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A65860	The counterfeit convert, a scandal to Christianity and his unjustly opposing Quakerism to Christianity justly reprehended : and the true Christ, and Holy Scripures [sic] confessed by the Quakers : in opposition to two scandalous books falsly styled I. Quakerism withering, and Christianity reviving, II. Animadversions on G. Whitehead's book, Innocency triumphant.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing W1922; ESTC R38605	40,748	92

Christ's Lambs defend Epist. to the Reader p. 7. The Christianity of the Quak. Vindic. In Answer to Dr. Ford p. 13. And Charitable Ess●● p. 5. And we do also frequently read the Scripture in our Families many of us more than any other Books or Epistles whatsoever To prove the Quakers Denial and Contempt of the Holy Scripture pursuant to this abominable Lye Bugg saith viz. And not knowing a better way to manifest them I erected a mock Pillory and tried them and found them guilty on their own Premises p. 33. The more Insolent Impudent and Shameless thou F. Bugv and the greater thy Shame and Wickedness What convict us of Error by wilful Lies and Forgery and by notorious Scandal and Defamation As was thy mock Tryal and mock Pillory as well as thy mock Cage from whence we may justly return thy Calumnies against G. Whitehead upon thy self and can prove them against thy self viz. That F. Bugg is First A publick Defamer Secondly A wicked Forger Thirdly A wilful Lyar. Fourthly A gross Perverter Fifthly A false Glosser Sixthly A Deceiver i. e. of some Silly Ignorant Cr●dulous and Enviour Persons not of any Impartial Wise or Judicious Oh horrible What a Christion a Convert a Church-man an earnest Contender for the Christian Faith as thou stiles thy self and yet guilty of such horrid Forger● Scandal and Slander as thy said mock Tryal is made up off Good Lord deliver us all from such a People and such a Ministry as own such a sinful Wretch and Self-Condemned Malicious Apostate as thou art for a true Convert Thy Charge of Denial and Contempt of Holy Scriptures on the People called Quakers is expresly contrary to what thou thy self hast positively declared in Print and that even in the Name and Person of the said People pleading for our Testimony to Christ within and the Kingdom of Heaven within De Christ Lib. ch 1. par 2. This sayst thou we told this we proved to the People out of the Holy Scriptures and that although the Scriptures were good and a true Declaration of those things which were most surely believed by the Apostles and by us ought to be believed yet not the only Rule but still the Spirit of God which was the first Principle the Foundation Principle c. Thus far F. Bugg Pray note here 's F. Bugg when a pretended Quaker speaking truth herein and clearing himself and the Quakers from being guilty of the least contempt of Holy Scripture but on the contrary owning the same both as Holy and True and to be most surely believed whereby both himself and the Quakers did then i. e. in 1682 own the Divine Authority of Holy Scripture by his own Confession But F. Bugg since a pretended Church-Man tells the World gross Lies against the People called Quakers namely That they deny and contemn the Holy Scripture F. Bugg the Quaker spoke truth but F. Bugg the pretended Church-Man and Convert tells Notorious Shameful Lies and Calumnies T is an ill Bird that fouls its own Nests and One such Runagado is worse than three Turks His Reasons to prove that we do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts recorded in Scripture to be either blessed or holy are as false and impertinent as his Charge and but a telling Lies to prove Lies which therefore I thus oppose 1. 'T is false that we cast Reproachful Language and Contemptuous Expressions upon the Doctrine and Precepts recorded in Scripture 2. Not reading them in our Meetings for Worship is no Proof that either we have not the Spiritual and Living Worship of God among us nor any Evidence that we do not belihve the Doctrine and Precepts recorded in Scripture to be blessed or holy Our humbly Worshipping God in Spirit and Truth is what 's required of us by Jesus Christ and the Holy Scripture which therefore is Testimony of our Belief that the Doctrine thereof is Holy 3. 'T is false again that we say without Distinction to Preach out of them is Conjuration I am confident these Words were never spoken by the Quakers thus general and positive without any other Distinction or Exception about the Preachers and manner of Preaching 4. These are notoriously false that we lay aside a● useless the use of the Lord's Prayer Ten Commandments c. Seeing by the Spirit of Christ we Pray after that manner as he has taught and practise the Substance of the Commandments in that Love which is the fulfilling thereof 5. We are not conscious to our selves of denying the Ordinances of Jesus Christ either in not believing Sprinkling Infants to be of Divine Institution or in not practising John's Baptism which is that of Water not mentioned in Go teach all Nations Baptizing them Mat. 28. And This do in remembrance of me i. e. as oft as ye do it But of how long continuance and till what coming of Christ is the Question Though we believe this and all other Precepts both of God and Christ were holy under their several Dispensations yet it follows not that we must reeds still practise every thidg that was holy or else be condemned as not believing the Doctrine and Precepts of Scripture to be holy F. Bugg will make no good Logick of such Arguments and Consequences for that were to bring us back to the divers Washings Baptisms Tythes Offerings Pussovers and Circumcisions c. under ehe Law which were all holy in their first Institution and Dedication 6. 