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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

Carnal Christ but a Spiritual and most Glorious Christ in Soul Spirit and Body therefore to deem or call him a Carnal Christ which I know none among us do is so far to undervalue his Glory and Dignity that it appears no less than Blasphemy and how F. B. will clear himself thereof I know not His Charge against the Quakers That they cannot Sign the Association and thereby Declare the King Rightful and Lawful King for Conscience sake This Consequence is a Gross and Envious Perversion and Contradicted by his own following Confession viz. And yet they tell you that their not signing it is not in opposition to his being Declared Rightful and Lawful King But then to invalidate this he questions Who says so No Body that 's false for his words they tell you imply some Body but from what Meeting Answer An Approved Meeting by the People called Quakers whom he vilifies to the Government and not from Two or Three Quakers under the Hedge as he scoffs That we never made an Address to His Present Majesty is a known Lie we have made several and that with Real Gratitude too for the Kindnesses and Priviledges we have Received and Enjoy by Law These Two said Papers of F. Buggs ' were by him delivered at the House of Lords to divers of them with manifest Design to frustrate our Relief in the Cafe of Oaths but the Lord our God hath frustrated his Evil Enterprizes and Design of Malice as he hath done and will frustrate the Tokens of Liars and Malicious Incendiaries and Treacherous Judas'S Apostates c. Triumph and Rejoice over their Malice ye Lambs of Christ's Fold who hath from time to time defeated their Mischievous Enterprizes and Attempts and disappointed their Deadly Malice and Outragious Fury and let them fume and fret themselves in their Madness and Disappointments until the Fire of their own kindling wherein they labour and toyl themselves devour them if they will not Repent and be Reclaimed CHAP. VII A Brief Answer and Reply to F. Bugg's Second Summons as he directs it to the City Abell 2 Sam. 20. To deliver up Sheba the Son of Bichri that Man of Belial by way of Metaphor alluding to the Quakers and G. Whitehead c. HIS Presumptuous Impeachment and Charge pretended on Behalf of the Commons of England i. e. by Fra. Bugg against the Quakers Yearly Meeting is with Aggravation repeated by him thus viz. I did not Impeach the Quakers for not paying Tythes though that be Crime enough but your Yearly Meeting for Imposing the non-payment of Tythes upon your People and that too as a grand Oppression and Antichristian Yoke and I say again for you to meet Annually by way of Convocation TO make and promulgate such Antimagistratical Laws not only against but contray to the Laws of the Land is both against the King's Prerogative the Rights of Parliaments and Property of the Subject yea and of dangerous Consequence And I say again that by these your Canon Laws you do Actually Absolve the King's Subjects if the Quakers may be so called from their Active Obedience to the Laws of the Land which requires them to pay Tythes c. Note Reader he has here added the word Antimagistratical and left out Fundamental before the word Laws in his first Presumptuous Impeachment also as if he would render us not only guilty of Sedition in our said Meeting but of High-Treason He most maliciously and virulently aggravates his said Impeachment p. 4. in Charging the Quakers with A New Jurisdiction lately Erected by a few Vsurpers who hold a Convention Annually at London by way of Convocation TO make Laws and Ordinances contrary and repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm which tend to Subvert the Government and if not timely prevented may be of dangerous Consequence Which Presumptuous Impeachment as 't is pretended in Behalf of the Commons of England contains divers gross Lies in 't As 1. That we meet Annually either with any such Intention or Design as TO Make Contrive Promulgate and Impose Antimagistratical Laws and Ordinances either against the King's Prerogative Rights of Parliaments or Property of the Subjects is a foul notorious bloody persecuting Calumny and contrary to both our Innocent Intention and Design of our Meeting 2. A New Jurisdiction lately Erected by a few Usurpers are both gross and horrid Lies for our Annual Meetings have been of many years standing with the general Approbation of our People for the maintaining