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

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of it and then I cannot think any thing is lacking to make the Quakers Known and Understood But if after all G. W. can with his Juggles and Paint blind the Eyes of some that are dim-sighted let them look well into his own Book i. e. Ishmael and his Mother cast out c. which I herewith Reprint that so he may not say I leave out the foregoing or subsequent Words his old and usual Policy to blind his ignorant Followers and I am perswaded they may see and know Quakerism to be the most horrible Heresie that ever the World knew Indeed when the Norfolk Clergy presented their Books to the Parliament of the vile Heresies Seditions and Blasphemous Principles of the Quakers I thought it almost impossible for the Quakers to withstand the Force of the Quotations taken out of their Books but rather that they would have blushed repented and have begg'd of God and the Nation Forgiveness for the Hurt they have done to Christianity and Scandal they have brought upon the Protestant Reliligion both at home and abroad but behold G. W. like the Inchanters of old Exod. 8. with his cunning Craft whereby he lies in wait to deceive as St. Peter well describes such as if he had eaten Shame and drank after it whose Face is like Brass and his Forehead like Case-hardned Steel he ventures to defend vindicate or excuse every Error every Blasphemy every Seditious and Treasonable Principle objected against them the like of which was never broached before in England And why not For by the Method he has taken if allowed he may do it Nay this I dare undertake allowing me his Method to vindicate or excuse all the Blasphemous Heresies and Treasons that ever was wrote since the Days of William the Conqueror and thereupon it came into my Heart to Reprint one of his Books herewith viz. Ishmael and his Mother cast out c. Verbatim except the Postscript to which no Hand is set to avoid his future Cavils and possibly hereafter may Reprint his Truth defending the Quakers c. and Truths Defence if I see Cause And tho' I shall not answer every Particular in his Truth and Innocency vindicated yet I shall give some brief Hints of his Method in defending the Quakers and himself from the Quotations taken out of their Books by the Norfolk Clergy which I am sure they did with great Care and Fidelity and that to my Knowledge viz. P. 6. These Words whom John said he was not we disown in that place his Intention ought to be considered P. 9. We deny the Words as there printed He that hath should be lest out P. 11. We know they intended P. 19. The Words should be transposed P. 25. They wanting due Points there wanted this Parenthesis P. 29. He means Spiritually and not Literally P. 30. He meant Earthly Persecuting Kings P. 45. His Words should run thus P. 46. It should rather have been P. 52. Here I take him to mean P. 63. Not warrantable Expressions P. 55. He means I know his Intent was not P. 59. He means not derided P. 61. Was never so intended P. 62. The Words should be transposed P. 67. It was directly intended c. I say give me but this Allowance and I dare engage to defend and excuse all the Treasonable Words Blasphemous Expressions and Heretical Principles that ever was wrote by Pen yet this is the Method that G. W. has taken to excuse all the Blasphemies and Seditious Principles quoted by the Norfolk Clergy out of the Quakers Books instead of condemning them to the Flames as he ought to have done had he had the tenth part of that Sincerity he oft pretends to Nay moreover when some of the Quotations were so apparently Seditious as that they struck at the very Constitution of our English Government viz. That a Parliament chosen by most Voices could not act for God nor the Good of his People and wrote by a Prophet too enough to raise the Mob insomuch as Whitehead did not dare to recite the said Quotation yet had he the Impudence to justifie his Brother Fox p. 33. viz. Certainly he Fox had an honest intent in what he writ on this Subject Yet nevertheless in the same Page and p. 64. his Heart so smote him that he cried out I would not says Whitehead be understood in any wise to oppose the Peoples just Rights of Elections not understood No I believe it that is tho' he owns Fox's Seditious Doctrine tho' he defends and justifies it saying Certainly he had an honest Intent in what he writ on this Subject yet he would not be understood so The English of which is this that tho' both Fox himself and the rest of their leading Gang own this Doctrine as their Ancient Testimony from which as themselves say they have not deviated in any one