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A30041	The Quakers set in their true light in order to give the nations a clear sight of what they hold concerning Jesus of Nazareth, the Scripture, water baptism, the Lords Supper, magistracy, ministry laws and government / historically collected out of their most approved authors, which are their best continuing books from the year of their rise, 1650 to the year of their progress 1696 by Francis Bugg, senior.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1696 (1696)	Wing B5389; ESTC R29140	57,509	61

time in the same City used Sorcery and bewitched the people of Samaria giving out that himself was some great one to whom they all gave heed from the least to the greatest saying this man is the great power of God And said Justin Martyr Many adored him as the supream God they gave heed to him they believed and obeyed what he taught they placed their hope and confidence in him See Pool 's Synopsis of the Criticks p. 1462. for more of this nature And Erasmus in his paraphrase upon that place saith A man there was among the Samaritans called Simon a deceiver of the people and a practiser of delusions who before Philip came there practised in that City Magick Art and by his counterfeit Miracles had made the Samaritans fond of him who by means of such falshood and deceit avaunted himself before the simple and plain people boasting that he was an excellent Prophet unto whom the Samaritans from the highest to the lowest gave good heed but nothing had he done in Jesus name and therefore they as a people astonished at such monstrous sights said This fellow is Gods own right hand which is called Mighty Many a day had he been with them and long had he made them with his Sorcery to dote upon him and therefore when he had once gotten himself a name with them of great estimation many one believed him in all that he taught c. And besides as History saith Simon Magus was an early Blasphemer of the Blessed Trinity a slighter of the Scriptures and a denyer of the Law of Moses from all which four things are observable 1. That Simon Magus gave out of himself that he was some great man that he wrought counterfeit Miracles in his own Name and never in the name of Jesus of Nazareth 2. That all the Samaritans gave heed to him from the least to the greatest believing all he taught saying This man is the great power of God 3. That he got himself a name of great estimation to be an 〈◊〉 Prophet they at last adored him as the Supreme God 4. That he was a slighter of the Scripture and a denyer of the Law of Moses a blasphemer of the blessed Trinity c. Now how far G. Fox is of kin to Simon Magus will appear in the next Section for the tree must be known by the fruit men do not gather Grapes of Thorns nor Figs of Thistles this is a true measuring Line being laid to Scripture Rule SECT III. 1. THat Geo. Fox gave out of himself that he was some great one 2. That he wrought Counterfeit Miracles and never in the name of Iesus For proof of the first of these read his Journal p. 31. Being asked whether he was sanctified answered Yes for he was in the Paradice of God ibid. The power of God thundered said George amongst them And they the worlds people did fly like chaff before the wind p. 60. So that it was a dreadful thing unto them when it was told them the man in the Leathern Breeches is come Again p. 55. A woman said that an Angel or Spirit came into Beverly Church and spake the wonderful things of God to the astonishment of all that were there and when it had done it passed away and no man knew whence it came nor whither it went c. This G. Fox owned himself to be the man and left the relation under his own hand which must be to magnifie himself Again p. 47. Then did I see said Geo. Fox the heavens opened p. 45. Whilest I was yet in the house of Correction said G. F. there came unto me a Troop saying As I was sitting in the Steeple-house said the Troop hearing the Priest the voice of the Lord came unto me saying dost thou not know that my servant G. F. is in prison go to him for direction so I said G. F. spake to his condition and his understanding was opened Again p. 67. I call'd the Accuser Judas and said Judas 's end should be his and that was the word of the Lord and of Christ thro me to him and shortly after he hang'd himself Again p. 74. Then said Fra. Howgill of me this man G. F. speaks with authority and not like the Scribes Again p. 63. Now I sat on a Hay-stack and spake nothing for some hours the professors being desirous to hear me speak asked when I would begin and when I would speak One present bid them wait and told them that the people waited upon Christ a long while before he spake Again p. 278. At Leith in Ireland the Inn-keeper told me that the Council had granted forth Warrants to apprehend me to whom I said What do you tell me G. F. of their Warrants against me if there were a Cart-load of them I do not heed them Again p. 431. The takers and payers of Tythes must be testified against in the Lords power Again p. 438. Many friends were imprisoned at London and other