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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30021	Battering rams against New Rome containing a farther discovery of the grand hypocrisie of the leaders and teachers of the people called Quakers : together with a publick challenge to meet G. Fox, G. Whitehead, W. Penn, and S. Cater to prove matters of fact : to which are added some queries propounded to their Protestant hearers who are not of G.F.'s party / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1691 (1691)	Wing B5366; ESTC R3241	31,746	32

BATTERING RAMS AGAINST NEW ROME CONTAINING A FARTHER DISCOVERY OF The Grand Hypocrisie OF THE LEADERS and TEACHERS Of the PEOPLE Called QUAKERS TOGETHER WITH A Publick Challenge to meet G. Fox G. Whitehead W. Penn and S. Cater to prove Matters of Fact To which are Added Some QUERIES propounded to their PROTESTANT HEARERS Who are not of G. F's PARTY By FRANCIS BUGG I have laid a Snare for thee and thou art taken O BABYLON and thou wast not aware Thou art found and also caught because thou hast striven against the LORD Put your selves in Array against BABYLON round about All ye that bend the Bow shoot at her spare no Arrows The LORD hath open'd his Armory and hath brought forth the Weapons of his Indignation for this is the Work of the LORD GOD of Hosts Jer. 50.14 24 25. LICENSED Decemb. 3. 1690. LONDON Printed for Joh. Gwillim Book-seller in Bishops-gate-street over against the Great James Jan. 12. 1690 1. BATTERING RAMS AGAINST NEW ROME c. The INTRODUCTION Friendly Reader I Thought long since that my self and others had writ sufficiently against the Errours of the Teachers and Leaders of this People and that I should be no farther concerned with them but having seen their Answer to a Letter lately sent to them wherein they pretend sincerely to deny the Guilt of Hypocrisie wherewith they in the said Letter are charged and I being sensible that many unacquainted with their Wiles and subtile way of Writing may be ready to believe them what they say themselves to be I thought it my Duty to make good the said Charge and farther to unmask them that so they may appear what they really are and to shew them in their true and proper Colours to the intent they may no longer deceive the Simple And in the Discharge thereof I shall say as Geo. Whitehead says in his Epistle to his Book styled Judgment fixed c. I neither consult Events nor fear Effects but leave all to GOD. It is not my present purpose to meddle much with the Frame and Method of their Church Government their General Councils their Zeal for their Vnwritten Traditions above the Scriptures or the Mischief of their Impositions amongst their own People that not being at this time so immediately under my Consideration and also having by my Book De Christiana Libertate c. printed 1682. treated largely thereof wherein their said Errours are fully detected c. Neither shall I much concern my self with their Laws or Edicts they made at their Yearly Meeting or General Council held at London May 1675. subscribed by W. Penn Geo. Whitehead Steph. Crisp and others whereby they strictly require their Hearers neither to Forsake Decline nor Remove their Meetings like Worlely Fearful and Politick Professors and yet they themselves refused to stand in a like suffering Capacity with them Insomuch as that in the Loss of Thirteen Thousand five Hundred Fifty and odd Pounds by Fines and Distresses their Ministers where Strangers never lost Fifty Pounds as at large is set forth in my Book entituled The Painted Harlot both stripp'd and whipp'd c. and that entituled Reason against Railing c. both printed 1683. whereby their Vsurpation Dominion and Lordship over the Consciences of their Hearers was sufficiently manifested together with their illegal and arbitrary Proceedings in their Courts of Judicature or Quarterly Meetings about Meum and Tuum All which are largely handled in the said two Books to which I refer the Reader for farther Satisfaction Neither shall I here give a distinct and particular Account of their several Orders for Marriage set forth by Geo. Fox and his Party viz. Sometimes they might marry at the Market Cross sometimes at a General Meeting sometimes in private where Twelve or more were assembled as their Freedom was and lastly they came to this That none were either permitted or suffered to marry unless the Parties published their Intensions before two Meetings of Men and two Meetings of Women they being distinct and apart each from other and all this by the Order of Geo. Fox c. who pretended his Commission from Divine Revelation as set forth in De Chr. Lib. p. 33. I say as to their several Orders and their Censures thereupon they are particularly examined and set forth in my Book Innocency vindicated and Envy rebuked c. printed 1684. Neither shall I here give a particular Account how I came to be of their Society how I came to see and perceive their Errours and leave them and how I came to be satisifed in the Lawfulness of my going to the publick Worship all which are treated on in my Book entituled The Quakers detected and their Errours confuted c. printed 1686. to which for farther Satisfaction I refer the Reader Thus have I traced them step by step and followed them in all their Turnings and Windings Year after Year shewing the Vanity of their Pretences to Infallibility and that Vnchangeableness which they pretend to above all other People And what I have thus writ I have offered to prove and that on the penalty of an Hundred Pounds but could never get them out of their Holes and Dens and Lurking Places as G. F. formerly said to others But now at last in their Answer to the Letter before mentioned they pretend a Willingness to meet the Author of the said Letter and Looking-Glass and that they are ready to come forth as if indeed they would shew themselves Men of some Conscience viz. own what they write and prove what they say to be true as every honest Man ought to do and more especially they who pretend that they are Conscientiously concern'd and that a Necessity from the LORD is upon them and that they write for the Glory of GOD and moved thereto by His Eternal Spirit and the like high Pretences But alas 't is quite otherwise for they are so guilty of the Things charged against them and of writing so many Lyes and scandalous Defamations under a pretence of the Spirit 's Motion and so conscious to themselves thereof that I am persuaded all that we can say or do in order to bring them out of their Holes and Dens and Lurking Places is in vain otherwise than that thereby they will more and more discover their own Guilt and deep Hypocrisie which to manifest and make appear I shall produce Ten Instances to the Consideration of the judicious Readers And thus much by way of Introduction Novemb. 5. 1690. Franc. Bugg The I. Instance of their Hypocrisie Letter to the Quakers One While for Another While against Fighting c. The Quakers Answer This Charge is false and unjustly stated And if any have written what the old Army might or should have done this we may charitably suppose was Ad Hominem upon Their own Pretensions c. Reply MAY you charitably suppose so I confess How little Charity soever you have for others yet I have always observed you to have a great Stock for