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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

tacit Confession of great Guilt run up a Cock-loft at least a Chamber Four Story high to hide himself Let now the Quakers remember their Book where they say Some of the Presbyterian Nonconforming-Preachers are fled Beyond-Sea others lurk in Corners here and there and keep private Conventicles where many times they preach Sedition against their Lawful Prince c. as I before observed and let Mr. Penn remember and be humbled and thankful for the Favours he has receiv'd and the Forgiveness he has met with And let him look upon his Preface viz. To the Christian Quaker and his Divine Test The PRIESTS like FOXES seeing their KENNEL TUMULTUOUS BLOOD-THIRSTY COVENANT-BREAKING GOVERNMENT-DESTROYING ANABAPTISTS keep their old Haunt of creeping into GARRETS Cheese-lofts Coal-boles and such-like Mice-Walls * Now W. Penn himself was forced to hide and upon a far worse Occasion than those he mentions as may be seen by Their Majesties Proclamation c. By the King and Queen a Proclamation for Discovering and Apprehending William Penn and James Grahme MARIE R. Whereas Their Majesties have received Information That William Penn Esq and James Grahme Esq with other Ill-affected Persons have Designed and Endeavoured to Depose Their Majesties and Subvert the Government of this Kingdom by Procuring an Invasion of the same by the French and other Treasonable Practices and have to that End held Correspondence and Conspired with divers Enemies and Traytors and particularly with Sir Richard Grahme Baronet Viscount Preston in the Kingdom of Scotland and John Ashton Gent. lately Attainted of High-Treason For which Cause several Warrants for High-Treason have been issued out against them but they have withdrawn themselves from their usual Places of Abode and are fled from Justice Their Majesties therefore have thought fit by and with the Advice of their Privy Council to Issue this Their Royal Proclamation And Their Majesties do hereby Command and Require all their Loving Subjects to Discover Take and Apprehend the said William Penn and James Grahme where-ever they may be found and to carry them before the next Justice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate who is hereby Required to Commit them to the next Goal there to remain until they be thence Delivered by due Course of Law And Their Majesties do hereby Require the said Justice or other Magistrate immediately to give Notice thereof to Them or Their Privy Council And Their Majesties do hereby Publish and Declare to all Persons that shall Conceal the Persons above-named or any of them or be Aiding or Assisting in the Concealing of them or Furthering their Escape that they shall be proceeded against for such their Offence with the utmost Severity according to Law Given at Our Court at White-Hall the Fifth Day of February 1690 1. in the Second Year of Our Reign Whereupon as I was credibly informed one Mr. Pennyman on the 22d of that instant February 1690 1. in Abhorrence of this Traiterous Conspiracy uttered these Words in their Meeting in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-Street London Viz. He that is a Traytor or he that in the least goeth about to betray this his Native Country he is a Traytor to the Living God and he that is a Traytor to his Maker is not nor cannot be a Disciple of Jesus that Holy and Just One and he that is guilty of such cursed hellish Practices must bear his Judgment whoever he be But as an Aggravation of this their Crime they did not only make that Order for the suppressing the said Address to the King which was writ I believe in Love and Good-will to him c. but suffered their Printer Andrew Sowle a Quaker to print several Odious and Scandalous Books and Papers of Mr. Stafford's against the Government and tho' they were friendly and privately acquainted with it with Desire that those Scandalous Books c. might not be dispersed yet they could not be prevailed withal to have them stopt However to do the Quakers all just Right we must acknowledge some of them and indeed but some and that of their Hearers too were for the Government who to give them their due drew up a Paper against W. Penn for being concerned in that horrible Plot with the Lord Preston c. For they having seen his Letters that he had writ on that Occasion in Aaron Smith's Custody and were assured that they were of his own Hand-writing This Paper was signed by W. Mead and a few more who would have had it made Publick but the contrary Party being powerful prevented it Only when W. Penn after his Sculking some Years appeared by our merciful King's Favour and preached as formerly in the Quakers Meetings then W. Mead and some others took him to task telling him That tho' the King had pass'd by his Offence yet they knowing him Guilty as by the said Letters under his own Hand was manifest they ought to have Satisfaction as they were a Religious Society before he preach'd