and foolish People that would have a King and what Work Joshua made with the Kings how he brought them out of the Cave a fit Place for them and all these Novices Christians that are crying up Earthly Kings And we know that these Kings are the Spiritual Egyptians got up since the Days of the Apostles Come smooth George with all thy Puritanical Sincerity why didst thou not recite this whole Quotation But it seems thou art not under a necessity to be plain-hearted What! it seems this is too plain and too manifest What! to be absolutely against all Kings and Kingly Government and thy Paint not able to cover it But George thou also say'st p. 69. Let their Books and ours be compared to clear our Innocency from these Adversaries Calumnies Ah George this is still worse what to add Hypocrisie to Treason Thou knowest George in thy Conscience if thou hast any or if it be not quite seared that at West Dereham Conference your Friends had an Opportunity were pressed to it but could not be prevailed with nay tho' there then were near Twenty of your eminent Teachers and about an Hundred of your Hearers yet not one of them could be prevail'd with either to compare your Books nay nor to own them and vindicate the Doctrine contained in them how then hast thou now the Impudence to say Let their Books and ours be compared as above Wherefore in your next be plain whether you have not deviated in any one Point from what you were in the beginning and whether you resolve to justifie your Friends Ancient Books as you say you can see the Postscript to your Ishmael annexed I will only trouble my Reader in this Place with one Citation more and it is about the Trinity and in this George is as defective and short as in the other and the reason is as plain which is to cover over their Blasphemy against the Blessed Trinity to manifest which there are several Charges out of divers Books of the Quakers in the Book intituled Some few of the Quakers many Horrid Blasphemies Heresies and their Bloody Treasonable Principles Destructive to Government out of which I shall mention but one to shew as well how short Whitehead is in reciting it upon his Excuse of being only defensive and thereby not under a necessity to cite the whole as above noted See Some few of the Quakers many Horrid Blasphemous Heresies c. p. 1. out of G. Fox's Great Mystery c. p. 246. The Scripture do not tell the People of a Trinity nor Three Persons but the Common-Prayer-Mass-Book speaks of Three Persons brought in by the Father the Pope To this George Whitehead Replies Truth and Innocency vindicated c. p. 50. saying Their first Objection the Scripture do not tell People of a Trinity nor Three Persons c. and so dropt the other part of the Quotation out of Fox viz. But the Common-Prayer-Mass-Book speaks of Three Persons brought in by the Father the Pope These he left out as now not proper to mention since the Act of Toleration enforces the Acknowledgment of the Blessed Trinity as the Condition of their Liberty But as a Salvo p. ibid. George Whitehead urges another Book of George Fox's stiled Some Principles of the Elect People of God called Quakers c. Printed 1671. p. 43. Of the Word Trinitas there is no mention made in Scripture yet the Scripture speaks of Father Son and Holy Ghost and all these are one I have with some Difficulty procuted this Book in order to trace and to find out George Whitehead in all his Subterfuges and lurking Places and I find him as false in citing Fox their Apostle as in the above-noted For of the 57 Words in Fox's Paragraph he G.W. has cited but 26 Words which is not the one half but the reason is there is no more for his Turn and his Business is only to serve a Turn Jesuit-like as his Friend Anne Docwra well observes now to the Quotation of Fox which Whitehead has split viz. Some Principles of the Elect c. p. 43. Of this Word Trinitas there is no mention made in Scripture yet the Scripture speaks of Father Son and Holy Ghost and of Water Blood and Spirit and all these are one among us as in the Primitive time among the Apostles who gave no such outward Names to them as Trinity as the World now doth c. Who then can believe this People who thus split Sentences and mangle the Sence For here is Six Persons in the Quakers Godhead Father Son Holy Ghost Water Blood Spirit all these are one among the Quakers so that here is a twofold Trinity Trinitas Trinitas in the Unity of their Essence where no one is greater or lesser than the other nor yet one before or after the other for the Water is Spirit the Blood is Spirit and both the Light within Father Son and Holy Ghost and all within and every of these Lights is their Eternal God And to this agrees George Fox Jun. in his Works p. 66. viz. By one that witnesseth God Christ the Light the Word the Spirit the Truth the Kingdom of God within me and these are one Reader Here is in the Quakers Essence Septem Personas of which no one was before the other nor none greater or lesser than another and all within Again p. ibid. Stumble not at the Light for if thou dost thou stumblest at God at Christ at the Door the VVay the Truth the Life the Rock the Elect Stone and all these are but one Here again is one added here is Octo Personas in the Unity of their Essence of which no one was before the other nor none greater or lesser than the other for the Stone is Light the Rock is Light the Life is Light the Truth is Light the VVay is Light the Door is Light and God is Light and all within them Only measurably as p. 72. And verily Friends if you keep not to the measure of the pure God in you so that God dwells in them by parts or measure see p. 55 83. ibid. The next thing I am to prove is their Light within to be the Eternal God this done I think I have proved that they like Thieves and Robbers have climbed up another way distinct from the Holy Apostles Primitive Christians Saints and Martyrs and all Christian Churches to this Day in order to which see p. 46 to 50. ibid. I the Light will fall upon you and grinde you to Powder All who will not own me the Light in you and I will make you to know that I the Light am the true Eternal God which created all things and that there is not another beside me can save I matter not by what Name you are called by whether it be King Protector Prince Duke Lord Judge Justice Parliament Priest Lawyer Gathered Churches Army Gentry Mean Men or Beggars I 'll break all Sects and Opinions and Gathered Churches which
one of their Prophets and Teachers ador'd G. Fox with Divine Attributes This Witness is true 6. That their People bowed down on their Knees to G. Fox for Absolution in particular John Fretwell Christopher Gilborn James Naylor which was Idolatry This Witness is true 7. That G. Fox's Luciferian Pride was manifest when he gave out a Paper That his Marriage with Margaret Fell Widow was a Figure of the Marriage between Christ and his Church and that his said Marriage was above the State of Adam in his Innocency in the State of the second Adam that never fell This Witness is true 8. That great Pains had been taken by Sam. Newton and John Bolton to bring to light the unheard-of Practices and Beastly Wantonness and filthy Uncleanness of their Teachers This Witness is true 9. That John Bolton had a Confession in writing of one or two of the Females concerned in their Debauched Actions shewing also that many eminent ones in their Ministry resorted to them daily giving them these Appellations Innocent Lasses and Daughters of Sion This Witness is true 10. That the Quakers represent such as discover these their Abominations Envious Malicious Distracted Bad Dirty and Factious Spirits who are gone from Truth c. This Witness is true Therefore saith St. Paul rebuke them Sharply Severely or Cuttingly who notwithstanding their high Pretences to Meekness Charity Self-Denial Temperance and other Graces of the Spirit yet are found to be Liars evil Beasts Slow Bellies great Forgers gross Hypocrites and proud Blasphemers Read over the 20 Instances and R. Saudiland's Letter of Retractation together with what else you find in this and my other Books for to them I refer for further Demonstrations of the Deceitfulness