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A30024	The Christian ministry of the Church of England vindicated and distinguished from the antichristian ministry of the Quakers containing a brief reply to a false and foolish libel stiled A letter to the clergy of the diocess of Norfolk and Suffolk, &c., by a nameless author ... wherein his folly is detected, his lies confuted ... / by a member of the Church of England, Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1699 (1699)	Wing B5369; ESTC R35451	20,522	32

THE Christian Ministry OF THE Church of ENGLAND Vindicated and Distinguished FROM THE Antichristian Ministry OF THE QUAKERS CONTAINING A Brief Reply to a False and Foolish Libel stiled A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocess of Norfolk and Suffolk c. by a Nameless Author yet a pretended Member of the Church of ENGLAND WHEREIN His Folly is Detected His Lies Confuted His Weakness Discovered and his Malice Reproved By a Member of the Church of England FRANCIS BUGG That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every Wind of Doctrine by the Slights of Men and cunning Craftiness whereby they lye in wait to deceive Ephes 4.14 LONDON Printed for the Author And are to be sold by J. Robinson at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard And H. Rhodes at the Star in Fleet-street 1699. Advertisement WHereas the Sheet intituled A Letter to the Clergy c. is to my certain Knowledge universally spread in Oxford Wickham Ipswich Colchester Bury Cambridge Norwich Lyme Ely and divers other Parts of the Nation to the great Scandal of the Church of England and given Gratis they having a common Bank for that and every such Purpose into the Hands of Gentlemen Tradesmen Inn-keepers Hostlers and others to the great Prejudice of common Christianity and is a cunning Stratagem devised and set on foot by the Arch Emissaries of Quakerism under the Vizor of a Member of the Church of England whilst there is great Reason to believe him to be a real Quaker whose Principle and Practice hath been to Lie Dissemble Forge and Subscribe without the Consent of the Parties as Anne Docwra a Member of that Schism and now in their Unity and a Writer and Defender of their Heresie hath shewed These are therefore to give notice That any Persons zealous for our Holy Religion may have this Book ready stitcht for 2d per Book if they will buy 25 50 or 100 together at Mr. Janeway's Book-binder next Door to Child's Coffee-House in St. Paul's Church-yard London In order to a Universal Discovery of this Hermophrodite in Religion who lies sculking behind the Curtain stinging like a Serpent whose Throat is an open Sepulchre whose Mouth must be stopped and Folly manifested least the uncircumcised Triumph over the Israel of God The Preface to the Reader Christian Reader THE Apostle St. Paul writing to the Ephesians gives them many Precepts and sound Exhortations in order to the building them up in their most holy Faith amongst which this to me seems not the least cap. 4. v. 14. That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every Wind of Doctrine by the Slights of Men and cunning Craftiness whereby they lye in wait to deceive Again writing to his Son Timothy he seems to Inculcate the same over again foretelling what should come to pass 2 Tim. 3.13 But evil Men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived It 's true no Man can deceive another but he deceives himself yet such is the Influence that Interest and the Love of the World have upon the depraved Nature and ambitious Desire of some Men that they will use all the Slights and cunning Craftiness they can to deceive others And when one Engine will not do they 'll try another as we see by the Quakers who by their Slights and cunning Craft have deceived Thousands under the Pretence of their Seeming Sanctity and Pharasaical Demureness as well as by their Books which they generally pretend to be given forth by the Holy Ghost from the Mouth of the Lord and by the moving of the Eternal Spirit and as such to be of greater Authority than the Bible as G. Whitehead teaches in his Book Truth defending the Quakers p. 7. And thereupon they read their Epistles thus wrote in their Meetings as the Word of God whilst they never read one Chapter of the Bible in their Meetings I say by these their Wiles and Slights they have caught Thousands of unstable Souls but thro' much Labour and Pains by my self and others there has been such a Discovery made of their Books and the Blasphemies and Corrupt Doctrine contained in them that now their very Ringleaders themselves have refused either to own or disown them or the Doctrines contained in them by which many of their Hearers begin to question the Pretensions of their Leaders and many are come off from them and have been Baptized into the Christian Faith by the Ministers of the Church of England and now they have started a new Gain and used another Slight and cunning Piece of Craft whereby they watch all Opportunities to deceive the People namely to put forth a printed Sheet under the Disguise of a Member of the Church of England with a Design to abuse her and to deceive others as the following Discourse will shew and whereby we may see they grow worse and worse and this the Apostle foresaw And therefore like careful Watchmen gave us warning of them as in the Places above-cited To which let me add St. Peter's Prophetical Care Admonition and Caution 2 Pet. 2.1 2. But there