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
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
brought forth to shew whether they suffered for the Name of Jesus or for Righteousness sake Still like Fox's Miracles never an one of which are said to be wrought in the Name of Jesus but only in his own Name and by his own Power like Simon Magus whom the Samaritans Adored even as the Poor Infatuated Quakers Adore this Fox They the Samaritans called him Simon Magus the Power of God so do the Quakers call Fox and that his Kingdom is Established in Righteousness and that of the increase thereof there is no End And for these Reasons these Sufferings ought to be even as Fox's Miracles are and thatby many of the Quakers too rejected and held as Fabulous as the Papists Legend And now as a further Demonstration that this Abstract with all its Appendices ought to be rejected and held as a Fabulous Story I shall give Twelve Reasons in order to Confront John Feild's magnifying their Sufferings which can be for no other Reason than for which they at first Record them that is Pride and Ostentation And my Reasons shall be grounded upon such a bottom as all the Quakers that will see with their own Eyes and read in the Quakers Books must say Amen to even upon that lying Spirit which has entred all their Inspired Prophets And if they can tell 12 Lies they may tell 12000 Lies and then what Credit is to be given either to the Miracles of Fox or the Sufferings of the Quakers LIE 1. In that they teach by their Books That their Sufferings are greater and more unjust than the Sufferings in the Days of Christ his Apostles the Ten Persecutions or any time since Burrough's Works p. 273. LIE 2. That Sam. Cater one of their Wordy-windy Teachers said and got it recorded That he suffered Twenty Pound when he did not suffer Twenty Farthings LIE 3. In that G. Fox their Apostle and High-Priest of their Profession said He was covered from the World and that the World neither knew Him nor his Name when there was not Ten Men in this Kingdom whose Names were better known See their Book Several Petitions Answered p. 30. LIE 4. In that they teach saying HE that HATH the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the Dead is EQUAL with God Saul 's Errand to Damasscus p. 8. LIE 5. In that they teach That Geo. Fox was before Languages were See the Introduct to their Battledoor in Folio LIE 6. In that they teach That the Thundering Voice answered Geo. Fox at his Trial in Lancaster Assizes as in p. 21. of his Book and which the Quakers have left out of his Journal Saying I have Glorified thee and will Glorifie thee again And immediately his Head and Ears was filled with Glory Thus do they vye it with Christ not only in saying their Sufferings are greater than his his Apostles and all the Martyrs but as there was a Voice from Heaven from God the Father speaking to God the Son or Second Person in the Trinity saying I have Glorifed thee and will after the state of Humiliation was past Glorifie thee again LIE 7. In that Fox your Apostle said He saw a Pool of Blood and a Channel of Blood in the Town of Litchfield when there was not a Drope of Blood much less a Channel See his Journal p. 53. And the Young Prophets believe him else they would not have Printed it after his Death in his Journal LIE 8. In that William Mead the great Quaker told William Harris That this Journal of Fox is a better Book than the Bible LIE 9. In that G. Fox says and the Quakers believe it else they would not have Printed it in his Journal p. 47. viz. That he saw the Heavens open as St. Stephen did nor that the Quakers had seen David's Sepulchre so many Thousand Miles off England as Fox say they did See Truth 's Defence alias the Fountain of Lies and Blasphemies LIE 10. In that Geo. Whitehead teach in his Book Truth Defending the Quakers p. 7. That what is now spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any meaning the Quakers is of greater Authority than the Holy Scriptures LIE 11. In that Father Penn in Print Teach and whom Geo. Whitehead vindicates therein Truth and Innocency Vindicated c. p. 52. That the Person that Suffered at Jerusalem was properly the Son of God we Quakers says he utterly deny See his Serious Apology c. p. 146. LIE 12. In that the Quakers teach That the Name Jesus and Christ belong to every Believer as well as to the Head See Pennington's Questions to Professors c. p. 27. When the Lie is so manifest as that the Name Jesus and Christ do not belong to Geo. Whitehead nor Will. Penn so well as it did belong to the Person that Suffered at Jerusalem which the Quakers utterly deny to be the Son of God And if not to them too much less to the Quakers of a lower Form whom yet they account Believers yea the only Church of Christ And that they may have full Tale I 'll give them a Baker's Dozen of Lies to confront their dubious and unintelligible Abstract LIE 13. They teach Tht there is no Salvation out of the true Church and that the Quakers are this true Church And also that in their Church there is no Tares nor Hypocrites See Josiah Coal's Whore unvailed First Impression p. 16 18 40 41 43. And R. Farnsworth's A Rod to drive out the Wild Boars c. Printed 1655. p. 13. And to prove this a loud Lie see the Cage of Unclean Birds in my Pil. Prog. cap. 14. p. 127 to 145. LIE 14. The Quakers say They are resolved to Love their Enemeis and Pray for their Adversaries And for proof of this pretence see John Feild's Defence c. p. 11 19. Saying I did not say that Francis Bugg was like Judas Contradictory to the stream of the whole Gang or that Haman and Judas his End might be his for I pray God it may not We are resolved to love our Enemeis Bless them that Curse us do Good to and Pray for them that Persecute us c. Oh! John as this is contrary to thy Natural Temper so it is to the Spirit of Quakerism else you are changed and not the same that ever you were No John I take this as a Piece of Flattery a sudden Mood a Fit that will over and be gone presently Nay John is yet more kind for I 'll give the Devil his due p. 11. ibid. I am persuaded the Quakers never designed Fran. Bugg any harm O! John I see thy Cloven Foot and will keep out of harms way as near as I can and therefore D. do thy worst But to prove this a Lie spoken in Hypocrisie to glos over their Malicious Spirit which is the most revengeful of the Seven Evil Spirtis which possesses the Leaders of this Sect and which is as contrary to their Ancient Principles as Light is contrary to Darkness see their great Apostle Fox's
