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A65884	A rambling pilgrim, or, Profane apostate, exposed being an answer to two persecuting books, falsly entitled, I. The pilgrim's progess from Quakerism to Christianity, II. A modest defence, with an epistle dedicatory to his bountiful benefactors / by G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing W1951; ESTC R20202	45,954	62

if not Blasphemy thus to subvert the Gospel to serve their Corrupt Ends. How wary then had People need be of receiving the Quakers Doctrine Is it so that People being thus caught in a Snare and brought over to their silent Meetings c. thus thou p. 10. Thus contrary to thy former solid Confession to the Light hast thou appeared against it instead of Christ the Light or the Light of Christ the true Light which enlightens Men now with thee 't is Their Light the Quaker-Light p. 46 48. Thus and much more in Contempt of the Light like that profane Great Lying Libel The Snake in the Grass whose Pupil thou F. B. appearest to be in this thy Dark Enmity against the Light and the Children of the Light as also in thy high Commendation of the Author of that Snake as having been and still is a Gentleman a Man of Great Learning and Piety cloathed with Zeal as with a Garment for the Christian Religion and well accomplished every way c. p. 31. but thy Contempt and Profaness like his against the Light as well as thy gross and horrid Ignorance and Scorn in this Point is plainly detected and justly reprehended by Edmund Elys though one of the Church of England in his late half Sheet in Print entituled Some Reflections upon Francis Bugg 's Book entituled The Pilgrims Progress c. F. Bugg his opposing the Light in the Body to the Light in the Particular p. 12. is such a blind Contradiction as well as Contradistinction as is neither Scriptural nor ever allowed by us the Light Christ being but one pure Indivisible Light in himself and in every Member and in his whole Body nor do we know of any Council held in London either in the Month of May 1666. or any Time else of our Friends who decided That the Body should govern and the Light in the particular should submit to the Body as F. B. falsly relates But Mendacem oportet esse memorem A Lyar hath need of a good Memory which this seems to want For in Contradiction to himself herein he other-whiles accuses us with saying All Power in Heaven and Earth is committed to our Light p. 10 and That the Light in every Man is the higher Power to whom all must submit and obey and that this Light is one in the Male and in the Female p 23 24. and their President i. e. the Quakers President in their Convocation being their Light within p. 38. How then should the Body govern the Light Or how should we make any such Decision as he has told us That the Light in the particular should submit to the Body and the Body be without a Head like a Monster as F. B. Scoffs blasphemously For Christ the true Light is our Light and he is the Head of the Body and the Government is laid upon his Shoulders who is Lord of Lords and King of Kings And none can truly Perswade Counsel Judge or in such Gospel-way Rule or Govern for Christ in his House and Family but in and by his Light and Power for no other is allowed among us so that Christ in all things must have the Preheminence It is also an Impudent Falshood that any Council among us Resolved That G. Fox must be the Head of the Body and not the Light in the particular p. 11 12. Where have we ever so Concluded or Asserted But ever the contrary namely that Christ is the Head of the Body the Church the Light and Lawgiver thereof Again F. B. perverts my words and wrongs me over and over in saying p. 16. So Proud is G. Whitehead that he tells you The Jews might as well have carried them to Christ in the days of his Flesh viz. the Ten Commandments for him to learn observe and obey them as for the Christians to carry them to the Quakers to learn them observe and obey them And to this effect he has many times over perverted my words quoting Truth Defending the Quakers p. 18. Where did ever I say The Jews might as well have carried the Ten Commandments to Christ for him to learn observe and obey them as for the Christians to carry them to the Quakers to learn them observe and obey them I deny the words and Comparison and they are not in my Answer he refers unto wherein my saying The Christians Life and Rule is Christ who is the End of the Law for Righteousness who came not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it I neither make void the Ten Commandments nor render Christ to have as much need to learn them as the Quakers Oh for shame F. B. repeat these Lyes no more I cannot but observe what a Habit of Perversion and Abuse this Adversary is arriv'd unto Again 't is a notorious Abuse and Forgery in F. Bugg p. 16 18. to Accuse the Quakers with making the Commands of God of none Effect setting the Ten Commandments of Moses and Ten Commandments which he has fram'd patch'd up and number'd in G. Fox's Name opposite one to another in two Columns his Design therein being to make the People call'd Quakers as ridiculous absurd and silly as he can He feigns Ten Commandments in the Quakers Language instead of the Ten Commandments of God by Moses and places them in Opposition thereto to make the Commands of God of none Effect Though the Man's perverse Invention against us herein deserves not Repetition yet that his profane Forgery in this may appear I here give the Reader some Instances of the Method he has Invented against us viz. The Commandments of God by his Servant Moses c. Exod. 20. The Commandments of G. Fox the Quakers Second Moses c. I. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any Graven Image III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold them guiltless that taketh his Name in vain I. Thou shalt not pay Tythes to the Covetous Priests nor to the Antichristian Impropriators II. Thou shalt not Marry by or with a Priest III. Thou shalt not put off thy Hat in respect to thy Superiours These F. Bugg forms in Opposition to the other to shew that the Quakers make the Commands of God of none Effect wherein his idle Impertinency as well as Injustice appears as also in the following VII Thou shalt not commit Adultery VIII Thou shalt not Steal IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's Wife nor his Man-Servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his c. VII Thou shalt not wear Lace nor Ribbons nor Skimming-dish Hats nor short Aprons c. VIII You shall have a Woman's Meeting distinct from the Men c. IX Thou shalt call the Days of the Week first second third and fourth Day c. and the Months first second and third Month

c. X. I charge you all in the Presence of the Lord God That you Judge not one another i. e. Those that be in the Unity of the Ministry and Elders in the Church lest you fall into the Condemnation of the Monthly Quarterly six-Six-Week second-Second-Day or Yearly Meeting Amen Thus F. B's invented Method of forming Commands how Idle and Impertinent does the Man appear herein And how does he Profane and take the sacred Name of the Lord God in vain For which God will not hold him guiltless And when F. B. will not demean himself quietly towards any of our Friends but be Challenging of them in the Countries or else-where and will be Charging them out of Books they may Charge him First To prove his Trial and Condemnation of our Friends to Perjury and Pillory as in his New Rome Arraigned to be a Real and True Trial and Condemnation Judicial and Warrantable by the Law of God and of the Nation Secondly To prove his Sermon which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon in his Pilgrim's Progress from p. 107 to p. 126. to be a Real Sermon preached by G. W. Thirdly To prove where G. Fox or the Quakers did ever endeavour to make the Commands of God Exod. 20. of none Effect by those or such positive Commands as he has impudently form'd in opposition thereto in his Pilgrim's Progress p. 16 17 18 Now if F. B. will not learn to be quiet towards our Friends c. that he might the more quietly go to his Grave now he grows Old they may very well Charge him on these Three Forgeries last propos'd as many more I could charge him withal and have proved against him upon his own Calumnies and Occasions so manifestly given by himself and let him be held to the point in Charge or any other who dare undertake to Advocate for him therein which I could never yet find if he and they are not minded otherwise to study to be quiet And now that F. B's Falshood Envy and Contradiction may yet farther appear to his own Condemnation seeing he hath given plain Testimony and Confession to the Truth of our Doctrine and Ministry First With respect to the Universality and Sufficiency of the Light of Christ in all Men. Secondly To our Ministry that it was a Dispensation of the Love of God sent as a Visitation to Mankind Thirdly To our bearing the Cross and suffering for the Testimony thereof Fourthly To our Love unfeigned one to another Fifthly To our Religious Meetings as being blessed with the Comfortable Enjoyment of the Presence of God According as the said F. Bugg is more fully before recited out of his Book stiled The Quakers Detected printed 1686. being Two Years after he had left our Communion and joyned himself to the Church of England in 1684. So that his Conviction and Testimony for the Truth among the Quakers even when he had deserted them pursued him into the Church of England But now being grown more hardy and so far hardned against Conviction and Conscience he can out-face both and give himself the Lye in his fore-cited Solemn Testimony and Confession as appears in his envious Contradiction following in his own words viz. Having by this time shewed first how our Teachers in order to bring us over to them and to decoy us told us The Light within was a sufficient Guide Teacher and Leader even sufficient to lead to Salvation yea above Scriptures above Fathers above Councils and above Churches I have in the last Instance shewed the Fallacy of their so early and smooth Pretences and that from the beginning they have been a false perfidious and treacherous Tribe of Deceivers as ever the World produced Pilgrim's Progress p. 15. To such a degree of Hardness and Insolency is this poor Creature now arriv'd that he can now thus scribble in Opposition to the Sufficiency of the Light within and Contempt of the Ministers thereof expresly contradictory to his own Testimony for the Light wherewith Christ hath enlightned Men and to the Sufficiency thereof if obey'd to lead to Salvation without the help of Decrees of Men And to his own Testimony