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A30035	The pilgrim's progress, from Quakerism to Christianity containing, a farther discovery of the dangerous growth of Quakerism, not only in points of doctrine, but also in their politicks, respecting their government, and opposite to it, together with their fund or common bank to support the same : with a remedy proposed for this malady, and the cure of Quakerism : to which is added an appendix, discovering a most damnable plot, contriv'd and carrying on by New-Rome, by an united confederacy, against the reformed religion and professors thereof, as will appear from the designs of their silent meetings, their monthly, quarterly, second-day, six-week, and yearly meeting, all which are particularly herein treated on / by ... Fr. Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1700 (1700)	Wing B5383; ESTC R20744	232,865	530

long been seen to lye hid amongst that Tribe called the Ministry the Teachers and Leaders of the Quakers even such Spiritual Wickedness which if practised amongst Presbyterians Independents or others whom ye disown and can see nothing in them that is good they would abhor themselves therein which you as with a Whore's Forehead boldly maintain and defend You are in truth those that justifie your selves before Men but God knoweth your Hearts and the Day is at Hand even at your very Door which will Discover Reveal and Preach as upon the House-tops many and great Abominations which yet lye hid amongst you that so you may be judged according to your Deeds This Witness is true as St. Paul said Tit. 1.12,13 I am constrained contrary to my Nature to plead like a Man of Contention against this Proud Pharisaical and Perverse Generation this Leviathan and Crooked Serpent in whose Nostrils unless a Hook be put would swallow not only the Rivers but also the very Sea into himself viz. Receive all tho' never so unclean in Heart and Spirit if outwardly they will but own him receive his Mark Of Thee and Thou and the Hat and walk in outward Observation and Shew conformable to them who while they profess themselves free from Sin and being the only Children of GOD are notwithstanding found bitter Persecutors of the Truth and Enemies to the Unction the Anointed One in whomsoever he doth appear thereby rendring themselves guilty of all the Innocent Blood which hath been spilt from the Blood of Righteous Abel even to this Day All which Blood cryeth aloud for Vengeance upon the well-favoured Harlot Mystery Babylon who in the Golden Cups and goodly Shew of an outward Profession hath inwardly with a bitter ravening and devouring Spirit made her self Drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus This Witness is true I have observed that those that forsake Father and Mother the Sect that nourish'd and brought them forth to follow the Lord fully and Holy as did Caleb Joshua and Jesus c. not minding their own Reputations or Fame not loving their Lives to the Death such I say have been accounted as in all Ages so by this Hypocritical Proud Self-righteous Generation as the worst of Men calling them Ranters Atheists Blasphemers Devils any thing even all manner of Evil so they may wound the Truth and slay the Innocent Defenders thereof whose harmless Souls I see lying under the Altar of Truth sorely oppressed for their Testimony thereunto and crying out How long Lord God Holy and True will it be e're thou dost Judge and Revenge our Blood For whose Elect sake the God of my Salvation will suddenly arise and behold Enmity Lies and Falshood c. even all that Spirit of Wickedness will surely fly hide it self and sink again into the bottomless Pit from whence it came They care not whom they slander or what Lies they tell so they may Advance Strengthen and increase their Party and Sect. By all which it evidently appears that the Spirit of Deceit and Falshood is crept in and doth inhabit amongst this People You are now like that Evil Spirit cast out running to and fro walking in the dry places of your Elders Traditions those you call good Old Friends seeking rest but never shall find any so long as Balack and Balaam that bitter Spirit leads to Curse whom God will surely Bless and bring over you for ye must fall and with Haman Saul and Herod be insnared and taken even in the same Pit of cruel Deceit which you have digged for your Innocent Brethren and herein for some time will the Faith and Patience of the Saints be exercised Thus am I clear from the