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A29395	Some reasons why Robert Bridgman, and his wife, and some others in Hvntington-shire, have left the society of the people called Quakers, and have join'd in communion with the Church of England and some passages contained in a letter of George Whitehead to R.J., and R. Bridgman's reply to the same / by Robert Bridgman.	Bridgman, Robert.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing B4494; ESTC R18987	9,724	25

the Insinuations notwithstanding and Reproaches of our Adversaries An instance of which I think sit here to subjoyn not being likely to obtain any offer of Justice from the Person concerned Upon my Wife and Children's receiving Baptism in the Church of England George Whitehead writes a Letter of Condolence to my Wife's Father wherein he insinuates after this manner Dear Brother I have been often sensible of thy Exercise and Affection occasioned by the miserable Backsliding of such near Relations who have so long professed the blessed Truth among us The blessed Truth which we have received from the Beginning in Life and Power will stand for ever and out-live all its Adversaries and they who are approved and stand faithful therein shall the more be manifest and shine when Shame and Confusion shall cover the Rebellious who reproach God's Heritage and People to excuse their own Revolting and Looseness of Spirit The Letter in which these Passages are falling providentially into my Hand I wrote to Geo. Whitehead as is hereafter exprest But being in London a considerable time and having no prospect of having such a Meeting as I desir'd think fit to expose it as matter of Caution to himself and such others as may be under temptation to practise the like to disparage and discourage with such Blasts of Reviling Hunt the 16th April 1700. George Whitehead In these Passages which I transcribed to him are contained a severe Charge by way of Insinuation against my self and my Wife who are the near Relations mentioned in that Letter And we being such had you proved your Charge the unworthiness of your Disposition notwithstanding hath sufficiently appeared in offering so to aggravate and by consequence to set such near Relations at too great a Distance But whereas your Charge and Insinuations remain unproved by you they ought in Justice to be returned upon you as a Slander If you think you can make Proof of these miserable yea and I may add detestable things upon us we desire you would do it and that you may be the more manifest and shine we care not how publickly you do it Your writing in such a manner to my Father without any Premonition to us had we been really guilty looks not only like a Deed of Darkness but we being innocent too much intitles you to the Character of those mentioned in the 11th Psalm Who bend the Bow and make ready their Arrow upon the String that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart Had not your Name and Pretences been what they are we should have endeavoured to have overlook'd your Reproach as we have done a great deal from others of a meaner Rank among you cast upon us as we verily believe for our open Profession of the Christian Faith and practising the Institutions of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in ways most agreeable to our Judgment upon a serious deliberate and impartial Enquiry and Consideration and this we take to be the Reason of your Displeasure knowing very well how you have slighted opposed and rejected those great and necessary Truths and proper means of Christian Fellowship and Communion appointed we believe for that end by our Lord Jesus Christ and practised by his holy Apostles and Disciples in the first and purest Ages of Christianity And you in particular bearing such a Name and Sway amongst so many deluded though many of them I believe well-meaning People and so generally passing under the Character of an honourable and worthy Minister of Christ 't is therefore highly necessary to take some Notice of your practice And I do hereby acquaint you that my Occasions calling me to London in a little time I shall expect you will give me a Meeting before some sober and judicious Persons either to endeavour the Proof of your Charge or to retract what you have in such manner insinuated against us If you think fit to decline to give me such a Meeting I shall have reason to take it as a sufficient demonstration that Shame and Confusion is over you in that very manner and for the very same Cause suggested against us in your Letter Thus much at present from your abused Friend and Kinsman R. 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SOME REASONS WHY Robert Bridgman and his Wife And some others in HUNTINGTON-SHIRE Have left the Society of the People called QUAKERS AND Have join'd in Communion with the Church of ENGLAND And some Passages contained in a Letter of George Whitehead to R. J. and R. Bridgman's Reply to the same By ROBERT BRIDGMAN LONDON Printed for Brab Aylmer at the Three Pigeons over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil and Char. Brome at the Gun at the West-end of St. Paul's Church-yard MDCC ROBERT BRIDGMAN's REASONS For Leaving the QUAKERS SOME REASONS WHY ROBERT BRIDGMAN and others Have left the QUAKERS IT has been matter of Sorrow and Shame unto me and many others that have now left the Quakers Communion that we so long professed the Christian Religion whilst we remained so ignorant of the fundamental Principles of it the Doctrine of the Trinity or three Persons of one Nature and Substance in the Godhead The Incarnation of the second Person or Son of God our Lord Jesus Christ. The Satisfaction and Atonement made unto God the Father by his Obedience and Death upon the Cross. The Resurrection and Ascention of his Body and Person into Heaven His remaining in our Nature at the right hand of God in the Glory of his Father our Head High-Priest and Intercessour The Faith and full persuasion of his second last and outward appearance and coming again to raise the Dead Bodys of the Saints and of all Men in the great Day and solemn Assize of all Nations in which an Infallible and final