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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

some may say What other Way is there to put a Stop to the Growth of Quakerism if they have this Liberty Such an Expedient would be requisite if such an one were to be found Answ I have once offer'd my Thoughts in this Case and shall now enlarge thereon For as I then said so I still believe that the main Requisite to work a Cure is to know the Disease which when found out an ordinary Practitioner may prescribe a Remedy sooner than an able Physician who knows not the Disease Besides this I have heard that when a Bill for the well-Tanning of Leather was brought into the House of Parliament one of the Honourable House of Lords being willing to inform himself into the Nature of that Affair he apply'd himself to a Cobler discourses with him about this that and the other Default in Leather and what VVays might be found to remedy the Abuses thereof for the Publick Good The Cobler tells his Honour what he knew by many Years Experience and told his Lordship how it might with Ease be remedied insomuch that when the said Bill came under Debate in the House his Lordship was so well skill'd not only in the Means to be used but in the Terms of Art that his Lordship spake like some experienced Tanner who by his Discourse gave Light to the whole House Now whether this was so or no I will not determine but 't is not improbable since the wisest of Men may sometimes improve by such weak Helps as in other Cases 't is frequent such a Virtue is Humility And thereupon in answer to the Objection I shall say thus much I. Let G. Whitehead and some others of the Quakers chief Leaders and Fr. Bugg c. be summoned by Authority to appear And whereas G. Whitehead c. has given in a Sheet to the Parliament Anno 1693. suggesting that Fran. Bugg c. has wronged the Quakers in Charge Citation and Observation and if G. W. can make it appear so for our Law judges no Man before it hears him let Fran. Bugg c. be made an Example Again on the other Hand if it appear that Fran. Bugg c. has not wronged the Quakers nor falsly charged them either in Book or Page and that those Points of Doctrine objected against the Quakers by F. B. c. be found to strike at the Foundation of the Christian Religion and to subvert the Faith then let the Quakers be oblig'd to renounce them and condemn those Books which so teach This yea this would strike Quakerism to the Heart This is the thing feared by G. W. c. when they cry out Fran. Bugg would stir up Persecution and give it a Mortal VVound and preserve the Quakers too and the Books being condemn'd to be burnt as it would remove the Scandal brought upon the Christian Religion so would it be a Means to rescue their VVives and Children from the Jaws of Quakerism that Fatal Mischief to Mankind and preserve others from falling into it For now many of them think their Teachers write and speak from the Eternal Spirit whose so speaking is of greater Authority than the Bible Truth defending the Quakers c. pag. 7. And that 't is as lawful to burn the Bible as their Books Papers and Queries Truth 's Defence c. p. 2.104 Then would those who are now Tinctured with the Leaven of Quakerism vomit it up and forsake their Errors This I take to be one proper Remedy and possibly might effect the Cure If not II. If the Quakers would Apologize That now they Believe otherwise than they did formerly then as a Proof of their Sincerity and Conversion let them having first condemn'd their Books as aforesaid set out certain Articles of their Faith in Plain Clear and Positive Words agreeable to Scripture since of late they have so much pretended to be Orthodox therein and at the Close of them condemn all their other Books which teach the contrary particularly by Name III. The next thing requisite to make a firm and lasting Cure to them their Heirs and Successors is to admit each Congregation of Quakers to have their Teacher or two if one will not do And likewise that thse Teachers may attend only their own Flock and not to range all the World over at most not above Five or Ten Miles to Hold-forth lest this Putrified Sore break out again and the last end be worse than their beginning And as this thus granted is what other Professors Dissenters from the Church of England are content with so will it answer all the just Ends of that Liberty of Conscience so much by them sollicited for and so graciously already granted by the Government IV. Let them not be permitted to hold Yearly Convocations with Doors Lockt Barr'd or Guarded by Men on Purpose to prevent Inspection in order to make Laws against the Laws of the Land and