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A65869	Innocency triumphant over insolency and outrage of a self-condemned apostate in answer to Francis Bugg's most abusive and scandalous book, falsely stiled, New Rome arraigned &c., and in defence of the Christian testimony of G. Whitehead and eleven witnesses against the great defamation of perjury and pillory, unjustly cast upon them by the said F.B.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1935; ESTC R24554	30,940	100

Commons the 16th Instant stiled Something in Answer to the Allegations of the Quakers in their printed Case presented to the House of Commons Decemb 1693 on purpose to Calumniate the said People and to interrupt and gainsay their Conscientious Case for their not Swearing c. before presented as he saith Whereby Bugg did not only shew himself a busie-body in other Mens Matters but also in the very height of deadly Malice Therein falsly accusing the said People 1. With Contempt of Scripture and Ordenances without exception 2. With Contempt of the Publick Ministry without exception also 3. With Denying Jesus of Nazareth 4. With Contempt of Governours as if he eagerly thirsted for Persecution again for our utter Ruine Some of his Instances to prove that the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth are 1. William Smith 's asserting something of God in Man for him to wait to know 2. Our knowing Christ the foundation in us 3. Our believing that Christ in us doth intercede the Father on our behalf 5. Edw. Burrough 's confessing the very Christ of God to be in us and that we dare not deny him 5. The Answer formerly given by James Naylor viz. If I cannot witness Christ nearer than Jerusalem I shall have no Benefit by him but I own no other Christ but that i. e. Christ who witnessed a good Confession before Pilate which Christ I witness suffering in me now These are some of his Instances to prove that the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth Wherefore according to F. Bugg's Doctrin since he turned from the Quakers to the Church of England the ancient Christian and Apostolical Doctrin and Confession of Jesus Christ in you except ye be Reprobates and Christ in you the hope of Glory and the Spirit of the Son as sent into your Hearts crying Abba Father and making intercession c. This all with Bugg is a denying Jesus of Nazareth Oh! horrible Antichristianism and Apostacy The Lord preserve all honest simple Hearts from such gross darkness of Envy and Apostacy against which I propose 1. That Christ's being in Glory and Majesty in the Heavens does not wholly exclude him out of the Souls of his People 2. That Jesus Christ who is in his own Glory and Majesty in the Heavens yet is spiritually in the Hearts of his true Followers in his Church and Sanctuary and Minister thereof See Heb. 8.1 2. London the 19th 10 month 1693. FINIS ERRATA PAge 5. line 24. for be read he p. 17. l. 4. for to read of l. 14. dele the p. 18. l. 9. read Cavillers p. 14. l. 21. for 2. read 23 p. 31. l. 2. read wise P. 38. l. last for Christ read Church P. 42. l. 15. read taken P. 46. l. 5. 2 Col. for wherewith read wherein BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Thomas Northcott in George Yard in Lombard Street THE Works of that faithful Servant of Jesus Christ Robert Barclay in Folio Price Bound 13 s. Truth Exalted in the Writings of that Eminent Servant of Christ John Burnyat in 4 to Price bound 2 s. 6 d. Robert Barclay's Apology for the People called Quakers in 4 to Price 4 s. Francis Howgil's Works in Folio 10 s. Samuel Fisher's Works in Folio 12 s. The Spirit of the Martyrs revived in 4 to 4 s. George Keith's Visible Churches in 80. Price bound 1 s. 6 d. His Way to the City of God described in 80 Price bound 1 s. His Fundamental Truths of Christianity by way of Question and Answer in 8 vo 8. d. His true Christ owned in 8 vo 4 d. Stephen Crisp's Epistle concerning the present and succeeding Times 2 d. Robert Barclay's Possibility and Necessity of Inward and Immediate Revelation Price 3 d. Just Measures in an Epistle of Peace and Love by G. P. The Harmony of the Old and New Testament by I. T. with an Appendix by W. P. Price 9 d. Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims relating to the Conduct of Humane Life Price bound 9 d. A Key opening a Way to every Common Vnderstanding How to discern the Difference betwixt the Religion professed by the People called Quakers and the Perversions Misrepresentations and Calumnies of their several Adversaries The Third Edition with Additions By W. Penn. Price 3 d. (1) This is a deceitful and false Insinuation I have a true love and respect to them both and a real honour to the very Memory of W. D. If he means William Dewsbury (2) I positively deny this Story against A. P. and my self as a base lying Story and demand of Bugg to produce his Author for it (3) I know in my own Conscience these to be lying Stories and again Challenge Bugg to bring out his Author for them (4) This also is as deceitful and false an Insinuation as the first and I do not believe that either T. G. or J. C. if he means John Cook do question my love to them By me George Whitehead * Psa. 16.10 Act. 2.31 and 13.37

