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A30031	New Rome arraigned And out of her own mouth condemned. Containing a farther discovery of the dangerous errors, and pernicious principles of the leaders and teachers of the Foxonian Quakers: which tend to overthrow the Christian faith, to obstruct the Jews conversion, to encourage Mahumetism, and to pervert the right way of the Lord; which whether so or no, deserves the examination and consideration of the Christian ministry of all Protestant Churches, as they tender God's glory, and the good of souls. To which is added, Ten articles of the Christian faith, wrote by Geo. Keith, who was persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian testimony. The second edition, with some alteration and additions, by Francis Bugg. Licensed, June 18th. 1694.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. aut	1693 (1693)	Wing B5377; ESTC R202485	69,734	77

who fulfilled all which was written of HIM by the Prophets What can you not call HIM CHRIST O ye Blasphemers And now you cry out and say What do you meddle with the dead i. e. G. Fox why do you print and amuse and trouble the World what are you ashamed to hear of your Blasphemies are you ashamed to hear your pernitious Principles discovered and your damnable Heresies rip 't up and laid open Is not Pilate dead many Idolatrous Popes dead what then must we not continue their Crimes and shew their Villanies Is not Arius dead and many Hereticks dead must we not therefore write against the Arians and shew the tendency of his pernitious Principles which grow as Seeds sown by the wicked one But by Whitehead's Learning we must not remind the World of these Idolators and Persecutors that others may be aware of such as hold the same Tenets What does your Profession begin to stink as Geo. Keith truly says and become nauseous to your own Noses then use just means to bury it by a genuine Retractation or else call for no silence for if you do I will joyn with Bishop Hall in the saying of that Heroical Luther CURSED BE THE SILENCE THAT HERE FOR BEARETH For I am not now as M. Luther once said writing against the Papists picking at the Rind but plucking at the Root even at the Foundation of your Errours and that makes you angry and fret and chafe But all is to no purpose no peace so long as the whoredoms of Jezebel remain Repent therefore and amend that is the way to find mercy with GOD. Retract and renounce your Errours by some publick and general Act and that is the way to silence the Pens of HIS Servants or else it will be as Mr. Penyman lately told you in your Meetings in London viz. That a fire is kindled that cannot be quenched for the burning is of the great and mighty GOD. But why do I talk of Repentance since in Scripture I find Confession is the fore-runner of Repentance and Confession you cannot abide as I have already observed For let any man read a thousand of your Epistles and they shall not find one Confession of Sin nor asking Pardon for Christ's sake And let any man go to a thousand of your Meetings and they shall never hear any one of your Ministers make Confession of Sins and beg Pardon for the same which is enough if no more could be said against you to prove you of a different Faith and practice from the Prophets and Apostles Saints and Martyrs and all good Christians to this day as well as to shew that you are in the steps of the Pharisees Read Luke 18. 11 12. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself O. GOD I thank thee that I am not as other men Extortioners Unjust Adulterers or even as this Publican I fast twice in the week I give tythe of all I possess c. Here is the perfect Pharisee and the perfect Quaker in perfect Unity Here is no Confession of Sin here is no asking Pardon for Sin nor no smiting upon the Breast saying God be merciful to me a poor sinner as the Publican did And that I may not leave this without a President for I love to keep to matter of fact pray take a view of one of the Quakers Prayers in print I mean that perfect Pharisee G. Whitehead in his Book Judgment fixed c. Thou knowest O Lord that though thou hast endued me with a Christian Spirit and with Faith Patience and Rejoycing under all my Sufferings and Tribulations for thy Names sake yet Thou hast also endued me with a Spirit of righteous Judgment Understanding and Zeal for thy holy Name c. And though this Prayer contains near five Pages yet not one word of Confession of Sin not a word of begging Pardon for Christ's sake but like the proud Pharisee Thou hast endued me with righteous Judgment with Understanding with Zeal He is not as other men And read all their printed Papers and you will find them of the same tendency and not like the Prayers of GOD's People in any Age or Generation as in my last New Rome c. I have largely made appear from the Example of the Prophets Apostles and worthy Martyrs To whom let me add one Example of worthy Thomas Bilny as in Fox's Acts and Mon. p. 467 468. O mighty power of the most High which I also MISERABLE SINNER have often tasted and felt c. And when this Prayer was ended he in the next Page goes on thus Verily when the New Testament was first set forth by Erasmus I bought it by the Providence of GOD and at the first reading as I remember I chanced upon this sweet Sentence of St. Paul 1 Tim. 1. 