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A30022	A brief history of the rise, growth, and progress of Quakerism setting forth that the principles and practices of the Quakers are antichristian, antiscriptural, antimagistratical, blasphemous, and idolatrous from plain matter of fact, out of their most approved authors, &c. ... / by Francis Bugg, Senior.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1697 (1697)	Wing B5367; ESTC R23818	99,372	212

believe have said and wrote the same Read the Gen. History of the Quakers p. 102. 103. where the Historian is pleased to say the Quakers left nothing unanswer'd They confuted these Charges of Blasphemy with such Reasons that it is apparent saith he they are wicked Men that said so and Fools that believed it altho' the very Man Geo. Fox himself gives the whole Relation And I affirm there is not one Charge answered or taken off as it ought to be but rather all confessed I must confess G. W. I believe is asham'd of his Brother Fox and of his Brother Milner's Blasphemy but yet cannot nay will not condemn the Book they have said it and will stand to it which puts me in mind of a story I once heard of a Woman whose Son was going out Apprentice even at the Door hold said his Mother I have something to say pray have a care of Lying yea said the Son ay said She my Son I charge you not to tell a lye and the Lad going out stay Son said the Woman I say again be sure you do not tell Lies but if it happen at any time that you do tell a Lye besure you stand in it and so farewel The Quakers say in print that he that hath the Spirit that raised Jesus Christ is equal with God He yea He the Man and all the Quakers that hear of this Book I am persuaded because the World's People have got it would wish it were burnt yet for a thousand Worlds they would not have the World know they burn it so beloved a Point is Infallibility The Quakers say in print that 't is Conjuration to speak out of the Scriptures and not a Quaker is to be found that will condemn it George Fox said he was before all Languages were and not a Foxonian Quaker in England will condemn it George Fox said that neither He nor his Name was known in the World not a Quaker found to deny it George Fox said he heard the Thundering Voice from Heaven saying I have glorifyed thee and will glorify thee again but not a Quaker found to condemn this Blasphemy George Fox said he was Christ the Way the Truth and the Life not a Quaker found to condemn it Edward Burrow said that the Sufferings of the Quakers are greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs not a Quaker found to condemn this Book I except the late separate Quakers both in England and America I could enumerate a hundred Blasphemies like these but the Quakers cannot condemn one Thus did Quakerism rise thus did it grow and by these principles hath it taken a deep root and made a large progress These principles are Antichristian they are Antiscriptural Oh! that these poor deluded People would once come to consider of them and condemn them If not my Hand shall not spare nor my Eye pity neither will I keep back any thing that may discover their dangerous Errors Who knows but their Children may see and seeing may abhor these most horrible Blasphemies Fox's Journal is full take a Tast of them as followeth p. 37. Wife said the Goaler I have seen the Day of Judgment and I saw George Fox there and then going to George said I have been as a Lyon to you but now I shall be like a Lamb. Obser And great reason for it for Geo. Fox whether the poor Goaler knew it before he saw the Judgment day and Fox there I say whether he knew it he said he was the Eternal judge of the World and therefore it was time for the Goaler to come to him Trembling as the Goaler came to Paul and Silas Trembling p. 45. A Trooper at Church heard a Voice from Heaven go to my Servant George Fox for direction so I said Fox spake to his condition and his understanding was opened Again Fox said p. 47. that he see the Heavens opened and p. 55. c. Thus have his Editors laid a Foundation for the Youth at R. Scories School to believe the Fox was an Angel and p. 60. it was a dreadful thing to hear the Man was come with his Leather Breeches meaning himself Reader I must mention these things if I perform what I promised to give a Relation of the Rise Growth and Progress of Quakerism And surely the Papists Legends are not more stuft with counterfeit Miracles and Self exaltations and horrid Blasphemies read p. 57. 63 202 30 18. of Fox's Journal And now I return to the Gen. Hist to hear what news from Holland touching the Rise and Progress of Quakerism SECTION III. The Ring-leaders of their Sect Their early applying themselves to the Powers the Parties and Divisions amonst them GEN. Hist p. 136. 