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A30029	A modest defence of my book entituled, Quakerism expos'd as also of my broad sheet : with a scheme of the Quakers yearly synod, and other books presented anno 1699 to the Parliament : and G. Whitehead's inside turn'd outward, by reprinting his ancient book Ishmael, &c. intirely, shewing thereby the Quakers ancient testimony of contempt of the Holy Scriptures and blasphemy against the blessed Trinity ... / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Atkinson, Christopher. Ishmael and his mother cast out into the wilderness.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5375; ESTC R19514	73,450	146

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

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. ●●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 ●●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 〈◊〉 Pro●●●ts as ●●●re him ●●●h Di●●●e Attri●●●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