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A30029	A modest defence of my book entituled, Quakerism expos'd as also of my broad sheet : with a scheme of the Quakers yearly synod, and other books presented anno 1699 to the Parliament : and G. Whitehead's inside turn'd outward, by reprinting his ancient book Ishmael, &c. intirely, shewing thereby the Quakers ancient testimony of contempt of the Holy Scriptures and blasphemy against the blessed Trinity ... / by Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?; Atkinson, Christopher. Ishmael and his mother cast out into the wilderness.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5375; ESTC R19514	73,450	146

them to Charge you And when you shuffled and evaded their Charge it gave them Encouragement for the Petition that they might Examine you an Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. The Humble Address of the House of Commons to the KING May it please Your Majesty WE your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament Assembled do with great Joy and Comfort remember the many Testimonies which your Majesty hath given us of your Sincerity and Zeal for the true Reformed Religion as established in this Kingdom and in particular we beg leave to present to your Majesty our most Humble and Thankful Acknowledgments for the late Gracious Declaration your Majesty has made to us from the Throne that you would effectually discourage Prophaneness and Immorality c. We do further in all Humility beseech your Majesty that your Majesty would give such effectual Orders as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem fit for the suppressing all Pernicious Books and Pamphlets which contain in them Impious Doctrine against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of our Faith tending to the Subversion of the Christian Religion and that the Authors and Publishers thereof may be Discountenanced and Punished c. And to the end that the Quakers may see the Zeal of our Government against the Errors contained in their Books and not to presume to Discourse as they do as if they and they only were the White Hen's Chickens and the only Favourites as I can give particular Demonstrations both by what I have heard with my Ears from some of their Young Disciples who as the Old Cocks Crow the Young ones Learn as well as I have observed from Credible Information I shall recite His Majesties most Gracious Answer to the foregoing Address which is as followeth viz. Gentlemen I Cannot but be very well pleased with an Address of this Nature and I will give immediate Directions in the several Particulars you desire But I could wish some more Effectual Provision were made for the suppressing those Pernicious Books and Pamphlets which your Address takes notice of By this time the Quakers thought themselves concerned being Conscious to themselves as well they might that no People in the King's Dominion no not the Muggletonians were so obnoxious to the Censure of the King and Parliament as themselves Upon which they bestirred themselves like the Magicians in Moses's time to bring forth a likeness And therefore when there was a Bill Preparing they Printed a Paper and presented it to the House of Commons by way of Instructions in which there were these Words viz. WHereas the Bill enacts That if any Person or Persons c. shall deny any of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be God and make it punishable by the same Bill were it not more safe and plain to put it in Scripture Terms as instead of Deny any one of the Persons to be God to insert If any one shall deny any of the Three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word or the Holy Ghost to be God 1 John 5.7 Now if the Quakers can but bend the Parliament to their Bow then they 'll agree but as for them they cannot condescend a Hair's Breadth as one of their Teachers Patrick Livingston formerly Taught For say they The Father is Light the Son is Light and the Holy Ghost is Light Nay if they desire three or four Persons more added as that the Door is Light the Elect Stone is Light the Vine is Light the Blood is Light the Water is Light they 'll allow all and all these are One no one of which was before or after the other nor one greater or lesser than another and yet all this while they mean not a Word according to the Scriptures and the common belief of all Sound Christians but Reduce all to their Light within But still fearing what might happen and to guard their Errors they soon presented His Majesty with a Paper and this put me upon undergoing the Charge of Reprinting one of their Books intirely that so I may set them in their True Light to be seen and read of all Men And as it is my Duty so by my Reasonable Service to God and my Country though by some my Words may be despised Eccles 9.16 A Copy of the Quakers Paper is as followeth viz. To King William III. over England c. The Grateful Acknowledgment of the People Commonly called Quakers Humbly Presented May it please the King SEeing the most High God who rules in the Kingdoms of Men * * Dan. 5.21 and appointeth over it whomsoever he will hath by his over-ruling Power and Providence placed thee