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A30031	New Rome arraigned And out of her own mouth condemned. Containing a farther discovery of the dangerous errors, and pernicious principles of the leaders and teachers of the Foxonian Quakers: which tend to overthrow the Christian faith, to obstruct the Jews conversion, to encourage Mahumetism, and to pervert the right way of the Lord; which whether so or no, deserves the examination and consideration of the Christian ministry of all Protestant Churches, as they tender God's glory, and the good of souls. To which is added, Ten articles of the Christian faith, wrote by Geo. Keith, who was persecuted by the Quakers in Pensilvania for his Christian testimony. The second edition, with some alteration and additions, by Francis Bugg. Licensed, June 18th. 1694.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Keith, George, 1639?-1716. aut	1693 (1693)	Wing B5377; ESTC R202485	69,734	77

the whole World Thus have you made the Apostles false Witnesses who have charged the Jews with slaying the Lord of Life and Glory As to the Sufferings of Christ the Question still remains unanswered I know you now see cause to say his Sufferings were grievous Sufferings sweating drops of Blood yea great Sufferings Thus far G. W. is got but George you know there is degrees of Greatness there is magnus major maximus great greater and greatest of all Now the great Query is Whether was the Sufferings of Christ or the Sufferings of the Quakers greatest Ed. Burroughs says the Sufferings of the Quakers was greatest And G. W. hath not yet said the Sufferings of Christ was greatest no other word will do I still pursue the Terms of my Query and wait to have it answered but I find G. W. pinched and in a great strait and knows not which way to wind him Condemn Ed. Burroughs's Expression as a Lye that he cannot do for a World for he was by G. W. counted a Prophet a Son of Thunder one in whom was the Almighty Power of God Can such a man lye Can he err No they cannot give Evidence against themselves so not fit to be of a Jury not fit for any place of Trust in Government not fit to have yea and nay pass for an Oath If so then if the Jury be most Quakers they 'l never give it against themselves they are not impartial they cannot be impartial they are the greatest respecters of Persons this day on Earth E. B. has said The Sufferings of the Quakers is greater than the Sufferings of Christ and his Apostles which is horrid blasphemous yea they thereby undervalue the Sufferings of the Lord of Glory and exalt their own as greater Sufferings This they cannot deny nor this they cannot condemn see the Fruit of Infallibility having once spoken whether true or false a Lye or a true Story both must be infallible they cannot retract they cannot confess their Sins to God how then should they retract and acknowledge their Errors No not for a World then down goes Infallibility the principal Studd of their new kind of Popery The Perfect Quaker in favour of their own Books An Epistle from their Yearly Meeting 1675. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Several Petitions answer'd c. p. 30. If ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might as well have condemned the Scriptures to the Fire as our Papers and Queries for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the Immediate and Eternal Spirit of God Several Papers given out for the spreading of Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the Lord this is the Word of God G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater c. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. Anno 1693. Dear Friends it 's advised that you be careful in spreading all such Books writ in defence and for the Service of Truth Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for remembrance and notice B. B. The Perfect Quaker's Perfect Contempt of Scripture Saul's Errand c. p. 7. The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is Death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their Teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the Mouth of the Lord. A brief Discovery c. p. 7. The Priests of the World are Conjurers raising dead Doctrines dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives out of the Letter which is Death raising Death out of Death Notable Conjurers P. 8. The Commission of Baal's Priests came from Oxford and Cambridge the same poisonous Fountain is filthy the Streams are no better Simon Magus would have purchased the Holy Ghost with Money even the Sir Simons of our Age run to Oxford and Cambridge Babylon's Merchants selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death really they are Bloodhounds still hunting and gaping after their Prey like the Mouth of Hell Ja. Naylor's Answ to the Jews p. 4 22 25. It 's Blasphemy for any to say the Letter is the Word of God it is the Devil which contends for the Letter to be the Word of God The Quaker's Refuge fixed c. p. 17. Whether the first Penman of the Scripture was Moses or Hermes or whether both these two or not one or whether there are not many words contained in the Scriptures which were not spoken by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit whether some words were not spoken by the Grand Impostor some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill applied some by Good Men ill expressed some by False Prophets and yet true some by True Prophets and yet false c. News coming up c. p. 14. Their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter The Counterfeit Quaker facing round about Quaker's Vindication p. 4. We confess that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration of God c. Count. Conv. c. p. 26. That we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all the Books extant in the World A treble Observation upon a triple Quaker Courteous Readers whether Christians or Jews what think you Is the Counterfeit Quaker sincere Do you believe that he means what he says namely that the Scripturesare of Divine Authority and that he prefers them before all the Books extant in the World If so you may believe Transubstantiation Can you think I say that he believes the Scripture is of Divine Authority when he tells you that Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust and Serpents-mear and that the Scripture is Beastly Ware that 't is Conjuration to preach out of them that 't is questionable whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ or whether either or neither and that what was spoke by good and wise Men was ill applied and ill expressed and what the true Prophets spake was false and what the false Prophets spake was true c Answer me for my part I cannot G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of

one and that too much too Secondly Do you think he values and prefers the Scriptures before all Books extant in the World I think not my Reasons are many First you hear he calls the Scriptures Dust Death and Serpents-meat Beastly Wares dangerous to read see Truths Defence c. p. 101. yea so uncertain that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Pen-man of Holy Writ is a question But as for what G. Fox c. wrote their Yearly Meeting testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea the same Men that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents-meat judge Reader which they prefer Yea G. W. avouches that what is spoke from the Spirit of Truth in any much more in them is of equal nay of greater Authority than the Scriptures judge Reader which they prefer They say 't is Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and that 't is the Devil that so pleads Yet they say of their own Epistles This is the Word of God judge which they preferr They say we may as well burn the Bible as their Papers and Queries judge which they prefer Come G. W. what Gloss have you in store your Paint begins to vanish and your Jugglings will not now do And as to you that are mis-led by your Teachers I exhort you to read the Scriptures and pray to God to open the Mysteries of Salvation held forth in them that so you may come to have your Judgments rectified Likewise read G. K's Ten Articles which came providentially to my Hand which being sound and orthodox I have exposed them to publick view for general Service desiring from my Heart that you may receive them in the same love they were writ and now exposed yet if you will not hear me nor receive them I of all Men may bear with you in that I once was as averse to Information as the most of you but I obtained Mercy in that I did not wilfully persist against Conviction c. Some of the Principles of G. Keith and his Friends 1. That Bodily Sickness and Death came in by the Fall 2. That Christ has now in Heaven a Soul and a Body that is not the Godhead but the Temple of it and most gloriously united therewith 3. That Christ's Body that was crucified and buried without us rose again without us and is now in Heaven without us 4. That the Man Christ Jesus will come again in that Body without us to judge the Quick and the Dead 5. That there shall be a general day of Judgment that all the deceased Saints are in expectation of 6. That we get not the Resurrection of the Body either in this mortal Life or immediately after Death 7. That Faith in the Man Christ without us as he died for us rose again and is gone into Heaven wrought in us by the Spirit of Christ is universally necessary to make Men true Christians and Children of God born of the Free Woman who have the Spirit of Adoption crying Abba Father 8. That Christ's Obedience and Righteousness which he performed in himself without us is imputed to us by Faith for the Remission of Sins 9. That Christ is not only God's Elect but all that shall be saved from the beginning to the end of the World are God's Elect being chosen in him not only before they believe and repent but before the Foundation of the World 10. That all and every one of the Members of the Church of Christ who are at age and can speak ought to confess with their Mouths in the hearing of some of their Fellow Members the Fundamental Principles of their Christian Faith before they can be own'd to be Members of the Church that by the same as well as by a Good Life and Conversation it may be known who are qualified to be Members of our Church which is Aboundary Terms and Bond of our Union the Spirit being the Principal which may be easily done by Answering to some plain Questions This is a Copy of G. Keith's c. sound and necessary Articles of the Christian Faith proposed to the Quakers of whom I wish it may not be said Oh how oft would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but you would not but now the things which belong to your Peace are hid from your Eyes I remember G. W. queried of me Count. Conv. p. 15. Whether I when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient Cause of Man's Salvation Answ I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism as by my Book de Chr. Lib. c. which he so often quotes