were also false Prophets among the People even as there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them And bring upon themselves swift Destructions and many shall follow their Pernitious Ways by reason of whom the way of Truth shall be evil spoken of Now how far these and other of the like Truths left upon Record by the Primitive Inspired Pastors and Teachers of the Doctrine of Salvation are verified in our Days may be seen and ought to be more laid to Heart by us than I fear we do For it hath been manifest and clearly proved that the Quakers above all others that I am sensible of are the very Persons that deny the Lord that bought them and shed his most precious Blood for them were they but willing to accept of so great Salvation on Gospel Terms For says W. Penn in his Serious Apology c. p. 146. That the Outward Person that suffer'd at Jerusalem was properly the Son of God we utterly deny c. Here then we see the Holy Apostle St. Peter's Words fulfilled for he or they that deny him that suffered at Jerusalem upon the Tree of the Cross to be the Son of God I do affirm he or they whoever they be deny the Lord that bought them and will bring upon themselves swift Destruction yea and as many as suck in the Poyson of their Doctrine unless they repent thereof But W. Penn avouches the same in his Christian Quaker and his Divine Test c. p. 97 98. and in many other Places See also Is Pennington's Book A Question to Professors c. p. 33. Now the Scriptures distinguish between Christ and the Garment he wore between him that came and the Body in which he came between the Substance that was vailed and

her Judases If so how many Thousand Judases are there among the Quakers Secondly Are all that receive Money to support them in their Livelihoods Judases Then G. Whitehead Fox Cater and all or most of the Quaker-Teachers are such If not why may not the Church of England be charitable in their supporting their Members without being compared to the Jews who Crucified the Lord of Life and Glory as well as the Quakers And Thirdly If this obscure Author be a Member of the Church of England which I do not grant but believe him to be a Quaker in Disguise or at least one nearly related to them peradventure a Muggletonian a Deist a Socinian a Ranter or a Jesuit But still suppose he be a Member of the Church of England has he gone to the Clergy Has he spoke privately to them and endeavour a Reformation And when that would not do has he gone to their Governors in a Regular way and that for Two or Three Years together as I did before he exposes them in Print saying p. 5. Let me go where I will you are all charged with one thing or other amiss Some with Covetousness some with Pride some with Drunkenness indeed what not For most Folks will have one Story or other to tell of a Parson Perhaps you 'd say that 's no new thing the great Lord Jesus was call'd a Wine-Bibber a Friend to Publicans and Sinners and Paul was called a Sinner and a Babbler But Sirs remember this those that accused Christ and his Apostles were not of the same Society or Communion with them they were Unbelievers But these that accuse you are Men of our own Church c. I say did this Judas ever go to any of these Ministers whom he thus secretly smites at If not he can be no true Son of the Church but some base-born Bastard Brat of Ham's Family and this may be the Reason why he is ashamed of his Name But may not I say the like of the Quakers for I am as much a Quaker as he is a true Son of the Church Do not I here where ever I come or may I not if I were industriously concerned to find out their Immoralities find something or other amiss even amongst their Teachers and Writers and Defenders of their Faith Yea that I do or may if I will How that some are Covetous some are Drunkards alias wet Quakers some are Proud some have been Traytors to their Country some have been hang'd for Felony See my Pilgrim's Progress c. But says this base-born obscure Scribler Sirs remember those that called Christ and his Apostles Wine bibbers Publicans and Sinners were not of Christ's and the Apostles Commanion but those that accuse the Clergy are of the same Communion and therefore what Fran. Bugg and other Apostates say let it be ever so true let them have Witnesses to prove what they say let them name the Persons let them particularize their Enormities tell them when and where Day Month and Year with all other demonstrable Arguments all this is nothing the Quakers are still innocent still blameless and true Ministers of Christ A special Son of the Church of England indeed as Men sometimes speaks by the Rule of Contraries No nothing avails unless I can produce as good a Member of the Schism of Quakerism to testifie against the Quaker-Teachers as he is of the Church of England who thus exposes the Clergy all will not do But then to suit him and to bring an equal Parallel and of which too I can bring many Witnesses to strengthen and corroborate her Evidence it shall be Anne Docwra of Cambridge eldest Daughter of William Waldgrave of Buers Son of Sir William Waldgrave the younger I know she loves to have it known that she came of a Family above the common Size as well as this obscure Author loves to have the Testimony of them of the same Communion and I am willing herein to gratifie them both And now let us hear what she says of the Quaker-Teachers namely That they are the most confident Liars that ever she met with that they are abuseful Forgers and