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A30027	Innocency vindicated and envy rebuked being a brief answer to George Whitehead and John Tysoe, touching John Anslo's proceedings in marriage, whereby their lyes, hypocrisy, and evil suggestion are discovered, and their evidences rejected, who being examined apart agree not in their tale, like their predecessours of old.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1684 (1684)	Wing B5371; ESTC R36066	11,254	13

write so much for 20 s. What will become of S. Cater for taking 10 l. for 40 s. Damage sustained by a Fine for preaching at Phakenham in Norfolk And of S. Cater his Fellow-Preachers for taking several Sums of Money for preaching I say what will become of these disobedient Sons for Breach of this Infallible Order made by G. Fox unless G. F. absolve them Answer this you Money-Mongers in these Things but freely a free People and in Love serve one another OBSERVATIONS THEREUPON Although J. A. took not this Prescription for his Rule yet thus far he did according to the Advice given Viz. He first made known his Intention of Marriage to several able Friends of his first Wive's Relations and others then to the Monthly or General Meeting then about 3 Months after being a convenient time there was an Assembly of Friends many more than 12 met together who were Witnesses to his Marriage and gave him a Certificate witnessing the Day Month and Year which is Recorded in Cambridgeshire Monthly Book without Money So that J. A. cannot be Recorded out of Vnity for not taking his Wife according to this Order THE SECOND ORDER OF MARRIAGE BY G. F. About the Year 1662 G. F. wrote a Second Order for Marriage which came to me when I was Prisoner at Wisbech which amongst thirteen Particulars more at the request of some Friends I Recorded in our Monthly Register Book A short Abstract whereof followeth Viz. And when they take one another in Marriage let not less than a Dozen of Friends and Relations be present according to your former Order having first acquainted the Men's Meeting and that it may be Recorded in a Book OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Although J. A. took not this Second Prescription for his Rule yet he published the Intentions of his Marriage to the Men's Meeting and this is G. F's Order Infallibly and it doth not advise to go Twise to the Men's Meeting c. And not less than a Dozen Friends and Relations though many more were present And his Certificate is Recorded without Money as before observed So that he cannot be Recorded out of Unity for taking his Wife contrary to this Order THE THIRD ORDER FOR MARRIAGE About the Year 1667 there came another Paper of Orders to my hand with this Superscription Viz. The Elders and Brethren sendeth unto the Brethren in the North c. Touching twenty Particulars the seventh whereof was about Marriage which I have quoted at large in my Book De Christianâ Libertate pag. 141. A short Abstract thereof followeth Viz. That as any are moved of the Lord and in his Light called to take a Brother or Sister in Marriage let it be made known to the Children of Light and being by the Light made manifest to be of God let them be joyned together in the Lord and in his Fear in the Presence of many Witnesses according to the Example of the Holy Men of God Recorded in the Scripture of Truth which was wrote for our Example and Learning That there may be a Record in Writing witnessing the Day Place and Year under which the Witnesses present may subscribe their Names c. OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Although J. A. took none of the foregoing Prescriptions for his Rule which by the Conclusion of this Epistle in these words Dearly beloved these Things we do not lay upon you as a Rule or Form to walk by c. is not desired Yet he fulfilled the same in making known his Intention of Marriage to the Children of Light unless their Monthly Men's Meeting be not Children of the Light and about 3 Months after was joyned together in the Fear of the Lord in the Presence of many Witnesses and a Record thereof was made of the Place Day Month and Year and many subscribed the same as I shall yet more plainly make appear So that J. A. could not be Recorded out of Vnity for not taking his Wife according to this Order THE FOURTH ORDER FOR MARRIAGE At a Quarterly Meeting in Hadenham in the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge within four Miles of J. A's Dwelling Yet G. W. hath the Face to tell the World there were no Women's Meetings in those Parts Oh Impudence it self and to which Meeting J. A. belonged as a Member there was yet another Order made which I shall transcribe at large and though Ed. Pechy St. Blew and divers other Cambridgshire Friends as well as the Isle of Ely Friends had published their Intentions of Marriage there Viz. before the Mens and Women's distinct Meetings yet J. A. as a Disobedient Son to the Church of G. F. and his Party took no notice of this Unscriptural Law and vain Tradition following Viz. It is ordered and agreed upon at this Quarterly Meeting that no Friends for TIME to COME may PERMIT or SUFFER MARRIAGES without the consent of two Men's and Women's Meetings and the Man and Woman