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A30035	The pilgrim's progress, from Quakerism to Christianity containing, a farther discovery of the dangerous growth of Quakerism, not only in points of doctrine, but also in their politicks, respecting their government, and opposite to it, together with their fund or common bank to support the same : with a remedy proposed for this malady, and the cure of Quakerism : to which is added an appendix, discovering a most damnable plot, contriv'd and carrying on by New-Rome, by an united confederacy, against the reformed religion and professors thereof, as will appear from the designs of their silent meetings, their monthly, quarterly, second-day, six-week, and yearly meeting, all which are particularly herein treated on / by ... Fr. Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1700 (1700)	Wing B5383; ESTC R20744	232,865	530

Many Tu Thou singular Vos You plural That now why the Teachers of the World Scholars and School-Masters teach People and Children which will not have People nor Children to speak Thou to One and You to Many is not Sense nor good Latin nor good English nor good Hebrew To you that stumble at the Word Thou to a particular because we do not say You this is sent c. GEO. FOX The next thing I have to present the World with is an Abstract of an Epistle of G. Fox's sent to be read in Churches London Printed for Matth. Simmons 1657. Thus did the Pride Arrogance and Presumption of this People appear which as they confess shewed that they were raised contrary to all Men As their Practice in a Hundred Things was contrary to all Men so am I made willing to deal with them as I would by no other Men And since they have ordered a Liturgy for the Churches giving forth an Epistle for them to read why may not I form a few Words out of their own Books and so far as I can make G. Whitehead to hold them forth And since the Quakers would make the Churches read their Nonsence why may not I draw some natural Inferences from the Quakers Doctrine since my End is nothing else but to display their Errours and make them appear in their Native Complexion which by their Teachers are more masked and obscured If any say That by drawing a Scheme of their Meeting and forming a Sermon for them to preach is to do such a thing as no Man ever did Let them remember again That no Man ever yet had the Impudence to write a BATTLE-DOOR for the Learned Gentry and Clergy of a Protestant and Learned Nation as England is nor to form a Liturgy to be read in Churches and especially by a poor Journeyman Shoemaker and an almost illiterate Man that could neither write Sense nor true English and this may probably ballance the Wonder especially considering that it is more than 20 Years since I wrote first against them and from first to last could never prevail with them to retract one Errour nor to condemn one of their Books in which their vile and gross Errours are taught An Abstract of their said Epistle to be read in Churches is as followeth viz. To all the People who meet in Steeple-Houses in England and elsewhere So all you that have the Letter in England therefore to you all this is sent a Message from the Lord Jesus Christ in England or elsewhere into all the Steeple-houses to be read for God is a Spirit and they that Worship Him must Worship Him in Spirit and in Truth and such were drove out of the Synagogues drove out of the Idol's Temple and drove together and so an Epistle was written to them and God is the same He is a Spirit and His Spirit is drawing from all Steeple-houses And these are them that witness Oxford and Cambridge the two Mothers of Divinity which now the Lord's Hand is against and His Sword is drawn against they are in their Witchcraft and Whoredom this is the Cage of unclean Birds the professed Ministers And therefore all People that are here Christ is not in the Letter nor the Life is not in the Letter nor the Word is not in the Letter this mediate Stuff hath Reigned long in the Cage * * Fox's Journal p. 227. of unclean Birds this Babylon And the Serpent and Dragon which hath deceived the Nation you get the Letter for the Light a Steeple-house for a Church Matthew Mark Luke and John for the Gospel † † This is their Ancient Testimony See News coming up c. and his Several Papers spread c. All harp on this string that Matthew Mark Luke and John are so far from being the Gospel that they are Dust and Serpents Food The mighty Day of the Lord is coming and is to be cried in all the Steeple-Houses in England to be read and cried and it is that which you call your Church the High Places of Idolatry it takes away your Life to cry against your Church to take away your High Place of Idolatry there and this is to go abroad in all Steeple-houses in the Nation and their High Places and thro' the World that they may come to God from them G. FOX Now Reader I will challenge a Parallel to the Impudence of the Quakers Amongst all the Hereticks that ever rose up since the Days of Christ in England Scotland Ireland Holland or any Protestant Nation under the whole Heavens to find me a Man unlearned a poor Mechanick to put forth a Book intituled A BATTLEDOOR for all Teachers Scholars and School-Masters to learn them the English of Tu and Vos with the Form and Figure of a Child's Penny Horn-book thereby to render them Ridiculous and Contemptible in the Eyes of the People and with such horrid Cheats attending all the Circumstances i. e. to pretend to Divine Inspiration That he Fox was before all Languages and consequently before the Building of Babel where the Languages were divided and that he was whilst living come to the end of Languages which remain now he is dead and gone No no G. Fox was not the Author it was John Stubbs and