Sentence will be passed upon all according to the Deeds done in the Body agreeable to the plain and positive sense of divers Texts in Holy Scripture These Doctrines and the Faith of them wrought by the Operation of the Holy Ghost the third Person in the Blessed Trinity are Essential or Fundamental Parts and Principles of the Christian Religion without which in the true Faith of them we cannot be saved in this or in the World to come And therefore 't is of great Weight and Consequence yea of the greatest Importance to every one under a Christian Profession to be duly Instructed and rightly Informed in these great and necessary Truths of the Christian Religion and without which in some good measure no Man can be rightly denominated a Christian Man or Believer The Faith of God as a Great and Mercyful Creator and the Seal of his Power and Providence in and over all his Creatures is indeed a necessary work and our Love and Obedience to the Law and Light with which he instructs and enlightens our Nature is a pretious and necessary condition on our parts to sit and prepare us for the due reception of the Christian Faith and indeed without some experience of this sort 't is in vain to pretend to any Religion much more to the Christian Religion Yet the order and progress of our Faith and Hope ought to be duly distinguished for to reduce all Religion and Faith towards God under a Profession and Experience of Light and Truth without any distinction of common and special Illumination or Grace is dangerous to the Soul and very destructive to the real Foundation of the Christian Religion How far the People call'd Quakers in general and some of their most noted and approved Authors and Ministers in particular have Ignorantly and Blasphemously opposed this work of Faith and Reformation begun and carried on in the Souls of many by hearing the Word and Doctrine of the Gospel declared in the Holy Scriptures from Men qualified to Read and Expound the same is now become so evident to such whose Eyes the Lord in Mercy hath opened that to contradict or deny it must bespeak very great Ignorance or Obstinacy How far they have withstood and rejected the Institutions of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ in the due administration of them and the sincere and faithful practise of such as are convinced of their Duty and Profit in receiving them is also as evident to such as have had occasion to deal with them or peruse their Writings constantly published from their beginning And how under pretence of higher Attainments and farther Glory a Spirit of Pride and great Uncharitableness hath possessed them is sufficiently manifest by its fruits in Censuring and Reproaching all other denominations of Professed Christians whom they set to a great distance and account as the World which yet lieth in Wickedness And by a shew of Spirituality Simplicity Humility and Patience have deceived themselves and many of the most ignorant and inadvertent Professors who inconsiderately and rashly conclude they are the most holy and reformed People and Church of God because they appear in a more sedate retired and self denying manner as a Society and Body of People than generally is observed of other Societies But whoever arrives to any tolerable understanding of sound Christian Principles and attends an impartial Examination of what the Quakers preach and publish shall not only find them very disagreeable one with another but in general very opposite to true Christianity And that which also very much exposeth them to contempt with all True Intelligent and Religious minds is the liberty they take in their Apologies and Defences to quible and shuffle with dull and apparent Sophistry 'T is now become their repeated Practise to alter the sense of their own as well as their Opponents writings by adding or diminishing of words by Transposing them by playing upon such as are equivocal by connecting Matter that lies disjoynted and disjoynting Matter that lies connected by questioning the autography of their own Prints when they cannot otherwise vindicate or defend them And thus they inherit the Jesuites practice ' tho through want of their Education they fall short in their skill and by this very means ruine their Cause notwithstanding their Zeal and specious Pretences 'T is a mercyful Providence so many are delivered from the snare of their Spirit which with soundings and Echoes works on the Imagination and Fancy of the more Ignorant and Credulous Did they regard Truth and Justice without respecting Persons in Judgment they would have never declined to be brought to the Test before any competent number of Sober and Judicious Persons without making such Pleas and Pretences to excuse and be excused as they have done Being detected they became greatly inraged and breath out their spite in Prophecies and Curses both in private and publick against such as oppose them whilst they are blessing and magnifying themselves and their Faction in such flights of Devotion as allarms and amuzes the Ignorant and Unwary The account given by George Keith in his Books and Narratives of Matter of Fact so well attested is such a Load upon them that they are very uneasie and not daring to appear to justifie themselves are labouring to abuse and misrepresent him They have endeavoured to insinuate that Covetousness Pride and Envy are the motive of his practice An Apostate a Judas a Renegado are the

