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A65869	Innocency triumphant over insolency and outrage of a self-condemned apostate in answer to Francis Bugg's most abusive and scandalous book, falsely stiled, New Rome arraigned &c., and in defence of the Christian testimony of G. Whitehead and eleven witnesses against the great defamation of perjury and pillory, unjustly cast upon them by the said F.B.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1935; ESTC R24554	30,940	100

falsly Greatening the Popish Interest as in and by a People who are wholly averse to Popery Let the wisest in Heart and impartial Judge the Nature and tendency of this Adversaries work of Division and Discord and whether it will excuse him therein to shelter and shroud himself in the Church of England and to assume the Testimonies of Protestant Martyrs and Authors for his cover and Authority Also he might have been so discreet as not to question nor upbraid us about paying Ten Pounds c. towards carrying on a Vigorous War against the French King because scrupling to pay 2 d. or 4 d. towards the Militia-Arms accusing us with deluding the World p. 65. and 49. He might in prudence have considered how far this may affect the Government under which we live and Charitably have excused those who conscientiously scrupling actively to raise or bear Arms yet in a sense quietly pay the penalty by patiently suffering distress Christ and his Servants of old would not Fight yet payed Tribute to Caesar. Because of our Solemnly declaring to the King and Parliament that we believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given forth by Divine Inspiration and that they have accepted this our Declaration F. Bugg thus grosly reflects upon us viz. The more shame for you to be so deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your belief p. 40. further That this we pretended to the Parliament to serve a Turn p. 24. Pray observe the horrid Envy and Insolency of this Incendiary herein and not only the reproach he casts upon us but what reflection upon the Civil Government as if the same were deceived and cheated by us and thereupon granted us our Liberty O horrible Mischievous and deadly Malice What will nothing less satiate his Fury but our Destruction by Persecution again Oh! O thou Backslider and malicious Man the Lord rebuke thy envious Spirit thy deadly Hatred and Outrage And he will signally rebuke thee I doubt not And moreover thou F. B. hast no great cause to boast nor thy Priests to glory in thy Conversion to the Church of England from the People called Quakers with whom thou wast conversant for twenty five Years as thou pretendest if such thy Conversion was a being Sold into Aegypt as thou hast granted in thy Pamphlet Stiled The Quakers detected p. 8. by thy applying to thy self Joseph's words Gen. 50.20 and Chap. 45.5 on which thou sayest thou canst say as Joseph did to his Brethren viz. But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good Now therefore be not grieved nor angry with your selves that you Sold me hither Didst not think this Applicable to thy Condition If thou didst then where art thou now but in Aegypt But we Sold thee not thither thou art gone down into Aegypt for help and therefore art not a Joseph who trusted in and feared the living God And woe is to them that go down into Aegypt for help Art not thou rather like Judas turn'd to the Priests to betray and persecute the Innocent and to gratifie them that hate us with thy refuge of Lies and Calumnies Even against Innocent People unto whose Principle Foundation Doctrine Ministry Faith Love Unity Spiritual Testimony and as being the Church of Christ Jesus Thou hast made large and solemn Confession both sometime before thou quite left us in thy Book De Christina Libertate Printed 1682 Chap. 1. p. 24 25 26 27 c. as also in thy said Quakers Detected Printed in the Year 1686. about two Years after thy Conformity to the Church of England wherein thou hast given large Testimony to the Truth of our Principle and high Commendations of the People called Quakers their Doctrine and Ministry as in the beginning even as being a Dispensation of the Love of God sent as a Visitation to Mankind together with their Christian Society love unfeigned and blessed Estate for many Years and how God blessed their Meetings with the comfortable Enjoyments of his Presence as may be seen more at large in the said Quakers Detected Insomuch that thy Self-condemned Back-sliding Apostacy and Envy against God's People and Heritage is the more apparent in thy now exclaiming against us for dangerous Errors pernicious Principles Blasphemies Heresies Impostures and saying thou wast more than 25 Years a Member of their Society meaning the Quakers being carried away with their Dissimulation see Title Page of thy New Rome Arraigned thus self condemn'd and self-contradictory thou art And I cannot rationally Perceive how F. B. can warrantably excuse himself by pretending the Approbation of his Minister Isaac Archer for the Substance of his Book or the Approbation of another Divine of the Church of England as he calls them and of Letters both from Conforming and Non-Conforming Ministers which he pretends brevity constrains him not to recite Epist. to Bereans p. 12. 