in their Assemblies But he having the Teachers on his side and the Generality of the Hearers he went on nolens volens and if there had not been a Peace 't is to be still feared that W. Penn and his Confederates for some of 'em held it out to the very last asserting it for a Truth that there would be no Peace unless c. would have pursued their Design which might have proved fatal to this Nation But still to shew that the Quakers have rather merited the Displeasure of the Government than the Favour and Countenance thereof and of which they so often boast viz. of their being Recognized Protestants of their being Free-born Englishmen and thereby of their Rights and Priviledges as such I shall recite an Abstract of another Act of Parliament and shew their Non-submission and Aversion thereunto intituled Anno Septimo Octavo Gulielmi III Regis An Act for the better Security of His Majesties Royal Person and Government N o 551 552. Whereas the Welfare and Safety of this Kingdom and the Reformed Religion do next under God intirely depend upon the Preservation of Your Majesty's Royal Person and Government which by the merciful Providence of God of late have been delivered from the Bloody and Barbarous Attempts of Traytors and other Your Majesty's Enemies who there is just Reason to believe have been in great Measure Encouraged to Vndertake and Prosecute such their wicked Designs partly by Your Majesty's Great and Vndeserved Clemency * * W. Penn is not this true towards them and partly by the want of a sufficient Provision in the Law for the securing Offices and Places of Trust to such as are well-affected to Your Majesty's Government and for the Repressing and Punishing such as are known to be Disaffected to the same Be it Enacted c. No. 554. Whereas there has been a Horrid and Detestable Conspiracy formed and carried on by Papists and other Wicked and Trayterous Persons for Assassinating His Majesties Royal Person in order to encourage an

mean well and can now word their Matter otherwise and yet mean the same thing for our Principles are now no other than they were in the beginning And by Reason thereof and that we cannot quit our Infallibility some that went from us throw in their Bombs amongst us which doth fearfully annoy us and have split our Main-mast of Infallibility and broken the Helm of our Sinless Perfection Civ Now Friend Jacob it grows late I cannot stay I shall only sum up a few Observations from the Premises and then take my leave of you 1. As to F. B. whether he has New Cloaths or not what he had left when his Horse and Pocket-money for his Expedition was discounted make nothing to the purpose he has given as great a proof that he has not been Mercenary in writing 16 or 18 Years together against you without Money as any Quaker can give 2. Your Leaders are very Sawcy to meddle with the Bishops Certificate as in any thing you have attempted Suppose he had been mistaken in the Man he did not say he gave it forth from the Eternal Infallible Spirit of God he only said he had known him some Years this you do not disprove That he appeared to him to be an Honest Sober Industrious Man this might be for ought you either say or know and if he had been mistaken he does not pretend to know the Heart nor to discern who are Saints who are Devils and who are Apostates as the Quakers do and if he had been mistaken it had been no more than some of your Teachers have been That he had taken much Pains to Undeceive and Convert the Quakers by publishing useful Books and not without Success this he might safely say for it was true in Fact for at that time Mr. Rands his Wife and others that had left the Quakers declared to some that his Book The Painted Harlot Stript and Whipt c. was instrumental therein and since that many others are come off who have acknowledged as much And that by the Hardness of Times Charge of Printing he was reduced c. this was true in Fact wherefore says he I apprehend him a Real Object of Charity and that he does truly deserve the Bounty of well-disposed Persons unto whom I recommend him what hurt is in all this And what had your Friends to do with it May you hold a Yearly Meeting with Doors Lock'd issue out your Epistles for Money to relieve your Friends as you say and may not a Bishop of the Established Church recommend one of their Members to well-disposed Persons of the same Communion without your Censure Can you not be content to Censure the Acts of Corporations Grand Juries and Justices but must your Boldness extend to the Exposing and Censuring the Bishops I think you are a Peg too high 3. Whereas they pretend to undertake the proof of every Doctrine they hold this appears to be a Lie told in Hypocrisie Let them Confute the Six Articles above exhibited and Defend themselves from the Ten Instances wherein they are Charged to be one in Doctrine with the Romish Church Let them Answer F. B's Seventy Queries or else it will be taken pro Confesso and that they are never able to clear themselves