that the Prosperity of his Affairs and our peaceable Fruition of the Exercise of our Consciences beareth the same Date Dated June 1637. Thus Reader you see that from England to Scotland and from Scotland to England they sounded his Fame in the Highest strain of words praying GOD for his Preservation and praising GOD for defeating his Enemies But alas Has King William been without Enemies Hath their been no Plotting against him I will not say by some of themselves No Contrivance nor no Conspiracies against his Royal Person Yea against the Kingdom that they cannot afford one Prayer for his long Life one Praise to God for his Deliverance Hath not he granted all they can reasonably desire of him I know they will be angry at me for reminding them of these things but why should they be hid that never hid any body Why should not they be discovered and known to be really what they are that for 30 years have made it their business or a great part of it at least to render all sorts of People as odious as they could and what they really were not and their end could be nothing but to exalt their own Horn c. But Providence hath so ordered it that the same Pit they digged for others they are justly fallen into themselves and are left as Mr. Baxter says in his Penitential Confession p. 63. 1691. viz. A disgraced broken Sect as the Quakers be amongst us now c. A broken Sect indeed divided wholly in many places One sort shut up the Meeting-house against the other divided in Cities and Towns yea almost in every Village The Foxonian Government is in many places quite thrown off See J. Hogs book and in others weakening every day Well but to return see another of their Addresses viz. The Humble Address of the People called QVAKERS to K. James II. from their Yearly meeting in London The 6th Day of June 1688. WE the Kings loving and peaceable Subjects from divers parts of his Domimions being met together in this City after our usual manner to * * Rather inâ—ect inspect the Affairs of our Christian Society THROVGHOVT THE WORLD think it our Duty humbly to represent to him the blessed Effects the Liberty he has gratiously granted his People to worship God according to their Consciences hath had both on our Persons and Estates For as formerly we had ever long and sorrowful Lists brought to us from almost all parts of his Territories of Prisoners and the spoil of Goods by violent and ill men upon account of Conscience We bless God and thank the King the Goals are every where clear except in cases of Tythes and the repair of Parish Churches and some few about Oaths And we do in all Humility lay it before the King to consider the hardships our Friends are yet under for Conscience sake being in the one chiefly exposed to the present anger of the Offended * * Oh! They knew how taking this would be cunning Foxes Clergy who have therefore lately imprisoned some of them till Death And in the other they are rendred very unprofitable to the publick and themselves both in reference to Freedoms in ††They thought this a good motive that so their Voices c. Corporations Probates of Wills and Testaments and Administrations Answers in Chancery and Exchequer Tryals of our just Titles and Debts Proceeding in our Trade at the Custom house serving the Office of Constable c. they are disabled and great Advantages taken against them unless the King's favour do interpose As we humbly hope he may relieve so we confidently assure our selves he will ease us what he can Now since it hath pleased thee O King to renew to all thy Subjects by thy last Declaration thy gratious Assurance to persue the Establishment of this Christian Liberty and Property upon an VNALTERABLE Foundation And in order to it to hold a Parliament in November next at furthest we think our selves deeply ingaged to renew our Assurances of Fidelity and Affection and with Gods help intend to do our parts * * To Vote c. for the effecting so blessed and glorious a work that so it may be out of the power of any one Party to hurt another upon the account of Conscience And as we firmly believe that God will never desert this Just and Righteous cause of Liberty NOR THE KING in maintaining of it so we hope by God's Grace to let the World see we can honestly and heartily appear for LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE * * And yet at the same time great Oppressors of it in your dissenting Friends but Hypocrisy will have its reward and be inviolable true to our own Religion whatever the Folly or Madness on that account may suggest to the contrary Thus Reader you see here is nothing wanting but bended Knees Here is in ALL Humility in ALL Fidelity with ALL Affection yea ALL ALL ALL All Prayers for him for long Life for prosperous Raign Laud and Praise in the highest for his deliverance for the defeating his enemies yea it would be too long to enumerate them besides Book after Book in favour of the Government and one Epistle after another and printed Letters first second and third sounding his fame throughout the World But since King William and Queen Mary came to the Crown as in the Letter to the Quakers was well observed