Ben. Furley did the Learned Part yet set their Hands only to the Title Page but G. Fox's Hand is set to the Latin BATTLEDOOR the Italian BATTLEDOOR the Greek BATTLEDOOR the Hebrew BATTLE-DOOR the Chaldee BATTLEDOOR the Syriack BATTLEDOOR besides in Three or Four Places more and yet wholly ignorant in all those Languages which the Jews * For what Ben. Furley and John Stubbs could not do for Money out of the Common-Bank did for him O horrid O monstrous Next I make the like Challenge to parallel the Quakers Impudence not only to go into Churches to disturb the Ministers according to their Ancient Testimony and which they cannot deny since 't is Recorded plentifully in their Second Moses their great Exemplar's Journal but I mean to send an Epistle to be read in the Churches calling them at their Will and Pleasure Steeple-Houses High Places of Idolatry where the Christians exercise their Witchcraft and Whoredom yea a Cage of unclean Birds Serpents and Dragons that take the Letter i. e the Scripture for the Light and Matthew Mark Luke and John for the Gospel Oh horrible What Impudence is this What Luciferian Pride is here for a Dissenter nay worse for an Inpostor thus to impose his Imposture upon a Christian Nation Which being compared with what else in other Books I have observed out of the Quakers Writings as that the Bishops and Clergy are Witches Devils Conjurers Sodomites Bloodhounds Antichrists the Sir Symons of the Age Jesuits c. yea Monsters and what not and then let G. Whitehead tell me first What he thinks of the Quakers Meekness and Humility and next Whether this Epistle BATTLEDOOR and great part of their Writings be not Seditious

your own good too in hopes that our Government will find a time to Examin these things and prevent your walking in Masquerade as well as your deep Design to supplant Christianity 11. And I am willing further to observe that as the Proceedings of Francis Bugg has been a Check upon you so has he been useful in keeping on foot the Petition till a Convenient Season as also in Answering your Books by which you Banter the Grand Juries the Corporations and the Justices of Peace which will be no small Motive to the Prosecution now in hand 12. Not that I believe or desire Persecution will ensue no. I am not for punishing the Swearers and Damners of the Age with Cutting their Throats or a Sea of Blood but that as God permits them to Live so the Nation suffers them tho' not tolerated by an Act of Indulgence no more 't is hoped will you in your Blasphemous Errors and Pernicious Principles unless you do heartily and sincerely retract them and thereby make some Atonement for the great Scandal you have been to the Reformed Religion and so Adieu ERRATA PReface p. 1. line 4. for 1689 read 1698. p. 9. l. 18. f. as r. is p. 37. l. 13. f. have to r. to have Page 28. line 2. Smith's Works and Penington's Question p. 35. l. 15. f. 1560. r. 1650. p. 52. l. 14. f. Country r. Counterfeit p. 61. l. 24. f. writ r. wrought p. 78. l. 15. f. Reason r. Harlot p. 128. l. 4. r. till you have p. 172. l. 27. f. why r. what p. 250. l. 14. f. Reason r. Religion l. 17. r. Boyling Vengeance p. 227. f. every r. ever p. 303. l. 3. f. is r. in p. 305. l. 6. r. which to p. 154. l. 8. r. the Lord. THE Pilgrim's Progress FROM QUAKERISM TO Christianity c. CHAP. I. Giving an Account of my Education in the Profession of the Christian Faith and how I came to Apostatize from it and fall in with the Schism of Quakerism I Was Born at Milden-Hall in the County of Suffolk on the 10th Day of March Anno 1640. and Baptized into the Church of Christ the 14th of the same Month promising then by my Sureties to Fight manfully under Christ's Banner My Father's Name was Robert Bugg second Son of Francis Bugg and Margaret his Wife who was Chief Constable many Years my Mother's Name was Joan the Fourth and Youngest Daughter of Thomas Holman and Mary his Wife who was Baptized the 16th Day of March 1619. living at Lakenheath-Hall My Parents were of a good Yeomen-Family and lived in good Repute and brought me up in the Profession of the Church of England and when I came to Years capable of Instruction they Taught me the Lords Prayer the Ten Commandments and the Apostles Creed and very severe they were in Teaching me the Rudiments of the Christian Religion I remember my Mother who was a very good and pious Woman and religiously inclined would not suffer me to Sleep when I went to Bed e're I had said my Prayers and sometimes part of my Catechism And on the Lord's Day she made me to frequent the Church and at Home on that Day as well as most other Days to read some Portion of the Holy Scriptures They brought me up to School Learning until I attained to the Age of about Fifteen Years whereby I was capable to Write and Read English very well as also to cast Accompt few Lads went beyond me As also the Grammar wherein I was well instructed in the Rules thereof insomuch that I began to make a Piece of Latin but my Father living in a great Farm at Undley-Hall in the Parish of Lakenheath of 200 l. a Year besides a Fen-Farm in his Hands of 100 l. per. Ann. more he had in the Summer-time great Occasion for my Assistance and thereby was prevented of attaining to that Degree they once designed And afterwards being an Apprentice and so fell into Business that I soon lost a great part of that Learning I once had attained I must also confess I was in my Youth inclined to Company especially to Dancing and Musick yet I had in my early Years a Love to Religion and delighted much in Reading the Holy Scriptures sometimes Eight or Ten Chapters together I also lov'd much to hear good Preachers I very well remember that sometimes I went to Milden-Hall where we formerly liv'd on the Lord's Day on purpose to hear Mr. Watson