' s Calumnies p. 2. Col. 1. 2. 14. That G. F. was a Blasphemer of the Blessed Trinity p. 16. Note A gross Calumny also He neither Blasphemed nor Opposed the Scripture Trinity i. e. Three of the Father the Word or Son and Holy Ghost but objected against some Unscriptural Distinctions and Terms of Three distinct or separate Personalities Subsistances or Substances Unscripturally by some supposed or implied in the Deity 15. That the Quakers count all others who are not of their Communion Damned Persons p. 16. This is both false and too uncharitable for the People called Quakers to be of such a severe Judgment Charitably believing that many not in outward Communion with them under various Forms of Religion may be sincere to God according to their Understandings and Belief as also that there are other Sheep which are not yet of this Fold whom Jesus Christ will gather and fetch home into his Fold and that in every Nation and People such as fear God and work Righteousness are and shall be accepted of him 16. That the Jesuit taught them this That they must not by any means Swear p. 17. Note A gross Lye for Jesus Christ taught us not to Swear Mat. 5. and so did his Holy Apostle James Chap. 5. And many of the Blessed Martyrs and Protestant Reformers were of the same Judgment with us whom the Papists Accused and Persecuted for the same who imposed Swearing as their Priests taught contrary to Christ's Command 17. That this sullen and dogged Sect is the Jesuit's natural and undoubted Issue tho' like other Bastards they are ashamed to own their Father c. p. 17. Note These are like some of Bugg's false and shameful Raileries and no such thing could he demonstrate in all the 25 Years that he was Conversant among the People called Quakers or since nor what Jesuit was then his Father or to whom he was then Bastard but the contrary he has in Print declared for the said People and their Doctrine even since he left them witness his Quakers Detected Cited in our Quakers Vindication and other Answers But 't is an ill and nasty Bird that bewrays its own Nest as he has done These last Aspersions of the Jesuits Teaching the Quakers and they the Jesuits Natural Issue and Bastards c. Bugg Credulously pretends to Cite out of a Learned Divine's Book of the Church of England but tells not his Name that his Credit may be enquired into but whatever he be he is of no Credit with us in this foul Aspersion and Abuse 18. That the Quakers Allegorize the Death and Sufferings of Christ his Passion Atonement Resurrection and Ascension to be within p. 17. Note This is a known Perversion and Falshood the true Spiritual-minded Quakers do not Allegorize away either the outward Sufferings Passion or Death or Atonement Resurrection or Ascension of Jesus Christ as if all these were within only for they really believe and own all these to have been done and transacted outwardly and literally as well as they truly believe and own the Mystery Spiritual Sence Influence and real Benefit and Advantage thereof as Inwardly and Spiritually partaken of felt and experienced by every Sincere and Spiritual Believer in Christ Jesus 19. That neither if you go to a Thousand of their Meetings shall you hear one of their Preachers have such an Expression in their Mouths as Consessing their Sins and Begging Pardon for Jesus Christ's sake p. 18. Note This is a presumptuous Prediction such Confession and Supplication have been oftentimes in publick among us and may be again for ought F. B. knows for them that want Forgiveness and Cleansing from Sin well-knowing that the Lord requires both true Confession and forsaking Sin tho' we do not Confess nor Pray by Book or Lyturgy after the Priest yet we feel the Spirit of Christ making Intercession with Sighs and Groans which cannot be uttered 20. That the Scriptures are Beastly Ware p. 21. Note This Reproach and Blasphemy F. B. has often most falsly cast upon us 't is Answered before several times and more fully hereafter 21. That the Quakers first rose in the North breaking all Law Order and Government p. 22. That Quakerism flowed over all our Banks of all Law Order and Government both Divine and Humane p. 24. Note Both these are gross and very offensive Aspersions before Answered and Refuted manifestly by our Christian Conversations 22. That they have a great Tax Collected to maintain their Teachers Travellers and Spies both at Home and Abroad p. 31. Note For which gross Lies F. Bugg quotes his own Authority and bids see his Books Battering Rams against New Rome and New Rome Vnmask'd wherein we do not only deny his imposed Authority but have Refuted and Confuted the same in our Answers to those his Books quoted by him 23. That by their Threatned Chronicle they i. e. the Quakers intend to represent this Nation as a Persecuting Bloody-minded People p. 34. Note No such Threatning or Intention are we justly Chargeable with nor so to Represent this Nation for 't is not so now nor were the People thereof in general such when Persecution was on foot but the Persecutors in it many of whom are since cut off did openly shew their Cruelty by Imprisoning many to Death and by making Havock and Spoil upon the Goods of many Families to their great Impoverishment and Ruin of divers besides those that were Banished out of the Land by Persecutors but Blessed be God and Thanks to the Present Government the Case is now altered much for the better on that account those Cruel Persecutions being stopt and the present Persecution we are now under being chiefly the vile Misrepresentations gross Lies and Calumnies of dark and malicious Apostates and Backsliders such as F. B. and their Adherents 24. That the Quakers prefer their own Books before and above the Scripture p. 37. That they prefer their Nonsensical Pamphlets before the Scriptures being compared with the Contemptible Expressions they give them as BEASTLY WARE c. p. 38. Note These are some of his Old Calumnies and Perversions frequently Answered and Refuted for yet again we solemnly say We prefer the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as contained in the Bible and that Book it self above and to all other Books extant in the World whether our own or any other Books whatsoever as sincerely owning the Holy Scriptures aforesaid not only to have been given by Divine Inspiration but most eminently confirmed by Divine Authority 25. That G. Keith could not in Conscience clear the Body of the Quakers from those Errors charged upon them in Pensilvania in regard he knew them guilty thereof p. 40. i. e. the Body of the Quakers Note The Body of the Quakers he did not Charge therewith but a few in Pensilvania for the Body of the Quakers there have cleared themselves thereof and he has seemed expresly to clear the Body or People called Quakers and in
Covetous Persecuting Priests who make a Trade of Preaching and of the Scriptures and such whom the Prophet Isaiah called greedy dumb Dogs Isa. 56. 10 11. How will F. B. prove such Christ's Ministers or Gospel Ministers We have but his bare say-so for it but want proof for it wherein he does but meerly impose upon us to Vilifie us and Ingratiate himself into Favour with that sort of the Clergy who are most Guilty of the Sin of Covetousness and Persecution The Mocker again repeats his false and empty Boast by way of Question p. 12. viz. Why then will you not bring forth Sheba the Son of Bichri the Man of Belial G. W Is there not a wise Man amongst you His Cruel Mocking and Calumny in this unjust Comparison is denied no doubt his Malice is cruel and deadly enough to bring G. W. to Sheba's End if he had Power or could with any Colour or Pretence bring him under Sheba's Crime of Treason or lifting up his Hand against the King 2 Sam. 20. 21 22. For doth not this Mocker's Language Comparison and Treatment of this kind bespeak his deadly Malice and Design He goes on with his empty boasting viz. He tells you That I wrong the Quakers in Charge Citation and Observation ☞ Bring him forth according to his Proposal and you will see it proved that I have not As it was G. W's part to make good his Proposal or Charge against F. B. so he hath greatly endeavoured a Meeting with F. B. in London before Witnesses for the same purpose but evaded by F. B. on other Terms than were in the said Proposal as is before related Now he has no cause to cry Bring him forth according to his Proposal For that is abundantly proved in the Answers before-mentioned Whereas F. B. further boasts G. W. hath wrote to divers Clergy-men to prevail with me to desist they give me his Letters and wish me good Success p. 12. The Clergy-men which G. W. wrote to were William Smithies of Cripplegate London and Isaac Archer of Milden-hall in Suffolk which was to shew them some of his foul Abuses and Calumnies to try them as having a particular Interest in him if they would stop him Why did he not Print G. W's Letters to them and to himself too also But thereby his Abuses and sorry evasive Shifting would have been the more apparent Wherefore seeing he boasts of their wishing him good Success these Two Questions are put to you the said William Smithies and Isaac Archer viz. Q. 1. Do you really in your Consciences Approve of Francis Bugg's writing Books and Pamphlets against the People called Quakers as he hath done Q. 2. Do you really Approve of his Books and Pamphlets writ by him against the said People as namely of these in particular under these Titles viz. 1. The Quakers Detected Printed 1686. 2. New Rome Vnmask'd 1692. 3. New Rome Arraigned which hath in it his Pretended Trial and Pillory Printed in 1693. 4. New Rome Arraigned Second Impression without the Pillory 1694. 5. His Impeachment pretended in Behalf of the Commons of England 1695. 6. A Second Summons 7. His Sheet stiled Something in Answer to the Allegations of the Quakers in their Printed Case presented to the House of Commons December 1695. But the Second Edition whereof stiled The Converted Quaker's Answer to the Allegations of his Old Brethren the Quakers c. CHAP. VIII An Appendix to the foregoing Controversies in Certain Positions of the Sincere Belief and Christian Doctrine of the People of God called Quakers in Opposition to the Misrepresentations and Calumnies of F. Bugg and other Apostates in his pretended History of the Quakers and other his and their Books and Pamphlets 1. WE the said People are bound in Conscience and Duty by the Holy Spirit and Light of Christ Jesus only and humbly to Adore and Worship the only True and Living God Creator of Heaven and Earth the Sea and all Creatures and not to Adore or Worship any Mortal Man or Creature or any other God whatsoever 2. To Believe and Confess the Holy Divine Three or Scripture Trinity that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word or Son and Holy Spirit and that these Three are Essentially One in the Divine Being and Substance One God Blessed for Ever 3. We are livingly taught and led by the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus the Living Word in our Hearts and that according to Holy Scripture to Believe Own and Confess the Incarnation of Jesus Christ that is his Real Coming in the Flesh without us even the same Jesus of Nazareth that was Conceived in the Virgin Mary by the Power of the Holy Ghost overshadowing her and Born of her in Bethlehem of Judea Mat. 2. 