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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

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

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

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 Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the Habitation of Devils and the Hold of every foul Spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird. Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works In the Cup which she hath filled fill to her double Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye Holy Apostles and Prophets and Christian Ministers for God hath avenged you on her Rev. 18. 2. 6. 20. Licensed June 18th 1694. London Reprinted for the Author and are to be Sold by J. Gwillim Book-seller in Bishops-gate-street 1694. The Preface to the Christian Reader Christian Reader There are two things put me upon this Preface First Geo. Whitehead and his Abettors's Inveterate Malice calling me and others Old canker'd Apostates Vile Apostates Self-condemn'd Apostates Unruly Beasts Betraying Judasses Wolves Dogs Enemies of all Righteousness Children of the Devil Devils Incarnate Heathens Atheists c. Indeed their Books are so very Malicious and Defamatory as well as their private Whisperings and Backbitings that some even of themselves have been constrained to give me under their Hands a Testimony in Writing against the unchristian Treatment which I have met withal namely T. Bird J. Ellington J. Mason W. Belsham and above Twenty more Quakers belonging to Mildenhall-Meeting And yet not worse Language than they have given the Publick Ministry as Witches Devils Gormandizing Priests c. as anon will appear And whoever discovers their Errors and displays them in their proper Colours must expect to meet with something of this kind And that being fore-seen have doubtless been taken for a tolerable Excuse by abler Pens from stooping to such an Undertaking as this And thereupon I may the more rationally expect the more favourable Censure for what might have been done better by the Learned 't is enough to me to be thought worthy in this great Work of discovering the greatest Heresie that ever sprang up in our Age to be as the Carpenter's Man whose Work is to hew off the rough and knotty pieces of the Timber to make it more ready for better Workmen To be Contentious I grant is an Offence the Scriptures condemn with no little keenness whilst it exhorts to contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints From whence I conceive that though I contend against Quakerism with some Symptoms of Zeal I am not therefore Contentious nor though I may retract yea write against some Errors I formerly held and upon Conviction have forsaken I am not therefore a Self-condemned Apostate as G. W. dreams If you think me too smart in some passages against Persons 't is against their Leaders if against their Opinions I have from their own Books proved them Erroneous and Blasphemous which ought to be reproved sharply And that their Opinions are so I have never refused to make Proof of to their faces on Condition when proved they would engage a Retractation nay sometimes without any such Engagement See Quakerism Anatomized p. 2. I cannot call Gall and Poyson by sweet and lovely Names I must alter my Style according to the Matter and Occasion or else all will be out of Tune and no more Harmony than Harp and Harrow Bishop Jewel and other Reformers they wrote smartly against the Papists and most exquisitely displayed their Errors and yet they protested they were in Charity and desired nothing more than that they would have hearkened to them and forsaken their Errors And I do say nothing would please me better than to see this People Condemn what is Erroneous amongst them and persevere in the Truth and the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ True God and Perfect Man in One Person Object But if any Object in favour of them That though they do not Preach Christ without unless since G. K. came over as he is in Heaven above nor believe him to be distinct from his Saints nor Pray in the Name of Jesus to God the Father thereby owning him in his Mediator-ship nor make Confession of Sin to God in Prayer nor beg Pardon for the same But look at Christ within the Light within his Crucifixion within his Intercession within nor a Bible to be seen in their Meetings for they are above such Carnal things Yet they have among them many good Exhortations and they own Christ to be the Word of God the Power of God the Wisdom of God will not this do Supposing they mean all to be within yea Heaven and Hell all within c. Answ The Mahumetans hold Abraham to be the Friend of God and Moses the Messenger of God and Christ the Breath of God And they Punish such as speak against Christ whose Religion was not say they taken away but mended by Mahomet Heylin's Cosmog lib. 3. p. 104. And our Saviour is called in their Alchoran The Word the Power the Soul and Strength of God c. The Lives of the Patriarchs Printed 1694. See the Word Alchoran Insomuch that if the Quakers do not come to this Result to own the same Jesus that was born of the Virgin smote with Palms of their Hands Crucified Dead Buried Rose again and in the sight of the Galileans ascended into Heaven and publickly Condemn their Books which Teach the contrary they cannot deserve the Name Christian c. I am not unsensible what little Arts they have used to blast my Reputation that thereby they may obstruct the Service of my Books but their Expectation hath failed them Then they Indicted me in London for Printing without License yet they do the same But they say I put up a Mock-Pillory I grant I did and that to shew what they actually deserved upon their own Proposals to Authority Did not they erect the Form and Figure of a Child's Penny horning Battle-door for the Bishops Clergy and Gentry to Learn the English of Tu and Vos Signed by G. Fox a Shoe-maker c. Was not this as great an Affront to them as mine could be to the Twelve Quakers See Quakerism Withering c. p. 61. But how did they bestir themselves to Persecute me How did they run up and down to great Persons both on Foot and by Coach and all to Suppress me And had they had a Jury of Quakers I had been Cast but

