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A30038	Quakerism withering and Christianity reviving, or, A brief reply to the Quakers pretended vindication in answer to a printed sheet deliver'd to the Parliament wherein their errors, both in fundamentals and circumstantials are further detected, and G. Whitehead further unmask'd / by an earnest contender for the Christian faith, Francis Bugg.	Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?	1694 (1694)	Wing B5386; ESTC R23819	36,756	82

some part of those holy Truths therein contained and yet this preaching is by their Doctrine Conjuration and Witchcraft c. 3dly You may perceive that G. W. and the Quakers do not call the four Books of Matthew Mark Luke and John either the New Testament of Jesus Christ or the Gospel and why His Brother Fox says 't is Dust Death and Serpents-Meat Yet to serve another turn Ellwood writing against W. R. in his Antidote p. 81 82. calls the Writings of the Evangelists The New Testament Scriptures of Truth c. Oh the Deceit and Self-contradiction of these Babel-Builders 4thly You may see they bring their own Nonsence in competition with the holy Scripture and New Testament Nay I shall prove by their Practice that they prefer their own Pamphlets before the Scripture and that beyond all their Glosses to the contrary 5thly That such as obey the Scriptures are bewitched from the Truth And therefore say they That is no Command from God to me what he commanded the Saints of old recorded in Scripture for alas what is the Scripture but a little Dust Death carnal Letter Husk Beastly Ware and they that preach out of it Conjurers notable Conjurers Babylon's Merchants yea Witches Devils Gormandizing Priests c 6thly They insinuate by way of Query That 't is doubtful whether Moses or Hermes was the first Pen-man of Holy Writ or whether either or neither and so confound the Scriptures as to overthrow its Divine Authority suggesting that what is true the False-Prophets wrote and what is false the True-Prophets wrote and what is ill expressed and ill applied Wise and Good Men wrote and by a Natural Invertion all the rest by Wicked Men and the Grand Impostor And I think they by this time have made room for the Atheists and Papists This I must confess is such a cunning Stratagem of Satan and his Instruments as the boldest Jesuit that ever I read of never attempted the like And for more of it I refer to New Rome unmask'd c. p. 23. And by this time I hope G. W's Witnesses are convicted sufficiently and for time to come will not say the Quakers never said affirmed or believed that the holy Scriptures are Death Dust and Serpents-Meat c. But notwithstanding all this and much more that might be quoted of this nature yet G. W. boldly imposes upon the World that though they call the Scripture Dust Death and Serpents-meat yet they do not call the holy Scripture so see their pretended Vindication c. p. 2. Essay c. p. 5 8. but say The holy Precepts and Doctrines they own And from thence they 'r called says G.W. holy Scriptures I grant it is for that very reason that the Christians call them Holy Scriptures But on the other hand I do positively affirm That it is for that very Reason that the Quakers call them Dust Death Serpents-meat Beastly Ware c. And this I will prove by the Practice of each sort viz. by both the Practice of the Christians and the Practice of the Quakers And first the Christians they read them in their Churches practice them in their Families particularly the Lord's Prayer the Ten Commandments the Apostles Creed think themselves as Disciples of Christ obliged to follow the Examples of the Primitive Christians and Holy Martyrs in frequenting the Ordinances of Jesus Christ as Baptism and the Lord's Supper and divers other Commands c. They believe the Scripture is given by divine Inspiration and infallibly true being by Wise and Good Men well expressed and rightly applied and that the true Prophets speak truly so that there is a sweet harmony in the Scriptures They believe also that Moses was the first Pen-man and divinely inspir'd and his Writings quoted by Christ and his Apostles see Mark 12.16 Luke 24.27 Luke 16.19 24.27 26 27 44. Acts. 2. And for these and the like Reasons they call it Holy Scripture But then Secondly if we must judge the Tree by the Fruit as Christ directed then the Quakers do not believe the Doctrin and Precepts recorded in Scripture to be either blessed or holy and therefore call them Dust Death Husk Serpents-meat Beastly Ware c. which I thus prove First By the very reproachful Language and