'T is also notoriously false that we do prefer our own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures i. e. the holy Scriptures because some of them are occasionally read in some of our Meetings for both in our Ministry Books and Epistles People are often referred to the Holy Scriptures for proof and excited to read them and that they may understand believe and live according to the same by the Assistance of God's Holy Spirit And therefore we esteem and prefer the Holy Scriptures before our own Writings contrary to Bugg's false Aspersion upon the Quakers i. e. That they make void the holy Scripture by their Traditional Pamphlets His gross Lies of this kind are numerous the Lord rebuke his Lying Spirit and great Envy F. Bugg's Fourth Charge against the Quakers They deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper We deny this Charge as laid down without distinction and that for our Reason F. B. cites viz. As for Baptism and the Lords Supper Scripturally considered in their several Dispensations in the Figure and Substance we confess and own To this F. B. presently answers This is false as their Books declare p. 45. What 's false He considers not he knows not what He answers very inadvertently are not Baptism and the Lord's Supper Scripturally considered both as in the Figure and in the Substance in the Type and in the Antitype I never heard any true Convert Christian or real Protestant say this is false before Was not John's Baptism with Water a Figure of

composing of it in thy N. Rom. Arr. p. 10. And didst thou find the Date of 1665 on the said Letters or didst thou give it or who did Answer truly We may not be imposed upon by thy various uncertain Accounts or Equivocations in this Matter 5. Which of you have the Original Letter of J. A's And which of you are able to make it appear by comparing of Ha●ds to be his as printed by thee as thou sayest p. 32. Which of you are so expert in his Hand that you can make it so appear ex certa scientia I greatly question it I am sure that John Audland believed in and confessed the true Christ of God according to Scripture as is fully proved in his Works cited in my Just Enquiry p. 26 27 28 29. and that he esteemed G. F. no otherwise than eminently Instrumental in Christ for his own and others help and comfort 6. What Blasphemy and Idolatry canst thou prove against W. P. and others in their Book Judas and Jews and in excusing Josiah Coa's Letter Thy proofless Clamours will not do to bear us down nor thy hideous out-cry and clamour that never greater Blasphemies were spoke by Man than by Fox For shame leave these thy Malicious Calumnies 7. What Blasphemy and Idolatry provest thou against John Blackling's Testimony that G. F. was blessed with honour above above many Brethren Were there not Elders worthy of double Honour And is not that Honour Eternal which God gives and is from above and wherewith he Honours them that Honour him 8. And that his Life Reigns i. e. the Life that G. F. partook of Is not Christ the Life of all his true Believers and Followers 9. His tender Words in the Lords Love were my S●●●'s Nourishment If these were J. B's Words what Blasphemy or Idolatry was in them as believing G. F. Instrumental in the Lord's Love for his Souls Comfort Did not Paul say I have fed thee with Milk and not with strong Meat 1 Cor. 3. 2. And did not Christ's Ministers comfort the otints who were in Trouble by the Comfort where with they themselves were comforted of God 2 Cor. 1. 4. Were these Blasphemous or Idolatrous supposest thou F. Bugg Oh how filthy Loud and Clamourous art thou in thy Charges and how poor faint dull and short in thy proof Fr. Bugg's Third Charge against the Quakers That they deny the Scriptures by speaking contemptously of them c. Their Contemptuous Expressions of the Holy Scripture their contempt of the Holy Scriptures p. 32 33. We utterly deny these his Charges as both Calumnious and directly contrary to our Principles His Allegations are fully answered in these our Three Treatises viz. A Charitable Essay A Just Enquiry and Innocency Triumph●nt But he is so tenacious to his own Opinion and so Implacable that he 'll receive no Answer but repeat and impose his old worn Reproachful Stuff over and over again I am sure our Friends Books alledged by him if impartially viewed will clear them in this Case from either Denying or Contemning the Holy Scriptures And even that of News coming out of the North so often objected doth in divers parts of it clear the point both by the numerous Quotations of the Scripture in the Margents as also where it s therein said the Lord hath spoken by his former Prophets and what The Scripture And p. 8 Christ Jesus the Substance of the Prophets