to justifie the Quakers from what I now charge them with may be seen yet I do freely acknowledge that I was in great Errors particularly touching the Point of Justification for I then expected Salvation thro' my Obedience to the Light which the Quakers taught was sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation it attained through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts Again G. W. says Count. Conv. p. 29. Not reading the Scriptures in our Meetings for Worship is no Proof that we have not a Spiritual Worship nor Evidence that we disbelieve the Doctrines contained in them Answ I do not give it as the only Evidence but as a Demonstration yet if you did in good earnest believe the Doctrines and Precepts of Christ in the Gospel to be blessed and holy as you pretend you would read the Scripture and prefer the Bible before any other Book extant in the World you would read the Scriptures in your Meetings if any Book at all and if you recommend any Book to your Friends beyond Sea it would be the Scripture But since you do neither but instead thereof read and recommend your own Epistles and that as you say for the spreading of Truth this is a Demonstration that you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy and an infallible Evidence that you prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures unless you be arrant Cheats indeed to read and recommend that which you know is worst and hide and keep from them that which is best which I can hardly think And as impertinent as G. W. renders my Ten Reasons I find him not able to confute them As for his Pretence to Pray after the manner Christ taught his Disciples I deny it for it you kept to the manner though not to the form you would not be alone But let the Reader observe all the Prayers of Steph. Crisp R. Ashby W. Bingly and others printed at the end of their Sermons nay all your Books extant in the World and he will not find this passage Forgive us our Sins as we forgive them that

Life called Christ where-ever it is found Doth not the Name Christ belong to the whole Body and every Member in the Body as well as to the Head Will. Bayly's Works in Quarto p. 306 307 308. For they his Disciples loved his Person for the sake of the Frame and Quality of the Spirit that dwelt in him or else what was his Person to them being mean and contemptible more than another Person But for that which dwelt in him they loved him Let none mistake I do not slight it nor the Person of any of his Brethren or Children as they are prepared to do the Will of their Father The Sword of the Lord drawn c. p. 5. Your Imagined God beyond the Stars is utterly denied and testified against by the Light And whereas you say in the 8th That this Christ the Man of God is God and Man in one Person it is a Lye c. G. Fox's Mystery c. p. 206 207 250 254. If Christ that 's crucified be not within and that Christ that 's risen be not within I say that you are all Reprobates Now I say if there be any other Christ than he that 's crucified within he is a False Christ and he that hath not this Christ that was risen and crucified within is a Reprobate Though Devils and Reprobates make a talk of him without God's Christ is not distinct from his Saints nor his Body the Church for he is within them not distinct from their Spirit And thou say'st thou art saved by Christ without thee and so have recorded thy self to be a Reprobate And they that profess Christ without them and another Christ within them here is two Christs E. Burrough's Works c. p. 149. Query Is that very Man with that very Body within you yea or nay E. B's Answ The very Christ of God is within us we dare not deny him W. Smith's Primmer c. p. 8. Que. How may I know when Christ is truly preached W. Smith's Answ They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above but they that are Christ's Ministers preach Christ within The Christian Quaker and his Div. Test par 1. p. 97 98. The Serpent is a Spirit now nothing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something which is spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then could he not bruise the Serpents Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an holy Principle of Light and Life that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpents Head and because the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ as testifie the Scriptures the Seed is one and that Seed is Christ The Sandy Foundation c. p. 21. The Justice offended being Infinite his Satisfaction ought to bear a proportion therewith which Jesus Christ as Man could never pay he being Finite and from a finite Cause could never proceed an infinite Effect for so Man may be said to bring forth God since nothing below the Divinity it self can rightly be stiled infinite E. B's Works c. p. 273. And this is to go abroad into the Nation and into the World the Sufferings of the People of God called Quakers in this Age is greater Sufferings and more unjust than in the days of Christ or of the Apostles or in any times since The Counterfeit Quaker The Harmony c. p. 11. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Innoc. Triumphant Introd We sincerely own profess and confess Jesus to be the Christ The Harmony c. p. 45. Jesus in his Agony did sweat as it were great drops of Blood c. smote on the Head spitted on his Face crucified between two Malefactors Observation If the Counterfeit Quaker were sincere in this his Confession and as a Testimony thereof would retract his Errors I should be glad but whilst G. W. says in his Count. Conv. c. p. 72. I may see cause otherwise to word the matter and yet our Intentions be the same And The Harmony c. considering these Imputations viz of denying Christ undervaluing his Death and Sufferings contempt of Scripture c. if by any means this may help to clear up Truth and wipe off those Aspersions cast upon it It will not do they begin at the wrong end 't is not appearing in Sheeps Clothing only that will now do G. W's Paint will not serve nor all his cunning Glosses for as Irenaeus in his third Book against Hereticks very well says viz. Whilst Hereticks speak like the Faithful they not only mean otherwise than they say but clean contrary and by their Tenets full of Blasphemy they destroy the Souls of those who with their fair words suck in the Poison of their foul Opinions And as St. Paul says No marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their work c. 2 Cor. 11. 14. And that it may appear G. W. c. transform themselves into every shape behold their Books see how they contradict each other yet they 'll justifie or excuse all condemn none I have not taken a Passage or two only but I have traced them in their most approved Authors You see they call him that was born of the Virgin a Vessel a Garment and say they can never call him Christ and that the Name Jesus and Christ belong to every Member in the Body as well as to Christ the Head That his Disciples loved his Person for the sake of the Spirit which dwelt in him or else what was his Person to them more than another Person O horrible Contempt yea such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers Devils and Reprobates which make a talk of Christ without God's Christ is not distinct from the Saints says G. F. yea the same Christ that was crucified and rose again is within them and not distinct from them G. Fox and W. Penn say the Seed the Light is Christ which cannot be that Body because not in any Man In short they have acquitted the Jews and discharged Judas and freed Pontius Pilate of the horrible Crime of putting to death the Lord of Life and Glory what they can for as he was God he could not dye neither could they spit upon him scourge him hang him on a Tree but him that they call a Vessel a Garment a Man a Person him they slew and hanged on a Tree Acts 2. 36. Know assuredly that the same Jesus whom ye crucified and hanged on a tree hath God made both Lord and Christ Then not finite but a sufficient satisfactory Sacrifice for the Sins of

trespass against us No nor yet after that manner for though you must needs know that you are Sinners as well as others and have transgressed the Laws of God in both Tables yet you can neither make Confession of Sin to God nor beg Pardon for Christ's sake which not only shew that you do not Pray after the Manner but that you do not pray in the Name of Christ to God the Father as the Mediator and Intercessor between GOD and Man which is an infallible Proof that as you therein differ from the Faith and Practice of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs yea all Protestant Churches to this day so you do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts of the Bible to be blessed and holy which teach Men so to do which is one Reason Secondly In that you warn charge and command your Disciples to read and cause to be read in your Meetings not only in England but beyond Sea your own Papers Epistles and Books whilst you not only lay aside the Scripture as useless but declare to all the World they are Death Dust and Serpents-meat Beastly Ware and that such as preach out of it are Conjurers Notable Conjurers Thirdly Because you say it's Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God and yet allow your own Books that Title giving forth That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater questioning whether Moses be the first Pen-man thereof Fourthly A fourth Reason is because you deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper which the Scriptures teach saying Go teach all Nations baptising c. this do in remembrance of me c. Which the Apostles Primitive Christians and Martyrs practised who had the Spirit as much as you and witnessed Christ's second Coming as much as you Fifthly Your laying aside the use of the Lord's Prayer both in Manner and Form as aforesaid Sixthly Your laying aside the use of the Ten Commandments Seventhly And the Apostle's Creed Eighthly If you question whether Moses was the first Pen-man of Sacred Writ and what the Prophets spake true or false you I say cannot believe what you question Ninthly You teach that such as preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above are false Ministers but the Scripture tells you That Christ is risen and sits in Glory at the Right Hand of God in Heaven above And Tenthly Because you rob Christ of his Divine Attributes and put them upon your glorified George Fox calling him the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness c. See your Epistle This is only to go amongst Friends largely recited in this Introduction p. 5 6. which notwithstanding G. W's Denial is plainly proved to mean G. Fox yet to strengthen the said Proof see J. Whitehead's small Treat p. 4 5. After these things in the year 1648. God who had compassion on his People did cause a Branch to spring forth of the Root of David which was filled with Virtue for the Covenant of Life and Peace was with him and he spread and shot forth many Branches which did partake of the fatness of the