15. It is a true saying and worthy of all men to be imbraced that Christ Jesus came into the World to save sinners of whom I am the chief and principal This one Sentence through GOD's Instruction did so exhilerate my heart being before wounded with the Guilt of MY SINS And THEREFORE with ALL MY WHOLE POWER I TEACH that ALL MEN should first acknowledge their sins and condemn them and afterwards hunger and thirst after righteousness c. O the Christian temper and heavenly frame of this worthy Martyr worthy our Imitation First He acknowledged himself a miserable sinner and therefore the fitter Object for Mercy Secondly O how he rejoyced at the Confession of St. Paul who not only acknowledged himself a sinner but the CHIEF of sinners that thereby he might magnifie the rich Mercy of GOD in Christ Jesus He was not like Solomon Eccles who in his Musick Lecture p. 22. said I do affirm that if John the Apostle had said he had been a sinner he had lied No no this Martyr did not account St. Paul a lier though he would have had as much reason for St. Paul came not behind the chiefest of the Apostles Well but this is not all but as St. Paul was thus humbled to make this Confession and thus joyful at this worthy saying that Christ came into the World to save such penitent sinners so this worthy Martyr resolved to make it a Rule in Divinity saying And therefore with all my WHOLE POWER I teach that ALL MEN should ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR SINS c. Thus have I shewed the practice of the Martyrs and if you read the Scriptures in the Margent you may find it sutable to the practice of GOD's People from the beginning the Quakers only excepted who manifest themselves thereby as well as in an hundred things more that I could mention if need were that they have a Spirit not beyond but contrary to the Spirit of the Prophets Apostles and Martyrs yea and all true Christians to this day And although I am not designed to strive much about words in answer to your Glossings but rather choose to rip up and discover your Errours and to load you with

the whole World Thus have you made the Apostles false Witnesses who have charged the Jews with slaying the Lord of Life and Glory As to the Sufferings of Christ the Question still remains unanswered I know you now see cause to say his Sufferings were grievous Sufferings sweating drops of Blood yea great Sufferings Thus far G. W. is got but George you know there is degrees of Greatness there is magnus major maximus great greater and greatest of all Now the great Query is Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest Ed. Burroughs says the Sufferings of the Quakers was greatest And G. W. hath not yet said the Sufferings of Christ was greatest no other word will do I still pursue the Terms of my Query and wait to have it answered but I find G. W. pinched and in a great strait and knows not which way to wind him Condemn Ed. Burroughs's Expression as a Lye that he cannot do for a World for he was by G. W. counted a Prophet a Son of Thunder one in whom was the Almighty Power of God Can such a man lye Can he err No they cannot give Evidence against themselves so not fit to be of a Jury not fit for any place of Trust in Government not fit to have yea and nay pass for an Oath If so then if the Jury be most Quakers they 'l never give it against themselves they are not impartial they cannot be impartial they are the greatest respecters of Persons this day on Earth E. B. has said The Sufferings of the Quakers is greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles which is horrid blasphemous yea they thereby undervalue the Sufferings of the Lord of Glory and exalt their own as greater Sufferings This they cannot deny nor this they cannot condemn see the Fruit of Infallibility having once spoken whether true or false a Lye or a true Story both must be infallible they cannot retract they cannot confess their Sins to God how then should they retract and acknowledge their Errors No not for a World then down goes Infallibility the principal Studd of their new kind of Popery The Perfect Quaker in favour of their own Books An Epistle from their Yearly Meeting 1675. