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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

Their pretence that such as have the same Spirit which raised up Jesus are equal with GOD I must say 't is horrible Blasphemy yet it ought to be charged upon them until they publickly condemn the Book which hath little else in it but Blasphemy and false Doctrine and railing on the Publick Ministry However it never was corrected by Errata as is usual and hath gone for a Gospel Truth above forty years and as their Principle if they believe as they write and therefore I charge it upon them until they condemn the said Book And secondly their Impudence in saying that if we will own the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles we must necessarily own their Books this is of kin to the rest i. e. Blasphemy And thirdly for them to say If Christ the Light in them say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE why may He not speak I answer If they can work the same Miracles He did and produce as many Prophets that foretold of G. Fox's coming out of the North as I shall that foretold of Christ's coming then I shall believe them Fourthly What horrible Blasphemy is it to say 'T is dangerous to read the Scriptures and to call them Dust Death Carnal Serpents-meat as likewise the Ordinances of Christ and the Communion of Saints which Christians ought to hold and believe as an Article of their Faith And then fifthly to call the Publick Ministers Witches Devils Conjurers c. is very pernicious Such Books ought to be burnt as Jacob Baker a Quaker once confest he would burn it And sixthly for them to hold that they and they ONLY are in the Truth 't is the perfect Pharisee But for them to write that G. Fox was before Confusion or the many Languages were is monstrous Such Blasphemies ought to be posted As likewise Ja. Parnell to say that he was before Arguments was and was come to the end of all Arguments is notorious And seventhly so is it in G. Fox to say that he stands covered and neither he nor his name known in the world O what shall I say was there ever such wickedness And yet here is nothing so bad nothing so wicked nothing so false so Idolatrous so Blasphemous But G. W. can salve it he can vindicate or excuse it nay more then so he can procure twelve Witnesses to say We 〈…〉 declare on the behalf of the Quakers that what Fr. Bugg says is 〈…〉 and wicked for they never so believed so said nor so affirm'd c. 〈…〉 being solemnly avouched as in The holy fear of Almighty God 〈…〉 an Oath and if what these twelve affirm be false then they are perjured Persons in the eye of the Law and deserve to be Pillored And thereupon I charge them with Perjury with false-witnes bearing until they by publick retraction repent and give Satisfaction For as you will spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor Young no more will I I will not spare nor my eye shall not pity Friend or Foe which comes up with false Evidence yea so false as if they should say black is white and white is black I must say that as T. G. hath no need to depend on G. W. and that he must know that G. W. hath as little love for him as for some he hath wrote against yet I am sorry to see his Name there As for the others many of them have their dependency on the Chair and G. W being therein I marvel not at them provided their Testimony had been true but I am sure it is notorious false nay and that they themselves know it to be false I will give the World a SIGN which is this If they know and be conscious to themselves that their Evidence is false they will not come forth according to my Proposition in this Book made to meet me but if they be not conscious to themselves of false Evidence how false soever it is they will come forth to clear themselves and be glad I give them the opportunity and by this SIGN they shall be proved Come on you twelve Master-Builders can you read these sixteen Instances and not blush when you behold your Certificate and particularly the first third fifth and eleventh as also the first second and third Errours I say can you read the Passages taken out of your own Books wrote by your most eminent Preachers and yet affirm you never said so wrote so believed so nor taught so and not blush and be horribly ashamed But I have given a Sign to prove you and by it you shall be tried Again Can you read p. 77. of G. F's Great Mystery where he justifies Felony under a pretence of being moved by the Spirit of GOD and not blush What is all your Zeal gone or are you fearful of displeasing G. W. now he is got into the Chair Can you look on the fifth Instance and see how G. W. teaches that the Scripture is not the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament but the Letter which killeth c. And can you behold his contrary Pretences in his late Writings and not reprove him can you hear him pretend that he was moved of GOD to write Judgment Fixed c. and that GOD laid a necessity upon him to write that Book and that therein the neither consults the Events nor fears the Effects and yet proved to write notorious Lies And can you thus let him pass only with saying he was mistaken when he fathered all his Lies upon the moving of the Spirit of GOD even six Lies in number and great part of his Matter bottomed thereupon Can you hear and read his Excuses and Vindications of the Idolatious Letters