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A65888	A sober expostulation with some of the clergy against their pretended convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross abuse of the people called Quakers, in his books and pamphlets, viz., his New Rome arrainged, History of Quakerism, Second summons, Picture of Quakerism, and other pamphlets which may serve to invalidate the authority of the snake in the grass, as it refers to his books.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1959; ESTC R20305	65,396	156

dangerous as it was in them who would not believe that Jesus was the Christ when on Earth who therefore were liable to Die in their Sins Yet for those Moral and Pious Gentiles that have not such Discovery of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ nor outward Means thereof afforded to them we may not condemn them lest we should reflect upon God but leave them to his Universal Grace and Mercy in Jesus Christ who is given for a Light unto the Gentiles and to 〈◊〉 God's Salvation to the Ends of the Earth wherein we hope no Professed Christians will be so Harsh Uncharitable or Atheistical as to conclude such liable to Damnation or Destruction for want of Scripture or an outward Ministry when God does not afford the same to them seeing he has afforded and given the greater even Christ himself to be both the Light of the Gentiles and Salvation to the Ends of the Earth that they believing in him the Light may be saved by him and have Eternal Life it being the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and Men believe not but love Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds are Evil John 3. And the Lord God has not left Himself or Mankind without Witness both immediate and mediate in his Creation thereby leaving all them inexcuseable who persist in Impenitency and Rebellion against him and his Light and Grace in them Whereas I intimated in my Epistle to The Counterfeit Convert in these words viz. I do hereby sincerely declare That 't is not for Controversie sake that I am so much engag'd therein nor am I the beginner of these Controversies being wholly defensive c. And what has our Adversary against this I know it to be very true tho' the Devil and all his Agents should say the contrary and endeavour to outface me with their Lies Our Adversary saith viz. I am willing to let Richard Ashbye know that his Brother Whitehead is false in this also And why so For quoth F. B. he writ against Episcopalians Presbyterians Independants and Baptists before ever they wrote against him Answer I deny that and we have no proof but his own bare ipse dixit for it Some of them i. e. Presbyterians in Cromwell's time when the Episcopal had no Power begun to Persecute and Imprison me and others and also to defame us in Print before ever I was concerned in Printed Controversie against them and it was the worst and most rigid sort that I was so concerned against and therefore not the beginner of either of those first Controversies i. e. with some Presbyterians nor yet of these with this Adversary but was and am still wholly defensive And suppose as he saith I had writ Ten Books against others to One Book against me of any one Man's Writing I did not write Ten Books against any one Man for only his One Book against me But suppose Ten Books wrote either by Ten Persons more or fewer either against me in particular or against me inclusively with others and I had or have wrote Ten Answers to those Ten Books this proves me not a Contentious Scribler as he renders me but still I am on the defensive part and put upon a necessity of being defensive Yet to prove me false herein our Adversary adds viz. And in Nine Months time he wrote Three Books against me to one of mine against the Quakers and Two of them without any fresh occasion given him But F. Bugg knows he gave the first occasion he begun the Controversie and that I was wholly defensive therein by way of Answer to his bitter Invectives and foul Aspersions against the Quakers so called their Order and Discipline for did I begin to be concerned before his Book De Christiana Libertate came forth No 't was his foul Abuses in that Book against us gave me the first occasion to appear in Print against him and after that his divers other abusive Books and Pamphlets against us both before and since he turn'd to the Priests and so often falsly accusing us the said People with Contempt of the Scripture denying Jesus to be Christ despising his Ordinances his Ministers and Magistrates making Divisions in Church and State p. 7. c. with many more Calumnies and all to excuse and cover his own base Backsliding and Self-condemned Apostacy and Judas-like to incense both Priests and Rulers against us by his foul Railery black and odious Characters which he has maliciously put upon us but as to the latter the Lord has hedged up his Way and manifested his Folly restless Envy and implacable deadly Malice unto many and our God has given us Power and Zeal to withstand and oppose him therein and trample upon his great Malice and such fruitless Attempts to Inveterate Adversaries As to our Adversary's Postscript to G. W. about his aforesaid Letters to William Smithies and Isaac Archer which he questions if he has not rightly Interpreted the purport of I must needs say it appears a very idle silly boasting Romance and