with respect to their Subjects to repeal such Laws as suite not their Design which shews that they are a Government within the Government Whose Laws thus made they keep private even from many of their own People For as this Practice no Dissenters Quakers only excepted do desire and indeed without His Majesty's Licence more than the Bishops of the Established Church can Legally do so would it be a Means to work a perfect Cure of this so much to be lamented Gangrene of Quakerism V. Lastly That they may not be permitted to Teach School Publickly for thereby they corrupt the Youth and lay a Foundation for the next Age for the Seeds of Quakerism to spring and put forth again for they teach G. Fox's Journal which contains such Doctrine as tends to undermine the Christian Religion Object III. G. W. in his late Book Truth and Innocency c. p. 41. objects Our Adversaries would make as if we promoted Regnum in Regno not only independent but opposite to the Civil Government which none of our Meetings are being to promote real Practice of Piety Christianity and true Religion among us as a People and to prevent the contrary We know of no such Supream Assemblies among us as gives Laws and makes Orders for the Government of our People suppressing Books c. Answ This is all fallacious he knows they do and I can prove it And not only make Laws for their People but make Laws or Orders contrary to the Laws of the Land And as for his Pretence that at these Meetings they do not promote Regnum in Regno since their Meetings are to promote real Piety c. 1. When the Bishops and Clergy meet do they not promote the real Practice of Piety as much as the Quakers pretend to Yet if they should meet as do the Quakers without Licence from His Majesty it would as Lawyers say be against these Statutes 28 Hen. 8. c. 19 21. 27 Hen. 8. c. 15. 3 Ed. 6. c. 10 11. 1 Eliz. c. 12. Magna Charta c. 29. Pet. of R. 5 Eliz. c. 1.

so is TREASON c. Thus then is it apparent that what is in others Treason they themselves practice in the Face of the Government For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest neither any thing hid that shall not be made known and come abroad Luke 8.17 CHAP. VIII Shews the Executive Part of the Quakers Laws and Government in their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings I Join the Use and Service of their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings together for Brevity-sake as also because they are much the same in all Respects only the Monthly is inferior to the Quarterly because in one County there may be three or four Monthly Meetings much like Justices Monthly Meetings where the Party offending need not be Concluded but entering his Recognizance to appear at the Quarter-Sessions he may have a more full Hearing so it is with the Quakers he may Appeal from the Monthly to the Quarterly Meeting This I know very well not barely because I was Clerk in these Meetings many Years but also during my Controversie with Sam. Cater I Summon'd him first to the Monthly Meeting and when I found no Justice I Appeal'd from that to the Quarterly and indeed from the Quarterly to the Yearly and so twice or thrice round as I remember For it was the greatest Tryal that ever was amongst them in regard it struck at the Ministry viz. WHETHER THEY OUGHT NOT TO TELL THEIR NAMES AND HABITATIONS AND THEREBY SET THE MSELVES IN A LIKE SUFFERING CAPACITY WITH THE HEARERS † At large in my Book The Painted Harlot both Stript and Whipt c. And the Postscript stiled Reason against Railing c. c. since they advised us to be valiant and give up all c. But to the Matter When we came together which is commonly 9 or 10 a Clock then we sat awhile together Silent unless we have a Teacher with us and then it may be we may have a short Exhortation to keep to our Antient Testimony * i. e. George Fox's Commandments and some other things which in the next Chapter you 'll hear of so then the Doors being secured they proceed after this manner The Clerk calling over the Meeting I mean the particular Meetings of every Town which possibly may be Forty Towns more or less viz. Clerk Come Friends How is it as to your Town of Littleport A. and B. For there is to be two appear from every Town Things are pretty well with us only D. E. is married with a Priest Meeting Aye How came that to pass Did you not perceive his Relapse from the Truth and the Order of it till he made such a Revolt as to become an Apostate A. B. Truly we found he declin'd and some Friends in our Town spoke to him and warn'd him of the Danger of it but all would not do Meeting Well let some Body be ordered to go to him and admonish him if he Repent and