who was accounted a famous Preacher being Four Miles from my Dwelling Thus much briefly touching my early Education Observations on the First Chapter REader I am the more particular in these Remarks for that the Quakers how much soever I was in esteem whilst with them since I left them have traduced me and laid all the Reproaches on me which Malice can invent (a) Non patitur Ludum fama Fides Oculus i. e. A Man 's Good Name his Faith his Eye will not be dally'd with said Luther in his Comment upon Gal. p. 51. as shall be shewed hereafter as well as to shew how excellent a thing it is for Parents to bring up their Children in the Nurture and Fear of the Lord to instruct them in the Principles of Christianity teach them the Lord's Prayer the Ten Commandments the Apostles Creed and the Church Catechism These Things together with Reading and Hearing the Scriptures Expounded being instiled into them in their young Years they will scarcely forget it when they are Old But if they should yet at one time or other the Remembrance of them may so far be brought to mind that they may thereby be brought to a Sense of their Condition And I speak what I know by Experience for the first Sermon I heard which was Preached by Mr. Smithies of Cripplegate London after I was about 25 Years amongst the Quakers and the very hearing of the Lord's Prayer the Ten Commandments the Apostles Creed and Confession of Sin did so strike me and bring things to my Memory that it shak'd all my Self-Confidence and brought me to the Consideration of Times past CHAP. II. An Account of my Apostacy and how I came to be carried away by the Quakers Dissimulation ABout the Year of our Lord 1657 Thomas Symonds of Norwich came to Lakenheath and appointed Meetings and many Quakers came from Thetford and other Places And tho' I went to Church on the Forenoon yet I had itching Ears to hear the Quakers and my Mother being dead and much of my Restraint thereby taken off I went to their Meetings in the Afternoon and gave great heed to what was spoken whose chief Subject was The Light within every Man and this Light to be Christ And their great Argument was from Christ's telling the Woman of Samaria her Thoughts saying Come see a Man which told me all things that ever I did is not this the Christ c. John 4.29 Therefore said the Quakers this Light within must needs be the Man Christ and no other

Eminent Quakers I can mention if need be But I understand the World so well as not to make these things the Subject of my Discourse nor did I ever mention any such thing in Print only G. W. gives now Occasion for it 3 dly As to the Author of the Snake in the Grass c. I am sensible G. W. does as much abuse him and indeed what Opponent ever had G. W. that he did not abuse However he has been and still is a Gentleman a Man of great Learning and Piety and cloathed with Zeal as with a Garment for the Christian Religion and well accomplished every way to display the Errours of the Quakers and is preparing an Answer to G. Whitehead wherein he I believe will trace him step by step in all his crooked and by paths But G. Whitehead I have not done with you yet you tell us in the History of your Call to the Ministry saying The Lord hath called me from my Native Country and from my Father's House and from outward Riches and the Honour of the World c. Jacob found in a Desart Land c. p. 8. I do well remember that when I came first amongst you this was a great part of your Cant as if you had been some Lords Sons yea Men of Breeding Riches and Honour and left all for the sake of Souls when alas upon a strict Enquiry of which I have not been wanting I find you in this as well as in almost every thing else horrible Deceivers for you left your poor Country for a Richer and like Yorkshire Hostlers are observed seldom or never to return thither again You came from Penury to Plenty from Labour and Toil to Ease and Pleasure you came from your Father's poor Cottage which I have been told by them that saw it that it is not worth 50 s. to Houses worth 500 l. a good Exchange believe me and you were so far from being possess'd with outward Riches that you came a poor Boy on Foot and liv'd upon Alms amongst us sometimes a Month here Six Weeks there more or less as you could find Entertainment the mean time improving that little Learning you had as well as to instruct the Children in the Family But George thou left thy Honour too how came that to pass What Worldly Honour wert thou endued with Was it to carry a Letter to a great Person sometimes for a piece of Victuals Very well I think that is as much as ever during thy Dwelling in thy own Country thou didst arrive to and for this in time thou hadst the Honour to send thy Servant and ride thy self on Horseback with a London Linnen-Draper riding before thee Benjamin Antrobus and John Kent worth some Thousands for ought I know riding behind thee carrying thy Portmantle and thy self George in the middle like some Peer Thus George instead of leaving thy Riches thy Honour c. thou left thy Penury and Contempt and by Deceit like thy Brother Sam. Cater who pretended he suffered 20 l. when he suffered not a Groat but by that Pretence got 10 l. clear into Pocket Picture of Quakerism drawn c. p. 106 to 111. at large But HARK George I find you so deceitful that I fear thou hast laid a Foundation in this thy Jacob found in a Desart Land and with Design too to have thy Friends after thy Decease when they collect thy Works to magnifie thy Call to thy Ministry out of thy Father's Country for the sake of Souls when alas it was for filthy Lucre-sake in leaving thy outward Riches when alas it was to get Riches and Honour Object 2. But may some say What will the Quakers give such notorious Accounts of their Call to their