scurrilous piece of fictitious Forgery feigned upon me and in my Name and tho' never so said nor sayable by me See how unlike G. Whitchead or any other Quaker he introduces his feigned Story viz. G. W. I perceive how uneasie you are and how smooth you appear as in your Letters to Mr. Smithies and Mr. Archer and by the tenure thereof methinks I hear you say Good Gentlemen be so kind to us the distressed and perplexed Quakers as to stop F. Bugg from writing against our Errors c. with much more such stuff Is this like my Language He never heard me say any such thing Oh false Oh silly Oh idle Romance CHAP. V. A Brief Answer to F. Bugg's Pretended Brief History of Quakerism Stiled The Quakers set in their True Light UPON a serious perusal of the said pretended History and comparing the same with his other Reproachful Books and Pamphlets against the People called Quakers which have been duely Answered and justly Refuted in Course His Title The Quakers set in their True Light is very impertinent to his partial and false History tho' very true as to the Quakers whose True Light is no other but Christ the True Light which lighteth every Man coming into the World John 1. 9. This same pretended History of F. Bugg's appears to be chiefly made up of the same Abusive and Calumnious Stuff which his other Pamphlets are composed of and frequently reiterated by him tho' plainly refuted which being now by him turned into History appears a sordid kind of imposing the Credit of his own presumptuous Authority as Historian even in those very things which he cannot maintain in Controversie nor support his own Credit in therefore as a most impertinent partial and envious Historian he may be justly deemed Please to take a few Instances of F. Bugg's false Stories and gross Calumnies in his said pretended History before clearly refuted i● our Answers to him and

of Christ gave forth the Holy Scriptures far be it from me to have the least Undervaluing Thoughts or Disesteem of the Scripture which proceeded from thence Therefore F. Bugg's Observation against the Quakers Doctrine and against me in Particular in this matter as nothing but Discord and Confusion and setting the perfect Quaker in Opposition to the Harmony of the Old and New Testament and Terming those that own that Harmony as J. Tompkins and W. Penn but The Counterfeit Quakers Both which are so Notoriously False and Malicious that we could Enumerate Testimonies against him herein Again 't is as General as Positive a Falshood That the Quakers Doctrine attributes that to G. Fox which is ONLY due to Christ Apol. p. 4. For the People called Quakers do positively disown any such Doctrine as doth attribute that to any other Man which is only proper and due to Jesus Christ and sincerely Confess that Christ in all things must have the Preheminence in Glory and Dignity as the only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords Another Charge against the Perfect Quaker as he calls him is from the Examition and Trial of G. Fox at Lancaster Assize being thus Cited viz. And before I came to the Barr I was moved to Pray that the Lord would Confound their Wickedness and Envy And what Crime was that The Thundred Voice Answered I have Glorified thee and will Glorifie thee again And I was so filled full of Glory c. In Opposition F. Bugg sets John 12. 28 29. And 't was F. Bugg's Observation hereupon But Reader here is G. Fox ' s Manifest BLASPHEMY in Assuming a Glorified State whilst in the Mortal Body p. 4. But is not here rather F. Bugg's great Envy Darkness and Ignorance apparent For tho' G. Fox Assumed not such a Glorified State in that fulness in the Mortal Body here as will be in the Immortal hereafter yet some Degree of Glory he might witness as the true Sufferers for Christ pertake of here in this Life Observe If ye be Reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of Glory and of God resteth upon you 1 Pet. 4. 14. See also Chap. 1. 8. And were not they Changed in the same Heavenly Image from Glory to Glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord See 2 Cor. 3. 18. And see also John 17. 22. Christ said The Glory which thou gavest me I have given them Therefore 't is no Blasphemy to Partake and Testifie thereof And how far that Reproached Servant of Christ did Partake thereof in his Sufferings who is now unjustly Rendred a Blasphemer is wholly hid from this Blind persecuting Adversary who deems that Blasphemy which is so much agreeable to Holy Scripture Testimony Again our Suffering Friend G. Fox Testifying That he was come up in the Spirit through the Flaming Sword into the Paradise of God and that he was in Paradise c. Against this our Adversary thinks he has gotten huge Advantage he Roars and Belches out viz. Thus did he Magnifie himself equal with or above Christ. Oh! Horrible c. Quoth he But soft stop a little Is there no such Paradisical State in Christ attainable in this Life but it must be deemed Horrible and Blasphemous as our bitter Adversary doth May we not Cry out against his Gross Darkness and his Teachers Ignorance Oh Horrible Did Paul Blaspheme or Magnifie himself as equal with or above Christ when coming to Visions and Revelations of the Lord he declared That he knew a Man in Christ above Fourteen Years ago how that he was Caught up into Paradise and heard Unspeakable Words c. See the Matter more at Large 2 Cor. 12. 