1. and that he was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh without the Gates of Jerusalem and we highly do Value and Esteem his Sufferings Death Precious Blood and whole Sacrifice for Sinners together with his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven and Glory and that he only was and is the Promised Messias the Very Christ the Only Begotten Son of the Living God And as for his Divinity That he is the True Light Life Power and Wisdom of God and none other according to plain Scripture Testimony 4. The Divinity and Humanity i. e. Manhood of Christ Jesus that as he is True God and as he is most Glorious Man our Mediator and Advocate we livingly Believe and have often sincerely Confessed in our Publick Testimonies and Writings 5. That as sincere and fervent Prayers to God in the Name and Spirit of Christ Jesus is the Duty of all True Believers and Christians professing him for whatsoever they stand in need of especially with respect to the Peace and Happiness of their Immortal Souls so all who are truly humbled under a Sence of their Sins in order to true Repentance and Conversion ought to crave Forgiveness in the Name and for the Sake of Christ Jesus which hath been our Practice both Publick and Private and God in Mercy hath accordingly answered us who by his Grace in our Hearts hath led many both to confess and forsake Sin that they might find Mercy in Christ Jesus 6. Though we are bound in Conscience truly to Esteem and Magnifie the Divine Light the Ingrafted Word the Spirit and Power of Christ in us as sufficient and able actually to save and deliver the Soul from Sin Death and Condemnation and thereby we Confess the Man Christ Jesus with respect to his entire Existence or Being as without us as well as we do own him Spiritually within us knowing that this Light Life and Spirit of Christ Jesus Testifie of him and certainly Guides the truly Obedient and Sincere Believers in his Name and Power Inwardly Livingly and Experimentally to partake of the Real Benefits Fruits and Blessed Ends of his outward Suffering Sacrifice and Death for Mankind to wit their Repentance Conversion from Sin Effectual Reconciliation unto God Eternal
particular our approved Writers in England as Sound in the Christian Faith as appears in his own Book Entituled A Serious Appeal c. Printed Anno 1692. If he will not stand to this but contradict himself against us we cannot help that F. B. may take him by the Hand and give him the Right Hand of Fellowship 26. That the Principles and Practices of the Quakers are contrary to those of the French Protestants and indeed to all other Christians p. 41. Note Here are two great Falshoods contain'd in this Charge and they are in general and indefinite Terms too for first as to those Principles of the French Protestants as Cited by F. Bugg himself p. 41 to 47. they Believe and Confess 1. That there is but one God only whose Being only is Simple Spiritual Eternal Invisible Immutable Insinite and Incomprehensible 2. That in that Divine Being there be the Father Son and Holy Ghost 3. That the Father is the First Cause in Order and the Beginning of all things the Son his Everlasting Word the Holy Ghost his Vertue Power and Efficacy 4. That tho' these Divine Three are distinct or distinguished i. e. as to their Relative Properties of Father Son and Holy Ghost yet not divided but of One and the Same Essence i. e. Being Eternity Power and Equality 5. That the Doctrine contained in the Holy Scriptures i. e. of the Old and New Testament proceeds from God from whom only and not from Men it derives its Authority and that all Matters necessarily required for the Worship of God and our Salvation are therein testified they say contained and therefore that 't is not lawful for Men or Angels to add unto take from or change this DOCTRINE i. e. the Doctrine necessary to God's Worship and our Salvation as they say 6. That God of his Rich Grace Mercy and Bounty delivers his Children through our Lord Jesus Christ i. e. from Sin and Condemnation 7. That Jesus Christ being the Wisdom and Eternal Son of God took upon him the Nature of Man so that he is God and Man but one Lord Jesus Christ and that he might be able to suffer in Soul and Body was made like unto us in all things Sin only excepted so that as to Man's Nature he was indeed of the Seed of Abraham and David Conceived in due time in the Womb of the Virgin Mary by the Secret and Incomprehensible Power of the Holy Ghost and that in one and the same Lord Jesus Christ his Two Natures i. e. as God and Man are inseparably united yet each retaining its distinct Properties so considering Christ in his Deity as not to deprive him of his Manhood we having one Mediator between God and Men even the Man Christ Jesus 8. That by that one Sacrifice which Jesus Christ Offered upon the Cross we are Reconciled unto God i. e. being Reconciled by his Death we who believe in him shall be saved by his Life Rom. 5. 9. That the Lord Jesus Christ by the Power and Spirit of God was Raised from the Dead to which I add That he ever lives in his own proper glorious Body in which he Ascended into Glory and wherein he is Head of his Mystical Body the Church which as united to him and his Glorious Body is One Body 1 Cor. 12. 12 20 27. Ephes. 1. 23. and 4. 4. and 5. 30. Phil. 3. 21. 10. That Jesus Christ is so conferred upon us as to be our Advocate with the Father and that he commandeth us in our Prayers to present our selves or Pray to the Father in his Name 11. That God will have the World Ruled and restrained by Laws and Civil Government and therefore he appointeth Kings and Common-wealths and other kinds of Principalities whether Hereditary or otherwise i. e. as it pleaseth him and also what pertaineth to the Ministration of Justice whereof he himself is the Author therefore hath he delivered the Sword i. e. of Justice into the Magistrates Hands c. 12. That also much Honour and Reverence ought to be given to them as unto God's Officers and due Obedience yielded unto their Laws and Tribute and Taxes paid and the Yoke of Subjection born if the Magistrates be Infidels so that the Soveraign Government of God be preserved Thus I have abstracted divers of the most material passages out of the Citation before of the French Protestants Confession of Faith which he has set forth an Abstract of quoting the first Volume of J. Quick's History Synod in Gal. Reform p. 6 to 15. Note that in the second and fourth Article the word Persons is left out and that for the more plainness a few Parenthesis's some beginning with i. e. are added and the ninth altered more into Scripture words in this Abstract which I am perswaded as they are sincerely owned by me may be freely owned assented unto and signed by most Quakers so call'd in England and elsewhere consequently so far from being contrary thereunto or to all other Christians either in Principles or Practices as F. B. has most falsly and slanderously Misrepresented and Aspersed them The Lord if it be his Will give him to see and confess his great Injustice and Injury before he Dies But a little further to pursue his base and false Dealing 27. F. B. again very abusively and falsly quotes E. Burrouogh's Works thus viz. About Water-Baptism p. 518. We utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God but it is an Institution of the Whore of Rome and England received it by a Popish Institution c. p. 44. Note Which base Perversion and Abuse is evidently Refuted in The Quakers Vindication p. 2. Col. 1 2. thus This is very partially and unjustly Cited and in the first words falsly for E. Burroughs's Answer in the very place is thus viz. As for Baptism and the Supper of the Lord we do own it and it is practised of us in the Life and Power of God but as for your Baptism that is to say SPRINKLING INFANTS calling it the Baptism into the Faith and that they are made Members of the Church thereby and that it is a Seal of Regeneration as you say these foregoing words Bugg leaves out that we do utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God neither was it ever commanded by him or practised by his Saints c. thus F. B. before Cited E. B. But again Note Here he did not say that Water-Baptism without distinction is a Popish Institution but objected against Sprinkling Infants and calling it the Baptism into the Faith c. for he knew that Water Baptism it self was practised by John the Baptist by special Commission from Heaven peculiar to him and his Ministry and also in the Apostle's time by some of them long before the Pope was Wherefore F. Bugg's gross Perversion and Abuse in this and many other things too numerous now to recite are notorious and shameful the Lord the Righteous Judge to whom we commit our
do here follow Some of Francis Bugg's Principal Calumnies and Misrepresentations of the People commonly called Quakers I. F Bugg charged us i. e. at least Twelve of us as being A Pack of False Witnesses and Perjur'd Persons And this from his own Scandalous Mock Trial Conviction and Condemnation unwarrantably acted by him in his New Rome Arraigned Epistle to Bereans p. 7 8 9 10 11. and p. 33. And all this for our Negative Testimony against the matter of his Charge contained in the Four following Articles of his false Accusations against us the said People viz. 2. That they i. e. the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth See The Converted Quaker p. 5. 3. That they call Geo. Fox the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness and put the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem hereupon Bugg also falsly saith That they did not mean Christ but G. Fox 4. And that the Quakers Prophets give witness to Geo. Fox instead of this Christ p. 82. and Chap. 3. p. 16. they say That God Man the Man Christ Jesus who was Born of the Virgin was But a Garment a Vail a Vessel which is expresly contrary to our Principles as Answered in Print His Converted Quaker p. 2. 