Point only for some Politick Reasons he would not be So Understood that is he would not be understood to be what he really is else why should he justifie that in his Brother Fox which he disowns in himself Indeed he makes an Apology for Fox that they were wrote occasionally in the Commonwealths Day what then I grant they were first wrote in 1659. but then they were Reprinted by the Quakers as one of their Ancient Testimonies Seven Years after viz. 1665. and has gone among the Friends ever since as the Word of the Lord wrote by a Prophet of the most high namely Geo. Fox Jun. But George if it was so certainly honestly writ why didst thou not recite it that others might have been Judges of it Well but since thou hast not I shall viz. A Brief Discovery of some of the Blasphemous and Seditious Principles and Practices of the Quakers c. p. 17. Geo. Fox Jun. in his Works Reprinted 1665. p. 87 88. intitles his Epistles A few plain Words to be considered by those of the Army or others that would have a Parliament chosen by the Voices of the People c. wherein is shewed unto them according to the Scriptures of Truth that a Parliament so chosen are not like to govern for God or the Good of his People Consider these things saith he which I declare unto you which in waiting upon the Lord he by his Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding opened in me concerning the chusing of Parliaments by the Voices of the People And p. 89. he says You are not like to see your Desires fulfilled by a Parliament chosen by the Voices of the People Now if you believe these Scriptures John 15.19 Matth. 7.13 Rom. 9.27 Then may you see that a Parliament that is chosen by most Voices are not like to act for God and the Good of his People And p. 91. And likewise the chusing of Parliament Men according to the Custom of England which is called its Birthright stands in respect of Person and not in Equality for the Rich Covetous Oppressing Men who oppress the Poor they have the only Power to
are some things writ on the back-side I 'll charge you with nothing but what is printed Were you the Author of all that is printed in this Book your Name is printed at the beginning middle and end of it G. W. About three Years ago I and Four more writ it betwixt us Mr. Smith Pray tell me plainly whether you will own it or not if you will not own it at all then tell me what you will own and what not otherwise when I have proved it a most wicked Book you may disown it and so all my Discourse fall to the Ground 'T is no pleasure to me to speak or this People to hear vain Words If you will not own it speak but you may as well disown to morrow all that you say to day telling us Words are but Wind if you disown what you have Printed and affixt your Name so often unto G. W. Well I will own it prove what you can Now George lest thou should'st say this is an Adversary's Book tho' that in this Case would not help Dun out of the Mire I shall now come to thy own Book Truth defending the Quakers c. * Of Damning the B. Trinity to the Pit and Lake said in the Title-Page also to be written from the Spirit of Truth in G. W. c. P. 1. Question recited out of the foregoing Book to which this is in Answer Mr. Smith Do not you repent G. W. for your endeavouring vainly to Defend Aug. 29. 1659. in so great a Congregation these Positions printed in your Book of Ishmael c. G. W. The Positions we defended are according to the Scriptures of Truth and them we need not repent of As first in denying the Bible to be the written Word of God Secondly in asserting the Scriptures not to be the Word Thirdly that there is no such Word in the Scripture as Three Persons in the Trinity but it is a Popish Doctrine mentioned in the Popish Mass or Common-Prayer-Book Fourthly And thou that affirm Three distinct Persons in the Godhead art a Dreamer and he that Dreams and tell Lies he with his Imaginations and Dreams is for the Lake Truth Defending c. Where in the 33d Question in The Quaker Disarm'd c. thou hast falsly Charged George Whitehead's Book * Here he owns the Book and defends the Doctrine with proving several Blasphemies in it which is a wicked Lie and Slander for thou never yet proved any Blasphemy in it For that thou countest Blasphemies was our ‖ Mark Our Witnessing Witnessing against such Doctrines as thou couldst not prove by Scripture as that of a Trinity of Three distinct Persons in the Godhead and that of the Letter being the Word Truth defending the Quakers and their Principles c. P. 24. G. Whitehead therein reciting the 45th Question of Mr. Smith's out of his Book The Quaker disarmed p. 6. for I have them both before me G. W. thus Recites