NO Salutation NO Message NO Prayer for nor NO Address to K. W. and Q. M. made Publick NO Book writ in favour of him NO In all Humility NO In all Fidelity NO In all Affection NO Publick Prayers for his long and prosperous Reign NO Laud and Praise that his enemies are defeated here is all NO NO NO NO Tho thanks be to GOD he is now settled peaceably in his three Kingdoms COME what can you say for your selves Are you like those 1 Sam. 10.27 The children of Belial who said How shall this man save us And they despised him See your 12th principle and brought him no presents no Prayers no Addresses I know you have too much espoused the Romish principles some of which are 1. We must believe as the Church i. e. your Church believes 2. That the your Church cannot err 3. That she hath power to bind and loose 4. And that it is abominable Pride not to submit to her i. e. your Judgment You may remember you have had many Favors by Their Majesties particularly Liberty of Conscience established by Law which is one and not the least and yet having had three Annual Meetings in London not one Address c. Nay worse than so And as an aggravation of your Ingratitude you made an ORDER for the calling in the Widow Whitrow's Books she being formerly of your Society which was writ but in favour of this Government what Scripture had you for that You say that Christ and his Apostles did not require you to pray for Kings by Name I say so too
Dust which is Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter p. first Written from the Mouth of the Lord from one who is Naked and stands Naked before the Lord Cloathed with Righteousness G. W. Behold your Creed and view your Book Antichrist in Flesh c. p. 24. and blush for ever for take away your new word Holy and your needless word but and your Change is answered fully whose Name is not known in the World risen up out of the North which was Prophesied of but now it is fulfilled the Army is coming up out of the North p. 15. I am the same Door that ever was the same Christ to day yesterday and for ever Remark Come and see the Quakers sensorious Creed their uncharitable Creed their Blasphemous Creed First they believe the Publick Ministers are Deceivers Blasphemers Hypocrites and Witches and why so because they tell People of a Sacrament and that Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel of Christ away with it all say they 't is Dust your Sacrament is Dust your Ordinance is Dust which is the Serpents Meat your Church is Dust your Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John is Dust which is the Serpents Meat which is Death c. But Secondly who is this that says so See Antichrist in Flesh c. p. 24. Why 't is Geo. Fox who says he unites from the Mouth of the Lord who stands Naked who is cloathed with Righteousness as with a Mantle Yea invisible George for if you will believe him his Name is not known in the World Oh horrible Lye there was not ten Mens Names in England known better Well But this is not all he is risen out of the North which was Prophesied of and is now fulfilled O notably done And let me for once make Proclamation O yes O yes Can George Whitehead William Penn or any Man else tell me what Prophet it was from Genesis to the Revelation that Prophesied of Geo. Fox's rising out of the North and that he should be such an Imposter as to call the holy Scripture Dust which is the Serpents Meat and be the Head Sect-master of such a compound of Heresies as hath almost filled the World If they can let them come to me and I will give them Content for their searching for I profess I cannot find one Verse unless you will accept of Mat. 24.24 and by what follows it should be that very Scripture for p. 15. viz. the last recital of this fourth Branch of their Creed G. Fox writes thus of himself I am the Door that ever was the same Christ yesterday to day and for ever c. Here is Christs words fufilled who said There shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect c. And this Prophesie is fulfilled in this our Day and happy are all who escape their Delusions And that G. Fox upon his own and the Quakers Principles can mean no other but the Christ in him viz. In proper Language he himself is the Christ he there speaks of first because he doth not say I am the Door saith Christ no he takes it wholly and solely upon himself and therein he was the more like himself See his Book styled Saul's Errand to Damascus c. p. 7. The old Man cannot endure to here the new Man speak which is Christ And Christ is the way And if Christ be in you must he not say I am the way the Truth and the Life c. I think this very place may serve as a Key to unlock their Misterium Magnum Christ in them which in their sence See the second Branch of your Creed is in the same manner that he was in him that suffered And to put all out of doubt that they do so mean see their Book styled The Watcher c. p. 37. To the end of all Disputes and Arguments I am come for before they was I am c. Saith James Parnell now who would think but that James herein told a notorious Lye in saying he was come to the end of all Disputes and Arguments when