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A65888	A sober expostulation with some of the clergy against their pretended convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross abuse of the people called Quakers, in his books and pamphlets, viz., his New Rome arrainged, History of Quakerism, Second summons, Picture of Quakerism, and other pamphlets which may serve to invalidate the authority of the snake in the grass, as it refers to his books.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1959; ESTC R20305	65,396	156

in our Adversary to persist in this Notorious Lye and Forgery and so much add and heap one Forgery and Abuse upon another What say you his Ministers to these things Will it be for your Credit to Encourage him in his Work of Envy and Falshood against us 6. Our Adversary in his Introduction p. 6. After he has Cited above a Page which he knew in his Conscience are Allegorical Expressions intending the Spiritual Weapons and Warfare and the Saints Testimony and victory according to Ephe 6. 12 17. He puts his own Perverse and False Notes thereupon in the Margin As where Ameleck the Egyptians and Philistines are Threatned so as to be cut off He makes this Note upon it in the Margin viz. Which by Interpretation was all that Professed Jesus of Nazareth and that called the Scriptures the Word of God Whereby he endeavours to render the Quakers to be for cutting off and destroying all that profess Jesus of Nazareth c. Oh horrible Did ever more deadly Malice bloody Envy and Falshood appear in any Agent of Satan And how evidently against his own Conscience too who knew the People called Quakers professed no other Sword nor Weapons for them to make use of but such as are Spiritual and to be actually concerned in no other Fighting but in the Lamb's War What Fra. Howgill writes of bathing their Sword in the Blood of Ameleck and the Egyptians c. are Allegorical Expressions and not Literally to be understood but of the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God And that War of the Lord's Camp was Spiritual because of his Power and Presence and Angel of his Covenant among them And the Lord of Hosts is with us saith he By these and divers other passages 't is evident he meant no other but a Spiritual War with Spiritual Weapons like as the Prophets meant Isa. 41. 14 15 16. Hos. 6. 5. 7. Also on the words Let not your Eye pity nor your Hand spare he has this Note viz. Why then should you be pitied or spared Thus injuriously restraining the words to a Literal Sense which were Allegorical on purpose to render us most obnoxious and for no pity to be shewn us but as if he would have us all destroyed at once Oh most cruel and deadly Malice 8. On the following words But wound the Lofty and tread under foot the Honourable of the Earth give unto the great Whore double c. he thus Notes viz. Meaning both Gentry and Clergy and Church of England Oh horrid and implacable Malice Revenge and Falshood They did not mean Literally as of an outward wounding or treading under Feet nor of any truly Honourable Gentry or others but in Testimony against such great Persecutors as had deeply Drunk of the great Whore's Cup who has made her self Drunk with the Blood of Saints Therefore 't is false to say ' t was meant of Gentry c. or without Limitation Again our Adversary in p. 7. repeats his so often refuted Forgery and Lie viz. That our Friend 's said Epistle Compared the North of England to the Town of Bethlehem and G. Fox to the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness c. which Falshood has been refuted over and over tho' here he varies in 's Charge from the terms of his first Charge which was that the Quakers PVT the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem Now 't is COMPARED the North of England c. In the first it was viz. They call G. F. the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness now 't is they compared him to the Branch c. Thus mutable he is in his Accusations and Calumnies yet grosly false in both Is this your Defender of Eternal Truths And are these his Pious Endeavours for which you his Approvers have so highly Congratulated him 10. Farther to aggravate Matters against us our Adversary adds p. 7. viz. Prophecies and Curses which bear the Figure of your Private Sermons by which they snared and frighted me and many more from the Publick and now they have obtained their End and made Rents and Division in Church and State c. 1. Tho' here he renders himself but a dark poor frightful Creature as if in his first leaving the Publick or Parish Priests he did it only upon a Fright and as a Non Compos Mentis and not from a Principle of Conscience or