and then Answers viz. Do not you G. Whitehead blasphemously take to your self an Attribute of God while you pretend ordinarily to know the Hearts of Men and tell Mr. Townsend of Norwich in the second Page of your Ishmael that the Light of God is departed from his Conscience c. I think 't is the fairest Citation that ever I met with viz. of G. W.'s now comes his Answer I says G. W. take no Attribute of God to my self but what God hath given me c. And as for Townsend I never said that the Light was departed from his Conscience as thou hast belied me But that from the Light of God in his Conscience he is departed * And so are the Words in p. 2. of Ishmael as you may see A plain confession and owning the Book c. c. Truth Defending c. P. 25. In thy 46th Question thou hast says G. Whitehead charged me with Printing Railing Language with calling Priest Townsend Witch Lyar Blind Guide in p. 3. of Our Book * A plain confession and owning the Book c. c. But there is not the Word Witch but that thou would bewitch People with thy Lies c. Reader I cannot inlarge I now refer you to the Book which Geo. Whitehead owned when he and his Partners Wrote it when they Printed it when they Disputed with Mr. Smith Aug. 29. 1659. when G. W. Printed his Truth Defending c. which is at four or five sundry times and till 1690 which was 45 Years never disowned it Yet now he finds Quakerism sinking would insinuate he did not Write it doth not Own the Words is sorry his Name is to it and the like Dissimulation No George you must either Condemn it as rank Blasphemy or Defend it since your Hand Wrote it Signed and Sealed it as your Act and Deed. Now therefore George my Advice is That you go forthwith to your Second-Day-Meeting and together with them Condemn by Publick Censure under your Hands this your Blasphemous Book Ishmael and all other Books of yours and of your Friends of the same Nature and Tendency For as St. Peter once said to Simon Magus I fear it may be said to your Self and Partners Read Acts 8.21 22 23. Thy Heart is not right in the sight of God repent therefore of this thy Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the Thoughts of thy Heart and the Words of thy Mouth may be forgiven thee for I perceive thou art in the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity FINIS ISHMAEL AND HIS MOTHER Cast out into the WILDERNESS Amongst the wild Beasts of the same Nature OR A Reply to a Book entitulled The Scriptures proved to be the word of God put forth by one of Ishmaels Children who calls himself a Minister of the Gospel and a Pastor of S. Austins and Savours Parish in Norwich but is clearly made manifest by the light of God in his Servants to be a scoffer and an enemy to the Gospel which the Saints of God are Ministers of and sufferers for by such as he is who Ishamellike hath laid his folly open and is discovered to the faithful who are of Abraham and of the seed of Promise ALSO A cleer distinction between the Ministers of Christ who are of the seed of Abraham and the Priests of this generation who are of Ishmaels root who with the Truth are plainly made manifest by the light of Christ in us who for the testimony of God do suffer by the sons of Hagar and this Generation of the Priests in Norwich Given forth for no other end but that the truth may be cleared from such as scoff and deny it Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord in us that do suffer in the Goal of Norwich for the truths sake which is persecuted and slandered by the Priests and Rulers of this City Whose names in the flesh is Christopher Atkinson George Whitehead James Lancaster Thomas Simonds London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black
and now calls it reason which from reason was never spoken but holy men of God spoke them forth as they were moved by the holy Ghost now the Apostle which was as Minister of Christ never took wages of of the world neither did he compel them though to them he preached the Gospel and though he robbed other Churches yet he robbed not the world neither took he wages of the world nor hired with them for a certain time as thou and thy generation do and this was his boasting to cut off offences 2 Cor. 13.9 10 12. but with the light of God in the offences we find you who take wages of the world contrary to the Apostles whose practises judges you to be without their life whose entrance unto the Thessalonians he plainly doth declare that it was neither for pleasing men neither of deceit nor guile nor a cloak of covetousness neither was their Gospel burthensom as thou may read 1 Thess 2 3 4 5 6. contrary to which thou and thy generation art found in the steps of