in Dominion and Dignity over these Realms and by his Divine Favour has signally preserved and delivered thee from many Great and Eminent Dangers and Graciously turned the Calamity of War into the desired Mercy of Peace we heartily wish that we and all others concerned may be truly Sensible and humbly Thankful to Almighty God for the same that the Peace may be lasting and a perpetual Blessing And now O King the God of Peace having returned thee in Safety it is Cause of Joy to all them that fear him to hear thy good and seasonable Resolution effectually to discourage Prophaneness and Immorality Righteousness being that which exalteth a Nation And as the King has been Tenderly Inclined to give Ease and Liberty of Conscience to his Subjects of different Perswasions of whose Favour we have largely partaken so we esteem it our Duty Gratefully to Commemorate and Acknowledge the same earnestly beseeching Almighty God to assist the King to prosecute and effect these his just and good Inclinations that his Days may be Happy and Peaceable and hereafter he may partake of a lasting Kingdom that will never fade away London the 7th of the 11th Month 1697. Signed in Behalf of the said People by us George Whitehead Peter Bowen Will. Mead Gilbert Layty John Edge Daniel Quane Tim. Emmerson Thomas Hawes Samuel Jobson Theod. Eccleston Nicholas Gates Will. Ingram Will. Onkingate Thomas Lower John Paine John Butcher Will. Macket Rich. Needham John Vaughton John Hound Michael Russel Jof Wilkinson Joseph Wyeth John Hall Josiah Ellis Now by this fair and smooth Paper who would think but the Quakers would have Signed the Association pursuant to the Act of Parliament Intituled An Act for the better Security of His Majesties Royal Person and Government c. Oh! no by no means For they tell you in their Paper Intituled The Ancient Testimony and Principle of the People called Quakers Renewed with respect to the King and Government and touching the present Association Dated the 23d of March 1695 6 viz. And whereas we the said People are required to sign the said Association we sincerely declare That our refusing so to do is not out of any dissatisfaction to the King and Government nor in Opposition to his being declared Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms but purely because

will vouchsafe to take these Matters into your Care and Consideration that with whatever Tenderness to the Persons and Estates of these People their said Principles and Practices may be strictly Examined and Censured or Suppressed as they shall appear to deserve and as in your great Wisdom shall seem expedient and that our true Christian Religion more dear to us than our Lives may be Defended and Preserved to all Posterity free from Popish Superstition and unpolluted with Enthusiastical Innovation Thus have I recited the Petition and that for these Reasons following viz. 1. Because it is nothing but what is agreeable to the Mind and Pleasure of the King's Majesty and his Honourable House of Commons and thereby no Dishonour to the Petitioners 2. Because that when the Petition is Presented every Member may have one of them in his Custody to Consider of it and the Reason that put them upon so doing 3. Because there are more Petitions of the same Nature prepared and preparing as this find Acceptance when a convenient opportunity offer it self 4. To let the World see how reasonable a thing it is and not such a monstrous thing as the Quakers have represented it even to raise up the Monster Persecution 5. Because it is nothing but what they conceive to be their Duty to God and their Country to acquaint that great Assembly with the Grievances of the County and that as the most proper place for a Remedy 6. And Lastly that the Contents are agreeable to the Laws of the Land and particularly to the very Act of Tolleration And to manifest the same I may recite a Branch thereof which is as followeth viz. Provided alway and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that neither this Act nor any Clause Article or Thing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to give any Ease Benefit or Advantage to any Papist or Popish Recusant whatsoever or that any Person that shall deny in his Preaching or Writing the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity as it is declared in the aforesaid Article of Religion I have likewise Discoursed with some of the most Eminent of the Protestant Dissenters and with their own Mouths they have declared that they are sorrowfully affected to think that the Quakers should be joined with them in the Act of Toleration and to see Christianity suffer so deeply by their Antiscriptural Doctrine And not only so but I have a Testimony well Attested of their Abhorrence of their Blasphemous Tenets The substance of which is as follows viz. THat the Quakers render the Holy Scripture to be of no more Authority than Aesop's Fables That the Blood of Christ is no better than the Blood of another Saint That the Quakers are the Spawn of the Ranters That the Quakers owning Christ is no other than a Mystical Romance The the Tendency of all the Quakers Reasoning about Instituted Religion is to Debauch Mankind * that