of these vain Pretenders and high Boasters If they tell you this Book of W. Mucklow's is answer'd and again complain that I take no Notice thereof as Jos Wyeth does of the Author of The Snake in the Grass c. in his Anguis Flagillatus c. to them I thus reply that their pretended Answers are in Reality no Answers otherwise than mock Answers to abuse the World and to blind their Proselytes and to paint over the Poyson of their foul Opinions and this is easie to discern by any that will be at the Pains to read what is wrote on both sides and by considering their way and manner of answering Books See G. W.'s Truth and Innocency vindicated c. in these three Instances viz. I. Their Way of Transposing II. Their Way of Adding Words III. Their leaving Out Words Of their Transposing Words First As to Transposing G. Fox having taught in his Great Mystery c. saying p. 213. You cannot know Scripture but by the same Degree of the Spirit that the Prophets and Apostles had c. this was objected against the Quakers as Pride in them that so thought and false Doctrine in them that so teach see A Brief Discovery c. p. 8. to which G. Whitehead reply'd in his Truth and Innocency c. p. 19. These Words says he should be Transposed it should run thus Thou canst not know Scripture but by a Degree of the same Spirit the Prophets and Apostles had Now by thus Transposing Words we may read Acts 12.2 That James slew Herod with the Sword and so overthrow the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures whether Doctrinal or Historical Now whether G. W.'s Method of Transposing the Words of their Prophets was not to cover and palliate their Errors let the wise in Heart judge Their Way of Adding Words Secondly Again their Way of Adding Words A Brief Discovery c. p. 26. the Clergy having objected to the Quakers a Blasphemous Position out of Burrough's Works p. 273. viz. The Sufferings says Burroughs of the People of God i. e. Quakers in this Age is a Greater Suffering and more Unjust than in the Days of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs or any time since What was done to Christ or his Apostles was Chiefly done by a Law and in Great Part by the Due Execution of a Law c. To this G. Whitehead the Quakers Soderer replies see his Truth and Innocency c. p. 44. not once mentioning the Page in the said Brief Discovery on purpose no doubt to lead his Reader from the Sight and Scent of their Blasphemy and that which confirms me therein is that he dropt the latter part of the Quotation viz. What was done to Christ or his Apostles was Chiefly done by a Law and in Great part by the Due Execution of a Law No this was so apparently Blasphemous that as hardy as he G. W. is he was ashamed to recite it but whilst he blames others for splitting Sentences Mangling and Curtailing he is a profound Practitioner of it but in p. 46. ibid. being loth to let it pass wholly unspoken to he there says Instead of Due Execution it should rather have been said by a Regular and Judicial Procedure But how far this mends the Matter let all true Christians judge viz. whether the Proceedings of the Jews against our Saviour when they Scourg'd him Spit upon him Platted a Crown of Thorns upon his Head Smote him with the Palms of their Hands when Herod and his Men of War set him at nought and mocked him and the like Indignities which were not then nor now done to the greatest Malefactors I say was this A Regular and Judicial Procedure against our Blessed Saviour as G. Whitehead he being expert in Law Terms grants it to be in favour of his Brother Burroughs Again George one Question more were the Jews Nailing his Innocent Hands and Feet in whose Mouth never was Guile nor sinful Thought in his Breast to the Cross and the Soldiers piercing his Side with a Spear so that his Precious Blood †Which the Quakers say is no better than the Blood of another Saint streamed out at five Places I say was this A Regular or Judicial Procedure Answer in your next Again A Regular and Judicial Procedure supposeth a Transgression of some Law And Burrough says expresly that he not only suffered by a Law but in a great part by the Due Execution of a Law as above Again and George since you grant that all the Indignities and cruel Sufferings our Saviour underwent for the Salvation of Mankind was by A Regular or Judicial Procedure which presupposeth a Law and that Law transgressed therefore be plain for once and tell us what Law it was by which he was for the Transgression thereof Regularly and Judicially proceeded against and consequently therefore Condemned Crucified and Slain by the Jews if you cannot do this then condemn both your Truth and Innocency as Blasphemy Of their Leaving out Words Thirdly G. Fox having taught in his Book Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 8. saying HE that Hath the same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ is Equal with God this being urged against the Quakers as Blasphemy by the Norfolk Clergy in their Book
the Scriptures say that God the Father the First Person in the Trinity is the Word No Christ the Second Person is the Word proved by that Scripture above quoted and perverted by them Whitehead in Ishmael p. 9. II. They are such Teachers as tell People of a Sacrament for which there is not one Scripture and so feed the People with their own Inventions and therefore we deny them III. They are such Teachers as have told us the Letter was the Light whenas the Letter saith Christ is the Light therefore we deny them John 1 c. Query Where is the Man What is his Name What Book is it in That the Publick Ministers ever said that the Letter as they contemptuously call the Holy Scriptures was the Light mentioned John 1. or the Essential Word of God only the Written Word of God spoke forth by Men Divinely Inspired and as such are a Light or give us Light and are a Means to understand the Mind and Will of God through the Influences of his Holy Spirit assisting therein No this I take to be a false Accusation like that of Joseph Wyeth's Anguis Flagellatus p. 158. i. e. Upon Examination of Christopher Wade's Words they seem to imply as if he had affirmed of the Scriptures that they were the Eternal and Indwelling Word of God c. This is a Lie told in Hypocrisie for I have read the Page through and there is no such Saying or any thing like it And thus do they belie their Adversaries both by false Citations and Charges Wherefore as the Protestants says touching the Jesuits so may the Protestants conclude by the Quakers both in reciting their Opponents their reciting their Friends and their Sham-Creeds and Protestations in their late Books presented to the Parliament the Judges Justices c. viz. Distrust them in all they say A Specimen of all which you have in this small Treatise But to go on IV. They are such Teachers as tell People that Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel therefore we deny them V. They are Babylon's Merchants that make a Trade of the Scriptures there-we deny them VI. They are such Teachers as take a Text out of the Saints Conditions i. e. out of the Scriptures therefore we deny them These are some of the chief Reasons why the Quakers deny the Publick Ministers and not only so and there leave it no but in Magisterial Insulting Domineering manner counsel and command the People contrary to all the Laws made and established to go no more to Church The like of which I do believe never was done by a dissenting People who enjoy their Liberty by Indulgence since the World began which after I have recited Fox's Motion from God as he audaciously pretends I shall recite this Counsel against the Estabished Church and next his Authority from The Word of God as he audaciously pretends as in p. 15 54. viz. Moved of the Lord written from the Spirit of the Lord for the Cleansing of the Land of all False Teachers Seducers and Deceivers and Witches who beguile the People and Inchanters and Diviners and Sorcerers and Hirelings c. All People that read these things never come ye more at the Steeple-House nor Pay your Priests more Tythes till they have Answered them for if ye do ye uphold them in their Sins and must partake