137. They address themselves to the Supreme Assemblies i.e. Parliaments of the Nation and set forth in their Petitions 140 Prisoners c. That 21 had dyed in Prison in demonstrating of which they could not yet leave off their old way of Accusation as well by concealing their greater crimes and more notorious Offences that had brought many of them under that confinement as by aggravating too much the many Evils which they Suffered and oftentimes taking and amplifying a little scratch a pinch a blue Spot for a grievous Torment and bloody Wound which two things seems to me may well be observed in most of the Monuments of the Quakers which they have left of their Sufferings for indeed I cannot allow that these Quakers have been so often used as that they were left half dead for no example can be produced of any of their deaths the same Moment or in a short time after Again p. 117. They made it their business to defame and heap up scandalous Reproaches upon the Credit Fame and Reputation of the Magistrates and Pastors of the Church in those most bitter Letters to their Friends and such practices as these did the Quakers extol as Noble doings and Glorious actions c. Again p. 97. And others in their Sermons and Libels cast all manner of Reproaches upon those Magistrates before all Men and imprecated all Evils upon them and as it were pronounce them by the command of God forgetting the Monitor and Author of that saying that we should daily confess our own Failings and love our Enemies In which relation I find the Historian very partial for certainly never did People amplifie their Sufferings and conceal their own Crimes like the Quakers never so Insolently defame both Magistracy and Ministry and extol themselves and their actions like the Quakers And that the World may see Mr. Croese is in the right I shall cite some few Instances of the Titles of their Books as a demonstration to confirm what Mr. Croese hath said with some little matter out of some of them as well as some observations upon them But I cannot enlarge least I swell my Book beyond my intention which is only to shew by what means Quakerism hath Advanced c. Burrow's Works

this very Testimony from this Great Prophet of theirs Printed 1659. and Reprinted in 1672. by Whitehead and the Chief Quakers Approbation and at the same time too when the Quakers were seeking Favour was such a piece of Impudence as Arius never had But to proceed to my 4th and last Head proposed viz. Who are in the Quakers Account True and Orthodox Preachers since all that Baptise with Water all that Study the Scriptures and Preach out of them all that Preach Christ without as he is in Heaven above all that take Receive or pay Tyth's are false Ministers Witches Devils c. In a word all not Quakers for so they affirm The Quakers Challenge c. p. ● Come Protestants Presbyterians Independents and Baptists the Quakers deny you all p. 3. The Quakers are in the Truth and none but they c. And therefore 't is highly necessary to know who they account true Preachers which are these that follow viz. 1. Such as Teach that the Name of Christ belong to every Member of the Body as well as to him that Suffered at Jerusalem that his Body was but a Vail a Garment c. and which they can never call Christ that his Person was no more to his Disciples then another Person but for the sake of the Spirit Frame and Temper that dwelt in him his Disciples loved him that Christ is not God and Man in one Person For Proof hereof see Is Pennington's Question to Professors c. p. 20. to 33. Will Bayly's Works p. 300. 307. The Sword of the Lord Drawn c. p. 5. 2. Such as deny the Blessed Trinity see W. Penn's Sandy Foundation c. p. 15. to 20. and W. Penn's Christian Quaker and his Dev. Testimony p. 98. 3. Such as Teach that the Scriptures are Dust Death Serpents Food that the Sacraments are Dust that Matthew Mark Luke and John are Serpents Meat Dust and Beastly Ware and such as propose it doubtful whether Moses or Hermes was the 1st Pen-man of the Scripture and whether some of it was not spoke by the Grand Imposter some by Wicked Men some by Wise Men ill Applyed some by Good Men ill Expressed some by False Prophets and yet True some by True Prophets and yet False for Proof see The Quakers Refuge Fixed c. p. 17. News coming out of the North c. p. 14. David's Enemies Discovered c. p. 7. 4. Such as Teach that the Scriptures are not the Word of God and that so to Affirm is Blasphemy See G. Fox's Book Stiled Firebrands c. 2 part p. 159. Printed 1678. and his Great Mist c. p. 240. Printed 1659. 5. Such who Teach that the Quakers Writings are the Word of God given forth by the Eternal Spirit of God that we may as well burn the Scriptures as their Books Papers and Queries That if ever we own the Prophets Christ or the Apostles we will own their Books that what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater for Proof See Truth 's Defence c. p. 2. 