Ibid. The Testimonies of the Prophets of God and Apostles of Christ against false Prophets and the Works of the World owned And p. 12 13. The Scriptures and Saints Conditions and the Words spoken by the Prophets Christ and his Apostles owned And in Eternal Substantial Truths p. 17. The Life and power of God gave forth the Scriptures he saith Now could this be any Contempt of Holy Scripture No but the Contrary And where do the Quakers say that to preach out of them i. e. the Holy Scriptures is Conjuration There may be true Preaching out of the Holy Scripture by the Spirit of Truth and there is false Preaching by perverting the Holy Scriptures Bugg's own instance which is against them that study to raise a Living thing out of the Dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and Diviners their teaching not being from the mouth of the Lord p. 34. This is no proof of his general Charge that to preach out of the Holy Scriptures is Conjuration Quer. Where proves he these Words His Observation is also false That the Quakers call the Holy Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents Meat This is a foul perversion seeing they esteem the Holy Doctrine to be the Holy Scripture which he also has granted and agreed to And our distinguishing between the outward Writing or Books and the Holy Doctrine therein contained and between the Letter and the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 6 7. This was no Juggle nor any Contempt of Holy Scripture as falsly suggested p. 33 36. The Holy Scriptures mentioned amongst those Writings which I. P. did bring to the Exchange And to this F. B. saith Surely they could not burn the Holy Spirit and that it seems they can call the Bible the Holy Scriptures for a Wicked Design p. 36. This is impertinent as well as Malicious for the Holy Scriptures therein mentioned was with the respect to the Doctrine therein contained for I must tell F. B. that it would shew Contempt to Holy Scripture even to the Holy Doctrine contained in the Bible if a Person should voluntarily offer to burn the Bible it self as the King of Judah did Jeremiah's Roll Jer. 36. though he could not ●urn the Word of the Lord. But to say the Bible or Books made up of Paper and Characters will decay and turn to Dust but the Holy Doctrine Word and Spirit from whence it came will endure This is no Contempt of Holy Scripture nor yet to the Bible His Saying G. W. holdly imposes upon the World that though they call the Scripture Dust c. yet they do not call the Holy Scripture so The first part he falsly imposeth upon me as he doth on the Quakers Not only that they call the Holy Scriptures Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware c. which is a horrible Calumny but also that they do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts recorded in Scripture to be either Blessed or Holy p. 38 39 Thus he imposeth his horrid and gross Lies against us upon the World as also that the Quakers never did beg Pardon of God for Christ's sake and that they do prefer their own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures p. 40. These like the rest are gross Lies and contrary to our Testimonies extant in Print as in divers of our Books we positively declare That we prefer the Holy Scripture above all other Books extant in the World and also declare that we are truly thankful to God for preserving to us the outward Writings Scriptures or Books commonly called the Bible as in

THE Counterfeit Convert A SCANDAL TO CHRISTIANITY AND His unjustly opposing Quakerism to Christianity justly reprehended AND THE True Christ and Holy Scripures Confessed by the QUAKERS In opposition to Two Scandalous Books falsly styled I. Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving II. Animadversions on G. Whitehead's Book Innocency Triumphant Obad. 3. The Pride of thine Heart hath deceived thee Rom. 1. 31. Without natural Affection Implacable Unmerciful LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane Shoreditch 1694. AN EPISTLE TO THE Impartial READER I Do hereby sincerely and in good Conscience declare that 't is not for Controversy's sake nor in love thereto that I am so much engaged therein a Peaceable and Amicable Conversation towards all Men and their Quiet Behaviour though of different Perswasions being far more desirable and acceptable to me Nor am I the beginner of these Controversies or Contentions being wholly defensive in my Concern therein but for the living Truth and an Innocent Peoples sake to remove those gross Aspersions which are cast upon both chiefly by Contentious Apostate Adversaries which are of the most disingenuous and malicious who are more skilful in Perverting and Aspersing than Disputing their Pamphlets being stuft with Reviling and Railery not with Argument And if I did not really believe a necessity laid upon me in point of Conscience towards God and love to his People to discover and oppose their foul Abuses bitter Aspersions and gross Calumnies they might rail on against my self and others till wearied and out of Breath and the Fire of their own Envy consume them But the Controversie is not Personal only but the Holy Truth is concerned our Christian Faith and Religion is concerned our Holy