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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

magnified be our Light within which hath thus exalted us above the Prophets above the Apostles above the Martyrs and above all Christians as our dear Brother G. W. hath most excellently made it out First In opening his Text and also in the two Branches proceeding from it but more especially in the Use and Application where he hath confirmed me in not making Confession of Sin nor regarding the Ten Commandments nor those two Ordinances of Baptism and Supper all which is ratified and confirmed by G. Fox's Journal laying there on the Table But yet I have a short Testimony to bring in touching the Priests which I think our Friend G. W. left out unawares for I take it to be as necessary an Ancient Testimony to be kept up as any other only a little more Privately and Prudently for they are as great Enemies to our Design of Supplanting Christianity as any the World afford But however though we are the same we were and are not changed yet besure you do not admit that we are the first Challengers or that we begin with the Priests But to shew you in private that we were always the Beginners of all Controversies and what Cause we had for it I therefore bring in my Testimony and my Proof for the Antiquity of my Testimony shall be out of Edw. Burrough's Epistle to G. F.'s Great Mystery Printed 1658. viz. And the Word of the Lord we sounded and did not spare and caused the Deaf to hear and the Blind to see and the Dread of the Lord went before us and behind us and Terror took hold on our Enemies And first of all our Mouths were Opened * * Then the Quakers began and our Spirits Filled with Indignation against the Priests and Teachers † † True every Word and with them and against them we first began to War as being the Causers of the People to err and the Blind Leaders that carried the Blind into the Ditch and against them as the Fountain of all Wickedness abounding in the Nations and as being the Issue of Prophaneness and against them we cried shewing unto all these People that they were not Lawful Ministers of Christ but Deceivers and Antichrists and we spared not Publickly * * Then why should you be spared and at all Seasons to utter forth the Judgments of the Lord against them and their Ways and their Churches and Worships and Practices and this was our first Work † † So it was my first Work to thresh down the Quaker Deceivers we entered upon to Thresh down the Deceivers and lay them open that all People may see their Shame and come and turn from them neither can we pray for the Priests but for their Destruction c. And this Testimony lay upon me to bear which is in all Parts according to our Ancient Testimony Truth 's Defence c. by G. Fox and Rich. Hubberthorn p. 15. Printed 1653. For my Dear Friends and Brethren read our great Apostle G. Fox's Primer W. Smith's Primer in which there is not a Verse of Scripture quoted by which you may be sure it is agreeable to our Ancient Testimony Again read Saul's Errand to Damascus and A Three-fold Estate of Antichrist The Quakers Challenge And from all these Books you may gather that by the false Ministry we mean such as Preach out of the Scripture such as Preach a Christ without and bid People believe on him as he is in Heaven above And you 'll see first by Reprinting Edw. Burrough's Epistle 1672. and by W. Smith's Works which render the Bishops Monsters and the Clergy Witches Devils Sorcerers Jesuits Blasphemers Bloodhounds Antichrists Sodomites and an Hundred such Names This Beloved is according to our Ancient Testimony only let us word the Matter so now as to make them believe we mean not the present Clergy but those in former Days Benjamin Bealing Clerk Let us sing an Hymn of Praise and Self-Exaltation and to the Confusion of our Adversaries as you will find it written in the Epistle General of that Son of Thunder Edw. Burrough prefixed to our Apostle George Fox's Great Mystery Printed 1658. The Waters have I seen dry'd up the Seat of that great Whore Who hath made all Nations drunk with her inticing Power And caused the whole Earth She hath Her Fornication Cup to take Whereby Nations have long time err'd on whom She long hath sate But now her Miseries are seen Her Witchcrafts are discover'd And She no more shall Men deceive for Day-Light is appear'd And the Bed woful I have seen of Torments great prepar'd Whereon She must be cast and Plagues must not be spared But Woe to Her the Cup of Wrath is fill'd Her to receive And as to others she hath done the same She shall now have And Drink She must of that full Cup of God's fierce Indignation And then shall all Her Lovers mourn and make great Lamentation For Fire in Her is kindled which must Her all consume Behold Her Smoak ascendeth Day and Night up to Heaven The Antichrists who hath put on and cover'd with Sheeps cloathing And long-rul'd King on Nations Inwardly Ravening Who hath devour'd God's Heritage and had a Kingdom great I have seen Him made War against and Truth give Him Defeat Behold the Whore Her Flesh is burnt Her Beauty doth now fall She that is all Harlots great Mother whose Daughters are Whores all The Close of the Meeting by George Whitehead Friends I have still one Word of Exhortation as you will find it in the Prophecy of our deceased Brother Samuel Fisher touching Magistracy and Government which being according to our Ancient Testimony I could not well omit viz. * * * Sam. Fisher's Works p. 19 20. observ'd by Mr. Boothhouse I will hold my Peace no longer saith the Lord as concerning this Evil which they so prophanely commit and do daily against my Chosen but will utterly subvert and overturn them and bring the Kingdoms and Dominions and the Greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven into the Hands of the Holy Ones † † † Meaning the Quakers of the most High and give unto my Son and his Saints to reign over all the Earth And take ALL the RULE and AUTHORITY and POWER that shall stand up against my Son in his Saints and put it down among all the rest as one of his greatest Enemies under his Feet saith the Lord. For tho' the World take no Delight in them yet I take Pleasure in my People saith the Lord And I will beautifie my Meek Ones * * * Meek Quakers with Salvation and I will put my high Praise into their Mouths and a Two-edged Sword into their Hands † † † Mark this is your Ancient Testimony as well as Prophecy writ 1656. and they shall execute Vengeance upon the Heathen and Punishments upon the People and shall bind their Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of Iron and execute upon them

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