our Christian Society Charity Order Discipline and Testimony which our Lord Jesus Christ has gathered us into and requires of us 3. To make Laws against the King's Prerogative and Rights of Parliaments c. tending to Subvert the Government which consequently appears not only highly Seditious but highly Treasonable This is both a highly false persecuting and bloody Aspersion tending also to incense and stir up severe and bloody Persecution against us Oh horrid cruel and inhumane But if upon a Judicial Examination of his said Presumptuous Impeachment as being in the Name or Behalf of the Commons of England it be found both unwarrantable and a high Misdemeanour and repugnant to the Rights and Priviledges of Parliaments in him to Assume such a Power and Jurisdiction without any Priviledge either as Member of Parliament or any Commission or Power from the Parliament if to excuse this presumption he should alledge That 't was but a Jest Romance or Mock Impeachment as he has excused his Mock-Trial and Mock-Pillory as he calls it whereon he exposed Twelve Persons and Citizens of London of good Reputation and Credit under the Character Reproach and Scandal of Perjury at this rate he may take the Liberty to Reproach Defame and Scandalize any Consciencious and Peaceable Subjects with the most Enormous or Heinous Crimes in the World and that with the highest Malice and Virulency he can to Ruin Destroy and Murther them in their Reputations Persons and Estates and then pretend 't was but in Jest or Mockery But then see what Cruel Mocking he takes liberty to and what a Cruel Mocker he is And how unlike a Christian Convert or Moral Man he acts and yet divers of his near Relations are called Quakers and in Society with the same People who he has so Presumptuously Injuriously and Foully Impeached and Charged as before Oh Unnatural Brutish and Cruel Mocker One great Complaint is That for his Erecting a Mock-Pillory they Indicted him at the Old-Bailey London p. 3. Who were they Indicted him 'T was not the Persons grosly Scandalized by his Mock-Trial and Mock-Pillory for hitherto they have been very Patient and Merciful to him in that they have not as yet entered their Actions of Defamation severally against him according to his Demerits as also in that they did not assent to have him Prosecuted by other Persons that would have done it in a Higher Court The Advice given in our Yearly Meeting 's Epistle to our Friends That their Sufferings i.

Love of God to Mankind and that God blessed their i. e. the Quakers Meetings with the Comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence for many Years as F. B. has more fully declared for us in his Book stiled The Quakers Detected Printed 1686. Two Years after he had left our Communion and turned to the Church of England F. B. his Title of New Rome c. is a refuted Calumny unjustly cast upon the Protestant Subjects called Quakers Foxonian Quakers is a scornful Nick-name and no such distinction own'd by the said People His Charges of dangerous Errors and pernicious Principles tending to Overthrow the Christian Faith to obstruct the Jews Conversion to encourage MAHOMETISM and to pervert the right way of the Lord are also Perverse and Lying Aspersions and Calumnies which neither are nor can be proved by him or you his Abettors against the said People on due Examination besides his dubious Question on his own Charge renders him the more uncertain and questionable therein by his thereupon saying viz. Which whether so or no deserves the Examination and Consideration of the Christian Ministry of all Protestant Churches so short and dubious is he in his own Examination and Consideration tho' very loud clamorous and positive in his Charges wherein he does it seems but make work for others which he is never able to perform himself nor his Abettors Tending to Encourage Mahometism is a new as well as undue Charge what 's his pretended Reason or Proof for the same In his Preface to the Reader p. 2. His supposing That they do not believe Christ to be distinct from the Saints or from his Body the Church which he is Head of herein is a mistake yet this can be no proof of his Charges if by distinct from them be meant separate from them as may be rationally supposed for Christ and his Saints as to their Beings are distinct and not confounded yet not divided nor separated from each other in Spirit That they do not Pray in the Name of Jesus to God the Father thereby to own his Mediatorship