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<P>A Sober Expo&s;tulation, With &s;ome of the Hearers of the QUAKERS, Again&s;t the in&s;olent Boldne&s;s of their <HI>Mercenary Teachers.</HI></P>
<P>In Two Tracts, <HI>viz.</HI> Their
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<ITEM>Sober Expo&s;tulation with the Clergy, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> By <HI>G. Whitehead.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Primitive Chri&s;tianity continued, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> By <HI>Jo&s;. Wyeth.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>BEING A Vindication of Mr. <HI>Archer,</HI> Mr. <HI>Smithies,</HI> and the Reverend Author of the Book, Intituled, <HI>The Snake in the Gra&s;s,</HI> from the Quakers foul Im|putations; as well as a farther Di&s;covery of the Au|dacious In&s;olency of the Ring-leaders of that Sect: Being a Forerunner of a farther Confutation of their Errors and pernicious Principles, which tend to Undermine the Chri&s;tian Religion.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> Francis Bugg, <HI>Senior.</HI></P>
<Q>Their Poy&s;on is like the Poy&s;on of a Serpent: They are like the deaf Adder that &s;toppeth her Ear, <BIBL><HI>P&s;alm 58.4.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON.</HI> Printed for <HI>C. Brome,</HI> at the <HI>Gun,</HI> at the We&s;t end of St <HI>Paul</HI>'s.</P>
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<HEAD>THE INTRODUCTION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THE en&s;uing Expo&s;tulation is oc|ca&s;ioned by the bold attempts of the <HI>Quaker-Teachers;</HI> who, notwith&s;tand|ing the manife&s;t Di&s;covery of their gro&s;s Errors and pernicious Principles in the &s;ight and view of the Nation; yet &s;uch is their Impudence, That in&s;tead of their Publi&s;hing an ingenuous Retractation as might rea&s;onably be expected, they boldly, (in their Expo&s;tulation) Threaten the Mini&s;ters and Clergy of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> That if they do not &s;top me from Writing against them, That, the <HI>Cry will be louder, and a&s;cend higher
<PB REF="3" MS="y">than them&s;elves:</HI> That they are re&s;ol|ved not to lye under &s;uch Scandals; which &s;ay they, are Intolerable in their own Nature. And, <HI>p. 106. But if you (the Clergy) will be Mute in this Matter, and &s;uffer him</HI> (Fra. Bugg) <HI>to go on in his wonted cour&s;e, in Vilifying and A|bu&s;ing us, [by calling us,</HI> New Rome, Rome<HI>'s</HI> Si&s;ter; Rome our Elder Si&s;ter: That we follow the Steps of the Je&s;uits, <HI>&amp;c.] without your publick Reprehen&s;ion, or di&s;like thereof, then may you be ju&s;tly called in Que&s;tion, and Expo&s;ed there|upon for your neglect of Ju&s;tice.</HI> And p. <HI>17.</HI> Concerning <HI>Bugg</HI>'s a&s;&s;uming Pow|er as a Judge; and in his own Name to Try, Examine, Sentence and Condemn, Citizens and Trades-men, as Perjured Per&s;ons, to the Pillory; and that in their Ab&s;ence too: In his <HI>Mock-Tryal,</HI> erect|ing the form of a Pillory, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Reflecting on Mr. <HI>Archer</HI> for his Approbation. Now, as to the Pillory and Mock-Tryal, Mr. <HI>Archer</HI> never &s;aw it, nor yet knew of it until Printed in a prefix'd Epi&s;tle after the Book was Printed. Now Rea|der, ob&s;erve in the following Expo&s;tula|tion,
<PB REF="3">whether the Quakers have not far more pre&s;umptuou&s;ly and in their own Name, Tryed, Examined, Sentenced and Condemned the Clergy of the Church of <HI>England;</HI> and that behind their Backs: And many Thou&s;ands whom they never &s;aw nor knew. But this they like of; this they boa&s;t and brag of; and Print, and Re-print, to the Scandal of the Christian Religion: This they Justifie on all Occa&s;ions. Of which In&s;olency, more anon.</P>
<P>Again, <HI>Jo&s;eph Wyeth,</HI> alias <HI>Doeg,</HI> the <HI>Edomite,</HI> poor <HI>Benjamin Antrobus</HI>'s Thriving Journey-man, he comes forth with a Book, &s;tiled, <HI>Primitive Chri&s;tia|nity continued,</HI> &amp;c. And as a Tool for the Cabal, Fal&s;ely charges the Reverend Au|thor of the Book Intituled, <HI>The Snake in the Gra&s;s,</HI> &amp;c. to be a Nece&s;&s;itous, Malici|ous Expul&s;ed Prie&s;t, one who Writes for his Bread, and to repair his Lo&s;&s;es; which he charges the pre&s;ent E&s;tabli&s;hment to have brought upon him: A Villain; who to divert his Cares, and Fears, and to &s;up|ply his Wants, &s;pends his time in Cata|logues
<PB REF="4">of Here&s;ies, to club Quotations from our Adver&s;aries, from whom in part he receives his Bread; who is a foul Ve&s;&s;el, not capable to receive In&s;pirati|on, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Thus Reader, you &s;ee how they threaten and Revile the Clergy, if they do not &s;top me from writing again&s;t them: yet you &s;ee, how ba&s;ely they traduce this Learned Author, who&s;e great Service to the Church of God, can never by Man be fully rewarded; yet is he &s;o rewarded, that he neither wants, nor writes for Bread: And Ble&s;&s;ed be God, who hath rai&s;ed him up, and in|&s;pired him with Zeal, to unmask the mo&s;t formidable Here&s;ie that ever aro&s;e &s;ince the days of <HI>Simon Magus.</HI> And if the Quotations from matter of plain Fact, have been brought forth and prepared for him, as for a Ma&s;ter-Workman that needeth not to be a&s;hamed by my &s;elf, or others: I am glad and rejoice therein; yea, and will rejoice, and think it Ho|nour enough to be &s;erviceable to &s;uch an In&s;trument in God's hand: And in this Work, I am no whit di&s;couraged; in that
<PB REF="4">I &s;ee it Pro&s;per, and Quakeri&s;m is Wi|thering every day. And Woe to the Merchants of <HI>Babylon,</HI> who begin to Weep and Mourn, Fret and Fume, &s;ay|ing, <HI>None will buy our Merchandi&s;e any more.</HI></P>
<P>As for the Names and Epithets they have be&s;towed upon me; as, <HI>Bea&s;t, Dog, Wolf, enemy of all Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Child of the Devil, Devil Incarnate, Apo&s;tate, Self-condemned Apo&s;tate, Counterfeit-Convert, a &s;candal to Chri&s;tianity,</HI> and a <HI>&s;editious Incendi|ary,</HI> and a hundred &s;uch-like Names; all this mu&s;t be born from them: This is the Meekne&s;s and Gentlene&s;s of Lamb-like Quakers: But they mu&s;t give me leave a little to Expo&s;tulate the matter with their Hearers, &s;ince they have taught me the way, by their Ex|po&s;tulation with my Teachers; and this will be but turning the Tables, and for which, I think, there is great rea&s;on; &s;ince <HI>Doeg</HI> in the Name, and by the Approbation of their whole Conclave, hath
<PB REF="5">a&s;&s;ured us, <HI>p. 6.</HI> That their <HI>Principles are now no other than they were in the beginning,</HI> even when Quakeri&s;m took its Date, <HI>1650.</HI> So that they are not Changed it &s;eems; the more is the Pity. And &s;o much &s;hall &s;erve for an Introductory Preface.</P>
