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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

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 Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the Habitation of Devils and the Hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird. Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works In the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye Holy Apostles and Prophets and Christian Ministers for God hath avenged you on her Rev. 18. 2. 6. 20. Licensed June 18th 1694. London Reprinted for the Author and are to be Sold by J. Gwillim Book-seller in Bishops-gate-street 1694. The Preface to the Christian Reader Christian Reader There are two things put me upon this Preface First Geo. Whitehead and his Abettors's Inveterate Malice calling me and others Old canker'd Apostates Vile Apostates Self-condemn'd Apostates Unruly Beasts Betraying Judasses Wolves Dogs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil Devils Incarnate Heathens Atheists c. Indeed their Books are so very Malicious and Defamatory as well as their private Whisperings and Backbitings that some even of themselves have been constrained to give me under their Hands a Testimony in Writing against the unchristian Treatment which I have met withal namely T. Bird J. Ellington J. Mason W. Belsham and above Twenty more Quakers belonging to Mildenhall-Meeting And yet not worse Language than they have given the Publick Ministry as Witches Devils Gormandizing Priests c. as anon will appear And whoever discovers their Errors and displays them in their proper Colours must expect to meet with something of this kind And that being fore-seen have doubtless been taken for a tolerable Excuse by abler Pens from stooping to such an Undertaking as this And thereupon I may the more rationally expect the more favourable Censure for what might have been done better by the Learned 't is enough to me to be thought worthy in this great Work of discovering the greatest Heresie that ever sprang up in our Age to be as the Carpenter's Man whose Work is to hew off the rough and knotty pieces of the Timber to make it more ready for better Workmen To be Contentious I grant is an Offence the Scriptures condemn with no little keenness whilst it exhorts to contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints From whence I conceive that though I contend against Quakerism with some Symptoms of Zeal I am not therefore Contentious nor though I may retract yea write against some Errors I formerly held and upon Conviction have forsaken I am not therefore a Self-condemned Apostate as G. W. dreams If you think me too smart in some passages against Persons 't is against their Leaders if against their Opinions I have from their own Books proved them Erroneous and Blasphemous which ought to be reproved sharply And that their Opinions are so I have never refused to make Proof of to their faces on Condition when proved they would engage a Retractation nay sometimes without any such Engagement See Quakerism Anatomized p. 2. I cannot call Gall and Poyson by sweet and lovely Names I must alter my Style according to the Matter and Occasion or else all will be out of Tune and no more Harmony than Harp and Harrow Bishop Jewel and other Reformers they wrote smartly against the Papists and most exquisitely displayed their Errors and yet they protested they were in Charity and desired nothing more than that they would have hearkened to them and forsaken their Errors And I do say nothing would please me better than to see this People Condemn what is Erroneous amongst them and persevere in the Truth and the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ True God and Perfect Man in One Person Object But if any Object in favour of them That though they do not Preach Christ without unless since G. K. came over as he is in Heaven above nor believe him to be distinct from his Saints nor Pray in the Name of Jesus to God the Father thereby owning him in his Mediator-ship nor make Confession of Sin to God in Prayer nor beg Pardon for the same But look at Christ within the Light within his Crucifixion within his Intercession within nor a Bible to be seen in their Meetings for they are above such Carnal things Yet they have among them many good Exhortations and they own Christ to be the Word of God the Power of God the Wisdom of God will not this do Supposing they mean all to be within yea Heaven and Hell all within c. Answ The Mahumetans hold Abraham to be the Friend of God and Moses the Messenger of God and Christ the Breath of God And they Punish such as speak against Christ whose Religion was not say they taken away but mended by Mahomet Heylin's Cosmog lib. 3. p. 104. And our Saviour is called in their Alchoran The Word the Power the Soul and Strength of God c. The Lives of the Patriarchs Printed 1694. See the Word Alchoran Insomuch that if the Quakers do not come to this Result to own the same Jesus that was born of the Virgin smote with Palms of their Hands Crucified Dead Buried Rose again and in the sight of the Galileans ascended into Heaven and publickly Condemn their Books which Teach the contrary they cannot deserve the Name Christian c. I am not unsensible what little Arts they have used to blast my Reputation that thereby they may obstruct the Service of my Books but their Expectation hath failed them Then they Indicted me in London for Printing without License yet they do the same But they say I put up a Mock-Pillory I grant I did and that to shew what they actually deserved upon their own Proposals to Authority Did not they erect the Form and Figure of a Child's Penny horning Battle-door for the Bishops Clergy and Gentry to Learn the English of Tu and Vos Signed by G. Fox a Shoe-maker c. Was not this as great an Affront to them as mine could be to the Twelve Quakers See Quakerism Withering c. p. 61. But how did they bestir themselves to Persecute me How did they run up and down to great Persons both on Foot and by Coach and all to Suppress me And had they had a Jury of Quakers I had been Cast but

