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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41273	A defence of An apology for the people called Quakers being in answer to a book entituled Quakerism exposed, or, Some papers deliver'd to the King and Parliament / by John Field.	Field, John, 1652-1723.; Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724? Quakerism exposed.; Field, John, 1652-1723. An apology for the people called Quakers.	1699 (1699)	Wing F863; ESTC R29523	23,207	40

Doctrine Conversation and Practice Which some of them have declared by being very severe upon some who for Conscience sake cannot put into their Mouths that for 35 s. pretended Dues have seized more than 80 l. and when they had an easier Way to have Compelled it viz. by Distress have seized and sold to the value of 87 l. 16 s. 11 d. for 6 l. 15 s. 11 d. Demanded And since F. Bugg ridicules our Sufferings in the Postscript of that Book to the King and both Houses of Parliament I shall briefly hint that of the People called Quakers there suffered in the Year 1660. by Imprisonments Stockings Whipings Loss of Goods and other Abuses 3179. and 79 lay in Prison when King Charles the 2d came in and 32 Died there Now many of these suffered by those Teachers Ministers c. that F. Bugg calls the Clergy or Heritage of God which were gotten into the Fat Parsonages Rich Vicarages and other Profitable Places of those that were turned out In the Time of King Charles the Second many Thousands suffered by Qui Tam's two thirds of their Estates and 20 l. per Month for not going to Church as they called it by Sequestrations for Tythes and by Imprisonments on Writs De Excommunicato capiendo and Justices Warrants and for their Religious Meetings as Rioters and Tumultuous Persons when they were Quiet and Peaceable At Horselydown there was more Blood shed than a Bloody Nose as F. Bugg scoffingly writes by Troopers and Soldiers And 1660 were left Prisoners when King Charles the Second died besides the Fines Estreats out of the Exchequer that were against many which the late King James relieved them from and for which they were thankful to God and the King and from hence some that caused us to Suffer when they could not have their Ends answered to continue our Sufferings would insinuate that we were Popishly Aflected So that when they could not Afflict us with their Hands they would Lash and Persecute us with their Virulent Tongues and Pens Let F. Bagg in his next seeing he scribbles Books so fast tell how many of those that kept the Bishops and their Company out turned with the Times to save their Benifices It 's very like old Henry Meriton Rector of Oxborough in Norfolk may inform him herein and who it was that was Excluded or Suspended from Preaching in any Corporation in England and what it was for Again that woful Cry against Vnjust Persecutions and Grievous Oppressions writ by Edward Burroughs which F. B. quotes as I have hinted before was against those that turned and kept the Bishops and their Company out of Possession and that cried against them as Popish Did not they call the Common-Prayer Porrage the Surplice the Whores Smock And did they not cry Down with the Whore of Babylon Down Down with Her And did not the Trumpets sound when they so Cried and the Cross in Cheapside was pulled down and the Images defaced and the Organs called their Bag or Grumbling Pipes and turned out also And was there not a great Cry then made against the Bishops And the Church-Lands sold also Yet F. Bugg will Cry and Exclaim against the Quakers who Cried against those that turned the Predecessors of his New Lords and Masters out of Possession Is it for the Reasons before-mentioned Or because the Quakers testified against those Teachers and their Persecuting Spirit and Practices How will he then Reconcile this Persecution which he saith is a Badge of a false Church And if these Men in that Age were found in it why then doth F. Bugg call them the Clergy or Heritage of God Why doth he say they are one with the Church of England and that there is the Vnanimous Consent of all Protestants both Conformists and Nonconformists to have the Quakers Principles Examined or Suppressed and that they i. e. the Nonconformists are sorrowfully affected that they are joyned with them in the Act of Toleration to see Christianity suffer so deeply by their Anti-scriptural Doctrine And not only so saith F. Bugg but I have a Testimony well attested of their Abhorrence of their Blasphemous Tenets O how busie is this Agent to insinuate that all other Dissenters were sorry they were joyned with us in the Act of Toleration and that Christianity deeply suffered by the Quakers Blasphemous Tenets O wicked and false Insinuations But this is our Comfort that we are made Partakers of the Blessing which Christ pronounced when he said Blessed are ye when Men shall Revile you and Persecute you and shall say all manner of Evil falsly or as 't is in the Greek lying for my Name sake We therefore Rejoyce and are exceeding Glad knowing our Reward is great in Heaven and while we are here we are resolved through the Grace of God to Love our Enemies Bless them that Curse us do Good unto them that Hate us and Pray for them who Despightfully use us and Persecute us that we may be the Children of our Father which is in Heaven For he maketh his Son to rise on the Evil and on the Good and sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Vnjust Mat. 5.44 45. And therefore I tenderly propose to the Serious Consideration of all Christian People Whether to dwell in Love abide in Charity walk in Humility fear God and live Peaceably with all Men will not render us more like God and Christ than to dwell in Hatred and Enmity to walk in Pride and High-mindedness and to be Turbulent and Quarrelsome For are not they the best Christians Subjects and Neighbours that truly Believe in God and Jesus Christ his Son and in the Holy Spirit and take the Holy Scriptures which were given forth by Divine Inspiration for their Creed the Holy Spirit for their Guide Christ for their Example and God for their Teacher and are rather careful to live well and love all Men than to contend about School Distinctions and meer Speculative Notions as too many do For such commonly are more Earnest for their Interpretations than for the Text and Hate and Kill one another falsly pretending it is for God's sake Who while they would be counted Members of the true Church of Christ by their Fruits are known to be of the contrary for if Persecution is a Badge of a false Church and the Protestants generally account it so in the Papists then ought it not diligently to be by all them avoided and to account it their Interest to Unite in Love and Affection in Charity and good Will For what is that Man's Religion worth who wants Charity and his Pretence of Zeal for God who dwells in Envy and Malice to his Neighbour whom he ought to Love as himself So desiring heartily that the Lord may Incline the Minds of all to follow Him and his Son Christ Jesus our alone Saviour who came not to Destroy Mens lives but to save them who would not have the Tares pulled up lest the Wheat should be pluck'd up