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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31338	The liberty of an apostate conscience discovered being a plain narrative of the controversie long depending between Francis Bugg, an officious agent in William Rogers's behalf and quarrel, on the one part, and Samuel Cater and George Smith, prisoners for the testimony of Jesus in Ely goal [sic] on the other part : with their answer to his Painted harlot, &c. ... / published for the information of all friends of truth, and others concerned, and for caution to all such agents as have promoted or spread the late books of Fr. Bugg and W. Rogers.	Cater, Samuel, d. 1711.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1486; ESTC R229360	44,222	88

his charges and 3 l. at another place on the account of his Ministry and so Cousin said I there is no fear but Samuel will made whole These are F. Bs. own words to G. S. as he himself saith But this will prove a Deceitful Cure and Cover as hereafter will appear F. B. in some other places in his Book accounts this as a great Evil he taking it for granted that I received this Mony he upbraids me with or else why is it so often spoken of in his Book but it is not a greater Evil in him to use it as an Argument to perswade G. S. to let him alone quietly with this 15 l. he so unfeignedly obtained from him that so he might have the benefit of this Money which he blames me for Receiving which 15 l. he had thus obtained of G. S. he never offered Voluntarily but one half of it then it must needs follow that he got the other half by Craft and kept it against G. S. his Mind which is doubtless a great Evil in the sight of God and a just cause of the breach of Friendship and humane Society betwixt Man and Man thus to do And whereas in page 46 F. B. speaks something there as if R. S. with some other Friends hath given it as their Judgement that S. Cs. Wife betrayed G. S. about this Money which thing cannot stand with Truth nor found Reason for let it be considered whether it can be understood or believed by any Man to be as he saith seeing F. B. was the Man that thus obtained the Money of G. S. as is before mentioned and S. C. and his Wife did freely and willingly repay the aforesaid G. S. the whole 15 l. again and besides when it was debated in that Monthly Meeting it will appear that R. S. was not of that mind then neither was it ever the Judgment of the Monthly or Quarterly Meeting that it was S. C's Wife betrayed G. S. but on the contrary that F. B. was the betrayer of G. S. for at the said Monthly Meeting B. S. called out to Friends about the time of the Record making to know where there was a Man in the Meeting that would say that Francis had right to that Money and that he came Honestly by it And indeed was the very Man that was Zealous against F. B. in that Meeting which caused F. B. to fall out with him in the Meeting and reprove the said R. S. for being the cause of his being so far Ingaged in that concern and instanced some particulars And again whereas F. B. makes no small stirr in this Slanderous peice of confusion about my being grown Rich with Preaching who says I was so Poor that I could scatced pay my Debts both which I return back upon him again as Lyes and De●amation but his Tongue is no Slander for first I never was so Poore as not able to pay my Debts but have always paid every Man his just due since I knew what it was to deal and Trade in the World neither was any Man ever burthened with my Debts nor yet paid one penny for me which those that I have dealt with can witness for me But now how I came to be so Rich as he pretends it was or is by Making advantage of People by my Preaching of which F. B. hath threatned long to make a discovery of me and my Brethren But I have told him he might do his worst for I have both Faith and a good Conscience on my side and also Testimony in the Hearts of Honest Friends where I have Laboured and Travelled That I have not sought my self nor to inrich my self by any thing of this But have truly preferred the good of Peoples Souls before my own outward benefit and this many can Witness to the Truth of what I say but now F. B. hath brought forth this Monster what does he charge me with With being Rich with Preaching But I do not know what Ground any have to believe that by any thing that he hath brought to Light except such as are as full of Envy as himself who if any such as he says it it is enough for him to believe it but let any Rational Man consider what he tells People of that I have Received for near these 20 years he hath known me and I perceive hath been watching over me with an Evil Eye for some time And what is it that he says of the Sums of Money I have Received in this time whereby he says I am made a Rich-Man Why says he Three Sums of Money which in all amounts to 15 l. but let it also be considered that if I had Received all the three Sums as F. B. says which I says I had not let him prove it if he can how much have I left me towards making me a Rich-Man when I had paid G. S. the 15 l. which he confesses he had of him and which I paid again altho no more then half of it was voluntarily proffered him by G. S. might not F. B. therefore be ashamed I am sure he would if he were a tender Hearted Man and feared God of this his wicked work who sometimes hath called me Pensioner and compares me to be like to the hireling Priests who are known to Preach for Money either by the year or so much a Sermon as they can get and now tells the World of my Receiving 15 l. for near 20 years for suffering Travelling as he pretends and Preaching might not People have thought that I have had some great Salary by such his Insinuations for Preaching for which I do say that I never took penny more nor less directly or indirectly in my Life but am wholly clear of his Malicious and Scandalous thing both in the sight of God and Honest People neither can F. B. prove it although he hath so Reproachfully Insinuated it against me expect he or any other Man will or can account that the 3 l. I Received as part of the 20 l. given by the last Will and Testament of J. M. of Whitlesea-Coles which I Received with other Friends according to the intent and desire of the Giver which no Impartial and unprejudiced Person will blame me for but such as are Levened with the Spirit of Envy as F. B. hath Manifested himself to be both against me and others He says he was our Book-Keeper so many years and thereby had opportunity to know what was then done amongst us but he to make the said 15 l. seem as big as he can he hath brought it up several times in his Book sometimes he says I Received it as a Preacher sometimes as a sufferer and as a Traveller but still it is all but 15 l. some of which I never had Again he is hinting in an interlined Note Page 40. as if I knew that the Widow Moor nigh Bishop-Gate London hath understood what he means who says he was constrained to break up House being as he