1 2 3 4. See also Rev. 2. 7. Therefore 't is not a Self Magnifying nor Erroneous really to Believe and Profess a State of Paradise or Heaven in Christ Jesus in some degree attainable even in this Life Phil. 3. 20. Our Reproached Friend 's declaring that he was Cloathed with Righteousness and whose Name is not known in the World Risen up out of the North which was Prophecied of but now fulfilled c. These Words our angry Adversary sets in Opposition to Moses Prophecy of Christ Deut. 18. 15. and Acts 3. 22. and to John 1. 10. Whereupon he makes this Observation viz. Thus did G. Fox Vye with Christ p. 5. But I do not Apprehend any such Vying or Equalizing with Christ nor Contradiction to the Scripture Testimony or Prophecy of him For 1st To be Cloathed with Righteousness is Christ's Redeemed Ones the true Believers Priviledge and Happiness 2d The Nature not known to the World was meant the New Name pertaining to the New Birth 3d. Risen up out of the North which was Prophecied of Which here is Relation to the North and not the Persons mentioned and the Prophecy was of the Seed which was foretold the Lord would gather and also bring forth out of the North Countrey and all Nations where Scattered See Isa. 43. 6. and 49. 12. Jer. 16. 15. and 23. 8. Luke 13. 29. F. Bugg's Observation p. 5. viz. Thus Reader did G. Fox Vye wish Christ and Edward Burroughs and Francis Howgil two of his Prophets Echoed back in their Epistle Entituled This is only to go amongst Friends viz. Thou O North of England who art counted as Desolate and Barren c. Yet out of thee did the Branch i. e. G. Fox Spring and the Star Arise c. Answ. 1. The Parenthesis i. e. G. Fox in that Place is a Notorious Forgery as well as Malicious 2. Here 's no Person Vying or Comparing himself with Christ. Nor Echoing back to any such Vying 4. Tho' our bitter Adversary has often Repeated this Citation and now grosly wrests it by Forgery to prove his False and Malicious Charge against the Quakers viz That the Quakers Prophets give witness to G. Fox INSTEAD of Christ that they call him the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness and put the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem Yet there 's no mention at all made either of G. Fox or Town of Bethlehem in all that Epistle of E. B's Quoted as the Epistle may be seen at large in his Works p. 64 65 66 67. And Note that General Epistle of Francis Howgil's To the Camp of the Lord in England c. Wherein are the Words Spare none neither Ox nor Ass c. Is Printed in his Works Pages 28 29 30 31 32 33. Which I have also viewed over and find not any such Title as This is only to go among Friends Neither do I find G. Fox or Town of Bethlehem so much as Mentioned in it 5. Is it not then great Wickedness and shameful I solency in our Adversary frequently to attempt Proof of such a Horrid Lye against the Quakers as is that of calling G. Fox the BRANCH the Star the Son of Righteousness and puting the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem Is it not Horrible Wickedness

Samuel David Elijah Job and others as no true but false Prophets because sometime mistaken See 1 Sam. 16. 6. 1 Kings 19. 14 15 18. Rom. 11. 4 See also Acts 23. 5. And in the Antient Approved Bibles see what Remark is in the Argument on Job it 's there said That Job maintaineth a Good Cause but handleth it Evil. Again his Adversaries have an ill Matter but they defend it Craftily Moreover he i. e. Job was assured that God had not rejected him yet thro' his great Torments and Affliction he bursteth forth into many inconveniences both of Words and Sentences c. yet Job was a holy and just Man and true Prophet in many things Our Bitter Persecutor would fain fasten Contempt of Holy Scripture upon the Quakers with these odious Assertions viz. That the Scripture is BEASTLY Ware that WHAT the true Prophets spake was false and WHAT the false Prophets spake was true c. Intro p. 13. These are three notorious Falshoods as well as gross Errors maliciously contrived to contradict our sincere Confession viz. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Divine Inspiration c. and that we prefer the Holy Scriptures before all other Books extant in the World How sincere we are in such Confession we can refer to him that knows our Hearts to whom we Appeal against our Adversaries contrary unjust Judgment and gross Calumnies falsly representing us insincere even in these weighty Matters wherein the greatest Tenderness and Conscienciousness towards God ought to be exercised by us all Another gross Abuse our Bitter Adversary has committed against many of us who Signed an Epistle from our Yearly Meeting in 1675. which I must give some Account of here 1. He Cites these words out of our said Epistle viz. It is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that Faithful Friends Papers which we Testifie have been given out by the Power and Spirit of God are Mens Edicts or Canons with such scornful Sayings be permitted Subscribed saith he by W. Penn G. Whitehead and others Introd p. 11. And what of all this This Advice related to such Papers and Epistles of Faithful Friends as concerned good Order and Discipline in the Church and for promoting pure Religion in Life and Practice and why should they be slighted or contemned as but meer Human Edicts and Canons What use does our Scornful Adversary make of