Innocency Triumphant OVER Insolency and Outrage OF A Self-Condemn'd APOSTATE IN ANSWER To Francis Bugg's most Abusive and Scandalous Book falsly Stiled New Rome Arraigned c. AND In Defence of the Christian Testimony of G. Whitehead and Eleven Witnesses against the great Defamation of Perjury and Pillory unjustly cast upon them by the said F. B. His Mischief shall return upon his own Head London Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1693. INTRODUCTION Our Christian Testimony reassum'd in the Affirmative TO all Christian Sober Impartial and Judicious People to whom these Presents shall come Salutation in the Love and Good Will of the only true God and his dear Son Jesus Christ whom he hath sent To prevent Mistake and remove Misrepresentation in the Matters following these are sincerely to Testifie and Declare That I. We sincerely own profess and confess Jesus to be the Christ even the same Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary at Bethlehem in Judaea Matth. 2. suffered Death upon the Cross without the Gates of Jerusalem was quickned and raised again by the Power of God and ascended into Heaven and Glory according to the Scriptures II. We give Witness only to this Christ as being the very Christ the only Begotten Son of God and confess both his Coming in the Flesh and in the Spirit according to holy Scripture-Testimony III. Though this Christ the only begotten Son of God took Flesh and came of the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh and suffered death in the Flesh yet his Flesh or Body prepared for him did not see Corruption it did not corrupt but was raised again from the dead consequently did not perish nor is his Body of a perishing Nature but a glorified Body like unto which we believe our's shall be changed and fashioned Phil. 3. IV. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament namely the holy Doctrine and divine Precepts therein were first given by divine Inspiration as we have confessed unto Authority and in no wise to be contemn'd but seriously read believed and fulfilled as the Spirit of the Lord giveth Vnderstanding and Ability being the Life of the Scripture and without which the meer Letter and all Preaching therefrom in Man's Will is dead and ineffectual V. The Protestant Religion considered in the primitive Purity of it in opposition to Popery and all sincere Protestants who desire a clear and thorow Reformation from all Idolatry and Superstition we have a tender Respect to them and sincerely desire that the holy Scripture and the Gospel Ministry true Worship Prayer Obedience of Faith and Christianity in its purity may be promoted grow and increase in Spirit Life and Power among Christians VI. The divine Precepts and Doctrine contain'd in the holy Scriptures we must needs believe to be Holy and Blessed not only because they proceed from the holy Spirit but also because they require Holiness and Righteousness in Life and Practice under the several Dispensations of God to Mankind VII We own no such Saying as that the holy Doctrine or divine Precepts of Scripture is either Dust Death or the Serpents Meat but truly profitable to us by the Assistance of God's Holy Spirit given to us although the false Prophets Preaching was but compared to the Chaff or Husk when they stole even the words of the true Jer. 23. And Men of corrupt minds by perverting the holy Scriptures and Preaching in their earthly Wisdom from the Letter and not from the Spirit of Christ do bring Darkness and Death over many and also strengthen the hands of evil Doers that they may not forsake their Sins whereby the Serpent the Enemy of the Soul is gratified and many led captivate at his will when indulg'd and sooth'd up in their sins by such literal and lifeless Preachers as pervert the holy Scriptures to ther own and others Destruction VIII The promised Messiah of whom the holy Prophets give witness is the very Christ of God even that Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin who in the fulness of time came in the Flesh and was made like unto us in all things sin only excepted as the Scripture testifies Yet IX The glorious Body of Christ is not now like ours