of their Plagues This is the Word of the Lord God to you all G. F. Reader their First and Great Commandment is Pay your Priest no more Tythes and their Second is like unto it Never go more to the Steeple-House and upon these Two Commandments hangs their Law and their Prophets and by this you may know that his Disciples love him in that they keep his Commandments And the Reasons he gives to enforce Obedience to their Commandments are because the Priests tell them that the Holy Scriptures are the written Word of God because they tell us of a Sacrament because they tell People that Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel because they take a Text out of the Scripture and Expound it to the People And for these and the like Reasons they call them False Teachers Seducers Deceivers Witches Inchanters Diviners Sorcerers and Hirelings And for their Warrant This is the Word of the Lord God to you all Thus do they sit in the Judgment-Seat even as in O. Cromwell's Time and for the same Cause now as then they have Condemned not only the Church of England but Protestant Dissenters too But George as I have turned thee topsy-turvy so am I now turning thy Inside outward shewing by thy Ishmael c. thy Ancient Testimony and Principle and thou sayest thou art not changed See thy Ishmael to which I have neither added nor diminished only the backside of the Title-Page Running Title Marginal Notes and Observations from Pag. 11. thy Name being on the Title-Page the middle and at the end Signed and also Sealed with your Common Seal i. e. Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord in us G. Whitehead c. But let me clear up one Passage in your Truth and Innocency Vindicated c. p. 31. As for this Quotation in Ishmael c. p. 10 11. G. Whitehead hath positively disowned the Words and affirms they are none of his and that he writ not that Part of the Answer to Townsend which was in the Year * It was 1655. 1654. and that he shall neither stand by nor own these Words viz. And here thy Antiquity and the Three Persons which thou would devide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual Darkness for the Lake and the Pit Now George tho' thy Signing and Sealing this Book with thy Hand and Common Seal as aforesaid were sufficient to Entitle thee to this Hellish Blasphemy as if thou hadst Signed and Sealed a Bond of an Hundred Pound made by a Scribe would oblige thee to Pay the Debt tho' thou didst not write the Bond yet George I have a further Demonstration to prove the Book thine and never heard that until 1690 an Act being made which enjoined all that expected Toleration to own the B. Trinity that you did disown any part of this Book But George Disowning will not now do you must Retract and Condemn it and this to do will be as bitter a Pill as it was to thee and thy Brethren to own K. W. III. Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms For I have Mr. Smith's Book The Quakers Disarmed c. and your Book Truth Defending the Quakers c. both Printed 1659. wherein he charges you with this Ishmael and you both own and defend it And first The Qua. Disarm c. Mr. Smith He that writ this Book Ishmael opens a Door to Damnable Heresies you writ this Book G. W. therefore you open a Door to Damnable Heresies G. W. I deny it I did not write all there is something scribled on it Mr. Smith True here
Altar that Ten of the Quakers Teachers have received more Gifts than Fifty of our Episcopal Divines Rectors of Parishes in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk only by strewing a few Ashes on the Floor or something Equivolent But as the Priests of Bell were too powerful for Daniel without Assistance from the Government even so are the Quakers for me I can only discover the Riddle and propose a Method to try them by but cannot bring the Matter about to bring proof thereof without Assistance from the Government But as Daniel by his threefold Medicine Pitch Fat Hair boil'd together by God's Blessing burst in sunder the Babylonians Dragon their other Idol-God even so have I been Instrument l with the help of Pen and Ink Paper well prest together and applied Warm with God's Blessing Burst in sunder the Quakers great Idol their Darkness within which they call Light So that their Infallibility is flown one way and their Sinless Perfection another their Spiritual Discerning they pretend to so as to know who are Saints and who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking a Word this way and their Miracles that way And if to bring this to pass I have sometimes taken the freedom of the Prophet Elijah 1 King 18. who speaking to the Prophets of Baal in a Holy Derision of them and their Idol Gods said Ver. 27. And it came to pass at Noon that Elijah mocked them and said Cry aloud for he is a God either he is Talking or he is Pursuing or he is in a Journey or peradventure he Sleepeth and must be Awaked c. if then I have taken such freedom with the false Quaker Prophets and their Dumb Idols which can neither See Hear nor Understand much less discern who are Saints who are Devils or who are Apostates without speak-ever a Word or if I have with the Woman of Tekoah 2 Sam. 14. by way of Metaphor brought about a Form of Speech with design to get the Quakers examined whether what have been Objected against them be true or not I hope it is Pardonable since in all Ages in the World the same Cause leads to the same thing For I do Believe and not without Ground That as there never was a People since Simon the Sorcerer pretended to such High Prophetical Attainments so likewise there never was a Sect of Falser Prophets since the time of Elijah nor that ever held such Blasphemous Principles as their Books set forth And they say they are the same still their Principles the same and not changed Be not deceived I beseech you by the Quakers who appear like the Pharisees Fair and Beautiful even like Painted Sepulchers Remember the Subtilty of the Gibionites Josh 9. how they by their Dissimulation deceived good Joshua and all the Princes of the Congregation of Israel The Quakers tell you they own the Scriptures to be given by Divine Inspiration but mean not one word of it like other Christians for so they own their own Books They tell you they own a Scripture Trinity but mean not a word of it This is a Matter Right Honourable of great weight and your Honours will find it as difficult a thing to gain the true meaning of the Quakers touching the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures and their Belief of a Scripture Trinity as Constantius the Emperour found it in the Examination of Arius the Heretick to get his true meaning touching the Faith of one Substance For the Quakers as did Arius mean as they have written but how Namely in their own Books I mean of that sort they read in their Meetings and keep close among themselves one of which I have herein Reprinted In these sorts of Books they deny the Scriptures to be the Written Word of God For it is say they a Rotten Foundation Dust Death and Serpents Meat In like manner they dissemble the Doctrine of the Trinity when they pretend to own it whilst in their Books they Damn it to the Pit and Lake All this and much more I offer to make appear who am with all Submission Right Honourable Your Honours most Humble and most Obedient Servant Fran. Bugg A PREFACE By Way of PARABLE THere was an Island very Populous and well Scituated the Air good and the People generally of a sound Constitution and governed by wholesom Laws and professed the most Reformed Religion of any Nation round about them But so it fell out that in the North Part of this Island Anno 1650. there arose a great Sea-Monster †Viz. Geo. â—â—x alias 〈◊〉 Magus of a Luciferian Pride who pretended that he and all that received embraced and had the same Spirit that moved him were equal to God That he was the Eternal Judge of the World and knew who were Saints who were Devils and who were Apostates without speaking ever a Word and he having betrothed himself to a young Harlot * i. e. The â—â—nters she conceived and brought forth her Young to whom she drew out her Breasts and gave them Suck and they multiplied exceedingly