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

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

A DEFENCE OF AN APOLOGY For the People called QUAKERS Being in Answer to a Book Entituled Quakerism Exposed OR Some Papers deliver'd to the King Parliament By JOHN FEILD He that hideth Hatred with lying Lips and he that uttereth a Slander is a Fool Prov. 10 18. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-Street 1699. TO THE Christian Reader I Here present thee with a Defence of an Apology for that abused and misrepresented People called Quakers and earnestly desire thy serious Perusal and submit it to thy Impartial Judgment Not Doubting thy Acceptance if a true Lover of him in whom Peace and Acceptance with God is known Because whatever Prejudices there may be in some Men one to another there 's none in him neither can it be entertained in any that sincerely Love and Live in Jesus Christ the dear Son of the Father's Love whom God hath sent a Light into the World and is come to destroy the Works of the Devil and all Envy and Malice in those that truly Receive him And to Preserve and Deliver those that are truly his from the Hands of unreasonable Men who are in Confederacy against a People he hath gathered to be the Sheep of his Pasture Remember it was the Chief Priests and Pharisees that gathered together in Council against our Saviour and said What do we if we let him alone all Men will believe in him and the Romans shall come and take away both our Place and Nation And when Satan entered into Judas he went his way and communed with the Chief Priests and Captains how he might betray him and they were glad and covenanted to give him Money And it was Demetrius that cried out and made no small Stir against that Way Paul taught being sensibly touched with an Apprehension the Craft he got his Gain by was in danger And it was proud Haman that informed the King That there was a certain People scattered abroad and dispersed among the People and their Laws were diverse from all People neither keep they the Kings Law 's see Esther 3.8 But the Lord that in every Age was mindful of his Suffering People and in all their Afflictions that by wicked Instruments he suffered to come upon them he was Afflicted and the Angel of his Presence saved them for he knew their Innocency however they were Misrepresented and Reproached by his and their Enemies And therefore he then as now hath supported and been with them in and under all the Reproaches Cruel Mockings and great Sufferings they have hitherto met withal Of which I have in Brief given some Account And it 's the Lord that hath been and is their Light and Salvation whom then shall they fear And he hath been the Strength of their Life of whom then shall they be afraid Surely I may say these have no cause of Fear because they are Innocent And therefore I pray they may be preserved therein and that will be their Defence as it is mine And then the Government under which they Live will have just Cause more to Credit what their Eyes see of their Peaceable Conversations and what they with Thousands have been and are Witnesses of than the false Suggestions and Insinuations of those Men whose Interest and Prejudice is against this People that truly Fear God Honour the King Love all Men Live Honestly Do Justly are Peaceable and Inoffensive to those that do not Offend God And if those that Offend God are offended with them or me I pray God forgive them keep me and incline them to the Practice of that Holy Religion Christ was the Founder of and in that Christian Charity which is the most Excellent Gift and in that Spirit which all that are the Sons of God are led by In which Christian Spirit I desire thou may'st be found and therein duly Weigh and seriously Consider how greatly this Despised People have Suffered in Body Estate Good Name and Christian Reputation by Severity on their Bodies Havock on their Estates Revilings on their Holy Profession false Accusation and Misrepresentations of their Christian Doctrine and Principles All which as they have abode in the Faith and Patience of the Lamb of God they have been enabled to endure and go through hitherto for which they in Humility give Holy Praise to him that hath supported them and have Faith and Confidence in him that he will never leave nor forsake them as they continue in their Christian Duty and abide in Faith Hope and Charity In which I pray that all who Profess that worthy Name may be found then will Pride be abated Envy rooted out Humility spring and Love encrease So be it saith Thy Sincere and Cordial Friend J. F. A DEFENCE OF AN APOLOGY c. THE Peaceable Christians in Days that are past were accounted Hereticks called Movers of Sedition and their Holy Religion was almost every where spoken Evil against Nor could they expect any better Treatment from an untoward Generation than what their Lord and Master Jesus Christ met with who was render'd a Blasphemer by those that pretended great Loyalty to and would own no other King but Caesar And yet it was not long after but they rebelled against him whom they pretended great regard to that they might get their Revenge executed upon Jesus in whom no Cause of Death or any Fault was found as Pilate the Roman Governour who examined him declared And when the Exclaimers against and false Accusers of Christ had their wicked Ends answered they themselves were found to be Rebels to Caesar and the true Disciples and Followers of Christ Peaceable Christians But what related to their Holy Religion their Way and Worship of the great God of Heaven and Earth was then accounted as New Strange and as much spoken against as 't is now and their Testimony and Doctrine struck as much at the High Priests Learned Rabbies and Great Doctors Hierarchy in that Day as many esteem the Quakers Testimony and Doctrine do at those of this Day Nor were the Apostles whom Christ made Choice of and sent forth Men that were brought up in Academical Learning but were for the most part Illiterate Persons of whom the Pharisees contemptuously said John 7.49 This People who knoweth not the Law are cursed And for that reason among others they were then as much Despised Vilified and Ridiculed as those now are whom Christ hath Called Commissionated and Sent forth in his Work and Service in this Day of his Blessed and Glorious Appearance Against whom some that esteem themselves Learned have lately appeared in Print with a Pretended Brief Discovery of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers taken as they say out of their most noted and approved Authors and said to be Humbly Offered to the King and both Houses of Parliament See G. W's Brief Examination in Answer thereunto Now I having written a Brief Apology