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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65860	The counterfeit convert, a scandal to Christianity and his unjustly opposing Quakerism to Christianity justly reprehended : and the true Christ, and Holy Scripures [sic] confessed by the Quakers : in opposition to two scandalous books falsly styled I. Quakerism withering, and Christianity reviving, II. Animadversions on G. Whitehead's book, Innocency triumphant.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing W1922; ESTC R38605	40,748	92

and Innocency Triumphant And the first was also proved against thee in Judgment fixed p. 225 226 227 228. By thy informing the Magistrate against us in thy Book of Christian Liberty pretended accusing us with Impositions a new stamped Government comparing our Yearly Meeting in 1675 to the Popes Council of Jesuits and crafty Friars And our Testimony then given concerning Mens and Womens Meetings as if it had come from the Pope's Council c. upbraiding our Women's Meetings as an Idol of our own erecting com●aring it to the Papists great Idol viz. The Rood ● Grace as in thy De Chris. lib. 2d Part p. 32 ●8 46 47 Printed in 1682. But to be accounted an Informer as afore said F. B. takes very hardly being in the time 1682 saying he was one of the greatest Sufferer● by Informers in the whole Country But F. B. was not thou about that time quarrelling with S Cater about the Fifteen Pound Fine And pulling thy Neck out of the Collar and winding thy self out of Sufferings And was it such a great Crime to render thee an Informer seeing what thou then writ against our Yearly Meeting tended to render us as obnoxious as the Papists like the Popes Council c. When 't is well known that in those Days many of our Friends deeply suffered by Laws made against Popish Recusants in Two Thirds of their Estates and 20 l. per Month Didst not tho● then deserve the Character of a Malicious Informer in grosly aspersing us as aforesaid ● Wicked Man is a Wicked Man a Liar i● a Liar a Forger is a Forger a Persecutor is a Persecutor and deserves his Characters 2. A Wicked Forger I deny thy Charge again Wherein a wicked Forger What for saying F. Bugg affirms in hi● Book de Chris. lib. part 2d p. 83. That Conformity is a Monster c. And yet in about Two Years after he himself turned about and conformed In answer to which thou sayest I am not the Author of one Word of that Page bu● the whole Passage is a Query of John Ainsloe's beginning p 81 and ending p. 87. But hold F. B. Jo. Ainsloe's Query begins not in p. 81 but in p. 82 and recited in p. 83 for p. 81 concludes with these Words viz. I shall add one Query which J. A. put forth to which I never heard that he had any Answer and were not these thy Words Francis And the Words a few Lines before in the same Page viz. Error ●oves obs●urity for its Habitation is Darkness and Ignorance is the Mother of its Devotion and Conformity the Monstrous Womb that produced it c. And are not these thy Words Francis and what difference pray between calling Conformity the Monstrous Womb and Conformity a Monster Is not a Monstrous Womb as bad as a Monster What makes a Monster but something Monstrous and is not that which is Monstrous a Monster Besides thou hast appeared so much affected with Jo. Ainsloe's Query and Answer that thou ●ast taken some care to recite and print the ●ame at large without shewing any dislike to ●t but rather as a matter highly approved by ●hee So that thou didst espouse the same and ●hat he writ therein thou madest thine by ●doption Thou appearing then of the sa●e ●ud gment why art now so shy of thy own A●opted Birth or Monster Why didst not re●ct it at first but hugg'd it so long 3. A Wilful Liar That I am sure is false for though I may ac●dentally mistake in some Circumstances yet ●ot a Wilful nor witting Liar Thy pretended proof of this Charge is the Conten Apost p. 3. viz. F. Bugg and his Company being go● into the Meeting before G. W. and into the Gallery I grant there was an accidental Defect or Error happened in that Passage I not being present to correct the Press which was afterward corrected as may be seen in my Sheet The Cont. Apost Recharg'd p. 8. in these Words viz. And Reader observe in the said Contentious Apostate and his Blow refelled p. 3. l. 11. to read And he into the Gallery the word he being omitted varies from the sense intended though in some it was corrected after Printed but in others omitted Now pray how will this prove G. W. a wilful Liar F. Bugg can take small occasion to asperse Therefore the defective Account with the said omission of the Word he was neither wilfully nor maliciously