and many of them became fiery flying Serpents †Such of 〈◊〉 Proâ—â—â—ts as â—â—â—re him â—â—â—h Diâ—â—â—e Attriâ—â—â—es and spread themselves like Locusts all over the Island some entering the Churches where they stung both Men Women and Children others entered into the Market-places Barns Orchards and private Chambers like the Frogs in Egypt poysoning the Air and infecting much People Upon this the Physicians both Conformists and Nonconformists were extreamly allarmed not well knowing what to do or what Course to take to stop the Gangrene of this Pestilential Disease and to heal the People who were bitten by these Serpents but as wise Physicians they took their Christian Dispensatory * i. e. The Holy Scriptures and turn'd over to this Chapter and that Verse and made excellent Receipts which were sold at reasonable Rates at every Booksellers Shop and prepared many Antidotes against the Venom of this dangerous Infection But these wounded People being intoxicated by the Venom of these Scorpions they refused all these Christian Offers but the Physicians as in Duty bound resolved to apply their Medicines to the grieved part of this wounded and bewitched People who like the Samaritans of old said That this Monster was the Power of God †G. Fox's Journal 3d Index under the Letter M. that he wrought Miracles that he had Power to bind and loose whom he pleased and cried out who is able to make War with the Beast But notwithstanding the Power and Prevalency of this Dragon they applied as aforesaid their Medicines very warm and withal giving them some Physick to purge away the Dregs of their Distemper which as soon as they had done and before they could finish their Prayers for a Blessing upon their Endeavours these diseased People grew into a raging Fit and raved at the Physicians like mad Men saying We are perfect and free from Sin sound and have no need of any
against Geo. Whitehead's Book Judgment fixed c. we have continues she Knights of the Post amongst us c. This Witness is true II. That the honest Quakers for some such there are amongst them have suspected G. Whitehead by his Craft and Subtilty in defending or excusing what he must know to be erroneous amongst them to be a Jesuit at least like them This Witness is true III. That their Second-Day Meeting put Names to their Certificates and Passages into their Books without either Consent or Knowledge of the Parties or Authors This Witness is true IV. That the Quakers separate Meetings for Government with Doors shut are dangerous to the Peace of the Nation This Witness is true V. That the Magistrates look upon Common Bankers i. e. the Quakers Fund to be as bad as Arms and Ammunition and not said she without Reason for Money answers all things If Friends said she would put away this Dagon and take Money only for their present Necessity things would soon be better This Witness is true VI. That the Quakers Distinct Men's Meetings touching their Government within the Government and opposite to it serve to little Purpose but to shelter great Bellies and to protect the Proud and Vicious This Witness is true VII That their Teachers G. Whitehead Sam. Cater c. are the most confident Liars and wicked Forgers that ever she met with This Witness is true VIII That their Second-Day Meeting both added to and altered the Sence of her Letters to make Lies seem true of which Forgery she suspected G. Whitehead to be Guilty for continue she Sam. Cater is not Sophister great enough This Witness is true IX I had said she a sharp Conference with Sam. Cater for his Clamouring against Francis Bugg and John Ainsloe in his abuseful Narrative herein said she he Sam. Cater have used my Name in Print to justifie him in his Conscious Pamphlet with Francis Bugg I said she laid it before him smartly he is very bold continues she and the most confident Liar that ever I met with This Witness is true X. That G. W. forged a Certificate in 's Judgment Fixed This witness is true Thus much from a Prophetess of their own one in their Unity and that have wrote many Books in Defence of Quakerism one in 1699. by which Evidence we may know that the Quakers like the Cretians were always Liars evil Beasts slow Bellies but not only so but Liars Forgers and to speak Comparatively Knights of the Post Jesuits and dangerous to the Government Slanderers to their honest Friends whilst they protected the proud Blasphemers and Vicious Hypocrites and as St. Paul said the Evidence which a Prophet of the Cretians said was true who said and said truly that the Cretians were always Liars c. why Because he knew the Truth thereof and as to the Evidence which this Propheress Anne Docwra has given of the Quakers I say it is true why Because I know it to be so in the Cases now recited But further to confirm it I shall recite an Abstract of a Letter sent me dated January the 19th 1699. from Robert Sandiland who formerly was one of their Teachers But upon Conviction of his Errors and the gross Hypocrisies of the Quakers he has left them as many others have done and Retracted not only his Errors which he with my self G. Keith Tho. Crisp and divers others held but also his uncharitable Language to me and others tho' much of what his Books contained was as Anne Docwra says foisted in as his yet none of his and I am apt to think the same Person G. W. was the Forger in his Book for which horrible Practice he I fear has a large Account to give Now follows R. S.'s Letter somewhat abstracted Loving Friend Francis Bugg AS concerning my Book printed 1683. Entituled Righteous Judgment c. whatsoever it herein inconsistent or any other of my Books with the sound Christian Faith and Doctrine I do now wholly Disown and Retract together with all Harsh and Uncharitable Expressions on thee or any others named in my Book and particularly these Verses p. 97. viz. Team Rogers Pennyman Bullock and Bugg Dark Devil driven dungy God's desperately Lugg That are ty'd to the Tail of their separate Schism Papists Libertinism Heathenism Judaism Atheism I do say and affirm that tho' these Verses were put into my Book as mine yet I assure thee that they were none of my making I did not compose oneword of them but they were made by another Hand and put into my Book together with the whole Ninth Chapter which was likewise done by another Hand and put also into my said Book as mine whilst I was in the Country and after I had left it with the Second-Day-Meeting for the Press and they did with it what they pleas'd as thou knowest they use to Read and Correct all Books brought before them and G. W. I suppose may remember who it was that writ that whole Ninth Chapter * * Yea and I guess that it was G. W. himself from p. 91 to 100. Blessed be God that their gross Errors in the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion are now sufficiently Detected and there is nothing remains now for them to do but either openly and freely to Retract and Condemn them or else to be exposed and liable to all the ill Effects and Consequences which must unavoidably attend their obstinate persisting in their Errors Robert Sandilands But to shew the horrid Cheats wicked Forgeries and deep Hypocrisies of this their Second-Day Meeting will exceed the bounds of a Preface and therefore for a compleat System of this their black Art in their dark Divinity I refer my Reader to my Pilg. Prog. c. 2d Edit p. 149 to p. 170. And that I may not leave a Stone unturned that may discover the pious Frauds of this Painted Harlot I shall recite a brief Abstract of W. Mucklow's Book Entituled The Spirit of the Hat c. he being a Man of Note amongst them and may be called in St. Paul's Sence a Prophet of their own and whose Evidence in this Case is true yea I know it to be so For the Quakers were always Liars evil Beasts Slow-Bellies whilst yet they pretend to Infallibility and also that their Books are given forth from the Immediate Eternal Spirit of God 1. That the Foxonian Unity is to yeild Obedience to the Body tho' no Conviction inwardly of the Truth of the thing commanded saying who is able to make War with us These are the high swelling Words of proud Babel This Witness is true 2. That G. Fox c. was of an Antichristian Spirit This Witness is true 3. That their Ministers in their Meetings for Government conjoin'd together to subvert our Laws and Liberty This Witness is true 4. That G. Fox was lifted up with Luciferian Pride saying he had Power to bind and loose whom he please This Witness is true 5. That Sol. Eccles