acknowledge his Fault and confess to Truth † i. e. To them for if he confess his Fault to them they Absolve him and all 's well again Clerk How is it at your Town of Milden-Hall A. B. Things are pretty well with us but Francis Bugg still continues his Writing against Friends And he being examined by Samuel Fulbig whether he owns W. Rogers's wicked Book Which admits of Liberty of Conscience to pay Tythes or not to marry with a Publick Minister or not and he owns it And therefore we must take Care about him for he does much hurt to Truth and lays Stumbling-Blocks in the way of others Meeting Course we know not well what Course to take with him he will neither lead * Into blind Conformity nor drive † Into an Implicite Faith Indeed we have suffered him too long Clerk in this Meeting but he may thank R. S. J. A. E. L. and some of you his Friends or else he had been excluded long since for his very owning W. Roger's Book which admits of a voluntary Payment of Tythes which as our dear Brother Ellwood saith is a Mark of Antichrist a Denial of Christ come in the Flesh yea downright Ranterism Antidote p. 78. 139. But notwithstanding thro' such Arguments as W. Rogers use we have by woful Experience seen that some have been convinced Ten some Twenty Years and yet can pay Tythes without any Acknowledgment of Evil therein Christ Quaker disting Part 2. p. 42. And altho' we grant saith our Brother Ellwood in his Antidote p. 109. That our great Apostle G. Fox did say in his Several Papers given forth for spreading Truth Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord † See Fox's Papers are the Word of the Lord whilst they say 't is Blasphemy to call the Letter i. e. Scripture the Word Take heed of judging one another judge not one another I command you in the Presence of the Lord See his Book entituled The Way to the Kingdom of God pag. 4. and judge not one another behind one another's Backs * Yet they passed Sentence on me behind my Back I not being there that Day i. e. 4th of June 1682. I command you in the Presence of the Lord this is the Word of the Lord unto you Neither lay open one another's Nakedness and Weakness behind one anothers Backs for thou that dost art one of Ham 's Family which is under the Curse c. This indeed continues our Beloved rother is a Warning to Friends not to judge one another † No let their Immoralities be gross do but keep in the Unity of the Corrupt Body But it is not a Warning to Friends not to judge those that oppose Friends being gone out of the Unity of Friends themselves and endeavouring to draw others out also and to divide and rend the Church so that you have mist your Aim and lost your Blow c. Thus Friends you have the Judgment of the Church and Francis Bugg has not only owned that Pernicious Book but has written two Books against Friends as Pernicious as that of W. Rogers Intituled De Christiana Libertate c. and The Painted Harlot both Stript and Whipt c. Nay not only so but hath wrote divers Letters Remonstrances and Queries to particular Friends to the Second-day Meetings And therefore 't is time to take some Course with him c. Meeting Content therefore let us draw up a Paper against him and when we have view'd it let us Record it c. This was done a Copy whereof is as followeth viz. At a Quarterly Meeting in Hadenham 7th Day of the 4th Month 1682. Whereas this Day there was inferred † † Notable Scholars INFERRED into our Meeting several Papers subscribed by Francis Bugg wherein he hath Unrighteously and Ungodlily reflected upon Antient Friends and greatly abused Faithful Ministers of the Gospel * * They can call other Ministers Witches Devils Thieves Robbers Antichrists Jesuits Bloodhounds Sodomites and what not But

Invasion from France to Subvert our Religion Laws and Liberty We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed do heartily sincerely and solemnly profess testifie and declare That His present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful † † This was a bitter Pill to the Quakers Second-Day Meeting King of these Realms And we do mutually promise and engage to stand by and assist each other to the utmost of our Power in the Support and Defence of His Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents * * Oh! this grated on our new Saints And in case His Majesty come to any violent or untimely Death which God forbid We do further freely and unanimously oblige our selves to Vnite Associate and Stand by each other in revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in Supporting and Defending the Succession of the Crown c. This Act of Parliament put the Quakers to a great Consternation and what to do they could