also for the Simplicity and Plainness which attended our Ministry which did not import any Design to decoy or deceive Men nor any Falshood Perfidiousness or Treachery as F. B. has falsly and treacherously Scandalized Us and our Ministry and thereby notoriously given himself the Lye and shamefully Belyed his own Conscience and solemn Confession and Testimony in his Quakers Detected aforesaid And the Light now so much slighted by him will pursue him as it did Judas and other Apostates to his great Vexation and perpetual Torment if he persists in his Enmity Perfidiousness and Treachery against the Light and the Children of it Oh F. B If I may yet perswade thee Repeat thy Lyes and Scandals no more His Accusation against W. Mead That he said to one W. Harris I will give thee one of George Fox 's Journals it is a very good Book yea better than the Bible Which Accusation he has many times over p. 22 23 24 25 29. but various in it viz. That 't is better than the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles p. 23. This Accusation W. Mead positively denies as contrary to his Principle which is to prefer the holy Scriptures before all other Books in the World For I asked him seriously about this matter And I am sure it is a base and shameful Abuse of F. Bugg that It is the Heart of Quakerism in saying G. Fox 's Journal is better than the Bible p. 23. This I must tell him is a foul notorious Lye and Calumny against the Quakers so called 'T is neither the Quakers Mind Heart nor Mouth so to speak but the contrary i. e. To prefer the Bible to all other Books extant in the World as hath been often testified Wherefore F. B. repeat this Lye no more against us Again as 't is F. Bugg's common Course to add one Calumny after another and to accumulate Lyes and Perversions upon us he falsly saith The Quakers stand upon the same bottom i. e with the Jesuites and therefore they ought to distrust them in all they say as the Protestants did the Jesuites We do not expect he will trust us who has belyed his own Conscience Conviction and Testimony as before evinced And to add to his Iniquity and aggravate his Calumnies against me he saith Many of their Hearers of the honest sort begin to think G. Whitehead little better than a Jesuite already he hath been so False in Fact such a Glosser and Defender of every Error the Quakers hold I have quoth he a Letter by me which my Cousin Ann Docwra sent me dated 26. 12th Month 1682. viz. G. Whitehead has sent me one of his Books c. I was asked by an honest Friend If he was not a Jesuite I answered Nay it is not solid enough for them to own especially when they write to a solid People

among thy manifold Repeated and Refuted Forgeries Lyes and Falshoods is an ill Sign and bespeaks an ill Omen against thee and that thy Day hastens Thou hast almost run thy Rope-length the Lord shall laugh at thee for he seeth that thy Day is coming the Pride of thy Heart and thy abominable Presumption and wicked Designs of Contempt and Persecution against His Heritage has reached unto Heaven and for thy great Iniquity and Apostacy thou hast got a secret Wound which is not cured if cureable but will increase to greater Anguish under a Gnawing Worm that will never die but Augment thy Torment if thou persistest in thy Impenitency to defame and make Lyes and Forgeries thy Refuge Remember thou hast been often warn'd in thy Life-time and thou shalt witness me to have been thy Soul's true Friend when thou shalt not be able to make me the Subject of thy Reproach nor the Object of thy Malice and Fury Forgery You may conclude Friends that he i. e. G. Fox was the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness spoken of in Scripture but mark This Epistle it is only to go among Friends p. 123. Observe again This Forgery which he now makes part of my Sermon has often been detected and charg'd upon him as it is a very foul Abuse and Calumny that either I or our Friends did so call G. Fox the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness or preach any such Doctrine as here he represents me O Abominable Forgery I yet challenge him and his Abettors to produce that Book or Epistle of any of our Friends which so terms G. Fox the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness For though I have found the words the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness in E. Burrough's Epistle To the Camp of the Lord in England in his Works p. 66 67. yet not apply'd to G. Fox nor his Name so much as mention'd in that Epistle And Bugg knows he has been told of this over and over in Print and particularly in my Sober Expostulation p. 5. p. 54 55 56. but never had Answer or Reply from him to clear himself in this Point and many other Lyes but a Repetition of the same Forgery over and over like a wilful impertinent scornful Scribler that will be still Imposing the same Refuted Calumnies and odious Defamations This is his course of writing and scribbling Books with the same Abuses still over and over without regarding any Answer how plain so ever to his Confutation Which is a most silly bruitish Method he has enur'd himself unto still Idem per idem for Proof and that with a great deal of insolent shew of Confidence And withal he has so much studied the Art of idle Romancing Forgery and Detraction Scoffing Taunting Flouting Boasting Cracking