sent abroad to render thee a Turbulent Disturber as thou falsly sayest p. 66. although thou wast very turbulent and disturbed the whole Meeting and that wilfully and wickedly having like a Persecuting Informer procured a Warrant and a Constable to cause the Persons met forthwith to appear before some Justice of Peace to answer an Information against the Meeting because held under pretence of a Religious Worship in different form from the Religion established in a place not licensed c. which disturbance being contrary to the intent of the Government And afterwards thou falaciously excused this thy Turbulancy and Persecution pretending thy getting a Justice's Warrant was to the intent to get me to own my Book Judgment fixed N. Rom. unm p. 53 when the Warrant was expressly grounded upon an Information of a Meeting under pretence of Religious Worship c. And to cause the Persons met to appear as aforesaid to answer the Information Now was not this like an Informer 4. A Gross Perverter This I deny as a gross Lie and his Instance though unfairly cited Is no proof thereof 'T is evident that the Instances Bugg brought in his Sheet to prove the Quakers Contempt of Government reviling Christ's Magistrates and Ministers were out of E. Burr Works between the Year 1654 and 1659 which was in Cromwel's Days against his Persecuting Magistrates and Ministers whom E. B. testified against because of their Persecution and their Arbitrary Usurp'd Dominion over the Consciences of Men p. 501. This is no Perversion but true in fact It was E. B's reprehentions against them and their Corruptions that Bugg did make the Quakers Contempt of Government as more fully is made put in the Quakers Vindication p. 3. And therefore I did not aggravate the Matter against him by saying to do us an ill turn Bugg has at ●nawares run his own Head against a Wall What E. B. G. F. and G. R. writ to O. C. and that Government it was not in favour to their Usurpation over Mens Consciences Persecution c. and the Substance thereof is answered long since in a Treatise Entituled Christ's Lambs defended from Satan's Rage F. Bugg's Charge of Usurpation against the Quakers p. 69 shews a great height of Malice and Bitterness as well as gross Falshood and Perversion and particularly his first Instance viz. And that in divers respects First In that you Summons the Kings Subjects to meet Annually in London by way of General Council or Con●●ication without any legal Warrant Writ or other Legal Authority and when sat in Council

i. e. Samuel Waldenfield lately took occasion to repair to the said Bishop of Glocester having the reputation of a moderate Person and shewed him Fr. Bugg's said Pamphlet and Epistle dedicated to him and this very Passage of his Submission as not knowing but he had delivered it first in Manuscript to the Bishop for his Perusal and Correction Which when I enquired of him about the Bishop answered he had never seen it before nor knew the Man Whereupon I shewed him how preposterous it was for F. B. to expose his said Pamphlet in Print to general Judgment before he had the Bishops Judgment about it and how inconsistent with his said offer of his Book to his Perusal and submitting to his Censure the Matters therein How insincere F. B. was herein is obvious It seems he was resolved to traduce and asperse the Quakers in Print first that the Bishop might not have the opportunity to prevent him therein Though for a Pretext and Colour he Complements the Bishop with his Conditional Submission to his Censure and Judgment whether he had wronged the Quakers or not Did not this tend to make the World believe he had the Bishops Privity or Approbation therein or otherwise that he would not have div●lged what he had writ because offered to the Bishops Perusal and Censure who knew nothing of it until 't was gone out into the World What a Mockery and plain Abuse was this tending to make the Bishop suspected of giving Countenance thereto To whom we shewed also Bugg's other Book against us stiled New Rome Arraign with his Mock Trial and Condemnation of Perjury and Pillory against us and the Occasion thereof which Calumnies the Bishop disowned and could not allow of such Treatment And I thought meet to give this hint thereof to do the Bishop so much Justice that he might not lye under the suspition of giving Countenance to this our Implacable Adversary in these his Calumnies and bitter Invectives against us As I did in the Postscript of my late Answer Innocency Triumphant For Henry Goldwell Justice of Peace and late Member of Parliament to whom F. B. dedicated his other Scandalous Book stiled New Rome Arraigned without his Privity or Knowledge as he