this Observe what he saith p. 13. viz. But as for what G. F. c. wrote their Yearly Meeting Testifies it was given forth by the Eternal Spirit yea THE SAME MEN that charged their Disciples in the Name of the Lord not to call their Papers Edicts or Canons call the Scriptures Death Dust and Serpents Meat And what same Men He has told us before W. Penn G. Whitehead and others who Signed the said Yearly Meetings Epistle that they so called the Scriptures whereby he has greatly abused and shamefully belied the same Men i. e. W. P. G. W. c. for they disown the Expression and own the Divine Authority of the Holy Scriptures as first given by Inspiration from God and truly prefer them before all other Books extant in the World But how can that be in our Adversary's Account when he objects against it and us That G. W. avouches that what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth IN ANY is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and Greater c. He shews himself but very dull and impertinent in this Objection For we may prefer the Scriptures even the Bible before all other Books extant and yet not before the Spirit of Truth or the Immediate Powerful Teachings thereof in Man for that Spirit was before the Scriptures Writings or Bible were and only can give the true understanding thereof and therefore the Spirit of Truth may be preferred to the Scriptures and all other Books without any contempt or slight to them This Objection is more fully Answered elsewhere To our Adversary's saying viz. G. W. tells me I was but a kind of a Quaker and I think 't is the truest word in his Book I think I was not above a third part of one and that too much too p. 13. Thus he would fain winde off from the Reputation he had of a Quaker for 25 Years together he now miserably shifts and minces the Matter but manifestly contrary to his own Confession in his Quakers Detection p. 3 as before quoted to my Question Whether F. Bugg when a Quaker denied Jesus of Nazareth to be the Efficient cause of Man's Salvation He Answers I do believe I then did not hold the worst part of Quakerism c. Yet I do freely Acknowledge that I was in great Errors Particularly touching the Point of Justfication For I then Expected Salvation through my Obedience to the LIGHT which the Quakers taught was Sufficient to Salvation But since it pleased God to open my Eyes I believe that Salvation is attained through the Mercy of God is Christ Jesus by Faith in the Merits of his Passion and Obedience to his Precepts p. 14 15. Observe here 1. He now counts it a great Error to Expect Salvation through Obedience to the Light without Distinction of What Light 2. He Opposeth the the Sufficiency of the Light for Salvation And 3. Attaining Salvation through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus Faith in his Merits and Passion and Obedience to his Precepts These he Opposeth TO Obedience to his Light and Expecting Salvation through the same These he sets in Opposition as one that expects Salvation through the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus and by Faith in his Merits and Obedience to his Passion without Obedience to his Light For that End Expresly Contrary to Christ's Doctrine and his Apostles Testimonies 1. Christ Commanded Believe in the Light that ye may be the Children of the Light And this Believing in the Light was a necessary Act of Obedience in order to Salvation 2. Christ saith I am the Light of the World he that followeth Me shall not abide in Darkness And the Apostle James Exhorts to a Receiving the Ingrafted Word which is able to save the Soul And this Word is both Light and Life In him was Life and that Life was the Light of Men Therefore the Light is Sufficient to Salvation 3. Salvation through the Mercy of God in Jesus Christ true Faith in his Merits and Suffering for us and Sincere Obedience to his Precepts cannot be attained nor performed without Faith in and Obedience to his Light it was the Mercy of God to us to afford us Light to lead us out of Darkness For Men in Darkness are Blind and as such cannot see the Mercy of God in Christ Jesus nor true Faith in his Merits or Suffering For 't is in Walking in the Light

particular our approved Writers in England as Sound in the Christian Faith as appears in his own Book Entituled A Serious Appeal c. Printed Anno 1692. If he will not stand to this but contradict himself against us we cannot help that F. B. may take him by the Hand and give him the Right Hand of Fellowship 26. That the Principles and Practices of the Quakers are contrary to those of the French Protestants and indeed to all other Christians p. 41. Note Here are two great Falshoods contain'd in this Charge and they are in general and indefinite Terms too for first as to those Principles of the French Protestants as Cited by F. Bugg himself p. 41 to 47. they Believe and Confess 1. That there is but one God only whose Being only is Simple Spiritual Eternal Invisible Immutable Insinite and Incomprehensible 2. That in that Divine Being there be the Father Son and Holy Ghost 3. That the Father is the First Cause in Order and the Beginning of all things the Son his Everlasting Word the Holy Ghost his Vertue Power and Efficacy 4. That tho' these Divine Three are distinct or distinguished i. e. as to their Relative Properties of Father Son and Holy Ghost yet not divided but