Ministry And are they generally of such a mean Abstract and yet so advanced Where is the Self-Denial they so often boast of And why do they debase the Clergy as a Tribe of Covetous Worldly Teachers Since if others be like Whitehead none exceed the Quaker Teachers in Worldly-mindedness Answ First Well to Answer this Objection take G. W. for one Instance 2 dly Sam. Cater who was a poor Journeyman Carpenter and when he led James Naylor's Horse into Bristol crying Hosannah to the Son of David and put in Prison he was well acquainted with Vermin Rags and Penury however 't is believed he is worth now besides Portioning out his Children some Hundreds 3 dly John Kilborn another Journeyman Carpenter as poor as either Whitehead or Cater when they first set up for Speakers now a Wealthy Man 4 thly William Bingley a poor Taylor wrought for 4 d. or 6 d. a Day in the North with Tho. Denison or others now a Rich Man 4 thly Samuel Wallingfeild a Glazier formerly but since a vast Rich Draper in London 6 thly Tho. Green a Mason or Bricklayer now a Man worth many Thousands 7 thly George Fox a poor Journeyman Shoemaker died worth Abundance and liv'd in as much Plenty as most Knights in England 8 thly Stephen Crisp formerly a poor Weaver but died very Rich. I have known most of these Eight Persons near 30 Years some longer and setting the Glazier and Mason aside which possibly might make up jointly 100 l. if need were but the other Six I do verily believe was not all worth 100 l. unless they had sold their Axes Saws Thimble and Needles Beds Stools Shuttle and Awl But such is the Art of their Preaching how much soever they decry Gifts and Rewards in others that put what Geo. Fox and Steph. Crisp died worth to what the other Six living for ought I know together and by the most modest Account that I can get together with my own Estimation their Estates thus got by Preaching is not so little as Twenty Thousand Pounds but some think nearer Thirty Thousand Pounds Now then I dare engage to produce 500 Clergymen whose Fathers were Men of Estates who brought them up at Schools and Colledges with great Expence and Charge and that since they came into the World have been frugal Men and liv'd as many Years in their Office of Preaching and yet have not advanc'd their Fortunes to this degree And yet to behold how their Books are fill'd with reproachful Language as well as their Sermons against the Clergy as a Tribe of Mercenary Hirelings Lovers of filthy Lucre Followers of Balaam for Reward seeking their Gain from their Quarters Greedy Dogs Babylon's Merchants Covetous Devils Thieves Robbers A Brief Discovery of a threefold State c. p. 5 7 8 9 10. Yea says W. Penn And whilst the Idle Gormondizing Priests of England run away with above 150000 l. a Year under Pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so universally thro' 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 is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon c. The Guide mistaken p. 18. And

of England than the Quakers did Witness their Trumpet sounded c. See their Trumpet sounded c. in the Eleventh Chapter But notwithstanding all this and a Hundred times as much which might be shewed out of their Books yet they continued villifying the Presbyterians saying Knowing that ye look on it as a Duty to fight by Military Weapons in Defence of your Principle yea to promote Your Cause by the Power of the Sword in which you are Confirmed by some of Your Preachers who are Always labouring to perswade you to this as one Evidence of your Zeal for God and not to spare to hazard your Lives Liberties and Estates in such a Glorious Cause as you call it It were worth your serious Consideration That if these Presbyterian Preachers continue to Stir you Up to Rise in Arms † No nor nothing of it but to stifle the Popish Plot and throw it upon the Protestants they have not much of Self-Interest in their Eye they being now secluded from their Places and that Power and Authority they and their Brethren had taken from them VVhether therefore they seek not to Embroil the Nations in New Wars rather than still to be thus deprived c. A plain and peaceable Advice to those called Presbyterians in Scotland c. Printed Anno 1681. p. 1 7. Thus then it appears that the Quakers to curry Favour with O. Cromwell they complained fearfully of the Presbyterians as Traytors for joining with the Church of England in the Happy Restoration of King Charles II. So now from 1660 to 1681 they all use the Craft and Policy imaginable to bring the Odium of that Reign upon the Presbyterians and thereby to make way for the Papists and to stifle all their wicked Plots and Conspiracies And that it is not my single Judgment I shall publish a Letter sent me SIR It being notoriously known That since the Discovery of the Popish Plot in England many Courses and Endeavours hath been used by the Papists and their Abettors to stifle and hinder the Discovery and Punishment thereof And particularly by pretending a Presbyterian Plot against the King and his Government in England and in order thereto it is evident what Falsities Scandals and Invectives against the Protestants in general under the Name of Presbyterians have Weekly been Published in those Libels Intituled Heraclitus the Observator and others And whereas there hath been lately Printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard Lombard-street London * * The Quakers Bookseller this present Year 1681. a certain Book Intituled Advice to the Presbyterians in Scotland which appears to have been written Two Years since which Book doth very much reflect upon some Principles of the Scotch Presbyterians whether rightly suggested or not is not the Intent of this Paper to examine but Twenty Years Experience of the