their Principles improved are destructive to all Humane Society That their Teachers are Cheats and Impostors and Implacable Enemies to the Christian Religion c. Here then is the unanimous Consent of all sound Protestants the King's Majesty and his Honourable House of Commons and the Laws of the Land What remains now but Examination and for that too we have some Encouragement from the Quakers themselves if they mean as they say See An Apology for the Quakers by J. Feild c. p. 7. Examine say they the Doctrine of your Neighbours the Quakers blame not before thou hast examined the matter first understand and then rebuke c. Again George Whitehead to the same purpose in his Book Truth and Innocency vindicated c. p. 69. Let our Books says George be compared to evince them more fully and clear our Innocency c. Now whereas the Quakers themselves if they be sincere in what they say seem to be willing to have their Books and the Doctrine contained in them come under Examination in order to be cleared from the Objections against them and as this is highly reasonable on their parts so it will I humbly conceive be a means to put a stop to the Gangrene of Quakerism as also answer the Request of many Thousands who are earnestly solicitous to have their Books Examined and their Errours Censured who yet are not for Persecution nor any Alteration in the Act of Toleration so is it also a Method pursuant to their own Terms and Proposition and with which they cannot reasonably be offended And thereupon I do most humbly pray That our Superiours if it may seem good in their sight in Answer to the Quakers Request and the Peoples Prayer would appoint some Judicious Learned Men to give us an Equal Hearing and the Quakers Books an Impartial Examination And if I do not make a full Proof of what I Charge them with let me suffer any Punishment for my Default which our Government shall think fit But then on the other hand if I do make good my Charge as an Equivalent to my Suffering in case I do not let the Quakers be obliged to Retract and Condemn such Books of theirs as do contain such Impious Doctrines as I have or yet shall both Charge and Prove And this is all I desire and which I believe would be a General Satisfaction to the Nation as well as for the Good of the Quakers themselves But remembring a Saying of Festus a Roman Governour tho' in a contrary Case Acts 25.27 For it seemeth a thing unreasonable to send a Prisoner and not withal to signifie the Crimes laid against him And so it seems to be unreasonable in me to desire the Examination of the Quakers Books and not signifie the Errours at least some of them contained in them and especially since it is at the Quakers earnest Request For say they in their Book A Defence of an Apology c. pag. 7. Pray let Francis Bugg make it appear to the King and both Houses of Parliament that our Shuffle at West-Dereham in Norfolk put the Gentry Clergy and Protestant Dissenters upon their Petition to the House of Commons and that they are unanimous therein And let him Francis Bugg tell if he can what he means by that Common Christianity which the Quakers Principles are so destructive to As to the first that is That the Justices of Peace the Gentry the Clergy and Protestant Dissenters are unanimous herein I have already shewed And as to the second Part that is what I mean by that Common Christianity which the Quakers Principles are sodestructive to I shall at his viz. J. Feild's Prayer and Request shew in the next place For wherein I can find his Prayers and Request reasonable I hope I shall be ready to gratifie him For I believe with the Gentry the Justices the Clergy the Protestant Dissenters and all other Christians That Jesus Christ who was Born at Bethlehem of Judea of the B. Virgin Mary was the Son of God that he was Crucified

Dead and Buried that he Rose again the third Day and Ascended into Heaven and there sits at the Right Hand of God making Intercession for us Sinners who lay hold on him by Faith and live in Obedience to him his Laws Institutions and Precepts in the Gospel left upon Record by the Four Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John and others of his Apostles in their Epistles And that we ought to Worship and Adore him together with God the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God in the Unity of his Essence This is the Trinity in Unity of the Father Son and Holy Ghost which is One God blessed for evermore And this is that Common Christianity which I mean that the Quakers Principles are so destructive to Now the next thing I am to tell at the Prayer and Request of John Feild is Wherein and whereby their Principles are Destructive c. I. The Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth who was Born of the Virgin and Suffered at Jerusalem to be the Son of God II. That they account him only a Vail a Garment an outward Vessel and can as their Books teach never call him Christ and that his Blood was no better than the Blood of another Saint III. They teach that their Sufferings are greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs in all Ages since For that as they teach the Sufferings of Christ and his Army of Martyrs