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<HEAD>A &s;ober Expostulation with <HI>John Pea|cock, John Hubard, Thomas Bru&s;ter,</HI> and the re&s;t, mentioned in the Introduction to <HI>The Brief Hi&s;tory of QUAKERISM,</HI> to whom I once gave a private Summons to meet me, either to Ju&s;tifie or to Con|demn the Errors of their Teachers: Which <HI>G. W.</HI> al&s;o Printed in his <HI>Sober Expo&s;tulation,</HI> with his &s;hort and pa&s;&s;ionate Re&s;entment there|of; as the effect of Pride, Pa&s;&s;ion, Pre&s;ump|tion and In&s;olency, thus to i&s;&s;ue out &s;uch a <HI>Mandatory</HI> and menacing Summons to &s;o many Per&s;ons in divers Counties and Places; as <HI>London, Suffolk, Norfolk, Norwich, &amp;c.</HI> To bring forth <HI>G. W.</HI> &amp;c. Now let us &s;ee whether if it be &s;o, I did not learn it of the <HI>Quakers.</HI> Viz.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>I. <HI>FIRST then,</HI> J. Peacock, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers, without Rebuke, to charge and &s;can|dalize the Author of the <HI>Snake in the Gra&s;s, &amp;c.</HI> to be a Nece&s;&s;itous Prie&s;t that writ for Bread; &s;ince your own Teachers them|&s;elves, Namely, <HI>G. Fox,</HI> the Journey-man Shoema|ker, <HI>Sam. Cater,</HI> a poor Carpenter, <HI>Geo. Whitehead,</HI> who came a poor Boy out of the North on Foot, and many others, both Wrote and Preached for Bread; being a poor nece&s;&s;itous &s;ort of Men, who
<PB N="2" REF="6">lived chiefly at other Men's Tables; and you, as well as I, know it to be &s;o &s;till?</P>
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<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Why</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers to Publi&s;h and Print, That the Prote&s;tant Clergy are <HI>Thieves, Robbers, Anti-Chri&s;ts, Sodomites, Witches, Devils, Conjurers, Blood-hounds,</HI> the <HI>Sir Simons of the Age,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Call and Commi&s;&s;ion, came from</HI> Oxford, <HI>and</HI> Cambridge, <HI>Bablylon</HI>'s <HI>Merchants, &s;elling Bea&s;tly Wares,</HI> the <HI>Letter</HI> which is <HI>Du&s;t and Death?</HI> &amp;c. Now, the Clergy are re&s;olved not to lye under the&s;e your &s;candalous Detractions; and therefore in their Name, I demand Satisfaction and Repara|tion; otherwi&s;e the&s;e malicious Epithetes, will af|fect you, and the Cry will be loud and a&s;cend higher than your &s;elves; for they are re&s;olved not to lye under your Teachers foul Calumnies. But if you will be mute in this matter, and &s;uffer them to per&s;i&s;t in their wonted cour&s;e, in vilify|ing and abu&s;ing the Reverend Clergy, without your publick reprehen&s;ion and di&s;like thereof, then may you be farther called in Que&s;tion, and Ex|po&s;ed thereupon, for your neglect of Ju&s;tice, <HI>&amp;c,</HI> Thus Reader, are the Scales fairly turned, and the Land-&s;hifted, and the Pit the Quakers dig|ged for others, are they them&s;elves ju&s;tly fallen into. <HI>A Brief Di&s;covery,</HI> &amp;c. p. 7, 8, 9.</P>
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<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Weather-cock to call the Prote&s;tant Clergy an Idle Gormandizing Gene|ration, the bane of both Soul and Body of the Univer&s;e? See <HI>Pon's Guide Mi&s;taken,</HI> &amp;c. p. 18.</P>
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<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers to Dia|logue the Bi&s;hops and all Prelaticals, as Mon&s;ters of an Adulterate Harlot, brought forth from an Adulterous Womb? Saying, <HI>Behold all ye Arch Bi|&s;hops, Lord Bi&s;hops, Deans, Prebends, Doctors, Vicars, and Curates, and all Prelaticals, here is the Womb of your Conception opened, from whence you drew your Breath: Therefore hear and con&s;ider you, Bi|&s;hops,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>You mu&s;t come to the Bar; your Common-Prayer Book is &s;een to be conceived in thy Adulterous Womb; which is now ript up, and to branch forth from the Pope.</HI> See <HI>Smith</HI>'s <HI>Works,</HI> p. 157. And a brief Hi&s;tory of <HI>Quakeri&s;m</HI> Drawn to the Life, p. 35. to 50. where this and <HI>W. Pen</HI>'s la&s;t Recital is more largely handled.</P>
<P>Come on <HI>John Peacock,</HI> &amp;c. Are not the&s;e Vil|lainous and Scandalous Expre&s;&s;ions intolerable? The Bi&s;hops will not lye under the&s;e your &s;candalous Invectives: Therefore on their be|half I demand Satisfaction; otherwi&s;e the&s;e ma|licious and black Attempts will affect you; and the Cry will be Louder, and a&s;cend higher than your &s;elves. But if you will be mute in this matter, and &s;uffer your mercinary Teachers to per|&s;i&s;t in their wonted cour&s;e, in Villifying and Abu|&s;ing their Lord&s;hips, in calling them up and Try|ing them at their Bar, without your publick Re|prehen&s;ion, then may you be further called in Que&s;tion, and Expo&s;ed thereupon, for your neglect of Ju&s;tice,</P>
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<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P>Again. <HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers to erect a Mock-court of Judicature for the Clergy; to call them up to your Bar, Examin, Sentence and Condemn them? As by your Book, Intituled, <HI>A Ju&s;t and Lawful Tryal of the Mini&s;ters of this Age; by a perfect Proceeding again&s;t them: And hereby they are Righteou&s;ly Examined, and Ju&s;tly Weighed, and Truly Mea&s;ured and condemned to Di&s;agree, and be contrary to all the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t in former Ages: And to agree and concur with all the fal&s;e Prophets and Deceivers, in their Call, in their Maintenance, and Doctrin; and being brought to the Bar of Ju&s;tice, are truly Charged, and legally proved upon them, and found guilty,</HI> &amp;c. See <HI>Burroughs</HI>'s Works, p. 223. As in <HI>A Brief Hi&s;tory of the ri&s;e of Quakeri&s;m,</HI> &amp;c. p. 23. is more largely handled.</P>
<P>Now, my old Friends, what think you of your Teachers pride and in&s;olent Pre&s;umption? This <HI>Burroughs</HI> was one of your Prophets; and <HI>White|head</HI>'s Approbation was in the Re-print of this Tryal. What think you of &s;mooth <HI>George?</HI> But to proceed;</P>
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<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers to Summon the Clergy in their u&s;ual way and manner, without your Rebuke? See <HI>W. Smith</HI>'s Works, p. 161. Viz. <HI>A General Summons from the Authority of Truth, to all Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Courts and Officers,</HI> &amp;c. See this more at large, in <HI>A Brief Hi&s;t. of the Ri&s;e of Qua|keri&s;m,</HI> &amp;c. p. 32.</P>
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<P>Now, Let us Expo&s;tulate the Matter; What think you? May the Quakers Summon, Arraign, Try, Judge and Condemn at their Bar, all the Bi&s;hops and Clergy, their Courts and Officers, and the whole Church and State, and Print and Re|print the &s;ame; Commend and Re-commend the &s;ame; &s;end it thus Printed to all their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, in <HI>England, Holland, Scotland, Ireland,</HI> and Parts beyond the Sea? And, may not I, by Letter, Summon Twelve of you, to examin the Deceit and Hypocri&s;ie of <HI>Geo. Whitehead?</HI> But,</P>
