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A30043	A second summons to the city of Abel, 2 Sam. 20 to deliver up Sheba, the son of Bichri, that man of Belial : by way of metaphor, alluding to the Quakers and Geo. Whitehead and may serve for a reply to their answer to my printed sheet, stiled The Quakers Yearly Meeting impeached, &c.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1695 (1695)	Wing B5392; ESTC R21466	14,478	16

for then down goes your Infallibility and great will be the fall thereof Justifie them you cannot for if you tell them these sayings came from Heaven they 'll tell you they came from Hell so that here is a Gulf between you and them You may fret and fume rage and rail invert pervert gloss and paint but all to no purpose I have hem'd you up and cast a Trench about you and taken you as in a Net and resolve to hold you fast for I will not leave the decision of our Controversie to Quakers Ranters Muggletonians nor to your Grandsire the Pope Come G. W. I have not done with you yet you say The Quak. Vind. p. 2. As for Baptism and the Lord's Supper Scripturally considered we confess and own c. But may some say how is this possible who have not baptized any with Water nor received the Sacrament under the Elements of Bread and Wine these 40 years Answ Let me Interpret their meaning which I take to be thus They own them Scripturally that is as they own the Scriptures they own the Sacraments also upon the same Hypothesis they may say they own the Scriptures Sacramentally viz. as they own the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper when alas they own neither no otherwise than Arius owned the Faith of one Substance who when at the demand of the Emperour he signed the Nicene Creed who before-hand wrote his own Opinion in a piece of Paper and put it in his Bosom under his Coat and coming to the Book he takes his Oath that he verily believed as he had written meaning as he had written in the Paper under his Coat In like manner the Quakers confess and own the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Scripturally that is as they have written in their own Books And I pray may some say how is that For Answer you may see the same Juggle read News coming up c. p. 14. So dust is the Serpent's meat their Original is but dust which is but the Letter which is Death and their Gospel is dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Thus then they own the Scriptures Sacramentally viz. to be Dust Death and Serpents meat And I will shew you how they own and confess the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Scripturally viz. as they own the Scriptures for Proof thereof see a Book of their own writing only they are not so cunning as Arius for he never Printed his Paper I say see News coming up c. p. 34. A Voice 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 〈◊〉 God Blush Blush and Tremble you who live in the Witchery and bewitch the People 〈◊〉 Thus Reader I have shewed how they own the Lord's Supper Scripturally and the Scripture Sacramentally which though they have Printed the same yet they are as loath to shew their Books of this kind to Authority as Arius was his Paper yet Arius could never pretend fairer to the Emperour than G. Whitehead in the Quak. Vind. c. did to the Parliament The like might be said about their owning the Fast commanded by Authority p. 3. of their Vind. For the Intent Substance and End of a true Fast this we are frequently mindful of c. Oh deceit when 't is generally known through the Nation that on the days set apart by Authority for a Fast they follow their outward Callings open their Shops and not so much as appoint a Meeting for that end as others have done I have not room to shew the depth of Hypocrisie in this Whitehead 't is like his Pretence of late Years of owning the Scriptures and preferring them before all the Books in the World but he means Sacramentally If he deny my Interpretation of their Reserves then let him shew me that any one Quaker in England of the Foxonian Tribe in Print hath recommended the Reading of the Scripture in their Religious Meetings if such I may call them As they frequently do their own Epistles for instance see Geo. Whitehead's Epistle for the Remnant of Friends c. where he concludes thus Let this Epistle be Read distinctly * Here must not be a Syllable mistaken for it came from Heaven in the Quakers And yet I question it for in pag. 12. he compares the Sufferings of the Quakers to the Sufferings of Christ like his Brother Burroughs E. B's Works in the Life and Authority of God from whence it came amongst Friends in and about London and elsewhere as Friends are moved in the same Life c. To this Instance let me add Whitehead's Doctrine in his Book A Serious Apology c. p. 49. That what is spoken by the Spirit of Truth in any meaning the Quakers is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater And for further Proof that they value their own Pamphlets above the Scripture see New Rome Arraigned c. Introd 10 Instances c. p. 40. to 47. And Quakerism withering c. p. 32. to 44. By which I have proved both from Matter