104 107. Fox's his Answer to the Westmorland Petitioners c. p. 3. both Printed 1653. likewise G. Whitehead's Serious Apology c. p. 49. A Brief Discovery c. p. 8. Several Papers given forth for spreading Truth c. p. 40. 6. Such as Teach that Water Baptism is no Ordinance of God but an Institution of the Whore of Rome And that the Practice of it is Idolatry and that such are bewitched to accept of those two Institutions of Christ Baptisme and the Lord's Supper For Proof News coming up out of the North c. p. 34. 35. A Musick Lecture p. 25. Burrough's Works p. 51. 518. William Smith's Primmer p. 36. 7. Such as Teach that the Quakers Sufferings are greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and all the Marters since That the Sufferings Inflicted upon Christ his Apostles and Martyrs were chiefly done by a Law and in a great part by the due Execution of a Law see Burrough's Works p. 273. Behold Reader not only how they Magnifie their Sufferings the Blasphemy of their Doctors But the horrible Lye far exceeding that of Mahomet's Journey to Heaven as at large in that Learned Treatise Wrote by Dr. Prideaux Arch-deacon of Suffolk Entituled The Nature of an Imposture in the Life of Mahomet c. Printed 1697. Sold by W. Rogers at the Sun in Fleetstreet London 8. Such as Teach and leave it upon Record to Posterity that they Suffer 20 l. at a time for Preaching when they not only not suffer a penny but get ten pound clear by the Bargain as in this Book at large shewed in the Instance of that Self magnifying Teacher of theirs Samuel Cater of Little Port in the Isle of Ely See The lamentable Cry of Oppression c. p. 40. to the end Hadenham old Records c. 9. Such as Teach that the very Christ of God is within us his Sufferings within us that his offering himself as a Sacrifice is within us and by the scope of their Ancient Testimony deny him that was nail'd to the Cross Pierced c. to be Christ which their Light never was c. See Burrough's Works c. p. 149. W. Smith's Primmer p. 8. 9. and his Catechism p. 57. to 60. 10. Such as Teach that the Quakers have a a Spirit given them beyond all the Fore-fathers and thereby know who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates without speaking ever a word and that none need to give the Quakers Discerning or Judgment for Christ i. e. their Light doth furnish them at all times and on all occasions see G. Fox's Great Mist. p. 89. Judas and the Jews c. p. 58. 11. Such as Teach and that truly too that the Quakers are raised contrary to all Men yea ever since Noah's Flood and that they have given their Power only to God and that they cannot seek that 's a grand Lie the Parliament can bear me witness to outward Authority But stand Witness against Parliaments that 's true Judges Justices and to such Laws Customs Courts c. they cannot yield Obedidience that the Quakers Kingdom is from above and that they reject the Beasts Authority i. e. the Parliament and the Dragons Power And that the Quakers are gather'd up into the Life which the Holy Men of God lived in That they i. e. Quakers are fallen from the World and it's Ways and Nature That even the Father oh dreadful Blasphemy bears Witness of them and therefore their Witness is true Alluding as in many other Cases to Equalize themselves to Christ John 5. 32. There is another that beareth witness of me and I know the witness which he witnesseth of me is true that Teach saying What have you the publick Ministry lost the Lord to be your Strength that you must flee for Help to Men Must they make Laws to Establish

People may be heartily thankful yet it plainly appears that your Leaders and Teachers and Anniversary Synods are of another mind for had you been as hearty and zealous for the present Government as in point of gratitude you should and ought to have been your People had not been so divided and so confused touching the Protestant interest as now they are the sad and evil Effects of which must and will be laid at your doors Consider what is said repent and amend your ways for this Government and the Protestant Interest are so link'd together that those who are not true to the one cannot be true to the other whatever their pretences are or may be This I wrot and caused it to be printed and dispersed as a Testimony against their lukewarmness to the present Government and their Zeal to and for the late Reign as this Section and Sections 5 6 do make plainly appear Obj. But possibly some may object that these are private Addresses by some few particulars and be ready to demand whether they ever made a publick Anniversary Address that thereby they might in all Kingdoms shew their Loyalty to the late King c. Ans Yea that they did and that it may more evidently appear that