them Mark the Perversion Offences for occasion these are the Infallible Reformers the Prophets Christ and his Apostles cryed against as thou may read Isa 56. and Ier. 5. and Mic. 3. and Mat. 23. and 2 Pet. 2. and Iude 11. And this is the Gospel the Apostles preached which is witnessed by the same Spirit which to thee is hid and all thy generations who out of their steps are found walking in the steps of the false Priest Again thou sayest the Apostle intimates that God is mocked when his Ministers are not maintained and thou sayest that God will not be robbed Answ Here is another of thy lyes who perverts the Apostles words and art found adding thy lyes to Scripture when there is not such a word in all the Apostles words as intimate but thou and thy generation are seen to be both thieves and robbers who enters not in at the door but climbs up another way in your inventions consequences and imaginations which are here plainly seen and discovered to them that enter in at the door and for dishonest gain you destroy Souls Ezek. 22.25 26 27. P. 6. 4 to and as a Troop of Robbers wait for a man so do the company of Priests murther by consent Hosea 6.9 and are found Robbers of God as the false Prophets were who in the time of the Law took tythes and did not bring them to the store-house as thy generation now do as thou may read Mal. 3.8 9 10. Priest And thou says thy design according to promise is to prove the Scriptures to be the word of God the only ground of faith and rule for our obedience which thou sayest thou presented us with and bids us read it examine it if it be not truth witness against it by truth if it be so as undoubtedly you will find it truth as thou sayest and so bids us submit to it be ruled by it and undoubtedly our bodies shall be freed from our deserved Imprisonment Answ We have read it and examined it and thee both and have found thee to be a lyar and a denyer of the Word and of the rule and of the foundation which is Christ and with that which thou calls a rule and word and foundation art thou judged and with the light thou art seen to be a wrester of the Scriptures and thy Rotten foundation being already to fail thee The Holy Scriptures they say are a rotten foundation this is their Ancient Testimony from which they have not varied for it is among the blind Watchmen and greedy dumb Doggs and hirelings and among the thieves and robbers and among the Doggs and swine and filthy dreamers which the Scriptures speaks of and as for our deserved imprisonment here thou lyar do we challenge thee and them that imprisoned us to prove the breach of any law by us for they that did imprison us as many can witness could not charge us with the breach of any Law but by their wills to maintain such dumb shepherds as thou art for for the truths sake which witnesses against thee and all thy generation do we suffer for which thou and thy generation did never suffer imprisonment nor persecution of the world for ye are the world and the world speaks well of you and hears you as it did of your Fathers the false Prophets 1 John 4 5 and Luke 6.26 drunkards swearers lyars and thieves speaks well of you and fights for you and loves you and pleads for you and there is your fruits and freedom from our imprisonment will we never speak for in yielding to thy lyes and false accusations as is plainly here laid open Priest And thou sayest from thy study Ianuary 29. Answ Here thy filthy rotten stuff which thou hast been such a long time of gathering together in thy study it s tryed and seen to be fewel for the fire and thou art seen to study divinations of thy own brain and to be an inventer of lyes contrary to Scripture and where did ever any of the Saints go into a study and rake up such filthy stuff and invent such lyes as thou art disapproved in and with that which thou calls thy word thy foundation and only rule of obedience Here let the life of all the holy men of God judge thee to be both shut out of their life and out of the Scriptures Having returned answer to the former part of thy rotten stuff P. 7. 