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<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers to contemn and &s;et at nought the Scriptures? As in their Book-<HI>News coming up out of the North,</HI> &amp;c. p. 14. Viz. <HI>Your Original is carnal Hebrew, Greek and Latin: And your Word is Carnal: The Leter and the Light is Carnal: The Leter and your Bapti&s;m is Carnal; and their Bapti&s;m is Carnal, a little Bread and Wine: So du&s;t is the Serpent's Meat. Their Original is but Du&s;t, which is but the Leter; which is Death. So the Serpent feeds upon Du&s;t, and their Go&s;pel is Du&s;t;</HI> Matthew, Mark, Luke <HI>and</HI> John; <HI>which is but the Leter.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers to deny and reject the Ordinances of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t;</HI> as Bapti&s;m and the Lord's-Supper, and neglect and refu&s;e to make Confe&s;&s;ion of their Sins to God, and ask Pardon for Chri&s;t's &s;ake, and not rebuke their Hypocri&s;ie, who tell the World in their Sheet, Intituled, <HI>The Quakers Vindication,</HI> &amp;c. deliver'd to the Parliament in 1693. That they own them
<PB N="6" REF="8">&s;cripturally con&s;idered; which is as much as any body does; unle&s;s he meant, As they own the Scrip|tures, <HI>Viz.</HI> To be <HI>Death, Du&s;t, and Serpents Food;</HI> and thereupon reject them, and practice neither for forty Years together? For a full di&s;covery of their Deceit herein, &s;ee <HI>The Picture of Quakeri&s;m,</HI> &amp;c. p. 60, to 80, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>&rindx; When <HI>William Mead</HI> gave <HI>William Harris</HI> one of <HI>G. Fox</HI>'s Journals, he told him, <HI>It was a very good Book: Yea,</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>better than the Bible.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your Teachers to exalt their own Sufferings, as greater than the Sufferings of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> his Apo&s;tles and Martyrs, and holy Con|fe&s;&s;ors; in the Ten Per&s;ecutions, the Iri&s;h Ma&s;&s;a|cree, and days of Queen <HI>Mary?</HI> As in <HI>Burroughs</HI>'s Works, Re-printed by <HI>Whitehead</HI>'s Approbation; in 1672. See p. 273. as at large Quoted in <HI>The Pic|ture of Quakeri&s;m,</HI> from p. 81. to 90.</P>
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<HEAD>X.</HEAD>
<P><HI>AND,</HI> When <HI>G. W.</HI> was no longer able to Glo&s;s over their Bla&s;phemous Doctrin; but &s;aid in his <HI>Antidote,</HI> p. 254. Viz. <HI>The Compari&s;on made</HI> [<HI>by</HI> E. Burroughs] <HI>of the Quakers Sufferings, As greater and more unju&s;t than in the days of</HI> Chri&s;t, <HI>and of his Apo&s;tles, or any time &s;ince, is a mi&s;take; And, whether it was &s;o fir&s;t verbally Stated by</HI> Edw Burroughs, <HI>or &s;ometime &s;ince, I will not determin, unle&s;s I &s;ee the Original Copy,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Come on, <HI>John Peacock, &amp;c.</HI> and tell me at this rate, how it is po&s;&s;ible to confute Quakeri&s;m, to their Conviction; when &s;uch Starting-holes are
<PB N="7" REF="8">admitted. You &s;ee here is plain Bla&s;phemy laid down for Doctrin, by <HI>Burroughs,</HI> in order to exalt their own Sufferings, and to undervalue the Death and Sufferings of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> You &s;ee al&s;o, That after much Struggling, that 'tis confe&s;s'd by <HI>Whitehead,</HI> &s;o far at lea&s;t, As that he will not &s;tand by it, not deny it, unle&s;s he could &s;ee the Original Copy. Behold and wonder! Will you the Hearers &s;uffer this? Are you Ear-bored to <HI>Whitehead?</HI> What! a Book given forth by the Quakers infallible Spi|rit, in 1657. And &s;o pa&s;s among you as the Word of the Lord; Commended and Re-commended as the Oracle of God Twenty two Years; and then Re-printed by the order and Approbation of <HI>Geo. Whitehead,</HI> and the re&s;t of their Peers, and now to call for the Original Copy! it is &s;uch a thing as none but <HI>G. W.</HI> who&s;e Brow is Bra&s;s, and his Forehead Ca&s;e-hardned Steel, would ever have attempted it.</P>
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<HEAD>XI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do your Teachers &s;ay, That it is as lawful to Tolerate Popery as Epi&s;copacy, and yet &s;eek to to the Epi&s;copalians for Liberty? Is not this Hypocri&s;ie? Why do you not Rebuke them, and tell them when they go creeping and fawning to the Parliament, that it is great Hypocri&s;ie; and that they ought fir&s;t to retract &s;uch Doctrin, and condemn &s;uch Books, before they crave Liberty of &s;uch to whom they would give none, were it in their power? See <HI>Rich. Huberthorn</HI>'s Works, p. 227. Or, ask them, if they by &s;uch Doctrin, had not a de&s;ign in ca&s;e Popery had come in (for it would have been doubtle&s;s a good Plea) to have obtain'd the Order of St. <HI>George.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>XII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>PRAY</HI> ob&s;erve <HI>Geo. Whitehead</HI>'s <HI>Sober Expo|&s;tulation,</HI> &amp;c. p. 72, 73. where he recites Numeri|cally, nine or ten Particulars, wherein I charged the Quakers to be Erroneous. Eight of them he pa&s;&s;es by &s;ilently, without one word of Reply. A quick way of An&s;wering Books; at that rate, one Sheet may well &s;erve to an&s;wer Twenty. Who then would concern them&s;elves with them, were it not to &s;top others from running into the &s;ame Snare. The Particulars are,</P>
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<ITEM N="1">1. You Quakers can neither make Confe&s;&s;ion of Sin to God, nor beg Pardon for Chri&s;t's &s;ake.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">2. You do not Pray after that manner, <HI>viz. Forgive us our Sins, as we forgive them that Tre&s;pa&s;s again&s;t us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">3. You do not Pray in the Name of Chri&s;t, to God the Father, as the Mediator and Inter|ce&s;&s;or between God and Man.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="4">4. You lay a&s;ide the u&s;e of the Scripture, as U&s;ele&s;s (with re&s;pect to reading them in your Meetings, or once recommending them to be &s;o read) by your Books, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="5">5. You deny the Ordinances of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; as <HI>Bapti&s;m</HI> and the <HI>Lord</HI>'s-<HI>Supper,</HI> which the Scriptures teach; &s;aying, <HI>Go teach all Nati|ons, Baptizing,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Do this in remembrance of me,</HI> &amp;c.</ITEM>
<PB N="9" REF="9">
<ITEM N="6">6. You lay a&s;ide the u&s;e of the <HI>Lord's Prayer</HI> [in Families, and never recommend the Pra|ctice thereof in any one of your Books.]</ITEM>
<ITEM N="7">7. You lay a&s;ide the u&s;e of the <HI>Ten Command|ments</HI> (given by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI>) in your Families and in your Meetings, and never &s;o much as re|commend the Practice thereof in any one of your Books.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="8">8. You lay a&s;ide the u&s;e of the <HI>Apo&s;tles Creed,</HI> and never Practice it in your Families or Meetings; nor recommend the Practice there|of in any one of your Books.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The&s;e Eight Particulars, <HI>G. W.</HI> &s;pake nothing to; and the rea&s;on is very plain, he could not: And yet this goes for an An&s;wer, with the poor deluded Quakers, notwith&s;tanding. They are and contain &s;uch fundamental Articles of the Chri&s;tian Faith, as that whoever lives out of the Faith and Practice of them, I do affirm, they are not Chri|&s;tians. And therefore Rebuke your Teachers, and put them upon Clearing them&s;elves, not only of their Ignorance and Unbelief of tho&s;e Eight Parti|culars, but of the Twenty four Particulars in this Expo&s;tulation again&s;t your mercenary Teachers. Now hear the 9th.</P>