trespass against us No nor yet after that manner for though you must needs know that you are Sinners as well as others and have transgressed the Laws of God in both Tables yet you can neither make Confession of Sin to God nor beg Pardon for Christ's sake which not only shew that you do not Pray after the Manner but that you do not pray in the Name of Christ to God the Father as the Mediator and Intercessor between GOD and Man which is an infallible Proof that as you therein differ from the Faith and Practice of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs yea all Protestant Churches to this day so you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy which teach Men so to do which is one Reason Secondly In that you warn charge and command your Disciples to read and cause to be read in your Meetings not only in England but beyond Sea your own Papers Epistles and Books whilst you not only lay aside the Scripture as useless but declare to all the World they are Death Dust and Serpents-meat Beastly Ware and that such as preach out of it are Conjurers Notable Conjurers Thirdly Because you say it's Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and yet allow your own Books that Title giving forth That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater questioning whether Moses be the first Pen-man thereof Fourthly A fourth Reason is because you deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper which the Scriptures teach saying Go teach all Nations baptising c. this do in remembrance of me c. Which the Apostles Primitive Christians and Martyrs practised who had the Spirit as much as you and witnessed Christ's second Coming as much as you Fifthly Your laying aside the use of the Lord's Prayer both in Manner and Form as aforesaid Sixthly Your laying aside the use of the Ten Commandments Seventhly And the Apostle's Creed Eighthly If you question whether Moses was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ and what the Prophets spake true or false you I say cannot believe what you question Ninthly You teach that such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers but the Scripture tells you That Christ is risen and sits in Glory at the Right Hand of God in Heaven above And Tenthly Because you rob Christ of his Divine Attributes and put them upon your glorified George Fox calling him the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness c. See your Epistle This is only to go amongst Friends largely recited in this Introduction p. 5 6. which notwithstanding G. W's Denial is plainly proved to mean G. Fox yet to strengthen the said Proof see J. Whitehead's small Treat p. 4 5. After these things in the year 1648. God who had compassion on his People did cause a Branch to spring forth of the Root of David which was filled with Virtue for the Covenant of Life and Peace was with him and he spread and shot forth many Branches which did partake of the fatness of the Root and the weary came to rest under his Branches In him also was the word of Reconciliation which turned the Hearts of the Children and the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just And in the year 1655. I being a Branch of this Tree meaning G. Fox the life of its Root caused me to blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit of the Lord came upon me c. I say G. F's saying that he rise out of the North was prophesied of c. and the recited Epistle saying O thou North of England who art reckoned barren c. and J. Whitehead setting the date of the rising of this Branch and Star 1648. and that in 1655. he also becoming a Branch of this Tree 't is manifest that what I said in New Rome unm c. p 79 to 87. was not without warrantable ground as by the coherence of their Doctrine doth manifestly appear And since your Books thus interfere let us prove whether they be sincere or which shall we take to be their Judgment in good earnest Answ That they are not sincere I have already given ten Reasons but that I may renew your memory I will add one more viz. In all their Meetings for Worship of GOD they never read one Chapter of the Bible nor one of the Epistles of the Apostles for this thirty years but 't is frequent with them to read their own Epistles as herein I shall further shew only one instance for the present I may recite to confirm you in the truth of their practice and by which you may measure great part of their pretences viz. Several Papers given forth for the spreading the Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the LORD take heed of judging one another To you all this is the Word of the LORD to spread over all I charge you in the presence of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst ALL FRIENDS AND BRETHREN EVERY WHERE to be read IN ALL MEETINGS This is THE WORD