4 to Sampson Townsend wherein thy lies and deceit is uncovered to all them that have eyes to see may see thy nakedness and thy shame laid open now for the simple ones sake which thou by thy lyes and divinations makes a prey upon and through thy covetousness makes Merchandise of who pharisee-like would neither enter into the Kingdom thy self nor suffer others to enter in now for their sakes are we moved to unvail thee and thy deceit that they that see not might see thee in thy lyes and wresting the Scripture as thou hast also made it appear in the latter part of thy book wherein thou sayest Priest That thou hast undertaken against the Quakers these two Propositions i. that the Scriptures contained in the Old or New-Testament commonly called the Bible is the revealed will and word of God 2. That the Scripture which is the word of God is the only foundation of our Faith and only rule for our obedience which thou sayest thou wilt prove 1. by Scripture 2. by Reason and thou sayest that he that will not hear the voice of the Scriptures is an Infidel and he that will not hear the voice of reason is a beast Ans We who in scorn by thee and thy generations are called Quakers do own Scriptures but thee we utterly deny for an evill Beast whose mouth must be stopped Tit. i. 10 11 12. who in thy filthy reason art going about to maintain those things which thou canst not prove by any plain Scripture
Physician for as they did not think themselves obliged to ask Forgiveness of Sin to God nor acknowledge their Errors to Man so they resolved to use none of their Medicines and therefore bad them be gone calling them by these Names following viz. The Idle Gormondizing Priests of England The Guide mistaken c. by W. Penn p. 18. no sort of People have been so universally through Ages the very Bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that Abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon With this the Gentlemen were amazed and looking one upon another said Good Lord may it please thee to forgive our Enemies Persecuters and Slanderers and to turn their Hearts Grant us O Lord to love our Enemies and by the Example of thy Martyr Stephen to pray for our Persecuters c. And when this Prayer was ended they judging it their Duty to do Good against Evil they again tried another Expedient thinking their Distemper lay in their Brain and being somewhat Lunatick was the Cause of those violent and abusive Words Well they gave them some Pills advis'd them to be still and take some Rest but before this Physick could work they fell into another Convulsion Fit and raved as much as ever yea all of them except some few who were not wilfully ignorant who by the Blessing of God upon their Endeavours came to their Sences and remain so to this Day as Monuments of God's Mercy praising his Great and Glorious Name and returning their Thanks to the Physicians who labour in the Word and Doctrine calling the Physician methinks I hear them still Baal's Priests Conjurers Thieves Robbers Blind Guides Devils Serpents the Sir-Symons of the Age a Viperous and Serpentine Generation Witches Bloodhounds Merchants of Babylon Dogs Sodomites * Is this from a Christian Spirit See their Brief Discovery c. p. 7 8. we said this Intoxicated People in their mad Zeal have nothing for them but Woes and Plagues who have made drunk the Nations and laid them to sleep on downy Beds of Sin-pleasing Principles whilst they have cut their Purses and pickt their Pockets Tophet 's prepared for them to act their Eternal Tragedy upon whose Scenes will be renewed Direful Anguishing Woes of an Eternal Irreconcileable Justice c. And in excuse for these dreadful Thunderbolts W. Penn thus saith That had these Expressions been Ten Thousand times more significant earnest and sharp against that cursed bitter Stock of Hirelings they had been but enough and I would then say not enough but that the Reverence I bear to the Holy Spirit i. e. in the Quakers would oblige me to acquiesce in whatever he should utter through any Servant or Prophet of the Lord * W. Penn 's Ser. Apol. p. 156. c. At this the Gentlemen stood amazed thinking with themselves that all the Furies of Hell could not help them with more dreadful Curses much less Ten Thousand times more sharp and so they left them as fit only for Bedlam Upon this there was some dissenting Physicians * Dr. Owen Mr. Baxter Mr. Faldo and others in this Island who also had good Skill of this Malady with which this People were infected by the Venom of the Scorpions above-noted and in great Pity to them they searched diligently into their Christian Dispensatory and found therein divers Receipts and of the most proper Medicines they apply'd both Corrosive and Lenitive but nothing took place except only upon a few who were not willingly Ignorant and of an obstinate Temper but the Treatment they had for them was much of the same Nature of the above-noted for they called them An ill-bred Pedantick Crew † Is this from a Christian Spirit the Bane of Religion and Pest of the World the old Incendiaries to Mischief and best to be spared of Mankind against whom the boiling Vengeance of an irritated God is ready to be poured out * Quakerism a new Nick-name c. p. 165. c. Whoever read this Book and my former