wrote to G. Fox by Jos Coal John Audland John Blaikling and Sol. Eccles and can you be silent at these things Read my Parallel between the Papists and Quakers in New Rome c. p. 40. to 49. Can you take notice of the Names he and others have given my self and such as have opposed your Church Government and the imposing the observation of your Womens Meetings which some of you are no more in love with then some of us which wrote against the mischief of your Impositions I say can you behold the Names he c. gave us viz. Old canker'd Apostates vile Apostates unruly Beasts Runagades Treacherous Apostates Apostate Informers betraying Iudas's Devils Incarnate Wolves Doggs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil dark Devil-driven dungy Gods Heathens Atheists c. See some of the Quakers Principles and Doctrines c. p. 10 11. for more of this stuff nay such personal defamations and detractions which hath had such an Effect not only of our Profession in Religious Matters but upon our Persons and Imployments which in time may be further taken notice of Can you behold all this and a hundred things more which I might name which hath occasioned a great part of your Troubles And can you submit your Necks your

them besides several Gentlemen and others Inhabitants of Wymondham to renew my Challengs to R. Ashby one of your Teachers which was to prove That the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth the Scriptures Christ's Ordinances undervalue his Sufferings exalt your own c. as at large in Quakerism Anatomized p. 2. Which may fully Answer your captious Demands in your Essay p. 7. Viz. June 4 th 1694. Whereas R. Ashby lately wrote to the Inhabitants of Wymondham to beware of Fr. Bugg's Book Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. As containing Lies and false Representations c. Upon which some of us desired Francis Bugg to appear in his own Vindication which he readily consented to and renewed his Charge against the Doctrine and Principles of the Quakers as in the recited Book Quakerism Withering c. And gave the said R. Ashby a Challenge to meet him and a Months time to prepare himself But the Day being come and the said R. Ashby not appearing as it 's said on his behalf by Reason of Business at London Nevertheless to prevent all Excuses on the part of the said R. Ashby we have again requested Francis Bugg to renew his Challenge and to give him longer time to prepare himself assuring him That as we shall stand by Fr. Bugg in what he maintains according to Scripture so shall we be against him where he asserts the contrary or mis-cite and falsly charge the Quakers Tho. Wright William Haws Rich. Clark Robert Purt Roger Gay William Le Neve Lewis Hinton Jacob Henery John Henery Peter Atdam Richard Smith And many others And accordingly I renewed my Challenge pursuant to my former Proposition offering to meet him at Wymondham the 18 th of July 1694. And sent him per Post c. And let none think it strange that the Quakers and their Principles are thus Anatomised and set forth to Posterity For those Histories that have derived to us the Knowledge of those Errors and Heresies which sprang up amongst the Ancient Christians as Tares amongst the Wheat have not been accounted superfluous nor their Respect worn out in several Ages How much the more concerned should all true Christians be to have the knowledge of those born in our own Age brought forth in our own Bowels According to Christ's Prophecy Mat. 24. 24. For tho' G. Fox in his Journal p. 27 28. 30. 103. 170 171. 173. 307. 350. 407. 503 504. pretend to Miracles as in the Third Table under the word Miracle thus viz. Miracles wrought by the Power of God i. e. She that was ready to dye raised up again The Lame made whole The Diseased restored John Jay's Neck brake restored c. And many other pretended Miracles yet not one of them said to be done in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth as in Acts 3. 6. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk Which is a strong Argument of their disowning Jesus of Nazareth and of their confirming their New Religion in Opposition to that of Christs But I have not room to shew the Tendency of those Blasphemous Pretences of that Impostor G. Fox which probably hereafter I may In the mean while I am June 25. 1694. Thy Sincere Friend FRANCIS BUGG The CONTENTS of this Book THE Quakers and Papists pretended Miracles Page 2 G. Fox when living in a Glorified State 4 G. Fox the Quakers Star-branch c. confirmed 5 6. 16 A Treble Observation on a Triple Quaker 9 Geo Keith's Ten Articles of Faith 14 They value and prefer their Books before the Scriptures 11 12 The Quakers Sufferings greater than the Suferings of Christ 9 The Quakers fly from their Word 21. 23 They say the Name Jesus belongs to every Member of the Body i. e. every Believer as well as to Christ the Head 8. 