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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

any Prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court or elsewhere for the same And I knowing these things and considering their calling part of the Parliaments proceedings in the very same Act of Parliament grand oppression yea an Antichristian Yoak of Bondage and as such warn their Disciples not to pay them thereby acquitting and absolving the Kings Subjects if the Quakers be such from their active obedience to the Laws of the Land and which is still worse to cause them to bring up to London a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the distresses taken for their non-payment of Tythes Church-Wardens Rates c. and all this disobedience is in a great part owing to the usurpation of this Anti-magistratical Synod or Convocation Nor is this all but if their yearly Epistles which they keep as close as possibly they can were all seen you would see a hundred Instances of the like kind one more I may shew viz. In the 22d Year of King Charles the 2d there was an Act of Parliament made to prevent seditious Conventicles and that no Meetings above the number of four besides the Family were to beheld under pretence of Religious Worship in other manner than according to the Liturgy of the Church of England But in direct opposition to this the Quakers made a Law at their Yearly Meeting or Convocation held at Devonshire House the 27th of May 1675 viz. So it is our Advice and Judgment that all Friends Gathered in the Name of Jesus keep up those publick Testimonies meaning their Meetings in their respective places and not decline forsake or remove their Publick Assemblies because of times of sufferings as worldly fearful and politick Professors have done meaning the Presbyterians Independants and Baptists because of Informers and the like Persecutors Signed per G. Whitehead William Pen c. Whereby it may be seen that their Principles and Doctrine are Anti-magistratical and Unscriptural too for said Christ If they persecute thee in one City flee to the next And his Desciples met privately for fear of the Jews as more largely handled in my Book The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt c. Thus much by way of Apology for my Impeaching the Quakers presumptuous Proceedings in their Synodical Assembly 4. That what I have wrote hithetto or great part of it is not of my own doing but by the Assistance of Learned Persons Answer I know it has been the way and manner of the Quakers from the first day I wrote against their Errors to use all the ways and means they can to blast my endeavours and by lies and false insinuations to weaken my Testimony sometimes I write say they like a Fool a Boy of 11 Years of Age will laugh at it when that will not do then I write so much otherwise that it cannot be my own but some of the wicked Priests as they account the Clergy help me c. And this being bruted abroad several Gentlemen have desired me to give some account thereof which is as follows When G. W. in his charitable Essay p. 2. charged me with Socinianism saying Why did not thy Minister stop thee from running into such Socinianism c. I went to Mr. Archer our Minister and shewed him the passage and desired his assistance all answering that particular He read Whitehead s Essay and my Book to which his was pretended to be an Answer and he told me that what I had wrote was found and he immediately took his Pen and wrote part of the 3d and 4th pages in the Introduction of New Rome Arraigned c. And which I also in the same page acknowledge in these words And this my Minister tells me is not Ignorance nor Socinianism but your Books teach it c. And except this I do not know that ever I had any Clergyman or other Scholar by me an hour in all I have wrote nor six lines added or diminished by any such a one nor has any Man so much as seen this before I sent it to London for the Press I do say that my Book New Rome Unm. c. and New Rome Arraigned c. I did show to Mr. Archer and to another neighbouring Minister a very worthy and learned person in Manuscript and both of them might alter here and there a word which in the whole in both Books might contain 3 or 4 lines but they altered no matter neither by adding or diminishing but very well approved of what I had done considering my capacity as to Learning and my business as a Tradesman But what if I had assistance I am not the first better men than I am and fitter for such work have had assistance I could if it were for my present purpose shew that the very Quakers who pretend they write by the Eternal Spirit immediately from Heaven they not only have assistance but when their Books come at their second days Meeting in London for Approbation they then will take out and put to what is said to be thus wrote in the Name of the Lord which is a most horrible cheat for their message so wrote is either so or not so if so how unfaithful are these Seers to alter what was given forth in the Name