Books will find this Parable unfolded Thus Reader you see here is nothing but Plagues and Woes Hell and Damnation both for the Conformists and Nonconformists for all their Love Care and Pains are these mad People then to be dealt with as a Man would deal with any other well-disposed People I think not If then you find me in some Cases to deal roughly with them marvel not it is for their Good since the way as one of themselves say to recover the Deceived is to discover the * Deceivers And this Witness it true as St. Paul said touching the Cretians Tit. 1.12 13. so may I and that for the same Reason say of the Quakers viz. one of themselves even a Prophet of their own said The Cretians were always Liars evil Beasts Slow-Bellies this witness is true said St. Paul wherefore Rebuke them sharply c. that is as in the Dutch Annotations Severely or Cuttingly a Similitude taken from Physicians who cut off the dead Flesh c. Then not softly with smooth Words sewing Pillows under their Armholes as some did in former Ages and for which they were sharply reproved no no they must be launched and the Wound laid open † A Desperate Wound must have a Desperate Cure and searched to the bottom and then we may hope of a Cure and this Doctrine of St. Paul that able Physician has seemed proper to me ever since I have practiced for the Quakers like the Cretians were always Dissemblers with God and Man they were always Liars they were always evil Beasts and Slow-Bellies and for the Truth of this St. Paul touching the Cretians produceth a Prophet or a Poet of their own who gave that Witness and notwithstanding they were always Liars yet St. Paul said of this Evidence of their own Poet this Witness it true therefore rebuke them sharply Severely or Cuttingly in order to cut off the dead Flesh and in like manner I shall produce a Prophetess of their own who also is a Poet and a Writer and Defender of their Way and in their Unity which stands principally in Lying and Dissembling and when she does write in the Defence of the Quakers she is as great a Liar as the rest yet in this Case her Witness is true as St. Paul said of the Cretian Poet. Wherefore I shall briefly recite some Passages out of some Letters writ by her to my self and to Mr. Crisp as also out of a printed broad Sheet all wrote by Anne Docwra of Cambridge one in their Unity as above-noted which Letters we have still by us as well as her printed Paper and which are more at large recited in my Book The Christian Ministry of the Church of England vindicated c. p. 2. and my Pilgrim's Progress c. 2d Ed. p. 54 121 129. and her Witness in this Case is true viz. I. I have said she given witness
against Geo. Whitehead's Book Judgment fixed c. we have continues she Knights of the Post amongst us c. This Witness is true II. That the honest Quakers for some such there are amongst them have suspected G. Whitehead by his Craft and Subtilty in defending or excusing what he must know to be erroneous amongst them to be a Jesuit at least like them This Witness is true III. That their Second-Day Meeting put Names to their Certificates and Passages into their Books without either Consent or Knowledge of the Parties or Authors This Witness is true IV. That the Quakers separate Meetings for Government with Doors shut are dangerous to the Peace of the Nation This Witness is true V. That the Magistrates look upon Common Bankers i. e. the Quakers Fund to be as bad as Arms and Ammunition and not said she without Reason for Money answers all things If Friends said she would put away this Dagon and take Money only for their present Necessity things would soon be better This Witness is true VI. That the Quakers Distinct Men's Meetings touching their Government within the Government and opposite to it serve to little Purpose but to shelter great Bellies and to protect the Proud and Vicious This Witness is true VII That their Teachers G. Whitehead Sam. Cater c. are the most confident Liars and wicked Forgers that ever she met with This Witness is true VIII That their Second-Day Meeting both added to and altered the Sence of her Letters to make Lies seem true of which Forgery she suspected G. Whitehead to be Guilty for continue she Sam. Cater is not Sophister great enough This Witness is true IX I had said she a sharp Conference with Sam. Cater for his Clamouring against Francis Bugg and John Ainsloe in his abuseful Narrative herein said she he Sam. Cater have used my Name in Print to justifie him in his Conscious Pamphlet with Francis Bugg I said she laid it before him smartly he is very bold continues she and the most confident Liar that ever I met with This Witness is true