OF GOD. G. Fox 1. Pray observe first the design of sending their Books up and down it is TO SPREAD TRUTH and this might be done as well by recommending the reading of the Scriptures or some Portion thereof if indeed they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained therein be holy and blessed unless they will say their Books have a greater measure of holiness then the Scriptures which in the best sence they must believe unless they cheat the World most abominably to send them that which they know to be worse or least for their profiting Secondly You may observe what a Charge is given viz. I charge you in the PRESENCE of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst all Friends what to do namely for a Publick Liturgy or Form of Divine Service viz. To be read in ALL MEETINGS Well what Authority had G. F. to impose this upon the poor People namely This is THE WORD OF GOD. Now if they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained in the Bible to be holy and blessed why do they not charge their People to read some part of the Scriptures for their Instruction but alas they have disputed against the Scripture being the Word of GOD but now you see they stile their own Nonsence to be THE WORD OF GOD and charge their poor ignorant People as such to receive it and as such to read it and as such to send it up and down into all the Countries and all Places and who dare gainsay the mighty Power of G. Fox Who as Ios Coal says hath his habitation in the power of the Highest who rules and governs in righteousness and his Kingdom is established in peace and the increase thereof is

the Jury brought in the Bill Ignoramus c. to the great Satisfaction of the Honourable Court Thus did they begin here as the Quakers did in Pensilyania who Persecuted G. Keith and his Friends for their Christian Testimony notwithstanding their Pretences that the Lord hath laid it upon them not to go to Law nor avenge themselves and that the disposition of their Nature is not to seck Revenge for say they such as do are in the Fall c. See an Account from the Children of Light p. 19. And Smith's Primmer p. 79. Yet these Pretences are like the rest of their Sophistry for had they Power few should exceed them in Persecution and Cruelty For methinks I hear them say Come let us say He is a Pestilent Fellow a mover of Sedition we must use all the Arts we have to stop him for he seems to follow the steps of M. Luther that Apostate Adversary of our dear Elder Sister And if he goes on he will so unvail us that all People will know us and our Intrigues Come let us bespatter him and cover him with some frightful Beast's Skin and then set our little Curs to bait and worry him to abuse and bespatter him in City and Country c. This I have found true which leads me to the Second thing proposed c. 2. A Charitable Essay c. p. 7. And now F. B. concerning thy Proposal We reject thy Challenge nor that the Number intended on thy side are of the ablest Priests and Professors nor dost thou produce any Deputation from the Church-Bishops or Clergy of England Again Innocency Triumph c. p. 35. If Fr. Bugg have Letters by him from Ministers why do they not appear As to Is Archer's Approbation F. B. cites only an Abridgment why did he not cite the whole Was he so tyed up to brevity that he allowed his Teacher no more room That Dev. of the Ch. of England who gave his Approbation of F. B's Book what is his Name Why does he not appear And if F. B. has Letters by him of the same Import what are their Names And why do they not appear Again G. W's Letters to Mr. Smithies and Mr. Archer If you do not stop F. B. from Writing the Cry will be louder and ascend higher than your selves c. As if he were resolved to Summon them before Squire Pen late Deputy-Governour of Pensilvania for he is the highest Quaker and yet he is not so high now at least but by some Clergy-men may be balanced and what if I say over balance him Will G. W. Indict me for so saying Well to the Matter though I do not love to expose Persons Names yet since G. W. thus daringly calls for their Names and to come forth threatning others that if they stop me not the Cry will be louder and higher As if G. W. only may write and that without controul what he please true or false And F. B. must be stopt and who dare approve of his Books If so let them come forth let 's know their Names and who they are c. Poor Proud Man I say this considered I shall allow Mr. Archer room for his whole Approbation and recite the substance of two or three Letters from some other Clergy-men and the request of three others besides an Independant Preacher that so he may see that both Conforming and Non Conforming Ministers are not ashamed to appear in favour of what I write nor afraid of G. W. who Acts more like a Lord Chief Justice than an Humble Quaker Mr. Archer Minister of Mildenhall in Suffolk the Town where I dwell his Approbation c. AS there is Joy in Heaven over a Sinner converted to God as to his Morals so when the Erroneous turn to the true God as to his Intellectuals Truth and Goodness being his Infinite Attributes the shadow of them for in the Creature they are no better are equally pleasing to their Author Hence I may shew my Joy in that my Neighbour Bugg is returned from his Errors not as to his Life for he was sober ever since I knew him but as to his Judgment as a sign of which he has laboured to bring over his seduced Brethren which would they read his