from being guilty of Idolatry Blasphemy Contempt of God's Word and an Hundred other gross and vile Errors 4. In Oliver's time then the Clergy put in Books into the Parliaments Hands and it was your Business to Answer and but reasonable you should defend your selves and that the Government should hear both sides this Priviledge none deny'd you But now you put Books into their Hands not only in Sessions time but send them the Nation round to their Houses in the interval of Parliaments and F. Bugg Answers them and presents them in Sessions time this now you cannot bear this angers you and you fall upon the Man the Man is an Ill Man the Man is Contentious the Man is Quarrelsom the Man is an Apostate a Renegado this I tell you is very Bold and Imperious in your Teachers that such as forsake your Heresie and conform to the Establisht Religion are by you Censured Apostates and Renegadoes this highly reflects upon the Government and by implication Charges the King and Parliaments Religion to be Heathen For it was always accounted that such as forsook the Heathen Worship and imbraced the Christian Faith were Converts and that such as forsook the Christian Religion and imbraced Heathen Idolatry as some did formerly as well as now were Apostates and Renegadoes now by your Quakers Doctrine the Church of England is Heathen and you Christian how then have you the Face to appear to such as humble Suiters and with such Books too as tell them by implication at least that they are a Heathen Parliament and that such as forsake the Quakers and go to Church with the Parliament are Apostates Renegadoes c. 5. In their Just Censure p. 40. they tell us We are satisfied that it is no other Attestation than he has Collected out of our old Adversaries Books c. this F. B. denies he took not a word of it out of their Adversaries Books 6. Nor does he believe they are able to produce a Letter of the Late Lord Archbishop's to clear W. Penn from the general belief that he is a J t but if they could 't is not one Negative Evidence will do it since some of the very same Order has confirmed that Opinion 7. If your Teachers be ready as they boast to prove every Doctrine they hold let them appoint Time and Place and G. Keith and F. Bugg will not only meet them but prove the recited Charge upon them if not I will be one that shall desire they may be set in the Pillory for Examples on Condition the Quakers will be obliged if they do that they 'll retract their Errors this to be sure is no Persecution tho' the only thing they fear and all in support of their great Idol Infallibility and Sinless Perfection 8. But if they refuse this it will appear that your Teachers Friend Jacob are great Prevaricators impudent Liars horrible Deceivers great Impostors wicked Blasphemers and gross Idolaters Subverters of Laws Religion and that their Principles improved are destructive to all Mankind 9. And therefore Friend Jacob there is not only Bombs sent into your Camp but there is a whole Broadside given which will shake your Strong Hold That is to say by two Books the one by Fra. Bugg Intitled The Pilgrim's Progress c. which shews that your Monthly Quarterly Second-day and Six-week Meetings are nor for Worship as you now confess but for Government and that that Government is contrary to all the Laws above recited the other by Geo. Keith Intitled The Fourth Narrative of Proceedings at Turners-Hall shewing that your Principles are destructive to Christianity and tend to overthrow the Christian Religion 10. And I am glad to see you thus pursued and for

have been ruin'd for Non payment of Tythes and the like the Feostees for Anno 1693. were W. Crouch J. Staploe W. Macket W. Chandler W. Beech and Nath. Marks 10 thly They give their Deputies fresh Orders to bring or send up the Sum-Total of each County's Collection for the Relief of their Suffering-Friends viz. such as have suffered against Tythes c. that such as Preach up G. Fox's Commandments Orders and Precepts may not lose their Reward 11 thly George Fox had a Saying in their Yearly Meeting worth noting Pensilvania had Experience of it and when they get Power England may also viz. I do not like said Fox the Words LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE for there is no Liberty out of the Power What! Liberty to the Episcopals no. What! Liberty to the Presbyter no. What! Liberty to the Independant no. What! Liberty to the Baptist no. No Liberty out of the Truth Spirit of the Hat p. 12. And for further Evidence that they are against Liberty of Conscience R. Hubberthorn and Ed. Burroughs Men of Note amongst them in an Answer to the Baptist's Declaration wherein they did declare themselves against an Universal Toleration of all Miscarriages whether in things Civil or Religious nor are we for tolerating Popery nor such as speak contemptuously of our Lord Jesus Christ nor any that deny the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God and yet we are not against tolerating Episcopacy Presbytery