Geo. Whitehead and my self also are two Witnesses that they are not yet ended though James hath been dead more than Twenty Years Again that he should say before all Disputes and Arguments was I am when Disputes and Arguments was thousands of years before J. Parnell was born even in Moses's time and yet J. Parnell upon the Quakers Creed and Blasphemous Principles told no Lye for ye must Interpret the I am to be Christ in him As in the days of Christ when the Jews told him John 8.57 Thou art not yet Fifty Years old and hast thou seen Abraham Christ answered him ver 58. Verily verily I say unto you before Abraham was I am Now upon our Christian Creed this was true in Christ but Abominably false and Blasphemous Lye in Parnell O dreadful I tremble to behold these unheard of Blasphemies See also Josiah Coal's Testimony for E. Burroughs printed in his Works in Folio viz. He E. B. was a Man endued with the Almighty Power of God which lived and reigned in him and the Treasury of pure divine Wisdom was opened in him c. This is the most they will allow to be in him they will grant that in him that suffered upon the Cross there was the Heavenly Treasure the Substance the Life the Anointing the Power but I do not remember that ever they granted the Almighty Power to be in Christ I am sure not more Eminently than in themselves But that it may yet further appear that our dear Saviours Prophesie as above is fulfilling which says There shall false Christs and false Prophets arise c See Soll. Eccles Lying wonder and false Prophesie of the Death of John Story * * Very like that of G. Whiteheads to S. B. viz. O John Story What hast thou done against the Lord and thy own Soul thou hast divided the Herritage of the Lord and the good Ordinances which Christ Iesus hath set up in his Church i. e. Womens Preaching and Womens Meetings * * The Christ in them ordained these Ordinances but Christ that was born of the Virgin ordained Baptism and the Lord's Supper now chuse which Christ ye will follow and obey therefore will the Lord throw Contempt upon thee and if thou dost not repent speedily miserable will be thy end If ever thou findest Mercy with the Lord go home to the North with speed and break up the divided Meetings which thou and John Wilkinson have been Instrumental to divide from the Body of our Lord Iesus Christ *âŽ* *âŽ* Mark the Christ in G. Fox for he is the first Founder of the Womens Meetings which Soll. Eccles calls the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ See de chr Libertate c. 2d part p. 33. to 70. The Anger of the Lord is chiefly
might not G. W. as well carp at the Apostle Paul's words 1 Cor. 6.12 where he said All things are lawful unto me but all things are not expedient All things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of any Might not G. W. say How now Paul what are all things lawful to thee what is this that and the other thing lawful for I find no distinguishing word in the whole Verse But in the next Verse G. W. may see the Apostle only meant indifferent things which some differed about and which he left them to their liberty in as meats c. for some eat herbs and others strong meats viz. ver 13. Meats for the belly and the belly for meats but God shall destroy both it and them c. So that eating Flesh Fish Herbs or other things this that or the other day the publishing Marriage before or not before the Womens Meetings are things in their own Nature indifferent and free and according to the Apostles and Martyrs words we ought to be left free in the use of them THE THIRD CHARGE THAT GEORGE WHITEHEAD IS A FAVOVRER OR AN EXCVSER OF SVCH PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES AS BORDER VPON BLASPHEMY AND IDOLATRY For the Proof of this Charge I shall before I proceed to the matter of the Conference recite a Parallel between the Practices of the Papists giving Divine Attributes to their Saint Thomas Becket and divers Popes which by all Protestants are accounted Idolatrous and Blasphemous And the Quakers giving and attributing to G. Fox in his Life-time Divine Attributes and Eternal Honour which is equally Idolatrous and Blasphemous and at his Funeral preached him to be the great Apostle Prophet and Jacob of the Age that so it may still appear how nigh of Kin they are giving also a hint of the Beginning Rise and Advancement of both the said Thomas Becket and G. Fox in two Columns for the help of the Reader viz. IT is written of Thomas Becket Guilielmus Neubregensis lib. 2. cap. 16. that his Father was a Brewer in London and a Jew and that from his House began a Fire in the days of King Stephen that consumed all the one side of London from the Bridge where he dwelt unto Temple-Bar And that King Henry II. took this Thomas Becket into his Favour and from being Archdeacon of Canterbury made him Lord Chancellor of England and after that made him Archbishop of Canterbury who after that treacherously and ungratefully as well as secretly resigned his Bishoprick to the Pope * See the Defence of the Apology of the Ch. of England c. p. 349 350 665 c. and of the Pope received it again and thereby betraying his Princes