28 Dangerous Consequences of the Quakers Doctrine 31 A Sign to prove the Quakers Sincerity p. 36 A Conference between F. B. and S. Cater 39 A Cage of Unclean and Hateful Birds 50 The Prophesies of the Prophets fulfilled 55 A Discovery of the World's Teachers 47 G. Fox his Epistle or Liturgy sent to be read in Churches 43 Tho. Bilney the Martyr his Christian Doctrine 59 The Quakers read not Scripture but their own Epistles 41 Geo. Keith charges them to hold Dangerous Errors 38 Queries propounded to the Quakers 65 The Conclusion 68 To which is added the Challenge to R. Ashby Books Written by Francis Bugg I. DE Christianae Libertate or Christian Liberty c. II. The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt III. Reason against Railing or Truth against Falshood IV. Innocency Vindicated and Envy Rebuked V. The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted c. VI. Battering Rams against New Rome c. VII One Blow more at New Rome c. VIII New Rome Unmask'd and her Foundation shaken IX New Rome Arraigned and out of her own Mouth Condemned X. Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving XI Quakerism Anatomized or a Challenge to Richard Ashby XII New Rome Arraigned c. The Second Edition Besides a Printed Letter to the Quakers and a Sheet to the Parliament An APOLOGITICAL INTRODUCTION Courteous Reader THERE is scarce any Sect of People how erronious soever they be but they have some Advocates and such too as oftentimes may give just occasion for an Apology for writing against their Errors and more especially when they make such fair Pretences to the Christian Religion as the Quakers of late have done in divers of their Books particularly that entituled The Harmony of the Old and New Testament wherein the Author prefixeth a twofold Preface the one to the Christians the other to the Jews premising two things 1st To wipe off such Aspersions as have been cast upon them as denying Jesus of Nazareth and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Now how far their Book will answer this End unless they make an Ingenuous Retractation of their Errors this Treatise may shew 2dly I have not says this Author transcribed the whole of all those Verses which sometimes is cited but only so much as I conceive doth more immediately relate to c. Very well If then he contract the Scripture and take what he conceives necessary to the Point in hand I hope I shall have the same Liberty and not liable to Censure for the same thing a Fault the Quakers are too much guilty of And because I would be as concise as may be I shall recite their Books which are generally of two sorts of two Stamps and carry two contrary Faces contrary Doctrines contrary Principles c. in two Columns that as in a Glass their Hearers if they will but read may behold the depth of Hypocrisie which lye couch'd in their Leaders Doctrines not only liable to deceive them but the whole World who take them to mean as they say which makes me believe them to be the very Deceivers Christ foretold of Matt. 24 24. for though they come forth pretending to convert the Jews by

the whole World Thus have you made the Apostles false Witnesses who have charged the Jews with slaying the Lord of Life and Glory As to the Sufferings of Christ the Question still remains unanswered I know you now see cause to say his Sufferings were grievous Sufferings sweating drops of Blood yea great Sufferings Thus far G. W. is got but George you know there is degrees of Greatness there is magnus major maximus great greater and greatest of all Now the great Query is Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest Ed. Burroughs says the Sufferings of the Quakers was greatest And G. W. hath not yet said the Sufferings of Christ was greatest no other word will do I still pursue the Terms of my Query and wait to have it answered but I find G. W. pinched and in a great strait and knows not which way to wind him Condemn Ed. Burroughs's Expression as a Lye that he cannot do for a World for he was by G. W. counted a Prophet a Son of Thunder one in whom was the Almighty Power of God Can such a man lye Can he err No they cannot give Evidence against themselves so not fit to be of a Jury not fit for any place of Trust in Government not fit to have yea and nay pass for an Oath If so then if the Jury be most Quakers they 'l never give it against themselves they are not impartial they cannot be impartial they are the greatest respecters of Persons this day on Earth E. B. has said The Sufferings of the Quakers is greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles which is horrid blasphemous yea they thereby undervalue the Sufferings of the Lord of Glory and exalt their own as greater Sufferings This they cannot deny nor this they cannot condemn see the Fruit of Infallibility having once spoken whether true or false a Lye or a true Story both must be infallible they cannot retract they cannot confess their Sins to God how then should they retract and acknowledge their Errors No not for a World then down goes Infallibility the principal Studd of their new kind of Popery The Perfect Quaker in favour of their own Books An Epistle from their Yearly Meeting 1675. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Several Petitions answer'd c. p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Papers and Queries for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God Several Papers given out for the spreading of Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord this is the Word of God G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. Anno 1693. Dear Friends it 's advised that you be careful in spreading all such Books writ in defence and for the Service of Truth Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for remembrance and notice B. B. The Perfect Quaker's Perfect Contempt of Scripture Saul's Errand c. p. 7. The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. A brief Discovery c. p. 7. The Priests of the World are Conjurers raising dead Doctrines dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death Notable Conjurers P. 8. The Commission of Baal's Priests came from Oxford and Cambridge the same poisonous Fountain is filthy the Streams are no better Simon Magus would have purchased the Holy Ghost with Money even the Sir Simons of our Age run to Oxford and Cambridge Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death really they are Bloodhounds still hunting and gaping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Ja. Naylor's Answ to the Jews p. 4 22 25. It 's Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God it is the Devil which contends for the Letter to be the Word of God The Quaker's Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scripture was Moses or Hermes or whether both these two or not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false c. News coming up c. p. 14. Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Counterfeit Quaker facing round about Quaker's Vindication p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God c. Count. Conv. c. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World A treble Observation upon a triple Quaker Courteous Readers whether Christians or Jews what think you Is the Counterfeit Quaker sincere Do you believe that he means what he says namely that the Scripturesare of Divine Authority and that he prefers them before all the Books extant in the World If so you may believe Transubstantiation Can you think I say that he believes the Scripture is of Divine Authority when he tells you that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust and Serpents-mear and that the Scripture is Beastly Ware that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ or whether either or neither and that what was spoke by good and wise Men was ill applied and ill expressed and what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true c Answer me for my part I cannot G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of

this If it were enough to be Accused then none would be Innocent so on the other hand none would be guilty if it were enough to complain of being misrepresented July the 25 th 1693. Francis Bugg To write no more I long since did intend But none but GOD knows now when I shall end For still I find when I think all is done As much to write as when I first begun NEW ROME ARRAIGNED And out of her own Mouth CONDEMNED The PREFACE READER EDw. Burrough long since put forth a Challenge in the Name of the Quakers that they would gladly be manifest to all the World and in order to it and to clear themselves from some Imputations cast upon them they proposed to meet and Dispute with any whether Priests or People of any Perswasion yea or any one of them at any Place and at any Time and for what Number they pleased as by me recited in my last New Rome unmasked c. p. 2. Upon which I went to their Meeting in Mildenhall Nov. 22. 1691. and there accepted of their Challenge and told them I had a Charge to exhibit against them if they would ingage to vindicate themselves and their Principles Tho. Brewster a Quaker then present bad them Answer me with silence So then I read the Charge to them consisting of ten or twelve Errours as in New Rome c. p. 3 4 5. and left a Copy of the said Charge with them and told them That if they did not answer me according to their Proposition that I should expose them which I was loath to do for the sake of some amongst them But no answer could I get After which I printed c. and when my Book came out I went again to their Publick Meeting and renewed my Charge on the 20th of Nov. 1692. and offered then to prove it against them where was present Sam. Cater and John Cade two of their Preachers But still they refused to debate the matter with me or to argue the Point fully I told them I did not come to disturb them but if they would set a time either S. C. and my self singly or let him take two four six or ten and I would take the like number and we would appoint a convenient time and place This they refused and to this day have declined any such method though proposed by them in print and now at last I have received a single sheet stiled A Charitable Essay c. which neither they nor I can call an Answer only in p. 8. Twelve of the Duakers sums up in gross four Particulars by way of Certificate and at the end thus concludes viz. Whereupon we do in the holy fear of Almighty God and in behalf of the said People declare and testifie That all these and all other his F. Bs. Accusations of the same kind or depending thereupon are utterly false wicked and malicious and never so believed so said nor so affirmed by us as charged against us but contrary to our Perswasion Principle and Profession c. Behold the Answer of these Twelve Elders is contained in less than half a Page and how far their plain Say-so will prevail against plain Matter of Fact unless with their own infatuated Disciples let the wise in heart judge And in answer to this said Certificate I do thus say That to my knowledge I have not set down one Line nor Word as theirs that is not theirs nor yet raised one Argument upon theirs but may naturally be drawn from the Premises and if they think I have I with the like number will upon