them besides several Gentlemen and others Inhabitants of Wymondham to renew my Challengs to R. Ashby one of your Teachers which was to prove That the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth the Scriptures Christ's Ordinances undervalue his Sufferings exalt your own c. as at large in Quakerism Anatomized p. 2. Which may fully Answer your captious Demands in your Essay p. 7. Viz. June 4 th 1694. Whereas R. Ashby lately wrote to the Inhabitants of Wymondham to beware of Fr. Bugg's Book Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. As containing Lies and false Representations c. Upon which some of us desired Francis Bugg to appear in his own Vindication which he readily consented to and renewed his Charge against the Doctrine and Principles of the Quakers as in the recited Book Quakerism Withering c. And gave the said R. Ashby a Challenge to meet him and a Months time to prepare himself But the Day being come and the said R. Ashby not appearing as it 's said on his behalf by Reason of Business at London Nevertheless to prevent all Excuses on the part of the said R. Ashby we have again requested Francis Bugg to renew his Challenge and to give him longer time to prepare himself assuring him That as we shall stand by Fr. Bugg in what he maintains according to Scripture so shall we be against him where he asserts the contrary or mis-cite and falsly charge the Quakers Tho. Wright William Haws Rich. Clark Robert Purt Roger Gay William Le Neve Lewis Hinton Jacob Henery John Henery Peter Atdam Richard Smith And many others And accordingly I renewed my Challenge pursuant to my former Proposition offering to meet him at Wymondham the 18 th of July 1694. And sent him per Post c. And let none think it strange that the Quakers and their Principles are thus Anatomised and set forth to Posterity For those Histories that have derived to us the Knowledge of those Errors and Heresies which sprang up amongst the Ancient Christians as Tares amongst the Wheat have not been accounted superfluous nor their Respect worn out in several Ages How much the more concerned should all true Christians be to have the knowledge of those born in our own Age brought forth in our own Bowels According to Christ's Prophecy Mat. 24. 24. For tho' G. Fox in his Journal p. 27 28. 30. 103. 170 171. 173. 307. 350. 407. 503 504. pretend to Miracles as in the Third Table under the word Miracle thus viz. Miracles wrought by the Power of God i. e. She that was ready to dye raised up again The Lame made whole The Diseased restored John Jay's Neck brake restored c. And many other pretended Miracles yet not one of them said to be done in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth as in Acts 3. 6. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk Which is a strong Argument of their disowning Jesus of Nazareth and of their confirming their New Religion in Opposition to that of Christs But I have not room to shew the Tendency of those Blasphemous Pretences of that Impostor G. Fox which probably hereafter I may In the mean while I am June 25. 1694. Thy Sincere Friend FRANCIS BUGG The CONTENTS of this Book THE Quakers and Papists pretended Miracles Page 2 G. Fox when living in a Glorified State 4 G. Fox the Quakers Star-branch c. confirmed 5 6. 16 A Treble Observation on a Triple Quaker 9 Geo Keith's Ten Articles of Faith 14 They value and prefer their Books before the Scriptures 11 12 The Quakers Sufferings greater than the Suferings of Christ 9 The Quakers fly from their Word 21. 23 They say the Name Jesus belongs to every Member of the Body i. e. every Believer as well as to Christ the Head 8. 28 Dangerous Consequences of the Quakers Doctrine 31 A Sign to prove the Quakers Sincerity p. 36 A Conference between F. B. and S. Cater 39 A Cage of Unclean and Hateful Birds 50 The Prophesies of the Prophets fulfilled 55 A Discovery of the World's Teachers 47 G. Fox his Epistle or Liturgy sent to be read in Churches 43 Tho. Bilney the Martyr his Christian Doctrine 59 The Quakers read not Scripture but their own Epistles 41 Geo. Keith charges them to hold Dangerous Errors 38 Queries propounded to the Quakers 65 The Conclusion 68 To which is added the Challenge to R. Ashby Books Written by Francis Bugg I. DE Christianae Libertate or Christian Liberty c. II. The Painted Harlot both stript and whipt III. Reason against Railing or Truth against Falshood IV. Innocency Vindicated and Envy Rebuked V. The Quakers detected and their Errors confuted c. VI. Battering Rams against New Rome c. VII One Blow more at New Rome c. VIII New Rome Unmask'd and her Foundation shaken IX New Rome Arraigned and out of her own Mouth Condemned X. Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving XI Quakerism Anatomized or a Challenge to Richard Ashby XII New Rome Arraigned c. The Second Edition Besides a Printed Letter to the Quakers and a Sheet to the Parliament An APOLOGITICAL INTRODUCTION Courteous Reader THERE is scarce any Sect of People how erronious soever they be but they have some Advocates and such too as oftentimes may give just occasion for an Apology for writing against their Errors and more especially when they make such fair Pretences to the Christian Religion as the Quakers of late have done in divers of their Books particularly that entituled The Harmony of the Old and New Testament wherein the Author prefixeth a twofold Preface the one to the Christians the other to the Jews premising two things 1st To wipe off such Aspersions as have been cast upon them as denying Jesus of Nazareth and the Divine Authority of the Scriptures Now how far their Book will answer this End unless they make an Ingenuous Retractation of their Errors this Treatise may shew 2dly I have not says this Author transcribed the whole of all those Verses which sometimes is cited but only so much as I conceive doth more immediately relate to c. Very well If then he contract the Scripture and take what he conceives necessary to the Point in hand I hope I shall have the same Liberty and not liable to Censure for the same thing a Fault the Quakers are too much guilty of And because I would be as concise as may be I shall recite their Books which are generally of two sorts of two Stamps and carry two contrary Faces contrary Doctrines contrary Principles c. in two Columns that as in a Glass their Hearers if they will but read may behold the depth of Hypocrisie which lye couch'd in their Leaders Doctrines not only liable to deceive them but the whole World who take them to mean as they say which makes me believe them to be the very Deceivers Christ foretold of Matt. 24 24. for though they come forth pretending to convert the Jews by