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Several Petitions answer'd c. p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Papers and Queries for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God Several Papers given out for the spreading of Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord this is the Word of God G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. Anno 1693. Dear Friends it 's advised that you be careful in spreading all such Books writ in defence and for the Service of Truth Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for remembrance and notice B. B. The Perfect Quaker's Perfect Contempt of Scripture Saul's Errand c. p. 7. The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. A brief Discovery c. p. 7. The Priests of the World are Conjurers raising dead Doctrines dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death Notable Conjurers P. 8. The Commission of Baal's Priests came from Oxford and Cambridge the same poisonous Fountain is filthy the Streams are no better Simon Magus would have purchased the Holy Ghost with Money even the Sir Simons of our Age run to Oxford and Cambridge Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death really they are Bloodhounds still hunting and gaping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Ja. Naylor's Answ to the Jews p. 4 22 25. It 's Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God it is the Devil which contends for the Letter to be the Word of God The Quaker's Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scripture was Moses or Hermes or whether both these two or not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false c. News coming up c. p. 14. Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Counterfeit Quaker facing round about Quaker's Vindication p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God c. Count. Conv. c. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World A treble Observation upon a triple Quaker Courteous Readers whether Christians or Jews what think you Is the Counterfeit Quaker sincere Do you believe that he means what he says namely that the Scripturesare of Divine Authority and that he prefers them before all the Books extant in the World If so you may believe Transubstantiation Can you think I say that he believes the Scripture is of Divine Authority when he tells you that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust and Serpents-mear and that the Scripture is Beastly Ware that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ or whether either or neither and that what was spoke by good and wise Men was ill applied and ill expressed and what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true c Answer me for my part I cannot G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of

one and that too much too Secondly Do you think he values and prefers the Scriptures before all Books extant in the World I think not my Reasons are many First you hear he calls the Scriptures Dust Death and Serpents-meat Beastly Wares dangerous to read see Truths Defence c. p. 101. yea so uncertain that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Pen-man of Holy Writ is a question But as for what G. Fox c. wrote their Yearly Meeting testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea the same Men that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents-meat judge Reader which they prefer Yea G. W. avouches that what is spoke from the Spirit of Truth in any much more in them is of equal nay of greater Authority than the Scriptures judge Reader which they prefer They say 't is Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and that 't is the Devil that so pleads Yet they say of their own Epistles This is the Word of God judge which they preferr They say we may as well burn the Bible as their Papers and Queries judge which they prefer Come G. W. what Gloss have you in store your Paint begins to vanish and your Jugglings will not now do And as to you that are mis-led by your Teachers I exhort you to read the Scriptures and pray to God to open the Mysteries of Salvation held forth in them that so you may come to have your Judgments rectified Likewise read G. K's Ten Articles which came providentially to my Hand which being sound and orthodox I have exposed them to publick view for general Service desiring from my Heart that you may receive them in the same love they were writ and now exposed yet if you will not hear me nor receive them I of all Men may bear with you in that I once was as averse to Information as the most of you but I obtained Mercy in that I did not wilfully persist against Conviction c. Some of the Principles of G. Keith and his Friends 1. That Bodily Sickness and Death came in by the Fall 2. That Christ has now in Heaven a Soul and a Body that is not the Godhead but the Temple of it and most gloriously united therewith 3. That Christ's Body that was crucified and buried without us rose again without us and is now in Heaven without us 4. That the Man Christ Jesus will come again in that Body without us to judge the Quick and the Dead 5. That there shall be a general day of Judgment that all the deceased Saints are in expectation of 6. That we get not the Resurrection of the Body either in this mortal Life or immediately after Death 7. That Faith in the Man Christ without us as he died for us rose again and is gone into Heaven wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ is universally necessary to make Men true Christians and Children of God born of the Free Woman who have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father 