aforesaid i. e. A Brief Discovery c. p. 6. the Quakers Painter G. Whitehead says in his Truth and Innocency c. p. 9. We says George deny the Words as there printed tho' not until near 40 Years after printed therefore the Words He that hath should be left out Now George may not the London Jews by the same Art and with as much Truth and Innocency defend their deceased Brethren the Jews in their Blasphemy against Jesus Christ in the Days of his Flesh who said John 8.48 Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil But then by G. W.'s Rule of Arguing the London Jews may now say The Words and hast a Devil should be left out they only meant that he was the compassionate Samaritan mentioned Luke 10.33 Would this do George No sure theirs was plain Blasphemy and Fox's is as plain Blasphemy who said he was equal to God as aforesaid Thus Reader have I shewed thee the Quakers way of answering Books viz. First by Transposing Words by which if allowed I have proved that James slew Herod Secondly That by their Adding Words they likewise may excuse any Blasphemy as Whitehead here doth his Brother Burroughs who said first that the Quakers Sufferings are greater than Christ's and all his Apostles and Martyrs under the Heathen Emperors and Bloody Massacres to this Day Secondly That the Sufferings of the Quakers are more unjust than all the forementioned Thirdly That what was done to Christ his Apostles and Martyrs was chiefly done by a Law Fourthly and in great part by the Due Execution of a Law But says Whitehead It should rather have been said by a Regular or Judicial Procedure and truly this is so far from clearing Edw. Burroughs and his Brethren for they are all of one Mind being lead into these Blasphemies by their Darkness within which they call Light that it rather confirms what he Blasphemously said than otherwise And no great Marvel for the Quakers in Print deny that Person which suffered upon the Cross to be properly the Son of God * See W. Penn's Serious Apol. p. 146. For a Confutation of Penn's Doctrine read John 14.28 yea the whole Chapter and the Jews being of the same Faith they said as in John 19.7 We have a Law and by our Law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God Thus do both Jews and Quakers agree in their Fundamentals the Quakers deny him properly to be the Son of God and the Jews put him to Death because he said he was the Son of God and both Jews and Quakers herein resist the Testimony of God himself the Glorious Angels the Holy Apostles and Army of Martyrs yea all Christian Churches to this Day and because my self and others urge that they may be examined touching these their Blasphemous Books therefore they cry out Persecution Persecution Fr. Bugg would raise the Monster of Persecution with this they make a Noise and raise a Dust but fear no such thing they only fear being examined about their Blasphemous Books and obliged by Authority to Retract them and then down goes their beloved Darling Infallibility And what remains now but to follow the Pious Example of good King †Against the Blasphemy of Senacherib King of Syria Hezekiah 2 Kin. 19.14 And Hezekiah received the Letter of the Hand of the Messengers and read it and Hezekiah went into the House of the Lord and spread it before the Lord and prayed c. And therefore that God may give a Blessing to our Labour and for his Name Sake Rebuke this Spirit of Blasphemy which have entered this our Island and if it be his Holy Will to convince the Gainsayers of his Sacred Word and Ordinances For as St. Paul Teacheth 1 Cor. 9.10 He that ploweth plows in Hope and he that thresheth in Hope shall be partaker of his Hope especially if he faint not and though to Plow and Thresh and Beat Clods be hard Work yet 't is a necessary Work to Prepare the Field For the Seedsmen who are ordained thereunto not that the Plowmen or the Sowers have wherewith to Glory for Paul may plant and Apolo water but it is God alone that giveth the increase And to him not unto us belong the Glory And tho' it has been my work to Plow and Break the Clods which is hard Labour and to thresh the Mountains that the Fields may be prepared and fitted for the Master's use yet I can say according to the discretion God has given me I have not desired to break the Bruised Reed nor to quench the Smoaking Flax by being harsh to the weak or severe to the tender but have cut down the Lofty Weeds and hewed down the Tall Ceders who stood in opposition to the way and work of God which he is bringing to pass in the Earth And therefore I shall conclude in the Prayers of our Church beseeching God of his Great Mercy to give his Blessing to my weak Endeavours And say We Sinners do beseech to thee to hear us O Lord and that it may please thee to Rule and Govern thy Holy Church Universal in the Right Way That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true Worshiping of thee in Righteousness and Holiness of Life thy Servant William our most Gracious King and Go vernuor That it may please thee to Rule his Heart in thy Faith Fear and Love and that he may evermore have Affiance in thee and ever seek thy Honour and Glory That it may please thee to be his Defender and Keeper giving him the Victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to Illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of thy Church with true Knowledge and Understanding of thy Word and that by their Preaching and Living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with Grace Wisdom and Understanding That it may please thee to Bless and Keep the Magistrates giving them Grace to execute Justice and to maintain Truth That it may please thee to give to all thy People Increase of Grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure Affection and to bring forth the Fruits of the Spirit That it may please thee to bring into the way of Truth all such as have Erred and are Deceived That it may please thee to Strengthen such as do stand and to Comfort and Help the weak Hearted and Raise up them that Fall and finally to beat down Satan under our Feet That it may please thee to Defend and Provide for the Fatherless Children and Widows and all that be Desolate and oppressed That it may please thee to forgive our Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers and to turn their Hearts That it may please thee to give us and all Men true Repentance to forgive us all our Sins Negligences and Ignorances and to endue us with the Grace of thy
Holy Spirit to amend our Lives according to thy Holy Word Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without End Amen ERRATA PArt 1. Page 1. line 13. for of God read for God p. 8. l. 1. f. derided r. divided p. 21. l. 14. r. doth blind p. 32. l. 12. f. 45. r. 35. p. II. p. 12. l. 16. f. third r. second part p. III. p. 13. l. 32. f. unwilling r. willing p. 26. l. 12. on this del p. 15. l. 7. f. K. C. II. r. K. C. I. in Cutting off his Head for that say they was a remarkable Record of the Righteous Judgment of God * See their Book West Answering to North p. 97. George Whitehead TURN'D TOPSIE-TURVY PART I. I Find in a Book wrote by W. Penn intituled A Key c. and presented to the Parliament 1699. to obviate the Objections against the Quakers in several Books then presented to both Houses of Parliament by the Norfolk Clergy this Passage to the Reader in his Epistle i. e. It is very Unfair as well as Indiscreet in any to Oppose and Calumniate what they do not Understand It has been says he our Unhappiness far more than all our Adversaries have been able to say against us that hitherto we remain Unknown by those who yet stick not to condemn us c. This indeed if true might Apologize for them but it is so far from that that were their Principles and the Danger of them fully known it would operate more against them that all their Adversaries as