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A36212	An apostate-conscience exposed, and the miserable consequences thereof disclosed, for information and caution By an ancient woman, and lover of truth, and the sincere friends thereof, A.D.	Docwra, Anne, 1624-1710.	1699 (1699)	Wing D1777A; ESTC R222630	32,446	69

and agree about Visiting the Sick and Lying-in Women that are poor and to help young Maids to Services and all such Works of Charity These Works are Ordinances of God although Men and Women are his Instruments to perform them But in some places where we are but few and can do that Service without a distinct Womens Meeting and in divers Monthly Meetings the Men and Women meet together for the Care of the Poor and other Services needful and not meerly for Formality sake as F. Bugg would make the World believe we do some things F. Bugg makes a great noise in divers of his Books of the Quakers Address to King James for granting liberty in the exercise of Religion and he says we have made no Address to King William our Address to King James is as justifiable as any other Perswasion whatsoever in the 3 d. Month called May 1687. in a Gazette I find the Bishop of Durham presented an Address to the King in the behalf of the City of Durham and the Bishop of Chester also another Address in the behalf of himself and the Clergy in general belonging to his Diocess also the Independants and Anabaptists of the City of Bristol and the Presbyterians also of the same City and it is likely there was more for I find all these before-mentioned in one Gazette and all these Addresses were concerning liberty in the Exercise of Religion In my Judgment they did well to incourage the King to keep his promise for Liberty in the Exercise of Religion is a good thing and whatsoever is good in it self comes from God altho King James was Instrumental to procure it yet it stands to this day and there was no doubt but that King William would confirm it coming out of a Country where Liberty is allowed and hath been so beneficial to that Government there was no need to incourage King William in this concern I have not seen any Address made to him by any Dissenters yet I believe they are all thankful for their Liberty F. Bugg says in Page 7. That Quakerism is such a Sandy Foundation that they are not able to produce the Articles of their Faith they pretend to The Quakers are no Faith makers they say that true Faith is the Gift of God Only This shews what a Quaker he was when he was amongst us altho ' the Quakers are no Faith makers yet they have the Principles of their Religion contained in a small Book about three Sheets of Paper entituled Truth 's Principles Or those things about Doctrine and Worship which are most assuredly believed and received amongst the People of God called Quakers And other Books also these are our Ancient Principles and hath been reprinted three or four times since I came amongst the Quakers which is above 35 Years I bought a dozen of them at one time and gave them amongst the most Eminent of the Clergy whereof Doctor Gunning afterward Bishop of Ely was one of them I desired an answer of him and others also but never received one from any of them at last a Clergy-man came to my House that was related to my Husband I desired him to answer them he promised me before he read them that he would but when he had read them he said that I should have no other answer than this that he did not intend to be a Fool in Print these Principles declares that our Faith is not a Man-made Faith Also they treat of the Substance of true Religion in General I believe there are but few Magistrates that are not Priest-ridden but may understand so much of the Priciples of our Religion as to clear us of those Aspersions that F. Bugg has cast upon us in divers of his Books upon the account of our Religion he charges the Quakers with preferring their own Books above the Scriptures this is as false as any thing can be for the Scriptures are often quoted and expounded in our Meetings as most People that comes to our Meetings can witness but for our Books they are never quoted nor mentioned in our Meetings by our Ministers in Preaching that I know But F. Bugg pleads that we read Epistles from our Ministers and never read a Chapter in the Bible these Epistles are read after our Meetings for Worship are over at the end of the Meeting and that not once in a Year scarcely In Page the 25 th F. Bugg says I have a Letter by me which my Cousen Ann Docwra Widdow of Cambridge sent me dated the 26 th of the 12 th Month viz. G. Whitehead hath sent me one of his Books for me to read and there is the old Mony-Story in it with I know not what besides I was asked by an honest Friend if he was not a Jesuit I answered nay it is not solid enough for them to own especially when they write to a solid People there is pretty much airy conceited Stuff in it This Letter is a meer forged thing I can truly say I never writ any such Letter to him neither did G. Whitehead send me any Book to read with a Mony Story in it or without one I was not so well acquainted with him then as for him to send me Books to read But I remember F. Bugg came to my House about that time this Letter was dated and complained of G. Whitehead very much and of a Book he had writ that concerned him I remember'd I had seen such a Book in our Booksellers hands but I read but little of it because I did not buy it but what is in this forged Letter he spoke to me then by word of Mouth and not I to him he calls me Cousin there is no reason for that I am sure he is nothing a-Kin to me neither can he make it appear that he is Kin to my Husband I have seen my Husbands Pedegree and there is not the name of F. Bugg in it I will now take notice of something of Concernment in his Book Page 58. he says that the Preachers take Mony for Preaching This is a strange Story to me that such a thing should be amongst us and I not know it which have been above 35 Years amongst Them and never heard any Body say so but F. Bugg a pritty many Years ago I asked him who paid them He answered They were George Fox ' s Pensioners This shews that F. Bugg gave them no Mony for if he had he would have printed it and the Sum also in some of his Books I can truly say I never gave any Mony upon that account of Preaching neither was I ever asked for any only upon the account of a great loss a Preacher had by Fire I gave Mony upon that account But if Preachers be Poor they ought to be relieved I know no honest Friend that will see them want or grudge what they do upon that account but to my knowledge some Apostate Quakers have done so In Page 34. F. Bugg says That his