to come both to the said Meeting to receive the Answer of Friends that so no disorderly or indirect Proceedings may be carryed on any more contrary to the VNITY of Friends Anno 1675. OBSERVATIONS THEREVPON Indeed this Order J. A. did thus far take his Wife contrary to Viz. 1st He did not go to the Men's and Women's distinct Meetings 2dly He did not carry his Wife twice to the Men's and Women's distinct Meetings 3dly He did neither ask nor receive Lycense from them And therefore if by their words both of this fourth Order and of the Record of his Condemnation as in Title Page recited their meaning may be known they have Recorded him out of Vnity for Non-Conformity to the Order of Men's and Women's Meetings And that it may yet more plainly appear that J. A. was therefore Recorded out of the Vnity if plainer can be I shall recite part of that Universal Decree made by a General Counsel held not at Trent but at London in Devonshire House the 27th of the 3d. Month 1675 and Signed by G. Whitehead St. Crisp and other Preachers of G. F's Party by Vertue of which Decree not only J. A. but as many in all Countrys and Nations that profess Christianity as shall either directly or indirectly discountenance these Women's Meetings are Recorded to all Intents and Purposes out of the Vnity of the Church of Christ and Order of the Gospel See De Christianâ Libertate pag. 42 43 44. more at large Viz. That Marriages be twice propounded to the Men's and Women's Meetings It is our Judgment and Testimony in the Word of God's Wisdom that the Rise and Practice Setting up and Establishing of Men's and Women's Meetings is according to the Mind and Counsel of God and done in the Ordering and Leading of his Eternal Spirit And if any professing Truth shall either directly or indirectly discountenance or weaken the hands of either Men or Women we cannot but look upon them as therein not in Vnity with the Church of Christ and Order of the Gospel

I did bear Testimony against the force used and I always was for Christian Liberty so far as I understood it I have read that M. Luther who was born Anno 1583. was once zealous for the Romish Religion being an Augustine Monk yet when he saw their Deceit and how they nursed up Implicit Faith and Blind Obedience and said as G. W. hath wrote That they must believe as the Church believes he then soon bore Testimony against their Superstition and so did I as may be seen by my Books extant to which I refer the Reader for further satisfaction And as to the SECOND Part of the Objection 't is well known that long before the Difference betwixt S. C. and I happened that I disliked some things practised amongst us as in particular our Friends forcing their Apprentices to stand bare headed before them and in their Shops which though it may be requisiite amongst other People who give and receive Honour and Respect yet upon our Principles I looked upon it Inconsistent with our Profession And as a Testimony against that Practice and to shew my early dislike thereof I wrote a Letter to our Yearly Meeting and directed it to S. Cater who can bear me witness to the Truth thereof a short Abstract thereof is as followeth Viz. FRIEND c. Mildenhall the 17th of the 3d. Mo. 1675. THese are to open my mind a little to thee touching Friends forcing their Apprentices to stand bare headed before them and my Request is to lay it before Friends Viz. the Yearly Meeting Whether we ought to IMPOSE that on our Servants which many of us when Apprentices could not bear and having of late heard it pleaded for and seen it practised I did testifie against it But the Party said that good Friends practised it Then I said if so why then may we not put off our Hats to the King and plead that he is Master and chief Governour over the whole Family of England I told him that pleaded for that Custome that our Apprentices who succeed us may in the next Age say As for our Masters they respected not the Persons of Princes nor any Court of Judicature but were zealous for their Religion often professing that God respected neither Time Place nor Person But they themselves came no sooner into their Houses or Shops where they were Chief Governours but off we must put our hats and before them stand bareheaded they pleading it would give Offence to the World c. So let us turn our backs upon them and their Religion too since by their Practice they unsay their Sayings building again what they once destroyed c. F. B. Mildenhall the 22d of the 4th Month 1684. F. B. This being nigh ten years since was before ever I was Fined for S. Cater's Preaching Which is enough in answer to the Objection WHen fallen Man his Nakedness appears Fig-leaf Excuses covers all his Fears Which soon wears out proves but a withr'd Weed Such as he Sows he Reaps in very Deed. The dark Conceits of his projecting Brain Leads him into a Lab'rinth long and vain He works and toils shews all his Skill and Power In vain to build his stately BAEL-TOWER His Directories in 's high-flown Conceit None must oppose but all must bow and wait Aske leave to Marry Conform or judged wrong He Saints himself to make his Sentence strong Out of the Earth this Beast did first arise Horn'd like a Lamb with th'Dragons Voice