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A30024	The Christian ministry of the Church of England vindicated and distinguished from the antichristian ministry of the Quakers containing a brief reply to a false and foolish libel stiled A letter to the clergy of the diocess of Norfolk and Suffolk, &c., by a nameless author ... wherein his folly is detected, his lies confuted ... / by a member of the Church of England, Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1699 (1699)	Wing B5369; ESTC R35451	20,522	32

THE Christian Ministry OF THE Church of ENGLAND Vindicated and Distinguished FROM THE Antichristian Ministry OF THE QUAKERS CONTAINING A Brief Reply to a False and Foolish Libel stiled A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocess of Norfolk and Suffolk c. by a Nameless Author yet a pretended Member of the Church of ENGLAND WHEREIN His Folly is Detected His Lies Confuted His Weakness Discovered and his Malice Reproved By a Member of the Church of England FRANCIS BUGG That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every Wind of Doctrine by the Slights of Men and cunning Craftiness whereby they lye in wait to deceive Ephes 4.14 LONDON Printed for the Author And are to be sold by J. Robinson at the Golden-Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard And H. Rhodes at the Star in Fleet-street 1699. Advertisement WHereas the Sheet intituled A Letter to the Clergy c. is to my certain Knowledge universally spread in Oxford Wickham Ipswich Colchester Bury Cambridge Norwich Lyme Ely and divers other Parts of the Nation to the great Scandal of the Church of England and given Gratis they having a common Bank for that and every such Purpose into the Hands of Gentlemen Tradesmen Inn-keepers Hostlers and others to the great Prejudice of common Christianity and is a cunning Stratagem devised and set on foot by the Arch Emissaries of Quakerism under the Vizor of a Member of the Church of England whilst there is great Reason to believe him to be a real Quaker whose Principle and Practice hath been to Lie Dissemble Forge and Subscribe without the Consent of the Parties as Anne Docwra a Member of that Schism and now in their Unity and a Writer and Defender of their Heresie hath shewed These are therefore to give notice That any Persons zealous for our Holy Religion may have this Book ready stitcht for 2d per Book if they will buy 25 50 or 100 together at Mr. Janeway's Book-binder next Door to Child's Coffee-House in St. Paul's Church-yard London In order to a Universal Discovery of this Hermophrodite in Religion who lies sculking behind the Curtain stinging like a Serpent whose Throat is an open Sepulchre whose Mouth must be stopped and Folly manifested least the uncircumcised Triumph over the Israel of God The Preface to the Reader Christian Reader THE Apostle St. Paul writing to the Ephesians gives them many Precepts and sound Exhortations in order to the building them up in their most holy Faith amongst which this to me seems not the least cap. 4. v. 14. That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every Wind of Doctrine by the Slights of Men and cunning Craftiness whereby they lye in wait to deceive Again writing to his Son Timothy he seems to Inculcate the same over again foretelling what should come to pass 2 Tim. 3.13 But evil Men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived It 's true no Man can deceive another but he deceives himself yet such is the Influence that Interest and the Love of the World have upon the depraved Nature and ambitious Desire of some Men that they will use all the Slights and cunning Craftiness they can to deceive others And when one Engine will not do they 'll try another as we see by the Quakers who by their Slights and cunning Craft have deceived Thousands under the Pretence of their Seeming Sanctity and Pharasaical Demureness as well as by their Books which they generally pretend to be given forth by the Holy Ghost from the Mouth of the Lord and by the moving of the Eternal Spirit and as such to be of greater Authority than the Bible as G. Whitehead teaches in his Book Truth defending the Quakers p. 7. And thereupon they read their Epistles thus wrote in their Meetings as the Word of God whilst they never read one Chapter of the Bible in their Meetings I say by these their Wiles and Slights they have caught Thousands of unstable Souls but thro' much Labour and Pains by my self and others there has been such a Discovery made of their Books and the Blasphemies and Corrupt Doctrine