or any stinted Form c. Now hear these two Eminent Doctors of the Quakers Answer What Confusion is here you will not tolerate Popery nor any that worship a false God nor that speak Contemptuously and Reproachfully of our Lord Jesus Christ nor that deny the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God and yet you are not against tolerating Episcopacy Presbytery or any other stinted Form Why will you not tolerate Popery as well as Episcopacy And why will you tolerate the Book of Common-Prayer amongst the Episcopals and not the Mass Book amongst the Papists seeing the Mass was the Substance out of which the Common-Prayer was extracted Here is nothing but Partiality to tolerate one thing and not another of the same kind c. R. Hubberthorn 's Works p. 228. Edw. Burrough 's Works p. 615. Thus then does it appear what Friends the Quakers are to Liberty of Conscience and how kind they were to Episcopacy in 1659. and they are the same still they tell you they are not chang'd and you may believe them since they have given such a plain Demonstration thereof in Pensilvania where they have both Fined Whipp'd or Imprison'd George Keith and others for holding the same Faith and Preaching the same Faith that the Episcopalians hold and teach 12 thly and lastly And what I have heard with my Ears That George Fox hath exhorted this Meeting that when they return to their respective Habitations that such in each County as had most Interest and thereby the most Influence on the Members of the House of Commons should resort to them and work upon them c. And when at the House they still by all the Interest they have make fresh Suits they have their Emissaries wait continually to see what comes out they are quick at their Answers and a Fund or Common Bank to maintain all none like them but the Jesuits And I do say that the whole twelve Instances I have named are not more Political than this one for ten to one if some Quaker be not himself or some of his Kindred some way related either to the Members of Parliament to serve for that County or Burrough or to some of his Friends or ten to one if some Quakers do not deal with him or some near him or is Tenant to him or some of his Friends if then some one or any of these or all concur then there is Application made to him time after time and most English Gentlemen are apt to be kind and they not knowing the Craft and Subtilty besides the Design of this People are apt to tell them Well if I can do you any Good consistent with a National Good I shall not be against it And if they meet one that is resolute and from a Knowledge of their Erroneous Principles and how that they are Enemies and implacable ones too to all Instituted Religion then they will fawn upon him and flatter him as they did Coll. Goldwell and desire him to stand Neuter c. but thanks be to God the Parliament and whole Nation begin to see them and grow every Day more sensible of the Tendency of their Pernicious Principles Some Inferences from the Seventh Chapter IS it so that the Quakers hold their Anniversary Synods and General Councils thus Publickly in the View of the Nation without the King's Letters of License or Inspection or Patent which is more than the Bishops of the Establish'd Church have Power to do How then does it concern the Legislative Power to take notice of it that in time they may prevent the Danger of it Is it so that their Light is the Higher Power to which every Soul is to be subject and all Laws vail Rom. 13.1,2,3 1 Pet. 2.13 Tit. 3.1 Let us then begin to remember how zealous our Kings and Parliaments have been ever since the Reformation against such as adhered to a Power superior to the King Lords and Commons which our Protestant Divines have held to be the Higher Powers and which we are commanded by the Apostles to submit our selves Now any People that adhere to a Foreign Power to be Supream in England besides and above that of KING LORDS and COMMONS who under God are the Higher Powers are to be suspected to undermine the Government whether they mean the POPE of ROME or the QUAKER LIGHT in their BODY Assembled in COUNCIL the latter being the most dangerous because not so obvious and thereupon ought to be prevented from holding such Councils with Doors lock'd barr'd or by a Guard of Men secured that none can go in to observe their Transactions Again is it so that the Quakers are against Liberty of Conscience and that they would as freely tolerate Popery as Episcopacy † Yea see their Antient Testimony in R. Hubberthorn's Works p. 229. Anno 1659. c. What Reason is there then for the Quakers to expect much less to presume to take the Liberty under an Episcopal Government to hold these Convocations without License which no other Dissenters either ask desire or pretend to nay what the Bishops themselves of themselves without the King's License can do Yet to the Quakers own Confutation see their Book The West answering to the North c. p. 80. viz. Any Party of Men under a Government to make Laws not being lawfully Authorized so to do for the binding of others and thereunto to require Obedience is a setting up of themselves above the Law and treading it under their Feet and rendering them whom they so bind Slaves and Vassals and

