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A65888	A sober expostulation with some of the clergy against their pretended convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross abuse of the people called Quakers, in his books and pamphlets, viz., his New Rome arrainged, History of Quakerism, Second summons, Picture of Quakerism, and other pamphlets which may serve to invalidate the authority of the snake in the grass, as it refers to his books.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1959; ESTC R20305	65,396	156

Covetous Persecuting Priests who make a Trade of Preaching and of the Scriptures and such whom the Prophet Isaiah called greedy dumb Dogs Isa. 56. 10 11. How will F. B. prove such Christ's Ministers or Gospel Ministers We have but his bare say-so for it but want proof for it wherein he does but meerly impose upon us to Vilifie us and Ingratiate himself into Favour with that sort of the Clergy who are most Guilty of the Sin of Covetousness and Persecution The Mocker again repeats his false and empty Boast by way of Question p. 12. viz. Why then will you not bring forth Sheba the Son of Bichri the Man of Belial G. W Is there not a wise Man amongst you His Cruel Mocking and Calumny in this unjust Comparison is denied no doubt his Malice is cruel and deadly enough to bring G. W. to Sheba's End if he had Power or could with any Colour or Pretence bring him under Sheba's Crime of Treason or lifting up his Hand against the King 2 Sam. 20. 21 22. For doth not this Mocker's Language Comparison and Treatment of this kind bespeak his deadly Malice and Design He goes on with his empty boasting viz. He tells you That I wrong the Quakers in Charge Citation and Observation ☞ Bring him forth according to his Proposal and you will see it proved that I have not As it was G. W's part to make good his Proposal or Charge against F. B. so he hath greatly endeavoured a Meeting with F. B. in London before Witnesses for the same purpose but evaded by F. B. on other Terms than were in the said Proposal as is before related Now he has no cause to cry Bring him forth according to his Proposal For that is abundantly proved in the Answers before-mentioned Whereas F. B. further boasts G. W. hath wrote to divers Clergy-men to prevail with me to desist they give me his Letters and wish me good Success p. 12. The Clergy-men which G. W. wrote to were William Smithies of Cripplegate London and Isaac Archer of Milden-hall in Suffolk which was to shew them some of his foul Abuses and Calumnies to try them as having a particular Interest in him if they would stop him Why did he not Print G. W's Letters to them and to himself too also But thereby his Abuses and sorry evasive Shifting would have been the more apparent Wherefore seeing he boasts of their wishing him good Success these Two Questions are put to you the said William Smithies and Isaac Archer viz. Q. 1. Do you really in your Consciences Approve of Francis Bugg's writing Books and Pamphlets against the People called Quakers as he hath done Q. 2. Do you really Approve of his Books and Pamphlets writ by him against the said People as namely of these in particular under these Titles viz. 1. The Quakers Detected Printed 1686. 2. New Rome Vnmask'd 1692. 3. New Rome Arraigned which hath in it his Pretended Trial and Pillory Printed in 1693. 4. New Rome Arraigned Second Impression without the Pillory 1694. 5. His Impeachment pretended in Behalf of the Commons of England 1695. 6. A Second Summons 7. His Sheet stiled Something in Answer to the Allegations of the Quakers in their Printed Case presented to the House of Commons December 1695. But the Second Edition whereof stiled The Converted Quaker's Answer to the Allegations of his Old Brethren the Quakers c. CHAP. VIII An Appendix to the foregoing Controversies in Certain Positions of the Sincere Belief and Christian Doctrine of the People of God called Quakers in Opposition to the Misrepresentations and Calumnies of F. Bugg and other Apostates in his pretended History of the Quakers and other his and their Books and Pamphlets 1. WE the said People are bound in Conscience and Duty by the Holy Spirit and Light of Christ Jesus only and humbly to Adore and Worship the only True and Living God Creator of Heaven and Earth the Sea and all Creatures and not to Adore or Worship any Mortal Man or Creature or any other God whatsoever 2. To Believe and Confess the Holy Divine Three or Scripture Trinity that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word or Son and Holy Spirit and that these Three are Essentially One in the Divine Being and Substance One God Blessed for Ever 3. We are livingly taught and led by the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus the Living Word in our Hearts and that according to Holy Scripture to Believe Own and Confess the Incarnation of Jesus Christ that is his Real Coming in the Flesh without us even the same Jesus of Nazareth that was Conceived in the Virgin Mary by the Power of the Holy Ghost overshadowing her and Born of her in Bethlehem of Judea Mat. 2. 