nor of an Earthy perishing Nature but Heavenly Spiritual and most Glorious far excelling all Terrestrial Bodies X. Our Ministers do not Teach that the Name of Jesus and Christ belong to every Member in the Body or Church as amply as to Christ the Head but that the Divine Anointing to which the Name Christ hath relation virtually is in some Measure or Degree afforded to every Member of his Body but not so amply as to Him the Head nor for any Member to be called Christ but a Christian because Christ received the Anointing the Holy Spirit not by Measure but in Fulness and because he is the Head of the Body the Church XI 'T is really contrary to our Faith and Principle to make Christ Jesus himself only a Figure a Vail or Garment He being the Substance and end of all Figures Types and Shadows yet his Flesh was call'd the Vail Heb. 10. and he took upon him the Form of a Servant and was made like unto Men and was found in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shape or Figure of a Man Phil. 2.6 7. XII F. Bugg's pretended Examination Tryal and Conviction of Perjury against G. Whitehead and Eleven Witnesses and saying that for the same they are put in the Pillory We sincerely and solemnly Testifie against it all as a great Lye Scandal and Defamation and as a piece of Mockery Romantick Forgery and Fools Tragedy contrived by the said F. B. to render them Odious and Ridiculous and that no such Examination Tryal Conviction or Penalty was ever really Acted or Inflicted on G. W. or the Witnesses aforesaid Writ in the behalf of Truth and it's Friends concerned and hereafter mentioned By G. Whitehead I. The Testimony of the Twelve Witnesses against Fr. Bugg's great Abuse reassum'd and enlarg'd in the Negative or Denial of his false Charge and Perversions WE whose Names are hereunto Subscrib'd in behalf of our selves and of the Christian Society and People commonly called Quakers to whom we belong do sincerely and solemnly and in the Fear of God testifie and declare That Francis Bugg in his late great Book stiled New Rome Vnmask'd hath most injuriously and falsly Accused and Charg'd the said People and their Ministers as followeth I. With denying Christ Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem rose again and ascended into Heaven c. And that they believe and say That they cannot call Him Christ Chap. 3. p. 16. and Epistle to Bereans P. 2. of his New Rome Unmask'd II. That the Quakers Prophets give witness to G. Fox INSTEAD of this Christ that they call Him G. F. the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness and put the North of England for the Town of

for whom the Body was prepared It was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh but the Word Joh. 1.1 Apol. Introd p. 3. And yet he has confessed it was the Son of God that took the Body p. 4. What confusion and Self-contradiction does the Man blindly run into And how contrary to the Apostle John's Testimony is his Doctrin herein See 1 Joh. 4.2 3. Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is of God and every Spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is not of God but this is the Spirit of Anti-Christ What Spirit is this in our Adversary which saith It was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh who was it then It was the Word the Son of God as if Jesus Christ were neither the Word nor the Son of God O horrible Anti-Christianism And contrary also to that Martyr Dr. Barnes his Confession as cited by F. Bugg himself p. 45. viz. I believe that without Man's will or power Christ Jesus was Conceived by the Holy Ghost and took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary Acts and Mon. p. 610. Now if Jesus Christ took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary then it was Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh But it was Jesus Christ that took Flesh Therefore 't was Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh consequently F. Bugg's Doctrine That is was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh is Anti-Christian Anti-Apostolical and contradictory to the said Martyr 's Doctrine Note His accusing us That we own no other Christ than He that appeared in the body Introd p. 5. 