Conviction yet herein he does but greatly wrong his Conscience and deny the real Truth by a very slim and false Cover and that in manifest Contradiction to his Confessions and Testimonies extant in Print both before and since his Revolt to the Publick as he calls it as has been often shewn him and made evident to the World in our Answers to his Envious and Bitter Invectives as where he has solemnly confessed To the Truth of the Principle Foundation Doctrine Ministry Faith Love Unity Spiritual Testimony of the People called Quakers as in the beginning and as being the Church whereof Christ Jesus was the Head and Law-giver c. as he confesseth far more largely in his Book Entituled De Christiana Libertate 2d Part Chap. 1. p. 24 25 26 27 c. Printed 1682 before his return back to the Publick Surely he was not frighted into such Solemn Confessions nor did he make them in a fright he was more deliberate therein and which said Confessions in behalf of the People called Quakers and their Christian Religion are largely seconded and confirmed by him the said F. Bugg himself even in his Pamphlet stiled The Quakers detected Printed 1686. about Two Years after he left us and turned to the Publick as he calls it wherein he also largely and solemnly confesseth To the Truth of the said Peoples Principle as in the beginning and of their Doctrine and Ministry as a Dispensation of God's Love their Christian Love and Society for many Years and that God blessed their Meetings with the Comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence c. as may be seen more at large in the whole third page of his said Pamphlet Quakers Detected Now I would Query 1. Whether F. Bugg made all these solemn Confessions in a fright O● was he scared or frighted by any Man or Men or Prophecies or Sermons of ours thereunto 2. Or was he not rather Consciencious in those Confessions 3. Was he not rather frighted back to the Priests by Persecution and so made his flight in the Winter for Refuge and shelter among them whom he had testified against 4. May he not then be ashamed of such a deceitful Excuse and false Cover as that of his being scared and frighted from the Publick by Quakers Prophecies or Sermons 2. To the latter part of his Charge I deny it that the Quakers have made Divisions not only in Church but in State Q. 1. In what Church have they made Division If he says the Church of England then he renders it a divided Church which I suppose you its Ministers

City of London how I followed and sought to have a Meeting and Meetings with him at sundry places in this City in the Year 1693. 12th Month to prove and make good my said Proposition but still he shun'd it he shifted and evaded Meeting with me on that Account as is more fully evinced in my Answer Intituled The Counterfeit Convert Preface Notwithstanding I made divers Overtures for a Meeting with him before a few Moderate Persons to hear and witness what passed but his shuffling and shifting to stave me off from pursuing my own Proposal fairly made are too large to be here rehearsed but my said Proposal is fully proved to hand in my Answers which therefore I refer the Reader unto for further Information in this Case viz. 1. The Quakers Vindication 2. The Counterfeit Convert 3. The Answer to F. Bugg's Presumptuous Impeachment 4. By the Two Letters herein to his Teachers By a Servant of Jesus Christ G. W. The CONTENTS Chap. I. A Copy of a Letter to William Smithies Minister of Cripplegate London II. A Copy of a Letter to Isaac Archer Vicar of Mildenhall Suffolk III. Another to the said Isaac Archer IV. A Sober Expostulation with those Persons of the Clergy concerned in giving Countenance to F. Bugg against the People called Quakers containing an Answer to several of their Certificates in his Behalf and also to several additional and repeated Abuses in the Second Edition of his New Rome Arraigned V. A Brief Answer to F. Bugg's pretended Brief History of Quakerism stiled The Quakers set in their True Light VI. A Brief Answer to F. Bugg's Two Printed Papers dated March 1696. VII A Brief Answer and Reply to F. Bugg's Second Summons as he directs it to the City of Abel on 2 Sam. 20. VIII An Appendix to the Controversie in certain Positions of the sincere Belief and Christian Doctrine of the People called Quakers in Opposition to the Misrepresentations and Calumnies cast upon them by Apostates and other Adversaries in their Books and Pamphlets A Brief Advertisement to the Reader upon Fr. Bugg's Book Stiled The Picture of Quakerism c. CHAP. I. A Copy of a Letter to William Smithies Minister of Cripplegate LONDON Friend William Smithies BEcause of the Character and Reputation thou hast