they account them have yet said against them for want of knowing them so fully as by their Fruits in time possibly may be manifest But whose Fault is it that they are no better known Is it not their own By their two-fac'd Practice and double Meanings in all they say or write their Books being of two sorts contrary each to other suitable to their Titles and Directions one sort to the World's People whether to the Parliament Bishops Judges Justices Priests and Professors in many of which they 'll pretend to own the Scriptures yea and a Scripture-Trinity too tolerably well but their other sort of Books to their Disciples directed with these and the like Titles viz. This is only to go amongst Friends Again This is only to go among Friends and not otherwise Again Written only for Friends that can read it In which they tell you the Scriptures are Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware a Rotten Foundation a Dead Letter the Husk c. and that such as tell People that the Scriptures are the written Word of God are no Ministers of Christ that the Scriptures are not a Means to bring People to the Knowledge of God and to work Faith in them and that the Trinity of Persons is for the Lake and the Pit But notwithstanding all this and ten times more that I could recite First Of their acknowledging to the World's People as above the Excellency of the Holy Scripture and that it 's of Divine Authority and the best Book extant in the World in direct Opposition to their Doctrine they teach to their poor deluded and willingly ignorant Disciples yet they frequently call their own Books The Word of God as in many Instances I could shew Nay I have one Book of theirs by me wrote by Christopher Tayler one of their ancient and approved Teachers bearing this Title Certain Papers which is the Word of the Lord and in p. 2 3 16. of that Book it 's said To you all this is the Eternal Word of God Nay further Geo. Whitehead preferrs them to be of greater Authority than the Bible Thus do they to their Disciples contemn villifie and set at nought the Sacred Word of God whilst they extol their own Pamphlets as The Word of the Lord yea The Eternal Word of God and as such of greater Authority than the Holy Scriptures How then is it possible for such as are not Conversant with their Books to know them Indeed to understand Quakerism rightly is the Business of an Age I have had more than Forty Years Experience of them and yet I do not know the Depth of their Deceit and Hypocrisie I mean of their Leaders for amongst their Hearers I do believe there are many honest tho' miserably deluded amongst them I my self in my young Years was carry'd away with their Dissimulation and a great Zeal I had tho' I must confess it was without true Scripture Knowledge But some Years before I left them I saw them both to walk and act contrary to their Pretensions a large Account thereof I have given in my Pilgrim's Progress insomuch that I wrote four Books against their Hypocrisies whilst with them in hopes of a Reformation amongst them but still the more I came to examine into their Principles and to observe their Practices the more cause I found to leave them and to this Day I have kept on Ripping and Stripping this well-favoured Harlot who calls her self the only true Church of Christ and that out of her there is no Salvation as in Josiah Coole's Book The Whore unvailed c. p. 12 16 18 28 31 41 50. where also she asserts their Infallibility and that there 's no Tares in their Church that their Light is Judge of all Controversies all Power in Heaven and Earth being committed to it and Miracles thereby wrought And that she agree with the Papists that our Bible is a brazen-fac'd Book an unjust corrupt and perverse Bible else she would not have printed it after them without a Word of Reproof and the more I came to study this Point the more cause I found to discover and lay bare her Nakedness to the view of the Nations and my Labour has not been in vain but have prospered notwithstanding G. W.'s Inchanting Demureness and hardy Boldness to defend himself and Brethren from my several and repeated Charges of divers Kinds tho' like the Magicians of old Exod. 8.7 he has done much Hurt But this Book of his I am now Reprinting will be like ver 18. I know and am perswaded there is a Finger of God's Divine Providence that has attended those who have denied themselves and have faithfully managed this Controversie of God's Glory and the Good of Souls and are content to become as the Off-scouring of all things for his Name sake But why do they still complain they are not known I do think if they look into my Books they may see themselves as in a Glass and so may others especially in New Rome Unmask'd c. New Rome Arraign'd c. The Picture of Quakerism drawn to the Life c. my Pilgrim's Progress c. and Quakerism Exposed I say these especially tho' I think there 's none that I have writ but give some Discovery mote or less but if all these be wanting read The Snake in the Grass and the Defence
Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. OBserve Reader That tho' the Quakers late Books seem to be more Orthodox than their Ancient Books said to be given forth tho' most Blasphemously from the Spirit of the Lord yet they are still the same in Principle tho' they otherwise word the Matter for Proof of this see their Book Primitive Christianity Revived c. by Jos Wyeth Printed 1698 viz. Our Principles says he are now no other than what they were when we were first a People c. Next see G. Whitehead's Counterfeit Convert c. p. 72. I may says he see Cause otherwise to word the Matter and yet our Intentions be the same c. So that it is morally impossible to understand the Quakers by their Words whilst they say and write one thing and mean another ARIUS like Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine and took his Sword and drew it out of the Sheath thereof and slew him and cut off his Head therewith And when the Philistines saw their Champion was dead they fled And the Men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted and pursued the Philistines c. 1 Sam. 17.51 52. A bundle of papers P. 1. 4 to being brought unto our hands by one of the chief Priests of Norwich which he hath rak't up in his Imaginations against the harmless people called Quakers and being full of lyes and deceit we are moved of the Lord for the truthes sake to cleare the truth from his lyes and deceit and false accusations and to lay him and his two propositions as he calls them open unto the simple minded who have been bewitched and deceived by such deceivers and blind guides as he is and put forth by one Sampson Townsend who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel and a Pastor of Saint Austins and Savours Parish in Norwich Priest THE Title of thy confused papers is †The Title of Mr. Townsend's Book The Scripture proved to be the word of God as also the only foundation of faith and rule of our obedience or a clear conviction of the errors of the quakers who blasphemously affirm that the Scriptures are not the word of God nor the foundation of Faith nor yet the only rule of our obedience to which lyes and falshoods we are moved to answer Answer The Quakers Answer THE Scriptures proved to be the word of God is false and one of the blind deceitful imaginations which thou and thy generation hath deceived people with telling them that that is the word which saith that God is the word who made himself manifest in the days of old before the Letter was which word was Moses rule who wrote forth Scripture and not the Letter but the word which word by which Moses was guided to speak forth Scripture and this is that word the Prophets prophesied of which dwelt amongst us P. 2. 