of Fact and Practice what I charge them with beyond all their glossing And now I am leaving G. W. I apply my self to the Hearers amongst the Quakers and do Solemnly profess that I never wrote one Book out of Malice as he suggests and as may appear in every Book by the Proposals and Offers I therein make But if you do not call out G. W. and cause him to stand to his Proposal or else condemn and censure his Errors and the Errors in your Friends Books by him vindicated under 12 or more of your hands I do purpose if the Lord permit to proceed to a Brief History of the Rise Growth and Progress of Quakerism from the Year 1650. to 1695. And the Projects of G. Fox the Founder of Quakerism And wherein their Principles are Antichristian Antimagistratical Irrational Unreasonable Tending to subvert the Christian Faith to introduce Mahumetism Atheism c. And to shew that their Faith and Doctrine is contrary to that of the Primitive Christians Saints and Martyrs in all Ages First in denying Jesus of Nazareth contemning the Scriptures reviling the Magistrates reproaching the Ministers of the Gospel undervaluing the Death and Sufferings of Christ and exalting their own of which many are meer Cheats particularly Sam. Cater's * See New Rome un●●●●… 57. who is recorded to have suffered 20 l. where he never lost a groat but had 10 l. sent him from London so that instead of losing 20 l. for Preaching he got 10 l. clear and many other things which may occur which may be prevented by a sincere Retractation And let not G. W's Cunning and smooth and demure Carriage prevent you from Condemning what is Erroneous for though he study no Events nor fear no Effects as he says yet I would have you be wiser For

A Second Summons to the City Abel 2 Sam. 20. To deliver up Sheba the Son of Bichri that Man of Belial by way of Metaphor Alluding to the Quakers and Geo. Whitehead And may serve for a Reply to their Answer to my Printed Sheet stiled The Quakers Yearly Meeting Impeached c. Geo. Whitehead I Have perused your Printed Sheet as I have Reason to Judge although 't is Signed by five of your Undergraduates being either ashamed to appear your self as well you may or else fearing that if your Name were to it People would slight it as not worth Reading being the Fruit of an Old Contentious Make-bate c. You say pag. 2. That Wickliff Suinderly c. Testified against the Popish Clergy and Tithes c. By which you seem to make no difference between a Popish and Protestant Clergy for which the Church of England will not thank you But George why do you thus fight with your own shadow and thus trifle besides the business I did not Impeach the Quakers for not paying Tithes though that be Criminal enough but your Yearly Meeting for Imposing the non-payment of Tithes upon your People and that too as a grand Oppression and Antichristian Yoke And I say again for you to Meet Annually by way of Convocation to make and promulgate such Antimagistratical Laws not only against but contrary to the Laws of the Land Is both against the King's Prerogative the Rights of Parliaments and Property of the Subject yea and of dangerous Consequence And I say again that by these your Cannon Laws you do actually Absolve the King's Subjects if the Quakers may be so called from their Active Obedience to the Laws of the Land which requires them to pay Tithes Church-Wardens Rates take Lawful Oaths carry Guns c. But say you these are but Epistles and consequently no contrived Constitutions But G. W. this will not do it 's true you call them Epistles but you send them down to your Monthly and Quarterly Meetings as Laws And as Magna-Charta was formerly wont to be read in the Churches once or oftner every year so do you Order your Epistles to be Recorded and Read in your Quarterly Meetings which is more than ever you did the Scripture See your Epistle stiled Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c. in England and Wales c. And at the Conclusion you end thus Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book and sometimes read it for Remembrance and Notice Thus 't is plain that your Epistles are Laws to your People and as plain that as the Power and Influence of your Yearly Meeting prevails so must that of Westminster vail since what is made Lawful at Westminster at your Yearly Meeting is made unlawful yea a Grand Oppression an Antichristian Yoke And as such you charge and Command your People not to pay Tithes c. as in my former Sheet more at large And this Consideration together with your Indicting me for Printing without License * As your Indictment sets forth for I took a Copy of it which possibly you may see hereafter with some Observations upon it although it be your own frequent Practice put me upon delivering a Printed Sheet to the Parliament stiled Something in Answer to the Allegations of the Quakers c. Dec. 1693. To which Sheet G. W. replyed and proposed saying viz. I G. W. freely offer and am willing to make it appear before any six ten or twelve competent Witnesses who are moderate Men of Sense and common Reason That Fr. Bugg has grosly abused and perverted Truth and wronged the People called