<P N="9">9. You rob Chri&s;t of his Divine Attributes, and put them upon your Glorified <HI>Geo. Fox;</HI> cal|ling him, The <HI>Branch,</HI> the <HI>Star,</HI> the <HI>Son of Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> &amp;c. Which if this Paper were de&s;igned for an An&s;wer, I &s;hould &s;peak to.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="10">
<P>But, I have plainly proved it by my Books, <HI>New Rome &V;nmasked,</HI> and <HI>New Rome Arraigned;</HI> and <HI>The Quakers &s;et in their true Light:</HI> Which are not by me at the writing hereof; &s;o refer to my former Books, bottomed upon Matter of Fact from the Quakers Books; as is frequent with <HI>G. W.</HI> to do, to avoid Repetition.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you not reprove your Teachers for their Hypocri&s;ie, in forcing their Apprentices to &s;tand Bare-headed before them, who deny to give the like Re&s;pect to their Superiors?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you not publickly Condemn <HI>Sam. Cater</HI>'s Book, and your Book of Records at <HI>Haden|ham,</HI> wherein I once Recorded it; wherein he pre|tended to &s;uffer 20 <HI>l.</HI> for Preaching at <HI>Phakenham</HI> Meeting in <HI>Norfolk;</HI> when indeed, he was &s;o far from &s;uffering twenty Pence, that he had Ten Pounds profit for being at that Meeting; as at large I have el&s;ewhere made it appear? Why will you &s;uffer &s;uch Hypocrites among you? See <HI>The Picture of Quakeri&s;m,</HI> &amp;c. p. 106, to 110.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XV.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer your She-Prelates, <HI>i. e. Ann Dockwra,</HI> to tell &s;olemn Lies to the Magi&s;trates to &s;erve a Turn? Who being by the Magi&s;trates asked, whether the Quakers had a Common Pur&s;e or Bank; &s;he an&s;wered <HI>No.</HI> Which &s;aid &s;he (in her Letter to me) gave them great Satisfaction. Yet in the &s;ame Letter, &s;he confe&s;s'd to me, that
<PB N="11" REF="10">you have a Bank, or Common Fund, and that it would never be well whil&s;t the Quakers put away their Dagon. As at large, in her Letter to me, Printed in <HI>The Picture of Quakeri&s;m,</HI> p. 148, to 150. Moreover, &s;he therein told me, That the Mag&s;trates looked upon Common Banks or Fonds, to be as bad as Arms and Amunition: And to prevent that, &s;he thus deceived them. As indeed 'tis their very way &s;o to do; I find them &s;tick at nothing that is for the advance of their New <HI>Ca|tholick Cau&s;e;</HI> like that of <HI>G. W.</HI> &amp;c. who to &s;erve a Turn, could own the Scriptures to be of Divine Authority; yea, given by Divine In&s;pira|tion; and in their Books pretended to give it the Preference to all other Books Extant; whil&s;t their Books in the mean time teach. That the Scriptures are <HI>Death, Du&s;t, Serpents Meat, Bea&s;tly Ware,</HI> &amp;c. And that they read their own Books in their Meetings, and never read one Chapter of the Bible in their Meetings this Forty Years. Nay further, in that very Book Intituled, <HI>Several Pa|pers given forth, for the &s;preading of Truth; by</HI> Geo. Fox, <HI>Mini&s;ter of the Eternal Word of God;</HI> as he Sub&s;cribes him&s;elf: And in which Book he gives a &s;pecial Charge, to have it read in their Meet|ings; yet in this very Book as well as in that &s;tiled, <HI>News coming up,</HI> &amp;c. He there calls the Scrip|ture, even <HI>Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Dust, and Serpents Food. Oh,</HI> the Hypocri&s;ie of your Leaders! who al&s;o own the Ble&s;&s;ed Trinity in the like manner: And therefore rouze up your &s;elves, and Condemn their Books, Reprove their two|fac'd Practices, and that Publickly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="part">
<PB N="12" REF="11">
<HEAD>XVI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you &s;uffer G. <HI>Whitehead, Gilbert Layt,</HI> &amp;c. &s;o to expo&s;e their Hypocri&s;ie, as to go to the Bi&s;hops and Clergy with their Books again&s;t me, until they fir&s;t Condemn their Books wherein they Dialogue the Bi&s;hops, Arraign, Try, Judge, Sentence and Condemn the whole Clergy; Sum|moning them them to their Bar, and then Sentence them as <HI>Thieves, Robbers, Witches, Devils?</HI> &amp;c. Pray take care to convert them to Sincerity; which will be a Miracle beyond what your <HI>Fox</HI> ever wrought, or el&s;e it may Affect you; for, I under&s;tand, they will not lye under their Re|proaches.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XVII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you not &s;tir up your Teachers to make a publick Anniver&s;ary Addre&s;s to His Maje|&s;ty K. <HI>William</HI> III. as they did to the Late King <HI>James</HI> II?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XVIII.</HEAD>
<P>And, <HI>WHY</HI> do you not put put them upon Writing one Book in favour of the pre&s;ent Go|vernment; as that they yet never did? As well as they Wrote and Printed many in favour of the Late Reign; and particularly, 1&s;t. <HI>A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country.</HI> Printed <HI>March,</HI> 1687 A 2d. Letter, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Printed <HI>April,</HI> 1687. A 3d. Let|ter, <HI>&amp;c. May,</HI> 1687. 4. <HI>A Reply to the Man of no Name</HI> &amp;c. 5. <HI>The Great and popular Objection again&s;t the repeal of the Penal Laws and Te&s;t, An&s;wered,</HI> 1687. 6. <HI>Good Advice to the Church of</HI> England, <HI>Roman-Ca|tholick
<PB N="13" REF="11">and Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters, to Abrogate the Penal Laws and Te&s;t.</HI> 7. <HI>A Defence of the Duke of Buck|ngham's Book.</HI> 8. <HI>Animadver&s;ions on the Apology of the Clamorous Squire.</HI> 9. <HI>A Per&s;wa&s;ive to Modera|tion, &s;ubmitted to the King.</HI> 10. <HI>Rea&s;ons for the Repeal of the Penal Laws and Te&s;t,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Now, &s;uppo&s;e but 1000 to each Impre&s;&s;ion, then there were ten Thou&s;and Books Printed and and di&s;per&s;ed about the Nation, by a mode&s;t Com|putation, in favour of the Late Reign: to which add the &s;everal <HI>Addre&s;&s;es,</HI> which your Teachers Pre&s;ented to the Late K. <HI>J.</HI> II. which were about Eight in all: And when you have thus done; then do but con&s;ider, that your Teachers have not Printed one Book in favour of this Government, nor made one publick Anniver&s;ary Addre&s;s to His pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty. And it will be ea&s;ie for you to gue&s;s from what Fountain the Stream then did run, and what Centre it pointed to, from the &s;everal and frequent Cabals had in <HI>Queen-&s;treet</HI> by the Lord <HI>Castlemain,</HI> Father <HI>Petre,</HI> and the Head Quaker, who was able to In&s;pire the Body; for according to an old Maxim, <HI>Birds of a Feather, flock together: And where the Carea&s;s is, thither will the Eagles re&s;ort.</HI></P>