1. and that he was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh without the Gates of Jerusalem and we highly do Value and Esteem his Sufferings Death Precious Blood and whole Sacrifice for Sinners together with his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven and Glory and that he only was and is the Promised Messias the Very Christ the Only Begotten Son of the Living God And as for his Divinity That he is the True Light Life Power and Wisdom of God and none other according to plain Scripture Testimony 4. The Divinity and Humanity i. e. Manhood of Christ Jesus that as he is True God and as he is most Glorious Man our Mediator and Advocate we livingly Believe and have often sincerely Confessed in our Publick Testimonies and Writings 5. That as sincere and fervent Prayers to God in the Name and Spirit of Christ Jesus is the Duty of all True Believers and Christians professing him for whatsoever they stand in need of especially with respect to the Peace and Happiness of their Immortal Souls so all who are truly humbled under a Sence of their Sins in order to true Repentance and Conversion ought to crave Forgiveness in the Name and for the Sake of Christ Jesus which hath been our Practice both Publick and Private and God in Mercy hath accordingly answered us who by his Grace in our Hearts hath led many both to confess and forsake Sin that they might find Mercy in Christ Jesus 6. Though we are bound in Conscience truly to Esteem and Magnifie the Divine Light the Ingrafted Word the Spirit and Power of Christ in us as sufficient and able actually to save and deliver the Soul from Sin Death and Condemnation and thereby we Confess the Man Christ Jesus with respect to his entire Existence or Being as without us as well as we do own him Spiritually within us knowing that this Light Life and Spirit of Christ Jesus Testifie of him and certainly Guides the truly Obedient and Sincere Believers in his Name and Power Inwardly Livingly and Experimentally to partake of the Real Benefits Fruits and Blessed Ends of his outward Suffering Sacrifice and Death for Mankind to wit their Repentance Conversion from Sin Effectual Reconciliation unto God Eternal

in our Adversary to persist in this Notorious Lye and Forgery and so much add and heap one Forgery and Abuse upon another What say you his Ministers to these things Will it be for your Credit to Encourage him in his Work of Envy and Falshood against us 6. Our Adversary in his Introduction p. 6. After he has Cited above a Page which he knew in his Conscience are Allegorical Expressions intending the Spiritual Weapons and Warfare and the Saints Testimony and victory according to Ephe 6. 12 17. He puts his own Perverse and False Notes thereupon in the Margin As where Ameleck the Egyptians and Philistines are Threatned so as to be cut off He makes this Note upon it in the Margin viz. Which by Interpretation was all that Professed Jesus of Nazareth and that called the Scriptures the Word of God Whereby he endeavours to render the Quakers to be for cutting off and destroying all that profess Jesus of Nazareth c. Oh horrible Did ever more deadly Malice bloody Envy and Falshood appear in any Agent of Satan And how evidently against his own Conscience too who knew the People called Quakers professed no other Sword nor Weapons for them to make use of but such as are Spiritual and to be actually concerned in no other Fighting but in the Lamb's War What Fra. Howgill writes of bathing their Sword in the Blood of Ameleck and the Egyptians c. are Allegorical Expressions and not Literally to be understood but of the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God And that War of the Lord's Camp was Spiritual because of his Power and Presence and Angel of his Covenant among them And the Lord of Hosts is with us saith he By these and divers other passages 't is evident he meant no other but a Spiritual War with Spiritual Weapons like as the Prophets meant Isa. 41. 14 15 16. Hos. 6. 5. 