were inflicted by a Law and in great part by the due Execution of a Law IV. That such are False Ministers who bid People believe in Jesus Christ as he is in Heaven above at God's Right Hand and that by Preaching Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his Work done on Earth V. They teach That G. Fox was their great Apostle which said thus of himself I am the Light of the World him by whom the World was made and doth inlighten every Man that cometh into the World VI. They teach That the Name Jesus and Christ belongs to every Believer as well as to the Head Christ that Suffered Died Rose again c. VII And thereupon they teach That he that hath the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the Dead is equal with God VIII And in coherence with this Doctrine their Prophet Sol. Eccles taught That Geo. Fox was a Prophet indeed And that as it was said of Christ He was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not So it might be said of G. Fox as in the 5th Instance XI They teach That G. Fox was the Father of many Nations that his Being and Habitation was in the Power of the highest that he Ruled and Governed in Righteousness that his Kingdom is established in Peace and that of the Increase thereof there was never to be an End X. They teach That the Holy Scriptures are not the written Word of God but contrarywise that they are Dust Death Serpents Meat Beastly Ware but that their own Writings are the Word of God given forth by Divine Iuspiration and that they as such are of greater Authority than the Bible and thereupon read them in their Meetings for Divine Worship whilst they never read in any such Meeting this Fifty Year one Chapter of the Bible either in the Old or New Testament For they teach They are not the means to work Faith in the Heart but are a Rotten Foundation XI They teach That Circumcision is as much in force as Water-Baptism and the Paschal Lamb as Bread and Wine and their disuse of these two Ordinances for this Fifty Years shew that they reject them and allows not of them XII And touching the Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity they are so far from owning it as that they Damn them to the Pit of Hell as in G. Whitehead's Book Ishmael c. herein Reprinted may he seen Now John I having Replied to your Book A Defence of an Apology c. i. e. to the principal parts of it and shewed your Falacies and shallow Subterfuges as well as in some places answered your Request I rest desiring that your self and your People may Consider of it Repent of your Errors Retract and Condemn the same and Pray to God and the Nation to forgive you in which I shall join with you And in this you will have no cause to cry out of Persecution who am your Friend Fran. Bugg An Humble Address to His Majesty King WILLIAM III. over England c. by one of the Meanest yet most Dutiful Subject FRANCIS BUGG May it please your Most Excellent Majesty I Cannot but with great Joy and Comfort Remember your Majesties Repeated Assurances given to your Loving Subjects of your Majesties Care and Christian Zeal for the Protestant Religion as by Law established in this Kingdom by your many and repeated Speeches to your Parliaments and particularly by your late Gracious Proclamation consisting of two Parts In which your Majesties Pious Zeal has been abundantly manifest First Against Vice and Prophaneness and Secondly Against such Books as contain in them Impious Doctrine against the Holy Trinity and other Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith and therein have given Encouragement to all your Loving Subjects to discover the Authors of such Books Wherefore in Obedience to your Majesties Royal Command as well as my Duty therein to God I have herein Reprinted one of the Quakers Books of which Geo. Whitehead is one of the Authors to the intent that your Sacred Majesty and the whole Kingdom may be presented with a Specimen of the Quakers Doctrine And do most Humbly Pray in the Name of the Church of England and other your Majesties Dissenting Protestants that such Care may be taken to suppress the same with others of their Books of the same Narure as to your Royal Wisdom shall seem meet And as it pleased God Almighty to give King Solomon Wisdom to Execute Justice so will he endue the King with an Understanding Heart to Judge who is in the wrong and to Punish accordingly And in this case let not the King Respect Persons in Judgment but if I be not able to maintain my Charge then let me bear his Majesties Displeasure and suffer what Punishment shall be due for the same But if I do make good my Charge then do as seems good in your Eye Thus with all Dutiful Submission do I Sign this my Humble Address this 13th Day of December 1699. Francis Bugg FINIS A Catalogue of Books wrote by Fran. Bugg 1. DE Christiana Libertate c. in 8 vo bound 2. The Painted Harlot stript and whipt c. 4 to 3. Reason against Railing c. 4 to 4. Innocency Vindicated c. 4 to never Answered 5. The Quakers Detected and their Errors Confuted c. 4 to 6. A Letter to the Quakers shewing their frequent Addresses to and Prayers for the late King Jam. II. and not to King Will. III. 7. Battering Rams against New Rome c. 4