<P>Now, old Friends, if you will put the great Man of Words in mind of pa&s;t Times, and bid him a little Reflect upon him&s;elf, po&s;&s;ibly he may cau&s;e his Pupil, <HI>Doeg</HI> the <HI>Edomite,</HI> to let fall &s;ome of his Malice again&s;t the Reverend Author of the Book, Intituled, <HI>The Snake in the Gra&s;s,</HI> &amp;c. Who never yet was in a Proclamation, nor &s;o much as a Warrant again&s;t him, nor had no hand in the Late King's De&mdash;tions, that <HI>I</HI> ever could learn or hear of.</P>
<PB N="14" REF="12">
<P>And, although I am I confe&s;s, no favourer of <HI>Jacobiti&s;m,</HI> yet of tho&s;e &s;o termed, I have ob&s;erved two &s;orts; one very Wicked, who&s;e Endeavours have not only been to Subvert the Government, but al&s;o to A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inate his Sacred Maje&s;ty, whom God pre&s;erve. The other having taken an Oath to the Late King, are under &s;ome Scruples; for|&s;ake their Preferment, and de&s;ire to live Peaceably on what they have: And though I could be hear|tily glad, that even tho&s;e could &s;atisfie them&s;elves from tho&s;e and the like Arguments and Scripture Proofs I have made in my Book, Intituled, <HI>A Brief History of the Ri&s;e, Growth, and Progre&s;s of Quaker|i&s;m,</HI> p. 105, to 110. Yet if they cannot &s;atisfie their Con&s;ciences, if the Government, which has been always Merciful, will &s;till wait upon them, and be favourable; why &s;hould I, or any private Per&s;on, reflect with that Malice the Quakers do, and who, I fear, have lea&s;t cau&s;e, if not lea&s;t Sincerity? For, notwith&s;tanding their manife&s;t a|ver&s;ene&s;s to the G&mdash;, yet I never knew any one of them that refu&s;ed to Sub&s;cribe, even whil&s;t they neither &s;peak nor act too zealou&s;ly for it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XIX.</HEAD>
<P><HI>AGAIN,</HI> As mo&s;t of you Twelve, I think, all but Two of you, have been at my Hou&s;e, and eat and drank with me, and I at your Hou&s;es have done the like, and therefore I will now be free with you, and advi&s;e you to ask the rea&s;on. Why your Teachers did call in the Widow <HI>Whit|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ow</HI>'s Books (&s;he being formerly a Quaker) which &s;he wrote in favour of the Government; and, Why <HI>W. J.</HI> and his Partner, &s;ubmitted to that Order of Council, <HI>viz.</HI> The Second day's Meet|ing. I have not the Letter by me here, but if I
<PB N="15" REF="12">find a Service in it, I may afterwards Print it; for it is but fit that the King &s;hould know his Friends; for I take Popery and Quakeri&s;m to be like <HI>Hippocrates</HI>'s Twins, who Eat and Drank, Laugh'd and Cry'd, and Liv'd and Dy'd together: For, never &s;ince the Late King Abdicated the Throne, did either Quaker or Papi&s;t write in fa|vour of the Government; except <HI>G. Keith,</HI> whom &s;ome &s;till call a Quaker, but is indeed a Chri&s;tian, for he holds the fundamentals of Chri&s;tianity.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XX.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ONE</HI> thing I am &s;orry for, which I find in <HI>Jo&s;. Wyeth</HI>'s <HI>Prim. Chri&s;. Con.</HI> &amp;c. p. 6. <HI>For our Prin|ciples are now no other than what they were, when we were fir&s;t a People,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>This &s;eems hard; then I find they are no Changlings: And therefore now we mu&s;t not ex|pect either Book in favour of the Government, or any Publick Addre&s;s. And to mend them, I would have you move them out of this &s;ullen Humour. I hope, I have not Angered the Friends; for I have &s;aid nothing but what I am Ju&s;tified in by your Teachers Book, &s;tiled, <HI>A Ju&s;t Rebuke to Twenty one Divines,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="query">
<PB N="16" REF="13">
<HEAD>Query to <HI>Jo&s;eph Wyeth.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SInce you &s;ay, The Quakers are the &s;ame in Prin|ciples, which they were from the beginning; pray read the <HI>&s;everal Particulars &s;ent by</HI> Geo. Fox, to the Parliament, 1659. Wherein he &s;aith,</P>
<Q><HI>Let all Fines of Lords of Mannors, be given to the Poor. Let all Abby-Lands, Gleab-Lands, that's given to the Prie&s;ts, be given to the Poor. Let all the Abbies, Steeple-hou&s;es and</HI> White-Hall, <HI>be for the Blind and Lame to be there,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Let the King's Rents, Parks and Hou&s;es, be &s;old, and all College-Lands, and Bells out of Churches, except one in a Town, to give notice of Fire,</HI> &amp;c.</Q>
<P>Again: <HI>Edward Burroughs,</HI> in his Word of Ad|vice to the Soldiers, <HI>p. Give the Prie&s;ts Blood to drink, for they are worthy: Slay</HI> Baal, <HI>turn the Hire|lings out of the Kingdom.</HI> A Threefold E&s;tate, <HI>&amp;c. The Church, the</HI> Whore; <HI>the Parliament, the</HI> Bea&s;t. News coming up, <HI>&amp;c. Sing all ye Saints and rejoyce; clap your hands and be glad, for the Lord Jehovah will reign, and the Government &s;hall be taken from you pretended Rulers, Judges and Ju&s;tices, Lawyers and Con&s;tables: All this</HI> Tree <HI>mu&s;t be cut down, and Je&s;us Christ [in us] will Rule alone:</HI></P>
<P>I &s;ay, Are you &s;till of the &s;ame Mind? Are your Principles the &s;ame &s;till? Are you not at all Changed? An&s;wer particularly in your Next, to this &s;ober Que&s;tion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="part">
<PB N="17" REF="13">
<HEAD>XXI.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you not rebuke <HI>G. Whitehead,</HI> for Swearing in the Lord Mayor of <HI>London</HI>'s Court? as at large &s;et forth in <HI>The Picture of Quakeri&s;m,</HI> &amp;c. p. 93. As al&s;o, for denying &s;o plain a Truth; which if he will meet me, according to his Pro|po&s;ition to the Parliament, I will prove it up|on him by the Attorney for the Plaintiff, who gave it under his Hand: But be&s;ides, I do &s;ay, their Affirmation is neither le&s;s nor more than an Oath. One In&s;tance thereof I will give, of which <HI>I</HI> was an Eye and Ear-Witne&s;s, at la&s;t Lent A&s;&s;ize. before my Lord Chief Ju&s;tice <HI>Holt,</HI> by <HI>Samuel Gridly,</HI> one of the Quaker-Teachers, which was thus, <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
<P>Clerk of the A&s;&s;ize. <HI>I Samuel,</HI> &s;aid the Clerk; <HI>I Samuel,</HI> &s;aid Sam. Gridly; <HI>do declare, do declare, in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God; In the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, the Witne&s;s of the truth of what I &s;ay; the Witne&s;s of the truth of what I &s;ay, that the Evidence I &s;hall give; that the Evidence I &s;hall give, &s;hall be the Truth, the whole Truth, and no|thing but the Truth, touching the matter depending; That the Evidence I &s;hall give, &s;hall be the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth, touch|ing the matter depending,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Thus the Quaker having rehear&s;ed the Form a|fore&s;aid after the Clerk, he gave his Evidence <HI>I</HI> think, fairly; which, had it been between a Quaker and a Chri&s;tian, <HI>I</HI> do think had been al|mo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible, &s;uch is their Partiality: Howe|ver, this &s;erves to &s;hew, that this is a very for|mal Oath, tho in another form, which &s;hews, they only love Singularity; the Oath being in &s;ub&s;tance the &s;ame with the ki&s;&s;ing the Book, &amp;c. if not, let the World judge.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="part">