5. F. Bugg Accuses the Quakers with Contempt of Scripture i. e. the Holy Scripture and as intending down with the Holy Scripture affirming that they say the Holy Scripture is carnal Dust Death and Killeth tho' we find not that saying in any of our Friends Books quoted by him and are sure 't is contrary to our Principle as the foregoing are yet Bugg is not ashamed to say viz. I have not set down one Line or Word as theirs that is not theirs New Rome Arraigned p. 22. Note That these Precedent Accusations are not only expresly contrary to our Principles and Concurrent Testimonies extant in Print both for Jesus Christ the Holy Scripture and Divine Authority thereof but also to F. Bugg's own Testimony in his Book Of Christian Liberty the Second Part Chap. 1st Where he confesseth our Principles Received in the beginning to be Principles of Truth and in our Name and Person Testifieth unto the Holy Scriptures that they are good and a true Declaration of those things which were most surely believed by the Apostles and by us ought to be believed thus far F. Bugg when a kind of a Quaker Besides his Contradiction herein to himself he Confesseth that here we agree i. e. G. Whitehead and himself namely What the Holy Scripture is That we do not Ascribe Holiness to the Paper and Ink or Dead Characters but to the Holy Doctrine and Blessed Precepts therein contained which therefore is called the Holy Scriptures New Rome Arraigned Apol. Intro p. 6 7. Qu. Where then can he Prove either that the Quakers Condemn the Holy Doctrine and Blessed Precepts or Say that the Holy Scripture is Dust Death c. We Challenge him or any of you his Abettors to prove such Contempt or that Saying as the Quaker's or their Principle 6. F. Bugg's Charging the said People called Quakers with Contempt of Governours Reviling Christ's Magistrates accounting Magistracy a Cumbersome Tree and their Principles as being Antimagistratical and Antimonarchicate Note Herein F. Bugg appears Mischeiveously Malicious unjustly to render us Obnoxious to the Civil Government like Judas and the Jews against Christ and rendering him an Enemy to Caesar. 7. His Reproachful Characters to Scandalize the People called Quakers viz. New Rome Rome ' s Sister Rome their Elder Sister and calls those their Brethren that pretend to Sell-Pardons and pray Souls out of Purgatory and saith that these i. e. Quakers follow The Steps of the Jesuits And withal F. Bugg in the Title of his Book in Print New Rome Vnmask'd Scornfully and Reproachfully Termeth G. Whitehead one of her Chief Cardinals Remark Now pray let it be considered Whither Bugg's thus wickedly Misrepresenting the People called Quakers as Papists does not greatly tend to gratifie the Popish Interest by thus Magnifying of it and to lessen and injure the Protestant Interest and Consequently to Contradict and Affront the Government which hath been pleased Legally to Recognize us as Desenting Protestants Qu. Whether F. Bugg's Affront and Contradiction hereunto be not Seditious i.e. to Sow Discord Strife or Contention 8. Because of our Solemnly Declaring to the King and Parliament That we believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given forth by Divine Inspiration And they have accepted this our Declaration and Legally made it a Condition of our Liberty Bugg passeth this Judgment on us the said People viz. The more shame for you to be so Deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your Belief And that the Quakers Pretending to the Parliament they believed them namely the Holy Scriptures to be given forth by Divine Inspiration was to serve a Turn New Rome Arraigned p. 40 42. Remark Herein Bugg hath not only most grosly Belied our Belief for the Holy Scriptures but also Contradicted the Parliaments Charitable Acceptance and Belief of our Testimony therein What Insolency and Audacious Attempt is this Dost thou approve or disallow hereof Bugg also very unjustly accuseth the Quakers that they Revile Christ's Ministers Undervalue his Death and Sufferings Condemn his Laws Despise his Ordinances all which is Expresly contrary to our Principles and how proves he those to be Christs Ministers whom our Friends have Testified against viz. The Covetous Cruel Persecutors Here he Imposeth and shamefully begs the Question 10. Moreover he Treats the said People with these Characters Black-Guard of Lyers Horrible Blasphemers Impudent Imposters Cowards Cunning Sophisters Juglings Legerdemain Great Deceivers Horrible Blasphemers Wretched Imposters That surely Simon Magus never exceeded these Imposters Acts 8. With much more such like Outragious Railery and Defaming Treatment too tedious here to recite being far Louder in Clamours than Proof Barking loud at a Distance but fearful fairly to Ingage NOW Friend Smithies seeing thou hast refused to Personate thy Convert F. Bugg or to be his Advocate or Vindicate him in his Charges and Books against the People called Quakers as I Proposed to thee and Offered thee a Meeting for that End I desire to know of thee If thou wilt please to give a Check to him and put a Stop to his defaming the People called Quakers in Print or if he refuseth thy Advice thereunto If thou wilt give publick Testimony against him by disowning his perverse Work and tell the World he is Heady and Wilful and no real Convert If neither it will Reflect upon thee Note But to this Enquiry or Letter I never received Answer from William Smithies as yet I Hear he is again Printing against us supposed as one Bent in his Malice to Scandalize us which we resolve with God's Help not not to lye under for we are assured he has wickedly Wronged and Misrepresented our Christian Religion and
Principles and Shamefully and Undeservedly Scandalized particular Persons both Living and Dead and an Innocent People also As we hope in Christ ever to approve our selves both in in the sight of God and Men with due Honour to Jesus Christ in all his Works and Sufferings and tender Respect to the Holy Scriptures As by the Harmony and Concurrence of our Ancient Friends Testimonies is publickly Demonstrated and we can make appear contrary to thy Converts Unjust Pretences and Misrepresentations and therefore if thou dost not put a stop to his Mischevious Attempts which severely Affects both our Christian and Civil Reputations in Rendring us both Blasphemous Imposters and Perjured Persons his Malicious Mischievous Work will Affect thee and some others who have Abetted him and the Cry will be loud and ascend higher than to thy self I hope thou wilt Charitably accept this Information and Advertisement and prudently Consider and make Use of the same London the 1st of the 1st Mouth 1693-94 FROM thy Friend and Well-wisher Geo. Whitehead Expecting shortly thy Ingenuous Answer c. But no Answer yet CHAP. II. A Copy of a Letter to Isaac Archer Vicar of Milden-Hall Suffolk London the 2d of the 1st Month 1693-94 Friend Isaac Archer I Desire thee Charitably to accept these Lines and prudently to Consider them for the Truth 's Sake as also for thy own Reputation I remembering how Officious thou wast in Accompanying and Abetting thy Follower and Disciple F. Bugg in the publick Disturbance he made of our Friends-Meeting at Milden-Hall the 30th of the 2d Month called April 1691. Contrary to the Intent of the present Government and of the Law of our Liberty in the peaceable Exercise of our Religious Worship toward Almighty God and how thou with him then Deemed our said Meeting an unlawful Conventicle because our Friends there had omitted a Circumstance of Law in not entring that Meeting-House upon Record as the Law directs which did not bespeak a Charitable Disposition on thy part towards us And also how thou hast Gratified Encouraged and Abetted the said F. Bugg if he writes true of thee by giving thy Approbation for his Abusive Book Which he saith he hath recited only an Abridgment thereof in his most Scandalous Book Stiled New Rome Arraigned as followeth viz. I do own the Substance of this Book as a Defence of those Eternal Truths by which I hope for Salvation and which are as a Comfort to me in my Pilgrimage Peace be to those that own them and the Lord open the Eyes of them that deny them Isaac Archer Now thou having thus far Countenanced F. Bugg and approved of his Writing against us as a People who are commonly called Quakers Please to Consider how far his Injurious Work of Envy and Contention against us and the Consequences of it may Affect thy Self and thy Reputation And therefore for thy Information and Caution I hereby give thee a short Recital of some of F. Bugg's Notoriously False Charges against the said People called Quakers where he chargeth them 1. With denying Jesus of Nazareth 2. Contempt of Holy Scriptures 3. Calling us Perjured Persons for our Negative Testimony against his so charging us and thereupon acting his Mock Trial forging our Answers and Erecting the form of a Pillory and therein Scandalizing divers Citizens and Tradesmen in and about London as Perjured Persons tho' Persons of good Repute and Credit better than himself thereby Affecting not only their Christian but Civil Reputations 4. Contempt of Governours and being against Magistracy in Principles he also Charges upon the said People giving them these Characters viz. New Rome Rome ' s Sister the Papists their Brethren and that they follow the Steps of the Jesuits 5. Terming one of their approved Ministers one of her chief Cardinals i. e. New Rome's 6. Our Declaration to the King and Parliament for the Holy Scriptures being given by Divine Inspiration he renders Deceitful and Contrary to our Belief and to serve a Turn 7. He Accuses the said People with reviling Christ's Ministers undervaluing Christ's Death Sufferings all which is expresly contrary to the said People's Faith and Principles 8. Terming the said people Black-Guard of Lyers Impudent Imposters Cowards Horrible Blasphemers Wretched Imposters and such as Simon Magus never exceeded cum multis aliis c. With many more such like gross Calumnies and Raileries are Bugg's Malicious Books stuft with all to render us Odious and Obnoxious in the Eye of the Government and Nation for which the Righteous God will Judge him and his Abettors for such his Intolerable and Mischievous Attempts Please to observe that tho' F. Bugg by his Partial Picking Words and Broken Sentences out of some Ancient Books of George Fox Edward Burrough's and Isaac Penington's he would seem thereby to Colour such his false and erroneous Charges before cited and Fallaciously cast them on a whole Body of People yet the same Books of theirs in other Passages explanatory and more plain do clear them and their Principles as to their sincerely owning Jesus of Nazareth highly Esteeming the Holy Scriptures truly owning Magistracy and so far from Popery as that they were in their Day true Witnesses against it and against all Idolatry and Superstition and that our Declaration to the King and Parliament for the Holy Scriptures being given by Divine Inspiration was sincere on our parts and in the sight of God according to our Belief and Principle as by many of our Books and Testimonies is Evinced as also that we highly Esteem and Value Christ's Death Sufferings and Sacrifice for the Reconciliation of Mankind unto God as by the Harmony and Concurrence of our publick Testimonies and solemn Confessions which have been Extant for many Years is clearly and fully Demonstrated whatever F. Bugg and his Abettors have Maliciously Suggested to the contrary against us whose work of deadly Malice and Persecution therein does not only affect our Christian and Civil Reputation but the Civil Government under which we Live and with true Gratitude enjoy our present Liberty in the Exercise of our tender Consciences towards Almighty God in point of Worship For 1. Bugg's Rendering our said Declaration to the King and Parliament for the Divine Authority of the Holy Scripture deceitful on our parts This is to go about to Invalidate and Destroy a Principal Condition of our Present Liberty and to confront the Government 's acceptance of our said Declaration 2. Bugg's Unjustly and Maliciously Representing the said People called Quakers under these Black and Odious Characters of New Rome Rome ' s Sister and as Brethren to the Papists following the Steps of Jesuits c. And Consequently no better nor other than Papists Whereupon I ask thee these Questions viz. 1. Does not this greatly tend to gratifie the Popish Interest by his thus Magnifying of it far bigger than 't is and to lessen and injure the Protestant Interest and consequently to Contradict the Government which has been