'T is well he grants we own that Christ what other Christ would he have us own For his Light Spirit Heavenly Treasure that we have in our earthen Vessels is neither any dividing of Christ nor any other Christ but of the same Christ Jesus who came in the Flesh was born of the Virgin Mary c. and spiritually manifested and partaken of in his Saints in Measure by his Grace and good Spirit where the Spirit of Christ is there is Christ. I observe that much of F. B's former Book is reprinted in this at which rate 't is an easie matter to make Books to print and reprint the same things over and over again and when Answered as in my Charitable Essay instead of Replication to impose the same things refuted over and over again And this is F. B's manner of troubling the World with his Impertinent Scribbles and Scandalous Books tending to divide and make discord Sedition and Strife among the People as may be easily made appear that the very Nature and Tendency of them is Seditious to cause Discord most falsly to render the People commonly called Quakers Obnoxious and so much Popish as Rome's Sister New Rome Babylon the Whore a Cage of unclean Birds among whom he has croswise plac'd the names of many honest Men far more Righteous and clean than himself in the Figure or Form of a Cage p. 50. maliciously invented by him as his Pillory is to Reproach and Scandalize Men fearing God and of good Repute and Esteem in their day as G. Fox John Audland Francis Howgil Samuel Fisher Edward Burroughs Jo. Blaykling Isaac Pennington Richard Hubberthorn Stephen Crisp William Gibson John Whitehead and others having in all to the number of Thirty Four Persons names in his Cage Thus he can Pillory Stage and Cage-Men at his pleasure to defame and scandalize them His Accusation that the Quakers insinuate in a Book called The Quakers Refuge That what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true p. 47. We disown these Expressions as laid down and I think they are not duly Inferr'd from the said Book questioning Whether some Words in theirs were not spoken by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by good Men ill Expressed some by false Prophets and yet true some by true Prophets and yet false or rather mistakes yet this questioned but of some words in Scripture not all as what the true or false Prophets spake as he states it in his New Rome Vnmask'd p. 23. Of the false Ministry Introd p. 9. He is offended at some of our Friends formerly calling them The Priests of the World Conjurers raising dead Doctrines out of the Letter Theives Robbers Anti-Christs ravening Woolves greedy Doggs c. Introd p. 9. But who were these names given to Not to all other Ministers in general that are not of us or not in outward Society with us Who to then F. B. Answers They i. e. Quakers give them generally to all the false Ministry Apol. Introd p. 10. And why is he offended then Have our Friends wrong'd the false Ministry therein What need he be so much concern'd for the false Ministry But he Objects They account none true Ministers but themselves which is not true There were sincere and true Ministers under several Dispensations as among the Puritans Protestant Martyrs and others according to what the Lord had made known to them And there are divers true in Words who have a Zeal of God in some measure but too many who Preach true and good words live bad lives But F. B. it seems is rather willing to rake up the Characters given of the false Ministry against us than to answer what he calls our false Glosses Evasions and subtil Turnings Ibid. p. 12. which appears to be his Evasion and Shuffle when he cannot answer my Arguments but is put to a Ne plus ultra then he rambles rakes up picks and reiterates Stories scraps and broken Sentences and pieces out of old Books and so patches up his Dirty and Scurrilous Books against us and then gives us all the ill names he can and cries out against us as New Rome Impudence Impudent Impostors Cowards cunning Sophisters Jugglings Legerdemean a pack of false Witnesses and Perjur'd Persons And saith Surely Simon Magus never exceeded these Impostors Act. 8. Introd p. 11.15.18.47 Thus his great Outrage and Implacable Malice appears And like a furious Incendiary to blow up the Fire of Contention and Persecution again and to incense the Government and Magistrates against us he does not only call us New Rome Rome's Sister comparing us with the Papists as coming not one jot behind them but harmonising with them Ep. Ded. p. 3.4 and most unjustly accusing the Quakers with condemning the Protestant Religion in general terms Ibid. and with accounting Magistracy a cumbersome Tree that must be cut down and our Principles he maliciously accuseth as both Anti-Magistratical and Anti-Monarchical Ep. to Bereans p. 12 13. How much resembling an Incendiary and Seditious Writer hath our Apostate Adversary appeared in these Invectives against a peaceable People fearing God and by his Divine Providence recogniz'd by the Government as Protestants also Though this Incendiary will needs have us Papists But pray does he therein befriend the Protestant interest or Government either By thus magnifying or