reasonable notice meet them at any place within twenty Miles or more of my dwelling and produce both Book and Page and if they can shew me wherein I have wronged them I will make them publick Satisfaction on condition that if what I have wrote as their Principles be by me so proved that then they will condemn what is apparently Erronious and as this will be a fair opportunity for them if they think themselves wronged as they pretend to clear themselves from my Accusations as they call them so will they have an opportunity to manifest Francis Bugg to be both wicked and malicious yea and I will also subscribe to this their Sentance if I do not clear my self and fully prove my Charge against them But as a sign that they do not think nor believe themselves so wronged as they pretend although I do not pretend to their Art of Prophesying yet I do and dare pass my word that they will never meet me and subscribe the Condition aforesaid And I have no other reason thus to believe but that I know first 't is their way to make a large Protestation of their avowed Innocency when Guilty and that secondly I know they cannot but be conscious of great guilt in denying and out-facing such manifest Truths as in that half Page they have done As to G. Whitehead in the Introduction I have taken some little notice of him and what he hath said which is but little being not a sheet neither hath he taken notice of the twentieth part of my Book so that it still stands unanswered and unshaken by their peny Rattle which they have put forth to please their Disciples for something they must say or the People will cry Where is the Answer to F. B's Book and so I proceed to the Charge THE CHARGE 1. The Quakers denies him who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered death upon the Cross at Jerusalem who rose again the third day and ascended into Heaven in the sight of the Galileans to be Christ the Saviour of the World 2. They deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptuously of them and over-valuing their own Books 3. That their Teachers are Deceivers of the People Favourers of Blasphemy Excusers of Idolatry and of a different Faith from the Apostles Primitive Christians and blessed Martyrs and that their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith REMARK This is the Charge which I publickly exhibited this is the Charge I offered to prove against them which as it is heavy so it stood them upon to have defended themselves if they had been able so to do since they had two of their Preachers present besides hundreds of People to bear witness what passed Nay though conscious to themselves of being guilty as that I take to be the very reason of evading a Dispute yet notwithstanding it had been for their interest if they had been humble and for Truth and Righteousness as they pretend who upon Conviction of their Errours ought to have made open Confession thereof to GOD's glory as was the practice of the ancient Martyrs upon a sight of the Papists Superstitions in which they had walked However since they would not accept of the said Challenge nor yet meet me according to my frequent Proposals nor answer my Book but come only out with a single sheet and tell their People this is an Answer

of G. Fox his Epistles sent to the Publick Churches to be read and received as a New Liturgy only they rejected it and kept to the Bible It is thus Intituled TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO MEET IN STEEPLE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE Page 2. So all you that have the Letter in England and calls a Steeple-House a Church and do not Worship God in Spirit therefore to you all this is sent a Message from the Lord Jesus Christ in England and elsewhere into all the Steeple-houses or elsewhere to be read And God is the same he is a Spirit and his Spirit is drawing from all Steeple-houses now where it is ruling And they the Clergy tell People of a mediate Call so they are in their Witchcraft and Whoredom Christ is not in the Letter nor the Life is not in the Letter This mediate staff hath raigned long in the Cage of unclean Birds Now in this our Age we Quakers who have the Spirit which gave forth the Scriptures which the Apostles was in and this is to go abroad in all Steeple-houses in the Nation and their High places and through the World that they may come to God from them REMARK Now had the Christian People of England been as tame as the Quakers they had an opportunity put into their hands to have had a new Liturgy a new Religion a new Gospel yea and a new sort of Manisters too such as they are yea all new new Meeting-houses as fine as some Churches For if this Epistle which was sent to be read IN ALL STEEPLE-HOUSES and elsewhere yea TO GO THROUGH THE WORLD had taken place we should have had all things turned upside down A new Christ too and a new Scripture too not one made of Dust Death Serpents-meat but one given forth by infallible G. Fox who as he said himself News coming up out of the North c. p. 1. was Written from the Mouth of the Lord from one who is naked and stands naked before the Lord clothed 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 And p. 20. Clap your hands and be glad for the Lord Jehovah will reign and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be cut down and Jesus Christ will rule alone I say had this super-excellent Epistle of G. Fox taken place and been read and received and the Letter viz. the Scripture thrown aside we should not only have had a new Religion a new Liturgy a new Scripture and new Ordinances as they call their Womens Meetings but new Rulers or rather no Rulers but the Light in G. Fox no not so much as an outward Judge and outward Justice an outward Lawyer or an outward Constable all things should have been new And why not if G. Fox was such a King as the poor Quakers deemed he was Witness a Letter from Barbadoes to him by one of their ablest Ministers namely Iosiah Coal and which they justified see Judas and the Jews p. 44 45 46. viz. Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar off to the begetting many again to a lively Hope for which generations to come shall call thee blessed whose being and habitation is in the power of the highest in which thou rulest and governest in righteousness and THY KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED IN PEACE AND THE INCREASE THEREOF IS WITHOUT END Thus Reader have I answered the Objection and proved my Charge more then sufficiently but in regard they have such false Witnesses at their beck to justifie G. W. and to back his Work with the most notorious Lies that men can be guilty of I am forced to dwell longer upon the proof then otherwise I need to do And now I proceed to the last part of my Charge viz. THE THIRD CHARGE THAT THEIR TEACHERS ARE DECEIVERS OF THE PEOPLE FAVOURERS OF BLASPHEMY EXCUSERS OF IDOLATRY AND OF A DIFFERENT FAITH FROM THE APOSTLES PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS BLESSED MARTYRS AND THAT THEIR DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE TEND TO OVERTHROW THE CHRISTIAN FAITH REMARK Reader Not doubting but that in the proof of the former two Branches of my Charge I have proved this also yet if any thing be wanting possibly before I conclude I may supply the vacancy However remembring that in E. B's Works p. 223. there is a Book intituled A just and lawful Trial of the Teachers and Ministers c. I shall turn the Title of E. B's Book upon the Quakers and say A just and lawful Trial of the Teachers of the World I mean of the Quakers whereby they are examined and out of their own mouth and by their own practice CONDEMNED and being brought to the Bar to use E. B's words of Justice these things are truly charged against them and proved upon them and by the Testimony of the Scriptures they are found guilty c. THE PROLOGUE Having thus inverted the Title of his Book I shall indeavour to prove that first the Quakers to be of the World and secondly their Teachers to be the Ministers the false Teachers who of old were prophesied of who should bring in damnable Heresies denying the Lord that bought them yea deceivers of the People false Apostles and deceitful Workers who by their subtil twisting and twining intermixing gross Errours with some more general Truths transform themselves into the likeness of the Ministers of Christ But as Christ said Ye shall know them by their Fruits and to me they were first discovered by their fruits as by my Book De Chr. Libertate c. and that intituled The painted Harlot stript and whipt c. does appear And secondly by their false Doctrine and pernitious Principles as by my Book New Rome unmasked c. also appears For in my young years I was carried away by their dissimulation and being long trained up and educated in their way and they often as a Decoy exhorted us to obey the Light and Spirit of GOD in our own hearts and to observe the dictates of our Consciences to abstain from evil and pursue what was good and to follow the leadings and guidance of the Light within which was sufficient to lead to Salvation c. And this being a general Truth and a Duty upon all Christians and no less than the Publick Ministry does yea and ought to exhort too But still when all this is done and I am as obedient to the Light as I can yet 't is but my duty I must not as they have taught place Salvation there I say as by the Publick Ministry I am instructed to obey the Dictates of my Conscience to abstain from Evil and follow that which is Good according to the Rule of GODS Word revealed in the Scripture yet as they teach and I believe I ought not to lean upon my own Obedience for Salvation and

Lake that burneth and the Pit thou art for to be turned into eternally but thou livest in Philosophy and Logick which are of the Devil G. Fox R. Hubberthorn REMARK Reader Here are some of the Consequences of their erronious Principles in denying the LORD that bought them for after they had erred concerning the Faith and made shipwrack of a good Conscience and denied Christ how soon did they contemn the Scriptures profane his Ordinances revile his Ministers with design no doubt as by the sequel we may perceive to exalt their own Horn. I could not well omit some few of their dreadful Names given to the Publick Ministry in general as elsewhere I have observed But before I sum them up let me add a few more of their Consequences and a little observe what good Names and Divine Attributes they gave to each other for as none ever came near them for railing and reviling stigmatizing and abusing their Opposers as if Hell was broke loose so never did any People exceed them in magnifying each other exalting one another to the Sky nay had they studied many years they could have