Work to subdue the grievous Tyrannies once ruling over tender Consciences and to break down the great Oppressions which had caused the Just to Groan and the Lord was with him in Victory and preserved him from great Dangers Observations on the recited Quotation Reader please to observe First That the Words in Capital Letters were Printed in the Quarto Book 1659. and left out in the Reprint in Folio 1672. which shews their Temporizing and like Butter-flies how they hide themselves whilst the Danger of the Storms are past 2 dly Their Wickedness in leaving out such Prophesies if real if counterfeit then as bad to suffer them to go abroad so long to deceive others 3 dly How they pleaded their being in the Army and their Faithfulness to their Trust therein as meritorious of their Continuance in the Army for the Defence of the Nation as well as their Desire of being in Offices in the Administration of Justice † Oh! they 'd gladly be Justices of the Peace But hold Oliver as he did not believe their Prophesies so he would not trust them in either Military or Civil Affairs 4 thly You may see how they did cling to O. Cromwell and next to Richard justifying their Usurpation 5 thly How they acquitted O. Cromwell in that horrible Murder of K. Charles I. saying That if he would but stand by cherish and support Quakerism WHAT HE DID TO THE LATE KING SHOULD NOT BE LAID TO HIS CHARGE BY THE LORD 6 thly And that if he would not do so they could not pray for him and that should be worse to him than all the Plottings of the Wicked And I take this to be the Reason why they refuse to pray for K. William III. for I have gone into several of their Meetings and I have enquired of others that have done the like I have likewise read divers of their Prayers in Print as Stephen Crisp's and others yet I could never hear see nor learn that they ever prayed for K. William III. no no more than for the Priests or than for Oliver But for this Omission Whitehead hath a Salvo ready The Content Apost c. p. 27. viz. But where are all required by Christ or his Apostles to pray for them i. e. Kings and all that are in Authority by Name or charged as Offenders for not naming of Persons in our Prayers May we not pray acceptably † And may you not Who knows but you may mean another than the Rightful and Lawful King unless we tell God the Names of those we pray for c. But Reader let me trace this Snake in the Grass and hunt this Fox to his Burrow and do not think it hard dealing I know there can be nothing said of them that grates but they presently cry out of Persecution of Malice while they take the Liberty to expose all sorts of People how innocent soever as at large I have set forth in the Picture of Quakerism c. Part 2. p. 44 to 175. and shall shew one Instance more before I enter upon my Chace Viz. G. Fox's Judgment of Kingly Government taken out of a Paper of his written to the Presbyterians c. a little before the Restoration To all you that desire an Earthly King in England who profess your selves to be Christians whether Presbyterians or others Do not the Priests Presbyterians and many of the Rulers cry for an Earthly King And is not this the same Nature the Jews were in And do they not in this Crucifie Jesus And are not all these Elders Christians that will doat so much of an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Now Elders if you say Peter said Honour the King this doth not hold forth that Peter bid them set up an Earthly King over them neither do you read that there were any Earthly Kings since the Days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians c. See Quakerism Unmask'd c. p. 1. for much more of this But no sooner did the King come in Anno 1660. but within a Month G. Fox and others put forth a Declaration saying p. 4. We do therefore declare to take off all Jealousies Fears and Suspicions of our Truth and Fidelity to the King and these present Governours That our Intentions and Endeavours are and shall be good true honest and peaceable towards them and that we do love own and honour the King and the present Governours c. Yea let their Words be never so contrary they are not to be measured by their Words It would require a Volume to set forth their Temporizing and horrid Practices in this kind but I shall only give a Taste referring to The Snake in the Grass c. But 't is Comical to see this their early Turning with the Times First None more vigorous against Monarchy and yet none did sooner nor yet more flatter fawn and creep to the same Government than did the Quakers But that which is most provoking and for which I chiefly mention this that upon every Occasion to ingratiate themselves into the Favour of the Government they frequently charged the same Presbyterians c. with their