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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30044	Seventy queries to seventy Quakers. Or, A second sober expostulation with the hearers amongst the Quakers, by way of interrogation; touching the doctrine and practice of their mercenary teachers, expecting their answer, or else shall conclude by their silence, they assent to what is objected against them by Fra. Bugg. The introduction to the reader.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1698 (1698)	Wing B5393; ESTC R219419	9,095	8

Queries to Seventy Quakers OR A Second Sober Expostulation with the Hearers amongst the Quakers by way of Interrogation touching the Doctrine and Practice of their Mercenary Teachers expecting their Answer or else shall conclude by their Silence they assent to what is objected against them by Fra. Bugg The Introduction to the READER READER In February last I wrote a Book in Octavo Intituled A Sober Expostulation c. and I hope it hath some effect upon them since I meet with no Answer Their Teachers use to boast of their quick Answers as in their Book Judas and the Jews c. And formerly G. Whitehead wrote Three Books against me in Nine Months time but this is the third time I have wrote against them in Six Months time and no Answer which shew they begin to flag and hang down their Heads as if they were unable but now I 'll let G. Whitehead alone 't is not manly to fight below no let him rise and wash himself and then possibly he may come out with a Sheet against Twenty and Nibble here and there like the Rats But Reader observe but even those Parts of my Books which the Quakers make no reply to and the Charges therein laid and it will discover to thee their Errors to be both great and dangerous But why I marvel are their Teachers so slow at writing What Do their Spring begin to fail For when Father Penn receiv'd Jer. Ives's Sober Request over-Night the 26th of October 1674. he took his Natural Rest as himself says and in an Hours time next Morning wrote his Answer why then will neither he nor Ellwood come in to the Assistance of their disconsolate Brother Whitehead Why do they make such a drudge of him Is it because he is expert in wording the Matter otherwise and yet can mean the same thing viz. write one thing and mean another Thus much by way of Introduction First Touching the Charge on G. W. in Pil. Progress p. 172. QUery 1. Whether the Person that Suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem be properly the Son of God Answ yea or nay Q. 2. If nay whose Son properly was he Answ Q. 3. If yea Why do you follow such Teachers as utterly deny it Answ Q. 4. Whether your Teachers do not deny the Scriptures when they call them Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware Answ yea or nay Q. 5. If yea Why do other of your Teachers say they prefer the Bible above all other Books Extant in the World Answ Q. 6. Whether your Teachers speak from the Spirit of Truth or the Spirit of Error in their Writings and Preachings Answ Q. 7. If from the Spirit of Truth then whether their so speaking be of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater as G. Whitehead Teaches Answ Q. 8. If so then whether their Doctrine do not tend to overthrow the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Answ yea or nay Q. 9. Whether it be Conjuration to preach out of the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles as your Books Teach Answ yea or nay Q. 10. Why do your Teachers Question whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of the Scriptures yea either or neither Answ Q. 11. Doth it not from such Questioning appear that your Teachers design the overthrow of Revealed Religion Answ Q. 12. Whether are the Sufferings of the Quakers greater than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and all the Martyrs since Answ Q. 13. If nay Whether was not Edw. Burrough a Blasphemer who so wrote and G. Whitehead c. likewise who approved and recommended such Doctrine Answ Q. 14. Whether are the Sufferings of the Quakers more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs Answ Q. 15. If nay Whether was not E. Burrough a Blasphemer who so wrote and G. Whitehead who approved and recommended such Doctrine Answ Q. 16. Whether were the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs duly executed upon them by a Law or at least in a great Measure Answ Q. 17. If nay Whether was not E. Burrough a Blasphemer who so wrote and G. Whitehead c. likewise who approved and recommended such Doctrine Answ Q. 18. Whether this Doctrine of Burrough Whitehead Fox Coale c. does not tend to undervalue the Death and Sufferings of Christ and to exalt their own Sufferings as not only greater but more unjust Answ Q. 19. If yea Whether your Teachers are not grand Deceivers and Antichrists even such as Christ foretold of Mat. 24.24 Answ Q. 20. If yea Whether you ought not to forsake such Impostors Answ Touching G. Fox's Self-Exaltations See Pil. Prog. p. 21. 29. Q. 21. Whether you believe that G. Fox wrote his Book News coming up out of the North c. from the Mouth of the Lord as in p. 1. he pretended Answ Q. 22. Whether you believe that G. Fox was Naked when he wrote that Book as himself said Answ Q. 23. Whether you believe that his rising up out of the North was Prophesied of as he there pretended Answ Q. 24. If yea Then by what Prophet whether Moses Jeremiah Isaiah Ezekiel Daniel or by Lodowick Muggleton Answ Q. 25. If not by the true Prophets then whether he was not an Impostor who Imposed on the World his horrible Delusions Answ Q. 26. Whether was G. Fox's Name so Covered from the sight and knowledge of the World as that neither himself nor his Name was known in the World as he said himself Answ Q. 27. If yea How came the People when they saw him and heard him speak to say Lo this is George Fox or how came the Justices to make his Mittimus and send him to the House of Correction for his Blasphemy by the Name of George Fox the Shooe-maker Answ Q. 28. Whether he that hath the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the Dead be equal with God Answ Q. 29. Whether the Quakers have not the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the Dead Answ Q. 30. If yea Whether the Quakers be not equal with God Answ Q. 31. Whether you do believe that George Fox attained in his Life-time to that fulness of Glory as that his Head and Ears was filled full of it Answ yea or nay Q. 32. If nay Whether was not George Fox a grand Impostor Answ Q. 33. Whether you do believe that George Fox was before all Lauguages were as he said he was Answ Q. 34. If nay Whether then you ought to adhere to the Works of such an Impostor Answ And whether his Journal be better than the Bible as William Mead said it was Answ Q. 35. Whether do you believe that George Fox wrought Miracles Answ Q. 36. If yea In whose Name then did he work those Miracles in his own Name or in the Name of some other Man since in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth he wrought no Miracle Answ Q. 37. If not in the Name of Jesus whether he was not an Impostor Answ Q. 38. Whether do