of the Lord if not see what Impostors are these Elders to approve of what they believe is false And yet how frequent is it with their Quaker Teachers to question the truth of all mens sincerity but their own charging the Clergy to be False Prophets c. And now I do challenge G. W. and W. P. to produce one Clergy-man in the Nation that ever prophesied in the Name of the Lord and the thing came ot to pass But G. W. and W. Pen know that 't is frequent with their Preachers so to prophesy and are found false Prophets in that the thing comes not to pass witness Sol. Eccles who prophesied that John Story should dye within a year he being at that time ill yet it pleased God he lived about 4 years after But why should they render me such an Ignoramus as that I should not be able to deal with the Quakers who are not such Conjurers themselves I know they did not always account me so when they chose me to be their Representative to go to the London meeting about Sufferings about the year 1670. Nor when I was Clerk to their monthly and quarterly meetings 16 or 18 years together Nor when they had their Register-book to new model and to add Ely sufferings to it which old Records being by me serve to shew me many of their Intrigues particularly Sam. Cater's sham-suffering for preaching at Plakenham in Norfolk where pretending he lost 20 l. yet got 10 l. clear by it See Sect. 17. c. as this Licence shews viz. Fra. Bugg we desire thee to draw out the sufferings out of the monthly Book and record them in the Publick Register-books and add Ely and Littleport sufferings to the rest Let them be done carefully and

Meeting held in London the v. vi vii and viii â—â—ys of the 4th month 1693. p. 2. Several other Epistles from forâ—ign parts as Barbadoes Maryland Pensilvania Virginia Scotland and Holland were read an Epistle from Amsterdam in Holland Ja. Dickinson and Tho. Wilson at this Meeting gave an account of their Travels in Barbadoes East and West Jersey Pensilvania Maryland Virginia New England North Carolina Rhoad Island Long Island Antego Nevis c. Four Epistles from Ireland one from the last year Meeting in Dublin another from Ulster Province another from Munster Province the fourth from Conought Province Meeting An account was given of Dantzick friends A Letter also from Jamaica that there are a People rais'd up and increased in Germany from among the Lutherans called Pietists by some called Quakâ—râ— persecuted by the Duke of Saxony and the Priests several of our Friends Books have been spread amongst them Again p. 3. Friends appointed to view the â—ccounts report that they find they are truly stated and right kept and friends are again advised to bring up with them the tâ—tal sum of each Counties Collection Query did Wm. Crouch not forget the 5 l. he disbursed Again p. 4. the six friends of the City appointed and intrusted this Year with the accounts are William Crouch John Staploe William Macket William Chandler William Beech Nathaniel Marks Observation Reader A small Remark will serve 1st 'T is plain they hold a Correspondency with and receive Letters from Foreigners return Answers spread their Books into foreign parts pretending to spread truth as if the Scriptures were deficient 'T is also plain that they have a Fund or Bank and a yearly Tax collected to maintain their Teachers Travellers and Spies both at home and abroad see my Books Battering Rams against New Rome c. p. 14. New Rome unm p. 60. 'T is also plain that they have Common Bankers with whom the keeping of the Exchequer is intrusted their Names are W. Crouch J. Staploe W. Macket W. Chandler W. Beech Nath. Marks See W. R.'s Second Scourge for G. Whitehead c. on this Head SECT XIV French King YOu are not to meddle with State Affairs or matters of Justice Protest Nor will we debate about State Affairs or make any orders in relation to them The King and Parl. of England An Act of Parliament made the first year Gulielmi Mariae intituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws c. Numb 308. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any of the persâ—ns aforesaid from paying of Tythes or other parochial duties or any other duty to the Church or Minister nor from any prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court or elsewhere for the same Quakers Yearly Epist p. 1. And therefore that all due and godly care be taken against the Grand Oppression and antichristian Yoak of Tythes that our Testimony born and greatly suffered for be faithfully maintained against them in all respects and against Steeple-house Rates as also against the burden and imposition of Oaths that Friends at all their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings be reminded to call for the Records of Friends Sufferings to see that they be duly gathered truly entered and kept and accordingly sent up to London as hath been often advised both of what Tythes are pretended to be due and for how long a time and the time when taken and by and for whom and what goods are taken by