8. That Christ's Obedience and Righteousness which he performed in himself without us is imputed to us by Faith for the Remission of Sins 9. That Christ is not only God's Elect but all that shall be saved from the beginning to the end of the World are God's Elect being chosen in him not only before they believe and repent but before the Foundation of the World 10. That all and every one of the Members of the Church of Christ who are at age and can speak ought to confess with their Mouths in the hearing of some of their Fellow Members the Fundamental Principles of their Christian Faith before they can be own'd to be Members of the Church that by the same as well as by a Good Life and Conversation it may be known who are qualified to be Members of our Church which is Aboundary Terms and Bond of our Union the Spirit being the Principal which may be easily done by Answering to some plain Questions This is a Copy of G. Keith's c. sound and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith proposed to the Quakers of whom I wish it may not be said Oh how oft would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but you would not but now the things which belong to your Peace are hid from your Eyes I remember G. W. queried of me Count. Conv. p. 15. Whether I when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation Answ I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism as by my Book de Chr. Lib. c. which he so often quotes to justifie the Quakers from what I now charge them with may be seen yet I do freely acknowledge that I was in great Errors particularly touching the Point of Justification for I then expected Salvation thro' my Obedience to the Light which the Quakers taught was sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation it attained through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts Again G. W. says Count. Conv. p. 29. Not reading the Scriptures in our Meetings for Worship is no Proof that we have not a Spiritual Worship nor Evidence that we disbelieve the Doctrines contained in them Answ I do not give it as the only Evidence but as a Demonstration yet if you did in good earnest believe the Doctrines and Precepts of Christ in the Gospel to be blessed and holy as you pretend you would read the Scripture and prefer the Bible before any other Book extant in the World you would read the Scriptures in your Meetings if any Book at all and if you recommend any Book to your Friends beyond Sea it would be the Scripture But since you do neither but instead thereof read and recommend your own Epistles and that as you say for the spreading of Truth this is a Demonstration that you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy and an infallible Evidence that you prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures unless you be arrant Cheats indeed to read and recommend that which you know is worst and hide and keep from them that which is best which I can hardly think And as impertinent as G. W. renders my Ten Reasons I find him not able to confute them As for his Pretence to Pray after the manner Christ taught his Disciples I deny it for it you kept to the manner though not to the form you would not be alone But let the Reader observe all the Prayers of Steph. Crisp R. Ashby W. Bingly and others printed at the end of their Sermons nay all your Books extant in the World and he will not find this passage Forgive us our Sins as we forgive them that

as the Quakers do account it sufficient But with that worthy Martyr Dr. Robert Barns say Acts and Mon. p. 610. I believe in the holy and blessed Trinity that created and made all the World I believe that without Man's Will or Power Christ Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost and took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary that HE suffered thirst hunger and cold which as he was God he could not do mark that old Friends and other Passions of our Bodies sin excepted according to the saying of St. Peter And I believe that this his Death and Passion was the sufficient Ransom for my sins and the sins of the whole World and I believe that through his death he overcame sin death and hell and that there is no other Satisfaction unto the Father but his Death and Passion only and that no Works of Man did deserve any thing of GOD but only Christ's Passion touching our Justification For I know said this humble Martyr that the best Works that ever I did is impure and imperfect And according to the Faith of this worthy Martyr the Publick Ministers teach and I believe not but that Dr. Barns was a good Man walked circumspectly had great regard to the Dictates of his Conscience and the Guidance of the Light abstained from that which was evil and followed that which was good and every way as became a good Man as compleatly as the most perfect Quaker in England notwithstanding their high boasting yet you see he did not lean upon his own Deservings but upon the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ even the Merits of HIS Death who