Books might be done but I fear most of them are of the mind of one of them that told me Thou maist out-argue me but shalt not perswade me However I do own the Substance of this Book as a Defence of those Eternal Truths by which I hope for Salvation and which are a Comfort to me in my Pilgrimage Peace be to those that own them and the Lord open the Eyes of such as deny them Isaac Archer Come G. W. I have found room to recite my Teacher verbatim but I want both time and room to draw the exact Picture of G. W. who for audacious Insolency Pride and Self-conceit for Scorn Contempt and Envy for Defaming Glossing Perverting and Subtilty for denying what you know to be true and affirming what you know to be false I say to set forth your exact Picture in these and other the like Crafty Jugglings and Legerdemain to trace your Books to rip you up and make a perfect Discovery of your two-fac'd Pretences and Practices it would require a Volume But I proceed A Letter from Dr. Burrel SIR I heartily Congratulate your return to our Church which doubtless is the most Eminent for Doctrine Worship and Discipline amongst all the Reformed Churches in the World I cannot but highly commend your Pious Endeavours for this End of which I have received an Account from Mr. Gearing I shall much rejoyce in your Success herein In order to undeceive them poor seduced People having therein display'd many of the Intrigues of their Leaders Your Real Friend Nath. Burrel A Letter from another Divine AS nothing is more pleasing to the Eyes than Light so nothing is more grateful to the Understanding than the Discovery of Truth in which respect you have certainly done a most acceptable piece of Service to your Country in unvailing of the Falshoods Errors and Hypocrisies of the Quakers both because the Knowledge of the Truth is delectable and also because Men being thereby fore warned of the dangers of their Hypocritical Insinuations and Pretensions might else have drawn them into may be enabled to avoid the Mischiefs thereof for which I think my self obliged to return you my Thanks I having received a particular Advantage by your Discoveries But seeing by your pains it plainly appears that you aim at the Advantage of Mankind which is both the Duty and Honour of all Men I am thereby encouraged to beg the favour of a little further Information John Milme Come Imperious George that you may see to your Grief that the Publick Ministery both Conforming and Non conforming are not afraid of your Threats and Menacings to stand by me in what is right and further I desire no Man I may recite the Request of four of

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

the Church and the Light in them the Christ this I take to be his meaning And that it may appear so I will produce a Text out of their own Scriptures I mean out of Jos Coals Works p. 332. in answer to John Newman about the Body of Christ he thus expresses himself viz. If by the Body of Flesh that Christ had he means his Church which the Apostle speaks of which was the Body of which Christ was Head and they Members of then I am one with him for his having that Body after his Ascension I never denied nor intend to do And such a Body we own Christ had after his Ascension Thus then it appears plainly that they deny HIM to be Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered death on the Cross in that they say nothing which was Mortal was called Christ and they say the bodily Garment we can never call Christ And when J. W. made his distinction between Christ and his Body it doth appear by J. Coals Testimony that CHRIST after he ascended had no other Body but his Church consequently did not ascend in His Body which was seen apparently Acts 1. 9 10 11. So that the Light in the Quakers is the one only Christ and the Quakers the Body of Christ And no other Christ nor Body of Christ do I by their Doctrine find that they own and thereupon do Charge them to deny CHRIST who was crucified dead and buried but is risen and in the same Body ascended and in the same Body sits at the right Hand of GOD never more to die but ever liveth it make intercession for us THE Quakers FIFTH ERROUR Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 14. Christ is the Substance of all Figures and his Flesh is a Figure G. F. REMARK Reader pray observe First they distinguish between Christ and the Garment he wore meaning his Body which suffered on the Cross which bodily Garment they cannot call Christ. 2. They teach that the Names Jesus and Christ do not so properly belong to HIM that was born of the Virgin suffered c. as to something in the Body the Light c. which they say is in themselves 3. And that the Light in them is the same Christ which suffered at Jerusalem 4. That the Body of Christ is like ours of AN EARTHLY PERISHING NATURE 5. That nothing which was Mortal was called Christ and consequently not HE that was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered on the Cross as an acceptable Sacrifice 6. That Christ hath no other Body but His Church since his Ascension proved out of their own Books which they say are given forth by the Eternal Spirit So that the Light in the Quakers is all the Christ they own and they being in their own esteem Believers and consequently the Church Christ hath no other Body so the Quakers are all and all 7. That the Flesh of Christ is but a Figure Thus have they what in them lye overturned the Fundamentals of Christianity for