1. As to Isaac Archer's Approbation F. B. saith he recites only an Abridgment thereof viz. I do own the substance of this Book as a defence of those Eternal Truths by which I hope for Salvation c. But why did not F. Bugg recite the whole Was he so tied up to brevity in this concern that he allowed his Teacher no more room in a Book of ten or eleven Sheets But it was very warily done of Isaac Archer to own the substance of F. B's Book that is so much of it as he esteems to be in defence of those Eternal Truths by which he hopes to be Saved that is so much of it as is Scriptural in behalf of Jesus Christ. But this will not Excuse nor Warrant those circumstantial passages of F. B's in his Book which consists of Perversions Railery and false Accusions and of his Errors justly Inverted upon him in my Charitable Essay 2. That Divine of the Church of England so called who gave his Approbation of F. B's Book as a most acceptable peice of Service to his Country in unvailing the falshoods errors and hippocrisies of the Quakers as he saith pray what is his name Why does not he appear and make proof of F. B's malicious confused Work against the Quakers He may be ashamed of such his Approbation if any such pretended Divine did give such Approbation 3. And if F. B. has Letters by him of the same Import both from Conforming and Non-Conforming Ministers what are their names and why do not they appear I am perswaded many of their Brethren would be greatly ashamed of such their Approbation upon serious perusal of F. Bugg's bitter Invectives and our Answers and see that all such Approbations will be of no Reputation or Honour either to Conforming or Non-conforming Ministers As to Bugg's comparing the People called Quakers with the Papists as he has frequently done he has fairly contradicted himself therein by quoting W. P's Caveat against Popery saying Let them renounce their Errors c. And what follows but Therefore the People called Quakers are no

Detractions What horrid Hipocrisie Insolency and Self-contradiction is this Can he rationally suppose that such his foul Defamations and Detractions may not affect both Religion Persons and Imployments of those Men he has thus most Injuriously treated And can he think himself secure from having his Insolency therein in time further take notice of Though some among us be loath to be Vindicative upon him according to his Demerits especially for the sake of his honest afflicted Wife Yet I would advise him if he be not past it not to be so fool-hardy for the future nor to Act any more Fools Tragedies to Reproach and Scandalize others THE Self-Condemn'd APOSATE OR Francis Bugg AGAINST FRANCIS BUGG In His Apparent Contradictions His Confession in his own Words F. B 's New Rome Arraign'd p. 45. and they i. e. the Quakers often as a Decoy false by the way Exorted us to obey the Light the Spirit of God in our Hearts and to observe the dictates of our Consciences to abstain from Evil and pursue what was Good and to follow the Leadings and Guidance of the Light within which was sufficient to lead unto Salvation c. And this being a general Truth and a Duty upon all Christians and no less than the publick Ministry does yea and ought to exhort to His Opposition with Additional Notes inclosed in Square Parentheses from his Confession F. B's New Rome Arraigned p. 68. For as it is false Doctrine to Teach that the Light being obeyed is sufficient to lead to Salvation for then your Obedience is meritorious and Christ Dyed in vain Observ. If the Light within followed be sufficient to lead to Salvation and this true Doctrine then 't is not false Doctrine too that the Light within being obeyed is sufficient to lead to Salvation neither does it invalidate Christ's Death Merits or Deservings for Man to follow and obey his Light within to lead to Christ who is Gods Salvation to the ends of the Earth For Christ deserves to be Obeyed and 't is our Duty and without believing in his Light there is no Salvation received from him F. B's One blow more p. 5. Artic. 3. In the Beginning G. Whitehead and many others came through the Countrey in plain Habit walking on Foot content with Mean Accommodation Apt to Teach Not given to filthy Lucre often Visiting the Sick the Poor as well the Rich Working often on their Trades that they might not be Chargeable F. B. Battering Rams p. 14. I mean Guilty in that they i. e. the Teachers among the Quakers alwayes pretend to Preach and Teach freely but contrary to all these their Pretensions have all along taken Money for the same Observe The latter is a notorious Falshood as well as contradictory to the former How all along take Money for Preaching and Teaching and yet not given to filthy Lucre and so Industrious and Careful not to be Chargeable when thus we Travel'd and Laboured as before F. B.'s Quakers detected p 3. In the Beginning they i.e. the Quakers Ministers Taught That all Men were Enlightned according to Joh. 1.9 and that this Light wherewith Christ had enlightened them was sufficient if obeyed to