not tell they having at the same time spent much Money Time and Pains in procuring an Act of Parliament that their Affirmation should be taken instead of an Oath and it had gone thro' the House of Commons and was under Consideration of the House of Lords For think they if we do nothing our Act will not pass Well at their Second-Day Meeting Mar. 23d 1695 6. their Teachers Assembled together and no doubt great Consultings there were and particularly about those Words Lawful and Rightful King * For the French King had not yet owned him King Of Great Britain also whether they should join ●ith the Protestants in their Uniting and Associating to stand by each other in revenging his Blood in case he had come to a violent or untimely Death c. Well these two Points were largely debated and possibly might hold many Hours However it pass'd in the Negative but yet lest their Bill for their Affirmation to be taken in Lieu of an Oath should not pass they agreed thus far namely to get a Paper printed not mentioning what Meeting it was framed at not Signed with any of their Names to it nor the Name of King William once mentioned and if this Paper think they will but pass it will not do us much Hurt in case our Old Friend come again for none of our Names are to the Paper nor at what Meeting it was contrived nay nor so much as the Name of what King we mean and in regard we have obtained the Repute of an innocent well-meaning People it may do well enough So away they went trudging to the House of Lords and presented divers of them A Copy thereof is as followeth viz. The Ancient Testimony and Principle of the People call'd Quakers renewed with Respect to the King and Government and touching the present Association We the said People do solemnly and sincerely declare That it hath been our Judgment and Principle from the first Day We were called to profess the Light of Christ Jesus manifested in our Consciences unto this Day That the setting Up and putting Down Kings and Governments is God's peculiar Prerogative for Causes best known to himself and that it is not our Work or Business to have any Hand or Contrivance therein nor to be Busie bodies in Matters above our Station much less to Plot and Contrive the Ruin or Overturn of any of them but to Pray for the King and for the Safety of our Nation and Good of all Men that we may live a Peaceable and Quiet Life in all Godliness and Honesty under the Government which God is pleased to set over us And according to this Our Ancient and Innocent Principle we often have given forth our Testimony and now do against all Plotting Conspiracies and Contriving Insurrections against the King or the Government and against all Treacherous Barbarous and Murtherous Designs whatsoever as Works of the Devil and Darkness And we sincerely bless God and are heartily thankful to the King and Government for the Liberty and Priviledges we enjoy under them by Law esteeming it our Duty to be True and Faithful to them And whereas we the said People are required to Sign the said Association We sincerely declare That our refusing so to do is not out of any Disaffection to the King or Government nor in Opposition to his being declared Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms but purely because we cannot for Conscience-sake Fight Kill or Revenge either for our selves or any Man else And We believe that the timely Discovery and Prevention of the late Barbarous Design and Mischievous Plot against the King and Government and the sad Effects it might have had is an Eminent Mercy from Almighty God for which we and the whole Nation have great Cause to be humbly thankful to him and to pray for the Continuance of his Mercies to Them and Us. From a Meeting of the said People in London the 23d of the First Month called March 1695 6. Thus endeth their March Ancient Testimony 1696. Thus Reader I have given you a Copy verbatim of the Quakers Paper presented to the House of Peers and I being then in London wrote a Reply thereunto March 27. 