Presbyterians in England have prov'd their Practices in England far different from the mention'd Reflections Therefore sundry well-meaning Protestants of different Persuasions from the Presbyterians for several Reasons have thought the Publication of the said Book in England * * Of Alex. Skene a Quaker-Teacher at this juncture of Time to be injurious to the Protestant Interest in general And some of the said Protestants being informed that Mr. Pennyman did intend to make a publick Protestation against the said Book this Day upon the Exchange did think it their Duty to dissuade Mr. Pennyman from the doing thereof as being probable to be the Occasion of the greater Publication of the said Book unto which he hath consented And the same Persons do likewise desire and require you as much as in you lyes to hinder thereof lest by your Neglect you strengthen the Hands of the Enemies of the Protestants and Protestant Religion in general † † Copy of this was sent to the Quakers 28. July 1681. Thus then doth it undeniably appear how enviously Malicious and of what a Persecuting Spirit the Quakers are yet poor Hearts this in them is all Innocency Meekness and the Lamb's Spirit but in others so much as to tell them of it it 's Persecution Pray why was it in G. Fox and others to call the Clergy Witches Devils Blasphemers false Prophets Jesuits Conjurers Antichrists and what not that might render them odious to the People Smith's Works p. 175. A Brief Discovery of a Threefold Estate c. p. 7 8. Burrough's Works p. 30. This is no Persecution in the Quakers no they are innocent Souls and as far from Persecution as the Meat of an Oyster is from the Shell when living in the Sea for they for the present are given up to suffer Come G. Whitehead what think you of your Brother Smith who calls the Bishops Monsters the Church of England a corrupted Womb and by him ript up What do you think of his saying the Common-Prayer-Book receives its Strength from the Pope's † Good God! was ever the like Impudence known Loins and that the Pope gives Life to it Oh that ye could but see your selves and repent of your Wickedness For if the Government should believe you that the Clergy are false Prophets what remains but Death and that according to the Law of God But I challenge the Quakers to produce one single Clergyman that have prophesied of a thing to come to pass and it did not as Sol. Eccles a Quaker-Prophet did who prophesied That John Story should die within a Year who lived Four Years after as I elsewhere have shewed Again If the Government believ'd the Quakers whose Books affirm that the Clergy are Witches and Devils they ought not to suffer them to live but presently say ☞ There goes a Witch knock him on the Head Exod. 22.18 Again ☞ There goes a Blasphemer stone him to Death Lev. 24.16 Again ☞ There goes a false Prophet let him die Deut. 18.20 Yea saith W. Penn Whilst the Idle Gormandizing Priests of England run away with above 150000 l. a Year under Pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so Universally thro' 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 is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon † Observe the Quakers Goliah of Gath W. P. c. The Guide Mistaken c. p. 18. Thus Reader I have given thee a Relish of the Quakers Meekness and Lamb-like Nature and therefore give me leave to hunt this Fox did I say give me leave Nay I am resolv'd that if thou wilt not give me leave I shall take it What! shall these Rabsheka's be perpetually Railing and Domineering over the Gospel-Ministers without Controul Shall these uncircumcised Philistines appear in Triumph Forty Years together and their Goliah vaunting himself boasting of his Parts Learning and Interest at as the other did of his Strength and Stature whose Staff of his Spear was like a Weaver's Beam and who glorying therein defied the Armies of

this Jealous Dividing and Rending Spirit that hath appeared in Strise and open Contention against thy Servants Thou knowest the Integrity of my Soul * * * Compare G. W.'s Ser. Apol. p. 4 5. with the Epistle and Page 19 317 357. of his Judgment fixed c. and it will shew this Prayer not only Pharisaical but deep Hypocrisie especially adding p. 72. of his Coun● Conv. c. where he tells you He can see Cause otherwise to word the Matter and yet mean the same thing c. Thou hast endued me with a Christian Spirit with Faith Patience and Rejoicing under all my Sufferings yet thou hast endued me also with the Spirit of Righteous Judgment Understanding and Zeal and hast raised me up † † † As he did Pharaoh in Defence of thy Gospel So I recommend all to thee to manifest the end of all and to plead and justifie my Cause it being thy own Cause Amen Amen saith my Soul Geo. Whitehead CHAP. XIV The Cage of Vnclean Birds opened the Idolatrous Practices Blasphemous Principles and Vicious Enormities of the Quakers laid open which may be compar'd with Pope Leo X. Reader BY the foregoing Chapter you have a View of the high Value the Quakers set upon themselves and their Ancient Testimony and how they Debase all Christian Churches as the Whore the false Church the Mother of Harlots even all First All that Sprinkle Children and tell People it is Baptism and thereby an Ordinance of Christ G. Fox's Primer p. 48. Secondly All that Preach Christ without as he is in Heaven at God's Right Hand Smith's Primer c. p. 8. Thirdly All that do Study the Scriptures and Preach out of them Saul's Errand c. p. 7. Fourthly All that will not Fast with the Quakers who are in the Truth saith Solomon Eccles and that none are in the Truth but they The Quakers Challenge c. p. 3 6. Fifthly All that pay or receive Tythes An Antidote c. p. 78. Sixthly All that take Matthew Mark Luke and John for the Gospel viz. Glad Tidings