4 to which was before the world was and seen before the Letter was written now with the same life and power by which the Scripture was spoken do we challenge thee to prove such a Scripture as saith that it is the word of God and thou that would make people believe that the Letter is the foundation would make void the foundation upon which the Prophets and Apostles were builded which spoke forth the Letter and thou that would build upon the Letter hateth the Light and the Foundation which is Christ from which the Letter was spoken and thy foundation and thy rule and obedience is tryed with it and by it thou art judged now that which is convicted by thy airy spirit is like unto thy self and is to be scorched up as the bryars but the children of light who are of God and in the truth cannot be convicted by such as thou art who from the light of God in thy Conscience is departed and with it art to be condemned so with the word and the life by which the Letter was declared thou art seen and comprehended to be an enemy unto that from which the Scripture was declared and here again I challenge thee to be a perverter of it notwithstanding all thy profession from it and whereas thou hast directed this confused paper unto us of whom thou hast described the names as followeth to Christopher Atkinson James Lancaster George Whitehead and Thomas Symonds now in Norwich Goale for their Errors and Miscarriages Priest Thou sayest if ever the truth of God were turned into a lye it is by us thou sayest that deny the Scriptures to be the truth of God and pretend immediate Revelations to be our rule for our actions and canst not produce any proof but the words of a dead Man like thy self which thou calls Mr. Burroughs to which we answer Answ By thee Priest Townsend is the truth of God turn'd into a lye and thou art taken with one in thy mouth who saith that we before mentioned are in the Goal of Norwich for errors and miscarriages here thou slanderer we challenge thee to prove what errors or miscarriages can be laid to our charge what is thy lyes and slanders that which you would make the people believe and are we counted deceivers for declaring the Truth and testifying against thee and thy generations as it is counted an error in us to unvail thy deceits and lay thee open to all men here in the presence of the Lord do we declare against thee for errors and miscarriages do we deny and this thy confused stuff wherein first thou sayest that we deny the Scripture to be the truth of God which is a lye as thy own words makes it manifest who in the same page of thy shameless discourse which now is laid open to the understanding of the Simple Priest And again thou sayest that we acknowledge the Scripture to be the truth and yet deny them to be the word of God here let all that sees thy confused paper judge thee who art in Babel where the confusion is and a minister of it Answ The Scripture we own as it was spoken forth by them that lived in the word and receive it as a Declaration of God and of what he spoke unto them of former ages Luke i.i. P. 3. 4 to but thy words and imaginations we do deny who would call that the word which saith God is the word and that the light which is not the light but saith Christ is the light which is thy condemnation that hates it in particular and the worlds condemnation that hates it in general as is made manifest who hates revelations and us who witness it shutting thy self forth from the Scriptures and from them that gave them forth whereas Christ saith no man knows the Father but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him as thou may read Mat. ii 27. here thou hast plainly shewn thy self to be both without the knowledge of the Father and the Son who art in thy mediate natural knowledge which from the light
which comes from Christ is erred and with it to be condemned thou dreamer what hast thou to do to profess thy self a Minister of the Gospel who art but yet in thy mediate natural conceivings when the natural man knows not the things of God for they are Spiritually discerned so we from God is unto thee thou deceiver who would make people believe that that which is natural and carnal is the foundation of Faith and obedience and so would bewitch thy people with thy lyes to draw them from the anointing within to obscure something without them as they did that would have drawn away the Galations from the Spirit as thou mayest read Gal. 3. Priest And whereas thou sayest in the third Page that thou wilt reason with us and tells us that we did acknowledge the Scripture to be truth which in the Page before thou did deny and thus is making thy folly manifest who saith that it is our judgment that we are perfect and free from Sin which thou never heard us affirm but these thy lyes will clearly be made manifest by the Scriptures which thou calls thy foundation of faith and only rule of obedience by which thou shalt be judged for Christ saith unto them whom he taught be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect Mat. 5.28 Answ But thou and thy generation hates this and says that there is no perfection to be attained here Oh thou blind guide did Christ ever command any thing that might not be accomplished or did he speak of being perfect not till after death here thou dost deny the very end for which Christ came who came to take away Sin and in him is no Sin Mat. i. 21. i. John 3.3 4 5 6. and i. John 5.18 here thou hast plainly made it manifest that thou art without Christ and his knowledge and in Antichrist now what the Scriptures speaks in our measure do we witness concerning these things and thee we do deny and all thy generation thou enemy of God who doth pervert the Scriptures and wrest them to thy destruction and here with the light that never changed art thou to be condemned from God and all the Children of God Priest Another of thy lyes is made evident thou slanderer who art not ashamed impudently to affirm that we deny the power of the Magistrates in the matters of God and that we speak not evil only of Governors but of Government and condemn the Ministers of the Church of England and despise them as false teachers P. 4. to and say they know nothing of the true light and say we condemn them for preaching for hire and say we deny Ministers should take any wages for their works Answ The powers that are of God ordained we own in our souls and for Conscience sake are subject to them and such as rule well in the things of God without respect of persons which respects of persons is contrary to Scripture such we say are worthy of double honour and such our Souls are subject to for such executed the Law upon transgressors and encourage them that do well and their honour lyes not in a hat or bending of the knee which is nothing but filthiness which thou and thy generation upholds but the honour and subjection to him that ruleth well is in our souls as it is written Rom. 13.1 and here thy lyes and thy slanders we do deny and charge it upon thee from the Lord to prove where ever we were not subject unto the power of Magistrates as it was of God or where ever we spoke evil of Governors or of Government thus art thou found with lyes in thy right hand thou enemy of God and where thou sayest we condemn the Ministers of the Church of England the Ministers of Christ we own but such as thou art we deny who seek for your gain from your quarter and such as call Steeple house Church and letter word and foundation and light and rule when Christ saith he is the way and he is the light and he is the foundation and he is the word which was before the Letter was i. John i. 9. and John 3. and Rev. i9 i. Cor. 3. i2 and here again we do deny all such as say that sprinkling of Infants is the Baptism and the seal of the Covenant as thou Sampson Townsend did affirm and take i2 pence for sprinkling of a poor prisoners child here in this prison of Norwich the sixteenth day of the eleventh Month and Scripture saith that the Baptisme is with one Spirit into one body and the Baptisme is but one and the Church but one which is in God as thou may read Ephes 4 5 6. and i. Thes i. and here thou and thy Church and thy Baptisme is shut out of Scripture and with it judged and with the light condemned to be upheld by such sottish blind guides as thou art Priest And again thou sayest that the Ministers of England speaks nothing but what is according to the Law and the Testimony of God in his word which is the rule to try all teachers by and thou sayest that this our Judgment is contrary to Tit. 2.15 Answ Whosoever read that Scripture will condemn thy blindness in these things who hast pretended thy self a teacher of others Mark Reader this their Ancient Testimony and they are the same still and yet shut up in perpetual darkness thou blind sot where is it said in all the Scriptures that the Letter is the rule to try all teachers by or where doth it ever say that the Saints did ever try the Spirits by the Letter or how canst thou prove that ever it was called by the Saints the only rule of obedience or a written word of God with these thy lyes thou and thy generation hath deceived the blind and simple taking their money for that which is no bread P. 5. 