1696. and presented it to the Lord's House who immediately rejected the Quakers Paper notwithstanding all its fine and innocent Words telling the Quakers they must be plain and tell them what King they mean Secondly Whether they believed he was both Rightful and Lawful King Thirdly That they must Sign their Paper Now these three things grated sorely on their tender Consciences for they went home sadly angry with Francis Bugg for being instrumental in the Discovery of their deep Hypocrisie for had that Paper pass'd that no Body Signed no King's Name to it if the late King had returned they had been Fish whole still and as Loyal Subjects as ever they were before Thus Reader to prevent their Cavil that I take but a Piece of their Sentences and wrong the Sense I have recited their whole Testimony Verbatim But before I proceed to give you their April Ancient Testimony let me give the Reason at least one probable Reason why it was rejected and would not pass the House of Lords so as to effect their Design as also what Communication I guess they had about it c. For I being at London the 24th of the same Month I went to the House of Lords where I had one of the recited Testimonies given me I went to my Lodging and perceiving their Prevailing thro' their Pretences of seeming Sincerity and Innocency c. I wrote a Paper by way of Reply and the 27th of March I gave away about an Hundred to the Lords who accepted of them and presently one of the Peers came out and call'd Geo. Whitehead and told him That their Paper would not do for they had not so much as mention'd what King they mean'd nor yet declar'd him Rightful and Lawful King of these

Realms nor yet Sign'd their Paper And therefore they must go home and get another more Authentick or their Bill for their Affirmation to pass in lieu of an Oath would be rejected Well away they went very sorrowful and I conceive might have amongst themselves a Discourse of this Nature viz. G. Whitehead Friends our Paper is rejected for yonder was our old Antagonist Francis Bugg and he has deliver'd to the Peers a Paper suggesting that we Prevaricate he has also delivered about an Hundred of his Books to the Lords intituled The Quakers set in their True Light c. and therefore we must get another Ancient Testimony more full to the Matter lest we lose the Advantage of our Bill but let us stay awhile for if we go presently who knows but that Apostate may reply to our next Paper for he is so Eagle-ey'd that if he espy any thing that 's defective he may be instrumental in throwing out our Bill You cannot but remember that we were fair for the same Bill to pass in Anno 1693. but he then Printed a Sheet and deliver'd it to the House of Commons and in Three Hours time our Bill was thrown out of the House Indeed we Printed a Sheet stiled The Quakers Vindication c. but he having printed a Thousand of those Sheets and gave to the House about 500 and sent to all the Coffee-Houses from Westminster to Bishopsgate about 400 more he prevail'd against us Nay this is not all but presently wrote a Book intituled Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. and deliver'd about Two or Three Hundred of them to the House of Commons We saw our selves so baffled that we thought it not meet to revive our Bill that Sessions of Parliament and therefore let 's be wise let us stay until we think he is out of Town for he has been here Two or Three Weeks already and what with his Charge in Printing the Papers he gave to the Lords and the Charge of giving in so many of The Quakers set c. together with his Charges of staying one way or other it will cost him not so little as 6 or 7 l. and he having no Publick Fund to go to it will make him weary c. I say after this they got another Paper and presented to the House of Lords a Copy thereof is as followeth The Ancient Testimony and Principle of the People called Quakers renewed with Respect to the King and Government presented to King William III. We the said People do solemnly and sincerely declare That it hath been our Judgment and Principle from the first Day we were called to profess the Light of Christ Jesus manifested in our Consciences unto this Day That the setting Up and putting Down Kings and Governments is God's peculiar Prerogative and that it is not our Work or Business to have any Hand or Contrivance therein nor to be Busiebodies above our Station much less to Plot or Contrive the Ruin or Overturn of any of them but to Pray for the King and Safety of the Nation and Good of all Men * * No hold not for the Priests nor Governours unless they please you that we may live a Peaceable and Quiet Life in all Godliness and Honesty under the Government which God is pleased to set over Us And according to Our Ancient and Innocent Principle We often have given forth Our Testimony and now freely and sincerely do the same against all Plotting Conspiracies and Contriving Insurrections and against all Treacherous Barbarous and Murderous Designs whatsoever against the King or the Government as being Works of the Devil and Darkness And We believe that the timely Discovery and Prevention of the late Barbarous Design and Mischievous Plot against King William * * A forc'd put First time and the Government and the sad Effects it might have had is an eminent Mercy from Almighty God for which We