and the Scriptures for their Rule G. Fox's Epistle to be read in Steeple-Houses c. p. 2 3 4 5. Nay W. Penn and Whitehead adds That a Mountebank is an honest Man to a Parson that such Wickedness as Debauchery Drunkenness and Whoredom more suiteth the Spirits of his i. e. Priests own Fraternity the Priests both Episcopal and Presbyterian whose known Drunkenness and Whoredoms c. would fill Volumes to describe Hear W. Penn again p. 165. Had James Nayler's Words been Ten Thousand times more significant earnest and sharp against that cursed bitter Stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and I would then say not enough but that the Reverence I bear to the Holy Spirit would oblige me to acquiesce in whatever he should utter thro' any Prophet or Servant of the Lord * This Jam. Naylor W. Penn's Prophet is the Person that was Hosanna'd into Bristol and Sam. Cater now a Preacher amongst them then leading his Horse and we have nothing for them but Woes and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations and laid them to Sleep on the Downey Beds of soft sin-pleasing Principles whilst they have cut their Purses and pick'd their Pockets Tophet's prepared for them to act their Eternal Tragedy upon whose Scenes will be renewed direful anguishing Woes of an Eternal Irreconcileable Justice c. Ser. Apol. Dedicated to the King's Lieutenant in Ireland c. p. 2 22 127 156. Again saith the same W. Penn in his Book The Guide Mistaken c. p. 18. And whilst the Idle Gormandizing Priests of England run away with above Fifteen Hundred Thousand Pounds a Year under Pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so universally thro' 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 Well let us hear W. Penn once more what he saith of the Teachers of the Presbyterians Independants Baptists c. Quakerism a New Nick-name c. p. 165. viz. An Ill-bred and Pedantick Crew the Bane of Reason and Pest of the World the old Incendiaries to Mischief and the best to be spared of Mankind against whom the Boiling of an irritated God is ready to be poured out to the Destruction of such if they repent not c. Quakerism a New Nick-name c. p. 165. Reader You see here is nothing but Hell and Damnation for the Ministers of all Christian Societies Pray let us hear their Opinion of the Church of England in general and that may give their Sense of all other Churches since I see they make little if any Difference of their Teachers viz. And as for the Purity of the Church of England it 's out of our Sight we can see a great deal of Impurity Corruption and Soul-sickness in it Indeed they say 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 c. The Innocency and Conscientiousness of the Quakers c. p. 7. Printed 1664. To which let me add but one Passage more tho' I might One Hundred of Mr. Penn's who can express himself as well and as much according to the Quakers Ancient Testimony as any Man amongst thern And briefly thus viz. Come tell me ye of the Church of England whence came your Forms of Prayer and Church-Government Are they not the Off-spring of that Idolatrous Popish Generation * By this who would have thought Mr. Penn had been so near of Kin to them as his latter Writings set forth See A Brief Hist of Quakerism c. p. 44 to 58 103 to 120. which is abominable to the God of Heaven Are you not at Have mercy upon us miserable Sinners There is no Health in us from Seven to Seventy Truth Exalted c. p. 9. Reader W. Penn tells his Reader in his Ser. Apol. c. p. 79. That his designed Method in his Answer is not the common Road of Printing his Adversaries Words at large on all Occasions so I tell thee yet in many Cases I recite the whole However by this time you have not only an Account of the high Value the Quakers set upon themselves as in the former Chapter but of their debasing the Protestant Ministers and Churches as a pack of Drunkards Whoremongers with an Et-caetera worse than Mountebanks a cursed bitter Stock of Hirelings a Pedantick Crew the best to be spared of Mankind against whom the Boiling Vengeance of God is reserved c. and who deserve nothing but Plagues and Woes Hell and Damnation yea Pick-pockets Cut-purses c. that the People ought to shun as a Pest-house with too much of that Nature to be here inserted especially adding what in The Picture of Quakerism c. is set forthron this Head And does

Eye finds them as Polluted and deeply Engaged in Dishonest and Immoral Practices as those against whom they contend c. See his Book The Guide mistaken c. p. 28 29 53 55. Indeed I do not think the Quaker Teachers great Miscarriages are so visible to every Eye as the Failings and Imperfections of Mr. Clapham's c. were But let the Quakers first pluck out the Beam out of their own Eye and then they shall see the more clearly how to remove the Mote out of another's Eye But to proceed to discover this Beam let me take out another Bird namely Tho. Thurston the Eleventh Bird. Thomas Thurston is the Eleventh Bird was an eminent Preacher up of G. Fox's Orders Laws and Commandments and a great Favourite of Fox's who liv'd in America who in his Travels to spread their Truth pretended to the Deputy-Governor's VVife that he Tho. Thurston had a Motion from the Spirit to get her with Child † Come W. Venn was not this a great Miscarriage Was it not visible to the Eye of the Deputy-Governour she believing him submits to a Tryal of Skill and it proved so infallibly the VVoman's Husband being then in old-Old-England where he stay'd about a Year or more but at length he came home and finding things bad he examin'd his VVife strictly how it came to pass She confest that such a Friend Tho. Thurston told her that he had a Motion from God to get her with Child and she was overcome by him VVell said her