contemptuous Expression you cast upon them as Dust Death Serpents-meat c. Secondly In that you do not read them in your Meetings for Worship nor recommend them to be read in your Monthly and Quarterly Meetings as you frequently do your own Epistles Thirdly Because you say That to preach out of them is Conjuration which you would not if you believed the Doctrines therein to be holy and blessed Fourthly By reason you lay aside as useless the Use of the Lord's Prayer Ten Commandments and the Apostle's Creed which are some of those holy Precepts contained in the Scriptures Fifthly In that you deny the Ordinances of Jesus Christ and do not practise them according to the Command of Christ Go teach all Nations baptising c. This do in remembrance of me c. For if they were sincere and did believe the Doctrin and Precepts were holy and blessed as they pretend you would at some time or other see a Bible in their Hands in a Meeting and make Confession of Sin and beg Pardon of God for Christ's sake which they never did Sixthly That from your Practice Words and Writings you do prefer your own Books Papers and Epistles before the Scriptures as in New Rome unmask d c. New Rome arraign'd c. For proof see your Yearly Epistle follows The 27th of the 3d Month 1675. IT is our Sence Advice Admonition and Judgment in the Fear of God and the Authority of his Power and Spirit that no such slight and contemptible Names and Expressions as that faithful Friend's Papers which we testifie hath been given out by the Spirit and Power of God are Mens Edicts or Canons c. with such scornful Sayings be permitted by W. Penn Alex. Packe Stephen Crisp George Whitehead and others Now I am apt to think as superstitious as you are that you did not ascribe Holiness to the Paper and Ink of your own Papers and Pamphlets But yet what Care what Caution what Advice and Admonition was sent out from the general Council not of Trent but London that no such scornful Expressions should be put upon your Friend's Papers as Edicts and Canons which indeed are not such contemptible Names And yet how do you charge them by the Authority of the Power and Spirit of God that no such contemptible scornful and unsavory Expressions be permitted to be cast upon your Papers which you say are given forth by the Power and Spirit of God So tender and careful you are of your own nonsensical Papers Epistles c. Here is no calling them Death Dust Serpents-meat Beastly Ware Carnal Letter Husk and the like no no yours were given forth you say by the Power and Spirit of God and consequently

Church that it was a figurative way of speaking the thing containing for the thing contained but I never knew this distinction touching our Blessed Saviour made by any others than the Quakers and their chief Reason is That they having the same Light Life and Spirit in their Bodies as was in his Body they would have every Man a Saviour every Man a Christ For as above they say The Name of Christ belongs to every Member of the Body as well as the Head And where ever they make an Approach to the true Professors of Christianity 't is only for a Decoy For as above observed they can never call the Bodily Garment Christ meaning him that was born of the Virgin but a Garment a Veil a Figure an instrumental Cause of Salvation but not the efficient the thing containing for another viz. for the thing contained For to call him that was born of the Virgin who suffered Death on the Cross Died Rose again and ascended this is but a metaphorical Speech the thing containing for the thing contained Thus have they robbed the Blessed Jesus of one of his emanent Attributes viz. of being the efficient Cause of Man's Salvation Thus do they dance the Rounds sometimes approaching to the Christian Professors as if they were in good earnest but by and by with a sudden turn they glide to their Brethren and insinuate by consequence That him that was born of the Virgin he is no otherwise a Saviour let the Episcopalians Presbiterians Independents and Baptists say what they will to the contrary than other good Men are c. P. 102 103. I dare not attribute to an External prepared Being That which is the natural and proper Work of the Divine Light But certainly if some Men in Scripture are entituled Saviours because of their Contribution of their Trials Travels and Labours towards the Salvation of Mankind of much more right is that Honour ascribed to him who had the Spirit without measure c. Observe the best Approach I take notice of is That they do seemingly allow him to have the Spirit without measure but I cannot call