contained in them that now their very Ringleaders themselves have refused either to own or disown them or the Doctrines contained in them by which many of their Hearers begin to question the Pretensions of their Leaders and many are come off from them and have been Baptized into the Christian Faith by the Ministers of the Church of England and now they have started a new Gain and used another Slight and cunning Piece of Craft whereby they watch all Opportunities to deceive the People namely to put forth a printed Sheet under the Disguise of a Member of the Church of England with a Design to abuse her and to deceive others as the following Discourse will shew and whereby we may see they grow worse and worse and this the Apostle foresaw And therefore like careful Watchmen gave us warning of them as in the Places above-cited To which let me add St. Peter's Prophetical Care Admonition and Caution 2 Pet. 2.1 2. But there were also false Prophets among the People even as there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them And bring upon themselves swift Destructions and many shall follow their Pernitious Ways by reason of whom the way of Truth shall be evil spoken of Now how far these and other of the like Truths left upon Record by the Primitive Inspired Pastors and Teachers of the Doctrine of Salvation are verified in our Days may be seen and ought to be more laid to Heart by us than I fear we do For it hath been manifest and clearly proved that the Quakers above all others that I am sensible of are the very Persons that deny the Lord that bought them and shed his most precious Blood for them were they but willing to accept of so great Salvation on Gospel Terms For says W. Penn in his Serious Apology c. p. 146. That the Outward Person that suffer'd at Jerusalem was properly the Son of God we utterly deny c. Here then we see the Holy Apostle St. Peter's Words fulfilled for he or they that deny him that suffered at Jerusalem upon the Tree of the Cross to be the Son of God I do affirm he or they whoever they be deny the Lord that bought them and will bring upon themselves swift Destruction yea and as many as suck in the Poyson of their Doctrine unless they repent thereof But W. Penn avouches the same in his Christian Quaker and his Divine Test c. p. 97 98. and in many other Places See also Is Pennington's Book A Question to Professors c. p. 33. Now the Scriptures distinguish between Christ and the Garment he wore between him that came and the Body in which he came between the Substance that was vailed and

use those Slights and cunning Craft which the Apostles have given us Warning to be aware of yea they can Forge Lie Dissemble and Act like Knights of the Post under the Disguise of the most innocent Saints and harmless Lambs that ever the Sun did shine upon But alass all that I can say and prove as in my Pilgrims Progress c. will not satisfie them by this last Project I mean their Letter Therefore as the Author pretends to be a Member of the Church of England and have exposed the Clergy therefore unless I Francis Bugg can produce one of the Members of the Quakers Society to testifie against their Teachers all is nothing this is their new Project and therefore tho' the Quakers are ashamed to expose the Name of their Accuser yet I am not for 't is Anne Docwra of Cambridge an ancient and eminent Quaker a Deaconess of the Order of St. George Fox late deceased as in some Letters to my self and Mr. Crisp with their several Dates and her Broadside printed as recited in my Pilg. Prog. c. p. 25 58. Jezebel Withstood p. 9 to 12. and other of my Books all which I hope will humor the Quaker's Tool and great Prop to uphold their tottering Cause p. 5. viz. 1. Because she writ thus in her Letter to me dated the 6th of May 1683. Viz. Dear Cousen Fr. Bugg my true Love to thee I have given my Witness publickly against the Lies I found in Geo. Whitehead 's Book We have Knights of the Post amongst us 2. Another 26. Feb. 1682. Dear Cousen F. B. G. Whitehead have sent me one of his Books for me to read and there is the old Money Story in it with I know not what besides I was asked by an bonest Friend if be G. W. was not a Jesuit I answered nay it is not solid enough for them to own There is pretty much airy conceited Stuff in it 3. In her printed Broadside stiled The new projecting Formalist c. I know it is common says she with some of them in their Books of Controversie to put the Names of such Persons as they account their Vassals both to Certificates and Books * Why not then the name of