lead to Salvation and that it was the work of the Ministers of Christ to turn the Peoples minds from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God affirming that this Light was a sufficient Teacher Leader and Guide to every Believer without the help of outward Prescriptions Forms Orders and Decrees of Men upon these and the like Notions I became persuaded to make Trial of their Doctrine and when I came to see and observe their Practice Conversations and Deportments in the Beginning and what simplicity plainness attended their Ministry I was still more Confirmed that it was a Dispensation of the Love of God sent as a visitation to Mankind and being thus perswaded I was resolved to bear the Cross and did utterly despise the shame that attended them and their Message and was not behind any of my Equals both in doing and suffering for the Testimony thereof as some amongst them can still bear me witness And in this manner we went on for many years and Loved one another with Love unfeigned and doubtless God blessed our Meetings with the comfortable Enjoyment of His Presence Thus far Fra. Bugg F. B. New Rome Arraign'd and out of her own mouth Condemned containing A farther Discovery of the Dangerous Errours and Pernicious Principles of the Teachers and Leaders of the People called Quakers which tend to overthrow the Christian Faith In Answer to G. W's Charitable Essay c. Wherewith he has not proved any one Pernicious Principle Who for his false Testimony together with Eleven of his Witnesses that came in to his assistance are Examined Tryed and Convict of Perjury and for the same put into the Pillory by one who was more than twenty five years a Member of their Society being carried away with their Dissimulation Francis Bugg Title Page When they Preached Christ the Light and in the Work of his Ministers and in a Dispensation of the Love of God F. B. Ibid. Epist Dedicat. The Quakers come not one jot behind the Papists in Condemning the Protestant Religion Which is a great Lye by the way 'T is Popery and Humane Prescriptions in Worship that we condemn by our owning the Light and Holy Spirit 's conduct therein These Confessions F. B. made in his said Book Quakers Detected Printed in 1686 about two years after his forsaking the Society of the people called Quakers and conforming to the Church of England And farther F. Bugg in his Book De Christiana Libertate printed 1682 hath also made these Confessions to the Principles of Truth Professed among the People commonly called Quakers and to them as a True Church a Church of Christ Built on the True Foundation Second Part of his said Book Ch. 1. Treats of Principles of Truth received and believed in the Beginning as follows viz. That in the Beginning the Inshining Light of Christ Jesus by his heavenly spiritual Appearance in the Hearts and Souls of his People was our Principle the very Foundation Principle and Corner-stone in our Building there are yet many living Witnesses and our Work and Labour in that day was to turn peoples Minds thereunto as to the more sure Word of Prophecy whereunto as many as took heed did well and that there was sufficiency in it being obeyed to lead to Salvation And as our Minds came to be turned to this Inward Teacher and as we came to experience the Virtue and Excellency of this Holy Vnction so we held a Publick Testimony thereof to others that they might thereby be provoked to make Tryal thereof that so they might have the Witness in themselves and see for themselves and taste for themselves And to this Word nigh in the Heart were we committed and recommended suitable to the Doctrine and Ancient Prophesies of Christ Jesus our Lord and his Blessed

Richard Needham Francis Etteridge John Bowater William Robinson c. what can you say why Sentence of Perjury should not be pronounced against you upon your own proposals to Authority S. W. And the rest we are like Children sitting in the Market if G. W. Pipe we Dance if he write a Certificate whether true or false we Subscribe and now ●ccording to the old Proverb the Blind leads the Blind until we are fallen into the Ditch of Error and Perjury together and We are fallen into a sad Dilemma and none will help Us nor none will pitty Us. F. Bugg Come G. W. thou old Make-bate and Cunning Sophister what canst thou say for thy self and thy Proselites who write after thy Copy After other Fictions and Bugg's pretending to sum up the Evidence and to speak both to matter of Fact and matter of Law to his pretended Jury he feigns his Jury to bring us in Guilty Thus viz. Jury Guilty of the Matter charged and all things relating thereunto or depending thereupon and that of PERJVRY Against all which pretended Proceeding Trial and Examination invented and feigned by F. Bugg we solemnly and sincerely testifie as both a wicked false and malicious Forgery to defame and scandalize both our Christian and Civil Reputation and against the said F. B. as an unjust Judge false Accuser and false Witness and that his Proceeding Trial and Judicature are both Illegal Presumptuous and Arbitrary Signed in behalf of our selves and the rest of our Friends concern'd George Whitehead