Blood of all Men in that I have not ceased both by Words and Writing to forewarn of the coming of this Antichrist among the Quakers who for more than Ten Years last past have been that poor Ass speaking as with Man's Voice reproving and withstanding the Madness of this Lying Wrathful Bitter Persecuting Spirit knowing right well when it entred and You thereby came to reject the Lord that he should not Reign over You by his Spirit of Light and Love but rather chose to your selves a King for to Judge and Rule You who was not the Unction nor the Anointed of the Lord nor yet the Olive Fig nor Vine that could heal rejoice or bind you up but the Bramble and King of the bottomless Pit that shall so Rend Tear and Devour you till not one Stone shall be left upon another which thing tell G. F. that Fox your King By what is written you may see how this high and Luciferian People the Quakers who for their Shew and Numbers have been as the Stars of Heaven and who for their Pride and Enmity are to be cast down whose fall is the Riches of the World So that the first in Profession are now become the last in Possession of the Kingdom which standeth not in Words nor yet in Outward Appearances but in Humility and Love unfeigned yea in Righteousness Peace and Joy c. The foregoing Passages are taken out of Robert Riche's Letters which were Printed 1669 and Reprinted 1676 7 He was a Merchant and was one of the Eminentest and Ancientest Quaker that Lived in London I know says R. R. G. F. is raised up of God for this very end to Try Refine and Purifie many as Pharaoh was and tho' many fall in the Tryal under his Power yet many will be delivered into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God I likewise see that daily more and more will fall off from that Body and that some that separate from them will with Daniel stand in their Lot and follow the Lord in the Spirit of the Lamb more fully than they have done These two last Paragraphs was Printed in 1680. P. 19. II. HOW low and humble were they i. e. Quakers in their Spirits in the beginning How few were they in Words Their Yea was Yea and their Nay Nay Ah! let me take up a Lamentation How are the Mighty fallen How have the Stars ceased to give their Light How are the Poor distressed and the Young Ones bruised by the high Mountains and lofty Cedars whose Habitations were once in Heaven but now upon the high Places of the Earth to impose upon the Conscience and to establish an Arbitrary Power by a Law These are the Armed Beasts and the many Antichrists which break the Unity in Spirit and the Bond of Peace P. 10. The Foxonian-Unity is to yield Subjection to the Order of the Body so called though no manifestation within And this Unity they glory in by this is their Kingdom upheld from this they are able to boast Who is able to make War with us Who can stand before us Do not all fall that are risen up against us Are not these the high-swelling words of Proud Babel whose tow'ring Thoughts must be abased Whose practice hath been to crush the

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 Judas and the Jews p. 44. Secondly Dear and Precious one in whom my Life is bound up and my Strength in thee stand by thy Breathings I am nourished by thee my Strength is renewed I cannot Reign but in thy Presence and Power Glory unto thee Holy One (p) Holy George for ever John Audland's Letter to George Fox Thirdly George Fox said John Blaikling is blessed with Honour above many Brethren and Thousands will stand by him in a Heavenly Record that his Life Reigns and is Spotless 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 Christian disting Part 5. p. 77. Fourthly George Fox a Prophet indeed it was said of Christ that he was in the World and the VVorld was made by him and the VVorld knew him not SO it may be said of this Prophet G. Fox The Quak. Challenge p. 6. Fifthly To confirm all this William Mead now living when he gave William Harris one of George Fox's Journals he said to him Here W. Harris I will give thee one of Geo. Fox's Journals it is a very good Book yea better than the Bible Object 1. But some may say this is only W. Mead's Judgment surely the Quakers do not hold that either their Books or Fox's Journal is better or of greater Authority than the Bible for the Fathers and Councils all submitted to the Test of Holy Scripture as the VVord of God Answ To this I answer That W. Mead is a knowing Man I will not say a wise Man unless in that one Action of his