and Insulting that he is arriv'd to a great Heighth of Impudence therein For which I may repeat this one Instance Twelve of our Friends in and about London giving Certificate against four principal Calumnies and Falshoods cast upon the People called Quakers by F. Bugg in his New Rome Unmask'd as they are related in my Charitable Essay p. 8. in 1693. This being one of his four said Falshoods viz. II. That the Quakers Prophets give witness to G. Fox instead of this Christ that they call him G. F. the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness and put the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem Epistle to the Bereans and p. 81. Now Observe further For our denying of this and other Calumnies in our said Twelve Friends Certificate the said F. Bugg counterfeits a Court of Judicature feigns a Jury pretends Proof out of Books perverted by him calls the Certifiers against him into Examination then forges their Answers and counterfeits the Jury to bring them in Guilty of Perjury Then has a Form of a Pillory and ugly Pictures to represent the Persons Condemned standing in it and the first Letters of their Names over their Heads and the word Perjury over them as may be seen in his New Rome Arraigned Epistle to the Bereans printed 1693. to the Scandal and Defamation of the Persons thus Reproached and Staged by him By all which it may appear what Proficiency Francis Bugg has attain'd to in his Invention of Forgery to Defame and make Men Ridiculous But when since he met with some Check for such his Audacious Abuse and Scandal and might have cause to fear the Issue then he could slily excuse the Forgery and Defamation and put it off as only a Mock-Trial and a Mock-Pillory and consequently a Mock-Sentence and a Mock-Perjury as if Persons may Defame Scandalize Steal Rob Kill and Murder Men either in their Reputations Livelihoods or Persons and then to excuse themselves from having their Demerits alledge That it was all but in Jest or in Mockery And so F. Bugg may say of his idle and profane Romance which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon that 't is but a Mock-Sermon and consequently that he uses the Name of God and Christ c. therein only in Mockery But this will not Excuse his presumptuous Profaneness no more than his Forgery and Defamation Have not some of the Priests own'd this Man for their Convert even an eminent Convert of their Church And do they not make use of him gratifie and reward him as their Agent and their Tool But will it redound to their Credit or Honour or Promotion of the Christian Religion to abet promote and assist such a profane Scorner to act for them in their Cause more like a Stage-Player a Merry-Andrew or Jack-Pudding than a Person of any Seriousness or Sobriety in Religion Forgery Again in G. W's Name viz. In the Application I have shewed how our Light within hath exalted you above the Prophets Apostles Martyrs holy Confessors and all Christian Churches to this day Our dear Brother W. Bingley hath well remember'd our ancient Testimony against the Hireling-Priests c. Benjamin Bealing hath found out a very suitable Hymn of Praise even a melodious Song of Triumph setting forth our Exaltation and the Downfal of the Christian Churches under the Notion of the False Church c. p. 125 126. Observe Thus he persists Forging such Stuff in my Name and as my Sermon like a silly Scorner playing the Fool against me to make me as ridiculous a Fool as he can What Stage-Player durst ever have adventur'd to profane Religion and the sacred Name of God Christ and the Light in their Interludes or Comedies as this Person has done Who is accountable to God for casting such Contempt upon the Light of Christ as if it led to such Self-Exaltation i. e. of our selves as he has scornfully related For such his Scorn and Contempt against the true Light which we profess he is Accountable to the righteous Judge of all and his own more serious Confession to the Light Recited in the Epistle will rise up in Judgment against him Forgery again in the said pretended Sermon

in the beginning we were Convinced by G. Fox that Matthew Mark Luke and John were Death Dust and Serpents Meat that the Scriptures were heastly-ware c. This Passage by the way is a gross Forgery and notorious Lie still I never thus preached nor ever were we convinced by G. Fox or any other that either the Doctrine of the holy Evangelists were Serpents Meat Dust or Death or the Scriptures Beastly-ware as 't is frequently repeated by F. B. Unto which foul Abuse he farther adds as my Sermon viz. And therefore I warn you all to take heed of Apostatising from our ancient Testimony as you have it in my Text for what we were Convinced of by our Light in the beginning to be Evil to be Death Dust Serpents meat 't is so still to be Beastly-ware and Conjuration 't is so still p. 120. Obs. This is a blasphemous Fiction not only against the Holy Scripture but against the Light which he calls Your Light For neither did the Light ever so Convince us to call the Scriptures Beastly-ware nor did I ever Preach such blasphemous Doctrine of the Light as here I am grosly misrepresented but the Contrary As no Man speaking by the Spirit can Blaspheme or call Jesus Accursed so no Man speaking by his Light can Blaspheme or Reproach his holy Scriptures which Testifie of him The Book