<PB N="18" REF="14">
<HEAD>XXII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do yo not rebuke your Teachers Hy|pocri&s;ie, who pretend that it is their Principle to obey Magi&s;tracy; as in <HI>Wyeth</HI>'s <HI>Chri&s;tianity?</HI> &amp;c. p. 41. &s;ince 'tis well known to be otherwi&s;e, par|ticularly, in the payment of Tythes, Church-war|dens Rates; paying to the Trained Bands; bear|ing Arms in defence of the Nation: Nay, if the Magi&s;tracy command a Fa&s;t to be kept, they take no more notice of the command of Authority, than of an old Almanack out of date. And a hundred In&s;tances more might be given, and that from their fir&s;t ri&s;e; and they tell you, they are the &s;ame, they are no Changlings.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXIII.</HEAD>
<P><HI>WHY</HI> do you not Condemn <HI>I&s;aac Penington</HI>'s Book, &s;tiled, <HI>A Que&s;tion to Profe&s;&s;ors,</HI> &amp;c. And Fa|ther <HI>Pen</HI>'s &s;tiled, <HI>The Sandy Foundation:</HI> And ano|ther of his, &s;tiled <HI>The Chri&s;tian Quaker,</HI> &amp;c. And <HI>W. Bayly</HI>'s <HI>Works,</HI> &amp;c. which deny <HI>Je&s;us of Nazareth, to be Christ, and the efficient Cau&s;e of Man's Salva|tion;</HI> and which teach, That the <HI>Name Je&s;us and Christ, belongs to every believing Quaker, as well as to the head Christ, who was crucified at</HI> Jern|&s;alem: Which teach to deny the Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Trinity,</HI> and to undervalue the Per&s;on of our ever Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> as a <HI>Garment or Ve&s;&s;el which they can never call Chri&s;t;</HI> and thereby acquit the <HI>Jews,</HI> and ex|cu&s;e <HI>Judas,</HI> and make the Apo&s;tles fal&s;e Witne&s;&s;es, who taught, <HI>Acts,</HI> 2.36. <HI>Therefore let the Hou&s;e of I&s;rael know a&s;&s;uredly, that God hath made the</HI> &s;ame Je&s;us <HI>whom ye have Crucified, both Lord and Christ?</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<PB N="19" REF="14">
<P>Now, if the <HI>Light</HI> be their only Chri&s;t, as they el&s;ewhere affirm, then are the Apo&s;tles found fal&s;e Witne&s;&s;es: For the Light in every Man, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> was not <HI>Buffeted;</HI> was not <HI>pierced with a Spear;</HI> was not <HI>hang'd on a Tree;</HI> and con&s;equently, not <HI>Crucified.</HI> See <HI>Quakeri&s;m Withering,</HI> and <HI>Christi|anity Reviving,</HI> &amp;c. p. 14, 15. this Point.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>XXIV.</HEAD>
<P>Read <HI>Whitehead</HI>'s <HI>Expo&s;tulation with the Cler|gy,</HI> &amp;c. p. 52. 61. 69. 83. and compare them with my Charges, and you will find <HI>G. Whitehead</HI> both fal&s;e and deceitful in &s;tating my Charges. 1&s;t. In that <HI>I</HI> charged <HI>G. Fox</HI> with Bla&s;phemy, who in his Examination and Tryal at <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> A&s;&s;izes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> p. 21. &s;aid, <HI>And before I came to the Bar, I was moved to pray, that the Lord would confound their wickedne&s;s and envy; the Thundering Voice an&s;wered, I have Glorified thee, and will Glorifie thee again; and I was &s;o filled with Glory, that my Head and Ears were &s;o filled full of it; that when the Trumpets &s;ounded, and the Judges came up again, they appeared as dead men under me,</HI> &amp;c. Now, the&s;e words, <HI>That my Head and Ears were &s;o full of it, that when the Trumpets &s;ounded, and the Judges came up again, they appeared as dead men under me, I</HI> &s;ay, the&s;e words <HI>G. W.</HI> had left out in his Reci|tal. Thus doth it appear, that he was not able to ju&s;tifie this Pa&s;&s;age; for here was fulne&s;s of Glory; yea, his <HI>Head and Ears were filled full of Glory,</HI> or el&s;e of Imagination. And, <HI>I</HI> do &s;till &s;ay, That <HI>Fox</HI>'s Bla&s;phemy herein, doth allude to what was real in <HI>Christ,</HI> declared in <HI>John</HI> 12.28, 29. And as a further proof of the Quaker's guilt
<PB N="20" REF="15">herein, and &s;hame thereof, they have left the whole Pa&s;&s;age out of his Journal, <HI>p.</HI> 290.</P>
<P>Again, I having charged the Quakers, with <HI>J. Parnal</HI>'s Bla&s;phemy, &s;aying, <HI>But to the end of</HI> all <HI>Di&s;putes and Arguments, I am come; for before they was, I am.</HI> And compared his Allu&s;ion to <HI>John</HI> 8.58. <HI>Verily, verily, before</HI> Abraham <HI>was, I am.</HI> Now, <HI>Whitehead</HI> to deceive his Reader, leaves out the word <HI>All,</HI> which alters the Ca&s;e very much; for he might be then come to the end of &s;everal Di&s;putes which he had with the <HI>Baptists;</HI> but that he &s;hould be come to the end of <HI>All</HI> Di&s;putes, to the end of Time, this was a mo&s;t horrid Lie, which would &s;carce have gone down with many of you the Hearers. But to prevent the di&s;covery thereof, he leaves out the word <HI>All;</HI> and yet it would not &s;alve his Bla&s;|phemy, in &s;aying he was <HI>before all Di&s;putes;</HI> for <HI>Abraham</HI> and <HI>Lot</HI>'s Herds-men had Di&s;putes be|fore <HI>Parnall</HI> was born, or a Quaker thought of: But this is like <HI>Fox</HI> his &s;aying, <HI>he was before all Languages.</HI> His words in the <HI>Bateldoor</HI> are thus, <HI>viz. All Languages are to me</HI> (&s;ays <HI>G. Fox) no more than Dust;</HI>
<NOTE N="&Dagger;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Viz.</HI> No more than the Scriptures, or the Books of <HI>Matthew, Mark, Luke</HI> and <HI>John.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Who was before Languages were Intro|duc'd.</HI> Again, <HI>p.</HI> 214. And next follows a few words to the whole matter, by <HI>Geo. Fox, who is before Confu&s;ion, or many Languages were,</HI> &amp;c. Both which, allude to <HI>John</HI> 8.58. For nothing would &s;atisfie the&s;e Quaker-Prophets, but to Vie it with <HI>Christ:</HI> As may be &s;een in many of their Writings.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="15">
<P>As for <HI>G. W</HI>'s Impudence, in &s;aying, <HI>p.</HI> 69. <HI>That they profer the Scriptures before any Book in the World,</HI> 'tis &s;ufficiently Refuted; 1&s;t. By reading their own Pamphlets in their Meetings, and not the Scriptures. 2dly. Their contemptuous names ca&s;t on the Scriptures; as <HI>Bea&s;tly Ware, Carnal Letter, the Husk, Death, Du&s;t, and Serpents Food;</HI> whil&s;t they will not &s;uffer their own Books and Papers, to be called <HI>Edicts,</HI> or <HI>Canons:</HI> And why? Becau&s;e, &s;ay they, <HI>Our Books and Papers are given forth by the eternal Spirit of God.</HI></P>
<P>And, as for <HI>Whitehead</HI>'s frequent pretence, to be again&s;t Writing; that he is wholly Defen&s;ive on his part; let him but &s;hew me any one Book wrote by either <HI>Epi&s;copalian, Presbyterian, Indepen|dant,</HI> or <HI>Baptist,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Geo. Whitehead,</HI> before <HI>Geo.</HI> wrote his Non&s;en&s;ical Book &s;tiled, <HI>Jacob found in a De&s;art Land,</HI> &amp;c. And that wherein he joined with his Brother <HI>Atkin&s;on,</HI> &s;tiled, <HI>David's Ene|mies Di&s;covered,</HI> &amp;c. Printed 1655. and he &s;hall gain that Point: If he &s;ays they wrote again&s;t the Quakers; that's nothing to the Point, his Bro|ther <HI>Burroughs</HI> in his Epi&s;tle to <HI>Fox</HI>'s <HI>Great Mi&s;t.</HI> &amp;c.