Judgment that all Friends that Ministers in the Name and Power of the Lord are to be left to do in that as in their Faith and Freedom they shall see Meet they will answer it to God and are not to be Limited by F. Bugg nor any other what to say nor what answer to make when Informers and Persecuters come into a Meeting where they are Ministring Thirdly I do believe that this new invented Order of Fran. Bugg's tends to the exercising Rule and Lordship over the Faith and Consciences of our Bretheren and therefore I cannot set my Hand to it Fourthly I do account it a low and base thing of Fran. Bugg to make such a Law and to proffer Me 15 Pound to make Me his Proselite or to be an Abettor of his evill Inventions a thing altogether out of truth and contrary to the Antient practice thereof for Friends to make or to be made Proselites for the love of Money and I should Sin if I should condescend to his desires therein and therefore I deny to do it Fifthly I do know the 15 Pound that Fran. Bugg pretends so freely to give Me if I will signe his new Invented Order he hath wrongfully by defraud got into his Hand of my Mony for which he prepares this new Order and Imposes upon Me to Sign to keep Me out of the Mony as it appears if I did not Sign it And if I did Signe it to make a Deceitful cover for this his unjust Practice and Deceitful Dealing with his Cosin Geo. Smith which I have not freedom to do although he keeps Me still without my Mony And now I Query of F. Bugg and his Abetters if any he have seeing he is against new Orders and all Impositions as he pretends which have no Footing in the Scriptures Why I should not have my 15. Pound and 3. Shillings again seeing I cannot for Conscience sake Subscribe this his new Invented Order that he hath prescribed for Me to Signe and which I do say as before I have not freedom to do for the aforementioned reasons And whether Fran. Bugg does not appear a Persecuter of tender Consciences contrary to what He pretends if he keeps my Mony because I have not freedom to Subscribe to this his new Rule And thou saiest if this be not a condescention sufficient that is either to Sign this Order of thine or a new Arbitration thou then askest Me what will Please Me but that which will be well Pleaseing to God that is for thee to Truly Repent of thy Lies and Deceitful Dealings and acknowledg thy infaithfulness both to God and Man and make Satisfaction for the wrong thou hast done This is that which I expect and thou must do it before thou can'st come to have Peace with God and true Unity with his People run whether thou wilt and climbe as High as thou can'st the Hand of the Lord will find thee out and His Power will bring thee down as he did the Angels of Old who kept not their first Estate but lost their own Habitations which the Lord hath reserved in everlasting Chains of darkness unto the Judgment of the great day such the Apostle calls raging Waves of the Sea Foaming out their own shame wandering Starrs unto whom is reserved blackness and darkness for ever Now Fran. notwithstanding all thy Malice that thou hast shewn against Me and wrong thou hast done Me both by word and deed I could be glad I could perceive that there were so much regard by thee to the Light of Christ Jesus that thou mightest come thereby to see how near thou dwells to these fallen Angels and how much thy state and condition now resembles theirs for thou hast left thy Peaceable Habitation in the truth which the People of God injoys and thy Life is now in strife and contention as appears by the Fruit thou brings forth Thou art gone from the Love that thinks no evil into hatred and strife in which thou makest and inventest all the evil thou canst against the Servants of the Lord as is manifest by the Fruits thou hast brought forth How hast thou been Inventing Lies and Slanders not only against Me but many more of the Servants of the Lord whereby thou Foamest out thy Shame for its a Shame for a man to tell Lies and break Promises from time to time as thou hast done both before God and honest Men. And he that lives in the feare of God dare not do it but they who departs from the true fear and awe of God what will they not dare to do as appears by this wicked Work of thine and also by thy Book by which thy scoffing Rude Spirit is Manifest and thy hard Heartedness against the People of God whom now in thy Envy thou Endeavours to render them to be like the worst of Men even such as formerly thou accounted good Men and truly serviceable in the Church of Christ who are he same still But Envy hath blinded thy Eye so that thou canst not see them in their Places because thou hast lost the knowledg of thy own place which thou shoulded have continued in even in low humility before the Lord to have still waited upon him for his Wisdom to have Guided thee and to have felt his Power through the daily Cross to Crucifie that Earthly wise comprehending part in which thou comprehended the Truth in thy Head but never came to enjoy the life of Truth in thy Heart and Soul through the Death to thy own will in which unruly will thou speaks and Acts like an evil unruly Beast whose Mouth God will stop in his own time to thy sorrow without unfeigned Repentance And Francis thou tells Me of giving Me 15 Pound to Sign this Paper of thine but where is the Liberty of Conscience thou Treats so much of in thy Book Dedicated to Hen. North. Knight Wherein thou pretendest that all ought to be left free to the Liberty of their Conscience and not to be compel'd to any thing that they have not Freedom in themselves to do But in this Paper thou art far otherwise minded for thou speakest nothing of leaving Me to my Freedom in that matter of the 15 Pound But I must either contrary to my Freedom set my Hand to that Paper that thou hast contrived or else condescend to have another Arbitration about it which I cannot do for the Reasons aforesaid otherwise I must unavoidably lose my Mony which is far from leaving Me to my Freedom which in the aforesaid Book thou pretendest all ought to be left unto But Francis tell us when thou makest answer was the Dedicating of thy Book according to our Ancient principles which thou pretends to own or did Friends in the beginning Dedicate their Books in that manner or is it not rather the making of a Man that hath lost his Habitation in the power of Truth and now is creeping and Flattering with Men of the World and admiting Mens persons because of