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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30029	A modest defence of my book entituled, Quakerism expos'd as also of my broad sheet : with a scheme of the Quakers yearly synod, and other books presented anno 1699 to the Parliament : and G. Whitehead's inside turn'd outward, by reprinting his ancient book Ishmael, &c. intirely, shewing thereby the Quakers ancient testimony of contempt of the Holy Scriptures and blasphemy against the blessed Trinity ... / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Atkinson, Christopher. Ishmael and his mother cast out into the wilderness.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5375; ESTC R19514	73,450	146

which to thee is hid whom the God of this world hath blinded thy eyes and out of the mystery and Gospel and rule and foundation thou art with that which thou calls the only rule and word and foundation art thou judged and with light seen and condemned to be an inventer of lies and a deceiver of the blind but no further canst thou proceed for thy folly shall be made manifest to all men Priest In a second reason of thine thou sayest the antiquity of the Scriptures do clearly prove them to be of God for man could never write of things done before he had a being but the works of the five first dayes Creation are mentioned in Scripture but man was not made till the sixt day therefore they must needs be the word of God Answ Here thou blind Beast who art ignorant of God who makes antiquity as thou calls it the perfect knowledge of God and sayes that man could not declare of things before ever he had a being and so would make people believe that the Scripture reveal God thou blind Beast whether was man or the Scriptures first and whether did God make himself manifest unto and thou that sayest that the Scripture reveal God thou art a lyar for God revealed himself to Moses before the Scripture was written and Moses was the first pen-man of the Scripture was 14 Generations after the fall and yet he wrote of things before the fall was and thy father Cain was before Moses was and yet he knew no Scripture and thou that would make the Letter the light and way of knowing God are not so much as a Minister of the Letter and here thou art made manifest to be in the fall in the death which past over all men before Moses was and are not come to fee the first Days VVork to see light divided from darkness and here let all the Prophets and holy men of God judge thee with the Light from which thou art erred for they wrote of Christ and saw his day many Generations before he came in the flesh and here thy antiquity and thy reasons and the three persons thou dreams of which thou would divide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual darkness for the lake and the pit for thou hast no Scripture that mentions such things * This is their Ancient Testimony to damn the Blessed Trinity to the Pit of Hell P. 11. 4 to Piest And where thou art telling that the Scripture converts the Soul and works Grace and the opening thereof make hearts to tremble and says that Scripture discovers mens thoughts and makes Laws for them Answ Here thou hast made thy self manifest where did ever any of the holy men of God say that the Scriptures converts the Soul or make Laws for mens thoughts and what is that which opens the Scripture or where is it if the bare Letter convert the Soul here thou Priest of Baal for that is thy name thy lyes are made manifest and deceits laid open to the children of the Light and art seen with the light from which the Scripture was spoken Priest Again thou sayest the Scripture speaks to all men alike but thus do not the word of man therefore thou sayest they are the word of God Ans But thou thy self and thy generation are perverters of the Scripture and are respectors of persons for you are called of men Master stands praying in the Synagogues has the chiefest places in the assemblies and the greeting in the Markets and are pleading for cap and knee and says we do not reverence Magistrates because we do not put off our hats and bend our knees as thou and the rest of thy generation of Hypocrits do who have mens persons in admiration because of advantage Iude 16. and this which you calls the word speaks not to all men alike for wo is pronounced in it to such as thou art who art found in the steps of the false Prophets and Scribes and Pharisees and goes in the way of Cain to envie and after the error of Balaam for gifts and rewards which wo was never pronounced to the righteous and wo unto thee thou lyar who art a wrester of Scripture to thy own destruction and art found with so many Lyes as thou hast here uttered Priest In another place thou sayest no Creature Angels men or Devils if all were put together in one could ever declare before-hand what particular person should be born and what should be their names in so many thousands yeers before their birth Ans Here thou art taken with another lye with which thou hast stuffed up this thy confused Book for both by Angels and Men was Iesus Christ the Son of God prophesied of Moses who was many years before Christ came in the flesh prophesied of Christ and said like unto me will God raise up a Prophet him shall the People hear Mat. 1.17 see if thou can number the year of all these generations which prophesied of Christ and when Christ came he saith before Abraham was I am thus art thou known and comprehended with the truth which all thy fathers and generations past persecuted so be ashamed and stop thy mouth for ever Priest In that thou calls thy two propositions 1. thou sayest the Scriptures are the means by which faith is wrought and to prove that ly thou brings Rom. 10.17 Ans Shame cover thy face thou full of rottenness and filthy dreams Scriptures not a means to work Faith This is their Ancient Testimony where did thou ever read in Scripture that it is the means whereby faith is * P. 12. 4 to wrought when that Scripture saith faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word here thou art deaf and never heard the word and thy faith and word is without but the word of faith which we preach is nigh in the heart and mouth Rom. 10.8 therefore search thou the Scripture with the Saduces who knew not Christ for in them thou and thy generation thinks to have eternal life but ye will not come unto Christ that ye may have life Iohn 5.38 39 40. Priest Again thou sayest that the Scripture which thou calls the word is an everlasting rule so long as we live on earth The Scripture which Mr. Townsend calls the Foundation of Faith in the Mire and Dirt. Ans Thou blind sot see thy confusion can that Letter be everlasting while we live upon earth here thou hast shewed thy reason where it is that they that are not stark blind may see thee thy reason and thy foundation to be in the mire and dirt and may see thee to be a senceless natural bruit Beast who with thy lyes art made to be taken and destroyed 2 Pet. 2.13 Priest And again thou sayest the most eminent believer sin in many things Ans Here is the end of thy teaching here is thy rule and here is thy foundation and here is

