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A30044	Seventy queries to seventy Quakers. Or, A second sober expostulation with the hearers amongst the Quakers, by way of interrogation; touching the doctrine and practice of their mercenary teachers, expecting their answer, or else shall conclude by their silence, they assent to what is objected against them by Fra. Bugg. The introduction to the reader.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1698 (1698)	Wing B5393; ESTC R219419	9,095	8

took Ten Shillings of all the Clergy I never Cursed them no Christ commands to Bless and Curse not and the Doctrine of the Church of England teach the same insomuch that I have and can pray that God may Bless them in turning them from the Errors of their Ways upon their Confession of their Sins to God and begging Pardon for Christ's sake But they have Cursed me I cannot say with Bell Book and Candle but in their Books and Letters see Pilgrims Progress p. 146. and not only me but the Bishops of the Church of England and that in Print calling them Cursed Bishops and Sam. Cater in a Meeting at Milden-Hall in my Hearing Cursed the Clergy saying They are Cursed with an Everlasting Curse I then jogged John Everet sitting by me another of their Teachers who going home with me I asked him how he liked such Doctrine He told me not at all And as for their Insolent Boldness I have recited a Sample in these Queries bottomed on Matter of Fact in their Books and more largely handled them elsewhere and this angers them they began with Cursing and Railing and continue the same still they are not changed they tell you so but they like not to have it taken Notice of that angers them they love it as well as ever they did and are as free in it witness Sylas Norton's Carriage to me at Oxford but as their Books are of two sorts so are their Carriages they 'll be as smooth as Oyl to your Face when the Poyson of Asps is under their Tongue or else as a worthy Clergy-man lately said How should they prove themselves right-bred Children of the Accuser of the Brethren It 's true I have ript up their Boldness their Sawciness and Impudence that angers them they love to use it it 's the Marrow of their Religion and by which they have beguiled Thousands of young unstable People by telling them the Clergy are Witches Devils Conjurers and the like But this they would not have exposed this is to use when they see Occasion they can now word the Matter otherwise and yet mean the same thing G. Whitehead tells you so and you may believe him It may be their Hearers may say that one Fool may ask more Questions than a Hundred wise Men can answer which I grant and one of those Fools I have long since taken their great Apostle to be Geo. Fox by name yea and Nature too who in his Book stiled in Contempt of the Clergy A Primmer for all the Doctors and Scholars in Europe c. proposed to the Universities and Clergy c. 2434 Queries which all the Quakers in England can never answer should they go about it But to avoid that Rock I have proposed to their Hearers only 70 Queries both plain and easie to answer by saying Yea or Nay to each Question and which I my self can answer in half an Hours time I have now by me near 4000 Quaker Queries to the Clergy and many of them answered in Print so many at least as are worth noticing And since it has been their own Method to trouble the World with their Impertinent Queries as What is a Dative Case What is a Genitive Case What is a Participle What is an Adverb What is a Dipthong What is an E-dipthong And who spake them first And what is Dog-Madness What is Badger-madness And the like Why may not I question them about their Fundamentals 'T is but a Query to a Person 70 Queries to 70 Quakers which when answer'd I shall propose 70 more and so on until we understand them But to avoid that I fear they 'll not answer these few for Error loves Obscurity because Darkness is its Habitation Counterfeit Coyn will not endure Trial And this makes them rage this makes them rail fret and fume for Reprobate Silver they are loath to be called yet by the Help of a Metaphor 't is their proper Name but notwithstanding all this Plainness of Speech yet I presume they 'll again be angry But I have learnt to bear all things I know their Hypocrisie is as deep as Hell and their Malice as cruel as the Grave and that against me and others who have discover'd their Cursing their Railing and Impudent Boldness but I 'll keep out of Moore-Fields and hope to avoid the Dint thereof and am content to become the Object both of their Scorn and Malice so that thereby I may have Opportunity to make them manifest first to themselves that they may Repent and then to others for many of them are so Ignorant respecting the Christian Religion which teach us to Love our Enemies Bless and Curse not do Good to them that despitefully use you that they know not their Right Hand from their Left and yet so spiritually Proud that they will not be taught FINIS Written by the Author of The Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity c. Sept. 1698. and both Sold by W. Kettleby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard London