a Member of the Church of England in the room of a real Quaker sometimes without the Consent of the Parties whose Names are Inserted and sometimes with Consent thro slavish Fear of having their Trades Obstructed and Ruined by Publick Defamations Two Years ago I saw a small Book worded by an able Penman G. W. wherein was my Name as a Witness without my Consent to Testifie more than was true which I must disown Yea a barefac'd Lie and an undeniable Truth so closely Interwoven that it is not easily discovered Their separate Men's Meetings have been the Nurseries of Contention and I believe the chief Cause of this long-grinding Persecution for this she wrote about 1683. the Magistrates has upbraided me as one that adhered to them looking upon those Meetings as more dangerous to the Peace of the Nation * This Time will best demonstrate if these Meetings and their Fund be not taken into Consideration than our Publick Meetings with Doors open separate Meeting have served to little Purpose but to shelter great Bellies obstruct Lawful Marriages and to ingross honest Friend's Properties to themselves the most innocent self-denying People have been the Subject of their Clamorous Tongue when the Loose and Vicious the Covetous Proud Lying Hypocrities have been covered and protected 4. In a Letter to Mr. Crisp from Anne Docwra Sept. 20. 1683. Sam. Cater 's Narrative is come out in Print I suspect G. Whitehead to be the Author of it Sam. is not Sophister great enough to twist his Matter together so cunningly either to make Truth go for a Lie or a Lie go for Truth It is part of a Letter I wrote to Sam. Cater concerning my Cousen F. Bugg wherein they have added a few Words that quite alters the Sense of my Letter neither have they put in the greatest part of it which would have overthrown their whole Cause 5. Again That dated Feb. 13. 1683. viz. Sam. Cater says Anne is very angry because I call him to an Account for bringing me in for a Witness in his Narrative most of that he has written concerning me is false but not all of it he hath mixed a Lie and Truth together 6. In another Letter to Mr. Crisp Mar. 25. 1684. she thus exprest her self Sam. Cater has been lately with me clamouring against F. Bugg and John Ainsloe I have had a sharp Conference with him about his Narrative wherein he has used my Name in Print to justifie him in his Contentious Pamphlet with F.B. about Money I laid it before him smartly before several Friends he is very bold and the most confident Liar that ever I met with I laid the Record against John Ainsloe before him also G. Whitehead 's false Certificate about the said Record in his Judgment fixed that it is an abuseful Forgery for some of those whose Names are to the Certificate absolutely disowns it and say they set their Hands to none It is very sad said she that Men should be so confident in their Wickedness Now by the Author of this Scurrilous Libel under Consideration he argues in p. 5. that it was not the Disciples of Christ and the Apostle Paul that call'd our Lord a Wine-Bibber a Friend to Publicans and Sinners a Babbler but his profess'd Enemies the Scribes Pharisees and Unbelievers and thereupon he drew his Conclusion that the Ministers of the Church of England are not Christ's Ministers and think this will affect their sacred Function being thus charged by a Member of their own Church then by the same Rule of arguing this Woman was and still is of their Communion a Writer in Defence of them and in their Unity Therefore I say it must affect them and that she then spake the Truth my self and many others are Witnesses of most of these things or things equivolent and were I to enlarge upon the Testimonies of John Wilkinson John Story and many other Quakers who liv'd and dy'd Quakers I could greatly enlarge hereupon But I thought I had done when I shew'd in Jezebel Withstood how this Woman wheels about and to creep into their Unity is become Scandalous in her now writing and with the Dog turns and licks up her old Vomit which she spued forth many Years since and when a Quaker too But what is her Testimony but this that the Quakers Teachers are the most confident Liars abuseful Forgers Jesuits and Knights of the Post that their Monthly Quarterly and Yearly Meetings are Nurseries of Contention who wickedly forge Certificates and put the Names of their Vassals and tame Slaves to Books without their Licence or else if they submit not to their Tyranny and Usurpation they may expect to be ruined in their Trades and Reputations which is most true and that the most