in the Preface to the Reader where the Books and Pages out of which I took them are Quoted I say A Parallel whereof I know not where to find nay had I all their Books of Controversy by me I presume it were a thing too hard for me to undertake so that I must take a step into the Papists Road of Cruelty and Severity and then perhaps I may first then see the Prohibition sent by Cuthbert Tonstal Bishop of London to his Arch-Deacons c. in King Henry the Eighths Time as left upon Record by Fox in his Eighth Book continuing the History of the Martyrs c. Pag. 248. Cuthbert By the Permission c. By Duty of our Pastoral Care we are bound diligently with all our Power to Foresee Provide for Root out and put away all those things which seem to tend to the Peril and Danger of our Subjects and especially the Destructions of their Souls wherefore we having Vnderstanding by the Report of divers credible Persons and also by the Evident Appearance of the Matter that many Children of Iniquity Maintainers of Luthers Sect Blinded through extream Wickedness the Old and New Pretence wandring from the way of Truth and the Catholick Faith craftily have Translated the New Testament into our English Tongue and Erronious Opinions pernitious and Offensive seducing the Simple People Pestiferous and most pernitious Poyson dispersed throughout all our Dyocess of London in great number which truly without it be speedily foreseen without doubt will infect the Flock And with much of this Nature giving the People 30 Days to bring in all the Books which have been dispersed c. But Richard Bayfield who refused so to do but still Owned and Dispersed those Books which opened the private Cabonet of the obscure Consults of the close Designing Papists was Sentenced and Condemned and Burnt as you may read in p. 291. 292. of the aforesaid Book for bringing into London and publishing several Books which were wrote by Luther Zuinglius Lambert Bucer Hus Frith and others as bad Spirits to the Interst and Design of the then Papists as W. R. can be to G. F. and his Party and yet doubtless they think he and his Friends are bad enough or else they would not have given them the Characters afore described except they be Arrant Hypocrites indeed c. But one thing by the way that Fox noted is worthy our Consideration which is set down p. 289. Intimating that the Papists might have of these Books to read and peruse them and to answer them upon occasion as G.W. and others have had of the Books of W. R. but not a word against them as if they were Heirs apparent to that right honourable in the Papists account Sir Thomas Moor. Hear what Fox says Although all these Books were Inhibited Viz. Prohibited c. Yet Licence was granted before to Sir Thomas Moor by Tonstal Bishop of London Anno 1527. That he notwithstanding might have and peruse them with a Letter also sent to him from the said Bishop or rather by the advice of other Bishops desiring him that he would shew his Cunning and play the pritty