Root and the weary came to rest under his Branches In him also was the word of Reconciliation which turned the Hearts of the Children and the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just And in the year 1655. I being a Branch of this Tree meaning G. Fox the life of its Root caused me to blossom and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit of the Lord came upon me c. I say G. F's saying that he rise out of the North was prophesied of c. and the recited Epistle saying O thou North of England who art reckoned barren c. and J. Whitehead setting the date of the rising of this Branch and Star 1648. and that in 1655. he also becoming a Branch of this Tree 't is manifest that what I said in New Rome unm c. p 79 to 87. was not without warrantable ground as by the coherence of their Doctrine doth manifestly appear And since your Books thus interfere let us prove whether they be sincere or which shall we take to be their Judgment in good earnest Answ That they are not sincere I have already given ten Reasons but that I may renew your memory I will add one more viz. In all their Meetings for Worship of GOD they never read one Chapter of the Bible nor one of the Epistles of the Apostles for this thirty years but 't is frequent with them to read their own Epistles as herein I shall further shew only one instance for the present I may recite to confirm you in the truth of their practice and by which you may measure great part of their pretences viz. Several Papers given forth for the spreading the Truth c. p. 60 61 62. Friends to you all this is the Word of the LORD take heed of judging one another To you all this is the Word of the LORD to spread over all I charge you in the presence of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst ALL FRIENDS AND BRETHREN EVERY WHERE to be read IN ALL MEETINGS This is THE WORD OF GOD. G. Fox 1. Pray observe first the design of sending their Books up and down it is TO SPREAD TRUTH and this might be done as well by recommending the reading of the Scriptures or some Portion thereof if indeed they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained therein be holy and blessed unless they will say their Books have a greater measure of holiness then the Scriptures which in the best sence they must believe unless they cheat the World most abominably to send them that which they know to be worse or least for their profiting Secondly You may observe what a Charge is given viz. I charge you in the PRESENCE of the LORD GOD to send this Epistle amongst all Friends what to do namely for a Publick Liturgy or Form of Divine Service viz. To be read in ALL MEETINGS Well what Authority had G. F. to impose this upon the poor People namely This is THE WORD OF GOD. Now if they do believe the Doctrine and Precepts contained in the Bible to be holy and blessed why do they not charge their People to read some part of the Scriptures for their Instruction but alas they have disputed against the Scripture being the Word of GOD but now you see they stile their own Nonsence to be THE WORD OF GOD and charge their poor ignorant People as such to receive it and as such to read it and as such to send it up and down into all the Countries and all Places and who dare gainsay the mighty Power of G. Fox Who as Ios Coal says hath his habitation in the power of the Highest who rules and governs in righteousness and his Kingdom is established in peace and the increase thereof is

Lake that burneth and the Pit thou art for to be turned into eternally but thou livest in Philosophy and Logick which are of the Devil G. Fox R. Hubberthorn REMARK Reader Here are some of the Consequences of their erronious Principles in denying the LORD that bought them for after they had erred concerning the Faith and made shipwrack of a good Conscience and denied Christ how soon did they contemn the Scriptures profane his Ordinances revile his Ministers with design no doubt as by the sequel we may perceive to exalt their own Horn. I could not well omit some few of their dreadful Names given to the Publick Ministry in general as elsewhere I have observed But before I sum them up let me add a few more of their Consequences and a little observe what good Names and Divine Attributes they gave to each other for as none ever came near them for railing and reviling stigmatizing and abusing their Opposers as if Hell was broke loose so never did any People exceed them in magnifying each other exalting one another to the Sky nay had they studied many years they could have scarce found out worse words for their Opposers and better and finer and dilicater words high praises and magnifying expressions for themselves and even so they have done by the Scriptures calling them Dust Death Carnal Husk Serpents meat and the like contemptuous Names whilst they have invented most excellent Names for their own Nonsensical Pamphlets and venomous Books fit to corrupt a Nation and destroy a Country as THE WORD OF THE LORD A MESSAGE FROM THE MIGHTY GOD THE WORD OF GOD A LIVING TESTIMONY and a hundred other such like Titles they give to their confused Nonsence to take the eyes and ears of the weak and unstable DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ERROURS 8. The Quakers Challenge p. 3. The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they 9. Ios Coal's Letter to G. Fox justified by W. Denn and others Dear G. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reach'd through us thy Children even to the Isles afar of to the begetting many again to a lively hope for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed whose being and habitation is in the power of the Highest in which thou rulest and governs in Righteousness AND THY KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED IN PEACE AND THE INCREASE THEREOF IS WITHOUT END Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. 10. A Battledoor for Teachers and Professors All Languages are to me says G. F. no more than dust who was before Languages were Introduct Again p. 214. And next follows a few words to the whole matter by G. Fox who is before Confusion or many Languages were 11. News coming out of the North p. 15. I am saith G. Fox the Door that ever was the same Christ yesterday to day and for ever And Title Page Written from the mouth of the LORD from one who is naked and stands naked before the LORD cloathed with Righteousness whose Name is not known in the World risen up out of the North which was prophesied of but now is fulfilled And p. 14. Your Original is Carnal Hebrew Greek and Latin and your Word is Carnal THE LETTER and your Baptism is Carnal and your Sacrament is Carnal and their Communion is Carnal Their Original is but dust which is THE LETTER which is death their Church is dust so the Serpent feeds upon dust and their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Pag. 34 35. A voice and a word to all you Deceivers who deceive the People and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemies and Hypocrisies that tell People of a Sacrament and tell them it is the Ordinance of GOD Blush blush and tremble you who live in the Witchery and bewitch the People 12. Several Petitions answered c. p. 60. My name is covered from the world and the world knows not me nor my name G. F. 13. G. F.s. Great Mystery c. p. 77. And as for any being moved of the Lord to take your i. e. Priests Hour-glass from you by the Eternal Power it is owned 14. A Musick Lecture c. p. 22. I do affirm that if John the Apostle had said he had been a sinner he had lied See New Rome unmasked p. 40. to 49. and you will see a whole Catalogue of Idolatrous Letters and other Abominations which are too large to recite here for I find I shall inlarge beyond what at first I intended 15. Jos Coal's Testimony of Edw. Burrough viz. That he was a Man endued with the ALMIGHTY POWER OF GOD which lived and reigned in him c. 16. W. Penn's Testimony for Jos Coal in his Works O the soft and pleasant streams of LIFE IMMORTAL that have run through him to refresh the LORD's Heritage And now he is truly ascended above every Trouble 16. THIS IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST FRIENDS p. 19. And O thou North of England who art counted as desolate and barren and reckoned the least of the Nations yet out of thee did the BRANCH spring and the Star arise which gives Light to all the Regions round about In thee the Son of Righteousness appeared with wounding and with healing Out of thee Kings Priests and Prophets did come forth and laid their Swords on the neck of their Enemies Put on your Armour and gird on your Sword and lay hold on the Speer and march into the field and prepare your selves to battel for the Nations do defie our God and say where is the God of the Quakers Arise Arise and sound forth the everlasting word of War and Judgment in the ears of all the Nations Sound an Allarum make their ears to tingle Our Enemies are whole Nations a rebellious People that will not come under OUR LAW Stand upon your feet and appear in your Terrour as an Army with Banners let the Nations know your power and the strength of your hand cut down on the right hand and slay on the left let not your eye pity nor your hand spare but wound the lofty and tread down the honourable of the earth give to the great Whore double and give to the little Whore treble for she is worthy whose Abominations have exceeded all that went before her dash her Children against the stones and cursed be every one that riseth not up to the help of the LORD against the Mighty Spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor young kill cut off destroy hew Agag in pieces make the Devils subject cast out the unclean Spirits shut up in Prison bring out of Prison cast in your Nets launch into the Deep divide the Fish bind the Tares in Bundles cast them into the fire c. REMARK Reader here is Matter enough to write a Volume upon but having treated largely upon some of them in my last I shall only touch briefly upon some of the Heads and so leave them to the Consideration of the wide World First

Their pretence that such as have the same Spirit which raised up Jesus are equal with GOD I must say 't is horrible Blasphemy yet it ought to be charged upon them until they publickly condemn the Book which hath little else in it but Blasphemy and false Doctrine and railing on the Publick Ministry However it never was corrected by Errata as is usual and hath gone for a Gospel Truth above forty years and as their Principle if they believe as they write and therefore I charge it upon them until they condemn the said Book And secondly their Impudence in saying that if we will own the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles we must necessarily own their Books this is of kin to the rest i. e. Blasphemy And thirdly for them to say If Christ the Light in them say I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE why may He not speak I answer If they can work the same Miracles He did and produce as many Prophets that foretold