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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

do here follow Some of Francis Bugg's Principal Calumnies and Misrepresentations of the People commonly called Quakers I. F Bugg charged us i. e. at least Twelve of us as being A Pack of False Witnesses and Perjur'd Persons And this from his own Scandalous Mock Trial Conviction and Condemnation unwarrantably acted by him in his New Rome Arraigned Epistle to Bereans p. 7 8 9 10 11. and p. 33. And all this for our Negative Testimony against the matter of his Charge contained in the Four following Articles of his false Accusations against us the said People viz. 2. That they i. e. the Quakers deny Jesus of Nazareth See The Converted Quaker p. 5. 3. That they call Geo. Fox the Branch the Star the Son of Righteousness and put the North of England for the Town of Bethlehem hereupon Bugg also falsly saith That they did not mean Christ but G. Fox 4. And that the Quakers Prophets give witness to Geo. Fox instead of this Christ p. 82. and Chap. 3. p. 16. they say That God Man the Man Christ Jesus who was Born of the Virgin was But a Garment a Vail a Vessel which is expresly contrary to our Principles as Answered in Print His Converted Quaker p. 2. 5. F. Bugg Accuses the Quakers with Contempt of Scripture i. e. the Holy Scripture and as intending down with the Holy Scripture affirming that they say the Holy Scripture is carnal Dust Death and Killeth tho' we find not that saying in any of our Friends Books quoted by him and are sure 't is contrary to our Principle as the foregoing are yet Bugg is not ashamed to say viz. I have not set down one Line or Word as theirs that is not theirs New Rome Arraigned p. 22. Note That these Precedent Accusations are not only expresly contrary to our Principles and Concurrent Testimonies extant in Print both for Jesus Christ the Holy Scripture and Divine Authority thereof but also to F. Bugg's own Testimony in his Book Of Christian Liberty the Second Part Chap. 1st Where he confesseth our Principles Received in the beginning to be Principles of Truth and in our Name and Person Testifieth unto the Holy Scriptures that they are good and a true Declaration of those things which were most surely believed by the Apostles and by us ought to be believed thus far F. Bugg when a kind of a Quaker Besides his Contradiction herein to himself he Confesseth that here we agree i. e. G. Whitehead and himself namely What the Holy Scripture is That we do not Ascribe Holiness to the Paper and Ink or Dead Characters but to the Holy Doctrine and Blessed Precepts therein contained which therefore is called the Holy Scriptures New Rome Arraigned Apol. Intro p. 6 7. Qu. Where then can he Prove either that the Quakers Condemn the Holy Doctrine and Blessed Precepts or Say that the Holy Scripture is Dust Death c. We Challenge him or any of you his Abettors to prove such Contempt or that Saying as the Quaker's or their Principle 6. F. Bugg's Charging the said People called Quakers with Contempt of Governours Reviling Christ's Magistrates accounting Magistracy a Cumbersome Tree and their Principles as being Antimagistratical and Antimonarchicate Note Herein F. Bugg appears Mischeiveously Malicious unjustly to render us Obnoxious to the Civil Government like Judas and the Jews against Christ and rendering him an Enemy to Caesar. 7. His Reproachful Characters to Scandalize the People called Quakers viz. New Rome Rome ' s Sister Rome their Elder Sister and calls those their Brethren that pretend to Sell-Pardons and pray Souls out of Purgatory and saith that these i. e. Quakers follow The Steps of the Jesuits And withal F. Bugg in the Title of his Book in Print New Rome Vnmask'd Scornfully and Reproachfully Termeth G. Whitehead one of her Chief Cardinals Remark Now pray let it be considered Whither Bugg's thus wickedly Misrepresenting the People called Quakers as Papists does not greatly tend to gratifie the Popish Interest by thus Magnifying of it and to lessen and injure the Protestant Interest and Consequently to Contradict and Affront the Government which hath been pleased Legally to Recognize us as Desenting Protestants Qu. Whether F. Bugg's Affront and Contradiction hereunto be not Seditious i.e. to Sow Discord Strife or Contention 8. Because of our Solemnly Declaring to the King and Parliament That we believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given forth by Divine Inspiration And they have accepted this our Declaration and