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A65884	A rambling pilgrim, or, Profane apostate, exposed being an answer to two persecuting books, falsly entitled, I. The pilgrim's progess from Quakerism to Christianity, II. A modest defence, with an epistle dedicatory to his bountiful benefactors / by G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing W1951; ESTC R20202	45,954	62

solemn Testimony how expresly contrary it is to his present Treatment of us the said People as it is in his Book stiled The Quakers Detected c. printed 1686. about Two Years after his leaving our Communion and Conforming to the Church of England as 't is in his own words following viz. The first Point under Consideration is how I came to be a Member of their Society c. i.e. of the Quakers In the beginning they taught That all Men were enlightned according to John 1. 9. and that this Light wherewith Christ had enlightned them was sufficient if obeyed to lead to Salvation and that it was the Work of the Ministers of Christ to turn the Peoples Minds from Darkness to Light and from the Power of Satan to God Affirming That this Light was a sufficient Teacher Leader and Guide to every Believer without the help of outward Prescriptions Forms Orders and Decrees of Men Upon these and the like Notions I became perswaded to make Trial of their Doctrine and when I came to see and observe their Practice Conversations and Deportments in the Beginning and what Simplicity and Plainness attended their Ministry I was still more Confirmed that it was a Dispensation of the Love of God sent as a Visitation to Mankind And being thus perswaded I was resolved to bear the Cross and did utterly despise the Shame that attended them and their Message and was not behind any of my Equals both in doing and suffering for the Testimony thereof as some amongst them can still bear me Witness And in this manner we went on for many Years and loved one another with Love unfeigned and doubtless God blessed our Meetings with the Comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence p. 3. From which solemn Confession thus made by Fra. Bugg after he forsook our Communion and went to the Publick as he saith it follows naturally that he did not forsake us because of our Christian Principle or Profession of the Light or because of our Doctrine Conversation Communion or Meetings or any Dislike had thereof but because he deem'd us guilty of Apostacy from our first Principle and Profession and that by his own Confession he did not thereby make his Progress from Egypt into Canaan appears by his applying to himself the words of Joseph when in Egypt viz. But I can say as Joseph did to his Brethren Gen. 50. 20. But as for you ye thought Evil against me but God meant it unto Good And Chap. 45. 5. Now therefore be not griev'd nor angry with your selves that you sold me hither Quakers detected p. 8. How came F. B. to apply these words to his State when turn'd from us to the Publick if he did not think himself then in Egypt or turn'd from the true Light into Darkness But we sold him not thither he fled in Winter when he had let in Unbelief and Fearfulness because of Suffering and Persecution which he had felt something of but fell into Impatiency and Quarreling under it and having lost Sincerity and Truth turn'd Envious Temporizer And because he has so frequently and falsly charg'd the said People with denying Jesus of Nazareth and Contempt of holy Scripture I may acquaint you with One or Two Passages more which concern himself as recited in my Answer to his New Rome Arraigned entitled Innocency Triumphant over Insolency and Outrage printed 1693. p. 25 26. as followeth viz. And to his saying The Names Jesus and Christ are given to the Mediator c. True but what follow Therefore quoth F. B. 't is no Absurdity to say It was not Jesus Christ for whom the Body was prepared it was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh but the Word John 1. 1. Apol. Introd p. 3. And yet he has confessed it was the Son of God that took the Body p. 4. What Confusion and Self-contradiction does the Man blindly run into And how contrary to the Apostle John's Testimony is his Doctrine herein See 1 John 4. 2 3. Every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is of God and every Spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is not of God but this is the Spirit of Anti-Christ What Spirit is this in our Adversary which saith It was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh Who was it then It was the Word the Son of God As if Jesus Christ were neither the Word nor the Son of God O horrible Anti-Christianism And contrary also to that Martyr Dr. Barnes his Confession as cited by F. Bugg himself p. 4. 