places for opening their Shop-wndows on Holydays and Fast-days which friends could not but do for we were redeemed out of days by Christ Jesus c. Thus Reader I have given thee a small sample of G. Fox's own words of himself in his Journal shewing that himself was some great one I am next coming to his Books for another sample and when you have them compare them to Simon Magus touching that particular and see which outstrips and exceeds each other in magnifying themselves The Tryal of G. Fox at Lancaster Assize p. 21. And before I came to the Bar I was moved to pray and the thundering voice answered I have glorified thee and will glorifie thee again And I was filled so full of Glory that my head and ears were filled full of it And when the Judges came up they appeared all as dead men under me c. Alluding to Christ John 12.28 16.14 and 17.1 News coming up c. Written from the mouth of the Lord from one who is naked and stands naked before the Lord cloathed with Righteousness whose name is not known in the world risen up out of the North which was prophesied of but now it is fulfilled G. Fox Several Petitions Answered p. 60. My name is covered from the world and the world knows not me nor my name Saul s Errand to Damascus c. He that hath the same spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead is equal with God A Battledoor c. Introd All Languages are to me no more than dust who was before Languages were c. Alike to James Parnell one of his Disciples The Watcher c. p. 37. But to the end of all disputes and arguments I am come for before they was I am See W. P.'s Christ Qua. and Dev. Test p. 96. And you will find both Fox and Parnell call themselves Christ in W. Pen's sense And that in W. Pen's sense he that suffered at Jerusalem was no more Christ than they i. e. G. Fox and Ja.

THE QUAKERS Set in their true Light In order to give the Nations A Clear SIGHT Of what they hold concerning Jesus of Nazareth the Scriptures Water Baptism the Lords Supper Magistracy Ministry Laws and Government HISTORICALLY COLLECTED Out of their most approved Authors which are their best Construing books from the year of their Rise 1650 to the year of their Progress 1696. By Francis Bugg Senior But evil men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived For as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole housholds but they shall proceed no farther for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men 2 Tim. 3.8 9 13. Titus 3.11 LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by C. Brome at the Gun at the West End of St. Pauls and J. Guillim Bookseller in Bishopsgate-street 1696. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND HENRY L. Bishop of London My Lord I Humbly conceive it my duty to discover to your Lordship what I apprehend may be of dangerous consequence either to Church or State And this emboldens me to offer the ensuing discourse to your Lordships pious consideration I must humbly confess 't is a great presumption upon your Honours Patience and Patronage But that which amongst other things gives me encouragement hereunto and which I hape may plead my excuse at least extenuate my offence is the Quakers frequent Dedications and Presentations of their Books to the King Lords and Commons and other Magistrates from year to year one Sessions of Parliament after another for thirty or forty years together beseeching begging and craving their aid support and authority whilst in their Books to their Disciples they utterly disclaim any such seeking to outward authority But instead thereof when not suiting their Interest they 'll Impeach and Condemn their proceeding as Antichristian and Arraign Try and Condemn the Learned Protestant Clergy as inconsistent to Christianity Thus like the Camelion they can turn themselves into all colours their Books being of two sorts carrying two different faces And it was by this method that the Arians of old deceived the Emperor Constantius who at last made Laws in their behalf against the Orthodox And that this is no new Artifice your Lordship may observe from the book of Exodus that notwithstanding Moses was divinely inspired and gifted witb Miracles to confirm his Commission yet the Magicians by their Magick Act and cunning Intreagues came very near him in shew likewise Simon Magus Acts 8. by his Sorcery and Juggling Tricks so bewitched the Samaritans that they gave great heed to all he said And History sufficiently informs us what hard work the Protestants had to confute the Papists whose Books were like the Quakers of two sorts professing in one sort what they utterly rejected in the other sort And this made Bishop Jewel in his Defence to the Apology c. propose to his Reader viz. Good Reader if thou wilt examine our doings I beseech thee search and prove what hath been wrote on both sides and do not suffer thy self by shews and shifts to be beguiled for what man will seem to deal so uprightly as a Juggler he will strike up his sleeves make bare his arms and open his hands and fingers and bid thee behold And thou wilt think him to be a good