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A30022	A brief history of the rise, growth, and progress of Quakerism setting forth that the principles and practices of the Quakers are antichristian, antiscriptural, antimagistratical, blasphemous, and idolatrous from plain matter of fact, out of their most approved authors, &c. ... / by Francis Bugg, Senior.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1697 (1697)	Wing B5367; ESTC R23818	99,372	212

far out proportionably as in his high Commendation of William Penn Sect. 2. For alass As streams run from a full Fountain so do and did the Quakers run to the late K. J. II. for out of the abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaketh But of this I will not be mine own Judge but as a Demonstration thereof I will recite a few of their words out of some of their Addresses to the late K. J. II. And 1st London April 1687. We pray God to bless the King His Royal Family and People with Grace and Peace and that after a long and prosperous Reign here he may receive a better Crown amongst the Blessed Which is the Prayer of c. The second Scotland June 1687. We cannot but with grateful Hearts both admire and acknowledge the Providence of God that made the Kings retiring into our Country i. e. Scotland 1679 give a happy turn to his Affairs to the defeating and disappointing the designs of his Enemies We do justly conceive our selves obliged by a special tye to praise God for his Goodness in carrying the King thorow and over all his troubles since by the same Providence and at the same time by which the Lord began in that more observable manner to evidence his care of him he made him the happy Instrument to deliver us from our troubles So that the prosperity of his Affairs and our peaceable fruition of the exercise of our Consciences beareth the same date the 3d. London August 1678. We pray God save the King and deliver him out of all his Enemies Hands both Spiritual and Temporal Enemies Amen Mark Reader here is Address upon Address and Prayer after Prayer for the late King James II. which sound his Fame from England to Scotland and from thence Eccoed back from Stotland to England in the highest strain and most elegant Stile the Quakers could invent sutable to their singular Dialect I do not mention this practice whil'st he was King of England and seated on the Throne as an Evil in it self or inconsistent with their Duty and the Duty of all his Subjects for 't is my Judgment that we ought to pray for all Kings which God in his Providence sets over us without disputing their Titles and to obey every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake knowing that there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God and who so resist the Powers they resist the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation according to these Scriptures Rom. 13. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2 cap. Mat. 22. 21. I say I do not recite these Addresses and Prayers made by the Quakers to and for the late King as an Evil in it self for I do believe we ought to pray for all Kings whether they be Pagan or Christian Papist or Protestant good or bad Orthodox or Hetrodox Protectors or Persecutors for such was the practice of all Gods faithful Saints and Servants from Abraham downwards to this day as these Scriptures shew in the Margin Ger. 20. and 47. 7. 10. Exod. 1. 6. to the end cap. 2. 23 24 25. cap. 3. 7 10. 10 Acts 7. 18. to 35. Psal 90. 1. Josephus Anti. l. 6. cap. 5. 67 1. Sam. 8. 22. cap. 9. 16. 17. cap. 15. 1 9. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 1 Chron. 28. 4. 1 Kings 18. 25. Jer. 33. 20. Ps 132. 11. to 14. 2 Sam. 7. 25. cap. 16. 16. Ezr. 6. 3. to 14. Joseph An. 11. cap. 4. Ezek. 19. 10. Exod. 22. 26. 1 Pet. 2. Mat. 22. c. But that which disappoints both the Author of this Gen. Hist my self and thousands more is that they should thus heartily pray for and address themselves unto the late King and write so many Books in favour of the then Government calling him brave King c. God and Cesar are both of a mind c. A sensible Prince c. An Instrument in God's hand c. and notwithstanding all this and much more that might be said on the same Subject yet when King William his present Majesty whom God preserve came to the Crown and the very first Year of His Reign did by Law indulge them in the exercise of their perswasion and give them all the ease they reasonably could desire yet they made not one Address to him nor one Prayer for him as they did for the late King no nor yet wrot one Book in favour of the Government which made me and others admire at their ingratitude for I was so far of the same mind with the Author of the Gen. Hist That I thought the Quakers could not but love K. W. III. and embrace him as their most effectual Defender but when I came to prove them and try them and measure them by their Fruits and to consider that in two years space they made 4 Addresses to the late K. J. II. and that in 4 years time they had not made one Address to K. W. III. I then altered my mind and by reading of their said Addresses and their Books wrot by W. Penn I found that the stream of their Affections did run like a mighty torrent to the late K. J. II. when there was not the least issuing drop of Affection run to His present Majesty and this put me upon writing a Letter to the Quakers August 1690. p. 2. Now if you would be constant then why do you not pray for and address your selves to K. William and Q. Mary as heartily and as publickly as you did to and for K. J. whom you call'd and said a Brave King God and Cesar are both of a mind pray Godbless the King and His Royal Family These and many more magnifying Expressions were published thro the Nations But no Salutation no Message no Prayer for nor no Address to K. W. and Q. M. as if you were struck mute at the loss of your brave King whom you said was of the same mind with God What can you say for your selves Are you like those 1 Sam. 10. 27. viz. The Children of Belial who said how shall this Man save us And they despised him and they brought him no presents no Addresses nor Prayers but the King held his peace Oh you unworthy and ungrateful Persons Hath not King William granted you the Liberty of your Consciences and confirmed it by a Law What have you nothing to say for King William Nay you are so far from that that when His Majesty appointed a Fast for the prosperity of his Armies you not only Preached against the Fast but also to weaken the Hearts and Hands of his Friends you did vehemently cry down all Wars and Fighting Is your zeal for the Protestant cause and the Protestant interest quite lost and gone or is it gone to Rome You have had several yearly Meetings since this King's Reign but not the least publick acknowledgment of the special Favour shewed you by the King and Parliament I will not say but some of your