is a notorious and publickly known Lie as Thousands can Testifie consequently far from proving his said Charges Nor make Confession of Sin to God in Prayer nor beg Pardon for the same are also two notorious Falshoods knowing that many who frequent our Meetings have great need of both sincere Confession Repentance and Pardon of Sin for Christ's sake and their own poor Souls But look at Christ within the Light within his Intercession within and so did all true Christian Believers who knew the Mystery of Christ in them who believed and walked in his Light and received the Spirit of the Son of God into their Hearts making Intercession and crying Abba Father We do not believe this to be any pernicious Principle either tending to Overthrow the Christian Faith or to Encourage Mahometism His Crucifixion within is not this to insinuate that they do not believe Christ Crucified without which is a perverse and injurious Falshood implied against them having often confessed Christ Crucified without on the Cross at Jerusalem as the Scripture testifies And if we should say that F. Bugg and such envious Apostates do Spiritually Crucifie Christ afresh unto and in themselves and put him to open shame by maliciously Reproaching his Truth and People this is not to deny his being Crucified without I cannot see any Mahometism from thence justly Chargeable upon us Neither does his following Objection prove us guilty thereof but himself very Ignorant of Christ and Christianity viz. Object Yet they have among them many good Exhortations and they own Christ to be the Word of God the Power of God the Wisdom of God will not this do Supposing they mean all to be within yea Heaven and Hell and all within c. Unto which F. B. the Framer of the Objection has Cited this for Answer viz. The Mahometans hold Abraham to be the Friend of God and Moses the Messenger of God and Christ the Breath of God and they Punish such as speak against Christ whose Religion was not say they taken away but mended by Mahomet Heylins Cosmog Lib. 3. p. 104. And our Saviour is called in their Alchoran The Word the Power the Soul and Strength of God c. Quoting the Lives of the Patriarchs Printed 1694. Answ. 1. The People called Quakers do utterly deny Mahometism 'T is not at all Concerned in their Principles or Religion being Christian and wholly Opposite to the Adoration of that Impostor Mahomot 2. They utterly deny that Christs Religion could be mended by Mahomet or any Man or Men else whatsoever 3. But if the Mahometans hold Abrham to be the Friend of God and Moses his Messenger and Christ the Breath the Word the Power the Soul and Strength of God and Quakers hold the same this can no more prove that their Principles and Doctrines tend to encourage Mahometism than that the Holy Apostles Doctrine did so for they held Christ to be the Word of God John 1. 1 John 5. 7. Rev. 19. The Power of God and the Wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1. 24. Yea The Life Strength and Arm of God and a Quickning Spirit also Isa. 53. 1 Cor. 15. Could this be to Encourage Mahometism No sure 'T were Blasphemy to Assert it The Mahometans hold many Truths out of the Law of Moses corruptly mixt with their Mahometan Imposture and so do many Idolaters Apostates and Antichrists in Christendom does it follow that because the Quakers own those Truths that therefore they are either Mahometans or Idolators c. 2. That 's no good Consequence and but ill Argued at this Rate F. Bugg may as well prove any true Christian to be of any Religion and himself also a gross Impostor because he holds some Truths which gross Imposters c. hold Neither can he Mahometize or Unchristian the Quakers by his False Supposition viz. If they do not come to this Result to own the same Jesus that was Born of the Virgin Crucified Dead Buried Rose again and in the sight of the Galileans Ascended into Heaven Seeing we do Sincerely and Frequently and Publickly own and confess the same Jesus both in Print and Publick Testimony as Thousands are Witnesses that we Confess Jesus Christ come in the Flesh Born of the Virgin Mary that he was the Word which took Flesh and Christ also a Spirit even a Quickning Spirit 1 John 1. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 45. But F. Bugg Falsly adds this more Possitive Charge viz. And Publickly Condemn their Books which Teach the Contrary Preface p. 2. And what 's contrary but that the Quakers disown the same Jesus that was Born of the Virgin Mary which is a Notorious Falshood and Calumny And therefore I Challenge him and you his Teachers Abettors and Congratulators to produce those Books of the Quakers with the Pages and Words wherein the same Jesus is so disowned otherwise for shame Retract and Condemn this his Abuse and Calumnious Aspersion He