of One and the Same Essence i. e. Being Eternity Power and Equality 5. That the Doctrine contained in the Holy Scriptures i. e. of the Old and New Testament proceeds from God from whom only and not from Men it derives its Authority and that all Matters necessarily required for the Worship of God and our Salvation are therein testified they say contained and therefore that 't is not lawful for Men or Angels to add unto take from or change this DOCTRINE i. e. the Doctrine necessary to God's Worship and our Salvation as they say 6. That God of his Rich Grace Mercy and Bounty delivers his Children through our Lord Jesus Christ i. e. from Sin and Condemnation 7. That Jesus Christ being the Wisdom and Eternal Son of God took upon him the Nature of Man so that he is God and Man but one Lord Jesus Christ and that he might be able to suffer in Soul and Body was made like unto us in all things Sin only excepted so that as to Man's Nature he was indeed of the Seed of Abraham and David Conceived in due time in the Womb of the Virgin Mary by the Secret and Incomprehensible Power of the Holy Ghost and that in one and the same Lord Jesus Christ his Two Natures i. e. as God and Man are inseparably united yet each retaining its distinct Properties so considering Christ in his Deity as not to deprive him of his Manhood we having one Mediator between God and Men even the Man Christ Jesus 8. That by that one Sacrifice which Jesus Christ Offered upon the Cross we are Reconciled unto God i. e. being Reconciled by his Death we who believe in him shall be saved by his Life Rom. 5. 9. That the Lord Jesus Christ by the Power and Spirit of God was Raised from the Dead to which I add That he ever lives in his own proper glorious Body in which he Ascended into Glory and wherein he is Head of his Mystical Body the Church which as united to him and his Glorious Body is One Body 1 Cor. 12. 12 20 27. Ephes. 1. 23. and 4. 4. and 5. 30. Phil. 3. 21. 10. That Jesus Christ is so conferred upon us as to be our Advocate with the Father and that he commandeth us in our Prayers to present our selves or Pray to the Father in his Name 11. That God will have the World Ruled and restrained by Laws and Civil Government and therefore he appointeth Kings and Common-wealths and other kinds of Principalities whether Hereditary or otherwise i. e. as it pleaseth him and also what pertaineth to the Ministration of Justice whereof he himself is the Author therefore hath he delivered the Sword i. e. of Justice into the Magistrates Hands c. 12. That also much Honour and Reverence ought to be given to them as unto God's Officers and due Obedience yielded unto their Laws and Tribute and Taxes paid and the Yoke of Subjection born if the Magistrates be Infidels so that the Soveraign Government of God be preserved Thus I have abstracted divers of the most material passages out of the Citation before of the French Protestants Confession of Faith which he has set forth an Abstract of quoting the first Volume of J. Quick's History Synod in Gal. Reform p. 6 to 15. Note that in the second and fourth Article the word Persons is left out and that for the more plainness a few Parenthesis's some beginning with i. e. are added and the ninth altered more into Scripture words in this Abstract which I am perswaded as they are sincerely owned by me may be freely owned assented unto and signed by most Quakers so call'd in England and elsewhere consequently so far from being contrary thereunto or to all other Christians either in Principles or Practices as F. B. has most falsly and slanderously Misrepresented and Aspersed them The Lord if it be his Will give him to see and confess his great Injustice and Injury before he Dies But a little further to pursue his base and false Dealing 27. F. B. again very abusively and falsly quotes E. Burrouogh's Works thus viz. About Water-Baptism p. 518. We utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God but it is an Institution of the Whore of Rome and England received it by a Popish Institution c. p. 44. Note Which base Perversion and Abuse is evidently Refuted in The Quakers Vindication p. 2. Col. 1 2. thus This is very partially and unjustly Cited and in the first words falsly for E. Burroughs's Answer in the very place is thus viz. As for Baptism and the Supper of the Lord we do own it and it is practised of us in the Life and Power of God but as for your Baptism that is to say SPRINKLING INFANTS calling it the Baptism into the Faith and that they are made Members of the Church thereby and that it is a Seal of Regeneration as you say these foregoing words Bugg leaves out that we do utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God neither was it ever commanded by him or practised by his Saints c. thus F. B. before Cited E. B. But again Note Here he did not say that Water-Baptism without distinction is a Popish Institution but objected against Sprinkling Infants and calling it the Baptism into the Faith c. for he knew that Water Baptism it self was practised by John the Baptist by special Commission from Heaven peculiar to him and his Ministry and also in the Apostle's time by some of them long before the Pope was Wherefore F. Bugg's gross Perversion and Abuse in this and many other things too numerous now to recite are notorious and shameful the Lord the Righteous Judge to whom we commit our