Right which was the cause of much trouble in England But for this and the like holy Cheats he was Sainted and now you shall hear how the poor infatuated Papists give Divine Attributes unto him Oh Christ make us to ascend unto Heaven whither Thomas is ascended even by the blood of Thomas which is shed for thy sake But Dr. Rainolds †See the Conference between Dr. Rainolds and Hart about the Pope's Supremacy p. 411. hath it thus viz. By the Blood of Thomas Which he for thee did spend Make us O Christ to clime Whither he did ascend Thus Reader you see that first Bishop Jewell and next Dr. Rainolds set forth and that in the words of the Papists themselves quoting Book and Page that the poor misled Papists gave such Titles to this their Saint as was due only to Christ himself attributing to Thomas Becket the Title not only of Intercessor but Saviour Again Oh Thomas reach thy help to us Stay them that stand help them that lie Correct our manners deeds and life Guide us unto the way of peace All Hail Oh Thomas the rod of right The Worlds light the Churches strength The Peoples love the Clergies joy All Hail brave Patron of the Flock Save them who on thy Honour glee And yet to excuse these Idolatrous Attributes and Blasphemous Appellations Mr. Harding said thus viz. Christ is used in this Prayer as the only Mediator of Salvation and St. Thomas as a Mediator of Intercession to Christ c. As Mr. Jewell in his Defence p. 349. And Dr. Rainolds in his Conference with Mr. Hart c. p. 411. both evidently set forth Next I come to shew what Names and Divine Attributes the Papists have given to their Popes as may be seen in the Defence of the Apology of the Church of England c. viz. Papa lux venit mundam the Pope is that light that is come into the world p. 570. Our Lord God the Pope And p. 750. to the same purpose and p. 562. In the Pope is all manner of Power p. 438. A Divine Power in the Pope p. 571. A certain Divine Power in the Pope beyond the natural state of men p. 493. Mr. Harding said of the Pope Thou art the Chief of all Bishops Thou art the Heir of the Apostles For Primacy thou art Abel for Government Noah for Patriarchship Abraham for Holy Order Melchisedech for Dignity Aaron for Authority Moses for Judgment Samuel for Power Peter for thy Anointing Christ c. Thus have the Papists not only Idolized their Popes but called them Christ and whatever Name was excellent in Scripture that they gave to their Popes and why it is Scripture language at least to be found in Scripture and therefore as they dreamt due of Right to the Pope c. Thus much touching the Papists giving and attributing Divine Honour to their Popes which was both Blasphemous and Idolatrous IT is written that George Fox came of poor Parentage See the 5th Part of the Christian Quaker disting c. p. 48 49. and was only a Journey-man-Shoemaker and wrought Journey-work with George Gee of Manchester But afterwards when he was a Preacher amongst the Quakers he became Famous and greatly Rich and did not deny being therewith charged but that he had 12 or 1300 l. c. But whether in his Advancement he may be most fitly compared to Thomas Becket or Simon the Sorcerer made mention of in the Acts of the Apostles cap. 8. ver 9 10. viz. There was in the City a certain Man called Simon saying that he himself was some great Man To whom they gave HEED from the LEAST to the GREATEST saying THIS MAN IS THE GREAT POWER OF GOD. I say whether G. Fox was most like this great Man Simon or Thomas Becket I leave to the Reader to judge when he hath heard how G. Fox gave out and that in Print that he was some GREAT MAN even such an one as knew who was a Saint who a Devil and who an Apostate c. pray hear what he said of himself 1st That he had a Spirit beyond all the Forefathers and thereby knew who were Saints who were Devils and who were Apostates without speaking ever a word * See their
they set up a Meeting in order to govern the Church Had they power to forbid the Banes of Marriage or to confirm them Were they to meet by their Patent at Ten a Clock to raise a Bank or Common-Purse c Come G. W. pursue the Terms of the Question and produce a Precedent if you be able if not let your Silence be a token that Mr. Archer hath put you to a Non-plus ultra CHAP. XII Shews that forsaking the Quakers is no Apostacy from the Articles of the Christian Faith HAving with as much Brevity as I may answered the principal things contained in G. Whitehead's three Books I am now come to the Contentious Apostate recharged c. page 5 6 7. containing a denial of several things by me at divers times charged on G. W. and his Brethren in several of my Books formerly writ against their Errors and Hypocrisies charging them to be False c. And to evince this Charge he takes one line here and two there and sometimes five words out of the middle of a line as in p. 12. l. 10. in Battering Rams c. not touching the matter either immediately before it or after it viz. some 50 l. per Annum c. A notable way to confute an Adversary and answer his Book Surely as this way of Confutation is singular and by itself without Proof Reason Demonstration or Precedent