Quakers both in Charge Citation and Observation c. Now in Answer to this seeming fair offer I came up to London the February following and then proffered to meet G. W. and to leave Matter of Fact to the decision of four Men chosen by each of us out of Episcopalians Presbyterians Independants or Baptists or out of any one of those four Christian Societies But this G. W. refused but I held him to his word any and renewed my Acceptation of his Proposal May 1695. but he still refused to stand to his word Then I Impeached their Yearly Meeting And now in this their Answer G. W. complains saying p. 7. But now see how knowingly unfair Fr. Bugg is after his railing against G. W. and the Quakers Books as none so bad none so gross none so blasphemous but G. W. the Quakers Bellarmine will undertake to Vindicate them who for these Forty Years and upwards hath been like Ishmael his Hand against Episco Pres Indep and Baptists and theirs against him Such then are Fr. Bugg's disinterested Persons whose hand is against G. W. as he confesseth And yet would have him leave Matters of Fact in Controversie to their Judgment and Decision c. I grant that Episcopalians c. are great Enemies to the Errors of the Quakers and that some of all those Societies have wrote against them and that G. W's hand like Ishmael's hath been against them all But this G. W. knew as well as I before he made the proffer his proffer was voluntary and uncompelled to meet me before any eight ten or twelve moderate Men c. And what to do Why to make it appear that Fr. Bugg had wronged the Quakers in Charge Citation and Observation Now this is Matter of Fact what cannot he find four moderate Men in those four Christian Societies that will do him that Justice to Judge aright whether Fr. Bugg cited the right Book quoted the same Page observing from thence the true sense of the matter Truly his pretence to a Charitable Distinction in the Qua. Vind. p. 2. Col. 2. between the more moderate and the rigid c. amounts to very little if he dare not trust their Judgment to decide whether Fr. Bugg rightly cited their Books truly quoted their Pages and from thence fairly observed the Sense thereof or no But still suppose they be such Partial Wretches as that eight or ten cannot be found amongst them all who is to be charged with unfairness 'T is not Fr. Bugg he only takes G. W. at his word and holds him to it See Quaker Withering c. p. 2. to 12. where this 〈…〉 Object But possibly some may say You deal too severely with the Quakers not only by exposing their Principles but you render them Perjured and deserve Pilloring c. Answ I grant some may blame me yea and good Men too who do not see so clearly into their deceitful Practices as I do and through much Experience have done Erasmus was a good Man who was accounted the Light of that Age yet he blamed Luther Hist of the Reformation c. p. 42. Luther said he hath excellently admonished the World in many things I wish he had done it more civilly he would have had more favourers and defenders and have reaped for Christ a more plenful Harvest c. Thus you see that Zealous Luther was

blamed by Worthy Erasmus And if such a Man as Luther was thus blamed why should I think it strange As to the Pillory the occasion of it was their falsifying their Word in the case of Evidence between G. W. and me For they long before that by their Books stiled The Case of the People called Quakers in relation to Oaths c. p. 26. And in another Book stiled A Treatise of Oaths c. p. 3. They pretended A willingness to suffer as in the Case of Perjury in case they brake and falsified their Word c. As at large recited in New Rome Arraigned c. Epist to the Bereans c. And though I erected a Mock-Pillory to shew them what in reality they did deserve yet it had this Service that it manifested their Persecuting Spirit and what they would be at had they Power put into their hands O! how did they fly to the Powers of the Earth which they formerly blamed others for crying out to Secretary Trenchard for help against Fr. Bugg Yea they Indicted * If they do deny it I have a Copy out of the Court with G. W's Name and the rest And their Indictment is in the most aggravatious terms that ever I saw me at the Old Bailey London when I was absent Sixty Miles and knew nothing of it O! how did they sollicite the Secretary of State against me And did not W. Crouch give Five Pounds and Promise a larger Sum if he could have had their Revengeful Prosecution of me taken effect and my Book New Rome c. which they had got seized to be burnt With many other signs of their Persecuting Spirit which had they Power they would manifest more and more as they did in Pensilvania to G. Keith and his Friends where they both Fined and Imprisoned them and took away R. B's Goods for Conscience-sake Yea so Inhumane were they that when they Committed W. Bradford and John M'comb one of their Wives was newly brought to Bed and lay very weak in a High Fever and several thought she would not live and though he requested them to let him go home yet they would not grant him leave to see her Oh merciless Magistrates I my self when a