5. viz. I believe that without Man's Will or Power Christ Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost and took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary Acts and Mon. p. 610. Now If Jesus Christ took Flesh of the blessed Virgin Mary then it was Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh But it was Jesus Christ that took Flesh Therefore 't was Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh. Consequently F. Bugg's Doctrine That it was not Jesus Christ that came in the Flesh is Anti-Christian Anti-Apostolical and Contradictory to the said Martyr's Doctrine In his Book stiled De Christianâ Libertate Part 2. Chap. 1. he confesseth in the Name and Person of the People called Quakers That we told them i. e. the said People that the Scriptures were good and a true Declaration of those things which were most surely believ'd by the Apostles and by us ought to be believ'd yet not the only Rule but still the Spirit of God which was the first Principle c. And many more Confessions he has given to the Truth of our Principles both with respect to Jesus Christ his Light and the holy Scriptures Now I recommend you to the faithful Witness of Truth in all your Hearts which will Judge Righteously and desire you seriously to peruse the following Treatise and hear us in our Answers and Defence as well as our Adversary in his Accusations remembering that common Maxim To Condemn no Man before he be heard By a Servant of Jesus Christ and real Friend to your Immortal Souls G. Whitehead London the 30th of the 4th Month 1699. The CONTENTS of this Treatise PART I. OF Francis Bugg's Fictitious Profane Sermon in G. Whitehead's Name From Page 1 to p. 16. Of our Yearly Meeting p. 1 2. Of the Scriptures p. 2 3. Of one only God the Father Son and Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures p. 3 4. Of Confession of Sin and Prayer to God p. 5 6. Of the Ten Commandments and Moral Law p. 7 8. Of his gross Fiction against the Holy Scripture and the Light within p. 9. Of his resembling the Mockers Psalm 35. 21. and 40. 15. p. 9. His Forgery against William Bingley and Ben. Bealing's Certificate p. 10 11. His repeated Forgery about G. Fox touching the Branch the Star c. p. 12 13. Of his Counterfeit Court and Condemnation p. 13. His Forgery and Frofaneness about our Light and Exaltation p. 14.

the Bible not to be first given forth from one and the same Spirit of Truth from which we have given forth Writings and Religious Books which contain many Doctrines in the Bible and by referring thereto they prefer the Bible and the Divine Authority of the holy Scriptures contain'd therein And we still prefer the Bible before all other Books extant in the World For even the Statute-Book is of greater Authority than all the Abstracts made of it how true so ever And whereas he takes Occasion against me about an Answer given to a Priest's Question viz. Is the Moral Law or Ten Commandments a Rule to the Christians Life The Answer is Thou mightest as well ask If the Moral Law be a Rule to Christ For the Christians Life and Rule is Christ to which F. B. adds Meaning their Light within And suppose I meant so as I did mean That Christ was and is the Christians Light and Life Col. 3. 3 4. 't is not Christians Lives and Conversations in the Question but Christian's Life in the Singular to which the Answer was adapted that the Christian's Life is Christ when Christ who is our Life shall appear Col. 3. 4. Can we suppose this Life or Light to be under the Law which was added because of Transgression till the Seed came or under those Prohibitions in the Ten Words or Commandments Or is it meet or proper to apply them thereunto and say to Christ or his Light in Christians Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain Thou shalt not bear false Witness c. Or is it good Doctrine to suppose True Christians in Christ to be literally under the Law of those Prohibitions and thereby only restrained from Idolatry from taking the Name of God in vain from Killing from committing Adultery from Stealing and bearing false Witness against their Neighbours Or are they not rather redeem'd by Christ from that Depravity and corrupt Inclination from whence those Evils proceed and consequently under a higher Restraint from those gross Inormities prohibited even by his Light and Grace dwelling in their Hearts than only the Letter of the Law as outwardly written The Substance whereof God first writ in Man's Heart and after writ it in the Two Tables Exod. 31. 