so if he did not look upon his Disciples strangely infatuated and ready to believe what ever he writes whether True or False Sense or Nonsense I should think setting his infallible Capacity aside he should Yet his parts consider'd as a natural Man he might be ashamed to appear in Print again hear this Criticiser this notable serious G. W. and behold his Answer in his 5th Instance which runs thus Your way is when Cash grows low to issue out And then he gives a Leap out of this Line having took the middle of it into the middle of the next Line and then takes a letter and two words viz. A General Epistle And from thence he skips to the last three words of the next Line i. e. Your own Service And now he hops to the next Line and takes one word viz. for and leaves the next word as and then takes the next word money And then gives a good Leap into another Line and gets a good pretty parcel of words viz. 'T is a great Encouragement to your Preachers and Parasites which being put together as we use to put Syllables when I was four or five years old it runs thus viz. Your way is when your Cash grows low to issue out A General Epistle Your own Service for money 'T is a great Encouragement to your Preachers and Parasites c. And now Reader do you think G. W. was not sorely put to it to answer these Charges And is not his way and manner of charging his Adversary very singular who is forced to take this unheard-of way to take five words there three words here and then the middle of a Sentence and then because he would make it look like something he takes out of another line one word and leaves a word then he 's too 't again and takes another word and then when he has jumbled all this Hoch-poch together and play'd all the Ledgerdemaine his subtle Pen and profound Wit can invent perverting the Sense mincing the Argument into small parcels leaving out what was not for his turn and which was the Argument and then cryes This is one of Francis Bugg 's Lyes F. B. is Vnconscionable F. B. is disingenuous in writing malicious in his divulging Books c. making as great a Noise against me as his Brother Harding did against Mr. Jewell as I have observed already * See the Introduction And thus and after this manner G. W. spent near three Pages of his said Book which in all is but eight Pages And yet this is the Man that is against curtailing against mangling and marring the Sense nay his 11th Charge in this last recited Pamphlet is only because my Printer or Compositer left out in a Quotation I took out of the Works of Dr. R. Barns the Martyr the word SVCH and for this he there charges me to be a false Accuser of the blessed Martyr a Perverter a Forger and what not that may make his poor credulous Disciples believe that Francis Bugg is a very sad Man to leave out a word when yet 't is his own practice For at the same time and in the same Page wherein he charges me with leaving out the word SVCH he hath left out the word OTHER as I have already observed and now he leaves out not only a word but half a line a whole line takes one word and leaves another and then takes the next mangling and mincing into bits and scraps curtailing and perverting and thereby altering the Sense by his unrighteous and nonsensical proceeding on purpose to abuse me his Reader and amuse the World Indeed if I had charged the Doctrine of the Martyrs to be corrupt tending to Practical Ranterism as he hath done If I had charged the Martyrs to be the Authors of Persecution and to burn People merely for Religion and thereby taught the Papists the way how to proceed in their bloody and unheard-of Cruelties as his Brother W. P. hath done that worthy Martyr true Protestant and brave English Man who under GOD and the King was a chief Instrument in throwing off the heavy Yoke of the Pope's Supremacy here in England viz. Archbishop Cranmer and at the same time too and in the same Book * See Good Advice to the Church of England Rom. Cat. and Pro. Disent p. 39. per W. P. wherein he flatteringly seemed to magnify the Principles of the Church of England speaking well of her eminent Doctors and grave Bishops At the same time when with a Dagger in his hand was wounding the Reputation of one of her Noblest Martyrs bloody Joab-like I say If I had done thus or any thing of this Nature tho' not of so deep a Dye you might have had some Colour to have exposed me a false Accuser of the blessed Martyrs and a Sider with the Papists c. And thus as I have said having answer'd the most considerable Matters contained in G. W's three last Pamphlets And by what is said shewed the Nature of his handling and prosecuting his 3d and last Charge which is by mincing cutting and mangling my Arguments into Scraps and Bits in order to spoil the Sense c. I refer the Reader to what I have said in this Treatise wherein the most material Passages which he hath curtail'd and mangled are answer'd and to make that appear view my said Books by G. W. quoted And now G. W. if you will be plain and prove what you have said or retract what you cannot maintain both with respect to your Principles which you hold and which I have fairly collected out of