being against the Government of fighting Principles yea a People who would promote their Religion by the Power of the Sword See W. Penn's Just Rebuke to 21 Divines c. printed 1674. p. 25. viz. How did the Presbyterians excite the Parliament in these very Terms Elijah opposed Idolatry and Oppression so do ye down with Baal's Priests which is saith Penn as much as to say Away with your Arch-Bishops and Bishops the whole Ministry and Worship of the Church of England Come smooth George I have seen another of your Books Intituled The Way cast up c. p. 52 53. where you say p. 52. Some of the Presbyterian Nonconformists Preachers are fled Beyond-Sea others lurk in Corners here and there and keep private Conventicles where many times they preach Sedition against their Lawful Prince by Instigation of whom that Insurrection hapned in 1666. Again p. 53. And some of them have printed Books in Defence of the Lawfulness of making War against the Supream Magistrates c. Again p. 23. And how many Garments were rouled in Blood by the Instigation of the Presbyterian Teachers the whole Nation was a Witness so that many Thousands were made Widows and Fatherless by that War they stirred up the People unto P. 54. And in very Truth the Presbyterian Church will never be able to purge her self of the Iniquity of killing many Thousands in the Three Nations by the Occasion of a most bloody War raised up thro the Instigation of the Presbyterian Teachers c. And thus they continued bloody Enemies to the Presbyterians notwithstanding George Fox did so condemn them as Traytors Antichrists and Crucifiers of Jesus for endeavouring the Restoration of King Charles II. and that no People then on Earth did more stir up instigate and encourage a bloody War against the King and Church

Israel 1 Sam. 17. as the Quakers do the Church of England her Bishops and Clergy And as a fresh Motive to this my Chace I saw Two Letters from Two worthy Clergymen to their Acquaintance in the City which complain'd of the Quakers Insolency An Abstract thereof is as followeth viz. I supply the Cure of I have with the Blessing of God upon my Pains preserved the People in our Communion except some few till now But at this time thro' the extraordinary Devices Craft and Subtilty of the Quakers that Parish and two or three more thereabouts are in great Danger of falling from the Church to Quakerism several of their New Converts go about to Houses importuning Men and Women to go to hear their Speakers They are so troublesome in this Nature as that I am perswaded some have turned and others must turn for a quiet Life I have observed them to be much more hot and eager in making Proselytes since the Peace than ever they were in the time of the War They challenge us to meet them and Dispute with them but if we should accept their Challenge without our Bishop's Leave I do not know how he would resent it besides I am not hasty lest the best Cause in the World should suffer thro' my Weakness And the Advantage they would bring to their Cause hereby is to have it universally believ'd that their Religion is so good and so much favour'd by the Government as that it neither can nor dare be oppos'd by us I believe the Intent of the King and Parliament in granting them an Indulgence was not that they should disturb the Professors of the Establish'd Religion by Law but rather that these Legal Professors should not be capable of disturbing or molesting them I pray God open the Eyes of our Governours and cause them to take into Consideration this too much and too deplorable unlimited and unbounded Toleration especially as the Quakers both claim and use it which notwithstanding all the Care and indefatigable Labour and Pains of the Watchmen of Israel will certainly if not timely prevented be the Overthrow of our Church and Christianity it self c. And to my own Knowledge they boast of having the Royal Ear and such Friends at Court as give them great Boldness especially in Country Towns and Villages where they ride Lord and Master and begin to think themselves interested in the Comprehension discoursed of But if so without first a general Retractation of the Errours by them broached and of their scandalous Defamations of our Kings our Parliaments Bishops Clergy and Protestants in general it will be no other than breeding a Viper in the Bowels of the Christian Churches which God of his Mercy divert Thus begging my Reader 's Pardon for this long Digression I shall now take Leave to renew my Chace in Hunting the Fox not so much to single out a single Person for that God knows of every Society there has been some Particulars under mistaken Notions pursuing wrong Designs as to shew that the Governing Party of the Quakers who sit at their Helm have been utterly against this present Government For as I told them Publickly in my Printed Letter to the Quakers Printed 1690. p. 2. i. e. This Government and the Protestant Interest are so linked together that those which are not true to the one cannot