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A30031	New Rome arraigned And out of her own mouth condemned. Containing a farther discovery of the dangerous errors, and pernicious principles of the leaders and teachers of the Foxonian Quakers: which tend to overthrow the Christian faith, to obstruct the Jews conversion, to encourage Mahumetism, and to pervert the right way of the Lord; which whether so or no, deserves the examination and consideration of the Christian ministry of all Protestant Churches, as they tender God's glory, and the good of souls. To which is added, Ten articles of the Christian faith, wrote by Geo. Keith, who was persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian testimony. The second edition, with some alteration and additions, by Francis Bugg. Licensed, June 18th. 1694.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. aut	1693 (1693)	Wing B5377; ESTC R202485	69,734	77

trespass against us No nor yet after that manner for though you must needs know that you are Sinners as well as others and have transgressed the Laws of God in both Tables yet you can neither make Confession of Sin to God nor beg Pardon for Christ's sake which not only shew that you do not Pray after the Manner but that you do not pray in the Name of Christ to God the Father as the Mediator and Intercessor between GOD and Man which is an infallible Proof that as you therein differ from the Faith and Practice of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs yea all Protestant Churches to this day so you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy which teach Men so to do which is one Reason Secondly In that you warn charge and command your Disciples to read and cause to be read in your Meetings not only in England but beyond Sea your own Papers Epistles and Books whilst you not only lay aside the Scripture as useless but declare to all the World they are Death Dust and Serpents-meat Beastly Ware and that such as preach out of it are Conjurers Notable Conjurers Thirdly Because you say it's Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and yet allow your own Books that Title giving forth That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater questioning whether Moses be the first Pen-man thereof Fourthly A fourth Reason is because you deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper which the Scriptures teach saying Go teach all Nations baptising c. this do in remembrance of me c. Which the Apostles Primitive Christians and Martyrs practised who had the Spirit as much as you and witnessed Christ's second Coming as much as you Fifthly Your laying aside the use of the Lord's Prayer both in Manner and Form as aforesaid Sixthly Your laying aside the use of the Ten Commandments Seventhly And the Apostle's Creed Eighthly If you question whether Moses was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ and what the Prophets spake true or false you I say cannot believe what you question Ninthly You teach that such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers but the Scripture tells you That Christ is risen and sits in Glory at the Right Hand of God in Heaven above And Tenthly Because you rob Christ of his Divine Attributes and put them upon your glorified George Fox calling him the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness c. See your Epistle This is only to go amongst Friends largely recited in this Introduction p. 5 6. which notwithstanding G. W's Denial is plainly proved to mean G. Fox yet to strengthen the said Proof see J. Whitehead's small Treat p. 4 5. After these things in the year 1648. God who had compassion on his People did cause a Branch to spring forth of the Root of David which was filled with Virtue for the Covenant of Life and Peace was with him and he spread and shot forth many Branches which did partake of the fatness of the Root and the weary came to rest under his Branches In him also was the word of Reconciliation which turned the Hearts of the Children and the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just And in the year 1655. I being a Branch of this Tree meaning G. Fox the life of its Root caused me to blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit of the Lord came upon me c. I say G. F's saying that he rise out of the North was prophesied of c. and the recited Epistle saying O thou North of England who art reckoned barren c. and J. Whitehead setting the date of the rising of this Branch and Star 1648. and that in 1655. he also becoming a Branch of this Tree 't is manifest that what I said in New Rome unm c. p 79 to 87. was not without warrantable ground as by the coherence of their Doctrine doth manifestly appear And since your Books thus interfere let us prove whether they be sincere or which shall we take to be their Judgment in good earnest Answ That they are not sincere I have already given ten Reasons but that I may renew your memory I will add one more viz. In all their Meetings for Worship of GOD they never read one Chapter of the Bible nor one of the Epistles of the Apostles for this thirty years but 't is frequent with them to read their own Epistles as herein I shall further shew only one instance for the present I may recite to confirm you in the truth of their practice and by which you may measure great part of their pretences viz. Several Papers given forth for the spreading the Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the LORD take heed of judging one another To you all this is the Word of the LORD to spread over all I charge you in the presence of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst ALL FRIENDS AND BRETHREN EVERY WHERE to be read IN ALL MEETINGS This is THE WORD OF GOD. G. Fox 1. Pray observe first the design of sending their Books up and down it is TO SPREAD TRUTH and this might be done as well by recommending the reading of the Scriptures or some Portion thereof if indeed they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained therein be holy and blessed unless they will say their Books have a greater measure of holiness then the Scriptures which in the best sence they must believe unless they cheat the World most abominably to send them that which they know to be worse or least for their profiting Secondly You may observe what a Charge is given viz. I charge you in the PRESENCE of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst all Friends what to do namely for a Publick Liturgy or Form of Divine Service viz. To be read in ALL MEETINGS Well what Authority had G. F. to impose this upon the poor People namely This is THE WORD OF GOD. Now if they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained in the Bible to be holy and blessed why do they not charge their People to read some part of the Scriptures for their Instruction but alas they have disputed against the Scripture being the Word of GOD but now you see they stile their own Nonsence to be THE WORD OF GOD and charge their poor ignorant People as such to receive it and as such to read it and as such to send it up and down into all the Countries and all Places and who dare gainsay the mighty Power of G. Fox Who as Ios Coal says hath his habitation in the power of the Highest who rules and governs in righteousness and his Kingdom is established in peace and the increase thereof is