William Penn's Books mention'd in Section V. VI. run in the same channel I will write part of their said Anniversary Address Anno 1688. viz. The humble Address of the People call'd Quakers from their yearly Meeting the 6th of the Month called June 1688. viz. We the Kings peaceable Subjects from divers parts of his Dominions being met together in this City after our usual manner to inspect the affairs of our Christian Society throughout the World think it our Duty humbly to represent to him the blessed Effects the Liberty he has graciously granted his People to worship God according to their Consciences hath had both on our Persons and Estates for whereas we formerly had 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 Conscence We bless God and thank the King the Goals are every where clear except in cases of Tythes and the repairs 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 in those respects being in the one chiesly expos'd to the present Anger of the offended Clergy who have therefore imprisoned some of them till death and in the other they are rendered very unprofitable to the publick and themselves for both in reference to Freedoms in Corporations Probats of Wills and Testaments and Administrations Answers in Chancery and Exchequer Tryals of our just Titles and Debts proceeding in our Trades in the Custome house serving the Office of Constables c. They are disabled and great advantages taken against them unless the King's Favour do interpose and as we humbly hope he may relieve us 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 gracious Assurances to pursue the Establishment of this Liberty and Property upon an unalterable Foundation and in order to it to hold a Parliament in Nov. next at farthest we think our selves deeply engaged to renew our assurances of Fidelity and Affection and with God's help intend to do our part 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 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 be inviolably true to our own Religion whatever the Folly or Madness of some Men on that account may suggest to the contrary These are the sayings of their Anniversary Synod Here you see 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 a prosperous Reign Laud and Praise in the highest for his Deliverance for the defeating his Enemies the excluders yea it would be too long to enumerate them Besides Book after Book in favour of the Government and Letter after Letter printed and dispersed a first a second and a third for the repealing the Penal Laws and Tests that so the Papists might sit in Parliament to Establish them a new Order even St. George's Order as compleatly as their Grandfather Ignatius Loyola had his Order confirmed by the Popes Bulls October 3d. Anno 1540 as at large set forth in a Discourse concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome c. p. 281. But God in his righteous Judgment deserted their King their Cause and will in time more fully discover their Order to be of the same tendency and carried on by the same Holy cheats that Ignatius Loyola's Order of the Jesuits was And so much briefly to shew how Quakerism grew and after what manner it made its progress and how they bent their strength against the Protestant Interest Church of England and all Orthodox Religion But Reader did you ever hear of an Anniversary Address to King William No such matter Did you ever see a Book put forth in favour of the present Government No such matter no no 't is as in my printed Letter 1690. above recited No Salutation no Message no Prayer for nor no Address to King William III from this their yearly Synod nor a Book wrot in favour of the Government no in all Humility no in all Affection no publick Prayers for his long and prosperous Reign no Laud and Praise that his Enemies are defeated here is no no no no. Come George Whitehead and foreman of your Anniversary Synod what can you say for your selves Why are you mute Why have you not brought forth one publick Anniversary Synodical Address this seven years nor publick Prayers or are you still like those we read on 1 Sam. 10. 27. But the children of Beliel said how shall this man save us and they despised him and brought him no presents no Prayers no Addresses but the King held his peace But that I may not leave out one cluster of the Quakers Vine by which Quakerism has been nourished I shall now mention a notable passage to discover the Quakers aversion to the present Government viz. The Widow Whitrow formerly a Quaker wrot a Book in favour of the Government about four years since but it did so cross the Quakers current that they made an Order for the calling it in and suppressing the same the which I have together with their not addressing His present Majesty more largely handled in my Book New Rome unmask'd p. 26.