<NOTE N="&Dagger;" PLACE="marg">Which they'll not put in his Works.</NOTE> bears me Witne&s;s, that the Quakers began fir&s;t to War with the Prie&s;ts; and with them and again&s;t them they began to War, and with their Mouths full of In|dignation too.</P>
<P>And hereupon, <HI>I</HI> Expo&s;tulate the matter with you again&s;t this Sycophant, who like the <HI>Camae|leon,</HI> can turn him&s;elf into any Shape; can glo&s;s over any Error; excu&s;e any Bla&s;phemy; leave Out; put To; Add and Dimini&s;h any Sentence,
<PB N="22" REF="16">to make it look like his own Image: Yea, he tells you in plain words, in his <HI>Count. Conv.</HI> &amp;c. p. 72. <HI>I may &s;ee cau&s;e otherwi&s;e to word the Matter, and yet our Intentions be the &s;ame,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>The next Books which occur to my Memo|ry, and which <HI>I</HI> would have you Condemn, are that Intituled, <HI>Several Petitions An&s;wered;</HI> where in <HI>p.</HI> 60. <HI>G. Fox</HI> &s;aid, <HI>My Name is Covered from the World, and the World knows not me, nor my Name,</HI> &amp;c. [A great Lye.]</P>
<P>And that Intituled, <HI>The Quakers Refuge fixed,</HI> &amp;c. which Que&s;tions, <HI>p.</HI> 17, <HI>Whether the fir&s;t Penman of the Scripture, was</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>or</HI> Hermes? <HI>Or whe|ther both the&s;e, or not one?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Whether &s;ome words were not &s;poken by the Grand Impo&s;tor; &s;ome by Wicked men; &s;ome by Wi&s;e men, ill apply'd; &s;ome by Good men, ill expre&s;s'd; &s;ome by fal&s;e Prophets, and yet true; &s;ome by true Pro|phets, and yet fal&s;e?</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>I &s;ay, if this be the way to convince any that they own the Scriptures to be given by Divine in&s;piration, and that they are a Rule for Chri|&s;tians to walk by, then will I allow Contradic|tions to be Harmonious; and that Bitter and Sweet proceed from one and the &s;ame Fountain; and thus <HI>I</HI> fini&s;h my Expo&s;tulation.</P>
<P>But hark Friends; <HI>John Peacock,</HI> &amp;c. Do you &s;ee? Yonder, on the other &s;ide of the way, goes the late Tool, the Weather-cock of the Age, and the World's Wonder, Mr. <HI>Pen;</HI> al&s;o the old Make-bate in Towns and Families, between Pa|rents and Children; between Husbands and Wives: The Grand Camaeleon, who can change his Shape, alter his Colour, and &s;o word his Matter, as to mean otherwi&s;e than the common
<PB N="23" REF="16">import of Words; even <HI>G. Whitehead:</HI> As al&s;o, that little prattling, prating in&s;ignificant Preacher, <HI>Sam. Cater;</HI> pray call them to you, and repeat the Contents of this Expo&s;tulation, and &s;ee what they will &s;ay.</P>
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<SPEAKER><HI>John Peacock,</HI> &amp;c.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sa ho; Sa ho, Friends, pray let us &s;peak a few words with you in Private, for we have matter of Moment to impart to you.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Geo. Whitehead, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Friends, Pray, what is the matter, you call &s;o loud after us? We cannot &s;tay, being in ha&s;te, therefore be brief.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER><HI>John Peacock,</HI> &amp;c.</SPEAKER>
<P>What; we have enough to &s;ay, if all be true we hear; and <HI>George,</HI> though thou telle&s;t us, thou neither &s;tudye&s;t Events, nor fear'&s;t Effects; yet it &s;tands us upon to con&s;ider what we do; for <HI>Francis Bugg</HI> hath been Expo|&s;tulating with us the&s;e two long Hours, and hath laid &s;uch things to our Teachers charge, as make our Ears Tingle: We grant, there is a late Book put forth by <HI>Wyeth,</HI> &s;tiled, <HI>Primitive Chri&s;tianity continued,</HI> &amp;c. which brings a &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of Te|&s;timonies to prove us Orthodox in our Belief; but alas! it wil not do, unle&s;s we fir&s;t di&s;prove our adver&s;aries Quotations; for at be&s;t, ours are but Negative, nay, nor that neither; for to us, all the Proofs in that Book are more, than if <HI>Jo&s;. Wyeth</HI> were Indicted for &s;tealing a Hor&s;e from <HI>A. B.</HI> On the 16th day of <HI>May,</HI> 1697. and being at <HI>Bury</HI> A&s;&s;ize, before the Judge, he &s;hould plead, That he bought a Hor&s;e, <HI>Anno.</HI> 1655, and paid hone&s;tly for it; another, in 1660; another, in 1664: And &s;o &s;ucce&s;&s;ively 12 Hor&s;es in all; and had the Receipts ready to &s;how, and able to
<PB N="24" REF="17">prove both Contract and Payment of every Hor&s;e, except that for which he &s;tood Indicted; what would the Judge &s;ay? would he acquit him of this Felony? No &s;uch matter; but would not he rather &s;ay, <Q>Come Friend, this is all but Delatory, we mu&s;t come to try the Point in I&s;&s;ue, whether you be guilty of &s;tealing this Hor&s;e in <HI>May,</HI> 1697: As for your buying and hone&s;tly paying for tho&s;e Twelve Hor&s;es you &s;peak of, that is nothing to our Purpo&s;e; the er|rante&s;t Thieves that ever came before me, bought &s;ome things and paid for them ho|ne&s;tly; the grande&s;t Heretick that ever breathed, &s;pake &s;ome &s;entences truly: Yea, the Devil him&s;elf, &s;ometimes for an ill end, brought good Scripture, to paliate and colour his Wicked De&s;ign, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q></P>
<P>And Friends, to be plain with you, nothing will do now, but either di&s;prove our Adver&s;aries Quotations, or retract our Errors.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Geo. Whitehead, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Hold, Friends, be not too ha&s;ty, why do you read Apo&s;tates Books? Have not I told you in my Book,</HI> The Apo&s;tate Incendiary; <HI>That you mu&s;t Believe as the Church Believes: And in the &s;ame Book, al&s;o told you, That we Quakers are the true Church; and therefore, by all means, prevent our Friends reading our Aver&s;ary's Book,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>John Peacock,</HI> &amp;c.</SPEAKER>
<P>Prevent them, &s;o we have; we have told the Book&s;eller at St. <HI>Ives,</HI> that if he &s;ells any of <HI>Francis Buggs</HI> Books, he &s;hall lo&s;e his Trade with us: And in all Cities and Market-Towns, we do hinder the &s;elling and &s;preading &s;uch Books, as much as we can: And, yet they
<PB N="25" REF="17">are &s;old, they are di&s;per&s;ed, and here and there a Friend gets one. And le&s;t danger en&s;ue, we now tell you, that we mu&s;t a little Expo&s;tulate with you,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So then, the Tables are turned again, and the Hand &s;hift|ed; the&s;e are expert Gam&s;ters; this is bet|ter than Back-Gam|mon, or a Game at Loo.</NOTE> for we are concerned as well as you, and ought to make &s;ome In&s;pection, le&s;t we &s;mart for it afterwards.</P>
<P>And therefore, 1&s;t. How came it to pa&s;s, that you &s;candalize the Clergy by tho&s;e Black Names and Characters, as <HI>Thieves, Robbers, Witches, Devils, Sodomites,</HI> &amp;c? And the Author of the Book &s;tiled, <HI>The Snake,</HI> &amp;c. as a <HI>Nece&s;&s;itous Prie&s;t, who writ for his Bread?</HI> Surely this is not good Man|ners in us, e&s;pecially &s;ince to mo&s;t of our Know|ledge, many of our Teachers, both Write and Teach for Bread, and come like Mice, uncall'd for, and like Flyes, un-&s;ent for, and fa&s;ten upon our Provi&s;ion. For In&s;tance, Thy &s;elf, <HI>G. W.</HI> who was a poor Boy, who came on Foot among us, and <HI>Sam. Cater</HI> the like, be&s;ides many others, too many here to enumerate.</P>