Legally made it a Condition of our Liberty Bugg passeth this Judgment on us the said People viz. The more shame for you to be so Deceitful to give in a Testimony so contrary to your Belief And that the Quakers Pretending to the Parliament they believed them namely the Holy Scriptures to be given forth by Divine Inspiration was to serve a Turn New Rome Arraigned p. 40 42. Remark Herein Bugg hath not only most grosly Belied our Belief for the Holy Scriptures but also Contradicted the Parliaments Charitable Acceptance and Belief of our Testimony therein What Insolency and Audacious Attempt is this Dost thou approve or disallow hereof Bugg also very unjustly accuseth the Quakers that they Revile Christ's Ministers Undervalue his Death and Sufferings Condemn his Laws Despise his Ordinances all which is Expresly contrary to our Principles and how proves he those to be Christs Ministers whom our Friends have Testified against viz. The Covetous Cruel Persecutors Here he Imposeth and shamefully begs the Question 10. Moreover he Treats the said People with these Characters Black-Guard of Lyers Horrible Blasphemers Impudent Imposters Cowards Cunning Sophisters Juglings Legerdemain Great Deceivers Horrible Blasphemers Wretched Imposters That surely Simon Magus never exceeded these Imposters Acts 8. With much more such like Outragious Railery and Defaming Treatment too tedious here to recite being far Louder in Clamours than Proof Barking loud at a Distance but fearful fairly to Ingage NOW Friend Smithies seeing thou hast refused to Personate thy Convert F. Bugg or to be his Advocate or Vindicate him in his Charges and Books against the People called Quakers as I Proposed to thee and Offered thee a Meeting for that End I desire to know of thee If thou wilt please to give a Check to him and put a Stop to his defaming the People called Quakers in Print or if he refuseth thy Advice thereunto If thou wilt give publick Testimony against him by disowning his perverse Work and tell the World he is Heady and Wilful and no real Convert If neither it will Reflect upon thee Note But to this Enquiry or Letter I never received Answer from William Smithies as yet I Hear he is again Printing against us supposed as one Bent in his Malice to Scandalize us which we resolve with God's Help not not to lye under for we are assured he has wickedly Wronged and Misrepresented our Christian Religion and

further proceeds in Justification of his most gross Forgery and Defamation against us viz. But they say I put up a Mock-Pillory I Grant I did and that to shew what they Actually deserved from their own Proposals to Authority Preface p. 2. Which Mock-Pillory was the form of a Pillory with Twelve Pictures standing with the first Letters of the Names of Certain Citizens of London and other Persons of good Fame and Repute with a Forged Mock-Trial grosly to Defame and Scandalize them as Perjured Persons for denying F. Bugg's False Charge in the first Edition of his New Rome Arraigned And now both his Mock-Trial and Mock-Pillory left out in his Second Edition Yet thus Unjustly Justified therein as what the Quakers Actually Deserved Oh! Abominable Falshood Insolence and Slander But what has he Actually Deserved Nevertheless in Contradiction to this his False Plea for his Mock-Pillory his Friend and Advocate Thomas Crisp in his Counterfeit Discovered p. 2. saith as he is informed That F. Bugg has acknowledged 10 G. Whitehead c. that he was sorry he had done it and that if it were to do again he would not do it that is set up his Feigned or Mock-Pillory But how does his Sorrow for it appear when now he tells us 'T was to shew what they i. e. the Quakers Actually Deserved Where 's then his Sorrow What say you his Watchers Was it a just Course to Convince us of Error that he took against us by his Mock-Trial and Scandalous Mock-Pillory Pray Answer plainly otherwise if you do not yet stop bis Current of Scandalizing and Defaming us your Encouragement and Approbations already given him will the more Affect you and Render you the more Culpable of his gross Abuses as partakers of his great Iniquity which will be no good Expedient to dignifie your Church or promote your Interest or good Fame I hope you 'll yet Consider it And further observe some of F. Bugg's Additional Forgery against us the said People in his own Words Preface p. 3. viz. Methinks I hear them say Come let us say he i. e. F. Bugg is a Pestilent Fellow a Mover of Sedition we must use all the Arts we have to stop him for he seems