pleased Legally to Recognize us as Dissenting Protestants Q. 2. What Ingenuity Honesty or Prudence hath Bugg or you his Abettors shewn in thus Representing such a Body of Protestant Subjects as being Papists Q. 3. What Regard or Respect to the present Government have you therein Manifested Q. 4. What Care of the Protestant Religion or Interest therein has appeared on your parts Q. 5. And what Reputation Credit or Honour to thee will thy Approbation of Bugg's writing against us be when further Exposed to be taken Cognizance of by Persons under higher Circumstances than thy self or thy Agent Q. 6. Whether Bugg's Contradicting the Government 's Recognizing us by Law as Dissenting Protestants by his defaming us as Papists c. be not Seditious in the Nature and Tendency thereof as tending to stir up Strife and Variance amongst Protestant Subjects and consequently to divide and weaken the Interest of both King and People Q. 7. Concerning Bugg's Assuming a Power as a Judge and in his own Name to Try Examine Sentence and Condemn Citizens and Tradesmen c. as Perjured Persons to the Pillory and that in their Absence too and some of them Persons he never knew and in his Mock Tryal Forging false Answers in the same Persons Names and then Erecting the Form of a Pillory with Twelve Effigies in it to Ridecule the Persons thus Condemned and Scandalized by him and the word Perjury set over them in the Middle Now we Query of thee and others his Approvers whether such his Proceeding be Warrantable either by the Law of God or Man Q. 8. Whether it will be for the Honour of your Church and Clergy for thy self or any of you to Encourage such a Malicious Agent in his Scribling for you to abuse an Innocent People Q. 9. And seeing F. Bugg has thy Approbation I ask thee If thou Approvest of this his Doctrine viz. It was not Jesus Christ for whom the Body was Prepared Is was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh but the Word New Rome Arraigned Apol Introduction p. 3. 'T is not unknown to many Witnesses here how earnestly and fairly I have Endeavoured and made divers Overtures for a Meeting in this City with F. Bugg with others of my Friends whom he hath Scandalized with his Pillory as aforesaid as Perjured Persons even since his last coming to London and that before a few Disinterested Persons and we followed him with divers Letters and Challenges for a Dispute and for Satisfaction for the Injury he has done us by notorious Scandal and Defamation and the more because he pretended he came 60 Miles to London to accept of my Printed Challeng amd had waited for an Engagement as he alledged near Three Weeks Yet for all this when closely put to it he shifted and protracted time with his Variety of Dilatory Terms one while to refer Matters in Controversie to Ministers of Different Perswasions to be left to their Decission which was to Impose an Implicit Faith upon us by giving away our own aforehand another while he was for Preingaging us to Subscriptions For Conditional Retractions which shewed his Impertinent Triffling another while for meeting and debating Matters before Disinterested Persons which last we did not Refuse but endeavoured to fix him thereupon and gave him Liberty to choose Three or Four Persons to be his Advocates who he pleased and we Appointed a convenient time and place in London for such a Meeting and gave him Challenge and two Days Notice thereof aforehand where divers of us with several Disinterested Persons for Witnesses met and waited several Hours Yet F. Bugg came not for all his Boasting aforehand so that his shameful Shifting and Evasion both then and before was Notorious and we expect no fair Dealing Satisfaction or Right from him but Malicious Scribling which we are Satisfied no Ingenious Impartial Men will give Credit to however I thought meet to give thee notice of his Malicious Work 1. Because he is one of thy Flock 2. Because thou hast Apparently Abetted him in his Persecuting and Disturbing our Meeting at Milden-Hall as aforesaid 3. Because thou hast given him thy Approbation of his writing against us of which he has Recited an Abridgment in his most Scandalons Book New Rome Arraigned Epistle to Ber. p. 12. Being on the Backside of his Pillory 4. Because F. Bugg pretends thou art not alone in thy Approbation but another Divine of the Church of England has also written to him i. e. in his Commendation as having done a most acceptable piece of Service to his Country in Vnvailing of the Falshoods Errors and Hypocrisies of the Quakers and withal saith he hath divers other Letters of the same Import both from Conforming and Nonconforming Ministers Now these are to acquaint thee That we knowing F. Bugg's Gross Abuses and Scandals are in their own Nature Intollerable and thou hast thus far concerned thy self in his Approbation and we can have no reasonable Satisfaction from him By all our fair and reasonable Endeavours we do not intend to lye under his foul Calumnies But I am persuaded the Cry will be yet louder and the Complaint ascend higher against him and his Abettors therein and am apt to think it will affect thy self and not tend to thy Honour or Reputation if thou dost not put a speedy stop to his Malicious Scribling and Printing against us or at least give publick Testimony of thy dislike against him if he refuse to desist when Admonished Take this as my caution to thee So I expect to hear from thee whether thou will make use of thy Interest and Endeavours to put a stop to his Malicious Proceedure that we may not be further Persecuted Scandalized and Rendred Obnoxious to the Government by this Scornful Malicious and Self-Contradictory Agent whom the Just God will Reward according to his Works with all his Approvers and Abettors From thy Friend and Well-wisher Geo. Whitehead Thou mayest direct to me in Devonshire-Street without Bishop's gate London CHAP. III. Another to the said Isaac Archer London the 4th of the 2d Month 1694. Friend Isaac Archer THine Dated March 19. 1693. I have been so long prevented giving Answer to besides what I desired by reason of other Concerns thy Moderation therein I take well The Confessions I mentioned Relating to our Christian Belief and Doctrine are many and of the same Import which I cannot therefore send thee being mostly Bound up with other Books and hard to find by themselves and therefore send thee the Inclosed containing our Confession to Jesus Christ and the Holy Scriptures about which thy Friend F. Bugg has greatly Misrepresented the People called Quakers I Remember thou Advised him against making use of his Warrant after some Discourse yet cannot wholly clear thee from taking part with him in this Disturbing our Meeting in 1691. By thy Accusing the same as being Unlawful thy Approving his Book is Apparent In that Part of the Certificate he Recites by owning the
Substance thereof as a Defence of Eternal Truths which Implies our Offence against the same according to his Misrepresentations thou wishest our Wrangling at an end and that thou couldest stop me too I am wholly on the Defensive Part for Truth and an Innocent People against that Wrangler F. Bugg Stop him and our Controversie Ceaseth seeing thou mayest Diswade him from Writing against us for his Writing bitter Calumnies will not be any Credit to thee or others his Approvers or Abettors 'T is true Jesus Christ is the Name of a Mediator and so given to him upon his Incarnation howbeit as the Son of God who is both the Saviour and the Anointed was before even before Abraham was and was the Spiritual Rock that all Israel Drank of Thou Writes Moderately in saying thou Believest we mean the same thing but my Question was Chiefly to thee about F. Bugg's Doctrine viz. It was not Jesus Christ for whom the Body was Prepared It was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh. This appears not Consistent with the Apostles Doctrine 1 John 4 2 3. I desire thou mayest see all my Answers to F. Bugg and particularly that one Sheet Entitul'd A Charitable Essay c. Though I Charitably think as thou sayest for some Reasons thou may'st Disswade F. Bugg from Writing yet he has Divulged another Book Stiled Quakerism c. Which is as bad as the rest But I excuse thee in my Answers for not preventing its Publication because I suppose his was in the Press before mine came to thee From thy Friend and Well-wisher Geo. Whitehead CHAP. IV. A Sober Expostulation with certain Persons of the Clergy against their pretended Convert Francis Bugg his repeated Gross Abuse of the People called Quakers Will. Smithies â—saac Archer You are Persons concerned in this Expostulation and to whom 't is particularly and in the first place applied for these Reasons BEcause of the Notice and Advertisements already given you against our Convert or Proselyte Frances Bugg's â—ross Abuses and Misrepresentations of the â—eople called Quakers 2. Because of the Approbations or Enâ—â—uragement given him therein by some of â—â—u especially by Isaac-Archer and others 3. Because since Advertisements given â—â—u thereof he the said F. Bugg has proâ—â—eded not only to divulge a Second Edition 〈◊〉 his Defaming and Scandelous Book Stiâ—â—d New Rome Arraigned but also in his Additions annexed thereunto he does Scornfully Insult and Boast of your Approbation 4. You being Previously so plainly Advertised of his Abuse and not Reformed having been Encouraged by you 't is thought but Just and Reasonable it should be thus Publickly Manifest who are his Approvers and Encouragers therein and for your farther Trial whether you 'll yet acquit and clear your selves of his Contentious Work of Envy and Persecution Now you may Remember how that in my Letters to you I gave you Information and Caution of your Approved Convert F. Bugg his Notorious False Charges and Gross Calumnies against the People called Quakers some whereof I again Recite