and the whole Nation have great Cause to be humbly thankful to Him and to pray for the Continuance of His Mercies to Them and Us And We sincerely bless God and are heartily thankful to King William † † O brave This is the second time and the Government for the Liberty and Priviledges We enjoy under them by Law And further We are really satisfied that God by His Special Providence did bring in and set up King William * * This is News indeed Third time over these Realms and do own Him Rightful and Lawful King † † But George why did you not say so freely without Whip or Spur and are obliged in good Conscience to be True and Faithful to Him and the Government as becomes Obedient Followers of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ At a Meeting of the said People in London the Third of April 1696. Signed by many of Us on Behalf of our selves and the rest of our Friends and presented to the King Apr. 8. 1696. Thus endeth their April Ancient Testimony Reader before I come to make Observations upon these two March and April Ancient Testimonies of the Quakers there is one thing very remarkable and worth your noticing in the whole Conduct of Quakerism and that in two Respects the first is past the second 's still to come and ought to be guarded against and which makes me so long on this Head and so plain with them in this Matter and briefly thus That altho' no one People in England did so flatter Oliver Cromwell Richard his Son the Rump and all the several Changes of Government during the Usurpation as the Quakers did nor more oppose the Restauration of K. Charles II. Nay not only so but justifying Oliver in his Murthering K. Charles I. and in carrying on the War with all Vigour against the Cavaliers and Delinquents But when the Times turned Oh! how they laid all the Blame of both the War and Usurpation upon the Presbyterians Independants and Baptists as if they themselves had all along been as Innocent as New-born Babes This puts me in mind of a pleasant piece of News we had run thro' our whole Camp when I was a Quaker viz. Anno 1674. W. Penn put forth a Book stil'd A Just Rebuke to Twenty-one Divines c. P. 25. Was it not a great Reason of the Wars that divided so many Families shed so much Blood and exhausted so great a Treasure Did it not lay Episcopacy in the Dust and excite the Parliament in these very Terms Elijah opposed Idolatry and Oppression so do ye down with Baal's Altars down with Baal's Priests do not I beseech you consent unto a Toleration of Baal's Worship in this Kingdom which is as much as to say said Penn away with Arch-Bishops Bishops and the whole Ministry and Worship of the Church of England Again The Mouths of your Adversaries are opened against you that so many Delinquents that is to say said W. Penn Royalists are in Prison and yet but few of them brought to Tryal Did

over me notwithstanding they were the chief Cause of my Misfortune not only with respect to the Controversie but by Six or Eight of them breaking in my Debt Upon which I went to visit Mr. Erasmus Warren a neighbouring Minister and told him my Condition and he spake comfortably to me and bad me not be discouraged for God was All-sufficient and that the Earth was the Lord's and the Fulness thereof or to this purpose and told me that if I would write a Letter of Request to my Lord Bishop of Norwich he and some others would sign it I did so and it was signed by himself Mr. Archer Mr. Davis c. So I went to Norwich and did with no little Heaviness presume to go with it to my Lord Bishop of whom I did rather expect some little chiding being sensible of my own Fault than to be so kindly receiv'd But when I came to him he examined me about my Condition and press'd me to be honest and to pay as far as I was able For said he our Religion teacheth us to do Right and Justly by all Men and when you have done rest upon God's Providence it is not your Case alone Times have been hard and Disappointments many And then asked me what I would have him do for me I told him that if his Lordship would please to give me a Certificate of his Thoughts of me Iw as minded to make Application to my Lords the Bishops of the Church of England the two Universities and to some particular Clergy-men All which I no sooner asked than he granted me and it pleased God so to open the Hearts of my Lords the Bishops and Reveread Clergy that I found Help in time of Need and when it was in my Heart to write this Book I asked one of my Lords the Bishops Leave to give some Publick Acknowledgment of their Kindness but he answer'd me No go thy ways home and be thankful we desire no such thing But reading the Scriptures and finding in St. Mark 's Gospel Chap. 1. 