Husband if you will do one thing I will forgive you which is To go to the Quakers-Meeting and declare openly how you were deluded by this Preaching Quaker She did so and he forgave her and as I am credibly informed many of the Quakers thought his Motion was true he was so eminent an Orator and he still kept on some time a Preacher And why might not G. Fox allow of the Breach of this Seventh Commandment given forth by Moses as well as he did of the Breach of the Eighth Commandment viz. And as for any being moved of the Lord to take away your Hour-Glass from you by the Eternal Power it is owned c. G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 77. Such Influence had Fox's Doctrine as you may see in these two Cases and a Hundred more I could mention but enough of this Bird. Come George what thinkest thou of thy Brother Preacher Tho. Thurston He Preached amongst the Infidels and if he had been a Christian Minister I do agree it might have stumbled them but being a Quaker and led thereto by the Spirit it did confirm Quakerism George I could be more particular I could tell you of several pretty Stories and W. Ingram and Walter Myres should evidence it I could tell you of a Cannon-street Story but you know that and many others I could tell you of a She-Preacher who went from her Husband Geo. Knight so long holding forth that her Husband got a By-Child or two and at last marry'd another Wife But since that your She-Preachers kept more at home I could tell you a Story of your Meeting to cleanse the Camp about John Swinton and others and of Rebecca Travers her Testimony which would make you look more like the Synagogue of Satan than the Church of the First-Born as you boast but I delight not in it were it not to humble you So that I shall only mention one Bird more at present he being a Favourite of yours and your Brother Cater who notwithstanding his gross Immoralities yet you both wrote in Favour of him in these Words viz. George Smith a poor well-meaning Man that hath been convinced about 13 or 14 Years and ever since he came amongst us hath walked uprightly according to his Measure and hath been of a blameless Conversation amongst Men from his Youth up c. Judgment fixed c. p. 207. The Lib. of an Apost Consc c. p. 18 19. Come G. Whitehead this is high Commendation but he was a Man for your turn one strict for G. Fox's Commandments and was not ungrateful to you for your high Praise and Commendation For as one good Deed requires another as the Proverb is so he Geo. Smith saith in The Lib. of an Apost c. p. 29. I have Cause to believe better things of them all i. e. the Quakers and for Sam. Cater whom thou Fran. Bugg so much abusest I know his Conversation hath been such amongst us as becomes a Man that fears God that it is not thy Lies that can hurt him for he hath a Witness in our Consciences * Thus they witness one for another excuse and justifie each other for his faithful Service and upright Conversation amongst us Come George here is hiding here is excusing nay justifying each other in your Abominations like the two wicked Elders in the Story of Susanna saying Tush God sees us not nor the World's People do not know it And G. Smith standing Suit with the Minister of Littleport about Tythes As in the Year 1697. he did he is faithful to G. Fox's Commandments and is a true Son of our Church a well-meaning Man one that hath lived uprightly ever since he came amongst us even from his Youth up Oh George your Hypocrisie must come out and therefore and for that Reason only I shall take out of the CAGE this your well-meaning upright Bird namely George Smith But first let me acquaint the Reader that since I came to London this August 1699. I have seen a Letter from a Quaker in Huntingtonshire to his Friend in London giving a Narrative of Sam. Cater's Vicious Behaviour to several Women in Huntingtonshire A. W. for one in Cambridge and in Suffolk about which Richard Jobson called him in Question and at a Meeting at St. Ives at Tobias Hardmeat's House and in the Presence of him his Wife John Everard and some few others where R. Jobson charged poor Sam. very home but he as stoutly denied it at first being as his Sister Anne Docwra said a confident Liar But A. W. the Woman with whom he had to do being present Sam. at last confessed the Fact and was sorry he had dishonoured the Truth i. e. Quakerism But to the Matter which is a Narrative of the Proceedings of this well-meaning Man G. Smith who both G. Whitehead and Sam. Cater commend as an upright Man a well-meaning Man and that from his Youth up As for Sam. Cater I shall let his Narrative alone at present only to shew the Affinity of the Birds and how they 'll commend each other to the Skies whilst they condemn all beside themselves Reader These are their Infallible Doctors these are their Sinless alias Senseless Saints and the Perfectionests of our Age viz. George Smith the Twelfth Bird. George Smith of Littleport having a Wife of his own being a Bailiff for a Gentleman of the same Town whose Wife was a handsome young Woman G. Smith in time