Christ was so far from being a Figure that all Figures and Types ended in Him and HE the Substance of them all as I shall shew by the Prophesies of the Holy Prophets in two Columns And whereas G. W. in his A Just Enquiry c. p. 2 3. by his cunning Glosses not only vindicates some notorious Errours but also excuses the Consequences of them as not being of a dangerous tendency and therefore rather than to trace him in his crooked Path I shall choose to make it appear that the Fruits Effects and Consequences of these and the like Errours are very dangerous in hopes that as it will tend to strengthen my Charge of their not owning CHRIST c. if any thing be still wanting to prove it so will it be a means to strengthen and confirm others in the Principles of the Christian Faith against the Prevalency of such Seducers as G. W. c. are as by their Fruits do now appear DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THESE ERROURS 1. Saul's Errand c. p. 8. He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with GOD. P. 7. And if Christ be in you must he not say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE The Letter of the Scripture is Carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth 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 2. Several Petitions answered c. p. 30. But if ever you own the Prophets Christ and his Apostles ye will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Power and Spirit 3. Truths Defence c. p. 101. The Letter which killeth is dangerous and the Ministers of the Letter are the Ministers of Death to you it is dangerous to read or speak of it 4. The Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. Your imagined GOD beyond the Stars and your Carnal Christ to say GOD and Man in one Person is a Lie 5. David's Enemies Discovered c. p. 7. And these i. e. Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule and the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel as thou and thy Generation do For Paul said he was a Minister of the Gospel and of the New Testament and not of the Letter which thou calls the Gospel and New Testament thy Ministry is in the Letter which killeth c. by G. Whitehead and Chr. Atkinson 6. A Brief Discovery c. p. 7 8 9 10. The Priests of the World are Thieves Robbers Conjurers Antichrists Witches Devils Liers a Viperous and Serpentine Generation Blasphemers scarlet coloured Beasts Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Ware for a large price the Letter which is dust and death whited Walls greedy Doggs really they are Blood-hounds still hunting and gasping after their Prey like the mouth of Hell barking and raging like Sodomites G. F. and others 7. Truths Defence c. O thou filthy Beast thy beastly Worship no Prayers can we send to thee but for thy destruction thou Man of Sin and Enemy of thou Hypocrite O thou impudent and brazen fac'd thou art in the Sorcery and in the Witchcraft and in the Adultery O thou slanderous Beast O thou natural brute Beast O generation of Vipers And here thou Serpent thou art damned openly And here I charge thee to be a Witch and to bewitch the People a Reprobate hated of GOD a Child of the Devil an Enemy of Righteousness the Son of Perdition O thou false-hearted dissembling Hypocrite the Plagues of GOD are due to thee and that is thy portion thou child of the Devil thou blind Sot thy Torment is begun and so fare thee well But thou art a Conjurer and livest in Conjuration thou Enemy of GOD and Man of Sin for destruction thou art ordained to go therein thy fear of it doth begin and the

Observation So then I read out of G. Fox his Book what followeth the Astonishing Confutation abovesaid News coming up out of the North c. p. 14. So Dust is the Serpents meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death their Church is Dust and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter S. Cater I deny that we call the Scriptures Dust or Serpents-meat F. B. But S. Cater wilt thou deny it if you see it in one of your Friends Books S. Cater Yea wherever I see it I will deny it F. B. Richard Tilson go and fetch my Box which he did I read it as in the recited Charge and Sam. Cater took the Book and read it S. Cater Thou saidst we call'd the Scriptures Dust and Death but there is not the word Scripture in the whole Passage F. B. People I appeal to you whether Matthew Mark Luke and John be not Scripture With that perceiving S. Cater's Evasion the People gave a great shout and said Yes Yes S. Cater Matthew Muck F. B. Hold Sam. what Matthew muck what Muck is that what shall we have a new Gospel John Cade a Norwich Preacher said Friends take notice that as the Bible grows old it will moulder and crumble away and become Dust F. B. People observe They would not have you think that new Bibles are Dust but when they grow old they moulder away c. and therefore my Advice to you is to get new Bibles W. Read Francis we deny thy words we have given it in to the King and Parliament that we believe the Scriptures was given forth by Divine Inspiration and they have accepted of it F. Bugg The more shame for you to be so deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your Belief For if so why do you not Retract and Condemn your Books which are as opposite to what you now say as Light is to Darkness And some few Passages more we had But if they believe as they write that the Gospel Matthew Mark Luke and John be Dust I wonder with what face they could appear