to you as followeth 1. He Chargeth them With denying Jesus of Nazareth 2. Contempt of Holy Scripture 3. Calling us Perjured Persons for our Negative Testimony against his so Charging us And thereupon Forging his Mock-Trial and Answers in our Names with the Form of a Pillory and therein Scandalizing divers Citizens and Tradesmen in and about London as Perjured Persons tho' Persons of good Repute and Credit thereby affecting not only their Christian but Civil Reputation 4. Contempt of Governors and being against Magistracy in Principles he also Charges upon the said People giving them these Characters viz. New Rome Rome's Sister the Papists their Brethren and Followers of the Step of the Jesuits 5. Terming one of their Approved Ministers her Chief Cardinal i. e. New Rome's 6. Our Declaration to the King and Parliament for the Holy Scriptures being given by Divine Inspiration he Renders Deceitful and Contrary to our Belief and to serve a Turn 7. He Accuseth the said People with Reviling Christ's Ministers and Contemning his Magistrates Vndervaluing Christ's Death and Sufferings All which are Expresly contrary to our Faith and Principles 8. Terming us the said People Black Guard of Lyers Impudent Imposters Cowards Horrible Blasphemers Wretched Imposters and such as SIMON MAGVS never exceeded Cum multis aliis With many more such like Gross Calumnies and Rayleries which Bugg's Malicious Books are stuff'd withal to Render us Odious and Obnoxions in the Eye of the Government and Nation for which the Righteous God will Judge him and his Abettors for such his Intollerable and Mischieveous Attempts And as to our said DECLARATION to the King and Parliament For the Holy Scriptures being given by Divine Inspiration It was and is sincere on our parts and in the sight of God according to our Belief and Principle as by many of our Books and Publick Testimonies is clearly Evinced as also that we highly Esteem and Value Christ's Death Sufferings and Sacrifice for the Reconciliation of Mankind unto God as by the Harmony and Concurrence of our Publick Testimonies and Solemn Confessions is clearly and fully Demonstrated whatever F. Bugg and his Abettors have Suggested to the Contrary against us As to F. Bugg's Rendering our said Declaration and Testimony for the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures DECEITFVL on our Parts New Rome Arraigned p. 40 and 42. This is to Endeavour to Invalidate and Destroy a' Principal Condition of our present Liberty And is it not to Confront the Government 's Acceptance of our said Declaration also Now Isaac Archer thou mayest Remember that in my Letter to thee upon F. Bugg's Unjustly and Maliciously Representing the said People called Quakers under those Black and Offensive Characters of New Rome Rome ' s Sister and as Brethren to the Papists c. Consequently no better nor other than Papists I asked thee these with some other Questions Q. 1. Does not this greatly tend to Gratifie the Popish Interest and to Lessen and Injure the Protestants and Consequently to Contradict the Government 's Legally Recognizing us to be Dissenting Protestants 2. What Ingenuity or Prudence hath Bugg or his Abettors shewn in thus Representing such a Body of Protestant Subjects as being Papists 3. What Regard or Respect to the present Government or Care of the Protestant Religion have you his Approvers therein Manifested on your Parts 4. And what Reputation Credit or Honour to thee Isaac Archer will thy Approbation of F. Bugg's thus Writing against us be when further Exposed to be taken Cognizance of c. 5. Whether his Contradicting the Government 's Recognizing us by Law as Dissenting Protestants by his Defaming us as Papists c. Be not Seditious in the Nature and Tendency thereof as tending to sow and stir up Strife and Variance amongst Protestant Subjects c. 6. Concerning Bugg's Assuming a Power as a Judge and in his own Name to Try Examine Sentence and Condemn Citizens and Tradesmen c. who are
of Christ gave forth the Holy Scriptures far be it from me to have the least Undervaluing Thoughts or Disesteem of the Scripture which proceeded from thence Therefore F. Bugg's Observation against the Quakers Doctrine and against me in Particular in this matter as nothing but Discord and Confusion and setting the perfect Quaker in Opposition to the Harmony of the Old and New Testament and Terming those that own that Harmony as J. Tompkins and W. Penn but The Counterfeit Quakers Both which are so Notoriously False and Malicious that we could Enumerate Testimonies against him herein Again 't is as General as Positive a Falshood That the Quakers Doctrine attributes that to G. Fox which is ONLY due to Christ Apol. p. 4. For the People called Quakers do positively disown any such Doctrine as doth attribute that to any other Man which is only proper and due to Jesus Christ and sincerely Confess that Christ in all things must have the Preheminence in Glory and Dignity as the only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords Another Charge against the Perfect Quaker as he calls him is from the Examition and Trial of G. Fox at Lancaster Assize being thus Cited viz. And before I came to the Barr I was moved to Pray that the Lord would Confound their Wickedness and Envy And what Crime was that The Thundred Voice Answered I have Glorified thee and will Glorifie thee again And I was so filled full of Glory c. In Opposition F. Bugg sets John 12. 28 29. And 't was F. Bugg's Observation hereupon But Reader here is G. Fox ' s Manifest BLASPHEMY in Assuming a Glorified State whilst in the Mortal Body p. 4. But is not here rather F. Bugg's great Envy Darkness and Ignorance apparent For tho' G. Fox Assumed not such a Glorified State in that fulness in the Mortal Body here as will be in the Immortal hereafter yet some Degree of Glory he might witness as the true Sufferers for Christ pertake of here in this Life Observe If ye be Reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of Glory and of God resteth upon you 1 Pet. 4. 14. See also Chap. 1. 8. And were not they Changed in the same Heavenly Image from Glory to Glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord See 2 Cor. 3. 18. And see also John 17. 22. Christ said The Glory which thou gavest me I have given them Therefore 't is no Blasphemy to Partake and Testifie thereof And how far that Reproached Servant of Christ did Partake thereof in his Sufferings who is now unjustly Rendred a Blasphemer is wholly hid from this Blind persecuting Adversary who deems that Blasphemy which is so much agreeable to Holy Scripture Testimony Again our Suffering Friend G. Fox Testifying That he was come up in the Spirit through the Flaming Sword into the Paradise of God and that he was in Paradise c. Against this our Adversary thinks he has gotten huge Advantage he Roars and Belches out viz. Thus did he Magnifie himself equal with or above Christ. Oh! Horrible c. Quoth he But soft stop a little Is there no such Paradisical State in Christ attainable in this Life but it must be deemed Horrible and Blasphemous as our bitter Adversary doth May we not Cry out against his Gross Darkness and his Teachers Ignorance Oh Horrible Did Paul Blaspheme or Magnifie himself as equal with or above Christ when coming to Visions and Revelations of the Lord he declared That he knew a Man in Christ above Fourteen Years ago how that he was Caught up into Paradise and heard Unspeakable Words c. See the Matter more at Large 2 Cor. 12. 1 2 3 4. See also Rev. 2. 7. Therefore 't is not a Self Magnifying nor Erroneous really to Believe and Profess a State of Paradise or Heaven in Christ Jesus in some degree attainable even in this Life Phil. 3. 20. Our Reproached Friend 's declaring that he was Cloathed with Righteousness and whose Name is not known in the World Risen up out of the North which was Prophecied of but now fulfilled c. These Words our angry Adversary sets in Opposition to Moses Prophecy of Christ Deut. 18. 15. and Acts 3. 22. and to John 1. 10. Whereupon he makes this Observation viz. Thus did G. Fox Vye with Christ p. 5. But I do not Apprehend any such Vying or Equalizing with Christ nor Contradiction to the Scripture Testimony or Prophecy of him For 1st To be Cloathed with Righteousness is Christ's Redeemed Ones the true Believers Priviledge and Happiness 2d The Nature not known to the World was meant the New Name pertaining to the New Birth 3d. Risen up out of the North which was Prophecied of Which here is Relation to the North and not the Persons mentioned and the Prophecy was of the Seed which was foretold the Lord would gather and also bring forth out of the North Countrey and all Nations where Scattered See Isa. 43. 6. and 49. 12. Jer. 16. 15. and 23. 8. Luke 13. 29. F. Bugg's Observation p. 5. viz. Thus Reader did G. Fox Vye wish Christ and Edward Burroughs and Francis Howgil two of his Prophets Echoed back in their Epistle Entituled This is only to go amongst Friends viz. Thou O North of England who art counted as Desolate and Barren c. Yet out of thee did the Branch i. e. G. Fox Spring and the Star Arise c. Answ. 1. The Parenthesis i. e. G. Fox in that Place is a Notorious Forgery as well as Malicious 2. Here 's no Person Vying or Comparing himself with Christ. Nor Echoing back to any such Vying 4. Tho' our bitter Adversary has often Repeated this Citation and now grosly wrests it by Forgery to prove his False and Malicious Charge against the Quakers viz That the Quakers Prophets give witness to G. Fox INSTEAD of Christ that they call him the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness and put the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem Yet there 's no mention at all made either of G. Fox or Town of Bethlehem in all that Epistle of E. B's Quoted as the Epistle may be seen at large in his Works p. 64 65 66 67. And Note that General Epistle of Francis Howgil's To the Camp of the Lord in England c. Wherein are the Words Spare none neither Ox nor Ass c. Is Printed in his Works Pages 28 29 30 31 32 33. Which I have also viewed over and find not any such Title as This is only to go among Friends Neither do I find G. Fox or Town of Bethlehem so much as Mentioned in it 5. Is it not then great Wickedness and shameful I solency in our Adversary frequently to attempt Proof of such a Horrid Lye against the Quakers as is that of calling G. Fox the BRANCH the Star the Son of Righteousness and puting the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem Is it not Horrible Wickedness