Here are Four Falshoods in this Observation 1. That Is. Penington denies Jesus of Nazareth to be Christ we find not that denial in his Works 2. That he makes HIM BUT a Vail a Garment c. This is not so spoken by Is. Penington of Him i. e. the Intire Jesus of Nazareth or Son of God but of his Flesh which he took on him called the Vail by the Apostle himself Heb. 10. 20. wherein he does not call Jesus Christ himself but a Vail or Garment 3. That Is. Penington and G. W. mean that Jesus is only a Garment is a foul Perversion and never so intended by either 4. Or that they mean ' t was the Light that was therein that was Crucified and only is the Christ. This also is an absurd Consequence and Perversion for they mean that Christ was Crucified according to the Flesh that he was put to Death as concerning the Flesh 1 Pet. 3. 18. which his Spirit or Light within could not be therefore the one thing G. W. and Is. P. Intend or mean is neither to deny Jesus of Nazareth to be Christ nor that he is only a Garment as both are unjustly Charged and 't is to be observed how F. B's Friend George Keith has Contradicted and Confuted him in this very Charge in his Serious Appeal Printed but in 1692. against Cotton Mather p. 25 26. in these words viz. But because he cannot fix his false Charge upon me of denying Christ he Essayeth but with as ill Success to fix it upon my Brethren as Dear Isaac Penington whom I well knew to be a true Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and whose Soul I believe is in Rest in Christ in Heavenly Glory And as to his words we can never call the bodily Garment Christ but that which appeared and dwelt in the Body It is easie to put a fair and charitable Construction on it as well as on Christ's words when he said He that hath seen me hath seen the Father and yet many saw Christ's Body of Flesh that never saw the Father But to clear this thing I. P. speaketh this in opposition to Socinians and others Tinctur'd with Socinian Principles as if the Manhood of Christ that was Born of the Virgin excluding the Eternal Word was the only and whole Christ whereas Christ was before his Body of Flesh therefore he is said to have come in the Flesh and to have taken Flesh and if we consider Christ as he was before the World was by whom all things were Created and in respect of his Godhead the Body was not that but the Garment of it when he assumed it But when we consider Christ as Man as every other Man hath both Soul and Body belonging to his Essential Constitution as Man so had Christ and still hath a most Glorious Soul and Body Observe now how Charitably and Plainly G. Keith hath Vindicated Is. Penington both contrary to F. Bugg's and Tho. Crisp's Calumnies and Abuses against him in this very Matter As to F. B's Railing and Scoffing at Womens Meetings p. 5. falsly Accusing G. Fox with assuming Divine Attributes to HIMSELF and the Quakers with Adoring him p. 6. These often repeated Calumnious Abuses are Answered and Refuted in these Answers to F. B. c. viz. 1. A Just Enquiry 2. A Charitable Essay 3. Innocency Triumphant 4. The Counterfeit Convert 5. The Quakers Vindication against F. Bugg ' s Calumnies 6. The Contentious Apostate and his Blow Refelled 7. The Contentious Apostate Recharged 8. The Quakers Answer 9. Innocency against Envy Some of which Answers are Sold by Tace Sowle and others by Thomas Northcott London F. B. has not given a fair Reply or Answer to any of them but for want of better Matter Reprints his old Refuted Stuff over and over Among those called Divine Attributes which he accuseth G. F. with assuming to himself are these viz. 1. Who is the Son of God 2. I was in the Paradice of God 3. That it was Christ the Eternal Power of God that spake in me at that time unto them 4. Pretended Miracles wrought in his own Name only Journ p. 371 374. 5. He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with God p. 5. Which with other pretended Instances partially and perversly pickt up this Mocker terms a few Instances of Blasphemy But 1. To the first If G. F. said Who is the Son of God which should rather have been a Son of God yet therein he did not say That he himself is the only begotten Son of God that Eminent Title belongs only to Christ for was not Adam called The Son of God Luke 3. 