scarce found out worse words for their Opposers and better and finer and dilicater words high praises and magnifying expressions for themselves and even so they have done by the Scriptures calling them Dust Death Carnal Husk Serpents meat and the like contemptuous Names whilst they have invented most excellent Names for their own Nonsensical Pamphlets and venomous Books fit to corrupt a Nation and destroy a Country as THE WORD OF THE LORD A MESSAGE FROM THE MIGHTY GOD THE WORD OF GOD A LIVING TESTIMONY and a hundred other such like Titles they give to their confused Nonsence to take the eyes and ears of the weak and unstable DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ERROURS 8. The Quakers Challenge p. 3. The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they 9. Ios Coal's Letter to G. Fox justified by W. Denn and others Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reach'd through us thy Children even to the Isles afar of to the begetting many again to a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose being and habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rulest and governs in Righteousness AND THY KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED IN PEACE AND THE INCREASE THEREOF IS WITHOUT END Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. 10. A Battledoor for Teachers and Professors All Languages are to me says G. F. no more than dust who was before Languages were Introduct Again p. 214. And next follows a few words to the whole matter by G. Fox who is before Confusion or many Languages were 11. News coming out of the North p. 15. I am saith G. Fox the Door that ever was the same Christ yesterday to day and for ever And Title Page 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 is fulfilled And p. 14. Your Original is Carnal Hebrew Greek and Latin and your Word is Carnal THE LETTER and your Baptism is Carnal and your Sacrament is Carnal and their Communion is Carnal Their Original is but dust which is THE LETTER which is death their Church is dust so the Serpent feeds upon dust and their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Pag. 34 35. A voice and a word to all you Deceivers who deceive the People and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemies and Hypocrisies that tell People of a Sacrament and tell them it is the Ordinance of GOD Blush blush and tremble you who live in the Witchery and bewitch the People 12. Several Petitions answered c. p. 60. My name is covered from the world and the world knows not me nor my name G. F. 13. G. F.s. Great Mystery c. p. 77. And as for any being moved of the Lord to take your i. e. Priests Hour-glass from you by the Eternal Power it is owned 14. A Musick Lecture c. p. 22. I do affirm that if John the Apostle had said he had been a sinner he had lied See New Rome unmasked p. 40. to 49. and you will see a whole Catalogue of Idolatrous Letters and other Abominations which are too large to recite here for I find I shall inlarge beyond what at first I intended 15. Jos Coal's Testimony of Edw. Burrough viz. That he was a Man endued with the ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD which lived and reigned in him c. 16. W. Penn's Testimony for Jos Coal in his Works O the soft and pleasant streams of LIFE IMMORTAL that have run through him to refresh the LORD's Heritage And now he is truly ascended above every Trouble 16. THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS p. 19. And O thou North of England who art counted as desolate and barren and reckoned the least of the Nations yet out of thee did the BRANCH spring and the Star arise which gives Light to all the Regions round about In thee the Son of Righteousness appeared with wounding and with healing Out of thee Kings Priests and Prophets did come forth and laid their Swords on the neck of their Enemies Put on your Armour and gird on your Sword and lay hold on the Speer and march into the field and prepare your selves to battel for the Nations do defie our God and say where is the God of the Quakers Arise Arise and sound forth the everlasting word of War and Judgment in the ears of all the Nations Sound an Allarum make their ears to tingle Our Enemies are whole Nations a rebellious People that will not come under OUR LAW Stand upon your feet and appear in your Terrour as an Army with Banners let the Nations know your power and the strength of your hand cut down on the right hand and slay on the left let not your eye pity nor your hand spare but wound the lofty and tread down the honourable of the earth give to the great Whore double and give to the little Whore treble for she is worthy whose Abominations have exceeded all that went before her dash her Children against the stones and cursed be every one that riseth not up to the help of the LORD against the Mighty Spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor young kill cut off destroy hew Agag in pieces make the Devils subject cast out the unclean Spirits shut up in Prison bring out of Prison cast in your Nets launch into the Deep divide the Fish bind the Tares in Bundles cast them into the fire c. REMARK Reader here is Matter enough to write a Volume upon but having treated largely upon some of them in my last I shall only touch briefly upon some of the Heads and so leave them to the Consideration of the wide World First