Samuel David Elijah Job and others as no true but false Prophets because sometime mistaken See 1 Sam. 16. 6. 1 Kings 19. 14 15 18. Rom. 11. 4 See also Acts 23. 5. And in the Antient Approved Bibles see what Remark is in the Argument on Job it 's there said That Job maintaineth a Good Cause but handleth it Evil. Again his Adversaries have an ill Matter but they defend it Craftily Moreover he i. e. Job was assured that God had not rejected him yet thro' his great Torments and Affliction he bursteth forth into many inconveniences both of Words and Sentences c. yet Job was a holy and just Man and true Prophet in many things Our Bitter Persecutor would fain fasten Contempt of Holy Scripture upon the Quakers with these odious Assertions viz. That the Scripture is BEASTLY Ware that WHAT the true Prophets spake was false and WHAT the false Prophets spake was true c. Intro p. 13. These are three notorious Falshoods as well as gross Errors maliciously contrived to contradict our sincere Confession viz. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration c. and that we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all other Books extant in the World How sincere we are in such Confession we can refer to him that knows our Hearts to whom we Appeal against our Adversaries contrary unjust Judgment and gross Calumnies falsly representing us insincere even in these weighty Matters wherein the greatest Tenderness and Conscienciousness towards God ought to be exercised by us all Another gross Abuse our Bitter Adversary has committed against many of us who Signed an Epistle from our Yearly Meeting in 1675. which I must give some Account of here 1. He Cites these words out of our said Epistle viz. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that Faithful Friends Papers which we Testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed saith he by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Introd p. 11. And what of all this This Advice related to such Papers and Epistles of Faithful Friends as concerned good Order and Discipline in the Church and for promoting pure Religion in Life and Practice and why should they be slighted or contemned as but meer Human Edicts and Canons What use does our Scornful Adversary make of this Observe what he saith p. 13. viz. But as for what G. F. c. wrote their Yearly Meeting Testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea THE SAME MEN that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents Meat And what same Men He has told us before W. Penn G. Whitehead and others who Signed the said Yearly Meetings Epistle that they so called the Scriptures whereby he has greatly abused and shamefully belied the same Men i. e. W. P. G. W. c. for they disown the Expression and own the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures as first given by Inspiration from God and truly prefer them before all other Books extant in the World But how can that be in our Adversary's Account when he objects against it and us That G. W. avouches that what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth IN ANY is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and Greater c. He shews himself but very dull and impertinent in this Objection For we may prefer the Scriptures even the Bible before all other Books extant and yet not before the Spirit of Truth or the Immediate Powerful Teachings thereof in Man for that Spirit was before the Scriptures Writings or Bible were and only can give the true understanding thereof and therefore the Spirit of Truth may be preferred to the Scriptures and all other Books without any contempt or slight to them This Objection is more fully Answered elsewhere To our Adversary's saying viz. G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of one and that too much too p. 13. Thus he would fain winde off from the Reputation he had of a Quaker for 25 Years together he now miserably shifts and minces the Matter but manifestly contrary to his own Confession in his Quakers Detection p. 3 as before quoted to my Question Whether F. Bugg when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient cause of Man's Salvation He Answers I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism c. Yet I do freely Acknowledge that I was in great Errors Particularly touching the Point of Justfication For I then Expected Salvation through my Obedience to the LIGHT which the Quakers taught was Sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation is attained through the Mercy of God is Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts p. 14 15. Observe here 1. He now counts it a great Error to Expect Salvation through Obedience to the Light without Distinction of What Light 2. He Opposeth the the Sufficiency of the Light for Salvation And 3. Attaining Salvation through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus Faith in his Merits and Passion and Obedience to his Precepts These he Opposeth TO Obedience to his Light and Expecting Salvation through the same These he sets in Opposition as one that expects Salvation through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus and by Faith in his Merits and Obedience to his Passion without Obedience to his Light For that End Expresly Contrary to Christ's Doctrine and his Apostles Testimonies 1. Christ Commanded Believe in the Light that ye may be the Children of the Light And this Believing in the Light was a necessary Act of Obedience in order to Salvation 2. Christ saith I am the Light of the World he that followeth Me shall not abide in Darkness And the Apostle James Exhorts to a Receiving the Ingrafted Word which is able to save the Soul And this Word is both Light and Life In him was Life and that Life was the Light of Men Therefore the Light is Sufficient to Salvation 3. Salvation through the Mercy of God in Jesus Christ true Faith in his Merits and Suffering for us and Sincere Obedience to his Precepts cannot be attained nor performed without Faith in and Obedience to his Light it was the Mercy of God to us to afford us Light to lead us out of Darkness For Men in Darkness are Blind and as such cannot see the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus nor true Faith in his Merits or Suffering For 't is in Walking in the Light
as for a Convenient Place which B. A's was esteem'd to be he could neither except against the Place or Time when proposed to him at Jacob Frankling's the of the Twelfth Month 1693. before several Witnesses And I did not propose to F. B. any uncivil confused tumultuous or populous Meeting to Debate Matters if I had he might justly have rejected my Proposal but a Meeting of a few Sober Moderate Persons to be Witnesses only of what passed and such did meet with me at several Convenient Places in London but were disappointed by F. B's keeping away 2. The Conditional Retraction proposed by him was afterward contrived for an evasive shift when he saw I was in earnest and resolved to meet him before some Witnesses as proposed and appointed several Times and Places in London so to meet him giving him timely notice aforehand and waited for him several Hours but he would not Adventure to come and give me Meeting for a fair Disquisition of Matters in Controversie unless I would either submit them to the Judgment and Determination of Persons of a contrary Perswasion or aforehand engage to such a Conditional Retraction as he proposed all which appeared designed shuffles and shameful evasions to shun Meeting as aforesaid contrary to his own Word and Acceptance before-cited as may be seen more at large in my Answer Entituled The Counterfeit Convert a Scandal c. from p. 1 to 9. and yet he has a most insolent and odious Custom of boasting cracking and upbraiding at a distance and falsly telling the World that Whitehead evaded and shuffled i. e. from Meeting him p. 2. which was his own act not mine but a notorious and gross Lie as many then present can testifie how many Hours I waited for him time after time and my Letters and Challenges also wherewith I followed him from time to time if he durst but produce them in Print they would manifestly decide this Matter between us wherein he most falsly asperseth me with his own Act of evasion and shuffling as if he were such a Potent Goliah and formidable or frighting Adversary Alas poor empty cracking boasting insulting Reviler Our Adversary again falsly Charges Is. Pennington saying he denies Christ which by the way is an abominable Slander on that Innocent Man and calls Him that was Born of the Virgin a Veil c. and then saith Yet G. Whitehead the Counterfeit Quaker in his Book Stiled The Counterfeit Convert c. p. â—2 vindicates him What in denying of Châ—ist Oh horrible Falshood saying Aâ—d tho' I have evinced Is. Pennington's meaning on his words reflected on about the Body or Flesh of Christ it follows not that I make his Expressions mine seeing I note them as his for says G. W. I may see cause otherwise to word the Matter and yet our Intentions be the same c. Then our Adversary goes on Canting Taunting and Abusing us from this passage as with Equivocating Jesuitism with a Witness or Arius risen again under a new form and figure c. But herein our scornful Adversary has insinuated most grievous Lies against me and others 1. As denying Christ. 2. As intending the same 3. Yet otherwise word the Matter to Equivocate and act the Jesuit Now pray you his Approvers observe how notorious his Abuse and Calumny is in this very Matter That I was dissatisfied with wording that Matter in some recited Expressions I grant but that Is. Penington's meaning or mine either was to deny Christ I utterly deny Observe the passage at large quoted Counterfeit Convert p. 72. which is this viz. I know no Contemptuous Speeches of our Lord Jesus or of Scriptures excused consequently much less owned by me And tho' I have evinced I. P's meaning on his words reflected on about the Body or Flesh of Christ it follows not that I thereby make his Expressions mine seeing I note them as his I may see cause otherwise to word the Matter and yet our Intentions be the same We have not the same Expressions and Utterance in all Cases and yet may aim at and mean the same thing but never to contemn our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ or the Holy Scriptures which testifie of him in any respect far be it from us so to do Therefore T. C. yea and F. B. too have grosly wronged and misrepresented us in these Matters Now pray observe here 's no such Concession or Grant as F. Bugg would insinuate viz. That either Is. Penington denies Christ or that I vindicate any such denial or him therein but the contrary far be it from us either to contemn or deny our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ or the Holy Scriptures for they testifie of him wherein is not the least Equivocation or Jesuitism Counterfeit Two-fac'd Quakers as Bugg unjustly and scornfully brands us who has not only made eight or nine Repetitions of my words about seeing cause otherwise to word the Mâ—tter and yet our Intentions the same but also impertinently and unjustly applies them to sundry and divers Matters to which they were never intended and that designedly to render us as odious as he can as for instance he applies the said words of mine aforesaid as if our Intentions tended 1. To a Denial of Christ. 