one and that too much too Secondly Do you think he values and prefers the Scriptures before all Books extant in the World I think not my Reasons are many First you hear he calls the Scriptures Dust Death and Serpents-meat Beastly Wares dangerous to read see Truths Defence c. p. 101. yea so uncertain that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Pen-man of Holy Writ is a question But as for what G. Fox c. wrote their Yearly Meeting testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea the same Men that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents-meat judge Reader which they prefer Yea G. W. avouches that what is spoke from the Spirit of Truth in any much more in them is of equal nay of greater Authority than the Scriptures judge Reader which they prefer They say 't is Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and that 't is the Devil that so pleads Yet they say of their own Epistles This is the Word of God judge which they preferr They say we may as well burn the Bible as their Papers and Queries judge which they prefer Come G. W. what Gloss have you in store your Paint begins to vanish and your Jugglings will not now do And as to you that are mis-led by your Teachers I exhort you to read the Scriptures and pray to God to open the Mysteries of Salvation held forth in them that so you may come to have your Judgments rectified Likewise read G. K's Ten Articles which came providentially to my Hand which being sound and orthodox I have exposed them to publick view for general Service desiring from my Heart that you may receive them in the same love they were writ and now exposed yet if you will not hear me nor receive them I of all Men may bear with you in that I once was as averse to Information as the most of you but I obtained Mercy in that I did not wilfully persist against Conviction c. Some of the Principles of G. Keith and his Friends 1. That Bodily Sickness and Death came in by the Fall 2. That Christ has now in Heaven a Soul and a Body that is not the Godhead but the Temple of it and most gloriously united therewith 3. That Christ's Body that was crucified and buried without us rose again without us and is now in Heaven without us 4. That the Man Christ Jesus will come again in that Body without us to judge the Quick and the Dead 5. That there shall be a general day of Judgment that all the deceased Saints are in expectation of 6. That we get not the Resurrection of the Body either in this mortal Life or immediately after Death 7. That Faith in the Man Christ without us as he died for us rose again and is gone into Heaven wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ is universally necessary to make Men true Christians and Children of God born of the Free Woman who have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father 8. That Christ's Obedience and Righteousness which he performed in himself without us is imputed to us by Faith for the Remission of Sins 9. That Christ is not only God's Elect but all that shall be saved from the beginning to the end of the World are God's Elect being chosen in him not only before they believe and repent but before the Foundation of the World 10. That all and every one of the Members of the Church of Christ who are at age and can speak ought to confess with their Mouths in the hearing of some of their Fellow Members the Fundamental Principles of their Christian Faith before they can be own'd to be Members of the Church that by the same as well as by a Good Life and Conversation it may be known who are qualified to be Members of our Church which is Aboundary Terms and Bond of our Union the Spirit being the Principal which may be easily done by Answering to some plain Questions This is a Copy of G. Keith's c. sound and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith proposed to the Quakers of whom I wish it may not be said Oh how oft would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but you would not but now the things which belong to your Peace are hid from your Eyes I remember G. W. queried of me Count. Conv. p. 15. Whether I when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation Answ I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism as by my Book de Chr. Lib. c. which he so often quotes to justifie the Quakers from what I now charge them with may be seen yet I do freely acknowledge that I was in great Errors particularly touching the Point of Justification for I then expected Salvation thro' my Obedience to the Light which the Quakers taught was sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation it attained through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts Again G. W. says Count. Conv. p. 29. Not reading the Scriptures in our Meetings for Worship is no Proof that we have not a Spiritual Worship nor Evidence that we disbelieve the Doctrines contained in them Answ I do not give it as the only Evidence but as a Demonstration yet if you did in good earnest believe the Doctrines and Precepts of Christ in the Gospel to be blessed and holy as you pretend you would read the Scripture and prefer the Bible before any other Book extant in the World you would read the Scriptures in your Meetings if any Book at all and if you recommend any Book to your Friends beyond Sea it would be the Scripture But since you do neither but instead thereof read and recommend your own Epistles and that as you say for the spreading of Truth this is a Demonstration that you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy and an infallible Evidence that you prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures unless you be arrant Cheats indeed to read and recommend that which you know is worst and hide and keep from them that which is best which I can hardly think And as impertinent as G. W. renders my Ten Reasons I find him not able to confute them As for his Pretence to Pray after the manner Christ taught his Disciples I deny it for it you kept to the manner though not to the form you would not be alone But let the Reader observe all the Prayers of Steph. Crisp R. Ashby W. Bingly and others printed at the end of their Sermons nay all your Books extant in the World and he will not find this passage Forgive us our Sins as we forgive them that