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

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

the King's Subjects as Perjured Persons and to the Pillory and that in their Absence too and some of them Persons he never knew as he has since declared and in his Mock-Trial Forging False Answers in the same Person 's Names and then Erecting the Form of a Pillory with Twelve Pictures and the first Letters of the Names of the Persons thus Condemned and Scandalized by him and the Word Perjury set over them to Ridecule them with such Gross Forgery Now we Query of you his Approvers whether such his Proceedings be Warrantable either by the Law of God or Man With several more Queries and Matters to thee Isaac Archer in my Letters Relating to F. Bugg's Abuse and my large and Friendly Letters also to the said W. Smithies containing much in Substance of the same Matters which yet remain unanswered by you or either of you save only a few Lines I had f●om thee Isaac Archer which is not all Answer to the Queries neither does it yet appear that you have given him any Real or Effectual Check to stop his Abuse and Calumnies as you were Cautioned but rather he has persisted therein and Boasts of your Approbations as followeth F. Bugg Proceeds in his Preface p. 3. thus viz. Poor Proud Man i. e. G. Whitehead I say this Considered I shall allow Mr. Archer Room for his whole Approbation and Recite the Substance of two or three Letters from some other Clergymen and the Request of three others besides an Independant Preacher that so be G. W. may see that both Conforming and Nonconforming Ministers are not ashamed to appear in Favour of what I Write nor afraid of G. Whitehead who acts more like a Lord Chief Justice than an Humble Quaker Answ. 1. If you his Approvers are not ashamed so to appear in his Favours you may be I persume you have given your Approbations too Early before you could have or see our Answers And I Question whether either you Conforming or Nonconforming Ministers who have been so early in your Approbations for F. Bugg have ever yet seriously Perused our Answers and Confutations of his Notorious Lyes and Calumnies against us but have rather brought your selves under great Blemish and Guilt by such your Approbations and I must tell you it was a very Unadvised and Indiscreet Act in you to be so Forward and Early in your Approbations and Judgments for F. Bugg's Books against the Quakers without hearing both Parties Fully and Impartially such Percipitancy and Injustice will never Redound to your Honour or Reputation who are the Clergymen and Ministers Conforming or Nonconforming who have shewn your Favours and Approbations of this pretended Convert for much Boasted of by him His Parish Minister's Approbation which he chiefly Boasts of thus Stiled and Cited viz. Mr. Archer Minister of Milden-Hall in Suffolk the Town where I Dwell his Approbation c. As there is Joy in Heaven over a Sinner Converted to God as to his Morals so when the Erroneous turn to the true God as to his Intellectuals Truth and Goodness being his Infinite Attributes the Shadow of them for in the Creature they are no better are Equally Pleasing to their Author Hence I may shew my Joy in that my Neighbour Bugg is returned from his Errors not as to his Life for he was Sober ever since I knew him but as to his Judgment as a Sign of which he has Laboured to bring over his Seduced Brethren which would they Read his Books might be done But I fear most of them are of the Mind of one of them that told me Thou mayest out Argue me but shall not Perswade me However I do own the Substance of this Book i. e. the first Impressionths as a Defence of those Eternal Truths 〈◊〉 which I hope for Salvation and which are a Comfort to me in my 〈◊〉 Peace be to those that own them and the Lord open the Eyes of such as deny them Isaac Archer By this the Reader may see what a Great and Eminent Convert F. Bugg is here Rendred and what Joy his now Teacher shews in his Conversion and by such his Approbation of F. Bugg's Work as a Defence of the Eternal Saving Truths and his Judgment against the Quakers as his Seduced Brethren he has joyned Issue with him therein against us but herein we deny their Judgment i. e. the Judgment and Condemnation of both Priest and Proselyte it being without Proof or Conviction Isaac Archer thou wast too forward in this Point thou hast given Approbation and Judgment for F. Bugg's Book it seems on its first Impression and against us before thou could'st have our Answers or Impartially hear both Parties Is this thy Justice or Judicial Way of Proceedure And dost thou think such Malicious Work as thy Disciple F. Bugg's will Convince us of Error if mistaken or bring Honour to thee or Credit to thy Cause Surely thou art Accountable to the Just God for thy Encouraging F. Bugg in his Unjust Attempts who when he has Recited thy Approbation then falls to Boasting Railing falsly and grosly Reviling instead of better Argument according to his wonted Course since he became your Convert pretended viz. Come G. W. quoth he I have found room to Recite my Teacher Verbatim but I want both time and room to draw the Exact Picture of G. W. who for Audacious Insolency Pride and Conceit for Scorn Contempt and Envy for Defaming Glossing Perverting and Subtilty for denying what you know to be true and affirming what you know to be false I say to set forth your Exact Picture in these and other the like Crafty Jugglings and Legerdemain c. it would require a Volumn Behold your Convert's Treatment Many such Storms of Raillery he Appears in in his Books and Pamphlets instead of Sober or Sound Argument wherein as I know in my own Conscience he has falsly Aspersed me Being also known to be a Person of better Fame than he Represents me so no Ingenuous or Impartial Men will take his Calumnies upon trust against me or my Friends but such as are so Enviously Credulous as to give away their Common Sence and Reason to believe his Reproachful Lyes and so joyn Issue with him in his False Judgment against the Innocent But he proceeds on with the Approbation given for him viz A Letter from Dr. Burrell SIR I heartily Congratulate your Return to our Church which doubtless is the most Eminent for Doctrine Worship and Discipline amongst all the Reformed Churches in the World I cannot but highly Commend your Pious Endeavours for this End of which I have received an Account from Mr. Gearing a London Minister I shall much Rejoyce in your success herein in order to undeceive them Poor Seduced People having therein Displayed many of the Intreigues of their Leaders Your Real Friend Nath. Burrell Observe here how far these Clergymen have Entituled themselves to F. Bugg's Work against the People called Quakers taking what he Writes for granted as Pious