7. Also on the words Let not your Eye pity nor your Hand spare he has this Note viz. Why then should you be pitied or spared Thus injuriously restraining the words to a Literal Sense which were Allegorical on purpose to render us most obnoxious and for no pity to be shewn us but as if he would have us all destroyed at once Oh most cruel and deadly Malice 8. On the following words But wound the Lofty and tread under foot the Honourable of the Earth give unto the great Whore double c. he thus Notes viz. Meaning both Gentry and Clergy and Church of England Oh horrid and implacable Malice Revenge and Falshood They did not mean Literally as of an outward wounding or treading under Feet nor of any truly Honourable Gentry or others but in Testimony against such great Persecutors as had deeply Drunk of the great Whore's Cup who has made her self Drunk with the Blood of Saints Therefore 't is false to say ' t was meant of Gentry c. or without Limitation Again our Adversary in p. 7. repeats his so often refuted Forgery and Lie viz. That our Friend 's said Epistle Compared the North of England to the Town of Bethlehem and G. Fox to the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness c. which Falshood has been refuted over and over tho' here he varies in 's Charge from the terms of his first Charge which was that the Quakers PVT the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem Now 't is COMPARED the North of England c. In the first it was viz. They call G. F. the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness now 't is they compared him to the Branch c. Thus mutable he is in his Accusations and Calumnies yet grosly false in both Is this your Defender of Eternal Truths And are these his Pious Endeavours for which you his Approvers have so highly Congratulated him 10. Farther to aggravate Matters against us our Adversary adds p. 7. viz. Prophecies and Curses which bear the Figure of your Private Sermons by which they snared and frighted me and many more from the Publick and now they have obtained their End and made Rents and Division in Church and State c. 1. Tho' here he renders himself but a dark poor frightful Creature as if in his first leaving the Publick or Parish Priests he did it only upon a Fright and as a Non Compos Mentis and not from a Principle of Conscience or Conviction yet herein he does but greatly wrong his Conscience and deny the real Truth by a very slim and false Cover and that in manifest Contradiction to his Confessions and Testimonies extant in Print both before and since his Revolt to the Publick as he calls it as has been often shewn him and made evident to the World in our Answers to his Envious and Bitter Invectives as where he has solemnly confessed To the Truth of the Principle Foundation Doctrine Ministry Faith Love Unity Spiritual Testimony of the People called Quakers as in the beginning and as being the Church whereof Christ Jesus was the Head and Law-giver c. as he confesseth far more largely in his Book Entituled De Christiana Libertate 2d Part Chap. 1. p. 24 25 26 27 c. Printed 1682 before his return back to the Publick Surely he was not frighted into such Solemn Confessions nor did he make them in a fright he was more deliberate therein and which said Confessions in behalf of the People called Quakers and their Christian Religion are largely seconded and confirmed by him the said F. Bugg himself even in his Pamphlet stiled The Quakers detected Printed 1686. about Two Years after he left us and turned to the Publick as he calls it wherein he also largely and solemnly confesseth To the Truth of the said Peoples Principle as in the beginning and of their Doctrine and Ministry as a Dispensation of God's Love their Christian Love and Society for many Years and that God blessed their Meetings with the Comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence c. as may be seen more at large in the whole third page of his said Pamphlet Quakers Detected Now I would Query 1. Whether F. Bugg made all these solemn Confessions in a fright O● was he scared or frighted by any Man or Men or Prophecies or Sermons of ours thereunto 2. Or was he not rather Consciencious in those Confessions 3. Was he not rather frighted back to the Priests by Persecution and so made his flight in the Winter for Refuge and shelter among them whom he had testified against 4. May he not then be ashamed of such a deceitful Excuse and false Cover as that of his being scared and frighted from the Publick by Quakers Prophecies or Sermons 2. To the latter part of his Charge I deny it that the Quakers have made Divisions not only in Church but in State Q. 1. In what Church have they made Division If he says the Church of England then he renders it a divided Church which I suppose you its Ministers