whereby he vigorously opposed W. Penn and endeavoured to exclude him out of their Ministry when he was proclaimed a Traytor to his Country for being charged to be in the Plot with the Lord Preston and others and was therefore forced to hide many Years and for which his Preface to Fox's Journal was not admitted to be bound up with the Journal but waited upon it like a poor Lacquey with its Blue Livery I say this Action of his excepted I will not say he was a wise Man yet as I said he is a knowing Man and spake the Heart of Quakerism in saving George Fox's Journal is better than the Bible First As you have heard 't is question'd by the Quakers VVhether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of the Scripture indeed VVhether either or neither of them The Quakers Refuge fixed c. p. 17. But as for what G. Fox and Friends write it is from and by the Motion of God's Eternal Spirit and avouched so to be by a General Council of the Yearly Meeting (q) Held at London May 1695. And what any of our Friends speak from the Spirit of Truth is of greater Authority than the Bible and Chapters are Truth defending the Quakers c. p. 7. Now who can blame W. Mead on the Quakers Principles Is not a Certainty better than an Uncertainty Secondly The Scriptures lay many Obligations upon us it teacheth us the Observation of the Ten Commandments the Lord's Prayer the Apostles Creed Baptism and the Lord's Supper which the Journal does not at all teach nor inforce the Belief of only to listen adhere and hearken to the Light within and to obey its Dictates Therefore as the Journal is most certain so it is most easie and therefore the best Book and of most Authority and on the Quakers Hypothesis confirm all those Particulars above quoted Thirdly The Scripture teacheth to obey Magistrates as the higher Power and that we should submit our selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake Matth. 22.21 Titus 3.1 Rom. 13.1,2,3 1 Pet. 2.13,14,17 See also Tindal's VVorks Obedience to a Christian Man c. p. 111. But the Journal p. 40 to 400. and our Friends Books teach both by Precept and Example That the Light in every Man is the higher Power to whom all must submit and obey for to it all Power in Heaven and Earth is committed Jos Coale's VVork p. 93. and that this Light is one in the Male and in the Female but to a proud heady high-minded Man there is no Honour due tho' he be in a place to Rule Smith's Primer p. 43. And if so who can say that W. Mead spake unadvisedly in saying The Journal of Fox is better than the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles I think him a right Quaker a knowing Man and one that loves a Certainty better than an Uncertainty Fourthly The Scriptures teach That VVomen should obey their Husbands yea that they Reverence them and live in Subjection to them as their Head Gen. 3.16 Numb 30 to the end 1 Cor. 11.8 1 Pet. 3.1 Tit. 2.5 Colos 3.18 Ephes 5.22 quoting Sarah as an Example But the Journal teaches That the Light is the higher Power that it is one in the Male and in the Female and 't is the Light in each that is to be obeyed for to that all Power in Heaven and Earth is committed Smith's Primer p. 13. The Journal p. 50 to 450. and that there is to be no respect of Persons and if the VVife conceive her Husband to be gone from the Light and the Guidance of it and she be moved to rebel against her Husband betray his Secrets to his Adversaries yea to give publick Testimony against him she does well and shall have Praise of the same The Content Apostate c. p. 5. And for this Reason the Quakers do not put in or make the VVoman promise by their Marriage Certificate to obey their Husbands which as it is contrary to the Tenure of the whole Book of God both the Old and New Testament so 't is agreeable to G. Fox's Journal and their Antient Testimony See their Marriage Certificate Fifthly In a word the Scriptures teach That Children should obey their Parents and honour their Father and Mother that Servants should obey their Masters that Subjects should submit to their Governours and obey Magistrates that Christians should obey their Pastors who are over them in the Lord who watch for their Souls as those that must give an Account But the Journal p. 20 to 320. teaches the contrary both by Precept upon Precept as also by the Practice of their great Apostle G. Fox who not only broke the Laws in disturbing the Ministers in their Churches but taught so to do not only refused to pay Tythes but taught so to do not only slighted the Magistrates Command who oftentimes commanded a strict Fast to be kept but taught his Followers so to do Nay lately one Thomas Mash an Antient Quaker living at Newberry in Berkshire was moved by his Light within to open his Shop-VVindows on the Lord's-Day as on Market Days and set out his Goods to Sale this the Journal justifies p. 200 to the