Quaker was Prisoner at once more than three Years yet during that time I had leave divers times to go home to visit my Family which I find I must not expect if ever I be Prisoner under the Quakers who being Magistrates in Pensilvania can both Fine Imprison and take away Goods and fight with Carnal Weapons both which viz. Persecutioh for Conscience and Fighting with Carnal Weapons they have pretended to be against But now I see 't is but till they get Power and become Magistrates themselves And truly if as T. C. hath modestly computed there be but 100000 Quakers in England and 1000 of them Preachers and 1000 Meetings and W. Pen Influence as he observes but 80000 of them to Fighting and Persecution I know not what a little time may bring forth For as T. C. well observes They are but sowing their Seed now but the full Crop may not appear in this Age which puts me in mind of their former Declaration Printed 1659. Signed by W. Crouch and fourteen more saying p. 12. We have chosen the Son of God to be our King and he hath chosen us to be his People And he might Command Thousands and Ten Thousands of his Servants at this day to fight in his Cause and give them Victory over all their Enemies and turn his hand upon their Persecutors But yet his Kingdom is not of this World Neither can we yet believe that he will make use of us in that way But for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names-sake From whence it 's plain that in 1659. they said Neither can we yet believe But by their Practice in Pensilvania in Anno 1692. they believe they may now Fight and Persecute too That in 1659. the Quakers said But for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names-sake But by their Practice in Pensilvania 1692. they say they will not be affronted by any body They will Fight with Guns and Swords and Persecute such as tell them they go from their Principles with Fines and Imprisonment Come G. W. what is become of your Interpretation of the word as yet What is it tamen I hope you see it to be Adhuc as yet in exception to the time to come I know you are good at Inuendo's and at directing the Intention Jesuit like See his Book stiled The Light and Life of Christ within c. p. 58. Solomon Eccles one of their False Prophets which prophesied that John Story should dye within a Year who lived three or four Years after who said The Blood which was forced out of Christ's Body when he was dead was no more than the Blood of another Saint Which Blasphemy G. W. excuses saying No more than the Blood of another Saint his intent was as to the Papists c. Which Blasphemy G. K. in his Book stiled A true Copy of a Paper c. p. 17. to 31. hath effectually discovered And G. W. is so good at Directing the Intention that he knows what all his Friends mean for in his Counterf Conv. c. p. 72. he says I may see cause otherwise to word the matter and yet our Intentions be the same The English of which is though Is P. deny Jesus of Nazareth to be Christ and make him but a Vail a Garment c. And G.W. confess him to be the Christ yet they mean all one thing only a Garment And the Light that was therein crucified is the Christ And what was his Person to them more than another Person Oh but says his Young Pupil Pennington The Discoverer Discovered c. p. 13. The Author of this Doctrine being nameless I suppose he has forgot who it was And truly I cannot blame him for forgetting what I believe saith he had never any other Foundation but meer Imagination c. Surely if his Infallible Spirit with which they pretend to be endued so as thereby to be furnished with Discerning and Judgment on all occasions Judas and the Jews c. p. 58. could not tell him yet G. W. might for 't is in The Christian Doctrine and Society by G. W. p. 5. and W. Baily's Works p. 300. 307. Come G. W. since the Quakers are attained to that Perfection as that they hold Courts of Judicature in the Name of the Honourable William Penn And that you have Judges Lawyers Bailiffs Constables Goalors and Souldiers Guns and Swords in Pensilvania tell me the Intention of your great Apostle G. Fox in his News coming up c. p. 20. Sing all ye Saints and rejoyce clap your hands and be glad for the Lord Jehovah will Reign * Viz. When we get Governours over Pensilvania and England c. and the Government

shall be taken from you pretended Rulers Judges and Justices Lawyers and Constables all this Tree must be Cut down c. But I cannot enlarge at present on this Subject but the more you strive to cover and cloak your Errors the more do you give occasion to have them manifested which puts me in mind of a Fable recited by Luther Malum irritatione auctum A Sore groweth worse by chasing And truly since our Scuffle first began about Womens Meetings the Sect of the Foxonian Quakers like the Man in the Fable appears not only Lame but Scabby c. And the more they give occasion the more I rub and chafe this Corrupt Sore until it will stink all the Nation over If they again complain that I put frightful Garments upon them let them withal remember 't is a Web of their own Weaving Now I shall shew what Geo. Fox the Founder of Quakerism says of himself next what his Brethren by way of Confirmation say of him and next what the Quakers they say of the National Ministry of the Scriptures Sacraments and of their own Writings briefly and in Order First of G. Fox's Assuming Divine Attributes to himself News coming up c. p. 1. 