before the Parliament until they had first retracted and by some publick Act have condemned their Books which throw such Contempt upon the Holy Scripture For a further proof of this Charge see the sixteen Instances Object But possibly some may object and say It 's true you have more then sufficiently proved your first Charge and in the proof thereof there is enough said of their speaking contemptuously of the Holy Scriptures by calling them Dust Death Serpents-meat Carnal Letter killing Letter Dangerous to read c. yea and their contemptuous Speeches of the Sacraments Church Ministery c. yet the second Branch of your second Charge seems unproved where you bring it as an Argument against them of their not owning the Scriptures and that they over-value their own Writings Now if you have any thing material to offer pray do Answ I am very willing as I always was to leave things as clear as I can and place my Argument upon Matter of Fact out of their own printed Books And having already signified that ERROURS and CONSEQUENCES are out of their Books and their rejecting the Scriptures and reading the Scriptures in their Religious Meetings if I may so call them being a Consequent of the second Errour I shall so call them viz. both the Titles of their Epistles and the Conclusion enough to signalize their way and manner and THE DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE Quakers ERROURS First THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS c. Directed To the Camp of the Lord in England meaning the Quakers Subscribed Edw. Burrough and Fra. Howgill Second To the Flock of Christ every where to be read in their Assemblies by G. Fox Printed for Ben. Clark 1681. Third To the Children of Light c. Directed thus I desire this Epistle may be read in the fear of the Lord in your several Meetings By William Penn. Fourth A Salutation of Love from the Spirit of Life unto all Friends of Truth c. Let this be read amongst Friends who are Exiled or sentenced for Exilement when they are met together in the fear of the Lord. Josiah Coale Printed 1665. Fifth An Epistle to Friends in Holland Let this be sent amongst the Friends in Holland Jos Coal Printed 1667. Sixth To the Flock of GOD gathered out of the World in the Province of Mariland Let the Copies of this Epistle be sent amongst Friends every where in the Province of Mariland to be read amongst them in all their Assemblies in the fear of the Lord. Jos Coal Seventh Several Papers given forth for the spreading of Truth c. I charge you in the presence of the Lord God to send this amongst all Friends and Brethren EVERY WHERE to be read in all Meetings To you all this is THE WORD OF GOD G. Fox REMARK Thus Reader I have given a few Instances of their way and manner of sending their Epistles to be read in their Meetings both in England Holland and Mariland and were it needful I could give you a hundred more which shews that they give their own Writings the preferrence as well as that they lay aside the use of the Scriptures in their Meetings and no marvel if the Scriptures be Death Dust Carnal Serpents meat and if it be Conjuration to preach out of them and if the Ministers of the Scriptures be Ministers of Death and if it be dangerous to read them as were they as by the Quakers esteemed Dust Death Serpents-meat it were surely dangerous to read them for who would feed upon Dust and Death and Serpents-meat this could no way nourish nor strengthen but corrupt poison and putrifie the Minds of such as are most exercised in reading them and that so it is in their Judgment For if it were wholesome to read them and that they believed them to be given forth by Divine Inspiration as they to the Parliament have pretended to serve a Turn why do they not read the Scriptures or sometimes a Chapter or sometimes one of the Apostles Epistles in their Meetings as that they do not nor never did nay I challenge all the Quakers in England whether ever their Ministers recommended so much as one Chapter to be read in any of their Meetings for Worship these forty years much less charged them in the presence of the LORD GOD to read such a Chapter or such an Epistle as wrote either by the Prophets or Apostles And if they cannot let it be a Sign for ever that they deny the Scriptures first by contempt thrown on them and next by their practice of laying them aside and reading their own Epistles and let it rest upon Record as a witness against their deep Hypocrisies and let it be a Testimony against the false Pretences and Perjury of the twelve false Witnesses Nay and not only in their own Meetings but let me give you one

CHRIST but A Vail A Garment A Vessel c. How should they say this Creed if they do not believe that he is risen yea and that the SAME JESUS is ascended and now sits at the right hand of GOD in the SAME BODY in which he ascended according to Acts 2. how should they say this Creed if they do not believe the Resurrection of the Body out of the Grave at the day of Judgment How should they say or teach others to say this Creed And therefore I exhort you to read the Scriptures and though your Teachers have told you that F. Bugg is a Beast a Dog a Wolf an Enemy of all Righteousness a Child of the Devil yea a Devil Incarnate c. What then did not the unbelieving Jews call Christ a Devil and have they not called the Publick Ministry yea all without restriction or limitation Thieves Robbers Witches and Devils c. what then never regard that