as a Person of Charity and Moderation and also of thy Desire that I might signifie my Mind to thee in Writing I was the more willing to give thee this following Information and Advertisement The Occasion of our late Proposals and Complaint to thy self concerning F. Bugg was the Incouragement and Strength which we understand he has taken from thee and some others of the Clergy to Commit and Persist in his intolerable Abuse and Scandal of an Innocent People commonly called Quakers and particularly by his being Reputed thy Convert as also by thy Privity to and Connivance at his Reviling and Scandalous Pamphlets and Books against us as a People and by thy promoting the Reprinting his Injurious Pamphlet with the New Title of The Converted Quakers Answer Which with another Title he had before delivered to the Members of Parliament to render us both Odious and Obnoxious in the Eye of the Civil Government and Consequently to Invalid the Condition of our present Liberty and to make void our Liberty it self which as it bespeaks great Malice and Persecution in him so no great Charity nor Prudence in thy self either directly or indirectly to give Encouragement or Strength to such a Counterfeit Convert whose work is not only purely Malicious and Revengful but Injurious to the Christian and Civil Reputation of others if he were but a Person of Credit or Reputation therein as he really is not with the Sober and Judicious We have pursued him in a Christian Method both with fair and moderate Answers in Print the Substance and Principle Arguments whereof he has given the Go-by unto and instead of any fair or solid Replications or Rejoynders he has partially and unjustly Raked up broken Passages and Pieces and Words out of some particular Deceased Friends Books making his own perverse Constructions thereupon to Misrepresent our Principles and Scandalize us as a People without any due Regard to or Representment of the Author 's own Explications or the Harmony or Concurrence of their own or others of our Friends Testimonies or Writings Demonstrating our Principles which no ingenious Man will refuse Persons or People their own Explications and Harmony of their extant or publick Testimonies to make out their own Principles Moreover we have not thus left the said F. Bugg but even since his last coming to London we have earnestly besought and endeavoured to have a sober and suitable Meeting with him for a fair Dispute and Disquisition of matters chiefly in Controversie between him and us and that before moderate and disinterested Persons and the more because he pretended over and over that he accepted of my Printed Challenge in the Quakers Vindication p. 4. and that he came 60 Miles to London to accept thereof and had waited for an Engagement on equal Terms near Three Weeks when he himself knows and others also how he has been since followed with Letters Messages and fair Challenges in that Interim even time after time for such a Meeting as before but he has by his divers Dilatory partial and unequal Terms as by Letters made out to him which he may shew thee if he will about referring the matters in difference to the Decision of others and for Retraction c. not only protracted and delayed time but at length after he was Argued out of his partial and various Terms and after induced to grant viz. If before Disinterested Persons then no Retraction which he concluded answered my said Challenge Yet for all this a Meeting hereupon being appointed by some of the Persons Scandalized by him as Perjured and Pillored in his New Rome Arraigned of which he had sufficient notice afore-hand both of time and place and accordingly some of us met with divers Disinterested Persons for Witnesses nevertheless Francis Bugg came not at the Meeting He has a conceited boasting insulting Humor and Clamorous Deportment at a Distance but when he is closely put to it and pursued for a Trial and strict Examination of his Clamours Charges and Accusations before Competent Wittnesses and Disinterested Persons he shamefully Revolts and timorously Shrinks as in this case of Controversie which he has begun against the People called Quakers and which is as plainly told himself since by Letter and I am perswaded with many more that he will bring no Honour to any of you of the Clergy or the Church of England by these his Malicious Attempts and I wish thou would'st prudently Consider it both for Truth 's Sake and thy own Reputation to put a stop to his Injurious Proceedings Scribling and Printing against an Innocent People whom he has shamefully Deserted and in his Self-Contradiction and Self-Condemnation wickedly Reproach'd and Defamed A few Instances whereof