38. Was this then Blasphemy How Ignorant is this Mocker of Scripture Language 2. To the second It was no Blasphemy to say he was in the Paradice of God no more than to say he was a Man in Christ for so said Paul yet no Blasphemer 2 Cor 12. 3. It is no Blasphemy to say That Christ or the Spirit of Christ speaketh in or through his Ministers and Servants for both he and they so testified See Mat. 10. 19. 2 Cor. 13. 3. Mark 13. 11. Luke 12. 11. 4. 'T is a notorious Lie also That G. F. pretended Miracles wrought in his own Name only for he ascribed them not to himself but to the Power of God and his Motion to whom he frequently prayed for the Sick and Diseased upon which the Lord restored some to him therefore G. F. returned the Praise See his Journ p. 103 170 171 407. 5. The fifth Instance as 't is worded is disown'd and we do not believe that G. F. ever said this of himself but that he 's wrong'd herein See what G. Keith saith to it contrary to F. B. Serious Appeal contra Cotton p. 60. viz. And whereas he would in the Conclusion fix it upon G. F. that he thought himself Equal with God and that the Soul of Man was God or a part of him But seeing he bringeth not this from G. F. but from Faldo a most Partial and Envious Adversary it is not to be regarded and W. Penn hath sufficiently Vindicated G. F. and also G. F. hath cleared it in his Book that he did Witness both the Son and the Holy Spirit revealed in him who as he taketh notice by the Westminster Confessions Acknowledgment are Equal to God the Father What says F. B. to this Vindication The rest of his Aspersions are Answered in the aforesaid Answers As to the Account and severe Characters F. B. gives in the Quakers Name against False Ministers and Ministry p. 7 8. this he has scraped and patch'd up and printed and reiterated over and over in most of his Pamphlets against us and will needs have it that therein the Quakers reproach the Ministers of the Gospel Christ's Ministers p. 10. which we positively deny and 't is wholly without proof and what he cannot prove i. e. that we reproach Christ's Ministers in Testifying against

Covetous Persecuting Priests who make a Trade of Preaching and of the Scriptures and such whom the Prophet Isaiah called greedy dumb Dogs Isa. 56. 10 11. How will F. B. prove such Christ's Ministers or Gospel Ministers We have but his bare say-so for it but want proof for it wherein he does but meerly impose upon us to Vilifie us and Ingratiate himself into Favour with that sort of the Clergy who are most Guilty of the Sin of Covetousness and Persecution The Mocker again repeats his false and empty Boast by way of Question p. 12. viz. Why then will you not bring forth Sheba the Son of Bichri the Man of Belial G. W Is there not a wise Man amongst you His Cruel Mocking and Calumny in this unjust Comparison is denied no doubt his Malice is cruel and deadly enough to bring G. W. to Sheba's End if he had Power or could with any Colour or Pretence bring him under Sheba's Crime of Treason or lifting up his Hand against the King 2 Sam. 20. 21 22. For doth not this Mocker's Language Comparison and Treatment of this kind bespeak his deadly Malice and Design He goes on with his empty boasting viz. He tells you That I wrong the Quakers in Charge Citation and Observation ☞ Bring him forth according to his Proposal and you will see it proved that I have not As it was G. W's part to make good his Proposal or Charge against F. B. so he hath greatly endeavoured a Meeting with F. B. in London before Witnesses for the same purpose but evaded by F. B. on other Terms than were in the said Proposal as is before related Now he has no cause to cry Bring him forth according to his Proposal For that is abundantly proved in the Answers before-mentioned Whereas F. B. further boasts G. W. hath wrote to divers Clergy-men to prevail with me to desist they give me his Letters and wish me good Success p. 12. The Clergy-men which G. W. wrote to were William Smithies of Cripplegate London and Isaac Archer of Milden-hall in Suffolk which was to shew them some of his foul Abuses and Calumnies to try them as having a particular Interest in him if they would stop him Why did he not Print G. W's Letters to them and to himself too also But thereby his Abuses and sorry evasive Shifting would have been the more apparent Wherefore seeing he boasts of their wishing him good Success these Two Questions are put to you the said William Smithies and Isaac Archer viz. Q. 1. Do you really in your Consciences Approve of Francis Bugg's writing Books and Pamphlets against the People called Quakers as he hath done Q. 2. Do you really Approve of his Books and Pamphlets writ by him against the said People as namely of these in particular under these Titles viz. 1. The Quakers Detected Printed 1686. 