Gilb. Latey John Bowater John Butcher Rich. Needham William Robinson I do further solemnly and in good Conscience Testifie and Declare That I find no cause in the least to retract or receed from our Negative Testimony before recited against Fra. Bugg's Perversions and his grosly Misrepresenting us about Jesus Christ and the Holy Scripture and for which our Testimony F. B. hath most unjustly rendred us Perjured Persons Hereunto I subscribe G. Whitehead II. The aforesaid Testimony Vindicated against Fr. Bugg his gross Abuses and foul Perversions herein examined BY the way 't is to be noted That in this mock Tryal and Court of Judicature presumptuously Erected and Feigned by Fr. Bugg He makes himself both Judge Accuser Witness and Jury and also forges the Quakers Answers without taking the least Notice of our own proper Answers to his Objections in our Books only impertinently cites three or four Lines out of G. W.'s Charitable Essay for his Answer p. 7. Though in none of these Instances cited against us can we find those words as charged by him viz. That the Quakers say The Holy Scripture is Carnal Dust Death and Killeth c. or that they deny Jesus to be The Christ c. And 't is evident That F. B. is not able to make Replication or Answer to our single sheet Intituled A Charitable Essay Nor to clear himself from the Arguments and Inversions upon him therein concerning his feigned Creed and false Charges against the Quakers but gives the greatest part of that Sheet and the most substantial Matters that are in it to clear us the go by so it remains against him unrefuted His pretended Evidence That we deny Christ Jesus c. and that we cannot call Him Christ is from Isaac Pennington's Questions to Professors wherein he calls the Body or Flesh which the Son of God took upon him the Vail c. And what then Does this prove we deny Christ Jesus that was born of the Virgin Did not the Apostle say he consecrated a new and living way through the Vail that is to say his Flesh Heb. 10.20 Did the Apostle herein deny Jesus to be Christ No sure But what if I. P. said he could not call the bodily Garment or Vail Christ that is the entire Christ or the Body which was prepared for him chiefly and in the first place Christ as he Explains his own words Does this deny Him the Son of God to be Christ Surely no. Is the masculine Him properly relative to the Neuter Body distinct from the Soul I do not think that to be proper or Grammatical Sence The word It is relative to Body but Him to our Lord Jesus Christ himself For Joseph went unto Pilate and asked the Body of Jesus and took It down and wrapped It in a Linnen Cloath and laid It in a Tomb Luke 23.52 53. Which is also called the Body of the Lord Jesus Chap. 24.3 Yet the entire Messiah or Christ of God is not to be divided in Body or Soul And Isaac Pennington did not say he could not call Him Christ who was both God and Man Immannuel and the Man Christ Jesus the Messiah First His Charge That the Quakers believe and say They cannot call Him Christ that was born of the Virgin I cannot find these words either as believed or said by the Quakers in any of Bugg's Quotations either out of Is. Pennington's Questions or any other and therefore I desire him in his next to shew me expresly where the Quakers say they cannot call Him Christ that was born of the Virgin c. if he can I can as expresly deny that saying for I have told him the contrary in my Charitable Essay Secondly I cannot find nor believe that the Quakers call Geo. Fox the Branch the Star the Sun of Righteousness In the Instance quoted by F. Bugg p. 34. I find not G. Fox mentioned in that Citation but instead thereof F. Bugg questions it in the Margin thus viz. Pray who do you account this Branch if not G. Fox I say who else did you assign these Titles to Was it to G FOX or the Light in him Pray distinguish in your next Thus he now questions that which before he has possitively charged over and over Thus instead of Proof he meerly beggs the Question and so whirles about begging Questions and not only so but like an unjust Judge has condemn'd us as perjur'd Persons yea even a pack of false Witnesses and perjur'd Persons for denying his Charge p. 33. And this is not all but he has condemn'd us to the Pillory too with his ridiculous Figure thereof in his Epistle to the Bereans as before But now upon Tryal and Enquiry he is fain to question Matters of Fact after his Condemnation and such his Execution Thus preposterous is this unjust Judge in his arbitrary Proceedings and scandalous Treatment against us And his Consequence of the Quakers giving Witness to G. Fox Instead of Christ follows not from such his begging Questions his lame Defective and false Evidence and we are sure it's contrary to our Faith and Testimony For our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ of whom the Holy Scriptures Testifie who is the Branch the Morning Star the Sun of Righteousness and hath spiritually risen both in the North South East and West of England and other Parts even in the Hearts and Souls of many Thousands and G. F. and many others only his Servants and Ministers F. Bugg's other consequence