but as I said read the Scriptures and take my advice no farther than the Scripture warrants it and so far my Soul for yours you are safe but if your Teachers have begotten such an ill opinion of me as that you will not take my advice as they have against the Publick Ministry that you will not hear them yet I am perswaded what I have wrote will be of service to your Children yea and your Childrens Children and if so why should I not proceed to discover your Errours that so the blind may not always lead the blind but that you may become wiser than your Teachers and see for your selves I am now speaking to you the hearers among the Quakers who have a zeal I bear you record though not according to knowledge and your Leaders have been instrumentally the cause of your Errours and Blindness O consider of what I say and be considerate and cool I am not angry as ye suppose If I be sharp 't is my zeal for the Truths of the Gospel which your Teachers have defaced And therefore bear with me I pity you I lament for you whether you believe it or not They tell you that none was ever converted to GOD by outward and external hearing though the Scripture says that Faith comes by hearing O consider and peruse what followeth and the Lord give you an understanding heart The Prophesies of the Holy Prophets fulfilled and accomplished in and by our blessed LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ Hear the words of our Saviour Search the Scriptures they are they which testifie of me Joh. 5. 39. These are the words which I spake unto you whilst I was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which was written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning ME. Luke 24. 44. The Scriptures cannot be broken Joh. 10 35. It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass than for one Tittle of the Law to fail till all be fulfilled PROPHESIES FULFILLED Isa 7. 14. THerefore the Lord himself shall give you a Sign behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and they shall call his Name Immanuel Matth. 1. 23. BEhold a Virgin shall be with Child and shall bring forth a Son and they shall call his Name Immanuel which being interpreted is GOD with us Isa 8. 14. And he shall be for a Sanctuary but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both houses of Israel for a gin and for a snare c. V. 15. And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken and be snared and taken Matth. 2. 16. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder Micah 5. 2. But thou Bethlehem Ephratah though thou be little among the thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall come forth unto me THAT is to be Ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been of old from everlasing Matth. 2. 16. And thou Bethlehem in the Land of Judah art not the least among the Princes of Judah for out of thee shall come a Governor that shall rule my people Israel Psalm 2. 2. The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against his Anointed saying c. Matth. 26. 3. Then assembled together the chief Priests and the Scribes and the Elders of the People unto the Palace of the High Priest who was called Caiaphas See also Matth. 27. 1. Jer. 31. 15. Thus saith the LORD a voice was heard in Ramah Lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her Children refused to be comforted for her Children because they were not Matth. 2. 18. In Ramah was there a voice heard Lamentation and weeping and great mourning Rachel weeping for her Children and would not be comforted because they are not Isa 53. 7. He was oppressed HE was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth HE is brought as a Lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so opened HE not his mouth Matth. 26. 63. But Jesus held his peace And the High Priest answered and said unto him I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ the Son of GOD. Matth. 27. 14. Jer. 16. 16. Behold I will send for many fishers saith the LORD and they shall fish them c. Matth. 4. 19. And he said unto them follow me and I will make you fishers of Men. Isa 61. 1. The Spirit of the LORD GOD is upon me because the LORD hath anointed ME to preach good Tidings to the Meek he hath sent ME to bind up the broken heart to proclaim liberty to the Captives and the opening the Prison to them that are bound Matth. 11. 5. The blind receive their sight the lame walk the Lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear the dead are raised up and the poor have the Gospel preached to them Isa 53. 12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil with the strong because he hath poured out his soul unto death and he was numbred with the Transgressors and he shall bear the sins of many and make Intercession for the Transgressors Matth. 27. 38. Then were there two Thieves crucified with him one on the right hand and another on the left See also John 19. 18. read also Acts 10. 35. Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that GOD hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both LORD and Christ Acts 5. 30 31. The GOD of our Fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a Tree Him hath GOD exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Isa 42. 1. Behold my Servant whom I uphold mine Elect in whom my Soul delighteth I have put my Spirit upon him he shall bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles Matth. 12. 18. Behold my Servant whom I