to follow the Steps of M. Luther that Apostate Adversary of our dear Elder Sister and if he goes on he will so unvail us that all People will know us and our Intreigues come let us Bespa●ter him and Cover him with some Frightful Beast's Skin and th●n set our little Currs to bait and Worry him to Abuse and Bespatter him in City and Country c. This I have found true Thus far F. Bugg Observe here this Piece of Forgery and Romance to Bespatter us and Suggest False Matters against us which he never heard the Quakers say but thinks he hears them so say which we cannot think he does unless he Dreams it But to shew his own Conceited Ambition and Pride how Puft up Swell'd and Bigg he is in his own Conceit as if he were such a Potent Invincible Antagonist when we very well know the Contrary how Feeble Impertinent and False he is And his Comparing himself to M. Luther as one in his Steps and Implying the Church of Rome to be our Dear Elder-Sister In the one appears his Proud Conceit and Vain Fmpty Boasting in the other his Notorious Falshood and Calumny As to his Charge of Blasphemous Pretences of Miracles against G. Fox whom he most Maliciously and Slanderously calls That Imposter Pref. p. 6. And why so But because G. Fox mentioned certain Miracles Wrought by the Power of God Not at all Ascribing them to himself or his own Power but to the Power of God in Answer to the fervent Prayers of his Servants and People among us in certain places But says F. Bugg not one of them i. e. Miracles said to be done in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth as in Acts 3. 6. Which Quoth he is a strong Argument of their Disowning Jesus of Nazareth c. Answ. 1. That Miracles both outward and inward have been wrought among us by the Power of God Consequently by Jesus Christ who is that Power F. Bugg cannot Confute If wrought by the Power of God then they must be in the Name of Jesus Christ for they are Indivisible and Inseparable 3. What Sincere and Faithful Regard and Breathings of Soul those our Friends Concerned had in their servent Prayers to the Name of the same Jesus of Nazareth F. Bugg is now as wholly Ignorant and now Insensible as his Argument and Consequence of their Disowning Jesus of Nazareth c. is utterly False it being by and through him that the Power and Spirit of God hath been made known among us in its Effectual Operations As to his Reciting the Quakers Books which he Falsly says carry two Contrary Faces Contrary Doctrines Contrary Principles c. In two Columns Opposite And then Aspersing their Leaders with the Depth of Hypocrsy Couch'd in them 'T is to none but to such as his own Evil Envious Eye his Dim and False sight that they appear so Contrary for to a Single Eye and Charitable Mind such Pretended or seeming Contrariety is easily Reconcileable As under the Title of The Perfect Quaker he Cites David 's Enemies Discovered p. 7. Thus viz. And these the Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule nor Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel c. And in Opposition under the Title of The Counterfeit Quaker he Cites The Harmony of the Old and New Testament and the fulfilling of the Prophecies But he has falsly Cited the first to make them seem the more Contradictory for the Words truly Cited are these viz. And these i. e. Who witness the Life which spoke forth Scripture do not call the Letter the Rule and the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel c. Here Bugg leaves out and the four Books which he has not Proved to be both the New-Testament and the Gospel being not the Books Abstractly but the New Covenant and the Power of God therein Testified unto which Gospel was before the Books were and before Abraham was Rom. 1. Heb. 8. Jer. 31. Besides we owning the said four Books to be Books of the New Testament or Covenant yet they are not all the Books thereof there are more Books of the New Testament as that of the Blessed Acts of the Apostles and their Evangelical Epistles and the Excellent Apocalips which also belong to the New Testament so that the Harmony of the Old and New Testament relates to the Divine Testimonies or Doctrine of Christ contained in the Books Paul and other Apostles were Ministers of the Gospel not of the Letter but of the Spirit and of the New Testament or New Covenant which are one and the same yet did not thereby Contemn or Slight the Scriptures which Testifie thereof And seeing that I have Confessed that the Spirit or Life

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