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A30024	The Christian ministry of the Church of England vindicated and distinguished from the antichristian ministry of the Quakers containing a brief reply to a false and foolish libel stiled A letter to the clergy of the diocess of Norfolk and Suffolk, &c., by a nameless author ... wherein his folly is detected, his lies confuted ... / by a member of the Church of England, Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1699 (1699)	Wing B5369; ESTC R35451	20,522	32

the Vail that vailed it There was plainly He and the Body in which He came There was the Outward Vessel and the Inward Life This we certainly know and can never call the Bodily Garment Christ but that which appeared and dwelt in the Body Again see W. Bayly's Work p. 300 307. quoted at large in my Book The Quakers set in their true Light c. p. 43. Whereas W. Penn denies the Person that suffer'd at Jerusalem to be the Son of God as above-quoted and Is Pennington tells you they can never call him Christ only something that was within him c. this W. Bayly he makes the same Distinction and therefore to shew that these Quaker-Teachers deny the Lord that bought them and bring in damnable Heresies I shall in Two or Three Instances shew Mat. 16.13 Whom do Men say that I the Son of Man am v. 16. Thou art Christ the Son of the Living God V. 17. Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona for Flesh and Blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in Heaven Read also Acts 5.30 31. The God of our Fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hang'd on a Tree him hath God exalted with his Right Hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give Repentance to Israel and Forgiveness of Sins Cap. 2. V. 36. Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye slew and hang'd on a Tree both Lord and Christ Now I would ask the Quakers whether their Light within which they call Christ was ever hang'd on a Tree run thro' with a Spear c. Thus much then to shew that the Quakers are the very Men that deny the Lord that bought them and that have brought in Damnable Heresies who by their Slights and cunning Craftiness lye in wait to deceive and the way to keep their People blind is to prepossess them against the Scriptures which I think they have more than sufficiently done by calling them Death Dust Serpents Meat Beastly Ware and the like Contemptuous Names For should they read St. Luke 2. and the Evangelists thorowly and the Acts of the Holy Apostles and their Epistles they would soon find that the Person that suffered on the Tree of the Cross at Jerusalem was the Son of God and the Saviour of the World in Opposition to the Doctrine of all Jews Mahometans Deists and Quakers And thus I conclude this Head referring the Reader to my Pilgrim's Progress c. p. 150 to 174. Finally I heartily recommend to the well-disposed amongst the Hearers of the Quakers the frequent reading of the Holy Scriptures and other good Books for their Information and Instruction For as Ignorance cannot be the Mother of Christian Devotion neither will it be any Excuse in the great Day of Account especially when we consider the Means of Knowledge is so plentiful in this our Christian Nation Wherefore read 2 Thes 1.8 How that God will take Vengeance on them that know him not at well as on them that obey not the Gospel of out Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the Prophet Isaiah 27.11 complained saying It is a People of no Understanding therefore he that made them will have no Mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no Favour c. How then should this encourage you to read some other Books besides those of your Friends What if your Teachers frown on you And what if they set your Fathers and Mothers your Wives and Children against you First Do your Duty to God and next to your several Relations But you that are Masters of Families God expects more of you than of others He hath made Man chief Ruler in his Family and put all in Subjection to him Sarah was a good Woman she obeyed her Husband and call'd him Lord And Num. 30. his Sovereignty over his Family is Confirmed and Ratified by the Apostles but your Teachers have set your Wives at Liberty from this Duty so that I know whenever you turn your Faces to Sionward and begin to embrace the Articles of the Christian Faith to read Books wrote against the Quakers to consider and see whether it is so as is reported I say when any of you come thus to examine and see for your selves you will have hard Work but then you that have good Wives they will be as Solomon says Prov. 12.4 As a Crown to your Heads Yea as both Shield and Buckler against all your Enemies But if otherwise she 'll be as Rottenness to your Bones which causeth a Stink and Noisom Smell She 'll not only watch for your Halting but be glad to discover all your Humane Frailties or any Personal Fault she can find and all to gratifie your Leaders who then will turn your Implacable Enemies But still keep you steddy and do your part and God will clear your Innocency but this let me advise too as one that has gone before you you must cast down your Crowns and be willing to be accounted as the Dung of the Earth and as the Offscouring of all things and that where your Mercinary Teachers can prevail you shall not have a Friend left you upon the Earth But for your Encouragement in this your Progress the Bible is full of Instructions and many other Books to which I refer you and I pray God to discover to you the Slights and cunning Craftiness of your Teachers whereby they lye in wait to deceive that so you may shun their Snare and escape their Net and fly for your Lives and come forth of Babylon to the Land of Canaan which flows with many good things which you neither know nor are yet acquainted with F. B. The Christian Ministry of the Church of England Vindicated and Distinguished from the Antichristian Ministry of the Quakers according to that Text Ye shall know them by their Fruits I Have seen a Printed Sheet by a nameless Author stiled A Letter to the Clergy c. by a pretended Member of the Church of England and also observed how universally it is spread far and near in all Towns where-ever I came and how industriously it is as well dispersed as espoused by the Quakers and as I am told read in their Meetings which is more than ever they did a Chapter in the Bible Thus do they like the Revolting Israelites worship the Works of their own Hands and dance about this their carved Idol as they did about the Golden Calf Exod. 32. And as when I first saw it I took it to be a Project of the Quakers forming so I do still and that not only by the Doctrine therein taught the Dialect therein used but knowing they can do any thing that may serve a turn Subscribe Certificates never handed by the Persons themselves Alter Add to and Take from any Matter whether of the Dead or Living either in Printing or Reprinting for their main Business and whole Study is to deceive the Nation and to