born of the Flesh is Flesh and that is against the Spirit and can neither edifie nor comfort though good Words and Scripture sentences may be spoken for it is not speaking the Words of others that doth make a true Prayer but in receiving a measure of the same Spirit of Prayer which is not in thy Common Prayer Book to be found therefore it is made of none effect because thy bowels bring it forth and the Pope gives Life and Breath unto it and from his Loyns it draws its Strength and not from the power of God Tradition what can I say to be received for truth my Ceremonies c. are denyed but there can be nothing said against my Bishops and Ministers the Scriptures speak so plainly of them c. Truth now Tradition harken what Truth saith and give thine Answer to what is demanded of thee Who made thy Archbishops and Lord Bishops and who gave them these Names And who first divided unto them their several Diocesses and appointed them to Rule within their own Diocess And who first made Deans and Prebends Doctors Vicars and Curates and who gave them their Names And who first set up certain Places for Schools And who gave them the Names of Universities And how came they to be call'd Christ's Colledge and Emanuel's Colledge John's Colledge and Jesus's Colledge And who set up Commencements and Degrees that a Man must be made Batchelor of Art and Master of Art before he can be approv'd to be made a Minister in thy Order And who first made that Law which forces and compels the payment of the Tenth part of things encreased to such a Ministry and whether are such the Ministers of Christ who make use of that Law to force their maintenance Are these thy Bishops and Ministers which thou say'st there can be nothing said against them Open thine Eye and behold them for they are Monsters which from thy adulterous Conception are brought forth and they are stamped with thy Image and all thy abominations are denyed and testified against this is a Charge against thee Tradition this thing which make such discoveries of my Practices and with such boldness reproves me for them it is of God for it is not in fear of me nor my power which now is Strong and of great Authority Truth that which doth discover thee and thy deceitful Practices is the Truth i. e. Quakers of God which was before thou had'st a Name and will be when thy Name is lost and it doth boldly reprove thee and is without any fear of thee or thy power and hath opened thee and ript up thy Bowels and discovered thy adulterous Womb and all the false Conceptions that hath been conceived their and now behold ye Archbishops Lord Bishops Deans Prebends Doctors Vicars and Curates and all Prelaticals here is the Womb of your Conception opened and that made manifest from which you draw your breath and prolong the length of your days with all your Service and Worship which you so much esteem and promote Therefore hear and consider ye Bishops Deans Prebends Doctors Vicars and Curates with all Prelaticals you must come to the Bar and if you will but soberly peruse this Catechism or Dialogue you may know and learn that which all your Universities could never give you the knowledge off nor all your Learning and Wisdom could never teach you so escape for your Lives that the stroak may not fall upon you Truth Reader marvel not too much at the Impudence of this Man for it is the Heart of Quakerism He was a right Quaker and no Mungril and Eminent Teacher and a ready Sail. You see he feared not the Bishops nor their Power he had no respect to the Law which Establish'd the Book of Common Prayer nay should the Question be put to Geo. Whitehead whether he would under his Hand condemn this Antichristian piece to be burnt on Tower-hill he would say no not for a World it is the Marrow of his Religion I could give Instances of the like nature out of 100 of their Books but for brevities sake and that I may not stay my Reader too long from something new I shall only recite 2 or 3 Books more that so the Author of the Gen. History may hear his Text fully proved viz. that the Quakers enveigh against the Liturgy and that bitterly too together with the Ministry of the Church of England A Touchstone or perfect Tryal of all Priests Bishops and Ministers This Book contains more than 100 Pages in Quarto printed 1667. by Margaret Fell whom George Fox afterwards Married the purport of which is to shew them all the Clergy are false Prophets Deceivers c. which being but a Woman tho' a very proud imperious Dame I pass her by The Innocency and Consciousness of the Quakers c. p. 7. As for the purity of the Church of England it 's out of our sight we can see a great deal of impurity in it and as much the Members of it confess themselves indeed they confess enough of themselves to cause all wholsome sound understanding People to shun them and their Church and Worship as Men shun a contagious Disease or Infection I think this is so bold as well as base that it need no comment But if they look into the Cage I presume they 'll find little cause to boast especially if I give them the right Key to open it and that amongst their Teachers and Writers but if I should make a Cage for their Hearers ir would be much enlarged every way Truth exalted in a Short but sure Testimony c. by W. Penn p. 9. Come Church of England whence came your Forms of Prayer and Church Government from the Scriptures or the Mass-Book and Popish Canons and what President do you find for Litanies Responces Singing Organs Altars Bowings c. with much more such like dirty Trash and soul Superstition Stand up and answer me you Members of the Church of England But are they not the Off-spring of the Popish Generation God is now breathing forth in Vengeance to Thunder down and Consume all your fair Buildings and pleasant Pictures of Babilonish Inventions But alas poor Souls are you not at have mercy upon us miserable sinners there is no health in us from seven to seventy c. The Guide mistaken by W. Penn p. 18. And whil'st the idle gormondizing Priests of England run away with above 1500000 l. a Year under pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so universally thorow Ages the very bane of Soul and Body to the universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most Dreadful Vengeance wait to act their Eternal Tragedy upon Burrow's Works p. 244. Oh what cruel Injustice and Tyranny in Civil Government Oh what abominable Superstition and Idolatries have been in Church Government It is a vexation to the Spirit of the Lord to consider it and the righteous Soul hath long