X. That G. W. forged a Certificate in 's Judgment Fixed This witness is true Thus much from a Prophetess of their own one in their Unity and that have wrote many Books in Defence of Quakerism one in 1699. by which Evidence we may know that the Quakers like the Cretians were always Liars evil Beasts slow Bellies but not only so but Liars Forgers and to speak Comparatively Knights of the Post Jesuits and dangerous to the Government Slanderers to their honest Friends whilst they protected the proud Blasphemers and Vicious Hypocrites and as St. Paul said the Evidence which a Prophet of the Cretians said was true who said and said truly that the Cretians were always Liars c. why Because he knew the Truth thereof and as to the Evidence which this Propheress Anne Docwra has given of the Quakers I say it is true why Because I know it to be so in the Cases now recited But further to confirm it I shall recite an Abstract of a Letter sent me dated January the 19th 1699. from Robert Sandiland who formerly was one of their Teachers But upon Conviction of his Errors and the gross Hypocrisies of the Quakers he has left them as many others have done and Retracted not only his Errors which he with my self G. Keith Tho. Crisp and divers others held but also his uncharitable Language to me and others tho' much of what his Books contained was as Anne Docwra says foisted in as his yet none of his and I am apt to think the same Person G. W. was the Forger in his Book for which horrible Practice he I fear has a large Account to give Now follows R. S.'s Letter somewhat abstracted Loving Friend Francis Bugg AS concerning my Book printed 1683. Entituled Righteous Judgment c. whatsoever it herein inconsistent or any other of my Books with the sound Christian Faith and Doctrine I do now wholly Disown and Retract together with all Harsh and Uncharitable Expressions on thee or any others named in my Book and particularly these Verses p. 97. viz. Team Rogers Pennyman Bullock and Bugg Dark Devil driven dungy God's desperately Lugg That are ty'd to the Tail of their separate Schism Papists Libertinism Heathenism Judaism Atheism I do say and affirm that tho' these Verses were put into my Book as mine yet I assure thee that they were none of my making I did not compose oneword of them but they were made by another Hand and put into my Book together with the whole Ninth Chapter which was likewise done by another Hand and put also into my said Book as mine whilst I was in the Country and after I had left it with the Second-Day-Meeting for the Press and they did with it what they pleas'd as thou knowest they use to Read and Correct all Books brought before them and G. W. I suppose may remember who it was that writ that whole Ninth Chapter * * Yea and I guess that it was G. W. himself from p. 91 to 100. Blessed be God that their gross Errors in the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion are now sufficiently Detected and there is nothing remains now for them to do but either openly and freely to Retract and Condemn them or else to be exposed and liable to all the ill Effects and Consequences which must unavoidably attend their obstinate persisting in their Errors Robert Sandilands But to shew the horrid Cheats wicked Forgeries and deep Hypocrisies of this their Second-Day Meeting will exceed the bounds of a Preface and therefore for a compleat System of this their black Art in their dark Divinity I refer my Reader to my Pilg. Prog. c. 2d Edit p. 149 to p. 170. And that I may not leave a Stone unturned that may discover the pious Frauds of this Painted Harlot I shall recite a brief Abstract of W. Mucklow's Book Entituled The Spirit of the Hat c. he being a Man of Note amongst them and may be called in St. Paul's Sence a Prophet of their own and whose Evidence in this Case is true yea I know it to be so For the Quakers were always Liars evil Beasts Slow-Bellies whilst yet they pretend to Infallibility and also that their Books are given forth from the Immediate Eternal Spirit of God 1. That the Foxonian Unity is to yeild Obedience to the Body tho' no Conviction inwardly of the Truth of the thing commanded saying who is able to make War with us These are the high swelling Words of proud Babel This Witness is true 2. That G. Fox c. was of an Antichristian Spirit This Witness is true 3. That their Ministers in their Meetings for Government conjoin'd together to subvert our Laws and Liberty This Witness is true 4. That G. Fox was lifted up with Luciferian Pride saying he had Power to bind and loose whom he please This Witness is true 5. That Sol. Eccles
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