plain man and marvel thou shouldst possibly be deceived and yet indeed his whole design is nothing but to deceive thee and the more simply and plainly he would seem to deal so much the more he will deceive thee otherwise he were no Juggler c. And to this agrees that notable saying of Ireneaeus in his third Book against Hereticks viz. Whilst Heretick speak like the faithful they not only mean otherwise than what they say ●●● clean contrary And by their Tenents full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the poyson of their foul opinions And no marvel saith St. Paul for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light therefore it is no great th●ng if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their works 2 Cor. 13.14 And my Lord being sensible of the Quakers method not only of their unw●●y'd sollicitation of the Members of Parliament both Lords and Commons for many years but also in sending their Books into all Counties Shires Cities Towns and Villages in England and Wales as well as parts beyond the Seas I thought it my duty to let the World know their principles from their Printed Books For as simple as they look and as innocent as they seem to appear for deep subtilty they outstrip both Jew and Jesuit and notwithstanding their many and great pretences to meeknes● charity and long-suffering there is not a more uncharitable and cens●● 〈◊〉 people under heaven I am My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble and obedient Servant Fr. Bugg An Apologetical Introduction to the History of the Rise Growth and Progress of QUAKERISM Friendly Reader IF Athanasius made an Apology for his writing against the Arians and other of late for their exposing the errors of the Socinians nay if the Church of England thought herself oblig'd to Apologize in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth for writing against the errors of the Papists 't is but reasonable for me to think myself under the same Obligation for writing against the dangerous errors of the Quakers for surely there has not appeared a more compleat Monster upon the Stage since the days of Simon Magus than George Fox was in his day nor did Simon Magus more applaud himself nor more of his Followers adore him nor take greater care to continue the Memory of him than the Quakers have done of G. Fox witness the reprint of his Labours his Travels his Miracles and Wonders Insomuch that what many Ages have perplexed the Church withal singly we are assaulted with at once as if the scattered Limbs of Heresy had rallied and reinforced themselves for a fresh Battle I have seen Muggleton's Transcendent Spiritual Treatise c. and I cannot find that he holds pace with George Fox in his Books Truths Defence c. Sauls Errand c. A Threefold Estate of Antichrist c. and divers other Books wrote formerly and which they ●●ill own commend and recommend to their Disciples as Books wrote by divine Authority yea from the Eternal Spirit and Power of God see Sect. the XVI Nay in many things Muggleton and the Quakers seem to be Twins For Muggleton says 't is not lawful to fight with a Sword of Steel so say the Quakers at least until they get power into their hands as in Pensilvania where they can both fight with a Carnal Sword fine imprison and persecute their Brethren as the Trial of G. Keith and others sets forth at large Muggleton denies the Blessed Trinity

speedily it being by our Assent Robert Smith Rob. Letchworth Jeremy Rose Joseph Nun Edw. Wingfeild Robert Barber And thus much by way of Introduction Mildenhall Jan. 15. 1695. FRANCIS BUGG Sen. A Brief HISTORY of the Rise Growth and Progress of QUAKERISM SECTION I. THe first rise of Quakerism was in the year 1650. For George Fox coming to Derby and going into the Church to disturb the Minister was by the Justices committed to Prison for that and his other blasphemous principles and to this agree Edw. Burrough's Epistle on the front of Geo. Fox's Great Mist c. And this Justice Bennet was the first that ever call'd them Quakers This I can prove by other Books but you may read it in Geo. Fox's Journal p. 32. to 40. And that it may plainly appear with what principles the Quakers came into the world withal at their first entrance you may read a Copy of the Warrant by which they were justly imprisoned viz. To the Master of the House of Correction in Derby We have here sent you the Bodies of Geo. Fox and John Fretwell brought before us this day and charged with the avowing uttering and broaching divers blasphemous opinions which upon their examination before as they have confessed These are therefore to require you forthwith upon sight hereof to receive them the said G. Fox and J. Fretwell into your Custody and them therein safely to keep during the space of six months without Bail or Mainprize or until they shall find sufficient security to be of the good behaviour or be thence delivered by order from our selves Hereof you are not to fail Given under our Hands and Seals this thirtieth day of October 1650. Ger. Bennet Nath. Barton I was once minded to have set forth more particularly