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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65859	The contentious apostate and his blow refelled [sic] in a brief narrative of the unchristian deportment, opposition, and disturbance made by Francis Bugg, backslider, Isaac Archer, priest or vicar, Samuel Knowles, late curate, at a publick meeting of the people called Quakers held at Milden-Hall in Suffolk the 30th day of the 2d month commonly called April 1691, and in a short answer to F.B. his defaming pamphlet falsely stiled One blow more at new Rome / by G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1920; ESTC R27591	23,566	33

not given for Religion sake but because of some Persons Depravity and Degeneration F. B. knows that some in the Scripture are called both Bulls greedy dumb Dogs ravening Wolves generation of Vipers Serpents evil Beasts Antichrists Reprobates c. And I would ask F. Bugg if he did not Believe the covetous Priests of the World were such when he was in Society with the People called Quakers and owned them both in Doctrin and Practice in their Antient Splendour and Glory as he hath since confest they once were I suppose within that time wherein he walked amongst them for many years I suppose above Twenty and when he himself writ against the said Priests did not he then think that many of them deserved such Characters as before mentioned and in Scripture given to the false Prophets false Shepherds and covetous Watch-men of Israel And it is further observable that those Books mentioned and charged by F. B. as Truths Defence E. B. against Bennet Three-fold Estate of Antichrist and Samuel Fisher's Rusticus were first printed many years ago and in such times as F. B. no doubt owned the People called Quakers to be in their Primitive Purity Splendor and Soundness both in Doctrin and Conversation especially in those many years he walked among them and owned them why did he not tell the World what years those said Books were first printed in which now he has accused that his Inconsistency and Self-contradiction might more plainly have appeared in his commending and condemning a People for things Writ by some of them even when they were so commendably owned and highly approved of by the self same Judge or Person even F. B. He puts a Slight on our Answer to his Pamphlet B. Rams as so impertinent and short of an Answer as not worth Replying to yet thinks it necessary to make some few Observations on it p. 10. I am sure that his Observations are both Impertinent and contain divers Falshoods in a little compass and far short of a Reply As 1st That G. W. will not own our said Answer to his B. Rams only a part of it is a gross Lie divers times Reiterated 2dly That G. F. and E. B. Encourage O. C.'s Army to a Practise they believed was not Lawful i. e. to Fight how proves he this And that they did so Encourage them then in the Present Tense and Future Tense as he saith Did not G. F. say to O. C. Arise and come forth c. But did he say Arise and come forth to Fight Cut and Slash as F. B. confidently inferred and told the Meeting at Mildenhall aforesaid But 't is not needful for me to insist on this point the Matter being sufficiently spoke to and answered in our late Book Entituled Christ's Lambs Defended from Satan's Rage against John Pennyman's envious Invective falsly styled The Quakers Vnmasked 3dly I do not believe that one of our Ministers said to the Court at Barbadoes That if the Spirit of the Lord God in them led them to Fight I had nothing against it or that we Recorded any such thing in our Book of Foreign Letters as F. B. saith I know no such Record nor do I believe it till I see it and if I do we shall disown it as none of our Doctrin nor Principle 4thly F. B. hath another strange Story against S. Fisher viz. That he said he believed or expected that the People called Quakers would be Instrumental by Force with others to turn out or overturn the then Government and that this he spake to Mr. Osgood after the Rising of the Fifth-Monarchy Men and Mr. Pennyman as I am Informed pray ask them if they do not remember it p. 10. Thus far F. Bugg I have shewed Jo. Osgood this Story and asked him about it and his Answer is this viz. I do not remember that S. Fisher spoke them or such words and I do not believe he did and I am not apt to believe he spoke such Words for if he had I should have opposed them Wherefore we have Reason to think this was some forged Story against S. F. who was a peaceable harmless Man and that this Apostate may be ashamed to charge the Dead and the Memories of the Living with old defaming Stories 5thly After he hath pretended his Concern for many called Quakers both of his near Relations and many of the Hearers being honest People as he Confesses but have their Eye too much to such Teachers and Leaders as G. W. and his Brethren c. p. 11. He insinuates a want of Vnion in affection to the present Government and saith not one Epistle not one publick Prayer c. i. e. for King William and Queen Mary which is more than he knows or can demonstrate His envious and unjust Insinuations therein have been already answered in our half Sheet in Print Entituled The Quakers Answer to a Scandalous Libel styled A Letter to the Quakers which he hath since owned by offering to prove what we deny in it B. Rams p. 19. And also in our late Answer to his B. Rams he doth but reiterate the same thing over and over against us and then to colour over his envious and injurious Insinuations against us touching the Government he tells us thus viz. But I will not insist too much upon this point lest you say I expose you and would set the King against you which is not my desire as well as below the dignity of his Person and Station Thus when he hath endeavoured to expose us to all the Reproach and Infamy he can and to render us Disaffected and Obnoxious to the Government he can thus Hypocritically pretend 't is not his desire to set the King against us O false hearted Man What better Tendency is thy envious work of 'T is well 't is below the Dignity of the King's Person and Place to be influenced by the Malice of such Apostates as thy self or by such false and infamous Characters unjustly cast upon us as Disaffected to the Government New Rome Painted Harlots Deluders Deceivers Jesuitical deep Hypocrisie c. And yet thou wouldst be glad we would publickly Address the King and Queen and pray for them publickly and heartily and therein be Example to our Hearers who are honest People p. 11 12. Wherein thy Hypocrisie and Inconsistency against us being set together Runs thus viz. Thou Painted Harlot thou New Rome thou Antichrist Deep Hypocrite Deluder and Deceiver disaffected to the Government c. Pray Publickly and Heartily for King WILLIAM and Queen MARY And is this thy Affection and Friendship to the King and Queen These may evince thy Folly Confusion and Madness against an Innocent People whom thou hast causelesly Deserted and unjustly Defamed We grant 't is our Christian Duty to Pray for all Men for Kings c. But where are all required by Christ or his Apostles to pray for them by Name Or charged as Offenders for not Naming Persons in our Prayers May not we pray