Fellowship with him until unfeignedly he shall return unto the Truth by Condemnation of that Work and Spirit which in the Love of God we exhort him to and desire that for him a Place of Repentance may be found Reader What Person living who is a Stranger to the Quakers deep-dyed Hypocrisie but that would think this John Barnard had committed some more than ordinary Immorality nay some almost unpardonable Crime Here is such Endeavours said to be used such Gospel-Order exercised such Stiff-neckedness on his Part wilfully persisted in but behold all Centre in a most profound Piece of Hypocrisie as I shall shew and that from divers Reasons And FIRST In that Benjamin Clark their Bookseller a great Quaker in their Unity † I should have said Confederacy sold at the same time Play-Books Popish-Books Gypsie-Books yea Baudy-Books such as I never saw before and yet never Reproved never Admonished according to Gospel-Order never Sentenced and Condemned neither he nor his Spirit By which it may appear how zealous they are for preserving their own good Name and Esteem amongst their Proselytes and their own Law and Commandments from being brought into Disrepute and yet all these their Proceedings they father upon the Lord who hates Iniquity and whose Laws condemn such wicked Books as their own beloved Brother sold and vended every Day Thus do they Pharisee-like make void the Law of God by their Traditions For as soon as this Excommunication came to my Hand I as a Country Man went to the said Ben. Clark's and asked for some pretty Play-Books for Children and he produced me a Parcel of all sorts ut supra of which I bought Eighteen Pennyworth and noticed it in my next Book Intituled De Chr. Lib. Part 2. p. 207 which they never did deny nor did they ever sentence him as above SECONDLY In all the Records of Condemnation that ever I made or ever saw made during the 16 or 18 Years I was their Clerk I never knew of or saw any Record of Condemnation against any Quaker for the Breach of any Scripture Commands but either for writing against their Teachers * As my self or for paying Tythes or for dispersing and selling such Books as allowed of the Payment of Tythes † As W. Rogers or for not Marrying according to their Orders or for the Breach of some one or more of G. Fox's Commandments An Instance of the last followeth Hadenham Quarterly-Meeting the Fourth of the Seventh Month 1678. We at this Quarterly Meeting having the Business of John Ainslo's taking his Wife contrary to the Order of Friends brought BEFORE US and Friends having several times spoke to him about it and he not giving Friends Satisfaction WE do testifie That WE have no UNION with him in this his so doing c. THIRDLY I never knew any Book wrote against any of their Teachers in the Unity tho' guilty of notorious Immoralities † As in the opening of the Cage I shall shew no here was no Conscientious Concern manifested no Gospel Order exercised no Publick Condemnation sent out against them but against my self George Keith Tho. Crisp and others for discovering their Errours Here they pretend a great Case of Conscience and having shewed who they account Scandalous Walkers and who they frequently Record out of the Unity and who they write their Books against I shall conclude this Chapter with one of their Yearly Canons and if any desire to see more of them I refer to my former Books De Chris Lib. c. Part 2. p. 40 to 52. the Fifth and Seventh Chapter of this Treatise London the 27th of the 3d Month 1675. Concerning Recording the Church's Testimony and the Party's Condemnation That the Church's † † The Light and the Body join'd Testimony and Judgment against Disorderly and Scandalous Walkers also the Repentance and Condemnation of the Party 's Restored be Recorded in a distinct Book in the respective Monthly and Quarterly Meeting for the clearing Truths Friends and our Holy Profession to be produced and published for that End and Purpose so far only as in God's pure Heavenly Wisdom they shall be needful And 't is our Advice in the Love of God That after any Friend's Repentance and Restoration