High for thou hast maintained my Right and my Cause thou sittest on the Throne judging Right The Lord also will be a Refuge for the Oppressed a Refuge in Times of Trouble and they that know thy Name will put their Trust in thee for thou Lord bast not forsaken them that seek thee Sing Praises to the Lord which dwelleth in Sion declare among the People his Doings The Heathen † i. e. The Quakers who denieth Jesus of Nazareth are sunk down in the Pit that they made in the Net which they hid is their own Foot taken c. Psal 9.1,2,3,9,11 But to proceed having the recited Certificate of my Lord Bishop of Norwich I presented it to several of my Lords the Bishops both the Universities as well as to divers Particulars of the Clergy of the Church of England and I humbly thank them they were very kind to me notwithstanding all the Endeavours of the Quakers to represent me unworthy of their Notice particularly at Cambridge where they carry'd to the Colledges Books against me which I had answer'd and refuted Ten or Fifteen Years since insomuch that some of the Heads of the Colledges took special Notice of the Quakers Malice and thereupon I do believe were the more kind Thus doth God bring Good out of Evil nay should I relate all the particular Methods the Quakers used in all Places where I came to prevent me of their Kindness and the Aboundings of the Favours I received it would seem almost incredible I being but a single Person and known but to a few the Quakers numerous and like the Followers of Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16.2 Men of Fame in some Cases But so it was they did not prevail but God in his Providence made way for my Deliverance beyond my Expectation and in him do I trust who taketh Care of the Sparrows Matth. 10.29,30,31 and this puts me in Mind of the Widow recorded in the Holy Scriptures 2 Kings 4. whose Husband died and left her in Debt and not Effects to answer insomuch that the Creditor was come to take away her two Sons This poor Woman was no doubt in Distress enough but yet she neither exclaimed of her Husband nor yet murmur'd at the Dispensation of Providence which befel neither did she sit still and use no Means But hearing that Elisha the Prophet was come to Town she resolves to make Application to him he could but deny her she knew the worst and hoped the best and therefore in Faith and full Assurance of the Mercy of God to them that trust in him and not doubting but the Inspired Prophet knew her Inside even the Sincerity of her Heart and that notwithstanding this Calamity she could appeal to him that her Husband was an honest Man a Man that feared God and served him in Uprightness and thereupon she puts on Courage and goes to him saying Thy Servant my Husband is dead and thou knowest that thy Servant did fear the Lord and the Creditor is come to take unto him my two Sons to be Bondsmen This was sorrowful News no doubt to the Prophet to hear that one of the Sons of the Prophets that professed Faith in the God of Israel should so fail as not to be able to pay his Debts Well the Prophet quickly understood the Widow and as quickly reply'd saying What shall I do for thee tell me What hast thou in the House Here is two notable Questions and so quickly proposed that he did not give the Widow leave to answer to the first but added What hast thou in the House As if he should have said Why should I ask this humble Petitioner what she would have me to do 'T is plain she would willingly be enabled to pay her Debts rescue her two Sons and have something to live on she then reply'd saying Thine Handmaid hath nothing at home save a Pitcher of Oyl Upon which the Prophet as God would have it wrought a Miracle saying Go borrow the Vessels of all thy Neighbours even empty Vessels borrow not a few and when thou art come into thy House shut the Door upon thee and upon thy Sons and pour out into all these Vessels and set aside that which is full She did so and was thereby enabled to pay her Debts redeem her Sons and had left wherewithal to live upon O the wonderful Works of God! who thus instructs his to depend upon his Providence for the Scriptures are written for our Learning and truly when I consider my own Case I think it falls not much short of this Miracle I am sure I have met with a wonderful Providence in my Deliverance considering I had no such inspired Prophet to appeal to nor such an Evidence to vouch on my part I had nothing but Reason and Demonstration to offer having prayed to God to incline the Hearts of his Servants to a Charitable Consideration of Things past present and to come Nay my Case seem'd worse than the Widow's for I do not read that she had any Enemies to Interpose but I had many The Quakers no sooner understood that the Clergy took my Case into their Pious Confideration but they sent their Emissaries with Books after me both to the Colledges and particular Persons wherein I was represented an Enemy of all Righteousness a Child of the Devil yea a Devil Incarnate a Wolf a Dog a Beast c. Judgment fixed c. by G. W. And when this would not prevail against me they then made Personal Complaints that I was a Counterfeit Convert * As G. W. had Printed me to be See his Book A Counterfeit Convert a Scandal to Christianity c. and to make this out they told some of the Reverend Clergy in Norfolk that tho' Francis Bugg pretended to be a Member of the Church of England yet he never receiv'd the Communion with you See what a Convert you have what Reason is there then for you to assist and support him so as you do Upon which this Minister writes to Mr. Archer our Minister to know the Truth of it he sends him an Answer by Letter assuring him that in Anno 1688. I receiv'd the Sacrament and if at home ever since at the usual times But when this would not do they 'd try another Project for John Hubbard of Stoake † An eminent Quaker in Norfolk and one of the twelve mention'd in my Sober Expostulation p. 1. Printed 1698. told Mr. Meriton Minister of Oxborow near him that I was drunk the last time was in London in March 1698. who sent me a Letter thereof which providentially came into my Son's Hand in my Absence An Abstract of it is as followeth SIR I gave your Book the other Day to John Hubbard who receiv'd it with a Scornful Smile I discoursed with him upon the Subject of it which he heard with much Impatience yet at last he promised to read it he could not forbear Invectives against the Author of it the usual Courtship