thy obedience and here is thy fruits and here is thy service who commits Sin and a Servant to Sin and free from righteousness Iohn 8.24 Rom. 16.20 Oh thou blasphemer and slanderer of the just when wilt thou cease from thy Lyes and Blasphemy where dost or canst thou prove such a Scripture as the most emminent believer Sin in any things when the Scripture saith he that believeth is born of God and he that is born of God sinneth not for whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him and he that committeth sin is of the Devil and there 's thy condition and he is thy Father who is the Father of all lyars as thou art i. Iohn 3.3 4 5 6 7 8. Priest And to conclude thy filthy rotten stuff thou sayest they that make not the word of God the rule for their actions are led either by their own fancies or the Devils temptations or both Ans Thee Priest Townsend art here laid open and thou art uncovered and here thou art found to be a denyer of the word and rule and foundation and thou art led by thy dreams and fancies and thy foundation * Viz. The Holy Scritures is in the dust and thou art reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for everlasting fire and here thou in all these thy lyes are shut our from God and all the Children of God among the Doggs and Sorcerers and the Lake is thy portion which is the portion of all lyars Iude 6 7 8. thus have we returned a full answer unto thy senceless stuff and in plainness have we dealth with thee and have not flattered thee at all there call it not railing lest thou violate the Scriptures so with the word of truth thou art tryed and comprehended and us shalt thou witness eternally when the book of Conscience comes to be opened and thou judged out of it so we remain Sufferers for the truth and witnesses against thee and thy generation Named according to the flesh George Whitehead Christopher Arkinson James Lancaster Thomas Symonds A Cutting Switch FOR THE Wounded Snake I have used Similitudes Hos 12.10 READER BY the Word Snake which I use by way of Metaphor alluding to the Quakers obscure way of Reasoning evermore hiding themselves in the dark by their Ambiguous and Doubtful Way of expressing themselves in their Unintelligible Way of Writing is what I call Quakerism and having taken this Snake Quakerism out of the Grass and laid her on the Table and taken out her Sting I am now coming to exercise my Switch which I lately twisted out of Jos-Wyeth's Hand as David did the Sword out of the Hand of that uncircumcised Philistine Goliah of Gath which he design'd to wound the Israelites with for this Joseph like blind Hob playing at Blind-Man's-Buff smiting every Man that passed by without all Fear or Respect being Fool hardy I was resolved to unarm him and take his Weapon from him for like Goliah's Sword there is none like it And whereas this Water-Snake has swam over Sea I am minded to send this Switch thither also that so where-ever her Spawn is gone rattling up and down in other Nations and Plantations this Switch may pursue her and deal severely or cuttingly with her for she has done much Harm And now I shall tell what is the Cause of this Snake's Fury which is as on the Title Page of this Third Part and where you may see she put forth her Sting against Mr. Townsend for that he like other Christian Champions went to prove the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God for this the Rattle-Snake came out of his Thicket and flung out his Deadly Poyson at Mr. Townsend thus Ishmael and his Mother cast out among the Beasts c. calling him a Dreamer a Deceiver a Witch a Liar a blind Guide without Christ and his Knowledge an Enemy of God an Antichrist a blind Sot a sottish blind Guide shut up in perpetual Darkness Blasphemous Beast as in P. 7 8 10 14 17 25 29. Thus Reader having shewed thee the Cause of the Dragon's Fury and the Ground why he threw out his Floods of Malice against the Gospel Ministers I shall next shew thee in short a few Words to Confirm what I have said and that out of the Snake's own Mouth as in P. 14 17 24. first That the Scriptures are not the written Word of God but a Rotten Foundation not the Means to work Faith in the Heart And because Mr. Townsend in Opposition to the Quakers Heretical Doctrine had proved the Scriptures to be the written Word of God and as such a good Foundation for our Faith in our Crucified Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the Means to work Faith in our Hearts which works by Love Oh how did Geo. Whitehead and his Partners hiss like Snakes sting like Adders and roar like Dragons calling him as before noted Dreamer Deceiver Witch Liar blind Guide Enemy to God Antichrist Sot blind Sot Blasphemous Beast shut up in perpetual Darkness with other the like Virulent Railing and Hellish Malice And this Reader is a Map of the Original Controversie between the Clergy and the Quakers for with them the Scriptures are Death Dust Carnal and Killing Serpents Meat Beastly Ware a Rotten Foundation For alas they have no need of the Scripture with them the Holy Scriptures are needless as I shall just now shew See Isaac Pennington's Book stiled Some things relating to the Royal Society c. p. 7. Now observe the Difference between the Religion which God hath taught us and led us into and the Religious of all Men upon the Earth besides our Religion stands wholly out of that which all their Religions stands in their Religion stands in the Comprehension in a Belief of a Literal Relation or Description our Religion stands in a Principle which changeth the Mind where we hear the Voice and see the express Image of the Heavenly One i. e. God and knows things not from an Outward Relation yea here say they we must profess that we so know things that we are fully satisfied about them and could not doubt concerning them tho' there had Never been Word or Letter written of them c. And to this agrees the Doctrine of Edward Burroughs in his Epistle to Fox's Great Mystery p. 17. and many other Places I could mention but I study Brevity But Reader I have not done with this Snake but must have the other Blow at her and smite off her Head lest she get into the King's High Court of Parliament and do mischief for she is mischievous Beast and full of deadly Poyson and begins to stink all the Nation over and the Cause why I shall give this Mortal Wound to this Rattle Snake which so often changes her Skin while she is the same with respect to her Venomous Nature that she was at her first Rise Anno 1650. I say the Cause is this Whereas Mr. Townsend of Norwich having proved the Scriptures