he abiding faithful in the Truth that condemns the Evil none among you so remember his Transgression as to cast it at him or upbraid him with it for that is not according to the Mercy of God Thus Reader you see First Who are the Scandalous Walkers they Record out of their Unity 2 dly You see here is an Order from the Yearly Meeting to get a Book distinct for that Use 3 dly You see also that here is a Door open that if any repent of Writing against them of Paying Tythes of Marrying contrary to their Infallible Order they may be restor'd to their former Dignity for they have Power to bind and to loose † Yea whom they please See Judas and the Jews p. 85. Jos Coale's Works p. 243. to condemn and to acquit and that it may evidently appear so I shall recite one of their final Sentences pass'd upon one of their Adversaries Irrevocably viz. In the Name of that God that spanneth the Heavens with a Span and measureth the Waters in the Hollow of his Hand I bind thee here on Earth and thou art surely bound in Heaven and in the Chain under Darkness to the Judgment of the Great Day thou shalt be reserved Was there ever the like Insolency Josiah Coale Some Inferences from the Eighth Chapter IS it so then that these Monthly and Quarterly Meetings who derive their Power and Authority from the Yearly Meetings assume to themselves this great Boldness to Arraign Sentence and Condemn Persons for disregarding their illegal Laws and for the Breach of their Unscriptural Commands † No nor one Scripture Proof was ever produced to strengthen their Laws or condemn Actions What need is there then to suppress these Meetings that thus alienate His Majesties Subjects from their Obedience to their lawful Soveraign and his Laws and to limit this Arbitrary Government thus exercised in these new Spiritual Courts whilst it may be lest the time come wherein they may capitulate with the Supreme Magistrate and tell him with a Carnal Weapon in their Hand that the Light is the Higher Power and all Powers and Dominions ought to cast their Crowns down at its Feet in the Saints However I have given warning by pointing at the Danger and hope to prescribe a Remedy and let not THE POOR MAN'S COUNSEL be rejected lest the time come wherein it may be said Eccles 19.14,15 It is too late for the Gibeonites hath deceived us with their Wiles Pray read the Ninth Chapter of Joshua at your leisure Joshua the 9 th read and ponder I beseech all wise Men. and think it not a strange thing to be deceived by the Quakers fair Shews and innocent Pretences when you see

telling us The Fleece would grow again who themselves at the same time would give up nothing nay not set themselves in a like suffering Capacity with the Hearers insomuch as that in the Loss of 13550 l. our Teachers never lost 50 l. but the Hearers suffer'd for them as also for themselves See Painted Harlot c. p. 5. And this I saw and spake against some Months before it fell to my turn to be Fined for our Preachers But at last I was sined 15 l. for Sam. Cater for that he did not declare his Name and Habitation and thereby put himself in a like Suffering Capacity with us the Hearers as I shewed at large see Reason against Railing c. p. 73 to 80. and how I prosecuted the Restitution of the said Fine of 15 l. and had it again tho' with great Loss by Charges Interest c. The third thing which gave me Offence was G. Fox's setting up a Female Government by VVomen's Meeting Monthly c. This I opposed vigorously and to be short I do think I gave by my Book that Image a deadly Blow De Chris Lib. c. Part 2d But by this time G. Whitehead Sam. Cater R. S. and others wrote several Books against me wherein they called me A Child of the Devil Enemy of all Righteousness an Apostate a Betraying Judas a Treacherous Hypocrite a Dog a Wolf a Beast an Informer 18 or 20 times in one Book intituled Judgment fixed c. The Lib. of an Apost Cons c. Righteous Judgment placed c. with abundance more such Stuff VVell upon this I apply'd my self to our Milden-Hall Meeting for a Certificate against these scandalous Detractions which they not only Printed but sent up and down into all Counties where I dealt particularly into Leicestershire in order to ruin my Reputation * Which then was a most hateful Name amongst Tradesmen VVell Twenty-seven Members of this Meeting gave me a Certificate many of them still alive and both then and still the chief Men of the Meeting See New Rome Unmask'd c. Epist to the Bereans and Introd See The Picture