be true to the other whatever they may pretend c. I say not so much to single out of their Herd one particular Person as to shew that the Quakers in general who think themselves thus highly honoured as the Merit of their Innocency have all along been averse to the Government that so when they like the Peacock behold their dark Parts they may let fall their Plumes and be humbled and brought to a Confession both of their Sins of Omission and Commission against God and Man For I having observed the Discourse of the Quakers touching the late Happy Revolution found how their Pulse beat and in the general perceived a great Lukewarmness in them to the present Government I also went sometimes to their Meetings as I did to other Dissenters to observe whether they all pray'd for Their Majesties and to do the Dissenters Right both Presbyterians Independants and Baptists pray'd heartily for Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary but not a Word of such a Prayer amongst the Quakers By which I soon perceived that their Peoples Averseness to the Government proceeded from the Doctrine and Example of their Teachers upon which I Printed against this their Omission in a Letter to the Quakers 1690. p. 2. saying Why do you not Pray for and Address your selves to King William and Queen Mary as publickly and as heartily as you did to and for the late King James II. viz. as a brave King God and Cesar said Penn are both of a Mind pray God bless the King and his Royal Family These and many more were published thro' the Nations and from your Yearly Meetings too but no Salutation no Message no Prayer for nor Address to King William and Queen Mary as if you were struck mute at the Loss of your brave Popish King I do not charge this as an Evil in it self whilst our King but to shew the Quakers Zeal to that and Coldness to his present Majesty whom God preserve What can you say for your selves Are you like those 1 Sam. 10.27 viz. The Children of Beliel who said How shall this Man save us And they despis'd him and brought him no Presents no Prayers no Addresses but the King held his Peace O ye unworthy and ungrateful Persons Hath not King William granted you the Liberty of your Consciences What! Have you nothing to say for King William Nay you are so far from that that you have acted quite contrary for when King William appointed a Fast for the Prosperity of his Arms then you not only Preached against the Fast but also to weaken the Hearts and Hands of his Friends you vehemently cry'd down all Wars and Fighting * Mark this with the Juncture of Time and Occasion and the like Is you Zeal for the Protestant Cause quite gone or is it gone to Rome c. This Letter I grant put them into a Fume and Fret but they soon found a Salvo viz. Where said G. Whitehead are all required by Christ or his Apostles to pray for them i. e. Kings and all that are in Authority by Name c. The Content Apostate c. p. 17. as before observed But I soon Printed a Reply to G. Whitehead's Evasive Answer intituled New Rome Unmask'd p. 26 to 30. where I gave Instances of their Prayers and Addresses to the late King James II. as in the following Addresses is manifest but not one Anniversary Address to King William III. to August 1699. viz. The Humble Address of the People called Quakers to K. James II. June 1687. We cannot but with grateful Hearts both admire and acknowledge the Providence of

whereby it 's manifest their Innocency so much boasted of is not Triumphant as G. W. says in his Book Innocency Triumphant c. And therefore the way to deal with these cunning Sophisters G. W. c. is still to pursue them with Challenges to call them into the Field and thereupon I will pitch my Standard here on Behalf of the Christian Religion and Protestant Profession against Quakerism Head and Tail and once more challenge G. Whitehead to appear on his own Proposition to the Parliament viz. For each of us to chuse four or six moderate Men of common Sense and Reason out of the Professors I call it his because he did voluntarily offer to meet me before any Six Ten or Twelve moderate Men c. of the Christian Faith and let us dispute it out fairly and above-board And thereupon I shall renew my Challenge and let it stand here as a Monument of the Quakers Cowardice and Self-Condemnation if they 'd rather lye under this heavy Charge following than to come out and make their Defence viz. First That they deny Jesus of Nazareth who was Born of the Blessed Virgin Mary who suffer'd without the Gates of Jerusalem to be Christ the Son of the Living God Secondly That they deny the Scriptures by their speaking contemptuously of them calling them Carnal Death Dust Beastly Ware Serpent's Meat c. and that Preaching out of them is Conjuration Thirdly That they exalt their own Sayings and Writings above the Scriptures as being of greater Authority and more Certainty not only in Words but in Practice Fourthly That they undervalued the Death and Sufferings of Christ Jesus by granting they were