Epithets they bestow upon him And in their Word to the Well-inclin'd represent him the Epitome and very Common-place of all the Malice of their preceding Adversaries And these fine Characters they industriously spread throughout the Nation to defame and reproach him having a method effectually to do it by spreading their Pamphlets according to an agreement of their Yearly Meeting which is their supreme Authority in this and in other Kingdoms and Countries where they have any settled Interest The Agreement and Order of their Yearly Meeting held in London the first second third and fourth Days of June 1691 and directed to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings in England and Wales and elsewhere was and is That each Monthly Meeting of which they had at that time about 150 in England and Wales and since no doubt the number is greatly increased was to take off two Books of a sort when both do not exceed the price of a Shilling and to be sent by the several Correspondents in London or their Order to the Correspondents of each County who are to send up the Money out of their Meeting Stock which sufficiently encourages both the Author and Printer And this Agreement and Order was expresly made for the spreading their Books as is more at large declared in their Yearly Meeting Paper printed in the Year 1691. And thus they are encouraged to be continually scribling and judge it to be as they say in their Word to the well-inclin'd the fairer more substantial and edifying method But the misery that attends their numerous Proselytes is the impressions they are under in partiality and prejudice what is published by their Party passes for Truth and that not only in Doctrine and Fact but they conceive a peculiar presence of God is a continual Blessing that accompanies them The same conceit they have in all they say and do and are generally so affected with a Relish and Savour of it that puffs them up with intolerable Pride even whilst it appears to themselves under a Disguise of Humility But true Humility is another thing it submits to Truth where-ever whenever and in whomsoever it appears inlarging the Heart with Catholick Love which like the attracting and bountiful Heaven scatters its Dew on every Soyl and maintains its correspondence with an impartial influence The Lord in Mercy increase this Vertue and inable the sincere in all persuasions to let go the shackles of their several singularities looking up unto Jesus the universal Head and Captain of their Salvation who by his blessed and Holy Spirit is sprinkling the Nations through the Faith of his Gospel and that without respect of persons And therefore let me beseech such of my Friends as profess their Faith in a Crucified Jesus and in humility submit to the means he has appointed as the Seals of his Covenant and Symbols of his Presence to be very careful in all manner of Conversation that so the Adversary who seeks many ways to undermine and lay waste the Foundation and Pillars of the Christian Religion may be stop'd every way in which he appears The greatest reproach that at this time attends the Christian Church is a loose Conversation in too many not season'd with Grace and the fear of God and this is the Ground and Plea of all Schismaticks as well as it is the Air that infests the Atheist who secretly concludes because of such Liberty there is not a God of such Purity and Power as the Christians profess in their verbal Confession But this I can say from a good and comfortable experience That there are many pious and heavenly-minded Souls in several places both Ministers and People that are as Lights and as Salt in their several Stations though once I could hardly believe it so much Filth and Dirt having been cast upon them by an ignorant proud and obstinate Generation of Men whose feigned Simplicity and Humility under a pretence of Subjection to a Power above the Magistrate is very delusive in the Appearance of it but when duly examined proves chiefly the Fruit of Education and Humour Being taught and persuaded that Reasoning is dangerous in things of Religion they stop their Ears and close their Eyes until by degrees they grow hardy in Imagination and Fancy in the strength of which they have been suffered to proceed until their own Folly hath corrected them Whoever comes to a sober mind and attentively reads over the History given by George Fox and his Delegates in the Entrance of his Journal may readily find that an ignorant Education and Melancholly Temper impressed and blown up by a Spirit of Enthusiasm gave birth to his Faction in those Hurricane Times whilst the Church lay despoyled of her Power and Privileges and since that inundation of Heresie and Schism the Breach has remaiued too much unobserved And to my Understanding no better Expedient can readily be proposed to heal up this Breach and recover the Wasts than a laborious and diligent instruction of Youth and detecting of Errour by open and free Conferences judiciously managed in divers parts of the Nation T is a lamentable thing that in a Christian Nation the publick Seals and Badges of its Communion should be so slighted neglected opposed and rejected by a sort and number of men that will not be accountable in Matter of Fact for their Mistakes and Abuses 'T is a most lame and scandalous Insinuation against the Institution and Practice of Outward Baptism which George Whitehead advances in his Rector Examined p. 27. saying When this Rector meaning Mr. Merriton can demonstrate a Probatum est of such Virtue in that poor Element as he calls it of Water-baptism as to cure polluted and distemper'd Souls as if the Issue or Effect of a means that is prescribed must determine the right or lawfulness of its Institution and Practice without any Exception he may at the same rate question the Authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles in their Teaching and Preaching because many that heard them were not effectually Cleansed And in the Commission that was given Math. 28. 19. there is no more mention made of outward teaching than of outward Baptism and the Quakers may as well reject Teaching with Words as Baptizing with Water But to manifest how liable they are to pervert the True Sense of the Matter see what George Whitehead says concerning the Supper Page 35. of his Rector Examined where he produces some Testimonies out of the Book of Martyrs to favour his Cause which duly considered are directly against it The Bread and Wine in the Supper are Figurative and Symbolical and as the Eating and Drinking by the faithful Receiver Intitles him to the Graces and Blessings of the Spirit of Christ so the breaking the Bread and pouring out the Wine were Instituted as a means to preserve the Faith and Remembrance of his Body and Blood that was Broken and Slied for the Remission of Sin and which is now Exalted and Glorified in the