distress for non-payment and the value thereof as well of those not exceeding as those exceeding the sums or quantities of Tythes demanded it being a suffering in both for Truths sake They the said Monthly and Quarterly Meetings being in these particulars found defective and imperfect in divers Counties which is an obstruction to the General Records of Friends Sufferings and therefore the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings are desired to take more care for the future that all Friends Sufferings for truths sake may be brought up to London as full and compleat in all Respects as possibly may be A complaint being made that some that profess truth carry Guns in their Ships 't is therefore recommended to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings to deal with them c. Observations Reader the disparity between the Quakers and the Christians in their practice behaviour gratitude and duty is obvious 1st The French King commands his Subjects not to meddle with State Affairs the Protestants with all complacency answer him no they do not desire it neither will they so much as make orders about State matters as not being their present station being Dissenters from the Religion by Law established Thus you see the harmony of the French King and his Subjects and so much for that next you see in the first year of his present Majesty he with the advice and consent of his Parliament indulged the Quakers the free exercise of their perswasion from the penalty of poenal Statutes but in the same Act for their Indulgence there is a clause as above told which ratifies and confirms the payment of Tythes and all Church dues as firm as ever In the next place you see what the Quakers say of it They tell you That Tythes are a grand oppression and not only so but which is worse an Antichristian Yoak yea such a yoak as that whoever receives or pays Tythes does therein deny Christ to be come in the Flesh by their doctrine And thereupon by this Epistle which is to go through England and Wales and elsewhere they warn their Disciples to maintain their Testimony against the payment of Tythes in all respects the like against Church-wardens Rates and withal stoutly to oppose the Imposition of Oaths Nay this is not all yet but being sat in state to hear the grievances of the Nation there is a Complaint come up to the yearly Meeting that some who profess truth as if there were none who profess truth but the Quakers carry Guns in their Ships Well they hear this Complaint but refer that business to the Country Sessions I mean their Quarterly Meetings for they have business of great moment and thus instead of thankfully enjoying the Governments kindness they are privately undermining it by alienating the Kings Subjects from their active obedience to the known Laws of the Land for this Epistle alias Edict is to go through England and Wales and elsewhere this elsewhere is through the world for as Rome is the Papists Metropolis whose Decrees reach to the ends of the earth where Papists live so is this yearly Meeting in London the Quakers Metropolis and from thence goes forth their Law which is obliging and binding as far as there are any Quakers And if any desire to stay until they be convinced Oh no! says W. Pen away with this loose plea for it is a dangerous principle and pernicious to the true Religion And which is worse The Examin

Christ c. Which is as large an Excommunication as the Pope himself or his Infallible Council ever pretended to for they have not only by their Bull of Excommunication cut him off as they dream from the fellowship of the Quakers in London Wales c. but off from the whole Church of Christ And as this is a great arrogancy in the Quakers and presumption too so do they thereby differ from the French Protestants And in regard this their Bull of Excommunication was denounced against G. Keith for that he did not effectually call in his Books writ against the errors of the Quakers and thereby clear the body of the Quakers from those errors charged upon the Quakers in Pensilvania which in Conscience he could not do in regard he knew them Guilty thereof This is a plain demonstration that W. Pen's averring that they never endeavour to hinder the sale of their Adversaries Books is a great untruth See the next proof Instance III. In the year 1693. I put forth a Book entituled New Rome Arraigned c. which the Quakers by an Officer seized and carried 60 of them to a Quakers house and Indicted me in the Old Baily London An Abstract of the said Bill of Indictment is as followeth London ss At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for the City of London at the Guild-Hall of the said City on Monday the ninth of October 1693. before Sir J. F. Knight Mayor of the said City Sir P. W. Kt. Sir J. M. Kt. Aldermen Sir S. L. Recorder of the said City the King and Queens Justices to hear and determine the transgressions of Felons and other enormities committed within the said City The same Sessions is adjourned by the foresaid