inflicted by or for the Transgression of a Law and executed in a great Measure at least by the due Execution of a Law Fifthly That they exalt their own Sufferings as greater and more unjust than the Sufferings of Christ his Apostles and Martyrs yea even than all the Persecutions from the Days of Christ to the Year of their Rise namely 1650. Sixthly And that for these and the like Reasons the Quakers Books which thus teach are Blasphemous and their Practices in their Adorations are Idolatrous This is my Charge which I have often laid down and which I now renew and offer to make good upon them if he will chuse his Men and meet me according to his own voluntary Offer and my Acceptation thereof or otherwise because I will give him his Choice of two Methods viz. or on Condition At Oxford I offer'd Sylas Norton to prove the same Charge against the Quakers and their Doctrine that he George Whitehead will engage under his Hand to Retract their Errors if proved upon them out of the Quakers Books wrote by their approved Authors and condemn the Books which teach this Horrible Doctrine promising my self also to Engage under my Hand to Retract what he shall prove Erroneous in my Books or False in Fact relating to my Charging the Quakers thereby making them publick Satisfaction and to Burn my Books if found Guilty as a Testimony of my Injustice A Sign of my not being Conscious of Guilt herein And to this I subscribe my my Name Aug. 3. 1698. Francis Bugg This then is my Flag of Defiance which I hold out to G. Whitehead c. this is my Standard which I have pitched ON Behalf of my Saviour JESUS CHRIST which the Quakers have Contemned Disown'd and Denied to be the SON of GOD ON the Behalf of the Scriptures which the Quakers say are Dust Death Beastly Ware Serpents Meat c. ON the Behalf of the Holy Ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper which Christ Instituted ON the Behalf of the Church of ENGLAND both Magistrates and Ministers which the Quakers have most wickedly Traduced and Abused as Intolerable to bear and Seditious in its own Nature Let them come forth out of their Dens and Holes and acquit themselves like Men if they think I wrong them or else be content to lye under my Charge as self-condemned Persons and let them also know that my Book New Rome Arraigned c. stands unshaken and that George Whitehead is not Triumphant but forced by the Guilt of his Conscience to submit to the Charge above exhibited which is Ignoble and Base on his Part and will lower his Topsail to his great Abasement Shame and Confusion of Face in the Eyes of all sorts of Intelligent Persons Thus having stated the Contest between G. W. and me and advised my Friends and Fellow-Labourers not so much to Answer the Quakers Books as to Charge and Recharge them again and again till they at last being confounded with Shame Horror and Confusion be forced to come out But I shall shew Whitehead's Fallacy in his way of answering Books only by one Instance for I having in my Book New Rome Arraign'd c. pag. 47. by way of Retaliation upon the Quakers who call the Publick Ministers Antichrists and Deceivers and the World's Teachers given Fifteen Instances why the Quakers are the World's Teachers and Deceivers the second of which was this The Quakers who teach that the Name JESUS and CHRIST belongs to the whole Body and every Member in the Body as well and as amply as to Christ the Head are of the World and Deceivers New Rome Arraigned c. pag. 47. Now this was no Quotation but a Charge which rests for me to prove I grant the Word amply is by me added by way of Illustration but the Words as well that G. W. neither mentions nor disowns Isaac Pennington's Words are Doth not the Name Jesus and Christ belong to the whole Body and every Member in the Body as well as to the Head So that the Name is not given to the Vessel but to the Nature in the Vessel A Question to Professors by Isaac Pennington c. p. 27. P. 33. The Scripture does expresly distinguish between Christ and the Garment which he wore between Him that came and the Body in which he came between the Substance which was vailed and the Vail which vailed it Lo I come a Body hast thou prepared me there is plainly He and the Body in which He came there was the Outward Vessel and the Inward Life this we certainly know says Isaac and can never call the Bodily Garment Christ c. And whoever read the Scriptures may clearly see that the Quakers are False Teachers in that they first teach that the Name JESUS and CHRIST belongs to every Believer as well as to CHRIST the Head since they can first call him as you have heard A Garment a Vessel a Vail a Body but in express Words they say they cannot call Him Christ but whoever read the Scriptures by me quoted in the Sixteenth Chapter I hope they will be convinced And St. John says Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him Then came Jesus forth wearing a Crown of Thorns Then the Soldiers when they had crucified Jesus they took his Garments but one of