suspected to be Jesuits as like Knights of the Post as one Pea is like another That 't is common with them to set the Names of their tame Vassals to Books and Certificates and that such as refuse Submission to ruin them both in their Trades and Reputations That their separate Men's Meetings are Nurseries of Contention and dangerous to the Peace of the Nation and serve to little Purpose but to shelter great Bellies and to ingross the Properties of their honest Friends whilst the Vicious the Proud the Covetous and lying Hypocrites are covered and protected It is very sad says she that Men should be so confident in their Wickedness And now I will appeal to all good Christians who have read the Histories of the Popish Councils and Club of Cardinals whether ever there were a more deceitful Tribe of Men. All this I believe is true and know the greatest part of it to be so and I know also much more of the same Nature and of as deep a Dye which I have set forth in my Pilgrim's Progress But to humor this pretended Member of the Church of England whilst yet I have Grounds to believe him to be a real Quaker I have produced the Testimony of a real Quaker and one that has been a Quaker nigh 30 Years and now in the Unity that so it may have the more weight with him and be a Means to bring him out to pull off his Mask and to appear in his own Sanguine Complexion But that we may not want Evidence of what the Quaker-Teachers are not to mention the many Quotations which I could bring out of the Books wrote against the Quakers Errors by the Presbyterians Independants and Baptists who agreeable to the Church of England hold the Fundamentals of Christianity however differing in some Ceremonies relating to Discipline Order and Government which would be too voluminous here to recite yet having their Judgment of the Fruits and Doctrines of Quakerism well attested I shall here incert it that so the Professors of Christianity whether the Church of England or the Protestant Dissenters who agree in the main may stand by themselves on the one Hand studying the things that make for Peace and the Increase of Love and mutual Forbearance one with another all striving together for the Maintenance of the common Cause of Christianity and the Quakers Ranters Muggletonians and their Brethren the Deists Socinians and Mahometans whose Principles and Doctrine tend to subvert the Christian Faith and to overturn both Church and State may stand in their proper place I say for this end shall I subjoin their Testimony against Quakerism and with which I find the Church of England have great Unity and with it I shall conclude this short Tract viz. That the Quakers render the Holy Scriptures to be of no more Authority than Esop 's Fables That the Blood of Christ is no better than the Blood of another Saint that the Quakers are the Spawn of the Ranters that the Quakers owning of Christ is no more than a Mystical Romance that the Tendency of all the Quakers reasoning about Instituted Religion is to debauch Mankind that their Principles improved are destructive to all Humane Society that their Teachers are Cheats and Impostors and Implacable Enemies to the Christian Religion And as I believe their Testimony herein to be Truth so I do also hereby testifie and declare that what I have wrote in my former Books and what I have herein wrote respecting their Errors I do profess before God Angels and Men that I believe what I have wrote nor am I conscious to my self that I have wronged them but am still ready to meet George Whitehead upon the Terms proposed in my Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity c. p. 172. and to prove my Charge therein exhibited as well from Matter of Fact as Argument the former being already done at West-Dercham Church in Norfolk Dec. the 9th 1698. in the Presence of several Gentlemen Justices of the Peace many of the Clergy of the Church of England and many Hundreds more of Persons of Note A Certificate thereof is incerted in my Book Quakerism Exposed to Publick Censure c. in the Preface May 25. 1699. Francis Bugg Postscript to the READER Reader AS it was the Manner and Way of the Quakers in the beginning to carry out their Books to great Towns and Cities to spread Quakerism so have I taken some Pains to disperse my Books as an Antidote against the Growth of Quakerism upon which I find their Rage increase against me and the Proverb is Words go before Blows And remembring what Mr. Young an Independant Minister told me and George Keith in the Presence of divers others that he having some Dispute with Jacob Francklyn about Will Penn's Doctrine Jacob Francklyn grew high and hot and told him he deserv'd to be bang'd and soon after in Moorfields the said Mr. Young was knockt down was carried into a House all bruised and bloody but not robb'd tho' both a Watch and Money in his Pocket And George Whitehead the last time I saw him in Jewen-street threatned me that God's Judgments would pursue me and that now I write against I know not certainly who And knowing 't is dangerous fighting in the Dark and they that can thus colour over a Quaker with the Name of a Member of the Church of England I have great Reason to fear they can procure one to murther my Body as well as my Name and then say he is none of them 't was some Member of the Church of England I do therefore most solemnly declare that if I come to an untimely Death that I lay it to the Charge of the Quakers May the 5th 1699. Francis Bugg FINIS