a Lamentable thing Answer if you have any Courage left Touching their Hypocrisie and Censoriousness Q. 63. VVhether you still believe the Quakers to be the only Church of Christ and that the Quakers are in the Truth and none but they as your Doctors Whitehead and Sol. Eccles Teach notwithstanding you Reject the Ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper Reject the Reading the Holy Scriptures in your Meetings yet read your own nonsensical Epistles make no Confession of Sin nor ask Pardon for Christ's sake nor ever pray in the Name of Jesus to God the Father Answ Q. 64. Why do your Teachers leave out of your Marriage Certificates the Woman's Promise of Obedience to her Husband it being a Command of God And is not this the main Reason that the Quakers Wives are not ashamed to tell you they see no Reason that they should either Obey or Reverence their Husbands Answ Q. 65. Whether you be not more Zealous for the Commandments of G. Fox in the Education of your Children teaching them strictly to observe Thee and Thou to a single Person First Second and Third Day of the Week not to wear Lace c. than you are for the Commandments of God which teach VVomen to obey their Husbands Children their Parents Servants their Masters Subjects their Princes and Governors c. Answ Q. 66. Why do you suffer such Hypocrites to teach among you as Cater who pretended he suffer'd 20 l. for Preaching at Phakenham in Norfolk when he suffer'd not a Groat but got 10 l. clear into his Pocket Answ Q. 67. Why do you suffer George Whitehead to Teach amongst you who Preach against Swearing and yet himself did swear in the Lord-Mayor's Court April 9. 1695. before the Quakers Oath was Enacted Answ Q. 68. Whether it was not a Trial of Skill to root out the Protestant Ministry and overturn the Church of England when 7000 Quakers petitioned the Parliament against Tythes And can you take it ill if you meet with such a Petition to purge the Nation of Blasphemers Answ Q. 69. Whether you think Whitehead your Drudge can defend your Teachers from what in this Paper and my last Book is objected against them If not ought you not to examine the Matter Answ Lastly Who they Account False Ministers and what such are Q. 70. Whether you believe as one sort of your Books Teach Viz. First Are all such as sprinkle Children ALL such as Preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above ALL such as Preach out of the Scriptures ALL that Pay Tythes ALL that Receive Tythes false Ministers And if so then Secondly Are such Conjurers Thieves Robbers Antichrists Baal's Priests Witches Blind Guides Serpents and Devils Are all such Liars and the Sir Symons of the Age whose Commission and Call say they came from Oxford and Cambridge Are all such Stewards of the Devil's Magazines Dissemblers Hypocrites and a Viperous and Serpentine Generation as your Teachers say Yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers Scarlet-colour'd Beasts a Harlot full of Abomination and Filthiness Babylon's Merchants selling Beastly Wares for a large Price the LETTER * Mark the Scriptures are with them Beastly Ware Dust and Death and elsewhere Serpents Meat which is Dust and Death and Whited Walls professing nothing but Poysonous Stuff Ravening Wolves greedy Dogs Really they are say this Book of the Quakers Blood-Hounds still Hunting and Gasping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Barking and Raging like Sodomites Ambitious Pharisees yea of the Devil Wo wo wo was the Portion of those Pharisees then and wo wo wo is their Portion now and Wo and Misery is the Portion of the Upholders i. e. King and Parliament of that Treacherous and Deceitful Generation c. Answ POSTSCRIPT Reader This Sheet which is occasion'd by the Quakers Deportment gives a fresh Taste of the Spirit of Quakerism For I having dispersed my Charge to G. W. as in Pilgrims Progress c. p. 172. into divers part of the Nation not only by my Book aforesaid but by a single Quarto Page this has greatly tormented the Quakers For clear themselves thereof they cannot and condemn their Errors they will not for then down goes Infallability and with it Quakerism that being the main Pillar upon which their Babel-Building stand And when I was at Oxford I sent one of these Quarto Pages containing the said Charge to Sylas Norton a Quaker he asked the Messenger from whence it came who told him from Francis Bugg I will not receive it said Sylas The same day I being at Christ's Church-College and discoursing of it and how S. Norton rejected the said Charge and Challenge one of the Fellows desired me to go along with him to S. Norton thinking I suppose that he could prevail with him to attempt a Defence I went with him and by all the fair VVords and Christian Arguments that he could use could not gain the Point tho' he told him the Charge was high and if true upon them the Quakers were not Christians and if not true he would engage the University should condemn Francis Bugg I then also offer'd that if I did not prove it upon them from their approved Authors that I would burn my Book as a Testimony against my own Injustice But neither of us could prevail but instead thereof according to their wonted manner he and his VVife railed at me call'd me Liar Serpent Brute Beast and the like Names and not only so but fell foul on the Gentleman and told him that they hired Balaam to curse the Quakers which I take to be a foul Slander cast upon that Famous University for they never hired me nor perswaded me to write a Line nor put VVords into my Mouth but what I write is of my own Accord I never was nor am a Hireling but a Volunteer First when I was a Quaker I suffer'd Three Years and Four Months Imprisonment for meeting and not taking the Oath of Allegiance I suffer'd more than 100 l. in Fines and Distresses for Meettings I was Recorder to their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings 16 or 18 Years and never took one Shilling for all my Journeys and other Service I gave 20 l. towards building their Meeting-House in Milden-Hall tho' when I left them and they denied me the use thereof by Agreement they repaid me 12 l. thereof which I put to a better use namely Printing against those Errors I formerly held I was one of the chief Entertainers of their Ministers in that part of the Country where I dwelt I have Cloathed some and put Money in the Pockets of others of them I know not in what thing I was Inferior to them which now Domineer and Insult over me And Secondly since I left them I have waged War with their Teachers from 1678 to 1698 not only by Manuscript Controversie but almost every Year one with another a Book little or great against them in Print and never till 1697.