18. Deut. 9. 10. Exod. 34. 1. before Moses writ the Law And Christ the true Light and Lawgiver writes his Laws of the New Covenant in Men's Hearts and he it is who came not to destroy the Law but fulfils the Righteousness of the Law in them that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. Christ being also the End of the Law for Righteousness not for Transgression to them that believe This Point is spoken to before though here farther Explain'd And further F. B. bitterly inveighs against our Silent Meetings which in Derision he calls Silent Universities tending only to empty the Mind of all true and solid Notions of the Christian Religion and only to prepare them to the wild Notions of Quakerism and this he affirms from an Experimental Knowledge he saith p. 7. and calls them Schools of Ignorance and that they had strange Effects upon us and how we thereby became not only levened into a Temper to throw off all Instituted Religion but to a degree higher even to throw Contempt both upon the Scriptures Ordinances and Ministers and all things Sacred p. 8. And by their Silent Meetings weaned and drawn off from the Principles and Practices of the Christian Churches in all Ages p. 10. Answer Whither art thou now run F. B Thy own Confessions condemns thee and shall rise up in Judgment against these Envious Evil Reports of thine against those Meetings of our's for which thou hast confessed even since thou left them That God blessed our Meetings with the comfortable Enjoyment of his Presence Which could not tend to any such ill Effects as before rehearsed as either To Empty our Minds of the Knowledge of the Christians Religion or To make our said Meetings Schools of Ignorance or To Throw Contempt upon the Scriptures or To draw us off from the Principles and Practices of true Christian Churches How hast thou herein blasphemed against the true Light against the comfortable Presence of God wherewith he blessed our Meetings And how hast thou Given thy self the Lye and bely'd thy own Conscience in thus contradicting thy own solid Confessions made to our Doctrine of the true Light Ministry Dispensation of God's Love our Sufferings Love unfeigned blessed Meetings c. As also that We told People That the Scriptures were Good and a true Declaration of those things which were most surely believed by the Apostles and by us ought to be believed yet not the only Rule but still the Spirit of God which was the first Principle c. As more largely thou hast confessed in thy Book De Christianâ Libertate Or Liberty of Conscience upon its true and proper Grounds asserted and vindicated printed 1682. Part 2. Chap. 1. And thy Offence against Light Conviction and Conscience and thy Self-contradiction and Condemnation may farther also appear 1st From thy own Account and Consideration How thou camest to be a Member of our Society The Reasons thereof thou hast given in thy Quakers Detected printed 1686. two Years after thou left us and Conformed wherein thou hast given solemn Confession to the Truth of our Principle the Light and the Sufficiency thereof our Ministry Conversation Love Society blessed Meetings c. 2. And then placing the Cause of thy being Weary of our Society and turning to the Church of England upon the Quakers Apostacy as thou judgedst i. e. from our first Principles of Union see thy Quakers Detected p. 3 4. 3. Now to go round again Thy Great Work is to Expose our ancient first Principles and Testimony to as much Derision and Contempt as thy loose Invention can Produce Witness thy idle Romance and false Fiction which thou falsly termest George Whitehead's Sermon detected but especially thy profane Contempt against our Testimony of the Light within or in Man which now instead of owning it to be that True Light testified of in John 1. 9. wherewith Christ hath Enlightened Men the Treatment and Characters this Light meets withal from thee is That 't was a Parodox not Orthodox but absolutely Heterodox to exhort to the Light within to obey the Light within and to follow the Teachings thereof as a Guide sufficient to lead us to Salvation c. Pilgrim's Progress p. 5. opposing their i. e. the Quakers Light within to the Christians Life which is Christ p. 6. to the Man Christ as if Christ being Man without us hindered him from being our Light as he is the Word in us which were Ignorantly to suppose him divided And F. Bugg perverting Josiah Cole's words on John 5. 22. All Judgment is committed unto the Son i. e. the Light J. C's Works p. 93. This say'st thou Is a bold Attempt this is most Horrible