2. To a Denial of Preaching a Belief in Christ as he is in Heaven above p. 3. Q. Anat. 3. To a Contempt of Holy Scriptures contrary to our Confessing the Divine Authority thereof p. 4 5. 4. To what he calls Anti-Magistratical Principles p. 5. Implying that the Quakers intend all these whatever they seriously confess or profess to the contrary whereupon the Nick-name of Counterfeit Quaker is frequently cast upon us by this Implacable Adversary It would fill a Volume to set forth and enervate all his Scurrilous Abuses Raileries Absurdities Forgeries gross Slanders and Calumnies in these and many other Matters And further to pacifie our angry Adversary as to what he has noted Fundamental Errors Damnable Heresies c. tho' I cannot in Justice Charge the Persons accused in their Absence as 1. God that died in us c. 2. And that when Christ ascended he was separated from his Body 3. And that Faith in Christ without us as he Died for our Sins and Rose again was not necessary to OUR Salvation p. 37. These I do really disown as contrary to my Sence and Judgment and to Holy Scriptures Testimony as sincerely believing 1. The Only True and Living God is Immortal 2. That Christ visibly Ascended in his Body 3. And therefore that Christ did not only Die for our Sins but Rose again for our Justification and consequently that Faith in him as he so Died and Rose again and Ascended into Glory is necessary not only to our Salvation but to all others that have certain Demonstration or Proof of the same afforded unto them either by an Effectual Living Ministry or Revelation of the Spirit The unbelief thereof when so demonstrated I count as real a Sin and
other Apostates c. F. Bugg in his Epistle Dedicated to the Bishop of London compares the Quakers to Magicians of Egypt to Simon Magus the Sorcerer to Juglers rendring them no better than Hereticks Blasphemers and like Satan himself and his Ministers thus odiously representing them All which and much more such like Stuff we reject as his own gross and sordid Calumnious Railery and hope the said Bishop on serious Consideration will not Credit nor Patronize such gross Railery nor Esteem it for his Reputation or Honour to be Credulous in such Cases against us from the bare Authority of not only partial but bitter and implacable Adversaries as the said Bugg has notoriously manifested himself to be Here follows F. Buâ—g's most general Slanders repeated and refuted gross Calumnies against the People called Quakers in his said History with brief Notes on them 1. P. 3. Bugg saith That none Preached Murther more than the Quakers Note What he alledges for this gross Calumny is answered long since in our Book Entituled Christ's Lambs defended from Satan's Rage 2. P. 4. That they sit at Devonshire-house to null make void and repeal as Vnlawful what the King Lords and Commons make Lawful at Westminster Note This Calumny is refuted in Answer to him before and his envious design therein discovered See The Counterfeit Convert p. 46 47 48 49 50 51. 3. P. 9. That they prest into the World with Principles against ALL Rule and Government Note A loud and most gross Lie our Principles were always for Christ's Rule and Government among Christians and for all Just Rule and Government among Men as being God's Ordinance 4. That the Foundation they went upon was under pretence of magnifying the Light in themselves to deny Jesus of Nazareth to undervalue his Death and Sufferings contemn his Laws contain'd in the Holy Scriptures c. p. 9. Note These are notorious and most horrid Falshoods the quite contrary is asserted frequently by us We magnifie Christ's Light and Life in Man for no such Ends but the contrary as thereby sincerely to own and follow the Lord Jesus Christ through his Sufferings and according to his Laws It was by his Light in us that we were led to Suffer with him and to be Crucified with him and to Die with him that we might Live and Reign with him who tasted Death for every Man 5. That G. W. hath vindicated this i. e. that the Scripture was Serpent's Meat Beastly Ware c. p. 9. Note A foul Calumny against G. W. 't was never my Principle so to term the Scripture I have always had from my Childhood a real esteem and great love for the Holy Scriptures nor do I know of any among us that ever called them Beastly Ware or Serpents Meat nor do we own the Expressions as applicable to Holy Scripture we having also most generally bought Bibles which I never heard any call Beastly Ware before tho' probably some or other might so term such Mens perversions on Scripture as make a Trade thereof for Money or filthy Lucre wherein I suppose they could not intend any contempt of Holy Scripture but upon their Unscriptural Preaching for filthy Lucre. 6. That G. W. and his Followers have published a Journal of G. F's deluding Charms on purpose to Bewitch the People like SIMON MAGUS p. 9. Note This is still foul filthy and abusive for 1. We know no deluding Charms in that Journal 2. Nor had we any such purpose in the Publication thereof as to Bewitch People Behold how the Man belches vomits and foams out his own shame against us contrary to his own former Testimonies for us c. 7. That G. F. wrought Counterfeit Miracles and never in the Name of Jesus p. 11. Note This is still enviously to Abuse G. F. and us we read not in all his Writings that ever he so much as pretended to work any Miracle either by himself or in his own Name or by his own Power but that by the Power of the Lord which is no other Name but that which was given to Jesus Christ Phil. 2. 9. some Great Things have been wrought even in Answer to the Prayers and fervent Breathings to God of that Good Man G. F. and others of the Church-partakers of the same Faith in Christ with him wherein they did not pretend to pray in any other Name Power or Spirit but that of Jesus Christ. 8. That both Fox and Parnell call themselves Christ in W. P's Since p. 12. Note I do not believe W. Penn either gave or will own any such Sence it being contrary to his and all our Sence so to call any Mortal Man upon Earth tho' some may be come to THAT which was before Languages or Humane Arguments were i. e. to the Word and Power of God and his Son Jesus Christ which was only the same G. F. and J. Parnell intended 9. That the Humanity of Christ the Quakers deny it as clearly as the Socinians deny his Godhead p. 12. Note This is a gross and notorious Falshood we i. e. the Quakers so called have often clearly and scripturally Confessed and Asserted both the Divinity and Humanity i. e. Manhood of Christ Jesus as many of our Books manifestly prove 10. That the Foxonian Quakers say of G. Fox he is the Power of God p. 13. Note This also is positively denied by us as a gross and foul Calumny Pray where do any of the Quakers so say of G. F I know not neither do we own his scornful Nick-name and Distinction of Foxonian Quakers for we are sure 't is contrary to our Principle and Profession to set up any Sect Masters over us or to Adore any Mortal Man or Finite Creature as 11. God as is also charged upon G. F's Followers touching him pag. 14. which we deem also a notorious Falshood 12. That all the Quakers Prophets being 400 in number give Witness to G. Fox and Adore him as the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness p. 15. Note This old Story of Bugg's is a gross refuted Lie and Calumny G. Fox is not so much as mentioned in that Epistle out of which those words viz. the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness are taken directed to the Camp of the Lord in England p. 66. of E. B's Works 13. That Baptism and the Lord's Supper God never commanded are given forth by them who are Brazened with Deceit p. 15. Note This is falsly charged and stated in both and contrary to what we have frequently confessed with respect to both for 1. John's Baptism was by special Command from Heaven and had its Dispensation and Time as 't was Typical of Christ's Spiritual Baptism 2. The Lord's Supper both as in the Type and in the Antitype in the Figure and in the Mystery and Substance distinctly and truly considered in their placed Dispensations we have often Scripturally confessed and even in Answer to this Adversary let him review The Quakers Vindication against F. Bugg
Cause humble this Adversary if it be his Blessed Will and let all others among us c. take warning from his woful and lamentable Backsliding and Fall Let one most Scandalous and Blasphemous Calumny be yet further Remarked viz. Fr. Bugg's repeated Charge against the Quakers viz. these Contemptible Expressions as calling the Scriptures Beastly Ware c. as before and the like we are Charged with in that most malicious wicked Piece The Snake in the Grass where divers gross Calumnies are broached from Bugg's Authority and Credit I having examined that Book out of which the said Expressions have been pretended to be taken Entituled A Brief Discovery of a Threefold state of Antichrist Printed Anno 1633. p. 9. I find no such gross Expressions as calling the Scriptures Beastly Ware but divers severe Reflections upon the Covetous Persecuting Priests in those Days then writ by some Prisoners at York-Castle 1653. and what 's there called Beastly Ware is not the Scriptures but what Babylon's Merchants sell for a large Price i. e. a Rabble of Notions heaped up in their Brain all the Week and which they sell for filthy lucre's sake c. calling them also Idol-Merchants Costly Sermon-makers who Persecuted the pure Truth the Saints live in p. 9 10. of the said Brief Discovery but not a word of calling the Scriptures themselves Beastly Ware and I am perswaded such Blasphemy and Contempt of Holy Scripture was far from the Thoughts of those said Prisoners and that which they would have abominated and rejected with Abhorrence if they had then been Charg'd therewith Thus the Perversion and Injury done by F. B. c. in this Matter is apparent in his putting Mens dark Notions for the Holy Scriptures The said Prisoners called Babylon's Merchants Rabble of Notions Beastly Ware but F. B. says it is the Scriptures which they so call what a shameful Liar and Perverter is this He pretends to prove W. Penn a Liar for once p. 38. Brief History But 't is more true that he is more than once yea often prov'd a Liar and gross Defamer of others and that his pretended Pious Endeavours by you his Approvers and Ministers aforesaid are proved very Impious and you may Answer for him and Vindicate him if you please or can since you have given him such high Approbation and Congratulation which he has divulged to your Disgrace for F. B's Answering by repeating Calumnies and Slanders against us will deserve little further notice since so often unanswerably Confuted already and if you his Approvers will not adventure to attempt his Vindication as well as Approbation nor yet shew any publick dislike of his Abuses scandalous and reproachful Scribling but leave him to his own Vindication