what principles they came into the world withal as I find them even by the Quakers themselves put forth in a Book stiled Saul's Errand to Damascus p 1 2. which tho they have in the same Book pretended to answer the said Petition yet I do positively affirm that their said Answer looks more like a Confession than a sincere Denyal As also the said Petition and their pretended Answer being with other their Time-serving Treacherous principles fully spoken to in that excellent Book lately put forth by a Divine of the Church of England entituled The Snake in the Grass or Satan transformed into an Angel of Light Discovering the deep and unsuspected subtilty couched under the pretended simplicity of the principal Leaders of the Quakers Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun at the West End of St Pauls 1696. containing about 600 pages insomuch that should I write after him to shew their facing about to every power even as the Weather-cock sometimes for the Parliament sometimes for the Rump sometimes for the Committee of Safety sometimes for the Council of State and then for Monarchy and to shew their encouraging Oliver against the Royal party it would be like lighting a candle at noon-day Their temporizing being so excellently set forth in the said Book yet that the World may see with what principles they prest into the world against all Rule Law and Government I may transcribe the said principles because by what follows it may be seen what foundation they went upon which was under pretence of magnifying the Light in themselves to deny Jesus of Nazareth to undervalue his death and sufferings contemn his Laws contained in the holy Scriptures despise his Ordinances revile Magistrates reproach Ministers In a word they not only by these principles hereto annexed but by their whole proceedings have not only verified what I have already said but manifested their principles to be Antiscriptural Antimagistratical Antichristian unreasonable and irreligious An Abstract of the said Petition is as followeth Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 1 2. To the Right Honorable the Council of State the Humble Petition of several Gentlemen Justices of the Peace Ministers of the Gospel and People within the County of Lancaster Humbly sheweth THat Geo. Fox and James Nailer are persons disaffected to Religion and the wholsom Laws of this Nation who have broached opinions tending to the destruction of the Relation of Subjects to their Magistrates Wives to their Husbands Children to their Parents Servants to their Masters Congregations to their Ministers particularly 1. Geo. Fox professed that he was equal with God 2. He professed himself to be the eternal Judge of the World meaning the Light in him 3. He said he was the Judge of the World still with the same Inuendo I suppose 4. He said he was the Christ the Way the Truth and the Life still meaning the Light This I can prove from his Writings extant amongst the Quakers 5. He said that whoever took a place of Scripture and preached from it was a Conjurer and his preaching Conjuration this is frequent in the Quakers Books yea an approved piece of Doctrine 6. He said the Scripture was Carnal yea Death Dust Serpents meat Beastly ware the Husk this G. Whitehead hath vindicated Thus much respecting Geo. Fox what is relating to Ja. Nailer is spoken to in the recited Book The Snake c. But G. Fox being their great Apostle and the founder of Quakerism I was willing to set down the principles upon which he set up and for which he was imprisoned as you see And the rather because Geo. Whitehead and his followers have published a Journal of his Noble and Ignoble acts of his disturbing Ministers of magnifying himself of his pretended Miracles and other deluding Charms on purpose to bewitch the people like Simon Magus his Predecessor Wherefore in this contest there can be no Neuters if God be God serve him if Baal serve him who can have patience to see the Name of God thus openly Blasphemed he that can is no Christian he has not zeal for God nor love to the souls of men The Papists will not have the Pope called Antichrist nor spoken disrespectfully of the Turk will not hear Mahomet blasphemed as we are Christians let us stand for Christ and the Christian Religion I have read how dangerous it is to foster Hereticks and shall England now become a nursery of Quakerism which spread itself like a Leprosie far and near even to Nations beyond the Seas And therefore since G. Whitehead c. have printed the Acts and Monuments of Geo. Fox which the poor silly ignorant Quakers run a whoring after as the Idolatrous Israelites did after the Golden Calf I am zealously concerned to unmask the head of this Foxonian Tribe of Quakers i. e. G. Fox and in a remembrance of what I was once my self and that for many years I can do no less And in this short Treatise I shall shew how Geo. Fox resembleth Simon Magus and Ignatius Loyola for the tree is known of the fruit SECTION II. SImon Magus lived in the Apostles time as saith S. Luke Acts 8.9 10. There was a certain man called Simon which in fore