be heard J. Prime We will not hear thee F. B. I desire you to hear me that is the least you can do Pet. Watson No no we will not hear thee we have heard too much of it already F. B. I desire a Copy of the Award that the self-chosen Arbitrators made P. Watson No thou shalt not have a Copy of it what wilt thou do with a Copy of it F. B. It is but reasonable that I should have a Copy of it and thereupon I demand it J. Ainsloe E. Love R. Smith Friends let him have a Copy of the Award it is indeed but reasonable he should have a Copy of it P. Watson Nay he shall not have a Copy of it F. B. I have something material to offer and therefore desire to be heard and I marvel that you will neither hear me nor give me a Copy of your Award this shews your guilty Consciences J. Ainsloe For my part I would have F. B. heard what he can say really if we proceed thus we shall be the most Arbitrary People in the whole World if you will not hear him it shall be put to the Vote R. Smith We shall not be like the Israelites unless we hear him What shall we not hear the complaint of the oppressed We ought to hear the complaint of a Servant yea of a Stranger much more of F. B. who has been so serviceable to us and a great sufferer for Truths sake c. But all would not do they could not be prevailed upon either to give me a Copy of their Award or a full hearing before they condemned me Whereupon I drew a Figure of the proceedings of their Monthly Quarterly and Yearly Meeting The painted Harlot c. p. 28. 29. together with the proceedings of the High Court of Justice wherein K. Charles I. was Arraigned Tryed Judged and Condemned and not once suffered to give his reasons for what he had to say and to offer against their Arbitrary proceedings as in The History of Independancy c. On the one hand shewing their Affinity and meek Moses and Scripture Judges on the other hand shewing their contrariety and when I had so done I set this motto and the reason for it as you may there read at large Here is a Figure pray mark it well Another I can make I do you tell But this may serve to be a Looking-glass To shew you plainly how things come to pass But if you say we never did profess The Scripture for our Rule in any case But Judgment we 'll give out as we see cause Not minding Justice Equity or Laws Then I do say another there needs not To manifest the same since 't is my lot Which for to do I here declare and tell The Scripture I must take to do it well Because 't is however in my esteem The truest standing Record I have seen Condemning errors in the Judgment Seat But Truth and Justice it maintains complete Having proceeded thus far in this old controversy it will not be amiss to let the World see how Sam. Cater's case was manag'd First by partial Judges as above told and next by lying Lawyers For Tho. Rudyard S. Cater's Lawyer thus said in his defence about the 15 l. I suffered for Sam. Cater as aforesaid viz. The Fine of 15 l. was paid in Money voluntarily before distress was made which is a payment that our Testimony was ever against and has been oftentimes 3 or 4 times the value of the thing demanded and charge because they could neither pay nor compound for such spoiling their Goods c. Now this went a great way with many against me that I should pay the Money voluntarily before distress was made and the further in that Geo. Whitehead who says in his Preface to his Book stil'd Judgment Fixed c. If I did not feel the Lord my God laying a real necessity upon me to be publickly concerned in this controversy I would rather chuse to sit down mute But the Lord has laid the necessity and in discharging my Duty I neither consult events nor fear effects c. Now Reader observe and I will shew thee one instance of many that might be mentioned by which thou may'st measure the reality of this necessity which G. W. pretends God that cannot lye nor move any to lye laid upon him in such a degree that he in writing that Book neither consulted events nor yet feared effects For this T. Rudyard the Lawyer had said in defence of his Client Sam. Cater that I Fra. Bugg paid my 15 l. Fine voluntarily before distress was made And Reader this was a lye as I can prove by 20 Witnesses still alive for my Goods were distrained and carried to an Inn viz. the White Hart in our Town and there lay until I entered my Appeal at which time I paid the Money and took my Goods again and to the truth of what I say and to prove G. Whitehead's lying necessity I may recite a Certificate under the Man and Womans hand who at that time kept the House viz. Memorandum and that we who subscribe our Names do testify that the Goods of F. B. which were distrained for the Fine of 15l 10 s. the 10 s. being for my own offence and the 15 l. for Sam. Cater by vertue of a Warrant from Tho. Shelly Esq late deceased was after they were distrained carried to the White Hart and afterwards the said F. Bugg came and paid down his Money and took Home his Goods this my Wife and I who was then Constable can testify Witness our Hands the 6th of Sept. 1691. Peter and Judith Maxey Thus is it manifest that Sam 's Lawyer told an absolute lye in saying I paid my Money voluntarily before distress was made of my Goods and as manifest that God never laid a necessity upon G. Whitehead to vindicate the said Rudyard as he did in the recited Book i. e. Judgment Fixed c. p. 219 220. of which I have taken notice in my Book Entituled New Rome unmask'd c. p. 33. to 36. And so I shall leave poor Sam 's Lawyer with the same motto I set upon him in Painted Harlot c. p. 50. viz. A Lawyer and a Friend can he be found Professing Truth I say on English ground Who truth will speak upon occasion free From lying words and base partiality If not the wo was nor pronounc'd in vain Since to such Lawyers it doth appertain Who can pervert and wrest an honest Cause Their refuge being lyes and not our Laws Having done with this Lawyer 's lyes and Whitehead's vindication of him saying where is now thy lying Lawyer Art not thou herein manifest to be the lying Defamer c. and much more to that purpose I say having briefly passed over Rudyard the Lawyer and Whitehead the Forger let me now answer an Objection Obj. But possibly some may say that Sam. Cater has wrot a Narrative of this controversy which tho' it be fully