4 to making them believe lyes instead of truth Oh ye enemies of God how long will ye despise the truth if Scripture had not been these your filthy lyes would have gone forth as truth to those that are in darkness but praised be the Lord who hath discovered your filthiness and laid you open with his light from which the Scripture was spoken by which light we read you in the Scriptures to be among the false Prophets in their steps and in the wayes of the Pharises and now finding you in the latter times your condemnation is justly related in the Scriptures who go in the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam as thou may read Iude 4.10 11. and 2 Tim. 3.2 3 4 5 6. Priest And again thou sayest that Christ and his Apostles gave strong reasons for their maintenance and to prove it thou brings those Scriptures Mat. 10.10 Luke 10.7 Answ Let all that read these Scriptures judge thee by me to be a lyar who formerly hast testified that the Scripture was the word of God and thy rule and foundation
forth from the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost and from the Mouth of the Lord how then do you value the Scriptures above any Books in the World But as Solomon said Prov. 26.3 A Whip for the Horse a Bridle for the Ass and a Rod for the Fool 's Back And so you must give me Leave to whip this J. Feild for his deep Hypocrisie and Deceit and I wish it may do him Good what to pretend that the Quakers value the Bible above all Books then consequently above their own This is such a Lie that it stabs it self when you exalt and value your own as of greater Authority and as such are commanded by your Teachers to read them in your Meetings whilst you never read nor by your Teachers exhorted to read one Chapter of the Old or New Testament in your Religious Meetings if such I may call them since you were a People neither is it agreeable to your Ancient Testimony Nay farther I am fully perswaded That should the Government think fit for a Proof of your Sincerity herein to enjoin you to read a Chapter of the Bible at the beginning of your Meetings I mean by such of your Teachers as can read a Chapter for many of them cannot you would be so far from submitting to Authority that you 'd first go to Jayl and then call it Persecution and Record it as such to Posterity But would it therefore ever the more be so I trew not since it was the Practice of the Jewish as well as the Christian Churches in all Ages of the World c. Now in Answer to this long Paragraph John Feild in his Defence c. p. 7. This Fran. Bugg saith is false with a witness and so you must give me Leave to whip John Feild for his deep Hypocrisie and Deceit what to pretend that the Quakers value the Bible above all Books then consequently above their own this is such a Lie that it stabs it self c. This Reader is all he recites neither does he go about to Refute my Reasons for what I said nay nor so much as mention them How then can this be an Answer Only he re-asserts in the same Page saying I do affirm that the Quakers always had and still have a high Esteem and true Value for the Holy Scriptures c. But this is his own bare Ipse Dixit without any Refutation of or once reciting my Arguments for what I said and therefore this Tool I am loth to say Fool must yet be more scourged for his deep Deceit and Hypocrisie And therefore Christian Reader I beg of you to dwell a little here and to consider of the Quakers way of answering Books you see my Charge and how I proved it both from Matter of Fact and Demonstration first They teach the Scriptures are Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware c. not a Word of it Deny'd or Refuted Again That Preaching out of them is Conjuration not at all by him deny'd Again And that by G. Whitehead's Doctrine That their Sayings from their Spirit of Truth is of greater Authority than the Bible not a Syllable of it Deny'd or Refuted Again You hear they command their Disciples to Read their Own Epistles in their Meetings for Divine Worship not a Word of it deny'd or justified Again That they never since they were first a People did so much as read any one Chapter in the Bible in their Religious Meetings which if they had such an high Esteem and true Value for the Scriptures even above theit own Books and Epistles they surely would or else they are very Hypocrites indeed if they will not read and recommend to be read in their Meetings to their People that which is best most esteem'd and of highest Value yet you see he cannot say that they do or ever did read a Chapter in such their Meetings Now whether this Tool Feild does not deserve to be severely lash'd as well as his Tutor Geo. Whitehead in this black Art let the Reader judge Thus much then as a Proof First Of their not citing the Substance of their Opponent's Position but by picking Sentences and breaking them in pieces thereby marring the Sense Secondly That the Quakers are guilty of the several things therein charged else J. Field who has a Fund to support him in his Charge of Printing would not so silently pass by all those several Charges without a Vindication of his dear Friends and this being a Figure of all their Answers I shall pass by many things of the like Nature and apply my self next to their Sufferings That being the best Flower in their Garden and in which they most of all glory much Good may it do them since they bring most of it upon themselves by their obstinately adhering to their blind Guides and the Dictates of their Erroneous Consciences which has befaln them thorough their Contempt and Neglect of adhering to the Rule of the Sacred Word of God I mean the Writings of the Holy Prophets and Apostles and the Practice of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs in all Ages Again A Defence c. p. 21. A Brief Abstract of some Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers given to Confront Francis Bugg 's Diminutive Account c. Reply I find of late some Alteration in the Quakers Arrogant Stile touching themselves it formerly was generally thus The People of God called Quakers or Some Principles of the Elect People of God call'd Quakers or from the People of the Lord call'd Quakers but now of late they are come a Step lower viz. The People commonly call'd Quakers or The People call'd Quakers I hope the Sermon I prepared for the Quakers which I took out of their Writings with no little Study and Pains have done them some Good see Pilg. Prog. p. 108 to 127. It was a long Sermon I confess but in regard it turn to a good Account I think not my labour vain But why is my Account of their Sufferings diminutive Were they not Sufferings Yea else they would not have recorded them were they then not recoraed Yea I took them out of their Chronicle and told them both Book and Page Well what then Oh! but they were of the least Size No matter for that if Sufferings then Meritorious else why were they so carefully Collected and put in Order even to a Row of Pins a Child's Biggen a Child's Double Clout a Woman's Cross-cloth a Night-cap a Dung-Fork and the like fit to be put into their Martyrology But to deal plainly I question the truth of them and much more the truth of this Abstract For to me they appear like Fox's Miracles in his Journal Published Thirty or Forty Years after they are said to be wrought And no Body can tell me where not when nor the Persons Names Cured or any Witnesses to attest them Even so are the Sufferings of this Abstract Nor is their one Justices Warrant cited nor any formal Trial of any one of these Sufferers