confessed and for which he also told some of us he severely advertised F. Bugg when he saw it in Print with his Mock-Trial Perjury and Pillory against us being sensible it was a Reflection on his Reputation to be rendred or suspected as the Patroniser or Countenancer of such Scandalous Pamphlets And 't is to be much more hoped that the said Bishop will advertise F. B. for endeavouring to shelter himself under his Countenance or Reputation In point of Civility I thought meet to shew the said Bishop of Glocester this foregoing Passage relating to him about F. b's Dedication in Manuscript before 't was printed because I had such occasion to make use of his Name in Print that he might not be offended which he was not but took it well from us Samuel Waldenfield being then also present with me However whatever we suffer there is a just and all-seeing God that will judge righteously do rightly and finally determine the Controversie between the Two Seeds the Righteous and the Wicked To Him the Righteous Judge of all we commit our Innocent Cause Friendly Reader my Concern in this Controversie is designed only to vindicate Truth according to my understanding thereof and to do particular Persons wronged so much right as to their Principle as by referring to their own Explications for where either their Words are perverted or seem dubious in the manner of Expressions their own more full and clear Demonstrations ought to be taken notice of in point of Justice to them And where the whole Body or People called Quakers are wrongfully charged about their Principles from particular Persons 't is an absurd way of arguing whether it be from any one 's defective or dubious manner of Expressions or our Adversaries own perversions and misrepresentations And in that case to manifest Truth and to do the said People right as to their Principles c. I find it the plainest way to have recourse to their Concurrent Testimonies and Harmonies of their Writers and Books to evince the truth of their Principles to others And this Method which I do sincerely observe all Religious and Christian Societies will allow of and not condemn a whole Body of Sober Religious People or Christian Society for any particular shortness in manner of Expressions for that were very partial and unjust And I doubt not but the Lord our God will stop the Mouth of Iniquity that 's open against us and clear our Innocency more and more that his Truth may prevail over Deceit and Envy and the Upright in Heart shall see it and rejoyce in the Lord and in the prosperity of his blessed Truth over his and their Enemies From a Servant of Christ George Whitehead London the 3d. of the 2d Month 1694 Reader Note That the omission of the Names of our present Opposers in the Title is 1. Because of the Contempt brought upon them by their great Envy and outrage 2. Lest their Names in the Title should cause some to refuse inspecting this Treatise In opposition to the great Abuses Misrepresentations of F. Bugg and his Advocate Tho. Crisp against us the following Testimony which was lately delivered to the Parliament is added WE whose Names are underwritten being in Christian Society with the People commonly called QUAKERS Do in good Conscience Declare and Certifie all Persons concerned 1. That we sincerely believe and Confess That Jesus of Nazareth who was born of the Virgin Mary is the true Messiah the very Christ the Son of the Living God to whom all his Prophets gave Witness And we do highly value his Death Sufferings Works Offices and Merits for the Redemption and Salvation of Mankind together with his Laws Doctrine and Ministry 2. That this very Christ of God was and is the Lamb of God that takes away the Sins of the World who was slain was dead and is alive and lives for evermore in his divine eternal Glory Dominion and Power with the ●ather 3. That the HOLY Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of divine Authority as being given by Inspiration from God 4. And that Magistracy or Civil Government is God's Ordinance the good ends thereof being for the Punishment of Evil-doers and Praise of them that do well And we know of no other Doctrine or Principle preached maintained or ever received among or by us since we were a People contrary to these before mentioned Signed in Behalf of the said People Thomas Lower William Crouch William Ingram William Meade William Macket Philip Ford Francis Camfield John Edge Thomas Hutson Charles Marshall Josiah Ellis Gilbert Latey Theodor Eccleston Joseph Wassey Thomas Cox John Bowater Benjamin Antrobus William Philips Edward Brook William Townsend John Hall George Oldner Thomas Barker Abraham Johnson Tho. Twinbarrow