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A30042 The Quakers yearly metting [sic] or convocation impeached on the behalf of the Commons of England by Francis Bugg. Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724? 1695 (1695) Wing B5391; ESTC R23821 7,431 10

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very Devil Thus Readers I have shewed you by their Convocation Canon that Tithes are an Antichristian Yoke and by Burrough's Works Antichrist is the Devil so that 't is the Devil's Yoke by Interpretation See also another of their Books stiled The Ancient Testimony c. p. 2. So it is no new thing that the People of the Lord call d Quakers have suffer'd so deeply for but the ancient Testimony to the Coming Death and Resurrection of Christ which they that plead for Tithes in this Gospel-day do in effect deny c. O horrible this is yet higher and higher What Antichrists yea Devils that plead for Tithes What Absolute deniers of the Coming Death and Resurrection of Christ that plead for Tithes What then are they that take Tithes pay Tithes nay that make Laws that Tithes shall be paid Surely there never was such a censorious Brood ever hatch'd into the World before Quakerism came up From all which note That the Quakers hold a Government within the Government and not only so but which is still worse against the Government which is bold with a witness and that from plain Matter of Fact For whereas 't is enacted by the King Lords and Commons in Parliament That the Subjects of this Nation shall pay their Tenths to such Persons and for such Uses as the Law directs And by Virtue of this Law and Civil Sanction the Clergy and Improprietors receive them as a Civil Right But in opposition hereunto the Quakers Summons two or more of their most eminent Elders belonging to each Quarterly Meeting in England and Wales if not the Town of Berwick upon Tweed who together with their Teachers from all parts of the English Nation besides Forreign Parts beyond the Seas sit in Council by way of Convocation and Ordain and Enact That Tithes are an Antichristian Yoke a Grand Oppression and as such ought to be withstood testified against and that in all Respects And the like may be said touching their prohibiting the Payment of Church Rates and Lays carrying Guns which the Quakers by their Edict repeal so far as their Power reaches in their Convocation the Laws and Statutes made by King and Parliament which sute not their Inclination and Absolve the King's Subjects from their Active Obedience to the Laws of the Land and cause them to adhere to a new Jurisdiction lately erected by a few Usurpers who hold a Convention Annually at London by way of Convocation to make Laws and Ordinances contrary and repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm which tend to subvert the Government and if not timely prevented may be of dangerous consequence to say nothing of divers other of their Laws and Canons Ecclesiastical in other of their Yearly Epistles as spreading ●heir Books up and down the Nation unlicenced c. Read 25 H. 8. c. 19 21. 27 H. 8. c. 15. 3 Ed. 6. c. 10 11. 1 Eliz. c. 2. 13 Eliz. c. 12. Magna Charta c. 29. Petition of Right 5 Eliz c. 1. 1 Ed. 6. c. 2. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 8 Eliz. c. 1. And to warrant my Impeachment not only from plain Matter of Fact shewing that the Quakers proceeding particularly in the Instance of Tithes as well as in twenty things more that might be mentioned is against the known Laws of the Land but also against the declared sence of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament I shall recite the Votes of the House of Commons in the Year of our Lord 1640. upon the Bishops for some certain Incroachments being impeach'd by Serjeant Wild though not the tenth part so bad nor of such dangerous consequence as the proceedings of the Quakers who have not the least colour of Authority for what they do for the Bishops had not only a share in the Legislative Power but the King's Majesties Licence to confirm what they did c. The VOTES concerning the Bishops late Book of Canons in the House of Commons That the Clergy of England convented in any Convocation or Synod or otherwise have no Power to make any Constitutions or Canons or Act whatsoever in matter of Doctrine or otherwise to bind the Clergy or Laity of this Land without the common consent in Parliament That the several Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical treated upon by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and York Presidents of the Convocation for their respective Provinces and agreed upon by the King's Majesties Licence in their respective Synods began at London and York 1640. do not bind the Clergy or Laity of this Land or either of them Thus we see the sence of the then House of Commons who would suffer no Competitors nor no Laws nor Ordinances made to bind the People under any pretence whatsoever notwithstanding the Bishops Power and the King's Majesties Licence but what was made by common Consent in Parliament what then can the Quakers say for themselves if a sight of all their yearly Epistles which contain their Laws and Ordinances for 20 years past should be demanded wherein and whereby they have absolved his Majesties Subjects from their Active Obedience to divers Laws of the Land as in this Instance of Tithes Object Possibly some may say Were it not better to have Friendly Conferences that so where any thing hath been done or said either in things Religious or Civil that cannot be justified might be Retracted and Condemned rather than thus to expose each other Answ I grant it so and from time to time I have proffer'd to meet George Whitehead on those terms but he would never assent to it and unless he would ingage a Retractation if need were or leave Matters of Fact to the Judgment and Decision of disinterested Persons I always refused to discourse him Indeed in his pretended Vindication c. in answer to my Sheet delivered to the Parliament Decemb. 1693. he made this seeming fair offer p. 4. viz. I George Whitehead freely offer and am willing to make it plainly appear before any six ten or twelve competent Witnesses who are moderate men of Sense and common Reason That Francis Bugg has grosly and wickedly abused and perverted Truth and wronged the People called Quakers both in Charge Citation and Observation Now in answer to this I came up to London the February following as I remember and accepted his offer and offer'd to leave it to any six ten or twelve Persons by us equally chosen out of the Episcopalians Presbyterians Independants or Baptists to judge whether I had so wronged them But he refused so to do manifesting thereby that he could not find six ten or twelve moderate men of common Sense amongst them all or else that the Quakers Principles were so erronious as that I did not wrong them either in Charge Citation or Observation For otherwise since I left him so much Field-room to choose his six ten or ●welve moderate men of common Sense and Reason as there is in the recited four Christian Societies and he refused to comply therewith