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 * Quere by which Prophet but now it is fulfilled c. Several Petitions Answered c. p. 60. My Name is covered from the World and the World knows not me nor my Name A Battledoor c. Introd All Languages are to me no more than dust who was before Languages were c. Alike to James Parnel in his Book The Watcher c. p. 37. But to the end of all Disputes and Arguments I am come for before they was I am I have Power to bind and to loose whom I please from him whom the World calls George Fox who is the Son of God G. F. W. O. C. The Examination and Tryal c. p. 21. The Thundering Voice answered me Geo. Fox I have glorified thee and will glorifie thee again And I was so filled full of Glory that my Head and Ears was filled full of it A Journal c. p. 31. 60. 67. I was in the Paradice of God and that it was Christ the Eternal Power of God that spake in me at that time unto them And that was the Word of the Lord and of Christ through me to him So that it was a dreadful thing unto them when it was told them the Man in Leathern Breeches is come See also p. 45. And for his pretended Miracles wrought in his own Name only p. 371. 374. Saul's Errand c. p. 8. And he that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with God which Spirit G. Fox pretended to have The Great Myst c. p. 894. The Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all the fore-fathers which we said G. F. do Witness since the days of the Apostles in the Apostacy And they can discern who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a word The Great Mystery c. pag. Thus Reader I have given you a few Instances of Blasphemy which hang and depend one upon another as a Chain linked together And the next shall be what his Preachers said of him by way of Corroboration But first hear what G. W. says in order to convince the World that Geo. Fox owned Jesus of Nazareth which indeed and in truth is no more nor less than he G. F. said of himself A notable Proof well may he be afraid or ashamed or both to meet me before moderate Men of sense Well hear G. W. for once A Just Enquiry c. p. 23. And G. F. is more fully cleared from these Adversaries Reproach in this matter by his own Innocent Testimony Great Myst p. 254. That by Christ the Light all things were made and created and that he was glorified with the Father before the World began c. Well done George But now let us see if he do not say thus much of himself and if so what Paint hast thou in store next The Teachers of the World unvailed c. p. 27. I am the Light of the World him by whom the World was made And doth enlighten every Man that cometh into the World * Meaning the Light in him Again The Examination and Tryal at Lancaster Assizes c. p. 21. And before I came at the Bar I was moved to Pray and the Thundering Voice answered I have glorified thee and will glorifie thee again I marvel that Whitehead should have the Face to appear in Print with no better Proof that Fox owned Jesus of Nazareth Surely he may well be ashamed to appear before any Men of sense to Justifie these his Abominations And so much briefly for what Fox says of himself and what Whitehead brings to excuse him The Quakers Adoring Geo. Fox c. Fifth Part of the Christian Quaker disting c. p. 77. That G. Fox is blessed with Honour above many Brethren and that Thousands will stand by him in a Heavenly Record That his Life Reigns and is spotless Innocent and still retains his Integrity whose Eternal Honour and Blessed Renown shall remain yea his Presence and the dropping of his tender words in the Lord's love was my Soul's Nourishment The Quakers Challenge c. p. 6. Stand up Muggleton who callest thy Book A Looking-Glass for Geo. Fox whose Name thou art not worthy to take into thy mouth who is a Prophet indeed and hath been Faithful in the Lord's business from the beginning It was said of Christ that he was in the World and the World knew him not * Here G. F. and Sol. Eccles agree G. F. said The world neither knew him nor his Name mark what Idolatry Blasphemy is here So it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not But thou shalt feel this Prophet i. e. G. F. one day as heavy as a Mill-stone upon thee And although the World knows him not yet he is known c. Josiah Cole's Letter wrote from Barbadoes 21 of the twelfth Month 1658. to Geo. Fox and vindicated by William Penn in their Book Judas and the Jews c. p. 44. viz. Dear Geo. Fox who art the Father of many Nations whose Life hath reached through us thy Children even to the Isles afar off 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 Rules and Governs in Righteousness And thy Kingdom is Established in Peace and the Increase thereof is without end John Audland's Letter out of the Well of England which was Printed before G. F. dyed taken out of the Original which we have an