Dead and Buried that he Rose again the third Day and Ascended into Heaven and there sits at the Right Hand of God making Intercession for us Sinners who lay hold on him by Faith and live in Obedience to him his Laws Institutions and Precepts in the Gospel left upon Record by the Four Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John and others of his Apostles in their Epistles And that we ought to Worship and Adore him together with God the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God in the Unity of his Essence This is the Trinity in Unity of the Father Son and Holy Ghost which is One God blessed for evermore And this is that Common Christianity which I mean that the Quakers Principles are so destructive to Now the next thing I am to tell at the Prayer and Request of John Feild is Wherein and whereby their Principles are Destructive c. I. The Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth who was Born of the Virgin and Suffered at Jerusalem to be the Son of God II. That they account him only a Vail a Garment an outward Vessel and can as their Books teach never call him Christ and that his Blood was no better than the Blood of another Saint III. They teach that their Sufferings are greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs in all Ages since For that as they teach the Sufferings of Christ and his Army of Martyrs were inflicted by a Law and in great part by the due Execution of a Law IV. That such are False Ministers who bid People believe in Jesus Christ as he is in Heaven above at God's Right Hand and that by Preaching Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his Work done on Earth V. They teach That G. Fox was their great Apostle which said thus of himself I am the Light of the World him by whom the World was made and doth inlighten every Man that cometh into the World VI. They teach That the Name Jesus and Christ belongs to every Believer as well as to the Head Christ that Suffered Died Rose again c. VII And thereupon they teach That he that hath the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the Dead is equal with God VIII And in coherence with this Doctrine their Prophet Sol. Eccles taught That Geo. Fox was a Prophet indeed And that as it was said of Christ He was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not So it might be said of G. Fox as in the 5th Instance XI They teach That G. Fox was the Father of many Nations that his Being and Habitation was in the Power of the highest that he Ruled and Governed in Righteousness that his Kingdom is established in Peace and that of the Increase thereof there was never to be an End X. They teach That the Holy Scriptures are not the written Word of God but contrarywise that they are Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware but that their own Writings are the Word of God given forth by Divine Iuspiration and that they as such are of greater Authority than the Bible and thereupon read them in their Meetings for Divine Worship whilst they never read in any such Meeting this Fifty Year one Chapter of the Bible either in the Old or New Testament For they teach They are not the means to work Faith in the Heart but are a Rotten Foundation XI They teach That Circumcision is as much in force as Water-Baptism and the Paschal Lamb as Bread and Wine and their disuse of these two Ordinances for this Fifty Years shew that they reject them and allows not of them XII And touching the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity they are so far from owning it as that they Damn them to the Pit of Hell as in G. Whitehead's Book Ishmael c. herein Reprinted may he seen Now John I having Replied to your Book A Defence of an Apology c. i. e. to the principal parts of it and shewed your Falacies and shallow Subterfuges as well as in some places answered your Request I rest desiring that your self and your People may Consider of it Repent of your Errors Retract and Condemn the same and Pray to God and the Nation to forgive you in which I shall join with you And in this you will have no cause to cry out of Persecution who am your Friend Fran. Bugg An Humble Address to His Majesty King WILLIAM III. over England c. by one of the Meanest yet most Dutiful Subject FRANCIS BUGG May it please your Most Excellent Majesty I Cannot but with great Joy and Comfort Remember your Majesties Repeated Assurances given to your Loving Subjects of your Majesties Care and Christian Zeal for the Protestant Religion as by Law established in this Kingdom by your many and repeated Speeches to your Parliaments and particularly by your late Gracious Proclamation consisting of two Parts In which your Majesties Pious Zeal has been abundantly manifest First Against Vice and Prophaneness and Secondly Against such Books as contain in them Impious Doctrine against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith and therein have given Encouragement to all your Loving Subjects to discover the Authors of such Books Wherefore in Obedience to your Majesties Royal Command as well as my Duty therein to God I have herein Reprinted one of the Quakers Books of which Geo. Whitehead is one of the Authors to the intent that your Sacred Majesty and the whole Kingdom may be presented with a Specimen of the Quakers Doctrine And do most Humbly Pray in the Name of the Church of England and other your Majesties Dissenting Protestants that such Care may be taken to suppress the same with others of their Books of the same Narure as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet And as it pleased God Almighty to give King Solomon Wisdom to Execute Justice so will he endue the King with an Understanding Heart to Judge who is in the wrong and to Punish accordingly And in this case let not the King Respect Persons in Judgment but if I be not able to maintain my Charge then let me bear his Majesties Displeasure and suffer what Punishment shall be due for the same But if I do make good my Charge then do as seems good in your Eye Thus with all Dutiful Submission do I Sign this my Humble Address this 13th Day of December 1699. Francis Bugg FINIS A Catalogue of Books wrote by Fran. Bugg 1. DE Christiana Libertate c. in 8 vo bound 2. The Painted Harlot stript and whipt c. 4 to 3. Reason against Railing c. 4 to 4. Innocency Vindicated c. 4 to never Answered 5. The Quakers Detected and their Errors Confuted c. 4 to 6. A Letter to the Quakers shewing their frequent Addresses to and Prayers for the late King Jam. II. and not to King Will. III. 7. Battering Rams against New Rome c. 4