of Quakerism c. 2d Part p. 146. These Books they still sent into every County which did me much hurt in my Trade And this Certificate with the several Books I wrote so maul'd them that Sam. Cater and his Assistants gave over But G. Whitehead he still goes on he wrote sometimes three Books in less than a Year against me calling me Self-condemned Apostate Counterfeit Convert a Scandal to Christianity a Fool and Novice c. And when this would not effect their manifest Design then they sent Letters about against me and raised all manner of Lies and Stories and by Post sent me not only Books wrote against Francis Spira but Letters also A Relish of which is as followeth viz. Francis Bugg such as is thy Name such thy Nature the darkest of the creeping Things in the whole Earth they love the Night feeding upon Filth and Dung Night is thy Habitation the Earth has received thee Night and Darkness is come upon thee Thy Father is shut out of Heaven and thou also that makes ye Howl and Roar Woe hastens and the Eternal Night is come and coming upon thee Woe and Alas poor Night-Bugg c. 3d. 1st Month 1690. This Letter sent me without any Name to it I sent a Copy of it the next Post to Geo. Whitehead to know if he was the Author of it but he sent me word he was not nor did he know who was whether he said true or false therein I cannot tell But the 14th of the same Month I receiv'd another * Not of the same Hand-writing but the same Man which was Ste. Crisp for I know his Hand and have shewed it to others that do from the same Man tho' of a different Hand but the last I know to be Stephen Crisp's And thus he wrote Francis I am not Geo. VVhitehead Alas for Thee and Hogg and Pennyman the Arrows from Heaven shall stick fast in your Consciences when thou hast found me O Galilean And thou may hear more from me c. Then in Verse thus Indeed to Vaunt and proudly Bragg Doth not become a feeble Night-Bugg I Prophesie the Hour is near O Bugg unclean With wicked Julian shalt cry thou hast found me O Galilean As vile an Apostate as ever was wicked Julian A wicked Pharisee no Penitent Publican c. Reader here is enough to shew the Quakers Spirit and besides my Knowledge of its being Stephen Crisp's by his Hand-VVriting it 's to be observed that as above he said I might hear further from him for about three Months after came out another Book intituled Innocency against Envy Signed by G. W. and St. Crisp besides his usual Expression I Prophesie c. by which if Whitehead did not know of his first yet he knew of his second Letter and the Matter being the same in Substance I am satisfied it was his I am likewise to let you know that notwithstanding they pretended to the Parliament that they cannot seek Revenge for themselves and thereupon could not Sign the Association yet they Indicted me for Printing Unlicensed whilst it's their own frequent Practice in the Old-Baily London which put me to great Charge insomuch as one way or other by my attending this Controversie by Writing and Printing first by opposing their Errours next by vindicating my self from their repeated Abuses both Publickly and Privately both as a Man and Christian I did come by great Loss in my outward Estate and when Men perceived it they came so fast upon me as that I could not bear up See The Picture of Quakerism p. 79. I do not in all Cases justifie my self in the too much neglecting my Business to attend the Motion of the Quakers who are a compacted Corporation and my self a single Person there was too much odds But I met with such Provocations which would fill a Volume to relate and thereupon I came to see my Fall by the Hand of Saul for the Sons of Zerviah were too hard for me For I had maintained the Contest without the Help of the Clergy from 1675 to the Year 1697. and in all that time I never receiv'd of any one or more of them Ten Shillings nor Ten Nights Lodgings And whereas they now call me Mercenary because I have accepted of the Clergy's Kindness which has been very Bountiful let any Quaker of them all shew me that he have waged War at his own Charge and Cost so long and at so much Expence Cost Labour Pains Charge and Trouble and I will not from henceforth call him Mercenary but their Tongue is no Slander and now I shall shew somewhat of the wonderful Providence of God in my Preservation to this Day For when I found how the Case stood with me I waited Two or Three Months under some Heaviness and Concern hearing from all Quarters how the Quakers glory'd