of G. Fox's coming out of the North as I shall that foretold of Christ's coming then I shall believe them Fourthly What horrible Blasphemy is it to say 'T is dangerous to read the Scriptures and to call them Dust Death Carnal Serpents-meat as likewise the Ordinances of Christ and the Communion of Saints which Christians ought to hold and believe as an Article of their Faith And then fifthly to call the Publick Ministers Witches Devils Conjurers c. is very pernicious Such Books ought to be burnt as Jacob Baker a Quaker once confest he would burn it And sixthly for them to hold that they and they ONLY are in the Truth 't is the perfect Pharisee But for them to write that G. Fox was before Confusion or the many Languages were is monstrous Such Blasphemies ought to be posted As likewise Ja. Parnell to say that he was before Arguments was and was come to the end of all Arguments is notorious And seventhly so is it in G. Fox to say that he stands covered and neither he nor his name known in the world O what shall I say was there ever such wickedness And yet here is nothing so bad nothing so wicked nothing so false so Idolatrous so Blasphemous But G. W. can salve it he can vindicate or excuse it nay more then so he can procure twelve Witnesses to say We 〈…〉 declare on the behalf of the Quakers that what Fr. Bugg says is 〈…〉 and wicked for they never so believed so said nor so affirm'd c. 〈…〉 being solemnly avouched as in The holy fear of Almighty God 〈…〉 an Oath and if what these twelve affirm be false then they are perjured Persons in the eye of the Law and deserve to be Pillored And thereupon I charge them with Perjury with false-witnes bearing until they by publick retraction repent and give Satisfaction For as you will spare none neither Ox nor Ass old nor Young no more will I I will not spare nor my eye shall not pity Friend or Foe which comes up with false Evidence yea so false as if they should say black is white and white is black I must say that as T. G. hath no need to depend on G. W. and that he must know that G. W. hath as little love for him as for some he hath wrote against yet I am sorry to see his Name there As for the others many of them have their dependency on the Chair and G. W being therein I marvel not at them provided their Testimony had been true but I am sure it is notorious false nay and that they themselves know it to be false I will give the World a SIGN which is this If they know and be conscious to themselves that their Evidence is false they will not come forth according to my Proposition in this Book made to meet me but if they be not conscious to themselves of false Evidence how false soever it is they will come forth to clear themselves and be glad I give them the opportunity and by this SIGN they shall be proved Come on you twelve Master-Builders can you read these sixteen Instances and not blush when you behold your Certificate and particularly the first third fifth and eleventh as also the first second and third Errours I say can you read the Passages taken out of your own Books wrote by your most eminent Preachers and yet affirm you never said so wrote so believed so nor taught so and not blush and be horribly ashamed But I have given a Sign to prove you and by it you shall be tried Again Can you read p. 77. of G. F's Great Mystery where he justifies Felony under a pretence of being moved by the Spirit of GOD and not blush What is all your Zeal gone or are you fearful of displeasing G. W. now he is got into the Chair Can you look on the fifth Instance and see how G. W. teaches that the Scripture is not the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament but the Letter which killeth c. And can you behold his contrary Pretences in his late Writings and not reprove him can you hear him pretend that he was moved of GOD to write Judgment Fixed c. and that GOD laid a necessity upon him to write that Book and that therein the neither consults the Events nor fears the Effects and yet proved to write notorious Lies And can you thus let him pass only with saying he was mistaken when he fathered all his Lies upon the moving of the Spirit of GOD even six Lies in number and great part of his Matter bottomed thereupon Can you hear and read his Excuses and Vindications of the Idolatious Letters wrote to G. Fox by Jos Coal John Audland John Blaikling and Sol. Eccles and can you be silent at these things Read my Parallel between the Papists and Quakers in New Rome c. p. 40. to 49. Can you take notice of the Names he and others have given my self and such as have opposed your Church Government and the imposing the observation of your Womens Meetings which some of you are no more in love with then some of us which wrote against the mischief of your Impositions I say can you behold the Names he c. gave us viz. Old canker'd Apostates vile Apostates unruly Beasts Runagades Treacherous Apostates Apostate Informers betraying Iudas's Devils Incarnate Wolves Doggs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil dark Devil-driven dungy Gods Heathens Atheists c. See some of the Quakers Principles and Doctrines c. p. 10 11. for more of this stuff nay such personal defamations and detractions which hath had such an Effect not only of our Profession in Religious Matters but upon our Persons and Imployments which in time may be further taken notice of Can you behold all this and a hundred things more which I might name which hath occasioned a great part of your Troubles And can you submit your Necks your