and farther to reproach us we may take it as an Indication that you are Conscious his Defaming Work is not justifiable nor warrantable in the sight of God or Just Men and that you have over-shot your selves in his Approbation and the more guilty your selves in suffering Sin to lye upon him without just Reproof suitable to his publick Offence and Crime against Truth But if you will be mute in this Matter and suffer him to persist in his wonted Course of Vilifying and Abusing us without your publick Reprehension or Dislike thereof then may you be farther justly called in question and Exposed thereupon for your neglect of Justice CHAP. VI. A Brief Answer to Fr. Bugg's Two Printed Papers Dated March 1696. TO his Printed Paper unduly Stiled George Whirehead's Oath unjustly Accusing the Quakers with Prevaricating about Swearing His Story hereupon both first As to the Form of the Oath pretended Secondly And as to its being Read to him G. W. affirms he is wronged in this Accusation and Story by F.B. and that he is not Conscious to himself thereof but as preferring Truth 's Reputation before his own patiently suffers and bears it among many other Personal Injuries Misrepresentations and Detractions cast upon him by this Adversary whom I ask 1. F. B. who was thy Informer about this said Oath pretended 2. Out of what Book was it Read to G. W. and by whom 3. Suppose I had failed of our Principle in that Case as I have not hast thou done either fairly or justly thence to asperse the Quakers in general with Prevaricating about Swearing Must they all suffer for my Fault if I had committed it which I did not as many can Witness As to the Association and his taunting Insinuations concerning the King and Government and our Affection and Fidelity towards them and forming an Address for us like an Officious Agent we hope we have given that Satisfaction as to our Innocency which this and the rest of our most Inveterate Adversaries cannot extinguish and the Acceptance and Favours which as a People we have received through God's Providence from the Government no doubt does vex and fret this our Implacable Adversary seeing his many Attempts and strenuous Endeavours to render us Obnoxious and to Incense the Government against us and by his utmost Endeavours that way to prevent our Belief are so manifestly disappointed and frustrated Blessed and Praised be our God for Ever who hath attended our Endeavours But let it be observed how sordid brutish and unnatural it was in F. Bugg so strenuously to labour to prevent the Quakers Relief in the Case of Oaths since he Married his Son into an Honest Family of Quakers so called and appeared very officious as I am credibly informed to promote the Marriage as if he would rather have them also Ruined than Relieved As to our Christian Confession of Christ his Divinity and Humanity and his Glorious Body in Heaven we have sufficiently and sincerely evinced according to Holy Scripture against this Adversary and other Opposers which they are not able to Confute knowing also that we are not necessitated to give farther Answer to his Impertinent Questions especially since his Work is so much falsly to Accuse and Asperse us with sly and unjust Insinuations to render us Offensive and Obnoxious to the Government Besides One Fool may ask more Questions than Twenty Wise Men may Answer To F. Bugg's Paper Stiled A Brief Reply which with the other before-mentioned he having delivered at the House of Lords which one of them gave me His false Charge of our Contempt of Christ and the Scriptures being Answered and Refuted before in several Answers to his Malicious Books and Pamphlets he proceeds in his wonted Course of Perversion and Defaming still for which he frequently quotes his own Presumptuous Authority and Refuted Pamphlets As to his offence at the Words he Cites of an Imagined God beyond the Stars and their Carnal Christ. We say First The True Infinite and Omnipresent God tho' in Heaven above yet is not confined or limitted to beyond the Stars nor can the Heaven of Heavens contain Him 2. The True Lord Jesus Christ who Ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill all things He is not a
Salvation and Compleat Redemption which Christ Jesus has obtained for us i. e. for all Mankind thro' his Mediation and Sufferings 7. Our Really Believing and Confessing the Lord Jesus Christ his Passion Sufferings Death Atonement and Reconciliation made for us and his Resurrection Ascension and Glorification as without us according to Scripture cannot be to Allegorize all these away as if only transacted within us as we have been unduly Accused for they were really done and transacted without us by our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ tho' our true Knowledge of the Power of his Resurrection and Fellowship of his Sufferings and our being Conformable to his Death must be Experienced within us if ever we Live or Reign with Him 8. We sincerely Prefer and Esteem the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament contain'd in that Excellent Book commonly called the Bible as most Eminently Confirmed by Divine Authority and Faithful Witnesses before all other Books whatsoever extant in the World and yet our preferring the Holy Spirit from whence the Scripture came before the Letter of the Scripture is not to undervalue the Scripture for the Spirit must needs have the Preference and Preheminence as being the Author and Original Cause and Dictator of the Holy Scriptures and Giver of Light and Life also whereby truly to understand them and to live accordingly 9. As for Baptism and the Lord's Supper they are Scripturally considered by us in their several Dispensations both as in the Figure and in the Substance in the Type and Antitype as the Outward or Literal were Typical or Figurative of the Inward and Spiritual we confess and own considered in their Places and proper Dispensations but the Substance is more Excellent and Permanent than the Shadow as the Inward and Spiritual Grace is more Excellent than the Outward and Visible Signs and as Christ's Spiritual Baptism which is the Saving Baptism was Typified by John's And to Eat and Drink or Sup with Christ in his Kingdom of that Spiritual Meat and Drink which he gives for Life to the Soul was Typified or Figured forth by his Outward Supper of the Passover Bread and Cup for the Outward Element of Water cannot wash away Sin from the Soul neither can the Outward Bread or Cup give Life or Nourishment to the Soul The Shadows flee away but the Sum and Substance remain 10. We sincerely Believe and have often Confessed the Immortality of the Soul of Man that was Created in God's Image and the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead according as laid down in Holy Scripture 1 Cor. 15th Chapter and of Eternal Judgment by Jesus Christ as being Judge of the Living and of the Dead in the Great and Last Day of Judgment at the Great Harvest which is the End of the World God having appointed a Day wherein he will Raise the Dead both the Just and Unjust and also Judge the World in Righteousness by that Heavenly and most Glorious Man Christ Jesus whom he hath Ordained Acts 17. 31. before whose Tribunal-Seat all must appear to Receive their Final Judgment and Sentence according to their Deeds done in the Body whether they be Good or Evil. 11. That Christ's Gospel Ministry must be free without forced Maintenance filthy Lucre or Covetousness 12. 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 These Things we Sincerely Believe and Own but to do F. Bugg Right we find not that he has Charged us in the Tenth Particular about the Resurrection though some other Apostates have And we know no other Doctrine or Principle Preached Maintained or Received among or by Us since we were a People contrary to these before-mentioned nor do we Own any contrary thereunto Signed in Behalf of the said People and to Clear my own Innocency in Particular By G. Whitehead A Brief Advertisement to the Impartial Reader upon Francis Bugg's last Book falsly Stil'd The Picture of Quakerism Drawn to the Life THat it may appear that as to Matter of Doctrine and divers other things contain'd in the said Book he has frequently Repeated and Impos'd the same Notorious Calumnies and Perversions Unjustly upon the People called Quakers with other Abuses which in the foregoing Treatise and other of our Books in Answer to him have been and are fully Detected please to take a Brief Catalogue of some of his Notorious Calumnies Lies and Abuses with short Notes on them as followeth 1. In his Dedication to the Bishops of the Church of England whom he flatters thus viz. My Lords I have not leisure to trace them i. e. the Quakers in all their By-paths from the very beginning of their Rise and to shew how they branched forth from the Seeds of the Ranters Levellers and other Latitudinarians Observe pray herein he Imposeth a Nototious and Scandalous Falshood upon the Bishops it being well known that the said People call'd Quakers as to their Rise sprung and branched forth from and out of Religious Families of the Puritans so called and of the most sincere among those called Independent Anabaptist and Presbyterian Churches and Families and others and not from the Seeds of Ranters as he has grosly defamed them thereby Abusing both Bishops and other Readers 2. Their Contempt of the Scripture as Beastly Wares p. 2. Calling them Beastly Ware p. 42. That the Quakers have Condemn'd the Holy Scriptures p. 48. That our Teachers tell us that the Scriptures are Dust Death Beastly Ware c. p. 61. That their Chief Work in their Meetings as well as Writings was to lower the Power of the Magistrates Reproach the Ministers c. and the Bible Beastly Ware c. p. 97. He further saith I know if I had recommended the Scriptures ye would have rejected them as Serpents Meat Beastly Ware your frequent Epithets p. 121. And Beastly Ware again p. 125. Hist. Obs. Thus he still shamefully Abuses the Readers Bishops and others by these most gross repeated Blasphemous Calumnies manifestly Detected both in the foregoing Expostulation and other Answers to him So that he shamefully pleases himself with frequent Repetition of his old stinking loathsom Stuff to defame the Quakers 3. That possibly our Women learn'd of my self i. e. of G. W. to call the Scriptures Dust Death Beastly Ware c. p. 122. Obs. My Conscience bears me Witness he hath suggested a horrid Calumny against me herein having had a high and reverend Esteem for the Holy Scriptures from my Youth upwards 4. That they i. e. the Quakers sprung out of the Dregs of the People as Ranters c. Obs. Both which are Abusive Aspersions before Detected Query Didst thou F.B. spring out of the Dregs of the People as Ranters when first thou turnedst Quaker For shame for shame leave off such sordid Stuff 5. That the Quakers deny Christ and that their Doctrine teacheth to deny him to be Christ who was Born of the Virgin and