suffered thirst hunger and cold who was born of the Virgin and made like unto us sin excepted c. nor did he pretend to a sinless Perfection as the Quakers vainly boast of but humbly acknowledged that the best Works that ever he did was impure and unperfect and this made him rely and lean wholly upon the Merits of another even the Sacrifice of that Immaculate Lamb Christ Jesus his Death and bitter Passion which the Quakers never preach up as necessary to believe Search all their Epistles read in their Meetings hear all their Sermons if ever you hear such a Passage as came from this humble Martyr I will be your Bond slave And thus have I given an additional Proof that the Quakers are of a different Faith from the Martyrs and all true Christian Churches and when I came to understand these their Fundamental Errours which was after I had wrote three or four Books against them in reproof of their Hypocrisie about outward Ceremonies Church Government their pretending to preach write suffer and do all things freely when alas it was all but a cheat they took Money Gifts and Reward for all nay sometimes as in the Instance of Sam. Cater 10 l. where they suffered not 10 d. See New Rome p. 54. to 68. I say after I had thus been brushing at the outside or skirts of Religion for some years it pleased GOD in mercy to open my understanding and to shew me by the Rule of Holy Writ and through the Assistance of His Holy Spirit the Quakers great and Fundamental Errours and then I could not be silent but that too for the sake of many amongst them who have a Zeal I bear them record though not according to knowledge but was constrained to unmask their blind Guides who have caused them to err And if in my Zeal against their pernicious ways I seem to exceed they of all People may bear with me And now to the Trial now to the Examination Who are the true Ministers and the false who are the Worlds Teachers Alluding to the Quakers distinction whose Maxim is to call all but themselves of the World or the Worlds People or the Worlds Teachers c. and who are the Ministers of Christ And though I dare not pretend to know Gods People so as to give an infallible Character of another Mans state as the Quakers do yet I hope to make a truer Description than they have done But for this I must have a Rule and that Rule must be the Holy Scriptures and by the evident Testimony of that let my Work stand or fall A DISCOVERY OF THE WORLDS TEACHERS 1. The Quakers who teach that the Names JESUS and CHRIST do not properly belong to the Body that suffered upon the Cross at Jerusalem nor preach'd it up as a necessary Article of Faith to believe that Salvation is obtained through the Merits of his Death and Passion They are of the World they are the Deceivers and Antichrists 2. The Quakers who teach that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to the whole Body and to every Member in the Body as well and as amply as to Christ the HEAD are of the World and Deceivers 3. The Quakers who teach that the Body of Christ was of an earthly perishing Nature like ours are of the World and Deceivers 4. The Quakers who adore Mortal Men and give those Divine Attributes to Geo-Fox due only to CHRIST are of the World and Deceivers 5. The Quakers who teach that he that hath the same Spirit which raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD and which Spirit they pretend to have and by it give forth their Epistles c. and therefore of the World great Deceivers and horrible Blasphemers 6. The Quakers who teach that Josiah Coal being dead is ASCENDED and that IN Edw. Burroughs whilst living was THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD and that the FULNESS dwelt in him of Grace and Vertue are of the World and gross Idolaters 7. The Quakers who teach that Geo. Fox's coming out of the North naked not known prophesied of writ from the Mouth of the LORD c. are Deceivers Impostors and of the World 8. The Quakers who teach that the Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter say they and that such are Ministers of the Letter are Ministers of Death which is Serpents-meat that say the Sacraments are dust c. are of the World and great Deceivers 9. The Quakers who teach that it is as justifiable to burn the Bible as the Books wrote by Geo. Fox Geo. Whitehead and others of their way are Decivers and impudent Impostors 10. The Quakers that teach that the Scriptures are uncertain and that what the true Prophets say is false and what the false Prophets said is true what good men spake therein is ill applied and what wise men spake therein is ill expressed and that whether Moses or Hermes was the first Penman of the Scripture is uncertain they are false Apostles deceitful Workers and their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith 11. The Quakers who teach in one Book that the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John are not the New Testament not the Rule for Christians to walk by and teach in another Book lately that the Scriptures are the New Testament Holy Scriptures c. are