he crys Receive my Mark conform you must to me My Power is great my Wonders you may see The number of this Beast exalts his Praise High as their Art in Sophistry can raise It 's true enough such Rabbinists you 'l find Delights in feeding their ambitious Mind Makes clean the out-side of the Cup and Platter With these Conceit themselves and others flatter The Arm of GOD that leads his People right Stops the Designs of fallen Man that smite At that which first convinced Man of Sin And brought him out of Forms to Light within To be his Guide that he may cease from Man Who thus presumes to Captive whom he can The New Covenant that God to Men imparts Admits no Rule but written in their Hearts No Teacher but Himself no Judge but he That judgeth all unto Eternity To Him alone be Praise and Glory given Whose inward Teaching leads us into Heaven A. D. TAKE heed beware of Novelty And of Female Authority That they into the Church ben't brought And thereby such Divisions wrought Through Craft of the old Enemy Who is profound in Subtilty As may cause bitterness to spring Which is a very hurtful Thing And more thereby's defil'd within Than Women can wash clean again But rather take the Good Old Way As God commanded Paul doth say That Women in Subjection be And not usurp Authority Nor in the Church permitted speak Whereby they should good Order break Except to Pray or Prophesy By Power givem from on high Otherwise they 'l confusion make And cause the Hearts of Friends to ake But rather all with one Accord Let Male and Female serve the Lord That as Partakers of one Grace They meet together in one Place And not distinct as George doth say As the Tenth Hour of the Day Nor yet divided one from t'other Lest that Division breeds another But as the Children of one Father Brethren and Sisters both may gather Together in one Place to see What may to others needful be And helping their Necessity May serve each other in Unity And Men's Invented Novelties With Womanish Formalities What e're defiles may out be swe●t And all things sweet and clean be kept Who first convinc't us by his Light To lead us on may have his Right And following him as Children Dear May walk in Love whil'st we are here And all unto him be Subjected That all may in him be Perfected That God o're all may Ruler be And glorify'd Eternally But what art thou that art so bold That Women's Meetings thus control'd And thus dost seem to lay a Block Against the raising of a Stock Whereas George hath Infallibly Erected them to sit on High And that against their Government None should shew Discouragement Neither Direct nor Indirect Lest out of Vnity they be kept I tell thee I am a Labouring Man And have been taught to Thresh and Fan And what 's the Chaff unto the Wheat Though it may serve some Beast to eat And to the Wheat may grow so near That both came forth of th' self same Ear And sent forth wrapt in Paper White Wise Men will look ON 'T in the Light And such whose Eyes are in their Head Can see it is not fit for Bread Therefore on it refuse to feed Lest it should ill Humours breed And such distempers as Blind-Zeal Which noysom are to Common-weal● For when Men's Minds with it are heat Their Fellows they are apt to beat According to their Power and Might They with their Tongues begin to smite And he that is not of their Mind From Truth say they he is declin'd And Women's Meetings he doth slight How then can his Spirit be right And then saith one Let 's Mouth be stopt And others cry He must be knockt Another He doth blasting threaten And thus are Fellow Servants beaten From Cross-bow of their crooked Thoughts Which Blind-Zeal bent they shoot their bolts 'T is like I shall be paid with blows For smiting the Image on the Toes That Image of Authority Which Women's Meetings signifie Although but two or three be there As more seldom do appear When Weather 's cold and Winds do blow I seldom see a bigger shnow But I don't mean with them to fight Therefore to keep me from their sight I 'll to my Refuge quickly fly Even God that Judgeth Righteously And with him also will abide Till he doth Remedy Provide That Truth o're all may so prevail As Love to conquer may not fail That as God's One also his Name We all may be one in the same And he may Reign whose Right it is That nothing may be done amiss And then his Saints with Joy shall sing And sound forth Praises to their King Which was his due all times before To him be it given for evermore But now before I go my way Another word I have to say To such as would know my Intent Why this I writ 't is to prevent The further growth of Discontent Rais'd with the Female Government Although a Charter firm they have And Grant and Confirmation brave Which Strengthen and Corroborate Their Jurisdiction obtain'd of late Yet if the Tree known now may be By the Fruit mine Eye doth see Charter and Confirmation both Are Innovations nothing worth Wherefore I say my Council take And to your selves no Image make Nor to a Likeness now submit That no Foundation hath in it Now to God's Grace I all commend For teaching thereon to depend Which from all Strife can us desend And thus I here shall make an end Who am a Lover of Truth and Peace To all therein wishing Increase FINIS