<P N="2">2dly. Again, we cannot but admire at the Im|pudence of our Friends, to <HI>Summons, Arraign, Try, Judge,</HI> and <HI>Sentence</HI> and <HI>Condemn</HI> the Bi&s;hops, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And rip up their Bowels, call them <HI>Monsters;</HI> and as much at thy Ignorance, <HI>George,</HI> if not Hy|pocri&s;ie, to Expo&s;tulate, with the Clergy, for their Approbation of <HI>Francis Bugg;</HI> when you could not but know that we have treated the Clergy and the Church of <HI>England,</HI> a Thou&s;and times wor&s;e than ever he treated us.</P>
<P N="3">3dly. And why do you contemn the Scriptures, in calling them, <HI>Death, Du&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Serpents Meat?</HI> The&s;e things you cannot but know to be &s;o:
<PB N="26" REF="18">And that we cannot be Heterodox in them, and Orthodox in the Truths therein declared of: And when, Confuted, to call for Original Copies: And when you An&s;wer Books, leave Eight par|ticular Charges Un-reply'd to together: And when you recite your Adver&s;aries Charges, to leave out the principal and mo&s;t &s;ignificant Words; This we are A&s;hamed of; this you are Guilty of. The&s;e things render you a Scandal to Chri&s;tiani|ty, which you &s;ometimes pretend to.</P>
<P N="4">4thly. Be&s;ides for to pretend to &s;uffer Twenty Pounds, when you got Ten Pounds clear into Pocket. The&s;e things &s;tink and are of an ill &s;avor: To pretend you cannot Swear, and yet do it. And the&s;e things <HI>F. Bugg,</HI> offers to prove again&s;t you.</P>
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<SPEAKER>G. Whitehead,</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Hold, &s;oft a little; I proffered him to meet him at</HI> Benjamin Antrobus<HI>'s, or at the</HI> Bull and Mouth, <HI>to clear our &s;elves; but he re|fu&s;ed &s;o to do.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER><HI>John Peacock,</HI> &amp;c.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, hold, <HI>George,</HI> as for meeting you at <HI>Benjamin Antrobus</HI>'s, he did pru|dently in that, you have met there too oft al|ready; pay him fir&s;t for your Hor&s;e's Keeping, and for the good Cheer which you and we all know, our Teachers are of late free enough in receiving. And, as to the Bull and Mouth, po&s;|&s;ibly he may not think him&s;elf &s;afe with you. But <HI>Geo.</HI> you have offered to meet him before any Six, Ten, or Twelve Per&s;ons of Sen&s;e and common Rea&s;on, which he accepts of, provided you will admit of an equal Choice among the Chri&s;tians, <HI>viz. Epi&s;copalians, Presbyterians, Inde|pendants,</HI> or <HI>Baptists.</HI> And to be plain, you &s;hould either never have given him that Challenge, or
<PB N="27" REF="18">el&s;e &s;tand to it; for we as well as others, begin to think, that you have &s;o behoved your &s;elves, as that you dare not venture your Ca&s;e with any Impartial Men; or that your Cau&s;e is &s;o bad, that you are con&s;cious to your &s;elves thereof. Indeed <HI>J. Wyeth</HI> has brought Twelve In&s;tances to prove us Orthodox. But <HI>Francis Bugg</HI> you &s;ee has brought Twenty four In&s;tances to prove us Heterodox: And, whereas you be&s;patter <HI>Francis Bugg,</HI> we think, that not the way; he is known &s;o well, that in the Pre&s;ence of &s;ome of us, his Neighbours gave him a Certificate io clear him from what many of us laid to his Charge, tho indeed at that time, we who were pre&s;ent and &s;aw the Certifi|cate handing, were fit to Swoon; for we turned as pale as A&s;hes. An Ab&s;tract thereof, is as fol|loweth, <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="certificate">
<P>WHEREAS, there is a Book put forth by <HI>Sam. Cater</HI> and others, wherein <HI>Francis Bugg</HI> is called Informer. And whereas, 'tis therein &s;aid, That <HI>Francis Bugg</HI> is not fit to treat of Chri&s;tian Liberty: We have looked upon him a Man as fit|ly Qualified to Treat with any Ma|gi&s;trate on that Point, as any Man in the Meeting; and to this day, tho much is &s;aid, yet we cannot &s;ee any thing proved to the contrary. And this we &s;ay, not to promote Contro|ver&s;ie.</P>
<PB N="28" REF="19">
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<HEAD>Sub&s;cribed by us,</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Tho. Bird,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sarah Bird,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;. Ellington,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rachel Ellington,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Bel&s;ham,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Margaret Bel&s;ham,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rob. Suckerman,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frances Suckerman,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Thrift,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Thrift,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will Rolfe,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eliz. Rolfe,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Hawkins,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Kit&s;on,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Harvy,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Poel,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Will. Taylor,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ann Hibble,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Margaret Huttly,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Kath. Hand&s;lip,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sarah Holten,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Frances Folks,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dorcas Abbott,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sarah Bird,</HI> Jun.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph Ma&s;on,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jane Ma&s;on,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jo&s;eph Tet&s;al,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eliz. Roote.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="29" REF="19">
<HEAD>POSTSCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>THis Certificate, was given me by the principal Part of the Meet|ing of the Quakers in <HI>Milden-Hall,</HI> where I Live, &s;ince <HI>Sam. Cater</HI>'s <HI>Nar|rative,</HI> and <HI>Geo. Whitehead</HI>'s Book, <HI>Judgment Fixed,</HI> came out again&s;t me; wherein they call'd me &s;uch Names, as none but them&s;elves are Ma&s;ters of: For, as it has been their way &s;ince their Ri&s;e, to render the Clergy odious to their People, by all the contemp|tible Names, and ignominious Reproa|ches Hell can invent; &s;o has it been their way to traduce all &s;uch, as have Separated from them, and oppo&s;ed the Torrent of their Errors, whil&s;t they'll footh up &s;uch as write for and on their behalf; whil&s;t notoriou&s;ly guilty of the breach of God's Commands in the fir&s;t and &s;econd Table; as (if it plea&s;e God to give me length of days) I may further make appear, when I come to open the Cage, and let out &s;ome of
<PB N="30" REF="20">tho&s;e hateful Birds, and &s;hew them (with their Wings &s;pread) in their Na|tive Complection. In the mean time, this may &s;erve as a ju&s;t Rebuke to the In&s;olency of the Quaker-Teachers; and to &s;hew them their Pre&s;umption, Pride and Self-conceit: As al&s;o, it may &s;tir up their Hearers to examin whe|ther the&s;e things are &s;o or no, that at la&s;t, as many as are Sincere, may throw off the Yoak of Quakeri&s;m and em|brace the <HI>Chri&s;tian Faith.</HI> Which that they may &s;o do, the God of all Grace grant them Repentance to Life; which is my de&s;ire for the wor&s;t of my Adver|&s;aries, if it be his good Will.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>January</HI> 26th. 1697/8.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Fra. Bugg,</HI> Senior.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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