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A30043	A second summons to the city of Abel, 2 Sam. 20 to deliver up Sheba, the son of Bichri, that man of Belial : by way of metaphor, alluding to the Quakers and Geo. Whitehead and may serve for a reply to their answer to my printed sheet, stiled The Quakers Yearly Meeting impeached, &c.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1695 (1695)	Wing B5392; ESTC R21466	14,478	16

shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be Cut down c. But I cannot enlarge at present on this Subject but the more you strive to cover and cloak your Errors the more do you give occasion to have them manifested which puts me in mind of a Fable recited by Luther Malum irritatione auctum A Sore groweth worse by chasing And truly since our Scuffle first began about Womens Meetings the Sect of the Foxonian Quakers like the Man in the Fable appears not only Lame but Scabby c. And the more they give occasion the more I rub and chafe this Corrupt Sore until it will stink all the Nation over If they again complain that I put frightful Garments upon them let them withal remember 't is a Web of their own Weaving Now I shall shew what Geo. Fox the Founder of Quakerism says of himself next what his Brethren by way of Confirmation say of him and next what the Quakers they say of the National Ministry of the Scriptures Sacraments and of their own Writings briefly and in Order First of G. Fox's Assuming Divine Attributes to himself News coming up c. p. 1. Written from the Mouth of the Lord from one who is naked and stands naked before the Lord cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World Risen up out of the North which was prophesied of * Quere by which Prophet but now it is fulfilled c. Several Petitions Answered c. p. 60. My Name is covered from the World and the World knows not me nor my Name A Battledoor c. Introd All Languages are to me no more than dust who was before Languages were c. Alike to James Parnel in his Book The Watcher c. p. 37. But to the end of all Disputes and Arguments I am come for before they was I am I have Power to bind and to loose whom I please from him whom the World calls George Fox who is the Son of God G. F. W. O. C. The Examination and Tryal c. p. 21. The Thundering Voice answered me Geo. Fox I have glorified thee and will glorifie thee again And I was so filled full of Glory that my Head and Ears was filled full of it A Journal c. p. 31. 60. 67. I was in the Paradice of God and that it was Christ the Eternal Power of God that spake in me at that time unto them And that was the Word of the Lord and of Christ through me to him So that it was a dreadful thing unto them when it was told them the Man in Leathern Breeches is come See also p. 45. And for his pretended Miracles wrought in his own Name only p. 371. 374. Saul's Errand c. p. 8. And he that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with God which Spirit G. Fox pretended to have The Great Myst c. p. 894. The Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all the fore-fathers which we said G. F. do Witness since the days of the Apostles in the Apostacy And they can discern who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a word The Great Mystery c. pag. Thus Reader I have given you a few Instances of Blasphemy which hang and depend one upon another as a Chain linked together And the next shall be what his Preachers said of him by way of Corroboration But first hear what G. W. says in order to convince the World that Geo. Fox owned Jesus of Nazareth which indeed and in truth is no more nor less than he G. F. said of himself A notable Proof well may he be afraid or ashamed or both to meet me before moderate Men of sense Well hear G. W. for once A Just Enquiry c. p. 23. And G. F. is more fully cleared from these Adversaries Reproach in this matter by his own Innocent Testimony Great Myst p. 254. That by Christ the Light all things were made and created and that he was glorified with the Father before the World began c. Well done George But now let us see if he do not say thus much of himself and if so what Paint hast thou in store next The Teachers of the World unvailed c. p. 27. I am the Light of the World him by whom the World was made And doth enlighten every Man that cometh into the World * Meaning the Light in him Again The Examination and Tryal at Lancaster Assizes c. p. 21. And before I came at the Bar I was moved to Pray and the Thundering Voice answered I have glorified thee and will glorifie thee again I marvel that Whitehead should have the Face to appear in Print with no better Proof that Fox owned Jesus of Nazareth Surely he may well be ashamed to appear before any Men of sense to Justifie these his Abominations And so much briefly for what Fox says of himself and what Whitehead brings to excuse him The Quakers Adoring Geo. Fox c. Fifth Part of the Christian Quaker disting c. p. 77. That G. Fox is blessed with Honour above many Brethren and that Thousands will stand by him in a Heavenly Record That his Life Reigns and is spotless Innocent and still retains his Integrity whose Eternal Honour and Blessed Renown shall remain yea his Presence and the dropping of his tender words in the Lord's love was my Soul's Nourishment The Quakers Challenge c. p. 6. Stand up Muggleton who callest thy Book A Looking-Glass for Geo. Fox whose Name thou art not worthy to take into thy mouth who is a Prophet indeed and hath been Faithful in the Lord's business from the beginning It was said of Christ that he was in the World and the World knew him not * Here G. F. and Sol. Eccles agree G. F. said The world neither knew him nor his Name mark what Idolatry Blasphemy is here So it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not But thou shalt feel this Prophet i. e. G. F. one day as heavy as a Mill-stone upon thee And although the World knows him not yet he is known c. Josiah Cole's Letter wrote from Barbadoes 21 of the twelfth Month 1658. to Geo. Fox and vindicated by William Penn in their Book Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. viz. Dear Geo. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar off to the begetting many again to a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest in which thou Rules and Governs in Righteousness And thy Kingdom is Established in Peace and the Increase thereof is without end John Audland's Letter out of the Well of England which was Printed before G. F. dyed taken out of the Original which we have an

Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. Dear and Precious One in whom my Life is bound up my Strength in thee stand by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my Strength is renewed Life and Strength came from thee Holy ONE Daily do I find thy Presence with me which doth exceedingly preserve me for I cannot Reign but in thy Presence and Power Pray for me that I may stand in thy dread for evermore I am thine begotten and nourished by thee and in thy Power am I preserved Glory unto thee Holy One for ever See this Blasphemous Letter more at large in The Discovery of the Accursed Thing by T. C. I remember when I charged the Quakers in my Sheet to the Parliament Dec. 1693. p. 4. with their Contempt of the Publick Ministry out of their Book A Brief Discovery c. calling them as false Ministers Witches Devils c. First Geo. Whitehead in The Quak. Vind. p. 2. Col. 2. denies that he knew the Book and yet I find in his Just Enquiry c. p. 13. Printed ten Months before that he could Answer it tell the Title Date and number of Subscribers namely five saying But stay soft a little were these Characters given in general or to all other Ministers that are not of us No sure In their Vindication c. delivered to the Parliament pag. 2. Col. 2. though he denyed to know the Book yet he then could say Yet his charging us with Contempt of the Publick Ministry is too general and harsh we Charitably distinguish between the more moderate sort and the rigged Persecutors c. Well let us see whether G. Whitehead be sincere He cries soft a little in one Book and pretends Charitably to distinguish in the other Book So that a stranger would think him very fair at least tolerable But to prove him deceitful and that they give those Contemptuous Language to all Ministers nor Quakers I shall make appear for the Title over the Names is Of the False Ministers And therefore the way to find out G. W. is to Examine First who they account False Ministers and Secondly what Names they are pleased to bestow upon them First Who the Quakers Account False Ministers 1. G. Fox his Primmer p. 84. Scholar Who have been the Ministers and Instructors of the People that they are erred so from Scripture-Example Let me have some Marks and Signs by which I may know the Deceivers and False Prophets c. Geo. Fox gives his Scholar Ten Instances against the Clergy one is this namely They are such as sprinkle Infants and tell People it is an Ordinance of Christ 2. Smith's Primmer c. p. 8. Schol. How may I know when Christ is truly Preached Answ They that are False Ministers Preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above but they that are Christ's Ministers Preach Christ within 3. Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 7. All that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers And the Lord is against all such and who are of God are against all such 4. The Quakers Challenge c. p. 2. Come Protestants Presbyterians Independants and Baptists c. the Quakers deny you all p. 3. The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they 5. The Guide Mistaken c. by W. Penn p. 18. And whilest the Idle Gormandizing Priests of England run away with above 1500000 l. a Year under pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so Universally through Ages the bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most Dreadful Vengeance is reserved to Act their Eternal Tragedy upon c. 6. An Antidote by Thomas Ellwood p. 78. Truth allows of no Payment of Tithes at all under the New Covenant They who Pay Tithes uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ and thereby deny Christ to be come in the Flesh which is a mark of Antichrist I think I need not enlarge on this Point for all that sprinkle Children with Water all that Preach Christ without as he is in Heaven above at the Right Hand of God all that Preach out of the Scripture all that are Ministers and not Quakers all that Pay Tithes or receive Tithes are of that abominable Tribe for whom God's Dreadful Vengeance is reserved c. In fine all not Quakers are False Ministers by the Doctrine of the Quakers And now it remains to shew what the Quakers call them in their Book A Brief Discovery of a Threefold Estate of Antichrist c. under the Tithes as in p. 7 8 9 10. Viz. Of the False Ministry The Priests of the World are I. Conjurers raising dead Doctrine dead Uses dead Motives dead Reasons out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death notable Conjurers II. Thieves and Robbers III. Antichrists the Priests of Baal cannot shew any Scripture for their Heathenish ways and Bestial Worships IV. Witches blind Guides V. Devils the Serpent is Head in them VI. Lyars the Commission and Call of Baal's Priests Come from Oxford and Cambridge which they call the Well-head of Divinity corrupt Streams issue from thence I can witness fetching the same Commodities drinking a Cup of the same Poysonous Fountain the Fountain is bitter the Streams are no better Even the Sir Symons of the Age run to Oxford and Cambridge These are not Ministers of Christ but Stewards of the Devil's Magazine Dissemblers and Lyars VII A Viperous and Serpentine Generation going about to Murder and Strangle the Child Jesus holding a Worm-eaten Beastly Form VIII Blasphemers yea of the Devil fearful Blasphemers IX Scarlet-coloured Beasts A Harlot full of Abominations and Filthiness X Babylon's Merchants Selling Beastly Wares for a large Price the Letter which is Dust and Death The day is coming when these Idol Merchants these costly Sermon-makers shall cry c. XI Whited Walls professing nothing but Poysonous stuff XII Ravenous Wolves XIII Greedy Dogs really they are Blood-Hounds still hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell barking and raging like Sodomites XIV Eminent and Ambitious Pharisees of the Devil woe woe woe was the Portion of these Pharisees then and woe woe woe is their Portion now And woe and misery is the Portion of the upholders whether King or Parliament of that Treacherous and Deceitful Generation c. Come G. W. you say Soft a little we Charitably distinguish c. But now your Spirit your Principles and Practice by your Books are found out and the Reason why you refuse to meet me according to your Proposal is now found out for you know you must either Justifie these your Antichristian and abominable Books or Condemn them Condemn them you will not for that they are given forth by your great Apostle G. F. and his Disciples and as you say by the Eternal Infallible Spirit of God