it otherwise than seeming since 't is but about eight Lines after where speaking of Salvation he says And to the Holy Manhood not any otherwise than Instrumentally which in the Paragraph above recited he there allows to good and holy Men and that as a meritorious Reward too viz. Because of the Contribution of their Trials Travels and Labours towards the Salvation of Mankind So that by the Quakers Doctrine good Men are Instrumentally Saviours And Christ himself is no more but Instrumentally a Saviour The First I grant as they are Servants to Christ and by his hand of Providence made use of towards the Conversion of others The Last I deny as an Heretical Doctrine which tends to rob Christ of one of his chiefest Jewels as the next Passage will demonstrate P 129. That nevertheless not to the Body but Holy Light of Life therein is chiefly to be ascribed the Salvation and to the Body however excellent but Instrumentally Observe how with one Shoulder they bear down the Blessed Jesus as only a Body instrumentally serviceable contrary to the Testimony of St. Luke and the inspired Apostles and Holy Prophets who foretold of the coming of the Just one And since 't is a great and precious Priviledge that we have the Holy Scriptures in a known Tongue that thereby we may have recourse thereunto to rectifie our Mistakes and help our Judgments and prove the Articles of our Christian Faith So am I willing to prove my Charge against the Quakers from plain matter of Fact out of their own Books writ by the most Learned amongst them and by the Coherence of their Doctrine confuted by Scripture Reason and Authority shall this Controversie be decided For if the good Deed of the Woman Matth. 26.13 done to Christ against his Burials shall be told of her so long as the Gospel is preached surely so long as the Gospel is preached shall there be War made against such false Teachers as shall thus bring in damnable Heresies denying the Lord Jesus Christ to be a Compleat Saviour c. But once more pray hear him P. 97 98. The Serpent is a Spirit Now no thing can bruise the Head of the Serpent but something that is Spiritual as the Serpent is But if that Body of Christ were the Seed then could he not bruise the Serpents Head in all because the Body of Christ is not so much as in any one and consequently the Seed of the Promise is an Holy Principle of Light and Life that being received into the Heart bruiseth the Serpents Head And because the Seed which cannot be that Body is Christ as testifie the Scriptures the Seed is one and that Seed is Christ c. And thus have I traced him in his divers Turnings and manifold Approaches sometimes to the Professors and back again to the Quakers until at last you see he denies the Body which was born of the Virgin to be Christ And the reason he gives is Because he is not personally in every Man and so no way capable to conquer the Serpent in them and therefore not the Christ But if they were humble and would forsake their Errours and by Faith lay hold of Christ who is the Seed of the Promise Gen. 3.14 confessing their Sins and begging Pardon for Christ's sake let them not doubt but the Head of the Serpent in them shall be bruised But if they thus contemn the Blessed Jesus who was born of the Virgin c. one calling him a Garment which they can never call Christ another because he is not personally in every Man he cannot be Christ and by and by the Name Christ belongs to every Member as well as to the Head for that they have Light Life and Spirit in them as Christ had another that Christ is not a Compleat Saviour otherwise than instrumentally nor no otherwise to be called Christ than metaphorically or by that common Figure or way of speaking viz. the thing containing for the thing contained I say so long as they continue in their Unbelief it s no marvel they complain so much of the Serpent's having Dominion in them The Sandy Foundation shaken c. P. 21. The Justice offended being Infinite his Satisfaction ought to bear a Proportion therewith which Jesus Christ as Man could never pay he being Finite and from a Finite Cause could never proceed an Infinite Effect For so Man may be said to bring forth God since no thing below the Divinity it self can righly be styled Infinite I have much more to say against the dangerous Errors in that Book which came lately to my hand but I spare the Author However by what is said 't is plain that they account him that was born of the Virgin but a Man a Finite Creature a Vail a Garment a Saviour instrumentally like other good Men and which they cannot call Christ Nay