Bugg quotes for his so often-repeated Lie of calling the Scriptures Beastly-ware is stiled A Brief Discovery of a three-fold Estate of Anti-christ printed 1653. Page 9. I have that Book by me and I have searched both Book and Page and I find no such words as calling the Scriptures Beastly-ware But Babylon's Merchants selling Beastly-wares for a large Price all the Week time heaping up a Rabble of Notions into the Brain So that the Beastly-wares intended was their Rabble of Notions and not the Scriptures Obs. Again How scurrilously F. Bugg makes me to come to a Stop in this Insolent and Presumptuous Romance which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon after this manner viz. And therefore keep up your ancient Testimony my Dear Lambs in all the part of it Ha ha ha hme hme hme silent p. 120. Thus this Scorner forges a ridiculous Tone as my Conclusion or Stop in that place somewhat resembling the Mockers of Old whom the Psalmist complains of Psalm 35. 21. Yea they opened their Mouth wide against me and said Aha aha And Psalm 40. 15. Let them be desolate for a Reward of their Shame that say unto me Aha aha And Psalm 70. 3. Let them be turned back for a Reward of their Shame that say Aha aha And then after a little Silence he most absurdly represents William Bingley as preaching in Confirmation of his Confused and Absurd Romance aforesaid which he calls George Whitehead's Sermon In W. Bingley's Name thus viz. Friends Friends I am filled I am filled as with new Wine I am ready to burst at the Joyful News I have heard to day respecting our Ancient Testimony And O magnified be our Light within which hath thus exalted us above the Prophets above the Apostles above the Martyrs and above all Christians as our dear Brother G. W. hath most excellently made it out first in opening his Text and also in the two Branches proceeding from it but more especially in the Use and Application where he hath confirmed me in not making Confession of Sin nor regarding the Ten Commandments nor those two Ordinances of Baptism and Supper p. 120 121. Obs. How shamefully he personates W. B. to asperse and abuse him as if he were highly Elevated and magnified our Light within because of what F. Bugg has most falsly feigned G. W. to Preach in Contempt of Scripture and for Exalting our selves above the Prophets Apostles c. Thus he presumptuously adds Sin to Sin Lye to Lye Forgery upon Forgery such sordid Stuff as we never heard W. B. preach but he utterly disowns and testifies against the same with Abhorrency to such Abuse of him and others And not only so but Bugg wickedly represents W. B. as making our Light within the Author of his foregoing Absurd Forgery and Romance in G. W's Name against the holy Scriptures Ten Commandments c. Consequently to blaspheme our Light within which is the Light of God and his Dear Son as if that oppos'd its own Testimony in holy Scripture and as if that led to Self-Exaltation above the Prophets and Apostles c. O wretched Man F. B How wilt thou appear before the Tribunal-Seat of Christ What a sad Account wilt thou have for such Profanation design'd Deceit and Wickedness Who further proceedest in W. Bingley's Name viz. Forgery But yet I have a short Testimony to bring in touching the Priests which I think our Friend G. W. left out unawares for I take it to be as necessary an ancient Testimony to be kept up as any other only a little more privately and prudently for they are as great Enemies to our design of Supplanting Christianity as any the World affords p. 121. Observe again Oh shameful Folly and Falshood Where and when did ever W. B. thus Preach That our Design is the supplanting Christianity Whenas our Design is well known to the contrary to such as truly fear God and to be for the Promoting of Christianity both in Spirit in Faith Life and Conversation Forgery Benjamin Bealing Clerk Let us sing an Hymn of Praise and Self-Exaltation and to the Confusion of our Adversaries as you will find it written in the Epistle of that Son of Thunder Edward Burrough prefixed to our Apostle G. Fox ' s Great Mystery printed 1658. The Waters have I seen dry'd up the Seat of that great Whore Who hath made all Nations drunk with her enticing Power Observe Now F. B. dost not thou Glory in thy Shame in such Invention as this Where did ever any in the World hear Benjamin Bealing set or sing such a Hymn as this in the end of a Meeting or any time else Observe his own Testimony viz. These are to Certifie all sober Readers That Francis Bugg's Representing me as calling to the Yearly Meeting To sing an Hymn of Praise and Self-Exaltation c. and making some Verses out of Edward Burrough's Preface to G. F's Great Mystery to be that Hymn 'T is all an idle false Invention and Forgery of his own for I never was concerned in any such thing in my Life-time and I am heartily sorry that this poor Man should be so given up in his old Age to serve the Father of Lyes with whom in the Lake he may expect to have his Portion without he unfeignedly Repents Witness my Hand Benjamin Bealing London the 4th of the 5th Month called July 1699. Oh F. B. thou appearest one of that sort who are arrived to that ill Habit of Iniquity and Hardness that they know no Shame And thy presumptuously Prophaning the sacred Name of God and of his dear Son and of his Light within using the same