Profession is concerned And these furious Adversaries will needs concern and would fain incense the Civil Government with their invective Pamphlets against us to render u● as highly obnoxious to the same as they can And therefore we have been the more under a necessity to detect oppose and obviate their malicious Designs that our Innocency may not unjustly lye under such Clouds of Infamy and Scandals as they unjustly cast upon us As Fra. Bugg endeavoured to incense the House of Commons against the People called Quakers with a Malicious Pamphlet to interrupt our Endeavours for Relief of the said People in the Case of Oaths therein most falsly charging the said People with Denying Jesus of Nazareth Contempt of Governours Christ's Ministers and Magistrates Scripture c. Having before in his late Book stiled New Rom. Arraign'd termed Twelve of us Perjured Persons for our Negative Testimony against his so charging the Quakers with Denying Jesus of Nazareth c. and thereupon acting his Mock-Trial forging our Answers and Erecting the form of a Pillory and thereby scandalizing divers Citi●ens of good Repute and Credit as Per●ured Persons thereby affecting not only ●heir Christian but Civil Reputations ●randing the said People and their Mini●●ers with these Characters viz. New ●ome Rome's Sister the Papists their ●rethren and with following the Steps of the Jesuits and withal terming one of their Ministers one of her chief Cardinals i. e. New Rome's and consequently this is no better than to render the said People Papists in a high degree Now let the Impartial and Judicious judge First Whether his unjust Attempts herein and his thus misrepresenting us do not greatly ten● to lessen and injure the Protestant Interest and consequently to gratifie the Papists Secondly Ana is not this a plain Contradiction to the Government which has been pleased legally to recognize us as Dissenting Protestants Thirdly And what Ingenuity Honesty or Prudence hath F. Bugg or his Abettors shewn in thus representing a Body of Protestant Subjects as New Rome Papists c. What a New Rom● under the English Protestant Government Strange Reflection Fourthly And whether F. B's thus contradicting the Government 's recognizing us by Law as Dissenting Protestants by his thus defaming us as New Rome Rome's Sister Papists Brethren c. be not Seditious in the Natu●● and Tendency thereof as tending to stir 〈◊〉 Discord and Strise amongst Protestant Subjects and consequently to weaken the Interest of King and People Let the Prudent and Impartial judge Fifthly F. B's rendring our Declaration to the King and Parliament for the Divine Authority of the Holy Scripture as inserted in the Act of Exemption Deceitful on our part and to serve a turn in his New Rome Arraign'd p. 40 42. This is to go about to invalidate and destroy a principal Condition of our present Liberty And is not this to Confront and Oppose the Governments acceptance of our said Declaration All which with many more misrepresentations and Calumnies against us in F. Bugg's Pamphlets greatly bespeak his Deadly Malice Revengeful and Unchristian Spirit which we hope no Rational Impartial or moderate Man will Countenance or Encourage To be sure such malicious Treatment must needs be odious to all true Christians and Merciful Men. And seeing I could not with all my late and earnest Endeavours obtain a Meeting for a free and fair Debate with Fra. Bugg when lately in London about the Controversie he has begun and published between us I acquainted his Two Ministers viz. William Smithies of Cripplegate Parish London and Isaac Archer of Milden-hall in Suffolk where he lives with these and other his Abuses and Misrepresentations aforesaid against us to try if they would put a stop to his farther proceeding therein shewing them by Letters wherein his Abuse and Calumnies against us would affect them he having the Reputation of a Convert and his writing against us approbation among some of the Clergy by his own Confession But his last Pamphlet being in the Press before my Letters to them I suppose they had not opportunity to prevent or stop that However it will concern them for the future to stop his Malicious Attempts otherwise I am perswaded his work will not be to their Credit or Reputation But the more to the contrary if they do not stop and lay him aside and provide better Tools to work withal if minded fairly to Controvert Matters with us or otherwise to let us live quietly and on all hands to endeavour for Charity one towards another as much as we can And seeing F. B. has presumed to dedicate his last Pamphlet stiled Quakerism Withering to the Bishop of Glocester falsly charging the Teachers of the Quakers therein with Damnable Heresies even Denying the Lord that bought them And yet as one both uncertain and doubtful in his evil Attempts against us proposes this Offer and Submission to the said Bishop in these Words viz. I therefore do most humbly offer what I have wrote to your Lordship's perusal and shall most willingly submit to your Censure the Matters therein contained And if for want of Judgment in the Matters controverted I have wronged the Quakers I shall most willingly retract and make them publick reparation Hereupon I and another Friend