Justices until Thursday the 12th of the same month of October 1693. at 7 of the clock in thâ— forenoon at Justice-hail in the Old Baily London to be holden before the foresaid Justices and their Associates according to Custom c. And now passing by most of the form I come to set forth the Aggravating terms of their said Indictment c. Ut supra A certain Bill of Indictment against one Francis Bugg then and there brought before B. B. G. B c. Jury-men then and there sworn and charged to enquire for the said King and Queen and the body of the said City And was returned by the Jury thus Indorsed Ignoramus Which Bill follows in these words The Jury for our Lord the King and Queen do present upon their Oaths That Francis Bugg late of London Yeoman being a person of an unquiet and turbulent disposition devising practising and intending falsly unlawfully seditiously and maliciously Geo. Whitehead Ja. Park Ben. Antrobus Sam. Waldenfeild c. faithful Subjects of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen now of this their Kingdom of England extremely to scandalize to prâ—curâ— and bring to Infamy and Reproach amongst their Neighbours and other Subjects of our said King and Queen As also to move stir up and cause discords tumults and miserâ—â—â— slaughters between the Subjects of this Kingdom of England on the 18th day of September in the 5th year of our Lord and Lady c. And upon divers other days and times as well before as after at London aforesaid to wit in the Parish Church * * T is not a Steeple-house it seems now however neither I nor the Quakers wear there of St. Christopher in Farringdon-Ward he falsâ—y maliciously seditiously and illegally made composed and printed published and dispersed amongst the Subjects c. a certain scandâ—â—ous mal cious and defaming Libel against the said G. Whitehead c. The same English Book or Pamphlet not being first Entered in the Register-book of the Cmpany of Stationers of * * No more do the Quakers of London and also not being Lycenced by Act of Parliament â€ â€ Why does not G. W get his Books Lycenced by Act of Parliament Proclamation or added to the Book this may be Printed by vertue of any Warrant under the Seal c. or one or both the principal Secretaries of State c. nor Lycenced * * I hope the Quakers will Lycence their Meetting-houses now they thus severely persecute me for not Lyceâ—cing my Book Canes timidi vehementius latrant nor Authorised by any person whatsoever against the form of the Statute in that case lately made and provided to the bad example of all that shall offend in that case and against the Peace of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crown and Dignity Ignoramus Goodfellow Reader I have transcribed enough to shew their indicting me and that for no other crime than not Lycencing my Book If they say I put up a mock-Pillory to shew what they in reality deserved who as in the same Book I have set forth offered to suffer as in the case of Perjury if they falsify their word which they did do in the Case of Evidence and that in the Name of the Lord which amount to an Oath But suppose the form of a Pillory was not easy to them must I therefore be tried and judged to move stir up cause discords tumults and miserable slaughters c. Well however as this shews what the Quakers would do had they power so it is a sufficient proof that they did endeavour to hinder the Sale of my Books also this their indicting me shows what an envious and lying spirit they G. Whitehead and his Brethren are of SECT XVIII AS I have shewed how contrary the Principles and Practices of the Quakers are to the Principles and Practices of the French Protestants and indeed to all other Christians I am now about to shew their disparity in the Articles of their Faith setting forth an Abstract of the French Protestants Confession of Faith containing 40 in number which was presented to several French Kings as judging it a most proper way to obtain their Liberty as at large in the 1st Volume of J. Quicks History stiled Synodicon in Galia Reformata p. 6. to 15. And likewise what the Quakers believe if they believe as they write for by reason they have not given forth distinct Articles of their Faith like the Christian Churches in all ages I must collect some select passages out of their Books in one Column and the French Protestants in another viz. The Quakers Faith A Declaration to all the world of our Faith and what we believe who are called Quakers Concerning God and Christ Burrows works p. 439. We believe there is one only true God who is a Spirit and his presence filleth heaven and earth and he is eternal and everlasting the Creator and Preserver of all things Sauls Errand to Damascus c. p. 8. He that hath the same spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead is equal with God The Sandy Foundation p. 12 16. The vulger doctrine of satisfaction being dependent on the Second Person of the imagined Trinity of distinct persons

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