2. New Rome Vnmask'd 1692. 3. New Rome Arraigned which hath in it his Pretended Trial and Pillory Printed in 1693. 4. New Rome Arraigned Second Impression without the Pillory 1694. 5. His Impeachment pretended in Behalf of the Commons of England 1695. 6. A Second Summons 7. His Sheet stiled Something in Answer to the Allegations of the Quakers in their Printed Case presented to the House of Commons December 1695. But the Second Edition whereof stiled The Converted Quaker's Answer to the Allegations of his Old Brethren the Quakers c. CHAP. VIII An Appendix to the foregoing Controversies in Certain Positions of the Sincere Belief and Christian Doctrine of the People of God called Quakers in Opposition to the Misrepresentations and Calumnies of F. Bugg and other Apostates in his pretended History of the Quakers and other his and their Books and Pamphlets 1. WE the said People are bound in Conscience and Duty by the Holy Spirit and Light of Christ Jesus only and humbly to Adore and Worship the only True and Living God Creator of Heaven and Earth the Sea and all Creatures and not to Adore or Worship any Mortal Man or Creature or any other God whatsoever 2. To Believe and Confess the Holy Divine Three or Scripture Trinity that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word or Son and Holy Spirit and that these Three are Essentially One in the Divine Being and Substance One God Blessed for Ever 3. We are livingly taught and led by the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus the Living Word in our Hearts and that according to Holy Scripture to Believe Own and Confess the Incarnation of Jesus Christ that is his Real Coming in the Flesh without us even the same Jesus of Nazareth that was Conceived in the Virgin Mary by the Power of the Holy Ghost overshadowing her and Born of her in Bethlehem of Judea Mat. 2. 1. and that he was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh without the Gates of Jerusalem and we highly do Value and Esteem his Sufferings Death Precious Blood and whole Sacrifice for Sinners together with his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven and Glory and that he only was and is the Promised Messias the Very Christ the Only Begotten Son of the Living God And as for his Divinity That he is the True Light Life Power and Wisdom of God and none other according to plain Scripture Testimony 4. The Divinity and Humanity i. e. Manhood of Christ Jesus that as he is True God and as he is most Glorious Man our Mediator and Advocate we livingly Believe and have often sincerely Confessed in our Publick Testimonies and Writings 5. That as sincere and fervent Prayers to God in the Name and Spirit of Christ Jesus is the Duty of all True Believers and Christians professing him for whatsoever they stand in need of especially with respect to the Peace and Happiness of their Immortal Souls so all who are truly humbled under a Sence of their Sins in order to true Repentance and Conversion ought to crave Forgiveness in the Name and for the Sake of Christ Jesus which hath been our Practice both Publick and Private and God in Mercy hath accordingly answered us who by his Grace in our Hearts hath led many both to confess and forsake Sin that they might find Mercy in Christ Jesus 6. Though we are bound in Conscience truly to Esteem and Magnifie the Divine Light the Ingrafted Word the Spirit and Power of Christ in us as sufficient and able actually to save and deliver the Soul from Sin Death and Condemnation and thereby we Confess the Man Christ Jesus with respect to his entire Existence or Being as without us as well as we do own him Spiritually within us knowing that this Light Life and Spirit of Christ Jesus Testifie of him and certainly Guides the truly Obedient and Sincere Believers in his Name and Power Inwardly Livingly and Experimentally to partake of the Real Benefits Fruits and Blessed Ends of his outward Suffering Sacrifice and Death for Mankind to wit their Repentance Conversion from Sin Effectual Reconciliation unto God Eternal