44 55. that when Christ healed the Leper he charged him saying See thou say nothing to any Man c. But he the Leper being cured went out and began to publish it much and to blaze abroad the Matter and I never read that Christ blamed the Man for his Gratitude and I trust no more will his Ministers and Servants for this my Presumption For how can I receive such unexpected and unmerited Favours and not blaze it abroad I that for about Twenty Years Persecuted the Church and drew Disciples after me † I know of no one Man drew more into the Schism of Quakerism and yet upon my Return met with no upbraiding but rather like the returning Prodigal am met half way and loaden with Kindnesses Surely this is of the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in my Eye to whom be the Praise of all his Mercies and Providences now and for ever Amen A Copy of my Lord Bishop of Norwich's Certificate is as followeth THese are to certifie That I have known Francis Bugg some Years and that he has appear'd to me a Sober Honest and Industrious Man and to have taken much Pains to Undeceive and Convert the Quakers by Publishing useful Books and that not without Success but by the Hardness of Times several Losses and the Charge of Printing the Books he writ he is reduced to great Difficulties Wherefore I apprehend him a real Object of Charity and that he does truly deserve the Bounty of well disposed Persons unto whom I recommend him John Norwich Oct. 22. 1697. And having obtain'd this Favour together with his Bounty which was very considerable I took my Leave of him with many Thanks for his Kindness and Liberality First That I might take care not only to do what was just to others but to take care of my Family also for he that does not is worse than an Infidel Secondly That I might not lye under the Contempts and Insultings of the Quakers who as they have for many Years sought my Ruin * As they do all that oppose their Errors and Immoralities by all Ways and Methods they could devise both in Person Name and Estate so they have been observ'd like the Philistines Judges 16.24,25 to glory in my Misfortunes as thinking they had accomplished their Ends But notwithstanding all their Rejoycing I had a secret Hope that my Strength would be renewed and that God would enable me to lay hold of their two main Pillars Ver. 29. i. e. Perfection and Infallibility and putting thereto all my Might I should yet be able to shake their Building as at this Day Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath so wrought my Deliverance as to bring things thus far to pass Thirdly That thereby I might be enabled to grapple with the Quaker's Goliah that Uncircumcised Philistine Geo. Whitehead by Name who together with his Brethren have defied the Armies of Israel even all the Professors of the Christian Faith under every Denomination And not only so but Excuse Justifie Vindicate and Defend all the Idolatrous Practices Blasphemous Principles and Damnable Errors Said Wrote and Printed Broached and Spread by the Quaker Teachers enough to Infect the Nations if God had not put it into the Hearts of some Instruments to discover the same and thanks be to God who from the beginning of my Discovery of their Errors hath given me Strength Ability and Courage to go on and not to turn to the Right Hand nor to the Left in my Pursuit after Sheba the Son of Bichri that Man of Beliel 2 Sam. 20.21,22 i. e. Geo. Whitehead until I have hemm'd him in on every side altho' I have been hard beset and gone thro' many Difficulties and Streights * Which few know but my self and have been forced to climb up the Hill upon my Hands and Feet like Jonathan 1 Sam. 14.13 yet as he slew Twenty upon the spot so have I discomfited Twelve of their principal Men and maul'd Doeg the Edomite alias Jos Wyeth see my Sober Expostulation with the Hearers of the Quakers against the Mercenary Teachers c. p. 1. to the 15. that Pupil of W. Penn's who as I am informed was equally unbelieving with Mr. Penn touching the late happy Peace without a Restau such Hopes had they of extirpating the Protestant Interest c. for the time is come that One shall chase a Thousand and Two shall put Ten Thousand of them to flight and thus doth God bring to pass his Acts his strange Acts by weak Instruments to whom over all be the Glory together with the Son and Blessed Spirit Three Persons and One God now henceforth and for evermore Amen And therefore in the Words of David I will praise the Lord saying O Lord with my whole Heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous Works I will be glad and rejoice in thee I will sing Praise to thy Name O thou most