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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30042	The Quakers yearly metting [sic] or convocation impeached on the behalf of the Commons of England by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1695 (1695)	Wing B5391; ESTC R23821	7,431	10

The QUAKERS Yearly Metting or Convocation Impeached on the behalf of the Commons of England by Francis Bugg An Apologitical Introduction Courteous Reader MArvel not that I pursue the Quakers into their strong Hold That I have besieged their City Abel 2 Sam. 20. and cast a Trench about it and hem'd it round on every side insomuch that Sheba the Son of Bichri aliàs George Whitehead cannot get out nor clear himself unless he Retract and Condemn those Errors and pernicious Principles which he hath vindicated in his own and his Brethrens Books with which he and them stand charged in my Book Quakerism Withering and Christianity Reviving c. p. 3 4. and New Rome Arraigned c. both sold by Mr. Guillam Bookseller in Bishops-gate-street London No thou hast no cause to think it strange that the same Cup this painted Harlot hath so plentifully fill'd to others should be now fill'd to her yea even the Dregs thereof For who have wrote more than the Quakers whoever expos'd the Professors of Christianity more than they Have they not this forty years and more laid Siege against the Christian Reputation of both Magistrates and Ministers rendring the first in their Narratives of their Trials the Pharoahs Nebuchadnezzars c. and themselves the only Daniels of the Age. The second in their Book stil'd A Discovery of a threefold Estate of Antichrist c. Conjurers Thieves Antichrists Witches Devils Baal's Priests yea Hell-hounds whose Commission and Call came from Oxford and Cambridge crying Woe and Misery to the upholders whether Kings or Parliaments of that treacherous Crew and deceitful Generation But William Pen in his late Book stiled The Guide Mistaken c. goes a little farther viz. Whilst the idle gormondizing Priests of England run away with above 150000 l. a year under pretence of being God's Ministers And that no sort of people have been so universally through Ages the very bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon c. I say can'st thou behold these their Pamphlets spread up and down the Nation and not be amazed at their Impudence 'T is not a year since it fell to my lot to Administer on the Goods of a deceased poor Widow a Quaker whose Substance did not amount to 10 l. yet she was so well stored that she had by her more than 200 printed Books and Pamphlets of the Quakers writing enough to infect a Nation their chief tendency being against Magistracy and Ministry and all instituted Religion and yet none so bad none so gross none so blasphemons but George Whitehead the Quakers Bellarmine will undertake to vindicate them who for this 40 years and upward hath been like Ishmael his hand against Episcopalians Presbyterians Independants and Baptists and theirs against him Thus much by way of Introduction The IMPEACHMENT THat George Whitehead and his Brethren at a Convocation began at London the fifth day of May 1693. ending the eighth day of t●e same Month did contrive make and promulgate several Constitutions ●nd Canons Ecclesiastical containing in them divers Matters and Things contrary to the Fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Realm against the King's Prerogative against the Rights of Parliaments against the Property and Liberty of the Subject and Matters tending to Sedition and of dangerous Consequence as will abundantly appear by the recited Epistle and that Epistle of 1692. a few Instances thereof as proof I shall recite c. The IMPEACHMENT prov'd The Quakers yearly Epistle 1693. p. 1. And therefore that all due care be taken against the grand Oppression and Antichristian Yoke of Tithes that our Christian Testimony born and greatly suffer'd for be faithfully maintain'd against them in all respects and against Steeple-house Rates and Lays as also against the Burden and Imposition of Oaths That Friends at all their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings be reminded to call for the Records of the Sufferings of Friends to see that they be duly gathered truly entred and kept and accordingly se●t up to London as hath been often advised both of what Tythes c. are pretended to be due and for how long a time and the time when taken and by and for whom and what Goods are taken and the value thereof as well as of those not exceeding as those exceeding the Sums or Quantities of Tithes demanded it being a Suffering in both for Truths sake they being in these Particulars found defective and imperfect in divers Counties which is an Obstruction to the General Record of Friends Sufferings c. OBSERVATION Friendly Readers and Country men I having proved my Charge and Impeachment I cannot but observe to you That the Ground upon which the Quakers refuse to pay their Tithes and Church-wardens Rates is not bottom'd upon Scripture proof but the sole Authority of these their Canons Ecclesiastical made and promulgated at their Yearly Convocation And where is there a Parish in the Dominion of England but feels more or less the sad Effects and Consequences of these their Anti-Magistratical Incroachments you also may see their great Ingratitude to the present Government who notwithstanding these their Affronts have indulg'd them in the Exercise of their Perswasion who at the same time call Tithes An Antichristian Yoke yea they will and require their Proselytes to maintain their Testimony against the Payments of Tithes in ALL respects and that their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings fail not at their peril● to send up to London a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Distresses taken for Tithes whether no more than the value due or whether five times the value all must be equally recorded A Suffering to Posterity that after Generations may see in what perillous times the poor Quakers liv'd in and what storms of sore Persecution there was under the Government of King William the Third O horrible ingratitude thus to render our Legislators so many Antichrists so many Persecutors nay worse See some proofs out of their Books to corroborate and strengthen their Canons that so their Loyal and Obedient Subjects may stoutly oppose Tithes and Church-Rates An Antidote c. by Tho. Ellwood p. 78. Truth allows no payment of Tithes at all under the New Covenant but condemns it They who pay Tithes do therein uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ and thereby deny Christ to be come in the Flesh which is a mark of Antichrist c. And to prove it he quotes 1 John 4.3 which place of Scripture does not so much as mention Tithes O how miserably are their poor Disciples deluded well may it be said The blind lead the blind The next Book I shall mention is Burrough's Works p. 780. Tithes says he as received and paid in these days are of Antichrist Again read his Works p. 869. Antichrist in himself is the Man of Sin the Son of Perdition which is indeed and in truth the