use those Slights and cunning Craft which the Apostles have given us Warning to be aware of yea they can Forge Lie Dissemble and Act like Knights of the Post under the Disguise of the most innocent Saints and harmless Lambs that ever the Sun did shine upon But alass all that I can say and prove as in my Pilgrims Progress c. will not satisfie them by this last Project I mean their Letter Therefore as the Author pretends to be a Member of the Church of England and have exposed the Clergy therefore unless I Francis Bugg can produce one of the Members of the Quakers Society to testifie against their Teachers all is nothing this is their new Project and therefore tho' the Quakers are ashamed to expose the Name of their Accuser yet I am not for 't is Anne Docwra of Cambridge an ancient and eminent Quaker a Deaconess of the Order of St. George Fox late deceased as in some Letters to my self and Mr. Crisp with their several Dates and her Broadside printed as recited in my Pilg. Prog. c. p. 25 58. Jezebel Withstood p. 9 to 12. and other of my Books all which I hope will humor the Quaker's Tool and great Prop to uphold their tottering Cause p. 5. viz. 1. Because she writ thus in her Letter to me dated the 6th of May 1683. Viz. Dear Cousen Fr. Bugg my true Love to thee I have given my Witness publickly against the Lies I found in Geo. Whitehead 's Book We have Knights of the Post amongst us 2. Another 26. Feb. 1682. Dear Cousen F. B. G. Whitehead have sent me one of his Books for me to read and there is the old Money Story in it with I know not what besides I was asked by an bonest Friend if be G. W. was not a Jesuit I answered nay it is not solid enough for them to own There is pretty much airy conceited Stuff in it 3. In her printed Broadside stiled The new projecting Formalist c. I know it is common says she with some of them in their Books of Controversie to put the Names of such Persons as they account their Vassals both to Certificates and Books * Why not then the name of a Member of the Church of England in the room of a real Quaker sometimes without the Consent of the Parties whose Names are Inserted and sometimes with Consent thro slavish Fear of having their Trades Obstructed and Ruined by Publick Defamations Two Years ago I saw a small Book worded by an able Penman G. W. wherein was my Name as a Witness without my Consent to Testifie more than was true which I must disown Yea a barefac'd Lie and an undeniable Truth so closely Interwoven that it is not easily discovered Their separate Men's Meetings have been the Nurseries of Contention and I believe the chief Cause of this long-grinding Persecution for this she wrote about 1683. the Magistrates has upbraided me as one that adhered to them looking upon those Meetings as more dangerous to the Peace of the Nation * This Time will best demonstrate if these Meetings and their Fund be not taken into Consideration than our Publick Meetings with Doors open separate Meeting have served to little Purpose but to shelter great Bellies obstruct Lawful Marriages and to ingross honest Friend's Properties to themselves the most innocent self-denying People have been the Subject of their Clamorous Tongue when the Loose and Vicious the Covetous Proud Lying Hypocrities have been covered and protected 4. In a Letter to Mr. Crisp from Anne Docwra Sept. 20. 1683. Sam. Cater 's Narrative is come out in Print I suspect G. Whitehead to be the Author of it Sam. is not Sophister great enough to twist his Matter together so cunningly either to make Truth go for a Lie or a Lie go for Truth It is part of a Letter I wrote to Sam. Cater concerning my Cousen F. Bugg wherein they have added a few Words that quite alters the Sense of my Letter neither have they put in the greatest part of it which would have overthrown their whole Cause 5. Again That dated Feb. 13. 1683. viz. Sam. Cater says Anne is very angry because I call him to an Account for bringing me in for a Witness in his Narrative most of that he has written concerning me is false but not all of it he hath mixed a Lie and Truth together 6. In another Letter to Mr. Crisp Mar. 25. 1684. she thus exprest her self Sam. Cater has been lately with me clamouring against F. Bugg and John Ainsloe I have had a sharp Conference with him about his Narrative wherein he has used my Name in Print to justifie him in his Contentious Pamphlet with F.B. about Money I laid it before him smartly before several Friends he is very bold and the most confident Liar that ever I met with I laid the Record against John Ainsloe before him also G. Whitehead 's false Certificate about the said Record in his Judgment fixed that it is an abuseful Forgery for some of those whose Names are to the Certificate absolutely disowns it and say they set their Hands to none It is very sad said she that Men should be so confident in their Wickedness Now by the Author of this Scurrilous Libel under Consideration he argues in p. 5. that it was not the Disciples of Christ and the Apostle Paul that call'd our Lord a Wine-Bibber a Friend to Publicans and Sinners a Babbler but his profess'd Enemies the Scribes Pharisees and Unbelievers and thereupon he drew his Conclusion that the Ministers of the Church of England are not Christ's Ministers and think this will affect their sacred Function being thus charged by a Member of their own Church then by the same Rule of arguing this Woman was and still is of their Communion a Writer in Defence of them and in their Unity Therefore I say it must affect them and that she then spake the Truth my self and many others are Witnesses of most of these things or things equivolent and were I to enlarge upon the Testimonies of John Wilkinson John Story and many other Quakers who liv'd and dy'd Quakers I could greatly enlarge hereupon But I thought I had done when I shew'd in Jezebel Withstood how this Woman wheels about and to creep into their Unity is become Scandalous in her now writing and with the Dog turns and licks up her old Vomit which she spued forth many Years since and when a Quaker too But what is her Testimony but this that the Quakers Teachers are the most confident Liars abuseful Forgers Jesuits and Knights of the Post that their Monthly Quarterly and Yearly Meetings are Nurseries of Contention who wickedly forge Certificates and put the Names of their Vassals and tame Slaves to Books without their Licence or else if they submit not to their Tyranny and Usurpation they may expect to be ruined in their Trades and Reputations which is most true and that the most