that was by way of Paraphraise so at first when he writ Lyes his Pen run too quick and now his Lyes are Paraphraises and such crafty or rather crazy foolish Stuff his Books are composed of if he had been well in his Wits he would not have scribled away a fair Estate and run many hundred Pounds in debt beside to no purpose I really believe all that he lost by the Quakers does not amount to 32 l. see page 31. where he names their names and the Sums also but in page 148. F. Bugg says That the Quakers are the chief Cause of my Misfortune not only in Respect of Controversie but Six or Eight breaking in my Debt If they had been real Quakers he would have named them every Man for he writes at large upon such Matters but to my Knowledge there was some that died in his Debt that were of his own Fraternity that went about to make Division amongst us It was his restless Spirit and shattered Head that was the Cause of his Misfortune They that are well acquainted with his Books may perceive it In the Title Page of divers of his Books shews his wild Fancy I will quote some of them His second Book the Title Page The painted Harlot stript and whipt c. The Title Page of some of the rest his 7 th Book battering Rams against Rome c. His 8 th Book One Blow more against New Rome c. His 9 th Book New Rome unmasked and her Foundation shaken c. His 10 th Book New Rome arraigned and out of her own Mouth condemned c. This Book is the strangest Fiction that ever I read His 15 th Book A Second Summons to the City Abeb by way of Metaphor deliver up Sheba the Son of Bichri 2 Sam. 20. i. e. George Whitehead by Name This shews his Malice against G. W. I know of a certain that shatter-headed People are very malicious and not to be qualified and the Reason is because their Imagination works so strong that it serves for nothing but to make a Grave for their Reason I have something to say concerning Edward Burrough one of our Preachers he was before my time I not being acquainted with him only by reading his Books where I find him to be a Man both for Natural and Supernatural Parts extraordinary well Qualified But F. Bugg says that he finds in his Works that he said That the Sufferings of the Quakers were greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles There is something upon Record to that purpose as I understand and this was in Oliver's Days which he did say That the Quakers Sufferings were worse in some respect than the Sufferings of Christ And his Reason was because the Jews pretended Law for what they did and the Quakers Sufferings were very much upon the account of small Trivial Things and no Law so much as pretended Although no Quakers do justifie this Passage yet it may be excused in some measure and that according to Truth Some of the best of Men have broke out into Passion under Sufferings and E. Burrough's Sufferings were great at that time not only for himself but seeing so many of his Innocent Friends under great Afflictions and Sufferings Under the Agony of Sufferings the best of Men have shewed much Weakness and Passion when God had forsaken them or hid his Face from them for a short time And this was witnessed by Job and the Prophet Elijah and others our Saviour Christ upon the Cross when he cried out under the Agony of his Suffering My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Now God's hiding his Face from the best of Men for a short time was his Love to Mankind to shew to Man his Weakness That no Flesh should Glory but in the Lord. But F. Bugg and his Clergy makes a great Noise to have us retract our Books if they can prove Error in them we have answered what they can Charge us withal already and will do further if God Almighty requires it but will not concern our selves with F. Bugg and his Clergy any further than God requires us to do Our Books are a Testimony of the Sufficiency of the Light and Grace of God in our Hearts to bring us to Salvation if it be obeyed to it we have many Testimonies For that and our Sufferings upon that Account which we shall preserve God willing that the Generations to come may Rejoice in our Testimony as we do Rejoice in the Testimonies of the Suffering People of God in all Ages under what Denomination soever they are Recorded For such People injoyed a large Measure of the Light and Grace of God in their Hearts that bore them up above all their Sufferings in a publick Testimony in all Suffering Times which do witness that such People are the Chosen People of God to set forth his Praise from one Generation to another I am now come to the Bishop of Norwich's Certificate These are to Certifie That I have known Francis Bugg some Years and that he hath appeared to me a Sober Honest and Industrious Man and that he hath taken much Pains to Undeceive and Convert the Quakers by Publishing Useful Books and that not without success but by the Hardness of Times several Losses and the Charge of Printing the Books he writ he is reduced to great Difficulties Therefore I apprehend him a real Object of Charity and that he doth truly deserve the Bounty of Well-disposed Persons unto whom I recommend him October 22. 1698. John Norwich It will be Matter of Admiration to all Inquisitive People when the real Truth of this Concern is known that a Bishop of the Church of England should appear so publickly to Vindicate F. Bugg and his Books which the Bishop calls Useful and that F. Bugg hath taken great pains to Undeceive and Convert the Quakers and not without Success c. This were a Matter of great Concernment if it were true I intend to take notice of the several Passages in the said Certificate First As to his Honesty and Industry if he had been Honest and Industrious as the Bishop says he would not have lost his Time and neglected his Trade for near Twenty Years as I can make it appear out of his own Books and spent a good Estate in Scribling against the Quakers to no purpose as will further appear and run many Hundred Pounds in Debt more than he was able to pay and his Creditors must needs have lost much Money by him if this Project with the Bishop and some of the Clergy did not take which was a thing doubtful by his own Confession In his 20th Book p. 147. there may be much more said upon this account I will Instance but few of them In or about the beginning of the Year 1697. he Married his Daughter made great Feasting and Entertainments that was said to be very Chargable and promised 300 l. Portion with her upon the Marriage And at the same